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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 —----j (Continued on page two 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 Continued on Page i Charlotte, N. C., Oct. 27- (ANPr—The campaign for teach- -rr; >-< — *»* 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 (Cnnt.tniieri on Paee 3> \ ' -A 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 ' ... 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- (Continued on Page Si 1 1 SH 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 ■ Continued nn Page a. 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 $300000 000 from the Federal Ireaaary to aid states provide better education and a goodly share of the mon- ey would have gone to ern states. Senator Robert A. Tait, Re- publican of Ohio, led the (Continued from Page 7> ; *0*»&*m m a m m ft- I T. Sgt. Lucius Ross. Jr., the •son ol ... Mr. and , Mrs- ,,,,,, Lucius r. Ross, i Sr., who was in. the city for the wee-k end. is stationed a' Fort, Bragg. Nortn Carolina. He also spent ten days with his sister, Miss Earl Ross in New York City PERFORMED 1500 JOR OPERATIONS . m •' vv DR. J. H. GRIFFIN The something that couldn’t be done in this case was the erection and successful opera¬ tion of a privately owned hos¬ pital for Negroes in a southern town with a population of a p- (Continued nn dhkp 3. **—‘ . I Hampton, Inst., Va.-Attri- buting racial difficulties in the south to the efforts of northern- ' and southern industrialists . , to maintain their dominance of the area, Mrs. Jessie Daniel I Ames bf Atlanta, in a lecture at' Hampton . Institute _ last Monday, i ] tloual Iac uitie«, and equal lob-’ ■ opportunities in order to help destroy this dominance and break the traditional economic ; P atterns of the Soulh - spoke in the 1943-44 Lecture Series of the college, which will 1 on November 8 with a by Mrs. Mar, McLeod Be- thune 1 she' described as a “ahibbo-i i e th” the doctrine of white su- i which she declared, was used to stir up race hatred I and disfranchise the Negro af- ter the “agrarian revolution” in the 80’s when Negroes and (Continued on page s iiiifp . I *om Marion Joyner, Jr., five so n of Mrs. Martha Joyner Bav- • an of . Southover _ Junction and granc j son of Mrri Hattie San- ders of 505 East Charlton street. is stationed with the naval forces at Beaufort, s. C. He recently home on furlough. ‘^4, ■ ^ ' i ■, : *v " i'H ;■ ; ■ ■ «s / 5$ I. t .m- 1 ■ - 'v . . : * ■/ . '» auto. .■ : ■ ■ ■ i ' >■ ■ ■ ■s V- - - <*■ i mMm ynmm ■'* 4* . ■ . .!■: t ■, i; i ' * MM | ;T im ■ - \ jm ■ ■ . ' v .*?*!*■- “ iT . j-’ .. . ii 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 m I I \ 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 Continued on page 4 ZT “ . . I IPtlV IvCllGJcLl*" | 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 Continued on page F’ive) 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