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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
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PRESENT AT INITIAL MEETING FOR $500,(00 LINCOLN UNIV. DRIVE
At a meeting of the planning
committee of the Lincoln Uni¬
versity Alumni Association at
the Pyramid Club. initial
gifts totaling ¥44,000 were an-
nounced as the $500,000 cam-
Week Feb. 24-Mar. 2
BROADCAST , ESSAY
CONTEST TO FEATURE
OBSERVANCE
New York. N. Y. Two net-
■itK'u-k programs have just
arranged by a committee
ed by Dawdal H. Davis of
Kansas City Call as
of the 1916 observance of
ional Negro Newspaper week
.
and the 199th anniversary
the Negro press.
The celebration this year
take place during the week of
February 24-March 2.
A brilliant array of
and military leaders and out¬
standing artists has been as¬
sembled for the two broadcasts
one over CBS on Sunday.
Continued on page three
Norfolk Gets Its Fourth
Neg ro Policeman
Norfolk, Va. (ANP) — Ap¬
pointment last week of two
Negro policemen here brings to
four the number now serving
on the force. The first ever
named for that capacity in
proving 1
Norfolk, the four are
very satisfactory, Police Chief
1
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Continued on Page Two
To Discontinue Jimcrow At Kansas Teachers College
CHART COLLEGE CAMPAIGN
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iManniiv* third annual
? P f,ei Of the united
ofiSrs Fund rational
paign study
lion being to
iir fawawtati fritamr.
paign got under way. Dr. David j
G. Morris, Lincoln alumnus J
and trustee, presented a certi-
fied check for ¥5,000 to Presi-
dent Horace Mann Bond. A to-
tal of $13,600 y/as raised at the
PROBE URGED IN SLAYING OF | ;
YOUTHFUL W AR VETERAN
Montgomery, Ala. (ANPi In-
dignant citizens heie ave Re¬
,
Quested an inves i>a mu m o
' th e slaying of -Tames *--neli.
' youthful war veteran. a-
week in a local ta J er " dl ’" n °
a ^S^t between ■ 1 on
and another man.
The sh °* tha klUed
wno ei , l! ' t c m tie aimy uii
age and saw service m Ger¬
many. came from a gun held
by Allen, witnesses charge, but
no police action has been taken
against him. Alien figured pro¬
minently in the news during
the recent laundry workers
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CAB FLIES ORC TO ENGAGEMENT
New York — To make his:
sensational recording of the hit
tune. “The Honeydripper,” Cab
Calloway flew his band 1,500
miles in his own transport
plane, it was revealed today,
In early December, Calloway
$1300 000 for the 32
Fran? ing private colleges. Seated:
M. Totton, left, a
president of Chase
Bank, national chairman;
i
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY. FE8. 14, 1946
meeting. j
The above perso'hs were pres-
e nt: Left to right, first row,,
Dr. Walter G. Alexander, Dr.
-
Continued on page 2
PLANNING FOR 1946 TUSKEGEE CLINIC
stole the march on the rest of
the music profession by pur-
chasing a C-47 from the gov-
ernments surp us stock,
LaGuardia
_
Continued on page 2
Dr F. D Patterson, right,
ident of Tuskegee
president of the fund.
Continued on page 2
Appeal I'oiirl To Hear (><i. I*rimary Case
mil NISTBIKS MET $12,500 AXII 1101SE
XAAIT* I OXIOXS OX FEW BY WAV SENATE'
DISTRICT PTA
i 0 MEET IN
BRUNSWICK
The Savannah District P.-T.
A. will convene in its annual
session March 16 at Brunswick
as the guest of Risley high
school.
Features of the meeting will
be reports from each school
throughout the eight-county
area, inspirational addresses
and the receipt of essay con¬
test papers written by high
school and junior high school
students who are competing
for the two cash prizes, s75 for
the former group and $50 for
the latter.
Mrs. J. A. Brinson is presi¬
dent of the Savannah district
OPENS ENS DRIVE DRIVE! FOR
MORE IRE MEMBERS MEMBEI
Increased membership, right-
of veterans under current , leg-
islation and benefits to be de- j
rived from membership in
regularly organized
post were highlights of the
cent meeting of Vance Allison i
Post No. 2933, the local afliL-
ate of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars of the United States, held
at po-t headquarters. Masonic
Temple, West Gwinnett street.
Continued on Page Two
The thirty-fourth annual
ciinic and meeting of the John
A. Andrew Clinical Society will
be resumed at Tuskegee Insti¬
tute from April 7 through April
12 of this year. Since the clin¬
ic was not held in 1945, the lo¬
cal committee on
in cooperation with
and dentists in all parts of
country, is endeavoring to
pare a program of post war sig¬
nificance.
The local committee
bers are: front, Lt. Col
C. Branche, Medical Corps, U
S. Army, Veterans
i Emporia, Kans. i^VNPi Seg-
rogation and discrimination
j against college d.ning colored halls students and at coffee the
j Emporia State Teach-
shops at
: er<’ Cfjllege here have been lift¬
ed, according to Dr. A. Porter
Davis, militant president of the
Kansas Conference of NAACF
branches. It was also announc¬
ed that the fight would con-
tinue by all liberals in Kansas
to ei'minate segregation on ev-
f Might r aming in Kan as
where found. A membership
drive to bring the total NAACP
membership to 25,000 member;
will be launched in 1946.
In October it was revealec
that the 15 or more colorec
students enrolled in regular
classes at this famous teach¬
ers' college, rated second in
standing in the whole United
States, were victims of gros
discrimination. The NAACf
was notified by offi-
Continued on Page 2
SCOtT LEADER TO
VISIT SAVANNAH
.A. J. TAYLOR.
field director of
service, Boy Scouts of Ameri¬
ca, vyho will arrive in the
Wedtfr-day and will
through February with adult 28 to
conference s
)f the lo.'.tl council. He ’s
'-f two No,-; roes on the
staff, succeeding Stanley
Harris t white 1 in the
office. He will meet with
41tanoochee district, whet
district ma- , s meeti ng has
arranged for February 22,
the local divisional
mittee QQ February 2 5, and
commi s . oner staff on Febru
^ go. other
are bein g scheduled,
to Martin E. Graham, field
ecutive.
Mr.{Taylor, whose home is
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Continued on page 2
Miss Eunice Rivers, R. N., spe¬
cial assistant, U. S. Public
Health Service; Dr. John W.
Chenault, medical director ol
John A. Andrews Memorial
Hoospital; Miss Lillian Holland,
superintendent of nurses, John
A. Andrew Memorial Hospital;
j Dr. B. I,. Jackson, Institute den¬
tist; (standing) Albon L. Hol-
sey, director of public rela¬
tions, Tuskegee Institute; Lew-
j is A. Jackson, public relations,
Tuskegee Infantile Paralysis
I Center; Dr. E. E. Alexander.
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ORC
A MIXED
GROUP
Nev/ York (ANPi Dyna-
laestro Lucky Millinder Js
iie prominent public figure
vho believes in practicing what
le preaches. The colorful lead-
r of the famous “Blue Rhy-
imi” band has inaugurated a
cmpletely democratic policy in
housing personnel for his ex-
ian;:ing organization. Latest i
ddit ons to iris aggregation
ohnny Belle, trumpet, and
Jerry Cox, bass, are both non-
V eg roes.
M Hinder when questioned
o whether or not these hiring*
ndicated a new policy with the
band said “No. it is not a new
but a brood policy.
these trouble nme time.-: when
minorities jire on the spot
so many places in the world
well as here in America, we
Continued on nage 2
Washington, D. C. Sharp
condemnation of the “deal'
between some of tho support
ers of FEPC, both Republican
and Democrat, and the filibus-
ter bloc Dixie senators was
contained in telegrams to sen-
ator- last week by Walter
White. NAACP secretary.
The "deal" which was rumor-
ed last week, came out into!
the open the afternoon of Feb-
ruary 7, when Republican'
Leader Wallace H. White, Jr. '
of Maine, made a speech prats-I
ing the filibusterers, declaring
he agreed with them. Immedi- j
Taft, atoly Republican alter. Senator of Robert Ohio, A. j
se
cured the floor and declared
he was willing to go along with
• this deal.” The Congressional
Record will probably not reveal
t his remark alter it has been
edited, but spectators in the
Hare Negations Honor Roll
3RD COLLEGE FU NO DRIVE TO BE
l ' CONDUCTED IN SPRING
FIRE DAMAGES
TERRELLS DRY
CLEANERS
In a spectacular blaze Tues-
day afternoon in the Altmeyer
building. 112-117 Bull street,
Terrell's Dry Cleaners, u real
estate office and a beauty par¬
lor were badly damaged.
The fire is believed to have
started in the dry cleaning es¬
tablishment, operated by Wil¬
liam H. Terrell, who reported
Continued on page 2
Two Offer For Dade
County School Board
43 ENROLLED IN A. U. SOCIALSCII.
MAJOR HOPKINS
RE-OPENS :
BUSINESS
Major T, J. Hopkins, who re
turned home recently after hav
lng served more than three
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FOREIGN STUDENTS AT BISHOP COLLEGE
Bishop College Me*-ha!!
Texas, this year ha a number
of f ore ign students wbr are
among the best integrated at
the noted institution and who
EXPENSE MONEY :
BEING RAISED 1
In Every Section
Of The State
Several Savannahians
Among Contributors,
Columbus, Ga. - Four mem-
>ers of the state legal depart-
WCTU, who is lecturing in UlT
merit will be present when the
case involving the right of a
Negro to vote in a Georgia pri¬
mary is heard by the U. S.
Fifth Curcuit Court of Appeals
in New Orleans February 19
.
Attorney General Eugene
Cook said in Atlanta a brief
had been prepared and would
bo filed in the case, cook said
that he and three assistants,
Claude Shaw, R. a. McGraw
and Daniel Duke, would appear
at the hearing.
The case originated in Mus¬
cogee county more than a year
ago when Primus E. King, a Co¬
lumbus Negro, Hied suit in U.
S. Di-trict Court contending
(Continued on nag* 2»
In a settlement of the litiga¬
tion over the estate of the lat
D. J. Hill, well known real es¬
tate dealer who died about
year ago, his three -asters arc
to receive $12,500 and the resi-
donee of the decedant at 70'
West Thirty-sixth street. The
verdict was signed Wednesday
b y a Superior Court jury at-
ter j u jg e David s. Atkinson
approved of the agreement by
the principals in the case,
The Mill estate was valued at
approximately >35.000 at his
death on March 30, M44.
i n hi- will he left three sis-
tcrs E nen Hill Robinson ol
Gennes.sre county, Michigan;
g usie Hill chandler of Han-
cock county, Georgia, and El¬
mira Hill Cosby of Hancock
county, $25 each, and named a
friend A. C. Curtright, as exe¬
cutor of Hie estate. The re¬
mainder of the estate was left
New York. The third annu-
al nation-wide campaign of the
! United Negro College Fund, to
; be conducted this spring, 'a vice| will
! have F'rank M. Totton,
1 president of the Chase Nation¬
al Bank, as its chairman, Dr.
F. D. Patterson, president of
the fund and ol Tuskegee In-1 j
s tit,ute, announced Sunday.
According to Mr. Totton, the
*946 goal will be si ,300.000.| 1
Contributions last year totaled
more than si,000,000 and were
nsrd to meet operating and,
urgent requirements of the 32
leading Negro private colleges
comprising the fund. As chair-
Continucd on page 2
H-mm and
o WHITES
Atlanta. With a banner en¬
rollment whieh includes 30
erans and 21 other new st/i-
dents, the Atlantia University
School of Social Work beg^.n its
second semester for th4> year
,1945-46 on January Three
new teachers were added to
the school faculty Vj meet the
demands of thif, increasing
student body, air.ong them be-
ContiniK/, on page 2
he e > j ;-pre--'“d zr»at pl*a«-UM
jt the opportunities offered
them and at American hospi-
tality. From several countries,
these students, shown above.
NUMBER 18
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Dr. Lawrence D. Reddik. cu¬
rator of the Schombury Col¬
lection of Negro literature of
the New York Public Library,
named twelve egroes and. six
White persons to Honor Roll of
Race Relations of 1945, during
Columbia networks Wings
Over Jordan” program Sunday,
February lp iWABC-CBS. 10:30
to 11:00 a m., ETS, from Tus-
kegee Institute Chapel, Ala.».
Each year a nation-wide poll
is conducted by the Schombufy
Collection, to determine the
eighteen persons who have dis-
tinguished themselves in race
relationship, contributing to-
wards national unity "in terms
of real democracy.” The cita-
tibns are made in connection
with Negro History Week,
tarting February 10.
The names of the 12 Negroe*
Continued on page 2
Miami (ANP). — Two Negro
candidates will run in the May
primaries for election to the
Dade county school board, it
was learned here last week,
H. S. Bragg, a Republican for
many years and one of the old
settlers of this city, has al-
ready filed his candidacy. Ha
will be opposed by Mrs. Arthesa
D. Griffin, another Republican
Continued on Page 2
U? Hazel -1 an 1 * 1 .Osrar Phil-
lips. Jamaica: Ursula Yerwood,
Panama; the Rev. Cecil A.
Lightburn, Nassau, and Orvilte
Blake. Kingston, Jamaica.—i