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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 ______ 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, i Continued on Page Sewn i 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-; (Continued on Page Seven) I ■ i ( i j 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 11 [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, Continued on Page Six ! 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 — (Continued on Page Six• --------------..... ______ .. — 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- (Continued on Page Eight) 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.