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isiviilm * r.r.rj banqueted —Scenes frofn banquet of the Savan¬
nah Gas Company which was held Thursday night, December j
20, at Cafe Lincoln Inn. The affair was given by the com¬ '
pany for tile Negro employees and was the 103'rd Anniversary
of the company.
The top picture shows the employees seated at the banquet
table with the officers of the company shown standing in the
rear. They are Howard E. Ferrie, vice president;; W. Benfield,
To be Held January Day Program
1st
NAACP ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS
FOR 1951 SPINGARN MEDAL
DR. BRYANT WINS
KAPPA HONORS
!
Dr. Melton D. Bryant, local
physician ana a member of the
Savannah Alumni chapter, Kap¬
pa Alpha Psi fraternity, was
voted the ' Achievement Award”
of the year 1951 at the recent
Provincial meeting in Jackson¬
ville, Florida.
Melton D. Bryant was born in
Savannah, Georgia, and attend-
fhe original Haven Home
school. He attended Georgia
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Move To Sue
Louisiana
SHREVEPORT, La.—(ANP) —
An injunction has been request¬
ed by 12 Negroes of East Carrol
parish against tl\e registrar of
voters, Mrs. C. E. Beard, for¬
bidding her from discriminating
against them in registering to !
vote. j
The suit, filed in federal dis¬ I
trict court, alleges that Mrs.
Beard has not allowed them to
register as required by law be-
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INDIAN SUES CEMETERY
FOR DENYING BURIAL TO HUSBAND
SIOUX CITY, la,— (ANP) —
An $180,000 damage suit was
filed in district court last week
against Memorial Park ceme¬
tery here for its refusal to bury
Sgt. John R. Rice; veteran of
the Korean war.
Filed by the widow, Mrs, Eve¬
lyn Rice of Winnebago, Neb.,
the suit asks compensation for
NEW YORK—(ANP)—
nominations now are
accepted for candidates for
1951 Spingarn Medal,
White, executive secretary
the NAACP, announced
week.
A statement of the
cations and achievements
the nominied must be
ted along with their
which should be mailed to
Spingarn Medal Award
mittee at 20 W. 40th St., New
York 18.
The medal is awarded annu-
ally to a Negro American for
distinguished achievement. Mrs.
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HUMANITY — One of
most ardent religious
is Mrs. Pinkie Beatrice
wife of Bishop S. L.
of the Georgia district
the African Methodist Epis-
church. At a recent meeting
the Atlanta conference of
AME church, she declared:
am here to serve humanity
just race or group or any
portion of mankind,
all people who will accept
services . . . ”— (ANP)
njuries and humiliation she
said she suffered when the
cemetery refused to bury the
Indian last August because he
was “not a member of the Cau¬
casian race.”
The news of the cemetery’s
refusal to bury the dead
hero made headlines through¬
out the country. Many persons
president; C. B Reinschmidt, vice president; W. R. Peter-
vice president; W. K. Nussbaum, vice president; Henry P.
assistant treasurer; J. F. Lee, sales manager, Marvin
advertising manager.
Bottom, 1. to r.—Fred Simmons, Isaiah Jones, (chairman);
Robinson, ReV. E. Boyd, master bf ceremony; Joe
Not shown is Grantham Smith.
Raleigh Bryant
Speaker
The Annual Emancipation
celebration program, sponsored
by the Emancipation Associa¬
tion of Savannah and the So¬
cial Clubs Union will be held
Tuesday, January I, at 10:30
a. m., at Tabernacle Baptist
church, Alice and Jefferson
streets, Rev. H. W. Wilburn, D.
D., pastor.
Deacon Raleigh H. Bryant,
A. B., Sr., will be the principal
speaker, and Dr. C. P. Hobbs,
president of the Emancipation
Association, will preside.
Several choirs of the city will
render selections, also the Gos¬
pel Bells, Jones Funeral Home
choir, the Mayflowers and the
Stone choir.
' Rev. C. P. Hobbs, D. D., and
Deacon Raleigh A. Bryant, A
B. Sr., are presidents of the
sponsoring organizations. Rev.
J. S. Bryan, D. D., will be mas¬
ter of ceremonies.
Lt. Harvey To J
Visit Her Mother
1st Lt. Marion V. Harvey,
ANC, of United States Army
Hosp., Ft. Riley, Kans., will be
in the city for a few days vis¬
iting her mother, Mrs. Daisy
B. Harvey, 216 Fahm St., and
relatives.
were outraged and expressed
sympathy for the widow.
In response to a general feel¬
ing that something should be
done about such an extreme
expression of racialism, Presi¬
dent Truman interceded and
had Sgt. Rice buried in Arling¬
ton cemetery.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURS., DECEMBER 27, 1051
S. AGRICULTURAL EXHIB¬
DISPLAYED AT ETHIOPIAN
An agricultural exhibit pre¬
by the U. S. Department
Agriculture was on display
the recent Ethiopian Trade
time that a USDA exhibit
been shipped so far. It is
to hold the long distance
for the Department. The
Cooperation Admin¬
of the Department of
sponsored the display.
standing on stage with Mrs. Moze)le Clemmons in school’s verse
chorus giving an interpretation of the nativity.
2.—John W. Law, chairman of the Christmas party.
3—Frank Underwood, assistant superintendent of education,
addressing the audience after receiving the $20« in checks fo|
the davelopment of Cuyler Library and science laboratory. Stu¬
NIGHT CLASSES
$200 GIFT
NEW LABORATORY
Two checks of $100 each were
NAACP OFFICIAL KILLED
IN FLORIDA BOMBING
MIMS, Fla., Dec. 26 In the
a Lest of a scries of bombings
igainst Negroes, Jews and Cath-
»lics which have occurred in
his section of the state, a well
mown Negro official of the
Torida National Association
or the Advancement of Colored
’tople was killed last night in
i blast which destroyed his
lome here. His wife was criti
•ally injured and is given only
a fair chance for recovery at
‘he hospital at Sanford, where
she was rushed.
The bomb last night which
rilled Harry T. Moore, 46, prom-
nent school principal up to
1945 and since then co¬
ordinator for the NAACP in
Florida, expioded abopt 10
o’colck and completely demol¬
ished the front bedroom of the
t room house in which Moore
and his wife, Harriett, were
sleeping. His mother and daugh¬
ter who were asleep in a bark
room were not seriously in¬
jured.
Master Sergeant George
Simms, brother of Mrs. Moore,
who had just returned from 14
months of fighting in Korea
was the first to reach the scene
of the bombing. He rushed
Moore and his family to the
hospital. Moore died enroute
there, but his mother and
daughter were found to be only
slightly injured and were re¬
leased.
Moore and his family had
gathered at the little frame
home here just a few days ago
for the Christmas holidays. All
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WHITE YOUTH FREED IN RAPE OF NEGRO GIRL
RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 20
double standard of justice
Southern rape cases
again this week as a
17-year-old white youth was
not guilty of the
presented to Frank c. Under¬
wood, assistant superintendent
of schools, by students of the
Cuyler Adult Academic Evening
high school at a Christmas
party Thursday night of last
Gen. Marshall Reports On
Integration in Armed Forces
' WASHINGTON (ANPi— The
attendance of Negro enlisted per¬
sonnel doubled in schools of the
irmrd forces during the past
year since the racial quotas
have been removed, according
to the former secretary of De¬
fense Gen. George C. Marshall.
In his semi annual report
released by the Department of
Defense, the former Secretary
said that “considerable progress
was made in carrying out the
President’s 1948 Directive on
Equality of Treatment and
Opportunity in the Armed Ser¬
vices.”
During tile past year, the
policies developed by the Army,
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Policemen Indicted fortAttenipl-
ing to Shakedown {Memphis Pair
MEMPHIS, Tenn.— (ANPi —
white policemen were
indicted last week on a
of extortion involving
Memphis Negro men.
The indicted officers are Wm.
Currotto and George G. Hud¬
both accused of taking
payments totaling $20 from
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of a 13-year-old Negro girl,
despite evidence as to his guilt,
The case, tried in the Circuit
Court of Goochland County, in-
volved a young girl who was
taken from her home last July
4. —Wilton C. Scott, school supervisor, greeting- the 1,300 stut
dents, relatives and friends. *
5. Children from Greenbriar Center receiving gifts.
6. Ernest Tilson .narrator for the festivities.
7. —Men and women in the schooi’s Christinas chorus.
week in the Reereational
Center on Ogeot.hee road.
The gifts are intended for
development of a science labora¬
tory at Cuyler high school for
the day school and evening
Member Audit Bureau Circulation.
Price 7c
APPEAL FOR MARCH Of DLV.K C
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to ri « ht: nr - Willard Allen, Baltimore, Maryland
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Negroes Leave South For
Better Future in North, West
RICHMOND, Va— (ANPi —
There Is a story between the
lines of columns of news in the
last decade telling about the
migration of Negroes
from the south to the north
30 by the youth, who told her
his mother wanted her to do
some work. He drove her to a
wooded area off the highway,
where he attacked her.
withstanding the fact that law
classes, and for the Cuyler
‘•ary.
A group of more than
■students of the evening school,
their wives and children was
present for a program In which
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and west. The college-bred Ne¬
gro* trained in unsegregated
colleges in the north have been
coming south for jobs in the
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enforcement officers had
enough facts in their possession
, hours arrest iffe (he i ' K *' r*
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students participated in singing
a m i dancing.
Ernest m master of cere -
mon4gs> > sang « B in the Be _
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