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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 A Da ms 4-3432 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: (Continued on Page Two) 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. L 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 WWS WWr- c. 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)