St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-26
VOL. 9, NO. 29
National Negro Newspaper
Week To Be Observed
February 20 to March 6

NORFOLK-Wit cordial fellcl-
tations from Americas great war
time President, countrywide OBJ
servance of National Negro News
paper Week will be launched on
Sunday, February %, under the
auspices of the National Negro
Publishers Association.
This will mark the fifth
annual observance of MN
Week and the 18th anniver-
sary of the founding of the
first American Negro news
paper, Freedoms Journal, by
John Russwurm.
In addition to newspaper arti-
cles and pictures touching upon the
history, achievements, and program
of the Negro press the observance
will include nationally broadcast
programs, public meetings, and a
variety of activities in churches,
schools, and colleges throughout
the entire nation.
RADIO PROGRAMS
Already five radio programs
have been arranged which will be
devoted entirely to the observance
or will touch upon it.
Columbia BrOadcasting Sys-
TEN will air on a cOast-tO-
coast network on Saturday,
March 6, at 2:3O o'clock a one
hour program featuring lead
ing editors and cOlOred war
correspondents and Outstand-
ing vocalists and musicians of
the race.
Mutual Broadcasting System has
made available radio time for an
other network broadcast on Thurs
day, March 4. 1t is the publishers
plan, if necessary arrangements
can be made with the military au-
thorities, to feature on this pro-
gram the role of the Negro in five
branches of the armed services
Air Forces, Marine Corps, Coast
Guard, Army, and Navy.
This program will probably orig
mate from the Norfolk Ports
mouth-Newport News area of Vir-
ginia, where is centered the great
est military establishments in the
Western Hemisphere.
OTHER HIGHLIGHTS
The "Meet the Negro" program,
regular feature of Station
WTNJ, Trenton, N. j., will have E.
Washington Rhodes, Philadelphia
Tribune publisher, for it's speaker
on March at 7:15 p. M, and the
wings Over Jordan" CHS pro-
gram on Sunday, March 7, at 1920
will have as it's speaker a Texas
newspaperman, ]. Don Davis, man.
aging editor of the Houston In
former.
Assurances have been re-
ceived from DIR. G. Lake lines,
director of the OWI-sponsored
program, "My People," regu-
lar MBS program at 700 p. m.
each Saturday, that the Observ-
ance will receive attention on
that broadcast.
CHS BROADCAST
PARTICIPANTS
The Columbia Broadcasting Sys-
tenn program on March 6, in addi-
ton to the guest artists, will fea-
ture P. B. Young, ST., editor-in-
chief of the Journal and Guide, in
the keynote address and the follow
ing in a round table discussion:
Gardner Cowles, Jr., publisher of
the Des Moines Register-Tribune
and Look Magazine, now serving
as director of domestic operations
for the Office of War Information;
c. A. Scott, publisher of the At
lanta Daily World, only colored
daily publication; Carl Murphy
editor-in-chief of the Afro-Ameri-
can; and P. L. Prattis, executive
editor of the Pittsburgh Courier.
Presiding over the discussion
will be William o. Walker. editor
of the Cleveland Call and Post and
president of the NNPA.
TO HEAR WAR
CORRESPONDENTS
By shOrt-wave the American
public will hear from at least
three of the cOlOred war corre-
spOndents now overseas: David
OrrO, Chicago Defender; Ran
dy Dixon, Pittsburgh Courier;
and Ollie Stewart, AfrO-Amer-
lean.
Another war correspondent now
overseas, Edgar T. Rouzeau of the
Courier, will be included if radio
facilities are accessible where he
is on duty.
Others to be heard on the pro-
gram include Moss Hyles Hendrix