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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LXXII
RETIRES AFTER 40 YEARS OF SERVICE—On December 31, 1953, Robert Smith, 65, was re-
tired uy the savannah and Atlanta Railroad.
Mr. Smith is here shown on the Diesel engine, on which he worked, at the depot of the
S. & A. after completing a service of 40 years, 10 months and 23 days with the company as a
fireman. online, attending the separation
In the picture with Mr. Smith on the ceremonies, are
Rev. Richard M. Williams, pastor of First Bryan Baptist Church; E. C. Blackshear, Ulysses
Stewart, Mr. Smith and his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Dioni Smith; A. E. Peacock, on the ground,
Crawford Smith, son of Mr Smith.
Mr Smith who resides in Southover, is a member of Eureka Lodge, Masons; Omar Temple,
Shriners; Ezra Consistory, Masonry, and Mt. Moriah Chapter, O. E. S. He is a deacon of First
Bryan Baptist Church, and was born at Louisville, Ga, but has lived in Savannah since 1907.
SA VII STATE SCHOLARSHIP
DRIVE IN FULL SWINIi
SUPREME COURT ASKED TO
RECONSIDER IRVIN CASE
NAACP Gets $316.54
In Freedom Fund
TF.D WILSON JOINS
CBC MUSICAL STAFF
NEW YORK—(ANP)— Pianist
Teddy Wilson’s tickling of the
Photographer." Wilson
week joined the musical staff
of the Columbia Broadcasting
System.
Wilson first skyrocketed to
th“iiTBeL^ m Goodma°n
Trio. Other members of the
trio were Gene Krupa and
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"CHANCE OF A LIFETIME"
Miss D'ahann Carroll, attractive !8-year old "pop" singer is
shown with emcee Dennis James on the Old ©old-sponsored "Chance
Ot A Lited’rne" TV program, atter winning her second straight $1,000
prize. The NYU fre-hman, in addilion, won her second contract to
New York's famed Latin Quarter, ~~ ;
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NEW YORK, Jan. 22 Six
trade union locals and eight
local branches of the National j
Association for the Advance¬
ment of Colored People con¬
tributed a total of $346.54 to
locals, all affiliates affiliates of of the
United Packinghouse
of America, CIO, include Fort
Worth, Texas, $50.00; Mason
CUy Iowa _ $2500; Des Moines.
Iowa, $25.00; $15.00 each from
Eyansville lnd and
111.; and $10.00 from Wichita
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Airplane Accident Proves
Fatal to
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—(ANP > —
Charles P. Browning, advertis¬
ing director of The Chicago
Defender and vice president of
Defender Publications died
Wednesday morning here of in¬
juries he received when struck
by an airplane propeller Sat¬
urday.
Browning, 38, never regained
consciousness after he was
struck by the revolving pro¬
peller of a small plane he had
chartered in Hot Springs, Ark.,
to bring him here to make con-
nections with an airliner for
Chicago.
He suffered a compound
fracture of the skull and the
loss of an eye.
John H. Sengstacke, Defend-
er publisher and president of
Untender Publications, was in
Little Rock at the time ot
Browning’s death. The two
vvere very close personal friends
as well as business associates.
He was struck as he was
rushing from the small plane to
make connections with a schcd-
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There are many indications
that the scnoiarship drive re¬
cently launched by the General
Alumni of Savannah State col¬
lege is going over with a bang.
A meeting held on Sunday at
thc West Broad Strcet Y re-1
vealed as much.
Reports made by a delegation I
which attended a meeting irv
Macon on January 17, relative
to the dnvc werc encouraging
and inspiring, and the zea j
manifested by the members of,
the loca! chapter was further.
P roof that ' this timc we intend
to succeed." !
A. C. Carter, and the records:
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Law Attending Confab
In Washington
j
1
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j
Law, local NAACP
j 0 ffi C j a i, is attending Legislative the Con- Nat-
i j 0 nal Youth
lerenee, NAACP, January 28-31.
at Howard University in Wash-
I ington, D. C.
The conference is being called
t
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 22
A petition for reconsideration
of its refusal to hear the appeal
of Walter Lee Irvin from a
death sentence imposed by
Florida courts in the famous |
Groveland case was filed in the
United States Supreme Court
here January 19 by attorneys'
for the National Association J j
for the Advancement of Colored
denials and the contention of
his lawyers that he was denied
due process ol law. He was
anted a new i " al *>* tha
Su P remc Court ’ but hc and
! p aratroopcr Walker On
Ski Jump Operation
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — Pvt.
First Class Julius Walker, son
of Mr. arid Mrs. Joe Walker,
tICO East Bolton Lane, Savan¬
nah, recently left for Operation
Ski Jump, for Camp Carson,
Colorado. This manuver will
7e the Army's largest operation
of the winter ir. the United
States.
Prior to entering the Army,
October 4, 1951, Pfc. Walker
attended Beach high school.
He completed basic training at
Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri,
and joined the famed 11th
Airborne Division at Fort Camp-
bell, Kentucky.
He graduated from jump
school at Fort Benning, Ga.,
April 21, 1952, earning the Para-
■hutists’ Badge. 1
Pfe Walker is now a truck
driver with Company B, 127th
Airborne Engineer Battalion.
Named “All American City”
NEW YORK—Jan. 16—Shreve-
j port has been named a 1953
j I All-America City for outstand-
ing citizen effort in surveying
1 Negro welfare needs and taking
: action to meet them. The full
story of the All-Ameriea City
Awards, co-sponsored by the
National Municipal League and
Look Magazine, is told in the
j issue of Look out Tuesday,
Jonuary 26.
In addition to Shreveport,
other Awa'-d-winning cities are |
Canton. Ohio. Daytona Beach
Fla.; De Soto, Mo.: Flint. Mich..
Park Forest-Rich Township
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1954
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THE CLAIRS FLY TO AFRICA I
—Biphop and Mrs. Matthew St.
Claij, of St. Louis, Mo., are
seen; on board their Pan-Ameri¬
can Libej-ia, iplane enroute to Monrovia,
and a 2 tv month visit
Methodist missionary fields
Africa. The episcopal assign-
Ferryman Suspended in
of Minister and Wife
NORFOLK, Va. — <ANP'
Coast Guard Examiner William
A Cuff suspen ded the Coast
Guard merchant marine
license of Marvin Hogg, white.
two
drown i ngs a t the ferry last
summer.
Hogg was the mate aboard
the ferry Jamestown when the
automobile of the Rev. and Mrs.
Alexander Robinson plunged
into the water at Old Point the
night of Sept. 13 after the ferry
drifted out of its loading po¬
sition. Both drowned. Thf
minister and his wife, both
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MOTHER-BABY CARE
CLASSES RESUMED
The Mother and Baby Can
classes of the Savannah Chap-
i ter, American Red Cross, wil
be resumed next week.
I The class is scheduled for
Tuesday and Friday afternoon
j between the hours of 2 30 and
4:30 beginning Tuesday, Feb-
| ruary 2nd, and continuing for
| three weeks. These classes will
I be conducted in the Carriage
House in the rear of the Red
cross Chapter at 2C4 East Jone
street and will be instructed
by Miss Patricia Persse, Publi
Health Nurse.
j This class is for mothers and
fathers to-be and others who
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High Srhool District, 111.;
ria, 111.; Petersburg, Va.; Port j
Angeles, Wash.; Richmond, i
Calif., and Scranton, Pa. i
The awards are given for
noteworthy citizen action di¬
rected toward imnrovement ' n l
welfare and other important
areas of civic activity. The
cities must show that initiative
stums from citizens, not from
government officials
Shreveport’s Council of Social!
Agencies,' and the work of
more than 1,00 white and Negro
are cited in the an- 4
nouncement of the awards
T h e voters and Shreveport’s
groups are praised for
takiing action, once the facts
were known to improve hous¬
ing, schooling and hospita'
facilities for the city’s Negrr
population.
Other Southern communities
being stimulated by
port’s example of interracial
,operation for the welfare of
Negroes, according to the
ouncement.
Civic corruption, vice, gamb- j
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ment will take the bishop into
areas administered by his
father—the late Bishop Matth-
ew E. Clair, Sr., from 1S2Q-1928.
Bishop Clair was never able
visit Africa during his father’s
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MRS. SPAULDING QUITS POST,
TAKES ANOTHER JOB
Otto Orkin Gives $500
State
WASHINGTON—(ANP i—
Jane Spaulding, Friday,
signed her office as
to Mrs. Oveta \ Culp Hobby,
secretary of Health,
and Welfare in President
hower’s cabinet, to accept
post as research adviser
legislative , . * ,. policy on the
Claims Commit
Her resignation thus
the feud between her and
Hobby during which
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KING AND QUEEN—More than
f 'entv-five hundred people
lammed the citiy auditorium
Monday night to witness the
crowning of Savannah’s col-
ored polio king and queen. The
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
SAVANNAH’S OLDEST
CITIZEN DIES
Believed to have been Savan-
nah’s oldest Negro citizen, Mrs.
Sophie Flowers died January
1th at the age of 105 years. Her
funeral was held Jan. 13 from
the chapel of Williams and
Williams Funeral Home, the
Rev. G. R. Connor, pastor of
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RETAINS TITLE—Archie Moore,
world light-heavyweight title
holder, who retained his crown
i as t night at Miami, Fla., in a
j 15-round bout against Joie
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ORANGEBURG, S. C. A five
- hundred dollar donation pre-
I sented to State A A M college and .
by Otto ___ Orkin, _ president
q Qf 0rkin Ext( , rminaU ng
i Company Inc ann0U nced
was
i by Dr. B. C. Turner, president
| of the college last week j
The letter sent by the Orkin
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program was arranged
Radio Station WJTV under
direction of Frank
public relations official of
j • tation.
Picture shows Honest
NUMBER 16
TO SPEAK HERE
SUNDAY
Mrs. Ruby Hurley
NAACP Regional Secretary
Mrs. Ruby Hurley, NAACP
Regional Secretary with head¬
quarters in Birmingham, will
be the featured speaker at a
public mass meeting to be held
3:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon
at the Bethlehem Bapt. church.
Park Avenue and Cuyler Sts.,
Rev. L. S. Stell, pastor.
The program, under the aus¬
pices of the church committee
of the local NAACP branch, will
climax a city-wide observance
of NAACP Sunday — the cele¬
bration of the 45th anniversary
of the Association. This NAACP
effort was endorsed by both
the Baptist Ministers and the
Evangelical Ministers Union.
During the Sunday afternoon
services, the branch officers
for 1954 will be Installed. W. W.
Law, the present president, is
beginning his fifth term of
office.
Mrs. Hurley’s duties as direct¬
or of the NAACP work in the
Southeast has brought her very
close to the problems of the
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NEW YORK TO BE
SITE OF 1954 DELTA
CONVENTION
NEW YORK -(ANP) —
Sigma Theta sorority will
its 1954 national
here Aug. 16-20, it was
Continued on pagee 8
Eisenman, s^les director of
t ; WJIV. as he placed the crowns
, on Caro i Ann DalSi daughter
Qf Mr ; and Mrs . Johnnie Dais,
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