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68 PUBLIC CONTINUOUS YEARS SERVICE OF
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Albany State College Gets
New Dormitory
OPENS OFFICE HERE—Dr.
.uVdip W. Cooper, former in¬
structor at Beach-Cuyler high
school, announces the opening
of his office for the general
practice of dentistry at 530 West
Broad street.
Dr. Cooper is the son of the
late Dr. and Mrs. II. I. Cooper of
tliis city. He received his ele-
mentary training at St. Bene-
diet school and his high school
Continued on Page 7
Four Sue Boat for Violation
Of Minn. Anti-Bias Laws
Headwaiters Win Right
To Hold Their Jobs
NAACP
Urges Passage
Benton Bill
WASHINGTON, July 15—
Urging prompt enactment of
Senator Benton’s and other
educational pr ograms,
Walter White, executive sec-r
retary of the National Asso¬
ciation for the Advancement
of Colored People, recently sub
mitted a statement to the Sen¬
ate Foreign Relations subcom¬
mittees holding (hearings on
the Benton proposal.
On recent trips abroad, Mr.
White’s statement said, “I
found a tragic lack of infor¬
mation regarding the function¬
ing of American Democracy
and an even more tragic dis¬
tortion of the truth about the
United States by not only Com¬
munist agents but by others
who are presumed to be on
our side in the present cold
war.”
Racial discrimination in the
United States, Mr. White as¬
serted, has aroused widespread
, scepticism about our profes-
v.vns of democracy. In va-
’'idtis parts of the world he was
made awiare “that the color
line in the Nation’s capitol,
filibustering in the United
States Senate, race riots and
lynchings, job discrimination
a gainst dark-skinned Americans,
and similar news, is played up
as evidence of American in¬
sincerity.”
While enactment of the Ben¬
ton proposal is urgently need¬
ed, the NAACP official con¬
cluded, it alone is not enough.
“With enactment of S. Res. 243
must go improvement of the
product we are selling—elimi¬
nation of the poisonous sub¬
stances of racial and religious
discrimination, If we make
certain that our free institu-
tions are really free for all
citizens and then use ‘the Mar¬
shall plan in the field of ideas”
as is contemplated in .the Ben¬
ton resolution, we can win and
hold the friendship of the peo¬
ple of the world, without which
/we ourselves cannot survive.”
A SON
Hercules is the name given
to the son born July 4 to Mr.
and Mrs. Alexander Robinson
of Dittsmersville. Before her
'marriage Mrs. Robinson was
Miss Annie Mae Lovett of Rin¬
con, ____
Srihur
ALBANY, Ga„ July 13—Previ¬
ous assertions that Albany State
cillege would get a new dorni-
itroy for men this year were
further confirmed this week,
according to an announcement
by Dr. Aaron Brown, president,
who states that he has re¬
ceived correspondence from
John E. Sims, assistant to the
chancellor, regarding advertise¬
ment of invitation for bids, to
be released July 19, 26, August
2, 9, 1950.
SAYS CIVIL RIGHTS
LAWS NOT SELF-
ENFORCING
NASHVILLE, Tenn. --/( ANP)
—Atty. Will Mallow, general
counsel for the American Jew¬
ish Congress, declared here last
week that “private civil rights
agencies” campaigning for civ¬
il rights statutes “fail to realize
that laws are not self-enforcing
and that prodding of govern-
mont agencies and commissions
constantly required.”
Atty. Maslow was addressing
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St. Louis (ANP)—U. S. Dist.
Judge George H. Moore grant¬
ed injunctive relief to Negro
headwaiters here last week
which prevented the Missouri
Pacific railroad and the Broth¬
erhood of Railway trainmen
frpm replacing them with
white stewards on the line’.J
dining cars.
The suit, brought by six
“waiters-in-charge,” held that,
their jobs were wiped out by
an award of a special board
givin the disputed positions to
stewards. The board came
into being last October at the
close of the 45-day Missouri-
Pacific strike.
The judge didn’t rule on the
merits of the case but pointed
out that the plaintiff had no
notice of the arbitration and
were not parties to it. He add¬
ed that (the injunction was}
granted in order to give the
plaintiffs time to petition the
National Railroad Adjustment
board for a hearing and deci¬
sion.
BLIND GIRL A HIGH¬
LIGHT ON CHATAU-
QUA PROGRAM
CHAUTAUQUA. N. Y.-^Sacie
Knight, blind Negro soprano,
will stand at the threshold of
her career Tuesday night, July
25. The twenty-year-old New
York City girl will be led onto
the Chautauqua Amphitheater
platform at the All-Gershwin
Pop Concert by conductor
Franco Autori for her first
major appearance with a sym¬
phony orchestra. She will sing
excerpts from the Gershwin
score of “Porgy and Bess” along
with Metropolitan baritone
Hugh Thompson
Also on the program will be
Cleveland pianist Eunice Podis,
winner of the National Feder¬
ation of Music Clubs Award in
1945, who will be making her
seconc j Chautauqua appearance,
ishe will play “Concerto in F.”
J Mr. Autori first heard Miss
Knight last winter in the Harl¬
em apartment of her teacher,
William Lawrence. He and Mrs.
Autori had driven up on the
recommendation of a friend
who had heard the girl sing in
a Brooklyn YWCA.
“After we heard her, my wife
and I had tears in our eyes,”
the conductor revealed. He was
so deeply moved by the quality
of her voice that he felt she
should be given a chance.
Every place was taken on the
summer program. So he added
her to the Gershwin concert and
Continued on Page Seven
Expansion of Hunter Field Will
Not Effect Lincoln Cemetery
MUSICIANS TO MEET
IN BALTIMORE
BALTIMORE, Md.— (ANPj —
The 28th Annual Convention of
the Notional Association of Ne¬
gro Musicians, Inc., will meet
with the Baltimore Music Guild,
Aug. 20-25.
Music teachers, concert art¬
ists, composers, choral direct¬
ors, and musicians from all
over the country will contrib¬
ute to the program.
Among the organizational
leaders expected to be present
are: J. Wesley Jones, the execu¬
tive secretary, Chicago; Dr.
Roscoe Polin, Indianapolis; Mrs.
Katleen H. Forbes, Cleveland;
Helen Carter Moses. Columbus;
Nora Holt. New York City; W.
Russell Johnson, Philadelphia;
Theodore Charles Stone, Chi-
c a g o ; Newell Fitzpatrick
Knoxville; Florence J. Mills,
Brooklyn; George R. Garner,
Continued on page Seven
ST. PAUL, Minn.— (ANP) —
Suit was filed in Ramsey County
District court here' recently by
two Negro couples charging
the owner and captain of the
S. S. Avalon, an excursion boat,
with discrimination in violation
of the state laws. Specifically,
the plaintiffs charged they
were willfully excluded from
full and equal enjoyment of the
! boat’s facilities
Principals in the case are Er¬
nest Meyers, 50, president and
booking agent for the steamer
Avalon, Inc.; Charles M. Hail,
69, boat captain, both of Cin¬
cinnati def e ndants; Mr. and
Mrs. E. Mitchell Rhone, J. Al-
phonso Horton and Miss Doro¬
thy Monson, plaintiffs.
According to the quartet, they
attempted to board the steam¬
er July 2 for a midnight cruisd
down the Mississippi. They had
purchased tickets previously at
one of the places advertising
the excursion tour.
When they came aboard, they
were told by a watchman that
the boat was for whites only.
Hall then told them they could
not enter the ship that night,
but another night would be set
aside for Negroes. Ask«d whiy
a special night was to be set
up for Negroes and also why
such was not contained in ad¬
vertisements, Hall refused to an¬
swer.
Meyers, selling tickets at the
time, interfered and threatened
Continued on Page Seven
Farmer Who
To Eddie D. Wilson of States¬
boro, Ge., 'balanced 'farming
has meant the difference be¬
tween coming out in debt and
totaling up an annual net in¬
come of close to $6,000.
How he climbed up from a
$20 debt through 14 years of
sharecropping to become own¬
er of a 288-acre farm, winner
SENATE CONFIRMS JUDGE HASTIE
Chicago Woman Sues |
Bus Line
CHICAGO (ANP)—The Illi¬
nois Greyhound Bus Lines, Inc.
has been hit with a $200,000
suit, charging racial discrimi¬
nation and “unreasonable treat
ment” of a woman passenger.
Mrs. Jennie B. Lyons of Chi¬
cago’s Southside, charged in U.
S. District court that on Sept.
9. 1949, she was forced to stand
in the aisles of a bus enroute
to Memphis, Tenn., from Chi-
cago. , i I A
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, JULY ZD, 1950
Says High Ranking
Force Official In
To Hub’s Protest
In the government’s plan to
the size and facilities
Hunter Field, it was suggest¬
several months ago to
the land occupied by
Memorial • cemetery,
adjoins Hunter Field.
This proposal caused wide-,
opposition among the
of Negro families
dead lie there and a
protest was raised
the removal of the bod¬
to another site.
The protest was spearheaded
organization, which, in a
last month to Secretary
Defense Louis Johnson,
the disturbance of the
in Lincoln Memorial cem¬
would be an anpalling
for the dead and a
affront to the living;
this is the only choice site
public use of Negroes as a
and that other ar¬
can be made for
expansion of Hunter Field
disturbing this hallowed
Richmond Makes
for Negro
RICHMOND, Va— (ANP) —
city health department
anniunced last week an
for a Negro sanitarian
the sanitation division. It is
first such post available for
Negro in this city's history.
The new employee will work
the field of feed and environ-
sanitation, The salary
is $230 to *253 a month.
According to Director Edward
Holmes, Jr., the city has been
into 10 sections so that
number of sanitarians are
To Cross
Sands July 30th
TO SPONSOiTbOATRIDE AUG 3rd
A large class is being formed
the 32nd degree Ezra Con4
No. 27 Scotish Rite Free¬
to be conferred Sat¬
and Omar Temple
21, Mystic Shrine on
u n d a y, of which Geo.
Smith is Illustrious Potentate.
Out $20 in Debt
Year, Nets $6,000 Annually
the State Plant to Prosper
and champion cord
is contained in a re¬
received last week by the
S. Department of Agricult
Cure from the Georgia State
Service.
“I started getting ahead
I stopped putting all
time on cotton and tobac-*
There were plenty of seats
available, she said but they
were for whites only Mrs.
Lyons said the Negro section/
of the bus was separated by
a curtain, in violation of a re¬
cent U. S. Supreme court de¬
cision. iM.l&
Council for Mrs. Lyons is!
Atty. Louis Kutner. who won
freedom of James Montgomery
of Waukekan, 111., after he had
been behind bars in ja state
prison for 25 years on a trump¬
ed-up rape charge.
ground.
In a reply to The Hub’s pro¬
test a letter was received last
week in which all fears were
allayed that Lincoln Memorial
Municipal cemetery would be
included in the present expan¬
sion of Hunter Field.
The reply, addressed to Pres¬
ident Wm. J. Bush of the Hub,
assuring that no further effort
will made to include the cem¬
etery In the air field’s present
expansion, was signed by Har-
Sstant^sTcfeU^i'^U^fnt
of the Air Force, Washington,
D. C., and was as follows;
"Department of the Air Force
Washington
“Office of the
Assistant Secretary
“July 11, 1950
“Dear Mr. Bush:
“We refer to your letter of
June 2, 1950 to the Secretary of
Defense in which you advise
that It has been brought to
Continued on page Seven
needed rather than nine as
heretofore. The new person will
work in a Negro section.
Dr. Holmes said this will be
the fourth time the city health
department has taken the first
step in employing Negro per¬
sonnel. The department, he
said, had the first Negro public
health nurse, the first Negro
supervisor, and the first Negro
veneral disease inspector in the
state. The department now has
22 professional positions held
by Negroes, he stated.
From all indications, it appears
to be one of the largest class¬
es to be received. In
attendance to this ceremonial
will be a number of
novices accompanied by
bles of their respective
Continued on Page Seven
co,” says 'Mr. Wilson who now
grows six cash crops—cattle,
hogs, peanuts, tobacco , naval
stores, and cotton.
But he is planning to fur-*
ther reduce his cotton acreage.
“It costs too much to raise,”
declares the Georgia farmer.
“After I pay for fertilizer^
chopping, and picking, I don’t
WASHINGTON, D. C.—July
—The nomination o - William H.
Hastie for judge of the Federal
Court of Appeals for the Third
Circuit was confirmed by the
Senate today without opposi¬
tion. Judge Hastie has served in
office for the past nine months
on a recess appointment by
President Truman.
The circuit includes Penn¬
sylvania. New Jersey, Delaware
and the Virgin Islands.
Judge Hastie, a Negro, form¬
erly was governor of the Vir¬
gin Islands and a federal dis¬
Dr. Huggins Given Fair
Chance To Win Board Seat
BATON ROUGE, La.—(ANP)
—Dr. H. Horne Huggins, prom¬
inent physicjan and a candi¬
date for the East Baton Rouge
Parish School board, will roll up
a high number of votes from
both Negro and white voters
in Democratic primary elect¬
ion on July 25, according to
political observers here last
week.
A record vote is anticipated on
the strength of reports that 41,-
421 voters have registered, of
which 4,470 are Negroes—or an
increase of approxifately 150
percent.
Dr. Huggins is the first Negro
candidate in the history of the
parish as well as the state to
run for office with bi-racial
support. An active community
figure, he is a pioneer in the
loral Boy Srouts movement and
the YMCA. He is also on the
executive board of Blondon or¬
phanage and Gahdet high
school here.
In addition, he was formerly
president of the Louisiana State
Medical association, warden of
the Episcopal church, and ex-
Continued on Page Seven
W. VA. COLLEGE
BUILDS FIRE ENGINE
INSTITUTE, W. Va.—The In¬
stitute Volunteer Fire Depart¬
ment has joined the ranks of
fire departments in the Kana¬
wha Valley which has installed
new fire fighting equipment.
According to a recent announce¬
ment, the department at Insti¬
tute has placed in service a
new 500 gallon pumping unit
which was built in the Automo¬
bile and Machine Shops at
West Virginia State college.
This fire truck, which was
designed by and built under the
supervision of Okey H. Peck,
Charles R. Byrd and William
Pete Smith, instructors in auto¬
mobile mechanics and machine
shop, was constructed on a
Chevrolet 2-Ton chassis and the
body is of 16-gauge sheet metal
riveted and welded. Besides the
500 gallon pump, the truck
carries 1000 feet of 2 1-2 inch
Continued on Page 7
Dallas, Tex. Has Its Fourth
HomeBombing inSixMonths
DALLAS,Tex—(ANP)— A five
room house, recently purchased
by a Negro and situated in a
neighborhood formerly occupied
by whites, was destroyed by dy¬
namite here last week. The
bombing is the fourth to occur
since February.
According to police, the ex¬
plosion is the worst to happen
since Negroes began to move in.
No one was in the house at the
time of the bombing. It is said
the building was offered for
sale last June 5, but there is no
jnormation as to whether it had
been sold or not.
Found inside the house was
a burning mop, and in the
driveway a set of tire tracks
and footprints. Plaster casts
were made of the latter. j
SUMMER SCHOOL
HONOR PUPILS
Mrs. Ophelia L. Mclver, prin-
of Alfred E. Beach high
summer session- announ¬
ces the honor pupils for the end
of the first four weeks as foll¬
ows: »
9th grade .Theodore Smith-
96; Richard Brown—93; Grisley
Collier—94; Floyd Davis—94;
Robert Colley—95; James
Wright—92.
10th grade: Roberta Polite—
91; Gloria Spaulding—95.
11th grade; William Butler
—93. Marie Wilcox >93; Delores
Miller—92; Velma Horne—91;
Continued on Page Seven
First
have anything left.”
Mr. Wilson is figuring on ex¬
panding his production of live¬
stock. With the aid of his
county agent, Morris M. Mar¬
tin, he is developing perma¬
nent pastures for his growing
herd of grade and purebred
Continued on Page Seven
trict judge.
The circuit court bench is the
highest judicial post to which
a Negro ever has been named
in this country.
Senators Hendrickson, Repub¬
lican, New Jersey, Lehman,
Democrat-Liberal, New York,
and Myers, Democrat, Penn¬
sylvania, praised Hastie’s rec¬
ord as a judge and administra-
trator and urged his confirma¬
tion.
"His entire record is one of
the most distinguished in cur¬
rent public life,” Myers said.
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
Chaplains Choose
For Next Meeting
HAMPTON, Va—(ANP)—The
Association of College
University Chaplains will
here for ts 1951 confer¬
here for its 1951 confer¬
with Hampton institute
host: The meeting will be
during the month of
says Dr.. Edward R. Mil¬
chaplain of this Virginia
The Hampton institute con¬
will be the fourth ann¬
meeting of the group, which
convened previously at
uniersity, the Uniersity of
and the Pennsylvan¬
College for Women, Pitts¬
Included in the national
are all adminis¬
appointed chaplains
religious workers in higher
institutions. More
300 persons are on the
list, with 1.50 active
90 of whom attended
year’s conference.
Officers for 1950-51 are: Dr.
J. Faulkner, dean of
chapel at Fisk university,
Chaplain Kenneth
of Colgate, vice-pres¬
and program chairman;
H. LeMarr Rice, Temple
chaplain, secretary-
and the following
committee members;
S. Abernathy, of Rut¬
university, immediate past
George M. Bean, Le¬
Samuel L. Gandy, Virgin¬
State ollege; C. A. Neyman,
of Southern Californ¬
and Robert Rankin, Oberlin
TO KOREA
WASHINGTON—(ANP,: Alex¬
R. Bolden, American Red
Cross field director, has been
to Korea where he will
serve the United States land
forces, the American Red Cross
announced last week.
REPUBLICANS NAME
WALSH FOR BENCH
NEW YORK—(ANP)—The
New York County Republican
executive committee designated
last week Lassen L. Walsh, lo¬
cal attorney, as its candidate
for the City court. Mr. Walsh
thus becomes the second Negro
to be named for that bench by
the Republicans.
i Mr. Walsh, 41, is a hearing
(referee for the State Work¬
40
DR. COLSTON ACCEPTS
A. & T. COLLEGE POST
GREENSBORO, N. C—It was
announced here this week that
Dr. James A. Colston had ac¬
cepted the cftalrmanshlp of the
department of education at A.
& T. ~ college. ~ p7esident Dr. Colston is the
f or mer of Savannah
State college, Ga., and the
Bethune-Cookman college at
Daytona Beach, Fla.
Hampton Inst.
ROTC Quota
Be Increased
Hampton, Va—Hampton In-
titute ROTC, under the direct¬
ion of Col, DeMurice Moses,
annuonced the decision of the
Headquarters, Second Army
Office of the Commanding Gen¬
eral, Fort George D. Meade, Md.,
to increase the opportunity far
students at Hampton Institute
to receive the Advanced Course
in. the ROTC. The previous quo¬
ta for Hampton Institute was
an Advanced Course not to ex¬
ceed 70 students. The new quo¬
ta authorizes the establishment
of an Advanced Course to ac¬
commodate 94 students.
Increases in quota were also
announced for other colleges
and universities over the na¬
tion.
With the participation of
more students in the Advanced
course of ROTC more students
from Hampton Institute will
be eligible to receive opporton-
ities for service at officers level
in the reserve and regular
armies.
GREEN—FRAZIER
Mrs. S«sie Ward of 506 W.
Henry street announces the
marriage of her niece, Ernes¬
tine Green, to Mr. Ernest Fraz¬
ier, son of Mr. and Mrs. John
H. Frazier of Savannah State
college, the ceremony having
taken place at Ridgelond, S. C.
Mr. anc' Mrs. Frazier are mak¬
ing their home at 133 Fellwood
homes. ,
men’s Compensation board. In
1945 and 1946 he was a special
assistant attorney general. He
is a graduate of the New York
University Law School, treasu¬
rer of the Harlem Lawyers’ as¬
sociation, a member of the New
York State Bar association, the
Urban League, and the NAACP.
In 1943 the Republicans nom¬
inates Francis E. Rivers to City
court and with American Labor
Party support he won the elect¬
ion. becoming the first Negro to
sit on that bench. »