Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-01-12
AS Outstanding
Women Named
By Mrs. Bethune


By Mrs. Bethune
WASHINGTON, D. c. (NNPA)
Mrs. Mary Mcleod Bethune, who
herself has been named innumer-
able times on rosters of the out
standing women of America, has
selected a list of 16 women as the
outstanding contributors to inter
racial unity during the year 1914.
Her selections were made, she said
in a press conference this week,
because she was perturbed by the
absolute neglect of women in the
polls of newspapers and period
Gals, both white and colored.
She declared that the National
Council of Negro Women, of which
she is president, is in better posi-
ton than the average person or or
ganization to make such selections
because of the concentration of its
efforts on the services and activities
of women.
Her list includes: Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt as the Woman of the
Year, for her varied activities in
the field of human relations, her
courage, her energy, and her deep
concern for national and inter-
national unity which have given in
spiratiOn to women all over the
world"
Mrs. Anna Arnold Hedgeman, ex-
ecutive secretary of the National
Council for a Permanent FEPC, for
her dynamic leadership in the
struggle to secure passage Of the
bill for a permanent Fair Employ
ment Practice Commission with en-
forcement powers.
Y. W. President
Mrs. Mary S. Ingraham, president
of the National Board of the Young
Women's Christian Associations of
the United States, for her coura-
geous leadership in the develop
ment of sound interracial practice
within the YWCA.
Mrs. Mabel K. Staupers, execu-
tive secretary of the National Asso-
citation of Colored Graduate Nurses,
for her persistent efforts to secure
the full utilization of the services
of the Negro nurse in the Armed
Forces.
Mrs. Alice T. Mclean, founder
president of the American WOmen's
Voluntary Services, for her con-
tribution to the morale of the men
and women in the Armed Forces
through her visits to the war the
aters and the expansion on a ma
tional basis of the exceedingly eff
fective program of the AWVS.
Mrs. Daisy Lampkin, field secre-
tary of the NAACP, for her part
in building in 1914 the largest mem
bership enrolment in the history
of the NAACP, and for her effec-
tive fight for equality of opportu-
nifty for all minorities.
Mrs. Katherine Shryver, execu-
tive secretary of the National Com
mittee to Abolish the Poll Tax, for
her statesmanlike leadership in the
legislative and educational cam
paign to abolish the poll tax.
Columnist Named
Mrs. Dorothy Thompson, column
mist, for her brilliant analysis and
presentation of major issues in the
political campaign of 1914.
Mrs. LavOnia Fl. Brown, founder
1t. General of the Women's Army
for National Defense (WANDS),
for her creative leadership in de-
veloping the program of the
WANDS.
Miss Lillian Smith, editor of
South Today" for her fearless
presentation of the effects on hu-
man behavior of the mores of the
South through the authorship of
Strange Fruit"
Newspaper Woman Honored
Mrs. Bettye Murphy Phillips,
newspaperwoman, for qualifying
for eertifcation by the War Depart
ment as the first Negro woman war
correspondent.
Miss Lena Horne, singer and mo-
ton picture star, for her resolute
stand on refusing to appear on
radio, screen or stage in stereotyped
Negro roles.
Mrs. Dorothy J. Bellanca, inter-
national vice president of the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers of
America CCIO), for her effective
assistance in the mobilization of
women industrial workers for citi.
zenship responsibility with en-
phasis on registration and narfiri-