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Hartford chronicle., 1946-07-27
Local CI0 Union President Dies

Wednesday, July IT, Bismarck Alaska Pearson of 10 Burke St., Roxbury, Mass, passed away af- ter brief illness which had kept him from his work for about 16 days. MT. Pearson was a we'll known figure in the progressive life of Boston. He was president and founder of Local 3O1, United Transport Service Employees CCIO) and also a faithful member and worker of the Northeastern Regional Council of the same in- ternationa1 union. For the last 13 years he had been employed at the Greyhound Bus Terminal in Park Sq., where he was well-thought of by the management and all who came into contact with him.
 He was born in Camp Hill, Ala bama, January %, 1892. He was good scholar, highly intelligent and well-read, having graduated from Tuskegee Institute, and Sel- ma University in 1907 with de- S1SC O4 S1s He dIG0HQGu ward University 1913-14 majoring in history and education.
 He leaves to mourn a devoted wife, Mrs. Irene Ellis Pearson, to whom he had been happily mar ried for the past q years, also two sisters and one brother in Camp Hill, where his body was taken by his widow for interment. MT. Pearson was a resident of Bos- ton for 24 years and a prominent member of the Peoples Baptist Church. One of his favorite slo- gans was "Action Without Words" which typifed his quiet manner in going about to get things done.
 Among the very touching mes- sages of condolence received by the family from persons in all walks of life was one from Presi- dent W. s. Townsend, and Off, cial Staff of the United Transport Service Employees (CIO)
Hartford chronicle., 1946-07-27
70 Charters Only For Mass.

sets.
 Two Charters Only For Mass.
 The white brethren initiated in the Military Lodges applied to the Ancient Grand Lodge of Scotland for charter in 1754 and receiv- ing it in 1760 became what is now St. Andrews Lodge. Some years later Prince Hall applied to the Modern Grand Lodge of England and the second of the States Ma sonic Charter was granted to the African Lodge. All other lodges seemed to have worked under the Provincial Grand Lodges.
 Around 1769 St. Andrews and three Military Lodges all working under the Ancient system peti- toned the Grand Lodge of Scot land for a Provincial Grand Mas ter. The Petition was granted and in 1769, Doctor, afterwards Gen eral, Joseph Warren was appoint ed and installed, The Modern Grand Lodge in Massachusetts re- fused to recognize the Ancients, and the old world breach became as wide, if not as deep, as in the New World. The Massachusetts Masons did manage to get togeth- CT; how, I will explain next week.
 The Marshal
Hartford chronicle., 1946-07-27
PLAIN TALK
By JOHN M. LEE

for her magnificent efforts was representatively strong, but mo- ticeably restrained and dignlfied' Before her part of the evening was over, it became evident that part of Miss ISchuyler's education as an artist who will perform before the public, had been neglected. Cold Acceptance of Warm
 Applause
 Her acceptance of the fact that a part of one of her symphonies was being played by one of the worlds greatest orchestras before an unusually large audience, with curt curtsies, added nothing to the charm of the evening. Several times following her spell-binding rendition of the Saint-Saens Con- certo, the audience ceased it's ap- plause, expecting that Miss Schuy- Ter was to speak.
 1t was a most important occa- sion in her life, and in the concert life of the true-music-lovers in the audience. They wanted to warm to her, to take her to their bosoms and shout, Bravo" but the op- portunity didn't come. It was req sonable to expect that out of sheer childish exuberance, Miss Schuyler
 would have spoken into the mi crophone before her if only to say, ''Thank you; thank you very much" She came again and again from the wings summoned by sim cere and appreciative applause, and she responded with two en- cores, but the audience wanted something of her as well as her music.
 A child of fourteen will get ner- vous on an occasion such as this one was, and will forget some things, but Miss Schuyler should have remembered at some time during the curtain calls to thank the orchestra and the conductor and the audience that was with A1C4 OO c A1AeAA13 O4 OOAAASOAAS 0AAoA4A have reminded her.
 It seems a shame to make these criticisms in the face of the great genius and f1aw1ess artistry dis played by Miss Schuyler, but un- less an artist learns early to pro- ject some warmth and personality over the foot1iphts- the audience gets the feeling they have been listening to an automaton. Her pa- rents, who have both written crit ically on matters of public inter- est, and they will understand, , am sure, that this is just a report CTS account of the audiences re- action. Nothing can prevent Phil ippa from becoming one of the ages greatest pianists, but lit tie relaxed charm will help her career.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-07-27
THE POSITIVE TRIUMPH OF PHILLIPPA DUKE SCHUYLER

It isn't likely that there will be another genius of the sort that is fourteen-year-old Phillippa Duke Schuyler in your lifetime or mine, and so her recent appearance at New York's Lewisohn Stadium, which amounts to her debut as a pianist, is too broad and signifi- cant a thing to be confined to the realm of music. Happily, there was none of the preliminary fanfare about Miss 'Schuyler's debut that put the destiny of a whole race on her shoulders, and when she sat down to play the exacting Saint-Saens concerto for piano and orchestra, she was on her own, with only her parents and her teachers and coaches to share in the glory or failure of her per formance. The acclaim that fol lowed her playing was for her art istry and not for her ancestry.
 The Saint+Saens concerto, in my humble opinion, is one of the more demanding solo pieces for the pi- ano artist. It is heard infrequent- ly on recorded programs because it must be seen as well as heard to be fully appreciated. Its execu- tion requires the most skifu1 ma nipulation of the hands, and have never seen it played with more grace than that shown by Miss Schuyler.
 Many Negroes In Audience
 The audience, which was between an estimated fourteen to sixteen thousand persons, was literally sprinkled with Negroes. Many of them had arrived early dressed in what they believed was proper for the occasion, with an occasional cane and strict evening wear showing here and there. At Lew isohn Stadium, the music is the thing, and most of the regular pa irons get good listening results in every day attire.
 Prior to her solo performance Miss Schuyler was honored when conductor Thor Johnson led the New York Philharmonic 1Sympho- ny Orchestra in a brilliant rendi- tion of the Scherzo from her fairy tale synphone, "Rumpelstilskin. The audience got it's first glimpse of the youthful composer-pianist when she was escorted from the wings by the conductor. She bowed in acknowledgement of the applause, and there was restraint and great dignity in her move ments.
 Miss Schuyler had set the pat tern of audience-artist relation ship for the evening. From that point on, the applause she received
Hartford chronicle., 1946-07-27
Health For All

his family think he must be well. Remarks about his lying in bed when he looks so we'll may make the patient feel guilty. Then he is torn between following the doctors advice and getting up to please the family.
 Families should remember that it takes time for a diseased lung to heal. It takes time and rest - and plenty of patience on the part of the family as well as the i'll person. The doctor does not judge the patients progress by his out ward appearance. He forms his opinion by certain tests he makes and by studying X-ray pictures of the lungs, which reveal whether the lung is healing or not.
 The family can help the tuber- culous patient greatly by under standing that he must undergo a long period of inactivity and com plete rest, that he will be unable to obtain real rest if he is con- stantly worried. The family can help the patient by doing every thing possible to make his adjust ment to a period of inactivity easy.
 In the next article, sunburn will be discussed.
 (This column is sponsored, in the interest of better health, by: Hartford Tuberculosis & Public Health Society, 65 Wethersfield Avenue, Hartford, 6 Connecticut.)
Hartford chronicle., 1946-07-27
. WHERE DO WE STAND?

, Everywhere about the country men and women are banding together in effort to apply practical solutions to our ever increasing list of Social Economic ills Among these groups those endeavorng to bring about liberal adjustments in Veterans Benefits Old Age Pensions Prices and Wages Housng Social Security Laws. ~ -''
 Evidence of this agitation apparent everywhere picket nes meetings parades and petitions In short every form of expression is being utilized
 Upon examination, find but few Negroes actvel11 supporting these movements, although we as a group have much to gain through the improving and ultimate solution of these problems. Where do we stand?
 The time has for to realize if we would like
Hartford chronicle., 1946-07-27
Prince Hall
 Masonic News
BRIEF HISTORY OF OUR FIRST GRAND MASTER
 PRINCE HALL

As recorded last week, in 1717 a group of Masons in England or ganized a Grand Lodge and elect ed a Grand Master, the first of their kind in England. That act led to the breach which divided called the Moderns, and the other the order into two factions, one Ancients. The breach is reflected today in name only. We find some Grand Lodges AF & AM; others IF 6 AM 1913, however, the British Brethren got together and formed the organization we know today as the United Grand Lodge of England.
 Masonry in England took on a new lease of life, with the forma- ton of the Grand Lodge. One req son was the installation as Grand Master and other worshipful of ficials of men of the English nobility. With the new body man. aged by such as the Earl of Eff fingham the organizations mem bership increased rapidly. Not only among those who formed New Grand Lodge but among those who continued in the old and loose or ganizations. In fact, many of the Masons outside of the Grand Lodge looked with disfavor upon this new organization which was soon to be called Modern" as dis tinguished from the old order who took for themselves the name "An- cients." Notwithstanding a great deal of visiting between the mem bers of the two groups the feeling between them did not improve. It was felt that the two should not fraternize and to detect the irreg- ulars, the New Grand Lodge in stituted certain changes in the work, the better to enable them to spot those who had not come into Grand Lodge. The outsiders were detected and the fat was in the fire and sizzled for many years.
 Masonry in Massachusetts
 Masonry-organized-cam to Massachusetts when in 1733 one Henry Price received permission to set up a Lodge in Boston. By 1736 there was a regular Provin- cial Grand Lodge, with Robert Tomlinson appointed Provincial Grand Master for New England. This Lodge became known as St. Johns Grand Lodge.
 Some persons who applied to this lodge for admission were de- nied undoubtedly Prince Hall and his friends were among those. Be- ing refused these men turned for Masonic degrees to the Lodges of Ancient Masons attached to the Royal rgiments stationed in and around Boston. They were received and initiated, Prince Hall among the others. And thus the old world schism was reborn in Massachu-
Hartford chronicle., 1946-07-27
MAGAZINE RACK
By Samuel P. Perry, Jr. MONOPOLY TIGHTENS ITS GRIP-Nathan Robertson (The New Republic, July S)

Recalling the disclosures of "be- hind closed doors" agreements of big business in World War I in Charles A. Boards "The Devil Theory of War;" the suppressed report of the Temporary National Economic Committee in 1941 re- vealing the concentration of eco- homie power in the hands of five parties, the Nazi cartels and the absorption of all European indus try and the assets thereof, tends to make one apprehensive as to the future of ''free enterprise and the small business man as one reads MT. Robertson's article.
 Begins MT. Robertson, While most of the American people are completely unaware of what is go- ing on, Congress is sabotaging the public's basic protection against monopoly - the antitrust law. This sabotage is taking place in the open, but the newspapers, most of which seem to be more closely affiliated with monopoly interests than with the public welfare, are not telling the American people what is happening. There is dang CT that the ordinary citizen won't wake up until monopoly has not only taken over most of our in- dustrial system, but is too power full for even the government to control. a result of the war monopoly has a tighter grip on the American economy than ever before. The same congressman who are so quick to get excited about strikes and to denounce the growing power of labor are blind to the threat of the concentrated power of big business"
 Blame for the state of inaction was placed upon Congress and the Justice Department for refusing ito exercise.......power under the surplus property law to keep the giant Geneva steel plant from fal- ling into the hands of US Steel"
 "Today the public is sounder asleep than ever before because the press, which is supposed to be on guard for the public, is not do- ing it's job. The newspaper indus try, like much of other businesses, has fallen into the hands of big business. By and large, the news papers are not friendly to the antitrust laws. Their growing an- tagonism was accentuated by the recent antitrust action against the Associated Press, whose ex- elusive membership rules have been one of the weapons used by the press to ward off new compe- tltion." Specifically speaking, men toned as evidence of failure to keep the public informed about monopolies was the suppression of the Senate Small Business Com mittee and the Smaller War Plants Corporations Report by the majority of the press. The report stressed the growth of corpora- tons during the war, the great gains of the industrial giants the concentration of economic power, and the acquisition of big war con- tracts by big companies.
 The report proposed the effec- tive government action including an "anti-trust program, a small l business program, and a surplus ! disposal program directed. to assist small business"
 In conclusion, it was stated that the antitrust division was starved for funds and has just received a skimpy appropriation with
Hartford chronicle., 1946-07-27
BOSTON ARTIST IN NOTABLE SHOW

Vincent Sinclair, who was elected president of his class at the Massachusetts School of Art this year and who was one of the first prize winners of the Negro History Week art contest, exhib- tied in a group show of contemp- orary New England artists at the Stuart Art Gallery, Inc, 455 Stu art St., Back Bay.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-07-27

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 Articles of interest: LOOK mag azine currently contains articles on leading trumpeters including Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge, Cootie Williams, Rex Stuart, and Dizzy Gillespie. LIFE has featured the paintings of we'll known American artists including Boston's John Wilson. NEW RE PUBLIC (22 July): "Lilberalism and Liberals" SATU RDAY EVENING POST (29 Ju1y): the story of CIO attempts to union ize Southern workers.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-06-22
THE WORLD OF SPORTS
By John M. Lee

Before Joe gave up the ghost en- tirely, he had the good fortune to meet up with Vic Marsillo who is fight manager with imagina- tion and courage, and who doesn't want ham sandwich even if it is on raisin cake. Marsillo was keen enough to see that Joe had more stuff than most of the goats bat ting out their brains trying to look impressive enough to get a whack at Joe Louis, (who I hope is still the king), so he took him over. In no time at all Jersey Joe knocked out his jinx and some of the best opposition that could be induced to climb into the same ring with him. The fans, always a frantic lot, went completely nuts, and Jersey Joe became the most cheered fighting man of 1946. What really sent him in there sol i'd was the sensational victory he won over highly-touted Jimmy Bivins. Cleveland, Ohio didn't know whether it should go in mourning or declare a holiday when Walcott punched out a solid victory on Bivins body. Jimmy had fought twenty-five winning bouts over a four year period, and when Jersey Joe bowled him over as he marched up the comeback trail, the fans were ready to name him MT. Box-Fighter of the year.
 This did not mean that they were not loyal to Joe Louis, (who has probably knocked out Conn in the fourth by this time, and is still champion), it simply meant that they were proving the old adage that boxing fan is all heart and no head. They were happy to see Joe getting the kind of breaks he deserves, and they were paying tribute to great fighter who will do some surprising things before he reaches the end of his come back.
 Fighters usually are a supersti tious lot, and they attribute the strangest performances to luck. Many pug has gone into the ring with a heavy heart because some of his lunches were not perched at the right angle, and fights have been lost with the los-
Hartford chronicle., 1946-06-22
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Hub Asks For
 Better Courts

Boston, June -"Boston can again be the centre of some of the most important tennis matches in the East, if we can only con- vince our Park Department to fix up the Carter courts"
 This was the statement this week of Sonny Paige, one of the most persistent local players of the fast racquet game, as he sadly sur veyed the pile of black asphalt, broken in it's surface, and the gen. eral shabby condition of the local courts.
 Sonny" who has been largely instrumental in getting regional and one national tournament here in past years, said that the local courts are part of a whole play ground on which not enough has been spent in the past two years as is spent in some parks in a single week.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-06-22
Woburn's s Jackie Fields Shines

Woburn, Mass, June IA - An other colored lad has been going great guns this past spring: lie is none other than Jackie Fields the all-around athlete at Woburn
 Jackie has been doubling up fol the baseball team playing secono base and taking his turn on the mound when the coach needed boy as a stop gap.
 He is one of the leading batters of the team. Next fall he will lead the football team, being the first colored lad to be so honored in Woburn.
 So, schooIboy fans, keep your eyes on Fields next fall. He is a good back and can kick and pass Army. This year there were no less than seven victims, all of them by the knockout route, an all-time Schemling for the now famous one round knockout. In 1889 he knocked out the by-then-slap-happy John Henry Lewis in one round, Jack Roper in another single, Tony Galento (Two-Ton Tony) in four short ones and Bob Pastor ln II.
 194O brought four victories,
Hartford chronicle., 1946-06-22

CT firmly believeing that he got something crossed up. Even some of the boys who do their training
 in the bars and boudoirs blame the lambasting they get on hard luck. Jersey Joe is not the kind of a leather pusher who is superstitious nor the type to excuse a defeat because his lunches got crossed up. He is true sportsman who packs dynamite in both fists, and he knows how to handle them to make it explode.
 Hard luck is not his alioi, it's mine. I'm not claiming it for him either. I'm just pointing out that you hadn't been hearing much about Jersey Joe until lately, but things will be different from now on. He is, back in the winning col umn with a good, sincere manager who has plenty of savvy and Joe's interests at heart. Now all you have to do is sit back and wait for Jersey Joe to be matched up with Jolting Joe, (who by this time has belted the bejeepers out of Billy Conn, and is still the heavyweight champion), probably in the next six months.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-06-22
Louis And Billy
 Matched Even

New York, June 25 - When preparations were completed TOT the Joe Louis-Bill Conn fight, a lot of interesting facts were un- covered.
 Chief of these was the evenly matched measurements of the two scrappers. Here is how they chalked up:
 Joe Louis Billy Oonn Height, 6 it. ? in. Height 6 it 1 in. Reach. 76 in. Reach "A in. Chest A2 in. Chest, fl in. Waist 26 in. Waist 33A in. Thigh, p in. Thigh zz m. Weight, PIP Welght lo'
 Joe is four years older than Conn; he is 32, Conn 28. The two are evenly matched in calf meas urement, fst-size, neck and Wr1st.
 In the performance of the two men in past years, however, a world of difference exists. Since 1887 Joe has met some of the toughest men in the business; (even before that, in his pre- championship days, he bowled over one after another hard guys, some times in a matter of seconds). Joe went Is rounds with Tommy Farr to a decision in 1887; the next wear he knocked out two top notchers before tackling Max
Hartford chronicle., 1946-06-22

three of them by his favorite kayo method of putting the lads to sleep. The kayo victims were Pay check, Godoy, and Al Mccoy; Go doy earlier in the year had stayed the whole route and lost.
 The big year was 1940, the last big year before Joe went into the record for a big-time defending champ. The ten-pins who fell be- fore the strike-ball of the one-man thunderstorm were Red Burman, Billy Conn, Tony Musto, Buddy Baer, Gus Dorazio, Lou Nova and Abe Simon.
 There was much speculation be- fore thefi ght as to Joe's possible earnings from the scrap. Had the gate reached the expected $3,OOO,OOO (and this, too, would have been an all-time record - nearly double the previous high Joe was expected to make just about a cool million cucumbers. This is in no manner to be con- fused with hay or other grasses; to Joe it would probably mean the settlement of a number of little bills - estimated to run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars that living on a sergeant's pay had permitted to pile upon him. Conn, too, they figured wouldn't do so badly. Just in case you're interested, here are the way the spells were divided: to Joe as de- lending champion, 40 percent; to Conn as hopeful, 20 percent; in both cases Uncle Sam gets his tax money first.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-06-22
JERSEY JOE WALCOTT IS BOXING'S CHAMPIOT HARD
 LUCK BATTLER

New York-"Consider the lilies of the field" the biblical exhorta- tion says, "they toll not neither do they spin," but what about Jersey Joe Walcott who tolls plenty, and all he can spin is a mess of hard luck and disappointments for him. self. Jersey Joe, who is a heavy weight and a pretty well known guy since his recent impressive wins, was the most discouraged
 pug on record about a year and a half ago. He had piled up most unimpressive record of spotty bat ting and seemed to be all washed up when he quit the bruising busi- ness and went in for shipbuilding on an eight hour day, forty hours a week, with time and a half for overtime, in a Camden shipyard.
 The late Jack Blackburn used to say that there was some kind of legend about box-fghting that said if a plug-ugly got hit on the head couple of times he couldn't quit singing leather until they wheeled him away in a rubber-tired chair. We'll, Pm not saying that Jersey Joe got hit on his think-box more than was good for him, but the record shows that he didn't stay put building ships very long. The fans who haunt Madison Square Garden and boo when they should cheer, are happy to see Joe back, and they greet him with the kind of pandemonium that should be reserved for Joe Louis, who I am courageous enough to say at pre- fight time, is still the champ.
 During the course of his hectic career as darn good fighter get ting very bad breaks, Jersey Joe had himself about fourteen man agers. It develops now that none of them had the ima gination to hope for more than a ham sand wich, and if that is all they wanted, you can imagine what Joe received. He was handled badly, and the lack of confidence shown by his man. agers hacked away at his conf dence until it was almost all gone.