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Evening star., 1946-06-11
Dodgers Flag Outlook
Dimmed by Inability
To Conquer Cards
BY the Associatsd Press

Until the Dodgers learn how to
beat the Cardinals, the Flatbush
faithful would do we'll to take their
pennant hopes with grain of salt.
In three starts against the favored
Red Birds, the Durocher dandies
have played them close to the vest
each time, but dropped all decisions.
Their once healthy lead has now
shrunk to two games.
Brooklyn's latest defeat, by a
slender 80 score, last night in St.
Louis could be ominous.
The Brooks, who have failed to
play 500 ball against the Western
teams and have lost four straight,
are blowing" early leads.
The Phillies have won of their
last 13 starts and threaten to vacate
the dungeon.
A 9-8 victory over the Cubs was
the latest Phil accomplishment. Al
ter Hank Borowy had held them
without hit for seven innings, they
rallied to knock the l945 pennant
ace out of the box and won the
game in the ninth on Frank McCor-
mick's tWo-run double.
Boston cooled off the Pirates
NTH place hopes with a 1915 deci-
sion for Ed Wright over Preacher
Roe and a brilliant relief job by
Bob Malloy saved Cincinnati a rs
triumph over New York.
Boston Red Sox were pulled away
to nine-game lead over the run
nerup Yankees.
Joe Cronin got the first win OF
the season out of Bill Butland al
though he had to relieve him with
Earl Johnson to hold off Cleveland
6-3 In their last II games the Sox
are unbeaten, boasting II victories
and tie. Rudy York started Steve
Gromek to an early doom with a
three-run homer in the fourth.
Detroit defeated the Yanks, l1-3,
on Virgil Trucks five-hit hurting
and 12-blow attack
Chicago nipped Philadelphia. 81.
Evening star., 1946-06-11
Auerbach Will Coach
UIine s Pro Quintet

Arnold (Red) Auerbach, one of
the most popular sports personali-
ties of the area, has been named
head coach of Mike Uline's entry in
the recently organized Basket Ball
Association of America, which opens
play with a circuit of 13 cities next
season.
Auerbach was outstanding as a
player both at George Washington
University and in the American
Basket Ball League and coached at
Roosevelt High School. He expects
to be discharged from the Navy in
early August.
The new Uline coach said today
that he had been given a free hand
in signing players and already has
opened negotiations for the services
of professional and former college
stars,
Evening star., 1946-06-11
BY the Associoted Press

RALEIGH, N. c., June 11.-Jack
Johnson, the worlds first Negro
heavyweight boxing champion. is
dead, but probably the controversy
which sprang from his scrap with
Jess Willard 30 years ago will con-
tinue as long as men battle each
other in the ring.
The ex-champion, So. died here
yesterday of injuries sustained in
an automobile accident near Frank
linton while en- route to New York
from Texas, where he recently had
concluded a personal appearance
tour.
His death in local hospital,
where he was brought following the
accident, was attributed to internal
injuries and shock. Fred L. Scott,
a Negro companion, was treated for
minor injuries and released from
the hospital
Scott said johnson. whose ring
career ended Is years ago, in recent
years had turned to personal ap-
pearances as a means of a livli-
hood.
Johnson's wife, Mrs. Irene john
son, has been notified of her hus-
bands death and Raleigh funeral
home said it had received instruc-
Evening star., 1946-06-11
Jars and Baker Added Vernon Still Is Ruler
To Midget Auto Field 0fHirers in Majors

Johnny Jars of Philadelphia and
Bill Baker. the New Jersey fash.
today joined the all-star field which
completes on tonight's seven-event
midget auto racing program at the
West Lanham Md Speedway
starting at $50.
Baker will be making his first ap-
pearance at West Lanham since
1941. Jars won the 25-lap feature
on opening night two weeks ago and
entertains hopes of coming through
again tonight.
However, the hottest pilot in to-
nights driving again may be Art
Cross, the fast-improving ace from
Rutherford, N. J. Cross, Ford V-8
driver and member of Roscoe
Hough's flve-man team, swept all
honors at Lanham last week and
also won the feature race at the
Philadelphia Yellow Jacket Speed
way last night.
Evening star., 1946-06-11
Cameo Nine Defends
Lead in Game Today

Cameo Furnituremen will be
shooting to maintain first place in
the Industrial League when they
tangle with the Boilermakers on
the Ellipse today at $50
Their edge was sliced to half a
game yesterday, when Naiman
Photos, erstwhile loop leaders, pol
ished off Naval Receiving Station.
81. on the sailors diamond to
threaten Canoes domination.
Nick Chanaka. star Western High
outflelder. and Wee Willie Golf, ace
Central pitcher. combined their ef-
forts to give Mount Pleasant a 1875
win over Rosedale in National
City Junior League game at Taft.
Goff twirled five hitter and
Chanaka poled triple and single.
drove in three runs and tailed twice.
In a District Recreation League
tilt on the North Ellipse, Idas De-
partment Store let loose a l4-f1it
barrage to knock off Quarters K.
l4-6
Evening star., 1946-06-11
Vernon Walked in Shadow of CoIorfuI Lotins


Mickey you see quiet bashful
most ball players he little
Vnons town is Marcus Hook
and struck ball
Jacobs who also running
League At that time Q93
the property of the st. Louis
Scout Joe Cambria of the in signing Mickey
with Washington Nobody paid
also was signing coorul Cubans and
Caasque and because of the novelty
America who paying mind
Hook. Pa?
So in the South Atlantic
6-game with the Mats City always
found hot shot first baseman
roster First Joe Kuhe then
dell then George Archie and then 946) Kuhe
1914 and s45 the Navy
As in Travis Case 1t Isn't Natural
The actually is embarrassed make his
presence felt and he's embarrassed
night hoe Mr. Griffith has called
why can't whoop told try can't do
easily wish could be like George him
wish as this interviewer huddered
IF on the started yeing-if co1ld-Id
feel like fool In the first
veil Cecil Travis the 1t doesn't
and so people take him for The
WONDERFUL play went back of
great But until spectator
gong to take for granted You
what?' ~ ~
Well he was reminded, Joe D Maggie a of
noise on the field. Nor Ted Williams"
Yes conceded Mickey but they play and
crowd couldn't hear them they did playing
base reporter told I'd make
don't be able yell open suggestions however can
use the money but can't change
The rebua from this doesn't even
say Boo land If he doesn't slump
In the annual AIStar
nrst IN the circuit the
Evening star., 1946-06-11
Old Kavakos-Garyin Feud
Flares in SoftbaII Bill

A double-header softball attrsc-
ton is listed tonight at New York
Avenue Stadium. bringing out the
Andy Farkas team against Pincus
Grill at BIS, followed by Kavakos
Grill playing its perennial rivals
from Garvins Grill.
Kavakos, last years city cham
pion, trimmed Jack and Jill. lO-4,
last night, while Clifton Liquor
swamped Pincus Grill, IT'S. In a
girls game. FBI lassies waltzed
ahead of Great Eastern. 10-1.
Evening star., 1946-06-11
Jacobs Will Help Skins Plenty
If MurshuII's Book Is Riqht
By Lewis F. Atchison

A couple of carpenters were bang
ing away in the wigwam yesterday
when Chief George Marshall swore
in Indian Jack Jacobs as the newest
member of the Tribe Photograph
ers' flash bulbs popped, reporters
scrlbbled notes on scraps of paper
and the excitement and hustle made
you think the Redskins had just
signed the greatest football player
in the country.
He is the greatest in the country
in my book" shouted the Chief
above the carpenters din. I'D say
this boy is the best since Jim Thorpe.
He kicks mile. He can run and
outside of Sammy Baugh I don't
know a finer passer in the league.
He's deadly on long ones and pretty
sharp with the short ones. Give
Jacobs two years with Baugh and
you'll see one of the greatest backs
of all time
Jacobs was photographed in a
headdress borrowed from the band,
with tomahaWk in one hand and a
football in the other.
Whats he going out for-the
band or the football team?" asked
a reporter.
Baugh stepped over pile of lum-
ber and lurched into the room and
somebody slapped another cluster
Of feathers on his head.
Hey, 1 want Stetson,' he said
Can't buy 'em down home"
Jacobs Good on Record.
He put the headdress on wrong
and Jacobs came to his assistance
For IS minutes they posed with
props borrowed from the band be-
fore Marshall noticed John Steber s
240-pound frame easing through the
doorway and he promptly slapped
a Hopi ceremonial rug around him
and put him in the pictures, too.
Jacobs left in tow Of Coach Turk
Edwards and the Chief began ex-
planning in detail why his latest
recruit was the greatest since
Thorpe, He got out the record book
for the 1912 season. showing that
Indian Jack went for SO yards on
81 trips with the ball. threw six
touchdown passes to rank eighth in
Evening star., 1946-06-11


WEST POINT, N. Y, June IL
Dewitt TEX Coulter, 220 pounds
of we'll proportioned bone and mus
Gle. won't be around to plug that big
hole in the Army line when Coach
Earl (Red) Blaik starts putting his
football squad together at the mill
tary academy next fall.
The 21-year- -old all-America tack
le, terror on the gridorn and a
tough man with a 16-pound shot,
finally met his match in the class
room.
He has been dropped from the
academy rolls because of a def
cheney in mathematics and has
taken his departure, without tell
ing friends about his future plans
Some of his former teammates
think he may take a swing at pro-
fessional football Others believe
he may turn up at some Texas in
stitution in the fall to continue his
education-and his collegiate grid
iron career.
ouG tllc uCpdI IulS VI Uile IuSScu
Texan, who could have played two
more years with Army, poses more
than an ordinary problem for Coach
Blaik.
AL Nemetz. Coulter's running
mate on the first string, was lost by
graduation. So were Bill La Nal
and Bill Webb, the two second
string tackles.
Coulter won the 16-pound event
in the IC4A indoor meet last win.
ter with heave of So feet 3. inch
and placed second in the nationa
AAU indoor games.
At Masonic Home High School in
Fort Worth. Coulter was four
letter man in football, where he
played tackle on defense and block.
ing back on offense, and was the
Nations best interscholastic shot
putter.
Evening star., 1946-06-11
Louis Says He'll Be Stronger,
Ready to Pick on Little Man.

some profile bore mean look as he
reared back in chair in the dining
room and read where one of the
hight games widely known trainers
was picking Joe Louis to lick him
That jerk" he exclaimed. Hes
got lot of business trying to pick
a winner. He's worn out from
carrying his buns back to their
corners
The years have done nothing
toward tanning the wild spirit OF
Billy. He still is the hot-tempered
brawler first of alone of those
rare characters in the fistic fra
ternity who fights for the sheer
joy of conflict and isn't afraid OF
anything that walks.
Evening star., 1946-06-11
School Netmen Reach
National Test Semis

Semif1nals were on tap today in
the National Interscholastic tennis
championship qualifying rounds at
Columbia Country Club with the
Journeys favorites set to clash in a
pair of blistering matches.
Gill Bogley of Landon School. the
top-ranked ace, was paired with
Johnny COLON of Baltimore and
Jack Yates Of London, seeded No. 2
was to face Gerry Thomas, Wilson
High tennis captain.
Bogley easily turned back Mark
Heller of Coolidge, 6-1. 6-l, in vest
terday's quarterflnals, while COLON
erased Mike Towles of Central,
60 60, and Thomas topped Eddie
Wesley of Georgetown Prep, So
60. Yates climbed into the semifin-
ais in Saturdays action.
Evening star., 1946-06-11
james Takes On FoIosu
In Return to Mat Here

Jesse James Of Washington re-
turns to the local mat after five
weeks absence tomorrow night.
meeting Andy Folosa of Brooklyn
in a 30-minute supporting match
on the Turner's Arena card.
The main event sends Babe
Sharkey. former champion. against
Angelo Savoldi Ace Freeman is
paired with Mike Heller in a two
man team match against Abe Stein
and Pat Welsh.
Evening star., 1946-06-11

JACOBS, tnree-quarter CherO-
kee Indian, who yesterday
signed a 5-year contract with
the Redskins. -AP Photo.
the circuit and was third to Baugh
in punting with a 423 yard average.
And that was when Baugh was
quick kicking, getting off those long,
rolling boots that rolled out of
bounds" Sid Carroll pointed out.
Jacobs passing record showed 43
completed in SO tries for a total Of
$40 yards. The Army plucked him
from the pro vine in mid season
and he later played with the March
Field team that whipped Southern
California, $50. the year it went to
the Rose Bowl Jacobs is a product
of Oklahoma U.
Hes right smart football play
err Baugh said. Kicks funny
always pointed toward the sideline,
but he really sends 'em when he
hits. He runs like deer and knows
how to back up line I'd say he
was real football player"
Hes a real football player and
a real Indian Marshall said. He
isn't the first Indian we've signed.
but he's the first who can play
football"
Baugh Backs Boss Claim.
How did Marshall and Baugh
know Jacobs was so good?
why he played in our intrasquad
game at San Diego in 1912" Mar
shall said. He worked out with
us and really ran wild in the game :"
How do you think Turks team
won?" asked Baugh as Edwards
made record jump of feet 4l2
inches over the lumber.
While all this was going on an
other pretty fair football player was
sitting in the anteroom with Owner
Harry Howren of the Norfolk Sham
rocks. the Skins Dixie League farm.
His name was ManlaCci. Joe Mani
acci-the old Chicago Bear. who will
coach the Shamrocks. They we're
here on business and with them was
Frank Ribar, who played guard for
the Skins in l943.
Today, Jimmy Youell is due In
town, He played quarterback on
the Great Lakes Naval Training
eleven a couple of years ago when
Marshall spotted him. We can't pre-
dict was sort of reception he'll
get, but if the same crowd isn't back
tomorrow, plus couple of air-con-
dltioning men, four plumbers and
plastering crew, the natural as
sumption will be that he isn't quite
UP to Jacobs class.
Evening star., 1946-06-11
Kodak Suffers First Kuyo

BALTIMORE. June II {Pl.-Leo
Kodak. veteran Chicago boxer. was
knocked out for the first time in his
ring career last night when Phila-
delphia Wesley Mouzon fiattened
him in the sixth session of the
scheduled 10-round headliner.
Evening star., 1946-06-11

stronger,
was saying last night on the Washington bench
Maybe I'm not trying to pull so many pitches to
right field as used to, but all in all I'm the same
guy, except that I've been luckier. The base hits
have all been falling off the bat . so far"
Of all the Mats who are regulars, or first-line
pitchers, Vernon probably is least known by the
clients. He's the top hitter in baseball and the
best fielding first baseman in the American League
but, by the same token and his own admission he's
more robot than human on the ball field With his
incredible stretch. which Manager Ossie Blueee
swears is the longest he's ever seen Vernon could
be drawing card of sort or at least Char
acter." on the strength of that reach alone
But he isn't card he knows it and vaguely
1t bothers him, although as he puts it, What can
Evening star., 1946-06-11
BY ths As,oeid,ed Pre-.

NEW YORK, June ll.-Mickey
Vernon of Washington and Dixie
Walker OF Brooklyn retained COM
Portable leads in the major league
batting races with Vernon hitting
,39l and Walker 1866 on averages
including Sundays games.
A torrid pace of IA hits in "a trips
during the week boosted Vernon S
lead over runnerup Ted Williams of
Boston to 46 points with the Red
Sox slugger's batting record remain
Ing constant .345.
Evening star., 1946-06-11
Sentinel Club Ring Show
Will Aid Police Bows

Sentinel Club is sponsoring an
amateur boxing show at Griffith
Stadium on Wednesday, June rs. for
benefit Of the Police Boys Club No
2 community band.
Twenty eight rounds OF boxing
is scheduled.
Evening star., 1946-06-11
American League.
Ruider Five Rejoins Pros

CHICAGO, June II tP,.-Pitts-
ourgh Raiders. who dropped out of
l945-46 competition because thev
lacked home court, will rejoin the
National Basket Ball League next
SeaSon
Evening star., 1946-06-11
Browns, 2; Mats, !

Runs-Grsce t2), Lewis Errors
Evans. Wolh. Runs batted in-Stephens,
spence. Berardno. Two-base hit-Lewjs
Three-base hit--Heath. Stolen bases
Grace, Evans. Saerifce-Priddy Double
plays-Dillinger to Berardino to Dahlaren.
stephens to Dahlgren. Zoldak to Stephens
70 Dahlsren, VERNON lunassisted(. Left on
essesT3st' Louis, 5; Washinston. :. Bases
Struck ont-By Zoldak, B. by Woli. (.
HIT by pitcher-By Wolf Grace Um-
Gires-Messrs. Boyer, Rommel. Weafer
Time. 2:06 Attendance, I54a6.
Evening star., 1946-06-11
Win, Lose or Draw
What Makes the Mick Tick
BY FRANCIS E. STANN

James Barton Mickey Vernon who leading both
In hitting honestly doesn't know why Mickey
what he's doing that during previous
with the Mats when he failed 20
Evening star., 1946-06-11
League Statistics

TUESDAY, JUNE II, 1916.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Standing of Clubs.
g. Louis: 2; Washington, tnisht).
Detroit, II: New York. 3.
Chicago. 3; PHILADELPHIA. /.
Evening star., 1946-06-11

Bos.-I 81 81 8 q g. 5 $40 9l.sI6I
NY al 81 Il 81 81 81 733I20 .623I q
Was! L 81 a 6 Of 81 6I2s21I.571I1.
Detl 1 L 81 81 II 81 7l26I24I.52OI14ls
Gle Il 81 q Il 81 81 4l21 I3OI 412I2O
stLI L 81 81 81 81 a 3l2O29I. 4OsI20
Chi 1 q | 81 81 Al 3I17l3OI. .362I22
Phi L L | L 81 Il Ol-I1436l. .2sOl26K
l. | 9L2021 "a 0L29L30l36l-I-I
Games Today. Games Tomorrow.
st. L. at Wash tnl ST. L. at Wash. M
$50 (ESTl $50 est
Det. at N. Y, 1:3o Det at N. Y M.
Cleve. at Bost, 600 Cleve at Bost
Chi. at Phila., 2:15, Chi. at Phila.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Standing of Clubs.
Cincinnati 7: New York, 5.
Boston, 10: Pittsburgh, 5.
Philadelphia, 9; Chicago, 3.
St. Louis, 3: BROOKLYN, 9
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-04-27
IN PLAIN WORDS

Continued from Page u
crime just as surely as it is their
task to change conditions of power
ty, inequality, segregation and dis
elimination. The newspaper tells
the community what happened. 1t
is not the police station. 1t isn't the
church. 1t isn't the social agency or
YMCA.
The organizations and individu-
ais who spent so much time writing
letters to or arguing with editors
about the headlines they write in
their papers, would find an elm
ination of the cause of such head
lines if they spent that time bonn
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-04-27
FANNE 5. BEl(HER wins
YALE PHI. D. IN DRAMA

INSTITUTE, w. Va, April 27
(ANP) - Fannis S. Belcher, Jr.,
has been awarded Phi. D. degree
in the field of drama by Yale uni
versity.
Belcher, Rosenwald fellow for
two years at Yale's school of
drama, is the son of DR.. and Mrs.
Fannis S. Belcher of Savannah,
Ga. He is a graduate of Dunbar
High school of Washington, D. c.,
from Lincoln university in Penn
sylvania and received his master of
arts degree in English at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania.
Belcher has been director of
drama at West Virginia State Col
lege for several years and has been
acclaimed for popularizing drama
among the high school students of
West Virginia. He promoted the
annual state tournament in drama
and the Stellar performances of
the West Virginia players has won
national prominence for their
school.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-04-27
new AMERICAN Minister
ARRIVES IN LIBERIA

MONROVIA, April 27 (ANP)-
Raphael O'Hara Lanier, new
United States envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary, has
arrived in Liberia. He was met at
Roberts field by Col. U. J. D. Cole,
Sr., ADO to the President, and
Clare H. Timbberlake, U. S. charge
d'affairs. President Tubman had
ordered that the governments No.
l car-the presidential Cadillac
be used to convey the minister from
Roberts field to Monrovia.
Although not able to be formally
received due to the absence of
President Tubman from the capi
tai, the minister was guest of honor
at a cocktail party held at the
American legation when an oppor-
tunity was given him to meet
cross section of Liberian society.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-04-27

harding city and government Off
cials for allowing conditions under
which six and seven people sleep,
eat and live in one room where kids
are allowed to play on the sidewalks
in front of saloons; where bands of
young hoodlums are allowed to
roam freely so long as they don't
bother whites in our segregated
neighborhoods, and where the ef-
fective sermon against adultery,
loose-living and other immoralities
is seldom preached and hardly ever
heard.
The Negro newspaper is neces-
sary institution, not because of its
potentialities as an organ Of pro-
test, but because it, above all else,
gives its people the feeling that after
all they are still alive, that they do
have things that are dear to their
hearts as other people; that they
are not race doomed to universal
pity, but race that is strong, virile,
and group of people who can and
will make the grade despite all odds
and conditions to the contrary. The
murder headline goes along with
the headline about the Urban
League, the NNACP, the National
Baptist convention, Joe Louis, Lena
Horne, the 332nd Fighter Squad
ron, Roland Hayes, Congressman
Adam Powell and William L. Daw-
son. It's news, folks.
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hood had been drafter to meet a
discriminatory situation against
whites whereby those who were
eligible for promotion to engineers
through examinations were handi-
capped in getting no necessary ex-
perience to pass the examinations
by Negro firemen who had become
a solid block between them and the
desired promotions by holding jobs
as firemen.
The Tunstall case originated in
October, 1910, when the plaintiff
charges he was replaced on his job
as fireman by the brotherhood by a
white fireman. The case was
carried to the United States
Supreme Court after the late Judge
Luther B. Way had decided that the
question involved was of no concern
of the federal government.
Mr.. Tunstalls attorneys took
exception to this ruling and ap-
pealed the judges ruling to the cir
cult court of appeals which agreed
with the lower court. When the case
reached the U. S. Supreme Court
that tribunal ruled that there was a
federal question involved and that
the case was subject to trial in a
United States court.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-04-27
AWAIT FIREMAN'S
CASE DECISION

NORFOLk, Va, April ~ (ANP)
"A decision of great import is ex-
pected to be handed down in the
near future by Judge Sterling
Hutcheson of the United States
District Court here in the celebrated
Tunstall case in which Tom Tun-
stall, fireman on the Norfolk South
ern Railway, charges that he was
robbed of his seniority rights when
he was replaced on his job by a
white fireman.
The case was argued in court
here before Judge Hutcheson last
week. Counsel for Mr.. Tunstall
petitioned the court in a suit for
judgment and an injunction to res
train Ocean Lodge No. 76, Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen and
Engineers, from executing certain
agreements between the lodge and
the railway which the plaintiff
contends deprived him of his senior
ity rights.
Mr.. Tunstall's suit is brought
against Ocean Lodge No. 76, Port
Norfolk Lodge No. IT'S, w. NJ. Mum
den, white, and the railway COM
pany. Judge Hutchinson instructed
counsel to submit briefs summariz-
ing their salient points by May 1.
Mr.. Tunstall was represented by
Charles H. Houston and Joseph G..
Waddy, Washington, D. c., attor-
neys and Oliver w. Hill, Richmond,
Va, attorney. The brotherhood was
represented by William C. Maupin,
Harold C. Haise, and Ralph M.
Hoyt, Milwaukee, Wis, attorneys.
The union admitted that Tunstall
had been replaced by a white fire
man, but claimed that this was done
in accordance with an agreement
with the railway.
TunstalPs attorneys asserted that
Negro firemen are barred from the
brotherhood, but that the union
should have represented plaintiff
under the provisions Of the Railway
Labor Act. Yet, they said the union
refused to carry out this duty and
that under the circumstances
Negro firemen had no alternative
except to hope for impartial repre-
sentation.
Counsel for the defendants ex-
planned that the offending contract
between the carrier and the brother