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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LX VII
2600 Vets. Face Loss
of Subsistence Checks
GETS MASTER S
DEGREE
Mrs Arthur C. Curtright was
granttd the degree of master
of arts in heme economics ed¬
ucation, at the close of the fall
quarter at the University of
... Minnesota. , When she . entered . „
the .. university ..... in June, she .
had had already already earned earned 42 42 of of the
45 graduate hours required for
the .. degree, . , but . . had , not . com-
pleted her problem. During
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Univ.Mo. MayDrOpRacia! Bar
Boles Ford Chosen Head
Of Local Kappas
Bowles C Ford
Appeal Ruling Uphold
ing Metropolitan Bias
Farm Tenant Climbs Into
$10,000 Income Bracket
Starting as a tenant 25 years
ago with only a team of mules
that he had worked and saved
two years to buy, Willie Burrell
is today one of Mississippi’s
outstanding farmers with a
gross income of more than
JIO.OOO.
“I owe my success,” says Mr.
Burrell, ‘‘to my well rounded
farm program which my coun¬
ty agent helped me to plan. I
raise cattle and hogs, as well
as cotton and corn.”
“And sheep, too,” he might
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Endorse March of Dimes
National leaders urge support of the March of Dimes, annual fund-raising appeal of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, January 14-31: (left to right): Dowda! H. Davis, Vice-President,
Negro Newspaper Publishers Association, Kansas City, Mo.; Mrs. Toki Schalk Johnson, Women’s Page
Editor. Pittsburgh Courier Newspaper, Pittsburgh, Pa.,' Dr. C. Herbert Marshall, President-Elect, Na-j
tional Medical Association, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Henrine Simpkins Knaive, President-Elect, Woman’s
Auxiliary to the National Medical Association, Laurel, Miss.; and Dr. Harry Penn. Grand Basileus,!
®IP-5BL£§i Pfei Fraternity. ------- ---------
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Twenty-six hundred Georgia
I veterans face suspension of G1
subsistence checks because
their reports ol' progress did
not reach the Veteran Admin¬
istration by December 10, Vaux
Owens, Georgia VA regional
manager, said today.
Nineteen hundred face com¬
plete loss in January of sub¬
sistence payments for Novem¬
ber and December because no
j reports cf progress have been
received for October, Mr. Owens
jadded. required
Progress reports are
'for all veterans except those in
! colleges and institutions of
h/giTer learning and those in
Ithe oM the-farm training pro¬
gram.
Checks toeing suspended now
J | are those reach which normally
would the veterans
[shortly after January 1. They
may be released only if the No-
jvember reports are received
before December 31,. 1948.
These reports are as neces-
-
sary as the .. report cards in our
i public schools. . , Reports „ , loi
] ” DeCCmb , ° r are dUe . January / L
shou i d be mailed lhat date “
It T is . the ,, responsibility J of . the
training establishments to see
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Highlighting the business
meeting at the home of Rev
G- H. Caution, rector of St.
Matthew’s Episcopal church,
was election of officers of
Kappa Alpha Psi for 1949.
Bcles C. Ford, elected pole-
march, is an executive officer
of the Guaranty Life Insur-
ance company.
Other officers elected are
G. H. Caution, vice polemarch;
John Lyons, keeper of exche¬
quer; W T. Shropshire, keep¬
er of records; Luther Thomp¬
son, strategus, ai|d W. V- Win¬
ters, historian.
Attending the 38th Grand
Chapter meeting in Detroit,
Dec. 26-30, is Southeastern
Provincial Polemarch W. D.
1 Donnelly.
EBONY TO FEATURE
SAVANNAH
Lemuel Wells, field represen¬
tative of Ebony Magazine, is
in the city gathering material
for a feature article on Savan¬
nah which will appear in Eb¬
ony in the near future.
Mr. Wells, who is a member
of the Ebony staff, is a Native
Savannahian who recently
graduated from Howard uni¬
versity and is making rapid
progress in the journalistic
field. He is the son cf Mrs.
Camilla M. Wells, W. 32nd St.
SAVANNAH GEORGIA THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1948
' I SmifeslForlYou p[
it
These children and their mothers are happy because the March of Dimes guarantees continued treatment
for after-effects of polio. Soon the children will discard their crutches and walk again. Join the March
of Dimes, January 14-31.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.
i ANP)-^Opening the University
of Missouri and other state-
supported colleges to Negroes
appeared as a possibility when
the head cf the university cu¬
rators suggested such action
before a state legislative com¬
mittee hearing recently.
The president of the board,
Allen McReynolds, a former
legislative official and party
leader who has a law office in
Carthage, Mo., said his group
j suggests revision of state laws
to admit Negroes to courses at
state schools when those
ourses are not given at Lincoln
university here.
Mr. McReynolds cited recent
federal court decisions regard¬
ing cases in the neighboring
states of Oklahoma and Ar¬
kansas as influencing their de¬
cision. He proposed 1 1 maintain,-
. Lm .. ln ty wlth ...
in f “ umver f 18
, .a-rts and sciences, . law, journal-
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NEW YORK.—Exclusion of
Negroes from Stuyvesant Town,
upheld this week by an Appel¬
late Court decision, was today
condemned as “indefensible”
by Walter White, NAACP secre¬
tary. The lily-white Stuyvesant
Town is a semi-public urban
redevelopment project of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company. The Appellate Court
decision re-affirmed a lower
court opinion-
“Morally the Stuyvesant Town
policy cf excluding Negro citi*
zens is indefensible,” Mr. White
said. “Tax limitation, involv¬
ing money belonging to all the
people,has been granted this
corporation. Yet a part of the
population, simply and solely
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Gets First
Negro Mail
Carrier
GREENVILLE, (ANPi— John
Lenhardt, a veteran of World
War II, who began) active duty
at a letter carrier here Monday,
is the first Negro to hold any
position above menial rating at
the Greenville post office for
many years.
But the job of carrying mail
for Lenhardt did not come
without a battle.
Lenhardt had passed a civil
service examination several
months ago. Accordiif; To
state leaders of the Postal Al¬
liance he was finger-printed
and sworn in in August and
told to go home and await a
call for work.
After being unable to get a
satisfactory reply from the lo¬
cal post office in three months,
he look ni.s case to the Alii-
ar*ce and was immediately call¬
ed to work
Must!End Racial Segrept’n
At Washington Airport
C0MMISS10NED
LIEUTENANT
Cornelius stripling, Jr-, re¬
cently received his commission
is a lieutenant in the U. B-
Army.
Lieut. Stripling is a senior
lental student at Howard Uni •
mrsity College of Dentistry in
Washington, D. C. He is now
m active duty there as second
ieuter.ant in the Dental Corps
Reserve-
Lieut. Stripling is a native o - T
Savannah and a product of
Savannah schools. He gradu¬
ated from Georgia State col¬
lege in the class of 1945.
He is the son of the late
Mrs. Evelyn Stripling Leake
and Rev. C. S. Stripling, Sr ,
and a member of the Alpha
fraternity.
SAVANNAH ATHLETE
MAKES GOOD AT NYCC
Among the many visitors in
the city this yuletide season is
a former Savannahian, An¬
thony Wright, who is an out¬
standing athlete at New York
City College. He is visiting
his grandmother, Mrs. Mary E.
Wright, an,d his aunt, Miss
Marguerite Wright, of 822 West
45th street.
Young Mr. Wright, who is a
junior at NYCC, where he is
majorirfe in physical education,
was a member of the football
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WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec.
28—An order to immediately
eradicate racial segregation, at
the Washington National air¬
port was issued today by the
Civil Aeronautics Administra¬
tion.
The order said all, facilities
“shall be rendered without
discrimination or segregation
as to race, color or creed.”
The company which operates
the food concession at the air¬
port said it was making np
effort to comply with the or¬
der until “we see if it is legal ”
The airport is located in Vir¬
ginia, but is federal property.
There has been considerable
controversy as to whether fed¬
eral regulations on racial mat¬
ters can take precedence over
Virginia’s segregation laws.
Civil Aeronautics Admin’is-
trator D. W. Rentzel • said he
had been advised by the Jus¬
tice Department that he has
“ample statutory” authority to
issue the anti-segregation reg¬
ulation.
Photo Bu Tolbert —I’niji Staff Phatog.
COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS PARTY—The Community Christmas
party and tree given by the members and friends of the First
Congregational Church Friday evening, December 24, at the
church center, 508 East Gordon street was the culmination of
a dream held by Rev. A. C. Curtright, minister of the church,
Jor a number of years-
This church has oecn a pioneer in community work in Savannah, j
having opened the first community center, operated the first
kindergarten and mission station, and for a number of years, j
Many to Attend Emancipa-
lion Day Program Saturday
Seek Ban on
Fraternities Bias
NEW YORK—In a letter to
Dwight D- Eisenhow¬
of Columbia university,
members of the Columbia
of the National Asso¬
for the Advancement
Colored People this week
that fraternities dis¬
against students
or racial or religious reasons
banned from the campus.
“Columbia with her widely
international, interracial and
interdenominational student
population is morally and civil¬
obligated to guarantee to all
who study here equality of op¬
portunity in all spheres of stu¬
Chi. Mayor Vows War on
Slum Flat Owners
CHICAGO (ANP)—The spe¬
cial drive launched by city
and county officials against
landlords who “milk” slum
property for high ren,ts but
fail to pay real estate taxes,
which initially corralled two
tenement buildings housing
Negroes on the southside, has
brought Mayor Kennelly into
the picture.
Appearing before a hearing
on a seven-story tenement in
County Judge Edmund K. Ja-
recki’s court last week, Mayor
Kennelly vowed that “more
stringent enforcement of city
housing and building ordi¬
nances'’ would be the order of
the day to correct substandard
living conditions.
“This is a sad commentary
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Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
Preparations have been com¬
pleted for the Emancipation
Day celebration Saturday
which will be held under the
joint supervision of the Eman¬
cipation Association and the
Social Clubs Union.
The. observance will consist
of a program at St. Philip
Monumental AME church,
where the principal address
will be delivered by the Rev.
Dr William Holmes Borders,
D. D., pastor of Wheat Street
Baptist church, Atlanta, pre¬
ceded by a parade.
The parade will start at
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dent life,” wrote Alfred E. Cain,
president of the campus NAACP
chapter, to Gen. Eisenhower.
Mr. Cain asserted that the
suspension of the Amherst col¬
lege chapter of the Phi Kappa
Psi fraternity because of that
chapter’s decision t,o pledge o
Negro student has forced all
colleges and universities “to
examine and either confirm or
deny their loyalty to the con¬
cept of democratic freedom ”
“No student meeting the re¬
quirements for admission to
Columbia should be denied ad-
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March of Dimes Drive
Will Begin January 14
NEW YORK—“The March of
limes” campaign opens Friday,
January 14, with the most in¬
tensive fund-raising drive -in
eleven years. The urgent need
for increased support of the
March of Dimes is stressed by
he depletion of the epidemic
emergency funfi of the Nation¬
al Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis and the exhausted
treasuries of many local chap¬
ters," stated Basil O’Connor,
National Foundation president,
in a call for all-out support of
the polio campaign.
Mr. O’Connor explained that
the only high school for colored children in the uty.
Many of the young people of the Pilgrim Fellowship and We-
men’s Societies of the denomination all over the country made
generous contributions and sent gifts of toys, books, ctothinai
and fruit which weae given to more than 100 children and a
score of elderly people of the community. The Young Men’s
Civic Ciuto of Thunderbolt also gave a crate of oranges. The
attendance at the party was so large that only a part of tho:*)
present could appear on the picture. t B ^
NUMBER 1|
POLIO OFFICIAL
TO VISIT CITY
Charles H. Bynum, director
of interracial activities of the
National Foundation for In¬
fantile Paralysis, with head¬
quarters in New York city, will
be in Savannah Tuesday and
Wednesday, January 4 and 5,
for the purpose of conferring
with Alphonso E. Fields, chair¬
man of the local March ef
Dimes drive for 1^49, his co-
chairmen and volunteer work¬
ers in the campaign.
Letters are being mailed to
all interested persons request
ing them to come and hear the
facts concerning the work be¬
ing done by the National Foun¬
dation in its fight to eradicate
the dreaded disease which has
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costs of the 1948 epedemic
would exceed *17,000,000 “In¬
fantile paralysis is on the in¬
crease in the United States,”
Mr. O’Connor said. “So, too,
are costs of care of poliomye¬
litis patients. Increased costs,
plus continued high incidence
make the success of the 1949
March of Dimes imperative.”
Mr. O’Connor pointed out that
besides the costs of the 1948
epidemic the National Founda¬
tion and its chapters were pro¬
viding after-care for patients
stricken in 1947, 1946 and even
for cases stricken many years
earlier-