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The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-02-05
First Coroner's
Physician In Philly

PHILADELPHIA - (ANP) DIR.
c. G Wooding, we'll known paholo-
gist, was sworn in as coroner's
physician last Monday at salary
of $500 a year. This is the first
time that a Negro has held this
position in Pennsylvania.
DR.. Weddings appointment came
through the recommendation of Will
liam Upshur. leader of the S0th
ward. and William Meade, Republi-
can city chairman. Meade insist
ed on the appointment Of Negro
to this post and gave the appoint
ment to Upshur.
The position requires special train
ing in pathology and Wooding has
had more training in this branch of
medicine than any other Negro doc
tor in the city.
DR.. Wooding, a graduate of Lin
coin university and Temple Medi-
cal school, has an outstanding specia-
lied background in pathology. He
serves as copathologist at the Mercy
Douglas hospital.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-02-05
Camden Man, Father
OF Commits Suicide

CAMDEN, N J. - (ANP)-Marion
Smith, SO, father of seven children
was found hanging from rafters in
the cellar of his home, here, last
week.
Employed as an operator at the
Camden Coke plant, Smith was be-
lieved by some to have been des-
pondent over domestic affairs. 9th
er reporters indicate that he had
brooded over the public utilities
strike, which was settled a day after
his death.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-02-05

went for one meal. Perhaps this was
one side of the picture Campanella
was blasting.
The Negro leagues will have luck
in New York now that the major
leagues are still signing Negro play
ers, So they had better turn their
faces southwark, where jim-crow
still rules the day and Negroes are
barred from playing in the organized
baseball leagues.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-02-05
MIAMI TIMES, MIAMI, FLORIDA
PAGE TEN SATURDAY, FEBRUARY S, 1949
New York About To Bid
Negro Baseball Goodbye

NEW YORK - (ANP) - The hot
debate on Negro baseball leagues
with emphasis on relations between
owners and players continues to grab
the spotlight. Negro leagues in hese
parts, haven't been in operation long
enough to claim maturity.
There have been Negro baseball
teams in and around New York
for the past so ears, but until re-
cent years, all were owned by
White men, played in rented parks
wherever White booking agents
felt fit to send them. and at fees
which White independent clubs
would turn their noses up if effer-
ed
1t hasn't been long ago that $500
was the top guarantee paid a Negro
baseball team. One game brought in
to the owners thousands - especial
ly at Dexter Park out in Queens.
When New York's baseball poten-
tialities were realized, teams began
coming into New York a nd operat-
ing from this city for weeks at
time.
Headquarters were established at
the Hotel Woodside up on 7th ave
and it was not uncommon to see
the buses of three or four Negro ball
clubs parked in front of the Wood
side any time.
Long before Alex Pompez's Cubans
used Dyckman Oval - way up near
the end of New York, teams played
in other inaccessible spots in the
metropolitan area, having been
driven out of Harlem proper.
| When Dyckman Oval was RACED
and apartments built on the site, the
teams had to go into the big-priced
baseball parks, Polo Grounds, Yam.
kee Stadium.
Both Of these parks were available
through one rental agency, which
prevented throat cutting competition.
shared by the other! Lowest fee for
either park depending upon he
event, was $4,000, an then the
Lessee had nothing to do with the
ing All he did was pay his fee in
advance, then collect what was COM
ing to him after the game got under
way or whenever he felt like it.
booking agents and SO forth, Negro
baseball. as it is called just isn't
that at all. One of the most success
full Negro teams is owned by Whites.
and whenever there was league
meeting of the Negro league, White
owners and agents were always in
attendance.
The controversy on the matter Of
who owns what in baseball world
was touched off when Branch Hickey
ever alert the possibility of sign
ing worth while Negro players
picked up Monte Irving. There was
a howl Immediately from Mrs. Effs
Manley, owner and mouthpiece of
defunct Newark Eagles
Since that time, there has been
"you say-I-say-he-says" in the Daily
News on the matter Of contracts.
Roy Campanella takes over and
blasts away at the owners and tell:
the players side.
1t is fact that the Negro team:
stayed at third rate hotels and travel
led great distances in rickety buses
Frequently, they played a nigh
and after getting into their hotels
about two or three in the morning
they had to rise at seven to take the
bus to another distant town wher,
a game was booked.
In those glorious days of the $500
guarantee, managers gave players 6
dollar a day "eating money" It was
no business of the manager if Il
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-02-05
Four Admitted To
Indianapolis
BrickIayers Union

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - (ANP)
- Attorney Willard B. Ransom, In
diana State NAACP- president, has
announced the admittance of four
Negroes to the ALL bricklayers
union here. 1t is believed that the
color line has been ended in this
union for many other APPLICATIONS of
qualified Negroes are being process
ed.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-02-05

father. Dave Cornor was born in
Spencer, North Carolina in about
1890. He is a Negro. Anyone aware
of his location is requested to COM
municate with the National Deser-
ton Bureau, los Nassau ST.. New
York Z, N. Y
We thank you for your kind CO.
operation.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-02-05
Dave Cornor
Wanted

Information is being sought of
The whereabouts of DAVE CORNOR
on behalf of his son who has not
seen him since 1929 and who is anx-
ious to obtain contact with his
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-02-05

The script, depicting the achieve
ments Of the slave girl who became
one of the most distinguished poets
of Colonial America, was written by
the prominent Chirley Graham.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-02-05

THE Story of Phyllis Wheatley"
was dramatized last Tuesday OIL
CHS by Muriel Smith, the star of
Broadway's Carmen JONES'" and
the well known actor, John Marriet.
Evening star., 1949-05-25

On the basis Of replies received
it's safe to say that the Veterans
Administration is well out Of the
woods on its insurance operations
Postcards have been coming In
| In reply to i've questions asked In
this column on May 4. The ques-
tions all had to do with insurance
Their sum total was-are you sat-
isfied with the handling Of your
insurance account by your VA dis
trict office?
Well. you'd be amazed to read
some of the answers. Some OF
the writer's are not only salts
fed but really pleased with the
service they're getting! That's .
far cry from q year ago.
When more answers have been
received and tabulated. I'll pre-
sent the findings and other inter-
esting information In this space.
Meanwhile. If you want to say
anything about your insurance
dealings with the VA. put 1t on
a penny postcard and send to me
care of your newspaper.
II you didn't serve in the Ca
madam armed forces. just skip
this item. II you did. perhaps
you are one Of the several thou
sand" United States citizens who
are Canadian veterans. but have
never collected the benefits they
pay their ex-servicers up there.
These benefits take two forms:
/. War service gratuity (they
call it, which amounts to $3.50
for each 80 days service plus IS
cents for each day overseas plus
seven days pay and allowances
for each six months overseas.
2. Re-establishment credit is
less-$7.50 for each 80 days Of
service plus rs cents for each day
overseas. No more.
The first items is q cash pay
ment, says the Canadian embassy
In Washington. The second can
be used only for the purchase Of
Canadian veterans insurance II
you live in the United States. The
embassy tells me this insurance
is offered up to $4,000 per vet
eran and that 1t Is very cheap"
United States citizen veterans
Of Canadian armed forces who
are living in Canada can apply
their re-establishment credit to q
lot of other things besides insur-
Evening star., 1949-05-25
Middies' Summer Training
10 Include Air Cruises
BY the kssoeicfsd Press

ANNAPOLIS, Nd, May 49,
Summer training for about 800
midshipmen will include cruises
by air as well as by sea. the Naval
Academy announced yesterday.
Middies who begin their sec
ond-class Gunior) year next fall
will inaugurate the air cruise pro-
gram, Rear Admiral James l..
Holloway, jr., superintendent. said.
The first group Of 200 midship-
men will fly out Of Annapolis
Roads on q giant Mars aircraft
June 6. They will travel CROSS
country In Mars, Skymaster and
fConstitution planes and land back
at the Academy on June %.
Only first and third classmen
will make the regular ocean train
ing cruise aboard the 56,000-ton
hattleship Missouri and nine de-
stroyers. ~
The frst group viii visit Ports
mouth. England. In June. A Sc
ond division will sail to Cher
lbourg. France, In August.
Evening star., 1949-05-25

kin pension" BIN is Q young tad
pole TO the big bull frog the House
killed last month. Among other
things. the new set-up. II enacted
into Law. would raise the income
limitations for single veterans
from 81 900 to $1,000 q year. !,
would not change the limitation
for veterans with Dependents
now $2.500 a year
1t also would raise the annual
income limitation for widows with
no dependents from 81 1000 TO
81 200.
II would grant an automatic
pension OF s72 a month 10 any
Evening star., 1949-05-25
Droftees' and Veterans Guide
~ Mei Themes M. NisI.

ance clothes. for instance. or
household goods. The Canadian
embassy man ! talked TO said he
had bought a new refrigerator
with his credit.
But IL you're living here. all you
can get is insurance.
Application for these two bene-
fits should be made TO the Ca
madam Department Of Veterans
Affairs at Ottawa. Canada.
The latest version Of the Ran
Evening star., 1949-05-25

unempioyahie veteran reaching IS
yeays os are whose income vas
less than $1,000 tor s2.sool. re-
gardless os the veterans disaha-
ity.
grrcm AP Nsvxssaszr~Hl
Evening star., 1949-05-25

The latest version Of the Ran
Evening star., 1949-05-25

erscn Ap Nsyxssaszsrai
Evening star., 1949-04-10
Plan June Wedding

Mr.. and Mrs. James T. Nc
Carthy of Chevy Chase announce
the engagement of their daughter
Maureen Teresa to Ensign Louis
James Boland, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John L. Boland of Louisville, KY.
The wedding will take place in
June.
Miss Mccarthy was graduated
from Trinity College and received
her masters degree at Catholic
University. She now Is with the
Army Air Force.
Ensign Boland attended the
University of Louisville and Iowa
State and served with the Army
Air Force during the war. He was
graduated from the United States
Naval Academy.
Evening star., 1949-04-10
Weds Balti1nOrean

Yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock
in. the Fourth Presbyterian
Church, Miss Jasmine Armstrong
became the bride of Mr.. William
Edward Turner. The daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Jasper Henderson
Armstrong of Silver Spring Rnd
the son of Mr.. and Mrs. II. Melvin
Turner of Baltimore were married
by the Rev. DR.. James H. Miers.
Mr.. Armstrong gave his daugh-
ter in marriage and Miss Barbara
Hughes was her maid Of honor.
The other attendants were the
Misses Eleanor Hoppe, Virginia
Bunker. Rita Widmayer and Mrs.
George II. Menzel, bridesmaids.
and Janet Horton, niece Of the
bridegroom, Junior bridesmaid.
Mr.. II. Lee Turner was best man
for his brother and the ushers
were the Messrs. Jack Wood.
James Whitney, Harry Elliott and
Jasper II. Armstrong, jr.
After a wedding trip to New
York City. the couple will make
their home in Baltimore.
Evening star., 1949-04-10

her sister. Nancy. Mr.. James r.
Flynn. jr.. served as best man for
his brother and Mr.. Brien Fenneu,
Mr.. Thomas Hoffecker and Or.
J. Blaine Fitzgerald we're ushers-
After a wedding trip through
the South. the couple VIII reside
In nearby Maryland.
Evening star., 1949-04-10

Wood McCaslin Of Silver Spring
and the late Mr.. McCaslin- Mr.
Flynn Is the son Of DR.. and Mrs.
James r. Flynn Of this city.
The bride was given In marriage
by her uncle, Mr.. s. J. Solomon OF
Silver Spring, and attended by
Evening star., 1949-04-10
Miss McCaslin Bride

The marriage Of Miss Dorothy
Susan McCaslin to Mr.. John Ber-
nard Flynn took place yesterday
IN st. Aloysius Church, the Rev.
Neil Gargan officiating. The bride
is the daughter Of Mrs. Walter
Smyrna times., 1949-02-17

designed principally for school
teachers, will encompass an ex-
panded program featured by sew
eral laboratories. Among the
special courses which will be Of
fered are a Conservation Work.
shop and a Conference on Air Age
Education.
Altogether, about 225 courses
are tentatively listed for the Sum-
mer Session, many of them carry
ing either graduate or undergrad
uate credit. An enlarged recrea-
tional program also is being devel-
oped, according to DR.. Colburn.
The calendar for the session shows
the first term starting with regis
tration on June 13 and classes
Smyrna times., 1949-02-17

Bush, director of admissions. A
complete Summer Session bulletin
will be published in April.
The bulletin also announces an
intensive study of industrial exper-
imentation to be carried on as part
of the Summer School programs.
Courses in Statistics and Design of
Experiments will be included. A
concentrated study of both sta
tistical theory and it's applications
will be available to representatives
of industrial and experimental
laboratories, according to DR.. Carl
J. Rees, chairman of the Depart
ment of Mathematics and the Divi-
sion of Graduate Study.
Work in the School of Education
Smyrna times., 1949-02-17
INACCURATE
STUDY PLAN
Inter-American Study Plan To
Feature TwO-Term Sum-
mer Session
OFFER EIGHT COURSES

Inauguration of an Inter-Amer-
lean Study Plan will feature the
two-term Summer Session of the
University of Delaware this year,
DR.. Allan P. Colburn, director, has
disclosed.
Eight courses will be offered by
various departments under spon-
sorship of the university's Institute
for Inter-American Study and Re-
search. They may be included in a
study plan supervised by the insti-
tute and the Graduate Study Divi-
sion, leading to masters degree
in inter-American delations.
The courses, to be taught by
members of the university's facul-
ty and visiting experts, are: Con-
temporary Latin-American Art,
Introduction to Inter-American
Economics, Seminar on Economic
Development in the Americas, Lat
in-American Geography, The ANA
zon-A New Frontier, Latin
American History, Inter-American
History, and Oral Spanish.
The program will include not
only regular courses and graduate
work, but also special lectures
throughout the Summer Session,
and a two-day Conference on In
ter-American Affairs, June 1929,
open to the public The activities
will be directed by Dr. Herbert
Dorm, chairman of the institute.
Announcement of the study plan
was made through a preliminary
bulletin of the Summer Session,
just published Copies are available
through the office of Charles w.
Smyrna times., 1949-02-17

the next day, continuing
to July p. The second term will
run from July 25 to September ?.
There will be no Saturday classes.
Smyrna times., 1949-02-17
Tons in Billiards

At the peak of his career. Willie
Hoppe, outstanding among billiard
players. made about $4,000 an
nually.
Smyrna times., 1949-02-17

Reno. Nevada, is farther west
than Los Angeles, California.
Smyrna times., 1949-02-17

Cause of Farm Fires
Seven per cent of all farm fires
are caused by matches or smoking.
The Nome nugget., 1949-09-19
Committee Will
 Investigate Alaska Native Conditions

GAP Special Washington SerVice)
 WASHINGTON, (P)-A seven man team will leave Nome, Alas ka, next Friday to study conditions among natives from the Aleutian Islands to the Boring Strait off Si- beria, the interior department said today.
 In New York City, the associa- ton on American Indian Affairs called the study hopeful first step" in' improving conditions among the natives.
 Secretary of interior Krug said the group will include Albert H.. Day, director of the fish and wild life service, and John R. Nichols, commissioner of Indian affairs.
 The party will visit Nunivak, Makushin, Unalaska, Akutan and Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians; St. Paul and St. George in the Pribil- offs. and lonely St. Lawrence lS- land, nearest U. s. point to the Soviet Union, and King Island off the Seward Peninsula.
 The party will sail from Nome aboard the Indian Service vessel North Star, and will return to An chorage by air about Oct. II.
 Oliver la Farge, president of the Association on American Indian Affairs, said in a statement that natives of the Pribiloffs may be in virtual peonage."
 They are wards of the fish and Wildlife service, exclusively en-
 Continued on Page Seven)
The Nome nugget., 1949-09-19
Miners On Pension Strike; Coal Mines Shut Down

PITTSBURGH, (P)-Coal mines shut down across the nation today as John L. Lewis diggers struck again on their Own-this time cry ing mo pension, no work"
 Production of anthracite (hard coal and bituminous Csoft coaD is being choked off by anger of the United Mine Workers over President Lewis suspension of pension and welfare fund pay ments.
 Actually, miners pent-up feel ings are aimed at southern coal operators who refused any more 20 cent per ton payments into the welfare fund until a new contract is signed. The refusal prompted Lewis suspension of welfare ben efits
 Most of the UMW's 48O,000 members in 20 states are expected to be idle by nightfall.
 Lewis said the welfare pay stop is due to the fund running low on cash. But it's all part of the UNIV fight for new contract. He's deadlocked with operators after prolonged talks.
 Walkouts started last midnight and gained headway over the coal fields today as come-to-work whistles blew in vain. UNIV lead CTS insisted the unions rank and file is acting on its own initiative. that Lewis has issued no strike call. He never does.
 West Virginia. biggest soft coal producing state, reported its 12O,-
 Continued on Page Eight
The Nome nugget., 1949-09-19
Many Die When Canadian Vessel Burns At Pier

TORONTO. CP) A middle-Of- the night fire roared through the Great Lakes cruiser NOrOnic at her pier Friday night and by noon Sat urday, police said, l77 bodies had been removed from the Wreckage.
 Officials of the Canada Steam ship Lines said earlier 226 passen- gers, firemen and crew were not accounted for but that they ex- pected the total to be reduced as other survivors were found.
 In addition they said three per sons died in hospitals and four were recovered from the water, making a known death toll up to noon Saturday of 192. Investigat- ing officials at the scene of the Great Lakes worst shipfire in a century said they thought the number of dead might mount as high as 226.
 The fire, which raced through the 36-year-Old vessel, broke out while most of those aboard were sleeping.
 Operating officials said there were 512 passengers and ITO crew members aboard the veteran 6,9O5 ton cruiser, which tied up here Friday night with holiday trip pers, bound from Detroit and Cleveland for the Thousand Is lands.
 Most of the passengers were asleep, but hundreds escaped in a frantic, screaming, pushing mob awakened by cries of fire and the first alarms.
 Others were trapped and their uncounted bodies were still be- lieved to be huddled in the Sub- merged C-deck. The death toll rose as firemen kept bringing up the charred, broken bodies of the victims.
 They said it might be several days before the fate of all those
 Continued on Page Three)
The Nome nugget., 1949-09-19
More Hungarian "PIOtters" Confess To Treason
(By Endre Marton)

BUDAPEST, Hungary. (PD - Five more defendants pleaded guilty today to plotting against the government of Hungary and against the Soviet Union.
 Like the other three defendants before them, none of the show ed any hesitancy in admitting to a peoples court that they took part ina plot backed by Premier Mar shal Tito, the communist outcast wh rules Yugoslavia.
 Fr. Tibor Szoenyp, 46, former chief of the communist party's Cadreo section, publicly announc- ed that neither drugs nor force was used on him to obtain a con- fession.
 The others who pleaded guilty included Anbras Szalai, 32, Szoen- yi's deputy in the communist party.
 Szoenyi named Allen w. Dulles, head of the wartime American in- telligence service, the office of strategic services (SS) in Europe, as the man who hired him to spy.
 But he had difficulty identify
The Nome nugget., 1949-09-19
News of the World At A Glance ---
Saturday. September l7, l949
By The Associated Press

By The Associated PreSS)
 The former chief inspector of the Hungarian army told a peO- ple's court trying him for treason today that he plotted with others to overthrow the Hungarian gov ernment.
 The testimony of Lieut.. Gen. Gyorgy Palffy followed closely that of Laszlo Rajk, Hungary's former foreign minister and com munist leader, who yesterday con- fessed a similar plot.
 Rajk testified the plot was back ed by United States officials and was part of an anti-Soviet crusade led by Premier Marshal Tito of YugoSlavia, who Rajk said plan ned a military invasion of Hun gary and the incorporation of Al bania into Yugoslavia.
 Hungary and Albania are com munist-led nations and members of the CominfOrm. Tito, also lead ing a communist regime, is at outs with the COminform.
 In Berlin, the Soviet army news paper Taegliche Rundschau re- flected Russia's interest in the Hungarian trials and their explo- sive threat. The newspaper said Rajk "finally unmasks the Tito clique in Yugoslavia as an agency of foreign imperialists.'
 Lieut.. Gen. Palffy, one of eight defendants, testified: We had formed three special shock troops of 12 members each which were to arrest and eventually kill the three top communist ministers headed by Matyas Rakosi."
 Belgrade observers said the trial, with it's confessions so fla miliar in communist court rooms, is moving the COminform- Tito is- sue toward a major Balkan crisis.
 Chinese communist forces prob ed the defenSes of Canton today. One Red group invaded Canton's province of KWantung and reach ed within l25 miles of the nation alist capital.
The Nome nugget., 1949-09-19

JUNEAU, CP) - The A l a k a Housing authority, in session here since Monday, completed it's plans for Alaska housing Friday.
 The plans can go into effect af- ter Congress passes a $10,O00,OOO fund about Oct. l.
 The group approved 75 units for Juneau in the subsidized rental low income housing bracket, with other sections to receive attention following reports.
The Nome nugget., 1949-09-19
NEWS IN BRIEF

PALMER, Alaska, (P) - Satur- day night was charter night for the Palmer Kiwanis Club, and the club left signs around for all to see. Literally.
 The club decided to name all Palmer streets and erect street signs. Members cut and painted 12O posts, and stencilled the names on them.
 After this Palmer, trading cen ter for the 750 to 1,500 in the Mat anuska Valley, will be able to tell people where they are.
The Nome nugget., 1949-09-19
Fear Palmer Duck Hunter Drowned

PALMER lP)-AthoritieS feared today that Eugene Marsh, Palmer garage employee, may have drowned Friday O ma duck hunting trip to Snowshoe Lake on the Glenn Highway.
 He left unaccompanied and bor-s rowed a kayak to cross the lake. Int kayak, an Eskimo-type canoe, was found later. drifting over turned near shore, with no trace of it's occupant.
 Float planes from the Tenth Rescue squadron at Fort Richard son conducted lake search.
 Marsh's wife now is visiting at her home in Spokane, Wash. They have two children. Marsh, about 26 years old, was born in Anchor age. His father Arthur Marsh, re- sides here.
The Nome nugget., 1949-09-19

SEATTLE, lP) - The scheduled sailing of the Alaska Steamship company vessel Baranof Sunday was cancelled Saturday when it was discovered the vessel had a cracked tail shaft. The sailing, or iginally set for Saturday had been postponed until yesterday.
 The vessel now will be put through her annual inspection and overhaul in addition to the repair of the tail shaft.