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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1946-01-05
BROWN SUPER
MEN SET PACE
IN SPORTS

CHICAGO Negroes have erect
cd color lines in sports color
lines NJ performance declares
Nv Tnrkin. New York Daily News
sports writer in an article
"prov,i Supermen in the cur
rent EBONY MAGAZINE
Citing the record books Turkir
proves that there are several
color lines" which have never
been surpassed Nv anyone hui
Negroes. 40 white man hss even
broad inmpcd over IS feet. Tur-
kin points out but two Negroes
jesse owens and FVlacs Pea
cock have exceeded that dis
ilnce
In the hosinE world only ono
man ever held three world titles
simrlianeurslv Henry Armstrong.
and only one heavyweight cham
mon ever defended his title more
than twenty times Joe Louis.
Trrkin also pays tribute 70
Isaac MarI,ay first Jockey 70
ride three Kentucky Derby win
ners ard Josh Gibson tho first
hall PLAYER 10 hit homer into
Yankee stadium left tic d
bleachcrs
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1946-01-05
NEGRO BAND
BROKEN UP

ror7 DIS NolNrS Iowa
,NNrl The .i'h N.niv Scryi'
forces alb W Nesr land
s's'ioned A.. Fort n Nrnes
since it- orisln m u'0rn''
fa,o Vas e'shandst 2 The
cniv ain Ncrro vow.r 'ary
hand it, I'VE country j. nas n
rornlsr demand for pehr ar-
pesrance
J, appeared for numerous CONS
certs parsdos and cercnn'''s
thrc.rnout Iowa and fre
won first place ~ mo seser'h
sertle commands reocrdrs 1
lest hold NJ 1914 y also h.e''a
for The sick-off rails OF 'Ne
seventh War Loan drive fo ~"
Negroes Of Chicaco and appeared
on The II Nm m Amcwan pay
rropram ~ Soldiers fwlf 'N're
S'.ff sgt Frnite Van Storm.
Indianapolis wac director ~ me
hand Women Of the orranizaror
also made ~ choir and dance
band unit
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1946-01-05
Gamblers Take Beating As Bell
Upsds Wilson In OIymna Bout

The gamblers took a beating and the customers saw
history the making the OLYMPIA last Friday s 100
fight fans 10 the huge stadium eNservoeman
California Jackie Wilson continue bis winning streak
against Detroit's ONea Bell. bat instead they
Bell fight with Wilson for the first four rounds and
then 10 their surprise the Detroit boy son hiee success
rounds 20 90 ahead and stay there The last
rounds fought evenly BEL insisted in gnfing
and from the sound Of the first corg ed II close
and took orything nat Wilson had hook md
Bell returned them measure for measure l. arpar
cnt that the boxer the hest physical cnndfon would
win the fight Bell the better condition fighter and
hooked and pounded his way this ,ef1 mnorarf win
This fight viii pat Bel nn with nc leading rbtcrs his
class and should mean better tho gaze y should
also another Cht with Jackie NILSSON setaase the
bater VIII nndouhfediv 10 cNpgnGe his
record ~ that defeat Wilson weighted l50 pounds and
Boil came in at 81.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1946-01-05
BUDDY YOUNG WEIGHS
COAST OPPORTUNITY

Claude Ruday Young negro
foo'h1il s'er ~ Tho tnisersiy ~
lllrois AID the NaNys Fleet ca
iirrria tram IL considering sew
oral offers 70 iav Tor Wes'
Caati coll yes .s'ier his dls.
eh.rre from tte Naf' vhicn he
expects 70 comf next sprine
gre liSnt-osirr' hackfield arr
WAS sensa'iou when he PLAYED
freshmsr football 'or me rni-
sasi'y 81 llinni~ r lqiA AVID
y rt ar eNt''iNil suppression on
So 'Coa foo.nl coaches dur
ivy 10 i9t5 sosson ~ nc >avy
tenn
foens deaisred daNs vsi'
80 poffai' 'haf he h-a not vet
decided whether 70 secen' any ~
the offers made him lie saii
'ts' he wanted 10 rorsul' wi'N
his mother refcre making ans
commitments
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1946-01-05
Painting OF
LIST Down Chains
Proposed

TUsKEGEE INSTITUTE Ala
When Cleye l.. Abbott. Tuskegees
director OF athletics and head
football coach, was 1ueried here
tod-y regarding the matter of
more visibility for the chains
used TO measure first downs he
said II would favor painting the
chains a bright color 40 that "
would he possible for the spec
tators 10 see them afar off ]
an for Increasing the visibility
of tie yardsticks and hope the
colleges will have the chains
painted beginning with the 1916
football season: each college de-
termining the color il will use.
reporting results ~ the close ~
the season am sure the mat
Ter will he given thouehtful con
siGeration nv the Rules Commit
tee
Abbott said he favored
standardized dress for men hold
iag tho chains. ard expressed
the feeling that two sets OF
chains. set for each side OF the
field, would no confusing 10 the
fans. hut inasmuch as the pro-
rcsal las been made he would
not object 20 seeing the proposal
carried out and al the same time
cnaeavor 10 get spectator reac-
ton n his will help 10 in
crease the interest of the fans
in The game and add 10 their un-
derstrnding and endowment OF II,
mink the proposal worthy Of
,nside~a'ion. and hope some
thing vul 10 done about H.
Tie Tuskeeee coach added II
think II should he mandatory that
AZ fields be marked At ten yard
intervals and ten yards IN from
the side lines with line White
or other white marking material
These numerals should he Al
least three feet Ions and two
r. 81 wide This would greatly
help the spectators 20 determine
The location 81 the ball
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1946-01-05
Willis Ward
THE SIDELINE COACH

standing along the sideline at this time of the year
,tes one reminisce. Football is behind and most
s lovers know the ending of the football Of
Srially closes the sports year Although much
hout basketball and hockey at the present, their sche
dres really don't open until January of the year.
therefore sports lover looks at the empty beachers
~. deserted and covered fields and permits his
mind ia wander back There is really quite thrill to be
ieed from this I'll let YOU few of the things
Nat come into the sideline coachs mind
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1946-01-05
RIVER ROUGE

y Iohn'S tNF
re raF tro oraneo a.
o sln VIZ 'ts sups fendfrt,
Carrir 2 vrrtsfev 81 charge.
The l-ssor sdt eci us F1s9urg
chrst in no Lite 81 ne Nstioa
Isaiah o1sss aamnsr win
Henry Wi~rhasv II. 'oarher.
ms cfaisrce1 t0. harr.r fo1
tsree successive Sendsvs a tns
retiau ~ mo lesson D.as even
by lornnte Rourdrse
A. - riock RES r~vo~ teran
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1946-01-05
BASKETBALL
TOURNAMENT

Tho Tenth Anraal in'erscnolas-
nc Basketball Tournament for
hovs and girls ~ vhieh ''r
ricns and runnefspp from zach
state fourramenf viii BE- invited.
vii he held ~ Loran Hall ara
Tnskccoe institute Narch IS 20
aud 20 II was announced her" To-
day
The Tournaments We not held
during the War wears
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1946-01-05
Pvt. McRae
Entertained

Mr.. willie Smirh and family
had az their holiday guest PVT
John Y NcRae ~ Camp Lee
Va He was entertained IVY me
seven smith brothers; attended
tae banquet given for service
men AT the rirdhrrst Center. then
lef, Tor camp Sunda, December
30. Hs thanks all his friends for
n. hospitaliiv shown him
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1946-01-05

Wiins "a'kirs lost for me sec
ord TINE 70 Frarsis Anrsirs IN
very close fsai This was an
eTh' round horf thai was even
for fhas ouras Then Ahrar
pulled aas'd snf saved 'tcrs
Il YVES mostly infsn'ns which
waao y difrcuif n 500 who was
erorirs no more effective prnch.
"a He'd Watkins fonrs, as -.
f"eflysiv 'hrrsshor' me fZh' as
he da h ihs las, round ~
cc4ie have won me fsht east,
va'tis came ir A. lSi and
q v,r's v4ivbed ita
Wilson Takes Cason
as vi son took the d4cision
over lnh7 cseor pr0 Rerr poa
deli knocked 0lt IS -sncssee =
the fie ninnis ~ hs nrsf
r. srf. ilosnel N5s 'hus ,sr xon
his iss' fon 7e1's = 10 Oivn
ria and though T-r..>ss ~
frcd ni'n no severe lest Dow
dnii is on u.s. nav lr ~ re box
So came In mrs pa-ueaier ton,
tennessee ',1ee - set II A. the
9r ts' art rsr see IN
sisted tt he N.ser rtef 10
ha rr~-'ea oa' lg-w ~ ~,
foforss had rot ..aa to- ,@l<
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1946-01-05
ALL CONFERENCE TEAM

4 The Southern intercollegiate Athletic Conference
he on the campus of Xaver Unilcry last week named
the following as their 955 All-C conference football team
Evening star., 1946-05-19
BY Allan Crist
Associated Press Stan Writer.

INDIANToWN GAP, Pa.
Joe, don't ever go wandering around
. vacated Army camp!
1t gives you the creeps, that is, it
does If you ever soldiered, roasted, froze
and frolicked in cantonment before
they jammed you into boat and shipped
you overseas.
There are too many memories: :, Ghosts
Of outfits that were born" whipped into
fghting trim, fought down the German
or the Jap, and then died" (deactivated,
the Army calls it, but died" Is really
more accurate). -...
There are other ghosts, too: Buddies
you. soldiered with, kidded with and
fought with; Of guys who never will
"short-sheet" your bunk again or cadge
your cigarettes.
There's no better example than In
diantown Gap-one of many canton
ments which sprang out of the farm
lands and the deserts Of the 48 States.
History was written there within the
short span from the time we all were
talking about defense" through the
Evening star., 1946-05-19
Department Of State Buildings

were conducted through commissioners
appointed by Congress.
Shortly before the adoption of the
Constitution, the necessity for some or
ganization of our diplomatic correspond
ence led to the passage of resolution
of Congress, authorizing the appoint
ment of Secretary of Foreign Affairs.
His powers were derived from Congress,
and he was required to hold himself
amendable to that body. to attend its
sessions and to report and explain all
matters pertaining to his province. In
September, 1889, another act of Con-
gress changed the designation of the
department to that Of Department Of
State and defined additional duties to
be performed by the Secretary of
State.'"
At the time the State Department
moved here there were only 1863 houses In
Washington and the building of the War
Department structure had hardly begun.
Evening star., 1946-05-19

also be applied for civilian pension.
If the veteran gets military retired
pay" the entire period on which that
pay has been calculated is excluded. In
case the Veterans Administration
awards an employe pension for service
or for a nonservice- e-connected disability.
however, he may get civil retirement
credit for all of his military time ex-
cept the minimum, usually 80 days,
needed to qualify for the pension. Fin
ally, an employe pensioned because of
disability can apply
all of his military service. In this last
instance. there is complete double
crediting.
Military service after final separation
from Government civilian employment,
as has been pointed out, is also not
creditable. However, If this occurs, it
will usually pay the individual to touch
base" again before retirement by re-
turning for at least short period to
Evening star., 1946-05-19

President Lincoln was frequent visi-
tor on tense occasions when he would
go there to be close to the telegraph
office or to confer with Simon Cameron,
his Secretary of War, and later, Edwin
M. Stanton, who succeeded him. On
number of the Presidents visits to the
War Department, he was accompanied
by his son Thomas, or Tad" as he
was affectionately called, boy full Of
life and filled with boyish tricks.
On one occasion Tad amused him.
self dipping his fingers in the inkwells
and smearing the telegraphers' desks.
One telegrapher, upon reaching the
limit of his patience, picked up Tad
and carried him to the President, ex-
pecting that he would at least censure
or chastise him. But Mr.. Lincoln did
neither, simply remarking in his kindly
way: Il don't think they are treating
you right here, Tad; We had better go
away" Then, gathering Tad up in his
arms. he walked away.
Gen. Robert E. Lee paid his last visit
to Gen. Scott here just prior to taking
up the cause Of the Confederate States,
and it was here that one of the last
interviews took place between them be-
fore he rendered his resignation.
Many great men occupied the office
of the Secretary of War during the
existence of the old War Department
Building. These included, in order:
John c. Calhoun, James Barbour, P. B.
Porter, John H. Eaton, the second hus-
band of Peggy" O'Neale. who disrupted
Jackson's cabinet; Lewis Cass, B. F..
Butler, Joel Poinsett, John Bell James
M. Porter, John C. Spencer, William
Wilkins, William l.. Marcy, George W.
Crawford, Charles M. Conrad, Jeffer-
son Davis, John B. Floyd, Joseph Holt,
Simon Cameron, Edwin M. Stanton,
Ulysses S. Grant, Lorenzo Thomas, John
M. Schofield, John A. Ralins, William
w. Belknap, Alphonso Taft, father of
the late President and Chief Justice
William Howard Taft: J. Donald Cam
eron. George N. McCrary and Alexander
Ramsey.
Evening star., 1946-05-19
Camps

broad-brimmed campaign hat and the
wash basin model 1918 tin helmet.
The Red Keystone" trained and de-
parted for other scenes-and CORY bat
ties. The 37th Buckeye" Division from
Ohio moved in from February to May.
The 5th Red Diamond" Division paused
here during April.
The big parade Of men in khaki or
o. d. was on.
Close on the heels of the 37th came
the famous Fighting First" Division.
Older than the Nation itself, it was
destined to see more than 500 days of
combat from Africa to Czechoslovakia.
The Sd Armored ripped the roads ana
the fields with its tanks and half
tracks before going out to win its
"spearhead" nickname.
The 77th Statue of Liberty" Division
tore the hills with the blasts of its guns.
The 5th Armored thought the winter
Of 1914 at "The Gap" was tough,
before 1t shivered through the Battle
Of the Bulge.
The 95th Infantry Division climaxed
. six-month stay with the double harass-.
ment of large-seale combat intelligence
Evening star., 1946-05-19
Harris & Ewing Photo

The State Department had clerks,
Treasury Department, IS; War Depart
ment, II; Navy Department, IS, and
Post Office Department. 10. The census
Of the city included 1892 white, 629
slaves and 1913 free colored. Georgetown
had 1898 in all.
West and north of the White House
was then quite rural and included much
woodland, and only few years before
a race course crossed Pennsylvania ave-
nue.. There were still the remains of an
old cemetery on the northwest corner
OF Lafayette Square.
Thomas Moore, who visited Washing
ton in 1904, said some very unkind
things about Uncle Sam" and his
people, which illustrate conditions in
Washington at that time.
In referring to the Blodget Hotel, also
called the Great Hotel, the White House
and the private buildings, he said:
THE hotel is already a ruin; a great
part of its roof has fallen in, and the
rooms are left to be occupied gratui-
tously by Scotch and Irish emigrants.
Evening star., 1946-05-19

necessary to find temporary quarters
and as the Washington City Orphan
Asylum was about completed, at the
southeast corner of Fourteenth and S
streets, the State Department made its
home here until 1875. The following
year, the Orphan Asylum moved in and
remained there until 1927. 1t is now
located at 4119 Nebraska avenue.
Purchase of Alaska
Negotiated in Asylum
In this old asylum building, Secretary
OF State William H. Seward, with the
approval Of President Andrew johnson,
advised Congress, in 1867, to purchase
Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000. The
negotiations between Secretary Seward
and Baron Edouard de Stoeckl for such
great international transaction were
certainly brief and to the point and
naturally businesslike. The baron is
said to have called on the Secretary of
State at his home, which formerly oc-
cupied the site of the Belasco Theater
Building, and there announced that his
government was ready to sell Alaska
He wanted to knowif the United States
wanted to buy the territory. 1t was not
new idea, so the story goes, having
been discussed informally with the
Cars diplomats for years. but this was
the first time official negotiations had
been attempted.
The question of price was very i'm
portant factor, and when the baron
suggested $l0,000,000 Seward countered
with s5,oooo 900, and s7,2OO,00o was finally
agreed upon. Seven million dollars went
to Russia, and the two hundred thou
sand went to the Russian American Co.,
a trading organization.
Before the State, War and Navy
Building was erected, next to the White
House, the site was occupied by the old
War and Navy Departments. The Navy
Department had the south part, 'front.'
ing on Seventeenth street, and the War
Department facing Pennsylvania avenue
This old War Building was begun in
1918, and removed in 1879.
Evening star., 1946-05-19

General and Secretary of State ad
interim from May 10, and it was he who
probably made arrangements for mov-
ing the departments archives from
Philadelphia, as John Marshall did not
assume his duties as Secretary of State
until June 6.
State Department Began
AS Act of First Congress
incidentally, the State Department
had its beginning in July, 1889, when
the First Congress enacted a law en-
titled IAN act for establishing an exec
utive department of the Government, to
be denommated the Department of For
eign Affairs"
by this law" we are told, IAN officer
was to be appointed as Secretary for
the Department of Foreign Affairs,
whose duties were to be performed
conformably to the instructions of the
President. Before this, while the re-
public was struggling for the recognition
OF the great nations, its foreign affairs
Evening star., 1946-05-19

the Government so as to add in his
military service period for benefit
determinations.
There is also the very reasonable pro-
viso that no one can get credit for
more than IL months of service in any
one year. The same period cannot be
used twice. For example, if a veteran
is holding Government job while on
terminal leave from the Army, he can
not count the overlapping military
service.
Veterans may count all service in the
Army, Navy, Marine Corps or Coast
Guard of the United States, with minor
exceptions, toward civil service retire
ment benefits. The service can be
applied in one of two ways, at the option
Of the veteran, in order to get the most
for his military duty and the most for
any money he contributes.
The returned soldier gets the same
Evening star., 1946-05-19

The Presidents House. a very noble
structure, is by no means suited to the
philosophical humility of its present pos
sessor, who inhabits but a corner of
the mansion himself, and abandons the
rest to a state of uncleanly desolation,
which those who are not philosophers
cannot look at without regret. This
grand edifice is encircled by very rude
pale, through which common rustice
style introduces the visitors of the first
man in America.
'The private buildings exhibit the
same characteristic display of arrogant
speculation and premature ruin, and the
few ranges of houses which were begun
some years ago have remained so long
waste and unfinished that they are now
for the most part dilapidated"
But regardless of what Tom Moore
had to say about the new Capital, he
certainly had no idea then that in less
than century and half it would be
regarded as the most beautiful capital
in the world
State Department archives first were
stored in the Treasury Building, the first
OF four executive buildings under way
at that time. From here it moved to
one of the six buildings on the north
side Of Pennsylvania avenue between
Twenty first and Twenty-second streets,
and later to 1901 Pennsylvania avenue,
when John Marshall was Secretary of
State.
When the second executive building
located on the east side of Seventeenth
street between and G. streets-was
completed, it was occupied by the War
and Navy Departments, the State De-
partment also made its home here from
May, 1901, to December, 1919, except
for two years following the burning of
Washington by the British on August
"a, 1914.
When separate building was erected
and completed in 1920 on the site now
occupied by the north end of the Treas
ury Building, the department continued
to occupy this structure until that build
ing was removed in 1866. 1t became
Evening star., 1946-05-19

Soldiers 1OaUing discharge
papers at the I1,dianto1on Gap
(Pa.) Military Post.
tests over the Fourth of July, while
trying to pack for overseas shipment.
If there was anything 1t didn't know
about combat intelligence then, it soon
learned In the touch -and-go winter Of
1914 In France.
The divisions had the glamour, but lots
of work-a-day troops learned their COM
bat tasks at ''The Gap" too. Port bat
talions wrestled into and out Of the
holds Of dry-land ships" cargoes like
they later would manhandle on palm
fringed islands Of the Pacific or
wreckage-strewn harbors of Europe.
Others learned to run truck conveys,
to operate amphibious ducks" to repair
ordnance.
Strictly hush-hush contingents Of
French Colonials, French WACs and
Canadians came, trained and left with
out a whisper.
Then, the victory in sight, the whole
character Of the place changed. 1t be-
came replacement depot and received
and reassigned returning troops.
The rush of separations began last
July and swelled to a flood until, by
the end of It's task last March, the
separation center had returned nearly
100000 officers and men to civilian
life
Evening star., 1946-05-19

option Of using his military life for serv-
ice credit only. He may make contri-
buttons, however, which would increase
his benefits under certain conditions.
In two instances, the veteran would
gain by contributing. All such contri-
buttons are figured on military base
pay, without allowances and pay for de-
pendents. Contributions equal 81 per
cent to June, 1912, and per cent there
after.
The first case in which contributions
are recommended arises when the an
nuity is computed on the matching
basis tormula D. Since the Govern
ment's share equals the benefit amount
which the individuals account can buy,
the larger the account, the larger the
sum of matching money will be. This
method generally applies to those in the
wage brackets of about $4,000 year
who have long periods of service. AS
has been noted, this formula, as well as
the first formula, is available to those
who quit voluntarily.
The other case in which contributions,
are desirable occurs when the military
base pay was greater than civilian pay
earned at any time during the veterans
working career. Thus, by contributing
on the basis of Army pay, the veteran.
would be able OF develop higher aver.
age salary which would apply to all his
service to be used in formulas 20 and.
%. If veteran served as major for
five years at $4,000 year base pay but
retired at age 81 with highest civilian
salary of $2,400, he would probably find
it advantageous to buy service credit for
his time in the Army. Such cases, Of
course. would be rare. In this instance.
the veteran would pay $3.50 ($l50 year,
based on per cent. for years. plus in
terest and would probably net between
$150-$200 year in annuities, if his total
service including military, was about 30
IS years.
Wait to Determine
Best Advantages .,
As the Civil Service Commission adj.
vises, it is best to wait until just before.
retirement to determine whether to
make deposit for military service. II
payment Is made before a veteran real-,
ICES that his civilian service plus mill
tary service will provide the maximum
or near-maximum benefit, he will lose
the value of his deposit. = .
It Is more important that all veterans
record their military service and apply
it in the proper fashion. Also, since the
veteran may not be In the Government
when retirement time rolls around he
should keep reminder handy for him-t
self and his family, in case of premature
death. Notify your beneficiary that
lump-sum insurance is payable by the
Government whether or not you die in
service. 80
The veteran with Government job
can sit back and rest assured that he
has been amply cared for as far as his
civil service retirement rights are con-
erned. He need take no action to
cement his rights except to file a memo
OF his service among his personal papers.
At retirement, he should review his
standing with the Civil Service Com
mission, decide whether an investment
of contributions will increase his benefit
and, above all, make certain that his
military service Is counted when his
benefits are computed. o.As