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YEARS OF CONTINUOUS PUBLIC SERVICE TROPHY AWARD FOR ROBINSON ip; Sf - w ** ' v Elmer L. Fowler, genera; chairman of the Dorie Millet Memorial association, stand, beside the Dorie Miller Memori¬ al Trophy of 1947 which is to be awarded to Jackie Rcbir. son for his outstanding won Appeal in Case vs. Texas Law School iberty Countians Prepare Fur Harvest Festival APPOINTED CASE WORKER MRS. GERTRUDE L GREENE Frank P. Baker, executive secretary, Family Service of Sa¬ vannah, Inc., announces the ap- Continued on Page 5 Pepsi-Cola Co. Appoints Boyd Asst. Sales Mgr. MAKES HISTORY AGAIN G , Jackie - 1- T>„v,inmn Robinson, steimr ctoll-'r fir^t nrsi baseman for the Brooklyn Dod- gers. continued to make history last week alien he iiecamc the first Negro player to take part in a World Series. He played his position flawlessly through it «asa ao pjnuHuoy; ®hr fatiawtab SWhwr. n the field of sports. The ward was made in conjunction vith the association’s Dorie Mi.ler memorial! services held October 6 at Pilgrim B ‘"i rsapusi Continued on page a The Liberty County Home Demonstration Council met at the local club camp on Septem- ber 29 for its fourth quarterly meeting. The council officers are Mrs. L. R. Frazier, president; Mrs. Maggie Williams, vice presi¬ dent; Mrs- Sylvania Smith, sec- re :ary; Mrs. Ida C. Williams treasurer; Mrs. Emma Holmes reporter; Mrs. Alma Jackson recreation chairman, and Mrs L. Finnell, deputy, i Plans were made for the an¬ nual Harvest Festival that will !:e held at the Liberty Recre¬ ational Center on November 20- ; 21, whose theme for the’pro¬ gram is Reducing High Prices rhrough Farm and Home duction and Conservation.” E B. Cooper, farm agent, stressed the importance of the /arious booths being classified 13 community booths intead of lome demonstration club booths Continued on Page 5 Continuing Pepsi-Cola’s e tabiished policy of encouraging opportunities for Negroes in all of its business activities and re¬ lated endeavors, Walter S Mack, Jc., prsident of Pepsi- j.Cola company, . announces the 'appointment of Edward F. Boyd as assistant sales manager, Mr. Boyd will make his head¬ quarters in Long Island City. N Y., the executive offices of the Pepsi-Cola company. Under his direction, a Negro field staff will be integrated into the or¬ ganization. Mr. Boyd joins the Pepsi¬ Cola company after an exten¬ sive career in the fields of pub- lie housing, labor relations social work. He has had wide experience in racial relations and in promoting the ---- welf are I of i d people, and has co ore associated with such organiza- lions as 1 the National Housing Agency, the National Urban! League, the fcivil Service Corn- mission of San'- FraAeisco, tWa National ‘-Voirth Arimihistftftioh Continued Page Two ‘ on _ INSURANCE ASSN. TO LAUNCH (I MILLION dollar drive Minister Refuses tw Sit Behind Dining Car Jim Crow Curtain NEW YORK (ANP) The Southern railroad was deprived |of the use of one entire table; ' all diners were delayed for half |an hour in the “white” section of a dining car during two meals on Sunday when Bayard Rustin, race relations secretary of the Fellowship of Reconcil ation, re¬ fused to move to a seat behind the green jlm crow curtain. Traveling from Washington to Knoxville, Tenn., to speak at the .Mt- Zion Baptist church youth rally, Rustin entered the diner for breakfast and sat at a table midway the car. When the train reached his destination six hours later at 3 p. m., he was still occupying the same seat in the face of re peated requests by the steward to move and despite threats oi arrest at each stop. ‘ Th * ° Pen moral su PP° rt 1 | received from all the waiters Continued on Page Two NEW YORK — On October 1. NAACP attorneys for Herman Marion Sweatt filed their briet an appeal in the case against the University of Texas, in which Sweatt is seeking en¬ trance to the law school. The brief for Sweatt in the Court oi Civil Appeals is based jn three main points: U) tnerci rational basis for racial 1 is no e-assiiication for school pur¬ poses; Ui public choois, ‘ sep- j arare but equal” in theory, arc .n fact and 111 practical uumin- .stration consistently unequal mid discriminatory; (3> it 1 . anpossible to have the equality equired by the Fourteenth Amendment in a public school system which relegates citizens oi a disadvantaged racial mi¬ nority group to separate schools. The brie., contains not omy regal authorities but a careful- assembled-grbun of reeogniz- ed authorities as recorded in bc!en , ( . fic jourmUs> both lega i sociological and economic. On May 16, 1946, for Sweatt filed application lor writ of mandamus in the dis¬ trict court of Travis county Texas, for admission to the school of law of the University of Texas, alleging that he had oeen refused admission solely Decause of race or color. On June 26, 1946, the district court- entered an order that the Uni- i Continued on Page Twoi ASKED TO REVIEW OKLAHOMA UNIVERSITY EASE WASHINGTON D- C. The United States Supreme Court oil larft week was requested to review the decision of the Su- preme Court of Oklahoma ai- firming the decision of the low- er court in refusing to issue a writ of mandamus compelling the admission of a qualified Ne g ro ^ law SC hooi of the university of Oklahoma. Q n January 19. 1946, Ada Lois Sipuel, oipuei, a a giauuauc graduate of ui requiring segregated schools homa a p plied {or admission to the j aw sc hool of the Umrer- sity of Oklahoma. Her appli- ca tj on was refused solely be- f. air?e 0 f her rare and color to the trial of the case, on > an agreed SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY. OCTOBER 9. 1947 | Two Fatally Burned When Kerosene Stove Explodes Ga. State College Has All-Time High Enrollment Enrollment at Georgia State reached an all-time hi & h this week with registra- tion figures mounting to 1277 students distributed as follows: 1 C63 regular college and tt,onal ........... students ’ of whlch “P* P roxlmately 50 P er cent are vet eraus ’ including 680 men ancl 383 women; 60 in-service teach¬ ers taking Saturday classes, and Student Mistakenly Shot By Policeman TOLEDO, O (ANP 1 A 14- /ear-old eighth grade pupil wat and wounded seriously on Wednesday night across from his home by a policeman who he mistook him for a purse snatching suspect. Victim of the shooting was James Wakefield, who is en¬ rolled in Robinson junior high school. He was taken to Mer¬ cy hospital, where he was plac¬ ed in an oxygen tent and given two blood plasma transfusions A bullet from the gun of Pa¬ T.-B. SEAL SALE SCHOOL CHAIRMEN MRS. ROSEMARY JACKSON Mrs. Rosemary Curley Jack- son will serve as chairman of c ty schools and Miss Frankie Golden. county schools, for the 1947 TB Seal Sale drive. At a recent meeting held at statement of facts was filed whereby the state of Oklaho- ma admitted that Miss Sipuel possessed all of the and moral qualifications for ad- mission, but was refused be¬ cause of the laws of Oklahoma requiring segregate d schools The agreed statement also milted that unless Miss Sipuel received her law training with- in the state of Oklahoma she would be -------- seriously J ---**" handicapped in the practice of law. The state of Oklahoma had no* niade any provision for leg* i training tor Negroes within the stare, but relied on alleged out- qVstate ^cholarshipe and the fact that Miss Sipuel had not , requested them to establish a 154 in the laboratory school announced T. C. Meyers, regis- trar. This figure,” said Mr Meyers, ’ is 20 per cent than enrollment last vear s expected to increase by the close of registration.” Final , registration for Saturday class- es w.U be held Saturday, Octo- Continued on page 2 trolman Albert Fudell entered his chest, penetrated a lung ■emerged from the right side and ^passed through the muscle of ras right arm- Fadeli and his partner, Pa¬ trolman Kenneth Lemke, were eruisir»g in the vicinity of the boy’s home after two purse thefts had been reported. They were chasing a man when young Wakefield appeared on the scene, and, apparently Continued on Page 5 MISS FRANKIE GOLDEN the west Broad Street ’ Y” Fa- them Caution announced t»ic following chairmen and co- chairmen lor the Continued on Page Eight l.jim crow law school. The writ of mandamus was refused by the judge of the district court of Cleveland coun- j ty, Okla., on July 9, 1946; mo- t on for a new trial was de- } nied on July 24. 1946, and the case was appealed to the Su- j preme Court of Oklahoma, That court on April 29, 1947. affirmed the judgment of the lower court. The petition tr | the United States Supreme! j Court requests a writ of cer- tiorari to review the decision of the Supreme Court of Ok- Uhoma contends that there is no material difference whatso- ; ever in either the law or the facts between this case and the University of Missouri case. A woman was burned death and a man died burns next day when a sene stove over-heated at 661 West Gwinnett lane alter midnight Saturday The victims, Mrs. Sarah Jones, H, and Frank Denham, 44, had not yet retired when they dis- covered iSinoke pouring Into the upper floor’ room where they .vere talking. They rushed oul of the room and the man •aught the woman by the hand Continued on Page Eight Acquitted on Rape Charge After Convicted by Lower Ct. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — brilliant victory mr the NAACP was chalked up by Attorney Maurice M. Weaver when secured the acquittal of Theo¬ dore Butts on charges of at¬ tempted rape September 26. Butts had been charged by a white woman of her on a dark night on a de¬ serted street. Weaver had se¬ cured a new trial after a first trial resulted in a conviction of Butts, and on the new trial Weaver’s brilliant ol the prosecution's broke down their ideneification of the defendant. Weaver will be remembered lor his participation in the Tenn,, case, Where he together with other NAACP lawyers, secured ehe aequitta’ of defendants charged with at¬ tempted murder. Grand Master and Pres. Shepherd Passed --- Monday, last Grand Master J. E Shepherd oi North Carolina away. He was the or and president of the North Carolina State college. institutions were directed by him aside from other state or¬ ganizations. UNVEIL BUST OF CHARLES P. ADAMS f Before a lar*« audience at Gramblihg colieie, ^rambling La., last Sunday a large bust of. Charles f. Adahis, fOuilOer president-emeritus, was un- with Dr. Frederick D MEMBER 41 wit gVUEAV CIRCULATIONS j B.KMlNUliAM t ANP» - the five member companies of ielation Nat.onai Negro insurance asso- will launch their annu- | at collection effort collect drive October $6,000,OOu 6 in an to by November 1. The campaign sponsored by the National Cot- J lection Month committee of the i organization headed by 8. L j Belle, v.ce president and direr- tor of agencies of the Protective I Industrial Insurance company of this city. Belle said that “tlicse annual collection campaigns have en¬ couraged thousands of families ]to keep their Insurance paid up, many who otherwise would lose these benefits.” Negro Insur- aue e companies, he pointed out collect altruist $4,000,600 month- ly in industrial and ordinary premiums in 3u states and the District .of Columbia. These companies, continued Belle, provide employment foi more than 14,000 salesmen and if Gee workers and serve 4,140, '’04 policyholders. During th f past year, the policyholders were paid *8,796,422.93, an in- Continued on Page 5 Bryan County Fair Prize Winners Announced The Bryan County Fair which closed last week was one of the best held in recent years and was largely attended. The hibits were excellent, with the colored”exhibitors' using a arate building from the White The prize winners among the colored exhibitors were: Tobacco, first prize, Willis peaa> flrst _ j a BaC0I1; .second, B jj Garrison; peanuts, first MiU Celestlne Bacon; second Continued on Page Eight ! Nearly 400 Disabled Vets Placed In Jobs Atlanta, Oct. 8. Approxi- mately 3 1-2 per cent of placements made in since the United Stays ployment Service was ‘to the stale on Nov, 16, 1946, j have been placements of psy- sieallv handicapped veterans, J Kelly, veterans employment representative for Georgia, said in discussing the the-Handicapped Week,” the current job campaign of Georgia Stale Employment PattereoA, JbrefciAeht 6f 4*u*ke- g*e institute, aft £uc«$ speaker Mr. Adami Wa4 a gfaduatft Oft Tuskegee uMe# BhOker Washington, add. like many graduates, went out to- NUMBER £$ GETS HIGH POST Truman K, Gibson, Jr., youth- fill Chicago attorney, who ha- been named a member of Chi¬ cago’s Land Clearance commis¬ sion by Mayor Kennedy. The group will have charge of the $30,000,000 to be raised by bond issues to be used in buying up land and eliminating slums so that redevelopment can take place.—(ANP*. DEMOCRATS TO MEET The Citizens Democratic club, precinct No 1, will hold its regular monthly meeting at the York street hall 011 Friday, Oct. 10 at 8 p, m. All registered citizens arc urged to attend. M, ■J. Jackson is chairman and Mrs. Lillian Hill, reporter. 0* OL'kfcf* U* $80,000 ( For IV'| 4]|1| . # vM J All 11 1111*1 |lll ‘ ---- CHICAGO (ANP* Eight persons who were injured for mob violenc»• near the F rn- wood Housing project on Aug 15, filed suit Tuesday for $10,- ■itnumlen no **asre Two Service ancl the Veterans Em- ploy men t Service, Nearly 4,000 disabled voter- U n. s have been placed on suit - jobs by the 37 Ion of- Rees of the State Employment. service in the last twelve j months; this is an increae over the previous year, I As far as cun be ascertained, he added, the employers who j hired these enabled veterans Page Eight fOuftd Other institution.-. Pic4| i :ut?es show, let? to right ; ^ they stood to ring B National Anthem, -'# —--—------ Continued on page 2 % *