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TEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXXVIII
U. S. Court Saves From Chair
Board of Education Promises
To Answer Plea
(Jet Your
Polio Shot
Monday
The third phase of the KO
POIJO campaign being conduc¬
ted throughout Chatham
County has been arranged for
Monday, October 28, according
to Dr. A. B. Kamine, Chairman
of the Chamber of Commerce
Public Health Committee.
A supply cf Polio vaccine
has already been received by
the public health department
and arrangements have been
competed to have the shots
administered in inoculation
centers in the following Sa¬
vannah hospitals: Warren A.
Candler Hospital, 116 East
Huntingdon St.; Central of Ga.
Railway Hospital, 3025 Bull St.;
Memorial Hospital, Waters
Avenue; Oglethorpe Sanatori¬
um, 905 East Duffy St.; St.
Joseph’s Hospital, Taylor at
Habersham St.; Telfair Hosp..
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Meharry Woman Admitted
To of
NASHVILLE (ANP) — A Me¬
harry Medical college professor
has become the first Negro wo¬
man surgeon admitted to mem¬
bership in the American college
of Surgeons. She is Dr. Dor¬
othy Brown, an assistant pro¬
fessor of surgery.
Six out of 10 Negroes recently
inducted to ACS are Meharry
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BETHLEHEM CENTER MEM¬
BERS—For the past two weeks
children have been registering
for activities at Bethlehem
Community Center and enjoy¬
ing making new friends in |
their interest groups. The first j
person to become a member of
the Center was Jacqueline Bos- !
ton, a first grader at East
ADams 4-3432
NAACP SPEAKER — Mrs. Daisy
E. Lampkin, vice president of
the Pittsburgh Courier, will
address the NAACP Fall Mem-
oership Rcund-Uip on Monday
night, 8 o’clock, at the St. Paul
C.M.E. church, Rev. J. L. Key,
pastor. Mrs. Lampkin, a mem¬
ber of the NAACP board of
directors, is serving as chair¬
man of the 1959 NAACP mem-
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Three Sentenced in
Husband Murder Plot
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. —
(ANP i—A woman who tried to
murder he rhusband and the
two men who w*orked with her
to carry out the deed, hare
been given long prison terms.
Broad Street School. She is
shown in top picture receiving
her membership card from Miss
Miss Josephine Beckwith, di¬
rector of the Center. Last May
Jackie graduated from the
Bethlehem Center Day - Care
program which she had atten¬
ded since she was eighteen
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Rev. Curtis J. Jackson
“I am not on trial. I did not
come to discuss the merits of
the Supreme Court decision. I
am here to inquire as to when
that decision (of 1954) will be
implemented.”
Tnus did the Rev. Curtis J.
Jackson, pastor of the First
African Baptist church, take
his stand for integration before
the Chatham County Board of
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j Participants in the plot were
j Mary Roan, Ren Duckett and
James W. King. The men testi-
fied they planned to kill George
Roan so his wife could
$10,000 in Insurance. The plot
came to light when Roan
shot down Sept. 22, but did not
die.
According to testimony, Mrs.
Roan agreed to uay Duckett
$200 and take care of all King’s
bills. King was then to leave
town for six months, and then
return to marry “the widow.”
Mrs. Roan was sentenced
live years for “felonious as-
sault,” 10 years for conspiracy
to commit murder, and 15 years
for secret assault. Duckett re-
ceived the same sentences. ■
King drew eight years for fe¬
lonious assault; 10 for oonapi-
racy to commit murder, and 15
for secret assault.
Conscience-Stricken
Man Confesses Robbery
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (ANP)
—A 29-year-old painter urged
by his wife to attend church,
followed her wishes and went
one better when he confessed,
during the service, that he had
robbed a bank.
G-awexskey Smith, seemingly
overcome with remorse, whis¬
pered to another worshipper
that he wanted to admit a bank
robbery.
Smith later told police that
he had taken $2,694 February
3 frpm the Weber Falls State
bank in Oklahoma. He said
he used the money for medi¬
cal bills for his wife and two
small children.
He is being held for further
questioning.
Social Worker Threatened
For tor Use of Beach
GULFPORT, Miss. (ANP)—A
worker, one of four Ne-
;roes who last week asked that
Negroes be allowed to use
part of the 26 miles of Gulf
Coast beach, has been the ob¬
ject of telephone threats—and
a cross was burned on his
front lawn.
Joseph N. Austin, in report-
the threats to the sheriff's
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1959
By Alice A. Dunnigan
For Associated Negro Press
WASHINGTON. D. C. — The
United States Supreme Court,
Monday, overturned the murder
conviction of a Negro because
members of his race had been
■systematically excluded 1 ’ from
the Mississippi jury which con¬
victed him.
The ease involved Robert Lee
Goldsby convicted in 1955 for
the slaying of a white woman
near Vaiden, Miss.
Leighton, Chicago* Lawyer,
Enters Case
After the Mississippi Sup¬
reme Court, on appeal, had
affirmed Goldsby’s conviction.
George N. Leighton, prominent
Chicago Negro lawyer, as
counsel for the condemned
man, petitioned the U. S. Sup¬
reme Court for a review of the
case. This was denied by the
High Co-urt.
Then, in 1955, Atty. Leighton,
for the first time in Mississip¬
pi’s history filed a petition for
writ of error in the State
Supreme Court, charging that
in Goldsby’s trial, Negroes had
Tax Appraiser Caught
In
CHICAGO (AND —Lawrence
| C. Woods, 43, an appraiser in
’he office of the county asses-
or, was arrested last Monday
when planted policemen caught
| him with marked bills, a payoff
ie’d received minutes before
j from a would be bribery vic-
j tim.
Woods who earned $390 a
month as an employe of the as-
essor’s office, a Democratic
precinct captain, has 'been
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charged with malfeasance and
bribery.
He was trapped when he col¬
lected a payment of $200 from
an electric shop piioprietor,
| William Hall. The money paid
to Woods was marked, and two
(state’s attorney’s policemen
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Arna Bontcmps
ON LIBRARY BOARD—Fisk Un¬
iversity Librarian Arna Bon-
temps has been named to the
Nashvilie, (Term.) Public Libra¬
ry Board. The board admin-
: ;ters ah public libraries in the
city system which consists of
the main library and three
branches. Two new branches
and several in the county are
,aon to be built. The Nash¬
vilie public library has been in¬
tegrated for several years.
Woman to Rebuild
House Razed by Arsonists
BRADENTON, Fla. (ANP) —
If arsonists who .Set fire to her;
half-completed home here ex-
pected to terrorize Mrs. Mar-
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office, said:
“They have been calling me
all sorts of names. They seem
to think that I’m interested in
integration, but I am not. All
I m interested in is getting a
place for us to swim. We nev¬
er used to have trouble like this
before all this integration stuff.’
Austin pointed out that he is
the only one who signed
been systematically excluded
from serving on the jury.
Then, last January, the Uni¬
ted States Circuit Court in New
Orleans ordered a retrial on
the grounds that Negroes were
excluded from jury service in
Carroll County where Goldsby
was convicted, and sentenced
to death in the electric chair.
“Re-Try Him, Or Free Him."
The Circuit Court said that
if Mississippi did not retry
Goldsby within eight months
before a jury from which Ne¬
groes had not been excluded, it
would consider freeing him on
a writ of habeas corpus.
Then, as a last resort, on a
writ of certiorari, Joe T. Pat¬
terson, Attorney General of
Mississippi, appealed to the
Supreme Court to overturn the
;ruling of the Circuit Court.
When the high court this week
refused to review tine case it
left standing the order of the
U. S. Circuit Court, that Golds¬
by be re-tried within eight
months.
The usual requirement for a
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seized him when he stepped
out of the shop with the money
in his pocket.
Hall told the police this sto¬
ry: Woods reportedly came to
his shop and said he would
have to increase taxes on Hall’s
home by ”300" per cent because
the house contained three bath*
and should be reclassified as
commercial instead of residen¬
tial.
Hall said Woods said he would
“forget about it” and Hall
would save over $1,000 over the
next three years if he (Hall)
would give him $200 cash in¬
stead. ■ Hall agreed to pay
Woods, set up a date for the
payoff and then notified the
police.
Mrs. Aline Smith Knight
REUNITED WITH FATHER _
Mrs. Aline Smith Knight of 943
West 41st Street, the wife of
Julius B. Knight, has been
reunited with her father, James
Smith, of Detroit, Michigan,
after being separated since
childhood.
It was an exciting and joy¬
ous occasion when father and
daughter saw each other after
so many years. Accompanying
Mrs. Knight to Detroit was Mrs.
Audrey Jackson Sanders, her
cousin, of West Victory Drive.
Separated from her father
after the death of her mother
when only three years old, Mrs.
Knight was reared by her ma¬
ternal grandmother, the late
Mrs. Matilda McMillan. Through
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oetition that has been threat¬
ened. He commented:
“I can’t understand why I
have been singled out for the
threats. None of the others
have been bothered.”
Austin is director of Negro
recreation for the city. He
told police that one caller warn¬
ed that “a mob is coming to
get, you.” The mob never ap-
however.
H».AUik SCHOOL GRABS —-
I he aoove picture snows the
graduates ol the Myers School
of Beauty Culture following
their graduation program Sun¬
day morning, Oct. 18 , at tiie
Butler Presbyterian church.
First row, left to right) Mrs.
Ola B. Dingle, Madam E. B.
Myers, owner of school; Rev. P.
UCS Kick-Off Meeting Will
Be Held at YMCA
New Hope for Race
Relations in the South
NEW YORK (ANP)—“The |
greatest hope for changing the
status quo in raee relations lies
in the South.” This state¬
ment, made by Adam Clayton
Powell, Jr., appears in the cur¬
rent issue of Esquire magazine
now on sale.
Powell, now serving his 8th
consocutive term in Congress,
continues, “More and more I’m
coming to realize that the North-
liberal is increasingly hypo-
critical and the Southern liber-
is increasingly honest.
“Negroes know this: Negroes
accept this. I have great hopes
tor something daring to hap-I
pen in the South. The day a
white stands up in the South
has enough stature and
the truth, you’ll see
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Pearl Lee Smith School Will Dedicate
New Annex Sunday Afternoon
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Rev. Frederick D. Jaudon,
pastor of Saint Phillip Monu¬
mental A.Mi.E. church, will bi
the dedicatory speaker at the
Pearl Lee Smith Elementary
School, Sunday afternoon, Oc
tober 25, at 4:00 o’clock. The
new annex will be dedicated.
Rev. Jaudon is a product of
the Screven County Schools
and Morris Brown College. He
has pastored many A. M. E.
churches throughout Georgia
including four in Savannah.
He is active in various civic
and religious organizations of
the city and has traveled ex¬
tensively throughout the Uni¬
ted States.
The program will be as fol¬
lows, Mrs. Naomi Major, P.T.A.
president, presiding:
Prelude, Miss Bernita Darby;
Price 10c
ADami 4-3433
A. Pauerson.
Second row, left to right:
Vuiane Brogeuton, Minnie P.
Bryant, Carolyn Pierce, Kve-
*erla Nunnally, Grace B. Jonn-
son, Rutna Mae Sinclair, Alma
J. Crooms, Julia Mungm, Mary
Edna McGuire, Ruby B. Pryor,
Ethel Jackson, Luberta Load-
holt, Idelia Holland.
G«l. Voters to Hold
Annual Meeting Oct. 31
MACON, Ga. (ANP)—Qualified
voters from all parts of Geor¬
gia will meet in Steward Chap¬
el AME church O.ctober 31 for
the annual conclave of the
Georgia Voters league, accord¬
ing to an announcement by
John Wesley Dobbs, Atlanta,
president, and Prince Hall Ma¬
sonic grand master. The Rev.
J. H. Lenson is pastor of Stew¬
ard Chapel.
Election of officers will be
the main business of the
delegates and there will
reports on registration and
trig activities at the local level.
League secretary, J. H.
houn and the registration
by Dobbs—will
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presentation of Colors, William
P. Jordan Post 500; National
Anthem; Scripture, Rev. Willie
Gwyn; invocation, Rev. J. W.
Green; selection, “Give Us
Day," girls ensemble; introduc-
tion of speaker, Mrs. Eugenia
Durden Glover; dedicatory ad¬
dress, Rev. F. D. Jaudon; selec¬
tion, “Praise Be Thine,” Pearl
Lee Smith chorus; introduction
of Mrs. Pearl Lee Smith, Mrs.
| Mildred Hutchins; dedicatory
! greetings, Mrs. Pearl Lee Smith; j
j dedication ritual, Mrs. Irma
i Fields, Mrs. Naomi Major; ded- !
! icatory prayer, Deacon E. J. j
1 Simmons; unveiling ceremony, 1
| ! Samuel Eugene Powers; accep- J
ance, Edna Green; selection,!
; "The Vesper Hymn,” Pear! I.ee
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NUMBER 3
I’uud row, leit to right: Eva
Mae Brack, Elease H. Tate,
Barbara Ami Davis, Dorothy
Hunt, Maggie L. Sanders, Marie
S. Rivers, Augusta R. Martin,
Liiiie Mae Lewis, Rose Mae
Jenkins Mikel.
Not shown on picture are
Annie Mae Barnett, Shirley S.
Way.
Dr. Phillip W. Cooper, prom¬
inent dentist, has accepted
Hie chairmanship of Division 4,
United Community Appeal. He
;wiil be assisted by Mrs. Mildred
Hutchins as vice-chairman.
The division's klek-olf dinner
meeting will be held at the
West Broad Street YMCA, Mon¬
day, Oct. 28, 7.30 p. m. Two-
outstanding features of this
meeting will be the introduc¬
tion of Mrs. Lucinda Williams
Adams, a graduate ol Tompkins
High School and a recent win¬
ner in the Olympic and Pan-
American games, who is pre¬
sently working toward her
master’s degree at Tennessee
State University; and an in¬
spirational address by Rev.
Larmon S. Sherwood, a visiting
minister,
jt is expected that there will
be a report of the “Big Gifts”
committee at this meeting so as
to give the campaign a head
start. Members of the Big Gifts
solicitation group are; Mrs.
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Rev. F. D. Jaudon
Speaker