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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
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MEHARRYITES ENJOY BANQUET
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Seated at the table, left to right: Dr. S. M. McDew, Jr.;
Dr. K. IV. Moore, Dr. S. M. McDew, Sr.; Dr. J. II. Eberhardl,
Dr. J. W. Jatnerson, Sr.; Dr. D. AV. Stone, Dr. F. S. Belcher,
Dr. W. A. Harris, Dr. D. T. Rol fe, Dr. J. IV. Jamerson, Jr.; Dr.
Above i.- a picture of the
banquet of the South Atlantic
Medical society which was
given last week at Lincoln
(ia. Registration Increases
Atlanta. (ANP)—Spurred by re- i
ports of unprecedented registration
of Negroes in virtually every]
Georgia community, the Georgia' j
Association of Citizens Democratic
clubs re-enforced their efforts last i
week to establish the right of!
qualified Negroes to vote in all j
elections throughout the state. :
Registration by Negroes in I
Georgia counties shows as high as ;
750 per cent increase, the gains
beiy(^at^vibuted inv notion of the in part Democratic to the
w : 'jirimary by Middle Georgia
Federal District Judge T. Hoyt ]
Davis.
Gathered at Macon for their 1
semi-annual session, Georgia As- j
sociation of citizens Democratic
club members listened to a com-
prehensive report on the progress
of court action over the past year
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50,000 Take VD-TB
First 30 Days of Campaign
Have you had your blood te-t,
your chest X-ray? Fifty thous
and people here have had
theirs s : nce the opening of the
syphiii--tuberculosis cam¬
paign just about a month ago.
month ago.
“But,” Dr. Clair A. Henter-
son, director of the Chatham
County Health department
a-ks. “have you had yours?
The fact that 50,000 have been
tested will be nothing for you
to brag about, onless you can
add that, 1 have mine.’
“The cooperation, or
should I say the common
sense, of the colored people in
Savannah as a whole has been
-omehing I do like to brag
about—but we have still -ome
, ime to go,, and many more
tests to be made. Don’t put it
off, now, and then be sorry
when it is too late.
“The>e d : sea~es kill i00.00 r
people a year with syphilis, 60,-
C00 a year with tuberculosis
Doctors dread them a> two oi
our wor-t enunies.
"Yet, the treatment of early
syphilis with penicillin is com¬
plied in.nine day-- A mo¬
ment of your time to take a
b,:Pd te- . and if it proves you
n< »J treatment, ju-t nine day'
h' / treatm,:nt.
Jfjnce syphilis is a catching
\ JP'v?. if the person is not
treated he may not only carry
the syphilis germ in his body
until it reaches his brain or
heart—he can give it to oth-
ers.
“Some oi this is true oi tu-
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auaiuialt Srihinr
Inn, Dr. S. M. McDew, Jr., host,
The occasion was highlighted
by a paper on "Causative Fac-
tors Entering into Fevers",
Chi. Bar fVssn. Lets Dow n Racial Ban
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Chicago. (ANP) The barricades
of the Chicago Bar association are
gradually crumbling. Thursday,
Atty. Earl B. Dickerson, one of
the spearheads of the fight to force
the association to admit colored
lawyers as members, was notified
that his application had been ac-
cepted and that with the comple-
tion of routine financial require-!
inents that he was a bona-fide
member.
The fight to secure membership
in the bar association, one of the
important legal bodies of the
country, has been going on for
several years. Others were active
of liberal tendency, secured every
hut Dickerson, who belonged to a
number of national and local bodies
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CHOSEN VARSITY QUEEN
i dr
Miss Agnes Lowery of
ville, Tenrj.. a senior music
gree student, wa- cho-e as var-
sity queen at Knoxville college
homecoming on November
TTi r .attendant-. wi-r<-
Geraldine Dufficid of Johnson
City, Tcuu., and Mass Ddplunt:
H. M. Collier, Jr.; Dr. M. P- Sessoms, Dr. E. J. Smith, I
H. M. Collier, Sr.; Dr. M. D. Bryant, Dr. S. F. Frazier, Dr.
I). Williams.
livered by Dr. D. T. Rolfe, head
of the department of phy-io!-
ogy at Meharry Medical col-
lege.
To Give Scout
Eagle Award
Scout Albert Bryant of Troop
47 will receive the Eagle award
on Wednesday November 21, at
8 p. m, at the court of honor to
be held at the West Broad
Street USO.
Scout Bryant who is a very
active member of Troop 47, has’
served as as-istam patrol lead¬
er, patrol leader, den chief,
senior patrol leader, and is now
serving as junior assistant
scoutmaster. S. L. White is
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j * Cn Thursday, Nov. 8, Miss
i Ada R. Speight, chairman of
I the sanatorium committee of
j ihe associate board of the
| Chatham-Savannah and Tubercu¬
losis Association, a group
I from the Bertha Richards guild
of St. Matthews church, visited
I the tuberculosis sanatorium in
I the company of Mrs. Arnett D.
| Waters, health tuberculosis education sec¬
retary with the a—
i sociation. A bushel of apple.
] and oranges, donated by dis- the
Bertha Richards guild, wa-
! tributed among the patients by
1 the visitors. This was the
visitors’ first trip to ihe sana¬
Ohio Elects Its First Oklahomans
Negro Judge To Fight For
Willis of Savannah.
Mis- Lowery i center > and her
j I attendant-, Miss Duffield (to
Miss Lowery'- left» and Mi-s
Willis (to her right; inspired
ijir k r bulldog on to ,i 37 to
j 11 victory over the Alabama
j Slate Uot'ueU.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE THURSDAY NOV. 15. 1945
Dr. Rolfe, who was in the
city in the interest of the Me-
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INSIDE VIEW OF TB SANITARIUM
By George Anthony Moore
Cleveland. (ANP)—For the first
time in the hirioiy of Ohio, a
Negro, Perry B. Jackson, ha;
been elected municipal judge in
Cleveland by popular vote.
In a hotly contested struggle he
whipped Joseph L. Sweeney by
tallying a vote of 48.616 in con¬
trast to Sweeney’s 43,696,
In 1942 Judge Jack-on was ap-
to complete the unexpir¬
ed term of Judge David Moylan
who died. Gov. -John W. Bricker
made the appointment. Previous
to this assignment he had been
assistant utilities director and
formerly an assistant city law di¬
rector.
Judge Jackson started- law prac¬
tice here in 1922 after graduating
; magna cum laude from Adolbcrt
I college and received his law de-
| from \\ vMcni uni-
I versity. He is a member of I’hi
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I’ll I.MCIPALS TO MEET AT
COLLEGE NOVEMBER 30
The annual conference of
principals of Georgia school!
win be held at Georgia Sta i
college on Friday, Nov. 30. Ro
bert L. Cousins, director ot th<
division of Negro education
R arranging the program
which will be of benefit to prin
ciipal- and teachers alike.
The opening session will be
held in the college auditorium
10;30 a. m. Friday morning,
Nov. 30. with the afternoon
and evening sessions on that
day." The final session will be
held Saturday morning at 10
oclock. Musical numbers wiLl
be interspersed at ail meet¬
ings.
It is anticipated that many
principals from all sections cf
the state will be on hand for
this conference, details of
which will be given in next
wettk’s Tribune.
JOE LOUIS TO OPEN
HARLEM RESTAURANT
Oakland, Cal., (ANP)—Joe
Louis, world heavyweight champ- I
ion, announced plans here last I
week to open a restaurant in Har- i
lem within the near future. :
completed, The business he said, details but have been j ]
gave no
exact details other than to civ :
that his exclusive restauiant
will cater to theatrical and sport- |
ing figures,
torium and they were interest¬
ed to find the patients so cheer
lul and everything in such ex¬
cellent condition.
The ground for the sanatori¬
um was donated by the Chath¬
am-Savannah Tubercuio-sis as¬
sociation as was $20,000 worth !
of equipment. The sanatori¬
um was turned over to the Sa-
vannah-Chatliam health de¬
partment, which has been car¬
rying on the work of the sana¬
torium and the wards have
kept fill to capacity.
Money donated by the citi¬
zens of Savannah has gone to
Close Registration Window
In order to double the, size of (
the reg 'Irat'on window at Tax ] I
Collector John I., Cabel's of¬
fice in the court house, regis¬
tration wa- halted thi week
and will not be resumed until
next week when a double win¬
dow w 11 provide for two lines
of registrants.
SHOPPING 0AYS^£
i
fivw CHRISTMAS SEALS
Race Candidates Fare Badly
In Recent Elections
Ity (he N NBA News Service
Colored candidates in the ejec¬
tions of November f> fared badly
with few excfptiohs, according to
reports received by the Washing¬
ton Bureau of the NNPA News
Service up to Saturday.
One of the exceptions was Ben¬
jamin J. Davis, Jr., who was seek¬
ing reeleetion to the New York
City Council as a Communist, in
the first official count his election
appeared certain. With 059 of 973
election districts in Manhattan
sorted, he had 39,335 first choice
votes.
Mr. Davis led in first choice bal¬
lots until late Friday afternoon
when Stanley M. Isaacs, Republi¬
can, wrested the lead front him.
An upset was the defeat of
William O. Walker, editor of the
Cleveland Call and Post, who was
i, eaten }, y Charles V. Carr, the
first colored Democrat ever elect-
(1(I to t p e Cleveland City Council,
Mr. Carr won by 95 votes.
Mr. Walker was a veteran Re-
publican councilman in Ward 17.
am) Ilis defeat was the most start-
j n ;l wave of upsets which un-
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make this service possible for
Negroes here in Savannah. It
is hoped that the public will
continue to support the Christ¬
mas seal sale of the tuberculo¬
sis association so that other
tuberculosis patients will have
the benefit of such treament.
Those visiting the
were Mrs. C. Walker, MBs A. R.
Speight, Mrs. William A. Wa-
ters, Mrs. Mamie Cox and Mr-,
Arnett Waters. The group
plan- for other visits and other
group- are urged to visit the
sanatorium and he p bring
cheer to the patients.
EDUCATIONAL
OPPORTUNITIES
Oklahoma City, (ANP) - The but¬
tle fin educational equality for
200,000 Negro citizens of this
state will soon be launched
through the courts, according to an
announcement at McAlester Sat
urday during the closing of the
annual slate NAACP convention.
The move is designed to open
Oklahoma’s new all-white schools
of higher education to Negro pro¬
fessional students in compliance
with the U, S. Supreme court rul¬
ing in the Lloyd Gaines case of
Missouri, which means that states
with jim crow educational systems
must provide equal education for
Negro residents.
K\ union
Oklahoma legislatures have fol-
l-jt- < ,j the policy of providing fund
l.o Negroes who wish courses not
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First Bryan Church To Hold
Dedicatory Services
REV. N. E. H.OLSEY, Pastor
A period of dedicatory ser-
vices will be In Id at Fir t
an Baptist church beginnng
Sunday and extending through
Monday night, Nov. 26th.
These services are in recogni¬
tion of extensive revenovations
to the church building and'as
a tribute to the Rev. Nathani¬
el E. Hoison who is completing
his second year as leader of
this church which lays claim
to being the oldest Negro Bap-
j tis.i church in the United States
j The improvements to the
church include moving the
choir stand from the front of
the church to just above the pul
pit;; adding two choir rest.
rooms-, a pastor's study,
the painting of the church, in-
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WHERE NEGRO SONGS COME FROM
Can you name an American Ne¬ j
gro song? j
Ask the average man that ques¬
tion and he'll probably mention
“Old Black Joe” or “Swanee Riv¬
er,’’ but he’ll lie wrong. j
That is the opinion of THE
SOUTHERNAIRES, famous color¬
ed quartet, which is scheduled to
make an appearance at the First
Bryan Baptist Church on Monday
nigtd, November 19th.
“These well known tunes am ,
merely ‘popular conceptions’ of
i American Negro melodies,” this
FUTuaS
BUY BOMBS
NUMBER Jj
ride and outsde.
The program for this senes
of events of this outstanding
church which is located in the
heart of Yamacraw Village, u,
as follows;
Sunday, morning, Nov. 18 -
dection'. ilnnbined chc'trs;
biography of the pastor, Mrs.
F';ina Roberts W/JHanD; ser¬
mon. Rev. J. T. Dorsey of At¬
lanta: Mistress of ceremonies,
Mrs. Nellye Mae Coppage.
Sunday evening Selections
by combined choirs; presenta¬
tions, Deacon J. O. Myers, chair
man of building committee;
sermon Rev J. T. Dorsey: mas¬
ter of ceremonies, Deacon Wil¬
liam Lampkin.
j Monday evening, artists, Nov. 19—«
' Concert, radio The
Southernalrs, .sponsored by the
| senior usher board, Jack John-
( son president .
Tuesday nigh't, Nov. 2 —Se¬
lections, First Tabernacle Bap¬
tist church choir; reading, Mrs.
Gertrude Praatt; solo, Leon
Grant; sermon. Rev. H. W. Wil
burn, D. D.; mistress of cere¬
monies, Mrs. Naomi Gregory.
Wednesday night, Nov. 2il
S elec ton,, Mt;. Bethel Baptist
church; -olo, Miss C. Johnson;
reading. Deacon M. P. Bedgood;
service in charge of Deacon M.
W. Washington; mistress oi
monies, Mix N. E. Holsey.
Thur-day night, November 22
Selections, Emmanuel Bap-
tist church choir; solo, Mrs.
Blanche Braxton; sen?on, Rev.
_ _ oaglT
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famed radio troupe told reporters
today. ’'They are no mofe the
REAL THING than chop suey is 4
dish for the Chinese.
“If you want to hear authentic
American Negro music you’ve got
to find the people who worked in
ihe cotton fields, the corn fields
and the levee in days of Southern
slavery,” they said. “That’s where
We find the tongs we sing M a
get them front books, He
hunt up the oid white hatred Na»
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