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Milwaukee Fights Negro Cops
Arrest In tennessee


Milwaukee CAMP - The fin
ance committee of the common
council, acting upon the request of
Police Chief Howard Johnson,
authorized assistant city Atty.
George Bowman to go to Tenn
essee to protect the rights" Of a
Milwaukee policeman.
Called the victim of "unortho-
dox arrest" is a 33-year-old John
Crosby, 80, who was arrested on
us. highway 81, while returning
in his own car from a vacation
in Mississippi. He was charged
with carrying concealed weapons.
The weapons involved is the po-
liceman's service revolver, prop
erty of the city. Crosby said the
incident occurred when the con-
stable, in civilian attire and driv-
ing an unmarked car with no clock
ing device, accused Mrs. Crosby
who was driving, of travelling so
miles an hour in a 40-mile zone.
When Crosby identified himself,
the constable repeatedly asked if
any weapons were in the car and
began a search.
Crosby said he was then Shown
the inside of a Jail" and told he
would have to stay overnight. He
paid $50 bail and was released.
He reported that although he
received a receipt for the SIS bail
fine imposed for speeding, he did
not receive a receipt for the $50
bail.
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SPo RTS
BY BILL BROWER

Pittsburgh
League gathered here game
first Of this
Of selecting this years squad
With two tan League
seven the National League roster figures right
But there still
naseman was entitled to the call the American League that
ton Players however voted Showroom
Yankee
Casey stenge, Yankees guiding
Leaguers, chose Power as an alternate.
Minnie Mnoso teammate starting
previous occasions but the always
With the Thumper off in this campaign
would have been the height mplauby injustice
rank him Minoso
collection of tan stars in the his
tory Of the classic We could presence
OF saying Aaron Mays
and Ernie you have the most
some trio Of sugges
Orlando Cepeda figured a Robinson
Cincinnati RIB leader The San Francisco
no one with the though good
around
Bill surprising performer for the St Louis Cardinals
narrowly missed being placed the first White
both the oued and first
by Waly Moon, of the Los Angeles Dodgers
Vada Pmson the perfectly Reds
couldn't challenge successfully high compliment
any rookie to be named to the squad So Pnson
AS we said think might picked Charley
Neal OF the Dodgers and his Junior Gillian
the Cubs, and Don Newcombe, of Cincinnati
We think Taylor the finest second basemen
in the game and rate Bill Mazee
equal of Johnny Temple was picked by his fellow
players.
Gillian, having have been good
choice to back up Eddie Matthews a base
AS for Newk would have been fitting remark
a fine
Oh, well, can't everything
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Hofe Note Tossed
Through Window Of
Willie MoYS' Home

San Francisco (ANP)-A bottle
containing what is believed to have
been a hate note was thrown
through the front window of Will
lie Mays home last week.
The incident occurred early Sun
day morning while the star San
Francisco Giants outfielder was
asleep.
Mays read the note and tore it
up. However, he reported the mat
ter to police.
Later in the day, he was ap-
preached by newsmen at Seals
stadium, prior to a game with the
Milwaukee Braves, but said he
didn't want to talk about the mat
ter.
The bottle shattered an 8 by 8
foot window.
His wife, Marguerite, was away,
attending the graduation of her
daughter in New York.
The incident is believed to be the
work of a racist. 1t was not the
first anti-racial experience for the
Mays. In 1857, when they moved
into their home in the exclusive
st. Francis Wood sector, two
neighbors tried to pressure the
property owner not to sell to them.
Government statisticians show
concern over the fact that rs per
cent of American families live
beyond their incomes. Look who's
talking!
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Studios Vie For
Dromofic ToIenfS
Of Sidney Potter
BY Harry Levette

Hollywood (ANP'-Even though
Sidney Potter missed by whisker
the honor of being the third men,
Der Of the race to win an Academy
award, last April 8, virtually every
one in Hollywood is predicting he
will carry away a golden bronze
Oscar from this years crop. That
is, of course, If he happens to
have the right vehicle - for no
matter how great the actor, the
chariot he drives must be equal to
the charioteer.
Apparently Columbia studio has
taken steps to monopolize much
Of the time during the year that
Stanley Cramer, MGM, Sam Gold
wyn and other majors may have
been looking forward to, but all
for the same reason. Potter is al
ready fully recognized as one of
Hollywood's greatest young dram
attic actors. But coupled with this
is his pleasing personality, his
considerations of both his fellow
workers and his superiors, and
what is even more important in
these modern days, his devotion
to his family and exemplary priv
ate life.
However, Columbia's new pub
licity director, ]. C. no doubt ex-
erted much influence on Columbia
heads. Having transferred from
Allied Artists, where he showed
much interest in such Negro &C
tors as the scripts called for, he had
a greater interest since moving to
Columbia with higher budgeted
films and the higher salaries neces-
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Duke" Ellington
Named 44fh
SpinquFn MedoIiSf

New York CANP) - EDWARD
Kennedy Duke Ellington, noted
composer and orchestra leader, has
been chosen as the 44th Spingarn
medalist. Presentation Of the med
al, awarded annually to a Negro
American for distinguished ach-
ievement; is usually made during
the associations annual national
convention which, this year, meets
in New York City, July 1919.
Because Of Ellington's out-of-city
schedule, however, the presenta-
ton may have to be postponed.
The musician was selected be-
cause of his outstanding contribu-
tons to American music over a
long period Of years. Among his
better-known compositions are
Mood Indigo" Solitude" 'Har-
mony in Harlem" and "a Por-
trait of Bert Williams"
He wrote the score for the cur
rent film, Anatomy Of a Murder"
based on the novel Of that name by
John D. Voelker, a Michigan jur-
list.
In 1857, Ellington, creation, "a
Drum is a Woman" was produced
for network telecast. His works
have received worldwide recogni-
ton as representative of the best
in contemporary American music.
The Spingarn medal was instit-
uted in 1914 by the late J. E.
Spingarn, then chairman of the
NAACP board of directors, to call
attention to outstanding achieve
ment by American Negroes, to
serve as a reward for such achieve
ment, and to stimulate the am
bition of colored youth.
Among musicians who have re-
ceived the medal are Miss Marian
Anderson, 1899; Roland Hayes,
1924; and Harry T. Burleigh, 1917.
Other recipients include DR.. Ralph
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Earlier in the convention, Geor-
gia split with the Solid South to
support Sam Young of Illinois as
national chairman, despite his
strong stand on civil rights. Young
was beaten by Ned Gushing of
Kansas, who was supported by
Ed Sexton, former Negro chairman
of the Midwest Council of Young
Republicans.
The NYRF voted to favor "a
program of positive policies in
civil rights" in its platform, but
tabled a resolution urging support
of the Supreme court desegrega-
ton decision.
Vice-President Richard NJ. Nixon
delivered the keynote address at
the Shirley-Savoy hotel and then
greeted the 900 delegates at a
swank reception in Denver's new
mile high" Petroleum building.
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Aaron Is First
Unanimous Choice
In Baseball History

New York (ANP)-Hank Aaron
of the Milwaukee Braves made
baseball history here recently when
he was voted the only unanimous
choice in An-Star team history.
Aaron, the Braves smuggling right
fielder, received the maximum 20S
votes of other National League
teams, in his selection for the an
nual All-Star game to be played
at Pittsburgh, Tuesday, July 7.
In making a clean sweep, Aaron
surpassed even the famed Babe
Ruth as a vote getter.
According to Ford c. Frisk, the
baseball commissioner, it was the
first time anyone was selected by
unanimous vote since the game
was instituted in 1884.
Players for the All-Star squad
are now selected by the players,
coaches and managers in the re-
spective leagues. Formerly, fans
picked the stars for the game,
Aaron's teammates were not per-
mitted to vote for him, under cur
rent rules.
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Another First
For Tenn. Coach
Johnny McLendon

Nashville CAMP - Johnny Nc
Lendon, head basketball coach at
Tennessee State university and
NAIA Coach of the Year in 1858,
has resigned the post to become
chief mentor Of the Cleveland Pip
ers, a newly formed squad in the
semi-pro National Industrial Bas-
ketball association, the Associated
Negro Press learned.
McLendon thus becomes the first
Negro coach in the history Of the
industrial league. Scoring "firsts"
is nothing new to him, though. He
made history three years ago when
he piloted the Tennessee State
Tigers to the NAIA championship
the first time an all-Negro team
had won the title. Then to make II
more spectacular, the 44-year-old
coach masterminded the Tigerste
the NAIA title for the next two
years. II was also the first time
any team, Negro or white, had
won the title three successive
years.
In 1858, the coach, who also
doubles as physical ed instructor
at Tennessee State, did such a
splendid job with the Tigers that
he was named NAIA Coach Of the
Year.
In his five years at Tennessee
State, he compiled an amazing
record Of 1928, and last season,
his team finished with a 32-1 rec
ord, losing only to Georgetown,
KY, in an International contest.
The two previous years, his team
had 31-4 and 31-3 records.
McLendon has a 19-year win
ming percentage of S2.5, or 442
victories and "a defeats. In a tele-
phone conversation with AMP last
Thursday, the softspoken coach
confirmed his resignation, but
wouldn't reveal the exact terms
of his new contract. He admitted
the salary is somewhere between
$4,000 to $4,000 a year. He
earned $4,000 in the dual role of
coach instructor at Tennessee
State.
How does he feel about his new
position? Fine. Asked if he felt he
had good material to work with,
he replied quickly, Yes" And
from what is known, there is no
reason to doubt him. Two of his
leading stars, Little All-American
Dick Barnett and John Barnhill,
joined the Pipers. So did Don Hen
non, All-American from Pittsburgh
and Gene Tormohlen, University
of Tennessee.
McLendon was at Tennessee
State Thursday to confer with
school officials and arrange for his
departure. He will live in Cleve-
land while plotting the Pipers. He
has a two-year contract with the
team. which is underwritten by
the Swenny Construction Company
and Associates, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Chicago Policemen
Rescues " Persons
From Fire Death

Chicago - Police officials here
Thursday recommended a Negro
policeman for a hero's citation
after the husky officer rescued IT
persons from a fire in a frame
building on the near southside.
He is Patrolman Henry Davis,
"a, an ex-fireman.
Davis, a 235 FOUNDER was pat
rolling his beat in the vicinity when
he noticed smoke curling from a
second-floor window. Since it was
early morning, Davis reasoned that
most of the tenants in the apart
ment probably were asleep. So he
yelled to a passer-by to call the
fire department, and dashed into
the building.
AIerts Tenants
He worked his way up to the
second-floor where he found a
room on fire. He checked it to
make sure that no one was inside
then started going from floor to
floor pounding on doors and yelling
"firen
His screams reused the tenants,
IA of whom he personally led to
safety.
But Davis performed the most
meaningful act when he carried
three children to safety. The
youngsters would have undoubted-
ly persisted in the flame.
Enters Building Again
After Davis had rescued them
and others, he noticed three young
men at a fourth-floor window gut
ted with smoke. He feared that
they might jump. So the cop again
dashed into the building, ran up
the steps, and guided them to
safety.
Also recommended for citations
were two firemen who aided Davis
in rescuing others from the build
ing.
They are Firemen William Dun
worth, 80. and Frank Knoll, also
80. Dunworth directed a woman
from the building and carried out
her two children, and Knoll rescued
another woman and her child.
Davis is a father of seven chill
dren.
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Famed Chock Full
O'NufS Concern On
NY. Stock EXCHANGE

New York (ANP) - The ChocE
Full o Nuts Corporation is nov
member of the New York Stock
Exchange.
The company, which started out
in the 192Os with a $500 income
in its first week. was admitted to
membership recently in ceremonies
in the stock exchange building.
On hand to watch the first stock
transaction come over the ticket
tape, were two of the company's
top officials: William Black, presi-
dent. and Jackie Robinson, former
baseball star and now vice presi-
dent in charge Of personnel OF
Chock Full o Nuts. With them
was Keith Funston, president OF
the stock exchange.
CHI, which started in a base
ment store selling nuts only, has
grown by leaps and bounds, and
sales are still growing. In the last
nine-month period, for instance
the company'B earnings were high.
er than for any other such period
in its history. Net sales Of $40, 053
625 were 7.3 per cent above the
1858 period. Net income, after tax
es, was $1,145,717, a gain of 1874
over the S967,s54 income for the
nine months ended April 30, 1858,
The weekly earnings now aver
age more than 100000.
Robinson Joined the company
after retiring from baseball. A
member of the Brooklyn Dodgers
team for 10 years, Jackie was the
first Negro to play in organized
baseball.
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Mourice Stokes Is
Determined To Beof
Strange AiIimenf

Cincinnati amp Maurice
Stokes, former cage star with the
Cincinnati Royals now convalesc-
ing from a strange brain ailment
at Christ hospital has been des-
cribed as grimly determined to
recover.
Stokes, who celebrated his 26th
birthday in high spirits, is the guy
who more than a year ago set the
National Basketball league afire
with his rebounding skill. He was
stricken aboard a plan bound for
Cincinnati following a game in De-
troit. The ailment left him par
alyzed and unable to speak. He is
gradually relearning to form words.
Jack Twyman, who once played
with Stokes and now is his legal
guardian, reported the big star
from Pittsburgh is confident he
will some day walk out Of the hos
pital. Doctors describe his progress
as gradual.
Stokes ailment was finally dag
nosed as post-traumatic encophalo-
pathy, which means a brain sick
ness from a head injury.
The ailment has hampered him
to the extent that he is forced to
use "a system Of charades" when
speaking to others. That is, the
visitor calls off the letters of the
alphabet and he mods when the one
he wants is spoken. Thus, words
and sentences are finally formed.
Stokes has been in the hospital
for 45S days. However, he is not
yet hard-pressed for funds, as two
MIA benefit games helped pay
his hospital bills and tide him
along. His case also comes under
the State Industrial commission,
from which he receives financial
aid for medical expenses.
The problem will come, accord
ing to Twyman, when Stokes leaves
the hospital and must meet con-
siderable expenses.
Before his illness on March Is,
1858, Stokes was one of the most
colorful and talented players in
the MIA.
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Young COP Elect
Detroifer Region
Vice-Chuirmon

Denver (ANP) - The election
of a Negro as regional vice chair
man Of the National Young Re-
publican federation climaxed the
five-day convention which was
held here recently.
John H. Smith, a Detroit con-
struction inspector, was chosen to
supervise all Young Republican ac-
Invites in Michigan, Ohio, Illinois
and Indiana after Negro delegates
refused to accept any jim-crow
position.
Supported By GeOrgians
Smith defeated Wally Stefan.
YR state chairman from Columbus
as an interracial Georgia delega-
ton. led by Mr.. and Mrs. Timothy
Gilman, Atlanta, led all southern
Young Republican delegations
except Mississippi-in supporting
the Negro candidate.
Smith is the first Negro to serve
as a regional officer.
Charles Gaines, Chicago out-go-
ing Negro vice-chairman at large,
led the move to abolish the BIZ
annual position because, he said:
HT hoa nofhipo fo do
All other Hce-chairmen super
wise activities in two to four states
for two years, but the vice-chair-
man at large. who has been a Ne
gro since 1919, had no states to
supervise.
After Gains recommended abol-
ishment of the vice-chairman-at-
large, Gilman withdrew as candid
ate for the position and asked the
mixed Georgia delegation to sup
port Smith as head of the Fifth
region, which includes Ohio, Michi-
gan, Illinois and Indiana.
The issue was taken to the floor
when Ohio refused to go along with
the plan and ran Stefan against
Smith. With Negro delegates Will
liam o. Stewart and Gaines of
Illinois lining up support for Smith
the Negroes election was assured
when Texas, North Carolina and
Maryland decided to go along
with Georgia.
Georgia Splits With "SOlid South"
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]. Bunche, Jackie Robinson, A
Philip Randolph, Mrs. Daisy Bates
and the nine young students who
broke, the color bar at Central
High School in Little Rock, Ark,
in 1857.
Mr.. Springarn, who died in 1889,
left a fund sufficient to continue
the award "to perpetuate the life
long interest of my brother, Arth-
ur B. Springarn, of my wife, Amy
z. Spingarn, and of myself in the
achievements Of the Anerican Ne
gro"
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West coGsf Golf News
By MAGGIE HATHAWAY

Los Angeles (ANP)-This is the
story how the Western Avenue
Negro women fought to become
members of the women's public
links golf clubs-clubs organized
on all public courses. Since we
can use any public golf course, we
decided to join the Caucasian pub
lie blus and I was sent TO join
the Western Avenue unit, which
was not integrated. I received an
application and as soon as / had
qualified, I was voted out.
When the members were ques-
toned, they said the Women's
Public Links association had ad-
vised them not to accept me. i
was forced to appeal to the dis
trict supervisor, Kenneth Hahn;
He issued a warning to the club
that if they did not accept me.
their time and club would be can
celled on the court as a county
club. They still refused. Finally,
Hahan ordered County Parks and
Recreations to drop them, and ]
was told to organize a club to re-
place them.
Twenty Negro women organized
and were installed in the replace
ment outfit. We were even given
the original club name. We i'm
mediately applied for membership
in the Women's Public Links Golf
association, but were refused -
without an explanation. We sued,
Through the U. S. Golf associa-
ton, the Women's Public Links
control our handicapping system
in all public clubs and their tourn-
aments. Once you are a member,
you are taught the handicapping
system and are allowed to play
with any Caucasian club on any
golf course in America. Before we
were accepted, Negroes had to
organize their own" golf associa-
tions, such as WSGA and UGA,
while we spent millions of dollars
in taxes on public courses and
clubhouses.
While we waited for our suit to
be put on the court calendar, we
decided to test the city clubs, since
the county advised us they did not
have the power to go any further
and was canceIling all county clubs
to prevent the county from a law
suit.
The Western Avenue Women de-
cided to send me to join a city
club, but we were advised by Atty
Walter Gordon to ask the super
intendent of city parks and recre
alton to go along, which he agreed
to do. He advised the Caucasian
members that the city and the
mayor would not stand for any seq
regation in the city clubs.
I was accepted and then carried
the rest of the Western Avenue
Women into the club. Thus WI
were able to cancel our suit anC
automatically become members o.
the Women's Public Links Col
association.
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WASHINcToN'S PIGSKIN
CLUB HoNoRS TAN STARS

Washington, D. C. (ANP) - A
number Of tan stars from various
sports fields were among persons
honored by the Pigskin club at a
celebrity and youth fitness lunch
con held in the grand ballroom Of
the Willard hotel last week.
Rafer Johnson, Olympic Death
lon champion; John Thomas, world
record high jumper; Elgin Baylor,
professional basketball star Of the
Minneapolis Lakers; Jim Brown,
running star; Lennie Moore Of
the Baltimore Colts, and Claude
Buddy Young, former college
and pro football star, were the top
athletes honored.
Shane Mccarthy, executive dir
ector, President Eisenhower's coun-
Gil on youth fitness, was the prin-
cipal speaker.
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sary for already celebrated stars.

sary for already celebrated stars.
Potter To CO-Star With Spencer
Tracy
Potter viii co-star with Spencer
Tracy in THE Devil at 4 o'clock"
which will be filmed for Columbia
Pictures release by Fred Kohlmar
productions. The film is based on
the novel by Max Cato, is sched-
uled to go into production in Feb
ruary with Peter Chenille direct
ing from a screenplsy by Bridget
Boland.
Sidney will be seen as the lead
er Of a group Of convicts on a
small Pacific island. He and Tracy,
who will portray a priest, are the
human nrOt a pOnista in the DictIIre
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CALL TAYLOR 7-4O2l TO PLACE
YOUR ADS.
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For All Star Game:
Evening star., 1959-06-18
Harvard Leading
For Dinghy Title

CRANSTON, r. l.. June 10
(AP) Harvard established a
four-point lead over Boston
University yesterday in the 23d
National Intercollegiate dinghy
championships.
Shippers Hanson Robbins and
Bill Saltonstall OF Harvard ran
up 80 points at the end OF the
first IL races. Boston Univer-
sity's shippers Hatch Brown
and Dick Cook had 76.
Other team scores included
Princeton 70, Michigan 81. Co
lumbia so. Indiana Al. Occiden-
tai IL.
Twelve more races were
scheduled today on the Provi-
dence River. The final four will
be held Friday.
Evening star., 1959-06-18
DIAMoNDBAcK STAKES CANCELLED
LoureI Finds Trouble
Filling Race Cords

betting heats win be run on
prior to the regular racing
program. f
Four OF BILLY Haughton's
horses are entered In tonight's
non-betting events. Rapid
Transit. Meadow Dolly. Tammy
Hanover and Jan Hanover. Del
Miller has entered Judy's
Dream and Meadow Helene.
Others in the field are Empire
Stables Louann Hanover and
Mr.. and Mrs. r. J. Drum
mond's Celestial Byrd.
Intermittent showers followed
by a heavy downpour. made
Laurel Raceway's track so
hazardous last night that a
special raceoff to the $3.50
Reading Futurity for 2-year-
old trotters was Cancelled by
mutual agreement OF tne traih-
ers involved.
CarIene Hanover Wins
Carlene Hanover was de-
clared the winner Of the stakes
after she won the second dash
in the fastest time, 2:262s. She
finished third TO Newport
Mamie in the first mile event.
Newport Mamie broke and nm
ished fifth in the second heat.
Carlene. driven by Ralph
Baldwin. paid $3.50. $3.50 and
$3.50. Newport Mamie, driven
by Warren Cameron. l8-year-
old son Of Del Cameron, re-
Evening star., 1959-06-18
Colorado Keeps
Ward on Faculty

BOULDER. Colo. June 10
(AP).-Dallas Ward. So. fred
as Colorado football coach last
January %. will remain at the
university as a professor Of
physical education.
AS grid coach. Ward received
$4,000 annually plus $1,000 for
expenses. AS a professor. he will
receive $500 q year.
Everett Sonny Grandelius,
former Michigan State football
halfback and assistant coach,
was named Wards successor in
February. He was given a s.
year contract calling for $l4,-
900 a year.