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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXX1V
Itolt Kills
Woman Waiting on Bus
MRS. SALLiE TOLBERT WAS STANDING NtaR TREE
WITH ANOTHER WOMAN WHEN STRUCK
Mrs. Sailm Tolbert who was
killed by lightning Friday
afternoon.
The funeral of Mrs. Sallit
Folbcn, of 530 ciiaiijs ouect,
who was killed by lightning,
was held yesterday afterhoon at
at. Philip AME church after
which the body was taken to
'Bulloch county where further
.services were held at Mt. Zion
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FBI Making Probe Into
readier Groups Merge
In Kentucky
N. C. MUTUAL
fXECUTIVE DIES i '
|
,
DURHAM, N. C. (ANP).—
George Wayne Cox, 65, a vice
president and agency director of
.North Carolina /Mutual Life In-
:i:ranee Company, died here I'T'i-
4 my of a heart attack.
\ Cox, who in, 1954 was named
“Dean of Insurance Agency Direc¬
tors” by the National Negro In¬
surance Association, an organize
tiou which he foundeil, had suffer
UoriUiiueri c.ri Huge seven
V
,
TO GEi .... A. DEGREE — Mrs.
FJldora D. Marks who left Sun¬
day evening for New York. N.Y..
to participate in the 202nd
commencement at Columbia
University where the master of
arts degree will be conferred
upon her.
She is a teacher at the Pow-
eil Laboratory School. Savan¬
nah State College, and a mem¬
ber of Butler
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Sheriff Runs
sionaries Out
MANNING, s.r.
group of wliitp missionaries'
were conducting services at a
j gro church in Clarendon
were run out of the area
week by Sheriff J. T. Jackson.
According to Jackson, the
numbering about 15 men and
en and one child, had
one service and were preparing
a second when the sheriff
them to leave the county for viola-
lion of the state’s segregation
I .
i he church , was a Neero sancti-
; fied church near Davis . Station. .
Jackson and Deputy W. C. Epps
I investigated after being told that
| the group was unloading boxes at
• the church.
Jackson sai<l the men and vrotn-
en told him they were Canadians
and members of the Church of
Triumph, who had come “to serve
our fellow members.”
They said they knew the church
was for Negro members and had
been given permission to use it by
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ANP).
Two Kentucky teachers’
one prcdomihahTTv white and
other Negro, were “unified”
week into the Kentucky
Association.
The merger of the
was approved hy the hoard of
rectors of the KEA Friday and
the all-Negro Kentucky
Association Saturday.
The. boards have been
ed hy their organizations to
cept any unification plan
thought workable.
In a statement issued by
joint committee Saturday,
teachers called the
. . an orderly transition of
professional organizations to
vide one unified professional
ganization with equal rights
privileges for all members.
“The present leadership of
KEA and the KTA feels that
fessional unification will prove
be advantageous to the
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SSC GRADUATING CLASS
First line, 1. to r.
Mary Lois Daniels;
Sadie B. Carter, Anna
Leona C. Bolden, Annie J.
breth, Lula Canady,
Hines. Hazel Harris,
Marion, Jeanette Pusha,
liam Weston, Daniel Pelot,
iel Nichols, Gloria
Doris Robinson, Faye
COLLEGE AWARDS
DIPLOMAS TO 90
Degrees were awarded to
members of the
j class Monday noon at the
| commencement exercises
White Mis¬
S. C. Town
I COUPLP — — WINS $4S,00
f )
HOLLYWOOD—(ANP i — Los
Angeles insurance man Steve
Rowland and his w'fe last week
stretched their winnings to a
total of $48,800 on “Do You
Trust Your Wife?”, the CBS
Television show starring Edgar
Eergern.
Tin Rowland couple won over
an Air Force warrant officer,
] Larry Lambeth( Hllfl Ks wif( ,.
who h? r ’. gained the “finals” in
L, the , Trust r , Fund T -, , competition .... ... by
winning $1200 in a prelimin¬
ary qiriz on the show.
The Lamberts defeated a
pickle salesman. Walter Berris,
and his wife, Marguerite, and
Ronald- C'veracker the former
Baby LcRoy’ of movie fame
'and bis wife, Patricia, in the
I earlier competition. The Berris
couple won SG00 and "Baby Le-
Roy” and his wife, who them-
selves are expecting a btiby,
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BUFFALO, N. Y. — (ANP) —
l’lie Federal Bureau of Investiga¬
tion has started a full-scale in¬
quiry into a riot between white
and Negro teenagers which turn- ]
'i| mi excursion trip into a “night¬
mare” of horrors.
A <J 0estion ,lf "'tornatinnal ju-
| risdiction which occurred "as raised by holiday the brawl heat 1
on a
in the international waters of Lake i
Erie, between Ontario, Canada,
and Buffalo.
At least 50 persons were injur- j
ed in the riot aboard the excur-
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3-Judge Panel Rules Montgomery
Bus
MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 5
—Segregation of the races on
Montgomery city bus lines was
ruled unconstitutional today by
a 3-judge panel. The decision
was concurred in by Judges
Richard T. Rives and Frank
Johnson, Jr. A dissenting
opinion was made by Judge
crybourne Lynn.
Ella Brunson, Evelyn R. Scar¬
borough, Dora Luke, Josie
Troutman, 'standing) Margaret
Knox.
Second line, Earl Green, Louis
Young, Ivory Jefferson, Marva
Gooden, Lillian Battiste, Juliette
Johnson. John Arnold, Dclora
Dean, Oliver Swaby, Bernice
Nichols, Jackie Oliver, Margare-
Savannah State College which
were held in Meldrim auditori-
; phi.
i T. M. Alexander, president
i and founder of Alexander Busi¬
ness Enterprises of Atlanta and
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1956
MERIT CERTIFICATES—First row, front left: G. W. Cox, Vice President-Agency Di¬
W. J. Bush, District Manager, Savannah. Second row: L. L5. Frasier, Agency Secretary;
M. Gilliam, Regional Supervisor; R. T. Roberts, CA, Atlanta; R. M. Denny, Stuff Manager,
Mrs, Gladys M. Warner, CA, Savannah.
f MUTUAL HOST TO ,,f l!lt ' North I'arolinB Mutual Life Wayne Cox Sale Convention.
C A I CCMCIU ' Insurance Company were goes I of Among the Company’ officials
lUi OA-jLiJmCilN the Home Office May 24-25, as who participated In the
North Carolina Mutual Host winners in the Company’s recently ()f t , u , g a | eg Convention were W.
to Top Salesmen concluded Sales Campaign, which
Twenty-nine field reprsentatives culminated in the Fourth George (Continued on Page Seven'
Miss Lula Smith, SSC alumni, Alumni Association, at the
receives award, from John Mc- Alumni banquet Saturday night.
Glockton, President of £SC
The ruling does not bind the
to make
compliance'with tire
but gives them two weeks
winch they may make an
peal.
Judges Rives 'and
said their study had left
in “complete agreement”
a Fourth Circuit opinion
zelle Garnerre-r, Alma Griffin,
Willie Lee Hopkins, Mary Rob¬
erts. Mildred Wllkerson, Vivian
Wise Terrell.
Third line, James Cooper,
James English, Willie C. Reed,
Dorothy Moore, Dorothy Rob¬
erts Dryer, Malsenia Armstrong,
Jewel Miller, Willie M. Jackson,
Levi Moore. Barbara Matthews,
one of the outstanding Negro
business men of the state de¬
livered the principal addres-s.
He was introduced by Presi¬
dent W. K. Payne.
Speaking to a packed house,
I claring bus segregation uncon-
sritutionai in a South Carolina
case.
! The state and city had based
their argument on an 1890 case
j involving a Louisiana statute in
] which the U. S. Supreme Court
ruled equl but separate aceom-
i mentations for the races was not
in conflict with the 14th
Mamie Davis, Hilda Shaw, Sara
Greene, Bernice Jones, Helen
Milton Jones, Evelyn Johnson,
Ann Price.
Fourth line, Walter
William O. Mitchell. James O.
Thomas, Johnnie Ponder, Ru¬
dolph Hardwick, James Dil-
worth, Ruby D.
Ernest Hicks, Rosa Lee Moore,
Mr. Alexander stressed the
that education and pure
edge are not enough — that
longer is this race being
cated to become good
doctcus, good Negro iawyers
Masons Give $100,000 to
NAACP Defense Fund
BOSTON, Mass. -- The
Hall Masons have
; more than $100,000 during
| past five years to help the
Legal Defense and
Fund, Inc., find the
in stamping out racial
! and discrimination in
! life and to conserve the right
: Negroes to enjoy the full
i of first class citizenship.
Thui'good Marshal), director
counsel of the NAACP Legal
) fen.se Fund, revealed the
i amount of contributions in a
port made last week to the
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Amendment.
Judges Rives and
i .aid the “separate but
; doctrine can no longer be
ly followed as a correct
] ment of the law . . . There is
rational basis upon which
separate but equal doctrine
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Gwendolyn Keith,
Jones, Georgia Ruling,
Robinson, Georgia
Henry Johnson (directly
front) Ernestine Moon,
Eilis.
Last row, between two
posts, Eulon Bass Frazier,
ter Peek, Jetfic M. Adams,
Brock.
good Negro educators but ra
ther to Ju>t be gowd
He told the graduates
they can no longer afford to
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Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 10c
Woman Fatally Cut
Hy Her Hoy Friend
MRS. ANNIK GORDON NICHOLS SUCCUMBS
TO NUMEROUS KNIFE STABS
UNCF CHOIRS
PROGRAM FOR JUNE
NEW YORK, N. Y.— The
ule of college choirs to be
on the United Negro College
ABC Radio Network series
ing the month of June is
nounced today hy W. J. Trent,
| executive director of the Fund.
I I Sunday, June 3, the choir
Philander Smith College,
j Rock, Arkansas, was heard
the direction of Otis Simmons.
! Sunday, June 10, the choir
! Benndcit College, Columbia, S.
| will be featured. This
I was recorded in New York
the .'15-voice student choir was
concert, tour in the
. area and where they also
i at. the recent Negro Exposition
Progress. The group is
hy Emmett I. Wroten.
The program of Sunday,
| 17, withh feature the choral
,-cubic of Dillard University,
Orleans, I,a., under the
i of David L. Buttolph.
On Sunday, June 24, the
i of Hampton Institute, Virginia,
rected by Henry N. Switten,
j present a program recorded in
■ liapel of historic
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Trainmen’s Union Votes To
Admit Negro Members
WASHINGTON, (ANP). - - The
| Switchmen's Union of North col-j j
| America ha* agreed to accept
j ored switchmen into its member¬
ship mi a basis of complete equal-;
ity with white switchmen.
This information was revealed j
at the loth annual conference of
the Provisional Committee for the
Organization of Colored Locomo¬
j tive Firemen, Switchmen and |
Breakinen, meeting in Washington
last Friday and Saturday.
The decision to let down the
racial harriers was decided on in j
a conference between the Pro- ;
visional Committee of the Broth¬
erhood of Sleeping Unr Porters
ami the Switchmen’s Union.
The colored switchmen were rep¬
resented by A. Philip Randolph, in-
' ternutional president and B. F.
McLaurin, international field or¬
ganizer of the Brotherhood of
| Sleeping Car Porters.
As a result of the admission of
Negro switchmen into the switch-
i men's union, one of the “big five"
i operating railroad unions, the*
Switchmen’s Union of North
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Catholic Committee Rebukes
NEW ORLEANS (ANP).—The
j commission on human rights of
the Catholic Committee of the
Soutli has rebuked Louisiana seg¬
regation leaders for an “insult”
to Archbishop Joseph F. Rumrnel
in the form of boos and a flaming]
In a statement, the laymen or¬
ganization condemned what it
termed the "anti - Catholicism
4 shown by the racist ( itizeirt Coun-
| oils” at tbpir recent meeting here.
When the archbishop’s name |
wa < read to a crowd in a list of
board members of the Urban
League, boos echoed through the
crowd of 3,500 segregationists who i
had gathered in the local baseball
park to hear Gov. Marvin Griffin j
of Georgia denounce the U. S. Su¬
preme Court for its decision out-!
lawing public school segregation. !
"We brand those people who ap¬
peared last week on the racist pro-
g/am at Pelican Stadium as anti- j
American, anti - Southern, anti-!
Catholic and irreligious,” the hum- i
an lights commission said.
"4n insult to the archbishop is
I an insult t o every Catholic in the
! arch-diocese,” the commission
added.
NUMBER 35
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of Mrs. Annie Nichols who was
I fatally stabbed early List
Sunday morning.
i The body of Mrs. Annie oer-
tabbed don Nichols who was fatally
early Sunday mornhrg by
... |)oy frl(;nd W;| , carried to
.Eat ill, S. c , today for burial.
j funeral .servicer; being held at
di- Goodwill Baptist church Sid-
ney A. Jones Funeral Home was
in] la charge ot the funeral ar-
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A. J. Taylor
BE HERE MONDAY—A. J.
national field director
of interracial Service of ihjs
Roy Scouts of America, who will
airive in Savannah Monday to
begin several days work with
scouting leaders of the Coastal
H E A ET H S AI ET Y CHAIRMA N
-Dr. Clarence R. Gosha who has
been appointed Health and
Safety chairman of the Chat¬
ham Division of the Coastal
Council, Boy Scouts of
America.
This post on the divisional
committee became vacant with,
the recent passing of Dr. M. P.
who for more than 22
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