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Johnson C. Smith Univ.
Male Chorus Sings Here
Thursday Night, Apr. 17
The -T. A. Grimes Philhar¬
monic Male Chorus of Johnson
C- Smith university, Charlotte,
N. C, will make its Presbyteri-j first ap-|
pearance at Butler
an church, Edst Broad and Me-j
Donough streets, Thursday
evening, April 17, at 8:30
o’clock, under the auspices
the'Men’s Club, James
president. I
The chorus, which has been
idely acclaimed by music
itic: for the high quality of
its >4 .• performance, boasts ^eve;;-
al feature soloisiA JW/jn*
them Edward L Priole: : ,tV r hose
vibrant tenor voice} Jieen
widely praised- *: *r •
The appearance here of’ this
gifted group of singers is sig-|
nificant not only because it is
one of the outstanding college
chorai ensembles in the conn-
try, but because in its make-up'
is a young Savannahian. He
is Christopher Washington,
shown in the bugk row of the
above picture, tim’d - from the
right.
Indications point to an ov-
cililpw house greeting these
young men. in their recital here
next Thursday evening when
they will render the following
program: « ;
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Seagram Liquor Distil lers
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s-how Their Race Hatred
WINS RADIO IN LETTER WRITING CONTEST
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Th« National Association or
Broadcasters recently announc-
ed that Mrs- Anita M Stripling
was the winner of a radio in,;
a nation-wide lettei wriiing
contest, held during Nau mal
Radio week, on the sin'ie^t,
“What I Think of Radio. j
Mrs. Stripling is shown above ^
receiving her radio from
GIRL SCOUTS ANNUAL COOKIE SALE
Tins week your doorbells’re
going to ring to an opportunity
to help one of America’s old-
est and worthiest causes, the
Girl Scouts. At the same time,
While Girl Refuses to With¬
draw From Negro
WASHINGTON (ANP> _The
S h 0e i s on tlie other foot in
capital’s jim crow public
schools. A white girl is be ¬
ing asked to withdraw from
Margaret Murray Washington
Vdcatiional nigh school here
cause, says the board, the
school is for Negroes.
Tire girl, Miss Karla Roscl
Galarza, 22, ha,s been urged
by the board to transfer im-
mediately to Burdick High
school for white students, but
Miss Galarza has refused be-
,
cause, she says, the Burdick
does hot offer the saihe course
in dress designing that she is
now taking at Margaret Wash¬
ington.
Miss Galarza, who has up to
this session always attended
white jim crow schools, isi
insistence backed up by her remaining father in her at j !
on
Margaret Washington, I
| The demand that the young
woman transfer to the white I
school was made by Dr. Gar
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don “Windy” Herrin of WCCP
the station that sponsored the
CO ntest in Savannah Mrs
stripling was the only winner
this section,
gtripiing, a teacher at
^j ap [ e street ,chool. is active
j n c j V j C circles and is a mem-
ber ol the Zeia Phi Beta ooror
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their call wUl afford you the
i chance to fill your cookie jar
Wi thut lifting a spoon or an
1 egg ‘ beater ThlS week buy
Continued on pate Seven
LA. TEACHERS LAUNCH FIGHT FOR EQUAL PAY
A $10-a-p;ate emner at,
roe. La., last week netted j
$0,010.90 toward the campaign
for equa i salaries teachers, for Louisi-j with
ana - s Negro
these district leaders sparking
the affair. *
Front row, left to right: Mrs.
Johnnie Little , Richland Par-
ish, supervisor; Mrs. Mary
Wilson, Union parish; Mrs
BY REFUSING TO HIRE
NEGRO WOMEN IN SU-
I PERVISORYCAPACITY
CHICAGO -Joseph Seagram
in refusing to hire a young wo
man supervisor who met all
their requirement, but one
Her fatal mistake was being a
Negro. This discriminatory
practice of a major distiller j
selling thousands of gallons a of
liqquor to Negro consumers
each , year was made known tu
an agent ofHome Circut.NN
an agent of Home Circuit, the;
Magazine for Bronze Women,
here last week.
About a month ago, ^
0,„r,a Johnson, 57
street, Chicago, answered an
ad in the Chicago Sun which
stated that a large concern
wanted college graduates
supervisory positions in the
company’s plants. Miss John-
son states that an agent of
the company interviewed her
and gave her the necessary
blanks to fill out, after
learned that she bad
i a B S- Oegicc th
Contuaucd on page a
SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY. APRIL 10. 1047
NKW YORK. March 31.
Walter White, exeeuULve secre¬
tary of the National Associa¬
tion lor the Advancement of
Colored People, totday demand¬
ed an immediate and public
retraction of Kim Sigler, gov¬
ernor of Michigan, for state¬
ment i made by tIre governor,
listing the NAACP as a “com¬
munist front organization.”
The NAACP head demanded
the retraction in an unusually
vigorous day letter in which
it was pointed out that the
Michigan Governor’s predeces¬
sor, Supreme Court Justice
Frank Murphy, was a member
of the NAACP’s board of di¬
rectors. Other members in-
{elude j former governor of New
York, Herbert II Lehman,
K ic John: ton, Mrs. Eleanor
j Roosevelt, Islands, governor of the Hastle Vir-
i gin William H
|and many other distinguished I
‘Americans.
Go^rno^^gL^smer^’You
ale quoted 4 in an International
News Service , lelease f Il(,nl |
Washingtotn dated March 28
as listing the Associaion for
pie’ : as °<m mm un is t'‘front o r - 1
ganization. We assume you re¬
fer to the National Association
for the Advancement of Col¬
ored People. If that be true,
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q*.jaexson parish j
supervisor; Mrs. Eula D. Brit -1
ton, Rayvillc Training school!
principal; Mrs. E;dna Hayes, I
Tallulah, La.; Mrs. Angie
Brown, Clarks School princi-
pal, and Mrs- Lula Johnson,
Caldwell parish supervisor.
Second row: Charles P. Ad-
jyins, founder of Grambling |
College; Mrs. Mary
Frances corns, Miss Leslie M.
An en , Ouachita parish super-
visor; Mrs. Odessa Wilson, Un¬
ion parish supervisor; Mrs. J.
H. Miller, Monroe business wo¬
man; Mrs. Henrianna Carroll,
M. J. Clark, secretary of the
Louisiana Colored Teachers as-
sociation, and the Rev. J. M
Secrease—(ANP).
Doctors
Hold Post
Grad. Seminar
At
Bnmt „ „ ltal
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. A
post-graduate seminar for Ne-
at Brewster hospital Jack-,
sonvil e Fla Dr. I. E. Williams
hospital staff member and
chairman ol the sqminar-com-
mittee, announced today. ,
The three-day seminar or
refresher course, will be at-
tended , , , by physicians ... Irom
Florida Georgia, Alabama , and ,
South Carolina. Four promi-
nent physicians, each a spec-
ialist in his field, will discuss
tuberculosis, pediatrics, obstet-'
and venereal disease- Three
(olkwEd bJP a clitllc perlod t0
illustrate and demonstrate the
information pres ented.
j Brewster, the only accredit-
ed hospital for Negroes in Flor-
; ida, is offering the refresher
i course as part of a naion-wide
program to increase the know-
ledge and efficiency of prac-
ticing Negro physicians, ac-
curding ro Dr. William H Ball,
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Michigan NAACP (iovernor Communist!
Terming
Robinson
Represent
Elks State
Contest
The local Elks oratorical con¬
to select a
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MiSjj
Robinson of the 9A3
c . h school .
contest was held last Fri _
n at the Elks Resl and
’ attended.
Nine students , participated ' .. . .. .
the ,, contest, . , all . being . from .
_ Cuyler high school . and
eyening>s program ‘ was
I ““ 8e f F w , uk „ r dire
tor ' *} T a ddlt ‘ 01 ? t0 the ° ra
* 1S ’ f 1 °' f Wh f WCre °” t f
-The 4 Negro and
there was
number of musical selections.
Second place winner in
contest was Miss
Thomas of 10A1 Class
third place went to Miss
mna Thorn of 11A Class.
Other speakers in the
test w'ere Willie Mae
Dorothy Devillars, Hiram
Ghee, Anna Mae
Margaret Pinckney and Muse
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Beach Student Wins
Pepsi-Cola Scholarshi:
THE GRIFFIN TRIPLETS AT SIX MONTHS
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Here are the Griffin triplets—Jewell. Gerald and Jeris—
“ they were photographed last week at their home. 217 IVam-
Village, when they became six months old. Their twin
and sister looked on as Photographer Maddox's camera
the 1'kenesses of Savannah’s most publicized trio of in-
humanity who first saw the light of day at Charity
are the children of Mr. and Mm. Capers I* Grif-
TO HONOR FIRST COLORED
OF AMERICA
BEAUFORT, S. C. In an im¬
pressive program Sunday af-
ernoon a 4 30 o’clock, Mrs. Em¬
ma C Clement of Louisville,
Ky , who was named American
Mother of 1946, will be honor¬
ed at Robert Small high school
here. A picture of Mrs. Clem-
Two Gruesome Killings End
Mar Local Week
Last week’s closing days were
marked by two gruesome kill¬
ings. In one instance a young
woman was killed in a shanty
and in the other a father was
slain by his daughter.
The young wotiian was found
murdered in a inn on the edge
05 Hunter Field. Her body was
discovered in the abandoned
shack Thursday by a guard as
he maae his rounds of the
field. She had apparently been
beaten to death about the head
with a 2 x 4 board with a na.'i
in the end several days before
her body was found- Investi¬
gation disclosed that she was
Miss Annie Marie Gould, 23, of
8C3 West Thirty-seventh street.
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THEY ARE AGAIN SPONSORING THE JABBERWOCK
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, Reading rrom left to ngnt: Seaiea, Mrs. J. !>• Bryant, Miss Charlotte Williams, Mrs.
Mamie llavnes, Mrs. Kubyc Gadson, Mrs. Gladys Sanders, Mrs. Vivian Walker, Mrs. Eldora.
Greene; standing in same order, Mrs. Albert Thweatt, Mrs. Rosemary Jackson, Mrsk !sala
R. Staley, Mrs. Anne Givens, Miss Celeste Williams, Mrs- Edna Williams, Miss Gertrude
Lark and Mrs- Catherine Williams. Members not shown on picture are Mlss Lamina
Wceins, Mrs. Veronica Douglas, Mrs. Miriam Mann, Mrs. Dorothy B. Taylor, Mrs. Lenore
Bellinger and Miss Willa Mae Ayers-
Delta -j . Jabberwock Til 1 MT To Be An A
Outstanding Event of Year
The public is assured of a
delightful entertainment when
the members 01 Delta Sigma
Tneia men.
e ill us will be unveiled, painted
by G. Vincent Gbrant, and two
guest stars, Cloethia Bush, so¬
prano, and Thomas Mouzon,
pianist, will render several se¬
lections The Robert Small
high school band will play
several numbers.
Dewey Asked Not To Send
Man Back To N. Carolina
TO
LEGION MEETING
At a special ■ meeting . heiti
last night, William P Jordan
Po.'L No 500, American Legion,
voted to be fully represented at
the organizational meeting of
the Eleventh American Legion
District of Georgia, to be helu
in Atlanta Sunday, April 20.
Commander T. J- Hopkins
Senior Vice Commander J. B
Pinkney and Adjutailt Eulie W
Bellinger were named official
delegates to the meeting.
tiiird annual Jabberwock Fri¬
day night, April 18, at the
beautirui Melody th.:aee. this
JaOociWuck. in oe me
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John Solomon Blacksh,eaf,
16, a senior at Beach-Cuylerl
high school, today received!
word that he had been award¬
ed a certificate of merit by the
Pepsi-Cola Scholarship Bo.u 'I
as runner-up for one of lhe|
23 four-year college scholar¬
ships being granted this year| Lhol
to utstandlng seniors of sys-l
southern colored school
terns. As a certificate of reeeivel merit}
winner, Blackshear will
$50 00 when he enters college}
next fall.
Announcement oi the a.vardj
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NEW YORK, April 2 A !'-
gal tangly which i# slowly u'n-| but
surely .strangling the man
justly caught in it was reveal¬
ed today by the legal stall o{]
the NAACP, which ha 3 re¬
quested permission to discuss!
the matter with Governor}
Dewey.
The man involved is Arthur!
Elwuod Engram of North Car-]
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best yet, and will include tn
finest amateur talent in tlld
city.
One hundred five of tf
well-known white and eolorc
business firms of ’ Savanna
have made it pusaiti fur eac
attendant 10 itccive soumk
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