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67 YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LXVII
EASING THE HOUSING SHORTAGE—Three “builders”
rolled in the Georgia State College Nursery school tty their
hand at building houses out of blocks. They are, left to
riglit, Glynn Martin, Marilyn Stone, Gertrude Rivers, Thelma
Oliver and Arthur Curtright. Miss Rivers and Miss Oliver are
students in the child development class.
Cooking School Opens
At Recreation Center
2,000
Farmers Coni at Tuskegee
4-7 ' Yr. TERM GIVEN
MAN ROBBING DADDY
GRACE OF $26,0C<0
CONCORD, N. C. (ANP) —
Clarence Jones, 35, of Charlotte,
was sentenced to 4-7 years in
state prison here Wednesday
after pleading guilty to theft
of $35,000 in money and jewels
belonging to cultist Bishop C,
M “Daddy” Grace, last Oct. 11.
Jones admitted to Judge
Wilson Warlick in Cabarrus su¬
perior court that he stole the
'rief case containing the prop-
,-i-ty from the “Daddy Grace"
- v &ouse of prayer. Charlotte po¬
lice said that $24,800 and all of
the were recovered.
Passenger Cannot Enforce
Jim Crow Law
Tracy Parks, Jr.
Gets M. D. Degree
COLUMBUS, Ohio—Tracy G.
Parks, Jr., whose parents were
the first Catholic Negro couple
married in St. Cyprian’s church
of Columbus, was graduated
recently from Ohio Stale uni¬
versity with a doctor ol medi¬
cine degree.
Dr. Parks, son of Mrs. Tracy
G Parks, Sr., of Columbus and
Tracy Parks of New York,
received li i s bachelor of
arts degree from the university
In 1943 before entering the
armed forces.
He plans to interne at Har¬
lem hospital in New York. His
mother played the organ at St.
Cyprian’s for about eight years.
Young Dr. Parks is the grand
Bon of the late Dr. L- S. Parks
G- Savannah and the nephew of
&ai-i Parks of Savannah and
p_. culifc Parks of Philadelphia.
fflianscali IHIuur
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala.
(ANP)—Nearly ■ 2,000 persons
from the states of Alabama.
Mississippi and Geougia, crowd-
cd into Logan gymnasium last
week for a discussion of “In¬
creasing Income Through Bet¬
ter Farm and Home Manage-
ment," theme of the 58th An
nual Farmers’ conference. Es¬
tablished by Booker T. Wash¬
ington, this yearly event has
continued to attract in ever-
increasing numbers farmers
eager for practical education
and the chance for inter¬
change of experience and ad¬
vice.
The morning session was un¬
der the direction of Lawrence
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Graduates In Nursing
B, Matilda
Mrs. Blarf he Nelson received
a dsrtid.lcate in nluUsing
the Central School for Nurses,
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1949
(Bottom )—BE BOP FANS? No, just fans of “Lil Bo
Peep.’ Children enrolled in the Georgia State College Nurs¬
ery which opened recently watch Miss Evfelyn Hunter, direc¬
tor, as she prepares to play one of their favorite records.
Left to right, Glynn Mairtin, John Fluker, Mike Simon, Caro¬
lyn Lockett, Miss Hunter, Toni Simon, Arthur Curtright and
Marilyn Stone.— (Chuck Smith photo).
A six-weeks cooking school is
being corjiucted at the Recre-
atioti Center, 37th street and
Ogeechee road, by the Savan¬
nah Gad fed.,: cvetryi Wednesday
night The school whose ob¬
ject is to teach scientific cook-
injg 0 n an economic economic basis,
thereby enabling housewives to
increase their efficiency in
home management- The school
class which began last night at
the center, convenes at 7 and
runs to 9 p. m. every Wednes-
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Supreme Court to Hear Several
NAACP Education Cases
| RICHMOND, Va. (ANP) —
Ruling that passengers have no
) legal right to enforce state
! segregation laws, Judge John L
! Ingrams of Hastings court ac¬
quitted two Negro defendants
' involved in a dispute with a
white passenger over a seat.
His ruling reversed a lower
court decision In which the
Negroes were fined $5 each and
costs.
The defendants, Wilbert L-
Tibbs, 38, and Mrs. Virginia
Sadler, 30, were charged by L.
B Rigsby, white, with assault¬
ing him.
This case arose from an in-
cident on a local bus last No-
vemher when Mrs. Sadler sat
SMTP'S
^us pier request. He
shoved her off the seat, then
Tibbs interfered with his ac-
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BIRMINGHAM (ANP) — Ex¬
actly one week after a three-
judge federal tribunal ruled in
Mobile that Alabama’s Boswell
amendment was “unconstitu¬
tional,” another attempt to bar
Negroes from voting cropped
up. Saturday, Jan. 15, Attorney
Horace Wilkinson, a state po¬
litical leader, announced he
was drafting a proposal “elim¬
inating the Negro entirely from
the Democratic party In Ala¬
bama.”
Wilkinson did not disclose
details of the proposed amend¬
ment to be presented to 'the
legislature in May, but he re¬
lated it has “nothing to do with
voter registration at all.’’ He
was one of the 11 electors who
cast the state’s electoral votds
for Gov. J. Strom Thurmond
South Carolina, States’
Rights candidate for president
in the November elections.
He said, “It simply elimi¬
nates the Negro entirely from
Democratic primaries. If the
Negro wants to have a party,
let him organize one of his
own, or join the Republican
party ’
Earlier, Gessner T. McCorvy,
state Democratic chairman,
had proposed in Mobile that a
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BEATS SOUTH'S VOTE BAN
—Atty. George N. Leighton, of
Chicago, recently performed a
herculean job in prosecuting
the case against Alabama’s
Boswell amendment for 10 Mo¬
bile Negroes. The case ended
January 8, 1949, when a three-
judge tribunal ruled the two-
year-old law was unconstitu¬
tional. Leighton actively en¬
tered the case last March after
a brief, prepared by him, was
filed in Mobile by a white Chi¬
cago lawyer.—(ANP).
College Laboratory
Nursery School
Nine children ranking in age
from two to five years enrolled
in the first nursery school iq
the history of Georgia State
college as it opened its doors,
The purpose Of the school Is
to serve as a laboratory fof the
observation of children in their
social, emotional and physical
development between the ages
of two and five, according to
Evelyn Hunter, director. Miss
Hunter is an instructor in home
economics, and the school is in.
the home economics depart¬
ment.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 20.— .
An appeal to the United States
Supreme court from a federal
three-judge court decision up¬
holding segregation of G W
McLaurin at the University of
Oklahoma was filed here this
week by Thurgood Marshall,
special counsel for the Nation¬
al Association for the Advance¬
ment of Colored People. The
case will be argued in the Su¬
preme Court in the spring of
this year.
McLaurin was admitted to
graduate school '
the university's
on a completely segregated ba¬
sis on October 13, as a result
of a federal court decision rul¬
ing the state’s segregation laws
unconstitutional insofar as
they prohibited enrollment of
Negroes in the university ffer
courses not otherwise available
in state-supported institution^.
The same court later failed to
grant an injunction restraining
un iversity from seating Mc-
Laurin| in an ante room and
otherwise segregating him from
white students at the institu¬
tion, maintaining that the
state is complying with the
Fourteenth Amendment in pro¬
viding him ‘equal" facilities.
ALA. IHIAFTIXL NEW
WHITE PKIMAIIY LAW
Tribute Given to Paid-Up
Farm Ownership Borrowers
ORANGEBURG, S. C.—Seven¬
ty-five paid-up Negro iarm
ownership borrowers were hon¬
ored at special exercises during
state extension conference and
were guests of the day at South
Carolina State A. and M. col¬
lege Wednesday, January 12.
F. E. DuBose, chairman! state
FHA advisory committee, pre¬
sided and delivered the princi¬
pal address. Other state and
national farm leaders partici¬
pating incluuded Director D. W
Watkins, extension service, and
member of State FIIA advisory
committee; R. F. Kolb, state di¬
rector, Farmers Home Adminis¬
tration; Lawrence J. Washing¬
ton, FO division, Farmers Home
Administration, Washington, D.
C„ and Dr. M. F. Whittaker,
president of S. C. State A. and
M. college.
F. E Dubose, State FHA
chairman, pointed out that 112
Negro farmers had paid for
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DR. JAMRSON,JR. AD¬
DRESSES COLLEGE
LEADERSHIP INST.
“Preparing Better Leaders for
Georgia’s Communities," was
the theme as the Georgia State
College Student Personnel
council observed its second an¬
nual Leadership Institute Jan-
uuary 18-20.
The keynote address was de¬
livered Tuesday morning by Dr.
J. W. Jamerson, Jr., prominent
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Mayor William O’Dwyer, mil-
itanrt, mayor of New York city,
and Dr. Channing H. Tobias,
member of President Truman's
Civil Rights Committee, and
chairman of the Phelps-Stokes
Fund, this week leveled power¬
ful words of condemnation
against the Daughters of the
American Revolution for their
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Decision oil Dismissal Motion
Pending in Army J. €. Case
A writ of certiorari in the
of Herman Marion Sweat t,
who was denied admission to
the University of Texas Jaw
school simply because he is a
Negro, will be sought from the
U. S. Supreme Court, and the
NAACP attorneys anticipate
that review of this case before
the highest court will probably
be simultaneous with argu¬
ment of the McLaurin appeal
A third higher education case,
that of the denial of admission
of Mrs. Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher
to the University of Oklahoma
law school, is again pending
before the supreme court of
Oklahoma and may be argued
before the U. S. Supreme Court
at approximately the same
time as the cases of McLaurin
and Sweatt.
YMCA HOUR
OF CHARM
The Yotmg Men’s Committee
of the YMCA will present an
hour of music Jan. 30 at 5 p. m.
hour will be known as fhe
“Hour of Charm ” Admission is
25c.
Alice Coachman on 1948 All-
American Women’s Trk. Team
i
ALICE COACHMAN
NEW YORK, Jan. 25—Alice ,1948 Women * All-American
State Coachman college, of Albany named today_____ (Ga.)j track and field team, selected ‘
was
among the members on the | Continued on Page Six
DAR Scored Again For
Us Racial Discrimination
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 20.—
Decision on a federal attorney's
motion to dismiss the case of
Devreaux Tomlinson, 23-year-
old Negro challenging the va¬
lidity of his local Selective Ser¬
vice Board’s processing him for
induction Into a segregated
unit of the United States Army,
was deferred by Federal Judge
J. Cullen Ganey at a hearing
held here this week.
Tomlinson’s complaitn, filed
by Assistant Special Counsel
Robert L Carter and Franklin
H. Williams of the National As¬
sociation for the Advancement
of Colored People, requests the
Federal District court to en¬
join Selective Service officials
from processing him for infduc-
tion and Army officials from
inducting him into a segregat¬
ed unit, charging that such
assignment is a violation of
rights protected by the United
States Constitution. Tomlinson j
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AMEs TO HOLD
LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
NEXT WEEK
BISHOP R. R. WRIGHT
The Country Church and
Leadership Educational Council
01 the African Methodist Epis-
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Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
$500,000 Library Opened
At Fla. A. & M. College
TALLAHASSEE, (ANP)—The
new S. H- Coleman library at
Florida A. and M. college,
which was built and equipped
at a cost of nearly a half mil¬
lion dollars, was officially op¬
ened last week. Members of
the student council, the senior
class, the faculty and Dr. Wm.
H. Gray, Jr., president of tho
college, participated in the
ceremony under the direction
of the Rev. R. A. King, pastor
of St- Paul AME church. Jack-
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MR. CAMPFIELD BURIED
AT TUSKEGEE
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE. Ala.,
Jan. 20—Furjeral services for
Charles Gary Campfield, Sr.,
who died here Monday after
a brief illness, were conducted
from the institute chapel here
today. Rev. W. E. Carson, pas¬
tor of Butler Chapel AME Zion
church, officiated, assisted by
Rev. Carleton L. Lee, acting
chaplain! of Tuskegee institute.
Mr. Campfield, widely known
and highly regarded for his
activtiies in religious, educa¬
tional, civic and fraternal af¬
fairs, was graduated from Tus¬
kegee institute in 1904, On the
date of his graduation, he was
sent by Booker T. Washington
to South Carolina, in response
to a request for a qualified per¬
son to head a school there.
r^er Dr. Washington asked
Campfield to return to Tuske-
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NUlflBI
To Train Native Africans
For President
QUEENSTOWN, So. Africa —
Intended as a training; place
for native Africans who want
to become Catholic priests, St.
John's seminary has been for¬
mally opened here. Most Rev.
Martin Lucas, apostolic dele¬
gate to South Africa, presided
ait the opening ceremonies.
Archbishop Lucas Ls the per¬
sonal representative of Pope
Pius XII.