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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LX VI I
Local Man Among 3
Killed in Automobile Collision
VICTIMS IN THE CRASH
NATHANIEL II. MAYES M. F. JACKSON D. W. BARNETT
PARTY OF FIVE IN CAR RETURNING TO
ALBANY FROM MIAMI CONFERENCE
Ran Head-On Into Another Car Wednesday
Night Near Ft. Pierce
NATHANIEL H. MAYES OF SAVANNAH , ONE OF
THE MEN KILLED INSTANTLY
Funeral services for Nathan¬
iel H. Mayes were held Sunday
at St. John Baptist church. Mr.
Mayes was one of three insur¬
ance company executives of
the Albany, Ga., offices of the
Atlanta Life Insurance Com¬
pany who were killed late
Wednesday night of last week
in an automobile accident near
Fort Pierce, Fla.
The services Sunday were
largely attended and the
logy was delivered by the Rev.
E. O. S. Cleveland, pastor. The
Rev. A- E. Hagin, of St. Paul
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No Racial Ban Observed at
<L_. Truman-Barkley j Dinner [,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—
Negroes were among the guests
tonight at the Truman-Bark-
club dinner at which President
Truman started off the Inaug¬
uration festivities with a talk
William L. Houston, Washing¬
ton lawyer, Mrs. Clotille Hous¬
ton his daughter-in-law; and
Albert Allmons, Negro piano
player, were at the table of
Welburn Mayock of Los Ange¬
counsel of the
Teacher InLaw Siiitlieis Job Back
ENGAGED—Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Williams announce the en¬
gagement of their daughter, Mabel Louise, to Dr. David J.
Cnifin of ThomasyiHe Ga, The marriage will take place in
early spring. i . ..___^
imimntali IHhoif
Haiti To Hold
Exposition
new YORK — The Haitian
Information Bureau in New
York city announces plans for
the International Exposition
for the bicentennial of the
founding of Port au Prince
which will be held in Port au
Prince, beginning December,
1949, and exteilding for the
next six months. The s>um of
5,000,000 has been appropriat-
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Democratic committee.
Elliot Paul, the novelist, who
is Mayock’s son-in-law, presid¬
ed at the table when Mayock
had to go to the speakers’ ta¬
ble.
“This is the first time in the
history of inaugurations that,
Negroes have been admitted to
a function of this kind and I
rather enjoy presiding at the'
on page 3
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1949
N. C. Governor Fair Deal To Minority Group
WINSTON - SALEM, N. C ,
Jan. 15. — Newly inaugurated
Gov. W. Kerr Scott, says it is
time North Carolina stops
dodging the Negro question.
“I'm going to follow through
to see that the minority race
has a fair opportunity and gets
THEY GRADUATE FRIDAY
The above is a picture of the
seniors at Beach high school
who will be awarded certifi¬
cates of graduation tomorrow
Friday) night at St. John Bap¬
tist church.
The valedictorian of the class
is Helen Johnson and the salu-
tatoriin, Edward Blue.
The program is scheduled to
begin at 8 o’clock. The candi¬
dates for diplomas are;
Girls: Fedora Bagby, Lois
Bennett, Mabel Bing, Geneva
Braga 11, Essie Mae Bowman,
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ANP) —
After an 18-month fight to re¬
gain her job she lost because
of her fight for equal pay for
colored and white teachers,
Mrs. Ruby Jackson Cainer was
reinstated to her position last
week by the Jefferson County
Board of Education.
Instead of returning to her
Alabama job, however, Mrs.
Gainer resigned her position
and returned to her teaching
job in Pensacola, Fla.
With the action of the school
board, her suit against the
board now facing the Alabama
Supreme Court is expected to
h
w
[circuit Judge J. Edgar Bowron,
but the State Supreme court
had reversed his ruling-
Mrs. Gainer was first drop¬
ped from the county rolls in
June, 1947, on the word of the
then school superintendent, J.
E. Bryan, while she was fight¬
ing for equal pay with white
teachers.
Bryan, who has resigned,
charged her with “insubordina¬
tion, neglect of duty and other
good and just causes,’’ She
claimed that she was fired be¬
cause of her fight for salary
parity.
While teaching in the coun-
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K. K. K. Objects to Negro Players
Performing in Atlanta
DODGERS WON’T PLAY THERE WITHOUT THEM
ATLANTA, Jan. 19.—The Ku
Klux Klan has raised its ob¬
jection to Jackie Robinson and
Roy Campanella appearing in
the Brooklyn Dodgers line-up
in three exhibition contests
with the Atlanta Crackers,
April 8 , 9, and 10.
The protest of Klan Dragon
Chief Green against the ap¬
pearance of the sepia stars has
caused much talk, but the con¬
sensus of opinion is that the
Brooklyn team will play here
intact, Robinson and Campa¬
the training" to fit it into the
state’s growth, he added.
He spoke at a meeting of the
North Carolina Dairy Products
Assn.
“I’m firmly convinced," Gov¬
ernor Scott continued, “that
o"M““^ Her Em i' lovtr
er
ST. LOUIS (ANP)—A white
lawyer, Arthur E. Johnson,
was indicted by a circuit court
grand jury last week on charg-
es of rape made by his Negro
[maid, Mrs- Elizabeth Blanchard, child.
36, the mother of one
j j^ rH g] an chard claimed that
| on D ece mber 9, while at work
the attorney’s home she was
Iployer. brutally attacked by her ern-
She said that she
scream ed loudly for help and
a t(, rac ted his wife to the scene
in ^ ime see what was hap-
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1 14th Victim Police Homicide
I In 1948 Slain New Year’s Eve
BIRMINGHAM (
only a few hours to go before
the New Year officially made
its entrance, William „ Hudgins, . .
16, became the 14th Negro to
be placed on the 1948 list of
police homicides irx the Birm¬
ingham area for 1948. Hudgins
was fatally shot by Officer C.
D. Milwee on New Year’s eve
for allegedly attacking the of¬
ficer while being frisked.
Police said Hudgins was ap¬
prehended In the act of break¬
ing into a boarding house for
78 wm Graduate Tomorrow
From Beach Hi
A class of seventy-eight will
graduate tomorrow (Friday) at)
the mid-term commencement
[exercises of Beach high school
nella in the lirle-up, as there
has been found no l^w which
on the statute books which
prevents the playing of white
and Negro athletes against
each other.
One thing is certain, unless
the two Negro stars are allow¬
ed to appear in the Dodger
lineup, the games will be can¬
celled by Brooklyn.
Greertsboro, N. C., when
hearing of the objection to the
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we’ve got to go ahead and meet
the issue of the minority race.
They came here against their
will, brought in) chains. One of
the Ten Commandments says
that the sins of fathers shall
be visited upon their sons even
Marjorie Bland, Cloreta Cohen,
Juanita Davis, Willene Davis,
Marie Farley, Ruth Ford, Leola
Green, Ethel Gamble, Thelma
Horton.
Geneva Hill, Janie Hill, Levir-
tus Hagan, Maryel Hayes, Hel¬
ene Johnson, Hellen Johnson,
perijng.
She liter! a complaint with
she said, on the advice
of !ier husband Her counsel
fj ecaUiSP 0 f this attack, Mrs-
Blanchard further stated, she
has been confined to her bed
several weeks and has re-
quired medical attention,
On the other side, Johnson
claimed that she had “trumped
up’’ charges against him. His
fired the maid because of
he contended.
women. The youth alleged'y
attempted to attack the officer
and was shot in the stomach.
Thirteen other Negroes, rang-
(jng j n ages from ig t0 53 were
killed by police during the
year. The oldest was the Rev
C. L. Butler, 53, of Cappstown.
Only one woman was a victim
of police homicide.
In another instance, a police
officer seriously wounded Tom-
my Eddy, 22, of Sayreton, who
attempted to break away from
officers while being question-
lUSEmoWED AT
STATE COLLEGE
Official registration figures
for the winter quarter show
that 1216 students are enrolled
at Georgia State college, ac¬
cording to T. C. Meyers, regis¬
trar, January 8
Tire breakdown is as follows:
Men, 717. Of this number, 524
are veterans. Five hundred
and fifty veterans were enroll¬
ed during the fall session.
Women, 499. Five women
veterans are attending GSC
Last quarter 498 women were
enrolled.
to the third or fourth gener¬
ation.
“I’m not so certain but that
the reason, the textile trade is
moving out of New England is
that Boston slave traders are
having their sins visited upon
their descendants.’’
Avery Johnson, Marjorie Jones,
Betty Kilrell, Rubye Maynor,
Catherine Patterson, Mary
Pinckney, Aquilla Quattlebaum,
Carol Robinson Josephine
Smalls, Florence Southwood,
Contnued on Page 10
V. A. Not Opposed to Live Projects
Statements that the Veterans
Administration is opposed to
veterans training on “live pro¬
jects" are misrepresentations,
Vaux Owens, Georgia regional
manager of the federal agency,
declared
The VA highly favors those
programs where veterans train
on actual permanent “live pro¬
jects,’’ but it is opposed to vet¬
erans being exploited for free
labor, Owen pointed out.
The VA has announced that
effective February L it will no
longer pay tuition to vocation¬
al schools for that part of the
time that student veterans
spend wbrking on live con¬
struction projects without pay.
“That does not mean,” Owen
said, “that veterans cannot
work on live projects. They
can. However, such work
should be done as job training,
with the employer paying vet¬
eran trainees the standard
trainee wage- VA will pay the
veterans subsistence allowances
in the amount to which they
are entitled for job training.’’
Owen said that implications
that the entire GI training
program in Georgia is now In
danger are not true. Veterans
in colleges and other institu-
l > or ' s ’ tbose > n jo b train ng and ,
in the f farm trainmg
Continued on Page li
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
which will be held at St. John
Baptist church, the program to
start at 8 o'clock.
Pre-commencement festivities
began Wednesday night, Janu¬
ary 12 , when the class night
exercises were held at St. John
Baptist church. The baccalau¬
reate services were held Sunday
at First Bryan Baptist church,
at which time the Rev. N. E.
Holsey, pastor, delivered the
sermon.
The commencement exercise
tomorrow night, will have as its
principal speaker Dr. A. C.
Steele, professor of religious
education and dean of the
chapel at Johnson C. Smith
university, Charlotte, N. C.
CHARLES CAMPFIELD
DIES SUDDENLY
Charles Campfield, well-
known teacher at Tuskegee in¬
stitute, died there suddenly
Tuesday, according to a mes-
sage received here by Mrs. Lu-
clle Blacksliear, Mlrs. Edna
Ashton and Mrs. Dorothy Scott,
his relatives.
Mr. Campfield is a native Sa-
vannahiart and has been con-
Continued on Page 8
S. C. State College Starts
$200,000 Law School Buildg.
ORANGEBURG, S C (ANP)
—“Our students shall be
taught that opportunity exists
everywhere for those who are
prepared to seize it," said Dean
Benner C Turner, principal
speaker at the ground-breaking
exercises for the new $ 200,000
law school building held at the
South Carolina State A. and M.
college last week.
President of the college, M. F.
Whjttaker; B. C. Turner, dean
of tne law school; F A. DeCos-
a, dean of the graduate school,
and Ernest M. Spong, contrac¬
tor, broke the ground at the
close of the exercises.
Albert, Kennedy, president of
the law students’ club, and
Dean Turner addressed the
large gathering at the historic
even>t. K. W. Green, dean of
the college of arts and sciences,
delivered the invocation. Pres¬
ident M. F. Whittaker presided.
Dean Turner In delivering his
address pointed out that edu¬
cation is struggling to keep
of the swiftly moving
of these revolutionary
times by expansion of educa¬
facilities and making
radical changes in methods of
education and in content of
Continued on Page 11
Over One Million Raised
Last Year For UNC Fund
To Speak at Beach
Commencement
Dr. Algernon C. Steele who
will deliver the commencement
address at the graduation ex¬
ercises of Beach high school
tomorrow, Friday, night at St.
John Baptist chufcn. Dr.
Steelee is a professor at John¬
son) C. Smith university and
dean of the chaple.
NUMBER 14
Leader College Religious
Emphasis Week
REV. HOMER C. MoF.WEN
Georgia State college will ob¬
serve Religious Emphasis week
January 24 to 30, with Rev.
Homer C. McEwen as leader.
Rev. McEwen was born in Ab¬
erdeen, Miss. He received his
early trainjing In the public
schools of Birmingham and
Mobile, Ala., and in May, 1943.
Continued on page 3
REPRESENTS DIREC¬
TORY HERE
Charles Davis of Macon Is in
Savannah representing the
Frazier Directory company of
Atlanta.
The Frazier Directory com¬
pany Is publishing a directory
that will include the progres¬
sive business establishments of
Negroes throughout the State
of Georgia and farmers. This
directory will serve as an aid
Continued on Page 11
Exceeding all previous cam¬
paign records, the United Ne¬
gro College Fund, in its fifth
annual appeal conducted in 60
communities throughout the
country, has raised $1,066,113 70
to help 32 private accredited
Negro colleges and universities
meet current operating expen¬
ses and improve education?.!
facilities for their students. It
was announced today by Wil¬
liam J. Trent, Jr., executive di¬
rector of the fund. Additional
funds received for special pur¬
poses bring this year’s total to
$1,145,890.85, Mr. Trent said.
Reporting 1948 campaign pro¬
gress, Mr. Trent stated, “The
generous support of the Amer¬
ican people in behalf of the
private colleges and universi¬
ties enables these institutions
to maintain their high educa¬
tional standards. Although the
United Negro College Fund
seeks only ten per cent of the
operating budgets of these
schools, it is the critical ten
per cent, because it bridges the
gap between the the actual
cost of educating more than,
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