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PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXII
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NEGRO ENGINEERS BUILD HEAVY BOMBER BASE—View of a hangar nearing completion at
a newly constructed airfield somewhere in England. The construction of this field was done entirely
by Negro members of an aviation engineer battalion. An airdrome is more than a strip of concrete
laid down in the middle of a cow pasture. This base, for instance, consists of one 6,000-foot runway,
a three-mile perimeter track encircling the field, and approximately 250 technical, administrative and
other buildings. (Photo by U. S. Army Signal Corps).
PARTY HAS BEST WELFARE OF NEGRO AT
■UEHf£M“ DO MORE FOR HIM
Says Roosevelt Is No
Abraham Lincoln
By Robert Smith *
Los Angeles, Jan, 17 (ANP)
In the usual frank,
and strong manner of
ing her views. Congresswoman
of a Cmm«Lcut L hi C an
intervi >w in her Biitmore Ho-
tel suite here Sunday told
correspondent that neither
the Democratic nor the Repub-
lican party has the interest ot
the Negro at heart, but of the
t wo, the Republican party will
fv^lo _
more to help his cause."
•t The statement was in answer
to the question, "The Negro
generally has always pledg¬
ed his political allegiance
the Republican party due
Abraham Lincoln. In
years, he has shifted to the
Democratic party because of
the New Deal program. He is
now between the devil and
deep biue sea in regards to
coming presidential elections,
being somewhat
with the Roosevelt administra-
tion . Wnat reasons can you
give why the Negro
vote the Republican ticket.”
In direct answer to the ques¬
tion, the congresswoman stat¬
ed that there were no reasons
why the Poles, Czechs, Jews, or
Negroes should vote for a' cer¬
tain party because of their ra-
Continuod on page Five*
Law Against
Closed Shop
SUGGESTED 4S WAY TO
END JIM CROW
Washington, D. C., Jan 13
A suggestion that the best
hope of relief from discrimina¬
tion against Negro workers by
labor unions lies in enacting a
law which wfill forbid closed-
shop contracts with unions
that deny membership to per¬
sons because of race or color
has been made editorally by
the Washington Evening Star.
Noting that in California a
Federal court held it was with¬
out jurisdiction in the suit)
brought against the Boilermak
ers union to force it to
them lo the regular union
stead of an auxiliary, the Stan
mat mailer ter of or discrimination ascr.mmauon. The-
editorial declares; ,
“As the obstacles to the re-1
„oval of these discriminatory
uine relief lies in a legislative' 1
approach. If Congress were
to forbid closed-shop contracts
withk^nions that deny member
ship to persons because of race
Continued on page 4
Dr. Weaver Heads Chicago
Race Relations Cornish
Washington, D. C.—The
ignation of Dr. Robert C. Weav
er> cf ths War Mau P° w er Com
mission staff, to accept the di-
rectorship of the Mayor’s Com¬
mittee Race Relations in 1
on
bv^Paul *
V. McNutt,
chairman. Dr. Weaver
been liaison officer
the Committee on Fair Em-
ployment Practice, with the
special assignment of developing
a program for fuller utilization ,
of minority groups. He will i
leave V. MC for Chicago the
first of next, month.
Mr. McNutt expressed regret
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WE HATE TO SEE YOU GO, JOF/—The Army’s expert on
physical training, Sergeant Joe Louis Barrow, prepares to leave Love
Field, Dallas, Texas, in a bomber after one of his exhibitions. Those
present to see him off are members of the 5th Ferrying Group, Ferry¬
ing Division, Air Transport Command. (Photo by U. S. Army Signal
Corps). ;
— —
ASKS NEWSREELS COM-
PANIES TO INCLUDE
9STH SQUADRON
_
New York, «.
its 1 efforts 11 1 to 1 secure secur- wider der dis-
tribution of news about Negro
troops fighting for victory,
NAACP has 1 asked five news
ree ] companies to include shots
0 f the 99th Pursuit Squadron,
n combat in Italy, in their reg
uiar releases.
T„e NAACP learnpd
certain channels last week
mat many teet ot film had
be3n shot of the 99tb Squadron
r active combat duty, but that
was S rave da„ g er
newsreel companies. It was
the feeling that All American
Newsreel, a company
exclusively to Negro jim crow
theatres, would be given
(Continued on page 8j
Drafting of Labor Would
Be Harmful to
IS OPINION OF MANY RACE LEADERS
Remedy for Present Labor Problem Is The Proper
Utilization oi Present Available Manpower
New York, N. Y. Opposition
to a national service act, as sug
ge l. t by President Roosevelt
and as embodied in the present
AuaUu-Wadsworth b 11. W
iv.ced January 12 by the Na-
tional Association for tne Ad-
1 tanceent of Colored People.
Last April 1, two representa-
fives of the NAACP, Walter
i White and Charles H. Houston,
| testified before a senate com-
, mittee on the Austin-Wads-
j | worth bill, opposing it on the
grounds that <a) thousands
Negroes were still excluded
j from employment on account
of prejudice; (b) other thous-
! ands of Negroes were employed
below their skills; and (c>
! enactment of such a bill would
result in freezing Negro
(ers in certain categories and
j areas of the country.
led j ‘‘The materially situation between has not chang
last
at the loss of Dr. Weaver,
he sa ; d> had made a
contribution contrluld ; on to the
program.
Dr. Weaver was born in
. , ,
schools He received
the degree of bachelor of
encc in economics at
1929 an d. m WSl. the
°f* naster of &T } S and doct ° r of
Philosophy in the same subject,
Early m tls
Lie returned to Washington as
technical adviser to the
Committee on National Recov
<Contmuedon pagp eightt
groes from membership.
'when The Association won its case}
Justice Murray ruled 1
! that in his opinion it was not,
| a labor union and thus not
subject to the Civil Rights law. I
The case is being appealed tc I
! a higher court and the NAACP 1
brief shows that the past his- \
tory of the Railway Mail As-i
sociation is conclusive proof I
that ways considered the Association itself has al-} j
a labor
organization and has acted as
a labor body. The NAAC
P the attorneys Civil R'ghts also law argued is const!-' that j
tutional and that it applies to
the Railway Mail Association, i
BIG OPTICAL FIRM
OPENS STORE HERE
The Allied Optical Stores
company has opened a branch
store here. It is located at
14 East State street.
The firm, whose headquart-
ers are in Chicago, is one of
the biggest dealers in eye-
glasses in the country. It
f to V those passes who wish on credit to taice terms ad-
vantage of this courtesy, and
makes no extra charge for the
service. Glasses are sold as
low as one dollar per week.
One of the outstanding oi-
ferings of the firm includes eye
glasses straigteneadjusted
and cleaned, free of charge
11 J' ou are i !1 need of
glasses it will pay you to
the Allied Optical Store at 14
East State street.
I-AWYON-HAI? ■ * irh.,, v iirr-rr^'ie rj
v
At a lovely ceremony Wea-
nesd ay evening, January 12,
Mrs. Annie M. Lawton became
710 West Bolton street, with
the Rev. R. J. Dinkins offici-
ating The bride was dressed
wh J w K itnc ^ ed nv .
ceremony were Mrs Gciden 0 f
Philadelphia and the Smiling
Syndicate club.
MRS. McCROREY AND
NURSE PERISH WHEN '
HOME BORNS nr n ,,p
!
Charlotte, N. C., Jan. 14—;
<ANPj~The body of Mrs. Me-
Crorey; wifg of Dr MeCrorey,
pjeKiaent 01 j 0 hnson C. Smitn
university, was recovered last;
Thursday afternoon from the
wreckage of her burned resi-:
dence that was consumed m
names early Thursday morn-
ing ^1* along with the body ol
E™ Matthew, echoot.
*
The f ire , reported to have oc
.
tuirea aoout z.Sw a. m., inu.s
da y- tra P ped Mrs - MeCrorey
-J-
ing from a recent attack of iri j
Duenza. I
Dr. MeCrorey was notified of
the tragedy in Cincinnati,
whe ™ he was attending a
of the Association 01
American colleges.
pril and today,” sad Roy Wil-
kins, assistant secretary of the
NAACP. "Negro workers a-
vai ™tew , u, , t i ie Atlanta Ga
' vtlL pai>ied ' * lth levv
exceptions, and white workers
imported when a Bell Aircraft
factory was opened there in
1943. An assembly plant for
four-engined bombers in Tex-
as has refused so far to employ
Negro skilled workers.
“There are thousands of ex-
amples of Negro skilled work-
| ers drawing the pay of ‘help-
ers’ as assistants to white men
they have trained in the skill.
“This Association believes
that voluntary manpower al-
; location can be said to be a'
failure a s long as more than
one-half million Negro work-'
[ers, at a conservative estimate,;
are either refused jobs or are
unemployed.”
Want R M A
Rights Under Civil Rule j
New York, N. Y., Jan. 13 A
br ief amicus curiae against the}
. ...
been filed with the Appellate}
Division of the Supreme Court.
the State of New York
the NAACP. in an effort to
brln g the Railway Mail Associa j
iron under lhe provisions of j
the Civil Rights law. j
„
The Railway Mail Associa- ’
was sued in the Supreme
Court of Albany county by the
State Industrial Commissioner!
and the Attorney General !
on
the ground that as a labor or-
ganization it violated the Civil
Rights law by excluding Ne-
Smith House
Group Grills
FEPC
By Ernest E. Johnson
Washington Jan 17 <ANPi
The sharp questioning of con-
greSsional probers was direct-
at the Presidents Fair Em-
ployment Practice committee
last Tuesday for the first time
in the two and one half years
of the agency’s existence, and
after five hours of examination
the decision was still hanging
In the balance.
A c hec k of reactl0 ns t(,llow -
mg . the i 1 h , f anng disc 1 , osed that
WelR U not for tho wi ! , ey tenac
~
lousness of a Philadelphia law-
named Joseph Sharfsin,
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Some Savnnah Area Men In U. S Armed Forces
S. EOT. lo.'.-.C CAMPBELL,
son of Mrs. Hattie Campbell of
527 East Liberty street and
brother of Miss Sadie Campbell
who is stationed at Fort Fran¬
cis E. Warren, Wyoming.
&*-
CPL. -FREDERICK DOUG¬
LASS SENGSTACKE, son oi
the late Rev. H A. Sengstacke
and Mrs. Rosa Davis Sengs-
(tacke, who is stationed at
Camp Gordon, Augusta.
SGT. CHAS. M. GRADY, bus
band of Mrs. Maxie Gradv ol
614 Wr t, 31st strrf't.. nine aftfr months, br¬
ing overseas for
was home on furlough visiting
family. He "is now station
ed at Temple, Texas.
Looking For
! These Men
— I
Selective Service System is
very anxious to get in touch!
with the following men. Any
one knowing tneir address!
will please communicate with
*»• »— *»• 4. ««-* Amr- I
lean Bank Building. !
Leon Dixon, ll W. Park Vv,;
Hubert Green, R. F. D., Box 213,
Burroughs; Henry Vincent Tur
n er, 230 Savannah Sugar Refill
ery; General Hagerdy, 502 An-
derson street, Woodville; Al-
bert Woodbury, Rt. 3 , Box GO;
Linnie Boly Lord, R. F. D 3.
Ferguson Ave.; Walter Wald-
burg, 623 Perry Lane, East;
John Mitchell, 521 East Hall
Thompson Brown, 537
East Gwinnett lane; Otis J.
Hicks, R. F. D. 4; Earnest Fel-
ton, Rt. 3 , box 160; Lawrence
Feelings, Rt. 3, box 106.
Files Brief In
Davis Case
MAN CHARGED WITH 1
ASSAULT TO KILL
New York, N. Y. The legal
staff of the NAACP has filed a
brief amicus curiae in the case
of Tee Davis whose appeal
is pending in the supreme
court of the state of Arkansas.
Davis was convicted by the
jury in the circuit court of
Crittenden county in Septem¬
ber, 1943, on a charge of as¬
sault to kill. He was sentenc
ed to 10 years imprisonment.
Davis lived ,in Edmondson,
Ark., which until recently was
a IPO percent Negro communi¬
ty. A white map named
Weaver went to look for some
one who was supposed to have
stolen a cow, and knocked on
Davis' door and shouted to Da
Continued on page Five)
H. D. Simmons and Miss
Frankie Golden who
charge ol the seal sale in
schools in Chatham county dur
ing the 37th Annual Christ-
mas Seal Sale Campaign were
very proud of the
which showed *600 were raised
Y schools alone. The county
with Miss Golden as
their chairman raised $189,
and the city schools with Mr.
as their chairman,
raised $435^84^^making ^ „ a grand ,
total of $624.85.
The schools and the amounts
ra j Sed by ea ch were as follows:
Cuyler high school, $108.06;
Beach high, $101.07; East
Broad, $74.81; Florence school,
$44.20; West Savannah, $45.93;
Woodville, $45.11; West
$41.25: Maple St. school $29.49:
Paulsen $25.00; Springfield Ter
race $28.15; Harris St.
Antioch $12.83;
$40; Burroughs $5.52
Montieth *5.50.
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Pvt. Jess-3 J. Wilson, the son
of Ozzie Wilson and nephew ol
Miss Alice Wilson of Thunder¬
bolt, who is stationed at Lang¬
ley Field, Virginia, and reports
that'he is getting along fine.
RFC. JAMES DAVID ROBIN¬
SON. the son of Mr. and Mrs
w. <". Robinson of Freedman'-
Grove and husband of Mrs.
Frances Robinson of St. Simon
Island, who is stationed at
Greensboro, North Carolina.
CPL. ROBERT GARNER,
who is serving with the U. S-
forces somewhere overseas.
Wiiile in Savannah before go¬
ing into the army he resided
with Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Guii
of 547 East Park avenue.
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TRIPLETS JOIN ARMY—The Cooper triplets, 19, of Marshall,
1'exas, were inducted into the Army at the Reception Center, Camp
Walters, Texas, recently. Formerly employed at a machine and tool
jhop in Houston, Texas, the triplets who answer to the names of C. C*
Ennis and Olden, attended schools in Shreveport, La., and Tuskege*
Institute, Alabama. (U. S. Anny photo.) , . .«
Raise Over $609 In
Annual XmasTB Seal Sale
To date the gross returns for
seals are #2,156.84. The
goal wa * s s€t at $2 ’ 000 and wa
I have already gone over our
I oal Alphonso Fields
was
general seal sale chairman,
j m. -- 3 i BEACH t— r- =£z.. STUDENTS - —
IN RECITAL
The senior class of Beach
high school will present Elean¬
or Williams, soprano; David
Brown, baritone, and William
pj easan t j r tenor, in a song
recital tomorrow night at the
FAB church, ranklin square, a'.
8 o’clock. The program to be
presented will be as follows:
f "*' v
Group I
j e UntQ Me Handel
Alleluia ______!__ Mozart
Eleanor Williams
Because .. D’Hardelot
Beach Ensemble
Group II
Who Is Sylvia .. Schubert
Continuer) on page eight
PVT. GUSSIE BROWN, who
was recently home on furlough
visiting his father, Jesse
Brown of 9 Exley street. He
is stationed at New River,
North Carolina, and is doing
fine.
CPL. CLAUDE HOW* 1 . wha
is stationed somewhere dr- .,
and says that he’s
right- When in the
Howell rt0weu lives at * L the
mother, Mrs.
2311 Harden sire'