Young White Methodists Join African Missions for Three Years
Thirty-three young Methodists, average age 23, will spend three years as special term workers in Africa after six weeks’ training in Hartford. They sail in September to stations in Algeria, the Belgian Congo, Tunisia, Liberia, and Southern Rhodesia. The group, not bound to lifelong missions, includes preacher’s kids, an ordained minister, and diverse family backgrounds. Gilbert Whitney, 22, will serve in Portuguese East Africa and believes the term will sharpen his future Christian service and local impact.
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Africa
Methodist Church
Hartford
Gilbert Whitney
Michigan State College
Michigan
Portugese
Dabney Poem Line Questions Press on Religious Knowledge
A quoted verse by Dabney questions when pulpit and press and educated readers will recognize the necessity and do their best. The lines urge action and mindfulness among religious and media figures toward required understanding.
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Dabney
Beauticians Fight Segregation Plan On Missouri Pacific Eagle
Detroit delegates to the National Beauty Culturists League Convention allege eight Michigan women were forced into the front Jim Crow coach on the Missouri Pacific Eagle from Palestine Texas to Houston. They report threats and insult from a conductor as other passengers questioned the policy. National President Cor Delia Green Johnson vows to press Supreme Court rulings upholding interstate travel desegregation and seek justice.
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New York
Global
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Michigan
Houston
Texas
Eagle
Detroit
Dannear Fields
Dozelle Smith
Josephine Mitchell
Thelma Parker
Joanna Mason
Juanita Kersey
Mary Myler
Lula Potter
Cordelia Green Johnson
Supreme Court
Beauticians
Palestine
National Church Charity Plans Flood Area Survey
Dr. Wynn C. Fairfield of the National Council of Churches leaves New York to survey flood damages in Kansas and Missouri. He says at least 50 congregations lack worship places and church property losses may reach 2 million dollars, with a report due at the council’s fall meeting in New York on September 19.
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Fairfield
Councils of Churches
General Board
National Council
New York
The
Church World Service
Department
National Council of Churches
Refugees Deported By Relief Workers In Korea
More than a thousand refugees daily are moved by relief workers from battle zones to the south of the Han River with three days of rations. Rev Charles A Sauer of the Methodist Church reports heavy hunger and scarce rice. Yichun District near Seoul has eleven circuits and eleven churches burned, with rebuilding needing multiple thousand dollar churches.
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Korea
Han River
Charles A. Sauer
Pusan
Sauer
Methodist Church
Haeju
Andong
Yichun
Yichum
Soeul
Elks Urge Small Dues Increase to Fund Plans
Washington Eagle notes Grand Lodge efforts to build Elkdom with elaborate plans but cites insufficient funds hampering expansion. It urges a few pennies per month per member to finance growth, contrasting with the larger white Elks organization subsidizing costs via a yearly one dollar subscription.
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Grand Lodge
B.P.O.E
White Elks
54 Negro Soldiers Letter Calls End to Segregation
In Fort Devens Massachusetts fifty four Black soldiers sign a letter questioning why Black Americans should fight abroad for freedom while facing discrimination at home. They cite segregation in their Laundry Company and use of partitions between Black and white units, urging equal rights and an end to racism in the U S Army.
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New York
Fort Devens
Massachusetts
America
Korea
Harlem hosts National Technical Association convention in New York
New York Harlem hosts the National Technical Association twenty third annual convention at Hotel Theresa drawing ninety delegates from thirteen chapters among 1000 engineers architects and scientists. Fletcher Wallace of the Atomic Energy Commission pledges improved hiring of Negro applicants amid past accusations of indifference. Alvin C Gary a Brooklyn Negro electrical engineer who served in government for 22 years notes few qualified Negroes apply and urges action.
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New York
Harlem
National Technical Association
Hotel Theresa
Fletcher Wallace
Atomic Energy Commission
Urban League
Truman
Alvin C. Gary
Brooklyn
Planned Parenthood adviser promotes child care for Negro women
Grace Hale, Negro consultant for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, tours the nation teaching child spacing and care. She argues the movement appeals widely and stresses quality over quantity, advocating more babies where resources enable proper training and development.
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New York
Grace’ Hale
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
End the War Rally speech calls for peace and social change
Dr. W. E. B. DuBois urged conference and patience as paths to peace at the End the War Rally in Chicago Coliseum before about 10 000 attendees. He attacked banking and industrial empires for wealth concentration and warned war serves elite profits while demanding majoritarian reforms to prevent future conflicts.
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W. E. B. DuBois
U. S
Liberia
United States
Chicago Coliseum
Weath
Dr. DuBois
China
Africa
Southeast Asia
Middle East
Josephine Baker Shatters Box Office Records in San Francisco
Glamorous Josephine Baker wrapped a three week engagement at RKA's Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco after a brisk LA run. She grossed over 96500 with four shows daily, setting records at the venue and paying her two supporting acts 2700 totals. Her soloist salary was the highest ever paid by the outfit.
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Josephine Baker
Paris
RKA
Golden Gate
Miss Baker
LARKO
History of the Negro in America and Africa thought
Booker Washington Birthplace Virginia poses a question about whether the Negro would have fared better in Africa. The piece traces 1619 Jamestown slavery, 1863 Emancipation, and 244 years of bondage. It cites slave origins, 31 million West African populations, and growth to 15 million in the U S. It argues democracy in America produced progress despite prejudice.
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Booker Washington
Africa
Jamestown
Virginia
United States
Nigeria
Cameroons
Gambia
Sierra Leone
Gold Coast
Togoland
America
The Lesson Durant Taught On Wealth And Power
Editorial cites Will Durant on wealth concentration as inevitable due to natural human differences. It argues the widening gap from 1750 to 1940 mirrors current trends, with the rich growing richer while the masses grow poorer.
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Will Durant
America
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I.B.P.O.E
Henry David Thoreau
New England
Franklin Roosevelt
Elks and
Elks
L.E.P.O.E
Civil Rights Congress
A. J. Gary
Hollywood Pulse
Mary Kitano
San Francisco
Los Angeles
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