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LX VI
SCENES FROM THE
Ton left—Hon. John G. Konneay, mayor, making the keynote address of
the evening in which hr pled for racial cooperation and understanding.
Top right—A section of the crowd of nearly one thousand persons who
attended the me ting, listening to the mayor’s address.
Bottom left-r-The mayoi’s advisory committee, who played a .Mg part in the
meeting. UlysS is Ellerbe, John Mines, M. J. Jackson, It. W. Gadsden, W. S.
Beach High School
To Graduate Its
Largest Class
Dr. J. P. Braiwley
Negro Teacliers in N. C.
Paid More Than White
GROFF'S HOSIERY SHOP
1N NEW QUARTERS
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The local store of the Groff’s
Hoisery company which has
, been operating .. at , 601 West .
Broad street, has m ov ed to new
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P. D. Party Elects Delegates
To National Convention
NEW COMMANDER
JAMES B. PINKNEY, who
will be installed as commander
cf William P. Jordan Post, No.
500. American Legion,
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The Beach 'high school com¬
mencement program tomorrow
(Friday) night at First African
Baptist church will be high¬
lighted by an address by Dr.
James Philip Brawlcy, president
cf Clark college.
There will be one hundred
fifty students to receive diplo¬
mas, the largest class to grad¬
uate in the history of the school.
The ‘"commencement program
is as follows:
and. Piano, Mrs. Jane Parkor-
Starr and Mr. Peter Smalls;
Processional--“War March of
the Priests” (Mendelssohn i —
Beach-Cuyki Band; Hymn—
“Holy, Holy, Holy”—Audience;
Invocation, Rev. R. M. Gilbert;
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raleigh, n. c (Anpj- Ne-
gro teachers are paid more in
! North Carolina than white tea-
j chers, according to Clyde A- Er-
win - state superintendent of
! public instruction, it was re-
here week .
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I topic after Virginius Dabney,
COLUMBIA, .S. c— Headed by ,
j
;
^,.^7 j keynote speech, declared that
seTtedTnprefercnce
«delegates named by the
Carolina Democratic
party last week.
‘ Those delegates were instruct-
Some of the distinguished guests present, left to right—Herbert €. Skinn
Richard Evans, Malberry Smith, ai; representatives from Chatham County
the legislature; R. E. Martin,, parole officer; “Buddie” Bettencourt, W.
Regist r. Andrew J. Ryan, solicitor general of Chatham County; Carroll
Williams, alderman: Police Chief Truman F. Ward, Mayor John G.
and W. A. Winburn, Jr., alderman.
Photo Studio
Adam Hat
Award Made
NEW YORK—A $1,200 Adam
Hat award was made to Thom¬
as Webster, executive secretary,
Urban League of Kansas City,
for special training in the field
of employment and labor rela¬
tions at the University of Chi¬
cago, it was announced here
this week by the National Ur¬
ban League.
In keeping with its aim of
maintaining high democratic
ideals in America, ;the Adam
Hat Welfare Fund has for the
hire] year contributed to the
program of social improvement
among Negroes by making so-
cial work study fellowships
available through the National
Urban League. The Urban
League movement has followed
a 38-year plan to encourage j
Negroes to enter social work as
a profession. One hundred
ten fellowships—open to- both
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editor of the Richmond, Va.,
Times-Dispatch, recently made
the following statement to the
American Society of Newspa¬
per editors:
“Last year North Carolina
paid Negro school teachers
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ed to oppose the nomination
of President Truman.
“The Progressive Democrats
elect its slate of presiden¬
tial electors and they will be
pledged to the national party’s
nominee — whomever he may
be” Clepient said-
State Democratic electors, by
action of the party convention
last week, will be pledged to
vote for presidential and vice
presidential candidates en¬
dorsed by the state executive
committee or subsequent state
convention.
TO ATTEND
GRADUATION
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel J.
Drown and M(is An feline L.
Brown will leave today (Thurs¬
day) for Washington, D. C ,
where they will attend the
graduation of their son and bro¬
ther, Samuel J. Brown, Jr., who
has completed the course in the
school of dentistry at Howard
university and will receive the
degree of DDS.
Large Crowd
Demos Get-together
At
Approximately eight hundred
persons were present Monday
night when the Citizens Demo¬
cratic club held its “Get-Ac¬
quainted” mass meeting at
Sportsman’s Park.
The purpose of the meeting
was to have the citizens and
members of the club know more
intimately t'heir city and coun¬
ty officials.
While the festivities of the
day started in the afternoon
with a series of softball
he ma j or features of the
k ra tj on took place after 7 p. m-.
when a program W as presented
in ^feh a number of the city
and county officials took place-
The highlight of the program
was the address by the Hon.
John G. Kennedy, mayor, in
which he stressed tile necessi-
ty of racial cooperation and a
THEY GRADUATED SUNDAY
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ClLs jl
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GRADUATED SUNDAY FROM W. VA. STATE
Misses Mabel Williams and Josephin > Freeman who graduated
from West Virginia State College. Miss Williams is the daugh¬
ter of Mr. and Mrs. George Williams, 832 W. 44th street, Savan¬
nah, and Miss Freeman is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs John
M. Freeman, 621 West 40th street, Savannah. Both received
the B- S. degr.e in business admnistratior...
Insurance Men To Hold
Session In N. O.
NEW ORLEANS — Plans are
near completion for entertain¬
ment by this city of the 28 th
annual session of the National
Negro Insurance Association in
Booker T. Washington high
school, June 22-25, Haidel J
Christophe, chairman of the
host committee, announced
Saturday.
Mr. Christcphe said there
will be ample housing and en-
tertainment for all delegates
expected from 33 States of the
Union and the District of Co-
The outstanding pro¬
thorough understanding of
matters pertaining to the well-
being of the entire city. He
was vociferously applauded at
the conclusion cf his address.
A. J. Ryan, Jr., solicitor-gen¬
eral of Chatham county, receiv¬
ed a big hand for his very timely
address.
Other officials who were pre-
sented to the highly interested
audience were Chief of Police
Truman Ward, Alderman Car
roU l. williams, William E- Reg-
j S f er R E . Martin, parole oifi-
cer . ’ Mulberry Smith, represen-
taU ve from Chatham county in
p 1(1 Legislature- R. E. Evans,
Jr chairman of the CPL and
C h’ a tham county legislative rep-
rese ntative; Herbert C, Skixi-
ner Chatham county reppresen-
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gram features, he indicated,
will be a mammoth public mass
meeting, two business sessions
daily, insurance seminars, panel
discussions of insurance prob-
lems, committee reports, an-
nual reports of officers,
tion and installation of new of¬
ficers.
Principal speaker at the pub¬
lic mass meeting on opening
night will be Dr. Gardner C
Taylor, delegate to the World
Baptist Alliance, and pastor of
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82 To Get Degrees
At Stale
Columbus To Entertain
Masons Next Week
J. WESLEY DOBBS
Grand Master
COLUMBUS, Ga., May 31 —
The Most Worshipful Prince
Jenkins County Boys Get
$1840From FatCattleShow
M1LLEN, Ga. — The Negro
boys of Jenkins county are
$1,843.60 better off by having
taken part In the first Negro
fat cattle show and sale in
Georgia held at Greensboro.
Five counties took part in this
annual show and sale.
These boys were inspired and !
led to victory through uuougn the
guidance and instruction of
cationai agriculture teacher
Professor Thomas S. Boles, Jr.,
who for thc P ast * en V has
taught vocational agriculture
in Jenkins county. For the
past lout of five years Bcrtes
Boys have wen top honors in
Main Louisville Library
Open To Everybody
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ANP) —
Through the work of its Negro
member, At-wod S. Wilson, the
Louisville Library board voted
5 to 4 in favor of opening the
city’s main public library to Ne¬
groes, who still are segregated
In the branch libraries, how¬
ever.
Wilson, who is principal of
Central high, said segregation
Was abolished in the main li¬
WINNERS AND CONTESTANTS IN IOTA CONTEST—First row, Mrs- Essie Monroe Edwards,
first place; Mrs. Altomese Dowse, second place; Mrs. Susie Co : lier, third place; Mrs. Kosalee
| F'reeman, fourth place. Eunice Simmons, Mrs. Louise Slat lord.
Back row, Mrs. Louise Collier, Mrs. Thelma Humes, Mrs.
Mrs Naomi Gregory, Mrs. Florence McGriff, Mr«- Theresa Smalls, Mrs. Erma Williams and Mrs.
J Margaret Oliver. 1 Scott Lyons, and Mrs. Florence
j Contestants not on picture, Mrs. Pearl* SteTe, Mrs. Ruth
White. I J? Hij 'jtSf (Photo by Sam Williams)
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j I On Sunday afternoon, May ;
30, at at at St. Paul’s Pa,,i-« CME cmk fh.irch church, !
the Iota Phi Lambda sorority’s |
Hf ffibER
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BUREAU 4 T
CIRCULATIONS
Hall Grand Lodge will convene
here next week In the 79th an¬
il u a 1 communication at St.
James AME church. M. W. John
Wesley Dobbs will preside-
This will be the third time
that the Grand Lodge will
honor Columbus, the first time
being June 24, 1884, at which
time Most Worshipful Alex.
Harris was grand master- The
second time was June 24, 1896.
At that time the lamented W.
jE. Terry was grand master.
Lewis Ilayden Lodge No. 6 en¬
tertained the Grand Lodge
This time four lodges will unite
in extending the honors. These
are Lewis Hayden No. 6, Mt
Plsgah Nft 53, Electric City No-
322, and Sons of King Solomon
No. 358. The Worshipful Mas¬
ters are Samuel Sapp, V. W
Jackson, E. D. Claybon and D.
P. Nesbitt.
Monday morning the Royal
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the showing of fat cattle In
Millen and Augusta.
Chanie ciarx won nrsi non-
or for showing the first grand
champion of the state Negro fat
cattle show, a prize of $200 and
a trip to Chicago to the ln-
ternational Livestock Show.
Clark ’ 8 ca j f w ei 8 hed 995 f 0 unds
and 80 d tor , ^ o J
pound, and brought $1,000.
bringing his total earnings to
$1,200.00. Clark has purchas¬
ed $500 in bonds and two pure
bred Poland China pigs. The
remainder of this money has
been put into the bank for oth-
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brary branch because it con¬
tains educational facilities not
available in Negro branch li¬
braries.
This action makes Louisville
the first southern city to abol¬
ish segregation In a local libr¬
ary unit. The situation was
first brought out by a white
University of Louisville student
at a “town hall” meeting of
Mayor Farnsley.
regional project, “Business on
to a successful
address by Miss Mildred Burch
of , Georgia _ . State college.
Miss Burch congratulated the
business women on the wide
NUMBER :r,
President James A. Colston
of Georgia State college an¬
nounces that the 57th annual
commencement exercises of the
college will be held Monday,
June 7, at 10 a- m. instead of
3 p. m. Achievement hoyr and
alumni induction will be a part
of this annual coommence-
ment, * i ?*•
, ue baccalaureafe services
Dr. William 11. Borders
To Deliver Sermon
Sunday
will be held Sunday afternoon
at 5 o’clock, at which time the
address will be delivered by
Rev. William Holmes Borders
of Atlanta.
Dr. Ira DeA. Reid, interna¬
tionally famous writer and
speaker, will deliver the com¬
mencement address. Dr. Reid
is chairman of the department
of sociology at Atlanta univer-
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Dr. Ira D. Reid
Commencement Speaker
sity. He received his A. B. de¬
gree from Morehouse college;
A. M , University of Pittsburgh,
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range of activities represented
b V t hem - and Jrom lier versa '
as-. in this virgin
field, offered some good advice
-
^ * the J“s ottered.
Her address was very inteiest-
j in 6 and » ^rec« received ve o_Wr_tae by the
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