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FAM-U DEDICATES LAW FA- • event. Top photo. President t.oi me governin': body tor Frank J. Heintz, assistant state
CILITY— The $4000,000 facility George W. Gore, Jr., is shown late-supported institutions of | attorney general. Bottom left,
for housing the college of law j receiving the keys to the C 41- higher learning. Others in the rhjs js a Jaw re f erence book,”
at Florida A and M university | ity. The presentation was made photo are lelt, Thomas M K I an >ston Jones a unior
recently dedicated. These; by G. W. Kendrix, representa- 1 Jenkins, acting dean of the
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are some of the scenes of the five of the State Board of Con- college of law, and right. (Continued on Seven)
Supreme Court Asked to
Review Two Death Cases
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IICME FROM MOROCCO A-2-
[C John H. Maloy, Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Maloy of
|W. 41st street, who has re-
rned home after
months in French Morocco.
Africa. He will be stat-
at Hunter Air Force
Organizations ;
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The Crystal Rex of $50 social to build club j
donated the sum
cabinets in the model kitchen I
which was established by the!
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The Coca-Cola Compam
States Supreme Court was asked
within the past three weeks
to review two cases involving
Kegroes by lawyers of NAACP
Legal Defense and Educational
Fund, Inc. One is in Georgia
and the other in Alabama. It
is alleged that the constitution
al rights of both convicted
were violated.
The Georgia case involved a
Negro, Ozzie Jones, who was
found guiltv of rape and sen-
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n* MI fiiw senliovver, Morrow Among
tusswnrm Award Winners
NEW YORK, Mar. 19 — Pres¬
ident Dwight D. Eisenhower and
Edward R. Murrow, CBS Radio
and CBS Television newscast-
er, are among the ten recipients
of the > annual Russwurm
Awards, announced last night
by Dowdal H. Davis, chairman
of the National Newspaper
Week Committee (March 14-20»
and general manager of the
Kansas City Call,
In CBS Radio broadcast, Mr.
left to right, Sylvester Mitchell
41 years and one month; Wal-
tor Weaver. 42 years and .six
months James P McLain, 40
years and five months; Mr.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. MARCH 25, 1954
UNCF Sets A
Larger Goal
NEW YORK, N. Y. A larger
goal will be sought this year
by the United Negro College
Fund in its annual nationwide
| campaign to meet increased
operating costs among its 31
member colleges. The quota for
the 1954 appeal is $1,750,000, or
approximately ten .per cent of
the colleges combined operat¬
ing budgets, it was announced
here today by John W. Hanes,
National Campaign Chairman
and Vice-President, Olin In¬
dustries, Inc. The campaign
will open on Tuesday, April 5,
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Davis named the winners se¬
lected by vote of member news¬
papers of the National News¬
paper Publishers Association.
The awards, for 'outstanding
achievement in making possible
a richer conception of demo¬
cratic principles and in tribute
for upholding those highest
traditions considered as the
ieals of the American Way of
Life,” went to'
President of the United States
Nicholson. Eugene K Scribner,'
42 years William G. Thomp-
son. 42 years and George L.
Mitchell, 42 years and seven,
(months
NAACP Enlarges Its legal
Defense. Ed. Fund Directors
NEW YORK Carl Murphy,
president of the National News¬
paper Publishers Association
and president of the Afro-
American newspapers. Willard
W. Allen, Soverign Grand Com¬
mander, The United Supreme
Council, 33 , Prince Hall Mas¬
ons and president of the South¬
ern Life Insurance Company.
and four other
religious, labor,
and lay leaders
were elected to
the Board of
Directors of the
NAACP Legal
Defense and
Educati o n a 1
Mr. Murphy Fund, Inc., it
was announced this week by
Thurgood Marshall, Director-
Counsel of Legal Defense.
The new members were un¬
animously elected at a recent
meeting of the Board held at
Legal Defense headquarters, 107
West 43rd street. New York,
N, Y,
The other new members are
Rabbi Judah Calm, Temple
Lampkin, vice
Mr. Allen president, Pitts-
burgh Courier, and Charles S.
Zimmerman, secretary - treas¬
urer, Dressmakers Union, Local
22 . *
NAACP Legal Defense and
Educational Fund, Inc., is the
legal arm of the National As¬
sociation for the Advancement
r of Colored Peo-
pie which has
vaged a long j
and uphill fight'
to establish the
constltutio n a 1
rights, for Ne-
groes to vote.!
fo educate their
in'. children with-
out regards to race, to travel
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Citizens Committee Seeking
5000 New Voters
, The All-Citizens Registration
j committee will launch a county
wide effort to contain 5,000
new Negro voters during the
month of April. The committee
has public meeting for 1
called a
8 o’clock next Wednesday night, j
April 7, at the Recreation
Center, 37th street and the i
Ogeechee Road.
W. W. Law, president of the
local NAACP branch who is
:
acting as general chairman of ;
the register-to-vote committee ;
sald that the drive will need 1
the active assistance of every !
body, both as individuals and
in groups. Only one month re- :
m ains to register for the co’ni-
ing primary and gubernatorial
elections. The churches, labor
unions, social and civic clubs.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, "for his
contribution to equality of op¬
portunity in the armed forces,
regardless of race, and for
definitive action taken to end
segregation in places of public,
accommodation in our nation’s
capital.”
Edward R. Murrw, as “an
undeviating champion of those
high principles of citizenship
and of true democracy that
have made the United States
Miss Church To Address
Adult Ed. Grads
Thomas Shearouse, area sup-
ervisor, State Board of Edu-
cation, announces that Alfred j j
Beach Adult Education
Center, under the direction of j
Wilton C. Scott, has secured 1
the services of Miss Roberta j
Church for the high school j
commencement exercises, April
29, at Beach high school.
Miss Church was appointed
in August, 19 53, as minority j
groups consultant in the Bur- j
eau of Employment Security
She is a graduate of Northwest-
ern university, with a master’s.
degree in social service work,
and completed additional grad-
uate study at Northwestern
anci lhe Univ ersilty of Chicago
in vocational ( , guidance, prob-1
lems of labor and manage-
ment, administration of per-
sonnej and community organ-
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PROMOTED Lieutenant Law¬
rence W, Bryant, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Raleigh A. Bryant.
Sr., was recently promoted tc
the rank of 1st Lieutenant, 'ac¬
cording to War Department
Special Orders released through
Headquarters of the 7th In
fantry Division in Korea
Lt. Bryant received his initi¬
al commission of 2nd Lieuten-
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m TO OBSERVE ITS
Plans have been completed
for a gala celebration Friday
night, April 2, the, observance
of the 7th anniversary of the
Citizen "Democratic club. The
program committee lias secured
some of the best available
participants for this affair
which will be held at the Elks
Rest on Minis street.
The speaker will be W. J
Bush, manager of the North
Carolina Insurance Company
(Savannah Branch). Mr. Bush
is a graduate of Lincoln uni¬
versity and has served in many
places of honor in church and
community activities. He is
ilso a Mason. Ally. F. A. Oil -
worth will introduce him.
Others on the program will
ic "Savannah's Own,” Miss
Thelma Wright, brilliant young
■ocalisf, and James Jenkins,
ormerly connected with the
Jnited States Army Band.
.nstrumentalist. J. M. Gaynor
great.” Said Davis, "Through
CBS' Radio and CBS Television,
at home and abroad, he has
kept men constantly reminded
of their duty to decency and
to destiny."
Theodore Berry, for his work
as a member of the Cincinnati,
Chio. City Council.
Dr. Rufus E. Clement, the
first Negro to hold a seat on
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4-H MEMBERS NAMED
HIBRID CORN
PROGRAM
SAVANNAH 8ix new coun-
ties, and six club members in
each, have been named to
participate in the 1854 Negro
hybrid corn production program
sponsored for 4-H Club mem-
bers by the Georgia Power Co.
Alexander Hurse, state Negro
4-H Club agent, named the
counties as follows Baldwin,
Dodge Early Greene, Laurens
and Meriwether,
Hurse pointed out that each;
boy in the project will plant
one acre of an adapted hybrid)
as a demonstration of what
good seed and following Agri-
cultural Extension Service rec-
ommendation will do to lrtcrease
yields.
The sponsor, in addition
furnishing the seed, will give j j
prize money totaling $240. First j
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KNOXVILEK /.H AS — Citizens
of Knoxville, Tenn., were very
aware of the contributions of
women to the city's progress
the recen t Finer Worn- |
anhhod Week sponsored by
local chapters of Zeta Phi Beta
Highlight week ,
sorority. of the !
was the appearance of Dr.
Bullock Woolridge (left),
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
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4-II’ers To Participate
Fifty Negro 4-H Club mem-
bers -representing 10 counties
have been named to partici-
pate in the 1954 Four-H Club
poultry chain.
The 4-H members’ poultry
projects will serve as educat-
ional demonstrations in their
on increased egg
production brought about by
good chicks, then feed¬
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W. J. Bush, Speaker
will read the history of the
organization.
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ing and managing thorn accord¬
ing to recommendations of
the Agricultural Extension Seiv
vice.
Alexander Hurse, state Negro
4-H club agent, said the 4-H’ers
taking part in the chain this
year began their work by at¬
tending one of the poultry
short courses conducted by H.
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grand basileus ot the Zetas, as
guest speaker. In the above
she Is being greeted
upon her arrival at^the Knox-
viile Airport by Mrs. Arnetta
G. Wallace 'right), chairman
of the National Pan-Hellenic
Council and national basileus
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