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The southern news., 1946-11-09
Hampton Trustees Agree
To Recognize Union

HAMPTON, Va. (NNPA)-The
Board of Trustees of Hampton
Institute has unanimously agreed
to recognize the United Public
Workers Of America (CIO) as the
bargaining agent for its teachers
and employees, it was learned
last Tuesday.
The board accepted a recon-
mendation of subcommittee
which had checked the member
ship cards of the union against
the schools payroll and found
that the union represented a sub
stantial majority of all the
schools employees.
Organization of the Hampton
Institute local began in March,
l945. Among those who assisted
il the organizing campaign were
Dr.. Joseph L. Johnson. dean OF
the Howard University Medical
School; Mrs. Sarah Walsh, head
of the UPW- -CIO teachers divi~
sion; Max Rothman, CIO organi-
yer; and Daniel H. Schwartz,
UPW regional director for Vir-
ginia, Maryland and the District
of Columbia.
The locals permanent chapter
The southern news., 1946-11-09

night, October 25 Before l2,OO9
bowling fans who still can't believe
football has a right to shine, Fell9c
peritted on runs, no hits lin five
innings and struc kout 10 (count
them) of the Is baters who faced
his wide sweeping curve and blind
ing speed.
DOLL RAFFERTY, is the name
of a fighter He halls from Wiscon-
sin where the best domestic cheese3
(no pun intended here) come from.
He is definitely colored, and is
managed by Pinkie Mitchell, d
mighty good junior-welter of IS
odd years back. We saw Doll"
against Billy Graham, a white light
weight with a crack press agent
agent and - we don't care if we
never see the lad with the fancy
first name and the Irish handle on
the end. 1t is claimed that Doll scor-
ed % kayos during his last % bout3
but against Graham, he was purely
stab and clutch artist in there to
stay the limit
The southern news., 1946-11-09

Play Shelved

NEW YORK (ANP) Officials
Ct the firm library of Manhattan $
Museum of Modern art have volun-
tarily shelved the 1915 melodrama,
Birth of a Nation" produced by d.
W. Griffith and staring Lillian
Glsh, it was announced here re-
Gently. The film library officials
charge that because of the potency
of its anti-Negro bias, exhibiting it
at this time of heightened social
tensions cannot be justified
The museums film library Wa
launched in 1885, through a R,cke-
1eller grant, for tie purp Sc of co..
lecting old and new films for study
by serious students Of the motion
picture 1t is said to have the
worlds best collection Of OLD and
new films, one Cf which is the Grlf
fifth melodrama.
Library officials, in shelving the
Birth of a Nation" film, recalled
that following its instroduction to
the public in 1915 and again in 1921
there were many outbreaks of race
rioting. They admit the greatness
of the film" and Its artistic and
historic Importance, but feel that
it should not be given mCre than
limited circulation for research
purposes"
The southern news., 1946-11-09

WASHINGTON, D. c. (NNPA) -
The boxing monopoly maintained
by Mike Jacobs, New York pro-
tnoter, was raped last Tuesday by
the National Boxing Association be-
cause of the freezing out of Charley
Burley, Pittsburgh boxer, at shot
at the middleweight title.
Abe j. Greene, NBA president.
said he agreed with the protest Of
Burleys managers that under ex-
isting arrangements their boxer
will not get chance at the mid
dleweight title for a year.
Pointing out that Jacobs has Tony
Zale and Rocky Graziano booked
for return match in March, six
months after zale Knocked out
Graziano, Greene proposed three
elininatinon bouts to determine The
opponent for the winner of the re
turn match between Zale and Graz
iano.
Greene proposed that Georgia
Abrams fight Marcel Cerdan, the
French champ, and Surley fight
Jack LaMotto, and the winners Of
The southern news., 1946-11-09
SCHW Places Picket Lines
Around Broadway Play
WASHINGTON, D. c CNNPA)

WASHINGTON, D. c (NNPA) =
The Southern Conference for HUI
man Welfare last Tuesday night
threw a picket line around the first
nights performance of Maxwell
Anderson's play, Jean of Lor-
raine," starring Ingrid Bergman at
George Washington University =
Lizner auditorium.
The demonstration, staged in col
laboration with the Greater Wash
ington Area Council Of the AnaeSi-
can Veterans Committee, was held
in protest of the university's refusal
to admit colored psople to perfor-
mances at the newly built audi
torium.
The pickets appeared promptly st
eight o'clock and paraded in front
of the auditorium until the curtain
rose forty-five minutes later, there
by forcing high government Off
cials and Washington first nightcre
to cross the picket line as news
mems cameras flashed.
AVG members stood at the en-
trance of the auditorium and passed
out leaflets containing statements
Of Miss Bergman, producers of the
play, and members of the cast.
in which they dsplored race dis
crimintaion in Washington theaters.
Placards carried by the pickets
read. "A university has response
bility in a democracy" This uni
versity auditorium refuses to admit
Negroes. "A university which dis
eliminates against Americans pro-
notes fascism," Discrimination is
un-American This auditorium!
discriminates against Negroes"
Among high government officials
seen crossing the picket line for the
performance were w. Averell Har-
The southern news., 1946-11-09
NEW LEAGUES
WRECK ALI.
MONOPOLIES

NEW YORK CAMP = The day
Of the independent spcrts operator
is apparently doomed. Everywhere
there are leagues being formed
which xclude outsiders = Negroes
= yet snatch the cream of the Ne
gro athletes from former promot-
ers and operators, leaving the latter
with only the dregs.
This year as never before, bas-
ketball is being organized into lea
cues of professional teams. Areas
teams were top attractions now are
closing to them and league games
wlal be played in the arenas former
ly used for these attractions
The same thing has happened in
football There are few independent
teams in cities that can entertain
an independent team Leagues pro-
hibit this. In days gone by. Pater-
son, Passaic, Newark, Jersey City
Long Island ali furnished good
sports for football games for col
cred teams. This is becoming a
thing of the past as white operators
srab off Negro stars end force Ne
gro operators out OF the picture.
Booking agents who formerly con-
rrolled these teams are getting out
crying towels for the new practise
is wiping out their soft part time
occupations which netted them nlf-
ty sums over seasons play.
The southern news., 1946-11-09

riman, Secretary of Commerce, and
Supreme Court justices Stanley
Reed and Felix Frankfurter Other
Washingtonians noted were Sum
ner Welles, former Under-secretary
of State, aud Drew Pearson, the
columnist.
Simultaneously with the staging
OF the demonsIvati n, the Com
mittee for Racial Democracy in the
Nations Capital announced il:
plans for cracking the Jim Grow
po'lcy in Washington theaters.
Leon A. Ransom, committee
chairman, proposed that the peopll
of the community, who are agains'
race discriminate n, buy tickets tc
performances at the National Thea
tire and Lisner AUDITORIUM, in large
numbers, for interracial groups ant
to seek admission.
Upon refusal to admit colored
members of interracial parties, said
MIR. Ransom, the theatres will be
Obliged to refund the ticket money
to the parties they turn away.
''As long IS the theatres tuln
away and refund the money cf
large numbers of people" Mr.. Ran
som said. they cannot operate al
a profit. They have told us it would
be poor buzines to ADMIT Negroes
Ne viii show them it is poor bus
mess not to admit Negroes"
Miss Ida Fcx, executive secretary
Of the Committee for Racial Demo-
cracy, made public a letter from
Miss Bergman and other members
of the cast of Joan OF Lorraine IN
which they stated they have urged
Equity to adopt a rule forbidding
its members to appear in any thea
ter practicing race discrimination
The southern news., 1946-11-09

five times and on four of these
occasions he made touchdown
runs of SO. 48, 43, and 81 yards.
The other time he apparently
took it easy and registered only
eight yards.
Two of his three passes were
good for touchdownS of 81 and
81 yards, while the third was
complete for a mere IL yards.
Martin has gained GIT yds. in five
Fort Belvoir games by running
and passing, He has scored seven
touchdowns and passed for seven
more. Injuries limited his playing
TO less than quarter in the only
game Fort Belvoir has lost, an
80 defeat by Camp Lee.
Myron Stretch" Everett be-
lieves he has developed amazing
ly since he played on the Univer-
sity of Indiana's third team. He
was only a freshman then, but
hes whirlwino now,' Everett
said. And here's the best part of
it. when he gets out of the army,
he still has three years of eigi
bility left"
Martin. who lives in Evansville,
Ind, joined the army after his
University of Indiana team won
the Western Conference cham
pionship last year. This year he
is chief topic of conversation a.
mong his army buddies, who class
him with the nations outstanding
srid stars of the season.
The southern news., 1946-11-09
BAPTISTS TO RUN stop
BILBO" TRAIN TO WASHINGTON

CHICAGO (ANP) - The Baptist
General State convention of Him
ois, headed by its president the
Rev. James L. Horace, is busily
engaged in planning unique mass
demonstration against the seating
~ Sen. Bilbo. The convention. Rev.
Horace announced here this week,
in cooperation with churchmen in
a number of other states will run
a special train to Washington, bear
ing citizens who will stage their
protest at the u. S. senate and visit
various senators in an effort to per
suade the senatorial body to refuse
9ilbo his seat. E75x
The southern news., 1946-11-09

the final bell in their preliminary
bout He was pronounced dead
by DR.. James j. Flanagan, eX-
amining physician of the Rhode
Island Boxing Commission, who
a few hours earlier had pronoun-
ced him physically fit for the
bout, The dead boxer was recent
ly barred from fighting in New
York because of heart condi-
ton.
A hearing on the surviving
Burton's manslaughter charge
was set for next month.
The southern news., 1946-11-09
BOXING MONOPL Y RAPED BY
NATIONAL BOXING ASSOCIATION

these two bouts to fight each other.
In this way" said Greene. "the
middleweight class would develop
a challenger who would have won
his spurs by shipping the field"
Greene calls Jacobs setup a
monopoly with a vengeance" The
NBA contends that Jacobs uses
contracts calling for exclusive SER
vices of boxers to set up boxing
MONOPOLY.
The southern news., 1946-11-09
FIGHTER KILLED
DURING BOUT

PROVIDENCE, R. l. (NNPA)-
Bobby Burton of Pittsburgh, is
dead and Bobby Burton of Provi-
dence is facing a $4,000 techni-
cal manslaughter charge as a re-
bout here last Tuesday.
sBh of their SAX round semi final
The Pittsburgh Burton was
felled by a body blow from the
Providence Burton shortly before
The southern news., 1946-11-09
HENDERSON'S
COMMENTS
BY EDWIN B. HENDERSON
For the NNPA News Service

Contrary to the belief of many
people, slaves enjoyed seasonal hol-
idays. Hunting of opossum and the
racoon with dogs and sticks nc
guns - was a sport of many Run
ming races, wrestling and boxing
were in vogue. Often wrestlers
from neighborhing plantations WED
with each other with the young
masters looking on. Mclineaux, first
American heavyweight. is alleged
TO have won his freedom by win
ming stakes for the Molineaux fam
ily.
During holidays, many slave
owners encouraged drunkenness
They often bet on whose slave
could drink the most whiskey Com
ing out Of drunken orgies, the
slaves found work after the hang
over welcome respite. All was q
part CT the cunning of the white
man to release safety valves and
make slavery non-too- soul dead
ening institution. Sports, music
whiskey and often religion were
used to keep the masses satisfied
with their lot in slaevry.
Millions crowd the stand or lis
tan to the radio sports. PROBES
sional sports prove far more inter
esting than amateur games. So II
was with Greece and Rome before
their decline and fall. Are we 90
the verge of the precipice over
which other civilizations fell
Until a few years ago, radio an
nouncers would mention that the
ball carrier or tracker was the
giant" Negro guard or back. Sci
dom now does white America hear
any reference to our boys in the
game. Maybe it is part ct the lror
Curtain which is let down to keep
colcred citizens from thrilling over
our accomplishments or to prevent
white people from knowing the rap
idity of our integratiop on the
American scene.
Do you know that Davis who broke
the worlds record in one of the
weight lifting events in the inter
national championships at Paris re-
Gently was a colored boy?
%&%
The South Texas AAU was SC
elated over the success of the out
door track and field championships
last July, they are now planning
to ask for the Women's track and
field championship in the summer
Of 1947
The southern news., 1946-11-09
Ex-INDIANA STAR PAGES Fl,
BEL LvO|R ELEVEN IN GAMES PLAYED

FIT. BELVOIR, Va. (ANP)-All
the talk around here is about 49,
year-old Calvin Martin, the 1856
pound back from Indiana Uni
versity whose amazing prow.ss
was the big factor in Saturdays S
$50 defeat of Fort Myer.
Out of eight times Martin had
the ball, his team scored SIX
touchdowns. He carried the ball
The southern news., 1946-11-09

was presented last Monday to
DR.. Roscoe Lewis, professor in
Tie division of general studies at
Hampton, who is president of the
newly formed local. The presen-
tation was made by Thomas Rich
ardson, international vice presi.
dent of UPW-CIO.
Negotiations for a contract will
be opened Immediately with DR..
Ralph P. Bridgman, Hampton
Institute president, the union
SaiI.
The southern news., 1946-11-09
TOBIAS NAMED TO BOARD OF
NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL
RESEARCH

NEW YORK (ANP) = Charles
Abrams, white New York attorney,
we'll known in the housing and
real estate field, and DR.. Charming
H. Tobias, noted leader, were elect
ed trustees of the New School for
Social Research at the last meeting
of the Beard, Dr. BrYn J. Hovde,
president, announced this week.
The southern news., 1946-11-09


NEW YORK CAMP - JACKIE
ROBINSON, the athlete of the cen.
tury, is very much in the news
these days. From Los Angeles comes
Hne report that the former UCLA
iour letter man who led the Inter
national league in batting last sea
son, will play basketball also. He
has signed a lucrative contract &c
play with the Los Angeles Red
Devils of the National Basketball
league
One of the most popular colored
athletes in sports history, Robinson
figures to gross around $4,000 for
this seasons work in two sport
theaters and many are claiming
that he will be the Brooklyn third
baseman in AZ.
BASKETBALL NED IRISH
is DILEMMA
FOR CONSECUTIVE YEARS,
l have carried on what amounts to
a one-man campaign against the
biased attitude of Ned Irish, "Mr.
Car Basketball' himself, and vice
president of the rich Madison
Square Garden Corporation Irish
never could see, and we doubt that
he still doesn't see it 100 percent
why colored court experts should
re permitted to play (as college
representatives in the Garden
He was nobody when the Garden
was financially on the rocks a few
yearse back, but he managed tc
pyramid college basketball, aided
and abetted by out-ando-ut profes-
sional betting on games, into fat
ice presidency r himself and a
cut into the richest box office plum
n all sportdom.
Now with Dolly King. former Is
land college and Renaissance Big
Five player signed for something
thing like $1,000 by Lee Harrison
manager of the crack Rochester. N
Y. Rockets, other stars of color may
be gobbled up before the season
starts.
If pro basketball catches on like
the college brand did, and we for
enc think it should, next season
should find one or two Negro clubs
banging at the door for admittance
Dolly King richly deserves a chance
TO earn important money at least
For four consecutive seasons the
Manhattan beach lifeguard was
chosen on the star professional team
Of the nation He is a wonder at Sc
irving the leather off the back
board and is one of the best floor
men eXtant
RAPID ROBERT M0WS
EN- DOWN
HARRY (Tha CaO RREECHEN
st. Louis Cardinals twirler is the
greatest pitcher alive as far as
world series fans are concerned
You can go right out and ditch the
seasonal averages Of fellows like
Hal NewhRuser, Feller, Boo Ferris
etc, as far as they are concerned
Fastballer Feller, Iowa strongboy
is my idea of some pitcher despite
Breechen and his world series wiz
ardry in winning three games Take
a look at what Feller did to Jackie
Robinson's All Stars ont Los AG-
geles way at Wrigley field Friday
The southern news., 1946-11-09

DR.. Tobias, one of the first Ne
groes to be appointed to the board
of trustees of a non -colored insti
tuition of higher education, is di-
rector and trustee Of the Phelps
The southern news., 1946-11-09

Stokes Fund and was signaily hon
ored recently by election to the
craftsmanship of the Board of min
isters of Hampton Institute.
The southern news., 1946-11-09
BEATIN'

BY ALVIN MOSES
ROBINSON AND DOLLY KING

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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-08-09
CHAPTER I.

Such a small thing as shrimp
may save a mans life by putting
new heart into him at time when
his digestive organs have ceased to
function for lack of fuel. If the will
to live or die is dependent upon a
bunch of nerve cells and ganglions,
the proper activity of the latter is
contingent upon the regular carboni-
cation of commonplace foods.
Dick Jordan had reached the point
Of semi-starvation and physical ex-
hauston when lethal forgetfulness
seemed the greatest boon to man
to drift off painlessly into world
Of dreams and fancies that ends in
death. He didn't want to live; he
had lost the will to 60 on and suf-
fer; he craved surcease from the
torture of wind and sun and waves
and from thirst and hunger!
Clinging to his frail support that
had been the toy of the waves for
days and nights-he scarcely knew
how many-he raised his head for
one last look around his narrow I'M
dulating horizon before releasing his
hold to slip down into the green
waters clamoring to receive him. 1t
was the last despairing look of
dying man when the faculties flare
up an instant, in full intelligence,
before the final collapse.
Then, coming on the crest of
wave, sliding down its slope to meet
him, a small island of seaweed
thrust it's tentacles of air-bladders
and greenish fronds about his neck
and shoulders, rustling and muir
muring against the sides of his raft.
Aroused an instant by this unex-
pected break in the monotony of his
horizon the castaway stared at it
in Supplied wonder. 1t was alive
with crustaceans and fnolluscs,
those tiny forms of life that cling to
algae and make their homes in their
branches-squids, snails, slugs, bar
nacles and anthropods.
A tiny crab f1oated on the surface.
Dick made grab for it, but missed
it. His splash startled from their
hiding place school of shrimp.
Catching one of these, he decapi-
tated it and ate it raw. The taste
awakened dormant impulses in him.
He began fishing warily for the tiny
creatures, driving them into the
open with one hand and cupping
them with the other, or corraling
them into dense mass of seaweed,
he would fling them on his float
with the algae and scramble for
them before they could leap back
into the sea.
1t became an exciting game, with
real food as the prize. Every time
he caught one and swallowed it, his
appetite craved more, and his
tagged brain power rallied to his
assistance, giving him the neces-
sary mental alertness and skill for
the work.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-08-09
Back Home Stuff

Perry's boat house and clam bar
is no more. For over half
century it stood at the old iron
bridge across Indian Creek on the
winding road along the Connecticut
shore, a landmark to young and
old. D. B. Perry started it as
young man, built his house on the
waters edge and raised his family
there, renting boats, selling bait and
fish and dishing out CLAIMS on the
half shell with flavor of chestnuts.
He closed the clam bar in the
shack with the quaint iron stove
in the center several seasons ago
much to the regret of natives and
tourists. ID. Only one son, Ernie.
remained to run things, and with
ID. B." ailing, it was decided last
week to sell the boats and wind
up the business. :. Now there isn't
a boat at the landing and it seems
strangely unreal. No more
will the sign that seemed to us to
represent the acme of individual en-
terprise and success be seen there
around October l, CLOSED for Bust
ness Until Next April"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-08-09

collision in rough sea.
In couple of hours each boatload
was separate unit, dependent upon
the skill and exertion of its own
crew for safety, with no knowledge
of what was happening to the 9TH
ers. The black pail Of night de-
scended upon them, obliterating the
rest Of the world, and circumscrib-
ing for them an existence bounded
by the gunwales of the boat. In
this narrow space they huddled,
awed and terrified as much by the
sense of isolation as by the roar
of wind and waves.
Jordan was not greatly surprised
when the accident he had been an
ticipating came; it seemed the in
evitable climax to their adventure,
and unavoidable. A giant wave
lifted them clear out of the water
and upset the frail craft, rolling it
over and over before allowing it to
descend into the trough to be tram
pied upon by the mountain of surg
ing green brine.
After that it was every man for
himself. There was no further OPP
portunity for team work or mutual
cooperation. Dick Jordan found
himself clinging to few boards
that had been in the bottom of the
boat. 1t made an excellent raft for
one, but hardly of use for two. In
his eagerness to take full possession
of it, a fat man climbed upon it,
overreaching himself by his greedi-
ness.
The slender raft sunk out of sight,
and when it finally came to the sur
face again the fat man was gone.
Jordan retrieved it; chung to it.;
clutched it with both hands, refusing
to yield his hold even when the
waves rolled it over and over and
buried him fathoms deep in the sea.
He had been three days on the
raft before the will to live had final
ly cracked, and then, fortified by the
raw food washed up to him by the
mass of drifting seaweed, revived,
and once more struggled to reassert
itself over exhausted, tortured flesh.
1t was real sail that his red
trimmed eyes saw this time, but ne
refused to believe it for long time,
laughing at his own inconsistency in
hoping and praying that it was not
an optical illusion, and declaring in
the same breath it could not be any
thing else. 1t was not only real
sail that he saw, but it was coming
in his direction, bearing down upon
him at a speed that quickly dis
PEELED all doubts.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-08-09

When all but two Of the boats
had been cast off, and the sea was
full of them, bobbing around like
cockle-shells, he and Hen had come
face to face-the only two passen-
gers left aboard. Hen had looked
at him, and nodded pleasantly.
you've done well, Jordan" were
his words. (Which boat do you want
to go in?"
Dick was surprised into stammer-
ing by the question. Until then
there had been no choice. He still
considered himself Pettigrew's
man; he had not thought Of making
a break for liberty. Ever since he
had left the South American port
in Hens custody he had been mod
ell prisoner, and it seemed slightly
dishonorable to take advantage Of
the disaster to escape.
"Why, the one you choose for me-"
he answered. eft makes no differ
ence. Is there room for both of
us?"
''No, not in the same boat" came
the unexpected reply. "That's why
I'm giving you choice. You de-
serve it-after this
He waved his hand around to in
dictate his meaning.