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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LXIII
WORK HAS STARTED ON
NEW EASTSIDE THEATRE
$iosm movie house
AT EAST BROAD AND
gwinnett sts.
Will Have Seating
Capacity of 775
Work started this week on
[ the $100,000 theatre for colored
i people at East Broad and Gwin
! nett streets.
The n«w theatre building will
also hr.ve space for three
| stores front);ijt East Bread tit
the c«'-.'.piete rians were drawn
by Oscar M. Hansen, architect.
The new entertainment en¬
terprise for the city’s colored
citizens will be known as the
East Side theatre, and will fill
the long felt need for a modern
and comfortable recreation for
the colored population of that
area.
Plans call for completely fire
proof construction The thea¬
tre will be the last word in con
struction and appointments ac
cording to plans. It will be
air-conditioned as well as most
modern heating, with the fin¬
est movie projection and sound
equipment available.
Another feature will be the
use of fluorescent and neon
indirect lighting throughout,
eliminating glare. All public
ureas and aisles will be heavily
carpeted.
UThc new East Side will fea-
tafre the finest in screen enter¬
tainment. Savannah East
Side C'orp. was formed by Fred
Wc4f*f Bailey Savamnh, Theatres Roxy of
Atlanta, Bijou Amusement Co.
of Nashville, Tenn.
ILD Acts In
Texas Legal
Lynching
New York. (ANP) — The In¬
ternational Labor defense has
swung into action to help save L.
C. Akins, sentenced to die in Dal¬
las on Oct. 6 for killing a white
policeman in ttelf-defense.
Anti-“white supremacy” Ameri¬
cans in every part of the country
were mobilized by telephone, wire
and mail, to press Gov. Coke
Stevenson of Texas to set aside
the death verdict and free Akins.
The full story of the case, which
the United States Supreme court
refused to revise, was told this
week in the magazine “The Na¬
tion” which published an article on
it by George Clifton Edwards,
whom it described as “a Dallas at¬
torney who has had no connec¬
tion with the case.”
Alcins, in 1941, was assaulted by
a white policeman as he stepped
onto a Dallas street car. The po¬
liceman struck Akins and shot him
through the body. Akins defend¬
ed himself and tussled with his
assailant who dropped his gun. In
the struggle Akins picked up the
gun and shot his attacker, killing
him.
Akins was sentenced originally
to life imprisonment, won a new
trial on the grounds that Negroes
had been excluded from the trial
jury. One Negro was impanelled
on the jury that tried Akins a sec¬
ond time, but did not serve. Akins
was sentenced to death. The Unit¬
ed States Supreme court has re¬
fused a second revival on the
grounds that presence of a single
Negro on the panel # satisfied it.
ief Justice Stone and Justices
i^kek .md Murphy dissented.
couidf” j/l" N *maj° r ity of the supreme
the ILD said, “has ab¬
dicated its responsibility as the
same court did in the Saceo-Van-
zetti case—on the basis of a
flimsy technicality.
“It is up to the people of the
pountry to see to it that L. C.
kins does not die. The case is a
jjyflassic example of ‘white suprem-
y’ at work in one of its most
irible phases. VYe urge all
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Theodore P. McLean, farm
planning conservation techni¬
cian, United States Depart¬
ment of Agriculture, Soil con¬
servation Service, Bibb county,
Macon, and with district head¬
quarter- in Perry, Ga., has been
working with the Bibb county
farmers in erosion control prac¬
tices for approximately three
years.
Since becoming connected
Continued on page Eight
White Students Stage Hate
Strike Against Negroes
THREE GARY HIGH
SCHOOLS INVOLVED
Students Return After
Five Days From Class
Gary, Ind. (ANP) — For the
time in a score of years,
hate strike is being staged by
students in this steei miii
on the edge of Chicago to stop
attendance in local high
Approximately 1,000
students from Froebel high,
was a mixed student body,
from Tolletson and Horace
Highs, the latter all-white,
VOTE TO RETURN
Garey, Ind., Sept. 24—
The white high school stu
dents who have been on
strike for the past five
days, protesting the pres,
ence of Negro students in
their schools, voted in a
mass meeting today to re_
turn to class rooms.
taking part in the anti-Negro
which has strong
from parents, many of
participated in the similar
of nearly 20 years ago. It
also believed that some organi¬
similar to the Ku Klux
may be involved.
The situation has become !
and serious that a meeting
scheduled for Tuesday night
a committee representing
students and parents and
board of education. The de¬
has been made on the board
either the 850 Negroes be re¬
from Froebel or the 1,600
there be transferred to oth¬
schools.
Charles D. Lutz, school superin¬
and Richard Nuzum,
principal, have refused to
to these demands. Lutz
not meet with a committee
the strikers and issued a
saying, “Gary schools
be open to all students wish¬
to attend them.”
This committee was appointed
a mass meeting of pupils and
at nearby Tyler park a
ago Tuesday, the day after
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91 Get Degrees At
Meharry Medical College
Pepsi Cola Awards 19
College Scholarships
Long Island City, N. Y.—Nine¬
teen Negro students, 8 boys and
11 girls, are starting off to col¬
lege this Fall on scholarships
which they won in a new, nation¬
wide competition, financed by
Company as a public
service, and planned and admin¬
istered by a group of noted edu¬
cators, including Dr- Mordecai W.
Johnson, President of Howard
University.
The purpose of the Program is
to give an opportunity to promis¬
ing students to go to college, and
to enable those students
among them to continue their^edu-
cation who could not do so with¬
financial assistance.
All Pepsi-Cola scholarship win¬
are receiving complete tui-
and other required fees for
years at any accredited col¬
or university of the student’s
in the United States, to¬
with $25 a month to help
living costs, and a further
Many Are Now Qualifying
For Voting Privilege
School Girl
Raped, Mur¬
dered
Conway, S. C. (ANP)—A white
■man suspected of raping and then
killing a 16-yearfold high school
girl, remained free, it was learned
here Tuesday, three weeks after
the incident.
The girl, a member of the Car¬
ter family at Pine Island, 14 miles
from here and six miles inland
from Myrtle Beach, left home to
make a purchase at a store, stop¬
ped by a married sister’s enroute
home and then disappeared. Late
that afternoon, a searching party
led by her father came upon the
violated body with its head rest¬
ing in a roadside ditch.
The numerous reports on the
slaying, reports which are spread
over the entire lower section of
the state, agree on essential de¬
tails. A family living on the is¬
land is said to have permitted a
white insurance agent who worked
the territory to wash blood stains
Continued on page Eight
Campaign Nets Two Women
Police Officers In South Carolina
Over 800
Enroll At
W. Ya. State
Institute, W. Va—Sept. 20.—
The enrollment for classes on the
first day of the new school year
at West Virginia State College
was in excess of 804 students. This j
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THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY. SEPT. 27. 1945
To Convert
W. B. St. USO
Into a YMCA
The organization of the Clti
ens Committee for Negro So
cial Service was an unusua
and very successful experiment
Composed of twelve of th
leading white and colored cit.
izens of Savannah, it was or
ganiaec! for the purpose of
meeting urgent civic needs
that could only be realized by
cooperative effort on the part
of white and colored people.
The first big project was the
securing of the property at
71]4 West Broad street which
was rented to the USO for the
purpose of meeting the needs
of* our men in the armed for-
Continued on page three
As a direct result of a
provvion in the new Georgia
Constitution abolishing the
poll tax and a recent decision
of Attorney General Eugene
Cook, pubhhed in The Tribune
last week, to the effect that
back poll taxes are uncollecti-
ble and are not a deterrent to
voting in Georgia, the cam¬
paign of the local branch of
he NAACP, through its reg s
tration committee headed by
J. W. McGlockton, for 10,000
new Negro voters in Chatham
county, was boosted during the
past week by over 700 new regis
trant- added to the voting
lists.
Many organrzaiions have al¬
ready registered. The Evan
gelical Ministers' Union and
the Baptist Ministers’ Alliance
went down to the court house
| Tuesday and registered. Vari
j ous life ‘nsurance companies
, and other busines-e have regi
tered their employees.
It is the a’m of the NAACP,
said Mr. McGlock’cn today,
to put on a campaign, street by
street, block by block and house
by house to secure the neces,
ry»nt,1niiA<1 on Png* n
COLUMBIA, S. C. - - (ANPi —
91. r. statewide campaign lor
eo’OiCd poi cc oll'ccs In Smith
Carolina, supported jointly by
the Progressive Democratic par
ty and the state conference
of the NAACP, bore its first
fruit this week when on Wed
nesday Police Commissioner
Gary Pa-chal announced two
women would be employed by
October 1.
The women, while perform.
ing the same duties as white
policewomen, would carry the
64 IN MEDICINE AND
27 IN DENTISTRY
Ground Breaking For
Alumni Building
Nashville. (ANP)—Physicians
and dentists from 27 states gath¬
ered in Nashville Sept. 14-17 for
the G&th commencement of the Me¬
harry medical college.
The Rev Alphonse M.
Schwitalla, dean of the St- Louis
university school of medicine, de¬
livered the commencement address
to an audience assembled in the
chapel of Fisk university. Speak¬
ing on the subject of “Medicine in
a Transition Period.”
Candidates for degrees included
64 medical and 27 dental students,
a total of 91 who were graduated
under the war-time schedule. Com¬
missions were granted ,'il ASTP
classmen who completed army re¬
quirements. With the rank of
first lieutenant they will enter the
army reserve corps.
Meharry alumni members, while
in Nashville, participated in
ground-breaking ceremonies for
the proposed $400,000 Alumni hall,
dormitory for medical and dental
students to be erected within the
next few months. Acute housing
shortages in this area have made
Continued on page three
Adjt. Of GUARD
Bn. IN FRANCE
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Chief Warrant Officer Eulie
W. Bellinger who i; with the
American army of occupation
in Metz, Germany, where his
work consists of admin’stration
ot Bj’pfox’moie.'y 2000 Polish
and Yugoslav guard units, be¬
ing commanding officer of
headquarter- detachment.
He has been recently offered
a lieutenancy.
In a recent letter to The Tri¬
bune, C. W. O. Bellinger who
has sreved for three years in
the European theatre of opera
tions, says that while every
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title of “truant officers,” would
supervise school traffic at dan
gerous intersections and when
possible check on hooky play
ers. Their pay is to be the
-amc as that of white women.
Meanwhile, the battle con¬
tinues both in Columbia and
other cities. Leaders >aid
Tuesday that nothing short of
policemen would ^atusfy their
program but felt that Colum.
bia would add th"se soon now
the ice has been broken.
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Georgia Teachers' Equal
Pay Hearing
A. U. School of Social Work
Enrolls 119 Students
Dr. Reid To
Speak Here
Oct. 5th
Dr. Ira De A. Reid, chairman
of the department of sociolo¬
gy at Atlanta university, will
be he guest speaker of the pro
gram presented by the Associ¬
ate Board of the Chatham-Sav
annah Tuberculosis association
on Friday evening, October 5.
This is the first time in the
history of tire Negro board of
the association that they have
had the privilege of inviting an
out of town speaker to be their
guest at one of the re giilar meet
ings of the board.
Dr. Reid who is well known
to the Savannah public, is a
doctor of philosophy in sociolo.
ogy, was con>ultant with the
United States government, has
traveled extensively and is the
author of a number ot widely
published books.
This meeting on Friday night
of next week I - an open meet¬
ing and alii nterested persons
are cordially invited The piace
of the meeting will be announc
ed in next week’- Tribune.
Vital Issues
Discussed At
Conference
Chicago. (ANP)—The nation’s
outstanding leaders are scheduled
to appear on the Federated Or¬
ganizations of Colored people’s
program here Wednesday and
Thursday to discuss issues vital
to the welfare of the world’s dark¬
er peoples.
The two-day meeting will be
held at the Monumental Baptist
church here where the Rev. J. L.
Horace, president of the organiza¬
tion, is pastor. *
Those scheduled to speak are
Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, eminent
scholar and NAACP representa-
Continued on page three
GOP News
Ignores
Negroes
Washington. (ANP)—As far as
Negro Republicans are concerned,
they may just, as well read the
comic sheets in the daily papers
instead of the present edition of
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With registration still in prog¬
ress for the first semester of the
1945-40 school year the Atlanta
University School of Social Work
reports 119 full-time students
which is the largest enrollment in
its 25 years of training young men
and women for the profession of
social work, probably making it
the 5th largest school of social
work in the country irrespective
of race from the point.-of-view of
full time students. The enroll¬
ment is made up of students from
widely scattered areas of the coun¬
try including 21 states and the
District of Columbia. A large pro¬
portion of the student body comes
from northern states including
New York, Pennsylvania, Connect
ticut. Indiana, Kans
Jersey and non-raciaf lllirf&ijt.
Many as
al colleges and universities are
represented by these young people
including such well known institu¬
tions as the University of Chicago
Graduate School, New York Uni-
versity, Dayton University, Hunter
College, New York City, the Uni-
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wa. married to Edgar D. Hines at a lovely ceremony taka
plaae geptdnider 3rd at Waynesboro, Ga.
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ATLANTA —i ANP) -The tri_
al hearings in the suit for
equalization of Atlanta teach,
ers’ salaries , were po-tpatied
last week and are now slated
for sometime In October.
Tile case had been scheduled
for Sept. 17 before Judge E.
Marvin Underwood. On Sept.
14 depositions were taken from
the president ol the Atlanta
school board and the superin,
tendent, their testimony re¬
vealing facts and voiuminoui
records which could not be re
viewed prior to the schedul¬
ed trial date, it also became
apparent that the case w'ouid
take at least a week insted of
two days.
Samuel L. Davis, instructor
at Booker T. Washington high
school, Is suing on behalf of
himself and others similarly
ituated, the Atlanta board of
ucation.j ;
Atlanta’s attempts for equal
pay started over four years
ago when William H. Reeves,
then an instructor at David 1.
Howard school, instituted a
suit against the school board.
Reeves later was dismissed
from he school system on th©
contention that he had been
•elected from the army on the
basis of a physical test.