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BISHOP C. M. GRACE
The twenty-first annual con¬
vocation of the United House'
of Prayer for All People will
end Sunday with a street pa¬
rade and a banquet Monday
night at the City Audi, r um.
The meetings began Monday
and a,rc being attem * d ty
communicants of the church
from many out-of town points
The parade, which will be
led by Bishop C. M. Grace, will
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A M Its Change Conference
To Kansas I
Federal Trade Commission
Kicks Out Negro
WASHINGTON < ANP i —Clar¬
ence M tchell, NAACP labor
secretary, and Daniel H. sch-
wartz regional director of the
United Public Workers, l CIO
jointly announced , , „
that the Federal Trade Com-
mission had terminated . the
job; of eight Negro employes,
Return to Ala. Cliaingang
Sentences Whites in Attack
On Old Man
GREENVILLE. N. C. (ANP)—'
Weclaring that "this has a lol
to do with stirring up racia
strife,” Judge Henry A. Grad)
meted out sentence to threi
white elderly men convicted Will Buck of assault¬ with £
ing
deadly weapon with intent U
kill. The deadly weapon was
a beer bottle.
The defendants were Henry
BUSINESS
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Twenty-four years In the
repair" bnsl.es, ■i-m:**** ■
Joseph above'ileff Bull
at work in hi: bKoS
at 520 West Broad street.
the right'is his son. Joseh,
his assistant for mapy years
auanndi SDribunr
Registration Closes October 24
For Colo
The Pepsi-Cola Scholarship
ioara is this month inviting all
Negro students graduating
hign school in 1948 to enter its
fourth annual competition fo>
119 Pepsi-CoJa tour-year col¬
lege scholarships and 540
iodar college entrance awards.
According to an announce-
aent just sent by the
tola Scholarship Board to all
4egro high school principals, 18
if these scholarsh ps and 75 of
he college entrance awards
iave been set aside specifically
.or seniors of the South’s Ne-|
;ro schools. Negro students may
also compete for the other!
awards to be granted in those!
-states-which do not have a dual
ystem of education.
Negro boys and girls have
been well represented in the
last three competitions, ac¬
cording to Mordecai W. John¬
son. president of Howard uni¬
versity and a member of the
pepsi-Cola Scholarship Board
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transferred from the Office of
Price Administration in Decem¬
ber, 1946.
] J U bel0H L)l
c « mber h * d used * egr ° em
1 1 ployes J only in . custodial posi-
^ons . at , f.rst *. . refused , . to . ac-
Negro ac countants an c
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Floyd, Jr., Guy Kite and David
Wiggins. According to the tes-
imony given, the three men
stopped their car,
Buck and as he
struck and beat him with
beer bottle. When they
finished Buck crawled 75
.0 a house to get transportation
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Uld. now student at the
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fmring 4hes* y.eaft i- Mr - •
has built up a
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Moving Picture Machine
Operator Fatally School Teacher Shot;
Allegedly by
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W. S. Scott, Jr., chairman
the 1947 NAACP member- hip
drive, has announced that
nat onwide membership goal
LOCO,000 members. The quota
has been set in Savannah foi
3.000 adult memberships and
7.000 Youth council member-
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- CHICAGO (ANP ) —Meeting in
d special called session held
Thursday at Quinn Chape'
AME church here, the Council
if Bishops of the African tSm-
thodist Episcopal church
idered the report of a special
investigating committee on af-
faTs in the Second Episcopal
listrict. After hearing the re-
jort of the committee which
ncluded bishops S, L. Greene
L R. Wright and H. Y. Tookes,
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POR'l HURON, ___ Mica
A real life story of "I'm a Fu-
>itive From the Chaingang in
bama has to do with Ernest
Robinson of this city who if
ighting extradition. Alabama
luthorities who seek the
of Robinson ciaim that he es-
caped after having served only
a few months of a five-year
sentence.
In Robinson’s corner in his
fight to remain in Michigan is
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300 Freshmen Enrolled at
State College
Ail Faces Turn Red On
Account of A Brown One
'wS™
ing program was plannetf. The
freshmen' received a cordial
welcome Irom the president
faculty and upperclassmen.
A program was fdevised tc
familiarize the freshmen with
the college program. General
assembly was held Wednesday
in Meldrim auditorium.
Placement examinations were
held from 9 to 12 o clock
n.esday and the presidents re-
cePtion for new students
held in the Community
Wednesday from 8 to 9 p. m.
Freshmen will be
in WUeox s gyinnasium Fn-
ZlJ'TA d ..««»«!
a* -- chairman ^ Matured and'talent Saturday. night
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SAVANNAU TRIBUNE THURSDAY, SEPT. 25, 1947
C.ark lyree, 35, chid . movie
machine operator at
Mclody thealle ’ wa ''’
».v shot yesterday morning
about ,^'ven oclocjk wh.cn he I
went to 53d •Yam&craw Village I
l(J gel some things which he
claimed belonged to him. The
b , last lu - om the shotgun
was allegedly fired by Mrs. Arie
w Balli who ves icl e s at the
yamacraw address.
There _____ ______ were two eyewitnesses „, 10 „,i hloc „ s |
to the shooting, a cab driver |
and a deputy sheriff, Arthur
Matthews, who is also a movie
picture machine operator.
It appears that Tyree, who
said to have been a close as¬
sociate of Mrs. Ball, a teacher
at Cuyler high school, since she 1
divorced her husband several
months ago, had quarreled
with hei Monday night which
resulted in her taking out a
peace warrant against him the
day before the fatal shooting.
Wednesday morning about,
Fired Teacher
Case Will
BIRMINGHAM anp Ruby
j actc son Gainer, dismissed from
the SC hool system here, lost an-
other battle for reinstatement
] as f W eek in circuit court, Judge
J. Edgar Bowron upheld the
board of education ruling which
dismissed Mrs. Gainer because
of alleged ‘‘neglect of duty and
insubordination.”
The teacher announced that
she would now appeal to the
Alabama supreme court. She
holds that she was dismissed for
p ersona i and political reasons
gj ie SS y 6 that because she led
I a movC ment among teachers
f or mo re pay, she was discharg-
ed
A sqn
and j^rs. g rnes t Elliott of
232 Fellwood announce the birth
of a son, August 5. He will be
called Ernest, Jr. Mrs. Elliotl
will be remembered as Miss
Bernice Heidt.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. <ANP>—
Another faux pas was commit-
, ed in s t a ^ e j as t week whrn
a Negro woman was hired to
teach in a white school. Mrs. |
Irma Brooks of Philadelph.a
had signed a contract and was
on the job before the hoirible
mistakp . was realized . She was
hired by correspondence and
ince there were no questions
concern i n g race or color, she
didrVt volunteer the informa-
I j;! 0n
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*° Mde° a
j mls e when Wit-
through f the mail, ~ in the Uni-
of Mary and-s graduate
school. When it was learned
that he Is colored he was ask- .
'ed to return the matriculation!
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CLARK 'IlkREE
, 3() Tj , ree , eiL nis r0 om at 412
b t, ie et, leaving word with
lrien[t wa k e him up at 8
but he did not return
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.... Who Lost
WHITE HOUSE
REPORTER
Y.WW/SrnVA
Mrs. Alice Dunnigan,
ated Negro Press Washington
correspondent, who received
triple honors when she was ad-
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card which had been sent him
He has refused to return it
however, and reports that he
toll present himself for admit-
,ance at the fall term.
Mrs. Brooks applied for a job
July and v/as offered the
p 0s ition in the consolidated
school pt Glen Burnie , ab0 ut 10
milas Aom Mr , ry i an d. In the
seyen arade school she was ap
ointed t0 teac h the first
„ rade
She reported to a teachers’!
Th'^as’dla'waftoM^ Sere w,S W teacSerr 1 * Here
whit,
h accepted her naturally
_ or leB . sh « says 6he w, s
then told to report for duty last
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I'ATHOLK ARCHBISHOP
TAKES FIRM STAND
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 21. If a
group of members of the Ro¬
man Catholic church persist in
taking court action to bur Negro
children from the white ‘Catho¬
lic schools here, where racial
discrimination was
done away with by order
Archbishop Joseph E. It liter
they stand a chance ol
automatically
lrom the church.
The possibility of
nicatlon was contained in
letter from the archbishop
to all the parishes.
John R. Barrett, chairman of
the dissenting group, said
meeting schedjJied lor
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Protest Harrisburg Segregation
new york sept. 8 in a
letter addressed to the superin-
“iS: STlSS.'t
gal department charged dis-
crimination in the assignment
of Negro and white pupils in
various elementary schools iI1
the City of Harrisburg.
It was alleged that a Negro
youth, Byron Quunn, 7 years
age, lived within the
e d area ol jurisdiction to
attend Uie Boas school, a P lt! '
dopiihately white school. Ilc
wrus denied admission to said
schqoi , , and , sent , to , predomi¬ , ,
a
nantly Negro school, in which
district he did not reside.
Dr. 8 . M. McDew, Sr., and
Dr. J. E Fonvlelle are spending
several weeks in Asheville, N
C.
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After having spent a
enjoyable vacation with her
parents, Miss Mae Parker left
Sept. 9 for Charlotte, N. C
where she will resume her
at Johnson C. Smith universe
tuskec.ee faculty conference
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TUSKEGEE FACULTY <56N-
TERENCE—Shdwn „ above aff
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faculty members of Tuskegee
just after meeting in
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CIRCULATIONS
Poultry
At Riceboro
The first annual poultry
>how of Negro 4-iH club boys
and girls in the poultry chain
in Liberty county was held at
Liberty county school, Riceboro.
September 16. Arthur Gannon
extension poultry specialist, oi
Athens, was the judge. He com¬
plimented the 4-H clubbers on
doing a fine job in producing
such splendidly developed pul¬
lets free from lice and towl pox,
which made the show one oi
the best in the state. Win¬
ners were: Blanche McConnell
Ethel Spencer, Leroy Gordon
blue ribbons; Plorine Woods
Lou se Fraser, Nathaniel Smitf
James Quarterman, red
ribbons; Sally Wulthonr, James
Roberts, white ribbons. The en¬
terprise was sponsored by Stars
„v Roebuck company which gave
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Continue Drive Against
Swim Fool Jim ('row
NEW YORK iANPi The!
campaign against racial dis-
crimination at
batla houses and
j JO ol.s was still going on this
we4 ,|j alld leaders- of the com
jmittee that on Racial would Equality continue prom- tm-j
iseci It
,il -l ini crow is abolished.
Meanwhile, police in New
Jersey reported that nine New
Yorkers, white und colored
were arrested Sunday us they
picketed the Palisades Pat It
swimming pool in Fort Lee, N
J.
Dangerous 1 ^ War Souvenirs
May Be In Your Home
Following the
that more than 1,200 lives have
been lost to dale since VJ day
j | ug ,, d j r ,, c t result of careless
h a n f inn g u f dangerous war sou-
venirSi President Truman bus
ssued u warning to veterans
j md ( [ u , jr families who have
1 hese war trophies in theli
! homes
Mr ...... the pub- .
Truman urges
lie to cooperate with commit
tees which are being set up in
every city in tlie united States
to inform the public of the ever
increasing danger in carelessly
handling the souvenirs.
i The Army, Navy and Treas-
j ing cry with departments the National are cooperat- Riile As-
soeiation In setting up these
committees,
The Savannah committee is
, con posed of:
Col Paschal N. Strong, Dis-
tricL Engineers, Post Office
Builling: Commander J. R
an ail-institute cAAferenie. pnor
opening ofthe regular
r0W7 center, is Dr. F. D. Pat-
son, president of Tuskegee. j
NUMBER 00
IR. GUSTAVE H. CAUTION
According l< -am announce¬
of Frank B. walker, pres¬
of th 6 Associate Board of
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That brought the total num-
of arrests since the start ef
crusade to 20 and the cops
leaders of the CORE
that -members of their organi-
zution could expect- to distrib-
ute leaflets.
In one Instance, a photo-
making pictures of the
scene was nabbed. Jailed also
was Conrad Lynn, the Harlem
lawyer , whose brother fought
against enlisting In the army
during World War II because he
objected to the segregation of
white-and colored soldiers.
Jr., U. 8 , Navy, Post Of
fire Building, inspeetor-instruc-
,or ’ Naval"Reserve; Charles M.
O'Connor. 1233 East Anderson
j street., the phone National 2-4285, Rifle represent* Associa¬
ln B
tion and also serving as ser¬
geant of the Savannah Police
Department,,
William H. Guldens, investi¬
gator, Alcbjiol Tax Unit, Room
5, Post Office Building, a retir-
ed officer of the U. S. Navy.
This committee urges any¬
one who has any explosive type
war trophies such as land mines,
grenades, shells, projectiles
cartridges, semi-automatic pis¬
tols. to get In touch with them
Immediately and they will have
them examined by an expert
If possible they will be de¬
activated and returned to the
owner.
All submachine guns and
automatic pistols should be reg-
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To his left U E>e«.n I. A. Deij
-^hO presided at. the cor
ference, and to his right
Treasurer Luther Foster, Jr.