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YEARS OF CONTINUOUS PUBLIC SERVICE LXVII SEEK NEW TRIAL FOR THREE IN TAVARES, Fla., Sept. 8. — A new trial for Samuel Shepherd and Walter Irwin, 22, and Charles Greenlee, 16, convicted of rape here last week, has been asked by Alex Akerman, Jr., Orlando attorney, retained by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people to defend the accused youths. In a motion for a new triai filed li re on Sep’ember 6, Mr Ak rman contended that the verdict- was contrary- to the evidence and to the law and charged the court with error in denying a sir'.es of pretr.al motions. The three were convicted af¬ ter a three-day trial on Sep¬ tember 3 by an all-white jury which delib rated for two hours and recommended mercy for Greenlee. Conviction of Ir¬ vin and Shepherd carr.es a mandatory death sentence Continued on Page Six Dr. Ruth Sumner Honored By Community Health JUDGE ATKINSON TO SPEAK SUNDAY • Judge David S. Judge of Superior Court, Chat¬ ham county, w 11 be the speak¬ er at the eleven o’clock wor¬ ship hour at St. Philip AME church, Charles and Broad streets, on Sunday, Sep- Continued on Pag# Thr#« No Progress in Search for White Killers of Wealthy Negro Farmer to Honor Dr. Bundle NEW YORK—Announc was made this week by Ludlow W. Werner. Director of pubi c relations of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity, that the formal din¬ ner at which the fraternity’s achicv ment plaque w U. be presented tb tX. iRAlph i. B.niche for his Work as U. N. Med ator in Palestine, will be ‘.mid Saturday evenulg, Octo¬ ber 22, in the grand ballroom of the Hotel Pierre. While inv.tations for the af¬ fair have just been put in the mails, the dinner committee has already received scores of r servations from Omega men and others from all over the TAKES OVER X-RAY CLINIC—Mrs. Gertrude Langford who has become part owner and takes over the management of the Savannah Health and X-Ray Clinic, 707 West Broad Street. This announcement made this week by Dr. H. Collier Sr who established, this yeii-j.. ov he...— Florida A. and M. College Gets $100,000 Payment for Hospital Lose Damage Suit For $58,000 ALEXANDRIA, Va. (ANP)— Mrs. Helen Nash of Washing¬ ton, D. C, lost out on five counts in federal court last week in her $58,000 damage suit against Air Term nal Ser¬ vices. Inc., operators of the D. C. airport restaurant which re¬ fused h?r serv ce February 17, Continued on Page Six Dr. Ruth Sumner was pre¬ sented a book entitled “Savan¬ nah,” with etchings and draw¬ ings by Christopher Murphy, Jr., by the Community Health Council at its regular monthly meeting last Wednesday even¬ ing. Dr. Sumner came to Savan¬ nah a little more than four years ago as director of the Continued on Page Six country who are anxious to loin in honoring Dr. Bunche. Tie response has been so im¬ mediate that a complete sell¬ out is anticipated before Octo¬ ber 1. Most of the grani^ olYiOcrs and leading figures of* tlie (fra¬ ternity have already indicated they will be present. These in¬ clude Dr. Harry T. Penn, grand basileus. of Roanoke, Va., who will make the presentation of the plaque; Atty. Milo T. Mur¬ ray, first vice grand basileus, of Gary, Ind ; W. R. Maynard, grand keeper of records and (Continued on page Six) quarter of a century ago and been its sole owner until ......... — . Continued on SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, SEPT. 15, 1949 HOLDS OPEN HOUSE—Gol¬ den State Mutual Life Insur¬ ance company in Los Angeles recently held open house week at Its new home office building. YMCA Opens Campaign Having as Its goal the devel¬ opment of a strong potential Christian leadership In Savan¬ nah, the West Broad YMCA beg ns a gigantic drive for 1,000 members. The drive Opens September 15 with the membership committee, divis¬ ion leaders and team captains meeting. The kickoff is sched¬ uled for September 23. The drive is under the leader¬ ship of M. O. Johnston with the following serving as assistants: Dr. J. H. Eberhardt, Jack Ra- bey, S. L. White and D. Thom¬ as- Every c.tizen of Savannah is expected to cooperate. Lead¬ ers of every religious organiza¬ tion, society and club are re¬ quested to do their very utmost to swell the membership of the West Broad Street YMCA. The West Broad Street YMCA has not been able to be- gin the necessary improve- j ments and r pars to its budd- ing due to the inadequate membership. Every well think- 1 ing Savannahian is fully cog- j nizant of the fact that the pro- | gram of the “Y” fully repre- j sents a true development of j mind, body and soul. Tie “Y” program has expanded tremen¬ dously. On every playground includesj in Savannah, wh ch Fcllwood Homes, West Savan- j nah, Yamacraw village, Cann j Continued on Page 3 NAACP and CIO Leaders Blast Attack Against Robeson NEW YORK. (ANP Negro sent ment was “clearly” in evidence among the mob that attempt3d to stop Paul Robeson, the NAACP reported last week. At the same time, three bus loads of Negroes—who wire not at the Robeson concert— were attacked as they returned from the Hyde Park Memorial Li¬ brary on the estate of the late President Franklin D. velt. The attempt to deny Robeson freedom of speech and the as- 1 16,000 sault on the attend.ng j the program displayed . toms of Fascism that must not , u tolerated in the Among the outstanding events of the week was the unveiling of the murals executed by ar¬ tists Hale Woodruff and Chas. Alston on the Negro in Califor- BA1NBR1DGE, Ga. (ANP) — No progress has been made in the investigation of last week’s brutal murder of a prosperous Negro farmer by a group of white men. All that local of- f.cials have found is a rifle; cverylhing else is st 11 a mys- ery. The victim, Hollis Riles, 53. prosperous owner of a 200- acre farm, was shot down by a roup of whites after he had rdered two whites off his roperty as Obey decided to go fashing. A Negro witness to the shooting, Jesse Gordon, said the murderers drove away in two automobiles with one license plate covered. Riles was buried Wednesday ; n his pecan grove—th.s was a spec al request of his. His wife asked that no funeral services be held. This Incident was not th' 1 first t me the dead man ‘had been (he target of whites tres- passing on his property to go fishing. In May a s inilar in- cident occurr:d, but he was re- ported unharmed. At this t me Rites was supposedly advised to leave (he Parker district tc prev nt further trouble, but he said he would stay there on the property he inherited from hi) parents. His lands include a three- horse farm, a pecan grove, i tobacco farm, peanut and gen- eral produce, a woodland, fisl P° nc l, three mules and f.vi Continued on Page Six States is the opinion of sev- eral national figures and or- | ganizations. Mrs. Roosevelt who d ffers with Robeson on many issues, has been one of i the outstand ng critics against ‘he demonstrators and orga- nized bloodshed One of the N3gro concert- goers brutally beaten in the riot was Eugene Bullard, Har¬ lem resident, and veteran of both World Wars. In World War I. he received the Croix de i Guerre from France, and is ' said to have j been the first Ne- gro to pilot a war plane. Bui- lard said he was beaten by both j the mob, poLcemcn and state troopers. nia history. The building, which was erected at a cost of *974,000, was designed by the prominent architect, Paul R. Williams—(ANP). Named To Youth Commission COLUMBUS, Sept. 8. — Al¬ bert Henderson of Piqua, pres¬ ident of the Ohio State Con¬ ference of NAACP Youth Coun¬ cils and College Chapters, has been appo nted to the Ohio State Commission on Childr.;n and Youth. The commission is one of many groups that will help in the promot on of the Midcentury White Conference on Children and Youth. Protests Bring New Jersey Town Jim Crow Schools to an End MOUNT HOLLY, N. J. (ANP) A parents’ str.Ke in which 60 Negro parents refused to send their children to a j>m crow school, the Samuel Aaron ele¬ mentary school, last w ek forc¬ ed the Mount Holly school board to order Negroes admit¬ ted to schools attended by whites. Only six pupils reported to the Aaron school wh n it op¬ ened last week, while the Sam¬ uel Miller and Brainerd-But- tonwood schools told not 1 were to adm t colored students. Pres dent William E. Karg of he school board announced the change in policy by say ng Negro children would be ad¬ mitted to the two whit 3 schools to avoid any poss.ble critic sm in causing an issue on the sub¬ ject ..." Negro students and teachers had been segregated in Mount Holly since 1926 when the Aaron school was continued on Page Six Also in evidence was antl- Jewish and anti-Negro slan¬ der. During the first attack a week earlier, a Ku Klux Klan cross burned on a nearby hill¬ side. Robeson and the Harlem branch of the Civ:l Rights con¬ gress, which sponsored tne meeting, said race hate had been seething in Weschester for some time and that so- called anti-Communism was merely a smoke screen. Robeson himself was well protected by hundreds of Ne- gro and white veterans and union members who formed at wide cordon around the golf 1 Icert , course where the second con- was held. When the fam- 5020 Now On Voters List With the enrollment of the names of 35 students from (Beach high school on the vot¬ ers’ list Tuesday the number of Negroes qualified to vote in Chatham county passed the five thousand mark. To be exact, the figure stood at 5,020 Tuesday night. >m.io i s on iy a uttle more Continued on Page Six TO STAGE THEIR ANNUAL PARADE SUNDAY The street parade closing the twenty-third annual convoca¬ tion of the United House of Prayer for All People which has been in session here lor the past week, will be staged Sunday afternoon. The demonstration will start at 2 o’clock and is expected to be, one of the most colorful spectacles held in Savannah by this religious organization. It will be headed by the pop¬ ular Bishop c. M. Grace, head of the church, and will be par¬ ticipated in by the various units of the church, many of which will be here from distant cities especially for this closing event of the convocation. Among these out-of-town units will be two bands and a wom¬ en’s stringed instrument ag- (Continued on page • > RICHMOND. Va.. Sept. 8 — The fight to save the lives of seven young men, convicted of assault on a white woman in Martinsville and sentenced to die on September 16, was ad- vanqed by a decision oE the Virginia Supreme Court grant¬ ing a writ of error and agree¬ ing to review the trials. The decision, handed down by the court sitting in Staun¬ ton on September 6. raises hope for a new trial and ultimate freedom for the seven who were convicted in Martinsville last May. The Virginia State Confor- Contlnued on Page Six Houston May Become Negro Medical Center Masons Honor Prince Hall The birthday of Prince Hall was celebrated by Negro Ma¬ sons in all parts of the coun¬ try- Prince Hall was the or¬ ganizer of Negro Masons In this country, and became its first Grand Master and accord¬ ing to record, its standing is more legal than most of the whit: Grand Lodges. Ths Grand Lodge was organized during the Revolutionary War and is among t ie oldest In the country. All of the Masons in the city were represent d at the Ma¬ sonic Temple last Sunday when an address on the occasion was delivered by Past Master R. W. Gadsden, who is chairman of the Committee on Foreign Correspondence of the Grand Continued on Page S x ed singer arrived at the scene, he was greeted by a thunder¬ ous 15-minute ovation from the mixed audt nce. Close to 1,500 veterans and persons wearing veterans’ caps marched along the road and attempted to drown out his voice. However, the concert had the strong loudspeakers, and his bar.tone voice carried. The mob was held back dur¬ ing the concert, but their greatest damage was done from ambush and along the crowded roadside as the audience at¬ tempted to leave the golf course. An estimated 200 per- Continued on Page Six Member Audit Bureau Circulationt .2 Price 7c TALLAIIASSEIE, Fla. — Pay¬ ment on construction costs of the new Florida A. and M. College hospital has just taken a step forward. On behalf of the city, Mayor Robert Parker gave Norman B. Jordan, Quincy member of the State Board of Control, a check for $100,000 to meet building expenses, it was announced yesterday as Acting President H. Manning Efferson looked on. City Auditor-Clerk George C. White said, "The payment was made by TtHlahassee to assist in providing hospital facilities (Continued on page Six) Va. Court to Review Case of Martinsville Seven HOUSTON, Tex. (ANP) — Houston should become the medical center of the State of Texas, Dr. E. W. Bertner, pres¬ ident of the Texas Medical center here, declared last week Commenting on the fact that NEW FAMCEE INSTRUCTOR—Miss Rosalie T. Williams, of this city, who left this week for Tallahassee, Fla., to became instructor In Public Health Nursing at Florida A. and M. college. A former public health nurse, Miss Wil¬ holds the B. S. degree in public health nursing from New York university, and has post-graduate work at 11.; Uni¬ NUMBER 48 Burleigh NEW YORK (ANP) — Com¬ poser Harry T. Burleigh died here early Monday morning. He was best known for his spirit¬ uals and folk songs as well as his influence on other compos Continued on Page Six DR. REYNOLDS CAP- UVATES AUDIENCES “The Living Church” was the subject of the message deliv¬ ered by Dr. Paul R. Reynolds at the First Congregational church last E lay morning. Dr- Reynolds ..did that “Bvery young p ’rson should have the Christian church In his or her heart.” Further that “The church is a place of refuge for young and old.” Dr.. Reynolds, secretary of young adult work for the Con- gregationai-Christlan churches with headquarters in Chicago, Continued on Page Six there are 636,538 Negroes in Texas, but only 138 doctors to serve them, Dr. Bertner said that it is time for the state to do something about the Continued on Page Six versity of Chicago. She is a product of the local school sys¬ tem and Gsorgia State college, and in addition is a graduate of Charity E. htal School of Nursing. _ t , ... _