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vat; Seek Bishopric Vopt; in the AME Church are shown discussing the coming thirty fifth quadrennial session. Pictured are Drs. V. Hodge, Cleveland; T. Simi, Cincinnati; B.

M. McLinn, Pitts burgh; Ralph Jackson, president of Brotherhood; Charles L. Hill, Wilberforce University president, and Wallace Wright, Dayton. AH are candidates except Dr. Jack son.

Sockwell Photo. Wesley Center Is Host Elecody For AAftEZ Confab POTSBURGH Wesley Center AME.Zion Church will be the scene of the thirty fifth Quadrennial Session of the General Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Qhurch, May 2 16. Extra sessions will be held in the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall. Host Bishop for the conference is W. C.

Brown, host Presiding Elder E. W. Gantt and host fastor, Dr. Charles H. Foggie.

4 1 Accepts Call The Rev. Virgil P. Crux, Senior theology student at Xenia Seminary in Pittsburgh, will become pastor of United Presbyterian Church in Hebron, N. the first Negro to have an all white congregation in the history of the United Presbyterian Church. A An array of outstanding speakers is slated to appear on program during the two week meeting.

Among those slated are Roy Wilkins, general secretary of the NAACP, New York City; Congressman Charles C. Diggs Jr. of Detroit, Gov. George Leader of Pennsylvania, Mayor David L. Lawrence of Pittsburgh, Robert S.

Bilheimer, associate secretary of the World Council of Churches, Geneva, Switzerland; Bishop Ivan Lee Holt, St. Louis, president of the World Methodist Council; Dr. William J. Trent, president of Livingstone College, Salisbury, N. Dr.

James W. Elchelberger, Chicago, general secretary of the Department of Christian Education of the AME Zion Church, and Richard M. Nixon, Vice President of the United States. 3 WESLEY CENTER Church, where the meeting will be held, is an outgrowth of John Wesley AME Zion Church, one of the oldest in the connection. Dr.

diaries II. goggle, the present pastor, was appointed Ak iP I Three outstanding leaders of the AlylC Leaders AME Church gathered during the recent meeting of the Connectional Council at Hot Springs, Ark. Left to right: Lieut. Douglas Robinson, chaplain, Vet erans Hospital, Asjieville. N.

Or. H. Bearden, president tf the ConneCtional Council, and Dr. RosseH Brown, secretarygeneral conference. ..5 i )fi IWIlf ''lilllll I Seeks Honors Dr.

F. H. Mason of Columbus, Ohio, and presiding elder of the Cincinnati District, is a candidate for bishoprio honors in the AME Church. I Photo. to the church following the 1944 general conference.

This church was served and built by Bishop E. L. Madison, who became a Bishop in 1936 and W. W. Slade who was elected in 1944.

Other outstanding leaders to serve Wesley Center were Drs. Walter W. Slade and W. O. Carson.

Dr. Foggie has done a commendable work during the years of his pastorate. He paid off an indebtedness of more than 171 fWWI utirl iha ronnvalinir program of a like amount on a 'pay as you go" plan. He is a member of the Pittsburgh Housing Authority and president of the Pittsburgh Branch NAACP. The church has nearly three thousand members and also numbers among its many concrete evidences of progress the new manse on Ewart Drive, a few blocks from the church.

Orlando Guide Being Compiled ORLANDO Z. L. Riley, executive secretary of. the Orlando Negro Chamber of Commerce, said the organization is in the process of compiling its sixth annual directory to give a clear picture of the community in general and the chamber's Ohio Court Upholds Rcco Dcr COLUMBUS, Ohio Ohio's Supreme Court has refused to hand down a N'erdict favoring the admission of a Negro woman to the Coney Island Amusement Park near Cincinnati and Mrs. Ethel Fletcher has indicated that she will carry the case on up to the U.

S. Supreme Court. The court voted 5 2 against Mrs. Fletcher's mandamus action. Jim Crow Worth $30 Billions CHICAGO Frank H.

Cassell, industrial relations managej of the Island Steel Company, told a De Paul University forum here that racial discrimination costs U. S. Industry $30 billions a year in wasted manpower and productivity. Bishop Hits Dearborn Mayor DETROIT Bishop Richard S. Emrich of the Episcopal Church, In Michigan has called it the "duty of every pastor and Christian to oppose" Mayor Orvllle Hubbard of Dearborn.

Bishop Emrich said that Hubbard, by being outspqjten in favor of segregation is opposing "fundamental teaching in the Christian faith." GTEA Calls for Integration AUGUSTA, Ga. A call for the integration of Georgia's public schools has been issued by the Georgia Teachers and Education Association which represents 9,000 Negro members. The GTEA called for integration "with a spirit of fair play and good wilL" ROUNDUP In Arlington, the NAACP Is threatening court action unless the local school board allows Mrs. Lucille il Penn to register at the Univefsity of Virginia's extension center Negro plaintiffs In the desegregation case against the 31env phfs State College, through their counsel, Atty. Thurgood Marshall of the NAACP, have asked the U.

S. Supreme Court to ordef three Judge hearings on the case Gov. James (Kissin' Jim); Folsom, in Montgomery, has signed Into law a bill which gives parents "freedom of choice" to say whether their children should attend segregated or integrated schools A new school costing nearly $250,000 and about 85 per cent completed, is no longer under construction In Dublin, in the wake of protests from white residents, School officials ordered a halt to the build lng of the school when it was claimed that the building was being erected close to a white home. Most of the 600 students who would have entered the school are presently being taught In shacks at Buckeye, Royal Chapel, and Mlnter In Hillsbor, Ohio, eighteen Negro children have enrolled In formerly all white schools thus ending over two years of litigation on the segregation issue In Birmingham, Georgia's Attorney General Eugene Cook told a Citizens Council rally that his state will close the U. of Georgia law school rather than admit a Negro Dartmouth College's Chapter of Phi Sigma Kappa has severed its ties with the national organization over the latter's banning of Negroes Ex Gov.

Ben Laney of Arkansas will be the "master of ceremonies" when the White Citizens Council of Arkansas and the White America, stage a rally in Little Rock on April 30. South Africans Seek 'Province' WINDHOEK, Southwest Africa In defiance of the UN, Daniel T. duP. Viljoen, administrator of this territory, announced here that Southwest Africa will soon become a fifth province of the Union of South Africa. Mr.

Viljoen claims that the area's 50,000 whites are "supporting" the 400.000 Negroes who live In Southwest Africa. African Is Named To Highest Bench LONDON Replacing the deceased Sir Mark Wilson, Sir Ko bina Arku Korsah, West African Justice of Appeal, has been named Chief Justice of the Gold Coast Supreme Court. Sir Kobina is the first African eer appointed to the post. Union Eyes Move To Oust 'Critics1 JOHANNESBURG. South Africa Dr.

T. E. Donges, Minister of the Interior, has announced here that the Union is seeking a new law which will make it possible to deport "aliens" who criticize the government's apartheid policies. Dr. Donges mentioned the names of Author Alan Paton, the Rev.

Trevor Huddleston, the Rev. Michael Scott, and Solly Sachs, a trade unionist, as being "undesirables." 1,200 W. Indians Arrive in London DON abnaxd trie Italian liner IrfpinLJ, 1200 West Indians from Jamaica, Barbados and other Caribbean areas have come to England to make new homes for themselves. Half of the arrivals were omen. It was the largest single influx of West Indian mi grants into England.

ROUNDUP An African went berserk in a train which was en route from Nairobi to Mombasa in Kenya and knifed twelve passengers, four of whom died. Wills O. Isaacs, Minister of Trade and Industry, has called for citizens In Kingston, Jamaica, to boycott stores which sell "cheap" literature and certain calypso records which he called harmful to children's morals. British Guiana is seeking a $10 million loan on the London market for development purposes J. A.

Rogers, Courier columnist and historian, is off on a jaunt to Europe to do research on the Negro. He will be away for an indefinite period. In Port of Spain, Trinidad, Albert Gomes accused Jamaica's Premier, Norman Manley, of seeking to safeguard Jamaican industry during federation talks in London and further charged that Manley was willing to sacrifice the Federation rather than not having a Customs Union. In Kingston, Jamaica, the Government is assisting prospective emigrants with laonsto help them make a new life abroad. Balfour Barnswell has been sworn in as the forty sixth mayor of Kingston.

He is a member of the People's National Party. St Thomas, V. I. landowners are up in arms present tlscal year's tax asvresiutjnv j.i..