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FRAYING FOR “CAMPY’
Baseball America is praying this week
for the recovery of one of tho brightest
and most popular stars in the national
pastime, Roy Campanella, who was crit¬
ically injured Tuesday morning early
when his car crashed into a utility pole
as he was driving to his home in Long
Island after closing his business in Man¬
hattan.
The likeable, mild-mannered Los An¬
geles Dodger catcher suffered a broken
neck and other injuries in the c-u-kup
and for a while it wrs feared that he
would not survive. However, it appears
now that ho will rull through but it is
a big question as to whether ho will ever
again be able to don a catcher’s mitt.
One of the game’s most outstanding
players and one of the first Negroes to
crack the color l : ne in organised base¬
ball, Campy, as ho is known ( bv his team-
mates and associates, reached the pin¬
nacle in his career on tho diamond dur¬
ing bis ton years in tho National League.
Thr^o times he won tho covoted honor
of being tho most valuable player in tho
league; owe scored the most home runs
in a «°a°on roled hv a catcher and was
considered one of the most astute back¬
stops in the game. One of his greatest
fortes was that of handling young pitch¬
ers. mar>v of whom reached tho tonmost
round and gave unstinted credit to the
36 vear o'd catcher for their success.
Op and off the p'aving field, the great
catrhor was a’vavs the same rrdtd-nr>n-
n p red. iovial fellow, never allowing h ; s
vunusual success to go to h's head. He
was a favorite with sports voters f ho
country over. Here is what Tom Cn r -
fpv. who writes the column “Coffey
Break” in the Savannah Morning News,
snvg o r Campv and the unfortunate ac¬
cident that befell him:
SHOCKING NEWS TO SPORTS
A sports world was shocked yes¬
terday by the news of Roy Camna-
nella’s imar-fatal automobile accident
in which the perennial wheel horse of
the Dodgers suffered a broken neck
that may very well put an end to his
base ball career. Accidents of this
NEGRO NAMED CHAIRMAN OF
KENTUCKY HOUSE OF RFP.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (ANPi
The first Negro to sit as chair,
man of a standing committee in
the state house of representa¬
tives is the Rev. Felix S. Ander¬
son of Louisville.
VIRGINIA ANTI-NAACP
LAW VOIDED
'Continued on page three*
_
tional Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People
and the NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund. In the ;
argument heard last September
and October. Robert L Carter
of New York, NAACP general!
council. and Oliver w. Hill, N.
A. A. C. P. attorney of Rich-
miond, represented the Associa- '
tion. The I egal Defense Fund
was represented by Thurgood
Marshall of New York, the
Fund’s director-counsel, and
Spottswood W. Robinson, III,
of Richmond.
Hailed as “Landmark”
Mr. Carter today hailed the
decision as “a landmark of far
reaching consequences.” The
court, he pointed out, “refused
to close its eyes to the reali-
ties of the desegregation con-
troversy. Virginia authorities,
it found, were using all
state's resources to preserve
segregation, and. with these
new laws, was seeking to deny
to Negroes the aid of the NAACP
which the majority opinion
called ‘the most important Ne¬
gro rights organization in the
country’—in their efforts to
contest the Validity of these
laws through the courts.”
The majority opinion, written
toy Judge Morris A. Soper and
concurred in by Judge Walter
E. Hoffman held the laws un-
constitutionai. In a minority
opinion. Judge Sterling Hutch-
eson dissented chiefly on proce-
dural grounds.
If the Virginia statutes were
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kind are always shocking. When they
involve someone whose livelihood is
dependent upon full physical coordi¬
nation, the impact is even worse.
When athletes run their course,
get the best out of their active
years and then finally decide to call
it quits because they’re slowing
down that’s one thing. It’s some¬
thing entirely different when an acci¬
dent puts an untimely end to an ath¬
letic career that shows no signs of
drawing to a close.
Gamoanella’s career has been iust
that. The chunky catcher who has
been the key man in the Brooklyn’s
(now Los Angeles) scheme'of things
for so many years has overcome
practically every conceivable kind of
hazard to his career. His size, for
one thine, ordinarily would dictate
an overall slowness, yet Camfpanella
has moved with the agility of an
Olympic sprinter. 1
Other more tangible hazards have
included such things as broken
bands, broken elbows, hard TtFMvs to
h's arms and le ,v s and evofl band
in'ury that left a finger paralyzed.
rv Man River. has kept rolpjvt along,
leaving National in his League’s path such rm^h’w Valu¬ as
the
able Player award (three tmtos), a
record of almost 250 home rims and
more than 850 runs batted in during
a ten-vear career as a major leaguer
and a berth on seven all-star teams.
Campanella’s doctors are holding
out a slim rav of hope that be will
be able to play again, but a bro’-eu
neck coming at the age of SO—whb'h
is ancient for. some athletes—the
‘'•chances are slim, indeed.
But you can bet that if there’s
even the remotest of chances that
Campanella will play again, lie will
parlay that chance for all that it’s
worth. Meanwhile, a sports world
will be praying for the recovery of
this player, who truly is one of the
gregt athletes of our time.
Anderson, fourth of his race
“r> serve in the general assem¬
bly, was appointed chairman of
the committee on suffrage,
elec-tiorf? and constitutional
amendments.
tleld ,0 0, 'tlaw the activities of
the NAACP and the Legal De¬
fense Fund, the majority opin¬
ion asserted, “the Cummon-
' ealth would be free to use alt
ot its resources in Its search
f °r lawful methods to postpone
*nd, if possible, defeat the es-
tablishcd constitutional ris-hte
a °f Ks citizens, while
th e colored people of the state
w °uld be deprived of the re¬
sourcs needed to resist the at-
tack ln the state and federal
courts, The duty of this court
to avoid such a situation, if pos-
s ik' e ' is manifest.”
Denial of Free Speech
The enforced disclosure of
the names of NAACP members
and contributors and contribu-
tors to , the ,. , Legal , Defense _ „ Fund, ,
designed » , , as a , form of ...... mtimida
tion, .. was held , ,, to , be , a violation ....
of , the right . . . of , , free speech . , for
the ,, organizations organizations ... and . their ...
members and contributors.
Also struck down as « a « denial
j of equal protection ,and jlue
process of law was a statute
which branded as barratry the
activities of the Association and
*he Legal Defense Fund in aid¬
ing Negroes to prosecute claims
of unconstitutional discrimina¬
tion by state authorities through
the courts and the handling of
such litigation by NAACP law¬
yers.
Ttae court pointed out that
“the exclusion of lawyers when
acting for benevolent purposes
and charitable societies ,as dis¬
tinguished from business cor-
j porations. from the restrictions
j imposed by the canons of pro-
fessional ethics has long been
recognized in the approval giv-
I en by courts to services volun-
Between The Lines
By Cordon Ilanco'k
(Fir Associated Negro Press)
DOWN WITH SQUABBLING
AND UP WITH COOPERATION!
Many years ago when I was a
student at Benedict College, Co-
lumbia, S. C.. there was a local
baseball team that was one
of tho best to be found in 11
the country. It was a colored
feam and had a s its manager
a fellow called “Railroad Bill” be-
cause he managed the team for
nothing gnd worked at the rail-
road station for a living.
I shall hover forget that one
day one of his m p n became
miffed about something .and al-
though the miffed man was one
of ‘his finest players, he took
him out of the gome with the
pungent remark “come off tho
field, for no man can nlay base-
hall when he is angry.” I have
never forgotten that terse ad¬
monition. and through the
years I have looked for, and
found, much truth i nit.
Wh p n a man is in the game
end becomes angered, he makes
all kinds of mistakes. I have
found it tnie in baseball and
football and now in basketball,
that an angry man is a liabil¬
ity and not an asset to his
team. There is no better sign
n t a team’s impending defeat
than wh°n they begin to squab¬
ble among themselves; and
there is no harder team to de¬
feat than one whose members
'“ay at peace among themselves.
A team that n'avs together is
almost unbeatable.
The thing about our current
situation nationally, that gives
“h’s writer greatest concern is
t!ie tendency of our top-level
officials to squabble over the
fact that we have fallen, or nr-
failing, behind Russia in the
space-race. Jirst a few ifceeka
ago we were sitting, as it were
on tom of the world brandishing
our atom and hydrogen bomb.
Today Russia sent its satellite
op its course around the earth,
we are terribly disconcerted end
now squat ’ lin among ourselves
trying to decide who is to blame
for what? Just like a baseball
or a football team must get it¬
self together if they would re.
trieve the situation, we must
and bickering if we would
nste on equal terms with Rus-
Ha. “ !
Just a few months we were
a complacent and conceited
nation living on the fat of the
land; today we are
NEGRO HOMES
pnrinrn DUiVIDAt sop
(Continued from Page One)
dows in the Gamble residence.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. —
Early Monday morning a numb
exploded near the Phillis
Wheatley community house for
Negroes. No injuries were
ted but the blast tore a deep
tarily offered by members of
the bar to persons in need, even
when the attjWFeys have been
selected by elaborations organ- j
i; ed to serve cause in a con¬
troversial field.”
Barratry Law Banned
Moreover, Judge Soper assert¬
ed. the activities of the NAACP
and the Legal Defense Fund “as
they appear in these cases d >
not amount to a solicitation of
business or a stirring up of lit-
i ation of the sort condemned
by the ethical standards of the,
legal profession. They com¬
prise in substance public in¬
struction of the colored people
as to the extent of their rights,
recommendation that appeals
be made to the courts for re¬
lief. offer of assistance in pros-
ecutling the cases when assist¬
ance is asked, and the payment
lMal expenses for people un-
'-ible to defend themselves, and
attorneys who have done
| the work haVe d ° Ile S ,° ° n *. y W, ?, 9n
' authorized by the plaintiffs. ff
“In holding
the two forn;s of attack against
i the Association embodied in the
i statutes—disclosure of
Virginia *
i names and , restriction . . of , legal , ,
‘
i activities—the court. Mr. Car- „„„
ter said, , ,, has shorn , the ,.
i ’ “
i gationlsts of those weanons
most menacing to the existence
L of the NAACP as an effective
ivil rlghts organization in the
i Southern states.”
The State has net yet
nounced that it will appeal the
ruling but it is expected to
so. It is likely that a final
determination may not be had
until the matter is before the
United States Supreme Court,
If the NAACP should be upheld
i there, similar laws in
Southern states would be likely
to be invalidated.
Printing from movable type
as we know it today was first
done by Gutenberg at Mainz,
Germany, about 1420. The Bible
was his first work.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
to to stay stay in the race for nation-
el survival and we are struggl-
Ing gainst a mighty and re-
.ourreful nation,
We have been disposed to
sell our great nation in a mia-
trrial way; but we have neglect-
ed to sell our democratic ideol-
oqy and we have failed inglori-
ou-ly to sell our democracy to
the darker peoples of the
( democracy is col-
world. Our
or struck and far too much en-
er TV has gone into the matter
drawing color lines.
Unfortunately, for the cause
of democracy the conscience of
our nation is smitten be-ause
studied efforts have been made
(o stay the push of brotherhood
in the world. Both American
democracy and American Chris-
tianity have faltered before the
challenge of color.
Most American Christians and
American democrats iare quite
willing to accept the Negro as
an Inferior, but they balk when
“hey arp a^ked to accept him
as a brother and an equal.
Race prejudice is threatening
to ttoirh democracy and despoil
Christianity. This column has
been crv'pg out for twenty-five
years that “America must save
“be Negro or itself bp lost.” The
reasons for this conclusion are
becoming more conclusive as
‘ me passes.
Ju t a few days ago there fell
into my hands a Colgate Uni¬
versity publication. And there
was a letter from one of my
classmates who recently traveled
over thegreato r part of the
world in recent months. “And,”
said he, “I was questioned in
things pertaining to our conn-,
try, and the most frequently 1
many lands and about many
asked question was ‘why
America still reject the Negro?’
I do not know what his answer!
was but I am sure it was an
embarrassed and apologetic
-n=wer. Furthermore I am sure
it did not satisfy peoples who
sce the discrepancy
cur profession and our prac-
tices as a democracy. |
There was only one answer \
for the searching and.irrespans-;
ible question and that is
ica is being destroyed by race
prejudice. We are squabling;
not alone over the threat that;
Russia is reposing but because '
1
of a nation’s guilty conscience,
Down with squabbling and up
with cooperation and brother-
hood.
hale in the ground near the
curbing and caused groat ex-
cLenient in the neighborhood of
the building which is a branch
of the Y.W.C.A., shattering
many windows in the building.
It is not known for what
reason the bomb was placed
near the community house but
it is thought that it resulted
from racial unrest which fol-
lowed several incidents of a few
i weeks ago.
STRONG LEADERSHIP CAN BRING PE ACEFUL COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAW
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SEVERAL OFFICIALS
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Spaulding, arid has been in th p
service of the company more
than twenty-one years.
President Kennedy also an¬
nounced that the Beard of Di¬
rectors .made the following
changes in the official roster
of the company: Agency Direc¬
tor, Aaron Day Jr. was elected
Vice President and Agency Di¬
rector. Asst. Controller R. C.
W. Perry was elected Asst. Sec¬
retary, and Counsel C. C.
Spaulding, Jr„ was elected the
General Counsel.
Commenting on the program
| of the Company in his report
; to the policyholders. President
Kennedy said, “During 1957 the
company show e d continued
growth in all phases of opera-
Hon and it has reached a point
in its development where the
amount of its Admitted Assets,
estimated to be approximately
$57,800,000 as of December 31,
attracts the attention of any¬
body and everybody who recog¬
nizes dollar values in our na¬
tion’s economy. The rank of
“he Company among the 1144
life insurance companies dom¬
iciled in the United States of
America, as of January 1. 1957
was 129 based on Admitted As¬
sets.”
lie stated further, “While the
exact figures as to the amount
of insurance in force at the
end of 1957 are not yet avail¬
able. it is estimated that the
total is approximately one quar-
“er billion dollars.”
CVher Officers re-elected were
as follows: W. J. Kennedy, Jr.,
President and Chairman of the
Board: Clvde Donnell, Vice
President and Medical Director:
J. W. Goodloe .Vice President
and Secretary; A. T. Spaulding,
Vice President, Actuary-Control.
V. G. Turner. Treasurer;
N. H. Bennett. Jr„ Associate
Actuary-Assistant Secretary; W.
A. Clement, Associate Agency
Director: J. J. Henderson, As.
sistant Treasurer; Maceo A.
Sloan .Associate Agency Direc-
B. w. Kennedy, Assistant
Secretary-Claim Supervisor; R.
C. Foreman, Assistant Control-
gram, whatever you desire, tout it
“vary: L. B. Frasier, Agency
Secretary; W. J Kennedy, III,
Assistant Vice President,
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J)AV To Present 1958
— Evpose
of Talents
“Continued troin Pagr one)
rated by Mrs. W. K. Payne of
Savannah State College. Among
'those on the program will be Dr.
A. L. Stephens, David Jones,
Mrs. Dorothy Raines, Prof. Phil-
lip Hampton, Mrs. P. A. Patter-
son and Lonnie Roberts. Prof, j
Leroy Bolden and Miss Carolyn
Vinson. Prof. Ben Brown, Miss
Hettie Frazier and Mrs. Flor- i I
ence F. Harrington the Bynes.
Royal and Sidney A. Jones
singers and the Savannah State
College Tompkins high school
& Beach high school choruses.
HOLLYWOOD,
the many letters I receive
Iv, there is occasionally one of
more than usual human inter-
est, and occasionally tinged
with pathos. Thus one arriv-!
ed last week, which I publish-1
ed, because I know that with
all its glitter and glamour, Hoi-
lywood has a heart. These ex¬
cerpts from 1 a letter from Mrs.
Elizabeth Sims speak for them¬
selves.
“Dear Sir: I saw your write¬
up in our Atlanta Daily World
and I said you might find I
somebody to help me and my
little old, children. have I am 36 children, years j |
and I nine
and a grand-child ,and am ex-I
pecting another child myself. !
“My husband is not support¬
ing me, and I am unable to
work, because they don’t hire
a woman in my condition. The
welfare will not help me, and
I want you if you please, to
see if you can get some color¬
ed epople, or white ones, either,
out there to help mV childrn
who need clothes, shoes and
food.
“God knows I am telling the
truth. Some times we go all
day without eating, and part
of the next day, I hope to
keep all the largest children in
school, and I want to be able
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1958
The shadow of Sputnik is certain to hover over prac¬
tically every Washington development for the foresee¬
able future. capital hope,
Well-informed persons in the nation’s
however, that the situation will be considered realis¬
tically. Eisenhower’s refusal to
They aflplaud President
accept the many “panic” suggestions that were forth¬
coming just as soon as Sputnik’s “beep-.beep” became!
audible throughout the world.
Some of these suggestions would have thrown wide
open the doors of the Treasury to meet limitless spend¬
ing demands regardless of need or the ability to use
additional funds in any worthwhile way.
President Eisenhower calmly explained that already the
government was spending $5,200,000,000 a year on armed
military research and development alone.
Now that, he added, isn’t any weak, pusillanimous ef¬
fort ; that is a lot of money.
Lending a helping hand to a friend in trouble you can
be certain of one thing . . . he’s sure to remember you . . .
the next time he’s in trouble.
New Orleans Parents : j)>
Resent Slur Aimed At
Their Children
NEW ORLEANS—The mother
of a Negro grade school pupil
stated this week, you may call
it a boycott or a stay away pro¬
gram, whatever you desire, but it
looked like both of them at
Booker T. Washington school
auditorium Thursday, when out
of 1.500 children invited to at¬
tend a concert given by the Or¬
leans Parish School Board and
the New Orleans Symrahony or¬
chestra only 240 children put
in their apnearar.ee and those
from two schools.”
Mothers of children in the
New Orleans Negro schools have
been angered at the insult hurl¬
ed at their children by the
action of the Orleans Parish
School Board in not permitting
Negro children to sing or to
play musical instruments with
the symphony orchestra. The
school board says it is against
Louisiana law so to do.
The orchestra plays for Ne¬
groes to sing with them in other
places in the state and city, in
Xavier and in Dillard Univer¬
sities and at Christmas time a
NAACP Life Membership •or!)
iM
Committee 'da- o3
NEW YORK—Jackie Robin¬
son .the former baseball star
and chairman of the 1957 N.
A. A. C. P. Freedom Fund drive,
has been named co-chairman
of the Association’s Life Mem¬
bership Committee. He will
serve in this capacity with the
present co-chairman, Kivie
Rrr'err Boston Industrialist
and Dr. Benjamin E. Mays
president of Morehouse College
in Atlanta.
Others recently added to the
•30-member committee include
George A. Beaver, Jr., Los An- j j
geles insurance man; Dr. Geo.
SYMPATHETIC HOLLYWOOD READERS PLAN AID
FOR NEEDY
to send them back to Sunday
School.
The writer o fthis pitiful
letter is Mrs. Elizabeth Sims,
1488 Kerr street, Atlanta, Ga.
Already several people here
have offered to help, and
some other localities espe-
c “ a ^y Atlanta, should do like-
wise. She gave names and
ags of the children, ranging
from 1 to 16. Copy her ad-
Copy her address and see what
you can do, no matter how lit¬
tle. Dan’t let Hollywood folks
over a 1,000 miles away be more
kindly than you.
In a postscript she adds;
“Don’t think me crazy. I. am
just a P°°r colored woman that
nee d s help.
Rogers Albright
Heads Steward Board
The Steward’s of St. Paul C.
M. E. church held their election
of officers last Wednesday night
at the church. Rogers Al¬
bright was elected chairman of
the board. Other officers are
J. C. Williarrls, vice chairman;
Wm. Osborne, secretary; Lester
Gordon, Asst, secretary; Willie
Ross, treasurer; Frank James,
chaplain, and Alfred Melton,
reporter. Rev. J. S. Key i3
pastor of the church.
Negro musician played with the
orchestra.
Blame for the attendance of
the children from the two
schools or from any school in
the system is being placed up¬
on the parents of the children.
Parents must sign consent slips
before children in the public
schools may visit any place out¬
side of the school grounds^ It
has been claimed that princi-
oais in seme instances; have
really wanted their children to
attend. It was reported this
week that a teacher of npisic
in one school threatened to
flunk any child who did not
attend the recital.
Attending the concert along
with her children was, Mrs.
Louise M. Bouise, principal,,,, of
WIicker school. She is,said, to
have occupied a rjSeat
along with the 200 children
frrrr, her school. Forty-four
children from J. S. Clark high
school also were in attendance
with a teacher in charge. The
next concert for Negro children
is January 16.
D. Cannon, New York physician
Nathaniel Colley, Sacramento,
Calif., lawyer; Bishop Eugene
C. F. Hatcher, Wilberfarce,
Ohio, A. M. E. Church Dr. J.
Leonidas Leach, Flint, Mich.,
dentist; Dr. James E. Levy,
Cleveland dentist; Mrs. Rose
Morgan Louis, New York bus¬
iness woman; Mrs. Nellie G.
Roulhac, Phila., president of
Jack and Jill of America, Inc.;
Dr. Alfred E. Thomas, Jr., De¬
troit .physician; and Mrs. Paul-
ine F. Weeden, Lynchburg, Va.,
president of Links, Inc.