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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LXVII
NCNVV NAMES 15 OlITSTANIIIMi
WOMEN FOB YEAR 1948
First District AMEs in Big Rumpus
Over Removal Rev. Malilon Lewis
PHILADELPHIA i ANP i—With
all the involved issues still
settled in the Bishop D. Ward
Nichols-Rev. Mahlon M. Lewis
conflict, the First
district of the African
cMst, Episcopal church once
?Vhco has become a storm cen-
• ter in the AME church.
When Bishop D. Ward Nich¬
ols three weeks ago announced
that the Rev. Lewis’, for ten
years pastor of St. Matthews
AME church, would be replaced
by the Rev. Edward B. Williams
he incited a controversy that
threatens to split St. Matthews,
to encourage Rev. Lewis tel
found a new church, and toj
bring the AME church into!
court.
Such a controversy in the
effecr*on*°the° AME & church"^H !
over the country. Philaadelphia
is the home of the first AME
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Birmingham Minister Defies New
City Segregation Zoning Ruling
Again Heads Weldon
Lodge of Elks
On Tuesday night, June 7
Weldon Lodge of Elks held its
semi-annual election of offi¬
cers. Edwin W. Burke, exalted
ruler, and 'the entire staff of
officers were re-elected for
another term of six months.
The election resulted as fol¬
lows: Edwin W. Burke, exalted
ruler; Brawley Brooker, esteem¬
ed leading knight; Willie Jen¬
kins, esteemed loyal knight;
John Habersham, esteemed lec¬
turing knight; Joseph Glover,
junior guard; Thomas Jeffer¬
son, outer guard.
After the business session a
delicious repast was enjoyed
by the members.
The lodge had as its honored
guest for the evening Miss Eu-
ris Maria Smith, the 1945 win¬
ner of the Elks’ $1,000 scholar¬
ship contest,who has just grad¬
uated with honors from Bennet
college at Greensboro, N. C.
GRADUATES IN LIBRARY
SCIENCE — Miss Angeline D
Brown has completed her
course at the Atlanta Universi¬
ty School of Library Service
and has received her BS in LS
degree.
On leaving the local Beach
Slip iatiawtali Sriluuu'
DENTISTS
Dire ctof of Programs > WesMieW >
N. J. _
WASHINGTON, D. C. — Final
plans for the 36th annual con¬
vention of the National
Edward YV. Burke
Exalted Ruler
Miss Smith made a brier
in which she expressed
appreciation to the lodge
having given her the
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high school where she gradu-
| ated as salutatorian of
class she entered Talladega col-
lege, at which time she became
a member of the Alpha Kappa
Alpha sorority. She later re
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1949
PLANS FOR 36th
DR. MARTIN L. WALTON, Ga!
vice president, Thomasville,
Association were completed
here recently in an executive
called by NDA President
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ANP) —
A city commission ruling last
week to set up segregated zones
in B rmingham was opposed
immediately after its passage
when the Rev. Milton Curry,
Jr., said he would not move
from h s newly rented home in
a “white” zone.
Rev. Curry is one of two Ne¬
gro m nisters living in a zone
declared for whites only by the
commission action. The other
minister, the Rev. E. B. Deyam-
pert, has lived at his home for
I several years. They live next
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Teacher Cheating in South Carolina
Caused Leaks From Whites
By Albert Anderson
COLUMBIA, S. C. (ANP) —
Although ten South Carolina
teachers have been discharged,
and Benedict college, its presi¬
dent, and some of its students
are now in trouble because of
widespread cheating on teach-
ers’ examinations, the head of
the cheating ring is believed to
be white.
Despite the fact that w de¬
spread cheating had been. re¬
ported for several years in the
South Carolina state teachers’
tests, only after the February,
1949, exams did any real evi-
Color Hate
Flares In
Bolivia
ORURO, Bolivia (ANP)—The
growing distrust and dislike of
American whites in this South
American country and many of
her neighboring nations was an
undertone beneath the tin
strike violence which flared
here last week. When tne
miners deserted the mines
attacked and maltreated
the white American engineers
employed there. Two of the
Americans were killed. Bolivia
the largest tin producer in
jthe world.
The strikers invaded the mine
I offices according to reports,
rounded up the Americans and
, orced them into the headquar-
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CONVENTION
eral Chairman, Convention
Committee, Kansas City, Mo.
Dr. Russell A. D xon, dean oi
thc College of Den tistry, How¬
ard university.
The 1949 convention of the
NDA is scheduled for Kansas
City, Mo., and will be held Aug¬
ust 8-12, at the Lincoln high
school. Kansas City’s NDA af¬
filiate, the Heart of America
Dental Society, will serve as
host to the more than seven
hundred dentists who will in¬
vade the Missouri city Horn all
sections of the nation.
Local convention arrange¬
ments at Kansas City are being
coordinated by Dr. B. J. Moore,
general /Chairman of the con¬
vent on committee of the Heart
of America Dental Society. Dr.
Robert H. Thompson, Westfield.
N. J., former president of the
NDA, heads a committee which
s planning the scientific pro¬
gram for the convention. The
association’s travel bureau is
operated under thc direction o!
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derce of cheating corns forth.
As a result of the February
exams, the cert ficates ol ten
No ;Ko achers, including two
principals, have been revoked;
the alumni of Benedict college
has severely crlt’c zsd President
J. A. Bacoats, and some 800 Ne
gro teachers who may be af¬
fected are confused.
The idea thejt wiiites arc
probably involved has come up I
because in the north where
the tests are made up and
the University of South
1 na where the tests are
only white persons have access
Va. Officials Pay Fines For
Failure To Equalize Schools
RICHMOND, Va. < ANP i —.
Four Gloucester county
, off cials paid fines on June 3.
totaling $1,C00 for contempt of
court in connection with t leir
failure to obey an anti-discrim-
j ination injunction issued by
' the Federal District Court.
Judge Sterling Hutcheson on
May 4 ttv ed fines of $256 eacn
on J. Walter Kenney, division
i 'superintendent, Stanley T. |
Wallace Fletcher and
Gray, school board chairman: |
Hogge, board members.
June 3 was the deadline for ,
paying the fines. The money,
for the fines was turned
to the clerk’s office here in the
form of a school board check
for si,000 signed by P. w. smith,
Jr., county treasurer.
Federal Judge Hutcheson
found the school officials gu 1-
of contempt on January 13
for the r failure to equalize the
schools for Gloucester county
Negro children with those pro¬
vided for wh le children.
The jurist delayed imposition
ol sentence until May 4, and
show
pehmitted the school board
me to show what had been
done to equalize the schools
that period.
Never before in the history of
public school system of
Virginia have school officials
been fined for failure to eqi^al-
educational facilities be-
tween the races. The federal
court’s action set a precedent
which may have far reaching
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WASHINGTON (ANP) — The
Nat onal Council of Negro Wo¬
men has selected the names of
15 women who have made out¬
standing achievements during
the year, 1948, to be honored at
it sannual honor day, June 19
at the Council house, 1318 Ver¬
mont avenue, N. W.
In announc. ng the selection
of women to be honored, Mrs.
Mary McLeod Bethune, founder
president of the council, said:
“These women are but a symbol
of the mind, the heart and soul
of the womanhood of the world
who unitedly work for a world
of peace, freedom and justce
for all.’’ Mrs. Bethune Will
present each honoree with a
scroll of honor citing her par¬
ticular contribution to the
American culture.
The selections for this out¬
standing national award are as
follows.
Ethel J. Alpenfels, noted an¬
thropologist, for her outstand¬
ing professional contribution?
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Bunches Beal
Reason For
Refusing Job
NEW YORK (ANP)—Thurs¬
day’s Herald-Tribune front¬
paged a story that Dr. Ralph
Bunche rejected Truman’s offer
of a state department post be¬
cause of the capital’s jim crow
practices.
Further, the paper editorial¬
ized on the affair, which had
been generally believed by per¬
sons close to Dr. Bunche as the
real reason that he refused the
highest' honor yet accorded a
colored citizen.
It would be pretty difficult
for him to bow to jim crowism
after having enjoyed the free¬
dom accorded him elsewhere
and having accepted honors
an international figure. The |
ignominy of Washington’s sep-|
aratism they say, was too much
to impose on his family and he
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to the exams.
Ltis belli;:ved that a mass
black market in giving out
test answers is being operated
w,th a Negro go-between con¬
necting thc two races. At the
same time it Is believed that
teachers have also cheat¬
ed on past examinations.
Mak ng the biggest howl over
the situation is Gov. J. Strom
Thurmond, director ot the
state Board of Education. it
that he is trying
the Negroes,
let thc whites go.
At this point, President Ba-
—Above are five leaders of the
(telega ton of Georgia Negro
Legionnaires as they attended
thje thirty-first annual depart¬
ment convention in Augusta
last week.
MAJOR HOPKINS BLASTS AUGUSTA OFFICIALS FOR THEIR
RACIAL SEGREGATION
Augusta. Ga.. June 12—Be¬
cause city officials refused to
allow Negro delegates to occupy
seats on the ground floor of
the City Auditorium where the
Georgia department of the
American Legion has been hold¬
ing its thirty-fiisl annual con¬
vention for several days, Major
T. J. Hopkins of Savannah, an
outstanding leader among
Georgia's war veterans, scath¬
Large Attendance Expected at
OES Half Celebration
A large delegation is expect¬
ed to attend the Fiftieth An¬
niversary of the Prince Hall
Grand Chapter of the Order
of Eastern Star which will con¬
vene here June 28th through
the 309h. Mrs. Willie Williams
chairman of the housing com¬
mittee states that Savannahians
are cooperating one hundred
percent in making their homes
for the comfort of
the visitors,
The public is invited to at¬
tend the reception Monday
night, June 27, at the YMCA
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coats comes in Reported to be/
a good friend of the Dixiecrati
governor, he has been accused
by the alumni of Benedict of
sending up 1,4 students to take
thc rap with two reported
“prepared to confess." He d dj
this voluntarily, it. is said Thur-1 with-j
out a request from Gov.
mond.
Next, come in the AME
church, ministers, and another
AME college, Allen. At Allen
Dean I. M. A Myers has been
because he admitted
he was involved in thc rack- t.
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Norfolk Man
( )ffersfor Seat
In Va. House
NORFOLK, Va. (ANP) — C
Arnett Bibb ns, young Negro
lawyer, launched his
here last week in the race for
a seat in the Virginia House of
Delegates in the primary of
August 2. He is running as in
independent candidate.
Bibbins was endorsed re
c e n 11 y by the Citizens
committee, the organization
which supported Victor J
Ashe, another Norfolk lawyer,
who sought unsuccessfully
win a seat in the City Council
of Norfolk in 1946 arid a seat I
in 1947 in the Virginia House
of Delegates. |
While friends of Mr. Bibbins
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Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
First row, left to right,.!. P.
Atkinson, Brunswick,
elected commander of District
AHarrell Williams. Atlanta,
re-elected commander of Dis-
trlct C; Jerry B. Davis, Mac >n,
ingly rebuked the city fathers
today before the convention, for
their undemocratic stand.
Prior to this meeting Negro
delegates have been allowed to
mingle freely In any part of the
building In which the conven¬
tion was meeting. At this ses¬
sion the Augusta city officials
restricted Negro delegates to
thc balcony.
Many of the Negro delegates,
Completes Elks
Scholarship
Miss Euris Maria Smith, the
dau S hter of Mr - and Mrs
Roosevelt smith of 610 West
39th street, recently completed
the four year college scholar¬
ship awarded her in the Elk3*
Oratorical contest after receiv¬
ing a bachelo# of arts degree
from Bennett college this
month. In 1945 she was first
prize winner in the local, state,
regional and national oratorical
contests.
Miss Smith attended both
Bethune-Cookman college and
Bennett college for two years,
where she maintained in both
colleges an honorable record
She has participated in many
extra-curricular activities, par¬
ticularly in thc Catholic youth
movements. She is a selected
member of the Alpha Kappa
Mu honorary Society of Ben¬
nett college and has been
awarded a scholarship by the
Graduate Council of Howard
university.
Recently Miss Smith was se¬
lected as a qualified judge In
the Elks State Oratorical con-
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RECEIVES UNIVERSITY OF
CHICAGO SOHOLARSHIPP —
Alice Freeman, daughter
of Mr and Mrs John M. Free-
621 West 40th street
graduated June 6, from Talla-
college with a major in
philosophy and reugion. Main¬
NUMBER 35
newly elected commander of
District B: second row. T. J.
Hopkins. Savannah, retiring
commander of District A, and
Henry A. Scott. Macon, retiring
commander of District B.
becoming disgusted with the
show of discrimination perpe¬
trated against them, left the
city for home shortly after the
parade in which they partici¬
pated Major Hopkins made his
criticism of the treatment ac¬
corded Negro delegates by the
city fathers shortly before
George Heard, of Monroe, was
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taining a brilliant record at
Talladega. Miss Freeman grad¬
uated with the highest cumu¬
lative average in her class. She
served in the YWCA, NAACP
Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority
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