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POSTMEN STARTS OFF TB CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE
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CHRISTMAS SEAL DELIVERY BEGINS Gus Hayes, general oil. rman of the colored division
of the Christmas Seal sale, is seen .left) selling the first Tuberculoss Seals to the postal
carriers. Samuel Brown, who is purchasing seals from the chairman, is the oldest postman
in the Savannah post office. The carriers as a group are not only starting the little penny
stickers on their way to every member of the community, but are the first to make a group
contribution to the cause of eradicating tuberculosis. The annual sale began Monday.—
(Photo by Southern Photo
Mayor Nugent issued a
lamation Saturday
designating the period
November 25 to Decemfc) r 25
urged nah Savannah to all support residents Tuberculosis the of Chatham- Savan-. Associ- With But 2 Weeks More to
at on by ‘‘buying and using Go, Mayoralty Race Is Now
Christmas Seals during this
month.”
ciation sale, The sole annual in support its campaign Christmas of the against asso¬ Seal; A Hectic 50-50 Scramble
tuberculosis, opened this week
and will continue until Christ¬ With but two more weeks to S. S. CONGRESS OFF TO SCHW
mas- go, the city primary election CONVENTION
citizens The sale is being among handled the Negro this hot campaign stage and has the reached fight the for red- su¬ TO BEHELD T-
year, as in the past, by the As¬ premacy which is being en¬ AT DETROIT
sociate Board of the Chatham- gaged in by the Citizens Pro¬
Savannah Tuberculosis Associ¬ gressive League and the GI-
ation. Peoples party has developed
into a hectic race that, at pres¬ DETROIT. Mich., Nov. 22—
The association has appoint¬ ent, looks like a fifty-fifty' For the first time in the his- i
ed the following groups to take scramble to the finish line. I nation this city will
care of this special feature of An analysis of the political i tory of the
this city-wide appeal for the situation it appears today I * host t to , the .. Sunday _ , school . .
as according To an-
alleviation of the tuberculosis reveals an unpredictable sham- Congress, an
menace which takes such a bles, said leading uptown nouncement made here this
a week by Dr A Boyd,
heavy toll annually. politician to a Tribune report¬ Henry
Schools, city, Mrs. Dorothy
ifaijapkin; county, Miss Fran¬
kie Golden; college, Miss R.
Hulin.
Organizations, J- W. Mc-
Glockton, R. A. Bryant, Mrs-
Stella Reeves.
Theatres) Mrs. A R. Carter,
Mrs. Antonio' Orsot, A. E-
Fields ;.
Street' salt, ‘ ' Miss'* Miriam
Grant, Mrs- Anuta Stripling:,
MfS- Sadie Steele, Mrs.' Corne¬
lia McDowell, gMrs. A. Shep¬
hard. •
Special gift committee, 3. C
Ford.
Beauticians, Mrs. E. Faustina;
Bignon-
Health workers, Miss Laura
King, Mrs. Leola Duncan, Mrs-
Susie Anna J- Primus, Mrs.
Houston Tolbert.
Social workers, Miss Gertrude
Third Distribution Made
Of College Funds
tribution NEW YORK of proceeds The third of dis-j the
1946 campaign of the United j
Negro College Fund was made
among its 33 member colleges 1
this week, W J- Trent, Jr-, ex¬
ecutive director of the funa,
announced. This distribution
of $350,0C0 makes an aggregate
of S700.000 allocated to the
member colleges since June.
The final distribution from
i the 1946 campaign will be made
(in l February.
"Coming at a time when the]
’resources of the member insti-j
tut’ons are being taxed to the,
u most by the these largest funds will enroll-1 as-
ments ever, providing]
s'st the colleges in
the needed additional services
Trent said ^
and staff,” Mr-
The fund conducts an an¬
nual appeal to meet current pri¬
flenses for the 33 Negro
vate colleges.
A DAUGHTER
Mr. and Mrs Samuel C. Rog¬
ers announce the birth of a
daughter." Yvonne La Vance, at
Georgia lnfhmaiy, November
1U M. 1 lb lt-
meinoticu is .vhsi maly Cj-
®hr aiiauuah $ Sritanr.
Lark-
Veterans, Grover Eubanks
Hotels, A E Fields.
County, Mrs. Shad Tyson-
er yesterday. He said,
sides have gone mad for
and both are claiming that
pendlum is swinging in
direction, but to me the
tion of which side, is in the
cendency is far from beiilg
tled”
Continuing, he declared,'
white vote is
split wide open. How do
people stand? Tell me
and I can pretty well
who’s going to have the
This seems to be about
concensus of opinion,
from the aggressive
both parties arc waging for
Negro support.
There appears to be no
but that the black vote is
present looked upon as the
ciding element in th ! s city
Continued on page Eight
GOV. ARNALL
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JUSTICE
ATLANTA (ANPi- „ ,
t on of Gov Arnali into the
long fight to save 33-year-old
Powell from serving a
life term in j aii for mU rder in
an au omobile accident, was
heralded by Common
j udge Richard Hartshorn of
Newark N J , last week as bc-
j ng a new i ease on life for the
Negro-
Arnali, who had been con-
tacted by Judge Hartshorn
seeking protection and fair
treatment for Powell, assured
the judge that the prisoner
need not fear ‘Georgia jus-
tice.”
‘^Georgia assures that Her¬
man Powell’s person and rights
will be fully protected,” Arnali
said in reply to Hartshorn’s
Continued on page Seven
Radio and publicity, J. Q-
,Jefferson, Clarence Perkins, R.
W Gadsden. C- Leftwich. Miss
Willa Mae Ayers-
t
The State of Michigan has
been urging the leaders of the
National Baptist Convention of
America to bring the Sunday
School Congress to Michigan
for several years, but it was not
until Rev. Boyd toured the
state, learned of the possibili¬
ties, the advantages, and the
pressing need for such a meet¬
ing that the invitation was
taken under consideration se¬
riously. The date of this meet¬
ing as announced, will be June
4 to 8. inclusive. It will bring
to this city a teeming host of
religious leaders.
This movement, known as
the summer school of methods
as well as the Sunday School
Congress, is a departmentalized
organzation, with more than
Continued on page Eight
BEACH PLAYS
STANTON TODAY
Beach high school will play
Stanton High of Jacksonville,
Fla-, today Thanksgiving), at
Grayson Stadium- The game
w ” 11 “ be “ a “ _inT‘iV night affair. “‘hand /nT'a Sfan-
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P F S COUNCIL CIVES
TRIPLETS r SHOWER eunu/CD
A comm ttee from the
Council visited the home of
Mr and Mrs. Capers Griffin,
317 Yamacraw Village, Satur-
day, November 23. with a show-
er for the triplets. The gifts
were presented to Mrs, Griffin
by Mrs. Eveline White, Mrs.
Rosa Jones, and Mrs- Hender¬
son to the family- Mrs. Mag¬
gie Whitfield is president of
the council and Mrs Eugenia
Gaynor is secretary.
SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, NOV- 28, 1946
Special Conference
Itishop Simms
LITTLE ROCK. Ark. ANPi
Determined to end this
tonal str le on the h
levels that has for
months embarrassed their
nomination, delega es to
special AME General Con
ence voted Friday to
Bishop E H Curry on
counts after Bishop Sims
previously been ousted
The general
instigated by the 3.000
gates assembled here from
parts of the nation
radical revisions of the
constitution. Sessions
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Miss Mettella Wilsey Maree
i e f t by plane Thursday as
official delegate to the
convention of the
conference for Human
being held in New Orleans, La
November 28-30-
This important meeting, la¬
beled Thanksgiving
will draw together people ot
good will from the entire
The program promises to be
outstanding, with many prom¬
inent Southern leaders partici¬
pating.
DAUGHTER WINS
COP’S $27000
ESTATE
CLEVELAND (ANP)- A sev¬
en-months battle over the $37,-
770 estate of Dempsey Rollins,
auxiliary policeman who was
killed last March without leav¬
ing a will, ended last Thurs¬
day, when, at the conclusion
of the three-day trial, the en¬
tire property was turned over
to the two daughters of the
deceased man, Marie and El¬
len.
Other claimants for the es¬
tate, which had already been
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were Rollins’ two common-law
wives, .. M'ss Ethel Morton . and
Miss Jean Graves, and his two
brothers, Clarence and George.
Rollins’ only legal wife is the
mother ol his two daughters,
Mrs. Ellen Rollins of Atlanta,
came to cleveland for the
funeral for the first time since
she had separated from her
in 1926
Miss Mort °n cla’med
she had 13660 a common * aw
j wife of Rollins for 15 years,
beginning in the late ’20's, and
a property sale made by the
man in 1941, is listed in
| her name. But opposition
j ton, yers at disclosed the time that she Miss said she
began living with Rollins,
married and filed as her hus
band’s widow when he died in
1936
Miss Graves claimed that she
was Rollins’ common-law
at the time of his death,
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Tliurgood Marshall Arrested
On Trumped-up Charge
NEGRO VOTE PITS WHITE
GEORGIAN INTO OFFICE
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/ilUlLOIO
IN TEXAS
RAPE CASE
ORANGE. Tex. 1 ANP 1 —More
than a shadow of doubt exist-
j ed in the minds of local Law
j week enforcement when they officers failed here to last
arrest
some Negro in connection with
the alleged rape of a white wo¬
man. According to the charge,
a white woman escorted by a
sailor was criminally assaulted
by a Negro man as the couple
was returning from a movie at
the navy recreation center. The
assailant overpowered the sai¬
lor, tied him up, dragged the
woman behind some shrubbery
and raped her.
During the latter process, the' (
sailor is reported to have el- 1
fectcd his release and sum¬
moned police aid. The Negro,
I however, flew before the arri-
[ val of the officers. The hunt for j ,
the Negro was begun Tm^ledi-
the fact that the couple could
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ve ° n y 6 iazie 6
110 "' 01 tne atlacKe '
When news of the raoe
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MIXED GROUP
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MEETING
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich (ANPI
—More than 1,000 white and
Negro delegates attended the
fifth annual meeting of the
United council of church wom¬
en here last week.
Outstanding Negro , ,
induded Mrs. David Jones
Greensboro, N. C., a vice
dent; Mrs- Emma Clarissa
Clement, American mother ot
>>46, Mrs. Christine S- Smith,
president of the National Asso¬
ciation of Colored women, and
Mrs. H- M. B ggs and Mrs. An¬
nette Officer, both members
oi the NACW.
Colored delegates were com¬
pletely integrated into all ac¬
tivities of the meeting here,
said Mrs- Harper Sibley, coun¬
cil president- Mrs. Smith, a
'member of the national board
of the council, is also vice
| chairman of its constitution
J comrn - ee
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1 MkhX IHUiUmi I K I IIVI A l\
GREETS YOUTH
CONFERENCE
NEW ORLEANS, La„ Nov. 21
From the White House,
ident Truman sent greetings to
Mrs- Ruby Hurley, NAACP
youth secretary, in recognition
of the NAACP’s Eighth Annual
Conference, which is meeting
week here. In his message
which was read at the opening
session of the conference this
morning, the President said:
“I take pleasure in sending
greetings to the youth councils
and college chapters of the Na¬
tional Association for the
vancement of Colored People
ALBANY, Ga. (ANPi Ed-.
ward J- Davis, popular white'
insurance man, was elected city,
commissioner here Monday
during the municipiai primary
elections by the overwhelming
support of Negro Fifth ward
voters.
Davis, backed by the Albany
Progressive Negro league, poll¬
ed a huge majority of the 448
Negro ballots, but lost the white
vote by a majority of 41 R. F.
(Dicki Armstrong, former
mayor, was the insurance
man’s nearest opponent In the
fifth ward where Negroes held
the balance of power with 1,010
Registered voters against 913
whites.
Davis’ other two opponents,
who did not make a strong
showing in the populous Negro-
dominated Fifth ward, were M
M. Hester and H. E Mangum,
Polling 89 and 39, respectively,
Davis backed the Albany board
of education’s long-range build¬
ing program during the cam¬
paign and the addition of a
twelfth grade to the local
school system,
| Youth Council Seeks Aid For
Prison Youths
The Savannah Youth
of the NAACP has received
urgent appeal from a
seventeen years of age,
the national office of
NAACP- This young fellow
in the State Prison No
Brunswick, and is asking for
basketball and other
tional equipment to help
and his fellow prisoners
their leisure hours wisely.
The youths consulted
Brunswick branch first-
they wrote the national
nce nQ actlon had been
tfte Brunswlck branch
The nationa| offlce , ln
Mnt the request to us
they have done' this, let us
the home office and,
Brunswick populace that
Savannahians are no
that • the task is not too
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GETS FIRST 1946 CARVER C HRISTMAS SEALS—Dr. Wil-liam Jay Schicffelin, chahn 'j
n-emeritus of the board of trustees of Tuskegee Institute, received the first s ieet ”!
George Washington Carver Christmas seals to open the annualdrive for the benefit oi Geortj
e Washington Carver founda-tion at Tuskegee Institute. The sale is sponsored by the Car¬
ver Seal Committee, Inc., of New York city, which is compos-ed of graduates and former i
udents of Tuskegee institute Members of the committee are, left to right, Mrs Gertriu
W- Myers, Julian B Thomas, president, Mrs. Sadie Anderson,treasurer, and Percival R R;.j
etts, vice president.—(ANP). ^_
NEW YORK, Nov. 21. Thur-
good Marshall, chief? counsel
lor the NAACP, was arrested
and nearly jailed In Columbia,
Tenn., on a trumped up charge
0 f ‘drunken driving” when a
determhiecl contingent of depu-
t sheriffs and inemb ers of the
Tennessee State Highway Pa¬
trol set out to “get” the law¬
yer who defended Negroes
charged with participating in
the "riots” in February.
The car in which NAACP
Lawyers Thurgood Marshall, Z.
A Looby and Maurice Weaver
and Reporter Harry Raymond
were riding was stopped three
miles outside of Columbia by
S(ate patrol cars. The
following were on their the end way of to the Nashvillej two-
•
,
day trial of Willie Pillow and
Lloyd Kennedy, which culmi¬
nated in the acquittal of Pil¬
low and a sentence of five
years for Kennedy.
The three patrol cars, con¬
taining about eight troopers,
pulled up in front of the law¬
yers’ car, and charged them
with carrying liquor in their
car. In their investigation for
the imagined "liquor,” the
troopers ordered the men out
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MIAMI WHIP
MAY RESUME
PUBLICATION
MIAMI, Fla. iANP)—Publica¬
tion of the M.aml Whip, local
weekly newspaper, may be re¬
sumed around December 1, ac¬
cording to a letter to the Mi¬
ami Times, another weekly pub¬
lication, last week, from Atty.
Robert M Thomson.
The Whip, owned by the Sam
B Solomon Publishing com¬
pany, suspended publication in
October following factional
differences of stockholders over
Solomon's firing of James B
LaFourche, the corporation’s
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NUMBER 7
GOES TO DELTA I
CONFERENCE
jLj. JLL fi
MRS. RUBYE GADSON, who
has been selected delegate by
the Beta Delta Sigma chapter
of Delta Sigma Theta sorority
to attend the regional conven¬
tion of the sorority which will
be held in Miami, Florida, No¬
vember 29-30. Mrs. Gadson is
president of the local Delta
chapter. m .
T0 SPEAK AT FT.
VALLEY,
Fort valley, Ga—Mrs. Ophe-
lla H L . Mc rver, principal of
„ Haven Home „ school, ... sched- , ,
rs
uled to be the guest forum
speaker at Fort Valley College
Center, here Sunday t evening,
December l.
Mrs. Mclver is • the third in
a series of outstanding persons
recently appearing, at‘this in¬
stitution. Preceding her Were
Mrs- A W. Simms-Lee, a re¬
turned missionary from "China,
whose subject was, "Experi¬
ences in a Japanese Concentra¬
tion Camp,” and Dr. Nnodu J.
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NEARLY 40000(1
YOUTH IN 4-H
CLUB WORK
WASHINGTON (ANP) Near¬
ly 300,000 Negro boys and girls
between the ages of 10 and 20
are enrolled in 4-H club work
in 16 states below the Mason-
line, according to recent
statistics released by the U- S.
Department of Agriculture.
The Department of Agricul¬
ture’s report, released by Reu¬
ben Brigham, assistant direct¬
or of extension, listed the Hi
states as Mississippi, South Car¬
olina, North Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama, Louisiana, Texas,
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