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68 YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LXVIII
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST PAROCHIAL SCHOOL
Above is pictured a parochial
day school located at 41st and Bur¬
roughs Streets, a monument to the
1 generous spirit of the business,
jk professional and liberal citizens of
' savannah.
This building was started seven¬
teen months ago with just a few
dollars over the cost of material
for a foundation; and with con¬
tributions ranging from $1,500.00
down to one cent, along with ap¬
proximately 75 per cent of the lab¬
or given free, this structure has
reached the point of near comple¬
Closes Guaranty Another Life Insurance Excellent Co. Year
211 at
The twenty-six students who
made the Savannah State College
fall quarter “Dean’s List” were
honored recently during assembly
and at a reception.
Eugene Stanley, Acting Dean of
Faculty, told the group during the
assembly program, “scholarship is
an empty sought of thing unless it
leads to a contribution towards
your fellowman. Achieving this
recognition is nothing unless you
take it in the proper view.”
The honorees who maintained
an average of 2.5 (3. is A) had
a very enjoyable time at the re¬
ception which was under the joint
Diploma Mill Fake Schools
Gyp Thousands
By RICHARD JACKSON
WASHINGTON, (ANP) —
Alarmed by the growing number
of colleges operating as ‘diploma
mills” and reported defrauding
100,000 students-vets as well as
non-vets, the National Education
association has launched a fight
against them. The organization
■ha- set up a National Commit¬
tee cn Fradulent Schools and Col¬
leges which immediately started a
* nation-wide survey of the menance.
The fake schools, where one can
buy a bachelor degree for as little
as $25 and a high sounding doc¬
torate for less than $50, are esti¬
mated to total more than 1,000.
Many are correspondence schools
promising highly paid jobs in gov¬
ernment or private industry. An¬
other group offers divinity or Doc-
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2 File Suit for Entrance Into
Missouri School of Mines
FETED ON HER 95TH
BIRTHDAY
Mrs. Nellie Scott Pollard of
306 East Park avenue entertain¬
ed informally last night in honor
of her sister-in-law. Mrs. Eliza
Pollard Deveaux, the occasion
being Mr®, Deveaux’s ninety-
fifth birthday. t 1
From 7 to 1C p. m. a steady flow
of friends poured into the resi¬
dence to felicitate “Miss Sfs”
as she is known to her intimates.
- Surrounded by numerous pres¬
ents, several of which came
from far distant cities, the viva¬
cious and loveiy little lady
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iauaunali SMhor
tion.
Believing that the hearts of our
youth as well as the head and the
hand should be trained and guided
in service, this building has been
designed for the purpose of teach¬
ing the four R’s, reading, writing,
’rithmetic, and religion, thus pre¬
paring them to be a credit to hu¬
manity and society.
Tnis has been the denomination¬
al policy of the General Conference
of Seventh-day Adventists for the
past seventy years and the Savan¬
scholarship of the Student Person¬
nel committee and the Office of
the Dean of Faculty.
The “Dean’s List” is comprised
of the following individuals:
Donald E. Adams, Jr. Phy. Ed.;
Frank Baldwin, Sr., Bio.; Mildred
V. Body, soph.j EH. Ed. Lmrhrwirrt
Maggie Bowman, Jr. Home Ec.,
Madison; Adolphus Delano Car¬
ter, Fr. Bio.; Margaret T. Chisolm,
soph., Bio.; Janie Z. Clarke, soph.,
El. Ed.; Jessie R. Collier, sr.
Math.; Frances B. Davis, soph.,
El. Ed.; Martha Carolyn Dixon,
jr. H. Ec. Toomsboro; Myrtle Le¬
van Foy, jr. H. Ec., Ernest Fra¬
Protest Racial Stereo¬
types in Jack Benny Show
609 NATIVES ARRESTED
IN BED AFTER SOUTH
AFRICAN RIOTS
PRETORIA, South Africa,
(ANP)—Platoons of police of Dr.
Malan, Fascist premier of the
Union of South Africa, raided the
“shanty town” of Newclare last
week and arrested 600 natives
vhile they were asleep.
These raids led by 500 police
from Johannesburg followed riots
between natives and whites here,
•tiots started after the arrest of
m alleged native drunk by the
white officers.
The natives reportedly were ar¬
rested for “screening” in connec¬
tion with the riots. Africans here
•an be arrested on any pretense
f they do not have passed, then
forced to work on some farm
against his will.
COLUMBIA, Mo., (ANP) —
Suit was filed in Boone county
circuit court here last week by El¬
mer Bell, Jr., 18, and George
Everett Horne, 17, asking that a
writ of mandamus he issued di¬
recting the University of Missouri
board of curators and registrar of
Missouri School of Mines and me¬
tallurgy to admit them to the en¬
gineering school. The suit named
Noel Hubbard as registrar of the
engineering school at Rolla and the
curators as having supervision
over the institution.
In the petition, filed by the boys’
mothers as “next friend,” it was
charged the applicants were re¬
fused admission to the school in
January by the registrar because
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nah colored church has followed
this plan since 1916.
Pioneering from the start, the
local program in the field of a
Christian Education for youth
kept growing until larger quar¬
ters with better facilities became
necessary.
As the result of the untiring ef¬
forts of the Adventist membership
and the magnanimous spirit of
the good people of Savannah there
is now operating a $40,000 invest-
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zier, fr., Soc. Scs.
Jewell Gamble, soph. Math., Vi-
dalia; Agnes Undine Harris, fr.
Mus. Ed.; Jessie M. Hill, sr. h.
Ec.; Ursuline B. Ingersoll, spl.
Eng.; Raymond Knight, fr. Bus.;
Thomas Lee Laury, soph. Mus.;
Willie Marion, fr. Soc. Scs.;
Tfharles Moultrie, Jr., soph., Math;
Maceo R. Pelote, jr. EL;
Benjamin Pittman, fr., Ind. Ed.;
Maceo Scott, soph., Math; Thelma
Helen Sneed, sr. El. Ed., Ocilla;
Willie Waddell, sr., Math.; and
Christine Marie Williams, Jr.
Math.
Where no hometown is listed in¬
dicates Savannah.
NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—Protest¬
ing against derogatory characteri¬
zations in the Jack Benny radio
show, Roy Wilkins, acting NAACP
secretary, today sent the follow¬
ing telegram to the Columbia
Broadcasting System:
“National Association for the,
Advancement of Colored People
protests script material for Roch¬
ester on Jack Benny program Feb¬
ruary 5. All the old inaccurate
and derogatory stereotypes were
pulled out of the hat by writers
who used knifing, woman-chasing
drinking, dice games and stealing
of wearing apparel in skit. Most
writers for radio long ago learn¬
ed these situations not typical of
Negro life and not likely to make
friends and influence people among
them for products sold by such
means. CBS, Benny, Rochester
and script winters old enough in
this knowledge to know better and
do better.”
Many Prominent Persons To Head 1950 United Negro
College Fund Drive
Acceptances from more than 50
nationally prominent men and
women to serve as members of the
National Council of the United
Negro College F^ind for 1950, un¬
der the chairmanship of John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., have been receiv¬
ed at Fund headquarters, 22 East
54th Street, New V°rk City; it was
announced today by W'. J. Trent,
•Jr., executive director of the Fund.
Among those recruited to date
by Mr. Rockefeller for the
tional Council, to advise and aid
the Fund’s educational and fund-
raising program in behalf of 32
accredited private colleges for
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, FEB. 16, 1950
ASK DEATH SENTENCE FOR
KILLERS OF :( CHILDREN
Another Doctor Charged Evasion
With Income Tax
K03CUISKI. Miss., <ANP> —
with the taint of guilt sordidly
wr.tten cn their faces, tnree
white men here last Friday
waived their right to a prelim¬
inary hearing in the massacre
of turee Negro children Jan. 8
while they were asleep in bed
in tne tenant shanty of their
father near here.
The killers, Leon Turner,
W.ndell Whitt and Malcolm
Whitt represented by attor
neys, met wito the district
torney, Henry Ridgers of Atta-
la county, and approved the
waiver.
The trio will now await the
action of the grand jury which
convenes the first Monday in
March. Each of the men nas
been charged with three counts
of murder, and the state pros¬
ecutor will : eek the death pen-
Continued on Page 7
ATLANTA Feb. 12—Evasion of
federal income tax has tripped
another Savannah doctor, ac-
corrfin K to charges which have
^ een lodged against him by the
government which says that he
made improper returns for the
three years, 1945, 1916 and 1047.
These charges have been made
against Dr. J. A. Belb prominent
dentist of the Forest City.
Dr. Bell appeared before U. S.
Commissioner W. A. Wells, ,Jr.
in Savannah last week and was
released on the charges when
bond of $2,000 was placed for
him by Sidney A. Jones. promi¬
nent undertaker.
Dr. Bell has waived arraign¬
ment, and the case will, most
likely, be heard here next
month.
Charges against the dentist
show that:
In March' 1944, he filed re¬
turn showing that his net taxa¬
ble income for the previous year
to be $1,463 when it actually was
$9,509.59.
In March, 1945. he filed re-
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The annual meeting of the stock¬
holders of Guaranty Life Insur¬
ance Company was held February
9, at the home office of the com¬
pany, 460 West Broad Street.
The 1949 statement shows an
increase of assets for last year of
more than $73,000 and the total
assets at the end of the year of
more than $977,000.
The following stockholders were
elected as directorsi for the ensu-
11 "* y ear ’ ^' shf ’ p A- Founts,n,
Atlanta; Df. R. Stillmen Smith,
Macon; Prof. James, L. Grant,
Darien; R. E. Scott, B. C. Ford,
W. S. Scott, Jr., Dr. M. D. Bry¬
ant, Mrs. N. S. Pollard, C. Ber¬
nard Nichols, Louis E. Martin and
Walter S. Scott.
The officers re-elected for the
present year were Walter S. Scott,
| President and Treasurer; R. E.
Scott, Vice-President and Secre
tary; Dr. M. D. Bryant, Medical
Director; B. C. Ford, Agency Of-
fieer; W. S. Scott, Jr. Ass’t Sec¬
retary, and C. Bernard Nichols,
Ass’t Agency Officer.
“Y” To Hold Annual
State Teachers Enjoy
Brunswick’s Hospitality
Teachers from sixteen counties
net at Risley High School in
Brunswick, Friday, Feb. 3. J. S.
Wilkerson, Principal of Risley
High School, and Director of Regi-
jn II, presided over the meeting.
Music was rendered by Harring¬
ton School, St. Simons Island;
Camden County Schools and the
Risley High School Chorus. In¬
vocation by the Rev. S. P. Mc-
Kelvey, Pastor, Second Presby¬
terian Church. Mrs. S. W. Mo-
lette, teacher at Risley High School,
extended greetings to the teaefc-
ers from Risley High School and
Glynn County. R. L. Cousins,
State Director, Negro division of
Education, showed and discussed
slides on Post War School Plant
Improvements.
Departmental meetings were
held in various classrooms. Lead¬
ers and consultants for the groups
groes, are: Truman K. Gibson,
president, Supreme Liberty Life
Insurance Oo., Chicago, 111.;
Dorothy Maynor, New York City;
Hon. G, Bruce Robinson, Boston
Juvenile Court, Boston, Mass.;
George L. Hightower, D.D.S., At¬
lanta, Ga.; Carl Murphy, presi¬
dent, Afro-American Newspapers,
Baltimore, Md.; Dr. Channing H.
Tobias, director, Phelps - Stokes
Fund, New York City; Dr. Peter
Marshall Murray, M.D., New York
City; Frank W. Abrams, ehair-
nian, Standard Oil Co., of N. J.;
Lt. Gov. Alexi duPont Bayard,
Wilmington, Del.
Take $10,000 from Morgan
BALTIMORE, (AND — Four
armed and unmasked men scored
a $16,000 robbery coup at Mor¬
gan State college here last week,
one-half hour after student regis¬
tration had closed for the day.
The scene of the robbery was the
school library which had been con¬
verted into a large registration
room with a partition set up for
three windows for cashiers.
Behind the center window was
James H. Carter, business manag¬
er of the school, with most of the
money. Registration had closed
at 4:30 p.m. About a half hour
later, four men entered the room
with guns. The leader straddled
the partition, keeping the occu¬
pants under constant surveillance.
One man stood guard at the li¬
brary door. The remaining two
proceeded to rob the nine employes,
putting the money in a navy duf¬
fle bag. They took only cash,
leaving the checks.
Within three minutes, the ban-
(Contlnued on Page Three)
«i- rs •—
The annual members meeting
of the West Broad Street
YMCA will be held Wednesday,
Feb. 22. at 8:30 p. m. in the as¬
sembly room of the “Y” at
which time the election of offi-
cers and members of the board
of directors will be held. The
public in general and the mem¬
bers in particular are urged to
atten d this meeting.
Dr j pastor of St.
Philip's AME church, will deliv¬
er toe main address. Dr. Bry¬
an has made many contribu¬
tions to the “Y” as a member
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were as follows: GUIDANCE,
leader, J. C. Reese, Principal
Center High School; Consultants,
Mr. R. D. Pulliam, Director of
Guidance State Department of
Education and Eugene Stanley
Dean of Education Savannah State
College.
HUMAN RELATIONS: Lead¬
er, Mrs. R. Gadson, Savannah;
Consultant, Dr. Alma Stegall, Sa¬
vannah State College.
HEALTH AND PHYSICAL
EDUCATION: Leaders, L. J. Lo¬
max, Physical Ed, Risley High
School; and Miss Mary L. Hall,
Jeans Teacher, Bryan-Evans Coun¬
ties; Consultant, Mrs. E. W. Webb,
Savannah State College.
PLANNING: Leader, Miss E.
A. Tackwood, Jeans Teacher, Ware
County; Consultant, W. II. Dani-
Continued on Page 7
Also, Donald B. Lourie, presi¬
dent, Quaker Oats, Co., Chicago.
111.; Judson Bemis, general man¬
ager, Bemis Bros. Bag Co., Min¬
neapolis, Minn.; Devereux C.
Josephs, president and director,
New York Life Insurance Co., New
York City; Michael T. Kelleher,
fire commissioner, Boston, Mass.;
Lindsley F. Kimball, vice presi¬
dent, The Rockefeller Foundation,
New York City; Earl J. McGrath,
U. S. Commissioner of Education,
Wash. D. C.; Dean Donald K.
David. Harvard University, Bos¬
ton, Mass.; Harvey S. Firestone,
Jr., Akron, Ohio; Walter S. Gif¬
BUSINESS MEN TO MEET
IN WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, D. C. — The
Fifth Conference on tne Negro in
Bus ness will he held in Washing-
ton, D. C., on April 13, 14, and 15
under the sponsorship of the U. S.
Department of Commerce, it was
announced today.
Business education, small-scale
selling, the Negro as a producer
and the Negro market are among
the subjects that will be discussed
during the three-day conference.
About 300 businessmen, educa-
stration schools and representa¬
tives of Negro organizanoios t
tives of Negro organizations from
24 States, the District of Colum¬
bia, Haiti, Liberia and United
States insular possessions are ex¬
pected to be present at the confer¬
ence.
The principal speakers will be
drawn from government agencies,
successful Negro businesses and
fiom schools of business adminis¬
tration.
Emmet- Martin Lancaster, Ad¬
visor on Negro Affairs of the U.
S. Department of Commerce is ar¬
ranging the details of the confer¬
ence and will be the official in
charge.
All sessions of the conference
will be held in the Department of
Commerce Auditorium.
2 Women Seek Admittance
To University of Tulsa
ford, New York City; T. M. Gird-
!er, Cleveland, Ohio.
Additional acceptances to serve
on the National Council include:
Hon. Harold E. Stassen, Philadel¬
phia, Pa.; Thomas A. Morgan,
New York City; Eric Johnston,
Wash,, D. C.; Fowler McCormick,
Chicago, 111.; T. S. Petersen, San
Francisco, Calif.; Lessing J. Ros¬
en wald, Jenkintown, Pa.; Edger B.
Stern, New Orleans, La.; Frank
M. Totten, New York City; Gard¬
ner Cowles, New York City; Hon.
Clark E. Tucker, Kansas City,
Kansas; Ernest T. Weir, Pitts¬
burgh, Pa.
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
N. C. Mutual Ins. Co. Has
$100,000 on Hand Unclaimed
DURHAM, N. C.,~ (ANP)—The
North Carolina Mutual Life In¬
surance Company is carrying on
its books over $100,000 in paid-
up matured endowment funds for
policyholders it has been unable
to locate, President C. G. Spauld¬
ing said this week. The money
belongs to a large number of
policyholders who formerly lived
in the territories the company
serves.
“It would be a grand thing if
we could locate these policyholders
and pay them their funds,” Presi¬
dent Spaulding said in urging
agents to be on the lookout for
them.
A SON
Samuel Jonathan is the
name given to the son born Feb¬
ruary 2 to Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Johnson Williams of Dittsmers-
ville. Mrs. Williams will be re¬
membered before her marriage
as Miss Abertlna Carter of Rin¬
con.
PUBLIC SHOULD KNOW
CANCER’S EARLY SIGNS
NEW YORK—Less than half of
the colored and white people in
this country know a single one of
the seven danger signals of ran¬
cor, according to a survey made
for the American Cancer Society,
it was disclosed this week.
Yet, to guard against cancer,
the Society warns, everyone should
know all of the early symptoms of
cancer and see a doctor immedi¬
ately when a danger signal ap¬
pears.
The Society urges everyone to
read and learn these seven dan¬
ger signals of cancer: 1. Any *ore
that does not heal; 2. A lump or
thickening in the breast or else¬
where; 3. Unusual bleeding or dis¬
charge; 4. Any change in a wart
or mole; 5. Persistent indigestion
or difficulty in swallowing; «.
Persistent hoarseness or cough; 7.
Any change in normal bowel hab¬
its.
Youth Who Had no Money
To Go to College Now
Grosses Over $40000 on Farm
Only lack of money to go to
college kept Willie Melton of Ken-
dleton, Texas, on the farm 30
years ago, hut a good living from
an annual gross income that now
sometimes exceeds $40,000 has
caused him to remain in agricul¬
ture and make of it an outstand¬
ing career for himself.
It was in the fall of 1919 that
Melton, then 18, put on his Sun¬
day suit, packed his trunk, and
prepared to leave for Wiley col¬
lege, Marshall, Texas. He sat on
the porch and waited for a rela¬
tive to return from town with his
money. His father had died two
years before, leaving his affairs
in the hands of this relative.
When the relative finally ap¬
peared, he gave Willie the disap¬
pointing news that there was no
money for him to go to college
Forcing back tears, the youth told
this relative that he would take
the ] 00-acre farm left by his fath-
cr and run it for his mother, sis¬
ter and four brothers.
Willie wasn’t quite sure where
he’d get money to tide the family
over the winter and to begin t
crop the next year, but he began to
Continued on Page Six
By Viola Drew Lewis
TULSA, OKLA.—(ANP)— The
issue of whether Negroes should
he admitted to institutions of high¬
er learning for years reserved for
whites only dropped up here re¬
cently when two women made ap¬
plication for entrance into the
University of Tulsa. The two ap¬
plicants are Mrs. Henri Mae Pete,
secretary to Atty. Arnos Hall,
who seeks admittance to the law
school; and Mrs. E. L. Hairston,
business college teacher who wants
to attend the downtown division
of the university to pursue work-
on a master’s degree in education.
However, university action on
the applications is being withheld
pending a meeting of the trustees
Continued on
NUMBER 1*
NAAC Urges UN
To Study Resources
Of Africa
NEW' YORK, Feb. 9.—Support¬
ing a recommendation advanced
by the World Federation of Unit¬
ed Nations Associations for a
study of the economic situation in
Africa, the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
people has urged the American
representative to the Economic
ind Social Council of the United
Nations to vote for this proposal.
Roy Wilkins, acting NAACP
secretary, wrote to the U. S. rep¬
resentative, Willard L. Thorpe, on
February 3 endorsing the recom¬
mendation. The Association, he
oiid "strongly urges the United
States to support the request
made of the Economic, and Social
Council hy the World Federation
of United Nations Associations,
and specifically urges that the
economic study be carried out
promptly without awaiting the
final disposition of the question
if a United Nations regional com¬
mission for Africa, similar to that
irganized for other major under¬
developed areas.”
J, C. May Halt
Jamaican
KINGSTON, Jamaica, t ANP) —
If toe otate or Fiorica intends
to enforce jim crow laws a*
gainst him' Isaac William Au¬
gustus Barrent, newly appoint¬
ed minister of agriculture lit
Jamaica, may cancel a schedul-
,ed visit to Florida next month.
Barrent has been officially
invited to attend the state's Fat
Cattle show by the ctate board
of agriculture. Barrent said
before he would attend he
would first require assurance
that he would not be segregat¬
ed.
He is a colored Jamaican and
his wife is an East Indian.