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64 YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LXIT
Top row, left to right—Janie Johnson, Odell Wilson, Eioisc Leggett, Mabel Lundy, Annie Mae Jackson, Edna Boggs,
Laura Smalls, Annie Joe Mel ver.
Second row—Mary Copeland, Evalina Tidmore, Alice Buren, Lula Futch, Thelma Dryer, Laura Roberts, Louise Lewis,
Sarah Harvey, Edel Osgood.
Third row—Lucile Robinson, Miami Kitchen, Virginia Thomas, Madam Bridie Freeman Robinson, founder and head of
the school; Mrs. Katie Spencer, instructor; Mamie Mincey, Dorothy Stevens, Janie Sabattie.
33 UNCF Schools Have
41 Million Dollars
In Endowments
New York—33 colleges that
serve 25,COO students and
derive their current ex¬
penses from the United Negro
College Fund, have a total en¬
dowment of less than $41,000,-
000, it was made known last
week at fund headquarters, 38
East Fifty-seventh street.
626,491 led the group in en¬
dow- ■'Hits, with Tuskegee, $7,-
101,317, Atlanta University, $4,-
036,968; Fisk, $3,584,957; Spel-
man, .*3,178,445; Dillard, More¬
house and Talladega with
slightly more than *1,000.000,-
each, and Lincoln Univ «Pa.)
and Bennett more than $700,-
000 each. The others have less
than the latter amount.
BEAUTY CONTEST AT
MELODY THEATRE
FRIDAY NIGHT
A beauty pageant, sponsored
by the Savannah World War
II Veterans’ Association will be
held at the Melody Theatre
tomorrow i Friday) night.
fjeautiful young ladies rep¬
resenting many of the leading
businesses of the city have
been entered to compete for
the prizes, which include a
three-piece luggage set, a radio,
a ring and other desirables.
The contestants will first
appear on the Melody Theatre
stage in their evening dresses,
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Large Crowd Attends Open¬
of Eastside Theatre
The opening of the Eastside
theatre, Savannah’s latest,
modern theatre for colored
people, located at Gwinnett
and East Broad streets, was
largely attended last Friday af¬
ternoon at 1 p. m.
Over 25 bouquets of flowers
were received from local and
out-of-town business concerns
congratulating the officials
ar jd management for bringing
Savannah such an attrac¬
tive and up-to-date refrigerat-
edly aT-conditioned theatre for
its colored citizens.
V p, official opening took
plac; at 8:45 p. m., at which
time Mgr. Prince, theatrically
known as Major Printz, gave
the opening address. He ex¬
tended a hearty welcome to the
hundreds of spectators and the
many thousands of theatre¬
goers of the city in behalf of
the officials of the Bijou
Amusement Company 0 f Nash¬
ville, Tenn., the Weis Amuse-
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Joe Louis Retains His
Championship
Yankee Stadium. New York,
June 19.—Joe Louis, the Brown
Bomber from Detroit,
possession of the world heavy¬
weight boxing title
when he knocked out
burgh’s Billy Conn in
eighth round of a scheduled
round contest.
A crowd of 45,266 is estimat¬
ed to have paid *1,925,564 in ad¬
missions. Louis received
h ; s night’s work a “cut” of
*577,700 and a losing end of
*337,500 was paid to Conn.
The fight, which was their
second, the first having been
won by Louis five years ago by
a knockout in the thirteenth
round, proved to be easy going
for the devastating brown¬
skinned battler. After the
fight he sa’d it was the easiest
victory he had scored in his
twenty-two defenses of the ti¬
tle except that with King Le-
vinsky of Chicago which end¬
ed in the first round when Le-
vinsky was knocked out with¬
out laying a glove on _the
champion.
In discussing the fight in his
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jirl Scouts
Raise
For Camp
It has been announced
Rev. W. C. Davis, chairman
the Girl Scou: summer
campaign, that a total
‘174.63 was raised by the
ous troops according to the
oorts made on June 15.
amount will be used to provide
additional camp facilit es.
Mrs. Coun.ess Cox, f.eld sec¬
retary of the Girl Scouts,
now in New York attending a
special institute for camp di¬
rectors. Any girl wishing to at¬
tend the Log Cabin camp which
opens in July may register now
and ge; full information
Girl Scout headquarters,
Drayton street.
The campaign report was
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The above are the graduates
of the Madam Freeman School
of Beauty Culture who were
presented diplomas last Sunday
afternoon at the commence¬
ment exercises which were held
at St. Philip AME church.
The exercises, which were at¬
tended by a large crowd, were
highlighted by an address by
HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION JOE LOVIS
Masons Hold Animated
Sessions; Delighted Over
Reception Here -
GRAND MASTER DOBBS
The seventy-seventh annual
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THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1940
the Rev. Henry W. Murph, pas¬
tor of the church. The diplo¬
mas were presented by Madam
Bridie Freeman Robinson, the
founder and head of the
school.
For many years the Freeman
School of Beauty Culture,
which is located at the south-
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A. U. Summer
School Has
1476 Students
Atlanta, June 15.—The largest
number of students to enroll
for summer study at Atlanta
University, under the combin¬
ed offerings of the seven At¬
lanta Negro colleges, is on rec¬
ord this year, according to
figures released by the office
of Director John P. Whittaker.
Of the 1,476 who are enrolled
to date, 752 are graduate stu¬
dents and 724 are undergrad¬
uates. Approximately 1 000 are
living on the campuses of the
Atlanta colleges
This year’s registration is an
increase of nearly 25 per cent
over the 1945 figures at this
same period, w?ien 1..100 had
enrolled. And it has just
about doubled the total figure
for the 1944 session, which was
783
Under the summer school’s
new program of one continu-
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L. C. T. S. GRADS
TOUR FLORIDA
Rtoeboro Ga. — The gradu-
i ation class of the Liberty
J i County Training School added
more laurels to their wreath j
i of achievements in a current
| five-day tour of some of the
i various s'tes of the state of
| Florda.
The class, under the spun*
t sorship of M ss V M. Muliino,
accompanied by Mr. and Mrs.
C. L. Rawls, left Liberty coun¬
ty Saturday morning, June J,
arrived in Jacksonville eariy
in the afternoon, where they
tarried for a short while.
Leaving Jacksonville, 'ho party
arrived in Gainesville late Sat¬
urday afternoon. Gainesville
was used as the pivoting spot
of the tour. From this point,
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Miss. Supreme Trial For (Court Condemned Orders
New Man
"IXSES?'"
W. Dickerson Donnelly, pro¬
vincial polemarch of the Kap¬
pa Alpha Psi fraternity, lias
been given the commission by
Augustus G. Parker, grand
polemarch. to establish an
alumni chapter at Tallahassee,
Florida, Saturday, June 29.
Mr. Donnelly will leave June
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SAVANNAH’S NEWEST
southeast corner of West
the Smoke Shop; Palmer
Peeling that 6avannah:aAs
should have the best in service
and equipment, when Byron J.
Mclver moved hi.s barber shop
from 509 West Bsoad 3 ‘ireet
across the street to 502 West
Broad, corner or Gaston street,
Eastern Star
To Meet In
Atlanta
The 47>h annual session of
the Grand Chapter, o. E. S,
will convene in Atlanta June
25-26. The session will be held
in the beautiful Masonic Tem¬
ple. beginning Tuesday morn¬
ing at 10 o’clock. The welcome
reception will be held at Wheat,
Street Baptist church Tuesday
night. Arrangements have been
made for an enjoyable session,
terminating with an outing on
Wednesday afternoon. The at¬
tendance will be very large.
The sun was never higher
than it is today, but men are
stooping lower and lower and
fail t 0 get under itis ray.
Dr. Brewer Warns Against
Leaders
Overflow Crowd Witnesses
Funeral of Jack Johnson
TO ATTEND FISK
UNIVERSITY
The Chatham County Inter-
School Council has selected
Mrs. Nancy H. Walker, advisor
of Florance School Council, to
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MOST MODERNISTIC
and Gaston streets. In the
porter; Byron J. Mclver,
he proceeded to incorporate in- i
to Ls new shop every modem
appliance known to the trade,
the result being Savannahs
most up-to-date and most mod-
ernlstic tonsorial parlor.
In order to carry out in his
1— y
B rmingham The South¬
ern Youth Congress announced
today action of the Mississippi
State Supreme Court in re¬
versing the decision of a Jones
county circuit court and re¬
manding for new trial the case
of Willie McGee, Negro ware¬
house worker accused of rap¬
ing a white woman in Laurel
Iasi October.
Appeal of the lower court
decision was successfully
brought to the State Supreme
Count last Monday by Attor¬
ney Forrest B. Jackson, leading
criminal lawyer of the state.
Jackson took the case last De¬
cember at the behest of the
Southern Negro Youth Con¬
gress after Louis E Burnham,
SNYC organizational secretary,
had gone to Laurel and made
an on-the-spot Investigation of
facts surrounding the convic-
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By Luther A. Townsley
Chicago (ANPi An overflow
and at; times unruly crowd,
composed of members of both
races, packed Pilgrim Baptist
church here Friday morning to
witness final rites for Jack
(Little Arthuri Johnson, 68, the
first Negro heavywlght boxing
champion of the world John¬
son was killed a week ago Mon¬
day in an automobile accident
near Frankiinton, N. C.
The ex-champion’s body ar¬
rived here Thursday morning
and was taken Immediately to
Charlie Jackson’s Funeral home
where a mixed cross-section of
spectators stood in line all day
under the watchful eye ol po¬
lice guards until 1:3*0 the next
morning for a final glance at
the man who defied conven¬
tions more tihan once in his
colorful turbulent career.
Only the dramatic appear-
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is an inside
left to right, are shown
Curtis Swindle, Mathew
new shop all of his progressive
ideas, Mr. Mclver bought the
building and made extensive
renovations to it. The property
includes a large apartment
above and also the adjoining
two-story house on Gaston
NUMBER 33
New York, June 18 iNNPAl—.
The seventh annual convention
of the Negro Newspaper Pub¬
lishers Association will be held
here at the Wendell Willkia
Memorial building, 20 West
Fortieth street, June 20-23.
Highlighting the convention
will be reports on the Euro¬
pean and Virgin Islands mis¬
sions, and the annual banquet
at Hotel Pennsylvania.
Plans for expansion of its
news services and for the cre¬
ation of the office of associa¬
te ngeneral manager will be
discussed.
Morning sessions are sched¬
uled at 10 o'clock and afternoon
sessions at 2 o’clock daily, ex-
cep;; Sunday. There will be
only one session on Sunday. It
will be held at 1 p. m. Regis¬
tration will be held from 9 to
10 a. m ..June 20. The program
follows;
June 20 Morning session:
Invocation, greetings, and re¬
ports of the vice president and
the secretary-treasurer; after¬
noon session: report of the
president), Frank Stanley, pub¬
lisher of the Louisville Defend-
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Negro Savannah received a
warning from Dr. Thom¬
H. Brewer of Columbus,
spirit in the now cele¬
Primus E. King vote
which resulted in Negroes
being declared eligible to vote!
in ail primary elections in
to beware of certain
types of leaders that have
forged to the front since tha
fall of the so-called white pri¬
mary. He told his hearers that
the time Is at hand for the
Negro to take a definite stand
matters of benefit to the
group, not a favored
few. The remarks were con¬
tained in an address delivered
afternoon at the First
African Baptist church.
In his opening remarks the
speaker gave a brief resume
the fight of Muscogee coun¬
ty (Columbus) Negroes to gain
the right of participation in
primary elections. He told of
how his committee was curtly
told by the chairman of the
Muscogee County Democratic
executive committee that Ne¬
would not be permitted
participate in primary elec-
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of Mdver’s Barbershop,
James Alston, manager of
Eugene Stevens, barbers.
street,
In the rear of the four-' hais
barbershop Is a smoke shop
which handles, In addition tp
cigarettes and cigars, newspa-
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