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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LX VIII
AME Georgia Annual
Will Meet Here Next Week
Rt. Rev. R. R. Wright, D.
Ph. D., bishop of Georgia
The eighty-second session
the Georgia -Annual
ence of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church will
here November 23-27.
The host church will be
Gaines Cuapel, Magnolia St.,
wl.iere elaborate plans have
been made by the Rev. B. B.
Swinson, pascor, and members
for the entertainment of the
conference which will be at¬
tended by many leading church
men of the denomination,
amo.-.g them several of the gen¬
eral officers.
The session, which will be¬
gin Wednesday night, wi'l be
presided cved by the Rt. Rev.
R. R. -Wright, D. D„ Ph. D., bis¬
hop of Georgia.
It is presumed that there will
be a number of changes in the
local pastorates.
The program for the five-day
meeting will be as follow's:
Wednesday. Nov. 23, 7:30 p.
m—Call to worship, Dr. H. W.
Murph, p, J5., .West Savannah
district; invocation, Dr. C. P.
Hobbs, P. iE., South Savannah
district; selection, choir; read-
Continued on page Seven
Firemen’s Injunction Restored
CTC To Conduct Weekly
Classes in Citizenship
NEGRO WOMAN
ELECTED TO CLEVE¬
LAND CITY COUNCIL
CUE V E LA N1)— (A N P) — Cleve¬
land got its first Negro woman
councilor last week in-the person
c l f Jean Capess, local lawyer. Atty.
I HFocrs, a former assistant city
ecutor, is the second Negro
iman in the United -. .. . States .. . to , i--, be
elected to a city council*.
Well known in civic and political
circles here, Miss Capers has been
practicing law for three years.
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HONORED FOR EXCELLENCE — The Fiftieth Annual
Report of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company,
Durham, an anniversary issue, was cited for its excellence in
the held of insurance companies recently by Financial World,
the trade publication. C. C. Spa ding, president of the com¬
pany. is shewn being cong-at .ated by YVeston Smith, vice
president of the nasrarice, at V' inner to the winning com¬
panies held at the Slade? in New York last week. Al¬
though not. cited for this fact North Carolina's report was con¬
sidered the best of those submitted by Negro insurance companies.
PITTSBURGH GETS
FIRST NEGRO JUDGE
P1TTSBURGH— (ANP) — This
ity .got its first Negro Judge
1'ik\ d: y when Homer S'.' Brown,
■ etcran Democratic Slate legisla¬
tor, snowed unde his Republican
rival with a 70,000 vote mapority.
Brown defeated the incumbent
GOP candidate, Judge Harry N.
Jones, of the Allegheny County
Common Pleas Court.
A native of Huntington, W.
Va., Judge Brown is a graduate
of Virginia Union and the Uni¬
versity of Pittsburgh. He was ad¬
mitted to the bar in 1922.
Weldon Lodge of Elks
Changes Officers
j
J. B. Hardriek
Exalted Ruler
Tuesday nigh a mos„ intci-
1 esting meeting of
j Lodge, No. 26 of Elks, was
The Citizenship Training Com¬
mittee of the Savannah Branch
of the NAACP, is calling a meet¬
ing of rather a large committee
for this coming Monday evening,
November 21st, at the West Broad
Street V MCA, to be known as the
Public Relations Committee, 'be
purpose of which will be to create
widespread interest in the Citizen-
| ship Training Classes which will
open very soon.
It is the aim of the local Branch
to have these classes going on
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Sunimertield Enters Race tor
Seal in Council
AUGUSTA, Nov. 15 — When
the twenty three asp.ran's
fer for the nine seats in the
council in the election which
will be held December 7, one of
them will be a Negro.
This di closure was
known today when Frank N
Summerfield entered the mce
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' on
During the past
m o ii t h s much
has been among the
It terminated during t'.ne
month when request was
to the grand exalted ruler
j have the district depth y to
i vestigate certain alleged
i management.
It resulted in the grand exalt¬
ed ru’er removing^, the
j and the election of others,
j At he regular meeting Tues¬
day night District Deputy L. W.
j I Williams, M. D., of Valdosta,
was present and carried out the
I orders of the grand
ruler.
| The following officers
: selected: J. B. Hardrick,
i ed ruler!; Brawley Brooker, es-
j teemed leadng knight; A. J..
j Jackson, loyal knight;
: Jackson, esteemed loyal knight;
j en kins, esteemed lectur-
(Continued on Page Three)
NEW YORK, N. Y„ — in a
unanimous decision issued today
the United States Supreme
handed down a ruling in support
of three questions of law on
tion of twenty-one Negro
on three major Southeastern
roads,” states A. Philip
International President of
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
ters Provisional Committee to
: ganize Colored Locomotive
' men.
This action was brought on
I an( j 0 n the behalf of othei
^ Negro firemen similarly
i
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22 Groups Join In Drive for Civil
NEW YORK, Nov. 10.—Repre¬
sentatives. of twenty-two national
church, labor, civic and trade or¬
ganizations formulated plans for
a drive to secure passage of FEPC
and other civil rights legislation
at a conference held here today
on call of the National Associa¬
tion for the Advancement of Col¬
ored People.
THEY WILL PLAY IMPORTANT ROLES AT AME CONFERENCE HERE NEXT WEEK
REV. B. B. SYV1NSON
Host Pastor
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 17, 1949
I ; Negro Farmer
i By Miss. Supreme
1
For Killing White
JACKSON. Miss., Nov
has been commonly accepted
as a fact that when a
kills a white man, no matter
what tne circmstance ,he
the supreme penalty for
act.
The truth of this
however, was made false
today when the M.s issippi
Supreme court set free a 25-
.
year old Negro farmer who
slew a white plantation mana-
WATCHING PRIZE YVINNING GIRL SCOUT—Sanford P. Butler, Commissioner of Savannah Po-
ice Department, (extreme left) and Sheriff “Bill” Harris (centeri as they appeared on the
Deputy Sheriff’s program at the Star Theatre last Friday. Janet Colvin, (righti local Girl
Scout from Troop 61. holds a Five Dollar bill as the first prize in the Junior Deputies
Photo J>y Freeman
The Junior Deputy Sheriffs’
quiz show was especially
ling last Friday at 5:30 p. m
at the Star taca-.-r wnen the
sponsors, the Der t Baking
company, makers of Holsum
bread and cakes, used ten
members of the local Girl Scout
Agreeing trt join in the
sorship of the NAACP’s civil
rights mobilization, the organiza-
tion repi esentatives pledged sup-
port of the campaign on
state and national levels.
and state units of the
tions will be directed to cooperate
with local branches and state
fercnces of the NAACP in seek-
Rev. YV. O. P. Sherman. D. I).
P, E.. Savannah District
ger on December 23 of
| year. He was sentenced
death by a lower court,
The state supreme court in
, decision in the case,
j down yesterday after
(•he case, said that W '
Beil was justified in
C. W. Brovghtcn to death as
rtiri it h .•-ohHpff.iKr.
fore, it reversed the
Continued on Page Seven
troops as contestants.
A hundred or more young-
j sters composes the audience
I and responded readily to the
j Emcee Bill King,
for WTOC radio station. The
j program was rebrpadcast Sat-
urday afternoon at 6: o’clock-
commitments from members
of Congress to vote for FEPC
: and other measures included in the
President’s civil rights program,
Delegations composed of rep
resentatives of lh<- various or-
ganizations will make a systema-
j tic check-up on congressmen and
senators while the lawmakers are
j at home prior to the opening of
REV. J. YV. MAXWELL. D. 1).
P. E., Brunswick District
AI)I)REHSIN(i EDUCATION WEEK MASS MEETING—
Alfred T. Vick, .superintendent of Savannah and Chatham
county Hoard of Education, delivers address to Chat¬
ham County Citizens at St. Philip's AME Church Friday,
November 11, as a part of American Education Week Cel¬
ebration. —Photo by Freeman
£ Scant 44
I Registration fell way
| last week when a mere
four Negroes took advantage
the. opportunity to get
names on the
lists of the county. This
•he smallest number of Ne
groes to go to the
headquatoers since
tion went into effect last sum-
1 I I t mer
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I The total voting strength o'
Chatham county is now
26,600. of whom 5.672 are
Continued on Page S x
“The Plight of Oar Public
Schools” the address was delivered the subject by Alfred otj
T. Vick, super.ntendent of the
board of education, at the
American Education Week pro-
Ex-Ala. Police Chief Given
2 Years for Beating Five
MONTGOMERY, Ala—(ANP)—j former police |
Thomas I. Gnatt,
chief in Florals, Ala., was. imprison-1 sent ;
enced to two years of
ment and fined $200 in District j
Judge C. B. Kennamer’s court;
here last week for beating up five j
Supreme ft. to Hear
Sweatt-McLaurin
Cases in
WASHINGTON—(ANP)— The
United States Supreme Court
agreed this week to hear iwo
cases in /olving racial segregation
in higher education. In the first
case the court will decide whether
the states have the right to re¬
quire separate s hools for Ne¬
groes anil wjlites, a case growing
out of the appeal of a Negro
student in Houston, Tex., who
sought unsuccessfully to he admit¬
ted to tlio University of Texas
Law School at Austin
In the second care the court will
be asked to decide whether a state
university may demand that a Ne¬
gro student sit apart from white
students. This case originated in
Oklahoma.
In the first case Ileman Marion
Kweiitt has attacked the validity
of ttic Texas Con lituti n- and of
Texas statutes which require seg¬
regation of races in public edu
cation.
His appeal papers point out that
separate education facilities for
Negroes are never equal to those
provided white persons. "The Ne¬
gro school is invariably an in¬
ferior school.”
In opposing a review of the case
j by the Supreme Court. Texas de¬
clared that the state has recently
established a university for Ne¬
groes at Houston and plans a
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The quiz show began wiU
Sheriff “Bill” Harris at the mi-
I cr °phone. Also on the
were the ten Girl Scouts rep-
resen lng oop,s 61 and 62.
Sherd! Harris in his brief re¬
, marks on "gossip”, emphasize
1 Continued on Page six
the second session of the
Congress. While efforts will
made to get commitments from
members of Congress, the
will be intensified in the
marginal states in whii h
races will be held next year.
The mobilization of grass
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Kl V. C. I* HOBBS, D. I)., LL. H.
P. Eo So. Savannah District
REV. I. J. JOHNSON, I). !).,
P. E., Waycross District
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
NUMBER 5
gram held at SI. Philip’; AME .'
church last Friday night.
Speaking before a capacity
audience, Mr. V.ck said that
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Negroes. Gnatt had pleaded guilty
to the charges that he beat the
mc n to make them confess to a
crime.
He was released under $2,000
bond and instructed to report back
Nov. 30 to begin sentence.
HONORED ON BIRTHDAY—
Wendell Phillips Dabney, veter¬
an journalist and former head
paymaster for the city -a Cin¬
cinnati, O., was honored with
a testimonial dinner on his
84th birthday, November 3, at
the Manse hotel in Cincinnati
by more than 300 friends and
admirers. Publisher of the
Cincinnati Union, Dabney D
recognized as a poet, com¬
poser and political leader. He
is the author of two widely-
distributed books, “Cincinna¬
ti’s Colored Citizens” and “The
Life of Maggie L. Walker.”
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REV. II. YV. MLUPII, D. D
S. T. M., P. E., Pro tern,
Savannah District