Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-02-25

Marking National Negro
airy 27 to March 4, the broad
government officials, Negro w
men and outstanding Negro enter
tainers.
President Roosevelt will send a
special message to be read over the
air in connection with the tribute
to the nations Negro newspapers.
Opening the program arranged
by the Negro Newspaper Publish
ers association will be a half hour
program over the NBC network
Saturday, Feb. 26, at 2 p. m.
(CWT).
Paul McNutt, chairman War
Manpower Commission, and DR..
C. B. Powell, publisher of the Am
sterdam News, will be the principal
speakers.
McNutt will report on the Negro
in the defense industries. DR..
PowelPs topic will be "The Negro
Press and the War Effort" DR..
Powell is a civic leader and mem
Der of the New York State Athletic
Commission.
Canada Lee, noted actor, will be
master of ceremonies. He will be
joined by Hazel Scott, star of radio
and motion pictures, and Muriel
Rain, currently appearing in the
Broadway hit Carmen JONES'" The
Julie Gardner USO Overseas Unit
also will entertain.
Negro war heroes will be inter
viewed by four newspaper CORE
spondents-Randy Dixon, Pitts
burgh Courier; David Orro, Chi
cage Defender; Ollie Stewart, Afro
American, and Thomas Young, Nor
folk Journal and Guide. Dixon will
speak from London.
Arrangements have been COM
pleted with the War Department
and Columbia Broadcasting system
for overseas pick-ups on Monday
night at 1890 p. m. (C.W.T.) bring
ing to American radio audience the
voices of four war correspondents
now in combat zones.
Lem Graves, Jr., Of The Journal
and Guide, Art Carter of The Afro
American and Ollie Harrington of
the Pittsburgh Courier will be
heard direct from Naples. They
will also interview several Negro
soldiers and fliers who have been
cited for heroic deeds during the
Italian campaign.
Jumping half way around the
world, the CHS mike will then pick
up Fletcher Martin, war correspon-
dent for the Negro Newspaper
Publishers Association pool, from
the South Pacific.
Musical and dramatic talent will
also feature this program.
Stars will be the Wings Over
Jordan choir, Duke Ellington and
his orchestra, Paul Robson, Juan
Hernandez and Carlton Moss. There
will also be a statement by Presi-
dent Roosevelt, an interview of a
Negro Liberty Ship captain, John
J. Godfrey of IS. Robert L. Vann
by P. Bernard Young, Jr., and a
message by John H. Sengstacke,
president of the publishers associa-
ton and manager of the Chicago
Defender.
The Blue Network and WTCN
station will beam a program
originating at Great Lakes Naval
Training Station on Thursday,
March 2, from 8 to $3.50 p. m.
Central War Time).
The Blue network broadcast spot
lights the visit to Great Lakes of
the Negro Newspaper Publishers
Association on the invitation of 1t.
Commander Daniel Armstrong on
March 2 and 8.
Others scheduled to speak are
Admiral Carpenter, commandant,
Ninth Naval District; Captain En-
inert, commandant Great Lakes.
Publishers Louis Martin of the
Michigan Chronicle, Roscoe Dungee,
Oklahoma Black Dispatch, ]. E.
Mitchell, st. Louis Argus and Ed
itor Olive Diggs of the Chicago
Bee will be presented. The Great
Lakes orchestra and glee club will
provide music for the half-hour
broadcast, A statement by Secre-
tary Of the Navy Knox on 1.-THE
Negro in the Navy" will be heard
as well as a brief message from
Commander Armstrong.