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NEGRO DOCTOR ENTERS RACE
FOR LOUISIANA GOVERNOR
Dr. Kermit Parker
BATON ROUGE, La.—(ANP)
—Kermit Parker, 40, pharmacist
of New Orleans, last week be¬
came the first Negro to qualify
as a candidate in the Demo¬
cratic primaries for governor of
Louisiana. He posted a $150 fee
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First Red Feather Report
Shows $2,105 Raised
OPENS BUSINESS
Miss Albertha E. Boston
to announce the opening of
ABC Business School at
West Victory Drive. The
riculum at present
courses in shorthand and
writing, especially designed
the convenience of
Omegas Prepare For
Achievement Week
FOUR NEW TEACHERS I
JOIN ECTS FACULTY ’’
Four teachers were added to
the faculty of Evans County
Training school.
They are Mrs. Ruby E. De-
Loach, o Claxtonian, and form¬
erly holding a position as
transcript secretary at Savan¬
nah State college: Mrs. Earleen
Bailey, a graduate of Tuskegee
institute, and who has done
substitute work in this county
for the past two years; Mr. and
Mrs. Bonr.ie Hendley, gradu¬
ates and residents of Savan¬
nah. Mr. Hendley now holds
the
Daisy elementary postman in school the Savan- and isj
a former
nah postal system. Mrs. Hendley
is now first and second gia.de.
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To Continue Fight For Equal
Fav For Teachers
NEW YORK, Oct. 11—Follow¬
ing refusal of the United
Supreme equalization Court to review
salary suit of
gro teachers of Jackson,
attorneys for the National As¬
sociation for the Advancement
of Colored Peple announced this
week that the teachers will
carry their case to the city,
county and state boards of edu¬
cation prior to suing again in
the federal courts.
A lower court in 1949 dis¬
missed the complaint of Mrs.
Gladys N. Bates and Richard J.
Brown on the grounds that al¬
though they and other Negro
teachers were not paid salaries
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those
do no t desire to obtain a
degree in some phase of
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aims prepare
studen * 0 develop the
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John F. Potts, director of the
National Achievement Week
project of the Omega Phi Fra-
ternity, announces that the 222
chapters of the Fraternity are
making plans to celebrate the
National Achievement Week
Observance, November 11-17.
The Annual National High
School Essay Contest which is
a phase of the Achievement
"Week propcet, is again being
sponsored this year. Announce¬
ments have been sent to more
than 1,006 high schools. The
theme for the contest is “Se¬
curing World Peace by Strength¬
ening Democracy.” First prise—
$125.00, second, $75.00, and
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Courageous Mother Loses Life
In Saving Her Four Children
BROOKLYN, N. Y.— (ANPi —'
Funeral services were held last
week at Mt. Zion Pentacostal,
church for Brooklyn’s heroic
mother, Mrs. Irma Randall, 35,
who gave her life to save four
of her nine children. They were
caught in a flash fire which
enveloped their frame home at
189 Quincy street, in the heart
of the Bedford-Stuyvesant area,
Tuesday of last week shortly
after noon.
The five had entered the
house from a visit to Mrs. Ran¬
dall’s sister, Mrs. Mamie M.
Workers of the Negro Division
of the 195 1 Red Feather Cam¬
paign reported $2,105.77 in cash
and pledges at the first report
meeting at the West Broad
Branch YMCA last night.
represents a partial report,
many workers are still
contacts. The highest
worker’s report was made
Mrs. Dorothy B. Taylor. She re¬
ported $350.00 pledged and
is cash. , The next , highest , indi- , ,,
vidual report was made
Connie Wimberly, who reported
$265.00 in pledges, and $165.27
in cash. Florance street school
represented by Mrs. Leah
Green, reported the highest
amount for the schools. She
reported $204.00 in pledges and
$47.50 in cash. Gen. N. H. Collier
j urged all workers to step up so-
’ licitations
so that the final re¬
ports can be made Thursday,
October 18, 8:00 p. m., at the
YMCA. He expressed the wish
that this division exceed last
year’s goal.
Boxing matches will be staged
at the “Y” Friday night, Oct.
19, 8:00 p. m. The public is
dially invited to attend. A small
admission fee will be charged.
A Sport dance will be given
for servicemen at the “Y” Sat-
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TO REJECT NEW
ER OF DEEDS-TRUM AN INSISTS ON BECK
WASHINGTON—(ANP)—
Senate District Committee
nounced that it will
take a formal vote next
on the confirmation of
Wayne Beck for Recorder
Deeds in the District of
bia.
The committee decision
NIGHTENGALE CLUB
MAKES DONATION TO
TB SANITARIUM
The Nightengale club, an
ganization of young
composed of students from
Beaumont School of
continued their
work last week when they
tributed three combination
and heaters.
These additions will go a
way toward making the
conditions of the patients at
sanitarium more pleasurable.
Mrs. Octavia McNatt is
ident of the Nightengale
Two out of three of
Federal tax dollars will be
for defense in 1952. Part
your investment can be seen
Armistice Day when
Stewart opens its gates to
public for a full day of
strations and displays.
SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY. OCTOBER 18, 1951
Moore, only a short time before
fire belched up the stairs
the basement cutting them
in their third-floor apart-
The mother, thinking
climbed out on the top of
a second floor bay window roof
the children, yelled and
a blanket to William
who was attracted by her
He and three other spectators
it and she dropped them,
boys, one at a time. She did
make the 30-ft. leap and
put up a ladder hastily
Two Lose; One Win In
Boston Primaries
BOSTON, MASS.— (ANP)
Laurence H. Banks, present
councillor from Ward 9 and
Negro to serve in the
under the present city
made an unsucessful bid
week for reelection under
new Charter which will go
effect on aJn. 1, 1952.
Displaying extraordinary
litical strength in
areas, Banks garnered a
vote of 23,341 to place 22nd
tile final tally. Only the first
j candidates are now eligible
the November election.
Bank’s results are
inasmuch they reflect the
I er which can be weilded by
Negro in a city-wide
provided he conducts a
campaign based on the
of the day.
Mrs. Ruth M. Batson,
date for school committee,
also unsuccessful in her
political venture but
to secure 15,154 votes.
In surburban Everett,
B. Fantroy, former
labor and
WAR MOTHERS OF MASS. HIT BIAS
SWAMPSCOTT, Mass.—(ANP)
—At the conclusion of a three-
day session at the New Ocean
House here last week, the Mas¬
sachusetts Department, United
made after President
told his press conference
Thursday that he would
withdraw the nomination
Beck for the post.
Mr. Truman made the
ment after it was learned
the District Committee
planning to ask that the
Tuskegee Institute Prexy Dr. F.
D. Patterson, speaking before a
capacity audience of 1,000 attend¬
ing the United Negro College
Fund’s recent Convocation at
Rackham Memorial Hall Audito-
rium. Detroit. Also on the podium,
left to right: President Richard
Photo By Freeman
“MISS BEACH” AND ATTENDANTS—Following a school wide election on Mb n cl ay the pictured
lovely young ladies were elected to serve as "Miss Beach” and her attendants for the 1951-
1952 school year (center) Miss Carolyn Robinson, a member of the 12B2 class won the coveted
title over nine other contestants. Miss Robinson is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carswell Rob¬
inson. (right) Miss Virginia Sheffield a member of the 1,1B5 class and the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Edmond Sheffield, (left) Miss Doris Brookjs, a member of the 10B6 class and the
daughter of Mr. and Mra, Lloyd Brooks. The crowning ceremony will take place during tho
half-time period at Homecoming game, 'Thursday, October 25th.
secured, but as Seals went up to
get her, it caught fire at the
top from flames pouring out the
window behind her perch.
Before fireman arrived and
put up a 40-foot ladder, Mrs.
Randall had fallen to the roof
and suffered fatal burns and
smoke poisoning.
The children she saved were
James, j; William, 5; Michael, 3,
and Edward, 1.
Her husband, John, a truck
driver, was at work when the
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Beach High to Stage Mam¬
moth Celebration
NAACP Youth Council, success-
fully received an aldermanic
nomination for Ward 5.
Although Mayor John B.
Hynes and former Mayor James
M. Curley were nominated for
the November election, Hynes
polled a total of 108,428 votes to
Curley’s 77,011. In the strong
Negro area, Ward 9, Curley out¬
distanced Hynes by getting 3
out of every 5 votes.
However, Curley astounded
political circles this week by
flatly statnig that he would
not campaign for the mayoralty
but would devote his efforts to
defeating the candidates for
city council nominated by the
New Boston Committee which
supplied the winning slate and
becanrj a factor in Boston pol¬
itics.
Curiously enough, the New
Boston Committee includes a
Negro member, Edward W.
Brooke, who made an excellent
showing in last year’s contest
for state representative, but
the committee did not nominate
nor support a Negro candidate
By Rose Johnson
Thursday, October 25, will
a gala day at Alfred E.
high school. The
parade will be staged that
ternoon beginning at
o’clock. Following the parade
8 p. m. the homecoming
with Immaculate
high school of Charleston, s.
and the crowning of Miss
will take place at Grayson
dium.
In previous years, Miss
was selected on a money
This year an election was
to determine by popular
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Bus Jim Crow Attacked
In Suit Woman
RICHMOND, Va. — (ANP/
Racial segregation on buses
attacked last week in a suit
here in Federal Dlstrct
against the Greyhound
ration of Richmond,
$ 10 , 000 .
Mrs. Yvonne White,
of New York City, charged
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War Mothers, adopted a resolu¬
tion calling upon the army to
eliminate all remnants of segre-
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closed-door meeting last
nesday that it would
Beck’s nomination if the
ident refused to withdraw
The decision was based
Beck’s admittance in an
hearing that he was not
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ination of the Kansas City pol¬
itician be withdrawn.
The move was regarded as a
preliminary action toward for¬
mal committee rejection of the
nomination in order to prevent
an interim appointment of Beck
while Congress is in recess,
The committee decided in a
V Moore, Bethune-Cookman Col¬
lege; Chester C. Beach, 1951 Mich¬
igan State Committee Chairman
of U.N.C.F. and general manager
of Ward Baking Co.; Charles Dol¬
lard, president, Carnegie. Corpora-
tion of N. Y.; Holiis F. Price, pres-
idgnt, Le Moyne College; Charles
Jones, co-chairman Michigan
Committee; James P. Braw-
president, Clark College;
A. W. Dent, Dillard
James A. Colston,
Knoxville College, J.
Ellison, Virginia U. prexy; and
University president W. R.
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
—
Irish Sweepstakes Winner
Gets Price of
STOUGHTON, Mass.—(ANP) —
Mrs. May G. Jardine met the
Western Union messenger last
week and gladly received $139,-;
391 in money order form, her
share of the Irish Sweepstakes.
Last May the Jardine family
was informed of their good for-
tune. On the strength of that.
official report, Mrs. Jardine
quit her job in the rubber
I company in Stoughton and has
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Race Youth Elected
President of His Class
At of Va.
RICHMOND—(ANP) — Hen¬
derson Andrew Johnson, III, a
scholarship student from Nash¬
ville, Tenn., recently was elect¬
ed president of his class at
Medical college of the Univer¬
sity of Virginia here.
Johnson is one of only two
Negroes in a class of 44 stud¬
ents who are attending the
School of Therapy. He is study¬
ing on a scholarship awarded
by the National Foundation of
Infantile Paralysis.
This year marks the first
time that Negro students have
been enrolled in the medical
division of the university,
which last year opened its lily-
white doors to colored persons
for the first time since it was
founded by former President
Thomas Jefferson in 1825.
The first member of her race
t.o be admitted as a full-time
medical student was Miss Jean
Harris, daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. Vernon Harris of
mond. The other colored
ent in the School of Therapy
is Miss Marjorie Vaughn of
Lawrcncevllle.
The 22-year-old Johnson is
native of Nashville and the
of Mr. and Mrs. H. A.
II. He attended the
schools there and in 1950
ceived a B. S. degree in
cal education from Fisk
sity.
While at Fisk he excelled
sports. He played on the
basketball team, was a
of the track team, and for
years was a halfback on
NO. 1
GETS S. C. SOCIAL WORK
POST
Mrs. Mabel B. Wortham, 1940
versity a( ^ iate c School of the of Atlanta Social Work, Uni¬
has just been employed as di¬
rector of South Carolina In¬
dustrial School for Girls, Co-
^ uni kia, Miss Woitluun was
foi'merly employed with the
Department of Public Welfare
as case worker, Raleigh, N. C„
and is a native North Carolin¬
ian.
Shriners To
Sponsor Car¬
nival
Omar Temple No. 21, will fea¬
ture a fall carnival beginning
Monday, October 22 through
the 27th.
Manning’s Cavalcade Shows
has been secured for the m id-*
way attractions. Sam Greene
and his Little Harlem Revue,
Including 30 people of stage
screen and radio fame will be
among the feature shows pre¬
sented.
All of the latest, thrilling
riding devices will be on mid¬
way. A complete kddie land
for the youngsters, as well as
amusements for the entire fam-
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LAW ATTENDS SOUTH
| CAROLINA NAACP
CONFERENCE MEETING
W. W. Law, a member of the
NAACP board of directors and
president of the local branch,
has returned after attending
the eleventh annual session of
the South Carolina state con¬
ference of NAACP branches.
The conference convened in
Sumter, S. C., on last Saturday
and Sunday.
Mr. Law spoke during the
Saturday morning session and
served as a consultant during