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70 YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LXX
DELTA PRESIDENTS HONORED—As a part of i heir Founders Day celebration, the members
of Beta Delta Sigma chapter of the Delta Sig nr. Theta Sorority honored the above sorors
who have served the chapter as president. Taylor, I
Reading: left to right, are Mrs. Dorothy B. Sept. 1351 to present; Mrs. Annie B. Giv- !
ens, 1948-51; Mrs. Rubye Gadson, 1.94G-48 and Mrs. Rosemary C. Jackson, 1941-46.
A banquet was given at the home of Mrs. Eldora S Green, 630 W. 38th street on Sun¬
day, January 13. Each honored guest received a beautiiui crystal vase with the Delta insig-
nia carved on it. rhoio ov Freeman
Brunswickians Make Request
For Equal Hospital Facilities
SAV’H STATE COLLEGE ACCREDITED
a former employee of the Sa-i
vannah Tribune. He is now
home on an eight day leave
“MISS OMEGA’ CON-
TE5TANTS
u Phi chapter of Omega
( v i’Vhi fraternity, Inc. .an¬
nounces that the following
young ladies are competing for
the title of “Miss Omega”; Miss
Willie Mae Baldwin. Miss Eun¬
ice M Wright, Miss Delores C
Perry, Miss Eloise Vaughn,
Miss Eurie Marie Smith and
Miss Bettye Jean Snipe.
Each of the contestants is
selling votes and each vote
purchased entitles the holder
to attend the coronation
dance on February 22 at Lincoln
Inn. The winning contestant
will be crowned “Miss Omega”
at this time.
Prizes will be awarded the
,
winners and the funds derived
from the contest will be used
for a scholarship.
Atfy Scott Heads Mutual
Benevolent Society, Inc.
Attorney Lewis L. Scott who
was recently admitted to the
United States Supreme Court,
was elected Monday night as
president of the Mutuals Be¬
nevolent society. Inc., in its
annual election. This society is
composed of many of the lead¬
ing business and professional
men of the community.
Pfc. Nathaniel
Jackson, Jr.,
who has been 1
transferred to ;
Langely Field,
Va., from Chey-j
enne, Wyoming,
where he fin-1 j
ished his basic
son is the son j
of Mrs. Ethel j
Jackson of 640 '
Union St and
Rev. Thorn¬
To Be
HARRY T. MOORE
SEHVICES
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The g aV annah Branch, NAA¬
will hold memorial services
honor of the late Harry T.
Moore, NAACP state coordina¬
tor, who was slain when his
was bombed in Mims,
on Christmas night.
Moore’s wife also died later
from injuries received in the
explosion. j
The memorial services will be j
held on Friday night, Feb. 8, at !
First Agrican Baptist church, |
Dr. Ralph Mark Gilbert, pastor. |
Rev. S. C. Thornton, pastor of
St. James AME church, will be j
ihe principal speaker.
Rev. James Charles McMill-l
ian, pastor, Emanuel Baptist j
church, will preside at tire ser-
vices.
The program will be presented I
to the Evangelical Union, Rev. i
C. P. Hobbs, president, and the!
Baptist Ministerial Alliance. 1
Rev. H W. Wilburn, Pres., for
approval on next Tuesday. Both j
groups are jointly conducting
the memorial services.
Music will be furnished by a
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Jordan Post Urges
Fiag Instructions
The reghiar meeting of the
William P. Jordan Post No. 500,
American Legion, was held on
Wednesday night. Jannary 16,
at the Recreation Center.
The Legionnaires voted to re¬
quest the permission of the
Board of Education to initiate
a program of instructions
among students in the Negro !
schools on the proper respect
due the American fiag.
It was pointed out that many i
students who are now handling
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At the annual meeting of the
Southern Association of Colleges
Secondary Schools in St.
Petersburg, Florida, the Execu¬
tive Committee of the Southern
voted to grant ap¬
to Savannah State
Savannah, Georgia, and
neighboring institutions
below. They are, with
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U. Frat. Risks Suspension Black-ball by
Student Over
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. —Del-
Upsilon fraternity of Wesley-
university took high ground
on the racial question last
week*when it risked suspension
the national organization
because it initiated a Negro
student into its membership.
The Negro student who was
taken into the fraternity
taken into the fraternity re¬
gardless of the vote black-ball,
is Edgar F. Beckman,
“big governor of” Connecticut
RETURNS TO CAMP —
Johnnie L. Smith, Jr., who
returned to Chaunte Air
Base, Illinois,' after
the holidays with his
Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie L. Smith
of 813 Bowden street.
SAVANNAH. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 34, 1952
Milt VICTIMS IMNMEB AT
BIG FLORIDA MASS MEETING
JACKSONVILLE, Fia.. Jan. 23
-Hairy T. Moore and his wife
who died from the bombing of
their home in Mims, Fla., were
memorialized here this after¬
noon by a crowd of over 1200
Floridians in a mass meeting
ending a two-day emergency
conference of NAACP delegates
from 15 states to boost south-
wide Negro voting registration
and suppression of violent in¬
cidents.
During strong denunciations i
of bombing incidents in Florida 1
and elsewhere, the cowd stirred i
uneasily and then laughed |
when a photographer’s Hash
bulb exploded.
Onc of the most impressive i
features of the mass meeting |
w'as when the Moores were pre¬
sented posthumously with lire
Jefferson award of the Council \
Against, Intolerance in America.
Florida NAACP President E. D.
Davis, who accepted it for the
family, said the Moores’ daugh¬
ters were unable to attend be¬
cause of illness.
Among the outstanding dig¬
nitaries who were on the pro¬
gram was Roy Wilkins, New
York, administrator for the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
who said Moore died because
he fought “the doctrine of
white supremacy." A message
from NAAC Executive Secretary
Uonunuea on Fage It
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BRUNSWICK, Ga., Jan. 20—
A representative group of Ne¬
groes met with Mayor A. T.
Harrison yesterday and plead¬
ed for equal facilities in the
new county hospital to be
erected here.
The delegation, fearful that
Negro doctors will not be af¬
forded the privilege of practi
cing in the hospital which is to
be built uncier tne Hill-Burton
Act, and that Negro patients
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r.nd mayor pro tern of Hart¬
ford’s junior city council. The
chapter initiated him, along
with seven other pledgees, into
lull membership.
The action, a chapter official
I said, defied a national rule
which allows any alumni mem¬
j ber to “blackball” a prospective
candidate. An alumnus did
"blackball” the candidate.
“We’re going on our own
house policy,” said chapter
; President Joseph M. Proud of
Several More Counties Take
On H. I). Agents
Recently. Brooks Bryan, j
Evans and Wilcox Counties |
employed Negro Home Demon¬
stration Agents for the first
time in the history of the agri¬
cultural extension service in
Georgia. And Glyn County,
which had been without a col¬
ored home demonstration agent
for nearly twenty years, re-es¬
tablished the work. With the
ties there arc at present J
thirty-three colored home dem
onstration agents working ln
Georgia counties, the largest;
number that Georgia has ever
had at one time.
Brooks County employed Miss
Frauline Balentine of Collins
i to serve as agent in that coun-
i ty. She is a graduate of Albany
* State college from the course in
Methodist Women Outline Plans
To End in Thurrli
BUCK HILL KALIS, Pa. —
1 ANP 1 — Representatives of
more than 1,500,000 Methodist
church women last week
adopted a resolution to end
segregation within the church,
and condemned tiie killing of
Harry Moore in Florida.
At the final session of its
nine-day meeting, the Woman’s
Division Service voted for a de¬
tailed and explicit "charter of
racial policies,’’ designed to
wipe out segregation and dis¬
crimination in the Methodist
church.
The group also pledged itself
to “build in every area it may
touch a fellowship and social
order without racial barriers.”
Church spokesmen said the
move might eventually break
Rosenwahl Foundation tiivos
to NAACP Fund
NEW YORK, Jan. 17 — The
Lessing J. Rosenwald Founda-
tion of Philadelphia has con¬
tributed $10,000 to the Legal
Defense and Educational Fund,
Inc., of the National Associa¬
tion for the Advancement of
Colored People, Executive Sec¬
retary Walter White announced
today.
The three other largest single
contributions made to the As¬
sociation’s legal fund during
the past three months came
from Nelson A. Rockefeller of
New York, who gave $2,500;
Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Bos¬
ton, who gave $2,000 for the
Harry T. Moore case, and Louis
Rabinowitz of New York who
gave $2,000 in fulfillment of a
pledge made earlier this year.
The legal fund also receive#
gifts of $500 each from the
Dressmakers Union, Local 22,
ILGWU, New York, and Alfred
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Williamstown, Mass. "That is to
initiate on the basiss of charac¬
ter and personality alone.”
Beckham, who entered Wes¬
leyan last September scholar-! as a
holder of two major
ship awards, was pledged to
Della Upsilon shortly after¬
ward. He was a high shool hon¬
or student and elected “boy j
governor” of Connecticut at
American Legion Boys’ State in
1950.
The fraternity has no
home economics and has her
headquarters in Suitman.
Miss Leona Bacon of Riceboro
is the new home demonstration
agent in aryan county. She is
a home economics graduate of
Savannah State college and
was a teacher of home econom¬
ics in Eastman.
Evans County has
Miss Beatrice Beatty for the
county 8 h f vo10 ™ 6 h °™
demonstration agent.
Is Miss Beatty’s home and
recent home economics grad-
uate of Savannah State college,
She is located at Claxton.
Miss Ruth Dale Shipp of
ena Vista has been employed to
serve as home demonstration
agent in Wilcox county. She is
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down the church’s Central Ju¬
risdiction which includes most
of the Negro Methodists. All
other areas of the church are
divided on a geographical basis
The following .specific policies
were included in the charter:
1. Selection of staff person¬
nel would be made solely on the
basis of qualifications without
regard to race.
2. Racial or national back¬
ground would not be considered
in the employment of mission¬
aries, deaconesses and other
workers.
3. Projects and institutions
•supported by the division would
be open to all persons without
discrimination along racial
lines.
4. All meetings would be
AMEs TO MEET IN CHI. COLISEUM
CHICAGO—(ANP) Chicago’s
Coliseum will be the site
the 1952 General Conference
the AME church which will
May 7-21.
Seating capacity of the Coli¬
is around 12,000. Exclus¬
use of the auditorum and
meeting rooms has
obtained by the church,
more than 25000 delegates
visitors are expected to at¬
The 1C52 General Conference
mark the 34th Quadrenni-
of the church which was
in 1783 by Bishop
Allen. A special seal
the founder
heralding the conference
been issued by a church
tutional provision barring Ne-
goes, President Proud said, but
a single alumnus turned in the
“blackball” motion. The chap¬
ter than polled its whole alum¬
ni group on Beckham's Initia¬
tion. Only one other dissenting
vote was cast, 139 alumni ap
proved.
A eiiange iri the alumni
"blackball” provision was asked
when representatives of 14 of
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MAJOR r»:AKT MILLS—One of
j the most beloved American
1 women to ever work in Liberia
^ ag p een Maj. Mary Mills, who I
| recently completed 5 Mi years as J
chief nurse officer of the U. S. j
I
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Member Audit Bureau Circidatiom
Price 7c
held in localities where racial |
groups could have access to all
facilities without discrimination
in any form.
5. Where law prohibited or
custom prevented Die immed¬
iate achievement of these ob¬
jectives, workers and local
groups would be charged with
the responsibility of "creating a
public opinion" that could re¬
sult in changing such laws and
customs.
The church women called
upon President Truman, the
attorney general and the gov¬
ernor of Florida to Investigate
the Christmas night bombing of
Moore, executive secretary of
the Florida NAACP, at his home
in Mims, Fia.
11th Region
Teachers Here
FEB. 1 AT BEACH
HIGH SCHOOL
J. C. Reese
Director
The 11th regional meeting of
tire Georgia Teachers and Edu
cation Association will convene
in Savannah on Friday, Febru¬
ary 1, at Alfred E. Beach high
school with J. C. Reese, super¬
vising principal of Negro
schools, Waycross, and GTEA
regional director, presiding.
.Participating In the meeting
will be consultants from Sa¬
vannah State college, Atlanta
university and Albany State
college. The theme is "Towards
Better Education for Georgia
<‘Tonttrm*r1 on naee ftpvpn
PERRY ADDRESSES
BEACH PTA
To a very large and apprecia¬
tive audience, L. D Perry, cash¬
ier of the Carver Savings hank
advised the parents, teachers
and friends that no matter how
little one makes, a part of that
should be set aside for a needy
day. He also Informed the
group that the Carver Savings
bank paid the highest rate of
interest of any savings bank in
the city. He said that this is
possible because of the fact
salaries, rent and other contin¬
gent expenses are very low. As
a result, the customer gets a
larger part of the earnings of
the bank. He also informed the
group that additors check the
accounts of the bank the same
as they do any other bank, and
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NUMBER 15
PROVINCIAL POLEMARCII— J.
R. Jenkins, executive secretary
of the West Broad Street Branch
of the YMCA, has recently been
appointed provincial polemarch
the Southeastern province of
Kappa Aipha Psi fraternity,
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COMPLETE AF BASIC TRAIN¬
ING—Pvt. Lonnie Sheffield, 20,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Sheffield
of 1006 W. 47th street, and
Lorenzo Maywood, 18, son of
Mrs. Francino Maywood of 612
W. Victory Drive, who are
completing their AF basic
airman indoctrination course
at Lackland Air Force Base at
San Antonio, Texas. This course
is preparing them for entrance
into Air Force technical train¬
ing and for assignment in
specialized work.
SOROR MILLER IS
IOTAS NEW PRESIDENT
The January meeting of Nn
chapter, Iota Phi Lambda soro¬
rity, was highlighted with the
installation of the newly elected
officers. The new officers were,
presented by Soror Bernice
Maenn and were installed by
the retiring president for the
past two years, Soror Helen D.
Weathers. They are, President,
Soror Melissa L. Miller; Vice
Pres., Soror Irene Williams;
Rec. and Fin. Sect., Soror Geral¬
dine Zeigler; Corresponding
Sect., Soror Miriam F. Grant;
Treasurer, Soror Elizabeth
Gadsen; Journalist, Soror Thel¬
ma Lee; Dean of Pledgees,
Soror Gertrude Greene.
In accepting the office of
president Soror Miller paid
high tribute to Soror Weathers
who has been a great inspira¬
tion to all members.
Plans were discussed for a
tea to be given in celebration
of Negro History Week, one of
the national projects observed
by Iotas each year as part of
.their educational progam.
Another highlight of the
meeting was the handkerchief
shower given for Soror Josie
Brown Scott who leaves for
Japan this month to join her
husband, M-Sgt. Scott. Soror
Scott has been a member of
Iota for eight years.
The meeting was held at the
home of Soror Miri ..a F. Grant.