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64 YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
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ARMY TO USE
Washington, D. C., Mar. 3.—
According to an announcement
made today by ihe War De¬
partment, the army intends to
make greater and fuller use oi
Negro manpower both in peace
time and in the event of war.
these troops to be used in units
of approximately 2,700 men. ,
The decision for small units
was based on “'experiments;
and other experiences of World
War 11" in which the board
reported that the “most sue- j
cessful employment of Negro j
units occurred when they were;
employed as units closely as-j
sociated with white units on;
similar tasks.”
Of three Negro wartime 15,000 meh di-j
visions of about
each, the 92nd and 93rd in¬
fantry divisions have been de¬
activated after overseas serv¬
ice. The Second Cavalry Divis¬
ion was broken up into small
units early in the North Afri¬
can campaign.
Specifically the new policy
provides for creation of all
types of Negro units, both com¬
bat and service, on the 1-to-
10 proportion of Negro to white
civilians. In addition qualifi¬
ed individuals will be used “in
appropriate special and over¬
head units.
An unspecified number of
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Search|For Killer
Spurred By Big Reward
Houston iANPi — "What is
believed to be the biggest re-
ward ever offered for the ap-
prehension of a killer of a
gro in the south may bring
about his arrest, it was stated
by police this week as they
tributed a poster offering
reward foi* nforma,tion lead-
ing to the arrest of the
cr of Richard H. Guess, slain
iabor leader, who was shot j
the back a week ago Sunday
night.
The poster announcing
signed , , by .
reward was an
spector of police, and was
tributed throughout the Negro
wards in Houston.
1 he Hughes T ° o1 Co ’ a st , ® el
plant, where Guess worked for
20 years, offered *2.000. *500
was offeied by the Indepen -
ent Metal Workers Union and
$1,800 by the Masonic lodge.
Several suspects have been
arrested and grilled by police.
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U. S, COURT OF APPEALS UPHOLDS NEGRO S RIGHT
FO VOTE IN PRIMARY ELECTIONS
New Orleans, La., March 6-
The United States Fifth Circuit
Court of Appeals today held
Primus E. King, a Negro citi¬
zen of Columbus, Ga„ eligible
to vote in the Georgia Demo¬
cratic primary election.
King declared in his suit that
he was barred from voting in
the Democratic primary of
July 4, 1944, in Muscogee coun¬
ty solely on the grounds that
he was of the colored or Negro
race.
The suit was brought against
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•PUTS HOLD
Cl, OF HONOR
Scout Marion C. Ralph, Jr.
of Troop 160. received the rank
of an eagle scout on last
day night in the West Broad
Street USO. when the
court of honor was held. Scout
Ralph is the first scout of ins
troop to reach the highest
in scouting. which brings the
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avamtah frilnror.
UNIVERSITY
FACES RACIAL TEST
URBAN LEAGUE OFFERS , '
1W0 SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS
SELECT 12
OF THE YEAR
Washington. D. C. Mrs.. Mary
McLeod Bethune announces
the selection of twelve women
of the year as a result of a poll
by an awards committee, which
considered the contributions
of over sixty women for this
significant recognition. Mrs.
Be'hune hailed the choice of
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TO ORGANIZE FIFTEEN NEW
BOY SCOUT TROOPS
A. J. Taylor, national field
direetor of Interracial Service, S
interracial service,
Boy addressed Scouts of America, last j I
week the get-togeth-
er meeting sponsored by the \
organization and extension
committee, ^chairman. .of which W. S. S.'
scow, er., is cuairman. J. j. air-! o. i
Delaware the divisional ch
man, mnn whn who nrpsidpd presided, introduced in ,, mri „ red
Mr. Taylor.
Looking forward to the orga-
nization 0 f a tihp total e-cV of fifteen
new troops B together 8 1
meeting was filled with inspi-1
ra y on on ] as t Thursday night.;
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Shrouds Death Of Noted
OVER ANOTHER
MILLARD WHEELER
The Rockland Palace Grill
723 West Broad street,
purchased last week by Millard
Wheeler, well known ^ c '
Broad street businessman, from
Jude Brncu. who opened tlm-
popular cafe several years ago
The acquisition of this
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THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, MARC H 7, 1946
New York The National
Urban League for Social
,ce Among Negroes w announced , I
coday two fellowship awards
available for the school year
1946-47. Both of the fellow¬
ships are offered for study at
the University of Pittsburgh,'
one in the Graduate School of
Economics, and the other in
the School of Applied Social
Sciences. The total value of
each grant is >1.100. with the
miversity providing the tui¬
tion of $300 and the National ■
md Pittsburgh Urban Leagues
sharing jointly in the balance,
payable in nine monthly stip¬
ends.
The economics fellowship is'
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Representatives of the fol-
lowing churches agreed to form
Scout Troops. Thankful Bap¬
tist, St. Matthew’s Episcopal,
Palen ME. Union Baptist, St.
Paul Baptist, Gaines Chapel
AME ' Colle 8 - e Park Baptist, — . ........ Mt.
Tabor , Ba P tist ' Friendship
tut,. First Evergreen
Taylor Chapel AME, St.
AME, Second Arnold Baptist,
New Mt. Olive Baptist and
Brownsville Baptist.
M. G. Haynes, assisted by Av
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ZETAS CELEBRATE /'
FINER WOMANHOOD
WEEK
Beginning on the third
day in February ana continu-1
ing throughout the week, Zetasi
everywhere took time 0 ut fromI
work and play to pay tribute j
to womanhood, aiding each i
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PROMINENT SAV ANNAHI.AN OPPOSES TOM LINDER’S RACIAL VIEWS
As an aftermath of the re¬
cent election Mrs. Helen!
Douglas Mankin of Atlanta, to
Congress, in which she defeated j
17 other candidates in a racej
in which she was trailingi
Thomas L Camp by 146 votes
until the last box from a pre-
dominantly Negro ward gave,
Mrs. Mankin 956 votes to!
Camp’s 7 and the election, Tom [
Linder. Georgia’s Commissioner)
of AericuPurc. came forward
last week with a statement tm j
the daily papers opposing the
participation of Negroes in pr.-;
mary elections, and suggesting
Austin, Tex., Feb. 28 When
the University of Texas re¬
cently rejected the application
of Herman Marion Sweatt. a
Negro youth of Houston, the
question of whether the State
of Texas is providing adequate
higher educational facilities
for Negro students equal to
hose alforded white students
was thrown in court today.
gweatt had made application
fm . admittancp int0 the law
school, but his application was
rejected, pending an opinion
from Attorney General Grover
Sellers on the question of
whether or not a person of Ne¬
gro ancestry, otherwise quali¬
fied for admission into the
University of Texas, may legal¬
ly be admitted as a student.”
OIST. m TO
MEET IN
The Savannah District Par¬
ent-Teacher Association will
i
convene Saturday, March 1G, |
at the Risley high school of
Brunswick, with Mrs. J. A
Brinson, president, presiding.
Officers for the coming year i
will be elected. Ail local pres-
idents are asked to make their
annual reports at this meeting. I
District Winners of essay
contests will be presented and
monetary prizes awarded The,
session begins at 9:30 a. m.
WILL RELEASE
SOLDIER j
Clarence !
New York — W.
Harding, in whose behalf
FTAACP lawyers filed a petition
for clemency, will be released
early in March,'the association
was advised by the War De-
partment last week 1
Los Angeles 1 ANP 1 — A mys-} sec-
investigation into the
death of Cornelius
Johnson, America’s.!
Olympic is scheduled high - to jump be j j
within a few days by j
and toxicologists. I
unsuccessful attempt to de-.
the cause of the fam-;
32-year-old athlete’s death
made by the San Francis-!
coroner’s office following;
nry.strriou.,.
° n FebrUary 16 |
Johnson - veteran of three
’ in merchant 1
servlce the
marine and a chief . baker
a ' 30arc * ’he S. S. Santa Cruz
Line steamship, was
taken off the ship by police as
a way which, he says, would
exclude them from such elec-
l!0ns b y substituting a 'white
executive commi tee for the
State Democratic executive
committee.
His statement said
“The white executive com-
mittee” could call a white pri-
mary in which all white voters
would be eligible to vote, re-
gardless of party.
in such amiuiyh create
“In such a primary then-
would be no political party in-
volved. and such primary
would, not be subject to any
Upper, left Josh White,
and singer of songs
a democratic theme, as he
"The House I. Live In.
Upper, right — Left, to right:
Bill Slocum, CBS director.
LOCAL SUBMIT CONTEST ESSAYS I
In IT'blaze of glory, National!
Negro Newspaper Week ended
Saturday with a radio broad- 1
cast over NBC. previous
broadcast an Sunday, Febru-!
^ 24 ' ushered in thfi c,,lebra -1
tion which was a great success j
in every respect.
The two broadcasts together j
with the high school essay 1
contests, both national and lo- j
cal, tures we're of the the observance. outstanding In fea-j the j
national contest, the Negro j
Newspaper Publishers’ Associa- |
tion, sponsors of the observ- j
ance offered three prizes, slOO
an( j > 25 , for tire best es-
says wr jtten bv high school
students on t he subject, “The
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it docked in San Francisco
W jth 1.100 soldiers after jump-
j n g around wildly on the ship’s
deck. Policfe encountered eon-
siderable difficulty in subduing
Johnson in order to remove
him to the ambulance, they re-
ported He died en- route to the
harbor emergency hospital,
, 1 re , , un< , 11
ocean
mysterious and unknown cir-
cumstances. his sister, Mrs.
f “ b / *“"• "* *"■
h Theodore Johnson, said
the famed athlete had sailed
'all around the world." He
spent five days in a lifeboat
after his ship .had been torpe¬
doed in the Allan ic on his
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provisions controlling party
primaries.
‘Unless su£h action is taken,
; and p Negroes are allowed to
vo t e j n Lhc primary, the same
situation could develop in Ihe
! state election as recently de-
veloped in tl*e congressional
election in the Fifth district,
arid the Negroes’ vote could be
the determining factor
1 choosing choosing the fhe governor governor and and state
House officials.”
The suggestion of Linder,
who is said to be a guberna-1
torial aspirant, has met quite:
a de al of opposition. Among
Brice, contralto, who
an ,. wi , h her brother, jona-
Brice, at the piano, Dow-
H. Davis, advertising man
g er u f The Call, and chairman
jjegro Newspaper Week, who
Policeman Set Free
In Soldier
NAME ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR
UNITED COLLEGE FUND DRIVE
New York. A national ad-,
visory committee of 82 men anjj
women from many sections ol |
the country, with John D. |
Rockefeller, Jr., as its chair¬ j
man, will support the third an¬ |
nual campaign of the United j
Negro College Fund to raise i
$1,300,000, it was announced
this week The drive to aid j
NEWSFAPF.R PUBLISHERS
HARRY S, TRUMAN AT'JSnr
MANY TO PARTICIPATE
IN TRIBUTE TO
PROF. SMALLS
The program honoring Prof.
Peter Smalls' three-year direc¬
torship of the choral groups of
the FAH church will be held
at the FAB church Sunday al
ternon at 4 o’clock.
Many musical groups of the
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those who oppose this undem¬
ocratic stand is a prominent
Savannahian, M. L. Arnau,
president of the Chatham Sa-
Savannah Klub. who, in a let¬
ter to Mr. Linder, voiced his
opposition as follows:
Savannah, Ga
March 3. 1946
Mr. Tom Linder,
Atlanta. Ga
Dear Tom
Being .1 friend of yours
and coming from the same
town, I can’t help but
write you what I think of
your statement to the press
spoke on behuil of the Negro
Newspapei Publishers Assocla-
Uon; Don Baker, manager and
husband of Miss Brice.
Lower, left The Four Ink
Spots, who sang the popular
33 Negro private colleges ,
the lund v/ill open
17.
The statement released by
M. Totton, national
chairman, a vice
of the Chase Nation-
Bank, discloses also that the
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FILE CLEMENCY
PETITION
Washington, D C. A peti¬
tion for clemency in behalf of
Arthur Manns, Jr., convicted
of a charge of larceny by a
mili ary court at Kelly Field,
Texas, last December, was filed
wi*h the Secretary of War
attorneys of the NAACP. Manns
was given a dishonorable
chary,< and sentenced to 10
in
his week in regards to
Negroes voting. I don't
aui'ce with you in the
leas’ I believe any man,
white. Jew, colored or
Greek. Ptc . should be urg¬
ed to vote in every elec¬
tion: in fact, it is every
man’s duty * regardless of
race or creed. So let’s
stop talking about the Ne¬
gro and help mu merever
we can.
Your friend,
M. L, ARNAU.
NUMBER U
"If I Didn’t Care.”
Lower, right Miss Helen
distinguished actress of
and radio, who served as
of ceremonies on tho
Freeport, L. I. <ANP> — De¬
spite overwhelming evidence
against him and public demand
for a state investigation, the
Nassau county grand jury last
week exonerated white Patrol¬
man Joseph Romeika for the
slaying of two unarmed sol-
d iers j n tbe bus terminal here
February 5 . The slain men.
Pvt. Charles Ferguson of the
army air forces, and Alfonso
Ferguson, his brother, a dis¬
charged army veteran, were
shot by Romeika when they
protested the refusal of serv¬
ice in the Freeport bus term¬
inal lunchroom. With two oth¬
er brothers, they were cele¬
brating the discharge of Al¬
fonso.
Joseph Ferguson, a seaman,
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Washington. D. C., Mar. 1. -
A group of publishers repre¬
senting the Negro Newspaper
Publishers Association, called
at the White House today and
commended President Truman
for appointing Negroes to re¬
| sponsible government posts
and for supporting permanent
fair employment practices leg-
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GIRL SCOUT
!R. COURSE
There will be a troop pro-*
gram training course at the
Georgia State College, March
15-1*7 All leaders, assistant
and prospective leaders, troop
committee members apd board
members are invited to take
advantage of this' course.
The registration fee of $’ °0
payabje in advance. Call
will call by and take your reg-
7315 and the field secretary
istration, T.he. first session will
be held Friday evening, M reij
15, at 7:30 o’clock. *