Truman to Address National Council of Negro Women
President Truman will address the Fourteenth Annual Convention of the National Council of Negro Women in Washington from November 15 to 18. The event includes an International Night with nine honorees and a public opening, plus embassy open houses on November 17 and a public dinner on November 18.
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President Truman
National Council
Washington
D. C
Truman
National Council of Negro Women
Council
Mary McLeod Bethune
Interior Department
White House
Roosevelt
India
Israel
Haiti
NCNW
President Asked To Reject New Army Plan
Grant Reynolds and A. Philip Randolph urge President Truman to overrule Secretary Johnson and disapprove the new army program arguing it fails to eliminate segregation. They say the policy does not benefit Black service members or advance civil rights and the president has a moral duty to reject it. A defense spokesman says Negroes may join White units under certain conditions to counter earlier assurances.
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NEW York
ANP
Truman
Johnson
Grant Reynolds
A. Phillip Randolph
Louis Fights for Money Not Title Says He Retired
Louis announced he returned from retirement for money not a title comeback. He denied plans to fight for the championship again and listed several eastern exhibitions to boost boxing’s appeal. Manager Jake Mintz pushes a possible comeback culminating in a title bout with Ezzard, aiming for a million dollar gate.
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San Francisco
Joe Louis
Louis
Ezzard
Mintz
General Marshall and Dr Mays to Speak at NY Symposium
General George C. Marshall will speak at a symposium on America's stake in higher education for Negroes at Hunter College Auditorium on November 29 at 8 30 p m Dr Benjamin E Mays president of Morehouse College will be the other speaker Mrs Mildred McAfee Horton former WAVES head will preside The United Negro College Fund and several New York college clubs back the event with invitations from 22 East 54th Street.
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New York
George C. Marshall
America
Hunter College
Benjamin E. Mays
Morehouse College
Atlanta
Georgia
Mildred McAfee Horton
Wellesley College
The
WAVES
Patterson
Mays
General Marshall
East 54Th Street
Futre
The Worlds Largest Tanks Advertsized in Opa Locka
An advertisement urges readers to contact I. S. Marshall in Opa Locka for septic tank services. It notes eight years of experience and a license for Dade County, Florida, claiming to offer the world's largest tanks.
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I. S. Marshall
Opa Locka
Fla
Dade Coun
Chef among five killed in Rock Island wreck
MEADE Kansas ANP reports five people died when a Chicago bound Rock Island train derailed after hitting a washed out road bed. Among the deceased was Joe Robinson a 62 year old Negro chef. Four cars and a diesel unit left the rails. two overturned and partly submerged in a water filled ditch.
Youngest Editor To Omaha Paper
Clyde O. Jackson age 21 becomes editor of the Omaha Guide on November 1. He has worked with the Chicago Defender and the Houston Informer and is a Tuskegee Institute graduate, titled the youngest editor of a Negro newspaper.
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Omaha
Omaha, Neb
ANP
Clyde O. Jackson
Omaha Guide
Mr. Jackson
The
Chicago Defender
Houston Informer
Tuskegee Institute
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Edith Sampson
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