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67 YEARS OF CONTINUOUS PUBLIC SERVICE LX VII Proposed New Negro High School of Modern and Attractive Design 11 MM m m mmm ill ........... — a r^r—— 2 ^ "...... ....... . ........ ..... j .. . —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 Continued on Page Six 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 Continued on Page Six 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- (Continued on page Six) 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, [ (Continued on page Six) 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- Continued 6n Page 11 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 (Continued on page Six) 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 Continued on Page 11 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 Continued on Page 11 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 Continued on Page 11 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 Continued on Page Six 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 cont.nued on Page 8 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 I Continued on Page 11 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 (Continued on o&ge 8 ) 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)