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73 PUBLIC CONTINUOUS YEARS SERVICE OF
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GUARANTY LIFE NS. CO. TO CELEBRATE
SUNDAY
The Guaranty Lite Insurance
C> mpany will celebrate its fif¬
tieth anniversary Sunday after¬
noon, Dec. 19, This epochal
observance in the life of one of
Savannah’s leading business
enterprises will be held at the
Second Baptist church, Houston
and President streets, beginning
at 4 p m. to which the general
public is invited.
The company was started on
December 19, 1904, when a char¬
ter was issued by the Secretary
of State of Georgia to Lachlan
M. Pollard, William R. Fields,
Joseph L. Jackson, Sol C. John¬
son, Lucius E. Williams, Paul
E. Perry and Walter S. Scott for
the formation of a corporation
to he known as The Guaranty
Aid and Relief Society for the
purpose of ‘ organizing and run-
pi gM- S s
I Hiss
Home Office
ping an Insurance Company
upon the Mutual, Co-operative
or Assessment plan, commonly
known Industrial Insurance,” :
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for a period of fifty years. !
Earlier in the same year a
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Murderer Under Death
Risks Life to Halt Jail Rreak
CHICAGO— (ANP! A young
convicted of mur.-jr anc await-
man convicted of murd,er and
awaiting death in. the electric
chair, risked his life last week in
breaking up an attempted es¬
cape by four other prisoners
from Cook County jail here.
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Court Orders New Trial for Beeves
WASHINGTON, D. C. — The
U. S. Supreme Court today
unanimously set aside the con¬
viction and death sentence of
Jeremiah Reeves, Jr., a 19 year
old Alabama Negro youth,
charged with rape, and sent the j
case back to the trial court for |
a new trial.
reversed The conviction by the high of Revees Court was on ■j
the ground that Reeves was
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HEADS EDUCATORS—Dr. C. V. ! !
Troup, right, president of Fort
Vsfiley (Georgia) State college,
was elected head of the Auso
elation of Colleges and Second¬
ary Schools at the close of the
NAACP Protests Remaking of
'Birth of a Nation 7 Film
JOINS HOWARD FACULTY —
At the initial 1954-55 meeting
of the Faculty Women's Club of
Howard University, which was
held at the home of Pres, and
Mrs. Mordecai Johnson, Dr.
Marie Davis Gadsden, one of a
member panel of guest speakers,
addressed the audience on “The
Role of the University Woman
at Oxford University.” Dr. Gads-
den, newest addition to the
English faculty of the College
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COLLIER PROMOTED TO
1ST LIEUTENANT
I Wearing new silver bars at l
Alaska Air Fotee Base is Kharn ;
A. Collier, son of Mrs. J’essie R. !
Collier and the late Mr. James
E. Collier, Sr., of 2411 Harden
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LEADING STUDENTS HONORED AT
STATE COLLEGE
A special Honors Day
was held Friday, Dec. 10,
Savannah State college in
drim Auditorium with Dr.
W. Hunter as guest
Dr. Hunter _______ received _________ his ____ A
degree from Columbia
and the Ph D degree
organization’s 21st annual con-
vention last week in Louisville,
commending ,, the
;>r". left. Raul L. Guth
rie, retiring president, and Dr
L. S. Cozart, center, who
C. H. BIAS HEADS
OMAR TEMPLE NO. 21
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C. II. Bias, 111. Potentate
On Sunday, Dec. 12. Omar
Temple No. 21, A.E.A.O.N.M.S.
held one of the most interest¬
ing meetings of the year. This
was the last meeting, in which
many reports were made which
showed the temple to be in
excellent condition despite its
inactiveness during the fiscal
year.
Wth the election of C. H. Bias,
RFD CROSS PLANS
HOME NURSING COURSE
Plans are announced by ^Kirk
Sutlive, Red Cross chapter
chairman, that a class in home
nursing for colored citizens
is now being formed and will
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Pennsylvania State university. I
At the present time he is pro¬
fessor of chemistry at South
Carolina State college, Orange¬
burg
The honorees are students
, j
w ho have maintained an aver-
■ age of 2.00 or higher, for the
been secretary-treasurer of the
j association for twenty-one yrs.
Dr. Cozart is president of
roncorrt _
N c wh jj e f.4r. Guthrie is prin-
c j pa i 0 f the Dunban High
j cipal of the Dunbar High
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16,1954
NEW YORK, Dec. 2—The pro¬
posal to remake the Ku Klux
Klan film, ”The Birth of a
Nation,” today brought vigor¬
ous protests from the National
Association for the Advance¬
ment of Colored People. In a
telegram to Ted Thai who re¬
portedly heads the group spon¬
soring the revival, Roy Wilkins,
NAACP administrator, urged
reconsideration of the proposal
to make a new version of the
Thomas Dixon novel which
“slanders the entire Negn
population through its naked
incitement to racial hatred and
violence.”
The NAACP, Mr. Wilkins said
“is as uncompromisingly op
posed to this film today as it
was when the picture was frs(
released in 1915.” The Associa¬
tion actively campaigned
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UNCF Schs.
Get $500,000
NEW YORK, N. Y. — The
United Negro College Fund i.
currently distrbiuting <500,091
to its 31 member colleges and
universities, W. J. Trent. Jr., ex¬
ecutive director of the Fund
announced today.
This allocation is the second
distribution of money raised^ ir
the Fund’s 1954 campaign for
annual operating purposes, anc
brings the total received by the
participating colleges to date tc
$850,000. Final grants will bf
made after the official cam
paign closing on December 31.
The money is used by the
Fund’s member colleges foi
student scholarship aid, teach¬
ing and science laboratory
equipment, faculty salaries
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three quarters, and candi¬
for membership into Beta
Chi National Honorary
Society.
The andidates for the Honor
students majoring in
Chemistry. General
and Mathematics arc
follows: Barbara Brunson
senior, mathematics; Thoma:
Evans, senior, biology; Curti:
Cooper, senior, biology; Georgia
B. Hulling, senior, general sci-
ence; George Johnson, senior,
mathematics general science;
Mercedes Mitchell, senior biol*
ogy; Julia Hendrix, senior
mathematics; Daniel Pelot
junior, Chemistry; William
Weston, junior, mathematics
These students named havr
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NAACP XMAS SEAL
BANQUET WELL
ATTENDED
Tne NAACP Christmas Seal
banquet was a grand success
despite the inclement weather
on Monday night at the West
Broad Street YMCA. Those pres-
ent. who braved the rain and
| cold, heard Mrs. Mamie P
Campbell deliver a masterful
! address tracing the history of
the NAACP. She challenged all
of her listeners to actively sup-
port the work of the local
, , branch.
Mrs. E. S. Gilbert was the
j toastmlstress and Mrs. E. Faus-
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OP PICTURE—left to right Mrs. Mamie Williams, vice president,
Auxiliary Mrs. Dorothy V. Hughes, chairman of Activities; Ben¬
jamin F Lewis, post commander; Mrs. Frances Loadholt. Asst,
chairman of Activities; Mrs, William Frazier, Mrs. loui.se Heidt,
president, Ladies Auxiliary; standing, 1. to r.—Walter W. Hughes,
Genard Calloway, district adjutant; J. M, Gaynot,
iGRDAN POST OPENS
^EW HOME
On last Tuesday evening,
WOODVILLE NAMES
HONOR STUDENTS
The principal of Woodville
figh school wishes to announce
that the following pupils have
made the honor list for the
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C C Ticket Runs Away With
City Primary Election
The Citizens Committee tick-
t scored an overwhelming
detory over that of the Good
Government League in Tues- I
ays primary election for the
control of the city, the CC
candidates winning by a margin
of more than two to one.
TOP OFFICIALS OF GUARANTY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY WHICH WILL CELEBRATE ITS 50TH
ANNIVERSARY SUNDAY
W. S. Scott
President-Treasurer
William P. Jordan Post 500,
American Legion, celebrated its
grand opening at the new Post
Home, 416 West Hall St.
Where AME Ga. Conference
By Rev, W. O, P. Sherman
STATESBORO, Ga„ Dec. 13-
"
For mayor W. Lee Mingledorff,
standard bearer of the Citizens
Committee, polled 11,843 votes
while his opponent, Charles J.
Musante, backed by the Good
Government League, had only
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M. D. Bryant, M.D.
Vice-President
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 7c
Matthew B. Williams, district Sr. vice commander; Clarence John-
son, Sr. vice commander; Fred Truell, district chaplain; Willie
McNeil, finance officer.
BOTTOM PICTURE—Veterans and ladles of the auxiliary
attending the festivities, —Photo by Cecil
public was given the epportun- 1 1947, as the first Negro Amen¬
ity of seeing new
quarters of the post.
Post 500 was organized in
Appointments for the AME
.Conference for the coming con-
j ference year were announced
today by Presiding Bishop S. L
j Greene as follows:
[ Savannah District
Rev. W. O. P. Sherman, pre-
siding eider; Monumental, Sav-
annah, Rev. W. L. Brown; St.
James, Rev, S. C. Thornton;
Mobley Pond circuit, Millhaven,
Rev. William Mincey; Williams:
Chapel, Halcyondqle, Rev. E. J.
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B. C. Ford
Secretary
NUMRER 10
f;an Legion Post in the state of
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TB ASSO. TO SPONSOR
NIGHT OF STARS
A program, The Night of
Stars, featuring some of Sav¬
annah’s finest talent, will be
given at 8 o’clock Friday night,
December 17, at First African
Baptist church. Tire proceeds of
the affair will be given to the
Christmas Seal Sale fund spon-
sored by the Chatham-Savan-
nah Tuberculosis and Health
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John A. Singleton
Agency Officer: r ** r .