PER COPY STAMPA VOLUME 22, NUMBER 54 MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1954 V •’ AT HOME IN SELMA, ALABAMA ‘ -;X Whites Build Churchman Was Home For Widow Head Of Baptist 'ol12Years With 7 Children^ . DR. D. V. JEMISON . SELMA, Ala. — (SNS) — By CARTER JEWEL Dr. D, V. Jemison, who for 12 RICHMOND. Va.—(ANP) — A jenuine way to observe urotnerhoou years was president of the Na. Max Kaufman was illustrated last week in Han- tional Baptist Convention, Inc., iver county near here when white passed early Saturday morning leighbors got together and rebuilt at his home in Selma, Alabama. i home for a Negro widow with To Speak A|/ even children. PRESIDENT EMERITUS FLG WtRS PRESENTED SOPRANO—Mrs. Rosa Page Welch, mezzo About 50 volunteers from Han- Dr. Jeinlson, one of the tore- ■ ■ ‘ ■ ..... '■ |'-s9Pran°, of; international fame on-fhe bccasloh of Ker^oncerL aT iver County and Richmond met at most „religious figures. of. the. .na- LeMoyne the Mississippi Boulevard Christian church here Friday evening is ,he site where Mrs. Stella Morris, | tion, retired.from his, active presi- ll, lost her home and everything ■ dency last year and .was named seen as she receives flowers. A basket of American Beauty Roses she owned a week before Christmas, I PresidentrEmeritus by. the Con­ Dr. Max Kaufman will be/ ,the -7—(¿„presented by Mrs. Corine Elizabeth Rowan right. President of when-fire burned her home to the vention. He was succeeded -Vy-Dr. ;uest speaker at LcMoyne Coliege.-L the Fidelia Club, the sponsoring organization. Mrs. Rosa Ford, ground. Living with Mrs. Morris J. H Jacksoil pf Chicago. Wednesday, Feb. 24 in the Second// Congregational Church at 10:30 left, Basileus of the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority of which Mrs, vas her mother,,Mrs. Fannie King, CHURCH IN SELMA who is about 80 years old. At the time of ills' death, he was m. His subject will be ,"Ha$ Welch is on honorary member, presented a basket of yellow REPAY ALL still'president of the.Alabama State liglon Failed?" . .. , i/'/iAsri/i _„marchaneilroses.__:__ —_ ,__________________— The widow stood in silent wonder . Baptist Convention; a post he had Rabbi Kaufman is a native .0/ f The gown which the artist is wearing was designed and pre­ as she watched the men build her held for 30 years; and pastor o! Poland, but came to the United Mates .'at a very young age. He sented by Japanese friends while she was in Japan on her world new home in the community where Tabernacle Baptist Church' in Sel­ she was bom and reared. The men tudied at the University of Ota- / tour. ma, having served at that post tor gathered on Sunday so they could the past 45 years. ..'iriiiati and the Hebreti Union Col- ■; give free labor on the cause. Said FULLER DETAILS lege in the same city, from.which . Mrs. Morris. “If I live to be 100, Rev. E. W. Williams, of 1st Bap- lie was ordained Rabbi in 1919. ' In ‘ Tll_never be able to repay all these - ------’st cliurch? Falrfleld, wlll automat­ later years, the Rabbi studied/ 'at . wonderful folks.” ically move up from Vice-President Columbia University. He hqlds. tli?, ‘ Spirit Of Memphis Quartet Since Friday, Dec, 18, Mrs. Mor­ to. President of Ala. Baptist State degrees of B. A., M. A., and P’h. 1 •Ä •> Convention. °' ris and her children and mother had After ordination,. Rabbi Kaufman , to live in a three-room shack, a Some of the national figures in the Baptist connection are slated »rved in reform temples in. Selle-/’,7 lit Concert Here April 11 bare. 25 yards from the charred nectady, New York, Plainfield, ,',v • ' ’ V--.'-A ruins of the home where she was to. attend the funeral sea-vices. The Spirit bf Memphis CO-HOSTS FOR N. A. I. A. BASKETBALL TOURNA­ ation of Intercollegiate Athletics Tournament, to lersey, and Hollywood, Florid?; 1 _ Quartet, gregatlon, had its work ctlt out for bom. The children are Everett, 15; Among them will be Dr. L. A. Currently, he is spiritual leader^ pt . composed of a group of young men it Just like other trial blazing chor­ Mary and Nell, 13-year-old twins; MENT RECEIVE TROPHIES FOR EVENT TO BE HELD be held in Nashville, March 1-3. Pinkston, Atlanta, president. Gen- Temple Israel In Paducah, KJr.'/; ./< / who promised to. serve God until James, 12; Betty, 6; Bunny, 4, and eral Missionary Baptist Conven­ al groups in the realm of gospel AT TENNESSEE A. AND I. STATE UNIVERSITY, Making the donations is J. R. Barnes, Coca- The civic duties of Rabbi ate ' the end, never excited by offers and religious music. Margaret 3. The three oldest chil­ tion of Georgia .and first vice pres­ MARCH 1-3—Nashville, Tenn.—Henderson John­ Cola Bottling Works, Na’shville, who presented chaplain at Camp Campbell and‘jhe/' from the world, striking steadily and Since its organization the group dren are. students at John M. Gan­ ident of the National Baptist Con­ the. huge championship trophy and plaques ov> Veterans Hospital at Outweed/jljyr/.. purely to'religion and what it stands has changed and added to its per­ dy High School in Ashland. James son and Henry Kean, left and center, heads of vention; Dr. J. H. Jackson, presi­ He is a member of the Paducah ' for, will bring the nation’s foremost sonnel for balance and general ad­ and Betty attend Bethany school at the departments of health and physical educa­ behalf of The Coca-Cola Company and its Local dent, National Baptist Convention Montpelier. Ministerinn Association T A A'.A gospel singers to Memphis. April justments. Among the few addi­ tion at Fisk Universify~and Tennessee A. and I. Bottlers during ceremony at the Nashville firm. USA, Inc.; of Chicago, and succes­ Mlsterial Association. /"L £'.?'■ , 11, at the Mason Temple. The Pil- sor of the- late'Dr. Jemison;’ Dr. tions have come singers from some RELIEF COMMITTEE State University, receive awards to be given as The championship trophy may be retired by any i. grim Travelers, The Five Blind of the greatest aggregations in the Owens, Memphis, Tenn., vice pres­ A number of his own books-were ; Boys, The Golden Sunlight Glfls, nation. Organizer of the project was Mrs. prizes for .the District No. 29, National. Associ- team which wins it for three years. ident at large of the National published, in past - yefirs and; a/new.:, ■Hie Spirit of- Memphis Jr., The John Workman, Mrs, Morris’ em­ “.. - Baptist Convention. .USAK-4inc.',,.,4: one .-.vill • be cqrnjngi out shortlyATIe Currently they are the only quar­ ¿■J Illinois Jubilee, and-Big .Bro. Joe tet in gospel field sponsored by a' ployer and. also chairman of the . In addition to .sorvlng as .presi­ is frequent lepijifer. at urilveisiiiipi'.i "’May,.-- National concern like General Mills, Beaderdam district disaster relief dent of Baptists in'Alabama and and currently he Is, uhder the spqai/1 ■The original group of men com- who presents them on several sta­ committee for the local Chapter of the nation, Dr, Jemison was chair­ sorship of. the Jewish Ohatauqua.i posed of the Spirit'of Memphis Ag- tions in the nations. the Red Cross. man of the board of directors of .Society, and organization; -which • Materials and labor for the new Selma University, an institution sends rabbis to the college.campus:i home were donated by several supported by the Alabama Negro to disseminate authentic informs-' . churches, contractors, businessmen Baptists. An overflow crowd is ex­ “tion------- on Judaism James P. Young, Pioneer and merchants. This included furn­ pected to attend the funeral ser­ í : iture, a sewing machine, washing vices for the fallen Baptist chief­ machine, refrigerator and other ne­ tain. f cessities. en into twice by Thompson, Shell tion, 216 S 2nd, Linden Texaco Funeral services are scheduled for Business Man Passes Longtime Burglar Station, Linden and Second, Shell Nomination /A: • > Mrs. Morris was thrilled at the Service Station.____ No. 5,905 Linden, 2 P. M. Wednesday, Feb. 25. Dr. J. prospects of getting for -the first Suspect Captured Morry's. „ Texaco\ ) Service Station, Station number six, 21’96 S. Third. H. Jackson, Dr. Jernlgan and other Jam<-s p. Young. husbar.il_______ of and prominent in social and civic time in her life electricity in her where hi obtained $250 in two bur­ According to police a total of $15,000 church dignitaries will be in at­ Mrs. Geld S. M. Young of the in excess of has been taken, con­ Of Warren '; ' ■ . ••• . —K --- —• •*>**»work in the community,, uuUhad UCU11been home. While At Work glaries;. Esso Service Station. (East tendance. Qonnb Beauty College died here “ ìtìTTòr quite sometime prior to his Her late husband, a sawmill em­ Parkway); Andersons Service Sta- fessions signed by Thompson. Monday morning at 4 a. m., at his death ploye, was killed in an automobile By JIMMY COOPER residence. Ml. Young was a member oi accident about three years ago. De­ A REAL ’ROAD HOG’ Mr. Young, pioneer Memphian Centenary Methodist church. He spite this loss. Mrs. Morris has man­ L. V. Thompson, a 25-year-old WYNNEWOOD, OKLA, and !u> wife, Mrs. Gold Young aged to keep her children in-school, confessed burglarflong termed, memberlng that a hog caused an WASHINGTON, D operated the Goring Beauty College and she hopes all will graduate. accident in the area in which two name unknown, Memphis Pub­ POLICE BEAT nomination of former California for yea'-, in Memphis. The institu­ persons were killed, two highway Governor Earl Warren as; Chief Brooklyn Pays tion. along with the family had WELL, WELL lic enemy number one, by Chief patrolmen stopped to shoo a hog Justice, subject to a controversy'.in- become a icnd mark in tn; com­ HOLLYWOOD.