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YEARS OF
CONTIGUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LXVIII
HOUSING EXHIBIT AT NNBL
MEETING—The Federal Hous¬
ing administration’s housing
exhibit was a visual highlight
of tiie 50th Anniversary Cele¬
bration of the National Negro
Business league meeting held
recently at Tuskegee institute.
Seen in the picture of the ex-
9 Enrolled at Univ. of Mo.
3 T
heads legal redress
COMMITTEE— Attorney Julius
T. Williams, Jr., who was ad¬
mitted to practice before the
Georgia bar on September 14,
has been appointed chairman
of the Legal Redress Committee
of the local Branch of the Na¬
tional Assocation for the Ad¬
vancement of Colored People.
W. W. Law 7 , branch president,
who made the appointment,
said that Atty. Williams’ ap¬
pointment will be confirmed at
a meeting of the NAACP on
Friday night at the YMCA. Mr.
Williams is occupying a suite of
offices at 719 n, West Broad St.
(Savannah Pharmacy Building
!?<$, J^WSON BISHOP W. D.
PASSED
last week
Loyal To The Bishop
In The Rural District
The first citizen of the rural'
district was gathered to her
Maker last week at Plains, Ga.
The funeral took place in
beloved A. M. E. church at
Americus, Ga. .attended by a
host of her admirers. She led
the Prayer Band, a well known
religious organization. Where-
ever she went she made
organization known. She
loyal to the late bishop, who
was a leader in the great Af-
rican Methodist Episcopal
Church. She had the eh-
courugement of hei evo
son, Rev. W. D. Johnson, Jr.
who is also a leader in
church.
As the bishop was a
to the Mason c order, so
Mrs. Johnson loyal to the
tern Star. She could be
ways found at the
Chapter sessions lending
part to the Fairests.
The members of her
and the Eastern Star
her remains to the last
ing place.
awnutah
| hibit are, left to right: B. T.
McGraw, Housing and Home
Finance agency; A. L. Thomp¬
son, FHA Zone II Racial Rela¬
tions adviser; J. V. Murphree,
FHA office, Birmingham; G, D.
Rogers, president of Central j
Life Insurance company of Flo-
rida; Horace B. Sudduth, pres-j
Bingford
Heads Cand¬
ler Teachers
The Candler County Teachers
met Sept. 29 with Mrs. Irma S.
Fields, new Jeans teacher, in
charge. An instrumental solo
was rendered by Mrs. Freda
Whitaker, Melody of Harvest;
prayer by Ernest W. Boston; a
Harvest hymn sung by the i
group. Then followed greetings
from the Candler County Train¬
ing School by R. P. Binford,
principal of the Candler County
Training School. The Candler
County Training School Teach¬
ers’ choral group gave a select¬
ion, “Nobody Knoivs the Trouble
I See.”
Remarks were made from a
visiting teacher, Mrs. M. B.
Jones, after which the group
sang an acquaintance song.
Officers elected for the Candler
Organization are as follows:
President, R. P. Binford; Vice
President, T. A. Milledge; Sec¬
retary, Mrs. A. J. West; Assist¬
ant Secretary, Mrs. A. M. Whit¬
aker; Treasurer, Mrs. Maggie
j ^ Mosley; Chairman of Social
Committee, E. W. Boston;
Chaplain, Rev. M. F. Fye;
Chairman of Reporter Commit¬
tee, Miss M. J. Perry; Chairman
of Finance Committee, Mrs. A.
L. Morgan.
The faculty consists of five
new members this year, Miss
Jalia Jones - Candler County
Training School; Miss Mattie
Continued on Page 8
MRS. WARING SPEAKS
IN RHODE ISLAND
PROVIDENCE, R. I.— (ANP
Mrs. J. Waties weR-known”l"V” Waring, northern
born wife of Warina" ^
J. - T Waties snokp h ierc
last week to a large audience
under the auspices of the Rhode
Island Citizens’ Committee on
Civil Rights.
Mrs. Waring paid tribute
the small state of Rhode Island
and urged her listeners to send
men to the U. S. Congress
would make filibusters imposs-
ible and would not enter into
“deals” with southern white
j j als0 sl „ ssed , he
p Qin j. t ^at ever y advance made
- n ^ g ou th against racial dis¬
crimination and bias had been
I forced by outside pressure.
| Declar ing that there are
j th j ngs w hich all persons expedite every¬ the
where can do to
elimination of racial barriers
in the south, Mrs. Waring urged
her audience to mix more, rac¬
ially, not patronizingly, but on
a iriendly, helptul basis.
She expressed the opinion
(Continued on page Six;
ident of the National Negro
Business league; C. C. Spauld¬
ing, president, North Carolina
Mutual Rife Insurance comp¬
any; A. Maceo Smith, FHA Zone
4, racial relations adviser; R. B.
Ohme, FHA Office of Mont-
gomery, Ala.—(ANP)
COLUMBIA, Mo.— (ANP i
Nine Negro students are en-
rolled here at the main campus
of the University of Missouri,
and two others are registered
at the Missouri School of Mines
and Mettallurgy at Rolla, Mo.
Listed among the nine stud¬
ents at Columbia are Miss Betty
Jane Banston, 1£>. St. Louis;
Mrs. Hazel McDaniel Tebeau,
teacher, Lincoln university; Gus
Gus T. Ridgel, Poplar Bluff;
and Samuel Jones, Kansas City,
Mo -
The two students at Rolla
are Elmer Bell Jr., and George
E. Horne, both of St. Louis.
Bell and Horne along with Rid¬
gel were the plaintiffs in the
court case that recently knocked
out the jimcrow college setup
in Misso ri.
Miss Bankston, daughter of
Mrs. Cleo Bankston, is the only
Negro undergraduate student
on the main campus. She is a
senior majoring in Spanish. She
has had two years study at
Stowe Teachers college and one
at Howard university.
She and Mrs. Teabeau are
living in a temporary dormitory
at the university and are eat¬
ing at the Women’s Residence
hall. Of this setup Miss Banks¬
ton said:
“Everything is just fine here,
and I am as happy as I was a‘
Howard.”
The university is giving its
Negro students all the privil¬
eges of any other student on the
campus. In the past this school,
although more than 100 years
old, had never admitted a col¬
ored student.
Second Negro Enters
GAVELSTON, Tex.—(ANP)-
A second Negro student has en-
tered the School of Medicine
at the University of Texas lo-
cated here and is now pursuing
his studies. He is James Pendle-
ton, 22, of Houston, an
who did his college work at Dil-
lard university in New Orleans.
~
Family Service Solves Family Problems
O. L. Douglas, Chairman,
By Clarence Perkins
Family Sevice of
Inc., has become a beacon
for the relief of distress,
vention of broken homes,
rehabiiatation of those
trouble. Many people
events played an
part in the successful
ioning and growth of this
cy, beginning in 1909 with
i first president, George C.
win, whose zeal and
tarian spirit have come
through the years.
j Growth of Family Service
colorful with
j movements, among which
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1950
Masons (iive 2 $500
ATLANTA, Oct. 2—Two very
generous scholarships of 500
dollars apeice have been award¬
ed to two Second Year students
of the Atlanta University
School of Social Work ‘ by the
Prince Hall Masons of Georgia
of which John Wesley Dobbs is
Tie Grandmaster.
The fortunate recipients of
these awards are Miss Marymal
Morgan of Richmond, Virginia,
and Miss Nany Coleman of Bal¬
timore, Marylnad.
These scholarships awaded to
outstanding students in the At¬
lanta University School of Soc¬
ial Work are just another evi¬
dence of the progressive
program of this Georgia Mas¬
onic Grand Lodge. This organ¬
ization for several years has
given $1,000 annually to the
United Negro College Fund;
and $1,000 annually to the At¬
lanta Community Chest. In the
past year the organization gave
$500 to the southern work of the
National Urban League; $300 to
the Phyllis Wheatley Branch of
the YWCA of Atlanta, and $300
to the Atlanta Branch of the
NAACP. It recently sent *100 to
Boys Town in Nebraska, an or¬
ganization which has been
conspicuous in service to boys
of all races. Similar large
amounts have also been given
by this Lodge to other worthy
organizations, such as the Can¬
cer Fund, the Tuberculosis As¬
sociation, and the American
(Continued on page Six)
Law Suit Spearheads Legal
Anti-Jim Crow Fight in La.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 28
j The legal fight against segre¬
gation in Louisiana is being
| fpearheaded by the National
Association for the Advance¬
ment of Colored People in the
suit of a Negrt- student seeking
admission to Louisiana State
University, scheduled for argu¬
ment on September 29 before
a three-judge federal court.
The suit, filed on behalf of
Roy S. Wilson and eleven other
Negro students who have filed
applications for admission to
the university’s graduate school,
charges that failure of the uni¬
versity to admit these students
denies them the equal protect¬
ion of the laws as guaranteed
by the Fourteenth Amendment
to the United Staes Constiution.
Local Crusade For Freedom
Committee Begins Campaign
meeting
of the Crusade for Freedom,
was held at the West Broad
S't. YMCA and more than 40
enthusiastic workers headed
the call to HELP LIFT' THE
IRON CURTAIN EVERY-
WHERE.
The members present
ed grave concern of the world
situation today, after review-
jing events leading up to this
grass root movement by the
freedom loving citizens of this
| nation on a volunteer basis,
| The Crusade for freedom
j represents a challenge for all
i people, for freedom brings in-
sharp focus the
j I in existing. living and the difference in
I the fostering of the T. B edu-
i cational program, the Health
Center, Social Service Exchange
and Council of Social agencies.
Its significant service to the
Negro population began nine
years after the date the charter
was received. According to a
report compiled by J. W. Starr,
Jr., of the Family Service Agen¬
cy, “Since 1909, only the ex¬
treme emergency needs of the
most dependent Negro families
had been accepted for service
or relief by the Society . . . Al¬
though many attempts had
been made to integrate services
to this group, the recurrent
struggles for life by the Society
South Carolina State Fair
to Break All Records
SISTER, BROTHER FIND
EACH OTHER AFTER
MANY YEARS
!#||k JB
It was while both were on
their vacation in Claxton, Ga.,
last summer that Mrs. Marie
Johnson Lewis and Mr. Willie
Johnson, in picture above,
each other and talked
for the first time and
ered that they were brother
(Continued on page Six)
It asks a permanent injunction
restraining the state from bar¬
ring these students and others
similarly situated from the uni¬
versity.
Thurgood Marshall, NAACP
special counsel, and A. P.
Tureaud of New Irleans will
argue the case for the NAACP.
Dr. E. A. Johnson, president
of the Louisiana State Confer¬
ence of NAACP branches, re¬
vealed that the state group
also now fighting three law
suits involving refusal of local
political authorities to permit
Negroes to register to vote. “We
are determined to make signifi¬
cant changes here in Louisiana
in the status of Negro citizens,”
Dr. Johnson said.
Despite the leaders efforts
and enthusiasm in the Crusade,
wil1 n °t succeed unless the
masses of people themselves
; arr aware and inspired regard-
in S their responsibility in se-
curing and safeguarding thiq
freedom. Some canvassers
report that most individuals
contacted either do not under- 1
i stand the purpose of the Cru-
sade or have not heard of thei
Crusade.
Briefly, The Crusade Fon
j Freedom differs from the Voice
of America in that it is a pro-<
gram of and by free people in,
this nation carrying the message
Democracy and truth to)
people of other nations less
j fortunate than we.
had retarded any progress in
this area.
“In 1918, feeling that the So¬
ciety was at last on a firm
foundation with its function
clearly defined, it had appealed
to the city to appropriate to
the Siciety the money then
spent for outdoor relief of Ne-
gro families, to be used to pro¬
vide a Negro caseworker. At the
same time, an appeal was made
to the Negro community organ¬
izations to supplement such-an
appropriation so that both ser¬
vice and relief could be admin¬
istered through the Society.
Several months later, represen¬
tatives of the Negro
By J. D. McGhee, Reporter
CDLUV31A. S. C.—South
Carolina Colored State Fair of¬
ficials are planning to shat¬
ter all attendance and other
records for the 1950 six day
exposition to be held on the.
State Fair urounas Monday
Saturday, October 23th to tho
28th.
They must surpass last year’s
attendance record which was
the largest in the history of
the assoc ation and ranked
third in attendance in 1949.
According to a report in Bill¬
board Magazine, the white
State Fair in Columbia in
1949 ranked first, the Orange¬
burg County Fair (white)
ranked second and tlye Color-
i ed State Fa r ranked third.
Dr. A. J. Collins, serving his
j Continued on Page Six
Cl CMUMT ta I U M curAlf tAK
j *
HERE T 0M0RR0W
NIGHT
The Savannah Branch of the
National Association for the Ad¬
vancement of Colored People
will hear Arthur J. Clement,
Jr., a young, courageous leader
of Charleston, S. C., at a public
meeting on Friday night, Oct.
6, at 8 o’clock at Ihn West Broad
Street YMCA. The NAACP
meeting is being called in con-
CnnMmierl on Page Sevpn
Tenn.U.to Discard Racial Ban
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 28
—Faced with the possibility or
an NAACl* nura, tne state of
Tennessee agreed to accept the
applications of three Negro
students for admission to the
law and graduate schools of the
University of Tennessee at
Knoxville.
A ruling handed down by
Roy H. Beeler, attorney general
of the state, on September, af¬
firmed the right of Negro stud¬
ents to attend the University.
Continued on 7
The voice of America is a
program promoted by the gov¬
ernment of this nation direct¬
ed to governments and people
of other nations.
The purpose of the Crusade
for Freedom is to offset com¬
munistic propaganda in this
and other nations and to car¬
ry the message of truth to
people who do not have thei
opportunity of speaking, lis¬
ten ng nor reading matters of
j their individual preference.
The aim or goal of the Cru¬
sade for Freedom is to build
a shrine in Berlin where thei
scroll of the Declaration of
Freedom with your signature)
Continued on Page Six
supported this plan with a
pledge of $500.00 for the first
year’s work .
“This plan failed to
ize immediately, but the doors
j had been paritally opened and
j with growing contributions
! from interested Negro groups,
more needs were being met
among the Negro families
j distress. By February, 1926,
full-time Negro worker, Mrs.
Mamie Belcher, had been added
to the staff through the joint
efforts of the (savannah Fam-
lly Welfare Society and the
Savannah Community League,
Continued on Page Seven
Member Audit Bureau Circulation»
Price 7c
SAILS TO STUDY OPERA
(Ransom Photo)
It was a happy day last week when Mrs. Marion Jackson
Downs, the lyric soprano of Baltimore, and known to friends in
the middle, south and far west, sailed on the S. S. Saturnia for a
vear of study of opera in Milan, Italy. This Fulbright scholar is
the widow of the late Dr. Karl Downs, former president of Sam
Huston College at Austin, Texas. Accompanying Mrs, Downs is
her daughter, Karleen, who also has a bent lor voice, . j
1280 Enrolled
At S.
State College
ORANGEBURG, S. C.—Final
enrollment figures at the close
of registration last week at
South Carolina State A & M
College, showed a total of 1,280
in classes. The breakdown was
as follows:
In the under-graduate school
there were: 246 in the Senior
classes; 142 in the Junior class¬
es; 233 in the Sophomore
classes; 328 in the Freshman
classes; 41 Unclassified stud¬
ents.
In the garduate school 145
students were enrolled and in
the Law School, 19; in
Courses 32 students were en¬
rolled and in Felton Elementary
Training School 94 pupils.
An increase in enrollment was
shown in the graduate school,
the law school and in
freshman classes.
The total first semeter en¬
rollment Is abuot the same
in 1949.
New
Claflin Univ.
Faculty
Orangeburg, S.
I program and objectives for
year were outlined by
| J. J. Seabrook and Dan
| nest A. Finney at Claflin
j leg0 which opened its
first year with a faculty
stitute on Monday,
j 1,0.
j The new members of
| 11950-51 B. S„ are Arthur Savannah L.
sen,
( College; M. S., University
Wisconsin, English; Miss
M. Burrell, A. B.,
University; M. S. In
i science, Atlanta
i brarian; Benjamin J.
B S., South Carolina State
lege; M. S.. Atlanta
biology; Miss Ossie D. Eaddy,
Continued on Page 7
number
4
Mrs. Frank (’alien
XMAS SEAL CHAIRMAN—Mrs.
Franx uallen, director of the
Frank Callen Boys’ Club and
former school teacher, has been
appointed chairman of the 1950
Christmas Seal Sale Drive, Miss
Olise Campbell, president of the
Associate Board, announced
today.
This year's Christmas Seal
Sale, part of the 44th annual
Christmas Seal Sale throughout
the nation, will be conducted
from November 20 to Christ¬
mas. Proceeds will be used to
support the 1951 program of the
Chatham-Savannah Tuberculo¬
sis and Health Association
which conducts the sale in
Chatham County.
Mrs. Callen’s record of interest
and service to the community
makes her an excellent choice
for the chairman of this cam¬
paign, said Miss Campbell, “Her
leadership in this annual fund
raising appeal, I am confident,
will go far to assure vital suc-
j cess °t the campaign.” The
death rate among Negroes is
three times as high as it is
among white people.
j campaign Volunteers wUl to help be during than the
| more
welcome.
Just think, next year this
time, we will be in the midst of
another Presidential campaign!
The trouble with most picnic
dinners is that it takes about
a week to get normal again.