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TEAKS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXXV
TALLADEGANS ENJOY SAVANNAH BREAKFAST —me ^uve
pictures were made when Mrs. Willa Ayers Johnson, a 1926 grad¬
uate of Talladega College, entertained the Talladega Concert
Choir with breakfast Monday morning at the West Broad Street
Y. M. C. A. Mrs. Johnson was instructor of public school music
at Talladega from 1926 to 1929.
TOP PICTURE shows the hostess with her husband, Ezra
Johnson (extreme left»; Dr. C. A. Braithwaite, chairman of the
Tallahassee Bus Muddle
'akes An Unusual Twist
TWO WHITE STUDENTS AND A WHITE STATE EMPLOYEE JOIN THREE NEGRO
STUDENTS IN DEFYING BUS SEATING ARRANGEMENT
Over $2 Million Received
By UNCF Last Year Jan.
N. 18
Jackie’s Employer Gives
$10,000 To Defense Fund
NEW YORK, Jan. 17—A
000 contribution was
today to the NAACP Legal
fense and Educational
Inc., by Jackie Robinson
(behalf of William Black,
dent of the Chock Full o’
Coffee Company and
chain.. The donation is to
the organization in its legal
work in the field of civil
The company lecently
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TO SERVE AS USHERS —The above group, the Y ADS Social Club, will serve as ushers for the
First Annual Adult Hobby Show at the West Br oad Street Branch, YMCA- They are, 1. to r., seat¬
ed, Laura Green, Helen Carter. LaVances Freeman, Juanita Quinn, Delores Clarke: standing,
Rose Marie Baker, Barbara Landou, Shelia Wo ods, Sliirlei Vinson, Carolyn Vinson; Annette
Kennedy.—by Staff Photographer.
Crilmne
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the former Brooklyn Dodgers’
baseball star to a two year $30,-
,00 contract as vice president
in charge of its large personnel
1 staff.
Jackie presented the check to '
officers of the Legal Defense j
Fund at a press conference !
held this morning at the Roose- j
velt Hotel. Present to accept it
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- Photo by Freeman
Fine Arts Department at Savannah State College; Flank Harris¬
on, director of the Talladega College Choir; and J. R. Jenkins,
executive director of the West Broad Street Y. M. C. A.
BOTTOM PICTURE shows the Talladega choir with the di¬
rector, accompanists and chaperones informally eating breakfast
after motoring from Charleston, South Carolina, Monday morn¬
ing. i Continued on Page Four)
A grand total of $2,081,811, in¬
cluding contributions from all
sources, was received by the Unit¬
ed Negro College Fund for its
member institutions during 1956,
W. J. Tient, Jr., Fund executive
director, announced today.
A record $1,667,317 of this total
represents contributions to the an
nual national fund-raising appeal
to help meet the operating costs ol
the Fund’s 31 member colleges arid
universities,
A capital-funds campaign for
these institutions, formally
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1957
T ALLA HAS SSEE, Fla.— (ANP/
A city judge here has post¬
poned “for the time being” any
i.ction against the five college
students and a state employee
rrrested last Saturday for de¬
fying local bus segregation laws.
The six three Negroes from
Florida A.vM College, two white
(tudents from Florida State
Jniversity and a white state
iepartment worker — appeared
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N.C. COURT RULES AGAINST
5TAT
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i’he state of North Carolina is re¬
sponsible for the 1954 gag-death
'f a Negro woman prisoner in
Woman’s Prison here, according to
he ruling of the state Supreme
Jourt last week. !
In a split decison, the high
•ourt ruled that the state was
cuilty in the death of Miss Eicon-
>r Rush. Miss Rush died August
20, 1954 from a neck dislocation,
Mr. Bellinger In
The City
Euiie Bellinger of Washing¬
ton, D. C., is in the city visit-
ng his brother and sister-in-
law, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bellin¬
ger. and other relatives. Mr.
Bellinger, a former Savannah-
ian. is employed as a linotype
operator in the U. S. Printing
Department in Washington and
his wife, Mrs. Lenore Bellinger,
is a teacher in the public
school system there.
Prior to moving from Savan¬
nah to Washington. Mr. Bel¬
linger was employed as a lino-
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Court Snatches
Man From Death Sentence
HAD BEEN CONVICTED OF RAPE IN ALABAMA ALTHOUGH
WOMAN FAILED TO IDENTIFY HER ALLEGED ATTACKER
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The (loath son; me of an Ala¬
bama Negro was sot aside hero
Monday by the U. S. Supreme
i'ourt in a 6 to 3 decision which
oversell a conviction upheld by
he Alabama Supreme Court.
The judgment and sentence were
eversed on the grounds that the
■onfessions usi>d to convict the
loomed man were obtained through
ilethods which violated the due
iroeess clause of the Federal Con-
titution. As the confessions were
ubstantiall.v the only evidence
vhich the State had against him,
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/ICE PRESIDENT—At the Janu-
try, 1957, meeting of the Board of
Directors of the North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Company,
Joseph W. Goodloe, Secretary, was
■lected Vice-President and Secre-
’ary.
1906, he received his elementary
md high school training in the
iurham City Schools and grud-
mted from the School of Business
Vdniinistration of Hampton Jn-
titute.
On June 14, 1924, Mr. Goodloe
•ntered the employment of North
aroiina Mutual as a clerk. He
idvanced successively to Chief
llcrk, Assistant Secretary, Assist-
int Secretary-Office Manager, and
Secretary and Member of the
Hoard of Directors. As Office
M a n a g e r, Mr. Goodloe has
made an outstanding contribution
to the Company’s Home Office
operators. He is a keen student
of the most modern methods of
personnel administration and me¬
chanical office installation.
On December 23, 1936, Mr.
Goodloe was married to Miss Hetty
A. Wilson of Baltimore, Maryland.
They have one child, Betty Jo.
In addition to the duties of his
office, he serves on the Board of
Directors of the Mutual Savings
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John rallionn to Address
Local NAACP Sunday
LEFT TO RIGHT — Mr. and Mrs. Newberry. Rev. N. Hollis. Dr. John Houser, Mrs. Clemen¬
tine Fuller, Bertha Hill, Alfreda Williams, Mrs. Hollis, Mary Montgomery, Carolyn Dixon. Thelma
Sturgeon, Tommie Randolph. Bennie McConnel, Thelma Everheart, Sadie Weems. Bernice Ownes.
cord.
The court awarded $3,000 to
Miss Rush's estate.
In its ruling, the stntc high
tribunal upheld rulings by the
State Industrial Commission and
a lower court that the woman died
as a result of “negligence” by
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Nu Chapter Officers
For 1957
Nu Chapter of the Iota Phi
Lambda Sorority held its first
meeting of 1957 on the first
Friday evening at the heme of
Soror Edna Sanders of 522 West
45th Street.
The chapter plans to cele¬
brate Negro History Week with
a “Tea” which will be given on
Sunday. Feb. 10. at 6 00 p. m.
at the home of Soror Sanders.
members of this commit¬
are as follows: Sorors Iona
i chairman i, Thelma |
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PRESENTED PROGRAM — A
Christmas program was pre-
sented on December 21,
the night nurses at Battey
Mass. University
Bias Out of Fraternities
AMHERST, Mass., (ANP)
Labelling racial discrimination
“an affront to individual
and worth,” the Hoard of
tees at the University of
chusetts ordered
clauses in fraternity
to be removed by Dec. 31, I960.
The 1960 deadline came
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FINAL RITES HELD
FOR PHOTOGRAPHER
MADDOX
Funeral services for Photo¬
grapher Cecil M. Maddox were
held Wednesday night at Con¬
nor's Temple and were largely
attended. Rev. W. W. White-
head, pastor, officiated. Inter¬
ment was in Lincoln Memorial
cemetery, the Sidney A. Jones
Funeral Home being in charge
of the arrangements.
Mr. Maddox died Sunday
night at a local hospital after
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;
John II. Calhoun
The public is invited to at¬ i
tend a progran. Sunday after¬
noon in observance of NAACP ]
Redemption Sunday. The pro¬
gram Is scheduled to start at
4 o'clock and will be held at
Bethel AME church, East Broad
street and Gwinnett lane, the
Rev. F. D. Jaudon, pastor.
The principal address of the
afternoon will be delivered by
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State hospital, Rome, Ga., the
j the third group. such affair presented by
! The program was as follows:
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 10c
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Whites Seek To Initiate
Bus Club Plan
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (ANP)
Resumption of the city’s newly
integrated bus service and the or¬
ganization' of a new-all-white bus
system In operate on a “club”
plan, are the latest, developments
in the city’s transportation pic¬
ture.
Bus service was resumed again
after a six-day stoppage, ordered
after shots were fired at six buses
and some Negro churches had been
bombed.
The buses operated on a limited,
daylight schedule, with the Inst
trip starting at. 5:15 p.m. Police
guards are assigned to buses fin¬
ishing their last runs.
Some buses carried Negro pas¬
sengers only. Others carried a few
whites and no Negroes. When Ne¬
groes and whites rode the same
buses, Negroes could be found in
the middle and onto the rear, while
the whites occupied the front sec¬
tion.
While this seems as if the citi¬
zens were working out their own
methods of integration, there was
still another group of whites,
headed by a local attorney and
state representative, which is
seeking to organize an nll-whlb
bus system to operate on a “club”
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Victim of Police Beating
NEW YORK (ANPi The
victim of a brutal assault by
three policemen in his home
here three years ago was awar¬
ded *39,000 last week when a
jury of eight men and four
women decided In hLs favor
against the city of New York.
Herman L. Selby, a 52-year-
old gas station attendant, was
awarded the verdict by the
jury which took slightly less
than three hours to deliberate
and present its decision to
Justice Arthur Markewich.
“Justice has been done. I am
highly pleased at the jury’s
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NUMBER 16
ENTERS PRIVATE PKAt’TK E
After seven years in the U. S.
Air Force Major C. S. Stripling,
Jr,, left the service to enter
private practice as a dentist.
The opening of his office was
an Jan. 14 at Berae Medical-
Dental Center, 515 Thirtieth
Street, Denver, Colorado.
Dr. Stripling, Jr., will be
remembered as the son of Rev.
and Mrs. C. S. Stripling.
Over Capacity Audiences
Hear Symphony Concerts
There was “no standing
room” Wednesday morning at
t h e Municipal Auditorium
when the Savannah Symphony
Orchestra played two concerts
for approximately live tliou.s-
ano Negro school children.
Every seat was taken for both
concerts with one row of chil¬
dren standing behind each
section in the dress circle and
balcony.
Chauncey Kelly, director of
the orchestra, announced the
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instrumental solo. Miss Bernice
Owens; Christmas poem, Mrs.
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