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62 TEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXII
Capacity Crowd
W. Broad St.
W. S. SCOTT HEADS WE*
.# * CRO BRANCH OP A
W. S. Scott, president of the
Guaranty Life Insurance com¬
pany, heads a committee of Ne¬
gro citizens which has been ap¬
pointed as a branch of the Chat
ham County War Price and
Rationing board.
The committee will, no doubt,
open office on West Broad
street where it will handle the
rationing of kerosene and gas-
oline-
Other members of the branch
are: Kerosene panel, Martin
Haynes, chairman; Arthur Giv¬
ens and Louis B. Toomer; gas¬
oline panel, Dr. J. E. Fonville,
chairman; Simeon L. Williams,
Jesse B. Sherman, Peter Jack-
son and Thomas Heyward.
DEATH CLAIMS
MRS. M. E. HAiNES
Was a Leader in Womens
Affairs and a Former
School Teacher
After an illness of about a
month, Mrs. Mary Harper
Haynes died Saturday at her
residence, 1624 Ogeechee ave¬
nue. Her funeral was held Mon
day afternoon from St. Philip
A. M. E. church and was largely
attended. The eulogy was de¬
livered by Rev. H. W. Murph,
pSstor, and the Rev. A. C. Curt-
right, pastor of the First Con¬
gregational church, spoke on
her work with the American
Missionary Association. Re¬
marks on her church work
were made by Class Leader T.
Sampson. Selections were ren
dered by the Jones Funeral Di-
rectors’ choir and a solo was
sung by Mrs. Janice Shepherd.
The program was concluded by
ceremonies by Solomon Temple.
Order of Eastern Star.
Mrs. Haynes, for many
was one of Savannah’s’s most
prominent arid workers in "circles”' civic,
ernal church and
Contini^ on page Five)
LT.DHieHTIN CITY
Lt. Arthur Dwight will leave
tomorrow (Friday) for Camp
Van Dorn, Miss., to rejoin his
outfit. He has been home for
the past ten days visiting his
mother.
ilir f&Mwwfi ®rttawr.
Above —Casablanca —American soldiers are the guests of
French girls at the American Red cross Service Club i,i Casa¬
blanca, historic meeting place of President Roosevelt and Wins
ton Churchill.. Casabl: i ica is a seaport on the Atlantic coast
.
of Morocco. The Red Cross club there has set up a committee
to insure that -/tldicrs on pass and furlough are received and
entertained. Photo by U. S. Army Signal Corps)
LEFT—Combat Unit in North Africa—Negro crew of a 40-
•nm Bofors antiaircraft gun man their posts at Oujda, North
Africa. Temporarily stationed near Fifth Army Headquarters,
these members of a Coast Artillery regiment are on duty there
at the request of the Sultan of Morocco. (U. S. Army photo)
Ra^ch-Cuvlcr
P-TA Names
Committees
Class Mothers Are Also
Appointed
The Beach-Cuyler Parent-
Teacher Association held its
flrst me eting of this school term
Wednesday October 6, at the
school.
Principal Haynes
the new parents to the meet
mg and Mrs. L. B.
president of the P- T. A.,
duced the faculty of the two
schools to the parents. A V
cal solo was rendered by David
Brown a member of the Beach
High Chorus. The parents and
.teachers heard the following re-
port coming from the
under the management of Mrs.
Harriett Brown Brown as follows:
From September 13 through
September 30 the financial re¬
ceipts were: 1st week ¥393.37;
2nd week $503.76; 3rd week
$312.71, total $1209.84. Total
expenditures $1046.50. Mrs.
Johnson named the following
committees and appointed a
treasurer to serve during the
school term. Those appointed
are as follows:
Program committee: H. Sim¬
mons, chairman, Miss Jane Par
ker. Mrs. Ella Law, p. Smalls,
Miss M. Shivery, Miss L. HencT-
(Continued from Page 7)
Pres, of Haiti
- j To Be While
| House Guest
| j
Washington, Oct. 10 (ANP)
The state department forrn-
a ^y announced last Thursday
that President Elie Lescot of the
j Republic of Haiti will be here as
the official guest of the United
j States government upon the
i completion of a similar visit to
' the Dominion
\. of Canada. He
will arrive in the capital on
.Thursday, Oct. 14, being
| ceived at the White House.
The announcement followed
(Continued on page 2)
'• THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, OCT 14 1913
HARRY McNICHOLS
NAMED MANAGER
Of Monroe Funeral
\ Directors
Harry McNichols has been ap-
^ pointed manager of Monroe
Funeral Directors. This infor¬
mation was made public yester¬
day by Toland J. Edwards, who
with his wife, Mrs. Essie Mon¬
roe Edwards, is owner of this
very widely known and most
successful business
Mr. McNichols is well known
in local business circles. For
many years he has been con-
nected with various mortuary
l businesses in Savannah and
^ the past year has been serv-
jmg in a key position with the
firm which has lust elevated
to manager. His wide ex-
perience and general knowledge
of the business will, no
I stand responsible him in good position stead in that
f vei Y
he has heen called to fill, suc¬
ceeding the late Robert
Burke.
Many Stu¬
dents Attend
V^UIllCl
-
To Be Held October 29-31
At Lincoln University
Chester County Pa.-A
ord attendance is anticipated
when Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
dresses delegates to the
fifth annual Student
ence here at Lincoln
on October 29-31 Recently
returned from a tour
which she visited Hawaii,
tralia, New Zealand and
acanal, Mrs. Roosevelt will
liver the keynote address on
j tober 29. For its theme
j conference will have "A Blue-
| pnnt for Action.
I representing a total of
than 4.000 students, Negro
white, have already
Mrs. Ruby H. Hurley,
director of youth work,
this week that the
will be an instructional
ing to post students on
Continued on page Seven
CONVICT 3 POLICEMEN 0
BEATING MAN TO DEAT
Decision Expected in
Jim Crow School Fight
New York, N. Y. Oct. 8—
With a decision promised for
early in the week by State Com¬
missioner of Education Stod¬
dard, the Hillburn Jim Crow
school case that has attracted
national attention is apparent¬
ly moving to swift climax
For the past week Stoddard
has had two investigators, Jos¬
eph Lipsky, director of the Di¬
vision of Law, and Don L. Es¬
sex, director of the Division of
Building and Grounds for the |
New York State Education De¬
partment, actively probing into
conditions at Hillburn. They
have completed their investiga¬
tion and have reported to Mr.
Stoddard.
Meantime Thurgood Marshall
NAACP legal staff head and
Dofiald Crichton who have per¬
sonally represented the Hillburn
Baltimore
Wants 1000
Voters Month
Baltimore, Md. Under the
slogan, a “Voteless People is a
Hopeless People,” the Balti-
more ___w NAACP A . branch
its- drive to register 1.00') per
sons each month on the books
of the Court House. Every
* misdaj between l and 2 p.
representatives of the BalU-
>NAAf P *-ccri to
| Court House all persons who de
** *» ■«“»•
and citizens oi Maryland.
The executive board of the
Baltimore branch met in a call
Continued on page Seven
DR. nD UlLSbni BCDT MAlUiZ ft/I A MUC
STIRRING ADDRESS
_
Many USO High
Present
BUILDING NOW IN
OPERATION
A capacity crowd was present
Sunday afternoon at the dedi¬
catory exercises of the West
Broad street USO building.
The principal, address of the
program was made by the Rev.
Ralph Mark Gilbert, pastor of
the First African Baptist
church, who in a most v impres¬
sive discourse told of the work
of the USO and the interracial
committee which made the new
center possible. His address
wa,s highly appreciated and
i loudly applauded,
j The program was outstanding
j in its entirety and in addition
to the principal address it pre-
I sen ted a number of distinguish
■ ed (j i j j cal officers
na ona anc 0
| ( of the USO and other organiza
tions which are doing such a
r splendid work for the U. S. ser¬
vicemen.
Among the musical numbers
| were several solos rendered by
I Martin Graham and Mrs. Nancy
j Walker, mie Haynes, and a Miss trio Augusta by Mrs. Pet- Ma¬
I tie and Mrs. Willa Mae Ayers.
The Camp Stewart Band, No 3.
played several numbers and
i two selections were sung by a
.glf-c club from the Savannah
j wilkes s MacFeeiey, si--riff
f Chatham county and presi-
1 dent of the Savannah USD
j Council, was master of ceremo-
• bi¬
The oppnin- of the W«*s‘
| Broad street VPO building vivo*
i the co’orcd soldiers ir the Sav-
j j /Pnntlniipi on r>nr!P 'A
Notice To
Soldiers Relatives t
If you wish the picture of
; brother or other rel¬
your son,
ative in the U. S. Armed for¬
j ces published in The Tribune,
; send in his picture, plus One
($1.00) Dollar to cover cost of
cut. Photographs larger than
JUixOli inches not accepted.
Savannah Tribune
Some Savannah Men In The U. S. Armed Service
I
Sgt. Sanford T. Mical. son of
Mrs. Daisy Alexander of 545
East Park Avenue, and a grad¬
uate of Georgia State College,
who is stationed at Fort Sheri¬
dan, Illinois.
Sgt King Dumas who has
been stationed somewhere
India for the past fifteen
months. He is the of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Dumas and
husband of Mrs. Sadie Dumas
of 22 Charles lane,
parents who held their children
out of school on strike this
term in protest against local
school board policy which man
tained an all-white and an all-
Negro segregated grades school
system, is finishing a brief pre¬
paratory to bringing the case
to court. In support of the
NAACP position on behalf of
the Hillburn parents the Amer¬
ican Civil Liberties Union and
the National Lawyers Guild art
preparing to submit briefs ami¬
cus curiae.
In New York on Sunday Oc¬
tober 8, a mass meeting, attend¬
ed by 2500 persons, heard Al¬
bert Deutch, P. M. columlst: A
Clayton Powell, pastor of Abys¬
sinian Baptist church, Raymond
Pace Alexander, Philadelphia
i Continued on Page 3i
Students Are
Given Tuber¬
culin Test
Annual tuberculin testing
among school students in Sa¬
vannah began October 5, 126
students at Georgia State Col-
_ _____ were tested. And on Wed-
nesday, October 6, mass tuber-
students at Beacli-Cuyler. On
Monc j a y October 11, the tuber-
culhl tegt was Riveu to th _
ilfj -of"the Haveii Home and
woodville School
Thf tests „„ w „ e
ec j Dr. Emerson Ham, Nurse*
Margert Counihan, tuberculosis
clinic supervisor, Nurse Dorothy
(Continued on page 2>
Seaman First Class William
Elliott, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Elliott of Isle of Hope,
who was recently home on fur¬
lough. He is stationed in San
Francisco, Calif.
Hi
m
4
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Seaman first Class Henry
T. Steadman who has finished
his basic training at Great
Lakes, Illinois and was recently
home on furlough. He is the
husband of Mrs. Liler Steadman
and son of Mrs. Pearl Steadman
AWARDED ORDER OF
PURPLE HEART
‘
j
i
"Pvt. Lester L. Butler award- j
ed tlie Order of Purple Heart in!
general orders for wounds re-1 j
ceived in action at New Guinea,
15 August 1943, at Advance Base
D. Signed, Surles
The above quoted telegram was
received in Savannah from
General Surles, WBPR, confirm-
mg the newspaper storie s of the
Continued tax Page J
Writer Lauds
Blast At Air
Corps
Rowayton, Conn. -"I’ve just
read Judge Hastie’s booklet "On
Clipped Wings,” writes J. R. Tu¬
nis, author of popular sports no
vels for youth. . "It makes
me feel like resigning from the
human race.”
pinortoulars.popssaut horof dn
Tunis, whose book titles in¬
clude ‘‘Champion’s Choice”,
‘‘Choosing a College,” "Democ-
Contlnued o n page 2
m 7. Sgt. D . n- Richard t, j ..m. Miller who . ,
serving somewhere in
Africa with the U S. forces.
is the husband of Mrs.
Miller of 57 Fifth street, east.
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Private George Jones, who is
now serving in Hawaii. He is
the husband of Mrs. Mary h.
Jones of 518 West Duffy street
and brother of Mrs. Alma Jones
and Mrs Maggie Mae Lardnum.
GRUESOME ACCOi
TOLD BY WITNESS
Of How Robert Hall IVas
Framed, Arrested. and
Brutally Beaten
AT NEWTON , GA., LAST
JANUARY .
Albany, Ua., Oct. 10. tANPi—v
An ll-man all, white jury late
Thursday returned verdicts q£
guilty against Sheriff Claude
M. Screws of Baker county,
Frank Edward Jones, former
member of the Newton, Ga., po-
lice force and Jim Bob Kelloy,
deputy, in 'the January
abduction and lynching of 20
year old Robert Hall.
The verdict, whirl held the
three white defendants guilty'
in two separate counts, was
reached after a deliberation of
five hours and 50, minutes.
The first count charged them
with acting to deprive Hall of
his life without due process of%
law and carries a sentence of
one year and a $1,000 fine. The
second of conspiracy carries a
sentence of two years and no
fine. Both counts are violation
of federal civil liberties laws.
A dramatic highlight in the
four-day trial held before U. 8.
District Judge Bascom Weaver
came Thursday when James P.
Willingham, white a former res¬
ident of Newton where-the slay*-,
ing occurred, was brought, into
the court room on a stretcher*.
Willingham disclosed that he
had but recently been released
from the hospital and was ap¬
pearing against bi« doctor's or-
dors.
Lying flat on his back, the
witness described In detail a
conversation he had with the
defendant, Frank Jones, the
morning following the fatal
continued on Page 7
V
LI
m t
Lucius Bryant, Jr., who is. Jp
h()me on furlough visitin g h is;;/,
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Luci
lKelly) Bryant. Sr., of 317 Lore®
street. He is stationed at the
Great Lakes Tra i n i ng station,
Illinois.
Wf
Seaman First Class Curtis
Chisholm, .son of Mrs, Qm - .i
Chisholm of 794 fast Waldh***
lane, who is ii^ticned
where in the Pacific area,
says he’s fine and dandy*