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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LXIX
N. C. Mutual Has
Asset sMoreThan
$29 Million
Last Rites
Held For
College Prof.
Funeral services were held
for Murrell S. Johnson, 42,
assistant professor of cavern -
try a ; Savannah State College,
AMarch t in Paris, Texas, Wednesday.
14. Mr. Johnson died
t Friday afterneon, March 0, in
the Marine Hospital in Savan¬
nah while undergoing trca : -
CniU'iiiUeU i-d a
ANOTHER WOMAN SUR
VIVES AFTER HAYING
BEEN FROZEN STIFF
MILWAUKEE, Wis— (AMP' —
The medical world took another
shocker Sunday morning when
a 45-year-old Negro woman
here came back alive after
being literally frozen stiff.
Mrs. Maybell Bingham was
brought to the County Emer¬
gency hospital with a tempera¬
ture of 71 after police found her
lying unconscious i l a yard
behind a saloon. Five hours
later the woman had regained
consciousness and her tempera¬
ture had climbed to normal
98.6.
Medical men already have ac¬
cepted Mrs. Bingham’s survival
as out of the range of normal
but not under the listing or an
DELTAS REGIONAL MEETING NEXT WEEK
MISS DOROTHY I. HEIGHT
Grand President
MRS. ANNIE B. GIVENS
President, Hostess Chapter
J ACKSON BLASTS
POLITICS, THE NUM¬
BERS RACKET
Leaders In
Cuvier Junior
Hi* School
The following are the stud¬
ents who have maintaihed an
average of A for this sixth
week at Cuyler Junior High
School:
7-(5 1 Lillian Williams. Janie
Crawford: 7(7) Kernell Dozier.
John Gaynus, Willie Maerlon.
Continued on page 7
The 52nd Annual Statement
of North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company that ap¬
pears in this issue of The b'a-
vannah Tribune indicates that
the Company’s commendable
record of service and growth
is continuing unab’ed.
As the accompanying state¬
ment sets forth, at the close
of the year 1950, the assets of
the Comoanv reached a new
high of $20,541,387.02, an in¬
crease of $3,291,385.78 for the
year. A record equally as im¬
pressive has been established
wi h regard to the amount of
insurance in force. Insurance
in force at the close of 1950
Continued on Page 7
amazing phenomenon as the
survival of 23-year-old Mrs.
Dorothy Mae Stevens, the Chi¬
cago “miracle girl,” who reg¬
istered a body temperature of
64 when brought to Michael
Reese hospital on the morning
of Feb. 8.
Mrs. Stevens had both of her
legs amputated below the knee
this week and doctors say her
finger tips will probably have
to be cut off.
Like the Chicago woman, Mrs
Bingham entered the hospital
with pulse so faint and blood
pressure so low they could
hardly be registered. Blood
plasma and stimulant drugs
Continued on Page 7
MRS. CLEMMIE L. WEBBER
Southern Regional Director
“Human Rights from Charter
to Practice” will be the theme
of the Southern Regional Con¬
ference of the Delta Sigma
Theta Sorority which will be
held here next week. Marcli 23-
24.
Highlighting this gathering
will be a public address by the
grand president, Miss Dorothy
I. Height, Friday evening, Mar.
23rd, at 8 o’clock at St. Philip
A. M. E. Church, West Broad
and Charles Street. Musical
numbers will be rendered by
talented members of the Soro¬
rity from Florida, Alabama,
Tennessee, Mississippi, Soutr.
Carolina, and Georgia. The
public is invited to attend this
meeting.
Miss Height has a rich back¬
ground of experience which
includes the following positions:
secretary, Interracial Educa-
Continued on page Seven
In a very forceful speech,
Emory O. Jackson, of Birming¬
ham, Ala., condemned the
numbers racket in this
community and called on local
Negroes to regain their lost bal¬
ance of power. He wanted to
know why “ocean-side, iiberal-
sided Savannah” had become a
Talmadge stlronghold. When
Chatham County went for Tal¬
madge, the bigot, he called it
the riddle of the Mid-Century.
Mr. Jackson, who is editor of
the Birmingham World and
‘secretary lof the Birmingham
Branch. NAACP. was sneaking
before the meeting of the Sg-
Continued on Pa£e Seven
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY. MARCH 15, 1951
m M
juias' tnunubius—r-icruxeu nere arc me uuvauuiumB
events of the 1951 Southern Regional Conference of the Iota
PiTT Lambda Sorority which was held March 8-11 at Savannah
State College.
Left Top—Group Picture showing delegates and visitors in
attendance from North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia
and Florida. Reading fifth from left end, first row are Mrs.
Mary P. Bacote, assistant regional director, Knoxville, speaker
at public meeting; Mrs. M. Cleopatra Crutcher, southern region¬
al director, Tuskegee Institute: Mrs. Helen D. Weathers, presi¬
dent Nu Chapter, Savannah, Ga., hostess chapter; Mrs. Jeanne
Simmons Scott, national president, Pittsburgh, Pa., and speakei
at public meeting, Meldrim Hall, Savannah State College, Marcn
9 at Public Tea, Community House ol
2nd from top-Group Mrs. Alice P. Allen, Birming¬
Savannah State College, including Helen D Weathers,
ham, Ala., past national president; Mrs.
president, host chapter, Mrs. Jeanne S. Scott, national ] president,
Mrs. Nettie Bennett Archer, Atlanta, Ga., past national treasur
IOTAS HOLD IMPRES¬
SIVE REGIONAL MEET
The picturesque surroundings
of mosshung spreading oak
trees of Savannah State College
Laymen Enjoin Bishops Council
From Moving Bishop Wright
ATLANTA, Mar. 14—An effort
by a group of AME church lay-
men, headed by Sidney A.
Jones of Savannah, to prevent
the transfer of Bishop R. R-
Wright from Georgia to Ala¬
bama and to keep Bishop S'. L.
Green from taking over affairs
of the crurch in Georgia was
made here today when a temp¬
orary injunction was issued by
Judge Verlyn Mooore of the
THE NEGRO PRESS OBSERVES 124th ANNIV.
(A statement by Dowdal H.
Davis, president, Negro News¬
paper Publishers Association.)
As the Negro press observes
its 124th birthday it looks out
upon a wolrd torn by strife and
misunderstanding, yet full of
promise for a better tomorrow.
When John Russwurm first
KOREAN DEFENSE FUND PASSES $10,000
NEW YORK, March 8—A tot¬
al of more than $10,000 has
been contributed to the Na¬
tional Association for the Ad¬
vancement of Colored People
for the defense of GIs in Korea
it was announced today.
The largest single contribu¬
tion—$5,90(1—came from the GI
Assistance Committee of Cali¬
fornia organized by West Coast
Director Fronklin H. Williams.
Neorly $3,000 came in response
to a special appeal sent out by
Mrs. Daisy Lampkin of Pitts¬
burgh. a member of the Asso¬
ciation’s national board of di¬
rectors.
Among braiv'hes responding
to Mrs. Lampkin’s apneal were
California—Dos Palos. $5143
and Pittsburgh, $68.25, Nevada
Campus was the site of the 1951
Souhern Regional ~ ' Conference ~
of Iota Phi Lambda Sorority
two-day sessions, March 9-10,
witn .................. Nu D.'weathers Chapter, of __ which Mrs.
Helen is president,
as hostess.
A public meeting on Friday
Fulton County Superior Court,
against the Bishops’ Council
which at their meeting in Los
Angeles. Calif., week before last
moved Bishop Wright to Ark¬
ansas and Bishop Green to
Georgia. seeks to
The injunction also Council
prohibit the Bishops’
from moving E. C. Mitchell as
president of'Morris Brown Col-
lege.
published his Freedom’s Journ¬
al in New York City in 1827,
freedom for the Negro from
physical slavery was the issue
at hand. Today, 124 years later,
freedom for the human race
from fear, mistrust and
fusion is just as pressing. In
the fight to eliminate this
different but equally repre-
iana—Lincoln Parish, $250, and
St. Landry Parish, $31.60; Col¬
orado—Denver, $50; Michigan
—Kalamazoo, $42.25 and Bent¬
on Harbor, $51.50; Montana—
The Council-Manager Plan
In one generation the Coun¬
cil-Manager Plan has been
adopted by more than 1,000
municipalities and counties. It
Is now spreading faster than in
any period since 1912 when
Sumter, South Carolina, became
the first city to install it. At
the current rate, the Manager
Plan will overake the Mayor-
Aldermanic system in the late
1950's and become the prevail¬
'— 1
, Lewis, Atlanta. Ga., past natioanl secretary.
J er; Mrs. Sarah E.
1 3rd from top—Visiting sorors attending closed formal at Lin-
coin Inn Saturday night, March 10.
Bottom, left, Sorors of Nu Chapter, (host chapter) Mrs.
Gertrude L. Greene, Mrs. Irene M. Williams, Mrs. Elizabeth L.
Gadsden. Mrs. Bernice G. Macon, Mrs. Helen D. Weathers, Mrs.
George S. Williams, Mrs. Thelma T. Lee, Mrs. Marian N. Starr,
Mrs. Josie B. Scott, Mrs. Josie B. Sessoms and Miss Miriam F.
Grant.
Right top - Mrs. Jeanne Simmons Scott, Pittsburgh, Pa., na¬
tional president receiving flowers following th,rilling speech
in Meldrim Hall, Savannah State College, at public meeting.
Middle right- Mrs. Jeanne S. Scott, national president, ad-
rlrpooirip- f,hp mpptintl.
Bottom, right Mrs. Mary P. Bacote, assistant regional di¬
rector, Knoxville, Tenn., receiving flowers following address at
public meeting. President V/ K. Payne of Savannah State Col¬
lege is seated in background.
night, March 9 , climaxed Nu
Chapter's annual observance
of Business on Parade” in
Meldrim Hall Auditorium of
Savannah State College. Guest
j j speakers Mrs. Jeanne for this Simmons occasion Scott were
' Pittsburgh, Pa., National Pres-
According to the petition.
Bishop Wright was ousted after
causing W. A. F’ountain, Jr.,
former president, Morris' Brown
College, to be given a leave of
absence in connection with an
alleged discrepancy of r 19,000
in the funds of that institution.
Although Fountain was subse-
quently reinstated, he was not
allowed to handle any further
funds and on December 14, 1950,
hensible bondage from the
scene of twentieth century civ¬
ilization the Negro press has an
important role to play. Repre¬
senting, as it does, the funda¬
mental beliefs of darker Ameri-
cans, it serves to bring into
focus a review of those things
fcommon ------ to many people all
over the wtrld. The struggle of
Billings, $92.51; North Carolina
—Pasquotank County, $70.15:
Ohio—Allen County, $49.00 and
Middletown, $83.75: Pennsyl-
—Reno-Sparks, $58.50; Louis-
ing form of municipal govern¬
ment.
The essential features of the
plan are:
1. A short ballot with few
elective offices, all of which
are important enough to at¬
tract full public attention.
2. A small Council which
(Continued on Page 7)
ident of Iota Phi Lambda Soro-
rity, manager of the Lawrence-
v illo Branch of the Pennsylvania
stale Employment Service, and
also outstanding in national
and community activities
Coniirxued on Page 8
was discharged by the trustees
of the college. He was replaced
by Mitchell, whom the petition¬
ers say to' replace Green by is now re-appointing attempt¬
ing
Fountain.
The petition charges that the
action of Bishop Wright “so
infuriated” W. A. Fountain. Sr„
senior bishop of the AMF.
(Continued on page Six)
the Negro for a full participa¬
tion in American life is historic.
The fight for security and dig¬
nity is constantly waged. These
are essentially the same con¬
cerns confronting men and
women in uncertain and fear¬
ful nations all over the world.
(Continued on Page 7)
vania—Pittsburgh, $124; Texas
—San Angelo, $56.00: Virginia
—Accomac County, $105; West
Virginia—Marion County, $104.
Also Arkansas Tltelena, $29
and Magnolia, $25; Arizona
Phoenix, $25; Florida — Bay
County, $25 and Pensacola,
$30.30; Illinois — Bloomington.
*34 and Pulaski County. $25,
Indiana— East Chicago, $25;
Kansas—Barton County, $27.15
and Junction City, $25: and
Maryland — Caroline County.
$35 and Somerset County, $33.-
42.
Contributions to this fund
were also received from mam
individuals, churches, profess-
ional and trade organizations,
civic and fraternal groups.
(ia.VotersLeague
TO Convene in
Macon Next Wk.
The Georgia Negro Voters
League will meet in Macon
Thursday, April 26, at Stewart
Chapel A. M. E. church, Rev.
W. 1L Hall, pastor. The busi¬
ness meeting will be called to
order at 12:30 P- m.
The business meeting will be
held from 12:30 to 3:30 p. m.,
and the scholarship awards will
be made at the night session.
The scholarship contest and
awards are in the hands of
Professor H. E. Bryant, princi¬
pal of Hunt High School, Fort
Valley. It is necessary to hold a
night meeting in order to hear
these scholarship contestants.
$310 will be awarded in prizes.
Continued on page Seven
ALEXANDER BECOMES
FIRST TO ENTER UNIY.
OF LOUISVILLE
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — (ANP)
Joseph L. Alexander, 21, of An¬
chorage, became the first Negro
student to crash the 114-year-
old University of Louisville
School of Medicine when he
was notified of his admission
to the 1951 freshman class here
Thursday.
Alexander, one of six Negroes
who applied for admission to
the medical school this fall, is
a garduate of Lincoln institute
near Shelbyville, and currently
a pre-med student at Fisk uni¬
versity.
Last summer, trustees of the
Louisville university voted to
DR. COLSTON HEADS
KNOXVILLE COLLEGE
Dr. James A. Colston, former
president of the Savannan
State College and at present
chairman of the department
of education at A. and T. Col¬
lage at Greensboro, N. C., has
been elected president of
Knoxville (Tenn.) College.
Announcement of the election
was made in Pittsburgh Monday
by Dr. Archibald K. Stewart,
vice president of the Knoxville
College board of trustees. Dr.
Colston is expected to assume
his duties at the college on
June 1.
Dr. Colston left Savannah
Continued on Page Six
J. & G Representatives
In The City
E. P. Broome of Norfolk, Va„
fl>‘ld representative of the
Norfolk Journal and Guide, is in
the city. He will remain here
throughout the week.
SEEK TO BREAK ILLE¬
GAL VOTE RESTRIC¬
TION IN ALABAMA
BIRMINGHAM, M a r c h 8—
Continuing the effort to break
through illegal barriers to the
Negro’s right to register and
vote, the Alabama Conference
of NAACP branches has filed
suit in the United States Dis¬
trict Ciurt here asking for a
declaratory judgment directing
the local election registrars to
cease “subjecting Negroes to
tests not required of white ap¬
plicants as a pre-requisite to
registering.”
The suit, filed by Arthur D.
Shores, attorney for the Ala¬
bama NAACP. on behalf of J. B.
Newman, C. B. Williams and
Continued on Page 8
NUMBER 22
Leaders In
Beach Hi
School
Principal O. L. Douglas
announces the honor pupils at
Alfred E. Beach High School for
the first six weeks of the sec¬
ond semester as follows:
Prince Rivers, 10A3 class. 91
percent.
Lillie Mae William, 10A3, 90.
Willie Jones, 11B1. 91.
Janet Pusha, 90, Phoebe Re.v-
(Continued on Page Steven)
admit Negroes to graduate and
professional schools this year.
However, the medical and den¬
tal schools had rleady reached
their freshman quotas.
The school of dentistry has
received applications from only
two Negroes, neither of whom
met the minimum requirements.
The university trustees have
instituted an over-all policy of
aditting Negroes beginning in
June to all schools if they
meet regular entrance require¬
ments. About 25 are enrolled
this year in speed scientific,
music, law, Kent and graduate
schools.
HONORED—S. J. Phillips, pres¬
ident and founder, Booker T.
Washington Birthplace Memor¬
ial, Booker Washington Birth¬
place, Virginia, who was tended
with a testimonial dinner on
Wednesday, February 28, in his
honor to show appreciation of
the splendid job he is doing in
establishing at the birthplace
of Booker T. Washington a
center of unselfish service that
is making a definite contribu¬
tion to the welfare of the na¬
tion.
Friends and well-wishers
from all over the nation com¬
bined their efforts to present
Mr. Phillips with a purse con¬
taining the sum of $1,500 to
aid him in his work, and letters
from outstanding individuals
from far and near brought,
words of congratulations ana
praise for his tireless efforts in
a “Program of Helpfulness
Towards Others.”
‘Trenton Six’
Jurors Se¬
lected
TRENTON. March 8—Pains*
takingly examining each pros¬
pective juror, the defense and
the prosecution had agreed on,
onlv half the jury after three
and a half days of careful se¬
lection in the re-trial of the
widely publicized “Trenton Six’*
which opened here on March 5.
Continued on Page Six ,