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CONTHWJOUI
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXII
SCENE AT JOINT INSTALLATION OF VETERANS OF FORFir.N WARS
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Scenes of the joint installatijn of officers of Vance Allison Post No. 2.33, a.iu its Lauies Auxiliary, Veterans of For¬
eign Wars, recently held at the West Broad Street USO. The meeting was an epochal one at which the tenth anniver¬
sary of the post was celebrated. Delightful refreshments were served by the auxiliary and a most impressive program
was carried out... Officers of t.ie post were installed by P. A. Meyer, commander of Uhario s G. Edwards Post, white, Vet¬
erans of Foreign Wars, and the ofiiceip pf the auxiliary were installed by Mrs. E. L. Brunson, president of the Charles G.
Edwards Ladies Auxiliary... jfjH 1
The bottom picture show (left to right) Mrs. Mattie Roberts, post officer; Mrs. Agnes Morris, Jr. vice-pesident; Mrs.
Evaiine Porter, secretary; Edward Portei*, officer of the day; Mrs. Gussic Wright, treasurer; Mrs. Rachel Thomas, .guard;
Mrs. Lonnie Butler, conductress; Robert Howard, commander; Ilarvcy Underwood, Sr. vice commander; (James F. Hamil¬
ton, Jr. vice commander; Mrs. Lcssie SteWart, Sr. vice president; Mrs. B?rtha G. Howard, president; Mrsc Emma Jackson,
chaplain; Mrs. E. L. Brunson, ir.rtalhng olp.cer; David A. Johnson, quartermaster; P. A. Meyer, installing officer; II. L.
Tolbert, adjutant and public relations officer.
Commander Robert B. How^jd of Allison post enjoys the distinction of being the only Negro in the state who is a mem¬
ber of the staff of the State Commander of the Veterans ofForeign Wars, an honor whichwas recently conferred on him.
IVhite Blames Officers For Prejudice
Against Negro Troops Overseas
FOUND STUDIED £F-
FORT IN ITALY TO
POISON MINDS OF
POPULACE
Try to Transplant
Hate Wherever U. S.
Troops Stationed
The Associated Press is
exclusively revealing ior
for the first time sections
of the report prepared by
Waller White, executive
secretary for the NAAG'P,
for the war department
dealing with liis visit to
North Africa and Italy.
These disclosures are be¬
ing made in two parts, of
which this is the first.
by Ernest E. Johnson
Washington, May 9—(ANP»
Walter White, executive
tary of the NAACP,
to the states on April 15
a 20,000 mile tour of two im¬
portant theatres of operation
on the other side of the
tic ocean.
Seven days later he layed be¬
fore war department
have a nine page report plus
. four exhibits covering his ob¬
servations in North Africa and
the middle eastern theatre in
which he declared that his
“first and strangest impression
was the difference in racial at¬
titudes in active theatres of
war as contrasted with those
in theatres of preparation for
action ”
In his conclusions White
said in part: “Continuation of
separation and discrimination
is in part responsible for a less
© ttermined spirit in the army
Iver lb£&n is necessary to meet the
l yS Ue
JKiad k b<#oie this war is won. .
"and added his “conviction that
dark though the picture may
seem at times, there is much
ground for hope.”
An earlier report covering
his visit to the European thea¬
tre of operations, England in
(Continued on page Eight)
®bc yauawiali irUmnr
Many to Hear Judge Hastie Night Speak
Tomorrow, Friday
AT NAACP MASS MEET¬
ING AT F. A. B .
CHURCH
Fe 3m^ewM^X^ Sr
The £Uvannah Bran, <h of
the National Association for
the Advancement of
People, in connection with
national membership drive
which is being put on by the
national office in an effort to
secure 250,000 additional mem¬
bers over the country, is seek-
ing now to gain its quota of
3,000 new members To this
end, Noah W. Griffin, is here
from the national otlice, to as-
sist in directing the Savannah
end of the campaign. Three
hundred workers are now
ing sought to secure ten new
members each.
With the success of this pro-
ject ir mind, the locad branch
is bringing Judge Wm. H. Has-
tie to the city, to deliver an
addre?s to the public of Savan
nah, from the main
(FTiday) evening at 3 oclock.
Judge Hastie is the only Negro
ever to preside over a Federal
iContinued on page 41
.
CORPORAL FCNVIELLE
PROMOTED nnouoTrn
Word was received in the
,City laSt Wek that Cor P° ral w -
Earl Fonvielle has been pro-
moted to the rank of
Sgt. Fonvielle, who was home
recently on furlough
his parents, Dr. and Mrs. J.
Fonville of West 36th street,
stationed In Utah Hi, broth-
er: R UI»,s Fonvielle. i, aito
m the artay. a master sergeant
located in Boston, Mass.
Hundreds Negroes Register
| Here to Vote In Primary
GAINS 213 NEW MEM-
BERS IN REVIVAL AT
FAB CHURCH
The First African
! church has just closed the
mos * successful revival in
Wsi ~ 0 rXe~dty~~ oTTavan-
nah.
Alter the second week of this
four week effort, the meetings
moved from the spacious lec-
ture room to the main audito-
rium of the church. The
first two weeks of the meetings
were conducted by the Rev.
Landon Morris, the midget
j 1 preacher and the final of Washington, two weeks D. C. ;
were
in charge of Dr. B. H. Whiting,
also of Washington, the Good-
win oingers of America abiy i
suppo?.ting Dr. Whiting. i
Qn thfi past Sunday the
Pastl , r Ra i ph Mark Gilbert,
when 6g weM baptisedi At the I
afternoon communion service.
the eight hand of fellowship j
\ was given to 103 new members. |
35 others converted during the
revival went to other
i
I Pei haps tw 0 things account
ed for the tremendous success
of outstanding ^is meeting. attractions First of all, j
werei 1
secured, then a program ot
publicity and advertising, on a j
scale never before attempted.
in the city by any church'or-
1 ganization, informed the pub-
Be of. there spociai nttmliotie.
hBr.i* this, the meeting,
«r, well organs and new
members came pouring in.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1941
Refusal Allow Negroes
Vote Be Taken To Court
CASES TO BE
AGAINST FLORIDA AND
ALABAMA ELECTION
OFFICIALS
One Complaint Already
Filed With Department of
Justice
GEORGIA NEGROES TO
ATTEMPT TO VOTE IN
JULY 4th PRIMARY
New York—The refusal of
election officials to allow Ne¬
groes to vote in the May 2 pri¬
maries in Florida and Alaba¬
ma will be challenged in the
courts, it was announced
taneously in the South and
the national office of the
CP in New York.
While few Negroes i. vot- ,
some
ed in both Florida and Alaba-
ma_ a number was refused. In
Mobile a group of fifteen in the
seventh ward was barred from
the pollmg place by Deputy
! stretched l / h his arms across VOr the
entrance. He told them the
primary was a strictly white af
SUg f e ^ 6 sar castical-
iv ly that they take the matter to
thC C0Urts '
In the fourth ward in Mobile
Drs. E B. and P. W. Goode
were denied the right to vote.
In the sixth ward Raymond
Scott, a business man, and
Frank Jones, a railroad work¬
er, was followed into the booth
by a crowd of curious whites
and were not allowed to vote.
According to word from J.
L. LeFlore, NAACp official in
Mobile, about fifteen citizens
are expected to file affidavits
-
™ 1 T ^ ~ ° epart -
ment of Justice. r Civil sui ts
(Continued on page Eight.
Some nfcyr- ' '
Savnnah Area Men In U S Armed Forces -- . ■ ... ~
i
,
Pic. Douglass Baker, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Baker is expect-
ed home soon o nfurlough. He
is located at Camp Van Dorn
in Mississippi, where he saj^s
he is getting on fine. He writes
that the army life is just what
you make,
SOME PAY AS MUCH AS
$22 IN BACK POLL
TAXES
Several hundred Negroes reg
istered here recently in order
that they may be eligible to
vote in the Georgia Democrat¬
ic primary on July 4.
The exact number to register
could not be a»cet tamed
from estimates given by thosd
who were foremost in boost-
ing registration the number of
new registrants is said to have
passed the 500 mark. About
75 qualified Saturday, the fi-
nal day for qualification to
vote in the July 4th primary.
While the great majority of
those registering for the first
were high school and ooi-
students who had recent-
readied their 13th year, the
°z.
who had never registered or
rot paid their poll taxes
for a number of years, pre'*nt-
eia th n. tuves for r< tration.
A nujube - cf the latter was
callrcf to P a y f nn ’ ch lai T° r
amount than the- bad been
told would be demanded of
them on ,. of these a protes .
slona i man, being made to pay
$22 A business man paid >20
and ^ ev . ral o^her men naid as
m Uc h ar MG
Although it is currently 1
u is understood that the legal
undreswood that the legal
arrcar
»«'».»« -oven.year, at
maknm a t„i„. ol ..
(Contumed ou page 2)
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" m i
T'-
CpI. Daner B Harris former-
ly ol Dotroit ’ Mich . ’ brother saJan
i of
„ ah r. ^ d ho «h,
Hc rMenUy re „,ved a medal
or S°od conduct.
_
Ga. State College Summer
Schools Open June 12
REGULAR
STUDENTS MAY COM
PLETE 4Yr.COURSE IN 3
The Georgia State College
will conduct schools with two
sessions of 10 weeks each this
summer, as has been the cus¬
tom fer the jast several years.
One of these schools will be
conducted at the Georgia State
College, Savannah. The other
will be conducted at the Coun¬
try Life Center in Hancock
county. Both sessions of sum
schools will begin on the
morning of June 12. .
j I students Teachers will and not regular only find college the
UsU ai opportunities open to
|them Jn summer schools but
they wlll have the added privi .
, ege to enjo increased opportu
nity made aVailable through
the reCent scientific and tech-
nical equipment added to the
I coUege plant in rec e n t months.
students may enter Georgia
statc coilege at the opening
the summer school session and
continue throughout the next
school year. In this way by
matriculating in the Stream-
lined program there will be a
chance to complete a four year
J college course iu three full
years of twelve months each.
Georgia State College, locat-
j offers ed at Georgia’s seaport city,
i added attraction and
opportunities for a varied and
progressive educational pro¬
gram. Pour soldiers’ camps
and airports surround Savan-
| plants are in operation in the
city. Here is the Charles
‘ | Herty ' Laboratories, the only
Continued n n 4.
: 3iSI5 :
if*-
Sgt. Gazzie Brown who is
stationed at Ft. Hauchuca, was
home on furlough last month,
visiting his wife, Mrs. Hazel
firown 1 521 £ gl . gt ““ hig
rents * and Mrs - “■ Brown
oi Egypt, and his sisters, Mrs.
Evans and Mrs. Burroughs.
LilUe Mae DJcKs and ne P Jiew 01
Mrs Emma Hankerson of 911
Re PP ard street, who is now
Mtvin. rmm and u» that
a „ wcl , mt |, him and
that he is gelling along very
nicely.
UN-COVERING
WASHINGTON
White House Correspondent
Released through the
Atlanta Daily World
by the NNPA
By Harry S. McAlpin
Something new has been
added in the South.
Few things of more political
significance to this country, to
democracy—in its oraoa, gen¬
eral sense and particularly to
the Negro, have happened in
recent years.
The defeat of Rep. Joe
Starnes, in the Alabama pri¬
maries on May 2 is a tonic to
all liberal forces in America*
That he was defeated despite
the poll tax and the newness of
the supreme court’s Texas pri-
ing and significant. It points
of which has not had an, oppor
tunity to be felt- is encourag¬
ing and significant, It poits
to a growth of antipathy In the
repreW f"
Of course, that growth is lad¬
ing cultured. It is not
Continued on Page Eight
Charlie Ashe, the son of
Mrs. Celestine Jefferson, 2310
Bulloch street, who has been
in the service 13 months and is
somewhere in En-
glad, where he says he like s it
and j s getting along fine so
far.
Pfc. Sidney Ellby, 266 Yama-
craw Village, who is serving in
England. He is the husband
JEST °J ***** *»•
service he was employed hy Urn
Pullman company.
NUMBER 30
FILED BALLOT SLIT
Dr. Lonnie E. Smith, Hous¬
ton, Texas, dentist, plaintiff in
the famous Texas primary
case in which the U. S. Su¬
preme court ruled that Negroes
could r.ot be barred from vot¬
ing.— (ANP)
Actors Protest
Poll Tax
New York (ANP)—With
the poll tax bill scheduled to
be brought to the floor of the
senate this week, efforts to
force the fight against reten¬
tion of the tax are going On
apace with no let up. Liberal
groups here are firm- in their
determination that • the , poll
taxers shall be defeated this
time. ’
.
.
Latest action along this front
includes the signing of the an¬
ti-poll tax petition by 100 ac¬
tors along the Main Stem,
numbering many of the blaz-
jng marquee names. The
(Contlnuadon page eight*
{ V ■ '* ^
Sgv. Otis Paschal, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Paschal of
713 Center street, stationed
somewhere in Italy. He volun
teered for service in 1940 and
recently wrote his parents tha«
he is in fine health and so far
everything is all right.
Pvt. Bfilott Neely who X
recently home on a lifter /
furlough which he v.'Ua
“» P sre »';, **** *«
nS u'toned mL, km outffl S
he si
doing nicely.