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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LXV
INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION AT TUSKEGEE
Speakers and panel
sant;, who participated in the
conferences on labor problems,
which were featured during the
industrial exposition sponsored
bv the school of mechanical
industries of Tuskegee institute
May 7 and 8
OPENS ATTACK ON S. C.
, WHITE PRIMARY LAW
COLUMBIA, £>• C-, May 29.—
NAACP Attorneys Thurgood
Marshall, Robert L. Carter and
Harold R. Boulware, arrived; in
Columbia today, prepared to
open the NAACP’s attack upoii
South Carolina’s “white pri¬
mary” laws. The suit, on be-
hail of George Elmore and oth-
ed quaiilied Negro voters of
Richland County, S. C, names
the Democratic executive com¬
mittee and the election manag¬
ers of Richland county as de¬
fendants for refusal to allow
Negroes to vote in the Demo¬
cratic primaries since 1944,
when the State of South Caro¬
lina repealed all laws regulat¬
ing the primary elections in
that state. The state legisla¬
ture took this action on the
heels of the historic NAACP
Texas primary victory in the
United States Supreme court,
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119 To Receive Degrees
At Atlanta University
IJliiid Vet
Wins Initial
Round
CHARLESTON, W Va <ANP>
—The first round in a $50,000
suit against the Atlantic Grey¬
hound corporation was won last
week here by Isaac Woodard,
Jr . New York war veteran, who
was blinded by police in Bates-
burg. S. C-
The bus company’s plea that
—'/valid Woodard's suit against it was
was overruled by Cir¬
cuit Judge Julian F Bouchelle-
F(p continued the case until
September when the defense
asked additional time to take
depositions in other
The blinded veteran, who
tends he lost his sight by beat-
inp administered bv Batesburg’s
police chief, is suing on the
contention that a
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anatmalt (Fnlnmr.
Left to right <front row): T.
H. McCormick, Tuskegee math
enratics instructor and chair¬
man of the exposition commit¬
tee; C C■ Hart, Tuskegee grad¬
uate and plumbing contractor
in Atlanta; Mrs. Thomasina
Johnson, chief, minority groups
Beach High Graduation
Tomorrow, Fri.,
Commencement exercises ol
Beach high school will be held
tomorrow (Friday) night at the
First African Baptist church.
The program will begin at 8
o’clock.
Diplomas will! be awarded to
145 students, the largest class
to graduate in the history of
the school.
The principal address of the
j evening will be delivered by
Dr. George D. Kelsey, dean of
the school of theology of More¬
house College.
TO SPEAK IN
COLUMBUS
j
Madam E Faustine Bignon
I wlH ieave thls week end for Co
iumbus where she wil1 kc the
: P rinci P al *P eaker Sunday,
at lde tirat anillveic>ar ' i-
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section, U S. Employment Ser¬
vice, Washington; T. W. Jones,
acting director, school of me¬
chanical industries, Tuskegee;
Malcolm Dobbs, executive sec¬
retary, Committee for Alabama,
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Knifes Girl Friend; Then
Shoots Self
WEST PALM BEACH,
May 25. Linwood Braswell, a
native of Moultrie, Ga em¬
ployed at eater’s Furniture Co.
here, became enraged with his
girl friend on Sunday night,
last, and proceeded to knife
Laura Miller, 556-12th street-
She is being treated for su¬
perficial wounds and Linwood j
is in a precarious condition at,
a local hospital from three
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thru: prom
SAVANNAH
ATLANTA, June 2. — One
hundred nineteen men and wo-
received graduate and
professional degrees from Pres¬
ident Rufus E Clement at At¬
lanta University today, June 2,
at 6 p m in the Library Quad¬
rangle. The commencement
address was delivered by Attor¬
ney Earl Dickerson of Chicago,;
president of the American Bar
Association and chief counsel
for the Supreme Liberty Life
Insurance Company of Chica¬
go-
In the Graduate School of
Arts and Sciences, 14 received
the master of arts degree: In
English, Natalie Alfreda Davis
of Mobile, Ala., ETHEL JACOBS
(jqrqqn of Savannah, Ga,
Marcheita Vivian Jefferson of
Sedaiia - Mu - frothy Roberts
of Normal. Ala., mm Helen
Martha Siepne.is t Ok m.ilgee,
Continued on Page Two
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SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, JUNE 5,
88 AWAKUED DEIiltEGS at
GEORGIA STATE COLLEGE
Eighty-eight student., receiv¬
ed degrees yesterday morning
at the fifty-seventh
commencement exercises
Georgia State College. largely
The exercises were
attended and were featured by
an address by Dr. Miller 1 *'.
Whitaker, president o£
Carolina State College.
The program, held in Mel-
drtm Auditorium, wa;, as iol-
lows:
Processional, ‘War Marcli
the Priests," Mendelssohn.
Hymn, "O Worship the
King,” audience.
Invocation and Scripture
Continued on Page Seven
^
Rape
Released
Augusta, oa. anp> — au
unidentified man, arrested
a charge ol raping a white wo¬
man, was released from
here last week when the wo¬
man admitted to police
her story of being attacked was
concocted as an explanation for
being out with another man.
According to Sheriff M Gary
Whittle, several of his
had been sent out to
gate an alleged rape
(Continued on Page 2)
GERRY - LYNN MODELS
BEAUTY TIPS TO ETSK
Gerry Masciana, fash¬
ion editor of Home
The Magazine for Bronze
men, published in
and Gloria Lewis, a
Lyiui model fun steps),
NEW ANTI-LYNCH BILL
NOW IN SENATE
WASHINGTON, D C-, May
UK At the request of the
NAACP, Senators Robert F.
Wagner and Wayne Morse this
week jointly Introduced in the
Senate a strong anti-lynching
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TO TEACH AT
TUSKEGEE
1
j
Miss Frankie N. Golden, sup¬
ervisor of Chatham county ele¬
mentary schools, has been in-
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PRES. TRUMAN TO SPEAK
AT NAACP CONFERENCE!
Samaritans to Leave Sunday
For | Grand Lodge
ing tram for Fisk university
Nashville, where they gave the
coeds pointers on what it
means to be a model, a field
in which many talented
colored , , women are nov
a professional mi«ooi;. j; £ i
S. C. Home Town Honors
Returned Police
"Y” YOUNG MEN
TO AJTEND NEW
ORLEANS MEETING
The Second Annual South-
wide Young Men’s Assembly of
the YMCA will be held at the
Dryades Street YMCA, New Or¬
leans, La , July 25-27, It was
announced today by W. W. Law,
president of the assembly, t
The conference, which is
open to young men delegates
from every YMCA in the South,
of the Southern Area Council
will convene under the auspices
of the National YMCA’s. Among
the topics to be discussed will
be “Interculfcural Relationships
in the YMCA,” ‘‘Development
of a Community Program with
Young Adults,” “Christian Em
phasls in Young Adult Activi¬
ties,” and “The World in
Which We Live—What Youth
(Continued on Pag* Two)
Grand Chief Greene has pust
returned from Atlanta where
he attended a trustee board
meeting of Independent Order
Of Good Samaritans and Daugh
ters of Samaria at the grand
secretary’s office. Grand Secy.
J. W Reece and Grand Treas¬
urer and Father J. H- Brown
were in attendance.
The board showed quite an
increase in membership and fi-
nancc ’
After carefully going over
the G. S’s and G T-’s books,
Mr. Greene was very pleased
with Hie growth shown. Dis¬
trict Deputy J. S- Page and lo¬
cal committee reported progess
in plans for entertaining tne
grand lodge which will con¬
vene there June 9-11.
Father Brown congratulated
the committee for making such
unusual preparations lor the
coming grand lodge anu said
that he saw no reason why this
62nd session should not be the
greatest session in the history
GRAHAM JACKSON
PLAYS HERE
MONDAY NIGHT
Graham Jackson, the musi¬
cal wizard, will appear with the
80-Voice Chorus of St. John-
Baptist church, (Hartridge St.,
Monday night at 8:30.
Deacon Edward J Simmons
will direct the chorus, Miss
Bessye McCullough will be at
the console, Dr. E O S. Cleve-
at the piano; Graham W.
I Jackson on the accordion ana
I w . u DluieU/> mjskr jf
ceremonies. ___^
CAPT. EMANUEL K1.1NE
WASHINGTON, D- p., June .1
—it White was ahn®uqced tcidaV tiutt jay Prekl ipl
House Surj
dent Trumaji will speak
day afternoon, June 29, at
Lincoln Memorial in the
tion’s eapitol, to the concludhl Annul
on of the 38th Assf
Conference of the ational
elation for the Advancement
Colored People, other speakfl t|
sharing the platform with Elearl
President wili be Mrs.
Roosevelt, Senator Wajl
Morse of Oregon, and Waif
White, executive secretary
(Continued on Page Two)I
of the order in Georgia.
The G. C- is expecting all
departments to bring a 100 per
cent report to the grand lodge.
The local delegation will leave
10 30 p- m. over the Central
of Georgia on June 8, special
coaches having been arranged
by the officials and committee
for this delegation.
UML' m JK 9
HONOR STUDENTS—The above are the honor studq
the Beach high school class which will graduate tc
(Friday) night* They are,
Bottom row% left to right,’Mandy Quarterman, Stewaj 2nd!
Dor.Mln II. mil Hi. mil; Marie Young. 3rd; Viola
Middle row, Mildred Dunbar, 5th; Dorothy DeVil
rimeii ,e Walton, itti-
lt>j r< w, J«<hi S- i^tu Ksij^ai i.-si; jViilit-juu i
.Mosua all »v itlistl 4 , lull*, -oii** Of- AXUjU « '
NUMBER ytf
BEAUFORT, S. C (ANP)—A
record crowd of moe than 2,000
South Caollnians jammed the
auditorium of Robert Smalls
high school here last Monday
night to hear Acting Police
Capt. Emanuel Kline of New
York city say that for the past
35 years he had lived among
the most generous, spiritual and
helpful people in the world.
Capt. Kline, whose native
home is Beaufort, had not vis¬
ited this city for many years.
He returned at the request of
Prof. Kent Alston, principal of
the local high school, who in¬
vited him here to make tile
commencement address. ; i
Whites as well as Negqjes
turned who had out arrived to hear in a native N.ew .^qr.k £p)i
as a porter shortly after Work
War T, and had come back as |
the ranking Negro police hit¬
ter in America’s Largest city*
“I am not back from somql
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