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Newspaper
The Union
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1951
Page
1
A reflective verse questions when clergy and educated voices will recognize the urgent need and raise their best effort to meet it. The speaker urges timely moral leadership and collective responsibility across society.
Ohio Senator Robert A Taft campaigned across Greensboro on a three day North Carolina tour with stops at Guilford College Greensboro College of UNC and a WFMY TV forum He urged federal aid for good schools and urged no federal requirement to end segregation while blasting Truman policy and defense conduct during a Southern push for the Republican nomination.
W. K. Curfman executive director of the Anti-Tuberculosis League thanked the public for cooperation in the Christmas Seals sale. While weekly receipts lagged behind earlier days, he urged a renewed response to sustain TB prevention activities and meet last year’s totals.
Poland prepares to celebrate Miners Day on December 4 honoring workers whose rising output made Poland Europe's largest coal exporter. Polish coal now reaches Asia, South America, Africa, and Western Europe, meeting fuel deficits. From 1925 to 1939 Poland rose to Europe’s third biggest exporter, then after World War II became Europe’s top supplier. During the 1951 European coal crisis Poland provided unlimited bunker coal to all shippers.
In New York stronger state discrimination legislation is planned for the next session with bi partisan backing from Citizens Union American Jewish Congress and the NAACP. George H Hallett Jr introduced the measure at the Manhattan Council of the State Commission Against Discrimination where Elmer Carter serves. President Truman urged Americans to support universal rights and freedom, while a partisan attack on Republicans and the South is noted. Mrs Barkley and Mrs Ridgway visited Tokyo amid coverage of wounded Ethiopians in an Army hospital.
Miss Grace Hale of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America spoke at Tennessee State University and I University about planning families. The two day Institute on Courtship and Marriage aimed to educate the campus on wholesome family life, discuss personal relations, and highlight new medical options for delaying pregnancy and spacing births for health and other reasons.
Key West reports President Truman showing no concern as protests mount against his civil rights program. His order strengthens a federal unit to combat discrimination in government contracts and subcontracts. The White House signals no retreat from fair deal measures amid southern opposition.
World famed contralto Marian Anderson signs for CBS TV debut on Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town December 23. She is mid sixteenth concert tour in America and will perform Ave Maria plus a spiritual. Her career includes White House visits, honors, and praise from Toscanini who called her voice once in a hundred years.
Zora Neale Hurston writes in this week's Saturday Evening Post that Taft can win the Negro vote. Hurston notes strong appeal for his anti poll tax record, fair employment practices, housing and rent programs, and a Taft Hartley clause protecting a Black worker regardless of union rules. Ohio Negroes reportedly enthusiastic, crediting him with rebuking Mississippi Senator Bilbo as a political symbol.
Mayor Chelsie J. Senerchia returned from Nassau to push steps against a wave of dynamite attacks in Miami. A $5,000 reward and $10,000 investigative grant were approved, with police chief Walter Headley coordinating with the sheriff. National Guard units remain stationed, and a ministerial meeting urged armed protection for synagogues as investigations continue.
In Ashville North Carolina the dry town uses two Bibles labeled Colored and White for court oaths. Negro defendants must touch the Colored Bible with their left hand while placing their right palm on it to take the oath, reflecting alleged unequal justice in bootlegging cases.
The United Fellowship of Protestants unveils a youth fellowship emblem to be worn with dogtags, depicting a soldier and a WAVE walking toward a cross. It complements chaplains' services and aims to shape U S church futures through military personnel participation.
President Truman pushes to end discrimination in defense job hiring, widening rift with Dixiecrats who recall his 1948 Civil Rights stand. While he cannot issue and enforce every order, his frank statements show a bold stance against States Rights and Southern Democrats. Dabney.
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