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| I | LISTENING To HEALTH TALKS—Shown above are some of the approximately 80 students from Beach-Cuyler, Haven Home, East Broad. Florance and Paulsen schools who attended the one-day Student Health Institute held at Georgia State College Monday, October 4. The In¬ was STUDENT HEALTH INST. AT COLLEGE An informal discussion on ‘Problems of Adult and School Health Education” Monday af¬ ternoon, October 4, highlighted the cne-day Institute on Stu¬ dent Health held at Georgia State college. The institute, sponsored by the Chatham-Savannah Tuber¬ culosis and Health Association, had its opening session at 9'30 a. m., Miss Frankie Golden, su¬ New Law School Building For S. C. State College 1243 Students Enrolled At State College Official registration for the fall quarter show 1,243 students are enrolled Georgia State college, to T. C. Meyers, registrar. is the largest enrollment in 52-year-old history of the tution. The breakdown is as Men: 745- Qf this 550 are veterans- Two and seventy-three Veterans enrolled in the trade Fifteen men are attending ning classes and two are tending Saturday classes. are 193 nori-veterans in Women: 498. Five veterans are enrolled. eight women are attending ning sessions and 29 are ing Saturday classes. Patterson Again Heads UNC Fund DR. PATTERSON NEW YORK—Dr. f. D. Pat- i terson, president of Tuskegee institute, was reelected dent of the United Negro lege meeting'of Fund at Tts'iwardof the fifth toi-s held at Atlanta oi| October 5, it was this week by William J- Jr., executive director or fund' Dr. Patterson will serve pervisor of Chatham elementary schools, Georgia State College James A. Colston, and Mrs. Saxton Wolfe, executive tary o, Ihe sponsor,,* zation, extended greetings. Fur topics, “Initiating Maintaining a Sound c . .. Pregram ,r in High Schools Colleges,” „ „ “The Relation ____ of trition to Abundant “The Nurses’ View of the ,lar Control of and “Mental Hygiene,” Dudley Speaks Next Friday Night The Republican of the First Congressional trict will hold an/ mass meeting Friday night, tober 22, at the First Baptist church. Coming to the city for this occasion will be Martin, nationally known tor of Chicago, who is the South in the interest of Republican party. Mr. Martin is one of the Continued on page tnree the next fiscal year; he been president of the organiza¬ tion since its inception in 1944. Thomas A. Morgan, who pre¬ sided at this meeting, was also reelected to his post as chair- man of the board of Others reelected to offices in (the fur<d were President Flor- lence M. Read of Spehnan Col- lege, Atlanta, Ga., vice presi- dent, and President Robert P Daniel of Shaw university, Ra- leigh, N. C., who continues as secretary to the organization, • Additional business of the day at the directors’ included a report oh the 1948 campaign by Mr. the* Trent, authorization of distribution of money to member jthe laying of plans for the [1949 campaign and an an- nouncement of changes irt 'school membership of the iund with Howard university with- drawing and St. Augustine Col¬ l le S e of Raleigh N. C being ad- mitted as of December 3, 1948. 1 In presenting the matter of withdrawal of Howard uni- jversny President Mordecai W. | I Johnson “The decision stated: of the board Continued on Page Six SAVANNAII GEORGIA THURSDAY. OCTOBER 14. lighted the mornirig session. Mrs. Mary McKinney, field | representative, Georgia Tuber¬ culosis Association, Atlanta, and Ihe^lt^educatlon ! “ uLte Statton 7 Atlan^Tu- berc rc ^osis Association, tea lea the the round table discussion. Morning speakers , included ncluced Miss Miss Dorcthv Dorothy I Ury, health education consult- l™*’ 9 ** , Department _ , . of health Atlanta; Mrs. Dorothy ( Lampkin, home economics, Continued on 3 ORANGEBURG, S- C.—Con¬ for the new law building State A- and M. College will let on or about November 1 work will begin thereafter order that it can be ready or occupancy by fall of 1949, to an announcement last week by President M. F. Whittaker. The new law building will cost $200,000 with equipment. It will contain offices for the faculty, seven classrooms, wo s e m j nar rooms, a moot court room and a law library. The stack room of the library is to have accommodations for $35,- Continued on Page Six Miami MIAMI, Fla.—“The ment of using Negro police of- ficers here has been very sue- cessful,” today declared Chief Walter'E. Hendley in his office before a group of inter- racial leaders. “The figures on crimes llillltzo of UI violence , and nile delinquency prove it,” he continued. Miami’s Negro police are cele- brating four years of service- ^ a • j £ y tOYS | ffAll m V O’ -1 vex rjl f J* || 1T1H1 1 , j - — , WASHINGTON, D. - C ~ Edi- — and publishers of the 21 1 Negro newspapers with, a com- readership in excess of one million, who are backing Mr. Truman’s reelection, and (have (the National accepted Citizens membership Commit- on tee,'include; Chicago Defender, Michigan Chronicle, Louisville Defender. Atlanta Daily World, St. Louis Argue, Louisiana Weekly, Ohio State News, Lighthouse and In- former (Columbia, S. C.), Birm- ngham 1 World, Arkansas Okla- hotna Eagle, St. Louis Amen- can, Kansas City 'Mo.). Miami Whip Call, Wilm- continued on Pag* Thret Barfoot, Tonight Speak M Masonic Temple James L. Barfoot, for governor against Larkin Marshall, for senator Georgia, will appear at a rally this Thursday, Oct. the Masonic Temple, 517 W. Gwinnett street. This will be Mr. major campaign speech Savannah. Admission to the rally is free Previous to the rally at p. m. on Thursday, October Mr. Barfoot and Mr. will make a radio over Station WDAR, TO ATTEND LEGION CONVENTION will leave Sunday for Miami, Fla-, where he will attend the national convention of the American Legion, October 17- as a delegate at large from Georgia. He is commander of District A, this state. HIAWATHA LODGE 37TH CELEBRATION The thirty-seventh anniver¬ sary of Hiawatha Lodge, 3788, Odd Fellows, will be celebrat¬ ed Wednesday night, 20, at the lodge room in Masonic Temple. Members the lodge arjd Household Ruth are invited to attend celebration which is being ranged by the following mittee: Jacob Ward, Rankin, James B. T. p s . Samuel Rivers and Ross, N. G- Crime Wave Lessened by Colored Policemen Organized in 1944 by former 1 Safety Director Dan A. P.o- | senfolder, their numbers have grown from 5 to 20. According j to Chief Hendley, sinhe Negroes | have been on the force the Mi- jami taxpayers of dollars. have saved. Since ------- ----------- 1514, however, crimes of vio- j lence have been cut in half and j juvenile delinquency reduced by 60 per cent. Break Color Ban in Washington College [ WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. surance that coored will be admitted to j courses offered at the Teachers college in the of Columbia, by the ” ” ‘ States Department ol ture was given the this week fellowing complain of discriminatory exclusion- , 'j>j iree students who to enroll in science courses en at the Wilson Teachers | legej which is under the tion oi tlu> oi.strict (v.jiTus Bcarci ancl pi0V jdes training only, were told they ’\, cQUld not ^ enrolled ca , ) of a r^rmnent by , rict r - lwol officials.” directing this problem to the tention t)1 secretary Charles Brannan of the Deuartment Press Fight to Enter Oklahoma University Permanent Injunction Saves R. R. Porters Jobs NEW YORK — It was an- nounced in the headquarters of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters by A. Philip Randolph, international president, that on September 29, in Kansas City, Mo., Federal District Judge Al¬ bert L. Reeves of the U. S- dis¬ trict court issued a temporary injunction, restraining the Mis- j souri-Kansas - Texas Railroad and the Brotherhood of Rail¬ road Trainmen from displacing Negro train porters from the ■ head-end of the trains, jobs j claimed by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen,, which bars Scholarship Awards Granted To 26 Georgia State Freshmen uates Twenty-six of accredited fiteshmen, Georgia grad¬ high Name Committees to Head schools, are attending Georgia Education Week Activities State 49 arships academic College awarded year, on Regents for according the schol¬ 1943- to Nat’l an T. C. Meyers. The scholarships are given each year to honor graduates of accredited high schools in the state to attend a unit of the University System of Geor¬ gia. They cover the cost of tuition for the year. The awards are as follows: Virginia Bell Baker of Cordele, Holsey Institute; Ilene Brown of Cuthbert, Randolph County Training School; Willie Janies Dixon of Shiloh, Meriweather County Training School; Betty Louise Douse of Statesboro, Statesboro High and Industrial Continued on Page 6 The employment of Negro police was the result of the co¬ operation of racial and inter¬ racial organizations. Prominent in the effort was the late Capt. James E. Scott, whose death a few weeks ago all Miami mourned He was instrumental In getting the first five men on the city force. They were Clyde Lee, Ralph White, John, Mil- ledge, A McDowell and A. Agriculture, Clarence Mitchell, | NAACP labor secretary, said: “We feel certain that the De- partment of Agriculture, under your administration, does not wish to be a party to an un- fair action of this , kind , I Jn respoase( Mr Brannan ye assU rances that the de- par tment’s school "makes no (students distinction among its potential aside from the usual ones of appropriate educational j backgrounds. Negroes Each year there its are many among (student body. A Negro is also a member of Its faculty. I pleased to inform you that district school officials have Unformed us that we may roll Negro students in liege classes at Wilson Teachers ” Negroes from membership by a color clause in Its constitution, for while brakemen This is the second injunction issued by Judge Reeves against the MKT and the Brotherhood of Rail- rpad Trainmen. The first injunction issued on August 28, 1946, at Kansas Mo., was reversed by the Cir¬ cuit Court of Appeals of Min¬ nesota upon the grounds that the train porters had not ex¬ hausted all of the provisions and agencies set up under the Continued on Page Six The general committee on National Education Week met recently in the Board of Edu¬ cation room to form plans and create committees to carry out these plans for the observance of National Education Week here. D. Brainard Hodge and Miss Jay Mendes were in charge of the meeting. The following committees were created and are announc¬ ed by the chairman’ Newspaper publicity, colored, Mrs. Ayler Mae Lovett, Mrs- Lo- rene Pressley. Open house, colored, Mrs. Jo- Continued on Page Six Capt. Scott worked with the mew during the days of selec- tion and training and as a suit they always called him “Father.” Another prominent citizen who had a hand in the j birth of the Negro force is Dr. H. j p r. Davis UIUU, in 111 wll0Se WI1U3C office UIULC they j had tlfeir Iirst headquarters- j After the trial period a prom- , Continued on Page 6 ONE WORLD ENSEMBLE OFF ON TOUR '■ j i NEW YORK—The One World interracial, intercul- and interlaith concert .quintette, which was organized Dick Campbell, New York concert manager, last year, has developed into one of the coun- ‘try’s outstanding attractions OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 7— Following refusal today of the board of regents of the Uni¬ versity of Oklahoma to admit G. W. McLaurin to the gradu- ate school of the university, NAACP lawyers immediately filed with the three-judge fed¬ eral court a petition for further relief seeking air order from that court compelling aocept- ance of Mr. McLaurin prior October 13, which is the closing date of admissions. This second rejection of Mr. McLaurin’s application on the sole basis of race followed a decision handed down last, week by the special three-judge fed¬ eral court invalidating the state’s segregation laws insofar (Continued on page Si 1890 Enrolled In Atlanta University System Dental Assn. Grants Two Scholarships The National Dental Associa¬ tion, through the sale of the Scholarship Stamps, granted scholarships of *225.00 each to Clarence Neal, Jr , of Pitts¬ burgh, Pa., senior at Meharry Dental college, Nashville, Tenn and Stanley II Godsey, of New Rochelle, N. Y., senior of How- , ard University Dental School. Dr. H C. Edwards, Washing- ton, D. C-, chairman, says the sale of the stamps is now a regular membership obligation and scholarships will be award- annually. Other members of the arship committee include Dr. C. B Absalom, New York city, (Dr. R. L Bradford, Charleston, !w. Va.; ---> Dr. H. - S. Colum, Chica- (go, 111-: Dr. W M. Cuthbert, (Pittsburgh, Pa.; Dr. M, R. Dean, Continued on Page Six almost overnight. The which is composed of a nese-American soprano, Yoshinp;, Napolecn Reed. tenon; Bsurtoh Cornwall, basso, and Elizabeth Scotch-lrish contralto, and ner Singer. German-Jewish FIRST LADY OF LIBERIA i'll The former Miss Antionette Padmore is now Mrs. William V. S. Tubman, K. G. B, wife of the President of Liberia. They were married Sept. 17 in Mon¬ rovia. The bride is the grand¬ daughter of the former presi¬ dent of Liberia, the late Arthur Barclay, and the daughter of George Stanley and Mary Pad- more ° f Monrovia—!ANF). A BOY Hercules Alexander is the name which has been given, to the child born October 2 to Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Gould of Southover Junction. ATLANTA-More than 1,80(1 had registered in the schools colleges of the Atlanta Uni¬ versity System, it was revealed this week when total registra¬ tion figures reached the 1,801 mark. In Atlanta University’s graduate and professional schools, there are 365; at Spel- man college, there are 390 young women, and at More¬ house college, there are 709 young men registered; In the school of arts and sci¬ ences at Atlanta university, the 74 students are distributed as follows: Biology 17, chemistiy 14, English 11, French 1, hia- 8, mathematics 7, and 16- There are 121 stu- dents registered in the school social work, 111 in the school eoucation, 28 in the school of library service, and 27 in the school tion. ^ Four bmi^^actoimstia- are classitied special students. The universi¬ ty has 117 veterans this year. At Spelman college the stu- dents are distributed as follows Mtlnmc 150 freshmeri, 99 sophomores, Continued on Page Six sic director, has captured the imagination qf ail progressive thinking people with whom it haa eome cfiqtact, An extensive mid-western tour ge t underway on October Hsfe ---- Continued on Page RW