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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-04-22
SOFTBALL LEAGUES
GET GOING MONDAY,
WITH LONG SCHEDULE
Split Into Halves;
Two Classes OF = eal,ls,
With Four Clubs I'm
Z Each Classification

1t was decided at a meeting of
officials of the Island City Soft
bah Leagues to begin playing
the schedhles on Monday.
Under the division of Class A
and Glass B Leagues, the teams
will line up as follows; i
Glass a. Bamboo Room, Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars, Adams
Dairy and VXL Flyers.
Glass B, Independents. Naval
Hospital, BlimpRon and the OPP
DevSta.
Postponed or rained out games
will be- played at the end of the
season if needed.
In the opening games Monday,
starting at 1870 p. M, will find
Bamboo Room meeting the VFW,
and the second game will be be-
tween Blimp-Ron and the indie
pendents.
Official umpires will be Viii
lareal and Abston, while the
officials scorer will be Pedro
Aguilar.
The softball schedule for l949
will be published tomorrow.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-04-22
Seeking Plans For
Making Wickers
Field Better AT
Cost Of $4,000

Plans for improvements at
Wicker's Field involving con-
sentative estimated expenditure
of $4,000 were discussed at a
meeting held last evening at the
City Tax Collectors office.
The men involved whose iden-
tity will remain hidden for the
time being, saw a real need for
such a projetc so as to provide
adequate recreation grounds. for
citizens and to provide for the
coming of big league baseball
teams for spring training.
"We conseryatively estimate
that the work we plan will cost
the community about $4,000"
said one of these men today. I'VE
plan to build a concrete block
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-04-22

I'm not predicting anything,
but it is almost certainty that
our local golfers who entered the
Florida State Amateur Golf Tour
nament, now going on at the
beautiful Miami Country Club,
will not get to first base. And it
is not their fault. Our golf course,
as now stands does not bring
out theSbest in players. The Mi
ami Country Course far outshines
ours Git ought to, however). For
instance, you don't find the haz-
ards on our course that you find
lurking all over the Miami
Course. No sandtraps here, but
scads, of them there. And the wa
ter holes in Miami not only out
number, but outclass the one and
only pond we've got here. The
fairways are more treacherous
than we could ever make ours.
Then there's another item of no
little count, namely, our boys do
not work out here With the same
stiff competition they've faced in
Miami. And brother, if you don't
think this means a difference in
your game, you try it next year
in the same Big League of ANA
teur our boys have mixed shots
with this week.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-04-22
|VFWS Softballers
Beat South Miami

Key West softball team defeat
ed the police team in South Mia,
mi on Wednesday night by a
score of A to 0, Pedro Aguilar re-
ported today
He said that the locals played
one of their best games, and held
the policemen we'll in hand from
the beginning to the end of the
contest.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-04-22
TENNIS
Bayview Park. Afternoons
and Nights
Daily play.
SWITCHBOARD
tBayviaw Parkl
Daily play.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS
Know Anerical

t4AAk1W 4ASkAGAASGi
Professor ]. Robert Open
heimer, director of the Institute
for Advanced Study, Princeton,
N. j., physicist, born in New
York, As years ago.
John w. Vandercook, author,
radio commentator, born in Eng
land, AZ years ago.
DIR. Fay Jeffries, chemist-engi-
neer, vice president of General
Electric, Pittsfield, Mass, born in
New York, 33 years ago.
Mark F. Ethridge, publisher OF
the Louisville, KY, courier-Jour-
nal & Times, born Meridian, Mis-
sissippi, So years ago.
Lawrence A. Appley, presi-
dent of the American Manage
.ment Association, born in Nyack,
N. Y, As years ago.
I Charles Angoff of New York,
editor-author, born in Russia, Al
years ago.
DIR. George F. 'Zook, president
of the American Council on Ed
lucation, born at Fort Scott, Kan
sas, GA years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-04-22
fANkS BEAT SENATOR'S.
REDS DEFEAT CARDS
indisns Creeping
sln ieaNne Leaders,
Giants Vielorioas
s'ser isoslsers


-" YORK. April 22.-New
tea fnnheua defeated the
washington spnnior,. 2 10 I. 10
hass = ihser straight over the
taNlial playefn
N'fA AltnstI nads hkewise kept
A.tif sifine clear 81 beating the
~ tetlis cardinals yesterday By
eefs 81 5 o. o Johnny Wander.
ssrsf hauasuflod me- Cardinals.
eilaNtns hai I've well spaced
Asa
tsfelsna Indians again yes.
ittaAy hMat fhr si. LOUIS Browns
AHf #fR efroplng up on the
tftNfM
ne Nem folk Giants won a
eisane oVef mfooklyn Dodgers.
g. 4 tNhind Clint HartunR's
iIssH hl plishina
fbN as&4Ns
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-04-22
One-Minute
SPORTS QUIZ

!. Name the world champion
s0ftball team for 1913.
Z. Who Is the manager of the
Detroit Tigers?
4 When did Joe Louis win the
world heavyweight title?
4 What bowler rolled a per-
feet game in l94s--without
looking at the pins?
5. What Is the biggest bonus
paid a schoolboy for signing
with a major league base
ball club?
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-04-22

The first newspaper straw poll
was conducted in Harrisburg
Pa. in i824 according TO the En-
eyelOpaedia Britannica.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-04-22

But you have got to hand it to
our golfers (and some who did
not enter this tournament, tool.
They're in the making You can
just put that in your pipe and
smoke away, my boy. after all,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-04-22
Discuss improvements
To Wickers Field AT
Last Nights Meeting

wall at cost of. about $4,000 en-
tirely around the field,
Then the grounds are to be
improved, as well as the grand
stand. There are certain facilities
to be provided so as to make
Wicker's Field attractive to some
big league baseball team.
THE next meeting of this
group is to be called as soon as
we locate detailed plans and blue
prints for the improvements to
Wickers Field. A set of plans
and blueprints is known to exist
here. "a
IF we fail to find such plans,
then-we propose TO go ahead with
detailed drawings"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-04-22

b. go aaatir header played
lasi alshi ihr Hospital won over
mlnE Nm n 49, nrnt aame By
HamA seafs Tho hospital won
Ia fts hfHt frame WHEN they
m@ea B ums 81 4 hila
b. the uiRhirap enc bsmboo
Hsn aan oVrI thc Adams Dairy
uisf tag nsmr circumstances
ehsn theF scorcd o runs tn the
seHna 1n seven hits FINAL score
So etua
la a. Lni Same Nelson open
80 Nllh > triple and secured on an
fifal and infn walks hits ana a
pa hstsman AMI tx rams crossed
fle plate
Hff hilmp hoys scured one IN
NN hfai un twn walks and an
49, ASST uua in thc sccund 0n 2
ftfisle4s rhnicr and two hits ana
Hff tast tWu rum ln the Au@i VI
hemp tfiplrd and two walks
sha tao efroFa srulCd him.
AZ haf a. loadcf was Nelson
$50 taa aaioucs in four trips
tenkagky and kemp each u one
ssisif IN tuo uies In the held
hlelh honkoaky end Richardson
go haals wefe the best
srofe bY innings. n u. y
b Hlial e0O 100 Ia 3 4
hapiian 10 900 O. = !
Martin and krcch. Brisser
NnhafdA and Balmcr
thaaa hli8 Nelson Kemp q
So ha Martin, stolen base
Asels struck oui. by Martin
#f 90 balls. off Martin T. OF
hI4la a
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-04-22

kaNEff naif brushes arc
nale HaH ias fu I'd a species
"a esallffi aCCmdinH o. me I'm
NIla NIiannifa.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-04-22

Some persons can speak, see,
and hear while sleep-walking,
according 70 the encyclopaedia
britannica.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-04-22

In the-United States, petroleum
was first produced commercially
in 1859, according to the Encyclo-
paedia Britannica.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-04-22

Half of the vegetables con-
sumed in the United States are
grown in family gardens.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-04-22

/ Key West has never had better
golfers than now. and Joe is see
ing to it that Someday we'll make
name for ourselves in golfing
| circles, Amateur and Professional
play. Which means we're not let
ting up nor giving up. But on
the contrary, the boys are getting
| down to real business. We may
not cross the line this year, but
it's a safe promise that we'll cross
tina line one of these days.
Competitive play isn't like
home play. And the boys, this
year, have had their first taste
of Big Time Play. Don't score
them by their first taste. Give
'em time. and in time you and l
will be as proud of them as a
young bird pup pointing for the
the first time.
The future looks better in golf
circles here. The course is already
bracing itself for better golfers,
what with eighteen holes stretch
ing out over a used-to-be nine
holes course. This, in itself, is a
sure sign of progress.
If you really want Key West to
get on the golf map, as it has so
, many other ways, about the best
way to put it there is for you to
do our part. Figure it out your
self. You know, as well as I, just
what that part is, and what ought
| to be done about it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-04-22

3 - sccond game, The Adams
Daily hEoke me Ice IN the secpna
80 aIte frat blood. D Sanas
Ne'Aea tl|laroal doubled ana ~
MA walled and bases were iui'
"ai4lai slngled and Sands s'"' p
hhsA eane the fatal second Tor
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-04-22

THE ANSWERS
1. Ramblers Of Phoenix. Ariz.
2 Red Rolfe.
g. 1897.
a Al Wells. Charleston. w. Va
a. s75,0O0
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-04-22
SENIOR SOFTBALL

SKATING
BaYview Park. Night
FRIDAY
7::30 to 900 pm.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-04-22
Sports Calendar
SENIOR BASEBALL
Island City Baseball League
Municipal Stadium,


municipal Stadium.
Afternoon)
First Game: l P.M.)
SUNDAY, APRIL "a
First-American Legion VS.. Red
Raiders.
Second SubRon Four VS.
Atomic Bombers.
SUNDAY, MAY H.
First-Atomic Bombers VS..
American Legion.
Second--Red Raiders VS.. Sub
Ron Four.
SUNDAY, MAY B.
First-Atomic Bombers VS..
Red Raiders.
Second -SubRon Four VS..
American Legion.
SENIOR SOFTBALL
tBaYview Park. Night
First Game: 7:30
FRIDAY-BlimpRon VS.. indie
pendents.
Second-OpDevSta VS.. Vx-1.
Evening star., 1949-05-05
Welfare Groups Nee
To Seek Solution 10
Crisis in Child Care

An emergency meeting Of pub
lie and private child welfare off,
cials was called for this afternoon
to see what the private agencies
can do to take care Of dependent
and neglected children barred
from the overcrowded Industrial
Home School annex.
Arthur Kruse, United Commun-
ity Services executive director,
said the meeting was called to
mobilize whatever resources may
exist in the community on CO.
operative basis.
The crisis arose Tuesday when
Welfare Director John w. Tram
burg served notice that, for the
first time in its history, the well
fare department has no more room
for the younger neglected children
who have no home.
Invited to the $3.50 pm. emer-
gency meeting were public welfare
officials. heads Of private child
welfare institutions and experts on
finding foster homes.
Mr.. kruSe said the. meeting
Evening star., 1949-05-05

would first explore the possibii-
tiles Of placing some Of the chill
dren now In the Industrial Home
School annex In foster homes
known to the private agencies.
That. he explained. would open
the annex TO other emergency
cases.
Secondly, Mr.. Kruse said, the
private institutions will be asked
il they can shelter some of the
children temporarily. even If it
means the institutions will be be
run at q deficit.
Mr.. Kruse said he was making
no promises in advance but I'VE
are going TO get these people to-
gether and see If we can come UP
with a temporary solution"
Barred from squeezing one more
child into the overcrowded Indus
trial Home School Annex, welfare
authorities face the prospect Of
leaving some neglected children in
whatever situation they happen
to be.
That's the realism that hurts. .
Mr.. Tramburg said yesterday.
"It's going to leave children in the
community without resources or
facilities. It's going to leave them
in the same condition from which
complaints arise"
Evictions Increase Crisis.
Mr.. Tramburg said he feared
any additions to the record num-
Evening star., 1949-05-05

Der Of children In the annex
would result only In serious detri-
ment 10 the program Of care
there.
Capt. Rhoda Milliken OF the
Women's Bureau was concerned
yesterday about two colored
children Of school age whose
family had been evicted. Finding
a place TO put them was a par
ticular problem because of the
lack Of private facilities for col
ored children. She finally found a
friend of tte children's mother
who was willing to shelter them
temporarily.
Housing evictions. which have
resulted in sending many chill
dren to the annex. have been ris-
ing with the decline In employ
ment opportunities for unskilled
workers. Miss Doris wilkins.
Landlord and Tenant Court con-
sultant. said.
Miss wilkins said this is be-
cause some families who might
previously have paid up when
threatened with eviction for non-
payment Of rent are now unable
to do so.
Counseling to Continue.
Other problems which create
dependency Of children include
breakups In family life, illness OF
parents and neglect resulting
from alcoholism.
The child welfare division Of
Evening star., 1949-05-05

the Welfare Department viii con-
.tinue 10 make available its coun-
selling services in an effort to see
that all possible havens for the
youngsters including possible
homes with relatiyes-are covered
All available assistance from
private agencies in the city also
viii be utilized. but many OF these
have budget and capacity over
loads Of their own.
Mr.. Tramburg pointed out that
the upswing Of the birth rate in
the hast five years has resulted
in the number OF 'toddling age"
children rising far above those
entering adulthood. with q pro-
portionate increase in the number
OF children who are In need of
care such as is furnished at the
annex.
The welfare director added that
Evening star., 1949-05-05
Body Of Farmland Sought
In Ruins Of Burned House

Authorities today we're 10 search
the ruins Of l2-room house near
Dickerson. Nd. which Was DE-
stroyed by fire yesterday to de-
termine II 9 farmland pertshed
In the blaze.
William Ambrose. q. could not
be found after the nre was dis
covered on the Frederick County
farm Of Dr.. Noryell Belt. 2o32
Columbia road NV. Washington
The dwelling was occupied by
Thomas c. Grimes and his family.
Evening star., 1949-05-05

with twiee rs many children 70
care for. the departments only
new facility has been the nex
Receiving Home On Mount Olivee
road. which is well filed.
Evening star., 1949-05-05
Touring Club PIcns Trip

The Washington Educational
Touring Clss wia meet at $50
pm tomorrow at Garnet raiscr-
son School. Tenth and q streets
Evening star., 1949-05-05

NV conaaess Arrangements Canada ~
for o sooaw.l educational et -
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-04-23
Langston Faculty
Member Elected

LANGSTON, Okla. April %
(ANP)-Lenouliah Candy, a
member of Langston's home eco
nomic faculty, was notified this
week that she had been elected
to the board of trustee of the
Future and New Homemakers of
America foundation.
A letter from Edna P. Amidan
chairman Of the National Advisory
boards of BNHA informed Miss
Candy her appointment is for a
two-year period.
The 10 member board, which
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-04-23

gional secretaries; (5) to show its
worthiness Of the heritage that
the founder left and to give the
organization an opportunity to ex-
emplify its appreciation Of this
heritage when it meets at Tuske-
gee.
At the Atlanta meeting, Mr..
Sudduth presented communica-
tons from some of the leading
businessmen of the country com
mending the league on it's so years
of service.
Among those who sent mes
sages were DR.. F. D. Patterson,
president of Tuskegee Institute,
'"There is no single agency COW
ering Negro business as a whole
that is able to offer the guidance
and sound leadership to be ex-
pected of the National Negro
Business league"
Claude A. Barnett, founder and
director of The Associated Negro
Press: To-day we stand on the
threshold of new opportunities.
1t is up to the well trained men
and women of this generation
who recognize the value which
the world of business can be to
a struggling people. Not to stand
off and criticize buyt to put their
shoulders to the wheel and make
of the league a vigorous, func-
tioning organization which can
continue to help our people move
FORWARD"
DR.. Frank S. Horne, assistant
to the administrator and DR.. B.
T. McGraw, deputy assistant to
the administrator of the Housing
and Home Finance agency, pledg-
ed their personal cooperation in
helping the League to realize its
detectives.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-04-23

County voters approved their
share, $33S,000 by a vote of TO-
900 to OCT.
The total is to be used for
the construction of a 125-bed,
five-story hospital, with a three
story nurses home capable of ac-
csmmodating 46 trainees. No pro-
visions for maintaining the plant
were contained in the bond issue.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-04-23

ciety.
He told the mayor that al
though the city-owned site has
been selected and plans drawn for
the hospital, the bonds have never
been issued.
Memphis is in sore need of
a first class Negro hospital sup
ported by the public" Johnson
said. "We have no facilities for
Negro internes, no accredited Ne
gro nurses training school, no Ne
gro hospital with a regular staff
and no program to improve gen
eral public health for Negroes"
On March 27, 1927, Memphians
voted 1897 to 888 in favor of
issuing $413,000 in bonds as its
share of building the hospital.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-04-23
National Negro
Business League
Reaches haIf Century
BY ALICE A DUNNIGAN

lGdSu C Will 0OoA NC SSASNA@SA"S
the 5Oth anniversary of it's foun-
ding and the city of Detroit is
making plans for a great conven-
ton there this summer according
to Fred A. Allen, proprietor OF
the Supreme Linen and Laundry
co.
The league will not be SO years
old, however until the summer OF
1850, and according to DR.. E. j.
Walker, president of the Trl-
State Bank of Memphis, "this
half century record is replete with
many achievements and landmarks
Of progress which have contribut-
ed to advancement of the Negro"
r. E. Clay, a member OF the
faculty of Tennessee A & | State
college said he had the pleasure
of serving with Booker T. Wash
ington when he founded the Ma
tional Negro Business league.
During these early years, he con-
tinued, it served as an inspiration
to the Negro professional and bu-
sinessman who was then strugg-
ling for existence. He has e
many business enterprises start
ed and developed as a result OF
the inspiration and information
received during the league meet
ings, he said.
Horace Sudduth, a Cincinnati
realtor, who is now serving as
president of the League, declared
that the philosophy of the found
er is as true today as it was 40
years ago. This a easily be
proved, he. said, "by simply turn
ing our thoughts to the growth
of the Negro in business and re-
calling his economic position be-
fore, during and after two wars,
and then noting the social, civic
and political gains made as a re-
suit of an improved economic po-
sition and an increase in employ
ment opportunities"
In accord with the resolution
passed at the annual session which
met in Atlantic City last year, the
president is going forward with
plans to raise a $4,000 budget
to improve the work of the league
Regional meetings of the budget
committees are now being held
in various cities and plans are
being discussed on how these
funds can be raised. One such
meeting was held in Atlanta last
week, during which time Sud
duth revealed the five things which
the League hopes to do if an ade-
quate budget can be established
He said, (1) The organization
hopes to administer an active pro-
era m that will carry out the pur-
pose Of the league; (2) to estab-
lish a national office and to re-
vive the publication of the Jour
nal of Negro Business; 90 to
vercom and remove all criticism
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-04-23
Medical Society Asks
Mayors Aciion ON
Negro HospiiaI.

MEMPHIS, April 23.-(ANP)
Overton was confronted
with a petition from the Bluff
City Medical Society here last
week, asking that action be taken
on the issuance of $751,000 in
bonds authorized by Memphis and
Shelby County voters two years
ago for the construction of a new
Negro hospital. The petition was
taken before the mayor by DR.. A.
L. Johnson, president of the So
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-04-23

has only two Negro members, will
meet in Washington, May 2, 3 and
4 to perfect plans for the opera
ton of the foundation.
Miss Candy is a member of the
National Advisory committee of
FNHA and state advisor Of the
MIA chapters in Oklahoma.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-05-31

Fred Johnson, also Of Michigan
state by a stride. Gehrdes was 8.
Smiths time was 22.9
Stanfield set a meet record for
the 22O after winning the hundred
The Slim Seton Hall star ran the
22Oin 2O.6 seconds. Clipping one
tenth of a second off the mark set
8 years ago by Barney Ewell of
Penn State. Stanfield beat Ira
kapaln Of New York university
by seven yards.
New York won the mile relay
in 3:14.4. Cornell was second.
Reggie Pearman ran the anchor
leg for the violets.
Art Sherman Of Rhode Island
State and Neil King Of Yale tried
in the pole vault at 13 feet.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-05-31

reigner. Bunche is receiving the
award for his notable contribution
to the establishment of peace in
Palestine. Former winners Of the
award were James Weldon John
son, Walter White, w. E. B. Du-
Bots, w. S. Braithwaite, A Phillip
Randolph and DR.. Louis Wright.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-05-31


of the Year for his achievements
as mediator.
A 1927 alumni of the Universe
ty of California at Los Angeles,
where he was outstanding in foot
ball, basketball and baseball, he
received a masters degree from
Harvard university in 1928 and a
Phi D degree in 1887. From 1928
to 1912 he was dean Of the poll
tical science department at Howard
university. He joined the OSS in
1912 and later entered the state
department in the Division of De-
pendent Area affairs.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-05-31

secretary of state for middle cas-
tern affairs here last Wednesday.
The A year old Detroiter would
have become the first Negro in
American history ever to receive
such a high government job.
Bunche's refusal was based on
two reasons. First, as director of
the UN trusteeship council and
acting UN mediator in the Middle
East, he draws $4,000, annually,
tax free. The government posi-
ton would pay him $1O,330 minus
tax cuts.
His other reason was that he
could not afford to live casa Sc
cond class Jim crow citizen in the
nations capital.
The assistant secretaryship- is
a new one which is to be- establish
ed under the reorganization legis-
lation for the state department,
and is now in the process of COM
pletion. The job was tenderel
Bunche because of his knowledge
of the middle eastern area and as
a mark of appreciation for his
services as acting UN mediator.
In explaining his refusal on fl
nancial grounds, Dr.. Bunche said
he has a daughter about to enter
college, another preparing for col
lege and a son just entering school.
ri have lived in Washington
and worked here in the government
and I know what it COSTS" he said
Because of my situation, I dc
not find it possible to take a po'
sition without finding myself in 9
very great financial embarrass'
ment." &
The acting UN mediator stated
that he wished to emphasize thai
he had been highly honored by
the offer and had seriously con
sidered it.
From New York came word tina
Bunche had been named Father