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TO LEAD COUNTRY FOR A FOURTH TIME
PRESIDENT FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT
The voters . of , America , spoke ,
in no uncertain terms on Tues- j
day when in the general election they went to the polls and
elected Franklin D. Roosevelt president for a fourth term,
Approximately fifty million votes were cast and up to today
mid-day the count stood, Roosevelt, 23,252,6*6; Thomas E. Dew-
ey, his Republican opponent, 20,393,917, with 35 states going
for Roosevelt and 13 for Dewey. It is expected that when the
official ballot count has been completed Mr. Roosevelt’s plu-
rality will exceed three millon votes.
New Fight In South Carolina
Teacher Pay Cose
tes fry New Tricks To
Bar T> Negro at Housing tt •
WASHINGTON, D. C. )NNPA)
- Professing a deep seated
cern for the health of the pros-
pective Negro residents of
. housing . project . , . being . construct ,
ed n northeastern part of
Washington, the residents in
the area have petitioned the
House District Committee and
President Roosevelt to bring a-
bout its abandonment by the
Federal Public Housing
ity. The petitioners declare
the project •* may constitute
a serious health hazard within
itself and to the surrounding
community.”
The apparent concern lor
health ol the Negioes for whom
the houses are proposed is view-
ed with suspicion, however, be-
cause of the other ruses used to
oppose and thwart the construe
tion of Negro housing in new
areas adjacent to white neigh-
borhoods. The zoning board
ORIENT NEGRO NURSES IN ENGLAND
Congressman Frances B. Bol-
ton of the 22nd Ohio district.
Cleveland, on her recent trip
American army hospitals in
France, spent some time with
White
YouthFan
cial Strife
THEIR ANTAGONISM
AGAINST NEGROES ON
CITY BUSES
—ANP i—De¬
claring that the acts of youthful
whites on the city’s buses are
i fanning into flames the spark
of racial antagonism that
smoulders so dangerously a-
mong both races in Macon," the
Macon News, afternoon daily
editorial Wednesday urged pa¬
rents to check up on the beha-
I ior of their offsprings.
“Strange as it may seem it is
he high school pupils who ride
the buses to and from school
who are daily antagonizing and
insulting Negroes who happen
to be passengers on the buses,”
said the editorial. “At times
they supposed occupy all to be the seats that J
tre reserved for
jthe Negroes in the rear, and!
insulting and indecent re-
'marks about the hapless Ne->
groes, heir color taunting and yelling them from about the j j
windows at Negroes on the i
as they pass. Indeed,
one boy spat in the face of an
unoffending Negro boy on the
back seat because he did not
get up and give him his seat,
“if these boys who are act-
i ng S0 disgracefully were the
sons of the lower criminal class-
eS their behavior would be
blamed on their upbringing.
i r~ ont.lliiied nn dslep seven i
just recently has overruled an
attempt to prohibit the con¬
'struction of a project for Ne-
groes on a technicality regard-
| ing building materials whereas
the real reason behind the ob _
jection was race
! In the petition to the Presi-
\ dent and to Congress, it is stat-
ed, we note particularly that the
site of this project is on land'
by the filling of
|swamp, that the general area
is low and partly covered by
standing water after heavy
rains, and that it is
ly adjacent to, and all of it lies
below the level of the Mount
livet ceme t ery from W hf c h it
rece j ves sur face drainage.”
| In a i e ft er to fhe district com
missioners concerning the same
pr[)ject the esident of a citi .
zens - association said .. We d0
oppose housing of the worthy
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I the Negro nursing unit that is fortitude, ability and spirit of
! doing itr orientation trainingthe colored nurses, the Lrst to
the 168th station hospital in bp pr red for the battle
i England. Mrs. Bolton was cn- f ron t._(ANPi
‘ tlufsiastic in her praise of the
^year old contest
BE HEARD NOV. 17
Urge Refusal of Cer¬
tification
UNDER THE NEW
PROJECTED :
|
NAACP Takes The
Leading In Fight
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COLUMBIA, S. C.--(ANP)
A fi ht within a fi ht app eared
,ue\eioping .n the th.ee jea a
equal pay for teachers batt.je
with leaders for the
teachers completing plans for
an all out assault on the new j
plan, now being
peddled about the state to
on which the first ex-
animations are scheduled for
Nov. 17-18. The other exams
are to be given early next year
The fight against certifica¬
tion was touched off two weeks
Continued on page Eight
92ND DIVISION MAKES
SATISFACTORY” PROGRESS
SAYS THE COMMAND¬
ING GENERAL
Men Seek No Special
Attention
GEN. CLARK SAYS NO
RACE PROBLEM
v ———
But Men In Ranks See
Sinister Hand
WITH THE 92ND DIVISION
IN ITALY i ANP i While the com
mantling general of this first
Negro combat unit to meet the
in the European thea¬
reports that their develop-
ment and progress has been
normal and satisfactory, the
boys of that division let it be
that they object to
special attention because of
race.
To a man, they wish their
battlefield exploits to receive
he same consideration as oth¬
units, no more, no less. A-
of the great historical na-
ure of their work as American
7egro soldiers, the men who
orm the fighting vanguard of
2nd division have been in the
ront line for more than two
months and have successfully
:ept pace with more experienc-
d divisions in some of the more
iery sectors around Bologna.
A1J f MJSLTt ,. . £
« —
hficers and men, with the same
legree of fate and fortune that
enerally accompany any mili-
ary unit. The 92nd has had
ts losses. On the other hand,
t has its heroes. One of the
men is up for citation for hav¬
ing killed 13 Germans with his
damaged -earbine.
There’s no official segregation
commodations although every
man in the division has had
share of it when he trained
the same southern state.
Although there is only one ta-
He in the officers' mess, in the
divisional headquarters the pic
ture is different. Whether
voluntary or involuntary,
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DR. LAFEAYETTE RETURNS
Dr. A. F. LaFayette, well
known dentist, returned to the
ity this week from a visit to
New York and Washington,
TO SPEAK AT SYMPOSIUM AT FIRST CONGRE¬
GATIONAL CHURCH SUNDAY
DR. J. W. WILSON
l u Subscribers
On and after January 1, 1845, subscription
rates for The Savannah Tribune will be increased
as shown below:
ONE YEAR $2.50
SIX MONTHS 1.50
THREE MONTHS IM
STUDENTS BEING X-RAYED \'N TUBERCULOSIS TEST
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Above is a scene from the
Beach-Cuyler high school,
where 966 girls and 478 boys,
a total of 1,447 students, sub-
”amf„a“o , Lerta“ 52Z
r or not they had any trace of
, uberculosis.
Thq examination at Beach-
j -uyler f the high state school wide is project but a part
Migration Ne-
groes Causes
CHANGE IN FACE OF
AMERICA
WASHINGTON, D C.—(ANP)
-How the migration of Negroes
s changing the face of America
was recently made public by the
General B° ard of Education of
the Methodist church through
ts service known as "Interra¬
cial Trends.”
The federal census of 1930 re-
ported a Negr0 Population of
l -89l,143, or 9.7 per cent of the
total - these 8.805,636 were
i C.ontinuenon page pignt.i
PROF. W. K. PAYNE
Sunday, November 12,
ises to be a day of more
usual interest to church
of Savannah, especially
who shall attend services at
First Congregational
I Continued on page Eight
ducted here by the Georgia
State Health Department in
effort to combat the dreaded
plague of tuberculosis.
*» ^ P “
^ depat tment s P° nsoiec of health, y e
Chatham-Savannah Tuberculo-
sis association and the
health department. In
to the students taking
Navy Decorates Five Port
Chicago Explosion Heroes
WASHINGTON, D. C. iNNPAi
A week after convicting 50 of
the survivors of the Port Chi¬
cago ammunition ship explo¬
sion in California of mutiny and
disobedience of orders, the navy
announced last week the deco-
ation of five of the heroes of
that explosion. The men were
given Navy and Marine Corps
medals "for heroic conduct in
ighting .fires on burning am¬
munition cars after the explo¬
sion on July 17.
The men, who were further
ommended because “toy un-
elfish devotion to duty they
NEW DIRECTOR AT
36TH STREET USO
^ VI
FLOYD G. POLLARD
The Reverend Father A. J.
lall, West 36th Street USO
moderator, announced that F.
!c. Pollard succeeds Sebert C
ove as club director
Mr. Pollard Is a graduate of
and T College, Greensboro,
C„ and has served there as
cational project. He was
nerly CCC educational advi¬
ser in North Carolina and air-
; inspector in Pittsburgh,
i He is affiliated with the
5 iu Beta Sigma fraternity.
j x-ray test, hundreds of labor-
ers, other workers and citizens
| n general are submitting them-
selves to the tests.
! T >“' used —- in »»
the test was re-
cently brought to the city by
'Bailey Harrison of the state de-
j shown partment of health, who is
in the rear of the picture
the intricate
further explosions and
lossible loss of life,” were
BROTHERS IN ARMED SERVICE
BROTHERS OVERSEAS Stafi Sgt. Charles Hubert, who re¬
ceived the godd conduct medal, is serving somewhere in New
iuinea, and his brother, Private Paul P. Hubert, who is some¬
where in the South Pacific. They are the sons of Mrs. Kate
Hubert of 2311 Florence street.
ISliSk I
BROTHERS IN SERVICE—Pf ’s Willie-Spaulding and SUflQTct
A Spaulding, sons of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Spaulding of 1H<J
East V aldburg street and husb nds of Mrs. Lillie Mae Spaul¬
ding of Buffalo, N, Y„ and Mrs. Kvelena Spaulding of Savan¬
nah. Botii have been serving overseas for over a year and
are now in Italy, where they w'ite they are doing fine. ^
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Others shown in the picture,
beside the students to be x-ray-
ed, are Miss Elizabeth Hogan,
nurse, of the Chatham-Savan-
I
, he student being x-rayed, and
Aiss Dorothy I Ury, Beach high
school teacher standing in the
ront of the Di( . t ure nrenarinir P ft
he second student i n n ^ • e IOr
h e
John Andrew Hawkins, jr.,
pharmacist mate 3d class, who
lives at 322 Hopkins Court, Al¬
exandria, Virginia;
William Henry Anderson, sea-
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