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VOLUME LXXVII1
U. S. Grand Jury Sets Mack Parker’s Free
Mrs. Bates
Says MRA
Gives ‘Hope,’
Not ‘Hate’
WASHINGTON, I). C. — Mrs.
Daisy Rates. president of the Ar¬
kansas NAACP, said today that
it was her experience with Moral
Up-A rmament that made it pos¬
sible for her to meet Governor
O'va! F. Faubus “without hatred’’
last month. She told 600 people
at the MU A Strategy Conference
at the Willard Hotel that three
months ago this would not have
been possible.
Mrs. Bales and Governor Fan-
bus met in the state eapitol for
the first time since the fall of
1057 when the school crisis erupt-
I i i\ ™l \ Little . Uock is known around
idle world as the symbol of Aineri
cat) democracy,” sbe said. “We
must now change that symbol from
’hate’ to ‘hope’. I am deeply grate
fill to Dr. Frank Huchman who
through MRA is giving the world
the answer to halp and bitterness,
“We have won our law suits, hut
sombwhere we have missed the
-boat,” Mrs. Bates admitted. “Wr
have fought against all we felt was
wrong and for what we desired for
our children. Rut the suspicion,
hatred Rod fear that I grew up
with was always with me. I saw
I could not be used by Cod with
hatred in my heart.”
She told how three months ago
«he invited Mora! Re-Armament
speakers to address the Arkansas
N A AGP on the answer to hate and
bitterness, “They stayed in my
home,” she said. “I saw MRA
working. I learned how to fight
for what is right without hatred.
“When I met the Governor I said,
‘I am not interested in fighting
the Civil War. 1 am interested in
where we are going from this hour.
I am interested in tomorrow and
the future of America.' Without
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Georgia’s Plan to Close Schools
Denounced NAACP
NEW YORK—An attempt by
Gov. S. Ernest Vandiver of
Georgia to blame the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People for the pos¬
sible closing of public schools
in his state has been denounc¬
ed by NAACP Executive Secre¬
tary Roy Wilkins as an effort
to use the Assocciatlon as “a
whipping boy” to conceal what
Georgia officials arc doing to
the children of that state.
Addressing the opening of the
Georgia State Legislature in At¬
lanta on January 11,
Vandiver indicated that
* would do nothing toward re-
pealing present laws requiring
closing of schools ordered de-
segregated. Instead, lie called
upon Negro parents not to press
desegregation suite.
“Let us hope.” he said, “that
the NAACP will not force the
closing of a single school in
Georgia.” He warned that the
state would continue to resist
efforts to secure compliance
with anti-segregation rulings of
the United States Supreme
Court. Replying to the Cover-
nor ,on Jan. 12, Mr. Wilkins
gave assurance “that the NAACP
will not act to close any school.
We have neither the desire, in¬
tent or power to do so.
“If any school is closed in
Georgia,” he continued, “it will
be because Georgia officials and
members of the Georgia State
Legislature choose to penalize
the children of Georgia in or¬
der to defy tlie Constitution
and to try to maintain a dead
way of life. Use of the NAACP
ns a whipping boy will not con¬
ceal what Georgians are doing
to Georgians.”
Atlanta is under federal dis-
trict court order to desoaregate
its public school system. f>
Board of Education has
ted a plan to desegregation
on Six:
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PLANNING MOTHERS MARCH
HANDS NEEDED. Thousands of mothers are still needed to
make up the task force of one million mothers who will march
in the tight against crippling arthritis, birth defects and polio
January 28. Mrs. Burma Whitted, of Jack and Jill of America;
Mrs. Thelma Austin of the Links, Inc.; Mrs. Jacqueline Gut-
willir of The National Foundation and Mrs. J. A. Jackson of
the Order of the Eastern Star pause briefly for a picture while
club planning for from National Mothers March night. Join thousands of
women all over the nation in giving just one hour rf
service to the New March of Dimes. Join tlie Mothers March
Jan. 28.
New March of Dimes
in hull
Mr. Lillian McNichols, Chair¬
man of the Mother's March of
Dimes for the second consecutive
vear, announced that on Thursday,
January 28, fcom 7:00 to 8:00
p.tn., over 300 mothers will ban
together in the fight against the
crippling disease of children.
Following are the chairmen who
wiil assist Mrs. McNichois: dames
DeLorme, Mrs. Viola Bell, Mrs.
Sadie Norris, Mrs. Mary Mat¬
thews,Mrs. Eartha Lee Outland,
Matthew Brown, Mrs. it. McIn¬
tosh, Mrs. Mamie Jackson, Mrs.
Henrietta Santos, Mrs. Sarah
Brown, Cyrus McKiver, Mrs. Doro¬
thy Washington, Mrs. W i 1 in a
Wright, Mrs. Carrie Johnson, Mrs.
Naomi Major, James Cobham,
UNCF‘s 1959 Campaign
Raises Record Amount
NEW YORK—Contributions
the United Negro College
1959 campaign totaled a
high of $1,947,827, Bruce
national campaign chairman,
nounced here today.
This was an increase of
827 over last year’s total of
813,000.
“The 1959 appeal was our
successful,” Mr. Barton, chairman
the hoard, Batten, Barton,
stine & Osborn, aid. “This is a
tribute to our local campaign lead-
civ and workers. During
more than 4,000 volunteers worked
MRS. SADYE L. CARTLEDGE.
p r j nc jp a i pearl Lee Smith El-
mncn ^ ai .y ^nool. and a mem-
er of the Board of Managc-
ment of the West Broad street
YMCA ig s j lown presenting to
Julius Williams a YMCA mem-
•BILOXI, Miss (ANP)—The
lynchers of Mack Charles
Parker will never be brought'
to trial.
That is the meaning of the
decision readied by a federal
grand jury empanelled here to
Investigate the lynching of the
Negro pulpwood truck driver
who had been accused of at¬
tacking a pregnant white wo¬
man last April.
No True Bills
The grand jury, Thursday,
roported to U. S. District Judge
Sidney Mize through its fore¬
man, Charles Long, that “on
the basis of the evidence pre¬
sented. we were unable to ar¬
rive at any true bilks.”
Stanford Moss, Gulfport at¬
torney, who advised many of
the witnesses who were ques¬
tioned by the grand Jury, was
jubilant over the outcome of
the investigation. He said
“Southern justice has triumph¬
ed.”
NAACP Urges Release of FBI
Report
In N“w York City, Roy Wil¬
kins, executive secretary or the
NAACP sent a telegram to Atty.
Oeneral William P. Rogers urg¬
ing him to release the full
text of the FBI exhaustive re¬
port on the case. It was at
Ifogcr,s’ request that the fed-
eral grand jury probe was insti¬
tuted after a Pearl River Coun-
Lv grand jury liad ignored the
ease.
In Washington, the grand ju¬
ry’s action was regarded a-s a
blow to the Republicans In the
forthcoming presidential race.
In their appeal to N>gro voters,
the OOP could have capitalized
on Indictments by the federal
grand jury, especially since the
Democratically controlled Con¬
gress appears to be dragging
its feet on civil rights legisla¬
tion.
Judge Lauds Jury
Mize congratulated the jury
on its work during the delib¬
erations which started Jan. 4,
saying lie thought jurors con¬
ducted themselves “diligently
Mis. Valerie Howard and Jess*
Morgan.
Anyone wishing to volunteer
services on this night, please call
AD 3-2486 or AD 6-0972.
SPECIAL EVENTS
The Lanz Fashion Extravagan¬
za, a special event connected with
the March of Dimes campaign, will
lie held at St. Matthew’s Parish
Hall, Anderson at West Broad
Street, Thursday, January 21, at
8:00 p. M. Mi ; Brrnitu Darby
will serve as commentator. A well
known orchestra will f u r n i s h
music plus additional entertain¬
ment.
The setting for this extravagan-
(Continued on Page Seven;
Chicago
Defender
Cites Castro
CHICAGO, (AND) — Premier
Fidel Castro, new leader of the
Cuban government heads the Chi¬
cago Defender’s 1959 Honor Roll.
Included in the list of 12 indi-
i viduals are three Chicagoans- Lor-
j mine Ilasnberry, author of the
; prize-winning play, “A Raisin in
i the Sun"; Albert Cardinal Meyer,
Archbishop of Chicago, and Ray¬
mond M. Hilliard, director of the
, Cook County Department of Public
j Aid.
Progress Development Corpora¬
tion, planners of an interracial
housing development in Deerfield,
J III., was the lone institution cited
j in 1959.
Chicago Defender Publisher,
John H. Sengsta'ke said, Castro
wa cited for his “magnificent and
inspiring contribution to the world
druggie for freedom and equality
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, in 125 campaign centers across the
| country to register these fine re-
{ su j£ s »
UNCF campaign funds are dis¬
tributed among the 33 private, ac¬
credited colleges and universities
comprising the Fund’s member¬
ship. Each year the UNCF ap¬
peal raises 10 per cent of the com¬
bined educational budgets of these
institutions. The money is not
specifically allocated hut is used
where most needed to provide
scholarship aid, augment faculty
(Continued on Five)
bership card, valid until he is
twenty-one years of age, for his
heroic efforts in saving the lives
of the twins of Mr. and Mrs. E.
Taylor from a burning build¬
ing.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, I960
and fairly.”
He then recessed the jury
until the regular February 23
term of the federal court, cau-
tinning members might be call¬
ed back sooner to take up other
matters.
A mob of hooded men dragged
Parker. 23, year old Negro truck
driver from Lumber ton, out of
his second-floor jail cell at
Poplarville last April 25 and
killed him. His bullet pierced
body was recovered from the
Pearl river 10 days later.
The lynching came two days
before Parker’s scheduled trial
on charges of raping a pregnant
white mother.
One Negro on Jury
In his report to Judge Mize,
Long said the jury of 20 white
men and one Negro heard 32
witnesses during nine days, lie
said the 32 were all the wit¬
nesses called by attorneys in¬
volved.
Also available to the jury was
a 378-page FBI report on Its
month-long investigation of the
lynching. The same report
was available to the county
grand jury last November.
The Pearl River, which yield¬
ed Parker’s body, separates Mis¬
sissippi and Louisiana. But
the body was discovered snagg¬
ed on driftwood close to a bank
on the Mississippi side.
During the session, the fed¬
eral jury asked Mize to clarify
some points of law, specifical¬
ly provisions of the Lindbergh
kidnap law and the Fifth
Amendment.
Could Invoke 5tli Amendment
Mize told Jurors the
berg Jaw would apply only If
stale lines were crossed.
erwise Mississippi law
(Continued on Page Six)
Hulan Jack Set for Feb. 2
NEW YORK CITY, (ANP) —
Hulan Jack, Manhattan borough
president suspended himself from
his $250,000 per year job, and an¬
nounced “my conscience is clear,”
after a grand jury voted to indict
him in connection with a favor he
accepted from a friend.
Jack, holder of the highest
municipal post ever attained by a
Negro in the United States, was
indicted for conflict of interest
under the city charter and con¬
spiracy to obstruct the grand jury
investigation into charges that he
accepted a bribe from a wealthy
real estate operator.
The four count indictment car¬
ries a maximum penalty of four
years in jail anil $2,000 in fines.
MAYOR “WITHHOLDS
COMMENT
Mayor Robert F. Wagner willi-
hcld comment on the worst scandal
to hit his seven-year Democratic
administration.
In Albany, Republican Gov. Nel¬
son Rockefeller aid only, “I’m
just sad about it.”
Rockefeller called for a copy of
the indictment and of tlie grand
jury minutes and asked Wagner
to go to Albany to discuss tlie ease.
A borough president can lie re¬
moved from office only through
legal proceedings in tituted by the
governor.
The charge revolved about the
$5,500 remodeling of Jack’; apart
ment in Harlem through a “loan”
or "gift” from Sidney J. Ungar,
attorney and real estate operator.
The remodeling wa . done at a
time when Ungar was seeking ap-
(Conlinued on Page Five)
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Tlie statement that vour rlnh “transacted much business” o'-
that the hostess served a “delicious repast” is not considered as
news. This is for the secretary’s minutes. When and where
the club met, who were present and specific plans and activities
are considered news-worthy. Church reporters should find oul
what is going to happen at the church the following Sunday or
during the coming week. Unless the happenings on the previous
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The Savannah Tribune wants to cooperate with these report¬
ers but it is time to make improvements. Please try these sug¬
gestions in the future. For further information contact (lie
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AKAs to Present Fashionetta
CONTESTANTS Tlie above I
dim ming young Judies have been
selected by sorors Of Gamma
Sigma Omega Chapter of Alpha
Kappa Alpha Sorority us their
contestants for the coming “Miss
Fashionetta” contest.
They me Imwn seated left to
right with their mothers und chair
directly in rear,
Mj , . Kl , (li) , (l . lUB , ll , 1 . „ f j
Mrs. Msny Moore, is an 11th grade I
Should Negro Greek-Letter
Organizations Combine?
TUSKKGKK INSTITUTE, Ala.
The combining of Negro Greek-
letter organization* into only “one
large fraternity and one sorority”
was proposed Sunday by Dr. V.
Troup, president of Ft. Valley
State College, Ft. Valley, Ga.
Addressing an All-Greek Ketrei l
Elks Name Nino Prominent
Americans for Awards
Guidance Personnel Attend
State Meet in Dublin
By DANIEL W. WRIGHT
To facilitate continuous expan¬
sion in the area of guidance and
testing, an in erviee educational
conference for guidance personnel
was offen d by the State Depart¬
ment of Education, January 13-15,
at the t It (‘enter, Dublin, Georgia.
TWO REPRESENTATIVES of I
U. 0. Prince Hall Masons were)
accorded high honors in Mon-
rovia, Liberia recently when ,
they attended the inauguration
of President William V. S. Tub-
man for his fourth term. They
remained in Liberia for a week,
Price 10c
ADanu 4-3433
at lieaeh High School and
member of the Seventh Day Ad¬
Church.
Miss Burlmru Hutchinson, t.liu
daughter of Mis. S. Hutchin¬
is an I Illi grade student, at
Beach High School and a member
First Bryan Baptist Church.
Miss Janice Hunter, the daugh¬
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Starling
Hunter, is a 10th grade student
at Beach High School and a mem-
at 'I n kegee Institute, Dr. Troup,
a former general vice president of
Phi Beta Sigma (fourth ranked in
size und age among Negro fra¬
ternities! asserted that, Negro
Greek groups “must either declare
ourselves purely social organiza- j
tions which have no concern for
R. D. Pullium coordinated activi-
tic
In attendance were Mr. Mattie
I! Payne and Daniel W. Wright,
Alfred K, Beach; Mrs. Paul lay
lor and Raleigh Bryant, Tompkin ’
(Continued on page three,
later visiting Ghana and Nige-I
ria. Photo shows, left, Dr. W11-
lard W. Alien of Baltimore, 1
sovereign grand commander of !
the supreme council and John
G. Lewis, Sr, Baton Rouge, La.,
lieutenant grand commander.
(ANP Photo)
NUMBER 16
Photo by Fluelyn
her of St. Matthew’s Episcopal
Ch inch.
Miss Maralyn Thomas, the
daughter of Mrs. Etta Mae Thom¬
as, is a 9th grade student at Sol
Johnson High School and a mem¬
ber of A dairy Methodist Church.
These young ladies are working
very hard for a successful con¬
test. which will terminate at the
Flamingo Ballroom on February
27 th.
social, civic and economic problems,
or we must do something about
them (the problems).”
"Would we do better,” he asked
rhetorically, “to combine fraterni¬
ties into two organizations,” and
do the same for sororities? Or
better still, have just one large fra¬
ternity and one sorority? Could we
make our leadership felt more ef¬
fectively than under present con*
(Continued on Page Three
MEMPHIS, (ANP)—The edu¬
cation department of Improved
Benevolent Protective Order of
Elks is the World has elected nine
prominent Americans to the John
Biown Hall of Fame and will hon-
m them at a banquet in Washing¬
ton, I). G. January 28.
Lt. George W. Lee, grand com¬
missioner of education and a busi¬
ne , leader in-ie announced Thurs¬
day that, in collaboration with
Robert II. Johnson, grand exalted
ruler, and Mrs. Nettie Cartel- Jack-
on, grand daughter ruler, tin- fol¬
lowing persons will receive Nate -
al Service Awards at the Elks Na¬
tional Education for Uitizon.-.hip
Banquet;
A. Philiip Randolph, interna¬
tional president of the Brotherhood
of Sleeping Gar Porters; M i s.
Christine Ray Davis, staff direc¬
tor of the committee ori govern¬
ment operations. House of Kepre-
-entatives; Tennessee Congress¬
man B. Garroll Reeee; Val J.
Wa hington, director of minorit - ,
Republican National committee;
Simeon S. Booker, Jr., chief of tbo
Johnson Publications Washington
Bureau; E. Frederic Morrow, ad¬
ministrative officer for President
Eisenhower; Lt. Col. Daniel James,
Jr. Air staff officer in the Direc¬
torate of Operations, the Penta¬
gon; Illinois Senator Paul Douglas
and New York Senator Kenneth
B. Keating.
TO SWELL
FUND
Senator Keating will share the
platform at the banquet
A. Phillip Randolph. Pro¬
of the banquet will be (used
scholarship aid to American
i continued on Page Five)