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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBUC SERVICE
HOODED MOB FLOGS
HUSDAND Af
Lower The
Racial Bar
BATON ROUGE, La. — A1
i though quite a few Negroes
have voted in the Louisiana
Democratic primaries regard-
| less of a state law stating that
I a person to votp in such election
K must be “white,” they will be
I able to vote hereafter without
I such a hindrance. The state
I Democratic Central Committee
I has removed the raial ban and
made it perfectly okey for Ne-
| groes to participate in state pri¬
marv elections.
This is welcomed news to
| Negroes throughout the state
! as over 1 Oil.000 are registered
as Democrats.
The new rules providing for
| eligibility in primary election
stipulates that a voter only has
to be a member of the Demo¬
cratic party to participate in
I elections.
The new regulations, how¬
ever, bar all Communists, stat¬
ing that a voter must never
have been “a member of or as-
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Phoenix Refuses to Integrate
Colored and White Students
White Neighbors Paint
Home of Negro Window
LOCAL DOCTOR COM¬
PLETES TANK MEDICAL
SURVEY
Dr. Carl R. Jordan
CAMPI IRWIN, Calif.— Cur-
rentiy attending to aches and
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Blood Bank Method
Vigorously Opposed
NEW YORK, Sept. 27 — The
fight of the Birmingham
branch of the National Asso¬
ciation for the Advancement of
Colored People to end the prac¬
tice of the local Red Cross of
setting aside a separate day for
The TEACHING FIELD of LIBERTY COUNTY
The teachers of Liberty Coun¬
ty, most of whom were studying
this summer, are back on the
job. Those working toward their
M. A. degrees were Mr. and Mrs.
Dewitte Morrison, Miss Verdie
Frazier, Mrs. M. L. Baggs, Miss
J. M. Powell, and Miss B. H.
Hargrove, who attended New
York university; Mrs. V. M.
Maxwell and Miss C. D. Whit¬
aker attended Columbia univer¬
sity; N. R. Smith, Jesse Stevens
and S. L. Smith, Atlanta univer¬
sity; Mrs. F.a’ph Quarterman
avajumlt Inhftr
THREE OF moo — These
students from Virginia, the
Dominion State, are
! 1,600 students enrolled at
| ham’s North Carolina
LINCOLN, I.— (ANP) —
Amanda Taylor,
widow who lives in a
frame house and is the
Negro in the neighboorhood,
her house repainted here
day—and it didn’t dost her
cent.
Not long ago she
to Clyde Odaffer, white
ber of the Optomists club,
she would like to have her
painted, but she had no
She said that she would find
way some day to do the job.
Odaffer talked it over
club members. They thought
yould be a good idea to do
job themselves. Charles
a painting contractor,
in and offered to supply
paint free.
Sunday, 15 club
called upon Mrs. Taylor and
began slapping paint on the
house. It was a neat, trim and
tidy job, too—done in a nice
light gray, her choice of color.
Negro blood donors and segre¬
gating their blood from that of
white donors was given strong
support today by Walter White,
NAACP executive secretary.
The Birmingham branch, in a
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attended Albany State college;
Mrs. A L. McConnell. Mrs. Ruby
C. Hill, Mrs. W. M. Perry, Mrs.
Pansy L. Brown, Mrs Ophelia
Futch, Mrs. Hattie Anderson.
Mrs. Alma Jackson, Mrs. Annie
L. Williams, Mrs. Doretha Dry
er, Miss Alice Gibbons, Mrs
M. Gibbons, Mrs. Susie Monroe,
Mrs. Gertrude Johnson, Mrs.
L. Baker, Mrs. Rosanna
bright. Mrs. Z. Baker, Mrs.
Aliee Freeman, Mrs.
Elliott and Mrs. Mamie Andrews
attended Savannah State
this term. The two belles
the boy, shown here
across campus at one of the
new buildings in the
$4 million expansion
Dr. Fleming Decries
‘Amos ‘N Andy And
Like TV Shows
FORT WORTH, Texas—
gro progress may be pushed
back 25 years by perpetuating
such sterotyped characters as
those presented in the “Amos 'n
Aandy” and "Beaulah” radio
and television shows,” stated
Dr. George D. Flemings, nation¬
al director of Social Action of
Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.
Such shows tend to “strength¬
en the conclusion among unin¬
formed or prejudiced people
that Negro and other minorities
are inferior, lazy, dumb and dis¬
honest,” the fraternal leader
declared. Continuing, he said,
“the false impression created,
if allowed to go unaswered, will
seriously hamper our efforts as
Negroes to promote intelligent
appraisal of all human beings.”
Flemings urged all Phi Beta
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ege.
The Teachers’ Institute
been reorganized and
have been made for the school
year. The theme for the year
“Developing the Whole
with stress on the Seven
sistent Problems of Living
outlined in the Georgia Pro-
gram.
The new officers are as foil-
ows: Dewitt Morrison,
Miss C. D. Whitaker,
president; Mrs. Mildred Butler,
secretary; Miss J. M.
SAVANNAH SAVANNAH TRIBUNE TRIBUNE THURSDAY, THURSDAY, OCTOBER (X 1951
DUBLIN, Ga.—A white,
mob wreaked vengeance on
Negro farm couple who
working on a farm near
when it swooped down Tuesday
morning about 3 o’clock and
took the man and his wife into
the woods and severely flogged
them.
• The Incident occurred near
Wrightsville, Ga., about 25 miles
Dublin, near the farm of
Joe Anderson, seven miles south
of Wrightsville on the Adair
road.
The couple, Willie Lee Brin¬
son, 41, and his wife, Alberta,
are in the Dublin Claxton
where they are in seri¬
ous condition. They have given
a full account of their harrow-
experience and are at a loss
to explain the reason for the
logging.
Mystery further surrounded
the beatings when it was
learned that the flogged couple
is considered among the most
polite and most faithful workers
on the big Anderson farm and
have never had any trouble
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TO START MOTHERS
BABY CARE COURSE
The Chatham - Savannah
Health Council, a Red Feather
Agency, wishes to announce
that a course in mother and
baby care for expectant mothers
will begin on Tuesday, October
23, at 2 30 p. m. at the Health
Center, 23 East Charlton St.
Any mother expecting he:
first baby, or any grandmoth¬
er, ia invited to join the
which is designed to give con¬
fidence to the mother and to
insure the baby a good start in
life.
The classes will be taught by
Nurse Annie Mae Smothers, an
experienced public health nurse.
There is no charge for the
course. For further information
and for enrollment, telephone
Nursing Service, 3-4771.
| are left to right: Carolyn Self,
Martinsville; Horace Brown,
j Newport News, and Mary Ann
I Millner, Martinsville.
PHOENIX, Ariz.—(ANP)—Ne¬
gro school children here will
have to wait until a local elect¬
ion approves abolishing segre¬
gation before they can attend
white elementary and high
schools, according to the Mari¬
copa county school board.
The local branch of the NAA-
CP will file suit against the
school board for refusal to en¬
roll nine colored children at
Phoenix Union high and West
high, Dr. R. B. Phillips, presi¬
dent of the NAACP said.
Registrars at the schools ad¬
mitted that they denied enroll¬
ment to the Negro children on
the grounds that abolishing of
segregation should be approved
by a local election.
Carl Sims, father of one of the
children, said: “I think it is a
crying shame. Phoenix, the cap-
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Harvey Clark, Cicero Riot
Victim, Broke and Jobless
CHICAGO—(ANP)—Harvey E.
C/lark, Jr., the man who lost
everything he owns because of
the Ciero riot, is broke and out
of a job, according to Columnist
Irv Kupoinet of the Chicago
Sun-Times.
In his “Kup’s Column” of
Sept. 24, Kupoinet wrote:
“Harvey Clark, Jr., the Negro
war veteran and central figure
in the Cicero riot, i.s desparately
in need of a job. lie resigned
as a CTA bus driver because his j
harrowing experience left himj the!
mentally unfit to work at
time. Funds raised to help the
Clarks are now exhausted. He’s
a college graduate with a de¬
gree in history.”
Ciark was the Negro who at¬
tempted to move into an apart¬
ment at at 6139 W. 19 St. in
Cicero. White mobsters who
wanted to keep their city white
ransacked the structure forcing
10 white families to move out
and destroying or looting what¬
ever was left in the building.
Ciark has a wife, Johnetta,
and two chldren, Michelle, 8,
Harvey, III, 6.
assistant secretary; Mrs. Maggie I
Demere, treasurer; Mrs. P. M. |
Brown, chaplain; Mrs. Ralph
Quarterman, chairman of pro-
j gram committee; Mrs. Mamie L.
Stevens, chairan of floral com¬
mittee; Mrs. L. V. Wood, chair-
man of music committee; Mrs.
j I Susie Monroe, chairman of re-
creation committee, and Mrs. N.
W. Cooper, reporter.
The institute welcomes the
j following new teachers: S. L.
j \ Smith, County Training principal School; of Liberty
Mrs.
Cicero Riot to be Probed
By Justice Department
3-Judge Court Dismisses Va.
Segregation Suit
RICHMOND, Sept. 27 — The
suit of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
Smith, Mrs. Rena Var-
and Mrs. Margaret Wal¬
all teachers of the Liberty
Tr. School; Miss Katie
and Mrs. Bessie Will¬
of Hineshaw; and Ciarence
farm agent.
Mrs. Elazabeth Golden and
Jennett Elliott are teaching
the county again this term.
There are forty-seven teach¬
in this county along with
Jeanes supervisor, Miss M
Turner. I
COMPLETE THEIR AF BASIC TRAINING—These six Savannahians have recently completed
their AF basic airmen indoctrination course at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.
This training has prepared them for entrance into Air Force technical training and for assign¬
ment in specialized work.
They are: Pvt. Nathaniel Jackson, Jr. (20), son of Mrs. Ethel Jackson of 518 Lumber street;
Pvt. Gilbert Jordan. Jr., (19) son of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Jordan, 321, West Boundary street;
Pvt. Willie Bell, (20), son of Mrs. Margaret Wrght of 137 Darling street (Woodvillej; Pvt. L.
Davis (18), son of Mrs. Queen Ruffin, iol3 Whitaker street; Pvt., Joseph E. Freeman, (18), son
of Mrs. Sarah M. Freeman, 518 East Gordon street; Pvt. Lewis Walker, Jr., U9), son of Mrs.
Lewis Walker, Sr., 1.114 West Waldburg street.
NEW YORK, Sept. 28'—
National Association for the
vancement of Colored
today expressed
that the Justice Department
ordered an investigation
the Cicero riots.
"We commend
eral J. Howard McGrath for
forthright action in ordering
probe into the Cicero
NAACP Secretary Walter
said. “We hope that proper
ton will be taken to correct
terrible wrong done by the
dictment of NAACP
George Leighton and the
eration of the culprits
sible for the riots and
ion.”
The NAAC° has been
federal intervention into
case since the Cook
grand jury investigating the
turbance failed to indict any
the rioters, and instead
ed the NAACP attorney
senting the displaced Harvey E
Clark family. On September 21
Mr. White, Special
Thurgood Marshall, and
neys W Robert MTiig' aM
Reeves presented the facts
the case to the Justice
ment officials and requested
vestigation.
Mr. Leighton’s indictment on
a charge t>f conspiracy to
riot and two other counts was
vehemently hit by NAACP offi¬
cials and others interested in the
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People to enjoin the
ment of Virginia statutes
quiring segregation of the
in public asemblles has
dismissed “without
by a three-judge Federal
CLASS IN NURSING —
York’s Harlem Hospital’s
class of nurses was greeted
Mrs. Grace Jones, director
the residence, when they
in September—Extreme
Left to right are Jean
King, Wash., D. C.; Della Skin¬
ner, Del., Virginia; Ellis Mann,
NYC; Gean Cherry, Brooklyn,
N. Y.; Hattie Keys, Albany, N.
Y.; Doris Ransome, Detroit,
Mich.; Helen Somerville, Bronx,
N. Y.; Frances Lewis, Brooklyn,
tirmhrr Audit Hureaa Ltrcaltrt’O’*
Price 7 <
WINS INTERNATIONAL MUSIC CONTEST
A :
W’lti
GENEVA, Switzerland, Oct. 3
—Standing on a badly sprained
ankle, Miss Mattiwilda Dobbs
26, of Atlanta, Ga., sang her way
to one of the two first prizes in
Court which admitted
of clarity in the law.
In the opinion, handed down
on September 24, the judges
expressed doubt as to the intent
of the law to cover non-com-
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the annual International Music
Contest last night.
Miss Dobbs, who has been
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ed that relief should be sought
in the state courts.
“We offer no opinion on the
meaning of the statutes,” they
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N. Y.; Joan Brinkley, N. J.;
Knola Derensburg, Louisiana;
Marilyn Adams, N. J.; Dorothy
Moss. Ohio This group Is a part
of the 43 new students who en¬
rolled last month. (Global Photo
by Campbell)