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VofT 30 No. 37 ~ _Friday, November 16, 1956___ 10c Per Copy
THE BELL TOLLS
By Leonard H. Hall
The die is cast. This presidential election is now just another
phase of history. But we can learn many interesting things as we
try to analyze the final results.
This column has reached these conclusions set forth below. We
are sure that the voter has become more intelligent in casting his
ballot. He has lost his feeling of subserverience to a single political
party. Especially when that party blandly ignores his desires and
his needs as a citizen. He has thrown aside his former blind party
loyalty and learned to vote with retaliatory effect toward those whom
he realized were no longer worthy of his vote.
We think that the results plainly demonstrate the pressing need
for a rejuvenation in both Republican and Democratic Parties. The
Old Guard of the Republican Party must be replaced by the liberality
and progressivism that surely must exist in the young Republicans.
The Democratic Party has to clean house completely, according to this
electorate. For the voters showed that they feared to place absolute
control of our Government into the hands of a Party that nurtures,
protects and accepts in silence the slanderous rantings and machina
tions against minorities, constantly spewed out by Talmadge, Eastland
and others of their anti-racist ilk.
The Negro vote has clearly indicated that cleaning house for the
Democratic Party must also include firm support and steady imple
mentation of the Supreme Court’s Integration Decision; the abolition
of the social and economic barriers that attempt to keep the Negro
in a second-class citizenship status throughout the South, and a wider
and more just dipensation of political patronage to the Negro, where
his voting strength is strongest.
Futhermore, President Eisenhower, with his popular return to
office seems to have been placed on trial by the Negro voter, to see
if he will really be as effective in fighting for and pushing for the
civil rights of the Negro as his partisans have proclaimed him to be.
The verdict of guilty has been brought in from the polls against
both parties in this mass political trial. They have been punished
nationally, by state and locally, by an informed electorate.
White Woman Makes "Test
Case" Of Sitting Beside
Negro at Virginia Rally
Mr. Frank Young
Mr. .Frank Young, 53 years
2211 Maple Street, passed away
Friday November 2nd. Mr. Young
had been a resident of Omaha
twenty six years and was a faith
ful employee of Wilson Packing
Company. He is survived by
three cousins, Mrs. Beatrice Turn
er, Mrs, Viola B. Hurley, Mr.
Ralph Blewett, of Kansas City.
Missouri.
""Funeral services were held ten
o’clock Tuesday morning, No
vember 8th from the Thomas
Funeral Home with the Rev. E. F.
Ridely officiating, assisted by
Rev. Anna Burton.
- Pallbearers, Mr. Clarence Smith,
Vernon Hill, George Johnson,
Richard Joyner, Ora Marshall,
and German Craig.
Interment was at Mt. Hope
Cemetery.
The art of acceptance is the art
of'making someone who has done
you a favor wish that he might
have done you a greater one.
Love’s like a radiator—it keeps
you warm, even when you know
it’s only hot air.
Arlington, Virginia. . .(CNS). , .
Miss Faith Bissell, 43, a Librarian
with the National Research Coun
cil, sal beside a Negro at a politi
cal meeting for candidates and
thereby not only brought about
her arrest as the law so states
there should be no intermingling
of races at public meetings, but
caused a heated argument at the
rally.
Miss Bissell told police when
arrested in a section of the hall
reserved for Negroes that she
decided to make a test case “as
a matter of personal conscience.’’
She added: “I was horrified to
see those Negro citizens sitting
in the segregated seats.”
A native of New Jersey, she
moved to Arlington from Wash
ington in ’SI and had never made
a test case on any racial is
sue before. She says, too, that
she is no member of the NAACT.
She has been charged with violat
ing the state law but was released
on $100 bond. Her case waj ton
tinued until November 13th so
that she could get a lawyer.
For Holiday Glamour Try A Tetrazzini
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An elegant buffet dish which make* excellent use of planned
holiday leftovers is Turkey Tetraxxini, a lyrical combination of
turkey, mushrooms and a pale cream sauce smoothed with evaporated
milk and livened with sherry.
Glamorous as the famous soprar o from which it takes its nams,
Turkey Tetraxxini teams beautifully with a tart salad, hot coffaa
and a pretty dessert for as easy xnd effective buffet. The evapo
rated milk adds creaminess and serves as the perfect blending
ground for the delicate turkey am' mushroom flavors.
TURKEY TETRAZZINI
1 can (S or 4 ounces) mushroom* U teaspoon Tabs-ico
1 cup evaporated milk 2 cups coarsely diced
8 tablespoons butter or margarine cooked turkey
2 tablespoons flour I to 2 tablespoons
% teaspsem salt sherry, optional
1 chicken bouillon cubs 2 cups (4 ounces)
14 teaspoon monosodium cooked macaroni or
glutamate spaghetti
Drain mushrooms; reserve liquid. Add enough water ti liquid
to make I cup. Combinqwith evaporated milk. Melt butter In sauce
pan. Remora from heal and blend in floor, salt, bouiiicr. cube and
nonotodium riutimAtt. Gradually add evaporated milk miatura
and stir over low heat until mlxturu thicken* and cornea to a boil.
Add Tabasco, turkey, mushroom*, skerry and macaroni, and bring
to serving temperature. If desired, sprinkle with chopped ripe olives.
YIELD: 4 to * servings.
"Thank God For America-Our New Home!”
This thankful Hungarian family of fourteen
'offered a prayer of thanksgiving as they sat down
together recently for their first dinner in their
new home in Chicago. One of the largest family
groups to immigrate to the United States under
provisions of the Refugee Relief Act of 1953, the
father's visa represented the 30,000th person to
come to this country under auspices of Catholic
Relief Services-National Catholic Welfare Con
ference. It brought the overall total of homeless
refugees resettled by the agency in free countries
throughout the world since 1943 to 200,000. mark
ing the greatest effort of any voluntary agency.
They are Mr. and Mrs. Bela Roman with
twelve of their fifteen children ranging in age from
3 years to 26. Three daughters remained in France
—•two of them nuns and one married. With the
assistance of the Hungarian Catholic League a
home and job assurance have been provided for
the family. ... _ .,
Roman, who is 68, and his 48-year-old wife,
Elisabeth, fled with their eleven children to Ger
many from their native Hungary in 1944, when
Russian troops entered the country. Their flight
was prompted by the father’s fear of communist
reprisals. As a young man, in the Hungarian Royal
Army in which he served 28 years, he had taken
an active part in the 1919 uprising against the
communist regime of Bela Kun. Their nomadic ex
istence finally took them to Vosges, France, from
which place they immigrated.
Here they will begin a new life eagerly await
ing the day they can become American citizens.
Mrs. Roman stated, “It was only the grace of God
that let us rear our family through these years.
(Ckitata America* Haiti
Negro Doll Is Ready
AKRON, OHIO — Now ready
for Christmas gift-giving is this
new all-vinyl brown skinned doll
' which six-year old Norma Dansby
of Akron, Ohio, is holding.
This is the doll which was de
signed by the Sun Rubber Com
pany of nearby Barberton, Ohio,
to meet the requirements parents
said they wanted in a doll for
their children. It is 18-inches
tall and is a real deluxe doll be
i cause it drinks, wets, coos and
j even blows bubbles! The arms,
! legs and head move and the arms
and legs are dimpled. The simu
lated dark, wavy hair hangs in
natural-like ringlets, giving Sun
Rubber's new doll the life like
appearance of a baby. It’s dressed
j in. a two-piece sweater set with
matching booties. A tiny .nursing
| bottle and a bubble pipe complete
the accessories.
First Negro
Newspaper
130 Yrs. Old
BOOKER WASHINGTON
BIRTHPLACE, VA„ NOVEMBER
00 1956 - March of 1957 marks the
130th anniversary of the founding
of the first Negro newspaper in
America. Because the Negro
Press has made such large con
tributions to our national well
being both in service rendered to
America’s minority group and the
general help given in building,
sustaining, and exemplifying the
nation’s Democratic ideals - Sid
ney J. Phillips, President of the
Booker T. Washington Centen
nial Commission, has requested
Postmaster General Arthur J.
Summerfield, to issue a commcm - !
orative stamp paying tribute to
the Negro Press on its 130th an
niversary.
Mr. Phillips states that he has
recently been informed by the
Assistant Postmaster General that
this request will be given con
sideration along with other sutv !
jects on file. Consideration of
subjects for the 1997 Commem
orative Stamp issue will be taken
up in November.
The issuance of such a stamp
would not only be a worthy tri
bute to a great American organi
James Watts
James Watts, age about 50
years, of 2423 Lake Street, ex
pired Friday November 9, at a
local hospital.
Mr. Watts was an Omaha resi
dent about 5 years and leaves no
survivors.
Committal services were held
Thursday November 15, 1956 at
9:30 at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
Myers Brothers Funeral Ser
vice. >
Richard C. Hill
Richard Clinton Hill, infant,
2450 North 31st Street, expired,
Friday November 2nd at a local
hospital.
Little Richard is survived by
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bailey
Hill, Jr., five brothers, Bailey, j
Robert, Melvin, Alvin, David, {
sister, Sue Ellen Hill, grandmoth
er, Mrs. Reola Humphrey, Tulsa, j
Oklahoma and aunts and other j
relatives.
Services were held ten o’clock
Thursday morning from the Thom |
as Funeral Home with Father
Charles Kerr, S. J. officiating and
burial at Holy Sepulchre Ceme
tery.
zation - the Negro Press - but
would be of great educational
value to Americans of all races.
3 Million
Take Credit
Courses
—
The Office of Education estima
! ted today that 2,957,227 students
| are taking credit courses in the
Nation’s colleges and universiti
I this fall.
j This exceeds last year’s enroll
ment by 236,298. a gain of 8.7
per cent.
There was an. estimated 735,065
new students this fall, compared
with 689,635 new students a year
ago. This is an increase of 6.6
per cent.
Unions
Pay High
Tribute
The flag over the AFL-CIO na
tional headquarters in Washing
ton is flying at half-mast today
in memory of "the sons and
daughters of Hungary who fear
lessly gave their lives for freedom
and human dignity.’’
AFL-CIO Secretary - Treasurer
William F. Schnitzler, in announc
ing this action, paid high tribute
to “the dauntless workers - the
men, women and children, mur
dered in cold blood by Soviet
hooligans in uniform, commanded
by Bulganin, Khrushchev and
Zhukov - who fell in action fight
ing for the right to live in free
dom and to build free trade un
ions as bulwarks of human well
being and democracy.”
Mr Jscnmuier saia tne ceremony
also honored the “Russian workers
and peasants, who 39 years ago
this week valiantly fought for
democracy and against the es
tablishment of the Soviet Com
munist dictatorship” which he
called “the gravest menance to
freedom, human dignity and
peace throughout the world.’ '
¥
Maggie Ford
Mrs. Maggie Ford, 62 years,
2617 Spencer Street, passed away
Wednesday November 7th at a
local hospital.
Mrs. Ford had been a resident
of Omaha thirty three years and
was a member of the Church of
God in Christ.
She is survived by her husband,
Mr. James Ford, Omaha, sister,
Miss Wren Dilwood, three broth
ers, Mr. Richard Dilwood, Mr.
Fred Dilwood, of Fort Gibson,
Oklahoma, Mr. John Dilwood,
Omaha.
The body is at Thomas Funeral
Home.
The American Red Cross trans
mitted welfare messages during
the past year at the average rate
of 4,900 per day or three per min
ute, for the benefit of servicemen
and veterans.
MISSISSIPPI GIRL NAMED
"MISS HAMPTON"
Hampton, Va. (GE) Millie Cur
rie, senior sociology major, has
been elected “Miss Hampton-1956”
by the Hampton Institute student
body. Miss Currie, who comes
from Meridian, Mississippi, was
attendant to last year’s “Miss
Hampton.”
White Is
Raising A
Negro Girl
Chicago — Mrs. Dorothy Dan
ner DaPonte, a wealthy, white
Southern aristocrat of Mobile,
|
Alabama, who is defying the Ku
Klux Klan in a courageous at
tempt to rear a Negro girl like a
full-fledged American citizen, is
featured in the December EB
ONY.
The child, 12-year-old Carrie
Mae McCants, whose mother once
worked for Mrs. DaPonte, was
taken in by the childless woman
when her parents split up six
years ago. At first Mobile whites
paid little notice to the Negro
child when she moved into the
widow’s home. They took the
position that what Mrs. DaPonte
did was her own business. When
the white mother and her Negro
“daughter” went to Europe for
two years, the case was forgotten.
While Carrie and Mrs. DaPonte
were abroad, the Supreme Court
banned segregation in public
schools. When the widow read
about it she made the decision
which has brought the wrath of
the South upon her. She decided
to enroll Carrie in a white school.
This year she asked the Mobile;
County school board to admit j
Carrie to a white school near her
home and the request was denied.
Immediately, a band of 100 Ku
Klux Klansmen burned a 10-foot
cross in her driveway. Mrs. Da
Ponte and the child hid in a
friend’s home but the Klan hunt
ed them down and burned anoth
er cross. Threatening phone calls j
and letters poured in. Former j
friends ostracized her. Some of.
her blood relatives stopped speak-1
mg to her. Her father left town.
At present, alone and almost
friendless, Mrs. DaPonte is think
ing of sending Carrie North to be
tutored privately while the case
"Are You Satisfied To
Remain A Slave?", Asks
Akron NAACP Unit
Akron, Ohio — A special effort
by the Akron NAACP branch to
double its membership by year’s
end is featuring a handbill head
ed, “Are you satisfied to remain a
slave?”
Then handbill goes on to say,
in part:
Northside
Y Meets
Sunday
Sunday at tha Branch
The regular monthly Twilight
Hour will be held Sunday, Novem
ber 18, at 5 p.m. at the Northside
Branch building, 28th Avenue and
Miami Streets. The program will
feature the first of a series of
“Know Your World” films. This
one is a documentary film, “The
Family, An Approach to Peace.”
In addition there will be mess
ages from around the world, in
commemoration of YWCA Fel
lowship Week.
Miss Barbara Long, program
planning chairman, is in charge,
assisted by Mrs. Edmund Fitzpat
rick, World Fellowship chairman.
All members and friends of the
YWCA are invited to be present.
Calander
Regular meetings of the North
side clubs.
Co-Weds meet on Saturday night.
Quack's club, planning a card
party on November 30th. Come
one, come all join in the fun.
OME's Club, regular meeting on
Friday nights.
Jr. Teen-Age Department
Jackson Y-Teens have planned
a Thanksgiving party for their
friends on November 30th. The
club is working on a Thanksgiving
service project for an Old Folk’s
Home. All Y-Teens are working on j
a Christmas Tea project for their!
mothers.
is ligated. She told EBONY that
she will stay in a now-hostile'
Mobile to fight in court for her
“daughter’s” constitutional rights.
“You arc a slave if you are
denied work according to your
ability because of your race and
color.
“You are a slave if you cannot
travel as other people in public
transportation because of your
race.
“We are half-slaves as a race
if our brothers in the South can
not VOTE.
“We are slaves as long as we
are discriminated against in pub
lic housing, recreation and other
public places because of our race
or color.
“We are slaves when we can tx
beaten, shot and killed and our
homes burned and our property
taken from us without protection
or redress of law.
“The NAACP is fighting for full
and complete freedom and will
not settle for anything less.”
The Akron NAACP branch now
has 1.073 members and hopes to
attract at least 2,000 by Dec. 31.
LIBERAL RELIGIOUS YOUTH
GIVES OFFICIAL ENDORSE
MENT TO NAACP
New York — A notification that
Liberal Religious Youth, Inc., of
ficially has endorsed the program
of the NAACP was hailed here
last week by Herbert L. Wright,
the Association’s youth secretary.
Mr. Wright said the action
marks the first time a national
youth organization has taken this
step. Liberal Religious Youth,
Inc., is composed of young persons
affiliated with the Unitarian and
Universalist faiths.
By a resolution adopted at a
meeting held last June, the group
declared NAACP goals to be in
agreement with the principles of
Liberal Religious Youth. The
group further resolved to become
a “cooperating member” of the
NAACP.
A letter explaining this stand
and enclosing a contribution was
received recently by Mr. Wright,
who responded by congratulating
the young men and women and
urging them to take out a collec
tive life membership in the
NAACP.
Joins Staff of California Hospital
FAMUANS IN CALIFORNIA —
Dr. Gerald Hughe*, Sr., who was
graduated from Florida A and M
University in 1943, was recently
joined on the west coast by his
family. Dr. Hughes, who received
the M. D. degree from Meharry
Medical College in 1955, recently
joined the staff of the Porterville
(California) State Hospital as
staff physician. His wife, Gloria
who is also a graduate of Florida
A and M and who formerly served
on the staff of her alma mater,
i . — ■».»'
and their four children made the
trip via air. They are shown at
the Los Angeles Airport shortly
after their arrival via American
Airlines. Left to right, Gerald,
Jr., Edward, Andre, Gloria, and
Or. and Mrs. Hughes.
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