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Thompson, wife of the pastor. Mrs. Thompson is a native of Mississippi. She re ceived her B. S. degree from Lane College. Jackson. Tennessee; and received her M. A. degree from Howard University in Wash ington, p.C. Mrs. Thompson has also studied at the University of Chicago and Omaha. Mrs. Thompson was field dir ector of the West Virginia Bap tist State Women’s Convention. At Howard University she assist ed Mrs. Bessie Mayle, director in charge of church music and re ligious drama. Mrs. Thompson has had years of teaching ex perience; Omaha schools being included in her teaching career. She is a member of the Omaha chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority. Women from other churches and organizations are invited to bring greetings to the Corinth Baptist Church Women's Day ob servance. The public is invited. The evening program, 7:00 p.m.; will include a panel discus sion on “Women’s Responsibility in Today's World." Appearing on the paned are Mrs. Martha Milt on, Mrs. David Nicholson, Mrs. Monty J. Bradford, and Mrs. Thomas Frazier who will pre sent topics pertaining to Home, Church, School and Community, respectively. Mrs. LeRoy Baker will serve as moderator for the panel. At the conclusion of the panel discussion, a social hour will be observed. Signature May Be Clue To Health NEW YORK. N. Y.. May 21, 6 P.M. EDST—"Your signature may offer the first real clue to serious illness," reveals a feature in the current issue of Coronet Maga zine. The article by a psychiatrist and a psychologist states that “for the sake of better health and a longer life, it would be wise to save specimens of your hand writing from year to year.” An example cited by the auth ors is President Eisenhower’s sudden heart attack last Septem ber. Up to the Saturday morning of his attack when the President lay on his bed in Denver fighting for his life, no one had suspected any immediate danger to his health. And yet, telltale signs of ap proaching trouble had been tele graphed at least a month before President Eisenhower's actual af fliction. The article includes samples of the President’s writing on documents written before and af ter his attack. The authors Dr. W. G. Elias berg, and Psychologist, H. O. Teltscher emphasize that the ex amination of a person’s hand writing is not conclusive in its self. They do maintain however, that bodily diseases can be diag nosed from their earliest begin nings with the help of writing analysis. Mental and emotional distur bances, points out the Coronet article, can frequently be diag nosed directly from handwriting. Optimism is the gre*n u«ht at the crossroads that starts things rolling. Pessimism is the red light that stops everything. I MOVE TO FREE BILLY DANIELS BEING STUDIED BY COURT New York . . (CNS) . . . Gener al Sessions Judge Jacob Gould Sohurman has taken under ad visement defense motions to dis miss indictments against Billy Daniels who has been charged with shooting James R. Jackson in a Harlem after-hours spot last January. Opposing dismissal was Richard G. Denzer, chief of District At torney Hogan’s Appeals Bureau, who in three hours argued that testimony before the grand jury showed the entertainer had fired two shots into the ceiling just be fore Jackson was hurt as he tried to wrest the gun from Billy. Daniels, meanwhile, is in Eng land fulfulling engagements. Union Asks Fund of $2,000,000 ATLANTIC C I T Y—(INS)—A. vice-president, announced the formation of a special trade union committee to raise a $2,000,000 “War Chest” in the battle for civil rights. Randolph, who is president of the International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, told the 29th convention of the Interna tional Ladies Garment Workers’ union the newly-formed commit tee was the first ever created within the trade union movement for an all-out drive for civil rights. He said AFL-CIO President George Mcany will serve as chair man of the committee and David Dubinsky, ILGWU president, as treasurer. The official name of the group is the “Trade Union Committee to Fight For Union Rights,” and its headquarters will be in New York City. Dubinsky told the more than 1.000 delegates later that he want ed to assure Randolph “He will i get the fullest financial support” from the ILGWU. He said he hoped ILGWU’s committee on 1 finances would ask the conven tion to take action on Randolph's appeal for funds. Money raised by the committee, Randolph said, would be used primarily for these three pur poses. 1. To aid the “Little Southern Farmer” who is faced with losing his property. 2. To aid the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People in the prosecution of civil rights court cases. 3. To aid the cause of Mont gomery, Ala., bus protest. The new committee, he ex plained, will have no direct re lation to the AFL-CIO civil rights committee. Randolph said the 2,000 mem bers in his union are pledged to contribute one hour’s pay to the committee—an average of $.50 per member. He said he hoped other unions would make dona tions from their financial treas ury' but that individual members would also make denations of an hour's pay. The kickoff campaign on the new committee, he said, will be during a gigantic civil r.ghts ral ly planned for May 24, in New York’s Madison Square Garden. Wrote an eminent English journalist, back home after vis iting the U. S.: “Whether it’s bulldozing roads in Korea, or breeding pigs in Illinois, or making gadgets for removing ice cubes from refrigerators; the American people are alive, alert, curious, combative—and rarin’ to go!” Directly or indirectly, one out of seven people employed in the U. S. today owes his or her live lihood to the automotive industry. Farm families buy ten per cent of the new cars sold, and six per cent of the old ones. — On THOR DESPERATE MARCH FROM LEKINSTDN TO CHARLESTOWN TO BATTLE THE 'WJK'UTE MEN" THE BRITI5H SET FlRE TO THE PATRIOTS' HOMES. THE QUlC* WITTEO SON OF A CERTAIN DEACON ADAMS DOUSED THE FLAMES WITH THE DEACON'S J3P HOME - BREWED B£E* f ^r-E SECRET OP MECHANICAL SPINNING AND WEAVING WAS BROUGHT FROM ENGLAND TO AMERICA IN 1703 Bv 5AM ©LATER PER FORMING A REMARKABLE MEMORV FEAT, ME BUia A REPLICA OF THE FAMOUS ARKWRIGHT MACHINE WITHOUT A SINGLE DETAIL ON r PAPER. HE BECAME *7HE FATHE*OF ^ THE AMEZ/CAN TEXTILE tNDUSTBtf Hfl American ichow-hW was built on our ability I to encourase men with vision and the <3 COURASE OF ThEK CONVICTIONS —IN INDUSTRY AS | WELL AS IN ALL ENDEAVORS WHERE OUR LIBERTIES / 1 ARE treasured AS LMNS PRINCIPLES. To Study At UCLA FAM-U FACULTY MEMBER TO STUDY AT UCLA—Miss E. Geraldine Williams, instructor in biology at Florida A and M Uni versity, has received a Southern Fellowship Fund grant-in-aid to attend the University of Califor nia at Los Angeles for a six-week study period this summer. Miss Williams, who received the B. S. and M. S. degrees from Howard University, joined the A and M faculty in February of 1955. She is a native of RoanoKe, Virginia. (A and M) staff photo by James Walden.) Integration O. K. With Gov. of Okla. OKLAHOMA CITY— Gov. Ray mond Gary told Negro leaders of this state last week that Okla | homa believes “in carrying out the mandate of the Supreme Court and school integration has worked well in Oklahoma.” He believes Oklahoma can solve all of its problems in connection with integration, Gov. Gary told the Nergo leaders, and included in these is the problem of Negro teachers displaced by integra tion. Gary promised a state program to devise jobs for displaced teach ers. He said it is Oklahoma’s re sponsibility to provide employ ment for all its citizens. F. D. Moon, Oklahoma high school principal, spokesman for the group, told the Governor that 92 Negro teachers have already been notified they will not be hired next year. Nine in 25 of the cases he studied hold master's degrees, he said. Sixteen blame racial discrimination and 11 said new white teachers were hired to replace them. Moon told the Governor, “If we can get officials to stiffen their backbones a few months, we won’t have any trouble integra ting teachers.” He said Negro teachers have been integrated in to integrated schools in four com munities. 10th College World Series Sales High If the advance ticket sales for the tenth annual College World Series are any indication, Omaha this year will top all previous years in Series attendance, E. F Pettis, general chairman, an nounced. “The all-time high in College World Series attendance was set in 1952 when 38,731 fans at tended the games, ” Mr. Pettis stated. “It looks like we will break that record in 1956,” he added. The 1956 College World Series will be held June 9-13 at Omaha Municipal Stadium. This year’s series starts on a Saturday. “That way,” Mr Pet tis said, “fans are afforded an opportunity to see all eight teams in action over the week end.” Although it is impossible at this stage to determine which teams wil play in the Series, Mr. Pettis said it promises to be an exciting one. The eight teams which will play in the collegiate champion ship tourney represent eight geo graphical districts in the nation “These districts are having some red-hot run-offs,” Mr. Pettis said. Last year’s Series was won by the Wake Forest team. Tickets for the College World Series are on sale at Russell Sports, 1816 Famam Street. Re served seats are $1.10. General admission tickets are 90c. I Creighton Awards Degrees will be awarded to 287 students by Creighton Uni-' versity Thursday, June 7, ac cording to the Very Rev. Carl M. Reinert, S. J. University presi-i dent. The Commencement address will be delivered by Dr. Clifford G. Hardin, chancellor of the Uni versity of Nebraska. For the second year University officials decided to hold commencement exercises in the Music Hall of the City Auditorium. The de-j cision was made to take advan-j tage of the air-conditioned facil-' ities and the added seating capa ! city. Baccalaureate services are scheduled for Wednesday, June 6, in St. John’s Church beginning at 8 p.m. The Most Rev. Lam bert A. Hoch, bishop of Bismark, N. D., will give the sermon. Following Baccalaureate an in formal reception for graduates, their families and friends will be held on the Creighton North Lawn, Alpha Sigma Nu and Gam-' ma Pi Epsilon, Jesuit honor so-' cieties, will be hosts at this af fair. Graduation ceremonies for! Creighton students will begin; with a communion mass in St.' John’s Church Sunday, June 3,! at 10 a.m. On Monday of Com mencement Week each school and college will hold a separate' Ser or Night. Tuesday evening, June 5, sen iors will be guests of the annual. Senior-Alumni Banquet. Follow' ing the dinner the seniors will| be administered the pledge which makes them members of the Creighton Alumni Associa tion. Philip Klutznick, Chicago, 111., international president of. B’nai B’rith, will be the main speaker. The banquet is sche duled for 6:30 p.m. in the Fon tencile Hotel Ballroom. The Creighton School of Medi cine will lead the list with the largest number of graduates. De grees as M.D. will be conferred! on 78 seniors. The College of Arts and Sciences with 77 seniors will confer the next largest number of degrees. The College of Business Ad ministration will graduate 45 students, and the School of Den tistry will confer degrees on 42 students. Creighton College of Pharmacy will have 19 graduates. The Graduate School will confer masters degrees on 14 persons. LL.B. degrees will be awarded to 12 Seniors by the School of Law. State Gets 2nd Negro City Councilman SEASIDE, Calif. — Monroe Jones, 29, elementary school cus todian, became the second Negro city councilman in the state in this town’s elections last week. Jones ran fourth in a field of 10 candidates garnering 664 votes. He expressed the opinion that two-thirds of his support came from whites. The new city councilman is the father of five young children. First Negro city councilman in the state is the Rev. Holton Col lins, of Bakersfield. Michael Saunders Michael Anthony Saunders, 3241 North 27th Street infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Saunders, Sr. expired Monday morning, May 21 at a local hos pital. Little Michael’s other survivors are: grandparents, Mr and Mrs. George Miles, Omaha, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Saunders, Oakland, California, Mrs. Dealma Thomas, St. Louis, Mo., great grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Dan iel Walls, Omaha and Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Miles, Atchison, Kan sas. Services were held Friday morning from Thomas Mortuary with the Rev. W. A. Fowler of ficiating with burial at Mt. Hope Cemetery. Mrs. Ted Kolderie Pres, of YWCA Report of the Nominating Committee of the Y.W.C.A. made; known officers of the Board of Directors for the coming year at a recent meeting held at the Cen tral YWCA Building. (May 16.) Mrs. Theodore Kolderie was re-elected President of the Board; Mrs. George E. Robert son, First Vice President; Mrs E. T. Streeter, Near-Northside resident, Second Vice President; Mrs. George V. Shibly, Secre tary; Miss Lula Pritchard, Treas urer and Mrs. L. C. Arstad, Act ing Treasurer. Negro Editor Sued For Millfon$ ATLANTA—T h e editor and general manager of one of the two daily papers, published by Ne groes in the country, the Atlanta Daily World, has been sued for $1 million for libel. The charge is brought by a Ful ton county white woman, whose name has not been divulged, resi dent of the Hightower-Baker Road area where several demonstra tions and bombings of homes bought by Negroes, have occur red. The woman claims she was damaged by an article carried in the World on the bombings last February and charges that the article was printed because the plaintiff was “white and outspok-| en for states rights since the Su- j preme Court decisions as to pub-! lie school integration." The article also avers that the i woman had “done naught to harm or injure the Negro race.” For his part, Scott avers that there was no malice in printing the story, which, he said, was! based on information supplied by police reports, and ihat the arti cle mentioned “a Mrs. Holmes” relative to the housing disorders. “The suit they are attempting to bring against me amounts to a class suit against the Nero race,” Scott said. P. M. Jenkins « ■. P. H. Jenkins ,age 74 years, of 2506 Maple St. expired Saturday*, May 19, 1956 at a local hospital. He was a resident of Omaha 44 years. Mr. Jenkins was a member of Omaha Lodge No. 9, F. & A.M., James C. Jewell, W.M., and a member of Joshua David Kelly Consistory No. 27 . He was Past Grand Master and Past Grand Treasurer of Nebraska and Jur isdiction and organizer of Oma ha Chapter No. 6, O.E.S. Mr. Jenkins was an organizer of the Layman’s Brotherhood of Zion Baptist Church and was a national organizer of the Na tional Baptist Convention. He was a retired Detective Sergeant of the Omaha Police Force having served for 24 years. Mr. Jenkins is survived by his wife, Mrs. Amanda Jenkins of Omaha; two daughters, Mrs. Neo la Combs of Omaha, and Mrs. Verdia Stewart of Chicago, 111; two brothers, E. Jenkins of Chi cago, 111.; Horace Jenkins of Houston, Texas; sister, Mrs. O relia Johnson of San Diego, Calif. Funeral services were held Wednesday, May 23, 1956 at 2:00 p.m. from Zion Baptist Church under auspices of Prince Hall Grand Lodge, F. & A.M., Ne braska and Jurisdiction. Rev. F. C. Williams officiated at the Fu neral Services assisted by Rev erends S. H. Lewis, J. H. Rey nwds, J. C. Wade, Z. W. Wil liams, Presiding Elder John Adams, Sr., Charles Favors, Claude Williams, David St. Clair, Columbus McMorris, Walter Irv ing and Elder Crawford. Masonic Brethren served as pallbearers. Interment was at Forest Lawn Cemetery. Sendees were held at 10:00 p.m. Tuesday evening at the My ers Funeral Chapel under aus pices of Joshua David Kelly Con sistory. Memers of the Omaha Police Force served as Honorary pall bearers. F.A.M. U Speaker F A M- U BACCALAUREATE SPEAKER—The Rev. Edward T. Graham, pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church, Miami, is sched uled to deliver the baccalaureate sermon at Florida A and M Uni versity, Sunday afternoon. June 3 at 2:30. Secretary Guilty of Tax Fraud New York . . . (CNS) . . Despite all the pleading by the defense that the government was trying to jail Rep. Adam Clayton Powell’s secretary, Mrs. Hattie Freeman Dodson just so it could “brainwash her” and get enough evidence to prosecute Powell on kickback charges, the smiling Mrs. Dodson was convicted of nine counts of evading $5,000 in income taxes and of illegally re ceiving $2,000 in tax refunds. A Federal Court jury convicted the business secretary of Powell and Abyssinian Baptist Church, which Powell pastors. She burst into tears when the jury received the case but was calm as the verdict was announced 2% hours later. She will be sentenced on June 4th. The maximum penalty on each count is ^five years’ im prisonment and a $10,000 fine. Highlight of the trial was the testimony that Mrs. Dodson kick ed back her Congressional salary to Powell. Powell took the stand to deny it. Then the defense counsel charged that Powell was the real target in the case. The jury, however, believed that Mrs. Dodson wilfully evaded taxes by filing two returns—one jointly with her husband and the second under her maiden name and in listing false dependents, some nonexistent. For the Home To Straighten Records CINCE warped phonograph rec ords are useless in that condi tion, Popular Mechanics offers a suggestion for straightening them. Simply immerse the record in hot water, 140 to 160 degrees, in a cake pan or similar shallow, flat-bottom container. DINNER RtATE flAS, ‘ WEIGHT hot WATER Over the record invert a dinner plate of a diameter permitting its edge to contact only the edge of the record. In other words don’t let the plate touch the t rooves of the record. Place a one-pound weight on the plate, leaving the record un der pressure until the water has cooled to room temperature. NEW YORK—The Field Foun dation of New York has made a $30,000 grant to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., to help further the organization's legal effort to se cure justice and equality for all Americans without regard to race or color. The grant covers a 24-month period beginning May 1, 1956, and is given in two payments of $15,000 each. The Field Foundation was established in 1940 by Mr. Mar shall Field and seeks to improve intercultural and interracial re lations. Past grants made to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund have enabled the organization to make great inroads against the barriers of discrimination in several areas of American life. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. is headed by Thurgood Marshall. A Great Churchman Died May 15 Evanston, 111. — William Wil son Fischer, age 90, a great Afri can Methodist Episcopal church man, distinguished scholar and widely known humanitarian and the father of Cecilia Fisher Hor ton, a teacher of business sub jects at Central High School of Louisville, Ky., passed away at his home in this city May 15, last, at 9:20 P.M. A leading citizen of Evanston and an outstanding figure in na tional life, Mr. Fisher was widely known in church, educational, chic and political circles in Kan sas and Illinois. He was born in Verdery, Abbeyville County, S. C August 7, 1865 and later moved to Topeka, Kansas where he serv ed in the office of the Governor of that state. He later served as Fiscal Agent of the former West ern University, Quindaro, Kan sas. Mr. Fisher was at one time a teacher at Erie, Pa. Mr. Fisher moved his family to Evanston, 111, in 1913 and served for many years in the In heritance Tax Division of the Attorney General’s office of Ill inois. A teacher, churchman, phil ospher and humanitarian, Mr. Fisher stood high in the council’s of the A.M.E. Church and over a long period of years was a driv ing force in the elevation of many Ministers to the high of fice of Bishop. Mr. Fisher numbered among his intimate friends the late Gov ernor Frank O. Lowden, the late Mayor William Hale Thompson and the late ex-Vice President of the United States—General Char lies D. Dawes. He was a mem ber of Ebenezer A.M.E. Church and the Evanston Republican Club. Surviving Mr. Fisher are his wife, Janie M.; three daughters, Cecilia F., Jennie and Ermina; three sons—Samuel, head of a local printing company; Charles, a member of the Industrial Com mission of the state of Illinois with offices in Chicago and Cecil A., a Probation Officer and chair man of the Housing Commission of the County of Milwaukee as well as a graduate minister of Northwestern University and a son-in-law, B. Benj. Horton, Jr., a Louisville publisher and Public 'relations Consultant. Funeral services were con* ducted for Mr. Fisher Saturday afternon, May 19, at the Ebene zer A.M.E. Church by the Rev. U. S. Robinson, pastor. Inter ment was at Sunset Memorial Cemetery of this city. Hundreds of friends and lead ing citizens in the life of the city and State viewed Mr. Fish er’s remains. Perhaps, no in dividual in the history of this city was ever held in higher es teem by his friends than the la mented leader. Hundreds of telegrams and messages of con dolence came to the family home from far and near as final tri butes to the man who had play ed so vital a role in the progress of the Negro since emancipation to the time of his illness and ul timate demise. Hundreds view ed the body as it lay in state at the Porter and Owens Mortuary and during the funeral services. “Even if vnu’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there!”
