Outlines 15-Point Program for Congress IS SUBMITTED BY THE NAACP Intensified Court Action Against 
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WOMAN HEARD ON WAR EXPERIENCES By Bessie Scott Mrs. Martin Niemoeller, wife of the famed Pastor Niemoeller of Germany, was guest speaker at a luncheon given in her honor under the auspices of the Louisville Council of Church [Women?] at the St. Matthew [Evangelical?] and Reformed Church, on Tuesday afternoon, January 7. The luncheon was served by the Mission Society of the church. Addressing nearly 500 women, many of them members of the Louisville Council of Church Women, Mrs. Niemoeller said of her bitter experiences during the years when her husband was a prisoner of the Nazis, "God wanted to say something to me through making me suffer . . . that He is my Master and my Lord. I have to say, 'Yes', to everything He does." Losing two of their children during these years, Mrs. Niemoeller kept courage, remembering the words of the son whom she lost, written to his father in confinement in a concentration camp, "Be cheerful in hope, patient in tribulation, and keep on praying." Speaking of the fact that many have spoken of the Niemoeller spirit in Germany, she said, "It is not the Niemoeller spirit, but the influence of the revival of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in Germany." Mrs. Niemoeller ended her talk by saying, "I am glad I can tell you about my experiences, because all of you will have troubles--all of us do; but I say to you that underneath are the Everlasting Arms. By my coming I hope the unity among you (Continued on page 4)
LAUNCH NATIONAL MOVEMENT AMONG MINISTERS FOR SPIRITUAL BETTERMENT
Acquitted of Servitude Charge
AWARDED FELLOWSHIP [Photo] Dr. E. Perry Crump Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Meharry Medical College, was awarded a Research Fellowship in Pediatrics by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The March of Dimes makes it possible for the National Foundation to award scholarships and fellowships for training in the treatment of infantile paralysis victims. -- LAUNCH URBAN LEAGUE CAMPAIGN The Louisville Urban League for the second time in its 25 years of social work in the community is conducting a public Membership Campaign with Arthur S. Kling and John O. Blanton, Co-Chairmen. Morris Bensinger and Raymond L. Ransaw are co-directors of the drive and will head the various teams actively soliciting memberships during the drive which extends from January 22 through February 3. The campagin will open with a public meeting in the auditorium of the WAVE Building, Preston and Broadway Streets, Wednesday, January 22, 8:15 p.m., with Lester B. Granger, Executive Secretary of the National Urban League, New York, as principal speaker. The public is urged to make plans to hear this outstanding speaker and to join the Urban League. Membership fee: $1.00 and $3.00. Send same to the Louisville Urban League, 418 S. Fifth Street.
COLORED BLIND STUDENT WINS AWARD
1946 A Crucial Year 1946 Crucial For Race Employment Report Shows Gain In Campaign Against Job Discrimination
PORO COLLEGE HAS OFFICIAL OPENING; MRS. MALONE FOUNDER-PRESIDENT HERE The Louisville Poro School at Tenth and Chestnut Streets, was officially opened with an open house Sunday. January 12, from 3 until 5 p. m. For several weeks, Mrs. Georgia Lattimore Lewis of Chicago has been in the city getting everything in readiness for the reopening and operation of the school which had been closed for sometime. Mrs. Lewis is the widow of the late Carey B. Lewis, who for a long while served as publicity director for the Poro College in Chicago. Miss Dorothy Harding is in charge of the school. Present for the occasion were Mrs. Annie Malone, founder of the Poro System of Beauty Culture and of the college of which she is still the head; Mrs. Myrtle B. Nichols, instructor at the Chicago institutions; Mrs. Laura E. Hughes, instructor in the Poro School at Indianapolis and a former student under Mrs. Nichols, and Miss Fannie Alexander, a student at the Indianapolis school. Many citizens, among them several graduates of the old Louisville school, were in attendance at the open house. Serving alternately at the punch "It ain't so much what a man don't know that makes him ignorant, as what he knows that ain't so." bowl were Mrs. Lewis and Miss Alice Nugent. Miss Bessie Scott registered the guests.
BUSINESS MAN [Photo] Horace C. Spears Mr. Spears, a well-known Louisville business man, has been a mortician since 1906. A native of Knoxville, Tenn., he came to Louisville at an early age, and after serving in the Spanish-American war, returned to the city and made a study of embalming. He passed the examination with a good average. He married Miss Blanch Gibson of Pewee Valley, to which union two children were born, Mrs. Louise Spears Charlton, connected with the Government Employment Agency and Horace Temple Spears, a contractor in hardwood flooring business in New York City. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Spears married Mrs. Bessie Estil Cobb of Richmond, Ky., who is an active and enthusiastic member of Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church. Mr. Spears is identified with the Grace Presbyterian Church. Spears is a leader in his profession in both Kentucky and Indiana, and he and Mrs. Spears have numerous friends in the three Falls Cities.
ALCONITE RETURNS [Photo] Captain Waller M. Downs A graduate from Alcorn A. and M. College, Mississippi, class of 1941, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Arts, recently visited his Alma Mater.
90 TO RECEIVE CENTRAL DIPLOMAS The 76th commencement of Central High School will be held at Halleck Hall Auditorium, Monday, January 20, at 8 p.m. Ninety graduates will receive diplomas, six of whom are veterans. "New World-New Tasks" is the theme of the commencement. The valedictorian, Mary Nichols, will speak on "Youth and the World of Tomorrow." The salutatorian, Gertrude Gordon, on "Home Life, A Bond of Strength." Gladys Edwards, the third honor student, will speak on "The Minority Question, the Key to the Future." Among the awards will be the Louisville Leader Effort Medal, which has been awarded to Miss Fern Lampkins who ranks fifth in the class in spite of a physical handicap. She was the unanimous choice of her classmates. Music will be furnished by the school band, the graduating class, and the school chorus. Tickets may be secured in the office of the principal at Central High School.
Williams Succeeds Foster in Chicago
Swear Six in Legislature Record Number In Pennsylvania Colorful Ceremony at the State Capital in Harrisonburg
HOLD FUNERAL FOR DR. BROCK By Bessie Scott Funeral services for Dr. T. C. Brock, who died suddenly at his residence, 2501 West Madison Street, Thursday morning, January 9, were held at the residence, Saturday, January 11, at noon. Rev. Theodore S. Ledbetter, pastor of the Plymouth Congregational Church, officiated in the absence of Rev. H. W. Jones, who was ill and who is the pastor of Green Street Baptist Church to which Dr. Brock belonged. Some of the favorite passages of Scripture of the deceased were read by Rev. W. Augustus Jones, pastor of the Fifth Street Baptist Church, who acted also as master of ceremonies. Rev. W. P. Offutt, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, offered prayer. Presiding at the piano was Miss Gloria Thompson. Burial was in Zachary Taylor Cemetery, with the J. B. Cooper Funeral Home in charge. Dr. Brock, born in Louisville, graduated from the Central High School here. He was also a graduate of Fisk University and of the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, where he was one of the three Negroes in his class. A veteran of World War I, Dr. Brock was a member of the Louisville Dental Association and the Falls City Medical Society. He also belonged to the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, the American Legion, Veterans of (Continued on page 4)
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