Pulpit and Press Question Urges Immediate Duty
A verse asks when clergy, educators, and the press will recognize the necessity and do their best. The line challenges institutions to act, stressing timely moral responsibility.
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Newspaper
The Union
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1952
Page
1
A verse asks when clergy, educators, and the press will recognize the necessity and do their best. The line challenges institutions to act, stressing timely moral responsibility.
More than 800 delegates from 30 states gathered in Washington on April 1 to press Congress for a five power peace pact to end the Korean War. They submitted 500000 petition signatures, urged halting German rearmament, backed colonial self government, and proposed a nationwide July 4 peace campaign. Leaders included Charlotte Bass and Willard Uphaus, and they met with officials and the Democratic National Committee.
Alma Vessells John and C Lisley John inaugurate the House of Services at 35 West 116th Street New York offering public typing mail and telephone services real estate listings travel booking theatre reservations and counselling based on Mrs Johns NACGN experience and Mr Johns Harlem ties Indiana to the Caribbean associates include Tyndale Quashie insurance broker and Ernest A Archer.
Cincinnati readers learn of new TB drugs praised by Dr. John H. Skavlem for cautious optimism. He warns months of evidence may be needed, future TB care will remain essential, and case finding via chest X ray must continue alongside any new therapy.
The Civil Rights Congress in New York telegraphed Attorney General McGrath urging immediate federal action to halt terror bombings in Los Angeles targeting Negro and Jewish homes. The request followed Sunday bombs on Dunsmuir Avenue, part of a string of attacks on the block, with residents including a Negro teacher and a Jewish couple. Local groups plan mass meetings as community leaders condemn the violence.
New York reports Walter Winchell faces backlash as a string of newspaper exposes challenge his honesty and liberal image. Critics question his influence, accuracy, and closeness to figures like Sherman Billingsley of the Stork Club, highlighting racial tensions and public doubt.
Probate Judge Chase M. Davies joins the Cancer Fund Campaign Committee to appeal to industrial groups in support of the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Unit of the American Cancer Society. Mrs. Justin A. Rollman, president, notes the economic losses from cancer and urges business backing for the fundraising effort. The piece also mentions Walter Winchell's critics Jos ephine Baker Barry Gray and Ed Sullivan. Continued on Page 2.
Graduate nurses in the area are invited to an April 14 through 18 workshop on tuberculosis nursing co sponsored by the Anti Tuberculosis League and District Eight of the Ohio State Nurses Association. The event at the University of Cincinnati includes main sessions in the Women's Building with opening and closing in the Medical Building auditorium. 115 nurses have enrolled with advance registrations ongoing through Mrs Blanche Miller of ATL. Leading consultants include Milenka Herc Janet Thompson and Elizabeth Jordan.
An author recounts a two week voyage by ship and train from Monrovia to Chicago, thanking relatives and Ebony Magazine staff including John H. Johnson and others. He notes receptions with Chicago Defender and World staff, social gatherings at Harrys Lounge and Joe's DeLuxe, Lil Harper writing a memoir compilation, and daughter Jean Carter becoming promotion sales director at Lustrasilk Corp with plans for a sales campaign.
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