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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXXIV
Thousands Join in Prayer
Against Prejudice
ESCAPE FROM BOMBING
FORMER LOCAL TEACH
ER NOW TEACHING
IN CALIFORNIA
Mrs. Eula T. Graham, former
toucher at Beach High School, and
who resigned her teaching posi¬
tion to move to the West Coast, is
now employed as teacher of Eng¬
lish at the Thomas A. Edison
Junior High School, Los Angeles,
California.
Mrs. Graham writes that even
though statistics show that Cali¬
fornia is one of the highest bidders
in the matter of salaries paid to
teachers, there is in her state an
acute shortage of qualified teach-
The minimum salary paid to
teachers in Los Angeles is $400
per month to those teachers enter-
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Nine Fired for Leaving
Jobs Hour of
Seizes Physician’s Estate
For Fax Deficit
estate of the* late Dr. Charles II.
Crompton, Harrisburg
who died Nov. (!, 1955, was sold at
auction to satisfy reported
THE MARTINS VISIT STATE COLLEGE
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Martin of
Baltimore, Md., parents of Mrs.
Maltha Avery, assistant professor
0 f Hfme Economics at Savannah
State College, visited Savannah
—
persons escaped death or
injury when a bomb
their newly-purchased home in
all-white residential area. It
Atlanta’s third such incident
three weeks.
Mrs. Eddie Mae Cooper, 49,
daughter, Mrs. Jeannette
28, and her two children,
11, and Mark. 5, and a
Cleave Arline, 29, all
after the blast.
Ly the strangest of
a white family living next door
the bombed home, decided to
the night with relatives.
Marvin A. Burnett said he
“decided to spend the night at
brother s home about a mile and
half away. ' He insisted he
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GEN. DAVIS HOLDS
TOP U. 5. AIR
Calling signals on the
touchiest front these days —
wan (Formosa) — is a
airman, Benjamin O. Davis,
the U. S. Air Force’s first
general.
If the Chinese Communists
tack Taiwan, General Davis,
have the responsibility- for
grating American and
fighter units into a single , ...
force.
Peter Kaliseher, writing in
current Collier’s, points out
Davis is the second Negro
in U. S, history; big father,
retired, was the first.
“It was only seven years
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taxes owed to the government.
Dr.' Crampton had the govern¬
ment’s tax case filed against him
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State College last week.
Mrs. Martin was elected “Moth-
er-of-the-year of 1954-55 by
Afro-American newspaper of
state of Maryland. Mr. and
NEW YORK, March 29. — An
estimated ten million persons
throughout tlie world offered
prayers for “deliverance from the
evils of race prejudice,” it was
reported here today by the Rev.
O, I). Dempsey, executive secre¬
tary of the National Deliverance
Day of Prayer Movement.
The Movement, initiated by the
i Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.,
clergyman-congressman of this
: city, was supported by the
! NAACP.
j The formulated March 28 prayer-protest Powell im-
was by Mr.
mediately after nearly 100 Nc
I k roes wert ’ crested in Montgom
/VJa ’ for thcir leadership of
a mas * I’rotcst against racial dis
crimination on city buses. The
i arrests occurred last month.
The world-wide prayer observ-
ance on March 28 emphasized the
, Montgomery bus protest. Thou-
sands of dollars collected in the
meetings are being sent to Monl
to help finance a car-pool
which makes it possible for the
Negroes of that city to avoid rid
ling on buses. The NAACP has
asked all sympathetic citizens to
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Mayor Offers i
j Montgomery
Bait toT ransitCo.
MONTGOMERY, Ala., April 3
I —Mayor W. A Gayle came up
I with ,, a little . bait .. today . . to . in¬
duce Negroes to end the boy-
cott against city buses which
they have relentlessly waged
since last December. He pro¬
posed to them that they ask the
transit company to provide
separate buses for them.
The proposal was offered as
CIIINO, Calif.—(ANPi— Nine
aircraft workers here have filed
a complaint with their union
protesting their dismissal last
Wednesday after they walked
off their jobs for an hour In
connection with a national
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Martin are the proud parents
14 children, and they all
( . (1 | ]t , ?( , on !he sa | arv 0 f their frith-
—__—
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, APRIL 5, l‘»5G
THEY FINISHED PRACTICAL NURSE TRAINING COURSE
|
i
1
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The first graduating class of the
Savannah State Area Trade
tchool, held its commencement at
Beach High School on Thursday,
larch 29, 195(i. The processional
and recessional were rendered I>y
*rof. P. J. Smalls, with a rendi
ion of “Holy! Holy! Holy!” by
he audience and the class. On
In rostrum were Rev. Key, pas -
or of St. Paul C.M.K. Church;
a compromise to the request
Negroes made to the city
mission yesterday that they
allowed a franchise to
a bus company of their own.
The commission turned
the petition on the
that the present
i company was providing
quate facilities for everybody.
The committee of eight
! McIntosh teacher
op the year
Mrs. Mary Taylor McFarland
j Todil-Grant High School,
| Ga., who was selected as
i County Teacher of the Year.
Mrs. McFarland is a native
I McIntosh county and a product
Todd School, Darien; Albany
| Manual Training received School, her
j Ga., where she
; mal certificate, and received
■ BS degree in English from
I gia State College, now
; Stale College, in 1947, She is
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UNCF CHOIR’S
PROGRAM FOR
APRIL
NEW YORK, N. Y„ March
—The April schedule for the
of weekly college choir
presented, in cooperation with
United Negro College Fund,
the American Broadcasting
pany’s radio network, was
| nouneed today W. J. Trent,
I executive director of the Fund.
On Sunday, April I, the
I University choir was heard.
i 8 , the Morris Brown College
I will offer a special program
| mark the opening of the
! United Negro College Fund
i April 15. the choir of Clarke
j lege, Atlanta, Georgia, will
sent a group of religious
April 22, the choir of Lane
j |,.ge. Jack-on. Tenn.-'-ee, will
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John Lytjcn, director of Vocation-
al Education; Dr. Carl K Jordan,
the principal speaker; Dr. W. K.
Payne, president of Savannah
State College; Miss O. L.
hell, U. N., director of Charity
Hospital; William Hicks, state
supervisor of Vocation Education;
Wiiton C. Scott, director of Pub
lie Relations at Savannah State
College and Mrs. Dorothy . I,amp-
groes which appeared before
j the commission was headed by
I the Rev. Martin L. King. All of
j its members were among the 90
Negroes arrested several weeks
1 and later indicted, by a
ago
grand jury under an old state
law making it a misdemeanor
(o boycott a business .without a
just cause.
GEORGIA INSURANCE
EXECUTIVE DIFS
AUGUSTA, Ga. (ANP) -Wal¬
ter S. Hornsby, 7(i, last of five co-
fwinders of the Pilgrim Health
and Life Insurance Co., died here
la .4 week of a heart attack.
The pioneer Negro insurance
company was founded 58 years ago
and now has assets of nearly 9
million and insurance in force of
more than 50 million.
Hornsby was a trustee of Pain"
College in Augusta, and headed a
real estate company which has in
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GA. PTA CONGRESS
LARGELY ATTENDED-
The 36th Annual Convention of
j i he Georgia Congress of Colored
Parents and Teachers was held
: in Augusta, March 26-29. The
! theme of the convention was;
.Meeting Today’s Challenge. The
sessions were hold at Macedonia
Baptist Church.
A panel on the Five-Point Pro¬
gram of the Congress was
ducted by Mrs. E. W. Right, of the
j Lagrange District, C. W. DuVaul
of the Columbus Distri't. Mrs.
Pearl Smith of the Savannah Dis¬
trict, and Mrs. .T. P. Sherwood
the Atlanta District. A film on
the Mentally Retarded Child .was
shown by Mrs. Irene Asbury of
i Spelman College. Charles H. By¬
num of the National
for Infantile .Paralysis brought to
the Congress valuable information
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kin. Ill the absence Of Rev.
A. E. Peacock, the Invocation
unci benediction were given by
the Reverend J. L. Key.
Mr. Lytjen introduced the
I guests. Professor Nelson inlro-
dueed the speaker, Dr. Jordan, who
made a most inspiring speech di-
rectly to the new graduates. After
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Rev. King was first of the
boycotters to be tried. He was
convicted and fined *500. His
case has been appealed to a
higher court. /
Tile charge,-, against the oth¬
ers indicted are being held in
abeyance awaiting the out-
comp ui. tUt’T&ug appeal.
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South Carolina Students
Strike
ORANGEBURG, S.C. - (ANP)
— The student body of South Car- I
olina State College for Negroes j
has entered its second week of a
boycott against food supplied to j
the campus by distributors sym- I
pathetic to thf Orangeburg White!
('itizeris Council.
At the same time, the students
a i < ■ joining the local NAACP chap¬
let on masse in protest of a re¬
cent state legislative act., now law,
o r d e r i n g an investigation of
NAACP activities at the state-
supported college.
The protest began a week ago
last Sunday when some 500 State
College .students refused to eat
dinner in the school cafeteria be¬
cause tlie milk was purchased
from Coble Dairy and the bread
from Sunbeam Bakery.
Officials of Coble Dairy and
Sunbeam Bakery have been accus¬
ed of aiding the White Citizens
Council in its Ill-months-old cam¬
paign of economic reprisal against
Negro business)...... who hud sign¬
ed petitions (o integrate Orange-
County public schools.
Students id .«» are boycotting the
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Tattnall County
Teacher of the Year
The teacheis of Tattnall :
County honored Mrs. Hattie C.
ifur.se' as the teacher of the
year for fa ft nan county. Mar.
29, at their meeting which was
held at the Glennville piemen-
Eight) ’
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Audit Bureau Circolatioot
Price 10c
SUPREME COURT TO
HEAR ALABAMA DEATH
WASHINGTON, D. C. The U.
S. Supreme Court agreed Monday
to review the case of mi Alabama
Negro convicted and sentenced to
death for alleged burglary with
intent to rape. The request was
made by attorneys for the NAACP
Legal Defense and Educational
Fund, Inc.
The prisoner, William Earl
Fikes, 28, is being held in Ala-
liaiim slate penitentiary. He was
sentenced to death June, IP. r >.:, fol-
lowing u reported unsuccessful
attempt by an unknown intruder
to rape the daughter of the Mayor
Selma, Ala., and burglarize her
home.
Several Negroes were arrested
connection with a report series
burglary and rape in Selma.
Fikes was stopped in the street
a white citizen and held until
police arrived. He was taken
custody May Iti, 195-'!, on
charge" and hold two days
"investigation” without being
Later, he was taken to
Kilby State Prison where lie was
subjected to eight days of inees-
ant questioning by police offi-
eials until ho allegedly confessed,
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General Motors Makes Gift
Of To IINC
DETROIT (ANP) A $35,000
gift by General Motors to
United Negro College Fund wa
announced by Hurry W.
GM vice president and
of its committee for
grants and scholarships.
The grant, was a part of
Motors' expanded program of
port for higher education and
brings to more than $ 100,000
amount GM thus far has
tribute'! to the United Negro
Sugar Refinery (jives
To Alumni
William K Payne, presi-
dent of Savannah State col-
lege, announced today that the
Savannah Sugar Refining Cor¬
poration lias donated $1,000 to
the Alumni Scholarship fund, j
headed by Prince Jackson, col !
lege alumni secretary. The
Alumni Scholarship Fund ha;
been personally endorsed by the
Honorable Andrew J. Ryan, Jr.,
Solicitor General, Eastern Ju-
dueial Circuit of Georgia, the
Right Rev. T. James McNama¬
ra, rector of the Gathederal of
St, John the Baptist, and other
prominent citizens.
NEW CENTURY CLUB MEMBER— Augustus C. Council ... present- ____
j n g j^rs. Ayler Mae Lovett. Associate Chairman of the 1956
membership capipaign, check for $100 for his Century Club mein-
bership in the YMCA.— i Picture by YMCA raff photographer)
NUMBER 26
ELECTED MODERATOR ,
PRESBYTERY OF KNOX
Mrs. E. L. Simmons, an elder
of t h e Butler Presbyterian
church of Savannah, who was
elected moderator of the pres-'
bytery of Knox, which encorn-
passes South Georgia and Flori-
da, at a meeting In McIntosh,
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lege Fund which aids 31 Negro
] colleges in 12 states.
Francis A. Korntgay, assistant
executive director of the Detroit
1 rbnn League and Detroit repre¬
sentative of the Fund, expressed
appreciation to Mr. Anderson for
the gift, and called it “the largest
received from any corporation in
tlic country.”
Mr, Anderson declared that Gen-
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The members of the Alumni
Scholarship Fund committee,
which is under the sponsorshp
oif the local alrntmi chapter
are Robert Young, president;
Norman Elmore, vice president;
Miss Lula Smith, ‘ treasurer;
John McGlockton, general pres¬
ident, Prince Jackson, Jr.,
chairman; James Luten, vice
chairman ;Mlss Rubye King,
s' ;■ rotary; Miss Meteila Maree,
Mrs, Sadie Steele, John Myles
and Miss Louise Middleton.
Among the other contribu-
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