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TEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LXVII
PRESIDENT (OLSTON RESIGNS FROM COLLEGE
THEY GRADUATED TODAY—Here are shown the students who received
degrees and certificates at the commencement exercises today (Thursday)
at Georgia State College.
Top picture, the major portion of the 120 graduates from the arts and scien¬
ces departments, and, at, bottom, a portion of the 65 trades students who were
awarded certificates.
College Ends Sixty-Second
Commencement Week
In a Blaze of
N. C, Mutual Gets Citation
From National Magazine
INDIANAPOLIS TO GET
FIRST NEGRO
CARRIER FOREMAN
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INDIANAPOLIS, (A N Pi—
Postmaster George J. Ress
nounced here last week that
the f.rst Negro carrier foreman
would be appointed in the local
post office soon. Ress was
speaking before a membership
meeting of the local National
~ Alliance branch.
told the group that four
„ Nejy-o . had , . been
women ap-
pointed to positions as postal
clerk, a first in the histoiy o
the local oince.
Prominent Calitorman
Was A Visitor
Mrs. R_ j ese jonnson of Pasa¬
dena, Calif., and her sister,
Mrs. Payton Allen, of Atlanta,
were in the city last week vis¬
iting their niece, Mrs. Agnes
Sexton, and family, of 1006 W.
45th street. Mrs. Johnson was
recently honored by the Inter-
Racial Women’s Club of Pasa-
i
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Financial World, 46-year-old
nvestment and business week-
ly of New York, advised Dr. C.
C. Spaulding, president of the
N. C. Mutual Life Insurance
Company, last week that N. C.
Mutu ai is one of the 21 insur-
ance companies in the entire
country to receive the annual
Merit Award” citation in the
ninth annual survey of annual
reports of corporations.
According to the letter re¬
ceived by the local insurance
company there were approxi-
, ma teiy 4,500 annual reports of
cor p 0 rations submitted this
yeas, but only 1126 of the en-
tries received the Merit Award
Citation. Out of the 21 insur-
ance companies cited only one
other in the entire South, the
Republic National Life Insur-
ance company of Dallas, Tex.,
Qualified.
The letter received by Presi¬
dent Spaulding was as follows:
Dear Mr. Spaulding:
Congratulations! It is my
pleasure to advise you that of
he almost 4.500 annual reports
submitted this year, your cor¬
poration was one of the 1
entries achieving a “Merit
,
Award” citation in the Ninth
Annual Survey of Annual -Re-
ports, which appears in the Fi-
nancial World.
Please accept this certificate
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FIVE SAVANNAHIANS WITH U. S.
FORCES SERVING JAPAN
Ogeechee road and Sgt. El-
i j iiott F. who is the of
Brown son
Mrs. Carrie Brownof 957 Yam-
i acraw Village,
Cpl. Rudolph is a member ol
i a medical company and was
i recently awarded the Good Ser-
| vice medal; Private McNair H. is
a rifleman with Company
j Private Jenkms is w r ith Head-
quarters Company and is a ri-
j fleman. Private Farley M, is rifle- and
\ i man Sgt. with is Company rifleman with
Brown a
S Company D.
E117TJ, Japan—The following
Savannahian are attached to
the 24th infantry doing guard
duty with the U. S. occupation
forces, according to a report:
Cpl John W. Rudolph, son of
Mr and Mrs. Attaway Rudolph
of 616 Kline street; Private
Willie Jenkins, son of Mr.
Mrs Thomas Jenkins of 514
Maple lane- Private Cameron
McNair son of Dargon Me-
Nair of 121 East Victory Drive-
Private John W. Farley, son of
Mrs Marie Farley of 1907
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSADY, AUGUST 18, 1949
Agriculture — Thelma Dris-
kell Akers, John Aluert Dem¬
ons, Asav Elgrine Eaddy, John¬
nie L. Harris, Andrew Holmes,
Waller Edward Lews, Conerli-
ous Wallace Mclver. Tneodore
Roosevelt Strange, Frank Wil¬
lis, Herbert Henry Wright.
Biolcgy — Charles Oarglile
Hall, Cornellous Nathan Hun¬
ter.
Business administration —
MJHenry Brown, Fred Bryant,
Charles Wycliffe Cole, Leroy
Eason, Mervin Peter
Rubye Elo se Mikle, Hosea
Stripling, Dorris Williams Til-
son, Marjorie Frazier Wallace,
Eugene Washington.
Elementary adulation—Edith
Hague Adams, Pearlie Hendley
Alien, Sus e Mae Arnold, Janie
Walker Baker, Oreda Baker,
Rubye Colley Baker, Eddye
Moss Blair, Marguerite San¬
ders Blakeney, Annie Mae
Heard Brawley, Nellie Strang-
lin Brittain, Lucinda Green
Brown. Agnes Bradford Bryant,
Eunice Hendley Burton.
Sarena Bass Cail, Lillie El.z-
abeth Cameron, Lula Mae Can¬
ty, Lester Mae Channell, Roxie
(Evelyn Jones Cobbs, Georgie
Barnes Cooper, Frederica Mc¬
lver Dash, Amelia Sloan Davis,
Corrie Bacon Everett, Henri¬
etta Elvin Gaston, Melrose
Scott Hagins, Ruth S. Hall,
Sall e Jackson Harris.
Climaxing its sixty-second
commencement week by award¬
ing degrees to a class of 120 in
the arts and sciences and cer¬
tificates to 85 trades gradu¬
ates, Georgia State college
brought to a close today one of
the most successful summer
sessions in its history.
The week’s activities
with the baccalaureate services
Sunday aftrnoon when the ad¬
dress was delivered by Dr. Rob¬
ert p. Daniel, president of Shaw
university, who was introduced
by President James A. Colston.
Dr. Daniel spoke on the sub¬
ject, “Faith.”
Music for the occasion
furnished by the choir
the direction of L. Allen Pyke.
J. J, Ballou and Pyke played
the processional, ‘ God of
Fathers,” and the
“Priests’ March,”
The invocation was given by
Dr. D. T. Babcock, pastor of St.
Philip Monumental A M. E.
church, and the benediction
by the Rev. John Q. Adams,
pastor, Mt. Zion
church.
I The commencement exercises
j this afternoon were attended
; by a tremendously large
! who listened to a most impres¬
sive address delivered by Dr,
C. V. Troup, president of Fort
Valley State college. He was in-
i traduced by President Colston.
Nat’l Association Speeds
Aid to Groveland Prisoners
RAIFORD, Fla., Aug. 11.—
Physical examinations made
this week of the threo Grove-
) land boys being held here on
a rape charge substantiated
charges made by Assistant
Special Counsel Franklin H.
Williams of the National Asso¬
ciation for the Advancement of
Colored People that the prison¬
ers were brutally beaten by po¬
lice to nfakg them “confess”
to the crime of attacking Mrs.
Willie Padgett. Jean Downing
D. D. S., and Nelson Spaulding,
M. II , of Jacksonville, con¬
firmed the NAACP attorney’s
report that lash marks ana
scars are still visible on the
prisoners’ bodies and that one
of the boys has several broken
teeth and another’s foot wai
cut with glass.
In addition to supplying
medical care for the youths af¬
ter prison authorities refused
to do so, the NAACP has pro¬
Only 4,365 of Possible
20,000 Re-Register
Up to This Week, Says Hub
According to a report of W.
D. Donnelly, chairman of the
vote registration committee of
the Hub. leading civic organi¬
zation, tne number of Negroes
who have qual.fied up to this
week under the re-registration
provision, is 4,365.
Looked at from the number
of Negro voters registered in
j 1 the Chatham registration county, 20,000. law before went
new
into effect following the last
session of the state ieg;slature,
the number of voters now reg¬
istered now represents only
about one-fifth of the possi¬
Robeson Says No Man Can
Question His Loyalty to U. S.
WASHINGTON
body can question my loyalty to
Amer'ca and its great tradi¬
tions,” declared Paul Robeson,
“but they can question my
loyalty to that one per cent of
wall street interests which con¬
trols 60 per cent of the na¬
tion’s wealth.”
Speaking informally to a
croup of reporters and friends
•at hie TVvmhar hotel suite last
It.ioto by Frank
Henderson, Sara Willis Hunt,
Laura Lillian Jefierson, Mabel
Evails Jones, Lillian Beatrice
Keaton.
Laura Evelyn Kent, Vernie
Lee Whitaker Kight, Julia Kate
Leslie, Sus.e Lovett, Julia Al¬
berta Lowe, Neuzetta Genevieve
Lowe, Eldora Dixon Marks,
ll.ieadora Hill Maxwell, Lillian
Johnston Moore, Marie Nolan,
Lillian Juanita Phillips, Betty
Sealy Pope, Josie Mae Robin¬
son, Dorothy Ann Rousseau.
Geneva Murray Shatteen, Lucy
Gadsden Solomon, Carrie Lee
Starks.
Helen Roberta Stephens,
Martha Frances Stinson, Eula
Mae Strange, Crawford Tal¬
bert, Mozelle Thomas, Myra N.
Wilburn, Florence Esther Wil¬
liams. Gertrude Lee W.lliams,
Willie B. Williams, Marguerite
Ethel Wright.
English—William Phillip For¬
rest, Jr.
Matuemat cs—Hortense An¬
ne,tie Handy, Leila Roberta
'Hdl, William Benjamin Jack-
son, Ada Louise Mention, Ozie
Bell Smothers, Arthur Williams.
Social Sciences—V:rgie Mae
Anderson, Edna Cynthia Arm¬
strong, Kathleen Edwards
Boles, Hattie E. Clark, Gilbert
Richardson Dean. Maggie Rob¬
erts Demere, James Robert
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vided the prisoners with shoes
and the first clean clothing
made available to them since
their arrest almost four weeks
ago.
The three boys, Samuel
Shepherd, 22; Walter Lee Irv¬
in, 22, and Charles Greenlee.
16, were jailed and accused of
attacking Mrs. Padgett after
she charged that four Negroes
had raped her early on the
morning of July 16. After the
accusation set off a flare of
mob violence in the Groveland
area, resulting in the burning
of three Negro homes (one of
them that of Shepherd’s fath-
■ri, Mr. Williams made an on-
the-spot investigation of the
Groveland situation. He ga¬
thered evidence indicating
that the prisoners are inno¬
cent of the charges against
them and that mounting anti-
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ble potential Negro voting
strength in the county.
It is stated that there are
approximately 18000 whites
who have re-registered up to
date.
Registration is being carried
out at the special office at the
northwest corner of Oglethorpe
avenue and Barnard street,
where every convenience is
available to those who wish to
qualify as voters.
It requires only a few min¬
utes to register and it is the
duty of all citizens who have
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day night, Robeson implied
that no one coula h?lp a sit¬
uation by running away from
it. This implication came af¬
ter Robeson had related quite
fully his experiences abroad
and the treatment of minori¬
ties in foreign countries, espe¬
cially Russia, when a reporter
asked him to comment on the
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Protests
Decision in
C. M. Case
NEW YORK. Aug. 11.- Pro¬
test against the denial or a re¬
view of the court martial con¬
viction ol former Pr.vate Al¬
bert W. Nolen was made this
j i week by the Nat-.onal Associa-
lion for the Advancement of
I Colored People in a letter to
the Department of the army.
In response to a letter lrovo
Col. Charles D. Oarle, com¬
manding oliicer in the Records
Administrat on Center of the
Adjutant General's office, in¬
forming Nolen that the Army
had found no “reasonable
doubt of your guilt,” Ass stain
Special Counsel Franklin H.
Williams of the NAACP assert¬
ed that the Army’s decision
“is shocking and disgraceful in
view of the facts and circum¬
stances in this acse.”
The NAACP appealed a year
ago for a change in the form
of discharge (dishonorable)
g.ven Nolen afier he was con¬
victed of disobeying his time su¬
perior officer. At that
Mr. Williams stated that No¬
len was, at the time he receiv¬
ed the order, “suffering from
mental instability and nervous
tension growing out of very
real physical and mental dis¬
turbances which should have
resulted in his separation from
the service by virtue of a psy¬
choneurosis.”
PERSONAL MENTION
Dr. J. E. Fonvielle is vacation¬
ing in North Carolina. He is
accompanied by his daughter.
Miss Frances Fonvielle of At¬
lanta, both of whom are on a
motor trip to Asheville and
other points.
Racial Tension Reaches Breaking
Point After Bombing of Two Min¬
isters’ Homes White Mobsters
BIRMINGHAM, (ANP>—What
lias been a tense and watchful
racial conflict, over zoning ol
areas for all-Negro and
white occupancy only, erupted
here at midnight Saturday
when the homes of two Negro
ministers in North Smithfield
were dynamited and Negroes,
guarding the houses, threw
lead at a speeding auto from
which the bombs were hurled
The blasts, seconds apart,
rocked adjoining Negro houses
in the “whites only” neighbor-
hood. Windows were shatter¬
ed and a few planks knocked
loose—but little other damage
resulted. The explosions were
heard over most of the city,
The houses are half a block
from three others damaged
heavily by bombs last March
24. They are owned by Revs.
E. B. Deyampert, and Milton
Curry.
About 18 Negroes were on the
porch or in the houses at the
time of the bombing, but none
were injured. Three or four of
them fired p atois and shot¬
guns at the vehicle from which
the bombs were tossed. The
shots apparently missed.
One bomb fell on the lawn
about 20 feet from the porch
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| Dentists Elevate Dr. Giles
/ To The Presidency
HEART OF AMERICA DEN¬
TAL SOCIETY. Kansas City,
Mo., was host to the National
Dental Association’s 36th an
nual convention.
Member Audit Bureau Circulationr
Price 7c
To Pursue Graduate Studies
Leading To Doctorate Degree
At New York University
' By C. J. Smith, Director, Georgia Slate College
Press Service
August 18, 1949
The following statement was made to the Georgia State
College Faculty this morning by President James A. Col¬
ston. and released expressly to the Savannah Tribune as
a public service shortly afterwards This step was tak¬
en in answer to a request by the editor who sought confir¬
mation of rumors to this effect:
President James A. Oolston offered his resignation
to the Board of ltegents of the University System of Geor¬
gia on July 22, effective September 1. This was disclosed
to the faculty this morning. He plans to pursue grad-
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DR. WILLIAM D. GILES,
president, National Dental As¬
sociation, has had long service
and activity with NDA—former
chairman. Oral Surgery
tion, former member of the
Standing, left to right, back
row: Dr. E. H. Rummons, Dr. J.
D. Rickey, Dr. J. H. Lewis, Dr.
V, O, Wilkinson, Dr. H. B.
Troupp, Dr. F. J, Haugh, Jr.,
NUMBER 44
eecutive board, and former
vice president. A civic leader
of notie, Dr. Giles holds dental
degrees from Howard universi¬
ty and Northwestern universi¬
ty. For the past twelve years,
he has been chief of oral sur¬
gery services at Provident hos¬
pital in Chicago. He was one
of the organizers of Chicago’s
Dental Society of which he has
served in many official capa¬
cities, including that of presi¬
dent.
KANSAS CITY MO.—Mem¬
bers of the National Dental as¬
sociation brought to an end
their thirty sixth annual con¬
vention here this week after a
six day session which netted
the association one of its most
profitable confabs of its his¬
tory.
At the closing session th? as¬
sociation elevated to its presi¬
dency Dr. William D. Giles of
Chicago, who was made pres-
iident-elect of the NDA at its
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Dr. J. C. Marshall,
Seated: Dr. M. M Queen,
Dr. R. P, Beshears, Dr. B J.
Moore, president: Dr. R. L.
Jackson. Dr. R. H. Ellis, Dr. T.
T. Lowery,