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Evening star., 1947-12-14

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Excerpts from Handsl's
Messiah" performed
by the Huddersfield
Choral Society and
soIoisis and the Liv.
erpool Philharmonic
Orchestra under Nal.
colin Sargent.
VOL. !t:3O-"can
the United States and
Russia Get Together!"
Discussed by Cedric
Foster, Dr.. Harlow
Shapley professor Of
astronomy at Harvard
University, and Prof.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-02-22
18th Ward

A tax ON a mans home is a tax
"A on the roof over his head.
Taxes on small homes should be re-
duced, and in homes valued at $10,-
600 or less, they should be entirely
abolished.
My ultimate proposal is for a
complete overhauling of our tax
system. In the meantime, however,
there is still a way in which taxes
on small homes can be reduced. The
city can redistribute the tax load so
that it falls most heavily upon large
and income bearing property.
Or, the city can insist upon receiv-
ing a share of the great revenues
received by the state, as is done In
other states. Illinois has surplus
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-02-22
A model school system for Chicago
BY Dorothy Bushnell Cole
And Ward

THE problem of schools has par
1 ticular significance for me, not
only because of my long experience
with the Chicago Public Schools as
student, teacher, and parent but also
because in my ward challenge an
alderman who has violated the in
terests of Chicago school children
through continuous voting against
their welfare.
When the hearings on the school
situation were held in the City
Council and in subcommittee, and
evidence piled up which showed be-
yond a question of doubt that
people in high places should remedy
and could have remedied many of
the unaccepted practices, Mr.. Dorsey
Grove white-washed all the people
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-02-22
10th Word

THE City Council should under
Il take to enact legislation, and
see to it that laws are enforced to
end discrimination in Chicago and
in regard to restrictive covenants,
employment, service in public
places, etc.
In spite of the Fair Employment
Act in Chicago, there are companies
which still refuse to hire Negroes
and other minorities because of
their race, creed, religion, or ma
tional origin. The City Council
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-02-22
End Word

DESTRUCTIVE covenants that de-
N prive Negroes, and other minor
ity groups, of homes because of
race, creed, color or national origin
must be forever abolished. The sim
lister forces that profitably employ
such divisive tactics to exploit
American citizens must be de-
stroyed.
Restrictive covenants have no
place in a free, American society.
I pledge my supporters to carry on
a relentless fight to abolish racial
property covenants as a key to pro-
viding more homes for Negroes and
other minority groups.
Here in Chicago, fascist racism is
expressed in all it's ugliness through
restrictive covenants that particular
ly hem Negroes in a narrow area,
bounded on the north by 18th Street,
on the south by 63rd Street, on the
west by Wentworth Avenue and on
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-02-22

responsible.
But let me speak from personal
experience. AS child in the city
schools l learned of the tremendous
burden that 48 to so pupils puts on
one teacher. On the other hand, 1t
was my good fortune to have
brought up family of children in
public schools where no teacher was
permitted to have more than 80
pupils. This made for a working
relationship between pupils and
teacher with opportunity for individ-
ual attention both for the gifted
child as well as the slower child.
The question often presents itself
of why this great and wealthy city
should not similarly have model
school system, one in which all citi-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-02-22
Cut taxes on the
BY Mox R. Noimon
3Q+h W0rd

in the State Treasul|
lion. 1t collects an aY
100000 annually from
500 of which comes|
and not one cent of v
ed to Chicago. If Chi
a return on this AM
add enough to the eli
enable the reduction|
What is needed q
complete modernizatl
nue. system, which m
elimination of the s.
sales tax is an "upsid
tax" which Is unre|
just. The man with |
Is taxed on practically
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-02-22
Let's get rid Of the Barnes detail
By Milton Burns
18th Ward

throwback from the old industrial
police days - private armies of I'M
ion busters and plug uglies using
physical terror to discourage work
ers from uniting to improve their
wages and working conditions.
Everywhere else such groups have
been discredited and outlawed. But
not in Chicago.
In the last few months Captain
Barnes has intensified his activities.
He has piled up sordid record of
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-02-22

Zens can take pride.
A related matter is that of nur-
sery schools. If people were uncon-
WINGED before the war of the i'm.
portance of the nursery school,
their experience during the war
years have convinced many people
of the value of nursery schools to
both parents and children.
1 envision time when Chicago
will have fewer pupils for each
teacher and teachers thoroughly
trained in special branches of knowl-
edge. envision time when the
city will have adequate play facili-
ties Off all its young people and
when free public education will be
accessible to all children practically
from the cradle.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-02-22

AS representative of Labor, l
Aknow that express the feeling
of thousands of workers by demand
ing that Captain Barnes and his no.
torious labor detail must go.
There is not another city in the
country where the police depart
ment obligingly lends a professional
strikebreaker and labor provocateur
to big business at no expense - ex-
eept to the taxpayer.
Captain Barnes and his detail are
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-02-22
There must be decent homes for all

ment officials prosecuted vandalism
and hoodlumism against Negroes,
nor have they had the common de-
cency to outlaw racial restrictive
covenants. Those who profit by this
merciless form of exploitation have
nothing to fear from the courts.
Big real estate interests sup
port restrictive covenants through
neighborhood property owners asso-
Citations, which in turn foment ra-
cial strife and anti-Negroism. A
check on the old KenwoodH Hyde
Park property Owners Association
and the late Negotiating at the
veterans Airport Housing project
shows how the big real estate In
terest promote fascist racism.
My task, as alderman of the Sec
ond ward, appears to be to block
evictions and to fight restrictive
covenants. That I will do, with all
the energy I have at my command.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-02-22
Nodiserinlinuti(
BY Albert Jonney
Goth Word

might urge the PEE
these incidents and
the authorities to ia
action.
There should be no
in placing school Il
teachers should be p
and whenever an o
regardless of the fact
might be all white
Such an act would
,vantageous as well 1
The council. should
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-02-22
BY Peter Brown

the east by Cottage Grove. More
than 100000 Negroes now live in
that so-called "black belt" area that
was built to accommodate 100000
persons.
Six individuals are frequently
packed into one room. An apart
ment, originally erected for a FAM
lily of five, now houses Is or more.
Like an ever bullying stocking, new
migrants are daily being packed in
to Chicago's pathetically overcrowd-
ed south side Negro district.
Racial restrictive covenants deny
Negro citizens homes outside the
"black belt" vicinity unless they are
willing to face various forms of
organized violence. Bombing is the
usual greeting for Negroes who
dare to seek homes in white" neigh
borhoods
Only in rare instances have our
judiciary machinery or law enforce
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-02-22
Uphold and extend rights Of labor
By jones Buonoff Jr.
BY jones BaIanoff Jr.

million workers are organized. But
labor has made inroads on capital
exploitation.
To prevent labor from going for
ward, and, further, if possible, to
destroy it, big-business has launch
ed a propaganda campaign in sup
port of their friends in Congress, to
wipe pro-labor laws off the books.
A government is not govern
ment of, by and for the people if it
fails to put the rights of labor AND
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-02-22

cracking heads; he has wilfully ere.
ated and provoked violence so en-
ployers may obtain injunctions
against picketing; he has entered
plants and Illegally herded en-
ployees out to Illustrate union Or
ganization; he has been particularly
vicious against Negroes and other
minority groups.
If I were alderman / would not
rest until I modified enough sup
port to rid Chicago of this answer
to an industrialists prayer!
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-02-22

the people first. and before anything
capital may desire.
Chicago's City Council must abol-
ish the Barnes strikebreaking squad.
1t must enforce the FEPC ordinance.
1t must take steps to aid the strik-
ing victims of company lockouts.
Since the City Council represents
the people at their grass roots -
the community, our aldermen should
always be first to promote and up
hold the rights of labor.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-02-22
10Th Ward

G POkESMEN for big b usiness
- have lately invented a new line
to becloud and confuse the issues in
volved in the rights of labor. They
talk piously about the rights of the
public. And they imply that the
rights labor enjoys today works
against the welfare of the general
population.
The exploitation of labor in the
form of low wages and speed-up
systems of work goes on even as Is
Evening star., 1947-07-08

years. and push-button mechan-
ism wasn't even on the draft
ing board, much less on the
dashboard, when Dutch" was
that age.
Schaefer has drawn a bead
on his third consecutive feature
win Friday night, and is aiming
to equal or surpass the all-tlme
record of four feature victories
made by George Fonder last
summer. He tied the Lanham
speed record opening night, but
a couple of weeks later got into
a speed duel with Mel Hansen
and in losing forced Hansen to
a new track record. This, Joe
says, is situation Schaefer
finds extremely unfavorable to
his reputation and intends to
remedy. This means pushing
down on the gas pedal, taking
more risks on the turns and
twisting the wheel little more
smartly than the next driver.
Holman thinks Schaefer can do
it, although the woods, the Lam
ham woods at least, are full OF
expert speed pilots,
Schaefer, like all his piston
pushing pals, takes a fatalistic
view OF auto racing. Every
Evening star., 1947-07-08
Search for Opponent for Louis
Resembles Flying Saucer Hunt

2. Louis can fight the winner Of
the July Is scrap between Ezzard
Charles, the Cincinnati light heavy
weight, and Elmer Violent" Ray OF
Minneapolis provided one or the
other triumphs "decisively."
3. Tandberg, under contract to
Goth Century, can fight Britain's
Bruce Woodcock for London Pro-
moter Jack Solomons. Baksi stopped
Woodcock in seven rounds in April.
If Tandberg can do it better and
quicker perhaps he'll get the Louis
bid-or merely qualify for perma-
nent possession of Woodcock.
The dilemma was by no means
confined to this side of the Atlantic.
Twentieth Century's Lew Burston
came down in plane and a guam
Diary in Paris yesterday to be
greeted with a cable from head
quarters, directing:
Bring Tandberg along"
Brooded Burston:
I'VE can't arrange those things in
few hours =. I don't know when
We'll go to New York
He said he and Tandberg had
agreed they'd tune in on the reaction
to the transaction in the United
States before clinching Louis bout,
and Burston also disclosed the pos
sibility of Ole leveling in London on
Woodcock
Maybe it can all be arranged. In
any case, we're not certain right
now whether Tandberg will fight
Louis in September or whether he'll
meet somebody else first
Evening star., 1947-07-08
By the Assoeiofsd Press

NEW YORK, July 8.-Names OF
prospective nominees for Septem-
Der l9 shot at Joe Louis and his
heavyweight boxing crown were
skimming around Jacobs Beach like
flying saucers today-and provoking
lust as much bewildering comment
and speculation as the dipsy- -doo-
ding discs.
About all that was apparent was
that the palace guard at the goth
Century Sporting Club won't come
up with anything definite until
after golfng Joe Louis shuff1es in
July Is to talk over his f1stic future.
Times a-wasting and the upset
victory of Ole Tandberg over Joe
Baksi in Stockholm Sunday had Sol
Strauss, acting director Of the club
in the absence of the indlsposed
Mike Jacobs, rifling through his desk
calendar for dates and his list OF
well-riffled and shopWorn ring ellgl-
bles for potential foes.
Until Louis unburdens his views
here are some of the potential
moves on the Strauss checkerboard
all subject to change with scant
notice:
l, Baksi and Tandberg can fight
again in Madison Square Garden
August % to see whether thell
Sunday swing session was an optical
Illusion, Or whether the Swedish
slammer, despite his mediocre rec
ord, can consider Baksi his owr
personal smorgaStord
Evening star., 1947-07-08
Penn Delays Naming Successor
ToFumed 7 rack Coach Robbie

The 64-year native of Aber-
deem, Scotland. led Penn to titles
in the National senior indoor track
and field meet and the cross-country
intercollegiate championships in
1918. His 1928, 1924, 1880 and 1881
SQUADS won the indoor intercollegiate
championships and the 1920 team
captured the outdoor intercollegiate
diadem.
Robertson, brought to the United
States by his parents at the age of
9, started his athletic career in 1901
when he joined the Brooklyn YMCA.
He placed second in the 1904 Olym-
pics standing high jump. In 1906,
1907 and 1908 he won the 300-yard
National indoor championship. He
also won the 150-Eard National in
door title in 1907.
Mercer, lauding Robbie" for his
long and loyal service said "the
university never has had finer CO.
operation nor more loyal support
from a coach. I know the other
officers OF the University of Penn
sylvania join me In this statement. ."
Evening star., 1947-07-08
By Lewis r. Atehison

No bug on buzz buggies our
selves, one of those having fine
time, wish you were here" notes
from Lii Joe Holman is enough
to arouse curiosity about the 60
ings-on out Lanham way. From
what he says, Friday night at the
nearby Maryland oval, when the
souped-up soapboxes go rattling
around, must seem like a conven-
ton of cab jockeys at Thomas
circle.
Edward Schaefer, peculiarly
tagged the Flying Dutchman,"
naturally is the big guy in Hol-
mans opinion and small wonder,
for he has accumulated 33 out
of a possible So racing points
since Lanham's inaugural. Dutch
won six of his first nine starts,
finishing second the other times.
Last week he got hoggish and
made a clean sweep, taking the
qualifying heat, semiflnal and
main event. That's violating the
antimonopoly law, but the fans
and Dutch" love it.
Joe says Dutch claims he be-
gan driving cars at the ripe old
age of years, and was doing ex-
tensive repair work at II. That
last isn't hard to believe when
you consider the damage A.
year-old can do around the
house. But whether those cars
he drove had genuine gasoline
engines or were the push-peddle
type is something else again. Few
Youngsters have stems long
enough to reach the clutch at 8
Evening star., 1947-07-08
AII-Stur Contest Has Five Top
"A. L. Hitters, Four From MI.

Moore st. Louis. and Carl Furillo,
Brooklyn, .312: Jackie Robinson,
.311, and Willard Marshall, New
York, .307. Kiner, Moore, Furillo
and Robinson are the only ones
of the group who were not nomin-
ated to the All-Star squad.
George Kell, Detroit crack third
baseman and starting hot corner
guardian of the American All-Star
squad, brings up third place in the
American League batting honors
with 1929.
Back of Kell are George McQuinn,
New York, 1928: Bob Dillinger. St.
Louis, and Luke Appling, Chicago,
.316; jeff Heath, st. Louis, 1903; Ted
Williams, Boston, .307; Barney Nc
Cosky, Philadelphia, .305, and
Johnny Lindell, New York, .304.
Evening star., 1947-07-08
Bxthe Assoeioted Press

PHILADELPHIA, July g. The
University of PennSylvania'S inter-
nationally famous track coach
Lawson Robertson-has retired after
81 years service.
The retirement was "by mutual
agreement" said DR.. E. Leroy
Mercer, dean of Penufs department
of physical Education.
No successor mas been named to
Robertson's post and Mercer said a
decision is not expected for some
time.
Coach Robertson came to the
university in 1916 with an estan-
li.hed reputation as a track coach
ard has added luster to his name
and to the annals of sport during
his 81 years as head coach Mercer
said.
A member of the 1904 United
States Olympic track team, Robbie
served as head track mentor for
American Olympic stars in 1924
1928. 1882 and 1885. War forced
cancellation of the 1910 and 1914
Clympics.
Evening star., 1947-07-08
Next Years AII-Star
Game Is Awarded 10
ST. Louis Browns
BY the Associated Press

CHICAGO, July 8-With the 1948
All-Star game awarded to the ST.
Louis Browns, major league club
owners and officials settled back to
watch a ball game today after
series of executive sessions.
Pacific Coast League bids for rec
ognition as third major league on
a provisional" basis were referred
yesterday to the Executive Cour Gil,
which will consider exemption Of
the coast players from the annual
player draft for the next three to
five years.
Charles Graham. president Of the
San Francisco Club and chairman
of the Recognition Committee of his
league, also had scheduled meeting
today with Commissioner A. B.
Chandler. There was no indica-
ton that Chandler planned any inn
mediate action.
Any action on the Coast Leagues
proposal about draft exemption
would have to be made before the
winter meetings or it would be
meaningless. The majors meet in
New York in December and the
draft must be held November l ac-
cording to the major minor code.
Cuban baseball men seeking per-
mission to use IL major league play
ers in their winter league, also must
await action by the Executive Coun-
Gil, which will not consider the
matter until December.
Ford Frick was reelected presi-
dent of the National League for
four-year term, the longest possible
under the league constitution. The
National League also added a new
rule providing that night games,
halted by lighting failure, must be
resumed at the point of stoppage at
a future date and concluded as a
suspended" game.
Evening star., 1947-07-08
By the Assoeiofed Press

NEW YORK, July 8.-Paced by
Cleveland Manager Lou Boudreau's
$50, five of the American Leagues
top 10 hitters are in the starting
lineup of today's 14th annual ALL
Star game at Chicago, while four
OF the National Leagues first 10
leading hitters open for the Ma
tionals.
Boudreau, who has been idle for
a week due to an injury, enjoys an
11-point lead over his All-Star team
mate runnerup, Joe Di Maggie OF
the New York Yankees, who sports
.339 average.
Harry Walker of Philadelphia, the
Nationals starting center fielder in
today's dream game, leads his league
with 1886 mark, a 10-point drop
from his average of week ago.
Trailing Walker is st. Louis Enos
Country" Slaughter, with a $3.50
mark.
Ralph Kiner, hard-hitting out
fielder OF the Pittsburgh Pirates,
jumped from seventh to third by
boosting his mark from .316 to .32l,
nine points behind Slaughter.
Rounding out the Nationals top 10
are Bert Haas, Cincinnati, 800;
Walker Cooper. New York, .316;
Johnny Mize. New York, .313;; Terry
Evening star., 1947-07-08
Buddy Worsham Off
ToConfer on College,;
Wins Golf Honors

Marvin (Buddy) Worsham, the
17-year-old brother of the National
Open golf champion. left for Dur
ham and Wake Forest, N. c., today
to see about a college golf scholar
ship, taking with him newly won
medal honors in the sectional quail
flying for the National Junior cham
pionship.
The Bethesda senior solidified his
position as the top junior golfer
of Metropolitan washington with
34-4O-74 at Manor yesterday to win
one of five places to the Peoria, Ill.,
title event July 29-August 2.
Worsham, who was graduated
from Bethesda in June after having
won the schoolboy golf champion
ship twice in a row, hopes to attend
either Duke or Wake Forest next
year. He has leads at both South
ern Conference Schools and next
year Wake Forest, like Duke, is 60
ing to move golf into major sport
category.
Frank Emmet, who conducted the
junior trials yesterday, Is attempt
ing to arrange transportation for
the local entries to the national
event. Others who made the grade
were 16-year-old Bethesda Junior
Stanley Mouser, with 38-37-75; 16-
year-old Montgomery Hills Junior
High graduate Eugene Wolfe with
39-36-75, and 16-year-old Blair
High student Robert Wolfe with 39-
1913.
Eddie Reagh, 17-year-old Coolidge
graduate, who will enter Kiski Prep
next year, and Paul F'rizzell, 18-
year-old Mercersburg Prep student,
tied with 39-40-79s. Both probably
will make the trip.
Prize winners in the age classes
were Skippy Nash with an IS in the
10 and under; George Bolten with
an 81 in the 14-15 age group, Wor-
sham with a "a in the 1917 and
Frizzen with 70 in the 1919.
Evening star., 1947-07-08
Having Fine Time, Wish YouWere at Auto Races
Note Dutch schoefe Arouse Interest in Buzz Bugges
in Buzz Buqgies .

time they wheel those mechan-
ieal marvels out on the track
and crank 'em up the google
eyed gents figure it's do or don't
proposition. Either they crack
up or they don't depending on
the whim of fate. None of them
seems to worry too much about
accidents. It's not like being
plate shy after taking a beanball
on the skull, Scnaefer says. A
driver has the same situation
to face race after race and it's
no place for a chap with sf1aky
nerves.
Joe says attendance at Lanham
Is booming. The Pacific Coast
last year had crowds of 10000
at Los Angeles Coliseum and
Balboa Stadium at San Diego
was almost always crammed to
it's $4,000 capacity, but Lam
ham, with its 10000 maximum,
never felt as though the mob
would push the fence down.
This year its different and
Holman thinks one reason Is the
keen competition waged by the
likes of Schaefer. He says you
can't match it for thrills and
he may be right.