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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LX VII
sents INSTALLATION SCENE—Rev. L. M. Terrill, pastor of Zion Baptist Church of Atlanta, pre¬
Bible and Standard Baptist Hymnal to the Rev. Richard Williams, newly elected pas-
of First Bryan Baptist Church of this city.
CAPACITY AUDIENCE
ATTENDS INSTALlLAT’N
Sneakin^ ° before a caoacitv
audience last Sunday after-
noon, the Rev. L. M. Terrill,
VETERANS CHECKS NOT TO BE READY BEFORE JANUARY 1
William G Cann, Acting Of-
ficer of the Savannah Office of
t’he Vet ranj Administration
located in the Blunn Building,
stated today that he had been
informed there is no possibil-
New Effort to Be Made to Get
Sweat! in University of Texas
Mottier’s Suit for Sou’s Lynching
(iocs to State Court
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AGAIN HEAD UNCF—Dr. F.
D. Patterson, President of Tus-
kegee Institute, who wan re^
elected President of the Unit¬
ed Negro College Fund by a
■ / iiimous vote at the sixth
1 meeting of its Board of
University, Mttetoil- held at Atlanta
October 4th. Dr.
Patterson, who originated the
plan of cooperative fund-rais¬
ing for private colleges and
universities which resulted in
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Police Probe Mysterious
Deaths of 2 Taxi Drivers
93 P.C. BRYAN COUNTY
ADULTS TESTED FOR
TB-VD
“A recent drive in Bryan Coun¬
ty to uncover hidden cases of tu¬
berculosis and syphillis brought
out 93% of the testable adult pop¬
ulation of the county for blood
tests and chest x-rays,” stated Dr.
C. D. Bovvdoin, Director of the
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Division of Venera] Disease Con-
trol of the State Department of
Public Health. “Bryan County
is the thirty-second county which
has had a mass survey,” added
Doctor Bowdoin, “and as our
teams spread over the state, sy¬
philis recedes, and we hope some
day to be able to consider it a very
rare disease. To accomplish this
end all adults should he blood test¬
ed for syphilis.” he concluded.
Out of a total of 3,666 persons
W-fc »
i pastor of Zion Baptist Church
of Atlanta, thrilled his listen-
erS in delivering the main ad-
dre ^ s at the installation ^ eT "
j vices of the Rev. Richard Wil-
Hants, newly elected pastor of
j the historic First Bryan Bap-
pity ihat any checks : pay
■ment of thi special National
Service Life Insurance dividend
will be mailed before January
1950.
Mr. Harold W. Breining, As-
COLUMBIA, S. C.—(ANP)—The
$5,000 claim against Greenvillle
pounty for the alleged
lynching of her son made by
Mrs. Tessie Earle will reach the
Stat.: Supreme Court Oct. 14.
The case arose out of the
slaying of Willie Earl, 22, Feb.
17, 194 7 Eari'e was arrested in
Pickens County in connection
with a stabbing; A mob broke
into the jail, carried him out,
and killed him. His body was
found in Greenville County,
Mrs. Earle filed suit against
Pickens and G re e,nv ille
counties, but (he complaint
against Pickens County was dis¬
miss d in April by Judge
Joseph J- Moss.
Two NAACP lawyers, Thur-
good Marshall and Franklin H.
Williams, will represent the
mother along with Harold
Beulware, a Columbia attorney.
A DaugMer
A nine pound, six ounce
daughter' was born this (Thurs¬
day) morning to Mr. and
W. Earl Fonvielle of 917 West
36th street.
The first zoological garden
in the United States was estab¬
lished in Philadelphia in 1874
BIRMINGHAM (ANP) V li
mysterious deaths involving
Negro taxi cabs here last week
are being closely scrutinized by
police. Cineof the deaths is
looked upon as a terrific fatal¬
ity and the other, as a possible
murder, but in both cases rob¬
bery was ( nvolved.
In one case,police are holding
Miss Lucille Coleman, 21, in the
) a ‘' 0X1 charges of man-
slaughter and auto theft. She
is accused of being the driver of
a stolen cab which crashed and
killed a woman passanger,
known only as “Lucille.”
According to Miss Coleman,
the deceased womon was driv¬
ing the cab- Charles Martin, 31,
driver of the vehicle, gave po¬
lice a d.fferent version, however
He said he picked up the woman
at a night club m Mason ___ City. ,
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, OCT 13, 1949
tist Church of this city. He
was introduced by W. W. Law,
a mem fc er 0 f, the host church.
\ Rev. Terrill’s subject was
I_ “Responsibility of Pastor and
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sistant Administrator for In¬
surance, of thi Central Office
of the VA, Washington, D. C.
said reports that checks might
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Omegas To
Hold Observ¬
ance
Atlanta, Oct. 12—The 29th
Annual Observance of National
Achievement Week will be held
by the Omega Psi Phi Fraterni¬
ty, November 6-13, 1949. with
the theme: “Fair and Effective
Employment: the Economic
objective of a Restless Minor¬
ity.” 200 chapters will partici¬
pate, with a National High
School Essay Contest, approv¬
ed by the National Education
Association.
The subject for senior high
school students only, is: “A,n
Experience in Job-Making,”
setting forth unique situations
wherein individuals inspired or
developed employment oppor¬
tunities or jobs. Students of
soma 2,000 Negro and white high
schools have been invited to
compete for prizes: 1st $125.00,
2nd, $75.00 and 3rd $50.00.
Features of the annual
Achievement Project include
national awards to the out¬
standing citizen, the outstanding
Omega man and the leading
Omega District Representative.
Last year, the first award to bd
presented this month in New
York City, went to Dr. Ralph
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Registration
Boosted By 72
New Voters
The number of Negro register¬
ed voters in Chatham Coun’y
were increased last week by 72.
thus bringing the total strength
of Negro votes in the county
up to 5,376 as of Monday.
This information was given
the Tribune today by *W. D.
Donnelly, chairman of the Vo¬
ters Committee of the Hub, lo¬
cal civic organization.
Registration is being conducted
at the special registration of-,
fice at the northwest corner of
j Oglethorpe and Barnard streets
, where every ' assistance is be-
, mg given . tnose who , desire , . to
t bteome qualified voters.
TO REJECT
ARMY’S NEW RACIAL POLICY
NEW YORK — President Tru¬
man has been urged by the Nation¬
al Association for the Advance¬
ment of Colored People to reject
the Army’s new racial policy be¬
cause it “does not abolish segre¬
gation.’’
In a telegram to the President
on October 3, Roy Wilkins, acting
NAACP secretary, said: “It is
now obvious that if this portion of
your civil rights program is to be
carried out. you will have to take
decisive action well within your
powers as commander-in-chief.”
The text of the wire follows:
“The so-called new racial policy
of the department of the army an-
nounced September 30 does
carry out your Executive Order
9981. Secretary Gray admits that
this policy does not abolish seg¬
regation. Numerous hearings and
conferences, as well as the over¬
whelming experience of the last
war have established the fact that
discrimination cannot be wiped out
as long as segregation remains as
the policy. Secretary Gray’s ac¬
tion amounts to a refusal to car¬
ry out your overall policy and the
intent of your executive order. We
therefore call upon you to reject
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Hempstead Resorts to Gerrymander¬
to Insure Jim Crow School Zones
WASHINGTON—Heman Mar¬
ion Sweatt’s fight for admission
to the law school of the Univer¬
sity of Texas was advanced a step
this week as attorneys for the
National Assocation for the Ad¬
vancement of Colored People filed
a reply brief in the United States
Supreme Court in answer to a
brief filed by the University ask¬
ing the Court to reject the NAACP
petition to review the case.
The NAACP brief, filed on Oc-
tolx'r 4, renews the request for a
review of this case which origina¬
ted more than two years ago when
Mr. Sweatt first sought admission
to the Texas school. In the mean¬
time, the case has been tried in
state courts and is now facing its
first federal test.
For the first time, the United
States Supreme Court, is asked
to rule on segregation per se in
higher education. The NAACP
appeal is supported by briefs am ; -
cus curiae filed by The American
Jewish .Congress, American Vet-
rans Committee, Congress of In¬
dustrial Organizations, Federal
Council of Churches of Christ in
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Ban on Mixed Parades
Results Catholic
Off Demonstration
NEW ORLEANS (ANP) Ci¬
ty officials refused last week
to permit the Euchahstic
procession which is a featur¬
'd the annual observance of the
Holy hour celebration, unless
officials of the Catholic Church
imposed segegration on those
participatng. Archbishop
Rummel refused and promptly
called the parade off
The Archbishop, who has been
outstanding in his work for the
uplifting of Negro members “of
NAPE Stages
Celebration
Philadel phia—The National
Alliance of Postal Employees,
founded on October 6, 1913, by {
Negro railway mail clerks in¬
tent on eliminating racial dis¬
crimination and prescription
from government service, cel¬
ebrates its, thirty-sixth anni¬
versary secure in the knowledge
that the fight “to make de¬
mocracy live” has borne fruit.
Tdday the Alliance owns its
own office building in Washing-
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Retires After
45Yrs Service
Samuel J. Brown, postman
for many years in the Savan-
nah post office, has retired
from the postal service, his re¬
tirement having b comp ef¬
fective October 7th
Mr. Brown entered ttao post
office department as a clerk
and served for nine years as a
k in Vi division of
a ver creditable
re cord At the time he trans¬
ferred to the letter carriers
department, in which division
he has just completed
tbrt-y six years’ service,
he was the only Negro clerk
in the Savannah post office.
Since that time no Negroes
have received appoinments to
clerkships.
He has not made definite
plans for the future beyond
taking a well earned rest for
the present.
About ten per cent of the
Federal budget of Mexico in
191, was for irrigating pur¬
poses.
Land Grant College Presidents
To Hear Business Men
NEW YORK—Admitting that
it had devised new district lines
for the purpose of removing chil¬
dren of wealthy white parents
from a school largely attended by
Negro children, the Hempstead,
L. I., board of education has filed
an answer to the appeal taken by
NAACP lawyers to the New York
State Commissioner of Education
The NAACP, through Attorneys
Constance Baker Motley, Robert
L. Carter and Thurgood Marshall
of its legal department, appealed
on behalf of Negro parents in
Hempstead to state officials fol¬
lowing refusal of the local board
to abandon the new district lines
and intregate Negro children
throughout the system.
Negro parents who had kept
their children out of the Jim
Crow school sent them hack last
week, pending outcome of the ap¬
peal to the state officials.
In its answer, filed on October
3, the Hempstead school hoard
said that in response to demand
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G. S. Week Is
Oct. 30- Nov. 5
The Girl Scouts of the United
States of America will celebrate
the Annual “Girl Scout Week”
Sunday, October 30 through Nov¬
ember 5th, Each day of this en-
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the dioces: said the church de-
sred to include its Negro
members “as an expresssion of
thecatholicty of our holy faith
and the universality of the
membership of our church.”
Marcel Montreu.l , manager
of the city park commission,
said that after the parade last
year when for the f.rst time
members of the Negro Holy
Name societies marched alonf
with their white co-religionist*
without segreat-on, there had
been quite a reacton.
Additions To
Ft. V. Faculty
FORT VALLEY, Ga. (ANP)
Dr. C. V. Troup, president of Fort
Valley State college has announced
the following additions to the col
lege faculty for the 1949-50 year:
Viva Coleman, Home Econo¬
mics; Harold Copreau; Art; Janie
Cox, nurse in charge of College
infirmary; James Ford, Agricul¬
ture; Anne Gayles, Social Scien¬
ces; James Harris, biology; El-
dora Haynes, critic teacher; K. M.
Keyes, Agriculture; Gloria Max*
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TRIPLETS THREE YEARS OLD
_The Griffin Triplets celebrat-
ed their third birthday October
9...The happy event was also
participated in by the_ oUier
Washington—The Presidents
of Negro Land Grant Colleges
Annual Conference, October
18—20 here next week, will be
bold by leading (business and
industry representatives how
their institutions may better
equip their graduates for roles
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400 ATTEND CATHOLIC LAY CONVENTION
CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S OF¬
FICERS AND (HOST—Top, State
officers (left to right)— Paul
King, Atlanta, president; E
Mathews, Augusta, president
emeritus; Nelson J. King, Sa¬
vannah, secretary; W. J. Smith,
Savannah, treasurer.
Approximately 499 delegates
coming from many sections of
the state attended the tenth
annual Catholic Laymen’s con-
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
tw'o Griffin children, twins.
All the five children reside at
417 Yamacraw Village with
their mother, Mrs. Corine Grif-
fin. The Womans Auxiliary to
Bottom, picture—Bottom row,
Joe Days, Dempsey Miller,
Joseph Robinson, Wiliiam Jones
T. C. Myers, Lucius “Kelly”
Bryant; Second row—Isaac J.
Blue, Alvin M. Jones; Johnnie
Dais, David Sheppard, Boston
vention here Sunday at the
Church of St. Benedict the
Moor.
The principal addn-ss of
NUMBER 5*
the South Atlantic Medical
Society is contributing largely
to the support of the celebrat¬
ed riplets who were thje first
triplets born at Charity Hos¬
pital. Photo by Freeman
G. S. Leaders Hold
First Fall Meeting
. ..The Leaders Club of thu Girl
Scout Division held its first meet¬
ing of the fall Monday evening
in the YMCA building. The
leaders were greeted by the Field
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Williams, Edward West, War¬
ren C. Loadholdt, James Lu¬
cas; top row, Sam Williams,
John D Hill, Alvin Seabrooks,
Dr. Clark Johnson, Robert
Mungln, William Fields, Ed-
ward Cogsdell and Eddie Gainn
—Photo by Freeman.
day was delivered by Andrew
j. Ryan, solicitor general, who
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