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67 YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LXVII
WHERE YOU VOTE TUESDAY
Battle It Out
President Harry S. Truman (left) and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, (right) who will battle
out Tuesday in the General Election for the presidency of the United States. Most political
forecasters give the New York governor the edge, but in the past few weeks the president
been gaining strength. However, Tuesday’s scuffle will tell the tale.
GOP Expects to Carry 30 P.
C. of Geoogia Vote
Attack Greyhound Bus
Jim Crow Plan
L. E. ALLS HEADS
MARINE CLUB
L. E. ALLS
Commandant
WILLIE WILLIAMS
Adjutant Paymaster
The Marines of the Montford
Point Detachment (Marine
Club) installed new officers for
the 1948-id term of office last
Sunday.
The following Marines were
elected and installed: L. E. Alls,
commandant; William J. Dix¬
on, senior vice commandant:
Fred D. Wright, junior vice
commandant; Willie Williams,
adjutant paymaster; Fred Ow¬
ens, judge advocate; William
Cutler, chaplain; James D.
Jackson, chief of staff; Eugene
Morris, sergeant at arms.
The installation ceremony
was performed by Past Com¬
mandant B. J. Mclver, after
which refreshments were serv¬
ed to the members anjl f their
guests in the club lounge.
The newly elected command-
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RICHMOND (ANP)—A regu¬
lation of the Atlantic Grey¬
hound corporation involving
the segregation of passengers
by order of its drivers, was at¬
tacked in the United states
Fourth Circuit court of appeals
here on Oct. 14 on the grounds
that the corporation is not re¬
quired to separate interstate
bus passengers by the Virginia
segregation laws. The bus com¬
pany resorted to this new
technique to get around the U.
S. Supreme Court decision in
the Irene Morgan case.
The court was asked to de¬
cide whether this practice can
continue when there is no legal
basis for it. The issue was
broached by attorneys for Mrs.
Adeline Atwell Day on an ap¬
peal from the Richmond Dis¬
trict court. The U. S. Supreme
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HOLSUM BAKERY FETES EMPLOYEES
1. Edward J. Derst, president or Holsum Baking Company,
and son of the founder of the .business, addressing employees.
Left to right, Rev. H. W. Wilburn, Mr. E. J. Derst, Rev. W- C. Davis
and Mr. Robert Spencer holding trophy won by the company.
2- Kiddie Club preparing lo sip Coca Colas through baby nip¬
ples. 3. Employees listening to address by company official.
Thirty per cent of the total
number of votes cast in Geor¬
gia in next Tuesday’s general
election will support the Re¬
publican ticket, said Robert R.
Snodgrass, state
manager, UIHINMMI, at at a a
rally at the Chatham
court „ouio house uvuoc last mot Friday rnuaj after- attci
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CROSS BURNS IN WOMAN DOCTOR’S YARD
For Coastal
Bov Scouts
At a recent meeting of the
Coastal Empire Council Execu¬
tive Board which is
of leading citizens of fourteen
and one half counties in
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SAVANNAH GEORGIA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1948
According to an announce-
lnMnt by thc «
x~ Si ~ rs
citizens may cast their votes
in the general election Tuesday,
November 2, has been made
| known. There will be 125 poll-
! ing boxes.
The polls will open at 7 a. m
close at 7 p m. The list of
box locations for tlvs election
is as follows:
First District
First Precinct—White, A-K
L-Z, No. 2 fire station, Indian
and West Broad Colored. A-F,
I G-K, 647 Indian street; L-R,
£(-Z, 649 Indian street .
Second Precinct--White, A-
907 Montgomery street (ga¬
rage t. Colored 517 West Gwin-
nett street; Mc-Z, Masonic
| Temple, 519 West Gwinnett St.
Third precinct—White, A-Z,
Local NAACP to Hold
Mass Meeting Wed.
The Savannah branch of the
NAACP has called a mass meet-
ing of the citizens of Savan-
na'h and Chatham county, to
meet in the lecture room of the
First African Baptist church on
Wednesday evening, November
at 8 p. m. The meeting will be
open to the entire public, since
there will be matters taken up
and freely discussed which will
affect the destiny of the entire
Negro population of the city
and county.
Dr- Ralph Mark Gilbert, pres
ident of the local branch, as
well "“l as ““ head of the state
I NAACP conference, in speaking
[ of the coming meeting, D
J the following statement: ‘‘It _
appears to me imminently fit-
LOS ANGELES iANPi—Stone
Mountain, Ga„ again invaded
California late Friday n,tght ir.
the form of the Ku Klux Klan
svmbol of intimidation - the
fiery cross. Victim of the out-
rage was Dr- Pauline O. Rob- |
erts, outstanding Negro woman
physician employed by the Los
Angeles City Health Depart¬
ment, who had moved into a
small, modest bungalow in a
j white district here.
The home had been purchas-
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4. Ham that am, and would nt you be happy too, if you had
just won 12 lbs of it (or being the fastest sipper in the kiddie
contest; don’t blame Daniel Floyd, Jr„ for his laughter. 5. Sam-
up! J. Jenkins, oldest baker at Holsum with 37 years service,
6. William Harvey just after he won the G. E. Radio for holding
the lucky number- 7. Employees being served cafeteria style
in G. S, C.’s dining hall.
1611 Montgomery (rear garage);
colored, A-K, L-Z, 1006 West
Broad.
Fourth precinct—White, A-Z,
420 West 38th street (garage
reor). Colored, A-K, 501 West
37th (garage rear); L-Z, 501 1-2
West 37th (garage rear).
Fifth precinct—white, A-Z.
45th and West Broad (garage
rear); colored, A-L, M-Z, 506
Amarath avenue (store).
Second District
First precinct—White, A-K.
Auditorium; colored, L-Z, Audi
toriurn.
Second precinct White, A-K,
407 Barnard; L-Z, 418 Barnard.
Colored, A-Z. 308 West Gaston.
Third precinct -White and
colored. A-K, L-Z, 301 West
Park avenue (garage rear).
Fourth precinct— White and
colored, A-K, L-Z, 201 West 36th
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ting that the Negroes of this
'
area shall decide whether or
I i^ot they wish for a branch of
\ the NAACP to continue to op-
! erate in this community, as a
popular movement among our
people, and that is one of the
major things we shall discuss
at the forthcoming meeting. As
we examine into present con¬
ditions, I think it is quite easy
to realize that our people in
I this city, county and state, are
I right now in the middle of a
very lamentable mess; and as
i I see it, our only way out is for
l seme popularly-supported, non-
I political £ organidatlon, e pledged £
1 terests of our own people, to
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from Mr. and Mrs. Jack Er-
mezail * white, who with a sis-
ter had m ° ved to another
neighborhood. The “cross burn-
in S” cam <- without warning, as
Dr Roberts said she had re-
ceived no threats nor had she
seen any evidence of unwel-
come by her new neighbors.
I learned of the incident thru
an after-midnight police
order sending certain cars
investigate a bright fire blazing
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CONGL CHURCH TO DEDICATE ORGAN
j
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The public is invited to at-
tend the First Congregational &
I church this coming Sunday
morning at 11:15 o'clock, at
Sigma Gamma Rhos To Celebrate Founder s Day
The Alpha Iota Sigma chap¬
ter of Sigma Gamma Rho so¬
rority will present Gladys Ham¬
mond, soprano, in a recital at
the Georgia State college, Sun¬
day, November 7, at 6 o’clock.
Soror Hammond is a student
tlie! University of Kansas
Progressive Party to Use
Write-In Method Tuesday
The Peoples’ Progressive par¬
ty will wind up its campaign
Friday, October 29, in Savan¬
nah. The key speaker will be
James L. Barfoot, candidate
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' XIUIOCI lV||t*Op I
Her Life In
Saving Child
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 25.
-By being diligent, alert and
courageous, a Negro nurse here
two weeks ago saved the life
] of a little white child who was
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Holsum Bakery company
feted its Negro employes
j urday afternoon when they and
their families and friends were
j transported to the campus of
{three j the Georgia special State college in
buses in a cele-
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
which time me new Kilgen
Pipe Organ will be dedicated.
The special dedication service
will follow the regular worship
Graduate School of Music, _ , , bo-
ror Hammond, in 1947, was the
only Negro woman in the Kan-
sas University’s Acapella choir
She has toured the sta e oi
Kansas, parts of Illinois,
homa and Ohio in concert
work.
~
Okla. Univ. Gets Its
First Negro Student
NORMAN, Okla. (ANP)—Prof.
G W. McLaurin came to the
University of Oklahoma here
Wednesday to enroll, the first
Negro student ever to be admit¬
ted to the university. He had
decided to accept the invitation
of the regents of the university
to enroll on a segregated basis
after the federal court had or¬
dered the university to accept
his application
Prof. McLaurin, who is 54 and
interested in civic affairs, went
to the campus accompanied by
his wife, by Roscoe Dunjee, edi¬
tor of the Black Dispatch of
i Oklahoma City, and Atty. Amos
T. Hall, well known lawyer of
Tulsa. Hall and Dunjee had
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bration in connection with
company’s eighty-first
sary.
a gala time was
by the celebrants, who
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NUMBER 3
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service and will include the
Participation of all member;
and friends present. Rev. A.
q Curtright is pastor and Miss
Willa Mae Ayers, organist.
THER0N STEVENS SINGS
HERE MONDAY NIGHT
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The pirst African ^
church ls spo ^ oring a recllal
lQ be given by Tharon Sleveas>
talented young composer, pi-
anlst and sll at the spon _
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Negroes
Finding
Better Jobs
In furthering the National
Urban League’s job develop¬
ment program, the Industrial
Relations department, in coop¬
eration with local Urban Lea¬
gues, completed a survey in 25
cities on the employment of
Negroes In white collar jobs in
the spring of 1948, it was an¬
nounced by Leroy. W- Jeffries,
assistant director of the depart¬
ment. The approximate total
number of Negroes reported in
largest number of Negro white-
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Now There
Are 14 Negro
Banks
WASHINGTON (ANP) The
(sixth annual report of banking
institutions owned and operat¬
ed by Negroes released by tlu>
department of commerce re-
! veals that a total of 14 banks
are now domiciled in nine
states and the District of Co¬
lumbia, 11 of which are mem¬
bers of the Federal Deposit In¬
surance corporation.
An analysis of their 1947
statements of corJ’.it’ons, pre¬
pared by Emmer Martin Lan¬
caster adviser on Negro affairs
’to the secretary of commerce,
indicates that peak records
were attained in several of
I the’r operations.
Their total assets of $31,307,-
345 are the highest of record,
I exceeding the preceding year's
; total by $2,150,658. Although
| government obligations, direct
and guaranteed of $14,531,557,
i declined 9 91 per cent during
j the year, other securities, in-
| eluding obligations of states,
•political subdivisions, corporate
I stocks and bonds amounting to
$2,238,876, surpassed the 1946
total by $1,168,221. All security
holdings for the year, 1947, ag¬
gregated $166,915,433 and con¬
stituted 54.03 per cent oi com-
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