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it tl YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
V V PUBLIC SERVICE
REV. SCOTT OF BACK-TO-AFRICA
FAME RESIGNS PASTORATE
MUST PAY CHURCH
$802.84 IN FUNDS
HE HOLDS
Is Given Three
Months Salary
Must Vacate Parson¬
age Immediately
The law suit brought by
tain members of Second Baptist
church to oust the Rev.
L. Scott as pastor was
to a sudden end
morning when the
parties entered into a
mise agreement before
David S. Atkinson of the
perior Court.
The stipulations agreed
were as follows:
(1) Rev. Scott to vacate
pastorate forthwith.
(2) The church to pay
Scott three months’
amounting to $525.
(3) Rev. Scott to pay
Monday (last) during
hours the sum of $802 84
Emanuel Kronstadt,
for the petitioners, as the
mainder from the sale by
church of property on
Gwinnett street, said
having been held by Rev.
in his personal account
the date of the sale in, May-
14) Rev. Scott to move
of the parsonage and into
cwn property next door,
West 42nd street, and the
ent tenant of Rev. Scott’s prop¬
erty to move into the
age for the remainder of
calendar year, paying rent
$30 per month to the church.
(5i In case of any
dispute between the
it would be submitted to
court for adjudication
jury.
(6) The costs of the suit
■ be borne equally by the
opposing parties. To this
pense the judge graciously
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Democrats Drop Bias
At National Headquarters
UCLA Students, Barbers
War Over Jimcrow
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NEW MEDICAL HEAD — Dr.
C. Austin Whittier of San An¬
tonio, Texas, who was installed
Medical as president Association, of the during National the
NMA's 53rd annual meeting in
New York this week—(ANP).
For cut
FR. LISSNER DIES IN
N. J.; FOUNDED EAST
SAVANNAH MISSION
TEANECK, N. J. (ANP)—The
Very Rev. Ignatius Lissner, S.
M A., 81, founder of the Amer¬
ican province of the Roman
Catholic African Missions so¬
cieties, died here last week at
the Holy Name hospital.
Father Lissnfcr established the
Order of Negro Sisters and
more than a dozen missions
during more than 40 years’
service in the United States. He
lived in retirement at St. An¬
thony’s srr r^rrrusi^r» Negro mission in Tena-
oJiSand’ ordSdS A ;, ace
jig yh <is ©ciucatcci 3.110 orci3i-\
to the priesthood at Lyons m 1
1891. After six years of
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81 TO GET DEGREES AT
THEY GRADUATE TODAY FROM G EORGIA STATE COLLEGE
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Visiting Relatives
In Mississippi
Connie Wimberly, well
proprietor of Wimberly’s
reation parlor, left today
Meridian, Miss., where he
visit his brothers and sisters.
He is making the trip by
tor and will be away about
days.
LOS ANGELES (ANP)—For
the past three weeks, a picket
line has been thrown around
barber shops in Westwood vil-
iage, .site of the University of
California at Los Angeles, in ■
protest of jim crow policies The!
tonsorial establishments. both!
pickets, composed ot
races, are made up of UCLA
students and ex-servicemen.
The protesting group is seek¬
a victory similar to that
won at Bimini Hot Springs
baths in the Hollywood district,
which finally gave in last week
after a daily picketing of six
months. A mixed group also
involved in this protest,
though peaceful brought
surprise attacks by police and
private guards on several oc-
casiens.
UCLA, alma mater of Kenny
Washington, Jackie Robinson la-!
Woodrow Strode and other
Srg"t N nlmb"r lh orcolored 8 St
dents of any California college,
Blind Man Admitted
To Conn. Bar
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (ANP)~
A young blind graduate of the
Yale university law school
Ear! L. Carl, was admitted
to the state bar last week and
sworn in at the New Haven
County Superior Court,
He was one of 50 candidates
who passed the bar examina¬
tions, both written and oral.
His oral was the same as the
others, but the written in
braille.
Carl credits his success at
Yale, where he finished amonfg
the the bar first tests 1C in to his class, fellow and white in j j
a
Dund wssuldeforsix 5?
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He has been blind since 1936
1 toot Hi ball' ioH t “ in nnr
fm ^f i at Hillhouse
f r P s h e first ‘from bHnd Visk
to graduate graauaie i.orn ***
un&versity.
Indicted For A
CLAYTON, Ala.,
white men were indicted
charges of assault with
to murder for the knifing
beating of an aged and
pled Negro last week.
The three men. Lehman
er, 23; Lloyd Clark, 25;
Early Williams, 21, all of
Louisville, are out on
WASHINGTON (ANP) — Ra¬
cial segregation has been ban¬
ned in the national headquar¬
ters of the Democratic party
by the national committee,
Chariman J. Howard McGrath
announced last week,
Other developments at party
headquarters are seen as fol¬
ows: T de D .^ mo ^ ratlc P art Y
has abolished ^ its Negro divis-
< ? n '> P art ^ c ' erl?> '’
stenographers and other em-
gg? SHl,?
will soon pick a Negro assistant
to the chairman.
McGrath said that the com-
™ttee ... n ? ere . *y is being
sistent” ” by adopting a
recommended by
Truman for government
and the armed forces. He did
not say whether Rep.
L Dawson of Illinois would be
the colored assistant to
chairman or not.
Southerners were very
pal nf thi c; mnvp hv cliffied the nartv
headquartersTOev neaaquarters. iney claimed me
President was more interested
satSfyi^tKemandl
ie *
Many are saying that , ,.
will support the state's
candidates. Gov. J. Strom Thur¬
mond of South Carolina and
Fielding Wright of Mississippi
Despite the southern threats,
McGrath said:
“President Truman is not
going to lose the electoral vote
of any southern state— wait
and He" ree ”
seems to feel that the
popular vote in the south will
favor the President
The Republican 1 1 national
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BOSTON (ANP)—In a
release from the local office of
~
of April, 1947 This figure is
to rpnrpsunt ' an incrpaoC
about l 50 . 300 or 11 6 per
cent over the 13 454 4P5 figure
reported in April, * ’ 1940.
iQ th w or6s o£ the
SAVANNAH GEORGIA THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1!)48
of $500 each.
The victim was Mose S mtih,
60, according to Barbour Coun¬
ty Sheriff M. J. Williams.
According to the sheriff.
Smith, along with another col¬
ored man, argued with the
whites, and the other one fled
scene in an automobile
he was crippled,
Flouts Indiana Civil
Rights Law
INDIANAPOLIS (ANP) — Al¬
though there is a stale law pro¬
hibiting discrimination and
segregation of races in
places and other establish¬
ments catering to the genera!
public, the Riverside Amuse¬
ment park does not counten¬
ance it.
Last week, Calvin Winters and
five others were told by a park
official that “colored people
are not wanted and not wel¬
come at Riverside park and we
are going to keep them out.”
Winters, accompanied by his
wife, Mr. and Mrs. Marion
Lowery and 0 “"“, Joy “S clean ““4 Shrout, J “ e
decided to go to the pari after
they heard it was open to Ne¬
gro patrons. The party stroll¬
ed pass the rides and booths
and noted that Mexicans were
among the white patrons
While watching a “pitch-em”
gallery, Winters’ attention was
called by Mrs. Kimbrough, who
said “I think we’d better go.”
Winters asked “why” and was
told “took-’ He turned around
and Eaw a man in P lain clothcj
who a PP arenU V was an olUci -
j of ine piilk , ti ve uniformed
ScemalTfn^unifom. VS ha°d
Ex-GI
Hospital Fare
JACKSON, Miss. (ANP)—[
Open and flagrant discrimina-
j tion is practiced against eight
1 Negro ex-servicemen employ-
!eci at the Veterans Administra
tion hospital here. Thougjh |
they are civil service employes,
these workers are not given the
same benefits of working con- em-!
ditions as are the white
release, this increase was much
j smaller than the increase ol
was about 7.5 per cent.
The rate ot growth of
non-white urban
April, 1940, has been
I ported about 39.7 ner cent,
could not escape.
He had sufl'ered ■ fractures
... both , legs recently when a A tree
fell 1 on him. After the melee
with the whites, he suffered
severe facial gashes from knife
wounds. The sheriff said Smith
and two of the whites said that
Clark used the knife.
been walking behind Winters'
group “almost on our heels.”
“IS there anything wrong
our being here? Waiters
asked, and the park ofiicial
said:
“You're not welcome here,
not wanted. We won’t keep
you out, but your lives aren t
worth a dime here without po¬
lice protection.”
The rest of the party with¬
drew, but Winders remained
behind for about ten minutes
“to show I was not afraid.’
..... Wilson A. A Head, ... - , local . „, NAAGP „
executive secretary, su,d that
Robert D. Coleman, secretary-
treasurer of the
L /^ reaffl rme l.th,e statement
ot the park . offieal as to the
parks rigid jim crow policy,
VTien asked about the state
civiy rights law, Coleman com-
pletely ignored the question.
According to Head, the Win-
ters party and other groups
ilan to return to the park
again, and again and to bring
legal action ii necessary. The
park is privately owned, but it
said to be on land leased
from the city. For many years
signs have been displayed
the park which read “Patron¬
age Whites Only Solicited.
of VA
Badly
ploy cs. classifications'" ’’
Their job are
tbat of porters, engaged
.
cleaning, mopping and waxing
floor: and corridor. and filling
wafer bottle:: in wards occuoi-
ed by the VA. Though
have to work at nights, on Sat-
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■ This percentage was substan-
| Hally higher than that of the
•“Mr«
well as in 1940. there was rel-
j ^tivplv littlp , h.iir’p population...... in tlif to-
tal non n o n -white Whlt POpU aU ° '
There is. however, evidence
of a pronounced shift of
EXERCISES THIS AFTER
NOON, COLLEGE
Dr. Julius C. Ward, Jr.
To Be Speaker
A total of 117 awards will be
given at the commencement-
exercises this (Thursday) af¬
ternoon at the Georgia State
! college. Of those receiving
these awards, eighty-one will
j be lor given of science the degree and of thirty-six bache¬
will get certificates in trades.
The exercises which will be
held on the college lawn at 5
o’clock will have as the princi-
1 pal speaker Jr., Dr. Judson C.
| 1 Ward. assistant chancellor
of the University System of
Georgia. President James A
Colston will preside at the pro¬
gram.
Names of the candidates io: 1
graduation are as follows;
Agriculture — Wallace Lee
Boyd, Benjamin George Deiys-
ler, Robert William Henley, Jr.,
Augustus McGriff (Dec. 20.
1948), Marvin Rosser.
Business administration—Ju¬
lian Isaac Davis, Nelson Roscoe
Freeman, Perry James Jones.
Neal Elementary Allen. Education—Mary
Alice Johnson Ar-
vinger, Lilia Belle Ashe, Laura
Louise Austin, Alyce Hazel
Barnes, Olious Sigma Beasley
Claudia Reese Briggs, Mary
Bertha Ricks Brown, Sarah
Elizabeth Butler, Margaret
Gadsden 1 Caution, Leonye P
Cunningham, Mildred Lavenia
Mattie Louise DeLoach, Alphny
j Davis,, Ruby Rupert Dawson
Alzonia Dennison, Eula Mae
Derry, Edftta Mamie Chambers Farley,
Horton Gill, Beatrice
Harrell Gisendaner, Dorothy
Johnson Harris. Maude Ed¬
wards Harris. Sarah Flournoy
Hart, Ernestine Heard Holle
Addie Smith Hollis, Eva C. Hu¬
bert, Jeanette Gaston Jenkins
Mabel Rose Junior, Elise Kent,
Nadine Cleveland Lewis, Edna
Kemp Luten, Mary Kathleen
Luten, Emmallne Thompson
Maddox, Birdie Molls, Eva Jones
Moore, Freida Mae Patterson,
Continued oh Page Seven
To Probe Bias in Teachers
Pay in Missouri
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. Aug.
16 (ANP) —The state board oi
education ordered an inquiry
I into salaries of public school
\ teachers here Friday, In an ef-
fort to determine if any school
districts are violatnig a Mis-
constitutional prohibition
against discrimination in pay
ol teachers, because of race or
ker coler. The move was made af-
the attorney-general rul-
ed recently that enforcement
, of the constitutional provision
[duty against discrimination is a
oi the board-
The provision is a ntew one
in the 1945 constitution. It bars
receipt of state school aid funds
by any public school district
which has wag> differentials
for white and Negro teachers
having the same experience
and training.
i I In following the attorney-
general’s ruling, the board in¬
| structed the state department
of education, to prepare forms
| for each reports school to district, be obtained to from
| | ble all necessary information asse®-
I and to devise enforcement
j I regulations. Copies of the at-
j torney general’s ruling are to
be sent to all school superin-
tendents, together with in-1
structions on reports to be
ed with the department, There
are 8,500 public -whool district
in the state. About 2,200 of
i the smaller districts do not op-
l^ on: send
Q adjoining districts.
groes irom rural to urban areas
the south. In the
-nf
* resuJL tlte proportion of the
Boiith Ncgio population living iu tn6
declined from about 74 4
per rent to about 63.5 per cent
during the seven years
last census, ,
, “ MEMBER A»f
Audit Bureau Circulation
TheFirsl^ $ TOOO:OO^ForTrumari
Mr. SVierman Hibbitt, Harlem’s unofficial Mayor, la presenting the first
$1000.00 contribution to the National Citizens Committee for the Re-election
of I resident Harry S. Truman. Mr. John HI Sengstacke, Treasurer of tha
Committee (left) is receiving the check from Mr. Hibbitt, while Congress*
man William L. Dawson, Chairman of the Committee, looks on with
enthusiasm. The presentation was made at the Committee's Headquarter*
at the Biitmore Hotel in - -----—
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MAILS „ . FIRST $10C0
Tn TO TDr TRUMAN Din a at CAMPAIGN r< a nan a ir-it
NEW YORK—Standing out
among the many contributions
to the Million Dollar Re-elect
Truman Fund were two receiv¬
ed last week at the Biltmore
Hotel headquarters.
One was $1,000 from Sherman
Hibbitt of 2|95 Eighth avenue,
the unofficial mayor of New
York's Harlem. The other was
$5, from Mrs. Emma B. John¬
son, a 513-year-old Chicago wo¬
man tiny facing eviction, from her
room at 3138 Calumet
avenue. In size, it was like a
thousand more.
(Hibbitt delivered his contri¬
bution in person to John II.
Sengstacke, treasurer of the
National Citizens Committee
for the Re-election of Pfesi-
dent oi Congressman) Truman, in "the^presence William L
Dawson, committee chairman.
Mrs. Johnson mailed hers to
Congressman William L. Daw-
£on - tn care of President Harry
S. Truman 11 moan at ai the me White wiute House. House,
Her letter told of a change
landlords, an eviction
Rules Against University
Kentucky
LOUISVILLE i ANP) — Fed¬
eral Judge H. Church Ford
dealt the attempts of Negro
teacher Lyman T. Johnson to
enter the University of Ken¬
tucky a severe jolt last week as
he ruled against the applicant.
The judge squashed a defualt
judgment asked Dy Johnson
who claimed that the board of
trustees of the university had
failed to answer a summons he i
had filed within the allotted
time. The judge ruled that!
Johnson’s notice had never;
been served on the school.
The plaintiff’s attorney’s
then filed an/ amended petition
naming the board and Gov
Earle Clements as defendants
This will reopen the suit.
The university has refused
Johnson’s application twice be¬
cause of the state’s Day law
which prevents the races from,
atterxling the same schools.
Mpj: ci r1 Class l ’ ,UM of Wl
Forty Includes
Negroes ..
five
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NEW YORK (ANP)—Colum- j
bia university medical school
! graduated five Negroes in its |
[class i at Maxwell of 40 hall, physical Medical therapists/
cen-
Friday afternoon.
1 IS
ptial in the Bronx; ^es
Oloria Brawlpy, H,al6i§n. N. t/.,
Frances Coleman. Philadelphia,
and John Tolson, San
and Jean Frazier of New
York city, .
NUMBER 44
j tlce, and a fruitless scarcn ror
L ? ome place L t0 , ‘ You are
llere and President Roosevelt
.h Truman as passed, and you are stiil a
man for the help of
the people. Please don’t forget
me.” she wrote.
At her home, Mrs. Johnson
declared that any sensible per¬
son who cannot" wants peace to'voW*for and har-
mony refuse
President Truman. She spoke
of what civil rights plan means
to her and declared, “This
freedom must stand.”
the Hibbitt, at the other end of
economic ladder, said to
Sengstacke:
"The Democratic party came
through with the most far-
reaching omnibus plank on
civil rights ever written, and
the Negro today, for the first
lime since the emancipation
stands in the shadow of that
economic and social freedom
which he haS conUauaU y
sought.
To obtain this freedom, we
have but to elect as president,
Harry s. Truman—the father of
the civil rights program. To¬
day this costs money. fwn I am
proud lions to be anvent* wL) mu
lug of Negn« uv wi
to pay the
REGIONAL DIRECTOR—Mrs.
Fannie P. Preston, who is hi
Cleveland, O., attending the
annual boule of Sigma Gamma
Rho sorority. Mrs. Preston wilL
be formally installed as south¬
eastern regional director. She
was elected regional director at
the southeastern regional con¬
ference at Talladega, Ala-, in
April. Preston has served a
Mrs. as
member of the national board
0 f directors, ahd as a contrib-
u y n g editor to the Aurora, the
so rority magazine. anti-basileus
Mm Preston is
an d dean of pledgees of Alpha
Iota Sigma, the local chapter.
local mem,«N
Barnes es “r«i5
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* ooar She ■
her young son is visiting
her aui^ Mi^Moa Mozelle F'nney,
fOO west Outfy street,