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The Phoenix index., 1941-09-13
By BOB GONZALES

MARSHALL, Tex. -(ONO) -IIle
Wiley Wildcats will play an eight
game grid schedule this fall. SIX
tilts with members of the South
western Conference plus games
with Jarvis, runnerup of the BIZ
State Conference and the power
full Xavier Gold Rush, make up the
slate for the MethodlstS.
The feature attraction on the
card shows the Prairie View Pan
thers. who will met at the State
Fair of Texas in Dallas, Monday,
October 13. This game has been at
tracing upwards of ten thousand
fans to the Cotton Bowl annually,
and this fall should prove no ex-
ception. Already the Dallas Negro
Chamber of Commerce is planning
on making this the biggest day in
the history of the Fair.
Zip Gayles' LangSton Lions
will be the homecoming attraction
Tor the Wildcats when the Okla
homans invade the local stadium
on November 8. The Wiley Home
coming is an established insti-
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Va. State
Begins Grid
Practice

PETERSBURG. Va. = (SNS)-
Harry R. Jefferson. head football
coach at Virginia State College.
estimated that approximately 35
men would be on hand here Tues
day, September 9, when the Tro-
jams open Fall practice to prime
for the 1941 G. l. A. A. grid-iron
wars.
Coach Jefferson. beginning his
eighth year at the helm. is faced
with the task of preparing a large
lv inexperienced team for a stiff
eight game schedule which opens
October 4, against the Big Blues at
Rluefiel6, West Virginia. Recent
action by Howard University has
cancelled the Howard-State game
scheduled for IOoober 18th IN
washington, D. C. AS yet the Tro~
jams have, not scheduled another
game to fill the gap. With moss
college scheduled already made up
it appears likely at the present
that the Trojans will have an open
date on October 18.
Always reluctant to make any
preseason statements, the TroJap
mentor admitted that the draft and
the defense industries with tls
June graduation had taken
loreater toll that had earlier been
anticipated. However, observed Big
Jeff the same factors that are
onerating to our disadvantage are
onerating to the disadvantage o.
most of the colleges in the couil-
trv and so there's no point ~
suuawking.
The Phoenix index., 1941-09-13
Louis-Nova Advance Ticket
Sale Past $780, 600 Mark

AS tickets went on sale this week
for the Joe Louis-Lou Nova world
heavyweight title match the the
Polo Grounds, Monday, September
%. the Twentieth Century Sporting
Club box-office reported that more
than 100000 in advance reServa-
tionS had already been received.
The tickets may be purchased at
the Madison Square Garden box
office on Eighth Avenue, between
49th and 50th Streets, and at the
offices of the Twentieth Century
S. c., 1919 Broadway. They are
priced at $3.50, $5.75, $11,50, and
$3.50 for reserved seats in the
stands, and $50 for ringSide seats
and upper stand box seats. These
are all reserved, of course, and the
prices include all taxes.
Louis, meanwhile, arrived in New
York Friday morning and made his
first stop at the New York Com
mission where he and the Chal-
lenger, Nova, went through the
formality of signing the articles of
agreement, as we'll as undergoing
physical examinations by the Com
missions doctors.
BEGINS DRILL
From the commission offices,
Louis left Immediately for his
training quarters at Greenwood
Lake, NJ Y, and Nova returned to
his Pompton Lakes, N. j., head
quarters.
Everything has been made ready
for the champion at Greenwood
Mamie Seaman has rounded up
strong set of sparmates and boxing
drills began Saturday.
Julian Black, Louis co-manager,
has been in town several days and
is more than little annoyed by the
rumors concerning the champions
condition.
Nov that Joe is here" says
Black, "the skeptics will be surpris-
ed to find him in as good condi-
ton as he ever is this far in ad-
vance of fight. He weighs only
208 pounds right now and he'll
weigh about 200 or 201 for the No
va fight. It's silly to say Joe is
slipping or is planning to retire be-
cause, for the first time in his ca
reer, he asked for postponement.
When Joe goes into the ring he's
in shape and he'll be that way for
Nova on the night of September
29. Retirement That's a joke. Slip
ping? You'll have the answer to
that when Nova joins the long list
of challengers whom Joe has kay
oed."
The Phoenix index., 1941-09-13
Ethiopian Clowns Set
New Record On Road

Fields 12,998 seats will be filled
to capacity as Roosevelt Davis
Macan, star Of the Denver Tour
nament, toes the slab in the first
game against Hilton Smith, ace
hurler of the Kansas City Mon
arch's staff. Peanut Nyassas, the
Clowns comedian and pitcher ex-
traordinary is slated to hurl
against Speedball Bradley in the
nightcap. Following are scores of
recent Ethiopian Clown results:
At Terra Haute, Ind.
Clowns 7, Barons 5
At Indianapolis, Ind.
Clowns -, Memphis Red Sox 6
At Cincinnati, Ohio
Clowns 9, Memphis 3
End game
Cwons 0, Memphis S
At Toledo, Ohio
Clcwns Q. Detroit 8
At Milwaukee, Wis.
Clowns /, Barons 2
At Winnipeg, Canada
Clowns 1, Barons 0
The Phoenix index., 1941-09-13
SPORTS SLANTS
BY LUCIUS JONES
Morris Brown, Morehouse, Alabama State,
Tuskegee Play Seven STAG Tits In l94l;
Clark, Lane, S. C. State, Knoxville Have Six

XAVIER UNIVERSITY of New Orleans, Louisiana
played difficult schedule in coored football last
year There 10 tough encounters The Gold Rush broke
even beating Tuskegee 1885, LIE Moyne 72 Lane CO. Wiley
ST. and Prairie View 130 while losing to Alabama State
1877 Iangston TO- Morris Brown 25O Florida 14l2 and
Southern $50. -,
This year. Athletic Director Theodore (ed) Wrights
sepa Catholics play tougher slate There are eleven
grueing engagements.
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Woman Is Seeking
Her Lost Brother

ATLANTA, Ga.-(SNS)--
Mrs. Salina Watson wishes to
locate her brother Mr.. Thomas
Strickland whose last known ad,
dress was 887 Greensferry Avenue
and his last place of employment
was 316 Peters Street S. w, Mrs
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Oct 27, Southern at Shreveport
(night).
Nov. 8, Langston at Marshall
Homecoming
Nov. IS Xavier at Alexandria,
La. CnighD.
Nov. 20, Texas College at Mar
shall.
Nov. 30, Bishop at Marshall.
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Starting the last Saturday in
this month and running success
sively without an open date any
week end, Xavier plays in the
following order: Tuskegee there,
Morehouse in New Orleans, LIE
Moyne there, Prairie View there,
Alabama State in New Orleans,
Langston three, Morris Brown in
New Orleans, Wiley at Alexan-
dria, Lane in New Orleans, Flor
ida there, and Southern there.
At the close of the 1910 foot
ball season. the nations big ten
was as follows:
(1) Morris Brown Purple VOL
verines
(2) Florida A. g. M. Rattlers
I3) Morgan State College Bears
"a Wilverforce Univ. Green
Wave
(5) Southern University Jaguars
(6) Prairie View State Panthers
(6) Johnson G. Smith Golden
Bulls
(7) Langston University Lions
(s> Kentucky State Thorobreds
(9) Alabama State College Hor'
nets
(fo) Lincoln Univ. (Pa.) Lions
Note that the Xavier 1941
schedule contains six (Morrls
Brown. Florida, Southern, Prai-
rie View. Langston. Alabama) Of
the top 10 clubs of last year.
Favored in the 1941 STAG grid
race with equal billing are Nor
Vi. Brown. Florida, Alabama and
Lane, with LeMoyne and Tuske'
gee presenting veteran teams
corceded una"estioned first divl'
sion possibilities.
Xavier plays all six!
If the Gold Rush can win as
m.nv a. six of those II games
IL has billed this year, it will be
nothing short of miraculous.
Morehouse 10 the seventh confer
ence foe ON Xavier's schedule
and the Maroon Tigers, whose
prosuects do not stack up with
the other sextet "on paper, are
nevertheless plenty over which to
say grace.
Other bell-ringing schedules
are those Of Morris Brown, Ala
bama and Morehouse, all of which
play seven conference engage
ments besides their other tests.
The Purple Wolverines have
Tuskegee, Morehouse, Florida,
Alabama, Xavier, lie Moyne ane
Clark in that order with fou,
straight headaches on the road
October rs through November Il
when Florida, Alabama, Xavier
and lie Moyne are met in Sc
quence.
Morris Brown people may a'
we'll forget triple championship
and Steel Bowl dreams. The Odds
against the Purple scoring anoth
er "grand slam" are prohibitive
But it is not an impossible fea
if John (Big Train) Moody is Is
there pitching" with the effect
iveness he did last season.
But, again, the odds are prett!
heavy that the big All-America,
fullback cannot duplicate sucl
phenomenal play, because, thi
year, the pressure will naturall.
be even more severe than lasi
campaign in that four of the ke.
games of 1941 are on the roa'
on successive week ends.
Other heavy conference sche
dulles this year, previously stated
are those of Alabama, Morehous
and Tuskegee.
Alabama, aside from outsid
play against Alabama A. & N
and Prairie View, takes on Le
Moyne, Florida, Lane, Xavier
Morris Brown, Morehouse ant
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thereby making it possible for the
hacks to flash their brilliance eX-
pect to see the following names
come in TO" their share of the glory:
BISHOP: Lester Eaton, Burton,
and Dewitt Bass.
SOUTHERN: Minis, Mitchell,
Hibbler, Rucker, Piper. and Moody.
/TEXAS COLLEGE: Boone. Wal
lace, baltimore, Brown and Cup
ton.
LANGSTON: Pierce, Hicks, and
johnson.
WILEY: Stewart, SprOtt, and
Upchurch.
PRAIRIE VIEW: Lilly, Nelson,
and Richardson.
ARKANSAS: Phillips and Brad
shaw.
The Phoenix index., 1941-09-13

Watson, nee Strickland, is very
anxious to get in touch with him,
Anyone knowing his whereabouts,
please get in touch with Mrs. Mary
Porter 276 FELTON, Dr., N. E Attain
Ia, Ga,
The Phoenix index., 1941-09-13
BY LUCIUS JONES
(SNS SpOrtS Edt0r)

The 1912 assembly Of the Southern Coaches and UIIIs
Associatio-its eighteenth annual fall woW-wl De
held in the convention city of Memphis Tennessee
That city ard Nashville had extended 1nVltatlons Nen-
nhis won out in the final balloting.
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ALL DAY ROUTINE

Following the all-day session Sat
urday, there was brilliant banquet
for the 10 coaches and officials,
topped off with a dance honorlng
the visiting delegates. Headquarters
were at Hotel Martin, along East
Ninth Street.
The days sessions were opened
Saturday with a welcome address
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that purpose.
MORE FIREWORKS

MORE FIREWORKS
Other heated discussions, espec-
tally one provoked by Coach A. ..
(Jake) Gather of Florida A. ano
M. college, in which he deploreo
gri6 officials coming upon the field
Of play with 'liquor on their their
breath" found the house in a SUI
The rules Interpretation period
was stormy as usual. the arbiters
themselves differing sharply on in
terpretations at various times , un,
til in the end, some final and
recognized views were adopted. r.
R. CASTOR, of the host committee
in Chattanooga, Tennessee, scene
of the 1941 meeting, presided as
Thirkield E. Cravens. Walter D.
Parks, and o. L. Goode.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-24
We're Still Ahead

Violent and sudden death is always a source of horror, whether it drops from the skies as in England or whether it rushes along the roads, as in the United States. The final figures on accidents for 194O are in, and they are national reproach; 96,500 dead, 9,100,000 injured. That is probably more than the dead and injured in Britain as result of air raids. Our dead are just as dead, our injured suffered no less excruciatingly.
 Motor vehicle accidents increased 6 per cent in field which had been able to reduce it's toll consistently for some years. Industrial accidents also increased, prob ably both due somewhat to the increased tempo of the arms drive. The National Safety Council is quite right in pointing out that there is now a further reason, aside from ordinary common sense, to try to reduce accidents in 1941 That is that every man or woman killed, every day lost through accidents is a drain on national defense at time when there is every reason to increase its strength and husband it's power.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-24

to combat starfish and are constantly warning on them. Oysterboats drag huge cotton nops through the waters over the privateiy-owned beds entangling many starfish, but the number still increases. And private growers say one reason IS because the state doesn't take the same means to combat the pests and it's natural beds, stretching out for acres near the mouth of the Housatonic River, are the hunting grounds of unmoleSted star fish.
 But having gorged themselves on these beds they migrate to the private ones where the states few remaining private growers have their interests invested. It does seem as if the state ought to combine with the private growers in year-round campaign to eradicate, drive away, and discourage the inroads of starfish in our oyster beds If the state is to retain its natural oyster beds it ought to make some effort to rid them of prey and thus give some incentive to private oyster growing. The industry is too worthwhile to be allowed to disintegrate before some thing that in itself is conqucrable.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-24
In Today's Mail

dren. Boys and girls of school age are found wandering aimlessdy in a daze, not knowing where to go, in towns and cities.
 The refugees are ragged, homeless and impoverished, and the efforts of those who seek to help them are nullified by the red tape of official ism who require bonds and pass ports before the refugees can leave the country. There still are some l50.000 of the refugees in France from Loyalist Spain. Concentration camps are filled with the old, sick and halt. blind and insane, and thousands of children. The trouble is that other countries who are will ing, like the government of Mexico that is willing to offer sanctuary to 10000 of the Spanish refugees at government expense, are hampered by the lack of means of transporta- tion.
 Many refugees in the French con- centration camps are Italians, who left Italy before the outbreak of war, to escape military service, and are now homeless and penniless. It is estimated that there now are 60,- 100000 people, made homeless by wars, 100000 of whom are in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-24
Selected Poem
WINTER QUARTERS
(Peter J. He,miker Heaton in the Christian
 Science Monitor)

(Peter J. He,niker Heaton in the Christian
 Science Monitor) Somewhere no doubt Spring is at his typewriter with fingers moving from key to key, Or for he is chairman of large corporation, dictatng letters to his secretary. He has finished his duties south of the equator and now he has crossed to the northern hemi-
 sphere,
 dusting his files looking up his registers, remembering how we like things here. Somewhere no doubt Spring is in his otf1ce, talking with directors, executives, and clerks, calling for the poet, his advertising manager and the March wind, foreman of his works. Outside snow is falling on the windowpane, but April is already in his thought coltsfoot in the meadows and sunbeams in the
 woodland,
 tangled in the first green startled at being caught Somewhere there is effort and stern upstrivng, tunneling in darkness. digging underground, toll and hard labor, nothing yet to show for it, soil reluctant and earth hard bound. But Spring suddenly has risen from his letterbook knows that all is cared for, everything rehearsed glances at the window, crosses to his almanac, quietly underlines March the twenty-hrst
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-24
We Suffer, Too

It is too bad that the proposed bond issue of the City of Waterbury must sui fer from the publicity attending the ef- forts of Mayor Jasper McLevy of Bridge port. The Park City, through its Social ist mayor, would have the 1941 General Assembly do as have many before It - approve a refunding bond issue. Four times has Mayor McLevy made such plea to the Legislature before and four times has it been heard and approved But this is a different bunch of legisla- tors and they don't seem to be too anX- ious to allow Bridgeport to continue the custom which is claimed to be tax saver.
 Waterbury, likewise, seeks bond issue, hot for refunding purposes, but for cap ital improvement program. The issue would be used for a definite project and not to retire any of the city's outstanding bonded indebtedness nor to pay off cur rent obligations. That will be taken care of through income as it was very nicely last year, the first of the Scully regime. On this score there can be no comparl- son between the two issues, but unfortu- nately at Hartford legislative sentiment is not disposed to consider the two cases separately but rather as one.
 If Waterbury loses it's bond issue simply because of Democratic opposition to the bridgeport bond bill, the Legislature will be actually playing politics with the entire situation. There are claims now that politics actuates the opposition to the Bridgeport bill. We hope not, for if simply miSlabels our own efforts down here to raise funds for an improvement program of long standing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-24


 The mere creation of four or more new dumping grounds in the City of Water bury won't eliminate the problem we now have. AS our civic authorities well know even dumping sites, which are plainly labeled public" require constant super vision A Unless the city is prepared to give this type of service it can expect to be deluged with protests from time to time about promiscuous dumping of rub bish on private property. When public dumping ground is made available the public quickly comes to the conclusion that almost any spot within radius ot half a mile of it is included in the public area. As a result trash is scattered far and wide and asforce of men is required to clean it up and deposit it where it won't offend That's why the job of con trolling and managing public dumps IS no easy one. It demands 24-hour day supervision and some policing, too.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-24

China, made homeless by the war in that country. In the years 1928, ,29 and 30, more than 12,00O, 900 starved to death in China. In all history there has never been any, thing so appalling. Whole villages were wiped out. Cholera, typhus, even cannibalism was resorted to by the famine crazed humans. Every where disease and degradati ton were turned loose in an area half as large as Europe. People who have imagination can understand the horrors of such a situation due to insane wars.
 What could and what has been done by such organizations as the Quaker committee of the Society of Friends who give their services free- ly because they hate war, and their hearts are filled with genuine Chris tianity, and by the Red Cross was and in only like drop of water in the sea. Verify, verify, the Four Horsemen are in the saddle, and the world today is facing worse to come. Quo Vadis?
 American Patrol.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-24
PIastics as Ersatz Materials

Fortunately the plastic industry has had a great development in the United States during the past few years. Never before have there been so many materials available with such a variety of proper ties. And just in time, too. The Natlonal Defense Commission has already told magnesium producers that for the time being they should allot all their stocks to denfense industries. Magnesium alloys are used to produce strong, light metal of the greatest use in the airplane lnduS- trv. That is one field in which Germany has headstart. It is widely using mag. nesium metals in its planes instead or aluminium. The United States had made a start in magnesium production, but thls NDC request indicates that 1t has not yet progressed far enough for defense neeoS, let alone for other peace-time purposes III addition.
 The NDC has also requested that non defense industries devise means ot replac-. ing aluminium in their products with sub stitute materials including plastics. That means ersatz in the German manner, though fortunately it should not involve any hardship or any inferior products, TOT inmost oftheSe cases the finished product will be just as good made from the substl- ute materials as originally; in most cases e, the buyer probably won't ever know the difference. This is going to give a sudden artificial impulse to the plastic industry, which is already growing by leaps and ma bounds. Cases, cabinets, and housings for business machines, scales, radios, vacuum cleaners; kitchen utensils, flashlight cases, cameras, even the bodies of automobiles, may soon be coming off the production lines in plastic or other materials rather than aluminium or magnesium metals badly needed for defense.
 It isn't a case of accepting shoddy ersatz goods of inferior quality. It is merely a matter of change. And the changes brought about may well continue after the emergency has passed. It is more than possible that it may be so great as to alter visibly the size of the industries con- cerned, meaning fewer jobs in metals ana more in plastics later on. That is Just one more way of the hundreds of ways m which the defense emergency is altering our ways of life, perhaps for good.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-24

o. Is Michael ever used as Q feminine name?
 A. Michal, another form of Michael. is the name of the daugh- ter of King Saul in the Bible. It is occasionally used as a feminine name. The name means "like unto God"
 o. How much moisture does a male adult lose in day through perspiration?
 A. About eighteen ounces.
 o. Why are reconnaissance or observation airplanes called the flying eyes of the Army?"
 A. They are used to obtain i'm mediate, accurate information about the enemy. The value of aerial re- connaissance has been greatly in- creased by the improvement of aerial photography which, with the use of panchromatic and infra-red film, enables pictures to be taken through haze, fog, or even light clouds.
 @. Name the dental surgeon who operated on the Duchess of Windsor at Miami, in December, 1940 A. pr. Horace L. Cartee. If you want copy of the leaf let MOTOR LAWS" send to the
 Waterbury Democrats Washing ton Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth St., Washington, D. c. Enclose four
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-24

The more one views the condition Of Bank Street from Meadow Street to the Naugatuck River the more you become convinced that this stretch of a very busy and important thoroughfare de- mards the attention now being consld- cred for it. In addition to giving the street new surface, it should be widened, a new layout adopted for it. It actually is a bottle-neck for traffic between the two points indicated above and certainly something should be done to push gack the existing building line so that the nec- essary alterations can be made. The lasting benefits gained by this would more than offset any inconvenience
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-24
More Help Needed

One of the least publicized and hence little-known industries of Connecticut IS oyster-growing. Every so often we hear and read about this branch of our fish ing trade, but the average person IS Ger, tainiv not aware of the fact that Sound waters off Connecticut produce annually d fair share of the oysters we consume. But this industry faces possible extinction unless something can be done to control the inroads of starfsh. They are the natural enemy of oysters and of recent wears their ravages in oyster-bedS have reached the danger-point
 Connecticut growers have taken means