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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
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OUTSTANDING FEATURES OF JUNIOR DEPUTIES TRIP NORTH
—Left. Brooklyn stars welcome group at the Brooklyn Dodgers *
Chicago Cubs game at Ebbetts field when they were invited
down in the field from their grandstand seats to have their
pictures taken with some of the Brooklyn stars. In the photo
are left to Sheriff Harris, Albert Gartrell, Delbert
SHERIFF HARRIS AND
JR. DEPUTIES RETURN
FROM TRIP NORTH
Sunday night Sheriff William
Jury Frees White
Rapist at Vicksburg
TALMADGE PAPER S FALSEHOODS RIDI¬
CULED BY NAACP OFFICIALS
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GETS DEGREE — Emmett H.
Butler who graduated last
month from City College of
New York, with me decree of
bachelor of business adminis-
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Five Suits to be Filed in
Arkansas for Equal Education
BROTHERS SERVING OVERSEAS
rvi. Vernon L. Young (left)
and Pfc. Theodore M.
(right) sons of Mr. and
Wesley Young, Sr., of 652
with* tl^e 11 h0
"as armed
Pfc Young is with
Signal Corps, stationed in
many, while Pvt. Young
N. C. GIRL WINS ELKS $U00 SCHOLARSHIP
By E. E. Greene , I
A large delegation led by Ex¬ !
alted Ruler J. B. Hardrick
motored to Charleston, S. C.,
to attend the 6th Regional :
oratorical contest. There were I
contestants from North and !
South Carolina. Florida and
Georgia competing for this 1
$1 quo scholarship. Miss- Delores
Richards of Beach high school
represented Weldon Lodge and
the State of Georgia. ; S
Miss Marie Terry of Booket
Washington high. Rocky Mount !
N. C„ was declared the winner.
Her subject was “The Consti¬
tution and Citizenship. Floyd
Past Dt. Ruler Lottie
^sponsored Miss Delores Rich.'
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I C. i Bill i Harris and a group
I Junior Deputies returned
after a trip to New York
Washington. They were
panied by Robert Spencer,
uty sheriff of the
Court.
NEW YORK, July 12 A re¬
quest that falsehoods concern-
ing activities of the recent
Atlanta convention of the
National Association for the
Advanceent of Colored People,
published in Governor Herman
Talmadge’s newspaper, The
statesman, be corrected by the
Atlanta Journal and Cor.stitu-
tion, was made of those papers
today by NAACP Secretary
Walter White.
In letters to the editors of
the two papers, Mr. White
notes that The Statesman pub-
lished a reproduction of a
cheaply printed sticker, read¬
ing “Whv Not Racial and So-
cial Equality Now ”, which
was scattered around the citv’s
Municipal Auditorium during
the NAACP convention.
“The Statesman declares with
characteristic inaccuracy and
exaggeration,” savs the NAACP
executive, “that ‘Thousands of
these stickers were placed on
automobiles and buildings by
delegates . . . Some were even
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[ men a t ten ded Savannah schools
j . their enlistment in the
service. Pvt. Vernon L Young
us married to the former Migs
Louise Myers of
S. C.
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was
chat her speaker was given
moral support.
Those who made the trip were
Exalted Ruler J. B. Hardrick, S
H. Booxer. Natnan Hamilton,
E. E. Perry, Leroy Simmons,
James Williams, Dpy. R. G
Hollomond, Mrs. Nathan Ham¬
ilton. Past. Dt. Ruler Lottie P
Floyd, E. E. Greene, Ga. State
director of education.
A large excursion from our
sister Lodge, Non-Pareil, ol
Columbus, will invade Weldor,
Lodge Saturday and Sunday
A good time is in store for our
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THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1951
, Glover, Roy Campanello, Joe Louis Singleton, oil Hodges, rnmes
j Shell Right. and Deputy An FBI Sheriff Agent Robert in Washington Spencer. showing the boys one
' 1 of the submachine guns once owned by gangster John Dillinger,
(official FBI picture) where they visited the FBI headquarters
as guests of J. Edgar Hoover, director.
This was the second group
i which Sheriff Harris had
carried on such a trip, the
former group being four white
Junior Deputies. this trip
The boys taking in
by the sheriff were Delbert
VICKSBURG, Miss.—(ANP) —
A jury, consisting of a cross-
section of farmers, businessmen
and laborers, all white, required
little time after court recon¬
vened Thursday, to acquit a
white man charged with the
rape of a 31-vear-old Negro
woman. The state had asked
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119 Cicero Rioters to be
to Trial August 6
CICERO, 111.—(ANP) — The
■cases of 119 white hoodlums,
mostly teen-agers, arrested in
the weekend riots in Cicero,
were continued, Monday, until
Aug. 6, at the request of Asst.
States Atty. Edwin T. Breen.
They were arrested during
violence ,in the Chicago suburb
as a result of the renting of an
apartment at 6139 W. 19th St.,
by a Negro couple and its two
PINE BLUFF, Ark.—(ANP) —
Twenty-four local citizens have
engaged Harold Flowers, attorn¬
ey, to file in Federal Court five
separate suits aimed at break¬
ing segregation in the public
school of Arkansas, it was an¬
nounced recently. di¬
Four of the suits will be
rected specifically at five
schools in four counties. Flow¬
ers declined to reveal details
of the fifth suit. Filing of a
sixth suit is a possibility.
Attorney Flowers said:
“We plan to bring up the
question of segregation and
find out if it is constitutional.”
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j AGAIN HEADS CLUB — M. J
Jackson who was re-elected
president of the West Savannah
Community club on Monday
night, July 9. This is his seven¬
I teenth year as head of this
| progressive club. All old officers
were returned to office by
unanimous vote.
Glover .James Shell, Joe Louis
Singleton and Albert Gartrell.
Three days were spent by the
group in Washington and foul
days m New York. In Washing-
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$18,000 Check
Meharry
NASHVILLE— (ANP)— Charles
H. Bynum, director of Inter¬
racial activities for the Nation¬
al Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis, last week presented
a check for $48,000 to Dr. Mi¬
chael J. Bent, dean of Meharry
Medical college. This is the
fifth annual educational grant
made ,to the college.
These funds now total $341,-
650 and were made possible by
the March of Dimes. They help
to provide instruction in ped¬
iatrics, orthopedic surgery, and
a physical therapy the program. grant
The awarding of Basil
was announced jointly by
O'Connor, president of the
Interim Committee at Meharry.
children. started be¬
The mob violence
cause Harvey E. Clark, Jr., and
his wife, Johnetta, 26, and two
children, Michelle, 8, and Har¬
vey, III, 6, moved their furniture
into their new apartment July
10, They had intended to move
in later, but hoodlums kept
them out.
Climax of hostilities against
the Clarks occurred early Friday
Wolcott Defeats Charles
For Heavyweight Title
PITTSBURGH, July 18—When defeated! i
Jersey Joe Walcott '
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PIIDsAT FAM—Florida A and
college, Tallahassee, can
of having twenty-two
on its summer faculty
earned doctorate degrees.
are shown here posing on
Numbers Racket
Out
After a cessation of exactly
thirty-one days the
•acket came back again yester-
iay and turned loose an ap-
ireciable number of runners on
he city’s avid numbers players
who have in the past been vic¬
timized out of thousands of
dollars.
The re-appearance on the
streets of the sellers of gamb-
ling tickets actually
Tuesday when one of the "or-
ganized” houses jumped the
gun on its competitors and put
2 New FAM-
CE ROTC
Officers
TALLAHASSEE Major C. C.
Clark, PM,VST, Florida A and M
college, announces the addition
of two members to his ROTC
staff. They are Cpl. John H.
Hannah of Jacksonville and Lt
Lonnie E. Harrington of Pitts¬
burgh, Pennsylvania.
Cpl. Hannah entered the
service from Camp Blanding,
Fla., in 1945. He completed
tours of duty with the Forty
Second Replacement Depot
Group. Camp Picket, Va.; Twen¬
ty Fifth Infantrv Regiment and
the Ninety Eight Field Artillery
Batallion at Ft. Benning, Ga.
At Ft. Myers, Va., he was the
Enlisted Aide to the Aide of
Gen. Omar Bradley. He was
stationed at the Third Army
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morning when Gov. Adlai Stev
enson was forced to call in the
Illinois National Guard to re¬
store order. Since then 400
troops have been on a 25 hour
vigil, and the town has been
put under martial law.
As a result of the riot 23 in) per-
sons were hospitalized from in-
juries and countless others
injured as 6,000 persons gath¬
ered at the height of the vio-
history of prizefighting to win
the world’s heavyweight title.
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steps of Coleman Library-
Left to right (first row) Drs.
Margaret Collins, Ethel Turner,
W. S. Maize, Evelyn L. Johnson,
Charles J. Stanley, Minnie Cu-
reton, and Sadie Yancey.
i approximately fifteen runners
on the job.
Then yesterday, Wednesday,
two other well-known numbers
organizations followed suit.
j The big question, of course,
which everyone who has seen
these numbers sellers on the
streets again, is asking, is
have they gotten the go-ahead
\ signal from the “Big Boys?”
This seems to find its an¬
! swer in the remarks made Tues¬
day by one of the best known
i of the operators who is reported
lourt Orders Negro
Teacher Hired at L.I.
ALBANY, N. Y„ July 12-
Dorothy J. Brown of St. Albans,
L. I., will become the first Ne¬
gro teacher of Nassau County,
following a ruling this week by
the New York State Court of
Appeals, ordering me school
board of Nassau county to hire
her. The school board has until
September to act on the court’s
ruling. applied to
Miss Brown had
teach in the Elmont School
District No. 16, Nassau, County,
and had been refused employ¬
ment because of her race. Jawn
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lence.
All of Clark’s furniture and
personal property including the
wedding license was destroyed
by vandals cheered on by
screaming adults. Several at¬
tempts were made to destroy
j the tilt; UU11U1UK building by uy fire uiv but * alert
j firemen put out blazes as they
occurred, spread
Looting of apartments tenants
to those of white occu-
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Ask Court toMakeU NC Sum¬
mer School Race Ban
Second row\ Drs Dwight L.
Foster, Wade Ellis, Edwin
Thompkms. M. C. Rhaney, M.
G. Hardlman, W. T. Reid, and
James Hudson.
Third )»w Dis George w
Member Audit Bureau Circulation |
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to have said, w hen asked about
putting his men on the streets
again: "1 am keeping my men
off the streets until I am sure
they will have protection;’ received
He must have assur¬
ance of non-intervention be¬
cause the next day he took the
halters off his sellers.
As of this morning four of
the “organized" houses — this
term "organized" is used by the
big operators to differentiate
themselves from, the
ents of which there is an
MRS. GEO. S. WILLIAMS REMEMBERS
CHURCH IN HER WILL
In the will of Mrs. George S.
Williams, probated in the court
of Ordinary last weez the First
Congregational enuren, Haber¬
sham and Taylor streets, was
among those to be remembered.
The church was left $100.
Mrs. Williams, who was fa¬
miliarly known as Mrs. Mamie
George Williams, died Sunday
of last week and was buried
the following Wednesday. She
was one of the best known
women in Georgia, having
plaved a leading role in polit-
iqal and civic affairs for many
years. the bequest
In addition to
made the church in her will,
others were remembered as
follows:
A niece, Sarah J. Miller, Ja¬
maica. Long Island, N. Y., twen¬
ty shares of the capital of
of the Carver Savings Bank
Savannah ;the same amount of
stock in this bank to a niece,
Ruth Barboza, Jamaica, L. I.,
N. Y.; a piano and ten shares
of this stock to her ward, Law¬
rence Melton; to the two nieces
mentioned certain purchase
mortgage monev in the prinei-
nal sum of $8,000; to a cousin,
Florida Johnson, $100 and
twelve shares of the bank stock
identified above; .six shares of
this stock to a cousin, Georgia
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Gore, Jr., Melvin O. Alston,
Robert S. Cobb. R. L. Anderson,
S H Duvall, Courtney
and Charles U. Smith.
Not shown is Dr. W, L.
cote—.Tonps Photo
NUMBER 4#
preciable number — the Fair
Deal, the Greasy Pig and the
Lucky Star, have again entered
the field, and in addition, the
Wheel.
The first three houses sell bo-
ledo tickets and the Wheel is
the substitute for the old clear¬
ing house game. The Cuban, a
lottery local game which came months on
the scene about six
ago and Is said to have been
in continuous operation since,
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AT AIR BASE —Nathaniel Jack-
son, Jr., who recently enlisted
in the armed forces and is now
stationed at Lackland Air Force
Base, San Antonio, Texas. Pvt.
Jackson who Is the son of Mrs.
Ethel Jackson of 518 Lumber
street and the grandson of Mrs.
Carrie Dais of 514 Green St.,
was employed as a pressman at
the Savannah Tribune prior to
entering the Air Force and a
sophomore at Savannah State
college.
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DURHAM, N. C., July 12—On
Thursday, July 19, tne United
States District Court for the
Middle District of North Caro¬
lina will entertain an applica¬
tion for a preliminary injunction
restraining the University of
North Carolina from refusing
the admission, registration or
enrollment of a Negro applicant
for courses offered at the sum¬
mer session of the Graduate
School of the University of
North Carolina,
The applicant, Miss Gwendo¬
lyn Lolita Harrison, of Kinston,
N. C., is an instructor at John-
rcvmti'U’eri on oage Severn)
STATE YOUTH CHAP¬
TERS TO MEET HERE
George E. Jenkins
President
Among the most outstanding
events to take place among the
| youth j of this area will be Miss- the
irst me etlng of the new
ionary Volunteer society youth
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