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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-11-11

a period OF three months and will
take in nearly all of the teams in
the state. The committee will pick
champion in two classes. The
winners last year were the Pontiac
boys who photo-finished a strong
Flint team.
BASKETBALL SCHOOL
The other day we received a re-
minder OF the opening OF the St.
Antoine Branch YMCA. basket
ball school which was attended last
year by the most outstanding play
ers OF teams throughout the mid
west.
Dear Basketball Official:
Those who attended last years
Referees school got so much out
OF this basketball study course that
they have insisted upon its being
conducted again. The purpose of
this group is to instruct officials
for better officiating and to clarity
all rule changes. Any interested
basketball player is welcome. The
only entrance fee is interest.
The first meeting date is We'd
neSday- Nova at2- o'clock and
we meet for exactly one hour. l
hope you will find it convenient to
attend
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High Court Saves 4 In
Little Scottsboro Case
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Nov

JhOhoOAN LILLE, L ld.i WV
10-Florida's Little Scots
boro Case" received a favor
able ruling this week from
the United States Supreme
Court when that body granted two
petitions in behalf OF the four
doomed men, setting aside thei.
death sentence.
These men were convicted in the
circuit court at Fort Lauderdale
Fla. and sentenced to death for the
alleged murder OF a white fish
dealer, back in May 1888. Their
heads were shaved ard their bodies
otherwise prepared for the electric
chair. Public spirited citizens in
Jacksonville employed counsel and
halted what appeared to be
Florida's first quadruple execution.
Four times the supreme court Of
Florida reversed the death sem
fences and sent the cases back for
new trials only for the men to be
again convicted, On the fifth appeal,
however, TO the supreme court of
Florida, the death sentences were
sustained and counsel for the con-
demned men Immediately took the
case to the United States Supreme
Court with the favorable results
mentioned.
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Noted Cleveland
AstrOlOgist Dies

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 10
Ruff!n b. Richardson, So, teacher
Of astro'oay and metaphysics, died
Friday at the Marine hospital where
he had been taken Monday after a
brief illness Of only three weeks.
Ruftin RAD checked his horoscope
and told hs wife that he would not
be with his family much longer. He
called for his family Thursday and
asked his wife to bring him a clock.
Later after they had gone home. he
took a bath and made his final
preparations FOR death. Ruffin was
born at Vincenncs, In. He came to
Cleveland p years ago. He was a
Spanish American War veteran and
was at one time posted at the Philip
pine Islands.
He is survived by his widow, his
daughter Mrs Anna Taylor of Dam
vile, III; two sons, William Ben
nett, II. James Henry IL; a sister,
Mrs. Corrine Jones Of St Louis, Mo.
JaDaa's merchant ship tonnage is ex-
pected to reach G.OO0OG0 gross tons by
tbe cnd Of 1g41 and 7 500 600 gross TONS
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Sincerely,
Lawrence Washington
FROM THE FEED BOX

FROM THE FEED BOX
Willie Williams, the fighting
':pawn-broker," wants to 20 to
California to fight the boys on the
coast willis Ward is backing the
Great Lakes Big Five basketball
team. Jimmy Haynes, Great Lakes
forward, has forsaken the theatre to
go back to the cage game. Fats
jenkins, former master OF the New
York Renaissance, is given the
grand salute" as he leaves basket
ball Jenkins is called the great
est Negro basketball player in his
tory.
Ko. Green, slttering feather
weight fighter likes jitterbugging.
George Riley jumps in the Michi-
gan welterweisht title fuss. Riley
says Pm still in--the game and
when there's any claiming OF the
state championship, you can just
tell joey Miehielove and Harold
Smith that I'm to be considered"
Henry Armstrong TO fight Cefer-
inc Garcia, Filipino bolo-puncher
on February %. Since Boston COL
lege seated Lou Montgomery for
their game with Florida; and Boston
university hid Charlie Thomas when
they played Maryland university
will Union refuse to play against
Ralph Owes, Lincoln university's
white center, when Lincoln plays
Union on Armistise day?
John Boriran made good his prom
Use to friends and won the A.AP.
! Pentathlon. Joe Louis, worlds
heavyweight champion. slipped
down and surprised ST. Louis last
week. We wonder what Dave Clark
thought OF his picture in that St.
Louis weekly. advertising his bout
with Johnny "Blsndit' Romero. One
sports writer described Kenny Wash
ington. U.CLA candidate for ALL
| American honors, as being greater
than Red Grange
Don't forget the Pioneer foot
ball game on Thanksgiving day and
the Brewster and Harlem Globe
Trotter basketball turkey-tilt on the
same night
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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-11-11
Memphis Doctor
Opens Free Clinic

MEMPHIS Tenn Nov lO-Dr.
A. 7. Martin. brother Of DR.. J. B.
Martin, local business man and
sportsman. owner NJ the Memphis
Red Sox baseball team, announced
this week the opening OF his free
clinic to Race patrons.
Every Thursday the patients I'M
able to pay are admitted for a
free physical examination. The new
clinic is located on Beale street
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-11-11

RICHMOND. Va Nov. l0-ln In
midst OF a narrowing period of
orieniation, freshmen at Virginia.
Union were given brief respite
when President and Mrs-Clark gave
a social in their honor Friday, Oct.
81, at their home en- the campus.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-11-11

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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-11-11

taps to the tune
OF w h e n /
Grow Too Old
10 Dream" and
does he use his
feet and it's
no LAY dead
stuff either. The
tap walk is ter
rife and has the
crowd going for
1t heavily, 10
give him an en-
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and did all right
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ATTENTION BASKETBALL
TEAMS

II there are any teams in the city
who would like their club notes
printed in the Michigan Chronicle,
write Jim Butler, sports editor, at
1858 Eliot street, and we will be
glad to do il for you,
Have all OF your sports news in
by Monday noon. Get a head start
in your new season
STATE LEAGUE STARTS DEC.
All teams interested in entering
the State Basketball league had bet.
ter hurry The league starts its
games December l Under the gen.
ial auspices Of scholarly Joe Du-
plessis, Shelton Johnson, Edgar
Brazilton and Stanley Evans, tho
Michigan League Basketball COM
mittee, this years playing will top
every season the organization has
ever had.
In 1888 the committee held -their
games N two days and decided the
state champions on the night " the
second day Time works changes
This year the games viii spread over
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-11-11
Top Spots In
LIFE
ny LARRY CHIsM-

Was kindly assisted last Saturday
black on the Silly-Go-Round dig
gings by the better half. my girl
Sunday, the wife, who says:
AT MIDWAY CLUB
Clarence Metcalf, tap dancer do
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again.
Now on comes Dixie Brown with
Scenes Love and from the way
she sings something can be done
and you know what ] mean. She
wins a request to sing that old song
sender Of hers, well, All Right
and makes it all well all right.
Hazel Mickens came on with the
-Woodchoppers Ball and chopped,
chopped away until she got every
thing all shakish and very ready
est. Louis Blues was her encore
and how the crowd loved and went
for her torso twisting all slow and
sensuous like.
Tony and Rosita, sensational duo
doing that ever popular Para
disc Waltz. -eoursei-eFeFseRe
broke out with their claps OF APP
proval. and rewarded her muchly.
AS all things good must, the gay
spirited show came 10 a close. Those
doing ups and downs here were:
Constance Thomas, Lacy Jones,
Margaret Louis. Robert Moore, Rena
Smith. Marion Rivers, Mr., and Mrs,
Williams. Ivry Louis, Ward Lamb,
and Adgie Bell
Lucky Hill and his lads still swing
out goodly with your favorite
tunes as Tuxedo Junction" and
over the Rainbow with an ar
rangement by Benedict Arnold The
boys have a new tune called
Hastings Skrontch." a solid send
or Of jumpin' music notes.
Viola Mitchner, Elizabeth Hen
derson, Mr.. and Mrs. James Col
ward Chronicle circulation man
sger) were also making merry at
the Midway club.
Yours truly bess permission to
digress from his usual columnins
for a short time and write:
OF HAPPINESS
or what is happiness? This, I
think, is the satisfaction OF ones
life work well done. the accumula-
ton Of money just above abject
poverty, and that sense Of physical
and mental well being resulting
from living with a loving and con-
genial mate.
To me these are the substance
OF happiness.
What thing in life offers one-half
the mental peace spiritual comfort
as does that of doing ones life
work well? For it is only through
making the most OF our individual
talents that we shall ever know the
Undesirable JOY OF living great
life. It is only through our own
efforts and achievements born IN
the hours OF desperate need ana
miserable poverty. that we VIII ever
know and seeming hours OF nom
progress in off chosen field that we
vii! ever Know the sweet glorious
Joy OF having made worthwhile
contribution to the world OF man
aae -:aas knox o. that -mmeasnr=
able satisfaction born OF doing ones
life work well, One essential to
happiness.
5000 --rt - ,tan 1f,sFrr nr
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Worn like a wrist watch. a memaran-
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paper on rollers has been invented by
a resident Of Topeka, Kaus.
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when choosing mate. Look deep
into the heart. soul and mind Of
that prospective life partner. Docs
that inner beauty appeal to your
spiritual self as forcefully as that
outward beauty?
Man was not created 10 live alone,
But TO become a partner to that
other person created for himself,
alone. Dare to, believe this. What
greater joy, peace, contentment and
happiness is there in life other than
that resulting from the serenity and
harmony with life which results
from a physical, mental and spiri-
tual unity found in a home where
love and congeniality of life part
ners is maintained? For no greater
JOY comes 10 man, than love a con-
genial partner and a home.
Thus. if one knows the satisfac-
ton Of his life work well done, re-
fuses TO worship the god of finances
and knows all those things found
in a congenial life partnership, there
is nothing more he can ask Of fife.
He needs nothing, desires nothing,
except TO retain what he now pos
sesses the greatest happiness
life offers to any man.
AND so
Am surprised to learn there are
so many Juanitas here and about,
reading my efforts at verse, Won
dering to whom they were dedi-
Gated and so, to clarity the
various situations which have come
TO my ears, l say those mus
ings were all to Juanita, my de-
voted Girl Sunday, my wife {.
and so.
SOME STUFF
Wonder what can be done to
teacA husbands, lovers to respect
their women when out in public
places? James Drake and old
KOH brother from Bloomington,
Ind, dropped in on yours truly,
plans 10 make his home here. And
says Ted Mckee Maurice Thorpe,
Glenn Ramey and Harbie Hall, all
the old gang are still making good
at the Graham hotel Il used to be
-sae-et the-boyS there.
BRoAD'S GRILL
Jumped into this spot with Al
Roman, fellow columnist and my
girl Sunday to dig what turned out
to be a good, laughable and enter
tanning show. Peggy Joyce stills
gets raves of praise Tor her risque-
gay numbers such as My Handy
Man" and You Gotta Use Sci
ence' wonder where she gets
those crowd pleasing ditties? {.
all of them seem rightly appreciated
at this spot
Willard Davenport, an old timer,
billed as King Of Liars" comes on
with some nice, but old jokes, new
ertheless winning a big hand, DR.
Skuntum is his stage name from
days Of old. He revived the days
Tor minstrelsy with his biackfacc
| comedy.
Band maestro and arranger Reu-
ben Evans was all too kind ii
dedicating a number My Prayer
to yours truly. Thanks old man
Yours truly really enjoys watching
a master at work, even that Evan.
guy at his piano.
Top mistress Of the taps wouli
be an appropriate billing for Lowell!
Lorraine Baker, whose shapelines
enhances the artistry of her to-
dancing. She was warmly mite,
to get two encores. Trixie was ais
what the boys liked, shaking, sway
ing and giving out body dancin
with vim, vigor and eye appeal
Having d good time her
were: Mr.. and Mrs. Arnold Ora
ham. Elizabeth, Gertrude, and Doro
thy Weaver tsuperfine talenO, Ethe
Lee, Lucille Ramsey, Susie Thomp
son, Katherine Raye, La Jeann
Mayheld, George Jones, Margi,
Johnson, Andrew Ramsey and S,
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Send no money. Pay postman only $50
when oxidized silver charm. wishing rules
and good luck formulas arrive. Don't vsit.
address IMP-o-LucK CO.. Room CD.
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Some OF the fans around Detroit
believe that the Pioneer star half
back, Wilbert King, is a finer foot
ball player than Jefferson.
THANKSGIVING NIGHT
Sometime Thanksgiving evening
two Of Motor city's basketball teams
with start the cage-season. Detroits
representative team in the Mid
west Basketball league will take
on the devil-may-care Harlem
Globe Trotters on the Brewster Re-
creation center hardwood floor.
Great Lakes Big Five who sent fans
bowling with delight last year will
play a tough game in Cleveland,
Ohio
Coach Leon c Wheeler, remark
able moulder Of new talent, has sent
tout numerous cails- for new blood
for the Detroit representative team
and has gotten just about enough
amateur talent 10 make the game
hard for the New York fellows. For
all OF you stay-at-home Thanks
giving day basketball fans thi.
should make nice game for yot
to shout your big dinner-trouble,
down.
OF course. II any Of you are II
the neighborhood OK Cleveland ant
would like 10 see the team tina
beat the worlds champion Celtic
) it would brighten up your evening
to watch the Great Lakes Big Five
! No paper-hoops in this game from
start to finish. There will be thrill
/. a mile-a-minute because that i
how the Detroit boys click Las
Thanksgiving when they played III.
College All-Stars at Forest club tn,
game went into two overtime pc
RODS before the Lakes boys woi
4he uN1tvaWraath
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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-11-11

Clear the tracks for the Pioneers
big Thanksgiving day football game,
which should be one OF the widest
dog fights in the history OF foot
ball playing in this town.
Head-man Dwight Nutall who is
making plans 10 bring the Chicago
Brown Bombers here against his
proud Pioneers so far is taking it
on the chin. Down in the Pioneers
huddle with all their stars OF city
and southern colleges there is little
doubt in their minds that meeting
the blazing Chicago team, led by
Bernard jefferson OF Northwestern
university fame, would indeed be a
pleasure.
Already the team has drawn a
schedule including five top-notch
outfits, and for their first season
no other aggregation in the United
States faces a more difficult assign
ment Dwight Nutall and his part
ner in this football business, Mr..
Penn, have had the men out tear
ing down the gridiron from noon to
sunset Saturday and Sunday, build
ing them higher and stronger IN
man-power. Now the prancing Pho
neers with heads lowered and mean
looks in their eyes are ready for
any team that invades their battle
ground.
Evening star., 1939-09-05

bile headlights look like moving
candles. Traffic lights are reduced
to very faint red or green crosses at
street corners. Folks try to read
street directions with the lighted
ends of cigarettes. One gets lost
quickly, as in very dark, dense for
est, with only few Pickering fire.
flies to relieve the gloom.
Far above, inspiring confidence
are the silver bulldogs of the stars,
a great Gordon of balloons COM
pletely surrounding London. One
can see them standing motionless
between Mars and the moon, be-
tween the Pleiades and Orion. At
dawn, the sentries are there, guard
ing the red roads of the sunrise
leading out of Germany across the
clouds. They are grim, silent watch
ers from the turrets of the sunset.
Lond0ners take no chances, nor
do the visiting Americans. The first
real air-raid alarm, at 2:3O am,
Monday, had the hotel bedrooms
and the streets OF Piccadilly emptied
within five minutes. In the shelters,
men and women sat quietly in ali
sorts OF disarray, but without the
slightest sign of hysteria. Nor, dur
ing the hour they stayed there, was
there any levity.
Perhaps the most remarkable fea-
ture of this whole war is the COM
plete lack of animosity with which
Britain has gone into it. have yet
to hear one word of enmity for any
human being in Germany, except
for one man and his closest asso-
ciateS,
Evening star., 1939-09-05
Puriis
Continued From First Page. }

one end of the line to the other they
have shown perfect calm and fine
valor"
Sirens walled on top of Paris
buildings at 3:35 o'clock this morn
ing (9:35 pm. Monday, E. S. t..
Parisians fully expected bomb
ing expedition. now that the French
army and artillery have opened fire
in the east. But the planes did not
appear over the city. Flying high,
they were understood to have
passed over Charleville, in the Ar
dennes Department of Northern
France, near the Belgian border.
Soon after the alarm first sound
ed an artificial fog was released by
Paris anti-aircraft defense forces.
1t hung over the city so thick it
obscured bright moon and hid
Paris from any attacking aircraft.
The alarm was not lifted until long
after dawn, at 7:05 am. CLOS am,
E. S. TD.
Authorities suggested the German
planes might have been en- route
to scout the disposition of French
and British forces along the Eng
Hsh Channel.
French Planes Have Secuted.
The French air force already has
been active scouting the German
Siegfried line for weaknesses and
observation secrets that were closed
to it until late Sunday, when the
war legally began.
A terse French general staff COM
munique last night said contact
has been made on the front" with
the Germans. French sources said
this indicated the French troops
had taken few advance positions
probably under a preliminary ar
tillery barrage. But along the hun
dreds of miles separating France
and Germany fighting was report
ed at minimum.
Informed private sources said
they believed key points in the
French attack were the Burgundy
/ Gate" between the Vosges Noun
tins and the Alps, just north of the
three-cornered junction of France,
Germany and Switzerland, and
along the Moselle Valley at the
northernmost end of the French
German frontier.
Follows Obvious Lines.
Thus far, French and British
military activity has followed the
most obvious lines: The British sea
blockade and attacks against Ger
many's North Sea ports, and
Frances advance, with its land force
of up to 100000 men, to the
eastern front and its own fortifca-
tions, the $500 900, 900 25O-mile Magi-
not line.
Military observers described the
movement of the French Army as
an attempt at a double thanking
attack on German positions along
the Rhine. They said, too, the navy
was moving into position in the
Western Mediterranean to protect
essential lines of communication
with North Africa.
Many experts recognize the Magi-
not line, originally designed to de-
fend France, as a perfect base"
from which France can take the
offensive.
Evening star., 1939-09-05

the appointment of three ministers:
w. S. Morrison, minister of food;
Ronald HILBERT Cross, minister of
economic welfare, and Lord MacMil-
Ian, minister of information.
Ernest Brown was reappointed
minister of labor and national
service.
The British Board of Trade au-
thorized the appointment of food
control committees throughout the
country.
Pledges Of Loyalty.
Pledges of support came to the
British government from various
sections OF the far-hung empire yes
terday.
On the other hand the informa-
ton ministry in London announced
the government had accepted an
offer from the Nepal government of
5000 soldiers for service in India
during the war.
The ministry said the internment
of Germans in Tanganyika (near
German East Africa was going for
ward.
There is no hint of resistance"
said a ministry statement, "and it
appears none will resist. Nazi propa-
ganda of the last few years has not
taken effect on the 1000 Germans in.
the territory"
The Emir of Transjordan, it was
announced, has expressed his
"wholehearted loyalty and that Of
his people"
Evening star., 1939-09-05
Cordenus Affirms
Mexico's Neutrality
BY the Associated Press

by tne Associated PreSS.
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 5.-Mexico's S
neutrality was affirmed last night
by President Lazaro Cardenas, who
said it "is source of profound re-
gret that a group of nations .. I.
had to resort to combat to seek a
solution Of their differences.
Asked if he did not think the
European war would affect Mexico's s
sales abroad of the oil it expropri-
ated, President Cardenas replied:
Yes, it is possible But in these
moments we are more concerned
with the serious consequences of
war to the fighting nations directly
and for all humanity indirectly"
Informed quarters said the war
had stopped Mexican shipments of
oil to Germany, which has sent
machinery and supplies to Mexico
in exchange for oil under barter
deal.