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PROPOSED EDUCATIONAL BUILDING OF FIRST BRYAN BAPTIST CHURCH
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Above left, is a drawing of the eh proposed new educational building of the First Bryan Baptist
church in Yaniacraw Village. To the right is the present church building which is one of
the historical spots of Savannah, this , . church laying . claim to being the oldest Negro Baptist
church in America. The new educational building will cost S20.000.
High Degree Notable Nasons
Hold Meeting
0F i0 d/c™!y 1Vm
Barn Marine of
ington Cathedral
WILLARD ALLEN RE
ELECTED HEAD
ATLANTA, Oct. 16—At a rep¬
resentative attendance at the
Savoy ball room, hundreds of
beautifully gowned ladies and
Maisons of the higher degree,
some of them resplendent in
troduce some of the prominent
a sight never before witnessed
in that social center.
It was one socially and to in¬
troduce some of the prominnet
Masons of the country.
Advantage was taken of it to
burn the mortgage long held
over the Scottish Rite cathedral
in Washington. D. C. At a
cost of more than *100,000.00
this safe; dutiful cathedral was
erector and later decorated.
Tll iilustrious \ eatl> P peers ai 0 were 1 ie • vea able ^ to ™
raise the last dollar, and on
this occasion, under direction ot |
Illustrious E. T. Belser of
bile, the mortgage was burned
in the presence of the atten-j
dants. It it ™>o<, was o a orlpriniic glorious np. 0 c-j !
casion, especially for the ones
who labored so ardently and
earnestly for its accomplish-
ment.
Sunday evening the spacious
Street Baptist church
jwas crowded with the Masons
and their friends to make wel¬
come the United Supreme
Council of the Sovereign Grand
1 Inspectors General of the 33d
Last Degree of the Ancient
and Accepted Scottish Rite
Freemasons for the Southern
Jurisdiction of the United
States of America in its 58th
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TO SING AT FAB CHURCH NOV. 7TH
AtUR'.'EL RA£JN. who will appear in concert on Tuesday
evening November 7th. at the First African Baptist
under the auspices of the local chapter' of the Sigma Gam-
ma Rio sorority.
amannalt SHImnr
^ r * P° W€ >H To Be Speaker I
Wash- »t NAACP Meetillg
Letters are going forth from
the office of Dr. Ralph Mark
Gilbert, president of the Savan¬
nah Branch of the NAACP, cal¬
ling a meeting of the branch
for Friday evening, -....... October —» 27, -
in their regular tall gathering.J
It is earnestly hoped and ex-
pected that the entime member
ship will be present to attend i
to the urgent business of the or¬ | I
ganization which has piled up
during the past few months.
The whole membership is urged
to attend, and bring in at least
two new members each with
them. The public is invited to
be present.
The meeting also will be grac- j
l ed with the presence of Dr. A. I
Clayton Powell, noted pastor,
author, platform lecturer from! and
statesman, who will speak Post-1
, the subject, “Two Major
War Problems.” |
Dr. Powell will be well i 1
re-
membered as the man who built
the great Abyssinian Baptist
church church of of New New York York city, cit.v and and
was the pastor of that church
until his son succeeded him.
I seven or eight years ago. His i
i | son, Rev. Adam Powell, was re- j i
cently nominated by all three
j of the major political parties of
Ne w York city as congressman
rom his district, so that his
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Assignments ' j
SYLVESTER, Oct. 8— Bishop ;
Fountain announced the follow
ing appointments to day at the
closing scene of the South Geor
Jones gia AME Chapel conference station: held atj
Thomasville district, Dr. I. G
Glass, presiding elder—Thomas -1
ville station, Rev. F, Moore; Cai
ro. Rev. C. G. Gissentanner; St.
Mark, Rev. W. J. Daniel; Pel¬
ham, Rev. R. W. Williams; Bos¬
ton, Rev. A. H. Thomas; Meigs,
Rev. W. M. Hopkins; Cairo cir¬
cuit, J. A. Brown; Pine Park,
Rev. R. F. Wooten; St. James,
Rev. N. H. Hankins; Mt. Oliver,
and Bellview, Rev. G. R. Rob¬
erts.
Valdosta district, Rev. A. J.
Harris, presiding elder— St.
Paul. Valdosta. Rev. F. D. Jau-
don; St. Timothy. Rev. A. Park¬
er; Mt. Zion circuit. Rev, J. A.
Fann; St. John/Rev. A. Archi¬
bald; St. Peter, Rev. H. Moore;
roe; Peyton, Rev. John Green:
St. James and Fountain Tem¬
ple, Rev. J. L. Byrd; Naylor.
Rev. W. B. Boatright; Valdosta,
circuit, Rev. R. Martin; Fargo
and Halo, Rev. R. Griffin; Mt.
Olive, Rev. D. Martin; Tarver
mission, Rev. C. H. George;
Statenville, Rev. Wm. Wilson.
Bainbridge district, Dr. H. J.
Peoples, presiding elder- Ncl-
. son chapel, Bainbridge. Rev. A
H. Armster: Attapulgus circuit
Rev. Teal; Ford and Hion, Rev.
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TALENTED GUEST Marian
Anderson lends her great vocal
talents as guest on N bC’s "Mu-
s i c America Loves Best.” popu-
]ar gunday ni?ht musJc house
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Action /A{*11011 A j • In 111 r Los IjOS T
Angeles
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LCS ANGELES, Cal.—Charges
of racial discrimination in
grading and preferred assign-
ments by the Los Angeles post
office have been brought to the
attention of Postmaster General
Frank C. Walker by the legal
department of the national
fice of the National Asscoiation
for the Advancement of
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDDAY, OCT. 19, 1944
Freed From
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Bapt. Church
NEW STRUCTURE TO
cost $ 2 o, 90 !i
The members of the First
Bryan Baptist. chure are
very much elated over the fact
that they are to have a modern
ouilding in which the educa¬
tional activities of the church
are to be conducted. Plans
ior the building have been sub¬
mitted by Achitect Cletus W.
and work on the $20,000
u . t will bpBh , , ls SOfm as
The new building which will
erected on the lot just to the
of the present church
is located on Bryan street
the heart of the recently
Yamacraw Housing
will be a two-story com
Sunday school and ed-
ucational edifice. It will in-
elude the pastor’s home, and
the general characteristics of I
building will be in strict
conformity with the classic
lines of the older structure,
which is one of the oldest Ne¬
gro Baptist churches in Ameri¬
ca. The building will be of
masonry and fire proof con-
struction with leinforced con—
crete. ™
be s , at . The building will be
et ) ui PP ed with a central heat-
the Sunday school building and !
the pastor’s home. An out-
standing feature of the new
will be an auditorium
which will be used for church
gatherings, Sunday school and
for other purposes. The au-
ditorium will have a balcony
with class rooms, committee
Thousands Attend F uneral i
ot r. v-k Bishop • | r ™ upper
By Rev. YV. O. P. Sherman
ATLANTA, Oct. 16 Fully five
thousand people attended the
funeral program of the late
Bishop J. S. Flipper of the AME
church at noon today at Big
Bethel AME church.
Sixteen bishops, twenty gen¬
eral officers and ministers and
laymen from all parts of the
United States were among the
vast crowd representing all
walks of life.
Bethel church was crowded
as early as 0 o'clock. Bishop
Gregg, master of ceremonies
worship service Bishop G. W.
Calver, J. H. Clayborn, A. J. Al-
len, F, M. Reid, D. W. Nichol-
obituary; Maj. R. R. Wright,
Sr., a classmate, of Philadel¬
phia: sermon by Bishop W. A.
Fountain of Georgia.
Music by Morris Brown col¬
lege; remarks by Bishop M. H.
Davis, R. C. Ransom; music by l
Sop , ,
«: by Ja-
£ ® s /:
rnrrv s T r,ni>ir so-
Io by H. J. Furlow; Dr. T. J.
Mlles ‘ A!len university; ^ Dr. S.
R ' Hi SSUis; sol ° by Leslie No-
Ian- I
Telegrams and condolences
Dr. A. J. Jackson, S Sec.,
AME church; remarks, Grand
Master Dobbs of Masons of Geor
gia; benediction. Dr. D. T. Bab-
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TO SING AT FAB CHURCH MONDAY NIGHT
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fessional appearances in con-
certj recitals and oratorios, Mil- j
dred Hill won the 1943 Marian
Anderson scholarship award
and Mayme Robinson won
scholarship to study with Isaac
Van Grove at Carnegie Hall.
Joseph Robinson really em-
barked on a career quite divorc-
— from .....- his -—o—o singing ambitions, --------------
A fter his graduation from the
Philadelphia normal school, he
taught in the Douglas Singerly
school of that city. However,
his desire to sing prompted
to take VO j ce i essotls anc i
befoi-e long he was making pro-
fess j ona j appearances as a sing-
er> and became a mertiber o{ the S
famous male singing group
known as The Choristers.
The basso of the quartet, j
James Buster, attended Normal
and Industrial school in Virgin-!
and thpn t()ok a government
job - n Philadelphla . Always
interested in singingf he took
lesson.s in his private time, and
was soon publicly appearing as
a soloist, and also became a
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The personal background of i
the “The five Hallelujah persons who_ Quartette” comprise |
which soon shall appear in this
city, is sure to inspire a deal of
interest.
Most really fine singers have
cherished, even as chil-
dren - ® 1 lon 0 ma C
singing len caieei. n
, , , , icmpora-
UH ’" 1 J^ ay '
i
11 y S1 e ~ rac e • 1 Ls on y a
.
ce0Ul e roa w lc
iey w ) s 0 rave 0
a011 aie a , ers 0 ie
Quai I
a e u J a e e. ra ex-
< eP 10113 glou p o! young co "
cred .singers who are appearing
at the First African Baptist
Montgomery and St. Ju-
lian streets, on Monday eve-
October 23, at 8:30 j
o’clock.
For instance, the two female
members , of „ the quartet. MU-
Hill, suprano, and Mayme
contralto, after grad
from high school — 1 and -- J
did secretarial work to
pay for their expensive voice
'• Ksons. But their studying
paid dividends, and after pro-
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THREE MONTHS IM
arrested on trump-
ED UP BUS CHARGE
Two White Soldiers
Protest
REFUSAL OF SEATS TO
NEGRO SOLDIERS
AIKEN, S. C.—(ANPI—The
release of five of the 11 Negro
! soldiers jailed and fined here
{a I week ago as the result of an
incident on a Valley coach bus
route from Augusta, thwart-
ed a generally known plan of
Negro soldiers at Camp Gordon
near Augusta, to '‘blast hell out |
of the jailhouse,” It was (ls
closed Wednesday.
Soldiers, the informants say,
had secreted considerable am¬
munition for the scheme and
had made plans for “ridin in,”
behind non-commissioned offi¬
cers. The fines were paid by
first sergeants or company com-
manders. Three of the men
paid 1 fines immediately Monday J
ment Tuesday after serving half
a day on the chaingang.
Staff Sgt. Leonard A. Gray
of Chicago, one of the men who
paid fines Monday, said the
group had mounted the bus for
a social affair for servicemen
in Aiken. “When we got on,”
he said, “there were several
vacant seats. Several white
passengers were occupying a
whole seat unto themselves, but
we stood up.
“A few miles out of Augusta/
a white soldier who had a dou¬
ble seat, pulled one of our boys
down with him and the two sat
there" talking. Behind them
was a white drunk. The driv¬
er came back and ordered the
soldier protested, saying, “We
sodiier protested, saying, “We
fight together, so what is wrong
with our sitting together?”
"The driver told him ‘it is the'
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I j L. G. College
Heads Meet
j j In Chicago
TUSKEGEE, (ANP) Th8
j j post war outlook college for library higher ed- fa-
ucation and
the availability of sur-
plus war material for colleges
and program for veterans’ re-
I Ijects habilitation are important sub-
listed for discussion during
j the .— annual -------- Conference —................ of Pre’s-
idents of Negro and Grant col-
legefe which meets In Chicago
October 24-26.
In outlining the program, Dr.j
F. D. Patterson, president of
Tuskegee institute and
dent of the confefencee,
j that the selected speakers wi H\)
PURPLE HEART FOR
SAVANNAHIAN
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Another Savannahian, Pvt.
Isaac Hilton, has been awarded
Pnml° witE af Heir) Si-**. for his fieht-
combat
S
with the Fihh U
- A rm >'. headed by Lt. Gen’l.
W ' Clark '
The Order of the Purple
was pinned on the chest
of the Savannah infantryman
Genc ’ ral Claik as he lay on
«>t in the Fifty ' S ixth Evac '
uataon hospital in T Ital.v •
Hilton was among the first to
be wounded in his division,
which was committed to the
lines late In August. He
hit during his unit’s initial
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Jim Crow Vote
Registration
Attacked
NEW YORK Prompt investi
ga'tion against jim ,tro,w- vote
registration practices In Louis-
iana was urged by the NAACP,
Special Counsel Thurgood Mar-
shall in a letter to Attorney
General Francis J. Biddle. In
his communication which fol-
pOTting^he^rcfusaf of rlgistra-
to Joseph A. Nicholson, Ed-
wa rd Hall and. Billy Wright of
John the Baptist parish,
August 3, 1944, Mr. Marshall
“ We have carefully sur-
veyed the voting situation in
and for the past sev
Cl eral «, years ,^0 Negroes have been
from voting in Lou-
by means of the discrimi
natory registration practices,
rather than by the practice ol
‘white primary.”
“Discriminatory registration
practices are even more dan-
than the ‘white primary,’
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ASF DEPOT COMMANDER MAKES PRESENTATION
MKIffl Hi! Will?
At an impressive ceremony in to every member ot the depot's Seated. left to right, ftrd
Army Service Forces Depot Fourth Service Command Area Charles YYjlliams, manager Ma-
„ championship jor Lanham, executive officers
center. Col. , Sehuwa- „ , , , team. Goionel Bchumacker .’center),
presented large autograph Wilton C. fccott was master of CB.pt, Rawdon, A. O., and W. W>
pictuivs wi rile soituau teaia|ceiemwmcu. .. . , !g” H Graham, bush»c w manager.
WAR SONGS
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NUMBER 5^
1ST. NEGRO OFFICER
OF UE-CIO
NEW YORK—First Negro ev¬
elected to a national office
the United Electrical, Radio
Machine Workers of Ameri¬
third largest CIO union, is
Jones of St. Louis, who
elected at the recently con-
international oonventioA
the union held here.
Mr. Jones, chief steward at)
U. S. Cartridge company in
Louis, is one of the leading
of UE local 825. Ho
one of three elected trus¬
chosen at the convention.
Mr. Jones is one of the 3,000
working at the St. Lou¬
plant. Before the UE-CIO
the shop, • accord¬
to Mr. Jones, there were
300 Niegroes employed
A native of Natchez,
the new union offi-
is a strong believer in edu¬
as a means of bettering
lie welfare of the people.
TO SING IN RECITAL
OCTOBER 25
On this coming Wednesday
October 25, the First
Baptist church is pre¬
their former minister
in a tenor recital,
8:30 o'clock.
Prof. Markharh has been do¬
choral work in Los Angeles,
for the past year, and ig
recitals in Kansas City,
St. Louis, Hartford,
Wilmington, Baltimore,
Washington, Philadelphia, New
Richmond and Chicago,
route gradually to Savan-
His only other appear*
in Georgia will be in Way-
and Dorchester.
Prof. Markham will be re-
for his rich voice of
timber, and for the master-
manner in which he buUC
up the choral organization at