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69 PUBLIC CONTINUOUS YEARS SERVICE OF
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Woman's Affidavit May Cause
Innocent Man's Release After
11 Years tor urder
NURSES ASSN. TO MEET HERE
NEXT W EEK IN 2-DAY
VA. BUS CASE MAY
REACH FEDERAL COURT
Catholic Father Blasts
Racism of Some Catholics
MONTEFIORDE HOSPT’L
Dr. P. S. Henderson
A proffered fellowship in
neuro-surgery at a Pittsburgh
Pa., hospital has been accepted
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Many Nat’I Leaders Back
NBL Coming Meeting
Va. Parents
Picket Sch.
BLUEFIELD, Va.— (ANP) —
Demanding that Principal Mc-
'iV fH./ie Green be fi red - patrons of
Tazewell high school staged
"r a strike at the school last week
and threatened to carry the
case to the courts if the school
board does not remove the prin¬
cipal. against
Further protesting
Green, students and parents
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atianiwli Snlume
NEW YORK—(ANP >—The
Christian prejudices of
American Catholics toward
groes has hindered the
of missionary worK m Africa,
the Rev. James Fitzpatrick of
toe Society of African Missions
told members of the Catholic
Interracial Council here recent¬
ly.
“We must practice the love of
God and neighbor when we
send our missionaries out
preach,” Father Fitzpatrick
said. “The missionary’s
in Africa can be undone in
Orleans, in New York, or in
cero, 111.”
A native of Ireland on his
first visit to the United States
after working in African miss¬
ions, Father Fitzpatrick told of
visiting African Catholic stud¬
ents at American universities
and finding them disillusioned
because of the segregation and
{humiliations they had experi-
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WASHINGTON, D. C.—When
the National Negro Business
League meets in its 51st Annual
Convention in Washington, D.
C., October 10, 11, 12 at the U. S'.
Department of Commerce, its
program will have the backing
of prominent businessmen and
women of the nation. Among
them are: Norman O. Houston,
president of the National Negro
Insurance Association; Dowdal
H. Davis, president of the Ne¬
gro Newspaper Publisheds Asso¬
ciation; J. H. Wheeler, president
of the National Bankers Asso-
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, SEPT. 20. 1951
STAUNTON, Va:—(ANP)—The
decision of the Virginia Supreme
court of appeals last week up¬
holding a bus company that
convicted a Negro from a bus
because he refused to relinquish
the only seat beside a white
woman, may be carried to the
federal courts.
The court, at the close of its
three-day term here, upheld
6-1 the state corporation corn-
mission in refusing an injunct
ion against the Carolina Coach
Company of Virginia.
The majority opinion held
that the state law banning the
seating of the races “on con¬
tinuous seats” worked as fairly
for one race as it did for anoth¬
er.
The one dissenting judge,
Justice C. Vernon Sprateley,
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Six Race Students Enter LSU
BATON ROUGE, La.—KANP i —
Whole sale registration of Ne¬
groes at Louisiana State uni¬
versity in the near future is
indicated as the result of a fed¬
eral court ruling some months
ago, directing the institution to
admit qualified members of the
Negro race.
Last week, six Negroes were
(being enrolled in the law and
graduate schools of the uni¬
WIN RIGHT TO
KENTUCKY
LOUISVILLE —(ANP) — Two
Negroes of Louisville last week
won the right to join in a suit
for entrance to Paducah Junior
college. Federal Judge Shackle¬
ford Miller, Jr., said the ruling
will not allow them or two oth¬
ers who brought suits earlier to
enroll in the college for the fall
term
Judge
are landed at the Moton Air
Field after being flown in an!
♦
The Ga. State Association of
the Negro Registered Nurses will
convene in savannah in their
sixteenth Annual Session, Sept.
28-29.
Registered nurses from all
over the state and representa¬
tives from South Carolina and
Florida will be in att endance at
the business meetings which will
be held at St. Matthew’s parish
hall.
Outstanding among the
speakers will be Miss Mary
Bagwell, R. N., executive officer
of the American Nurses Asso¬
ciation, and Miss Patricia Can¬
non, R. N., director of the Sa¬
vannah Public Health Center.
Miss Eula Benning, R. N., the
president of the state organi¬
zation, will preside during the
convention. Miss Thelma Cole¬
man is president of the local
registered nurses group.
On Sept. 27 at 8 p. m. the pub¬
lic program will be held at St.
phfiip’s AME church, Rev. J.
Bryan, pastor.
versity officials admitted.
Students registering for
were Robert Frederick
Ernest Nlathan Morial and
Sourial Charles, all of New
leans.
Registering for graduate
were Leslie Barnum of
journalism, Louis
Eames of Baton Roge in
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to Marion Wilson and Miss
oise B. Ray. He held that
become co-plaintiffs in
suit brought by Fred A
and Henry L. Powell to
the college to admit them.
In this suit, Federal
Roy Shelbourne ruled that
should admit the
Negroes. The U. S.
later refused to
part in the transfer of the
patients from Vicksburg to
he Alabama center. Shown from
to right are:
Kneeling: Capt. Wilson, g .
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SALEM, Ore.—(ANP)—A Chi¬
cago woman filed an affidavit
with the Oregon parole board
last week stating that a Negro
prisloner is serving a life term
for a 1)932 murder that her late
husband confessed to doing,
Theodore Jordan, 45, the vic¬
tim, has served 18 years and
nine months for the slaying of
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Schools Virginia to Improve Negro
to Tune of $16 Million
RICHMOND—(ANP)— Several!
localities in Virginia have al¬
ready begun construction ori new
Negro schools and additions to
schools or have let contracts or
will soon let contracts for
school construction to cost more
/than $15,000,000. These exten¬
sive plans were disclosed here
last week in a check on local
school board plans over the
state.
Work is progressing on the
;new Negro high school in the
Churchill section which will cost
about two million. Around 1,600
nefr schools are planned across
the state, but must wait until
next year before being built be¬
cause of a shortage of steel.
Contract was recently awarded
for the construction of a $500.-
000 new Negro high school in
Emporia. The old Negro high
school will be converted into an
elementary school.
Work on additions to Abraham
Lincoln school in Norfolk is in
its advanced stage. Other school
expansion plans in Norfolk in¬
clude a new school at Roberts
Park and neiw Negro schools in
Lindonwood and Campostella
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FOR ENTRANCE TO
COLLEGE
an appeal from Judge Shel-
bourne’s decision.
Miller ruled that the suit by
.Wilson and Powell was a class
action and applied to all Ne¬
groes, qualified by educational
standards, who sought admiss¬
ion to the college.
Wilson and Powell have not
HOME ON Vis* •—Pfc. Benja-
min M. Oraham, Jr., who has
been a patient in Percy Jones
Army hospital since March 31,
is home on a visit. He Is th.
son of Mrs. Thomasina B
Graham of this city, and
son of Mr. and Mrs. Julius
I Raynes. He has been in the
| I army two years and served
months in Korea where he suf-
fered from frost bite.
j He is a graduate of Alfred
Beach high school and a mem-
ber of First Br V an Ba P tist
church. He wishes to thank his
many friends for their beauti-
,
i ful cards sent to him during his
; illness.
FLY TO CARIBBEAN
— Leading dentists of
all members of the
Dental
White Cites Gains
In Race Relations
NEW YORK, Sept. 13 —
gress in 15 different aspects of
race relations during the past
10 years is reported by Walter
White, executive secretary of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
in a 5000-wrd article in the Sat¬
urday Review of Literature of
September 22.
Asserting that much remains
to be done before full democ¬
racy is achieved, Mr. White cit¬
ed the following notable gains:
1, Supreme Court decisions ban¬
ning segregation in higher ed¬
ucation and in interstate trans¬
portation; 2. the democratiza¬
tion of education as the admis¬
sion of Negro students to private
as well as to publicly financed
educational institutions and th,
in the number of Negro
teachers on faculties of north¬
ern universities; 3. the report of
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admitted to the college.
school still is contesting
of Judge Shclbourne’s rul¬
Give liberal support to your
Crusade for Freedom Drive.
Show your interest in local
affairs by
YMCA.
$750,000 TO BE SPENT IN EXPANSION
PLAN AT SAVANNAH
ATLANTA, Ga.—(ANP» — In
its monthly meeting this week
the Regents announced plans
for spending $750,000 to expand
the physical plant at Savannah
State College for Negroes, and
also approved salary increases
for 10 faculty members.
The Regents directed archi¬
tects to prepare plans for a
$550,000 dormitory for the
Savannah institution along with
a $200,000 gymnasium, and em¬
ployed an Atlanta architectural
fj rm to draw plans for a new
agricultural science building at
Fort Valley Slate college.
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MaJ(J | h ; t White
Lniployer , JZUU,UUU ,, onn nAn
s
Estate
— -
SACREMENTO, Cal.— (ANP) —
A Negro maid here last week
was named by her late white
employer the sole heir of an es-
tate valued at $200,000.
The will of Mrs Ida M. Mey-
er, who die drecently, cut off ail
of her relatives and left Miss
Josephine Elston the only bene¬
ficiary of the estate
Member Audit Bureau Circulation*
Price 7c
and their wives, recently flew
from Miami, Fla., to the Carib-
bean areas on a good will tour
the NDA. This trip to
Va. Supreme Ct. Denounces
Killing by Policeman
STAUNTON, Va.—(ANP)—The
Virginia State Supreme Court of
Appeals hcid here last week
that an Emporia policeman act¬
ed unlawfully in shooting and
killing a man who vigorously
resisted arrest.
The tribunal's opinion, writ¬
ten by Justice Willis I). Miller,
noted the limitations that are
put on police authority, partic¬
ularly beyond the limits of the
municipality.
The court held that Officer
Hoe Ben Bradley was beyond
his legal domain when he shot
and killed Solomon Perry Banks
on June 5, 1948, following a wild j
automobile chase.
The court maintained that
Banks was within his legal
rights to protect himself from
seizure. It reversed the decision
of the Greenville Circuit court
which found the slaying of
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Tattnall Teachers Elect
Officers for Coming Year
On August 27 the teachers
Tattnall county met at
ville high school to begin their
1951-52 school term.
After a very warm welcome
by R. E. Kicklighter, county
superintendent, and Mrs. J. B.
Action By Supreme Ct.
Florida Case
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13—The;
United States Supreme Court
was today asked by attorneys for i
the National Association for the!
Advancement of Colored People j
to instruct the Florida Supreme
Court to issue an oraer to the!
University of Florida to admit
five young Negro men whose
applications to the professional!
and graduate colleges of the un¬
iversity have been denied.
The NAACP petition for review j
yf the case by the high court
followed refusal of the Florida
Supreme Court to order the!
university officials to admit the
Negro applicants for courses in
law, pharmacy, graduate agri-
culture and chemical engineer-
ing. The Florida court twice re-
fused to issue the order on the|
ground that the university offi-
had passed a resolution j
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NUMBER 49
Caribbean followed the recent
meeting of the NDA in Memphis.
— (ANP)
CHAIRMAN— Rob¬
Spencer' who has been
chairman of thejfcl-
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given the group and that
the following officers were elect¬
ed:
President, M. Thomas; Vice
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HEADS CHICAGO CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE— New president
of the Chicago Negro Chamber
of commerce is Kit Baldwin,
prcsiden t of the Baldwin Ice
Crearn compa ny, in taking over
his new officei Baldwin an-
no unced what he termed a nevr
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