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YEARS OF CONTINUOUS PUBLIC SERVICE =^ea««^=sagssas= - ^ ' » -T i m - - , raceitesTo Parade : i| I r / V 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 Continued on page two) 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 \ 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 Continued on Page Two 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 Continued on Page Three 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 Continued on Dage Seven Uld. now student at the **■?»»*■ **. fmring 4hes* y.eaft i- Mr - • has built up a Continued on Page Eight Moving Picture Machine Operator Fatally School Teacher Shot; Allegedly by _ i Ul P Wlll,a 1 I'l C A r fll* ]M TAT AAtl A A /"IT) UFlYc ¥ __ 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- Continued on Page Five - 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, • sint.inued on Page Two -- 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 Continued on Page Two 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 ,* 111 r Louis E. — _ Lomax, college chap- _ Continued on Page Three 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 * , *° 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! | 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 Continued on page .Seven .... Who Lost WHITE HOUSE REPORTER Y.WW/SrnVA Mrs. Alice Dunnigan, ated Negro Press Washington correspondent, who received triple honors when she was ad- 1 Continued on Page Two) 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 continued on Page Two 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 Continued on Page Five 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. • * • 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 vy-m ■■P m TUSKEGEE FACULTY <56N- TERENCE—Shdwn „ above aff _ faculty members of Tuskegee just after meeting in MEMBER * 411DIT gl/REAU 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 Continued on Page Seven 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 Continued on page Seven 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- ...... ---------------- -"fT-IMi Continued on Page Seven To his left U E>e«.n I. A. Deij -^hO presided at. the cor ference, and to his right Treasurer Luther Foster, Jr.