The Savannah tribune. (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, October 30, 1947, Image 1
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 Continued on Page Six 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 _____ Continued on page 2 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 ____ _ ____________, 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- < on untied on Page Two, 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. ________ 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 Continued on Page 4 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. Continued on page 2 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 Continued on Page Eight ; 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 Coi. firmed on Page Twn 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 Continued on Page Two 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- Onntinuert on page 3 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 (Continued on Page Two) 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. Continued on Page Two 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. Continued on Page Plight 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. Continued on page twoi 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 Continued cn Page Eight