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Dems Nab National Posts
Truman Party Plans Purge
Of Fringes; Dixiecrats Plot
Block of Civil Rights Laws
Now that election is over and everyone has partly re
covered from the surprise of having a complete Democratic
national administration, the country is settling back to co
operate and progress, regardless of party, as only Americans
can. Harry Truman is returning to the White House for
another four years. During that time he shall have ample
opportunity to prove his election claims.
•Nr w YUM. (ANP). Almost as
soon as it was realized that Presi
dent Truman had won re-election
as head of the country’s govern
ment, observers throughout the
Ration began speculating on what
course Truman and his followers
would take to rebuild and make
the party greater than ever before
in its history. The main item in
the speculation rests on what the
Truman administration will do
about Henry A. Wallace’s Progres
sive party and the “States Right
ers.”
Plans for rebuilding the party
some say, will center about the
faithful members of the party, in
cluding labor, without any fringes
whatsoever. Chairman Howard
McGrath has indicated that nei
ther he nor Mr. Truman intends
. to hold out any olive branches to
Henry Wallace or the Dixiecrats.
Their attitude is to let the two
groups stay where they are, “they
have done their worst, and we are
not interested in them.”
The next few months will See
a “purge” going on in the demo
cratic party, an ousting of Dixie
crats from the national commit
tee and the recognition within
the southern states of only regu
lar democratic organizations. Al
ready a “regular” organization
has come into being in South
Carolina, home of the Dixiecrat
presidential nominee, Gov. J.
|r Strom Thurmond, which has been
kj given recognition by the na
| tional group.
Thurmond, elected as a demo
crat, and as national committee
man, is planning to fight against
the move, as are similar groups
in Mississippi and every other
southern state where Dixiecrats
hold national democratic commit
tee places.
On the other side of the Dixie
crat’s picture, many of its former
sympathizers are trying to have
the way opened for them to sneak
back into the democratic field.
Another stumbling block which
the Truman administration faces
is the avowed determination of
southern senators and representa
r fives to defeat any attempt to im
plement any portion of the civil
rights program, or anything which
threatens the long-standing tradi
tions of the south. In this, they
are supported by the republican
congress members who have al
ready made plans to tie in with
the south to block the president’s
civil rights programs and other
progressive members.
Even northern conservative
democrats will have to be
watched. Big Jim Farley, former
chairman of the democratic na
tional committee, in a broadcast
the morning after the election told
an interviewer, “The south has al
ways supported the democrats in
the darkest hours. It would do so
again if the proper approach is
made.” Farley, now employed in
a big job by the Coca-Cola com
pany whose headquarters? is in At
lanta, did not say what the
“proper approach” would be.
—Courtesy The Lincoln Journal.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
... Another four years.
Quinn Chapel
Adopts Plans;
Has Election
Monday, November 1, the
church conferenqe of Quinn Chap
el AME church completed the
report of its organizations for the
past year and held its annual elec
tion of officers. The finance com
mittee reported that the expenses
of the church for the conference
year 1947 totaled $3,047.81. After
the financial reports had been re
ceived, Rev. J. B. Brooks, * the
new pastor at Quinn Chapel, pre
sented his far-reaching program
for the coming year. The program
which contained eight points,
called for participation, fellowship,
attendance, reverence, promptness,
preparation, service antf evangel
ism
The conference also voted re
form in the financial system of the
church to meet increased needs,
the establishment of a department
of religious education, increased
pay for organists and janitor and
a program of special days.
The following persons were se
lected as officers for the coming
year:
Stewards:
Felix Polk % Mr*. France* Rob
Joseph Burden ln*on
Fred Nevels Henry Harrison
Clayton Lewis Mrs. Ollie Colley
Trustees:
Clyde W. Malone John Irving
Charles M. Goolsby lewell Kelley
Raymond Botts Ray Holcomk
Wyatt Williams
Church Secretary: Mrs. Mary Shelby.
Corresponding Secretary: Mrs. Arse Hall.
Conference Secretary: Mrs. Virginia Botts.
Superintendent Sunday School: Charles M.
Goolsby.
Director of Religious Education: Mrs.
Eugenia Brown.
Elects Negro
Student President
CHICAGO. (ANP). A Negro
student, Wilfred Reid, was elected
president of the student congress
last week at the University of
Peterson Wins State
Mass. FEPC .
MovesF orward;
2 Yrs. Service
BY SAMUEL P. PERRY JR.
BOSTON. (ANP). The state fair
employment practice commission
continues to receive public sup
port in official and unofficial cir
cles. Recently, Mrs. Mildred H.
Mahoney, chairman of the com
mission, announced plans to carry
the state agency to the people of
the cities and towns of the state
“as part of the commission’s de
veloping educational program.”
In the words of Mrs. Maho
ney, “By reason of its location in
Boston, the FEPC has found it
self primarily concerned with
cases of alleged economic dis
crimination in this general metro
politan area. It is now our in
tention to bring the agency to
the people of the remainder of
the state.”
Accompanying the statement
was the disclosure of plans for
visits on the part of field work
ers as well as commissioners to
all parts of the state. There will
be the establishment of tempo
rary headquarters for the purpose
of acquainting both employers
and employes with the signifi
cance and operation of the anti
bias statute.
As the chairman of the com
mission put it, “A summary of the
hundreds of cases which the
FEPC has processed clearly dem
onstrates that we are not in
terested in obtaining compliance
with the law by the exercise of
force or the threat of prosecution.
We have yet to find it necessary
to bring anyone into court to ob
tain satisfactory adjudication of a
complaint.”
Commissioner Elwood S. Mc
Kenney was reappointed last week
by Gov, Robert F. Bradford who
was loud in his praise of the ef
forts of the agency in combatting
the subtler forms of economic
discrimination. The commission,
according to the state executive,
“has handled intelligently a very
difficult problem. It has con
ciliated cases in the past two
years with industrial concerns
which employ collectively up
wards of 500,000 persons without
one appeal from its decisions. It
has encouraged Massachusetts in
dustry to give equal opportunity
in employment and thereby has
given inspiration and promise to
the youth of this commonwealth
regardless of their race, color, or
creed.”
Illinois at Navy pier in Chicago.
He won his post with the support
of students of both races against
two white opponents.
A veteran of three years serv
ice in the army, he defeated two
other vets. As president of the
student congress he has the most
important student office in the
school.
Reid originally entered the Uni
versity of Illinois in 1942 before
it had a Chicago branch. After
serving in the army he returned
to the school at Navy pier.
H. Sweatt
Loses State
Court Appeal
AUSTIN, Tex. (ANP). What
seems to be his last state 'court
effort to force admission to the
University of Texas came here
last Wednesday when the Texas
Supreme court denied Herman Ma
rion Sweatt’s motion for rehearing
of his appeal for admission to the
| University of Texas. Sweatt was
seeking a writ compelling uni
versity officials to admit him for
study.
According to Sweatt’s attorney,
the case is now ready to go be
fore the U. S. Supreme court.
NCCR Hails
Gains Made
NEW YORK. (ANP). In an an
niversary statement, the National
Citizens’ Council On Civil Rights,
through Ernest O. Melby as chair
man, called for unified bi-partisan
action on the home front to paral
lel the bi-partisan policy in
American foreign affairs. The
statement was issued Friday on
the first anniversary of the report
by the President’s Committee on
Civil rights.
“Freedom for all Americans can
be achieved only by a united
people,” the council maintained..
“If partisanship can be ruled out
at the water’s edge in world af
fairs, it can and must cease to
exist in the area of human rights.”
Members of the National Citi
zens’ Council on Civil rights, in
addition to Dean Melby, include
Irving Berlin, Norman Cousins,
Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, Wil
liam Green, the Rt. Rev. Henry
W. Hobson, Mayor Hubert H.
Humphrey, Eric Johnston, Albert
D. Lasker, Herbert H. Lehman,
Tex McCrary, Edward McGrady,
Dr. William C. Menninger, the Rt.
Rev. G. Bromley Oxnam, Elmo
Roper, Rabbi William F. Rosen
blum, Dr. George N. Shuster, Jus
tice Meier Steinbrink, Alfred
Gwynne Vanderbilt, Walter White
and John Hay Whitney.
D. C. Man Falls
Three Floors,
Walks Away
WASHINGTON. (ANP). A
man who fell out of window
cracking a thick iron railing and
crashing on an iron porch three
floors below, last week, got up
and walked after the fall.
George McGregor, 29, the vic
tim, is now interned in the Gal
linger hospital after a physical
examination revealed that he
had suffered an internal rupture.
According to John Maddox,
McGregor walked up two flights
of stairs after the plunge. Mc
Gregor told police that he fell
when he lost his balance while
leaning out of a window talking
to friends.
GOP Sweeps
Neb. Offices
By Charles Goolsby
Whereas the election results for
the national offices were a sur
prise, the state balloting was not.
Once more effective campaigning
has resulted in a sweeping victory
for the Republican candidates in
Nebraska.
Heading the list for wins in the
state was the re-election of Gov.
--Courtesy The Lincoln Journal
Gov. Val Peterson
. . . another term
Val Peterson over Frank Sorrell
of Syracuse, who put up a good
campaign. Peterson’s return to
the gubernatorial office means a
continuation of the state’s road
building program and support of
the Missouri River basin develop
ment program. Peterson has also
been reported as “favorable” to
FEPC legislation, so badly needed
in Nebraska. This, of course, is
an example of the American spirit
that obtains co-operation of differ
ing political viewpoints when the
good of the people is at stake.
Other republicans elected to fill
some of the official spots were
Charles J. Warner, new Lieuten
ant Governor; Frank B. Marsh,
for another term as Secretary of
State; Ray C. Johnson, re-elected
auditor; and James H. Anderson,
Attorney General.
Of interest to students at the
University of Nebraska was the
election of Frank Devoe as Re
gent. He has been actively in
terested in a better retirement
plan for university professors and
other workers.
Players Stage Play
Deep Are the Roots
Weleyan Players starred i n
“Deep Are the Roots” last week
in their new auditorium on the
Wesleyan Campus. The all white
cast portrayed Southern life of
a typical Southern family.
It was a most impressive in
struction in race relations. The
critics rated the players with pro
fessionals.
After the play Mr. and Mrs.
Dale Weeks invited guests tp
meet the players and to discuss
the effectiveness of the play in
the community.