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FAGI rotra _ ilir favammli @ribm. Established 1179 MRfi’IVILLA^XT oHNSON.-E ditor A Publisher r.______ * A » ^ *:--E; Don PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 1009 WEST BROAD STREET Dial ADams 4-3432 — ADaras 4 -3433 Subscription Rates In Advance One voor Year------------------------------ $4.13 ti 13 Blx Months------------------------------$3.09 CP, ------------------------------10 *- ——......— - m - ; ------ Remittance must be made by Express. Post Office Money Order or Registered Mall. Second Class Mail Privileges Authorized at Savannah, Georgia The Baptists’ Opportunity (From The St. Louis Argus) Gardner C. Taylor that he will oppose Dr. J. M. Jackson for the presidency of the National Baptist Convention, Inc., means that the reigning head of the denomina¬ tional group is being challenged by a min¬ ister of equal statue. In announcing his decision to run for election, Dr. Taylor says he is not against any man or group of men. He stated fur¬ ther that if the convention selects anyone else he will support such a selection “with every energy.” Dr. Taylor also put forth the proposition that the day should come when all Baptists would assemble together in convention and that would include the Southern Baptists. This will not be the first time the posi¬ tion of Dr. Jackson has been challenged. Dr. Taylor, who claims the support of 29.3 ministers and five state presidents, will undoubtedly he a worthy adversary. It is gratifying to note that he has pitched his campaign on this positive note. We hope that the convention in its struggle for delegate support will keep it that way. Howard Makes A Fine Choice (From the Birmingham World) Surely in spite of her many handicaps and those problems affecting our educa¬ tional policies and practices, Georgia can boast of the fact that she gave the world the incoming president of Howard Uni¬ versity. Dr. James M. Nabrit. He suc¬ ceeds Dr. Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, the retiring head of Howard, which reminds us of another unique feature- both are graduates of Morehouse College here in Atlanta. The Nabrit family has made a notable contribution in the field of education and culture in the state and nation. Dr. Na- brit’s family hails from Americus, Geor¬ gia, from whence his father came to At¬ lanta to minister at one of the leading Baptist churches in the city where his il¬ lustrious family grew up. His brother. Samuel Nabrit, is president of Texas Southern. Howard University, named for General Editorial Opinion of The Nation’s Press Compiled by The Associated Negro Press Here are excerpts from editorials ap¬ pearing in American papers on various topics of current interest: FIGHT AFTERMATH DAILY NEWS, Chicago: “Johansson has turned clown, somewhat scornfully, an offer by Joe Louis to tell him how to win. Louis wanted $50,000. guaranteeing the results. No win, no pay. Johansson may have made a mistake in turning down the offer.” CONSTITUTION, Atlanta: “Patterson is a line young man. lie is the first man ever to lose, then win back, the heavy¬ weight title. He does this nation a service in the field of sports by bringing the title back home.” I HE F E N N E S S E A N. Nashville: “Even those who underestimated his po¬ tential. however, are hailing the first de¬ posed heavyweight champion to regain his crown. On this night, at least, he came into the greatness that had escaped him. “( hanging his ways and managers, he promises to be a fighting champion hence¬ forth. he will not lack for public encour¬ agement. To all intents and purposes, we have a new Patterson who has plenty of time to make more ring history.” RICHARD NIXON THE TIMES, Huntsville, Ala. “Mr. Nixon can campaign in the South all he wants, and he’ll get some votes, for he is an impressive young man. But he’ll do well to not count very heavily on win¬ ning Alabama, or any other Southern Bayard Rustin (Continued from rage one,' the fact that on a number of oc¬ casions in recent months, Mr. Ran¬ dolph and Dr. King spoke at length with Mr. Wilkins about the March Movement and had cleared t ie lament regarding the par¬ ticipation of the NAACP with the National Advertising Represents tive,i Associated Publisher! 65 west 42 nd Street New York 38. New York 186 W. Washington St. Chicago 2, 111. Whaley-Simpson 5 ol3ert w ] Company 1 , a,ey 6608 Selma Ave. Los Angeles 28, California - - Wiialey-Simpson Company sss.------------- Ban iyan^o^r Mornla 1 m™ ( -----m. - - yiPy Too often, the struggles for delegate power among the church conventions and conferences, have deteriorated into some¬ thing less than desirable for a religious body. Such secular demonstrations have served to lower respect for the Christian ideal among old and young alike. Certainly persons of opposing views ought to be heard at conventions and con¬ ferences if they are to be conducted in the democratic process. It is healthy for any group to have various members of its body vying for leadership. Only then can it be sure that such bodies are receiving its best potential. As the supporters of Dr. Taylor and Dr. Jackson go into convention next Septem¬ ber it is hoped that in their spiritual acti¬ vities, the good name of Baptists and Christiandom will prevail throughout. If such a great body as the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., can set the stand¬ ard, it will make a sin,. Jar contribution to religious conference . f all faiths in the years to come. O. O. Howard, that soldier and statesman of fame, has wielded a powerful influ¬ ence over the nation for the fine contribu¬ tion it has made in the building of char¬ acter and men. Dr. Nabrit, an attorney and member of the faculty, is no stranger to Howard. H > has seen it through many of the problems over which it has traveled to unique use¬ fulness. Howard is truly made rich in the secur¬ ing of his services and surely Georgia is proud of the adi need position in which one of her native sons has be.en placed to carry forward a cause near and dear to the hearts of her people. Howard is to be congratulated an 1 here’s hoping that Dr. Nabrit will enjoy a long and useful career in this, a field to which he is greatly attached and by na¬ tive endowments, precisioned and. dedi¬ cated. state, so far as that is concerned. “About the only way the vice president could win the South is for the Democrats to nominate flapping tongued Paul But¬ ler.” THE CONGO THE TIMES, New York City- “To be sure, Patricia Lumumba is not asking for sympathy. He is a remarkable young man of 34, a clever, wily politician, a professed neutralist in the cold war. The Euro¬ peans are frightened of him and many are leaving, but he did say on Tuesday that he hoped for sincere friendship and .eco¬ nomic cooperation with Belgium. This, indeed, is the hope for the future. The Belgians have courageously gambled on it and they deserve to win. The history of the Belgian Congo had its terrible pages, but the ending has been clear and wise.” THE KEDIHCK FIRING THE BULLETIN, Lee County, Ala. “Gov. Patterson and the State Board of Education did not distinguish themselves for judicious fairness by the manner in which they dismissed Prof. Lawrence D. Reddick of Alabama State College. “But the time has not come--and never will come—when public officials, giving way to anger and hysteria, can afford to act in any manner short of the best tradi¬ tions of our American tradition of fair¬ ness and justice. The professor was not allowed a hearing by the board. He had no chance to face his accusers. This right is written deeply and irrevocably into the American ideal.” National Office of the tion.” Rustin asserted that man Powell has indicated that association with Dr. King is sive of the Negro leadership. I not permit a situation to in which my relationship to King and the Southern Leadership Conference is used confuse and becloud the basic sues confronting the Negro today. “Those who hare worked during my 20 years in movement know that I have never sought high position or special privilege, but have always made myself available on the call of the leadership. Twenty-two arrests in the North and South, including time on a North Carolina chain- gang in the course of fighting Jim Crow, are the recorded measure of my dedication, not to political pow¬ er, but to the ideals of our strug- ! gle.” Concluding his statement, Rustin ! added “I sincerely hope that in the i light of my resignation Mr. Powell THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA With A Strong Civil Rights Plank By Both Parties, Justice Will Triumph r < _ % «2£-' mi & pa & ^ A p?3 S3 hi ws A \ h' d y Jj " V. $. V , V* IP y v % •• gWr'l * f ‘p & -U^I'CE // IV w W m Adam Clayton Powell Gives Views On Presidential Candidates By ALICE A. DUNNIGAN WASHINGTON, (ANP)—Con- gressman Adam . , Clayton ,,, , Powell ,, ,, (D., N. Y.) named Vice-President Nixon or Governor Rockefeller as the best Presidential candidates this year in the Republican Ranks, and the Adlai Stevenson of 1952 or Senator Symington or Lyndon Johnson as the best Democratic candidates. In a speech delivered at a rally in New York, Saturday, the Har¬ lem Democrat said if he were a Republican he would favor Rocke¬ feller because of his “fresh hard hitting partisan-free views.” Rockefeller is “boss-free,” con¬ tinued Powell, He is emmenhy qualified, he has never subscribed to the reactionary school of the Re¬ publican Party, he has spoken in¬ cisively on Foreign Policy and Civil Rights, and he has sptyil years of training in the White House under Roosevelt, Truman and Ei lenhowif. Powell questioned Nixon’s rec¬ ord by pointing out that'.he had Louisiana Negroes Still Battling For Life After 7 Years or. 1 )eath Row NEW YORK — While Caryl Chessman was making a] headlines in his unsuccessful bid for life, a New Orleans Negro was waging a similar fight against the executioner’s hand in virtually complete obscurity. Today—after more than seven years on the Death Row of Louisi¬ ana prisons — 37-year-old Edgar Labat and his co-defendant, Clif¬ ton Poret, are still fighting a grim, unpublii'ued battle—a battle that may well break Chessman’s death- (11 record. On November 12, 1950, Labat was arrested in New Orleans and charged with assisting Poret in a crime most of the South considers worse than murder—the rape of a white woman. Since that time, according to an article in the current issue of Look Magazine, Labat has been continu¬ ously in custody. For over seven years, he and Poret have been in death cells —at present a room six- feet wide and 10 feet long. For 14 will now see his way clear to lend i his special talents to the building of such a movement and to the support of Dr. King and the other lenders in the South who are on the firing line. “May I respectfully suggest that, as a first step, he join with Mr. Randolph and Dr. King in urg¬ ing thousands of people in Los An¬ geles and Chicago to converge on both political conventions and de¬ mand the repudiation of the Dixie- erats in the Democratic Party and the racists in the Republican Party? This would indeed be a show of unity!” July 9, 1839—John D. Rockefell¬ er, Sr., who began accumulation of world’s greatest fortune which lat¬ er benefitted Negroes and other minority groups around the world, born. voted against FEPC, and anti- Iynchlng IeKlslat,on 1 |.iH n ,i u-Mlo " h,ie in ln House of Representatives, Stevenson campaigned \ o r- ly for civil rights in It•52, said Powell, but his 195.1 c.inips’L’h w • “totally unacceptable.” He called the latter campaign one of “compromise, gradualism and completely in revive of 1952.” Pointing out that Stevenson sold out civil rights in 1950, Lo vell . aid SteVeTlson would make an att.ac- live candid;.* ■ should he see tire '•*> was wrong in ‘56 and reaffirm his position in 19.J2. He referred to Senator Johnson as “the most’able man.in the U. 3. .Congress, and the best Teadei hat ■Congress has had in many a dec¬ ide f Powell credited John am .’for the passage of the first civil rights legislation ; for 82 years. Under this leadership, contlnm d the New 'Yorker, two bills wet; pa -1 in 1957 and in I960. He was the one who ■the vote-' in 1957, in spile of months, they wen- in sulil.-.iy con- finement. 1 They have received eight stays of execution, one of them le than three hours before they were to be strapped m the e 1 e c trie chair, Their case has moved through the courts a dozen times. “Within this legal framework,” says Look writer Peter Maas, there : . tangled . , , web , of ~ strange , is a contradictions, allegations ,, .. of f coer- „ ..... of witnesses and , suppression cion of evidence, the . drama':c emei"- ence of . new testimony , and j the , specter , of . double-standard , , , justice. • .. , Ironically, adds Maas, “Labat in all likelihood would be a free man today had he accepted a proposal over eight years ago to plead guilty to armed robbery alone. “His lawyer frankly admits that he advised Labat to take it if he were guilty of any phase of the crime. Labat replied, ‘I’m not guilty.’ ” As bits and pieces of evidence mount in their favor, an extraor- Qj. WaUgce $• LlVll n Rights * l , r C ommission WASHINGTON—Dr. William - 3 L. Wallace, president of Virginia State College, has been appointed to the West Virginia Advisory Committee of the United States Commission on i Civil Rights, Gordon M. Tiffany, , i Commission Staff director, has announced. Dr. Wallace was educated at the University of Pittsburgh, Columbia University, and Cor- nell University. Before join¬ ing the faculty of West Virginia State College in 1933, he was on] the faculties of Livingstone i College and Lincoln Universi¬ ty. He became president of | West Virginia State College ini 1353. He has been active in PETITION FOR INCOR¬ PORATION STATE OF GEORGIA COUNTY OF CHATHAM TO THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SAID COUNTY: The petition of WILLIE C. ROSS. GEORGE FOY, ALEX¬ ANDER SPEED, OLIVER MOORE, GEORC-E MILLER, GEORGE BROWN, ELISHA PATE, and SHEPPARD BACON, of Chatham County, respective¬ ly shows: 1. That said petitioners be¬ ing members of the SECOND ST. JOHN BAPTIST CHURCH of Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, an unincorporated duly re¬ ligious society, have been authorized by said unincorpor¬ ated society by resolution at¬ tached, to incorporate as a church and religious society, as provided by law. under the name and style of “SECOND ST JOHN BAPTIST CHURCH OF SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, INCOR¬ PORATED.” without capital stock and for purposes other | than pecuniary gain or profit. j Name certificate is attached. 2 The obieet and purpose of 1 said Corporation, shall be to quire and administer funds and; pmnertv. which, after the pav- 1 ment of necessary expenses, shall be devoted exclusively to the cause of charity, education and religion, as a church in¬ stitution. 3. Th/e, Corporation shall have the power and authority to accent gifts and contribu¬ tions, whether by will or other¬ wise, provided, however, that the Corporation shall not ac¬ cept anv contribution which is to be held or used for purposes other than for the promotion of education, charity and re¬ ligion. The Corporation is to have all the powers as enum- l erated in sections 22-1827 and 22-1828 of the Code of the State of Georgia. . 4. The Corporation shall be governed by a Board of Trus¬ tees of not less than three (3) and not more than eight (8) members in number the same to be elected by the members of the Corporation. Each mem¬ ber of the Board of Trustees shall serve from the date of his election until his successor has been elected and qualified. 5. All rules and by-laws of the Corporation shall be | | sistent Corporation with the as purposes hereinabove of the set out and the same shall be adopt- ed by majority vote of the members in meeting duly semblea. 8. That the life of the Cor- poration shall be for a period of Thirty-five (35) years, with full right of renewal as may be provided by law. 7. Ail members of the SEC- OND ST. JOHN CHURCH OF SAVANNAH, pres- ently existing as an porated religious society in Chatham County, Georgia, upon the granting of this Charter, become members of the Corporation, and the poration shall succeed to all of ^!_ ever p nature, ™ pe . r . t . y l theretofore ghts . °. f . wha exist ^ so - ing in and accruing to the unin¬ corporated religious society known as the SECOND ST. JOHN BAPTIST CHURCH OF SAVANNAH. Q 8. The principal . . , place , business of the Corporation shall .be in Savannah, Chatham Countv, Georgia. 9. The names and Post Of¬ fice addresses of the petitioners are as follows: 1. Willie C. Ross, 1013 Cope Street, Savannah, Georgia 2. George Foy, 920 West 41st Street, Savannah, Georgia. 3. Alexander Speed, West 50th street, street, Savannah, Savannah, Georgia. 4. Oliver Moore, 267 Roberts Street, Savannah, Georgia. 1 ator Kennedy, to by-pass Senator committee. He is the one who, under parliamentary ma- 1 neuver, called up the I960 civil : I; M - f ill, concluded the New York i Representative. Powell charged Kennedy with being soft on MeCarthyism. He recalled that the Massachusetts Senator voted on 1957 to send the j Civil Rights bill to the Eastland committee where it would have ihecn “unmercifully slaughtered and ' buried.' ' lie -Usn questioned Senator Ken- j m-dy's relationship with Governor j I';,It " s >;i .of Alabama. And ac- cording to the Alabama press, con- j tinued Powell, Governor Patterson was visited by robed members of the Kli Klux Klan in'1957. And a newspaper article published in 1958 H. ted one of the Governor’s outstanding workers as being a Grand Dragon of the KKK. So, according to the Congress¬ man, “Kennedy’s agreement with tin Alabama Governor was “totally | repugnant to all Negroes and right Li nking whites.” dinary legal battle has swirled . around Labat and Poret in their death cells. j , ^ fji . . t ,_. to the Louisiana e ( ,„ ult _ was primari l y on ; d of „ tema£ic exclu . j On” of Negroes from the grand jury that indicated them. The case has several times gone as far as the Lnited States Su- Court „ and , currently .. , has i preine , ; been remanded , . to , the ,, federal r , , , n Ihs- . | trict Court for Eastern Louisiana . . I ■ Gill and , . • where lawyers G. _ Wray ... | Gerald Sehreiber are seeking a new trial on the grounds that Negroes were systematically excluded from the trial jury which convicted them. “For a capital case,” says an export on U. S. Supreme Court ac- tions, “this is one of the shakiest I’ve seen.” Waiting in his death cell, Labat declares: “The thing that keeps mc from going crazy is the knowl- edge I'm innocent,” _-----——---• local and state civic .affairs, is a member of several al associations and and learned learned -and technical societies, includ- ---- ing the American Chemical ciety. Dr. Wallace also has authored more than a score of publications in the fields of chemistry J and education. Ihs Old 7m&L. “Man blames fate for other accidents but feels personally responsible when he make# a hole in one.” Former Gov. Griffin Says | “ft’s Difficult for Ga. to Avoid School ATLANTA. _(ANP) Former, j Gov. Marvin Griffin said re- j j CPn fly he believes events since I he was elected in 1955 have, . made it more difficult for Geor- I gia to avoid school integra- ! tion. j And he said he would not j “subject the people of Georgia”! to a fight with federal troops ls ls in in Little Lit tit Rctk Rcik tr prevent! t ( Wi® integration j of schools. i Yet, he went on, he would not! j Va. Whites Want to I i ! Reopen Libraries on a “Vertical” Plan DANVILLE, VA. (NP)—A com-i mittee of whites circulated; petitions 'last week to obtain, 5,000 signatures calling for thei reopening of the Danville Pub-, iic T Library, closed , after a Fed- eral integration order. j | Dr. D. Lurton Arey, a city! councilman, said he would 1 present the petition to the coun- j SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1960 5. George MiMer, 715 Fell- wood Homes, Savannah, Geor¬ gia. Fourth 6. George Brown, Street, Rossignol Hill, Savan¬ nah. Georgia. Pate, 2331 Ogeechee 7 . Elisha Road, Savannah, Georgia. 8. Sheppard Bacon, 1321 Gol¬ den street. Savannah, Georgia. 10. Petitioners desire that they may be incorporated un¬ der the Corporation Act of 1933, as amended by the Acts of 1949, Acts of Georgia. WHEREFORE, petitioners pray, that they be incorporated under the name and style aforesaid, with all the rights, powers, priv¬ ileges and immunities herein¬ above set out, and such other rights, powers, privileges and immunities as are or may here¬ after be conferred upon Cor¬ porations of like Character un¬ der the Laws of Georgia. E. H. Gadsden, Attorney For Petitioners. ^^nPCHATOAM nirnRrTA TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN ° n ber^fthe SECO. D . D JOHN ^PTIST OF SAVAN- a [ e | u ^ cial called meeting after due notice, a quorum being present, authorized the following mem¬ bers: WILLIE C. ROSS. GEORGE FOY. ALEXANDER SPEED, OL¬ IVER MOORE, GEORGE MIL¬ LER, GEORGE BROWN, ELT- SHA PATE, and SHEPPARD BACON to incorporate said Church so that it may do bus¬ iness according to the laws and statutes of the State of Geor¬ gia. This 23rd dav of June. 1960. E. E. Munigault, Secretary Sfr-ONO FT. JOHN BAPTIST CHURCH OF SAVANNAH. GEORGIA CHATHAM COUNTY TN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SAID COUNTY: ORDER The foregoing petition of wttlte n ROSS. gw>rge fov, ALEXANDER SPEED, OT TVER MOORR. GEORGE MtrJER. GEORGE BROWN, ELISHA PATE, and SHEPPARD BACON, as members of the SECOND ST. johr baptist CHURCH OF SAVANNAH, praying that said Church be incorporated under the name a nd style as set out in said petition, having been read an( j considered: and it aooear- i n „ court that said -pe- within the purview and "jY such cases P? ac * e an( * Provided; and it fur- hf T ^ D P ea rmg to the Court ,, thp Petitioners have com- pued with all conditions pre- cedent and all statutory re- oumrments applicable to such petitions: Anmnrm' T tts wswmivrajni’ot.r, F fhot° RD RED l ^ ^ s petlt tuw T L' ^ tho nh f^ lrc ^ is g liere £ ant “ " or the K nf £ J ' e J„ 5 ' , y ^. S ; ^ lth he ria t t heraafl ter. as may be now or ter provided by law, as a body (•oroorate under the name and Style of SECOND ST. JOHN BAPTIST CHURCH OF SAVAN¬ NAH. GEORGIA, INCORFOR- ATED, without capital stock, and with all of the powers, privileges and immunities set forth in said petition, together with such other rights, powers, privileges and immunities as are or may hereafter be af¬ forded by the laws of this state to similar Corporations, In open Court, this 28th day of June, 1960. Dunbar Harrison. Judge, Superior Court, Eastern ~ ' Judicial Circuit 0 f Georgia. S. P. Axson Dep. Clerk, S, C. C. C., Ga. be like some Georgians who are ready “to surrender at the pop of a paper bag.” He said he’s for “fighting until we fall to the ground and then pick up foeks and throw them. “If it didn’t involve the prin¬ ciple of states’ rights, I'd say give some of the people in At- lanta who have been asking for it integration until it runs out of their ears,” the former gov- ernor said. CU ’ Arev said he intended to ask the Council to reopen the li- Prary on a S0( ?alled “vertical” cnairs ^ ’ Ahir and j 1 tables w ° uld and remove require the Negro and white patrons to stand while using the library. Only white signatures will be sought on the peritions the said.