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Gel TAN tAldI Tile racing QueSt;o.
would be brought up at that t;r.
Sportsmen felt confident '', ,bs.
would carry out a s,oa a,a'
ton made by James F. By sSss'
former War Mobilizer, that rac; sS,
be allowed to resume after VIZ
Day.
Another development TODAY 1.
vorable to sports was the War n.
partment's indefinite Suspension -.
regulation requiring review o, VI
cases of professional athletes y.
jected in the draft. This rule wv,
lifted pending the result of an j.,
vestigation on allegations of di,'
elimination.
There also was word from ~.
Army that the athletic branch -,
the service forces has begun i'm
mediate preparations for Ais,
championships in many sports IN
Europe and that plans are heinz
made for wholesale competito,
in the Pacific Theater of War
AS for the racing ban. Pre,i
dent Truman said recently al
news conference that he did M.
intend to lift the restrictitn betors
We Day. He left open, however
the possibility Of a resumption a,
ter Germany's surrender.
If the prohibition is abolished
tomorrow, racing officials said
that some tracks probably can r..
open in about two weeks. n,
Kentucky Derby, usually held tbs
first Saturday in May, probably
would be run May 26 or June :
Other headline events like The
Pimlico and Belmont stakes would
follow in their regular order
schedules for most meets have
already been tentatively drawn
up" racing officials said, with
Narrangansett Rhode Island be.
ing the first track to open"
Were rretty well set to 90 pro,
viding the War Manpower Com.
mission will give us some relic,
on employment ceilings at the
tracks," these persons added.
The War Departments temper.
airy action on 4-F professional ath.
letes came as the result Of pro.
tests by Rep. Melvin Price ID.
IT'D that some of these men were
being indicted although they could
not meet physical requirements.
Under Secretary Of War Patter-
son ordered an investigation based
on Prices complaints Of discrim.
nation
"Any case Of a professional ath.
lete now before the War Depart.
ment for review will be held in
abeyance," an aide to Price said
he had been advised.
This means that such players
as George Case, Mickey Haefner
and Dutch Leonard, all Washing
ton Senators recently examined
rejected and their cases sent 10
the War Department for final de.
cision, will not be indicted. pend
ing final results Of the War De-
partment's investigation"
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~ Stops Sluggers, 15-7
In Junior Baseball Loop

The YMCA's baseball team took
its third victory in the Junior
baseball loop yesterday afternoon
on the Robert Strange diamond
when it thumped the Ninth Street
Sluggers, 1877.
"Runt' Rodgers went the full
route for the losers, whiting ten
men and passing none.
"Weiner" Brown relieved Hurl-
err Billy Harrison for the ~ when
he got into trouble in the third
stanza, and went on the remainder
of the tilt to kayo II batters and
pass eight.
Robert Lopez and Howell Sharpe
led the batting for the victors,
banging out two for three, and
four for six respectively.
The games feature blow came in
the first of the ninth frame when
Happy" Corbett, 'Y' backstop,
bounced a four-bagger into deep
left field.
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FULL MUNICIPAL
TICKET ELECTED
Continued from Page One)

and the first precinct of the second
ward to carry him through to first
place. All returns were reported
by 7:05 pm.
Official returns will be given by
the City election board at noon to-
morrow. The new Council will be
sworn. into office Thursday, May
81, by City Clerk j. r. Benson.
The election of mayor will be
made by the Councilmen thereaf.
ter.
The voting in the wards went
as follows:
First ward, registration, BIS; bal.
lots cast, Sc; votes cast, 1872 Cur.
rim, IS; Lane, At: LeGwin, So;
Wade, %; Yopp, 35; Crimson, 1;
Secon d ward, first precinct, reg.
istration, $40; ballots cast, 10S;
votes, 454; Currin, SO; Lane, 101;
LeGwin, SO; Wade, 81; Yopp 80;
Romeo l.
Second ward, second precinct,
registration, 1906; total ballots cast
49,, total votes cast 473; Currin,
90; Lane, 81; LeGwin, co.; Wade,
1903; Yopp, 80. :
Third ward, first precinct, regis
tration, 1929; total ballots cast,
443; Currin, "a; Lane, So; LeGwin
SO; Wade, 90; Yopp, 30; Romeo 2;
Allen, l.
Third ward, second precinct,
registration, 1,424; total ballots
cast, AIS; Currin, 81; Lane, 50;
LeGwin, 81; Wade, IS; Yo2p 81.
Fourth ward, registration, 1888;
total ballots cast, 1863; total votes
cast 1872: Currin. 1856: Lane. 1877;
LeGwin, 1856; Wade, 1856; Yopp, 1856;
G. Brinson, I.
Fifth ward, first precinct, regis
tration, 1854; total ballots cast, II;
total votes cast, $50; Currin, IS;
Lane, 10; LeGwin, So; Wade, IS;
Yopp. IA; H. G. Carney, 1: George
W. Saunders, Jr., 1; ]: w. Fran
Fa1es, l.
Fifth ward, second precinct, reg
istration, 1853; total ballots cast,
~: total votes cast, 312;; Currin,
60: Lane, 81; LeGwin, 60; Wade,
IS: Yopp, 63.
Sixth ward, first precinct, regis
tration, 855; total ballots cast, 1888;
total votes cast, COS; Currin, 100;
Lane. 11e: LeGwin, 1920; Wade, 1928;
40. pnrooo r
Sixth ward, second precinct, reg
istration, 1886; total ballots cast,
1872: total votes cast. 1855: Currin,
146: Lane, 1855; LeGwin, 146:
Wade, ISL; Yopp, 1856; Romeo q;
J. N. Sothenton, 1.
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JAPAN OFFERED
CHANCE T0QUI7
Continued from Page One)

CONTINUED from rage One)
hard, toilsome, painstaking work.
by understanding and working with
our Allies in peace as we have in
war"
The President implicitly encour-
aged Japan to surrender now by
offering her a chance to escape
the fury of armed might that will
be loosed in the coming months.
Unconditional surrender now, }"
he said, means not prolonging
the present agony and suffering
of the Japanese in the vain hope
Of victory. Unconditional surren-
der does not mean the extermina-
ton or enslavement of the Japa-
nese people"
Official Washington hailed We
Day in statements that bore the
same theme-one war is won, let's
get on with the other one.
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NEW YORK, May g. up The
morn:rs sun 6 z e d olearliy
through the haze to add an eerle
touch to the May s,lowstorna man
fractured in the Rockefeller Cen
ter to .rs. The folks were max.
Ing a brave effort to show the
enthusiasm expected of them IN
the Nazi surrender. but somehow
there was, something synthetic
about it all.
For one thing, the day had been
creeping up SO long and so OBJ
viously that the final capitulation,
great triumph that it was, was
lust another bite of the victory
pie.
And. as. should be. the folks re-
allied too well that the fight goes
on; that the game is only in the
fifth inning. Too many of them
have sons, and brothers, and
sweethearts on Pacific isles where
the guns still spit death and the
fight is long and bloody.
It was only the beginning OF a
long, long ending, and we couldn't
help but feel that any misguided
fans who visioned a quick pickup
in, sports were due for a rude
awakening. The boys - those ath-
letes whose names we associate
with big-time sport - won't be
home tomorrow, or the next day.
The baseball teams will continue
to struggle along with what they
have, picking up few of the old
guard as they 60 along as the
dischares include percentage OF
stars. The boys won't be hurried
through their service because the
war is over in Europe.
There's still a war on.
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Nations Newsmen Back
APPS Victory Scoop
Continued from Page One)


causing the ban to be promptly
lifted that the news while it is
news could be given to those to
whom it belongs--the people,.
Walter Webb"
The following is the reply from
the Associated Press:
deeply appreciative your mes
sage which is inspiring and en-
couraging and which Kennedy will
have opportunity to see. = Kent
Cooper
"Great job by Kennedy, no mat
ter whose toes he tramped." Joe
T. Adams, managing editor, Roch-
ester( N. " Times-Union.
''The greatest news beat in the
history of American daily news
papers. With characteristic enter
prise and devotion dhe A. P.) con-
tinues to uphold the finest tradi-
lions of the news gathering craft"
Thorn c. Gooch, publisher, Dali
las Times Herald.
Nashville Banner Publisher
James G. Stahlman nominated
Kennedy for ''the Congressional
Medal and a life pension
Editors Of the Austin CTex.)
American and Austin Statesman
protested to President Truman
against political agreements for
withholding or controlling anthem
tic war news"
''Who said we had to wait for
a radio program to hear the great
news of victory" asked the Cleve-
land News.
TAnything that is that much
news shouldn't and can't be SUD-
pressed for the convenience of
three guys, one in Washington, one
in~London, one in Moscow wrote
Stahlman, former president of
the American Newspaper Publish
ers Association.
In Cheyenne Wyo., Kennedy's
sister, Mrs. Howard B. White.
wife Of an Army staff sergeant,
said she thought her brother had
scored the scoop to end all
scoops"
II hear that the suspension of
A. P. European dispatches has
been lifted on everyone but Ed
die" she said, so guess we can
say that although the war in Eu-
rope is over, my brother is at
least verbally imprisoned.
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PATRIOTS WIN AGAIN

GREENSBORO, May 8. = ~ -
Greensboro Patriots went on a
scoring spree for five runs in the
seventh inning here tonight to take
their game with Martinsville, 10
TO 8. The Patriots pushed across
six runs In the third to take the
lead but Me Martins edged ahead
with three runs in the fifth.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-09
Churchill Was Dining
When Bomb Struck Home

LONDON, May 8.->R Prime
Minister Churchill sat calmly
drinking coffee when a bomb dam
aged 10 Downing street during the
German air blitz on London. it
was disclosed today.
: Churchill was dining when the
ceiling and chandelier hurled
down. He merely said: Garry on
with the Coffee
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WILL BE WE'D

NEW YORK, May 8. = Up -
Joseph J. Buzas, Is, New York
Yankee shortstop and Helen p
Mcconnell, %, of the Bronz, oh
tanned a marriage license TO-DAY.
They stated they would be wed
MAY II.
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NEW YORK, May 8. - Up -
Probable pitchers for tomorrow's
Major League games. won and
lost record in parenthesis.)
National League
Cincinnati at New York might
Carter Old VS.. Feldman go.
St. Louis at Brooklyn-Brecheen
900 VS.. lombard DID.
Chicago at Philadelphia Der
ringer 40 VS.. Lee (0-D.
Pittsburgh at Boston-Roe DID
VS.. Tobin (2-3).
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BEES BEAT LEAFS

BURLINGTON, May 8-tR- A
five-run party in the '1ucky sew
enth' gave Burlington an "a Viz
tory over the hitherto-undefeated
Danville Leafs. The Leafs had won
petition. 3e eoili'
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Tar Heels Will Play
Pre-F1ighters Today

CHAPEL HILL May 8North Cardinals baseball team, with
defeat in Ration League compet
on column when tangles with the
smuggling Carolina PreFght nine Emerson Field here
Wednesday afternoon at o'clock
The time neghborival got together the Tar
Heels finally emerged after fighting uphill battle
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DURHAM BEATS RALEIGH

RALEIGH, May 8-LP)-Wallace
Mitchell held Raleigh to four hits
tonight as the Durham Bulls
broke their losing streak with a
4-3 victory. The loss was the third
straight for the Capitals.
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Horse Racing Ban
Might Be Lifted

WASHINGTON May 8-tR-The racing ban may be lifted .
it learned today amid swift developments
sports aftermath of Gemany unconditional surrender
White House announced that War Mobizer Fred NJ y,
son hold conference at II tomorrow and il @
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YESTERDAY'S RESULTS

YESTERDAYS RESULTS
American League
Cleveland 7, Chicago L.
Washington at ST. Louis (nigilt
game).
National League
Cincinnati at New York, ppnd.
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American League

New York at Detroit-Gettel Q-0)
VS.. Trout (3-D.
Boston at Cleveland - Wilson
CID VS.. Reynolds Q-2).
Philadelphia at Chicago Knerr
(0-1) VS.. Lee Old.
Washington at St. Louis (night)
Pieretti (2-D VS.. Kramer OLD.
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American League
PROBABLE PITCHERS

night game.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-12
AFTER We DAY

Strange Morning, broadcast directed by Arch Oboer.
for those unucky enough not to have heard it, presented
of the facets Of We day that many civilians will
be thinking about when happens the reaction Of fighting
men manned blinded, made legless armless both.
savage rendng work. relieved just enough by the
emotional part of the superby played by Charlotte
Holand) said things that needed bitterly be said.
Such this (he actor Maurice Ellis, the character is
Sam, a Negro truck driver horribly burned):
When born, had all the world. Yeah! Little
black baby owning the world lost it fast Get out of
the way, ngger - No black boys wanted" - You know
the story. Soon wasn't in the world - Then the
Army. For maybe a crazy hour thought part of
things again, but (bterly) do have to tell you? And
then that Naz floating around up there saw me and my oil
truck rdin the Red Ball Express He went into dive and
got in his sights and pressed the trigger and then
there nothing But all at once there was! was in
bed Others all around and nobody said Get out, black
boy side Niger Somebody said Nice going, fela!
and the guy stuck cgaret in my lips and some
been On the hospital ship and the train.
and there they talk to Sam, what's opinion Of
this? Sam, how about that SAM talk to us! SAM tell
u.s. Me. Sam! So Murray for the day. but want to stay
here Tightly want to stay here!"
And this (the character captain, whose best friend
murdered by the Nazs)
Il lasted little longer than that - long enough to
mountain Of shoes hundreds OF thousands and every
pair meant human being who had been showed into
ncnerator for the crime of daring to live lived long
enough and OF quiet children where the
Doug with his hands tied behind his back and his throat
cut, hate this day! Because we'll stop killing them!
The sentimenalists will begin! They'll stand right
and the words OF charity pity and compass
sion. Yes, hate this day! For the forgetting
begins Pm.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-12
POLL TAKERS IN CONGRESS

One of the hottest of hot potatoes before Con-
gres in time deposited with the clerk OF the
House short The Southern Electoral Reform
has demanded that 6S members of Congress from
Southern poll shall be unscated argument
that the poll tax in these Alabama South Caro-
prevents majority OF the citizens from voting, and
thereby violates the provisions Of the United Con-
sttution That majority Of the citizens OF these
do not federal elections no one can deny Senators
and Representatives sometimes elected with only five
percent of the adult population represented the
ballot box. That the poll obstacle voting
without saying the accumulated delinquency
states amount TO about $50 which is fortune TO the
poorer residents of the South, white black Whether
these facts be put together into that
will Congress than 10 per of its
total membership. do not know We do know, however,
that the activity of the Southern Electoral Reform League
useful purpose bringing public attention what
perhaps the single blot the democratic process
in this country. - The New Republic.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-12
BY PEARL S. BUCK
(Reprinted from The Voice of lndia)

E'TIH battle is no, always to the strong those
old words take on deep significance now
as the end Of the war becomes possibility How
much peace will victory bring IS a question mono
can answer least of all in Asia. Japan viii be
VanquiShcd but she VIII leave behind her IN
the countries she must rclinqulSh no peace for
the white man. The strong conqucrinc peoples
Will have To make their own peace as they enter
again into the subject lands. II those lands are
glad to sec the last Of Japan. still they have
Japan's poison hidden in their minds, Japan
will have told them. to the last fleeing Japanese
soldier. to remember that when the white man
comes back, he comes back to rule.
Embi,tcred by this poison. 1t Will take meas
lres immediate and clear to convince these re-
leased peoples that the returning conqucrorS are
better than the vanqulShcd ones. FIRST among
such measures must be the freedom OF India So
long AS India is not free. no people IN the whole
Of Asia will believe that the white MAN is not
bent upon new and increased empire The Jap
ancsc poison will pcrvade in Asia unless India
is freed No agreements, no protestations, no
plans and promises will have any meaning unless
India is freed Upon a free India alone can
world peace be based
All the arguments which are so constantly
advanced against midas freedom may be true
and still il is the only safety for the worlds peace
10 free India AT whatever cost TO India, for the
sake of the rest of u.s. India must be freed We
have been told that were India to be freed now
there would be blood bath" of civil war. But
if India is not freed there will be the greatest
Of bloodbaths one day, and one not only in
India For the most callous reasons OF our self
interest India ought to be freed
II becomes increasingly evident that India in
tends 10 he free by violent means If not by nom
violent ones. The influence OF Gandhi Is un-
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india TOMORROW

doubtcdly waning in the younger Indians who
VIII be tomorrows leaders Gandhi is very old
Older IN lndiaS years than IN the western ones.
and NChru has been in prison so long that one
must question has ability 10 rcadjuSt himself
TO the tempcStuous times. Young Indians are
facing the necessity Of providing new leadership.
Such leadership is already forming and II is
folly To pretend II is not. Out of the distress Of
the first World War a new Russia was born with
blood and revolution Ii is entirely possible that
out Of the second World War new India Will be
born, not quietly and with peace but with storm
ana violence. There Is mounting reaction
against non-violence, Young men are asking what
II has brought TO India except delay. Wiser
young men are saying that Gandhis non-vio-
lcnce has established sense of nationhood Upon
this foundation, nationasm can act and act
violently.
There aTc fire and heat in India which
cannot be- cooled No one can talk 10 Indians
and not feel the burning Its energy has been
too long pfDt u c9D quickly become dangerous,
II must be allowed freedom TO spend itself or it
viii find its own outlet India must be given It's
freedom or II will take its freedom
II the great conference in San Francisco in
April takes place without recognizing the de-
mands of India made through real representa-
tives from midas people then the future is
omnous, The war will 60 on IN Asia American
men Will continue 10 fight and die there and
with them other white men But their deaths
will have lost meaning They may rout the
Japanese, but they will not have won the vic
tory over them. Millions of watching people in
Asia will remember what the retrcating japanese
said before they bled, before they died The
white man is coming back. He is coming TO rule
over you again. He will never make you free"
The real victory would be 10 prove the Jap
anese are liars What better way than TO sci
India free?
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drop the brothers and sisters as soon as the war
is over.
The Negro veteran is running into some funny
situations. Let us say he was shipping clerk,
or porter in a drug store or just messenger
before he was indicted. During his two years
or more in the army he has become a radio
technician, or expert repairman on field tele-
phones and portable switchboards. or lneman
stringing the copper wire for vital communica-
tions, or master mechanic.
Back in civilian life. he naturally does not
want TO take job as a porter or bundle wrap
per. or messenger. He wants better job at
better pay--a job he knows damn we'll he can do
because he has done il in the toughest situations.
But his Selectve Service board which is sup
posed to help him find employment looks over
his folder and cannot get its mind off the fact
that he once was a porter. The employer, let
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-05-12
By ROY WILKINS

ciate that working on telephone poles In France
and Germany under fire Of the Germans is basic
ally no different from working on telephone
poles in Pittsburgh or Pasadena.
The result in too many cases is that the Negro
veteran is meeting up with the same old color
line That is partly the reason our people are
so unanimous on a permanent Fair Employment
Practice bill They want every man to have a
fair chance at job and not be disqualified before
he starts on account of race, color, religion, or
national origin. They want state FEPC bills
passed to strengthen this idea.
In recent weeks the Negro veterans have got
a good look at the forces supporting FEPC and
those who are just talking about 1t. Governor
Thomas E. Dewey of New York gave vigorous
leadership to his party, held the Republicans in
line, and passed the Ives-Quinn FEPC bill New
York became the frst state with such law.
But all the Republicans are not as discerning
as Mr. Dewey Down in Washington Senator
Taft continues to play around with his weak bill
providing for Investigation Of discrimination.
In Pennsylvania Republican Governor Martin
has not lifted finger to help a state FEPC bill
and the Republicans in the state legislature have
kept a good bill bottled up in committee In
Connecticut the state senate has passed bill by
a vote of IS to 10 and every one of the 10 votes
against it was cast by Republican.
Apparently the Republicans are not concerned
over whether Negroes and returning Negro vet
Grams get fair chance at job or not They are
talking up breeze" but knitting FEPC in the
back.
The Republicans never learn Some of the
dumbest Negotiating Democrats from the Deep
South are smarter on the overall Negro ques-
ton than the most liberal Republican from New
England Well if FEPC is killed, the record will
be there, and it will not be record that will help
the killers in the l946 or l948 elections