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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LXVIi
THEY GOT THEIR DIPLOMAS IN BEAUTY CULTURE
at The above is a picture of the
class which graduated
before last from the Boyce Na-
Sn the'“exerclsefwmch were
held at St. Paul Baptist church.
The Rev. A. E. Hagins,
delivered the commencement
address and Madam J. M.
Walker, founder and head of
Greenliriar Children’s Center
To he Monday
Police Save White Man From
by Negroes
111. School
Bill Hits At
Segregation
UPRINGFIELD, 111. (ANP) —
Among the many last minute
bills passed by the Illinois gen¬
eral assembly just before ad¬
journment last week was a
school appropriations bill which
hit at segregated schools.
Under the $102,000,000 state
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Mississippi Has Plans
For Equal Salaries
WOMAN FINDS PURSE
WITH $600 IN CASH
AND $500 CHECK
ST. LOUTS (ANP)—Honesty
pays off handsomely, that is, it
did for Mrs. Jeannette Fisher,
prominent fraternal leader,
church worker and member of
j.the New Light Organization
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I I jsIi&
ST. BENEDICTS CHURCH BLESSED
The newly completed St.
Benedict’s church, East Broad
and Gaston streets, was blessed
Sunday morning by the Ri
Rev Msgr. Joseph E. Moyland,
V g. adm.nistrator of the Sa-
vannan-Atlanta diocese.
auauiuilt e-rilmur
the school, presented the di-
plomas.
I . . shown,
| ront row' fading leTt to right!
Virginia Jones, Louise Samuel,
Tompkin, Daisy Watson;
standing, left to right, Hattie
Houston, Mary Holmes, Cleo
Campbell, Missouri Baker and
WINSTON - SALEM, N. C.
iANP)—A white cate operator
who shot point blank into a
group of Negroes sending a
woman to the hospital, was
barely saved from a lynching
last week when police officers
of both races arrested ‘him and
carried him to safety from a
raging group of Negroes.
The operator, o. L. Werst, Is
charged with shooting Miss
iHattie Cook in the head. She
]i£ now in a local hospi tal with
a fractured jaw and other head
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JACKSON, Miss. (ANP) —
Mississippi has a plan to pro¬
vide equal salaries for Negro
and white teachers, so Gover¬
nor Fielding L. Wright says.
But he is not talking about
v/hat the plan is.
He said his interracial com_ „
mittee organized to study
cation in Mississippi has de-
v ised a woikable scheme, and
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signor Moyland also preached!
the dedicatory sermon at a
mm high Mass Which he cele-
j brated.
The church replaces an old
frame structure that had stood
the same site since 1589.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1949
S. Ct. Reverses Murder
Conviction of Watts
Archie Donaldson.
Members of the class not
shown in . the .. picture, . . are Mae Q
FUrl ° W a " d R °'
The Boyce School is located
at 1506 West Broad St. and is
ne of the best known schools of
beauty culture in this section.
The opening ol Greenbriar
Children’s. Center at. Hunter
Field on Monday, July 18, will
mark the fulfillment of a long
felt need among homeless Ne¬
gro children in Chatham coun¬
ty. This institution represents
the realization of a hope which
first manifested itself 7 years j
ago among a group of 8 Negro ;
women who were members of
Gamma Sigma Omega Chapter
of the Alpha Kappa Alpha So-
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X. f. Nurses
RALEIGH, N. C. (ANP)—Ne-
gro nurses and white nurses in
North Carolina will work to-
. , .
Cr IOm n ° W 011 Ul 0UC
teerated organization. Las
week the North Carolina State
Association of Negro Registered
at its 27th annual meet-
ing voted to dissolve so tfta
its members could jom the
white North North Carolina Carolina GidR State
lurses Association.
Nine months ago the white
group voGd to admit Negro
nurses to the organization. The
Negro group’s action was tak-
en in the light of this action.
This step in North Carolina
]eave seven southern states
th£ District of Colum bia
which still do not admit Negro
nurses although colored nurses
The Rev. Gustave Obrecht, s.
A. M. who retired as pastor ol
St Benedict’s after 38
service, was an honored guest
at the ceremony. The
pastor is the Rev. Joseph Feeiey,
M. A,
__________
Beach High School To
Graduate Twenty -one
United States Supreme Court
this week handed down a 6-3
jdecision reversing the conviction
ol Robert Austin Watts of In¬
dianapolis for murder after an
appeal from this conviction was
argued before the high court by
Special Counsel Thurgood Mar-
sha „ and Asgislant gpecial
Counsel Franklin H. Williams of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peopl ■
In announcing the reversal of
Watts’ conviction, Justice Felix
Frankfurter asserted that Uhere
is “torture of mind as well as
body’’ and pointed out that
Watts had been subjected to
continued gruelling questioning
and had been denied a prelim-
inary hearing until days had
elapsed.
Mr. Justice Douglas in a spe¬
cial concurring opinion stress¬
ed the illegality of the prac¬
tice of holding prisoners wit’ll-
out arraignment lor the sole
purpose of extorting contes-
smns from therm He stated:
“Detention without arragn-
ment is a time honored method
for keeping an accused under
the exclusive control of the po-
lice. They can then operate at
their leisure. The accused is
wholly at their mercy. He is
without the aid of counsel or
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Funeral services were held
this (Thursday) afternoon at
gt phU churcn for Rev . Joel
Landrum Butlcr s D D „ pre -
siding eld:r of the Savannah
district of the Georgia confer-
ence of the AME church. He
died Monday afternoon at a lo¬
cal hospital after several
months’ illness.
j A large crowd attended the
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( may get individual member-
phips in the American Nurses
Association.
( iteration 1° make the problem of in
easier a special com-
niittee of nurses from both l
' races has been selected. Mem-
bers include Mrs. Lucille
jWi)liams Lincolu , director 0 f nurses,
hospital, Durham, and
s (l ut o£ lhe SE Region,
j [National IMoI inno • Association Ai'e/ininHan of f n„l Colored „
Graduate Nurses; Mrs. L.
ancJ Miss Esther P. Hen-
r Y I
As she closed the last
ing of the segregated Negro
nurses organization, Mrs.
Youths Attacked By Whites
At Philly Swimming Pool
PH1LADEPHIA (ANP)—Nine,
-Negro boys were attacked by a
■gang of whites as they were
swimming in a shallow pool be- t
hind the Art Museum on the,
Parkway here last week. Two
boys were hurt and one was
seriously injured, suffering a j
possible fracture of his nose
from a severe blow.
The injured youth ... is Clarke ,
Campbell, _ , .. 13, who . was allegedly ,, ” /
. beaten . with ... sticks .. , and , the at-'
tackers . fists when he . was too, .
slow , on the .. getaway. He suf-
;
the arms and body and had to
!be X-rayed at Presbyterian
hospital to determine the actual
(extent of his condition. Also
hurt was Larry Brown, 14, who
was beaten about the body,
arms and shoulder, but whose
condition did not require treat¬
ment.
According to Campbell ana
his buddies, they had heard
the day before that some of
their friends had used the pool
behind the museum without
ny trouble. Nine of them form-
>d a grdup and decided to
swim there. On arriving, they
found no one there After they
changed their clothing,
ut on their bathing suits, and
{entered the pool, about 15
Last Kites Held Today
For Rev. J. L. Butler
P. 0. Loyalty
Firing up to 6
PHILADELPHIA (ANP)—Two
more post office clerks here
have been suspended from their
jobs by the government on the
grounds that they were “dis¬
loyal to the United States.’’
This brings the number up to
six.
On June 28, John C. Lymas,
48, and Reese J. Brown, 32,
were suspended. Lymas had
over 28 years in the service and
Brown had 12. It was a mat¬
ter of months before Lymas
would have been retired after
having entered the postal ser¬
vice in 1920.
On June 23, Edward Allen
[smith, a 24-year-old Navy vet-
eran, and a clerk of four years,
was suspended because of al¬
leged Communist connections
He was charged with attending
a social affair given by the
party ten years ago while a
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McMillan Thompson,
president of the group, said:
"The final chapter has been
written by the N. C. Associa-
tion of Negro Registered Nurses,
ine., but th? activities of the
nurses and nursing must go on.
professional women we ali
a great part to play lur¬
thering the progress and cle-
vating the standards of this
work, — i _
“The integrating of the as-
soeiation gives opportunity for
greater service and by so do-
'humanity will be better
served.”
Mrs. Marie B Noell, execu¬
white boys, whos? ages ranged
14 to 17, came up to the
pool and ordered them out.
Members of the colored group
told reporters and Park Guard
investigators that the whites' I
threatened them and called
them “niggers” and kept In-1
sisting that the Negroes vacate^
pool. The boys remained
in the pool and the whites
.
away.
After ... short . . Wmie . .. the ..
a
... boys , returned . , armed . with ...
sticks. .. , They _. , began striking , ... .
.
the ,. boys . in .. the pool T who . scamp-
ered out and ran. Brown and i
Campbell ,who had e.mnged
tieir clothing at the pool’s edge i
wer left behind clothing. as they tried j
to get their T.ie |
white boys swarmed around,
beating them with their fists
and sticks.
Henry Mears, 13, oldest
riend of Charlis Campbell, said
e and the other boys organized
themselves and returned to
fight. ... However, ..... they found * ______
„ park guard standing with
Campbell and Brown near the
pool. When one of the
leaders of the white gang was
ointed out to the guard by the
injured boys, the guard is said
to have explained that the
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ft was announced from the
mer school that possibly the
ifficc of Principal Willie G.
Edwards of Beach-Cuyler sum-
largest class ever to graduate
from a summer session of the
school would be presented on
Friday, August 5.
Commencement exercises will
ic held at ll a m. from the
tave of St. Matthew's Episcopal
■hurch, Anderson and West
Broad streets.
Candidates for graduation are
ts follows:
Catherine Aikens, Mary Bo-
tan, Ruby Clark, Clara Davis,
Carolyn Mack, Henrietta E1U-
ott, Mary Royall, George Din-
1 gle, Carl Golden, Thomas
Horne, William Howell, Jacob
Qreene, Frederick Jefferson,
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AUSTIN, Tex. (ANP) — An
anti-lynching bill, carrying se¬
vere penalties for persons tak-
ng part in mob action that re¬
sult in death, was signed into
aw last week by Gov. Beauford
IH. Jester. The bill, an emer¬
gency measure passed by the
egislature at the governor’s re¬
quest, provides punishment for
two degrees of lynching.
One specifies death or im¬
prisonment of not less than
five years for persons convict-
| Ten
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FnZ Emp^ent
New Orleans P. O.
tive secretary of the white
roup, said:
“Since all citizens of North
need adequate care
and since the professional
lursing organizations are to a
reat degree responsible lor
uch care, i believe that Lhe
etion taken this morning by
he N C, Association of Negro
iegistered Nurses, Inc., to dis¬
solve its state organization of
7 years’ standing and to asso¬
ciate itself wholly with the N
State Nurses’ Association
ill be a great asset in promot¬
ing nursing services for all
North Carolinians.”
WASHINGTON — Fifteen Ne¬
gro complainants who charged
they were denied employment
as postal clerks in New Orleans
solely because of their race
were represented this week be¬
fore the Federal Fair Employ¬
ment Board by Clarence Mitch¬
ell, labor secretary of the Na-
tional Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People;
William C. Jason, welfare di¬
rector of the National Alliance
of Postal Employees; and Ar-
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dr. BUNCHE
RUSSWURM A WAR D — Dr
Ralph J. Bunche, center, acting
UN mediator for Palestine and
head of tin trusteeship divis-
ion of the United Nations, is
shown as he receives the Russ-
wurm award presented him by
of the Negro Newspa-
Per Publishers Association. The
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
Cross Burned
On Campus of
Univ. of Ky.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (ANP)—A
seven-foot, rag wrapped wood¬
en cross was discovered burn¬
ing in front of the University
of Kentucky administration
building here early Friday
morning. The cross, neatly
constructed, was lashed to an
old cannon.
Doubl was expressed by po-
»ce that the cross-burning was
a Ku Klux Klan project, ai J
though a burned cross was
found on the university’s cx-
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Texas Governor Signs
Bill
COLLEGE WORKSHOP
STUDENTS MAKE
TOUR
Students enrolled in the ele¬
mentary education workshop at
Georgia State college went on
a sightseeing trip of several
places of interest in town and
in the county Friday afternoon.
Among the places visited in¬
cluded: The West Broad Street
YMCA, Carver village, the Rec-
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NON-BIAS POLICY
A SUCCESS AT
SWIMMING POOL
New York (ANP)—The poli¬
cy of non-segregation institu¬
ted at the swimming pool at
Parades Amusement park,
the world’s largest salt water
pool, has been working out
smoothly, according to Irving
Rosenthal, owner of the park.
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was made June 24,
In Dr, Bundle’s office at UN
;headquarters at Lake Success,
Y„ by Dowdal H. Davis, left,
general manager of the Kan-
sas City Call, and newly elect-
od president of the NNPA, and
Frank L. Stanley, right, pub-
lisher of the Louisville Defend-
and a former NNPA presi-
NUMBER 39
dent. The award was to have
een presented to Dr. Bunche at
the annual convention of the
publishers in Washington June
16-18, but when Dr. Bundle’s
piane arrived in Washington it.
was unable to land because of
weather conditions, and he was
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