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The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-04-16

Since James Evans laid his cue
stick away for good, Norfolk
Jack lists washington Red",
whose real name is Eddie Moss,
the foremost colored player of
them all. Even right at this very
minute, says Norfolk, no player
black or white figures to whip
Eddie in the present State tour
nament. That would lasoP
nament. That would also be true
with World renowned players like,
Mosconi, Caras, Crane and Ponzi.
Yes, 81 years a player day in and
day out and Norfolk Jack, pride
Of the Bronx, still clicks at a CEN
tury Or more a clip. He told me
that he will begin practice on a
special (small corner pockets) s
x 10 championship and then
watch his speed. He is also among.
the best Fancy and trick shot"
exhibitionist in the country.
Speak Up-Pe.e White
Recently we had the occasion
to bring to your attention the
Whispering campaign" centered
around Salem Crescent's Peter B.
White, with respect to Golden
Gloves monies, etc. At the time
we said:
"Since my high school days, I
have known Pete White, who is
somewhere near my age, in his
late forties. He was a school
boy sprint hero Of mine and
regret the rumors floating around
local gymnasiums. I won't know
how to tackle them until Mr..
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-04-16

White replies to my letter sent to
the Department, Of Sanitation
where he is employed in a cleri~
cal capacity"
Since then in the March 26,
1949, issue of the New York
Age, a writer, Leslie Matthews,
who has a column on sports titled
"Sport Time, wrote:
"Peter White is no longer d.
rector of the famous Salem Cres-
cents. The former track star
who has been connected with the
organization since 1911, was vot-
ed out and replaced by Ben Will
son. Feeling has been running
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-04-16

high between the instructors and
White for a long time and it
reached a climax last year when
rumors circulated around town
that the money given by the Col
den Gloves to the Salem C~rescents
A.C. Disappeared"
According to a source that we
have not checked with too closely,
Mr.. White threatened to bar Bill
Miller and Wilbur Walcott from
the club. Old admirers are ask
ing. me questions I cannot honest
ly answer, Pete? I will devote
half Of my column to your side
can I do more?
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-04-16
Beating The Gun

Concluded from last issue)
just as others have gone into the
trades or the professions. He is
we'll known in cities like Chicago,
Detroit, Pittsburgh, Youngstown,
New Castle, Swickly, Harrisburg,
Boston and Greater New York.
For eight years (1932-194O), Nor
folk Jack took on all corners up
Mt. Vernon way in New York and
whipped every expert and nom
expert who faced him. He was
manager for the popular Vito
Miello during those years. One
has only to ask world-ranking bill
liardist Ornofrio Lauri in what
high esteem he holds Jacks abili-
ty to impart his knowledge to be-
ginners in the game. 1t was Lauri
who recommended Norfolk Jack
to Lew broadway Masso, Italian
youngster who had title ambitions
So we'll did Jack instruct the
youngster, that he, Masso, went on
to win the "Westchester County
Pool championship for five years.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-04-16
Rating the Reoo~&
By Frank Marshall Davis for AMP

McGhee Boptet. Incidentally,
the late Chano Pozo is also fea-
tured with the Moody group.
Both discs are under Blue Note
label.
Danceable bop shows up on the
Apollo of SUGAR HIPS and
COASTIN' WITH J. c., by J. C.
Heard and ork. A good bounce,
wrapped around some fine instru-
mental solos figures on both sides.
The tenor sax you hear is that
of Wardell Gray Manor label
puts the Teddy Bapoleon Trio on
a side (Napoleon's own) called
BOP SIXTY-NINE which high
lights the electric guitar. Paired
is the mixed bop-pop revival of
YOU CAME ALONG FROM
OUT OF NOWHERE, pop vocal
handled by Gwenn Bell. Aristo-
CONTINUED on page 81
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-04-16
Revelry In Bop


Like the clinging, creeping vine
bop, "new sound" to the initiated
is reaching out to blanket every
phase of popular music. Jazz, pop
rhythm, blues-everything but
the kitchen sink now serves as
a vehicle to ride out the "new
sound. Bop is seeking that per-
lection of expression-an express
sion which the public can digest
Understandings. It is losing the
wild disorganized meanderings and
settling down to definite patterns.
Some items are a combination of
jazz pls bop, others are pure bop,
still others are hestitatingly test
ing the new medium.
This weeks column sports ex-
perimental bop items, danceable
and commercialized, both instru-
ments penned and played by Tad
Cameron, pianist-ork leader and
one of the leading bop-exponents.
Punchy in a low key, both show
Tadd experimenting with new bop
forms. On "Casbah", Rae Pearl
gives out with a wordless ethereal
type vocal, similar to that of Kay
Davis on Duke Ellington's con A
Turquoise Cloud.
Cameron is also on Blue Note
label with a pair entitled JAZZ
BERO (c%o-authored with Fats
Navarro) and LADY BIRD. "Jah-
bero" features the late bongo art
ist Chano Pozo with the T. d.
Septet. BIRD" is by the sextet.
A different sounding" bop in
strumental is played by the Len
ME Tristano sextette on Capitol.
Penned by Lennie is CROSS CUR
RENT and WOW. Also Capitol
and originals are GODCHILD and
JERU, Miles Davis, ork; LITTLE
BOY BOP GO BLOW YOUR TOP
and ENSENADA Chopped up
rhumba tempo in bop), Dave Bar
bour and ork; CAPITOLIZING
and PROFESSOR BOP, Three
Bips and a Bop, featuring Babs
Gonzales on vocal. Babs wrote
these.
Such inventive titles as MOOD
A-MORPHOSIS and CUBA are
the James Moody and his Bop Men
quiet bop items; COOPERATION
(Fats Vavarro) and THE SKUNK
(McGhee-Navarro) by the Howard
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-04-16
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Evening star., 1949-09-01

their Negotiating Committee.
What there is in this theory only
the two men can know. In any
case they have taken care of the
situation, Mr.. Van Horn by resign
ing as negotiator and Senator
Bridges by arranging to resign as
trustee.
Only One Real Trustee.
Out of the rumpus over the
trustees salaries there emerged
the further revelation that. to all
intents and purposes, there has
been only one real trustee, the one
who serves without pay-John
L. Lewis. president of the miners
union. For, it seems, the Senator
always agreed with Mr.. Lewis, CIV
ing the latter an operating major
ity, and Mr.. Lewis never told Mr..
Van Horn anything. That. at
least, was Mr.. Van Horns plain
tive report to a scandalized Senate
Banking Committee.
The Senate committee, it seems
to me, is a little more perturbed
than it needs to be. It should
realize that in the very nature Of
things the miners pension and
welfare services are bound to be
and should be controlled by the
miners themselves. through the
officials of their union. This is a
practical fact. established by other
labor organizations and accepted
by employers in other industries
Evening star., 1949-09-01

the farm States. II the Democrats
lose them, the conservative Re-
publican-Southern coalition which
now exercises veto power Oh leg
islation will control the calendar
and select the bills to reach the
floor.
Fatigue Apparent.
The Senate's occupational IA
tigue has been apparent in grow
ing sentiment to drift with one
year extensions Of the trade-farm
laws. influential Senators admit
privately that If such extensions
are recommended they will pass
with a whoop and q holler.
Legislative liaison at the White
House appears second only to Ma
jor General Vaughan as the weak
est link in the Truman political
security chain. But this word
somehow got through to Mr.. Tru-
man. who got out his big stick.
Majority Leader Lucas returned
from, a, White, House conference
Wednesday morning with word
that the trade agreements would
be made the next order Of busi-
ness in the Senate, mo delays. no
extensions. no compromises"
And no adjournment" cracked
q reporter. Senator Lucas grinned
weakly. a 80
A few hours later the majority
Evening star., 1949-09-01
On the Record
Pressure Put on Yugoslavia by Soviet
Could Bring on War Within Month

ization, which is both q political
movement and an atheist church,
Stain or his Russian successor
is always emperor and pope.
Tito is guilty. in Soviet eyes. of
the worst Of all Communist
crimes: Heresy. He is q Luther
of the Communist order who can
also quote Communist scripture.
His heresy is extremely dangerous.
Already Titoism has reared its
head in the land of Karl Marx
Germany.
Blocks Access To Adriatic.
Tito, secondly, stands in the
way, Of primary Russian i'm
perialist ambition: Access to the
Adriatic.
The collapse of the Communist
war IN Greece has frustrated the
attempt to join the Communist
world with Albania and give the
Russians access to the Mediter-
ranean via the Adriatic. Unable
to .circumvent Yugoslavia via
Greek Macedonia, there is no
way but to 60 through Yugo-
slavia via Bulgarian and Yugo-
slav Macedonia. Political at
tempts to stir up Yugoslav Mace
domains to join their Bulgarian
brothers" have also failed. What
is left is direct attack.
Yugoslavia is not in the At
lantic Pact and no warning has
been issued that. If attacked,
she will be defended. The Rus
slams may calculate that the only
place they can strike in Europe
and avoid q general war is Yugo-
slavia. For would the anti-Com-
munist world support one Com
munist dictator against another?
Yet, as surely as Yugoslavia Is
subjugated, there will be another
world war. Neither Greece nor
Turkey nor italian Trieste can
be defended without general war
If the Russians hold Yugoslavia.
We do not know what Western
ambassadors In Moscow are telling
the Russians regarding Yugosla-
via. But that for the last six
months q tension has been mount
ing, that, by the lessons OF his
tory, can have only one outcome,
is obvious. We also believe that
q defense system based on SYM
pathetic ,ideologies will never be
effective.
Evening star., 1949-09-01
On the Other Hand
Case of Messrs. Bridges, Van Horn
And 393,O97 Men, Women and Children

with much longer experience with
welfare funds. These employers
are quite willing for the unions to
have the responsibility and the
headaches that 60 with it. They
can leave it to the workers to
defend their own interests.
The odd thing about all this is
that mors excitement has been
kicked up over the cases Of Messrs
Bridges and Van Horn than has
been occasioned by actual opera
ton of the miners fund. Yet this
operation, in the course Of little
more than a year, has become one
Of almost sensational significance
One Of our great basic indus
tries, long notable for the num-
Der of lives it destroyed and the
human wreckage 1t produced. is in
process of becoming civilized. 1t
is beginning to take care Of its
own people.
SSS,U37 PERSONS Al0e0.
Miss Josephine Roche, director
of the welfare and retirement
fund, told the committee about
this. Miss Roche, formerly q mine
operator herself. has q national
reputation in welfare work.
ITO summarize the workings Of
the fund" she said. "393.097 men,
women and children in rs States
have been aided in their need.
taken off the unsupported public
assistance rolls, saved from desti-
tuition, given medical and hos
pital care. instilled with q new
sense of hope and dignity, their
bodies and spirits restored.
1.-THE total expenditures for this
human reconstruction were $104,-
880.7S5. "A constructive invest
ment, I think you will agree"
The total administrative cost.
she said. had been $1,535;933. or
IA per cent. In 80 years expert
ence. she said, she never had
known Of an administrative cost
so small. II know agencies with
high public standing that point
with pride to administrative costs
of Is and Is per cent" Included
in that IL per cent, incidentally,
were the salaries of the two
trustees.
To appreciate the size Of the
problem confronting Miss Roche
and her assistants, such as DR..
Warren F. Draper, former Deputy
United States Surgeon General,
the conditions they have inherited
must be Observation-Disclosures who
linger on. manned, broken, dis
abled."
Evening star., 1949-09-01
This Changing World
Rumors Secuted of Tito Plan to Appeal
ToU.N. Over Conflict With Russia

national laws or agreements, inso-
far as Russia and its satellites are
concerned. The reason for the
conflict, which shows increased
indication of winding up in an
armed clash, is that the Belgrade
government wants to run its own
affairs.
The trouble between Belgrade
and Moscow started some IA
months ago when Tito refused to
obey orders from his former
masters to collectivize the farms.
because such a step would bring
about civil war.
Rather than appeal to the
Council, which he knows can
make no real attempt to settle
matters because of the Russian
veto, he prefers to let nature take
its course-whatever that course
may be.
Worth More Than Speeches.
The fact that the Western ma
tions-and particularly the United
States and Britain-are willing
to help Tito resist aggression by
the Soviet and its satellites is
worth more to him than any
powerful speeches and briefs SUBJ
mitted to the Security Council.
. In spite of the many blunders
and breaches of promise COM
mitted by the United States and
Britain during the latter part of
the war, the prestige Of these
two chief Western powers is still
great in Yugoslavia. Since 1945
there has been an artificial fos-
tering Of Russian prestige on the
part of the Tito government.
Pictures of Joseph Stain and
other Soviet leaders were put on
the walls of schools. government
Offices and town halls of every
Yugoslav city.
The Western powers. and par
ticularly those which had helped
Tito defeat his rival, Gen. Draja
Mikhailovich, were villif1ed and
denounced as threats to the new
civilization" from the East. In
spite of these artif1ces the senti-
ments of the people Of Yugosla-
via changed only specifically.
The news being broadcast
throughout the country now, that
America and Britain are ready to
help with war materials If Russia
and her satellites decide to at
tack, is q better morale booster
for the Yugoslavs than any
speeches or resolutions Of the
United Nations.
Evening star., 1949-09-01
Senate Put on Notice
Truman Now Directs Fight for Passage
Of Reciprocal Trade and Farm Bills

leader was back at the White
House with congressional. agri-
culture leaders for a go at the
farm bill with the President and
Secretary of Agriculture Brannan.
In an unusual revelation of the
Importance of this harmony"
conference. photographers were
alerted to record it.
Immediate pronouncements on
the hour-long session were cau-
tious. But the fact is that there is
going to be an administration
farm bill reported to the Senate
and put to a vote il the Senators
have to be kept in session until
the day they reconvene next jan
uary for the next session.
Up Against the Guns.
The administration is up against
the guns on farm policy and they
know 1t. They are still operating
their wartime version, tailored to
fit a period when all-out produc-
ton came first and cost was Sec
ondary. The country Is now in a
recession with q push for economy
in government coinciding with the
threat Of ghastly surpluses.
Democrats thought they had
the answer in the Brannan plan
for guaranteed income payments
to farmers. production controls
and consumer benefits. The poll
ticians whooped it up and staged
a great formal unveiling at Des
Moines last June.
They only made one mistake.
They set out to sell the Brannan
plan with politicians and labor
leaders but they forgot to consult
first with the members Of the Sem
ate and House who man the con-
trolls Of the Agriculture Commit
tees and year-in. year-out keep
their ears pinned to the wheat,
corn and cotton roots Of America.
The result has been q House
upset, with q farm bill approved
there that not only isn't the Bran
nan plan but which the admins
tratlon feels violates all the tenets
Of good politics and good sense.
Salvation rests with the Senate.
Senators are now on notice that
the President expects them to
produce it.
Evening star., 1949-09-01


and answered by Marshal Tito is a
declaration OF war by the one and
an announcement of resistance by
the other.
A state not contemplating war
does not, in historical recollection,
send such q note as the last one
which the Soviets addressed to
Tito, nor does it launch in its
press and that Of its satellites
charges that a government is "a
Fascist threat to peace-loving ma
tions," and ut is the policy Of the
Soviet Union to exterminate
fascism wherever it may appear
now, as during the war'-nor does
1t warn that the head Of a state
will suffer the same fate as Hitler
and Mussolini but this time much
quicker.
Open Threat Of War.
The end Of German and italian
fascism and the fate Of Hitler and
Mussolini were decided by war.
The threat, and even declaration
Of war. is therefore open. and not
less official because conducted by
official press organs.
Marshal Tito, on the other hand,
while offering to negotiate all out
standing differences, simultane-
ously refuses to concede an inch OF
the position which caused the diff
ferences. Both sides have blocked
of any possibility Of retreat.
Under such conditions war would
seem inevitable and its outbreak
imminent. It is only because We
live in q world where every diplo-
matte tradition is violated. that
we hesitate to draw logical con-
clusions.
There is more than mutual In
suit to support the logical conclu-
sions. Marshal Tito's stand threat
ems the Soviet Union in two
fundamental particulars.
It threatens the basic premises
Of the international Communist
order: That Moscow is the eternal
capital Of the Communist union
Of states, however widely that
union may be extended; that
Russia is the sacred mother
land";; that the Russian Politburo
is the dispenser of all theological
doctrine; and that In this organ
Evening star., 1949-09-01

OF the Council, Coh''An"he nfo"h'
has carried out its obligation un-
der the Charter to bring the con-
flict to the attention of the peace
making body.
The answer, which officials are
reluctant to state publicly, is that
the threatened country, Yugo-
slavia, being realistic, does not
think such an appeal could have
practical value. The U.S.S.R. has
the veto and no decision can be
made in the Council without her
concurrence. Appeal to the U. N.
would be a sheer waste Of time,
the Yugoslavs seem to think, and
might give the Russians and their
satellites the impression that Tito
is frightened and weak.
There were rumors among for
eign diplomats in Belgrade this
week that the Tito government
might consider ordering its rep
resentatives to ask for the inter-
vention of the Security Council.
But these seem to have been moth
ing but idle rumorS.
Ready to Take Chances.
The Yugoslav government and
it's people are determined, accord
ing to the best available informa-
ton, to take their chances and
rely on the remote possibility that
Moscow will hesitate to start a
shooting war. Tito, who at one
time enjoyed the Politburo's full
confidence, knows from f1rst-hand
experience that the U. N. is pow
erless against Russia.
The Belgrade government feels
that it is in the right in the pres
ent conflict with its former pro-
tector. It has violated no Inter-
Evening star., 1949-09-01

$35,OOO salaries
as trustees OF
the United Mine
Workers pen
sion and well
fare fund. The
theory seems to
be that this pay
might influence
he Senator's
vote on labor
questions a n d
the loyalty Of
Mr.. Van Horn
to his fellow
operators a S
Evening star., 1949-09-01

Ever since I
walked out on
my hotel room
balcony. over
i o king h e
Congo River. I
have been sing
ing tn a t fool
song, "Bongo
Bongo, Bongo,
I Don't Want
to lie We the
Congo"
j e an is so
sick and tired
Of hearing me
c{~~ $ho fhino
Evening star., 1949-09-01

sing CQc CQlnS ''
that she has changed it a trifle
and she sings, Congo. Congo,
Congo, Don't Want to Leave the
Bongo."
Between us we're going slightly
batty. I don't know whether I
am in the Celgian. Bongo or the
Belgian Congo. Never, never.
never, never, never. never, never,
never have been so confused.
Most Surprising City.
Leopoldville, known all over
Africa as Leo, is the capital Of
the Belgian Congo, and one of
the most surprising cities this
footloose correspondent has ever
visited. Frankly, I expected to
find a jungle town, with a pygmy
for mayor. perhaps, and a head
hunter as president of the local
junior chamber Of commerce.
Instead, our Clipper landed at
a large, modern airport, and we
were driven to our hotel over
broad, paved highway. and we
didn't see a poison dart shooter
during the whole trip. Our hotel.
which is smack on the banks Of
the Bongo-I mean the Congo
is as comfortable and as well ap-
pointed as any in New York. The
maitre d'hotel of the vast dining
terrace was formerly at the
Savoy in London. and the food
and service couldn't be excelled
anywhere.
If you happen to drink and
smoke-two ugly habits I have
never formed-youll be delighted
with Leo. American cigarettes
are cheaper than they are at
home, and Scotch whiskey is
about 81 a fifth. AS for American
spirits of the very best sort. you
may have your choice at 81 a
quart, being as the people here
don't like the taste of the stuff.
The Bongo-I mean the Congo
is about four miles wide between
here and Brazzaville. capital Of
French Equatorial Africa. Haven't
been over there yet, but I know
I am going to have to make the
trip whether I want to or not, be-
cause word has reached Jeans
ears that "Shalinar" and "Christ-
mas Night" and other expensive
smells are cheaper there than any
where else In the world. So i
Where De Gaulle Roughed It.
The chief landmark Of Brazza-
vile is an imposing palace-like
house on a high hill. It was in
this house, which he had built
for himself, that General De
Gaulle roughed it when the Free
French headquarters were there.
When the trafic Of the town is
quiet one can hear the roar of the
rapids a few miles up the river.
These rapids have never been ne
gotiated by any man. There is a
marker on the river bank near the
rapids where Henry M. Stanley
put ashore after a dozen or more
of his leading boats had been
swept into the rapids of the then
uncharted Congo.
Right near the marker Is the
favorite parking place of the
Americans in Leo. They 60 there
in the evening, not to hold hands
or to view the turbulent rapids. /
but to listen TO the baseball and
football games from the States.
They have found that this parti-
cular spot affords the best recep-
ton for our stations. During the
last World Series parking space
was at premium.
The climate here right now Is
delightful, the people are friendly.
living is gracious, and. well, maybe
that man who wrote the song that
is running me crazy had some
thing after all.
distributed by McNausht syndicate, Inc.)
Evening star., 1949-09-01

1dIul POSl duu.
tt he ira d e
agreements are
vital to his for
e gn olicy.
Farm p olicy
represents the
single most i'm
portant domes-
tic issue Of the
1850 campaign.
on troll Of
the Senate in
the next Con-
gresS hin 6 e S
upon a number
of contests in
Evening star., 1949-09-01

OLnerW1Se IMAM
in war.
It is late Au-
gust, the har-
vests are in. and
II the verbal ex-
change between
the two states
does not devel-
op into war be-
fore the month
is out, appear
ances will belle
re ality. For
every word be-
ing said by the
Soviet, Union
Evening star., 1949-09-01
Bv LoweH MeHeH

Something of a scandal is being
made of the fact that Senator
Styles Bridges and Mine Operator
Ezra Van Horn have accepted
Evening star., 1949-09-01

Vene whenever
a crisis threat
ems the peace
of the world?
The present
Russian = Yugo-
slav conflict un-
questionably is
the most severe
that has broken
ou t since t h e
end of the war.
Yet, neither of
the two govern
ments involved,
nor any member
of the Council.
Evening star., 1949-09-01
Bv Constantine Br0,Cn

What has happened to the
United Nations and its Security
Council, which under the Char
ter should take steps to inter-