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TEARS Of CONTINUOUS PUBLIC SERVICE ?olu.vil lxh HIGH RANKING ARMY OFFICERS EXCHANGE GREETINGS - • - - Released by U. S. War Department Bureau of Public Relations TWENTY-ONE HIGH RANKING NEGRO OFFICERS exchanged greetings at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, recently, when Colonel Edwin N. Hardy, Post Commander, served as host at a reception held in the residence of Colonel Midian 0. Bousfield, commanding officer of Station Hospital, No. 1. The event was in honor of Brigadier General Benjamin 0. Davis and Mr. Truman K. Gibson, Jr., Civilian Aide to the Secretary of War, who were at Fort Huachuca on an inspection tour. It is to be noted that there are 16 more Negro officers of field grade present here than participated in the 1918 World War, and that all field grade officers (rank of major and above) stationed at this post were not present when this picture was taken. Left to right, seated on floor: Majors Orion N. Page, Phillip Johnson, Wilbur Strickland, McKinley Thomas, Lieutenant Colonel Harold W. Thatcher, Major Percy L. Turnley. Center row: Leutenant Colonel Wendell T. Derricks, Mr. Truman K. Gibson, Jr., Colonel Edwin N. Hardy, Brigadier General Benjamin 0. Davis, Colonel Midian O. Bousfield, Lieutenant Colonel Dehaven Hinkson. Standing: Majors Kenneth E. Campbell, Edward D. Wimp, Raymond Watkins, Rafael Hernandez, Benjamin Gray, Henry R. Butler, John T. Holland, William E. Allen, Lieutenant Colonel Roscoe C. Giles, Majors Ralph Teabeau, and Earl Renfroe. (U. S. Army Signal Corps photo.) J *• ' 1= : . ». if White Finds Much Racial Friction Between Colored and White American Soldiers Overseas Says Shortage Will Force Hiring of Negroes By Transit Companies Haven Home NFA Chapter Wins Award AT STATE MEETING AT FT. VALLEY Prizes in cash donated by Scars Roebuck to the State Vocational Agricultural Dept, for New Farmers of America chapters and individual boys studying agriculture and car¬ rying out the Food for Vivtory and Farm Repair” for 1942 and 1943 were awarded to ten NFA chapters and individual boys at a program held held at at camp Camp | John tiOpe, rt. Vauey, on Saturi day and Sunday. schools of. j There were ninety the state participating in the*, contest. The following high ranking chapters were awaru-j ed pnzjs: Onftfn 'ocationai j school, iirst prize, thirty Jars; Greensboro, second, twen ty Jive dollars; Haven Home, i Savannah, third, twenty dol¬ lars. Seven other schools re- oeived cash prizes. Individual students Robert receiving Mas; j cash awards were: Ivetc, New Union school, Boston, Oil-[ 1 Irst prize, thirty dollars; .ver D<0on, Todd-Grant school,i Darien, second, fifteen dollars;] Fletcher B. Foster, Griffin,! third, ten dollars. Seven oth 1 er boys received cash prizes fori outstanding Benjamin projects. Anderson, j Prof. Pro-! su; pervisor of Rural War diction program and Alva Ta-- bor, itinerant teacher trainer .(Continuedo^ase 1 eight) WAS HOME ON FURLOUGH i o £ v|, ® , ' Pfc. Ronnie M. Erwards of Women’s Army Corps, who was ^ome recently on furlough visiting her husband, Clarence ds, 12 Fellwood Homes, nor mother, Mrs. Mattie of 31 Park venue, Walm 1 a Pfc. Edwards is no .y ck fat her post of duty, r Huachuca, , Arizona. Boosting of Registration SEVERAL HUNDREDS ADDED TO LIST __ During the past several weeks Increased interest has been shown in the registration of voters, especially by the young folks made qualified b y age by the recent iegi&iatnc cn Continued on page Eight) New York-. Increasing short ages m manpower will lorce American transit lines to em¬ ploy more Negroes and women to avert service it was declared here last week by Edward A. Roberts, ODT official, in a speech before the American Transit Association at the Hotel New Yorker. Mr. Roberts, associate direc¬ tor of the Division of Local Transport of the ODT, assert ed that in order to meet the problem posed in local trans portation companies, “it has been necessary to employ classes of people who have (Contlnuedon page eight* n | j Bureau of Publie Relations ! COMING TO U. S.—Seven-year- : old Brenda Drucilla Maxwell, Lib¬ erian orphan who was legally adopted last November by Second Lieutenant Crystaleo M. Maxwell of the Army Nurse Corps, is ex¬ pected to arrive in the United States soon from her native Mon- Brenda will live and attend ' rovia. school at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, where Lieutenant Maxwell is sta- (U. S, Army photo.), THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY. MAY 4, 1944 MANY WHITE TROOPS TRY POISON MINDS OF ALLIES Some Have Even Re¬ sorted To Physical Violence To j PREVENT ASSOCIATION OF N E G R 0 SOLDIERS WITH ALLIED POPUL ACE New York - Racial friction between colored and white American soldiers overseas, al¬ though corrected to a marked degree by General Dwight Ei¬ senhower, is still hurting the war effort and should be com¬ pletely eliminated, said Walter White, NAACP secretary, in a nationwide radio talk over the Columbia Broadcasting System Sunday. “The division in our ranks and the fomenting of racial and ether antagonisms are Continued on page eigm LEADING STUDENTS HIGH SCHOOL The following are the lead¬ ing students in Beach Senior high and Cuyler Junior high schools for the second six weeks: ! Beach Senior High Alice Freeman, 11A1 class, 95 per cent; Mary Arnold, i 12A1, 94; Luetta coivin, 12A1 i 94; Hester Jackson, 11A1, 94; Helen Scott, 11A1, 94; Ida Smalls, llAl, 94; Mattie Grant, 10B1, 94; Elsie Dallas, 12A1 ! Elsie Morris, 1PB, 93; ge Jenkins 12A1, 7oai"~ai. 91; des . Hardwick, u , j i, 12A1, , m. 91, t..-,- vius Geiger, 12A1, 91; gia Haven, 12A2, 91; Iona 11A1. 91; Kathryn Jones, 91; Anita Brown, 10B1, 91; Les ter er Johnson, Johnson 12A1; 90; Louise Blunt, 12A1; 90; Marie wick. 12A1, 90; Chas. Collier, 12A1, 90; Isaac Hargroves, .on is University To Admit Negro Students - FIVE Will BE ACCEP¬ TED BEGINNING WITH SUMMER SESSION Announced Rev. Patrick J. Holloran, President SAYS IT’S DUTY OF ALL CATHOLICS TO RECEIVE CHRISTIAN EDUCATION St. Louis, May I.iANPi Ne¬ gro students will be admitted to St. Louis university beginn¬ ing with the summer school ses sions of the college of arts and sciences and the graduate school in May and June, res- pectlvcly, it was announced Tuesday by the Rev. Patrick J. Holloran, S. J., president. Al¬ ready two men students have been accepted for the college classes and two men and a wo¬ man, public school teachers, for the graduate school. With the acceptance of Negro at St. St. Louis Louis ty oldest Missouri institution, it is expected that the tight for, admission of N e gro students into Missouri versity ., will take on _ a „„ new lit. Religious grounds were th< oran announced the decision basis upon which Father Holl- of the university authorities, He se.id: “It is the evident duty of all Catholics to receive (This duty is not restricted grade school or even school, but when possible ex- tends to all branches of university training. In the Louis area, though there are (Continued on page Eight) Looking For These Men Local Selective Service Sys¬ tem Board is very anxious to get in touch with these regis¬ trants who are delinquent. Joseph Wright, cr, U. S. Ma¬ rine Hospital; Adam Gordon, Jr., 409 West Henry lane; Em¬ ory Anglin Morrell, 945 Marcy Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.; Richard Colclough, 250 Green Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.; Hubert Bow¬ ens, Box 21, R. F. D., 3, White Bluff; David Monteifh; Brantley, James Rt. 1,j Box 509. Grem, 530 Stewart St.'; Toby Haneswort, 1215 Main St., Jack sonville, Fla.; William Boyd, Box 102, Sardis, Ga.; Joseph Lewis Perry, R.t., 1, Box 750 Louisville Rd.; John YoumansJ 1333 Skidaway Augusta Ave; Island; John Earnest T, Burj er, 1 Felton, RFD 3; Thompson Brown, 537 East Gwinnett lane- John Mitchell, 521 E. Hall lane; j Linnie Boly Lord, R. F. D 3, Ferguson Ave; Albert Wood¬ i bury, Rt. 3, P. O. Box 60; Hen¬ ry Vincent Turner, 230 Savan- nar Sugar Refinery; Robert Green, RFD, Box 213, Bur¬ roughs; J. C. Jones,-414 E. Gas ton lane; Willie Rufus Wil¬ liams, 1029 Cope street. BEACH-CUYLER FOR SECOND SIX WEENS DC; Josephine Freeman 12A1, 91; Gladys Day, 12A2, 90; Ma¬ mie Scott, 12A2, 90; Gloria D.lworth 10B1, 90,; Blanche Mornson, 10B1, 90; Ellen Wel- ccm ~> iOBl, 90; Mable Williams 12A2, 90; Helen Walker, 12A1, 93; Janet Wilson, 10A1 99. Junior High Margaret Bynes, 9A2, 92; Earnestine Maynor, 7B1, 93; Bettye Kilroy, 9A, 90; Dorothy! McGreer, 8A, 90; Frank Staley,' Q .„ 92; Lindsay Thomas 9A3,i DO; John joriu Calvin C/tuvin Williams, wuiiams, 9B3,I a Q0 90; . Lillian r.unan Bodison, <m? 9B2, 9a 93 Christine Williams OB2, 93;! Delores Jefferson, 9B2, 90; Al-j ™ an Walker, „ W r * lker ’ 7A2 ' S1; Barbara j backer ^A^ 0 92* 1 ' Marguerite ryori 7A3, 90: Charles Tucker, 92; Delores Hardwick, 7A3 White Pressure, Forces Bon on Lillian Smith Appearing Before" White Club Columbia, S. C. May 1 (ANP) Cancellation of the scheduled appearance here day, May 4, of Miss Lillian Smith, Georgia author of the novel, “Strange Fruit” and edi¬ tor of the quarterly magazine, “South Today” was verified Wednesday by Mrs. M. H. Hick¬ man. white, chairman of the Book forum, which had ar¬ ranged the lecture as its final program of the season. While Mrs. Hickman would not discuss circumstances lead ing to the cancellation, saying, ..j have been - through so much humi!iatlon feimilio(l „„ and because of it I wish ,y t0 for S et , it,” ., „ she did , admit . that “severe pressure” had brought by white c j ubs and 0 {,her white to cancel the program. She was bombarded with letters, phone calls, threats, a nd all other sorts of communications some of them almost violent. Among letters received by Mrs. Hickman was one from the New Century Book Club here signed by Mrs. Ethlyn D. Pope, secretary. It. said in part: “It seefns a pity to spoil the fine effect of your efforts (with the Book forum) now by having as guest speaker . . Lillian Smith, author of ‘Stran¬ ge Fruit’, the subject matter of which would be an affront to any thinking people, but par¬ ticularly so to the people of this state and the south- It is on page Continued on Page Eight (Continued on page 8) SAVANNAH AREA MEN SERVING IN U. S. ARMED FORCES 4 ffi3i § * ~ Staff Sergt. John D. Hill is a former Savannahian, induct- ed in the service at Camp Up¬ ton, N. Y., who is now station¬ ed at Payote, Texas. He is the brother of Mrs. Clifford Perry and nephew of Mrs. Margaret E. Hill, both of this city. me Pfc. John (Johnson) C. Wil- liams who has been overseas 16 months is now stationed at Italy, is the son of Mrs. Susie Griggs of New York and John Williams ol 5J3 Jefferson St, who died April 18. pfc. John¬ son recently appeared on a pro gram for the soldiers with the celebrated Josephine Baker. Simmons Again Heads missionary Department The Ga.-South Carolina Con- ven ti on of Congregational churches met at First Church, Atlanta Ga., April 21st with Moderator J. C. Wright con¬ ducting. The several churches of the convention were well rep¬ resented. Much praise is giv¬ en the ladies who served the delegates with a sumptuous dinner. Friday in th business meeting the Missionary depart¬ ment scored in a very large way by making a 200 percent in¬ crease over the last year's re¬ port. Other, auxiliary reports were good and received a big hand. Moderator Wright spoke mmrn M Spt. Lee Butler, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henrietta But¬ ler of 17 Walnut street, New¬ town, who has been serving overseas in the Middle East for seventeen months.. Ha writes that things are all right and he’s doing fine. Corporal Cicero Hayward of East Victory Drive and Moore street who is stationed in the array at Staten Island, New York. His many friends het9 are delighted to know that he is getting along fine and likes life as lived by the boys in the army. NUMBER 29 f' eCOr{ l CrOWd Will Hear Judge Hastie WHEN HE ADDRESSES NAACP MASS MEETING At First African Baptist Church The coming of Judge Wil¬ liam K. Hastie, renowned Ne¬ gro jurist, is but one week oil'. The Savannah branch of the NAACP is bringing this out¬ standing man to the city, who won the the Spingarn medal award for 1943, for the most outstanding service rendered race. The only Negro to hold a U. S. federal judgeship, later as civilian aide to the U. S. Secre¬ tary of War, and now serving as dean of the school of law of Howard university, and le- gal counsellor for the NAA CP, judge Hastie will bring to his Savannah hearers a mes¬ sage rich in experience, and information that can comb from only such a colorful chat acter as he. Judge Hastie will deliver hia address at the first African Baptist church, corner of Montgomery and St. Julian streets, in the main auditori¬ um, on Friday night of next i&tmmmm % _ I . . ________ .............. Pvt. Ondra Stevens, 640 of Mrs. Sadye Stevens of. Yamacraw Village and brother of Mrs. Merle Edmondson, was recently home on furlough. He is stationed at Camp Ellis, Illinois, where he is getting along nicely. I P- Pvt. Jimmie Rivers, Rj r "•> a| oii Mr. and Mrs. James vers 513 E. Hall street, ■' wnpletd on Saturday a / - ; -oi vica in Uncle Sam’s army, He ia now stationed at ' An: Si ton, North Carolina wire:, naa been for some timo, ^ J k