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75 PUBLIC CONTINUOUS FEARS SERVICE OF VOLUME LXXV h tI 50,000 FOR DUBLIN CENTER—J. R. Lientz, resident manager and vice-president of Union uag- Camp t aper corporation, savannah, (right), is s , w n ving a $8 000 check to A. Bacon, State Agent for Negro Agricultural Extension Work. T e check will be used to help construct a new cottage at the Negro 4-H Club Center located ne r L.-bda. A: the present time, a new 500 capacity auditorium and a c„xtior,a are being constructed ■at .e popular 4-H Center as a ifoUit ci a $:00,000 grant from I”,'-the Sia.e A Slate fund raising c.mmittee is active soliciting Supreme Court Upholds Immediate in Many Receive Awards at Savannah State Life Blasted Out ot Suspect In Police Car HOUSTON, Tex. (A N n ). — Sudden and brutal death in a po¬ lice squad ear came last week to a 32-year-old Negro here after he was handcuffed and placed un¬ der arre t in connection with rap- inpr a young girl. Clan iis Leo Thompson’s life was Page Four) THESE 282 STUDENTS GRADUATE TWS WEEK FROM ALFRED E. BEACH AND S0~HR0N1A TOMPKINS HIGH SCHOOLS * **iVi iJB * ,$• * «r. if it V mst/ . .. ( f * WiMwl / W * , r- ^ w M f MWWh ff.e m 9 if m ,:f f nr Wmmrnm w WSF ' - ADams 4-3432 donations to build enough cct- ages to house —3 clu'.Ters, .nis committee has been hat the State will match all an s raised Others in the photo (L to R), .le ander Hurse Negro Rfv KING NAMF.O SP'NGARN MEDAL’S! N E W Y O R K, May 30 Martin Luther King, Jr., the young clergyman who headed the dramatic and successful Montgom- ■ <cut -Pqifour 1 ®3i? iauatttrali Srilmuf Agent; Eugene Hagins, chat- \_ , am county, Reporter, State n club Council; and Jimmie ieoorah , Colson, Houston . Coun- _ y> former vice-president, State -H Club Council. The Eighth Annual Awards Day program was acid at Sa¬ vannah State College, May 23. The followng is a list of the awards and recipients: Biology S'aff Award, Julius Smith; Campus Community Club Award, Betty Stephens; Chemical Rubber Company Award, Yvonne Williams; Class cf 1956 Citizenship Award, I~aiah Mclvcr; Toland J. Collier (Continued on Page Seven) SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1957 Defeated In Aldernianic _ __ Itace ATLANTA, Ua. (ANP).—A Negro candidate for alderman here fell short of the mark by some 10,000 votes last week as he went down in defeat after the Governor of this state had called for whites to vote against him enmasse. T. M. Alexander would have be¬ come the first Negro since Recon- truction days to win the nomina¬ tion to the City Board of Aider- men had he won the run-off elec¬ tion. 1 he noted Negro insurance exec- itivc lost to Jack Summers, a vhitc businessman by a vote of 2,170 to 22,455. Francis Williams, first U. S. •frgro college graduate, pub- isheri a poem in Latin, April 17. 1758. TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala. — (ANP)—Tragedy struck on the highway north of Tuskegee Monday to claim four lives and cast a pall over commencement exercises in progress at Tuske¬ gee Institute. In addition to the dead, ope other was critically injured and still another was less seriously hurt. These men also were In¬ stitute students. The dead were Hardford I.ev- ’son. 24. of Louisville, Ky.; '“urtls R. Maddux. 21, of Red 'ay, Ala.; Margaret Alexander, (Continued on Page Four) ''ROSS BURNING REWARD POSTED COLUMBUS, Ohio (ANP).— ’cv. John B. Quick, president, nn- •uinced Thursday that the exee- live committee of the Columbus NAACP, has authorized the post- •ig of a $100.00 reward for in- 'ormation which results in the ar- est and/or conviction of person r persons guilty in the Miller ave- lue crossing burnings at the home I ■f Mr. and Mrs. Charles Warren. “In making the announcement, lev. Quick said, “This kind 'Zisg&xzi 11 over the community. We have j isuatly thought of cross burnings, ▼lndow smashings, and other de- truetion of property as happen-! ng in the South, but light here in i By Samuel P. Perry, Jr. WASHINGTON (ANP).—Tht U. S. Supreme Court refused t> review this week the decision o the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeal in the Sixth District which ha 1 ordered the admission of five Ne groes to Memphis State Col leg in Tennessee “without delay.” The decision of the Circui Court of Appeals had nullified th» Tennessee plan for “gradual into i j gration” of teachers’ colleges an< normal schools. In its 8pccious anrun ,«,t before j the Circuit Court of Appeals thr i sUte of Tennessee, through it Attorney General Nat Tipton, ha> , | contended that faster integvatioi c f Memphis State College would deprive it of its accreditation i> (Continued on Page 4i Death Hides Ihe Highway Al Institute i» l’U.,o^..naU — MISS Mettella Marce, a member of the board of the Happy House School for Retarded Children, receives a check for $100, pre- gented by Mrs. Ruth Whitei W. Broad St. YMt A to Stage a Sr anal Bilk Popularity ■ # (omest A. crH B~ w me Y aradale Sorority Mrs Tadie Strmger, president, and the Y Public Relations Com- Continued on Four) Picture to left is that of the 73 students who graduated yesterday , (Wednesday) from the S phronia Tompkins high chcol and that below shows the 2/9 Alfred E. Beach high school Students who will grad- uatc tonight. The _ T nip,tins school , gradua- ticn exercises were held at the . chool and the Beach gradua- lion program will be held at the City Auditorium at 8 p. m. Both schools held their bac- calaureate services Sunday. Hie speaker at the 1 Tompkins services was the Rev. George D. Walker cf A-bury Methodist church and the speaker at the Beach services was the Rev. G. Caution Matthew’s _ T vscopal . , church. , 1 Photos by Freeman Member Audit Bureau Circulations Price 10c ADams 4-3433 uUil (lie A JUa MU 'lUU CuapaT of Alpha Chi Pi Omega soro- rity, as members look on. Tney are, left to right, seated, Sorors Ada Wright, Baslleus, Blanch Braxton, Rose Harden, R 0C heHc VOteTS Defeat Jimcrow School NUMBER 3| —Plioto Armortd Cassie Williams, Ludella Mar- .utiii; standing, Berta Ricken- bicker, Gladys Bazemore, Sus- I vm i.iiifO >n Pane Ktpii ROCHELLE, N. Y„ May 29. — Analyzing th» result* of a referendum on a proposal to buSd ncw scb,,,d in Hn «H-Nefro area, Rev. M. DeWitt Bullock, presi- of the N(in , 1!och( , ]lr NAAr> aid today that the this proposal indicated lb*t the Vitii " ,ns of NW * hit * Negro, voted against par rutin t . to hut equal school,.” The proposal, on** of ;cvrn sub- to the electorate* on tla? i( wouW , 1KVe Ht( . d for the construction of a new elementary school on the of the present school in the of the Negro area. Til" the board of education ' d 0,1 submittin <-' «"■ propevfcl the voters. Many citizen"’ „ al „ supported the hoard’s But the voters rejected " Thu hn, \'« ha " been U "« M a in integration as far a* of New Rochelle are con- Mr. Bullock declared. “II n, y dueling that now the board that people will no longer idly by in our community and school officials to turn their < iomtnned Four *