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The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-01-17
Marcos Mentioned as
Possible Farm Team
For Negro Majors

Dayton may have a farm team
for the Negro Major league if all
goes well, according to Harry
Parks, business manager of the
Dayton Marcos baseball club, of
the Western American association.
With the diamond program of the
Sepia Majors sprucing up their
activities for the coming season,
many farm units are being or
ganized and Dayton being in line
with all the Western clubs of the
Negro American league as a play
ing sight, the Marcos have been
recommended to the American
loop as one of the working units.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-01-17
OMEGA Wives Meet

The Omega Wives Bridge club
met at the home of Mrs. Frank
Jones, 700 Euclid avenue. Prizes
were won by the following per-
sons: Mesdames Virginia Ellis,
first; Lusetta Tanner, second, and
Evelyn Crawford, third.
Guest prizes: Mesdames Lillian
Clarke, first; Ruby Lorritts, Sec
ond, and Eva Parsons third.
Other guests present were: Lii
liam Grisby, Thelma Hardwood,
leila Watkins, June Dickens,
Marie Woodford, and Nancy
Smelling.
Members Of the club are Ruth
Lewis, Ruby McLin, Francis Out
ram, Estella Thompson, Wertha
Digger, Mildred Simmons, Rita
Forte, Leila Lewis and Janet
Horne. A good time was had by
everybody.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-01-17
Of Education

Education is the lever of adj
vancement in these modern times.
Without it one lacks the weapon
to meet the demands of a highly
competitive society. Many people
would like to further their educa-
ton and training, but because of
the necessity of working for a
livelihood, they are unable to find
time during the day. To accom-
modate these people the local
schools have instituted night
courses carrying the same credit,
and covering the same ground as
day courses. Two local colleges
have announced registration for
night courses.
The Dayton YMCA college is
accepting enrollments for the &C.
ond semester which is scheduled
to open February 2. Opening on
the same date, the University of
Dayton is registering students for
the second semester evening elias.
ses. u. D. will offer 1O6 courses,
1t would be wise for asmany
Of you as possible to register in
one of the schools so that you will
be better prepared to meet the
e%xigencies of modern life.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-01-17
Cofield Honored
AT Dunbar Banquet
BY Jimmie N. Jones

Dunbar high paid a tribute to
Maceo Cofield, hero of the East
West ALL Star game and star
end of the Wolverines in their
annual banquet held at the Sum-
nit street school Thursday night.
The tall lanky wing man was pre-
sented with a trophy as the teams
outstanding player. Attending the
fete were coaches of three col
lege football teams, namely:
Randy Taylor, Kentucky State;
Henry Dean, Tennessee State, and
CASTOR Country Lewis of Will
berforce State. Also in attendance
was Jimmie Walker, All-American
tackle of Iowa college in 1941.
Along with Cofield receiving
their letters were: John Bass, Will
liam Brown, Jim Caldwell, Emer-
son Chapel, Isaac Crawford, Os-
car Dominick, Marshall Ellis, Don
aid Few, Charles Frances, George
Jackson, Joe Jackson, Edward
Long, William Margwan, William
Rakstraw, Jim Ratlif, Maynard
Sewell, Ed Spooner, Jim Tanner,
Jesse Tatum, Laverne Taylor,
Charles Ware, Peerless Washing
ton, Jim Whiteside, John Williams,
Marion Williams and Student
Manager Herbert Fields.
Among those who will be long
remembered by Dayton citizens
are Ed Spooner, Peerless Wash
ington, Marion Williams who were
standouts inthe first city East
West All-Star game to be played
in Dayton.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-01-17
Chicago Newspaper
coupIe Divorced

CHICAGOfi, Jan. II. (ANP)-
Mrs. Marian Foster Downer, for
80 years a we'll known newspaper
woman here, and Fred D. Downer
were divorced December "a. after
having been married "a years.
Mrs. Downer is currently writing
a society column for the Chicago
Defender. Downer is the circula-
ton manager Of the Chicago edi-
ton of the Pittsburgh Courier and
distributor of Smar Woman maya
zine. For several years, he has
headed the Atlas Newsphoto serv-
ice.
In commenting on the case to
an AMP correspondent, Downer
said, marian and l are still
friends, but we decided to part
ways for the best interests of each
of u.s."
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-01-17
AS | See 1t
BY A. D. Braithwaite

A double lesson should be
gained in a littel incident that
happened this week. Those who
pull tricks like Luke Green, A.,
Of Cleveland, and who are gull
BILE like Mrs. Nora Mae Luckie, %,
Of 1868 Lakeview avenue, should
take note.
Five months ago Green had two
women accomplices strike up an
acquaintance with Mrs. Luckie
downtown. Green came up and Of
fered to make the women. some
money if they invested in a "lost
pocketbook" deal. One of the
stooges gave Green some money
which he returned in a few mo-
ments with a substantial profit.
This was the come-on. Mrs. Luckie
who had no cash handy was urg-
ed to. withdraw some from the
bank. This she did. 1t is redund-
ancy to say that of course Green
never came back.
That is, he never returned I'M
til last Saturday.
Just by chance Mrs. Luckie
happened to be in the post office
when she was accosted again by
Green, and he had the same story.
She refushed him and as he ap-
CONTINUED on page ~
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-01-17
USES Asks Jobs for
Negro Farmers

WASHINGTON, Jan. II. GAN
P)-The United States Employ
ment service, in formulating the
policies, regulations, approvals and
procedures governing the opera
ton Of the program for agricul-
ture and related industries, has
specifically requested that Negro
farmers be given proper consid-
Grafton in the farm placement pro-
gram.
The new handbook for farm
placement service, which became
effective the first of the year,
clearly states that it is the policy
of USES and affiliated state en-
ployment services, Ito serve all
agriculture employers and all agri-
culture workers without discrimi-
nation or preference, except as
may be required by law"
.fcontinued on page ~
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-01-17
RENT CONTROL

short and the demand for it great,
there will be no girdle too big to
contain the rent demands of these
renters. Rents will shoot up like
a Jack in a Jumping Box, or like
the prices of automobiles.
Congressman are sensitive to
the pressures of their constitu-
ents only when their constituents
demonstrate that they are alert,
active and vengeful when be-
trayed. A deluge of post cards de-
handing positive action on the ex-
tension Of rent controls is one
method of conveying these cent?
ments to elected representatives.
Write n each to Raymond H.
Burke, House office building, and
Senators R. A. Taft and John
Bricker, Senate office building,
both address in Washington D.. c.
Let them know the people of
this community want rent controls
extended beyond February 20.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-01-17
Joe Louis Changes His
Mind About Retiring

Joe Louis, world heavyweight
champion again has changed his
mind about going into retirement
following his coming bout with
Jersey Joe Walcott in June, ac-
cording to an announcement by
Harry Whitmore, sports caster of
New York.
According to Whitmore, John
Roxborough, co-manager of the
champion gave him an hour long
exclusive concerning the future
of Louis. Said Roxborough eff the
champ comes through in convinc-
ing style with Walcott, he will re-
main active for two or three years
yet. He has given up golf until
he hangs up the gloves for good"
Louis feels that his timing and
poor showing against Walcott in
December, was due to his golf
playing. The Louis camp is GER
tain that the champ will take the
newark battler in short order
when they meet in the June bout.
Still feeling the fangs of de-
feat and loss of prestige, Joe is
taking the second meeting with
Walcott in all seriousness and will
be out to regain his former rating
with the fight fans.
The opinion Of fight experts
ire slowly swinging to the Louis
band wagon again and are giving
the champ the nod in the coming
fight of the ere.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-01-17
Red Scare Makes
Hollywood Drop
Carver Film Plans

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. II. (ANP)
by the Thomas-R Rankin
un-American committee and it's
investigation of communistic &C
tivities, Hollywood film executives
have dropped their plans to shoot
the life story of DR.. George Wash
Carver, note scientist. The
film was under consideration by
Dore Schary, executive producer
of "Crossfire," the sensational pic
ture which hits race and religious
prejudice.
This action is in linew it'll pre-
dictions made following the recent
hearings that the film capital
would back away from any plans
to show Negroes in a more, favor
able light on the ground that such
pictures were Communist in
spired."
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-01-17

The Montgomery County Rent
Advisory board which last month
recommended rent control extern
sions, so vital to Negroes, yester-
day decided against reviewing it's
application to adjust rents until
disposition is made of the Housing
and Rent act of 1947 which ex-
pires February 20. The board is
delaying action because it is pos
sible the act may not be in exist
ence after that date.
But it is most vital that the act
be extended through 1948. The
consuming public already is over
burdened with tremendously high
prices for food and clothing, and
to increase the load by allowing
landlords to gouge their few re-
naming pennies with higher rents.
Even in normal times landlords
are generally a ruthless lot, but
now, when housing is critically
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-01-17

The former Morehouse college
baseball star is sponsoring the
Housewives Shoppers guild, with
an estimated membership of 10000
to fight price gouging of colored
shoppers by merchants on the
south side.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19

vents the growth of unsightly
hair on the head.
And recently to add to the
humor derived from the capil-
larry sparseness on his skull, said
Abe, incidentally, lots of you
whohave written in for my pic
ture, please be patient the
picture has been takn but there's
a big retouching job the
photographer felt that my bald
head makes the picture to glarey
so he's working on a process for
growing hair on negatives. An
other guy suggested in the place
where my hair used to be l ought
to put calendar But Pm gonna
send the picture out as it is.
You'll find the bald spot very
convenient for memos and tele-
phones messages"
The humorist writes the lines,
the comedian delivers them; and
since in this instance, Burrows
is both, the performer knows
what the writer is trying to say.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
Girl In Million
Astaire Partner

HOLLYWOOD - Th ere is
scarcely a young dancing hope
full in the country who doesn't
have the ambition one day to
dance with Fred Astaire. And
that makes Dee Turnell, 19-year-
old blonde beauty, one girl in a
million.
When still an unknown in film
circles, Dee was picked by
Astaire himself to be his part
ner in one of his dance numbers
to Irving Berlins music in Gas
ter Parade" Dee already was at
Metro Goldwyn-Mayer and had
appeared in her, first picture
"The Pirate" when Astaire
checked in to begin his prepara-
tions for the Berlin musical.
For stepping Out With My
Baby" number, the star wanted
a partner experienced in ballet
Dee joined several dozen girls
trying out for the part, and won
lit.
Born in Chicago, Dee has
studied dancing, and particu.
larly ballet, since childhood.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
Novel Furnishings
On Long Jaunt

HOLLYWOOD-Susan Peters
furniture for one room of her
new Bel Air home will travel
$4,000 miles before it reaches
Hollywood.
Susan, starred in Columbia's
"The Sign of the RAM" decided
she wanted an oriental den in
the house for her husband, Rich
ard Quine. After consulting her
architect, Susan put through a
long distance telephone call to
Kabul, Afghanistan, where her
uncle, Harry Carnahan, is an en-.
gineer on an irrigation canal
project.
Over the phone, Susan out.
lined what she wanted in the
way of furnishings, and Carna-
han promised to ship inlaid
charms and tables, rugs and
hammered brassware to Holly.
wood by the middle of Decem-
Der.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
Sinatra Takes No
Chances On Desert

HOLLYWOOD - A wartime
innovation to aid visibility at sea
is now being used by Frank
Sinatra for his trips to and from
the desert.
The Metro Goldwyn-Maye
star, who recently completed his
role with Kathryn Grayson in
''The kissing Bandit" bought a
jeep and Immediately had it
painted yellow, the same shade
as that used by the U. S. Navy
on life RATS and life preservers
Sinatra, who spends much of
his time between pictures at his
home near Palm Springs, has no
desire to be marooned in the
desert, on one of the unmarked
roads. He figures that the bright
color, visible for considerable
distance from the air, will be
readily spotted by planes from
local airfields should he become
stalled.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
Bing Crosby Now
Honorary Mayor

HOLLYWOOD - Bing Crosby
crooned the keynote of his ad-
minstration as honorary mayor
of Elko, New, at a civic BAN
quet following his installation
ceremonies recently. For 400
guests at the Commercial Hotel
the Croaner sang two numbers
from films which he said ex-
pressed his platform. They were
Busy Doing Nothing" from
P a amounts "a Connecticut
Yankee" and Harmony" from
variety Girl"
His first official act was to
donate $4,000 for a new muni-
cipal swimming pool.
Most of the twon's 5000 resi-
dents turned out for the swear
ing in ceremony conducted by
Elko's veteran mayor, David
Dotta.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
Wheelchair Kitchen
For Susan Peters

HOLLYWOOD - The home
Susan Peters starts building soon
in Bel Air will have plenty OF
gadgets designed to make life
in a wheelchair more comfort
able.
AS soon as she finished work
at Columbia in "The Sign Of
the RAM" Susan met with her
architect on the design of her
home. Now they are planning
kitchen with a series of low
shelves an dcupboards, for Susan
loves to cook, but the average
kitchen is equipped for persons
able to stand erect. Most things,
therefore, are out of Susan's 5
reach from he wheelchair.
In addition, Susan will have
a custom-made electric range
which will stand but two and
one-half feet high and so put
the burner" within easy reach.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
Albuquerque Troupe
Ends Successful Tour

HOLLYWOOD - A f t e.r a
weeks swing of the Southwest
for personal appearances at five
fiesta -premieres of Paramount'S
albuquerque" the Hollywood
caravan of players returned last
week. All openings, including
the films sensational world bow
in Albuquerque and regional
premieres in Houston, San
Antonio, Dallas and Fort Worth,
have set new business records.
In the troufe were Randolph
Scott, George "Gabby" Hayes,
Lon Chanel, Billy De Wolfe,
William Demarest, Catherine
Craig and Russell Hayden.
The troupe appeared on 80
radio broadcasts in the five
cities, and were given official
dinners, breakfasts and other
functions by state and civic
leaders.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
No Publicity Art
For Newest Star

HOLLYWOOD - Believe il
or not, the Columbia pictures
publicity department has no
stills on its newest star prospect,
Terry Moore, who plays opposite
Glenn Ford in the Technicolor
production, ''T h e Return of
October.
Tha tis they have some when
she was kidlet of Is in a role
in "Shadowed" with Lloyd Cor
rigan, but tnusable now.
Nor is it likely that they will
have any glamour art, other
than that shot by the production
still man on the set, until she
finishes the production, for the
role calls for her to be before
the cameras veery day of film
ing
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
wild Fury Postponed
While Horse Rehearsed

The scheduled start of Colum-
bias wild Fury" featuring
Preston Foster, William Bishop
and Mary Stuart, has been set
back one day to permit addi-
tional rehearsal of the black
and-white pinto Dice, in special
equine rouines. The famed
horse, recently featured in Duel
in the Sum-" appears in a ma
jority of scenes, as "Wild Fury"
deals with the efforts of the
three human characters to bring
their prize mexican wild horse
into Texas. Desert sequences, to
be shot in Southern California,
require Dice to perform some of
the most hazardous equine feats
ever filmed. Phil Karlson di-
rects the Ted Richmond produc-
ton.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
Number Shooting in
2 Units at Top Speed

HOLLYWOOD-To keep pro.
duction moving at top speed
Anatole Litvak recently started
the simultaneous direction oi
two first units of Hal Wallis
sorry, Wrong Number" al
Paramount. Operations involve
three large stages.
The entire cast of the film
will be performing in two sep
arate troupes, one headed by
Barbara Stanwyck and Burt
Lancaster and Left Erikson
Litvak will shuttle between the
sound stages, directing a scene
while the alternating setup is
being lighted for the next shot.
The dual operation will effect
a considerable saving in overall
shooting time.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
Movie Villain Has
Gold Plated Spurs

HOLLYWOOD - Thanks
to Rita Hayworth, George
Macready sports the most
resplendent spurs ever seen
on the screen or the range
in Columbia's Coroner
Creek" which stars Ran
dolph Scott and Marguerite
Chapman.
When Rita learned that
her friend Macready, the
heavy in "Gilda" and
"Down to Earth, would
play the ace badman in his
first Western, the red-haired
star produced a pair of
gold-plated horse ticklers
with diamond mounts.
The spurs, which Mac
ready uses with bloody
effect in "Cornoer Creek"
were recently presented to
Rita by an Argentine cow
boy fan who had Sc e n
"Gilda" 10 times.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19

of the big secrets Of the year and
couldn't tell a soul.
. Now all my friends are sore
at me because l spent weeks try
ing to help them work out the
Jingle and clues and didn't even
give hint that I might be the
walking Man"
My wife Mary will hardly
speak to me because she thought
it was Babe Ruth, and l agreed
with her. At least once a week
Van johnson and l argued about
the identity of the gentleman.
He was incline to think it was
Doak Walker and finally l
agreed with him. I saw Van last
night after it was all over and
all he did was look sad and shake
his head. I'm afraid to go to my
golf club because the entire
membership has been working
on the contest, and when l walk
in they'll probably beat me to
death with niblick.
My toughest problem was with
Mary. You see, each Saturday
night, I had to 60 to a house way
up in the Hollywood hills with
Ralph Edwards engineer where
we were hooked up with the
program, so l could give clues
and come in on the show if !
was guessed. So each Saturday
night had to make new excuses
to Mary, and after several weeks,
the excuses started to wear a
bit thin.
My writers had no idea it was
me. In fact, they worked up a
gag on the walking Man" and
/ l got a big kick out of hearing
them explain the contest to me
so l could understand the humor
of the joke.
One of my big problems was
my own progra m after the
identity of the walking Man"
was guessed. l couldn't tell the
writers, and yet l had to do a
program about the contest on
Sunday Immediately after the
winner was announced. So we
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19

A humorist can make us chuckle
with what he makes up out of
his own head; a comedian will
not only make us snicker, but
also laugh right from the pit
of our stomachs. Abe Burrows
(CBS, every Sat. 1880 P. M. EST
check your local CHS outlet for
exact time and station), no
doubt, is a comedian but he is
that rare avis, that is, both
comedian and humorist. For ex-
ample, on the subject of picture
actors options, he explains the
dropping of an option is the
same thing as in any ordinary
business when the boss says I'll
trouble you for the key to the
washroom'." Will Rogers, the
late Throne Smith and Robert
Benchley were humorists. Bur-
rows has been a humorist for
years. Long before he ever went
on a program of his own, he
created humor for other come
dians to perform.
On the subject of his shiny
pate, Abe once asked, How dc
you like my crew haircut?"
There was a laugh and he was
encouraged. He went on. INC
kidding, it's on purpose. l had
it cut like this for a picture. .
Later he extended this remark
Don't laugh. It's nice--cool ir
summer. Besides, you don't have
a lot of girls running their fingers
through your hair. And say, il
any of you fellows want to look
like this, I'm putting out a pre-
paration called 'Sta-Bald' 1t pre-.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
Homecoming
Use All Stages

HOLLYWOOD - All of the
stages of the extensive Metro
Goldwyn Mayer studios were
utilized by Director Mervyn Le-
Roy in the production of Home
coming" in which Clark Gable,
Lana Turner, Anne Baxter and
John Kodiak are co-starred.
In addition to scenes on 20
stages at the studio, sequences
also were filmed outdoors at the
famous Laskey-Mesa ranch.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
Swim Star Esther
Also Can Chatter

HOLLYWOOD = Esther Will
liahns, champion swimmer, is also
something of fast talker. In
fact it too kone of the fastest
court reporters in Los Angeles
to keep up with her chatter.
The M-G-M actress, who re-
Gently completed "On An Island
With You" dictated her book
"Or Would You Rather Be a
Fish" Wh0ich Double-Doran will
publish, in four evenings. When
her material was transcribed she
found she had talked more than
10000 words.
She is now editing the book
down to about half that size.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
WONDER WRITER

Roy H uggins, whose first
novel, "The Double Take" has
become Columbia's chilling mys-
terry, II Love Trouble" starring
Franchot Tone and Janet Blair,
is Hollywood'S wonder writer.
Until two years ago Higgins had
never written a line of fiction.
Now he is considered one of the
screens top scripters. He learned
how to write by researching the
f or m u a used by successful
writers.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
Surprise, Surprised

HOLLYWOOD - Walk
ing down the street the
other day Esther Williams
was stopped by a woman
who touched her on the
shoulder and said, Pardon
me, aren't you Esther Will
liams?"
why, yes, l am," smiled
the M-G-M star of "On An
Island With YOU" expect
ing to be asked for her auto
graph.
"You have a run in your
stocking" the woman said,
and turned and walked
away.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
DIAMOND JIMs BROOCH

Thhe gorgeous diamond brooch
which Doorthy Lamour wears
for a sequence in Lulu Belle
once belonged to the fabulous
Diamond Jim Brady. The brooch
is now owend by Johnny Elwood
a Hollywood property man, who
makes several hundred dollars
a year renting the brooch out
to motion picture companies.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-19
Has TeLeUiSiOn Set
Built Into His Bed

HOLLYWOOD - Glenn
Ford is willing to bet that
he is, the first actor in
Hollywood to have a tele-
vision set built into the foot
of his bed. But it's also re-
movable. Durin g layoffs
from "The Mating of
Mile" his Columbia pic
ture with Evelyn Keyes he
has been giving television
parties for the neighbor-
hood kids, showing midget
auto races and b a S e b all
games, and handing out hot
dogs, peanuts, and cokes
for ests to give the
proper atmosphere.