National Music Festival offers 10000 prize in New York
The 1948 49 National Music Festival invites vocal quartets trios choirs and groups both attached and unattached to churches schools and fraternal bodies to compete in two categories spirituals jubilees and camp meetings plus folk songs semi classics and popular. Awards totaling 10 000 will be distributed to final prize winners with preliminary elimination concerts planned in fall under the National Music Festival Society supported by Mae Gale Ink Spots Golden Gate Quartette and others. Contact 48 West 48th Street New York City contest director B J Murray.
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Music Festival Society
Mae Gale
Ella Fitzgerald
Ink Spots
Golden Gate Quartette
America
Triog
National Music Festival Society
West 48Th Street
New York City
B. J. Murray
Swimming safety in Cincinnati pools post Fourth of July
Dr Carl A Wilzbach says Cincinnati has 95 supervised artificial pools with filtered dorinated water equal to drinking water. The Health Department notes the Ohio River remains heavily polluted and unsafe for swimming, urging the 200000 residents to use safe city pools during the holiday period.
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Cincinnati
Carl A. Wilzbach
Commissioner of Health
Laboratory and Sanitation Bureau
Health Department
Ohio River
Unemployed woman over union membership wins benefits
A Columbus woman who lost her job after joining a union was found by the Bureau of Unemployment Compensation Board of Review to have been discharged without just cause. The unanimous decision declares her eligible for maximum benefits under the law based on the evidence considered.
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Columbus
Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Board of Review
Discrimination Stings New York Youth Trip to Washington
A New York school safety patrol medal ceremony led 51 children to plan a Washington trip. In New York the group faced no segregation, but in Washington four Negro children would be placed in Jim Crow hotels. The trip was cancelled, highlighting national civil rights failures. CIO and FEPC activists urge action, stressing voter mobilization and education as the path to equality.
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New York
Automobile Club of New York
New York City
Washington
C.I.O
Liberia Foundation heads Liberian Foundation leadership change
Dr. Edwin R. Embree, formerly president of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, is elected president of The Liberian Foundation in New York. Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. announces the move as the foundation plans health welfare and education programs in Liberia. The Liberian Foundation received 10 percent of The Liberia Company stock as its initial grant.
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Edwin R. Embree
The
Julius Rosenwald Fund
Liverian Foundation
New York City
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Liberia Company
the Foundation
Dr. Embree
West African Republic of
Liberia
Liberian Foundation
Liberian Organization
Foundation
Will They Resign Columbus Police and Fire Threaten Mass Walkout
Ohio CIO predictions proved true as about 200 city policemen and firemen announced plans to resign on July 8 if a $50 monthly pay boost is not granted after a payroll tax campaign. They were urged to support the tax and were promised city officials would address wages if voters approved it.
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Columbus
Ohio C.I.O. Council
Lavelle
Officials Defy Dixie By Continuing Scout Training Camps
New York officials of the Girl Scouts refuse to be deterred after a June 11 raid on a Bessemer Alabama training camp. The band of masked men forced the camp to break up, but the national office says training centers will continue nationwide. Two white instructors were searched and residents warned that “negroes and whites living together” were disliked. The camp housed Negroes except the two instructors. The national policy remains to serve all members and extend membership regardless of race or creed. Cloves are the dried flower buds of a myrtle species grown mainly in the East Indies.
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New York
Girl Scouts
Bessemer
Ala
Disbarment Hit New York Lawyer Mrs Speaks
New York social worker and former Republican congressional candidate Mrs Sara Pelham Speaks has been disbarred by the Appellate Division for failure to perform legal services. She plans to appeal and seek reargument. Born 190? she studied at New York University and once taught in Orangeburg.
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New Yeerk
Sara Pelham ‘Speaks
Portia
Congress
Harlem
Supreme Court
New York
Speaks
New York University
Agricultural and Mechanical College
Orangeburg
S.C
Colored Women’s Activities Committee
Republican National Committee
A. C. Powell
Association of the Bar of the City of
President Johnson Speaks on Civil Rights at Institute
Nashville delegates at the Fish Race Relations Institute urged immediate Federal action on Civil Rights to restore global confidence. Dr. Charles S. Johnson of Fisk University argued democracy is weighed by real acts such as repealing the poll tax, ending segregation in the armed forces, and enacting federal fair employment practice legislation.
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Nashville
Tenn
Robert K. Carr
President Truman
Committee On Civil Rights
Johnson
United States
Unesco
Institute
State of the Union at Hipodrome Theatre
MGM Liberty release directed by Capra stars Spencer Tracy Katharine Hepburn Van Johnson and Angela Lansbury in a Pulitzer based comedy drama about a presidential candidate torn between ideals and two women. Eight Oscar winners headline a strong cast with Capra earning multiple awards.
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Spencer Tracy
Katharine Hepburn
van Johnson
Angela Lansbury
Adolphe Menjou
Lewis Stone
Capra
Tracy
Miss Hepburn
Catholic Bishop Objects to Oath for Democratic Primaries
In Charleston South Carolina Archbishop Emmet M Walsh the Catholic Bishop objects to a Democratic Party primary oath. The oath forced voters to endorse racial segregation and oppose FEPC and federal employment laws, risking disenfranchisement for those who disagree. He urged rescission of these provisions as an unjust infringement of citizens rights.
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Charleston
S. C
Emmet M. Walsh
State Democratic Committee
FEPC
States
Neil Scott Announces 1948 Amsterdam News Welfare Fund Music Festival
Neil Scott announces the 1948 Amsterdam News Welfare Fund Music Festival to be held at Lewisohn Stadium on August 11, honoring W. C. Handy Irving Berlin and Bill Bojangles Robinson for their contributions to American music. The excerpt also notes Scott as executive director and cites his PR and race relations work.
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Neil Scott
New York City
Amsterdam News Welfare Fund
Lewisohn Stadium
W. C. Handy
Irving Berlin
America
Bill ‘Bojangles” Robinson
Scott
Handy
Berlin
Mr. Robinson
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