The Savannah tribune. (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, October 16, 1947, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text66 PUBLIC CONTINUOUS YEARS SERVICE OF LX VI NOTED CHORAL GROUP SING ON CATHOLIC HOUR I The St. Franc s Xavier Col- legs Church Choir of St. Louis, Mo., composed of white and col- Sec’y Forresial Asked to ___Abolish JC in Services Low Cost Rural Housing Short Course at 4-H Camp Ten Die In Chicago Tene¬ ment Fire | j j TUSKEGEE HEALTH NURSE MOURNED Beatrice Johnsoi; Trammell of Tuskegee, whose distinguished services as public health nurse brought her tional attention, died last week after an illness of four months. — (ANP). Godefroy Co. Gets Signal Honor The Godefroy Manufacturing company of St. Louis, has been awarded the “Certificate oi Public Service” in recognition of the more than 50 years that its product “Larieuse” has been in continuous use. I The presentation was made to C. W. Godefroy. president of the Godefroy Manufacturing company, by Henry! E. Abt, president of Brand Names Foundation, Inc., of jNe.w York, at a dinner given to 'prominent business Sheraton-Cbronldo men of the pidwest at the hi St Louis. ? The coveted award is pre¬ sented only to firms whose -jTj fBrhefwTiiublic .c; brai»x • j name products ■ have confidence duality Mir failing integrity, and fair pricing” ore than half a century. ‘Larieuse the famous hail aloring which is now dislrib- ited throng SHRDLU SHRDLU itcd to users throughout tin: pnited States, was first conceiv- by Alexandre F. Godefroy. le late father of the firms president, in France during the Continued on Page Two avmmh iribunr music throughout September or the Catholic Hour, the Sunday afternoon radio program spon- sored by the National Council of Catholic Men and broadcast CHICAGO (ANPi—'Ten ons were killed and 13 injured lere early Friday morning .hen a Lre, originating in a tairwell in front of the first I ioor, ransacked a crowded four Gory building in a predomi- lently white neighborhood on he west side. Officials sus- iect arson. The lire mounted rapidly up he stairs, penetrating the If lats and burning through tne roof. The 300 tpani,c-\s'tricker| enants, cut off from all ave- mes of escape, bailed out. oi /indows to the ground before j ireihen reached the scene. At east two women were killed and j our injured as a result of the )lunge. Firemen caught five in their Jet before a fifth—a heavy man -broke a part of it. However he resourceful firemen held the break and saved two more. Continued on Page Eight Much Activity Recreation Center Now that school is i and open girls and bojfs are 1 forming teams for various types of ac¬ tivity, the Recreation Center is beginning to become a lively spot. Last week it was the scene of three gay night par¬ ties. Crowds engage in various types of games in the early af¬ ternoons. The afternoons from 3 to 7 P- m. are spent playing games; and the Friday night louse party is always on when .he hoys and girls want it. Teams in different types of -ames are being organized- at die center. These teams will oe; made up of children 8 to 12. teenagers and adults. All persons in each group who are nterested in team play are in¬ vited to join. Register with \,^ vs r C. Douglas at once. female adults. -m____ There will u be „ _ a table t tennis . est at cen t e r every rhursday from 5 to 6 p. m. for all groups These specialties are for your entertainment at your recreation center. Re- memder to make the best use of that which one has, is for better unng . ored vocalists, furnished the over the fac iities of the tional Broadcasting company Adrian Johnson, seated at the organ, is director of the choir. A Low Cost Housing Short will be held for Negroes at the State 4-H Club Camp located at Dublin, P. H. Stone, state agent for Negro Work, Georgia Agri- cultural Service, reported re- cently. The short course will be held November 9-14, and will be under the direction of Augus- tus Kill, assistant 4-H club ag¬ ent. In making the announce¬ ment, Stone stated that Hill has spent a period of ninety days studying rural housing at a workshop held at Fellowship Center, Wallingford, Pa. County agents will bring to¬ gether forty or fifty county leaders at Dublin Sunday, Nov 9, who will get practical expe- can a PPly to their own cases in rience £n d training which they Oont.lnupd on Page Eight Restrictive Rousing Covenants to Re Aired Thrifty Room Flame Is Name Selected Mrs. Julian Hartridge, special consultant for the Savannah, Gas Company, announces that liter an interesting naming contest, the judges have ed the name, “The Thrifty j Fiame Room” for the model kitchen which is to be equipped by the Savannah Gas Company at the Boys’ Club, 330 Price The names of the winners will! be found in a special display advertisement in this issue of The Tribune. The Thrifty Flame Room will be read y l° r use next week. The first Girl Scout class will be held Monday afternoon under the direction of Mrs. Evelyn Stripling, home economist for the Savannah Gas Company. MR. DANIELS IN THE CITY A. WILliam Daniels of Jacknon- ville. Fla., was in the city for a few days this week in ccnnec-! tion with the election of the Al¬ liance of Postal Employees Da ■ i- h f r the ,, of the . late Rev. Dan- | son ' ' iels, . , ' who . once ' J pastored . , Fal _ , p n Methodlst ,. . church , - MOUNTAIN -THORNE Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Thorne ol Millen wish to announce the marriage of their daughter. Continued on page twoj HpiiuiiiiI S.IOIMMMI Estate al my |||||| . * III |k« • ■ k |* \ 1110 SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1947 HURRICANE DOES MUCH PROPERTY DAMAGE HERE Patton Denied His Rights; Seeks New Trial NEW YORK Briefs in the case of Eddie (Buster) Patton v. State of Mississippi will be filed by NAACP attorneys on or about Monday, October 13, ir | the Supreme Court of the Unit¬ ed States. The actual hearing | before the court will probably be held during the week of No¬ vember 17 of this year. The Supreme Court granted a wri 1 of certiorari In this case on Continued on Page 8 NEW YORK—In a letter ol congratulations to James V Forrestal, Secretary of Defense, upon the assumption of his new duties, the NAACP recalled that while Secretary of the Navy he abolished discrimination in that service and called upon him to make this policy for the entire armed forces. The NAACP ietter, signed by Walter White, pointed out that War Department Circular No 124, which was based on the Gillem report, < on the use ol Negro manpower in the Army, ts effective only until October 2 7 ‘This directive,” said the NAACP letter, called for an im-! pier mutation of the report only to the extent of establishing; separate battalions, companies etc., for Negro troops. As a re¬ sult, the Negro American citi¬ zen desiring to serve his Coun¬ try, either in the United States Army or the National Guard, is egregated and can serve only on WASHINGTON, D. C. branches in seventeen cities will be given the opportunity to ap¬ pear before congressional sub¬ committees to urge the federal government to put an end to restrictive housing practices that keep Negroes bottled up in slums. They have been asked by the Washington bureau ot the NAACP to send witnesses to testify before sub-committees the House-Senate Joint Corn¬ mittee on Housing headed by Congressman Ralph Gamble (R N. Y.)- The committee is sche- duled to soon begin public hear- on the housing program. The joint committee was up last July by action of houses of Congress and is aa-j thorized to conduct “a thorough s tudy and investigation of the en u re field of housing.” The investigation will include: (1) extent of the need for hous- ing in thp united States as a who i c anc j j n a n areas thereof; NEW YORK (ANP i — Eight lawyers, including the two rep- the prominent Harlem demanded that Mary Lyon estate be awarded to Divine’s Palace as the late “angel” Madison, who appeared be Surregate Delehanty Tues- charged that a reached Vast Crowd Annuls Funeral 01 Dr. Sheperd DURHAM, N. C. (ANP) Dr James E. Shepard, 72, president of North Carolina State lege at Durham, who died of a cerebral hemorrhage on by a stroke, was laid to in Beachwood cemetery funeral services in his beloved White Rock Baptist church here Thursday afternoon. A vast crowd attended the services. T. Washington of his race in North 'Carolina,” had two con- times described as the "BOokei The eminent educator, suming passions which motivat¬ ed his way of life. F.rst was (he school which he establish¬ j Files Test Suit on Bias School System WASHINGTON (ANP, A suit test the legality , oi „ th , esegre- S ated sch ° o1 s y? tem 111 Dls * triet ol Columbia was filed in district covirt here last week by law iirm Austin *“• and Leon A. Ransom. The ‘ slli t. on behalf of 13-year- old Marguerite Daisy Carr and °ther part time students oi the B rowae Junior high school as defendants Dr. Hobart M. Coming, superintendent of schools, and the nine members ot the school board. It charges that students at the Browne school attend class¬ es 4 1-2 hours a day, when by i Continued on Page Twui the reasons for existing high j of building materials and housing, and the action .that may be taken to reduce such costs; (3i the extent to which archaic building codes and zon¬ ing laws ontribute to the ex¬ isting shortage and excessive cost; (4 1 administration and op¬ eration of existing federal laws relating to slum clearance, in¬ surance of mortgage on hous¬ ing, home loans and rent con¬ trol. Hearings are scheduled to be held in the following cities: Pittsburgh, October 20; Cleve land, October 21; Detroit, Octo- 22; Indianapolis and St October 23; Cincinnati, October 25; Miami and Little Rock. October 27; Jacksonville and Dallas, October 23; Atlanta ; and San Antonio, October 29; Birmignham and Houston, Oc¬ tober 30; Baton Rouge, October, New Orletns, Noovember 3- and oGicago, November P-7, I months ago by lawyers sen ting the late Miss as the date for further and indicated that (would rule on Atty. (motion to set aside the made previously, 6ther lawyers interested the proceedings, including us Applebaum and David _ Continued on Page Two ed and built from a small group j of nondescript frame buildings The eifort started off with an investment of $10,900, a student body of 10 and a faculty Trom this, lie nurtured growth until the school I came the only Negro liberal arts college ed in a group of the finest buildings owned by any school in the south. The institution es worth more than si ,500,000 today and has a student body of around 1.200, including the summer school. Through his efforts, the col- iContinued on Page Two) J. Dept. Gets Report on Attack on Blind Man NEW YORK All by Joseph W- Robinson, a blind veteran of World War 11, has been forwarded to the U. S. De- partment of Justice asserting, that while riding in a car be- i’-ig lowed by his brother to Lake Charles, La., lie was attacked on tlie Beaumont highway by State Police, one of whom struck him in the face, breaking his on A \ I'll Villi 11| A VUIU To Moot In Houston --- NEW 1 c,vv YORK * ‘Youth u 1 on the Team—Not on the Sideline” will . be the „ theme oi , the .. 9th . youth conierenice of the Na- tional Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People Continued on Page Two ACrRRiULTURE PLANNERS— launching plans for their program are these of- ficials of the A. and T. College i Agriculture Association. Around MEMBER BUREAU CIRCULATIONS Much damage was done in the hurricane which struck the city Wednesday morning, about 1,500 buildings being damaged but there was no loss of life,. Considerably more severe was the damage suffered in the out¬ lying districts, especially Sa¬ vannah the waterfront, Beach and those places ion i During the two-hour blow In which at times the wind reach¬ ed a velocity of from 80 to 100 miles an hour, there was but little rainfall and this in a measure lessened the damage In the last two previous storms which visited the city, 1898 and 1940, torrential rains accompa- the blows which resulted in far greater damage than was Wednesday. In both oi these storms, there wan loss of A little alter midnight Tues¬ day the eity was alerted of the impending storm. Radio an¬ nouncements were continuous¬ ly broadcast, sound cars cried out the warnings and the peo¬ ple were told of the time it was expected to reach the city and Continued on Page Eight Tells Why He Remains A Negro NEW YORK The feature ur- tick* for the Saturday of Literature for October ll by Walter White, NAACP secre- tary, enttltled “Why I Remain A Negro.” In the article Mr. White re¬ calls with humor and bitter sarcasm and ridicule the many revelations of the attitudes ol white people and their reac- tions In certain situations. editors of SRL have hailed piece as one of Che most impor- tant they have published. in his long career with the NAACP, Walter White has used the advantage of his color m thousands ot 4tuft,on.* lor* to gain ammunition On Might „? for equality ,* for the Negro most famous , and . dangerous „ was in his early with ... the NAACP when . : he per- sona jiy investigated lynchings and race riots, posing as a white man On one occasion, the Tul- Continued on page 2 the ddrtfererice table Ire (usual order): J. W- R. (S/4ridy, teacher; Arthur Bell, Of the Agricultural Bernice Wooten, secretary; gr NUMBER 1 THE STORM C AUSED IT; . WE RE late Because of the hurricane which struck the city Wed¬ nesday, The Tribune is late in going to press this week, eieciEic power being un¬ available in the plant until today (Friday.) NAMED TO HOSPITAL STAFF Dr. Ruseoe C. Giles, noted Chicago surgeon, who has ju& teen assigned to active duty on the surgical staff of Ceok hospital, one of the in the world.— (ANP) j A lllfTmi TA ■ W l |^| T ICCl „ n J[ Monday The Chatham County Chap¬ ter of tlie Georgia State Col¬ lege Alumni association will meet at the West Broad Street YM c A Monday, . October 20, at 8 o’clock. , , Robert A. Youn«, tfiajrmtia of the social committee, is f h .f u f, l ° ^ “ “* “ 1V1 y c f ^ ^ r ™. y U C *f d ‘ r “| jr ; °, P u W‘c rela- a the w111 / Slt 1,1 • su --a >lioi , s u gutting home coming which will be on jsf overn | oer u The final will be ; report made by Edward W Green chairman of of the the nominating committee, who will present the continued on Page Two (W. L. Kennedy (dairy profes- S ° r) and Hutcherson, treasurer of the association.— . (Photo by J. Paul Howard;.