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TEARS OF C0STWV0VS FVBLIC SERVICE 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 ‘Continued on Rage Six) •>. 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 ,continued on Page Five) | 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, (Continued on Page Six) 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 (Continued on Page t>ixi 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 ;Continued on Page Seven,