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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
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CELEBRATING 6STH ANNIVERSARY OF PRINCE HALL LODGE NO. 28 MASONS
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Top picture, Speakers’ Table. left to right—A. L. Sampson, Toastknaster; Leroy R. Bolden, C. II. Bias, Geo. L. Smith, R. YV. Gads*
den, Rev. Z. V Dean, Sol. C. Johnson, Mrs. Mary L. Ayers, Rev. G. H. Caution, Mrs. Minnie BeVaughn.
Bottom—A portion of the members of local Masonic lodges ami Eastern Star chapters and their friends who participated
in the celebration. Photo Cecil Photo Studio
CELLBRARTING THE 65TH ANNIVERSARY—Above are scenes
from the Sixty-fifth Anniversary celebration of Prince Hall Lodge,
No. 28, F. and A. M, held Monday night at the parish hall of
the newly erected St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, West Broad
The affair was highlighted by .banquet with A. L.
an Interesting program and a [as toastmaster. The program
On (la wing of Restrictions
Proves a Boon to
Two Negro Policemen
Dismissed From Force
Farm--H. D.
Exposition
At Hampton
•HAMPTON, Va. C o a ii t y
farm and home demonstration
agents, agricultural and home
economic teachers and high
■school students from several
states will be among the peo¬
ple flocking to Hampton insti¬
tute on Saturday, April '9, to
an extensive farm and home
exposition sponsored jointtly by
the divisions of agriculture and
home economics.
A student committee, headed
hjv Gay Jerome Parsons of
Washington, D. C, a junior in
agriculture, is cooperating with
stall members of the two di-
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Fifteen 4-H Community
Clubs Honored at Banquet
DR. RIBBLE TO PLAY
SUNDAY AT 1st CONG’L
CHURCH
The public is invited to at¬
tend the special vesper service
at the First Congregational I
church. Taylor this coming and Habersham Sunday j j
streets,
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In the current shake-up in
the police department alter
the initial meeting of the po¬
lice committee of City Council
Monday afternoon two Negro
patrolmen were among those
lit out of the department.
They were Leroy Wilsoq .and
Milton Hall, both of whom have
been serving on the force since
the twelve Negro policemen
were added to the department
about a year and a half ago.
According to one of the men
let out, no specific reason was
given for their dismissals in the
(letters they received Tuesday
vices |notifyin,g them that their ser¬
have been terminated by
the department. It is thus
presumed that they were dis-
lissed “for the good of the ser¬
vice.”
It is thought that two other
Negroes will replace the dismis-
(Continued on page Six)
On January 14, 162 4-H club
officers, advisers, extension
agents and other guests at-
tended the first State 4-H Club
Community Improvement Ban¬
quet in Macon at the Burdell
school. The purpose of this
banquet was to make awards to
the fifteen leading community
clubs in the state.
The program included short
talks by Prof R. J. Martin,
of the State Teachers and Ed-
ucational Association; T. M.
Campbell the first Negro
tension worker: A L. Holsey,
assistant to the president of
Tuskegee institute; Alva Ta¬
bor, itinerant teacher trainer,
Fort Valley State college; Prof.
Benj. F. Bulloch of Atlanta
university; Mrs. Mary M. Mc¬
Kinney of Atlanta, C. J. Smith,
director of publications, Geor¬
gia State college; Father J. H.
Brown, Fort Valley Center;
Miss Camilla Weems, assistant
state agent, Negro work, and W.
A- Cross of the Cross Grttc
Continued on Pag- ii.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1949
and Anderson streets, which was largely attended by members
of the Masonic lodges, the Eastern Star Chapters and their
friends.
as follows Singing, invocation,) Negro .Evangelist Z V. Dean; address,
Anthem; (Continued on page Six)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. LANPi —
With the outlawing of the Bus
well amendment, Negroes are
rushing to pay poll taxes and
register while Dlxlecrats are
speeding up new schemes to
keep Negroes from voting
The Progressive Democratic
Council, the NAACP, and vet¬
eran groups and churches are
organizing registration cam¬
paigns to gat voters on the
rolls.
Amoiig the schemes Ur re-
Continued on Page 9
HEADS ASSOCIATE BOARD
— Miss Olise Campbell, R. N.,
superintendent of the Charity
hospital, who has been elected
president of the Associate
Board of the Chatham-Savun-
nah Tuberculosis and Health
Association for the fiscal year
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Atlanta University To Stage Annual
Competitive Art Exhibition
ATLANTA, Feb 10 Atlanta
university has announced that
the eighth annual exhibition of
painstipgs, sculpture and prints
by Negro artists will be held on
the campus in the Exhibition
Gallery. April 3-May 1.
Negro artists in all sections
of the country are invited to
take part in the competition by
submitting examples of their
best works. The purpose of (
the exhibit is to present the
best creative works by living
artists, to encourage
artists to achieve a high
stanuaru ol wor;„ oo bung to
.Lieut o-l-u- that . ighi
BISHOP WRIGHTS
DAUGHTER GIVEN
Ph. D* DEGREE
PHILADELPHIA (ANP)— Mrs.
Ruth Wright Hayre, daughter
of Bishop R. R. Wright, receiv¬
ed a Ph. D. from the Universi¬
ty of Pennsylvania Feb. 12.
When she received her de¬
gree she and her father be¬
came the first, Negro father
and daughter combination to
>-eceive doctorate degrees from
Pennsylvania. Bishop Wright
earned his Ph. D. from the uni¬
versity in 1,911.
Mrs. Hayre, who has an Eng¬
lish major, teaches at the Wil¬
liam PCnn High here. She
.
was the first Negro teacher ap¬
pointed to a Philadelphia high
school
District P-TA
To Meet In
Brunswick
The sixteenth annual session
of the Savannah District PTA
will be held in Brunswick, on
March 5. Mrs. J. A. Brinson
is district president.
Chatham, Effingham, Liber¬
ty. Bryan, Long, Camden, Mc¬
Intosh and Glynn counties
comprise the Savannah district.
The state president, Mrs. E. W.
Kiglit, will be present, as well
as various other officers. A rec¬
ord attendance is expected.
DfD YOU KNOW — that
the first public school for Ne¬
groes in Savannfch* was the
West Broad street school, and
that two of its first teachers
are living, one here and the
other in Brunswick? It was
established in 1872
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be among undiscovered artists,
to stimulate art education, and
to increase an appreciation of
the fine arts-
Only original paintings, etc.,
will be eligible for the exhibi-
tion. For the best eleven works
entered, there will be cash
purchase prizes totaling $ 1 , 400 .
In the oils, the first award of
$250 will be the John Hope
prize, donated by Edward B.
Alford of New York for the best
landscape. The second award
of $300, is also donated by Mr.
Alford for the best portrait or
figure painting. The first At-
lanta university award oi $150
Georgia Meet Here Baptiste Next to Week
City-wide BeginsMon. Clean-up
Campaign
Local NAACP
To Meet
Mon. Night
The regular meeting of the
Savannah branch of the
NAACP will be held in the lec¬
ture room of the First African
Baptist church Monday even¬
ing, February 21, at 8 o'clock,
announces President Ralph M
Gilbert.
Some very important busi-
wili be transacted, especially
pertaining to the proposed citi¬
zenship training course which
the local branch proposes to
launch among our people,
which is intertded to reach at
least 10,000 of our citizens|
The special feature of the
meeting will be an address by
Prof. E. Harold Mason, eminent
educator and sociologist. Prof
Mason studied at Western Re¬
serve university, the University
of California and the Berkeley
Divinity school. As a teacher,
social worker and specialist in
lntercultural education, he has
(Continued on page Six)
Former Savannahian
Visits City
William D. Kennedy, a for¬
mer Savannah school teacher
who left here thirty years ago,
and is now reskiing in Brook¬
lyn, N. Y., was in the city this
viieek visiting friends. He was
the guest of Mrs. Anna E.
Manes of 830 West 47th street.
Mr. Kennedy, who was a vis¬
itor at yesterday’s meeting oi
the Hub, where he met several
of his old friends, is a postal
clerk and realtor, and is treas¬
urer of the NAPE branch of
his city.
While hfre he visited Wilm¬
ington island where he began
his teaching career thirty-nine
years ago.
FINER WOMANHOOD SPEAK¬
ER—Dr. Deborah C Partridge,
president of the Alabama
branch of the National Con¬
gress of Colored Parents and
Teachers, associate professor of
ducation aryl head of the edu¬
cation division, Tuskegee insti-
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is given for any subject, and
the second Atlanta university
award of $100 is to be awarded
by popular ballot.
In the section on water col¬
ors, there are two awards: One
hundred and twenity-five dol¬
lars for the first, and $75 for
the second. In the sculpture
section, which covers art works
in stone, wood, plaster or
bronze, there are two awards
given by Mr. Aiford: the first
of $250, and the second of $100.
Three awards of $25, $15 and
$10, are listed in the graphic
Continued on Page 8
HONORS JUDGE—The Cook
County Bar association held a
banquet in the Parkway ball-
i room recently in honor of
Judges Wendell E. Greene, who
was reelected for a second six-
term, and Fred W (Duke)
The Community Health
Council, through its president,
W Dickerson Donnelly, Is ask¬
ing for the cooperation of all
citizerv in the city-wide Clean
Up! Fix Up! Paint Up cam¬
paign which is being sponsor¬
ed by the Junior Chamber of
Commerce and the Savannah-
Chatham Health Department.
The campaign will begin Mon¬
day, February 21, and continue
for a period of one month.
Was Lady Astor right, when
she said that our city is beau¬
tiful. but dirty! Well, let us
begin on February 21 and con¬
tinue (hereafter to never let
her be right again.
Dr. C. A Henderson, health
officer, is asking that, you
check the corners of your back
yards, under your house, stor¬
age rooms, attic space an<d pull
out the trash. Put all rubbish
In a container and bring it to
the lane or usual place of pick¬
up when the trucks are in your
Continued on Page 9
South Carolina Offers Brazen
Scheme to Hamper Voting
RICHMOND, Va. (ANP) —
The Democratic primary fight
in South Carolina has reached
a critical stage with the trans¬
fer of the court battle from
that state to Richmond, ac¬
cording to some legal leaders
here. Moreover, the integrity
of Federal Juudge J. Waites
Waripg is involved. The case
will be heard here in April.
South Carolina Democratic
officials, long sour on Judge
Waring for his decisions in the
primary cases, intend appar¬
ently to resort to every tech¬
nicality and subterfuge to beat
his order banning discrimina¬
tion against Negroes. White
Democrats in South Carolina
have mapped out a plan to
beat all decisions of Judge War¬
ing to open the Democratic
primary to Negroes, it was re¬
vealed here last week.
Democratic party officials oi
South Carolina are appealing
from arv injunction granted a
Negro complainant by Judge
Waring restraining the party
from denying Negroes “full
apd complete” participaion in
trick Negro voters by requiring
South Carolina primaries.
South Carolina intends to
them to swear to an oath that
they believe in racial segrega¬
tion and are opposed to the
Continued on page Nine
Slater, the former all-American
of the Iowa eleven. This is the
first time Chicago has had two
Negro judges serving on the
Municipal court bench at the
same time.
Pictured above, from left to
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
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DR. LEANDER A. PINKSTON
Tire General Missionary Bap¬
tist Convention of Georgia
which is the oldest State Bap¬
tist Convention in Georgia and
onfe of the oldest in the nation,
hold its annual mid-winter
board meeting and an adjourn¬
session of the convention on
February 23-24 at the Tremont
Temple Baptist church, Savan-
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Five Howard Graduates
To Get G.E. Appointments
WASHINGTON (AJSTp) — Five
veterans of World War H, will
accept positions with the Gen¬
eral Electric company, upon
their graduation from the
school of engineering and ar¬
chitecture at Howard university
in June.
These senior students are
Robert Reglrrfald Hagans, Bal¬
timore; Zachariah A. Jennings,
George W. C. Brown, Jr„ both
of Norfolk, Va.; Samuel D.
Love of Nashville, Tenn., and
Sydney W. Harris, Jr , Lynch¬
burg, Va. Salaries beginning
Continued on page Nine
Name Persons Who Will
Compose UNCF Council
NEW YORK John D. Rocke¬
feller, Jr., chairman of the Na¬
tional Council of the United
Negro College Fund, 38 E. 57th
street, last week made public
the names of nationally known
educators, public and business
leaders who will serve on the
national council for the fund's
ixth annual aopeal set to open
right, are State’s Atty. John S.
Boyle; Chief Justice Edward S.
Seheffler, municipal court; As¬
sociate Justice Greene; Sidney
A. Jones, Jr., president, Cook
County Bar association; and
Associate Justice Slater, *
NUMBER 18
Doby-Paige
Sign 1949
Contracts
NEW YORK (ANP) — Larry
Doby, the first Negro to play
baseball in the American lea¬
gue, signed his 1949 contract to
play with the Cleveland Indi¬
ans last week. The financial
terms of the contract were not
revealed.
Bill Veeck, boas of the Inch
ans, had a new Doby story to
tell while on the east coast Be
told of Doby’s first friend on
the team. Veeck’s version fol¬
lows;
"Late in 1947 when Doby re¬
ported to us, Boudreau sent him
to the plate to pinch-hit. Doby
watched the first one go by,
then swung wildly at the next
two. missed and went disco.n
soiately to the bench. It could
have ended his career, but Jce
Gordon, who batted a few mo¬
ments later, stepped to th*
plate and did the same thing
“Without sayinfe a word, Joe
walked back to the bench and
took a seat besides Doby. Not
a word was said, but etched on
the walls of the dugout, just
as clearly as if it had been
chalked was the philosophy
‘Don’t feel bad, Larry, we’re all
the same ball players.
"I have often wondered whe¬
ther Gordon did it deliberately.
He liked Doby—and he is a
great ball player, not simply a
Continued on Page 12
Ga. State
Alumni To
Meet Monday
The regular monthly meeting
of the Chatham County chap¬
ter oi the Georgia State col¬
lege Alumni Association will be
held Monday at 8 o’clock at the
YMCA.
Reports will be received from
committee appointed to ar-
Contlnued on Page 9
April 20.
Amo»ig the new members of
the council are: Harold E. Stas-
sen, president, University of
Pennsylvania; Miss Sarah Gib
son Blandlng, president, Vassar
college; Miss Dorothy Maynor,
the noted soprano; Dean Don-
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