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African Council Quits

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28,1 1946

Firestone Corp. Gives $250,000 to
Liberia for Tropical Medicine

MONROVIA ~ ANP ~ Following the grant of $250,000 by
Harvey Firestone for the eStabTishment of. a tropical medical
cente: in Liberia under the aegia
of the American Foundation of
Tropical medicine, Liberia~s
presidertt, William V. S. Tubman, recently gave a luncheon
st his bungalow here in honor
ef Andrew G. Lynch, assistant
chief of division of African affuirs, U. S. State department,
and Dr. Thomas T. Mackie, president of the medical foundation.

The establishment of the Lircrian institute will be the first
of its kind and is for the purpose to study diseases prevalent
in the tropical belt and finding
ways to prevent them. The Liberian government will be the
first tO receive information from
this researches, which will later
be given to the world at large.

it addition to research for preventatives against disease aff2ct~ing human -control, research will
also be carried on into disease
sgainst plants arid animals, ir
an effort to increase the economic standard of the land.

Dr. Mackie~ is also a colonel
in the United States army and'
has been selected as pre ena

Wilberforce U.
Left Library

XENIA, O. ~ ANP ~ President Charles H. Wesley of Wiliberforce university has just
been informed that Dr. A. E.
Perkins, a long-time ré&sident
and teacher in the public schools
of New Orleans, has left his.entire library to Wilberforce urtiversity.

The shipments of Dr. Perkin~s
books include four large boxes, filing cabinets and papers
and library furniture. These will
be placed in the university library and will be a considerable addition to the already
growing collection of valuable
looks and documents.

of the Liberian institute. He
holds a number of other posts
in this field, including those of
charrman of the division of
nicdicine and professor of preventive medicine, Bowman Gray
school of Medicine; consultant
in tropical medicine of the Véterans administration. He
served as assistant clinical professor of medicine at Columbia
University, aSsociate professor in
public health and preventive
medicine at Cornell University
Medical college; consultant in
tropical medicine to the ~secretary of war; membsr of the
National Research council, and
executive officer of the. council
in tropical medicine of the
army medical school.

Mr. Lynch was for two years
Americar consul general in Nigeri2, China, Siam, ~ Canada,
England and many other coun(ries, having over 20 years of
fereign service to his credit. At
present he is mainly concerned
with the Liberian desk at the
Americar~ State department.

The two men were presented
to President Tubman at the executive mansion by Raphael O~
Hara Lanier, American minister

to Liberia.

Medical doctors forming the
board of directors include those
from Harvard, John Hopkins,
Now York, California, Michigan,

Tulane, Southern California,
Stanford, Chicago, Howard,
Duke, Long Island College of

Medicine and Meharry Medical

colleges, a6. SERS

Chinese Enterprise

The scientific ingenuity, patience
and skill of the Chinese were re
vealed anew on a recent govern:
ment mission to the Orient. In a visit to a Chinese city famous the last
2,000 years for brine wells, Chinese
were seen drilling deep wells for
brine and natural gas. Tne interest
ing aspect is that they have penetrated to depths of 3,500 to 4,000 feet
without any metal equipment except
the cutting edge of a drill. They are
using and have used, for hundreds
of years, drilling methods developed
independently in America.

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LITTLE; ROCK, Ark. ~ANP
A survey of the Negro population here and four other southern ~cities is slated to get underway Monday when Dr. Warren
M. Banmer, Urban league director of research and community,
arrives. here.

Announcement of the survey
was inade here last week by
William Nash, chairman of a
committee sponsored by the Little Rock Community Council.
who said that rfine committees
will cooperate with professional
workers making the survey. The
committees are Business and Industry, health, housing, crime
and delinquency, labor reéligion,
a lay committee, a committee on
city. and courtty administration
and a committee on education.

he survey will have. no political significance, Nash declared,
and will avoid such controverSial questions as poll tax and
Negro political participation. Local -Negro citizens, however,
look suspiciously at the survey
and view it as an attempt to
gather information on Negro
voting strength. |

Dr. Banner will occupy offices in the certtury building here
where he will study local conditions and make general plans
for the survey. He is slated to res
turn to New York around October 15 and prepare.a series of
recommendations for the survey.
The second phase of the survey
wil begin around Nov. 15, said
Nash. when four National Urban league field directors will
come here to begin the study.

A contribution of about $500
and office facilities will be made
by the Community council toward the project and about 30
outstanding citizens. of which
one-third are Negroes, have already accepted appointments on
committees. Beside
Little Rock, the other southern
cities included in the survey are
Tulsa, Okla.; Kansas City, Mo.;
St. Petersburg, Fla., and Charleston S.C.

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DISGUSTED
OVER WHITE
IMPERIALISM

CAPE TOWN, South Africa~
ANP ~ The Native Representative council here is out ~ out
by its own decision to wash its
hand of ~white
experiment in political segregatio.

Indefinite adjournment of the
bedy, formed in 1937 under
terms of the Representation of
Natives act 12 of 1936, occurred
following the recent strike of
50,000 native gold miners near
Johanresburg. The council~s decision to quit serving as a. gui
nea pig for white imperialism~s| ~_

political segregation experiment
marks the end of native acceptance of Britain~s theory of racial superiority and the advent
of an era of self-determinatior
of native peoples. according to
an American traveler~ here.
~There have been times before when non-whites in South

Africa showed resentment over |

conditions which threatened to
uproot every law of justice and
inv play,~ he remarked, ~but
rever in the history of this land
has there been such Seething
unrest as today.~

He observed that ~this country is headed for a bad time unless some unforseen miracle
stays the hand of those who
seek to keep the blacks down
im the gutter, then said the native liberation movement is
joined by ~a growing group of
whites who see the handwriting
on. the wall and are joining
tozces with the oppressed.~

A record of broken promises
by the South African govern
ment to the rfatives gives added]:

emphasis to the word ~oppression.~ he said, ~for while there
have always been those who did
not seem to feel the oppressor~s
heel on the back of his neck,
today they are not to be found.~
' Government perfidy has serv
ed to unite the natives and native rulers.
Native Represerttative council
was eStablished 10 years ago to
be the supreme advisory lawmaking body on matters affecting native welfare. But in practice, the council~s resolutions
and recommendations have been
ignored by government officials.

Seidom have} goverrtment officials deemed it necessary to pay
the council the respect of appearing before it to report on
significant issues affecting native
welfare. Field Marshal Smuts,

~prime minister of the Union of

South Africa, appeared before
the body on its initial meeting
ir 1937 but has not made anotner appearance. He expressed
the hope that it might develop
inte a ~native. parliament.~

Collapse of the experiment of
political segregation might be
ittributed more to the political
~mmaturity of whites than nativer, since the natives always
looked upon the movement with
suspicion. but decided to give it
a chance to prove it is unworkahle. Sufficient evidence ~against
prlitital segregation came when
the body, selected by natives
and government was, completely ignored during the gold mine
Strike.

Native miners went on strike
for increased wages. and better
working conditions. A govern:
ment promise to investigate the:
difficulties of native gold miners
resu'ted in appointing a commissior and then pig2on-holding
the commission~s recommendations. The miners have been
granted an equivalent of five
cents a day increase for added
cost of living but still must work
for a daily basic wage of 20
cents.

Native rebellion against Euro-.
vea)_ dictatorship has been noticesble in many instances. Native students. have refused to be
kept in their places and a nationwide burning of the hated
~passes,~ described by natives as

* | the worst curse of white imper
iaism, has demonstrated native

| reserrttment against oppression.

An attempt to force native women to carry the passes failed.

More recently the native is
being studiously restricted to the
kraal, although it is necessary
for him to se2k extra work in
towns to save himself and family from starvation, disease and
death. The droughts of the last
feyr years have brought death
to thousands because they have
ro opporturfity to combat refreedom

imperialism~s~ |

Theoretically the}

FAMOUS NUMBERS Footbull~s most famous num2rals are
wvin by three- Los Angeles
Ran~s_ backfizld stars. Number
13, carried by Kenny Washingion, former UCLA great, to Allaimerican and ~pro~ fame; Old
98, worn by Tom Harmon, Michigans collegiate scoring hold:r,

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war hero and _ broadcaster of
Here Comes Harmon, new radio| a
sperts program; and Number 7,
the number most feared last
year when its wearer, former
UCLA ace, Bob Waterfield, was
nationally acclaimed ~the most
valuable played in professional
football.~~ANP

NBA Rates Ray ~Sugar~ Robinson -

CLEVELAND ~ ANP ~ Ray
Robinson is given first listing
as logical contender for the welterweight championship held by
Marty Servo in the National
Boximg association~s quarterly
ratings released here last Sunday. NBA ~lists Marty Servo as
the reigning ~champ in that division. but specifies that should
Servo: fail to meet Robinson by
Dec. 1, a title bout between
Robinson and Beau Jack -would
be recognized. Beau Jack is giver second listing as logica! contender. 2

"he association had earlier announced that Servo must _~degend his title by that deadline
or surrender all claim to it. -

Logical Contender for Welter Crown

Ratings in the heavyweight division give Joe Louis the chempionship with no logical cor?tenders available. Outstanding
Negro boxers are Elmer Ray
and Joe Walcott.

Local contenders in the fight,
heavyweight division are ~ Ezzaid Charles and Billy Fox,
with Archie Moore showing up
as en outstarfding boxer.

Third listing as logical contender for the middleweight
crown goes to Charles Burley.
Ike Williams takes the - ligntweight championship, with Wilsiam~ Joyce, Wesley Mouzon,
Bok Montgomery, and: Johnny
Bratton being the corftenders in
the same order.

By Hubert H. White

HONOLULU ~ ANP ~ It is
a rare sight to see an all-colored civilian team, whether football,
these parts, The Horfolulu Eagies,~ aff all-colored baseball
team, has made its debut in Hawaii. They recently~ took the
fieid against Johnny Kerr~s most
cutstanding~ baseball team in
Hawaii. -

The Honolulu ' Eagles; ~which
had boasted several members: of
mainland semi-pro teams on
their roster, went down to a dismal defeat of. 13-0 before a large
ciowd. They failed to hit a Sirrgle ball out~ to infield. Leon
Scott, however, did get to 3rd

baskétball or~ ~baseball: in~

First All-Colored Baseball

Team Plays in Honolulu

base. But the Eagles show evidence of being capable of playing real baseball.. David Townsen, formerly of the Havana Cuban Stars, is not a bad pitcher
in no sense of the word. James

Gordon, who has had exp~riertce |

in Pittsburgh and Chicago circuit as a catcher, is OK. *

~Leon Scott, was good at first
base. He formerly played with
the Shreveport Black Sox.
James Monroe, Charles Rumph
and Hugh Ford, Roanoke Cardinals, Clarence Smelding of Kansas City Monarchs, Henry Cook,
former New Orleans Grays, arfd
James Anderson of Portsmouth
Elks, show great promise.

~Y~ Meet, Says L.

By I. V. MYERS

NEW ORLEANS ~ ANP ~
Stepping over at Gladstone hotel here last week, enroute to his
home in Los, Argeles, Toussaint
L'Ouverture' Jennings told reporters and photographers at a
hotel luncheon of his experiences
at the recent international - conference of ~Y~ Mern~s club. at
Brzdatord, Pa. Bradford played
host to the 22nd annual convention of the body, formed at
Toledo, O., 24 years ago by
Juaze Paul William Alexander.

According to Jennings, ~Chinese, Negroes, Caucasians, Japartese, men and women from
Chunking to Catalina, Delhi to
Denver, Montreal to Montevideo, Shanghi to Saskatchewan
and Honolulu to Hollywood, were
eat:img, singing, wisecracking,
sleeping under the same roof,
and building the firm foundation for true brotherhood that
must be the basis for~ lasting
world peace. These Y~s men~
meaning men of and for the
YMCA~are | genuine~rfot lip
service. boys. They mean _ the
brotherhood and good fellowship
they profess.~

At the cenvention, Jennings
seng the opening solo, with William Yinsor~ Lee, a Chinéne of

of movement.

Only by overwhelming striking
native workers with arms did
police herd them back into the
gold mines, but the fire to fight
for more freedom in the land of
their birth still burns in the
breast of both native ard colored p2ople of South Africa, the
American traveler reported.

~Can nations or groups sur
~vive unless the freedoms ~writ
ten into the Atlantic charter are
vouchsafed to all men every
waere?~ he asked.

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Race Harmony Promoted at

A. Representative

Shanghai, delivering the reply
to Mayor Hugh Ryan~s welcome
address, and scholarly Rev. Harry ~&. Komura, Japanese of Honolulu, leading the first d~votional service. Jennings also figured
in the athletic games, sang ort
evcry program and was a Speaker at the California breakfast
for officers of the body..

The Negro delegates were attending their first international
convention and according to
Jermings, ~knew the responsihility that Jay on their shoulGers. They represented not only
themselves or their respective
ciuts, but, in the eyes of many,
the. entire Negro race. I am
preud to report that, to a man
the fellows clicked.~

The harmony that existed
among delegates was evidenced
by Negro participation on every
program. gam2 and_ sportirrg
event of the convention. White
celegates from Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee and els~where
were reported as having sought
the Negro delegates out to extend
wejcome hands to them.

Y~ men clubs are service clubs
cf the YMCA, and have four
najer fields of endeavor: boys
work, yourfg men~s work, world
outlook and new YMCA member counseling. At present there

are 286 clubs in the world, with;~

six being Negro clubs. Los Ange'*: was the first city which
hed a Negro club. followed by
Seattle, Jersey City, Toledo, Detroit, and Duarte, Cal. For the
rext convention, which meets
at Toledo. ~delegates hope to
seek the number of clubs ircrease from 286 to 500. The next
convention will celebrate - the
25th anniversary and the ~Golden State in ~48.~: FE

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~UP~ report stated: ~Robinson

000 if he were white.~

Men in the sporting-know,

will do nothing about, it.

~What particularly irks the

shunted aside while Mike raked ~i

a gin mill
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from spilling the name of the *
dug up the dirt for him. Jacobs

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BEATING THE GUN~

By ALVIN MOSES

NEW YORK~(ANP)i~Jackie Robinson, graduate
Duncan school of baseball~
achieved the distinction of winning the batting championship in
the International League his very first season with a fine average of.349, beating out his closest rival by five points.

stalled seven white cashiers over- Joe's objections.
critics see it, first, Joe ~permitted his Negro managers

Be Baie Oe

of
(Kansas ~ City** Monarchs) |

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becomes the first Negro to win

an individual title~in organiaed baseball smce 1900, and appears
to be the Brooklyn Dodgers~ third or second baseman i in 1947.~

We predicted that Robinson would make the grade while
Jimmie Powers, N.Y. Daily News, stated it was.almost 100-1
that he would not make good. even in minor league ball.
cidentally, Powers, writing in the Sunday edition of the News,
Sept. 15, said: ~~A scout tells us Robinson would sell ~for $150,-... tsk, tsk, tsk, here again is that
deathless color business again and with a cleancut Z7-yearold
youngster: like this UCLA ex-student!.

WILL MIKE JACOBS SUE DAILY NEWS..

In
who congregate duily along

~Jacob beach,"~ Broadway in the roarin~ 40's, tell me, that the
piece you are about to read is true, so Michael Strauss Jacobs
~In the Daily News sports pages, Sept. ~
13, this small item. concerning Jacobs~ fine hand in the jaffa~ rs
of heavyweight boss Joe Louis appeared: _~.

~Mike Jacobs is blamed by Harlem héeads of shad Louis
for the Brown Bomber~s fall from grace.
more cultured and religious members of his race, the Joe Louis
~myth~ and the ~God~s-on-our-side~ legends are being. rapidly
exploded. Mike is again using Joe as a financial bath mat,
wiping his feet on him and using him for his own profit.
pays Joe $18,000 a year to ~front~ for the new Joe Louis evil.
Mike owns 51 per cent of the stock.

In. fact, among the

Mike

Harlemites is that Mike hast inAs Harlem
to be
in their profits; second, his di
vorce; third, Joe wound ~up like any washed-up bum, running

a Harlem sportswriter tell us, ~Is
for Joe to get whipped and that would be the tragic end of a fine
fellow who started: out on a high religious arid moral plane.

This piece was written by Jimmy Powers.
~Harlem sportswriter({??)~~ who

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He refrains

was supposed to sue~a lawmak
er (political stunt) named O'Toole who in turn swore he'd sue
Jacobs~Who's gonna sue whom?.

DIDJA ~ KNAW ~ THAT,

MATION MOTLEY, giant gridder with the
Browns, one of the ranking profes! teams of this "46. seame a fortnight ~ ago.

the Sunday Daily Mirror, a New
York tabloid, said~ ~this to TAMI MAURIELLO prior~ this
~Don~t fight Joe Louis.
Joe Walcott, fight Joe Blow. But don~t fight Joe Louis.
sidé the ring, Louis is the nicest fellow I ever met and I think
that~s the place to meet him~outside the ring.~

TED CARROLL, the brilliant cartoonist called by most

Cleveland

iba das

Fight Joe Baksi, fight
Out
to BURIS JENKINS (white)

in that field of sport action drawing, may remain in.the army.
A first-looie, Ted. told: me -he-hasn't made his ~ up-yet, but
is thinking seriously. of staying in.;.

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NEW YORK ~ ANP ~ As a
result of his recent successful
defense - of the title, Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis has
finally run out. of logical contenders for the crown, and it
currently looks as though he
will have to shop around ir
search of a suitable opponent, it)
was revealed here recently.

Louis retained the title after
sending Tami Mauriello to the
canvas in 2:09 of the first round
at Yankee stadium last~ Wednesday, marking the 34rd successSf! defense of the title.

Mearrwhile- Promoter~ Mike
Jacobs ~is rushing plans for a
he:.vyweight elimination tournament to determine his next opponent. Outstanding among the
probable contestartts ~are Elmer
~Violent~ Ray and Jersey Joe
Walcott, a pair of hard-hitters
-end Joe Baksi, Jo~y Maxim, and
possibly Mauriello again..~ The
latter, though decisively put ~out
of action in quick order in the|
recent meeting, seems to think
that another match would turn.
the tables om the champion.
Mauriello bases this upon the
~Suiday punch~ which he threw
at Joe, unsettling him a bit,
prior to the end of it all.

~Anothea one of Joes defeated
rivals, Billy Conn, is reported
to have phoned Jacobs. from
Pittsburgh offering A meet the

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No Outstanding Contenders iy
Louis~ Crown; Jacobs Plans Tourney

champion again for charity.
Cortn blames his defeat last June
19 on grave errors made by his
board of strategy and declared
he wanted to show the world
what he could do. if ~I fought
my own way.~

Rumors xprendad by Jack Solcmons, an English _. promoter,
that Louis. would travel to London for a scrimmage with Bruce
Woodcock, British, lightheavyweight champion, were discredited by Jacobs. The. promoter
poirted out that although Woodenc] took the light heavy champicnship from Gus LeSnevich in
London recently, he had been
knocked out by Mauriello in his
one American try-out.

The winner of the elimninetio tournament.may choose
sides up against Woodcock, Jacoks admitted, with the winner
then having a chance at. the
crown. As for the South American trip, although Louis, is said
tc be interested, there has been
nothing. definite. planrted.

Louis, now 32, -has been a
professional for 12 years and
titleholder since 1937: His share
of the recent; scramble came to
$103,611.89, representing approximately $50,000 for each minute. A crowd of 38,494 made a
gross gate of $335,063..and a
ret of $259, 029,

Ft. Worth, Texas Ready io:
Entertain Omega Conclave Dec.. 7th

FORT. WORTH, 'Tex. ~
More than 300 brothers of - oe
Ninth Omega district, embracing
Texas, Oklahoma and~ Louisiana.
ave preparing for the 33rd~ -annual grand Omega Psi Phi corrciave here on. Dec. 27.

Marking the first time in the
history of the fraternity that the
annual affair has béen held in
the state, the local chamber of
commerce, Greek letter frater
n~ties and sororities and local

citizens are joirfing the local
chapter, Epsilon Alpha, in_ its
plahe for the best~ conclave in
the history of the fraternity, said

Kay~ W. McMillan, ~ Epsilon
grond marshal. ae.An estimated 700 delegates

from Boston, New York, Washington arfd other points will atvend the four day meeting. Many
of thé delegates will~ arrive from
specially chartered trains from
hig cities, he revealed.