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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. - 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 Continued on Page Seven 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 Continued on Page Six ' 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 Continued on Page Six 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 - 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 < xinur.iiefl on page Seven 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 (Continued on Page Three) 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 Continued on page Seven 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.” . * (ANP> REV. II. YV. MLUPII, D. D S. T. M., P. E., Pro tern, Savannah District