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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-22
HALF CENTURY
 OF CAGE GAME
 TO BE MARKED
Temple of BasketbaIl'' In Springfield, Mass,
 Will Be Built
By PAUL scHEFFELs

United Press Stan Correspcndentl
 New York, oct. 22--(UP)--Ba ball--the most popular sport in the entire category of competitive ath- letics--lnarks it's 50th anniversary with the 194i-42 season.
 It had its origination in the win- ter of 1891 when a far-seeing man named James Nalsmith hung a peach-basket at each end of a gym nasium and prescribed certain principles on which his new game was to be played. The first game was an immediate success and its popularity became assured but not even the late Dr. Naistnith appre- ciated to what lengths his sport would 60.
 Today basketball is played by thousands of high schools and col- leges, also amateur and profess sional teams. In more than 1,700 colleges 1t Is 8 major athletic acc tivity and 1t finds the same rank In more than 18,0O0 high schools and preparatory schools. Statements vary as to the attendance at bas- ketball games in a single year but 1t Is generally agreed that more than 90,000, ,000 people have watched the games in the past i2 months.
 Brightens Sports Calendar
 Take basketball out of the sport picture and you would have an empty spot which no other sport can fill. It has become part and parcel of the American way of life.
 Obviously 1t is only fitting to do honor to the memory of man who made such a generous contribution to the American sports scene. A year of international celebration Will begin in December, with the focal point at Springfield, Mass. The Naismith Memorial Committee will direct activities in the United States, Canada, Mexico and South Amer lea with its primary purpose to raise funds to erect @ suitable memorial.
 The memorial will be known as the Temple of Basketball" and will include basketball's Hall of Fame, an historical museum, and model bas- ketball court.
 The Temple will bear the same re- lationshlp to the court game as baseballs Hall of Fame at Coopers- town, N. F., bears to the diamond pastirne. And 1t will have the same significance in regard to the found- CT oG the game as the Walter Camp Memorial at New Haven has for the father of the American gridiron San0.
 stars To Be HOnored
 In it also will be perpetuated the names and accomplishments of bas. ketball's foremost players, past, pres- ent and future. Deposited and safe- guarded will be documents, souve. Flirs, and records. And enshrined each year in @ suitable manner will be the names of the recognized an- uual all-America basketball teams.
 To facilitate returns in the cam caigy, the committee will establish network of Golden Ball games throughout the Western Hemisphere. tn each instance of Golden Ball game, the local authorities in charge of the contest, will be asked to do- nate the proceeds of the contest.
 The Hall of Fame, long-hoped- for dream of basketball authorities, should finally be realized.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-22
BILL COWLEY HOCKEY
 HOLDOUT TO BRUINS

Boston, Oct. 22.-(UP)-All-sta center Bill Cowley, winner of thu Hart trophy and leading scorer il the National Hockey league last sea son, was listed as holdout today at the Boston Bruins training cazlj at Hershey, Pa.
 Cowley, three days overdue at ths camp, has not submitted his signed contract, a prerequisite to report ing. His place on Boston's seconA line forto nights exhibition gant with Hershey will be filled by Franl Mario, 20-year-old rookie.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-22

lines and teams which aren't in- clined to give up. Last season Penn spotted Cornell two touchdowns be- fore winning out. 22-20, in one of the years tilrillers. One good reas- on was that Munger Is Q stickler on physical condition. He Is a big, physically hard man himself = in his undergraduate days he was used as e model by several famed sculp- tors-an0 he reasonably insists that his players be at least as flt as their coach.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-22
DONOVAN AT HUB

Boston, Oct. 22.-UP)-Jackie Donovan, promising Buffalo. N. Y., middleweight and Henry Chmielew- ski of Boston clash in an eight round bout tonight in the feature attraction of the Boston Boxing as- sociation,s initial promotion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-22

three strings, plus prizes for atten- dance and kicker.
 The schedule calls for two rounds of bowling, the first round to be known as the American league, the second round as the National league.
 Upon the completion of both rounds of bowling, the first round to be known as the American league, the second round as the National league.
 Upon the completion of both rounds the winners of the American and National leagues will compete in little Worlds Series to deter mine the Power Company's cham pions and prize winners.
 Handicap System
 The league, as in the past, will be conducted on a handicap basis with point system of scoring to be continued. By this method, the teams will be awarded one point for each game won and a point for the highest team total pinfall in each match, which without question will continue the great competitive spirit in the league.
 There are no greater bowling en- thusiasts than the Power Company employees and the bowling commit tee has made every effort to organize a league of the same high calibre as those which have staged the great races in former years and in order to make the competition keen, the committee has arranged to award the most attractive weekly and seasons prizes in its history.
 Tn accordance with the leagues custom, the seasons prizes will be presented at the annual banquet at the end of the season which is al- ways the grand finale to the leagues activities.
 The members, names and num- bers of teams are as follows:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-22
GILBERT WINS

Hartford, Conn, Oct. 22.-CUP)- Al Gilbert, l61. New Haven, sprung minor surprise by winning a de- cis1on over -Waddell Washington, 162, Springfield, Mass, in the fea- lure eight-round bout on a boxing card here last night.
 Willie Pep, l27, undefeated Hart ford featherweight, scored a two- round knockout over Conny Savoy, l28, Brooklyn. in what was sched- uled for an eight-round semi-final.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-22
FIGHT RESULTS

Hartford, Conn: Al Gilbert, l6i, New Haven, outpointed Waddell Washington. l62, Springfield, (0; Willie Pep, 127, Hartford, knocked out Conny Savoy, 12S, Brooklyn, (2).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-22
1s HORSES CLArNrED

New York.-With owners gettinA ready or winter racing, IS horsea were claimed at Jamaica in a week They brought $37,450.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-22
OLD FOOTBALL RIVALRY

Notre Dame.-Notre Dame and Indiana renewed one of the oldest football rivalries in the middle west. The Hoosiers won the first game in ieeo.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-22
Hurley Says New Menoee Would Swot chOmp First
BY HARRY CRIMSON NEA Service Sports Writer

NEFA SSA NASC 0RVAS1 WAASSA
 New York, Oct. 22-Jack John son kept Sam Langford waiting for nine years. never did give the Boston Tar Baby another chance after their meeting in Chelsea, Mass, in 1906.
 One outing with Than was suf- flcient for LII Arthur.
 Lemuel Henry Franklin hopes for better treatment from. Joe Louis, though last winter and spring there was early indication that the cham pion's handlers want no part of the new Dark Destroyer.
 While Louis was collecting from $12,000 to $l6,000 for nudging over a rare assortment of round-heels in The Bum of -the-Month Club pro- gram, Irving Schoenwald offered him a 25,000 guarantee to expose his classic features to the thunder ing fists of Lem Franklin in Chi- cago.
 John Peterborough and Julian Back, handlers of Louis, asked :he promoter if he suspected they were born the day before yesterday.
 But the ferocious Franklin has established himself now, and will be heard from every time Louis tackles anybody else.. in or out of the army.
 Franklin Is the top challenger beyond any question, and what is more important is the fact that he is an attraction.
 Any fighter who sets a record for an indoor fight in a boxing town as tough as Cleveland-13,- 256 paid admissions and $3l ,624- as Franklin did in thrice dropping and stopping ample Abe Simon, has indeed been touched by bucks of- flee magic.
 A NEGRO HEAVY WHO IS NOT A COUNTER PUNCHER
 While marking time for Louis, Franklin is specializing in beating the champions time.
 Franklin had the 255-pound Si- mon swaying like a poorly con- structed building in an earthquake before he could say T want 8 match with Louis" and then knocked him flat on his back.
 Simon was in no condition to continue in the fifth. He lasted 13 rounds with Louis. Tony Musto was floored four times and halted in the second. He went nine with Louis.
 Franklin, 24, standing six feet two and weighing POI, has the slop- ing shoulders of the great hitter that he is.
 For the first time since Lang words days, the ring has a Negro heavyweight who is not counter puncher. Johnson and or liar Wills were definitely counter punch CTS. So Is Louis.
 Jack Hurley, who had Billy Pc. trolle, the Old Bloke in the Elan. ket of happy memory, manages Franklin. He tells you emphati- cally that Franklin would knock out Louis.
 He'd hit him first, and Louis can't take a punch," asserts Hur- ley. Tt wouldn't surprise me fl Franklin flattened him in Round One"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-22
FRANKLIN SELLS HURLEY;
 AIMS TO CONVINCE WORLD

Like Louis, Franklin is Alabama born. He first saw the light of day in Mobile, but his parents took him to Cleveland when he was five. He is one of nine children. He attend ed high school in Cleveland, where he dabbled in other sports but ex- 'elled in none. He broke in as an amateur there while working as a bell boy and porter in a downtown hotel. He Is married and about to become a father.
 While Franklin is unbeaten in two years, he did not start getting anywhere in particular until Hur- ley picked him up in Chicago six months ago. He had previously been guided by his father, Irving, and Leon Motts of Chicago. His father still trains him, though Hurley is one of the more skill full conditioners as well as being 6 fine instructor and second.
 Franklin now has had 33 pro- fessional matches and has won 25 by knockouts. Listed among his kayo victims are, in addition to Musto and Simon, Lee Savold, Ed die Simms and the formidable Me- groes, Willie Reddish, Eddie Blunt, Jimmy Bivins and Curtis Sheppard.
 Hurley, Q manager of the old school, refused to ballyhoo Frank lin before he was certain that his charge was ready.
 Now that Jack Hurley is con- vinced, Lem Franklin can be de- pended upon to convince a lot of other people.
 Above all, he would like the op- portunity to convince Joe Louis.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-01-03
RACE ISSUE ISINJECTED IN ROCKWELL,
CUSTER HEARINGS; CITIZENS PROTEST
Stassen Wire to N.A.A.C.P.

To Mr. Walter White Secretary, N.AAC.P
deeply the incident you refer and already
for special council hearing
which Mr. Rockwell involved As undoubtedly
administration and myself personally only
tolerant Of the coOred people, but assisting
We have cooperaed making possible the
privileged colOred children through the Phyllis Wheatey
employed Oored
and statewide civil does discrimination
them We have refused exrade people back
prison the South where equity showed that he should
extradd We have followed firm policy of discriminating
welfare aid in the
Employment Agency
fairness Attorney General
the question used have apparently been informed
rather inquiry into particular the Commissioners
home connection with which the activity avowed Trotsky
Communist who had been connected with the
this this
he asked the regrettabe question regarding
HAROLD E. STASSEN.
Of Roekwe nindd
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-01-03
Candidates In
Bonneville Race
To Be Feted

Executive Board to Entertain
The Board of Directors and Com
mittees of the Associated Negro
Credit Union will entertain the can
didates and the elected Mayor of
Bonneville and their wives at a
turkey dinner Monday evening,
January 6, at seven fifteen.
The guests will be entertained at
the johnson Fireside Tea Room at
355 St. Anthony Ave-, St. Paul, and
the proprietor will have charge of
serving the dinner.
The Board of Directors have per-
sonally assumed the promotion of
this dinner to show their apprecia-
ton for the cooperative spirit of
the candidates and for their inter
est in helping to successfully main
tain the Associated Negro Credit
Union.
The Board of Directors are: Rev.
Carlyle Stewart, Percy Hughes,
Mrs. DeVelma Newman, DR.. Earl
Weber, W. D. Walker, Clarence
Smith, and Talmadge Carey. Com
mittee members are: C. w. Wash
ington, Mrs. Izetta Greer, Tom
Carroll, George G. Mundell, ]. B.
Levy and John Moultrie.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-01-03
Missouri Lawyer
Named To High
st. Louis Post

St. Louis - Especially A due
acknowledgment and honor of the
Negro came this week when St.
Louis new circuit attorney, the
former Congressman Thomas C..
Hennings, Jr., announced the ap-
pointlnent of the astute orator and
scholarly attorney David M. Grant,
as assistant circuit attorney in
charge of extradition and bond for
FIXTURES, legal research and brief
ing.
Thus, on January 1, at $4,000 a
year, Grant, who resigned last
week as assistant city counselor to
accept the new position, took over
the duties handled by only one 9TH
er St. Louis Negro IL years ago.
The appointment, coming just
five weeks after Hennings won the
Democratic race for circuit attor-
ney, after resigning as congress
man from the Eleventh Missouri
district where he served for six
years, has struck the fancy of both
Democratic and Republican lead
ers alike. The Negro leaders are
expressing an assurance that the
recognition of Grant by Hennings
is the beginning of a move in the
direction of a greater and just rec
ignition that should come to the
Negro people who form one-eighth
of the city's population.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-01-03
Demi-TaSse to
Feature Stars

Radio personalities, artists Of
various nationalities, refugees from
Germany and local artists will be
featured Thursday, January 9, al
p. m, in the Halle @. Brown
House at a Demi- Tasse, sponsored
by the WOmen's Auxiliary of the
st. Paul Urban League.
Beginning promptly, the pro-
gram will present Miss Mary Proal
indeke, director of WTCN's "Fo1
the Ladies" program. Werner
Levy, outstanding German attor-
ney who recently fed from the
Nazi rule in Germany, viii give a
short talk. Miss Juanita Rengell
Mexican soloist, will sing the folk
songs of her country.
Ukrainians from the Information
al Institute will dance in native
costumes. Miss Dorothy Munson
will do an Indian dance. Henry
Bannon, Twin City sculptor, will
exhibit his work. Mrs. C. Sharp,
collector of Oriental art, will ex-
hibit some pieces from her collec-
ton as well as some of her own
paintings on silk and glass.
Mrs. Idelle Patton, who has been
working with Mrs. C. Rosenberg
Foster of Chicago on Trash Crafts,
will exhibit some of her creations
The Singing Milk Maid of KSTP
will be among those giving musical
selections as well as Elmer Harris
baritone; the Grace Notes, with
Mrs. Theodore Allen as soloist; the
Halle Q. Brown Quartet, and the
Phyllis Wheatley String Ensemble
Admission to the affair will be
twenty-five cents and during the
program members of the board Of
the Urban League will be intro
duced.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-01-03
In Your Paper %.

oNews about local people, your
friends and neighbOrs, given you
while it's news.
o Editorials concerning local prob
lens, written by persons familiar
and sympathetic with them.
o Comment from the Negro Press
from all parts of the nation.
OFeatures such as "Inquisitive
SAL" Listen to This" "Abbe Wal
lace" Poetic Thoughts" Twin
Town Talk (the two towns killer
diIler and most widely-read col
umn).
0 Advertisements from many of
the leading firms in the community
all anxious to serve our readers
and approaching their patronage.
elm the Spotlight" by Jimmy
Lee, written by an athlete who
knows what it's all about"
OAND a policy Of news presenta-
ton and editorial policy which has
gained for II notice all over the
nation.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-01-03
EMANCIPATION ami
VERSARY CELEBRATED

New Years Day at IL a. m, the
Camphor Memorial Methodist
church, 5S5 Fuller avenue, cele-
brated the 18th anniversary of the
signing of the Emancipation proc
lamation by Abraham Lincoln. The
principal speaker for the occasion
was Rev. Albert E. Tuck, pastor of
Holman Methodist church. The
Emancipation proclamation was
read by Samuel Reed, president of
the St. Paul branch of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People.
The musical portion of the pro-
gram included solos by Mrs. Susie
Gaylord, contralto, and Zachery T.
Munson, baritone. The Rev. Clar-
ence T. R. Nelson, pastor, made a
few comments.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-01-03
Burnquist Silent

J. A. A. Burnquist, attorney gen
eral, when asked for a statement
on the matter said:
until l can get all the facts
in the case we will say nothing
about it. There was no reflection
made upon the colored people. In
so far as 1 personally am con-
cerned, l knew nothing about it.
We cannot make a statement until
we get further facts"
On the day after Evans made his
statement, Clarence M. Mitchell,
Jr., executive secretary of the st.
Paul Urban League. appeared at
the hearing. He charged that the
attorney generals assistant was
apparently trying to becloud the
real issues by injecting racial pref
udice. He asserted that DIR. Rock
we'll had been fair to colored people
in the Department of Education
and that the Evans question was
an insult to the intelligence of the
people of Minnesota.
The national office of the MA.
A.C.P. notified of the attorney-gen-
erals office attempt to inject racial
prejudice wired Gov. Harold Stas-
sen a strong protest.
Governor Stassen's reply to Wal
ter White, N.A.A.C.P. secretary,
appears on this page.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-01-03
Judge Decides
Leg Wound Is
Enough For Man
CAFE BRAWLER LIMPS INTO
COURT; GETS SUSPENDED
SENTENCE

A bullet wound in the leg was
sufficient punishment for Charles
Bradley, 40 years old, 254 East
Fourteenth St., st. Paul, who Great
ed a disturbance in a Broadway
cafe, Judge John W. Finehout de-
cided Tuesday in municipal court.
He suspended a 30-day work
house sentence after Bradley
limped into court and pleaded gull
ty to disorderly conduct.
Witnesses testified that Bradley
was shot early December "a by
Ashley T. Harris, proprietor of
Harris Cafe, 900 Broadway, st.
Paul, after Bradley attempted to
attack Harris with a knife.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-01-03
PAULINE ALEXANDER OFF,
CIAL DELEGATE TO BoULE

Pauline Alexander, 425 St. An
thony avenue, student at the Uni
versity of Minnesota, left Wednes-
day, December rs, for Kansas City
to attend the Alpha Kappa Alpha
Boule where she is the official dele
gate from Eta Chapter at the Uni
versity of Minnesota. Soror Bea'
trice Schuck, 500 Rondo avenue, ac-
companied Miss Alexander. Fol
lowing the closing sessions of the
Boule, the Misses Alexander and
Schuck will go to Topeka, Kansas
for the duration of the holidays
and will be the house guests Of
Miss Schuck's grandmother, Mrs
Samuel Schuck of Topeka.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-01-03
Woman Found
Dead In MINNEAPOLIS

Mrs. Eva Robinson of 1917 South
Fifth Street was found dead in her
home on Sunday, December 29.
Mrs. Robinson is a native of
Tennessee and came to Minneapo-
lis 20 years ago.
Funeral services were held at
Border NJ. E. Church at 10 o'clock
Tuesday, Dec. 81, with Rev. A. R.
Howard officiating. Miss June
Hawkins sang a solo, Precious
Lord, Take My Hand" at the
service.
Surviving Mrs. Robinson is her
daughter, Mrs. Irene Boone; a son,
William farmer; two granddaugh-
tiers, Mrs. Juanita Simms and Mrs.
Anna Wright.
Neal Funeral Home was in
charge of burial with interment in
Hillside cemetery.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-01-03
Mother to Plead
For Doomed Son

Mrs. Annie Waller, mother of
Odell Waller, convicted sharecrop-
per, will visit the Twin Cities JAN
uary 9, 10 and IL to make an ap-
peal on behalf of her son.
Mrs. Waller is at present on a
nationwide tour under the sponsor
ship of the Workers Defense
League and the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement Of Col
ored People.
Odell Waller, her son, was SEN
fenced to die on December 81 in
Virginia, but a stay Of execution
has been granted to permit an ap-
peal to the United States Supreme
Court.
Mrs. Waller will make several
speeches in the Twin Cities. Watch
your local newspapers for the time
and place.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-01-03
julius A. Schmahl
Plays Santa

Several employees of the Depart
ment of Public Property received
a Christmas present from State
Treasurer julius Schmahl on the
eve of Christmas. The gift was
one that the whole family could
enjoy. Presentation being made
through Huron Shelton, ST., twen-
ty year state employee.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-01-03
Watson to Lead
Mixed Singers

An effort to form an inter-racial
chorus, under the direction of
Chester Watson, St. Paul singer,
will be made on Friday, January
8, at 8 p. M, in the headquarters
of the Hotel and Restaurant Work
ers Union, 665, 9O2 Hennepin Ave.
All persons interested in becom-
ing members Of the chorus should
report tonight friday at the
Hennepin Avenue address.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-01-03
HENNEPIN FL
CHANGES POLICY

An invitation for all groups and
organizations to join the Hennepin
County Farmer-Labor Association
was voted at the organizations
convention Sunday.
Previously only ward clubs and
trade unions could hold member
ship. The group will recommend
similar action for the state asso-
citation.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-01-03
State Employee
Now Permanent

Miss Beneta A. Edwards, 244 W.
Central Avenue, successfully COM
pleted a six months probationary
period under the State Civil Serv-
ice Act. She has been employed as
Clerk in the Division of Employ
ment and Security since July, 1889.
Lloyd Shanks and Andrew Owens
of Minneapolis also are employed
by the State in the same depart
ment.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-01-03
Rockwell Hits
Racial Bias at
Custer Hearing
Burnquist Refuses to Give
Statement; Evans Al
legged to Be iii
Rockwell Tells Hearing That
He Doesn't Draw
Color Line

A retort that NJ. Tedd Evans, as
sistant attorney general, should be
ashamed of himself for raising a
racial issue drew applause from a
crowd of over 204 persons in the
State Office building, Wednesday,
at hearing in connection with an
effort of the State Board of Educa-
ton to GUST Commissioner John
G. Rockwell.
The reply was made by Mr..
Rockwell himself, after Mr.. Evans
asked whether Negroes had been
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-01-03
Mrs. Morris Gibbs
Suddenly Stricken

Striker by a sudden illness which
necessitated an operation, Mrs.
Morris Gibbs, wife of one of the
owners of the J. and H. Laundry,
is recovering at Bethesda Hospital
this week.
Mrs. Gibbs was taken to the hos
pital on December 81 from her
home at 288 N. st. Adams Street.
She is expected at home within ten
or twelve days.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-01-03
DIXON JAILED AFTER WELD.
IND THREE BEER BOTTLES

Climaxing an argument that
started with words and ended with
beer bottles, Charles Dixon, 1886
Rondo avenue, was jailed and Miss
Mabel Motley, 418 Rondo avenue,
was taken to Ancker Hospital for
treatment.
According to witnesses, Miss
Motley was hit over the head three
times by Dixon with three beer
bottles. In Municipal Court, Mon
day morning, December 80, Dixon
pleaded guilty before Judge John
W. Finehout and was given a 80
day workhouse sentence for dis
orderly conduct.