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TEARS OP CONTINUOUS PUBLIC SERVICE VOLUME LX II CLASS FOR INSTRUCTORS OE r ARMY y S NAVIGATOR BO IARDIER - ‘ ""' TRAINING PROGRAM + 7 . MU w \ _B m - * K ' Grover C. Nash, senior instructor in the Airplane Mechanics Ichool at Lincoln Air Base, Nebraska, is shown explaining principles t navigation to a group of instructors who will form the nucleus f teachers for the Army’s bombardier-navigator training program >ith the objective command of B-25 bombers. As announced by the far Department, Negroes and whites will be schooled together, fash, only civilian flight instructor at Lincoln Air Base, is a gradu- Rev. Garvin Dies From Automobile Accident WAS RETURNING TRIP OF MERCY Accident Occurred Near Statesboro FUNERAL HELD DAY MORNING While returning to Savannah Thursday about midnight of last week from a mission oi mercy, the Rev. McKinney Gar¬ vin was killed in an automobile accident. The accident occurred about midway between Stilson and Statesooro alter wev. uaivm had driven a deacon of one oi his churches, Walter butler, to Stilson, v.here the latter nuo been tailed on account of tne critical illness of his mother. She died shortly alter the par¬ ty arrived there. Rev. Gan in and Mr. Butler were accompanied on the trip by the latter's uncle. Mr. Butler remained in Stile jn he obseived the grave of his mother. Rev. Garvin and Mr. Butler's un e remained in Stilson only a short time and then started om heir way back to Savannah' W'.n midway between ati d .Statesboro, it appears from, accounts. Rev. Garvin must have fallen asleep at the wheel j and his car plunged off the (Continued on P age 3) auannali ftribrnr Draft Board Looks for Delinquents The following is a list of names of registrants that are linquent with Local Board No. 1, Select-ve Service system: Tneir names and addresses are as follows: Arthur Robertson, no address; Alvin George Groson, Acme Duck Farm, Eastport, L. I.; Jo¬ seph Benjamin Mack, Jr., 750 W. Lumber street; Marion Jas, Harper, 722 W. Gwinnett; Elton 1 Monroe Campbell, 39525 Michi- j gan avenue, Wayne, Michigan; j i Bpn Lee, no address; Julie Er- nesto Sanches, 1359 Fifth 'New York; Wm. Gardner, : Montgomery street, ! Willy Og. Johnson, 529 I Jones street; ■ Gerald Patrick I Dormady, 416 West avenue; Bittle Thomas, 6 ! fth street. West Savannah; Weit j ledge Glynn Tillman, 414 Oglethorpe; Dan Goss, 558 In-; dian lane; James Anderson, 409 Alice street. James Grant, RFd 3, box 24. cr. S. T. Clifton, Millen; Rich- j ard Simmons, 561 West York; ' (Continued on page s VIr. Alexander Heads Mu’s Mu Phi chapter of the Omega Si Phi fraternity held its re¬ organization meeting on Thurs¬ day, October 28. at the West Broad street USO, The follow¬ ing officers were elected: I Basiieus, C. R. Alexander; Vice-Bacileus, Dr. W. B. Tyson; Keeper of Records and Seals E. L. Maxwell; Keeper of Fi nance. J. H. Gadson; Keeper of Peace, L. D. Law; Chapter Edi- tQr £ H Gadsden | j Committees were appointed follows: ! ^ as Budget committee. Dr. S P. ’ Frazier, chairman; Dr. J. i Continued on Page 7 FOR FUNDS TO CQM- PLETE HOME Many Make Substantial Donations ’ The semi-annual • session ot the executive board of . the Dea- _ cons’ State Baptist held October 31 at Olive Grove Baptist church, near Roberta, myked the beginning of a new era of Baptist churchmen’s ac¬ tivities. State President H. S. ! Bynes recommended a state wide drive for financial support to pay off the small balance due on the place and building improvements for the home, which was unanimously adopted by the body. An offering in donations from j-T.OO to *10.00 was laid upon table amounting to $80.00. Af- this pledges were made by Deacons D. D. Hall, Brunswick $ 10 , 0 . 00 ; W. L. White, Atlanta, $ 100 . 00 ; H. S. Bynes, Macon. *100.CO; Martin Edwards, Fort Valley, $25.00: George Hamper, Milledgeville, $25.0,9; W. H. (Continued on Ease St WHITE GIRL DEFIES DIXIE JIM CROW Knoxville, Tenn. Nov 1, (ANP> -“The Declaration of Indepen¬ dence says ‘all men are creat¬ ! ed equal.’ You are just as good as I am and I told that con¬ ductor I am no better than you are. This is America.” i With these words a young southern white girl challenged the jim crow seating arrang- ment of the Washington-New Orleans train 41, Southern laii road, last week, as she was taken by an officer in Attalla, ; Ala. Protesting the conductor’s or i \ ders forbidding her to use the lavoratory or sit in jim crow j coach, the young woman defied 1 lContinued un page 3) THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1948 Bureau of Public Relations, U. S. War Department ate of several flying schools. In 1938 he was the first and only Negro to fly the United States mail. He spent 16 months as in. structor for the U. S. Army Air Forces Training Command, and has almost 3,000 flying hours to his credit in 30 different types ol planes. His home is in Chicago, Illinois, where he operated his own flying school for six years. (Photo by U. S. Army Signal Corps), State Deacons Launch Financial Drive RUTH WHALEY TO BE GUEST SPEAKER At Sigma's Celebra¬ tion Sunday i | The public .—r* invited , to . , is Mlsg Ruth whaley , attorney 0 f New York city | national parliamentarian of the sigma Gamma Rho sorority, who wlI1 open the celebration of the .‘lirority’s Founder's as guest speaker at the First Congregational church j November 7, a't 4 p. m. o’clock. -Tits Whaley, who has been practicing attorney in the J l' New York for the past fit t ec ‘ n years, is a graduate of Liv- ingstone college and the Ford- ^ am University School of Law She was the first Negro admitted to to th the bar in North Carolina and the first to active¬ ly engage in the practice of law in New York state. Miss Whaley has many na- - tionai club affiliations and as a; public speaker is much in de- Continiied on page Spven Not Guilty Verdict Won Alexandria, Va. A verdict of not r.uiltv was i' mimed October 19th in the case of Eddie An¬ thony, Negro charged here with rape of a white woman. The NAACP engaged counsel to han¬ dle the defense of Anthony. Fol¬ lowing his arrest he was confin¬ ed to Rapides Parish jail. Lat¬ er he was removed to military prison ’ at Camp Livingston where his trial was held. A SON Mr. and Mrs. Robert Robinson Jr.. 510 E. Gaston street an¬ nounce the birth of a sou on October 19. He will be named Louis, III. RULES “NO DISCRIMINATION CLAUSE NOT BINDING THUS wS?S™ Former Congressman Makes Declaration IN CONNECTION WITH WAR CONTRACTS Washington, d. C. Comptrol¬ ler General Lindsay Warren, former North Carolina Congress man, was called “unfit and nreludioed” this week by the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored people. I The charge which was made in I a telegram to President Roose- ! velt followed Warren’s overrul mg of Executive Order 9346. The President’s directive forbids ra- eial discrimination on the job by any ftfm doing business with th 2 Government. Warren’s action, just reveal¬ ed. was to rule that contractors for war materials and services are not obligated to ob* rve the “no discrimination’’ clause or¬ dered in. Executive Order 9346 The ruling came after the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company of Kansas City, Mo. refused to sign a contract con¬ taining dno discrimination” clause. Walter White, NAAC'P Execu¬ tive secretary, pointed out that the association had, between 1936 and 1840 protested five times against Warren’s appoint¬ ment to his present post. Dur¬ ing that period Warren, both as a member of Congress and as t f ?nn tin non on Pas?f» :<* MADE CORPORAL Fort Knox, Ky Pfc. Robert L. Cunningham of Savanr ui, Ga., has been promoted to the rank of technical corporal in the 375th Engr. General Ser¬ vice Regt. Cpl. 1 . Cunningham is attached to Co F of the 375th Engineers. Some Savannah Men In The U. S. Armed Service I ! ■ ■■■ W Pfc. Reginald W. Brown, son of Mrs. Helen T. Brown of 550 East Hail street and husband of Mrs. Dorothy Brown, was recent ly at home on furlough. He's sta tioned at Monti’ord Pt., Camp Ln Jeune, New River, N. C. Cpl. Spencer Waye, the son of Mrs. Ada Waye of Dorchester, who is stationed somewhere in North Africa with the L r S. for- ces. He has been in the army two years. * xr AT AUDITORIUM Also Sings for Soldiers At Camp Stewart Marion Anderson triumphed again in Savannah when she sang before an almost capacity audience at the City Auditori¬ um Saturday night, climaxing the performance with a superg rendition of Schubert’s "Ave Maria. v\iricla was sung as a fourth encore to the number on her charming pro¬ gram. Enthusiastic and vigorous ap- piause followed each number rendered by the great contral- to whose voice has been des- cribed by several musical crit- ics as “but one in a life-time.' During the intermlssi >n flow¬ ers were presented the singer by Ihe Boy Scouts, gifts of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and Marvin McDonald, whose auspices she is ‘Continued on Page :ti Beach High Leaders The following are the pupils of Beach high school who maintained an average of 90, per cent, and above in subjects for the first six weeks of the first semester: Luetta Colvin, 12B class, 93‘ per cent.; Mary Arnold, 12 B, 93; Mabel Williams, 12B2, 92; Eloise Phillips, 12A, 91; Joseph ine Freeman, 11A, 91; Velma Graham, 10B, 91; George Jen¬ kins, I2B, 90; Lester Johnson, 12B, 99; Mary Seabrook, 12B2, 1 90,; Alice Freeman 11BI, 94; I Helen Roberson, 11B, 91; Hester Jackson, 11 B. 90; Helen 12 Bl, 90; Sunomla Lewis, 91- ! Julius Caesar Banks, seaman second class, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Scott of Claxton, who has been in the navy six months and is stationed at Great Lakes, Illinois, where he’s getting along fine. Cpl. Eiflridge Thompson who has been in the city spending a lew day with his sister,--. Mh- Edna Roberson and Miss Ruby Le e Thompson. He is station- ed at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Augusta Conference Makes Ministerial Appointments LARGE CROWDS TEND SESSIONS Presided Over by Bishop Fountain Avgusta. October 3! The Au¬ gusta conference of the AME church closed here today the reading of th ministerial appointments by Dishop tain who presided over the slons which were very largely attended The reports revealed large increases In finance and the general work of the conference. The following are the ments for the coming cnce year as read at church, where the conference was held aifd where the Rev. A. R. Cooper, pastor, was turned for another year: Rev. J. I). Counts, sent to con conference; Rev. A. P.Solo- mou, sent to Americus confer- once; Rev. J S Reynolds,’to the South Georgia conference; Rev. G. B. Lancaster, made elder over the Swainsboro iContinued from Page 7) THREE LOCAL BOYS ST. EMMA Among the cadets from twen- ty four states who have enroll¬ ed for the new term at the St. Emma Military Academy, Castle, Virginia, are three from Savannah. They are: Cadet James L. Garvin, son of Mr. and Mrs. James is Garvin, Sr 714 Village; Cadet Edgar Maxwell, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Maxwell, 502 West 48th street, Cadet Ferdinand J. Butler, of Mr. and Mrs. James N. Butler, 546 Nicol street. Pfc. George N. Merriman, Jr., who was recently home on fur- lough visiting Lis' parents, Mr. and Mrs. George N. Merriman, Sr., of 921 West? 40th street, He is stationed at the Venice army air base, Venice, Florida. Pvt. Robert Edwards, Jr„ son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Edwards Sr., of 620 Cohen street and nephew ol Mrs. Hattie Andres, who urhome on furlough. He is stationed at Fort Clark, Tex. NUMBEH 1 YEARS AT I TREMONT i ^ Thls year tiU * ReV R ' J ' Dln ~ kin « is observing his seven- teenth year as pastor of Tre- hTemple Baptist churc and also the twenty-eighth year he had been serving as a | mlnister of u ‘ a Christian rell- (Continued on page seven> Notice To Soldiers Relatives t If you wish Jhe 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 ($1.09) Dollar to cover cost of cut. Photographs larger than 4’ix6?a inches not accepted. Savannah Tribune Cpl. Theodore Edward Scriv- en, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Seriven of Jacksonville, Fla., and grand son of Mrs. C. E Washington of 613 Third street, West Palm Beach. Fla., who is serving abroad with the army. Pvt. Jaseph Patterson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Waiter Patterson oi 541 Nichols street, who has been in the army eight months and is stationed at Camp Clai¬ borne, Louisiana.