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■ u 1 YEARS OF CONTINUOUS r PUBLIC SERVICE Savannah Man Mother Die in Florida Wreck ENROUTE TO 7th-DAY ADVENTIST GROUND AT HAWTHORN I MBS diaries B. Champen of Savannah, left, and his mother, Inna Beatrice Champen of Daufuskie Island, S. C., who tilled Saturday in a car wreck in Florida. Charles Benjamin Champen, |34, [mother, of 1018 Wolfe street, and his Mr$. Anna Beatrice Champen of Daufuskie Island, |iS. C., were killed instantly early JRcollision Saturday morning in a head-on near Waldo, Florida. ■wAlso fatally injured was David W. R- Owens, 78, of Youngstown, Ohio, driver of the other car. It has been reported that, his Bwife, Mrs. Celia Owens, died later from injuries. Others in- » jj tired were Claude Champen, jgK21, E Louis of Broadway, 1118 E. 56 street: Mrs. Denny 4: Geneva If Miller of Daufuskie Island; Local Mail Killed Near McIntosh When He Fell From Work Far Powell’s Secretary Gets Seven Months: JL Fined 1HVU $9,000 COMPLETES COURSE — Edythe Althair Simmons recently completed the ?! scribed course in tailoring 1 the Berean Manual and Industrial School in delphia. Miss Simmons, a native vannahian, is a graduate of Alfred E. Beach High She is the daughter of Mr. Mrs. Charles A. Simmons, West Waldburg Street. w-mw — - — V * "* feta# 50th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY—Grandmaster of the Masons John Wesley Dobbs and Mrs. Dobbs, center, their children jand their husbands and t heir grandchildren as they gathered in Atlanta last week. The occasion was the fiftieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Dobbs which was held at the Dobbs residence, 540 Houston Street, Atlanta. Mr. and Mrs. Dobbs are thc parents of six daughters, all whom are graduates of man college and other univer- sities. Three of their STrilumr and Mrs. Helen Champen, jf Charles. The accident occurred at on the Santa Fe River three miles north of Waldo Highway 301 when Mr. pulled out into a zone to pass two cars. He almost passed the last car he crashed his north Mercury into the south Chevrolet driven by Mr. pen who was driving bis to the camp meeting of ;>eventh-day Adventist Adventist •continued on Page Seven) NEW YORK (ANP) Mrs. Hattie Freeman Dodson, secretary to Congressman Adam C. Powell, was sentenced Monday in United i States District Court to serve seven months in prison and pay $9,000 fine for income-tax evasion. In passing sentence, Judge Irv¬ ing R. Kaufman said that the case was difficult because Mrs. Dodson, the 47-year-old chief, was an intelligent woman, charged with important duties. However, he criticized her for i failing to be contrite over her [conviction on May 18 and re¬ marked, “Here is a woman of good background who found her¬ self enmeshed in a crime of her own doing, I am convinced, and never showed contriteness.” Frederick Block, her lawyer, ' con tended that the government had singled out Mrs. Dodson for ccution as a result of a wish to “get Congressman Powell.” He said he could recall only one other case in which a woman was im- prisoned for income-tax evasion. Judge Kaufman denied Block's ! motion for a suspended sentence, j but granted a motion freeing her : in $2,500 bail, pending an appeal. Mrs. Dodson w r as convicted on ‘ (Continued on Page Severn , were valedictorians of their classes while the others were on the honor rolls. i j Internationally known among their daughters is Mattiwilda Youth ( <mlosses Stubbing Death 17 Soldier to Va. Elks $1,000 To NAACP NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — "Daughters and Bills of the ginia State Association of Elks” have pledged $1,000 to NAACP. The action was taken an annual convention here. Expressing endorsement of NAACP s current program, Elks pledged $500 to the tion’s “Fight for Freedom” j !> a ‘gn and $500 for an Hfe membership In accepting a $.100 payment the pledge, W. Lester Ranks Richmond, executive secretary the Virginia State praised the cooperation his Nation has received through | years from the Elks. ; Robert H. Johnson of phia, Grand Exalted Ruler of Elk. .n.l . ..ember of I NAACP’s life membership ! nuttee, congratulated the V Elks for their action. He that Elkdom throughout the j, states has contributed more $43,000 to various units of NAACP. The funeral of Amos A. John¬ son who was killed in McIn¬ tosh county Thursday of last week, was held Sunday night at St. Philip AME church. The j services which were largely at¬ tended were conducted by the pastor, Rev. J. S. Bryan. The body was carried to Stillwell, Ga., for burial, Steele Funeral Home being in charge of the arrangements. Mr. Johnson, who was a mem¬ ber of a bridge crew of the Seaboard Airline Railroad, died shortly after being run over by a hand car from which he fell as his crew was enroute to their work near McIntosh. He had worked for the railroad for ap¬ proximately 16 years. A native of Stillwell, Mr. Johnson had been a resident of Savannah for many years, and was a member of St. Philip AME church. He 'is survived by his wife, Mrs. Inez Dixon Johnson; two sons, Amos Johnson, Jr., of Savannah and Gerald Johnson wbo j s serving with the U. S. Army in Alaska; six sisters, and ,his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wes¬ ley Johnson of Guyton, Ga. Ontario has 74,000 miles of j paved, toll-free, surfaced and Improved roads. , ( Dobbs who is acclaimed as a 1 coloratura and who soprano i b as been accorded the coveted |___ _____ tContlnued on Page Seven; SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1956 j | j | j s Pt. 'M j HELP FIGHT DISEASE— Above are members of the Atlanta ] Shrine presenting a check for I *5000 as a deposit in the Citi- zens Trust Co. to help fight ! tuberculosis and polio, ; Left to right are L. D. Milton, j p res j d ent of the Citizens Trust “ r ^ T w ^“f r>obb». o, »rand oe„ B S master and imperial deputy for Georgia; Augustus H ogan ° g 7 ’ illustrious “ ! Potentate of , Nabor Temple ^ No. ! 128; A McClendon, treasurer, and Robt. T. Walters, recorder, The Anceint Egyptian Arabic : Harass whke Families which Integration ARLINGTON, Va. (ANP) — One white parent who joined in the NAACP suit against the Ar- lington school board, said last week she was going' to stick “it out” despite the fact she had re- ceived obscene phone calls. She is Mrs. Barbara S. Marks, of Arlington. She joined in the suit in the name of hc-r two chil- dren, Ann, 8, and Claire, 18, Ad- mitting she had been bombarded by phone callers, she said “Of course, I’m sticking it out.” Another white parent who joined with the NAACP in an anti- segregation suit found it too great (a stress on the family and with- drew after receiving “foui and vicious” telephone calls. Jack G. Oi ndorff joint?! the suit with his wife, in the name of their son, Eugene, 6, when it was filed in the Alexandria Federal Court on May 17. The Orndorff’s joined they said, because “we want our child to grow up in an integrated system.” On returning Sunday from his hometown of Winchester where he consulted with his parents, Mr. Orndoff said: “We are withdrawing our names . . . because of the extremely ad¬ verse psychological effect the foul and vicious telephone calls we have Continued on Page Seven> CATHOLIC SCHOOLS TO • ! j BALTIMORE (ANP) — j Roman Catholic parochial j in Calvert, Charles and St. Mary’s [ counties will start integration classes with the beginning of new school year in September. The directive from O’Boyle of the Archdiocese I Washington, notifying pastois their parishoners that the first and second grades would be grated. was read at all Masses. The Archbishop's pointed out that it would he up the pastois to decide which chil¬ dren would be acceptable for gration by granting them on their ability to keep up in their studies | with the other children. In 1955 drivers cutting in killed 150 people and injured 1,070; passing on curve or hill killed 180 and injured 7,040; i passing on wrong side killed Order of the Nobles of the Mys¬ tic Shrine of North and South America has establihsed a fund of $127,000 which it has depos¬ ited in the Negro banks throughout the country ear¬ marked for tuberculosis and polio research. A check for $5000 was depos¬ ited last week by the Savannah Shriners in the Carver Savings bank, appropria te ceremonies being held at the presentation. | : j I j I j Laync Photo STANLEY ROBERTS, former newsman, appointed Special As¬ sistant to Richard L. Tobin, Di¬ rector of Public Relations, Na¬ tional Citizens For Eisenhower. Roberts will develop campaign literature on the Negro voter and assist in fund raising and organ¬ ization. In 1955 drivers exceeding the speed- limit killed 12,700 persons and injured 702,560; driving on the wrong side of the road took 5,300 lives and injured 123,- 260; drivers taking the right- of-way killed 3,610 persons. Tuskegee Alumni Sec’y- To Be Here Saturday J Henry Smith, executive | secretary of the Tuskegee Gen- | oral Alumni Association, will be in Savannah, Saturday, June 16, to have a meeting with the ; graduates and former students ! of Tuskegee Institute. Tuskegee Institute is cele¬ brating the 75th anniversary of j its founding this year and its i former students are being or¬ ganized to help make this year one of the best in the history | of the institution. The meeting of graduates i and former students will be ! held Saturday, June 16, at the home of W. S. Scott, 212 East | Waldburg Street, at 4 p. m., j _ -------- i — . (Continued on Page Seven) WBUm j j 17-year- old Jonathan Ken- on who was stabbed to ! | death. ; Mystery surrounding the stab- j bing of a 17-year-old soldier, j Jonathan Kenon. to death Mon- day night of Wednesday last week night was j Beared up last when a 19-year-old ......... youth walked into the police barracks and said he heard the police were looking for him. First he j Continued on Page Seven of Women to June 17-19 ALBANY — The annual con¬ vention of tlie Georgia Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs open its three-day meet Sunday, June 17 irr Atlanta. Headquarters for the convention will be set up at the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA following Sunday’s city and state- wide mass meeting which will be held at Wheat Street Baptist Church at 4 p. ip. Mrs. Mamie B. Reese of Albany, who retires as president after four years of serv¬ ice, will preside during the meet¬ ing. High points of the convention will begin with Sunday’s meeting when a representative cross sec¬ tion front the many civic, fraternal and religious groups will bring greetings from the Gate City. Re¬ sponse in behalf of the State will come from Mrs. Rubye Williams of Macon, State Secretary. The main address for the mass meeting will • Continued on page .seveni Local Dentists Host To otHXC Ql j j IViCCt ]t/Y j The 18th annual session of the Georgia Dental Society met at Savannah State college this week with the Chatham Dental Society as hosts. According to Dr. Charles F. Goosby. president of the society, the purpose of the meetings to gain knowledge of the scientific advances and niques <in dentistry and to corporate them into practices. The dentists were j ! welcome by Dr. Savannah W. K. president of ! college, after which they | an address by president Dr. of ; Weichselbaum, Georgia Dental Association. The visiting clinicians | the meeting- were Dr. O. Banks, Jr.. B.S., D.D.S., j professor of Dentistry chairman of the of Oral Pathology at Medical college; Dr. William L McCrocken, D.D.S., professor Dentistry at the University Alabama Medical Center: Martin L. Walton, Jr., | m.Sc Chief Hubbard of Dental at George and Associate Professor of Surgery at Meharry College School of Dentistry; and Dr. Henry Wilson, Assistant Professor of (Continuedlrom’Page Seven” Member Audit Bureau Circulations Price 10c BY UNIVERSITY CHAPEL HILL, N. C. — University of North Carolina last week approved applications by .-.oven Negro students desiring to enroll in the graduate school. Four of the applications are for the summer term and three for the tegular full semester. The university admitted three Negroes to the undergraduate school last September following a court older. These three are still eniolhi. I he < Impel Hill school 1ms had . Negro students since June, l!i5i, when three North Carolina Ne- groeg were admitted to study in the lau !,cll, ’° 1 - 0,le Ne * ro girl wus also permitted to register in 1951 to work on her doctorate in span- ish. -- Although ° Bible societies are J . etling ne w recor d S each year ln the distrlbutl0n of scriptures, are havi 6:fncuJty keep- ing up with world population increase, reports Dr. Wm. j, Platt. Last year the societies circulated 7,830,000 Bibles portions. Mrs. LaMoneda Dies Sud¬ After Heart Attack Following a heart attack, Mrs. Grich S. Q. LaMoneda died iuddenly Wednesday morning ■arly at iter residence, 1901 .Vest Broad, street. She was found dead by her Lster, Mrs. Mattie S. Busby, who occupies the apartment ibove Mrs. LaMoneda’s as she, Mrs. Busby, was about to leave .he house for iier work. When lie opened the door to Mrs. LaMoneda’s bedroom she dis¬ covered her dead, sitting in a (Continued on Page Six) (WO NEW PROFS at SSC SUMMER SCHOOL .jBagP * j & j j ; j j j j j j j J j Dr. Walter J. Murray j President W. K. Payne has j announced the appointment of two visiting faculty members for the 1956 summer session at j Savannah State college. I R- J- Martin, A.B., M.A., pria- NUMBER 56 ! j Md. Public Beaches Inte¬ j grated j | BA LTIMOR E—Maryland’s two j main publicly owned beaches opened last week for the first time on an unsegregated basis. No inci- dents were reported. Negroes availed themselves f of the opportunity to use unsegregat¬ ed bathing facilities in only one of the two areas, however. At San¬ dy Point state park on the Chesa¬ peake Bay about 15 miles south of here, what was described as a "handful” of Negroes used a beach which had formerly been for I | whites natural only. land The jetty, area is and divided in the by a I i"»t t> each was all-white and ”' ie Thc snin11 grou P ot P alt of crowd oC e J >’ At " Fort 11 (S- Smallwood Beach just ! south of the city and operated by Continued on Page Seven) i**' ty f ATTENDING CONFERENCE — Alphonso E. Fields, well known real estate broker, civic leadetf and chairman of Carnegie Li¬ brary Board, who will leave Sunday morning accompanied by Mrs. Fields, for Miami Beach, Florida, where he will represent the local library at thc annual conference of the Amercian library Association which convenes June 17-23 at the Fontenbleau Hotel. While there they will be guests ef the Empress Hotel. R. J. Martin cipal of Ballard-Hudson high school in Macon, will serve as j consu it a nt for the Workshop in Elementary and Secondary (Continued on Page Seven)