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67 YEARS OF
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PUBLIC SERVICE
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Photo By Tolbert—Tribune Staff Phoiog.
PROGRESSIVE PARTY CANDIDATE GOES ON THE AIR,
Laiikin Marshall, Progressive Party candidate for
from Georgia, being interviewed by James L. Barfoot, the par¬
ty's candidate for Governor of Ga., over Station WDAR just
before his scheduled speech at a public rally held at Masonic
Temple last Thursday evening. Seated: Left to Right: the
acting announcer, Mr. Marshall and Mr. Barfoot.
BARFOOT , MARSHALL
SPEAK AT MASONIC
TEMPLE
Thursday evening of last
week an enthusiastic throng of
more than 30D people assembled
at the Mason’c Temple, 517 W
G v.nnelt street, to hear James
L. Barfoot and Larkin Marshall.
Mr. Barfoot is the People’s Pro¬
gressive party candidate for
Governor of Georgia, and Mr.
Marshall is the People’s Pro¬
gressive party candidate for U.
S- Senator from Georgia.
Chairing the meet ng was
Jam©; Edwards, president of
Local 870 of the Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers Union, CIO. He
welcomed the audience and
spoke briefly of the need for a
party that fights for the inter¬
ests cf the working class of
people against the b ; g corpora¬
tions. He appealed to the au¬
dience to support the workers
at the Atlantic Creosoting com¬
pany, who are out on strike, be¬
cause the wage cf 67 cents an
hour is not enough to support
their families. “Workers, white
and colored, must unite to
f'ght for their welfare against
(he big corporations who try to
divide and exploit them,” he
said.
James L. Barfoot, candidate
for governor, spoke of the strong
fight the Progressive party
wages against discrimination.
He recited Henry A. Wallace’s
moving line: “Jim crow is sin:
discrimination is sin; segrega-
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Heid Says Unholy of Alliance
Weak the South
NAACP Youth Conference
To Honor Olympic Champ
Priest
Passage
MONROE, La. — Fair employ¬
ment practices and an end to
job discrimination will form
one of the major steps to bring
labr r peace to the South, the
'h Re\ Vincent J. O’Connell, S-
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Jury Indicts Police
For Blinding Prisoner
SPRINGFIELD, 111-, Oct. 14.
—Accused of beating and
blinding a Negro truck driver
While imprisoned in a jail cell,
a white policeman was this
week indicted by a federal
grand jury sitting here- The
indictment followed protest by
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo¬
ple demanding an investigation
by the U. S. Department of
Justice.
James Simpson, the victim,
told the grand jury that he
had been blinded in one eye
and severely beaten by Patrol¬
man James Swift in the Rock
Island, ill., prison on the night
of November 23, 1947. He had
been arrested by Rock Island
police when he became involv¬
ed in an accident while driving
along the highway between
Rock Island and Moline. Swift
ls reported to have beaten the
truck driver in the mistaken who ] !
beiiei that he was a man
She faamutati Srfanr.
HEADS TB CHRISTMAS
SEAL SALE
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WILLIAM GIBSON, JR , who
nas been elected the 1948 Seal
Sale chairman by the Chatham-
Savannah Tuberculosis and
Health Associate Board.
Mr. Gibsory for many years
las been interested in the
cork of the Tuberculosis Asso¬
ciation, having served as pres¬
ident of the Associate Board.
He is an ardent church mem r
her and chairman of the board
of officers of his church.
Mr. Gibson is one of Savan¬
nah’s prominent young business
men, operator of Gibson's Ser¬
vice Station, 700 West Broad
street- Prior to going in busi-
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ST. LOUIS, Oct. 14, — Miss
Alice Coachman of Albany, Ga.,
winner cf the women’s high
jump competition in the 1948
Olympic games, will be the re¬
cipient of a special Youth
Award at the tenth annual
Youth Conference of the Na¬
tional Association for the Ad¬
vancement of Colored People to
be held here, Nov. 10-13 Miss
Coachman, a student at the
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recently had a run-in with
Rock Island police¬
The Twin-Cities branch of
NAACP reported the as¬
to the national office
through Franklin H-
assistant council re¬
it to the Department of
insisting upon investi¬
and prosecution.
COLLEGE TO OBSERVE
WK.
National Audio-Visual Aids
will be observed jointly
the Georgia State College
Department, Reading Clin¬
and Audio-Visual Aids Cen¬
October 25-30.
One of the features of the
will be a film forum “de¬
to illustrate the uso of
materials in the
School.”
Removes
Segregation
Remains
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark,
|—A Jack railing used to
Schropshire, Negro
ident from Little Rock,
has been removed, according
to Dr. Robert A. Leflar, dean,
here last week. But though
the barrier has been taken
away, the segregation policy of
.the ! school has not been chair*
ed
Schropshire, a war veteran
and reserve officer, was one of
two Negroes who entered the
schcol last fall- Both attend-
ed classes, separate from white
students- Recently 125 first-
year students had to be placed
in a small classroom which or¬
dinarily seats 60. This meant
that 27 had to be placed in the
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Winners "Miss Beach-Miss Contest
The coittest to determine
“Miss Beach” and “Miss Cuy-
ler” came to a close Monday
afternoon at the school.
The contest which lasted
over one month and was spir-
itedly participated in by stu-
dents of Beach-Cuyler high
NAACP
NEW YORK, Oct. 14,—Ans¬
wering charges that NAACP
staff members had engaged in
partisan political activity, the
beard of directors of the Na¬
tional Association for the Ad¬
vancement of Colored People
adopted a resolution at its reg¬
ular monthly meeting here on
October 11 reaffirnrn.g the as¬
sociation’s non-partisan policy.
The resolution was in re¬
sponse to charges made by Val
J Washington, assistant cam¬
paign manager of the Republi¬
can National Committee, ac¬
cusing Walter White, secretary,
and Leslie Perry, administra¬
tive assistant in the
NEW YORK (ANP)—“There
appears to be an unholy alli¬
ance between the federal and
the state governments to ex-
ploit the weak of the South
especially when they are col¬
ored,” Dr. Ira. DeA. Reid oi
Haverford college said on Sat¬
urday here when he addressed
the National Conference on
Academic Freedom held at the
Hotel Pennsylvania.
Dr. Reid spoke on “Discrimi¬
nation and the quota “System,”
and said that “discrimination
in the admission of collegiate
and professional students in
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Negro Policemen Capture
Dr. Hardee's Assailant
"
THREE MEDICS TAKEN
IN BY ACS
BALTIMORE (ANPi — Three
members of the surgical staff
of Provident hospital are being
admitted to the American Col¬
lege of Surgeons at its annual
convention in Los Angeles, Oc¬
tober 19-22.
Those receiving this honor,
the highest a surgeon can earn
in America, w'ere Dr. Robert L.
Jackson, chief of staff at Prov¬
ident; Dr. I. Bradshaw Higgins,
and Dr. Henry C. Welcome-
They bring the total to 18 Ne¬
groes admitted to this group
since 1945-
Supt. J. L. Procopc of Provi¬
dent hospital said, “The hos¬
pital is justly proud of the ac¬
complishments of these mem¬
bers of its staff, who are going
into this very select group of
the nation’s outstanding sur¬
geons.
SAVANNAH GEORGIA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1948
REPUBLICANS TO HOLD MASS
i MEETING FRIDAY NIGHT
GATHERING to be held at
FIRST AFRICAN BAPTIST CHURCH
Dudley S. Martin, nationally
known orator of Chicago
an outstanding member of the
speakers bureau of the Repub-
lican national committee, will
be the principal speaker at a
mass meeting tomorrow,
- night, according to an an-
i nouncement by L. B Toomer
j chairman of the Republican
county executive committee.
The mass meeting will be
jheld at. the First African Bap-
tist church.
tist church, Montgomery
Bryan streets, and is schedui-
school. ended with Ernes-
tine Greene, of 11B1 class, as
1 ,-.i -- Beacn,” J. M- Greene,
teacher; Fannie Gordon, 10A1.
Mrs. E. P. Law, teacher, and
Beatrice Walker, 1CB1, Mrs. E
T. Graham, teacher, as the
runi^ers-up.
Answers Charges of Bias
iton bureau, of supporting Dem-
ccratic candidates.
The board said that Mr.
White has expressed his “per-
sonal evaluations,” and added:
“The association has made
evaluation of these candi-
GSC WAYCROSS ALUMNI
Photo By Tolbert—Tribune Staff P ho
Standing: Clyno Stevens, proprietor of Stevens Recreation Center and insurance
Oscar M. Moody, president; Miss Willie E. Craigh, Secretary; Alton Spells, V. President;
Fluker, Treasurer.
Seated, left to right: Mrs. Lillian S. Scott; MissViola Deviilas, Miss Beatrice
Wiiton C. Scott, center, Miss Bessie Sneed MMrs. Lorraine Brown, Miss Mary Williams,
Marshall. Miss Lillie Marshall and Louis Rivers.
! For being Johnnie on the i
spot and running down a Ne- |
gro ex-convict who is alleged
(to have .seriously wounded an
j jhold-up elderly whit" druggist westside in drug |
in h s
[Okla, U. Jim Crow Absurd
Says Thurjfood Marshall
A NEW YORK, Oct. 14 — The
I plan to admit a Negro student
to the graduate school oi the
University of Oklahoma on
jim crow basis w'as today
Dranded as “absurd ana
fumbling by Thurgood Mar-
shall, NAACP special counsel,
who headed the legal staff
which attacked the states seg-
regation laws Mr. Marshall
further indicated that the case
would not be abandoned.
G. W. McLaurin, retired te^-
ed to begin at 8 o’clock,
! Mr „ - Marlin „, . ’ wh0 * s on a
^Peak.ng ln ^ f tour of of , the ^publican Southland
| a
^ndtdates In, the approaching
national ‘’lections, has been
attracting wide attention by his
plot l uent and forceful presenta-
tion of the Dewey-Warren
cause.
i tomorrow night’s rally
will be a number of Re¬
publican state leaders, amonlg
them Harry Sommers, national
Continued on Page Six
Hazel Williams,9A1, H. D.
Simmons, teacher, is “Miss
Cuyler,” while the runners-up
are Betty Baldwin, 9B2, Mrs.
Jane Starr, teacher, and Lois
Hurst, SB1, Mrs. Lydia G
Brown, teacher.
The two winners will be
(dates.”. jma Mr. Perry, the board
ntained, had “clearly and
.objectively reported the voting
[records the of NAACP members legislative of Congress
j on
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store Tuesday afternoon, two
of the eleven Negro patrolmen
of the Savannah police force
jumped into the limelight oi
(continued on paga fli
cher, was admitted to the uni-
versity’s graduate school today
as the first Negro student, fol-
towing a decision handed down
recently by a special three-
judge federal court, declaring
tliat the state’s segregation
taws were unconstitutional in-
sofar as they prevented the en-
rollment of Negro students in
j the university for courses not
otherwise available in state-
supported institutions.
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Citizens Trust Co. First
Race Bank to Join FRS
Atlanta, Ga., (ANPi — An¬
nouncement has just been
by the Federal Reserve Bank of
Atlanta that the Citizens
company has been admitted
membership in the Federal Re¬
serve System. It thus becomes
the only one of thirteen bank:-;
in the United States owned
and operated by Negroes to en¬
ter the nation’s central bank-
crowned at the homecoming •
football game Thursday night,
November 4, at 8 o’clock at
Grayson Stadium when the
Beach-Cuyler Bulldogs meet the
fighting Burke High football
Continued on Six
( 13 Start Rookie Police
!
';
| Training in Memphis
The Southeast Georgia
ter of the Georgia State
Alumni Association
ing Pierce, Ware and
boring counties, met at
ens Recreation center,
and elected temporary
Oscar M Moody,
employee and one of the
Prominent civic leaders of
cross, presided. Wilton
| Scott, director of public
: ions at Georgia State
explained the college
and pointed out
recently made.
I I The Southeast Alumni
ter pledged one hundred
cent cooperation and plans
meet weekly until
The meeting place will be
ternated from Waycross
Blackshear- This group of
State college alumni
prominent civic workers,
I eminent employees,
and vocational teachers, as
as business men.
Among the visitors were
Viola DeVillars, recently
ed queen of Savannah
(chapter, and Mrs. Lillian
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Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
Judge Holds
Racial Ban
Invalid
OKLAHOMA CITY i ANP i —A
real-estate agreement
Negroes from white sections
I the city was ruled “invalid” by
| a federal district court judge
(here last week, on the grounds
jthat jhad recently the U- S. ruled Supreme that court
cove¬
nant pacts are “unconstitution-
j j al ”
.y^g ru j| n g was handed down
by District Judge Lewis Morris
of Oklahoma county, in a suit
brought by white residents
'seeking to set as de property
‘deeds of two Negro families in
block. The plaintiffs based
[their signed suit by residents on an in agreement the area
8
MEMPHIS (ANP) —'Thirteen
Negro applicants began a two-
week training period in the po¬
lice academy as “rookie police¬
men” here Monday, leading to
appointment with the police de¬
partment in Negro districts.
Those surviving the two-week
course will be given an addi¬
tional two weeks of training be¬
fore assignments. »
Selected to Degin the train¬
ing are Marion Cecile Teague,
25; James Allen Seymour, 25;
Joseph Ezra Pegues, Sr , 22;
Jordan Turner, 26; Daniei Ar¬
chie Evans, Sr , 25; Jewel Wil¬
liam Jubert, 26; Frank Peebles,
24; Roscoe Russell McWilliams,
25; Wendell L. Robinson, 23; Er¬
nest C. Withers, Sr., 26; Jerry
D. Williams, 21, and Clarence
Fitzgerald, Jr„ 24.
The 13 applicants wiil oe su¬
pervised by Inspector William
I Raney, director of personnel
and efficiency. Each applicant
will receive six hours of lec¬
tures and on*> hour of gymna¬
sium trailing each day. Two
five-hour sessions in the proper
use of firearms will also be in¬
cluded in the course.
Subjects of the lectures are
duties of a policeman, in,vesti-
*ations, evidence, courtesy, in-
erviews, accident cases, reports,
Continued on Page 8
New Home of the Butler
Tire Repair Company
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Butler Tire Repair
which for the past ten
has been located at 520
- Broad stoeet, will move
|,iew quarters.
The company, headed by
Iseph Butler, one of the
V known, tire repairmen of
HEADS chest
DIVISIONAL DRIVE
DR. II. M. COLLIER, JR.
Ruben G. Clark, general
Says Educat’n
Equal In Ky.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (ANP) —
Kentucky's new segregated sys¬
tem of teaching graduate sub¬
jects to Negro students now pro¬
vides equal education for Ne¬
groes and whites. Asst. Atty.
Gen. M. B- Hohfield declared
in, a letter to the Kentucky Ne¬
gro Education Association lasu
week.
Under Kentucky's scheme,
white professors from the Uni¬
versity of Kentucky and color¬
ed students from Kentucky
State college come and go from
school to school to maintain the
state’s segregation laws.
Tiie professors come to tho
school to teach the colored
students subjects they cannot
take at their own- school, and
the student^ go to the white
school for laboratory and other
work for which no facilities arc
provided at the Negro school.
Three Negsp students, accord¬
ing to Dr r. B Atwood, pres¬
ident of Kentucky State, arc
now studying under this com¬
muter plan. One is studying
law. Six or seven UK proies-
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southeastern seaboard, con-
summated this week a deal
it acquired possession
of the building at the north-
east corner of Jefferson i
Alice streets, which it will use
j Continued on Page Six.