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YEARS OF. CONTINUOUS PUBLIC SERVICE EXPECT TRUMAN TO TOUCH ON RACIAL TENSIONS In His Speech Sunday Before NAACP Conference WASHINGTON, D- C.-A -for declaration on the of racial tensions is to be made by President mai when he addresses Suhu y. June 29, meeting the 38th annual conference of tjie National Advancement Association of the People, it was announced to¬ day Walter White, secretary of the NAACP, stated that Sunday meeting closing, the conference, which will be 'held on Pag& YwQ Ella For NEW YORK After one of the longest price debates on record, Ella Fitzgerald was fi¬ nally signed to a oile-month contract at the Surf Club in Wildwood, N J., it was an¬ nounced by her agents here last week, The price finally agreed upon r $2,250 per week) mikes the Tisket, Tasket girl onf of the highest salaried Ne- grj? night club performers world- in thl frhe entertainment unusual thing about the i negotiations between Miss Fitz- geiald aijement and the Surf club man- Sije was the lengthiness. was first approached in mStl-February with a thousand- dojUai'-a-week offer that was Continued on page V SALES PROMOTION AGENT -^Attractive Robert Spencer Wash, Barr, native of Tacoma, who was schooled at Wilber- force university. Washington university and more recently at the New School, is the first colored girl to work in the ca¬ pacity oi sales promotion agent for the firm which distributes Old Golds out of it* NcW Ycrk Continued on Paige Five ©lu> fauawtali SHhur. Jury Frees Five Whites Who Beat Mother of Eight MONTGOMERY, Ala. (ANP) Fifty minutes were sufficient for an all-white jury in U- S district court here last week to •acquit five white defendants, four men and a woman, of as¬ sault charges brought by a Ne- Contlnued on page 2 ATTENDS INSURANCE MEETING FRANK B. WALKER, assist- ant manager of the North Carolina Mutual Life In surance Company. is attending the na- tional Negro insurance Arso- elation meeting in Detroit, Mich. , The Hub Urges Proper Respect For Law Enforcement Officers Husband Dies In Dentist Chair; Wife Insists on Probe NEW YORK < ANP i—An at¬ tractive Harlem widow, whose husband fell dead in a promi¬ nent dentist’s office last week as the latter was presumably getting ready to extract a tooth asked the police department and the district attorney to in¬ vestigate the tragedy thorough¬ ly this week tie cause she is convinced that criminal negh- Continued on Page Seven Doctors 3-Day Clinic To Present Interesting Program WILL BE HELD NEXT WEEK AT AUGUSTA AT UNIV.GEORGIA MEDICAL SCHOOL The program of the annual post-graduate clinic for the members of the Georgia Asso¬ ciation of Physicians, Dentists and Pharmacists which will be held June 30-July 3 at the Uni¬ versity of Georgia School of Medicine in Augusta, which was released this week shows a num released this week, shows a number of national leaders in the medical, dental and phar¬ maceutical fields who will par¬ ticipate in the three-day pro¬ gram. The clinics, it has been as¬ sured, will be largely attended by doctors from all over the Continued on page Seven ■111,000 FOR ALMA MATER from Africa! Nnamdi Azikwe, Lincoln University alumnus and West African editor and politl- leal leader, swelled Lincoln’s; 1 alumni fund over the $100,000 mark by a cash gift of $1,000 Haven Home Wood ville Canning Plants Reopened The two canning plants at Haven Home school and Wood- ville school opened Tuesday of this week- White people can at Haven Home on Tues- I days and at. Woodville on Wed- nesday, and colored people will use the plant at Haven Home on Wednesday and Thursday and at Woodville on Tuesday Ga. PTA Sum¬ mer Institute I The Georgia Congress of Col¬ ored Parents and Teachers has scheduled a series of summer conferences as follows: Taber¬ nacle Baptist church. Augusta. Continued on page two i SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1947 V.F.W. State Convention Meets Here Next Week JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RE¬ LIGION HONORS DP- CHAN- NING TOBIAS—Recipients of honoraey degrees at the ordi¬ nation and commencement ex¬ ercises of the Jewish Institute of Religion, are shown with at Lincolns recent commence- ment. Left to right: Dr. Hor-, Mann Bond, president; Dr Nnamdi Azikwe, Dr- Ralph J Bunche, United Nations official 1 Lincoln’s commencement day speaker. and Thursday of each week Both plants open at 9:30 a I in., and all products to be can-j will have to be in the plant at 2 o’clock- R. A Young,. teacher of vocational agricui- tore, and Mrs. J. L Blake, home economics teacher, are in I _ _ _ _ Continued on Page Five Events of the past twelve¬ month have been big with ,po- 1 litical implications for both the; present and future of Negro; citizens of Savannah, and for the whole community. These events have had broad I and important social implica- tions, also- Nine Negro police-) men and five other city em- j pioyees have been appointed to public service. The attitude of Negroes, par¬ ticularly and the public in gen¬ eral, towards these public ser¬ _____ Continued on page three Stephen S- Wise, president, Dr. Harry Elonimsky, dean Continued on Page Two A DAUGHTER A 7-pound, 3-oz daughter was Tuesday night at Charity to Dr. and Mrs. S- M Jr, The child will be Frieda Pauline. Prior her marriage Mrs- McDew Miss Mary Bradley of Bend, Indiana. A ST LOUIS WEDDING OF INTEREST TO SAVANNAHIANS fj mi- jiju' ;;,- ■> THE WEDDING PARTY OF PEARL SCHWARTZ AND GEORGE R- COLLINS ^ The wedding party of Mr- and Mrs George R. Collins, whose marr.-age was ■.olemnized ia=.t Sun¬ day. Mrs. Collins was, until her marriage Miss Pearl Schwarz, who is well known in the educational circles of Si. Louis and Missouri. Mr. Coihns is a buMncs.. execute, t in Lansing, A t ’-jp NNPA President e® Thomas W. Young, vice pres¬ ident and treasurer of The Guide Publishing 'Company, Inc., publishers of the Journal and Guide, was elected presi¬ dent of the Negro Newspaper Publishers Association Friday, June 20, at the organization’s Continued on Page Two Gets Post With Hat Firm NEH YORK (ANP > LeRoy Smith, Rhythm Record Shop owner of Denver, has been se¬ lected by Adams hats to be sales representative in his vi- (CJontlmiecl on pagv B) Tile slate convention of Vet¬ erans of Foreign Wars will be held in Sayannah, beginning Sunday, June 29, and continu¬ ing for four days, until July 2. Sessions and registrations will be held at the YMCA on West Broad street, where general headquarters will be maintain¬ ed. Sergeant Robert B Howard, Continued on page Seven NAACP To Debate What Political Stand To Take 2 Teachers Retired WASHINGTON, D- C With the 1948 election just ahead, the question of what political if any, should be taken by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was uppermost in the minds of delegates gathering here June 24 for the 38th an¬ nual conference of the associa¬ tion. In a sharp debate last year in Cincinnati it was decided that branches of the NAACP should not engage in partisan political activity and should not endorse partisan candi¬ dates. it was agreed that the voting records of congressmen and senators should be made available by the national of¬ fice as a guide to individual voters This was done. However, the Boston, Mass., youtli council endorsed a par¬ ty candidate and accepted an advertisement for a candidate iContinued on Page Two> MISS WEEMS TO AT - TEND BAPT. MEETING IN EUROPE Miss Camilla Weems, super¬ visor ot home demonstration work in Georgia, left this week Continued on Page Five 11 Blast Suits Against Three Fat Shops DENVER (ANP) . suits charging discrimination against Negro patrons were filed in district court here last week against three focal eating establishments. The suits, some of which in- continued on page two) NUMBER Ml Like Father, Like Soft A Tlie Rev- Morris H Tynes of Greensboro, N. C., who - was awarded the bachelor of divin¬ ity .degree from Yale universi¬ ty last week. The young min¬ ister was awarded the Mersick scholarship award for excellen¬ in public speaking while at- Continued on Page Two Board Refus¬ es Hike Pay ATLANTA (ANP)—The At¬ lanta school board last week the request to increase pay for school maids and Continued on Page a Under the rules and regula¬ of the Board of Educa¬ for retirement plans, Mrs. Este, who has served years at the Woodville Miss Lilia Smith of East school, and Miss Made¬ Shivery of Beach-Cuyler Continued on Page Seven ATTORNEY JACKSON IMPROVING Attorney W S- Jackson, who has been under treatment for months at the Douglas hospital in Philadelphia, i3 improved and is expect¬ back home shortly. in the center arp the bride and groom, Mr. and Mrs* George R. CoUins. D.rectiy back of them are Rev. Herman S* j Dreer and Rev. .’Ultan Thompson- Little Sandra Bass, the flower girl, is standing in front of the groom- Reading left to light, seated. Grace Boyd, Ida Mae King. Margaret Hen deisuit, ana .Strail Schwartz- S tanrting. 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