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Red Probe Makes Hollywood
Cancel Decent Negro Roles
NEW YORK. (ANP). Since the
Thomas-Rankin committee’s in
vestigation of Hollywood "every
movie script has been re-examined
and every instance in which
Negroes have appeared in a de
cent light or called Mr. or Mrs.
have been struck out,” Thurgood
Marshall charged this week at a
“free the Movies From the Thom
as committee” rally sponsored by
* the Progressive Citizens of Amer
ica.
Marshall is counsel for the
N.A.A.C.P. He appeared at the
PCA rally with Sen. Glen Taylor
(d., Idaho), author and critic
Mark Van Doren, the Rev. Guy
Emery Shipler, editor of the
Churchman and radic^ commenta
tor William Gailmore, executive
board member of the PCA Radio
division.
Declaring that "lynchings, the
denial to Negroes of the right to
vote in the south, and segregation
are the things the un-American
activities should be investigating,”
^ Marshall charged that the commit
tee instead “had engaged in ‘in
i' vestigating’ organizations and ac
tivities which take seriously the
principles on which our govern
ment was formed.”
Marshall pointed to the fact
that the Thomas committee has
never investigated even one of the
items condemned by the Presi
dent’s Committee on Civil rights.
Turning to the recent investi
gation of Hollywood, Marshall de
clared:
“The committee investigated the
writers in Hollywood who have
dared put the Negro in a fairly
decent position on the screen;
producers who dared permit the
Negro to appear as regular indi
viduals like everyone else.”
“The purpose of these hearings
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Dr. Carver
Stamp Is on
The Press
WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA).
The printing of the new 3-cent
George Washington Carver com
memorative postage stamp, which
is to be issued at Tuskegee Insti
tute, January 5, next, was begun
Monday at the Bureau of En
graving and Printing in the pres
ence of Postmaster General Jesse
M. Donaldson.
Also present at the ceremonies
incident to the first press run of
the new stamp were Third Assist
ant Postmaster General Joseph JT
Lawler, Dr. Russell W. Brown,
director of the George Washing
ton Carver Foundation; Alvin W.
Hall, director of the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing, and J.
Henry Smith, executive secretary
of the George Carver Foundation.
General Bradley at Tuskegee
When Gen. Omar Bradley, Veterans administration chief, recently
visited Tuskegee institute, he expressed the desire to see some of
the actual training students enrolled under the GI bill were getting
at the school. Here, with President F. D. Patterson, Gen. Bradley
Inspects the new school of veterinary medicine building now under
construction where many of Tuskegee’s trade student-vets are
working. Gen. Bradley lat**** spoke before the student body in
— Institute chapel.
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Southern University's
Homecoming Queen
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Miss Myrtle C. Dyson of Frank
linton, La., who reigned over
the homecoming festivities at
Southern university, Baton
Rouge, La. Miss Dyson is a
senior in business education and
an active member of the Delta
Sigma Theta sorority.
(A. N. P.)
955 Employers
Hire Negroes
For First Time
NEW YORK.—More than 25,000
Negro workers were placed in
jobs during 1947 by local Urban
Leagues in 39 important indus
trial centers over the nation, Les
ter B. Granger, National Urban
League executive secretary re
ported today. The number, based
on incomplete returns covering
only 39 of 57 league locals, as the
story went to press, was expected
to approximate 35,000 with the
remaining 18 organization reports.
Of tremendous interest to Na
tional Urban League officials was
the tabulation of more than 950
“new job openings”—representing
employers hiring Negroes for the
first time. Many of the new jobs
were in the telephone, public
utility, and retail merchandising
fields, the result of country-wide
Urban League campaigns to break
down discrimination in these
areas of employment.
High among the list of locals
making reports were the Chicago
Urban League with 3,900 place
ments, Richmond, Virginia, with
2,300, New York with 1,200, St.
Louis with 5,220, and St. Paul,
Minnesota, and Providence, Rhode
Island, approximating 500 each.
A total of more than 65.400 per
sons came to Urban League of
fices seeking work during the past
year, the report showed.
“We hasten to point out, how
ever,” Mr. Granger noted in dis
cussing the tabulations, “that not
all Urban Leagues conduct place
ment bureaus. Many of the locals
work only with management and
labor, seeking job opportunities,
breaking down racial discrimina
tion, touching the individual
worker only on matters of job and
vocational counselling except
where job screening or interview
ing needs to be done in ‘first*
placements or on the highly
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Presidential Aspirants
Quizzed on Civil Rights
NEW YORK.—Few of the Indi
viduals who have been mentioned
as possible candidates for the
presidency of the republican or
democratic tickets have to date
answered the request of the
NAACP for opinions on the re
port of the president’s Committee
on Civil Rights.
In November 14, Walter White,
NAACP secretary, asked each of
the aspirants “Do you approve of
the committee’s recommendations?
you disapprove and the reasons
If not, will you tell us which ones
for your disapproval.”
Senator Arthur Vandenberg pf
Michigan and Senator Wayne
Morse of Oregon have replied that
pressure of work in connection
with the special session of con
gress has prevented them from
giving the recommendations con
tained in the report as thorough
study as they wish to give. Both
senators have promised opinions
at a later date.
Charles Dahle, assistant press
secretary, has acknowledged the
NAACP letter on behalf of Gover
nor Earl Warren of California and
promised to call to the governor’s
attention the request for a com
ment “at the earliest opportu
nity.”
Harold E. Stassen has made the
only forthright comment in a tele
gram dated December 5 from Co
lumbus, Ohio, reading: “In re
sponse to your letter of Novem
ber 14, I conider the report of
the Wilson Committee on Civil
Urban League Holds
Christinas Party
The Urban League annual
Christmas party was held on
Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock. A
large number of children at
tended and received games, candy
and fruit.
Dr. M. F. Arnholt was present
and also Mr. Copp who is re
sponsible for the league receiv
ing enough toys for distribution.
An interesting program was
given by the children. Those of
us who watched recognized a lot
of talent.
The Urban League gym was
beautifully decorated with • one
huge tree in the center and two
smaller ones on each side of the
stage. The lighting which was
loaned by Dr. Arnholt added to
the Christmas atmosphere.
Mary Bethune' Christmas Party
The Mary Bethune Literary and
Art club had their Christmas party
Saturday night. About 60 guests
were present. The decorations
were beautiful. A yellow chrysan
themum was given each guest.
Individual gifts were given and
a grab bag for the members.
From all comments everyone had
a good time.
Dear Santa:
I can never thank you
enough. 1 have always heard
that you was good and kind
Santa and now I know that
you are.
The little boy who was
about to have no Christmas
Rights to be superb document
stop I give it general support now
and intend to speak on its recom
mendations in detail in the com
ing months.”
Governor Thomas E. Dewey of
New York made no direct reply.
James C. Hagerty, executive as
sistant to the governor, instead
wrote his opinion as follows: “A
careful reading of the recom
mendations leads me to believe
that the state of New York, under
Governor Dewey’s leadership, has
already taken many of the steps
which the report recommends.”
Mr. Hagerty calls attention to the
New York state law against dis
crimination in employment and to
introduction in congress by Sena
tor Irving M. Ives of New York
of a “fair trades employment
act” which is presumed to mean
the fair employment practice act.
Mr. White has thanked Mr. Hag
erty for his opinion but re
quested that Governor Dewey give
his views.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
has replied through an aide that
as long as he is chief of staff of
the U. S. army he is unable to ex
press opinions on this and other f
matters involving legislation.
No reply have been received to
date from Senator Robert A. Taft,
General Douglas MacArthur, Con
gressman Joseph W. Martin, Jr.,
of Massachusetts, Henry A. Wal
lace and former Secretary of State
James F. B>aanes. a
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teas made very happy and he
told us of the very niqe visit
he had with you. He' fairly
beamed with joy and enthus•
iasm.
Thank you very, very
much. I am sure this deed of
kindness shall be far reach•
Ing. __
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Roberta Coffee to
Chicago Position
Miss Roberta Coffee, former
acting manager of the U. S. Em
ployment Service office at 1210 E.
12th St., left the city Tuesday,
Dec. 16, for Chicago where she
will be employed as case worker
with the Cook County Bureau of
Public Welfare.
Miss Coffee, who came to Kan
sas City in 1934 after graduating
from the University of Nebraska*
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