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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 i ( aroliiiii -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 Continued on Page Three 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 Continued on page 3 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 Continued on Page Three R. R. Wright Dies In Philadelphia ^ » 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- Continued on Page Four 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 Continued on page twoi wv Ponder -wm -H-«j Future ------— of ______ on Page Three 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: ^ (Continued on page three) 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 Continued on Page 8 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 Continued on Page Three 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 (Continued on Page Two; 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 Continued 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 Continued on Page Two ■NUMBER l. Mi )f Or las pled ngh i IT ii baekvya erties. Mer sen alii h to Pit ‘ joverpmem |' ‘" , vigilant de h rights ox at wit ‘h man for "still suffer the insult, the harm intimidation, and say, the threat o Continued on In Hie: League y ti of tli Lar Eagll agif ■ "i i