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VOLUME LXII
4JEW FEDERAL RECREATION
BUILDING AT HINESVILLF.
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The above is the new fed-
ex ai recreation building ’ior
colored troops to be dedicated
Sunday at fimesville.
The dedicatory exercises will
take place at 3 p. in., the
principal address to be made
by Cot. Win. V. Ochs, post com-
mandcr, tamp Stewart.
Tne building will ae staffed
by W. J. Nicks, director; Mrs.
Fressia B. Maxwell, assistant
director; Mrs. Kavelia d.
Gough, secretary; Mrs. -Lyntina
Leno r, . manager snack bar.
and Robert Mitchell, custo¬
dian,
The beard of management
consists of the following: F. 8
Fraser, chairman; Miss
dred Turner, vice chairman;
J. C. Ralston, secretary; C.
Rawis, treasurer; Miss Mabei
Wright, reporter, and Mrs. Car-
rie Simmons and H. W. Tat-
Open held from
Continued on page eigm
National Negro Congress
Protests I. C. C. Decision !
fOR DISMISSING COMPLAINT OF NEGRO SEAMEN
REFUSED DINING CAR SERVICE ,
I
New York, N. Y.-Tha Na-
test against the recent decision
Interstate Commerce
Commission in. dismissing the
complaint of i 6 Negro seamen
refused dining car service on
the Atlantic Coast Line in
June, 1942. Edward E. ‘ Strong
executive secretary of the
gress, in a letter to the ICC
lermed the decision "a
injustice Jo and flagrant dis-
regard for the rights of Amer-
iean citizens who hate
their lives in service to their
country.” Mr. Strong
that the Interstate Commerce
Commission in rendering
decision has established a pre-
cedent for invalidating tinge
honored custom of maintain-
ing in theory or practice of
right of Negroes to equal la-
cuities where separate
modations are required by
In June 1942, i 6 Negro
men enroute from Tampa, Fla.
to New York City on the At-
lantic Coast Line were
service in the diner despite the
fact that the New York and
Porto Rico Steamship Com-
pany, their employer, had
made advance arrangements
for the men to receive first
New Station
Hospital Is
Formed
-
Somewhere in the
west Pacific, Jan. _(ANPi
new station hospital fully
fed , , , by Negro officers has , , been
established in the Southwest
Pacific. Major A. Hugh cum-!
mons of Washington,
oi Station hospital No. 1, at
has Huachuea, complement is irj charge.
a full ot com -
missioneu and
sionea personnel ana a
group oi nurses. Red cross
persoiinel has arrived also, |
'•this is the secona hospital j
whicn has grown out oi the,
F During t. Huaciiuea World War .experiment, 1 mere was j j
not a single hospital started oy]
Negroes. Negro physicians
when con:missioned, stations were sta-
turned in first-aid
far too otten were
b»n jor.Mo as bed-pan carriers.
ri< i the circumstances medi’ R,
impossible tor Negro the sort or;
men to ootain
advancement in rank which
this current war has produced..
The highest rank accorded uur
ing World War 1 was that at
major which the now Lt.
Joseph Ward of Indianapolis,
obtained through a brief ana
almost accidental period of sir
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f.
W. J. NICKS, Director
i
class accommodations at the
the seamen attempted to make I
• arrangements for the men ,to !
be served breakfast in the di-
ner, he was told by the stewart;
“We don’t serve your kind i» ,
here.” “You will either have
' to eat in your Pullman or not
at all.” Declining to eat in
j get the breakfast. Pullman, the At men the did ehd not of
j the regular lunch period, af-
j ter ail the white passengers
had been served, tne Negro
(seamen were allowed to eat
1 in the diner. However,
they . were unable to secure
j dinner, because the diner was
taken off the train before the
j ] men stewart to would be served. allow Two the wnite gea-
j employees of the company trav
eling under similar arrange-
merits ate all their meals in
the diner without any diffi-
culty.
j The seamen in their com-
j plaint protested the action oi
the steward in refusing to al-
i low them to stand in line with
j j other to passengers served, to wait their
1 turn oe ana instead,
insisted upon dealing witn
’ them as a group, refusing
serv-
ice to them except as a group.
New Yorkers Protest Inter-
racial Voluntary Hospital
New York, N. Y.—Further
protest on tne announced reor
ganization of Sydenham hospi
tal as an “Interracial volun
hospital” was contained in
a le .V^ r to Ma f or ua,>
dia . this week
irom Walter
white , NAACP secretary,
The proposed reorganization
was characterized as “a sten
backward, not forward, in that
it comprehends acceptance, on
the part of the city and its chi
zens, of the theory of racial
segregation.”
-it is not' necessary,” the let
ter said, to go to the
ty and trouble ot creating a
new institution lor the
that racial prejudice
Negro physicians iroin
start's, ot existing institutions,
save Harlem anu one or
other municipal
menis. All that is necessarv
vo b e done, it tne proponent*
of this project are sincere, is
io elect qualified Negro
cians and surgeons to
>taft of Sydenham now, and
hold open the door to* others
they are a ole to qualify.”
The letter charged that
planning and procedure for the
creation of the new
“was carried out practically un:
der coyer
mich planning as Eus °Vf. a
done is open to serious cuti-
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REE PERSONS LYNCHED
DURING PAST YEAR
ONE EACH IN GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND ILLINOIS 5
According To Data Comp lid by Tuskege\e Research
Depc.tmnt
Tuskegee, Ala., Dec. 31.
Three persons, all Ner.oes
were lynched in 1943, Dr. 1. D.
Patterson, president of Tuske¬
gee Institute, announced today
in his annual report cn lynch-
ings.
Dr. Patterson’s report said
the offences charged were
sisting arrest, killing a white
mar in a robbery attempt and
insulting white women over
the telephone.
One lynching occurred in
Florida, one in Georgia and
one in Illinois, the annual Tus
kegee report added.
‘ One of the persons lynched
was beaten and clubbed • to
death by a sheriff and other
police officers; one was taken
from jail and shot to death by
a mob of four masked men.
and one, a soldier, was shot to
death by a mob of farmers
he tried to escape from a farm
house, the report asserted.
,Z 1 , ve ?? , p:rson3 Ur in , were and lynched five ’h in
1940, the announcement
tmued, adding:
There were 9 reports of in
f^ law a pdes in six in which southern officers states of the
ed to prevent lynching,
one report of an instance
which white and colored pas-
sengers on a train in New Jer-
sey restrained a mob of
ors. In one case, police offic-
ee prevented the mob from ect
the jail; in six cases, the
police augmented the guards
other jails. A a' total of ll per t0
sons—one white man (a chief
of police i, nine Negro me a,
one Negro woman—were thus
saved from mob violence py
PRICE h, IRREGULARITIES
i nii in \ia\v
r»<» rmuirwiTitx cwuitr-nits
Washington, D. C. —Price ir
regularities, including viola¬
tion of ceiling prices and im¬
proper postings, have been
iound by the OPA in Negro
areas, according aaministrator to Chester
Bowles, OPA .
Mr. Bowles, in a letter to the
NAACP, asserted that of course
violations had been found in
white areas as well. He de¬
clared that while the OPA had
as a continuing activity a
check on prices in neighoor-
hoods occupied by minority
groups, it had no special ma¬
chinery for this job and there-
lore little specific data.
Cooperation of Negro citi¬
zens as volunteer checkers of
prices is welcomed by the OPA,
said Mr. Bowles, and estaonsli
ment of price panels is going
forward in Negro communities.
He suggested mat members of
the NaACP in 600 local branch
es of tne association should
volunteer their services to the
local OPA boards.
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TO PRESENT THREE
BEACH STUDENTS
IN RECITAL
When the senior class of
Beach high school presents in
a musical recital Eleanor Wil¬
liams, _______, soprano; ‘and David Brown,
baritone, William Pleas-
ant, Jr., tenor, at First Afri-
can Baptist church, Friday
January 21, at 8 o’clock
a prelude to the commence-
ment activities, it is expected
five hundred pupils, pa-
and friends of these tal-
artists will be present to]
witness this enjoyable and n-
nique program.
The recital i s sponsored by
project. the_seniors They to support hope to a worthy estab-i
a music and art fund that
will serve to help some boy or,
tional who talent might in one show or the excep-j olh-
gr field to continue in that
field after graduating from
Beach high school,
Arcomoanist ^f^ for E i ea nor Wii
David Brown will be
P _ j. Bma „ anrt for William
Jr., Miss Jane Parker,
g 0 th accompanists are teach -
ers in Beach and Cuyier
schools, respectively.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, JANUARY 6 , 1944
BEACH HIGH COM-
MENCEMm activ-
January 21— 8 p. m.
recital at FAB church,
January 23 11:3o, a. m. bac-
calaureate services at First
Bryan Baptist church
January 25—11:30 a. m. nre-
sentaticn of gift to school,
SSL b “ Ud ‘ ne ’ CUyl " slree
January 26 11:30 a. m. class
S S* B "»-
January 27 3 p. m.. PTA
in main building, home
nomics department, C'uyler St.
school.
January 28- 8 p. m., com
mencement, St. John Baptist
church
February 2 Junior- Senior
prom, USO-YMCA, 8 p. m.
W . Dickerson Dorthelly is the
sponsor and M. G. Haynes
j s principal of the school,
Brother of Dr. I. I). Williams
Buried in National Cemetery
Jesse NeSbit Williams,
brother of Dr. I. D . Williams,
and a world war veteran, of'St.
Augustine, Florida, died of
pneumonia last week at a hos
pital in Savannah.
Mr. Willims who was born
in Wayne county, near Jesup,
in 1885, had liVed in St AUgUS
tine for twenty five years.
wa s a member of the Catholic
c hurch and up to the time
his death was employed by the
government at the Navy Yard,
Washington, Jan. (ANPi
The 555th Parachute Infantry
company, first Negro para¬
chute unit in the American
army, will be activated at Fort
Benning, Ga., under the com¬
mand of Brig. Gen. Lee Dono¬
van.
FATHER BROWN CITES NEED FO R POST WAR PLANNING
Father J. H. Brown,
ed an appreciable audience at
St. Augustine’s New Year’s eve
services and the nine o’clocx
mass on Sunday morning. In
his paternal lik e manner, the
church was complimented lor
efforts and accomplishments
made during the year. His
messages were religious in im¬
plications but -emphasized fac¬
tors that will affect the total
structure of the total post war
welfare.
His preface to post war plans;
included a blue print
will be symbolic of the perfections] Divini-
ty, work and the
toward better human and
Christian relationship. “War of! i
is physical manipulation
physical misunderstanding and j
and the answer to this situa- j
tion is the found old in our question, ability ‘Am to ]
face age 1
I my brother’s today must keeper?” be This] j
question confidence] ans-
wered with fuller
and courage.
Some Savannah Men In The II S. Armed Service
life,
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PVT. WALTER JAMES Who
js stationed at Camp A Aft , t .
bury, Indiana. He was home
last week on furlough, 'Mr.. visiting
hi;, "tandmother. Ro..q
James of 525 West, 31st strict,
Young James says that he
finds army fife much to fcts
liking .
WEAVER TO RESIGN
GOVERNMENT POST
P a c k i n <r Co
Drops White
Labor Label
New York, N. Y. The label,
„„ vac a H m P a ck ed hy white la-
, ; Pu“ t"| d ouS5
r g£
SmpSw £ ye Salmon,, of"S has 2 be > n Packing dropped
» Wash-
A protest by the NAACP, af¬
ter a housewife had purchased
a can of salmon, was answered
by the packing company as fol
lows:
“We sincere in * stating
are
that we are not prejudiced
against any race, color or
creed and we feel very sorry
for the incident and the mis¬
take of our past management."
The company explained that
when it took over the manage¬
ment of the Fishermen’s cor-
poration it inherited from th:
former management ,. thous-
of dollars worth of labels
which it could not afford to dis
The new managers dp-
clare, in their letter to the NA
ACP, that they have abandon¬
ed the old labels and they in¬
closed samples of the new la-
bels &lstede‘Br“others. now in* use.
New York
chain grocers, where the can
was purchased bearing the of
label, told the NAACP
their purchasing department
was unaware of the inscrip-
would take up the matter with
the packers. 1-------
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A BOl
Dr. M. P. Sessoms announces
among his patients the birth of
a son to Mr. and Mrs.
Griffin of 617 West 48th
on December 25.
Industrial planning for corn¬
munities in a post war world
is gaining impetus every day.
The blue print as outlined oy
the post war planning commit¬
tee in Birmingham, Ala., At¬
lanta Constitution, Dec...serv¬
es as an excellent pattern 'for
other communities. The ma¬
jor objectives are (1) A n«w
city hall, (2) An enlargement
of city auditorium and stadi¬
um; <3>, construction of three
high schools and vocational
school; (4) A new highway and
grades which will separate
from railroads and
many others,
• Father Brown in a very i'or-
ceful and rhetorical manner
asked, what is the blue print
for Negroes in. Savannah?
Among other things he said a
few weeks ago the opportunity
was his to listen to official
comments regarding the post
war plans now in the making
for the community of Savan-
nah and Negroes as such ap-
peared not to be in the blue
j
,
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PVT - WALTER (SCOOP I
WARREN of New York city, for
mer Savannah show and club-
man , stationed somewhere in
Italy, wheiw he met Flaming
(Brush* Cody. Isaac Dowse,
and Wesley Aiken, lie states
that he appeared with Josep-
ine Baker on one of her Aiheri
can army shows.
Said To View Administration s Approach To Negro
Problem
AS A HOPELESS TASK
One of Original Members of The Black Cabinet
of Washington
Washington, Jan. 1 lANPi -
An important, and one of the
original, members of the so-
called ‘black cabinet” i s about
to resign from the government.
An authentic source is respond
ble for the exclusive informa¬
tion that Dr. Robert C. Weav¬
er, chief of the minority sec¬
tion, War Manpower commis¬
sion, and a government em¬
ploye for eight years, is quit¬
ting.
Almost a year ago today
Dean William H. Hastie, an¬
other cabineteer of rank, re¬
signed as civilian aid to the
secretary of war, j, develop¬
ment which provoked consider
able comment both in and out
of government. Hastie was in
dignant over the treatment be¬
ing accorded Negroes in the
armed forces and specifically
in the army air force.
Friends of Dr. Weaver
'aent .him v-1 ’ ‘the
a ... recognizing . , ..
“hopelessness s
of federal ap¬
proach” at this time to the
solution of problems affecting
Negroes, so long as government
is being controlled by those
who comprise what Sen. Gut-
crlbed as an “unholy alliance
reference was to the coal-
of northern Republicans
with the southern bloc to thw-
art forward-looking legislation
and t0 emasculate certain
war aeeneies 0
Weaver was a poineer in the
field of training and employ-
print. He referred to a simu-
lar situation in Stuart Chase,
a book on “Post War Plans”
which lists 7,000 organizations
for effective post war plan¬
ning and out of this vast num¬
ber not one Negro organiza¬
tion is listed, “Surely the NAA
CP, Urban- League, Church
groups and many others must
have a plan in this post war
world. This situation presents
serious consideration for lead¬
ers and laymen.”
Father Brown urged the
awakening of the community
and suggested that a blue
print be bdsed on a series of
means to action and include
among other things at least
the following: A Negro Plan¬
ning committee to meet with
city officials for a fuller com¬
prehension of the community
affairs; the building of an ad¬
equate number o! elementary
and high schools with auditor¬
iums. A program of progres¬
sive education, or extended fa¬
cilities, (rest rooms, athletic
m
i
,
PFC. MILTON HOOKS, the
Hooks* son of Sr* Mr. and of^Americus Mrs. Milton
and
brother of DeWitt Hooks and
Mr j,‘ - ' guv Hodge of thi.. « it,.
w 0 ]s stationcH at the army
air flcld . at bpoK Snokane f ne ’ Washing- Wasnmg
lon - “ e graduated irom
Beach high school last January
ment oi _ Negroes ... industry. i
m
After President Roosevelt (
up-
pointed the FEPC, differences i
of opinion regarding techni- j
ques and policies developed
tween Weaver and Lawrence
Cramer, secretary the of FEPC. then executive] Weaver,
had been permitted to carry on
the functions of training in
those agencies which preceded
Manpower while FEPC sought
to break down barriers.
When the committee under¬
went its reorganization last
June and was taken from un¬
der the manpower wing, Weav
er wanted to resign but Paul
V. McNutt, WMC chairman, stay^'on.
prevailed upon him to
He remained long enough to
assist in the drawing of the
cooperating agreement be
tween WMC and FEPC and to
, establish the field offices for
the minorities group section
wit h liaison to FEPC regional
a ”‘> J nnl.mnal nalu,nal nt l,11 Icps ' ( ' es
’
About four weeks ago Weav¬
er returned from this field trip
and commented for publica¬
tion that housing is the “No.
1 problem” facing Negroes to¬
day. But he held other views
which he told this correspond¬
ent, views of a social, political
and ecomonic nature which he
could not at the moment dis¬
cuss publicly.
His observations were dis¬
couraging. While housing was
possibly the outstanding prob -
iContinuedon page eight)
fields, nursery schools, me¬
chanical and vocational schools
etc.)
Father Brown affirmed the
already cognizable problem of
what is to be done for and
with our service men who re¬
turn mentally and physically
worn. He emphasized that the
challenge to the community is
one of great concern. He ad¬
monished that we continue t.o
support and appreciate gbod
leadership and strive in all fu¬
ture efforts to openly meet th-3
need for better Christian So¬
cial relationship. He closed
his inspiring message by say¬
ing “We are n °f grown until
we are able to face the mono
aggrevating problem and say “I
am the master, lay down at
my feet.”
He announced that any
service man desiring a silver
cross may secure same by writ¬
ing to Rev. J. H. Brown, P. O.
Box, 544, Fort Valley College
Center. Ft. Valley, Ga.
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8 GT. HAROLD THOMAS
WASHINGTON is home after
being oversea. 19 months,
and Mrs Washington
• ,nn Master Harold Washlug-
lon ar e living at the home of
hiy famUy> Mr and Mrs . G . h.
p rown 0 f 513 East Joneg St.,
while here on furlough.
T, J. a weeny, ...
business mar, ana .
Tweedy’s Cottea o-m, p , ...
night rendezvous, out ..a
important real estate flea 1
week when he purchased the
pf 0per ty a t the northwest con-
ner of West Broad and Hunt-
ingdon streets. It was a casn
transaction, Mr. Tweedy buy-
the property for $11,600
from McKelvey Services, Inc.,
william McKelvey, president,
representing the seller.
Several years ago, Mr. Twee- f
dy, prior to going into the
night club business, operated a
pool and billiard parlor in the
corner store of this property..
The property, which is one
of the most valuable business
sites on lower West Broad
street, measures approximately
58 feet on West Broad, a half
block, with a depth of 100 feet
on Huntingdon street. It is
comprised of three stores on
West Broad street with two
large apartments upstair#, and
two houses on Huntingdon
street. . ■ -
1 - - ....
Mr. Tweedy bought the prop¬
erty as an investment. *-
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County Teach¬
ers Meet
Jan, 22
Due to the closing of the p'Jb
lie schools for another week,
the regular meeting of the
Chatham county teachers
which was scheduled for Sat¬
urday, January 8 ,, -lias frJen
postponed until Saturday, Jan¬
uary 22. This announcement
is made by R. A. Young, chair¬
man of the steering commit¬
tee.
WALTER WHITE TO
VISIT OVERSEAS
WAR AREAS
New 1 York, N. Y.—The New
York Post has announced that
Walter White, NAACP secreta¬
ry, will leave shortly on a trip
to the European theatre of op¬
erations as an accredited cor¬
respondent for that paper.
Mr. White expects to visit color
ed troops, to observe all con¬
ditions affecting Britons, them, to in¬
terview leading and to
proceed, if possible, to other
■war theatres.
S. SGT. ROT Vi PM ” n
of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Taige,
who Is stationed so m. mem in.
India with tne U. a. ugr,
forces, writes tliac- hs a • -3
fine and wishes -all r„ v o 3
a happy and prosperuu, .u. ,4
Year.
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