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70 YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LXX
RETI RES—AAer tirekking a distance of approximately five and
half times that of the circumference of me earth, one oi Savan¬
nah's best known postmen turned in his mail bag last week, called it
the end of a Iona and tedious road and retired from the United
States Postal Service.
Ezra Johnson entered me |
local post office service in 1917 j
and when he retired from the
service on December 31, after
a 34 year stretch of duty, his j
High four! to Decide
If State School May
Bar Qualified Students
SIGNALLY iiuAOii&O —
HVolmson, editor and
er of the Johnson
(Ebony, Tan Confessions,
and Negro Digest >, was
this week as one of the
outstanding young men of
country for the year 1951 by
United States Junior
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UNCF Raised Biggest I 1
Amount Last Year
SSC Stu¬
dents On
Dean’s List
Persons here listed have
earned averages of 2.50 or
higher during the fall quarter. I
at Savannah State college.
Each is therefore accorded a
place on the Dean's List for the
winter quarter, 1952
Alphonso Arnold, Homer Bry¬
son, Annie G. Bussey, Mary F.
Chapman, Edgar Leon Cooper,
III, Virginia M. Dansby, James 1
F. Densler. Thomas Ronald
Evans, Mabel P. Fortson. Daisy
Grant Fraser, Jewel! Gamble,
Agnes U. Harris. Mamie M.
Hart, Lillie M. Jackson. Lillie B.
Johnson, Ernest W. Jones, Ray¬
mond Knight: Joe Henry Lang,
Hosea Lofton. Walter E. Mc¬
Call, Jean Z Miller, Carrie L.
Mobley, Charles Moultrie. Fred¬
die R. Neely, Benjamin Quat-
tlebaum, Willie J. Reid. Joseph
Solomon, Rethel H. Straiten,
John D. Watkins, Beniamin
White, Richard M. Williams,
Leon D. Wilson, Margaret B.
Wiltz. Christine C. Wright, Phil¬
ip Wiltz.
Lincoln university (Pennsyl¬
vania! will share in a $4,500,000
builidng fund authorized
the Presbyterian church in
United States.
She iauannali SHlntnr
buddies .in the service bade him
god-speed.
Mr. Johnson, though shaking
, continued on mme 7t
WASHINGTON, —Jan. 3—The
question of whether or not a
state-supported university has
the right to refuse admission
to qualified Negro students will,
again come before the United
States Supreme Court on Jan.
9 or 10, when attorneys for the the! :
National Association for
Advancement of Colored People
will argue appeals involving
the University of TeTnnessee. j
In March 1951 a three-judge
federal court, after a hearing,,
held that the refusal of the
university to admit qualified
j Negro applicants was not a case
within its jurisdiction, and re¬
j manded the NAACP suit for a
further hearing before a single
; federal judge. The judge hand- •
1 ed down an opinion holding
that Negroes were eligible for
admission, but he refused to
order the university to admit
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NEW YORK—A total of $1,-
304 Negro .700 College was raised Fund by in the its United 19511 j
campaign, it was announced |
today in a final, year-end report
by William J. Trent, Jr., execu¬
tive director of the Fund.
Mr. Trent stated in the report
that the 1951 amount raised
exceeds last year’s campaign
results by some $95,000 and is i
the largest sum obtained Fund since in any it J
one year by the
was established in 1944. Na- \
tional campaign leadership for j
1951 included Thomas I. Park -1
inson, president of the Equit- j
able Life Assurance society i
who served as chairman, and
Truman K. Gibson, Sr., presi- {
dent of Supreme Liberty Life j
Insurance Co.
The money will be distributed |
among 32 private, accredited j
colleges and universities locat- j
ed, with the exception of Lin¬
coln university in Pennsyl¬
vania, in 11 Southern states
and having a total enrollment i
of 26,000 students.
The Fund's annual campaign'
goals represent approximately
ten percent of the combined I
member educational institutions, budgets of its the 32 j |
or
amonut not provided for by j
income from tuition endowment j j
and recurring church board
grants. The colleges will Fund! use j
the money raised by the
his year for such current op- j
erating expenses as scholarship j
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Modern F. and A. Masons
Told in Dissolve o
Merge Within a Year
Postal Clerk
Horne Dies
Suddenly
Maxwell L. Horne, well known
Railway Postal clerk, was buried
yesterday (Wednesday) from
his home, 1014 East 37th St.,
the Rev. A. C. Curtright, pastor
of the First Congregational
church, officiating at the ser¬
vices. He died suddenly Sunday
night shortly after going to
bed.
Interment was in Laurel
i Continued on Pane Eient;
dinner at mills memorial home—T he above I I
was taken just before the turkey was carved for the
dinner enjoyed by the inmates of Mills Memorial Home. of
civic organizations contributed toward the happiness twenty- I
well known institution given by Mrs. Henry W. Hodge
The family at Mills Memorial:
Home on Christmas day was!
made happy by a beautiful;
Christmas party. This was their
ENTERTAIN
AT FARM
The boys of the Juvenile
Farm were highly entertained
by their faithful friends, the
Waldorf club. This occasion
marked the 25th year that this
club has in its own way brought
happiness and cheer to the boys
of the farm.
Along with this group came
the Junior League of the First
Church. These ladies came as
usual to contribute to the same
cause that they have served for
the past eighteen years.
Mr. Delaware, Mr. Dingle,
and Mr. Ralph presented a
picture, ‘‘The Dead End Kids,” {
which was enjoyed very much.
J't emphasized “The straight I
road is the best road.” The
boys were served fruit, candy
and nuts by the guests.
TWO MORE SPECIALISTS
LEAVE FOR LIBERIA
Two more agricultural speci¬
alists left for Liberia under the
Point IV program in the latter
part of December, the U. S.
Department of Agriculture
announced last week. The new
appointees are David Banks.
who is taking leave from his.
post as vocational agriculture
teacher at Prairie Frams slhool.
near Tuskegee, Hough, Ala.; and breeder Dr.j 1
Frederic plant 1
of Rutgers university.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1052
The Supreme Grand
Modern Free and Accepted
ored Masons of the World,
been ordered by Middle
Federal court to dissolve
>nrrvr with some other
MERGER PLAN COMPLETE,
SAYS LEADER OF MASONIC
ORGANIZATION
The Supreme Master of a
j Negro Masonic Lodge enjoined
by Middle District Federal
Court said last night his
group has completed consol¬
idation plans.
J. B. Baldwin of Supreme
Grand Lodge, Modern Free
and Accepted Colored Masons
of the World, said his lodge
wil hnerge with the National
Grand Lodge, Free and Ac¬
cepted York Masons, Colored
Prince Hall Compact.
The lodge head said the
agreement to consolidate was
reached at a meeting here
last month. He met with the
Rev. W. L. Turner of Birming¬
ham, national grand master
of the York lodge.
Complete arrangements will
be announced, he said.
constituted Masonic body” with¬
in a year.
26th annual Christmas party.
It was regretted by all that
the benefactor, Mrs. Henry W.
Hodge, was -not able to attend
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KONTEST WINNERS — The I
Kappa Kowboy Kontest to raisej
funds for scholarships for high
school graduates was carried
through most successfully. It I
Seven Children Burned
To Death
Elliott, S. C., Jan. 7 In a
small house near this Lee
County town seven small child¬
ren were burned to death this
Judge A. B. Conger of Middle
District Court handed down 1
the decision Friday against the
Negro Masonic group which has
its principal office in Colum¬
bus. The decree was issued from
the .judge’s office in Bainbridge.
The case was tried at the
September term of the Colum¬
bus division of the Middle Dis¬
trict Court. The trial took
seven days.
Plaintiff was Most Worship¬
ful Prince Hall Grand Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons,
Jurisdiction of Georgia. De¬
fendant was Supreme Grand
Lodge, Modern Free and Accep¬
ted Colored Masons of the
World.
Forrest Lee Champion, Jr.
was counsel for the plaintiff.
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Cecil’s Photo Studio
years ago. Standing to the left of the Xmas tree in back¬
is Mrs. Pauline Kendrick, superintendent of the in
The picture of Mrs. Hodge (insert) is on the table
’
of Mrs. Kendrick.
because of illness. Her usual
Christmas gift was sent to
each individual member of the
family and staff. She did not l
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to a close Saturday af-
Dec. 29, at the West
street YMCA where the
picture was taken of the
activities and the
afternoon.
The fire, of mysterious orig¬
in, flared up suddenly after a
woman who was earing for the
children stepped outside the
house to gather firewood. Before
she could re-enter the house,
it was enveloped in flames and
all the children were trapped
in the inferno.
Three of the children burned
to death were those of Jacob
Rouse and the other four were
their first cousins, children of
Clarence Gamble.
of Fla. Mob Vic¬
tim Dies After View-
ino Husband’s Body
forget Rev. E. Sapp who
given his services
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Photo by
contest winners,
Flrst pJace winner, Gus
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Member Audit Bureau Circulation
Price 7c
INSTRUCTOR AT AniViA MA¬
TER— Miss Miriam Calhoun,
youngest of three children of
South Carolina State college’s
most unique family, who has
returned to her alma mater as
Instructor in physical educa¬
tion. Miss Calhoun completed
SANFORD, Fla. — (ANP) —
Mrs. Harriet Moore, 49, wife of
Harry T. Moore, 46, Christmas
night victim ol an anti-Negre
bombing, died in a hospital
here Thursday night, thus be¬
coming the second fatality in
the dynamite attack
Mrs!' Moore left her hospital
bed on New Year’s Day to see
the body of her husband After
viewing his body as it lay in
state, Mrs. Moore, who had
been improving, grew steadily
worse.
Her attending physician, Dr.
George H. Starke, said the
deatli was caused by a blood
clot. She had been hospitalized
since Christmas night when a
bomb exploded under her bed
after she and her
Florida NAACP leader, had gone
to sleep.
More than 600 persons at- j
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Court Nixes Dividing
Hempstead School Zone
ALHANY. N. Y Jan 3 A
,
State Department of Education
ruling including a predomi¬
nantly Negro school zone in
Hempstead, I.. 1 , has been up¬
held by Supreme Court Jus¬
tice Isadorn Bookstein.
The inclusion was ordered by
the laic Francis T. Spaulding,
then Commissioner of Educa¬
tion, IMP, after Negro
had withdrawn their children
from the Prospect school in
protest against
ing of school districts, which
segregated Negro pupils
one school. Commissioner
Spaulding’s decision came as
result of an appeal taken to
him by attorneys for the Na
tional Association for the
vancement of Colored People,
representing the Negro parents,
The Commissioner ruled that
the fashionbale Eldridge Es-
tates section could not be ex¬
cluded from the Prospect zone,
and ordered its inclusion.
Irving Breslow and other
white residents of Eldridge Es-
tates tried twice unsuccessfully
to get Dr. Lewis A Wilson,
present commissioner, to reverse
the decision and move Eldridge
Estates children to the Ludlum
school, predominantly white,
When he refused, they brought
the case before Justice Book¬
stein, who on December 26
1 ruled that the commissioner’s
determination is final. “Even
if, perchance, it were not,” he
said, “it should be confirmed.”
He dismissed the white parents’
petition.
NUMBER IS
her undergraduate studies at
State A,vM college and recevied
her M. S. degree in June 1951
from New York university.
Miss Calhoun is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. W. C, Calhoun,
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CLASS OFFICER —Miss Barbara
J Robeson who Is vice-presi¬
dent of the Hampton Institute
senior class. A senioir major-
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j OKS Officers
Installed
On Thursday night, Dec. 20,
the members of the five chap¬
ters of the Order of Eastern
Star in Savannah assembled at
the Masonic Temple for their
1 annual installation of officers
[ for the year 1952, The hall was
beautifully decorated with
Christmas lights and candles,
and the ladies dressed in their
white evening gowns presented
a beau*iful pageant in the form
of a human star within Jhe
] square. The pageant was di¬
rected by P M, Willie Williams,
assisted by P M. Eugenia Gay-
nor, Lillie Shuler, Marie Gad-
j* on. Agnes Carmichael, Matilda
1 Washington, Hester B. Stokes
and Patron Willie Cojeman.
A f ter the processional the in¬
stalling officers were presented
in the East, Bro. A. E Peacock
] and. P G. W M Minnie De-
| Vaughn. The following officers
j were installed:
Electa chapter, No. 1—Worthy
j Matron, Sis Gertrude Luten;
j Asso. Matron, Sis. Annie Trem¬
: ble: Worthy Patron, Bro. Willie
j Coleman; TTeas., Sis. Dora Mc¬
Coy; Sec., 8: Eugenia Gaynor;
j Asso. Cond., Sis. MoUle Hewitt;
I Cond., Sis. Carrie Hampton;
Sentinel. Sis. Hazel Smith.
j Points of Star: Adah, Sis. Rosa
j Lee Simpson: Ruth, Sis. Leona
Barnes; Esther, Sis. Leola Dub-
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