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VOLUME LXII
VES B THE ARMY!
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Twenty-three of the corps of technical instructors on duty at the Army Air Forces Technical
Training School, Army Air Base, Lincoln. Negraska, are Negroes. Located on Nebraska s rolling
prairie land, the school began functioning in June, 1942. The course consists o1 13 phases each
phase given over to the study of some particular branch under expert supervision. Pictured above is
Mr. Major Alfred Reevers, instructor of aircraft mechanics, who is giving pointers to -Audents in the
engine assembly class. Reevers was formerly principal of a school at Oswego, Kansas.
Washington Greets Head
PRESIDENT LESCOT EN
TERTALNED AT THE
WHITE HOUSE
Makes Address Before
The Senate i
By Ernest E. Johnson
Washington, Cct. 12 (ANP> -
The car bearing President Elie!
Lescoe of the Republic of Haiti
rolled up the west drive on the
south lawn of the White House
at 5:02 p. m. last Thursday and
there and then began the visit
of the second Negro chief of
state ever to be the official
guest of the United States, j
President Edwin Barclay of the
|&fricafi "here Republic of Liberia was
in May. i
Accorr.panied by Underscore-
tary of State Edward R. S‘:ct-
tinius, Jr., and John Campbell
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■•LUCK ______ TO _ THE U. S. CADET NURSE CORPS!' Miss Etta Moten,
wlio is “Bess” of “Porgv and Bess,” w ishes success to Miss Orieanna
Collins, of the National Nursing Council for War Service, as she
starts on a tour of college campuses to tell students about the new
lb S. Cadet Nurse Corps. Miss Moten has just accepted member¬
ship on the Council's Coordinating Committee on Negro Nursing.
Miss Collins wears the grey Corps uniform with its.shoulder * epau¬
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Army Air Field. Alabama,
he s doing fine. He is the son
Mrs. Susie McKinney of
East Gw'innett street.
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Convicted of Manslaughter
FARMER WHO HOUSED MIGRANT WORKERS
IN CHICKEN LOOPS
Quakertown, Pa., Oct. 15—E.
O. Mastin, tomato farm owner
here in whose barn two migrant
workers were burned to death'
August 17 was convicted this
week before a jury for
tary manslaughter. An ap-
peal was filed and Mastin is
now out on bail. Arguments
on the appeal will be heard
sometime during November.
Important among the wit-
nesses of the death of the two
workers, Willie Cooper and Mrs.
Odell May were the impovrish-
od farm hands whom Mastin
imported from Florida to har-
vest tomatoes. After the to-
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Some Savannah Area Men Serviny In U. S. Armed Forces
Pvt, Melvin Smith, son of
Mrs. Rosa Mae Smith of 522
East Hull street, who has been
in the armed service a year
and is stationed in the Panama
Canal Zone.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21. 1943
HILLBURN PARENTS WIN
JIM CROW SCHOOL FIGHT
1 STRIKING CHILDREN
! MITT ED TO THE MAIN
SCHOOL
From Which They Were
Barred
LONG SEGREGATION IS
FINALLY BROKEN
Hillburn, N. Y. Oct. 15 A
new victory for Democracy was
won on the home front when
on ctober 12th the
Central District School Board
announced that the Negro teach
ers of Jim Crow Brook
were to be transferred to Hill-
burn Main School. The child-
ren who had been kept out of
school on “strike" by their par-
ents since September 8, the
school opened will attend what
was formerly the "white"
on Monday, October 18.
The announcement came on'
the heels of a decision rendered
the preceding day. that segre- j
gated Brook School would be
abandoned and that all child-
ren of the community, Negro
and white, would attend the
Main School, which loi fifty
five years prior had been at-
tended only by white pupils
The decision was that of State
Commissioner of Education
George D. Stoddard. Thur-
good Marshall and Donald Crich
ton, NAACP attorneys,
on behalf of the Hillburn Ne-
gro parents, had appealed the
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HOME ON FURLOUGH
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Corporal J. Carroll Dtith is
the city this week visiting
relatives and friends. C'pl.
Stith who before going into
army was circulation
of the Savannah Tribune, is
located at Camp Maxey, Texas.
NEW T. B. SANITARIUM NEARLY COMPLETED
Negro Troops
Denied Passes
New York, N. Y., Oct. 15 An
investigation by the War Depart
meht of the treatment of Ne-
gro troops stationed in Alaska
was sought this week by
NAACP.
In a letter to Secretary of War
Henry L. Stimson, the NAACP
stated that it had received
a leging number^ of
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s 2C Thomas E. Drayton of
Camp Perry, Va.. who was re¬
cently home on furlough visit¬
ing his wife Mrs. Tessie Dray¬
ton of 357 Yamacraw Village
and his mother, Mrs. Mamie
Drayton, 703 W. 51st street.
; Negro Combat Troops
Shifted to Labor Battalions
Thirty-Seven to Receive )
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j Diplomas Sun. Afternoon
FROM FREEMAN'S
SCHOOL OF BEAUTY
CULTURE
Exercises To Be At St.
Philips Church
Thirty-seven certificates J|..... will |
be awardcd Sunday afternoon
to a class in hairdressing andi
beauty culture which will be
gvadualed by the Freeman
School of B : auty Culture. This
js ono of the i arges t classes to
finish from this widely known
institution which is the oldest
institution of the kind in this
section of the state.
The graduation exercises will
be held at St. Philip A. M. E.
church, West Broad street, and
will start at 4:00 p m- o'clock,
principal address will be
delivered by the RaV . H. W.
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The modern, white, frame
building on the Isle of Hope
road which will be the
nah’s Tuberculosis sanitarium
MISS HARVEY TO AT¬
TEND INSTITUTE
Miss Jeanette W. Harvey, the
Negro Health Education Work-
Asso will be in
New Orleans, ____ October ^ 25 to 30,
attending an Institute for Tu-
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BROTHERS IN U.
Sgt. Charles O. Young
brothers who are serving in
Young is stationed at Camp
i ; stationed at Fort Wayne.
home on furlough visiting
W. Williams of Miller road.
when completed, will soon be
ready and equipment is being
installed now. It will probably
be ready for use in the
Howard— Haynes
Mrs. E-.telle Howard and Theo
dore Haynes w;re married Wed _
nesday at the home of the
bride’s sister, Mrs. George
Duncan, 515 Charles street tlie
Rev. C. W. Anthony performing
the ceremony. They are
at 1624 Ogeechee road.
SERVICE
and Pvt. Elliott Williams,
U. S. Armed force.,. Sgt.
N. C., and Pvt. Williams
Both were recently
their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Madam Bridie Freseman,
head of Freeman's School
of Beauty Culture
two months, provided all neces-
sary equipment can be secured
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HOSTESS INSTITUTE
OPENS
Perfecting its motto to be “Ai
Ideal Home for Service Men’’
the West 36th Street USO
star t s the Hostess Institute on
Sunday. October 24th at 4 p. m
in the school’s hall. 812 W. 36th
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Cpl. Charles Frazier who is
somewhere overseas with the U.
S. Aimed forces. He is the son
of Charles Frazier, Sr., of Hil¬
ton Head, S. C., and husband of
Mrs. Gladys B. Frazier of 1122
East Gwinnett street,
JOINS THE WACS
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Mrs. Herlene Bradshcr of New
York, daughter of Mrs. Mamie
Morrell of 801 W. 52nd street,
this city, who will leave Oct. 19
for Des Moines, Iowa, for the i
basic training a WAC. H«'i j
as
husband is in the U. S. service
stationed at Tuskegee Army Air
Field.
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Appointments
S. W Conf
Koxinsi C o n -
test Wed.
Night
SPLENDID CARD AT
CITY AUDITORIUM
I he Victory Boxing club will
present a last fight card a.
City Auditorium
night, October 27.
ers Mack McCombs and J.
Stafford predict it will be one
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HEAD OF BUSINESS COL -
L EGE A VISITOR
Among the prominent
tors in the city this week is
Mrs. Julia Walker Brown,
ident of the Walker Commer-
cial College, Jacksonville, Fla.
Mrs. grown is the guest of Mad¬
am Carrie Cargo McGlockton
and will be here several days,
Mrs. Brown i s calling on the
graduates of her school, who
reside in Savannah.
St. M. 2C Joseph Corley, Jr.,
on of Mrs. Carrie Corley of 406
W. 34th street, and husband of
Mrs. Geneva Corley, who is sta¬
tioned at the Naval Barracks,
San Francisco, Calif.
NUMBER 3
APPARENT ARMY POL-
ICY IS TO BREAKUP
Well Trained Negro
Combat Units
RATHER THAN SEND
THEM INTACT
Into The Various Battle
Areas
By Albert Anderson
Chicago, Oct., 17 (ANP—Is it
true that the United States
army has been deliberately
breaking up well trained Negro
combat units and distributing
them among service outfits rath
er than sending them across to
do battle? The statistics would
seem to bear out an affirmative
answer to this question. The
some times plaintive, frequently
disgusted and bitter complaints
of men who have been part of
these fighting outfits likewise
point to such a conclusion.
Trained up to the minute,
proud of their organizations,
ready for the big test, soldiers
report frequently finding their
regiments, battalions or brig-
g adea just as they feel they are
ready to be sent across, broken
Columbus, Ga., Oct. 19—The
4.5th session of the Southwest
Georgia Conference convened
at St. James A. M. E. church, f
Columbus, Oct. 12-17, with Bish
William A. Fountain, D. D.,
presiding bishop in charge. It
was a g rea t session from start
10 f, n j S h The following are the
presiding elders of the confer-
Revs. J. W. Dennis, W. D.
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Notice To
Soldiers Relatives t
If you wish the picture of
your son, brother or other rel¬
ative in the U. S. Armed for¬
ces published in The Tribune,
send in his picture, plus One
($1.00) Dollar to cover cost of
cut. Photographs larger than
4i*x(>?2 inches not accepted.
Savannah Tribune
Pvt. John Patri son of
and Mrs. John Patrick, Sr., of
loll Randolph street, who haa
been in the army eight months
and is stationed at Camp Chu*
born, Louisiana. L r