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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
I,XX III
if' - ; >..GjiTS J tiOVT “RHOMANIA”—The above pictures give evidence of the spectacular and
colorful extravaganza presented by Alpha Iota Sigma, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, on last Friday
evening at Beach High School. In picture (1) is seen the basileus Nona Hopkins, crowning Ora
Faye Pinkney, Miss “Rhoania.” Others in the picture, reading left to right are Thedosia Braxton,
Janice Martin, and Margaret
Lawton,
Methodist Bishops (live
Okey lo Desegregation
Brooklyn Church Gives
$500 To Freedom Fund
CIRCULATION MANAGER-The .
Rev. A. J. Hargrett who began
his duties this week as clrcu-
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The lovely Miss Rho-
lania anci ncr attendants:
/Iargaret Lawton, Ora, Faye
NEW YORK, Nov. 13 The
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored. People
announced this week a donation
of $500 given the Association’s
Fight for Freedom Fund by the
Cornerstone Baptist church of
Brooklyn, New York.
The donation was made fol-
lowing an address by
Marshall, NAACP special coun-
sei, at a Men’s Day Sunday
service.
Bishop Womack To Be
At St. Paul Sunday
Sunday is promising to be a
very high day at the St. Paul
CME church. At the 11 00
0 . ctock service the Rt Rev
Author W Womack, presiding
bishop of Georgia of the CME
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—Photo by Freeman
(Miss Rhomaniai The-
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CHICAGO, 111.—Another group
j of high churchmen gave their
; support of desegregation in the
! public schools when the Bishops
of the Methodist church ap-
S proved te Supreme Court's de-
I cision to abolish racial segre-
i gation in the schools.
They said that their decision
to support desegregation is but
a confirmation of “one of the
foundation stones of our faith
j in the belief that all men are
brothers and are equal in the
sight of God.”
The promise of support was
contained in a message adopted
by 50 bishops who attended a
four-day meeting of the Council
of Bishops in Chicago. The mes¬
sage was addressed to the nine
million members of the church.
The message opposed Univer-
. sal Military Training, or “any
attempt to fasten peacetime
i conscription on the American
people.” It commended Presi¬
dent Eisenhower’s efforts to
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sAVAXNAIl, GEORGIA, THURS., NOVEMBER 25, 1954
EXTRADITION OF PRISONER
TO GEORGIA BEING FOUGHT
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PHILADELPHIA, PA
Legal Defense and Educational
Fund has joined in an
to prevent the Extradition of
Edward Brown from Philadel¬
phia to Georgia as requested)
by Gov. Herman Talmadge.
Brown was sentenced in 1937
to „ life ____ imprisonment on UI1 the „, 1C
Georgia chaingang for an accl-
dental death of a man. He
escaped from the Georgia chain
gang to Philadelphia in 195ft
and was arrested at the
quest of Gov. Talmadge in 1952.
He is now confined in ther
County Jail of Philadelphia.
His case has created a great
deal of interest in the city,
.
particularly in the press and
among a large number of cler¬
gymen, both Negro and white,
some of whom are Dr. Edward
B. Pollanick, Asst. Director of
the Church of the Holy Trin¬
ity; The Rev. Noah Moore,
pastor of Tindley Temple; Rab-
bi Theodore H. Gordon of the
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DEPUTY THOMAS TO
HOLD MASONIC
ELECTIONS
The following scheduk- will
be carried out by District De¬
puty D Thomas, as outlined for
the five local Masonic lodges.
Deputy Thomas, who heads
the 1st district, will 'be assisted in
the election by other Grand
Lodge officers. Local lodges
are making ready for the occa¬
sion by initiating nightly in,
“
order to clear up delinquent,
applicants. This will bring the
lodges well up in numerical as
well as financial strength for
the year, 1954 .
The election will be held in
the following order “Eufreka No.
11. Wednesday D.ecember 1;
Mt. Moriah Lodge No. 15, Fri¬
day, December 3; Prince Hall
Lodge No. 28, Monday, Decern-,
ber 6; Hilton Lodge No. 2, Wed-
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COLUMBUS ELEVATES
NEGRO POLICE
CAPTAIN
COLUMBUS, O—(ANP) — A
Negro police captain here has
become one of the highest rank-
'ng police officials of his race in
the nation.
Capt. Harvey H. Alston’s ele¬
vation to the rank of inspector,
second highest police office in
the city, became automatic upon
the death of inspector Thomas
A. Scully.
Alston, 48, is widely known as
|one of two brothers in the city’s
safety services, the other being
Fire Capt. Coy T. Alston
Expressing regrets at the
death of Inspector Scully, Alston
said:
“I consider it (promotion) a
very high honor. Uppermost in
my mind, always, will be the
public good and that of the Co¬
lumbus police department.”
Columbus has one of the
highest ranking Negro fire de¬
partment officers in the nation
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TESTIMONIAL DINNER FOR
S. B. SIMMONS—S. B. Simmons,
! state supervisor of Vocational
j Agriculture, was cited last week
; for 30 years of service at a testi-
jmonial dinner held at Fayette-
, ville, last Friday, November 12.
Left photo shows a few of the
.principals among the near 300
■
Winning SSC Homecoming Features
from Savannah, directed by
Carl Wright, won first prize
among high school bands eom-
, peting for the Savannah State
■ colie S e homecoming award, it
I was announced yesterday,
William James High School,
Statesboro, and Woodville High
school, Savannah, won second
and thirc) Place, respectively
Joseph Solomon direct the Wil
liam James band and Samuel
Gill directs the Woodville band.
All three bandmasters are alum
ni of Savannah State college.
The prize for the best decor¬
ated building was won by Pow¬
ell Laboratory school. The Fine
Arts building won second place
and the library third.
I Other awards were as fol
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DR. HARDIN DIES
IN NEW ORLEANS
NEW ORLEANS — fANP) —
Funeral services were held at
St. Peter Claver Catholic church
Thursday for Dr. J. A. Hardin,
leading physician, businessman,
civic leader and political figure
in the Crescent city for a num¬
ber of years.
Dr. Hardin had been ill for a
few weeks and confined to
F’lint-Goodridge hospital for the
past two weeks.
i A pioneer insurance executive
j in New Orleans, lie organized
1 the civic league federation, was
' former Liberian consul in New
I Orleans, and for a number of
] years was associated with Wal-
ter L. Cohen and James Lewis,
fr.< noth deceased, in the lead-
ership of the Republican party
in the state.
He was a delegate to many
national Republican conven¬
tions.
He is survived by his widow,
a daughter, four sons and other
relatives. A playground was
named in his honor in New Or¬
leans some vears ago.
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International Understanding —
Some of the new students at
Lincoln university (Pa.i, are
shown above as points of inter¬
est on the campus are pointed
out to them by James Prentice,
attending. They are from left
to right: Dr. J. W. Seabrook,
president, Fayetteville State
I Teachers College, who intro¬
duced the speaker: Dr. John W.
i Mitchell, national leader, U. S.
I Department of Agriculture,
1 Washington, DC., principal
speaker; Mr. Simmops and O.
Policeman
Denier v
Hound Over
Virgil Demery was bound over
to the City Court last Friday in
a Police Court hearing on
charges of assault and battery
nnri pointing a pistol at two
white women. He was also re¬
manded to the Superior Court
on a charge of attempting to
rape one of the women.
The 36 year old Negro police¬
man was alleged uo have met
the two women at a restaurant
on the Ogoecheo road and after
making (heir acquaintance is
said to have offered to drive
them to liicir tourist camp be¬
cause it was raining.
Instead cf driving the two
women, who are wives of car¬
nival workers, to their camp he
drove them to his home on West
41st street where the women
said, after trying to induce
them to drink some whiskey
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FBI TO PROBE ACTIONS
OF DELTA PLANTER
JACKSON, Miss., Nov.. 18—An
FBI probe of the charges that a
young wife and her nine-
months old child are being il¬
legally held by a Delta planter
has been promised, Dr. A H.
McCoy, president of the Missis¬
sippi State NAACP, said here
I i today.
The charges were embodied in
an affidavit by D. C. Lofton,
husband of the 16-year-old
mother, who escaped from the
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president of the Stuaent Senate.
Looking on are Dr. Horace Mann
Bond, extreme left, president of
Lincoln, and Dr. Paul Kuehncr,
extreme right, registrar and ad¬
viser to overseas students.
The students include: Mrs.
A. Dupree, Clinton, who pre¬
sided.
A large turnout of the honor-
ee’s relatives turned out for the
Shown in the center
panel they are from left to
right: Mrs. Alphia Baker,
Greensboro, niece; Mrs. Hattie
West, Tuskegee, Ala, sister;
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
Segregation Hearings
t oiirt
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 22
—Arguments on public school
segregation were post-poned
today by the Supreme Court
until December 6. The delay
was caused because the court
desires to hold off the hearings
until the proposed new Justice,
John M. Harlan, takes his seat
on the court.
Ten states and the District of
Columbia were prepared to par¬
ticipate in the oral arguments
on how and when the states
should carry out the de-segre¬
gation of schools, ordered by the
high court in its historic decis¬
ion last spring.
The high court in a brief
order set no new date „ for the .. | I
hearing v It said that , “in ,. view i
i
of the „ absence , of , a full , ,, court i
the segregaion cases "are con
Catholics To
racial Sch in
GREENSBORO. ffC. (ANP)
A mixed school will be estab¬
lished her# by Catholics next
year.
The announcement of the
venture was made last week by
the Rt. Rev. Vincent Waters,
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Mary Sparkuh! of Perryvillc,
Md.; Shing-Hwa Tsai, China;
Horace Young, Venezuela; Geo.
Nemqtny, Hungary; Uttampra
kash Christian, India; Clifford
Jones, British West Indies; and
Chul Young Cha, Korea.
Miss Esther Simmons, Fayette¬
ville, sister; Mrs. J. A. Simmons,
Fayetteville, mother; Mr. Sim¬
mons, Mrs. Naomi Simmons,
wife; Mrs. Anne Dixon, Chica¬
go, 111., sister, and Mrs. Alberta
Simms, Tuskegee, Ala., sister.
Mr. Simmons received a
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CONTRACT—Billy Ward,
of the famed Dominoes,
today that he has
arranger-guitarist Rene
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Inter¬
N. Carolina
Gra-Y Staff
Installed 1
Guy E. Weeks, general secre¬
tary of all YMCAs in Savannah,
installed the newly elected offi¬
cers of the Gra-Y clubs of We,I;
Savannah' school this week be¬
fore a very large audience of
parents, teachers and students,
'terrotary Wee!:;’ subject was,
''The Historical development of
the YMCA, and Its place it) n
Christian Community.'” The off¬
icers installed were as follows:
Gleaner Brcwn, president; Mary
Pearl Roberts, vice president;
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METCALF RIJNS FOR
ALftFRMANIC POST
CHICAGO (ANP) a former
oi.vinov: track star last veek
Minoun'ccl Ills candidacy fer
alderman here.
H" is Ralph Metcalfe who
will hr mil. to tm.eat incumbent,
Archibald J Carey. The former
is a democrat and the latter a
republican.
A hitler light for the position
in anticipated as both men ai«
very popular.
plaque and silver loving cu)J
i from the Fayetteville Chamber
of Commerce and the Junior
j Chamber of Commerce, respect-
1 ively. Norman Settle, right
panel, executive director of both
organizations, makes the pres¬
entations to the honoree. . v