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y£4f?s of: CONTINUOUS PUBLIC SERVICE LXV COURT RULES NEGROES CAN VOTE IN S. C. ELKS TO CELEBRATE A MIJll/CnC w I w I E '*aM■> A I ■ w 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 • 4 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 i Continued nn pae* ‘-l> "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 1 Continued on Page Two 4 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 Continued on page a armed with a .38 wanted to kill him, he told the ______ (Continued on page three) 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 ('ontiniiPd on Page a 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* continued on Page 'fwo £ I ¥ "■* £ sty* *L f t? '/VVl - -M > ^ T. WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL RAN* (ATLANTA) WHIfH WILL LEAD * PLRAPJE LCNBAY “Y” BOYS SECRETARY According to plans released by James T. Ellerbe, executive Continued on Page Two 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. Continued on page two) Continued on page 3 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;* Continued l On Pdge E- -TWo — '> < » * , l f . l . l W l il l I , i t , - ' : Continued on page two) 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 (Continued on Page Twoi Continued on Page Three NUMBER