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Bands (Continued from Page One) into the Abyssinian church for the rites. 1 The moufners were quiet as the Rev. Richard A. Hilderbrand of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church offered a prayer. He said Mr.

Handy had the heart throbs of a forlorn and stricken people and set them to Then Williams took his place in the organ gallery. He hunched his shoulder and put one hand over the mouth of his golden trumpet I 111 as it sobbed the opening notes- of Mr. favorite hymn, Holy Mrs. Handy, in black straw hat, black mourning veil, Mack coat and dress, sat composed and silent. Mayor Wagner called Mr.

Handy example for generations to The Rev. Adam Clayton Powell pastor of the Abyssinian church and a member of Congress, said: personal blues are now finished. No more the problems of Beale Street. No more the irritations of Memphis. No more the vexation of the St.

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The girls are looking forward with pleasant anticipation to the program climaxing the Eighth Anniversary celebration of the founding of Mississippi Vocational College at Itta Bena where they are students. Love, Oh Careless Powell Continues Mr. Powell paused. After a moment of silence he continued: now has an understudy side man. And when the last trumpet shall sound I am sure that W.

C. Handy will be there to bury this world, as a side Within the church where great Dixieland jazz figures like Wilbur de Paris and Claude Hopkins, the 1 famous Eubie Blake and Noble and Cab Calloway. Irving Caesar, the composer and Oscar Hammerstein 2nd, the lyricist, Langston Hughes, the poet; i Marion Anderson, Harry Hirsh1 field, Ed Sullivan and Col. Hubert Julian, the once-famous of Harlem, were also in the congregation. There were also public dignitaries including Borough President Hulen Jack and Paul Cunningham, head of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publish- ers, of which Mr.

Handy had been a member for more than 30 years. The Mayor of Memphis sent a message offering the W. C. Handy Memorial Park in Memphis as Mr. last resting place.

Mrs. Handy rejected the offer with thanks. Outside the church the funeral procession assembled as television cameras watched. To the strains of My God To the coffin was borne out. The crowd joined in singing the hymn.

Finally, all was ready. The band, bright in blue uniforms and gold braid, came first, playing the cadenced tones of Funeral March. Behind bearer on foot, two flower cars, the maroon hearse and 31 car's of mourners. The cortege turned up Lenox Ave. Here a huge truck was drawn to one side of the street.

It served as an impromptu reviewing stand for a dozen Harlemites. Further up the street cameramen clicked lenses atop a horse-drawn cart. Crowd Thins Out At 152nd Street and Seventh Ave. the formal procession ended. Here the crowd had thinned to a handful.

The band stood at one side and struck up the Louis in funeral tempo. After a few bars it switched back to funeral march. The funeral cortege reformed without the marching band and pallbearers. It accelerated up the approaches of the bridge over the Harlem River'. A voice of America broadcaster talked ceaselessly into his portable microphone in French.

The wind in gusts from a gray sky whipped at the coats of the dispersing mourners. As the last cars sped up the approach to the Johnnye Motel Cafe Rayfelt Lindsey, Owner Around The Clock Service Tasty Food A Friendly Welcome 455 Fannin Road Phone 5-5011 JaclAon, Miss. Catholic (Continued from Page One) cision to reopen the chapel in a 1 March 28 letter to Rev. Frank J. Eciniovich, pastor of Our Mother of Perpetual Help Church, Belle Chase, La.

St. is a mission chapel of the Belle Chase church. Archbishop Rummel regretted that he has received some inadequate expressions of genuine sorrow over the unfortunate However, he continued, the chapel should be reopened for cannot permit the closed chapel to stand forever as a symbol of resistance to the authority of the Church and of contempt for the holy priesthood in which every, priest of the Catholic Church he stated. We cannot permit Catholic children to grow up in this atmosphere of resistance and disrespect for the things so essentially integrated with our holy Faith; we cannot indefinitely deprive the majority of good and well meaning Catholics of the use of the house of God and of prayer because of the obstinacy of those few who have eyes and see not. Archbishop Rummel wrote, canont ignore the example of our loving Savior, who in His dying moments pleaded from the Cross for his persecutors: forgive them, for they know not what they Archbishop Rummel closed St.

chapel in 1955 after parishoners refused to allow a Negro priest, who had come as a temporary replacement, to offer a Sunday Mass. Parishoners of the closed chapel have been attending the church at Belle Chase or another mission chapel at Myrtle Grove. The Archbishop directed three days of prayer and the reception of the sacraments of Penance and Holy Eucharist as a of reparation and this week before the official opening Easter Sunday. He exhorted the parishioners to pray the blessing of peace in all hearts in every home, and between all the families of the In conclusion he prayer that God may His blessing upon this decision and to grant that the community of Jesuit Bend may receive this communication in the spirit of the faith, the charity and the unity that must mark our membership in the Church of -oPaul Robeson Society Formed In East Germany Berlin, April Neues Deutschland, East Germany Communist Newspaper said last Monday that a Paul Robeson Society has been founded in East Germany and plans to hold a ceremony on April 9th, the sixtieth Birthday of the noted American Negro singer. The aim of the society is to help Mr.

Robeson get a passport so he can accept the numerous invitations from abroad the paper said. (Patronize Our Advertisers) bridge, Wolford Edwards, the conructor, turned to his bandsmen: right, men, Louia Blues' again. A little faster this 332 (Continued from Page One) people are facing their challenge with pride in themselves, faith in their state and faith in God. Out of this group will come and the finer womanhood. The efforts spent in bringing to youth a new appreciation of home life is It is a blessing to those who have the honor and privilege to create in young minds a deep and abiding ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR NINE-DAY 50TH ANNIVERSARY DOULE AT WASHINGTON, D.

C. IN AUGUST Some 2,500 Women Expected As Oldest Negro Sorority Meets At Swank Sheraton-Park Hotel National President Arnetta G. Wallace Sees Summer Meeting As Greatest Yet Washington, D. Kappa Alpha Sorority, the oldest and largest social Greek-letter organization of Negro women, this week announced plans for its 50th anniversary boule which will be held in Washington, D. C.

this summer. The announcement by Arnetta G. Wallace of Knoxville, AKA national president who met with other Sorority officials in the Capital this week, included a nine-day program which Mrs. Wallace said would be the greatest meeting of the group since its founding in 1908. swank SheratonPark Hotel will be the scene of the boule which begins with a meeting of regional directors of the Sorority Saturday, August 16th, and concludes when the directors convene again Sunday, August 24th.

Between these events, a total of 17 affairs have been planned. Several will be open to persons outside of the Sorority. The first general session of the boule is scheduled for Tuesday, August 19th; however, the directors of the organization will have put in three days of work prior to that time, according to Mrs. Wallace. The schedule of Sunday, August 17th calls for an all-day meeting of the advisory committee.

The meeting will be interrupted at 4 p. m. when the three Washington chapters of the Sorority entertain the directors at a reception. faith in the principles of life that make the American home unique in very cradle of our governmental unit. It is a blessing to those wha have the priviledge to receive a type of training that will make them contribute so much to the economic, social, and spiritual fabric of our society.

schedule includes a meeting, a luncheon honoring national officers and an evening reception. Among the other highlights of the boule will be a combination luncheon-fashion show, planned for 2 p.m. Tuesday, and a Pan Hellenic dance that evening; a public meeting at which a national figure, yet to be announced, will speak at 8 p.m. Wednesday; and undergraduate luncheon at 12:30 p.m. Thursday; a founders luncheon at 1 p.m.

Friday and a closed dance that evening; and the 50th Anniversary Banquet at 8 p.m. Saturday. All events on the program, including a series of general sessions and workshops, will be held at the Sheraton-Park except the founders luncheon. Howard University will be the scene of the luncheon. In going to Howard the Sorority will be returning to the site of its founding.

It was at the Washington school that the idea of the organization was conceived in 1908, and where the first chapter was established a few months later. Twelve women made up the charter group, and seven of them are expected to be among the 2,500 sorors who will attend this boule. They are Ann Brown of College Pres. On Television Board JACKSONVILLE, William B. Edward Waters College president, was ri-elected last week to the board of directors of Educational Television, here, which will place Channel 7 on the air early in the fall after two years of preparation.

President Stewart is the only Negro on the 15-person board. Rocky Mount, N. Beulah E. Burke of Washington, Margaret Flagg Holmes of New York City, Lavinia Norman of Washingon, Joanna B. Shiels of New York City, Marie Woolfolk Taylor of Atlanta, and Harriet J.

Terry of Normal, Ala. Deceased members of the original group include Lillian Burke, Marjorie Hill, Ethel Hedgeman Lyle, Sara Meriweather Nutter and Lucy Diggs Slowe. From its original chapter at Howard Alpha Kappa Alpha has developed into an organization with undergraduate chapters at 105 colleges and universities and graduate chapters in 169 cities. The three Washington chapters which will serve as host to the boule are A1 ha Chapter at Howard, Beta Lambda Chapter at D. C.

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