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YEARS OF CONTINUOUS PUBLIC SERVICE LXIH Dr. Drew of Blood Plasma r Fame To Address Medics DENTAL TECHNOLO¬ GIST , * Miss uuiua C. Fraser, second Ul Lit. iUlu iVllo. ki . r . uacvi u rune avenue, t,tauuuLcu iiutti Mcnairy ivieu- tw ui college on rnuay oi last wcch. wan honors m denial iL'Litnoiugy anu urst nonor in uemai assistance. ivitos r razici itas been of fer- cu a position in Denver, ooio., out sne pians to return to ivie- narxy to stuuy aentai hygiene, neiore returning to (Savannah, sue will visit menus in Indiana anti Kentucky. AIR ACE INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT RICHMOND, va.—(ANP)—Lt. Lee a. At oner, rated as Ameri¬ ca s leading in eg to pilot, was auie to survive 148 air missions without injury auring his 14 luontfis overseas only to be in¬ jured in an autornooile acci- I lent alter his return to the states. He is recovering here Army Air Base hospital. % * ’ U.... AtStorAA entered Ihp the Lt. t . Archer, A .i.aa wno army air lorces while a stu¬ dent at N.ew York university, was a member of Col. B. O. loavis’ iamous “Red Tail” fly¬ ing group that holds the record of Knocking out 87 planes on the ground in one mission over Lake Balaton, Hungary, be¬ tween Budapest and Vienna. He has, according to army rec¬ ords, 10 German fighter planes to his credit. One of his most exciting- moments, he recalled, was when he and the late Captain Wendell O. Pruitt, famed St. Louis pilot, recently killed at Tuskegee, battled 13 Messer- sclimitts. Archer bagged three, Pruitt destroyed two and their group rescued them in time to take care of the rest. “It’s not superstitious, 'but *every time I went on a flight, I always gave my crew chief my hat,” Archer said. "Hold this, I’d cay, until I come back and don’t worry, I’m coming back. I’m coming back.” ’ He came back from 138 mis¬ sions including one on Friday the 1,3th when he was shot down and landed on the Isle of Vis off the Yugoslavian coast. When he returned to hfs base five days later he fonnd his 'crew chief wearing his hat “like a proud cock of the walk.” l TO SPEAK IN 1 CLEVELAND The Rev. Henry W. Murph, ! pastor, St. Phihp AME church, ! who left Tuesday for Cleve- land. Ohio. where he will ad¬ dress the AME ConnecUonal Council on Friday He expects to return to the city in time to fill his pulpit Sunday. apaiMil mm WILL SPEAK FRIDAY NIGHT AT SSSS General Public Is Invited GUEST OF SO. ATLAN¬ TIC MEDICAL SOCIETY Coming to Savannah tomor¬ row from Augusta where he delivered a number ol lectures at the eleventh annu¬ al post graduate course for /Ne¬ gro doctors at the University of Georgia School of Medicine, Dr. Charles R. Drew, head of the department of surgery at How¬ ard University School of Medi¬ cine and the most outstanding- authority on blood plasma banks, will address thje South Atlantic Medical society to¬ morrow (Friday i night at nine o’clock at the SSSS center, Ogeechee road ar.d 36th street. He will accompany Drs. Harris McDew, Bryant, Sessoms, Smith Verner and Jamerson, local doctors, who attended the Augusta clinic, to the city. While here, Dr. Drew will be the guest of the South Atlantic Medical society upon whose in¬ vitation he is making the trip to Savannah. The lecture to¬ morrow night is open to the public in general. Dr. Drew who secured his A. B. from Amherst college in 1926, his M. D. and master of surgery at McGill university in 1933 and doctor of science in medicine at Columbia universi¬ ty in 1940, is one of the most outstanding Negroes in the medical profession in Amer ica. In 1943 he was awarded the Continued on Page 8 Dav’s Seeks ALP Support FEW YOR ’ANP)— Council¬ man Ben Bavis and manv oi his most ardent supporters were fighting this week to get the official backing of the A- merican Labor party and, pei- haps, one of the other major political organizations. Davis, only son of Georgia’s onetime prominent Republican leader, Ben Davis, Sr, is admit¬ tedly a Communist and many of his chief backers believe that the reason why backing the from other political par¬ ties has not been forthcoming. As the only Negro in city council, he is a touchy political spot., but his record is regarded as one of the best. Tammany Hall’s Negro lead¬ ers uptown have given Mr. Da¬ vis tacit approval, but some of the observers are inclined -to doubt that tlye Democrats will do that. Army DIRECTOR COLLEGE PUBLICITY ••••— , . A Stephen Jackson, 11, of Dai las, who became director ot public relations for Bishop col¬ lege, Marshall, Texas, on June 1. During the past fifteen years Prof. JackaOn has served as supervisor of music in the Dal¬ las high schools and as a lead- Con.tm.ued. ou page Eight GRAND SECRETARY OF MASONS HONORED FOR FIFTY YEARS' SERVICE i "'M K IS: _ jmrMM £ J I I IBB I *• * Hi JHFH •i» Scenes from Testimonial Banquet in honor of fifty years service of present Grand Sec¬ retary of Georgia Masons which was held Tuesday evening, June 12th, at the West Broad St. U. S. O. Top picture: Standing are Grand Master John Wesley] Dobbs and Grand Secretary Sol C. Johnson; seated left to right; are Grand Treasurer, Duncan Pringle; Grand Senior Warden,! L. P. Bolder of Augusta; Grand Jr. Waarden, E. J. Jackson StewardJ of j Macon; Grand Sr. Open Branch Library For Western Section Policy Is ' V 'Nih. ASSISTANT SEC RET ARY OF WAR WASHINGTON, (NNPA i — with segrega¬ from a military point of was expressed last week Assistant Secretary of War J. McCloy to a group of of the National j Congress. The cieiega- was calling on the sec re-, to discuss its campaign for' of Negroes into the j forces. McCloy said that he and the were not satisfied with IN YAMACRAW VILLAGE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING Initial Opening Will Take Place Monday At 6 P. M. MRS. J. R. GRAHAM TO BE IN CHARGE Through the effort of the mayor and city council, the Carnegie library is making a- vailable to the people of the western section of the city li¬ brary services. Tip Housing Authority of Savannah has co- 0 p era t s d in providing space for j p ra ry which consists of lWQ ver y n i’ ce rooms with Ught and plenty 0 f Tp „ se ro0ms \ p V e been equip- ped with a seating capacity of at least twenty persons shelving space, for 2,000 books, The branch will be located in Parran To Probe N urses Jim Crow Washington ~7aNP) _SurgeonI THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1943 William West of Brunswick; De.| puty Grand Master, George W. j Smith of Brunswick; Grand] Worthy Matron of O. E. S„ Mrs. Minnie aDcV aughn; Past Grand. Worth yMatron of O. E. S., Mis. Mary L. Ayers; and the Rev A.j C. Curtright chairman of the the administration building Yamacraw Village housing ject. Mrs, J, R. Graham will be charge of the work at thie branch. Mrs. Graham been away taking special cours¬ es in library science. It is cd that the parents in this tion in particular will thW opportunity for ttfcir 1 dren to enlarge their scope oi l aming through the use of library, j Th <= branch will have its ini- _ | Continued on Page 8 the Marine hospital, n — 1 y order an end Bottom picture shows a small of 200 guests who parti- i pa ted in the celebration. A purse of more than S500 aa given the Grand Secretary continued on page Eight Va. Supreme RULING ON PUBLIC CARRIERS RICHMOND, Va., — iANP) The Virginia Supreme last week ruled in favor of Jim crow on buses and other public carriers regardless of state passengers in the case of Mrs. Irene Morgan, a passenger on a Greyhound bus in /July. 1944. traveling from Gloucester county to Baltimore. _ The supreme court upheld a lower court’s $10 fine against Mrs. Morgan in accord with the Continued on page Eight branch. Capt. Jesse O. Ded- commas of the Marine hospital, been unavailing. Parran them that the U. S. Health service Is operated on a democratic basis, and that would not tolerate and discrimination in any the facilities of the service * on race, croon o, cnlo, Former Savannahian Offers For Philly Judgeship FLEMING D. TUCKER MAKING THE RUN In Primary Held This Week HAS BACKING OF PROM¬ INENT CITIZENS Campaign literature bearing on a primary election for a nlcipal judgeship in pliia was received this week a number of Savannahians. It was of much Interest to those who received it, not be cause the election outcome would materially affect Sa vannah’s welfare, no matter which way it went, but because one of the candidates In the race is a former Savannahian, born, reared and educated here and for a number of years a part of. the city’s bus iness colony until he moved north a number of years ago. The candidate In question is Attorney Fleming D. Tucker whb is running on a bl-partL san ticket and Is being backed by some of the leading citizens of Philadelphia. The election is being held this week, and Mr. Tucker’s many friends here are hoping that he wins by an overwhelm¬ ing vote. , ^ White Editor Speaks Out CHICAGO, June 18— (Atlas News Service)— The South must take seven chances, one of Which is on the Negro, de¬ clared John Temple Grave, noted writer for the Birming- 14am News and the Age-Her aid. Tor decency’s sake, for economy’s and society’s, the ten million Njegiroesf who live there must be not only permit¬ ted but encouraged to contin¬ ue advancements which have carried them far since the first World War.” In this ar¬ ticle Mr. Graves goes out on a limb in expressing his views on the southern situation. This penetrating analysis of the South appears in the July issue of New Vistas magazine, a publication which stresses a positive approach to interracial relationships. Appearing in the same issue is a timely and enlightening article about the ‘ White Pri¬ mary ad the Supreme Court,” by one of Chicago’s outstanding young Negro lawyers, Attorney Sidney A. Jones, Jr. This ar¬ ticle gives an account of the history and significance of thp Texas white primary. The de¬ cision given by the supreme court in the case of Smith vs. Continued on page Eight Jim Crow STUDYING AT MIN¬ NESOTA WfM Miss Vera, Elizabeth Ken¬ drick, instructor 'at Georgia state college, the attractive daughter of Mrs. Pauline M Kendrick R N of 614 W. For¬ tieth street, and Joseph Theo- Continued on page Eight SAfEOUAR»Jk Slf YOUR FUTUR *^jflrJEL i"/drrr buy bonds ri NUMBER 33 NI BS FEATURES HIM 4 , x, Bk While working as a page in the New York studios oi the Mutual Broadcasting System, Edward Lee Tyler was over¬ heard singing in an empty studio. His ba<3 baritone voice so impressed -MBS ex¬ ecutives that he has been fea¬ tured on two coast to coast grams, “Rainbow House” and "Music for Half an Hour.” On the latter program, Sat¬ urday, June 9, over the Mutual network, Tyler sang an aria from V Faust” and Wolfe’s •Gloria Road.” The 30 year old singer was born In Eufaula, Alabama, and is a graduate of Tuskegee institute. Powell To Marry Hazel Scott WASHINGTON, (NNPA) — Representative Adam Clayton Powell, jr„ will imarry Hazel Scott, classic and boogie-woog¬ ie pianist, on July 30, if the Reno divorce courts have granted his present wife’s plea for freedom by that time, the NNPA has learnc exclusively this week. If things are not straight by July 30, then there will bn no rush for the couple to marry before fall. July 30 is the wed din anniversary of his father and mother. Mrs. Isabelle Powell, present wdfe of the Congressman, who is in Reno, will have completed him 6 weeks required residue on July 16. With the Nevada courts not crowded this summer as in previous years because of a recent Supreme Court decision casting an aura of boutot on th° validity of Ne¬ vada decrees, it is possible for the Powell vs Powell case to be reached before the 30th of July. There/is no required period after the granting of a R-mo divorce before the parties are eligible to remarry. The future Mrs. Powell has given up her night club career for the concert stage. She is booked already for 36 weeks at a minimum of $1500 for each performance or 60 p*r cent of the box office. She intends cv>ut.lrm<M on nag# WINS CITATION 1 Dr. Charles S. Johnson, en nent sociologist and director of the department of social set ences, Fisk university, who was the only Negro abong 33 clistia guished alumni of the U"nh r- sity of Chicago to be awarded citations of merit at the alum¬ ni assembly held last week at the noted institution. He was graduated from the university in 1918.—(ANP Photoj,