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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1946-06-08
LAST RITES
FOR BRADBY
ON FRIDAY

Funeral services for Rev.
Robert l.. Brady. who died
on Monday. will be held at
Second Baptist Church on
Friday, June Z. at Second
Baptist Church. Services
will be conducted by Rev. a.
A. Banks. assistant pastor of
Second Baptist; Rev. Ed
ward C. Simmons, associate
pastor of Second Baptist (:
Rev. Lee T. Clay. pastor OF
the First Institutional Bap-
fist Church: and Rev. j. ID.
Howell. pastor of st. Ste
phen's AME Church.
The body oi Rev. Brady will
lie IN state nj the church. iil
Monroe from pm. Thursday.
June s until Friday nj pm.
TRIRuTES WRITTEN
Tributes to the memory Of Rev.
Bradby included the following
The Detroit branch Of the
NAACP. through Rev Charles 4.
Hill. president. declared "All De-
troll, will join with the family
members aud friends ~ Second
Baptist Church in mourning the
loss OF one OF our most outstand-
ing citizens Rev, Bradby for
mer president of the NAACP. was
always on the side of sdvanCemen.
Of The Negro. economically. cultur-
ally, and reliEiously. rs one Of
the earliest presidents OF the
NAACP. he worked diligently TO
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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1946-06-08
HIGH COURT VOTES 6 TO |
nth BURTON DISSENTING

WASHINGTON d. c. The Supreme Court Of the
fted States Monday outawed Virginia statute re-
ring segregation of Negroes in buses and trains in in
stale commerce. The vote to |. with Justice
frold Burton dissenting The that of Irene
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1946-06-08
tadby Built Church by Social
Ervice During First World Val Val

Rev Robert l.. Brady, pastor since 1910 Of Second
ptis Church, died in his study on Monday morning,
lille reaching for book. Rev. Brady the dean Of
ro Baptist minister's and led the oldest Negro church
Michigan to unprecedented heights of member hip and
immunity service. He was 6S years old
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1946-06-08
FEDERAL HOUSING PROGRAM
TO BE FAIR, SAYS WYATT

Federal housing policy will be fair TO all minortes
and has already made substantial Improvements for them
according to HOUSING ENpedicr Wilson Wyatt speaking
before the annual dinner of the Capital Press Club IN
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1946-06-08
Police Expose Pawnshop Racket
Pawn Shops Make High Profits
At Expense Of Low Income Group
BY HELEN CROSS

Evidence that the pawn shop. the little mans bank
is reaping harvest in hundred, of thousands of dollars
yearly. through exploitation Of ov income clcl groups
was revealed this week in study made by the Detroit
Irbune " naWnhrokers and lheIr bu.lnes. nraetles
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night watches and doubleheaders
to clear the way for football rental.
The Red Sox have depth in
pitching at last, but Rudolph Pres
ton York has to snap out of his
protracted batting slump and third
baseman Eddie Pellagrini still has
to demonstrate that he can paste
American League hurting.
Now that the service men are
back, the Tigers appear to have a
gaping hole around second base,
and Hank Greeaberg isn't getting
any younger.
Leo Durocher and Charley Ores
sen did a remarkable job of man.
aging in Brooklyn last season, and
have considerably more in the way
of help this year. There's enough
catching without Mickey Owen
Pete Reiser gives the array a tre-
mendous lift even if ne has to throw
with his left arm, which he can do.
And that won't handicap Pistol
Pete when he has a bat in his
hands.
The accent is on youth in Flat
bush, and the Dodgers seem K
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RolIie HemsIey's Homer
Defeats Washington Sens

SAVANNAH, Ga, April S.-P)-
A home run by Catcher Rollie
Hemsley in the fourth inning to-
day gave the Philadelphia Phillies
a to l victory over the Washing
ton Senators in an exhibition base
ball game.
The Senators got their lone tally
on homer by Catcher AL Evans,
in the eighth. The Pills first run
came in the third when Danny
Murtaugh, third baseman, was
walked and First Stacker McCor-
mick doubled to left.
Frank Hoerst went the distance
on the mound for the Pills to gain
credit for the win. Roger Wolff
started for the Senators and was
relieved in the ninth by Sid Huo-
son.
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Yanks, Cardinals Selected To Win remnants

Americans are as fine ball club
as you could hope to see.
Joe Dina ggio and the others
have the urge they had when they
broke in.
The Cardinals have little less
than the. Yankees possess, plus
superlative pitching-a vast guam
tity Of it-and the Red Birds are
better fixed in the way of reserves.
Whitley Kurowski brings to the
blokes in the red blazers what
wallop they lacked while he was
holding out, ana rounds out the
infield.
Stan Musial again leads the at
tack, and the club will be skillftlly
piloted by Eddie Dyer.
The Red Sox and Tigers are popu-
larly considered the outfits the
Yanks will have to beat, but there
is ground for suspicion that the
boys have overlooked the Nationals,
who weren't beaten until the final
day last trip. The Senators have
considerably more than trick pitch
ing, and this time Clark Griffith
hasn't overburdeaed them with
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Jdpanese-American Pug
Sparks NAAU Tourney

BOSTON, April 8.-(R,-Splasheo
with all its pre-War class and color,
me 18th National AAU boxing
championship tournament, with
Held OF 1870 from all parts of the
country, opened at breakneck speed
looay by rushing through more
@an ~ bouts in the first six hours.
Much Of the Journeys sparkle
was supplied by the 12-rnan Ha-
wall team, back in this three-day
competition for the first time
since 1910. During the early stages,
eight Of the Islanders went into
ac.lon and four returned victors.
one OF the most impressive Of the
5se=l-oTaped glovesmen was Tsuneshi
%aFuo, be-medaled member of the
7s@o Japanese-American battalion
VI Nallan campaign fame, who
t%1lcned determined bid for the
I1o-pound class honors with clear
C0' decision over Herb Patzer of
bout.
Other bantamweights who drew
U-e undivided attention Of ring
S'UeIS were Keith Hamilton of New
o'leaHs, last years national 112-
pou9d Titlist, and Charlie Pc
C oeSa2Sy, the full-blooded Oklahoma
Sy indian who was runnerup in
"'e Il0-pound division two years
hamilton moved into the second
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PITTSBURGH TEAM
URGED TO CHANGE
SEASONS OPENER

PITTSBURGH, April g. up -
City council adopted a resolution
today asking the Pittsburgh
Pirates to set back their opening
home game Of the National league
for a day because it has been
scheduled for Good Friday, April
10.
Councilman Edward Leonard
said: 1--WE don't want some celeb
rity throwing out baseball when
people are bowling their heads in
prayer"
The councilman asserted further
that Is feet of ground in left field
at the Pirates ball park, Forbes
field, are on city property, and
limited the city fathers could de-
prive the ball players of that
amount of space if they wanted
to.
Pirate officials were not irnrne-
diately available for comment.
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Wildcats Meet Goldsboro Nine TODAY
100 CTS DROPPED
BY MAJOR LEAGUES
so Per Cent Released Out
right After Hopping
Tryouts

NEW YORK, April 8-(P)-Over-
looked in the hullabaloo about the
Mexican league is the orderly pro-
cedure by which the major league
have unloaded almost 100 ex-GIs
since spring training started.
It's about half and half between
the outright releases and the OPP
tons to the minors with three Of
the athletes making other big
time connections. One other, Muir
ray Franklin of Detroit, chose the
Mexican loop.
Most of the big name athletes
who went marching off to war re-
main on the big league lists bui
such familiar box score figures
as Chubby Dean, Rip Radcliffe and
Bruce Campbell are among the
missing.
Brooklyn couldn't get waivers on
ShortStop Claude Corbitt So Gin.
cinnati picked up a talented IN.
fielder for the ST, 500 waiver price.
1t was the same story with the
Reds when they tried to get In.
fielder Van Harrington out of the
big show. The Chicago White Sox
were interested and took a chance
for $500.
Ever since the Hank Borowy
deal of last year, when the New
York Yankee ace was mysterious
ly" waived out of the American
league and sold to Chicago, club
owners have been scanning the
lists with vigilance. Even SO,
sleeper gets through now and then
The old game of Withdrawing
waivers when some club shows in.
terest in the player has been pull.
ed in many instances. A good ex,
ample is the Anse Moore case.
Detroit wanted to shunt the g.
year-old Southerner to Buffalo but
the Chicago White Sox wouldn't
let him go. AS result the Tigers
withdrew his name and announced
Moore would remain on Steve O..
Neills roster.
Benny Mccoy probably is the out
standing serviceman who drew an
outright release. Connie Mack
paid Benny $4,000 for signing with
Philadelphia in 1910 after the late
Commissioner K. M. Lands de-
clared him a free agent. Mccoy
has been in the navy since 194l
and failed to make the grade as
Mack's second sacker at the West
Palm Beach, Fla. training base.
He has hooked on with Detroit,
his old team, on a trial basis.
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series of trials by pounding out a
one-sided verdict over the tourney S
only Canadian entry, Stanley AL
mond of Vancouver, B. C. Pc
beahsy prevailed as easily over
John Hill, member of a capable
U. S. Marine team from Cherry
Point.
Among the earliest to stamp him
self e slugger was Roscoe Hinson,
New York Negro 147-pounder, who
flattened Hawaiian entry, Ed
ward Morrow, originally from
Omaha, Neb., in less than min
ute.
But the hair-raising fistic fire
works were set off during Ma
rine-Navy 160-pound trial, which
ended with hard-punching Harold
Anspach, also from the Cherry
Point base, coming from behind
to gain a unanimous verdict over
experienced Chris Tabor, who was
sent to Hawaii after enisting in
Youngstown, o.
The first twins the tourney has
had in more. than a doben years
were separated by their initial
tests. After Gerald Labroie OF
Gary, Ind, topped Eddie Funk OF
Washington, in a 126-pound engage
ment, Gerald's brother John was
shaded by John Gonzales of Oak
land, Calf, In a hard-fought 1885,
pound clash.
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BUGS GIVEN NOD
TO BUILD FENCE
Commissioners Discuss
Racing Plans For
Stadium

Wilmington stature in the world
of sports moved up two notches
Yesterday when the New Hanover
County F'oard of Commissioners
"uthorized improvements at Legion
stadium.
One Improvement is for local
practice of the national pastime"
baseball; the other for the sport
Of kings"-horse racing.
For baseball, the commissioners
rave L. M. Pollock and Vic
Stefano, owners of the Wilmington
Pirates baseball club, full approval
TO erect portable 'home-run
fence" around the diamond.
The move clinaxed Commission
err Louis Coleman's statement Of
several weeks ago that "a home
"un is to baseball IS a Knockout is
to boxing. A home-run fence will
not only give our diamond a big
league appe arance but also draw
more people 10 the games, because
people come to baseball games 10
see the players hit home-runs.
For the "sport of kings the
commissioners voted to inspect the
ace track and stables with mem
ers of the Cape Fear Horse ShcW
association with view toward re-
Surfacing the track with clay and
increasing the stable facilities.
According to Commissioner Cole
man and D. C. North, member of
the association, the local stadium
could possibly surpass Pinehurst
and Camden, S. c., as a winter
race-horse training center.
North said Several Northern
race-horse owners" have indicated
that they are very interested" in
giving their t,1oroughbreds winter
training in Wilmington because of
the fine climate
Commissioner Coleman, WI 0
visited Pinehurst last Saturday,
said several trainers there had ex-
pressed the same desire.
It is estimated that the total
cost of improving the track and
stables for the training center"
would amount to about 81 800, a
small investment for the large
amount of revenue which the center
would bring in to the county.
In their meeting yesterday the
commissioners also:
Appointed Mr.. and Mrs. c. M.
Carter to supervise the county
home; exempted returning service
men from payment of interest on
taxes accrued while they were in
service; endorsed the Catholic
hospital drive; and passed a reso-
luton inviting the North Carolina
Presswomen to hold their annual
spring meeting at Wrightsville
Beach.
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BY Charles Nethaway
United Press Sports w; tier

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, April -
uR)-Catcher Mickey Owen follow.
ed the lead of Vernon Stephens to.
day and announced that he has de-
clded to do an about-face end re.
turn to the Brooklyn Dodgers rather
than joir. the Mexican baseball
league.
After long conference with
Branch Hickey, Jr., of the Dodgers
and Alfonso Pasquel, Mexican
League representative, owe
simply announced Il am going
home (which meant to Flatbusl
and the Dodgers.
Owen, Brooklyn's star preWar
catcher, was scheduled 10 join the
south-of-the-border loop as player.
manager of the Torreon club but
Talked when he got to the hanks Of
the Rio Grande here and learned
that Stephens, hard-hittirg St.
Louis Browns shortstop, has skip
Ped back from the Vera Cruz club
and rejoined the Browns after a
weekend in Mexico.
Mickey. preparatory to confer.
ring with Hickey and Pssquel,
joined the Toledo Mudncns of the
American Association in a workout
here and said he had lost all enthu-
slasm to play in Mexico despite
his earlier calculations that be
"would be able to retire within five
years" on the bonus and contract
Pasquel offered him.
While Owen warned reporters
that Anything can happen in the
rext few days. Alfonso Pasquel,
Mexican league official, was wait
ing across the border at Nuevo
Laredo for Owen to arrive. They
were sche duled to meet there dur
Jig the weekend and Owen was to
sign a three-year contract with
Torreon which he had agreed to do
when he accepted a $4,000 bonus
from Jorge Pasquel.
At Mexico City, Jorge promised
legal action against both Stephens
and the recalcitrant Owen if he
decided to stay north Of the Rio
Grande.
"1'l1 sue Stephens for $4,000
DAMAGES for breaking his con-
tract" Pasquel said, and I'll also
bring suit against Owen if he
doesn't report since I've already
sent him his bonus"
Owen, 30, had been workino for
the Dodgers under three-year
contract which would have expired
in 1945 although he went into the
Navy last year before the pact ran
out.
fore taking. any definite action"
Gwen said. He refused to predict
II plan to work out with the Mud
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Owen Balks At Banks
Of Rio Grande Riuer

hens here for couple of days be-
what luck he would have if Re tried
to return to the Dodgers.
President Branch Hickey of the
Dodgers, reached at Nashville.
Tenn. merely reiterated his pre-
vicus stand in regard to Owen.
If he wants to rejoin our team
he'll have to go through the COM
missioner's office" Hickey threat
ore time ir Florida, Hickey threat
cred either to trade or sell Owen
if he renented and wanted to re-
join the flock.
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DEACONS DEM0LISH'
MARINE NlNE,. 2O-5|
Gridder John Cochra n
Leads w a Ike Forest
With Four For Four

WAKE FOREST, April s.-(R-
Wake Forest crushed the Marine
Institute of Washington under
20 to score in a baseball game
here today.
The Deacons, scoring every time
at bat except IN the fourth inning,
collected Is hits off two Marine
pitchers, who allowed Is walks.
John (ReO Cochran starred at
bat for Wake Forest, getting for
four, including two doubles and
triple, and driving in seven runs.
By agreement, the game was
limited to seven innings.
MARINE INSTITUTE ARM "A
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have passed the Cubs during the
winter. Having virtually stood pat,
the Wigleys don't look any bet
ter than third.
Switching back to the American
League, with the return Of Mexican
Jumping Bean Stephens the Browns
have more balance than the In
dians, who promise to once more
waste a lot Of splendid pitching.
Too little and toe old covers the
White Sox, and i'll Philadelphia,
Connie Mack has nothing much
more than the patienre of fisher
man.
In the National, the Pirates, with
fresh fares in prominent places,
should manage to maintain their
reputation for finishing in the first
division. The Giants have the power
to remain ahead of the Billy South
worth-guided Braves, a pack of
Phillies who mean well but are
yoked by hasbeens and culls, and
the Reds, now paying for practic-
ally calling the whole thing off dur.
ing the war.
/. Get in there and pitch.
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CONFERENCE STANDINGS
Bruce Woodcock Wins
On Knockout In Second

LONDON, April 8. - up - Bri-
fish Heavyweight Champion Bruce
Woodcock scored technical
knockout over Bert Gilroy tonight
in the second of 10 scheduled
rounds. 1t was Woodcock's last
bout before he carries British hopes
into Madison Square Garden May
10 against Tami Mauriello.
A crowd of $500 saw the a.
year-old railroad mechanic knock
down Gilroy four times for the
count of nine in the first round.
The referee stopped the bout mid
way in the second after Gilroy had
gone down twice.
Woodcock, who knocked out Gil
roy two years ago in six heats.
said, II got in good right hand
punch early and after that 1t was
easy"
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Unioue Horse Race Seen
By English Duke, Duchess
NORFOLK ISLAND, AUSTRIA

NORFOLK ISLAND. AUSTRAL-
IAN TERRITORY, April g. Up -
For the first time the Norfolk Is
land cup, this South Pacific is
lands classic horse racing event
with $16 first prize, has been
held before royalty.
1t featured a program for Aus
tria's Governor-General and his
wife, the Duke and Duchess of
Glouster, and was run at Kings
ton.
A Kingston race is unique-the
horses start with a vocal Ego" and
finish out Of sight. The results
must be reported back to the
clerk. The starting place is the
hedge Of former parson.
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BILOXI, Miss, April 8-U.H-
The ak was falling today in the
Birmingham Barons' camp as
managers prepared the stroke that
would eliminate surplus timber
from the Baron woodpile. Strokes
from General Manager Paul
Florence's pencil will send addi-
tional players to Admission and
Tallassee and cast others adrift.
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HANOVER TEAM
IN ROAD GAME
Earthquakes H ave Lost
First Two Games While
Cats Are Unbeaten
BY Gene Warren
Star Sports Writer

| After begill.4- wa >arS may
be banner baseball season with
two consecutive wins in Whining
ton, the New Hanover High School
Wildcats will try their luck on the
road today, travelling to Goldsboro
FOR loop game with the fifth place
Earthquakes.
each Leon Brogden Is expected
to take over IA players on the trip,
leaving at around 1920 a. m. in
the morning for the contest, which
IS scheduled at 400 p. m.
The starting pitcher of the Cats
will either be Kenneth Rogers,
Billy Harrison, or the teams ace
hurler, Herman Wick. Wick has
pitched two complete games al
ready, SO it is probable that Rogers
Oh HarGIson may take a turn on
the hill.
Lacking such a dependable staff
Coldsboro has not much hope for
defensive baseball as neither Best,
MessingiE, Paschall, Winston, nor
Bagley possess enough stuff to
merit starting nod. Evidence Of
this has been shown in the clubs
losses to Wilson and Durham by 20
20 and 81 to 10 BASKETBALL mar
gins.
The Cat infield appears set with
Wick at first, Louis Collie at second,
J. c. Price at shortstop, and prob
ably Teddy Fennel at the hot
corner. OF this foursome Price has
looked the most impressive with
his steady play and hitting when
at the plate. The light-footed junior
is swattIrg the ball for il 1888 bat
ting average-second highest on
the MINIS team.
Roaming the meadow will I'm
ccubtedly be Dunk Futrelle. the
top batter at 400, 'Bubba Sykes,
and Donald Edwards. Even though
Eutrelle is leading the batting
parade, Sykes stands out from the
defensive angle as the most valu-
able man in the outfield, while Ed
wards, top hitter in the preseason
lrter-squad games, has not hit his
stride yet with the stick.
Wilmington may find preventing
Goldsborc from stealing bases their
biggest problem for the 'Quakes
swiped eight against Durham.
'Tinkey' Rogers, the locals mask
man, still needs work on his second
base peg, but the former second
baseman is improving steadily
from this angle. Even if Rogers
fails to hold the Goldsboro base
runners, Brogden has another fine
receiver ready to go in Levy
Heath.
The batting lineups fer both
teams are expected to be as fol-
lows:
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TRANSFORMS STOP
EXHIBITION GAMES
Boston Red Sox Beat Gin
cinnati R e d Behind
Good Pitching
BY United Press

The Detroit Tigers and Boston
Graves, rained out today al Fort
Knox, KY, wind up their spring
series here tomorrow in the ninth
meeting OF their tour. The Tigers
lead, six games to two.
Manager Billy Southworth Of the
Braves said he had received no
further word from Pitcher Mort
Cooper, who had advised the
Braves he would join the squad at
Chattanoe ga, Tenn, yesterday. The
big right handler originally was
scheduled to join the club at
Montgomery, Ala, on April but
postponed the date until April Z.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, April 8 -
Nick Etten, frs. baseman who had
gone to his home in Chicago on
personal business rejoined the New
York Yankees today as the first
Of their seven games series with the
Brooklyn Dodgers was raii.ed out.
Joe Gordon recovered from a spike
wound, worked out before the
doWnpoul and Marius Russo, ailing
southpaw, again pitched to the
tatters ir' hitting practice.
LOUISVILLE, KY, April 8-The
Boston Red Sox got first-rate pitch
Ing from Sophomore Dave (Boo)
FERRIS and Freshman Mel Deutsch
today to win a double header from
the Cincinnati Reds, 3 to and 2 to
O.
Bobby Doerr's two-run homer and
4 double accounted for all of Bos-
toms runs off Frank Dasso in the
opener. II. the second game Deutch
held the Reds to four hits and only
one player got to second. Bucky
Walters pitched for the Reds and
bore down tor the first time since
an arm injury threatened to end
his career last season. He scatter
ed seven hits.
HICKORY, April 8-The New
York Giants continued then hard
hitting against the Cleveland In
dlans today by scoring seven runs
before lain ended the game with
nobody out in the last half of the
fifth and the Giants ahead, z to 0.
Bill Voiselle limited the Indians
to two hits, while his mates bang
ed IL, including home runs by Sid
Gordon and Babe Young, triple
and single by Bill Rigney and
three singles by Johnny Mize.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, April
"a three-run homer by Infielder
Murrell Jones gave the Chicago
White Sox 4 to l victory over the
Pittsburgh Pirates today as the
teams continued their cross country
exhibition tour.
Jones blow came in the sixth
inning off Ken Heintzelrnan who
had just replaced Al Tate with the
score tied at to /.
TULSA, Okla, April S-Short-
stop Vernon Stephens, making the
Prowns happy that he came back
from the Mexican league, singled
home the only run of the game to-
day as St. Louis shaded the Chicago
Cubs in a pitching battle, to O.
Stephens got his blow OFT Hank
Wyse. Chicago ace. who Was charg-
ed with the defeat. Alza~illa, who
got three hits in four trips to the
plate came home with what proved
to be the deciding run. Nelson Pot
ter and Stan Ferens held the Cubs
to five hts, two by Stan Hack.