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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXXVI
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DR. W. A. EARLY *>^U v.KiNG DEDICATORY ADDRESS
SEATED: L to R. Rev ,J. S. Bryan, Mrs. Irma Callen, Atty.
Abram Minis, C. Preston East, Mrs. Alice Arden, Timothy C. My¬
ers, Mrs. Minis, Mrs. Chile?, Stephen K. Myer, Pres., Board of
Education; Miss GOlder., Principal; Mrs. Seymour, Geraldine
Jones, Pres., Student Council; Y\ mile Lewis, Father Gustave A.
Many Dedication
Of Sarah Mills School
Klan-Sike While Mob
Minister
Dist. Undertakers Hold
MRS. BRYANT RATES IN
“SALUTE to TEACHERS”
iifc:
Mrs. Euris S. Br.vant
CINCINNATI, Ohio—Now, at
Abigali Cutter Junior High
School fulfilling her ambition
to teach is Mrs. Euris Smith
Bryant, wife of Herman V.
Bryant, Assistar.lt Principal of
Porter Junior High School and
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AT DELTA ROUNDUP On
hand to greet the more than 150
members at the Delta Sigma The¬
ta Sorority Roundup in Washing¬
ton, D. C-, are, from left: Mrs.
Ethel Oliver, president of Beta
Sigma Chapter; Mrs. Florence
Letcher Toms and Dr. Eliza P.
mianitali friwr
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The First Congressional Dis-
trict of the Licensed Embalm-
ers and Funeral Directors of
the State of Georgia met on
last Tuesday in Swainshoro,
Ga., hosts to the regular quar¬
terly meeting being the tapley-
Pughsley Funeral Home.
The meeting was called to
order by the president, Reno
Tapley, with the devotional
portion of the program in
charge of Chaplain, R. J. Pughs-
ley. Reports of all committees
were heard, and the progress of
the district was widely com¬
mented on.
Looking forward to the ora¬
torical contest that is an an-
n :al event at the State Con¬
vention, the district elected
George C. Williams as chair-
man of the district elimina-
j tions, frem which it is hoped
1 to obtain a suitable contestar.lt
: to represent the district in the
I finals at Macon during the
state co:*(/ention.
Through the efforts of Mr,
Pughsley the meeting was fav-
i ored with an instructive add-
! ress toy James L. Brown, prin-
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, Shippin, founders of the sorority,
land Mrs. Patricia Roberts Harris,
1 the sorority’s national executive
director. The sorority is corral-
1 ling D. C. members, who are host-
esses to the national convention
to be held in the District of Co-
\umbia next August. (ANP)
Caution, Dr. Singletary, Mrs. Lalia C. Perkins.
Other platform gueuts (partially hidden) include Dr. F. C.
Underwood, Mr. Miller, Mr. Glendenning, Malcolm Bell, Mrs.
Bernita Washington, P. T. A. Pres.; Jack E. Cay, W. W. McCune,
Jack M. Levy. Hodge School chorus is seated in the foreground.
SELMA, Ala. (ANP)
carloads of white Nefjro men early last
week seized a minister as
he was, returning home from
church, boOnd his hands and feet,
and flogged him unmercifilly,
Sheriff Carl A. Griffin reported.
Hospitalized in “fair condition”
after the Klanlike beating was
the Rev. T. D. Wesley, who said
the men jumped him as he was
returning here from Siluria, Ala.,
where he had preached a sermon.
Rev. Wesley said the mob de¬
manded information about Negro
integration leaders in Alabama.
When he refused to talk, the men
shackled his arms with two pairs
of handcuffs, placed a rope around
his neck and legs, and “horse¬
whipped and beat him with belts
all over his body.”
One of the men wore a “klan-
type” mask, said Rev. Wesley, in¬
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“STRONG MAN”—Genera) An-
tonio Kebreau of Haiti, head of
the Military Council which took
over the operation of government
in Haiti during the recent unrest
did a marvelous job. A Military
Council was developed with Gen¬
eral Kebreau as head. The army
restored order, clapped disturbers
of the peace in jail and supervised
an election which all declare fair
and impartial. With the election
over and the new president, Jo-
seph Duvalier, installed in office,
General Kebreau and the other
members of the military junta,
Colonels Emile Zamor and Adrien
Valvil, retired back to their posts
in the army.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, NOV. l*i, 1957
The dedication service for Sarah
Mills Hodge School was held Sun¬
day, November 10, in the beauti¬
ful cafetorium of the school.
Hundreds were present to wit¬
ness the dedication services. The
school is named for Mrs. Sarah
Mills Hodge, a native of Savannah.
Mrs. Hodge was unable to be
present due to illness, but many
of her friends and relatives were
piesent to represent her.
The program began with a pre¬
lude played by James Drayton and
Benjamin Brown. Rev. John S.
Bryan, pastor of St. Phillip A.M.E.
Church, gave the invocation. The
school’s program was given by
Geraldine Jones, president of the
School Council. Miss Frankie N.
Golden, principal, introduced the
speaker.
Dr. William A. Early, Supt.
Chatham County Schools, brought
out in his address the importance
of using what we have and tak¬
ing advantage of every opportuni¬
ty presented us. Our school is
beautiful, hut it must be used in
order to remain that way; a school
tan oll 3’ be aii tiood as the people
within its walls, are some of the
main ideas brought out by Dr.
Early.
The dedication ceremony was
under tne leadership of Dr. F. C.
Underwood. Mrs. Irma C. Callen
presented the school with two
ueautiiui ruober plants. Remarks
, Loucniueu un l‘ ag„ Pouri
Y SECY JeNKiNS 10
ATTEND SEMINAR IN
NEW YORK
Joseph R. Jenkins, Executive
Secretary, West Broad Street
YMCA, will leave Saturday for
New York City to attend the
North American YMCA Staff
Seminar and World Education,
at the United Nations, Novem¬
ber 17-22.
The first session will be held
in the Empire Suite of the
Hotel Statler beginning 4:00 p.
m- Sunday. The group leader
will be J. Edward Sproul, Exe¬
cutive for Program and Re¬
search cf the U. S. National
Council of YMCA’s. The dinner
meeting will feature Dr. Kirt-
ley F. Mather, Professor of
Geology at Harvard University,
former president of the Ameri¬
can Academy of Arts and Sci¬
ences, and presently represen¬
tative of the World Alliance of
YMCA’s at the United Nations.
The ■ Y” Big Five basketball
team composed of former col¬
lege and high school stars will
be sponsored by the Savannah
Tire and Rubber Company, dis¬
tributors of the General Tires.
Claude Howell, salesman, was
instrumental in providing the
“Y” basketball team with a
(Continued on Page FouiD
Wilkins Named By Ike
WASHINGTON, D. C.—(ANP>
—Ernest Wilkins, assistant sec¬
retary of Labor, was one of six
persons named Thursday by
President Eiseiuhower to a com¬
mission to conduct a broad
study of civil rights.
Along with the Chicagoan,
President Eisenhower appointed
retired Supreme Court Justice
Stanley Reed as chairman of
the commission. Others named
were Dr. John A. Hannah,
president of Michigan State
University, as vice chairman;
former Virginia Governor John
S. Battle; Notre Dame presi¬
dent Rev. Theodore M. Hes-
burgh, and Southern Metho¬
dist University law school dean,
Dr. Robert G. Storey.
Social Clubs Joint Meeting
All Social, Civic and Frater¬
nal clubs and organizations are
urged to send representatives
to a joint meeting of the Social
Clubs Union and the Emanci¬
pation Association this Fridas
night,,Nov. 15, 7 p. m. Raleigh
A. Bryant, Sr., and Rev. J. C
McMillan are preside^.s of the
Social Clubs Union and the
Emancipation Association, re¬
spectively.
Norfolk White Woman Favors Integration,
NORFOLK, Va — (ANP) — A
Norfolk white woman expressed
the view that “a great many
people” favor integration in
the white race “but are afraid
of outside pressures in their
daily lives, open strife in the
church, and the loss of friend¬ |
ship and prestige” if they let it
be known publicly that they
favor integration.
Dentists Plan for Mid-Winter
Executive Board
Dr. R. Q. Venson, Memphis,
Tenn. Chairman of the
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HAITI HAPPY AND CARE¬
FREE AGAIN — Port-Au-Prinee.
With the inauguration of Joseph
Duvalier, Haiti’s new president,
all strife and strain seem to have
disappeared and the people of this
beautiful island have resumed
their normal way of life.
.President Duvalier has called
upon all of the citizens to rally
Admits Slaying 2 to Pay
Premiums on 150 Policies
SELMA. Alabama—(ANP> —
A widowed Negro seamstress
who carries 150 policies on el¬
derly women and children, with
herself listed as the ber.pfici-
ary, has admitted poisoning
two persons because she need¬
ed the money to keep up pay¬
ments on the others.
Accordulj to Solicitor Blan¬
chard McLeod, Mrs. Mary Per¬
kins, 35, whose husband, Charlie
Perkins, died in 1955 at the age
ol 33 after swallowing rat poi¬
son "by mistake” has confessed
to poisoning a neighbor’s baby
and an elderly woman friend
to collect Insurance totaling
$130.
Alor.li; with charges of mur¬
der in the deaths ol 10 months
old Gloria Jean Montgomery
and Mrs. D<Mia Davis, 70, Mrs.
Perkins was blamed for the
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The woman who identified
herself as "Mrs. Shirley S. Nes- j
bit,” expressed distress in 1
a
letter to the Norfolk morning
paper which carried her letter
under the caption “The Silence
of Christians.” Mrs. Nesbit said
in part:
“I am writing on a subject
which distresses me deeply—
the silence of the Christian
Board, and Dr. Harry T. Penn,
Roanoke, Va., President, along
with Dr. E. N. Jackson, Charlot¬
tesville, Va., Secretary-Treasurer,
comprising the Ad Interim Com¬
mittee of the National Dental As¬
sociation, met at the Penn-Sheara-
ton Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pa. to
arrange for the Mid-Winter Ex¬
ecutive Board meeting, February
8-9, 1958 and the National Con¬
vention, August 4-7, 1908.
Dr. W. P. Watson, President
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behind a crusade to banish all
ill feeling, become as one nation
again and rush Haiti forward.
Ah political prisoners have been
released. The curfew in effect
for several weeks has been abol¬
ished and life is happy and care¬
free again.
The stream of tourists has re¬
sumed. The president pledges his
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3rd Negro House
Chattanooga Subdivision
CHATTANOOGA, Tenin.—(AN
third dynamiting inci- j
in a Negro subdivision I
destroyed a new four-
dwelling valued at $7,400
week In an area where 65
houses are being construe-
for Negroes. None of the
has been occupied.
Police, investigating the ex- j
found unexpioded dy- 1
nvite under the flooring of |
house.
Out October 27, an unknown j
of dynamite was ex¬
in a field near an area |
by Negroes, and the !
might a house rented j
a Negro couple was dam¬
when a dynamite blast
detonated in the front yard.
in the matter of in¬
tegration;. 1 know that the
policy-making assemblies ol
various denominations have
taken stands against segrega¬
tion), but far too many of tne
individual church leaders and
laymen are turning their heads
away from this moral issue as
il it would cease to exist if not
eonfroi (ed. it is almost too
late for the church to meet the
challenge of proving to those
outside its doctrine, both at
heme and abroad, that it
stands up for and practices all
that it expounds.
“I cannot but believe that a
great many people feel the way
I do but are afraid of outside
pressures in their daily lives,
open strife within the church,
and the loss of friei rlship and
prestige ...” She adds:
‘ I am white, with centuries
of Virginian ancestry behind
me and have lived in; Norfolk
my entire life All of this makes
me aware of the vital need now
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administration to work for the
good of all the people, high and
low alike.
The above typical pictorial shot-
show, top, left to right, tourists
in one of the many mahogany
factories, examining curios. Note
the huge Haitian drum at left.
Center, a peasant tractor with
her baskets, trays and weaving
Member Aadit Bureau Circulations
Price 10c
NUMBER 6
ATTFNDED BEAUTY
fONURESS
Mine. Carrie Cargo has just
return'd from, two weeks stay
in Birmingham, Ala., attending
the Southern Beauty Congress
which was the most largely
attended in the 12 year history
of the organization- The in¬
structors who were from all
over the country brought new
points in) hair styling, setting
of waves, bench work, tinting,
hat and glove making. Mme.
Cargo Is a member .of the S. B.
C. board and served as one of
the consultants.
She also attended Bronner
Brothers Clinic in Atlanta.
While In Birmingham she was
the house guest of Mrs. Ruth
J Jackson and Mrs. Phillip
Holland and house guest of
Mrs. Daisy Mclver in) Atlanta.
VOTE FOR” YOUR SCHOOLS
irn the corning school
millage election on Nov. 26,
help the children to receive
a better education in better
facilities by voting “FOR”
better schools. Spe ad on
Page Seven.
spread about her. Right, a parade
of troops before Dessalines bar¬
racks. Lower, left to right, the
road leading from Cap Haitien
up to the Citadel, the eighth won¬
der of the world, to be seen in
the distance; the presidential pal¬
ace, Port-au-Prince; and a tour¬
ist starting on a trip to the Pine
Forest, 15,000 feet above sea
level.