Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-02-18
Breakfasts to
Feature Negro
Press Week

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partment officials here for overseas
radio pickups featuring soldiers and
war correspondents in several major
theaters Of operations during Ma
tional Negro Newspaper Week,
February q to March 4.
Haf-hour radio programs beam
ed over two Of the nations major
radio networks will feature, in ad-
dition to the service men and war
correspondents, some Of the coun-
try's outstanding artists and en-
tertainers.
Negotiations were in progress at
weeks end for a third nationwide
network program, but no definite
commitment had been made by
the broadcasters. The publishers
committee planned to stage this
program at the Great Lakes Naval
Training Station where they have
been invited for a two day inspec-
ton tour on March 8 and 4.
The first broadcast is over
NBC on Saturday, February
26 from 3 to $3.50 P. NJ. Hazel
Scott, famed bOogie-wOogie
pianist, will be on this pro-
gram along with another of
the oOuntry's outstanding art
lists for whose appearance final
clearance had not been attained
when this announcement was
made.
Canada Lee, stage star of "Na-
tive Son" and "Lifeboat" fame,
will narrate a statement on the
purposes of Newspaper week, and
a high governmental official will
speak briefly.
Reports on soldiers overseas by
three returned Negro war CORE
spondents will be heard as well.
They will interview colored heroes
who have come back from the war
fronts, too. An overseas pickup
will bring in one of the war CORE
spondents direct from a theater Of
operations.
Willie Bryant and members of
his U. S. o. overseas unit which
entertained troops recently will
be heard also. And there will be
statement on "The Negro Press
and the War Effort" by DR.. C. B.
Powell, editor of the New York
Amsterdam News.
The Columbia program on
Monday, February % from
1880 A. NJ. to IL noon, will
feature Duke EllingtOn's or
chestra, Paul Robson, the
Wings Over Jordan Choir and
four Negro war correspondents
direct from their overseas posts
in the European and Pacific
theaters.
Other numbers include Juan Her
nandez in a narration on the pur-
poses of the observance, a state
ment by President Roosevelt and
the interview of Merchant Marine
Liberty ship captain.
"The Negro Soldier From Bunk
er Hill to Guadalcanal" will be
dramatized by Carlton Moss, and
John H. Sengstacke, president of
the Chicago Defender and of the
Negro Newspaper Publishers Asso-
citation, will make a statement on
the Negro Press.
Tentatively, there is also a dra-
matization of the construction of
the Alcan Highway, featuring a
Negro member of the Engineering
unit which did the job, direct from
Alaska.
Last year the Newspaper Week
broadcasts came over two Of the
national hook-upS and favorable
comment poured in from all over
the nation to the member papers.
On those programs three of the
overseas war correspondents were
brought in for brief commentaries.
The committee, headed by Frank
Stanley of the Louisville Defender,
spent a week in New York and
Washington recently working out
the arrangements. Others on the
committee are Dowdal Davis of
the Kansas City Call and P. Ber-
nard Young, Jr., of the Journal
and guide. Complete line-ups of
the broadcasts have been promised
for next week.