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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LXVII
SCENES FROM THE REV. CONNOR’S FUNERAL—Top (left) picture shows a
portion of the vast crowd which gathered Monday to witness the funeral of
Rev. N. C. Connor, held at Connor’s Temple Baptist Church.
Top (right)—The casket being carried by pall bearers from the church to
the hearse. Prominently shown are Rev\ C. FI. Young, who also was master
of ceremonies at the service; Dea. J. Mines, Rev. J- L. Dudley, Rev. J. H. Mur¬
ray, Rev. J. H Martin, Rev. R. L. Lee, Rev. L. G. Gibbs and Leroy Williams. Na-
Mammoth Crowd Attends
Funeral of Rev. Connor
Mrs. Thomasina W. Johnson
5 SPEAKER — Alpha
Kappa Alpha sorori'y will ob-
serve its fortieth anniversary ol
„ Founders , , ay, _ e ._______ ay
,
5 p m. vesper hour at Georgia
State college.
Gamma Sigma Omega chap-
ter will have as guest speaker
Mrs. Thomasina Walker John-
son. minority groups consult-
ant, U. S. Employment Service,
Bureau of Employment Securi-
ty, Federal Security Adminis-
Educators Segregated Regional Schools
As a step in its campaign
against the establishment oi
segregated regional schools, a
special committee of the Con¬
ference of Presidents of Negro
Land-Grantt Colleges has just
circulated a large number of
reprints of the “Editorial Com¬
ment” from the winter, 1949,
number of the Journal of Negro
Education, entitled, “Why Ne¬
groes Are Opposed to Segregat¬
ed Regional Schools.”
The Southern Governors'
Conference met in ; Savannah,
Ga. recently, in conjunction
with the Regional Council for
Education. They launched the
first concrete step in the direc¬
tion of attacking the problem
pt providing better graduate
find professional education m
SHIror
! tration.
Mrs. Johnson holds a B. S.
■ Vorn ,h e University of Penn-
sylvania, graduate work in law
and soc j a i work, Boston univer-
| sity, and graduate work in
Spanish at Harvard university.
j The public is invited to hear
her.
On Saturday, February 12,
from 8 to 10 p- m., the public
is invited to a reception, in the
j community house to meet Mrs.
l Johnson.
the South, through the estab¬
lishment of regional schools
and services which are to be
supported by several states ra¬
ther than by each individual
state. However, they have de¬
cided that these services would
follow the segregated pattern.
It is this segregated aspect ot
the program to which Negro
educators are opposed; and
with almost complete unanimi-
ty. Not only have practically
all of the Negro educational as¬
sociations passed resolutions
condemning this feature, but
numerous Negro educators in
the South have declined to
serve on several study commit¬
tees which have been) set up by
the Regional Council to explore
certain problems connected
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 10, 1919
Photo by Cecil
thaniel Brady of Sidney A. Jones Funeral Home, is seen standing above the
crowd.
Bottom (left)—The widow, Mrs. Leola Connor, being assisted from the
church by one of her sons, Jeremiah, and Undertaker Sidney A. Jones.
Bottom (left)—The members of the funeral party gathered around the
grave at Swainsboro-
WELL KNOWN MINIS¬
TER OF CONNOR’S
TEMPLE
Died After Illness Of
Only One Day
A mammoth crowd attended
the funeral of Rev. N. C. Con¬
nor which was held Monday
afternoon at Connor’s Temple
Baptist church.
Entrance to the church was
impossible after 10 a. m., al¬
though the funeral was not
scheduled until ndon 1 . All dur¬
ing the service which lasted a
little over an hour and a half,
vast crowds stood in front of
the church, taking up every
vantage point.
Rev. Connor died Thursday
morning of last week at his
residence, 803 West Forty-Sec¬
ond street, after an illness ol
only on»: day.
The funeral services held in
the cha r ch wfhich the Rev
Connor and his members pur¬
chased about ten years ago
recently remodeled so that
became one of the city’s best
Continued on Page Six
MRS. MALLARD’S DAUGHTER RECOVERING
FROM OPERATION IN NEW YORK
| NEW YORK, Feb. 3. — Miss
1 Doris Byron, the 18-year-old
j daughter of Mrs. Robert Mal¬
lard, Georgia lynch victim wid¬
ow, Is recovering from an
emergency appendectomy per¬
formed yesterday irt Harlem
j hospital. Miss Byron came to
New York with her mother and
| two year old brother.
with the project. They insist
that they will not prostitute
themselves by cooperating in a
segregated enterprise which h
they feel is both unconstitu¬
tional and unnecessary; nor
stultify themselves by cooper¬
ating on a level which is so tar
removed from policy-making as
to be futile, so far as affecting
policy is concerned. Accord¬
ingly, , *» it appears “ that ----- most ------ of —
the opposition is persistent and
calculated, rather than than spo-
radic and misinformed.
These Negro educators have
emphasized the fact that their
opposition is confined solely to
ttie segregated aspect of the
program. They have no ob-
yection to (in fact, they see
considerable advantage in T > re-
Food Handlers Classes
Being Organized
Chairman Finer
Womanhood Week
Soror Anita M. Stripling
GENERAL CHAIRMAN—The
Alpha Theta Zeta chapter oi
the Zeta Phi Beta sorority will
observe its Finer Womanhood
week, February 20-26- Soror
Anita M. Stripling is serving as
ge leral chairman.
Flaps for this celebration
were completed at the meeting
Continued on Page Six
No longer must the restau¬
rant proprietor scratch his
head and wonder “where did
that waitress (or waiter) come
from?’’ Miss Opal Dixon is
comintj here from the Division
of Distributive Education of the
State Department of Education
to teach food handlers the
(Tights and wrongs of the bus¬
iness.
Believing in training for ser¬
vice, the vocational education
division at the vocational
School in cooperation with the
local health department has
organized free classes for food
(Continued on page Six)
She was to have accompani¬
ed her mother on a tour, spon¬
sored by the National Associ¬
ation for the Advancement of
Colored People, to tell the
country the tragic story of the
lynching of Robert Mallard by
a Georgia mob and the subse-
Continued on Page 9
1 gjonal services based upon a
i principle which looks forward
| ^ a g rea t er education of the
South, rather than backward to
a period of reaction of a de¬
cade or more ago.
Negroes are opposed to seg¬
regated regional schools for
four basic reasons:
(1) They are convinced that
equal educational opportunity
can n ot be provided for Negroes
under the theory of -separate
but equaj.- and thus they re¬
fuse to cooperate in any plan
which is so patently anfi in¬
herently discriminatory in its
very conception, and thus vio¬
lating the constitutional man¬
date that Negroes must be giv-
Contin ued on Page 9
REV. ANDERSON RESIGNS
PASTORATE UNDER PRESSURE
HAD BEEN AT OUTS
WITH DEACON BOARD
FOR SOME TIME
Members Cheered When
Pastor Quits
A long standing series of
hectic deacons-pastor disputes
came to a close Thursday night
of last week when tire Rev. Mu¬
sic Anderson resigned the pas¬
torate ol’ Thankful Baptist
church, northeast corner of
Bolton and West Broad streets,
rather than risk his claim to
continued leadership to an
election of the church mem¬
bership.
The contention between Rev.
Anderson and the board of
Continued on Page Six
MRS. CALLEN NAMED
HEAD OF BOYS’ CLUB
At a meeting of the direct¬
ors of the Savannah Boys’ club
last niight Mrs. Irma Curley
Callen, wife of the late Frank
Callen, founder and director of
the organization,; was elected
executive director of the club.
Mr. Callen died January 29
Continued on Page Six
200 Local Teachers Attend
at Waycross
Approximately 200 teachers
from Chatham county, includ¬
ing President J. A. Colston oi
Georgia State college and sev¬
eral members of the faculty,
were among the more than
five hundred teachers who at¬
tended the district meeting ot
the Georgia Teachers assocla-
ion at Waycross last Friday.
The all-day meeting, held at
Center high school, was presid¬
ed over by Prof. J. C. Reese,
principal.
J. BJ Parker, head of the
visual aid department, of Ga
State college, emphasized the
necessity of relating pictures
Continued on Page Six
WHEN JOE VISITED SAVANNAH—Above are scenes from Joe
Louis’ visit to Savannah last Friday when he boxed a 4-round
exhibition with George Fitch of Boston at the Municipal'Audi¬
torium. The ,bout, witnessed by 1500 fans, was taken by World's
Heavyweight Champion Louis, who had little trouble outpoint¬
ing his Massachusetts opponent.
ONE—Louis and Fitch square off at the beginning of the
match.
TWO—Louis at the weighing ceremony at the office «f
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
Walter White
To Broadcast
Saturday
NEW YORK, Feb. 3 — The
forty-year record of the Na¬
tional Association for the Ad¬
vancement of Colored People
will be reviewed by Walter
White, NAACP executive secre¬
tary, in a coast to coast NBC
broadcast, 4:15 to 4 30 p- m
<EST) on Lincoln day, Satur¬
February 12.
The program, entitled “New
Birth of Freedom,” includes
solos by Miss Muriel Smith,
talented young singing actress
starred in the title role of
the musical show, “Carmen
The broadcast will ini¬
tiate nationwide observance of
the fortieth anniversary of the
which was founded In
1909 in response to a call is¬
on Lincoln’s birthdya by
prominent educators, publi¬
social workers and relig¬
leaders.
DID YOU KNOW — that
there are fifteen Negro physi¬
in Savannah, seven den¬
arid three pharmacists?
Reprieve For Ind. Youth
(.ranted by S. Court
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uCnOOl Cl 1 1
The cooking school being
conducted by the Savannah
Gas company at the recreation
center is proving to be very
(Continued on page Six)
Photo by Cecil
I)r. Kandell. Next to Louis (left) is Cal Burke of Southern Pho¬
tos, and on the right is Leon Collins, secretary of the boxing
commission, holding weighing-in list in his hand.
THREE—Louis shaking hands with Cecil Maddox, well known
local photographer (right) before the weighing in.
FOUR—Louis (left) hems Fitch up in a corner in the fourth
round. The Champion started a haymaker at his adversary hut-
be graciously refused to land the lethal blow - j -pf *> , . . ,,
NUMBER 1V|
PROMOTED — Sgt. William
“Bill” Madison, sort of Mrs.
L, Hilton of 641 Russell
street, has recently been pro¬
to the rank of staff ser¬
geant. Sgt. Madison has the
distinction of being one of the
Continued on Page 9
WASHINGTON. Feb. 3. — In
an order stgned by Justice
Frank Murphy * the u - s - su ~
preme Court this week granted
a stay of execution for Robert
Austin Watts, Indiana Negro
ydutb sentenced to death on a
murder charge.
The National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People filed the motion, for stay
of execution before the Su-
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