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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
TRUMAN PROMISES EQUAL CIVIL RIGHTS
OFFICERS OF THE GRAND CHAPTER , ORDER OF EASTERN STAR
Left to right, Mrs. Marie Cjoper, Grand Treasurer; Mrs. P. B. Eichelberger, Secy.-Treas. nd.; Mrs. Phoebe C. Simmons,
Grand Secretary; Mrs. Mary L Ayers, Grand Worthy Matron; Mrs. C. M. Finley, Grand W, ithy Matron of South Carolina
and Past international Grand Matron of the International Conference of Grand Chapters. Mrs. Mary II- Jones, Grand Lec¬
turer; Mrs- M. V. Herrington, Grand Asso. Matron; Mrs. Willie Williams, Grand Auditor. I pper row—Mrs- Vera Aikins,
Grand Esther; Mrs. Emma Minton, Grand Martha; Mrs. Marie Butler, Grand Ruth; Mrs. Zella Davis, Grand Asso- Corn!.;
Mrs- Mattie Rollins, Grand Cond.; Mrs. Amy J. Dunn, C. C. F C-; Mrs. Beatrice Dyons, Grand Electa, and Mrs. Matilda W
ashington, Grand Adah.
\«vv Trial Far Two
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-dyfeuiLUMBIA, decision, (ANP) the — By state a
unanimous
supreme court ordered a new
trial for Frank Hinton, 16, and
his sister, Azalee Simpson, on
the grounds that remarks made
by the state prosecutor in his
argument to the jury were
“improper and prejudicial and
inflamed the minds of the ju¬
rors against the Negroes.’’
The opinion, by Associate
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Jury Recommends
Death Sentence
FORREST CITY, Ark. (ANP)
_A bi-racial jury, unusual for
this section, and consisting of
white men and two Negrc
men, one a houseboy and the
other a farmer condemned
Lawrence Willie Dukes, 31, to
death in the electric chair af¬
ter only seven minutes of de-
licration. Dukes, a Negro,
pleaded guilty to a charge of
first degree murder at the op¬
ening of his trial. ’
According to the testimony,!
Dukes criminally assaulted and
slashed to death Mrs. Ethel El¬
lis Boyd, 36-year-pld taxiAalb
operator, on the night of May t
21, after he engaged her to!
take him home. Her body wis|
found beside a lonely road. The
next- day a posse captured
Dukes in a nearby swamp.
Judge Davis S- Plummer set
August 1 as the date of execu¬
f- tion-
Elks To Meet
in Philly |
WASHINGTON (ANP) The !
49th annual Elks grand lodge
,^»»ons will convene the last
i4£iek in August in Philadel-
phia, where a contest is ex-
pected for the office of grand
esteemed leading knight.
The office, now held by Jo-
seph A. Brown of New York city,
exalted ruler, and aspirants
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Shf fauiinuah liar.
Sue For Equal
Share in War
Memorial
NEWPORT NEWS, Va- (ANP)
—Incensed at the temerity 6f
the city council authorizing the
construction of a World War II
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R. R. Wright
Dies In Philadelphia
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PHILADELPHIA. July 2 Ma-
jor R R. Wright, 94, president
founder of the Citizens and
Bank and Trust Com-
pany, and one of the most
widely known Negroes m the
country, died here today after
a short illness.
Major Wright, celebrated
ucator and founder
president of the Georgia
ing as nead or the Georgia .ol-
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Eastern Stars Royally
Entertained By Brunswick
The 48th annual session of
Prince Hall Grand Chapter, O.
E- S., which was held in Bruns-
wick June 23-25, was
to be the best session in the
history of the Grand Chapter.
The welcome program was
held at Shiloh Baptist church
Monday night:
Processional, Grahd Chapter
officers.
Selection, “Star Spangled
! Banner audience, followed by
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LI uni I ion
Sweden Raps
U. S. Race
Relations
WASHINGTON I ANP ) Race
relations American style
some bad publicity in the
Sweedish press last week after
a report on a fight between U
S. white and Negro sailors at
a dance hall during a visit to
the Swedish port of Malmo- The
Swedish newspaper said Amer-
jeans “should confine their
persecution of Negroes to Amer-
i lean soil.”
The incident caused so much
publicity that U. S.
Lom s g. Dreyfus said he would
report the matter to officials
-here. In ah effort to save
c j e Sam’s face, Dreyfus
- s t&emefflT' .t<5' ttle
preSs - m w hierr he said he
ciflent revealed aha aouca:
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SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1947
Alabama Fires
I -I- HICv -LtXvJI. IVTflW* C
Teachers
NEW YORK (ANP)—-Accord¬
ing to Miss Sara T- Walsh, di¬
rector, national teachers di¬
vision, United Public Workers
of America, CIO, additional
dismissals of Negro teachers
have taken place in Jefferson
county, Ala. The firings, which
began in Birmingham, around
the equalization pay suit, have
been carried into Fairfield. Miss
Maenetta Steele, president of
the UPWA Teachers local, and
three other members of the lo¬
cal have been dismissed. Miss
Steele, the only one of the four
who is on tenure, will have a
hearing in court during the last
week in July.
Miss Walsh’s statement adds
that "Miss Steele was given n
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WASHINGTON (ANP)_ Two
questions were on the hearts
or every person here vitally con¬
cerned with an improvement in
Negro education alter a bill
authorizing the federal govern¬
ment to grant the states $300,-
I 000,000 annually to help equal¬
ize educational opportunities
! was approved last week by
’ Cjena te public welfare commit-
,ee - ^be first one was whether
l be measure would ever pass
Congress and the next was to
w hat extent such a measure
w °old equalize educational op
Portunities lOr Negroes in the
southern states.
It would take more than 100
years for Negro schools in the
average southern state to de-
velop t0 the level of white pub _
jj c schools at the w present rate
improvement In Mississip¬
pi, Georgia and Alabama it will
take 20n 0 withmo
outside assistance Neverthe-
less 30u thern governors would
them Lu spend proportioually on
Negro schools.
New Pre*y Takes Charge
At Georgi a S tate
White Husband Cannot
Inherit W ile's Property
JACKSON, Miss. (ANPi A
Mississippi law which holds that
marriages between whites
other persons having one-tighth
Negro or Mongolian blood are
null and void was used by
Chancellor V. J. Strieker here
last week in preventing Alex
D. Miller, white, from
ing property owned by his col-
ored wide. The couple was
married in Chicago in 193®.
Miller brought suit for the
possession of property valued
Lynch Victim’s Wife Held
Under $1000 I>ond
LAGRANGE, Ga. 1 ANP 1 -
Mrs. Caroline Gilbert was
bound over to Troup Superior
court last week following a
hearing before a magistrate on
charges that she shielded and
harbored a criminal, the same
charges as placed against her
husband, Henry, who was
lynched by law enforcement of¬
ficers in the Hamilton (Harris
county^ jail last mourn.
The state chargee that the
Deputy Mob; Sheriff Holds Off
Prevents
CARROLLTON, Ga., July 1.
-Chief Deputy Otis King, act¬
ing in the absence of Sheriff
Kilgore, last night thwarted a
bloodthirsty mob which ap¬
peared at the jail here and de¬
manded that a Negro prisoner
who had been arrested for kill¬
ing a white farmer, be turned
over to them.
King stalled off tile mob,
barricaded himself in the jail
and refused to turn over the
keys of the jailhouse, threat¬
ening .to shoot the first man
who attempted to break into
the jail.
While an assistant parleyed
with leaders of the mob, King
said, he telephoned i
for help. !
"i kept calling for help, he
related and pretty soon I had
a good deal of it. More than a
■seme o city police, s heriffs
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There is strong favor in Con¬
gress for federal aid for public
education because the inequal¬
ities involve not merely whites
,
against blacks but north against
south, inequalities stem from
differences in the economic
and financial status of various
sections of the country and
different sections of the same
states. School facilities are
better in cities than in rural
communities.
The vote for the measure was
to 1 in the subcommittee with
Senator Donnell, Republican,!
Missouri, offering the only op¬
posing vote. Chairman Aiken, !
Republican, Vermont, said Don¬
nell objected to the provision
which cide allows whether the states to de- j i
federal funds
should be used for assistance
to religious and private schools-
The bill provides that each
state receive a minimum of $5
from the federal government
per child of chool age. pro-
I vidmg certain standard ‘are
met Each state alter quality-
ing for aid would have the
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approximately $25,000, includ-
ing a business building,
residences, and several smal-
ler structures. Although
Miller did not leave a will,
sought the property on
ground that he was her
husband-
Judge Strieker ruled that the
property which belonged to Mrs.
Miller before her death should
go to her relatives here as
_
Continued on Page Three
Gilberts shielded Gus
after he shot to death
Sands, a white farmer and
operator, when the latter
to a Negro church and
ed to beat the alleged
because a cow or calf
to him had been killed by
automobile he accused
of driving.
Gilbert, a well to do
was a rrested while denying
Continued on Page Three
UNCF Makes $300,000
Distribution to Schools!
NEW YORK—A total of
r300,000 was distributed among
the 33 member coolleges of the
United Negro College Fund
June 25 -in the first allocation
of proceeds of the 1947 cam-
paigry
Proceeds are distributed to
the colleges on the basis of a
formula unanimously approved
by the presidents of the mem-
ber institutions. Subsequent
distributions will be made in
October and in January, 1948,
at the conclusion of this year’s
campaign, W. J. Trent fund] Jr. exe-
cutive director of the said
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ELECTRIC COMPANY ENTERTAINS VETERAN Et >L0YEES
74 H n __ JHP3B
Clockwise, sitting: Harry Murchison, Euiie Bellinger, of The 1
Drrid Prince Parker, Stephen C- WyUy l
i«S*on, F-obbi* W. Rbtefc, Joseph Strain, J ia« Smith. Richard Eaj
Standing. David A. Johnson Harry J. Gordon. C. C- Curtis, j
C. Morton, Gen. Supt-; C. Laoaeier, Diet. Supt ; fred Br*’ ’
panuaueo. on Pusd
I
James A. Colston, recently ]
elected president president of ol Georgia!
State College by the Board ol
Regents of the State University
System, officially assumed hi .
duties as fourth president ol
the 56-year-old institution c>n
Tuesday morning at the regular
chapel hour held in Meldrim
auditorium on the college cam¬
pus. He succeeds B. F. Hubert,
resigned.
In a short talk, following an
introduction by Dean W. K.
Payne, Mr. Colston acknowledg¬
ed the gracious we'enna and
Continued on Page Eight
Prince Hal! Masons Raise
$12,000 On St. Joh n’s Da y
ATLANTA (ANP) _ History
was made by Prince Hall Ma¬
sons of Atlanta with the as
of ,their Eastern Star
last week when they
$12,101 in their St. John’s
rally at Wheat Street Bap
list church.
The rally was put over by |
the Rev. William Holmes Bor-!
ders, Wheat Street pastor, who
delivered the annual sermon. 1
The effort had been planned
and carried out to pay off the
lust Installment of a mortgage
due on the Masonic temple
property, corner of Auburn and
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