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VOLUME LXXVIII
YMCA ELECTS NEW TREASURER
J. A. SINGLETON
New Treasurer
J. A. Singleton, mernoer of
,
the board of management,
West Broad Street YMCA was.
elected by the Executive Com-j
mitt.ee of the Hoard of Manage- \
merit to herve as treasurer the! of j
the Association. lie Is
manager of the Afro-American |
Life Insurance Co., of this city,
and is a member of the board.
of trustees of Carnegie Libra¬
ry, of Butler rresoylerian
Church, Benevolent and Society, of the Inc. Mutuals He, j
Scenes from (lie Bynes 52nd Family Reunion
The above pictures were
en during the Bynes’ 52nd Fam-
ily Reunion which was held
Saturday, August 20.
1. A bird’s eye view of the
entire group as they assembl-
ed for the program.
Bynes Family Enjoys
52nd Reunion
The Bynes Family Reunion
which originated fifty-two
ago in Milien, Ga., was held
Saturday, August 20. at
home of Mrs. Mamie N. Bynes,
719 W. 51st street. The dr-
scendaats of the late Mrs. Clara
Allans 4-3432
MRS. FRANKIE G. ELLIS
will serve as cnairman of the
budget and finance committee
of the YMCA, and will be con¬
cerned about the financial in¬
come of the YMiOA through
membership dues and program
activities.
Mrs. Franxte G. Ellts, princi¬
pal of the R. W. Gadsden Ele¬
mentary school, will resume
the chairmanship of the Youth
Program Committee of the
Board of Management of the
West Broad Street YMCA. This
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•>. Speakers stand showing
Wm H Rbaney landing as he
ldes ^ b2nd s ^, lon
j and 1 ,0 r - atj tlle orean * Mrs ‘
L. M. Moore; Rev. E. O. S.
| Cleveland, Mrs. Mary E.
Bynes Rhaney and the late S.
F. Bynes served as hosts and
hostesses.
Jhe festivities began with an
all night barbecue which kept
some members of the family
j awake throughout Friday night
to receive relatives as they ar-
I ;
rived by car. bus, train and
Mrs. Matthews Appointed
Asst. Manager Guaranty’s
Local Branch Office
MRS. MARY B. MATTHEWS
Mrs. Mary B. Matthews was
| recently appointed assistant
manager of the Savannah
Branch office of the Guaranty
Life Insurance Co. This was
the first appointment of a wo¬
man to this position on this dis¬
trict. Mrs. Matthews was an
agent for the company at the
time of her appointment.
She is the wife of Johnnie 1
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j ley of Trenton, N. J , U. S.
Bynes of Chattanooga, Trim .
Rev. Richard William and C A
Bynes of Mew Brunswick, N. J
,
Speakers not shown are Rev.
j ^ Bryan, Rev. Father
tave H. Caution, Rev. rt. L.
plane,
There were approximately
one hundred twenty out-of-
town relatives that included
thirty-seven from Chicago and
vicinity; four from New York;
fourteen from New Jersey; four
from Chattanooga, Tenn.; one
from Alabama; six from Atlan¬
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 196#
12,000 Shritiers Attend 59th
Session of Imperial Council
BOSTON, (ANP) — In one of
the largest conventions in the all-
year-old history of th" Ancier.i
Egyptian Arabic Order Noble? of
the Mystic Shrine, approximately
12,000 Shriners and their guests
converged on historic Boston.
There was gaiety when the
Shriners marched in military pre¬
cision for three hours along Bos¬
ton's winding streets. Estimates
place the parade watchers at 75,-
000 .
But at a crucial period in Ameri¬
can history and African develop¬
ments there was an undercurrent
of serious thought permeating the
sessions of the Imperial Council
and public addresses of Imperial
Potentate Booker T. Alexander of
Detroit; Mrs. Ercolle 11. Moore of
Buffalo, N. Y., imperial command-
ress of the Daughters of Isis; and
John Wesley Dobbs, grand master
of Georgia, reflected this.
In his annual address to the
Shriners, Imperial Potentate Alex¬
ander declared, “Each advance it,
the struggle for A fro-American
first-class citizenship is a full
scale and separate war in itself.
At. no time In the long struggle
since the iron collar of slavery whs
removed from his neck has any-
thing been given to the Afro Ame¬
Plummer, Rev. Levi Moore and
Rev. J. C. Wise,
3 . A group of teen-age cous-
in .. Heated: Mamie Moore and
Florence Rhaney. Standing:
Claire Moore, Lavette
and Shirlene Collins of Gary,
ta, Ga.; eight from Macon, Ga.;
six from Jeffersonville, oa.; six
from Albany, Ga.; three from
Tlfton, Ga ; one from Bruns¬
wick, Ga.; eight from tnr State
of Florida; fifteen from Milien,
Ga., and two from McRae, Ga.
As relatives arrived through¬
out the wee hours of the morn¬
rican on a silver
He praised the sit-in demonstra¬
tion.' of Southern Negro students.
“It appears,” he said, "our
teen-age students aie winning the
battle for all of us on their parti¬
cular portion of the battlefield.
"The Mystic Shrine commends
onr students for their actions. We
commend them for their audacity
and courage. We commend them
because they did not fear to do
what, their elders have feared to
do. Our Nobles must, not stand
idle while our students pursue this
program. We must not cross their
picket, lines while they are picket¬
ing those stores in the North which
practice segregation in their stores
in the South. We must, not spend
our money with those stores which
practice segregation in any of
their stores anywhere in the
world.”
Imperial Potentate Alexander
cautioned Hie Shriners not to ex¬
pect that, dignity, equality, as well
as freedom to live anywhere in
any city of the United States to
he won with "mere words."
He warned, "We must not lie
satisfied with the liberal promises
of each political party; we must
not he satisfied as long as there
Continued on Page Three
Ind., Marguerite Ann Moore and
Jackie Gillis of East Chicago,
Ind. t r
4. Youngster,- around the I
dessert table. L. to R : Joy
Moore, Raleigh Bynes, Rlchaid
ing Saturday, there was the
whole pig cooking on the bar¬
becue grill to greet them. Bar¬
becued rlbr, were served all of
the guests.
Beginning at runrlre, there
was a form of registration
termed "Bridging The Gap"
where each one checked in ac¬
Mr. Reeves Named to
D. C. Executive Committee
Frank IL Reeve*
Frank D. Reeves, assistant to
Senator John F. Kennedy, has
been named Honorary Co-Chair¬
man of the Kennedy .Johnson Cam¬
paign Executive Committee for
the District of Columbia.
The announcement was made
by Senator Henry M. Jackson,
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Photo by Mobley
Gillis, 3rd, of East Chicago, In¬
diana, Tina Dwyer of East Chi¬
cago, ind, Olga Bynes, Amanda
Moore, Richie Moore, Jr., and
partially linden in thr flowers,
Mrs. Oulda Byne 3 Moore.
cording to his respective place
of residence.
The call to order or formal
program was at 3 o'clock p. m.
with William H. Rhaney, gen-
eral chairman, presiding. The
pastor from the household of
each Savannah relative appear-
Continucd on Page Three
Al)ama 4-3432
THE FIRST VISIT of an African
Head of State to Northern Nigeria
was made recently when President
William V. S. Tubman of Liberia
spent two days in Radium, the
nation's capital. Photo shows the
Acting Premier Alha.it Aliyu in¬
troducing President Tubman to the
Oklahoma Youth Speaks at
24th NAACP Mass Meeting
The 24th werk.lv NAACP mass
meeting convened at the Tre-
mont Temple Baptist church,
Sunday, August 28. The meet¬
ing began with the singing of
the old hymn of the church
■'Onward Christian Soldiers,"
followed by Invocation by the
Rev. Geo. D. Walker, minister
of the Asbury Methodist church.
Mrs. Ethel Luten, the presi¬
dent of the Woman's Auxiliary
of the MAACP served as the pre¬
siding officer. The senior
choir of the Tremont Temple
Baptist church furnished music.
Mrs. Esther Garrison, secretary
of the Branch, In a provocative
speech, deplored the purchase
of merchandise by Negroes on
Broughton Street. Mrs. Gar¬
rison informed the audience of
a statement by the Overton
Cosmetic Company "that they
were glad that the sit-in move¬
ment had curtailed their bus¬
Alphas Break Color Bar
At Sheraton Hotel
Swimmimr Bool
WASHINGTON ,(ANP)—The
economic threat of Alpha Phi
Alpha fraternity resulted this
week in breaking the back of
jim crow in the swimming pool
of the local hotel.
The .subtle policy of segrega¬
tion in the Sheraton-Park
swimming pool came to light
while the Alpha convention was
in session there. Immediate
and cooperative effort on the
part of the “frat” brothers soon
brought relief to the situation.
It all started when Ramon 8.
Scruggs, Jr., age 13, went out
for a "dip” in the pool Saturday
while his father, Ramon S.
Scruggs, Sr., of Detroit, attend¬
ed the convention session.
Later a Mr. Pryor brought out
his 5-year-old son for a wade,
and the two youngsters were In¬
formed that they could not go
Reynolds Elected New
Exalted Ruler of Elks
At Colorful
CHICAGO — (ANPf — Phila¬
delphia's Hobson R. Reynolds,
newly elected grand exalipd nil<*r
of the Elks, has a two fold mis¬
sion, he told reporters after his
elevation to the highest post in
the secret brder last week,
Reynolds who succeeds the ailing
Robert H. Johnson, also of Phila¬
delphia, who refused to run for
reelection because of poor health,
said that the 61-year-old organiza¬
tion would be dedicated to the ad¬
vancement of civil rights.
"Rut. to do this effectively,” he
added, "We needed to breathe new
life into the organization.”
This, he said, can he done
Price 10c 1
NUMBER 48
Speaker of the Northern House of
Assembly, Alliaji Uniaru Gwatidu.
To his left are the Most Kev. Dr,
J. MaeCarthy, Catholic Archbishop
of Northern Nigeria and the U. S.
Consul in the Region, C. J. Quin¬
lan. — (ANP PHOTO)
If this company can af¬
to lose business for free¬
then we can stay off
Street," Mrs. Gar¬
stated.
Dr. J. M. Benton, pastor of the
Temple Baptist church,
welcome remarks to
NAACP and Its members.
Tremont Temple choir ded¬
the beautiful selection,
Great Thou Art," to the
of the NAACP, W. W.
Mrs. Luten presented the
people who worshipped
white churches.
Miss Carrie Orr and J. Alexan¬
worshipped at Holy Apostles
Church. They were
warmly and were in¬
to fellowship at a coffee
Miss Edna Branch and
Banks attempted to
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in the pool since it was limited
to "members only.’
This information was relayed
to the Senior Scruggs who im¬
mediately conferred with Joseph
Waddy, a local attorney, on tha
matter.
These two called in Maceo
Smith of Dallas and W. H.
Thompson of Hampton forming
an unofficial committee to call
upon the hotel manager.
They were told by the man¬
agement that the Sheraton onca
had a swimming pool available
to all guests, but this “old"
pool had been closed and a
“new” one had been construct¬
ed.
The new pool can only accc -
modate 200 swimmers at the
time under orders of the De¬
partment of Health. The ho-
(C’ontinued on Six*
"through a campaign to enlist more
young people into the organization
and to give them an opportunity
to assume positions of leadership
and responsibility as soon as they
are able."
However, in spite of pressure
for some changes, all major of¬
ficers were reelected.
An expected floor fight for posi¬
tion of grand secretary failed to
materialize as memhers of the
lodge reelected aging William C.
Heir-ton to the post.
Houston who is said to be
around 80 years old, has held the
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