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FAIR
FEARLESS
ONE OF
The
PAUL ROBESON IS PRESENTED
IN MAGNIFICENT PROGRAM
Paul Robeson appeared in con
cert last night in Memorial hall.
It is as idle to talk of vocal tech
nique when speaking of Robeson’s
voice as it is to analyze the sound
of pinetrees when the winter wind
moves through them. The pines
just sing, and so does the Negro
baritone. His voice pours forth
rich and authoritative and seem
ingly inexhaustible.
Now this is not to say that Robe
son in any way lacks intelligence,
for his interpretation of songs has
back of it much culture. This in
addition to a warming emotion.
Moreover he is a man of convic
tions and fearlessness. He sang a
Spanish Loyalist song in which he
let his audience learn of his small
opinion of Franco. And later, be
fore giving as an encore the Rus
sian war song, “Border Unto Bor
der,” he spoke of Russia as “our
great ally in war who will be our
great ally in peace.”
Robeson sang, first, Old English
and Old French folk songs. He
sang from Moussorgsky and pre
sented two Shakespeare songs set
to music by Rober Quilter. And, of
course, he gave a group of Negro
folk songs including “John Henry,”
dark with pathos, and “Great Gif
tin' Up Mornin’ in which his ac
companist assisted with voice as
well as piano. This “Giftin’ Up
Morning’ was both a sobering and
joyful occasion in its picturing by
the singers, for they were telling
of the “last day.”
Robeson sang **Deep River” to
the great delight of his audience,
and was generous with encores.
Indeed, he brought the music of
three songs with him when re
sponding to an encore and then
sang the three. Included among
these were “David, Play On Your
Harp,” “Water Boy,” in which he
aroused the sympathy of his audi
ence for the chain-gang Negro. He
made the audience laugh with
Kern’s “Ah Still Suits Me” and
rejoice in the might of his voice
as he interpreted Kern’s “01’ Man
River.”
It must be said that Lawrence
Brown as accompanist did much
toward making the concert enjoy
able with playing to which he
brought the sense of rhythm pe
culiar to his people.
At the very close of the pro
gram Robeson who has played
widely in the title role of Shakes
peare’s “Othello,” gave Othello’s
appeal just after* he had killed
Desdemona.
TABERNACLE BAPTIST
CHURCH NEWS
The Tabernacle Baptist Church
and parsonage was the scene of sev
eral social affairs last week.
Wednesday evening, Rev. and
Mrs. J. Welby Broaddus entertained
in thejr beautiful home with a tur
key dinner for the Official Board
members and their wives and the
local ministers of the church and
their wives. Guests numbered 30
persons.
Thursday evening, the Evening
Star Club members enjoyed a delici
ous chicken dinner in the social
rooms of the church. Many invited
guests were present.
The Missionary Society of Taber
nacle will hold its regular monthly
meeting Sunday at 3:30 at the
church. Mrs. Mattie Owens, newly
elected president, will preside.
Rev. J. A. Bullard, formerly As
sistant Chaplain with the U. S.
Army in the South Pacific, will be
guest speaker at Tabernacle Sun
day evening at 7:30. Rev. Bullard
will relate some of his experiences
in the South Sea Islands. The meet
ing, sponsored by the Pastor’s Aid
Society, is open to the public. Mrs.
Ethel Owings is president.
In connection with the returned
Chaplain’s address, Mr. Geo. Alvin
Taylor will give Echoes from the
Church Convention recently held in
Richmond, Ky. Others who also at
tended the Richmond meeting will
speak. The Church Trio will sing.
“Family Night” will be observed
Sunday, Jan. 20 at 7:30 P. M. at the
Tabernacle Church, at which time
all members of individual family
groups will sit together. Rev. Broad
dus Will deliver a message along the
lines of Fellowship, Unity and Serv
ice.
Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Bullard of W.
5th Street had as their guest during
the past two weeks, Mrs. Julia Wil
liams of Hemphill, W. Va. Mrs. Wil
liams is the sister of Rev. Bullard.
The Montgomery County Mis
sionary Union will meet Monday
night at 7:30 at the home of Mrs.
Birdie Holloman at 1218 Home Ave.
Mrs. Anna E. Moore is president. k
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Telephone Tie-up Continues Second Day
WILSON ASKS BETTER AGREEMENT
AS GM REJECTS PAY SUGGESTION
C. E. Wilson, president of Gen
eral Motors, today made the fol
lowing statement:
“The fact-finding board’s report
recommending a wage increase of
191/2 cents per hour and the rein
statement of the wartime labor
agreement between General Motors
and the UAW-CIO, which after
careful consideration was cancelled
by General Motors Dec. 10, 1945, is
unacceptable to General Motors in
whole or in part as a basis for set
tling the UAW-CIO strike of Gen
eral Motors plants.
“The General Motors offer to in
crease the wages of all hourly
rated employes an average of 131/2
cents per hour or $1.08 per day
still stands. The government has
stated that living costs are up 33
per cent over 1941. Our offer
when combined with other in
creases made since January, 1941,
fully compensates for this accept
ed increase in the cost of living and
would raise the average employe’s
rate of pay more than 33 per cent
over what it was in January, 1941.
“The additional six cents recom
mended by the board members is
based on certain assumptions by
them which in the opinion of Gen
eral Motors are unsound. The
board tried to justify 'this amount
in part by devious take-home pay
arguments. Actually the recom
mendation is based on the assumed
ability of General Motors to pay
this excess wage. The board made
its own forecast of the future op
erations of the business and its
profits.”
DUNBAR WINS, PLAYS
RICHMOND TONIGHT
Dunbar high school* took the
measure of Lima last night by a
42-31 count in the Dunbar gym.
Herring and Guy led the parade of
point making with 10 points each
while seven others also were repre
sented in the scoring column. Brat
ten of Lima registered 16 points
more than half the total for the
Lima aggregation.
Coach White’s boys trailed 14 to
7, but scored 18 points in a big
third quarter rally to go ahead and
stay in the lead. Dunbar plays at
Richmond, Indiana, tonight.
In the preliminary game the
Dunbar faculty was defeated by
Jones Brothers, 36-28.
CONSTRUCTIVE
PROGRESSIVE
WORLD
Early resumption of long-dis
tance telephone service through the
Dayton exchange appeared unlikely
today as striking Western Electric
company employes continued to
picket the Ohio Bell building.
The 38 male pickets kept more
than 500 telephone operators from
their posts yesterday. The oper
ators, members of the National
Federation of Telephone Workers
(NFTW) agreed to respect the
picket line established yesterday
morning by their affiliated union,
the Association of Communications
Equipment Workers (ACEW) rep
resenting the strikers.
Only acute emergency toll calls
are being handled by a skeleton
staff of Ohio Bell Telephone com
pany supervisory employes, W. H.
Wallace, commercial manager said.
“These emergency operators are
too busy to keep an accurate tally
of completed calls,” Wallace said,
“but they estimated they were
handling about 10 per cent of re
quests received.”
The exchange normally averages
about 11,500 long-distance calls
daily. If government intervention
results because of the nationwide
tieup, the strikers probably would
return to work, D. K. Barkeley,
Dayton ACEW representative, in
dicated.
Unable to place toll calls by
phone, Daytonians swamped the
Western Union office with mes
sages. Because of the heavy traf
fic load, some telegrams were
being delayed from one to two
hours, it was reported.
With a complete staff on duty,
Emmert did not anticipate any
serious delays in the transmission
of wires.
Meanwhile United Auto Workers
(UAW) members here expressed
disappointment over General Mo
tors corporation’s refusal to accept
the recommendation of President
Truman’s fact finding board.
Preparations for strikes at Frig
idaire, Delco and Duriron foundry,
which would affect more than 20,
000 Daytonians, continued Last
night
“Unless we receive last-minute
orders, United Steelworkers of
America (USW), CIO, at the Dur
iron foundry will strike at mid
night tomorrow,” Joe Kreutzer,
president of USC Local 3320, said
Delco and Frigidaire locals of
the United Electrical, Radio and
Machine Workers (UE), CIO, are
prepared for their strike, sched
uled for 6 a.m. Tuesday, union offi
cials reported.