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COURT RULES NEGROES CAN VOTE IN S. C.
ELKS TO CELEBRATE A MIJll/CnC w I w I E '*aM■> A I
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Two Days of
Gala Events
BEGINNING SUNDAY AND
ENDING MONDAY
EDWIN W. BURKE
Exalted Ruler
Weldon Lodge of Elks will
celebrate their forty-fourth an¬
niversary with a two-day cel¬
ebration beginning Sunday,
July 20 This will be an epochal
event in the history of Geor-
ia’s most widely known ant¬
lered group and will be featur-
d by an address by Grand
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J. w. DOBBS
Speaker
Master of the Masons J. W.
Dobbs on Sunday afternoon and
the Elks regional oratorical
contest Monday night.
In addition to Mr. Dobbs,
other outstanding out-of-town
personalities in Elkdom are ex¬
pected to be in the city for this
celebration- They include J.
Finley Wilson, New York, grand
exalted ruler; James E. Kelly,
Birmingham, Ala., grand secre¬
tary; Judge W. C. Hueston, of
Washington, D. C„ commission¬
er of education, and Bert Be-
tliune of Daytona Beach, Fla-,
JAMES £• KELLY Grand Secretary
Stockade Guards’ Guns Snuff Out Lives Of Eight Convicts
Shown above are the bodie of seven of the eight convicls shot to death by guards in tite prison "DienK ai anquma. as tney lay m Brunswick under¬
taking establishments. The men are Henry Manson, Don Steihens, Edward Neal, Willie Wright, Jonah Smith, George Patt-rson and James Smith. A pic¬
ture was not taken of Frank Janies, the last of the men to de.
they began probing into the fa¬
tal shooting last Friday of
eight Negro convicts and the
wounding of several others at
the work camp at Anquilla, 12
miles from here, by camp
guards'in what they termed a
“mass break” for freedom.
The disturbance is said to
have followed a sit-down strikie
by a 21-man road gang who
refused to wade into water
waist deep without rubber
boots.
Several truck loads of con¬
victs were present this morning
to testify at the hearing, sev¬
eral of whom showed up ban¬
daged from wounds received in
BRUNSWICK. July 16— Be
“thorough, fair, honest and im¬
partial and act without preju¬
dice” was the request of Judge
Gordon Knox to the Glynn
county grand jury today when
regional director of education.
One of the principal events
on the two day program will
be the formal opening of the
new additions to the Elks rest
on Minis street- These addi¬
tions include an enlarged au-
MISS PHOEBE ROBINSON
ditorium which has been beau-
tiful.y equipped and decorated,
rearrangement oi the ground
floor, on which are to be found
the reception room, billiard
room and an enlarged bar, and
other facilities on the second
floor.
On Sunday afternoon the
lodge will assemble at the Ma¬
sonic Temple on West Gwin¬
nett street and from there will
stage a street parade which
ALPHAS ENTERTAIN JESSE OWENS
In an appropriate tribute to
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"Y” To Feature Big
Sing At Stadium
The Inter-Church Council ot!
the West Broad Street YMCA
is in the process of organizing a j
thousand voice chorus to be!
presented in a music drama at
Grayson stadium. Plan,s have
been completed for this pro¬
gram to be broadcast by the
local radio stations and to be
carried on a nation-wide hook¬
up.
James T Ellerbe, YMCA ex-
| ecutive secretary, announces will
that Mrs. Dorothy Mottley
serve as director of this gigan¬
tic program.
Every musical organization
in Savrnnah is responding most
favorably to this effort, five
hundred singers already having
volunteered their services. The
directors of various church
choirs and local choruses are;
group leaders for this open air
concert, also. President J A
Colston je of Georgia State Col-
r fe fr; -h&A-ptedgud his coopera-
■ tipn, along, with the leadcio of
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SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1947
boards from the side of the !
work camp bunk house.
Testimony before a cormer’s
jury Saturday blamed the mass
slayings on Warden Worthy’s
drunken whims. Twenty-seven
of the all-Negro camp’s pris¬
oners had rebelled about work¬
ing in diseaseinfested water and
were lined up and marched
back to the prison camp where
five were accused of being ring
leaders. One of the five was
Willie H. Bell, a small prisoner,
whom Worthy ordered to step
aside from the group.
Bell defied Worthy’s order
because he thought the warden.
pump¬
ed into tne seventy-five con¬
victs at the camp after they
were called together for an in¬
vestigation by the warden.
The probe into the slayings
was pushed by the local chap¬
ter of the National Association
for the Advancement of Color¬
ed People and the Civil Liber¬
ties league, represented by C.
J. Cogdell and A. A. Nathan,
respectively, Brunswick attor¬
neys.
Solicitor General Glen Thom¬
as said he intends to let the
convicts “lay their cards on the
table” in the grand jury room
and added he was prepared to
visiting brother in Alpha Phi
Beta Phi Lambda chap-
of Savannah was host to
Owens, erstwhile world
champion and ideal to
Dentists To Meet In
Detroit Next Month
M I’
Dr. Robert H- Thompson of
the National Dent a! Association.
West, N J . president, has an-
nouncec* that the thifty-fourth
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armed with a .38
wanted to kill him, he told the
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Parents Fight For Children
To Have Equal Rights
RALE UGH, N. C- <ANP»—At¬
torneys for three Lumberton
Negroes, Mrs. Bessie Thompson,
Sam Bullock and Lawrence S.
Stephens, all of whom have
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Photo by Freeman.
staged in the beautiful and
sptcious “Shangri-La,” home of
Dr- and Mrs. H. M. Collier, Jr
the excellence of physical iit-
ness> once called the world’s
fastest human.
The informal reception wa*
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^ T. WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL RAN* (ATLANTA) WHIfH WILL LEAD
* PLRAPJE LCNBAY
“Y” BOYS SECRETARY
According to plans released
by James T. Ellerbe, executive
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But Denies Admittance of
Negro To Universitv of
S. Carolina Law School
ADMONISHES STATE “TO GET BACK INTO
THE UNION”
CHARLESTON, S. C.- Accord-
lng to two far-reaching decis¬
ions rendered last week, U- S.
District Judge J. Waties Waring
ruled in one case that Negroes
have the right to participate
in the state's primary election
and in the other case he refus¬
ed to order the university of
South Carolina to enroll a Ne¬
gro in its law depatrment, but
stated that John H. Wrighten,
the Charleston Negro seeking
to enter the university, and
any others like him would be
entitled to enter unless by the
opening of the next school
year the state provides an ade¬
quate course at the A. and M
College for Negroes at Orange-
3 Boy Scouts
Shot by White
Pranksters
CHARLESTON, S- C , July 13
-An unidentified person, firf
ing a shotgun loaded with
buckshot into a tent at Camp
Pinckney, Negro Boy Scout
camp, wounded three teen-age
patrol leaders about 1:30 a. m-
Sunday county police reported
tonight.
Leroy Gibby; received nine¬
teen buckshots about the arms,
neck, legs, chest and abdomen.
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Five Years Won Fight By For Knoxvilleites I’ark
A five year fight for a Negro!
park the lake front here 1
on
ended victoriously last week
when a resolution was adopted,
by, the Knox county court to j
lease the Fort LoUdoun reser- !
site in the vicinity . of j
Lowe’s Ferry for I recreational I
purposes from/the" /authority/ federal gov-1
see Valley j
A tty/C A.’ Cowan is the 1 only j
Summer Schi
Leaders
Leaders at summer school at
Beach-Cuyler l^gh tichool
the first ,ix weeks show the ft>i-
lowing, as announced : by W-.G*
Dixon, principal:
Dorothy Derry, per cent;*
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Morris Brown to Have
SHm.OOO Stadium
ATLANTA (ANPi—The $lGo,-
000 stadium dream of President
W. A Fountain, Jr., of Morris
Brown collegte is becoming a
reality.
Possessed of tremendous
faith, President Fountain has
given the contract to the Mac-
Dougall Construction company
on a cost-plus basis and they
have gone to work leveling off
the field just off the intersec¬
tion of Hunter and Vine St;
and started building the west
stands in a corner of the na¬
tural bowl-
Awarded $500
For Being
Refused
NEW YORK (ANP)- Because
a fifth school for models re¬
fused to allow attractive Carol
to register as a student,
the Harlem glamour girl was I
paid $300 this week on the j
mounds school that the Barbizon violated) j
Modi dn- had
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