The Omaha guide., 1946-06-29
Takes
National
Spotlight
Waller Whife
Heard on WOW

Highlights of the 9th Annual
Conference of the National Assn
for the Advancement of Colored
People was broadcast over WOW
at 11:15 a. m. on Friday, June Is.
Walter White, secretary of the
association spoke on Race and
the Hope of Peace.
NEW YORK, June PHILIPPIANS
for the 37th Annual Conference
of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie to be held in Cincinnati. Ohio.
from Wednesday, June 26th, to
Sunday, June 3Oth, have been COM
pleted, it was announced TODAY.
With more than 1000 delegates
representing branches in more
than 35 states expected to fill Gin
cinnati's Emery Hall, this wears
Conference is expected to be the
most important in the Associat-
ions history.
The program of the NAACP
meeting reveals an impressive
group of nationally famous spea-
kers. Included in the group sched-
uled to address s~essionse are Ches-
ter Bowles, Sterilization Director;
Robert w. Kenny, Jr., Attorney
General for California; Walter
Reuther. UAW-CIO chieftan; Fl
orello LaGuardie, UNRRA head;
Governor William HASTE Of the
Vergin Isles; Charles H. Houston;
Earl B. Dickerson, and Walter
White, Secretary of the NAACP.
The nation press and radio will
provide full coverage to the add
resses delivered by the speakers
appearing on the convention plat
form, with several coast-to-coast
network outlets scheduled as well
as local radio coverage. Network
officials were waiting to clear the
schedules for broadcasts by La
Guardia, Governor HASTE, and
Chester Bowles. One of the most
the broadcast interview with Wal
ter White on the ABC Headline
Editions, Wednesday, June 26th
from 7:00-7:15 PM, EST. ABC's
New York outlet is WIZ.
Local programs scheduled will
be a WKRC interview with Wal
ter Reuther and Charles Houston
time to be announced: WLW, June
Both. with Governor HASTE to talk
over the program Let's Be vi
gilant". WCPO plans to meet
Chester Bowles at the airport with
a portable microphone when he
arrives in Cincinnati. Presentation
Of the Springarn Medal to Thur
good Marshall, NAACP Chief
Counsel, for his brilliant achieve
ments in Supreme Court victor
les in civil rights cases will be
made by Attorney General Kenny
and broadcast over WCPO outlet.
The four-day Conference which
will deal with problems affecting
Negroes, especially in the fields
Of voting, housing, employment,
and veterans affairs, will be con-
cluded Sunday, June Both, with a
gigantic outdoor rally in the I'm
iversity Of Cleveland's Nippert Sta
dunn. Chester Bowles will speak
at this meeting. One of the guests
on the platform will be Colonel
B. o. Davis, Jr., World War III
flying hero. commander of the
famed 332nd Red Devils overseas.
Colonel Davis new command, the
477th Composite Group at Lock
burn AirfieId, will launch several
squadrons of the fast BPS light
bombers to stage an impressive
air show and salute over the Sta
dunn. Later a chorus of 1000 vol
ces will be heard by the delegates
and visitors to the huge arena.
NAACP officials attach more
than usual significance to this
this years Conference and consl-
| der the post war years the most
| crucial in the long struggle of Ne
groes for full citizenship. 1t was
| pointed out that the Conference
comes at a time when the Asso-
citation is engaged in n Of its
! bitterest battles, the fight to free
81 Negro victims Of Tennessee
/ fascism and race hatred. Delegates
to the Conference will hear the
entire story from an eyewitness
and Investigators, among them
Mrs. Gladys Stephenson, mother
Of navy vet James Stephenson.
Mrs. Stephenson and her son were
involved in the alteration which
exploded into the so-called riots
in Columbia, Tenn. last February,