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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXIII
Sr in* Badly Banians The
Jones Funeral Home
100 CASKETS ARE
DESTROYED
Automobile and Ware¬
house Burned
DAMAGE PARTIALLY
COVERED INSURANCE
About 100 caskets, an au¬
tomobile, other equipment and
two ware rooms were destroyed
in an early Sunday morning-
fire at the Sidney A, Jones Fu¬
neral Home, 511 West Wald-
burg street. An estimated
damage of between *8,900 and
."10,000 was done by the blaze,
according to Mr. Jones, the
proprietor, partially covered by_
insurance.
The fire which occurred
about 1:30- in the morning, was
confined to the warehouse in
the lane where the caskets
were stored and one of the ga¬
rages.
The source of the fire was
traced to a toilet in the rear of
the double-house ware room,
where some one, it is thought,
left a- lighted -cigaret. The
most serious loss was that of (
the caskets which because of
the prevailing shortage, are
now hard to procure.
The Savannah Fire Dept.
Engine Companies Nos. 5 and
6 and Truck 6 responded to the
first call and then about six¬
teen minutes later Engines
Companies Nos. 3 and 4 came
to help fight the blaze.
MANUSCRIPT CONTRA
AY ^ TRIBUNE METHOD
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Reply To Rev. Scott Vio¬
lates Our Rule
Our readers are well versed
in the controversy between
Manuscript and Rev. L, L.
Scott of this city,-- It mat¬
ters not if we do not agree with
Rev. Scott, the language used
by Manuscript in its last week’s
release is entirely contrary to
tr.e rules of The Tribune. We
wi h to apologize to Rev. Scott
and disclaim any connection
\v ; tb the thoughts of our cor-
n‘pendent
DOCTOR LAFAYETTE
RETURNS TO CITY
Dr. A. S. LaFayette, who has
been out of the city for the
past six weeks, retuned home
this week and will resume his
dental practice Monday. While
away he visited several cities in
the east.
White customers (Negro, too)
are being hit in the face by
butchers who sell only to “fa¬
vored patrons.”
TRAIN PORTERS WHO MET LAST WEEK IN ATLANTA
'A NT A, May 23.—The
r l kice ieastern closed train a two porters day
-here today at the Butler
YMCA. under the auspices
the Brotherhood of
Car Porters.
Delegates in
at the conference came
practically all of the South
eastern lailroads, the
Air Line. Atlantic Coast
Chesapeak, and Ohio,
of Georgia and others.
imwIi Srife
Ilisfioj; Reiii Tells Grads l‘ls
What Von Can Do That
CLASS OF forty civEM
diplomas
Sunday At Georgia
State College
OVERFLOW CROWD AT
THE EXERCISES
Speaking Sunday afternoon
before an overflowing gather¬
ing in the Meidnm au-
diorium, the Right Reverend
Frank Madison Reid, D. D.,
of Columbia, bishop of the
South Saroiina ana S. Africa
aiocese oi the AME church,
told ihe graduating class oi
State college, in one of
most dynamic, forceful and
impressive addresses heard
in some time, that the
is not interested in who
are but what they can do.
Xn the vast audience were
from every sec¬
of the state, who were
by the forceful address
ushering the forty graduates
the broader life. He
on the subject, “What
Is It?”
He said in part: “This age
little about what you look
and less about what you’re
to be, the thing that
is what a man can do.
is not an ornament
show, nor a luxury to be en¬
but it is a utility to be
We are Americans be¬
we have been willing to
and share every responsi¬
toward making this a
nation.
“We cannot now' hope to do
less than what is expected
every American. This hour
for more production than
This age calls
creators who are not
to do hard work toward
their creative dreams
true. You have been ed¬
to to work rather than
trained so as to shirk the
of the normal
“If you want a rounded,
career, mix your
education with some good
I mean simple faith
God and season this with
old common sense and the
is yours. Don’t tire of
the job better than some
else for this in the end
success.”
He said that the time is at
in our world order when
must come to recognize
Golden Rule as the only
rod for human
Continued on Page Eight
The keynote address was
made by A. Philip Randolph,
international president, and
other interesting talks were
made by M P. Webster, first in
ternational vice president and
a member of FEPC; T T Patter
son, eastern zone supervisor
and B F . McLaurin, internation
at field organizer :
A thorough discussion oi
rules of the agreements was
carried on and plans were dis-
cussed for the revision of the
NAACP Nation-Wide Cam-
j >a ig n Marks Unusual Gains
BUYS $6,000 WORTH
WAR BONDS
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Br ia&
ife
Mrs. Mamie Pringle who has
taken the lead in the local ejam
paign in behalf of the Seventh
War Loan Drive. She purchased
$6,000 worth of war bonds
through the North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Com¬
pany whose local office is lacat
ed at 703 West Broad street.
MASONS TO HONOR
GRAND SECRETARY
The committee in charge of
arrangements for the testimo¬
nial banquet which will honor
the present Grand Secretary of
the Masons who has served for
fifty years, wishes to announce
that it will be necessary to lim¬
it the number of persons who
can attend. Therefore, wor¬
shipful masters and members
of the various lodges are asked
to contact their representative
on the committee so that their
names may be reported to the
f ul! committee at their meeting
Monday evening, June 4, at 8
o’clock at the West Broad
Street USO.
Interested friends who are
not Masons who wish to take
part in this banquet are invited
to do so. For particulars, call
Mrs. Minnie DeVaughn, tele¬
phone 3-2175, or Rev. A. C.
Curtright, the general chair¬
man, telephone 3-5917.
Youth Phones White Woman, Killed;
Three Whites Rape Negro Girl,
existing contract, stated Mr.
Randolph.
Delegates attending were:
John Sears Cincinnati; W
Johnson, New Orleans; Kersey
Odom Birmingham; A. L. Reese
Cincinnati; A. T. Mitchell. Mo-
bj)e AJa . j A Harden Adis! Knox-
vlll g Xemi . n>ave Mont-
g 0merv w B statworth Fensa
co j a ^ pj a f rom j,. an <j RR
j Bedd Cincinnati; John
(Continued on page two
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1943
NEW YORK. May 28 Wide
support of the NAACP nation¬
wide membership campaign is
revealed this week in reports
received at the national of¬
fice from Missouri, Tennessee,
Alabama and brandies in Vir¬
ginia, Michigan, Pennsylvania,
Georgia, Oregon and Californ¬
ia National office executives
haave been currently address¬
ing mass meetings and contrib
uting to the campaign success
of branches in all sections of
the country.
The Memphis, Tenn., and the
Mobile, Ala., branches have ai.
ready doubled their member¬
ships. Richmond, Va., has
added 100 per cent to its en¬
rollment, and the Portland,
Oregon, membership has in
creased 300 percent with that
of Vallejo, California, going up
more than 400 per cent. The
campaigns in Philadelphia, De
troit, Houston, Texas, and New
Orleans are showing great
gains over those of last year.
In a tour of Georgia, Dr.
Ralph Mark Gilbert reports rec
Continued on page Eight
A. U. Summer
School H. E.
Workshop
WILL BE CONDUCTED
JUNE 11 - JULY 14
ATLANTA, May 26 A home
economics workshop, offering
credit toward a master’s de¬
gree, will be held at Atlanta
University Summer school,
June 11-July 14, according to
an announcement from the of¬
fice of Director John P. Whitta
ker.
The workshop will be under
the direction of Miss Lucy Mc-
Cormiack, professor of home ec¬
onomics education at the Uni¬
versity of Kansas, and Mrs.
Gladys Scott Reid, a former
member of the staff of the At¬
lanta University Laboratory
/Continued on page 2\
ATLANTA, (ANPi—A clear-
cut illustration of the double¬
standard of justice prevailing
in the south was given last
week when an honorably
charged World War II veteran
paid with his life for calling
a white woman on the
while three white youths, who
abducted a 17 year old Negro
girl and raped her
times, were given their freedom.
.The killing of the 22 year old
Denice Harris, who was re-
leased from the army in April
bore all the earmarks of an
“official lynching”, observers
here pointed out. Harris' body
was riddled with bullets when
he drove to nearby College
Park to the police-inspired ren-
dezvous with a white woman,
The fatal slug, testimony dis-
closed at the coroner s inquest,
came from a city-owned shot-
gun given the woman’s
band by College Park’s Chief
of Police R. VV Moore The
, t • s i 4U oy w j ** 1 1 ^6d by ftj'ir
police officers from ambush.'
Th* cc om s jury, after
five minute
held that Harris' death was
justifiable.
At the samae time the
jily was rendering its
THEY GRADUATE TOMORROW NIGHT FROM BEACH HIGH SCHOOL
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The above is a picture of the class which will be grauatedi from Beach high school tomorrow night. The exerciises will
be held at the First African Baptist church and the principal address will be delivered by W. A. Robinson, of Alanta, di¬
rector of Secondary Schoou Study. The class consists of sixty one members and is one of the most versatile ever to fin
ish Beach.
Wants
Removed
NEW YORK, May 28 Follow
ing failure to receive a catego
ricai answer to Inquiries
by theNAACP to Truman
Gibson, Jr„ concerning the ex
act wording of remarks attri
buted to him by the press
failure of foreign
of the 92nd Division, the
ation’s board of directors pass
ed a resolution expressing
of confidence in the
ship of the Civilian Aaide
ohe Secretary oi War.
The resoluti > i as
read :
“In view of Mr.
falute to answer
ly the questions asked as to
accuracy of the articles in
NeW York Times and the
YorkHerald Tribune, and
view of his statements as to
reports in the Norfolk
and Guide and the
Afro-American, also, in view
his lack of cooperation
the Washington Bureau of
NAACP. the National
tion for the Advancement
Colored People expresses
lack of confidence in
leadership of Mr. Gibson.”
Mr. Gibson was asked if
remarks at a March 14tli
conference in Rome
correctly presented in the
lowing lowing paragraph
Smith's dispatch to the
York Herald Tribune:
Gibson said he had tried
find out why Negro troops
often ‘melt away’ in the
of the enemy* * ‘where a
stragglers will fall by the
Continued on page Eight
in the Fulton county
house, a petit jury in
D 'Kalb county courthouse
J returning an acquittal
j ln the cases of Ralph
Ra i P h Boza and Seaman
\ giilli a n white, charged
< 4 , c Christmas eve criminal
tacks on a comely 17 yea
colored high school student,
1 ’ I * le verdi.:was t voted by
wl ‘!te jury, clespiite the
shakable testimony oi the
v '^ 10 descrioed hov she and
^ y car cdd boy friend were
turning from church when
three whites approached
after severely beating her
Panion, Walter Berry, Jr .
ed her to accompany them
an abandoned shack in
woods of neighboring
i county.
j T he girl said she was kept
the cabin more than six
and that the trio had
turns attacs ng ner.
i ul *Trid }i .i ciotriii.,^ torn,
: « irl was found tbc next
*’"3 hy a passing m itorist
*°- r ,iu * highway
j was carried ' o lh •
where sh: remained for
-——
(Continued on page Eight)
South Carolina Has Ifs
First „ .. Policeman
N. Y Cops’ Names Appear
On Policy Ring’s Payroll
NAMED SECRETARY
Ihe Rev. Tollie L. Caution,
vicar of St. Luke’s church, New
York city, will join the head¬
quarters organization of the
Episcopal church on June 1 as
secretary for Negro Work, suc¬
ceeding the Rt. Rev. Bravid W.
Harris, recently consecrated to
be bishop of Liberia, West Af¬
rica.
Mr. Caution is 43 years old, a
native of Baltimore, and a cum
laude graduate of Lincoln uni¬
versity. He took his theologi¬
cal studies at the Philadelphia
Divinity school, gradualng
with magna cum laude, and
did his graduate work at the
University of Pennsylvania. He
was ordained deacon in June,
192p, and priest later the same
year.
He is president of the general
alumni assocation of Lincoln
university.
Pastors’ Inst.
At Benedict
College
ALL MINISTERS ARE IN¬
VITED TO ATTEND
COLUMBIA, S. C The sec¬
ond annual pastors’ institute on
community life problenfs will
be held at Benedicts college
here, June 11-15. Sponsored
hy the national and the South
Carolina tuberculosis associa¬
tions, by the home mission
j board of the Southern Baptist
convention and by Benedict
college, the institute will fea¬
ture again this year several se¬
ries of health and religious lee
tures by well known authori¬
ties in their various fields.
Included among tiie lecturers
will be Dr. Vernon Johns, na¬
tionally known i inspirational
speaker; O L. Ballard. M. D. su
Continued on page Eight
NEW YORK. May 26 (ANP)
Members of the police depart¬
ment were charged last week
with being on the payroll of pol
icy barons.
Tiie charge was made when
Magistrate J. Roland Sala sen¬
tenced Nicholas F. Georgeadia,
a policy collector, to nine
months in the workhouse and
declared tiiat a "black book ot
tremendous magnitude and im¬
portance,” listing the names of
numerous policemen (
and police.
department officials and a-
mounts allegedly paid them by
a policy ring, had been seized
from Georgeaddis,
The book in Georgeadis’ pos¬
session was decribed as “the
key of the whole problem,” by
Judge Sala who said he had re
quested Commissioner of In¬
vestigation Bramberger to pro.
duce the book that he “might
more intelligently comprehend
tile case." The commissioner
refused to produce the "black
book" on the grounds that his
investigation is still incomplete
but stated that Magistrate Sala
had been advised that it would
wUould be available to him if
he visited the offices of the
department of investigation.
Georgeadis who was arrested
in his brother's store where po
lice call a “policy drop,” denied
the existence of the book along
with the arresting officer.
Judge Sala rebuked corrupt of
ficials and threatened Corn-
missioner Bromberger with sub
peona.
COUNCIL OF CHURCHES
JOIN ANTI-LYNCH
BILL MOVE
WASHINGTON, D. C.— The
Fraternal Council of Negro
Churches in America joined the
NAACP this week in pressing
for signatures on Discharge
Petition No. 3 to bring the Pow
er’s Anti Lynching Bill before
the House.
In urging Congressmen to
sign tiie petition, Dr. William
II Jernigam director of the
council’s Washington bureau,
declared: "As this war closes
the church is concerned
with the possible outbreak of
violence The usual search for
a scapegoat, identifying it with
a minority group, has fostered
anti-Negro strikes, race riots
and lynchings, and increased
tiie insecurity of 13 million A.
merican citizens of Negro de.
scent. We are painfully a
ware of the tragic experience!
which followed World War 1
and we would be woefully nc.
glectiul of our Christian duty
if we failed to point up the
need for adequate government,
al machinery to prevent such
a recurrence following Work
War II.”
SAFEGUARD •
YOUt’j
FUTURf
BOY BONDS I7ILII
NUMBER 33
HE’S EMPLOYED AT
TOWN OF CLOVER
And Highly Praised
by The Chief
SOUTH NOW HAS
19S SUCH OFFICERS
CLOVER, S, C. i ANP)— No
longer can it be said that South
Carolina does not recogniz - the
merit of employing Negroes as
police officers. Here, in this
York county town of 3,067 per-
sons, a colored officer has been
rendering satisfactory service
“for about a year”, Chieef
Joseph Youngblood disclosed
last week after reading an As¬
sociated Negro Press release
which included /South Caroli¬
na among those smjfhern state.-}
employing no Negro policemen.
The officer is Stella Jackson,
about 50 years old. who is as
signed to the colored section.
Chief Youngblood, who has un¬
der him three white officers as
well, said, “since Patrolman
Jackson has been over there
we’ve had far less argu¬
ments and fights, disturbances
and trouble.” s
Patrolman Jackson wears a
uniform and is equipped like
other officers. Youngmlood
pridefully said that his newest
officer was a naative of Clover,
owns his own home and for
many years had conducted a
business. Like most other col
ored officers on duty in the
south Officer Jackson has aau-
thority only over colored citi¬
zens. In the event he finds it
necessary to have a white citi¬
zens arrested, he traansmits
Continued on Page 8
HOME ON LEAVE
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Staff Sgt. Joseph Butler who
is home on a thirty day leave.
Bgt. Bueler has been in the ar«
rny nearly 4 years an has bee®
stationed in the Hawaian
lands for the past three year*.
He is visiting his parents. Mf«
and Mrs. Joseph Butler of WesS
41st street.
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