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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME I.XXIV
TALLAHASSEE BOYCOTT HALTS CITY
Another Atlanta Home Bombed
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FIRST BRYAN BAPTIST EDUCATION BUILDING TO BE DEDICATED SUNDAY
The dedicator! al services of
the completed educational buil¬
ding of First Bryan Baptist
church, under the pastorate of
the Rev. R. M. Williams, will he
ef much interest. The dedica¬
Says Detroit Hospitals
Pace Bias
Dawson To Oppose Powell’s
Stand on School Bias Bill
Dr. L. M. Terril of Atlanta
who will deliver the sermon
Sunday at the dedication
of the .First Bryan Baptist
Church education building.
He is pastor of Zion Hill
Baptist church, Atlanta,
and former.pastor of Bryan
Baptist church, this city.
A DAUGHTER
Ethel Maxic is the name
given Jo the daughter born June
20 to Mr. and Mrs. Alex Mack
of Rossignol Hill.
29,000th COLONIAL STUDENT to arrive in London for study is
Segum Bake, a wireless engineer employed by the Nigerian
Broadcasting Service. Bake quickly made friends with John Hugh¬
es, 19 -month-old son of a policeman, while feeding the Trafalgar
Square pigeons. Bake has been awarded a Nigerian government
scholarship for a six months’ course with the Marconi Telegraph
Company of Cleveland.—i ANP)
aiutnitali
tion of tin's building marks
reality of a dream, as well a-s
long felt need.
The building will serve a
fold purpose. First, it
house and accommodate
(ANP) —
William L. Dawson, one of the
tion’s three Negro
said .last week that he will
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell’s
segregation rider to the school
struction bill.
Entering into another day of
bate over the controversial
ure, House leaders said that, a
vote is unlikely before this
lay.
Dawson said he will oppose
acial integration rider introduced
>y his Negro colleague because
‘federal aid to education is need¬
ed now.”
Inclusion of the Powell amend-
nent will kill the bill, Dawson
laid, adding: “I hate to see an
ssue (segregation) as vital as this
>e used as a cat’s paw to kill the
bill.”
l Y. GETS FIRST SEPIA
POLICE INSPECTOR
NEW YORK (ANP)—A gang
■listing cop who olazed the trail
in Harlem during the high
irohibition days of the
Twenties” last Friday was
ed to one of the highest ranks in
the New York City Police
mentinspector of police.
Police Commissioner Stephen
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church school, and the Baptist
Training Union; second, it will
serve the people of the Yama-
craw Village and the surround¬
ing area as an educational and
recreational center.
DETROIT, Mich. (ANP) — A
report, stemming out of a 4% year
survey, indicated last week that
hospitals here were guilty of wide¬
spread discrimination ugainst Ne¬
groes in equal opportunities for
medical training and hospital fa¬
cilities.
The report revealed that metro¬
politan Detroit did not provide the
same rights for medical or nurs¬
ing training or patient care to Ne¬
groes that it did for whites.
Headed by the Right Rev. Rich¬
ard S. Etnrich, bishop of the Pro¬
testant Episcopal Diocese of Mich¬
igan, a 35-member committee was
appointed by the city’s Commis¬
sion on Community Relations to
investigate the hospital and train¬
ing institutions, which included
survey of Negro experiehce in 47
hospitals, nine nursing schools,
two medical colleges, and two
nursing colleges.
The study found that while most
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NEGRO IS CARRYING THE BANNER OF DEMOCRACY, SAYS
COURAGEOUS WHITE VIRGINIA WOMAN
By VICTOR CAI.VERTON
SUFFOLK, Va. (ANP) —
of the most courageous white
men in the South told an audi-
ence here last week that a great
responsibility rests on Negroes of
the South “because the colored
Southerner is carrying the banner
of democracy.”
The speaker was Mrs. Sarah
Patton Boyle of Charlottesville,
Va., wife of a professor of
University of Virginia. She was
the guest speaker at a public
meeting sponsored by the Inde-
pendent Voters League of
D. €. Phone Company Hires
tor First Time
BISHOP LOVE HEADS
BISHOPS’ COUNCIL
NEW ORLEANS. La. (ANP)
! Bishop Edgar A. Love, head
| the Baltimore area of the
odist Church, was elected presi
dent of the College of
i of the Central Jurisdk-tio** of
, denomination at a recent
rennial session here. Hr
Bishop J. W. E. Bowen of
Atlantic Coast area.
Elected secretary was
Willis J. King of the local
trict.
Other members of the
with their episcopal
for the new quadrennium ere:
Bishops Matthew W. Clair, Jr.,
St. Louis; Prince A. Taylor, Jr.,
| of the Liberia (West Africa) area.
Bishop Taylor formerly served
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1956
This, modern structure has
auditorium, eleven rooms and a
fully equipped kitchen.
The services will begin at
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Boy Glued To
Tree By
Liffhtninff
KNOXVILLE, Tenr,. (ANP)
A bolt of lightning left 8
Steve Maden of Chicago
upside down against the trunk
a tree Sunday, but he
without serious injury.
Maden, who was visiting
grandmother here, had ducked
der the tree along wdh his
year-old cousin to escape from
rain storm.
Maden. and his cousin,
Howard Story of Knoxville,
kn««ked- . unconscious when
lightning struck the tree.
The younger boy was
ly standing close to the tree and
was drawn to the charged trunk,
w n ere llt hung upside down,
G. E. Burden pulled the boy
from the tree and took him to a
local hospital.
Burden said he received “a slight
I shock” when he touched Steve.
'folk at Last End
She has been a staunch
of the program of the
] and civil rights for Negroes
the South,
“As colored Southerners,”
Boyle said at the outset,
have an obligation to
your group, the whole South,
nation and the world to set
| standard of what an American
izen is supposed to he. Why
this obligation fall on you? It
on you because the colored
j erner democracy is carrying today.” the banner
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Persuasion by the President's
mittee on Government Contracts
| has resulted in the Chesapeake &
Potomac Telephone Co., for
j first time in history hiring
1 operators.
The telephone eopipany had
er before hud Negri* 1 .- employed
except in lower paying jobs.
The company i avoiding any
kind of fu ovei the change in
policy, because it believes public
ATTORNEY SEEKS CITY COUNCIL POST
NASHVILLE, Tcnn. (ANP)
A Negro attorney, Arcenta W.
j j Orton, announced last ward, week his
candidacy for the Fifth see-
j ; 0 nd district City Council seat va-
catoH by the death of G- M Rags -
i dale here.
ATIJVNTA, July 2 -- A home
into which a Negro and his wife
moved Saturday night was
bombed early today. The house
is is a predominantly white
section and was rented fey the
Negro couple last week. This is
the second bombing of a Ne¬
gro's home in white sections
within the past six months.
The house at Dm Rankin
street, N. E„ was rented fey Carl
Haynes and his wife. The cou¬
ple was in bed when the dyna¬
mite blast ripped portions of
the front porch and the walls of
two front rooms shortly before
dawn. They were not injured,
according to police reports.
Officers found a wire leading
from the side to the front of
the house and concluded it was
used to detonate the explosive.
About 45 minutes after the
explosion, Mrs. Dennis George,
occupying the damaged house
next door, said she received a
phone call from a man who
warned her, “you will fee next,”
and then hung up.
jN.C. City
\skedTointe-
tr | u ,s
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Negro loaders here have requeste-
ed that the city school hoard show
“evidence of good faith along in¬
tegration lines by merging Char¬
lotte (white) and Carver (colored)
community colleges.
Kelly Alexander, president of
the Charlotte NAACP, made the
proposal for consolidation of the
two schools after the board told
Negro leaders that it would take
no action on public school integra¬
tion until after a special session
of the Legislature this summer.
School board chairman, the Rev.
Herbert Spaugh, said that the
schools are a part of the state
system “being harnessed with the
state system,” and cannot run
ahead of the state.
Boys’ Club of America was
found-cd in 1906. In that year
there were 52 clubs Now there
are 435 clubs.
dience that “until six years ago
1 was a typical Southerner, which; all-
in is to i .. say ,i,, . ■ that I T lived ll,m/l 1 in Vi an n M I I
white world. Like most Southern¬
ers I had the warmest feelings
toward Negroes, but I accepted
the status quo without the faint¬
est realization that it was con¬
trary to the principles which we
all stand for.” She gave the
NAACP credit for liberating her.
She asserted:
“If it hadn’t been for the
NAACP I’d still he in my
prison. For it was through the
notice might serve to stir antag-
j onisms among white employees.
However, the telephone
officials have said that from now
on operators will be hired, ori their
qualifications, only, without regard
to race.
The President’s Committee was
set up by President Eisenhower
in 194** a»4 is desigMMi to end
faucial diseriminatkm i» companies
1 having governms?Bt ewatraets.
Tn announcing his candidacy,
j j Orton progressive said: “I favor reform and initiated endorse
the
i by the present City administra-
; tion and as long as this policy is
1 continued, I will lend them my
complete support if elected.”
BUSES
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., July 1—
This ctly of 45,000 persons is
without, municipal bus service
today as the City Transit Co.
which operates the buses dis¬
continued its service last night
(Saturdayi midnight. The sus¬
pension of business by the com¬
pany was brought about by a
boycott by Negro riders which
began three weeks ago.
The Negroes decided to stay
off the buses when two young
Neg.ro coeds attending k lor id a
A. & M. College wire arrested
whew they refused to vacate
the seaste they were occupying
a bus and move to seats in
the rear.
This sci off a widespread
feeling of resentment against
the bus company and after a
series of mass meetings they
decided on a boycott which
became very effective from the
first day It went into effect.
Several meetings were held
between the Negro Inter-civic
Council, spearheading the pro¬
test of the Negroes, the city
commissioners and officials of
the transportation company, but
no solution of the differences
was arrived at.
In addition to requesting that
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Wan l« Arrest IIiis l o. Officials
On
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (ANP)
A request that warrants be
for the arrest of three officials
the Citizens Coach Company,
operates buses in Little Rock
North Little Rock, because
permitted integrated seating,
rejected here last week by
Atty. O. D. Longstreth, Jr.
The request (lamed
Fred C. Worden, lies Moines,
Executive Vice President David
Durban and Secretary
Nash, both of Little Rock, as
fendants, and came from
Gutheridgc, local attorney
leader of White America, Inc.
Gutheridge claims he
two Little Rock women who
protesting integrated seating.
said bus company officials
“violating our laws regarding
legation.”
“Longstreth, nowuver, said,
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mission of our first Negro
dent to the University of
w ), ere my husband teaches,
F became . aware jlit that I was
in a prison and that I might
able to escape.”
The speaker said the first
she learned after leaving her
prison was "the modern
superior grasp of democracy.”
said “as J began to know the
cuated Negroes in my
I realized that here are the
pie who understand the
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BALTIMORE INTE-
GRAILS POOL )
BALTIMORE, Md. (ANP)—“No
incidents were reported,” accord¬
ing to Charles A. Hook, city su¬
perintendent of parks, when Bal- j
timore opened its swimming pools
last week to persons of all races I
on an integrated basis.
The opening had been delayed
a week for special training of pool j
personnel, Hook said, adding: “I
feel that the two-day course had
a great effect on how our per¬
sonnel operated.” J
Hook related that Negroes came
to the pool exporting to be slop-
ped or asked questions, “hut found
that they were treated with cour-
tesy,” and as the day progressed
“they gained confidence and on-
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Price 10c
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A TTY. J. DELMAS ESCOE, right, associate counsel of the Henn
mgs Sub-Committee on Constitutional Rights, examine, a docu¬
ment with St. Louis’ new Circuit Judge Theodore E. McMillian,
when F.scoe visited the Missouri City recently.
CIVIL RIGHTS “FORE¬
MOST ISSUE ”
ST. LOUIS Civil rights is one
of the foremost issues In our
nation’s c.apitol and despite
bitter debate “informed obser¬
vers believe that out of this
Session of Congress will come
the frist civil rights legislation
N. C. Publisher Elected
President
PITTSBURGH, Pa. (ANP)
T. C. Jervay, publisher of the
mington (N. C.) Journal, was
elected president of the National
Newspaper Publishers Association
at the organization’s 18th annual
session here last week.
At the same time, John John¬
son, publisher of Ebony, Jet and
fan Magazines, was voted into
j I he association session Saturday. at a closed The action busi-
' ness
L (>mJed a 10 . year ef f ort by Johnson
gain NNPA membership and
| followed the personal appearance
of the Chicago publisher before
th( , convent j on delegates. A spe-
] cial committee headed by John
I Sengstacke, publisher of the Chi¬
cago Daily Defender, recominend-
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TWO SEEK GENERAL
ASSEMBLY SEATS
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (ANP)—Two
no ted professional men here are
seeking seats in the Tennessee
legislature.
Dr. Benjamin Franklin Mc-
Gieave and William R. Bradford
announced that they would enter
the Republican primary for elec-
j t jon to t^e General Assembly,
| )r McCleave is seeking a Senate
j ,, ost an( i Williams is running for
lhe n ouse of Representatives,
V fRS. RUBY MEYERS, home economist and demonstrator for
rflE SAVANNAH GAS COMPANY, standing beside the beautiful
$ 449.95 Florence Natural Gas Range given away during the Choir
an(J Quiz Contest, Friday, June 15, at the City Auditorium spon-
sored by 7 ^ Savannah Sun .
The audtence par took of the many cakes and food Mrs.
Meyers cooked on this wonderful stove.
NUMBER 39
to be enacted by that body in
75 years,” declared J. Delmas
Escoe in speeches here last
week.
Escoe is associate counsel of
the Senate Sub-Committee on
Constitutional Rights. Senator
Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. (Dem.
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TO GET DEGREE—Mrs. Rosetta
Davis Bryan, a teacher at Flor-
ance Street School, has com¬
pleted the requirements for the
master of arts degree in ele¬
mentary education at Atlanta
University. Her study was “Re¬
lationships of Oral Reading and
Word Recognition Abilities of
First-Grade Pupils To Their
Performances On Tests of Rate
and Accuracy of Perception.”
Mrs. Bryan will receive her de¬
gree at the convocation in
August.