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Bilbo Mad at Miami Daily Threatens Bill to Ban Paper SAYS EDITORIAL WRITER SHOULD RETURN TO NEBRASKA OR OHIO M iann Florida. August ,th—The Miami Daily News published a letter from Senator Hieodore Bilbo (D. Miss.) today saying that he was thinking “seriously of introducing a bill “to outlaw' and sur press the publication of the Miami Daily News,” but in Washington Bilbo told an \sso< iated Press reporter he had no such intention. The New- said it lias decided the letter was "just another of the Senator's wierd method* of ob taining national publicity” un til ne told Vi ashington Corres pondent Thomas W. Hagan of the news yesterday that he thought the news was "the mean est of a -paper in the country. Bilbo s letter to the News said in part: BILBO LETTER “I have just read an editorial in our paper of Julv 5, 1946 un der the title "National Action" i nwhi< h you advocate that the Seriate refuse to honor the wish and will of the majority of the voters of a common wealth of the union by refusing me a seat in the United States Senate ail be cause you do not like mv views. 1 am thinking seriously of in troducin'. a bill to outlaw and suppress the publication of the M iami Daily News because I don't like your views at all.” Bilbo (old The Associated Press that he had mentioned the possibility of such a hill simplv to “expose the silliness” of the editorial. “The editorial 'o which Bilbo referred, said in part: .would seem that Theo dore G. Bilbo will not fate a run off election _perhaps the results might have been differ ent had the poll tax been elimin ated and all eligible voters been permitted to partic ipate. —URGE SENATE ACTION — it now rests with the Sen ale to refuse to seat Bilbo if and when he returns to Washington.” “Hagan reported that he asked Bilbo f he were serious or tare titious in mentioning such a bill. “Yes, I am serious if thev go ahead the way thev are going.” was the Senator’s reply. The News said that Florida’s two Senators. Claude Pepper and C. O. Andrews, said Bilbo would not get very far with anv bill to outlaw publication of the paper Said Senator Pepper: “The edictilousness of the threat ap pears on its face. I can assure the Miami Dailv News that it need not fear suppression by Senator Bilbo or anybody else. We happen to have a consitu tion in this countrv that guaran tees freedom of the press and A merirans need not fear that that preat right will ever be imperil ed.” ‘CREATE ONF. FOR PUBLICATION’ Senator Andrews said: “Bilbo must be facetiliou*. He’s a great nne for publicity, vou know.. Hazan teported that Bilbo told him the News should get “a Sou thern editor.” Hagan said he rrplied that Hoke Welch, a for mer Georgian, was the paper’s managing editor. “Pmbablv another Ellis Arn all." declared the Senator. Hagan said he told Bilbo that the editorial was written bv Francis P. Loscke, who formerly lived in Nebraska and Ohio. To which Bilbo replied: “Ixxke should go back where he ujne from.” liOff t.i Appliance Co. NOW OPEN AT OUR NEW LOCATION § New Units. # New an«l Rebuilt Ri-frigerators & Sweepers. “Guarantee Repair Service_ Quality Workmanship—\Ve Solicit Tour Trade" 3024 LEAVENWORTH Phone AT-2003 LOANS $10 TO $1,000 Yom can obtain a knan from a* for ■Wwt any parpoae and repay in email monthly payment*. 9niarjr lmu» on yoor signal are only. We ala* makr auto and furnittn* loam. 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His work hangs in most of our major mus eums. Pippin was a so-called “primi tive”. He was not absolutely free from influences around him, but he was certainly an untutored painter. Most of all, he expressed himself by painting the things he knew best and the things that were of importance to him. I spent many delightful hours with him and I knew him as a man with a simple, humorous philosophy. He was an artist who knew what he wanted to paint and how he want ed to paint it. He allowed no one to interfere with his creative thoughts. Pippin’s paintings have already made art history. As we see; them in museums we should appreciate them for what they are and not for what we think they should have been. When we approach a new painting we should realize the artist has expressed something which was important to him. And whether he is an academician, im pressionist, surrealist, abstract, uon-objective or primitive painter we should" try to be aware of the experience that the artist had when he created the “painting. A piece of art is like a new per sonality. It has something of its own to say. Therefore, we must not judge it by an escape view point, “I know what I like.” A painting tells us something. We learn to enjoy music by listening. We look at a painting, not talk to it. The brain ceases to develop if it is prevented from having new experiences. If one knows the tra dition of art. he realizes that one school of painting developed or grew out of the one that came be fore. Therefore, much of our con temporary art is built on a solid foundation. Coming back to the artist, we know that there are many who ■get by” because of publicity stunts and ambitious dealers. How ever one should decide whether a painting has a sincere purpose. For instance a carpenter has plans for a house. His plans may call for a straw hut, a frame house, a brick or stone house. If he sets out to build a stone house and ends up with a straw hut just because he lacked the materials or the ab ility to make the more sturdy structure: he is not a good builder. If a painter does an abstraction for the sheer joy of emphasizing line, shape, space or color; he should be judged for no more than that. On the other hand if an ar tist affected by surrounding social conflicts iall of us are! and with the use of his craftsmanship, his knowledge of the tradition of painting, a constructive philoso phy of life—integrates all these elements into a single expression; we should not separate his belief from the art content in his work. We should judge him for the kind i °f house which he has build and whether he has built it well. GABBY WATSON TO MANAGE GAS STATION Mr Gabby Watson, former su pervisor at the Glenn L. Martin Plant, well known in hotel circles and prominent outdoor sportsman excelling in golf, became manager of the Service Station at 24th & Ohio tts., Thursday, August 15. Gabby will feature SKELLi' products and promises speedy, courteous and first-class service. He is inviting his many friends to pay him a visit. ■ j Ti t n i jv c > JUUbhU^UJLL^^^^j 3«» 120 or 62fl .r!T^^^^^ne Sis* 114 *r 414.. 38c • MM Uaivex Movie.$1 09 14 MM Color, 100 ft.$8 75 35 MM Color. 20 Exp.$1.45 09 Uaivex...15’ 35 MM Supreaie, 27Vi ft.'.$1.98 35 MM Pies X. 34 Exp.95c Miotmuin Mall Order I2 S0 Add 10c for Pastarr ^^SMT^KcCODOrifcir “Miss Brice Scores at Berkshire Festival . . . ” ^ S'; C^'Says Olin Downs, Famed New York Times Critic Top left. Carol Brice and Dr. Serge Koussevitzky. Kousscvit sky is waning away autograph seekers who were besieging his young protege Carol Brice. Top right, Dr. Koussevitzky em phasizes to Leonard Bernstein who is in total agreement with him that Carol Brice is the greatest contralto alive today. Note the expressive quality of his hands. Lower left, Carol Brice and au tograph seekers. t^ower right, Carol Brice shakes hands with her first vocal teacher, Frank Harrison, head of the vocal department at Talladega College where Miss Brice did her under graduate work. CAROL BRICE'S TECHNIQUE IS PERFECT LIKE AN INSTRUMENT “Carol Brice the great young American Contralto, was soloist on Saturday evening, August 3 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the second of the Brahms pro grams of the Berkshire Music Festival. Miss Brice performed what is popularly called “Brahms Alto Rhapsody” which the compo ser listed as Opus No. 53 with a setting of verses from Goethe’s “Harzreise’’. “Miss Brice broadcasted the same work with the Boston Sym phony over Station WJZ before an estimated ten million listeners. A side from the interest in this no ble and rarely heard score, Dr. Serge Koussevitzky provided an ideal background for the quality of Miss Brice’s voice. Her voice is very rich and effective which is characteristic of that type of voice and Brahms music with the wide skips so dramatic in implication, from high to low tones, demanded mucch of the singer. ‘Miss Brice's voice is fresh and warm in all its registers and the singer showed herself a musician of intelligence and taste in her treatment of the melodic line. She did not emote or exaggerate in the expression of the feeling which in this music is not of the exterior variety. "Indeed, a nearly instrumental maintenance of lie and consistency of style goes far toward meeting the effect that the composer evi dently intedded. The voice was like a gorgeous band against the tap estry of the orchestral and chor al sonorities. The music spoke for itself as the composer intended, in terms of grave emotion and classic beauty”. The above statements are the profound pronouncements of Olin Downes, the recognized Dean and authority of American vocal crit ics and techniques. Mr. Downes who has been with the New York Times for nearly a quarter of a century has heard and criticized favorably and un favorably all the singers of our day and to win favorable com ments from one whose eminent position is unchallenged in his profession undoubtedly proves that Carol Brice, at 27 years old is one of the greatest singers of our day. Most singers get started on the real road to fame in their late thirties and early and middle for ties. It is a tribute to her music al genius that she has accomplish ed so much in so few years. The young singer’s next appear ance will be at the Lewisohn Stad ium in New York City on August 16, where she will sing a benefit program for Isaac Woodard, the 1 blind veteran whose eyes were gouged out by Aiken, S. C. police men. Miss Brice will then take a vacation before beginning her con cert tour in middle September. Miss Brice is Chairman of the Isaac Woodard Benefit Commit tee with Joe Louis serving as Co Chairman and Mayor Wm. O' Dwyer of New York City serving as Honorary Chairman. Phone Us Your Social’ Local News SLAUGHTER, FOE OF ' F. E. P. C. DEFEATED IN MO. ELECTION (Continued from page 1) question of permitting the bill to come to the House floor for de bate. The vote sentenced the till to death' it never escaped the hands of the Committee. Far from accomplishing its purpose of speeding the democratic processes this committee, through vvhic i every piece of legislation must pass before it can be considered by the nouse, has sabotaged the ^ntire legislative machinery by consistently denying Congress of its right to debate the issues. Rep. Slaughter was among this hand ful of men who have successfully tnwarted' the will or the ptople o:; many progressive steps attempted in the House. The PAC head condemned him for his unwillingness to remove all obstacles tofreeand equal use of the franchise by American ci tizens as expressed by his oppo sition to the anti-poll tax bill; ror his efforts to dismantle the OP A; and for his enthusiastic support of all legislation to restrict labor unions. The nation, Mr. Krool asserted, owes the voters of Missouri’s 5th district, .and particularly the Ne gro voters who turned out in very large numbers and lined up solid ly behind Mr. Axtell.. a rousing vote of thanks, 'ibis marks the end of one man’s four year war against the common man; it means tne . e iov 1 of one of the promin ent obstructions to legislation of much needed reforms as urged by President Roosevelt and now by his successor. Above all, it dem onstrates the heights of achieve ment to which our nation esn rise through the harmony of all pro ^ -/es v/orlilng in unison for p-»»-~nn goals. Thus reaf firmed in the belief that the peo ple are intent on progressive leg islators and legislation, the CIO PA will redouble its determina tion to see discriminatory practi ces er~sed from America. The Week By H. W. Smith The boys senate of the Ameri c-'n Legion enjoyed a very lovely visit in Washington, D. C. during ^eek of August 5th at the US Supreme Court and the US Naval Academy at Annapolis and were guests of President Truman on August 9th. T>e*Mfwt Truman signed the bill extending the RFC until June 30 1947 on August 8. The 1946 cotton cron is estima ted at 9 million, 249 thousand bales. The president of the Federation of American Scientists has dis closed that isotopes is a boon to hay fever victims. David Stein, a salesman, died from a heart attack on the At lantic City race track on August 8. They found a ticket in his poc ket at a hospital on the daily double that won $786. Seven thransports arrived in the US on August 9th with 11,500 troops August 9 in New York, San Diego and San Francisco. Also at Seattle. Wash. A girl student pilot of Anaba, Michigan waved to her relatives as she was flying low and the Putting the heat on “busy” signals Drops of hot solder by the million seal the connections on telephone equipment such as this. Before it can take its place with ether equipment to help relieve today’s heavy load of calls, a lot of intricate, time-consuming handwork must be done. .The building of equipment for civil ian needs was nearly at a standstill during the war but now we are work ing without letup to make up for those years and to get ahead of the game, too. To meet this pent-up demand and to expand and improve service requires a program that will cost well over $100,000,000 • » • to be spent in the next few years in the five states in which this company operates. This money must come, not from “war profits”—for the telephone eom' pany made none—but from investors attracted by earnings comparable to those afforded by similar investment opportunities. NORTHWESTERN BUI TELEPHONE CO. plane crashed and one of the wings dipped killing her. The 18 year old daughter of a ' hv denart’ ient store owner ~>f Evanston, 111. has been miss ing since August 3. She was homo n a vacation and she attended a nee. A rat on a Detroit trolley car created a commotion and passen gers stood on the seats. East and West baseball classic on August 18 may draw a crowd of 50 thousand. Council Bluffs will sponsor the Southwestern Iowa Baseball Tour nament from August 23 to Sept. 2nd. District Conference at Clair Cha pel church in Omaha was a com plete success. All delegates made good reports. Mr. V. S. Wheatly, prominent businessman, was spotted on No. JAh St. Aug. 10. Mrs. Mary A. Drleek of Cleve land, Ohio, wealthy widow, died August 8th. She will be buried in a $2000 casket and will have a $1000 tombstone. She left a sum of money for two churches. She was a Negro. A San Francisco cab business man married a Negro woman to get a birth certificate for their 15 year old daughter. They were married in Mexico. Tony Lazerrio, former New York Yankee baseball player’s funeral j was held in Ran Francisco Aug. 10. He was buried in Berkley. __ Waiters’ Column The Railroad boys are really on the ball with serving on rails. Paxton hotel headwaiter and booted crew improving on very fine service at all times. Waiters at the Hill totel very much out in front on the job. Waiters at the" Plush Horse Room at the Blackstone hotel are serving with a smile. Fontenelle hotel waiters taking very good care of the service and George Lipton, a top notcher in the front line. Melvin Brooks and his brother meet in a Northside business place. Mr. James Ward, the very popu lar maitradee of the OAC, enjoy ing a much-needed vacation. Dave Morrison and Smith had a friendly chat on 24th Street. Mr. Isiah Jones of the White Horse Inn very much out in front. Mr. Gabby Watson and his very high powered car on 24th and Lake j Streets. WALTER WHITE SPEAKS AT THEATRE PROTEST MEETING NEW YORK—The cast of Anna Lucasta called a meeting of fel low actors and actresses on Aug ust 6 at the Belasco Theatre to arrange a benefit and to act in! other ways against mob terrorism i particularly the Georgia lynchings and the blinding of Isaac Wood ard. Walter White addressed the gathering. Other speakers were Herman Shumlin, Harry Wag staff Gribble, Alan Correlli of The atre Authority, and Frank Silvera a member of the cast of “Anna Lucasta”, who also presided. An other speaker was Captain Martin Kamin, New York publisher, just released fro mthe army All of the speakers urged that action be taken to stem the rising tide of hate in the south Walter White told the group specifically what is being done in the case of the Georgia lynchers and about the offer by the NAACP of a $10, 000 reward for information lead ing to their apprehension. He re vealed that NAACP investigators have secured evidence against at least six of the mob which has been turned over to the Justice Department. Information leading to the arrest of the men who blind ed Isaac Woodard is also in the Federal Government's hands. The group voted to form a com mittee to stage a monster benefit to raise funds to assist in the fight for justice. NEW JERSEY HITS EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES NEWARK, N. 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