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EYE-GOUGING POLICE CHIEF ACQUITTED
COMMITTEE MEMBERS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE COLORED TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
—at a recent meeting in Nashville. Seated, left to right: Mrs. Carried L. Vaughn, Mrs. R.
V. Mitchell, Mrs. E W. Hunter' M ss M. A- Battle, Mrs. Anne E. Smith. Mrs. L. C. Gill am,
Mrs. L. P. Hutcherson and Miss Susie M Jumper.
S anding, lelt to right: Prof. H. J. Johnson. G. A. Thomson. W. E. Turner. J. H. Tisdale,
and w. C. Huddleston i ANP >.
$500 Reward lor information
Oil Killing of Policeman
NAACP Reports Violence
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WASHINGTON. D. C., Nov. 5
afctf record of violence of the
•N Central Railway re-
v"U'k s? second blotch this
when James Graves, a
Memphis tra'n porter, outlined
in an affidavit to the NAACP
his s ory of being blackjacked
and shat by a conductor in
Mississippi. In September, a
conductor beat Albert Wooden,
s hc a, tra'n porter, with a
blackjack.
Mr. Graves, the father of
three children, sta. ed that on
September 25. N. B. Kaigler. a
conductor, argued with him
about the seating of two color¬
ed passengers bound for Mem¬
phis, who boarded the train at
Mcrigold, Miss.
Accord ng to Mr. Graves, :he
conductor struck h rn behind
the ear with a blackjack, af¬
ter saying, “Can’t you get those
g-. d—Negroes going
Chicago and Memphis to come
back here like I tell you to.’’
The porier stated that he
held the conductor's hand to
keep from being injured fur¬
ther, and that two other white
railway employees finally per¬
suaded Kaigler to stop the
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Xmas Seals Sales iliairmaiislsips
For the past 28 years, an or¬
ganization has been engaged
In a health campaign in Chat¬
ham coun y directed at a dis¬
ease which ' const tutcs a ma¬
jor public health problem be
cause it takes a high death toll
Particularly among young
:.adults, and because it is spread
ffom person to person.
In 1918, the Chatham-Savan-
nah Tuberculosis Association
was formed to wage a campaign
w'th'n the county against tins
disease, tuberculosis. Through
affiliation with the state and
national associations. the
comity associat on is part of a
jXjJ |n-w:de tuberculosis movement to era-
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pen days from today, the
county association, simulta¬
neously with 2.900 other asso¬
ciations in the country, will ap¬
peal to local res’dents for funds
to carry its work through 1947.
The appeal will be made thru
the sale of Clir'stmas Seals
beginning November 25 and
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miatutali Ijitotnf.
BEST SELLER-George Wylie
Henderson, whose new book.
"Julc,“ has been selected by two
book clubs for dstribu ion. the
One World Book club ana the
Negro Book club His first novel,
“G.le Miss" written in 1935,
was a success also.— iANPi.
A DAUGHTER
Dietra Yvonne Is the name
given to the daughter born on
November 3 to Mr. and Mrs.
Paul E. Leake of 208 Fifth St.,
N. E„ Wash ington. D C. Mr.
and Mrs. Leake are former Sa-
vannahians. the latter being
M ss Alsthia Singleton before
her marriage.
ELECTION ROUND-UP
NEW YORK I ANP: Rev.
Jlayton Powell. Democrat,
flected to congress who 32
•otes over Grant
GOP. polling 19,513. F ur
icratic state assemblymen
jected. City CouncTraan
Davis, running for New
i torncy general, polled
otes in city, highest total
riven a Commun'st
T . Finley Wilson defeated
tate senate.
Circago William L.
Democrat reelected o
poling '.'6.761 votes to
Will am E. King, COP who
117.501. County Commits
Mike Sneed and State
Z. C Wimbish. both
reelec'ed. Two
three Democratic state
blymen reelected.
Cincinnati Rev. David
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policemen and cit Yens for in-
formation leading to the arres
and conviction of the
who :sh t and k'lled John Mil-
Mc-Sge, | Miami’s first Negro
Lceman, on November 1.
Milledge was shot in
i throat with a 32 calibre
while on duty outside
park, where a football
was in progress. He died with n
20 minutes.
Split Vote
Three Ways
In Election
HC'JSTCN. (ANP i
voting activi y during the
cent general elect ons here
divided into a three-cornered
campaign, with a great num¬
ber showing sympathy for the
councilman-at-large cand'dacy
of the Rev. L H. Simp, on of
the Bap 1st Ministerial Alli¬
ance.
Rev. Shop.son seeking Negro
support regardless of their af-
i llat’on with e'ther parties in
the city election, was the f'rst
Neg:o to run for such an of¬
fice since he Terrell Election
law. Many held the op nion
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BOSTON ELECTS
ASSEMBLYMAN
BOSTON • ANP i- This state
went Republican and in i s
sweep it elected its f rs. colored
man to the state legislature
in nearly half a century A ty.
Lawrence H Banks, unsuccess¬
ful but unyielding candidate
for many years, won here by
nearly 808 votes over Dennis
Patrick, wh'te In the Boston-
South End Ninth ward Banks
ran on an independent Repub¬
lican ticket.
Massachusetts had not been
able to elect a colored man un¬
der recent Democratic admin¬
istrations. Many had run for
representat ve from the pre-
doin nantly colored Ninth ward,
oniy to have wh’te and color¬
ed candidates split the vote,
the colored always losing.
SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, NOV. 14, 194ti
Negro Baptists Offer Prayer
tiov.-Eleet Talmadge s Adminisiralioii
Railway Firemen Make Plans
To Help Save Their Jobs
NMU Give $5000 in Fight
Terrorism
NEW YCiRK. Nov. 8 Contrl-
bu ions totalling *5 000 were
voted today to four organiza¬
tions by the National Council
of the National Maritime Un¬
ion to heip implement the
Union's vigorous fight against
lynch terror in the South.
The four groups- and the
amounts allocated to them are:
National Negro Congress, $2-
500; Southern Negro Youth
Congress of Human Welfare,
$1 000; and Crusade to end
Lynching, $500.
Assert ng that Con.'lined
organization of the American
people is the only guarantee
that fasc'st terror in the son li
w'll be brought to an end,” a
| report adopted by the count: J
declared:
“Our union was one of the
many organizations tlia spoke
out in horror against the
cen lynchings in the
1 We went further and posted
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BECOMES HEAD
CHORISTER
MR i. FANNYE JOYNER, who
has been made head chorister
at St. Philip Monumen al AME
church. For over three years
Mrs. Joyner has been in charge
of the various choirs of St.
j?hil!p Monumental church
coriimucd on pag** twin
Porters BH
wins First
Round
j NEW Table YORK. decis Nov. 8. handed In t
! mem on
down by Judge Albert L
Reeves in the Dir,trie Cum
of the United States for the
, Western Division of the West-
1 ern district at Kansas Ci y. in
a case of the Brotherhood o!
! Sleep'ng Car Porters against
, the M s curi - Kansas - Tcxa-
* Railroad and t’ne Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen, motion
; by the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen o dism’ss a tem¬
porary restraining order which
operates to hold train porters
on the’r jobs, and motion oi
the Missouri - Kansas - Texas
Railroad to increase injunctive
bond, were dismissed, said A
Philip Randolph, international
president of the B^jtherhood
of Sleep’ng Car Porters.
In hancfmg down the dec s-
ion. Judge Reeves made th°
tollowhi" statement:
A valid and subsisting con-
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ST. LOUIS ELECTS
THREE
ST. LOUIS t ANP) Three
Negroes, two Republicans and
one Democrat, were elected '»
the Missouri legislature :n
Tuesday’s election. They are:
Josiah C. Thomas, Republi¬
can, elected from tht 10th dis-
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SCENES FROM THE EPOCHAL STATE BAPTIST C ON VENT ION HELD HERE THIS WEEK
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afternoon in which tb* (telega 'cr. r-n’e/'-j in a'Homc- n'ght at '•h* welcnm* program at the City Auditorium. T
bilcs. ", Columbus Roberts, distinguished layman of C.-tinnibus^
k 2. Georgia, atalt College Choir, which sang Tuesday (Continued on page Uiree^ m
BIRMINGHAM. Ala. Assemb¬
led here in the filth annual
national conference, the Bro-
therhood of Sleenlne Car
ters* , Provisional , . Committee . to
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Nevada and Penn. State
Refuse to Bow to Jimcrow
NEW YORK Nov. 7 An
southern “custom" took
,i beating last week when
crack northern foo ball
cancelled their scheduled
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Tin opening day’s sess’on
tlie Diamond Jubilee eelebra-
lion oi the General Missionary
Baptist Convention oi Georgia
which is being held here this
week and w.li close today, de
vetoped two surprising
both of which may be looked
upon as epochal In .he history
ut the organization.
Flfst was lhe
shattering . hour and a half
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ball games at southern uni-
vers t'c.s because they would not
permit their boys to compete
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NUMBER $
COLUMBIA ANP. - After
less than a half hour's delib¬
eration. ,ui all-white federal
court jury here last Tuesday
found Police Chief Lynwood I*
Shull, oi Batesburg, S. C., in-
nocent of charges of violating
lie civil rights of Isaac Wood-
ard, Jr., Negro war veteran, by
. boating and torturing him into
blindness las: February 12. Ov-
or 300 spectators, half of them
Negroes, crowded the court-
room in the day-long trial,
Woodard’s version of the in-
j cident in which he lost differed the
ight oi his two eyes,
from that told by Shull, A. C.
Blackwell bus driver *. of Colum- ‘ ‘
,. bia. and Police _ .. Oificer Elliott
Long, also of Batesburg.
Woodard told the jury he had
boarded he bus at Augusta af¬
ter being discharged from the
army, and that wheit the bus
halted at “a small stop” the
driver cursed him when he
asked if he had time to go to
a restroom. His reply of “talk,
to me like I’m talking to you;
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