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NAACP Denies
Cancellation
OF Mrs. FDR

NEW YORK - WIDESPREAD
reports that scheduled address by
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in Havre de
Grace, Nd, had been cancelled BY
the NAACP branch there because
Of pressure from local whites are
not true, II was stated here by the
national headquarters Of the usso-
citation.
Ella J. Baker, national director
Of branches, has released CORES
pondence from DR.. Claude L.
Cowan, president Of the NAACP at
Havre de Grace, which declares:
"The Havre de Grace branch of
the NAACP had absolutely moth
ing to do with arrangements made
for Mrs. Roosevelt's appearance.
Rev. William H. Milburn invited
Mrs. Roosevelt.
THE Havre de Grace branch en-
gagged in no correspondence with
Mrs. Roosevelt or any Of her repre-
sentHtives, neither did we see any
OF the correspondence between Rev.
Milburn and Mrs. Roosevelt.
THE date had been set and all
arrangements made by Rev. MIL
burn when he came to my Office and
asked II the local branch Of which
he claimed to be unaware, being a
new resident, would participate in
his projected interraeial program
which was TO include various politi-
cal figures and organizations
throughout the country. We told
him we would gladly participate
although this invitation to us was
issued after the affair had been
publiciEed in the local press"
81 wish to state for myself per-
sonally and for the branch" Cowan
wrote his national headquarters,
that had we sponsored Mrs. Roose-
velts visit, and she still desired to
come, we would have done every
thing possible to make the meeting
success, despite any local roper
cussions."
At the December meeting Of the
NAACP board Of directors Of which
she is a member, Mrs. Roosevelt
stated that she had mot accepted"
an invitation from Hayre de Grace.
Miss Baker said the correspond
ence with DR.. Cowan was being re-
leased because someone, white or
colored, in the confused situation at
Havre de Grace apparently wanted
to embarrass the NAACP."
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-01-04
Police Who Beat Man
Must Face Charges

wASHIN D. c.
(NNPA).-Formal charges were
filed last Friday with Col. Edward
J. Kelly, superintendent of police,
against four policemen accused Of
beating John ]. Mayo, "a, 412 B
Street Southeast, following his ar
rest on a charge of making a false
report to police.
Mayo was acquitted Of the false
report charge in police court, last
October. He had been accused Of
fabricating a story about a hold-up
in order to explain injuries police
said he sustained during an alterca-
ton with a marine sergeant who
accused him Of making advances
to a WAVE, but Mayo charged he
was beaten by the four officers
when he reported a robbery at the
police station, last July.
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State Department Charged
With Discrimination

wASHIN GTON, D. c.
(NNPA).-The United States Civil
Service Commission is investigat-
ing charges by Chester Bowles,
OPA Administrator, that the State
Department and three other Fed
eral agencies here are discriminat-
ing against Negroes in the hiring
of government employees, Arthur
S. Flemming, Civil Service Com
missioner, disclosed Wednesday.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-01-04
Truman Gibson FavOrs
Universal Army Training

COLUMBUS, OHIO (NNPA).-
Making a distinction between a
system of universal military train
ing and the method Of accomplish
ing such training, Truman X. Glib
son, Jr., formerly civilian aide to
the Secretary of War, last Thurs
day night charged opponents Of
such a system with confusing a
principle with a plan"
Addressing the public meeting Of
the thirty-ffth annual conclave of
the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity
at Shiloh Baptist Church, Mr.. Glib
son said he favored universal mill
tary training but is opposed to
segregation in the carrying out of
such a system.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-01-04
Credit Union to
Hold Annual Meet
inq OF ST. Peters

The Associated Negro Credit
Union will hold its annual meet
ing and election of officers at st.
Peters AME church in Minneapolis,
Monday evening, Jan. IA, at eight
o'clock. All members are invited
to attend.
Home Again: Cpl. VIM. Mcintosh
is home again after spending 20
months overseas. Cpl. Mcintosh
arrived home Tuesday, January l.
His wife, Thelma and son, VIM,
Jr., live at 869 18th Ave. N.
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Funeral Services Held
For Mrs. julia Ada;
Two Pastors Assist

Funeral services for Julia Ada,
age 81, SO4 18th Ave. NJ, who died
at Rochester, Mimi, Sunday, De-
cember 80, were held Wednesday,
January 2, at 2 p. M, from Zion
Baptist Church with the Rev. H. W.
Bolts officiating, assisted by the
Rev. L. P. Ashford, Merry Mason
Council and Minnehaha Temple No.
1879, Elks. Interment was at Crys-
tai Lake Cemetery.
Mrs. Ada was a native Of Indian
apolis, Ind. She is survived by a
niece, Mrs. Ella Hickman, Of st.
Paul, and other relatives and
friends.
Woodland Funeral Home was in
charge Of arrangements.
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NOTICE!

We sincerely regret that we were
unable to furnish chairs for all our
friends during the Christmas holi-
days.
Will the parties who borrowed
chairs from Brooks Funeral Home
before the holidays please return
them or call DA. 3691 and we will
gladly pick them up.-George
Brooks, Jr.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-01-04
Services at Border
For Mrs. Jackson
Who Died Dec. 80

Mrs. Hester Jackson, age 60, 1913
Fourth Ave. s., died at General
Hospital, Sunday, December 80.
Mrs. Jackson was born in Green
Meadow, MINI.
Funeral services were held
Thursday, January 8, from Border
Methodist Church with the Rev. r.
W. Kelley officiating, assisted by
Minnehaha Temple No. 1873, Elks.
Interment was at Crystal Lake
Cemetery.
Mrs. Jackson is survived by two
sisters, Mrs. Weatherall of Kansas
City, Mo-, and Mrs. Emma O'Brien
Hill, of Minneapolis. She is also
survived by other relatives and
friends.
Woodland Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-01-04
Short Views
of the
News
New Army Appointments
Favorable to Negroes

WASHINGTON, D. c.
(NNPA).-From the standpoint of
effect on utilization of Negro per-
sonnet in the Army, the appoint
ment Of Lieut.. General Leroy
Lutes as commanding general of
the Army Service Forces, to sue
coed General Brehon Somervell is
regarded in informed circles here as
a distinct improvement.
Another recent favorable ap-
pointment was that of Howard C.
Peterson as Assistant Secretary Of
War. He fills the vacancy created
by the resignation of John J. Nc
Cloy, who was chiefly responsible
for the more effective utilization
made Of Negro personnel in the
Army during the war.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-01-04
St. P0ulite attends
Rites for Brother,
World Wur I Vet

William Brayboy, 57s Rondo
Ave, is in Montgomery, Ala, to
attend the funeral Of his brother,
Charles BrnybOy, who died recently
at Camp Custer, Michigan.
Mr.. Brayboy, who was q sergeant
in World War !, in which he served
one and one-half years overseas,
had been in Ill health for a number
Of years.
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women and men who study in col
leges and universities to prepare
themselves for careers and profess
sions, and then are forced, through
discrimination, to take "flunkey"
or second-rate jobs.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-01-04

Mrs. Melberta Mcfarland Of 1917
North Fourth St., at a ceremony
performed by the Rev. H. E.
Stewart of St. Marks AME church.
Bishop Gregg gave his age as 60,
and Mrs. Mcfarland gave hers on
the marriage license application as
SO. Gregg's first wife died July 8,
1941, after al years of marriage,
and Mrs. Netherlands first husband
died in 1896.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-01-04
Granger to Speak
To Women Voters

WASHIN GTON, D. c.
(NNPA). - Lester P. Granger
Executive Secretary Of the Nation.
al Urban League, will be the princi.
pal speaker at the Mayfower Hotel
here Tuesday, January IL, when
the League of Women Voters con-
ducts its one-day school on minori-
ties in the United States, it was
learned Friday.
Representative Helen Gahagan
Douglas will preside at the morn
ing session of the school.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-01-04
WAC Overseas Officer
To Leave Army Career

WASHIN GTON, D. c.
(NNPA).-Major Charity Adams,
who commanded the first and only
unit of Negro WACS to be sent
overseas, has returned from the
European theater of operations and
has been sent to Fort Bragg, North
Carolina, for discharge from the
Army.
Here last Wednesday, Major
Adams said she was anxious to get
out of the Army and return to her
home in Columbia, South Carolina,
where she formerly taught mathe-
mates in the public schools.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-01-04
Henry Wallace Speaks
Before Omega COnclave

ASHIN GT0N, D. c.
(NNPA).-Full employment can
not be attained without fair en-
ployment, Henry A. Wallace, Sec
rotary of Commerce, told the thir-
ty-second annual conclave Of the
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity here
Saturday night.
Highlighting a four-day session
of the fraternity, Mr.. Wallace
spoke at the public meeting held
in the South Interior Building
Auditorium. He shared the plat
form with DR.. Mordecai W. John
son, president Of Howard Univer-
sity.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-01-04

Council Committee.
Asserting that Cleveland, New
York and Chicago had taken the
lead in FEPC legislation, Humphrey
said that Minneapolis has a good
record Of race relations" and stated
that the city council in adopting
the measure would protect that
record.
Don't Wait Too Long
In asking for passage Of a NUM-
cipal FEPC, the mayor asked
significantly: sought we to wait
until we see fragrant violations to
pass such legislation2"
W. Glen Wallace, youthful alder
man Of the second ward, moved
that the bill be approved, and after
hearing testimony in its favor from
citizen representatives attending
the session, it was sent to the city
attorney for legal opinion.
Appearing on behalf Of the bill
were Jonas Schwartz and Mrs.
Lawrence d. Steefel Of the Minne-
sofa Council for a Permanent
FEPC; J. T. Wardlaw, executive
secretary Of the Minneapolis Urban
League; William Seabron, indus
trial secretary of the League; the
Rev. William Kelly Of Border
church, and Mrs. Nell Russell Of
the Minneapolis Spokesman.
Tell True Facts
After one Of the council members
stated he thought civil service reg
ulations prevented discrimination
in the hiring Of city employees,
Wardlaw, Mrs. Steefel and Sea-
bron gave concrete examples Of
how civil service itself had been
guilty Of discrimination in hiring.
Mrs. Steefel also told Of how
General Hospital had used a tech
nical loophole to keep from hiring
Japanese-American nurses in spite
Of a drastic shortage. Wardlaw
and Seabron said that Urban
League files were open to anyone
who doubted there was Job dis
elimination in Minneapolis, and
rounded out the statements with
further examples Of how Negro
workers have been Disseminated
against.
Harmony Possible
Schwartz, who has an interest in
q local factory, gave the Council
committee a picture Of how all
races and creeds work together
there in mutual harmony, and also
pointed to the satisfactory outcome
Of inter-racial employment policy
at the Twin Cities Ordnance plant
during the war.
Mrs. Russell said that the pas
sage Of city FEPC legislation in
Minneapolis would help encourage
other American cities to take the
same step, and that wartime in
dustrial experience had proven the
fallacy Of the assumption tat Ne
groes and whites could not work
together tremendously.
Rev. Kelly told of the bitterness
and disillusion Of young Negro
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-01-04
Housing for MinOrities
Gets Some Consideration


ASHIN GT0N, D. c.
(NNPA).-A certificate designed
to insure housing for racial minori-
ties under the $191 ,90O,O 900 housing
appropriation act recently passed
by Congress has been attached to
the application blanks for Federal
Aid in providing housing facilities
for veterans and servicemen and
their families.
The certificate must be signed by
all local and state agencies and
educational institutions applying
for such aid, the National Housing
Agency announced last Wednesday.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-01-04
Lawmakers Learn Facts at Hearing:
Mayor Humphrey Asks
Council Committee Back
City FEPC Measure

Mayor Hubert H. Humphrey in a frank appeal to the
ordinance and legislation committee Of the Minneapolis city
council Wednesday afternoon pressed for passage of his city
Fair Employment Practices bill against discrimination in
poymen because of creed color The bill had been
drawn up in his Office and submitted BY him 70 the
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-01-04

Elmo Jones arrived in the city
Tuesday, January !, 1946, from
Honolulu. He Is stopping at the
home Of Mrs. Lottie Hyde, 1882
Clinton Ave. Elmo has been a
civilian employee with the Navy as
keeper Of the time clocks.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-01-04
FEPC Unfair to Whites,
Means Senator BilbO
With New Fight Ready

WASHINGTON, D. c. CNNPA).-Congressiona leaders
have decided to press for action President Tuman egs
atve program Congress returns January IA
from its holiday recess.
Included in this program legislation create perma
nent Fair Employment Practice Commission on which north
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-01-04
Bishop Gregg
Is Married
In Missouri

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Bishop,
John A. Gregg, presiding bishop of
the fourth Episcopal district, was
married here Monday, Dec. 81, to
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-01-04
Woman Struggled Aboard Ship;
NAACP Demands Coast Guard
Probe Captain MuIZac's Role

WASHINGTON, D. CA request that full investga-
be made the incident reported from Marsees Novem
Der 1924 in which Captain Hugh Muzac of the Liberty Ship
Booker Washington accused of trying to smugge
German into the United States has been eegaphed
TO Admiral Joseph Farley Of the United States Coast Guard
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-01-04
Band Leaders Join Forces
To Protest Kansas City
Beating of Cab Galloway

NEW YORK-Throwing the full weight of their prestige
and popularity into the mounting of protest the
brutal treatment accorded Cab Galloway in ansas City at
the hands of special cop last Saturday night three Of the
nations top bandeaders Cootie Williams Erskine Hawkins
and lucky Mnder have called Kansas City officials TO
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-01-04

Rev. H. C. Boyd, pastor of st.
Peters A. NJ. E. church, Mime
apolis, went to Waterloo, Iowa,
Tuesday, January l, to officiate at
q funeral.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-01-04

Mr.. and Mrs. Tyler J. Howell,
2207 Elliot Ave-, have received
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-01-04

word that their son, Pfc. Richard
D. Howell, has recently been pro-
NOTED to sergeant.
Evening star., 1946-07-03
Jarvis Theater
Opens Season
With Comedy

In selecting Enchanted April" as
the Jarvis Repertory Theater's in
itial summer offering, Mr.. William
Jarvis seems to have chosen well.
Kane Campbell's play is one of
those light British comedies that do
not tax any of your faculties on a
hot night (Which Monday certainly
was). And it is an affair which
manages to promote a goodly share
of laughter even when performed
by students of, rather than finished
practitioners of, the dramatic arts.
The Jarvis cast makes Enchanted
April" moderately amusing sum-
mer evening, all right, but you never
will lose sight of the fact that these
are young people dressed up and
play-acting.
Best Of those performing Mr..
Campbell's tale about four London
women of disparate viewpoints on
life who share an Italian castle for
a month perhaps is Elaine Adams
1t Is Miss Adams task to be one
of those unconsciously irritating
women and she manages most OF
the time to be just about as pain
fully irritating about her gushing
as a woman can be. Others in the
cast, all. performing with a certain
efficiency, are Madeleine Raven De-
lin Rudd, Elsie Turner, Louis Mintz,
Orville French, James Eberly and
Mary Flaten. Mr.. Jarvis directed
the comedy, in a handsome setting
designed and executed by Frederick
Holcomb, jr.
The group will stage five more
plays this season at its summer the
ater at Georgetown and Sonoma
roads, in nearby Bethesda, Md, with
a mystery thriller entitled Double
Door,, scheduled to open July is.
TT NJ
Evening star., 1946-07-03
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time of Showing

Stage.
National-"Voice of the Turtle:
$3.50 pm.
Screen.
CapitOl-"Two Sisters From Bos-
tom; l0:45 am, 1:35, 4:25. tbs and
10 pm. Stage shows: 1885, 3:45,
$50 and 9:20 pm.
Columbia-"A Might in Casa
blanca; II am, 12:;40, 2::30, 4:25,
6;15, S:05 and s:55 pm.
Earle-"The Bride Wore Boots:
II am, lis, $3.50, $50, 7::35 and
9:45 pm.
Hippodrome-"Cri and Punish
ment", AIS and 7:55 pm.
Keith's-"Without Reservations:
1l:55 am, 2:20, 4:45, 7:15 and $40
pm.
Little-'Laura":: 1920 am, 1::25.
3:35, $40, 7:50 and 10 pm.
Metropolitan-"Gilda";; 1880 M,
l, $40, $40, 7:30 and 9:40 pm.
Palace-"The Green Years; lilo
Evening star., 1946-07-03

industry, are out to demolish the
star system of the movies. They ever
believe in stars, as witness the as
signment of Stewart to the major
role in the company's first Offering
1t is just that they do not believe in
stars first and exclusively.
In Libertys setup writer's come
first, than which nothing finer could
happen to members of the story
telling profession.
X \ x X
Liberty, the Hollywood equivalent
of the Playwrights' Company in the
legitimate theater, is quite easy in
its mind about being able to get
any stars it may want for its product.
The films top-f1ight players, them
selves, at least the ones gifted with
reasoning powers, have few illusions
left about their ability to perpetually
survive bad pictures, which mean bad
stories. They do not always know a
good film story when they see one.
Between two stories, one good and
one frightful, they might even make
the wrong judgment. But they are
under no misapprehensions as to the
fundamental importance of good
stories.
Liberty's policy of story-before-
stars carries with it, so far as name
performers are concerned, the sure
guarantee that the Messrs. Capra,
Wyler, Stevens and Riskin do know
something about dramatic values in
the tales they will select to tell.
Each has been uniformly successful,
when he has been able to exercise
his own judgment, in choosing a
story which the public found enor-
mously worth hearing, and the direc-
tor worth making. In other and
more familiar words, each has
proved that his screenplays could be
both artistically and financially
successful.
That knack is one of the happiest
any producer was ever able to lay
before a star as an extra added in
ducement to work for him.
One of the favorite anecdotes his
friends invariably recall of Capra is
that the picture of which he thought
the least among his productions was
both an artistic and boxoffice tri-
umph. That was Lost Horizon"
which he directed for Columbia
when he was its ace picture maker
Capra enthusiasts somehow have a
way of remembering it over 1T Hap
pened One Night" "Mr. Deeds Goes
to Town." Lady For a Day" and
several others which the director
himself prefers greatly to Lost
Horizon" They not only remember
it in detail, but manage always to
tell him how vividly.
He is as likely as not to startle
them with the remark:
Il am glad you liked 1t. I didn't,
myself"
In placing story value before star
brilliance, Liberty's array of colonies
and lieutenant-colo none had
lower rank in the Army, would abhor
the notion that it implied a dis
respect for actors. In fact, each of
the three directors is specialist in
as nearly perfect casting as the
movies ever achieve
Every role in every picture they
have made, and will make. is as
carefully cast as the top one is in
the average directors screenplay.
Its a Wonderful Life" Capra's
immediate product, reflects this pre-
else taste perfectly. 1t represents
virtually roster of the movies best
character players, such group as
Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell,
Evening star., 1946-07-03
Prayers to Be Offered
For Philippine Republic

Prayers for the new Philippine
Republic and its people will be Of
fered at three Independence Day
services in Washington Cathedral
tomorrow.
The Very ReY John Wallace Suter.
dean of the Cathedral, also will offer
prayers commemorating the 10th
anniversary of the United States at
holy communion, 7:30 am, at noon
intercessions and evensong, pm.
Evening star., 1946-07-03

be the cardinal principle of Liberty's
policy. Stated in three words, that
policy is:
Story before star"
* *
That does not mean that Liberty's
four bright minds, as bright as any
four ever brought together in the
Evening star., 1946-07-03
New Shrine Member
Boards Plane in Chains
By the As.oeioted Pies,

SPOKANE. Wash.-City Purchas-
ing Agent I. S. Fetterman, going
through Shrine initiation just be-
fore flying to Chicago, had a chain
and strong lock draped around his
neck.
Escorted to the airport. he ex-
pected release from his bonds be-
fore boarding the plane, but no.
body seemed to have the key.
Mr.. Fetterman got as far as the
Minneapolis Airport before he
got mechanic to snip the chain.
Evening star., 1946-07-03

Henry Travers, Todd Karns, Frank
Faylen, H. B. Warner, Samuel S.
Kinds, Beulah Bondi, Word Bond
and Gloria Grahame. Not to men
ton Cor almost not to mention)
Donna Reed who will have the FEM
inine lead opposite Stewart.
* X
Liberty's other two story-before-
star productions on the immediate
schedule include a romantic comedy
drama by Joseph Fields, "One Big
Happy Family" and an original by
Lou BresloW and Joseph Hoffman,
ut Must Be Love"
The stars will be there, the public
can be certain, but the story will
have been there first.
Another of the blessings of Liberty.
Evening star., 1946-07-03

am, 1:45, 4:20. 6:55 and s::35 pm.
Pix-..Screams in the Night; 2:10,
4:35, 6:55 and 900 pm.
Trans-Lux-NeWs and shorts.
Continuous from 1915 am.
Evening star., 1946-07-03
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1916.
New Liberty Films to Bring
Blessing of Stories First
By joy Cormody

Smith the Hollywood
often mistaken
Liberty
Frank Capa George Stevens William
kn as executive producer The excingy
1ncudng that part of which the first picture will
be CapraS ITS Wonderful Life
that under Liberty the public
the fall
Evening star., 1946-07-03

A few short pages of the prospec-
tus gives Lou, Smith that is, a
chance to handy about some quite
dramatic names. as the paragraph
above might indicate.
But, there are lot of followers
Of the cinema who will appreciate
that 1t stresses, instead, what is to
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-03-23
Bar Week To Stress
Constitution Fight

CHICAGO.-(ANP) - National
Bar Association week, April Z to
13, announced here last week, will
stress the need for an unrelenting
fight of Negroes to bring about
enforcement of the United States
constitution, particularly the 18th,
18th and 10Th amendments, accord
ing to Earl B. Dickerson, associa-
ton president.
In a proclamation designating
the week, Dickerson said April z
through Is was chosen because
that period includes April 9. the
81st anniversary of the surrender
of Gen. Lee to Gen. Grant at APP
pomattox. an event which led to
enactment of the amendments
largely benefitting minority
groups.
The theme of Bar Association
week activities will be that Amer
lea cannot continue .half-free and
half-slave," Dickerson said in q
statement which pledged the asso-
citation to fight uncompromisingly
for the enforcement and nipple
mentation of the constitution and
the amendments. The theme will
be carried out in public meetings,
radio programs, speeches, and