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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
{ami Student Wins Elks
$1000
Augustus George, 'Jr., of
ami, Eia-, was returned
of the Elks’ Regional
Monday night at FAB
in what proved to be the
standing event in the
anniversary celebration of
don lodge, the local unit of
national antlered
The celebration, number
ty-four, was the most
demonstration in the history
the lodge which is conceded
be the most progressive
most outstanding Elks’ unit
the state of Georgia.
. Beginning Sunday
with a street parade which
headed by the flashly
five piece band frpm Booker
Washington high school of
lanta, under the leadership
Bandmaster E. A. Starling,
numerous spectacular
attracted wide attention
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ON TOUR WITH SPECIAL
SERVICE
- cp,
Pleasant. Jr, will be pleased
know that he is stationed
Guam and writes that he
with the Special Service
on iheir tour around the
fic. He is the son of
Pleasant, w r ell known
painter.
mmmh Iritowr.
250 4-H’ers to Attend
Annual Conservation
The eleventh annual 4-H
Club Conservation Camp for
egro elubsters will be held July
28-August 2, at the State 4-H
club camp near Dublin, ac¬
cording to a recept report of
P. H. Stone, State Agent
Negro work, Georgia Agricul¬
tural Extension Service-
The Conservation Camps are
held each year for the purpose
jf training club members in
various ways of conserving and
developing natural and wildlife
resources. Approximately 250
4-H club members coming from
some 50-odd counties, where
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SUM
GOES ON THE.
BLOCK
Bv James B. LaFourche
MIAMI (ANPi — The
Whip, at one time reputed
be the most militant
be the mast militant
weekly in Florida, fell the
tim of the auctioneer’s
last Monday on the steps
the city court here, and
! to the highest bidder,
physica] effects of the
were obtained for not
*3.000.
ww ^ started by gam B
Mom(jn fhan four
with - .... bankroll of - $75. -—
ago a
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Photo bv Maddox.
Picture No. 1—The Booker T. Washington High
schopl (Atlanta) 35 piece band, outstanding
feature of the parade, leading the procession.
This is (he second time the spectacular Atlan¬
ta bard has been brought to Savannah for an
Elks demonstration.
No. 2 —Savannah's nine Negro police officers,
appointed last May, first tince on parade, led
by Officer Milton Hall, on motorcycle.
No. 3—The Simmons Drum Corps leading the
vehiclar portion of the parade.
No.4—Grand Master of Masons J- Wesley Dobbs
of Atlanta delivering the principle address at
the open air program. On the platform with
him are shown: The Queen of the Elks, Mrs.
Cora Booker; Dght. Ruler Lottie Floyd of
EMte Temple; Rev. R. M. Gilbert. Past Exalted
Ruler S. A. Jones, Marshal of the Day Raymond
Holloman, Commissioner of Education Judge
HucstoU, Washington, D. C.; Treasurer Sol C.
Johnson, Grand Secretary James Kelly. Bir¬
mingham, Ala., and Exalted Ruler E.dwin W •
Burke.
No. 5—Augustus George. Jr.. Miami, Fla., win¬
ner of Elks $1,000 oratorical contest, standing
between Exalted Ruler McCollum. Florida deft)
and Clarence Bane, also of Florida.
TO OILSTON IT
COLLEGE SIMMER COMMENCEMENT
James A Colston,
elected president of
State College, will be
inaugurated Thursday
August 14, at 6:30 o’clock,
was announced by Dr.
L. Paty, chancellor of the
versity System of Georgia,
will combine his inaugural ad¬
dress with a
address to approximately
persons, who will receive
degree of bachelor of
during the comb'nation
PURGE BILL Wil l. BE DETRIMENTAL
WASHINGTON (ANPi The
house passed the Rees bill on
Tuesday which provides for
loyalty check on each federal
worker and applicant for a
ernmental job.
Disregarding the argument
that the bill was unconstitu-
tional and the warning that
it would lead to a witch-hunt,
the bill went through
House b^ 319 to 61-
This bill will prove harmful
I to Negro federal employes as
S.'s’EHrs‘i£
or e a„l z ation. so necessary ..
helping them to improve their
in life. Judging
j ^L^nTition'T^keW al organization ' is likely £be to be
: termed by the legislators
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SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY. JURY 24. 1947
Exonerate Guards in Killing
of Convicts in MassBreak”
NEW YORK — Contributions
otaling $1,815.63 were received
>y the United Negro College
I’und during the past few weeks
rom American Negro soldiers
tationed abroad and in this
ountry, Frank M. Totton, na-
„iom 1 campaign chairman, an¬
nounced this week.
‘.For the fourth consecutive
year, support from Negro sol¬
diers both at home and over¬
seas has been a source of great
inspiration,” Mr Totton dedal-
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itorium; and
reception for seniors Wednes-
day night at eight o’clock at
the Community House-
President Colston, recent di¬
rector of public relations at
Hampton Instiitute, and for
four years president of Bethune
Cookman College, assumed of¬
ficial duties at Georgia State
College July 1. He also served
as director of Ballard school in
Macon, Ga., for a period of five
years-
ural and commencement
c.ses to be held in
Hall-
Other commencement
ties will include the senior
pers at 6 p- m., Sunday.
ust 10, in Meldrim hall;
ident and Mrs, James A.
ston’s at home to the
session staff and students
7 p. m., Sunday, August 10,
the Community House:
night exercises Tuesday,
12, at 8 P m., in Meldrium
FIRST NIGHT GAME MONDAY AT
SPORTSMAN’S PARK
A new chapter will be inaug-
, urated at sportsman’s Park
j when the first night game wi]1
be played there Mon day night-
j The elaborate lighting sys—
| tem which will flood the
park with brilhliance of
P
'
The flrst out . of . town team
play under the
be the J acksonvilie ’ "a.,
Red Caps who ...... wm oppose the
Savannah Bears in a four-game
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BRUNSWICK. July 19. War¬
den H G. Worthy and five
guards were exonerated yester¬
day by a Superior Court grand
jury in the killing of eight Ne¬
gro convicts and the wounding
of several others in what
termed a “mass break" from
the prison camp at Anguilla.
The jury's findings said
the facts “showed that the
warden and the guards were
justified in their action under
the circumstances," and, there-
fore, they were exonerated of
an •tli blame uuime.
The iurv pointed out
guards were authorized by law
to prevent y any break or tes-
cape by using gunfire, and
they were authorized to “take
such steps as are necessary to
maintain order ”
The presentment said of the
killings:
After a series of disorders
which led to a refusal of pris¬
oners to work, Warden Worthy
Prison ward and attempted to
-eason with them.
Af the same time the war-
den. guards and county
who had been summoned to
help guards were subjected to
on cm»
UNCF Receives $1815
During Past Few Weeks
M OFFICERS
IN AIR CORPS
1 titaed
iver and
pilots'’are wings Most
of the stationed at
L^bourne Army A i r Base.
i u fnbus. O. as members of the
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New Texas State University
To in September
—— ——
HKXJS'lON, (ANPi
Board of Regents of the
Texas university for
met July 8. and among
matters set the opening
j for 8 the thereabout. 1947-48 session as Sept
or
are to be addressed to
l Registrar. Texas State
I , , for „ Negroes. „ . ,
building, Room 2002,
Texas.” The fees will be “
keeping” with those charged ■ ■ •
other Texas state institutions,
j TAXIS —------- FACE
Df ACKCiHT
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LGS ANGEl.ES (ANPi
Bringing new
that had been re used charters
a b 11 t0 ™ ake Wlld(:al but
‘ration illegal , was signed
week by Gov. Warren.
The b 11 inakea 11 a
noeanoi to sell oi nego late
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Street Car Assailant Bound
ATLANTA (ANPi A
man who shot a Negro woman
during trouble on the
street car line, was bound
from city recorder’s court
the Fulton grand jury last
on ,$1,000 bond on a charge
assault with intent to kill.
J. D. Brad field,
white man of Stone
Ga-, was accused of
Mrs. Lucy Pyron, of Ashby Ter¬
race when trouble
over the request to two
men to move up in the. car
order that Negro riders
sit down.
Mrs. Pyron was not
in the seating request-
white man pulled his pistol
waved it in the directon of
Negroes in the car- When
ran to the rear of the
Bradfield shot twice, the
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DOCTORS PLAN FOR
CONVENTION—-Dr A C Ter-
rer.ee director of publicity
the National Medical as-ocia-
tion, met with physicians
Baitimore to make plans for
the NMA convention in August
Plans for NMA headquarters, a
Jim Crow Hospital
Now Under Fire
NEW YORK, July 17. The
National Association for the
Advancement ol Colored eo-
P le restated its uncompiomisi g
opposition to any attempts to
establish jlm crow veterans’
hospitals today when Roy Wil¬
kins. NAACP assistant secretary,
notified Rep. Edith Nourse
Rogoers i R -Mass i of the as¬
sociation's stand.
\ In a message wired to the
congresswoman, who is chair¬
man of the House Veterans’ Af¬
fairs Committee, Mr. Wilkins
Gated: -The National Assocla-
lional Association for the Ad¬
vancement of Colored People
has _ noted ....... in ....... the press _........... that the
HouJje Veterans - Affairs Com-
! mittee has approved a blU to
j Ml 1ST BURY DEAn WITHIN 36 HRS.
The City Health Department
notified all the undertaking
firms of the city this week
that the ordinance which re¬
quires dead bodies to be buried
within 36 hours must be strict¬
ly adhered to or a docket case
v/ill follow any violations of
this time limit.
However, special permission,
In rare instances, will be grant¬
ed to hold a body for a long¬
er period.
Undertakers are required
report to the health depart
ment 24 hours after
charge of a dead body.
full time executive secretary
1 improved nospitai facilities, and
inclusion ol Negro doctor; into
the American Medical acoocia-
in the south were discuss-
ed.
Shown in the photograph,
left to right, bottom row, are
NUMBER tyJ
j establish a hospital for Negro
veterans in Franklin county
Va. We wish to reaffirm {mr
opposition to tile policy of get¬
ting up of hospitals for veter¬
ans segregated on the basis of
color. The United States Army
hospitals are on a non-segfre-
« ated basis - The hospitals on
tlie fighting fronts during war¬
time were noil-segregated If
all men who fought and were
wounded for tileir country dur¬
ing wartime could be treated
without segregation surely our
government should not adopt
a policy of separating them on
the basis of color in veterans
hospital during peace time
We believe that such a policy
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2 SUICIDES
IN ATLANTA
LAST WEEK
ATLANTA (ANPi—Two per¬
sons took their lives here last
week
One was Miss Georgia Mae
Griggs, a 17-yPar-o4d Morris,
Brown freshman, who shot her-
I self with a 45-calibre revolver
over despondency of failing ui
her stfulies.
Miss Griggs left a death note
j “
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cher. Drs. A G. C- H. Terrence, Pendleton, B B, F. Hal Ha|
A. Bantield W Noviile, af
T Harrls
Second row shows: Drs. I.
Higgins. C. C. Campbell and
Harmon.