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Evening star., 1942-07-25
Army Squad 10 Train
Al Santa Maria for
Game With Skins

The Western All-Star Army foot
ball team, which will play the
Washington Redskins at Los An
geles on August 80, will establish a
training camp at Santa Maria,
Calf, early next month, it has been
announced here by Army Emer-
gency Relief headquarters.
Maj Wallace Wade, former Duke
and Alabama coach, will assemble
former collegiate and professional
stars at the West Coast camp, while
Col. Robert Neyland. former Ten
nessee coach. will handle the East
ern Army All-Star squad.
The Eastern squads training site
has not been announced, but West
Point, N. Y, has been mentioned
prominently as the most probable
location.
Evening star., 1942-07-25
A. Clarke to Quit
D. 6. for Florida

Resigning as manager Of the
Lafayette Bowling Center and
selling his Arlington home, Astor
Clarke, No. duckptn bowler Of
the country, with his family viii
leave for Tampa, Fla. August /
for an indefinite stay. -,
Clarke said today he had no
definite plans for the future, that
the change In residence is being
made at the behest Of his wife,
Kathleen, who for . number Of
years has been employed by q
lumber company Of Arlington.
Whether he win seek q Govern
ment job or return to the bowling
business is the matter the king Of
the mapleways viii decide later.
Evening star., 1942-07-25
Fights Last Night

RH the Associated Press.
MOUNT FREEDOM, N. j.
Charlie Williams, 1856, Newark,
outpointed Larry Thomas, 142,
Philadelphia 49,.
WATERBURY, Conn. - Irish
Eddie Dolan, l4l, Waterbury,
knocked out Rego Dell, l45!,
Scranton, Pa. %.
HALIFAX.-Bernie Miller, 40.
New York. knocked out joey
Bagnato. 139, Toronto %.
HOLLYWOOD. Juan Zurita,
1851. Mexico City, outpointed
Richie Lemos. 1924, Los Angeles
uo).
Evening star., 1942-07-25
Crack kMehIer-King Bowling Duo
Surprises Clarendon Stars

Alma Mehler and Bill King, all
star Bethesda Bowling Center two
some, today looked to new fields
after triumphing over the stellar
combination of Madge Lewis and
AL Wright of Clarendon in a 5-game
match. 1.248 to 1919.
With Mrs. Mehler hitting for 153
and 592 and Sailor Bill banging out
656, the host team was too far in
Evening star., 1942-07-25
Columbus Big Threat
To Mi|waukee's Bid
For Lead in A. 4.
D, the Associated Press.


American Association clubs which
ganged up on Kansas City Thursday
and handed the Blues their third
successive spanking In all-star COM
petition returned today to more GUS
tomary pursuits-those of kicking
each other around in the tight pen-
nant fight.
The best demonstrat tion of this
probably will be found at Milwaukee,
where the resurging Brewers and
Columbus battle 1t out for second
place In . single game today and
double -header tomorrow.
The winner may even wind up
heading the league If crippled Kansas
City continues to slump. The Blues
have lost six Of their last eight
games in the flag chase and now
lead Milwaukee by a single game
and Columbus by q game and half
Meantime a burst of hitting has
carried the Brewers to six straight
victories, q streak they'll try to pro-
tect against the Redbirds. who have
won four OF their last six starts.
Evening star., 1942-07-25
Kova|eski, Daily Clash
For Junior Crown
Al Western Net
B. tire Associated Press.

BE tFe ABS0ClAIeu Pfess.
CHICAGO, July 25.-The Western
tennis tournament will crown its
first 1912 champion today when Fred
Kovaleski, Detroit youngster, opposes
Lawrence DAILY Of Chicago in the
final Of the junior singles division.
Kovaleski, paired with Arthur
Macdonald of Los Angeles. also has
reached the semifinals of the mems
doubles division.
In today's women's singles, the
favored Catherine Wolf of Elkhart,
Ind, will attempt to eliminate an
other obstacle in her path to a title
when she meets Eleanor Cushing
ham Of Chicago In the semihnals.
Evening star., 1942-07-25
Boostful Pilot Queered
BY Hoodoo Hurler
D3 the Associated Press.

NJ tne A1SoctAted Press.
ATLANTA. July 25.-Paul Rich.
ards, manager Of the Southern AS.
sociation Atlanta Crackers, lectured
his gang on how to handle Big Bin
Seinsoth, New Orleans pitcher
against whom they were hitting
little rollers into the ground or
lifting little foul flies." .>
Toward game end. with the bases
loaded and one down, Richards
called for q bat, took the pinch-hit-
ting chore and predicted q homer
Just to show them.
Getting back to the dugout, he re.
marked. well. boys, I'm a Seinsoth
convert" He'd hit . little grounder
into . double play.
Evening star., 1942-07-25
Only One Victim
In Double kuyo
p the Associated Press.

~ the A6sOclAtc0 Pre6S.
SAN DIEGO, Calf, July 25.-
Jimmy Maddux, Canadian junior
welterweight and former Omaha
boxer. was knocked out twice In
the same night.
Maurice Woods. San Diego
Negro welter. stopped him In two
rounds. Then Maddux, leaving
the ring, was angered by COM
ments of bleacherites and swung
on one.
It happened to be Kid Lester,
San Diego middleweight, and
down went Maddux again.
Evening star., 1942-07-25

front last night at Bethesda when
the invaders made q st-same spurt
as Speedbauer Al f1red 100 to climax
his top set OF SIT. while Mrs. Lewis
Tailed $40 for her five strings. r
1t was the second straight defeat
for the Lewis-Wnght team after
winning four straight matches. 4
return engagement will be rolled at
Clarendon next Wednesday.
Evening star., 1942-07-25

Farkas, the proud papa Of baby
girl, currently is employed In the
Ford bomber plant at Detroit. Hand
icapped by an ailing knee last year
he did not approach the form dis
played in his rookie year when he
led the league in touchdowns with
II. This year Is regarded as his do
or-die chance.
Todd, who spent the OF season on
q ranch near Crowell, Tex. WAS one
Of the circuits most elusive broken
field runners before an injury laid
him low last autumn.
Evening star., 1942-07-25
1oe Racing Leads All Sports Far Removing Cash From Fans Pockets
Grand Slam on Sectional Links
Now Looms for Mrs. Stokes
Way Clear for Maryland, D. c. Golf Queen
To PIoy in Mid-AtIontic Championship

ington isn't strictly topnotch,
judged by national standards. It
should be, but the fact is that it
isn't. But Mrs. Stokes has been
such q standout this year that 1t
Is too bad she cannot take . whtrl
at the national championship. She
is playing well enough to do well
In the big one.
The women's national. like the
other USGA championships, was
cancelled earlier In the year, al-
though 1t IL plain now that the
USGA didn't help itself or golf by
canceling the tournaments. Part
Of their plant was based on the
declaration that the championships
wouldn't be real ones because the
potential champs all would be In
the service. So Marvin Ward, Pat
Abbott, Dick Chapman and other
good amateurs played in the Tam
O'Shanter tourney although In uni
form, and Vic Ghezzi and Mike
Turnesa played in the PGA. The
womens championship could have
been held and should have been
held.
Can Complete Grand Slam
Mrs. Stokes win have the chance
In the mid-Atlantic to do some
thing no woman around town has
been able to do, even In the years
when Marion Brown, Helen DettA
weller and Betty Meckley were at
the top. II she wins the coming
affair she Will have completed ths
grand slam Of the sectional titles
in this territory. The others won
one or two, but were not able to
win them all. She Is perfectly
capable Of doing 1t. too. Few femi.
nine golfers have the capacity for
concentration that Mrs. Stokes has
shown
Evening star., 1942-07-25
Much-Needed Forkos and Todd
To Play Again With Redskins

Two Of the Redskins biggest ques-
tion marks, Andy Farkas and Dick
Todd, were In the wgwam today
and apparently ready for big sea-
son In the National Pro Football
League.
Coach Ray Flaherty, before de-
parting for the coast. made no bones
about the fact that he was counting
heavily on both lads to pull the
Tribe through difncult campaign.
II his hopes are realized the pair
should be two Of the best backs in
the league, adding a badly needed
0unch to the attack.
Evening star., 1942-07-25
Dorozio Wogers
$500 on Himself
Fy the Associated Press.

EE IHf ASSoC10ted PreSS.
PHILADELPHIA, July 25.-
Veteran Gus Dorazio thinks so
highly of his chances of whip
ping Melio Bettina in their 10
round heavyweight fuss at Shibe
Park Monday night he's bet $500
on himself.
Promoter Herman Taylor said
he had placed the $500 at odds
Of 2l2 to l. Thus the Philadelphia
battler stands to win $3.50 by
beating the Beacon, N. Y, south
paw in the latter's final fistic
appearance before he enters the
Army July 80.
Evening star., 1942-07-25
Injured Boxing Mentor
Defends Auto Driver
NJ tfe AaanrjatAd presa

By tie Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, July 25.-George
Decker, 60. boxing coach At the
University Of Pennsylvania for more
than 20 years, almost walked into
the big punch last night.
He was struck by a car at q street
corner and suffered severe leg In
juries, Groggy but not out. the old
featherweight grinned up at inves-
tigating police.
Don't arrest that boy" he said
The light was against me-and
forgot to duck"
Evening star., 1942-07-25
The summary:
Saba, Holy Cross Back,
Signs With Dodgers
By the Associated Press.

By the associated Press.
BROOKLYN, July rs Frank
Saba, Holy Cross fullback Of last
season, signed q contract with the
Brooklyn football Dodgers today.
Saba was one of three players to
come to terms for the 1942 season,
the others being veteran Tackle
Mike Zurich and rookie Tackle
Fraser Donlan. Donlan Is from
Manhattan College,
Evening star., 1942-07-25
Sturs Yesterduy
By the Associated prol.

Tom Ferrick and Jim Hegan. In.
dians-Former saved drst geme with
latter broke up second with twelfth
John Pesky. Red sox, and Chet
IAabs. Browns-Eormer led hts team to
victory in hrst game and latter won
second with two-run homer In eleventh
inning.
Oodgers-Wyatt beat Pirates on seven-
hit pitching. with help from Vaulhan,
who stole home and drove In two runs.
Evening star., 1942-07-25
Fbl Linksmen Present
Star Federal Trophy
To Director Hoover
Lacking Coddies, Argyle
Golfers Cary Clubs
Around in Curts

One OF the high spots Of an in
formal celebration of his 25th ami
versary with the Federal Bureau of
Investigation was the presentation
today to FBI Director ]. Edgar
Hoover Of The Star championship
golf trophy, won by the FBI boys
July 10 in playoff against Treas
ury. Tommy Webb led the FBI boys
to victory. Other team members In
the FB1 march to victory were
Charles Beall. Billy Shea. Bobby
Brownell, John Cimperman and
Harold H. Hair.
Other prizes In the match play
Federal championship will be pre-
sented later to Treasury, runnerup
to FBI in the class A tourney, and
to Works Progress Administration
and Agriculture, winner and runner
up In the class B event.
Director Hoover has taken a per-
sonal interest In the FBI links team.
Caddie Shortage 1T Argyle.
Argyle Country Club members,
unable to obtain caddies, have gone
in for those little kiddie cars on
which to tote their golf bags. Even
though this section has been built
up over the past few years, we don't
have many caddies any more" said
Greens Chairman lie Due. so most
OF us are using these little carts to
carry our golf bags" The fee is IS
cents for Is holes, about one fourth
the usual caddie rate at the other
clubs.
Indian Spring nowadays has the
only l2-hole course around town.
Three new holes, built during the
spring to relieve congestion on the
main layout, now are in use, and,
according to pro Mel Shorey, have
made hit with the membership.
Our members get kick out of
playing these holes" said Mel. And
they do help congestion on week
ends" Shorey is going ahead with
plans for the Washington open
championship. which may be held
at Indian Spring in September.
Mrs. Walper Gross Winner.
Mrs. Leo Walper won the gross
award in feminine tourney at In
dian Spring with 88. The guest
prize went to Mrs. c. E. MCGOWAN OF
Manor with 81. while the net guest
award was won by Mrs. D. M. Nc
Pherson of Manor with 101-21-80
and Mrs. D. E. Stuart won the men,
ber's net prize at the same score.
Putting prizes went to Mrs. Quincy
Scott Of Indian Spring and Mrs.
Frank HelAn OF Manor.
Congressional women gave 4
cocktail party for Mrs. D. n. Hen
derson, recent winner Of the Post
trophy.
Evening star., 1942-07-25
Peewees Issue ChulIenoe

Beaten only twice this season ana
now owning = l5-game winning
streak. Eastern Branch Boys Club
peewee baseball team viii accept
challenges from any similar outfit
IN or around the city. particularly
Police Boys Clubs Nos. I and S,
Contact Barney Ross, Atlantic Oo49.
Evening star., 1942-07-25
|CisseI Tops Baldwin
By 41 Pins 10 Land
Bethesda Event

Lanky AL Cissel with . gross score
Of 462, won the weekly Bethesda
Bowling Center handicap tourna-
ment by II sticks from Charley
Baldwin, . recent victor. Bud Bry-
ant was third among the men while
Alma Mehler turned In another
sparkling effort to top the fair
rollers with 372.
George .Pinky) Bradt. George
town Recreation's whistling bowler,
sparkled with 1870 Is Team No.
7 swept to the front In Clarendon's
mixed foursome loop. Edith Hig-
gins was high for the women with
118 and 345.
The Greenes, Mildred and Charley,
featured the Bethesda Bowling Gen.
ter mixed doubles with . record
1913 score as each contributed counts
Of $50. Manager Roger Peacock
was tops with 378. Grace Beavers
and Paul Knollman set the pace
with the Mehlers and the duo Of
Peacock and Petit tied for the
runnerup spot.
Evening star., 1942-07-25
Lions Down COLGATE

STATE COLLEGE, Pa, July 25.-
Penn State chalked up 81 victory
over Colgate in a well-played base
ball game here yesterday.
Evening star., 1942-07-25
Bad Tooth Out, Cooper Claims
He'll Hur| for Cards Monduy
Sore-Armed Mort, Eager to Foce Dodgers,
Says Dental Operation Helped Before
BY BOB BROEG,
Associated Press Sports Writer,

BOSTON, July 25-Morton Cecil Cooper armed Of
the St Louis Cardinals will bet his choice
that he'll be back the firing line Monday against Brooks
dashng Dodges-because he has left tooth with
Sidened since last Sunday with misery
Evening star., 1942-07-25

Congressional women gave Z
cocktail party for Mrs. D. n. Hen
derson, recent winner Of the Post
trophy.
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-05
|ELKS BURN
MORTGAGE

In a very eolorful manner. befft-
ting them. along with an enjoyable
well planned program, presided over
by G. G. Galloway. Editor of the
Omaha Guide. the Colored Elks IB.
POE OF W burned the mortgage
On their home building at 242G Lake
St, Monday evening. or shall We
say the actually burning took place
in the early hours of Tuesday mora
ing. December |, 1912.
It was a gala occasion, not enly
for the EIks. but for the various
organizations, choir, soloists aud
friends, who gathered to witness the
ceremony.
j. Finley Wilson, Grand Exalted
Ruler Of the Elks, highlighted the
evening as honorary speaker and
burner Of the mortgage.
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-05
THE MOST DISGRACEFUL SPECT-
ACLE OF DEMOCRACY IN ACTION
Saws A. Philip Randolph
Says A. Philip Randolph

Washington. d CA Philip Ran
dolph. national director Of the
Mareh-on- Washington Movement
and international president Of the
Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car Por-
tiers, issued this statement on the
victory Of the poll tax filibuster in
the Senate:
The most disgracefu1 spectacle
Of democracy in action witnessed IN
America IN contemporary times was
the bipartisan conspiracy OF Repub
-hcans and Democrats to defeat TIE
anti-polI tax bill. A small band Of
willful Southern politicians seized
the reigns Of democratic procedure
In the Senate and blackjacked this
entire institution into abject Sub
mission to its present policy. 1t
served definitely to dis-Il1usion the
Negro masses. North. South, East
and West with respect to the Rep
ublican Party constituting the shin
for their salvation. or the Demo
cratic Party representing any hope
whatsoever.
cit also served to make Negroes
completely aware OF the fact that
the New Deal. even under Presi-
dent Roosevelt's leadership, is ALSO
lutely bankrupt SO far as providing
any fundamental answer to the
problem Of the Negro masses Is con-
cerned- In the highways and the
hyways. in the factories and on the
farms, on the railroads. and rna
steamships, in the hotels and DOM
este kitchens, the Negro viii have
one thought and that is that .aThe
President let us down at a crucial
hour in u history"
The final speech OF Senator Bark
ley on the poll tax sounded passion
ate. However his willingness 10
make the deal indicates that he
was metieulously following the cue
Of the President in his speeches
last Tuesday IN which he said.
while long range social and ecoro-
mic problems are BY no means for
gotten they r q little like books
which for the moment we have laid
aside in order that we might =
out the old atlas to study the geo
Continued On pageN4
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-05
San Diego Plant
Upgrades Skilled
Negro Workers

san DIEGO Calf---I In "a Ter
view egI-h Roy wilkins, azsslart
eV --u'itc : lary Of tie MA n
J. H. Waterbury. personnel manag-
er Of Consolidated Aircraft here
which in the employment OF Negro
IS still lags behind the Douglas and
Lockheed plants stated this week
that Negro workers at CONSOLIDATED
r being upgraded slowly and that
some machinists were being employ
ed but were being treated as indlv-
iduaI asses
Waterbury admitted that his
plant has been scautious" and slow
in employing Negroes in skilled
work but stated that the process Of
upgrading workers already was
functioning smoothly. The Coasol-
dated plant now employs about $50
Negro women
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-05
Buying Power Of Negroes Is Ten-billion Dollars
NEGRO RACE
BRAND CONSCIOUS

The buying power OF the Negro
population Of this country amounts
TO $4,000. 000. 900 to So 600. oOO.-
900 annually. it was reported AZ a
panel discussion on the Negro mar
ket sponsored by the American Mar
keting Association at the Hotel CON-
modore. The marketing mex were
told that a new racial loyalty is de-
veloping steadily amo7g the Negro
people, which therefore makes It
advisable for manufacturers to EN-
ploy Negro statesmen when seeking
TO tap the Negro market
Among the other facts about the
Negro market brought out in the
course Of the discussion were these
Negroes are very brand conscious;
IS per cent in the New York mar
ket listen to the radio; total cireu-
iation Of the 400 Negro papers a.
mounts to about $500. 600, Negro
papers give more detailed and com
prehsnsive merchandising assist
ance to manufacturers than do 9th
er papers. It percent OF the nations
drug store business is done with
Negroes despite tbs fact that they
account for only 10 percent Of the
population 1O-cent size packages are
very important in drug stores. with
some distributors ~repacking expen-
sive cosmetic lines. for example. IN
these sizes for the Negro trade.
The speakers were David J.. sui
hvan. former advertising manager.
New York Amsterdam Star News;
Mrs. Sullivan; William g. Black.
sales manager. Interstate United
Newspapers; Joseph Christian. r
mer advertising manger. The Peo-
Pies VzsInsenh Kaaton- Inter
state United Newspapers. and Hazel
Sharper.
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-05
FIGHT BIRMINGHAM BAN ON
DEFENSE TRAINEES

Birmingham. Ala-,-Reports that
Alabama Training Authorities have
closed war courses 70 Negroes
earned this week protests from the
local branch and the National Of
flee Of the National Association for
the Advancement Of Colored PEG
pie. The move was reported to
George M johnson at the Presid-
ent's Committee on Fair Employ
ment Practice who acknowledged
an ~awareness of the seriousness of
the situation and stated that i'm
mediate action would be taken 10
correct It.
The Birmingham NAACP Branch
further urged that the appropriate
officials within the War Manpower
Commission give their consideration
to the matter
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-05
EDITORIAL
$OF THE WEEK
from the Des Moines Register.
November IA
RACE n Nnr EUrTxnx--


RACE FACTS, NOT FICTIONS
Many Of Us have smiled ove- the
assumption OF some persons in for.
eign countries that we all live in
muti-roomed mansions ana driveI6
cylinder cars because that is what
Americans seem TO do in the motion
pictures we send them.
Yet a good many white Americans
have absorbed Just as crazy sIants
about the Negro, said Walter
White, executive secretary OF tn
NAACP during his recent visit here.
White told Of a Wisconsin WON
an who asserted she didn't ike Ne.
groes-| She assured White that
he was an exception. and it then d..
veloped that she knew none of the
few Negroes in her town But still
she knew she din't like Negroes be.
cause they -are lazy and shiftIass .
She knew this. she added. because
she had seen them in the movies,
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-05

enough to find out that his -sUncIe
Sam" was giving him a square deal.
was sincerely interested in his vel
fare. was going to see to it that he
had all the advantages available to
white soldiers.
Negroes are in every branch Of
the service today They are in the
Air Corps. the Cavalry. Infantry.
Corps OF Engineers, Field ARTILLERY.
Signal Corps. Chemical Warfara
Service, Medical. Ordnance. AfiIit-
airy Police. Finance, Quartermasta-
Corps They are bound only bv
personal limitations Of ability and
Continued on page - u
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whole world Yes. sir He's my
Uncle Sam
We were visiting the Negro rec
reation center at Fort Benning. Ca
on our recent nationwide Joint
Committee survey tour Of Army
and Navy posts
A group of Negro soldiers were
conversing-about the war in gen
eral the Army in particular. Grad
ually the talk swung around to
their own specific part in the war
The boy who spoke lad in his
middle twentiesAhad been in the
Army but a few weeks. Yet. he
had been z part Of the forces long
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-05
WILBERFORCE ACCELERATES
IT'S EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM

W~ilberforce. Ohio-As a part of
the general program to help the
government in its about war ef-
forts, the members Of the WILDER
force University faculty voted IN
enimously to return to the Quarter
System beginning with the next &C
edemic year The special commit
tee recommending this change also
urged the administration to instir-
ute an accelerated program Of stud
les BY introducing a full quarter OF
summer school This would divide
the year into four quarters and en-
able a student to graduate in three
years.
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-05
Renew FIGHT FOR
PASSAGE OF anti
POLL TAX BILL

nounced this week in a Statement to
the press that the NAACP, work
ing in cooperation with ether agenc-
les. will renew the poll tax fight
with the very first day Of the 18TH
Congress converting on January 3.
1913
Stating that it is the conviction
Of the NAACP that 'sthe repetition
Of ~filibusters which tie up the coun
try's business during war time will
Continued on page 81
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-05

BILL TO BE REINTRODUCED
TO 18TH CONGRESS IN JAN.
Washington, D.. G. Teciarug
that the NAACP is not IN the least
deferred by the Temporary set back
experienced in the passage Of anti
poll AK legislation which occurred
when a bourbon senate majority
killed the bill on Novembsr 3, Wal
ter White. executive secretary OF
the National Association for the
Advancement Of Colo-ed People an
The Omaha guide., 1942-12-05

states. Taken from the Chicag-
SUM-
BY FOWLER B. HARPER
Chairman Joint Army and Navy
Committee on Welfare and Re
creation. and Deputy Chairman
War M~anpower Commission
I've got the best Uncle in the