splash screen application and hide action bar

I'm trying to figure out how is it possible to hide the action bar for a splash screen activity. I did something which hide my action bar on my splash screen, but there is one problem: before my splash screen appears, there is like an activity with an action bar who appears briefly... and I don't know how to hide it!

My splash screen only appears when we touch the application for the first time like an introduction of the application.

Code :

package com.example.basicmaponline;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Window;

public class Intro extends Activity{

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);


    getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR);
    getActionBar().hide();

    setContentView(R.layout.intro);

    Thread timer = new Thread(){
        public void run(){
            try{
                sleep(3000);
            }catch (InterruptedException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }finally{
                Intent openMenu = new Intent("com.example.basicmaponline.MENU");
                startActivity(openMenu);
            }
        }
    };
    timer.start();
}

@Override
protected void onPause() {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    super.onPause();
    finish();
}

}

Manifest :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.example.basicmaponline"
android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0" >

<uses-sdk
    android:minSdkVersion="11"
    android:targetSdkVersion="17" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CALL_PHONE"></uses-permission>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.pe