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The Phoenix index., 1940-11-16

All to see Va. Union tie up a 90
game with Va. State Bitter rivals,
and stuff Like that-homecomi
and traditions etc.. etc. Ducky
Davis of Union was our host. And
the trees filled with human beings
strongly reminiscent of Strange
Fruit Why will they seek trees
like that?
We had a grand time. Visiting
With relatives and so forth and
Ginning with old friends before
and the game. Talking with Hue
about his basketball chances and
giving the mighty Mel Glover the
once over. Glover in his two years
at Union has been All-CIAA guard
both years.
Pretty girls falling all over
each Other-and not even get
ting tumble from those guys
there. Bands and all kinds of
stunts to make it a gala event.
Believe me, il was, too.
Listening to the returns on Tues
day night until old man sleep
Knocked us out sort of gently to
spare the blow.
Seeing all of the old familiar
faces around Harlem-al1 strong
Roosevelt men-now. l knew them
when.
Howard Turner, insurance execu-
tive of the city, telling us a good
joke Wednesday evening in the
"Y" at dinner.
Hey, boss, if the Associated
Negro Press continues to get
book orders for Carter Wood
sons organization on account
of mistakes by the mail car
riers, could VIC make land col
lect) fee from the good doc
tor?
Wow, that was a good one-can'i
tell the source, but the lady says
that Roosevelt took a page out of
j. Finley's book when it comes to
getting himself reelected.
And the lawyer who shares oul
offices comes up with another one
Called down to the police court to
defend a girl accused of stealing q
ring, he asked her what the ring
was worth. "'Twont nothin' bu'
a cheap oil thing. she replied dis
dainfully And how do you know
It was q cheap ring?" queried MY
friend Il know 1t cause I tooker
it, she answered naively
Which brings to mind the ont
about the brother down home WIS
when arrested and brought before
the judge, knocked the court ou
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Familiar landmarks in Rich
mond seem to be losing some
of their former attractivenesS,
but there is nothing. like good
old Second and Leigh Streets
even the passing years fail to
dim her glamour
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Wonder will legal action proceed
against Steve Early, the cop-kick-
ing presidential secretary? Ac-
cording to an Interpretation, he
was guilty of assaulting a police
officer, crime in any city.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-02-16
SENTINELS OF DEMOCRACY

saying I'VE are happy to say that
the program as arranged and car
ried out was a credit to the Boy
Scouts of America as well as to
the officers and leaders of the
Pasadena Council"
Later, in that same year DR..
West bitterly assailed NaZi per-
secution of minorities and reveal
ed that in accordance with the
Scout motto: do a good turn
daily, the Boy Scouts had mailed
requests to Scout leaders through
out the country asking them to
try to find either homes or jobs
for prosecuted Scouts in Germany,
AUSTRIA, and Czechoslovakia.
In the light of this, President
Roosevelt was not exaggerating
when he said of the Boy Scouts,
on it's 18th anniversary: "It is
my conviction that, through work
with our youth, we shall secure
the greatest assurance of main
tanning our democracy in the face
of those forces which advocate
forms of government not consist
ent with our cherished American
traditions. And the strength of
this youth movement will develop
in exact proportion to the support
accorded it by communities which
are interested in preserving our
democracy"
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let go until it was all over. AS
runner crept up on runner; as the
challenger tried to usurp the front
line position; as the gong sounded
for the last lap; as the winner
kicked to reSOunding finish
was it any wonder that the pres
sure of an arm frightened on ours ?
Was there any wonder for his
gaSping sigh as Fenske broke the
tape? Not a whit. COlOrful
Kiviat was running in that race
as sure as you're reading this
story. We felt by the grip on our
arm what those mile runs, those
wOrldrecOrd marks, those nation
al championships must have
meant to Kiviat back in the pre-
war days. For us all the drama
of the MillrOse games which of
itself arOuseS us to feverish
heights was SO much more pOig-
nant and without intending the
pun) so intensely gripping.
"Pinl1y" Sober, the press stew
art at the Millrose Games, who
was but carbon copy of Kiviat
some fifteen years ago, doesn't
hesitate a moment in letting you
know that when he was shooting
for the records in 1924 and 1925
he was modelling himself after
his childhood hero, Kiviat.San-
ford Goldberg, the flying fireman
of New York, a Millrose Club
member along with Sober and XII
Wat, and who in another two
years or so gives promise of TAX
ing up where Cunningham leaves
off, will also ten you that the
marks set by Kiviat are the ones
he wants to equal first.
For us the WanamaEer mile had
everything an intersectiOnal grid
iron battle holds in the closing
minutes of fray when player
drops back to shoot a forward
pass in a desperate effort for
victory; all the tenseness of a
heavyweight fight when the
champ, battered and bruised, is
grOggy and lettering on his feet
in the final seconds of a battle.
Is it any wonder? Through XII
WAITS eyes we were seeing what
Jewish athletes had done in the
past. With our own we hope to
see other Jewish athletes take
their places on the championship
acknowledgment in the future
Wanamaker Miles.
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NOO11I1lueu from rage IWO)
other denominations or faiths be
required, because of their men,
bership in the Scout troop, to take
part in or observe a religious GER
emony distinctly peculiar to that
institution or church."
All of this is in harmony with
the twelfth Scout law which says
"A Scout is reverent. He is rev.
erent toward God. He is faithful
in his religious duties and respects
the convictions of others in mat
tiers of custom and religion" Be-
cause of this basic teaching of
Scouting the movement has been
a natural ally in the fight to pre-
serve democracy in America by
strengthening it's foundations.
The youth of today will be the
Americans of tomorrow and with
the training they get in Scouting,
boys can't help but be loyal to
the principles OF democracy.
Two instances of the Boy
Scouts firm adherence to democ-
racy are typical. In 1898 the
Militant Christian Patriots, an
anti-Semitic organization, protest
ed to DR.. James E. West against
having Jewish entertainer on
the occasion of the presentation
of Scout awards, known as the
Court of Honor, in Pasadena, Cal.
ifornia. That organization de-
manded, in effect, the segregation
of Jewish and Christian Scouts
In reply, DR.. West cited the par
agraph from the Scout constitu.
ton quoted above and rebukeC
the Militant Christian Patriots
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ON YOUR MARKS

Ten wears of spOrtswriting has
mt been able to cure us. Instead
~ the bIase reporter we still are
an emotional schOOlbOy carried
awav to feverish heights by an
outstanding sporting event. Such
. one was the Wanamaker Mile
at the MiIIrose Games recently run
at Madison Square Garden which
YOU may have seen or must have
heard over your radio. AS usual
II left us tingling and shaking
like a limp rag in a stiff breeze.
The Wanamaker Mile, a rank
newcomer as championship events
co. is already hallOwed with gIO-
Tious traditions and, since its in
ception, has been packed tight
with the stark, tense, gripping
drama that one finds only in Al
sporting attractions. It is the one
evening in our sports calendar
come hell or high water-that we
never miss.
Now the Wanamaker Mile is
but one of the many track events
on card studded with stellar at
tractions-but so high is the nat
ional fever; so intense the public
fervor; and so great the publicity
attendant on that one event that
the Mile Run has come to be THE
event of not only the Millrose
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JEWS IN
SPORTS
By MoRRIs WE1NER

Games but of the other four ma
jor indoor track programs of the
year. You know the results of
that race. Fenske beat Cunning
ham by three yards and set the
second-fastest pace over a mile
course ever reeled off by mortal
man-4:O.4. Only Cunningham's
time of 4:04.4 set in the Dart
mouth gym some four years ago
could better it. Yet with nary a
Jewish runner in the field of six
brilliant athletes, why then, yau
may rightly ask, are we so hep
ped up? The answer is a simple
one. We were watching the race
through the eye of a champion
mile runner who was trailing
clouds of glory when we were
trailing diapers. We were seated
alongside Abel Kiviat.
JEWISH ATHLETES HAVE A
MARK TO SHOOT AT
If you read your papers-yOu
may be aware that two great ath-
leteS were in the box of honor at
the MiIlrOSe Games-PaavO MUIR
mi, the flying Finn, and Corporal
Maald, fresh from the Manner
helm line. Both of these gentle
men are milers. Nurmi, the
champion of the past and Maxi,
the challenger of Americas best.
Naturally, the press devoted the
front page to their reason for
coming to the United States while
the sporting pages waxed senti-
mental over Nurmi's emotions on
watching comparative youngsters
Shatter the brilliant records he
alone had created. Perhaps it was
these items in the press that made
us look at the 1910 Wanamaker
Mile through the eyes of Kiviat-
COlOrful Kiviat they called him
thirty years ago.
Many of you who read this story
will remember Irish" Abel. It is
unfortunate that you youngsters
in high school and you stalwarts
in college do not. For until the
simultaneous development of Gun
bingham, and Bonthron, and Gene
Venzke along with such milers as
Fenske, and Rideout, and Sam
Ramani-the central figures in
recent miles of the Century,
Abel "ColorfuI' Kiviat was one of
three men involved in the most
interesting rivalry among Ameri-
can milers. John Paul Jones of
Cornell and Norman Taber of
Brown were the others and Kiviat,
winning the national mile in 1911,
1912 and 1913 more than held his
own.
Was it any wonder then when
starter Johnny McHugh at the
MillrOse games raised his gun
into the air and cried, marks!
Set" following it closely with the
crisp report of the pistol, that
Kiviat gripped our arm and didn't
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felt.
''H'lo," murmured Janet in a
listless voice.
Cathy looked up quickly and
smiled. Hello, Jim," she said
softly.
Dropping down into a big wick
err chair Jim leaned his head back
and extended his long legs at full
length. Rotten afternoon" he re-
marked.
Janet's lips frightened. "'Some
days must be dark and dreary,'"
she quoted bitterly.
Jim laughed. Cathy said moth
ing. Jim had noticed that as a rule
you had to discover what Cathy
was thinking by what she did not
say. He watched her slim fling
ers busilv engaged with needle
and thread. She was mending a
pair of brief silken trunks, part
of her dancing costume. She held
the trunks up critically between
herself and the fading light to
inspect her stitches.
They're not much bigger than
Danny's pants, commented Jim
with a chuckle.
To his surprise Cathy blushed.
The color washed painfully into
her pinched face, and Jim rea-
lized with acute dismay that he
had hurt her.
"At that" he said in an effort
to make amends, when it comes
to covering, they're as adequate
as the new bathing suits all the
girls wear"
"T'he difference is, draw a sal
ary for exposing my physical
charms, if any," Cathy explained
and added with a short laugh,
'You can get. by with murder so
long as you don't lose your anna
teur standings. S funny, or isn't
it, how it's usually the society
dame with the least on who
sneers at the brazen chorus girl"
1T is when you're poor but
proud" muttered Jim.
Janet stared at him in astonish-
ment. cts something new for you
to feel like that she said.
you've always seemed to think
we ought to thank goodness for
our obstacles because they're
supposed to develop character, or
what have you?"
"Anybody home?" called Anne
Phillips opening the front door.
''Heaven help the poor working
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COILS on a night like this"
Jim grinned. There you 60,
making the best of things as US
ual."
Anne smiled at Csthy, "Any-
way our sons like us" she said.
"How's the boy?"
Cathy hesitated. Hes been
asleep for an hour. He feels aw-
fully hot to me and it isn't like
him to be so quiet"
She smiled, knelt down and put
her hand on Danny's small
flushed brow.
"Has-has he any fever?" fall
tered Cathy.
It seemed to Jim that Cathy's
eyes had grown too big for her
stricken face. "Want me to stroll
over and pick up a doctor?" he
asked helplessly.
F Anne shook her head. cts
probably just an upset stomach.
You'd better leave Danny here
on the daybed until you get home
tonight so I can look at him &C.
casionally," she suggested.
you're all SO kind" said Ca
thy with a little sob. II don't like
to impose on you, but Grandma
Bauer's old and she doesn't hear
very we'll and Tiff Sonny got
worse"
Cathy had stopped to pick up
her little boy. 'Let me-" said Jim.
"He's getting too heavy for you
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gallant effort to retrieve the IA
mily fortunes, but he was more
statesman than politician and,
while he made an excellent gov
ernor, he was too honest to manu-
facture capital from a political
career. When he died he left
barely enough to settle his debts.
Tony Ryan drew a large key
from his pocket. In Tuning 81
lence Janet followed him up the
wide steps to the great brass
studded front door with it's deli
cate fanlight overhead. In the
same oppressive silence they
made tour of the old mansion
and returned to the double par
lors on the south.
There's nothing wrong which
crew of high-priced carpenters
cannot put right in hurry. The
real estate agency advises me that
Busby is the best carpenter in
town. You'll work directly with
him.
''I'll not be able to get out here
Often" he continued. II have a
number of loose ends to tie off
now that I've finally decided to
retire. I'll tell Busby want ev-
erything in this house put back
exactly as it was. You will be
the judge of what's what. When
he's finished we'll take up the
question of furnishings"
81 still feel as if I'd be taking
money under false pretenses," she
murmured uncertainty.
II never allow myself to be
cheated" said Tony Ryan, leading
the way back to the car.
By five o'clock that afternoon
it was raining and the golf course
was deserted. Jim Phillips had no
desire to hang around with the
crowd which was having cock
tails in the clubhouse, a crowd
that included Howard and Pris-
ella Leigh, also Tony Ryan and
Miss Helen Sanders.
When Jim entered the flat ia
net was stretched out on the day.
bed in the dining room, staring at
the streaming window panes with
an expression as lugubrious as
the weather, and Cathy Wood was
sitting on the floor beside Danny
who had fallen asleep and was
curled up under faded crochted'
afghan like little bug in a rug.
Hello, everybody" said Jim,
sounding more cheerful than he
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He went on quietly showing her
where she was doing everything
wrong. It was tedious work.
He had to confess that she had
proved an apt pupil. She back
slid occasionally, but in the main
she seemed to have acquired
surprising grasp of the essentials
in the time allotted.
Cali right" said Jim when the
hour was up, "that will do for to-
day."
She flexed the muscles of her
left arm. II seem to be sorer than
I realized"
Jim grinned. "Wsit until to-
morrow. You'll know all about
Charley-horses the"
Her glance smoldered. MAYBE
I'm not so soft as you think. Any
way, I'm going to play around
this afternoon, Charley-horses or
not" she announced defiantly.
II don't want you to set foot
on the course until you've had
four more lessons" he said. IF
you continue to pick up you can
play Saturday"
"T'll play when I like"
"That's up to you," said Jim.
"Only if you do I've lost pupil.
Their glances tangled and her
eyes fell first. GAIL right" she
said. "You win. I'll play Satur-
day." She gave him a rueful
glance from under her lashes.
''No one was ever mean to me
before. I ought to hate you"
Jim could feel himself growing
white. Don't your" he asked I'M
steadily.
She had come nearer, so near
he could not get his breath.
maybe it's because you're diff
ferent," she whispered, ''but I
wish you didn't despise me-"
Jim could think of nothing ex-
cept her seductive face lifted al
luringly to his.
IT don't despise you," he said
hoarsely. Il think you're the
prettiest thing I ever looked at. :"
'Honestly?"
Honestly" repeated Jim with
a painful flush.
Il have a feeling, given a pro-
per chance, we could 60 for each
other in a large way" she muir
INJURED, then turned abruptly to-
ward the car. 'See you tomor-
row morning, Professor" she said
and drove rapidly away.
X
The grounds of the old Rad
cliffe place took up an entire
block. A rough stone wall en-
closed the property on all sides.
Janet's grandfather had made a
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THURSDAY, APRIL rs, 1910


to carry" He gathered Danny
gently into his arms without wax
ing him. Cathy went ahead to
open the door, Jim, the baby's
head resting like a crumpled yell
low flower on his shoulder tip
toed after her.
Some ones bought the house."
Janet said.
1t was necessary to say what
house. There was only one which
mattered to the Phillips family.
Anne, who had turned toward the
kitchen, paused abruptly.
"Yes?" she asked with a catch
in her voice. "Who?"
Go Be Continued
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Berry Auctions
Will Opens Soon

Raleigh. April 22.-Sale of
North Cardinals 1910 strawberry
crop, normally valued at approx
mately 100000, will begin the
last week in April on the six auc-
ton markets of Eastern Carolina,
Harry T. Westcott, marketing
specialist of the State Department
of Agriculture said today.
Markets are located at Chad
bourn, Tabor City, Burgaw, Wal
lace, Rose Hill and Mount Olive.
Commissioner of Agriculture
w. Kerr Scott said that As in
srectors, under the supervision
of the Departments markets divi-
sion, will be located at the auc-
ton sheds to inspect and certify
berries as to grade.
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<T don't know why we ever
tight" she sighed. "What did you
nave to tell me?"
The boss had a talk. with me
to-day"
"Oh!" cried Berenice radiantly
"eYou've got the. raise at last.
Now we can have car like every
one else"
Bill swallowed hard. "No" he
said, 81 didn't get raise. They're
cutting salaries again. Well have
to find some way to get by on ten
dollars less week."
She sti5fened and drew away
from his embrace to stare at him.
You mean we'll have to move?
Back to cheap housekeeping
rooms without a bath or any
thing?"
eff you ask me-" said Bill in a
grim voice, 1--WE were better off
Ehere than here, and a darned
sight happier"
when you preach you make
-ne so mad I could die!" cried
58erenice in a stifled voice.
''You don't sweeten my DISPOSE
erion any," remarked Bill savage
,E.y.~ Swapping off the light.
Driving out to the club in his
battered flivver early the next
morning, Jim Phillips, after a
nearly sleepless night, had ar
rived at a decision, not happy
sone, but one from which he was
Determined not to swerve. He had
made a complete idiot of himself
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the night before, he did not pro-

the night before, he did not pro-
pose to repeat the performance.
By every standard on which he
had painstakingly built his life he
could not afford to fall in love
with Miss Helen Sanders.
He succeeded SO well in con-
vincing himself that Miss Helen
Sanders was merely shooting
star which had flashed across his
horizon only to disappear, he con-
sidered it extremely unlikely that
she would keep her promise and
appear for the promised golf les
son.
Nevertheless, knocking golf
balls idly against the side of the
caddy house, he kept his eyes
steadily on the drive leading
down to the gates and when the
Leigh's scarlet and white coupe
turned in at the club entrance
Jim's heart gave an agonized
bound.
'H'lo!" murmured Miss San
ders, bringing the machine to an
abrupt stop with scream OF
breakes and a furry of gravel.
Hello" said Jim in a voice
that did not sound like his.
She was alone in the coupe ex-
cept for the elaborate bag of golf
clubs which Howard had pro-
cured for her the day before. She
was wearing a backless silk
blouse with halter neck tied
under her chin and pair of blue
shorts. A blue silk bandana hand
kerchief caught her bronze hair
back from her face. Her slender
golden limbs were bare. She
looked disgruntled and sleepy as
she smothered yawn and
climbed out of the car.
'Of all ungodly hours to get
up!' she complained. II left ev-
erybody else fast asleep"
"That's why I didn't expect
you," said Jim.
She gave him a sultry glance.
maybe that's why 1 came, to
prove you can't be right all the
time"
Jim led the way without COM
ment toward the big canvas cur
tain tackled up at the end of a
wire enclosure behind the caddy
house.
you're a long way from being
ready to hit a ball yet" said Jim.
Lets see you swing. No, no!
That isn't a baseball bat. Hold
it this way, and for heavens sake
cut out the debutante SLOUGH and
get some backbone into your
stance"
Jim ignored the black glances
she gave him from time to time.
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Synopsis

Janet Phillips resents her fami-
Iy's poverty when her weather.
friends come home from college.
Priscilla Leigh, whose family has
made money has appropriated the
spotlight in Bay City and along
with it-Janet's friend, Gordon
Key: Jim Phillips, Janet's brother
has brought her to the dance to
which Gordon had promised to
take her and has fallen in love
with rich, red-headed Helen San
ders. Jim is subbing as golf pro
at the club and has offered to
give Miss Sanders lessons. Janet
meets Tony Ryan at the dance
and agrees to redecOrate her old
house which Tony has just
bought. In the meantime, Bere-
nice and Bill Carter, Janet's sis
ter and her brother-in-law, have
come home from a wild party
which Bill hasn't enjoyed. "H I
weren't crazy about you I would
MT care what you did," Bill has
sSuS& said.
Evening star., 1940-04-27

for execution Of his military task
and for military security in Norway.
IS. For execution Of his orders the
Reicl1s Conmissar may invoke the
aid Of German police organizations.
German police organizations are at
the disposal Of the commander Of
German troops In Norway in 20 far
as military necessities demand and
the tasks Of the Reichs Commissar
permit.
e. The Reichs Commissar Ia di-
rectly responsible to me and receives
guide lines and orders from me.
~. Az Reichs commissar for the
occupied Norwegian areas appoint
Gov. (OberpresidenD Terboven.
g. Instructions for the execution,
as well as supplementary orders for
this decree. viii be issued in ac-
cordance with guiding lines given
by me for the civil realm by the
Reich's minister and the chief Of
the Reich's chancellery, for the milia
tary realm by the chief Of the high
command defense force"
The decree was signed by Hitler
Field Marshal Goering, the Fueh-
rerS designated successor In event
Of his death: DR.. hammers, Col. Gen
Keitel and Minister Of the Interior
Wilhelm Frick.