DELAY OVER FEPC REPORT CAUSES CONCERN
LETTER TO SENATE
COMMITTEE HEAD
SAYS CONFERENCE DELEGATES WERE
FIRM IN REQUEST FOR SPEEDY ACTION
New York, July l1-The loa& j Committee. and (rom that Com­de
1a y 0 f a Senate S \l b-com- miUee to the Senate prior to
mitt .in submitting a report the adjournment of Congress so
on hearings on • National Act that this measu.re would be on
Against Discrimination in· Em- the calendar of th Senate when
ployment, wbid  were condud- it reconvenes..
ed Juoe 20th. was causing seri- "The 800 delegates ' to our
OUS co~ to supporters of the recent annual conference in
measure it was disclosed by the Washington, D.C .• were firm in
NAACP today. their request for the enactment
Roy Wilkins, NAACP assis- of this type of legislation and
tant sect'e4rY. expressed the anxious for a spt.'edy action up­anxiety
of the Association in on it.
a letter . to Senator Forrest C. "Since that time our members
DoJUleU (R., ~o.). Chatrman of b a v e not e d the speed with
the Su~mmittee. ~lr. Wilkins I which the Congress has re­~~.
. .. The National Asso-
1
enacted the tax reduction 'bill
Clation for the Advancement of d th f li' rat th t
Colored People is -distw-hed at an . e ee ng IS I(ene a
the delay in the reporting of action on S. 984 should be ac
S. 984. the National Act Against I celerated.
Discrimination. The hearing on "I know (ha~ as Chairman of
this measure. )We understand' i the Subcomnllttee you under-
. ,!,ere concluded on June 20 and stand the keen Int~rest .of ~u.
it was our iDlpressiQn that a I nonty groups In thIS legISlation
report would be forthcoming and their deSire that no step
(rom the Subcommittee to the shall be delayed in getting it
full Labor and Public Welfare ) before the Senate:'
·WlN FIGHT.IN
SOUTH CAROLINA
JUDGE RULES RIGHT TO VOTE IN
D£MOCIITrC 'PRIM1RY or STA
ton$~--tJ~----.--.. 5 CENTS
URGED -TO EXAMINE HOUSI -G ACT
IKSTALLS PETEK SALEM POST OFFICEBS iD~:~~~~~~~IWOULD PROTECT ---
1§::i:f:t~t¥.~f~1 MINORITY GROUPS
York City, as one of fl"e mem-I
I~:':~t~~ \\~::;:~ ~~~:~II~~~! SHOULD SEEK 'REPRESENTATION
~ :~~:,:::t aO~ ~:to~ea:! ON LOCAL RENT CONTROL PROCEEDS
lated to the facilities and treat·
New York. July 17-Fifleen
teen·age white youngsters from
DEATH
MOURNED IN CITY
QUIllCY, Mass .• arrived in New The death of James Y.elvm ., :mbe~j of the r IP. football
:ork's Harlem Tuesday to live "JImmie" Lunceford. l a m 0 us ! leam with Lun ford. we we T.
In Negro ho.mes f~r t~\.o weeks ?rchestra leader. who suffli-ed J Lor. . ?rincip, l. J a c k son
as. an e~penment In '"terraclal l a, heart altack while direebng I, HIgh S - h ., 0 I: Vi,tor Perry, ­fnendshlp.
I hL' band. at Seasice. Oregon. I IIlPO'Iber  f the 'antral High,
~I members ~f the Quincy SaWrday night. J'uly 12, is; hool facul ty. ';1.1..1 Dr. C. J:
Pomt C~ngregatJonal Churc~ . m 0 urn e d by !lis fn nds m I Young. •
~e 14. gu-ls and "ne boy WIll Lou1!"ille. Lun~ef?rd . 45. was Jlrnm,,' Lunc£f( I"t.! organized
live WIth ~egro famIlies of the I born in Fulton. t.~? 11e spent hIS firs lund in 1!J27 while he.
Grace Cor.gregatlOnal Church his boyhood in Den".,r, Colo., I W3;. pT lf .... 'r of r .u'Uc at Ma-:
parish in Ha rlem. dnd he; fI rst music:il tu r was nas,:;. HIgh .chO .-o1 n .Memphis
T W Q n t y teen-age Negroes I J ... m s \\~iJberlo'rce Whlteman. a fter h1.:1 gradua.:l~n Cronl Fisk.,
from the Ha rlem church ""nt I. upenntendent of public sehools Th .. boy, wcre .t.1I1 .. n\5 m high .
to QUinCY a year ago ~t:ll' lin Den,,(-r. ana falI'ld of Pa ul s c h., 01. Jlmml(- ... ,igned ~
Harl -m thl.  Yl'ar. :~, WIth post· l:raauate 'work I nul'! p 1; ular ~:n .. nf the I ad-_
with white !amil s and al1 C(Jn- \\'ni teruan ,, '\ .' .. ', ' Positi1)n and (·n: t n:"k to keeJl
cerned liked the plan e nouo;h to :"uncefor i 'was 'a\\"afd'~ t ·the flOlIl .. aking up tho nand. ~
rL~lproca l~ \"\'llh it pr )~r~m In II B. A. 'ricgrt.'c {rom 'F i, __ r-~ unJ\·(~r·. Lun("c~l·rd arch M-:' W 3 S the
o 0 _ • • t :u ~~(:;n~o;~. ~~ ~~'.a C~I'!~ :~;~ C~!~t:~~; ~~ ~~~l na~tu:u::!
Chan?l.&!rs-readllll: left \'. IL1:am \\I1I, .. m,. r:rst tcnor'
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GETS $500 IN tbtr of the liappa Alpha P" lth(' NI"'" se",on .
~:~~~~~~~~~ JJ;=~ ;~:~Il~~~'c ;t;~on . ~nd ! G~(mlty. and was·a r~ur-lettN' Fl.!l~rd; ~rvi ',. r Jlmm.ie ' __ . _ __ HOME ROBBERY :;Inn In alhlcucs a t : 1~ h~ Lunc,' f  ... J. Ahn r::~~ l' hlS bome:
as tho! "rowdy' JItter· I w ere: The featur, a ttraction f ..... cit" sport bc~1: footbil ii. III Whi· ... • Plalc:". N· w YOTk.i
th 11th tap.. fnr which we h"d so p"ucntlv I u"d among th local (nend. w"n e . ~u'l • b. held in'
sanded In the sand-box. wal . The I"ory plano whIch :\larshall St.range. 41. 1201 , .. r." wpre classmales and ",,·r.. IC nt.n~ed ' , p,;:. 4)
rown dum",y cracked th orch t.ra used, had been W. ':he.lnut " .. II ted .. nd ----
Jokes as he sat upon the pushed a Ide and a mod m mao charged wllh dwdllng hou. ' SHOr THROUGH THf HEART DIES ON of his " ent.riloqulal slfe. hog any number stood i n Its b rea kIn g early Wednesday. ;
you thlDk my party was place. In front of it sat James momlDg. July 9, on a warrant
? No indeed! Th ere Sherman, .... hlle the other four s worn to by Mr s. Alice WAY TO THE GENERAL HOSPITAL
t hat ext.ra specIal members were clustered around Tho m p son. 1018 South 12th
for which they were the microphon . Yes. this was Street. Strange was placed un- --.----
I it. the famous Chanoteers. der a S1200 bond and hIS case hot through th h art WIth . the . 16th Negro h lnu 'ide in
were drawn, the The )tolden glow "f the spot. continued in pobce court untu a 32 calIber pIstol, Radford I LoUI vule since th.. beginning
,.. ... uv~ .. "'''"'. which had dropped ' Ught lib a huge gilded sunset August 5. Dubwood. 45. 1327 W. MadIson of the ye aCC:Or'CWlg to police
beneath the stage floor to I rendered a deep yellow cast to I Mrs. Th pson lold police Street, ~ed en route to th Gen- records.
room fOT the gay dancers. : their rich, cream- olored suits. that en\rance ~ her house was St.reet, died enrou1e to the Gen- I Bystande!s at th ~ ne 01. the
a, ain sprang up and out and the snowy white shuts mad lamed by iorcmg a sld door eral HospItal, Sat~y. July 12. tragedy saId th two m " de-
Rufus Byers, public re- . a perfect contrast to the black screen. She reported the theft aft r a gun du I 10 the pres-, clded to shoot it  lut tel' ~
man for the Northwest I n e c k tie s. matching perfectly of a 38 caliber blue r ~..,Iver. ence of a score of WItness at . falled \0 agree npayment ~
IAmusen,ent Company. He made with their white and black make unkno"''11, and S500 in 16th and Walnut Street. H money Ro is all.-ged to bne
ann,oun.ce""ent of the coming : sport shoes. on ; five; and ten dollar bills. m u I'd e T e r. Boland ft • S~. I nt Dubwood .. twenty-ftge
and apologized for I The melody. comlng from the The woman said the money was 1514. West Chestnut Street . IS c..nts ~ the dollar 'nIe bOIlId
unusual procedure. throats of these four bannonists secreted in a trunk. one of confined to the hospItal WIth ntered the victim·s b  dy in. tile
this time. when the cur- I and {rom the C'm en of the th missing loot has been r - a gun sho wound in the ab:lo- I It bre t entered the heart ..
were opened, there th y (Continued on nge f ) . covered. men. Dubwood's dea\Jl marks I , (Conunued on Pace 4.)
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