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TEARS OH
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
LXII
JAMAICA LIAISON OFFICERS CONFER
Called to Washington for
three day conference
Chief Jamaican Liaison
Herbert G. Macdonald, and with
officials of the War Food Ad¬
ministration and the War Man¬
Washington Agog Over Dewey’s
Statements About FEPC
Boys
land
In Killing
ISYR. OLD LAD
<2, STREETS BY AUTO
RIDING OPPONENTS
f|DpA< 2AGO, Sept 19—(ANP)
[land manner, 15
old old Andrew Anar Haley, slumped
the steps of a church here
Thursday night from a
fired from a passing
bile when he was talking
James Gilmore, 17. Haley, ac-
cording to police
was killed as the result of
fued between members of
juvenile baseball teams.
In attempting to apprehend
the slayer, police learned
ill feeling had broken out
tween members of the
teams, who wanted to use Dun¬
bar Vocational school’s
grounds. Rivalry ran so
police said, that members of one
group threw rocks through
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STUDY CTfi’nv rOR me IflAdl MA STPR’S Lti o
DEGREE
Miss Ruby Mae Keyes who left
st week for Atlanta university,
here she will study for
aster’s degree in the depart-
enti of social work. She is
adUate of Beach high
k did her under
ork at Georgia State
here she received the
m a^gree In social science
ra Miss the sister
Keyes is
mjarnin Scott Keyes and Mrs.
Mary Rivers and the
lughter of Christopher
VOTE FOR WATER BOND WEDNESDAY. OCT. ...
Shr fmiatutaa <mluuu’
power Commission, the assist¬
ant liaison officers of the
maican government are
conferring with Mr.
Among other things they
cussed the most effective
by Harry McAlpin
WASHINGlViN, D. C. (NNPAj
—Comacung statements con¬
cerning ferC in releases of the
same speech made by Gov.
momas is. Dewey, Republican
presidential candidate, at Seat¬
tle last week on labor, has
Washington agog. Republi¬
cans are embarrassed. Demo¬
crats are asking questions.
The two versions of the
speech appeared iii the morn¬
ing papers here. The con¬
flicting and incompatible state¬
ments were made concerning
the Fair Employment Practice
Committee, a major issue with
voters,
Irl the Washington Times
Herald > the te « the S°vern-
01 " s s P ee ch read:“There is a-
notller reaS011 why the National
^ab 01 ' Relations Act has not
•
j worked as “ should - ° ur Iabor
relations right down the line
have been smothered under a
welter of agencies, boards com¬
missions and . bureaus.” Then
he listed the agencies which he
referred and included "the Fair
Employment Practice Commit¬
tee.
“This towering confusion of
agencies has marked a serious
backward step for the working
people of the country ’” he said
in the next paragraph.
The text of the same speech,! {
however, in the Washington
Post on the same morning omit;
ted reference to the FEPC as;
one of the “welter of agencies,
boards, commissions and bu¬
reaus” which have smothered
“our labor relations right down
the line.” Instead near the
end of his speech reported in
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Tuskegee The
Outcome of
Vote Deal
NEGRO OFFERED HIS
SUPPORT FOR PROMISE
OF A SCHOOL
TUSKEGEE "iNST. ALA., Sept.
18—In his first Sunday evening
talk to the approximately 1500
students enrolled at Tuskegee
Institute, President F. D. Pat¬
terson traced the early history,
of the school and reminded hisi
hearers that “it was wise use of
the ballot by Negroes of this ,
county” which made possible its;
founding.
A hot political campaign in
Macon county in 1873 brought j
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zation of West Indian farm and
factory workers during the fall
and winter months. Both YPA
and WMC officials have highly
praised the island workers—
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Some Savannah Area Men In U. S. Armed Forces
Joseph Corley, stm-l-c, who
was in the recent invasion of
Gaum islands, the fourth inva-
sion he has participated in.
month'" He oTSrs"
Carrie Corley of 406 West 34th
street and the husband of Mrs.
SPECIAL TRAINING SCHOOL. ARMY SERVICE FORCES DEPOT
Standing (left to right—Capt.. David Levif, diector, depot storage division. Wilton C. Scott, employee counselor, is next to him. At the extreme
(standing) is Major K. K. Kelley, director of personnel, and (seated in the chair) in the center is Miss Lillian Shank, special training school instructor.
ers in the picture are students. ■<* * <*
One of the most
developments taking place at
the Savannah Army Service
Forces Depot, according to the
announcement made by Col. G.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, SEPT. 28, 1944
Tenn. Teachers Win
Equal Salary Fight
GOP May Name Bob Church
To Supplant Dr. Powell
BECAUSE THE PRESENT
PUBLICITY
Lacks Punch To Corral
Negro Votes
NEW YORK— 1 ANP)—Dis¬
turbed because their efforts to
corral the Negro vote for Thos.
E. Dewey have lacked punch
and vitality, Negro Republican
leaders, primarily from the mid
west and far west, were here
last week conferring with Her¬
bert Brownell, Jr. Republican
National Committee chairman,
on ways and means of either
eliminating or subordinating
Dr. C. B. Powell, assistant pub¬
licity director, in the GOP pic¬
ture, the Associated Negro
learned and
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Thomas E. Drayton, s-2-c,
the husband of Mrs. L. E. Dray-
ton- of 357 Ysavraw Vill&ge, who
U Wlth the U ' S ^ ' tleet " He re
P or ts that he is well and doing
fine.
H. Schumacher, commanding
officer, is the opening of a spec-
ial training school under the
direction of Lt. Margery L. Pope,
training officer, and Miss
UPGRADING THREE
JERSEY CITY, N. J.-(ANP)
Walkouts and more walkout
were in progress Friday at P.
Lorillard's cigaret plant when
officials upgraded three Negro
girls to machine jobs which
previously had employed whites
Immediately following
girls’ promotion, Kitty Brady, a
white shop stewardess, went
Roy Thomas, president of Lo-
cal 218, International Tobacco
Workers (AFL>, and complained
that the colored girls did not
have enough seniority to war-
rant the promotion, Thomas
contacted company officials
and the g irIs were removed
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g g gt Maxie R. Jones,
son of Mr and j^cs. Maxie
jQ n g S> g r ; of Young; Grbve,
•» hom ' »
lough from Camp Sutton,
q He h as b een j n the
twenty two months.
Han Shanks, instructor, for em-arithmetic.
ployees working at the Savan- A refresher course is also in-
nah depot, who desire to ad-cluded for those who already
vance themselves in the funda-know the fundamentals of the
mentals of reading, writing andthree “R’s.” Since the open-
GIRLS
RESULTS IN WALKOUTS
WOIIUUI
Wants Negro
In Politics
I
___.
HE SHOULD
javjt 1 /llf a v ACTIVE r/tni PART
DALLAS, TEX. (ANP) ‘Why
aren’t any Negro delegates
here?” asked Mrs. Dallas Scar-
borough, Abilene, Tex., at the
state democratic convention,
“There should be Negro dele-
gates—I am in favor of.it. In
Continued on page Eight
Lucius Bryant, Jr., s-l-c, son
0 f Mr. and Mrs. Lucius Bryant,
Sr 317 Lorch street, who wa
*>““ "“»*& «*»■« his P-
re nts has returned to Great
Lakes, 111., where he has been
stationed for over a year.
SCHOOL BOARD AGREES
UPON SETTLEMENT
NAACP Led Fight For
Jackson Teachers
JACKSON, TENN.— Another
victory in the National Associa¬
tion for the Advancement of
Colored People’s efforts to aid
Negro teachers against
nation in salary
was won September 18 th in
cal federal court when
dants in the Jackson,
Teachers’ Salary case
upon settlement.
The complaint in the case
iled in the fall of 1943 by
Jacjkson Colored Teachers
sociation against the
sioner of Education of
Tennessee, and the local
intendent of schools.
plaintiffs alleged in their
plaint the Negro teachers
principals were arbitrarily
criminated against in the pay
ment of salaries, receiving les.
compensation than that
white teachers and principals
of equal qualifications and
perience.
The Jackson Colored Teach-
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Dixie Daily
Hits
Given Girls
FOR WEARING
SUITS ON ROAD
-
COLUMBUS GA. (ANP)
Viewing the heavy
imposed upon two Negro
charged with wearing play
on a county road, as “hasty,
warranted and of doubtful
ue in the improvement of
relations,” the Columbus
er, .ultra-conservative white
ly here, scored the action
City Judge T. L. Bowden in
lead editorial Tuesday.
“This action of City Judge
L. Bowden,” states the
“in imposing upon two
,ing of the school on
fifth, the progress of the
de nts has been rapid as
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msm
WAR BONDS
NUMBER 49|
ASST. CHAIRMAN
Rev. L. L. Scott the pastor of
the Second Baptist church, who
will serve as assistant chairman
of the Tuberculosis Christmas
Seal Sales. .
White Man
Faces $5000
Law Suit :
AFTER BEING TRAPPED.
WITH NEGRO WOMAN
RICHMOND, VA.— ( ANP (Fol¬
lowing conviction here last July
on a morals charge when he
was trapped in an apartment
with a Negro woman, Edgar
Smith, white, now faces a $5,000
alienation of affections suit,
filed last week by Russell Carr,
the woman’s husband.
The notice of motion, pra-
sented by Court’s Attorney A.
Clair Segar, contends that
Smith “did wrongfully, mali¬
ciously and wickedly contrive
and intend to injure the said
plaintiff and to deprive him of
the comfort, fellowship, socie¬
ty, aid and assistance of Mrs.
Rosetta Carr, his wife, and tc*
alienate and destroy her affec-
tions for the palintiff."
On July 25 Mrs. Carr and the
white man were fined $50 and
costs each jhonths 4 nd placed under
bond for 12 when they
appeared in police court on a
morals charge, following their
arrest in an apartment. v>>
The case - is scheduled for heap
: ing during- the hjpxt term, coih-
mencing (fatopis fftoce§0ing(s 9. Carr in¬
stituted through.
I his attorney on August 31.
N. A. A. C.P
Youth Conf.
Nov, 17-18
WILL MEET AT V4.
UNION UNIVERSITY
NEW YORK^Ruby Hurley,
youth secretary for the NAACP,
announced this week that the
Youth Councils and Virginia
College Chapters of the NAACP
will meet in conference at Vir¬
ginia Union university in Rich¬
mond, Virginia. November 17-
19. At
The conference will be tht
first joint meeting of college
chapters and youth councils.
Previously the fall confab has
been confined to students iu
the college chapters, but tre¬
mendous increases in youth
memberships have made it nec¬
essary to broaden the scope of
the conference to include youth
councils.
The theme, Building for Total
Democracy, points up the chal¬
lenge youth must face in meet¬
ing the needs which arise as
the end of the war approaches.
Continuing the training ia
NAACP youth leadership began
at the fifth annual student con¬
ference, topics to be discussed
are: Recruiting for the NAACP,
a Mass Organization; methods,
program, publicity and propa¬
ganda; Protests and PressurS
Techniques, and Negro Youth
Relations to National and Ir.ivi
national Minority Problems. |