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TEARS OP
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXII
Released by CJ. S War Department,
Bureau of Public Relations
PREPARES SEQUEL—Mr. Carl¬
ton Moss, the first Negro script
writer for radio presentations, who
is author-actor-commentator of the
War Department film, “The Negro
Soldier.” has arrived in the Euro¬
pean Theater of Operations where
he is supervising the making of a
sequel to that motion picture. A
native of Newark. N. Mr, Moss
makes his home at 460 West 147th
Street, New York City. (U. S
Army Photo.)
PERSONAL MENTION
Samuel A. Grant of
is in the city visiting his mo¬
ther and sisters. It is Mr.
Grant’s fit it visit home lor
twent ythree years.
W. H. Burney and Arthur
Stevens and son, former Sav-
annahians, and Fred Jenkins,
all now of West Palm Beach,
Fla., wer c in flic city over the
week end.
Praises Negro Personnel
After Pt. Chicago Explosion
missing s were
FROM GEORGIA
Many Heroic Deeds
Werc Cited
Washington, D. C.—Through
the otiice of War Information,
Rear Admiral Carlton H.
Wright, commandant of the
Twelfth Naval district where
the disastrous explosion oc¬
curred at the Naval Magazine,
Port Chicago, California in
which 213 naval personnel are
missing, most of whom were
Negroes, gave the Negro rescue
workers unstinted praise in
their heroic work. He said,
“I am gratified to learn, as
was to be expected, Negro per¬
sonnel attached to the Neval
Magazine, Port Chicago, per¬
formed bravely and efficiently
in the emergency at s *' a "
tion last Monday night.
“These men, in the months
that they served at that com¬
mand, did excellent work in
an important segment of the
district’s overseas combat sup-
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Bureau of Public DID
HIS NEGRO TROOPS
—Major General Raymond
h' 1 Commanding General
J l-iugainvillo uio 'j3rd Infantry Division at
in the South Pacific •
his troops “won their spurs” in the
drive against the Japs. (U, S.
.Army Signal Corps Photo.)
tribune ♦
Carolina Refuses Primary; Allow Negroes
Vole In Ark. Okevs
NAMES WERE SCRATCH¬
ED OFF REGISTRATION
LIST
In Purge of Roll Prior
To Election
GROUF CFllVE MADE
TOKEN VOTE
Columbia S. C., July the 25th
A few Negroes appeared h ire
at the polls today to vote in
the South Carolina State Dem
oeratic primary election, but
wen refused the privilege of
’ participating in the election.
In several other places also it
is said several of them appear
ed at the polls to cast a vote
in this election which was to
select nomination of candi¬
dates for the United States
Senate and county offices.
In this city there were five
Negroes who presented them¬
selves at the polls. The group
was headed by Dr. E. A. Adams
i who acted as spokesman. It
i was at Ward 7 where they at-
' tempted to cast their votes,
j Upon reaching the voting
place Dr. Adams told the pri¬
mary officials in charge of the
voting: “We’ve come to
Mrs. M. S. Scott, a
manager, replied: “Sorry,
can’t vote- Your names are
not on the books.”
Dr. Adams replied: “But I
put it on there.”
• Yes, but it has been taken
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Practices
of USES
ASKS McNUTT TO
DISCRIMINATION
Washington—In a letter to
Paul V. McNutt director, WMC,
the discriminatory practices
of the United States Employ¬
ment Service were assailed by
the Washington Bureau of the
f$AACP. The letter further
demanded McNutt order all
his field officers to cease re¬
quiring Negro job seekers
use separate entrances, or
interviewed in segregated
ters, or to fill requisitions 0
employers who seek workers
racial discrimination.
The communication
demning such practices
sent following an unseemly
procedure required in the
jstan|pe of Prentice Hilburn,
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Here’s the girl who's just
signed up for the big job of 1
getting for FDR the feminine vote
this Fall. She is
Miss Anne Mason, recently
appointed to the CIO Po¬
litical Action Committee
'experience (Women's Division. has been Her in past Ne¬
gro and women’* activities
Jo aatfooati./'^*---
A Study in Arms Employed by Negro Combat ^roops
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“ Negro combat troops are employing many types of weapons in the major theaters of battle. Pictured here are arms ranging from
the .30 calibre M-l (Garand) rifle to the 155-mm. Long Tom rifle. Upper left: A doughboy of the 93rd Infantry Division at fiougainville
in the South Pacific “lays a bead” on a Nip with a Garand. Upper right: Corporal David Shanks, gunner, and Sergeant Harold Edwaid.-t,
on elevation, operate their 99-mm. AA gun on Los Negros Island. Lower left: The first section of a 105-mm. howitzer battery of)
Bougainville prepares to commence firing. Lower right: A 155-mm. Long Toni is being loaded on New Georgia Island. Negro artillerists
in France have been reported battering the Nazis with the 155. (U. S. Army Signal Corps Photos.)
FEPC To Hear Alleged Baptists Hold Great
Charges Discrimination Convention At Tifton
AGAINST EIGHT ST.
LOUIS COMPANIES
I Accusation of Long
Standing
Washington, D. C. The Pres
ident’s Committee on Fair Em¬
ployment Practice will hold
public hearings in St. Louis,
Mo., August 1 and 2 to hear
evidence on complaints filed
against eight St. Louis war in¬
dustries alleging discrimina-
tion in employment against
] Negro workers, Malcolm Ross,
FEPC chairman, announced to
j day ‘
The hearings will be held in
| the U. S. Court and
House before the full
bership of FEPC. Ernest
Trimble and Frank D. Reeves,
FEPC staff members, will serve
as counsel for the committee
at the hearings.
Many of th e charges against
the St. Louis war industries
have been on file with FEPC
for many months, according to
Mr. Ross. He said that at-
tempts to adjust charges by
informal negotiation had fail-
and, accordin to committee
procedure, the issues have
been set down for public
ings whefe an opportunity
I will be accorded all parties
! present evidence on the basis
I of which the committee can
termine whether there has
I been any violation of
j tive Principal Order 9346. charges against
seven of the firms relate to
I alleged refusal to hire needed
1 I and available Negro war work
; ers and refusal to upgrade Ne
1 I"S, gro workers to jobs
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| Amerstop Corporation. Bus.-
man Manufacturing Co., Wag
ner Electric Corportion, Car-
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THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
BROTHER AND SISTER IN THE ARMED SERVICE
Arthur L. Mathews, left, and his sister, Miss Naomi J. Mat¬
thews, son and daughter, respectively, of M. B. Matthews.
Young Mathews is in the Coast Guard and is serving some-
where in England. Miss Mat-thews has recently finished a
six months course at Painacolleg Augusta, and is now
'at University hospital, that city w.th the Calet Nurses Corps,
They are a ls° the brother a ndsist:'» of Mis. Maiy Matthew
R. N. and David T. Matthews of 31C8 Montgomery
street,
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Many Novices Crossed
The Hot Sands
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MYSTIC SHRINE CONDUCTED LARGE Cl ASS
OF JOLLY MASONS
Last week more than fifty
members of various Masonic
j oc jg es received the higher do-
in , „ Ezra Consistory, _ . . .. No.
grees
27, Scottish Rite Masonry.
Illustrious John Wesley Dobbs.
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Cm* 0,
.rected the work With rapt-
nejss the candidates received
the instruction.
THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1944
This same number was receiv
ed in Omar Temple, No. 21,
Mystic Shrine, and caused to
tread the hot sands.
was never a more
fljass £ach member entered
with aVS zest in the spirit of the
wa, loud in praise
of what th \y underwent.
A number of novices from
out of town was present.
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REV. CLEVELAND AND
REV. LOMAX
Reelected Heads of
. BTU and SS
The greatest session of the
General Missionary Baptist
Sunday School and Baptist
Training Union convention in
its history was held at Tifton
last v^eok, July 18-20. More
than one thousand delegates
flooded the South Georgia ci¬
ty, representing four hundred
Sunday schools, BTU’s and dis
trlct conventions.
A total amount of *3,072.50
was reported raised during the
session.
Inspirational addresses of
the most impressive kind were
delivered by many of Geor¬
gia’s leading churchmen. The
next session of the convention
will be held at the Wheat St.
Baptist church in Atlanta.
The Rev. E. O. S. Cleveland,
pastor of St. John
church, Savannah, was re-
elected president of the Sun-
day School convention,
j Rev. reelected J. L. Lomax, president of Valdosta, of the
! was
BTU.
GETS GOOD
MEDAL
Cpl. George Cliffin, son
Henry Cliffin of 619 East Gwin
sett street, has been awarded
the army Good Conduct
for “exemplary behavior,
fieiency and fidelity” at an
advance South Pacific
hccord>ig to ^information re-
cently leased from
ers - *^th AAF. South Pacific,
Corporal Cliffin, who is
gunner with an Aviation Bat-
| talion of thp mh AAF Service
! Command, has been on for-
j eign duty for more than 19
I months and has received the
® ronze Battle Star for parti-i-
1 pation in the Northern Solo-
mons campaign.
BUY mtA
WAR BONDS
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Railway Mail
Fails in Effort
Bar Negroes
FROM BECOMING
MEMBERS OF ASSN.
New York The New York
State Court of Appeals ruled
on Wednesday, July 19th, that
the Railway Mail Association,
a national organization of rail
way postal clerks, is a labor
union and had violated New
York State’s civil rights laws
I in barring Negroes from mem¬
bership.
The NAACP. acting as ami¬
cus curiae, presented a brief
January 6th in which it con¬
tended that the argument that
the Railway Mail Association
is a membership insurance cor
poration and not a labor union
was only a screen to attempt
to evade the provisions of the
Civil Rights law.
The decision Wednesday, up
held a ruling of the Appellate
Division of the Supreme Court
on March 8th, which had re¬
versed Justice Murray’s deci¬
sion held that the “association
j was a fraternal beneficary so-
jciety.” al The Attorney Gener¬
of the State of New Lork
appealed from this ruling.
Says; Negroes Will Lose
Nothing in His Selection
Assigned T o
Pearl Harbor
FIRST NEGRO RESERVE
OFFICERS
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Pearl Harbor, (Delayed! —
The first Negro reserve offi¬
cers of the U. S. Navy to be as¬
signed to duty outside the con
tinental Unied States have ar-
rived in the Fourteenth Naval
district.
The officers who are on duty
at Manana Naval barracks, ad
jacent to the Pearl Harbor na¬
vy yard, are Ensign Jesse W.
Arbor, U. S. N. R., Chicago,
an d Warrant Officer Charles
B. Lear, U. S. N. R., Canton,
Mo. Both were members of
the first Negro officers clavss
graduated from the indoctri¬
nation school at Great Lakes
naval training station, in
May. Ensign Arbor is a grad
uate of Arkansas State college
and warrant Officer Lear is a
graduate of the high school at
Keokuk, Iowa
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NEW YORK—Sidney Hillman (right) and Clark Poremanrwell-knowa
j lenders In the fight to give Negroes a full share In American democracy^
J are officers of the new National Citizens Political Action Committee.,
j Hillman, as president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers (CIO) is
1 directly responsible for the complete lack of dla c r im teaHob in one of:
the nations strongest unions. Foreman Is * former New Deal admin¬
istrator and the president of the Southern Conference for Human
Welfare. Riiimsn u rfrftfpyr gd Farmia mer ttuy of tfce new
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NUMBER 40
W. 0. BELLINGER
WRITES FROM ITALY
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The following letter was re¬
ceived from Warrant Officer
Eulie Bellinger who is serving
the U. S. armed forces in the
Italian war zone. Prior to en¬
tering the army,. Warrant Of¬
ficer Bellinger was linotype
operator at The Savannah Tri¬
bune-
Mr. Sol C. Johnson, :Editor,
The Savannah Tribune,
Savannah, Ga.
"My dear Mr. Johnson:
“When the history of this
war has been recorded, I am
sure the place of our group will
be one of prominence, espec¬
ially so in this theatre of op¬
eration, despite the criticisms
of some of our alleged leaders,
leaders who do not know what
it is all about.
"You may take this as true,
coming from one who has
been in the midst of things
for nigh a year.
"These men are doing a
most necessary job, without
which this war could not be
won.
“Saw Rome several days ago.
It defies description. As ever,
Bellinger.”
SO DECLARES DEMO -
CRATIC NOMINEE FOR
VICE PRESIDENT
Harry S. Truman Is Known
As A Liberal And
Man of Ability
by Harry MAlpin
Chicago, 111., (NNPA)— "Or
course, Negroes will los e noth¬
ing by my nomination as Vies
President,” Sen. Harry S. Tru¬
man, vice presidential npmi-
nee o{ the !> m °craMe conven
tion in Chicago exclusively told
this correspondent in his pri¬
vate suite at the Stevens Ho¬
tel on the morning following
his nomination. He preferred
to make no further comment
until he reaches Kansas City
and can give more thought to
it, he said.
A similar opinion was voiced
by Congressman William L.
Dawson, only Negro member of
Congress, who will probably
head up the Democratic cam¬
paign among Negroes. In a-
nother exclusive statement to
the NNPA, he said:
“The nomination of Senator
Harry S. Truman for Vice Pres
ident as result of the free and
upon convention held here as
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