FEPC IN DANGER OF SABOTAGING
Representative Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., addressing a student body of Hunter College, November 16, charged that the FEPC was in danger of being sabotaged in the second session of the 81st Congress. Representative Powell, chairman of the FEPC sub-committee on the House Committee on Education and Labor, spoke under the auspices of the Students for Democratic Action and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Representative Powell said, "There are plans on foot to bring the FEPC up in the Senate before it comes up in the House. Before the first session adjourned I contacted several senators, including Senators Ives and Humphries, and it was the unanimous opinion of all of us that the FEPC should come up in the House of Representatives first."
"If the FEPC is brought up in the House it would definitely be passed by the House and the passage would strengthen the forces in the Senate so that at least 10 senators who are on the edge would come over to the pro-FECP forces. After this conference I contacted the majority leader, Representative McCormick, and explained the situation to him. I did likewise with my chairman, Representative Lesinsky. It was agreed that we would aim towards January 9 or 23 for passage in the House. News has just come
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SIGMA ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS
[Photo] MAURICE RABB LOUISVILLE, KY. FIRST PRIZE
[Photo] [Illegible]
[Photo] JOSEPH MILES ELDRIDGE WELSH, W. VA. FIRST PRIZE
[Photo] PEYTON COOK GRIFFIN, GEORGIA FIRST PRIZE
[Photo] ROBERT E. JONES AUSTIN, TEXAS FIRST PRIZE
[Photo] CHARLES ERVIN BANKS CHICAGO, ILLINOIS FIRST PRIZE
[Photo] WILLIAM H. [COLLINS?], Jr. SAVANNAH, GA. SECOND PRIZE
[Photo] SHANE H. MAGE NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. SECOND PRIZE
[Photo] RALPH C. ELLIOTT, JR. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS SECOND PRIZE
[Photo] BORIS M. [Illegible] BRONX, NEW YORK THIRD PRIZE
[Photo] ROBERT [F.?} PRATER ALCORN, MISSISSIPPI THIRD PRIZE
[Photo] ALEXANDER NEUWIRTH BRONX, NEW YORK THIRD PRIZE
The above are regional winners in the annual national essay contest of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity. In each case the first prize was $150, second, $75, and third, $25. The theme of the 1949 contest was "The Relationship of Business to Civil Rights."

MOURNED
Bill Robinson
Internationally known entertainer, dancer and public spirited American whose death is mourned by thousands. See article.
PRESIDENT
Mrs. Missouri Q. Bluster
Who was elected president of the State Association of Colored Women's Clubs at a recent meeting here. See article.

MRS. MISSOURI Q. BLUSTER HEADS STATE ASSOCIATION OF COLORED WOMEN'S CLUBS
Mrs. Missouri Q. Bluster of Winchester, was elected president of the State Association of Colored Women's Clubs at the closing session of the annual meeting of the organization at Zion Baptist Church, last Saturday.
Mrs. Bluster is a member of the faculty of the colored high school at Winchester and the wife of Rev. C. H. Bluster of the C.M.E. Church. For a number of years she has been recognized as one of the most capable of women and of the highest character.
Others elected at the session, which was attended by more than 100 delegates from as many clubs in Kentucky, were: Mrs. Anna L. Moore, Danville, first vice president; Mrs. Ethel Wright, Paducah, second vice 
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GETS $634 IN FALSELY ACCUSED OF THEFT CASE
Mrs. Lucille Burns of 724 S. Campbell, was awarded a judgment of $534 by a Circuit Court jury this week. Mrs. Burns sued her former employer, Harry N. Lilly, 2017 Napoleon Boulevard, for falsely accusing her of stealing. She asked for $10,000.
Lilly charged Mrs. Burns, his maid, with stealing $600 which he kept under a rug in his home. After swearing out the warrant last April he found the money and the case against Mrs. Burns was dismissed. He was excited about the money and told the jury that he did not accuse the maid maliciously, but was excited.
When Mrs. Burns was released, she said, Lilly has found his money but he lost a good maid, and she proceeded to file her suit for $10,000.

PENALTY OF WOMEN KILLER FINALLY FIXED
The penalty of William T. Reed, who was charged with killing two women, and sentenced to death in the electric chair for the murder of one of them, at last seems to be fixed.
The death sentence was affirmed by the Court of Appeals at Frankfort this week.
Reed was convicted by a Criminal Court jury last December, for killing his common-law wife, Louise Young, in 1943, and burying her in a coal shed in the back yard of his home on Eleventh Street, where the bones of two women were dug up. Reed was also accused of killing another common-law wife, Lena Lewis.

LOVE STRONGER
THAN HATRED
(OU T EPO TE fOR UREMBERG TRIALS TELLS
IlWMINAUl!!G STORY ABOUT WAR BABIES
VOLUME 32,
Conference here recently George I intrinsic dignity and value of 1
N. CI aig. Brazil, lnd., national every human life. They drew on I
commander of the American, a religious tenet for their first
Legion, observed that the for-I political axiom which became
mula for goodwill living in lhe'l the corner stone. of thei.r Dec­Western
World as preached by laration of Independence in
:~~";~v~a: r:~i~~:ris ~'T~~~ th::~,:O~d:~dOWed by his cre-I
self." , ator w.th certam inallena'>le
Excerpts !rom Commander , rights. Along these are life, lib- I
Craig's address follow: I "rty and the PUrsUIt of hapPi-1
Here in America the century- ness. To secure these ri hts gov­long
t eachings of religion have errur.ents are instituted among
borne their greatest fruit. Our men!"
~ounding Fath~,:, built this na-I These God-given rights of
tion on the religIOUS concept of ' men were the key to the tirst
the Fatherhood of God. They ' promising solution to the prob­got
that concept out of lhe Old lems of minorities- We recog­Testament
!rom the moulb of nized them polit!cally first here
the prophet who said, "Hath we in America. We established a
not one father? Hath not one government based upon a writ-
God created us?" ten Constitution and Bill of I iJ""~~~~~rsI~~:,:~~~~r.:-=~~=~~~~~~~~~;z, 1 On that divine beli!!f they de- ;Continued on page 4) II
THOUSANDS MOURN
BILL ROBINSON
HE GOT INTO PlACES MONEY (OULD NOT BUY; THE
HEARTS Qf ALL AMERICA, SAID MAYOR O'DWYER
New York, Dec. 1 - In his year ea!",er, b;1 hAn not a cent
eulogy of Bill "Bojn.gles" Rob- when he died. The minister­inson
here in the overflowed congressman said "It was fitting
Abyssinian B apt i s t Church, that his last b ills were taken
Monday, Mayor William 0'- care of by his friends", and he
said of the famed
night of a heart ailment played Chopin's Muneral March.
at 71. "You came to us using the Marian Anderson sang HAve
e lou d s for horses, without Maria", and Robert Merrill,
money, but with d ceney got Metropolitan Opera tenor, "The
into places no mon can buy. Lord·s Prayer".
You got into the hearts of all It is estimated that more than
~:~.ca.~dam Clayton Powell. ~'~~l);,,~:~n:V~:~h~ai:ee~b:~ I
pastor of the church, and Con- as his body lay in the Harlem
gre"sman from New York. sa:d Armory. and more than 1,500,000
that Robinson had "performed mourners lined the sidewalks as 1
for more Catholic and Jewish the 100 car funera: cortege I
benetits than any other protest- moved slowly from Harlem to .
ant entertainer and had become TIIT'e5 Square and many a per­a
legend because he is ageless son wept.
and race less·'. Powell said Rob- The funeral procession paused
inson had raised $100,000,000 for at the Palace Theater, the Mecca
charity and had earned $4.000,- of vaudevillia."lS, where Robin-
000 ror h,mself during his 60- (Continued on page 41
FEPC IN DANGER
OF SABOTAGING
LEGIO·N HEAD
GIVES F RMuLA
ILL UVI 'G IN WESTERN WORLD;
~Y LOVING THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSBf
New York, Dec. I-Vernon W. underst:md the gro6.! fallacy of
Stone, a mid",""stern American ' racial Intolerance. PossiblY, OD
teacher, who was connected : the other hand, the racial equaJ­with
the personnel services in · ity some Germans now practiee
Germany, and who was official ' has an economic basis. In other
court reported at the Nurem-I woo .is. u" c n, .. y be more
berg trials, tells an illuminatIng . democracy in cigarettes, c!loc:o­story
of the German war babies II late, nnn food than in,JlJ1Y social
' ,t.omatiOll'ally the Gl's left behind them when sYstem.
... known enter- they came back to the good old I
. dan.cer-and~'" sA: In-t1Ie Survey, N"oVem- men,~iff,(=tiiii;.y~iii"""~~.
lted American whose death JS ber, 1949. lower lncome groups show any
mourned by thousands. See Excerpts from his story fol- racial prejudice whatever. When
arhcle. low: a military unit is stationed in
In the second World War. a given ". a, many German girls
about 200,000 American Negro prOlnpU,. acquired a "steady"
troops passed throuP> Britain, fN'm the Nt' ro ranks.
and some 70,COO remamed In the The arne thing has been true
British Isles throughout the whete~er Neg r 0 American·
war. Th('se Gl's who stayed in troops h,ve gone. In Britain,
Britain, as well as those who I for e. ample, when the first Ne­proceeded
to Germany and I"ro contingents arrived in 1941,
(ther countries. were extremely Many British girls - British,
popular WIth the women and Fri>n"h and German-attrihuted
girl>. I the c/I>or,.enta:i \·e Po" eU seid, I L'lS A"geles Dec 1-W rhi I Mnr M,rSOURI Q SLUrTER UI: n( rT n • f I, Lllv charged Mrs. Burn , his last week . that '·th('rp art' .no The pcnal-t -f w'rn T
"There ar .. Plans , on foot to go,.ernm~t I; not· a p.-artieal IU. U • ,m; n IJJ ,1Ii~1:;; .. .M ..• ~fltH BANS male., ',Ith s. teallng $600 which probl ms In (he South w ch Reed. who ~ 0 h ~ am. brln th FEPC u; in the Senate po''' I' Ii'y a rcc-",,' no-· a' any ASSO~IATION Of (OLORED WOMEN'S ( I UBr I .. " he k ;>1 un r rug In his home. the Negro cannot h Ip .olve." killing t W c • . r
before it ""mes up In th~ House. : tim~ " n the imm';,liate f~ture'l \ - ~ HOME Of THE BRAVE Afte~ .w",mnl! 01lt e warrant I '·Men do not win by, runn in!! t .. nced t:~e~~mi~ th:"d -.-
B'!for th tirst sessIon ad- ace rdm 0 Dr. R bert G. eu-. , - - - 13.t Apnl he ~',:,"d he mnn y1away f:?m prohlems.: he de-Ichair for the murd r of ele:n:,~
lourned . J contac~ed several : mann, assistant prof ssor of ~ MIS. M,ssoun Q Bluster ~f school at W.nc.h.es.er and he Birmingham, D . I.-The in- and 'he : ,'anam' . 1 .•. Burns cl:u-ed. I am much to accor~ I th~m, at last s ems to be bed
n& rs, including. enators Ives i IlticaJ science at the UniversIty Winchester, wa> el ted pre5t- t ,·,f~ of Rev. C. H Bluster of the , terracial film. "Home of the "a. d 'm.s.ed. He w3S exclled Ith Boo er T. WashJngton s I h .
and ~umphri~, . and it was the of California. dent of the Stat~ Association of C.M.E. Church. For a number of ' Brave,' did n t open its run in a ut lhe money and told t philosophy of 'Ielting down your fi T .':t de~th senten I' ..... af-unarumous
opinIon of all of "Th f d . f II Colored Women s Clubs at the , years h has been recognized Birmingham last w k as sched- jury that h~ d·d n ot accuse the buckets where you are.' rm b~ the Court of AJI)e8la
~hat the FEPC should come. up lover:m;~n ~~:t" ~ :.,n~en:;::; d OSing sessIOn of th~ annual as one of the most. capable of uled-ali because ~lice Chief ~& d maliclou.;ly, but w "Why Mould we have to leave at Frankfort this w.eek-
In thHe House of Representatives in agreement on the basic r in- meetmg o! the org&nuallon at omen and of the hIghest char- Floyd Eddin felt there was c:led. the South to .get better wages?! was CO~vlcted by 8
first. riples of human rights an: the Zlon Baptist Church, last Sat- acter. "doubt" about its status. The Whcn Mrs. Burns was re- Why not re~tod the I aders of ~;,.mJr.al Cou.rt. lU~ lut De-
"If the FEPC is brought up reJation~hips between govern- urday. , e..,. el ted at the session, film, lated for a run at the 1 ed, she sa:d, LIllY has found our comrnunJties that the m TC 1 t-e~; for k:Uing h IS ~mmon-in
the House it would definitely ment and peoples. uch agree-! IIlrs. Bluster is a member of which was attended by morel Ritz Theat r, has been replaced hl morey but he lo.t a g we are paId ere he mor .. VoII' :n~ ~ .. e, Lou.se ~oun" ln 1943,
be pa.