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“America' America! God shed His grac
on thee, brotherhood .
And crown thy good with
From to shining ’
sea sea.
»hat th to “ S it Un That is'the way °<>1'
sclence People who used to hate and
felir and mistreat, we have learned to live
w&h like, and get along with. ’
and McCracken
•<***> —Dr. H. N.
BROTHERHOOD 51 \S<
Ivery year this time people do a great
1 of talking about brotherhood. They
, e some plans about it. and hold meet
i^gs about it. but do so little about it that
it becomes merely a season matter. We
* jCould not charge that the observance
l Brotherhood Sunday, or Brotherhood
•"'jffl&nth, is merely perfunctory on the people part
of all. We believe there are some
w&o observe the day, or the month, as it
.
may be, in sincerity, striving to make
” words match deeds. We do not doubt the
sincerity of those who promote intergroup
meetings. It is a fine thing to bring Jews,
Catholics and Protestants together. This
type of meeting has its purpose and per¬
haps serves it, but it touches the problem
of brotherhood and understanding at its
! k»st troublesome ]>oint. Jews, Catholic
j and Protestants have religious differences
> which may disturb the current of social
I events to some extent, but they do nofMjo-
* gin to challenge the spirit of brotherhood
i as racial differences do. To add another
\ element to these meetings, Would require
! almost all of the courage ChnsUans pos-
[ sosh. To make it a real test of earnestness,
i .how would it do, beginning now, to include
[ Negroes in the next symposium on broth-
> * erhood. .Catholic?
It is something to get Jews,
aud Protestants together. Tp quote Dr.
McCracken, “Why not hurry up the thing
iUjttle? Why not resolve . ,. to ve nture out
** IHittle to take in new group,
■* some
* pie we don’t know much about, and likJJisIP deign
* about them, and how they would <|bV!
J ask about them, to do to them as thewp
* like us to. Brotherhood includes that. too.
% ’ you see. It’s just ahead of us in the road
. .
*? of peace and understanding and good will.
•« And some day, please, God, we’ll get there,
if we keep everlastingly at it."
,
NEGRO POLICEMEN
It appeal's from news reports that At¬
lanta is considering the matter of employ¬
■ ing Negro policemen. This is a touchy
■ matter in the South even though some
m southern cities have Negro policemen.
Two very true and interesting observa¬
tions were made in the Atlanta Forum:
Dr. Glen Rainey said, “that instead of hav¬
ing confidence in the city’s law enforce¬
ment department. Negroes have only fear
of it”; H. A. Yancey of Greensboro, North
CafPlina. told that the plan had been en¬
tirely satisfactory in Greensboro and that
“its success depends on full co-operation by
white officials and police.”
We believe some of the tension existing
in certain sections of most southern cities
could be eased by the presence of Negro
policemen. It is often apparently true
that white policemen are not concerned
about being courteous to Negroes, to say
nothing of being cordial and kind to Ne
gro children. It is in this that Negro
Wings Over Jordan Choir
To Resume Broadcasts Mar 3
a Columbia Networks
* Ovlt Jordan” choir, bi^ik
» * ar^extended i tour of
tn*Troops Italy, France.
* Belgium and Germany,
« sumes broadcasting
2 March 3, after a year's
- <WABC-CBS. 10:30-11:00 a.
* EST ■. The all-Negro choir
* under the direction of the Rev
fc Glenn T. Settle.
I The initial broadcast will
* given from the studio#
* WABC. New York
* that the choir begins a
tour through the south
r will broadcast from cities
the concert schedule.
The “Wings Over
choir became a network
*gram on January 2, 1938.
* was heard regularly each
* day, until departure overseas
-t DtifThg .the group's
^ notable choral
filled the time. In the
l years the program has
wiWt'BS. it has become
tog* popular with
are missing' the benefits which
come from friendly relations with the of-
Geers of the law~of-the-la\v itself-a benefit
v ye believe woul pay of I in reduced hos-
tility between Negro adults and policemen.
The average Negro does riot feel that the
policeman is his friend and protector.
“When a typical chief of police was faced
squarely .with the question why it would
not be a good thing to provide this avenue
of understanding for Negro school children
(friendly relations between the school
and the policeman), the only answer
was that he had not thought about it." . .
“Some others rather haltingly suggested it
could not he worked out because the Negro
child would not be accepted in the same
con jj a ] fashion as the white child.’’ If
this is generally true, it would seem to be
good reason for having Negro policemen.
should be no dearth of good officer
material now that there are so many col-
ored men who have had army experience
some of which they gained as military po¬
licemen. In the event that Negro police¬
men are employed, the men chosen should
IKS® policemen"
analysis Negro will be effi-
cient only to the extent to which the en-
tire machinery of government stands be¬
hind them. They will succeed just as white
policemen succeed, and as Negro policemen
succeed in other sections of the country.
I he rehearing of the Primus King case
was scheduled to begin Tuesday February
19, in New Orleans. Probably the whole
country is watching the outcome of the
case. We wonder what effect the pres-
t?nce of the stale' lawyer, will have on it,
since the democratic primary in Georgia is
alleged to have no connection with the state
government.
WHAT IS AMERICA?
By Ruth Taylor
The other evening a man, rich in years
and experiences, told me a story which
sums up in a few words just what Ameri¬
ca is.
The story goes as follow’s: A Viking-
crew, satiable one of those daring breed whose in¬
curiosity drove their small galleys
into all parts of the world, sailed up a riv¬
er in France. They were met by the chal¬
lenge: “From whence do ye come and who
is your master?’’
“We The Vik.^fj Arbor answered all the earth,, • with and the we~call . ^hout
come
nni no man ‘m ester.V of /4MI.1HW
ttfrfi ho went on to say: “Is*not this the
ljoyftiuji of the United States?” 1
rhe analogy applies clear down the line.
America was founded by men whose insa¬
tiable desire for freedom drove them to seek
progress and prosperity across the seas.
Those who came here were dating souls,
ingfii 1 tu-Ilye to the fullest, ready to- work
ahead,-quick to take evenjr op-
unity Arkjjgqn. Bin.(advancement, for, themneUnAi
their >p <>j. t :
hey eft no-,-like the Vikings, from, all
the earth twinging with them the best in
racial, national and religious culture which
in the natural evolution of our society are
fusing into one unified whole, in which the
best of each strain is per served and dig¬
nified.
In America there are no dual nationali¬
ties. A man may be—should be—proud of
the country from which he comes but his
allegiance is here and he proves it by his
actions. Americans are not divided by
their religions. Protestants, Catholics or Jew
—they all -say with deep feeling, “iti God
\ve trust.” We Americans come from all
Tie earth—but we come from and our
hearts are where we are.
We call no man master. We have not
been part of the fuedal system. We have
been free men on this soil and we owe our
fealty only to our God and our country—
which is of our own making and of our own
ruling.
But to go a step further in the analogy,
we too must have the close cooperation of
the Vikings—the respect given to the in¬
dividual no matter at what task he works,
the cooperation of shipmates who rely one
on the other-.
“We come from all the earth, and we call
no man ‘master.’ ”
representing all faiths in
sections of the country.
The choir left aboard the
s. s. West Point, along
4,500 GIs, on April 4. 1945,
j after ten months touring
j camps returned February
If46. They fir-t landed in
! pies and moved to
headquarters of the Allied Com-
j mand. There on news of Presi-
| dent Roosevelt’s death.
participated in a special me-
morial service singing
Lord's Prayer
j At viareggio, the alHNegro
92nd division of the 5th army
j General myier the E command M. Almond, of
assem
bled to hear the "Wing#
Jordan” dedicatory
"We ll Understand it Better
| Bye and Bye ' The Rev. Mr.
Settle and each member of
choir received citations
meritorious services.
At Genoa they participate-
in a special ceremony markin
the restoration of the ashes of
Masonic Grand Lodge Wins
Important Properties Case
Wilmington, N. C. — The
cent decision handed down
Judge l.uther T. Hamilton
Morehead City in the
Court of New Hanover
established a precedent for
recovery of properties of
mant Masonic lodges. The
cision upheld the code of
Most Worshipful Grand
of F. & A. A. Masons of the ju¬
risdiction of North
The grand lodge was named
a party in a civil suit that
out of the case of Peter Bar¬
ber versus Giblem Lodge, No. 2,
of Wilmington for a division
of the a-sets of said lodge. The
assets consisted of a three-sto-
ld g 0.i alUed
«imateN M
suit principally involved the
rights of a transfer and own-
ershin eiship nf of this thic building, KniWincr located
m a prominent aeetion o, the
‘
-
The grand lodge won the
case After the case had
up the calendar of the court
for five days, a consent decis-
ion was rendered in favor of
the M. W. G. Lodge of F. & A.
A. Masons of North Carolina,
which Dr. James E. Shepard,
president of North
State College for Negroes, is
the M. w. G. Master. This was
a striking moral victory for
this organization, which is
composed of representative Ne¬
groes throughout North Caro¬
lina.
This case established a long-
wanted precedent for properties
of dormant lodges. Such prop-
Pullman Porters Organizer
Working Local District
A. M. Cottry, an organization
worker for the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters, arrived
in the city this week to
the membership drive of the
organization.
Mr. McCottry. who works
of the porters'
will be in the city for
ime enrolling members and
otherwise working in the in¬
terest of the organization
which was formed in 1935 and
has accomplished so much for
the sleeping car porters and
allied workers throughout the
country.
Chicago Mayor And ~Y
Civil
Liberties Head Sued
Chicago i ANP ) White south i
side landlords, in a desperate
fight to bar Negro home seek- j
ers from moving into so-call
ed white neighborhoods here
in the face of swiftly crumb]
ing ai?sti-\Negro restrictive co¬
venants, have filed a *15,000
suit against Mayor Edward J.
Kelly and Ira Latimer, execu¬
tive secretary of the Chicago
Civil Liberties Committee.
Information of the suit was
supplied last week by Alton D. ’
Baird, a member of the newly
formed anti-Negro White Inde¬
pendent Citizens’ committee,
who has spearheaded the cam¬
paign to bar Negroes from the
fashionable southside Drexei
avenue area by supplying “not
for sale" signs to his neigh¬
bor#.
Baird s organization is alleg¬
ed to be a by-product of the
race-bating Oakland-Kentwood
Property Owners’ Association
that waged a 25-year losing
battle through threats, vio¬
lence and court actiton to bar
Negroes from that area. .
“We do things the property
association can’t afford to do
officially." tic said.
Baird, a resident in the Drex¬
ei avenue vicinity for 12 years,
denounced Jews as well as May-
EQUAL PAY FOR
EQUAL WORK
Washington, D c. iNNPA) —
Representative Clare Boothe
Luce. Republican of Connecti¬
cut. introduced in the Hbuse
last Thursday a concurrent res¬
olution to establish a joint
congressional committee on
equal pay for esual work with¬
out regard to race, color or
creed.
The committee would study
national problems involved in
the establishment and opera¬
tion of an equal pay bureau in
the Labor Department to en¬
force equality of pay for equal-
ity of sevice rendered.
It would also be the duty of
Christopher Columbus to Hie
original resting place. The
ashes had been moved to the
mountains by Partisans for
sa.fe keeping before the Nazi
occupation.
After six months of concerts
a ‘l over Italy. they flew to
i Pans entertained lor two
month-; in northern France,
went 011 t0 Belgium for a
month and concluded the tour
with a month in Germany.
| During Hie absence of the
TVinys Over Jordan choir
suesi y.oups hea.d on CBS in-
i i eluded. ,Fisk University cho:r,
j Nashville. Tenn.; Tuskcgce In¬
stitute Choir of Tuskegee I 11 -
j stitute, Technical Ala.: Agricultural Greens- and
College of
; boro, N. C., The Legend Singers
i Louis. Mo.; Combined
j ! Glee Clubs of Atlanta Univer-
| S1 ' Morehouse and Spelman
1 Colleges. Atlanta. Ga.: Camp
| Meetin' Choir of Charlotte. N.
C.
sus could not be hid be-
0 His light didn't flicker,
to come anyhere being
ike Him. one with Satan must
not dicker.
TUM BAT ASIAN TSXBUS1
erties, according to the decis¬
ion of the Superior Court
New Hanover county, revert to
the grand lodge. This
created pronounced state-wide
interest
The parties bringing ... the ~ liti- .....
gation against the grand lodge
were former members of Gib¬
lem Lodge, No. 2. They were
Peter Barber, Charlie Bryant,
Enoch Whitfield and Petty
George. One of the lawyers lor
the grand lodge said that the
group, instituting the suit, en¬
tered into a conspiracy “to
cheat the brethren and keep
tlic property lor themse’f/es.”
He said that this group
| j courtT themselves.” paUi^Ihe Tope^
among
1
Accordina to 1 the U ‘ e decision declMon 01 01
the court the property involved
ls to revert to the M W. Orand
j .Lodge of the jurisdiction of
North Carolina with the fof-
lowing members of the grand
j J lodge acting as trustees: Dr.
G. D. Carnes. Wilmington;
[ C w. Lawrence, High Point,
j The and Dr. J. F. lodge Hall, Greensboro.
grand will hold said
j property Lodge. No. in trust for Giblem
2.
Previous to the trial. Dr. G.
D. Carnes, deputy grand mas¬
ter, an outstanding clergyman
of the AME church, was em¬
powered by the grand lodge to
look after the interest of the
grand lodge. He and his asso¬
ciates rendered splendid serv¬
ice for Masonry in this juris¬
diction.
The organization has not
only been instrumental in se¬
curing higher pay and better
hours for the workers, but. u
has secured better working
conditions and a lifter befweeA
ing understanding th(
company and workers. The
.organization is headed by A
Philip Randolph as president,
Mr. McCottry is meeting
thc workers every day 11 a. nr
to 1 p. m.. Monday through
Friday, at the West Broad
street USO. He will probably
be in Savannah through next
week.
or” Kelly and Latimer They
were charged with aiding
groes to break restrictive co-
venants and fraternizing with
niggers.”
“My son was fighting to save
those same Jews that Hitler
wa# killing, and what do they
do but sell out to the niggers
while my son is out fightiim
°
to save them ”
He despaired that Jews fra-
ternized with Negroes, invite
them to their homes, “eat with
them, go to shows'with them;
they even brush off their
coats.’ He expre-sed jubilation
over the bombing of a Negro
preacher’s home, that of the
Rev. Theodore Dabney last
year. Rev. Dabney and his wife
merely missed being burned to
‘
“You know," Baird continued.
Mayor Kelly and his niggei
votes and stoogy judges don't
do no good. We’re suing him
and liis flunky, Latimer, lor
*15,000 apiece.”
Mrs. Mabel Matax. one of bis
neighbors, declared that “I’d
rather move out of Chicago if
I had to live next door to nig¬
gers. Five Negro families have
already moved into her block,
and more are slated to become
residents in the near future.
the committee to formulate
recommendations and propos¬
als for a comprehensive and
coordinated program for deal-
ing with problems of wage Gil-
cientials based on sex.
or creed of workers who
form equal work with equal
feiency.
The committee would be
posed of six senators
ed by the president of the Sen-
ate and six representatives ap-
pointed by the Speaker of the
Hou#e. The appointments
would be made so as to give
equal representation on the
committee to the northern.
eastern. southern western.
south central and north cen-
tral sections of the country.
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j Spotlight Capital
By *' ouis U autier For NNP.V
j President Truman does not s
< i
the {&ir employmeilt
practice issue is dead. It’s still
on his list of ’ must’’ legisla¬
tion for the reconversion peri¬
od. One result of the vfilibuster
against it will be a fight to
amend the cloture rule to make
it applicable to correction of
the minutes and appeals from
the rulings of the chair.
Six senators who vote!
against limiting debate on the
bil >f 11 COme ** ^ «*
^ le ‘' tlon this year . ar ®
, Anc rews of Florlda . Bilbo of
-
Mississippi, Byrd of Virginia,
CarviUe ,1,” of Nevada McFadaild Gerrv of
of
Arizina. McKellar of Tennessee,
Radcliffe w^eel^ot' of Montlnm Maryland and
all Dem-
ocrats.
j Since the United States Su¬
preme Court has declared that
colored electors cannot be ex¬
cluded from white primaries,
which are equivalent to elec¬
tions in southern states, color¬
ed voters will have an opportu¬
nity to retaliate against An¬
drews, Bilbo. Byrd. McKellar
and Radcliffe. All they need do
is qualify to vote.
Colored people constitute 27.1
per cent of the population of
Florida, 49.2 per cent of Mis¬
sissippi’s population,, 27.4 pqr
cent of Virginia’s, n.4 per cent
of Tennessee’s and 16.6 per
cent of Maryland’s. Of course.
Mississippi, Tennessee and
Virginia are still poll tax
states. But a lively campaign
to induce colored people in
those states to pay their poll
j taxes, spearheaded by the Nat
I iongl Association for the
| vancement of Colored
ought to, at least, throw
' scare into Bilbo, Byrd and Me-
1 Kellar.
i - —
j Neither intimidation nor a
tax interferes with color-
ed people's voting in arti
Tire qualifications for them
I the same as they arc for whitij
people. Colored people consti- Mary-j
tutc 16.6 per cent’ of
I land’s population. Henbe. Rad-j
* cliffe ought to be a lame duck
, after the Maryland elections. ■
! If colored voters don’t get him;
j I in the primary, they ought not
miss him in the election.
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sixteen senators who voted ■
a S ainst Siting debate on the;
FFPC come U P for selection j |
in 1948 Ti)ey are Baile y of
■
• North Carolina, Bankhead of
Alabama, Bridges of New
Hampshire, Bushfieid of South
Dakota, Eastland of Mississip¬
pi, Ellender of Louisiana, Hatch
of 01 New Mexico. Mexico. Hawkes Hawses of ox New
! Je pey, McClelland of Arkan-*
sas ' Ma J rba » k of South Ca ro '
lina, Moore of Oklahoma, “Pap- 1
py" O’Daniels of Texa-,
ertson of Wyoming, Russell of
Georgia. Stewart of j
and White of Maine—ten Dem-
ocrats and six Republicans.
i By 1948 C0l 7 ° red VOterS ° U&W
!
to br better entrencheci
south ’ If thcy are ’ they slloulCl
remember the despicablenesS’,ot
? an .^f ad ” ^ Ua " d ' J de " d * r
Maybank. O’Daniel and Rus¬ _
sell. Bailey, Moore and Stew¬
art come from states where the
colored vote is already size¬
able. The perfidy of Hawkes
and White, especially White, is
not to be forgotten.
White is the minority floor
leader. He occupies the same
position in relation to Ttepubli-
can senators that Majority
Leader Alben W. Barkley of
Kentucky occupies to Demo¬
cratic senators. The Republi¬
can party by its party platform
pledged itself to support FEPC
j legislation. An overwhelming
maJorit |. of Republican sena-
tors voted in caucu „ to support
cloture whlte triVd to divest
llilTlself of his min0 rity lead-
ership by declaring that he
was speaking only for himself,
But he could do that only by
resigning the office. He was
j still he announced the minority he leader would vote
I against cloture and denounced
j \ the bill. ,
— *—
Eleven senators who voted
| against cloture on the for FEPC
bill will not come up re-
election until 1950. They are
THURSDAY, FEB. 21, V>46
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And Chapte rs Notes
Past Grand Master D. D.
Powell of the jurisdiction of
Florida, passed away Monday.
He has been grand master of
this jurisdicti&n for about a
quarter of a century. In more
recent years he has not been
-
good health. „ Two
enjoying
years ago Grand Master Henry
succeeded him. The funeral
will take place in Jacksonville
next Monday. Grand Master
Dobbs and possibly others from
Georgia will attend the funeral
Wednesday night the 80th
anniversary of Eureka Lodge No.
1, was observed. Eureka Lodge
is the oldest fraternal organi¬
zation in the state and among
the oldest in the south. For
eighty years Eureka Lodge has
been meeting regularly.
• • *
Ezra Consistory, Scottish
Rite, will meet Sunday after¬
noon at 4 o’clock. A large at¬
tendance is expected.
* * * *
A class is being organized for
Wllberforce To Observe Vi I’/
yi>*n y.
Its 90th Anniversary Sunday
Wllberforce, Ohio. — Wilber-
force University will observe
its ninetieth anniversary of
continuous operation under
the same educational title and
designation with a special
Founders Day celebration on
Sunday, February 24.
The program for the day will
begin with a radio broadcast
from station WLW featuring
an address by Dr. Charles H.
Wesley, president of Wilber-
force University, and the Wil-
berforce Dramatic club and
singers. The broadcast will be
from 10 to 10:30.
At 11 a - m - a special religious
serv ' cc wid de d(dd iu Jones
Memorial auditorium, at which
B:snop R. c. Ranso Ransom, bishop
of the Third Episcopal District
of the AME church and chair¬
man of the Wllberforce Uni¬
Fulbright of Arkansas, George
Georgia. Gurney of South
Dakota, _ Hayden of Arizona,
Hill of, Alabama, Hoey of North
C arolina 1 Johnston of South
,
Carolina.'McCarran of Nevada,
MUlikiri of Colorado. Overton
°f Louisiana and Tydings of
Maryland- nine Democrats and
two Republicans.
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Trivia. Treasury Department
officials credit Hamilton Jen-
kms of Denver. Colorado, a
blind man who is led by a see-
inE eye dog ' with sellid K DOS,-
500 in war bonds during the
Victory Loan drive. That
amount added to his sales in
previous drives approaches a
total of a half million dollars.
The Colored War Finance com¬
mittee informed Finley Wilson,
Elks grand exalted ruler, that
Jenkins gives credit for all of
his #ales to the Elks.
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USO wants to set up a sep-
arate club .for colored soldiers
in iof all places) China
General Douglas MacArthur
being blamed for the ban on
Negro civilian workers in Ja-
pan.
EXPLAINS WHY
ELKS’ LODGES :
SUSPENDED i
j
Washington, D. C. (NNPA)—
J. Finley Wilson, grand
ruler of the Improved Benevo¬
lent and Protective Order ol
Elks of the World, said suspen¬
sion of Imperial Lodge No. 127
and Brooklyn Lodge No. 32.
both of New York city, was due
to their failure apd refusal to
return lodge property to the
lodges from the fraternal cor¬
porations which hold title.
Elk by-laws provide that any
lodge which fails to hold its
property directly shall be sus-
pended. The grand secretary
sends out yearly a question¬
naire to each lodge which re-
quires it to disclose to him and
the grixnd exalted ruler the
ownership of its property, in-
eluding the bar. its operation
and the volume of business be¬
ing done.
Mr. Wilson said that for three
years he had tried to get Im
perial and Brooklyn lodges to;
-ubmit such reports, but they,
the 32nd degree and fdf*the
Shriners. Illustrious PoWhtii.e
Thomas hopes to h&Hj) his
ceremony at an early d£te and
the prospective applicants
should act at once.
It is encouraging ♦ * * * # to note that /
several of the officers of perfgc" som«V
lodges are trying to
themselves in rendering the
degree work more perfectly.
This is more important th(in
i learning the ^lectures, iv
Cne of the inspiring pgrts of
the communication of the lodge
is to make more impressive .^he
opening and closing of the
lodge.
• • •
Mrs. Rachel Hudson of New
York, is spending a while in the
city visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Ruth Moody, and grand-dftugh-
er, of Montgomery street. She
is a former resident of Savan¬
nah.
versity board of trustees, will
deliver the sermon. Bishop H.
D. Sims of Philadelphia" is ex¬
pected to participate gffijthe
service.
t
At 8 p. m. Dr. Ambrose Car¬
ver, senior specialist in Negro
education, U. S. Bureau of Edu¬
cation, will deliver an address
In Jones Memorial auditorium.
It is expected that a drive
now on to raise >415,737. the
balance on a long-standing
mortgage, will be successfully
concluded on this day. Presi¬
dent Wesley said that churches,
conferences, alumni and frieuRs
have contributed over $107,000
in two years to reduce the
mortgage indebtedness frdtm
*122,COO and that ah indura¬
tions point to a complete puh-
dication of the mortgage €jbt
this year.
refused to do so except once
when they answered as cbrpp-
rations. He added that hens
now merely carrying out the
mandate of the grand lodge |it
its August meeting in Philadel¬
phia when it suspended'ifnpje-
rial and Brooklyn lodgeST j
Both lodges have appealed
their suspensions and Mr. Wil-
son has forwarded their-ap¬
peals to the grand lodge'trial
committee.
Mr. Wilson said ’there, has
just been turned over from the
office of the late grand treas¬
urer. Judge Edward w. Henry,
to Acting Grand Treasurer
James E. Kelly, who is also
grand secretary, a sum indicat¬
ing that the grand lodge is in
the healthiest condition ill its
history and Brother Arthur
Brisbane, exalted ruler of Im¬
perial lodge, need njt spend
his money to g 0 nto the courts
for an accounting because the
grand lodge books are open to
Files of The Savannah
Tribune
FIFTY YEARS AGO ]
FEBRUARY 15, 1896
Miss Josephine Morel and
Mr. Jas. E. Poyas of Charles-
ton, s. C.. married Wednesday
evening at St. Benedict’s
^ c - McKane, Dr. Alice W.
Mc Kane and little Alice will ar-
rive today from Boston.
S. S. Sellers uuanhiynisly
elected chairman of the Repub¬
lican party of Appling county.
several Col. John reasons H. why Dcveaux gav<^ col-*
the
ored troops should not be dis¬
banded. Taken from the Mortal
ing ”
News.
Protest made because the
Board of Education selected,
the Longshoremen Hall for
school purpose.
Several of the colored com¬
panies paraded in honor of
Lincoln’s birthday on Wednes¬
day.
Murphy, the famous colored
jockey, reinstated by the rac-
n ~ 30111 ‘
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