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TEARS OP
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXI1
MAYOR GAMBLE AGAINST
APPOINTMENT NEGRO POLICE
IN REPLY 70 REQUEST OF CATHOLIC
WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS
Says He Tkinks Council, Too, Is Againsi
The Proposal
In a reply this week to the
request of the Savannah Dean-
ery, , National uuu.ni Council cvuuui of m Catho-
Tn 10 rs
as Gamble gave an unequivo-
ca j nQ
The request for the appoint-
ment of Negro officers came in
a resolution passed by the dean-
ery and forwarded to the may-
or. The body also asked, in
the resolution, that study be
given the question of post-war
housing.
The full text of the resolution
placed before the city authori¬
ties was as follows:
“Looking to the lessening of
race tension and a demonstra¬
tion of Christian and American
principles, we the Savannah
Deanery, Council of the Savan-
nah-Atlanta Diocesan Council
of Catholic Women, request the
Mayor and Board of Aldermen
of our city:
“Cne. To lake under advise
mer.t the appointment of Negro
policemen to the Savannah po¬
lice department to serve in
those localities that are exclu¬
sively Negro, or nearly so. Tow
ard the accomplishment of this
end we would urge a study of
the police conditions in those
Southern communities where
Negro policemen arc employed
by the municipality.
“Two. We request that se¬
rious study be now given by the
post-war planning committee
of our city government to bet-
NEW SHOW AT
CAFE LINCOLN INN
Featuring Valaida Snow
and Bohhe Caston
A new stage show opens at
Cafe Lincoln Inn Wednesday
night. November 3. It will
feature the glamorous Valaida
Snow, with her golden trumpet
and Bobbe Caston, the girl with i
the memory in her voice. Oth-|
cr ton not'-hers on the bill will'
be Billy and Evelyn NWhten-1
aale 8 Dollip Pembrook and Le-
roy Carrington. The orchestral
numbers, of course, will be done
by A1 Dunn and his band.
Two shows will be given night
ly, 10:30 p. m. and 1:30 a. m.
two The star steila review performers with of all-i the |
an
star cast are nationally re- j
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Some Savannah Area IVlen Serving In U. S. Armed Forces
Willie B. Pryor who is
st^iioned at Camp John T.
Wright, Oakland. California.
4Fe is the son of Mrs. Annie
Trimble, 517 East Gaston street
and husband of Mrs. Georgia
Pryor of 215 East Broad street.
avmuialv SHIrane
Equal Pay Fight For Teachers
Steadily on the Increase!
housing for all our citizens
that police problems might
reduced, JT public health im-j
"iod”
and place them in certain
the v.ar housing
seem inevitably to be de¬
once war emergency
passed. It would seem ad-
locking to the welfare
d prosperity of our city, that
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Charlotte, N. C., Oct. 27-
(ANPr—The campaign for teach-
-rr;
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allowed the mandates of
^ o't action ^
aw as a resu col
according to Walter White, ex¬
ecutive secretary of the NAACP.
Tire supreme court, three
years ago, decreed that the
south must pay Negro school
Continued on page Seven
MARIAN ANDERSON SINGS HERE
SATURDAY NIGHT
One of the highlights of the
musical season will be
------- recital by " J Marian ---------------------- Anderson
who is universaiiy ac-
as one of the greatest
6 of the century, at I
. night, Auditorium Octobei . -0. on o ^t-j Her f
in Savannah two sea-
i ago d. was her enthusiastically, admir-j
ve and many
are Keenly anticipating the)
of this truly great artist.
All that can be said of Mari¬
Anderson has been said:
“Fathomless, priestess I
Words cannot convey a deep (
er appreciation of this artist
than the constancy of the list-!
who renew a profound
perience with each , attendance. , !
Those who have never heard
Marian Anderson have before j
them the first contact with one
0 f the greatest musical mo-
ments of their lives,
Indications are that her
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SM2C Sheiiie D. Anderson
husband of Mrs. Willie Mae
Anderson of 607 Paulsen street
and son of Mr. and Mrs. Jos¬
eph Anderson of 223 West 45th
street who entered the Navy
in March, 1943, and says he
likes the service very much,
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 38, 1943
MIS
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Sgt. Frank Jones who was
here on furlough visiting his
sisters, Mrs. Mabel Thomas and
Mrs. Eleanor Mitchell of 658
West 34th street. He is sta¬
tioned at Fort Huachuca, Ari¬
zona.
OP’s and TO CPS
HIM
4ggiSlS|
Turner Soleman. president of
International Local Union
No. 15, Operative Plaster-
ers and Cement Finishers, who
will be honored by this unit on
November 25th in appreciation
for his years of service in th e
1 f'nntinmKI on Pairp
Urges Negroes To Fight For
Ballot, Schools and Jobs
Supreme Court Use Negro
Test Smoke Screen
N MURDER CONFES-
SION CASE
New York, N. Y„ Oct. 24 The
U. S. Supreme Court Was P °*
titioned .... . October 18, for writ
a
of certiorari to the Oklahoma
Court of Criminal Appeal in
the case of W. D. Lyons. Lyons,
an Oklahoma Negro, was con-
near Hugo, Oklahoma and
to life imprisonment,
An earlier appeal made by NA
“““f oi Lyons Wooed on the basis the
of aconIess , 0 „ extorted by
and violence. It was
out that on the night
the confession was ob-
Lyons was kept m a
in the couithouse duiing
entire night and that dur-
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Wg
S2C Emerson Marshall, son
of Mrs. Carrie Marshall of 917
Burroughs street. He has been
m the service seven
and is now stationed at
Field, Jacksonville, Fla.
g ug (’ & J e
fuses To Serve
Negro Soldier
Washington, D. C„ OCt 24 -]
Alter being Jim Crowed in the.
Greyhound Bus all the way
from his camp in Virginia, Sgt.
Samuel O. Netter ran into foul 1
discrimination when he asked!
j for a cup of coffee in the
Greyhound Station Restaurant
in the Nation’s Capital where
there are no jim crow laws!
He was Todd, accompanied active civic by Tomll- j
son worker, j
who has recently been working 1
with the Institute Cn Race Re- i
cations G734 F. Street N. W.ij
an interracial which has 1
group
been doing a tine joo testing
the policy of restaurants, drug ■
stores and Five ard Ten Cent
stores in Washington.
Mr. Todd, who iiad been serv-
eel in the Greyhound Restau-
rant the week before, met Ser-
geant Netter at the Station.
Feeling somewh at wear y fro m
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TO KILL EDUCATION
! BILL
’
Washington, D. C., Oct. 25
Hidine behind an
whose wording gave impres-
sicn ‘discrimination’’ was being
fought and Negroes were
big “protected,” enemies of the
Federal aid to education bill
mittee where it will rest, per-
haps, untill the Congress
sion is ended.
: The hill would have
nriated $300000 000 from the
Federal Ireaaary to aid
states provide better education
and a goodly share of the mon-
ey would have gone to
ern states.
Senator Robert A. Tait, Re-
publican of Ohio, led the
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T. Sgt. Lucius Ross. Jr., the
•son ol ... Mr. and , Mrs- ,,,,,, Lucius r. Ross,
i
Sr., who was in. the city for the
wee-k end. is stationed a' Fort,
Bragg. Nortn Carolina. He also
spent ten days with his sister,
Miss Earl Ross in New York City
PERFORMED 1500
JOR OPERATIONS
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DR. J. H. GRIFFIN
The something that couldn’t
be done in this case was the
erection and successful opera¬
tion of a privately owned hos¬
pital for Negroes in a southern
town with a population of a p-
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Hampton, Inst., Va.-Attri-
buting racial difficulties in the
south to the efforts of northern-
'
and southern industrialists . , to
maintain their dominance of
the area, Mrs. Jessie Daniel
I Ames bf Atlanta, in a lecture at'
Hampton . Institute _ last Monday, i
]
tloual Iac uitie«, and equal lob-’
■ opportunities in order to help
destroy this dominance and
break the traditional economic
; P atterns of the Soulh -
spoke in the 1943-44 Lecture
Series of the college, which will 1
on November 8 with a
by Mrs. Mar, McLeod Be-
thune 1
she' described as a “ahibbo-i
i e th” the doctrine of white su- i
which she declared,
was used to stir up race hatred I
and disfranchise the Negro af-
ter the “agrarian revolution” in
the 80’s when Negroes and
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*om Marion Joyner, Jr., five
so n of Mrs. Martha Joyner Bav-
•
an of . Southover _ Junction and
granc j son of Mrri Hattie San-
ders of 505 East Charlton street.
is stationed with the naval
forces at Beaufort, s. C. He
recently home on furlough.
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St. Philip s Five Weeks
Rally Nets $3,022.87
MRS. FRANCES MILLS LEADS CAPTAINS
WITH $258.09 REPORT
Church To Entertain Old Georgia Conference
December 1st
INVENTS AUTOMATIC
AIRMAIL RUNWAY
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The lack of proper landing
runways has caused the demo-
lition of many airplanes ■aid i
bn *n * l, ' ss llf '
Manufacturers of airplanes
uneigency|
such crackups. This acute
need has been intensified since
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ing F1 o r i d a
Rape Case
Washington, L>. C„ Oct. 24 j
Petition for rot arii ■, ol the,
«se of Edgar tu.wcrw aentenc-,
ed to death m Hondn w,.s de-
■"«( on Orlober 1» by Ihe U S.
Supreme Com-: Flowers, now
* 1 * Florida Statc Penitentiary
was convicted of the crime of
rape upon a white woman. He
was arrested in March. 1942. j
The denial, on October 11, of
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The five-weeks’ rally at St.
Philip AME church came to a
conclusion Sunday night with a
grand tot*l of *3,022.87 being
reported by the Rev. Henry W.
Murph, S. T. M.. D. D., pastor,
officers and members. Of this
amount $661.4(i was reported at
the morning service and $2,361-
41 at night. This amount is
exclusive of other collections
for that day and during the five
week period.
The church is very apprecia¬
tive of the generous support
given this financial effort by
the general public
St. Philip will entertain the
° ld °« ,r * la Conference Decern
ber 1 anci is Prepared to report
the largest amount of dollar
ever reported in this
conference.
Jn ra jj y the ca ptains and
boards reported as follows:
Mrs. Elmu.s Johnson; $142,00;
Mrs. Mary Brockington, $120.-
10: Mrs. L. G. Mason. 3)35 67:
T. Sampson, $117.10; Mrs. Bessie
Adams, $107.25; J. B. F’unney,
*106.15; Donald Thomas, *5110 -
50; Mrs Nettie Hayes, *149 00:
Mrs. Albertha Stokes; *54.50:
(Continued on cage 2»
Notice To
Soldiers Relatives !
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
4 ‘*x 6*2 inches not accepted.
Savannah Tribune
Cpl. Morgan P. Bedgood, who
is stationed at Eigin Field. Flor
Ida, was the week end guest of
hl 6 parents and wife, the Mor¬
gan Bedgoods. Sr., and Mrs.
Muriel Felton Bcdgood. Cpl.
Bedgood is in the Air Corps.
NUMBER l
Corporal 3. Carroll Stith, sta¬
tioned at. Camp Maxie, Texas,
who was promoted to sergeant;
Sgt. Stith, former
circulation managed,
home last week on ijurlougij