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Central So Carolina Coni.
Give $2,654 To Claflin Univ
r Marion, S. 0.—The seventh
Session of the South Carolina ><>n-
iference, krai Methodist Church, < eu-
Jurisdiction, nnd the one
Jundijd forty-first session a*
Mgal successors to the South
Carolina conference of the Meth-
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•dist Episcopal church meeting
; five ,■ days . at . Bethel - chuuh. hniv-b the the
Rev. P. R. Tiilre, entertaining
pastor came r^ing to an epochal close -
With the of appointments
Sunday aftei
lbo B'shop I orenso H. King
‘ presided.
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MjEvangeiism and education was
(the central theme emphasized
Vbrouj! throughout the sessions
|T itep
been expended dining the con-
ference year to meet general
church claims.
“ The conference more than
quadrupled their financial respon¬
sibility for Claflin and voted a
$*0,000 assessment for 1946. In
addition the confernece in a rally
on Claflin night, Friday gave
President J. J. Seabrook. recent¬
ly elected head of Claflin, $2,654
Christmas drive.
Blsh°P L. H. King before read-
ing appointments presided
the ordination service when six
deacons, M. Boatwright, Luke
BonfOr, Julius McTeer, Joseph
Rogers, Ina Jordan and James
Washington; four elders, Frank
Bryant, W. M. Starks, N. W.
ffones and Herbert Morning were
ordained.
l , session
During the five days
the general boards of the church
were represented by Dr. J. W.
Bowen, editor Southwestern
Christian Ad\ocate, Dr. N. J
CroUey, board of pensions, I>r.
Edward Chambers, board of mis-
*ion, Dr. A. K. Howard, board of
temperance, C. W. ( aldwell,
board of lay activities and con¬
ference lay leader, Dr. J. J. Sea-
brook, president Claflin college
and Mrs. P. M. Gibbes, Woman’s
Society of Christian service.
The Rev. R. Ei Bethea pi each-t
•#d the Sunday morning sermon
which proceded the ordination
We don’t HAVE to have Bilbos.. and Rankins.. .and
Eastlands! But we WILL have as long as senators
and by representatives totalling from poll tax states can be elected
a vote only one-sixteenth of the state
population. Contrast this with non-poll tax states
where vote totals are more than one-half of the
population. in 3,000,000 Negroes and 7,000,000 whites
poll tax states are “represented by congressmen
and local officials in whose choice they have no voice
whatever. That must not be! It isn’t democratic!
It Isn’t American! It isn’t decentl WHAT SHALL
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f HE AT RE VANDALISM
pf\Ii('ljT
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J» • t , , destruction in the
‘ Uro.t , on *he
inereasc The reports - show snow aiso also
that tlm , earlier claim , .. that . coleiui .
>oun, mu <•" offenders
in in downtown downtown theatres meaue is ofiaet. - ■ •
Youngsters generally are smd to
have cut up ea
n<|,l,eu M '""' *
with pirn, and including damag.
done by matches and cigarets, 1 ic
w j, 0 j e reaches a total of S 100,000
in t | 1( , ] ast two or threi ye irs.
"X* t ,
ri: -
ored teen agent go to downtown
theatres only occasionally. Their
-u-tions have been so pronounced
however that a policy has been
established in the loop, it is said,
of not presenting colored bands
which . . . appeal 1BM , .I' the jitterbug
groups. The result u that no
Negro band has been hu.ua- - m-' 1
the downtown theatres recently
and the Down Town icum m
I renting Negro name bands, closed
doors.
8ervjce atu | reading of appoint-
ments i... by Bishop r 1,. H. h King. k'ino-
NAME NAVAL BASE
Continued from page 1
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al training station, Norfolk, >11-
ler was assigned to the 1 SS Ari-
zona, serving on that
’ attacked Pearl
wben t he Japanese
jj arbor |[ t > was awarded the
,
Navy cross, personally presented
Kt , Fleet p IoBt Adm. Allm (then jthen Adm.) Adm.) Ches-
W. Nimitz for his
ary courage courage on that occasion.
According to reports of the act-
ion, Miller, in company with two
officers and several enlisted men
was on the signal bridge of the
battleship when the commanding
officer received a fatal abdominal
woun( j
While the others sought to
s ^ I U< , k a stretcher to lower the
captain to a sa fer locafidn. a-nav
PRRESFNTING ONE
WOMAN SHOW
Miss Mercedes Gilbert, i
recently in Carib Song, has re ‘<
turned m tne “Wiiiiarn and Mary”
rad.o show on the “Johnny Pro-,
sems” program over over Station'
VVKAF and the NBC network. In
addition to her radio work, Miss
Gilbert is touring the
Duttinj? on her one-woman show'
before Negro Colleges and Uni -1
'«■ ..........-• Hi*-. James P. Johnson, Johnson, jazz jazz
accompanies Miss ntu Gilbert —^
i
m the presentation of her show.
al lieutenant and Miller manned
„ |ia ,. llla , hine » n d fired
planes until
' . : ; ,i ted ;,v bomb, rendered
th e gun- uwlc'c {
Enable to ; ovver the captain by
'
tbe j n , })) 0V |.,, ( j tretcher, four of-
ficers and m u. inclu-ling Milter,
carried him from the biasing
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tered deck under the port side,
anti-aircraft guns. Dying the'
captmn ordered the ship to he
abandoned. ^rvivors made Miller their and way the to shore' other j
hand over hand along lines strung
from a boatcrane. |
Miller was said to have shot'
down four enemy planes during,
the attack .
He was lost at sea while serv-
-vj ov _ 194,'!. |
It 1 proposed that a plaque be
: erecte ,j on the heater as a m em -
orial to Miller’s heroic deeds.
IS* ACH-(TYLER HIGH
LEADERS
Continued from page 1
(
Marjorie Alexander, FBI,,
' 1 ''' Rosemary King, 8B1, 81;
* soiyn Alladen, 8B1, 80, Sarah
• Conner, 8B1, 90: Jean Miller,
8B1 90; 90; Lillian Lillian Myers, Myers, 8B1, 8B1 90;
Undine Harris, 9BI, 91; Ray-
j mend Knight, 9B4. 93; Fanny
Gordon, 7A1, 92; Arthur Craw
lord, 9B4 9 ; Dorothy Robin-
son, 7B1, 90; Lillian Jackson,
7Ed, 93; Evelyn Burnett. 7B1,
91; Leon Wilson, 7A2, 91.
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HEARS LLLAbEU i
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Chicago, (ANP—Miss Ellabell,
D#vi sengatiollal youn „ KOprano>
‘ d a , ue „ t artist before l
t c feXc . ]usive ArU duh here Suit-
day to open its season’s pro-
n , „ ,
sepsation in New York and scored j
MeTcT thi^v^r"Her" South America and
appearance
. , the , Art’s . ., club , . is . in . , keep-
the organization’s policy to !
present the stars of tomorrow,
which is responsible for the Art*
club of Chicago being listed as
the outstanding group of its kind
in the nation.
The young artist’s repertoire
Included songs in French, German,
and Spanish, a group of stirring
spirituals and an operatic aria.
ONLY A FEW CHANGES
Continued from page 1
on.
West Sav annah District, Rev. W.
O. P. Sherman, presiding elder,
St. Philip, Savannah, Rev. H. W.
Murph; Bethel Station, Savannah,
Rev. F. W. Bagby; Gaines Chapel
Savannah, Rev. L. C. Jones; Rocky
Sylvania C’ircuit, Rev, J. F. Du-
heart; Milien Circuit, Rev. L. W.
Lane; Portal Circuit, Rev. A. B.
Pullins; Graymont Circuit, Rev.
L. W. Walker; Statesboro Circuit,
Rev. A. J. Martin; Blichton Mis¬
sion, Rev. J. P. Davis Mem¬
orial, Rev. J. T. Boston; Julia
Fountain Memorial, Rev. J. W.
Maxwell; Woodcliff Mission, Rev.
M. S. Sherrod; Hunters Mission,
_____ Rev. M. _ S. Jackson; ................... Thrift Mission,
jj ev _ ^ j) pi erce; Perkins Mis-
sion, to he applied; Dover Mission,
Rev. B. J. Johnson; Mt. Carmel
Mission, Rev. W. Dorman; evangel¬
ists: Rev. W. Weston, D. Hamil¬
ton, W. Baxter, R. P. Plummer, -T.
Joyce, W. Coatey, Jesse Groover.
Thunderbolt Mission, T. Thomas,
j Waycross District, Rev. D. W.
Stevens, presiding elder. Gaines
Chapel. Waycross, Rev. W. P.
Foley; Mt. Zion Station, Waycross,
Rev. W. W. Stevens; Gaines Chap¬
el, Douglas, Rev. S. W. Grant;
Homerville Station, Rev. T. J.
Isom; St. Luke Station. Rev. J. W.
Bennett; Bethel Circuit, Rev. to
be supplied; Lakeland Circuit,
Rev. R. Rowells; Sandy Bottom
Circuit, Rev. C. H. Deminings;
Coffee County Circuit, Rev. M. C.
Welch; Willacoochee Circuit, Rev.
C. J. Lively; Pearson Circuit, Rev.
M. L. Welch; Nichols Circuit, Rev.
J. A. Elliott; Broxton Circuit, Rev.
Eddie Davis; Stockton Circuit, 1
Rev. H, R. Humphrey; Fairfax
Mission, Rev. W. H. Jackson; ,
Avgyle Circuit, Rev. B. J. Cooper;
Douglas Mission, Rev. U. Pooled
District evangelists: Rev. G. S. j
Taylor, S. S. Gibson, S. A. Wil- j
liams, I). Fedd.
;
South Savannah District, Rev.
M. T Robinson, presiding ' elder,
Jesup Station, Rev. J. R. Rice; i
Melntosh, Rev. R. Brady; St.
Thomas, Savannah, Rev. U. S.
Singleton; Fleming Circuit, Rev.
S. Dinkin; Baxley Circuit, Rev. S.
M. Cooper; Offerman Circuit, Rev.
W. Green; Towns ley Chapel, Sa¬
vannah, Rev. J. P. Lampkin; Tay¬
lor Chapel, Savannah, Rev. R.
Richard; St. Peters, Savannah,
Rev. J. A. Aiken; Hinesville, Rev.
L, Washington; Hazlehurst Cir¬
cuit, Rev. J. E. Grant; I.udowici
Circuit, Rev. William Hooten;
Patterson and Graham, Rev. U. H.
Birdie's Beauty Spot
Come in and give us a
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We specialize in Burnt,
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Styling of all art of make¬
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I j
Spring Field Lunch Room
The oldest colored lunch room in the “Down Town
District of Savannah”
For Better Food Visit
220 WEST BRYAN STREET
, HERMAN J. ROBINSON, Mgr.
timings; Hannah Chapel, Rev. H.
Nelson.
Brunswick District, Rev. C. P.
Hobbs, presiding elder. St. Paul
Station, Brunswick, Rev. I. J.
Johnson; Payne Chapel Station,
Rev - B - B Swinson; Darien Sta-
tton. Rev. T. B. Hall; Glennville
Circuit, Rev. S. S. Baitey; Euloma
Circuit, Rev. J. W. Moultrie; Jones
Circuit, Rev. P. J. Joseph; Kings-
Circuit. Rev. E. W. Johnson;
Silco and St - James, Rev. P. L.
Beljenger; Arco L. West; Wood-
bine, to be supplied; Tarboro Cir-
cuit, Rev. G. G. Burke; Gardi Cir-
cuit, Rev. R T. Brown; Folkaton
C.rcu.t and Broadhurst, Rev. H.
B-iggs; Allenhuist Mission, Rev.
0. Jackson; Hoboken and Zuta,
Rev. Willie — *---- Long; Arco «— Mission,
Rev. Louis West; Spring Bluff
and Trudy Mission, to be supplied.
Superannuated: Revs. J. W.
White, A. Z. Brown, M. N. Mc¬
Queen.
PUZZLES OVER JIM
Continued from page 1
ly a Filipino had applied for ad¬
mission in the Negro state land
grant college. President Atwood
playing safe or perhaps with his
tongue in his cheek, put the mat¬
ter up to the state department of
education and finally the attorney-
general. The latter said that
under Kentucky court definitions,
a Filipino would not be what the
law described as a Negro “and by
no stretch of the imagination could
he be called white in the sense of
ethnology.”
GEORGIANS VOTE FREE
Continued from page 1
Kentucky State college. Evident-
could not bar Negroes from voting
in the vital elections on the basis
of rulings in the Texas and Louis¬
iana cases decided by the U. S.
Supreme court and under constitu¬
tional law.
The Athens' committee’s ruling
followed a heated session in which
officials let it be known they
would not “hold the hag” in defy¬
ing Judge Davis’ ruling. It was
pointed out that Judge Davis had
the power to hold the committee
members in contempt of court and
to fine and imprison them, or im¬
pose both punishments, if 'the com-
mittee should fail to comply with
the law.
According to the Athens Ban¬
ner-Herald, two of the members
of the Clarke Executive committee
nstlUlte,i , tlle , act,on to chan , e the ..
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custom of holding a white primary
to the exclusion of Negro voters.
They informed Secy. Lumpkin they
were of the opinion that the law
required that Negroes be allowed
to vote in the Democratic pri¬
maries. A meeting of the whole
committee followed and after con¬
siderable debate, the body voted 9
to 1 to permit Negroes to vote
without restriction.
There were no incidents on elect-
ion day, although police watch was
kept over the polling places at the
provision of the committee and the .
promise of Mayor Robert L. Mc-
Worther that there would he no
confusion at the polls, Mayor Mc-
Worther was renominated reelect¬
ed to the post for the third term.
Unofficially, it was reported
that one of the three candidates
for the mayoralty nomination,
faced with the prospect of defeat
because of official allegiances and
vote ties, brought pressure to bear
on the Democratic Executive com¬
mittee to permit ruling TTcgroes to vote,
using the Davis for conven¬
ience.
Georgians generally were hail¬
ing the breakdown of the primary
barrier in Athens, hopeful that
other executive county committees
would follow the Davis ruling pat¬
tern.
ALPHA PRESENTATION GALL
Continued from page 1
Follownig the presentation
hour, during which soft chamber
music gave invitation to the
flower-bedecked crystal ballroom,
Messrs. Edsel Robinson, Toland
Collier, Herbert Hardwick, Jr.,
James Miller and James Marshal!,
five teen-age dancing partners,
made their way forward, extended
their hands in invitation to the
five debutantes for the signal
lieginning of the dance for the
This was the honor
Bn UlLHEM LCbiiE UCi::KVLS ANIW ciiaAXt
Officers of the ’’Supreme
Lodge, Ancient Order Knights
of Damon, Courts ot Herman:
Officers of the Subordinate
Lodge; High Priestess, Mrs.
Phoebe Legree; Recording Sec¬
retary, Mrs. Rosa Stewart; Fi¬
nancial Secretary, Mrs. Eliza-
Ancient Order, Knights of
Damon and Courts of Her-
men, Bethlehem Lodge. No.
137, observed its annual
Thanksgiving service at ths Da
men hall, Five-mile Bend, with
many members .friends an.d
visitors in attendance.
This is a well known and
prosperous organization of
dance. T remendous applause
greeted each couple as they took
the floor ’midst flashing of photo
corneas.
D ’ring intermission, all guests
relinquished the floor to brothers
in Alpha I’hi Alpha who sang the
Alpha Hymn with true love and
devotion to the fellowship.
Alpha hosts for the evening
were: Brothers W. G. Dixon, J.
W. Wilson, C. V. Clay, W. P.
Hubert, H. M. Collier, Jr., S. M.
McDew, Jr., M.* G. Haynes, R.
M. Gilbert, R. W. Moore, A. A.
Alston, L. D. Perry, Walter S.
Scott, Jr., E. A. Peacock, J. Q.
Adams, H. W. Murph, A. Cox,
H. W. Norris, and W. H. Nelson.
Social Committee: Dr. S. M.
McDew, Jr., Chairman; Dr. H.
M. Collier, Jr., Co-Chairman, Dr.
A. A. Alston, Mr. Walter S.
Scott, Jr.
U. S. SWINDLE CASE
Continued from page 1
conducting the probe into the al¬
leged meal swindling racket that
reportedly deprived traveling GIs
J of chickens, steak? and chops paid
.for by the government.
I All but one of the 18 men plead-
|el not guilty to the charges. Rob¬
ert Edward Hairston, a Chicagoan,
j witness, pleaded guilty but his and testimony became was a U. in¬ S.
sufficient to convict the 17. The
i government withdrew hi- guilty
j plea and freed him along with the
rest.
Judge LaBuy expressed no
1 doubt that some were guilty of
fraud, hut remarked that the ease
’ cou!d not be continued “because
of insufficient evidence of con¬
spiracy."
i The release of the men is being
hailed here as a crowning victory
, to the cause of labor unions by Lo-
! cal No. 351 and the Joint Council
Dining Car worker*. A dec-
nnfcr^’ nrrTMRr-’ s vt%
Andrew Johnson, Robt.
Degree, Sam Steele, Henry Coop
r, James Williams, Phoebe Le-
;c-th Verdier; Treasurer, Mrs.
Eva Williams; Junior Daisgh-
.cr, Miss Prlicillo Williams;
Worthy Daughter, Miss Eliza
Johnson; Sword Bearer, Airs.
i great benefit to its many mem¬
j bers. it has also enjoyed a
long period of growth and pro¬
1
gress, ths supreme lodge hav-
I ng been organized January 29,
1909. and Bethlehem Ledge. No.
•137. on June 19, 1,922.
There are 286 courts. The
officers of the supreme court
are F.sv. Andrew Jchnson, su-
laration that both railroad unions
would defend the accused men to
the last was made sometime ago
by Richard W. Smith, secretary-
treasurer of the Joint Council, and
Harrison T. Brooks, representative
of Local No. 351. The union’s de-
fense was not made in a spirit to
condone stealing, hut with a de-
termination to make the govern-
nient prove its case, they said,
“The statement that dining car
waiters were out t-o exploit GIs
has definitely been proven false,”
said Henry L. Balaban, the union’s
lawyer. “The charge of corispira-
cy also has been proven false. I
was of the opinion from the be-
ginning that such charges could
net stand.”
Meanwhile, conviction of 24 New
York Central dining car workers
seem imminent in New York on
the same charges. Brooks disclos-
ed. About 100 white and Negro
dining car workers were rounded
up in the east at the same time as
they were arrested here.
Conviction of the men in the
east is said to he due primarily to
conceded conviction by union
er». who frantically tried to
release of the men hv maneuvering
behind-the-scenes.
S P TO PASS
Corftinued from page 1
C aunty. Virginia, to Baltimore.
When the hus arrived at Saluda,
Virginia, she was asked to move
back to the rear of the bus.
After she did not comply with
the request, she was arrested ami
charged with violation of the Vir¬
ginia law requiring colored pas¬
sengers to sit in the hack of buss¬
es. She was convicted in the cir¬
cuit court of Middlesex County on
Octoher 18,1944. and fined $10 and
costs.
Her ca»« was appealed to th
ree, Mrs. Addie
VIrs. Agnes Bryant and Mrs.
Lucy A. King.
Candis Williams; Senior Baugh
ter, Airs. Lucille Graham; In¬
ner Guard, Airs. Maude Styles;
Chairman of Fi nance, g
Maggie Lovett. ▼
preme commander; Rcbt Copp-
tr, Sr. c om mander: Sam Steele,
Jr. commander; Henry Cooper.
prelate; James Williams, Ireas-
urer; Mrs. Phoebe Legree, in-
ner guard: Mrs. Addie M. Coop-
er. financial secretary; Airs.
Agnes Bryant, sword bearer:
Mrs. A. King, grand worthy
daughter.
Supreme Court of Appeals of Vir-
ginia on a writ of error. That
court on June 6 affirmed her con-
viction, holding that the Virginia
statute was constitutional and ap-
plied to interstate as well as local
passengers. A motion for a re-
hearing was denied by the Virginia
Supreme Court of Appeals in Sep-
tember.
The only other case involving
the question of the application of
state Jim Crow laws to interstate
passengers to reach the Supreme
Court was that of Hall vs DeCuir,
in 1877. Tn that case the Supreme
Court held that the local statute
in Louisiana prohibiting segrega-
tion of passengers did not apply
to interstate travelers.
Since that time the other cases
to rfach the Supreme Court have
involved questions of equality of
accomodations for segregated pas¬
sengers.
The Morgan case, said Thurgood
Marshall, “is the first case which
clearly challenges the validity of
segregation statutes as applied to
passenger? in interstate commerce
and on interstate carriers.”
Cooperating with Mrs. Morgan
in testing the constitutionality of
the Virginia Jim Crow law are
both the State Conference of
Branches of Virginia and the na¬
tional office of the National As¬
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People. v
Besides Mr. Marshall. Mrs. Mor¬
gan’s counsel include William H.
Hastie, chairman of the national
legal committee of the NAACP,
and Leon. A. Ransom and Spott#-, :«-w
. wood W. Robinson III. membe ‘ J
of the legal committee.
Mrs. Morgan is a native of Mid¬
dlesex County.
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