DELAY OVER FEPC REPORT CAUSES CONCERN
LETTER TO SENATE COMMITTEE HEAD
SAYS CONFERENCE DELEGATES WERE FIRM IN REQUEST FOR SPEEDY ACTION
WIN FIGHT IN SOUTH CAROLINA
JUDGE RULES RIGHT TO VOTE IN DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY OF STATE
INSTALLS PETER SALEM POST OFFICERS
[illegible] [Commander?] McClain of Zachary Taylor Post No. 184, St. Matthews [illegible] Peter Salem Post No. 45. Reading left: Commander McClain, J. [illegible] ale, Sgt. of Arms; Harry Stewart, Finance Officer; A. L. Black-[illegible] ell, Chaplain; J. H. Henry, Service Officer.
[illegible] in the Nation's Capital by Alice Allison Dunnigan
The Charieteers - reading left: William Williams, first tenor; Edward Jackson, second tenor; Ira Williams, baritone, and Howard Daniel, bass, with Jimmy Sherman at the piano.
Dewey Appoints Commissioner
15 White Youths in Harlem Homes
GETS $500 IN HOME ROBBERY Marshall Strange, 41, 1201 W. Chestnut was arrested and charged with dwelling house breaking early Wednesday morning, July 9, on a warrant sworn to by Mrs. Alice Thompson, 1018 South 12th Street. Strange was placed under a $1200 bond and his case continued in police court until August 5. Mrs. Thompson told police that entrance to her house was gained by forcing a side door screen. She reported the theft of a 38 caliber blue revolver, make unknown, and $500 in one; five; and ten dollar bills. The woman said the money was secreted in a trunk. None of the missing loot has been recovered.
URGED TO EXAMINE HOUSING ACT
WOULD PROTECT MINORITY GROUPS
SHOULD SEEK REPRESENTATION ON LOCAL RENT CONTROL PROCEEDS
LUNCEFORD DEATH MOURNED IN CITY The death of James Melvin "Jimmie" Lunceford, famous orchestra leader, who suffered a heart attack while directing his band, at Seaside, Oregon, Saturday night, July 12, is mourned by his friends in Louisville. Lunceford, 45, was born in Fulton, Miss. He spent his boyhood in Denver, Colo., and his first musical tutor was James Wilberforce Whiteman, superintendent of public schools in Denver, and father of Paul Whiteman. Lunceford was awarded the B. A. degree from Fisk university, with post graduate work there and at the City college of New York. He was a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity and was a four-letter man in athletics at Fisk his favorite sport being football, and among the local friends who were classmates and were members of the Fisk football team with Lunceford, were T. J. Long, Principal, Jackson High School; Victor Perry, member of the Central High School faculty, and Dr. C. M. Young. Jimmie Lunceford organized his first ban  d in 1927 while he was professor of music at Manassa High schoool in Memphis after his graduation from Fisk. The boys were students in high school. Jimmie resigned his position and went back to keep from breaking up the band. The Lunceford orchestra was the most popular among the leading colleges of the nation and was usually in demand during the college season. Funeral service for Jimmie Lunceford, who made his home in White Plains, New York, were expected to be held in (Continued on Page 4)
SHOT THROUGH THE HEART; DIES ON WAY TO THE GENERAL HOSPITAL Shot through the heart with a 32 caliber pistol, Radford Dubwood, 45, 1327 W. Madison Street, died en route to the Gen- Street, died enroute to the General Hospital, Saturday, July 12, after a gun duel in the presence of a score of witness at 16th and Walnut Street. His murderer, Boland Rose, 51, 1514 West Chestnut Street is confined to the hospital with a gun shot wound in the abdomen. Dubwood's death marks the 16th Negro homicide in Louisville since the bginning of the year according to police records. Bystanders at the scene of the tragedy said the two men decided to shoot it out, after they failed to agree on payment of money Rose is alleged to have lent Dubwood at twenty-five cents on the dollar. The bullet entered the victin's body in the left breast entered the heart and (Continued on Page 4)