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MINDEN LYNCHERS BROUGHT
SKREVEPCRT, La-, Feb- ..... 25.
(By Special Correspondent) —
One of the most dramatic epi¬
sodes in the history of the Na¬
tional Association for the Ad¬
vancement of Colored People’s
struggle to afford protection to
Negroes in the South was re¬
called in the Federal District
Court today when a quiet Ne¬
gro youth, wh~sc eyees still re-.
fleeted the terror of being hunt¬
ed down by a mob of blood¬
thirsty k Hers, related his sto¬
ry from the witness stand in
the trial of five white men
charged with the blow-torch
torture lynching of a young Ne¬
gro youth, whose eyes still re-
La., last August 8 The 17-
year-old witness, Albert Harris,
whose body is still covered with
scars left by the lynchers’ ropes
and bludgeons, stood on the
stand only by virtue of the fact
that NAACP investigators,
whose lives were also imperil¬
ed, cooperat'ng with the asso¬
ciation’s officials in New York,
had outwitted the mob last
summer, and had spirited the
ycuth out of LCu siana while
the nation’s press and radio
reported his fantastic plane
and auto flight to safety in thej
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Politicians
Hold Their
Own
CHICAGO (ANP» —.Negroes
here neither lost nor gained in
7 *tA ^f escia y’ s aldennanic election. |
i i yenteen Negro candidates
n four of the city’s 5C wards
vied for council seat*, but
election returns Indicate only
the predominantly all-Negro
second and third wards will
have Negro aldermen In the'
new city council. j
By the virtue of i runoff]
next April, --either Mack At¬
kins, a local- undertaker back-j
ed by the Republican party, ori |
Incumbent William H- Harvey,
a Democrat, will represent the
second ward. A third ward
runoff will send either Roy L.
Washington, former Democratic
prosecutor, bald J. Carey, or pastor the Rev. of Wood- Archi-j
lawn AME church, to the city;
council. Oscar DePriest, in¬
cumbent, was defeated.
TueJday’s election probably
ended the long political career
of Oscar DePriest, who was de
throned as alderman of the
third ward- 1
District
Meeting Sunday
PROVES BIG
DRAWING
WILMINGTON. Ohio— Facts
•a are revealed here tocay or
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SCENES FROM CIT17FNS DEMOCRATIC Cl UR’S VITORY BANQUET
SCENES FROM VICTORY BANQUET — The above are
scenes from the Victory Banpiet of the Citizens Democratic
Club which was held Friday n ght at the auditorium of Wel¬
don Lodge of Elks.
The banquet was made possible by a donation of $1,000
frem the Citizens Progressive League in appreciation of the
support the Citizens Democratic Club gave the CPL in its V„c-
Poison LiquorKillsSix
’
PHILADELPHIA (ANP) —Five
men d,ed Saturday night from
denatured alohol consumed at
a drinking party in South Phil-
.
At the same time police were
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The 62nd anniversary ol the
iIndependent Order of Gocd Sa¬
maritans and Daughters of Sa¬
maria and the district meeting
will be held Sunday, March 9,
at St. Thomaj AME church,
45th and Burroughs streets, be¬
ginning at 11 45 a. m. Devo¬
tion will be led by the district
deputy, Rev. B J- Johnson, and
the sermon will be delivered
Rev- W. M. Baxter, after which
District Deputy A Rogers,
! companied by his associate,
Sisf^v. Adam Rogers, will take
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on Page 4
MS 0 B CASTRATES fERAN
Four Local
Women Finish
Lamar r
On Friday night, February
21, four Savannahians were
among those receiving diplo-1
mas and pins from the Lamar ■
'
School of Nursing and Univer-
>
sity hospital, Augusta
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HEAD RED CROSS DIVISION
i
i MAJ. T J- HOPKINS EDGAR C. IBLACKSHEAR,
Chr., Steering Committee Chairman of Campaign
j The Negro Area Division for the 1947 Red cross fund was
j put into action Friday, February 28, at a meeting of the Ne-
j gro auxiliary of the local chapter called by Maj. T. J- Hopkins,
Continued on page Seven
Ask Clemency
Of Army Plot
NEW YORK, N Y.—Point! nr
out that Maurice E Goens wa
acting under orders from a su
perior officer when he violated
the 94th Article of War as t
P rivate in a truck company in
Italy in 1945. the NAACP, on
February 2l, petitioned the War
for clemency in.
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SAVANNAII TRIBUNE THURSDAY, MARCH 6. 1947
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torious campaign last December to gain control of the citj wd-
m .n stration.
Shown in the top picture are, left to right, John W-
McGiockton, president of the C.tizens Democrat c Club; Louis
Rivers, (sitting behind the vase of flowers); Miss Metella Ma-
Continued on page Seven
Hold Open
Meeting
Hon Lawrence H. Lightner,
supreme commander of the
American Woodmen, headquar¬
ters in Denver, Colo., will visit
local camp No. 45, March 13- j
The. purpose of his visit is
to the annual member- 1
open
ship drive. Thursday, night,
March 13, at 8 o’clock there
will be an open meeting at the
West Broad Street YMCA
All members are expected to
be present. Friends are invited
to hear the commander, as he
will outline the objects of
Woodcraft and the benefits
which may be derived from it.
The Woodman has a finan¬
cial rating of A-plus among
the insurance companies of
America-
Camp No- 45 has been divid¬
ed into two teams. Team No. 1,
Mrs- Lillie B. Mason, Mrs. Dora
B McCoy and Mrs. Sadie
j Brown, and Team No. 2, Mis.
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For Victim
OCAL ALUMNI
INDORSE NO ONE
The Chatham county Chap-
ter of the Georgia State Col-
'ege Alumni Association has
not endorsed any one for
presidency of Georgia State Col- ,
e ? very fc ' sincerely , yours,
Leonard £i Lav,,
CHICAGO, 111., Feb. 27- The
revenge of a white man who
resented a Negro’s interest in
a Negro girl came to light to¬
day when Archie McLaurin
came to the Chicago NAACP
branch with a letter from his
wife in which the miserable in-
cident was related,
Mrs. Vera McLaurin said
j that W. C. Holloway, a friend
of McLaurin’s, and Lawrence
CaIvin Jen]dns . an honorably
discharged Navy veteran, both
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Fire Damages Residence
Of The Douglases
Elks Speaking
Contest To
Be Held Apr .4
High school students through¬
out the state arc locking for¬
ward to the Elks’ annual ora¬
torical content In which a
$1,000 scholarship Is the stake
in the regional contest.
Locally the contest is reach-
ing a finishing state and an
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Race Sleuths Expose
Racket
CHICAGO (ANP) Two
gro sleuths brought here
New York by the federal
ernment blew the lid off a
nation-wide sugar racket
is reported to have diverted
over 8,000,000 pounds of sugar
from regular distribution chan¬
nels and made millions of dol¬
in the process. Headquar¬
ters for the gang of black mar¬
ket dealers and counterfeiters,
consisting of both whites and
was located in the
heart of Chicago’s southside,
according to the federal ag¬
ents.
From Chicago, federal inves¬
tigators followed a trail of il¬
legal sugar stamps to -points
as fur away as New York and
Los Angeles. One of the oper¬
ators, Yancey Bridgeforth, the
owher of a taxicab company
Hefe, li reptlted to haYe made
over $25f),000 out of the racket
He had illegal stamps in his
possession when he was taken
from a Chicago-to-Columbus
plane during the investigation.
The operators sold the stamps
at prices ranging from three
to 30 cents, depending
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OFFICERS OF CEO. S. PATTON. JR., POST. AMERICAN LEGION
Shown above are the officers
of the Geo- S. Patton, Jr., post,
American Legion; left to right,
Benjamin F. Goins, adjutant;
Joseph S- Rivers, commander;
Harold Brown, finance officer;
Robert Gilliam, chairman of
house- Another leading mem¬
ber of the officers staff, Sam¬
uel Gill* assistant adjutant, is
Fire bacliy damaged the resi¬
dence of Mr. and Mrs. O. L
Douglas at the southeast cor¬
ner of East Broad street and
Park avenue Tuesday morning
about lo o’clock.
The fire apparently started
from an overheate doil stove
and before the fire fighters ar¬
rived on the scene the house
j was almost entirely gutten.
\ Practically all the household
] furnishings were destroyed and
only a small portion of the
( wearing apparel was saved by
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Girl Scouts Division
Elects Officers
The Negro division of the
Savannah Girl Scout Associa¬
tion held its first annual as¬
sociation meeting Friday, Feb¬
ruary 28, in the memorial room
at the headquarters. Mrs. Mat-
tie B. Payne, president of the
division directors, prfasided at
the meeting.
Miss Anna Beckman, local
director, introduced Andrew J-
Ryan, who was the guest
speaker of the evening. Mr.
Ryan praised the work of the
Texans Condemn School
Segregation
HOUSTON, Tex. —Condemn¬
ing separate schools and call¬
ing for . the end of segregation I
in Texas public sehqols, thd
Houston NAACP branch’* j
“kick-off” meeting for its 1947
membership campaign got off
to a rousing start on February
23- The resolution, presented
n-t snown in the picture.
Tne Geo. S. Patton, Jr.,
post, which was organized sev¬
eral months ago, maintains its
headquarters at 466 1-2 West
Broad street-, upstairs, where
its quarters are commodious
and elegantly furnished.
Ai. present the post, which is
one si u_t loading uuts of the
NUMBER
COLUMBIA, S C- (ANPi
$5,000 damage suit
Richland county offlcias of
S C. Democratic party, filed
in U 6. Court here Friday,
seen as a “comeback"
subterfuges the white south
employing to circumvent
Smith vs. Allwright Texas pri¬
mary decision of 1944.
Complainant in the South
Carolina action is George A-
Elmore, businessman, who °ets
forth that refusal of prir. .ry
officials to let him vote last
August 13, constitutes abroga¬
tion of a constitutional right.
Taking into consideration
the drastic repeal laws of 1944
In which South Carolina hop¬
od to put itself beyond reach of
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volunteer leaders and called
them the unsung heroes of the
organization. Their work is
with the troops directly and
they have done a good job here
in Savannah. He also stressed
the fact that 9fl per cent of the
work in the Scouting program
is volunteer and the sucoess of
the movement depends not up¬
on the paid professional. He
was very complimentary to the
Continued on page Severt
to a packed house, was
by enthusiastic cheers. The
group also adopted resolutions
calling for an anti-lynching
bill and oppoising both state
and federal anti-labor legisla¬
tion.
Thurgood Marshall, chief
Continued on Page Two
Photo by ttlLUAI j
American Legion in this eta
is in the midst of a weli»orf
nized membership campai
whereby it hopes to incr
its already large enrollaeo
Among the outstanding
ities of the post Is its attP
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