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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, (Continued on Page 2) 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- Continued on Page Two 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 (Continued on Page 2) 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 Continued on Page Two 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 Continued on page 2 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- Continued on page 2 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- Continued on page 2 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, Continued an page 3 ^ 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 Continued on Page Two 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 (Continued on Page 2 ) 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- Continued on page 2 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- Contlnued on page 2 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- Continued on Page 2 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- (Continued on Page 2) 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- Continued on page 2