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TEARS OF CONTINUOUS PUBLIC SERVICE VOLUME LXXVIII Lunch Counter Sit-downs Eleven Cities a 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- Continued on Page Four 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 , ' 1,1 ‘ ..... !■’*; " 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.