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DR. RICHARDSON INAUGU¬
RATED AT GAMMON—Dr. Har
ry V. Richardson was inaugu¬
rated as president of Gammoh
Theological seminary in At¬
lanta, Ga., last week before a
Father Divine Pays $500,000
Cash for Newark Hotel
Hold Hearing on Atlanta
Teachers' Pay Case Appeal
MRS. SADIE STEELE
ELECTED “MISS SAVANNAH” .
—Because of the very dilligent
services rendered by Mrs. Sa- ,
die Davis Steele in furthering;
“ e
chten“ ^enl’Ihe been unani-
mousty
local group in the IlGme Com-
ing Parade and at the in-be¬
tween half activities at the Ga.
White Scorches U. S. For Preaching
One Thing, Practicing Another
Philadelphia (ANP)—Walter
White, executive secretary of
the NAACP, recently returned
from a round-the-world tour
with his white wife, Poppy Can-
non White, made a “schorching
speech at the Bellevue Strat
ford here against the United
States in its soft policy toward
bigou., ah i cane while uym t
to -P*--..-
huge crowd of' well wishers. In
the picture at the left, Dr.
Richardson, right, and Bishop
J/W. E. Bowen, presiding of¬
ficer at the inaugural ceremon¬
ies, smile appraises of each
ATLANTA, Oct. 20. — Argu¬
ment of an appeal made by the
Atlanta School Board of a lower
court decision equalizing teachers’
salaries in Atlanta was argued this
week before the Circuit Court of
Appeals for the Fifth Circuit by
attorneys for the National
ciation for the Advancement of
Colored People.
The NAACP filed the suit, which
'as first argued in November,
1947, before Judge E. Marvin Un-
tfdrwflhtl rif the United States Dis-
triet Court in Atlanta, on
of Samuel L, Davis and other A t-
lanta teachers asking a pay scale
equal to that of similarily quali¬
fied white teachers.
Although the ordinary time for
argument in cases of this type is
one hour for each side, the court
cut the time for argument of the
appeal to twenty minutes for each
ode, on the ground Unit th« issut
State—Albany State game,
urday. October 29 in the new
spacious Ga. S<.ate College sta-
dium.
Mrs. Steele is the popular
teacher or the
Haven Home High school. Mr. |
'
t°r,
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racy abroad.
The recently married White
cited instances in Cairo, Istan-
bul, New Delhi and Pakistan.
where the natives spake openly
of the Negro’s treatment in
the United States over against
the doctrine White and and his
Town Meeting of the Air com
pany we.e carrying .oroaa.
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other. On the right, Dr. Rich¬
ardson alnd Bishop G. Bromley
Otman of New York, who made
the inaugural address chat in¬
formally before the ceremony.
(ANP)
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Leaders At
Beach-Cuyler
High School
The folllowing are the lead¬
ing pupils in Beach high school
for the past semester:
Beach High
Maggie Postell, 10B class. 90
percent.
Julia Hendrix, 94; Ernestine
Toomer, 94; Thomas Evans. 93;
Elleh Glover. 93; Edward Weav-'
er. 93; Annie Mae White, 93,
all of 11B2.
Jewel Grant, 92; Mary Ha-
gins. »0 ; Queen McGee. 90, an
of 11B3.
Rethel, Gould, Vivian
Gamble. 91. an of 12A.
Rosemary Johnson, 96; Car-
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was slipping dangerously in
,
the face of offering from Rus-
sia t0 the small impoverished
nat j 0ns of Europe and and
tbat man y small coun-
tries helped b y the generous
Marsha jj p]an say ope nly that
jf the plan does not con t,inue,
and supplies keep rolling in
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 191!)
NEWARK, N. J„ Oct. 22
EOC-room hotel here which was
bought yesterday by Father
L! v ne was taken over by him
and his followers today with
much pomp and ceremony.
Immediately after taking
possession of the Reviera, one
of the best known uotels ir
th's city, he made it known
to the more than 100 perma-
nent gue.sts of the hostelry tlia
men and women gue ts
be accommodated in
rooms, even though they art
married.
Other rules w'.iich would be
stric'ly enforced, he told (he
guests of the hotel, were that
there would be no smoking in
the hoted and no drink ng.
Brother Germaine, a white
member of the Divine followers,
told trie hotel guests that they
could move out if they dsid not
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FORMER SAVANNAHIAN’S PAINTINGS OUT ON DISPLAY IN PHILADELPHIA’S LARGEST DEPARTMENT STORE
Tlt.s week in Philadelphia.
George M. Victory, former Sa-
vannahian, who has been
Lving in the City of Brotherly
Love for the past forly years,
is experiencing the greatest
thrill of his life. Tils joy
come; to him at th s period
because the products of his
handiwork, • painting, are on
exhibition at Gimbel’s Depart¬
ment st ire.
The display is being sponsor¬
ed by Martin W. Clement,
chairman of the board of d -
rectors of the Permsylvia rail¬
road, and will remain on exhi¬
bition until November 1.
Mr. Victory is a “Red Cap”
at the 38th Street Station of
the ra lroad in Philadelphia.
He has worked in this capaci¬
ty practically ever since he
left Savannah as a young man.
A number of years ago he
took to painting p ctures in
his spare time and within a
short time hs handiwork be¬
gan to attract attention. He
concentrated on painting pc-
tures of things ne saw around
the station, flowers and out¬
side objects, and became so
profic.ent in his painting that
some of the products of his
hand work were exhibited in
the art galleries of Philadei-
phia and New York.
But it was not until til s
week that his artistry received
sufficient recognition to have
it placed on dispiay as a single
and complete exhibit.
His collection of paintings is
attracting wide attention by
art critics who say t'.iat it dem-
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White Editor Urges South to Give
Full to the
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 24-IM
language which will undoubt¬
ed y reverberate tar and wide,
Ralph McGill, editor of trie At¬
lanta Constitution and one of
the most outspoken wh te lib¬
erals in the nation, raid here
today, in discussing the race
question, that the Negro has
a right to vote, to serve on ju¬
ries, to riave proper education-
3.1 facilities and to be extended
all other rights whicri other
citizens enjoy.
The widely quoted editor,
who was 'here tin a two day
visit, called on the South to
extend full citizenship to the
Negro, saying that if this ac¬
tion is not taken voluntarily
“then I believe the Federal gov¬
ernment, should step in and
make us.”.
•He said any problem that
might be created in heavy Ne¬
gro voting in Southern coun¬
ties where Negroes cans'! tute
a majority would be alleviated
by the current movement of
Negroes to northern and east¬
ern states.
Six northern states, he said,
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TO SPEAK HERE
TOMORROW (FRI.)
NIGHT
.
Dr. J. w. Holley,
to the Board of Regents, Geor-
g a Education system, who will
speak at the First Congrega-
t onal church tomorrow, Fri¬
day night at 8 o’clock. A large
audience is expected to
him discuss the Georgia edu¬
cational set-up.
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Martin W. Clement (left), chairman of the board of the Pennsylvania Railroad, posing with George M. Victory, 71, a,
30th Street Station porter, and Arthur C. Kaufmann, executive head of the Gimbel store, in the store’s Little Gallery W ednes¬
day, October 19 after delivering a speech to open Victory’s one-man show oi oil painting. The red cap paints on his free tun*;.
They are bolding his painting ol the train, Broadway.—Phila-.delphia Inquirer _ .________ - _ ..l J
NAACP Continues Fight in
Miss. Teachers' Pay Case
JACKSON, Miss., Oct. 20.
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
this week won a motion compelling
the Jackson School Board to pro-
duce for inspection documents and
records which the NAACP claims
will prove that discrimination ex¬
ists in the payment of Negro and
white teachers salaries in Jack-
Successful argument of this mo¬
tion by NAACP attorneys marked
another step in the suit for equal¬
ization of teachers’ salaries
brought by the Association against,
the Jackson School Board on be¬
half of Mrs. Gladys Noel Bates,
former Jackson school teacher.
The case will be heard during the
latter part of November or early
December before Judge Sidney j
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Where S. W. Georgia AME
Pastors Have Been
LUMPKIN, Ga., Oct. 20—The
Southwest Georgia Conference of
the A. M. E. enuren came to a close
here today with the assignment
of pastors by Bishop R. It. Wright,
as follows:
EAST COLUMBUS DISTRICT
—A. A. Duncan, Presiding Elder;
St. John A. M. E. Church, A. M.
Roberts; Ward Chapel, J. S. Bry¬
an; Allen Temple, G. C. Thomas;
Iieuna Vista, A. L. Henderson;
Talbotton Station, T. ,L. Mincey;
Mt. Gilliard, J. N. Key; Mahala
Chapel, M. McGhee; Philadelphia,
W. J. Johnson; Box Spring, B. B.
Pace; Brown Chapel, W. Thompson;| B. Powell;!
Pitts Chapel, C. A.
Union, D. D. Denmark. W.! ,
BLAKELY DISTRICT_J.
Dennis, Presiding Elder; Blakely
Station, C. E. Graham; Fort Gaines
Circuit, S. F. Jackson; Sbellman
Circuit, S. D. Airline; Bluffton
Circuit, II. F. Powell; Pleasant
Grove Circuit, S. Daniels; Edison
Circuit, A. M. Roberts, St.; Cole¬
man Station, C. F. Boyd; Ehonezcr
Circuit, J. 11. Streeter; Mitchell
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Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
Pennsy Ends Segregation
On Dixie-Bound Trains
NEW YORK, (ANP.) Negro j j
passengers may now travel from
New York to points South of
Washington without being shunt¬
ed into Jim Crow coaches before
crossing the Mason-I)ixon line.
The Pennsylvania railroad last
week announced segregation of
Negroes in coaches, pullmans or
diners is abolished, effectively im¬
mediately.
The railroad’s statement, releas¬
ed jointly with the New York
State Commission Against Dis-
criminatoin, said, “The Pennsyl-
vania Railroad has agreed to make
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Omegas To Broadcast
Achievement
Eight radio broadcasts, sponsor¬
ed by Eta Omega, graduate chap¬
ter of the Omega Psi Phi Fratern¬
ity, will he presented over the
“Good WERD Station,” in Atlan¬
ta, Ga., during Achievement
Week, November 6-13. In grant¬
ing this permission, J. B. Blayton,
owner of the facilities, and the
Fraternity’s Grand Keeper of Fi-
nance > state,J that the sustaining
tim e ,,f th,! on, y Ne K ro rartl ° sU -
tion in the «>untry, will he de.li
catt ‘‘* to advancement of pro-
grants advocating community bet¬
terment.
Other chapters of the organiza¬
tion are conducting singular pro¬
jects for the annual observance.
Sigma Phi, u graduate chapter,
located at Montgomery, Alu. is
promoting, through the Sociology
Department of Alabama State
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Registered
The total number of Negroes’
names on the voting lists of
Chatham icounty was 5490 as
of Monday, according to W. D.
Donnelly, chairman of the com¬
mittee pn registration of The
Hub. local civic organization.
This means that only sixteen
Negroes took the time to regis¬
ter last week. The total num¬
ber of persons registered is ap-
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Boy, 17 Kills
Self After
Church
Houston, Miss. (ANP)—For
some inexplicable reason, M.
C. Douglass, 17 committed sui-*
cide before his mother’s hor¬
rified eyes, after returning
from church services here last
week.
According to his mother, the
youth had taken his father’s
pistol to the Ross Hill church.
When services were over, he
rode back to his home with
the preacher. When he reach¬
ed hks home, he called for his
mother to open the door. As
she did so, he pressed the muz-
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