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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LXX1I
TOR SOL C. JOHNSON
Sol C. uomison, owner and i Broad street. He had been
publisher of The Rnvnrmnh Savannah, ! t failing ,>• health u tor the past . two
Tribune, died Monday morning !_____________________________
at his apartment, 1009 Westj (Continued on page Seven)
Famed Educator Predicts End j
Of Jim Crow Schools
SOUUTHWEST GEORGIANS DONATE
TO SSC ALUMNI FUND
MISS COLOR TV OF 1954 —
Attractive Miss Dalores Jackson
of Jersey City, N. J., is the
ioveiy "Miss Color TV of 1954”
selected recently by a group of
television editors who met at
The Channel Master Corp., El¬
len viile. N. Y„ the world’s largest
manufacturer of TV antennas.
Miss Jackson is shown above
3- JUDGE COURT HEARS CASE OF
NEGROES SEEKING TO ENTER
WHITE SCHOOL AT LAFAYETTE
NEW ORLEANS <ANP> — A
three judge federal court last
week listened to bitter arguments
and took under advisement wheth-
er or not four Negro residents of
(gifayette. La„ can constitution- 1
aliv be barred from attending
Southwestern Louisiana Institute, j
U. Simpson Tate, Dallas, at-j
tacked the constitutionality before j
the special court and asked the |
federal trio to stop the discrimin- ’
ating policy of barring Negroes j
from the institution. j
Hearing the case were Judges
Wayne G. Borah of the U.S. Fifth
Circuit Court of Appeals, Ben C.
Dawk'ns IV , an E'senhower ad-
with the "Champion." the most
powerful TV antenna. Miss
Jackson measures 5 feet 6L j
inches in height. 125 pounds in 1
weight, with a 35 inch bust, 24 |
inch w'aist, and 36 inch hips.
The antenna is taller, thinner
and lighter in weight than
Dalores, but not nearly as at¬ .
tractive.— <ANP> )
ministration appointee, and Ed-
win L. Hunter of the western
district of Louisiana. Tate filed
the suit in behalf of the Misses
Dell Constantine, Martha
Jane Conway and Shirley Taylor
and Charles Vincent. Singleton.;
All are minors with the exception
of Singleton, and the court action j
was filed by parents or guardians,
Attorneys for SLI contended ,
the suit was improperly brought i
as a class action,
The only legal roadblock set up
by the defense was a motion to !
dismiss in that the suit was not*
properly before the court as a 1
class action and that the question
Last Riles Held Yesterday For Dr. -I. E.
Fonvielle. Well Known Pliarniarist
y
RECESSION SHARPENS JOB BIAS, WHITE
TELLS SENATE COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON. Feb. 25 -
Racial discrimination in em- 1
1 ployment has been accentuated
of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People, told th eSenate Labor
Committee today at n hearing
on an FEPC bill. i
Wc have been carefully
watching the effects of un-
employment throughout the
United States,” Mr. White
said, -and we know that the
occupational groupings of col-
ored workers makes them more
susceptible to unemployment in
times of stress. Tims a colored
individual is penalized doubly
because of his race. He is ar-
clenieci emDlovment p y m ata
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iContinued on page Six,
ALBANY, Ga.—With Charles
Hall, regional alumni scholar-
ship director presiding, the
Southwest Georgia Savannah
Stare Colege Alumni met and
pledged to contribute freely to
the athletic scholarship fund.
Howard Seay, president of the
Albany chapter, was host to
the members, along with Mrs.
Helen Moves, secretary, and
the other Savannah State col-
(Continued on Page Seven)
BACK FROM KOREA — Cpl
William G. Butler who arrived
home last week after 13 months
service in Korea, coming by
from Seattle, Washington,
fai as Winston-Salem, N. C.,
where he visited his brother,
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involved is only of "act wliieh
does not address itself to ■<
judge court.
W. C. Perault. first assistant
attorney general. Baton Rouge,
said. “It is only a question a to
whether or not the distant" from
fjifayette to Southern university
constitutes an inequality.”
He held fast that it would be
unreasonable to insist on the state
board of education furnishing a
person a college education "right
where he is.” Perault saw no dif-
fere nee in a Negro in Lafayette
traveling to Southern and a w
student in New Orlean- trove
Baron Roner
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1954
Judge Delanv Says Supreme
Court Decision Will Not
Brinst Bloodshed
Judge Hubert T Delaney of
yoi ’ k to,cl Me closing sess- :
of Me Southeast Regional
of the NAACP
that he expects no
in the wake of the
S decision of the Supreme
our ‘ ' 11 Me Public school
and that the worst
of the Negroes are
and Byrnes.
The widely known judge of
Domestic Relations Court
New York City was the key
at the mass meeting
•ST. LOUIS, Mo., (ANP)—We ■
arc rapidly approaching the point i
at which the Negro will be ‘no !
worse off than any other Ameri¬
can,” Robert M. Hutchins, asso-j
ciale director of the Ford Founda¬
tion, said here last week at the
annual dinner meeting of the Urb¬
an League of St. Louis.
Addressing an audience of 300 j
(Continued on Page Seven)
VFW POST GIVES
1ST $100 TO NAACP
C. O. ltyals. Post Commander
The Vance Allison Post No.
1 2933, Veterans ot Foreign Wars,;
have pledged to become life;
members of the National Asso- j
elation for the Advancement of j
Colored People. Through Clif-;
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GOES OVERSEAS—S-Sgt. Jona- i
than J. Mack of Hunter Air
Force Base, son of Mr. and Mrs. I
Walter S. Mack, of 822 E. ^Hall
St., left Feb. 17 for overseas
duty. He will serve three years
in England 1
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[RETURNS _ . FROM PRESIDENT'S ___
BANQUET—Due to his except-
ional ability during the corn-
j fmny's featured week Decem-
1 ber 7. 1953, “Annual Collection
(Continued on Page Eight)
held at the First African Bap-
tist church.
The three-day meeting was
one of the most successful in
the history of the seven-state
and was very largely
attended
Many outstanding national
leaders of the NAACP were
present and addressed the gath¬
erings, among them Clarence
Mitchell, director of the Asso¬
ciation’s Washington Bureau;
Attorney Spottswood
of Chicago; Gloster B. Currant.
director of branches; Edward
R. Dudley, NAACP New York
special assistant; Bishop S. G.
Spottswood, and Dr. Lortch of
(Continued on Page Seven)
State-wide Community Leaders
To Meet In Atlanta
A \ cdll ...ill ...... was issued ........I today for
state Wide meeting of community j
leaders to initiate registration ef-’
fort among Negroes throughout
Georgiii. A joint committee in- _
eluding Attorney A. T. Walden, \
President, Georgia Citizens Demo¬
cratic Clubs, Dr. William M.
Boyd, President, General Confer¬
ence, NAACP Branches, and Wil-
llam J. pliaW, Assistant Secretary, !
IJepublicjin Central Committee
'
sued the information.
it is understood that support to
this effort has been given by i
Bishop J. W. K. Bowen of the:
Methodist Churches, Bishop S. L. j
Greene of the Georgia District,
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CLINICIANS—-These scenes were
taken from the twenty-eighth
nual clinic and twenty-fifth an
nual meeting of the Florida V and
M Clinical association. fop, left,
Fam-U President George W.
nmeral services lor Dr. J.
Earl Fonvielle were held yes¬
terday i Wednesday i afternoon
from St. Philip AME church,
the Rev. J. S'. Bryan, pastor, de-
iivering the eulogy.
A large crowd paid their last
tribute of respect to the wide¬
ly known owner of the Savan-
nah Pharmacy and civic worker.
In his sermon Reverend Bryan
painted a beautiful word
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PLEADS FOR
FEPC LAW WITH
WASHINGTON The repre¬
of a Southern inter-
organization told the !
Labor Committee this
ee k Mai a federal FEPC law
alford invaluable gllid- I
reassurance” to the pros¬
South
John Bolt Culbertson, Green- ’
S. C., attorney who is
of the Southern
Educational Fund,
Continued on Page H
Jr., left, meets with Dr. I’eter
Marshall Murray o( Now > ork s
Harlem jnd Sydenham Hospitals,
and u,ia l)r. Dr. A Aloert W. Dent, Dillard
University pre ident Too, right,
Dr. It. L. Long of Palutka pre-
, t . n t s ifot- association s award to
Ur. V H. Jones, d>,* to the ab-
settee of ihe honoree, Hr. U. t-.
i Brown of Fort Lauderdale, The I
Member Audit Bureau Circulation*
Price 7c
Philly Photographer
[ n
Charles Long,
photographer and founder
the Booker T. Trade school
that city, is in Savannah for
few days taking pictures
Negro businesses and
places of interest to be
in the
Tribune.
NUMBER 21
NAACP FORCES
MAYOR TO ACT IN *
CHICAGO RIOTS
Chicago (A N P) —Responsibility
fm ending racial disorders at
Trumbull Park Homes was placed
on the shoulders of three police
official- here last week.’
After a conference with repre¬
sentative- of the local NAACP,
Mayor Martin Kennelly instruct¬
ed Timothy O’Conner, police com¬
missioner, to appoint a small, but
determined force to patrol tho
housing project project.
Named to lead the force were;
C'apt. Thomas Harrison, Mon¬
roe St. district; Capt. Georgs*
Barnes, labor detail, and Lt. Jo¬
seph Morris, Scotland Yard spe¬
cial investigations unit.
The three officials will be re¬
sponsible for bringing order oat
of the chaos which has existed at
the housing site since the first
Negro family moved in last July,
Each of the , leaders was in¬
structed to selact 10 or 12 police*
men on the basis of their ability
to deal aggtfensively with trwu-
blesoine situations.
The naming of a small, detenu-
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MRS. MARY MOODY
DIES IN BROOKLYN
HOSPITAL
Word was received in the city
yesterday morning that Mrs.
Mary E. Moody had just died
in Brooklyn, N Y. The body
will he brought to Savannah
for burial.
Mrs. Moody, who was the
wife of the late Dr. Walter E.
. Moody of the Savannah Phar-
inacy ' left Savannah several
nionth * s a K° ior a visit to BrooW-
,yi1 ' where shc took si « k and
was recently confined to a
George Barnes Opens
Pool Room-Confectionery
The Smoke Shop is the name
j of the latest West Broad street
i business which Was; opened this
i week at number 464
The new business Which is
owned by George Barnes, weH
known fruit, vegetable and coal
vender, is a combination cafc-
(Continued on Page Eight)
low or photo shows some of the 71
outstanding physicians, dentists,
nurses, and pharmacists who at¬
tended the three-day coniais.— a,
and M, staff photo Of H, JoaeJ.
