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YEARS OF CONTINUOUS PUBLIC SERVICE VOLUME LXXIV to Resort to Courts, Not to End Bus Threats, Fiery Cross Fail to | i j Stop Postman in Bus Case ! JACKIE ROBINSON NAMED 41st SPINGARN MEDALIST NEW YORK, June 21—For the time, the coveted Spingarn awarded annually to a Ne -1 American for distinguished will be presented to athlete, Jackie Robinson of the World Champion base team, Roy Wilkins, executive j of the National Asso- for tire Advancement of People, announced here J. H. Jackson, President of Faces Jail Term Newspapers Win Prizes PITTSBURGH — (ANP) — newspapers won prizes last j in the National Newspaper Association’s merit j contest, with two papers for first place and eligible the Russwurm Trophy by rank-! in the general excellence cate-1 Tied for first place were the Defender and the Kan- | j City Call, scoring nine points I j I j | ! i mibevs of the Georgia Dental j ety which met at Savannah i ? College' last week. First Row, j j o R. Dr. G. F Rivers; Dr. 3. Warren (secretary); Dr. . Goosby (former (president); president); Dr. j er Thompson j iam X. Payne (president, autiunah Sril'iinr today. The medal was awarded for his superb “sportsman- ship, his pioneer role in breaking color liar in organized baseball, and his dvic consciousness,” par- ticularly his work in the efforts to curb juvenile delinquency. Join- * n!i l * le Hrooklyn Dodgers as an (Continued on Page 8) Two other papers also eli¬ for the trophy, but scoring points, were the Ohio Sen¬ with 8 points and the Cleve¬ Call-Post with 7. Judges in the contest were Arm- S. Pride, chairman, and of Journalism at Lincoln Emily L. Telfel and L. Lungren, University Continued on Page Seven) SSC) ; Dr. R C. Cornell (treasur¬ er); Dr. W. F. Clark; Dr. W. D. Brown, Sr., (corresponding secre¬ tary) ; Dr. L. W. Williams; second i row, L. to R. Dr. D T. Walton (National State Dental Associa¬ j tion vice president); Dr. J. W. Jamerson, Sr.; Dr. Albert Lafay- I MEMPHIS, Tenn. — (ANP) — A Negro postman here declared last week that neither threats of death nor "cross burnings” will make him drop his one-man fight against bus segregation in Ten¬ nessee. 0. Z, Evers, who recently filed suit in federal court attacking the constitutionality of Tennessee's < [ bus segregation laws, made the ! statement to reporters after a I three-foot gasoline soaked cross was burned in front of his mod¬ est brick home last week. Wit¬ nesses said the cross blazed high as a nearby 25-foot tree. Evers said he was not at home j when the cross was burned and j that he has been harassed by 'Continued on Page Seven, j 111. Methodist Group Admits ^6^10 "BLOOMINGTON, 111. (ANP) — Rev. Patrick Bacchus, a Pekin minister, became the first Negro clergyman last week to lie given Permanent membership in the llli- nois Methodist Church Conference. A native of British Guiana, Bac¬ chus became assistant pastor of the First Methodist Church of Pe- (Continued on Page Eight) CHICAGO. — Dr. Joseph II. Jackson, president of the five mil¬ lion-member National Baptist Convention of America, Inc., who made headlines last spring when he refused to back Rep. Adam Clayton Powell’s National Prayer Day for the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott martyrs because “an eco¬ nomic boycott does not quite har¬ monize with my religion,” faces a stiff fine and, a possible jail sen¬ tence for contempt of court. Superior Court Judge Frank M. Padden this week has ordered Continued on Pmee Seven Dr. A. B. Cooper; Dr. .1. P. Cheevers (vice president) ; Dr. E. D. Hamlet; Dr. E. G. Boddie; third row, L. to R. Dr. J. M. Grant; Dr. J. H. Ellis; Dr. Harvey Smith; Dr. W L. Me- Crocken; Dr. J. H. Douglas; fourth row, L. to R. Dr. P. W. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1956 MIAMI, i x a.-—According to an announcement made this week by the attorney handling their fight to end segregation on city buses, the Negroes of Miami will resort to the courts instead of boycotting the bu s es; This decision was reached Sunday following a protest meeting of the local chapter of the NAACP in which file 400 persons unanimously passed a resolution to take the fight to end segregation on buses to the federal courts. The arrest of two Negroes we£ k foi lefusing to mou (Continued on Page H) Pittsburgh Ready For Publishers PITTSBURGH — (ANP) — Residents of this city will have their first opportunity to meet publishers of Negro newspapers ] from all sections of the country at j j the 18th annual convention of the ■Continued on Page Seven' \ . Pl^fepiSr ‘■r . 7 . : DEGREE Mrs. Cath¬ Walker Williams, an instruc¬ at the West Savannah School, the Master of Arts de- ! in Education at the eighty- j commencement exercises j Atlanta University on June 4th, j above picture shows Dr. C. A. placing the hood on Mrs. as she holds her degree, i Cooper; Dr. C. M. Smith; Dr. J. W. Houser; Dr. B, H. Atkinson, Sr.; Dr. B. H. Atkinson, Jr.; Dr. W. Brow n, Jr.; fifth Row, L. to R. Dr. A. V. Cohen; Dr. M. L. Walton; Dr. Henry Wilson; Dr. J. W. Jamerson, Jr.; Dr. Shrop- shire; Dr. James Wilkes. Texas School Admits Negro Coed to Dorm DENTON, Tex. — (ANP) — North Texas State College last week became the first school in the state to integrate Negro and white students in the same dormi- (Continued on Page Seven i HOO NAAl'P Delegates Expected San Francisco to At tend Meet in SAN FRANCISCO, June 21.— , Ways and means of accelerating commmunity action to secure de-' segregation of public facilities and I I institutions will be explored at the 47th annual convention of the Na- tional Association for the Ad- continued on Page Seven; Mrs. Williams’ thesis was entitled “The Relationship Between Lan-! guage Achievement and Listening of Abilities West of Sixth Grade Pupils j Savannah School,” Mrs. Williams received the A.I5. degree from Spelman College in June, 1936. She represented her i Con tinned on Page Seven- Win PRIMARY ELECTION I In the city primary election Tuesday Mayor W. Lee Mingle- dorff, Jr., and his board of aldermen, running as the Cit- izens Committee, easily won over their opponents, the Inde- pendent Voters League, headed by William G. Haupt. The M ngledorff forces co- ralied a vote of 8,629 to 5,696 gathered by the Haupt ticket The ctiy general election will ;e held in August. The votes received by the successful CC aldermanic can- didates were a s follows: Dr. Ellison R. Cook, III, 8.416 votes; Henry Brennan, 8,366; 'Continued on Page 8) Teachers Join NAACP In Spite of Curb In Some Southern States NEW YORK, June 21. — In spite of punitive measures adopt¬ ed in some southern localities against teachers who are NAACP members, many Negro teachers in the South have joined the Asso- ciation during its spring mem¬ bership campaign. In making this announcement here today, Miss Lucille Black, j TO ATTEND FRISCO M«.i. TUNG-Leri, W. W. Law, president of Savannah NAACP Branch; cen¬ ter, Mrs. Esther Freeman, secretary, and Rev. L.S. Stell, chairman of housing, who will attend the 47th annual convention of the NAACP In San Francisco, Calif., June 26. Rev. Stell, pastor of Bethlehem Baptist church, is now In Los Angeles, Calif., attending the Baptist Sunday School invention. Mr. Law and Mrs. Freeman will leave tomorrow, Friday, for San Francisco. Boycott Unity Row Bver Finance MONTGOMERY, Ala. -(ANP) —An internal row over spend¬ ing of money contributed to the Negro boycott of Montgomery buses has temporarily upset har¬ mony in the Montgomery Improve¬ ment Association, but leaders on both sides of the dispute apparent¬ ly have decided to iron out their differences in private “in order not to hinder our protest move¬ ment.” The row came into the open MINISTER OUSTED MONTGOMERY. Ala,, June 18—By a vote of 40 to 0 the deacons of Bell St. Baptist church last night ousted the Rev. U. J. Fields as pastor because he iriti- cized the manner in which money raised for a car pool to fight bus segregaton was being handled. Tuesday when Rev. J. U. Field, resigned us secretary of the asso¬ ciation, charging misappropriation of funds. A flat denial of the charge: was issued by Dr. Moses W. Jones second vice president of the MIA who called Fields’ charges “deep!) regrettable.” Fields, who had been secretarj - from the beginning of the organ izution, said lie was quitting MIA • Continued on page Haven i Mixed Airmen j Ejected From Bowling Alley EAST POINT, Ga. (ANP) - iecause a Negro airman wa; imong seven other airmen in i mwling alley here, ail were toll to leave the premises after a •rowd had gathered outside of th< j recreation center. Police last week estimated th< •rowd at between 75 and 100 teen¬ age boys. Capt Hugh I). Brown and Sgt. j iContinued on Page Severn NAACP membership secretary.! said teacher enrollment in the State of Florida “probably leads j the nation.'’ More than 800 teach¬ ers in Jacksonville, Fla., alone j have become NAACP members during the campaign, she noted. In Georgia, North and South ■Continued on Page Seven) Member Audit Bureau Circulations Price 10c Enrolled In SSC Shool Ben lugorsoll, registrar at 8a- State College, reports is un approximate enroll- of 607 students for the first of summer school—550 in h 1 school and 57 in “SOLDIER OF THE MONTH”— James F. Densler, son of Mrs. an it- Bennigs, 827 West 44th was named “Soldier of the for May in a recent cere- at Tripler Army Hospital, lonolulu, Hawaii, He was highly eeommended for his efficiency, nitiative, co-operativeness and esprit de corps.” Pfc. Densler was also selected work the summer months at vileueu Military Camp, Hawaii. Phis is the Armed Services rest -amp in the Hawaiian Island. lie will work as laboratory in the camp’s dispen- (Continued on Page 8) Regent visits Savannah State Quimhy Melton, Jr., mem- of the Board of Regents from is shown with President K. Payne a.- they view the NUMBER 37 1 evening classes. This does not in- ! elude 100 students enrolled in the | slute area trades school, he said, The Savannah State secondary i (Continued on Seven) GETS A. B. DEGREE — Edgar L,eon Cocper, the son of Mrs. isabel Skipper Sykes and the ,ate Edgar L. Cooper, received the degree of bachelor of arts ,vith a major in general science jn Saturday, June 9, from the Pennsylvania State University, Jniversity Park, Pennsylvar.-'a. He attended the local Catho¬ de schools and completed his high school work at Palmer Memorial High School, Sedalia, North Carolina. He was ctocted a member of the judiciary student board of the university and was dean of pledgees of the Alpha Phi ALpha fraternity. | various Savannah * State College j buildings and departments during j his visit to the campus on Friday. Mr. Melton is president of tha I Georgia Press Association.