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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXIII
PLANNING FOR NATIONAL PRESS WEEK
Tiie Press Week Committee oi
the Negro Newspaper Publish'
ers Association has coinpletea
plans for the Annual Negro
Press Observance commemorat¬
ing its 118th anniversary, Feb¬
ruary 25-March 3.
This year’s plans include
world-wide broadcasts, nation¬
al and local essay contests and
programs.
Shown above as they met in
DR. D. W. STONE AT
SAVANNAH PHARMACY
—
Dr. D. W. Stone who for a
number of years has been with
the South Memphis Drug
pany in Memphis, Tenn., arriv-
ed here last week and is now
connected with the Savannah
Powell Introduces Bill
Banning Jim Crow Travel
SAYS IF NEGRO SOLDIER
GOOD FNOUBH TO
DIE FOR COUNTRY
Should Be Good
Enough To Ride
Anywhere
f WASHINGTON, D. C. At the
request of the NAACP, Con-
gressrer*”. tfiy Adam Clayton Powell,
Jr., C j. York, introduced a
bill, drafted by the NAACP legal
committe and the Washington
bureau, to prohibit segregation
in interstate travel.
The bill provides "it shall be
unlawful to segregate passen¬
gers traveling on any instru¬
mentality or facility of carriage,
or using any terminal facility,
subject to this act on account
of such passengers’ race or col¬
or. Any such segregation or
attempt to segregate by any
person or persons subject to
this act shall subject such per¬
son to the penalities hereinaf¬
ter provided for violation of
this act.”
In introducing the bil!
resen tative Powell declared
“The passage of an anti-jim-
crow transportation act will be
a blow against Hitler just as
will the fall of Berlin. It will
let the Negro GI’s know that
they are fighting a people’s
war. It will reassure the white
tContlnuedon page eight)
Dis. Baptists
To Meet
WILL ASSEMBLE AT
LUDOWICI
Thc Fir.-it District Convention
of the Georgia Baptist Mission¬
ary and Educational Conven¬
tion will hold a special session
at Ludowici February 21st at
St. James Baptist church. Rev.
T. J. Lynch, pastor.
The principal address will be
delivered by Dr. R. C. Couch,
of Moultrie, president. Other
outstanding speakers will be
Dr. G. W. Jordan, president of
the Sunday school department,
Atlanta, and Rev. H. Flowers.
Bainbridge, president of the
B. T. U. department.
f The "oar’s budget for the
* htion is set at $75,
OOO&YSIot P-i»»rict that amount the
first is expected
raise *7,000.00. In the coming
session, the program to be car-
ried out in raising the district’s
share of the budget will be map
ped out.
An urgent need is being felt
for funds to conduct the reli-
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Continued on page eight
Detroit, Michigan, last week al-
''ter similar confabs In Washing-
I ton and New York, are l?ft,
Dowdal H. Davis, Jr., advertis¬
ing manager of the Kansas City
Call; center, Frank L. Stanley,
Press Week committee chair¬
man and publisher of the Louis
vilie Defender, and right,’Thom
as W. Young, business manager
of the Norfolk Journal and
Guide.
Pharmacy, being located at its
main store at 719 West Broad
street.
Dr. Stone is a graduate of the
pharmaceutical department of
Meharry Medical college, He
i is a native of Selma, Ala, He
will be joined shortly ,, , by
Stone.
Jeanes Supervisors
Form Organization
MRS. TRAWICK NAMED
PRESIDENT
loch, Candler-Evans, Emanuel,
Johnson, Montgomery, Screven,
Tattnall, Toombs, Theutlen and
Wheeler counties met Junuary
31 at Candler training school,
Metter, with Mrs. M. L. Josey
hostess. Prof. Ellis Whittaker is
principal of the school.
The object of the meeting
was to organize the supervisors
in this region, No. 8, into an ef¬
fective working body.
Mrs. Louise H. Trawick was
elected president of the newly
formed organization with the
other officers being as follows;
Mrs. Willa C. Owens, vice-presi¬
dent; Miss Velma V. Waters
secretary; Miss Bessie F. Brit¬
ton, assistant secretary; Miss
j Mary Lee Hall, treasurer, and
Mi's. ----- Xenia Stevens, the re-
porter.
’ committe is
The program
headed by Mrs. Annie E. Dan¬
iels as chairman and the social
committee by Mrs. Ethel R
Brown as chairman.
All the counties of Region A
paid their dues, including the
absentees Jenkins and Lauren6
counties.
DEACONS’ UNION
SETS GOAL$19,OCO
FOR HOME
MACON—The executive board
of the Deacons State Mission¬
ary Baptist Convention of Geor
gia met at Tremont Temple
Baptist church recently. The
gathering was addressed by
Mrs. M. S. Singleton, columnist
for the Macon Telegraph and
Evening News.
The principal business was
of the committee which has
charge of raising *10.000 for the
deacons’ home. Oscar Harris
cf Atlanta, reported a balance
of *410.00 on hand for this
>ve; Mrs. L. Marshall, presi-
dent of the Women’s Auxiliary,
reported *300 00. President H
S. Bynes suggested that the
units of the organization
j throughout the state put on a
special effort to raise the
quird amount.
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A SON
John Harold Hezekiah is the
name that has been giv-
en to the son born January
2tHh to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
, Williams of Rincon. Both
jther and baby are doing nively.
Can’t Wait To
Hire Negroes
IS THE RULING OF
THE FEPC
WASHINGTON, lANP)— Fol-
filLment of the President’s ex¬
ecutive order barring discrimi¬
nation in industry "cannot
await upon inertia of the ex¬
haustion of the supply of white
labor,” the FEPC has ruled.
This opinion was part of the dl
rective issued and announced
last week by chairman Mai
colm Ross against the Carter
Carburetor corporation.
Tliis firm, along with the
lectric corporation, noth of St.
Louis, is one of those against
which charges of discrimination i iii « f I An
against Negro women had been
leveled, which charges were alri
ed at a public hearing in St, |
Louis last August. The com- j
pany had argued that it was
anxious to exhaust a backlog of (
whlte women applicants before
hiring Negro women.
The President s order, said
tlie committee, regun es the j
complete cessation of discrimi-
continued on page Eight
DIES IN NEW GUINEA
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Tech. Sgt. Robert L. Brooks,
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
Brooks of Joe street, who died
December 31, 1944, in a hospital
in New Guinea after a
space of sickness.
Sgt. Brooks was a native of
Savannah and would have been
overseas one year this month.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Willie Mae Thomas Brooks;
a son, Robert Jr.; his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Brooks; a sister,
Miss Rosa Lee Brooks, and three
brothers, Harold, Jimmy and
1 i tp Benny Brooks. iro He i, is the
, jther in law of Mr. and Mrs.
I Nathan DeVoe of 1511 Grow
! street. Sgt. Brooks family is
now residing in Asbury
N. J.
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In Hancock county at the Log
Cabin Community, twelve miles
out from Sparta, ground was
broken Sunday for the first of
a series of buildings to be con
structed for colored Girl
Scouts camp and training cen-
ter. This is thc first camp Ur
be built expressly forcolored
* scouts in the United States.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, FEB. 8, 1345
Charge Tuskeegee Guardianship Racket
At Vet.
SAYS MENTALLY IN¬
COMPETENTS ARE
VICTIMIZED
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Dr. Eugene Dibble Vigor -
oasly Denies The
Accusation
WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA;
Officials of the Tuskegee Vet-
erans Facility in Alabama w-ere
accused of closing their eyes to
conditions operating to the det-
riment of Negro veterans, by Dr.
dm rites Prudhomme, neuro-
psychiatrist at Freedman’s hos-
pital and formerly on the staff
at thc Tuskegee hospital, in a
talk before the Capital Press
club here last week
Dr. Prudhomme declared that
mentally ill veterans at the
Tuskegee institute who are
judged incompetent are allow¬
ed to become victims of unscrup
ulous guardians to handle the
funds accumulating from their
compensation. He said the
guardianship of the veterans
has been permitted to grow into
a racket and that many a vet¬
eran never sees any benefit
from the funds paid in his name
by the government. All the-
guardians appointed are white
he declared. Some of them
handle the funds for as many
as 30 or 40 Negro veterans.
All this, he says, is known by
the officials of the Veterans' Fa
cility, but nothing is done about
it.
He also accused the officials
of the institution of stopping
the doctors' on^the staff from
seeking adjustments of cases di
agnosed as psychiatric by the
army at the time ol discharge,
even when the man. under close
scrutiny and study by staff nsv
chiatrists are adjiid^di sAli*
and mentally well. Some oi
the doctors, he declared, who
tried to change the* diagnoses
got into hot water. Under
pressure, Dr. Eugene Dibble,
head of the hospital, told the
doctors they would have to stop
changing diagnoses sent in by
the army.
No help, stated Dr. Prud¬
homme, could be obtained from
the headquarters of the Veter-
ans - Adminlstration in washing
ton. Dr. Charles M. Griffin
medical director of the
tration. once told him, he
clared, that ‘you young
cannot * down there and
change things.”
Dr. Frederick Patterson, pres-
^ Dr. en ^J Dibble U constitute ege f * a U ' 3nd
wall to progress at the
ans’ Facility he said ’They
set “ f ,h the “ policies policies and and there there
nothing you can do about it.”
Patterson, he says, gets into
! picture ^ because he is regarded
as the representative of tcn
mimon NeRroes below the Ma _
, %n . Dixon llne though he
, no official connection with
Continued on page Eight
j A tract of forty acres of land
has been purchased A lake
for swimming and boating will
be built. The plan calls for
ample buildings to house all age
groups of girls. The site se-
fee ted is about one half mile
from thc community house of
the Log Cabin Center. Ne-
- groes in this community
Dixie Colonel I,eaves Sick
To Discrimination
WASHINGTON, D. C„ (ANP)
There are southerners and
there are southerners, one
might conclude after hearing
how at least one, a colonel from
Texas, has proceeded to carry
out war department policy in
the administration of his com¬
mand.
The story reaching here is
that Colonel Harvey F. Dwyer,
commanding officer of the Dou
glas air base, 65 miles from Ft.
Huachuca, Arizona, got out of a
sick bed several weeks ago to
explain fur the benefit of all
and sundry on the post dis¬
criminating against a group of
Negro Hying officers and a
group of Negro WACS was not
to be tolerated.
Colonel Dwyer is reported to
have assembled all the officers
onto the field and to have in¬
formed them that “all officers”
would enjoy tire same facilities.
"There will be no discrimina¬
tion of any character at any
time on this field,” he is under
stood to have declared. “Any
officer who docs not believe he
can adjust himself to this posi-
t.ion may file his application for of-{ |
transfer immediately at my
fice.”
There were no transfer re¬
quests, and the club and mess
and other base facilities are be¬
ing used in harmony by all per¬
sonnel.
RACE RELATIONS SER-
; VICE SUNDAY FEB. 11
1
Dt. ~ Leroy . (j. n r\ Cleverdon J
1
T0 Be Speaker
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'at 1ST CONGREGATIONAL
j CHURCH, 6:00 P. M.
Sunday, February 11 is being
observed as Race Relations over! day
by many churches all \
j America. In some places min
isters exchange pulpits and take
their choirs with them. The
purp ose 0 f the day is to promote
better relations and more
i dial and s i ncere understanding
the dlHereh.
of America. One writer has
row is being forged in the hap-
ings of toda> , and that the
j ^ ~~ si ~' ' °~ le thrcal ^ 7^'wodcT t0 soCie ty
| p e e is
the doctrine of racism. America
has proven that she believes
that all race groups have con-
tributions which they may make
for the enrichment of life
all groups. In 1925, the Na
^ ai , C ° UnCil expressed ° f C^gaUcmal its social
ideals in these words: '
! and operate 10,000 acres of
land in farms.
The project is sponsored by
the Savannah Girl Scout asso-
ciation for colored girls in Geor
gia and the southeast, of which
Mrs Thonia JVf Johnson is
president.
Speakers on tile ground break
ing program Sunday were Mrs. <
GIs Send To
N A. A. C. P.
$ 3,000
DURING FIRST MONTHS
OF THE YEAR
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■ NEW YORK More than *3000
has been received by the NAA¬
CP in the first month of the
year as attestations of faith ana
sincere appreciation from ser¬
vicemen in every fighting sector
of the world today.
Among the many letters and
commufucations flowing into
the national office revealing
the profound interest inspired
by Negro press stories of the As
sociation’s work on behalf of
the men overseas are the fol¬
lowing
*50, S. Sgt. Maivin Mabry,
3253rd, QM Service Co., some¬
where overseas*25, Pvt. Willie
Fisher,, Co. D-357th Engr. some
overseas; $488. Walter B
Lewis, 1st. Lt. 572nd QM, 87
Railhead Co., somewhere over-
Continued on page Eight
Asks Speedy Passage Fed.
Aid To Education Bill
Gets D e a t h
For Slaying
Atlantan
ATLANTA, (ANP) un-
precedented thing in the south,
a F ' uittm county jury last week
sentenced two Negroes to die in
the electric chair for the mur-
der of another member of their
race Given the death
ere Tye who had
been inducted into the
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*° n ’ slaying
Dec n „ - 1J43
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Police of the American prm-
ciple of the same
and rights for all races who
share our common life. Tiie
elimination of social discrimi-
na -hon, and substitution ot full
brotherly treatment for all races
j Satlr^tween ( tU 1 u The the fullest churche coop s
! (ContJnuedon page elgnti
Johnson. Miss Fanny Fender-
burke, regional adviser; Bcnja-
min F. Hubert, president of
Georgia State college, and Miss
Sarah Jane Wcstcrbcke, execu-
tive secretary of th Savannah
Girl Grout, ar.'.oclaiion W. K
Payne, dean of Georgia State
college, and Scout executive, pre
sided.
LED ATLANTA SCHOOLS IN DRIVE
!
Labeled by newspapers in At-
lanta as "the story of the
year,” the group pictured above
of David T. Howard junior high
school, with an enrollment
3,000 students, added a new
chapter to the records of war
bond selling when they led the
entire Atlanta public school
system by selling $50,000 worth
of war bonds and stamps during
tiie recent 6th War Loan drive.
State
Plan P. W a r
Expansion
ATLANTA i, ANPi— More
than a million and a half dol¬
lars of new buildings are plan¬
ned by the three state colleges
lor Negroes in Georgia, accord-
hig to tiie recent report of the
j tern regents submitted of the to university Gov. Ellis sys- Ar-
j nail.
U1 the total of si,526,000
! worth ZZV^7oLT~ of buidines nlanned Fort
j ...... V* -
! health and physical education
i building to cost *150 oeo. a scien
bu *° b uHding' K "to ^ cost
*75,000; a music and fine arts
!
building to cost $50,000. a libra¬
ry at $125,000. four dormitories
to cost $475,000 and faculty
bous j n g a {, *65,000.
The State college at Albany
plans *283,000 worth of new
qmidlngs, distributed as fol¬
lowing: Laundry $25,000; a
-heating plant, *60.000; gymna-
sium, *50,000; infirmary, *38.-
009: shop tor industrial arts,
*35.000; a dormitory for boys,
$75,000.
Georgia State college at
annah plans *128 000 worth
new buildings to b" as follows:
' a dormitory, *60.000: a library,
*50:000/ a home
house. *8,000. and renovation at
*10.000.
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MR. WESTMORELAND A
VISITOR TO CITY
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K p. Westmoreland,
representative of the United
states Office of Defense
tional Education for the South
crn Region which emphasizes
war production training and
trade and industrial
t s in the city for a few days
this week. He is the guest
Frank Callcn and is leaving
today for further inspection
the work in his hi* territory.
urs FINISH
THE JOB-
BUY EXTRA 1
BONDS TODAYI
Reading from left to right;
W. L. Calloway, general chair-
man; Betty Fuller, "bond
queen,” who purchased a $1090
war bond; Principal C. L. Gib-
w, Jackie Batts, bond king,
who purchased a $10,009 bond
for the Afro-American Life in-
surance company; Ruth Fuller
and T. M. Alexander who shar
cd runner up honors.
S’
DAYS A YEAR
And Enable Poor States
To Increase Teachers’
Salaries
WASHINGTON, D. t Sup¬
port of the Federal Aid to Edu¬
cation Bill, 8181, was urged by
Leslie S. Perry, administrative
assistant oi the NaAOF Wash¬
ington bureau, in testimony on
January 31 before the Educa¬
tion and Labor Committee of
the United Stutes senate. Mr.
Perry estimated that expendi¬
tures for Negro children and
the salaries of Negro teachers
would increase more than IPO
per cent, in every southern state
if this bill is passed.
Tiie legislation which was in¬
troduced by Senator Elbert D
Thomas ' D. Mich-i and Lister
Hill ID. Miss.) would authorize
an appropriation of *200.000,000
to assist the states in financing
elementary and secondary edu¬
cation. Funds would be pro¬
vided to keep all public schools
open for a term of not less than
160 days a year and sub-stand¬
ard salaries for teachers would
be raised and adjusted in line
with increased cost of living
Provision is also mad" for the
employment of additional teach
ers to handle overcrowded class
es. An additional *100,000.000
would be appropriated under
the bill to more nearly equal-
ize the school systems in the
; south witli those in the north.
| p lmds vinder this legislation.
would be appropriated to the
states by tiie United Sates Com¬
missioner of Education.
| Expressing satisfaction with
the general provisions in the
1 bill providing for "just and
: eq-
uitable apportionment of the
(funds for minority racial groups
j as adequately safeguarding \>-
groes against discriminatory al-
location, it was pointed out that
(this provision would he strength
ened if amended «*<■> as ■ *-
vide administrative ms hi"ry
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(Continued on page Eight;