PREDICTS Negroes Will Elect President And Election Will Be Close
Balance In 17 States; Truman Now Has Support; No GOP Enthusiasm
CHEST DIVISION GOES OVER QUOTA With some divisions still making reports the Colored Population Division of the Community hest "Red Feather" Campaign has raised $9,624.32, or $374.32 over its quota, according to Charles T. Steele, secretary of the drive. J. Bryant Cooper was chairman of the division. Totals by divisions and the respective quotas are: Division I, R. L. Ransaw and E. E. Pruitt, co-chairmen, $2,889.60, quota, $3,000.00; II, Mrs. Addie Thomas, chairman, $698.25, quota $900.00; III, Mrs. W. W. Spradling, chairman, $2,068.05, quota, $1,200.00; IV, Rev. Stepney Ray, chairman, Mrs. Fred Wilson, co-chairman, $354.66, quota, $350.00; V, Mrs. Rosa Starks, chairman, Mrs. Elsie Rowan, co-chairman, $337.08, quota, $300.00; VI, Miss Helen Simpson, chairman, $89.10, quota, $100.00; VII, Mrs. Cola W. Ransom, chairman, $51.00, quota, $50.00; VIII, E. C. Brown, chairman, Mrs. Catherine Rouse, co-chairman, $128.91, quota $125.00; IX, Mrs. Roselle Mitchell and Mrs. Lula Patterson, co-chairmen, $71.00, quota, $100.00; X, Randall E. Acton, chairman, $36.95, quota, $35.00; Church division, Rev. M. M. D. Perdue and Rev. E. L. Hickman, co-chairmen, $991.78; Louisville Municipal College, Louis Fields, chairman, $166.00, quota, $150.00; Louisville Public Schools, Miss Mabel L. Coleman, chairman, Edmund Bolan, co-chairman, $2,578.61, quota $2,200.00.
Women Ask Support In Douglass Home Drive to Raise $100,000
Wartime Buildings At Le Moyne
Stops Flogging In Alabama
DIRECTOR [Photo] William H. Pickens Director of the [Interracial?] Section, Savings Bonds Division of the United States Treasury Department, who was in Louisville last week in interest of the "Buy a Bond a Month" Campaign.
Second Race Cadet Appointed
HALF-MILLION GOAL OF KENTUCKY CHILDREN To meet the requests received by Kentucky Children, Inc., for child aid over the state for the next year will require $500,000, according to H. Fred Willkie, president of the organization. In a meeting of the Budget Committee headed by Cyril F. Deutsch, a budget of $480,000 was approved based on requests for aid by various child welfare agencies, educational institutions and recreational organizations over the state. The money is to be raised and distributed by Kentucky Children, Inc. Kentucky Children, Inc., a non-profit organization, raises funds for distribution to children's agencies not adequately provided for by local, county, state or national enterprises, or by churches or individuals.
"Our World" Story Hit
"OUR WORLD" STORY IS SCORED - SAYS STATEMENTS ABOUT LOUISVILLE EXAGGERATED; FAR SHORT OF FACTS by William J. Ealy A storm of controversy currently hinging around an open letter to Louisville, carried in the December issue of "Our World," a Negro national publication, in which the town was pictured as "a city of vanishing youth" offering no job opportunities for Negroes and naming only three or four individuals as forward-thinking leaders of the community, threatens to resolve itself into a community feud this week as indignant citizens line up in condemning the story as "a harmful exaggeration." Carrying a picture of five young Negroes in one of the city parks, the story which carries no by-line and its authorship credited to no less than five Louisville Negroes, charges that the town offers no Negro youths jobs or opportunities. Five pages of pictures showing the seamy side of Louisville's recreational excesses are applied as the common practice and used as a measurement for the town, critics of the story charge. While admitting the condition is bad and worthy of attention, outstanding Negro businessmen who have founded going concerns in the past and employ huge numbers of youths as they graduate from school, are openly indignant over the exaggeration. Louisville youths are depicted as spending their time in pawnshops, pool rooms and on the street, due to lack of high schools, technical training, jobs and chances of advancement. One young man who asked that his name not be quoted in connection with the controversial story declared that it was an insult to everyone in Louisville to have such a story appear in a national publication, particularly when the article is composed of half-truths, and vicious (Continued on Page 4)
HAZEL SCOTT ATTRACTS SUNDAY CROWD; CRITIC SAYS, "BOOGIE" BEST Hazel Scott, of the radio, stage and screen, and whose "boogie woogie," has been the talk of the country, attracted a crowd to the Auditorium last Sunday afternoon which was little short of a capacity house. The wife of New York's Congressman Adam Powell, who is also the pastor of one of the nation's leading Baptist churches, appeared in Louisville under the auspices of the Zeta Phi Beta Sigma Sorority. Of Miss Scott and her performance, the Louisville Times' critic said, Monday evening as follows: "Hazel Scott, the Trinidad girl who won fame with her jazz playing for cafe society and later was praised for her first Carnegie Hall recital, made her first appearance at Memorial Auditorium Sunday afternoon. Stunningly gowned in white, she made a dramatic entrance and from then on kept the interest of her large audience by her sure and proficient handling of the keys. "She opened her program with an original composition, "Caribbean Fete," a suite inspired by melodies and atmosphere of the carnival before Lent in Trinidad. Much of the music left a blurred and hazy impression but the section called "Castellan" was charming in its grace and delicacy. We might roughly divide the rest of the program into a classic group and a jazz group. "A Gigue by Graun, Prelude and Fugue in C sharp major by Bach and Mendelssohn's "Rondo Capriccioso," taken at flying speed, lacked clarity and balance due to overuse of the damper pedal and a very powerful left hand. Music by Liszt, Chopin and Rachmaninoff came off somewhat better, especially Liszt's "Etude de Concerte in D flat major." "From here on in her swing and boogie woogie arrangements, Miss Scott was at her best, completely in command of her instrument and swaying her listeners with the moods of her variations, ranging from airy lightness to insistent barbaric rhythms. The concert closed with the pianist playing her own interesting boogie woogie compositions."
First On Bench In Philadelphia
FORUM SPEAKER Mrs. Anna B. Wilson Benedict College instructor and Basileus of Beta Epsilon Sigma, who will be presented by the Pi Chapter Sigma Gammo Rho Sorority as guest speaker at the Pan-Hellenic Forum at the Y.W.C.A. Sunday at 4 p. m. Mrs. Wilson has a M.A. degree from Columbia University and is working on her Ph.D.
All Race Staff In Ohio Town
Race Relations Meet In Chicago
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Henderson Names Committee
ON MATTERS OF LEGISLATION - WOULD DO THINGS WITHOUT LOUD SPEECHES; OPINES ON STATE COLLEGE Dennis Henderson, newly elected Representative from the 42nd legislative district to succeed Charles W. Anderson, Jr., announced this week the naming of a committee to cooperte with him in to formulate and recommend legislation for introduction in the forth-coming General Assembly which meets in January. Mr. Henderson announced that he has asked the following to serve on said committee with Mr. Anderson, experienced legislator, now Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney as chairman; Mrs. Hortense Young secretary; William Childress, Democratic opponent who suggest such a committee during his campaign and who lost to Mr. Henderson by 90 votes, vice chairman; Mrs. Verna Smith, recording secretary and treasurer; Joseph R. Ray, Frank L. Stanley, E. E. Pruitt, A. M. Carroll, I. Willis Cole, C. Ewbanks Tucker, J. L. Leake, Rufus Stout, Benj. F. Shobe, Des Moines Beard, Drs. J. A. C. Lattimore, J. H  . Walls and P. O. Sweeney; Revs. W. P. Offutt and W. H. Ballew, Mrs. Murray Walls and Mrs. Mae Street, with others to follow. Mr. Henderson says that it is his desire to sponsor legislation for the best interest, welfare not only of the Negro but for the progress of the community and state, that during his life he has done things without so much "fanfare" and that he did not desire to change his way during the recent campaign, and he said, in his opinion more can be accomplished in committee action and conferences on major legislation than through loud speeches. Thanking the members of his (Continued on Page 4)
BEGIN TRAINING AS NEW POLICE Four colored applicants for patrolman on the Louisville police force, were certified and ordered to begin training in the police school Monday, it was announced by Director of Safety, Joseph F. Murphy, this week. Failure to pass the medical examination after having successfully passed both the written and oral tests of the Civil Service department, caused last minute cancellation of the certification of one of the men. No plans have been made to add another man to the list, a spokesman of the Safety office said. The three new recruits, drawn from the huge list of recent applicants are: Oscar Long, Jr., 1930 W. Chestnut; Melvin H. Tinsley, 1326 W. Liberty, and Charles William Harrison, 1491 Bland. This brings the total Negro personnel of the police department to 28.
WALLACE SAYS CIVIL RIGHTS REPORT FINEST Henry A. Wallace, who is to speak at the Armory in Louisville this Friday night, stated at a press conference in New Orleans, Sunday, that the President's Civil Rights Report is "the finest thing that has come from the Truman Administration." The former Vice-President mad ethe statement with reference to Georgia's "white supremacy," Herman Talmadge having attributed to him the ideas in the Civil Rights Report.
3 ARRESTED IN SURPRISE RAID After refusing to issue beer license to an applicant at 1436 W. Madison, city alcohol inspectors in a surprise raid Saturday night, November 15, confiscated 3 fifths of whiskey, 3 cases of beer and arrested three persons, charging two with disorderly conduct, and the other with selling liquor without license. "Yes, Sir, they were holding open house with more than 35 customers in attendance," one of the inspectors reported. Records of the department revealed a beer license issued to Clifford Wilcox was revoked Sept. 19, 1947. The administrator refused to issue license to Mabel Benson who applied October 9. Arrested were Joe Redmon alias "Burnt Cap" and B. F. Benson, disorderly conduct, and Mabel Benson, selling whiskey without license.