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1 f A j r PUBLIC CONTINUOUS YEARS SERVICE OF
VOLUME I,XXIV
ROBERT W. GADSDEN SCHOOL TO BE DEDICATED SUNDAY
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Dedicatory ceremonies for
the new Robert W. Gadsden
elementary school will be held
Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’¬
clock and will be highlighted
by an address by Superintend-
W. A. Early, Superintendent
oi Schools, who will the
principal speaker.
R. W. Gadsden, retired
school principal, after whom
the new school is named.
N. B. Elmore, Principal
ent of Schools William A. Early.
The 22 -classroom school which
was completed just before
opening of school in September
and is located at Magnolia and
Waldburg streets, is named
after Robert W. Gadsden,
ly known retired local school
nrincipal and , of , „ . ,
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MAGNOLIA MEMORIAL PARK which was dedicated Sunday afternoon. The cemetery is
near the eight-mile post on the Ogeechee road. P erpetual care is one of the many features of
Savannah's newest and most modern burial ground.
iaiumnah fribuir
NAAC^ Legal Defense Fund
Gets Award of $50,000
Magnolia Memorial Park
Dedicated Sunday
was made to the NAACP Legal
Defense and Educational Fund.
Inc., by the Fund for the Re¬
public, Thurgood Marshall
Director-Counsel of Legal De¬
fense, announced today.
The grant is the first made
to the NAACP Legal Defense
Fund by the Fund for the
Republic and is the 1
given to it by any fuod in
he May li, 1954, U. S. Supreme
j Court c-ecision proclaiming seg-
regation in public .schools a
violation of the Federal Con-
| stitution.
The Fund for the Republic is
in independent corporation
founded in 1952 to promote the
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YOUTH WHO QUIT
SANG SLAIN
Booklyn, (ANP). — William
Beck, HLyear-oU 5th term Boy-.j
High School student, \va tabbed !
to death on the ideas of his home
Wednesday. Eight teen-ager., were j
held. Three, 15 years old, were
•■harged with juvenile delinquency
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The victim had quit a gang and
joined the Police Athletic League!
11 id Boy Scouts and attended :
Brown Memorial Baptist Church, i
He sought to reform after being
ih ruled in rare of his atfflt f- <! Oti ■!
ing a vandalism sharge. 1
Young Beck was reported to
have talked about the sale of a
shotgun by a juvenile gang lee.
lie was chased by a group when]
he left school early Wednesday,
His chasers caught him a he
frantically rang the doorbell at :
the of knife entrance wounds of his in home. the He died] of
arms j
his aunt, Elizabeth Hollman, who
responded too Jate to intervene.
Three other youths of the Bed¬
ford Stuyvesant area went on trial
Monday in a teen-age shotgun
slaying, which occurred last year.
Veterans To Hold
Armistice Day Program
, The Forest City Ver
Council will celebrate its a
I Veterans (Armisticei Day- pro-
gram with special services at
the YMCA Friday night, Nov.
11, at eight o'clock.
Highlights of this program
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COKREUTION
It was inadvertently slated
last week in a writeup of the
funeral of Rev. Chestei A Dun- I
ham that the funeral arran i
ments were in charge of the
Bynes-Royall Undertaking Com- ]
[ pany. This was incorrect as the
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Sidney . , A. Jones , Funeral „ ... Home
had charge c- • tie funeral. '
CHOIR PROGRAM
NOVEMBER
NYw York N. Y. Oct.
November schedule for
series of programs by
college choirs,
(he American
in cooperation with
Negro College Fund,
today by W. J.
executive director of the
The schedule is ns follows:
mber G, the choir of
ville College, Knoxville, Tenn.,
e heard under the direction
Newell C. Fitzpatrick;
3, that of Livingstone
Salisbury, N. C., directed by
M. Thomas; on November 20,
Kemper Harrold conducts
<;| pe Club of Morehouse
\Uanta, Ga., and the
broadcast will feature the
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HOUSEWIFE
EREFD IN SLAYING OF
TEGRO YOUTH
Norfolk, Va. (ANP). -
V“«r-ol«l white housewife, who
ported to have told police
shot and killed a Negro who
Y,;,te4 h, ' r was freed
technil:Hl char b' e " f niurtcr
week.
M: . Mary Cynthia
told officers that she shot
Greenhill, 19, who was found
|y wounded a block away
the Whitehurst residence.
Interest was aroused in the
after a neighbor reported she
m-cii Greenhill going to the
hurst home on several
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p 15-Yr-Old j Mail Shot to Death
Iii Argument Overdue Dollar
Policeman Accused of Arson
Commits Suicide
MARION, Ala. — (ANP) —
suspended Selma
accused of setting fire to
Negro’s house a week ago,
himself to death in an
bile near here last
William D. Bailey, 32, was
of six persons accused of
dents involving Negroes in
ma. He had been free on
bond.
Sheriff Bill Loftis said
was with two friends who
repairing an automobile
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1955
Accused Slayer of Drug
Cleric Arrested in Florida
Oik* of the two hold-up men
who entered the Savannah
Pharmacy, 719 Wc.st Broad
street, on the night of October
14 and fatally shot W. Earl
Fotiveille, clerk, was arrested
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new perpe¬
tual care for Negroes, Magnolia
Memorial Park, was officially
dedicated Sunday afternoon.
The cemetery is located near
the eight-mile post on the
Ogecchce road, south of the
Dean Forrest road.
The Rev. J. S. Bryan, pastor
of St. Philip’s AME church, was
the principal speaker, and the
city was represented by Alder-
man E. R. Cook, III, mayor pro-
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RltCS liclu IVIO It U 8V
For Thomas R. Lowe
Funeral services for Thomas
R. Lowe were held Monday at
St. Philip AME church with
the pastor, Rev. J. S. Bryan,
officiating.
Music was rendered by the
choir of the Sidney A. Jones
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Highway Five, about eight miles
north of Marion. The friends
:aid Bailey complained that he
was cold and got in the car.
A few minutes later they
heard a shot, and found Bailey
I mortally wounded in the auto¬
mobile.
Among those accused with
Bailey in the Negro incidents
was another Selma police offi¬
cer, Sgt. Clyde F. Pressley, also
under suspension. He is charged
with kidnapping John Sturdi¬
vant, a Negro porter, and
driving him 10 miles out in the
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SIX MORE CHURCHES
GIVE TO MISSISSIPPI
FUND
Six churches contributed to
the “NAACP Fund to Protest
j Mississippi Injustice”
| the C. Wimberly, last two weeks, -according to
general chairman.
The total sum of $481.30 has
■ been contributed over a period
jof one month by 41 churches,
as well as a few interested or-
' ganizatlons and individuals.
Mr. Wimberly stated.
The six churches sending
contributions are: First Friend-
ship Baptist church, Rev. G. R
Connor, pastor, $14.80; United
Church of God and Christ, Rev.
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$2110,000 Oil
Tickets
New York (ANP).—Among the
$140,000 first prize winners in the
Irish Sweep Stakes were u letter
carrier and a steel molder, both of
Greater New York. Holding
tickets on Retrial, winner in the
Cambridge Stakes in England,
were Arthur Burke, 55, of 120A
Bninhridge street, Brooklyn, postal
worker, and John Major, 01, of 21
S. 17th street, East Orange, N.
Y., steel worker.
Burke and his wife, Mrs.
Quecuie Burke, said tHoy were
overjoyed by their good fortune.
They declared they would use the
money wisely. Burke lias been buy¬
ing $3,000 Sweeps tickets for 25
Years.
Major and his wife, Mrs. Ethel
Majors and other members of his
family celebrated in their home.
Majors who is employed at the
Singer Sewing Machine Co., in
Elizabeth port, N. J., bus taken
tickets for rnahy years. He said
he would use his winnings to pay¬
off the mortgage on his home and
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Address NCNW
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guest SPEAKER — The local
chapter of the National Council j i
I of Negro Women will present
Mrs. William Holmes Borders I
of Atlanta as their guest speak- i
er Sunday afternoon, 5 o’clock
| at Butler Presbyterian church.
The public Is invited.
Mrs. Borders is the wile Of
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debt became too heated Monday
night and one of the disputants
was shot to deatji.
The victim was Benjamin
35, of 522 Mill street, the
of five children, and Un¬
who fired the fatal blast
a .410 shot gun was Henry
42, of 1G N. Falun
street. He was charged with
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E. W. Pope, Ins. Agent,
Buried Monday
E. W. Pope
Funeral services for Elliott W. I
Pope were held Monday at
First Bryan Baptist church,-the
Rev. Richard M. Williams, pas-i
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Heads Presbyterian
Synod " %•
Photo by Freeman -
KEEN TED PRESIDENT — Rev. I
P. A, Patterson, pastor of J
Butler Presbyterian church, i |
who vvas unanimously elected
president of the Atlantic Synod
ol the Presbyterian Church
which convened here October
26-28 at the above church.
More than two hundred dele¬
gates from South Carolina.
Georgia and Florida attended
the meeting.
Dr. Jesse B. Barber, adminis-
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CONTEST¬
ANNOUNCED
Sigma Gamma Rho sorority
proud to have the following
ladies as contestant:
“Miss Rhomania” this year
Drucilia Moore, Miss Jane
Miss Glorlft Scott, Miss
Stokes and Miss Carolyn
These charming young ladle,
all students of the local
and junior high schools
contest will officially close
November 1,0. ,
Soror Nancy Collier was host¬
to the sorority on last Mon¬
evening, at her beautiful
on East Victory Drive.
We regret that two soror:
ill: Sorors Jeanette Hayes
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in Mississippi
LAMAR, Miss, i ANP) — It
been reported that a 12-
Negro boy was found
this week at Lamar,
90 miles from Money,
Emmett Louis Till was
and slain.
The latest victim, Timed Hud¬
was found near the home
a white farmer, where he
worked as a farm hand.
to reports, the boy’s
had been crushed and
ribs and an arm broken.
The mutilated body was
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^^ESTANTS ^ _ These five
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Joy n<J attractive teen-agers
g th(J charming contestants
for the title of "MissRhomania.’
Member Audit Bureau Circulatioui
Price 10c
Dean Odum To
Address Local NAACP
Rev. E. J. Odum, Jr.
Dean Edward J. Odum, Jr., of
Theological Seminary,
Brown college, Atlanta,
address a public meeting of
local NAACP branch Wed¬
nesday night, Nov. 9, it was an¬
nounced by W. W. Law, the
branch president.
The meeting will be held at
the Be the] AME church, Gwin¬
nett lane and East Broad
the theme of which will
“Desegregation.” The public
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Baptists To Meet Nov. 15-
I!) DR. Mil) loo M VUK E
Final plan have been mapped j
for the annual session of the Gen
oral Missionary Baptist Conven
tion of Georgia, Dr. L, A. Pink¬
ston, president, to be held with
Metropolitan Baptist, Church, Co-1
lumbiiN, Gu., Dr. C. C. Cloud, host j
pastor, Nov. 15-17.
The theme of the meeting will!
be: the Hope n/L the World.
Representatives of the National |
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i They are, 1., Miss Gloria Scott;
' Moore; 3.,
2 . Miss Drucilia
j Jane Morgan; and 5., 4.. Miss Miss Carolyn
j Vinson,
NUMBER 4
Convention, lac., USA Dr.
II. Jackson, Chicago, president,
Dr. L. A. Pinkston, first vice
will lie; Rev. Taschereau
Ministerial Retirement
Dr. R. Juliar Smith, South¬
regional Board of Educa¬
Dr. K. W. Riley, Nashville,
American Baptist Theo¬
Seminary, Dr. E. 1). Law-
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i Stokes.
The contest is sponsored by
j the Sigma Gamma Rho suro-