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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
YOU ME I.XXIV
NEW PRESIDENT Earl B.
Dickerson of Chicago was elected
president of Supreme Liberty Life
Insurance Company last week. The
nationally known attorney was
Horning of AML Uiiirch in
Suulli Carolina Looks Like Arson
Texas Man Finds $50,000;
Jailed For a Week
Ask Probe
Of Airport
Race Bias
V'wdngton. Dot. 13. Tn re-,
■ unc to a complaint filed by J j
Fi- n-is f'flhlhaus, counsel of the
NAACP Washington bureau, the
IT. s. Civil Aeronautic Adminis¬
trate’n has given assurance that
it is conducting "an official study”
to determine its powers to curb
racial discrimim'.tibh In airports.
Hr, Pohlhaus had written to the
C A A ii’-otesting" the denial of serv¬
ice to LI. Robert T. Dickerson, a
Negro jet pilot, in the restaurant
if the Birmingham airport i"".....i
Fontember 18. When seiwic-e was
refused I.t. Dickerson, the only
Negro in a group of U. S. Air
Force personnel, the other mem-
hers protested and refused to eat. j
Replying to Mr. Pohlhaus’ com- j
plaint, C. J. Lowen, acting CAA
administrator, said: “The Civil
Aeronautics Administration has’
initiated an official study of ac¬
tivities which may come within
the provision of the Federal Air-
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* "Doing is the great thing. For
if resolutely, people do what is
light, in time they come to like
tViig it..”—Buskin.
"People seldom improve when
they have no other model but
themselves to copy after.” —
Goldsmith.
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LIBERIANS HONOR
CONGRESSWOMAN
MONROVIA, Liberia—
Liberian social and official
were delighted to nonoi
woman Frances F iJoltcn oi t
u JU. ..mm _h-„ vi-iL-a 4
_ _
Slip iauaiinali ffriluuir
upped from position of executive
vice-president and general coun-
sel of the company he has been
an official of practically since
its founding'.
Dallas Texas (ANP).—What
started out as the joyous discov¬
ery of hidden treasure has turn¬
ed out to be a nightmare of more
than a week of days ami nignts
in jail for Jackson Davis, by pro¬
fession an odd jolts man.
To the NAACP, however, the
J( . ( .,iencc ( ,f events has meant the
denial of a Negro’s civil rights.
Beck in January, Davis discov¬
ered a real buried treasure of $50,-
000 in $20 and $50 gold certific¬
ates, which are no longer issued
these days, under the home;-of
W. A. Folder. Jr., while digifirig
a ditch on his job.
He took the money home, and
kept it. Finally, he decided to
spend some of his gold, found in
a vacuum bottle. He quit his job,
bought some furniture, a televis-
ion set and an automobile.
Sheriff Bill Decker heard about
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Texas Court Rules Desegregated School Districts
to State Funds
AUSTIN. Tex. The State
Supreme Court ruled last week
that districts which have deseg¬
regated their schools have a
right to state funds.
Tracing the U. S. Supreme
Court decision declaring that
segregation in the schools is
unconstitutional, the Texas Tri¬
bunal ruled that requirements
to the contrary are clearly in-
beria. Shown at one reception held
at the beautiful residence of Dr.
and Mrs Stephen D. Togba last
we{ . kj ., rt , left to 1 . jjrht:
The H on Fian.es Payne t, .-
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Color Smudge’ Denounced
IIv Vatican
VATICAN CITY, Oct. 17 111 a
blistering editorial in today's
Gsscrvatore Romano newspaper,
the Roman Catholics in the
United States were told, to rub
out the "color smudge" of
racialism from their "fine and
generous" civilization.
Total Raised Here To Fight Mississippi Terror Now $417.29
Local churches contributed
Si08.55 to the NAACP Fund to
Protest Mississippi Injustice, ac-
cording to C. Wimberly, local gen-
oral chairman. The local funds
gathered for this purpose now
ioal $417.29.
Mr. Wimberly explained that
Mississippi fund is not beittg
for use by the local
NAACP branch but the money is
sent tn 4 ¥ nation-wide NatIonal 0fflce
as a result of a a ¥
peal. The local NAACP branch
"ill still be compelled to wage a
commnnity drive to obtain funds
ASSO. TB BOARD
HEARS MRS. OSTWALD
Cn Wednesday, Oct. 12, the
Associate Board of the Chat-
ham-Savannah TB and Health
Association held its first fall
meeting at the West Broad
Street "Y.” Mrs. Helen Ostwald.
associate, program development
National TB Association, was
the principal speaker.
Instead of making a speech
Mrs. Ostwald cnooe >.u lead r
very detailed and Informative
discussion, posting observations
and making helpful suggestions
as the meet progressed Some
of the high points of discussior
were: better methods for find
ing TB in earlier stages and
protecting children against the
germ.
It was at this point that Mrs
Birdie Wheeler, chairman of
the publicity committee, ex¬
pressed alarm at finding that
Chatham County was experi¬
encing a case register of 731
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valid.
The ruling upheld Distric
Judge Charles Sullivan of Bif
Spring, who had. refused a
injunction against the Bi-
Wring independent school dis
trict barring it from spendin
■date money because it had in
tegrated the races at the ele
mentary school level.
Attorney General John Bei
Shepperd had- joined with tlv
Texas Citizens Council, a pro
segregation group, that segre
gation was the law in Texa'
and that the U. S. Suprenr
Court had neVpassed upon any
Texas case.
Rporh ill IJj null
OF Students
The following student* at Beach
High School attained an average
if 95 perce.it ana amove for the
"irst six weeks of school;
12(1). Margaret Solomon,
leta Smith.
12(4), Rosalyn Sturdy, John
Gaynus.
12(5), Mary Arnold.
12(7), Laurelia Thompson.
12(8), Harriet Harris, Jewel
Sim mons.
11(2). Delbert Glover, Gladys
Lambert.
11(4) Gloria Mosley, E 1 i s e
Hooks.
11(6), Harriet Brown.
10(2), Joyce Young.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, OCTOIIER 20, 1955
It praised Archbishop Joseph
Francis Rummel for closing the
Santa Cecelia Mission at Jesuit
Bend. L,a., because it excluded
a Negro priest and would not
let him say mass.’
A fling was taken by the
editorial at the many crimes of
for its program.
The list of this week's contrib¬
utors is as follows:
Second Bryan Baptist Church,
Rev. Cecil Shellman, pastor, $(’>.00;
St:. Paul CME Church, Rev. J. L.
Key, pastor, $15.85; St. Luke Bap-
tist Church, Rcv. \V. C. Cunning-
ham> pasto ,. ; S!M)(); M rs. Georgia
Wjilk(ll ., $-7() . Woods Monumental
Baptist chur( . hj Rcv . P . H . Hunt-
er, pastor. $11.00; First African
Baptist Church of East Savannah,
F!cv E j, Roper, pastor, $5.00;
Baptist Ushers Union, Deacon Al-
belt Jackson, president, $25.00;
Lake City, S. C.—(ANP)—An
AME minister, whose church was
destroyed by a fire believed to
l>e an act of arson, will stay on
in South Carolina according to
Bishop Frank H- Reid.
The Rev. J. a. DeLanie return¬
ed here after attending a church
conference in Columbia and stated
he would remain a.s pastoi of the
St. James AME Church despite
having received offers from New
York and Washington, D. C.
Speculation that Rev. DeLaino
might leave South Carolina began
ftei it was revealed that he had
received an anonymous letter or¬
dering him to leave Lake City
within ten days. The letter
turned over to the FBI.
Bishop Reid said he had return¬
ed Rev. DeLanie to Lake City aft¬
er explaining to him that he did
not have to go back if he didn’t
want to. The bishop said he docs
not believe it is necessary for Rcv.
DeLanie to run.
Bishop Reid explained that he
feels there is no comparison lie-
| ween the tension in Mississippi
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Judge Few Brewster, in tlv
ourt’s unanimous decision de
lared: "That proposition is s
tterly without merit that w
verrule it without further dis
ussion.
Judge Brewster’s decision an.
■ concurring opinion by Judg<
leade Griffin held that school
•hich have integrated- are en
itled to state financial aid un-
’er the Gilmer-Aiken laws, or
,he same basis of schools which
lave thus far retained segre¬
gation.
Gov. Allan Shivers promptly
asserted in a prepared state-
nent that “neither the Texas
TO ATTEMPT TO ORGANIZE INTERRACIAL
oper A T!VE GROUP HERE
Dr Guy H Wells, executive
director, Georgia Committee on
Interracial Cooperation, an¬
nounces that Dr. William Heard
Kilpatrick and L’r. Mozelle Hill
will be In the ‘ city, Tuesday.
Oct. 25.
Dr. KilpuU-.CK nd Dr. Hill
will speak at, the Parish House
of Christ Episcopal Church, 18
Abercorn Street, at 8 p. m. The
public is invited.
The purpose of the meeting
is to present a sane and pro¬
gressive view of interracial
cooperation with the hope that
a unit may be organized here.
Dr. Kilpatrick, a native of
Greene County, Georgia, is a
racialist! in the United States
and it specifically mentioned
the lynching in Mississippi of
14-year-old Emmet Till, a Ne¬
gro boy from Chicago.
"In the United States," Os-
servatore Romano said, “the
Holy Zion Church of East Savan¬
nah, Elder Richardson, pastor,
$7.50; Coptic Church Club, Fr.
Toney Everhart, founder, $10.00;
Union Branch Baptist Church,
Rev. C. K. Sapp, pastor, *'.’.00:
Butler Presbyterian Church, Rcv.
P. A. Patterson, pastor. *19.30;
!I1( | .m t. Z.ion Baleniont
Church, the Rev. R. H.
Two (iiiniiiwi Hold-up
Savannah Pharmacy
EARL FONVIELLE, CLfcRK, SEKiOUSlAf SHOT
Two gunmen walked into
Savannah Pharmacy, 7PJ We.-.t
Broad street, Tuesc’-ay night,
pulled their guns, held up the
attendants in the store and
seriously shot one of them.
The shot employee is W. Ear!
Fonvlelle, 38. clerk, who was hit
in his right side, tne bullet
emerging from the left side.
37-yr-Old Mol her Burned foBeulh
Rescue Her Son
In a vftirv effort to save her
11 year old son a 37-year old
mother was burned to death
Monday morning early as their
home was destroyed by fire
Both Mrs. Nether Giles and her
son, Arthur F. Edwards, went to
their deaths in the flames
which burned down their home
on U. S. Route 80, near Central
Junction,
Upon arrival of the fire de-
partment at the scene the fire
i was too far advanced for them
to save the house,
On being awakened by the
flames, Mrs. Riles carried one
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mr the United States supreme
ourt has said- that schools
lust de-segregate immediate-
The governor added: "The
oral school districts still must
make the decision with respect
o desegregation . . no school
listrirt should feel compelled
o take hasty or unnecessary
| ction.”
Shepperd agreed with the
;overnor’s view, and asserted
again his contention that "up
until this time, segregation has
been the law in Texas.” He
said- he would uphold the law
as declared by the court “or
"■■orn Columbia university. Dr
Hill, a native of Arkansas, is
chairman of the department, of
Sociology at Atlanta university.
DeJOlE. INS. MAN.
DIFS IN NEW ORLEANS
NEW ORLEANS (ANP)
Funeral services w held here
last week for Prudhome J. E 1)'--
joie, chairman of the board of di¬
rectors of the Louisiana Life In¬
surance Company, and president
of the Louisiana Undertaking
Company.
Mr. Dejoie, son of Dr. P II
V. Dejoie, who founded the first
successful Negro life insurance
omnany in New Orleans, had been
Tight against such Inhuman
and barbarous prejudice must
be supported by all those citi¬
zens who want to remove this
'color smudge’ from the world
fame of the fine and generous
civilization of that great na¬
tion."
pastor, $5 00.
• Last week, the ltev. \V. M. K
Miller was erroneously listed as
he pastor of the Z.ion liil! Bap
tist Church. Rcv. Miller pastors
Zion White Blurf Baptist Church.
The church making the contribu-
jon last week was Z.ion Hill Bap¬
tist Church, Deacon Buford Bran
nen, secretary.
The gunmen, Negroes who
ipparontly were about 40 years
of age. entered the store about
10 o'clock, tarried about a min¬
ute looking into the cigar case
and then one of them walked
over to Mr. Fonvlelle, who was
standing nearby, pushed a gun
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SYNOD CONVENES AT
BUTLER PRESBYTERIAN
The Atlantic Synod of the
Presbyterian Church, USA.,
which encompasses the states
of South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida, will meet at Butler
Presbyterian church, Victory
Drive and Burroughs street,
October 26, 27, 27. Among the
more than 150 commissioners
coming to the meeting will be
Dr. J B. Barber, secretary of
work in the Atlantic, Blue Ridge
and Canadian synods, Negro
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such new _______ laws on the ' V, „ subject chinrt
as may be passed by the legis¬
lature.”
Judge Brewsters declsioi
pointed out that the U. S. Su-
preme Court declared "the
fundamental principle that ra¬
cial discrimination In public
education is unconstitutional
and that "all provisions o'
federal, state or local law re
quiring or permitting sue!
discrimination must yield tf
this princip'e.”
The suit against the Biu
Spring District was brought by
four tax-payers and the Citi¬
zens Council. It was intended a.s
Honor List At
Woodville
The principal of Woodville High
School, James E. Luten wishes to
announce that the following pu¬
pils have made the honor list for
the first G weeks of school.
Seventh grades: Isabel! Jones,
Delores Singleton, Willie James
Miller. Lois Brown, Freddie Me-
Gilt, Helen Smalls, Rosalie \ oung.
Theodore Anderson, A r n o 1 d
Smalls, Gloria Jean Allen, Rosa¬
line Frazier, Josephine Kimble,
Wilbur Walker.
Eighth g r a d <• s: McArthur
Fields, Inez West, Rosa Bryant,
Lemuel Campbell, Mary Johnson.
Celestine Franklin, Frances Mac-
key. George Jackson,
Member Audit Bureau C’irculationi
Price 10c
Bessie Buchanan (in private life Mrs. Charles Buchanan), New
York State’s first Negro assembly won an, relaxes in the BareaLonian
reclining chair- first of a brand new line presented to her hy one of
the state’s long established industries, tlv Barcalo Manufacturing
Company of Buffalo. Chair was given to Mrs. Buchanan in recogni¬
tion of "her outstanding abilities and hat'd work, and in ol der to make
Occasional moments of leisure even more relaxing.
Since her election in Novembc- 1951, Mrs. Buchanan has devoted
her particular attention and cnei '.nr-, between Houston? of the slate
Ugisiatuix, toward the grave problem of juvenile delinquency and
remedies.
White Minister Blasts ‘Anti-
Christian’ Sesrreeration » Ad
ARLINGTON. Ya„ (ANF)~
A local white minister recently
cut loose with a verbal blast
against segregationalists w h o
planted an "anti-Christ inn” seg¬
Women Ask Church To Drop
\11 Racial Harriers
New York (ANP) The nation
nl executive committee of the
Women's Division of Christian
Service of the Methodist Church,
has voted to petition the 1956
General Conference to take action
to abolish all racial harriers with
in the denomination.
The action was taken at a con¬
ference here recently, and received
the unanimous approval of tin
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51 a test fpst. case C! to determine the le¬
gality of state aid to integrated
schools.
Sprinkled liberally through
out the Gilmer-Aiken fmancm
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TO ADDRESS ,vlr,.v S (.LI ,i
Lawrence D. Perry, cashier and
member of the board of direc-
tors of Carver Savings bank
will speak at the regular Men’
Club meeting at the St. Mat¬
thew’s Episcopal church Mon¬
day at 8 00 p. rn.
Mr. Perry is a graduate of
Atlanta university, and wu
formerly affiliated with
Atlanta Life Insurance Com-
NUMBER 2
regation advertisement in a coun¬
ty newspaper by a group called
"The Defenders."
In a ringing sermon, the Rev.
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Widow Gives
$20,000 To
Ornhanasre
Burbank, Calif. (ANP).--Ike
widow of novelist Theodore Drois-
.-i-i has left about $20,000 to a
“worthy Negro orphanage.” ac¬
cording to the terms of her will
filed for probate in Superior
Court last week.
A heating lias been set for Oct.
2ti on the will of Mrs. Helen Esth¬
er Dreisser, who died Sept. 22 in
I Gresham, Ore.
PERSONAL MENTION
Friends of Charles Stiles,
proprietor of Stiles Dry Goods
Shop, will be pleased to know-
lie is getting along fine after
an operation at the Veterans
hospital at Dublin, Ga.
GRADUATED — Naval Aviation
Cadet Clifford W. Gibson o£
1617 Cochran Avenue, Bruns¬
wick. Ga., graduated from th¬
us. Naval Pre-Flight School at
Pensacola, Fla., on October 1
Gibson attended Morris
Brown college before entering
the Naval Aviation Cadet Pro¬
gram through the Naval Air
Station at Atlanta.