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67 YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LXVII
Wide-Spread Effort Being Made
To Have President Colston
Retained at Ga. State
COMMITTEE CF HUB AND COLLEGE ALUMNI
CALLS OFF MEETING TODAY IN ATLANTA
WITH BOARD OF REGENTS
When W ire Received Stating Resignation of Colston
Has Been Accepted and Matter Closed
BY E. W. BELLINGER
Th? resignation of James A.
Colston as president of Geor¬
gia State college, announced
^Thursday of last week in an
*' exclusive release to this news¬
paper, has resulted in wide
Conference Called Off
A committee, represent¬
ing the Kub, local civic or¬
ganization, and the Geor¬
gia State C' liege Alumni,
w.iich was to meet today
(Thursday) in Atlanta w th
the Board |of Regents, call¬
ed off the conference Wien
the follow ng telegram from
Chancellor Caldwell was re¬
ceived by Dr. J. W. Wilson,
To Seek Change of Venue
In Groveland Case
AME’s Hold Interesting
Christian Education
Leadership Meeting
TO RESUME POST
AT CUYLER JR. HIGH
Mrs. Stella Jones Reeves,
newly graduated and popular
student of the Univ?rsity of
Pittsburgh, who will return to
the city to resume her teach¬
ing post in the Cuvier Junior
LIBERIA GRADUATES FUL-
LY TRAINED NURSES—U. S
Publice health service nurses
fcnd Liberian government
nurses who make up the fac¬
ulty of tHe St. Timothy School
of Nursing* see their f.rst class
giaduated. Pictured above are
the instructors and tbefr grad¬
uates. They ate, idt x
auannah ©ilmitf
dhtairmai of the commit¬
tee:
“Mr. Spalding has en¬
gagements that make him
unavailable fur conference
tomorrow. Although both
of us are quite walling to
talk to you, we feel that a
conference would serve no
good purpose insofar as
present issue is concerned.
A committee of toe Rcgo.its
f"lt that financial condi¬
tions for pdst two years
makes change in adminis¬
tration mandatory. Presi¬
dent Colston tendered res¬
ignation and it was accept-
(Continued on page three!
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ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 22.—
The forty-nrst annual session
of the Georgia State Christian
Education Leadership Congress
and Rural Church Institute of
the AME church in Georgia
was held at Morris Brown col¬
lege, August 15-19, with Bish-
jop R. R. Wright, Jr.. Ph. D.. di¬
recting the gathering.
In a seminar, which took up
much time of the meeting, The
Rural Church was discussed by
Dr. J. A. Middleton, Missionary
Workshop by Mrs. Charlotte
Wright and Mrs. C. E. Bennett,
state supervisor and president
of the Missionary department
of the state aME church;
Youth in General. Mrs. Grace
Kyle and Mrs. Ruth Bacon;
Evangelism, Rev. H. C. Cars¬
well and Dr. T. j. Davis; Scout¬
ing, Rev. J- Roy Moore and Dr.
H. W. Murph; Music, Prof. F
W. Sullivan, Prof, G, J, Hubert;
^Evangelism, Dr. H. C. Carswell
and Dr. D. T. Babcock; Social
Work, Drs. D. V, Kyle and R.
A. Billings; YPD, Miss Mary
Front row—Mrs. Magdalene L
Dennis, superintendent of the
1 Carrie V- Dyer hospital, now
known as the Baptist hospital;
oi a nursmg ! 'U L &. PufhcSth
Mission in Liberia; Miss Janet
Buckie^ act.ug superintendent
of nurses of the Liberian
eminent hospital.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, AUGUST. 25, 1949
Electric Company To Give
Picnic Today for Employees
The Savannah Electric and
Power Company will give a free
rcnic and boatride to Daufus-
K?e Island today < Thursday.
On its Negro emplojtt* and
heir families. \
The picnickers will be car¬
ried to the island cn the Rob¬
ert E. Lee, the boat leaving the
city at 1:20 p. m. for the is-
land site.
Tickets are being furnished
! free for the boat trip, soft
drinks and ice cream, and
there- will be musical enter¬
tainment cn the boat. The
company will pay all employees
for any time lost from regular
work while attending the pic¬
nic.
The employee committee in
charge of the picnic is as iol-
Continued on Page Six
GROViSLAND, Fla., Aug. 13.—
A motion for change of venue
to move the scene of the trial
from the hostile Groveland
area will be one of the first
legal steps to be taken by the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo¬
ple in defense of the three
Groveland youths scheduled to
be tried for rape on August 29.
NAACP attorneys announced
today.
Biased news stories and pro¬
vocative editorials were cited
by the NAACP as major con¬
tributors to the atmosphere of
racial tension, animosity and
mob domination still prevalent
in Lake County a month after
the alleged attack on 17 -year-
ol(i Mrs. Willie Padgett. The
association contends that a
fair trial is virtually impos¬
sible in a community where
one of the leading morning
dailies (the Orlando Morn.ng
gentinel) assumed the guilt of
the accused before the trial
and called for vengeance in an
inflammatory front-page edi¬
torial cartoon entitled “No
Compromise!" and urging “The
Supreme Penalty" for the al¬
leged criminals.
Assistant Special Counsel
Franklin H. Williams of the
NAACP, who conducted an on-
Second row—Misses Adeline
j Clarke, Martha Harris, Mabel
Grigsby, who graduated with
highest honor in scholastic
mating, Mieda Cooper All were
students at the Baptist Third
row, Marion Majors and Letitia
3xtt. students at the goyern-
_u.....spital.—(ANP).
TO PRACTICE HERE
Carl Rankin Jordan, M. D.-
above, son of Mrs. Eliza A. Jor¬
dan and the late Charles G.
Jordan of 818 Waters avenue,
will open his office here lor
the practice of general medi¬
cine and surgery on September
1.
Dr. Jordan is a well-known,
native Savannahian. He is a
graduate of St. Benedict Junior
high school, 1939, salutatorian;
Beach Senior high school, 1942,
salutatorian; College of Libera
Arts, Howard university, Wash¬
ington, D. C.. B. S., “Cum Lau-
de;” How r ard University Medi¬
cal School, 1948. Dr. Jordan
ihrved a rotating intemeship
at Freedman’s hospital, Wash-j
ington, on, D. u. C u , , 1.948-49. x.ato-ia. He pass-
ed the Georgia State Medical I
Board examination on June 8- (
9, 1949.
Dr. Jordan is a member j
St. Benedict Roman Catholic
church and a member of the:
Continued on Page Six
i
IT’S
which was established last December graduated its first
class Sunday, August 7, at exercises held at Tremont Temple
Baptist Church.
The college is located at 1409 West Broad street and U
headed by Madam Margaret James, M. B.
Those shown in the above picture are (left to right) Henri-
etta Tolbert, Annie B. Jenkins* Viola Jones; bottom row, Mary
J. Tolbert, Madam Margaret James, head of the college; Collins
Janies, her husband, and Dorothy Watts. [
Bean Pickers Tell of Near
Treatment Accorded Them in North
H r A’ice Dunmigan
WASHINGTON < ANP)—Fate
dealt a lucky hand to the
Georgia youths who recently
escaped from a
farm in Pennsylvania,
through some fortunate trick
of providence fell right
the laps of two
labor leaders who
took the lads into their very
arms for protection.
The two 16 year old bovs,
John H?nry Washington and
Nathaniei Green bmp of
vannah, Ga., said they went to
the• employment ofUce in
home town in quest of a
mer job. Thev noted signs
calling for workers to pick
beans *n uivsse= pa . at )h»
rate of 2 1-2 cents uer
The two youngsters, Savannah- along
with several other
lans, signed up for the job and
were picked up bv a truck car-
rying near 50 other migratory
workers from Jacksonville. Fla.
Upon their arrival in Penn-
Only 155
Added To
Voting List
DVRING PAST WEEK
According to W. D. Donnelly,
chairman of the voters com¬
mittee of the Hub, the total
number of Negroes who have
qualif.ed as registered voters
up to Tuesday of this week is
1.520. This is an increase for
the week of only 155 persons
who have taken the time to
register. , j
When it is considered that
there were approx mately 20,-!
COO Negroes on the registrar’s)
rolls prior to the re-reg'stra-
tion law which went into ef¬
fect several months ago, the
rate at which they are taking
advantage of this privilege of
becoming bona fide citizens is
not at all encouraging.
Adequate facilities are af¬
forded at the special registra¬
tion office at Oglethorpe ave¬
nue and Barnard streets and
all assistance possible is given
the registrars to anyone who
presents himself at the office
If you have not registered
do so now. It is your duty.
Husband And Wife
Receive Degrees
Listed among the 115 stu¬
dents who received their mas¬
ter's degrees from Atlanta uni¬
versity at its recent convoca¬
tion were Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh
Maco nof Claxton. Mr. Ma¬
con received his B. S. degree
from Georgia State college in
1938; Mrs. Macon (formerly
Miss Bernice Graves) her B. S
from the same college in 1942
At the present Mr. and Mrs
Macon are working at the Ev¬
ans County Training school,
Claxton, where Mr. Macon has
been employed as principal for
;even years, and Mrs. Macon is
% teacher of English. Mrs. Ma¬
con is now in Savannah visit-
ing her father, j. G. Graves, of
5n West Henry street .
DAUGHTER
Albertha Mae is the name
given the daughter born July
31 to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur San¬
ders of Rossignol Hill.
sylvania, the workers found
that conditions were altogether
different from what they ex-
pected. First of all the bean-
picking contractor failed to live
to his promise to pay th?
2 1-2 cents per pound, instead
be paid the workers 50c per
(hamper. Since a hamper of
beans weighs 40 pounds, the
workers found themselves re¬
ceiving exactly half of the
price which was listed in the
employment agency in Savan-
Second, the employees were j
charged $10 per -week
board, which consisted of food,
blankets, pots and pans. Then
sleeping quarters were barn-
like and sheds mattresses with built-in made of bunks hay j I
stuffed into a burlap bag.
In spite of the fact that the
work was heavy, the w'eather
hot. the pay poor and the
pickers were working on a j
piece rate basis, they dared
not slow up or stop to rest, ac-
jkjj
STATE 4-11 CLUB GROUP VISITS SAVANNAH SUGAR REFINERY—The above picture
shows a group of 4-H Club girls being served dinner by the Sngar Refinery Corp.
The highlight of the State
4-H Club Short Course was an
outing given to the group by
the Savannah Sugar Refining
Corp. on Friday afternoon
August 12.
The Refinery officials sen;
seven buses to Georgia State
college and took the group of
Organization of a Junior
College Strikes a Snag
It is announced today by Dr.
A. H. Gordon, who has been
assisting certain local citizens
.n an attempt to open a junior
college for colored people, that
the proposed institution will
not be able to open on or about
September 15 as was hoped. It
was stated by Dr. Gordon that
although some progress has
been made, it is nqt yet estab¬
lished that the city is in posi¬
tion to provide a proper place
or plant and the linanc.fu as¬
sistance necessary to secure a
minimum faculty.
Dr. Gordon also states that
the rumor that he personally
advocates the registration ot
colored students at Armstrong
Junior college is entirely er¬
roneous. This possibility was
mentioned, he stated, in origi¬
nal publicity about the estab¬
lishment of the colored junior
college as one meads of call ng
the attention of white citizens
to the desire of colored stu¬
dents for this type of training.
Borne investigation convince-
hlm, ho said, that such a step
seemed unnecessary as well as
unwise at this time as it ap¬
pears that white citizens are
anxious to do what is evidently
fair and just without any
threat to local traditions and
the laws of the state in reler-
Continued on Page 8
The WimberlyS Visiting
Mississippi
Mr. and Mrs. Connie Wini
berly left yesterday on a mo¬
tor trip which will carry them
to points in Mississippi, Lou-
;siana and Alabama, where
they will visit relatives of Mr.
Wimberly. They expect to be
away about two weeks.
cording to th? boys.
Whenever they would stop
for a little rest, the overseer
would abuse them, threaten to
throw th.m in jail for five
years, or even kill them, said
the young men.
Regardless oi how badly the
workers felt, if they slowed up
or left th? field, said one of the
b^ys, for the boss would order
them to "get back into that
field. You came up here to
pick beans—now pick beans! I
don’t mean to lose my contract
I'd rather kill you, or hav- you
in jail for five years, than
to lose my contract.’’
They readily obeyed orders
without protest because the
whom they knew only as “Big
Pete,” carried a pistol on his
side
Although the bean-pickers
were supposed to receive their
p a y a t the end of each week
Washington and Green said
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oee tinned on Pag* Three
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
| more than 335 extension ag-
: cuts, 4-H club girls and boys,
and 4-H club leaders to visit
I the Sugar Refinery. The group
was carried through the Re-
| finery and shown the making
I of Dixie Crystals sugar lrom
j the raw sugar to the packaging
into bags and bores and load¬
Odd Fellows, Ruthites Hold
Annual Session
INSURANCE EXECUTIVE
DIES IN RICHMOND
Mr. Kelly Once Managed
The Savannah District
RICHMOND. Va. (ANP)-Th 1
insurance leaders of Virginia
were shocked on. Thursday,
August 11, to learn of the
death of C. V. Kelly, district
manager of the Richmond of¬
fice of the North Carolina Mu¬
tual Life Insurance company.
He was one of the insurance
experts of the race in Virgin¬
ia and had had many years of
exoerience in that field.
For several years Mr. Kelly
seved his company in the ca¬
pacity of district manager in
Norfo’k and was one of its best
exculives in Virginia. 'H n was
widely known in the insurance
field both in this state and ir
the nation. He was a staunch
supporter of th-- National Ne
gro Insurance Assoc ation.
Mr. Kelly at one time served
as manager of the Savannah
office of the North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Man Freed by U. S. Cour‘
Still in S. C. Prison
COLUMBIA, S. C. (ANP (—4.
D. Harris, 25, Negro prisoner
freed by a U. S. Supreme court
decision recently, is still being
held by the South Carolina
state penitentiary, according
to the latest reports this week.
The Supreme court freed
Harris from his conviction of
the fatal shooting of Edward
L. Bennett at the white man’s
[ j store Apr.l 28, 1946, on the
grounds that his "confession”
was not "freely and volun¬
tarily made.” The Negro had
claimed that police officers
beat him and threatened him
with a blackjack.
Prison authorities sa d th" 1 ?
had heard nothing official
concerning the Supreme court
action.
Off On Motor Trip
To Cleveland
Maurice smith, J. W. Mc-
Glockton and Fred Williams
left Wednesday on a motor
trip to Cleveland, Ohio. While
there they will attend the ball
game between the Cleveland
Indians and the New York
j Yankees. They will also wit¬
ness the Cleveland-Boston
game.
Mrs. Albertha Smith, wife of
Mr. Smith and a local school
teacher, who Is in Cleveland
i working on her master’s de-
gree. will accompany them
back home. They expect to be [
away about a week.
NUMBER 45
ing on the freight trains to be
shipped away.
The group was next served
a delicious shrimp dinner with
all the fixings and plenty of
cold drinks.
Pictures of the group wore
Continued on Page Six
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GEO JONES u
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District Grand Master
The Odd Fellows and Ruth¬
ites of the state held their
annual meeting August 15-17
at Thomasville at Normal Park
elementary school whose soa-
cious aud.torlum and excellent
cafeteria played a big role in
the successful entertainment of
the meeting.
The opening day program of
the tw’o-day session was high¬
lighted by an address of wel¬
come by the Honorable W. A.
Watt, mayor of Thomasville,
J. M. WASHINGTON
District Grand Secretary
who spoke in very complimen¬
tary terms of the fine racial
relations existing in Thomas¬
ville between the races. His
address was responded to by
Rev. T. A. Clayton, Grant Re¬
vels and Geo. B. Jones, district
grand master. Mrs. Emma D.
Kill was mistress of ceremo¬
nies.
Tuesday’s session was featur¬
ed by the address of D. G. M.
Jones who made a number of
rec0 mmcndations for the grand
Continued on. Page Six ^