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GO TO THH FOILS AND VOTE TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 6th
YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXXV
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER ADLAI E. STEVENSON
PRESIDENT EISENHOWER, standard bearer of the Republican Party, and ADLAI STEVENSON, leader of the Dcmocra.lic I'aily,
who will battle It out in next Tuesday’s election. According to pol Is, President Eisenhower is favorite to win by a comfortable mar¬
However, polls are not always correct, as may be recalled b.v Truman’s victory over Dewey, the lavorite, in 1. ! 4<S.
Search Fails to Locate Man
Snatched From Jail Abductors
Birmingham Store Discards
Its Jim Crow Elevator
WIFE KILLS ROOKIE COP
WOMAN
BOY SCOUTS TO
HELP GET-OUT
THE VOTE
The Freedom's Foundation at
Valley Forge and the Boy
Scouts of America have teamed
on Four)
; Composite picture to the right
shows:
TUP PICTURE, left — Miss
Carolyn Campbell speaking
over the mike at the half-time
ceremonies of the Woodville-
Ilisley game at Grayson Stadi¬
um after being crowned “Miss
Woodville of ’56" by Principal
Luten.
Looking on are her aotcnc.-
ants, Misses Evelyn Trucll and
Ella Frazier. They are flanked
by the captain and co-captains
of the foo*ball team.
TOP RIGHT — Majorettes
leading the Woodville band on
the street parade.
BOTTOM LEFT — Mrs. Edna
Olo.r, winner of the ‘ Mrs. PTA
title, is shown receiving a tro¬
phy from Mrs. Carrie Moore,
president of the Woodville PTA,
while Mrs. Lucile Simms, 2nd
jplnce winner, and Mrs. Alston,
third place winner, look on.
■James Luten, principal, is
standing at extreme right.
, BOTTOM RIGHT ->* Miss
Woodville of ’56 and her at-
kendanta aboard their float
which was one of the most at¬
tractive in the parade.—Photos
fay Freeman.
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..CHICAGO (ANP).,—. Enraged
because her husband “always went
out” without her and disturbed
over his attention to “another
woman,” an attractive Chicago
■ housewife last week shot to death
her rookie police officer husband.
• Continued on Page Six;
OUTSTANDING SCF,NFS OF THE WOODVILLE HIGH SCHOO l ANNUM HOMECOMING CELEBRATION STAGED LAST THU PSDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.
A report says that a downtown
office building has abandoned its
previous “racial segregation prac¬
tices” on elevators, since a police
court admitted a local Baptist
church minister of disorderly con-
(Continued on Page Fouri
NEW YORK, Oct. 29.—A major
defection from the Democratic
ranks will give President Eisen-
hower nearly twice the Negro
vote he received in 1952, a prize-
winning Negro reporter predicted
.day.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1956
160.000 Negroes
In (ia. to Vote
WILDWOOD, Fla., Oct. 31 —
Search continued today for a
Negro man who apparently was
snatched from the local jail by
his adbuctors. His hat and
bloody shirt were found today
on the outskirts of the town
and it is feared he has been
killed and his body done away
with.
Jesse Woods, 39, vanished
Saturday night from Ills cell in
the little jail house here where
he returned for safety after
(Continued oa page threei
Call Rowan of the Minneapolis
Tribune, writing in the new issue,
of LOOK Magazine, declares that
while" the Republicans do not yet
seem to offer enough courage,
enough hope for Eisenhower to get
half the Negro vote,” he could
MACON, Ga.—According to a
release by the Georgia Voters
League there are 160,000 Ne¬
groes in Georgia who are eligi¬
ble to vote in the General
alec Lion next Tuesday.
The organization whose mem¬
bership is composed of Negroes
from rvt-ry section of the state
ind is lu aded by John Wesley
Dol.fr> of Atlanta who is also
the grand master of the Negro
Masonic lodges of the state, has
been very active during the
past few months in boosting
registration among Negroes, it
claims that it has succeeded in
getting 15,000 more Negroes’
names on I he voters list In
Tol y a than were there in
'1)52.
Mjr. DcHfbs states that there
ire approximately 600,000 Nc-
<Continued on Page Twoi
E 5 . JOHNSON. IS .
I S HEART AM
Dr. Charles S. Johnson
Vote of
garner nearly 40 per cent of it.
“Whether he does or not,” said
Itowan,” will depend on how
the GOP capitalize on the
deep frustrations, on whether
publicans convince the Negro
he can enter, through the
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BE LEGAL ACTION
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Oct. 02
The boycott which was start¬
ed here 11 months ago against
the Montgomery Transit Com¬
pany by Negroes who protested
treatment on the city buses
and the segregated seating ar¬
rangement keeps rolling stead¬
ily along. Only a few of the
protestants ever find an excuse
' ) break their rigid and pro¬
longed fight against segrega¬
tion by riding the buses.
Shortly after the boycott
(Continued on Page Four*
LOUISVILLE, Ky. Dr. Olias,
S. Johnson, president of Fisk
University, tiled here of a heart
attack Saturday night.
The internationally known
educator, sociologist and author
was stricken in Union Station
and pronounced dead on arrival
at Louisville's General Hospital.
Dr. Johnson, who was 63, had
left the train to purchase a
newspaper and was roturnirig to
his car when he collapsed. He
was enroute to New York City
from Nashville, Tenn., to attend
a meeting of the Fisk trustee
board.
Members of the family said
he was in apparent good health
(Continued on page threei
door, a party no longer dominated
I |,y conservatives with outdated so-
. (;ia , and economi( , views.”
, A thrtv . tim( , winner of
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‘Continued on Page Severn
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 10c
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ASA T. SPAULDING OFF FOR;
INDIA—Asa T. Spaulding, vice
president-actuary, North Carolina 1
Mutual Life Insurance Company, I
and Mrs. Spaulding are shown
a at the
APPOINT DR. On
OKLAHOMA CITY (ANP).—
For the first time in the history
of the institution, a Negro has
been appointed to the faculty of
the University of Oklahoma.
Dr. George I. Lythcott 11, a spe¬
cialist in-, the diseases of infants
and children, was recently ap¬
pointed clinical assistant in pedi¬
atrics in the university’s School of
Medicine, und became the first
and only Negro holding such a
position in a southern university.
His appointment was announced
by the State Board of Itgents fol-
Giiiiunueil on Page Fouri
NUMBER 4
Durham Airport on the fir t stage
their trip to New Delhi, India,
Mr. Spaulding will serve a*
of five United Slates delegate*
to the ninth general conference of
UNES( O, beginning November 5.
6 TAN FIGHTERS ON
U. S. OLYMPIC LQXING
TEAM
SAN FRANCISCO (ANP).—A
of ten amateur boxer:;, three
them Negroes, . urvived the
in the boxing tryout.- to sot
a team to represent the United
in the Olympic Games in
Melbourne, Australia, fighting
a series of three-rounders
win their place;- on the team.
Among those who came through
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