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TEARS Of
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LX1I
^UN-COVERING
J WASHINGTON
>y Harry S. McAIpin, white
House i orrespondent
Released through the At-
Lanta Daily World, by
Ur- NNPA
HOW DO THEY
TREAT YOU?
That'-, the first question
every interested person has
asked me whenever the subject
c* ■ attending the president’
press conferences in the White
Hou e comes up. It’ s a natar
al question for Negroes to ass
because they are aware thou
experience and hearsay of the
extremes to which any one o T
them may be subjected
he unexpectedly shows up in
unusual places, particularly if
those places have heretofore
been exclusively white.
It happens when there is in-
volved moving into a neighbor
hood, riding in an open Pull¬
man in certain sections of the
country, eating in a restau¬
rant, or attending a meeting.
Either there is an attitude or
surprise and resentment,
there is a discomforting, over¬
done gesture at making one
“feel at home.’’
Well, there was neither ex¬
treme when t attended my
first conference which hap -
pened to be Pres
394th. Though I was the suo
feet of many a gaze, and
haps of several little group
versations, as well. I was not
made to feel resented. Nor
was I “gushed' over. Of 55
or 60 correspondents present,
including the widely read Marx
Sullivan, only two of them
came over to where I sat in the
reception hali awaiting the sig
nal to head for the President’s
office.
That, I think, was natural.
No one knew me. J. had no —
sponsor. I preferred it that
way going in on my own and
getting the natural reactions.
.1 was there for business and so
were they. They were cha ¬
ring with friends—I hadn't
made any yet.
Stephen Early, the Presi¬
dent's press press secretary secretary, came
out during the pre-conference
<^B^atted ava il, shook hands with me and
itted for for a a moment. moment. He, He,
if course, i was really ’’ my ’ host. '
He has charge of all press rela
tions at the White House. He
made me feel I “belonged"
there by his gesture, and I ap¬
preciated it. President, himself,
Then the
at, thc conclusion of the con¬
ference, took notice of my pres
cnee, extended his hand, smil¬
ed, and with a firm handclasp
told me he was glad to see me
and happy to have me there.
He put me entirely at ease with
his magnetic personality with
that brief, but warm, greeting.
Like a school boy who
his lessons, I was anxious to go
back the following Friday.
When i did, though, the icy
“newness” of my being there
had not worn off. at least I was
expected. Then tiie unexpect
ed happened to break the ice.
A charming member of the
female contingent of Whi.e
House correspondents <the:e
are usuall 5 or 6 of them
there) detached herself from
the crowd waiting for the
guards to drop the barrier
which would signal a office
rush to the President’s
to gain positions of vantage
around his desk. She an •
proached me, and calling me
by name, said she had been see
ing me at the press confer-
cnees of the Secretary of War
(Continuedon page eight!
Some Savannah Area IVIen Serving In LJ. S. Armed Forces
SOT. DONALD H, GRAY,
who is stationed at Camp Ellis,
Illinois. He is the son of Wil¬
liam Gray and the nephew of
Mrs, I izzir. Brudwell nf OgCC-
cheeton. He states that he is
well pleased with his surround¬
ings.
anannah fritame
!
j
Urge Crowd
1 Hear Fisk
] To
Singers
'
u/rnJU/TCn rVbUlxh&UAl A V /V/li/l/ MITUT Al AT
1 f * A. * B. *__ CHURCH
A . lara,e crowd , is . expected t d t0 to
be present at the First African
Baptist church, Franklin Sq..
1 on Wednesday evening. March
8. when the Fisk Singers, un-
[ der the direction of Mrs. James
a. Meyers, will render a con-
: cert.
These singers, seven in num-
] b er have a long and
ble tradition, for the
Jubilee singers
returned .ctntuw to Nashville, .......... Tennes-
see, to celebrate the dedication
of jubilee hall at Fisk Univer-
S ity, named for them and
built with money they
earned in interpreting to
world the joy. pathos and
gious devotion of their race.
They had been received in
white House rT ----- by by the the
| 0 f the United States, had
before Queen Victoria and
er er notables. notables.
This prosent group sings
with harmony, rhythm and
-
(Continued un page two
—
WHITE TALKS
WITH GENERAL
EISENHOWER
New York—Walter White,
NAACP secretary now on tour
overseas, had a two hour con¬
ference recently with General
Dwight W. Eisenhower, su¬
preme invasion commander, ac
cording to a story sent by wire
less to this country by W. Ran
dy Dixon, foreign correspond¬
ent of the Pittsburgh Courier,
Mr - White, on a tour oi over
seas troop installations. left
England on or about February
2C, according to word received
here February 23. Mr. White
arrived in' London January 3
and that , time . has com
since
Continued on Page 2
MRS. EL0ISE
SLAIN IN HER ROOM
Husband Escapes,
Surrenders To Police
1 Mrs. Lie., e Fubinson,
j y ears olc >. was shot to
Friday night by her
: Eddie iBusteri Robinson.
killing occurred about
o’clock at the residence of
couple, 811 West 40 street,
No one witnessed the
but it appears that the
----- had lesaed ------- in --------- their
following which the man
lessly beat and then shot
wile who was dressed in
nightgown, the pistol
so close to her that
1 nightclothes were burned
the gunpowder.
The young woman’s
Mrs. Janie Janie Brown, Brown, who who
pied a room in the house,
J joining that of the couple,
aroused by the pistol shots
rushed out into the hall way
i investigate. She was
| by her son in laW who is
i to have told her that his
I was sick and he was going
a doctor. In the
the mother entered her
ter’s room and found her
Robinson, dressed in his ba'
robe and only one slipper,
out of the house and
into his car and made his
cape. It is said that he
into South Carolina , but ift e
(Continued on page 8) j
White Sergt
Gives $2000
To NAACP
New Yoj;k— According to
story in the Stars and
army newspaper, for
5. the sum of *2,000'has been
signed to the NAACP by
I geant John Sweet, white,
j ' gland. Granville. Sergeant Ohio, now Sweet in
earn-
i ed the money appearing in
Canterbury Tale,” but
, rules do not permit him to
cept salary.
JONATHAN BURKE, st. m ic
who is now stationed in Norgh
Africa where he is doing fine.
Young Burke is the son > ot
Mr-. Louise Burke of 639 tyist
Oglethorpe avenue and brother
of Miss Thelma Rivers.
THE
|]B« BEATS AND SHOOTS
HIS mi TO DEATH
HEBERT BEADS
RED CROSS
(
AMONG NEGROES OF
CHATHAM COUNTY
j President B F Hubert of 01 the '
i ® e01 l? la State College ,, , lias been
i appointed to head the
Cross drive for funds^ among
j colored people in
■
c ° urdy ' Th® campaign start
Wednesday . and will
last
j throughout the month.
From every indication the col
ored population of this
will meet the challenge “ to he' ‘ )
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Columbia, s. C. The
tive committee of thc
eastern Athletic Association
which met recently at Allen
university, Columbia, S. C.
Reading from left to right
around the table are W. C. Er-
CPL. ROBERT McFADDEN,
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Mc-
Fadden of 11 Third street.
is stationed somewhere in
dia and says that there arc ,
eral other Savannah boys
outfit all of whom are well
seem to be getting along
SGT. JAMES DAUGHTRY,
who is serving with thc U. S.
fighting forces somewhere in
thc Pacific battle area. He
writes that he is okay and do¬
ing well. He is the husband
of Mrs. Cecila Daughtry of 123
McIntyre court, Brunswick.
Wage Increase Ordered for
12000 Car
II CENTS ADDITIONAL
PAY GRANT
Will Amount to Several
Million Dollars
Bv Harry McAIpin, Corres-
pendent, Atlanta Daily
Daily World-NNPA
Washington, D. C. Over
000 dining car employes,
caps, station ushers,
laundry workers and train
ters will benefit from the
dent-creating victory of
United Transport Service
ployes of America, CIO,
the organization last week
pleted negotiations with
than 50 railroad companies
ling for eleven cents
increase and several
dollars in retroactive pay.
The successful
by the union of which
Townsend is president,
sent a complete victory
the 15 Jim crow
railroad brotherhoods
had sought to isolate the
EA wage demands before and
during the period of govefn-
mental operation of the rail-
roads.
A spokesman for the
declared that “the fear of
general revolt towards the
has left certain railroad broth-
erhoods panic stricken and
more time has been spent by
these leaders of jim crow union
ism seeking to destroy
Continued c n page •/
S. A. MEDICAL
lK/LIl.1 VOriFT V I in CL i j
The SoutF Atlantic
al m r t uL vesl "
a deuce of Dr. Archibald
kins, West 37th street, Thu vs
evening. ' The"
was a highlight^ picture showing Qf the the evening
~
me thod of internal
ol fractures of the jawbone
i Al * interesting paper
v! . ad , b y Dl ' Richard Moore
M ® th , ° ds , of f Determining
tu ' hood - A discussion
j ed.
A A delicious doiieinns repast rpnn.it was wn*
by the host.
win, treasurer. Paine college,
Augusta, Ga.; R. L. P-eguev,
president, Allen university'; J.
H. Gadson, Jr., secretary,
gia .State college. Savannah;
and J. D. McGhee, publicity di-
rector, Orangeburg, S-. C.
PFC. J.-CK WLiTE. son of
Mr. and Mrs Charlie Why,e
and brother of Miss Wilhelmi-
na White of 228 Eagle
and grandson of Mrs. Mamie
Mdrphy, who is stationed some
where in the Pacific battle
area.
GOV. DEWEY DENIES LINE HP
j WITH DIXIE
’ Al, FARMER
I INDICTED FOR
j PEONAGE
I VICTIMS
INCLUDE BOTH
i WHITE and COLORED
Washington, D. C.
I ney Qeneral Francis Biddie
nounced to day that a federal
grand jury sitting at Little
1
14-point indictment against
bert Sydney Johnson of Cross
county, Arkansas, charging
him with violation of the feder
al statute prohibiting peonage.
The 14 victims included Ne-
gro and white charecrop-
pers and laborers, and the. in -
dictment charges that
son so intimidated the workeis
on his 2000 acre
that uiac th»v uuj slinneri . iippea -iwav u.vay at •>'.
night, leaving all their posse;:-
■....... s jons and standing crops h»-
1 hind them
The indictment charges fur
ther that Johnson bound
ers to his plantation by
[ rating their ration books
forcing them to purchase
I h* JSTrSSa
cept money from workers to
pay |;ay off off thp the debts debts they thev
to him, thus making it illegal
i Sy* other A pers^ to^employ
them.
| Neighboring landowners and
j officials, as well as the vie-
tims, complained of Johnson’s
j practices, and the case was re of •
ported rce to the Department official.
ju . st bv a local Vio
of'the so-called peonage
----
• (Continued on nsiee 3t
i A program which includes
i (track emphasis on football, tennis,
and basketball was
and will be recommend
>ed to the conierencc at an
i nual session to be held in
tember, 1944..
PFC. WILLIE F. TOLBERT.
who reports life is swell in thc
South Pacific. He is the bro¬
ther ot Mrs. 1 1 G. Edwards of
Savannah, Mrs, Mabel Wright
Henry of McIntosh and Miss
Clifford Wright of Brooklyn,
N. Y.
FIRST NEGRO WHITE
HOUSE REPORTER
Following rapidly on the vis¬
it of a Committee from the Ne¬
gro Newspaper Publishers As-
siciation with President Roosc
velt, the first Negro correspond
ent to be accredited to the
White House, attended the
President’s' Press Conference
Tuesday, February 8. Harry
S. McAIpin, former chief of the
Chicago Defender Washington
Bureau, is the accredited cor¬
respondent of the Atlanta
Daily World, a daily Negro
Newspaper published at Atlan¬
ta, Ga. McAlpine will servo
also as chief of the Washing¬
ton Bureau of member papers
(Continued on Pace 3)
APPRENTICES
Great Lakes, 111., Feb, 21
This week’s graduation ceremo
ni-es at the Hospital Corps
School at the N. S. Naval Hos¬
pital here saw five Georgia
Bluejackets promoted to the
rate of hospital apprentice sec
ond class. They will continue
to train at other naval hospi¬
tals before being sent *to duty
at sea or at othe'r shore! sta¬
tions.
They are: Archibald Finley,
28, son of Mrs. Lula Finley, At¬
lanta; Marion- Curtis Martin,
19, son of Mrs.' Ruby M Wil¬
son, Atlanta; Stephen CU-ant,
18, Atlanta; Sutton Tillman
Griggs, 18, Ben Hill.; and,John
Alexander Robinson, 28, Bol¬
ton.
COLORED PRIEST AT ST.
MARTS THIS WEEK
A one week mission is being
held at St, Mary’s Catholic
church, West 36th street, it was
announced by Father A. J.
Gall, pastor.
The missioner is Rev. Clar¬
ence Howard, S. V. D„ a color¬
ed Catholic priest from Bay St.
Louis, Miss.
Born in Norfolk, Va., he was
ordained seven years ago, and
has been known as an excel-
let speaker, having conducted
missions, retreats and nove~
nas in various states.
The exercises of the mis¬
sion are being held every morn
ing at 7 and 9 o’clock with the
principal talk every evening at
8 o'clock. The mission wili
close Sunday, March 5, at 8
p. m.
Catholics and non-Catholics
alike are invited.
ON THE MATTER OF
THE SOLDIER VOTE
Says He Wants Ballot
Available To All
Servicemen
New York, N. Y. Lawrence
E, Walsh, assistant counsel to
^SJ^STnaac,“S
»» “
cuss or °PP ose any Bm noW
pending before Congress.”
"You may be assured," said
the letter, "that it is the Gov¬
ernor's earnest wish that every
soldier and sailor from this
| s tnte receive a full ballot and
that, so far as possible, he
would like to see the same op¬
portunity extended to every
soldier and sailor from every
j °^l Wr st - a H' in the union,
I am , s ure that the Gover-
; nor's statement and his entire
rppm 10 . d Js „„ a „ P ui 3 i n. ottlcer call
leave no question himTfrv as to his
ngh 0 n n racial ,aclal Wgotry ’ rt n
would be most unfair if any un
favorable inference were to be
dra H ™ flom * « talement made „ ,
b i " im in interests of the
soldiers and sailors from this
Thc N '' ACP »»*
i '' ! ' Walsbs lctter completely
ignored the fact that the fight
over the Soldier Vote bill was
C, ® anly divided between those
favoring a so-called state bal¬
lot and those favoring a feder
al ballot; and that it also ig¬
nored the fact that Governor
Dewey's statement was given
wide publicity in the press, din¬
ing the Congressional debate,
as an endorsement of the
‘states’ rights" ballot. Roy
(Continued on page Hi
Liberty %> Co.
Schools Hold
Contest
NE€R o history iw /e.
WINNERS NAMED
---
FIu- Uberly county .school.-;
1,rl ' 1 ’ !, !1 . 11.! 111 ;i: nu i
1 ' ' ,i:i : ,i <i .n.
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no,. !'<< (-!;; 11 i i <
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ril-'loi V Week All nogs al; I
readings u.-cd on the program
j were thors composed These were by Negro used with au-
-
I the aim developing a higher
ap P rec,ation for Negro spiritu-
als >. a f ld Negro literature, es-
pecially poetry,
An informal addr e ss on T he
' (Continued
on page 41
CPL. ADAM McQUEEN, who
was recenty home on furlough
visiting his parents, Mr. and
Mr... Nathaniel Ward of Thun¬
derbolt, and uncle and aunt,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank ''urry. of
925 Frank street. He is sta¬
tioned at Ft. Meade, Maryland.
NSMB0X 2f
PVT. BENJ. G. BROV • so.i
of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bro' /n of
9Q8 West 38th Street, wi> was
in the city on furlough ’ ring
his parents. He is Sia.imied
at Fort Sill, Okia., and is a
member of the 211 Anny Barrel*