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YEARS OF CONTINUOUS PUBLIC SERVICE ■ (LXXII 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 was 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 ---------- .. .- ----------------- 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 ; ! Donations To I Make Y ‘ The Crystal Rex of $50 social to build club j donated the sum cabinets in the model kitchen I which was established by the! 1 lOF [two SERVICE hundred to The sixty Coca-Cola years ■Company is recorded in the labove picture showing six em¬ ! ployees of the Atlanta soft prink firm who were recently 1 r, j j ( | j j | ! j | ; 1 Vibii'S mo j >,k geant WaIter Ma . v of F , ; Lee vlrginia> who was in lb Uy thjs week vi . itil ., h]s ^ Mrs JusUn , M . of gp, j Bu hs street Massey wl ,o ha.- . ,-n in _________ (Continued Page Severn , on 1 Savannah Gas Company her" j a t the West Broad -tr t I ! (Continued on Page i honored for havin ' rv i for more than years each. Grouped abou • center, pi ski 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- (Continued on Page Seven) 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, ihoncinuea on Page Seven, 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 (Continued on Page Seven) 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. (Continued on Page Four) 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- (Continued on Page Four) 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- (Continued on Page Severn I 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 (Continued on Page Seven) 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 (Continued on page Seven) 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 Price 7c 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¬ NUMBER 24 W. J. Bush, Speaker will read the history of the organization. (Continued on Page Seven) 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. iContinued on Page Four) 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 (Continued on Page Four)