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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LXVr
SCENES AT ST. MATTHEW’S GROUND-BREAKING—Top
picture, Master Iverness Dukes, youngest member of the church,
spade of dirt. To the right of him , . . „ Mrs. Eliza „ Pol- ,
getting a is
lard Deveaux, oldest member of the church, first to spade the
ground. Senior Warden Marion Johnston is shown directing
A very interesting and
preciative crowd witnessed
ground-breaking exercises
3t. Matthew’s Episcopal
Sunday afternoon.
The impressive services,
icipated in by most of the
jor religious denominations
he city, were directed by
Called "Boy"; Kills Deputy,
Then Slain by Another Officer
Girl Seoul Officials Defy
Dixie Hate Mob
White Neighbors Draw
Color Line Then Burn Cross
c. TO MEET
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
rhe Citizens Democratic club
1 hold a mass meeting Wed-
sday evening, July 14, at 8
lock at Mt- Tabor
urch, East Broad and
eet, Rev. Martin, pastor,
rious speakers will be on the
ogram. J. W.
president. , mu ml.
auannah
ther Gustave H- Caution,
of the church. The
were represented by the
John Q. Adams; the
Methodist Episcopal church
Rev. Felix W. Bagby; the
byterians by Rev. P- A.
terson, and the
alists by Prof. Robert W-
COLORADO SPRINGS
Wc the unders'gned have
cided that no one sh:»n
into the neighborhood <
people of the Caucasian
This petition signed by all
citizens of the south side
munity with the exception
thre, Friday. June 18, was
ected against S. T. Graham,
resident of the city, who
purchased a home in that
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Master Dukes. Father Gustave H. Caution and members
of choir are also shown.
Bottom picture—Dignitaries blessing the ground. At the
mike> Rev John Q Adams, Rev. F. W. Bagby, directly behind.
R w Gadsden, Father Caution, Rev. II. W. Murph and Rev. P.
a. Patterson. Wilson P Hubert is at the extreme left.
den.
The principal address was de¬
livered by the Rev. Henry W
Murph, pastor of St. Philip
AME church.
The high point of the cere¬
monies came when the ground
was broken by Mrs Eliza Pol¬
NEW YORK—Despite the
vasion of a Girl Scouts
ing camp near Bessemer, Ala.
on June 11 by a band of
ed and robed men, officials
the organization refused to
intimidated, it was learned
week, when they
that they would continue
conduct training centers of
kind throughout the country.
The camp was ordered
up by the men after two
women instructors had
searched and told that the
idents of the area “don’t
Negroes and whites living
gethef.” Unpleasant
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SAVANNAH GEORGIA THURSDAY, JUDY 8, 1948
lard Deveaux, oldest member of
the church, followed by Master
Inverness Dukes, youngest
member, who also turned a
shovel full of dirt.
members of the various depart¬
ments of the church took their
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HELENA,, Ark. (ANP) — Be¬
cause a white planter insisted
on calling grown colored men
“boys,” one white deputy
iff and one Negro
wore kilted hure lqjst week.
The storekeeper, Herman
Dolphin. 22, while
shot and killed Deputy Sheriff
L. D. Weaver, and then
killed by Deputy Sheriff Clay
C.iver.
At cording to Sheriff Ed Hic¬
key, the trouble began when a
white planter, Milton Stewart
called some Negro men
when he asked them to
him repair a trailer. The store-
kPej)cr told the planter
were no boys there and enter¬
| 'd his store. The white man
said he came out and threat¬
j | ened him and he reported
^ le s uerii f
s herif f sent the two dep-
uties to see the storekeeper
Then they arrest ed Dolphin
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a
Burned on Lawn
01 Larkin Marshall
MACON, Ga., July 1.—The
home of Larkin Marshall, well-
known Negro political leader. Is
the latest target for a mysteri¬
ous Macon cross burning. A
flaming cross more than eight
feet tail was planted in the
front yard of Marshall’s home
on Miller Field road shortly be¬
fore midnight last night.
Marshall says he and his
family were home at the time
and they knew nothing about
it until a nextdoor neighbor
Will Ford, called them When
he went out in the yard, the
cross was on fire from one end
ao the other. There was nc
trace of the persons who ar¬
ranged it, however, and they
left no clue of their identity
except the cross Itself.
Marshall says the cross was
strongly built of heavy sections
of wood bolted together and
j soaked wrapped in in gasoline burlap. It had been
to set it on
fire.
Marshall is the candidate for
U. S. senator named by the
People's Progressive Party of
Georgia, supporters of Henry
Wallace He is also head of the
Bibb County Progressive Demo¬
cratic club. <* *
Over 2000 Persons Attended Mass
Meeting Georgia Voters League
A crowd of more than
thousand persons was
at Grayson Stadium Monday in
attendance at the mass
ing of the Georgia Voters
gue.
The afternoon’s
began with a softball game
followed by a baseball
and other activities,
up with an address by
David S. Atkinson of the
nam County Superior Court,
which, among other things,
said, ‘‘our people must have
(least three essentials, health
education and a feeling of mor¬
al responsibility to make
democratic idea work
He closed his impressive ad¬
dress by asserting:
”1 am an optimist
America. I have an
faith in my country and her
people. As the Declaration
Independence has, in its short
life, become the beacon light
of hope to millions of
throughout the world, and if
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DEPUTY GRAND
MASTER OF MASONS
•
At the recent communica¬
tion of the Most "Worshipful
Prince Hall Grand Lodge, F.
A Ml., held in Columbus, Ga ,
Past Master X. L. Neal of W.
C Thomas Lodge No 112, of At¬
lanta. Ga , was elected as Depu¬
ty Grand Master of the Grand
Lodge. Deputy Neal lias prov¬
en to be a worthy Mason. As
Worshipful Master of his
lodge, the membership increas¬
ed considerably nearly double.
As a ritualistic it is difficult to
surpass him. He is keeping in
the vanguard of the active
young brothers. ,,
Frees Policemen Who Used
on Woman
MEMPHIS <ANP>—Two po¬
lice officers who beat a Negro
woman with their fists and
blackjacks while she was un¬
der arrest, were freed by the
police commissioner last week
The woman, Miss Viola Moore
was moved from the county jail
and sent to John Gaston hos¬
pital.
Hospital reports say she is
“getting along all right.” She
is suffering from possible in¬
ternal injuries and bruises on
her left side. After the beating,
both eyes were closed.
The two arresting officers
were Frank M. Scott and Bar¬
ney L. Lofton, Jr. They said
they arrested her on call from
the Jefferson food shop Che
was accused of being disorderly
and drinking.
According to the officers, in
the squad car the colored wo-
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New Funeral Home to be
Formally Opened
Florida Gets a New
Boy Scout Camp
FLA. COLLEGE
OFFICIALS GET
RAISE IN SALARY
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.
The budget commission
Florida A. and M. college
approved a raise in salary
$5,500 to $7,500 a year for
ident W. II. Gray, Jr., and
from $4,000 to $5,700 for
j Manager J. R. Lee, Jr. ,
I The board of control
manager explained that
raise was granted to replace
discontinuing of free
and maid service which
been supplied the two
officials for many years.
The state will maintain
policy of furnishing a
home for President Gray,
as it does for other state
tutions.
OKS Holds 49th Session
HOLDS ONE-MAN ART SHOW
GIVES ONE-MAN ART SHOW
—A group of paintings by Ellis
Wilson, gllted colored Ameri¬
can artist, arc being exhibited
in a one-man show at the J.
B. Speed Museum in Louisville.
Ky., for the period of a month-
Many of these paintings come
straight from a highly success¬
ful exhibit given Mr. Wilson at
a 57th Street art gallery, cen¬
~MMer
ylUDIT f
BUREAU
Circulations
Health Chief Refuses Give
First Aid To Women
INDIANAPOLIS (ANP) — Dr.
Gerald F Kempf, Indianapolis
health director, refused to
leave his office and treat a
janitress suffering from acute
indigestion, although she lay
suffering on the floor immedi¬
ately above his office in the
city hall. Mayor A1 Feeney
rushed to the fourth floor and
accompanied Mrs. Frances Lo¬
the janitress, to the city
and publicly stated
“He's the first doctor I ever
in my life, who refused to
first aid.” In addition he
the board of health to
an investigation. Drs.
M. Gastlneau and Sum¬
A. Furniss were named to
the matter.
The recent dedication of Camp
Howard at Paoli, Fla., west of
Sanford, for Negro boys n the
Boy Sccout Movement, demon¬
strates both the growth of the
organization in that area and
the practical help given by the
white leaders in behalf of col¬
ored youth.
The 105-acre site was pur
chased by William E. Howard
retired New York businessman
and the late Joshua Coffin
Chase, citrus grower and ship¬
per of Sanford, Fla-
Mr. Howard is a member o£
the Section on Negro Work of
the Boy Scouts’ National Com¬
mittee on Interacial Service
His winter home is near San¬
ford.
The late Mr. Chase was born
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ter of New York City’9 art ac¬
tivity, last month.
Wilson, a graduate of the
Art Institute in Chicago, is a
two-time Guggenheim award
winner, having received the
award in 1944 and, again, In
1946, for his powerful and un¬
derstanding portrayal of the
Negro people. His works are
in oil and combine a dynamic
use of color with a simplicity of
line. The New York Times
wrote of his work: "His intense
colors and simple outlines in¬
vest his figures with almost
heroic proportions and great
simple outline^ invest his fig¬
ures with almost heroic pro¬
portions and great simple dig.
nity . . ” Said Cadyle Burrows
of the New York Herald Tri¬
bune: “His coloring combines
sensuousness with taste and it
attains a high pont in thf
foreground of his “Drying
Nets’ . . The elemental strength
in his bold and simple forms is
readily felt. ”
■
. .
I This artist has held severa
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NUMBER 38
Va. Scores
Another First
ROANOKE, Va. (ANP)— Roa¬
noke became the second Virgin¬
ia city with an elected Negro
official when Dr. Harry T-
Penn, local dentist, was voted
a member of the city's six man
school board last month.
He will take office Sept 1
1948, and serve for four years.
He Is the first Negro to have
served on the city's school board
since Reconstruction days.
Dr. Penn Is married and has
two children. In December
t
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On Sunday, July 11, at 6
o’clock, the Williams and Wil¬
liams Funeral Home, 1012-1014
Edst Gwinnett street, will have
its formal opening, a dedica¬
tion program in the beautitul
new building which has been
recently completed. The public
is invited to attend the pro¬
gram and to inspect the build¬
ing.
The morturary is both mod¬
ern and conveniently located
on Gwinnett street, near Wat¬
ers avenue. Tile building hous¬
es the very latest In equipment
and rolling stock, making it
one of the most complete and
attractive funeral homes in
this section.
George Campbell Williams
and O. <H. Williams, two enter¬
prising young men of this city,
are the sole owners.
George Williams, popular
civic worker, la a product of
Beach high school, and a mem-
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MACON, Ga.—The 49th an¬
session of the prince Hall
Chapter of the Order of
Star for Georgia was
Monday night, June 28
with a welcome program at
Moriah Baptist church
Mrs. Amy J. Dunn, chairman
foreign coerrspondence and
matron of Central City
No. 46 (the host chap¬
ter.) was in charge of the pro¬
which was presented be¬
a large audience as follows:
Procession of grand chapter
officers with Mrs. Hattie Phil¬
lips as flag bearer; National
Anthem; invocation; music by
Mt. Moriah choir; welcome on
behalf of church, Mrs. Roberta
Holmes; solo, Louis Little, ac¬
companied by Mrs. Minnie
Richardson; welcome on behalf
community, Mrs. Clara Bynes.
Georgia Baptist college, Prof
F. D- Graves; Central City
Chapter, Mrs. Clara P. Smith;
Mrs. Carrie L- Taylor
Machen, Ga.; solo, Mrs. Gid-
of Atlanta, accompanied
Miss Willa Mae Ayers of Sa¬
physicians and den-
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