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67 YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LXVII
AVALANCHE OF KILLINGS
SWOOPS DOWN OX CITY
VICTIMS OF FOUR-DAY HOMICIDE WAVE
MRS. RUBY L. CLARK, 22
Shot to Death by He* -
Estranged Husband
An avalanche of homicides
broke loose in Savannah last
week when five killings were
recorded within the space of
four days. All of the partici¬
pants in the killings were Ne¬
groes except in the death of a
white mar* in which his broth¬
ers are alleged to have been
the principals.
This constitutes the worst
short time homicide record in
the city within the past three
decades and has caused many
thinking citizens to wonder
how far this wanton wave of
life-taking is going.
Among the quintet of killings
one of the victims was a young
WMtt&a-whose husband slew her
with a revolver in a beer gar¬
den at 703 West 37th street
and in another a 54 year old
man’s life was snuffed with a
shot, gun in the hands of his
chum of long slant!ing follow-
itig an argument over a
matter.
The first of these homicides
was the killing of William Bry¬
ant, 30. of 619 Walker street,
by James Jackson, 35, Friday
morning about 4:45 o’clock,
Jackson formerly operated a
restaurant, at West Broad street
and Duffy lane and was man¬
ager of the Savannah Red
Caps, a baseball team.
Bryant was fatally stabbed
with a switchblade knife as he
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SPEAKING UP — for justice in
case of six Trenton, N. J., Ne¬
groes, victims of the “Northern
Scottsboro," are <1. to r. 1 Bessie
Mitchell, sister of one of those
condemned to death; UE com¬
mentator Arthur Gaeth, and O.
John Rogge, former assistant
Humphrey Says Senators Must Stand Up And Be Counted On Civil Righto
February 15, IMP.
The Editor
The New York Times
New York, New York
Dear Mr. Editor:
I have read with consider¬
able interest Mr. Arthur Krock’s
column of February 11, 1949.
Appreciative as I am as a fresh¬
man Senator for Mr. Krock’s
political analysis of the Demo¬
cratic caucus of February 5 and
Jhe developments which have
taken place on the floor of the
Senate pertaining to Senator
Jtnowland’s resolution to dis¬
fauanttali
CHARLES PHOENIX, 22
Butcjher-Knifed to Death
by His Wife
Students Vote for Admittance of
Negroes to University Missouri
NAACP Proceeding On
Army Segregation Case !
L.I.C. of Ga
Makes Record
Gains
Life Insurance Company of
Georgia, which has agency of¬
fices in 150 cities in 11 south¬
ern states, made a record-
breaking gain of $100,232,136 in
iifo insurance in force during
194 s, while increasing assets 23
pey cent to $39,043,658, J. N.
McEachern, chairman of the
board, announced this week.
Mr. McEachern said the ccm-
pany’s annual report showed
$575,752,425 total life insurance
in force, a 21 per cent gain
over 1947, anti the greatest in¬
crease in the company's 57-
year history.
A total of $6,907,0C6 was paid
to policvholders and benefici¬
aries during the year, which
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attorney general of the U. S.
and defense attorney. Broad¬
cast describing the case was
presented recently over nation¬
wide ABC network on regular
Monday program of United
Electrical, Radio and Machine
Workers of America.
charge the Rules Committee, 1
humbly observe that the analy-
sis is incomplete.
Senator Knowland of
fornia presented a resolution
on the floor of the Senate to
discharge the Rules Committee
because of what he termed its
failure to expedite action on a
change in the Senate rules
as to curb the filibuster. This
action on the part of Senator
Knowland was subsequently
discussed by the Democratic
caucus V/MUVUW held *•’-*'* on Saturday, , Feb- * VM
ruary 5, It was patently clear
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, MARCH S. 1949
WILLIAM BRYANT, 80,
Stabbed to Death Over
Gaming Stakes
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 24. —
Following the denial last week
by Federal District Court Judge
J. Cullen Ganey of a motion to
dismiss the complaint of De-
Vreaux Tomlinson against the
Selective Service Board, attor¬
neys for the NAACP announc¬
ed they are preparing to argue
the case sometime this spring.
Tomlinson, who refused to
report for induction into the
army unless written assurance
were given! him that he would
not be assigned for service in
a segregated unit, instituted a
suit against the Selective Ser¬
vice Board to test the validity
of this proposed induction for
service into such a unit. Fed¬
eral Attorney E. A. Kailick
moved to dismiss the complaint
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Sue Cafe
For $50,000
EFGKAN'E, Wash (ANFl—
Pianist Hazel Scott and her
husband. Rep. Adam Clayton
Powell, Jr., filed suit for $50,-
000 last week against a Pasco,
Wash., cafe for refusing to
serve them bcoause of her race.
They filed suit in federal
court, naming Harry an$l
Blanche Utz, owners of the res¬
taurant, as defendants. Miss
Scott charged that she was re¬
fused service at the eatery
“without any reason whatso¬
ever except that she was a Ne¬
gro."
The suit claims that this ac¬
tion was “in violation of the
civil rights of the plaintiff as
defined by the constitution of
the U S. and the laws of the
state of Washington
According to the noted ffi-
anlst, she told Utz she had
been stopped by snow in Pen-
dlcton, Ore., and had not eat-
eti for a long time. She was on -
concert tour at that time.
1 that Mr. Knowland’s resolution
’ attempt the part of
was an on
| the Republican minority to
| challenge the majority leader-
1 ship on a very crucial question,
This matter was thoroughly
discussed and those of us who
j are strong supporters of civil
rights legislation and support-
ers of Senator Meyers’ resoiu-
tion proposing a majority vote
for the application of cloturte,
were strong and firm in our
conviction that we were not
going to permit CO a political trick
on the part of the Republican
CHARLES QUARLES, 54
Shotgunned to Death in
Argument With Old Friend
COLUMBIA, Mo. lANPi—By
a count of 4,156 for to only
1,847 against, susdtnte
1,347 against, students of the
University of Missouri voted in
favor of admitting Negroes to
the university, last week.
A total of 6,003 students, 60
per cent of the student body,
the largest number of students
ever to participate in a school
ballot, voted in the poll.
As a result of this poll the
student council decided to re¬
quest the Missouri General As¬
sembly to amenH state laws to
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He Retires
!
Miami. Fla., Mar.
weight Champion Joe Louis
threw a bombshell info boxing
circles, today when he formally
relinquished the world’s boxing
* 1 itlc. itlc. His His vacating vacating of of the the
crown was made known in a
letter which the Brown Bomber
sent to the National Box-
1 opposition to upset the Senate
organizational structure of the
Democratic party. However, I
personally made it crystal clear
by my remarks in the caucus
that while I would support the
Democratic leadership in voting
down Senator Knowland’s reso¬
lution, that I would expect the
Rules Committee to expedite its
report to the Senate and there
I would reserve my right to
vote my convictions.
Mr. Krock has quoted me as
saying J that V i V the AkllV Knowland •• * res- VJJ
olution “was obviously a poli-
SINGS — Etta Moten, whose*
concert in Orchestra hall, Chi¬
cago, recently, was an out¬
standing success.
DuD YOU KNOW — that
-here are three Negro drug
stores in Savarinah employing
three pharmacists, two man¬
agers, one bookkeeper, seven
clerks and four delivery boys?
Priest Raps Sponsored Bias
Wisconsi n N atl Guard
MILWAUKEE, Wis. lANP) —
A blistering attack upon the
exister^e of a type of racial
prejudice “not even found in
the South’’ in the state was
made here recently by Father
Claude H. Heithaus, S. J., fac¬
ulty member of Marquette uni¬
versity. '
Father Heithaus was allud¬
ing to the fact that the Wis¬
consin National guard “is a 100
per cent white organization,
not by chance, but because
public authority wants it to be
that way."
“As far as the national guard
is concerned, not evert Georgia
or Alabama do a more thor¬
ough job of jlm crowing Ne-
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lng Association renouncing the
title.
J king ^Iip cauliflower
boys, however, let it be known
thal wlltte he giving up the
d&dem he is not forsaking the
sport and will take a promi¬
nent part in the promotional
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Democrats and start taking
tical attempt to embarrass the
control. If the Republicans
who voted for the motion will
support the program (civil
rights) then we shall deliver
both national conventions.”
every single pledge made by
Mr. Krock makes a point cf
the fact, however, that I did
not take note that the admin¬
istration’s refusal to face the
civil rights and cloture issues
was also for obvious political
reasons. It is only fair to state
that your reporter did not
Many Itivisonal Attend Annual
Scout Banquet
Over a hundred citizens at¬
tended the annual divisional
meeting and banquet for the
Chatham division of the Coas¬
tal Empire Council, Boy Scouts
of America, in the dining room
of the West Broad Street YMCA
Monday evening. Dean W. K.
Payne of Georgia State college,
served as toastmaster.
After invocation offered by
Rev. Brown of Hardeevlllp, s.
C„ several scouts from Hardee-
ville and Savannah conducted
a flag ceremony, which ended
with the singing of “America"
by the assembled guests. H.
Travis Thompson, area scout
executive for the Coastal Em¬
pire, was then presented and
he conducted a ceremony, with
the use of two lighted torches,
entitled, “Strengthen the Ann
of Liberty," with the help of
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Urban League Announces
1949*50 Fellowship
Picked As
McGill Univ.
Queen
MONTREAL tANP) Miss
Beryl Dash, 20-year-old third-
year art student, was chosen
queen of the winter carnival by
the student body of McGill uni¬
versity here Friday. About
8.000 white and 150 Negro stu¬
dents attend the school.
The daughter of a railway
porter who came from Trinidad,
British West Indies, Miss Dash
praised the “wonderful demo¬
cratic ways of McGill" and said
“I’m so thrilled I can hardly
belleye it.”
To Test Park
Bias In S. C.
NEW YORK, Feb. 24. — The
validity of segregation in pub¬
lic parks and recreational fa¬
cilities is headed toward a Su¬
preme Court test, Thurgood
Marshall, special counsel for
the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People, announced here today.
Mr. Marshall’s plan was form¬
ulated following a decision' by
I he Kentucky Court of Appeals
on February 21, upholding a
lower court, which granted a
motion to dismiss the complain’
of Dr. P O. Sweeney against
the City of Louisville.
_ nr. Sweeney, _ through ,, NAACP
lawyers representing the na-
tional office and the local
branch, sued the city to halt
the practice of refusing to ad¬
mit Negro residents to the city-
maintained amphitheatre and
golf course. The city’s motion
to dismiss the complaint was
granted in the trial court.
In their brief before the
Kentucky Court, of Appeals,
Attorneys Alfred M. Carroll,
James Crumlin and Benjamin
Ehobe of Louisville and Frank-
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question me as to the
istration's tactics. I was
tioned only as to how I viewed
(he Republican or
Knowla^i’s strategy.
My position, however, is clear.
The administration must quick¬
ly come to the decision that it
cannot refuse to face the in¬
evitable split over civil rights
that exists within the Demo¬
cratic party. The administra¬
tion leadership must clearly
recognize that if we are to pass
civil rights legislation the rules
of the Senate must be amended
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
SPEAKING CONTEST
TO BE HELD AT
STATE COLLEGE
The fifth annual state-wide
oratorical and spelling contest,
sponsored by Georgia State col¬
lege, will be held at the college
March 24-26.
Miss M. A. Qulnney, in*>truc-
tor in speech, Is chairman of
the contest. She has announc¬
ed that four prizes will be
awarded winners in both divis¬
ions. They are: First prize,
$50; second prize, $25; third
prize, $15, and fourth prize,
$ 10 .
DID YOU KNOW — that
the first church in Georgia
among the AME's was establish¬
ed in Savannah, St. Philip
Monumental church?
NEW YORK — The National
Urban League's fellowship pro¬
vided by the Adam Hat Wel¬
fare Fund for special study in
the field of industrial and la¬
bor relation* Is now available
for the school year, 1949-50, it
was announced this week by
the Urban League’s fellowship
committee.
This marks the fourth year
that this $ 1,200 fellowship, to
be applied to the student’s* tu¬
ition and maintenance, has
been| made available to the Na-
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Petition For
Rehearing
Rape Case
WASHINGTON F 0 b. 24. — A
petition for rehearirl; of the
case of Samuel Taylor, Alabama
youth whose conviction for
rape was twice affirmed by the
United States Supreme Court,
was filed this week by attor¬
neys for the National Associa¬
tion for the Advancement of
Colored People.
Referring to the Supreme
Court's 4-4 per curiam decision
of February 7, when Justice
Hugo Black had disqualified
himself from the hearing and
the decision, the NAACP peti¬
tion states: “Where a mart’s
life is at stake and constitu¬
tional rights are involved, his
life should not be taken as a
result of a decision by an
„ dlv i ded court based up-
on a half hour argument."
In rpquestng thgt the court
grant a rehearing, the petition
reconsider asked that Mr, Justice for Black]
his reasons dis¬
qualifying bimsetf from the
case. NAACP attorneys assert¬
ed that numerous principles of
Jaw remain “beclouded and in
doubt" as a result of the per
curiam decision and urged
that upon rehearing these prin¬
ciples be clarified and finally
decided by a majority of the
full court.
to permit a majority repeat, Vote to
apply cloture. I that is
my position. It has always
been, and I will fight for it.
The tragic mistake of the
79th Congress, which mistake
produced the Republican 80th
Congress, was the uniholy alli¬
ance of the Republican party
with the conservative wing of
the Democratic party. Speci¬
fically, I mean the Taft Re¬
publicans and the soon-to-be-
Dixiecrats. No greater political
blunder could be made by the
Democratic leadership id the
NUMBER 2D
Attending Conference
MRS. COUNTESS Y. COX,
field director of the Negro Di¬
vision of the Savannah Giri
Scouts, who is attending the
National Association of Girl
Scout (Executives conference
which is being held In Greens¬
boro, N. C. Mrs. Cox, who ha 3
been’ a Girl Scout professional
worker since 11945, will repre¬
sent the entire Girl Scout as-
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G. S. Speaker
■dkJidlL ' -..... ., .
MISS MILDRED BURCH
Mrs. Mattie B. Payne, chair¬
man of the Division Directors,
has announced that Miss Mil¬
dred Burch of Georgia State
college, will be the guest speak-
r for the annu"l assoclat’on
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TWO OFFICERS ON
PLAIN CLOTHES DUTY
9MM| According to an
rnnouncrnif by
Chief Truman F.
Ward of the city
MkV jHflM >o!ice depart.;
' Officer ; Fay
Howard J,
Patterson Davis, who have
men handling patrol duty
along with the nine other Ne¬
gro members of the city force,
been put on plain clothes
Officer Patter
son was assigned J
to this special duty!
last week and!
made such af
splendid showing flrstl f
during his
two days of ser-|
vice that ChiefOfricer Davis
Ward decided to give him Of¬
ficer Davis as an assistant,
making it a two-man vice squad
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81st Congress than to permit
the direction of strategy of
Democratic leadership to be
g-uided and watered down by
the willful purpose of a few
Senators who are unwilling to
subscribe to the clear-cut pro¬
visions of the Democratic plat¬
form. I should add that this
willful group is not only de¬
manding that the civil rights
issue be pushed aside, but it is
equally adamant in its attitude
toward fulfilling our pledges on.
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