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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 | | j 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 ADams 4-3432 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 (Continued from Page Fouri - 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 i Continued on Pane Four* 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 (Continued on Page 8) N.C. COURT RULES AGAINST 5TAT — 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- (Continued on Page Six) Court Snatches Man From Death Sentence HAD BEEN CONVICTED OF RAPE IN ALABAMA ALTHOUGH WOMAN FAILED TO IDENTIFY HER ALLEGED ATTACKER 14 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, • Continued on Page S'ixi /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 (Continued on Page Six) 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 • Continued on Page Fouri 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 | (Continued on Page Seven; 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 ■ Continued on Page JD 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 • Continued on page Four) ; 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 (Continued on Page Six) State hospital, Rome, Ga., the j the third group. such affair presented by ! The program was as follows: Member Audit Bureau Circulations Price 10c A Da ms 4-3433 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” (Continued on Page Severn 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 (Continued on Page Six) 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 (Continued on Page Four) instrumental solo. Miss Bernice Owens; Christmas poem, Mrs. Continued on Page Seven)