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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-25
Open Sea Swimmer
 To Tempt. Sharks

Aboard the schooner sea Breeze off Bimini, B. w. l.. March 25.--- (UP) )-Paul Chotteau. French dist ance swimmer. slipped into the water at 7:08 q. m. today, starting hisa attempt to swim II miles iii tho Atlantic Ocean from Bimini tu West Palm Beach, Fla.
 His body coated with grease iil which lamRp black had been mixed to keep sharks away, Chotteail swung into his unorthcdox crawl stroke and began heading due West The Gulf stream current. estimated at four miles an hour. was expec. cd to carry him north of q due-wesl course.
 The water was about 78 degrees and Chotteau yelled to his convoy thnt he felt fine.
 An hour and quarter after the start Chotteau was about three and a half miles Of Biminl, making good speed through smooth water.
 A dory. manned by two men whc will feed Chotteau at intervals and will keep Q lookout for sharks and barracuda, moved alongside him. PUCK UP EARLIER at Srd pCH <.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-25
Hoppe Unbeaten
 In World Three Cushion Play

Chicago, March 25.-(UP)-Willie Hoppe, New York, remained the only undefeated contestant in the worlds championship three-c -cush- ion billiards oturnament today after extending his winning record to 10 games with a 50-48 victory over Ar- thur Rubin. New York.
 Jay Bozeman, Vallejo, Cal, de- feated Allen Hall, Chicago, 50-44 in 58 innings. Defending champion Welker Cochran, San Francisco. Cal, defeated Arthur Thurnblad, Kenosha, Wis, 50-46, in 58 innings. Otto Reiselt, Philadelphia, beat Johnny Layton, St. Louis, 50-3O. and Joe Chamaco, Mexico City, title claimant. defeated Tiff Denton, Kansas City. 50-44.
 Matches Today
 Reiselt vs. Rubin; Schaefer vs. Layton: Cochran vs. Hall; Bozeman vs. Denton: Hoppe vs. Chamaco.
 GVIsA EknyNHkvam .it
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-25
Mt. Ca1meI Pin PicknbS
Ny ANGELO MIRO

After 27 consecutive weeks of bowling, the Holy Name league has finally ended, and can truthfully say that I'm glad It's over. The an- nual sweepstakes which takes placc on the last night each year, was Q bit too close this time, but very exciting. Being on handicap basis, 34 men entered and the un- expected came through. It was "Buttsie" Cantucci who took first high three followed by Mike Stango who took over the second high three, and Pope" Martino who crashed his way to the high single mark.
 Now that bowling Is all over, more than 50 couples are anxiously await ing the annual banquet which will take place at the Quaker Inn on Watertown avenue on Saturday night, April 6. The feature of the evening will be the awarding of prizes to the different teams and individuals. Entertainment, dancing and speeches will also be on the pro- gram which is being especially pre- pared by the committee in charge of waich John Savino Is chairman. Below, are the names of all the prize winners in groups 1, 2 and g.. also the final standing of the teams. and last but not least, the final scores. Right now, this is Yours Truly" saying goodbye until Sep tember when the league is expected to resume its activities.
 Group
 High averages Anthony SaCco, Jerry Padulo, Robert Nelson.
 High three-Louis Grella, Michael Cipriano, Ed Laudati. High singles--Louis Rocco, R. Cappelletti, Frank Datelle.
 Group ?
 Sal 1ppolito, Pat Bredice, M. San tucci.
 High averages-Ralph rGanato, Pat Ciampi. Louis Celozzi.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-25
Reputable Group To Operate Bay State Dog Tracks

Revere, Mass, March 25--(UP)-- The newly formed Revere Racing Association headed by Edward M Gallagher, former president of the Boston City Council, today drew plans for summer meet ut Won- derland Park, the nations richest dog track. A @
 The organization, which replaces the Bay State and old Harbor Ken mel Clubs, was formed as result of Governor Leverett Saltonstall's s edict that Massachusetts dog tracks be operated only by reputable cit- lzens.
 Martin Hays, former Republican floor leader of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and four other majority stockholders of the Bay State group were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of attempted evasion of federal Income taxes totaling $l9.4S7. All subse- quenny pleaded innocent.
 Governor Says o. K.
 Merger of the two. corporations, WHICH COlluuCteQ races UI WotlueE- land under lease from the track, was announced Saturday. The merger carried the governors ap- proval.
 Ernest w. Scoucy, treasurer of the new group, is a former Harvard football player and prominent broker. Sheldon H. Fairbanks, widely-known sportsman. was nam- ed vice-president. Adnah Neyhart, clerk of the association. was orig inal secretary of the state racing commission.
 Though Hays passes out nomiIl- ally as . stockholder in the new corporation, his wife is listed as Q purchaser
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-25
Blessed Sacrament Midgets
 Win Second Hoop Trophy

The Blessed Sacrament 100-1b team retained the trophy awarded annually to the leading Midget team in the valley as they turned on enought steam early in the game to down the Boys Club Enkors 9 to l8 in the tournament final lasr night at the club. The Enkccrs fought hard in the second half but consis- tent long shooting by Req Bergln
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-25
SNOW STYMIES GOLF
 TOURNEY IN SOUTH

Greensboro, N. C.. March 2b. --- (UP)--Stymied temporarily by an unexpected blizzard. the second round of the qualifying 36 holes in the 72-hole $5,000 Greensboro open golf tournament was expected to start today.
 Yesterdays postponemont marked ths first time that . major golf tournament had been delayed be- cause of snow. PdA Tournament Manager Fred Coreoran announced.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-25

Chet Jawor best of half dozen eage-eyed baketeers the Joephs night enough small person. bow-egged in the awors gained national Island State looks like lad with junior around Ed oose krause looks like his father due to the difference size between hem yet they combination feeding" the little fellow the baskets with accuracy that uncanny 1t Is pleasant to watch.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-25
RED sOx

Sarasota. Fla, Mach 25--(UP)-- The Boston Red Sox, encouraged by Jim Bagby's sterling pitching per- formance, travel to BradentoWn to- day for an exhibition clash with the Boston Bees. Bagby hurled six hitless innings, and the Red Sox scored trio of runs in the sixth to defeat the New York Giants. 4.S. here yesterday, Lefty Bob Grove. 4o-year-old Red Sox Ace, was nicked for five hits in three innings, mak- ing his lo40 debut.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-25
EAGLES ELIMINATED

New Haven, Conn, March 25 --- (UP)--The New Haven Eagles were eliminated from the International American Hockey League playoffs last night by the Hershey Bears who ended the game 5-4.
 The Bears now meet Pittsburgh in the Semi-finals.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-25

given a
 
 Waterbury Fish Association "Wednesday the Waterbury Womens club George Mgan and Billy Carbon have been asked help provide vaudeville Chairman always prize
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-25
DENIED A CHANGE

Eddie Shore, highest salarietl player in hockey history. was turn. cd down by Frank Patrick In 1928 at Vancouver when he asked for Q chance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-25
SLOW HEART BEAT

Glenn Cunningham, mile runner, has an abnormally slow Heart beat--- ranging from 4B to 48 ns against co to 30 spread for the average man..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-25
7hiSSpOrting
 World
Monday SpOrts Wash
BY JOHN A. CLuNEY

Tough peace brought peace mind Tasto Maxi running protege of the famed PaaVo N Tasto Schwakopf in his first last the Michigan will be discovered Gatday line with NoT Dames MSG track Something tells
  1 tt Q battle to the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-25
ONLY TWO BREEDS

Only two strictly American breeds are recognized In dog shows -- tile Boston terrier and the ChOsapeAke Bay Retriever
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-25
ss,sO MINIMUM

American race trucks are required to buy e2.20 to show even though enough isn't bet to cover the pay- of.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-25
i5 PERFECT GAMES

Nelson Burton. former American Bowling Congress doubles chaIh- plon. has rolled flfteun perfect "S00H scores during his career
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-25
ANCIENT BREEDS

Among the ancient canine breeds arc the greyhound Peklnese. lmastiff, St, Bernard and the chow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-25
DISTINGUISHED MARE

Miss Bertha Dillon is the only mare that has produced three trot- ters having records of 200 or faster.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-25

Demand for American tobacco ln China has increased In the lest year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-25
Totals

Score at half time: Blessed sacs,, Il, Enkoors 2. Referee: Lamberti.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-25

Holy Manners Win
 Though Muddy Richards scored l6 points for the Wonder A. O.. of Torrington, the St. Joseph Holy Name lads won q 57 to 42 victory over the New City club In a high. scoring long range preliminary. Put zis. Vaitiakaitis, Adams and Meyers scored well for the winners.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-25
BEES

Bradenton, Fla, March 25-(UP) Lou Fette, ace righthander, was Manager Casey Stengel's choice to start for the Boston Bees in an ln- tra-city game with the Boston Red Sox here today. Outfielder Max west smashed three homers and two singles in five trips as tho Bees edged the Brooklyn Dodgers ll-l0, in n free-hitting game at Clearwater yesterday. Bob Loane and Heinie Majeski each made two safeties in the ls-hit Boston bar- age.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-25
--eaal@@-ss TANKS

St. Petersburg, Fla. March 25- (UP--The New York Yankees close the St. Petersburg chapter of their spring training, grind today when they meet the Kansas City Blues of the American Association. The Tanks break camp tomorrow and after playing the Giants in Winter Haven take up lodging in Sebring.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-25
At The Training
 Camps
By United Press GIANTS-CARNS

Winter Haven, Irla., March 25-- (UP--Winners of only four in Il ex- hibition starts, the New York Giants play the St. Louis Cardinals here today. The Boston Red Sox came from behiad yesterday to shade the Giants, 4-S, sharing one run in the third and three more In the sixth 10 win.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-25
IInlY NnmerA Wlll

Sc0re uI hHII-tIWe. N, OI v. db, Good-wins 3l. Referee: SantropietrO.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-25
BaskstbaIIsr Star Cake-Baker
ny NEA Service

Mich, March ee-0irls of Traverse City high school Ilnary lessons from Mac Cox star of the schools bas- mpetlng against the homo economics class, Cox won e-baking contest.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-03-22
Shame of a Nation

News this
had denied petition for parole Of five remaining Soboro boys
shocked the nation.
thinking Americans Scottsboro
boys has been established for several the United
Court has the back Alabama
charging Irregularities of the Alabama circuit aside
seemed the judge be the physical that there
had been of the two plaintiffs at the time alleged
Thus have the CHASTITY spectacle of American State
holding five boys through sheer malice and racial antagon
ISM time when loud pleas national unity voiced by
the nation, the Alabama Pardon decision
test the faith of thirteen million American Negroes
The of democratic unbiased
Through trials and the Scoboro revealed
Alabama courtroom justice mocery and fraud In 1897 four of
the boys held identical charges with those still narcerated
free There eloquent of the all
those liberated convicted precisely the evidence
long campaign
state of Alabama has repeatedly complained of Outside
Today however, is we'll known that solid sentiment
held by distinguished of Aabamans favong liberation of
the prisoners Hence the Boards decision arbitrary aon both
the national and the contentious of distinguished Ala
bamians.
AS time passes becomes increasingly apparent the only
of Sam Solomon Miami Florida the prejudcd of
Cities bringing hundred colored the polls
there ample that done No black ballot the history
of Miami had been cast at any time before 1888
rights only
conflict in which be intellectually interested
Screaming headlines declare
Mago and Mannehem lines but information concerning the battle
of Atlanta where 10000 Negroes demanding the right
mentioned
example by Miami s which might easily
enfrancment of the entire SOUTH The magic formula has dis
simply this willingness die if necessary,
When Ku Kux Hammers held of the demonst
their history Miami night before the 1888 civic elections
they bringing into play all the intimidation
which defeated southern seventy years.
fright inspired the
Sam B. Solomon went to bed with at his SIDE The following
morning, hundreds of Negroes voted-Caifornia Eagle
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-03-22
Standardized Partitions

II you are planning a house in
terror remodeling it is well to re-
member that you can buy standard.
lied wood partitions in all popular
woods and finishes. Such partitions
frequently come in two heights-7
feet 4 inches and feet 6 inches.
Each is made up Of three units with
the space between the top of the
third unit and the ceiling filed with
a soundproof transom. All units are
So inches wide. Individual panels
are 2B inches thick, built on frames
with two k-inch layers Of acousti-
cal material on the inner side, and
are embraced with two three-ply
layers Of plywood. Doors are sound
proof with the base panel water and
mop-proof. Partitions Of this type
are easily assembled and made rig
id with screws and full-length posts
Of special construction. Wiring goes
through the end posts at either the
upper cornices or the base.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-03-22
"Listen to
This
SELF-GRATIFICATION
By Hobart T. Mitchell

Sid Sparks was convicted and
fined $40 for playing a game of
craps on February 10, 1911. He ap-
pealed the case to the Court of
Criminal Appeals of Texas and
made the point in his appeal that
the act of 1907, amending the old
article 388 of the Penal Code,
makes it an offense to play and bet
at any game of any character what
ever that can be played with dice,
because the same article provides
that it is not an offense to play
cards at private residence, occu-
pied by a family, unless same is
commonly resorted to for the pur-
pose of gaming. Sparks contended
that this was a discrimination
against the Negro; that craps, the
game for which he was convicted,
was Negro game, and that cards
was a white mans game; that this
was we'll known by the legislature;
and that by it the Negro was dis
eliminated against.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-03-22
Relatives

Relatives at the most are sad lot,
Always can advise what to do and
what not,
Many never had chick nor child for
experiences sake,
Yet know more than those who
have most at stake.
Most relatives volunteer advice
when not needed,
Think they're helpful and that
you've yielded
Your sense of responsibility which
gives them the right
To talk falsely, then think you
shouldn't fight.
Ask these same relatives for a loan,
Instead of getting bread; you'll re-
ceive a stone,
A lecture besides, regarding your
financial affairs.
You always are wrong, why should
they shoulder your cares.
Reverse the situation, say what you
think
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-03-22
Arkansas 'Dugout' Canoes
Vanish From Swampland

The homemade Arkansas dugout
descendant of the Indians crude
boat that is fashioned from a solid
log-has almost vanished from the
cypress-studded swamps Of eastern
Arkansas.
There was time when fishermen
from one end of the swamps to the
other pulled" from the far South
and as far north as the Missouri line
to get one-armed Bill Jones to make
them a new dugout.
Today Bill Jones is long dead and
the hundred or so dugouts he made
have almost disappeared. His pat.
tern. a light wood frame, gathers
dust in the loft of Uncle John"
Harvey's barn on Big island, near
Lake City, Ark. Jim Fall. who can
turn out pretty smooth boat him.
self when he can get suitable logs,
has Bill Jones adze and other tools.
Like fine violin, Bill Jones dug.
out can't be bought for less than a
small fortune. Neat, light, perfectly
streamlined, they are the best Of all
boats for travel among the cypress
knees and fallen timber in the green
glades Of the lowlands.
Bill used to spend all his time fish,
ing and digging" boats. He would
hunt the sloughs over for a likely
log Of solid cypress. Sassafras
makes better dugout, but sassa-
fras rarely grows big enough.
Bill would cut the log and snake
it out of the bottoms with a bor-
rowed team Of mules. Then he'd
cut from it q 17-foot section, using
only the best part Of the log. and
split it.
Then the real work began. Dig
ging big hunks out Of the heart Of
the half-log, he would work more
slowly and carefully as he ap-
preached the outer edge. The soft
layers would be planed down. leav-
ing the best and hardest wood to
form the hull of the craft.
A dugout is poled standing up, and
the person in it had better know
what he's doing. Trimmer and
sleeker than the Louisiana pirogue,
the dugout is the fastest means Of
locomotion in the vast glades Of
shallow water. interspersed by
clumps of willow and low fats COW
cred with flag and smartweed.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-03-22
Tactic Acid Into Rubber

Many forward strides in the utili-
cation Of waste products include
some Of promise to the lacquer and
varnish industry. One in particu-
lar deals with converting the Tactic
acid in dairy products into a SUBJ
stance known as polymethylacryl.
ate, a rubberlike material. which,
in addition to being very tough and
elastic-is not subject to discolora-
ton by sunlight or ultraviolet rays.
This method will probably prove Of
significance in the formulation Of
lacquers, varnishes and impregnat-
ing compounds. If it proves COM
mercially practicable. a source Of
low-cost lacquer and varnish ingre-
dients will have been found.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-03-22
This facl was establ.

This FACT was establ. by DR..
Isabel T. Kelly Of the anthropologi.
cal department of the University Of
California, who has completed an
extensive study Of the few remain.
ing tribes Of the Paiute Indians In
Nevada and southern California. =.
The bulk Of her information was
gathered from the tribes that still
exist in the vicinity Of Las Vegas.
New.
The shaman practitioners who
have become modernized to the ex-
tent OF SIS fees for treatment were
those OF the Kaibab group in the
high plateaus and the Grand canyon
region Of Utah.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-03-22

About their business, but before
you can blink,
They'll be on you quicker than a
flea,
Your explanations of good will be
considered poor plea. -. %.
Blood means nothing when you're
not known.
Less than some stranger until
you've shown,
You can make your mark without
their help, ...
Then you're related, because you
did develop.
Relatives will always put AN out
slider ahead,
You may get consideration when
yOO d4S uCdu,
Some marriages change a whole lot
of things,
One side wants harmony, just so
results it brings.
It's an old story of what relatives
do,
Of course, there's always excep-
tons to the rule,
And it's to those-we gallantly tip
our hat,
Who let people run their own little
flat
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-03-22
Indian Medicine Men
Charge Doctors Fee

Western Americas Paiute Indian
medicine men of California, or sha-
mans, as they are called in their
native language, have now become
so modernized that they charge reg
ular doctors fees for casting out
evil spirits and other native medi-
cal treatment.
Furthermore, so strictly modern
are these shamans in this respect,
that their fee is SIS, where formerly
thew were glad to accept a few
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-03-22
Example

In to letter from this papers business department
out to delinquent mail subscribers reply stood out alone
letter requested that collector
payment in full for subscription
That letter and that payment from totally
has confined hospital for the
His wife is beddden and has been for five years.
ourselves if these folks Universities
could for their the whom
books them we'll and hearty ought learn something
the example set by Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Wiley
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-03-22
BLOOD WILL TELL

Isabel l. Wall was admitted to
the Brookland School, District of
Columbia, on it's opening in Sep
TENDER, 1909, and shortly there
after was excluded by the principal
because she was a "colored child"
1t was claimed by Isabel that her
great-grandparents were a white
man and very light mulatto wom-
an; her grandparents were a son
of the said grandparents and a
white woman; and her parents are
the son of the grandparents and
a white woman; therefore she was
white.
It was concluded that Isabel was
of Negro blood of one-eighth to
one-sixteenth-thereby ineligible to
attend the school.
A COLLECTION OF THOUGHTS
In the office of former Congress
man Oscar De Priest, House Of
flee Building, Washington, D. c.,
and being introduced to Judge Cobb
Marion Anderson and her ex-
quisite diamond brooch that sepa-
rates into seven different parts,
each part forming a distinct jewel
within itself William Pickens
Director of Branches, National AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement OF
Colored People, did not know that
George Washington had Negroes in
his army until he had graduated
from Yale : Lawrence Oxley ex'
planning to me how he obtained his
position as Chief of Negro Labor
Wendell P. Dabney, ex-treas
urer of the city of Cincinnati, anC
his inspiring correspondence.
DEFENDERS OF THE
| COUNTRY
In 1914 after the capture o.
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Poetic Thoughts
By Morris Gibbs, Sr.

will not be negligent to put you
always in remembrance of these
things, tho We know them. Yea, I
think it meet to stir you up by put
ting you in remembrance. ii Peter
1:12-13.
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Not Going to Be Satisfied

that be in the naming of u S. workers IN
Minneapolis and Paul think Negroes going to be satisfied with
each city they badly mistaken
Negroes the Democratic national ticket heavy
1886 campaigns They practically the
only group population which has not received
the Democrats The enumeration
opportunity who supported the New Deal
appointed division of the business
months No Negroes employed the office
either of the congressional districts embracing the Twin
Cities. plenty of employees but all white.
of this fact believe at least fifteen Negroes should be
either in other capacities in each
enumeration small payment for the
the New Deal in 1886 might
ticket this when such help be sorey
needed.
Every intelligence knows the personnel for
with political affiaton
system much tommyrot the
this opportunity show their
their appreciation they find themselves the
the Minnesota Republicans who have lost their
support they still think the mention Of Abr
ham Negroes is still political magic.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-03-22

Washington by the British, when
Philadelphia was thrown into a
panic of fear and hastily took
measures for defense, Negroes did
yeoman service. Members of the
Vigilance C o m m i tie conferred
with the leading colored men of the
city and as a result of the interview
it is said that $500 Negroes as
sembled in the State House yard
and then worked ceaselessly for
two days throwing up trenches.
They received a vote of thanks
from the city.
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LOVERS OF THE COUNTRY

In 1881, when the citizens of
New Haven, Connecticut, resolved
to oppose. the establishment of a
Negro college, meeting in Phila-
delphia passed enthusiastic resolu-
tions commencing their attitude in
avoiding this monstrous evil, and
that their action commanded the
admiration of every true lover of
the country.