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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
Lxn i
SEEK ACTION AGAINST COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR
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FEDERAL COURT
TO RESTRAIN HIM
Frcm Using Restrictive
Measures Against
NEGROES SEEKING TO
BECOME VOTERS
Because they claim that
questionable methods are be¬
ing used by the county regis¬
trar's office to prohibit many
Negroes from qualifying as
registered voters in Chatham
county, an injunction, it is
said, will be filed here, in fed¬
eral court today asking that
said restrictions to registration
be removed.
The suit is being f.led by The
Hub, a leading civic organiza-1
tion, headed by John Q. Jel- j
ferson, through Attorney Aaron
Kravitch.
Among the complaints
the tax col-
oontimied on mure i
SOOTH CAROLINA TEACHERS AREJOBILANT OVER
EQUAL PAV CHECKS
Columbia. S. C. (ANP)—Jubi-
lance reigned among some 169
chy teachers here when each
received recently checks aver¬
aging better than *500 each ir.
equal pay, retroactive, to Sep¬
tember of 1945, fulfillment ol
a court order issued by Feder¬
al Judge J. Waites Waring last
■May, permanently enjoining
the Columbia school board
agaikd^ discriminatory salaries.
The retroactive pay denotes
the vast sums the local school
board has been able to milch
out of the ‘‘Negro schools” here
per month over a period ol
years. Judge. Waring gave the
board until April 1 of this year
to equalize and
pay checks were in fulfillment.'
The Columbia action was
brought by the NAACP on
half of Albert N. Thompson
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RED CROSS DRIVE CEIS OFF
TO A FINE STAR!
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The kick-off dinner and en-
tertainment of the colored di '
vision of the American Red
Cross fund campaign wajs held
ati, the West Broad Street
YMCA Monday evening at 8
o’clock.
Each chairman and his work¬
ers pledged to give full support
during the drive to encourage
every colored citizen to con¬
tribute at least one 'dollar so
that the *,10.000 goal can be
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‘ WE THE PEOPLE
GUEST’*
Clhl5" «par old Robson, Frankie
hty m'te of boqgie
o
aman 1 ecently is shown
gives a r< lAltrnit m-ii nerformau
rk. The *
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Ultra-Modern Melody
Theatre Opens Saturday
ALL VOTED FRF.FLY LAST WEEKS
ELECTION AT STATESBORO
Statesboro, March 17.
proximately 75 Negro men
women voted in the
primary here last week.
This election was held
elect the judge of the
court, the chairman of
county board of
ers, and two members of
board. •
There was no opposition
trouble in Negroes casting
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AUirv
v^'IX.Y A IA
Start Mixed
Church
Columbus, O. i ANP i An in¬
terracial church with interra¬
cial officers, ushers and clro:r,
will be the feature of the Fel¬
lowship church, which will
start in this city at 4:30 p. m.
Sunday, March 31, at the First
Congregational church.
Plans, modeled after the
Fellowship church in Philadel
phia, call for a worship' serv-
ice on the last Sunday after-
noon of each month with a
white minister serving one
time and a colored on the
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' jANL/bKS c a mncDC 'SHUt curie KbPAtR nrnirn'
SHOP MOVES TO '
Irbrr Kiuxi/ {JUAnl j \ DT/TDO LKo
The Sanders Shoe Repair
GEORGIA VOTE BARS APPEAR FALLING
Broad street, to its new loca-
tion, 1109 East Broad,
Park avenue lane.
This well-known shoe
shop was established twenty-
six years ago by Willie
who conducted the business
the West Broad street
until his death in 1938.
After his death, Mrs.
Sanders, his wife, took over
business and became the
Negro woman shoe repairer
the city. For the past
years she has conducted
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on page Seven
Broadnax Estate Gives $881
To Bryan Seminary
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Fitzgerald. March 16. This
® week Bryan Theological Semi-
: nary, located heie, received a
gift of *881.57 from the estate
of the late Rev. S. S. Broadnox
of Thomasville. In addition to
this amount, a large number
of books from the estate were
i left to the seminary.
j This donation will be includ-
ed in the *50.0CO Diamond Ju-
bilee campaign which the
General Miss'onary Baptist
convention started March 1
state rrxt convention, to it meet in
i Savannah in November at
Bryan Baptist church.
$25,000 of this Diamond Jubi-
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ELKS TO SPONSOR
OUTDOOR SHOW
Featuring The Barney
Tassell Shows
Weldon Lodge of Eiks will
sponsor a week's outdoor, fair
beginning Monday night,
March 25. and ending Saturday
night, March 30. The location
Continuer! on Paae '■
WINNERS IN LOCAL NEWSPAPER ESSAY CONTEST
ALETHJA THORNTON
First Prize Winner
$50.00 Victory Bond
The above are the winners in
the local high school essay con-
test which was one of the
tures of National Negro Mews-
paper week, February 24-
March 2.
The local contest was
sored by The Savannah Trib-
U11 ^ and was participated in by
thirty-seven students, all from
Beach-Cuylcr high school.
j Atlanta (ANPi Latest con-
census of opinion in Georgia is
that the barriers to Negro vot-
| in'g in the primary are falling
j slowly, but with certainty,
Following the ruling of the
three-man tribunal of the New
j Orleans Circuit court of ap-
! peals that Negroes are eligible
‘to vote in Georgia Democratic
primaries, upholding the Mid¬
die Georgia court’s ruling • in
Primus E. King case, there
j was state’s considerable race-baiting stir among politi-
j the
! cians to keep the ballot out of
i the hands of over a million
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GIRL SCOUTS
PLAN CAMPAIGN
cr\p HJUIrlTIblVl enfllwviCAJT
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Through - the efforts of the
i citizens of Savannah, the Ne-
gro Gir Scouts and oca coun-
i gro Girl Scouts and local coun-
eil members, the Girl
camp at Mayfield was built at
a cost of around $6,000. Thj .
includes 40 acres of land and
the main lodge. This camp is
Uni-ed States, so
bought and erected bv a Nc-
gro division. The future plans
for it as a regional camp for
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THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 194B
taytacAS's lumsx $ Finest
OPEN SATURDAY
:OMPtETflYA»» CON^TtONED j
j j
| Savannah's newest amuse-
j j mejit center theatre, the Mel-
ody. opening Saturday after-
| noon at 6 o'clock for the use
i of the city's colored population,
: stands poised today for its ini¬
tial showing, "Buffalo Bill,” in
| gorgeous technicolor, with Lena
: Horne in “Harlem on Parade"
to follow Tuesday.
Built by its owners. Mose
Portman and L. H. Shepard, at
! a cost of *125,000, the Melody
! theatre is believed to be the
; finest and most luxurious mo-
[ tion picture house of its type
I in the entire southeast.
Constructed for all time of
! cement blocks, completely air
conditioned, fireproof in every
inch of its great walls and ar-
j ! tistically conceived stage, the
Melody, Its owners believe, is
1 an innovation long needed by
the substantial colored people
of Savannah and this entire
section
Its location on East Broad at
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MOSES A. WALKER, JR.
Second Prize Winner
$25.00 Victory Bond'
The theme on which all
papers were written was, “Im-
portance of the Negro
j per in Post-War America.”
The judges for the local con-
Galley 9. '
test were Mrs. J. w. Wilson
j Miss Frankie Golden, Miss Ger-
trude Lark, R. W. Gadsden and
Rev. A. C. Curt right.
The three winning essays m
black residents. However,. last
week the voices of hate and
supremacy appeared stalled or.
at least temporarily
by newspaper and public opin¬
ion. Make sure, nevertheless,
that the Talmadge-Harris for¬
ces were not asteep.
Meanwhile, Negro leaders
throughout the southern "Em¬
pire State” stoked' up for reg¬
istration of 100,000 citizens oi
color before the deadline for
the early fall primary. , .
Latest reports .were that Gov.
Arnall would- not call a special
sess on of the legislature at the
suggestion of House Speaker
Roy Harris. Harris and Char-
les' Block, president of the
Georgia Bar Association
chief defense lawyer . in- the
King primary case went * >
Washington, reportedly to seek
an appeal hearing before
Un led States Supreme Court,
The best sources in Georgia
even in the capitol i seif
i however, agreed . .... hat the high--
I
j est tribunal would only, poncu,
with the rulings of the lower
j federal courts.
Both rural and urban
j P ft P ers in , Geor p a app ® are J
be in accord with the decision
The reception and endorsement
given by the white press was
on Urn paid of responsible
wtiite wnue leadership icmwiw.p in ». the state
that the integrity of the las
shall be upheld and the Ne-
groes shall be given their just
.
Georgia State t ommander
Mayo C. Buckley of the Veter-
| ans of Foreign Wars and Bryan
Crosby of the natonal of lice
; were in the city this week con-
ferring with local leaders
Overseas Vet
Slain By Tex.
Policeman
Houston (ANP) , Kenneth
Long, 24. a navy veteran of 30
months' service, nine of
‘were spent overseas on Guam,
j was shut to death by a high-
: way patrolman near here, re-
j ported ly following an argument
| which ensued when a eompan-
i Ion refused to obey a white
j man’s tail in.” order H to brother, “put his Marion
s
■j Long, 22, and Causiey Clay. 26.
j were jailed on aggravated as-
sault, charges, and will be held
I to the May grand jury, *
Patrolman Holland, the
1 er , flred becans* he said
Negroes were overbearing .....
their attitude" Long,
three times, died instantly.
slaying occurred at
service station at El Campo,
where Causley and Marion
Long had stopped left- a
drink. The white man’s
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GEORGE G. GEIGER
Third Prize Winner
$15.00 Savings Stamps
the local contest have been
forwarded to Kansas City,
where they will be entered
the National H'gh School Es-
say Contest, sponsored by the
Negro Newspaper Publishers
Association. First prize in this
contest is a $100 victory -bond;
second prize, $50.00
bond, and third prize, .'25.00
• victory bond,
rights as cit zens.
Continuing its -stand on the
franchise for Negroes, the At-
ianta Journal, one of the
state's great white dailies, de¬
clared editorially:
“An Expected Decision.”
“Primus King, a Negro • ol
Columbus, has won h s second
and probably final round of
his legal fight to vote in Geor
gia primary elections . ■ •
King’s case was argued in the
first instance by white* attor¬
neys, Georgian born and bred
that Negro citizens who' pro-
f ess ,.o be Democrats cannot
j j legally be excluded from Dem-
orrat c primaries. The opinion
j of the appellate court, sustain
i n *g judge Davis’ ruling,, was
j I written of by Marietta, Judge Samuel Georgian H.
s.bn-y
bom and bred. There can be
charge, therefore, that
j Georgia is being afflicted that
carpet-bag government or
j the law is'being laid down by
ou ters unmindful . our
traditions and our ideals
| The Columbus Ledger-En-
’ quirer jn its second ed torial
endorsing the. right of Negroes
to v ' otP - proclaimed: ;
' Since we have felt for some
Ilme that qualified Negros
have every irtfnal right to par-
ndr alarmed at the unanimous
opinion opinion of m the* me- fifth nun circuit circuit
court of appeals in the Primus
..
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(yonUnued on .7)
J HIRE TELLS POLICE SHE 1 LEO MINISTER
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22 Negro
Catholic
Priests
New York ANPj . Only 22
I priests constitute t he Negro
Catholic clergy in the United
States, according to an article
in the current “Interracial Rc
view," which questions the
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MASS MEETING SUNDAY AT
ST. PHILIP CROUCH
(j/nL jLUUI crn|/T LthAUbnd ipAftCPC
j END 3-DAY COURSE
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'cadcis, troop committee
members and board members
met for three days at
State college for taSHRDLl
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$125,000 Wilberforce Mort¬
To Be Burned
Columbus, Oh o Bishops H.
C. Ransom of Wilberforce, J.
A. Gregg of Kansas City and
D. H. Sims of Philadelphia met
here this week io arrange to
pay tlie balance of tne >125-
000 mortgage on Wilbert'orC *
Continued on page 3
POST GRADUATE ASSEMBLY OF TEXAS PHYSICIANS
j
Celebrating their loth an-
p;i fversary. th® post gradual 0
assembly of Negro physician■>
in m Texas Texas heid nem their tneir annual annual
meeting at Prairie View College
March 4-7.
Tll ° following physicians
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Sunday afternoon, 4 o’clock
a mass meeting will be held at
S! Philip AME church, West
Broad and Charles streets. The
meeting is being held in con¬
nection with the campaign to
secure a larger number of Ne¬
gro registered voters, and to
air,some of the questionable
methods being used by tho
.
Chatham county registrars
against many Negroes who at¬
tempt to register.
The meeting, which bo
of one hour’s duration, will
have as its principal speaker
O. E. MeKaine,, field represen¬
tative of the Southern Confer¬
ence for Human Welfare, who
is in the city assisting in tho
drive for more voters.
The program will be as fol¬
lows:
OPENS NEW CAFE
Mrs. Eugenia Meyer has op¬
ened a new cafe at 1327 West
Broad street, corner of Ander¬
son.
The cafe quarters have been
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were in attendance at this as-
ssmb!- ppensored b; the Tex-
Tuberculosis Association
the Texas j exas State state Department Department of! oi |
Health, the Texas State Mea-
teal Association, the Lone
Medical, Dental and Pharma- j
NUMBER 23
Norfolk. Va. iANPi A 17-
year-old girl was arrested here
last week for the slaying of
the Rev. Moses T. Sanders, a
32-year-old minister taxicab
driver, recently. Sanders’ semi-
clothed body wars found by
three Fort Jackson soldiers In
his Your Way Taxicab, which
was parked in the woods near
Bowers Beach, between Co¬
lumbia and Fort Jackson.
The girl, whose identity the
police has not divulged, told,
how she had a boy call a cal)
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ceutical Association, Prairfq
aa a the Marions! Tuber-
cuiosis Association,
Front row. left to right: Drs,
s L Di „ 0?v Longview; C. U.
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