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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LXIX
Another Oeeupant
last Week’s
Crash Car, Dies
Samuel M. Jenkins who
died Friday in a local hospit¬
al, following injuries in the
wreck.
Mrs. Elizabeth Mae Bryant
who was killed in the wreck.
Demand Probe into Beating
South Carolina Soldier
Bryan County Gets a New
Home Demonstration
MASONS OPEN FOREIGN
TRAVEL BURE AU
Donnelly Named
Folio Chairman
W. Dickerson Donnelly, well
known S’avannahian and pop¬
ular member of the teaching
staff of Alfred E. Beach
school has ueen named chair¬
man of the Negro Division of
the 1251 March of Dimes. A
chairman will be named short¬
ly. The appointment by was
during the past week
Chairman Frank S.
Jr. first
Prof. Donnelly’s appointed
act after being
to appoint Alphonso E.
who served as chairman of
1949 polio drive, as
chairman.
Street sales wii! begin
urday, January 27.
A new feature of the
paign this year will be
Mothers’ Match on
On that night, all person;
wish to contribute to the
paign are requested to
their porch lights on
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avawali Irilw
Marshall Begins
of Sol| | jcr | {jas
The death in a local hospital
Friday of the driver of one
he two cars which
head-on 2:30 Wednesday
ing of last week at the
action of the Old Augusta
Crossgate roads, carried
•lumber of fatalities in
iccirient up to three. The
er two persons killed died
“■he crash.
Samuel M. Jenkins, 36,
’’nown manager of
Funeral Home, succumbed
'act Friday <o injuries he
ceived in the wreck when
was rrushed about the
a id received head injuries.
The two persons who met in¬
stant Heath in the collision
Mrs. Elizabeth Mae Brvant, 28
512 W. York St., and Staff
geant Arthur S. Hernandez
white, of Hunter Air Force base
Injured in the accident
were Louis Sumpter Bryant, 42
vho operates a small store a 1
Meinhart. Ga.. and Miss Princ-
°tta Taylor, 28, the formei
having both his legs broken
and the latter, one leg and one
arm broken. Both are in a local
hosnital.
Sgt. Hernandez was alone in
his car at the time of the acci¬
dent while the other four per-
sons were in Mr. Jenkins’ car
with him at the wheel.
It appears from the best
available information, that Mt*
Bryant had driven to town
the day before the accident and
when he got ready to go home
he was taken slightly ill and
asked Mr. Jenkins to drive him
back to Meinhart. The two men
invited Mrs. Bryant and Miss
Taylor to accompany them on
the trip, the former, it is said,
reluctantly consenting as she
said it was too late and she had
to be on her job by 8 a.m.
When their car reached the
intersection of the Old Augusta
road and the Crossgate road it
ran head-on into the Hernan-
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NORFOLK, Va—A new enter¬
prise was launched in Norfolk,
Virginia, recently with the
opening of Mason’s Foreign
Study and Travel Bureau under
(he direction of Mrs. Vivian
Carter Mason, nationally and
internationally known club
woman and lecturer. Mrs. Mas¬
on is the president of the bu¬
reau and in addition is a
national vice-president of the
National Council of Negro
Women, a member of the Board
of Directors of Child «,nd Fam¬
ily Service in Norfolk and
founder of the Women’s Coun¬
cil for Interracial Cooperation
of Norfolk and the Committeo
of One Hundred Women of New
York City. Mrs. Mason was a
social worker for many years.
The first European trip will
be held in the summer of 1951
and will feature a lecture tour
to England, the Scandinavian
Countries, France, Germany,
Italy and Switzerland witn
side trips to Spain, Belgium
and Holland. In each country
well known persons will lecture
on the education, economics,
cultural achievements and in¬
ternational problems. Sight see¬
ing trips will also be part of
the trip and a number of social
affairs have been arranged so
that the tourists can meet the
people of each country. The
trip will be made by boat leav¬
ing New York City in June and
returning in August. A number
of states, schools and colleges credits
are granting scholastic
for these tours.
Mason’s Bureau will also plan
trips to other countries for
groups and individuals special¬
izing in the West Indies and
Mexico. Mrs. Mason is a seas¬
oned traveler, having been to
Europe and the West Indies
several times and will accomp¬
any the group in the initial
trip next summer.
MAN SET-UP
CY FEPC COMMITTEE
ATLANTA, Jan. 20— By a un¬
animous vote the Negro News¬
paper Publishers' Association
oday. meeting in executive
session, demanded through a
esolution that President Tru¬
man set up ari emergency Fair
rtnoloyment Practice Committ-
-e immediately
The voicing of this demand
vas one of the final acts of the
association which this after¬
noon closed its mid-winter two-
lay workshop which was held
at the Butler Street branch of
he YMCA.
Another resolution passed bv
ihe group deployed the fact
‘bat although thirty-six new'
TOT’C units have been recently
'stablished by the Department
>f Defense none has been sd
up at Negro schools, and that
ince the close of World War II
mlv six FOTC units have been
established in Negro colleges.
In order to press its demands
< tor the proper irdesraUon of
Negroes in all agencies of the
<efen.se work, the association
has set a special meeting of its
hoard of directors to be held in
Washington, D. C., March 16-17.
The annual meeting of the
association will be held in New
York City, June 13-16.
March 11-17 was designated
as Annual Negro Newspaper
Week with the theme being
"Negro Press Crusade for Free¬
dom.”
Among the prominent ,speak¬
ers at the session were Wright
B.yan, editor of /the Atlanta
journal, other representatives
of that publication; George
Weaver of the National Re-
sources Board, Walter White,
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Bryan County has added to
its educational forces a Negro
home demonstration agent. Miss
Leona Bacon, a native of Lib¬
erty County, has been appoint¬ the
ed to this position. She is
former teacher of home eco¬
nomics at Peabody high schbol,
Eastman.
Miss Bacon is a graduate of
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GOING HOME
l - - * ....... •• - —
Infantile paralysis struck Griselda Houseworth, 8, Atlanta,
Ga., last July. After care and treatment at two hospitals she was
released to return home in October. She continues to receive
home care and returns to the hospital for periodic aid examination. the
Thousands of children and adults have received through
March of Dimes Join the March of Dimes, January 15-31, and
help others to walk again.. ■. _____
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1951
J. Q. Jefferson Heads
Mu Phi Chapter
.1. Q. Jeffersou
The Mu Phi Chapter of Ome¬
ga Psi Phi Fraternity elected
officers for 1951 and 1952 at its
recent meeting held at the
home of Dr. W G. Tyson, 807
East Gwinnett St
Officers elected are John Q
Jefjcrson, basileus; Lester B
Johnson, vice basileus; W. W
Leftwich, keeper of records and
seal; B. J. James, keeper of
finance; Rev. P. A. Patterson,
chaplain, and Robert A. Young,
editor. The officers were in¬
stalled by Rev. A. C. Curtright.
The January meeting was
held at the home of Basileus
Jefferson. The budget committee
presented its annual hudget to
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COLUMBIA, S. C„ Jan. 13—
Investigations of a case of
severe police brutality to a Ne¬
gro soldier in Saluda County,
S. C., are being demanded of the
Justice Department and the
of the Army by
South Carolina State Con¬
ference of branches of the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo¬
ple.
The demand followed an un¬
merciful beating by. two
men of Pvt. Joe B. Wright,
19, resultii^g in a fratetured skull
and partial paralysis ip the
side. Eugene A. R.
executive secretary of the
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Probes
C |, ar e
NEW YORK, Jan.
good Marshall, special counsel
for the National
for the Advancement of Col¬
ored People, has informed
national office that he
scheduled to begin
conferences today on the
ject of Ihe treatment of
servicemen in Japan and
rea.
Mr. Marshall arrived
Japan on January 14, and
the first few days
racial problems in the
area. Alter preliminary
tigations, he is lo begin
cussing his findings with
General of the Army
MacArthur, the Inspector Gen¬
eral, and other top offtctals
the Far East Command.
Reports of alleged
ination against Negro Gis
tinued to come into the
national office after Mr.
shall’s departure. The
number of court-martial
in which the association
intervening at the request
officers and enlisted men
victed in Korea has risen
thirty-nine.
White
On
Attitude
CfDCAOO, 111.—Paul
is a bewildered man who
‘‘more to be pitied
damned.”
So writes Walter White,
ecutive secretary of the
al Association for the.
ment of Colored People and
distinguished Negro leader,
an article, “The Strange
of Pan) Robeson,” in the
rent issue of Ebony,
picture magazine.
In seeking to analyze some
the reasons for Robeson’s
cision tb give up an
income of $200,ono from
certs and records in order
“obey Russia’s every
White says the basic factor
the singer’s hitter
against what he regarded
personal slights to him in
country because of his
“He became a victim of
evangelic acceptance of a
system of society, and
he was escaping into the
world which he imagined
isted in Russia,” says White.
White rejects as
the oft-'repeated
for Robeson’s leftist turn
Moscow had promised to
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Ask Anti-Bias Interpretation
Of Railroad Amendment
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 — A
request that interpretations
written by the Senate Labor
Committee for the new amend¬
ment to the Railway Labor Act
be clarified to insure safeguards
against racial discrimination
was made this week by Clarence
Mitchell, director of the Wash¬
ington Bureau of the National
Association for the Advance¬
ment of Colored People.
Mr. Mitchell wrote John
Thadd Scott, chairman of the
National Mediation Board, cit¬
ing a proposal by Sen. Herbert
H. Lehman of New York that
the commit, :c'.; hirerpertatio'i
of the amendment be made
clear. The interpretation said,
among other things, that “if
an employee is denied member¬
ship or is eligible foir member¬
ship only on terms and
conditions not generally appli¬
cable to other members, he can
not be requested to give up the
job because of failure to join a
labor organization.”
“Our interpretation of this
language,” Mr. Mitchell states,
“is that (1) colored workers will
not be required to join segre¬
gated locals, or be forced into
Jim-Crow auxiliaries; (2i un¬
ions which act as the collective
bargaining representatives for
a craft or class cannot charge
colored members a higher fee
than white members, and (3)
no unions may make agree¬
ments with employers barring
colored persons from jobs,
training, or other benefits sole¬
ly because of race.”
The NAACP official asked Mr.
Scott to “indicate whether your
interpretation is the same as
ours.”
A GROUP OF PUBLISHES AND REPRESENTATIVES is shown standing in front of the main
dormitory of Atlanta University following a b anquet given in their honor Friday noon.
—Courtesy, Atlanta Daily World
Woman Claims|She Was
Beaten
WHITEVILLE, N. C„ Jan. 23—
Mrs. Evergreen Flowers, a Ne¬
gro woman, claims that she was
severely beaten by night riders
last Thursday night and that
her husband who ran for help
when the 40 or 50 white men
stormed her home, was shot at
by the mob.
Sheriff (H. Hugh Nance said
this was the second such attack
made by night riders in the
Carolinas within a week. The
previous instance was that in
Horry County, South Carolina,
where a disabled veteran and
his cripnled uncle were beaten
by a robed and hooded mob.
Meanwhile, more than 1,290
Catholic prelates and priests
nicotine at Columbia. S. C.. were
told that, the South’s “back¬
wardness” in race relations was
hurting this country’s efforts
to impress other nations with
the “American way of life.”
Bishop William T Mullov of
Covineton, Ky„ told Ihe Cath¬
olic Committee of the South
that "the condition of our
southern region with its unap¬
plied democracy stands out
boldly.”
He said this “unchristian
attitude” was a serious obstacle
“to other nations who are sin¬
cere inquirers into the pract-
ticability of our American way
of life.”
Mrs. Flowers said the night
riders fired at her husband as
he raced toward his brother’s
house a short distance away to
get shells for his own shotgun
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Local NAACP to Form
Veterans Committee
All veterans interested in
fostering a vigorous NAACP
program are being urged lo
attend a special meeting at 8
o’clock on Friday night, Jan.
26, at the West Broad Street
YMCA. The purporse of the
meeting being called by W. W,
Law, president of the local NA¬
ACP branch and a former
commander of one of the local
veteran organizations, Is to
form the branch veterans com¬
mittee. A general invitation is
extendel to all veterans willing
to help with the work of the
NAACP.
Reports of racial discrimina¬
tion in court-martial proceed¬
ings has caused the NAACP to
accept the defense of GI vic¬
tims in Korea as the No. 1 task
of the association’s legal de¬
partment, President Law said.
In view of the importance of
this task, he continued, we are
attempting to form a veterans
whose duties, among
things, are: (i) to serve
a source of information on
material issued affecting Ne¬
gro veterans; (2) to serve as
source of information to vet¬
and their families seeking
on government
serving veterans; and
(3 1 to receive and act on all
complaints relative
discrimination on account of
color or creed, or denials
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Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
UNCF TO HOLD TWO
DAY CONFERENCE
NEW YORK. N. Y.—.Alumni
Association officers, represent¬
ing 45,000 graduates and former
students of the 32 private
accredited colleges and univer¬
sities affiliated in the United
Negro College Fund will attend
a two day conference in New
Orleans, La., February 2 aryl 3
to discuss alumni plans for the
Fund’s 1951 campaign, it was
announced today by Randall L.
Tyus, national field director.
The meeting which represents
the fifth annual conference of
the national council of UNCF
Alumni, will be presided over
by Dr. George L. Hightower, an
Atlanta, Georgia, physician, and
national council president.
Hosts to the council delegates
will be Xavier and Dillard Uni¬
versities, both UNCF member
institutions located in New
Orleans, and the Inter-Alumni
Council of that city, headed by
Benjamin Johnson, of the
People’s Industrial Life Insur¬
ance Company there.
In addition to Dr. Hightower,
other national council vice-
presidents officers attending
the Now Orlean’s Conference
include Lorenzo White, Hamp¬
ton, Va.; Dr. O. W. Phillips, of
Marshall, Texas; J. Rupert
Picott, Richmond, Va.; National
Council Secretary, Mrs. Ethel
M. Johnson, New York City; Dr.
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NAACP TO MAKE BID
FOR 1-4 MILLION
MEMBERS
NEIW YORK, Jan. 18- A
quarter million members is the
membership campaign goal of
the National 'Association for
Colored People for 1951, it was
announced this week by Gloster
B. Current .director of branch-
es, in a communication to
tranches, youth councils and
college chapters.
Spring campaigns will be
conducted between. April and
June and fall campaigns be¬
tween September and Novem¬
ber. During these periods an
estimated 25,000 branch so¬
licitors will seek memberships
in a thousand cities.
Letters to Miss Lucille Black,
membership secretary, fbom
branches setting up campaigns
indieate a banner year in mem¬
bership production. Wilmington,
Delaware; Washington, D. C.;
Rochester, N Y.; Columbus, O.;
and Fort Worth, Texas are
among the larger cities where
campaigns have been scheduled
for February, March and April
period. in advance of the campaign
There are 692,325 adults
serving in the Boy Scouts of
America as volunteer leaders.
NUMBE 15
Nathan Roberts Dies
After Short Illness
Deacon Nathan Roberts
Dea. Nathan Roberts, well
knowln churchman and busi¬
ness man, died Saturday morn¬
ing, January 20, at the home o>.
ills daughter, Mrs. Erma R.
Williams, on West 39 street,
pea. Roberts was a widely rec¬
ognized and highly respected
citizen locally and in the state
Continued on Page Six
| Making Fine Record
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Rev. Walter C. Davis, Pastor
Charles St. Chureli, Boston
BOSTON, Mass.—Living up to
his past record, the Rev. Walter
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