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TEARS OR
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXII
SAVANNAH MEN
ARMED FORCES
Sgt. Walter. McCoy, son of
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Howard of
1006 Allen avenue, Waterworks,
who s serving in the armed fore
es somewhere in France from
where hs writes that he’s okey.
He’s been in the service 2 years,
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Sgt < Joseph J. McFaddetn, son
of I and Mrs. S. McFadden of
11 r i^pF' ‘l|Dd whefre sweet, who'is stationed his out¬
ill r he says
fit is doing all right and that
h’ is well and doing okey. He
has been in the army 2 years.
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Sgt. Wilber E. Quinn, husband
of Mrs. Mildred S. Quinn, who
is serving with the armed forces
somewhere in Italy, where he
says he’s doing all right. His
wife and daughter reside in
Savannah. >
Mr^nT'krisiiiott Alvertis s-l-c son of
Adams, for-
merly of this city but now ol
Rahway, v-miting* N f J-, was relatives in the city
Labor da ^ ’ the
tioned Perkins-B?;’i*| Hi family. Park, He’s N. J. sta
1 iry
Pushing Mack Probe
of Soldier
on Editor
CUT AND BEAT LUCIUS
JONES AT NEW
ORLEANS
Assailants Not Yet
Identified
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 18—
<ANP>—'While the five soldier
assailants of Lucius Jones, Pitts
burgh Courier editor here, have
not been identified, a
army investigation is being con-
ducted, according to Brig. Gen.
Freemont B. Hodson, command-
ing officer of the New Orleans |
port of embarkation, last week. 1
The soldier hoodlums, Brig. Hod
son said, will be court martialed
apprehended.
Jones, editor of the local
Courier, was attack-
ed recently during afin invita-
tional club dance at the Rhy¬
thm club by five knife wielding
soldiers. He sustained severe
cuts and briuses about the head
body.
A stranger in the vicinity,
Jones said he believed he could
identify the soldier who started j
the trouble if that soldier could
be located. Army investiga-l
tion revealed that there there had
been “a subsequent disorder at
the Rhythm club on the same
as a result of which five
were arrested and held
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Baptist Assets
Million and a
Quarter
DALLAS, TEX. (ANP)— The
National Baptist convention,
Inc., is a million and a quarter
dollar business of which a sub-
stantial portion of holdings is
in realizable current assets.
^
name in Atlanta, reported com-
billed assets amounting to $1.- j
326,000 of which some $325,000i
or more were of a class which ;
the accounting firm classified ■
as current. Buildings, furni- ,
(Continued on page 8t
Say Church Anniversaries
A Racket
CHATTANOOGA
CHURCH BANS OB¬
SERVANCE
Calling Them Shameful
end Harmful
CHATTANOOGA, TENN., Sept
19 (ANP»|—Declaring that the
practice of ministers holding
anniversary celebrations is
nothing more than a money
making racket, a resolu¬
tion was passed by members of
the First Baptist church here,
the largest in the city, put the
church on record as opposed
any more such observances in
their congregation.
The church recently retired
its pastor, the Rev. C. A. Bell, on
a pension after he had served
the church more than a quarter
of a century. The Rev. H. C.
Harris of St. Louis has been
called to the pastorate and is
to take up his duties in October.
One very important layman
here, after learning of the ac-
tion of the First Baptist church
as it relates to pastor's anni-
• versaries, said, “I’m happy has"been to
know of the stand that
____ 1 *-Uu. the officers ------ and —j mem- .
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HEADS CHRISTMAS
SEAL SALE
1 .•£ im lUif
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REV. RALPH MARK GILBERT
According to an announce- presi-1
ment of William Gibson,
dent of the Associate Board of
the Chatham-Savannah Tuber-
(Continued on page Eight)
Ask Review
Seabees .“Un¬
fitness” Case
NEW YORK— Permission to
file briefs and appear person-
ally on behalf of two Negro
Seabees dismissed from Unit-
(Continued on page
GOP
Republican National
chairman Herbert E. Brown-
eU> Jr ^ last week a dded addi-
tiona j assistant campaign man
a g ers to busy Republican;
when he announced ap- !
pointments of former Municipal j
Pepper Will
Probe False
Arrests
OF NEGROES IN FLA.
BY SHERIFF
Mass Arrests Follow
Labor Shortage
WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA)
Senator Claude A. Pepper of
Florida and W. Gerry Miller,
Breward county, Florida, pros¬
ecutor, have promised an in¬
vestigation of charges “that 49
Negro workers were falsely ar¬
rested for vagrancy in Fort
Lauderdale, Fla., and fined
without trials as part of a gen¬
eral attempt to have Negroes
continue working at the same
menial tasks they had before
the war,” according to the Work
"" Defense’League'.
The mass arrests are said to
have followed an enforced labor
decree by Sheriff Walter Clark.
under which persons found idle
on the city streets were subject
4-nvvft to arrest. t-4- About AKr\u4 half 3X”
Continued on page Eight
SAYS NEGROES CANNOT
■STOPPED FROM VOTING
WINNER OF QUEEN’S CONTEST AND HER COURT
PROMINENT CHARLES¬
TON ATTORNEY DE¬
CLARES
The Day of White Elec¬
tions Is Gone, Never
To Return Again
AND THAT SOUTHERN
LEADERS NOT WANTED
BY THE NATION
CHARLESTON, S. C.—(ANP)
—South Carolina ‘“Negroes
can vote and they are going
the Kiwanis club in an address
here Thursday at the weekly
luncheon of the club in an the
11 rancis Marion hotel,
T ' believe in the old axiom,
the attorney continued, “if you
can’t lick ’em. We cannot
the other 47 states. Al-
I’m not carrying the torch
for the Negro race, it is an
part of this country,’’
the speaker, a prominent white
lawyer here, declared.
Declaring that both national
now need and seek the
o< colored citizens and
South Carolina for
about participation
Negroes in the Democratic
and yet refusing to quit
Continued on Page Eight
CAMPAIGN MANAGERS
in i
Judge Patrick B.
cott, Jr. (center); Walter Hov-
ing deft), and Archie O. Daw-
son (right).
Judge Prescott is a member
a prominent Chicago law
Mr. Hoving is president of
gaticnal church
MRS. BESSIE HENDERSON
On Sunday, September 24 the
women of the First Congrega¬
tional church will have charge
of the services. At the morn-
ing worship, 11:15 o’clock, Mrs.
B. L. Henderson, assistant di-
rector of the West Broad St. U.
3* O. 'SHI* ,be the guest speaker.
Continued on page Eight
Picture to the left, the queen, Mrs. Maud Black—large picture, standing in front, Mrs. Irma
Lane and Miss Maxine Newkirk—seated, Mrs. Essie Mae Hamillltan and T. II. Hamilton
—back row, left to right, Mrs. Catherine Timmons, Miss Edith Johnson, Mrs. Alethia Wil¬
liams, Miss Inez Taylor, Mrs. Maggie P. Lennon Mrs. Ella Brown, Mrs. Lenora Berry, W.
M. Hamilton, Mrs. Flossie Anderson, Mrs. Mattie Sample, Ms. Christina Johnson, Mrs. Ma¬
rie Wilson, Mrs. Viola Scott, Mrs. Mamie Carter Mrs. CarrieSheppard, Mrs. Corine Cheese-
berry, Mrs. Laura K. Berrien— ((photo by Frank Freeman) %
The above is a scene of the
in the popularity
of the Cosmopolitan
Society, recently stag-
The picture shows the
and Taylor, a large depart
ment store in New York city,
and national chairman of the
Negro College Fund cam
and Mr. Dawson is a
of a prominent Wall
street law firm.
7Tm™cZm Hillburn School J i m
trow
Move Fail
HILLBURN, N. Y. (AN Pi-
With the II local move to force
Negro children to attend
ate schools here slowly failing,
Negro citizens are now seeking
to turn the old Brook school
building into a Negro commu¬
nity center, it was ‘earned
week. I he Krootc school
ing. formerly assigned Negro
school children, has
been closed and condemned
unworthy of repair by Dr. Geo.
B. Stoddard, state commissioner
of education.
Following a bitter fight by
Negro parents last October
gainst the move to send their
children of the dilapidated
crow Brook school
when the Main school
could accommodate both whit:
and Negro children comforta¬
bly, Dr. Stoddard directed thal
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Main school| across Route n
from the old Brook school, ad¬
mit all children, regardless of
color. While only one white
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Continued on page Eight
| contestants grouped around the
thrown for the coronation cere-
mony in the West Broad Street
USO center. The contest was
a colossal success.
What s Been Done By
The Citizens Committee for
Negro Social Service was formed
by the white and Negro church¬
es of Savannah to provide a
building to be used by the USO
fdr Negro soldiers stationed in
this vicinity.
The committee consists of 12
YMCA as well as a branch of
the YWCA and Travelers’ Aid.
Since organization the fol-
lowing amounts have been re-
ceived by the committee:
Other income „ _______ 85.72
Building rents ____ 3,000.00
Negro contributors___ .3,921.80
White contributions___4,615.50
Total income ____ 11,623.11
The disbursements have been
as follows:
Paid on purchase of
building ______ 5,000.00
Paid on loan _________ 1,800.00
Taxes, atty fees, fire
insurance, printing 2,203.40
Int. payments on real
estate loan _______
T°tul -.......
Balance on hand, depos-
ited in bank 1,945.71
The building was purchased
it a cost of *15,000.00 of which
1 total of $6,800 has been
a balance due of $8,200
1 against which there is on
)3n the building debt.
j A total amount of >'6,304 is
(on the the building debt.
Contributions from from
J t n terest e d in this most
project are earnestly
n order to wipe out the re-
maining debt 0 n this
j i ivtneh is sexvfng such.an
lant fl eld in this
j Solicitors ^ ("aisc the have been
1 money now
They will shortly approach
i and ls is hoped by the
,dat you w ‘“ ®‘ve freely to
worthy cause.
The building is now leased
the National United Service
ganization and after the
\t is proposed to have the
■ng house a local Young
Miristian . .. Association . . . „ tor „
rou th.
W. S. Scott, president of
The contestants were gor-
gooously grow'ned in the latest
evening formal attire and they
made a beautiful spectacle as
Continued on page eight
BOYCE'S SCHOOL IN
NEW HOME
Boyce’s National School of
Beauty Culture, Madam J. M.
Walker, president, has. moved
into its new home at Kline and
West Broad streets.
In order that patrons and
friends might inspect the new
quarters, open house will be
lie | d Sunday, September 24,
from 6 to 9 p. m., at which
the s taff, students and friends
wiU be on hand to gree t visi- -
^ ors At 0 0 ’ c jock a short ded-
icatory program will be con-
duc i ed
In addition, a beauty shop,
located next door to the school, [
will be opened. The former j
location of the school will be
retained as a beauty sh0 p, also,
SOCIETY REACHES
CENTURY MARK
Charleston Organization
Celebrates
CHARLESTON, S. C. —The
unity and Friendship Society of |
Charleston which was organized |
September 17, 1844, celebrated
Rs centennial with its annual
mee ting at the home of Pinck-
ney B . Ezekiel. 356 A^hyey St.,
monday evening, September 18.
At the time of organization,
; thi s was a mutual society, pay-
sick ard dea th benefits to
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Killing
Baptist
Convention
MEMPHIS ( TENN. (ANP)-a
reports and busi¬
slowed down Saturday at ft
of the National Baptist
when the Rev. G. A,
pastor of the Beale Ave.
church and convention
teok time out to save thj|
of a poeketbook snatcher. ,•
Alarms and screams of a w«>*
delegate who had been at¬
and had her purs*
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SAVANNAH MEh
IN ARMED FORCES 1
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Sgt. Joe R. Pugh, son of Mo-
Pugh of Blackshew:
husband of Mrs. McLeat&ft
of Savannah, who is now
with the Q. M. Rhd.
somewhere in France. He
been in the army 15 month*
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Pfc. William Green, husbauH
of Mrs. Mabel Green of 539 J5.
Broughton lane, who is now,
Rationed with the U. S. a:.nsi
in Fiance. He reports that h«
ah l oetung along
a . JLtaiic