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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: „ , _ ___ •.Continued on ptge Sevens