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66 YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
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Convict Guards
IN EXONERATING GUARDS IN THE
SLAYING OF EIGHT UNARMED PRISONERS
Last July in Anguilla Convict Camp Located
near Brunswick
BRUNbWXCK, Ga., Nov. 4.—
After a week’s hearing in the
U. S. court here before Judge
Frank M. Scarlett, former War¬
den H. G. Worthy and four
former guards at a Glynn coun¬
ty convict camp were acquitted
today of violating tne civil
rights of the prisoners in the
slaying of eight convicts last
July
The verdict was reached by
the jury after only about eight
minutes of deliberation.
Worthy and his guards were
charged with the mass slaying
and the wounding of several
other convicts in the “break”
at Camp Anguilla on July 11,
following a sit-down strike of
the convicts on a ditch clear¬
ing job the morning of the
slayings. The men, 27 of a
working gang of 40, refusing to
wade In the snake-infested wa¬
ter, waist high, without rubber
boo'ls., weih marched back to
camp and lined up by the war¬
den for questioning.
When one of me prisoners
was called to come out of the
line, he refused, stating that
Ire was going to be shot. He
bolted and started running
[-/ when the guards raised
guns to fire. The other
men in the line broke for cov¬
er and as they did the guards
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War Veterans to Parade
Armistice Day
Old School
Suit Back
In Court
ATLANTA — A six-year-old
case against city school of'i-
cials, filed by Negro teachers,
was back in federal court here
Monday.
The suit, brought by Samuel
L. Davis and others against
School Board Chairman E S.
Cook and other officials, al-
leges violation of civil rights,
''.aiming that NegJo teachers
are not paid by the same scale
as white teachers.
Monday’s hearing before U.
S. District Judge E. Marvin Un¬
derwood consisted of disposal
of motions which finally clear¬
ed the way for trial next Mon-
Onnt.lnupfi on nae<» v
AWARDED S. C. V.
SCHOLARSHIP
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Miss Edwina Mack of Rout.' |
5, Box 648. has been awarded a j
one hundred dollar scholarship
by the Social Clubs Union of
Savannah. j
Miss Mack has entered the I
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MISS THELMA PERRY, (he glamorous Senior, who has
been chosen MISS GEORGIA STATE COLLEGE.
Miss Perry will play a prominent role in the
coining activities Saturday and will he a kev liirme at
State-Alien football game that afternoon at Grayson
REV. GUSTAVE li. CAUTION
Speaker
Armistice Day, November 11
commemorative of the end of
World War I, will be celebrat¬
ed by veterans in the Savannah
area with a parade and appro-
propriate ceremonies in Laurel
Grove cemetery.
The parade will form on
Farm street, near Bryan on the
morning of November 11 at 9:30
o’clock, and proceed south on
Fahm street, to Hull, east on
Hull to West. Broad, south on
West Broad to 37th, thence to
Laurel Grove cemetery.
At the cemetery, ceremonies
will be held at the grave of
Fred Hall, a deceased veteran.
Robert B. Howard, a reUred
army technical sergeant,
be master of ceremonies. The
.nvocation will be offered by
Rev. J. Q. Adams, and the ad-
dress of the day will be made
by Rev. G. H Caution, a for-j
(nor army -chaplain, who served I
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Barons Show
For Charity
In an effort to aid the West
Broad Street YMCA and to es¬
tablish a scholarship fund, the
Original Barons club is sponsor¬
ing a fine talent show to be
held at the Melody theatre
Friday night. December 5.
Numbers lor this .’now are
being sponsored by leading local
organizations and club:; and
music will be furnished by the
Georgia State College orche
tra. The best local talent
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SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1947
vote again upsets
AUGUSTA €11 If KER PAIITV
AUGUSTA, Ga., Nov. 2.—The
Cracker party was snowed un-
I der yesterday in the election
here to reduce the Richmond
county school board member¬
ship from 22 to seven. The
heavy Negro vote of the fourth
ward proved the weapon which
polled victory for the Inde¬
pendent Reform Group just as
it did in the election of a year
ago which brought the Reform¬
ers into control of local poli-
ties
When unofficial returns were
in last night the matter of vie-
lory for either side was In ques-
lion, but when the heavy vote
the 4th ward was tabulated
; the Independents vote was put
into a commanding and victo-
Nous lead.
A11 candi dates on the inde-
pendent slate were put into of-
fice by a comfortable lead over
the “Crackers” who were run-
ning under the the name name of the
Reformed Cracker Party, the
l old organization, which up to
| its defeat a year ago by the In¬
dependents, had ruled the
litical affairs of Augusta for 24
yea ^
Eligible u n to . vote t , m vester- ,
day’s electiton were 23,884
| whites and 7 778 Negroes How
j ever, ’ only a little less
ha)f of these 31.662 eUgible
took part in -this election.
To Dedicate
Monument i
To Marines
Montford Point Detachment,
Marine Corps League, will be
among the Marine organiza¬
tions to participate on Armi3-
• ice day in the dedicatory ser-
vices of a monument which has
been erected in Forsyth Park
to the memory of local Marines
who died in World War II.
Among the local Marine he¬
roes who gave their lives in
this struggle and who will be
honored by this monument was
one Negro, McDonald Robinson,
of 2C Newell street, whose fa-
fher, James D. Robinson, will
be among the honored guests
at these dedicatory services.
The principal speaker at the
dedicatory .a __ i ................ services will be , Gen¬ „
eral A. A. Vandergriff, com¬
mander of the U. S Marine
Corps.
Island will be a feature of the
services.
All colored Marines are re¬
quested to contact B. J. Mclver,
commandant of Montford Point
Detachment, 417 W. Gaston St.
McLean Heads State
( ha in ber of Commerce
MOULTRIE — The Georgia
Negro Chamber of Commerce,
holding its third annual session
here October 29-39, reelected J.
T. McLean as its president.
The sessions were held in the
auditorium of the Moultrie
high school. The public rrieet-
ing was held in Easter Baptist
church. church, A number of local Ne-
Kro Chambers 0 f Commerce
was represented by delegates
vho participated in the various
discussions and the formulation
of plans to further the pro-
gram of the state organization.
The visitors were royally en-
tertained by the Moultrie Ne-
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(ia. Baptists
To Meet
In Macon
The Georgia Baptist Mis¬
sionary and Educational Con¬
vention will meet next week in
Macon. The three-day meet¬
ing will be held November ll,
12 and 13 at New Hope Baptist,
churph, Rev. T. J. Lynch, pas¬
tor.
It is anticipated that the
,
' comipg session will be one of
the largest in the history of
the organization. President R.
C. Crouch of Moultrie will pre¬
side over the convention. Rev.
N. C- Connor of Savannah is
vice president.
The local welcome program
will be held Tuesday night,
with the principal address by
Rev. T. J. Lynch and response
by Rev. N. A Jenkins
ACTRESS RETURNS
1‘ROM HOLLYWOOD tOK
LOCAL PERFORMANCE
! 1 Lou Swarz actress
' and come-
d,enne ’ has just returned from
ood wlth more noveltlfcs
for this Friday night’s recital
at St. Philip Monumental AME
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Declare Civil Rights Repci
Basis For Action
NEW YORK—Pledging “full¬
est support” of the recommen-
i dations of the President’s Corn-
mittee on Civil Rights, Tliur-
good Marshall, chief council
of the NAACP, called on all
groups interested in first-class
citizenship for all Americans to
redouble their efforts to bring
j the committee’s proposals into
reality.
1 Marshall said the NAACP
i was “naturally gratified” by
the report of the committee
since the suggestion that such
a committee be appointed was
j Pre f id «f Trum3 » ^ a
conference in the White House
September 19, 1(946, by a com¬
mittee of citizens assembled by
the NAACP following the Co¬
lumbia, Tenn., disturbance and
the Monroe, Ga., JynchJngs of
last year. The Marshall state¬
ment:
“The Report of the Presi-
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I’liilly (jets
A Judge
PHILADELPHIA (ANPi—
bert E. Millen, well known
torney and veteran Republican,
was named a municipal judge
by Gov. James H Duff
nesday night, to become
first member of the major pu-
diciary In Pennsylvania. The
appointment was announced on
Wednesday night before 10,000
cheering people at the Tribune
Cavalcade of music at Conven-
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THEY WILL CONFER DEGREES IN ATLANTA NEXT WEEK
A?-, i re,-
Back row, left to right:
Maxle Ryals, Rev. Glue Taylor,
Win. Dobbins, J. H. Jones, Jr,
and S. D Blsard. Front row:
Following is a list of broth-
ers making the trip and the
various parts which they will
perform in the ceremonis:
E. A Degree, November 10—
College to Stage Gala
Home-Coming Activii!
FEATURED BY ALLEN -
GEORGIA FOOTBALL
GAME AT STADIUM
By J. Randolph Fisher
President James A. Colston’s
Georgia State College Home¬
coming Committee has prepar¬
ed a colorful annual celebra¬
tion for homecoming activities
at Georgia State College, No¬
vember 7 and 8.
The feature event of the
home-coming celebration will
be the game at Grayson Stadi¬
um Saturday between Georgia
State College and the Alien
University Yellow Jacket of
Columbia, S- C.
Homecoming this year will
consist of a pep meeting and
bonfire for the students on
November 7, a banquet for the
alumni and faculty that night,
a parade before the game on
November 8, and open house for
the alumni and faculty on No¬
vember 8 iri the Community
House.
Beginning at the college, the
parade will pass through Thun
derbolt, at 11:15 a. m., proceed
to Mechanic; avenue,
Drive, Skid a way road, Whea-
ton street, Oglethorpe avenue.
West Br0J ,d street ba--k to Vic-
tory torv Drive, Drive, to the Municipal
Stadium.
i n the procession will appear
the police brigade, college mar-
Georgia State College
j ! band, color bearers and guards,
float, “Miss Georgia State.” four
j | horsemen, Simmons Drum and
horsemen, Simmons Drum
I Corps, agriculture float, public
address system, No. 1, home ec-
1Con Hnnprl on *»a va TStrn<
W. L Canady, Caleb Bias, L. R.
Bolden, Freddie Simmons, Ben-
Jamin Gaskin. (Not shown in
the picture are Bros. Cornelius
j Obligation, L. R. Bolden;
Warden, 8. D Bisard; Jr.
den, W. L. Cannady; Sr. Dea-
jeon, Wm. Dobbins; Jr.
1 C. Freeman; Caleb Bias
Cosmopolitan Society To
Observe Founders Day
Keeps Mixed
Date, Girl Is
Evicted
MADISON (ANPi—Miss Iris
Alexander of New York, a stu¬
dent tat the University of Wis¬
consin, was evicted from he.
room in a private rooming
house here, because her land¬
lord and lady objected to her
date with a Negro student last
"
Saturday. M13S Alexander the
chairman of the social relations
committee of the university
I student board, had attended an
' interracial party at the Unlver-
j sity Memorial Union with a Ne-
I | gro escort she refused to iden-
tify.
] Another young woman, Con-
gtancR Felton, senior from
jj roo kiyn, was also asked to
j j eave Mr allt } Mrs. Arthur
| I H Rupp « ‘v* for sympathizing
| ,,
nantly telllng Mrs . Rupe off rp _
garding the matter.” In ex-
plaining their action, the Rupes
said: “This is our'home. There
is no religious prejudice con¬
cerned, but a private home is no
place lor intermixing. We don’t
want to go Into a Negro’s home
and we don’t expect them to
enter ours.”
Freeman, George Dixon, Thom-
as Carter, James Lee and Geo-
White.)
of the apron); work¬
! ing tools, Freddie Simmon
New Name, etc., Wm. Dobbins
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Rev. E. A. Capers, Speaker
A Founder’s Day celebration
of the cosmopolitan Society
v/111 be held Sunday night, Nov.
9, at Evergreen Baptist church,
East Broad and Gwinnett Sts.,
Rev. E A. Capers, pastor.
The Rosetiud, Carnation and
Sunbeam units of the Cosmo¬
politan Society, comprising the
| Master will be featured
j lections.
A special feature of the oc¬
casion will be the appearance
of the Gospel Chorus of FAB
church, of which Prof. Peter
Smalls is director, and with Mr.
Ruffner, minister of music, at
the controls. *
Special addresses will be