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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBUC SERVICE
BISHOP R. R. WRIGHT
KANSAS CITY, Kans., May
18.—After what 'has been the
most turbulent session in the
history of the African Methb-
: dist Episcopal church general
I conferences, this year’s session,
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Mai-Adjusted College Student
Shoots Young Woman and Himself
Girl Scouts Camp To Be
Held June 4-17
Patton Post
Hdq. Opens
Saturday
| Formal opening of the new
headquarters of tire George S-
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Local Drive for UNC Fund Gets Going
Dr. Virginia Jones Pleads
r : For More, Better Libraries
Ask For Paving Around
School and Hospital
JOINS MALLIETT
CO. STAFF
""'•-EL ~ -
Wendell Malliet & Company,
209 West 125th St,
city, is now celebrat-
anniversary. A
program of expansion and the
publication this year of more
than a dozen titles of general
interest will mark the firm’s
rer mpiion of full scale aclivi-
iHwCalvin ttex
C. La Roche, U. S
Navy veteran, has joined the
company's staff as director o)
the editorial department as as¬
sistant to Wendell Malliet,
prfcsffU'it of the firm. Mr. La
JSr-m Bed Avho ,jid. is not quite 24
Ipcatlve studied literature,
writing, and criticism
at the .University of Chicago
th<j New School for Social
. ■ siderable j biMi dh. amount He has of done free a lance con¬
Waiting and editing, and has
Also written rnar.y literStry es¬
says which he is now compiling
fink) book form. Mr. La Roche
life alsd writing a novel based or,
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To Select Leading Local
Business Woman
UNCF APPEAL
TO BE BROADCAST
SATURDAY
The United Negro Col¬
lege Fund takes to the air
this Saturday afternoon
(4 to 4:30 p. m.), May 22,
in a CBS broadcast origi¬
nating in Washington, L).
C., iiid featuring the How-
a d University Cho>r un¬
der its director, Warner
l aw'son, and Thomas D’-
Arcy Brophy, chairman of
the public information
committee of the fund.
Florence PTA Meeting
The PTA of Fioraricc street
school will hold its last meet¬
ing for this school term Wed¬
nesday night, May 19, at 7
o’clock. At this meeting the
new officers will be installed.
Log Cabin camp for Negro
girls will open July 4-17. Since
Log Cabin Girl Scout camp is
the only camp for Negro girls
in the South Eastern Region
that meets minimum standards
set up by National Girl Scout
Camping Committee, a record
attendance is expected- Girls
from Columbus, Macon, and as
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J i A petition asking for paving
around Charity hospital and
] Florence street school was sent
i to the Mayor and Board of Al¬
dermen last week by the Flor¬
ence Street School PTA. The
petition was endorsed by The
Hub at its meeting Wednesday
of last week.
The petition cited the woe¬
ful condition of the streets sur¬
rounding the hospilal and the
school in bad weather.
Endorsement of the petition
by the Hub was asked for by
Mrs. Sarah E. Glover, president
of Floranhe School PTA, and
Mrs. Madeline Hannah, repre¬
senting the hospital.
At the Hub meeting at whicn
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i Men’s Fashion
i
! Show Mon.
The combined organizations
of thje First Cong Ugational
church will present a ‘’Men’s
Fashion Show.” displaying the
‘‘new look,” this coming Mon¬
day evening, May 24, at the
Recreation Center:, 37th s reet
and the ogeechee Roac. The
climax of the program will be
a womanless wedding with A.
C Council as minister, Melvin
Nichols as the bride, and Stan¬
ley Whitley as the bridegroom
Interspersed on the program
will be the “Spanish Dance,”
the “Snake Charmer Dance,”
and two of the prize winning
skits of the recent Delta Jab-
berwock, namely, ‘Down centra!
American Way,” and “Little
Sambo Dreams.”
The admission fee is 35 cents
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Nu Chapter of Iota Phi Lamb¬
da sorority will select the three
most outstanding business wo¬
men from among progressive
Woburn owning and operating
business enterprises in Savan¬
nah.
The puroese is to acquait the
community with the many dif¬
ferent kinds of businesses, and
for a girl in the senior class of
scholarship fund to sponsor a
:cholarih p in the field cf bus¬
iness in an accredited college
to a girl in the senior class of
Beach high school.
Savannah women engaged as
grocers, bakers, glabiers, flo-bz
grccers, bakers, glazers, florists
morticians, beauticians, inte¬
rior decorators, mattress mak¬
ers, modistes, accessorists, res-
tauranteurs, confectioners and
hosierists are in the corniest.
The public is asked to support
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While Thunderbolt police last
Friday afternoon searched the
campus of Georgia State college
in an attempt to find a mal¬
adjusted army veteran, the ob¬
ject of their- search, Shubert
Jenkins, 2C, shortly before 2
o’clock, entered the office of
President James A. Colston,
and shot Miss Eunice Wright,
clerk in the office.
As President Colston and
students rushed into the outer
office where the shooting oc¬
curred the youth shot himself
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Meldrim Auditorium at Geor¬
gia State college was crowded
Sunday with prominent civic
and educational leaders as well
as with the college family when
Dr. Virginia Ladey Jones de¬
livered a very informative ad¬
dress, “Philosophy and Trends
of the Development of Library
Services in the United States.”
Dr. Jones was presented as
the guest speaker for the an¬
nual observance of the May
( Week program sponsored by the
Beta Delta Sigma chapter of
the Delta Sigma Thet.a sorori-
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I’he above picture shows some of the ocal lieitas celebrating May Week at a reception in the G. S. C. Commun-
itv House following their vesper program last Sunday in Meldrim Auditorium.
Front row reading from left to right; Sorors Mamie Haynes, Gladys Sanders, Lenore Bellinger, Vivian Walker
Virginia L. Jones of Atlanta. Rubye Gadson, Jamie L. Bryant, Anne Givens, Albert M. Thwealt, Wilhelmina Colston,
Camilla Weems, Back row in same order: Soror Evelyn Williams, Gertrude Lark, Edna Williams, Eldora Green,
Dorothy Taylor, Marie Coleman, Mary Louise Copeland, Coragreen Johnston and Mildred Burch, i
SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1948
ATLANTA GUILD PRESENTS $452 TO LOCAL URBAN LEAGUE
Reading left to right: Attor¬
ney A- T Walden, chairman, At¬
lanta Urban League boaiil;
Mrs. Mae Yates, chairman,
Committee on Membership and
Support, Atlanta Urban League;
Mr. Nelson C. Jackson, South-
Many civic and educational
leaders assembled at the West
Broad Street YMCA and or¬
ganized for the United Negro
College Fund drive here which
opened May 17 and closes May
31. The first report night will
be May 21 at 8 p. m- at the
YMCA.
Dr. J. W. Wilson and Presi¬
dent James A. Colston of Geor¬
gia State college were ‘selected
as co-chairmen to. spearhead
the movement locally. Various
organizations and institutions
were represented.
The 32 member institutions
of the United Negro College
Fund have more than 30,000
students, a combined plant val¬
ue of approximately $41,000,000,
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ern fie’d director, iVatioiud Ur¬
ban League, and Mrs. V. I).
Hall, chairman, Urban League
Guild of Atlanta, Ga., who is
presenting checks for $226.00
each to the National Urban Lea¬
gue and the Atlurala Urban
League from the Atlanta Guild.
—(ANP).
ATLANTA (ANF)—From pro¬
Senate Rejects Regional College Plan
WASHINGTON, May 13.—By
the narrow margin of a 33-37
vote, the Senate teday sent
back to the judiciary commit¬
tee the resolution ratifying the
plan of the southern governors
to' establish segregated regional
professional and graduate col¬
leges. This vote virtually kills
the plan for this session of
Congress, according to Leslie
Perry, Washington representa¬
tive of the National Association
for the Advancement of Color¬
ed People.
The fight against the exten¬
sion of segregation to the re¬
gional level was spearheaded by
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LOUISVILLE, Ky„ May 15.—
The AME Zion quadrennial ses¬
sion of the General Conference
which came to a close today
was hlghlghted by the election
of three new bishops.
Dr. James T. Taylor of New
Jersey was elected on the third
ballot Thursday night; Dr. Ray¬
mond L. Jones of Louisville was
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ceeds of its Beaux Arts ball the
Urban League guild of Atlanta
presented checks totaling S452
to the National and local Ur¬
ban leagues last week.
The Beaux Arts bail, the
guild’s first project, was held
April l. Mrs. Annie Doris Hall,
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Georgia High Court To Hear
Ingram Appeal June 14 th_
NEW YORK, May 13.—'The
case of Mrs. Rosa Lee Ingram
and her two teen-age sons,
sentenced to life imprisonment
for killing a white sharecrop¬
per in self-defense, will be ar¬
gued on June 14 in the Su¬
preme Court of Georgia by Ed¬
ward R. Dudley and Austin
T. Walden, attorneys for
the National Association for the
Advancement of' Colored Peo-
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TO GIVE PLAY SUNDAY
FOR CANCER FUND
__
! The Municipal Auditorium
will I <• the .scene el anu’ her
ritianc* "I Dr Ralph Mark
o.lieii religious play entitled •
“The Ascension of Christ,” on
' ;i1 •> coming Sunday afei noon
4 o'clock It is hems pro
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Ft ’ ‘ tickets ir.av pe sec;,;, d
sro organizations, pastors ot
churches, members of the cast f
and chorus, and various other
public-spirited citizens who arc
helping to get the word around.
The doors of the auditorium will ! I
be opened at 3:30 p. m.
MEMBER
AUDIT
BUREAU '?
CIRCULATIONS
FIRST PEPSI-COLA SCHOLARSHIP HOLDER
To Huberta Nicholson of New
Boston, Texas, goes the distinc¬
tion of being the first Pepsi¬
Cola scholarship holder in the
United States, Negro or white
to graduate from college. Miss
Nicholson received a bachelor
AMEZs Elect Three
New
New Law
Challenge Jim Crow
HEADS GEORGIA
LEGIONNAIRES
MAJOR T. J HOPKINS
Commander
FALDOSTA, Ga., May lfj.—
The regular district meeting of
District “A” (Negro division),
American Legion, Departm. u
Georgia, was held her.
wi’li delegate..,
pu Minmeliuu'
attfiidaiiee
Tim delegates assembled d
ui earnest, pie..
par' me:,i ( I: I. ■
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less than 1 . 000 .
As the culminating event of
the meeting, the following of-
were elected to serve the
district fer the next yea ;
T J. Hopkins, Post 500, Sa-
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NEW YORK, May 13. — The
fight to gain admission to the
law school of the University of
Oklahoma for Mrs. Ada Sipuel
Fisher will be renewed Monday,
May 24, with the opening of a
new ttial in the District Court
at Norman, Okla.
Thurgood Marshall, special
counsel for the National Asso¬
ciation for the Advancement of
Colored People, and Edward R
Dudley, assistant counsel, left
here Tuesday, May 18, to join
Amos T. Hall, an Oklahoma at¬
torney, in representing Mrs.
Fisher in her legal battle to
enter the state-supported all-
white law school.
The new trial was granted in
response to a motion filed on
March 11 on behalf of Mrs.
Fisher, petitioning the court for
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of science degree from Tuske-
gee institute, Alabama, Monday,
May 10.
This outstanding student has
been attending Tuskegee on a
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Claflin Univ.
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Schedule
The 78th commencement
week activities at Claflin uni-
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