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4 OF TRENTON SIX ACQUITTED - - 2 OET LIFE SENTENCES
STATE LEGIONNAIRES HERE
IN FOUR-DAY CONVENTION
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T, J. Hopkins, General
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Legion dignitaries from all
Georgia are meeting in Savannah
June H (today; through June 17
in the 33rd Annual State Conven¬
tion of the American Legion
the Department of Georgia,
them being the National Com¬
mander of tlie American
Erie Cocke. The general
21 111 GRADUATE IKOM
CARGO BEAUTY SCHOOL
BEAUMONT SCHOOL
OFFERING SPECIAL
SUMMER RATE
The Beaumont School of
Practical Nursing, located at
503 W. Charles street, has an¬
nounced that a special rate has
been effected for the new sum¬
mer classes only which will
begin on Monday, June 25. The
registrar’s office has revealed
that all students who enroll in
this class will recievc the entire
coure at the reduced tuition fee
of $100, representing almost a
twenty percent decrease.
It was announced that as in
all previous classes, the tuition
will include all incidentals,
and there will be no extra fees.
The course will include the uni¬
form, notes, notebook, tertbook,
cap. thermometer, and the
use of all laboratory equipment
This class has been established
for the benefit of those who
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^Testimony of State Witness
[Refuted in Trenton 6 Trial
—Miss Carolyn Dixon, who has
accepted a position at Battey
State Hospital at Rome, Ga. Miss
Dixon is a recent graduate of
the Savannah unit of the Beau¬
mont school of Practical Nurs¬
ing. She began her duties at
the hospital last week.
Two other local graduates of
Beaumont are also employed at
Battey hospital and a number
of them have positions at hos¬
pitals in Florida and elsewhere,
demonstrating the excellent
quality of the work done bl the
Beaumont system . t
nursing.
BILL TO PROTECT
Gls INTRODUCED
tection of servicemen against as¬
sault by local police and civilians
is provided in in a a bill bill sponsored sponso red b by
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Robert DeLoach, Commander
George S. I’alton Rost No. 513.
man, T. J. Hopkins, commanders
of the host Posfs 500-513, Ladies
Auxiliaries, and members of the
State Convention Committee have
planned an elaborate program of
entertainment for the visiting
Lcgionnaires.
All of the business sessions of
the convention will be held at the
Mme. Carrie Cargo McGlockton
Director of School
A class of twenty-tour will be
awarded certificates by the
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TRENTON, N. J., June 7. —
Former employers of Horace Wil¬
son, James Thorpe and Coilis
English, throg nC tb« Trenton ^’"
now being retried for the 1948
slaying of an aged second hand
furniture dealer, today reluted the
testimony of J. Herbert Brown, a
farmer, who earlier this week told
the jury that these three were
acquainted with one another prior
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DELEGATE TO WORLD “Y"
MEET—W. ... ........w W. Law has been:
namec j as a a memoer memoer or the
i United States delegation to ihe
World Consultation on Young
Men’s Work sponsored by the
YMCA at Oberlin college, Ohio,
from June 24-29. All partici¬
pants have been likewise invit-
ed by the North American |
j Asso ciations (YMCA> to atte nd j
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L.lM
William McNeil, Commander of
W illiam R. Jordan Rost No. 500.
Municipal Auditorium. It is ex¬
pected that this convention will he
one of the best sessions in
history of the Legion.
The following is the program
entertainment planned:
une Id—Pre-Registration all day
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SUMMER SCHOOL
PUPILS REGISTER
FRIDAY
Junior and senior high
pupils who plan to attend
summer session will
tomorrow, Friday, June 15,
iTOO a. m. to 1:00 p. m., at
ler junior high school.
will begin Mondav with
struction between the hours
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LAW SUIT TO FOLLOW UNIVERSITY OF GA.
REFUSAL TO ADMIT NEGRO STUDENT
ATLANTA, June 13 — When
f he University of Georgin re¬
fused todav to admit a Neero
applicant it became, undoubt¬
edly, an accepted fact, that the
Board of Regents’ decision in
this matter will be carried to
the Federal court which has
already ruled in similar eases
in other Southern states that,
Neeroes must, be accepted in
white graduate and professional
schools where there are no such
institutions of equal quality set
aside for Negro students.
The states in which this
matter has been decided in fav¬
or of Negroes have been Texas,
Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee,
North Carolina, Virginia and
Louisiana.
The young Negro man who
was denied admittance to the
University of Georgia is 24-year
University of North Carolina
Admits Three Students
CHAPEL HILL, N. C.— (ANP)
—Three Negro students were ad¬
mitted to the law school of the
University of North Carolina,
Thursday, it was announced
here by Dean Henry P. Brandis
of the law school.
These students were admitted
in compliance with the U. S.
Support To Help
Groveland Youths
MIMS Fla., June 7.—The two
Groveland, Fla., youths whose
convictions and death sentences
were reversed last April by the
United States Supreme Court
“still have a chance for life and
complete freedom,” Harry T.
Moore, executive secretary of the
Florida State Conference of
branches of the National Associa¬
tion of the Advancement of Col-
ored People, declared here this
week.^^ ^ Florida NAACp
and leaders of organiza-
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1951
Newspaper Publishers Meet
This Week In New York
The twelfth annual conven¬
tion of the Negro Newspaper
Publishers Association is meet¬
ing in New York City this week
The sessions got under way
todnv wth a luncheon seminar
at noon at the Belmont Plaza.
TnnP'ht the RCA-Vlctor Corp
will be host to delegates to the
convention at dinner at the
Belmont-Plaza. Speakers on this
occasion will he Walter A Buck,
vice president and general
manager of ihe RCA-Victor
Division, and Dowdal H. Davis,
general manager of the Kansas
City Call and president of the
Negro Newspaper Publishers
Association.
Business sessions will begin
on Friday, June 13, with meet¬
ings in Room “F” of the Mc-
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GRADUATED—Miss Gloria
Alston, daughter of Dr.
Mrs. Alfred A. Alston of 2301
j Florance street, was among
who received diplomas
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j "id Horace Ward who applied
| for eight study months at the university and about, not
ago was
notified of his rejection until
a letter h» received
from the Board of Regents.
Ward is a graduate of At¬
lanta university where he
rated as an “A” student, re¬
ceiving the master’s degree in
sejenec. He Is also a
of Morehouse college where
likewise he maintained a high
scholastic record.
Ward’s case against the
Board of Regents will, it is un¬
derstood, be pushed by the
National Association for
Advancement of Colored People
which has been the moving
force in the successfully
cases against the denial of ad¬
mittance of Negro students in
the graduate and
.Supreme court's refusal to act j
on S. Circuit a recent Court decision of Appeal by the which U. j
ordered the university to admit j
four Negro students who filed |
suit.
Admitted to the summer
session of the law school were :
Harvey E. Beech, Durham; J i
tions for all-out financial and mor¬
al support for the re-trial of
Samuel Shepherd and Walter Ir¬
vin. expected to take place this
summer, Mr. Moore reminded
Floridans of the vigorous fight
the NAACP has waged to save
these youths from the electric
chair.
“If it had not heen for the noble
efforts of this great Association,
he said, “all three of the Grove-
land boys would be dead now. Dur¬
ing the past eleven years, the
NAACP has saved the lives of at
4 OF TRENTON SIX
ACOUITTFD. TWO GET
UFE SENTENCES
TRENTON, N. ,7., June 14
The trial of the six Negro men
who were accused of killirfr a
white innk dealer in 1948 ended
here today. Four of the men
were acquitted and two of
them were given life sentences.
The two previous trials re¬
sulted in death sentences being
| imposed.
The NAACP appealed the
case and threw its entire weight
into the defense of the ease
which has received national
publicity.
Big Throng To Attend Great
Contest Sun. at Stadium
Dr. L. Smith
Named to Ob¬
stetrical Bd.
DURHAM, N. C.— (ANP)— Dr
Leroy R. Swift, acting director
of the student health service at
| North Carolina college, was
certified here recently to mem-
bership in the American Board
of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
j He is the first Negro medical
man In the south to be admtt-
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schools of the above named
states.
Coming up at this particular
lime, the suit focuses special
interest in the coming annual
convention of the NAACP whb'h
will meet in Atlanta on June 26
In years gone bv the NAACP
has held its annual conventions
in the North and West but, ac¬
cording to one of its leading
figures, it has fell, for some
time that it should hold its
meetings in the section of the
country where most of its fights
are centered, thus Atlanta was
selected as the site of its 1951
convention.
It is the opinion of the lead¬
ing supporters of young Ward
in his fight to enter the uni¬
versity of Georgia that no time
will be lost in carrying th ->
suit to the Federal court. It
Kenneth Lee, Greensboro, and
Floyd B MeKissick, Asheville.
All are students at the jimerow
school of law at North Carolina
college in Durham. They are the
first colored students admitted
to the university in its 156-year
history.
MeKissick and I*e are two
least ten innocent Negroes right,
here in Florida. If the Associa¬
tion had done nothing more for
our people, the saving of these
precious lives should be enough to
merit the support of every Negro
in Florida ”
Extending the campaign to di¬ a
wider front, the Association’s
rector of branches, Gloster B.
Current, in a letter to NAACP
units throughout the entire coun¬
try, appealed for the formation of
local Groveland Defense Commit¬
tees to help raise funds for sup¬
I
DELEGATES TO IASA MEET—
At the annual meeting of the
Insurance Accounting and Sta¬
tistical Association which was
held recently in Chiago at the
Palmer House, Maj. C. Udell
Turpin of Chicago, manager of
Special Markets, Managy-me it
Controls Division of Remington
After we>'k.s of preparation,
The Great Quartet Contest will
be held Sunday, July 17, .from
3 to 7 p. m. at Grayson Stadium
before a crowd lhat is expected
to run into thousands.
Twenty famous quartets from
WJIV will compete for fabul¬
ous prizes, and there will be
many valuable gifts given to
the audience from Friedmans
Jewelers, the South’s great¬
est jewelers.
Judge Emanuel Lewis, Pro¬
fessor Pike, and one other
judge, yet to be named, will
judge Ihe quartets on the ba¬
sis of harmony, .rhythm, and
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probably will be filed next week
When the matter of allowing
Nelroes to attend white school?
in Georgia was brought before
the 1951 Georgia Legislature it
passed a bill which would force
the state treasury to cut off all
state funds from any state in¬
stitution which allowed Negroes
to attend school along with
whites. There are 18 colleges
in the University of Georgia
system.
Should the Federal courts rule
in the Ward case as it has in
the other similar suits brought
before it—and there Is no reas¬
on to feel that i( will not the
educational system of Georgia
Negroes to attend white schools
will be in a”n awful situation.
of the four Negroes who orig¬
inally filed suit against the
university and the state ot
North Carolina when they were
denied admission to the law
school because of their color.
The other plaintiffs were Solo-
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port of the case and to educate
America to its broad national and
international significance.
“The unanimous decision r>f the
United States Supreme Court last
April reversing the conviction of
two of the Graveland boys, gives
us another opportunity to save
them from a' legal lynching,”
the letter states. “No effort must
be spared to save the Groveland
boys by friends and supporters of
justice. Cases like those of the
Martinsville Seven, Willie McGee,
Groveland and other injustices in
the courts are adversely affecting
our country in the eyes of the
world.”
Despite the sharp criticism by
Justices Robert H. Jackson and
Felix Frankfurter of the biased
handling of the case in Florida
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Member Audit Bureau Circulationi
Price 7c
Rand, Inc., entertained the
visiting delegates at a lunch
eon.
From left to right, seated
(clockwise from center): Mamie
H. Morris oj the Supreme Lib¬
erty Life Insurance Company In
Chicago; R. C. W. Perry, North
Carolina Mutual Life, Durham,
LOCAL DELTAS ELECT OFFICERS—Mrs. Annie B. Givens, right,
retiring president of Beta Delta Sigma Chapter of Delta Signa
Theta Sorority hands the gavel to Mrs. Dorothy B. Taylor, the
newly elected president. Mrs.. Givens served as president lob
three years during which time the chapter made unusual con¬
tributions to the community. ' —Photo by Freer,.an
Brooklyn Police Slaying
Probed Grand
NEW YORK, June 7 —, Grand
jury investigation into the police
laying of Henry Fields, Jr., open¬
ed in Brooklyn this week under in¬
structions of Judge Samuel C.
Liebowitz to make a “thorough,
impartial” inquiry and, if the evi¬
dence warranted, to returq an in¬
dictment. While directing that
the police officer, Patrolman Sam¬
uel Applebaurn, be given the ful)
protection of the law, th^ judge
warned the jury against any
“whitewash.”
Judge Liebowtiz’s charge, follow¬
ed a conference which District At-
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f | Ask N. J. Gov.
To Turn Down
Extradition
NEW YORK, June 7.—Govern¬
or Alfred E, Driscoll of New
Jersey was asked this week to
refuse to sign an extradition war¬
rant for Gus Davidson, a Negro
being sought by the State of Geor¬
gia for the self-defense killing of
a white farmer,
In a letter to Governor Dris-
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T. c.; Joseph A. Faison, Prov¬
ident Home Industrial Mutual
Life, Philadelphia; Martha H.
Fryo, Dunbar Life, Cleveland;
J. E. Hankins, Mammoth Life,
Louisville, Ky.; Crystal B. Mar-
mon, Charles E. Simmons, Jr.,
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SECOND PRIZE WINNER —
Clarence Harry Hope, Jr., stud¬
ent of Ramah parocnial school
who won second prize of fifty
dollars in the annual Temper¬
ance oratorical contest held last
week in Jaksonville, Fla. This
contest is sponsored by the
South Atlantic. Conference of
Seventh-day Adventists which
comprises the states of Georgia,
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