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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- nnnt.inued on Page Seven 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 Continued on Pas* Turee 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 Continued on Page 7 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- Continued on Page Six 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- Continued on Page Three 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 Continued on Page Seven 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.