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YEARS OF CONTINUOUS PUBLIC SERVICE LXVII ^IMUY’E .Sheriffs ON who A TRIP chosen NORTH—Here by Sheriff are Bill sho«n liar the is of four Chatham members County of the just Negro before Junior they Deputy left were Savannah Sunday morning on a trip with him, in his ear, to Washington, Philadelphia and New York City Accompanying the group is Special Officer Fay (Jazzbo) Patterson, left, one of Savannah’s 12 Negro members of the Savannah Police force. Sheriff Harris is on the ex¬ treme right. * Next to Officer Patterson are Junior Deputy Sheriffs Abraham Stoman, 14, of Haven Home school; Joseph Riley, Jr, 13 of St. Anthony’s school; Eddie Johnson, 12, of Florance school- and Amos Johnson, 14, of Cuyler high school. The trip to the metropolitan :enters of the north is a gift of Harris to the four out¬ standing memDers of ths local Junior Deputy Sheriffs’ organ¬ ization. The four boys were selected from letters written the members to the sher.ff telling why they want3d to the trip, the letters of the four boys being adjudged the The trip will consume a little a week during which time group will be shown the places of interest in each city visited. Early this week the group was in Wa«shingtion where their picture was taken with H. Hoover, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investiga¬ tion. The Junior Deputy organization grew out of an 12 to be Awarded Diplomas Culture School Beauty O. E. S. Closes Fiftieth Annual Session Today 1100 At State College Sum. School Eleven hundred students are enrolled in the summer session at Georgia State college, ac¬ cording to registration figures released by T. C. Meyers, regis¬ trar, last week. The breakdown is as follows: , 'J^'elerans: 259 ,trade school * Continued n___Do on Page Six Above photo bhoivs a part of the delegation attending the 50th anniversary of Prince Hall Grand Chapter, O. (E. S. of auaiuuili <triluu«' idea project here by Sheriff Harris. It has been in tence several months and is Non-Segregation Put Into Effect at Maxwell Field MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 23.—Non-segregation went into effect at Maxwell Field last week when Negro soldiers were admitted to an airmen's and swimming pool which the, white soldiers only had used in' the past. No untoward incidents have followed as a result of full this in- j tegration of Negroes into post’s activities, which has re- j Continued on Page Six The Prince Hall Grand Chap¬ ter of the Order of Eastern Star for Georgia and its juris¬ diction held its fiftieth anni¬ versary session here this week, June 26-30. More than two hundred delegates attended. This Golden Anniversary was unique in that the Grand Chap¬ ter was organized in Savannah by a Savannahian, Sol C. John- son, and is an auxiliary of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge which was also organiz- ed in Savannah in 1870 by r’rvvxtivmad Continued rvr\ on Dhffn Page O 2 Georgia. Reading from left to right on bottom row: Mrs. Car¬ rie T. Stanton, grand secretary; J Airs. Alinnie Washington, G, C,', SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1219 composed of several hundred Continued on Page 2 N. Y. Stevedore Union Threatened With Banishment YORK tic Joseph Ryan, president of the ,, ” ■■ International , T ~*"— , ,. — , Longshore- T T l... men's Association, threatens to expel Local 968, Brooklyn unit of his organization, for its open protest recently. Composed of Negro s^teve- Twelve young woman will be awarded ceruncates of gradua¬ tion at exercises to be held by the Boyce National School of Beauty Culture Sunday morn¬ ing at St. Paul Baptist church, Waters avenue. The exercises will be held at eleven o’clock and the com¬ mencement address will be de¬ livered by Rev. A. E. Hagins, pastor. The certificates will be resented by Madam J. M. Wal- ker, head of the school. The program will be as fol- iows: Reading, Mrs. Wilhelmena Quarterman; “And Where We from Here?’, J. iH. Smalls; ]cornet solo, Morris Dunn; com- address, Rev. A. E. I Continued on Page Six Miss Alarv L. Hall of W aye roe*,; Airs. Mary H. Jones, grand lec¬ turer; Mrs. Alarie Cooper, grand treasurer; Mrs. Carrie. Taylor, Bishop Church Alleyne Conference Chased From PHILADELPHIA (ANP) — Pan¬ demonium broke loose at John W.sley A ME Zion church Sun-| day of last week when Bishop Cameroy Chesterfield Alleyne prelate of the Pliiladelphia- Balt.more conference, transfer- red the host pastor, the Rev David Cecil Lynch, from the. 15th and Lombard street church , to Jersey City, N. J. j The excitement broke at the' final hour on the fourth day of the 122nd annual conference, the time which is reserved for the reading of the assignments and reass gnments affecting the 53 churches in the confer-] ence. Rev. Lynch’s transfer has au¬ tomatically taken the same pattern as did th eremoval of the Rev. Mahlon M. Lew.s from 3t. Matthews AME church last month. A large body of the; Wesley church is talking about pulling out of the conference and forming a new church. Continued on Page Six dores, the local protested against the lack of work for its members and the unfairness oi the situations which have de¬ veloped through the years and forced them off the docks. Ryan called for the books of Continued on Page 5 Last Rites Held Today for Bishop Clinton Miller . Funeral services will be today (Thursday) for the Rev. Clinton Miller, senior Pros and Cons Presented On Regional Education WINS SCHOLARSHIP i f §P j| | William H. Collins, Jr., a re¬ cent graduate of Beach high schaol, is the recipient of sec¬ ond pr*ze in the National Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Essay Contest. Mr Collins’ essay was on "The Relationship of Business to Civil Rights.” H;s theme won the acclaim of a board of judges under the direction of Horace F. Johnson, national director of education of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity. Associate judges and mem¬ bers of the national education commission of the fraternity were Dr. Ambrose Caliver, spe- c.alist in United States Otfice of Education, Washington, D. C.;. , Dr Cornelius V. Troup, president of Fort Valley State Continued on Page Two Strong Support Given ltansome In His Hid for Ya. Legislature hop of the First Born Church of the Living God. He died Sunday at a local hospital. Although he had been sick for about eight weeks his pass¬ ing was a great shock to the local community and his many many friends and followers throughout the state. This morning early the body will be carried to Waycross, Ga., where the funeral services will be held at 10 o’clock. Im¬ mediately after the services the body will be brought back to Savannah fbr burial in Laurel Grove cemetery. Mon¬ roe Funeral Directors is i n charge of the funeral. Bishop Miller, who was a native of Liberty county, where he was born 60 years ago, had Continued on Page Six grand asso. conductretJi; Mrs. M. L. Herrington, grand at>so. matron; Mrs. H. R. Butler of Los Angeles, Calif., past grand FORMER SAVANNAHIAN iS NAMED SURGEON AT OHIO PEN DAYTONA BEACH, (ANP'~ Negro educators were almost unanimous in expressing skep¬ about the projected plan for regional education propos¬ ed at the Southern Governors’ conference last year. It look¬ ed like a way of side-stepping the issue of foremost impor¬ tance at present, the admission of Negro students into white state universities. The NAACP and like-minded groups have had a long Ibtter fight and were about to taste success through Supreme court rulings in their favor when the Re¬ gional Council for Education was formed. The white St. Petersburg Times as recently as May 25 stated in an editorial, ‘‘Since the regional plan was motivat¬ ed in a large degree by the Su¬ preme court rulings on equal educational facilities for Ne¬ groes—the program Is likely to perpetuate, or even Intensify the costly, wasteful and In- Continued on Page 5 Dr. Watson H- Walker, with offices at 120 Hamilton avenue, in Columbus, will become pris¬ on surgeon at the Ohio Peniten¬ tiary on July 1, Warden Ralph W. AlvLs told The News this RICHMOND, Va. (ANP)-iIn- terest in the campaign of Dr. r,p e L „dfrrL^ 0 «,a ,1 in the Virginia House of Dele¬ gates, is increasing in every section of the city. Reports reaching the office of Amos C Clark, director of the Richmond Civic council, a»nd Dr. Thomas H. Henderson, campaign man¬ ger, indicate strong support for the minister in all sections of the city. The determination of Lyn¬ wood Smith, local lawyer, to re¬ main in the campaign for a seat also in the House of Dele¬ gates does not seem so far to e much of a threat to Dr. Ran- Continued on Page 5 Dr. Gregg Given Clean Bill DOVER, Del. (ANP; — The board of trustees of Delaware State college last week gave Dr. Howard Gregg, president, a vote of confidence, and he will continue in his office. This ac tion, the board says, exonerates Continued on Page 5 Savannahians Hurt When Turns Over Near Selma Although their car turned over three times Saturday night about lo o’clock, two Savannah¬ ians en route to Mississippi es¬ caped without serious inury. The occupants of the car were Dr J. W. Wilson, prominent dentist, and Fentras Monroe. They were on their way to visit the former’s parents. The accident occurred about 14 miles this side of Selma, Continued Page 2 New Emphasis On Re- Registration By Eulie W. Bellinger Reregistration of voters un¬ der the law passed by the re¬ cent session of the Georgia leg¬ islature is expected to show a sharp increase during the next ew weeks, due to increased ac¬ tivity of the civic committee of The Hub Club, well-known lo¬ cal civic organization. Designating Tuesday, July 5, as “Red Letter Day,” this or¬ ganization has asked each min¬ lecturer; Grand Patron John¬ son; Grand Matron Ayers, Mrs. Leola Sykes of Philadelphia .Airs. P. B. Eichelbcrger, secretary Member Audit Bureau Price 7c NUMBER 37 week. Asked to verify a news tip, the warden told a News report¬ er: “It looks that way ... I am Continued on Page 5 Two Graduate From W. Point WEST POINT, N. Y. (ANP) — Two Negro cadets were among the 572 graduates of the U- S Military academy at West Point last week. They were Edward Brinkley Howard of Washing¬ ton, D. C., and Charles Lee Continued on Six ister pastoring a local church, to announce from his pulpit Sunday that he is expecting each member of his congrega¬ tion, not already registered un¬ der the new law, to meet him at the registration office, Ogle¬ thorpe Ave. and Barnard St., Tuesday, in order that he may assist them in registering. As a further aid in this re- Continued on Page 2 treasurer; Airs. Amy Dunn. C. C. F. C ; J. W. Reece, auditor; Mrs, S. M. Finley of Chester, S. C., photo by Frank