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62 TEARS Of
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXII
ATTENDANTS AT RECENT CONFERENCE OF SIGMA GAMMA RHO SORORITY
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Seated deft to right*,—Sorors Nancy Collier, Susan Waters, Veronica Porter, Virginia Blalock, Lillian Jones, Atlanta;
Leslie Taylor, Memphis; Pauline Hagins. Eunice Brown, Altotomese Dowse.
Standing Sorors Ursaline Ingersoll, Lucile Johnson, Bessie McKeivey, Janett Hayes, Willie Mae McNeely. Memphis,
Tenn.; Bertha B. Rhoda, St. Louis, Mo,; Veronica Arnold, Ida Bell Gadsden, Gussie L. Pettie, Eunice Clay, Grace Jen¬
Emma Lindsay.
B The Alpha Iota Sigma chap¬
iter of the Sigma hostess Gamma to Rho the
■sorority was
■Fourth Southeastern Regional
■conference, the first to be held
■ in Savannah, which convened
■June 11-13.
The conference was opened
Ask Prosecution Officers Who iiefiiseil
Allow Negroes To Vote In Ala. Primary J
AFFIDAVITS OF
PERSONS DENIED
Given To Attorney
General Biddle
Washington, D. C.,—Affida-
Vida of seven persons who were
denied the right to vote in the
regular Democratic primary
2^f\tvc ‘SrV” been Mobile presented ’ t A ? a ;’ to At-
totrey General Francis Biddle
by Thurgood Marshall,
special counsel.
Napoleon Rivers, Raymond H.
Perry, Taylor Burroughs, Dr
John R. Taylor, Albert B. Da¬
vis, James G. Battle and Ben-
nie D. Nelson.
“In view of the decision
the supreme court in the
of Smith v. Allwright,”
shall wrote, “we request prose¬
cution of the officers involved
including Deputy
Frank Pryor and Under Sher¬
iff William H. Holcombe, for vi
elation of section 52 of title 18
of the United States code.
“On April 3. 1944. we
ed of you to instruct all
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(ConUnuedon pagp eight*
TV>I 1 till* 1 FI 1 Ldvll
ersbalary |
Heard July 3
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Jackson, Tenn. Th fi
brought by the Jackson
od Teachers association to
cure equal salaries with
teachers is scheduled to
heard in the federal
court here July 3. Z.
on Locby of Nashville
Thurgood Marshall of
York will appear for the
ers
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MASONS TO
ST. JOHN'S DAY
Johns will be .
M. day
rd by the five Masonic
i assisted bv th 0 members of
| Order of Eastern Star.
The lodges will meet at
I Temple, West Gwinnett,
■ at 3 o clock. The march
I be to First African
aTfri church, Franklin
mmf ladies of the Eastern
at Ihe church
■ Jhas larch A -liort
been arranged with t
■sermon by the pastor.
^ The lodges are expected
out in a large body.
Sbf imimiMli iHhutf.
Sunday June 11th, at six o’-
clock with a public meeting at
he First Congregational
church. Coror Pauline Hagin, ®
, iocal , basileus, . „ prehided. ... The
principal address was delivered
by the grand basileus, Soror
Bertha Black Rhoda of St.
I P U })li S h(_TS
I AlIIlUal . , ( ,,
j f jj Ends 0H-
a
JOHN H.
j | AGAIN PRESIDENT
_
! New York- Governor
< as E - Dewe ^ Newbold
president of the New York
council, and Dr. Max Lerner
Williams
sor and editorial writer for the
newspaper P M, were the
speakers during the fifth
nual session of the Negro
Newspaper Publishers’ Associa-
held here June 15-18 at
the Harlem branch of the
YMCA, 180 West 135th street.
Dr. C. B. Powell, publisher of
the N. Y. Amsterdam News,
was host to the convention
and at the opening meeting
introduced Newbold Morris
who mad? the welcome ad-
I dress. After declaring
| “there was no Negro
1 m America, ’ Mr. Morris said
! the chief concern of the gov-
I [eminent was "to make
! that every child, regardless
racial origin, be given the op-
portunity of a job and the
chance to live in decency.”
j ° hn h - sengstacke, publish-
,er of the Chicago
land president of the
tion, delivered his annual mes-
[sage in which he summed
the accomplishments of
j a^ociation and pointed out
“as publishers of
^ers dedicated to the
of the war and the peace,
abhor those subversive
which prevent Negro
from effective participation
our war effort.” Among
accomplishments of the
ation h° listed the
of Negro correspondents to
OBSERVE
lishing of a Washington
bureau for newspapers
se . nteci association.
said that “our press v>oc has
over 117 years of tradition
heritage in championing
cause of democracy. All
mer j cans may pr
contribution which
j ourna ] s have made to this
for( . „
j A resolution was
during the first meeting
passage by tlfe Senate
appropriation needed
^ r ^. jr Employment
Committee ___________ to carry .... out
program nrncrrnrn originated nrie-inated by hv a a presi- nresi-
j Louis Mo. who was introduced
by Soror Leslie H. Taylor,
jlsoutheastern regional director,
i of Memphis, Tenn.
Rhoaa . used , as . her subject .. ,
Youth Delinquency.”
j Greetings were heard from
the Alpha Phi Alpha, Alpha
5th War Loan Bond Rallies Are Planned
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j
No. 1—Helen Hayes and cast <>f
j 1 “Harriett” No. 2—Cab line Calloway up to is buy shown bonds. here
with members of the Negro War
Finance Committee in Chicago at a
bond rally. No. 3—Frank Isbcy,
(sealed) Michigan stale chairman,
j issues credentials as issuing agent
j to llie Company Creat Lakes of Detroit. Mutual Standing Insur¬
\ left ance to right are: Moses I,. Walker,
! treasurer; Charles H. Mahoney,
president; Dr. Robert II. Greenidge,
and L. C. Blount, secretary. No. 1
—Dr. W illiam Pickens, of the War
Finance Division, W ashington, in a
typical speaking pose. Dr. Pickens
has addressed thousands of W ur
Rond rallies.
60 To Be Graduated From
Freeman Beauty School
SUNDAY AFTERNOON
ST. PHILIP CHURCH
Prom Monday Night At
Coconut Grove
j
Madam Bridie Freeman
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slx . y yoUPg Lrfiiatinn c„v,hq„ ..f
( 6rn00n al he g
i lies of the ' Freeman School
at St. Philip AME church
four o’clock. The principal
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY. JUNE 22, 1941
45 Negro Delegates-Alternates
Await G. Convention
Masons Hold Impressive
Communication In Atlanta
Kappa Alpha, Zela Phi Beta
Omega Psi Phi, .Kappa Alpha
psl Iot a phi La mbda and Del-
ta Sigma Theta. . a _ Flowers
wer e received from Zeta Phi
Beta and Iota Phi Lambda so-
continued on Page Eight
of Woldon lodge, Elks; welcome
address, Mrs. Daisy Plumber;
solo, Mrs. Della Grant; talk on
cosmetology, Dr. Wm. G. Ty¬
son; class history, Miss Betty
Louise Williams; address, Rev.
H. W. Murph; solo, Miss Gussie
M. Johnson; presentation of
gifts; class song.
Certificates will be awatded
by Madam Bridie Freeman,
Lead of the school, to the fol¬
lowing:
j Parish , Waycross;
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iConUnuwion page eignti
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tddress will be delivered by the
Rev. H. W. Murph, pastor.
The program will be as fol¬
lows with Mrs. Jennie Collins!
acting a s mistress of ceremo¬
nies:
I Processional; National Negro!
I Anthem, audience; invocation,
E.dwin W. Burke, exalted ruler
Eastern Star To Meet In
Macon Next Week
IN FORTY-FIFTH AN¬
NUAl SESSION
7h° Grand Chanter. C 'J-i
ol Eastern Stai, wall hold it.*
;45th annual session in
beginning Tuesday morning a
10 o’clock Eastern War time, at
Stewart Chape' AME chureh.
| After th? opening a chaptei
j of sorrow will be conducted by
(the grand lecturer, especially
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tron ’ In th “ afternoon the
addresses of Hie gland officer:
; will be rendered
addresses of welcome
(Continued on page Eight)
ORDER SHOWS GEN-
ERAL INCREASE
To Meet In Savannah
Next Year
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Atlanta. June 12 The Ma¬
sonic Temple, Auburn
and Hilliard street, was the
scene of the gathering of many
Masons from all parts of
state.
Monday morning the several
boards m e t, also the Royal
Arch and Knights Templar.
j The busiest man in Atlanta
[was Most Worshipful Grand¬
master John Wesley Dobbs.
He could be seen all around
^ssion m *‘ uls for
; Tu0S dav' morning the Most
’ Worshipful V, “ Prince Hall Grand
Lodge was called on. Syst-e- .
tematic method caused the op-
ening to be without the least
A fine spirit was dis¬
p i a yed from the opening to the
closing.
The address of Grandmaster
Dobbs was the keynote of the
session. It was clear and in¬
spiring. The brethren always
look forward to these address-
< Onn tin nod nn page S'
GETS TWO AWARDS
AT MORRIS BROWN
;
Miss J„,i a Si ,„c Brown.: Mrs!
<*«•«« Hr, and
Morris Brown, an honor grad¬
uate of Beach high school,
1943, received two awrads at
the commencement exercises,
of Morris Brown college.
These awards were the W. A.
Fountain award for being the
winner of the annual
cal contest and the Delta Sig-i
ma Theta sorority award f or
being the most verstila student
with high scholarship in the
Freshman class ’43-’44. Miss
Brown is a pyramid of Delta
Sigma Thet a sorority.
PARACHNUTE TRAINEE
home on Furlough
Pvt. Alfred H. Southerland,
a ‘ member of F 1st Parachute!
Training . regiment, . Parachute, .
school, Fort Benning, is
on a seven dav furloah Mrs.' visit- 1
ini his mother, Lulu
Southerland, Route 4.
nah.
LOCAL BOY MAKES
GOOD
j j, s 0R jy naitiral for the
‘..pj^ens of any given commu-
u> swell with pride to
that one of their own
^ 0 y s making good in any
field. One of the young men
0 f our ^ity, jerry Drayton, by I
^ his own effort and with some,
j ie jp given him by a couple of
in the city, pushed
through Morehouse
I ! college, graduating last year.
v^eitf to llo^d.rtX umveriai*
ty in the fall of 1043. e-terinfr *
(the the school school of of religion. religion Before
Continue^ on page eight
SAVANNAH AREA MEN SERVING IN U. S. ARMED FORCES
UR NAVY
BOTHERS IN U. S. AHMED FORCES Marion Ward, gun-
mate, third class ileft) and Pfc. Kirkland W. Ward,
who are serving in th e U. S. armed forces. The
former has been in the navy nearly two year and the latter
has been in the Marine corps five months.
They are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan DeVoe of 1511
Grove street.
Pfc. E. C. Jackson, who
located somewhere in Italy
with the U 8 fighting forces
j n j., ; letter to ilia coudn,
Mr5 s c carter, li c wrote that
he * s getting along okey thus
BUY FX
WAR BONDS
TSMyf
FEWER REPRESENTA¬
TIVES THAN USUAL
Mississippi Has Largest
Delegation
Washington, D. C. iANPi
T here will b; 111 Negro
gates and 27 Alternates
18 states and the District
Columbia attending the
lican convention which
in Chicago Monday. The
tal number of delegates will
1,059 and an equal number
alternates.
As is usual, Mississippi’s
gation head'd by the
Perry W. Howard will be
largest single group of Negroes
Howard will hav> four dele¬
gates and five alternates
viding they are not thrown out
as a result of a contest which
is a foregone conclusion.
Four other states, Ulinos.
srsi
One delegate will j 11
from *u these states: t f Arkansas, A * 0
X— ■***.*,. Miss.nri
S “„aui» whim are „ ol
Negro delegates are.
sending alternates.
are California, Florida.
New Jersey, O-
Tennessee and West Vir-
ln ' a -
Apait from Mississippi, con-
aie anticipated in seat¬
^he F * or j^ a ' ® eov S' a ^ Nlis
and Tennessee delega¬
Perhaps the more im¬
will be Mississippi and
In both the black
tan group will be opposed
lily-white elements.
One old time political obser¬
here who chose to remain
bemoaned the
'° P ‘ n the nUmb3r of Negro
attending the con
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*' 1 ' 111 1940 than we arr dolng h i
' he ^ "™ e hRVe
fr . ? m ° hl °’ 110 ° ne f fr ° m
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(Continued on page Eight)
Pfc. Freddie E. Royall. who
after recently spending his fur
lough at home with his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. L. Royall of
758 1-2 East Gwinnett street.
has returned to his post at In-
dian Gap.
mJgm
mmmt, 4
Pvt. Guyzer M. Young, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Flournoy
Young 6 Mutual Quarters, who
m stationed jomewhire »n Ire-
land, where he writes that he
is doing nicely and is in the
best of health.
NUMBER 36
ENTERS USO WORK
j ' E. L. Maxwell, who was
a number of years connected
with the Georgia State college
. _ . . , , ....
Mr. Maxwell left on June 6th
for York „ . where , . he will
I New
J ^ 'LT.m'l’.kl
^ZSS
tar which he wiU be given an
assignment in the USO set-up.
Atlanta Nurses
May Get
New Home
Atlanta <ANP> If proposed
plans are approved. Negro stu¬
dents in the Grady Municipal
Hospital Nurse Training
school, ’largest in the south,
will soon have a brand new
*400,000 building for housing
l and training quarters, it was
I recently announced.
„ Prop ° SaI l PreCt the
° U
in 8 was put forth by Superm¬
lenclent Frank wiu *° n of Gra '
dy hos P Ital aftei ' the Georgla
(Continued on page 8i
Robert W. Williams, s-l-h,
U. S. Coast Guard, son of Mr,
^ ^ 2m
. .
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eel safely in New York after
serving Quite a whil « in thq
overseas areas.