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YEARS OF CONTINUOUS P UBLIC SERVICE VOLUME LXXVIII FBB and FAB Churches to Celebrate 172nd Anniversary FIRST BRYAN BAPTIST CHURCH Rev E. O. S. Cleveland Anniversary Speaker FIRST AFRICAN BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. It. M. Williams Pastor, F.B.B. Church Woman Unable (o Eat or Drink for 29 Years, Cured New York NEW YORK, N. Y.—(ANP)— released from Montefiore Hos- Medical circles throughout the pital and able to eat and drink country were astounded this normally, after a scries of sur¬ week to iearn that a Negro gical operations performed by woman, 50 years old, who had Montefiore surgeons. | been unable to swallow any The now-famous patient, 'food or liquid for 29 years, was I who thanked God for her re- IORED — On December Ki, and Mrs. Asa T. were host* to the bers or the board of direc- and their wives at dinner iring Dr. Clyde Donnell in piition of his forthcoming ement as Senior Vice-Pres-j AOams 4-3432 Ilev. C. J.. Jackson Pastor, F.A.B. Church | ident and Medical Director of lh( North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company after forty three yea: s of service. . Seated from left: Mrs. W J. Kennedy, Jr., Mrs. E. R. Mer¬ rick, Mrs. Clyde Donnell. Dr. Duuncli, flic liunoiee, Mrs. D., U. S. Notables At Tubman’s Inaugural WASHINGTON — (AiNTi — "History is being made on the continent of Africa.” declared Under-Secretary of State Liv¬ ingstone Merchant Tuesday, when he presented credentials to official U.S. representatives to the independence celebra¬ tion of the Cameroons on Jan. 1 and .the inauguration of President William V. S. Tub- man in Liberia on Jan, 4. The under-secretary spoke admirably of Liberia, the Af¬ rican republic, which has al¬ ways been so closely bound to the U.S. by history, sentiment and friendship. Among the six persons named by President Eisenhower as his pecial ambassadors was Maj. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr„ of the U.S. Air force. included among the State department delegates were Wil¬ liam o. Walker, managing edi¬ tor, Cleveland Call and Post, and Val J Washington, Repub¬ lican National committee. Rep. Charles C. Diggs (D„ Mich.) was one of two Con¬ gressional representatives. The other is Rep. Steven B. Dcrou- nian <R„ N.Y.> The White House delegation is headed by Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. representative to the United Nations. Others are J. C. Sattcrhwaitc, assistant Secretary <Jf State for African Affairs, and Robert P. Bur¬ roughs, R. P. Burroughs Com¬ pany, Inc., Manchester, N. H. The other two arc Mason Sears, U.S. representative to the UN Trusteeship council who will represent the President only at t li e Cameroons ceremonies; and Elbert G. Mathews, Ameri¬ can ambassador to Liberia who (Continued on Page Three Mr. Moton Visits W, B. March ol Dimes Headquarters R. R. Moton, Jr., field represen¬ tative for the National Foundation, was in the city this week in inter¬ est of the New March of Dimes Campaign. He visited the West Broad St. Headquarters and inter¬ viewed Jack Stiles, the local chair¬ man of the campaign. Mr. Moton is Uie son of the late Robert Russell Moton, who was president of Tuskegee Institute for a number of years. He was house guest of Mrs. E. S. Thomas, (121 West 40th Street, while in the city. Sunday, Jan. 10, will mark the Joint 172nd anniversary celebration of the First Bryan Baptist and First African Bap¬ tist churches. Tire program will bf held ut. First Bryan Baptist church at 3 30 p m. Rev, E. O. S. Cleve¬ land, pastor of St. John Bap¬ tist church, will be the guest speaker. Rev. Cleveland is pre¬ sident of tlie State Sunday School and BTU Convention of the General Missionary Baptist Convention of Georgia, Both of these historic chur¬ ches were organized in 1788 and both claim to be the oldest Negro Baptist church in Ame¬ rica. Nine years ago the idea (Continued on Page Two) lease during the Holiday Sea- • on, is Mrs. Virginia Dixon of New York City, who was admitted to the hospital about three months ago. For 29 years, her only means of nourishing her body was by chewing food and spitting it into a funnel connected to a rubber tube, in¬ serted into her stomach. Al¬ though well nourished by this method, Mrs. Dixon was most unhappy she was never able to ;it down and eat with her fam¬ ily. Swallows Lye Accidentally Her condition resulted from an accident when she was 21 in which she accidentally swal- owed lye and caused a com¬ plete obstruction of her esopha¬ gus very high in her neck just below the pharnyx. She had been told by many doctors over the years that no operation could be performed which would enable her to swallow owing to the fact that the ob¬ struction was too high in the esophagus. She came to Monte¬ fiore as a result of reading a newspaper account about a patient who had h^d a “re¬ vered gastric tube” operation. A Montefiore surgeon (Dr. Henry Heimlich) operated on her about six weeks ago. He constructed a reversed gastric tube, bringing the open end of the tube out in the neck be¬ neath the angle of the jaw (mandible). The day after Thanksgiving. November 37. he joined the open end of the gas¬ tric tube to the esophagus at the point where the esophagus originates from the pharynx. This site was immediately iConlinued on page three) iC. Doans, Jr., and Mrs. N. H. j Bennett, Jr. Standing in the j same order are, first row: N. H. Bennett, Jr., E. R. Merrick, Mr. and Mrs. Spaulding, and Mr. and Mrs. J. W Goodloe. Last row: D. C. Deans, Jr., W. J Kennedy, Jr., C. C. Spaulding, Jr., and W. M. Rich. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 19(10 NewMardt of DimesHeadquarlers Now Open oil West Broad Street Protest Leaders Fight Against JC GREENVILLE, S. C. Mulch¬ ing through sleet and snow and singing “America The Beautiful” hundreds of Negroes marched on the Greenville city airport on Emancipation Day, January 1, to protest segregation in the airport’s waiting room. The demonstration, planned by Greenville CORE and the inter¬ denominational Ministerial Alli¬ ance, was watched closely by state, city and county police. There was no disturbance though nine men identified by the police us mem¬ bers of the Ku Klux Klan were checked personally by officers. The protest was in response to the action of airport officials who ordered Jackie Robinson out of the “white waiting room” last October 25. The demonstration begun with a muss rally in Springfield Bap¬ tist Church. There were 22 speak¬ ers during the program represent¬ ing major civil rights, fraternal, (Continued on Page Three) THURGOOQ MARSHALL’S REPORT ON DESEGREGATION In an abbreviated report for the year 1959, Thurgood Mar¬ shall, Director-Counsel ol the NAACP Legal Defense and Ed¬ ucational Fund, summed up the year’s activities as a mark-j ed step forward toward ending enforced racial segregation. Of primary importance is the fact that, despite uie ties: comomed efforts of the southern states, the year showed the end of the program of “massive resist¬ ance” and a reluctant accept¬ ance of at least token compli¬ ance in the more obstinant states. In Little Rock we saw the federal courts declare uncon¬ stitutional the latest efforts of Governor Faubus to keep public schools closed in opposition to integration. Little Rock also demonstrated that the religious and business leaders of the city, when pushed to the wall and j faced with the choice of into- gration or no schools, would themselves choose token inte¬ gration and insist that the schools be reopened. Likewise, Continued on Page Three | Delta Launches Survey ol College Students DR. KING DENIES ‘'CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE” CAMPAIGN ATLANTA—(ANP)—Dr. Mar¬ tin Luther King, here for a joint meeting of the NAACP and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, strong¬ ly denied that he was heading a plot by Negroes to organize a mass civil disobedience cam¬ paign. The charge was made toy Alt. Gen. Eugene Cook that state investigators had uncovered the plot which he said would be aimed at breaking the back¬ bone of racial segregation in transportation and public pia- j CCS. In his denial King did admit j that he had said that mass civil disobedience campaign.. j might tie necessary in certain j areas where local laws conflict j with federal statutes on civil rights. Wilkins In Atlanta King, Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the NAACP, and 23 other leaders of the two organizations were here plan¬ ning details of a southslde drive aimed at registering 1,100.000 Negro voters in time to participate in the 1900 pre¬ sidential election. Wilkins said the NAAQP had less than $ 100,000 to spend on the program and that most of (Continued oil page three, The March of Dimes Head¬ quarters for the I960 campaign opened officially Monday, Jan. 4, at 704 West Broad St,., and will remain open each clay throughout the campaign from 9 a.m. until 5 pm. Through the combined efforts of the local chapter personnel and the planning committee, this much needed office was established for the convenience of the vo¬ lunteers. Leaders lor this year’s cam¬ paign are as follows: General chairman, J o h n (Jack) R Stiles, Jr.; Office Administrator and co-ohuir- man, Mrs. Arthur Joyner; Mothers March, Mrs. Lillian McNichois and Mrs Emily Ma- 1 Continued on Page Six' public interest. They are mem¬ bers of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority's Yancey Commission on Undergraduate College Stu¬ dent Concerns, named to con¬ duct a comprehensive survey of student activities, aspira¬ DELTA’S YANCEY COMi.vilSS- — The women shown here just launched a massive designed to help in¬ the leadership potential college students to make contributions to the Teen-age Heroine Is Mamed One ei 4 The Ten Young Women of l he Yen Mademoiselle** 1939 Merit Award Winner#, honored for signal achievement during (he pael year: (1 ) Teresa Berganza, opera linger; (2) Lorraine Hansberry, playwright; (3) Penny I’iton, skier; (A) Maya Plisetskaya, Ballet dancer; (5) Kliz.abeth Roeiner, astrono- nter; (toj Mona Rosrl, fashion designer; (7) Gael Greene, newspaperwoman; (8) Ingrid Timlin, actress; (9) Kli/.aheth Marshall Thomas, author (with one of her two children ) ; (III) Shirley O'Neil, special award winner ‘"for heroism" (seen here with two of iter charges at a Catholic iouih Org.tnizaiiou »umcr school^ Attains 4-3431 Price 10c NUMBER 14 U. S. Circuit Court Asked to Rehear Braden Appeal Case NEW ORLEANS, La.—All seven judges of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals have been asked to rehear the appeal of Carl Braden from a one-year sentence for Contempt of Con¬ gress. Braden’s lawyers told the court that his Imprison¬ ment w'ould open the way for state legislative committees to destroy any organization work¬ ing for racial integration in the South. A three-judge panel of the court recently held that Braden, an integration worker, was rightfully sentenced for refus¬ ing to answer six questions of the House Un-American Activ¬ ities Committee in Atlanta in 1958. One , of the questions con¬ cerned possible membership in the Communist Party. Five others dealt with Braden’s ac¬ tivities in behalf of civil rights and civil liberties. He is a field secretary and editor for the Southern Conference Education¬ al Fund, an Interracial group seeking to end segregation. Braden told the House sub- Continued on Page Seven tions and potentials. From left, they are Miss Hazel A. Dunnings, Deltas as¬ sociate director; Dr. Hilda A. •Davis, administrative assistant to the superintendent of Deia- Uontinued on Page Seven