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69 PUBUC CONTINUOUS FEARS SERVICE Of
LXIX
Final Rites Held Tuesday
For Waiter S. Scott, Jr.
FATAL TO WELL
YOUNG MORTICIAN
•"& Funeral services were
01 ifs. Tuesday afternoon for
frtold Scott, Jr., well known
president of the Royall
H dertaking Company, who
Sunday morning in a local
H pital following internal
f» ies suffered in an
I accident Saturday night.
I Father Gustave H.
conducted the services
§ were held Tuesday afternoon
m St. Matthew’s Episcopal
M Interment was in Lincoln
» morial cemetery.
The accident occurred a
* before midnight Saturday
p H the car he was driving
Into an oak tree at the
of Bull and Anderson
i as he was on his way to
home at 1511 Price street.
From all indications the
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700 Delegates Attending
NAACP Annual Convention
North Carolina Claims Best
Schools
Girl Scouts
Camp Opens
Sunday
J For the fifth year the Girl
Scouts from Savannah will
leave on Sunday, July 1, to at¬
tend their own camp at Log
Cabin. Log Cabin is the only
camp owi*d and operated for
Negro Girl Scouts in this reg¬
ion. The camp is a landmark in
Savannah Girl Scouting, since it
took manv years of struggle,
cooperation and financial as¬
sistance of many citizens, both
Negro and white to buiid it.
camp is now able to house
JLa campers and a staff of 20
rsons.
his year two sessions are
ine planned at Log Cabin—
first session being July 1 to
ly 10. The registration, fee
'including transporation to and
from the camp site and room
Page Sever.
! AGAIN HEADS
Lopez, who has again been
| | elected Local No. president 700, of A. Royal F. of
an
affiliate. He was first
_jto ■ direct in the 1940. affairs The purpose of
1 union
the organization is to
□ better working conditions
■ the members and others
Hfng ^Robinson with the organization
is secretary of
ILocal.
atimutaii WAmm
r
Named To
Heart Board
ATLANTIC CITY — Dr. W.
Montague Cobb, a member of
the staff of the medical school
of Howard university, and edi¬
tor of the Journal of the
Medical Association, was elected
to the board of directors of the
American Heart Assoiation at
its convention here this week.
Dr. Louis N. Katz, white, di¬
rector of cardiovascular research
at the Michael Reese hospital
in Chicago, was elected presi¬
dent of the association, which
convened at the Haddon Hall
hotel.
Doctor Cobb, who is also
known for his research and in¬
terest in medical statistics
concerning Negroes and in
opening up opportunities for
Negroes for medical training hr
medical schools and hospitals,
was elected to serve one term.
The other District of Columbia
representative elected to serve
on the board is Mrs. Alben „W-
Barkley.
School Principal Arrested
On Burglary Charge
RALEIGH, N. C— (ANP) —
The alertness of two colored
Raleigh policemen and a
an s hunch led to the arrest of
a Negro grammar school prin-
cipal believed to be
f° r a ' vavfi °f burglaries here.
Charles Alvin Cheek, 22, prin¬
cipal of Jeffrey’s Grove school,
is charged with five counts of
first degree burglary—acapital
crime in this state.
Patrolmen G. D. Pearce and
RALEIGH, N. C.—(ANPI—The
state of North Carolina pro¬
vides the best education for
Negroes in the south, so officials
claim after making a survey of
facilities for whites and Negroes
here.
Reason for this study was the
rising number of equal educa¬
tion suits being filed in federal
courts in various southern
states by Negroes.
State officials, however, ad¬
mit that the colored schools
are not equal to those for
whites by any means, but are
closer to the white standard
than Negro schools in any other
state in dixie.
Here are the reasons:
The state has appropriated
$50,000,000 for school improve¬
ments, and of $37,000,000 already
spent the Negro schools have
.received $15,685,243.13 of it.
The state schools have an en¬
rollment of 30 percent Negro.
This action is the result of a
survey which found that al¬
though colored students com¬
prised 30 percent of the state
enrollment, Negro schools were
valued at only *38.000.00* com¬ for
pared to about $180,000,000
the white schools.
North Carolina has had eoual
salaries for teachers since 1944.
School districts in the various
fnunties also are spending
$100,000,000 on a school build¬
ing program. Some counties are
spending all of their funds, or
more than on whites, for colored
schools.
This spending, however, has
not made the schools equal yet.
but then nobodv seems to be
able to answer the question of
what makes them equa.l
Fla. Gov. Ve¬
toes Discrimi¬
natory Clause
TALLAHASSEE. Fla. (ANP) —
When the Florida legislature
passed the appropriation bill
for the state last week, it con¬
tained a clause which would
have cut off state funds from
any state supported college if
for anv reason. Negro and white
students were allowed to mix
at them.
Gov. Fuller Warren vetoed
that section of the bill. He
gave as his reasons that the
nrovision if applied
damage the esteem in which
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Cont in ued on page Seven
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY. JUNE 28, 1951
Ruling on S.CuroliiiuSrliool
to be
CHARLESTON, S. C.— (ANP)
—The NAACP probably will ap¬
peal Saturday’s federal court
decision upholding jimerow
public schools in South Caro¬
lina, Thurgood Marshall, chief
counsel of the association, de¬
clared Sunday after being
notified of the ruling by a panel
of three judges.
He referred to a suit filed by
parents of Negro children in
Clarendon county, South Caro¬
lina, demanding that they be
admitted to white schools be¬
cause the public schools for
Negroes were inferior. This suit
was filed as a direct attack
upon jimerow schools in the
South.
A three judge panel sitting
in the local district court voted
2 to 1 to uphold separate but
equal schools as a pattern in
the South. Of this action, Mar¬
shall, who served as attorney
for the plaintiffs, declared:
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B. E. Williford, on their beat
shortly before 4 a. m. found the
clue that broke the casC The y
f 0Und a billfold which belonged
to Mrs Anne Gosnell. At her
home they learned Mrs. Gosnell
was missing her wallet.
She suggested that they search
her house. They found Cheek
hidden in the closet of her bed¬
room. He had two one-dollar
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ATLANTA, June 27—In the
keynote address yesterday be¬
fore 700 delegates assembled
here in the 42nd annual con¬
vention of the National Asso¬
ciation for the Advancement of
Colored People, Roy Wilkins,
assistant secretary of the or¬
ganization, attacked the in jus-
1 tices, Z a discriminations and n rl TV per¬ O T*
secutions suffered by Negroes
in the United States.
IHe told the convention that
Negro voting will help to elim¬
inate segregation. He predicted
there would be 2,000,000 Negro
voters in the South by 1956, and
he denounced segregation in
all fields and the tendency for
some “apologists” to call for
“gradualism.” perfecly willing to
“We are
work out our destiny and accept
our status on merit, but we must
start as free men, in competion
page
Segregation In South On The
Out, Says Walter White
ATLANTA, Ga„ June 26 —Wal¬
ter White, here this week at¬
tending the annual convention
of the National Association
the Advancement of Colored
People, said today that segre¬
gation is on the way out.
The dynamic executive
retary of the NAACP made
observation in an nterview with
GOOD SAMARITANS
HOLD GRAND LODGE
The 1. O. of G. S. and D. of
held a very successful
Lodge session in Atlanta
11-13. Grand Chief J. T.
presided. Reports from the
W. Gr. Sec., J. S. Paige,
ta, and R. W, Gr. Treas.,
T J. Scott, Sandfly, showed
order in a splendid
status. This being election
the entire staff of officers
reelected, excepting the Gr.
and Gr. Treas. These two
ces had been temporarily
J. S. Paige, Atlanta, and
T. J. Scott, Sandfly, were
ed Gr. Sec. and Gr.
respectively.
Now all eyes are
toward Boston where the
tional Grand Lodge will be
session the second week
August. Attending from
Savannah district will be
Chief J. T. Green and Dt.
McCoy (national officers',
Olivia Robinson,
Rev. T. J. Scott, (Gr. Treas *
Dts. Flora E. Hawkins, G.
i Asso.i, and Leola Edwards,
stitutional members.
Nashville Mayor Wants
No Second Hand Citizens
N. Y. EDWARD WATERS ALUMNI
HONOR BISHOP GREGG
r
Seated: Left to right—Dr. Cephus Parker, Roscmond Mark,
A. Philip Randolph, Bishop John A. Gregg, Attorney C. Hall,
Dr. L. L. Berry, President McCager Anderson.
Standing: L. to R.—Eugene Whitlock, Mrs. Lillian Croniar-
tie, Harry Lucas, Mrs. Aline Whitlock, Mrs. Willa Gladden, Mrs.
Mabel E. Mark, Mrs. Rose Marie Raymond, B. F. McLaurin, Mrs.
Eleanor Mark Holmes.
New York, N. Y., June 22—
The Edward Waters College
Alumni of New York sponsor¬
ed a banquet Monday evening,
June 18, in Masonic Temple!
honoring Bishop Gregg, presid¬
ing bishop of the Eleventh
Chi Policy Leaders Skip
Town After Roe Fiasco
CHICAGO—(ANP)—Chicago’s
Negro policy leaders are leaving
town or have left town because
of the shooting of a white hood
by Theodore P. Roe. 53, the
man who ran the Jo:-«*s Broth¬
ers operations in the city.
The Roe killing of Leonard
(Fat Lenny) Caifano broke the
generally peaceful operations of
the policy rackets in the “Win-
dy City” for the first time in
many years.
Crime in the Negro areas of
Chicago on the organized basis
has been limited to policy and
bookies and possibly dope pedd¬
ling. Otherwise there is the
usual purse snatching, strong
arms, and house breaking, and
other petty crimes.
Policy was the one Negro-
operated business. Only two
whites were among 16 estab¬
lished wheeles that have oper¬
ated on the southside and in
other Negro neighborhoods for
many years. They all in the past
had worked together harmon¬
iously and never had any local
wars.
The first break in the peace
newspapermen;
“I believe that the South is
a decent place,” said White, who
as a boy lived in Atlanta and
later moved to New York. “Just
as there has been no friction
between Negroes and whites at
the graduate level, non-segre¬
gation can be realized on the
secondary school level.
ATTENDING NAACP MEETING—W. W. Law (left) and Ben¬
jamin S. Adams who are attending the annual convention of
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo¬
ple which is meeting'this week in Atlanta.
Mr. Law is president of the local branch of the NAACP
and a member of the national board of directors of the organ¬
ization and Mr. Adams is a member of the board of directors!
of the Savannah NAACP Branch.
Episcopal District of the AMD
Church and Chancellor of Edi
ward Waters College in Jack¬
sonville, Fla.
Bishop Gregg addressed the
Continued on page 7
came, however, in 1946 with the
kidnaping of Ed Jones. This is
believed to have been engineered
by Ifcafmn mobsters connected
with the “Syndicate.” said to
run organized crime in Ameri¬
ca. This body is said to have
later isseud little coffins to
every Negro policy operator with
the worning that it intended to
take over the policy business.
Jones was freed after the
payment of a $100,000 ransom
and he moved to Mexico. Roe
continued his policy wheels in
Chicago. Others continued, but
one by one they reportedly gave
up.
One White Wheel Goes
One white wheel, the Bene-
venuti brothers, Caesar and
Leo, gave up after their homes
were bombed. A dead brother,
Julius, started their numbers
wheel. They were Italians who
grew up in the Negro commun¬
ity. It is said that Caesar and
Leo were told to go back to
Italy. They are said to receive
$50,000 each a year to stay over
Continued on Page Seven
the law and a flaunting of
Supreme Court,” said White.
lie said a two to one
of a Federal Court at
ton, S. C., Saturday
segregation in the
schools of South Carolina
almost certainly be appealed
directly to the Supreme
SCHENLEY
NEGRO SALESMEN
CINCINNATI— The
of industrial race relations
tinues to be an operating
at Schenley Industries,
Among the newest class of
Schenley sales trainees are
Negroes who have completed
specialized sales
program held in Cincinnati.
Kenneth Moses of New
City, and Samuel McCann,
of Indianapolis, Ind., were
doctrinated in sales
and company procedures at
10-day training class
by Schenley Distributors.
employment of these two
men marks a continual rise
the hiring of qualified
in skilled positions by the
coproration.
The special sales and
conference held at the
Plaza hotel was moderated
Jack Welsch, specialized
training representative.
highly intensive course
by Welsch included study of
history of Schenlev,
stores, open state sales
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The NAACP leader termed I
“utterly impossible and ridic¬
ulous” proposals advanced in
recent months by Southern state
officials to eliminate public
support of schools if segrega¬
tion is voided by the Supreme
Court of the United States.
“Such action will be a calcu-
lated and obvious violation of 1
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—(ANP)
Mayor Bon West delivered the
graduation address at Pearl
high school here Thursday and
in what was his second public
appearance since he had been
inaugurated as mayor two days
before, said it was his dream
that there should be no second
class citizens as far as his ad¬
ministration of Nashville’s af¬
fairs are concerned.
The mayor received hearty
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Popular
Divorcee and
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.— (ANP)
—Philadelphians were shocked
last Wednesday bv the tragic
murder-suicide Involving two
popular and well liked young
The principals, Mrs. Burnan
34, and Edgar Yancy, 34,
found dead in swank
North Philadelphia home where
Mrs. Gay resided.
When poMce forced their way
into her apartment they found
the two bodies lying in a puddle
Grand Jury Indicts White
ManforRapingNegroGirl,l4
JACKSON. Miss—(ANP) —
man, Hugh L.
carpenter, was
last week for the rape
14-year-old Negro girl.
In the meantime,
formed a group
Womanhood
to protect
from attacks by
Its first drive will be
$5,000 to help
and to help the
During the grand jury
the victim of the
into the jury room on
She told the
that she was at
Morrow told her his
a baby sitter.
Instead of going to his
said, the white man
on the Wiggins road
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Member Audit Bmreaa Circulation *
Price 7c
North Carolina Mutual Pays
Honor W. J. Kennedy ;
Woodville 4
Win Contest
The New Farmers of Ameri¬
ca quartet of Woodville high
school was awarded first place
in singing at the Sectional
Contest meeting held at Tus-
kegee institue on June 22-23.
States competing in the
events were Alabama, Tennes¬
see, Kentucky, Florida and
Georgia.
The Woodville quartet won
the honor to represent these
states which form the Sergeant
Section, in honor of the late H.
O. Sergeant, in the national
contest which wll lbe held in
Atlanta dulrng the latter part
of October.
The members of WooiVille
NFA group are Harry Roberts,
Emanuel Franklin, Sam Cooner
and Edward Jackson. Earl Palm¬
er of Haven Home school sub¬
stituted for Curtis Cooper and
won fourth place in public
speaking. The group was ac¬
companied by James E Luten,
advisor to the Woodville NFA
chapter.
Slays
Himself
of blood. The unclad body of
Mrs. Gay was hacked and
slashed. Examinations disclosed
that her arm was nearly sev¬
ered, there were several other
cuts on the arm, a wound of the
breast and five wounds of the
abdomen.
Beside the divorcee, his head
resting in the crook of her arm,
was the body of Edgar Yancy,
pianist, of 1615 Brown St. Yancy
Continued on page Seven
11 Convicted Red Leaders *
Make Final Fight
WASHINGTON—(ANP) —The
11 convicted leaders who face
commitment to jail on June 29,
are beginning their last-ditch
fight to stave off serving sen¬
tences—at least until fall.
They are due to begin sen¬
tences that day if thev don’t
receive a stay from Supreme
Court Justice Jackson. The high
tribunal had affirmed their
conviction on June 4.
Meanwhile in New York a
federal grand jury Indicted 21
other leaders of the U. S. Com¬
munist party on charges of
conspiracy to teach and advo¬
cate the overthrow of the gov¬
ernment by force and violence.
This action came after the FBI
had rounded up 17 of the lead¬
ers. Four others are still being
sought.
Of the 21 indicted—all of
whom are said to be the next
heads of the party, there are
two Negroes. One is Claudia
Jones, 36, secretary of the Na¬
tional Women’s commission of
the party arid a member of the
alternate national committee.
Claiming to be a native of
Trinidad, British West Indies,
she has been facing deportation
since October as an alien com¬
munist. She was formerly chair¬
man of the New York County
Young Communist league and
a member of the league’s na¬
tional council.
The other Negro is Pettis
Perry, 54-year-old national
secretary of the Negro commiss¬
ion, national chairman of the
farm commission, and alternate
national committman. Bom in
Marion, Ala., he is a prominent
party writer on Neero problems.
He was formerly executive
secretary of the California-Ariz-
ona district of the international
labor defense He is reported to
have been active in the last 10
years in California, where he
ran for congress and also for
secretary of state.
j Pvt Simmons Stationed
.
. *D Texas
Pvt. Charles Simmons, Jr.,
who recently entered the Armed
Services Is stationed at Lack-
land Air Force Base, Ban An¬
tonio. Texas. Pvt. Simmons who
is a recent graduate of Beach
high school, is the of ‘ Mr.
. son —
and Mrs Charles Simmons, Sr.,
0 f Fellwood Homes.
j ; -
would take 1,900,009 , nnn ... . box-
cars, which would reach across
the United States five times,
to carry the nation’s lumber
production in one year.
NUMBER 37
BEEN WITH THE
FOR THIRTY-
YEARS
Vice President-Secretary W.
Kennedy, Jr., Is being hon¬
by the field organization
North Carolina Mutual In¬
Company. The Pro¬
and Increase Program,
June 18, and ending
16, is a salute to Mr. Ken¬
on his 62nd birthday.
Mr. Kennedy was employed
North Carolina Mutual on
i, 1916, at Augusta.
Following a short period of
training, he was
to Savannah as
of the district. The
of the district under
Kenedy was rapid. It
upon his record In Savan¬
that Mr. Kennedy was
to the home office, Oct.
1919, shortly after the death
John Merrick, first president
(Continued on Page Seven)
Pope Honors'
Daughter of 1
Former Slaves
RICHMOND, Va. — The first
Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice medal
ever awarded to a member of
the Richmond Diocese was pre¬
sented here by Bishop Peter L.
Ireton to a 75-year-old daugh¬
ter of former slaves who has
devoted 47 years to the church
in Virginia.
Pope Pius XII conferred the
medal on Mrs. Lydia Nicholas
of Columbia, Va. She was bom
in Mechanicsburg, Ohio, where
her parents moved after they
were freed as slaves in Ken¬
tucky. Since 1904, when she
came to Virginia, she has been
instructing children in a miss¬
ion school in St. Joseph’s parish
Columbia.
Besides teaching 30 to 40
pupils a year in the school and
taking care of St. Joseph’s
church. Mrs. Nicholas with her
husband, Fred, was caretaker
of Camp Wakeham, a C"’’'''1ic
camp for boys that was in it¬
eration form 1922 until
Many present Virginia prr s
attended the camp.
Former patrons and friends
of Camp Wakeham presented a
gift of $1,000 to Mrs. Nicholas
at the medal presentation cere*
mony here. Another gift cam
from St. Joseph's parish itself
A third gift of $25 was from
a group of non-Cathollc Colum*
bia citizens, who told her: “By
your hard work and high
character you have endeared
yourself to the whole commun¬
ity. both white and colored.”
Present at the ceremony was
Father Charles Hannigan, S. S.
J., now 83. who was Dastor of
St. Joseph’s church when Mrs.
Nicholas began teaching thers
47 years ago.
Mrs. Nicholas is the step¬
mother of four children and the
foster mother of 15. She has 8
step-grandchildren. One grand¬
child. Theresa Rose Smith, 19,
of Washington, came to Rich¬
mond for the ceremony.
The 75-vear-old medalist is
looking forward to the time
when she will be able to answer
all the letters she gets from her
former students. “A pile that
high,” she said, lifting up her
worn hands.
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More cellulose can be grown
on an acre of land with tree*
than with cotton.
