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VOLUME LXXVIII
Lunch Counter Sit-downs Eleven Cities
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ATLANTA (ANP) — Dr. Mar¬
tin Luther King characterized as
persecution charges made last
week that he lied about his Ala¬
bama state income tax returns.
The charges against King who
recently moved here weie brought
by Montgomery County, Ala., and
covered a period during which ho
was living In Montgomery where
he successfully engineered a boy¬
cott against jim crow seating in
city buses.
King are ted here and released
on $2,000 bond pending a March
18 extradition hearing raid the
warrant was signed by Lloyd it.
Hale, auditor of the Alabama state
internal revenue department.
Speaks In Chicago
The noted integration leader
who spoke in Chicago Sunday said
the charges are a part of a pat¬
tern “to disrepresent and seek to
frustrate the move of persons
working to achioVe the ideal of
freedom and brotherhood.”
Circuit Solicitor (prosecutor)
William Thetford said in Moivt-
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Religious Fell. Gnijiimsis Savannah Week lo Begin
28 at State
AKAs Fashionetta Set
Feb. 26
"Coastal Panarormi” will be the
theme for Gamma Sigma Omega’s
annual Fashionetta to lie present¬
ed at, the Flamingo Ballroom on
Saturday night, February 27, at
9:00 P.M.
Some of the city’s most charm¬
ing personalities will lie represent¬
ed as models.
To show you some of the beauti¬
ful and exclusive fashions foe
spring will be Sorors Leila Braith-
vvaite, Ruth Dobson, Ernestine
Bertrand, Alliertha Vaughns, De-
lores Tindall, Jewell Grant, Janie
Baker, Katie Williams, Kay Frail-
Five New Officials Added
To U. S. Commission on CR
WASHINGTON, D. G. _ Five
new officials have been added to
the staff of the U. S. Commission
on Civil Rights, it was announced
today by Gordon M. Tiffany, Staff
Director of the Commission.
They are:
Dr. Ellis O. Knox, of Washing
ton. D. C., Professor of Education
at Howard University, who will
serve as a Consultant to the Com
mission; Attorney John W. Roy
borough II, of Detroit, Michigan
who will serve as a general at
turney; Attorney William Alfred
Smith, of Hampton, Virginia, wh*
will serve as Consultant to Com
missionev George M. Johnson; At
tomey Christopher F. Edlev, o
Philadelphia, Fa., and Attorne-
Orlando S. Hobbs, who will servo
as attorneys for thp Commission
Dr. Knox, who lias been a l<*aeh
er at Howard University for ?'
years, has published four book
and more than 20 profession*
magazine articles in the field o
Education. He holds memlier-hip
in 11 professional societies, ha
been awarded numerous plague
and honors for significant achieve
ment, and has bean a public lector
er for more than IIP years. He re¬
ceived the A.B., A.M, and PhD
degrees from the University of
California.
Attorney Roxborough, who ha
been a member of the Detroit law
firm of Roxborough and Rox¬
borough since 1919, served the De¬
partment of State as a member of
the Personnel Project Planning
Staff in 1954-65, and was very
active in legal and civic organiza¬
tions in Michigan. He is a grad¬
uate of the University of Michi¬
gan and the University of Detroit.
Attorney Smith, a general prac¬
titioner in Hampton, Virginia,
ADams 4-3432
DELTA’S LIBERIA ALUMNAE
CHAFTER — Members of Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority’s newly-
established Liberia Alumnae diap¬
er—the Sorority';; first chapter in
Africa—are shown receiving their
charter f’om Mrs. M. Elizabeth
Carnegie, fourth from left, nation¬
al chairman of Delta’s public rela¬
tion-; committee. The to metiers
from lift are Mrs. Juette Johnson
Icis Stripling, Annette Kennedy,
Juanita Quinn and Rose Baker.
The young gentlemen who will
show some of the latest fashions
in men’s wear are: Dr. S. M. Mc-
Dew, Arnett Waters, Robert Holt,
j Lawrence Bryant, Dr. Henry M.
Collier, .Jr., William Campbell, I)r.
W. Wilson, Atty. Eugene Gads¬
den, Medicus Simmons, J. R. Jenk¬
ins, Sidney Miller and Raleigh
Bryant.
A special feature of the evening
will lie the crowning of “Miss
Fashionetta.”
served as a law clerk to Attorney
IV. Hale 'Thompson in Newport
News, Virginia, and was once as¬
sistant educational director of a
men’s dormitory at Howard Uni¬
versity. He is a graduate of Vir¬
ginia Union University and the
(Continued on Page Seven;
Omegas Crown “Miss Mu Phi’
Miss Jo Ann Brown, a member
of the faculty of Pearl Lee Smith
Elementary School, is shown after
being clowned Miss Mu Phi Chap¬
ter by Mis: Katie W illiams, retir-
ing Queen. Miss Brown’s Court
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA SATURDAY, FEB. 27, I960
Neal of Tuskegee In.-.titute, Ala.;
Mis. Llviia Palmer of Tuskegee,
Ala ; Mrs. June Dwellinghani Cul-
lins of Little Hock, Ark.; Mrs. Car¬
negie; Mrs. Elsa Jewel Proctor
Hines of Washington, D. C.; Mrs.
Beulah Stamps of Chicago, presi¬
dent of the chapter; Mrs. Ellen
Mills-Scarborough. Liberia’s for-
: Continued on Page Five)
The observance of Religious Em¬
phasis week, under the direction
of Rev. A. E. Peacock, college min¬
ister, will be held Sunday, Feb¬
ruary 28, through Thursday,
March o, at Savannah Stale Col¬
lege.
Savannah State College puts
great emphasis upon a rich and
varied religious life program.
Through its religious activities,
the College seeks to develop an
understanding of and an apprecia¬
tion for the place or religion in
everyday living, to deepen spiritual
insight, and to make the practice
of Christian principles a vital part
of the life of the well educated
citiken.
Weekly church and vesper ser¬
vices bring to the campus out¬
standing thinkers and leaders in
religious and social living.
Religious life activities are di¬
rected by the College Minister.
The Sunday School, YMCA and
YWCA, tiie Newman Club, and the
annual Religious Emphasis Week
provide opportunities for religious
growth and development, under
the supervision of the Religious
Life Committee.
The Religious- Emphasis Week
observance wiiJ he highlighted by
special programs and prominent
peakers. The program for the
includes Misses Janie V. Baker,
Sallie K. Moore, Margaret Tiggs,
and Juliette West. |
The Miss Omega Contest com-
nMttee pon i ted of P.ro. Norman
B. Elmore, Sr., General Chairman;
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (ANP) —
Violence and arrest# characterised
th* “.sit down” lunch counter
strikes, whl.di began Feb. 2, »■
Uie movement gained in momentum
and spread to 11 cities in six
states last week.
The most recent focal point was
Portsmouth, Va., where razor*
wielding, fist-swinging Negro and
white youths became embroiled in
a lively battle that, brought the
most of 55-75 per oils on disor¬
derly conduct charges, and the hos¬
pitalization of at least one — a
white youth.
tbps Had To Use Dogs
So lively was the fiaens that
police had to me dogs to disperse
both sides, which had converged
upon Ro i-' Five anil Dime store
in the Mid-City shopping center,
hi the arte l ;, police confiscated,
among other things, a .22 calibre
pi tol from a white student, sticks,
chains, knives and razors.
A similar fight occurred in High
Point, N, C., but on a small scale.
A group of Negro sitdownera,
leaving tiie downtown F. W. Wool-
worth tore, weie beset by a group
of whites. The brief flurry was
halted bv police who arrested one
of the white participants and two
Negroes.
Another flare-up occurred in Hie
u bur ban College Village Shopping
'center earlier, in which white
I youths threw taunts and snowballs
I at tin* sitdownei y. Police made no
week will include the following:
February 28, 9 A.M. — Sunday
School, Meldrim Auditorium; 10
A. M., — Service with Dr. J. H.
Edge, presiding Elder of the Wert
Savannah district of tiie A.M.E.
(Continued on Page Seven)
N! KSF ALMA V. JOHN whose
award winning radio program ha.;
been a feature of New York Radio
Station WWRL for seven years, is
now being heard over 3o stations
She j believed to he the only
Negro woman with a nationally
syndicated radio show with a na¬
tional pon or. Her show is called
At Hume With Alma John.”—
(ANP Photo).
Bros. Phillip W. Cooper, J. E.
Luten, H. V. Leake and A. Randall
Tiggett, Chairmen.
The brothers of Mu Phi and Al¬
pha Gamma Chapters were respon¬
sible for this gala affair.
arrests during thp
| and the management In self do¬
! fen ,e, had to close down the store,
j to get rid of both groups,
l ight Follow King's Tour
lu Durham, N. C., a scuffle be¬
tween store employes ami police,
on one hand, with press photo¬
| graphers on the other, broke out
a rter the Rev. Martin Luther
King, Jr., accompanied by the Rev.
Ralph Abernathy bad made a tour
of Hip F. W. Wool worth store.
The two ministers were posing
for pictures when an assistant
manager broke into the group and
demanded they leave. A store em¬
ploye made a rush for the photo¬
graphers and television camermen.
In the ensuing melee, the Revs.
King and Abernathy departed.
Police, arriving on the scent
tussled with photographers, an;
took the camera of C- C. Burthey
a Negro lensrnan on an assignmen
for the Carolina Times. However
upon advice of a Negro attorney
that his film could not lie eon
fiscated until a warrant was is
sued, Budthey's camera was re
turned and he was invited to leavi
the premises.
Earlier, Dr. King had told 10(
students from colleges in Nortl
and South Carolina and Virginia
that Negroes “must he willing t'
fill up the jails of the South 1 j
gain their right..*. Maybe it. wil
lake this willingness to stay in jai
to arouse the dozing conscience o
our nation.”
Continue Picketing in Manhattan
In New York, the sympathy
picketing of stores of the Wool
worth and S. H. Kress chain
sponsored by CORE continued
while in Rock Hill, S. C., suppur
for the Negroes’ proto t at luriet
counter bias came from a grouj
of whites known as the “Whib
Citizens,’ who distributed print.ei
slips urging patrons not to maki
purchases at any of the stores un
til the segregation policy wa..
.dropped.
While the protest was halted at
Raleigh, N. C., Cameron Village
shopping center, pending court
action in the ease of -4■’! students
•uuntlnued on page Si-vem
Case Moslems in New Win York Bolice Brutality
NEW YORK — An all white
jury delivered one of the most
surprising courtroom verdicts in
New York City history this week,
when it round a young Moslem
couple not guilty of assaulting two
white police officers and a postal
inspector, who attempted to gain
entry into their borne without a
•search warrant.
Tiie couple, John and Yvonne
Mollette, were defended by tiie
Moslem’s brilliant attorneys, Ed¬
ward W. Jacko and (awn Sandifer.
Considered by many a:; the great¬
Miss Margaret Tiggs reigns as
the Sweetheart of Alpha Gamma
Chapter located on the campus of
Savannah State College.
The Miss Omega Contest is spon-
sored by Mu Phi Chapter annually
with the proceeds being used to-
Two Negro Youths Charged
With Little Hock
HIT II R '■)( K. Aid i \ : I’)
Two Negroes, a 17-year-old high
school student, have been am Ted
and charged with bombing the
home of ( aiTott'i Wall ., 1G %< ui-
old Cent)al High .ohool pupil.
FBI Enter* ( ««•
Miss Walls, Hie daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Carlelyou Waji . was one
of the original nine Negro To-
dent who broke the rac d harrier
at Central High School in 1957.
TALLADEGA COLLEGE Little
Theatre caoi ami director Ipuk fo;
ward in the o/i-cafiipir; opening of
“The Chalk Garden”, February 2'i
and an early Apiil appearance in
Montgomery, Alabama. Aetoi ; in
the drama by Enid Magnold, Eng
est victory won by Negroes in
New York ( ity during tiie 20th
Century, the case had attr.uT.ed
national attention been trie of other
similar police brutality canes
throughout the nation that involy-
ed non-Moslem:; a., well a , Mos¬
lems.
Immediately after the all-white
jury delivered it ; “not guilty” ver¬
dict, the Moslems’ legal battery
promptly filed a $2 million suit
against the (Tty of New York in
the name of Hie defendants;, John
Continued on Page Four
ward schol "Tup
charitable purpos
Brother L, D. Law, Sr., Bu.-.ileus
of Mu Phi Chapter, prevented
award: of the .c- charming young
ladies.
Price 10c ,
ADama *-3431
l.o- d polio- and tin- FBI, whose
cooperation win invited in making
the invc ligation of the February
9 Ida (, named the two suspects
aa Maeeo Antonio Birins, 31-yenr-
■ >1*4 handyman and Herbert Odell
Mont ., a student at segregated
Horace Mann High School.
The two have been charged with
damaging property with explo-
ivc , Hie same charge brought
igains! five white men in tliree
It Ti playwright, are: left to right:
Mi 1 ■ Mabel Smalls, Charleston,
j .South Carolina; Jo Ann Mitchell,
.hivauiiali, Georgia; Krlone Major,
Charlotte, Ninth Carolina; Delores
Bethea, Latta, South Carolina;
Rosalind Williams, Miami, Florida;
Deltas Flan for Jabberwock
On Saturday evening, Feb. 20
members of the Savannah Alum¬
nae Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority, Inc., circled four im¬
portant dates on their calendars.
All names of contestants for
“Miss Jabberwock” must be sub¬
mitted by March 4; Jabberwock
kickoff March 11; end of con¬
test, April 20, and Jabberwock
April 22.
As they have done in past
years the Sorors are looking
forward to a spirited contest in¬
volving sorors, parents and
contestants. The winner will
be crowned Mbs Jabberwock,
I960.
The mental health commit-
lie, chaired by Soror Ruth
Simiir-:. reported on its meeting
vitli vT „ Gertrude Greene,
p.A'chialrlc Social worker at
fail. Seeks State Law to
! )iscouraife” Lunchroom
Sit-Down Strikes
ATLANTA (AND The
1 \ |,H ' '* , wt8
'' 11 'donn-T ,
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..... !■’*; " r " " ,| " w " f - ;tnk '‘
In n* j'imitar lo those* in five other]
on'I non aimed at ending !
ion at chain store lunch
‘’outliers, I
By an overwbelniiiijf _ vote, the
lh,r r fi.i f‘<| a hill arid went it
on to the Senate’ that would make
it a misdetticniio? to refuse to
leave Hie property of another when
ordered l.o do so.
BILL GIVES POLICE POWER
TO ARREST
If the bill is passed by the
•'cnate and signed into law by the
governor, then police would he
empowered to arrest any who
stage sitdown strikes like the one
tliat originated in Greensboro, N.-
NUMBER 21
bombing* lastX* -•bor Day,
Motive A Myatery
Officials refused lo due I owe the
motives of the two in bombing the
home, but most doubt that it had
anything to do with the local con¬
troversy over desegregating the
public schools.
Tiie Chamber of Commerce had
offered a reward of $2,500 and the
(Continued on Page Six’
and Leanita Jones, Macon, Geor¬
gia; Dennis Roberts (fat: right),
Montgomery, Alabama and Harold
Thomas, Birmingham, Alabama.
The director, Dr. James O. Hopson
of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is
shown second from left.
the Mental Health clinic. Tha
project has been launched in
full swing.
Soror Gwendolyn Brown was
congratulated on having a suc¬
cessful Valentine party at Mills
Memorial. The party is an an¬
nual feature of Delta's com¬
munity service.'
This week Sorors Lark, Steele
and Thweatt will attend meet¬
ings in Atlanta. Soror Lark
will attend the meeting of tha
Georgia Conference of Social
Workers at the Henry Grady
Hotel while the other two so-
rors will attend the Student
Teaching Program Conlercnce
at Atlanta University,
The meeting was held at So-
ror Gwendolyn Brown’s home
with Sorors Lucille Bryant ;, . J
Kavonia Bryant assisting her.
*
(>. fcvffra! , weeks i ngo.
At the same time legislating
a j MI KaYI , approval to a bill that
would make barratry felony.
Barratry is the incitement of
pnjmotion of lawsuits. The pur¬
pose of this measure is to discour¬
age law suits aimed at desegregat¬
ing public schools in the state.
BILL AIMED AT NAACP
Speakers made no secret of the
fact that the bill was aimed parti¬
cularly at the NAACP which has
provided the legal services for
school suits brought in behalf of
pupils desiring to break racial bar¬
riers in the public schools.
Time is the inevitable exe¬
cutioner; a thief who sneaks
away with our youth.