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Rev. Ed. Davis
Found Dead
In Bed
^ror'nf^ FRIDAY At ^9 TERNCON ^
The Rev. Eddie "Davis - was
found dead in bed Tuesday
morning at his residence, 931
West 37th street. He was dis¬
covered dead when his sister in
law went to his room to call him
to breakfast. The cause of his
death was given as an acute
heart attack.
For several months Rev. Da¬
vis has not been in the best of
health though he was up and
about his accustomed duties.
His death was a great shock as
he had not complained of be-
in V' A aJeiMre ’W he retired for bed
the mt ^“before .* he was found
dead.
Rev. Davis was one of the
Continued on page Eight
Sijrmas
$2000 To
lege Fund
FIRST FRATERNITY
MAKE SUCH
NEW YORK—The Phi
Sigma
| g us tine A. Austin of New
'city, the national secretary-
treasurer, has made a pledge
*2,000 to the United Negro
lege fund, according to an
nouncement c* at ________._____ headquarters
Walter Hoving, national
Sman of the campaign.
Mr. Austin, well known
|York realtor, who was the
chairman of the. New
campaign committee for
fund, presented the matter
a recent meeting of the
tive board of the Phi Beta
I ma fraternity and the
Tliere’ve been donations from
individual chapters of Negro
college fraternities and sorori¬
ties but this is the first such
gift from the national office of
a fraternity or sorority.
NOW 1st LIEUTENANT
HUBERT
K _ ^
GODMAN FIELD, KY.
J. Hubert of Savannah, Ga.,
been recently promoted in the
army air forces. He was pro-
moted from second lieutenant
to first lieutenant.
' 1st. Lt. Hubert is group sta¬
tistical control officer and spec¬
ial staff adjutant to the com-
mandin officer of the
Bon^ont 1 jUB- IIubert Group. is ->'aduate
a
of institute, was
warden 'a fellowship for study
gy under sponsorship of Fisk
university. Tuskegee
and the Farm Security
1 istration. He was an
| tor at Trinity junior
Athens, Alabama.
Lt Hubert is the son of
fW. Hubert, 22Q1 Ogeechee
nue, Savannah, Ga.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, SEPT. 14, 1911
AFTER HE RE
TRACTS OBJECTION¬
ABLE STATEMENT
As To How To Solve
Racial Problem
Dallas (ANP)—Brushing a-
a small but certain element,
or opposition, the forces beiiino
Presiaent D. V. Jemison suc¬
ceeded quite handily in Having
him re-elected by acclamation
to a fourth! term to head up tne
largest denomination of Negro
Christians, the National Bap¬
tist Convention, Inc., last Tnurs
day.
i'he move to suspend the
rules whereby a committee on
nomination would report its
views at a later hour is what
precipitated the only real fight
of an otherwise easy
convention. Dr. E. W. Perry,
regional vice president, was pre-
siding and received the
horn the Rev. James S. Ander-
son, also of Omaha.
Immediately Dr. J.
Henderson of Los Angeles
ed to his feet and objected to
the suspension declaring that
-for years we have made our-
selves the laughing stock by
pending rules in order to
a man.” He was met
with sporadic booing. “I
the position before this supreme
convention,” he shouted as
position grew, ‘-that rules are
made to be obeyed and not bro¬
ken or suspended.” There
were more boos and he threat¬
ened to demand a division
the house ‘‘so we may know who
are the registered delegates
this convention.”
In spite of Henderson’s tena¬
ciousness and determination
l»e heard, Jemison was
ed president of the
This was not achieved,
er, until a statement made
him earlier in his address
been voluntarily retracted.
In a speech filled with
tives and insinuation directed
at the chairmen of
nate groups, Dr. Jemison
cussed race relations and
directly into a hornet’s
that threatened to split the
ganization when he
that “'the southern Negro
the southern white man
i Continued on page Eight)
by Harry McAlpin
WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPAi
—The premium put on a white
skin, the disregard of official
orders and the general atmos-
phere created to make officers
and men realize they are, after
just Negroes, have had an
reaction on the men
are flying and
the B 25 s in the 477th
bardment Group stationed
Godman Field, Kentucky,
this correspondent spent
days in observation last
Some Savannah Area Men In U. S. Armed Forces
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p v t. Stephen Manes, III, son
Mrs Anna E . Manes and the
, late , Stephen , .. Manes 0
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147th street, is now serving
somewhere in England. . He
attended the military school at
Fort Riley, Kansas.
ATTENDED VOCATIONAL CONFERENCE AT A. and T. COLLEGE
Shown above are those in at¬
tendance at the annual con¬
ference of vocational trade and
indue trial teachers and coor-
of diversified occupa¬
of North Carolina, whicn
ended a nve day session at A.
and T college, Greensboro, last
Fric j a y
pirst row reading left to-
^^. Miss Geneva Bass of
secretary of the
state association; W. W. Harris,
arren t 0 ri. treasurer; A. Sand¬
assisitant state supervisor
war p roduC £i on work, Ral-
eigh; J> Warren Smith> state di _
- or
. __________ ____ ________________
FORSAKES RANKS OF
DEMOCRATS
by Harry McAlpin
WASHINGTON, D. C. i NNPA
because she was noi
recorder of deeds foi
District of Columbia, the
to which the Presidenl
named Rev. Marshal
her political benefac
Continued on page eight
GODMAN FIELD CONDITIONS CREATING UNHEALTHY RACE RELATIONS
One officer, a Negro captain,
told me; “If this continues,
this whole thing is going to
crack. Tensions are going to
grow. They are just about at
the peak now. This good rec¬
ord which has been established
will be broken,
‘‘Some of the men have said
they are not going to take any
more stuff off certain officers.
They threatened to handle the
situation themselves.
“It will develop a lot of neu¬
rotic cases. Things are clos-
Pfc. Raymond A. Hill, son of
Mary L. E. Hill and the
Kaymond A. Hill, who is
overseas with the U. S.
and writes that he is do-
nicely.
E. Brown, state director
vocational education; E. P.
moreland, special
tive of vocational training
war production work, U. S.
fice of Education,
D. C.; S. C. Smith,
state supervisor of trade
industrial education,
boro;C. M. Haithman,
of state vocational and
trial teachers, Wilmington;
A. Williams, Fayetteville,
president; F. J. Brown,
tant state supervisor of
production work, Raleigh,
Mrs. M, M. Adams,
editor in chief of the
Equal Salary Case
Be Heard Next Wit.
2 SEPARATE PETITIONS l
TO BE ACTED UPON IN
SOUTH CAROLINA
One by Mrs. Montieth ;
Other by Mr. Thompson
COLUMBIA. S. C„ Sept. 8—
September 25 is the date set
for the hearings of the two peti¬
tions requesting equal salaries
for Negro and white teachers,
in Richland county.
Mrs. R. Rebecca Monteith,
principal of the Monteith school
and Albert N. Thompson of the
Booker T. Washington school
ire the petitioners. They asked i
for salaries equal to pay of j
white teachers with similar
ing in around them in such a
way they have no escape.
“It will bring disgrace on the
whole unit which will be played
up as showing that Negroes are
incompetent.
“What I fear most is that
some of the flyers may crack
up in the air if they become
psycho-neurotic cases.”
This was said to me on
night of August 22. On
very next evening this
and two other Negroes had
exert every bit of their
Ernest Baker, s-l-c, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Baker of 2612
E. Gwinnett street, who was re¬
cently home on furlough. He
has been in tbe navy f or sixteen
months and says he like
service very much.
tion’s journal.
Second row: Mrs. Priscilla
Jones, Greensboro; Mrs. C. M.
Haithman. Fayetteville; Mrs.
( Angeline “ Bailey, Greensboro;
Mr C. J. Albritton, Kinston;
Mrs. Willie M. McLaughlin,
Greensbobro; Miss L. Dean,
Greensboro; Mrs. Viola Hughes,
Greensboro; Mrs. D. A. Wil¬
liams, Fayetteville;; Mrs. M. W.
Foster, Corcord, and Mrs. A. H
Taylor, Nadin.
Third row: R. L. Jones, Wil¬
mington; S. L. Dudley, Durham;
R. Grigsby, Charlotte; J. L.
New J. O.
Johnson, Rockingham; David
Barnhill, Greenville; J. H.
Brown, Raleigh; C. C, Mabry,
Durham, and J. E. Grigsby, prin
cipal of Second Ward high
school, Charlotte.
Fourth row: F. A. Mayfield,
j Greensboro; W. C. Spivey, Bel¬
mont; G. A. Roddy, Greensbo-
Jro; E. E. Henry, Hamlet; J. W.
Sapp, Greensboro; J. Freeman,
Wilson; H. R. Humphrey,
Greensboro;; J. E. Reid, Salis¬
bury; E. Reives, Greensboro; J.
M. Marteena, dean, school of
mechanic arts, Greensboro, and
O. Charlotte.
tr Z"%TS‘Ze lhe „ rst
filed under a 1944 legislative
directive setting up a procedure
of recourse for the teachers whoj
feel themselves being discrimi¬
nated against. The directive
states that the teacher may ap¬
peal to district trustees, the
county and state boards of ed-
cation and the state courts.
NOW PRIVATE FIRST
CLASS
According to information i
cently ,, received . , , from Camp; „
Forrest, Tenn., Private Joseph 1
Bowles of 823 W. 48th street,
this city, has been promoted
private first class.
sive powers and authority to
prevent over 200 enlisted men
marching on the theatre of
Knox, adjoining Godman Field,
in protest to the absolute dis-
regard there of the War De¬
partment’s order banning seg¬
regation and exclusion of Ne¬
groes from army post facilities,
including Pxs, theatres and ar¬
my operated buses.
Photostats of affidavits made
out by enlisted men at Godman
Field, concerning the
incident and attempts to
BROTHERS IN THE
Ezekiel Habersham, steward’s
Mrs. Cornelia Habersham
ers of Mrs. Dora Mae Speed
in the U. 6. armed forces
where in Italy.
Pacific fleet, was recently
the service. /
TO TEACH AT
BLACKSHEAR
Miss Bernice Gwendolyn Lu-
ten, daughter , , . ol ... Mr. and , Mrs. _
’ °
Esaac E - Luten and a graduate
of the Georgia State college,
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Continued on page Eight
regate them on buses between
1 Louisville and Godman Field,
been turned over to a War
Department official by this cor-
j respondent.
In one of them a Negro cor¬
poral affirms that he
Capt. Wilbur C. Wilson, in
charge of the It. Knox
why “Italian parolees could
where they wanted to and
could not. I he captain’s
swer was, “That will be enough
out of you.” He gave the
a refund ticket and sent
Pvt. James Habersham
first class, are the sons
East 56th street and
826 Ya mac raw Village, who
Habersham is stationed some-
who has been serving with
furlough after 23 months
I Grace Followers Stage
Peace Parade
FOLLOWING 7-DAY CON¬
VOCATION AT THE
HOUSE OF PRAYER
Parade Will Start
At 3:30 P. M.
BISHOP C. M. GRACE
The eighteenth convocation
of the House of Prayer is be¬
ing held here this week. It be¬
gan Monday and will end Sun¬
day with a grand peace parade.
Bishop C. M. Grace, titular
head of the church, arrived in
the city the early part of the
week and is directing the pro¬
ceedings of the seven day meet¬
ing which is being held at the
House of Prayer on Bismark
street.
A large number of adherents
of the faith arrived in the city
the first part of the week and
are participating in the meet-
ings. They have come from
numerous sections of this
adjoining sections and the con-
vocation bids fair to be one
the largest in recent" years.
der E. T, Sims, pastor of the
cal church, and his members
are entertaining the visitors
grand -style. The entertain
ment committee, in addition to
the pastor, is composed of Elder
” nkne £ I>3aCOn R0berl
a Gcnet ' te Bel1,
* aLh Lanier, Mrs. E.
Wright, T. Golden and Bishop
Continued on page Eight
away,
Another officer, expressing
an opinion on the effect of the
existing conditions at Godman
Field, said, “If conditions con-
to exist as they are, there
win be crackups soon. Men
cannot continue to be exposed
humiliation and bias and
then be expected to work as
a team in the air. It will end
a num ber of them becom-
tContlnuedon page eight*
R 01 g ^ j To
Segregate I
Negroes j
CAUSES WHITES TO
STAGE STRIKE
'
BIRMINGHAM (ANP> Fail-
jure TCI’s on the part of officials ot
Fairfield sheet mill to
j .believed segregate its Negro employes is
to have caused
,walk-out Wednesday of a
number of the plant’s white
ployes. More than 400
j Steelworkers’ effected by union the members
were strike.
Trouble brewed in the
square department of the
wben whites became
over fi le congested
around tire time elock. A
ration between the whites
Negro workers would relieve the
strain, they contended.
More than 1200 workers
employed by the plant.
NUMBER 4Z
26 Years Head
W. Va. State
I College
C-NE SAVANNAH'S OUT¬
STANDING PRODUCTS
President John W. Davis of
West Virginia State college was
the recipient of many congrat¬
ulations upon the completion of
his 25th year as president
of this nationally known insti¬
tution. On Sept. 1, 1944, Pres¬
ident Davis began his twenty-
sixth year.
Interviewed in the midst of
his numerous activities’ In the
interest of the state and na-
tion, the dynamic executive of
the frequently cited Land
Grant college, expressed his
chief concern with the con¬
progress of the educa-
record made by the fa¬
college at the Kanawha
valley whose graduates are en-
in all the varied works
the nation. More than 70Q
graduates are in the war ser-
vice.
The institution will open this
year on Sept. 18, when an un-
^ precedented enrollment is anti-
ipate d
President Davis is a native o£
Savannah, Ga.
White GI
Advice
On Negro
WRITES NAACP FOR
INFORMATION
NEW YORK—Heartening evi¬
dence of an enlightened point
view on race
the part of southern white army
mel1, was reveaied in a ietter tu
Walter White in which advice on
proper procedure to take to
Negroes in their light foe
equality, was asked. >
Writing from the South Pa¬
alter a successful defeat
of the enemy in the Marianas,
the Staff Sergeant, a former
radio announcer in a southern
city, declared; “We have anoth-
enemy. It is the attempt to
•hold back” the colored people
in the United States. When
i return to North Carolina after
j the war I am going to fight colored for
betterment of these
I am a white fellow, but
am a Christian who deeply
the colored folks as a
! j whole, rightful if educated, equal rights.” can gahj
their
in commenting the NAACE*
said, “It is our contention that
recognition and encouragement
of considerable enlightened o-
pinion of this kind by the Unit*
ed States government would do
a great deal toward prevention
of the kind of post-war -racial
tragedies which followed World
War I.” „ „ „ *
.