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TEARS 0? CONTINUOUS PUBLIC SERVICE VOLUME LXII VES B THE ARMY! * & 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 i Continued on Pace S' m 1 I ■•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¬ lets in scarlet. » r Wit . 1 ft mt- 1 m i Of 1 / * r * f 1 1 SSI sm Wm ■ r/ U j i l m f f ■ m J Sgt. Howard A. \Vho is stationed at Army Air Field. Alabama, he s doing fine. He is the son Mrs. Susie McKinney of East Gw'innett street. nMw 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- iContinued on page H 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 Continued on Page i HOME ON FURLOUGH ar * ' *%, wk 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 Continued on page Seven 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 ) j | 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. ______ i Continued Page 3 > 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- Continued on page Seven 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 (Continued on Paste s> 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 Continued on page Five) 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 JflH 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. (Continued from Page 7) 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 (Continued on Page 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. (Continued on Dasre 2) 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