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YEARS OF CONTINUOUS PUBLIC SERVICE Lxn i SEEK ACTION AGAINST COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR l __ 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 Continued on page 3 RED CROSS DRIVE CEIS OFF TO A FINE STAR! - 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 Continued on pagej^ ‘ 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 * - 3 ■ Continued on page 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 Continued on page Seven 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 continued on Page 7 ' 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 | Continued on page Seven Broadnax Estate Gives $881 To Bryan Seminary _____ _____ 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- 1 Continued on page 3 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 ____________________ . GIRL SCOUTS PLAN CAMPAIGN cr\p HJUIrlTIblVl enfllwviCAJT --- 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 ......... ................. Continued on page Seven 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 __________ Continued on Page 8 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 Continued on 3 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 .. ____ !nage (yonUnued on .7) J HIRE TELLS POLICE SHE 1 LEO MINISTER i • * 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 Continued on page 3 MASS MEETING SUNDAY AT ST. PHILIP CROUCH (j/nL jLUUI crn|/T LthAUbnd ipAftCPC j END 3-DAY COURSE _____ 'cadcis, troop committee members and board members met for three days at State college for taSHRDLl Continued on page Seven $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 Continued on page thrcjfc 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 Continued on page three 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) Continued on page Seven ceutical Association, Prairfq aa a the Marions! Tuber- cuiosis Association, Front row. left to right: Drs, s L Di „ 0?v Longview; C. U. Continued on page Seven