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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LXVII
Photo by Tolbert—Tribune Stajj Photog.
DEMONSTRATING THEIR
HANDIWORK—What the stu¬
dents a," the dressmaking de¬
partment of Biach-Cuyl/er
high school can do and the
high quality of their handi¬
work are exhibited here by
these young ladies of the cloth¬
Decision Teachers Case
Church of God in Christ
Holds Great Convocation
MEMPHIS, Term. (ANP)
When the 41st annual holy
convocation of the Church of
God in Christ closed recently,
B.shop Charles H. Mason, sen¬
ior bishop and founder of the
denomination, was still the
leading spirit an!d source of in¬
spiration to the thousands of
persons who had come from
across the length and breadth
of the nation and the foreign
fields to participate in this
21-day continuous meeting of
worship arid service.
Bishop Mason and other high
Eleven Physicians Awarded
Polio
1048-49 scholarships havoi
be n awarded to eleven Negro
physicians fer studies prepar¬ I
ing them to give better care
to infantile paralysis patients, i |
Funds for these awards were
made possible by contributions
to the March of Dimes, annual
fur|tl-raising appeal of the Na¬
tional Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis, which this year takes
place January 14-31- This in¬
formation was revealed by |
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TO BE A SUMMER BRIDE
Much interest surrounds the
announcement by Mr- and Mrs.
A. H. Simmons of the engage¬
ment of their daughter, Ear¬
line Marjorie, to Dr. James A.
Spiith of Marshall, Texas, and
Washington, D. C
Miss Simmons is a product
auamtali (trilmnr
ing unit who are posing in
outfits of their own creation,
on the. front steps, of the
school building just before
classes recessed for the Xmas
holidays.
(Left to right) In modeling
suits, Minnie Bostick, Mamie
ranking officials of the church
had been gravely accused of
diverting funds from the
church but the esteemed lead¬
er quickly accepted the chal¬
lenge by putting the issue
squarely up to the general as¬
sembly. He was given an un¬
animous vote of confidence by
the convocation and later in
the week the dissenting group
of ministers, led by Elder T. L
Pleas of Kansas City, Kans.,
who pressed the charges, filed
a decree of dismissal . . . with
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Objects To
Race of
Son-in-Law
ROANOKE, Va. (ANP)—Mrs.
Ada L. Hammond, white, of
Roanoke county, had jipr tii&rk 22-
year-old son-ln-latf,
Council Hamilton, arrested on
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I of the local schools, holds a
[bachelor’s degree in home eco-
] i^omics from West Virginia
State college and a master’s
[degree in fine arts from Tea¬
chers college of Columbia uni-
Contlnued on Fjl£® Thrto ,
SAVANNAH GEORGIA THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1919
Riles, and Mary Rogers; dresses,
Lillie Clyde Chandles, Lille
Sneed, Ruth Walton, Odessa
White, Henrietta White, Jewel
Grant; skirts, Vivian Johnson,
Corci Natson, Eva Stevens and
Shirley Gray Mrs. Blake is
the instructor of dressmaking.
ATLANTA, Dec. 30 — A re¬
cent decision of the U. S. Dis¬
trict Court holding that the
Board of Education had
discriminated against Negro
teachers has been appealed
a higher court-
Board members asked the U.
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GOVERN IMPORTANT AFRI-
CAN CITY—Members of the
Accra Town Council of Accra,
Gold Coast, West Africa, pho-
Butler Tire Co. in New Bldg.
The Butler Tire Repair com-
pany which for the past twen-
ty-five years has been operat-
ing at 520 W. Broad St-, has
moved to its new home at the
northeast corner of Jefferson
and Alice streets.
This business which is one of
the oldest and best known tire
repair concerns in Savannah,
is conducted by Joseph Butler,
one of Savartnah’s most expe¬
rienced tire repairmen.
The new home of the busi¬
ness is a two-story brick build¬
ing which was purchased by
Mr. Butler several months ago
The building has been thor¬
oughly renovated inside and
outside. The tire business will
occupy the entire ground floor
which gives it ample space for
its present activities or any
needed future expansion. The
upper floor is used as living
apartments.
Mr. Butier started tir e re¬
pairing in Jacksonville, Fia-,
shortly after the advent of the
automobile. After working at
the trade there for several
years, he wenjt to Atlanta and
then to Augusta in 1911 Two
years later he came to Savan¬
nah anti served as tire repair-
L A. IN NEED OF
SEAMSTRESSES
LOS ANGELES, (ANP)—Los
Angeles needs seamstresses, re¬
gardless of race or nationality,
employers are screaming these
days-
This is a far cry from the
of 20 years ago when
there was a racial bar on gar¬
ment workers. Since the bars
were first lifted many Negro
have worked and been
upgrade :l k ’hi. mt*.
Two Last Year
TUSKEGEE, Ala, Dec. 30-
Two persons, a white man and
a Negro, died at the hands of
lynch mobs in the United
States in 1948, Tuskegee insti¬
tute said today. Both were in
Georgia.
The death of another Geor-
Negro was listed as a “bor-
case because only two
white men took part. A school
official explained that at least
three must be involved before
a slaying is recorded as a
lynching.
Nineteen more Negroes were
threatened by mobs during the
year but were saved by alert
law enforcement officers, the
report continued. Fourteen
were in Mississippi, two in Ala¬
bama and one each in Georgia,
South Carolina and Virginia
The lynching statistics, pre¬
pared annually by the famed
Negro college, were released by
President F. D. Patterson. Tus
kegee records show at least one
death from mob violence ev¬
ery year since 1882, ranging
from 201 in 1892 to one lynch¬
ing in 1.945 and 1947.
President Patterson’s report
identified the 1948 victims as
William H. Turner, 26-year-old
white tenant farmer of Meri-
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tographed during the recent
visit of Arthur Creech-Jones,
of State for the Col-
The council is mixed,
! uian for several of the leading
tire companies. In October,
1923 « he embarked in the busi-
ness for himself and ever since
then he has conducted one of
,
j the outstanding and most
.widely known tire repair shops
SCENES FROM CHURCH OF GOD CON VOCATION HELD IN MEMPHIS
Left to right, top: Elder Charles IL Mason, senior bishop
of the Church of God in Christ, is shown at the microphone
as he meets with elder’s council to discuss issues growing out
of sensational Chancery court suit (Shelby Co. Memphis) filed
bv disgruntled group of ministers.,. Suit was later withdrawn,
‘.hit I'h.iee if-, the bishop’s cooneil • ... Elder Charles II.
Anti-Segregation Order Flaunted
By B. C. Airport Cafeteria
WASHINGTON (ANP)—De¬
spite the Civil Aeronautics as¬
sociation’s recent anti-segrega¬
tion order for Washington’s
National Airport, six Negroes
were refused service in the ca¬
feteria last week. They said
they would file a complaint.
Explaining the operators’
stand, Paul R. Boyd, general
manager for Air Terminal Ser¬
vices, Inc., operators of the
food concessions, said that as
far as his firm stood, segrega¬
tion was still the policy in ATS
eating places at the airport-
“We are still abiding by the
Virginia laws on segregation
while our legal department
studies the matter,” he told
the complainants.
The first test of the new CAA
anti-segregatioil order came
Dec- 29 when six Negroes, head¬
ed by Maurice A. Lockhart, ag-
director of the U. S. Au-
tomobile association, entered
the main cafeteria of the air-
port to eat-
As they were about to sit at
African §md European mem¬
bers. Shown with Mr. Jones
are Sir Gerald Creasy, gover-
0 f Q 0 id Coast, and Lady
in the city.
Mr. Butler says that in the
future he plans to add several
new features to the business,
among them being a high pres¬
sure automobile grease rack
and a wash rack
a table, a waitress halted them.
She called Boyd who in turn
explained that the segregation
policy still ruled- Then the
group left.
Three members of the Alpha
Kappa Alpha sorority here for
the national meeting were in,
the test group. They were
Mrs. Margaret Davis Bowen of
New Orleans; Mrs- Velma D.
Perkins, Baton Rouge, La-, and
Miss Patricia Huggins, a junior
at Howard university. The oth¬
er two men were identified
only as a newsman and a pho-
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Extradirtion Refused 4th Time
LORAIN, O. (ANP)—For the
fourth time in. the last five
months Ira N. Coston, 45, was
freed by Ohio from extradition
to North Carolina on charges
of attempted criminal assault.
Last week Municipal court
Judge Malcolm Thomson freed
him because there was not
enough evidence to warrant his
being returned to North Caroli¬
na.
Word has also come from
Robert L. Ratchford, executive
secretary to Gov- Thomas J.
Herbert, that he will ask the
governor to send a letter ex¬
plaining this to the governor of
North Carolina. Ratchford re¬
cently freed Coston from ex¬
tradition.
On leaving the court a free
man, Coston said: “I want to
thank everyone who has helped
me. I’ve been offered a job at
a steel company here and I’m
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Macon County Sets Up
Board of Registrars
MONTGOMERY, Ala- (ANP)
Taking heed of a complaint
from the Tuskegee Civic asso¬
ciation, the Macon county
Board of Registrars has been
set up at full strength. Gov.
James B. Folsom completed the
board by appointing W. H.
Bentley of Notasulga chairman
last week
The Tuskegee group recently
wrote to the 8° vernor that the
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Mason, senior bishop, center, flanked by Bishop A. B. McEwen
of Memphis, head of foreign mission board, and Bishop R. F-
Williams, Cleveland, Ohio, chairman of the elder’s council...
Right, happy moment when the 7.000 people present rose
and cheered Bishop Mason and other high, officials of the
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Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
STATUE HONORS
FR. FLANAGAN
BOYS TOWN, Neb.—Indica¬
tive of the fact that there are
no racial or nationality barriers
at Boys Town, famous for
homeless boys, a Negro and a
Japanese are among the four
boys depicted with the late Fa¬
ther Flanagan in a mammoth
statue unveiled here in his
honor.
Father Flanagan, who found¬
ed Boys Town with .$95 and
five boys, died in Europe six
months ago-
Rev. Bagby Heads Ministers
Union For Another Year
KEY W. BAGBiY
The Evangelical Ministers
Union held their first meeting
of the new year Tuesday noon
with Dr. R. W Bagby, presi¬
dent, presiding. After the de¬
votions the election of officers
for 1940 was in order.
Rev- F- W. Bagby, pastor of
Bethel AME church, was re¬
elected president, with his
board of officers, as follows'
Rev. D. L. Gorham, viae presi¬
dent; Rev. B- B Swinson, sec¬
retary; Rev. M. L. Lester, as-
s'stant secretary; Rev- C- S,
Stripling, treasurer; Rev. M. S.
Green, chaplain.
Rev. H W. Murph, chairman,
program committee; Rev. G. H.
Stokes, civic committee; Rev.
W O- P. Sherman, reporter;
nd chairman of current events
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UNCF Is Given New
Bldg, for Headquarters
NEW YORK—The now na-
tional headquarters of the
United Negro College Fund will
be a five-story building locat-
ed at 22 East 54th street, it
was announced this week by
establishing permanent head¬
quarters adequate to its needs-
NUMBER 13
COMPLETES POST¬
GRADUATE COURSE
Miss Dorothy Hamil, gradu¬
ate nurse of Columbus (Ga.)
City hospital, and daughter of
Mr and Mrs. John Hamil, has
just completed a post-graduate
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William J- Trent, Jr., executive
director of the fund. Acqul-
sition of the building was made
possible by a special anony-
mous grant, designated for the
[ purpose of aiding the fund in
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