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67 PUBLIC CONTINUOUS YEARS SERVICE OF
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W AH VET WHO SHOT 2 Ills TO HEATH IX
HOUSE BRAWL CLAIMS SELF-DEFENSE
Local Kappas to Launch Pretentious [Third Prom Wounds Stoldier Recovering
ram r For ** Year t s ui Work 1
TENSE SITUATION CREATED SUNDAY
CANDID PHOTO—The pho¬
tographer made this informal
shot of Mrs. Toki Von gchalk
Johnson, left Mr. and Mrs. J.
A Colston, and daughter, jean,
$75,000 Reported at Morris
Brown Founders
Deltas’ Jabberwock Tomor¬
row (Fri.) At Auditorium
Barfoot Is
UrllvvlOx
Progressives
The Peoples Progressive Party
of Georgia, through its Co-chair¬
men, Mr. Larkin Marshall of Ma¬
con, and Rev. C. T. Pratt of
ton, announced the appointment of
James L- Barefoot as State Direc¬
tor of the Party.
Mr. Barefoot was born in south
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FDR Jr. Accuses GOP-
Dixiecrats UR
New York (ANY') — Franklin
D. Roosevelt, Jr., lawyer son of
the late president, told a Liberal
party meeting . herc , last . week . that ,. ,
“the reactionary coalition of
publicans and Dixicrats killed the
civil rights hill and the
, l>iJJ and passed the Taft-Ilartley
wi”
Young Roosevelt was
NAACP Seeks To Get More Than Five
Million Race Voters by 1950
New York, April 4—A goal of
5,000,000 Negro voters by 1950
was sol by the National Associa¬
tion for the Advancement of Col-
ored People as an answer to the
“victory of the Dixicrats and their
northern allies in the filibuster
The NAACP Board of Directors
at its regular monthly meeting
here on April 11, called “the as-
sociation’s 1600 branches, in the
South as well as in the North and
West, to conduct intensive regis¬
tration drives to expand vastly the
Negro vote by 15)50.”
By the time of the next congres¬
sional election there can be 5,000,-
000 registered Negro voters
throughout the country, including
2,000,000 in the southern states,
the hoard resolution asserted.
“A vote of such strength,” the
resolution maintains, “can con¬
tribute significantly to the regen¬
eration of political activity
throughout the South and to the
election of more southern legisla¬
tors of the calibre of Senators
Congress and prepare the way for
enactment of effective civil rights
legislation.”
avawtah iribanf
during the recent visit of Mrs.
Johnson, Pittsburgh Courier
columnist, to the Georgia State
college campus.— (C- J- Smith
photo.)
From the advance safe of tickets
capacity audience will witness
t * le annual Jabberwock pre-
sented by the Beta Delta Sigma
Chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority at the Municipal Audi¬
torium tomorrow night, Friday,
April 22, beginning promptly at
8:30 o’clock.
Miss Gertrude H. Lark, chair¬
man of this affair, announces that
through the cooperation of the
other sororities, fraternities, and
.dubs, an interesting program has
been arranged including the best
talent of the city. James Wiley,
Contnued on Page 10
ing his plans to fight the coali-
I liin f orcei . if he 8UC00eds in win _
• the ., ,. the _
| mng nomination to , Lon-
Kress seat made va<ant b y thc
j death of Rep. Sol Bloom, Demo-
ciat. He has been rejected by
Tammany leaders for the party
nomination in the 20th district on
Manhattan’s west side.
Pepper, Kefauver and Graham . . .
These voters, in alliance with oth¬
er liberal forces on the local and
national level, can materially alter
j the present political complexion of
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WASHINGTON —(ANP)—Chi
Delta Mu fraternity of Howard
university, broke a 33-year pre¬
cedent here last week and admitted
to membership Paul Guth, 21-
year-old white student, of New
York. Guth, a senior in the medical
college, is one of about 10 white
students attending the university,
and one of 42 new members of
the chapter, composed of medical,
dental and pharmacy students.
The institution has an enrollment
of about 7,000 students. Guth en¬
tered Howard in 1945 after his
discharge from officer training in
the U. S. Maritime service, at San
Mateo, Calif. He is a graduate of
New Y'ork university and will be¬
gin interneship at Kings County
nospital. New York, in July.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1049
Child Placement Campaign To Continue
Until Middle Next Month
The Savannah Civic Junior Lea-
gue is using the above picture on
bangles in its “Campaign for Child
Placement. The campaign is now
in progress and will continue
through the second week in May.
The regular monthly meeting of
the Junior League was held at
the home of Mrs. Frances Sharpe,
Monday, April 18. After the open¬
ing preliminaries, Mrs. Susan P.
Waters, president, called for re¬
ports from the Child Placement
Campaign.
The following reports were
made: Savannah Civic Junior
League, $100.00; Elite Temple No.
71, LB.P.O.E. of the World, $20;
Street Sales of Bangles, $16.05;
Mrs. Irma Callen, $5.00; Mrs. Lot¬
tie Curley, $5.00; Mrs. Rebecca
Alexander, $5.00; Mr. and Mrs.
H. D. Simmons, $5.00; Mrs, Rachel
Atlanta, April 9 — The Sixty-
eighth annual Founders day An¬
niversary of Morris Brown College
was held at Big Bethel A. M. E.
Church and Morris Brown College
the past week.
Wednesday night the Local
Choirs of Atlanta, rendered mu¬
sical selections at the crowded
Bethel Church, Bishop R. R-
Wright Jr. presiding who made
the opening address in eloquent
words and introduced Mayor
llartsfield of Atlanta who gave a
very inspirational welcome to the
vast number who had assembled
from all parts of the state includ¬
ing thirty-nine Presiding elders
and pastors and laymen from all
over Geirgia.
Bishop G. W. Baber, D.D., of
the Fourth Episcopal District de
livered a strong sermon. Other
Bishops in attendance, Bishops J.
A. Gregg of Florida, Bishop W.
A. Fountain, D.D. of the 12th.
Continued on page Ten
Va. Seeks Funds to
GLOUCESTER, Va.
Disappointed by the defeat
the $300,000 bond issue for
construction of a new
high school, Gloucester
THIS SEXTET MARRIED EASTER SUNDAY
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Photo by FRAN K
Miss Corrie Capers and Chas.
Johnson, Jr., who were married
at St. Mary's Catholic church
at 9:45 Easter Sunday morning,
\ \ jfO
“ijNliirAv /HOME/”
Nichols, $1.00;
Mrs. Ella Lee, $5.00; Mr. Fred¬
erick Glover, $5.00; Miss Chris¬
tine Wilson, $5.00; Mrs. Mildred
Milledge, $5.00; Mrs. Lottie Ben¬
nett, $5,00; Mrs. Isabelle Waters,
$5.00; Mrs. Sadie Steele, $5.00;
Mrs. Mary Copeland, $5.00; Mrs.
Red Cross Aquatic Schools
At Tenn. A. & M., Hampton
The American Red Cross will
conduct two national aquatic
schools for Negroes in the East
and Southeast this summer to train
instructors in aquatic, first aid
and accident prevention.
Oliver Allen of Atlanta, the or¬
ganization’s southeastern director
of Safety Services, said enroll¬ I
ment is open to responsible men
and women 18 years of age or
older and in good health, who will
return to their home communities
and apply their knowledge as
aquatic or safety leaders for
schools, camps, industries, recrea¬
tion and parks departments, youth
organizations, clubs, municipal,
state and federal agencies, or oth¬
er organizations interested in pro¬
motion of safety measures.
Dates and locations of the Negro
schools are: Tennessee A & I Col¬
lege, Nashville, Tenn., June 20-30;
and Hampton Institute, Hampton,
Virginia, July 6-16.
Ten-day courses qualifying stu-
lents as instructors will be 'offer¬
ed in life saving, water safety,
swimming, diving, small craft
operation, first aid and accident
prevention. Courses will combine
study, discussion, demonstrations,
and practice. Teaching staffs
will include Red Cross aquatic,
first aid and accident prevention
school officials now hope that
they cani secure a i oan from
the staU? literary fuhd as a
p()sgib j e way 0 f equalizing the
scboo i to conform to a recent
Tne seriousness of the
issue defeai was
by the fact that school
in the county have been
Miss Dorothy L'ry and Robert
T. Adams of Washington, D. O.,
married at St- Matthew's Epis-
coda! church 9 o'clock Hasten
Sunclay morning.
Anne Griffin, $6.00; Mrs. Margaret
Caution, $5.00; Mrs. Laura Jef-
ferson, $5.00; Mrs. Helen Fletcher,
$5.00; Mrs. Louise Roberts, $5.00;
Mrs. Mattie Branch, $6.00 Robert
Young, $6.00; Mrs. Johnnie Fluker
$1.00.
The following names were re-
ported as additional volunteer
workers: Mrs. Sarah Brannen, and
Mrs. Margaret O’Brian, Gwinnett
St., East; Mrs. Earncstine Wil¬
liams, 47th St. West, and James
Dowse, Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters.
At the close of the meeting, the
hostess served a delicious repast.
representatives, and specialists in
these fields from schools, colleges,
universities, and various safety or "
gan nations'.
Enrollment blanks and detailed
information may be obtained from
local Red Cross chapters or from
Safety Services,
Area, American Red Cross, 23(1
Spring St., N.W., Atlanta, Gcor-
gia. Organizations for which s4*i
dents will teach may be interested
in paying enrollment foes, although
in past years some students have
paid their own fees. Because of
the nature of the courses, enroll¬
ment in aquatic schools usually is
limited. Early enrollment is ad¬
visable.
White Newspaper Woman
Gives $ 10C ( 0 To Aid
Convicted Murderers
NEW YORY—(ANP)— A con¬
tribution of $1,000 for the de¬
fense of six Trenton ,N. J., Ne¬
groes convicted of the murder of
a white storckeper, was made here
recently by Miss Anna Lousie
Strong, white newspaper woman
expelled from Russia not long ago
as a spy. The contribution original¬
ly had been offered to the 11 Com¬
munist party leaders now on trial,
hut it was refused.
Governor Warns Diversion
l
j j Of Fund from Schools
LIT TLE Rock, (ANY)—Arkan-
w Gov Mt . Math saltl here last
week that the state board of edu¬
cation “should take definite ac¬
tion” to stop diversion of education
funds from Negro to white schools.
He went a bit further and said
he “wanted” the state hoard "to
take legal steps” to prevent this
diversion.
His statement followed a charge
made recently by Education Com¬
missioner A. B. Bonds that state
school funds, “distributed equally,
are being deflected at the local
level from Negro to white facili¬
ties.”
On the condition of Negro
schools in West Memphis, Gov.
McMath commented:
“What needs to he done must
he done to provide better educa¬
tional facilities and it must be
done in the near future. This
is a responsibility we must meet.”
Schools
Tuck, Walter Kenney, the
Gloucester county superintend¬
ent of schools; Stanley Gray,
county board chairman, and G.
Tyler Miller, state superintend¬
ent.
It was expected last week
that the Gloucester county
school officials would make an (
application to the literary fund
committee for a loan Gov.
Tuck and state Supt of Public
Instruction Miller were report¬
ed in favor of the move as the
only quick way out of the Sit¬
uation in which the bond de¬
feat placed the school board.
contempt by a federal
to equalize the Negro and
white schools in the county
and Judge Sterling Hutcheson,
handed down the equaliza-
sentence in the case some time
this month.
The literary fund suggestion
came a't a conference among
Claims She Gave Jones Brothers Money
From Business To Fay (’ops
I CHICAGO (ANP)—Miss Alice
Mullin, former cashier in the
i Jones Brothers currency ex-
j ! change testified on in Chicago's federal south district side.
court here last week that Ed-
ward P and George P. Jones
frequently took money trom
i the currency exchange “by the
handful” to pay off cops on the
curb ” The testimony was giv-
jen I charging in her the $50,000 Jones damage suit
with false arrest on Dec. 5,
1945.
Miss Mullin told the jury be-
fore Judge John P. Barnes thati
.she was employed in the cur-
rency exchange, part of the va-
jriety store operated by
I Mabel Williams and
David J. Griffin of
who were married at the
of br j de > s p ar en*s, 832
*4th street, 3:45 Easter
I afternoon |
VICTOR J. ASHE
Speaker
The Savannah Alumni Chapter
of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity
will launch its year round Guide
Right Program Sunday, April 24.
The men of Kappa and their
wives will worship in a body with
the Rev, Brother G, H. Caution
Continued on page Ten
Jury Returns Special
Verdict In Segre gation S uit
Home Wrecked Bomb
Warren, O. (ANY)—Anti-Ne¬
gro feeling resulted in the wreck¬
ing of a physician’s home in a
white neighborhood here last week
by a homemade dynamite bomb
causing an estimated $5,000 dam¬
age. The building, incomplete
but costing $50,000 when finished,
is the property of Dr. and Mrs.
Samuel A. Brown.
According to Mrs. Brown, the
Member Audit Bureau Circulation$
Price 7c
ON WEST BROAD STREET
In Near Clash Between Soldiers And Citizens
Because he claimed a group
of Negro soldiers, tentatively
stationed at Canrp Stewart, at¬
tempted to “take over ’ his
home, a World War II veteran
phot two of the GI’s to death,
critically wounded a tulrd sol-
<4 er and then went to the po¬
lice barracks where he sur¬
rendered to Die desk sergeant.
The incident happened Sun-
day evening at a flat above
the Matthew's fish store at)
West Broad and Minis streets,
and created, considerable ex-
citement in the area where
about a hundred soldiers, who
were on leave from the camp,
igatlhered following the shoot
ing.
Terming the killhj|g of their
buddies as a wanton and un-
excusable murder, the soldiers
were in an aroused state 0 l
mind and threatened vtolence
to a number of civilians who
RICHMOND, Va 1 ANP) — A
“special verdict” was returned
by an all-white jury sitting tn
Federal District Judge Sterling
Hutcheson's court in a $25,000
segregation suit against the
Atlantic Coast Line railroad
hero fecently. The “special”
verdict was returned alter the
jury was unable to agree on a
general verdict.
Toe suit was instituted by
WilLam C. Chance, school prin¬
cipal of Parmele, N. C., who
charged that he was ejected
lrorrr a train at Emporia, Va-,
on last June 25 because he re-
lused to move to a coach re-
served for Negroes
When the jury failed to agree
n a general Verdict after three
and one-half days of compli¬
cated testimony, Judge Hutche¬
son put nine specific questions
to the jury which broke the
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Joneses, from 1943 until she
was arrested on an embezzling
charge- She was acquitted,
Defendants in the suit, be-
sides the Jones brothers, are
Charles Craig, art employe ot
9hc variety store; Atty. Aaron
Payne, and Mrs. Frances Myles,
} exchange manager,
Mrs. Myles was granted a
motion for acquittal, but the
other defendants were denied
j The (Jlaintiff saw that bet-
tween July and December in
1945, Craig and others deposit
ed more than $200,000 in the
exchange, and said she told
Mrs. Myles and the Jones bro-
that a state circular pro¬
NUMBER 27
gathered at the scene. For a
time the situation became
acute, but shortly after the
Islhooting a special group of
MPs from Chatham Field and
a large squad of local police¬
men arrived on the scene and
soon quelled what had given
promise of becoming an, ugly
situation-
Officers from Battery A,
503rd Airborne Antiaircraft.
ArJ.llery, the outfit !to which
tiie soldielp belonged, rushed
to the scene and took charge,
They ordered the men into
tru/cks, which conveyed them
back to camp.
The two soldiers shot to
death were Sgt. Feasor Robin¬
son and Sgt. Dempsey Fox The
soldier critically shot and who
yesterday was given by Marine
lhos P- tHl authorities a fair
chance of pulling through, Is
______
Continued on Page 9
Woman Given
$50,000 By
Employer
KANSAS CITY—(ANP)—Mrs.
Beatrice Turner, 45-year-old maid
to the late Mrs. Estelle Hager,
white, learned herc last week that
she is to receive a bequest -of
$50,000 from the estate of her
employer. Mrs. Hager died on
April 9.
Under the terms of a will filed
two days before in Jackson coun¬
ty probate court, Mrs. Turner will
receive half of the estate, which
is understood to total approximate¬
ly $100,000 in cash, stocks, bonds,
diamonds, and a house.
Mrs, Turner had first been em¬
ployed by Mrs. Hager as chauf-
Contnued on Page 10
family had received two threats
when excavation work was being
done last June that they would
never he allowed to move into the
neighborhood. She said three men
told her husband, “We don’t want
you to build a house in this area.”
The dynamiting was discovered
by construction workers the next
day. The damage is covered by
insurance.
hibited exchanges from accept¬
ing deposits, she said she was
tol to mind her own business.
O.or the other of the
Joneses came to her on num¬
erous occasions and asked for
money, which dhe handed over
without question and without
obtaining receipts- She said
that on V-J day. George Jones
| j said, "Give me $200. I got at to
pay off some cops outside
the curb.”
Further testimony by the ex¬
cashier disclosed that despite
the heavy deposits and other
| business carried on little at the profit ex¬
change, it showed
because of heavy and frequent
withdrawals.