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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-06-28
Charges M.P.'s
Beat Soldiers IN
Southern Camps
Asks Mother
To Seek Aid Of
NAACP

member Of the NAACP. reports
that her son is one. OF the many
'draiiees' who are being brutality
nslreattd in the South. The draf-
lee letter reads
The conditions under which
tolored troops have to live in y. c.
Is culfageous. They catch colored
'nd northern white troops because
'ey are unarmed and beat them
uhmfrcliul, / am on the spot at
! am looked on as dangerous
character because the boys look on
ne as their only protection because
an nor afraid TO tell these Off
,e's about them neglecting their
guy have talked too much and /
an afraid ! will pay with my life.
Inc beallngs are on northern
Nnl'e troops as we'll as colored. and
southern white boys are the only
enes with weapons"
In letter 10 friend the boy
ASKS her 10 act and keep things.
ana names that am going 10 tell
sOu our of the papers until tell
you j Is safe to do so. ! want you
70 publish this story and go to the
AAACP and all the colored organi-
sauons IN Detroit To try and have
7" sent out Of Carolina"
l. Willie X Of Detroit was walk
1s oo"n the street OF wilmington.
~ !. when 2 Military police walks
~ ana tells him to button up his
. MA, he pulled up his necktie. His
,a,, oelng without a button in his
.ol,ar' he pulled his collar together
~, - pulled his tie tight around IT,
D sAen one MP said THAT Black
T ,.S not fasten his collar"
WIN guns on their side and black
continued on page 81
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-06-28

After receiving medical atten-
ton. the party continued home on
the train. arriving in Detroit Thurs
day evening.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-06-28
Despondent Because
Wife Leaves, Hubby
Commits S u / C i d e

Despondent because OF domestic
trouble, Eugene Batchelor. 81. 29tS
IIaniy. IIamtramck. took his lite by
drinking Iysol Monday evening. lie
expired shortly after Ambulance
TO Receiving hospital.
His sister said that he had come
to her home after drinking the
lysol and told her what ne nad
done. she called police. She said
that his wife had left him June IL
and that be had been Respondent
since that time.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-06-28

Helen Gardner Ibel's relatives.
write y. o. stalker, 52s Towners
Albuquerque, Nm.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-06-28

Because July Fourth comes on
Friday. all correspondents must
have copy in the Office OF The De-
troit Tribune by no later than
Monday. Copy arriving later than
Monday will be used in the follow
ing edition Of the paper. Remem-
Der the deadlins = Monday, June
90.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-06-28
Quizzed In Murder

Ralph Phillips. alias Natasss.
Ct. Of $50 Adams. and James Nit
chell. %. same address were ar
rested Monday for questioning
about the murder OF Willie Jones,
1919 T. Fort. last Wednesday
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-06-28
Complainant Goes To
Insane Asylum And
Defendant Goes Free

Because the complaining witness
had been committed to the insane
asylum AZ Eloise. Marietta Green.
%. $50 Gratiot, was freed by Re-
oorder's Judge John P. Scallen
Tuesday morning
Accused OF taking $40 from Miss
Elizabeth Gaines. SO. Of All Col
Lmbia after cutting the complainant.
Mrs. Green was arrested by Detec-
tlves Henderson Turpln and Ernest
Thomas. However before the date
OF trial Mrs. Gaines was taken TO
Receiving hospital for observation,
and three days prior to the trial
she was committed 10 Eloise.
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-15
Bv MABLE KOUNTZE

BOSTON-(ANP)-Mozel Ellerbe
of Tuskegee, Leo Tarrant of Ala
bama State and Tommy East OF
Cheyney Teachers have happily
come along in the same era to ut
terly disprove much of the inferi-
ority charges leveled at Sepla
schools of the nation.
But all these gentlemen, among
others, owe their national or-
portunitv and consequent fame to
Negro college pioneers of the 1886
Eastern Olympic tryouts staged
here in Harvard stadium.
DENIED AT FIRST
Southern A. A. u. athletes were
flatly refused a chance to COM
pete in the Dixie trials for the
1886 Olympic team and colored
colleges especially were rated in
ferior.. Nevertheless William j.
Bingham and other Harvard and
New England officials, backed by
suggestions of many sports minded
New Englanders, including the
writer, saw to it that our colleges
were invited to compete in the
1886 Eastern sectional try-outs.
The pioneers of the present
brownskin brigade included a trio
who caused no little comment five
wears ago. They were a Morgan
College freshman, wellington Ross;
St., Augustine powerhouse,
Rozia Singletary; and an All-Amer-
lean Va. State, halfback Of SEEM
ingly over-rated CIAA. track who
ran about every event and won
most of them in the CTAA. This
hoy's name was Johnny Borican
but nobody knew much about him
in Boston in SO.
EARLY FAME IN HURDLES
Borican's early fame was in the
400 meter hurdles and he surprlS-
ed by qualifying for the finals, as
he came home third behind Glen
Hardin after doing 53.4 trial heat,
the fastest of them all. Rozla
Singletary looked good with 21.5
900 meter dash trial, the second
fastest in the two day try-outS.
And young Ross, a former New
wark prep star forced the favored
200 meter sDrinter, Rodenkirchems,
to a 2i second flat Well, when the
bows returned home (whatever
happened to Singletary?) the COLI
cred college track coaches got q
brand new outlook on life.
SIAC PRODUCES FLOCK
Olympian Ralph Metcalfe no
sooner became connected with
Xavier university, then he began to
plot to send Gold Rush athletes
to the big major title meets and
Ralph was, I believe, the first to
send a sizeable modern team to
Boston and New York for crack
indoor competition. The Southern
conference scored again with Eller-
be of Tuskegee and Tarrant OF
Alabama State, both now definite
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-15
WILL MISS OLD NAMES

thirteenth year with the SNSa record of contnu-
equaed employee here with the
the first sports column (Sport-
Many them still here still read
ing the WORLD.
years, unfogettabe have been witness to
gala marching this
page to and obscurty
my livelihood entirely off sports
STAG it natural that should the approach
of a field.
interesting companions this journey j. G.
Lucius 1928 and others follow
will broadcass STAG sportve chores
fifteen Others will join them, will arrive
Such is ife's plan.
Captain Darnaby Major Abbott at Tuskegee
still admire the STAG that with Sam Tay
Chief Aiken B. T. Harvey and all the other pioneers The
today made of former opponensAdams at Tus-
Morris Brown Robinson Clark Cemons at
Lane O Alabama State and Forbes of Morehouse.
them the gridion under opposite coor
back there with kneng the feet of for
masters.
My three nsalment series"Farewel to Old SIACwi ap-
pear during the week.
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-15

Announcement Of the appointment
of managers and the making out of
playing schedules for the first halt
of the season for teams of the
American Negro Baseball League
was made this week through Mem.
phis representatives of the organi-
zation.
Jones was named manager of the
Memphis Red Sox for 1941; fol
Kansas City Monarchs, Cooper;
Chicago American Giants, Jim Tay.
lor; Jacksonville Red Caps, j, B
Greer; st. LouiS-NeW Orleans
Stars, George Mitchell; Birming-
ham Black Barons, w. L. Welch
Playing schedules for the first
half are as follows:
May IL, u, 13-Kansas City VS..
Birmingham
Jacksonville VS.. st. LOuis-New Or
leans Stars
Chicago VS. Memphis Red SoX
May 18-t. Louis VS. Memphis
Kansas City VS. Chicago
Birmingham VS. Jacksonville
May 25-St. Louis-NeW Orleans vs.
Chicago
Jacksonville VS. Birmingham
Memphis VS. Kansas City
June Birmingham VS. Memphis
Jacksonville VS.. Kansas City
Chicago VS.. st. Louis at Louisville
June 8-Memphis VS.. Birmingham
Chicago VS.. Kansas City
JacksOnville-Open
June 15-Birningham VS.. ST. Louis
New Orleans
Memphis VS.. Jacksonville
Chicago VS.. Kansas City-at Okla
homa City, Okla.
June 22-JackSonville VS.. st. Louis
New Orleans
Kansas City VS.. Birmingham
Memphis VS.. Chicago
June 29--Memphis VS.. St. Louis-NeW
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-15

ATHENS, Ga.-(SNS)- Monday
right in the last. pre-tournament
meeting of officers in the North
east Georgia Athletic League, F.
l.. kirkpatrick, coach at Athens
High and Industrial School and
president of the NEGAL, stated
that all was in readiness for the
leagues annual basketball tourney
to be held at Gainesville, Friday
and Saturday, March 14-15.
Ten league members will send
q boys and girls team each to vie
for four beautiful trophies and.
top honorS in the league tourna-
ment play. The NEGAL uses the
visitation system to determine what
teams in the loop may participate
T. the tournament, thereby recog-
nizing the winner as league cham
pion as well as boss of the tourna-
ment
The first game, a meeting of
sextettes, vii start at nine o'clock
Friday morning. Play will continue
until the finalists are discovered Al
though the lassieS will stretch
their play over the two days. The
boys start their warfare at one
o'clock in the afternoon providing
no unforeseen situation arises.
First place winners in both di-
visions will receive gold trophies
and the players will receive in
dividual charms appropriate for
the occasion. The second place
teams viii. receive silver trophies
with silver charms for the play
es.c
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-15
by Ric ROBERTS,
First STAG Drum
Beater Looks AT
15-Year Career

Ga.-(SNS)- =,
HAVE always been a sucker for the rush. the hurry
and nerve pounding implications of sportve competitio7
Since early childhood the lure of baseball football box
ing and all of the others eft enthraed strangely SAT-
sfied
played football in college against the advice of my
parents youthful desire to college letter once al
most wrecked my ifedid affect it in dour, mourrnu
hope for success out here In llte for any
thing with the insane intensity had for wearing
varsity football unorm-a varsity any sort of uniform
I came to Clark university weighing 14l pounds ana
with a recommendation from my pals from hometown
Gainesville Florida that would never make the Clark
team. Atop that could always hear my fathers words
Don't fool around with fOotball-lm telling you!
wanted to be a big guy with big chest-a big col
ge that chest So what? No cigarettes
no whskeyno and life of absolute cebacy until
was 25 years ofa age I still the first two.
varsity position the football team at ha varsity
pitcher broad championship
175 pounds THREE BIG LETTERS at Clark burning ambF
ton realized, idealfu fulfilled.
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-15
WRITING SPORTS

Unable the football i'll 1925 the next fall
1926 decided sports. skeched cartoon Sam
Taylor roundup of the STAG air mailed them to
G. big midwesern newspaper. The reply
a b of hit here. Get this stuff to us
Saturday nghts) will $40
per week the year round"
readily understand what such letter would do any
college sophomore day. Monday September 49, 1926,
weekly national sports informant
coumnst commenced that day.
unfortunate
Set to other tasks might have well of med
teachnghundreds contemporaries have
the that that gets into
the blood of a man, has held for Is years.
should recommend the game
hunting if is to be mere
cog big machine you going to be publisher or stock
we'll and good-go to it.
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-15
J. G.. Smith s Golden Bulls
Win T1Uo, o,Lose7lUo On Road

against the st. Paul Tigers at
Lawrenceville, Va, the Smithmen
tossed the Virginians for a 5l-39
loss and then roared northward
for an assault on the Lincoln
stronghold at Oxford, Pa. But the
Lions were roaring, also, and
Nanny Rivero's charges gained
cweet revenge for the two previous
defeats handed them by Eddie
Jackson's proteges as they nosed
out the bulls in thrilling 49-4l
battle.
Back in Raleigh. Saturday night,
the all too belittled Saints of st.
Augustine's College, behind the
wizardry of Pullen and Satterwhite
fought desperate and courageous
ly but at the final whistle it was
Smith SIS, the Saints 20. =,
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-15

tives"
Just the same when Louis meets
Abe Simon in Detroit next month
(in the event that Uncle Sam
doesn't call Louis in for Selective
Service) will draw close to $500, 600,
Detroit being solid for Louis S
showmanship.
Louis. more than anyone else,
would like to shake hands with a
stranger
After the shaking hand cere-
mony, it will be un. to the new
found acquaintance to stay out OF
Joe's family affairs. Be it first, Sec
ond or third cousin, you can take
my word for it, take 'eln" Joe
would rather form the acquaint-
anceship of total stranger.
Is this country so democratic
that we all are brothers Cor cou-
sins) under the skin? Welcome
stranger. -.--.--.-------
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-15

yarn that the Brown Bomber will
probably skip over to read about
E3the Detroit Tigers in training
saamp.
+. Well, anyway, it seems that the
heavyweight champ has inherited
"a family-not parental, mind you,
but, family just the same.
f. Louis" the boys claim, in bor-
rowing a baseball paraphrase, "has
been going about fighting a lot of
country cousins"
Bob Pastor, Al (the unread Nc
Coy, Arturo Godoy, and now Gus
*Dorazio, are classed as 'the rela-
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-15
By MILTON c. BRANCH

CHARLOTTE, N. C.-(SNS-
johnson C. Smith University'S
powerful Golden Bulls broke even
On a jaunt through North Carolina,
Virginia, and Pennsylvania, last
week, as they won two matches,
dropped two, and brought their
current basketball seasons record
to fifteen wins against four losses.
Monday night in Durham, q
six game winning streak was
abruptly snapped by North Caro-
lima Colleges gaint Eagles who
gave a repeat performance in a
1882 decision before a capacity
house. ISLAM" Colbert's 18 points
counted heavily in the win.
BULLS BOUNCE BACK
Bouncing back Tuesday night
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-15

Whipping Athens 1927, while
Beach advanced there with a 1914
triumph over Brooks High. Athens
was the only unseeoed outfit to
make the semi finals, upsetting
fourth seeded Brooks County.
BTWH'S was seeded No. 2 in the
meet, with Beach, defending cNam-
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-15

ly indoor track threats. And now
comes Cheyney with Tommy East
to form a trio Of formidable in
door sprinters.
But the big boy who first zoom-
ed colored college stock to a new
high in 1886 is still in there paw
ing the way. YOU'LL never be
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-15
Gainesville Host To Hot
Northeast Georgia Cage
Meet Friday And Saturday

Athens, the only unseeded team
to reach the semi-finals in the
Georgia State tournament at Sa-
vannah, last weekend, is favored
TO COD the league championship.
The Kirkpatrick coached quintet
scored an upset when it defeated
fourth seeded Brooks County 27-12
Athens lost to Brooks High in the
consolation game 21-17, in thrill.
packed game.
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-15
:GEE, 'BAMA STATE, CHEyNEY ACES CLICK.
Borican, EIIerbe, Tarrant, East
Boost Stock Of Negro Colleges

able to take this honor way from
the Virginia State Trojan who be-
gan here as a hurdler and has
since run about everything up to
and including the mile. Borican is
not just an honor unto himself
He has brought honor to Negro coll
lege athletics.
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-15
BTWHS Of Atlanta Wins Georgia
State Title From Beach Hi 22-7

pion, No. l.. Brooks High was third
seeded. The Atlantans, following
their successive triumphs in the
North Middle Georgia tournament
in Griffin and in the Georgia State
tournament here, have their eyes
on the national interscholastic
tournament at Tuskegee Institute
in the near future.
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-15
American Negro Baseball
Leaque Announces Schedule
,Julv 4-Chj

July HChicago VS. Kansas City
+ Jacksonville vs.. Birmingham
st. Louis-NeW Orleans VS.. Mem.
phis.
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-15
Joe Louis Bored.
Turns Attention.
To Baseball Bug
BY LENNY DENT

NEW YORK.-(TYP)-Now that
Joe Louis has bowled over ,anQth-
er victim the Broadway newspaper
ulep have come UP with another
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-15

orleans
Chicago VS.. Birmingham
Kansas City-open
Jacksinville-open
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-15
By SAM McKIBBEN
(SNS Stiff Correspondent

SAVANNAH, Ga.,-(SNS)-Cnck-
ing with clock like precision in
game marked by niggar6ly tight
defensive play the Booker 7.
Washington High Bulldogs, coach
ed by Leslie c. Baker, finally
smashed through and took away
to Atlanta the fifth annual Geor-
gia State High school Basketball
Tournament honors by sparkling
Beach High School formerly
Beach Cuyler) 22-7 before JAM
| hacked crowd.
The Georgia State Industrial
I College gym was a bedlam of ex-
| element as the AtlantanS, in the
! finals for the third straight year
/ but turned back unSucceSSfully in
1859 and 1910, refused to be denied
and all but blasted the local Sa-
VanEahans off the court.
LED 1910 All HALF
The championship finals was
| played in quarters. TT the end of
the first period, BTWHS led 60.
| TIE Bakeries were in front 1910
at intermission and still were in
the drivers seat when the third
period ended 14-3 That is another
| Wav of saying the Atlantans were
never in trouble.
Sparkling the Gate City ensem-
bic to the title over the other d
rivals which started out in the fast
field of competition in the 1871
tournament was Robert Pete)
Turner, who threw in 10 honey
dripped points Captain Claude
(Red George was held to only
eight but they were thrown in at
/ the desired intervals.
HUBERT. SENSATIONAL
Jerome Oittle Caesar Hubert
! stood out with the eminence of a
Fat Jenkins and was everything
his nickname implied as he turn
ed in the best performance he ever
showed in a BTWHS uniform. The
other Bulldogs played their parts
we'll, but the big trio with the chips
down was Turner, George. and HUI
bert.
In the consolation battle for the
third place, Brooks High defeated
Athens High 21-17.
ATHENS SCORED BIG UPSET
BTWHS gained the finals by
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-02-06

terials to processing and assembly points on rigid
schedules, and engineers say conveyor belts do that
job BEST.
ECONOMY, KEYNOTE!-When two midwest
governors recently urged strctest economy on their
Legislatures in the interests of national defense. they
sounded what should be the keynote for all legisla-
lures in 1941," Mrs. Melville Mucklestone, president
of the National Consumers Tax Commission, believes.
Both of these state executives-Governo julius
p. He'll of Wisconsin and S, c. Ford of Minnesota
strongly advocated that no new levies be passed this
year. Mrs. Mucklestone applauded their stand, and
emphasized the need for wider adoption of such
programs by pointing out that state taxes increased
1900 per cent from 1913 to 1888, and that the
trend Should be reversed now in view Of federal
defense levies."
LEvELING OFF-For months almost all re-
ports concerning gains in retail sales have had to
acknowledge that these gains were pretty mucn
centered in industrial areas where the bulk of de-
fense-drive spending was going. Now there are in
dications that this situation is beginning to level
out as the stepped-up flow of money spreads. Accord
ing to the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com
merce, sales of general merchandise in small TOWN.
and rural areas-where steel, autos and arms manu-
facture is no factor-reached in all-time high ia
December, last. The volume was about one-tenth
larger than for December of the previous year, and
about a third larger-33 per cent-than for December
Va ou ldhlHS IS4U a a WnOle, VOlume
of sales of general merchandise in these areas was
about five per cent ahead of 1889, and seven per
cent greater than in 1929.
THINGS TO Walk way post
office trucks, equipped just like the railway post
office cars where mail is sorted and bagged while
train speeds along. The first of these automotive YER
sions of the railway mail car rolled into President
Roosevelts. back yard the other day for a preview,
and will go into service soon between Washington
and Harrisburg, Pa. More metered mail; the
company making postage meters reports that meters
now account for 20 per cent of all the U. S. Post
office departments postage revenue A new
infra-red ray lamp that can cook a steak in six
minutes or dry 24-hour paint in one hour-less than
five per cent of its total energy energies as visible
light A special posthumous album Of records
OF the late Hal Kemp, dance band leader, with a.
booklet biography Of him; he left a library of "ar-
engagements valued at $1,000 =. More new
items in the quickfrozen foods line-notably, oysters,
cream mot ice cream and cider "A bread ana
pastry flour made from coffee beans, but not no
coffee flavor.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-02-06
"BEHIND THE SCENES IN
AMERICAN BUSINESS"
By John Croddock

NEW YORK. Feb. 3. seems as
though that prosperity phrase, leash jingling in their
leans" is more than a mere figure of speech. For
Nellie Tayloe Ross, director of the U. S. mint, reports
that in 1910 the mints-located in PHILADELPHIA.
Denver and San Francisco-had to work "a hours a
day most of the year to. keep up with the demand for
new coins. In fact they set a new al-time record,
both in numbers and value of "hard money. The
new record is 1~,A78,9S2. coins-compared with the
previous high mark Of 1913, ZAP, a record set way
back in 1919. Incidentally, the breakdown on the
coin-count shows that only half-dollars, quarters,
dimes, nickels and pennies were minted-no' wagon
wheels at all. Maybe they've quit making the good
old iron men; anyway, they didn't grind out any in
1870.
WHY-Of course, what causes this is the in
crease in the e-mentioned cash jingling in
jeans, and the creseendo. of changing cash tills, stem
ming from the. defense drive and its upsurging of
industrial activity all over the country, with con-
sequent upturns in retail trade. Officially and par
tcularly. though, Mrs. Ross attributes the demand
to increased volume of retail business; the new de-
Tense taxes; increase in state sales taxes, and the
increasing use Of slot-machine devices" That rising
stream of jineys pouring into 'juke-boxes seems to be
backwashing clear to the U. S. mint.
PRODUCTION ~LINES-Despite emphasis plac-
ed on speeding up the nations production lines, few
realize that production lines are in many instances
conveyor belts. Yet the conveyor belt now ranks
with the railroad and the motor truck as a means of
transporting raw materials. and is essential to top
speed production of all the goods needed to get and
keep national defense output in high gear. Actually,
belts ranging from several miles to a few feet in
length areaso widely used for heavy transportation
that Goodrich has applied to betting the same prin-
ciple of rubber-and-cord construction with which it.
doubled and tripled tire mileage home 25 years ago.
The result is a cord conveyor belt with greater
load-carrying ability and impact resistance, less in
ternal wear ana abrasion, no stretch and high nom
deterioration. Application Of this new belt to key
industries not making full use Of it now is expected
to do much toward speeding manufacture Of essential
weapons. Mass production hinges on bringing ma