St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-03-18
BRIEF
NEWS
SCENE
High and LOwdOwn"
BY BAILEE THOMAS

NATIONAL SCENE: The big
news is the beating Truman's civil
rights program is taking in the
Senate. Southern Dixiecrats aid
ed and abetted by two score north.
ern Republicans have almost
sounded the death knen of any
appreciable civil rights Legislation
in the S1st Congress. Only hope
is intense drive by majority
groups to put heat on the COP
and some starch in Truman's
Democratic senatorial leaders in
the Senate. g.. DIR. Ralph Bunche
will receive the Saith SpingarT
medal for the highest achieve.
ment during the preceding veal
or years in any honorable field Of
human endeavor." The citation
reads: For his priceless contri'
button to the settlement of armed
conflict in the Middle East anC
his enduring patience, industry
courage and selflessness in attain
ing that goal"
Other Spingarn medalists are:
Harry T. Burleigh, w. f. b. Du
Bots, the late George Washing
ton Carver, Charles Gilpin, Rich
ard Berry Harrison, Anthony
OvertOn, Marian Anderson, Paul
Robson, Mary Bethune, A.
Phillip Randolph, Walter White,
Percy Julian, DIR. Louis I.
Wright, DIR. Charles Drew and
Gov. william HASTE.
LIBEL: William Kirby, director
of the Kansas City office of the
Missouri State Employment Dept
thought he was talking to a white
social worker over the phone
when he said, you know all Ne.
groes will steal" Kirby is a for.
mer board member of the K. c.
Urban League.
LUCK: Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin
Hubert of Philadelphia won $685.
900 in cash and prizes when they
hit the jackpot two Sunday nights
ago on the stop the Music" radio
show, One prize was a 1919 auto
mobile!. Those who claim they
know, claim the new Secretary OF
Defense Louis johnson is not SC
hot on Indignation of Negroes in
military services. FOrrestaI, the
man he succeeds, was responsible
for indignation in the Navy, which
has gone along beautifully with
out any serious problems. The
National Urban League press ser
vice says retired world champ
Gene Tunney claims THE u. S. is
losing an estimated purchasing
power through income and job OPP
portunities withheld from Ne
groes." To Twin Citians Tunney's
assertion is true, but old stuff To
them. Charley Horn, local indus
trialist, said the same thing and
more fully two years ago at the
banquet given in his honor by
Twin Citians. 1t bears repeating
again and again.
Senator Warren G. MagnusOn
Dem, Wash.) has introduced a
bill which would outlaw segrega-
ton Of passengers in interstate
travel. =. . The Republican NEW
YORK HERALD TRIBUNE said
of the filibuster, The obligation
is plainly on the Republicans in
the Senate to stick to their prin.
ciples and shun the Democratic
dissenters. The Dixiecrats didn't
win the November elections; even
the Democrats ought to know that
much. Someone should send
Ed. Thye that HERALD TRIB-
UNE editorial.
OTHER NATIONAL NOTES;
If you care, Marva Louis is doing
all right after going under the
knife in a Mexico City hospital. e. .
Efforts by newsmen travelling
with Truman in Florida to gel
him to talk about civil rights were
unavailing. Jim Edwards, who
played in the North Star Drama
Guilds Deep Are the Roots" Is
in Minneapolis being screened in
the chief male role in a picture
titled Home of the Brave" BY
Screenplays, Inc. The picture is
labeled as an anti-Negro prejudice
film, and Is slated to be released
by United Artists. Several OF the
top film firms are considering
filming Negro problem movies
similar to "GentIemen's Agree,
ment" Charles ii. Houston
Washington attorney whom this
sheet thinks would make a good
U. S. Supreme court justice, is be,
ing doomed for the appointment
Of commissioner for the District
Of Columbia
The CALL newspaper of Kan.
sas City is carrying on a cam.
paign against homicides among
that city's Negro population. FIT,
teen years ago in a similar cam.
paign the paper reduced Negro
homicides by 9OT6 in a drive to
send killers to the electric chair.
ELKS: The Midwest EIks Asso.
citation will convene in Oklahoms
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