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VENUE CHANGE
DENIED IN TENN.
RIOT TRIAL

LAWRENCEBURG, Tenn,

_ANP ~ Judge Joe M, Ingram

ru:c~d last Wednesday that the
~trial of 25 Negro defendants on
charges stcmming from February racial disordes in Columbia, Tenn,, would be held here
a: a date}to be announced later

Overruling a defense moi ion
for a chang? of venue and a
defens2 motion for continuance
that one of

unable to com2 to Tenmessee for
stveral.weeks, Judge Ingram
banned the defendant~s hop2 for

the
e

than Lawrenceburg,

Charg:d with b2ing accessories before the fact and with asSault with intent to. commii
murder in. connection with the
racia] disturbances which reresulted in death for. two~ Negroes and injuries for many,
defendants had asked for
a trial in Nashville, The litigation was moved from Columbia btcaus2? it was thought a
fai- trial could not be obtained
iherc, to Lawrenceburg describ
cd as more biased than, the riot!

site

a trial in a less prejudiced town

Two Religious Denominations
Merge; Patriarch Consecrated

NEW YORK ~ ANP ~ Because their doctrines differ
very little from those of the
Eastern Orthodox churches two
religious denominations _heretofore unaffiliated with any organized church merged here recently to form the American
branch of the Catholic Apostolic church, an English communion linked with Eastern Or
thodox ~ churches, The two
groups merging were membérs
of the Ancient Christian Fellowship, ~ and the. Apostolic
Episcopal Church,

At the same: time the new
leader of the merged group re
turned from England last week
where he had been consecrated Mar (Lord of Patriarch)
David I,:He is Wallace David
de. Ortega Maxey, 44 year old
former. Protestant~ Episcapal
minister. Mar David holds the
church~s highest American office
~equal to that of a Roman
Catholic Cardinal ~ but is unpaid, He: earns his po from
his wholesale creamies business,
and governs the western half

of the church, center@d- in Los
Angeles, Bishop Arthur Wolfort
Brooks, head of ~the original

Apostolic Episcopalians, governs
the eastern half from Long IsJand,

The

work: of the enlarged

Apostolic Episcopal

to enjoin other
churches of. similar belief to
unite in the world wide = catholicato, At present there are 2,500 communicants in the United States; 1,800 living in New
York, but there are 28 churches
in all and 115 ministers, The
parent Catholicate has chuches
in the United Kingdom Canada, France, Germany, Mexico,
Indie and Africa. Of the world
total of 140,000 communicants,
90,000 are members of the African Orthodox -church in Niageria,;

FIRE DESTROYS
ATLANTA CLUBHOUSE

ATLANTA ~ ANP ~ Fire of

undetermined origin last week
completely destroyed the clubhouse of the New Lincoln Golf
and Country ~lub. Luss was estimated at around $19,C00,

The Management said the fire
must have started sometime hetwee. the closing. at 4 am. av:
daybreak, Most of the loss was
covered by insurance, Most. of
the machinery used to keep the
course in playing condition was
saved. * ~

260-odd active members on the
cluu roster ~immédiately ~set
about planning to rebuild at the
Site which is located some six

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It PAYS to Advertise in This Paper:

American

YOUTHFUL FLORIDIANS TO
COLLEGE~LeRoy A. and Jack
D, Howell, sons of Dr, and
Mrs, L, AL Howell, well known
Tampa, ~ Fla., residents, leave

next month for Palmer Mem
orial institute, Sedalia, N.. C,
Th: boys are graduates of St,
Petsr Claver High school and
acquired their excellent swimming ability at Camp Atwaite
East Brookfield, Mass,

Liberia Celebrates 99th

Anniversary of Independence

MONROVIA ~ ANP ~ With;
cannon sounding forth~ at four

A, M, from Fort Norris, announcing the advent of the
99th anniversary of the independence: of Liberia as the
only free, sovereign and independent nation on the west
coast of Aftica, Liberia began
a~ significant calebration, The

Lone Star flag of Liberia was
unfurled at that hour,

Later in the day, President
Tubman reviewed the troops
under command of Col, Randolph M, Ellis at the Barclay
Training centre, President Tubman dressed in his uniform as
commander in chief, took the
salute from the reviewing stand
with members of. the diplomatic corpS among the guests
which flanked him,

Rie declaration of independence,
Henry Ford Cooper was the
orator of the day, Mr, Cooper, former department of state
attache fomer consul-general
to the British Isles and to Hamburg, Germany, where he sas
serving when war broke ~out
traced the history - of Liberia,
prophesied a bright future for
ithe republic,

A great exposition is to mark

the 100th anniversary of Liberia in 1947,:
BAPTIST LAYMEN
TO ATLANTA

ATLANTA ~ ANP ~ The

National Baptist Laymen~s convention will convene at Ebenezer Baptist church here,
Sep', 4 to 8, it was announced
last week by James E, Gayle,
executive secretary,

A study course in religious
education will be held each day
during the session~ and in relation to the new emphasis on
the Boy Scout movement plann2d at the Sunday School congress in Chicago recently, each
layman is urged to bring a
Scout aS his guest to the convention, Laymen enrolled for
classes will receive credit for
work done, the announcement
said,

Golfers Get Ready for 17th
Annual Tourney on August 27th

By. Vincent H, Johnson,

PITTSBURGH ANP
Ths United Golirs associaiion
will hold its 17 open annual
championship htre from ~Aug,
27 tc Aug, 30, to mark the
first ~ national golf tournament
among Negroes since 1914,

Host to the affair will be the
Yorkshire Golf club, Fifteen
annual amateur championships,
and 13 annual women champpionships highlight the tourney
agenda. The tournament will be
plavcd at the beautiful. South
Park Golf Cours,

Play2rs from all sections of
the country are slated to participate, With ncw players entering the contest, a new record
for entrier will likely be establiskod, Professionals. will play
72 holes to decide their championship, Among thos2 to defend their tit!cs will be Roberi
P, Ball, *our timzs champion
and present title holder, cliff
Tayior, amateur champion, and
Mrs, Cleo Ball, women~s champ.

Other profersionals to be on
hand are Howard Wheeler, g ige
Rhodes, Solomon Hughes John
Dendy, Poter Washington, Hugh
Smith. and Clyde Martin, The
eaStern contingent will be lead
by Dr, G,. W, Adams, Washington president of the United
Golfers association; J, Hudson
~Philadelphia and Cliff Adams
~New. York; Porter Washington, Boston,.

Representing the middle west

James,

-our advent into the realm of

wil! be Joe Louis, Dr, Remus

G. Robinson and Eddie Jackson of Detroit; Dr, V, O, Beck,
Cleveland, Players from othér
midwestern cities include A,
Duke Adams, _ Bennie
Hughes | L, Fierson, John Grey,
Mathew Bivins,.M, Blair,
~Country~ Jennings, T; Wells,
Leon Motis, Ralph Chilton,
Aarcs Payne, Robert Landrum
and Vincent H, Johnson, UGA
treasurer. Other big name midwesterners beside Ball are
James Poythress and E, Jenkins:

A large group attendance
from: various séctions of the
nation. is expected, The Chieago
Women~s Golf Club has _already pledged 100 per cent attendance, The southern locality
with its array
and strong. contenders, ~and the
wesi coast~s galaxy of stars
pror ise tO make the tourney~
spectacular,

Officers of the United Golfers association ~ besidg. Dr, Adams and Johnson, are Sea~ H.
Ferguson, vice president,
dianapolis, and A,~ D;: V;.~rosby, Columbus, O., general secretary, This championship will
depict the progress the Negro
has made in golf since 1926,
matiyv golf experts believe Since

golf does not date far back ihto history, we cannot call this
tournament ~a century of Negro
golf progress,~ but it may be

appropriately labeled ~a decade of golf Progress among
Negroes,~

Lincoln U. to Open

Recreation Center in Fall

LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, Pa,
~ANP ~A student recreation
center will be available for students at Lincoln university when
the Chester county institution
opens its doors to a record number of students for the fall tarm,
it was announced this weck by
President Horace Mann Bond.

The new Student center was

made possible. by remodeling the |

Student

historic bath house which serv-| >
ed many generations of Lincoln
students in the old days prior
to the modernization of the old

dormitories, and the érection of;

newer Structures, a

The. new student unit will incluae a snack bar lounge rooms,
and space for billiards, table
tennis, and a chéss cubicle.

British Honduras Fighter
Kayoed by Chicagoan in 5th

' CHICAGO ~ ANP ~ A 5th
round technical knockout ended the fighting spirit of Roy
Cadle, a native of British Honduras, here Wednesday evening
at Comiskey park,

Cadle~s conqueror was Johnny Bratton, local lightweight
contender, who convinced the
7,511 cash customers in the
first round that Roy would not
be around for the final 12th
Bratton~s explosive left hook
dropped Cadle in the secoad

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found for a two count,

He rose gallantly only.to
have the Chicagoan batter him
mercilessly with a two handed
attack, Bratton ripped open 4a
gash in Roy~s nose in the third
~took it easy on the Honduras
fighter in the fourth and finished him in the fifth, Cadle was
dronped for two nine counts in
the fifth by deadly left hooks
before the fight was endéd
while the round was two minutes and 26 seconds old,

The main event was followed

by a_ two-round technical
knockout of Vince Pimpinllo
New Yorker, by Bob Satter
fieid, local light heavyweight
boxer, Casey Jones~ a New York
fighter, ended his three rcund
bout -with Levi Southall, Kan.
sas City, by a spectacular 3rd
round knockout,

Tec. Woodward, Columbus, ~,
was kayoed by Bill. Peterson,
Indiana Harbor heavyweight, in
the second round, but Joe Iaximum, Cleveland heavyweight,
was satisfied to settle for a 10

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- THE GUN~,:
# é b fe } oe; a.By ALVIN MOSES

WE* CONGRATULATE A THINKER
-_NEW YORK~(ANP)~~While mike i ig Bill ~(Bo
jangies) Robinson and a small crowd of Harlem sporismen one
afternoon last week on Seventh Avenue and 132nd. Street, we
turned to observe a chap ~with a beret on staring our way. The
stare quickly turned into a smile and we recognized RAY ROBae pound for La as the best fighter I've lgoked, at. in 20
year; a

we

After the sumo Latidchiais pat back-slapping on our
par: I said this to the next~ world~s welterweight.champion~Nothing pleased me more than ~to learn that you~ have ~hecome. a. prominent landowner. in this, the most progressive city
extant. You have been. counselled well and your..purchase. of
a land site with a definite future recalls to mind: the: foresight
Harry, ~Wills had: when he. was: Jack mireaatnes ee aie -
mare: gh tas ee ubiss

~ Robinson, ~whose ~1 name is Walker Smith when ~ is not
throwing leatheratom. bombs inside the roped enclosure, m ade
a purchase of ~units directly opposite Theresa. Hotel~ on, est
124th Street,~ Properties assessed | at, $90, 000 govering, an, area
of 7,500 square feet are now the possession ~of the, Robincrest
Sporting Club, Inc., Ray Robinson, | president. ~Good luck. to

sai

you youngster, and, may other athletes i in protemonal We study

eine

ects as ~you have ~ so ~wisely done. _

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THE AGENDA READS): Ae A

ELMER * (Violent) RAY, the Florida terror whom. ~many
think can whip Louis, plans using Ray Savold (soundly whipped by lanky. AT Heosinsn) as a stepping stone toa bout, with.
the bomber.

Negro: bail players~: whe! pails town denane lahat now
pastiming in the~stormy Mexican League, are nét tbo ~hot as~to
whether MICKEY OWENS is ever reinstated by ~Albert~ (un
happy): Chandler,~ organived baseball's high corimissioner. Wonder if this feelirig has~ anything to do'~with the hard=~
Mick's: relations with BRAGANA, Cuban Negro; 'who (hold
your breath)::was:-the real manager. of the: Heegr-aree ~Club: for
which. Qwens ~was signed: as manager-catcher? fi dd

On alll ~sides New "York baseball fens who falta teams j in
the NEGRO NATIONAL LEAGUE Sunday after. iS) inday, rate
Doby, Newark Eagles~ second sacker the best guard ian of the
keystone since such fellows as Bingo DeMoss, George Wright,
Bobby Downs et al ~were ~around... They~ are well | aware of
DICKIE SEAY~s savy, ~and finesse around. the back ~of which
there can be little dispute, but say, these Doby' ~adm nirers,Séay has
slowed up to a-walk as against. Daby~s speed. and } piyota] ability ona par with the best big (white) league s~so there me
have~ the controversy right in your~ éxpensive laps, * ans.

BOB MONT GOMERY, thinks only of the:-day. helouas tie

faces IKE. WILLIAMS in the ring again:.... There:have beén
many historic ring feuds over: the years such:as' Langford-McVey; Jack Britton-Ted ~Lewis; Panama joe:Gans-Larry Estridge; Tiger F poeaprer tice Grebb and Jack Delaney-Glowers;
Gans-Nelson | and m ers....: However,:nonéssuzpasses
the bifterhess that pe etween these. two outstanding ~lightweight performers,... Here we havea real case ofa cat.jn
dog battle with no ~hold barred and ~~Lordprotect a sailor on
such a protmny night.~ natin~

Stariding i in the second~ half race of Neste ~National Babeball League tid Abe and Effie Manley~s Newark club'out in
front with nine wins against three setbacks.. Fhé~~wonder of
it all is the standing of the pepperpot N. Y. Cubans, who are
right on the heels of their Jersey pennant. contendera having~
identical number of victories but | one more loss in the. debit
column.

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| DAN BANKHEAD, Meriphis Red Sox minchee and Fadl aid of

SAMMY BANKHEAD, shortstop immortal with the. disintegrating | Homestead Ciave:. ~I heard Satchel,Paige remark that Dan Bankhead throws
a faster ball than Bob F ELLER or any other baseball has known
in that connection.,: I've heard you extol the, speed throwing
of such greats as low Williaens, Willie Foster Jr., Dick.(Cannonball) Redding, Bullet. Wickware, Jose Mendez ang. others, ~
do you still think they surpass Bankhead in light of what Satch
has had to sayy} 7% 3."

~., That's mighty high praise coming. from Biioe. and peronally.1 came out of the press-box at Yankee Stadium a fortnight
ago to watch the fireballs young Bankhead steamed: his catchers way... As 1 have often stated comparisons for the most

round - decision over Henry
Cooper - a New York heavyweight,: Cooper lost every.
round but managed. to remain
on his feet,

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MASTER ELK~Robert H.
Johnson, Grand Commissioner
of Transportation for the Grand

Lodge of Elks has arranged
unusual travel facilities to the
grand lodge at Buffalo August
27, for the Antlered herd. Bob
Johnson, pride of Philadelphia
and leader of O. V, Catto lodge
No, 20 there is expected to be

boy2~you. tell me. just. where!.

~on 16th.

| Negro player. ~with the latter

~out.

part are odious and cannot be entirely proved.to. the satistaction of all parties..;'. | maintain despite Paige's beliefa anent
~Bankhead that Wickware and Dick Redding, were tops in~ sheer
speed hurling:... Redding was so voted by the one and only |

-BABE RUTH, who could never successfully hit-nor see Dick's

~hard ones~WICKWARE ~conquered: ~the fabulous: WALTER. JOHNSON in the: heyday of the~ Washington. Senator's: hill
genius, and contemporary writers of Wickware's day: (1 was

around four years, old then) sayhe was a brown-skinned

RUBE WADDELL, $0-0-0, where ' do we get~ to; Eddic, ~me; JOE LOUIS, whose ~hight
spot in. Harlem grows more, bedeitiful with each passing day's
work. will referee during the a boxing~ ~- in~ D.C.

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Rep ort Jackie Robinson to Phy. ~~

With Dodgers N ext Spring~

fore to aid his pennant driving Dodgers next ~month! ~ktept
~that the Royals~ insisted Robinson be available for their post
season playoffs, 9 sal

- Robirison~ has ~met with appreval everywhere he has ~*played, Robinson~s-- teammates

NEW YORK ~ ANP = Lat-.
est reports from Brooklyn~~and
Montreal are to the effect, that
Jackie Robirison, sensational

team. has eatfed~ ar to try
with - the~ Brooklyn team~
nex spring, Robinson, ~who ~is

hittrig at a 360 ~clip with| thin: highly off; him iend: his
Montreal while fielding second| Montreal manager, Clay Hopbase brilliantly has. ~surprised per, a Mississippi ~cotton ~bri er

~says: ~Jackié~s got all the guis
in the world, "He~ proved that
~to be during~ ~thé ' seasdn, "~H>s

all after his ~early spring~ Sea-.
son ~flop.~ He is the principal
reascn his team enjoys a 15

gare lead in the Titernational~ a ~big league ball player, ~2
league, go00G team Saag" and a real
Branch _ Rickey. probably gentleman,~ cS oe gy a

the new Grand treasurer,

would have called him up be-. eae ae

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