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aD » ao WFO 100-8878 It was reported in the Washington Afro-American on June 30, 195 that LESLIE AsPERRY, Legislative Representative of the NAACP had stated that action ’might be expected on the Federal anti-lynching bill soon after Congressional action was completed on the PEPC legisletions He added that a drive would be instituted to secure. signatures to a discharge petition to bypass the house judiciary committee as soon as the FEPC issue was settled, Since FEPC supporters were also supporters of the anti~lynching bills the anti~lynching bill has been in the house judic committee since January 24, 1945- To date the discharge petition has 125 of the necessary 218 signatures. No organized effort has» been made to secure by-partisan support for a similar bill in the Senate. Lary It was related in the Washington Post on July 1, 1945 that on June 30, 1945 the NAACP expressed alarm over the appointment of JALWS F, BYRNES as Secretary of State, In an association statenent it cabled BYRNES a man "whose public record shows almost unbroken hostility toward Negroes and deplored the fact that he now might possibly succesd to the Presicency. The NAACP charged that if BYRNES became President it "would be a calamity and would virtually destroy the last vestige of hope among one«tenth of the nation's populations" On Thursday July $, 19,5 the speaker at the Sylvan Theater on the Vashingten Vonument Grounds was Commancer HAROLD E. STASSEN speaking on the United Nations Charter. This address was sponsored by subject organization as well as many other organizations. ee Confidential Informant T=, advised that the UFWA had placed for distribution on July 7, 1945, 130,000 leaflets to announce a Wass Meeting of the FEPC would be held Sunday afternoon July 8, 1945. It was planned to distribute these leaflets on Saturday July 7th on various street corners through the city and also in front of government buildings and this was done as planned, The leaflets extended an invitation to the meeting and at the end of the leaflet there was set forth a list of the sponsors of this mass meeting which included the DC Branch of the subject organization. - On July 8, 1945 a membership meeting of the DC Branch of the NAACP Was held at the Baptist Church at 19th and I Street, MWe The prograz included the reports from committees on the organization's activities for the past Six months or the first six months of this year, Sec It was announced on June 28, 1945 by WILLIAM WHITE, Executive ace ty of subject organization that Mrs. FRANKLIN DicR OSEVELT had ee een a Madd an f Win serving in September, 1915. o 100 -1/39 -53-226 ae 3 etme ee wt a ee ee ee INS ae Tin tn ET a