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64 PUBUC CONTINUOUS YEARS SERVICE OF i
ATTENDANTS AT CONGREGATION AL-CHIISTI AN CHURCHES CONVENTION
The 55th annual session of
the General Convention of
Congregational and Christian
Churches of Georgia and South
Carolina was held at the First
Congregational church in this
city last week from April 10-
REV. A. C. CURTRIGHT
Newly Elected Moderator
12. The convention theme' was
“The 100th Anniversary of the
American Missionary Associa¬
tion—its Meaning from the
Past, its Challenge for the Fu¬
ture..” Because of illness, the
moderator. Rev. John C. Wr ght
of Atlanta, could not be pres¬
ent. The vice moderator, Har¬
old H. Thomas of Atlanta, pre¬
sided.
The convention opened with
a public mee ng Wednesday
n ght; short welcome addresses
being given by the Rev. W. C
Davis, pastor of St. Philip
Foreman Raps President For
His Stand On Poll Tax
Washington, D. C. i.NNPAi —
Clark Foreman, pres'dent of
the Southern Conference for
Human Welfare, last Monday-
joined Senator Claude Pepper
Democrat, in express ng dis¬
approval of the statement
made by President Truman
during a press conference with
high school journaVs’.s in Chi¬
cago recently that aboVtion of
the poll tax was a matter for
southern sta’es.
Speaking on foreign (policy
before the Win the Peace Con¬
ference on April 7, Senator
Pepper said: “I, do not agree
with those who say this is. a
matter for slate action alone
I do not agree with the state¬
ment made yeserday by
Pres'dent of ihe United
that ft is a matter for
spates to work out.”
Regarding Mr. Truman’s
ward fcirent change in attitude
the question of enact¬
ment of federal legislation
jS&n mboJ’sh the poll tax, Dr. Fore-
said:
“If it is true that
Truman has said tha* the peo¬
ple must seek relief from thr
poll tax only through state ac¬
tion. it must mean that
really does not intend to
for re-election in 1948.
'•Truman's administration
shown concern for
in practically all parts of
world except the United
He has sent ambassadors
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Watt-
Shf $avmmh (trilnitu*.
Monumental AME church, rep¬
resenting the Evangelical M li¬
sters Union; E. C. Blackshear,
supervisor of Fellwood Homes,
representing the citizens of Sa¬
vannah; Miss Frankie Golden,
supervisor of colored schools of
Columbia Riot Property
Damage Nearly $50,000
Memphis iANPi Destruction
of Section While Under State
Guard, Lawyer Says: Express¬
ing belief that the federal
grand jury investigation of
the Columbia riots “will bring
light into some dark corners,”
Maurice Weaver, Chattanooga
attorney and NAACP counsel,
told it.he association Memphis
unit last week that between
$30X00 and $50 000 damage had
been done to property of Ne¬
groes in Columbia while state
guard and highway patrolmen
were in charge.
Describing the general pa.t-
tern of news stories on the
riot as a “complete whitewash”
and naming signed articles in
the Chattanooga Times in par¬
ticular, Weaver told his audi¬
ence that “every Negro , busi¬
ness establishment in CoAim-;
bia was raided and rat poison
spread on the floor of many
of them.
“In the Morten Funeral
home,” he said, “the init'als
KKK were written on a casket
and every window in the build-
ng was knocked out by rifle
Continued on page Seven
Governor Arnall Promises
Fight Against Primary
Vote Law Jugglers
Atlanta , ANP)—Under threat
of Gov. Arnall’s veto of
legislative action taken to
abolish the county unit vote
and laws against election
in order to continue the ban
on Negroes' voting in
forces led by Eugene
renewed their fight against
Negro participation in the
maries. Gov. Arnall. who has
the support of Senate Presi-
dent Frank Gross and the At-
lanta Council of Church
m on this issue, said; .
“I am persuaded that the
legislature w 11 not do away
with the Neill Primary act. I
'm persuaded that it would be
a mistake to do so. To abolish
his act would requ re two-
thirds of the members elected
to the Senate and two-thirds
of the house members. These
majorizes cannot, in my judg-
ment be obtained.”
A simple majority vote of the
Senate and House can repea'
the primary law. it was point¬
ed cut, and the governor’;
statement was interpreted a
meaning that he would veto
any attempt to repeal the pri¬
mary law. A two-thirds ma¬
jority would be required to
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Chatham county, representing
education, and Samuel Brown,
Sr., representing the members
of the F rst Congregational
church. The vice moderator
responded to these welcome
addresses. The main address
M0NSIGN0R McNAMARA DECRIES DISFRANCHISEMENT OF
Monsignor T. J. McNamara
in discussing the mass regis¬
tration of Negroes Monday
night of last week at the reg¬
ular novena exercises at the
Cathedral of St. John, decried
“the agitation which has been
engendered by pressure groups
and pressure minded individ¬
uals to create a condition
whereby a segment of our
country's citizens will be dis¬
franchised simply because of
the color of their skin.”
In his talk, Msgr. McNamara
said;
“It is, indeed, highly regret¬
table that at a time when uni¬
ty is so essential in order that
wP Americans might gather
the fruits of liberty and free-
4fm which come from the
■flfiwer’ 6f American youth
buried in foreign soils, there
should be projected into the
political scene an issue, wh'ch
can only divide our people
and ultimately convict us all
of paying lip service to the
cause, which mobilized our
youth and left its flower to
wither in distant lands. And
| Sav’h Bears
To Play Jax
Giants Sun.
The Jacksonville Giants base¬
ball 'team will play the Savan¬
nah Bears Sunday afternoon
i at Grayson stad.um. The
game is scheduled to begin at
1 3 o'clock and will be one of the
j feature attractions of Easter
j Sunday,
This will be the Bears’
, game of the season and
r
j t antic ; pate a close contest
, ^ the boys from
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HUhl IN AJlU T ^
'' ACCIDENT
_
While en route to New York
Monday on a motor trip, Ben¬
jamin Hawkshaw; Notice and
Mrs. Gussie Thomas were bad-
ly hurt near Raleigh. N. C.,
and their car suffered great
damage. Mr. Notice received
serious injur es about the face
and Mrs. Thomas suffered sev¬
eral broken limbs.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, APRIL 18. 194G
was given by the Rev. J. Taylor
Stanley, associate superintend¬
ent of the Board of Home Mis¬
sions. Greensboro, N. C. He
gave examples of the many
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conviction will follow if a vo¬
cal majority should succeed,
even though there be but tem¬
porary success to its efforts,
in disfranchising a portion of
the American electorate.
“I hold no brief for any per¬
son or persons nor for any
group or segment of the Amer¬
ican people, but I very defi¬
nitely as an American, resent
any effort to transplant in th<
American body polites ideas
that are alien to our national
traditions and professions,
ideas which are without mean¬
ing or substance when viewed
in the light of our country’s
declaration of political doc¬
Montreal Ball
Club Won’t
Bow To
Montreal iANP)—A ny south¬
ern city that doesn’t want
Jack e Robinson and John
Wright playing in their parks
against local white teams can
go fish, says the doughty Hec¬
tor Racine, president of the
Montreal Royals.
In telephonic instructions to
Mel Jones, general manager, in
Daytona, Fla., Racine told him
to refuse any games in wh'ch
the team’s Negro players
would be barred.
Already pre-season games in
Jacksonville, Savannah and
Richmond, have been cancel¬
ed because of protests against
the appearance in the lineup
of Robinson and Wright.
Continued on Page 8
Riot Victim’s Wife Gives
Harrowing Story Of Mob
Violence She Tasted
Washington, D. C. Mrs.
Jaimes Morton, wife of the Co¬
lumbia undertaker indicted for
attempted murder in the Ten¬
nessee frame-up, shared the
speaker’s platform with Dr.
Channing Tobias^ at Asbury
AME church, Sunday, April 7
before an overflow crowd c* v
more than 1,003 c'tizens. The
meeting was sponsored by the
Washington Bureau of the
NAACP.
Mrs. Morton, an eye witness
to the so-called Columbia
“riot,” on February 25, de¬
scribed the outrageous south¬
ern pol ce brutality to a hush¬
ed and shocked audience, cap¬
turing the crowd’s adrr» ration
and sympathy with ... . her , brave
J
understatement.
The Columbia woman de-
scribed how on the night of
the tragic event she had been
Many Going To Augusta To
Vote Registration Hearings
Publishers Urged To Seek White
As Well As Colored Subscribers
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Howard Appoints New Deans
Of Schools of Law - Medicine
_
Mentph s, Tennessee- A con¬
stant effort to win she cooper¬
ation and support of the. met¬
ropolitan press in chronicling
the constructive activities of
colored people in all Southern
states was advocated here the
past week end in the two-day
joint sess'ons of the Southern
and Western Regions of the
Negro Newspaper Publishers
Association in LeMoyne College
The conference, called by C
A. Scott, of Atlanta, Georgia,
president of the Southern
NNPA, took on an interesting
aspect with J. Z. Howard, man¬
aging editor of the Memphis
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Washington' (ANPi- Two
pointments and a resignation
were announced at Howard
university here last week.
George M. Johnson,
deputy executive director of
FEPC, was named to succeed
William II. Hastie as dean
the law school, Dr. Joseph L.
Johnson was appointed dean
of the school of medicine, and
Leon A. Ransom handed m his
Continued on Page 8
NEGRO
minded individuals to create
a condition whereby a
of our country’s citizens
be disfranchised simply be¬
cause of the color of their
skin. Such agitation is
nitely un-American such agi¬
tation is definitely un-Chris¬
tian.
“In a democracy such as
ours voting is an obligation in
conscience and the shame of
it is that so many of us whites
Continued on page Seven
trine, or its constitutional re¬
quirements, or its supreme tri¬
bunal’s definitions and decis¬
ions.
“But more, I regret the blot¬
ting out of Christian values
and the loss that will be sus¬
tained by the Christian con¬
science when emotions are ir-
rat onally aroused and men
will trespass.upon r’ghts which
they will continue to claim for
themselves while denying them
to others whose claim is equal¬
ly established.
“By now you know that I am
referring to the agitation
which has been engendered by
pressure groups and pressure-
Teachers To
Meet At N.C
College
Montgomery, Ala. (ANPi—
The American Teachers Asso¬
ciation has accepted the invi¬
tation of President James E.
Shephard to hold its 42nd reg¬
ular convention and Its 45th
annual meeting at North Car-
olina College in Durham be-
ginn'ng Tuesday night, July 23.
and extending through Thurs-
day n'ght, July 25.
The last regular convent’ons
were held at West Virginia
State College in 1941 and at
Tennessee A. and I. State Col¬
lege in 1944. Because of war¬
time travel restrictions, just
spec’al national conferences of
org mizaton representatives
were held at Lou sville in 1942,
Continued on page Seven
attending a meeting of Colum¬
bia c'tizens who were interest¬
ed n building a high
for Nr^.ro children in the rab¬
id Negf.-o-hftting community,
when her husband called fdr
her, explain'ng that trouble
was brew'ng and that the
, town's white citizens were op-
enly void ng lynching threats,
Mr. Morton raid that a mob
was forming, and, advised the
people at the meeting to hur
' ry to their various homes and
I be prepared to protect them-
| selves and their families
against mob violence. *
About midnight that night,
a man, who described himself
as a United Press representa-
, tive, came into the Mortons’
• . home _ on the ,, pretext .... of seeking , .
interv:ew. . , Five minutes
an
later, members of the state pa-
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Hotel Fires
Negro
Bellmen
Jackson, Miss. (ANPi The
Edwards hotel heir fired its
Negro bellboys here last week
and replaced them with white
bellboys.
Patrons at the Edwards had
been served by Negro bellboys
for almost three quarters of a
century.
No notice was given to the
bellboys until the day the
change was made. Bellboys
coming to work for the eleven
o’clock shift found the white
boys already in uniform and
at work. According to reports
this was the first knowledge
that even the bell captains had
that the change was being
contemplated
The Edwards usually employs
Continued on Page Kttbt
Savannah District P-TA
Leads State In Membership
Negro Workers In Califor¬
nia Intimidated Show of
Ku Klux Hatred
Ft. Valle-
To Observe
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Fort Valley, Ga. The an¬
nual Hubbard Day exercises
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ATLANTA LIFE INSURANCE CO. HONORS VETERAN SALESMEN
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Los Angeles (ANPi An In¬
tention to smash the rebirth
of the Ku Klux Klan in Cali-
forn'a was announced last
week by Atty. Gen. Kenny af¬
ter five Negro day laborers had
been intimidated in B’g Bear
Valley, a summer resort 100
miles from here, and several
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NUMBER 27
A large number of witnesses
and other interesting persons
will leave here eariy Thursday
morning. May 2, for Augusta
to be present at the hearings
in the two cases which have
been filed against Tax Collec¬
tor John L. Cabell of Chatham
county by a group of Negro
citizens who allege, in the first;
case that he ha.s been using
unfair and restrictive measures
against Negroes who attempt¬
ed to qualify as registered vot¬
ers. In the second case, they
are asking that Mr. Cabell be
forced to make the registration
records of his office available
for public examination.
The matter of registrut.ou
and inspection of the records
in the tax collector’s office
arose several weeks ago when
he claimed that there were
only 3,600 Negroes registered as
voters as against 7,000 claimed
by a committee of Negroes who
for the past six’ months have
been sponsoring a registration
campaign among the Negro<.
of the county. In a conference
between Mr. Cabell and the
committee, when Mr. Cabell
was asked to allow his records
to be examined, he refused,
stating that tills was imprac¬
ticable since the records of his
office were in constant and
continuous use.
The original suit in equity
against the tax collector was
set for hearing April 15 and
Continued on page Seven
The annual session of the
Georgia Congress of Colored
Parents and Teachers was held
In Stewart Chapel AME
church, Macon, April 8-10 with
the Bibb County PTA as host¬
ess. The meeting was largely
attended a'rtd the interest high.
The ministers of Macon were
out in large numbers to make
the .convention welcome and
took part In discussion of the
topic, “The Place of the
Church in Post-War Educa¬
tion.” A large number of bus¬
iness men and women were
present to lend their support as
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