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RAHN AND MATTHEWS CLICK AT CARNEGIE HALL
ore than 3,000 music loverspackcd Carnegie Hall and hu
ndreds were turned away las'. Tuesday night as Muriel!
Rahn, soprano, and Edward Matthews, baritone, sang with t
he 63-piece Carnegie “Pops”orchestra undvr conductor Dav
id-Brockman in a concrrt devoted to the works of the great
American composer, George Gershwin. Miss Rahn was imme
diately engaged for a n urn appearance at. Carnegie Hall th
is-month, while Matthews was signed 'by the Columbia
Broadcasting System to sing the leading role in the Virgil T
hompson opera “Four Saints n Three Acts” over a coast to-
coast hookup on Sunday, May 25, from 3 to 4:30 p. m,
Eastern Daylight Time. Left to right, Matthews, Miss Rah
n and Maestro Broekman
Large Crowd To Attend
* Beach-Cuyler
One of the most cok. f .
erettas ever to be presi . e.i
Savannah will be that ne
tomorrow night, May 28, at
Municiipal Auditorium by
pupils of Beach-Cuyler
school.
Filled with snappy music
dancing, An Old Spanish
tom” has for its setting
rancho of Don Jose, an old Cas-
talian family in
The book and lyrics are by Es¬
telle Merrymon Clarke and mu¬
sic by Palmer John Clark.
The cast, made up of three
hundred and a chorus of
hundred voices, has been in re¬
hearsals constantly for
months.
Each teacher and pupil
Beach-Cuyler has
one hundred per,cent to assure
success for the operetta.
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S. C. Law School Case lip .June 0
Veterans To Honor
Dead Sunday
REV. t- A- CAPERS
Corporal Brown Camp, No
11 , Spanish War Veterans
,
Vance Allison Post, No-
Ernest Fleming Post and
sino Post. No. 8153, Veterans
Foreign Wars, William P.
dan Post. No. 500. and
S. Patton Post No. 513, Ameri
can Legion. Charles io
Continued on Page Two
Murray Testifies In
Univ. of Texas Trial
• AUSTIN, Tex., May 15- -
Donald G. Murray, who was the
first Negro student in the Uni¬
versity of Maryland law schooi
in 1,935, testified here in the
Suit brought by Herman M
Sweat!, seeking entrance to the
University of Texas law school.
Mr. Murray, now a success¬
ful practicing attorney, testifi¬
ed that racial tension was at
a minimum as a result of his
winning entrance to the Mary¬
land school 12 years ago. An¬
ticipated student strikes, fric¬
tion and campus tension never
materialized, he said- The
Maryland case was decided in
favor of Murray by a state
Continued on page 2
Milk Drive
Nets $116.35
The Mile of Dimes campaign,
under the chairmanship
Miss Miriam Grant,
5116.35 from public
A sisting in the drive
Mrs. Sadie Steele, Mrs.
Lee Stevens, Mrs.
Cogswell. Mrs. Helen Weathers
Mrs. Margaret Oliver, Miss F
Jackson, and members of
Junior A sociate ‘Board of
Chatham Savannah
sis and Health Association.
A SON
A son was born May 17
Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus A
of Fort Atkinson, Wis-
child has been named
Henry. Mrs. Walker will be
membered before her
as Louise Butler of
GOOD SAMARITANS
TO HOLD
SERVICES
The Independent Order
Good Samaritans and
ters of Samaria will hold
62nd annual Thanksgiving
Sunday, May 25, at 3 p- m.,
the Second Baptist church,
Continued on page three
MEHARRY ALUMNI
LIARY IN FIRST
MEETING—The National
iary of the Meharry Alumni
sociation, organized in
le last August, will hold
first annual meeting at
ry May 31. Many women
COLUMBIA, S. C, May 15—j
Tire trial in the case of John j
II. Wrighter v. Board of Trus¬
tees of the university of South
Carolina has been set for June |
6 and the defendant's request
that the case be tried before
jury was denied by Judge War¬
ing who stated that only the
question of damages would be
j presented to the jury if he
, found lor the plaintiff.
j It was agreed by NAACP
I Harold Boulware, and the at-
! torrieys representing the uni-
versity that Wrighten was in
,
ail ways qualified for entrance
into the University of South
Carolina law school except for
i the racial restriction. The
I NAACP attorneys indicated that
since there was no question of
there being any segregated fa¬
cilities for Negro. students
seeking a legal education in
South Carolina, even under the
defendants’ theory that segre¬
gation is valid, the only possi¬
ble outcome of this suit would
he the admission of Wrighten
and other qualified Negro
dents to the University oi
t ‘ South Carolina at tire
time.
SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1947
THIRTY-NINE ARE AWARDED
ROSENWALD SCHOLARSHIPS
CHICAGO tANPi -Awards of
30 Julius Rosenwalcf Fund fel¬
lowships for 1947 which, to¬
gether with reappointments of
former fellows total $90,000,
were announced this week by
Edw'in R.' Embree, 'president of
the fund. Twenty-three Ne¬
groes and 16 white southerners
were given awards averaging
*2,C0C in order to carry out.
projects ranging from the writ¬
ing of poetry to the evaluation
of political practices.
Chosen for awards from
among the hundreds of Negro
applicants were Ulysses Kay,
brilliant young composer, who
will spend a year on a concerto
and string quartet; Frank Har-
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OPENS WEST BROAD
STREET HOSTELRY
WILLIAM BAKER
A sixteen-room hotel will be
opened this week in the Wil-
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expected to accompany their h
usbands to commencement in
order to be present at this m
eeting. Shown here are some
of those expected. Left to rig
ht, they are:
Mrs. D- K- Jenkins, Colum
bia, S. C , member of constitu¬
DELIVERS PRIZE WIN-
NING ESSAY
MISS LILLIAN MAE
SON, Beach-Cuyler high
student, whose tactual
(Continued on Page 2)
Makers of Chesterfields
Feature Joe Louis
Starting May 17. the makers
of Chesterfield Cigarettes made
history by featuring Joe Louis’
endorsement of Chesterfields in
largest series of newspaper
j advertisements ever to app f ai
11 *-he riegro pres, from a ma-
jot cigarette company. This
Hegional Oratorical Held Here
Contest To He
Announcement was made
this week by Exalted Ruler Ed¬
win W. Burke of Weldon Lodge
that the Elks Regional Oratori¬
cal contest will be held in Sa¬
vannah the third week in July,
probably Monday, July 21-
In this contest which will
bring together state high
school winners from North and
South Carolina, Florida ami
Georgia, one from each state,
Georgia will be represented by
Miss Phoebe Robinson, Beach-
Ouyler high school, this city.
Miss Robinson won the honor
to represent this state in At¬
lanta during the month of April
when she captured first place
Continued on page 2
To Ct. Martial
Brutal Army
Officer
NEW YORK, May 14—First
Lieutenant Morris, former stoc¬
kade officer of Camp Kilmer,
N. J-, whose brutality toward a
Negro soldier was disclosed by
th* NAACP, will be brought to
trial, the U. E. Adjutant Gen-
eal’s office said today.
The NAACP submitted a re¬
port to the Adjutant General’s
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tion committee; Mrs. L. C St
arke, Deland, rm-, correspond¬
ing secretary; Mrs. J. C- Isaac
s. Detroit, chairman of consti¬
tution committee; Mrs. A. A D
alton, Lima, Ohio., president,
and Mrs. B H Atkinson,
fin, Ga-, vice president.
TO BE SPEAKER AT
DALE HI SCHOOL
Robert A Young, teacher
i vocational agriculture at
Hohe school, will be the
Continued on page 3
marks the beginning of the use
of Negro athletic stars in such
endorsements. Although the
endorsement does not state at
any time that Joe Louis is a
smoker of Chesterfields, it defi-
.(.Continued on F&g» Two),
Settlements
Made in
Rights Suits
VALLEJO, Calif , May
precedent - making
today closed the year-long
brought by twelve families
ing in the Chabot Terrace
ing project against the
jo Housing Authority for
lation of their civil rights.
der the arrangements,
out of court, each claimant
ceived $25, and two
who had suffered loss of
erty, received separate
ments.
The violation of civil
arose when Selano county
uty sheriffs, acting on the
leged statement of
persons that Negroes had
seen fleeing from the scene of
a murder of a Chabot
grocer, entered and searched
nearly 100 homes of Negro fam¬
ilies in the housing project on
May 17. A subsequent coro¬
ner's investigation failed to
produce a witness who could
substantiate the report that a
Negro was seen at the place
of the crime.
Charging the Housing Au¬
thority with responsibility since
Continued on Page Three
Other officers are; Mrs- C
. E Bomar, South Orange, N. J.,
recording secretary; Mrs. W. B
. Holland, Buffalo, treasurer;
and Mrs. John T- Givens, Norf
oik, parliamentarian. M r s
(Continued on page threej
! Rill Introduced
WASHINGTON, D C., May
15.—The long-awaited new and
strengthened anti-lynching bill
was introduced in the House
today by Congressman Clifford
P. Case, New Jersey Republi¬
can. It will receive the vigor¬
ous support of the NAACP,
church, labor, professional and
civic groups.
The measure has been refer¬
red to the House Judiciary com¬
mittee, of which Congressman
Case is a member.
In a statement issued today,
Mr. Case declared that ‘‘it is
vital that the federal govern¬
ment should definitely define
and use its full authority to
protect fundamental human
rights-
“Our moral leadership, upon
which the outside world de¬
pends at least as much as on
our own physical strength and
material resources will be
greatly weakened,” he said,
‘unless we, as a nation, take
definite and effective steps to
eradicate the foul crime of
lynching from the fabrics of
our domestic life.
‘‘Freedom from lynch law is
essential to the enjoyment of
the fundamental ruman rights
which tire United States prom¬
ised to promote when it sign¬
ed the united Nations Chant)..
TO BE HEARD HERE IN RECITAL
“My favorite Musician,” i s the way the late President
Roosevelt styled Graham Jaciton, nationally-known wizard of
the piano anil other musical nstruments, who wilt appear
here with the Eighty-Voice Ui orus at St- John Baptist church
Monday night, June 9.
Mr. Jackson has played in
Savannah several times at pri¬
vate gatherings at several ol
the leading hotels and once at
the' City Auditorium during
World War II when he ' was
connected with the U. S. Navy
entertainment department, but
-—
“Y” Drive Extended
To June 1st
Attending a mid-distance re¬
port meeting Monday night,
nearly one hundred workers in
the membership campaign of
the West Broad Street YMCA
were encouraged by a fine re¬
port to renew their efforts in
the current dampaSgn in or¬
der to reach the desired quota!
of two thousand members. Thai
reports Monday night reprt
' ei mg a membership hundred! of be-|
t ween seven and eight
members denoted that the ex-
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It is one *)f the inherent i |!
guaranteed by our con.
tion.
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out, . would , . provide , heavy ,
inal penalties for any member
of a lynch mob or any other
person wilfully involv
lynching- It would
mm, ' •
MILTON BEKLE, star of the
Philip Morris Tuesday high'
radio show, is shown with Ed¬
ward s. Lewis, executive direc¬
tor ol the Urban League of
Greaier New York, as he ac-
«T’ the eh airmanship of the
NUMBER 9$
his appearance here on June 9 1
will be the first time he will
have come to Savannah in a j
general concert, appearance.
He is a product of Chicago
Musical College, Hampton in-
Continued qn Page Two
any state or local official
•,.) hall have failed in thq
j performance of his duty to appre-| pre
t vent a lynching or to
hend and . bring . . to . justice . any
(jn( , guilty of that crime,
• equal, If not greater importuned
L il would make the local epmj
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League’s variety entertain :t
division during its 1947 I
drive. Berle has appeal
chows for Negro causes
'.unes and performed n>
iy for Negiq sexvi-Cm.h.,