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THE FLINT SPOKESMAN

SATURDAY. MAY a 1048

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MIteeY OWENS: AND
NEGRO MANAGER
~ NEW YORK ~ ANP ~ The
years come and go, we grow
older each passing day, but
~truth remains young and everfren measured by whatever
~~statidards you are inclined to
employ, ~ The ~ famous writer
Bréte Harte, whose work
~Heathen Chince~ long passed
_the~ million circulation mark,
Says in ome chapter... ~Truth
is stranger than fiction~ and
how right. he is,
From. ~The Lip~ To ee
For~ years fiery Mick Owens
has listened to the vitriolic
mouthings of Leo, the lip, Durecher, manager of the Brooklyn
Dodgers of the National league.
Playing for Senior, Money Bag,
-Pasquel of Mexico, the ex-St,
Louis chaingang member will
take his order from a Cuban
~Negro named Bragana,

Whether Mickey cares too
-Mue'~: for such an arrangement
- Isat the moment wholly irrevelint with millionaire Pasquel
from the land across the border, Bragana, rated one of the
Shrewest ~baseball leaders
that part of the world,.will be
retained in his present managerial capacity of the club
Owens plays for thruout the
46.season..
There~s Nothing Wrong
With It

~Even the most rabid Ameri
arth fescist will submit that. a.

man should go all out in protecting - his interests especially
when--it runs into millions of
dollars, It is reported that the
all-le egue treasury on the Mexican front has no less than
million dollars in it at the beck
and -call of club owners,

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in,

avoided Harry Wills was the
seardal of the Walker bill durkingfish of cauliflower alley.
folk, old Joe Jeanette, and as
for Sam Langford,
Sam was blind
Fred, a kayo victim of Dempsey~s. Fulton,~Dempsey would
hav2 no part of him,

Jarnacia Kid roughed Dempsey up so badly in a training
Session that Dempsey had him
kicked off the lot the following
morning, Frankly, I cannot see
Dempsey as the ~Jack-the ripper~ he is credited with béing.
Bill Brennan, white, is my exhibit A in this connection, with
Tom Gibbons, of the Shelby,
Mont., fiasce, and Harry Greb
(Dempsey ran. away from him
being my other documentories
By the wav, Dempsey, w2 all
know that Elmer Ray can punch

iust how well can be absorbed
cock esvecially
eacker is a~Joe Louis????
~Jackie Robinson~Superb

Were Nelson Eddy or Paul
Rokeson to warble ~King For
A Day,~ I could easily supply
the model for Thursday, April
18, ~which will live long in the
memory of stouthearted, 26-yearold Jackie Robinson, former four
~letter sports here at UCLA, Before more than 25,000 cheering
baseball fans in the Jersy City
stadium, built by FDR~s WPA
Pproject, Robinson sparkplugged
the Montreal Royals to a- 14-1
rout over the ~Little Giants,~

Jackie was definitely there in
'the clutch, the most important
moment in anybody's life. He
knew that millions of coloréd
_and white -people had discussed
~hi is caSe, first time a Negro ball

4 vwrhan

This is precisely what Ps- | player had received an honest
quel--is doing in keeping man-aser:-of the: Vera Cruz franchise. Owens is a mighty good
backstop but no one can forecast just what sort of a manager he~ll make, It~s a_ pretty
safe bet to say that the Vera
Cruz-elub will one day see the
fighting - Irishman, Ovens,
at its head, but for the moment
~that ~Cuban colored-cabellero is
in the driver~s seat and Owens

- takes his orders from him like

the rest bf the hired hands,
What~s the Matter~

Jacek Dempsey?

Envy and jealous, profession
al. or of the simon-pure kind,
~fealows man from cradle to
coffin. or ~so it would seem.

A- fortnight ago in the city of
Baltimore, one Elmer, Violent,
Ray out of Florida stopped a
heavyweight boxer named Collin..Chaney,.in,.the process of ~doing. so, The
match as well as the_ radio
~broadcast arrangemenis. came-.under the trained eye of
ithe. newly formed boxing corporation which rumor _ says

pays Jack Dempsey a $50,000 |

yearly salary.

It~s no secret that Dempsey,
one of the most~ popular, except
for World War I slacker charges,
bruisers since John L, Sullivan,
of Mrs,

Barrow~s son~Joe Louis, I

hola no brief against,the Man
as8a Mauler for that, Ht has
the sovereign right, silly business, of liking og hating whom
he chooses in this Christian
country, But, I. do say there

~are limitations, As soon as Ray
~could-~be carried to the mike,

Dempsey shot this query at

_the not-too-bright destructive
hitter: ~When do you expect

to fight Louis?~ Ray came back

with: ~Anytime soon that I can
Bet at: him,~

Car He Take On Also

'in a pre-broadcast statement

Dempscy -said,.-~Neither Conn

nor Louis figures to be. much
~good after their layoff and I

plan locating the next cham~pion.~ I think.a fella, named

Michael Strauss, Mike, Jacobs

~has Similar ideas. ~Jack, ~as

_ have-some 30 leading fistic. pro
moterse~throughoft tite nation.
I still say that Louis, fhird
mest,.colorful fighter, from
punching standpoint, in = ring
annals, would have whipped
Dempsey had they met wher
both were at their best,
Dempsey has a really voor
record against Negro battlers
John Lester Lohnson, back ir
1917 | broke three of Demovsev~s
rihs ~during a. rounder

in

{favlam ~and ~tharcafter wraet
marer ahle to inveigle Jess
Wilherd~s eananercor intn the. Thr again, The way Dempsey

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breaking his jaw
to-goodness-chance to make the
grade in organizd baseball, for
months on end,

This is what the brave youngster did during the progress of
the game: Batting in the second
slot, Jackie went four for. five
at batS viz: a screaming 335 foot
home run which really put the
game on ice~for his happy teammates; three, other singles; stole
two basest and fielded like a
veteran making but one mistake
in the field\~a wild throw - to
first in attempting to make a
double play,

The season is.a long ~way off.
One day~s performance is ~not a
true indicator of the overall picture, But we say here again
we've said repeatedly, Branch
Rickey knew what he was doing

as a man rising to stardom in
any field solely upon the basis
of color. Either you have the
genius within ~yourself to rise
~above the herd, white or black.
or. you, just haven~ it Looks

like Jackie Robinson has it,
ROOTING PLACES
By William Henry Huff
for ANP >
Up and down ~the streeis thy
go.~
By countless thousands jay,

In the sunsiine, rain ant snow,
And sadly_,too, not galiy,

Looking fo: a place to roost,
Which they are finding never
Will an act be passed to bdosi
Our roosting places over,

CUT ON HAND

Elbert T, Blanton, 48 and
married, of 1845 Corwin <Ave,,
while at his home about 8:15 p.
m, April 27th, got into an argument with Charles Reese of the
same address and ReeSe cut him
on the back and on the palm of
the left hand with a butcher
knife, He was taken to St.
Francis Hospital and attended.
He will file an affidavit,

tag Negro teachers?EyiS~w

JACKSON, Miss ~ CNS ~.
According to J, M, Tubbs,
Misa, State -Superintendent of

~The Negro education jn Mississippi is on~ the
threshold of the greatest exyansion in the history of the
State, he declared,

Recent legislative action ap
vropriated $23,000,000 for com
mon scools, an increase of $3
590,000 over the 1945-46 bien
niuin, and providing for the
~he ereation of a $300,000 voca~ionnl college~ fo ~train Negro
~eachérs. This increase will
mean a rise of at least45 per
cert in Negro teachers~ salaries,

Education, ~

He refused to face Kid Nor-~

even when.
and boxing

Who has just.fellowship, As

nerhans better than you could~

the.

Robinson-Servo

~fight Robinson on May 24th,

when he. signed Robinson,
Wright, Campanella and New--
sonre. There is no such thing

ing the time Tex Rickard was! #:

FANNIN 5&8. BELCHER, JR,
re@eived his Ph,
D. ia drama from Yale. university where he studied for two
years on a/ Julius Roseitwald; director of drama
inia State college,
became noted for
oughout that sec
at
Dr,
his

West Virg. Belcher
work thi

| WILLIAM A BELL'S~.

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tion, ~ ANP

Bout Hangs
In ~Balance~

NEW YORK ~ CNS ~ Al
Weill, manager of Marty Servo, the welterweight: champion,
is Still uncertain if ~his boy~
will meet ~Sugar~ Ray Robin-.
son in that title bout scheduled
for Madison Square Garden, on
May 24th,

~I am sending Servo to see
his physician, and. if the doctor says it is} okay for him to

then he'll fight Robinson, Who
is Robinson?~~) Al said, ~Marty~s
just been knocked out by Rocky

Graziane and/I~m nob going to
let him fight unless he~s all
right physically,~

Mize Jacobs awaits the raz
turn of Wejll from Atlantic
City where the latter now
vacationing, | Robinson, | who
once ran out on Servo, -has
threatened, to take + actioh,
and have his sup-.
porters picket Madison Square
Garden, Meanwhile,. Col; Ed-}
die~ Egan, like. Jacobs, is powerless to act | until he is certain Servo isn~t going through
witn the match. All he has to
go on are the signed~ contracis
of both chanfpiox and challen.|
ger and their forfeit: checks of |
$2,000. 00 each,

Dewey AME
Zion Speaker

NEW YORK ~(ANP)~Gov,
Thomas E, Dewey.will deliver
the principal | address ~at the
AME Zion | Sesquicentennial
celebration to be held here in
September, Interviewed in the
executive suite of Hotel Roose.
velt: by Bishop William J, Walls;
chairman of | the celebration
commission, Gov. Dewey accepted the group~s invitation to
speak to them and also expressed his admiration for the
militant attitude of American
protestantism _ today,

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COLUMBUS, Ohio~(APNS~
Miss Edna Buster was seen
at Valley Dale with an officer
~looking too fine I must say~
name was John Curtis,

~Yes the Valley Dale Easter
Monday Ball} was great~espreially with Sieve Thomas, singer with the) band, He really
comes on with fine. vocal] dive;
Miss Florencia Lopez took.our

eyes ~ looking fine at the great
ball.:

Then there was the Eas'e>
Bunny ~ given by the Esquire

club, Chester Bradly, chairman
of the dance, had seven 477th
officers acting as judges ~ and
the winner of the Easter Bunny was Mrs, William Culpepper
~|~and =why~vo1 suessed
for her hat, which was the most
alluring, I have ever seen,
~Seen also my friend Georg?
Jofferson and wife, There were
also Mrs, Mary Anderson, Miss
Lillian Anderson, and Herber!
Sharp, who resides at 332. Hosack St, Also Virginia Webs~er

it

yof 226 1-2 N. 2th St. Then too

there were Elmer Cunningham.
Elizabeth Websert. Rufus Jones
~he is. of the Elizabeth Dry
Cleaners~the owner to be exact,, |

Walter A, Kelley-is the exG. I, who is now a lawyer in:
Cincinnati, Ohio, He is running
for Congressman at Large in the
Democratic Primary, and is for!
the F. B. P. C., ete,

The A. W, O. L, Columbus
organization of veterans, held
their first public dance in the
Lincoln Ballroom, last April 25,
It was a grand affair wiih mu-.
sic by Earl Hood and a floor
show by Eddie J. Colston and
Johnny Johnson ~ we are proud
that the last two persons got
together on a production ~ but
we still wonder why... The local
AWOL directors are, William H,
Brooks, Charles Smith, Richard~
Hayes, Mayhew Lacus, Miss Jes-|
sie Moss, W. Blackstone Johnson, Vera Harrison, Charles
Webb, Car] Pope,.and Earl Williamgson, The national officers
are: Sanford Roam, president;
Chester.Gray,.secrétary and}
Claude Willis, treasurer, The local officials Charles Freez,
president; ~ Woodie. Saunders,
vice president; Charles P, Dyson, Secretary; Ethel Jenning,
assistant secretary; Joseph Jenning, financial secretary, and
Dr. G, B, Hoiston, treasurer,

At the Youth Forum Conference banquet we saw Wanda
Lowery, Colleen Ethelyn Bryce, George Graves,. Magdalene
O~Rouke,. Ellen | Higginbotham,
also. LaVona Powell, who. is
from Detroit, Mich. Some of the
Cleveland young men were: Dallas Alexander, Clarence Pitch,
John Balaza, Philip) May, Leroy Smalls, and John Carson.

Bob Christman -is ~tending: bar
at the American. Legion bar,
we noticed last Saturday night.
We use to se@ him. as manager
of the Club Regdl Night Club,

Leslie Abney, the man who
Uncle Sam depends on. to get
the mail to your ddéor, was seen

are.

conversing with some lovely
girls Saturday night in the
American Legion,

Ciaude Kinzer, manager of

~ae Lane Askins soft ball team,

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"THERE 1S A BRIDGE FOR.
EVERY MILE OF RAILROAD TRACK

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Friday. They played Pete Kin
- conditions.

the
th~s

that they will p.ay
Lockbourne~ Air Base team

savs

zer~s 740 soft ball team in Maryland Park the past Sunday, a
game which was postponed from
April 21st because of Easter,
In the AWOL stage show presentation we were pleased with
the exotic dancing of Rita Thomas, the emceging of Shuffle McDonald and the cyclone entertainment of Cappie.and Lloyd,
Mattilee Burton, the tailor at
the Gray~s Press Shop, 1222 E, |.
Long Street, has now Started out
on her own, We wish her much
success, She has opened a dressmaking and alterations ~and

style sop in room: 311, Williams |

building, Lexington and. Long
The phone is EV, 9449,

Eddie Saunders, who has athe
Progressive Hour over WHKC,
has started The Mail Bag program, designed to popularize his
features and to gauge the large
amount of fan letters that pour.
if weekly, The Ohio ~Gospel
Singers, heard each Sunday nite
at 11 p, m,. over this program,
are still a favorite among radio
listeners,

Two of our elevator girls in
a Gowntown building last week
held the center of attraction of
a large crowd of office workers
and visitors. Their eonversation
ended up to this: one girl ~said
that she knew of only ~ one E.
_|Long street: funeral establishment that she would like to
handle her body after she was
dead, She added that all the
rest put too much make up on
the women~s faces, The other
girl agreed with her, An elevator patron then remarked: ~Women~worried about face mak>up~even after they are dead.~

The policemen stationed on
Mt, Vernon Ave, are aiding in
the struggle to clear parking
and traffic hazards on the main
stem, They have succeeded 1n
getting more green (limited
parking~ signs, and red, no
parking signs, We hope that influential businessmen do not get
wise to -point of having. these
policemen ~ transferred +; Mefore,
their work is compléted.

Rev, A,.P, Williams, founder
of the First. Voters and Veter-.
ans Club of Ohio, said today
that the Samuel J, Walters Club
was. the only Negro Republican
group that could weild power
in this town, Rev, Williams
flayed Emma Gurdy Rucker in
a recent speech, saying that she
does not have power enough to
lead the Negro Republicans of
Columbus. ae |

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The scientific ingenuity, patience. p d Chick
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