Best Wishes for Xmas and the New Year
G.O.P. Coalition Leaders Opposed
Wants FHA Policy Clarified
APPOINTED [Photo] W. C. Buford Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mammoth Life Insurance Company, who was recently appointed chairman of legislation, taxation and Government regulations of the National Negro Insurance Association. - MAMMOTH INSURANCE COMPANY HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING; AWARDS FOR SERVICE MADE The Eleventh Annual Planning Conference of the Mammoth Life Insurance Company was held at the Home Office here in Louisville, Monday and Tuesday of last week. The meeting brought to the city approximately 85 managers and superintendents from the six states which comprise the Mammoth System: Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Missouri, and Illinois. The theme of the conference was, "Let's Face Facts in Fifty". Among the highlights of the conference was the address of S. H. Goebbel, assistant director of the Division of Insurance of the State of Kentucky, who spoke on the "Responsibility of the Agent to the Field Force of Life Insurance", Monday night, and the showing of educational pictures from the Institute of Life Insurance at the Lyric Theatre on Tuesday morning, with local forces of the Domestic, Atlanta and Supreme Liberty Life insurance companies as guests. At the annual session bronze football trophies were awarded to Dorsey Rondo, Louisville, winner of the Big Ten League; L R. Jones Toledo, Little Ten League winner, and C. J. Francis, Dayton, who won the 1949 spring Kentucky Derby. This part of the program was climaxed by the presentation of a travel check to B. Y. Norris, Evansville, Ind., as the Rose Bowl King, to cover all expenses to the Rose Bowl game in Pasadena, Calif., January 2. The conference closed with the principal address by W. C. Buford, chairman of the board of directors.
Church Delegate Uphold Bias Fight
Flogging Jury Hung
Georgia Flogging Jury Deadlocked
Seven Stood Out for Conviction of Sheriffs and Night-Riding Klansmen
MEMPHIS CHURCH SUED BY KENTUCKIAN SAID TO BE A DEFENDER OF HUMAN RIGHTS. Memphis, Dec. 22---The Church of God in Christ of this city, and 10 officials, were sued by James Logan Delk of Hopkinsville, Ky., in Federal Court here for damages amounting to $242,600. Delk said the church officials including Bishop A. B. McEwen, circulated rumors he had defrauded the church of $16,000, destroying his future "earning capacity and livelihood and his profession in the ministry." Jones, Philadelphia, and C. C. Cox, Las Vegas, Nev. Note: In a release from Lexington, Ky., a few weeks ago, James Logan Delk was represented as a National Commissioned Social Worker of the Church of God, who had manifested a great interest in securing the freedom of Mrs. Rosa Lee Ingram and her two sons in prison in Georgia, and who in a conference with leaders in Lexington said that in his opinion the Ingrams would be released at an early date. Delk was further represented as a white defender of human rights, regardless of race, creed or color. 
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.---Matt. 16:25
Tobias Named New York Bank Director
SPEAKS IN TEXAS
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Mrs. Lucy Harth Smith
Principal of Booker T. Washington School, Lexington, and former president of the K.N.E.A., who has returned from Houston, Texas, where she was guest speaker at the Texas State Teachers' Association, which has a membership of more than 5,000 representing all sections of the state, with educators of national prominence participating in the program.
Dinner at Which Defense Secretary Johnson Was To Receive Award Postponed
Spaulding Recovers; No Millionaire, Claim
NAACP MEET TOLD TO NEW YORK
COURSE TAKEN BY BRANCH PRESIDENT
FAILURE OF NOMINATING COMMITTEE AIDS OPPOSITION AND BOGGS UP ANNUAL MEET
Although oppositions and disagreements are not unusual at annual meetings of the Louisville Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, it is not known that at any time during the past 30 years a meeting called for the purpose of electing officers and members of the executive committee has not carried through or for any reason has been indefinitely continued.
But that is what happened at the West Chestnut Street Baptist Church, Sunday afternoon, December 11. The meeting was called off through a motion made by Lyman T. Johnson, president of the Louisville branch, which was regarded as the best way out by fair-minded persons attending the meeting and who understood the situation.
The opposition to the re-election of Johnson, led by James A. Crumlin, member of the executive committee, and former president of the branch, was given impetus by the fact that the nominating committee appointed at a previous meeting failed to report, and which threw the whole of the election business to the floor.
Further ammunition was given the opposition through the rulings of Rev. G. K. Offutt, assistant pastor of the church, who was elected to preside over the meeting. Rev. Offutt is a splendid and a most capable young man, who no doubt
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RED CROSS STATE AID IS OKEH
In answer to the question of the legal right of the appropriation of 30,000 a year to the Red Cross Hospital by the State Legislature through the Board of Health, W. C. Hamilton, Counsel for the State Finance Department said this week, that the hospital is considered by the courts to be a "public benefactor". And according to Houston Baker, superintendent at Red Cross, "The State aid is used to cary for nonpaying patients going to the hospital from outside of Jefferson County and to support the hospital's teaching program, which is the only one for Negro doctors and nurses in Kentucky."
Later this week it was announced in a release from Central High School, that a one-year course in practical nursing at Red Cross Hospital has been proposed, to operate through the high school.
The announcement [says?] that Mrs. Bruce S. Laine, a Registered Nurse, and a graduate from Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C., will teach the course. Mrs. Laine is former clinical instructor at the Good Samaritan College, Charlotte, N. C., and was school nurse at Kentucky State College, and has been at Red Cross since September.
The courses are open only to residents of Louisville between 17 and 50, and those under 25 must be high school graduates and over 25 must have had one year of high school.
Two Million Asked by Robeson, Others
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