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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 (Continued on page Seven) 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 ---- 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: i Continued on Page Three) 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 (Continued on Page Seven) 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 (Continued on Pate Seven) 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 'Continued on page Seven) 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 (Continued on 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. i More cellulose can be grown on an acre of land with tree* than with cotton.