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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LXVIU
HRST SAVANNAH NEGRO SOLDIER KILLED IN
ACTION IN KOREA
Pvt. David Sidney Walker
The first Savannah Negro soldier killed in the Korean
war was Pvt. David Sidney Walker. His death was re¬
vealed in a dispatch sent to Mrs. Eliza Haynes of 804
West Fifty-third street, his cousin, by the War Depart¬
ment, stating that he was killed on September 20.
Frivate Walker who would have been 20 years old on
November 22, enlisted in the army on February 3, loot),
and trained at Ft. Dix, N.\ J., and Camp Stonew r all, Cal.
He went to Japan in June and then to Korea.
,‘ v *,He was born in West Savannah on Exley street, and
attended Woodville and Cuyler schools. He, with sev¬
eral of his brothers and sisters, went to live with his
cousin, Mrs. Haynes, after the death of their mother.
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Everything of Ready for Opening Fair
Coastal
Dr. Collier, Sr., Knifed
By Hold-up Assailant
The timely entrance of his
son, Dr. H. M. Collier, Jr., into
his father’s office about 7:30
Tuesday night probably saved
Dr. H. M. Collier, Sr., from seri¬
ous, if not fatal, irruries from
a knife in the hand of a 26-
year-old hold-up man.
The hold-up attack at the 707
West Broad street office of the
elder Dr. Collier, occurred im¬
mediately after the technician
left for home.
The assailant entered the
office and told the doctor he
wanted to be examined for some
social disease. He was taken
into a back room and as the
debtor prepared to examine
jhv/tec pulled a knife billfold. and de
tended the doctor’s
The doctor refused to compl
with the hold-up man’s demand
and the two became engaged ii
a scuffle. Dr. Collier was cut
slightly about the hand, and
the leg and on the back of the
neex. The hold-up man was cut
on the hand when the doctoi
closed the knife on his assail-
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HEADS LA. MASONS—w. T
Meade Grant Jr., 33 is president
general and grand master of
the Most Worshipful St. Andrew
Grand Lodge AF A AM tor the
State of Louisiana. Inc., and
Masonic Jurisdiction which met ’
recently in New Orleans. j
BAPTIST MINISTERS AT NA-
TIONAL M E E T—Among the
7,000 delegates who attended
the recent National Baptist
convention, Inc., in Philadel-
Negroes Saved Over 700 Million
The National Negro insurance
Assoclation which recently
opened its national office head-
quarters in Chicago at 4339
Drexel Boulevard, announced
this week that the more than
four million Negroes holding
policies issued by the fitfy-eight
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1950
To Appeal Decision Educa¬
tional Facilities Equal inN.C.
GREENSBORO, N. C„ Oct. 10
—The decision of Federal Judge
Johnson J, Hayes that educa¬
tional facilities are equal at the
North Carolina Law school and
the North Carolina college
at Durham, will cause the four
Negroes who sought to enter
the white law school at Chapel
Hill to appeal the ruling of
Judge Hayes.
Judge Hayes handed down the
decision yesterday on the first
suit of this nature to favor the
defendants. Earlier, the U. S.
Supreme Court had reaffirmed
its ruling that Texas and Mary¬
land must admit Negroes to
state universities if equal facil¬
ities are not otherwise provid¬
ed. hast week the attorney
general of Tennessee ruled in
favor of a group of Negro stud¬
ents in his state.
Judge Hayes agreed with
North Carolina Attorney Gen¬
eral Harry McMullan that North
Carolina College in Durham
had a law school equal to the
state university's. Dr. Erwin
Griswold, dean of the Harvard
Law school, was among the wit¬
nesses who testified that the fa¬
cilities were not equal.
“It is impossible for any two
schools to offer the greatest
educational effect if they prac¬
tice the policy of racial seg¬
regation,” Griswold said., “On
every point of comparision,
North Carolina College is sec¬
ondary to the University ol
North Carolina.”
McMullan said, “Our success
Continued on Page Six
A Boy
A son was born October 6th
to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Rice
of Rosignoll Hill. He will bd
named John Carroll Rice.
phia were ministers from Bap -1
tist churches throughout the
country. Shown below are some
of the nation’s best known
Baptist leaders.
member companies of the as-
! sociation saved $789,358,801 in
insurance during 1949.
Murray J Marvin, executive
director of the association, re-
ports that the statistician's fig-
ures reveal that over $300 mil-
lion more could have been
Court Orders Louisiana
To Withdraw Racial
Ban at White Law School
NEW ORLEANS. La.—(ANP)
—The white Louisiana State
university law school will have
to admit a Negro student.
Saturday a t h r e e-member
Federal District court enjoined
the board of supervisdrs of LSU
from denying Roy S. Wilson of
Ruston, La., admittance to the
law school solely because of his
race and color.
Judge J. Skelly Wright handed
down the decision, and Judge
Hebert W. Christenberry and
Wayne G. Boarh concurred in
the opinion. Judge Borah is
from the local Circuit court.
In a brief opinion, Judge
Wright said:
"We held, in conformity with
the equal protection clause of
the 14th amendment, that the
plaintiff and all others similar¬
ly qualified and situated are
entitled to educational advan¬
tages and opportunities avail¬
able within the state, at the
same time, upon the same terms
and substantially equal to those
which the state provides and
makes available to other resi¬
dents and citizens of the state.”
In giving its opinion, the
court cited four other cases in¬
cluding the recent U. S. Sup¬
reme court action in the Sweatt
case in Texas. The opinion
The Coastal Empire Fair
opens Monday, Oct. 16th, at
one o’clocx when Mayor Olin
F. Fulmer and Chairman Jas.
P. Houlihan of County Com-
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Top, left: Tire Rev. D. V. Jem-
ison, center, of Selma, Aia.,
president of the convention,
receives a plaque from the Rev,
William H. Gray of the Afro-
saved if an additional
policyholders had not permit¬
ted their policies to lapse.
“It it in the iriterejt of sav¬
ing this additional three hun¬
dred million dollars that Na¬
tional Save Your Policy Month’’
is observed this year during
continued:
“The court is of the opinion
that the action of the defend¬
ant board of supervisors of the
Louisiana aiate university . . .
in denying admission to the
plaintiff of the department of
law solely because of his race
and color denies a right guar¬
anteed to the plaintiff by the
14th amendment and that en¬
forcement of the order, pending
final hearing, would inflict
irreparable damage upon the
plaintiff.”
The court action overrode the.
defendant’s argument that
Southern university’s Negro law
school was equal to that of LSU.
Whether or not the state would
appeal was not announced.
The case arose when the LSU
board of supervisors refused
Wilson’s application to the law
school because of his race. In
doing so the board passed a
resolution in which it upheld
the principle of segregation and
Cc”tinuei> on Page Six
Maryland I niv. Told to Admit
j to Court
fast-crumbling regation BALTIMORE, ■■ in higher October walls edi of nation 5—The seg¬
suffered another blow this week
when the Baltimore City Coprt
issued an opinion confirming the
contention of the National As¬
sociation for the Advancement
of Colored People that the har-
ring of Negro students of the
University of Maryland from
the university’s College Park
campus constituted a denial of
the equal protection of the laws.
Continued on Page 7
American newspapers. Looking
on at left is Rev. C. C. Adams of
Philadelphia, secretary of the
Foreign Mission board.
Top, right: Revs. J. Roland !
Last Year j
October, stated , Mr. „ Marvin. .
J. D. Grantham, chairman of
the National “Save Your Pol-
icy Month” committee, pointed
out that an analysis of .the
causes for this tremendous less
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GRIFFIN TRIPLETS FETED—
Jewel, Jerry and Jeris, the
Griffin triplets, children of Mr.
and Mrs. Cape'rs Griffin of 317
Yamacraw Village, were feted
with a birthlay party sponsored
by the Women’s Auxiliary to the
Cooking Demonstration at Beach
High School Tomorrow Fri. Night
A gala cooking demonstration
with a grand prize of a Maytag
Dutch oven gas range valued at
$309.95 will be presented by the
Savannah Gas Company at the
Beach High School auditorium
(Continued on page Six)
Smith, Atlanta, statistician ol
the convention; G. Luke lines,
head of the Presbyterian Home
Mission board and annual Book-
er T, Washington program
speaker; William II. Jerttagin,
president of the
BTU ana S. S. Congress; Rev.
Toyohiko Kagowa, philosopher,
author and evangelist of Japan:
E . w. Perry, Oklahoma City, 1st
vice president of the eouven-
tiOn; u. J. Robinson. Mobile,
Ala., secretary of the conven¬
tion; and Rev. B J. Perkins,
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Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
South Atlantic Medical Society.
This famous trio was born
Oct. 9, 1S40, and since that time
the ladies of the S. A. M. S. have
assumed the welfare of these
children as one of their pet
projects. The comfittee, headed
Lincoln Univ
Gives $111000
In Awards
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY. Pa.
—(ANP) — Lincoln university
students will receive more than
si 11,000 hi scholarship and
work assistance during the
coming chool year.
Scholarships awarded to Pa
students from special funds
provided for this purpose will
reach the $56,000 mark. Schol¬
arships for upper-classmen
awarded on the basis of superi¬
or standing in their past clas*
work at Lincoln, will amount
to $12,000.
Fresh men scholarships
awarded on the basis of high
standing in national compet¬
itive examinations, will exceed
$ 8 , 000 .
Special scholarship funds fo
African students will amount
to $3,500: Lincoln university
will enroll 30 such students thi:
year, and African organization'
are expected to match th<
University scholarship donation'
with an additional $10,000 ir
grants for African student
alone.
Students are expected to ean
$22,000 in various student jobs
ranging from pot-washer in the
university dining hall to a high-
ly skilled technical assistant
the chemistry laboratory.
CHICAGO BAR ASSN.
ACCEPT 2ND WOMAN
__ .
CHICAGO i ANP)—The Chi-
cago Bar association has accept-
ed its second Negro woman
member, Miss Lucia T Thomas
Tne CBA. which for many
years would not accept a Negro
member of any sex, lifted its
bars some six years ago, and
now has about a dozen
'
members.
Mrs. Jewel Stradford
a graduate of the University of
Chicago law school, was the
first colored woman member.'
Miss Thomas, who wa, notified
6! her election last month, u
the second. She is a graduate
of Terrell Law School in Wash-
ington and John Marshall law
school in Chicago.
NtJMEBR 52
by Mrs. H. , Sr., as
chairman, H. M. Coll
ler Jr.. J. H.
Eberhardt, Mrs. J. E. Fonvielle,
visited the Griffin home to pre¬
sent birthday gifts to the trip¬
lets.—Photo by Freeman
HEADS NEGRO DIVISION—
Walter S. Scott, prominent bus¬
iness man, has been named to
head the Negro division of the
1951 Community Chest fund
appeal, Frank O. Wahlstrom,
general campaign chairman,
announced today.
Named to serve with Mr.
Scott as vice chairmen were Dr.
J. E. Fonvielle and E. c. Black-
shear.
Heads of this division will
set up their organization to
-secure Red Feather contribu¬
tions from Negro business es¬
tablishments, Negro schools,
and house to house solicitation.
Prominent In local bus¬
iness and civic circles, Mr.
Scott is president of the Guar-
anty Life Insurance Company,
and a member of the board of
United Community Services and
the West Broad Street YMCA.
Dr. Fonvielle is owner of a
chain of local drug stores, and
a director of the West Broad
Street Y. Mr. Blackshear is
manager of Fellwood Homes,
All three of these men have
taken active parts in Commun-
ity Chest appeals in the past,
The community Chest cam-
paign tills year is combining the
fund appeals of 28 seperate
agencies into one. The goal for
the campaign is 5347,500, de-
scribed by Campaign Chairman
Wahlstrom as “the bare mini-
mum needed by the Chest
health, welfare. i$nd recreation
organizations to continue on an
adequate foiling during 1951,”
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readers but they do not make
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