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70 PUBLIC CONTINUOUS YEARS SERVICE OF
NAACP and the
Ballot Called the
Best Weapons
4'JTH FIGHTER - BOMBER
WING, KOREA—Capt. ’ Cornel¬
ius S. Stripling of Savannah,
Ga., recently joined Fifth Air
Force’s 49th Fighter-Bomber
Wing in Korea for duty as a
dental officer.
In this job Capt. Stripling
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at College
Youth Industrial Conference
Savannah State college was
host to the fourth annual con-
ference of the American Youth
Industrial Education
VETERANS JAMBOREE — The
857th Veterans Social Club, Inc.,
entertained the Armed Forces
with a gala party honoring
members of the St. Albans
Funeral of
Canada Lee, Famed Actor
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Jot juxiii ihn M. »*.. Freeman ------ announce
the betrothal of their daughter.
Alice Marie, to Mr. Charles.
Houston Long of Little Rock,
Arkansas. J- of’
JBjeach-Cuyler JMiss — Freeman, high - a - graduate ---- school and!
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* LAUREL, Miss., May 8—
"Membership in the National
As ociation for the Advance¬
ment of Colored People anc
voting when the polls are opei
are the most powerful weapons
in the hands of Negroes against
the bigots, reactionaries, alid
white upreinacists in the Unit¬
ed States,” Mrs. Ruby Hurley,
NAACP Southeast regional sec-
I retary, declared here this week
i at a kick-off mass meeting tc
j launch the of the 1952 Laurel membership NAACP
campaign
branch.
Mrs. Hurley said that al¬
though Senator Russell has
“dared” to run for the Presi¬
dency of the United States in
spite of his “abominable” rec¬
ord on civil rights and although
the newspapers have said that
some Negroes in the South are
for Russel, “No right-thinking,
intelligent Negro could be for
a man who stands opposed to
FEPC and other civil rights
measures. More Negroes are
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tion on May 5th and 6th. The
Division of Trades and
tries, under the direction of
Nelson and A. Z.
Veterans Naval Hospital, Long
Island, at the Harlem Club
rooms, 209 St. Nicholas Avenue,
New York, Tuesday Eve.
Photo shows (1. to r.) front,
college, •
master of arts degree
pj V inity School of the Uni
jty of Chicago on June
diesis is entitled, “The
Theologcial Significance of
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BEST SUPPLY ROOM OF THE ]
MONTH—Brigadier Gen. Ciare
H. Armstorng, commanding
general at Camp Stewart, pre¬
sented the first “Best Supply
Room of the Month” award to
the supply sergeant of Battery
D, 56th Antiaircraft Artillery
Gun Battalion last week. Re-
I Itinerant teacher-trainer, Trade
and Industrial Education for
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AI Martin, president; Jackie
Jean Hooper, Hortense Bye,
Mimi Monsante, Doris Bye, and
members of the Armed force
Savannah Peaches, hostess
NEW YORK—(ANP) — Many
funeral services
May 14, at Salem
Methodist church for Canada
Lee, famed actor who died of
a heart attack Friday night,
May 9, In his home at 233
Fourth St.
Born as Leonard Lionel Cor¬
nelius Canegata in Manhat¬
tan’s San Juan Hill
district, Lee died at the age of 45
His death climaxed two
of ill health for the actor
also had been a violinist,
fighter and jockey.
The actor became
10 days ago and for
days before his death
been in a semi-coma.
Lee first appeared on
stage in the 1928
“Meek Mose.” He first won
lie acclaim for his
in the revival of
His greatest success portrayal on
war his
Bigger Thomas in “Native
From there he went on
win new Laurels in the
He played the lead in "Cry,
Beloved Country,” and
scheduled to appear in a
nicolor version of “Othello"
be produced in Italy at the
of th , s month.
Lee had collasped in Africa
the end of the filming of
motion picture. “Cry, The
loved Country.” He later
went an operation for a sym
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1952
ceiving th. pi; iue is Sergeant
First Class Josephus Bush,
Phenix City, Alabama. Pictured
in the supply room of Battery
D are: (left to right) General
Armstrong, First Lieutenant
Manfred R. Quartz, command¬
ing officer of Battery D; Ser¬
geant William Lipscomb, assist¬
ant supply sergeant, Durham,
Five UNCF Students Named
Amonff i— y 53 Award Winners
NEW YORK — Five
from member colleges of
United Negro College
were listed among the 53
portunity Fellowship
recently announced by
John Hay ___ v Whitney ........__ _____________ Foundation.
The five students were
31 Negroes in the group of 53
who will receive grants
training and study.
The Fellowships,
from $1,000 to $3,000, will
this year’s winners to study
28 different fields
medicine, law, art,
ogy, and the sciences. As
the past, opportunity
are young people, mo tly
tween the ages of 20 and 27.
The five students who
BOWEN AFRICAN ART EXHIBIT
VIEWED BY LARGE CROWD
Sunday was a red letter day
in the Greek Art World of Sa-
nnah when hundreds of people
viewed the African Art exhibit,
which ended with an African
movie and lecture by Mrs.
Margaret Davis Bowen of At¬
lanta. It was indeed education¬
al, as well as inspiring, interest¬
ing and beautiful. People did
not want to leave as the time
of departure came to an end.
People came in droves even
after the doors of the library
were being locked and
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Eli J. Davis
BLACKVILLE,
of Eli J. Davis, principal of
Macedonia high r chool,
ville. South Carolina, will
pleased to know that he
| j just been notified Studies, by the
of Graduate State
I M. college, Orangeburg, S.
I that he has met all
1 ments for a master’s degree
education with a minor
physics. Mr. Davis is a
i of Savannah, Ga.. where
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Corporal Charley Wilson, unit •
supply .specialists, Covington,
Georgia. The new monthly I i
award is presented to the out¬
standing supply room at the
camp on the merit of its ap¬
pearance, supply economy, ad¬
ministration, and the overall
knowledge of procedures dem¬
onstrated by the supply per¬
tended member Institutions of
the United Negro College Fund
were: Matthew Burks, a gradu¬
ate of Tougaloo college; Sam¬
uel DuBois Cook, a graduate of !
Morehouse college; Mrs. Yo-
lande Hargrave Chambers, a
graduate of Hampton institute;
Martha Zenia Flowers and M.
Carl Holman, graduates of Fisk; j
j university. The Opportunity Fellowships j
j j of are exceptional made to American promise, citizen;; who j
j because of arbitrary barriers baek-j |
such as race, cultural
I ground or region of residence, j
have not had the opportunity j
to develop to the fullest extent’
] their abilities to make their
richest contribution to society.
Bowen expressed her regret, of
not being able to stay longer.
Mrs. Bowen was full of charm
grace and personality, which
held her audience spellbound
with deep emotion and interest
of the manner in which she
spoke that told of the life of
the people in Africa. She in¬
formed her audience that Alri-
ca was not the Dark Continent.
Said she, We are in the dark"
The proof of her statement
was that observers had only to
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WINS FIRST PRIZE
SPEAKING CONTEST
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FIRST PRIZE
ence H. Hope, Jr., grand son
Mrs. Mary E. Han of 748 E.
ton St., who was awarded
prize in a Temperance
cal contest held this week
Oakwood college,
Ala. The contest is spon
annually by the American
perance society, and was b?
tween college and
students.
Young Hope, who attend; U><
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Virginia School
Reaches Supreme four I
WASHINGTON, May 9— The '
lit to end segregation in the"
nubile elementary and high
of Prince Edward
Vi glnis. is on its way]
to the :t " it-. Supreme
hi week a., attorneys
for the National Associaion for
■ , ancement of Colored
: \.vple filed an appeal with the
high court. The appeal .• eeks
i\ v > * 1 i i a lower court de-
. \ n v. h refused to declare
V. c - > , school segregation
laws unconstitutional.
The trial of this most com-
pr hensive education suit
brought thus far by NAACP
lawyers was held before a
three-judge federal court in
,'hmon i, ; ■ bruary 22-29. In
d cisi,in, handed down on
March 7, the court agreed that
the segregated Negro high
chool was inferior to the
white high schools with respect
to curricula, buildings, facili-
tes, and means of transporta¬
tion, but refused to hold that
Negro children could not be
forced to attend the segregated
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Young Vigorously Pushes
His Election
NORFOLK, Va. — (ANPi —
Thomas W. Young, the only
Negro candidate in the five-
man. race for City Council of
Norfolk, released his platform
of doctor’s
HOME INDICTED
CAIRO, 111., May 14 — The
grand my today indicted the
five men accused of
bombing the home of a Negro
, ■ i ere last January,
during racial flare-ups here.
The men, now under a $2,000
bond and charged with con-
,piracy and malicious mischief,
are Robert Hogan, 26; Charles
Miller, 37; Ervin Kreitner, 28;
James McKee, 27, and Kenneth
Sullivan, 33.
State Attorney Michael O’Shea
aid they each would be re¬
quired to po l 2,000 bond.
The blast at the home of Dr.
Urbane F. Bass, 41, occurred
when the National Association
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week to become the first
to state in detail the
on which he is seeking
support of Norfolk voters at
June io election.
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GREETS NEW AM¬
FROM LIBERIA —
One of the most recent arriv-
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of a foreign diplomat upon
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future looms
drennial Methodist! Confer-
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CAN ART WORK—Mrs. Margaret Davis Bowen, a connoisseur on African art
- leg her display of African arts which was exhibited Sunday at Carnegie
play was sponsored by the Pan-Hellenic Council. Mrs. Bowen is the wife ox
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Member Audit Bureau Circulation
Price 7c
Sheriff Harris
Scores Big
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HE AND OTHER CCDC
CANDIDATES SWAMP
THE OPPOSITION
Sheriff William C. Harris
seeking to succeed himself ir
office, and the three Chathan
County Democratic Club candi
dates running for the stat
legislature, Julian C. Sipple
J. Haar and George H
scored an overwhelm¬
victory yesterday in the
primary.
Their Georgia Democratic
opponents, Clifford J
offering for sheriff, and
Dickey, D. K. Robert
Jesse Bowman, running for
the legislature, were defeated
by a nearly two to one vote.
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American soil occurred r. nily
when Clarence L. Simp cn, Ll-
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Throughout the current
meeting old accepted methods
of voting and conducting busi-
ness at AME meetings have
been challenged from the fioot.
As a result of this system, It
appears that every vote at
meeting will either be by secret
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HOME FROM KOREA—An ; io
months in Japan and 13 months
In the battle area of Korea,
Master Sergeant Walter Massey
returned home this week and
is vi iting his aunt, Mrs. Georgia
Butler of East Liberty street,
and his sister, Miss Jestine
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His platform statement made
a good impression on both
white dally papers. They asked
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ballot or by a standing count,
There probably will be no
votes by ayes and nays a in
p as £ Two general of Leers
a j rea( jy have suffered < r-
ra8S ment as a result v f ■ e
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