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67 YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LXVII
Home
Parade A
Gala Affair
The home-coming
tion, staged Saturday noon
the Georgia State college
to its football tilt with
Normal college at Grayson
dium, thrilled hundreds of
vannahians as it wended
way t'nrough the city,
would have been adjudged
most commendable and
spectacular affair of the
ever staged here but for
unfortunate feature—some
its commercialized units.
Several of these unts, it
presumed, surreptitiously
, : ^cred the parade and
“rally 'marred the
of the demonstration.
of them were entirely
priate and should have
barred lrom the parade.
The college departments,
various branches of the
alumni and several cf the
mi soror'ties presented
which were both gorgeous
strikingly beautiful. They
ited great applause
the entire line of march.
The march'ng units
a detachment from the
can Legion, a Girl Scout
feur school bands, one
Ballard high school of
one from Center high
of Waycross, one from
high school and the
marching band, and the
mons Drum and Bugle Corps-
The parade was led by a
tachment of motorcycle pol :
followed by three
astride fiery steeds.
At Grayson Stadium, in
tween the halves, the
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Youth Leaders Assail Segregation
Postal Worker
Accused of Disloyalty
20 Placed on
College Honor Roll
LF.STER B. JOHNSON
BURIED TUESDAY
Lester B Johnson, who died
Saturday morning at his resi-
dence, 214 East Park avenue,
aiter about a week’s illness,
was buried Tuesday afternoon
from the First Congregational
chu/rch. The services, which
were largely attended, were as
follows:
Processional — “Nearer My
God To Thee.” (Organ).
Hymn—"Lead Kindly Light”
choir.
Scripture lesson, 23rd Psalm,
Rev. H. W. Murph.
Anthem—‘‘God So Loved The
World”—Choir.
Prayer—Rev. Gustave H. Cau¬
tion-
Hymn—“Jesus Is All the
World To Me”—Men’s Choriu
of Congregational church.
Eulogy—Rev. A. C. Curtright
Solo—“Vale” (Farewell)—A
C- Council.
Recessional—“Largo,” Goin'
Home—(from New World Sym¬
phony)—Dvorak (Organ).
Interment was in Laur=
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ibr'
Photo by Tolbert—Tribune Sian
PORTION OF COLLEGE HOME-COMING PARADE—Above are two scenes from the home-
coming parade of the Georgia State college just prior to the State College-Florida Normal
football game Saturday at Grayson stadium.
Top picture dhows the Georgia State College band, led y its dynamic drum majorettes,
as it made its w’ay down Oglithorpe avenue-
Bottom picture—The “Miss Savannah Alumni” float wi ich was awarded first pi.z“
among the numerous floats-
Twenty Georgia State college
| students successively made the
honor roii during the fall, win-
ter and spring quarters of the
1947-48 school year, T. E-
ers, registrar, announced No-
vember 12- Nineteen are Geor-
gi ans
Although male veterans con-
stitute only 29.1 per cent of the
present full time college enroll-
ment, they comprise 75
cent of the honor roll. While
2.2 per cent of all full time
college students now enrolled
maintained honors status thru
out the three regular session
quarters last year, 5.8 per cent
of present full-time college
veterans held places on tne
honor roll, Mr. Meyers
Honcr students by majors are:
Agriculture, 35 per cent; social
science, 20 per cent; business
administration, 20 per cent;
mathematics, 10 per cent; home
economics, 5 per cent; English,
5 per cent, and biology, 5 per
j cent.
Students who maintained
!honor status are: Douglas
derson, junior,
Hawkinsville; Waldo Anderson,
senior, social science, Fiizger-
aid; Robert Baker, senior, so¬
cial science, Ludowici; Barbara
Burke, sophomore, social sci¬
ence, SavaiVn&i; John H. Day,
senior, business
Savannah; senior, agriculture John A- ^Demons, Thomson;
,
William H. Grier, senior, agri¬
culture. Stovall; Samuel Ham¬
let, senior, agriculture, Savan¬
nah; Johnnie Harris, senior,
agriculture, Thomson;
Jackson, junior,
Savannah; William Jackson,
junior, mathematics,
nah; Henry Lockhart, business,
nah; Henry Lockhart, sopho¬
more, business
Savannah; Hewitt Lundy,
nior, business. Sparta;
lius Mclver, senior,
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SAVANNAH GEORGIA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1948
BROOKLYN (ANP)-—The Ten
tacles of the U. S. loyalty pro- i
gram bep struck at another mem- j
of the National Alliance of |
Postal Employes last week when]
postal authorities demanded
that Fred II. M. Turner, former
(President of the Brooklyn
I NAPE, prove why he should not
be separated from government
j serv i ce -
1 Authorities claim that Tur-
! ner, who has worked for 25
years as a ma'l carrier in
Brooklyn, has '‘communistic
I leanings-”
According to alleged FBI re¬
'ports, Turner, who is also pres-
jident cf the Brooklyn NAACP.
had advocated the release of
! Earl Browder; he jo'ned the
j“Win the Peace” member of movement;
|Was once a the Na-
jtional 'subscribed Negro to the Congress, Daily Worker !
Iber Turner is only one of a num- |
of members of the NAPE ;
|accused of alleged un-Airpri-
can activities under the loyalty
j program. In Cleveland some
25 persons face suspension. The
NAPE has come out with a
j statement to requesting rescind his President |
Truman execu-
(live order ,9835, the authority
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j Action, ^lUHUlU Not Words, TT HiS* Will TT lit
End Prof.
j LOUISVILLE
[christiarts ; 0 f the National Conference
an d Jews were
, here Wednesday , , that
against minorities can be
mated, “but not by
about them.” This opinion
given by Prof. Martin P.
rowsky, Columbia
professor, who arrived to
fer . with ... the conference
cial on an institute to be
sored here Nov. 12-13.
Dr- Chworosky, w*ho said
was working to break
barriers between
declared. “You have ^ to
that old saw—actions
i louder than words—to
The • tenth annual youth con¬
ference of the National Asso¬
ciation for the Advancement cf
Colored People was held at the
Central Baptist church and the 1
Union Memorial church, in St.
An interracial delegation of
two hundred youths from 23
; tates participated in the lour-
R..y conference- W. W. Law,
national youth conference
ehairman and former presi¬
dent of the Savannah (Ga)
Youth Council, was the presid-
irf? officer at all sessions.
Lawrence C. Howard of Dcs
Moines, Iowa, in a keynote ad¬
dress at'the first public session
called on the delegates repre¬
senting youth councils and col¬
lege chapters in the NAACP to
band together m the fight to
eliminate segregation and dis¬
crimination in America. How¬
ard, a student of Drake univer¬
sity and former vice president
of the Dos Moines Youth Coun¬
cil, speaking at the evening
mass meeting, sa ! d that youth
must make frorilal at-
tacks on jim crow,
Addressing the Friday even-
ing public meeting, Walter
executive secretary of
the NAACP and principal
told the youth that the
Negro vote in the pivotal states
of Illinois, Ohio and CaLifor-
n: a with 83 electoral votes
swung the balance to Presi-
dent Truman in, the election,
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(possible better human rela-
j |P tions i ud ” Cit have ng instances been broken where
re j ce s
idown in communities, he said
| Qne Qf the fl „ t rules in any
Q{ action lg; „ Don . t talk
j j h t - f „
Tp als0 d QUt
1 He also said that if a job is to
be opened to a member of a
.minority group for the first
the best-qualified person
should bp rfl0Ben>
j He noted that another plan
tn nim-i. ./ i mpinhpr n( j of* ri-
: nor;t .. rcU p j n an office a
high executiVe of a firm After
a while, other members of the I
j (Continued on page Six)
Local Teachers As In
For in
In a letter this week to the
Board of Education, the Chat¬
ham County Negro Teachers’
Association requested equaliza¬
tion of salaries of white and
colored teachers. The group
also asked that the 10 per cent
increase granted by the state
be provided for all teachers in
Chatham county.
The letter from the teachers
was as follows:
November 11, 1948
•‘Chatham County Board of
Education
Savannah, Georgia
' ‘Gentlemen,
“We, the Chatham County
Colored Teachers Association,
are writing in reference to is¬
sues of vital importance to us.
‘ First, we wish to refer to
i the statement that appeared
j | in News, the October Savannah Morning
on 30, i948, that
-Gov Thompson h,ad granted
vie teachers of Georgia a sal¬
ary increase of ten GO) per
cent for the months of No¬
vember and December. In lieu
of a statement made several
Jays ago by Mr. Strong, there
appeared to be a doubt as to
I whether or not we will receive
the full ten, (10i per cent in¬
crease.
“We know that the board is
aware of the increased cost of
living, the expenses entailed in
continuous professional growth,
and the expenditure ol person¬
al finance used in carrying out
-our progressive program*. With
the knowledge and satisfaction
that the Board has always been
n sympathy with our needs
and requests, we therefore make
an earnest plea for the beard's
kind consideration by alloting
the full ten (10). per cer.t in¬
crease as appropriated by Gov-
Civil Suit May Follow Slaying of Voter
NEW YORK, Nov- 11. — Al¬
though acquitted of the slaying
of Isaac Nixon, 28-year-old
Negro veteran who ins‘sted on
voting in the Georgia Demo¬
cratic primary, the two white
brothel's who killed him may
yet face a civil suit, Thurgood
Marshall, NAACP special coun¬
sel, announced here today. Mr-
Marshall and A. T. Walde,n of
Atlanta, NAACP lawyers, are
exploring the possibility ol
bringing such a suit in behalf
of N xon’s widow.
Indicted by the grand jury of
Montgomery county, Ga., M. A
Johnfson was freed after a Su¬
perior Court jury in Mt. Ver¬
non returned a verdict of not
guilty. John Johnson, indicted
as an accessory to the murder,
was released without trial fol¬
lowing acquittal of his broth¬
er.
Nixon was killed a lew days
after the state Democratic
primary of September 8, in
which he voted despite warn¬
ings from whites rjit to do so.
Continued on Page 11
Four Missourians Elected
State
ST LOUIS, (ANP»—In the
recent general election the Ne-
gro vote here went heavily to
President Truman, who has
j battled vigorously sweeping for his civil al-
i rights program,
most the entire local Demo-
jcratic ticket into office.
Four Negroes will go to the
, j flrv
the most at one « time in the
j 01 Missouri, as a result
j of the Democratic landslide-
All of the elected legislators
are Democrats; three from St.
Louis and one from
iCity. "Riey are: St. Louis;
Y m ‘ am A Cole, lawyer; John
A. Green, war veteran and
(erstwhile athlete of St. Louis:
i Walter Lay, Stowe college
Parents-Teachers to Outfit
Beach-Cuyler Band
Before one of the largest
crowds to attend a regular
P.-T. A. meeting Mrs- white,j
president of Beach-Cuyler PTA
spoke briefly on the fine show¬
ing that the band made dur¬
ing the jvome-coming game
and parade. She said that it
was the PTA who initiated a
drive last term for additional
instruments for the band -and
now the P. T. A. should be
willing to aid in raising money
for the band uniforms-
Prof. O. L. Douglas read an
itemized report of all w money
collected and all expenditures
made in reference to the band.
To date $831.91 has been spent
for Instruments and this amount
was raised through the aid of
the P T. A. and friends.
Prof. W. D. Donnelly stated
that he has already spoken to
the management of the East
Side Theatre in reference to a
movie by which the P. T. A.
could have 50 percent of the
net proceeds. The exact date
will be announced soon. The
admission will be 30 cents for
adults. Tickets will be on
sale an an early date.
The following committee was
named to put over this pro¬
gram: Mrs. Sarah Brannen,
chairman; Mrs. Bessie Craw¬
ford, Mrs- E. Jackson. Mrs. G.
Orr, Mrs. Margarete O'Brien,
Mrs. Lucile Graham, Mrs. Mar¬
: ion Lewis.
A very fine program of songs-
readings and plays in keeping
with American Education week
was rendered.
State School Principals
To Meet in Macon
The president of the Georgia
State Teachers’ Association, R
J. Martini, announces ihat the
annual conference of principals
of Georgia Negro schools will
j be held in Macon November
19 and 20 at L. H. Williams ele¬
mentary school, Pursley street,
beginning at 9 a. m. This will
be the second time the confer¬
ence has been held in Macon
All principals throughout Geor¬
gia are urged to attend this
meeting-
The purpose of these con¬
ferences is to acquaint princi¬
pals with the major phases of
public school education in
Georgia as administered on the
■state level.
R. L. Cousins, director of ed¬
ucation for Negroes in Georgia,
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and James M McNeal of
Kansas City,
\ A Real Surprise
In local voting, most conclu-
sive evidence of the landslide
was shown, in the Sixth ward,
Republican stronghold of Com-
jmitteeman “Billy” Morant a nd
(Alderman J. C. Caston. The
S'xth ward is where the bulk
i of St. Louis Negroes live. It
j was the only ward in the city
to remain in the Republican
icolumn in the Roosevelt vic¬
tory In 1936 arjl. which had
been steadfast Republican lor ;
militant more than and 24 shrewd vears, under leadership the j
,of the “Big Four,” Crittenden
I
(Continued on page Six)
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
TO SING HERE TUESDAY NIGHT
Music lovers can not afford
miss the recital by M.ss
Dobbs, soprano,
is being sponsored by the
Congregational chilrch on
evening, November *23,
beginning promptly at 8:30
in the main auditorium
the First African Baptist
Southern Baptists Say
Race Relations Improved
LOUISVILLE (ANP) — Be¬
of activities of various
Baptists, relations be¬
colored and white in the
have Improved, Dr Hugh
Brimm, executive secretary of
the Social Service commission
>f the Southern Baptist Con¬
vention, said last week.
Noting that Maryland’s Bap¬
tist convention recently desig¬
a special committee to
study the problem of race re¬
Dr. Brimm said that
Southern Baptist groups
are expected to take similar
action in the future.
According to him the Mary¬
land action is based upon res¬
Southern Baptist conven¬
This moral code in¬
such statements as:
Children will be taught that
prejudice is evil and un-
A NEW ELK
LODGE FORMED
A new lodge of Elks was or¬
ganized .Sunday, November 7
the sport-loving people of
The lodge was
for one of Savannah’s
outstanding civic leaders. A
W. Cummings.
The lodge will have its first
at the Masonic Tem-
p le _ west Gwinnett street
Sunday. November 21 at 3 p i
m„ where they will have their
pictures made in a group.;
Charles Brown is exalted ruler.'
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church (corner of Montgomery
and St. Julian streets).
The soloist will be accompa¬
nied at the piano by her Mi¬
ter, Mrs. Irene Dobbs Jackson,
and Charles Pender of Atlanta
will play the violin obligato for
Ingrams Being
WellCaredFor
AMERICUS, Ga., Nov. 11. —J.
B. Dorsey, president of the
4mer:cus, Ga., branch ol th"
NatioiUl Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo¬
ple, gave assurance this week
that the family of Mrs. Hus i
Lee Ingram is being adequate!
cared for by the NAACP. Mr;.
Ingram and her two teen-ug
sons are now under sentence
of life imprisonment following
heir conviction by an all-
of John E. Stratford, a
neighbor.
In a letter to Roy Wilkins,
assistant secretary, Mr.
stated that Mrs. Gene¬
Rush.n, oldest Ingram
is bei,ng supplied
with funds for the
family’s needs and that the
branch of the NAACP
been paying family medi¬
cal expenses and an average
weekly grocery bill of $20. In
addition, he said, three or four
hundred parcels of clothing' for
the Ingrams had been receiv¬
Also, a welfare committee,
assigned to look after the Ing¬
ram children, reports that they
are all in good health
The National NAACP office
announced this week that con-
tributions to the Ingram De-
fengg fund now tQtal
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