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62 YEARS OF CONTINUOUS PUBLIC SERVICE VOLUME LXII Bureau of Public Re’ations, U. S. War Department VVACS TUNE ’EM UP AT HALLORAN—Two comely members of the Women’s Army Corps who pre assigned to Halloran General Hospital, Staten Island, N. Y., keep their “vehicles of mercy” in tip top condition. They are Private Mary Senegal (at motor), daughter of Maurice Senegal, of Galveston, Texas, and Private Ethel Hu .- t, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Hurst, of Ft. Wayne, Indiana. (Photo by U. S. Army Signal Corns). U. L.-A. F. L. Conference to Be A Significant Meeting win i rjbahly Mothers work Strive Break Ob i PROGRAM FOR Down 29- Yr. Old School Bcsi Way of Organizing Jim Crow Policy Negroes By Ernest E. Johnson Washington, D. C. The coming conference here* between the National Urban League and the American Fed¬ ot alien cf L .bar b ars watefe- i r the opinion of many ob- j The anouncement was re¬ leased last week by the league officials in New York following an exchange of correspondence between Executive Secre¬ tary Lester E. Granger of the social werk organization, and "William Green, president of the labor organization. While no specific objectives were ret forth in the announce ment, it is not likely that the two groups would sit down at a table for the sole purpose of correcting statements and posi tions attributed by one to the other. It is reasonable to as¬ sume, therefore, that an agen¬ da will be drawn up that would provide for a free and open dis cussion of how best Negroes •may be organized into the la _ bor movement. It was during debate at the AFL convention on the resolu tion of A. Philip Randolph, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, seeking to establish a committee on discrimination in the federation, that Pres. Green declared that Negro organizations had p-eatedly thwarted the efforts of tlie AFT., in its organizing a’ tempts among Negroes. “At International Harvos ter company in Chicago,” he declared to the convention, t Conttnimrlon nnsre piehti Fight TB With Knowledge -T- Children f all the people learn the facts of tuberculosis prevention. Ch r istmas Seal funds sup_£prt jgtenjjy* MaJUi educafeofl. WUTMh. § he fcwatitali Srlkiiir ats" Dies of Heart Attack ___ ON SAN7 4. FE [RAIN n * KANSAS CITY * ” Kansas City, Mo., Dec. Just as the Santa Fe ’.oiled into the station here day, a passenger, “Fats” Waller, known Negro band leader renowned pianist, died in birth shortly after his ger, Wallace T. lEdi had attempted to arouse him. Death was ascribed to failure. , Kirby who occupied the room 7 ‘ with ' W ”. T aller said that h a d Wa lle breathing hard and asked him > Uie matter ; He sald Wall was speechless and that , i Kirby I then rushed out the ~ corridor and called the ter doctor , , who , was , mg the tram to attend ... , er passenger, hurried into stateroom and Waller dead. “Fats” Waller was one of most popular of present Negro radio artists and plying and singing were a hit for many years on weekly radio programs. was one of the most sought ter musical performers on air. ^ LOCAL LABOR PROBLEMS ON THE EPISCOPAL COMMITTEE BE OISCUSSED SUNDAY AT MASS MEETING AT Young Man Just Escaped F ST. PHILIP CHbRCH rom Mayor Gamble To Address Electric Chair Speak JSFr Hi * Hm^HIP The Gathering to at The c't'zens •committee on NA.ACP Mass Meeting Rbor problems among Negroefe of Savannah and Chatham •1 m county will hold a public meet¬ FRIDAY NIGHT AT ing at St. Sunday Philip afternoon AME church, 4 o'clock West The Negro Must Share FAB CHURCH During the Presiding Elders’ Bread and Charles streets, to In Labor Die council which met in Macon oil which all classes of Negro la¬ or At Close of Member¬ December 8 , Bishop W. A. I'oim bor, organ'zed and unorganiz¬ lain of the AME church of ed, are invited. SAYS DR. HANCOCK OF MANY GRADUATE FROM ship Campaign Georgia appointed Don aid R. W- Gadsden, principal ot Unsuccessful in attempt■ Thomas on the high powered j East Broad and Paulsen VA. UNION UNIV. CARGO SCHOOL OF an episcopal committee of the j street schools, will preside, as I j to secure a tap notch : poakei general conference that meets j chairman of the committee. At Catholic Labor BEAUTY CULTURE for tho Membership Campaign in Philadelphia, Pa., in May, J Rev. H. W. Murph, pastor of St. Conference i December closing meeting 17. at the Friday First night, Afri- 1944 The . other members of the Philip church, will deliver the ! invocation. can Baptist church, the Savan- committee from Georgia are Mayor Gamble will speak on j nali branch, NAACP, announc- Dr. W. A. Fountain, Jr., and Dr. certain phases of Savannah's Richmond, Va., Dec. 13 (AN I es that it has a highly unusual r a. Billings, both of Atlanta, labor problems, past, present I 1 ; While stressing the evil of j attraction to off. r the public. and Dr. H. I. Eearden of Co- the anti-Negro attitude , I and future. W. A. Boyce, zone of or¬ I lumbu Tms main attraction , ■ tor .. , Fry „ . . manager of the Office of Col¬ ganized labor, Dr. Gordon B. j lector of Internal Revenue of Hancock, professor of sociolo¬ day night," said Dr. Ralph ---- Savannah, will explain the gy at Virginia Union universi- j 1 Mark Gilbert, president of the LEADERS IN BEACH- withholding tax. i ty and A ° socatrd Nf 'S r ° Press Savannah branch, “is a young Jerry Jones, vice president of coIumnlst ’ told the Catholic I ! man who ’under just a sentence short while oi [ CUYLER HIGH SCHS. the International Longshore Conferee. j on Industrial Prob -..go was men’s Association, will speak If Bis last week that unless race The annual graduating oxer 1 death by eletrocution in a bor-J to-1 For the Second Six weeks prejudice is killed, it will des- i*lses of the senior class of Ma- dering state. Our branch, The leading pupils in Beach on the part Negro workmen troy the Negro dam Cargo'- Lchool of Beauty gether with others, interceded high school for the second six play in winning the and , race, war i “We are entering Culture Were lia’d Eendfcy even in the young man’s bahalf. and; hig school for the second sex the evils of absenteeism, etc. on a very serious phase of race rela¬ ing, December 12, at the First or. a result he is now free, j weeks arc as follows: An open forum for asking ques tions,” declared Dr. Hancock. Bryan Baptist church. This release was affected just j Beach High School tions and discussion will fol¬ | “A definite effort is being The Rev. N. E, Holsey, pastor last week, and he is now in Sa-, Louctta Colvin, 12B class, low. i made to limit and restrict the of the church, delivered the ad vannah and will appear on the j 96 per cent.; Josephine Free- The com nittee uiges every Negro in his economic reia- dress to the large class of grad program Friday night to tell'man, 11A, 95; Alice Freeman, Negro waga earner to be pres-, tj 0ns >. uat.es. Diplomas wet ' 0 award his story in his own way. In 11B, 95; Cordean Williams 91: ent at thtis meeting. | 'Race prejudice must be de- cd by Madam Cjirrie McQlock- j the interest of his welfare we Eloise Phillips, 90; Mabel Wi ¬ • stroyed,” he emphasized. “It ton, president of the school. | divulge do not feel his free at this the time nature| to; liams, 93; Mamie 90; Scott, Gladys 12B, Day, Hel¬ 12B, is bad enough on the social lev The school prom was held in name or 93; DOINGS OF GEORGIA el avorse on the economic lev the annex of the West 36th St. or scene of the crime hr was, en Robeson, 11 B, 93; Hester CONGRESS OF COL¬ 1 el- Unless race prejudice is USO Tuesday evening. Decem¬ accused of committing and for Jackson, 92; Effix? Reynolds, killed, it will destroy the Ne¬ ber 14, which was enjoyed by , which he nearly paid with lus 11B, 92; Cynthia Jones, 12B ORED F.-T. AFs gro race." many friends. life. Immediately after the 91; James Miller, 10B, 91; Su- Racial discrimination as Madam Cargo has operated a ! meetin 8 Friday night he will, monia Lewis, 10B, 93; Thelma By E. Wcodrick Right practiced by organized labor shop for more than twenty j he put on a train and sent tq, Graham, iqb, 93; Lillia Bow- The executive board of the is Dorothy a national menace, her! 10B, 90; Collins, Georgia Congress of Colored ccck pointed out. Unless the time being given to where he will be able to get' a' 1PB, 90; Janet Wilson, 10B, 90; Parents and Teachers conven- over the Negro can become part of that school of hairdressing.. She fresh start in life, unhamperedi Essie Mae Richards, 10A, 00; ed Friday, November 26, in labor hp cannot live,” he add- is widely known in the field of by the fear of persecution.” Mary Arnold, 12B, 94; Helen annex of the Au ’ Jurn branch of p d. ; beauty culture and graduates j j In addition to this unnamedj Walker, 12B, 93; Elsie Dallas, Carnegie library. “Whereas, the south is the'of her school are located in 1 The inspirational devotional (Continued on page 8 > 'f’Hntlnuofl on Pq,Rc conducted by the ■ nation’s economic problem No. many parts of this and other | ■ message was 1. the Negro is the south’s eco' states. U. S. Color Prejudice president, Mrs. B. E. Morgan. 1 The annual state meeting is I nomic problem No. l,” asserted! A begginners class is now : scheduled to convene in At- Dr. Hancock. “You without' cannot forming and those the iter.ested | Alarms New Zealanders lanta April, 1944. (hold the Negro down should cotact school District work was discussed holding the south down. Y’ou j and emphasized. The Atlan- ican't hold the south down with | out holding the nation down.” CANTATA AT ST. STEPHEN’S Wellington, N. Z. (ANP) Of, shown they are quite prepai id ta, Athens, AUgusta, Columbus, While declaring that A cantata. “The Christ U. s.| U' ea t ths Negro as a human La Grange, Pelham, the AFi S be Panted fleers and men men of the ,L i s guilty of adopting a “poli- chl!d ’” wil! <m have horrified abl being. Rome, Statesboro, Savannah, ; cy of exclusiveness” !Sunday evenmg December 26, army . I The equal treatment they ac ~ toward N e o’clock ’ Stephen’s tants of this localit by a ( * s labor, Dr. Hancock ' at 6:30 at St - j 00rc j t be aborigines confirm ing before ~ — - - — play of color prejudice, accord| (heir principles of fair play, March ICth, in corrected this defect. | vested choir. This promises; mg to remark,; of the New 16ea-j honest dealing with members ^ membershi and com- That the Ne is, I to be a very inspiring Christ -1 landers. jof the darker races. No trades orts in order to , P r o not seejc-, | ing additional opportunity for mas m£>ssa B e - i Since most New Z' alanders. < r professions are barred to 1 c!l f e Ihe time ^during the state intermarriage | have seen _lew American Ne- ihe New Zealand aborigines as meeting. ; privileges was ____ recall i Two scholarships or prizes brought out by Dr. Hancock.' Color Means | i groes, some do pleasant 11 hey attend the same schools ... . be awarded at the The idea that increased oppor contacts , made during tours of I as the whites with the excep- mee [j nK The first prize tunities for Negroes might ja university debating team j lion of a few who prefer to ’ will 1 be awarded for the best bring the races intermarriage was entirely between j Nothing To which ago. Thera came is here absolutely some years no I send college. their The children aborigines to Maori elect essay by any student finishing unfound j ed, he declared. ' display of race prejudice their own representatives who high lege. thousand school The essay and words entering will consist “The col¬ of , termarriage, “The Negro he is is not only seeking seeking in Japs | among Americans inhabitants and they to colored have sit man with in common the “pakes” parliament. or white one on share of the Value of .Social Hygiene.” The a American turk-1 New York, Dec. 14 (ANPi — second prize will be award’d ey. which h-> has helped to “The Japs are not fighting a the student who writes the ra'se.’ Ilia professor asserted. | they’re fighting a DepMr.ng the urbanization race war, best e:sav containing five hun r the Negro war for domination,” declared dred words. This student c race. Dr. fiancee, York charred that Dm Nrgn i Ernest Clarke, former New must be finishing the rural : hide' Iran ’’’e benc f :ts ! musician who spent the past 8 grammar School and enter a c years in China, Japan, Malaya ■£ eluded from the b?n?'lUs of e- of r <i"orr-~ b - m? inrr^sing and India, nad who was one ’south i n - the American repatriates who Fcbool Garden.” Essays must du tri’Mzation of tbs “h n'zT-'on returned to this country on the c how nunil .activity. Prizes r of ag- exchange ship last wiT •m i' -ro — hinh requires tech Gripsholm awarded be *75.09 and *50. ] ^T^irl^rr week. Clarke was the only Ne¬ r " 00. r’sr o c*iv’l.'. Pmlimmary gro aboard. COnYocfq lrn]'' h M V"’ 0 f N? ^ 0 o were r 1 a Clatke emphasized the fact Vf *• yuH f).. y± disttt’t fT4. Til a winuinv Fe-. n n lbe that the Japs have a great bit- says in the distr’et will be sent John r Cronin, S. S„ pro- Ameiican fe-ror r f egpnomics at the St. | terness against the I'nn'i- i c*r* j folk. He said that as far as Continued > the Japs are concerned an Amer- on page 4 ; lean is American and skin an SWOPPING j color be damned. While in- Notice ' in Hong Kong, the trav- WEEK LEFT- To terned Ano l HAVEN'T eller said he was treated all Sc!d:crs Relatives , gotten REINOCEFC a thing OR. eoR. ! right as an individual, as were FOB. — Ttt' U wish , many of the other exchange BELU» you ihe picture of prisoners, but “it wasn’t because SLEiOUr. lour son, brother or other rel- explained. Wr attve in the ; of my color,” he s. Armed lor¬ I Since the war, Clarke said, ies published in The Tribune, j the Japs don’t trust the Ameri¬ ■end in his picture plus Negro than they. ($1.50) can any more Burcan of Public Relation*, IT. 1 War D iiaitm w* to cover the «o t ot 1 do anybody else, “and they made NEGRO SOLDIERS El YOU ACE ED HERE—This tut. Photographs larger than |it plain to that if they #f Neptame. built than 2,700 b«caaia the temporary; Dixt'a very m« re or a years niches ryot accepted. lever get hold oi me again, I' quarters of a Nogro regiment of the Fifth Army when Lieutenant BmOiis/mSmls Savannah Tribune , j couldn’t, expect any leniency, General Mark W, Clark’* forces occupied Paestem, ItaLjfet. (LPhoto b® ------. I from them.” 1 U. S. Army Signal Corps),jjf,.y, ^V; ■jdtmmtiyemismm Trenton, N. J.,— ANP) Two mothers, Mrs. Gladys Hedge- path ^md Mrs. Berline Williams are seeking to break the city’s 20 year old jim crow school poi icy compelling the board of ed ucatlon to accept their chil- dien at Junior No. 2 school. A New Jersey law forbids the ex- elusion of children from any school because of color. j f The board’s lawyer, Henry Hartman, admitted the gation when he asked the su- preme court to dismiss tl^e ap plication of the two Negro mothers for transfer of their children to another school, Negro children in the enth, eighth and ninth are restricted Achnol to the New Lin- coin high school They Thev are barred from the -city’s four oth " iunlor hleh 5CM0 * According to the ruling, boy, leanWilliams is t0 walk lQ blocks to the Jim crow school, , though Junior No 2 school is but three blocks from his home. The parents also , charge that ,.. the .. 'New „ XT , Lm | school, bu'lt back in 1922 j I when the jim crow policy was put into effect, is overcrowded and offers an inferior curricu¬ lum. May Quit Bar Association , FOR REFUSING ACCEPT NEGRO AS MEMBER V r u*hineton Dee. 13 (ANP>— Atty. Gen. Gen. Francis Biddle in- tends to quit the Federal Bar Association because the group ; ha - neglected to accept a Negro , to membership, announced his 1 associates. If Biddle gets out I cf the association, some other high-ranking official will also . leave. j The FBA. composed of some, fail- . 1.500 government lawyers, j ed to accept Atty. Lewis. R . 1 Mehlinger of the claims divi- ; sion cf the justice department, : in which he has served for 22 years. Biddle lauded the ABA in an address in Boston last month for admitting a Negro to mem¬ bership. and at the came time he expressed regret tiiat the federal association yet draws the color line. .. THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, DEC. 16, 1943 NUMBER 9