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66 YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LX VI
CARVER FOUNDATION SPONSORS RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
Tuskegee Institute (ANP)-
Of the fourteen graduate stu¬
dents enrolled for research al
the Carver foundation for stu¬
dy in chemistry ah Tuskegee in¬
stitute, 11 have been awarded
graduate assistantships and
rang Man
And Leaves Him For Dead
ABERDEEN, Miss., Oct. 28.-
John Lloyd, a 43-year-old farm
hand, was lucky to bd alive to¬
day after a mob of about thir¬
ty-five white men had grabbed
him last night at a point near
here,' bea,t him severely and
- then shot him several times.
># .They left him for dead by the
side of the road.
The night before the man
had been accused of attempting
to assault a white woman.
Lloy dwas rushed to the Ab¬
erdeen hospital by officers who
arrived on the scene shortly af¬
ter the attack. Although one
of the bullets pierced his chest
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2000 Delegates to Attend!
Ga. Baptist Convention
Race Owned Banks
Show Big Increase
OMEGAS TO OBSERVE
ACHIEVEMENT WEEK
Mu Phi chapter of Omega
Psi Phi fraternity will observe
National Negro Achievement
week during the week of No¬
vember 2-9. The program is an
annual feature of the fraterni¬
ty for the purpose of bringing
to light the achievements ot
Negroes in var'ous fields.
This year the local chapter
will carry its program to the
junior high school, the high
week will begin with W. H
Brown, instructo - at Georgia
State college, speaking at the
Woodville school on Monday.
Dr. B. T. Gri fith of n Georgia _____
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Large Crowd To Attend
Swarz Recital
The five local chapters of the
Order of Eastern Star have
completed plans to present Lou
Swara, noted star of radio,
•screen and stage, in a costume
recital nefJ. Friday Phfiip evening,
November 7. at St. Mon
umental AME church, begin
ning promptly r 8 30 o’clock,
This will be Miss Swarz’s third
appearance in the city and
from the advance sale of tickets
there will be s'anding room
only at the performance next
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Cont:nufcrt on Fage<4
fellowships. In keeping with
the wishes of the late Dr. Geo-
Washington Carver, the Carver
Foundation is making it possi-
ble for young people to deve.- i
op themselves in the iielcis f i
fhndameti /i.1 and app ied re _ !
Racial Segregation Tabooed
By The Truman Committee
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct-
29.—The 15-man Truman Com¬
mittee on civil rights today
made public an explosive report
which calls for the elimination
of racial segregation through¬
out the nation.
In 178 pages the report sets
forth thirty-five recommenda¬
tions to wipe out discrimina-
t : ons suffered by minority
groups in America. Among
WASHINGTON (ANP)—Negro
^wned and operated banking
institutions showed an impres¬
sive growth in assets over a pe¬
riod of seven years, according
to the fifth annual business
report issued here recently by
the U. S. Department of com¬
merce. The report was compil¬
ed and analyzed by Emmet
Martin Lancaster, adviser on
Negro affairs.
It shows that for the year,
1943 , total assets of Negro
banks were $29,156,687, as com¬
pared to a 1939 aggregated
amount of $6,000,000 a gain of
348 per cent. Capital accounts
I an Increase
I during the year of 13 per cent,
while combined deposits of in-
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A DAUGHTER
Delores is the name given
the daughter born October 26
to First Sergeant and Mrs.
Walter Massey, Sr., of Camp
Lee, Va. Sgt. Massey is a for¬
mer Scvanr.ahian and prior to
entering the army about four-
teen years ago he was connect¬
ed with the circulation depart-
of thc Savannah Tribune.
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PERSONAL MENTION
Arthur Reed of Atlanta is in
the citv visiting his sister, Mrs.
Julia Carlen.
search. Some of the work is
made possible by the original
donation of some $60,000 by Dr.
Carver himself and by subse-
quent donations from interest-
I jo * tf'.iB’h*
them is a proposal for enact¬
ment by the federal govern¬
ment of an antl-lynching law,
and t£e abolition of the poll-
tax.
It recomends fair employ¬
ment practice laws and pro¬
poses the outlawing of “restric¬
tive covenants” by which ‘un¬
desirables” are forbidden to
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CCRDELE—More than 2,000
members of Baptist churches
in the state plan to attend the
77th annual session of the Gen¬
eral Missionary Baptist Con¬
vention of Georgia, to be held
here November 11-13, at the
Mount Zion Baptist church,
Rev, C. B. Johnson, pastor.
Dr. U. J. Robinson, pastor of
the Franklin Street Baptist
church, Mobile, Ala., and sec¬
retary of the National Baptist
Convention, will be the pre¬
convention speaker, and Dr. D.
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Denial Human Rights to Negroes
Placed Before United Nation
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y.—A pe¬
tition outlining in detail a fac¬
tual history of the denial of
human rights to the American
Negro was formally presented
to the Division of Human
Rights of the United Nations
here by the National Associa¬
tion for the Advancement of
Colored People.
The document, a 155-page
booklet compiled under the edi¬
torship of Dr. W. E. B. DuBois,
consists of chapters by Dr. Du¬
Bois, Earl B. Dickerson, Chica¬
go attorney; Milton R. Kon-
! vitz, of Cornell University; Rob¬
ert Ming, Jr., of the University
of Chicago, Leslie S. Perry of
(the NAACP Washington Bureau
and Dr. Rayford W. Logan of
Howard university.
Dr. DuBo‘s made the formal
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SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1947
WHITES FIIIE HOUSE
AFTER NEGROES MOVE
Atlanta (ANP) A group of
unidentified white men set fire
to a house in a white residen¬
tial area here last Thursday,
after a family of four .Negroes
had moved in.
The house, located at 356
street, was occupied
oy Cliff L. Walton, his wife and
two children, all of whom
injury.
According to Patrolman R. B.
he and his partner, H
Bates, were at the house
the fire started. A white
was said to have approach¬
ed them and asked how long
expected to be there. When
the officers said “probably tell
the man is supposed to
rejoined:
“About 200 families of whites
living in this neighborhood re¬
sent the fact that this Negro
family moved in. You may not
want to stick around and see
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Litlld (ifftllt Colll‘J$PS May Sftfik
a | ActiOIl S J 0T Equal Fund
HONO R I NG THE “MOSES OF WE NEGRO RACE
Beneath a portrait bust of
Booker T. Washington, the
great leader and educator, Ella-
belle Davis (center), famous
soprano, purchases trom Booker
T. Washington, III (right),
grandson of the man who has
been referred to as “the Moses
of his race,” 60 of the recently
issued Booker T. Washington
Insist on No Jimcrow on
Freedom Train Tour
NEW YORK — Thirty-two
southern branches of the Na¬
tional Association for the Ad¬
vancement of Colored People
have been advised to insist on
no segregation and discrimina¬
tion of visitors to the Freedom
Train during its stops in their
cities. They were urged by
Gloster B. Current, director of
branches, to cooperate with the
Freedom Train by offering to
serve on the local mayor’s com-
mitees which will plan the pro¬
gram of activities to be held
during the Week of Rededica¬
tion in each locality. NAACP
Conferences in Virginia, North
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Many to Attend Conference on
Teacher Education at College
v U
<vr-
MISS ALMA STEGALL,
Chairman, Pre-Service Ed¬
ucation and Certification
Committee for Georgia
Committee on Teacher Ed¬
ucation.
The conference of Georgia
Committees on Teacher Educa-
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Righop Fountain NaiMS S.
Georgia Appointments
Bishop W- A. Fountain an¬
nounced the following appoint¬
ments for the Southwest Geor¬
gia AME Conference for 11947-
1948, at a meeting held at Co¬
lumbus last week.
lLakely District
Dr. J- H. Hall, Presiding Elder.
Blakely station, Rev. G- C.
Thomas; Fort Gaines, Rev. A.
Memorial Half dollars, which
she will take with her on a
cross-country concert tour, and
presents the first to Leonard
Bernstein (left), conductor of
the New York City Symphony,
with whom she made her first
appearance of the season at its
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OPENS PHOTO
STUDIO
A new business was opened
to the public this week. It is
the Harlem Photographic Stu-
dio at 1215 West Broad street,
which is being conducted by Ce¬
cil Maddox, well-known photog¬
rapher, and Oliver Jackson.
The new studio is admirably
located and is equipped with
the latest devices for photog¬
raphy. They will make a spe¬
cialty of group, party, banquet
and club pictures and guaran¬
tee a class of portrait work that
is unexcelled.
Hints Regional Colleges
Be Unconstitutional
NEW YORK The plan an¬
nounced by tne southern gover¬
nors’ conference to establish
regional colleges for Neemes
will not be able “to satisfy the
requirements of the Fourteenth
Amendment to the United
States Constituion” it was said
here by the NAACP. In a
statement commenting on the
resolution, the NAACP declar¬
ed:
“The resolution of the south¬
ern governors’ conference lo
ask Congress to enact legisla¬
tion to set up regional centers
of higher education for the Ne¬
gro in the South evokes no
comment from this association
until an opportunity is had to
study the legislation offered.
However, it is our firm opinion
from an analysis of recent u.
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L. Henderson; Edison, A. M
day, November 2. At this time,
Roberts, Sr.; Shellman, S. J.
Rendalls; Bluffton, E. D. Glov¬
er; Pleasant Grove, C. C
Crouch; Ebenezer, to be sup¬
plied; collman, to be supplied;
Emanuel and Mitchell Grove,
J. A. Moses; Rocker Bottom, C.
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PRINTED WORD FIGHTS IGNORANCE
A literature bureau, set up
at Bo, In Sierra Leone, British
West Africa, aims at bringing
literacy to the entire popula¬
tion. It translates manuscripts
MEMBER
Audit
BUREAU
CIRCULATIONS
Talladega college w?*r cele¬
its Founder's r?ay on Sun-
Joseph F. Drawe, president
Alabama A and M. college.
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WASHINGTON (ANP)—Hav-
Ing just about exhausted all
voluntary means of being per¬
mitted to share more equitably
in the distribution of federal
funds, Negro land-grant col¬
lege heads hint that legislative
or court action may be sought
to correct the gross disparity.
The smoldering fires of dis¬
content over the unequal dis¬
tribution of federal funds to
white and Negro land-grant
colleges broke out into an open
into the vernacular, organizes
their sale throughout the coun¬
try, and continuously conducts
a literacy campaign. Believing
that the African should have
NUMBER 3
Memphis
Word was received in Savan¬
nah last week that Dr. W. P.
Stone died Friday night in
Memphis, Tenn., where he was
pharmacist at the Memphis
Drug company.
Dr. Stone resided ip Savan¬
nah for a year, where he was
a pharmacist at the Savannah
Pharmacy until January, 1947,
when he returned to the Mem¬
phis store where he was drug¬
gist before coming here.
During his stay here he made
many friends who will regret
to learn of his death. He was
buried Monday at Memphis. He
is survived by his widow.
Dr Stone was a native of
Selma, Ala., and a graduate of
Meharry Medical college.
220 NEGRO POLICEMEN
Atlanta (ANP)—The South¬
ern Regional Council here has
announced that 220 Negro po¬
licemen are now employed in
41 southern cities.
his say in world conferences
and share in shapii\g the world,
the bureau hopes to give him
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