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YEARS OF CONTINUOUS PUBLIC SERVICE LXVII CELEBRATING 6STH ANNIVERSARY OF PRINCE HALL LODGE NO. 28 MASONS ■ nMH • MakUfl -- >. m m 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- Continued on Page 9 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, Continued on page Nine 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 12 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 — 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- Contlnued on Page 9 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 Price 7c ) 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- Continued on Page 9 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- Continued on Page 9