Show V JIM CROW THEATER Truman Crosses Picket LineIn Line LineIn In Capital Racial Dispute w WASHINGTON AS ran Jan T n. n 23 UP Jp- Jp FEight Eight pickets failed to keep the Truman family and their party from a p-erf p performance of or Blossom Time fine at the National theater Wednesday night The Committee for tor Racial Democracy De De- c in the Nations Nation's Capital promptly promptly- issued a statement declaring declaring de de- de- de claring daring Charles Ross Rosa White House HoUe p pr press ss secretary and the secret t service had ad sought Bought to effect the sneak entrance of the president of the United Stat States s into a Jim Crow theater theater The Tho pickets protes prote's protesting ng refusal of the National to admit Negroes were herded to one side aide by police along with others on on the sidewalk when th the president Mrs Truman TrUm n their daughter Margaret and a group of her friends arrived Without looking looking- at t the seven se sign carrying white men and Negro the Truman walked In through the main entrance They slipped unobtrusively ln into o eighth the over over- ture turO was In the dimly lighted theater Few In the audience audience audi audi- ence enco were aware of t their presence The returned to the White Ho House se Immediately after the show By then the pi pickets had gone The committee stat statement V ment sold said the group sent the president a telegram earlier in the day lug ing him to refrain from patronizing ing lug the tho National and m make ke public his agre agreement ment with the committees committee's committees committee's commit commit- tees tee's stand ag against racial discrimination nation 1 In the District It added No reply has been received from the White House as yet L chairman of ot th the committee said he had no way of ot knowing whether the president nt himself had received the telegram or knew of the pickets I 1 sincerely hope Ransom said lt that list t the president e t himself Is not aware of ot the implications of this rather ludicrous Incident and the Com committee will win give him every very opportunity opportunity opportunity op op- op- op to explain it to the public public public- r V.- V. V V |