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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXXVII
Conference Urges
Stronger Civil
Measures
An, A Tit a., /t f n A, * Ga.—Congression
al proposals to revive stab
sedition laws or otherwise curb
the U. S. Supreme Court were
opposed in a policy statement
adopted here May 17th by the
board of tire Southern Confer¬
ence Educational Fund.
The board also voted to sup¬
port the Celler-Douglas Bill anc
other proposals to strengthei
the federal government’s power
to enforce the civil rights of all
citizens.
The SCEF, a Southwide or¬
ganization working for inte¬
gration, pointed out that state
sedition laws would probably be
a “ ains1. Southerners advo-1
integration.
The board declared: “We are
especially distressed over such
legislation because, while it is
ostensibly aimed at subversion,
it would permit a broadside at¬
tack against liberals in the
South who are speaking out in
support of Supreme Court de-
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19 Prince Hall Masons
Elevated at Conclave
Mrs. Countess Y. Cox
PRESENTED GIFT — The local
chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha
takes pride in publicly con¬
gratulating Soior Countess Y
Cox who was elevated to the
position of Acting Principal cf
Tompkins Elementary School.
Soror Cox has long been rec¬
ognized for her capabilities as
Continued or. Page Four
IOTAS PRESENT GIFT TO CHARITY HOSP1TAI—Soror Janie L. Blake is shown presenting a
rolling stretcher they to Nurse Sorors Campbell, Helen D. head Weathers. nurse at Charity Hospital, as other sorors look on °Left
T. to Lee, right_ Nurse Campbell _are: and Soror Janie L. Blake. Jewel McDew, Miriam Grant, Pansy Brown, Thelma
Photo Sam Williams
On Saturday, May 16 a
of sorors from Nu Chapter,
Phi Lambda Sorority, visited
Charity Hospital to present
rolling stretcher as a part of
civic activities for 1958--59.
gift, was .presented by Soror
Janie L. Blake, president of
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FORMAL OPENING OF
ZBONY BOATING CLUB
0 BE MAY 31
The Ebony Boating Cfub an¬
nounces its grand opening Sun¬
day, May 31, at Saul’s Place
on Wilmington Island.
inspection of facilities start
at 12 00 o'clock noon. Program
begins at 3:00 p.m., at which
time the prizes for the slogan
ontest will be awarded.
Free beat rides and a skiing
exhibition will follow the pro¬
gram. The public is invited.
HOWARD U PROF GETS
sEATO FELLOWSHIP
WASHINGTON— (ANP) — A
Howard University professor is
among five none-Asian schol¬
ars named this week to receive
South-East Asia Treaty Organi¬
zation (SEATO) research fel¬
lowships. He is Dr. Bernard
Fall of Alexandria, Va., asso¬
ciate profesor of government
eiate professor of government.
high ranking Masons were ele¬
vated to the 33rd and last
degree by the Supreme Council.
Nonthern Jurisdiction, Ancient
Free and Accepted Prince Hall
Masons at their annual session
held here last week in the
Cathedral in Fitzwater street.
Presiding over the session
was George Crawford, New
Haven, Conn., most puissant
' sovereign grand commander,
assisted by LeLand French of
Cleveland, Ohio, lieutenant
grand commander.
Speaking at the Memorial
services was Thurgood Marshall
Now York, chief counsel for the
NAACP, and addressing the
group at the annual banquet
was Amos T. Hall, Tulsa, Okla.,
grand master of Prince Hal!
Masons of Oklahoma and pres¬
ident of the Grand Master’s)
Conference of Prince Hall Ma
sons.
(Honored guests were Dr. Wil¬
lard Allen, Baltimore, and John
G. Lewis, Jr., Baton Rouge, La
Continued on Page Four
Chapter, to I arse Olise L.
bell, who accepted in behalf of
the hospital personnel.
Iota Phi Lambda is a
j al Sorority of women interested
in business and in the profes-
sions. ThPir annual program
includes interest in and help
DELTAS ( ELEBRATE MAY IVTUK At the extreme left in
photo, Mrs. Cecil Long Edwards of Atlanta, who is
Regionai Director oi the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc fs
'hown as she delivered the main address at the Delta May Week
program, Sunday, May 17, at Butler Presbyterian Church
Picture at left .dhows Mis. Roberta Webb, vice of
DELTAS REGIONAL
DIRECTOR SPEAKS
Mrs. Cecil Long
Southern Regional
Delta Sigma Theta
Inc., enthralled her
on Sunday afternoon at
Presbyterian Church. Mrs.
Day
Registration for the annual
West Broad Street YMCA Day
Cam which will run from June
8-19 is now underway. Many
young people, ages 7-14, will be
registered by the Youth Day
Canup which will run from June
pervi&ion of Mrs. Anita M.
Stripling, chairman of the
camping committee. She will be
assisted by Mrs. Rebecca E.
Mitchell • and George B. Wil-
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Vespers
!
The Alfred E. Beach vesper 1
is set for 5 p. m. Sun¬
May 24 at the city audito¬ !
with selected projects and pro¬
grams of educational and com¬
munity value. These are se¬
lected annually in the fall and
become a part of Nu Chapters
program for the year. Special
(Continued on Page Eight;
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1959
wards was the guest of the
Savannah Alumnae Chapter in
its observance of May Week.
May Week, an annual obser¬
vance by all Deltas, was begun
by Mrs. Sadie T. M. Alexander
during her tenure as National
President of Delta. At this pro¬
gram, it is customary that D-el-
College Commencement Week
Gets
Savannah State College an-
nonces the following calendar
of commencement events, 1959:
Saturday, May 23, 7:30-9:00
p.m., President’s Reception for
Seniors, President's Residence;
Thursday, May 28, 12:00 noon,
Senior Class Day Exercises,
Meldrim Auditorium; 8:00 p. m.
Senior Class Night Exercises;
Friday, May 29, 8:00 p.m., Jun-
| lor-Senior Prom, Wilcox Gyna-
sium; Saturday, May 30, 10:00
a m., Senior Breakfast, Adams
Hall; 5:00 p.m., National Alum-
rium. Rev. G. D. Walker,
tor of Asbury M. E. Church,
be the speaker. The
program will be rendered:
Prelude, Alfred E.
Band; Processional, “War
of the Priests”
music, “All Hail the Power
MERCHANT MARINE ENGINEER OFFERS
REWARD FOR HIS MISSING WIFE AND 3 CHILDREN
By Conrad Clark for ANP
TRENTON, N. J. — Jean A
Brown, an engineer with the
Merchant Marine, is offering s
ewarcl of $1,000 for informa¬
tion on the whereabouts of hi
vlilte wife, Louise, 34, and their
three children.
The Negro engineer, 35-year-
rld native oi Kansas, made the
-eward offer from his home in
Norwood, N. J., in nearby Ber¬
gen county.
His wife and the three child¬
ren, Jimmy, 14, Mary, 10, and
Stella, 4, disappeared about two
weeks ago, on the same day
when the couple had planned
to celebrate her 34th birthday.
The reason for the disappear¬
ance .according to the dis¬
traught husband was because
of “threatening and slanderous
telephone calls because of our
mixed marriage.”
Brown said he found his wife
and their children gone from
the home when he arrived at
the house on April 25, and that
his wife had apparently left in
the family car, taking $1,500 to
S! ,800 to cash, clothing and
other belongings.
The family dog, "Sputnik,” a
dachshund, was also gone, he
added.
The reward, offered in a
New York newspaper, said that
the couple had moved to Nor¬
wood in 1948, but that he
(Brown) had been away at sea
with the Merchant Marine mo.s'
of the time until two years ago,
when hiis duties changed and
he spent more time at home.
Calls from women, Brown
said, started to come to after
ae began spending more time at
home.
“ That’s when the telephone
calls began. Maybe until then
the people didn't connect me
with my family," he said.
“Im part colored on my fa¬
ther's side and my wife Is a
white woman,” the six-foot
engineer went on to say.
Vlcets Wife in Wyoming
In his teens he encountered
prejudice in his hometown in
Kansas, Brown continued in
his story, and after that he
to Douglas, Wyoming,
where he met his wife at i local
school.
The- couple were married
Continued on Page Seven
CDC TO HOLD
MEETING WED. NIGHT
The Citizens Democratic Club
will hold its regular meeting
on Wednesday night, May 27,
at 8 o’clock at the West Broad
Street YMCA. Al’ members arc
urged to be present and the
public is invited. President Le¬
roy Wilson has a special mes¬
sage-for the city and Chatham
county.
t the . Savannah ... PHOTOS BY FRANK FREEMAN
„ Alumnae Chapter, presenting gifts in behalf of
the local Deltas to. (1. to r.) Mrs. Sadie D. Steele, Georgia Teach
er of the Year and president of the chapter; Mrs. Julia Bacon
past president of the chapter: Mrs. Mamie B. Haynes, past trea
surer; and Mrs. Eldora Green, Teacher of the Year at East
tas take a retrospective look,
and rededicate themselves to the
ideals and programs of the sis¬
terhood.
Mrs. Edwards, an admirable,
capable and magnetic person¬
ality, gave valuable information
to all who heard her. As she
described the Five Point Pro-
gram of the organization, sin
revealed the goals attained by
many of the southern chapters
on each feature of the program.
Close to her heart, because ol
the work she has contributed,
Is Hearing Conservation. Tre-
i Continued or. Bag's Fouri
nl meeting, Meldrim Auditori-
urn; 8:00 p.m., National Alumni
Banquet, Adams Hall, speaker,
Dr. Clyde W. Hall, Trade and
Industry Specialist, Booker
Washington Institute, Harbel
Liberia, West Africa; Sunday,
May 31, 5:00 p.m., Baccalaureate
Exercises, Meldrim Auditorium,
sermon, Dr. E. O. 8. Cleveland,
pastor, Satot John Baptist
church, Savannah; 6.15-7 15 p.
m., President and Mrs. W. K.
(Continued on Page Eight)
Jesus’ Name,” audience; invoca¬
tion, Rev. Willie K. Gwyn. invo¬
cation sentence, “The Lord Is
In His Hoiy Temple”; music,
Alfred E. Beach Chorus; (l),
“Jacob’s Ladder” (Spiritual) by
Harry Wilson; (2). “Battle Hymn
of The Republic” by P. J. Wil-
N. Y. MEHARRY NURSES
SALUTE AFRICA
FREEDOM
NEW YORK—In an unprece-
dented program of art and
| culture, the Meharry
i Association presented “An Af-
| ternoor of African Culture and
, Art" last Sunday at the Red
Pa. Episcopalians Call for
DiUtt PHILADELPHIA—( ArvPT mir a / ANP) aktu, A a
—
resolution calling for the elim¬
ination oi racial segregation in
all institutions that are church-
related ,was unanimously urged
here at the recent 175th annual
convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Diocese of Pennsyl¬
vania.
The five-county diocese,
which represented 204 congre¬
by their 600 clerical and
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(Band and Chorus);
of speaker,
L. Douglas; the sermon,
D. Walker; music,
E. Beach Chorus, (1).
by Rossini
Marshall, Beverly Rich,
(2), “Sanctus and
Shield Center in uptown New
York. A feature of the presen¬
tation was the lecture and ;
showing of films by Dr. F. Ofori j
O-wook of the staff of Columbia
University and Liberia's Gov¬
ernment Attache and world
traveler, Victoria Johnson,
along with Monologist Lou La-
Tour. The group was saluted
during the intermission with
Price 10c
ADama 4-3433
Top NAAUP Official
Barely Escapes
Arrest in
WINNERS OF VARIETY
GARDEN CLUB TOUR
ANNOUNCED
The Variey Flower Garden
Club sponsored their eighth
annual Garden Tour last Sat¬
urday.
The winners In large gardens
were: Mrs. A. Hurst, first prize;
Mrs. Braboy, second prize; Mrs.
Levi Grant, third prize.
The winners in medium gul¬
dens were: Mrs. Juanita Brown
first prize; Mrs. Grace Young,
sdoend prize; Rev. R. m. Wil
Hams, third prize.
The winners in small gardens
were: Mrs. B. Flemings, flrsl
prize; Leon Grant, second
prize; Mrs. W. J. Bush, third
prize.
DID YOU KNOW?
In 1058 one out of every 61
Americans was killed or injured
on the highway.
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Augustus Hill Named State
Extension Agent
of Augustus Hill
as State Agent for Negro Work
pf the Agricultural Extension
Service, University of Georgia
College of Agriculture, was an¬
nounced this week by Extension
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1 edictus" (soloists, Willie Bur-
tcm , ; Announcements, The
Hymn, “O Jesus, I Have Prm-
ised”, audience; The Benedic¬
tion, The recessional, “Pomp* 1
and Circumstance, No. 1” by El¬
gar, Senior Class. '
NUMBER 33
JACKSON, Miss.—Roy Wilkins,
executive secretary of the NAA
CP, missed being arrested here
Sunday by only a few hour-,
for an infringement of the
segregation laws of the state.
Wilkins and state NAACP
Field Secretary Medgar Evers
were to Jackson to attend a
rally which was held in obser¬
vance of the fifth anniversary
of the Supreme Court’s decis¬
ion outlawing segregated public
schools.
Hinds county deputies had
warrants to arrest Wilkins and
Evers but they left town before
the warrants could be served,
not knowing that they were
wanted for arrest. Wilkin who
.
was the principal speaker at
t.he rally, left by plane immedi¬
ately after the prpgram had
ended.
The warrants were Used on
an affidavit filed In a justice
of peace court here by Citizens’
iContinued
Mrs. Aloncila J. Mood
BREAKS 25-YEAR JINX—Alon-
cita J. Flood, a veteran mem¬
ber of Alpha Kappa Alpha So-
rity (rendering some nineteen
years service) and currently
Anti Basilcus oJ Tau
Omega Chapter of AKA Sorority
in New York City, has licked
a twenty-five year jinx that
plagued nominees from the
■ Continued on Pave seven.
the international membership
cards on the newly elected
honorary members of “La
Cheerios, Inc.,” by Founder La-
Tour. La Cheerios aids shuUns
in the community and veterans’
hospitals ,and also aids youth
and the aged. In the above
picture are, left to right: Gla-
iCdntinued on Page Six;