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76 YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXXVI
EMANCIPATION DAY CELEBRATION
TO BE HELD WEDNESDAY. IAN. FIRST
Congressman Powell To
Deliver Main Address
STREET PARADE TO PRECEDE
PROGRAM AT CITY AUDITORIUM
The Emancipation Proclama¬
tion. Day celebration will be
held here Wednesday, January
first. The observance this
year is being sponsored exclu¬
sively by the Emancipation Pro¬
clamation Association which is
beaded by the Kev. James C.
McMillan. Other officers of the
Association are Rev. F. D. Jau-
don, vice president; Rev. R.
Richards, treasurer; Rev. H. F.
Grant, recording secretary; Rev.
R. L- Byrd, assistant secretary;
Joseph R. -Jenkins, executive
secretary of the Y. M. C. A.
From present indications the
celebration will be one of the
most interesting in the more
than a half century long ob¬
servances held here in recent
years.
The day’s festivities will be¬
gin with a street parade which
will end at the City Auditorium
where the public program will
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Dr, T. J. Goodall Honored
of Brooklyn
Car Given
Founder of
OB Classic
MIMAI BEACH—J R. E. Dee,
Jr., vice president of Florida A.
and M. University and founder
of the Orange Blossom classic,
was honored in a testimonial
banquet here at the Miami
Beach Auditorium on Friday,
December 13. It was the sil¬
ver jubilee of the largest se-
phia bowl and the fifth largest
sports event of its time in the
world.
After hearing plaudits from
some of the nationSs most out¬
standing personalities in sports,
business, and civic affairs, Mr.
Lee was presented the keys to
a 1958 Super Buick, a wrist
watch, a citation, ana a plea-
sure, chest.
The keys to the car were
sented toy G. W. Conoly, presi-
dent of the Florida A. and M.
Court Upholds Union Jim
FISK CHOIR SALUTES
NEVi' UNCF COLLEGES
New York, —The Fisk Univer¬
sity Choir salutes the two new¬
est members of the United Negro
College Fund over the Amerx.
can Broadcasting Network, Jan.
5. As a charter member of the
Fund, Fisk University, Nashville,
Tenn., welcomes Barber-Scotia
College, Concord, N. C., and St.
Paul’s College, Lawrenceville, Va.
The addition of these two in¬
stitutions brings to 33 the num¬
ber of private, accredited
colleges supported through the
Fund.
This special broadcast is one
of the regular weekly series
showcasing the choirs of the
members of the United Negro
College Fund. The programs or¬
iginate from New York, WABC
Sundays, 10:35 to 11:00 A. M.
They are re-broadcast at vary¬
ing local times by affiliated sta¬
tions of the American Broad¬
casting Network. Check your
radio page for broadcast time
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OFFICERS OF LOCAL
MASONIC LODGES
INSTALLED
Donald Thomas, 33°,
deputy grand master of the Sa¬
vannah District, and
treasurer of the Most
ful Grand Lodge, F&AM,
risdiction of Georgia, held
elections of the five
lodges, beginning December
and installed all officers of
several lodges on December
Following .are the lodges
their officers that will
during 1958:.
Eureka Lodge No. 1 —
Doyle, worshipful master;
nie Powers, senior warden;
William W. Hamilton,
warden; P. M. Robert
treasurer; P. M. A. E.
secretary; Walter Reddick,
ior deacon; Harry
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BROOKLYN, N. Y.—(ANP)
Dr. Thomas A. Goodall,
of Bethany Baptist
Brooklyn, and his wife,
Violet Goodall, were
Thursday here by the
pastors and Church Union
Brooklyn and Long Island.
was organizer and first
j dent of the Union,
I Proclaimed as “Goodall
Four)
TO SPEAK AT ANNISTON —
John Q Jefferson, well known
civic leader and manager of
the local office of the Arndfi-
can Home Mutual Life
ance Company, who will be the
Emancipation Day speaker Jan-
uary 1 at Anniston, Ala.
The greatest Gift said. “It . is
-
more blessed to give than, to
receive.”
IOTAS BEAUX ART QUEEN CONTESTANTS—Seated: Misses Ellanora Williams-, Airrener Lee,
Lazette Dawson. Standing: Misses Ella Mae Brundage, Gloria Garrison, Mary Frances John¬
son. Winners—Misses Williams, Lee and Dawson. Photo By Freeman
Miss Lee Chosen
iota’s Beaux Arts
Queen
On Friday night, December
in the beautiful Flamingo
room, the Beaux Arts
for 1957-58 was chosen for
WASHINGTON—(ANP)
United States Supreme
1 took a surprising position
| it let stand unchanged a
er court’s ruling that
Brotherhood of
Firemen cannot be
to admit Negro firemen
membership.
_ The had , , . been
case
to the Supreme Court by
Oliphant and other Negro
men employed on various
thern railroads, after the U.
District Court in Cleveland
ruled that the Congress did
intend to require admission
Negroes to Brotherhood
bership. ,
The Negro firemen
called upon the lower courts
=,rr
j ued on the exclusion grounds denied that
rights under the Railway
Act.”
This request had been
nied by the Cleveland
Court Judge Paul , Jot.js on ,,
, ! B
i j contention it . it ., ,
! _____
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, DEC. 28, 1357
Iota Phi Lambda Sorority. The
contestants were presented to
a large group of friends and
weli wishers and the winners
were announced by the chair¬
man, Mrs. Thelma T. Lee,
follows: queen, Miss
Lee; runners-up, Misses Ellano¬
Nixon Calls For Full Equal
NEW YORK CITY—(ANP) —
Seme 3000 leaders from all
I over the couixtry were in at-
j tendance at the Waldorf-Asto-
ria grandballroom at which
Vice President Richard M.
! on was presented with the
j Irving M. Ives Award for
tinguished leadership in
promotion of interracial
operation, better relations
civil rights. Julius J.
was chairman of the
tation breakfast of the
SCEFToMeet on Violations
ATLANTA, Ga.—The board of
the Southern Conference Edu-
tional B’und, meeting here Dec.
14, decided to hold a conference
: «—s sjs ,n
The SCEF is a Southwide or¬
ganization °" ;;”;‘7 of ‘ e7te’ Negro nding''seg and white
u eTO t ted to ending e seg¬
j regation in the Southern and
j border states. Present at the
, 1 Dec. 14 meeting were
, members , and , staff , , from nine
Southern „ ,. states.
Bishop Edgar A. Love of
ra Williams nad Lazette Daw¬
son. Other contestants were
Misses Ella Mae Brundage, Glo¬
ria Garrison and Mary Fran¬
ces Johnson.
Miss Lee was crowned by the
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Force ’57 New York Republi¬
can State Committee. Sena¬
tor Ives personally made the
presentation to honoree Nixon,.
The distinguished alert Vice
President Richard M. Nixon
lauded the role played by Sen¬
ator Ives during his twenty-
eight years of leadership and
the hard work which he had
dedicated himself to for the
betterment of mankind
the years. Nixon informed the
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Baltimore district of The
odist Church and SCEF vice-
president, was named
of local arrangements for
Washington meeting.
theme of that conference
be ‘ Report from the South.”
will feature first-hand
on tactics used to keep
zens from registering and
ing in the South.
Specific instances reported
the SCEF board showed
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Father of Six Killed In
Train. Truck Crash
As the northbound
Air Line train “Palmland”
speeding toward Savannah
Thursday, it brought
death to a 60-year-old
of six young children.
The victim was Harry
who lived just a few yards
the dangerous Red Gate
crossing. He was on his way
work and started to drive
1 9 5 0 Dodge pick-up
across the double track
he heard the warning
from the approaching train.
witness at the scene said
Mr. Mayes apparently
terrified and attempted to
his truck off the tracks,
though he was more than
way across the track that
train was using. Then
truck stalled and the
liner, with brakes
slammed into the helpless
tim’s truck, dragging it 140
down the rails. An
of the Sidney A. Jones
Home was called and Mr.
was rushed to Memorial
pital where he was
dead on arrival.
The engineer of the
ger train who required
cal treatment for shock
the crash, is an
of the Mayes family and
quoted as saying that he
1 nized Mr. Mayes before
fatal accident, but was
too fast to stop in time.
Mr. Mayes, a dairyman,
survived by his wife, Mrs.
Mae Mayes; a son, Harry
III; five daughters, Misses
tha Ruth, Lydia
Lauretta, Marion Elouise,
Willie V. Mayes; a
ter by a previous
Mrs. Mary Gibbs of
Mich.; a sister, Mrs.
Williams, and other relatives.
Funeral services were
Dec. 24 at the
Adventist church, Elder H.
Cleveland, pastpr,
and the Sidney A. Jones
ral Home in charge of
ments. Interment was in
•
coin Memorial cemetery.
The printing industry
eight major divisions, each
career in itself.
Prof. Sees Little Chance For
Reversal of
ATLANTA, Ga. (ANP)
Despite the legislation, litiga¬
tion and intimidation which
have been sponsored by pro-
segregationists, there is little
possibility that the process of
desegregating the public schools
will be reversed, Dr. George E.
Simpson told an Atlanta Uni¬
versity audience last week.
The Qberlin college profes¬
sor of anthropology and socio¬
logy saw important political
implications in the increased
political power of the Negro.
In support of this he cited the
responsibility of Negro voters to
the Republican party for Eis¬
enhower’s victory in three of
the five Southern states which
voted for him. Eisenhower’s
margin of victory in Tennessee
was 5,000 votes whereas 20,000
Negroes shifted to the Repub¬
lican party in Memphis alone.
He did not see much evidence
of desertion of the Democratic
party in the North where there
are three million Negro voters.
Dr. Simpson said that the
one-party system was a severe
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Member Audit Bureau Circulations
Price 10c
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ENDORSE DIMES DRIVE
(Left to right): Dr. A. M. Townsend, Jr., St. Louis, Mo., pres¬
ident National Medical Association; Mrs. Richard Weeden, Lynch¬
burg, Va„ president The Links, Inc.; and William O. Walker,
Cleveland, Ohio, president National Newspaper Publishers As¬
sociation endorse the March of Dimes for funds needed for polio
patients, research, and professional and public education. Mem¬
bers ol national organizations are urged to work in their local
drives, to make personal donations, and to secure treasury con¬
tributions from local units of their organizations. The 1958 March
of Dimes is being conducted Jan. 2-31-
Ala. Voters Okey Amendm’t
Macon
MONTGOMERY, Ala— (ANP)
Alabama voters went to the
polls Tuesday and voted ap¬
proval for a change In the
State Constitution which will
empower the legislature to
ish Macon County. Macon Is
the county In which Tuskegee
Institute is located and where
Negroes outnumber whites 7
tO 1. |
The bill , to , permit the ,. vote .
referendum was introduced by
Sam Englehart, moving spirit
in the White Citizens Coun¬
cil in Alabama and state sen¬
ator from Macon County.
Englehart (engineered the
changing of the boundaries of
the town of Tuskegee so that
Negroes at Tuskegee Institute
and the Tuskegee Veterans
Hospital are unable to vote in
city elections. His new move
will split the county up, at¬
taching it to five white domi¬
nated counties so that even if
federal law ' enforcement
en¬
ables Negroes to register they
will toe unable to control the
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Dr. E. O. S. Cleveland
TO SPEAK AT AMERICUS —
The Rev. E. O. S. Cleveland,
pastor of the Saint John Bap¬
tist church, who will be the
Emancipation day speaker at
Americus, Jan. 1st. The exercise
will be held at Campbell Cha-‘
pel AME church at 6 p. m.
He that giverth to the rich
shall surely come to want.-Prov.
NUMBER 13
Bennett Gets
$4,454 From
N. C. Conf.
GREENSBORO, N. C.-Mem-
bers of the North Carolina
Conference of the Methodist
Church reported a gift of
454 0Q to BenneU Ct)llege
when they held their annual
"Roll Call” meeting at the
college last week. Bishop Edgar
A. Love, of the Baltimore Area,
presided and received reports
from the four district superin¬
tendents.
The Greensboro district,
headed by the Rev. W. T.
Brown, reported the largest
amount — $1440.00 for Bennett,
with the Winston district,
headed by the Rev. L. A. Brown
close behind with $1354.00 for
the college. The Western dis¬
trict, headed by the Rev. H. W.
Phillips gave Bennett $903.00,
while the Laurinburg district
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Well Known Opera
Singer Marries Swede
NEW YORK, December 24 —
Miss Mattiwilda Dobbs, daugh¬
ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Dobbs
of Atlanta and a Metropolitan
Opera singer, was married to
Bengt Janzon, a white Swedish
journalist, yesterday at
Grace Congregational Church.
The ceremony was performed
jointly by Rev. Herbert King,
pastor of the church, and i:sv.
J. T. Lundquist, a white min¬
ister.
Mr. Janzon is a roving col-
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Washington Correspondent
Visits City
Louis Lautier, Washington
correspondent for the National
Newspaper Publishers Associa¬
tion, and his wife spent Christ¬
mas eve and Christmas day
in the city with their son-in¬
law and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. Fred E. Owens of 634 West
39 Street. Mr. and Mrs.
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