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YEARS OF
II O V CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LX VI
How Albany Greeted Her Olympic Champion
1. Miss Alice Coachman, Albany's Olympic Champion, and President Aaron
Brown of Albany State College stand as the anbd from Booker Wash¬
ington high school, of Atlanta plays the Star Spangled Banner, which climaxed
the program at the auditorium. 2. Herald Photgrapher, Frank Freeman, chats
with Miss Coachman. 3. Miss Coachman chats with Mr. Clay, Pres. J. A-
Colston's personal representative from Ga. State College. 4. Miss Coach-
Mammoth Crowd Pays
Honor To Miss Coachman
By Maion E. Tolbert
Tribune Representative
ALBANY, Ga., Sept. 1.—In, a
celebration befitting her as¬
tounding athletic accomplish¬
ment all Albany turned out
today to greet Alice Coachman,
25 year old track star who
brought back to the Slates the
only gold medal won by a Unit¬
ed States woman in the field
events recently held at Lon¬
don, England.
The comely young miss, a
student at Albany State college
Tulsa to Spend 2 Million
To Education
New York Guardsmen
Train Without Friction
PEEKSHILL, N- Y.$ < ANP)—
High teamwork was and displayed white |
between Negro
troops of the Stat eWar Disas- ;
ter Military corps of the New
York State Guard at Camp
Smith. According to Muj. Gen.
Edwin G. Zeigler the comrade-
ship surpassed all expectations, in the j
No friction developed
side by side training in the
field or on the rifle range-
This is the first time that I
here, was honored by the en¬
tire citizenry of Albany, the
celebration being highlighted by
an official welcome, a grand
parade and a reception at the
college to which her athletic
prowess has brought nation¬
wide publicity-
The festivities honoring ’ the
return of the spritely young
athlete to the city of her na¬
tivity began with a street pa¬
rade a mile long which tra-
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from Harlem and
have been at Camp
with white troops trom
over the state. Heretofore,
non-Nordic troops were
trained after all other groups
had use of the camp at
end of the season,
Some 500 Negroes were
the 1,200 guards men on
at the experimental ven-
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Photo By Tolbert—Tribune Stalf Phot.og.
man and her mother greet their many friends at the reception held on Albany
State Campus. 5. Mayor James Smith addresses gathering at city auditori¬
um. 6. Life Photogfapher chats with Graham Jackson, nationally famous
accordionist. 7. Part of the crowd which jammed Albany’s auditorium. 8. Pres.
Aaron Brown of Albany State College addresses gathering at auditorium.
Slap by her Mistress
Cook is Jailed, Fined
Because she claimed she rb- \ j
turned a push-slap attack
made on her by her madam at 1
Savannah Beach, cook, was 1
a
thrown in jail and sentenced 1
to a fine of $25 or 30 days at
the woman’s camp.
The incident for which the
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TULSA, OKLA- (ANP)—Dub¬
bed by many as the “world’s
most segregated city,” Tulsa
announced last week a $2,000,-
000 program for equalizing the
educational facilities with
those of whites here.
Included in this program is
a $1,500,000 all new including
land site Booker T. Washing¬
ton high school, a high school
and elementary school at Sand
Springs, $35,000 heating and
improved lighting systems at
Dunbar and Booker T. Wash¬
ington grammar schools, a new
cafeteria at Dunbar and im-
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SAVANNAH GEORGIA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 1918
Bishop Wright At
PbiVm Monumental
Bishop It- R. Wright
Bishop R. R. Wright will be
speaker Sunday at St- Phil¬
Monumental AME church,
Rev. W. C. Davis, pastor- |
The bishop will preach at '
the morning and evening
and will dedicate two
A DAUGHTER |
A baby girl was born Aug
to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hol¬
of 429 Purse street. She
xas named ftutnt Mae.
THE TRIBUNE
Photo By Tolbert
This month twenty-five years
ago a strip of a boy dropped
into The Tribune office and
became a printer’s devil. He
was apt, conscientious and
alert and scon became a ne¬
cessary cog in the mechanical
department of the paper.
Ever since that day in Sep¬
tember when his father, then
a well known tinner about
town, brought him into the of¬
fice and turned him over to
force to be moulded into a !
printer, Charles A. Simmons
has remained in the employ of
The Tribune, perfecting himself
in the intricacies ot the trade
About eight years ago he was
made foreman of the shop,
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House of Prayer to
Begin]Annual Meeting
Next Week
Decides To
Admit Negro
Patients
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ANP)—St.
Joseph Infirmary officials an¬
nounced on September 1 that
Negro patients were being ad¬
mitted there for the first time.
This new policy is to be tried
later at other Louisville hos¬
pitals, it was reported. An of¬
ficial said four Negro patients
have been admitted at a time
for about six weeks at St’ Jo¬
seph’s.
The change In racial policy
was requested by Mother Anp
Segastian, until recently moth¬
er-general of the Order of the
Sisters of Charity. She said
St. Joseph Infirmary in Lex¬
ington, also staffed by Sisters
of Charity, has been accepting
Negro patients for many years.
White doctors and nurses at¬
tend Negro patients here. Later,
officials said, Negro and white
patients will be segregated. At
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Memphis
Seeks Stop
Brutality I
__ A
MEMPHIS (ANP)— Some 251
or 30 copies of a petition, re
questing “protection of the
Negroes of Memphis from po¬
lice brutality, and police kill-
ingls,” were circulated about
the Binghamton community
here last week for signatures
of residents. The petitions,
outgrowth of a protest meeting
held Tuesday night at the First
Baptist church, are to be given
to Mayor Pleasants, klso ask
that “consideration be given
immediately to the appointment
oi Negro policemen" to patrol
the section.
The meeting was sponsored
by the East Memphis Citizen.*;
club, headed by Henry Diggs-
Henry F. Pilcher was chairman
of the committee drawing up
the petition. A committee of
seven or eight members are to
present the petitions to the
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Try Intimidate
ProgressiveParty Canvassers
A gang of hoodlums broke
the limel.ight here last
when they attempted to
a group of canvas¬
who are going around the
and its environs enrolling
of citizens on a petition
that the nlames of
Progressive Party’s candi-
be included on the
ticket to be placed
the voters in November-
names are required
the Wallace candidates
be placed on the ticket.
The trouble here started Fri¬
when a team of
came here to canvass
city, The team included
Negro and three white
Shortly after reaching
the party set out to locate
place where the Negro work-
might reside during their
here. They were in an
and after going
places they noticed that
were being followed by a
loaded with men- When
party got near a place in
Village where
directed to go, they went
into the curbing by
trailing car.
Six men jumped out of the
car, two of
guns. They
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Member Audit Bureau Circulation
Price 7c
BISHOP C. M. GRACE,
who will preside over the
sessions of the convocation
The twenty-second annual
convocation of the United
House of Prayer for All People
will begin Sunday at the House
of Prayer on Bismark street,
and will continue until Mon¬
day, September 20.
The sessions will be presided
over by Bishop C. M. Grace.
Units of the church from ad¬
joining states are expected to
attend the eight-day meeting,
which will be highlighted by a
street parade on; Sunday after¬
noon, September 19, and a pic¬
nic the day before at the
church plot on Victory Drive.
State Deacons
For Building
The call session of the Dea¬
cons State Baptist Convention
of Georgia, held in Macon with
the Tremont Temple Baptist
church . „ ReV- T A
’ largely attended \ h by
tor * was
irepresen.a ives 101
P arts ot eorgia. *
I waa conducted by Deacons Y.
M. Johnson of Atlanta and I.
S. Johnson of Macon. Scrip¬
ture was read by Rev- L. M.
ore > pastor. Welcome was
by Dr. J. G. Kyles of
the deacon board and the
church. A very able response
made for the state by Dea.
J. T. Harris of Zion Hill Baptist
. anta. _ .
church ol . At ice tes -
denl w - WJllt - e presided dur-
Sn S the session.
The state state president, president, H. S.
Bynes, made a ten-minute talk
and sumbitted three recom¬
mendations which were unani¬
mously adopted, viz-, first, that
the constitution be revised or
corrected; second, that the
: twenty-five thousand dollar
j drive be carried over the state
j through regional districts and
oca j presidents have power to
a ppomt workers in every
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NUMBER 47
Okey $25,000
Purposes
ALLIANCE MAN
RECEIVES PROMOTION
Robert E. Martin, member of
the National Alliance of Postal
Employes, was recently ap¬
pointed custodial foreman at
the Illinois Street Parcel Post;
a ‘-first” in the history
the Indianapolis post office.
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