davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1942-01-20

Quote, unquote - Greg Rice.
distance running champ: Il don't
make any great plea for athletics
in time of war. But I do think
that competition is the easiest
way to get a fellow to take care
OF himself"
Sportpourri-Southwestern Col
lege of Winfield, Kans.. sank 10
free throws out 19 tries against
Pittsburgh Teachers the other
night and fans are asking if
there's a better record than that.
The story is that Moe Berg asked
for a delay in the announcement
Of his appointment as good will
ambassador because of the ILL
ness of his father, who died last
week. Eddie Collins, who hadn't
heard of the request, broke the
story. Nick Lukats, the old -Notre
Dame footballer, is collaborating
with Author Bill Brent on the
screen play in which Frankie
Albert is to make his debut.
Uncle Sam may get Albert be-
fore the movies. He has had some
Evening star., 1942-01-20

had few parallels.
Gehringer ceased some time ago
to derive any fun from the game.
That may sound strange, but for
the last three seasons it has just
been a series of aches and pains
to Gehringer.
His back began to trouble him
and it took him longer to get into
condition. The strain of years OF
fielding an amazing amount Of ter
ritory began to take its toll. Finally,
his batting eye dimmed. Last year
has average at the plate fell to .220
as compared to a lifetime mark
of .321.
Last week the Detroit manage
ment, in announcing the 1912
roster, omitted Gehringer's name,
but left the way open for him to
remain as coach. Yesterday Gehr-
niger, az he has done for years
past, was the first to sign a con-
tract, accepting the clubs offer.
Asked recently If he would miss
playing, Gehringer replied:
II don't think I will. But I'll
miss getting into good physical
condition in the spring, for I have
become accustomed to that
Gehringer, who will be 80 years
old May II, became Tiger regular
in 1926. In 2,278 big league games
he went to bat 1913 times, getting
2s27 hits. scoring 1,767 runs and
batting in another 1920. His hits
Included STA doubles, 146 triples
Evening star., 1942-01-20
Guest of Honor
Wusn't Invited
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WINNIPEG, Jan. 20-Canada's
athletic elite gathered last night
to honor Theo Dubois. champion
rover, who was voted the Domin-
ions outstanding athlete Of 1941.
That is, every one except Dubois
was present.
Finally he arrived and Toast
master Bruce Murray apologized
with 'I forgot to invite the guest
= of honor"
Evening star., 1942-01-20
And Bother the Politics of Pinq-Ponq

named Stanley Fields who recognized table
tennis
plant against National Philadelphia
which suspended Mr. Fields failing
Fields but don't have myself
Several principle
o
late Mr. Fields have worked mad
tennis division insists
Fields all
little newspaper backing, he suggests wouldn't hurt
be
politics akin getting people denounce the
cellar
genuinely
Fields his revouionsts must
alone
drinks bother
n politics
Evening star., 1942-01-20
onby Diamond Greatness Gains Him Hall Feme Despite Outside Faults
Win, Lose or Draw
The Way the Other Half Fiaure Skates
By FRANCIS (. STAN.

Just the reader habtuay associated figure
skaters with weemed tnseled young ladies gliding swiftly
and softly the ice to the strains of Stokowss music
should $40 Twenty NV Of evening to
how the other half figure skates.
We there other night exhibition by Miss jean
White nfane
There locating the Coliseum Roller Rink without
trouble three bidding
other portable Another follow
the thoaty dull like
breed thunder either confronted with
red wooden door which is hard to
At the the tfe privilege
there TALL vioVy blond named Mr. Bargmann He's the
Illinois State
Together the pair champions Mrs Bagmann seemed to have
things
"As know we've
had here gently eprmarded all publl
displaying roller skating
Evening star., 1942-01-20
Zunic's Bead on Basket Puzzles
As Air Corps Finds Eyes Faulty
He Scoring 6. W. Tosser, Eager for Action,
Nay Have to Forget Flying and Enter Navy
Bv LEWIS F. ATCHISON,

ought put the Army Air Corps wise to Matt Zunc
Washington shapshooter who recently got Al
rating his local draft board and his marching
papers the couple of weeks
who examined Mad Matt" doesn't the
sports pages isn't basket ball fam Maybe he doesn't know
Evening star., 1942-01-20

Three years ago-Actress Helen
Weyant and two nieces of the late
Col. Jacob Rupert, Mrs. Helen
Rupert Silleck and Mrs. Ruth
Rita Silleck Mcguire, inherit New
York Yankees.
Evening star., 1942-01-20
No College Grid
Aces Deferred
In Draft: Plan
individual, Not Group,
Considered, , SeIective
Service Office Holds
BY ROMNEY WHEELER,


ATHENS, Ga, Jan. 20.-Backfield
Coach Bill Hartman joins the Army
tomorrow-but the University CT
Georgia athletic department is too
happy to know or care.
frankie Sinkwich and company
will be back next fall.
University President Harmon
Caldwell brought the news from an
Atlanta conference between Georgia
selective service officials and heads
of private and State-supported COL
leges. Simmered down. he said, the
draft executives told him:
If the university system speeded
up its academic work to graduate
seniors May 2, and pushed juniors
through a summer schedule to grad
uate them January /. 1912, selective
service would look favorably upon
allowing such Juniors to finish
school.
With that President Caldwell an
nounced: ID Georgia seniors will
graduate May 2; 20 Georgia. along
with the entire State-supported
system. goes Immediately on a year.
round schedule; 80 the junior class
will graduate January /, 1943. He
said that 80 per cent of the junior
and senior classes normally would
fall in class IA under forthcoming
new registration.
President Caldwell made no men,
ton of All-America Sinkwich and
Georgias Orange Bowl champions
but a million dollar legacy couldnt t
have brought a wider grin to the
little round man. Coach Wally Butts.
Excepting only Cliff Kimsey,
blocking back. and Tommy Greene,
tackle, he'll have back the entire
starting lineup which whipped
Texas Christian, 40-26, at Miami
New Year Day.
And in addition, he expects to
have the services of Gus Letchas,
sensational sophomore wingback,
who would have played first string
in 1941 but for technical ineligibil-
ity, and Ball-toting Charley Trippi,
who was likened to Sinkwich As a
freshman star last fall.
Groups Can't Be Exempted.
BY the Associated Press.
Selectiye service officials declared
here today that while all schools
were speeding up their academic
schedules, there was no guarantee
that junior or senior collegiates
would be deferred from Army serv-
ice until after graduation.
President Harmon Caldwell OF the
University Of Georgia reported at
ice officers had informed him they
would look favorably upon a plan
whereby seniors and juniors would
be permitted to graduate under an
accelerated scholastic program.
There is nothing in the selective
service law which would permit
group deferments," spokesman at
national draft headquarters here
said All cases will be treated in
dividually, and it's up to the local
boards to decide if a man would be
more valuable to the Nation If per-
mitted to complete his professional
training"
An aide in the Office of Brig. Gen.
Lewis Hershey, selective service di-
rector, said the o. P. M. had re-
ported Nationwide personnel short
ages of physicians, dentists and
other professional men. The Ma
tional Education Association is CO.
operating with a program under
which instructors may report to
draft boards on the academic
progress Of students considered
valuable for future service in nom
military phases Of the war effort
the oficial commented.
Evening star., 1942-01-20
Browner Leads London
To Win Over Blair

John Brawner sparked Landon
Schools basket ball team to a 27-18
victory over Montgomery Blair yes
terday at Landon gym, scoring eight
y,oiy,fc
Evening star., 1942-01-20
Gehringer Puts Finis to Great
Career to Become Tiger Coach
Back Injury Hos Made Lost Three Seasons
Painful for Brilliant Second Busemon
~ the Associated Press.


DETROIT 2OCharley Gehrnger the distinguished De-
tro neder finally has reached the end Of the baseball
trail active player.
With signing contract COACH the veteran ranked
altime greats brought to end l6year major
hase e -
Evening star., 1942-01-20
Hornsby's Lifetime Hit Marks
batting averages:

Major LEAGUE totals -
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-04-10
Navy Finally
Eases Up Negro
Racial Ban

Washington, April 8.-Secretary
of Navy Frank Knox announced
here Tuesday that Negro Ameri-
cans would be accepted by the
Navy, Marine Corps and Coast
Guard for enlistment in the Naval
Reserve. Thus ends the policy of
accepting Negroes as mess atuen,
ants in the Navy and the ily-whit'
policy of the Marine Corps which
has never been open to "known"
Negroes.
The concession ends months of
constant and unrelenting barrage
by the Negro Press of the country
plus one or two dailies, notably
Marshall Field and Ralph Inger-
soils Pm. which is fast becoming
powerful influence in American
public opinion.
Preliminary announcements say
a training school will be set up for
Negro seamen and that they will
probably be assigned to small war
ships with white officers.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-04-10
Credit Union
Forum Sunday
In st. Paul

Karl Wander Horch, Minnesota
Credit Union Supervisor, will be
the principal speaker at the Sun
day Forum sponsored by the Asso-
ciated Negro Credit Union, Sun
day, April IL, at 4 p. m. at Halle
@. Brown House.
In its program of promoting
thrift, this organization, operating
entirely with volunteer services,
has saved thousands of dollars for
this community during it's brief ex-
istence of about five years.
Rev. S. E. Ware of Pilgrim
Baptist Church will speak. Others
on the program are the Four Pro-
phets, quartette, directed by Miss
jeanette Dorsey, and the Swanee
Singers, trio, directed by Mrs. S. E.
Ware.
Mrs. Nellie Wright, educational
committee chairman, will preside.
A question and answer period
will follow the principal speakers
address. Those wishing to know
more about the operation of credit
unions and their advantages are
urged by the committee in charge
to attend this forum where these
questions will be answered by one
in authority.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-04-10
WOmen's Activities
Radio Interview

Mrs. Peavey Hefflefnger, chair.
man of the Women's Activities
Council of the Minneapolis Defense,
will interview district chairmen
over WCCO at GAS p. m. Saturday
Among those to be interviewed
will be Mrs. Blanche Mason, chair
man of precincts l, 10 and IL Of
Ward 8.
Mrs. Mae Marshall, member Of
the executive board of the defense
council, requested that citizens
listen in. She also urged large at
tendance at the big mass meeting
at the Municipal Auditorium, April
Is.
Mrs. Marshall also requested
volunteers to serve as ushers at
the meeting. Twenty-Five women
are needed. Call Colfax 6251.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-04-10

was similar to that of the Nazis
and other groups who are restrict
ing the freedom of the people of
the world.
Owners Stand Firm
Mr.. Fink, co-owner Of the laun-
dry, said to the group that he had
operated laundries North and
South and at the present time had
Negro employees in Minneapolis,
and that he would not operate any
laundry or any type of business in
which this type of thinking and
acting prevailed.
Girl To Return To Work
After the meeting ended Mr..
Greenberg, Mr.. Fink and Mr.. Wolf,
co-owners, agreed that Miss Brown
should return to work, and if any
one walked off the job, they would
not be permitted to return. Repre-
sentatives of organized labor
Wednesday gave Mr.. Owens a sim
liar statement saying that they de-
plored this situation and were tax
ing immediate action.
Miss Brown, when interviewed
Wednesday, stated that she was
willing to return to work as she
felt that she was qualified for the
type of employment offered her.
She pointed out that her sister is
employed as a floor lady in a De-
troit laundry.
At press time, Mr.. Owens had
been informed that Miss Brown
would return to work Immediately,
and that she would receive the full
support of the management and or
gained labor.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-04-10
n. A. A.C.P. Drive
EnliSts 2S6 as
Drive Continues

A total of 236 memberships and
$276.55 was reported by the cap
tains and workers in the member
ship drive launched by the st. Paul
branch of the National Association
for Advancement of Colored People
on March 25, in a report meeting
in the Halle @. Brown Community
House, Tuesday. Victory Division
No. 2, led by John M. Culver, led
Victory Division No. 1, of which
Mrs. Mabel M. Brown is the cap
tain, by LOT to SO memberships.
Mrs. Ora Reed, lieutenant of the
Blue team of Victory Division No.
2, reported 90 memberships and
$107.50, to take the team lead in
he drive. Mrs. Ardelia Allen, cap
tain of the "Mop-up" squad, re-
ported SO memberships.
Mrs. Ethel Maxwell Williams,
chairman of the membership drive,
commended the workers and urged
them to make an all-out effort to
reach the goal before the campaign
closes on April 26. Among the new
members reported were DR.. Thomas
Lowe, president of the Kiwanis
Club of South st. Paul. Rev. Clar-
ence T. R. Nelson, publicity chair
man, secured three memberships
when he addressed the South st.
Paul Kiwanis Club last week. Gov
ernor Harold E. Stassen, who is a
member of the st. Paul Branch, is
a member of the South st. Paul
Kiwanis Club.
Rev. Benjamin N. Moore, presi-
dent of the Branch, is urging every
member to get new member dur
ing this campaign. Several cases
of discrimination are being investi-
gated, he said.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-04-10
(From N. Y. PM

FORT DIX, N. j., Apr. A
fostering growth of anti-Negro
prejudice today appeared to be the
underlying cause of the pitched
battle between white MPs and Ne
gro troops in which three soldiers
were killed Thursday night, Apr. 2.
Despite official disclaimers,
Army officers have been aware of
the fester-and worried about it
for more than year. OFF the rec
ord, some agree with private sol
diers, cab drivers, countermen and
entertainment hall managers, who
said of the battle:
at was bound to happen"
It was bound to happen, they be-
lieve, because anti-Negro feeling
had been deliberately whipped up
at times and there had been in
creasingly frequent clashes.
Sources of Prejudice
The sources of the prejudice are
Southern firebrands transferred
to Dix from other camps.
Civilian bigots in towns near
Fort Dix, some of whom go out of
their way to insult and disparage
Negro troops.
Although the battle on Thursday
night may have been merely the
outcome of a barroom brawl, as the
Army officially labeled it, the speed
with which it developed and the
calm evidenced by townspeople in
Wrightstown and Pointville indi-
Gated that it was more or less ex-
pected.
That feeling has been running
high was reported by a noncom,
who can't be quoted, whose job
keeps him in touch with all de-
velopments on the post. He said
that there have been frequent fist
fights among the white and Negro
troops, particularly the Southern
soldiers, and that even the drivers
on the Trenton buses were getting
edgy, fearing a clash some night
if Negroes should crowd a bus and
leave Southerners standing.
The same noncom reported that
saloon and restaurant keepers in
the neighborhood repeatedly in
suited Negroes to drive them away.
Although the practice is by no
means universal, he said many bar
keepers charge Negroes 80 cents a
glass for a dime glass of beer, or
break the glasses from which they
have drunk to show them they're
not wanted.
Trouble Expected
His reports were corroborated
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-04-10

Cab Co., who was in the Palace at
the time of the shooting, also called
it unnecessary.
"Ill tell you right now," he said,
''they didn't need any shooting.
There was no use for MPs to use
guns"
Others bore out this view. The
fleeing Negro was racing for his
own barracks, only 25 yards away.
If the MP had merely continued to
chase him, witnesses said, he
probably could have collared his
man in the barracks without
trouble because the fleeing man
had no choice but to enter the bar
racks or race around them across
open fats of land where he could
have been spotted easily.
These statements, plus the fact
that MPs at Dix are under strict
orders never to use guns unless
their lives or the lives of others
are endangered, indicate that the
MP was edgy, presumably because
of the growing racial friction.
Tension was high for hours
after the shooting. Employees of
the Sports Palace remained COVER
ing inside it for more than two
hours after the batGle and then
bolted across the fields to Point
vile and buses out of town.
Taxi drivers, countermen, SOL
diers and MPs around Dix and in
Wrightstown and Pointville dis
cussed the battle cagily. Negro
sentries in the southeast corner of
the reservation, formerly sort of
Little Harlem when Negro troops
quartered there were separated
from the rest of the camp by the
rifle range, were nervous when re-
porters questioned them.
But the tension eased during the
day. By last night everyone
seemed to be acting normally. Bars
got their usual play and Negro and
white soldiers sat and stood side
by side at camp entertainments.
They were meticulously polite.
Some thought too polite.
VICTORY GARDEN FORUM
The first in a series of garden
forums will be held Friday, April
10, at 2 p. m. at the Minneapolis
Gas Light auditorium, sponsored by
the garden committee of the Min
neapolis Civilian Defense Council.
Men and women interested in home
flower or vegetable gardens are in
vited to attend this meeting to get
first-hand information on how TO
make the best of your Victory gar
den. The second in this series will
be held Friday, April II, at the
Minneapolis General Electric Co. at
the same time.
More forums to be held at the
Gas Light Co. and the General
Electric Co. will be announced
later.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-04-10
Sister of Billy
Williams Buried

Private funeral services for Miss
Ella M. Williams, sister of Will
liam "Billy" Williams of the Gov
ernor's office, were held Friday
morning, April 8, at the Neal
McGavock Chapel in st. Paul.
Miss Williams died at Bethesda
Hospital April L, after three years
illness.
She was a native of st. Paul,
being born here Sept. 8, 1869. She
lived a quiet life at the family
home at 264 West Central, keep
ing house for her wen-nown
brother.
Surviving her in addition to Mr..
Williams are Mrs. W. A. Hanna,
Mrs. M. J. Rhodes, Mrs. J. D.
Jones, William and Ralph Gardner,
of St. Paul; Mrs. Edward Davis of
N. St. Paul; Mrs. Gerald Bailey
and Mrs. Roy Williams of Mime
apolis and Mrs. Leander Sheets and
Miss Dorothy Gardner of Chicago.
Rev. Victor Holly of St. Phillips
Episcopal Church read the funeral
service and interment was at Oak
land cemetery.
MRS. WILLIAM BLACK
DEAD
Mrs. William Black, age rs, $50
Tenth Street North, who has been
ill for about two weeks, died in
general Hospital on Tuesday, April
z.
Funeral services were held
Thursday morning at 10 o'clock at
Crystal Lake Chapel, with Rev. A.
]. Irvine officiating. Surviving
Mrs. Black is her sister, Mrs. J. B.
Glover of Minneapolis, a niece of
Omaha, and a nephew of Los
Angeles.
Neal Funeral Home was in
charge of burial arrangements
with interment in Crystal Lake
Cemetery.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-04-10
New York Daily Blames
Fort Dix Riots on NJ. P.'s
and Southern Whites

by several others familiar with
conditions at Dix. And the official
Army version of the battle indi-
Gated that the Negroes expected
trouble.
According to the Army, the fight
started in the Military Sports Pal
ace, sprawling stucco building,
operated by one August Waldron
on an island of private property in
side the post. The clash became
serious when a Negro soldier, flee.
ing after trying to grab an MP's
revolver, raced out of the sports
palace and toward his barracks, 25
yards away across a dirt road. The
Army said the MP fired a shot in
the air to halt him.
That shot, according to the
Army, brought a fusillade from the
Negro barracks. 1t was impossible
to check that statement with eye
witnesses. None questioned seemed
to be certain of the sequence of
events.
The fight couldn't have developed
in that fashion, unless the Negroes
in the barracks had their rifles
loaded. This is unlikely because
the men must have stolen the am
munition from the practice range,
serious infraction of rules, and it
isn't likely they left it in their
rifles, where the first inspection
would have shown them up.
That the fight spread swiftly
was corroborated by witnesses on
the scene. George Sherman, man.
ager of the Military Sports Palace,
told of hearing a scattering of
shots and seeing an MP fall,
wounded.
~ went to the street to take the
fallen man to the hospital" Sher-
man said.
"MPs were under the parked
cars shooting. They yelled to US to
get back. Inside everybody was on
the floor. 1 tried to get the pool
balls so they would not be thrown
around. Then a group of lieuten-
ants came in and passed around
rifles"
Shooting Unnecessary
Sherman couldn't explain how
the row started, but was convinced
that the shooting was unnecessary
and probably resulted from edgy
nerves.
This conviction was echoed by an
MP.
"I'm sure it would never have
happened if colored MPs were on
the job" he said.
A driver employed by the Willets
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-04-10
Annual Easter
Style Show Sets
Crowd Record

Norway Hall in Minneapolis was
the scene Of the annual Easter
Style Show sponsored yearly by St.
Thomas Episcopal Church organi-
cations last Monday night.
A crowd estimated at 600 at
tended the sprightly enjoyable af-
fair.
Before the performance letters
were awarded to the members of
the church basket ball team.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-04-10
Eight Hundred
Hear Philippe
Schuyler Recital

Over 800 persons crowded the
Catholic Youth Center in st. Paul
Tuesday night to hear Philippe
Duke Schuyler, 10-year-old pianist
and composer.
The young musical prodigy's Of
fering was enthusiastically re-
ceived. Her appearance was spon-
sored by the Women's Council of
st. Paul.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-04-10

National Security depends on the
every hour endeavOr of every citi-
zen. Protect the cOuntry's interest
by practicing tolerance and friend
liness towards all loyal Americans
regardless of racial origin, creed or
color.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-04-10
st. Paul NAACP
Honor Roll
Memberships to April 8

Mrs. Carrie Adams, Lionel Allen, r. L.
Allen, J. D. Anderson, B. G. Archer, AL
fred Bachman, w. B. Baines, Mrs. Olga
Baker, Mrs. Ariel Beardsley, Mrs. Amanda
Bell, Bruce Berger, Mrs. Edith Black, VIM.
D. Black, Mrs. Leonora billiard, Mrs. Anna
Herbert Bonner, Mrs. Matte Bonner, Ar
thur E. Boyd, Smith E. Bradshaw, Willis
Brady, G. w. Brooks, Jr., B. M. Brown,
Mrs. Ellen Brown, Fred Brown, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. S. Brown, Junauld N. Brown,
Mary F. Brown, Mrs. Mary Burton, Mrs.
Katherine Busley, Pierce Butler. w. s.
Butler, Mrs. v. E. Galloway, Mrs. Marie
X. Canaan, l. Myrtle Garden, Grace Carl
Continued on Page Four)
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-04-10
Skating Party
Monday Night

A roller skating party will be
given on Monday, April 10, at 21O1
4th Ave. So, at 500 p. M, by the
Jolly Workers, o. E. S. Admission
is 35c.-Advt.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-04-10
NAZI PATTERN FOLLOWED!
White Employees Walk Out
When Laundry Hires Girl;
Urban League Intervenes
Owners and Union Support Negro Girls Right to Work

Owners and Union Support Negro Girls Right to Work
Democracy received another setback when employees Of the Star
Laundry University Avenue St. Paul walked of their jobs Mon
day, April g. 1872 rather than work with Negro
Dorothy Brown Rondo Avenue experienced laundry
worker laundry She
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-04-10

Frances PEBBLES dramatic re-
cital, st. Peter Church, April "a,
8 p. M.-AdVt.