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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- (Continued on page St 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- Continued on Page Six 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 Continued on Page Six 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- Continued on Page Six 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, Continued on Page Six 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 <Continued on Page 0) 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 Continued on Page Six 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 Continued on P*i,e Q 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 Continued on Page Six 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. Continued on Page Six