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78 PUBLIC CONTINUOUS TEAKS SERVICE OF
VOLUME LX.XV1U ADuu 4-3431 I960 ADaras 4-3439 NUMBER 45
Youth Drowns in Tompkins
MBS. NELOWEZE \V.
RECEIVES MASTERS
—Pits. WeJowo/.e W.
teacher-Jibrar an, Riceboro
* nmeiitary school. Liberty
1,!^,, Ga., received the
Degree in Library
from At 1 a n t a
sity at the summer
tion, August 4. She is a
uate of Savannah State
class of ’42.
Pr. King Will Teach
At. CORE Institute
NEW YORK CITY —
Luther King, Jr. has Joined
faculty of CORE'S
Action Institute in Miami,
The Institute is designed to
leader in nonviolent, direct
method in the fields of
discrimination, employment,
tres, voter regi Nation, and
es.
Pr.'King will be at the
Institute on A"gu t 31 and
tember 1. He will discuss with
participants. broader
of the nonviolent. method.
KaculTv for tlm three-week
stitute include.; CORE
Secretary. James R.
Gordon Carey, James T.
'Continued on Page Eight-
LIES CONDUCT UUCP'S 2IST MASS MEET!
The adage “behind
great man is a woman” is
propos to the Negro’s fight
freedom In Savannah, for
hind this great movement is
courage and the ingenuity
.Negro womanhood.
August 7 was ladies’ day,
the men were only
Mrs. Mercedes Wright
as presiding officer. Mrs.
S. Stell, Jr., and Mrs.
Rhodes led the softg
The invocation was given
Mrs Ruby White. A|isjS
eanor Mitchell read the
tors list. Mrs. Eleanor
den made the appeal for
and Mrs. Ethel Luten,
dent of the NAACP
Auxiliary, gave remarks.
/ branch secretary, Mrs.
t'4lions Garrison, acted as public
■ r\T director and gave
\inounceiiunts.
A group of high school
THE eves have IT: Liberian are receiving specialized train-
end Israeli nurr.es cooperate in ing in various fields in the
(icating an eye patient at thc Jewish State. African stater
famed Hadassah Hospital in participating in Israel's little
Jerusalem. The Liberians are “point-four” program include
among hundreds of Africans who Ghana, Nigeria, French Sudan,
trilnttif
Two Electrocuted
In Swimming Pool
WASHINGTON, (ANP) — An
11 year old boy, helping his elec¬
trician father, threw the wrong
switch last week and indirectly
caused the deaths of two persons
in a swimming pool.
One of the switches thrown by
the hoy sent current surging
through defective underwater
lights in the pool at Banneker
community pool which had not
been used for two years.
Victims of the tragedy were 12-
year-old Rodney Mr Knight and
Donald E. Thomas, 28, a lifeguard.
CHECKING DRAINAGE
SYSTEM
Eyewitnesses claim that Thomas
swam down to the bottom of the
nine-foot poo! to make a routine
check on the drainage system.
When he emerged lie touched
one of the lights believed to have
been Short circuited. He hung up
to the side of the pool for awhile
then stumbled out saying he had
been shocked.
Willie F. Williams, mapper of
the pool, began giving Thomas
uiouth-to mouth re spiration while
calling for another lifeguard, .John
F. Wynn, Jr., to get an automatic
resusgitator.
When Wynn returned with the
device, he saw young McKnight
lying on the bottom of the pool
and dived in for him.
After bringing the hoy to the
side of the pool, the lifeguard be¬
gan “floundering” near the edge
Harold Grant, a lb-year-old youth
wrapped a towel around his hand
and pulled Wynn out.
As soon as he was pulled out of
the pool Wynn tried to administer
month-to-mouth resuscitation to
the McKnight boy whom somebody
pise had taken out of the pool.
Wynn appeared wobbly and
faint and was given oxygen and
taken to Freedmen’s hospital
where be is under treatment from
(Continued on Page Three)
sang Qley Speaks’ “The Star”
and Away.” the Negro spiritual, “Steal! Million-Dollar Libel Suit
to Mrs. the L. NAACP S. Stell, Youth Jr., Council adviser i Filed Against Congressman
Introduced the speaker, Mrs. Powell & TV Station WNTA
Ruby Hurley, the naacp's
Southeastern Regional Secre
tary of Atlanta. NEW YORK (ANiP) A wo- gram on March 6, she has been
Mrs. Hurley, a forceful and man who claims object that she public! has] air sect at, ;, spat at, questioned
become the of by thc DLs rlct Mtorn(!y , Of-
dynamic speaker, spoke of the scorn because of remarks made- g
new role of women in the fight, about, tier filed $1,000,000 suit fice, and generally hurniliated
she a. and embarrassed.
for freedom. For years, last, week against, Rep. Adarn;
said that men carried the brunt Clayton Powell and TV Station Mir:;. James’ lawyer, Raymond
of the fight, and it is a plea¬ WNTA-TV. ; Rubin, said summonses have
sure to see women fighting for heen served on officials of the
freedom. She deplored the The 64-year old woman, Mrs., te]evlslon statlon show> and win
attempt to orbit into space and Esther J.ames, ( Jinn , that he h r served on Rev. Powell when
our world having not solved the was described hy Rpp ‘ Pnw rl he returns to the country
problems here on earth. last . , spring . as a bagwoman . for r " ' .,
Mrs. Hurley stated that Amer¬ the police” in Harlem’s lush
ica should be concerned with numbers empire. Powell is currently in Puerto
Cuba and Africa. “Our herit¬ Mrs. ... James, widow , alleges i Rico writing a book and does
age comes from Africa, and I a nn) pJan t(J retUfn untl , Sep
_
am proud of Africa, because that as a result of Powells .
statements on station WNTA-j
Continued on Page Three TV's “Between The Lines,” pro- in Lis expose of Harlem
GEORGE W. OWENS, JR.
When Mrs. George W.
gave her two minor sons
mission to go to the
Tompkins Swimming Punt
day afternoon. It never
to her that one son would
return alive. She had
of sending this son to the
phronla Tompkins Junior
School this fall where hP
have been in the seventh
Mrs. Owens reported the
gedy as follows:
At 1 40 p m Monday,
a. George Washington
Jr. age 12 years, and his broth
er, Fred Owpns, age 6
left their home, 2099 C-irL
street, West „ . Savannah, to
swimming in the
Tompkins Pool. 39th street
Ogeechee Road They were
companied by a friend, John
Smiley, age 15 years, of
Augusta Ave. At 6 p m
Owens _ was called „ , to . the
where she found her
George, dead from drowning
It is alleged that
had been swimming in the
end of the pool
thirty -minutes before
friend John Smiley,
Continued on Page Seven
The Congo Senega! and oth¬
er",. Many African loader", have
turned to Israel in recent years
ac a “pilot plant” for
agricultural, economic and seder-
tlfic guidance.
Crusade For Voters
Meets Thurs. Aujj. 11
Thursday night, August
the Chatham County
for Voters will hold Its Coun¬
ty-Wide meeting at the head¬
quarters, 611 West Broad street
(Old Monroe Funeral Home)
at 8.00 p. m.
Every citizen of Chatham
County is asked to attend this
meeting. We must get our
9,500 registered voters to vote
in this September election.
The Crusade for Voters Is
| also trying to add 20,000 more
i Negroes to the registration books
by November. 1961.
Hosea L. Williams, president
of the Chatham County Cru-
sade for Voters, states that
j "tt”? Negroes is tight of this fully county theirs will if
9 - 000 wU1 vo,c 111 thi cominR
p J f ’ rtion ai1fi 20 000 wili tegister
llam l0e next 12 months,
AI1 cltizen “ are ui e ed to at ‘
j - cnd -
Leadership Tight of
Ku KIux Kim Looms
ATLANTA (ANP )—A fight
was " in ~ oTThat prospect here for lead-
er shlp ls believed to
be the largest segment of the
decimated Ku KIux Klan fol-
1 lowing the sudden death last
week of the “Imperial Wizard”
of the “Invisible empire.”
Eldon l. Edwards died of a
heart attack. He was 51.
Edwards, a lieutenant of the
late Dr. Samuel L. Greene of
, Atlanta, inherited leadership of
thfi Georgia KJans after Greetie . $
death and reoiganized the KKR
as "United States Klans,
Knights of the Ku KIux Klan.”
He claimed his Klan was the
only “true” Klan tn operation
although there are several
continued on Page Four
Powell had Congressional im¬
munity while he listed names
,nd add,r „. of person., sur
pected as being higherups
1 the racket , hi the Congression-
ail Record, but when he
on a television program, he had
no immunity, Rubin said.
Mrs. (James, who was once
involved in a shooting incident
in what many said was a num¬
ber; revenge, is described in
papers filed In New York Coun¬
ty Supreme Court, as a widow
who live, off her small savings
and a pension, and
attend., St. Phillip
church.
'the suit, alleges that Powell
damaged Mrs. James' reputa¬
tion ‘falsely, maliciously, wick¬
ed! v, and intentionally” In
making his comments about,
her during the television in¬
terview with Lester Wolfe,
moderator of “Between The
Lines.”
The District Attorney’s tof-
Gce refused to comment wheth-
er Mrs. James had been called
for questioning as a result of
Powell’s attack on tier.
j Gas Ban on Fayette
County Voters Lilted
NEW YORK—The embargo
sale of gasoline and oil to
tered Negro voters in
County, Tenn., has been lifted.
Announcement of this develop
meet was made by Roy
executive secretary of the
Association for the
of Colored People. It
NAACP negotiations with
sentatives of the oil industry.
John McFerren, a leader of
registration drive in the
and owner of a grocery store and
service station in Somerville, re
ported to the NAACP national
office that he had received
gallons of gasoline and had hern
assured of a shipment of oil.
Because of the economic squeeze,
designed to keep Negroes from
registering, McFerren had
been able to purchase
and nil for his station from local
distributors of any of the major
oil companies sincp he took ovei
the business last, spring.
Not. only McFebren, but
farmers and other colored eoti
sinners who had registered were
blacklisted and denied gas and
oil at local service stations.
In an effort to end this
freeze, Mr. Wilkins, on July
sent a memorandum to all
Continued on Page Three
"Kneel-ln Worshippers” Protest Jim
Crow PoSicies in Atlanta Churches
ATLANTA (ANP)—To
highly successful sit-ins and
recently proposed sit-outs,
the flewly launched
an assault upon the Jim
policies of some Protestant
gregations.
There have been
visits In the past and
In small numbers have
ed Catholic churches in
Georgia capital for a number
years.
But Sunday's move by 25
dents was the first
efforts bo carry the
old sit-in campaign into
churches.
The Negroes were
ied by several white students.
They visited six
First Baptist, Druid Hills
tist, First, IPresbyterian,
Mark Methodist, Grace
odist and Episcopal
of St. Philip.
No major Incidents were
ported. Negroes stood
one church that was full,
the servlce from the foyer foyPr
1 another, and were admitted af¬
ter some talk at a third church
The Rev. Martin
King, Jr., said the “warm
ception by the clergy and
men” reported by most of
students indicated many South¬
erner® would welcome the
chance to rescue the
from its moral dilemma on
| TALV 1Si>ue -
" We hope college
ail over the South will
them that chance this fall,”
said. I
Second Suspect Arrested in
Flotfjcinji' of Service
. . . .
^111011 A I MVUC!;! ?! !
\ COLUMBIANA, Ala (ANP)-—
A second suspect in the
'it card” flogging of a
Negro was jailed here last
after he surrendered at the
Shelby County sheriff’s
Sheriff O. P. Walker said
Thomas Kelley, 34, of
ga County, turned himself in.
.
Walker said Emmett V. Lev-
erette, 42, was arrested by Tal-
ladega county officers at his
hom e earlier.
Walker said LevereDe
charged with kidnaping in a
warrant drawn up by Circuit
( .elk L. C. Fulton.
A simitar warrant was Is¬
sued for Kelly who was believ¬
ed to have participated In
abduction and flogging of
Henry Jones, 20, a father of
and a service station
Both Leverette and Kelly
were released on $1,500 bond.
Kldnaping carries a penalty
of 2 to 10 years imprisonment
on conviction In Alabama.
Circuit Solicitor Prank Head
More Than Score of Cities
Halt Lunch Counter Bias
| The newly appointed director of the Civil Rights section for
the jp 00 Democratic campaign, Marjorie- McKenzie Lawson, I*
•hown above with Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr., brother-in-law of
Senator John F. Kennedy. Shriver will represent the Senator In*
the Civil Rights section and work with Mrs. Lawson In the plan¬
ning and <>', ml. >Oon of the activities of the section. Mrs. Lawson
Is a nationally known attorney and general counsel of the Ra¬
tional Council of Negro Women. Shriver Is president of the
Chicago Board of Education and the Catholic Interracial Council
of Chicago.
King acts as adviser to the
Student Nonviolent Co-ordi¬
nating Committee which joined
with members of the Atlanta
Committee on the Appeal for
Human Rights in visiting the
churches.
The decision to start the
“kneel-in” campaign was tak¬
en by the co-ordinating com¬
mittee during a three-day
meeting at Atlanta headquart¬
ers.
Tiie group is composed of
sit-in leaders and was started
at a South wide student con¬
ference at Raleigh, N. C., in
April.
The v'i 'indents divided into
small groups to visit the church¬
es.
At the First, Baptist church
ushers prevented three Negroex
Loin Jtting among the congre
gallon and they stood in the
foyer throughout the service.
i<\ Joe Vlning, chairman of
the ushers, said “they were
just a bunch of agitators. They
wanted to separate and sit
where they pleased.”
Grace Methodist was full
when several Negroes arrived.
They joined other members of
the overflow congregation in a
downstairs Sunday school room
and heard the sermon througu
loudspeakers.
At, id. Mark Met,hoditl, church
a white man and two Negro
wormy i from Atlanta colleges
first, were prohibited from en¬
tering the auditorium, but lat¬
er were welcomed.
said the actual flogging took
pipe* m neighboring
eoun jy ... the Shelby
B '* n ' 1 ,!,ry was ? f
aci °, n any phasp
except, charge of kndmaptng.
Sheriff Waiter said
surrendered after hearing
si > <f had a warrant for
arrest. Kelly is a
Leveret,te, a newepolnfc
worker, was anested in
Talladega county.
Jonas, 20 told police he
his 13 year old brother, David,
were abducted by six white
men from the yard of
house at the community of Har
persvllle.
. ,. . in
**• L. Awsiul
ATLAN TA (ANP)—Gilbert E.
Okcfre, Minister of Education
for the Easter Region of Nige-
Ha, gave the convocation ad-
dr tv.,-, when Atlanta Universi
ty awarded 77 graduate . .
green at commencement exer “
cir.es, Aurykit 4.
Price 10c j
NEW YORK — Inclusion of
Durham, N. O., and Miami thi3
week in an on-golng NAACP sit-
in protest success lurvey, raises
the total number of citie* to more
than a score with integrated lunch
counter facilities.
Kress, Woolworth and McClellan
variety stores in Durham opened
their lunch counter* Monday
(August 1st) following a series
of mass sit-ins.
These were conducted by
NAACP youth council and college
chapter members from local high
schools. North Carolina College
and other trade and h u.dne.s
schools within the Durham com¬
munity.
Food was served to Negroes at
three downtown Miami variety
tore lunch counter* on the same
day. No disorders were reported
in either locality. NAACP youth
units have been active In the Flor¬
ida sit- ins for months.
To date, the NAACP survey
xhow3 varying degrees of lunch
counter integration in North Caro¬
lina at Charlotte, Durham, Greens-
t Continued on Page Tnree
“Dead Man” Asks Judge
To Free Ilis Wife, Who
ATLANTA f ANP)—A “dead”
man arose in court here last
week and a ked the Judge to
go er y on the woman who “fa¬
tally” stabbed him.
Homicide detectives and a
municipal court judge heeded
the pleap of Charles Eugene
Mitchell, 38.
Judge Edward Brock issessed
a 60-day sentence, suspended,
against Mitchell’s wife, Marie
Alford Mitchell.
Detective J C. Smith said the
situation developed this way:
Mitchell and his wife had
been drinking July 9 and an
argument developed. He said
Mitchell struck his wife, knock¬
ing her down, and she stabbed
him in the throat.
Notiti»d from the hospital
thut Mitchell had died, Smith
booked the wife on a murder
charge.
Commencement at SSC
Rev. J. Reddick
Baccttlureaie Speaker
Rev Joshua Reddick, pa.,for,
[ Pale.’ Methodist Church, wilt speak
to the graduating class at Savan¬
nah State College, Sunday, Au¬
gust 14, at 5 p m.
Reverend Reddick Is a native of
Svlvama, Georgia, and a product
of the, Screven County Schools. Be
received the B. S. degree from
Clank College, Atlanta in 1948 and
attended Garrett Biblical Institute,
Evanston, Illinois, the rummers of
P rr. and 1958 workmg^toward . the ..
Master's degree in the field of
Paotoml CounnelinE, Ho has
It later developed that Mitch¬
was alive although Smith
he was told that at one
signs of Ufa vanished
four minutes while Mitchell
Oh the joperating table
fanned back the
of life.
Escorting the Wife to court.
asked that the murder
be dismissed. Then he
her a copy of charegs for
conduct-stabbing 1 .
Mitchell appeared with his
at the latest hearing. Ha
the court he would be un¬
to follow his trade as a
worker for sever¬
montha, that he owed a hos¬
bill of $300.
“She's the only support I
he said.
Brock admonished the wife
stag no more. Then he sus¬
the 60-day sentence.
taught, in the Atlanta School Sys¬
tem and in Waynesboro, Georgia.
He served as principal of Stovall
Junior High School, Stovall. Geor¬
gia, and served as executive secre¬
tary of Christian Education in the
Georgia A.M.E. Conference for
nine years.
Rev. Reddick neid pastorates in
Barhesvllle, Columbus, West. Point,
and Augusta before coming to
Palen ten years ago. He is mar¬
ried to Mrs. Alice Martin Reddick
and i- the fnthrr of two sons. Al-
^ Rou ,^ au nr{J Ricfcia Chr: „
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