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Arizona sun., 1948-08-13

The Arizona Sun invites you to
pull up a chair and read about one
of Phoenix most accomplished mu-
sicians-Miss Robbie Dean Webb.
Although she is exceedingly small
for her age, but she is really a
bouncing bunch of energy.
Miss Webb came to Phoenix
from Crossett, Ark, with her
mother, brother and sister. Robbie
entered Carver High School in
1943, completed her four years of
schooling there, graduated in June
1947 with distinction in the field
of music, by being awarded a
scholarship for fine achievements
in this department.
Miss Webb has been musically in
clined from as far back as she can
remember. At the age of II, she
wa splaying with the school or
cheStra; later, she mad her pro-
feSsional debut with the rays of
Rythm," an all-girl band of Pin
ney Woods.
After coming to Phoenix, Miss
Webb joined Wesley Dodson's Band
which later disbanded. Now, how
ever, she is playing with Mack's
Swing Masters nightly at the Sun
set Club. After finishing Phoenix
College, Miss Webb plans to attend
the best music conservatorie in the
country.
Arizona sun., 1948-08-13
Negro Umpire
Amuses Spectators

A California official, Emit Ash
ley, thrilled the city Softball fans
last week, at Phoenix Softball
Park. Emit Ashley met a hearty
approval of the sports fans as he
made his second appearance here
to umpire Ia duel between the
PBSW Ramblers and one of Cali
fornia'S teams.
He is quite an unusual and busy
man from the moment he signals
the beginning of the game with his
acrobatic homeplate dusting until
he bellows you're out" for the
last play of the game.
Mr.. Ashley handles a game most
efficiently and keeps it going at a
rapid fire order.
He is a member of the Los An
geles Municipal Officials Associa-
ton So. Cal. Baseball, football and
basketball officials, association.
He is also affiliated with the Kap-
pa Alpha Psi Fraternity. While in
the city he was a guest of his aunt
Mrs. Luther Snow, 1418 E. Madi-
son Street.
Arizona sun., 1948-08-13
Hairless to Take Time
Off for Mexico Visit

Even though the congress ad-
journs, Richard F. Hairless proba-
bly, will have to take a few more
days off from his campaign for a
trip to Mexico City with his Inter-
state and Foreign Commerce Com
mittee. August 1 tentatively has
been set as the date for the open
ing of hearings in Mexico at the
insistence of Congressman Hairless
to inquire into the possibility of
developing tremendous Mexican oil
reserves for the benefit of North
American economy.
Hairless spent a busy week in
Washington, taking up many mat
ters of particular concern to Ari-
zona. In a speech from the floor of
the House of Representatives, he
called for state housing laws in
the lack of federal legislation, and
announced that he would recon-
mend such a course of action in
Arizona.
Arizona sun., 1948-08-13

C. He comes to Carver from South
Carolina State College where for
two years he has been associate
professor of English, teaching Eng
lish and American Literature and
speech. While in college, he was
included in Who's Who in Ameri-
can Colleges and Universities and
is a member of Delta Phi Delta
Journalistic Society. He replaces at
Carver Mr.. Marcus H. Boulware
who resigned to accept teaching
fellowship at the University OF
Wisconsin.
The new teacher of Mathemat-
les and Science at Carver High is
Mr.. William Montgomery Perry
who comes from the position of
~~~ook0r nf mon
Arizona sun., 1948-08-13

Kansas, Lawrence. He has taught
with marked success in several
high schools in Missouri. For four
years he was with the U. S. Army
in the European Theater of Oper-
ations and in the summers of 1914
and 1915 attended courses in Shak-
esperean Drama at Stratford-on-
Avon. He is member of the Kan
sas University Chapter of Phi Del
ia Kappa.
Mr.. Robert T. Frasier who comes
to the Carver High staff as teach
er of English and speech is grad
uate of Tuskegee Institute, Tuske-
gee, Alabama, and has his masters
degree in speech from New York
TInixyo1-ciitxT Tn od
Arizona sun., 1948-08-13
The Sweethearts of
Rythnln All-Girls
Band to Play Here

After four years absence, the
International SWeethearts of Rhy-
thmn will return to Phoenix by
popular request. Directed by Cor
geous Anna Mae Winburn, the fa-
nous all-girl orchestra, will make
a special one night appearance at
Riverside Park, Tuesday, August
24th.
The All-girl musical aggrega-
ton, one of the nations top head
line dance ocrhestras, features
several all-American instrument
talists, including Pauline Brady,
sensational drummer; vi Burnside,
torrid tenor saXophonist; Helen
Jones, trombone stylist; Elritz
Lucas, alto sax favorite; Flore
Dryee, trumpet virtueso and Nor
ma Dean, new singing discovery.
Gorgeous Anna Mae Winburn,
scintillating ngstar-directress of
the famous international Sweet
hearts of Rhythmn, is the top
headline of the all-girl dance or
cheStra.
The versatile musical aggrega-
ton, comprises 18 top star instru-
mentalists, all honor graduates of
famous music schools in the Unit
ed States and several foreign coun-
tries. The featured personalities
include Pauline Brady, Americas
greatest girl drummer and from
bone stylist Helen Jones. In addi-
ton to the dynamic directing of
golden-voiced Miss Winburn.
Arizona sun., 1948-08-13
Amer. Legion News
BY LAURA BELL

The state convention of the
American Legion will be held in
Yuma, Arizona, on Sept. 16, II and
18th.
Each Tuesday night members
will meet at the home of Mrs.
Maud McClaud, 1415 E. Madison
ST., to work on the quilt until it is
finished
Our Chaplain, Mrs. Moten is up
and doing very well.
Our Sgt. of Arms, Mrs. Teresa
Stewart is home, now, from the
hospital and is able to get up and
around a little by herself.
Arizona sun., 1948-08-13
AMERICAN LEGION
AUXILIARY NEWS

A round table meeting was held
August 5. A letter has been sent
to all posts in regards to vice COM
mender Lincoln ]. Ragsdale as can
didate of 10th district command.
The Tilden White, Jr., baseball
team played Desert Mission in Sun
nyslope, Friday, August 6, in which
they defeated Desert Mission, 6-3.
The team is now in third place OF
Class B Jr. American Legion Base
ball competition.
This same team played KRUX
class c champs, and beat them 1877
with Ernest Walker pitching the
entire seven innings. Ernest Walk
er is rated as one of the fastest
southpaws in the Class B league
Arizona sun., 1948-08-13

time Ice Cream Co., Roberta was
auditioned over station KMPC
with Bob Shannon acting as super
visor. Besides appearing on this
radio show, she also played at the
Peoples Baptist Church, 1O8 Cen
trail Ave-, while in Los Angeles.
Roberta accompanies her moth
er, who is an accomplished singer,
and her repertoire which consists
of over fifty numbers ranges from
Bach to Boggie Woogie.
Mrs. Lewis and Roberta will re-
turn to Los Angeles this weekend
where the little genius will appear
on a radio program with Horace
Heidi.
Arizona sun., 1948-08-13

UNSPOILED GENIUS is the
proper term for tiny Roberta
Louise Lewis, age 5, the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. R. L. Lewis of 1906
w. Grant st. Mrs. Mary Lewis, a
teacher of voice and piano, discov-
cred her daughters talent at the
age of eighteen months, developed
and cultivated it until now Rober-
ia is being besieged with offers.
Mrs. Lewis and her daughter re-
turned from Los Angeles last week
where Roberta filled engagements
for additions and concert appear
ances. Through the courtesy of M.
E. McEwen, Assistant manager of
the Los Angeles branch of Swell
Arizona sun., 1948-08-13
RAY CAMPANELLATHE
BROOKLYN BOMBER
BY LESTER BROMBERG
Reprinted by Permission of The Sporting News

| gro National League club. Biz per-
suaded Roy to come with his club,
on a monthly salary. Without in
forming anybody at home, Campa-
nella played with the Elites at 44th
and ParkSide, a Well-knoWn Phila-
delphia field.
He came home surging with
pride, but his mother promptly
said: "Where is your $25?" Before
Roy could explain that he had be-
come salaried. athlete, she Jump
ed down his throat for throwing
away "such good money" In fact,
she went further. She gave him
whipping.
The next day the neighbors
gloomily relayed the story of his
playing with Baltimore.
A week later Tom Wilson, presi-
dent of the club, visited Roy's par
entS.
1--WE hesitate about taking a 15-
year old boy away from home to
play ball." Filson said, "but it
would be a shame to hold Roy
back, since he's ready. Suppose I
promise you that I'll look after his
associations? Will that be okay?"
Yes, it was, and six months be-
fore his 18th birthday, Roy became
a catcher for the Elites. He played
$50 games a season, junketing all
over the country.
A few years after his break-in,
when the first agitation to advance
Negro players into Organized Ball
came up, Campenella was recon-
mended for a trial with the Pitts
burgh Pirates. The Pirates never
went through with the trials. But,
as result of the attention Great
ed, he got an offer to play in a
| charity game at Cleveland. He and
another recommended bly, league
prospect, Tom Hughes, promptly
went to Cleveland for a quick 5000
each. But when they returned to
the Elites, they were out the mon
ey. The club had fined them $3.50
each.
By now Roy was in a receptive
mood to all offers. A bid to play
for Monterey in Jorge PasqueTs
Mexican League sounded best.
Thus he became one of the first to
hear the siren call from south of
the border. In his first season there
he played 80 games, finishing Sec
ond in homers, leading in doubles.
This was only the beginning of
travel to Latin lands for Campa-
nella. He went to Puerto Rico,
where he played on a team with
Luis Olrno, then a summer player
with Richmond, Va.
Another winter he played in Gu
ba under Bert Acosta, one-time
big Lacquer, and still another he
returned to Puerto Rico.
Back with the Elites in the sum-
mer, Campanella had his first con-
tact with Jackie Robinson, Brook
lyn infielder
"Jackie's club, the Kansas City
Monarchs, came to Baltimore"
Roy said, land it was one of those
wild games. We'd get three or four
runs in an inning, then they would.
Finally, Jackie and couple of the
other Monarchs noticed the score
board didn't correspond with their
tally They demanded to see the
Continued on Page 81
Arizona sun., 1948-08-13

lnree seasons ago, at a Negro
baseball game in Rupert Stadium
at Newark, N. j., somebody nudg.
ed the catcher for Baltimore.
Elite Giants as he unsnapped his
shin guards for his turn at bat.
"Look over there in the stands
was the whisper communicated tc
the player. THAT man in the aisle
seat is scout from the big lea.
gues."
"Well, what of it?" the catcher
countered. my job is to play ball
not worry about who's watching
Roy Campanella, currently catch.
ing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, nov
admits he didn't believe the tips.
ter, although later events proved
the Negro National League stan
was being secuted at that time. Ell
1 had thought it was true, maybe
I'd have tightened up" he says
Anyway, I wouldn't let myself be-
leve it. I only wanted one thing in
my mind at time"
He was being watched all right
and subsequently got a call to see
Branch Hickey, Brooklyn's presi-
dent, call which launched Roy on
what has proved a rapid rise. But
that's telling too much too quickly
The important point is that Cam
PAMELA never played an inning of
any grade of ball that wasn't
wholehearted effort, minus even a
pennyweight of show-boating.
Today, in his 9th year, this pow
erful-muscled, rather squat, brown
skinned Negro from North Phila-
delphia, can credit his acknowl-
edged ability to virtually a lifetime
of learning the game.
His father, John, an even short
er and chunkier Philadelphian of
italian extraction, was telling the
other day, at their home, 1888 Ker-
baugh ST., that "Roy's heart was
set on baseball when he was too
small to swing a bat.
"First they let him he water
boy, then bat boy" Dad Campan-
ella said, "and when he got on his
first uniformAwell, that was just
plain Heaven to him. He has worn
Is different uniforms since. I've
kept count, and he never lets up
trying to improve.
Roy's own recollections are that
he used to haunt the sandlots of
North Philadelphia, hoping to
break into a game being played by
the bigger boys of the neighbor-
hood.
'T could throw kind of hard" he
said, "and when I was II was al
lowed to pitch and play in the out
field for a juvenile team called the
NicetoWn A. c."
When he was Is, Tom Dixon, of
the Bacharach Giants, requested
his mother to let him catch and
play in the outfield for that pro-
fessional team.
NO." she said, "that probably
means he'll play Sunday, and Sun
day is church-going day."
Dixon persisted. ''Mrs. Campan-
ella," he said, "you rboy can go to
church before we play. And there's
$25 a weekend in it"
With that, her resistance ebbed.
Tales of his long-ball hitting
reached Biz Mackey, manager of
the Baltimore Elite Giants, a Ne
Arizona sun., 1948-08-13
Jimmy Liggins Sends
Apology For His
.NOn-Appearance

To My Many Friends and Ad-
mirers in Phoenix: I send my
humblest apology for not being
able to fill my engagement last
Tuesday in your city.
Unavoidable circumstances hin
dered me from making scheduled
appearance. Automobile trouble in
a town called Thousand Pounds
in California, caused me to post
pone my arrival. However, I will
play in your city, Tuesday, August
31st.
JIMMY LIGGINS.
Arizona sun., 1948-08-13

High as an addi-
tionaI teacher of
English m a d e
necessary by the
increase in en-
rollment. Mr.. AL
mutt has his B. S.
degree from Kan
sas State Teach
ers College, En-
poria, Kan, and
his masters de-
gree from the
U n i " e r sity of
Arizona sun., 1948-08-13


dition, he has
about half of the
residence w o r k
toward his doc
.torate in English
Iat the University
of Wisconsin. He
taught for three
years in the high
school. at Soper-
ton, Georgia, and
later at Allen
University of the
A. M. E. Church
i'm Columbia, S.
Arizona sun., 1948-08-13

and teacher of
Mathematics a t
S t.. Augustine's
College, Raleigh,
North Carolina.
Mr.. Perry gradu-
ated with his A.
B. degree from
st. A u GU stine's
and later took
the masters de-
gree in the teach
ing of Mathemat-
Arizona sun., 1948-08-13

versity of Michigan. He taught in
the high school in Birmingham,
Alabama; in the Voorhees, Junior
College, Denmark, S. c., and has
been for two years at st. Angus
tines College in North Carolina.
For two and half years he was
with the U. S. Army in England
and France.
Arizona sun., 1948-08-13

In the past 80 years, the num-
ber of allotments Navy personnel
have asked the Navy to pay out of
their salaries has increased from
44,541 to 802,20. In the peak period
during the war, in December, 1914,
a total of 5,924, 900 allotments were
being paid monthly by the Navy.
Arizona sun., 1948-08-13
Three New Teachers
Added To Carver
Faculty Staff

Mr.. w. A. Robinson, Principal of
Carver Hi School, announces the
addition of three new members to
Carver's faculty for the coming
year.
Increase in enrolment at Carver
High has necessitated the addition
of a teacher. Mr.. John c. Alnutt
Arizona sun., 1948-08-13

Experiments by Navy scientists
have scuttled rumors that aircraft
jet engines make noises in a sonic
range harmful to humans. In ex-
tensive tests with volunteer "gui-
nea pigs" it was determined that
the jets have no bad effects on the
human body at any operating
range.
Arizona sun., 1948-08-13

He has been the big punch behind
the IA wins and only 4 losses.
The Class B tournament begins
Monday, August 9, we are hoping
to emerge from this series with
rightful ownership of the cham
pionship.
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-02
Britain Wars
On Potato Beetles

LONDON - (P) - Britain has
enlisted thousands of agricultural
workers, students and volunteers to
destroy pests-identified here as
Colorado beetles-which have
threatened an invasion from
France and Belgium.
The battle to keep the beetles
from Britain is being waged on the
beaches, along the roads and in the
fields over an area of 10000 acres
from FOlkstOne, Kent, to GuildfOrd,
Surrey, and along the east coast to
Hull. A BEETLE patrol" is watching
for the insects brought into ports
in imported vegetables or blown
across the Channel by winds from
the continent.
The Ministry of Agriculture says
it considers the invasion" the
worst threat to Britain's potato
crop in ten years. Potato fields are
, being sprayed with lead arsenate
and afterwards with DOT, by thirty
high-powered machines and thous-
ands of hand sprays. National Fire
Service pumps are providing water
for the sprayers as they work their
way through the fields of Kent, Es-
sex, Suffolg, Norfolk, and Lincoln
shire.
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-02
CoRDELL HULL AND HIS FAIRIES
WHAT OTHER PAPERS ARE SAYING.
A RATING WHICH MAKES US HAPPY.

The editor and publisher of this newspaper was
this week the recipient of certificate of merit from
Community Research Bureau, which will be placed
on the wall of our office
The certificate states that The Dover Index has
been analysed and rated against other newspapers of
the State, and given rating of "AAA, and it reads
"This is the highest rating given any newspaper in
the United States"
This family weekly, which has constantly grown
during the past few years-in reader interest circu
lation and general popularity-was evauated with
the same basic formula, and with the same careful
and impartial analysis being used to rate the other
weekly newspapers of the nation.
In a telephone conversation Monday with the
director of Community Research Bureau, we were
informed that we would have been given "AAA" plus,
but for the fact that statement to the Post
Office Department did not justify the plus That is
given only to those with extra large distrbu-
tions, and few weeklies in America are entitled TO
the "plus" rating The Milford Chronicle is the only
weekly in the entire State of Delaware thus design
ated.
Since our statement to the Postal authorities was
made-last October-on which the evaluation was
based, The Index has added many subscribers,
and no day passes without addition to distri-
button We decline to make a sworn statement to
more than actually have, which, we feel certain,
is fully as large as any in this section.
To state that we are pleased at the rating given
us is putting the matter mildly indeed. We are
most highly elated. Yet, with no show whatever OF
self-praise part, are reminded of the hun
dreds of nights have remained until late hours
in an honest effort to deserve such rating.
OF course, realize most fully that we cOulC
not enjoy this high compliment but for the lOya
support given by host of friends readers anC
patrons. To them we make most profound bow
We-the entire staff Of The Index-will never Ceas
in determined endeavOrs to make of this publica
ton the very best family weekly in the United State
of America.
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-02
MEN Without
A Country"
Sailing Seas

BALTIMORE - (P) - Six men
without a country are sailing the
seas abroad the Kegums-Only ship
in the world still flying a Latvian
flag.
The only two surviving ships of
the half dozen which escaped when
Russia took over Latvia in 1889 are
tied up in Baltimore, awaiting ord
ers and cargo.
One of them, the Everaga, now
flies the flag of Honduras, and con-
siders Porto COrtes her home port.
But the Kegums still has the name
of Riga-the Latvian pOrt-painted
on her stern.
TIL ship has not been home in
! nine years, and none of the crew
has hoped of returning very soon.
Ausis Kerns, radioman, says he
hopes instead to be admitted to the
United States so he can bring his
mother and sister out of a German
displaced persons camp to a home
something we haven't known in
long time"
Both ships are owned by the
Grauds Shipping company, a form
er Latvian firm now operating ouI
of New York.
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-02
BABSON Discusses Politics

This same Law of Action and Reaction has
also ruled our country. The first twenty years,
under Washington and the Federalists, were
very conservative. Then came a reaction under
Jefferson and the country enjoyed it's first New
Deal. This was OverdOne and there was
reaction to conservatism. Again the COnserVa-
tives abused their power and there was an
other New Deal under Jackson. These changes
alternated up to the conservative regime of
Coolidge and Hoover when the masses again
revOlted and put the New Dealers into power
Now, according to NewtOn's Law, a cOnserva-
tive government is again due. 1t will prob
ably be administered by the Republican Party
not necessarily because it's principles are
any better but because of NewtOns Law
BRAINS, AIRPLANES AND COMMUNISM
During the great days of the British Empire
when the highest type of men were in control,
England ruled the seas, and these leaders
fearful of the RevOlutiOnists across the Chan
mel in France-were determined to have the
English people the most prosperous of any
nation. Today the United States is faced
with a similar opportunity. Our country has
men with excellent minds; we control the
ships of the air which make the world so small
that Europe is as close to us today as France
was to England 100 years ago. Furthermore
our industrialists and labor leaders now real
ize that the best way of fighting Communism
is to have continued prosperity here at home
Also, a Conservative Party in this country
would now have far greater opportunity fol
achieving good results than Conservatives
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-02
Herbert Hoover

A book entitled Our Unknown
Ex-President," presents what Eu-
gene Lyons, the author, points out
is "a portrait of Herbert Hoover"
And he asks the reader: do you
know that Herbert Hoover has
never accepted cent of pay for
public service for political office"
Eugene Lyons has written top
notch books, and it was the privi-
lege of this Washington CORES
pondent to contribute in this Letter
Service our views on his Assign
ment In Utopia" a dozen years ago.
That book indicated what course
the Russian government was pur-
suing in those times, what the rul-
ers were uptO. 1t was fascinating
and a warning to people who be
lieved in Liberty-as we all do here
in the United States.
No one has written a better book
concerning the life and achieve
ments of any President than the
volume just off the Doubleday
presses. And / ask U? Do you know
that among the few ablest states.
men of our own country that Herb
ert Hoover ranks today as the bes
informed individual on World af
fairs?
l have been puzzled about how tt
describe the book and after severa
unsatisfactory attempts, l have
"cribbed' the description by Eu
gene Lyons and his publishers be
cause it is brief correct and to tn
point. Do you know:
THAT he was Quaker born an
bred in an Iowa cottage almost a
humble as LincOln's?
"That his first job was pushin
an ore car on the night shift in
mine at two dollars a day?
that he turned down a Gugger
, helm partnership at $5O0.O0O a yea
to become Secretary of Commerce
that HOover's shyness cause
him painful embarrassment
public gatherings, yet he entertain
5 ed 9,769 guests week-ends durin
his four years as President?
that the first and only office fC
which Hoover ever ran was I'll
D Presidency?
|, "It is strange but true that of a
prominent Americans, Herbe
n Hoover is the least known to mi
lions of his cOuntrymen. His G.
{ reer is actually one of the create
# stories ever lived in America, thr'
= careers in One-engineer, publ
C servant and statesman. This is Il
first book which reveals the me
sure of a man who has often MAJ
q enemies-but has never lost
IL friendship"