New Year Personalities and Local Social Notes
Cincinnati area personals include a New Year reading by Dollie Blackwell at Crawford's Old Men's Home and a family reunion for Miss Cleo Walker in honor of socialite status. Obituaries note the deaths of Mrs. Hutch Ross and Mrs. Bert Ferguson. Mrs. W. P. Dabney hosted the Tiny Club gathering before a Newark trip, and Mrs. Maggie Underwood visits her sister in Washington for the holidays.
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Thomas Walker
Miss Cleo Walker
New York City
Maggie Underwood
Washington
Lou Minnes
Appreciation of Wendell Phillips Dabney on eighty four
Washington D C November 15 1949 Dear Eicher Dabney Congratulations upon your eighty fourth birthday The letter from Georgia Douglas Johnson recalls his guitar playing and study at the newspaper office and includes a poem praising his music and memory
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Eicher Dabney
Wendell Phillips Dabney
Come All Ye The Year Is Done and Spring Choked
A seasonal verse notes scarcity and renewal as those who beckon the Christ Child gather in Athens at Madam Ida Gerding’s.
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Christ Child
Madam Ida Gerding
Athens
East and West Sanders' Best New Year Wish
Readers are urged to subscribe to the New Year while Christmas lingers. A note mentions Sam Hunter, a jitterbug, has departed for unknown crimes leaving thefts behind. Health updates include Mrs Eva H Adams improving. Mrs Willa Mae Stroman recovering after a Sunday auto accident. and several others on the sick list. A worker's prayer ends the piece.
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Sam Hunter
Professor Porter Visits City Art Scene
Dr. James L. Porter, Howard University associate professor of Art, spent several days studying the city art scene after European study. He dined as a guest of Principal Phillips on Wednesday evening. his father formerly led a Baltimore AME Church.
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James L. Porter
Howard University
Europe
AME
Baltimore
Phillips
UN Pickets Demand Free Africa at United Nations
A group of 30 United African Nationalist Movement members picketed outside the United Nations as a General Assembly subcommittee debated African colonies. They carried colored placards calling for immediate independence, self determination, and withdrawal of European powers.
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General Assembly
United African Nationalist Movement
Lenox Avenue
Africa
Free Africa
Eretria
Ethiopia
Somaliland
Poli o campaign leaders to meet in New York event
More than one hundred prominent men and women will attend the third annual meeting of Negro campaign leaders for the March of Dimes the annual fund raising drive of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis according to Charles H.
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New York
N. Y
National Foundation For
Polio Drive Strategy Meeting Set for Tuskegee December 2 3
Bynum Foundation director of interracial activities leads a campaign planning session at Tuskegee Institute Alabama with delegates from Southern and Southwestern states. War ren Coss Elaine Whitelaw and Dr Albert Casey will speak as the 1950 March of Dimes drive is framed as the greatest in the Foundation history amid 1949 polio epidemics.
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National Foundation
Warren Coss
Elaine Whitelaw
Albert Casey
Birmingham
Ala
Fungs
Foundation
African LaborRights Protest Against British Rule Demands
A readers’ statement condemns government orders suppressing press freedom and arrests across Africa in response to mine workers’ struggles. It denounces Sir Percy Sillitoe’s East Africa mission and calls for wage justice, ending colonial exploitation, and punishment for those responsible for the Enugu killings.
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Percy Sillitoe
Britain
East Africa
New York Herald-Tribune
Nigeria
Enugu
Nigerian National Federation of Labor
National Council of
Xavier U Professors Honored By Pope Pius XII Cross
Xavier University in New Orleans la announces Professor Victor Labat head of industrial art education and Dr Leon Bassier head of language studies honored by Pope Pius XII with Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice and Knight of St Gregory respectively. Labat is the second Catholic Negro in the South to receive the cross.
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New Orleans
Victor Labat
Xavier University
South
Pius XII
Eleanor N. Figaro
Lafayette
Xavier
Labat
Leon Bassier
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