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1 Multitude Licgns, oars 4Jov As Marian Anderson Chooses God's Great Outdoors To Rebuke Racial Prejudice 7 'Tr 'T 5: 7 a VWy. ISip; hp0' i JUWl fo) ah 3tr and Tears Bfifizle as Dijnitaries and the JLowly of a firpat Democracy Join in Withering Reboke to DAR. By EIHJAR T. ROUZEAU Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, D. 13 Tke Great Llari i Anderson took a modest: Sunday afternoon to 3 i3 renin? applause of i.T.irers.

four fifths of pra v.h:te. who had just sing in ine snaaow erected here to who gave his life jives. when Miss Ander womfn were men just stood 20 kid at each other nf ed to say some not find words jay it. Even hil in understand that dutiful and moving' tmz, Queen to Hear Miss Anderson Sing D. Apr? FrankHn D.

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I a I Un Tmtzxm. VOI XXX No. 15 r7 The "Feast of the Passover is celebrated by the Commandment Keepers, Harlem's sect of Black JewsT at their synagogue, 87 West 128th street, 2ew York. Rabbi W. A.

Matthews, head of the sect, stands second from right, reading from the Torah or Jewish Bible. Others in the photo are Rabbi E. M. Gilliard. Rabbi Charles Hurrde, and David Gunter, Belice Alddes, Qisnes Joseph, Julius Wilkins, Leroy Samuel.

Bertram Morton, Arthur Matthews and Robert Steele. Photo by Morgan Smith. I 'Color Line Crumbles As Airwaves Bear Voice Into Millions Of Homes Although 75,000 persons jammed the park surrounding the Lincoln Memorial to hear Marian Anderson, there is scarcely any way to estimate the untold millions of whites and blacks who listened, and were softened, by this great singer as a symbol of the aspiration of her race. Into millions of homes, over the vast network of the National Broadcasting Company, she sang her message and racial prejudice was tethered by awe. LINCOLN SETTING MEMORIAL PERFECT FOR MARIAN'S VOICE Crowd Gives Lesson in Tolerance to World Ridden with Persecution of Racial Minorities.

By LOUIS LACTTER Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, D. Apr, 13 Marian Anderson, world famed contralto, whose voice is such as is "heard only once in a hundred years," sang from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at 5 o'clock Faster Sunday afternoon. Forming a fitting setting for the i occasion, in the background, was refBied to permit her Emancipator, under whose ruJa her forebears, were freed trom ooaa age. In the foreground was a galaxy of notables and music lovers, estimated at String a lesson in" tolerance to a world ric den with persecution of racial mV norities. SKCT.

ICKES PRESENTS JCABXAX TO AUDIENCE The free concert waa arranged after Howard University was unable to secure a suitable hall in which to present Miss Jbt ZJaagtUer th AratTtran Advj So sin in their Constitution Hail becau.se of her color. The university declined to accept the use of the Central High School auditorium because of the humiliating conditions under which the Board of Education' restricted the use of (Continued on Pag Four) MaraUne Is So Haady Use Moroline to soothe minor skin irritations, minor ourns. bruises, chapped skin. Onry 5c for indmiiL I ven sreater economy a 1 10c rue. Get sow white Morolin.

llmn Leader la Adverzz, esd lh i COURIER COVERAGE ill ji On i the Washington. D.C Concert Brought Courier Blen from Everywhere Two Pages Of Pictures BOIy Rowe Scurlock Studio International 5ews Photo Service. Stories With Color Facts T. Rouzeaa William Forsythe Lotus Lautier (Tarn to Pages 4. 13 and S4) SATURDAY, APREL 15, 1933 71 Notre Dame Follows Action of Wisconsin in Withdraw in; After Race Athlete Is Barred.

COLUMBIA, Mo Apr. 13 A flood of protests by students of, the University of Missouri prompted Notre Dame officials to withdraw their track team from the proposed triangular meet here on April 15. including Wisconsin, Notre Dame and Missouri, and sounded the final note in the case mai note in tne case of Ed Smith. sssrsrisssswrs. Roosevelt Missouri demanded leave home from the meet Wisconsin last week refused to bow to the "jim crow" tradition of Missouri IS the school which was recently rebuked by the U.

S. Su preme Court in the celebrated Lloyd Gaines case. Branding the demand to leave Smith home as "unreasonable and undemocratic" Missouri students flayed the practice of prohibiting Xegro athletes from competing on their campus, and openly demanded that the meet be called off. Adding more heat to the flery issue, the students orjrantxed and sent a formal request to Notre Dame asking that the Irish follow in Wisconsin's footsteps and withdraw their team. MARRS XEW TREND IX SOUTHERN SCHOOLS It is probably the first time in collegiate history that students of a southern school have rebelled against officials for attempting to ban Negroes from competing on their campus in athletics.

Declaring that they disapprove of barring Negroes of other schools from competing at Mis soari, the students openly thrashed the policy and administrative leaders for their stand in the case. The student reaction was an unexpected blow to Missouri authorities and places the administration in an embarrassing position, Student leaders pointed out that their teams compete against N'e eroes in contests away from the campus, and that in barriny them from contests at Missouri is an insult to the respective university, as well as the athlete Although Notre Dame gave no definite reason, it was understood that the Irish decision to with IContinued on Sports Pngtt DAVIS now A FIRST LIEUT. WASHINGTON. D.O. AprU Second Lieutenant Benjamin O.

Davis. Jr, Infantry, was nominated by the President last Monday to be a first lieutenant with rank from Jur.e 12. next. His nomination was included in a batch of promotions in the Regular Army, which President Roosevelt, sent to tha Senate, Von't Be Home When D. A.

R. Reception Is Held at White House April 21. WASHINGTON, Apr. 13 Mrs. Franklin D.

Roosevelt admitted to the press Monday that she had resigned from the Daughters of the American Revolution i because of the society's ban on Marian Anderson and added further that she would "not be at home" when the annual reception for the D. A. R. is held at the White House April 21. Muse Ousted, Report LOS ANGELES, Calif, Apr.

13 Reports leaking from backstage at the Mayan theater imply that Clarence Muse has been ousted as business manager of "Run Little OiIT lun" because of a controversy with the players and charges that he was too strict. Mr OK 1 III III! III! I I I I II I I I I xi U1 PKICE TEN' CENTS JVL At lJt, Uarian Anderson pours hlf white, which Joined with the forth her soul in son; in, a thrill 1 great singer in a testimonial to ins; rebuke to American racial pre the free play of a peoples renins judice before 73.000 at the Lincoln for fir play in the American Memorial in Washington on lZas democracy. Photo of Mis Arider ter Sunday. At right, a part of son by Scar lock; of crowd by I lithe vast assemblage, more than ternational News Photoa. r3 5 nvl Missouri Legislature Has Adopted Segregation Policy JEFFERSON CITY, Apr.

13 In implied retaliation against the fight being made by Negro citizens for equal educational opportunities, the lower house of the state legislature has adopted a segregation policy. During the recent consideration of the Lincoln university appropriation, a committee of club women was placed hi the southern section of the gallery. New signs on the doors now read "For Negroes Only" and Tor Whites Only." Terin. Governor Bach Teachers Pay Boosts NASHVILLE, April 13. (By S.

S. Morris for ANP) Addressing 1.500 educators, teachers and visitors here attending the 17th annual session, Tennessee Negro Education Association at Tennessee A. and college. Gov. Prentice Cooper as principal speaker at the morning session on Friday, pledged his aid in securing salary increases for teachers throughout the state.

Gov. Cooper also stated there would be no cut in A. and ap 'To Go Or Not To Go' Three t. 5. Supreme Court Justices; A Cabinet Members, 28 Congressmen Attend I but as a Political Issue, Anderson Concert Was 'Load ed9 with Dynamite, WASHINGTON, Apr.

13 More than 200 sponsors of Marian Anderson's Easter Sunday afternoon concert. Including three So preme Court justices, four members of the Roosevelt cabinet, 28 members of Congress sod other notables from the North and the South, sat in front of Miss Anderson between the Lincoln Memorial and the Reflecting PooL Monday afternoon Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen in their syndicated column, The Washington Merry Go Round." recorded: i concert of Marian Anderson, Negro contralto, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial Dry Eczema Misery wu a tough break for several Black and White Ointment re 1 mj, lieves discomfort of itching, burn presidential hopefuls, rnr. soreness of dry eczema salt t0 go or not to that was rheum) and externally caused acne pimples, bumps blackheads). I the question: and Harold Ickes, Larze size, 25c.

Trial. 10c Use who had invited the singer to nsc with Black and White Skin Scan 25c l0c sizes). Get it. today. I propriatioti and told the teachers to urge that students think of themselves as citizens of Tetsaes see and America.

The chief executive of the State was intrtxroead by A and President William J. Hale. Commissioner B. O. Dvrxxn.

another featured speaker introdecsd Dean George V. Gore, Jr, assured tho big that hs would do all ia hts power to pro mote the best interests of tho States colored teachers. Mrs. Nannie H. Burroughs also spoke.

Just Couldn't Be A Gsnllemcn, Even For A Day WASHINGTON, Apr. IS Senator A. J. EHender, Louisianan, proponent of vicious opposiUon In the filibuster against, the aaU lynching, bin last year, arosw 1st the Seoale last week; to object against orders for guards and levator operator1 at the Lincoln fCwttww 4 on, rays ronr) Drops la Each KoserQ This 2 drop treatnaent of Penetro Nos Drops helps to relieve that stuffy congested fee Una of a head cold, lakes breathing easier. Penetro Nose Drops contain ephedrine and othr balanced medlcatinn.

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