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BACCALAUREATE SCENE—The array of dignitaries
leading the baccalaureate procession at Savannah State
College last Sunday.
Reading, right to left, J. Randolph Fisher, Chairman of
English department; Pres. W. K. Payne, Dr. John Lewis,
To
Savannah State college closed
its sixty-sixth annual session
yesterday when the commence¬
ment address was deliveved by
Dr. Albert W. Dent, president of
NAACP to Appeal
In Topeka School Case
BOARD MEMBER — Harold W
Calhoun, 31-year-old lawyer of
Keystone, W. Va., was elected
to the Board of Directors of the
Guaranty Life Insurance Com¬
pany at the semi-annual meet¬
ing of the board last week |
Young Calhoun is a graduate , , of. Ol
Ohio State university and the
Howard Law senooi. He is the
son of Attorney Stewart Cal-
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HONOR NDA LEADERS — The
Lincoln Dental Society recently
honored Dr. M. L. Walton and
Dr; William Springer, at a ban¬
quet given in the lounge of the
new Wmhington-.Park YMCA in
Chicago, Dr. Walton is president
auannah arilnuu'
Dillard university. The bacca¬
laureate services were held Sun¬
day. Dr. John H. Lewis, presi¬
dent of Morris Brown college,
was the principal speaker. Both
Bombings
NEW YORK, Aug. 9—Investi¬
gation by the FBI of the bomb¬
ings of Negro homes and busi¬
nesses in Dallas has been asked
by Walter White, executive sec¬
retary of the National Associa¬
tion for the Advancement of
Colored People, in a wire to
Attorney General J. Howard
McGrath, Mr. White urged the
Department of Justice and the
FBI “to take action on the ex¬
ceedingly grave situation t now
existing in Dallas, Texas, as
result of bombings of Negro
homes.”
Meanwhile, in Dallas, a speci¬
al 12-man grand jury entered
Its third week of investigation
into the 16 bombings which
have terrorized the city since
February 8, 1950. The blue rib-
bon jury includes two Negro
members> the Rov . B R . Riley ,
president of the Dallas NAACP,
and William J. Durham, the
Association’s counsel in that
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of the National Dental
tion and Dr. Springer is
dent-elect.
Seated from left to right
Dr. Springer, Dr. Charles
Williams, chairman of
board, and Dr. Walton.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1951
baccalaureate speaker; Rev. R. M. Williams, pastor of
First Bryan Baptist Church; Benjamin Ingersoll, regis¬
trar; Dr. C. L. Kiah, chairman of the department of
education; Dr. o. T. Smallwood, visiting professor in
English from Howard University; O. L. Douglas, principal
of Alfred E. Beach high school.
exercises were largely attended.
One hundred and thirteen
students received degrees, as
follows:
Agriculture — Arthur Skrine,
NEW YORK, Aug. 9 — As ir
the Clarendon County, South
Carolina, public school segrega¬
tion case, an appeal will be
made to the United States Sup¬
reme Court from the decision of
a three-judge federal court
which upheld the segregation of
school children in Topeka, Kan..
Robert L. Carter, assistant
special counsel of the National
Association for the Advance¬
ment of Colored People, an¬
nounced today.
Although upholling the right
of the state to segregate
school children by race, the
opinion of the court, delivered
by Circuit Judge Walter A. Hux-
mon, on August 3, admitted
that, “segregation of white and
colored children in publh
schools has a detrimental effect
upon the colorel children.”
The impact of such segrega-
tion, the court’s findings of
fact concluded, “is greate:
when it has the sanction ol
j law; for the policy of separating
the races is usually interpreted
as denoting the inferiority oi
the Negro group. A sense of
inferiority affects the motiva¬
tion of a child to learn. Segrc-
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ing from left to right are Dr.
C. Hamilton, former NDA
ident; Dr. Claude R.
president . of . the Lincoln ^
society, and Dr. Williams,
er NDA president.—(ANPi
Sparta; Lorin .Washington.
Wadley.
Business Administration —
Mariana Butts, Mayfield; Jose¬
phine France Hubert, Savannah;
Marilyn L. Striggles Jackson.
Savannah; Dorothy Eleanor
Lanier, Statesboro; June An¬
nette Mariano, Eastman.
Elementary Education—Geor¬
gia Scott Akers, La Grange;
Lucille Alethla Andrews, Savan¬
nah; Dora Beatrice Grant
Armstorng, Brunswick; Fannie
Mae Murphy Austin, Brunswick;
Edna Louise Bailey, Savannah;
Mary Louise Cooper Barr, Way-
cross; Addie Starks Brantley,
Athens; Ima Belle Burnett,
Thomson; Agatha Curley Cade,
Savannah; Elizabeth Louise
Carter, Keysville; Lillie Ola
Jones Carter, Bainbridge; Rosa
M. R. Chappel, Culverton;
Gladys Evelyn Clark, Claxton;
Laconia Jackson Cliffin, Savan¬
nah; Jeanette Beulah Coleman,
Savannah; Ruthie Marie Cutter,
Sylvania; Helen Stretchings
Davis, Augusta; Ethel Morian
Dawson, Augusta; Chlora Bin-
ford Edwards, Athens; Katie
Catherine Fraser, McIntosh;
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ENGINEERS—Recently hired
engineers by the RCA
Division of the Radio
ion of America, under
ompany’s trainee program,
left to right, Robert Minton
Washington, D. C., an
cal Engineering graduate
Toward university; Harry
Day, of Welch, West
COMMDR. SPENCER ASKS BOARD TO USE
FUNDS TO IMPROVE NEGRO SCHOOLS
The following letter
Commdr. Frank W.
relative to conditions
the schools of
County, voices the hop-
certain funds available to
board of education be used
improve the Negro schools
the county so as to bring
nearer to a parity with the
white schools.
The letter, addressed to B.
Levy, president of the
points out that the capital out-
I lay per white pupil is
times that per Negro
j S330 to $10j> and that at 1(,a “
! four four new new Negro schools are
needed, one of which should
a rnodern vocational school.
i Commdr. Spencer further
anville Hall Club Shatters
Old SoiiHktii Tradition
DANVILLE, Va.—A rock-ribbed
Southern tradition tabooing the
employing of a Negro player on
a white team in Southern or¬
ganized baseball was shattered
here Friday night when Percy
Miller, Jr., a 20-year-old Negro
player trotted out on the field
with the Danville Leafs and
participated in a game against
the Durham (N C.» Bulls.
Miller, an outfielder, acquit¬
ted himself nicely afield and at
the bat, getting a single and
driving in two runs to help hi.'-
team defeat the Bulls, 5-4.
This was the second time this
year the racial ban has been
broken in the South in organized
baseball. The first instance was
early this season when two
Negro players were signed by
a Texas team, one of them being
a Cuban.
Colored fans who have been
big supporters of the Danville
team knew of Miller's ability as
an outstanding high school and
semi-pro player, and asked that
he be given a chance to play
on the Danville team. The
management took them up on
their petition and arranged
with the Durham Bulls to have
Miller in the outfield against
them Friday night.
The appearance of the high
school graduate on the field
was first greeted with mingled
approval and disapproval by the
white fans, but after the lad
showed that he was of the
proper playing timber the boos
for the most part turned into
cheers.
The Clarks Honored at
\ Norwalk’s U. N.’s Fete
NORWALK, Conn., Aug. 9 —
Harvey E. Clark, Jr., and his
family, whose attempt last
month to move into their new
>60-a-month apartment in the
lily-white community of Cicero,
Illinois, precipitated a race riot
that reverberated throughout
the world, were lavishlr feted
today as guests of honor at the
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By E. E. Grec-ne
Plans are all set for the
annual celebration of
who holds a B. S. degree in
electrical engineering from the
University of Wisconsin and
Edgar B. Darrell of Jamaica,
New York, a graluate of New
York’s City college. They will
be trained in RCA Victor opera¬
tions along with 128 other top
scoring June ]951 graduate; df
50 leading U. S. Colleges.
that is is the ‘■worn duty of the
board to comply with the
stitutional rights of all citizens
in providing equal school facil-
itics, whether of European,
Arian or African ancestry.”
Here is the letter:
“Savannah, Georgia
August 6, 1551
| “Mr. B. H. Levy, President
j | Board of Education
Savannah, Georgia
j “Dear Sir:
j “I have recently secured a
j ! comparison of the per capita
| investment for white and Negro
■ pupils in our local schools from
the Superintendent,
shows well above a three to one
ratio in favor of white pupils
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Hit Official's Failure to
Arrest Girl's Attacker
RICHMOND, Va., August 9—
A Virginia Commonwealth At¬
torney w'as charged this week
with dereliction of duty by W.
Lester Banks, eyecutive secre¬
tary of the Virginia State con¬
ference of branches of the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
for allowing forty-eight hours
to elaspe before making an
I arrest in a statutory rape case
involving a 13-year-old Negro
girl.
Both of the girl’s parents
asserted that J. C. Knibb, Com¬
monwealth Attorney for Gooch¬
land County, told them that he
did not have sufficient grounds
on which to act against 17-year
old Harold Parrish, even though
he had the facts concerning the
attack in his possession within
two hours after it occurred. The
girl’s mother had to appear
before a magistrate to swear
out a warrant against the white
youth before he was arrested.
Parrish went tc the girl’s
house ostensibly seeking her
mother, whom he said his moth¬
er wished to have do some work
for her. Learning that the moth¬
er was oiit, he left and later
returned, insisting that his
mother needed help badly and
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Plans All Set For Elks
Lodge of Elks which will begin |
Saturday night with the
ination of the king and queen I
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i PHYSICIANS PREPARE FOR
CONVENTION—Leading physi¬
| cians throughout the country
i are preparing to go to Philadei-
phia Aug 20-24. foi the 56th
Member Audit Bureau Circulattoui
Price 7c
CITY HALL HALF-MASTS FLAG IN HONOR OF
KOREAN CASUALTY
irm
In honor of David Sidney. flew at half-mast Monday.
first Negro soldier from] The body of young Walker
county to die In kl lled ln baUlc on Sept em
the flag on the City Hallj (Continued on Page Seven)
contest followed Sunday
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annual convention the;
National Medical association. In!
the background, preparing for
what probably will be one of
| the greatest meetings in NMA
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history are the above
the organization.
The men above ueft to right j
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