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TEARS Of CONTINUOUS TUBUC SERVICE 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 • Continued on Five) 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: iU)am* 4-3431 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 .’Continued on Page Five) , 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) New Deadline Notice Church. Club and School Articles including pictures for the Savannah I’libune must be In the office not later than 6 p. jo. Monday to be sure of publication. Articles should hr written in ink or typewritten (double spaced) on one side of (tie paper, Memorials, ( ards of Thanks and Arts will be accepter! all rlav Tuesday. This change in deadline will hplp the publisher to get Hie paper printed on lime each werk, Reporters are reminded (hat it costs to print, a newspaper. Every word in an article requires special attention hv several paid workers-. Reporters are asked In Ihink of this before writing. 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 Sunday are unusual this information reported every week has little news value in promoting interest in your church. 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 publisher. Thanks! 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)