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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXXV
ISHOP NICHOLS FOUND
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (ANP).
Bishop Decatur Ward Nichols of
tiie African Methodist Episcopal
Clnii a was suspended here Sat¬
urday until the 1900 General Con¬
ference after being found guilty of
five of seven charges on which he
was tried.
Bishop Nichols, who at his sus¬
pension was presiding Bishop pf
t ie 11th Episcopal District cWn-
pris ; ng Florida had been tried
on seven counts of mal-administra-
t >n and violation of the church
disc pi ne as revised at the 1956
(:■ snce of the church passed
in Miami.
Major evidence against the
Bishop came under the sweeping
charges in the church law which
revolutionized the financial struc¬
ture of the church.
Bishop R. It. Wright, Jr., pres¬
ident of the Bishop’s Council pre¬
sided.
T church, which prosecuted
t ii charges filed against Bishop
Nichols by Presiding Elder M. M.
Lindsey of Gainesville, Fla., was
rep; .-anted by Mrs, Sadie T. M.
Ah under, brilliant add church
e:.j Fenced lawyer of Phila-
deiphia, and Rev. Ezra M. John¬
son of Hot Springs, Ark.
P shop Nichols was represented
by Atiy. Ernest Jackson of Jack¬
sonville and Judge Lawson Thomas
of Miami.
Bishop H. Thomas Primm of
T< . served as chairman of the
Co: mitten of Trial which return-
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irfany to Get Awards at
Elks Grand Lodge Meet
Dr, Orr Heads American
Teachers Association
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ATTENDING CONVENTION —
£:d:iey A.- Jones, well known
lc: al undertaker, prominent
business man and civic leader,
who is attending the National
J . o Funeral Directors Asso¬
ciation convention in St. Louis.
Before returning home he will
v. it his son, Sidney A. Jcnes,
Jr., who is an alderman in Chi¬
cago.
CDC TO MEET
I RiDAY NIGHT
The Citizens Democratic Club
■me F-Ing will be held Friday
right, Aug. 9, at the Recreation
C ■: . r. 37th and Ogeechee Rd.,
at 8 o’clock. Election of officers
will be held. Music will be ren-
rii-rcd . by , several , quartets . , and ,
refreshments v/ill be served.
J n: Public is invited to attend.
L Wilson is president, E. Shu-
h r, secretary, and O A. Dem-
ere, committee chairman.
Carolina Negroes Seek
Transfer To Caswell Schs.
YANCELVILLE, N. C. (ANP).
— Application forms for transfer
requested iast week by 42 Negro !
pupils seeking reassignment to I
white schools in Caswell County
■
hoe are expected to be filled in I
and returned early this week. j
The pupils made requests for
transfer through their parents to ■
the school board in Caswell Coun¬
ty reportedly for reassignment to
specific white schools. The request
bids will be sent to the school
superintendent's office for action I
after being filled out by the pupils.
Ititw
ADams 4-3432
Atlanta Life President
Gives to NAACP
ATLANTA, GA. — It has been
revealed that Norris B. Herndon,
president of the Atlanta Life In¬
surance Company, in behalf of the
Alzonzo A. and Norris B, Herndon
Foundation, has recently made a
rrant of $3,000 to the NAACP
Fund, a like contribution to the
United Negro College Fund and
,1500 to the American Red Cross.
It will be recalled the Mr. Hern-
ion made a donation of $3,500 to
he NAACP in the summer of
1056.
E. M. Martin, secretary of the
Atlanta Life Insurance Company,
in commenting on these most re¬
cent grants of the Herndon Found¬
ation said:
“No donation to any organization
in America paj)s greater dividends
to the cause of practical freedom
and Democracy than a donation
to the NAACP Legal Defense and j
Educational Fund. If America is
to survive as a Democracy, the|
foundation of America, Democracy i
must be kept safe, sound and solid.
“Ungodly forces in America de-'
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DURHAM, N. C. (ANP).—Dr.
Charles W. Orr, dean of instruc¬
tion itt Alabama A. and M. Col¬
lege, Normal, Ala., has been
president of the American
Association. Ht succeeds
Dr. T, R. Speigner, professor of
geography and director of the
of resource use education
North Carolina College.
Dr. Orr and next year’s officers
were installed at a closing ban¬
in the NCC cafeteria Tuesday
night. Former '"West Va, State
College president John W. Davis
was the banquet speaker.
Also named for the 1958 ATA
Lucius flacote, Dublin,
Ga., vice president; Dr. H. Coun- j
cil Trenholm, president of Ala-
State College, Montgomery, |
executive secretary; Dr. Wal-
Ridley, dean, St. Paul’s Col-
Lawrenceville, Va., treasurer. I
Members of the executive com- j
are Mrs. Minnie D. Bell,
Washington. D. C.; T. L, Upshaw,
Tenn.; and Dr. Speign- j
of NCC.
Trustees elected for three year
Mrs. Lillian It. Johnson, I
Miss., and Dr. Joseph !
Taylor, Durham. Two year
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in Purse j
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NEW YORK
weight champion Floyd Patterson
accepted the advice of his manage!
and waived his $175>0 oo guarantee
for his championship fight with
Tommy “Hurricane” Jackson last
Wednesday.
He accepted instead $123,859.62,
40 per cent of the total re-
mec.ro to pastor
V HITF CHURCH
NUNDA. N. Y.
congregation leaders of the
Presbyterian Church, which has
all-white congregation,
this week that the Rev. Dr.
W. Underhill of Philadelphi,
had been chosen as their
and had accepted.
The choice was made bv
congregation after Dr.
had been a guest preacher on
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Arrest Minister on Bus
Sign Moving Charge
Hoosier Lawyer Tells
His Home Was Blasted
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (ANP).
Mercer Mancc, 46, a
of the Indianapolis legal
department also a former Juvenile
Court referee and who has oc-
sat as judge pro-tem
; n Municipal Court here, stated
this weck to thc P olicc that two
" ien in a ™r with a loud muffler
,blew a class globe against the
'j ’£ht. l “' k ’ s kome on Tuesday
Manco lives in a racially intc-
neighborhood. The law-
fired two shotgun blasts at
Grand Reporter
PHILADELPHIA, (AUP). —
officials this week stated that
are complete for the
Grand Lodge Convention of
Improved, Benevolent, Protec-
ve Order, Elks of the .World, to
held in Philadelphia, home of
grand exalted ruler and grand
Robert H. Johnson.
The Convention, which includes
of the Grand Temple, the
affiliate, will cover thc
beginning Sunday, August
in the new South Philadelphia
School.
SESSIONS IN HIGH
Headquarters of the committee
he in O. V. Catto building,
16th and Fitzwater streets,
all Convention sessions will
held in the High School, where
Grand Ball, an accompaniment
all World Elk Conventions, will
held, at which announcement
be made of a grand “Give
high-class family automo-
Everyone of many departments
exhibit progress, from the
Commission, which dur-
30 years has given 4-year
to scores of ambitious
and girls, without distine-
of rate, color or previous con-
in leading colleges and uni-
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deipts. The sum represents a cut
of $51,140.
The actlon vvas takpn . - » ccord,,, .. e
to Cus D Amato, Patterson’s man-
ager, as “. . . an act of generosity”
to Emil Lance, the promoter, who
despite the cut profited by about
only $20,000. Lance, who became
Boston Girl
Wins Award
i BOSTON, Mass. (ANP).—Jac¬
queline Jones, who recently grad¬ j
uated from the Boston Conserva¬ j
tory of Music with highest honors
and received the Whitney Medal,
has been notified by the Institute
| of International Education that
-he has been awarded a Fulbright :
Fellowship to study in Paris dur¬
ing the academic year of 1957-58.
As a student at the Conserva¬
tory Miss Jones received scholar¬
ships annually, but was very ac¬
tive in civic affairs such as the
Education Committee of the local
branch, NAACP.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1957
the men, described as white,
they fled to their car.
ly they were not hit. Mancc
j he thought the incident was a
i linuation of disturbances by
| truders at his home. Nine
: dows were broken there July 5.
“I think it was the same
pie,” Mance said, although he
ed he was unable to see them
ly enough to give a good
tion. Lt Anthony Watkins
Sgt. Oscar Donahue, two of
top Negro officers on the
“• haV ° been aM, * ned
PROMINENT NEW
MUSICIAN VISITS CITY
Like father, like son is
applicable to a
late local military band leader,
James (Jlmi Middleton and
none the less well-known son,
James, Jr., of New York
who is in the city for a
visit.
I Mr. Middleton and his wife.
Mrs. Regina
accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Ed-
■.vard Blake here on a motor
trip. In the party were also the
two Blake children. Mrs. Mid-
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FEW NEGROES PERMITTED I
TO VOTE IK TUSKEGEE AREA j S
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—Sev¬
eral residents of Tuskegee, Ala.,
charged here this week that only n
sparse number of Negro&s in rural
Macon County, Ala. — where
Tuskegee is located—are permitted
to vote.
The spokesmen, representatives
of the 1 uskegee Civic Association,
stated that in Macon County dur-
ing the past two months 7J Ne-
groes have appeared at the regi-
st, u,tion site. Only 33 of these were
permitted to make formal applica-
tion to the Board of Registrars
the first promoter to present a
heavyweight championship fight
since 1949, said he will use > the
money to sponsor small fight duos
around the New York area. He is
due to open the Eastern Park-
way arena in Brooklyn shortly
after Labor Day.
Patterson, who knocked out
FOSTER HOMES URGENTLY NEEDED
BY C. C. D. P. W.
According to one of the
parents of boarding children
the Chatham County
of Public Welfare, being a
parent is one of thy most
ing and rewarding
that she has known. You, too,
have this rich experience as
Welfare Department is greatly
need of foster homes,
for our Negro children.
.Children who are placed in
ter care are usually hoys and
whose natural parents are
to care for them because of death,
desertion, divorce, illness or
er inadequacies. At present, the
Welfare has forty-six of
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ANP).—
The Rev. Theodore N. Nelson, 51-
year-old Baptist minister, was ar¬
rested last week and charged with
disorderly conduct in connection
with moving a racial sign on a
Birmingham Transit Company
bus- Trial was set for Sept. 6.
The minister was one of the 22
open-seat bus riders Dec. 26 whose
arrest led to a suit filed in Federal
Court Feb. 14 attacking Birming-
ham’s bus sept segregation laws.
■ The case .is expected to be heard
"n a motion for summary judg-
nent during the fall term,
TM() waj ^ t() bg thfl fourth
time that Urn Rev. Nelson had been
arrested in connection with open-
bus riding. He was acquitted
in one of the cases for lack of
ftvide " ce ', ” e was .arrested .tried
and freed for allegedly violating
the segregation laws,
Rev. Nelson indicated that his
recent arrest, came after the sign
was moved up a seat, with his sit¬
ting behind it, and the operator
carrying it back to its original lo-
eation, leaving him in front of it
j in the section reserved for “white.”
He said there were no white
aboard the this fit the
'line and that all the seats in the
“colored” section had been taken,
Be said he was arrested when he
refused to “ move back '” He is re P'
resented by Atty, Orzell Billings-
| Jr.
and only seven received certifi- !
cates of registration.
They said that the U. S. De-
partment of Justice has investi- I
gated the Macon County voting ’
situation and has found that a j
number of white persons who filled I
out voting questionnaires incor- j
rectly were permitted to register j
I an( j vote w hj] 0 Negroes were not
permitted to register-even though
: lbcy ba j CO rrectly completed the
questionnaire.
The Tuskegeeans spoke at a
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Jackson in the 10th round at the
Polo Grounds in his first title de-
fense, said he accepted the adviefl
because “ I have faith in my man-
ager and "it must be for a good
cause.” D’Amato said he wanted to
help Lance get off to a good start
as a championship fight promoter,
The net receipts after taxes
child cases in cure. There are
many more who need this kind
of care. To meet this need, the
Welfare Department has thirty
foster homes—fifteen white and
fifteen colored. Needless to say,
this number is sadly inadequate.
Hence, this agency is appealing
for homes where these children
can enjoy the warmth and indi¬
vidual attention of normal family
life.
Foster care is usually tempo¬
rary: length of care verying with
the time required to make more
permanent plans for the iridivid-
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John Davis
Gets $15,000
Post
NEW YORK. (ANP).—John A
'avis of New Rochelle, N. Y.. one-
’me professor at Lincoln •Univer-
ty (Pa.), and Mary Louise Nice
>f Onnwanria, school teacher and
Vader of the Democratic State
Amimittee, were sworn in Friday
is members of the State Commis-
•Jon Against Discrimination. Car¬
mine DeSapio administered the
iath in the Governor's office at
SO Centre St., Manhattan. The
post pays $15,200 a year.
Governor Arvllle Hnrriman
•hose the |iair for appointment on
their records. It is the first pub¬
lic office for Miss Nice, who was
lerving as guidance counsellor at
Lafayette High School in Buffalo.
Mr. Davis is the second Negro
to be appointed to the commission,
the other being Elmer Carter. He
was serving as associate professor
of Government at New York City
College when named. He is 45
years old. |
DID YOU KNGVV- ;
Ali telephones of the Beil
Telephone System were silenced
for two miuntes ^
funeral of Dr. AlexanderI
Graham Bell, August 4. 1922.’
Cleveland to be Host
To Doctors 1 Convention
Clinic and Dr. Charles Puestovv
of the University of Illinois are
two of the featured speakers who
will address the 2,500 delegates to
the G2nd Annual National Medical
Association when the Cleveland
•h'apter of the National Medical
Association plays host at the Hotel
Hollenden, August 12 through Au¬
gust 15, 1957.
During the four-day meet, the
theme of the convention to be dis¬
cussed will be “Newer Trends in
Medicine.” Special sscientifie ex¬
hibits have been arranged to dis-
olay some of the new trends in
ill phases of Medicine.
Prominent pulenists who will*
discuss “WHAT’S NEW IN PED-
IATRICS, MEDICINE, GYNE-
OOLOGY, AND GENERAL SLR j
GERY” professor will be Dr. Matthew j
Walker, of Surgery at ;
Meharry Medical College and past j
President of the NMA, who will
also serve as-moderator; Helen E.
Nash, M.D., “Pediatrics,” clinical ,
instructor in Pediatrics at Wash- j
ington University, and associate j
director of Pediatrics at Homer G. ;
Phillips Hospital; John B, John- j
son, M.D. “Medicine,” F.A.C.P.,
professor of Medicine at Howard
University; William D. Holden,
M.D. “Surgery” F.A.C.S., profes-
sor of Surgery at Western Re-
serve University, and William L.
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from the paid attendance at the
j :iK ; t was $134,649.06. The gross I 1
was $156,930.80. The attendance ]
was 18,101 (central, and 14,458
paid. Another $175,000 came from j
the radio-television till.
Patterson is reportedly ready to j
I make his n<- t title defense against
ALTHEA GIBSON TO
TAKE PART IN WIGHT-
MAN TENNIS MATCHES
NEW YORK, N. Y. (ANP).—
It was announced here this week
that Althea Gibson, the Wimble¬
don champion; Darlene Hard
Louise Brough, and Mrs. Dorothy
Head Knode had been selected for
the U. S. team to play Great
Britain in the Wightman Cup ten¬
nis matches at Sewickley, Pa., on
August 10-11.
It will bo Gibson's first
appearance In the competition. The
U. S. Lawn Tennis Association
made the announcement.
“Love thy&elf last”
Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 10c
ADams 4-3433
JO-YR.-OLD MAN IS SERIOUSLY BURNED
WHILE LIGHTING HIS PIPE
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Benjamin A. Lewis who
was drowned Sunday at j
Hilton Head, S. C.
During the past eight days,
tragedy which struck several |
Savannah homes, left a young 1
man and a boy drowned, two !
elderly persons burned to death,
and a 90-year-old man seriously
burned while lighting iris pipe,
Wednesday,
Bonjeniin . A. Lewis, 21 years
Booker T. Washington
a Nat’l Memorial
WASHINGTON (ANP). — The
United States has honored Hooker
T. Wa,sWngfvm-,H4t<**4 | wmoHs Negro
•ducator and leader, posthumously,
by making a public memorial of
his birthplace at Rocky Mount, Va.
Fred A. Seaton, Secretary of
Interior, announced this week
the establishment of the monu¬
ment which is not a piece of stat¬
uary but will comprise a park
out of the farm which sur-
nunds the log cabin in which thc
famed Virginian was born.
PART OF NATIONAL PA Rif
SYSTEM
The monument will be part of
the national park system, “It com-
memorates a great man,”-said Sec-
rotary Seaton, “a man whose ideals
have left an indelible imprint and
whose life established for hi.s race
a pattern of advancement founded
on the basic virtues of honesty,
and interracial harmony.”
Chester L. Brooks, former his-
torian at the Theodore Roosevelt
National Memorial Park in North
Dakota will have charge of the
Booker Washington memorial,
I)r. Washington’s birthplace has
had an interesting recent history.
white owners of the farm on
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Rudemacher, 1956 Olympic '
champion, who has never
a professional fight. The
fight, to which both thv Na- |
Boxing Association and New I
Commission have refused to !
their approval, is scheduled
Aug. 22 in Seattle. Radeniach- j
is a hometown boy there.
Dinner
For Benefit of NAACP
NEW YORK, Aug. 1 A nat¬
ional benefit dinner for th«t
NAACP, to lie held at the Roose¬
velt Hotel here in Nov., is ex¬
pected to attract 1,000 persons
from all sections of the nation,
Jackie Robinson, chairman of the
Association’s 1957 Freedom Fund
campaign and of thc dinner com¬
mittee, announced here today.
Mr. Robinson explained that the
Freedom Fund dinner will have
a threefold purpose: to honor
Blanch Ricky, Sr., who, as gen¬
eral manager of the Brooklyn
Baseball Club, opened the door to
u u, v,as drowned Sunday af¬
ternoon v/hlle swimming in
the *«rf rt Hilton Head, S. C.
Mr. Lewis, a special delivery
messenger for the Savannah
Port Oifice, was drowned after
failing to heed the warning of
a life guard that he was ven-
turing too far out from shore.
He reside^ at 701 West 40th
street and was the son of Rev.
Albert Lewis and Mrs. Marga¬
ret Foy Lewis, His funeral was
held Thursday afternoon at
Palen Methodist church, R^v.
Willie Gwyn officiating. The
body was carried to Dover for
interment. Byn'es-Rcyall Fune-
pal Home was in charge of the
funeral arrangements.
The young boy drowned in
Pond off the Tremont
road was 10-year-old George
Donaldson of 128 W. 31st strefet.
fn.s body was found floating In
the pond. He is thought to
have drowned about Saturday
when he fell from a boat.
ligating “the drowning ^that
in . the boat with the Donaldson
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piTtrs HFln MONDAY
FOR JERRY D. BRYANT
A,
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The funeral of Jerry D. Bry¬
ant vas held Monday after¬
noon at Asbury Methodist
church, the Rev. G. D. Walker,
oa. tor, conducting the services.
Interment was in Lincoln Me¬
morial cemetery. Funeral ar¬
rangements were in charge of
the Sidney A. Jones Funeral
Heme. Mr. Bryant died Wed-
nesday of last week at Georgia
infirmary after an illness of
several years.
Well known in business cir-
eles, Mr. Bryant operated a
barbershop on West Brond
street, just north of Horny-
Prior to entering the business
held, he was for many years
an agent of the Pilgrim ueaun
and Life Insurance Company,
ar.d the Afro-American Life
insurance Company, serving
most of the time with the for¬
mer IIe was a native of Orange-
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Negroes in professional baseball,
arid Duke Ellington, talented com¬
poser and orchestra leader; to
stimulate participation in the As¬
sociation's life membership eam-
naign: and to raise $100,000 for
the NAACP national budget.
Admission to the Nov. 22 event
has been set at “a minimum of
$100 per eounle,” Mr. Robinson
continued. Credit for an initial pay¬
ment on $500 NAACP life mem¬
bership will be given each ticket
purchaser, he noted, in order to
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