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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXX1V
UNDERTAKERS GIVE
BUS
VISITED CITY—Antonio Orsot,
Resident Engineer at the Vir¬
ginia State College,, Petersburg,
Virginia, was in the city last
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Nat King ('ole Assaulted
More White Audience
Local Elks Leave Sunday To
Attend State Convention
Woman Looks
Out Window,
Shot T o Death
NEW YORK - (ANP) — Po¬
lice are mystified over the shoot-
tog of Mary Brown, 45, who was
killed early Saturday morning. Ac¬
cording to I be reports, someone
rang the downstairs bell of the
apartment at 201 West Tilth St¬
and then shot and killed the 45-
year-old woman occupant as she
leaned out of a second story win¬
dow to sec who was calling.
• William Phillips, 39, who was
in Miss Brown’s apartment when f
the shot was fired, called the po¬
lice. He could give no reason for
the shooting. i
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MISSISSIPPI DOCTORS i
ADMITTED TO |
MEDICAL GROUP
CI.AKKSDALE, Miss. (ANP)—!
Di , (). G. Smith, of ('lari.-dale, bn
become the firsl Negro doctor ad¬
mitted to the Mississippi State <
Medical Association,
t Dr. Smith automatically quali-
fied for membership in the State j
group when he was accepted for
membership by the Clarksdale and I
Six Counties medical societies. i
!
Miss Will'ums Receives j
Scholarship j
Miss Rosalie Williams recently |
■
Ived scholarship to attend a j
roc. a j
Health Education workshop to be
conducted for six weeks on Ihe
campus at North Carolina Col¬
lege at Durham. She was. award-
gd one of the 35 scholarships j
allotted the state which will cover
expenses for the course.
A general view of the final of the meeting came plans for a
mooting of the Caribbean Fedor- federal government for the Britisn
ation conference in London. Out •
CHICAGO — (ANP) — Rob¬
ert H. Miller, general secretary
of the National Negro Funeral 1
Directors Association, announced
last week that the National Board
at its 18th annual meeting in Dal¬
las, Tex., recently, contributed
$1,000 toward the defense of the
89 ministers and civic leaders who
are under indictment for conspir¬
acy to boycott the Montgomery
Bus Lines, one of whom is C. W.
Lee, resident of Montgomery, and i
chairman of the board of the as¬
sociation.
Let, who is also chairman and
treasurer of the Montgomery 1m- [
provement Association, was tin- |
because able to attend trial, the board meeting J i
of the in a message
to the association said in part:
We an determined to fight this j
ugly thing to the finish, to secure j
to ourselves what the constitution
of our country guarantees as the
rights of every citizen.”
The more than 150 funeral di- i
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of mem¬
bers of Wek'on Lodge of Elks
and Elite Temple will leave
here Sunday morning by bus
to attend the Bilks state conven¬
tion in Brunswick. The several
buses will depart from the Elks
home on Minis street at 7:30
a. m. The bus fare is $2.50.
The coming session of the
convention bids fair to be one
of the best and most largely
attended in recent years and
in addition to the business
session many interesting pleas¬
ure features will be enjoyed,
such as the mammoth street
parade which will be partici¬
pated in by marching units
from many parts of the state,
and sight seeing trips to St.
Simon Island and elsewhere.
The local delegation will be
in charge of a committee head-
-;d by Charlie Stone, chairman;
Leroy Simmons, co-chairman,
and Ira Stafford, exalted ruler.
ILLINOIS GOVERNOR
REFUSES TO SEND
FUGITIVE BACK TO
MISSISSIPPI
SPRINGE!LED, 111, — (ANP)
Stratton lias refused
request by tlie State of Missis-
to return A. D. Smith, 45,
sharecropper, to the southern
on a fugitive warrant.
Smith fled to Chicago in 1955
having been indicted by a
County (Miss.) grand
on a charge of attempted
The charge was filed after
wrested a gun from a po-
who had arrested him on
alleged speeding charge.
Caribbean. Elections will be held
in 1958. (Associated Negro Press),
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1956
MISS JAIIKEIIWOCK & HER
ATTENDANTS—The above pic-
lure was made of “Miss Jabber-
wock of 1950” and the runner-
up contestants at the presenta- 1
lion of the Jabberwock by the
local chapter of the Delta
DELTAS PRESENT
14th JABBERWOCK
The fourteen..)! annual Jab¬
berwock program was presented
by the Beta Delta Sigma Chap-
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Apr. 10
—Tonight while he was singing
here before an all-white audi¬
ence of more than 3,000 persons
at the Municipal Auditorium,
Nat King Cole was attacked by
a group of white men who
rushed on the stage and
roughed him up.
The timely intervention of
several policemen who wore on
duty at the auditorium for this
performance p rev bn ted the four
assailants from seriously in¬
juring the nationally famous
Negro singer-pianist.
The four attackers were ar¬
rested and taken to police
headquarters. One of them
struck a policeman with a
bottle and another noliceman
had his glasses knocked off.
Cole was singing the second
of two numbers in a concert
billed for white customers only.
Near tire end of the number,
four white men rushed him,
three of them mounting the
high stage and plunging over
footlights, knocking Cole
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Sue
Practice
Hospital
WILMINGTON, N. C. (ANP) -
suit has been filed here by three!
physicians testing whether it j
unconstitutional for public hos¬
to bar Negro doctors from i
privileges because of their I
Doctors Hubert A. Eau-n, Daniel
Roans and Samuel Gray filed j
complaint charging in that U. New S. District Han- j !
county officials and officers j
the James Walker Memorial
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Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., on
Friday. April 0. ah the city |
auditorium.
Reading left lo light in lore- i
ground are Miss Pearl Jackson,
fifth place winner; Miss Veron-
ica Owens, fourth place; Miss*
ter of the Delta Sigma Theta ,
Sorority Friday, April Gth, at j
the .city auditorium.
A capacity audience witnessed I
this affair. Many persons who.
failed to purchase tickets in
Louisville Eases School
Plan
Louisville, Ky. (ANP). — The
Louisville board of education an- j
nounml last week that there will ;
be less mixing of races m city
schools than originally proposed > n J
a redistricting plan. j
About the same time, the That- j
tanooga, Tenn., school board made j
an about-face and announced t>»at I
it was postponing any plans to j
racially integrate the city’s class-i
rooms “probably five years or j
moie. I
Louisville's School
Negro schools next fall have asked!
for transfers, Carmichael added. :
The figures apply to elementary!
schools only, and the superintend-
ent said •. the .. majority of . <• n... the ... ri
quests will be honored.
In the Louisville board’s inte-!
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:; EMIER M EETS RE PRES EN •
'AT1VE—Chief Obafemi Owe-
wo, Premier of Eastern Nigeria,
is welcomed t othe U. S. Iiy Rep
Frances P. Bolton of Ohio. Pro
mier Owolowo headed an eco-
Y Gets More Century
Club Members
The 195fi membership campaign
uf YMCA the West continues Broad to Street forward. Branch j
move
The workers are busy making con
i tacts and from ail indications
campaign will exceed last year’s i
efforts. Sidney A. Jones, the i
energetic General Chariman, along
! with Mrs. Ayier Mae Lovett> As-
sociate stones unturned Chairman, to are make leaving this the no j
j greatest membership campaign in |
! the history of the Branch.
Mrs. Lovett reports the follow-
•ing new Century Club member-
Mrs. Carrie Cargo, President, The t
Cargo National Beauty School,
■Koae Mary Singleton (seated)
who was crowned “Miss Jabber¬
wock;" Miss LaVances Freeman,
second place; and Miss Joyce
IJatcy, third place.
Prizes to the above winners
Were ’.resented by Mrs. Julie
advance were uisappoaiiou on
the evening of the performance
as no tickets were sold at the
door. Advance sales filled the
auditorium. Students from the
William James High School ol
gration plan, parents were told
where their children had been as-
sigJJed and were given an oppor .
to , igt three ehoic((g of
Hchoo)s they preferred,
About 50,000 of the “choice” I
card(| wyn , sent to ,, arents i us , I
mol|th ; !0 00() to whil( , ,,. irents j
an< j j 2 t ooo to Negro parents
)n Chattanooga, the board which ! I
(lj|fht 11|onths aifo nnnouncpd p , (lns |
fg in)(lgraU , Kuid jt was .. nrm | y
convinced that any measure of in-,
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tej;riltion withill (hl ,
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year
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1 ku *! 1 uu opporiupity * ' to r-poit, to
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the community our decision to |
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:a inic.mis sion from Nigeria, which
v. dted Washington, New York
H d Canada. Mrs, Bolton vi:,itcd
; stern Nigeria during her tour
if Africa lust year. (Associated
Negro Pits.*).
The Alfred E. Beach Adult Edu- :
calion Center, Wilton C. Scott,
president; E. V. Porter, Proprie
01 ’ Porter 1' lower Box, Arnett
Waters, owner, Gulf Oil Station,
West Broad at 32nd, Robert Sams,
owner, Sam's Confectionery,
Waters Avenue at Wright, Local
Freddie Bryant, President. Mrs.
14I4 international Longshoremen,
Lovet t reports the following re-
Warily Ho- .dial. Vice President
Life Insurance Com
pany, I)r Damon Williams,
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Photo by Freeman
B.-.con, president of Una Della
Sigma Chapter. The winners
were determined by the amount
of tickets sold .in advance by
the contestants
Statesboro came by bus.
“Memory Lane” was the
theme of the program with
Philip Hampton narrator, and
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Family Mixed Racial
Heritage Stoned from Home
DETROIT — (ANP)
prejudice and a rock-throwing mob
of 500 persons won another vic-
Thursday ns John VV. Rouse
bowed to his neighbors’ belief that
he and his family are Negroes,
Rouse, a 70-yeai-old retired pri-
vaU! p-'Hivninn, insists that be and
the numbers of his family-wife,
daughter and two grandchildren
are all white. He said he is part
(•**" wile W
r ™ th “
Although .jz-rerszszsz none admitted having
Mrs. Rouse, also 70, said: “How
do tl.ey know we art' Negro? They
haven’t even seen us. We didn’t
oven get |, ere until after dark
Xuesiluy. i think there is some-
very wrong. I. could expect cApuw
something like this in a foreign
country.”
While Mrs. Rouse talked, her
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Ct. Refuses
To Delay
Integration
WASHINGTON — (ANP) —
The Supreme Court last week re¬
fused to give a direct ruling on
the problem of integration in ele
mentaly schools in 1 l|
Ohio. By the high_ court declining
to I,. interfere i I, ) j. I in m this Inii* situation, iiliililloll the Tnrt
ruling for immediate integration
made by the slate appeals court
riill stands.
Tlie Court of Appeals, in Janti-
ary lever.-ed the ruling of the
•ContiniK'd on Page Seven. (Continued on Page BJghti <Continued on Page Three)
HAM WINNERS—Samuel A. Jones presents deluxe hams to W V. Winters and Mrs. Francis J.
Ashe, worker in Y memoership campaign. John T Johnson, one of the campaign auditors, looks
on.
Member Audit Bureau Circulatioaa
Price 10c
CHARGE OF VICE
BURLED AGAINST
CHARLOTTE, N. C.—(ANP)
—The publishing board of 11. e
Aniez Church will meet here this
week to decide what further action
if any il will take on Dr. Wal-
R. Lovell, suspended editor of
tlio church’s official organ, "The
Star of Zion.”
Lovell was removed from his
post two weeks ago, after an nr
liele appeared in the newspaper
accusing unnamed bishops of “de¬
manding handouts, selling ap
point incuts, carrying concubines
to reign over church gathering’ ,
patronizing whores and many olh-
er things.”
Tin.' editor declined to comment
on bis ouster, other than to ac-
eept responsibility for allowing the
article to appear in the paper
inadvertently, nyt having bandied
it himself.
The article, signed "A Person,
appeared in the Feb. 2d issue of
“The Star of Zion." The writer
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Press Institute To He
Held at State College
Savannah Plato College is sp in¬
uring the Fifth Annual Pre-
Institute on April 19-20, with Dr.
Joseph Murphy, Kiwctitive Direc¬
tor of the Columbia University
| i Scholastic ' Press Association and
National Council
’
by thp 0cor(fjn i nte rshola*tic As-
,,0 v8 aml *" U ’ colU « a * ludcnts ’
-
as well as faculty advisers of stu-
| publications with the mass
media of communication and how
to use them effectively. For the
' first time, the Institute will in-
elude v.u-.i =v.... schools in four states --
’ Florida. Alabama, South
jlina, and Georgia.
As a participant in the Colum-
, Ida Scholastic Press Association
Woodrow Wilson Centennial
i Celebration, we are using the
(theme: FREEDOM FOR MAN
J A WORLD SAFE FOR
KIND.
The program Ims been organized
to meet each school’s needs and
arranged ” that group* can
sent for just one day if necessary.
Workshops will be i„,Id in each
five areas _ Elementary
publications. High School
Srhoo i vcarfM) „|, lind Col |«. K
"
yearbooks. There will also be
> section on Mimeographed
tions,
The college has invited
| outstanding journlist* as
! Gordon, Managing Editor,
NUMBER 21
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EXl < I T IVI SECRETARY—Wil¬
ton C. Scott, the public rela-
State College, returned to the
< -1,v ,llLs week from Winston-
Continued on P**e Seven
Three Negro
Stars Make
Olympic Team
c™ ,***_ <*,
i .............. *-«.a*«*
of the College All-Stars were
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Iowa; Jonei is a <1-2 gqard from
San Francisco, and Russel), con¬
sidered the host college player m
the country, is a 6-10 center from
Snn Francisco.
j The Olympic games will be held
in Melbourne, Australia, next No¬
vember.
LOCAL AtRO OFFICE
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Congratulations to The Sa¬
vannah Branch of the Afro-
American Life Ins. Co. for the
splendid accomplishments and
progress it is making,
The weekly publication of the
Pllot ’ which K lves Progress
j uf ali thr dlstri C ts - ^POrtS that
' avannah has made outr.tand-
: in B contributions toward the
! Company as the district sue-
I cessfully « ii completed . • all - _ phases -
of the program designed to
I commemorate the new Home
j Office building that is to b<
dedicated Sunday, April 22, in
Jacksonville, Florida.