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HELEN JACKSON CLAYTOR
Attractive native Minnesotan, nationally known Young Women’s
Christian Association worker and national board member, who will
deliver the principal addresses at the annual meetings of the Twin
City branches of the YWCA. The St. Paul meeting will be held Mon
day, Jan. 28. On Tuesday night, Jan. 28, she will speak at the Minne
apolis “Y” annual meeting.
Stassen Goes All Out
For FEPC in Strong
Address in Washington
Washington, D. C. (By Wire) —In a strong address to a
Mayflower Hotel dinner meeting of 50 people representing 55
national organizations, Harold Stassen, former Minnesota
governor, declared “public opinion clearly supports FEPC
legislation.”
One of the two principal speakers at a dinner sponsored
by the National Council for Perm
anent FEPC, Stassen hit the
present Senate filibuster asserting
“if long continued the filibuster con
stitutes obstruction by minority,
which defeats the effective func
tion of democratic government.”
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A telephone call to this paper
from Washington, D. C., indicated
that the large distinguished group
at the dinner was impressed by
Stassen’s address. Jonas G.
Schwartz of the Minnesota Council
for Fair Employment Practices who
called the newspaper apparently
was satisfied with Stassen’s stand.
Samuel Scheiner
Discharged From
Army; Is Here
Cpl. Samuel L. Scheiner is now
back in civvies. Most well informed
Twin City people know Sam
Scheiner as the energetic executive
secretary of the Minnesota Jewish
Council which for several years
under his direction carried on a
forceful campaign against racial
and religious intolerance in this
area.
Scheiner was in the U. S. Army
for over two years serving in the
Pacific areas. Wherever he went
he preached the Gospel of inter
racial goodwill.
Mr. Scheiner’s plans for the
future had not been definitely de
cided upon at the time he was
interviewed.
Janet Simms, young daughter
of Mrs. Juanita Simms, 854 Bryant
Ave. N., was rushed to Minneapolis
General hospital last Thursday,
Jan. 17, where she was operated
on for acute appendicitis. She is
reported to be improving.
Funeral Rites Held
For Emma Brown
Funeral services for Mrs. Emma
Brown, 1001 Bryant Ave. N., who
died Saturday, Jan. 19, were held
Wednesday, Jan. 28, from the
Woodard Funeral Chapel with Rev.
R. W. Kelley officiating.
Mrs. Brown is survived by a son
and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Jacob Quarterman; granddaughter,
Katherine Harper; three brothers,
King, George, and Mose Nesbitt;
one great granddaughter and a host
of friends.
Interment was at Crystal Lake
cemetery.
Dr. Charles Wesley
Speaks at St. James
On January 27th
Dr. Charles Wesley, president of
Wilberforce University, who will be
one of the guest speakers for the
State Pastor’s Conference which
convenes in Minneapolis, Jan. 28,
will be guest speaker at St. James
A.M.E. church Sunday, Jan. 27, for
the Educational Rally Day services,
both morning and evening. Dr.
Wesley is one of our most out
standing Negro educators and rep
resents the Alma Mater of many
of both cities. The public is in
vited to attend one or both of these
meetings.
In political season and out you
always know where this paper
stands editorially. Backed by no
political party or alignment it gets
its vitality and integrity from the
people it serves.—adrt.
Pilgrim Gospel Chorus
Presents Singspiration
Sunday Night Jan. 27
The Pilgrim’s Gospel Chorus is
presenting a “Singspiration Twi
light” Sunday, Jan. 27, at 5 p. m.
at Pilgrim Baptist church, St. Paul.
Rev. L. C. Harris will be the
guest speaker. Mrs. L. C. Harris
and S. A. Ford, will be the guest
soloists.
The spirituals, which will be
sung by the chorus, will be entirely
new.
New American
Legion Post Is
Formed In St. Paul
Wednesday, Jan. 23, a group of
St. Paul World War II vets went
into the American Legion. They
have formed a new post. This or
ganization, the members say, is not
restricted to any one race, creed or
color, but is open to all veterans
who are eligible. Its present mem
bership is interracial.
The temporary organization was
formed in November, by Kenneth
O. Wilson, Orrington Hall, Jr., and
Alexander Jordan, who decided it
was of “pertinent value to the re
turning servicemen to have a vet
erans organization in our immedi
ate community.” Hallie Q. Brown
was the first meeting place. The
purpose of the group was to
acquaint servicemen with the ex
isting benefits, such as educational
opportunities, housing opportuni
ties and general civic matters.
Now in operation is a housing
committee, which is working close
ly with the Mayor’s Housing Com
mittee of St. Paul.
The vets group has been instru
mental in placing many veterans in
jobs of their choice.
There are now 78 paid up active
members. The executive commit
tee consists of Jordan, temporary
chairman; Hymen Cohen, secre
tary, Hall, treasurer; Wilson, chair
man of publicity; Ben Tilson, chair
man of the housing committee;
James Coleman, chairman of the
social committee and Andrew
Hartshorn, chairman of the educa
tional committee.
No name had been given the new
Legion post at press time. There
is some sentiment for naming it the
Dorie Miller post, in honor of the
Negro seaman who distinguished
himself at Pearl Harbor.
North High Lad
Wins Gymnastic
Honors in Meet
Stanley Stone, a member of
North High Class D Gymnastic
team, which won the, Class D
Crown of the City High School
gymnastic meet at the Y. M. C. A.
Monday afternoon took third place
in the city meet with a score of
269. He is the first Negro in 12
years to make the team. Stone
also took first place in the all city
high bar and mats.
Stanley is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Melvin Stone, Sr., 858 Bryant
Ave. N.
Vinftorg to the Sc. Paul office thb week :
Mrs. Jc*b Water*. Til Rondo Ara.: Mr.
Orrinftoa C. Hall. Jr., 727 St. Anthony
Are. ; Arthur Sternberg. 1711 James Are. ;
W. J Roberta. S7t Albemarle; H S. Ratb
*eb. 70S ManhaU Are ; W. W. Wimberly.
CM Rondo Are.; A. Cheater Bryant, 712
I«hhart An.
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Granger Presented Navy
Award by Forrestal
WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA)
—Lester B. Granger, executive sec
retary of the National Urban
League, was presented the Dis
tinguished Civilian Service Award,
the Navy’s highest civilian award,
by Secretary of the Navy James
Forrestal in a surprise ceremony
at the Navy Department last Tues
day.
Here to address the Voteless
League of Women Voters at the
Mayflower Hotel, Mr. Granger had
no knowledge that the presentation
was to be made. He had simply
been asked to visit Mr. Forrestal
in his office.
The award was given Mr. Gran
ger for “exceptionally outstanding
service to the United States Navy
as special adviser to the Secretary
of the Navy” from July 1 to No
vember 1, last
Haitian President Says
Life Not Endangered
MIAMI, Fla. (NNPA) Elie
Lescot, deposed president of Haiti,
arrived here January 14, with his
family of eleven members to save
his country from bloodshed.
Upon arrival here, Lescot told
reporters that his ultimate return
to his country depended entirely
upon the will of those who gain
power there.
He said his journey to the United
States and his resignation as presi
dent “were of my own free will.”
He added that he never was in
danger during the recent internal
disturbances there and that the
trouble could have been put down
by the national guard.
U. S. Will Probably
Recognize Haiti
WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA)—
The State Department disclosed last
Tuesday that recognition probably
will be extended to the new gov
ernment set up in Haiti by a mili
tary junta which took control after
deposing President Elie Lescot.
Pauli Murray Named
To California Post
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (NNPA)
—Attorney General Robert W. Ken
ny of California* recently announc
ed the appointment of Pauli Mur
ray as a deputy attorney general
in the Department of Justice at
Sacramento.
Miss Murray, a graduate of How
ard University Law School and win
ner of a Rosenwald Fellowship in
1944-45, recently received a Master
of Laws degree from Boalt Hall of
Law, University of California, and
was admitted to the California Bar.
This marks the first time a col
ored person has been appointed to
the attorney general’s office in Cal
ifornia. Miss Murray was sworn
in on January 2. ’
Pauli Murray will be remembered
for her unsuccessful fight some
years ago to be admitted to the
University of North Carolina which
bars colored students and for an
equally unsuccessful effort to enter
the graduate division of Harvard
Law School which bars women.
Negro Firms Plan
SBOO,OOO Expenditures
WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA)
—Forty-two colored business firms
will spend more than 1800,000 for
new structures and the repairs and
replacement of old fixtures in 1946,
according to a survey made public
by the Commerce Department here
Wednesday.
Seven of the larger newspapers
and publishing companies plan ad
ditional construction and remodel
ing at an approximate cost of
1200,000.
Six financial institutions report
building construction in progress
amounting to $400,000.
Several of the 11 insurance com
panies reported on have architec
tural designs and blue prints for
additional floor space amounting to
$350,000. Definite plans for expan
sion into new territories have been
made by these companies.
In Atlanta, a colored realty com
pany already has completed one
third of a low cost housing project
for colored people.
World War H Vet
Sunday Salon Artist
Harold Howland, a World War
II vet, and a former member of
the Hallie Q. Brown House Glee
Club and Concert Group, will be the
guert artist at the regular Sunday
Evening Salon, Sunday, Jan. 27, at
8:15 p. m., at Hallie.
Mr. Howland is a member of the
Camphor Memorial Church choir in
St. Paul.
The Sunday Salons are open to
the public.
OFFICERS OF PUBLISHERS’ GROUP MEET
These very solemn looking gentlemen in a St. Louis Dispatch photo are some officers of the Negro
Newspaper Publishers' Association which held a combination regional and executive committee meeting in
St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 17, 18 and 19. Seated (from left), are C. A. Scott of the Atlanta Daily World, only Ne
gro daily newspaper in the U. S. Mr. Scott is an association vice president; Frank Stanley, Louisville De
fender, president, and Dowdall H. Davis, Kansas City Call, vice president; standing: J. E. Mitchell, St
Louis Argus, co-host to the meeting; A. G. Shields, Arkansas World, viee president; Cecil E. Newman, St.
Paul Recorder-Minneapolis Spokesman, executive committeeman, and H. H. Murphy, Baltimore Afro-Ameri
ican, secretary-treasurer. The reason the gentlemen look so solemn, wo are told, is because they had a lot
of work to do at the meeting.
Man Charged With
Slashing Woman’s Hand
Sylvester Griffin, 56 years old,
260 H Rondo Ave., was held for
police investigation Thursday, Jan
uary 17, after Fredrica N. James,
27, of 322 Rondo Ave., reported
that Griffin slashed her on the right
hand with a butcher knife, when
she was in his apartment Wednes
day night.
She was given treatment at
Ancker hospital.
Helen Claytor To
Speak At Annual
St. Paul ‘Y’ Meet
Helen Wilkins Claytor will be the
guest speaker at the St. Paul Y. W.
C. A. Annual Dinner Meeting Mon
day, January 28, at 6:15 P. M. in
the Y. W. C. A. Auditorium. Her
subject will be “That This World
Under God May Have a New Birth
of Freedom.” The meeting is open
to all men and women interested.
Reservations for the 75c dinner
should be made by calling CE. 8741
before Saturday at five o’clock.
People interested in hearing the
talk and unable to come to dinner
will be admitted without charge at
7:30 p. m.
Mrs. Claytor is a native of Min
nesota. She is a graduate of the
University of Minnesota, a member
of the Y. W. C. A. National Board,
a specialist in the field of inter
racial relations. She visited St. Paul
in 1943 with Dr. Juliet D. Bell to
study interracial practices and poli
cies in this and eight other cities
scattered through the country. The
findings and recommendations of
this Interracial Practices in Com
munity Associations study will be
acted upon at the National Y. W
C. A. Convention March 2-8 in
Atlantic City.
Business of the annual meeting
will include the report of the re
sults of the annual election of the
board of directors. Candidates are:
Mrs. Harold Blodgett, Mrs. John
Burr, Mrs. Henry Cowie, Mrs. L. B.
Da Ponte, Mrs. E. W. Davis, Mrs.
Thomas F. Ellerbe, Mrs. Frank
Eustis, Mrs. William Koch, Mrs.
C. W. Mowery, Miss Lulu Scott,
Mrs. Walter Ridley, Mrs. Charles
J. Turck, and Mrs. J. Russell Wig
gins. Retiring officers of the pres
ent board include Mrs. Robert O.
Sullivan, president; and Mrs. Wal
ter Driscoll, vice president and
chairman of the program commit
tee; and Mrs. Edward Gray, secre
tary. Mrs. Sullivan will give the
Report of the Board of Directors.
Musical selections by Hollis John
son of the Macalester College Mu
sic Department will be a feature
of the program.
Six-Year-Old Phillip
E. Chandler Dead
Phillip E. Chandler, six year old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Eli Chandler,
(Edna Akins), 525 L’Orient St,
died on New Year’s Eve.
Private funeral services were
held in the chapel of the Minnesota
hospital.
Surviving relatives include two
sisters, Shirley and Gloria, and the
other relatives are: Mr. and Mrs.
Phillip Akins, Mrs. Abbie Chandler,
Mrs. Myrtle Harris, of Topeka,
Kans.; Mrs. Georgia Bryant, Mrs.
Beatrice Jones.
The Hallie Q. Brown Sunday
afternoon Forum which was
scheduled to be held Sunday af
ternoon at 4, will be postponed
because of the Paul Robeson con
cert.
The Forum will be held Feb.
3, at which time there will be a
panel discussion. Louneer Pem
berton, Lathrop Rogers, and S.
V. Owens, will discuss, “What is
Propaganda Doing to the Ne
gro?”
Since Feb. 10 is Inter-Racial
Sunday, there will be no Forum.
Governor Ed. Thye
Pilgrim Baptist
Sunday Afternoon
The program of Pilgrim Baptist
Church for February, Brotherhood
Month, will begin with an address
by Governor Edward J. Thye, on
Sunday, February 3, at 5 p. m.
Major Samuel Ransom, chairman
EDWARD THYE
of the Social Action Committee of
Pilgrim, secured Gov. Thye whose
theme will be “Understanding.”
Talented artists of the city will
appear on the program with in
strumental and vocal solos.
This is a highwater mark for the
numerous programs presented at
Pilgrim under the sponsorship of
its Social Action committee. Mem
bers are Major and Mrs. Samuel
Ransom, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Moore,
Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Sides, Mr. and
Mrs. B. F. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs.
I. M. Dorsey, Mr. and Mrs. James
Murray, Mmes. Annie Foster, Effie
Wills, Jeanette Knott, Blanche
Goins, Roxie Anderson, Theressa
Herring, Misses Lillian Downey,
Leatrice Dodd, Evelyn Kelly, Mr.
S. Edward Hall, Master William
Lawrence, Jr., and Howard Hunt,
Jr.
The public is invited to hear Gov.
Thye.
Chas. D. Fist
Elected President
Wheatley Board
The following officers were elect
ed at the annual meeting, Jan. 16,
of the Board of Directors of Phyllis
Wheatley House: Charles D. Fist,
President; Robert Charlton, Ist
Vice President; Dr. W. D. Brown,
2nd Vice President; J. E. Stoddard,
Treasurer; Wendell C. Jones, Re
cording Secretary; Raymond W.
Cannon, Corresponding Secretary,
and Mrs. John Bridge, Assistant
Treasurer.
Dr. Brown, Mrs. Paul S. Curry,
James A. Davis, Lorin Hord, Julian
Keiser, Mrs. John Mathys, Mrs.
Hugh McDonald and Miss Esther
Sherwood were elected to the board
for a term of three years.
Patrick Called Out
Of City—Won’t Speak
Rev. Boyd Patrick of Madison,
Wis., who was scheduled to speak
at Wayman A.M.E. church, Minne
apolis, Sunday, Jan. 27, was called
out of town unexpectedly.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—(NNPA)
—John H. Burr, president of the
Colored Intercollegiate Athletic As
sociation and physical director of
Howard University, said he felt it
would be a loss not to have colored
athletes compete in the national
meet but declined to say whether
or not his association would send
or bar its athletes in the meet.
A good investment—a subscrip
tion to this newspaper. CALL,
Midway BJ4o.—edvt
NAACP Finally
Elects Board
Of Directors
The Minneapolis branch of the
NAACP met January 20 at the
Phyllis Wheatley Auditorium to
elect the members of the executive
board.
Complete list of officers and
board members for 1946 are, Albert
Allen, president; Mrs. Mae Mar
shall, vice president; Clarence
Hughes, second vice president;
Laura Gaskins, secretary, and Er
rol Fossett, treasurer.
Board members: Martin Brown,
Mrs. Irving Blumberg, Curtis Chiv
ers, Harold Combs, W. H. Crump,
Mrs. Paul S. Curry, Rev. R. W.
Kelley, R. B. Lynch, Mrs. Beulah
Mitchell, Cecil E. Newman, Ashby
V. Gaskins, Allie B. Glenn, Herbert
Howell, W. C. Jones, R. A. Skinner,
Henry Thomas, J. T. Wardlaw,
Clifford E. Rucker, Mrs. Mary Jane
Samples and Jonas G. Schwarts.
S. C. Legislature
Defeats Anti-Poll
Tax Bill 69-40
COLUMBIA, S. C. (NNPA)
The South Carolina House last
Tuesday defeated a bill which would
have abolished the poll tax as a pre
requisite for voting in this state.
The vote was 69 to 40.
Opposition to the repeal measure
was led by Representative Calhoun
Thomas, who charged that abolition
of the levy would serve “to ram
the Negro down our throats.”
He told the House that, "through
the medium of the poll tax and
adroit maneuvering of election of
ficials, we have kept the Negro
from voting in our county of Beau
fort.”
"The Negroes are now trying to
vote, and I live in the black belt
of the state where they dominate
two to one. I have seen Negro post
masters in my county, and I have
seen Negro constables—and I am
only 42 years of age.
Fears Two Psrty System
“I know South Carolina has been
ridiculed throughout the nation for
its poll tax on general elections,”
Calhoun continued. “But if we make
it too easy for the Negro to vote,
we are going to have a two-party
system.
“We have got to keep the Demo
cratic party all-powerful. The poll
tax doesn’t keep us from voting.
We all vote in the Democratic pri
mary. The poll tax repeal bill
would serve only to ram the Negro
down our throats, and we want to
keep the white people in the sad
dle where they belong.”
Kid State of Stigma, Solon Asks
Representative Lewis Wallace, of
York, and J. Claude Fort, of Che
rokee, urged passage of the repeal
bill.
"I want to rid my state of this
stigma,” said Wallace, “this thing
that denies a man—white or colored
—the right to vote.
“A number of incompetent people
have held positions representing
South Carolina in Washington by
waving this flag of racial prejudice
before the people back home, by
stating they are protecting the
state against federal pro-Negro
legislation.”
Fort predicted the federal gov
ernment would abolish the poll tax
through congressional action and
that South Carolina should repeal
the vote levy before the federal gov
ernment steps in.
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala.
—(NNPA) —Tuskegee Institute,
whose women stars won the na
tional women’s track championship
last year, announced this week that
Tuskegee’s champions would attend
the meet and defend their title
against all comers.
Legion Women
Elect Cornelia
Bums Chaplain
Mrs. Cornelia Bums, 3313 Fourth
Avs. 8., was recently elected chap
lain for the Fifth district of the
American Legion Auxiliary of Min
neapolis, snd Mrs. Mae Stewart,
was again made chairman of the
scrap book of the Fifth District.
MINNESOTA
historical
bufhern Senators Stage
Filibuster Against FEPC
Consideration By Senate
By LOUIS LAUTIER
NNPA Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D. C., January.—Supporters of the bill
create a permanent Fair Employment Practice Commission
cided, last Friday, to try to hold the Senate in “continuous
ssion” in an effort to break the filibuster southern Demo
ats are carrying on against the measure.
At the same time, it was learned that Senator Robert A.
ft, Republican, of Ohio, may ——
Taft presented such a petition dur
ing the filibuster against the ap
propriation item for the wartime
FEPC and, rather than permit a
vote on cloture, southern Demo
crats agreed to give the agency
1250,000.
After a three-hour Senate de
bate last Friday on the motion of
Senator John H. Overton, Demo
crat, of Louisiana, to include in
the proceedings of last Thursday
the chaplain's prayer, Senator Den
nis Chaves, Democrat, of New
Mexico, one of the proponents of
the FEPC bill, announced:
“A bi-partisan Senate group
supporting this bill decided that
since the Senate took it up by a
vote of 49 to 17, a small minority
of the Senate could not be per
mitted to hold up action. To do
so would he a travesty on demo
cratic processes.
“This majority group will try to
hold the Senate in session con
tinuously urtil the filibuster is
broken.”
Opponents of the bill also or
ganised last Friday to block action
on the bill.
At a conference of southern Sen
ators, Senators Overton and Rich
ard B. Russell, Democrat, of
Georgia, were chosen co-leaders of
Southern Democrats. Senator
Overton said about fifteen South
ern Senators attended the meeting.
The filibuster last Friday was
set in motion by Senator Overton.
As he customarily does, Majority
Leader Alben W. Barkley, of Ken
tucky, asked unanimous consent
that the journal of the proceeding*
of last Thursday be approved with
out reading.
Overton objected, insisting that
the journal be read in its entirety
for corrections. The clerk began
reading the journal at 12:15. At
12:25 p. m„ Senator William Lang
er, Republican, of North Dakota,
moved that further reading of the
journal be suspended. Overton
again objected, and the clerk read
on.
John Crockett, 81-year-old clerk
of the Senate, finished th* reading
in an hour and a half.
Overton then offered a motion
to amend the jorunal by including
the prayer delivered by the chap
lain on Thursday. Debate on this
motion consumed the remainder of
the afternoon with Overton hold
ing the floor and refusing to yield
except for questions.
In order to make an observation,
Senator Millard E. Tydinga, Demo
crat, of Maryland, who voted "yea”
on the motion to take up the
FEPC bill, framed a 5-minute
statement in the form of a series
of questions. His final queation
was whether Overton thought it
possible to dispose of the FEPC
bill, "even though it should be
debated for the next thirty days 7 "
“The answer is ‘no,’ ” Overton
replied.
During their colloquy, Overton
complimented Tydings on the elo
quence and clarity of his interroga
tories and said that he jokingly
asked Tydings when he heard him
vote "yea” on the motion to take
up the bill:
“Alas, Millard, haa Maryland se
ceded from the Confederacy?”
In reply to Senator Chaves’ in
sistence that the trill be voted on
after ample debate, Overton ad
mitted that if the bill were pul to
a vote, it would be passed.
It was disclosed that Senator
James O. Eastland, Democrat, of
Mississippi, who began the fili
buster against the FEPC bill on
Thursday, had urged the pasaage
by the Mississippi legislature of a
"nullification proclamation,” if a
permanent FEPC is established.
In a telegram to Fielding Wright,
lieutenant governor and president
of the Mississippi Senate, and Wal
ter Sillers, speaker of the Missis
sippi House of Representatives,
Eastland said:
“It (the FEPC bill) violates the
Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
to the Constitution. Mississippi is
a sovereign state. May I respect
fully recommend that if the Fair
Employment Practice bill is
enacted into the law the Mississippi
legislators protect the sovereignty
of Mississippi and the liberty and
freedom of our people by the pas
sage of a nullification proclama
tion."
The filibuster against the bill
was begun on Thursday after a
motion to take up the measure was
approved by a vote of <9 to 17.
In a lit of strategy which eaught
oppoi,«nU of the measure com
pletely unaware. Senator Chaves
msde the motion. Senator Robert
A. LaFollette, Progressive, of Wis
consin, msde the point of order that
the motion wae not debatable be
cause it waa made prior to two
o'clock and after the cloeo of the
morning business.
Ths Chair sustained the rule and
a quorum was called for a vote on
the motion.
Senator Walter E. George, Deme
erat, of Georgia, criticised both
President Truman and the Demo
cratic party for bringing up tbs
FEPC bill tn a time of “crisis.”
“If this Is ell Harry Truman
has to offer,” said Georgs, “God
help the Democratic fvtf in IM*
and 1948.”
Senator Chaves said he beHevm
so thoroughly in the merits of the
bill that ho does not care who gets
credit for its passage.
Overton said he thought colored
voters had made a “bed bargain"
in voting the Democratic ticket in
recent elections in return for the
aid which has been given them.
By voting the Democratic ticket
in recent years, Chaves said, the
colored voter hod made possible
th* election of such Democratic
Senators as Joseph F. Guffey and
Francis J. Myers, both of Peanayl-
WASHINGTON, D. G, January
(NNPA) The roll-call vote by
which the Senate agreed last Thurs
day to take up the bill to establish
a permanent Fair Employment
Practice Commission follows:
FOR THE MOTION—4*
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Cks»« Manwam
Dowasr McCarr..
Oawr WiSkiiaii
O—Ht Mrifstae
Orwa Maad
Oritar Marra?
Hardaa Mnra
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Johaaoa «Ma) THlaoa
Republicans—26
Aikaa Hiakan looper
AuUn
“iSr kst-
Butlar Taft
Capahart Tobay
U-appar WWrry
Cordon White
Ferrwwm Wfkmt
Gumar Taw
Progressive—l
La Follatta
AGAINST THE MOTION—I 7
Johnston (& C.)
Andrew*
Bflbo
Byrd
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Fulbright Overton
Georg* Stewart
BUI
Republicans—2
BuehAeld MiUfliia
vania and Scott W. Lucas of Illi
nois.
“Were it not for the fact that
Negroes voted for them, and that
the Lucases and the Chaveses and
Myers and the Guffeys were
elected,” said Chavez, “I am afraid
the chairmanships of the stand
ing committees of the Senate would
be found to be in possession at
Senators on the other side of the
aisle.”
Senator Olin D. Johnston, Demo
crat, of South Carolina, predicted
that Just calling up the FEPC bill
“will cause race riots here aad
in other cities.”
Eastland complained that the
bill was unconstitutional because
it interfered with the right of pri
vate contracts.
Referring to members of a dele
ctation which had come here from
New York to "save FEPC,” East
land said the galleries were in
fested with Communists.
“If this is an American measure,”
said Eastland, “it should be dis
cussed before Americans in Use
galleries.”
Chaves replied that he did not
know whether the visitors in the
galleries were “Communists, So
cialists, Mississippi Democrats, or
New Mexico Democrats.”
When Chaves finished his ra
marks in support of the trill, Sena
tor James M. Mead, Democrat, of
New York, arose to speak tn behalf
of the measure. A moment later,
Eastland arose. Although East
land was still in his seat when
Mead addressed the ehair, Senator
W. Lae O’Daniel, Democrat, of
Texas, who was presiding, recog
nized Eastland.
“I wish to commend the occupant
of the chair for the operation of Ms
hearing devices,” said Mood, pro
testing again O’Daniel’e recogni
tion of Eastland.
nil and immediately launched
into a filibuster.