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The above picture was taken
at the recent testimonial
banquet given bv the Masons
honoir of their prcsent
grand secretary who has
SITE PURCHASED FOR
NEW HIGH SCHOOL
IVfLL BE LOCATED
ON HOPKINS ST.
Between Forty-fifth and
Forty-eighth
i Early this week the board
ucation made public
ct that it had purchased
site for a new Negro
school.
The tract bought for
school is in the southern
of the city on Hopkins street,
south of th/e Bishop
land on which Tweedy’s
ton Club tavern is located.
The tract is between
fifth and Forty-eighth
extending 785 feet on the
side of Hopkins street with
depth of 1,270 feet. It
prises about 22 acres and
bought at a price of $17,670.
Application for federal aid
the building of the
school has been made by
board of education. It
^ ld J^ ,t S
is gotten on the project
will be started for the
of the building.
It had been hoped by
colored citizens that a
advantageous, more
site would have been
en for the school.
HEADS DELINQUENCY
FIGHT
,rrn
M yf * /|f ^yf!
4
1 Dr. W. Henry (Stud) Greene
Mb* WASHINGTON, D. C—
Mf jJu'J/G *'2 >gainst juvenile delinquency
ma.ior cities from Boston
V San Francisco was declared
day with the
from National Sports
tion. an organizatori
of Negro athletes and
men, ot the selection of Dr.
pvesi i • i- of the foundi
H Greene of
Sbf $ atiatuiali SMtamr
in this capacity for fifty years,
this point Grand
Do; bs was addressing the
group.
Equality, Says Gov. Arnall
EXPRESSES HIS VIEWS
AT KENTUCKY PRESS
CONFERENCE
Louisville, Ky., June 26—
When Gov. Ellis Arnal of Geor
gia was asked today by a press
interview what were the oppor.
tunities for Negroes in Georgia,
he replied.
’•What the hell difference
loes it make if you sit down and
eat with Negroes. Visit with
hem in their homes, talk with
them?” “That just means
that they have something to
! ^ey U hlvfIa h rLough m
tion to carry on a conversation.
i Negrete “The important sociai‘‘equ'ality things for the
not but
economic equality—the right
work and earn a decent
so that he will have enough to
eat. A good home and a good
education.”
Arnall, here tto address
tucky Democrats at their
ferson Day dinner tonight,
plied that one-third of his
pie are Negroes. Unless
have economic security
can the rest of Georgia,
said.
The Governor declared it
policy that all Negroes
equal opportunity for
tion, income and the right
vote.
“Racial problems are
economic problems,” he
ed. “If the Negro has food,
home and an education he
no economic problem. If
is no economic problem
is no racial problem.”
he added, is the South’s
problem.
He said complete
could not come overnight, de¬
claring that “liberals
try to make the world over
ja day, by which they destroy
that has bee'n
The right of Negroes to vote
1 primaries is to be tested
courts he said, adding that
I stumped Georgia and
manded that right for them,
would set everthing back
years.”
--
President Truman
fair enough to take what
thinks is best irom all sides
the political field, to give
American people a real
deal.
Among the many gifts pre
sented the guest of honor was
| . an unusualty beautiful . ... , . basket , ,
of gladioli front Mrs. Minnie,
Miami Cops
Beat Woman
FOR HAVING DISPUTE
WITH EMPLOYER
MIAMI, Fla— (ANP)—So.cal
led brave local police officers
have become women beaters,
according to the record of the
arrest of Mrs. Pauline Smith,
a domestic employed in the
home of Mrs. W. F. Ardes, wife
of a local dentist.
Colin Simmons, ch/ief of the
Miami h^subordToateTar; Shores poice, and mpo^ible one of
1 for branding the Miami Shores
police d<l>artment as “women
bc ateis o^nnnrrptpd
Mrs. Smith after she quarreled
with 1 J:r white employer about
wages
Sirrtmons allegedly used
blackjack to beat Mrs.
head almost into a pulp, then
made her return the money
*
Mrs. Andes had paid her for
j wages, plus $11 of her personal
money.
j “I’m gonna to teach said you nig-
gifrs a lesson,” the 200
| pound blow officer as blow he adminis.
tered after on the
head of his defenseless 124
pound victim, according to the
story. %
Mrs. Smith, iblood gushing
from! htead wounds and mouth,
was arrested and taken to the
Jackson Lamar hospital hclre
where she was found to be in
a serious condition. Shis waf
later removed to the county
hospital, then brought back to
Jail, bailed out by friends and
advised by hospital physicians
to siee a private physician.
While no action is expected
to be brought against the white
policeman, the Miami Whip, a
Negro newspaper, Whip, has re
quested that States Attorney
Stanley Miilege suspend Sim¬
mons while making a probe of
the beating of Mrs. Smith.
ENGINEERS IN BURMA SEND
$1,625 TO NAACP
NEW YORK, June 25— Out.
standing performance on be.
half aSi&e NAACP on historic
Day was revealed this
weeik in the receipt of $1,626
in new memberships trom men
in the 1883rd Engineering Ba
tallion now in Burma.
Prom Monday Night At
Coconut Grove
Madam Bridie Freeman,__
Founder and President
A class of sixty-three young
women, 34 of whom are from
out of town, will be presented
certificates of graduation Sun¬
day afterno ni by tile Freeman
School of Beauty Culture.
The exercises will be held at
St. Philip AME church and
will begin at 4 o’clock. Thd
principal address of the pro¬
gram which/ will be as as fol¬
lows, will be delivered by thq
Rev. Henry W. Murpli, pastor:
Song, Negro National An-
jthi^m, congregation: prayer,
Donald Tl/jmas; welcome ad¬
dress Mrs. Geraldine King; solo,
Mrs. Martha Holmes; cosme¬
tology, Johnetta Bryant; ad¬
dress, R/ev. H. W. Murph; a
warding of certificates, Madam
Bridie Freeman; denediqton,
Madam Carrie Cargo McGlock-
ton will serve as master of
c< pemonies.
The commencement festivi¬
ties will conclude with the class
prom Monday night at Coco-
ssnut Grove, to whch thd pub¬
is invited.
I’hp Freeman School of Beau¬
ty Culture which is located at
the southeast corner of Mont¬
gomery and Alice streets, is one
of the best known schools of
‘
beauty culture m this section Oi
the state. It is modern in its
equipment and i:> staffed by a
corps of most efficient teach-
ers -
The school is headed by Mad
am Bridie Freeman, it;; found-
t r, and has graduates in many
Continued on Page 8
DeVaughn, the gran-.l worthy
matron of the Order of Eastern
Star and the Royall Undertak¬
ing company.
Arnall Raps
Chaingang
Episode
DEMANDS REMOVAL OF
GUARD WHO SHACKL¬
ED BOYS
Atlanta, June 23—Governor
Ellis Arnall today demanded
that Fulton County Industrial
Farm Supt. E. J. Waits be oust¬
ed as a result of the discovery
tat two 15 year old Negro \}n>ys
| a c ‘ ains the ‘ farm were being ke * itl
Clarence Duncan, Fulton
! county commissioner, said he
i would demand that Waits resign
at the ., „ , 5 commission . . meet.
; ing unless he resigned before
that date
Gov ‘ Araa11 „ said the _ shack . ,
lin S of the two Ne S roes was a
dis S race t0 J ulton county and
he no expressed ovn**oeeO/i tKo the hope nnno thata 1 Vmto
whoever was responsible
be ‘removed from office and
ishd for the crime.
“It makes me heartsick
work as hard as I have to try
(Continued on page two
Asks Vote Against Senators
Opposing Permanent FEPC
NEW YORK CITY—“No
gressman who failed to sign
the discharge petition lo bring
FEPC to the floor of the House
for voting is worthy of re elec
lion,” declared Walter White in
a vigorous speech Tuesday eve¬
ning at a Save Tty FEPC ral
ly in Town Hall, sponsored V>y
t he Council Against inlob |
ancc in America. “He snould
be defeated and retired to pit
vate liie by votes not only of
labor, Negroes, Jews and oth¬
er minorities but by all decent
liberty loving Americans who do
not belting to minoritnfc,” Mr.
White said.
..In emphasizing the fact that
the Fair Employment Practices
Committee may be the margin
between a speedv long deferred
♦ nia! victory, White .-declared,
“FEPC is not an issue affecting
only those to whom it will af
ford protection of the right to
Won In
Ark. Teacher Salary Case
63 TO GRADUATE FROM
THE FREEMAN SCHOOL
•wh’k. General Joseph Still
well only two weeks ago an-
» ounced thnl the war in th»
Pacific may last another three
and a half years. President
Truman, with magnificent corn
age and forthfi ghtness, has
called oil the Congress to cstab
lisli a permanent FEPC because
we still Hive a long and bloody
path ah'fd of u* which re
quires ..that full production
must be maintained until the
war is won.”
"The congress,” white warn¬
ed, should not he permitted to
adjourned until it Has enacted
this legislation.”
..In conclusion, White admon
ished, ..“Will mankind .nevtir
learn ..the terrible price __of
hate?” Norman Sousns, edi¬
tor of the Saturday Review of
Literature, cited tlie.se appalling
figures at a meeting recently:
Continued on page eight
R.M.A. Loses
It’s Fight
TO BAR NEGROES FROM
MEMBERSHIP
WASHIiNGTON, D. C— On
June 1,9th the Railway Mail
Association lost its fight in the
U. S. SuprtVnc court to bar Ne
groes from membership in the
association. The Supreme
court ruling upheld the validity
of the New York Civil Rights
law and a previous ruling in
July, 1944, of the New York Su
preme court that the assoclu
tion was a labor union and had
violated the state civil rights
laws in limiting membership to
white government postal clerks
The U. S. Supreme court opin
iion, written by Justice Reed,
stated, “in their vflry nature
laciai and religious minorities
are likely to be so small m num
ber in any particular industry
as to be unable to form an ef¬
fective organization for secur
ing settlement of their giiev.
ances and consideration of
their group aims with respect
to conditions of employ
ment. * * *
Tile court further stated:
“We see no constitutional basis
for the contention that a state
cannot protect workers from ex
elusion solely on the basis of
race, color or creed by an or
g.mlzation, functioning under
the protection of the state,
which Wolds itself out to repre
sent the general business
needs of employees.”
The; Railway Mail Associa
tion, a New Hampshire corpor
ation, limits membership,by
constitutional provision to
“any regular male railway pos.
Continued on page Eight
SCENES FROM OPENING OF CARNEGIE BRANCH LIBRARY.
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The picture shows: At top, a
group of pro" pective readers
at botoom, a corner of the li¬
brary.
Monday the Carnegie branch
library at the Vamacraw Vil¬
lage housing project held its
formal opitiing.
Mayor Thomas Gamble who
has shown deep and sincere
interest m the establishment
of this branch lioary witnessed
th* opening and expressed iiis
delight in the beautiful and
HER PROGRAM TO BE
PUBLISHED
>■ 4
A
Uedle A. Hoivir editor
of the Campus Digest, Tuske.
gee institute, who has won na
tioual distinction for having
her “program for eliminating
national discriminations” se
ipfted for publication in tire
May issue of the Assembly
Line, organ of the United
States Student assembly,
M ss Hoover’s home is in East
St. Louis, IlilinoLs.— (ANP>.
BEREAN MEETING IS
POSTPONED
The executive board oi the
Beraan S. S. and B. T. U„ at a
meeting held June 11, relative
to the meeting of the con¬
viction scheduled to be lyeld
August 9’1,0 at Grace Baptist
church in Darien, decided to
postpone said meeting until
1946. Instead, the coming
meeting will be held at First
Tabernacle Baptist chjurch, A1
ice street, in Savannah. All
pastors, officers and co workers
of the* convention are advised
te pay heed to this change.
w'ell arranged library.
Miss Ola AI. Wyeth cf the
Savannah public i brary again
assured the people and mem¬
bers of the nbr.vy board of her
interest and promised her con¬
tinued cooperation to the li¬
brary in all of its efforts tow¬
ard future progress.
..Fred Wessell of the Housing
Authority, through whose ef-
torts the branch library was
made possible) by providing
space, expressed his apprecia¬
NUmBER 3<i
NAACP SUCCESSFUL IN
3-YEAR FIGHT
For Equalization
Of Salary
AND WIN IMPORTANT
REVERSAL DECISION
ST. PAUL, Minn—The NAA-
('•* not only won its three year
light for equalization of Negro
teachers salaries in Little
Rock, Arkansas, through a rul
ing here June 19, by Circuit
Judge Thomas i > the 8th Cir¬
cuit Court of Appeals, but re
versa! of an. earlier decision in
the lower court and an order
lo the district court “to enter
forthwith t he declaratory
judgment prayed for.”
The case of Bus e Morris anti
Frances P. Kibbler was origi
lfpltv filed February 28, 3942,
on behalf of Negro teachers of
Litte Ro*-k against ..Russell
Su be, superintendent of
schools and th^ school .board.
Alter preliminary motion»
were disposed of, full trial on
the merits began —September
28, 1942,.and concluded Octo
ber 3, 1942.
During the trial the plain-
f and other Neg ops tesffieri
as to their qualifications and
experience.__Members of .the
school board and the superin
tflndent ..were called by .the
plaintiff as adverse witnesses.
The plaintiff maintained that
Negro teachers and principals
were paid lowor ..salaries be
cause of their race or .color.
The defense was that all of
the teachers were paid on an
individual basis pursuant to an
elaborate rating system and
denied that race or color was
involved in the fixing of sala
rles._ The record in the case,
consisting of 832 printed pages
in two volumes, contained all
of the salaries of all of __th/e
teachers, ..minutes . of „thq|
school hoard and other mate
rial.
On March 10, lr44, United
Continued on page Eight
tion in having a library as a
part of the community project,
Mr. Wesell further stated thalj
plans for a special library 1
building will be taken into con¬
sideration in the proposed
plans for the new housing uuii|
for colored people.
Several members of the Car¬
negie library board were pres¬
ent and a large number of
thildren, who were eager ani|
anxious to begin use ot the lr*
brary,