67 YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LX VII
Proposed New Negro High School of Modern and Attractive Design
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—Designed by Cletus W. Bergen and William P. Bergen, architects, with Walter P, Marshall, associate architect.
The above drawing reveals the attractive and modern design of th<e proposed new negro high school, which is to be erected by the Board of Education on a 23-acre tract on Hopkins street, brlween Forty-fifth and Forty-
eighth si reels. The plans provide for construction of brick and architectural concrete and include the most up-to-date facilities. The building will have various wings ranging from one to three stories in height. The academic
whig will be thr«; stories high and will contain 23 class rooms, together with laboratories, art rooms and other facilities. Other wings will contain the administrative offices, auditorium, gymnasium, cafeteria and shops. A feature
of the tic ijn is that the auditorium, gymnasium and cafeteria may be separated from the rest of the building to permit their use by the negro community. The architects will call for bids for construction of the buiidingj I
at an early date.
, NEW HIGH SCHOOL
TO HAVE MANY
ADVANCED FEATURE
The proposed new
high school, a drawing of
which is here shown, will have
many advanced modern fea¬
tures-
The school which will be
erected on a plot of land of
approximately 23 acres on
kins street between Forty-fifth
and Forty-eighth streets, will
be constructed of brick and ar¬
chitectural concrete in various
wings, ranging from one to
three stories.
Funds for the building will
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National Council Suspends Frat.
For Down Rac ial Bar
Sue NAACP For $50,000 In
Civil Rights Case
LIBERTY CITY
PROJECT MAKING
RAPID PROGRESS
Liberty City, a new project
fpr Negro citizens which was
recently started south of Mills
B- Lane avenue, is rapidly de¬
veloping and many homes are
now under construction in this
very desirable sub-division.
The purchase price of homes
in this project is now $4,750,
but after the f rst 40 or 50
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TO BE INSTALLED PASTOR
Rev. Pickens A. Patterson,
recently elected pastor of But¬
ler Memorial Presbyterian
Church, will be installed Sun-
day, November 28, at 11:30-
Rev Patterson received his A.
” B and S- f B. degrees from
Lincoln university, and h’s S.
T. M. degree from Western
aumuuth erilmnr
Wealthy Sportsman Murdered
INDIANAPOLIS, (ANIP)—An-
drew l Sharpe, well known lo-
cal sportsman and tavern own-
er, ’ was found dead in
bushes , on a country , road . , by
two brothers last week.
He is beLeved to have been
murdered either by robbers or
!,— in gangland styie by
local Ql gambling ,„ interests, torocts
i Police gave the robbery mo-
| Live because Sharpe is known
jto have always carried a large
;baiV’roll with him. H:s for¬
mer connections with gambling
! interests, police believe, may
have remotely tied him in with
CINCINNATI (ANP)—A suit
for $50,000 in damages and
costs has been brought against
the NAACP and four of its of¬
ficers here by a waitress who
contends that she was falsely
arrested on a charge under the
Ohio civil rights law of refu¬
sal to serve colored customers.
The suit named Robert Hub-
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JiinCrow inTiiiinelCoiistrm lioii
Theological Seminary- The in¬
stallation sermon will be de¬
livered by Dr. W L. Metz of
Charleston, S. C, stated clerk
eme ritus of the Atlantic Synod.
public ^ cor dially invited
^ attend,
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SAVANNAH GEORGIA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1948
cold-blooded murder.
j Sharpe had been missing when two for
| nearly 24 hours
icschool gf
‘school , , boys, „„ Max Sims, 6, „ and .
T Lane Sims, 13, found his body
among the weeds in a field
across from the Highland Golf
and Country club.
The last person to see him
in public before his death was
his friend, Sea Ferguson, well
known Indiana avenue figure.
They had bowled together un¬
til almost midnight on the fa¬
tal evening. Sharpe left Fer-
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AMHERST, Mass. (ANP)—The
national executive council of
the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity
has suspended the Amherst
college chapter for planning to
admit a Negro member, Howard
L. Hamilton, president, of Co¬
lumbus, O., announced last
week.
A* spokesman for the college
group said the chapter will not
disband, but will continue as a
local fraternity. It does not
intend to depledge the Negro
student as it did last year.
The racial question was first
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NEW YORK, Nov.
of democracy is
high a price for New York
pay for a water supply system,”
Walter White, secretary of the
National Association; for the
Advancement of Colored Peo¬
ple, declared this week in as¬
sailing the contractors of the
ney 2150-feet Downsville water
tunnel for ma’ntaining “as
tight a jim crow policy at
| could have existed in a Dixie-
crat state.”
“‘The NAACP congratulates
New York city for finding i
j solution to its shortage of wa¬
ter,” stated Mr. White, “bui
regrets that the solution has
been found at the cost of dem¬
ocratic employment practices.'
A complaine filed through
.he NAACP before the State
“ommission Against Discrimi¬
nation on behalf of Thomas
Harrison, a Negro, who was re-
AD PROTEST
BRINGS RESULTS
new York , ANP ,_ A , ulck
response to protest against the
use of offensive
t.’rms shows that the New York
Times and its advertisers will
cooperate in promoting elimi¬
nation of provocative items- An
ad Northampton, of “l w ££• Mass., , until ..? , this .
week carried the wording,
“Nigger babies,” in its adver¬
tising.
This week’s copy is minus
the offensive usage. Now, if
Creole Delicacies of New Or-
leans would observe the same
ethical practice, they might get
a few additional customers
from among the minority
it offends with its
coture.
NUL Cam¬
paign Include
Small Schools
The National Urban League
announces its 17th Vocational
Opportunity campa gn, March
13-20, 1949. As before, the
campaign will be under the
joint leadership of Ann Tan-|
neyhill, director of vocational!
guidance, National Urban Lea
gue, and George Edwards cf
the Southern Division of the
National Urban League.
This year a special effort is
being made to carry the cam-!
paign to hundreds of small,
.ion-accredited Negro schools in
rural communities of the
South that have never taken
in the campaign- It is ex¬
pected that this drive will top
the approximately 200,000
/oung people, in, Negro schools
xnd colleges alonle, who were
reached during the 1948 cam-
paign.
In launching the 1949 cam
oaign, Miss Tanneyhill stated, |
“we re-emphasize the need for
centering attention on realistic
vocational guidance of Negro
youth in order that the coming
generations of young workers
an hold the wartime employ¬
ment gains made during the
•ears, 1941-1945, and at the
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ined employment at Downs
ju e after his union had rec-
cmmen ded him for a skilled
Qn the pro j ect> charges
^ ^ thg ghcp tseward th're
informed Harrison he could
not be employed because Nc-
groes could not live in the
bunkhouse maintained by the
contractors, Walsh Construc-
1 on Co- and B. Per r.i v Sons,
0 ic., and could not eat in the
cafeteria maintained by the
same contractors.
“As a matter of fact,” said
I r. White, “the pattern of a
m crow town in the South was
followed to such an extent
pat Mr. Harrison was unable
to use the telephone in the
i ifeteria to get transportation
lick to town. He had to ask a
jt hite man to go into the cafe-
ihria and make the phone call
n hifn.”
Levi Jackson Selected As
Captain Yale Football Tea;i
New Haven, Conn., Nov. 23—-
the fi „ t tlm€ in her long
(has athletic n story Yale University
elected a Negro as captain
of her football team.
j Today Levi Jackson, Yale’s
se P ia «, cho,
i en to lead next years
team. i he selection of this
native New Haven lad for this |
(premier athletic honor is widely
hailed throughout the universi¬
ty and by the citizens in gener-
j i commonwealth, al of this staid old university
; This was a big day for Jack-
son and one he will n$>t forget,
,for it started out with his se
to the first string back-
of the Associated Press
Hill Denies He
Aims at Va.
Legislature
RICHMOND (ANP) City
Councilman Oliver W. Hill de-
nied a newspaper report
week that he was considering
seeking a seat in the Virginia
House of Delegates He has
not given any thought to the
matter, he said-
Mr. Hill’s statement was
ma ^ c m reference to a pub-
1' s hed article in the Richmond
Afro-American in which it was
said that the attorney would
not seek re-election to'the city
council but might instead
a seat in the House of Dele-
gates,
“I haven t given any state¬
ment which would indicate
that, and if I were considering
any such action, it would be
tco early to voice,” Mr. Hill
said. “I’ve got too many other
things to do.”
The popular attorney, who
was a candidate for the House
of Delegates last year, failed to
win the Democratic nomina¬
tion by on/ly 190 votes- It is
generally known that Mr. Hill’s
friends would like for him to
consider running for the house
again and they believe that
with more white and Negro
voters on the books he stands
a good chance of winning
time.
A part of Mr. Hill’s busy life
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Also pending before the S.
/ D. is the complaint of Wal-
|ter Tannis charging that a
foreman of the George H.
iFllnn Construction Co. threat-
ened hi m w th physical violence
because of his action in pro-
jtesting discrimination working construc- aga’nst
Negroes on
ion of tile Brooklyn-Battery
tunnel, a new highway link
between Brooklyn and Manhat
tan.
“NAACP attorneys repre¬
senting these men before the
state Commission Aga nst Dis-
(crimination will not be satisfi-
ed with recompense for the
j carnage done to them alone,”
asserted Mr. White, demanding
that on all future New York
^crow !city construction wlork, “jim-
be abolished and demo-
icratic employment practices
prevail.”
All-Eastern team followed by
Lis unanimous election as Yale’s
seventieth captain. Then at
night, more than 400 New Ha-
roared him welcome at
the antaual awards dinner ot
the New Haven Gridiron Club
ja e was awarded a i
laque as the “outstanding foot- 1
ball player of 1948 in the Yale
bowl.”
Head Coach Herman Hickman
ormer Tennesseean star, said:
“Levi is a great boy and a
fine football player. He is an
excellent choice and I believe
Jackson will make a good cap-
ain for us. We are all happy
his election.”
C AMDEN, N. J.. No U The
Camden branch of the Nation-
|al merit Association of Colored for the People Advance- an-
nounced tins week_that it It
been successful in securing
J ,f Re ’ 1 ieu! for a egro driver
with 1 the , Yellow , Cab company,
in the first time in this city*
Md. U. Withdraws Racial Ran
BALTIMORE, Nov. 18. —The
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo-
learned today that its es-
|timony had about been the instrumental decision
in bringing
of the University of Maryland
to admit qualified Negro stu¬
dents to its graduate school.
>r. H. C. Byrd, university pres¬
ident, announced this week
that Negro applicants for grad¬
uate work will be considered
next fall “on a basis of quali¬
fication alone’ and qualified
students accepted “on an inte¬
grated basis ”
The NAACP position, was out¬
lined on Oct. 22 at a hearing
granted to the Maryland Com¬
mittee for Equal Educational
Opportunity by the Board of
Trustees of the University of
Maryland- At this meeting
,
sel Franklin II. Williams t«„. testi¬
fied that he could find no fed¬
eral or state law or judicial
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HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRISTS I
—Above are tire three leading
psychiatrists stationed at the
VA hospital, Tuskegee, Ala. All
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
POPULAR INSURANCE
EXECUTIVE DIES
AFTER SHORT ILLNESS
H. C. Thomas, well known
insure nee executive, died Sun¬
day at a local hospital after an
illness of on:y about a week,
His funeral was held yester-
day i Wednesday) from St
Matthew’s Episcopal church,
the Rev. Father Gustave H.
Caution conducing the cere-
Interment was in I.au-
rel Grove cemetery. He was
nearing his 46th year.
Mr. Thomas was manager of
the local office of the Atlanta
Life Insurance company, com-
here in June, 1943, to take
position. Prior to that he
was with the auditing depart¬
ment of the company for eight
years.
Mr. Thomas was a native of
Anniston, Ala., and was a grad-
ute of South Highland high
school of that city.
He was very well known in
local business circles and
member of the Frogs club,
The deceased is survived by his
Jessica Thomas; _______ h's
Mrs Lizzie Thmas, of
chattanooga Tenn., four
Chester , Thomas of Long
Beach, Calif., Oley Thomas of
Chattanooga, and Lester and
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Federal Council of Churches
To Celebrate Dec. 1-3
NEW YORK—Four decades
of growth of the movement for
Christian unity and coopera¬
tion will be celebrated at the
biennial meeting of the Fed¬
eral Council of Churches cf
Christ in America at Cincinnati
December 1-3
The Federal Council of
Churches was the first associ¬
ation of a large group of
churches in any country of the
world for united witness and
action, Dr. Samuel McCrea Ca-
vert, general secretary, said
this week. In various ways, h"
added, Christians of different
churches had worked together
as individuals, but in no coun-
ry was there a permanent as¬
sociation of churches of the
najor families of Protestantism
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fellows of the American Psy-
Association aryl all
certified by the American Board
of Psychiatry, there being only
the Rev. J. J. Dinkins as pa.
I of Second St. u ohn Baptist
|church will begin November X)
,and will end December 3.
The five-night observance
’will be participated in by a
j number of churches as follow: .
Monday night, Nov. 29, on kk>« New
Zion Baptist church will have
of the program with
the Rev. A D. Spearing deliv-
jering the sermon; Nov. 30, Pii-
;grim Baptist church, Rev. John
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MR. MOSS BECOMES
ASSO. DIRECTOR
URBAN LEAGUE
NEW YORK—The appoint¬
ment of R. Maurice Ross to
the newly-created post of the
associate executive director of
the National Urban League, is
announced by the executive
board of the National Urban
League. Mr Moss will share
top executive responsibilities
with Lester Granger, who will
become executive director.
After receiving an A. B. de¬
gree from Columbia university
and an Urban League fellow¬
ship to the New York School
of Social Work, Mr. Moss en¬
tered Urban League service in
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nine Negroes in the country so
honored They are, left to
right. Dr Prince P. Barker, Dr.
George C. Braache, Dr. Alan P.
j Smith, Jr- -(ANP)
