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65 PUBLIC continuous YEARS SERVICE Of
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■M ml YORK’S FIRST
NEGRO POLICE
CAPTAIN
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Lieutenant Emanuel ^^tim
oldest Negro member of
Police Department In point of
service. was advanced
to-acting captain by Police
Commisaoner Arthur W- wal-
lander, who vus one of his
structor twenty-seven years
when he waj a rookie-
Lieutenant Kane, fifty-four,
was appointed to the depart-
ment May 5, 1920. He became
a sergeant in 1939 and a lieu-
tenant in | 44. He is the f.rst
of liis race n New York's his -
tory to attain a captain's rank,
One other city, Chicago, has
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Ga. Savings And Realty Corp.
I Moves ■ To New Quarters
The Gtear'gia Savings and
Realty Corporation has moved
into new quarters at 810 Mont¬
gomery street, cof-nec of
Gwinnett lane. For the fast
few years it was located at
5C9 1-2 Wert Broad street.
The change was nfude nec-
essary on account of the in-*
creasing volume of business
the institution has enjoyed in
the past few years, requiring
larger, better and more conve¬ -i
nient working facilities.
The new quarters are weil
appointed, ormnintprl fitt'/ictive att.ticti.e and and Dro- pro
vide ample space loi any ini-
mediate expansion of the bus- j
* ness - j
Being the only Negro
ing institution in this part of,
the state, its business occupies
a unique' and prideful niche
in local business circles- It
has a paid-in capital of $100.-
COO and its savings acounts to -1
tal more than $59,010. It is
chartered under the laws of
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Mystery Surrounds Beating
To Death of Dining Car Cook
Birmingham, »ANp)_w. s.
May, 24-year-old Pennsylvania
lilroad cook and father of
live children, who was myste¬
riously beaten to death Satur¬
day aboard the Gotham Limit¬
ed, was buried here Thursday.
May met his death sometime
late Saturday' might or early
Sunday morning ao he was
deadheading f-roni Chicago to
(Lima. O.. to serve Sunday
morning breakfast. His batter¬
ed body was found on the floor
of the train by an unidentified
conductor and lie w-gs taken to
Lima for hospitalisation.
C/ AyHe did there and his body
f,as sent to Davis Miller and
Bdn, undertakers, who prepared
the remains for shipment to
May's family in Chicago. Since
he was a native of this city,
hi', wife. Sadie, decided that
funeral arrangements should
include burial here.
Beside his w.dow. May is
survived by five ehkhen: Gil;
Patrick. 8 : Bubbles, 7;
4. Charles Edwa rd. 3, an d Bren-
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auamah frilmir.
EIGHTEEN NAMED ON RAC
RELATIONS ROLL 0
NEW YORK <ANPI Names
of 12 Negroes and s.x white
persons ou the Honor Rod °-
Rrce Rc l.tiojv; for 39-16 were
announced by Dr. Lawrence D !
Reddick of the New York Pub- l
lie library Sunday.
Each year a nationwide poll J
is conducted by the Sehomburg !
Collection of Negro literature of j
the New York Public library to
determine organizations, the 12 Negroes or un-j in-;
d.viduaLs,
stitutionsf, who have over done the same -the peri-j most |
cd,
Aor the improvement of race
re»rtions “In terms of real de-
necracy ” This is a feature of
Negro History week. No at¬
tempt is made to rank the
names-
Dr. Reddick, curator of the
Sehomburg collection, said in
the course of the announcc-
mcn t a l h <J
named “help make o
worthy home o o being e m the e P^nent
'
Secretary ot the Navy * panes
; V. Forrestal, for h:s directives
abolishing rac.al segregation -
the United States Navy. (The
most comprehensive of the oi- ]
ders removing limitations upon
1 Negro naval personnel was is-
sued February 28, 1£46.)
Miss Margaret K»dsey, for
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CHICAGO (ANP)—Charges of
t on were flung at
Pennsylvania railroad here
week following revelation
an alleged contract between
railroad and the all white
of Railway Train-
men, tVlo ,, regarded aa an anti-Ne¬
union, on the question of
Negro waiters as
car stewards and up¬
the estimated 87 tem¬
Negro waiters in charge
a permanent status.
A report by Jossie Long, chair¬
of Locai 370, Dining Oar
Waiter;! and Cooks union, dis¬
that the Pennsylvania
and the BRT are now
Negroes out of stew¬
jobs by a contract entered
into after the late President
Roosevelt’s temporary FEPC
forced the hiring of two Negro
stewards during the war. An
acute war-time labor .shortage
compelled the railroad to up¬
grade a number ot Negro wait¬
ers to waiters : n charge on a
temporary bisis>, he said
Long reported that a move'-
ment by his local union to gain
a permanent status for about
27 temporary Negro waiters in
charge ouai uncovered v civu the mu contract
a jjj ance between the Pennsyl-
railroad and the BRT to,
Negroes out of perma-' 1
nent waiters in charge aiici
steward jobs.
“A total of 87 men now face
th's type of job discrimination
after serving in their present
classifications ail during the
war,” Long remarked. He listed
17 men in the Chicago district 1
,
53 men n New York and 17 in
Columbus, O., with “most of
them having from 10 to 30
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Girl Scouts
To Observe
Anniversary
On — March 12, ’ the ‘ Girl ~ Scout
organization m the United . .. ,|
will be thirty-five years!
During ~ tills period the or-] ’
ganirption has given g-rls _ good;
c..9iunshfip braining, and
rtunity to serve ther commu
j.y ; wholesoome outdoor and
# ndooi1 en # e * tainment, and a
unc je«’standable to young peo-
moral code and sense of ethics
Girl Scouting i.s available to
; from 7 to n.regardless of
xreed or color- Yet only
7 out of every 100 girls in the
United States \are Girl Scouts.
You can help the Girl Scouts
celebrate this important 35th
anniversary by volunteering
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ATTENDING HAMPTON
r . •
,
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m. in ■
MISS ETHEL R. TERRELL,
who graduated January 24
ifrom Btaeh-Cuyler high school,
w j t j, honors, is now attending
jj am pt on institute, Hampton,
Va gile ig the daug ht er 0 f
Mr and Mrs . william H. Ter-
STATE COURTS
OX GOVERNORSHIP
, One For
_
Penn. Railroad Refuses
To Car Waiters
Dr. Stubbs Dies Of Heart
Failure On Train
PHILADELPHIA, -Jan. 10—
>r- Frederick Douglass Stubbs,
hief of the 'surgery depart-
rents of the Frederick Doug-
ass hospital, 16th and Lom¬
streets, and the Mercy
lospital. 50th and Woodland
died siiddenly of a
attack last night on a
en route from New York
Long Island City- He was
Dr Stubbs’ father-in-law’, Dr
P. Turner. Philadelphia
WHY A NATIONAL NEGRO HEALTH WEEK
Why is it that we have just
week in the year set aside
National Negro Health
when all our lives as well
ever since there has been
man there hive been the
and the aches? Well,
biick in 19C9 at the annual
Negro conference,
days were set aside for
discussion of the health of
the Negro- In those days of
greased paper windows, open-
SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, FEB- 13, 1947
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Florence Murray, editor of the 1946-1947 Negro
Handbook, presents the first copy of the book, Just published by Cur¬ i
rent Books, Inc., to Mrs. James Weldon Johnson, widow of the late
diplomat, poet and author, for the James Weldon Johnson Memorial
Library of Negro Arts and Letters at Yale University. Carl Van Vech-
ten founded the collection after the death of Mr. Johnson in 1938. The
1946-1947 Negro Handbook is a manual of current facts, statistics and
general information on the Negro in the United States.
AKA’s To Celebrate Found¬
er’s with Radio
On Sunday, February 16, a!
5 : 3 o p.m p the Gamma Sigma
Omega chapter a the Alpha
Kappa Alpha sorority will take
to the air waves via radio 3ta-
t ' :0n WFRP. This event wil.
mark the beginning of the
c hapter s celebration of the
thirt y ninth anniversary of the
foundin « of M-ippa A 1 P ha
sorority.
A week of celebration will
be climaxed by a program
held Sunday, February 23, at
surgeon, said that Dr
was stricken while he
his wife, Mrs- Marion Tur¬
Stutb were on their way
visit friends in Long Island
He was pronounced dead
St. John’s hospital there
Recognized as one of the
brilliant young Negro
in his field. Dr.
Itubbs was also acting chief
urgeon at Philadelphia Gen¬
eral hospital, an associate in
at Jefferson hospital,
seamed walls, and hole-sprink-,
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led roois, tlie jacked-up huts
with mud-puddle fronts were i
brewers of sickness and death !
Booker T Washington, rea-1
lizing the condition of
health of his people, began the
first concerted effort for a Ne¬
gro Health week- And in 1915
che week set aside for a health
week was called the Health Im¬
provement Week- Later in 1930
6 p. m- at F.rst African Bap-
1st church. At this time Mrs.
\rnetta G. Wallace, director of
the southeastern region of the
Alpha Kappfa Alpha sorority,
will be guest speaker. Music
and song will also be included
on the program.
The Savannah chapter chapter of of
the Alpha Kappa Alpha soror¬
ity cordially 'nvltes the
to listen to the radio program
and to attend the celebration
at the First African Baptist
church.
and a member of the courtesy
staff at Hahnemann hospital.
An honor graduate of Dart¬
mouth College and Harvard
University Medical School, he
was ia member of the American
College of Surgeons, the Inter¬ '
nationa! 1
College of Surgeons, !
the American College of Chest |
Physic'am, the American Board
of Surgery, the American Mcd- [
f cal Association. State Medical j
.
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the National Negro Health
Movement, a year-round pro- ;
gram, took over National Negro
Health Week in cooperation
the United States Public J
ea lth Service and the Julius 1
Rosenwald fund.
Thus, we have the birth of |
the National Negro Health j
week which we observe this
year the week of March 30 to
Many Inspect
The Colliers’
New Home
One of The Finest In
The State
Dr. and Mrs. IHenry M. Col¬
lier, Jr., were most gracious
hosts last Sunday from 4 to
7 p- m- when their beautiful
new residence on Mills B- Lane
avenue wai formally opened
Several hundred friends took
advantage of the occasion to
inspect the spacious dwelling.
Located on the outer rim of
Liberty City, a, rapidly devel¬
oping new subdivision, “Shan-
gri-la,’’ the Rooseveltian name
given the magnificent 18-room
dwelling, dwarfs everything in
ilk immediate vicinity.
Built of pressed brown brick
and sitting on a high, beauti¬
fully terraced foundation, Shan-
igri-la enchantingly commands
the immediate-' attention of
any one nearby. In front of
the house ia a beautiful foun-
tain and to the rear is the two-
car garage apartment, the
! doors of which are controlled
by a magnetic eye on the ap-
proach of the car.
Qn the flrst flo0r 0 f the
spa , cioll8 dwc mng are the liv¬
ing room, sun parlor, din.ng
’ breakfast nook, doctor’s
room,
office, IV ff lflfv uhrarv library and kitchen-
1 A magnificent winding stair-
way leads to the second floor
on which are a master bed-
room with a*lady’s dressing
room to one side and a nursery
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GIRL SCOUTS TO
MOVE TO THE Y
The Negro division of the
Girl Scout Association of Sa¬
vannah will have their office
in the West Broad YMCA
budding. The division l'eels
that the “Y” building is cen¬
trally located and will be
greater service because of this
The telephone number will
available later, temporarily call
3-195J Office hours are; 10 a
m. to 2 p- m- and 4 to 6 p- m
Afternoon hours are
for conferences, troop
vision, community contacts and
public relations.
6.
The program is not for just
week, but to stir the public
during this week to acting
a year-round program and
realize that there is much
be done to improve the
of the people- This year
tional Negro Health week
around the
point program of extended
munization, chest X-ray
DR DAVID MORRIS, physic¬
ian, or Bayonne, N- J., who
gave $5,000 to the Lincoln U
ATLANTA, Feb. 12 Geor- 1
gia’s dual governorship mud- |
die In which both Herman
Talmadge and M E- Thompson
are laying claim to being thq
’egal head of the State, be¬
more complex today when
Superior Court Judge Walter
Heudrix declared at McDon¬
that Talmadge was the
governor a'ter only last
in a suit at Rome, Su¬
Court Judge Claude A
had ruled that M. E
on was the rightful
of the governorship.
These, two decisions now
the count one-all for the
of the off.ee.
The suit tried before Judge
last Friday was one
by Thompson to force
of the State Pardon
Parole Board to furnish
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Asked For GI
Shot White Officer
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Blind Youth
Top
NEW YORK (ANP)—Sylves¬
Bradford, a 15 year old
Harlem youth who is totally
was graduated from ele¬
school as an honor
student and was one cf four
winners of memorial prizes
presented by Supt. of Schools
John E Wade. Bradford re¬
ceived the $150 Rebecca EIs-
berg Memorial award. He car¬
on his studies in braille.
Melvin Pritchard, who was of
the same racial identity as
Bradford, won a repu¬
tation as his school’s “out¬
standing citizen and student.”
He had a scholastic average of
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Liberty County Schools To
Have Speaking Contest
HEADS DOUGLAS DZHVE j
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| MRS. SALLuE M- STEWART 1
| Director of Drive
WASHINGTON, (ANP)—Re¬
: currence of the birthday of the
great Frederick Douglass and
the decision of the women of
j the Frederick Douglas Memo¬
rial and Historical (association
and tbo National As.jociatf.cn
of Coiored women to preserve
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ered proof of the ability of Ne-
groes to support their own ool-
leges—(ANP*.
.
Mrs. Potter
To Continue
Tampa Paper
TAMPA, Fla. (ANP)—Mra.
E Potter announced Friday
that he Tampa Bulletin would
continue publishing as usual.
Potter, who has served tile
for years as general man¬
ager, has also assumed the du¬
ties of editor, which sfhe has
been carrying on for a year,
e(ver since the Illness of her
usband - the Rev - M - D -
ter, who passed away last
week.
NEW YORK. Feb. 6 .—In a pe¬
tition for clemency, the legal
staff of the NAACP asked the
Secretary of War to reconsider
the sentence imposed on for¬
mer private Walter A. Brown
by a general court-martial on
August 5, 1946, for shooting a
white officer at the front “with
Intent to kill.” Brown is pres¬
ently serving a sentence of fif¬
teen years at hard labor.
The shooting incident which
resulted in Brown’s arrest for
' assault with intent to kill” oc¬
curred in a town on the front
line at lVght, when Brown was
leaving !a bam and was fired
upon by some unknown assail¬
ant. Uncertain whether the
fire seemingly directed at him
was coming from an enemy or
one of his own men, Brown
shouted, “I’m an American sol-
rt'er,” before returning the fire
in the general direction from
which the flashes of gunfire
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The (Liberty county schools
will hold their seventh annual
speaking contest at the Hines-
viiie USO Wednesday night,
February If. All speakers will
be the first honors coming up
from the five group elimina -1
t'on contests held during Ne¬
gro History week.
Mrs. L. V. Wood will give a
ta.k on the “Origin .and Mean¬
ing of the Negrc Spirituals.’* ofl
Mrs. Wood is a mus.clan
ability and her taik promises|
to be both new and interesting.
Pupils will compete by grade*
from the first grade through
the junior high school. Judges
will be Miss Frankie Golden,
Jeanes supervisor of Chatham
county; Miss Ella A- Tackwood,
Jeanes supervisor of Wayna
county, and Miss Lueila Haw¬
kins, librarian of Georgia State|
College. The public is invited.
These programs are held asi
educational efforts in Negro! j
history ar.d to develop a deeper
appreciat'on for the worth o«
contributions mode to wjrltj
(Continued on “age Two*