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CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXII
I onspiracy Equal
S0 1 E A A li m
IN ARMED FORCES
S. Sgt. Moses J.Roberts,son of
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Roberts of
1706 Randolph street, who
somewhere in France
with his outfit, a signal batta¬
lion. He reports everything is
okey.
I T. Sgt. Joseph S. Adkins, son
of Mrs. Sarah Adkins and hus¬
band of Mrs. Alberta Adkins of
lfl Culver street who is in
France serving in a unit for
care and maintenance of motor
vehicles.
John Holmes, Jr., p.o.-3-c,
son of Mr. and Mrs. L. Holmes
of Brunswick, who is serving
somewhere in- the South Pa
cific. In a recent letter he says
that he’s okey and looking for¬
ward to his homecoming.
PERSONAL MENTION
Mrk Anna Stevens of Philad¬
elphia was in th<- city visiting
her brother and sister in ‘aw,
Mr. ^ nd Mrs. J. H. King of 1106
East fJroad street, also Mrs. O-
livia h>vman of 231 East Broad
street. Mrs. Stevens returned
to j^h;i£diphia Sunday.
Hazier -Alexander
Mrs. i Frank Lewis Curley an¬
nounces the marriage of her
daughter. Mrs. Rebecca Curley
Frazier, to Lieutenant Lestie L,
Alexander of New York city,
.^Monday, October 2nd, in Sav-
ani^kh: Ga.
BRIEFS "rm
BEING STUDIED
—
Failure r , of School , Board „
To Act Favorably
WILL CAUSE CASES TO
GO TO U. S. DIST. CT.
COLUMBIA, S. C., Oct. 7
— (ANP)-- Firing the opening
gux in the struggle to secure
equal salaries for Richland coun
ty teachers, Atty Thurgood Mar¬
shall, special NAACP counsel,
Monday charged that the coun
ty school board called a special
meeting in 1941 and abolished
a salary schedule “for the pur¬
pose of evading equalization of
teacher salaries.”
Mr. Marshall, who is associat¬
ed with Atty S. Morgan of Or¬
angeburg, in suits for pay pari¬
ty, pointed out that the bQard’s
action followed closely the Nor¬
folk decision in which Melvin
j Alston won a petition before
the circuit court of appeals at
Asheville, N. C.
This came at a hearing in
accordance with a new state law
governing petitions of school
teachers for increase pay. Plain
tiffs involved were Albert N
Thompson of the Booker Wash¬
ington Heights school and Mrs
R. Rebecca Monteith of the Mon
teith elementary school.
Following arguments of both
sides the board adjourned ti
await briefs to be submitted
The county has until Oct. 15 for
tiling a brief and counsel for the
petitions until Nov. 5.
A unique situation developed
out of the hearing when the
county sought to cente rits de¬
fense against discrimination in
salaries around the fact that
there were no white teachers in
the district in which Mrs. Mon-
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GIVES TRACT LAND TO
GA. STATE COLLEGE
Mrs. Norman, Neighbor,
Is The Donor
Mrs. Albert S. Norman, a sou-
them white woman and a close
neighbor to the college campus,
has just deeded to Geagia State
college a very valuable tract of
land comprising 20 or more
acres in the town of Thunder-
bolt.
This land is only a few hun-
dred yards from the college
campus and fronts for nearly
one-half mile on the s“hell”
road in the town of Thunder-
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IN BUSINESS 21 YEARS
Twenty one years in the tire
repair business is the record of
Joseph Butler who operates his
shop at 520 West Broad street.
Mr. Butler who grew up in
j the tire business from 'young
; boyhood in Atlanta, enjoys the
reputation of being one of the
| most competent tire repairmen
I in this section of the country,
Rumors Fly on Heels of
Reactivation ^ ,. ,. r t. TT Huachuca 1
_ _
HER GROUP LEADS
ASBURY DRIVE
Miss Ruth Priester of 108
Ponder avenue, the daughter of
Rev. Isaac Priester, has the hon¬
or of being captain of the lead-
group in the recent drive at
Asbury Methodist church in
which more than $3,000 was
reported.
The other captains in this
drive were Mrs. Alberta Braboy,
Miss Ruby L. King, Mrs. Cath¬
erine Theus, Mrs. A. E. Parker,
Mrs. Sadie B. Stringer, Mrs. Jo¬
sephine Franklin, Mrs. Essie
White, Mrs. Ruth Bell, Mrs. Beu
lah Hueston, Mrs. Almeta Maloy
and Miss Elizabeth Pete.
CATHOLIC LAYMEN TO
MEET IN AUGUSTA
Bishop O’Hara To
Celebrate Mass
On Sunday, October 8, the an¬
nual convention , of colored
Catholic laymen of Georgia will
be held in Augusta. To, open
the convention, the Most Rev¬
erend Gerald P. O’Hara, bishop
of Savannah-Atlanta, will cele¬
brate mass at ten o’clock at the
Imacculate Conception church
and later deliver the sermon.
The first business session will
be held at noon, adjourning for
lunch which will be served at
1:30 p. m. at the colored NCCS
club.
In the aftertioon there will
be another session, Everett
Spurlock, director of the col-
ored NCCS-USO clubs in Colum
bia, S. C.. being the speaker,
The closing session of the con
vention will be held 5:30 p. m.
Arrangements for the conven-
tion are being handled by a
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a credit which is given him by
the hundreds of traveling
truckmen who pass through Sa¬
vannah regularly with their
produce from the Florida farms
to the north, and by local au-
toists.
Being in the tire repair busi¬
ness for twenty and one years,
ICosttauedon page eight)
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, OCT. 5, 1944
WHAT’S TO BECOME
BIG NEGRO PERSONNEL
Is The Question That’s
Being Asked
QUARTERED" COLORED
TROOPS FOR YEARS
FT. HUACHUCA, Oct. 2—
(ANP) Ft.- Huachuca, training
ground for the famed 92nd and
93rd infantry divisions and the
site of the nation’s iarg<st Ne-
Negro hospital, is destined for
activation Ocf. 15, according to
an official announcement last
week by Col. Edwin N. Hardy,
post commander.
Though it is reported that
the mid-October evacuation will
cause a shrinkage in population
from 25,000 to 300 persons, no
official news has come forth
concerning the disposition of
the all-colored hospital staff,
the nearly 100 officers in the
medical officers’ replacement
corps or the 80 odd Negro nurs¬
es stationed at the fort.
Rumors which are fast, many
and varied, have it that these
doctors and nurses will be sent
to other posts where they will
be placed under white supervi¬
sion; Douglass air base will be
converted into an all-colored
base and some of the medics
will be sent there; a veterans
hospital will be established and
turned over to Negroes; the
morq qualified physicians will!
be distributed to certain white
hospitals.
Despite radio requests for 30000
additional nurses nearly 100 i
are here doing very little. The
war department |n«‘eds doctors,
so badly that all limited service
medical officers are to be re¬
examined with the idea of put¬
ting as many as possible on
overseas assignments.
Medics here'are desirous of
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LOCAL GRADUATES
ORGANIZE
-
A number of local graduates
of the Georgia State college
met Monday night at Carnegie j
library and organized meeting! a local:
alumni chapter. The
was called by Miss Frankie Gol-
den, Jeanes supervisor for
Chatham county and president
of the Georgia State Alumni
association.
The officers elected are L. ■
Law, president; Mrs. M. L. Sim-j
mons, vice-president; Mrs.
Grace Jenkins, secretary; Mrs.
Sarah Staley, assistant secreta-!
ry, Miss Lula Smith, treasurer;
Mrs. Hattie C. Hurse, reporter.
The officers will be installed I
Monday night, October 16, at
8 p. m. at the West Broad St.
USO The regular meetings of
chapter will be held the first
and third Mondays in each
month.
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.MONKOE SINGERS AT ALL
PEOPLE’S NEW CENTURY
BAPTIST CHURCH
All People’s New Century Bap
tist church, Harmon and Joe
ITd. ZioTJ vLSZ
Monroe Singers in a fascinating
program Sunday night, October
8. at eight o’clock, featuring its
fifteenth anniversary and an-
nual pew rally.
The Monroe organization will
appear with all units of the
combined choirs, including so-
loists, dramatic readers and in-
stumentalists. The principal
address will be made by Under-
taker Toland J. Edwards
The anniversary committee is
composed of Mrs. Sadie Davis
Steele, Mrs. Pearl B. Jackson,
Miss Mamie Williams, Mrs. Mar
tha P. Robinson, Mrs. Lillian D.
Cole, Mrs. Margaret L. Greene,
Edward Petty, Ji., and Mrs. Wil
helmina E. Knight.
AKA’S CARRYING OUT BIG HEALTH PROGRAM
Pre by the war and its
problems of transportation, etc.,
from continuing health work in
Mississippi, local chapters
Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority are
currently concentrating on
Marital Feud Ends In Death
Of Texas
Four and
Million Is The
Goal Set
B7 NATIONAL INSUR¬
ANCE ASSO. IN AN-
NUAL CAMPAIGN
Which Gets Under Way
October 8
ATLANTA, Sept. 30 ANP) —
Ordinary and industrial pre¬
mium collections to the sum of
$4,500,001 is the goal which
Charles W divene;
president of the National Negro
Insurance association, last week
said has been set the annual
national Negro collection month
October eighth. Promotion
this ,, . five „. weeks . , drive , . . under
is
the guidance of a special collec !
tion committee, headed by Vic-
tor Williams of New Orleans.
This is the time to put all
prem i U m payments well in ad-i
$18,000,000. *i 0 nnn„nn l
vance, the committee states.
The general public is remind¬
ed of the fact that member
companies of NNIA, convening
i n Louisville last June, purchas-
e d $3,625,40^) in government
bonds during the fifth drive.,
That amount brought the asso-
ciation's total investment i
that sort to a grand total
The’states covered bv J Negro b
companies are divided into
nine zones which are under the
direction of the following corn-
mitteemen: W. W. Minor, Chi-
C ago; D. E. Langley, Norfolk;
g. E. DeLorme, Atlanta; W. A.
House, Memphis; A. Lyons, Lou-
jsville; George A. Beavers, Jr
i i0S Angeles, and S. L. Bell, sec-
retary, Birmingham.
SAimmw room
OPENS OCTOBER 16
- -' /
^ amous Rainbow Room,
a ’ to P of Gus ’ havern, 503 Wst
the show will move to Lincoln
closed for some time - wil1
its grand reopening Monday
n ‘8ht, October 16.
A sparkling floor show will
head the opening program, fea-
l- ur l n K Mamie Lee Bradley,
Sammy Swinton and Levatt
Bembry and a supporting cho
ru - s of beautiful dancing girls
with Tub and Tiibbie doing
oornedy.
There Wl11 be two show's
nl &htly, 1*1-45 and 1 a. m.. On
S;tl - U:,i a.v Su.-m,, .i-ghn
Continued pag* sigh*
iiar work in cities. In Oak-
land, Cal., Alpha Nu Omega
chapter began such a pro-1
in June with outstanding 1
results.
Members of the health com-
Mrs. Frazier and Mrs.
Greene Injured
Mrs. Rebecca Curley Frazier
and Mrs. Gertrude Greene, wel¬
fare workers for the Chatham
County Department of Public
Welfare, were injured when the
car in which they were riding,
driven by Mrs. Green, was
struck by an ice truck driven by
Eddie Warren of 23 Sixth streel
at Mills B. Lane avenue and
Watt street on Tuesday after¬
noon of last week.
It is reported that the welfare
workers were on their way to
. .. , wheA , , ^t , the ,, touiid
is spee ing curw ea ®. ( Warr ^, ‘ s wha
Lane avenue applied the brakes ,
causing his truck to skid 76 feet
colliding ° with ,.... the welfare , f
wo ^ eis , car
Fr0m r the t impaCt . the truttt
was turned upside down and
Mrs. Green’s car was turned in
.. ^ opposite .. direction ,. ,, Warren
f *ed from the accident, Ullln '
jured, and Mrs. Green with a
injured arm, walked four
blocks to the nearest telephone
to get aid.
Mrs. Frazier was seriously in¬
and was carried to Chari¬
ty hospital in an ambulance.
° _ ne S1 ., ? e ° , f h . ? r fa . c , pad ,, y
' ® wa ?
mashed u and . she fuffered brok¬
en bones inbothlegs.
Mrs. Frazier and Mrs. Green
are sti11 in Charity hospital
Mrs. Frazier’s condition re-
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BROTHERS IN U. S. ARMED SERVICE
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5 S; W
J Pts Benjamin B. White and pfc. John Alliston White, bro-
th er s, the sons of Mr and Mrs. Bonafarte White, who are serv-
mg in the U. S. fighting forces. The former is the husband of
Mrs wilma Scott White and is somewhere in France. He
b een in the army eight months Tiie lattei is stationed
imonths. j,, tne Tuciiic battle *ie<* and has oeen overseas mi ocver- j
BlfYOTT
WAR BONDI
mittee, left to right, are Mildred
Stephens, San Francisco; Al-
bertino Jones, Oakland; Caro-
lyn Carrington, Berkeley; Vir-
ginia Rose, Oakland; Ida L.
Jackson, general chairman,
Many Negroes
Registering In
Louisiana
DESPITE OPPOSITION
20 PARISHES ACCEPT
THEM AS VOTERS
Interesting Survey Is
Made by NAACP
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 30—
(ANPi According to a recent
NAACP survey, Negroes have
succeeded in obtaining regis¬
trations in not less than 20 par¬
ishes despite the difficulty im¬
posed on them.
Tll( ’ survey re vealeci that
most . o fthe ... Negroes . t registered
are Democrats and he heaviest
legislations are in the parishes
of Ascension, Caddo, E. Baton
touge, Oileans Cuaehita, Iber-i
* ’ aiu apides. Negro
Oemocrats have been permitted |
o o e m e pi imaries, it was
ihsclosed.
Negroes have not tried to reg¬
ister in some parishes and in
others where they have at¬
tempted to register they have
been turned down for various
frivolous reasons. For ex¬
ample, in Calasiou parish, the
registrar would never let Ne¬
groes know when the books
were open for registration and
in other parishes after they fiil-
ed out their applications they
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NUMBER 5ft
Oakland; Alice ary,
Oakland; Nellie Jackson Bon-
ner ’ San Francisco > and Mmiel
Anders > on > Oakland— (ANR
photo)
DR. A. N. PRINCE KILL «
ED IN GUN BATTLE
With Policeman Called To j
1 Investigate
SHOOTING SCRAPE
WITH WIFE
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEX. -
(ANP) Bullets put an end t«
the marital feud between Dr.
A. N. Prince, well known local
physician, and his wife, Mrs.
Lois Prince, last week when
Dr. Prince fell mortally wound¬
ed in a gun dual, with a polica
ofiifcer at his residence here. 1
Assigned to' ■ Investigate fin¬
ger prints in a rocfrit where Mrs.
Prince’s clothing had been
found soaked in a solution of
icid and water, and where acid
seomirigly had bcen sprir lkled,
po]ice officer JoeE . Lowery ,
finger print expert, killed Dr.
Prince in an exchange of shots
that followed a s hot fired by
Mrs p r j nce a t ber former hus-
band . Lowery is said to haV8
come on t be scene of the shoot-
ing after Dr. Prince had been
wounded by Mrs. Prince in the
leg and shoulder.
Lowery rushed around the
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IN ARMED FORCES
Cleveland Sapp, s-2-c, the son
of Mrs. Claudie Baker, formerly
of Savannah but now wrth him
in Illinois .Seaman Sapp i3
stationed at the Great Lakes,
where he reports that he is do¬
ing nicely.
SINGLETON—WRIGHT,
Mrs B ertha Jr.."were Singleton and
Richard Wright, quiet-
] y married, on Thursday eve-
ning September 28, at the par-
sonage of St. Phi 1, p Monument
a i amf , bmvh die Rev. W.
Davis, pastor.