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82 PUBLIC CONTINUOUS TEARS SERVICE OP
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VOLUME LXII
REFUSAL INVOKE CLOTURE
DEFEATS ANTI-POLL TAX
SENATE KILLS BILL
VOTE OF 44—35
In A Setting of Farcical
Sincerity
By Harry McAlpin
Washington, May 15
—Ir a setting of farcical
sincerity—with but few
tions—the Senate again
the anti-poll tax bill by an
verse colture vote of
Only 18 Republicans, l
give, and 17 Democrats
for cloture. Against it
12 Republicans, and 32
crats.
Immediately after the
feat of the cloture
without a real filibuster
having developed, Sen.
<D. of Mo. i read the
and last rites of the poll
bill by offering a motion for
consideration of a bill for furn
ishiny artificial limbs to re¬
turning veterans. It was
ly a motion to shut off further
debate on the poll tax bill-
hut shrewdly couched in the
challenging dress of a veter¬
an’s measure.
Sen. Pepper D. of Flan made
a brave effort to get a airect
vote on tabling or further con
sidering the poll tax bill, but
the opponents of the measure
won the parliamentary skir-
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Jones-Toomer Faction
Bolts Repub. Caucus
CLAIM MEETING WAS
BEING LILY-WHITED
Will Protest Action Of
Johnson Faction
A solid phalanx of Negro Re¬
publicans bolted the Chatham
County caucus held at the
count, court house Tuesday
When they were denied permis¬
sion to take part in the meet¬
ing.
The split came when their
leaders. Sidney A. Jones
L B. Toomer, asked Gilbert E.
Johnson, acting chairman of
meeting to read the call au-'
thonzing the meeting, before a
permanent chairman be elect
«d . When Johnson refused
to do this, statin g that the call
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Some Savannah Area Men Serving In U. S. Armed Forces
!pl. Albert Small, son of
5 Florence Small of 505 E.
.
mghton lane, who is sta¬
ged overseas with the 96tli
gineer regiment. He writes
at everything is akey.
Slir fritamt
Class of
DR. HORACE M.
TO BE SPEAKER
Exercise Will Be Held
At F. A. B. Church
if.v'-ni fey
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Sp.
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Dr. Horace Mann Bond, pres¬
ident of Fort Valley State
leg- 2 ,’ Fort Valley, Ga., will
make the principal address on
June 9th at the First African
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Afro-American Starts
Retirement Plan
Baltimore, May 15—The Afro
American Newspapers last
week put into effect a retire¬
ment annuity plan covering 67
of their 188 employees with
policies varying from $1750 to
$6000.
The plan, priced with the
Continental Assurance Com¬
pany of Chicago, makes the
Afro the first colored business
concern in the nation to insti¬
tute a personnel program de¬
signed to supplement Social Se
curity.
Under the terms of the plan,
no contributions are made by
the employee. The company
Pfc. William odom, the son
of Mrs. Viola Murray and step
son of Calvin Murray of 642
W. 42nd street, who has been
oversea^, for two years and is
now stationed somewhere in
Burma.
ASST. DIRECTOR, WEST
BROAD ST. USO
Mrs. Bessie McIntyre Hen¬
derson who is the assistant
director at the West Broad St.
USO
A native of Indiana, Mrs.
McIntyre holds B. S. and M. A.
degiecs in education from
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bears the entire cost. Employ
ees become eligible for partici¬
pation at the completion of
five years of continuous serv¬
ice.
PERSONAL
Miss Ada McKinney of
Plains, Ga., is in the city visit¬
ing tier sister, Mrs. Sarah
Brown of route West to 39th Camp street. Bldnd
She is en
ing, Florida, where she will
visit her brothers, Cpl. Charles
McKinney and Cpl. Harry Mc¬
Kinney.
Pvt. Rimes Johnson who
lecentiy home on
visiting his mother, Mrs. Fan¬
nie Johnson of Rossignol
He has been in the service for
seventeen months and is
tioned at Fort Knox, Ky.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1944
NEW YORK CERTAIN TO ELECT
A NEGRO TO CONGRESS
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New Citizens Now Say "I Am an American”
U. S. AN MY SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO
Preceding “I Am an American Day” celebrations which will be held throughout the
Nation on May 21, these seven soldiers recently became naturalized at ceremonies at Service
Club No. 2, at Camp Barkeley, Tex. Part of 146 soldiers of 28 nationalities, they included
(left to right) : Pvt. Dong Y. Tso, China; Pvt. Joe Jesus Garza, Mexico; Pvt. Nels T. Johnson,
Sweden; Pvt. Charles Darling, Bahamas; Pvt. Felix Keimer, German; T/5th Grade Edward
F. Bernaeki, Poland; and Pvt. Erwin II. Faller, Switzerland. Other new citizens naturalized
in the ceremonies came from England, Canada, Italy, Austria, Norway, Irish Free Stale,
Greece, Russia, Rumania, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Portugal, Finland,
Spain, Nicaragua, Switzerland, Latvia, France, Philippines, Lithuania, Honduras, and Den¬
mark. Before induction Private Darling lived at 266 .West 123d Street, New York City.
Where AME Bishops
BISHOP FOUNTAIN
RETURNS TO
GEORGIA
Philadelphia, Pa., May 14—
The closing scenes of the thir¬
ty-second session of the AME
general conference were enact
ed here today when, before
20,000 persons Rev. G. W. Ba-
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Pfc. Francis D. Hicks is now
serving overseas and reports
that he is okey and doing
nicely. He is the son of Mrs.
Hattie Hicks of 408 West 48th
street. He sends his best re¬
gards to his many friends.
Rosenwald Fellowship
Winners For 1944
Chicago, May 15—(ANPi Ap¬
pointment of 37 Julius Rosen-
wald fellows for 1944 was an¬
nounced this week by Edwin K
Embree, president of the fund
The fellows Include 22 Negroes
Pvt. John Houston, who en¬
tered the- service five months
ago and now stationed at
Claiborne, La. He is the hus¬
band of Mrs. Grace Houston,
St. Augustine, Fla., and son of
Mrs. J. Houston of Thunderbolt
15 t^hite southerners, se¬
for their creative talenc
distinguished scholarship.
fellowships this year avei
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f,
Seaman Second Class Curtis
P. Coleman, son of Mrs. uiura
Coleman of 920 Wolfe street,
who is stationed at the Naval
Training School at San
California, where he
that he is getting along line.
DR. POWELL, DEMO¬
CRAT , AND MRS.
SPEAK , REPUB¬
LICAN
Opposing Each Other In
22 Congressional
Districts
New York, May 14— (ANPij
It is definite that Harlem
will send a Negro to Congress,
for the first time in the histo¬
ry of this crewded sector.
Because that fact is definite,
hats are being tossed into the
ning with reckless abandon.
Many would-be candidates will
die a-borning; some will Unger
on.
Close oil the heels of the
naming of the newest contend¬
er, Sat ah P. Speaks, put ,up
by the Republicans Wednes¬
day, both Mrs. Speaks (wife of
the former big shot musician
Douglas Speaks of Springfield
Ohio) and Adam Clayton Pow-
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Local H ; g h School Seniors
Win Major Share Scholar¬
Offered Ft.
Negro News¬
paper Men To
Meet
New York, May 13 —Intensive
plans are under way for the
fifth annual convention of the
Negro Newspaper Publishers
Association which will be held
in New York city on June 15,
16 and 17. Today John H.
Sengstacke, NNPA president,
and Howard H. Murphy, NNPA
secretary-treasurer, met with
Dr. C. B. Powell, chairman, NN
PA committee on arrange¬
ments for the convention, and
worked out final physical de-
(Continued on page Eight)
Pvt. Charles Edward Lewis
who was secently home on fur¬
lough before going overseas,
visiting his mother, Mrs. Pearl
Jenkins of Ogeecheeton, and
is stationed with his outfit in
Oklahoma and sends regards
to his many friends.
NU 'UMflj^ | WL
TO PRESIDE AT COM¬
MUNIST MEETING
New York Benjamin J, Da¬
vis, Jr., Communist member ot
the New York City Council,
will act as co-chairman of til*
public session of the 1944 Na¬
tional convention of the Com¬
munist party of the United
(Continued on page Eight)
Cnducted by the Fort Vall*y
State College
Fort Valley, Ga.-^The names
of nineteen Georgia high
school seniors who stood high¬
est in the recent state wide
scholarship tests, conducted by
the Fort Valley State college,
were announced by Registrar
C. V. Troup here today. The
winners, high scorers from 175
students taking the test, were
distributed over ten Georgia
high schools, with Beach-Cuy-
ler high school of Savannah
taking the major share of th»
honors.
The top student in the state,
thereby qualifying for an all-
expense scholarship at Fort
Valley, was Luetta Colvin,
Beach-Cuyler high school Sa¬
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Pfc. William Golden,
Mrs Peariie M. Gomeu i A
brother of Mrs. Germ. v X- -ii-*
man of 411 W. E-u’fy m
recently home on furlough, is
stationed at the Marine ]
racks in Maine.