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YEARS OF CONTINUOUS PUBLIC SERVICE VOLUME LXXVII SAVANNAH LEADER HONORED—'Top photo snows Walter S. Scott, president of the Guaranty Life and Health Insurance Co., of Savannah who was honored last week in Washington by the 12th Annual Regional 4-H Club Camp. He is shown receiving a 4-H plaque for outstanding ser¬ vice from Naomi Robinson of Covington, Ga. Mr. Scott was one of four honored by the 348,- 000 Negro 4-H’ers in the South. The ceremony took place at Howard University. Bottom photo shows a group of Georgia 4-H Club delegates who attended the Regional. Front row, left to right: Esterene Sanders, Decatur county; Elfreta L. Mann, Sumter county: Minnie Robinson, Walton county; Eva M. Collin-., Bibb county; Mrs. Mattie T. Copeland, Asst. State Agent for Negro work. Back row, left to right, George Marshall, county agent from Walton county, John H. Malcolm, Walton count r ; Freddie Wakefield. Lowndes county; Espcr Lee Wilkes county; Bobby Isom, Appling county, and M. C. Little, Negro Club agent. —USDA Photos __ ___ Judge Hueston Honored at Elks Grand By Albert Anderson For Associated Negro Press ATLANTIC CITY — This fa¬ mous Seaside Resort rolled the Red Carpet Saturday to extend welcome to the Elks of the world as they arrived in regal sip'endor to attend their Grand Lodge convention which continues to Saturday, Aug. 29. Headed by Robert H. John¬ son, grand exalted ruler, and Judge William C. Hueston, grand secretary, the Elk horde numbering more than 10,000, is centering activities at the fol¬ lowing locations: Senior High school, Albany and Atlantic Aves.; New Jersey Avenue Sch., at Artie Ave.; St. James AME church, New York and Artie Aves.; West Side All Wars Me- Continued on Page Three DISTINGUISHED GUESTS AT the national con vention of the National Association of Negro Musicians in St. Louis hold gold trophies presented to them by a citizens committee of the St. Louis Music Association. Recipients for “achievement and service” are Robert McFerrin, first Negro with a contract at the Metropolitan Opera; Miss Etta Moten of the original Broadway “Porgy and Bess” cast; Dr. Roscoe C. Polin, president, NANM, and Mrs. W. C. Handy who holds sealed container of water from the Mississippi River. The awards were presented during a gigantic festival honoring the iate Mr. Handy on the riverfront, by William G. Porter, right, chair¬ man of the committee and assistant to the vice-president, marketing, Anheuser-Busch, Inc., which sponsored the awards. avannalv ffirftawr ADams 4-3432 Bi-Sexual Jamaican Prefers to Be a “Woman" By Wilbert E. Hemming KINGSTON, Jamaica—(ANP) —A Jamaican who is both man and woman, has shocked doc¬ tors and nurses at the Univer¬ sity College Hospital of the West Indies, at Mona. The person is a 19-ycar older of Papine district, a hill-foot township adjacent to the Uni¬ versity college. Grown up as a girl, but man and woman at the same time, the person whose name has been concealed for obvious reasons, prefers to be a woman I rather thian a man. Of very i short hair and masculine phy¬ sique, “she” gave doctors the creeps when she said that she would not want to be a man after surgical operation, be¬ cause “she” had grown up as a woman. Healthy and quite strong, “she” sought doctors opinion ■on the promptings of “her" boy-friends. . Nurses at the hospital said that “she” was bi-sexual and could be made into a perfect man, or a perfect woman. Tiic choice was hers, and “she” chose to be a woman. So the doctors have granted (Continued on Page Six. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1959 Prince Hall Sliriners Donate $48,500 for Medical Aid LOS ANGELES — A total of $48,500 was voted out to medi¬ cal charities by the Imperial Council of the Ancient Egypt¬ ian Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at the conclusion of their 58th annual convention. The amount, an increase over the $33,500 given to aid medical research in Chicago last year, will be distributed among nine institutions which have quali¬ fied to receive the annual grants. The sum also brings to a total some $200,000 the Prince Hall Sliriners have do¬ nated to medical charities since ♦heir Tuberculosis and Cancer Foundation was established in 1949. Topmost among the recipi¬ ents of the sizeable grants is Howard University, which lias been voted $10,000, an increase of $3,000 over last year’s $7,000 award. Next highest benefici¬ aries are St. Mary's Infirmary, Galveston, Texas, $7,000; and New York’s NYU Post Graduate Hospital w'hich will receive a like sum of $7,000 for research in cancer by Dr. Jane C. Wright. Others who will share in the (Continued on page three, Dr, Jordan Returns From Trip Abroad Dr. Carl Rankin Jordan, dis¬ tinguished local physician and s u rg e o n, recently returned from a whirlwind trip to Por¬ tugal, Spain, Southern France and Italy. While abroad, he was privileged to visit the Uni¬ versity of Madrid Medical School and General Hospital; also some of the ancient shrines of Rome and the Holy Places of Lourdes and Fatima. Dr. Jordan flew to the States via Pan American Jet 707 to rejoin his family and attend the National Medical Associa¬ tion Convention in Detroit, Aug. 10-13. Subsequently, he made a brief trip to Ontario, Canada, and Washington, D. C. FOR FLORIDA FUGITIVE NEW YORK, N. Y.—The NA AC? this week guaranteed bail of $2,000 for the appearance ol Willie Reid, fugitive from s Florida chain gang, in court when his extradition fight is continued. Reid escaped several years ago from Lake County, Fla., ir. which Sheriff Willis V. McCall the “Negro-killing'' officer, Is boss. McCall shot and killed Samuel Shepherd and critically wounded Walter Lee Irvin in 1951, alleging that these two (who were handcuffed) had tried to escape. Last week the U.S. Court of Ap.pi ais ordered Ro.d freed on bail of US,000 afl f r a successful plea on his behalf by the young law firm of Cohen, Jaffin and Nussbaum. The lawyers will now file a petition fo' a writ of certiorari in the United States Supreme Court in Reid’s be¬ half. Reid’s freedom pending the the outcome of this petition was made possible bv the sign¬ ing of the bail bond by Roy EISENHOWER ATTENDS SERIES PRESIDED OVE Bf NEGRO PASTOR GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AN Pi In a history-making develop¬ ment, President Elsenhower attended services Sunday at the Gettysburg Presbyterian church and heard a small, eloquent Negro minister offer a special prayer for his success in forth¬ coming peace, conferences. The President and Mrs. Eis¬ enhower sat with bowed heads as the Rev. Garnett Lee con¬ ducted the services in the church wthere Abraham Lincoln worshiped on the day he delivered his immortal "Gettys¬ burg Address. 1 ’ Pastor of tiie Capital Presbyterian church, Harrisburg, Pa., the Rev. Lee (Continued on Page Three APPOINTED PRD—C 1 i n t on Moon has been appointed Pub¬ lic Relations Director of the Sir John, Miami’s luxurious re¬ sort hotel. Mr. Moon, a native of Birm¬ ingham, Ala., has previously worked as field representative for the National Opinion Re¬ search Center of the Universi¬ ty of Chicago and most recent¬ ly as an account executive of Jesse J. Lewis and Associates. Inc., Birmingham Public Rela¬ tions and Marketing Consultant firm. i i j In 1958 there were 850 auto¬ mobiles with defective brakes Involved in fatal accidents. Wilkins, NAAC'P executive sec retary, wno acted in an emer- j geney in to aid legal Reid battle and that hi, law- | yers a may j result in his permanent free¬ dom from the jurisdiction of Sheriff Me Sail. Florida officers came to New I York for Reid several years ago, but he received legal aid and his case went into the court, He was freed on bail put up by a relative in Brooklyn and worked steadily for one em¬ ployer for two years. When a court decision went against him last year, Reid was finally put back in jail in New York City in February, 1959, and last spring his new lawyers began j the fight to aid him. The NAACP passed a resolu- I tion at its 50th anniversary convention here last month j prote.^ting the extradition of Reid. It stated that “the usual indignities and brutalities met- i ed out to Negro chain gang pris- ] oners were multiplied n^ainst Reid — particularly incarcera¬ tion in the ‘sweat box’.” Dr. Proffitt Heads N1)A CINCINNATI (ANP I A fea¬ ture of Thursday's closing sess¬ ion of the National Dental As¬ sociation at Sheraton - Gibson hotel, was the answer to the question: “Will Dr. E. rf. Jack- son of Charlottesville, Va., be retained as secretary-treasurer of the organization?” The answer was in the affir¬ mative, and Dr. Jackson was given a .'■•landing ovation as he resumed office as the only official of the NDA receiving (Continued on page tnreei Mr. Johnson Receives Elks Lovejoy Award JOHN II. JOHNSON, president, Johnson Publications publish¬ ers of Ebony, Jot, Hue and Tan magazines is the 1959 selectee for the Elks’ annual Elijah Lovejoy award, an outstanding citation given in the field of civil liberties. The award was formally presented to Johnson at the Elks' 6! t annual conven¬ tion currently in session at At¬ lantic City, N. J. AM 1 Photo) DID you KNOW? The Georgia Infirmary in Savannah, Ga., is the first gen¬ eral hospital for Negroes in the United States. It was opened in 1832 and is located at 38th an spotlight ON the MEDICS —During recent annual conven- J tion of tiie National Medical A ociation in Detroit, several j (•Ifieorf of s.he association were iound on break between ses-i Above, left to right, are I ADams 4-3431 Local Student Wins in “Every Week" Contest Photo shows James Gordon, left, and his teacher, Mrs. Stella J. Reeves. Several weeks ago the “Efvery Week” (a national high school periodical) asked Its readers to write about their teachers. Cash prizes were offered for the best letters. The staff was Interested pri¬ marily in two things: 1. how “Every Week” was taught; why the students like the as a friend and leader. Letters rolled Into the Co¬ Ohio, office from stu¬ in all sections of the ROT” KILLS NEW YORK—(ANP)—Arthur Leroy Wright, 42-year-old mer¬ chant seaman who killed his wife and then committed -sui¬ recently, has been Identi¬ fied as one of the "Scottsboro boys,” who escaped death in the electric chair in the 30 s. Wright killed ms 36-year-old wife, Kathleen. When he was 14, he figured in the sensational Scottsboro case which burst forth into headlines in March, 1931, when two white girls charged they were victims of a gang assault in a freight train at Scot/ts- boro, Ala. Twice the Supreme court re¬ versed the death sentences of Wright and the otiher defend- seen Dr. James T. Aldrich, ident-elect, St. Louis, with retiring president Dr. stillmon Smith, Macon, and Dr. J. W. Maxwell, kee, Wise. Below, Taylor Detroit Coca-Cola Bottling Price 10c \ NUMBER 47 country. The emtries were so excellent that two extra awards had to be made. Among th® participants and winners was James Gordon who selected to writ® about his his¬ tory teacher, Mrs. Stella J. Reeves. James Is a membir of the 10-5 cAass of A. B. Beach High School and is the son of Mr. and Mr*. Jaime* Gordon of 606 West 39th etreet, Mrs. Reeves Is a member of th® social sci¬ ence department. O. L. Douglas is principal of . Beach High school. aily dropped against Wright and four others who had stead¬ fastly maintained fchejr inno¬ cence. Th® other four were sentenced to prison terms. Sleeping Car Porters To Meet Sept. 7 CHICAGO — r*NP) — The third triennial convention of th# Brotherhood of Sleeping Oar Porter# will convene In Chicago beginning #ept. 7. Calamity bring# either one of two things—greatness or death. pany, left chats with Dr. Smith, NMA president Dr. Edward C. Mazique, and Journal editor Or. W. Montagu® Cobb, both of Washington. D. C. Young lady is Lottie Barnes, hostess for Coca-Cola. j