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Evening star., 1950-09-06
Cooper Takes Series
With Titone, Wants
New Ring Opponent

At last it seems that Feather
weight Jimmy Cooper of Washing
ton is champion of Featherweight
Charley Titone of Brooklyn and
it is probable their long series of
fights is ended. The District boy
won a unanimous decision last
night at Griffith Stadium to take
a 81 lead in the five (two were
drawn fights they've had since
last October.
Last nights fast slambang
affair was as good as any of their
previous bouts and was a fitting
end to an interesting series. After
ward, Cooper remarked that he
would "like to fight somebody else
for change" and Manager Billy
Banks has plans for taking him
on a swing through some of the
Northern fight spots.
Cooper, who weighed 1851 to
Titone's 122. was the aggressor
last night and made the fight.
Both were fast and hitting hard,
but although they connected with
their Sunday punches several
times there were no knockdowns.
On The Stars score sheet, Cooper
won eight rounds. Titone three
and one was even. It was close,
though, with most rounds decided
by the narrowest of margins.
They were slow starting. but by
the fourth round they were slug
ging away. Cooper's left hooks
then made Titone hang on mo-
mentarily, but in the fifth Char
ley was back in action and scored
with a long range body attack.
Again in the seventh Cooper drove
Titone back to the ropes with
overland lefts and hooks. but once
more the Brooklyn boy snapped
out of 1t to have his best round
in the eighth.
When 1t was over both were
pretty well played out. Titone
carried away a slightly cut eye
and lip, while Cooper's mouth was
swollen and his eyes puffed.
Cool weather kept the crowd
down to 2.721 for a gross gate
of 1886 and a net of $4.071.
Featherweight Gene Smith won
the semifeature. scheduled for
eight rounds, with a fourth-round
technical knockout over Little Dy-
Mantle. He calmly picked his
spots and f1oored Dynamite twice
in the second round and was
knocking him all around the ring
in the fourth when Referee Char
ey Reynolds stopped it.
In other prelims. Connie VIII
kins knocked out Willie chatham
in the first. Ben Harrison deci-
stoned Kid Crockett and Pat
Thomas decisioned Eddie Gil
christ.
Evening star., 1950-09-06
BY the Assoeiaied Press

WILLIAMSBURG. Va, Sept. 6.
"A sports editor and coaches at
two of the South's collegiate grid
iron giants were involved today in
a threeway dispute over a star
high school player.
The player was Eddie Showers,
highly sought Norfolk High School
end.
Sports Editor Bill Diehl of the
Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch wrote
yesterday that Showers was all set
to attend William and Mary when
he was whisked away to the Uni
versity of Tennessee by an assist
ant coach of the Volunteers.
Diehl charged that Tennessee
"just stole Eddie Showers" He
said the youngster already had
been assigned a room on the Will
liam and Mary campus and had
returned to his home Thursday
night to pick up his belongings.
1t was then, Diehl wrote, that
Evening star., 1950-09-06
Cords, d; Cubs. z
Totals 81 62413 Totals 81 8 27 15
Trapped out for Terwilliger in 8th.
4Grnnnded out for SchnlitZ in 9Th

Chicago .-----4--- 002 600 00O-2
st. Louis ---- COZ 900 20x-4
Musial, Howerton, Staley. Error-Smalley.
Runs batted in-Sawatski (2), Howerton,
Musial 90. Two-base hits-Serena, Staley.
Sauer. Dierine. Home runs-Howerton, Mu-
sial. Stolen base-Terwilliger. Double plays
Serena to Terwilliger to Cavarretta;
Smalley to RamozZotti to Cavarretta: Ter
williger to schoendierst to Musial: Left on
balis-On schmitz. 5; of Staley. z. Struck
out-By Schmitz l; by Staley, 5: Hit by
pitcher-Staley tsmalleD. Passed ball
Sawatski Winning pitcher-Staley l2-12).
Losing pitcher-Schmitz t9-13). Time --
2:O4 .503 paid.
Evening star., 1950-09-06

ers or trout surfacing. but saw
nothing. We then headed out
across the bay toward James
Island, where trolling blind pro-
duced no fish. so we chummed for
a while with no success.
There were dozens Of boats out,
but we kept away from them as
much as possible. Unsuccessful IN
cumming, we drifted awhile.
Capt. Parks told us during lunch
that we were in a good spot. but
thought the blues would not ap-
pear until well toward slack water.
That is what happened.
We spied one lone boat. circling
around about a mile of, and
through the glasses saw one angler
pulling fish aboard. So we
steamed leisurely in their direc-
ton and within few moments
saw blues breaking. They were
everywhere. attacking the patches
of bait, and the first fish fell to
your scribe.
From then on, it was a circus.
The fish were breaking over acres
Of water. The Lusby Lures with
red heads, size go and 80,
seemed most attractive, although
we caught them on every kind of
lure. including one Jig now popu-
lar in Norfolk waters, which per-
viously had failed to produce.
There were just the two boats
in the vicinity and we made the
most of it. All the fish ran more
than a pound. We lost lots of
fish at the boat side and had sew
eral rigs cut off clean. but boated
SO blues before other boats were
attracted to the scene.
The area we trolled was over
the hard bottom which runs off
the northern point Of James
Island up toward the red buoy
numbered NJ on the charts.
where the water depth averages
from 10 to Is feet.
We left in ample time to get
into port ahead of a squall which
hit the area at supper time. Saw
plenty of bait fish and lots of
blues, trout and pan rock feeding
on the western shore on the way
in.
Capable boatmen out of Breezy
Point can be engaged by phoning
Capt. Hance Williams. harbor-
master, at Prince Frederick, Md,
30-F-2.
Evening star., 1950-09-06
Tennessee Coach Denies Theft
OfFootboH Star From w. .&M.

Harvey Robinson, assistant coach
at Tennessee. arrived on the scene
and drove off with Showers.
At Knoxville, Coach Bob Ney-
land denied the Volunteers had
stolen" Showers.
Il don't know what's stealing
about it when boy is contacted
in his own home" he said. 1--WE
have had several Norfolk boys and
it is understandable why they'd
want to come here. Besides,
Showers father expressed a de-
sire that his son attend Tennes-
see."
Adding a charge of his own,
Neyland mentioned two players
who enrolled at william and Mary.
IF folks want to talk about pill
fering players, he said, 81 might
mention that ALT McGinnis, a
guard. and Jimmy johnson, a
back, who was rated the best high
school player in Knoxville last
year, were grabbed by William
and Mary"
Evening star., 1950-09-06
Yankees Sign Purdue Athlete,
Protest to Chandler Futile
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK. Sept. 6.-The Big
Ten lost another football star to
professional baseball today and an
outraged university official called
for ban on campus raids.
William (Mocse) Skowron, 49,
pound junior halfback, was sup
posed to report this afternoon for
fall gridiron drills at Purdue.
He won't. Skowron, an infielder.
has signed a baseball contract
with the New York Yankees for a
bonus reported to be between
$25,000 and $4,000.
Purdue's athletic director, Guy
(Red) Mackey, greeted the news
with a vehement blast.
I'm burned up," he said. "The
big leagues are always yelling for
the colleges to spend more money
on their baseball programs-then
they raid them for their best
athletes"
He said he had protested to
Commissioner Chandler, but had
been told there is no baseball re-
striction against signing college
men.
They'd better make a rule"
Mackey complained in Lafayette,
Ind. II don't believe baseball Is
doing itself any good raiding the
campuses."
Baseball rules merely forbid
tampering with high school ath-
letes before their class has gradu-
ated.
Arthur CRed) Patterson, pub
licist for the Yankees, acknowl-
edged that the New York club
had signed the 19-year-old Chi
cago youth. regarded as one of
the best all-around athletes in
the Western Conference.
"Skowron is a fine hitter and
we feel fortunate in getting him.
Patterson said. "We didn't vio-
late any rules. The boy is old
enough to make UP his own mind.
What do they expect us to do
wait until these boys become Su-
preme Court justices?"
Patterson said Skowron, who has
played both third base and short
Evening star., 1950-09-06
-AP Wirephoto.


stop, was signed to a contract with
Binghamton, N. Y, the Yankees
Eastern League farm. He will re-
port next spring.
Skowron batted an even 500
with the Purdue team last spring.
The Purdue boy is the second
Big Ten gridder to be signed by
a major league club since spring
Les Pinkham of West Frankfort,
H., a sophomore fullback prospect
at Illinois, was signed by the De-
troit Tigers.
This is old stuff for the Western
Conference. Lou Boudreau was an
Illinois basketball star before he
was plucked by Cleveland in his
Junior year in 1898. Ted Klus-
zekski, Cincinnati first baseman,
cut short a promising football
career at Indiana In 1916 to sign
with the Reds.
Evening star., 1950-09-06

Lusby, Col. Mel
son Dingley III
and A. F. Pres
colt, we boated
out of Breezy
Point on the
"Gannet" with
c a p t Nathan
Parks in COM
mand.
We a m b l e d
down the west
ern shore for a
I e w m ] e S
thin k | n 6 we
might strike
Evening star., 1950-09-06
Fights Lost Night
BY The Asseeioted Press

PHOENIx-Charlie salas, 139. Phoe.
nix, outpointed Houston Brown. 1876
ERIE, Pa..Gene Burton. 146. New
Indianapolis 10)
NEW BEDFORD. Mass-Henry Lee
1904. Springf1eld, Mass, outpointed Joe
Rindone, 161. Boston Q0).
HONOLULU. - Carol (Bobo) Olson
164ha, Honolulu, outpointed Henry Brimm
162N, Buffalo U0).
Evening star., 1950-09-06
Giants, 8; Dodgers, 5
Totals 3s II 30 10 Totals AZ 13 80 II
Doubled for Roe in 18th.
Tran fnr Snjder in Tth


Doubled for Roe in 7th.
Tran for Snider in 7th.
fStruck out for Van Cuyk in Sth.
New York -- 000 201 O20 3-S
Brooklyn 100 100 030 0-5
Saesr HeamsnsR Pank g. M TsiR RoSn R
son, Furillo, HODGES. Error-Stanky. Runs
batted in-Robinson, Irwin l2). Thompson.
Cox. Mueller t3). Hermanski. Furillo t2).
Westrum. Two-base hits-Hermanski. Rob-
inson: THOMPSON. Snider, Westrum. Muel-
Ter. Three-base hits-Mueller. Irwin. Home
runs-Iryin, Hermanski, Furillo. Sacrifices
Dark. Double plays-.stanky
to Dark to Irwin; Robinson to Reese to
New York, Z; Brooklyn. 7. Bases on balls
-Of Roe. l.; Of Branca. 2; off Palica. 2.
Struck out-By Jones' 8; BY Kramer, 2; by
Roe 8: by Van Cuyk. /. Hits-On Jones.
y in z innings tnone out IN sth); of
kTamer Inntnss IL in 2.Ins innings; OF Roe. in
Var. Cuyk, in "a inning: on Palica, 4
in 2 innings. Winning pitcher-Kramer
Sill. Attendance-17,S71.
Evening star., 1950-09-06
Tigers, 7; Browns, a
Totals 81 e2412 Totals 81 16 81

sSingled for Upton in 9th.
titled out for Marshall in 9th.
+Fouled out for Herbert in 4th.
6etroit Be- E4ti' --- " 900 500 3S2x-7
Runs-Delsing, Coleman, Moss, sievers.
Lipon CD Keli. Wertz, Eyers: Groth,
Ginsberg. Errors-Lipon (3), Holloway
Runs batted in-Coleman. Stirnweiss,
Kokos, Wood. Priddy, ,!Ginsberg. Holloway.
Evers C2). Lipon. Kell. Two-base hits
Stolen base-Coleman. Sacrifce-Stuart.
Double plays-Upton to, stirnweiss to
Arft (2): Lipon to Priddy to Holloway;
bases-St Louis, Z; Detroit. II. Bases on
balls-of Pillette. 3; of Marshall; /;
of Herbert: /. Struck out"By Stuart 2;
Hits-Oh Pillette, IL in 6ls innings, of
Marshall, 4 in la innings; of Herbert,
in innings: of Stuart 8 in 5 innings.
Stuart f3-O). Losing pitcher-Piilette
(2-4. Time-2:16. .430.
Evening star., 1950-09-06
OUTDOORS
with Bill Leeteh

Fortune smiled on us again last
week end and banished any
thought of a jinx on our fishing
prowess. In company with Bob
Evening star., 1950-09-06
League Title

Epworth Methodist is the
Church Fellowship softball league
champion after defeating Mount
Vernon Place Methodist. 4-3, on
the Monument Grounds yesterday.
Evening star., 1950-09-06
Major League Box Scores
YESTERDAYS GAMES
indians, 3; White Sox, z
Totals 81 3o1O Totals SO 8 80 II
YESTERDAYS GAMES.

Cleveland ------- 0l0 600 100 Ia
Chicago ---------- 600 900 200 O-2
Runs-Boudreau, Gordon t2). Baker.
Philley. Errors-Murray, Carrasauel. Runs
batted in-Murray, Gordon. zernial (2l
Two-base hits-Doby, Gordon. Pierce.
Three-base hit-Philley. Home run
Gordon sacrifces-Robinson, Murray.
Double plays-Carrasouel to Fox to Rob-
to Boone to Easter. Left on bases--Cleve-
land. IL; Chicago, 6. Bases on balls-Of
Gromek, 4; of Pierce, 8. Struck out-By
-Gromek $50. Losing pitcher-Pierce
(9-15l. Tme-2:29. Attendance (actuaD
-2,577.
Evening star., 1950-09-06

Fifteen years ago-Cy Blan-
ton of the Pittsburgh Pirates
blanked Brooklyn's Dodgers,
1870, for his 18th victory.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-09-08
quirk last week..

qulrk last week..
Many missionaries return with
lurid tales about naked Africans
who need their particular brand
of spiritual consolation but the
Rev. Jester, who has been work.
ing for 20 years in Nigeria, says
youthful West Africans are
being swept off their feet by
communism"
According to Rev. Jester, "Rus-
STA is offering hundreds Of
scholarships to Nigerian youth, to
bring them to the Soviet and
you know what that means. He
said the British are freely pre-
dieting that missionaries may be
compelled to leave the country in
the next 10 years because Of the
spread Of communism.
DR.. Jester and his wife went to
Africa in 1928 to do medical and
educational work in Nigeria. He
recently returned to his home
station, the Metropolitan Baptist
church here. He belongs to the
Southern Baptist Convention
which maintains extensive work
in Nigeria.
The British education officials
subsidize the missionary schools
heavily. The southern baptists
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-09-08

adults listen to youths enough.
Conceding that prejudice wears
many faces, the group finally a.
greed that the best way to break
it down is to practice the Golden
Rule.
The Advisory Group represent
ing 80 national organizations will
be back in Washington during the
White House Conference with IT'S
additional representatives of labor
groups, American Indians, Orien-
tails and Latin-Americans, armed
forces personnel and homes and
institutions for young people such
as Boys Town. They also expect
to have another $50 unaffiliated
delegates.
Besides the youngsters expect
ing to attend this conference,
some 5000 lay leaders and pro-
fessional men and women are
scheduled to attend.
This will be the fifth in a
series of youth conferences held
at the White House, the first
being called in 1909 by President
Theodore Roosevelt. The theme of
the 1850 conferences is Ito pro-
vide spiritual, mental, and emoti-
| onal conditions which will give a
chance for a healthy personality"
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-09-08

ATLANTA (ANP) A move to
seek greater support from the
Federal Home Loan Bank board
in the establishment of new build
have several million dollars in
vested there in schools to save
"heathen Africans despite the
anomaly that in their home coun-
try, an "Afro-American" can't be-
long to one of their churches.
A member of the Negro Natl
onal Baptist convention group
which visited Nigeria this spring
declared that Rev. Jester had mis-
taken the "nationalistic urge",
which is sweeping over young Nj
gerians for communism. He says
the younger generation carries
the Feeling it ought to have a
greater voice in running it's
country.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-09-08
Loan League To Seek Wider
Home Financing Facilities

ing and loan associations to meet
the financing needs of Negro
home-seekers was agreed to here
last week by affiliates attending
the second annual meeting of the
American Savings and Loan lea
que.
There are now 25 associations
owned and controlled by Negroes,
13 of which are members of the
league, Assets of league affiliates
aggregate slightly under $4,000
900 or 70 percent of the total
assets held by Negro companies.
But although more than $4,000,
Continued on page -
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-09-08
Call For Civil
Rights Program

WASHINGTON (ANP) Seven
ty-five American youths went on
record last week as favoring an
aggressive civil rights program in
this country and the elimination
of discrimination.
These young people represent
ing Negro and white organizations
college and high schools through
20 states met at the Federal Sc
curity agency as the Advisory
Council on Youths Participation
in the White House Conference.
in ding
At the close of their two-day
meeting the group agreed that
civil rights and prejudice topped
the list of social problems to be
solved, therefore, it adopted a re-
solution urging the White House
conference to 'take positive act
ion toeliminate the cause of dis
elimination and to foster an ag-
gressive program of civil rights"
The resolution further stated
that youngsters care embarrassed
to have to take the responsibility
for action concerning discrimina-
ton"
The delegates recommended
that representatives arriving in
Washington attend the Mid-Cen-
fury conference stay only in
hotels which accept mixed groups.
The young people felt that there
should be a better understanding
between people of different racial
groups, different religious beliefs
and different age levels.
Adults and youths should under
stand each other better, they as
serted. One young lady added
that "teen-agers want more to
say about family and community
affairs" Another young d y
mentioned the fact that all grad
uation speakers refer to young
people as the hope of the country,
so if that is the case she thinks
they should have the experience
in helping run things.
Most adults think, said one del
egate, that they should run things,
and young people should be run.
A young man asserted that
young people don't want to be
just rubber stamps, while an
other added that he didn't think
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-09-08
Alarmed Over
Communism In
Africa
By Albert Anderson

WASHINGTON (ANP)- The
Rev. William L. Jester, white
missionary of the Southern Bapt-
list church, brought home a new
, 1950-11-10

nlng to realize the importance of
growing and raising a substantial
amount of their food and improv-
ing the varieties and breeds of
both plants and livestock. Increase
IN yield has been noted in sugar
cane production; increase in pas
ture acreage Improvement and adj
ditional credit facilities have been
assisted by the Virgin Islands Cor
poration. The Soil Conservation
Service, Farmers Home Admins
tratlon, Production and Market
ing Administration and other
agencies working with farm faci-
1ties n helping with the cause,
Every citizen can help with in
creasing food production, whether
you be a farmer or businessman.
etc. You can help by encouraging
your boy and girl or your
friends boy or girl to join the All
organization. We now have the
solution, SO let us put it in ac-
ton. Give the All Club
a BIG PUSH" in commemorative
National All Club Achievement
Week.
, 1950-11-10

All Club work emphasizes the
home-as that is the place where
the project is usually carried out
and brings parents and children
increasingly together in a common
interest.
All Club work develops self-re-
lance, ambition, and aggressive
ness. 1t applies business methods
to farming and promotes industry
and thrift. II fosters individual
ownership, a love of nature and
the open country. It brings out the
best effort and thought, and gives
rural boys and girls an opportu-
nifty to earn money and acquire
property.
All Club work shows boys and,
girls how to do the wholesome,
helpful things and to play the
game fairly.
Above all, it develops the high
est type of manhood, womanhood
and American citizenship.
We, as citizens of the Virgin Is
-'
lands and the United States, must
give Al Club work a big push
with both hands and feet. Our
Honorable Governor de Castro in
his inaugural address stated that
must produce more local
grown food in the Virgin Islands.
A sound club program can go a
long way toward meeting the Gov
ernor's request. Alphabetically, the
island is progressing nicely. Re-
suits over a period of twelve
months substantiate this state
ment. Through the educational
work being conducted by the Ex-
tension Staff, farmers are begin
, 1950-11-10
PRESS RELEASE
Nutionul All Club
R. L. HARMON

This week November 4 to IL is
nationally as All Club Achieve
ment Week. Some 10000 clubs
under the sponsorship of the
USDA Extension Service through
out the United States as well as
In Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto
Rico representing nearly 1900, 900
boys and girls between the ages
of 10 and 81 represent the largest
rural youth organization in the
world.
Last year some 425 boys and
girls representing nine clubs on
st. Croix and 200 youths repre-
senting four clubs on st. Thomas
enrolled in All activities for the
first time in several years. Fourth
club work being a new program
In the Virgin Islands was directed
toward acquainting youth and the
public with its activities with the
major effort of the Extension
Staff directed toward organiza-
ton work. Although the work was
new in the island, club members
assisted by their leaders took ac-
tive part in the individual
home and farm project work.
Each member was required to
conduct q project and to keep an
accurate record of the same. The
projects included gardens, poultry,
sewing, cooking, home beautifica-
ton, cattle, goat, sheep, swine and
mongoose trapping.
The Importance of All Club
works. plainly shown by the large
number of boys and girls enroll
ed equafiing nearly 1000, 900 in
10000 clubs. A brief of 1948 sta
tistics shows that Michigan had
the largest number of clubs in the
amount of 5,261 with an enroll
ment Of $3.50; Alabama had the
largest enrolment of 100, 104 mem
bers enrolled in 1882 clubs; hav-
ing a total of AL. The present sta
tistics for the Virgin Islands
would show some Is clubs with a
total enrolment of approximate
" 700 boys and girls.
At present the work of the Ag-
ricHltlral Station is under the De-
partment of the Interior, but le-
gislation is underway for the
, 1950-11-10

0SAS SAAAA A
transfer to the Department of Ag-
riculture will give to the All Club
work a BIG PUSH" toward a
larger number of clubs and en-
rollment with additional All per-
sonnet. Under New Aid Program
sponsored by the United States
now extended to England, Nor
way, Sweden, Denmark, Finland,
Cuba, British Possessions of the
Caribbean, Venezuela, Peru, Tur-
key, Egypt, The Netherlands and
even Korea and other nations, All
Clubs or similar organizations
have gained a strong foothold
Some foreign countries and sever
al states including the Virgin Is
lands were represented at the Ag-
ricultural Extension Short Course
held at Cornell University this
past summer where special train
ing was given in All Club work
and Extension in general. This
was a sign of continuous growth
and a desire to learn more about
the new methods and trends in
All Club work to be publicized
throughout the world.
Now one might ask the question:
What does All Club work do for
your boy or girl? Here is the ans
wer as given by the late DIR. CD.
Smith, a pioneer in the movement:
"4-H Club work becomes part Of
the lives of rural young people
while their minds are still plastic;
gives them guidance when they
need it; teaches them some of the
inspiring things in agriculture and
farm home life; and gives them a
vision of its possibilities as a life
work"
All Club work demonstrates
the best practices in agriculture
and home economics to entire com.
munities and counties by means of
the projects covered by the men,
bers, by their exhibits, their fairs
and their public demonstrations.
All Club work develops, rural
leadership, community pride and
spirit. It builds young men and
women who know how to conduct
meetings, organize community pro
jects, and who are trained to
judge crops, livestock, and pro
ducts of the farm and home.
, 1950-11-10
AMMO

Persons interested in adver-
Using over Station VISTA ia
St. Thomas please contact
Joan CHRISTENSEN
representative for St. Croix, at
the Prosperity Plantation Club
Frederiksted. Prompt co~~:~~
, 1950-11-10
Achievement Week

xtension Agent in Charge