66 YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
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Photo By Tolbert—Tribune Stall Photofl.
TOP PICTURE (left)—Cow girls, led ,by majorettes; right—band from North
Carolina led by a glamorous majorette; Bottom (left) crowds banked on streets
viewing parade; right, Bishop C. M. Grace, head of the church, driving the
GRACE’S COLORFUL PARADE—Above are scenes from the colorful street
parade of the House of Prayer for All People which was staged here Sunday af¬
ternoon and witnessed by thousands of persons.
The central figure in the demonstration was the spectaculr Bishop C- M. Grace
head of the church, who attracted his usual wide attention as he greeted the
the line of march from his decorated jeep.
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Klan Scares College Profs
'■AT*. Univ. Council Meeting
From
Cuyler Week
Next
Two Youths Injured in Phily
Police Fracas
Off Campus
Business
At College
Registration for the
State College Off-Campus
iness School will be Friday and
Saturday, September 24
25. Friday registration is
6;30 to 8 p. m., and Saturday
registration is from 2 to 4 p. m
Registration will be at
West Broad Street YMCA,
classes will begin Monday, Sep¬
tember 27, at the same place.
“Registration of at least
persons is necessary if
course is to be held”
to Robert Charles Long,
chairman of the Georgia
Continued on Page 6
1ST.
PRESENT MATTIWILDA
F. A. A Y. MASONS
CONVENTION
The F. A. A. Y- Masons
hold their convention
at the First African
church. They will stage a
rade at 5 p. m., which will
minate at the church where
program will be rendered
public is invited to attend
program.
The parade will start at
Broad and St. Julian,
south on West Broad to
to Maignolia, to Gwinnett,
West Broad, to Hul,l to
to Bay, to Montgomery
then to the FAB church.
Chief Davenport is
master and Henry Goethe,
retary.
mmmh 0rihme
PHILADELPHIA (ANPj -
blow with a policeman’s night
stick in the mouth of one
youth and a broken arm on
another were the major results
of one of Philadelphia’s nu¬
merous police brutality ram¬
pages last week when 20-year-
old Clyde Wilson was
and the arm of 21-year-old Ju¬
lius Mercer was allegedly brok¬
en doring a stationhouse “go¬
ing over-”
The local chapter of the
NAACP accepted the cases
investigation and turned
over to Atty. Herbert G. Hardin
to file punitive action
the policemen involved.
in turn, accuses
Hobson R. Reynolds, one of
city’s three Negro
W no t taking time to hear the
first testimony against Patrol-
(Continued on Page
CHURCH TO
DOBBS
The music loving public
Savannah will have an
tunity to hear one of the com¬
ing stars of tomorrow on Tues¬
day evening, November
when Mattiwilda Dobbs of At¬
lanta, studertt of Madam Leo¬
nard of New York, and member
of the. opera chorus, will be
presented in voice . recital by
the members of the First
gregational church at the First
African Baptist church, Bryan
and Montgomery streets In ad-
dition to the music lovers of
j Savannah, college, graduates .members ol of
man
Masonic lodges arid Order of
Star, as well as
dents ot Beach-Cuyler and
Georgia State college will wel-
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Continueti on Six
highly decorated Jeep from which he greeted the thousands along the line ol'
march.
TThe parade was approximately twelve city blocks long, had three bands
and a drum corps and was participated in by an unusually large number of
children and young folks.
The street demonstration was the climax of the annual ten-day convocation
which was attended by units of the church from far and nearby cities.
_
The Cuyler Vocational school
will begin registration lor the
•1948-1849 term on Monday and
j [and Tuesday 28. nights, Many September features 27
new
have ™ been ThZFSU added to ncTi/lhc the pro
large number of interested
izens who have made inquiries.
The vocational classes
being designed to meet
need for on the job training
and for general
for those craftsmen and skill-
ed workmen who want to im¬
prove their efficiency.
Supervisor Dorothy R- Lamp-
kin has returned from a survey
trip which covered observations
in vocational schools in Detroit,
Chicago, St. Louis, Atlanta and
Augusta. The personnel of the
school hks been carefully se¬
lected luid the program this
year will be one of the best 111
the country-
Classes will be conducted in
general education to me et the
Continued on Page Six
So. C. State
Fair Be Hdd
Oct. 25-30
COLUMBIA, __________ S. C., ____ Sept. 18
Plans are under way and the
days of October 25-30 have
been set for the annual State
Negro Fair-
The usual big features, in¬
cluding the big Mid-Way at¬
tractions and Harrison Greater
Shows are on the Fair Week
agenda.
Big Thursday, Benedict col¬
;' e £C, Columbia, and Claflin col-
de!?e ’ Orangeburg, will be vho
j athletic attraction.
Tb e high school classics to
dp announced later will be big-
cr than ever.
1 The directors are setting ^
: f °rth every effort to make the
l44th annuai presentations the
on
SAVANNAH GEORGIA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1948
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga, Sept.
18.—Eighteen prominent Negro
educators experienced a taste
o! Ku Klux Klan treatment
here this week and as a result
took sudden leave from town
when the Klansmen demon¬
strated against a mixed racial
meeting.
The men were here, along
with about 100 white educators,
attending a meeting of officials
of the Georgia University Sys-
g**" eor ** State College for at Wo-
mer “
Dr. Guy Wells, president of
the Georgia Staee College for
Women here, described the
which he said occurred
on Wednesday night.
Wells said that University
Chancellor Raymond R. Paty
ailed a regular council meeting
of the system heads “as has
been the custom annually since
1933.”
Presidents of all Georgia
colleges and their assistants
were to attend- Wells said ar-
: rangements were made for the
three Negro presidents and
a i(j eS; n,umbering about 12,
, tQ stay in jq e g ro homes and
eat in Negro restaurants during
WALTER WHITE TO
TAKE LEAVE
NEW YORK, Sept.
ter White, execu tive
of the National Association
the Advancement of
People, was granted a
leave of absence by the
ol directors this week.
Was granted Louis'T. on
tion Of Dr Wright.
White’s physician, who said
the health of the NAACP „
j facial rest. required an
Scheduled to return
November 1 from Paris,
^ j g now serving as a consult
| an t to the United States
gation to the General
united Nations,
| white plans spending at
jpjj a month in the office
or \ 0 goiry? on leave. In
a tj sence Assistant
Roy wi]kins> will _ as
I serve as acting secretary.
NCNW To
Meet
Oct. 10-13
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The
13th annual convention of the
National Council of Negro Wo¬
men will be held here at the
Inter-Departmental Auditorium
of the U. S- Department of
Labor, Oct. 10-13.
Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune
founder-president of the coun¬
cil, this week announced that
on October 11 the convention
will be addressed by Secretary
of Labor Mau|rice J. Tobin,
Miss Frieda S. Miller, director
of the Women’s Bureau of the
Department of Labor ,and Miss
Katherine F Lenroot, chief of
the Children's Bureau of the
Social Security Administration
The theme of this
convention. “World
Through Human
ing,” will be developed
some 1,000 registrants from
U. S. and several foreign coun¬
tries, Mrs. Bethune added.
their stay here.
He said there were no viola¬
tions of Southern racial cus¬
toms “unless sitting in
same room with the Negroes
such a violation.”
However, the local
chief and the city judge
ed the school men on
Continued on page tnree
Randolph
Again Heads
The BSCP
DETROIT, Mich—The
ef aJfl *™pd atcd of W1 Sleepirfc h ,lu ’ Car Ap F of
‘
1 " convention assembled at
j" - F ’ ot L Temple here, by
ammous vote reelected A
lp Bandol Ph of New York
j international president to
gin his 24th year as head
the organization.
Also unanimously
were Milton P. Webster,
Cago, first international
Bennie Smith,
j troit, second international
president; E- J. Bradley,
Louis, third international
president; C. L Heliums.
land. California, • fourth
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continued on Page Three
Many Stars to Take Part in
Alice Coachman Celebration
In Atlanta Friday
ATLANTA — A
more extensive than any
lias been known to
of Atlanta is shaping up
Alien Coachman here in
lanta September 24, when
Albany State college
champion comes here to
feted at the Morris
Alabama State football
which will feature the dedica¬
tion of the *250,000
Stadium.
Among the world-famous
track luminaries
slated to appear here and
on physical education of
championship skill are
Lilly Purifoy, Miss
Manuel, Miss Nell Jackson,
|t’atteraoi), ai< t the lOO-mieter
Olympic winner Harrison
lard, of Baldwin-Wallace
lege, Cleveland, Ohio.
Other Physical Ed- Offering
Another stella track
will be the David T
and Booker T.
girls track and field team
the weight-lifting wonders
John Davis, Olympic weight-
liftirjj champion. The
Brown physical education de¬
partment plans demonstration
of the modern dance and group
calisthenics.
In addition to this the crack
(Continued on page 8i
NAACP Board Votes to
Doctor DuBoSs
NE|W YORK, SepH. 16 Fol¬
lowing unauthorized publica¬
tion of the content of an intra¬
office memorandum assailing
the NAACP's acceptance of an
invitation to send a represen¬
tative to Paris to serve as a
consultant to the u. S. delega¬
tion to the General Assembly
of the United Nations, the
NAACP board of directors pass¬
ed a resolution declaring “that
it will not be iii the best in¬
terest of the association to con¬
tinue the employment of Dr
(W. E. B.) DuBois as a staff
member beyond the term of his
present contract,” which ex¬
pires on December 31.
board’s action, NAACP Presi-
dent Arthur B. Spingarn
was taken “with deep regret.”
In a memorandum, dated
September 7 and addressed
jointly to Walter White,
tary, ai^d the board of
(tors, Dr. DuBois, the
ition’s director of special re-
search, said he was “unable to
comply” with Mr- White’s re¬
quest to attend a small meeting
of staff and board members to
discuss matters likely to come
up at the Paris meeting
which the NAACP secretary
Continued on Page Six
What Are the Conditions at
School
An observation of conditions
at Beach-Cuyler high school
shows them to be anything but
wholesome j in fact, they are
very deplorable and should be
immediately remedied by the
Board of Education.
One solution to the worst oi
our problems is education. A
survey of the school situation
covering the last decade re¬
veals the disheartening disad¬
jsu.ffered. vantages to which Negroes have
It is a known fact
(that the interest of the total
j | community the is in so which related 4o that per
manner
cent of the population lives af-
jfects the lives of the other 60
iper cent politically, economical-
jly and spiritually gratified that the
We are
j survey committee is now at
(Continued on page inxee)
Member Audit Bureau Circulation
Price 7c
‘Cracker’ Johnson’s Son
Declared An Heir To
His Father’s Estate
MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 20.—James
J. Johnson, the illegitimate son
of the late Janies J. (Cracker,
Johnson who is said to have
left a fabulous estate which he
accumulated from the numbers
game and other rackets, after
a two-year court battle to
share equally in his father’s es¬
tate with Mr. Johnson's two
daughters,, won his case in the
circuit court here last week
and was declared an equal
owner of the estate with the
two young women-
The late boledo kipp, was
killed here about two years ago
when he was shot down by a
•.•unman ct one of his many
places of business.
Officer Houston
Dismissed
Officer stepney Houston, one
of the twelve Negro city police¬
men, was ordered dismissed
from the force last week by
the police committee. He has
a drunk driving charge pend¬
ing against him in the Police
Court.
To Continue Efforts
To Free the
Washington, sept. i 0 —
continuing the effort to secure
the release of Mrs. Rosa Lee
Ingram and her two teen-age
sons from imprisonment in
Georgia, 14 lawyers met here
this week in a two-day confer¬
ence to explore possible state
and federal actions to test the
validity of a conviction based
j a miscarriage of justice.
The conlteren/ce, which was
by Tliurgood Marshall,
j [ai special .ociation coun.sel lor for the the Advance- Nation-
A
ment of Colored People, decld-
od that further legal research
required before any action
could be taken. Procedure for
continuing the fight for the
light for the Ingrams’ freedom
was agreed upon.
Mrs. Ingram and her two
sons are now under sentence
0 f life imprisonment following
1 heir conviction by an all-
j white jury of the self-defense
Continued on Page Six
LEADERS IN THIS WEEKS INSTITUTE
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j 1 he Rev. G. H. Caution (left) rector of bt. Matthew’s Epis-
wi church h«« ,j«r. U.
meeting here this week. ________. _____ .
NUMBER 4»
Attending Boston Univ.
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Above is the likeness of Miss
Eleanor Williams, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Williams of
619 West 39th street. Miss Wil¬
liams, a graduate of South
Carolina State college, is now
doing graduate work at Boston
university, majoring in public
relations.
5 . D. Terrell, Chicago
Business Man, In City
S. D. Terrell, well known Chi¬
cago business man and a for¬
mer Savannahian, was in the
city this week, having been
called here on account of the
death of his-sister, Mrs. Anna
Battle.
This was Mr. Terrell’s first
trip home in many years and
his many friends were pleased
to see him. Mr. Terrell has
made excellent progress in
Chicago, where he operates a
large furniture business at
63rd and Cottage Grove ave¬
nue.
Prior to moving to Chicago
many years ago, he (fierated a
drayage business in Savan¬
nah.
Mr. Terrell made the trip by
plane, returning home yester¬
day.
