IOWA PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Des Moines, Iowa %$$ tender Des Koines, Iowi MM 271943 Ministers Protest Discrimination of WAACsjt Park In an effort £o find the source of the "order" which refused Negro members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps here (admittance to Riv-erviefW Park on May 16 when what was advertised at the WAAC Center as "Military Day," for all military personnel, a committee of ministers went out to Fort Des Moines WAAC Training Center this week for a con-I ference. The Rev. George W. Robinson, pias-I tor of the Corinthian Baptist church, I who was asked to go to the River-I view Park following his "I Am An American Day" patriotic program at his church when he learned that Negro WAACs were being refused admittance to the park, and the Rev. C. Lopez McAllister, pastor of the Maple Street Baptist church, who had j been out to Fort Des Moines recently j with a NAACP committee that pre-j sented a copy of "Negro WAAC com-! plaints" to Commandant Frank U. MoOos
