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■ r 4 CONTINUOUS YEARS OF
" PUBLIC SERVICE
STATE SCHOOLS CANNOT DELAY
ADMISSION OF NEGRO STUDENTS
Local Airman Fatally Hurt
In Texas, Buried
Here Tuesday
Tile i urrerui of Airman See-
ond Class l''rank Eason was
held Tuesday afternoon at SI.
Philip Monumental AMIS church,
the Rev. William L. Brown,
pastor, delivering the eulogy.
Interment was in Lincoln Me¬
morial cemetery. Wiliams v
-Williams Funeral Home was in
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on page Severn
Louisiana Voters Law Back
fires Against Whites
New Orleans Undertaker
Gets Tax Sentence
Urban League
(Jets $50,000
Grant
.'NEW A ORK — (ANP) — The
National Urban Longue announced
(Jie receipt for $50,000 from the
Fund for the Republic, which will
be used to finance a two-year edu-
rational program.
Lester 15. Granger, the League’s
national executive director, stated
that the purpose of the program
i£ to provide league con ultunt and
informational : ervicc-; in the field
of industrial relation- to manage-
fltent and labor in an effort to ex-
Jpid employment opportunities for
m agrees in the growing
4,ation of the South. ., ,,
According to the announcement,
the program will have three major
eftiphases: (1) conferences, insti-
tutes and interviews with union
leaders; (2) conferences with per-
senal heads of corporations; and
(3) on-the-spot visits to plant per-
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Chatham County
Teacher of the Year
j
'»Mrs. Sadie Steele, first grade
I*arher at Haven Home School,
has been selected as the teacher
of the vear for Chatham County.
■ Mis. Steele is the daughter of
the late Charles Davis and Mrs.
Mamie L. Davis and the wife of
on seven)
Crilirntf
OMEGAS TO HOLD
DISTRICT MEETING
Augusta, Ga. — The three-da>
nineteenth annual meeting of the
Seventh District of Omega Psi Phi
Fraternity is scheduled for March
21) 3I, W. 0. Gaines, of Atlanta,
dk Diet representative, announced.
Father If. Albion Ferrell of
West Chester, Pa., grand chaplain
is scheduled to speak at. the pub-
lie meeting on the district’s theme.
“Individual’s Responsibility in the
| Transition Period.”
Other national officers sehedul-
j ed to attend the meeting are J. T.
Brooks of Montgomery, first vice
grand basileus commission and
i immediate past grand basileus.
The district scholarship contest
is be'mg judged by Dean ft. A.
Garter of Alabama A. & M. Col
! lege, Normal, Ala.
l'si Omega Chapter, headed by
f. E. Washington, is serving a
; host to the meeting.
NEW ORLEANS — (ANP) —
J. Trosper Willie, prominent New
Orleans undertaker who pleaded
guilty last week to charges of
evading $4,459.29 in income taxes
in 1949 and 1950, was given a
five year suspended sentence by
Federal Judge Ren C. Dawkins.
The probation term was approv-
e d after Willie agreed to pay the
taxes with accrued interest.
Willie once served a one-yeai
' term for filil « fabe dainis »'
| connection witli a school of mor-
| tuary New science Orleans. which lie directed
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/\j PUAS TO MEET
IN i», DURHAM i»>n * »■
! DURHAM, N. C.—North Caro-
j |ina>s f ailied .. Bull City” of Dur-
ham is busily , making ready ,
; influx of , Alpha .. , men and , their ,, •
;- : ti
wives expected to attend the
pha Phi ’Alpha Southern Regional
i Convention here March
Delegates will come from the
linas, Georgia, Alabama,
pi, Florida, and Tennessee.
300 delegates and their wives
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GETS HEALTH POST —Mrs.
lores Moore Carter, of
was recently appointed to a
flight position by the U. S.
Health Service. Mrs. Carter
work among the Navajo
^ ^ mw , indian hea!th
Tuba City, Arizona. ^ She
m
erly served in Afghanistan
thf> rnternational Cooperation
list ration (ANP).
WASHINGTON, D. C.—By a
unanimous vote the U. S. Sup¬
reme Court rendered a ruling
tills week that tax supported
universities must not delay the
admission of Negro giaduate
students.
The decision was rendered in
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I
SECTION LEADERS meeting with their division Managers, Captains, and workers at the West |
Broad Street Branch YMCA, planning for the 1050 Y Membership Campaign. !
L. to R. seated, Mrs. Carrie Massey, Miss Catherine Gamble, Rev. Peter Holmes, Joseph U. I
Jenkins, Samuel A. Jones, Mrs. C. O. Ryals, A. T. Pope.
Standing L. to R„ Dunbar Reed, Norman B. Elmore, George Robeson, John McGloekton.
Robert Johnson, Walker Stringer, Theodore Roberts, William Solomon, S. R. Jones, Ira Stafford,
Paul S. Dunmorc/Mrs. Gladys Bazemore, Mrs. Catherine Newton, Mrs. Esther Mike, Rev. J. L Key
MJNDF.N, La. — (ANP)
Louisiana registrar of voters dis-
closed last week that a state law
desigued to curtail Negro voters
is working against whites.
Mrs. Minnie P. Clement, regis-
trar of W ebster Parish, said a law
which requires all prospective vot-
er to read any clause of the U. S.
C onstitution and give a reasonable
interpretation of it is
Mrs Clement said that since she
received an order to enforce the
law, 24 whites have flunked the
test, compared to only two Ne¬
groes who failed.
Perhaps the factor which has
had most to do-with the situation
is that Mrs. Clement has insisted
applying the law equally to
whites and Negroes.
Sire admits knowing that tl
itkmtinuerl in Page Severn
Student Who Defied Univ.
! BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ANP)
_
j Leonard Wilson, one of the
| who led protest
white students
< riots against the admission of
! Aulherine Lucy to the college, lias
! dared university officials to throw
him out.
Wilson, addressing a white citi-
zen council meeting, said that the
University of Alabama needs a
“top to bottom house-cleaning.”
He said a university panel in¬
vestigating the student riots is
I engaging in a “witch hunt” and
described the prube as an “inquisi-
i tion.”
Wilson singled out University
President Oliver G. Carmichael
for attack, and declared that Car¬
michael's attempt to quiet the race
I issue is “bog wash.”
Georgian Get* $266
For Ham
FT. VALLEY, a., March 14.
The price of hogs being what
is (around 13 cent , per pound)
Sinunon Felton, Negro farmer
Macon County, thinks $266.20
a pretty fair price for a
ham.
Felton’s 22-pound ham,
grand champion ham at the
nual Tort Valley Ham ami
show heye j HSt week, brought
thgt at auction. The going
chanted hy auctioneer F. R. Spen
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1956
Russwurm Winners
Are Announced
Catholics Oppose Aid
For Schools
NEW YORK — (ANP) — The I
executive board of the Association •
of Catholic Trade Unionists went
j on record last week as favoring
a holdup of federal aid to segre-
1 gated schools.
| I would “It is be clear in violation that any of the such spirit, aid j I
1 arid tpiite possibly the letter, of j
of the !
oau/l'I i THREATENS TO RESIGN HIS SEAT
WASHINGTON — (ANP) — \
j Rep. Adam Clayton Powell said I |
last week that he might resign I
y s sea ^ j n Congress to devote more |
i““” time to vu the v,re National Deliverance
j k* a J' of Prayer Committee .. “if the ;
j movement extends itself and is I
i successful.”
| p oweli a Democratic presents- 1
. l
tive from New York, already has j
taken a five-week leave of absence i
i from his post a:; pastor of Abys-1
| Miss Lucy was expelled, said
j | university officials, because the good she
uttered words against
J name “The of worst the school. they could do to
i
j me Well, is kick if they me kick out, said out II I ilson.
me can
|' alwa Four >' s day» to after Mississippi.” Wilson flung
his challenge, the university had
showed no indication that it in¬
tended to throw him out. Indeed,
officials had not even commented
on his brazen demonstration.
WILSON EXrELLEI), 24
OTHERS riWSHED
TUSCALOOSA Ala., Mar. 12—
Leonard It. Wilson, 20 year old
student from Selma, Ala., who
Is said to have led the demon-
strations against the presence
of a Negro student, Authenne
j Lucy, at the University of
Alabama, was expelled today
from the University by the
university trustees.
Twenty other students who
participated in the mob action
against the first Negro student
the university admitted, re¬
ceived less punishment. Four
of them were suspended and a
less severe punishment was
given 20 other students, three
ol whom, it is said, have with¬
drawn from the school.
Wilson is said to he a rabid
member of a White Citizens
Council which is dedicated, to
the retention of segregated
schools.
School Hoard Post
WINSTON-SAT EM, N. C. —
(ANP) — Samuel Lee Hamlin, 41-
year-old Carver High School
teacher filed last week as a Deni-
erratic candidate for the Forsyth
Board of Education.
Hamlin, a native of Winston-
Salem, came out for a “sound,
W(,rkahlc '“’'• at »“ na! edm-M pro-
^ ram for t he e " t, ^. C0U n ^ a pro
gram we do I not _ have now.” _
He ha taught in the county
system for eight years and has
the association declared in
statement released to the press
Wednesday.
The Catholic unionists said fed¬
aid to segregated schools
also be a step backward in
struggle struggle to to attain attain the the goal goal of of
which goal is based
moral, as well as
sinia Baptist Church to act
chairman of the movement whic h
®
prayer March 28 for full equality
of American Negroes.
p lJ owe ° wel1 jj told toW a a group g rou p of 3,000
persons last week that lie would
ask President Eisenhower to meet
with Negro and white spiritual
^ t,ie if
only for five minutes, . if only
~' ..... ” even .....
0,1 t,le ste P* of tl,e While House,
to pray with them."
been a vocational teacher for four
ears. He now teaches diversified
j occupations (vocational work) in
'be eleventh and twelfth
at Carver.
A graduate of Livingston
lege at Salisbury, Hamlin is
ried to the former Sarah
of f Kerne,.,He. ney ave
children.
Besides hiscofeaching duties, ir
op( rat, a lloral and gilt ‘
,
1 which he opened several years
13 .—Winners of the 1956 Russ¬
Awards were announced this
by tbc National Newspa-
pci Publishers Association on a
broadcast observing the 129th
anniversary of the founding of the
Negro Press in America.
The ten citation.., ghen annually
by the NNPA, recornize
and organizations which have,
possible a richer conception
of democratic principles and ior
upholding the highest traditions of
the American way of Life.”
Recognized this year are: Dr.
T. R. M. Howard, Mound Bayou,
Mississippi, who lias led llic "fight
for Negro lights” in Mi--issippi;
Archbishop Joseph Francis
mcl (if the f atholic diocese of New
Orleans, for Ins affirmation of *h?
principal of desegregation in New
Orleans parochial svhnolu; The
Ford Foundation, for it'
aiding schools and hospital.' , I tic
Negro cithern; of Montgoinc*i y.
Ala., for their non-violent
against segregation.
Steve Allen and hi.; NRG
(Continued on Page Hi
N. C. Mutual Has Assets
Of
In keeping with the progre
the industry, North Carolina
tual Life Insurance Company,
office, Durham, North
made substantial progress
U)r ^ , fh(i Kmoun( (>f itl nrmnce
force increased fiom 1205,472,681
to $219,591,797, a gain of 314,
110 as compared with a gain ol
311,833,803 during the year
fhe admitted assets at the
of 1965 totalled $49.K!:M8:5.11,
Commenting on the
of the company at the
Policyholders Meeting hold
ary 9, 1956, President
stated that, the goals insurance' for
were $220 million
force and $50 million in
assets. He expressed great,
for the fine performance
^ agency force in achieving
a high percentage of the
Extending his remarks,
was made to the fact
I among Hie 160 life coinpanie;
| ticipating in the Reinsurance
|covering the group in urvnce
I employees of our Federal
I merit, North Carolina Mutual
included on the list. This
tion, together with other achieve
menU, afford the company’s
: sentatives an opportunit y to de
'Continued on Page seven,
Teachers of The Year In Bryan, Jcnkin s and Effingham Counties
A
MRS. i: vi I LL 1 f. < KIM MR • LARA 15. GAY :S ' , r. HAMILTON
Bryan County Jen!;ms County EfDngham County
At the last regnbi f>tinp- of
tf)p g rvan I’minty T A so-
cifwou, M ls. K«i«Ha F -I T rim,
first grade teacher emhroke
Hipjh School, was ele ‘ I cauhtr
of the Year” for h County.
Only two teachers w< iminaled
(Coutinped on Page Seven,-
Member Audit Bureau Circulation!
Price 10c
Mrs. Kidd, Speaker at
Kickoff Meeting of
Y Membership Drive
NAACP TO STAGE
PRAYER MEETING
The Savannah Branch of the
National Association for the Ad¬
vancement of Colored People will
hold a special prayer service for
Montgomery, Alabama, ministers
and leaders who were arrested for
protesting bus seating arrange¬
ments, it was announced by W.
W. Law, the branch president.
The prayer service will be held
on Sunday afternoon, March 18,
at 4 o'clock at the Conner’s Tem¬
ple Baptist Church, Rev. W. W.
Whitehead, pastor.
The special NAACP prayer
meeting will be conducted on the
day before the 90-ood Negro lead-
i go on trial in a Montgomery
I cour* for the alleged violation of
lone-forgotten and unenforced
late 1 iw prohibiting boycotts.
Local ministers will have com¬
plete charge of the prayer meet¬
ing. The : evei, I ministerial bodies
have been asked to assist with
j the program.
j The Montgomery boycott began
: Inst. December when Mrs. Rosa
j Pai'l.f, "cirtary of the Montgom¬
ery NAACP branch, was arrested
and fined for refusing to move to
the rear of a city bus. For 14
j \\ cob -i, under the leadership of the
1 Rev. M. L. Kina', Jr., and the Rev.
,
Ralph Abernathy, through “pray¬
j er meetings” and non-violent, pas-
| ive re i.dunce, practically every
Negro in Montgomery has refused
to vide the city buses,
j |t is expected that thousands
• continued on Page Seven;
„ AlCV , \ clSG rfll lllBOWll
| V
j - llltO . g-^ VdOUFt *
j
BIRMINGHAM. Ala., March 9.
1 1 >.iti( \ for Miss Autheiine J.
.
| Lucy filed a motion today in Bir-
| mingham asking the Federal Dis-
trie I. Court to disregard the Uni-
j veraity of instruct Alabama University expulsion offi-
order and
jcials to readmit tlie Negro srtu-
dent,
The motion called upon Federal
1,1 t- 1 if, Hobart Grooms, who
■
i originally ordered the University, admittance
| of Miss Lucy to the
|1° 129. amond which instructed h,s ord ‘‘ r the of University * ebrUftry
to terminate it exclusion of Miss
1 1 lK from tiie campus by 9:00 A.
i M., March 5, to provide for her
readmes,on . , in timo for the fall
scmestei.
j The attorneys did not urge her
j Lj^. j 1Tlwie diat«> leadmittance because of
time Lucy has lost as a
of t j ie University’s expul-
s j on ori | or . The lawyers termed
the expul don order “a legally in- j
effective interference with the per
forma nee of duty incumbent on
1h , I ml under thU Court s or
(Continued on Page Seven)
i The frachers of Jenkins County,
Milleri, chose hv a major-
iiy vo'f, JUrs. Clara B. G ay an
the teacher of the year. A gradu"
ate of Knoxville College in Knox-
viJ!\ IVmr* and Atlanta
versity in Atlanta, Georgia,
(Continued on Page Seven)
NUMBER 23
Mrs. Mae Kidd, public racvlons
director of the Mammoth Life In¬
surance Company, Louisville, Ky.,
will be the principal speaker at the
10th Annual Membership kickoff
meeting at the Y, Thursday eve-
j ing, March 15th 8 p. m.
Appearing on program Will be
I Dunbar Reed, associate secretary,
; Southern Area Council of YMCA’a,
the Rev. A. O. Curtright, paster,
Fii.t < on; ;• • i• • iChurch, and
David Jon , local artist, Who will
rendei two musical selections.
Sidney A. .lone , general chair*
|man of the 1956 Y membership
I'unipuicn, will pi- ide. Mrs. Ayler
Mae I ' vett, .a mciate chairman,
along with auuud A. Jones and
the Rev. Peter Holmes, section
leaders, will have the big gifts
rommittc , division managers, cap-
OontmuPrl on Page seven
Storekeeper
In
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — (Aiff)
A white storekeeper was j&lled
v cek and his Neijro cus¬
hospitalized following a
outside the store on Mon¬
Held on charges of assault with
to murder is James Gregg,
Northport grocer, who told Cir¬
Solicitor Olin Zcanah that he
th< customer after an argu¬
over a debt.
Jn DruiJ City Hospital is Willie
i ;, whose condition was re¬
“not serious.”
A.L. Agents Donate $25
The agents and staff mem-
her, of the Savannah District,
Atlanta Life Insurance Com-
pany. contributed twenty-five
c’.'dlar; tij the March of Fr.ee-
d( ., n ( a ,, of the A l abanja
bus strike at Montgomery.
J Mrr. ("h '■|■.■ Pr -cott Hamll>
! ton, G?‘‘n?.er 1 ■ipr, •. teacher *t Spring*
: field II U ■*:1 ■ bool. Springfield,
Georgia, h -n ( Tnied Effing-
\ ham T ons •i teacher of the
year,
Born in uel t minty, Mrs,
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