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‘There was some CQUCern EXpLess- sd that as a Southern colonel, there night be discrimination against Ne- ra women. Major Hobby promptly inswered the question by saying hat Negroes would be recruited in nroportion ta their number in the BD onulation, Out of 450 officer can- idatea in the first group of train- 40 were Negroes. mor for x there was cla d the ant—some aske f Mrs. Mary McLe Rethune, a New Deal friend—but he appointment never Came, An hen Negroes complained _of seg- egation of WACS, and uring the first two years ‘to seni Negro WACS overseas, rder that went out to break u the first interracial company | 0 ACS, Col. Hobby kept @ discree nee, LATER on, Negro assist :ppointment 0 The latter included the people present and timers. - * IT WAS a very fair. The liquidators joaked buck nostalgically to their own younger day's, when the League played an important role in | some of the great historic strug . gles of women-in garment, , clothing, textile and other fields. - - They recalle the women in labor who received their first. encouragement and training ja WHUL circles. ‘ But they con-° cluded that everybody has got ee coe day and an orgau- times. younger some old sathetic af-' od) Mrs. di only by its in of failure dj Americans: and of an Pp {| graph every Sh ee eae eee Tes GOge SEDSTSSSOCOORSSS rt iiditors and oF Une alivanll . aide to the “bexus Stale Banking ra Publishers Association. A director t y of the Texas Medical Center. Co- Department, later boasting Liat sf had recoditied these laws almost editor and publisher of the Houston Post. Director of a: ‘Texas. radio station. A member of the Houston Committee for Education in Alco- holism, the Americar Heart Asso- ciation, the Houston Junior League | | single-handedly. OF MARRIAGE lost no "time in idle dreaming, but ran for the Texas State Legis- lature in 1930 when she was 24, ted by former ABLE age, she —and so on, tor another dozen as-| while being cour saciations. ‘fexas Governor William Pettus Hobby, 26 years her senior, They * ONE public figure has said of, Hobby that “the inefficiency + administration is equalled humanity.” made by Jus- chairman of od the next year, an became one of the edi- husband’s influential the Houston Post. it was a straight f the Republican were marri in 1931, she turs of her newspapers, From there on, road to the-arms © ric Action, Administration and. a jub rt the in her' Capitol She wrote a book an parlid- r bio-! mentary law; rogressed higher in hen’ the ranks of the Houston Post, fi- becoming executive vive- (Continued on Page 19) qongeee cncesansaEseses of he This observation, eph L. Rauh, Jr. for Democ have its roots childhood. According to he Y. at the age of 10, w most little girls are skipping rope, nally Oveta Culp liked to sit in ine fib-! woncccessavaessscccosonsoonasuocosseeseeeee’® hnorary — presi- interest” and wha held that , if true, may t ization, tno, must die. Some af Schneiderman, these spokesmen for the WTUL = dent of the WTUL, an ILGWU leaders “are born, you cant have hugged the organization employee, brought the report © truin thei.” . tightly in recent years as though recommending iquidation ve- it was theic personal property, cause “they don’t need us any: THE MINORITY of younger They jealously guarded it from *. more” and “let's step out grace- people, oF those with inodern | intrusion of younger people. fully.” ‘minds, held that there is @ Labor marched by then. She was supported by Paulene greater need for women’s Of: The actual pronouncement of Newman, honorary vice-chair ganization in U trade union the death .sentence wpon the man, and by Sadie Reich, a ~ field than ever bdcause the prob- WTUL came fom the leader- other TLCWU | full-timer who lems that called the WTUL into ship of the International Ladies blamed the women in unions for existence are basically still here.” Carment Workers Union. Rose “lack of initiative and lack of : Tw men who took part im ° the discussion 9p nosed =the recommendation to issolve, A statiman of the Sleeping Car 1 of the elders Porters was critica ith the for not keeping up W times. . “We said; “The young of today are the leaders _of tomorrow, If trey aren't coming forward then we ute ta blane.” The second, a member of = the ILCWU's education depa.tment,- was so emphatic against dis- solution that an administration heckler shouted, “What are you doing, inciting the member- . ship?” When the votes were counted bury the League, d many abstained. What the latter group was really insisting upon was not the oon- tinuance of the League 5 it been, but for an organiza (Continued on Page 14) 37 voted to 14 opposed an