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THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1946
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| Mrs. Nezzie S. Bell
Sunday Sunda was regular pastoral
day at the FAB church. Total
collection was $23.68. Pastor W.
Ij Turner delivered a wonder-
YJr sermon at 11 o’clock. At
7:30, the Easter program was j
conducted Tijtnan. by Mrs. Nora Lee
!
Mrs. Jessie Mae Brown of
Deenfield is spending some
time here visiting relatives.
The various Easter programs
were held Sunday afternoon at
St. James, Harper’s Chapel,
Thankful and New Jersey
churches.
Mrs. Malissie Hicks of St.
Augustine, is visiting her,
daughter, Mrs. Nora Lee
man, for a few days.
Brady Joyner is back home
again.
Mad’son Williaams of Vida-
lia was the week end guest of
Mrs. Nora L. Tillman.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Williams
and Mrs. Lonease Coates mo¬
tored to Douglas to visit the
latter’s sister.
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Stilmore
By Mrs. F. L. Gray
Services Sunday were well
at the FAB church.
Pastor O. S. Scott delivering
sermons. An Easter pro¬
gram was rendered in the af¬
ternoon.
At. Mt. Zion at Al'ne the ser¬
mon was delivered by Rev.
Louis Arringer. Collection was
$21.80.
DOUGLAS
By Mrs. Sallie Standford
The forty-second anniversary
of the Macedonia Baptist
church passed into history
with great success. The Eas-
ter program was a success.
The Easter celebration at the
Free Will Baptist church was
held at 6 p. m., Rev. D. C.
Campbell, pastor, and at the
pleasant Grove Baptist church
at 2:30 p. m., Rev. E. B. Moore,
pastor.
Gaines Chapel AME church,
Rev. S. W. Grant, pastor, held
its exercises at 8 p. m.
The Female Gospel Singers
of Thomasville sponsored a
SUBURBAN NEWS
THUNDERBOLT
By Mrs. Susie A. William?'
Central Baptist church held
its services on Sunday. Sunday
school had a large
and at 3:30 the Lord’s
was served. Pastor L. L.
delivered a soul stirring ser¬
mon. Many visitors were pres¬
ent; among them
Houston, brother of
Moses Houston. He has been
.overseas for two years.
Ward and Evans were the
pit guests.
A peanue hunt was
ecj^y Mrs. Smalls, Mrs.
ard, Mrs. Bennett and
Morrell for the Sunday
children.
College Park Bapt'st
held its services on
Its revival meeting last week
was conducted by Rev. Fields.
Many were added to
church. An Easter
wus rendered by the
school. Rev. J. H. Ponder
pastor.
Mrs. Susie Douglas was
week end guest of Rev.
Mrs. Williams.
Leroy Williams, son of
and Mrs. Wiilliams, paid
short visit from Athens
returned.
Lawrence Davis had a
cessful operation.
Mrs. Sophie Bradford of
York, is at the home of
sister, Mrs. Katie Adams.
Mrs. Mattie McQueen can
ceive company. She is out
the hospital.
Thunderbolt is the talk
the town. We have a
shop and a beauty parlor.
Four Precious Gifts To Have and Hold
1. Consciousness 2. Perception 3. Sympathy 4. Understanding Heart
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E. SAVANNAH
By Mrs. M. E. Morrell
Sunrise services at
church last Sunday
were impressive and included
several Ir lends. Pastor
ningham delivered the resur-
rection message and the sen-
ior choir rendered music
the Easter sermon. The
day school held its Easter pro-
gram at night. This
marks Rev. Cunningham’s 3rd
anniversary, which was
j served with a three-night
i night D—I'sv
g;yun. Wednesday night,
speaker was Rev. I. W. Wash-
I ington; Thursday night,
.M. Adams will be the
! and Friday night the
{sary sermon will be
Rev. C. N. Dunham. Sunday
j J will be pastoral day,
communion service at 3:30
m.
Mrs. J. V. Walker and daugh¬
ter, Miss Carrie Lee
are house guests of Mrs. Mel-
vena Latson. They are "jrm-
j erly from here, but are
in New York city,
j East Savannah is proud
one of her sons proving him-
self to be a real artist and in¬
j {dore terior decorator. He is Thee*
Green, recently discharg-
ed from the army after serving
[three years overseas. His latest
drawing is a portrait of the
late President Franklin D. Roo-
sevelt.
Quicken my CONSCIOUSNESS, Lord, r
That I may know
The truth of thy vast unlvers*, r '
Above, below.
prant me PERCEPTION, Lord,
That I may see, ’ 9
In all of life’s vicissitudes,
The lessons meant for me.
Give me SYMPATHY, Lord, 10 '
That I may try
A friend to be to those
Vess fortunate than I. f
Added to these, one other gift
I pray do thou impart:
Greater than all; Dear Lord, I crave
An UNDERSTANDING HEART.
program at Pleasant Grove
Baptist church Monday night,
April 22.
Gaines Chapel AME church
worshipped with the Oak Grove
AME church, Rev. N._ C. Welch,
pastor, Sunday afternoon.
The faculty of the carver
' high school attended service at
Gaines Chapel Sunday.
MILLEN
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bryson of
Waynesboro visited her brother,
Afford Jordan.
Mrs. Ciara Jordan is on the
s'ck list.
W. L. Adams of Statesboro
visited relatives here last
week.
John Henderson has return-
led to Charlotte, N. C., after
visiting his wife here.
Easter services were good at
the little folks giving a fine
First Baptist church Sunday,
program.
Mr. and Mrs. John Thomp¬
son, Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Lewis,
and Mrs. Beatrice Dunbar at¬
tended the Walker Association
Farmers Conference at Staple-
ton last Friday.
Robert Burke and James
Walker went to Augusta Mon-
,
1 Miss Nellie Connor is visiting
Rev. snd Mrs. J. W. Warren,
Mrs. Hazel Carter’s husband
and brother 'are visiting her
this week.
Mrs. George Hart is visiting
her daughter in Savannah.
Mrs. Lena Miiller continues to
improve.
Emerson Miles is home on
furlough.
Mrs. Sallie Flemister visited
her cousins, Mr. and Mrs.
Prank Roberson.
Mrs., Calvin Lane was the
week end guest of Mrs. Sallie
Flemister.
All the children seem to be
in bed with measels.
The Millen baseball team de-
feated Swajnsboro Sunday, 12-
6. Millen is playing in Charles¬
ton, ton, S. S. 6 C., ., today! today; Swajnsboro
will play Millen again April 28.
Rev. J. B. Bates of Savannah
j is preaching at Trinity for ten
nights, beginning Monday
night, April 22.
The fourth grade class of
, the Jenkins County Training
School, of which Mrs. Claudia
R. Biggs is teacher, held its
open house Aprfl 5.
Mr. and Mrs. William H.
Thomas of Thomasville spent
Easter with Mr. and Mrs. John
Jofhn E. Briggs, Jr. Mr. Thom¬
as is manager of the Afro-
American Life Insrance Co.
Mrs. Carrie Lovett and her
daughter spent the week end
in Savannah visiting Mr. and
Mrs. Alonza Dixon.
PLANS BENEFIT DANCE.
FOR RIOT’ VICTIMS
New York — The world fam¬
ous Savoy ballroom will be the
Betting for a benefit dance on
May 3, the proceeds of which
shall go to the Legal Defense
fund for the Columbia, Tenn.,
vict’ms.
The ball committee th's year
voted to hold the Columbia de¬
fense dance instead of the an¬
nual birthday ball.
JUSTICE DEPT. TO
SLAVEJW CASE
Washington, D. C.—The D.
C. branch, NAACP, called upon
the Justice Department
Justice to conduct an immedi-
ate investigation of charges of
involuntary servitude placed
against Mr. and Mrs, Beaie
Broach of Index P. O., K ng
George county, Virginia,
Colly Johnson of 111-fUh
street, Northwest, Washington,
D. C. According to
submitted to the NAACP, Miss
Johnson, who is reputed to be
about 25 years old. has spent
most of her life with the
Broachs in a condition of
voluntary servitude.
She was not permitted to go
to school, to have friends friends or or
playmates, nor to vis’t anyone
sphere of activity was con-
fined to the Broachs’ farm,
and that was “where she
away” to visit a neighbor. Mrs.
Broach found out about it and
threatened to beat her if she
ever left the premises agan.
The affidavits go on to disclose
the sordid story of how Miss
Johnson was beaten with a
horsewhip, abused and mis¬
treated by the Broaches, and
how she was made to sleep
a henhouse; to Work
morning till ri ght m all
of weather doing every
inable chore in the house and
on the farm.
According to witnesses,
Miss Johnson was finally res
cued she was in an
nervous condition, seemed half
starved, and her hands and
feet were swollen, had corns,
To Carry
Story To
The Public
New York — Mad,’son Jones,
NAACP administrative assist¬
ant, disclosed plans for carry¬
ing eyewitness accounts of the
so-called ‘riots’ in Columbia,
Tenn., whch resulted in mass
v'olence, police killing of Ne¬
gro “suspects,” and indictment
of 31 Negroes on charges of
attempted murder, to the gen¬
eral public in a scries of
NAACP branch meetings.
Organ zed into five teams the
Columbia group will visit 49
branch meetings beng) called
in an area extending along the
eastern seaboard from Boston,
Massachusetts, to Roanoke,
Virginia, and reaching as far
west as Minneapolis, St. Paul
and Kansas.
Among the ‘riot’ victims, all
of whom were released from
Tennessee just'ce, ar» Julius
Blair, 76-year-old Columbia
business man; Saul Blair, his
son, who was also In business
in Columbia before State
ers and units of the Tennessee
State Guard completely wreck-
ed every Negro business estab-
Vshment in Columbia, and the
Reverend Calvin Lockridge,
Columb'a minister, who was
thronw into prison at tommy-
gun and bayonet point.
The teams will be led by Mr.
Jones, Miss Lucile Black, mem¬
bership secretary; Mrs. Miley
Williamson, executive, Dayton
branch, and Captain Jesse O.
Dedmon, Jr„ secretary, Veter¬
ans’ affairs. In addit on to in¬
forming the public of the
southern tragedy, the teams arc
part of a fund-raising drive for
the legal defense of the vic-
tims.
Advisory Committee Meets
Meeting at the NAACP nat-
:onal office in the
Willkie Memorial Builcl'ng in
New York, the Advisory Com - j
m'ttee of the National Commit- i
tee for Justice fr. Tennessee
discussed plans for a nation- j
wide fund rals’ng and publicity >
drive. I
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and
Dr. Channing Tobias act as co-
chairmen ex-offic’o of the Ad¬
visory Committee, while Ar¬
thur Spingam serves as chair-1
man.
ASK JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO
PROBE SLAVERY TIME ;
callouses, and were cracked
°P en ' anc ^ looked like noth, ng
they had ever seen on a hu-
nr,m being. The afiidavits
went on to tell the story of
how sympathetc neighbors
had finally helped M ss John-
son ( o escape when she indi-
that she wanted to leave
Broaches because of inhu-
man treatment which she was
receiving. (
whpn questi = oned by NAACP
investi^ntors Daniel Lomax,
automo bil e mechanic of King
0corgp county, Virginia, hold
h()W hp met Miss Johnson on
fhp f(Ud onp mor nlng In March
after Mr Br0 ach, who is cm-
Jl)oyp ,, at palgren Proof ng
Grounds, had gone to work, and
Mrs. Broach, a school teacher,
had left for school. Polly was
dressed in soaky ragged clothes
was wearing Mr. Broach's - • ■
rizo 11 shoes the only shoes
she had to wear. He told of
taking her to Ivs mothers
h^ ouse in Shiloh and then
bringing her to Washington, D.
C., where she was staying with
his sister, Mrs. Mattie Lomax.
The case was brought to the
attention of the NAACP when
Miss Mattie Lomax wrote to
0rganization disclosing the
g!tuatlon . An immediate inves-
^ ^ c(Jnducted by the
0 f the NAACP.
and on the basis of the find¬
ings, a delegation composed of
Dr Lpon Ra nsom, chairman of
the legal committee of the
branch, and Mrs. Beatrice M.
i R<*ed. administrative assistant,
were assured a full invest'ga-
tion by the Just ce Department.
TO SING IN NEW
ZEALAND
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"Todd Duncan, baritone, has
been signed by the J. and N.
Ta t Concert Management pf
Australia, to maake a tour of
Hawaii, Australia and New Zra_
land. Mr. Duncan will be the
first Negro concert art'sfc ever
to make this tour.
Leaving May 8 from San
Francisco, Duncan s first con¬
cert will be May 12 in Hono-
j I i u i u . In Australia he will ap¬
pear in Melbourne, Sydney,
Briabane> Brisbane, Adelaide and other
prinoip al c ties before going to
New Zealand . Tho tour calls
J for a min;mum of twenty-five
concerts and a numbe r of ra-
dio engagements over the Mac-
Quarie network, the largest in
Australia. Mr. Duncan will re¬
turn to the states in the early
fall.
Last summer Todd Duncan
made a concert tour of Central
and South Amer,ca. singing in
eleven countries. Since that
time he has appeared as Tonio
in “Pagliacei” and Escamillo
in “Carmen” with the New
York Opera Company, g'ven
over 6 concerts throughout the
United States, appeared twice
as solo'st with the New York
Philharmonic Symphony and
once with the Denver Sym-
phony.
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We Call for and Deliver
VETERANS*
By James L. Hicks, NNPA Staff
Writer
At the emergency conference
on minority veterans problems
bp j d j n n pw York recently, one
0 p ^he resolutions passed urg-
p( j r^iat major veteran organ. -
grations Integrate minority vet-
erans lnto their regular posts
antl chapters instead of fore-
)n g them to set up jim crow
p 0sts and chapters of their
own
Robert J. Funabashl of the
- American Citizens’
league, and Philip Korn of
the Jewish War Veterans stood
up and proudly told the con-
ference that thus far no sep-
arate Jiapanese-Ameriean or
Jewish chapters of any of the
national organizations had
been organized among their
respective groups because Jap-
anese-American and Jewish
veterans had absolutely refus-
ed to jo n any veteran organ -
zat'on In which they would not
be integrated with all other
veterans.
Colored! veterans were
strangely silent as the resolu¬
tion was passed -they were
shamefully thinking of the
hundreds of jim crow chapters
of the Legion and the Veter¬
ans of Foreign Wars which
they have already been induc-
ed to organize and join.
When the Japanese-Ameri-
cans and the Jews take a
stand Ike that against separ¬
atism, it Drakes the colored
veteran look pretty weak to
find him fostering and sup¬
porting It. '
We salute the forty veterans
of Louisville, Ky., who last week
vlalked out on the Amor can
Veterans ^ of World War II when
organlzat/on trle(1 to set
p another of its jim crow
chapters In Louisville.
We call their attention to
the American Veterans’ Com¬
mittee who proudly announc¬
ed last week that it now has
three integrated chapters in
Georgia and Florida, i And we
are not a member of the A VC.)
Selective Service handed
down a ruling last week that
If a man is given h,'s honor-
without applying for IPs old
able discharge from the army
|job, Immediately' re-enlists
' he is nofi erititled to re-
emp-loymen#, rights under the
selective’ service act when he
completes his new hitch in the
army.
Colonel Frank W. Forsythe
of the Selective Service System
says that in such a situation
the veleran has failed to com¬
ply with one of the
of the act, which states
, he must apply for h's old
within 90 days after discharge,
a nmy is badly in
need of men and somebody had
to dig up a loophole for Gl’S
who wanted to “reup” but who
wouldn’t see giving up their
job rights, so Colonel Forsythe
dug up the loophole himself.
Here it is.
Since the discharge of an
enlisted man for the purpose
of rpenlisdfng wiill not result
in a physical separation from
the army, the army amply
holds up giving the man his
actual discharge papers until
he has completed signing all
his reenlistment papers, then
he is handed his discharge.
Thus, says Colonel Forsythe,
the man only has a “change
in status” without any break
in his nyilitary service and is,
therefore, entitled to all the
benefits of the act, which as¬
sures him his old job when he
is discharged. Nice going, col¬
onel.
* * *
ROLL CALL: Former Lieu-
Vernon Bailey of the E ghty-
second ohem/cal Smoke Gen¬
erator pompany, Lieutenant
William Carpenter of the 366th
Infantry Regiment and Lieu¬
tenant Jimmy Woods of the
Ninety-second Quartermaster
Railhead Company, are on
their way back in the army,
Lieutenant James B. Morris,
former intelligence officer o|
the army’s G-2 section in New
Guinea and the Phillippines, is
now working on his master’s
degree at the University of
Iowa. He and two other tan
vets are the first colored vtu-
dents ever 'to live in the dorm
at Iowa University.
The former Nola Cox of Dur-
ham, N. C.. who reigned as
queen of the GTS in New Giii-
nea for eighteen months while
serving with the American
Red Cross, is now married to
that lieutenant in the 1312th
Engineer Regiment, whom she
met at Oro Buy, New Guinea.
Captain Bob Calloway of the
48th Quartermaster Truck
iment and 'the 394th Port Bat-
talion is on terminal leave
heading "back home in Indi¬
ana.
Major Hugh Simmons, who
ruled the 268th Station
pital In New Guinea with such
an iron hand, Is now chief exe-
cutive officer at Freedmen's
Hospital and still pulling no
punches.
And the tan GI who told 'the
army caste system board what
he thought of the whole
blooming mess was Marlon F.
Green, who used to “boot rub-
ber” with the hard diving boys
of the 291th Quartermaster
Truck Company on the Blrdum
road to Darwin. Remember?
MIXKII MP WORK
IN PARIS
Paris ,i ANP) Negro police-
men on duty with a lily-white ,
MP battalion here are now
the closing stages of cleaning
up vice, GI crimp and the
prehension of hundreds of
AWOL’s hiding in the Paris
area.
The unique integration of
Negro policemen with the 787th
Military policement Is attrib¬
uted to the wishes of General
Eisenhower two years ago
London when this unit
activated. S*nce the activation
of the unit, it has drawn on
some of the best N.egro MP
personnel in the European the¬
atre. Hundreds of Negro sol¬
diers have served with this out¬
fit both In Paris and London.
Negro MPs use the same mess
facilities, PX, facilities for
shower purposes, recreation
rooms and other provisions of
the battalion. The Negro de-
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PAGE SEVEN
tachment, however,
In its own separate Quar 4
ters which is adjoining to one
of che battalion’s units in the.
Magasin Dufayel in Northern
Paris.
It is evident that the Negro
detachment serves with the
same efficiency as it diet: tCT
years ag0 i n London. Most' of
the men wh'o were with the
unit in 1944, have been rede¬
ployed to the states and the
remaining soldiers are now on
the l ob ' but ^ey appear to
* now ad of tricks of up*
holding military law.
Neatness of dress is on<> of
the aspects wlVch has disting¬
uished this detachment. White,
shiny helmets, polished combat
boots, pistols, clubs, creased
trousers and brass buttons ri-
va i that for a gerteral’s ban-
quet.
These soldiers often get the
task of having to “shoot it
out” with some of the toughest
gangsters in the city. As pa¬
trolmen, investigators, . jeep
drivels, and special duty men
—their job is to clean up all
GI criminals In the Paris firea.
Besides serving in tactical
capacities, Negro soldiers also
serve in the battalion’s head-
quarters. Chief clerk for the
battalion ls Earl NeV ille. cx-GI.
f New 0rleans chiof clork ,
Sgt> Arthur B cummins
()f Chicago,
Other Negro policemen of
the detachment include: Pfc.
Rogers W. Johnson, Phoenix,
Ariz.; Pvt. Henderson Burton,
New York city; Pvt. Dennis
Detroit; Pfc. Charlie Walton,
Springfield, 111; S-figt.
William Burkley, Kentucky;
Pvt. Wi’llie King, Buena V sta,
Ga.; Cpl. Samuel Patton. In¬
dianapolis, and Sgt. Booker T.
Mills, Detroit.
Paul Lawrence Duubar,
whose inspiring rhythm still
thrills th's jazz age, wrote
history for his benighted pro-
pie across a blurred and blut-
ted page.
job
M v \ rod too*
Here's a real opportunity for the young man who wants
a good job with a future. An Army job is a steady job offer¬
ing good pay, the highest security, every opportunity for
promotion and a chance to see the world. You get valuable
training in technical skills, good food, clothing, quarters and
medical care free. If you go overseas, you get 20' extra pay.
You can retire at half pay after 20 years or retire at three-
quarters pay after 30 years. And you get a 30-day vacation
at full pay every year! Many other advantages not offered
elsewhere. If you are 18 to 34 and physically fit (or 17 with
parents’ consent), you can enlist now and qualify for one of
these fine jobs in the peacetime Regular Army. You owe it
Id yourself to get all'the facts NOW! Apply at
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