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The voice of labor., 1940-05-23
Ken Overlin to
Take on Garcia
Tomorrow Night

Two months ago Cumber-
lands "Cauliflower row" saw
one Of the greatest exhibitions
ever given in this city. They
saw a big broadback named
Ken Overlin knock out Jimmy
Lynch but the manner in which
he did it left them rubbing their
eyes in amazement. They saw
him "toy" with Lynch for FIVE
rounds, like a cat toys with a
mouse, and then they blinked
in astonishment as the ex-sailor
suddenly "opened up" and
kayoed his foe. So what?
Just this: Ken Ovelin fights
Ceferino Garcia tomorrow night
in Madison Square Garden. New
York. for the championship OF the
world Middleweighp and when
the time for the battle 90 p. m.
EDST) rolls around. local fight
fans will glue their ears to their
radios. pulling all the way for an
Overin victory.
Gave Real Show
When Overlin appeared here he
gave the fans. sports writer's.
promoters and everybody else a
real show. Usually. when a first
class fighter meets a mediocre OPP
ponent they knock them out as
quickly as possible in order to get
the thing over with
But not so with Overlin. He
could have. had he so desired.
pulverized Mr.. Lynch with one
single punch in the very first
round. But Overlin knew that the
spectators came to see him put
on a show" and he obliged with an
exhibition that will linger long
in the minds OF the persons who
saw it.
For four or five rounds he boxed
beautifully. sidestepping. occa-
sionally jabbing and ducking. BY
the time the sixth round arrived
he decided it was about time to
show off his wares and show them
off he did. No sooner had the bell
rung in the sixth when he pro-
ceeded to clip Mr.. Lynch with
death-raining blows. Thereafter.
1t didn't take him long to measure
out his opponent. So much for
that.
Hellingcr Picks Him
Speaking Of the Garcia Over
lin fight tomorrow night (Fri-
day. many Cumberlanders are
under the impression that Ken
doesn't have a chance. JUS
where they got imbued witt
that idea is not known; neither
is it disclosed who impaired
"such stuff" The real story j:
that Overlin does have a chance
and a good one, at that. True,
he'll 60 into the ring on the
short end of the odds but there
are many experts picking him to
win, among them the celebra,-
ed Mark Hellinger, who thinks
Overlin will take the crown
by a knockout.
Garcia, the Filipino, has a
splendid record but he'll need
that record to beat Overlin.
The voice of labor., 1940-05-23
Track Meet Attracts

With Fargo as the scene and
over 5000 boys and girls as
the participants, Allegany
County's annual two-day track
and field meet was ushered in
this morning before a tire.
mendous crowd. Elementary
engagements sent the event
underway at 10 o'clock but the
much. h.heralded track contests
were not scheduled to start un-
Ill well-past noon. Virtually
$500 contestants are entered
in today's events and with
1000 more booked for the
junior-senior high school COM
petition tomorrow friday a
new all-time record will have
been set.
The voice of labor., 1940-05-23
Children Also

Children. beginners and ad-
vanced pupils are accepted for in
struction on Wednesdays p. M.
to 6 p. NJ: Thursdays 10 A. M.
and Saturdays 10 A. M. to 3 p. M.
at the Dingle Courts. It is not
necessary TO be a member OF the
Dinglc Liun TO enron Tor iIistruc-
tions but there is no fee for in
struction to Dingle Club members.
A practice board is available to
correct faults and promote ac-
curacy in driving and execution Of
strokes.
Practice game drills for boys
and girls take out the drudgery Of
preliminary work.
Mr.. Van SAINT can be contacted
either at the Dingle Courts during
instruction times or at 2l9 Greene
Street. Cumberland. Phone 493.
The voice of labor., 1940-05-23
5Q.l;{ER
HERE AND THERE ALONG
THE RIALTG OF SPORTS
BY JACK GALLEN

Pttsburghs Bunging Bucs bungng again and this time
Smokeown ferocous wolves long for their bois-
barking. have right bark For If ball club
folded up like antique accordion it's the Pittsburgh Pirates
of o40 Early in the spring looked like Aosy frankie Fsch
had popped EN- up with a shot of Dr. Smiths tonic
but evidently the remedy worked Instead of
tang them it made them and today, while the be-
leagered Bucs along Pittsburgh fans becoming
wilder than bunch of gangers in a Chicago cabaret
The voice of labor., 1940-05-23
College Hurting
Marvel Goes to
Mack's Athletics

RICHMoNDA. Va. May 23-The
Philadelphia Athletics have signed
another pitcher He is Porter
Vaughan. great University Of Rich
mond southpaw. who will join the
American League club late next
month. So fine is his fiinging that
Connie Mack has given him an
outright guarantee that he will
not farm him out. an unusual
procedure for a major league club.
Mack watched the young left
handler work out in Philadelphia
last summer and compared him
with tho great Herb Pennock
when the latter was Just ready
to break into the big time. Waugh
an is expected to report to
Philadelphia after receiving his
b. A. degree next month.
Three Earned Runs
Vaughan's record in 10 college
contests. including relief roles.
showed 81 innings pitched during
which he allowed % hits and only
three earned runs while chalking
up SO strikeouts. Last summer he
played semi-pro ball with San
ford. N. c.. team and won IA
straight games. Prior to coming
to the University he had very
little experience but under the
coaching OF Mac Pitt. he deve-
loped In to one OF the best south
crn stars.
Vaughan has a great curve bail.
fine change of pace and unu
sually good control. And that's
about all pitcher needs these
days in order to get by. On top
OF that he has lots of ambition
and the will to win. Put all these
factors together and YOU have the
masings OF what may turn out 10
be a real star.
Better Than Hash"
Richmond University is the
school that sent Herb Hash TO the
Boston Red Sox and Jack San
ford to the Washington Senators
but Southern baseball followers
rate Vaughan a better prospect
than both of those boys. And If
he's really that good then Connie
Mack will be getting sometime
worth while because Mr.. Hash IS
doing a whale of a Job OF relief
pitching this season for the Red
SoX. Joe Cronin's staff is nothing
TO write home about and the SoX
boss time and again has been
called upon to send fireman Hash
TO the scene to put out the blazeS.
oh yes. lest you forget. Waugh
ans team won the Southern Con-
ference baseball championship
this year for the first time in
history
The voice of labor., 1940-05-23
Fake Lottery Tickets
Are Seized in Boston

BOSTON. Mass. May 23.-An
effort to "hoodwink the public
was discovered here this week
when $4,000 fake horse race lot
terry tickets. which came through
the mails from Canada. we're
seized by local postal inspectors.
The lottery was to be run for
the benefit OF the alleged lictional
Provincial Society for Assistance
to the Blind of Quebec. the postal
authorities said. A total OF ST.
100000 in prizes was to be given
away on a race at Arlington Park,
July 20. according to printed mat
ter on the tickets.
The voice of labor., 1940-05-23
MOCULS CONNIVINC

The time for the staging Of
open air bouts Is not too distant
ard local boxing addicts who
visualize cards featuring first
class fighters are not far from
right because II Tommy Nfaus
and Leonard Chick Little have
their way land they do have
their way in things pugilisticl
scme scintilating seekers will
appear here. For it's no secret
that Maus and his newest As
sociatc are conniving to bring
in either Pedro Montanez.
Henry Armstrong or Fritz Zivic.
This means something.
All arc plums off a tree. Mon
tanez and Zivic have been ripe
fruit for years. while Armstrong
1t need not be said. is cock % the
walk in two divisions. A card in
volving any Of the three men,
toned fighters would suffice to
make the turnstiles click.
The voice of labor., 1940-05-23
CABS AND CUSHES

Amt this something! Talk
about the boys In the hinter-
lands. Willie Hoppe. worlds s.
cushion billiard king. goes them
one better! He's Sc years old
and has never driven an auto
mobile or attended a motion
picture show.
Which Just goes to show that all
the recluses are not IN the noun
tains. Last week we "penned" a
statement to the effect that
Charley Gilbert. rage of Brook
lyn's baseball gentry. played
against the Cumberland Ameri-
can Legion club in Chicago back
in 1896. But Shake" Clark.
who should know says that Ken
Rafiensberger. now chucking for
The voice of labor., 1940-05-23


the Chicago Cubs and chucking
we'll. hurled and lost a 2-i deci-
sion to the local Legionaires for
a Pennsylvania team. But Clark
supplements this statement with
these words. HE was the best
pitcher We faced throughout the
tournament and even then he
showed signs OF going places" ="
Johnny Casey. Keyser finger.
curled UP the Colts last Sunday
like a crew Of contortionists.
Paul Derrlnger. Cincinnati's
big buckaroo OF the turtlcback.
knows how 10 hit the bull's-eye.
In five years he has Annie Oak.
lied only $50 batters. an average
Of but one pass to every six in
nings. II that isn't a worlds
record then Adolf Hitler be-
lieves In democracy.
Derringer. incidentally. rates
Johnny Mize's eye the best in the
business. Tess that guy a ball
just an inch outside the plate and
all he does is look at It" says the
Redleg sizzler. The Washing
ton Senator's could use a couple
OF blokes like DerrinVer.
So far this season Clark Grif-
fiths' "Agonizers" of the mound
have been wilder than a bunch Of
Dictators. In one game they kept
the fans in the stands all after
noon by walking fifteen batters.
Klouting Kenneth Ovelin is
on the threshold of fame and
glory. This swarthy Socker Of
Fistiana may see long-cherished
ambition realized Friday night
when he encounters the Flogger Of
the Philippines-ceferino Garcia.
II he (Overlin) wins he'll become
the worlds brand new middle
weight sultan. And don't think.
for one moment. that he doesn't
have a chance. Garcia. Of course.
is the prevailing favorite but few
newspapermen are thinking the
other way. Mark Hellinger is one
of them. He likes Overlin by the
K.O. route.
Vito Tamulis. the Lithuanian
Lancer Of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
still corresponds regularly with
some Of the friends he made
when he chucked for the Colts
back In the halycon days Of the
Middle Atlantic League. All of
which means that the vigorous
Vito. In spite Of the fact that
he's "up" In the rainbow divi.
sion." hasn't contracted an ex-
panding head.
'Tis being said and openly. too.
that Tommy Maus and Chick
Little are seriously thinking about
bringing in Pedro Montanez or
Fritzie Zivic for an outdoor box
ing fiesta here this summer. That
should be good news to those who
like their leather-throwing.
They're still abiding tor the early
season catastrophe OF the Yankees.
Latest is. they're too wealthy
Ho, hum
The voice of labor., 1940-05-23
Auto Union
Wins 53rd
GIN Plant

Hyattsville, N. j.. May 49,
A 976-3i8 Labor Board election
victory at the Hyatt Roller Bear
ing plant Of General Motors to-
day gave the cIo United Auto
mobile Workers exclusive bar
gaining rights in its 53rd GIN
plant.
The UAW-CIo swept 40 plant
The voice of labor., 1940-05-23

elections liz last months big
NLRB vote. and had previously
been certified for three plants Of
the company in Oakland. Calf.
Three other run-on elections are
TO be held soon.
The Hyatt victory was a tribute
TO careful organizing work in re-
cent months.
The voice of labor., 1940-05-23

BELLEVILLE. N.J.-CFP)-The
United Electrical. Radio and Ma.
chine Workers tCIo) won an
NLRB election May II at the To-
cal lamp works of the westing-
house Electric g. Mfg. Co. by lo1
TO a.. bringing to II the number
OF Westinghouse plants where the
UERMW is certified.
The voice of labor., 1940-05-23
TRAYNoR'S LOUD LAUGH

To Traynor today's rout Of the
Pirates must be amusing indeed.
While Frisch's headaches on the
ball field grow bigger and bigger
Traynor can sit complacently in
his easy chair. far removed from
the scene Of battle. and to him.
self say. Il wonder II they're blam-
ing me for this. too?"
Frisch is an adept manager. He
knows the game and all that goes
with it. But it'll take more than
good pilot to steer the Bucs
right. The general opinion is that
the Pirates long have been over
rated. that they neve: had a first
class ball club and that Traynor.
in spite of the protests and storms
that followed him for years. was
an able adjutant of the diamond.
Events as they are transpiring
today in the National League. and
particularly in Pittsburgh. throw
weight behind the latter state
ment.
The voice of labor., 1940-05-23
Denied

The parrot was sound asleep in
its cage. so Sandy got a big East
er egg and put 1t inside. Then
he woke the parrot UP. The par
rot took one look at the egg and
said: That's a lie."
The voice of labor., 1940-05-23
Nobody Satisfied

Il am going to see the doctor
about my wife. I don't like the
way she looks
"I'll go along with you. don't
like the looks OF mine either"
The voice of labor., 1940-05-23
Challenged

Judge: do you challenge any
OF the jury?"
Defendant: "Well. l think I can
lick that little guy on the end"
The voice of labor., 1940-05-23
No Danger

An elderly lady motorist was
recently driving along a country
road when she spied a couple Of
repairmen climbing q telephone
The voice of labor., 1940-05-23
Polite

Housewife: IF I give you a
dime. will you spend It on drink"
Tramp: well. II you insist"
The voice of labor., 1940-05-23

"Fools!" she exclaimed to her
companion. They must think I
never drove before"
The voice of labor., 1940-05-23

For years and years the base
ball brethren Of Pittsburgh and
other cities made it an express
point to blame Pie" Traynor.
ousted last year as manager. for
the poor showing of their club.
Every time the team lost a game
IL was Traynor's fault. I'VE need
a new manager. they shouted and
the chorus grew so loud and so
consistent that the owners decided
to take heed to the c:amor Of the
masses. So they appointed frankie
Frisch as commander -in-chief Of
the Pittsburgh forces.
The guardian., 1940-12-14
$l52 Saxaphone
Stolen From Locker

Frank Stokes, Jr. freshman at
Boston English High School was heart
broken over the loss of his saxophone
given to him by his father for his ex-
celent musical ability. The instrument
which cost one hundred and ffty-two
dollars was stolen from his locker which
was pried open with an iron bar. The
bar was left by the thief. Altho the
entire case was hushed up your Guar
dian reporter found out that fifteen
similar cases allegedly have been re
ported to the school authorities, so far
this year. Clothes and other valuables
have been missing from the locker
rooms for the past few years.
The police, notified by Franks
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Stokes, of
Westminster St., Roxbury, are using
every medium possible to recover the
instrument. Before his graduation
last June, young Frank was lauded by
the Prince School for his musical abil-
ity and he was the only colored member
of the school band.
The guardian., 1940-12-14
BeantOWn Amateur
Show A Success

Friday evening Roxbury held its
first major silver dollar amateur show
at Butler Hall when twenty-five silver
dollars were awarded by City Coun-
cllIor Daniel F. Sullivan of Ward Nine
who donated the money.
This amateur show also marked the
first time in ward nine that a city
councillor took such part in this
section of the ward, showing his social
as well as civic interest. James Ingram,
popular Roxbury boy, and Arthur
Williams, recreation official were the
managers Of this major event. Oswald
Thomas, local civic leader was in
charge Of the additions.
The opening curtain found Roy
Evans and his orchestra playing a
popular tune of the day after which
Louis Lou" Ransom, Guardian re-
porter, came on the stage and took over
the mike" Lou received a tremen-
Continued on Page ~
The guardian., 1940-12-14

An audience of 5000 heard the
''Wings Over Jordan" choir in a con
cert in Mechanics Hall, Huntington
Avenue, last Thursday night.
The appearance Of the celebrated
chorus was under the joint sponsorship
of Union Baptist Church, Cambridge,
Rev. F. Havis Davis, pastor, and
Peoples Baptist Church, Boston, Rev.
Richard M. Owens, pastor. The sing
ers appeared in concert in Symphony
Hall about year ago and were greeted
by an overAowing audience. It was
decided then and there that a larger
hall would be required for any subse-
quent concert by the popular radio
singers who are on the air every Sun
day morning.
The members of the choir, with the
manager, Rev. Glenn T. Settle, and
Worth Kramer, conductor, all hail
from Cleveland, Ohio, where Rev
Settle is pastor of a thriving church
Most of those attending Thursday
nights concert came from Local
churches and were highly appreciative
of the selections rendered, mostly the
The guardian., 1940-12-14
Band, MUSIC
and DANCE FOR
372ND PARTY

Tasker Crosson, his Twelve States
men, with Miss Alice Rollins, vocalist,
nave agreed to provide dance music
tor the 372nd Third Battalion Party.
Martial and Introductory music will
be provided by the best military band
IN the First Corps area-the Third
Battalion's own 372nd Band, under
leader Ray Sheldon.
Dec. 9th Date
The fifth meeting of the party Fare
well committee held last Wednesday
at 464 Mass. Ave. Headquarters, pro-
Vlded the above definite features out
OF long list of volunteer talent. Ad-
dItional features will be ironed out by
the next meeting, Wednesday night,
Dec. 18, at 8 pm.
Another capacity attendance discus
sed he possibility of advancing the
party date to February and a fair
discussion from the floor of all angles
was held with the measure being de-
feated by a large majority. The op-
position to the change felt that the
9npredictable rapid changes of the
War Department made any postpone
ments bad risk. Also it was revealed
that the Armory, now being donated
might not be available again at a
Continued on Page A.
The guardian., 1940-12-14
Old Co. I Saw Action
In Latin America

This is the fourth of series of
articles dealing with Colored Ameri-
cans in the Massachusetts State
Militia.
By THE ROVER
The 372nd Third Battalion of
Massachusetts, is, as everyone knows,
built upon the firm foundation of Old
Company L. Old Company L was first
assigned to the Sixth Regiment of
Infantry, white, Mass. State Volunteer
Militia, in 1878-sixty- years ago.
This famed company can trace it's
history through the Civil War, the
Spanish-American War, and the First
World War-enough war for anybody.
Dates to 1863
The pioneers of Old Company L
seem to have been a hardy lot and
were first known as an unattached
company in 1865. We find the same
unit known as the 14th Company un-
attached, Mass. Volunteer Militia in
1864 and as Company A, Second Bat
TALON Inf. M.V.M. still later in 1866.
In fact, the men seem to have taken
a lott of tossing around and they lost
out entirely in the April of 1876. Their
outfit was disbanded but they refused
to quit. Back they came the follow
The guardian., 1940-12-14

ing year as another unattached COM
pany, part of the First Brigade,
M.V.M. But such military loyalty won
its reward.
In 1915, the following year, our
much detached colored unit was res
cued and designated as Company L,
Mass. Sixth Regiment, M.V.M.
It's been Company L ever since.
In Spanish War
In 1898 the entire Sixth Mass. Sixth
Regiment, including Company L, was
federalized and mustered into the us
Army as the Sixth Infantry Mass.
Volunteers. 'Colored and white
Americans fought together.
This was the occasion of the Span
ish- American war in which Colored
soldiers and sailors conducted them
selves with undying valor 1t set a
precedent in sending U. S. armed
forces abroad and is related to present
U. S. plans in the fortifcation and de-
fense of the Latin American countries
which figured in the Spanish war.
The Spanish war showed the U. s..
Colored soldier at his best
At Porto Rico
The Caribbean Sea is stretch of
CONTINUED on Page 4l
The guardian., 1940-12-14
TEXAS EDITOR
THROWN In JAIL
SOUFHERNERS NOW USE PONCE
FORCE

BEAUMONT, Texas-Carter Wes-
ley, militant Colored publisher of the
leading chain of Colored Texas news
papers was jailed here overnight.
Defeated Garner
Friends of Wesley, who is known as
one of the race champion editors of
the South, attribute the latest arrest
to white opposition using the policewho
have molested the man before. Last
May, the famous editor was attacked
and arrested by police who halted his
car on the highway as they did here
A revenge motive is seen. Editor
Wesley used his chain of newspapers
to stop the presidential nomination of
Vice-President John Nance Garner.
Wesley is now waging a campaign
to secure voting privileges for colored
southerners who have long beendenied
the ballot.
Latest source of trouble is Editor
Wesley's battle to keep colored south
erners from losing their homes
through federal housing when and if
no suitable new living areas are pro-
vided.
The guardian., 1940-12-14
ATTY. HOUSTON
SPEAKS SUNDAY
at COMM UNITY Oh,

"The Race Problem and Western
Hemisphere Defense" will be the sub
ject of an address by Charles H. Hous-
ton, Special Counsel for the National
Association for the Advancement of
ColOred People, at the morning service
of The Community Church of Boston at
Symphony Hall, Sunday, December Is,
at 10;3O. Mr.. Houston is a graduate
of Amherst College and Harvard Law
School, member of the editorial board
of the Harvard Law Review, Sheldon
Travelling Fellow, and Vice-Dean of
Howard University. He has been a
member of the Board of Education for
the District of Columbia, where he now
lives.
Mr.. Houston is a member of the
National Lawyers Guild, International
Juridicial Association, Nat. Bar Asso-
citation and the national committee of
the American Civil Liberties Union
During the World War he served as a
first lieutenant in the Infantry'Reesrve
and later as a second lieutenant in the
Field Artillery, and went overseas with
the A.E.F. He made this change to a
lower rank as part of the struggle to
obtain Colored officers in the Field Ar
tillery. In recent years he has been
active in the fight to integrate colored
men into all branches of the armed
forces.
The guardian., 1940-12-14
Wis Our Country, Too"
Says WaIfer White

in both the military and industrial de-
tense services, While says that national
colored organizations such as his own
have accumulated files full of case
records and put the problem in the No.
l position on their fighting agenda.
Citing the unsuccessful efforts that
have been made to date, Mr.. White
states, " the fight for the right to
fight has only started. 1t will continue
till, all along the line, colored citizens
receive their fair share in the task of
national defense"
The guardian., 1940-12-14

personnel become available. Colored
selectees will be inducted from Febru-
ary to June at rate which will guar
antee the correct ratio among those
selected for Army training under the
Act"
AS the 1880 census showed 81 per-
cent of the population to be Colored
between $4,000 and 5000 colored will
be among the 100000 Selective Service
selectees to be inducted into the armed
forces in the next six months, Mr..
Dykstra said.
Equal Training
"The Army is providing equal facili-
ties for white and colored selectees,
Colonel William H. Draper, Jr., War
Continued on Page 4)
The guardian., 1940-12-14

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-"From the
man-power angle, the largest defense
headache ahead of the United States
Government is likely to be the status
of that 10 per cent of our population
which is colored. The Colored Ameri-
can insists upon doing his part, and
the Army and Navy want none of him.
writes Walter White, Secretary of the
National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People in the current
issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
Charging wholesale determinations