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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXXVIII
DEAD WOMAN DROUGHT DACK TO LIFE
WAS DEAD 15 MINUTES
Funeral Rites Saturday for
Grand Chief J. T. Green
Man Cut for Refusing
To Play Guitar
FLORENCE, Ala.—(ANP) -
Police are holding Benjamin
Rouiet on a first degree murder
charge pending a ‘preliminary
hearing’ into the slaying of a
white farmer, John Newton.
Rouiet, who showed police a
cut on one side of his face, said
he shot Newton after the far¬
mer came to his house, “kicked
me around and ordered me tc
play a guitar.” Newton, who was
shot in the chest, was clutching
a pocketknife when the police
tarrived.
Rouiet gave this account of
the the slaying:
The farmer came to his
■house with the guitar, cut him,
kicked him around and threat¬
ened “to shoot my head off if
I didn't play the guitar,” Rou¬
iet said.
“I told him, Mr. John you
go on home. But he reached in
his pooket and got the knife
and then I shot him.”
to Color Clause
INDIANAPOLIS — (ANP) —
Martin B. McKneally, national
commander cf the American
Legion, has been authorized to
■ force the Legion’s funmaking
40 and 8 to open its doors to
Negroes or banish the organi¬
zation from Legion affiliation.”
At a recent three day meet¬
ing, the national executive
committee adopted a resolu¬
tion instructing McKnealiy to
“take any and all measures he
may deem necessary in order
to eliminate the word ‘white’
Tompkins High Completes
Self-Evaluation Period
Sunday, October 4,
the beginning of the four-day
evaluation period at
High School. The committee on
Evaluation was coordinated by
Dr. Lawrence Boyd of Atlanta.
Among, the many phases of cri¬
teria evaluated were
school’s philosophy and ob¬
jectives, pupil population
school community, Educational
Needs of Youth, Program of
Studies, Agriculture,
Education, Health and Safety
HORACE WEBB (seated), How-
ard University junior and RCA
Scholarship winner, is
in use of the infrared spectro-
meter by Dr. Lloyd N.
professor and head of the col-
a na ana I v
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L A
J. T. Green
John Thomas Green, granc
hief cf the Independent Ordei
}f the Good Samaritan Society
died in a local hospital Tues¬
day, October 13.
Mr. Green was a native oi
Arlington, S. C. He had resided
n Savannah approximately
fifty years and Was proprieto:
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from the eligibility clause of
the national constitution of 40
and 8.” The committee also said
it believed the matter ‘ should
not wait untiil the I960 national
convention to be resolved.”
Wanted To End Bias
McKneally, shortly before the
resolution was adopted, had
asked for authority to end the
racial bar saying he could not
“countenance the exisfanee of
illegalities within our organi¬
zation.”
Homemaking, Fine Arts, Ma-
thematics, Industrial Arts,
Science, Physical Education for
Beys and Girls, Social Studies,
Language Arts and Special
Education.
The school plant, school staff
and administration .library
services and guidance services
I were also included In the cri¬
teria evaluated.
The Self-Study Program be-
■ Continued on paee three
lege’s Department of Chemis-
j try. Webb, a chemistry major,
was given a grant of $800
j under the Radio Corporation of
America Scholarship and Fel-
■ lowship Program.
Ala. KKK Dislikes
Two is a team
MONTGOMERY, Ala.— (ANP >
—The Alabama Ku Klux Klan
has vowed that it "will try” to
rid school libraries of another
children’s book which they
consider “a lot worse than
The Rabbits’ Wedding.’’
Tire center or iiie irran’s ire,
according to state grand dra¬
gon Bobby Shelton, is the book
‘Two Is A Team,” which has
the “audacity” to show Negro
and white children playing to¬
gether.
Vice Raid Nets Five
CHICAGO—(ANP)—Two men
and three women were picked
p Saturday following a raid on
,n alleged call girl center here.
Taken into custody were Clif¬
ford Jackson, 42, and Merlin
Daigre, 29, held as keepers of
a house of prostitution; and
Jacqueline Dean, 31, Beverly
Scott, 22, and Dorothy Thomp-
,on, 31, as inmates of the 10-
room third floor apartment.
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RECEIVES SCHOLARSHIP —
M s. Jessie C. DeLoach, wife of
Robert DeLoach, Jr., who
;s principal of Bethune High
School, Fclkston, Georgia, has
been selected as a recipient of
a National Science Foundation
stipend of *3,000 plus travel
expenses, tuition, and book al¬
lowances for the academic year
1959-60 at Atlanta University,
amounting to a total grant of
approximately $4,000.
She will pursue courses of
study in the area of mathema-
(Continued on Page Five)
Deads Set for Oct. 22
Mrs. Roosevelt To Be
Honored on Birthday
WASHINGTON—(ANPDr.
Mordecai W. Johnson, president
of Howard University ,w.ll pay
tribute to Mrs. Eleanor Roose-
velt at her Diamond Jubilee
birthday celebration on
ber 15, at Statier-Hilton hotel,
He will join Chief Justice
Earl Warren of the United
States Supreme Court; Associ-
ate Justice William O. Douglas;
Major General Nathan F. Twin- !
ing, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, and others at *
the dinner honoring the former !
“first lady” on the occasion of
her 75th birthday year.
Faye Emerson, stage and ;
television star, will act as mi.-;- !
tress of ceremonies at the
event which will aid construe-
tion of the Eleanor Roosevelt
Institute for Cancer Research j
on the grounds of the Ameri- ■
can Medical Center at Denver, j
More than 700 prominent busi- j
ness and government leaders
will attend. 1
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1959
CHICAGO—(ANP) — Mrs. —
Alice Bell, a 32-year old mother
of two died at Mt. Sinai hos¬
pital Sept. 29, but Friday she
left the hospital and returned
home to care for her family.
Mrs. Bell who died on the oper-
ating table, remained “dead”
more than several minutes.
Two doctors, Julius Levy, per¬
sonal physician of Mrs. Bell,
and Dr. Constantine Filis, a
Fellow in anesthesiology at Mt.
Sinai, “worked with God” to
bring Mis. Bell back to life.
Dr. Levy said when he arriv¬
ed at the Bell home following
a frantic phone call, the moth-
^r-to-be was in a semi-
conscious condition. Suffering
from a tubular pregnancy In
her fourth month, Mrs. Bell
“died" when her tube ruptured
causing severe internal bleed¬
ing which in turn caused her
internal organs to collapse.
Simultaneous with her death.
Dr, Filis, who was in the hos¬
pital, was summoned, and he
immediately began the pro¬
cess of inturbation — adminis¬
tering oxygen by positive pres¬
sure. A tube was inserted in
the woman’s windpipe, and
the doctor then worked to reg¬
ulate the flow of oxygen into
her body by a machine.
Within a fifteen minute pe¬
riod, Dr. Felis noticed signs of
i Johnson cn Fisk
2oard of Trustees
John II. Johnson
NEW FISK UNIV. TRUSTEE
- John H. Johnson, president
ny in Chicago, has accepted
member;;]up on the Fisk Uni¬
versity Board of Trustees.
Publisher of Ebony, Tan, Jet
and Hue magazines, Johnson
was chosen in 1051 as one of
the outstanding young men of
the year by the United States
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
He was the first Negro busi¬
nessman selected for this hon¬
or.
Johnson was recently elected
to the trustee board of the
National Urban League and
LeMoyne college in Memphis/
The success of Johnson pub-
f rContinued on page three)
The annual observance of
the homecoming festivities will
be held on October 22nd for
the Alfred E. Beach High
The gala celebration
g e ^ underway with the
crowning of Miss Beach and
v, er attendants at the Corona-
»j on 0 er£ monies on Wednesday
nl . p ht, October 14, at 7:30 p. m.
The general theme for this
y ear ’ s homecoming is “Holidays
on Parade." The classes have
been grouped and will sponsor
a ^ depicting one of the
< innui -- holidays,
According to Mrs. M. K. Law,
chairman of the homecoming
committee, the parade will be
'-cd by Cl ar ence Smith, marshal,
*- Pine Bluff Students Stoned
PINE BLUFF.
More than 200 whites threw
stones at an automobile
two taxicabs in which Negro
students were riding Thurs-
day after a hearing before the
Dollarway school board.
The students and their pa-
rents had appeared before the
aboard to protest their assign-
life. He then signalled Dr.
Levy who quickly operated on
the woman, sealing off the
bleeding tube after extracting
the damaged part containing
the fetus.
Following Mrs. Bell’s recov¬
ery, both doctors remarked
that it was a“mlracle” the
youthful mother lived to reach
the hospital. They pointed out
that in most oases of ruptured
tubular pregnancy, death oc¬
curs before the eighth week:
Mrs. Bell had passed the 17th
week when rushed to the hos¬
pital.
They said her being alive
could be counted as a “double
miracle” because "generally
•when there is no circulation
and oxygen going to the brain
'for as long as three minutes,
even if one does survive, there
is permanent brain damage.’
Mrs. Bell was dead fifteen min¬
utes but she left the hospital
“as sane” as when she enter¬
ed
The wife of a part-time post
office employee, Robert Tate
Bell, Mrs. Bell is the mother
of an 18-year old married
daughter, and a four year old
daughter.
She said her remarkable re¬
covery “was just the will of
God.”
Nat'l Urban to Honor
MiEDICAL scholarships —
Dr. Franklin C. McLean, Sec¬
retary of the National Medical
Fellowships of Chicago, an¬
nounced recently that the
Sloan Foundation of New York
has granted $60,000 for 10 four-
year fellowships to go to pro¬
mising Negro college students.
The grant raises to more than
$1,000,000 which the National
Medical Fellowships has raised
for Negro medical training.
Dr. McLean, emeritus-pro¬
fessor of the University of
Chicago, long a guiding light at
Provident Hospital, Chicago,
points out that 25 percent of
all Negro board - certified spe¬
cialists have received financial
(Continued on Page Five)
and will move off from Bur¬
roughs and Anderson Streets
to Montgomery, on to Ogle¬
thorpe and then return to West
Broad, back to Henry and Bur¬
roughs streets. Parade time will
be 3:15 p.m. and the football
classic between the Beach Bull
Dogs and Turner High of At¬
lanta will get underway at 8:00
p.m. In Grayson Stadium.
Parade floats will depict the
following themes: Christmas
Nativity, St. Nicholas, Indepen¬
dence Day, Halloween Day,
New Year’s, Mardi Gras, St.
Patrick’s Day, United Nations
Day, Columbus Day, Easter, St.
Valentine Day, and Thanks¬
giving Day.
ment to an all-Negro school
I un( i er the state’s pupil place-
ment law. Three of the stud¬
ents had been scheduled to
enter Dollarway under a U. S.
district court order this fall,
but a lower court Integration
order was recently overturned
Contioutd on Page Thret
I /
Alflorence Cheatham
RESIGNS — Alflorence Cheat¬
ham, principal of Sol C. John¬
son High School, tendered hi.s
resignation to L. D. MoCormac,
superintendent of the Chat¬
ham County Board of Educa¬
tion, Wednesday, Oct. 14. The
resignation was voluntary and
has been accepted by the su¬
perintendent. Mr. Cheatham
could not be reached by press
time for information as to hi.s
future plans.
Mr. Cheatham was the first
principal of Sol C. Johnson
School which ‘opened its doors
September of 1958. It Is located
at Thunderbolt.
m
Hosea L. Williams
REPRESENTS AG CHEMISTS
—Hosea L. Williams, local sci¬
entist and civic leader, wa.
seiected to represent the Sa¬
vannah United States Depart¬
ment of Agriculture, Chemical
Unit, at the annual conven¬
tion o,f the Agricultural Official
Association of Chemists’ in
Washington, D. C., October 12-
14.
This meeting is held annu¬
ally for the briefing of yearly
accomplishments in the re-
(Continued on Page Five)
Talmadge Challenges
Civil Rights Commission
DALLAS, Tex.—(ANP)—Sen¬
ator Herman E. Talmadge
(Dem. Ga.) termed the Fed¬
eral Civil Rights Commission
as part and parcel of the effort
to have the Federal Govern¬
ment control elections.
Spcaking before the Public
Affairs Luncheon Club here,
the Georgia legislators claimed
categorically that Congress had
no power under the Constitu¬
tion “to legislate in the field
of voter qualifications outside
the authority to implement
existing amendments and to
submit proposed new amend¬
ments for ratification or re¬
jection by the states.”
Senator Talmadge. who in
the past had owed his elections j
to the rural and almost Negro- |
voteless districts, decried the
fact the Civil Rights Commis-,
sion had suggested the ap- [
pointment of federal registrars !
to determine voters’ qualifies-
tions.
ADami 4-3433
Myers Beauty School
Will Award 24
Diplomas Sunday
Madame Eleas» B. Myers
Owner
The Myers School of Beauty
Culture will hold its gradua-.
tion exercises Sunday morning,!
Oct. 18, at Presbyterian 11:30 o’clock Church, at the j I
Butler
Continued on Page Three
NEW YORK—(ANP)—George
Meany, president, AFL-CIO, will
be honored at the Equal Op¬
portunity Day dinner, Novem¬
ber 17, at the Waldorf-Astoria
hotel. The dinner will be spon¬
sored by the National Urban
Leagiue to commemorate Equal
Opportunity Day (November
19), an annual observance
whose purpose is to focus na¬
tional attention on the Ameri¬
can ideal of equal opportunity
for all, regardless of race, color,
or creed.
Meany will receive the Ur¬
ban League award to give
recognition to the constructive
efforts of organized labor to
eliminate racial discrimina¬
tion in the nations work force.
Meany was born in New York
City in 1804. The son of a trade
Junior League Thrift Sale
Now in Full Swing
Frugal Flossie’s back again!
The Junior League Thrift Sale
is in full sowing at East Broad
and President streets with
more than ever before.
The door on Bast Broad
opens at 9 o’clock each morn¬
ing. It will cose at 6 o'clock
Thursday and Saturday and
remain open until 9 o'clock Fri¬
day night as an added feature
of the sale this year.
Mrs. Donald K. Jones, chair¬
man, stressed that merchandise
will be he ld back and more put
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THE METROPOLITAN Sanitary
District of Greater Chicago,
through its president, Frank V/.
Chesrow, and John A. Culler-
ton, District Trustee and
Chairman of Employment, re¬
centiy promoted George Taylor
to the position of Senior Civil
Engineer, the first Negro to
hold this position in the history
of the District. Taylor s promo- ,
Price 10c
NUMBER 2
Who Cremated Baby
Life Sentence
CHICAGO—(ANP)—A wom¬
the mothe rof three chil¬
and her male companion
sentenced to life Impris¬
last Tuesday on charg¬
that they cremated the
new-born infant. A
of the accused woman
released.
Mrs. Barbara Evans, 20, col¬
when she heard the
read. She told the
she asked 27-year-old
Knight to “toss the child
the furnace” because she
she would be cut off the
if authorities discov¬
she had another child. The
born June 20, was cre¬
a few hours Later in the
of the building where
mother lived.
He that walkcth with wise
shall be wise: but a com¬
panion of fools shall be de¬
Proverbs
unionist, he became a plumb¬
er's helper In 1910. He was pre¬
sident of the A.FL In 1952 and
was elected president of the
merged AFL-CIO three years
later.
Lee Bristol, chairman of the
board, Bristol-Myers Company,
and representing Industry, will
be Micany's co-honoree. Each
year the League presents this
EOD award to a representative
of industry and labor for their
efforts in behalf of equal op¬
portunity.
The National Urban League
is an interracial organization
devoted to improving economic
opportunities for Negroes and
bettering race relations in
America. It was founded in
1910.
out each day of the sale. She
said more brand new items
have been donated by local
merchants than ever before.
Proceeds from the sale will go
to charities.
One of the latest bargains
priced at the sale is a white
French Provincial bedroom
suite Including a king - .size
headboard $15, a double chest
with mirror top $50, and two
night tables — $10 each. Given
continued on page Eight;
tion was sponsored by Chris¬
topher C. Wimbish, sole Negro
Trustee of the Sanitary Board,
and endorsed by Rep. William
L. Dawson of Illinois First
Congressional District. Photo
shows, left to right: Trustee
Wimbish; Ass’t. Chief Engine¬
er Richard F. Kelly; Engineer
Taylor and Trustee Vincent D,
Garrity. (ANT Photo)