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VOLUME 23, NUMBER 60 MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1955 PRICE SIX CENTS f
Reservations Mount For Las
LAS-TOGAS,—(ANP) —Reserva tions for rooms in the nearby completed multi -million dollar Moulin Rouge Las Vegas interra cial resort hotel, have been steam Would Seek Methods ing to at a rapid rate, according to ppjU ¡Louis, former World heavy weight champion and part owner Delinquency of the new enterprise Of Preventing “Construction on the hotel has been going according to plan.” BY RAYMOND WILCOVE Louis said, and it’ will be finished WASHINGTON — (INS) — A New York Congressman called sometime in mid March Saturday for a new nationwide crime investigation similar to the “Since construction began in July inquiry conducted four years ago by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D) —reservations have been pouring in Tenn. r ; ^8 from all over the country We are Rep. Victor L. Anfuso (D) N. 'Ml also answering the many requests Y., introduced legislation to set I for information about the facilities PRIZE ORCHID (S)—The Trianeo, prize orchid which was developed up a special five-member committee at the hotel To avoid disappoint and grown in Tennessee State University's greenhouse by Neal C. to study the causes of crime and ment. I’d suggest that those who McAlpin, head of the Department of Horticulture, is being shown methods of crime prevention. want to attend the opening make WOULD SEEK METHODS their reservations as soon as pos here by pretty Miss Archilene Turner, junior student at the Univer Hé also proposed a companion sible.” sity and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Turner of Nashville.- bill to create a bureau of crime pre Like To See? Photo by Clanton III. vention in the Justice Department, The Moulin Rouge, first inter racial resort hotel in the world will which would seek methods of pre THE ALL MEMPHIS venting crime and juvenile delin FOOTBALL TEAM PLAY cost an estimated; $$3,000.000 when quency. . completed. Present plans call for THE ALL ATLANTA TEAM 250 rooms, with provisions for ad $5,000 Needed To Keep Under this measure, the bureau IN GAME HERE? ditional 250 to be constructed after would be directed, to establish an Football loving fans In Mem the hotel is opened. office in each state and to cooperate phis are asked to give their ex- with state and federal agencies in pressions on the possibility of Other accomodations will include Church Academy Going Initiating crime prevention program. v • . the All Memphis Prep Football a giant swimming pool, golf course, The Brooklyn Representative de team playing the Al! Atlanta casino, several exclusive shops and .HERNANDO, Miss. —(SNS) — Foundations, and- other philan clared that crime has assumed Prep Team in a post season a yatch to be placed at thé dis Scores of eager Negro youths in thropic organizations, only to be “alarming proportions’ Tn the U. ■ “bowl” game here. posal of guests. 19,000 Negro populated Desoto turned down because it was too S. since World War II and has be Read Sam Brown’s “Along County, Miss.', may soon be faced “small,” has been desperately come a “problem of grave national Sports Trail" for latest develop s» » >: A theater-restaurant will accom with the realization that they can concern.”. ment In proposed World Bowl modate approximately 450 guests plagued by overdue salaries to its only iook forward to an eighth idealistic, hardworking 7-member LARGE CRIME RATE game. Entertainers already scheduled to grade education with the revela He added: “We should seek to, appear Include Billy Eckstine, Sam faculty and desperate repair bills. tion that , their only source of pro The future of the academy and know the social conditions which Father Simpkins Named ’O O my Davis Jr., and Lena Home. curing a high school education, the breed and encourage this situation ' ' W w (he future high school education of T’. .;;.:;-..“g.M__ s Clarence Robinson, top-ranking Baptist Industrial Academy here scores ■ of bora and unborn Missis to grpw. I havq felt for a long Delegate For Tennessee in Hernando has. reached rock time that society is to blame for the Negro producer, has been contract sippi Negro youths in Desoto STUDENTS POLIO SKATING PARTY TOMORROW a spectator charge of 25c for fhq many parents, bottom in finance. County depends on the effort of large crime rate, and I am also of Episcopal Churches ed to stage shows at the Moulin who would like to comp qnd s^e^the young.pod* Rouge. Now on a nationwide hunt A seemingly futile call for help youthful (3) academy principal, C. the opinion that our government Father St. Julian A. Simpkins —Student« of all the Cjty High Schools and Porter for talent, Robinson hopes to have has gone out from the churoh re J. Kennedy, Jr. has been derelict in dealing with Jr:, rector of Emmanuel Episcopal Junior; Lflgji haye pleidged their support of the pie "Skate So That Other Youngsters Can Learn the most beautiful chorus line In lated Baptist Industrial. Academy, this problem from a preventive Chprch, here at 425 Cynthia Place, Polio Sk'atThg "Party which will be held Wednes To Walk.” . Principal Kennedy a Mississis standpoint." the country for the March open- located in Hernando, Miss., found sippl Industrial College graduate, was pamed as. one of the eight day night, January 26, at the Hippodrome Roller There will be two sessions—7 till 9:30 P. 'Afc . Anfuso said .the investigation member Tennessee Episcopal dele ed in 1889 by. the North Mississip -who is in his first year of1 princi Rink, 500 Beale Avenue. and 9:30 P, M. until midnight. ’ pi Baptist Convention, which offers should include a study of criminal gation to attend the, general con-, palship of the debt-ridden acade t„. ..JJiis photo shows. tW(5 siudanLjeaclers from.. the only chance for the 19,600 Ne my, has turned , down numerous. job yécôriis.' penaJ.
— Bi '''Ó' ' ' ' program was held In the audito Blue' Chaplain/ Sherman' Richards. ♦ MEMPHIS WORLD • Tuesday, January25, 1955 T3o ’ Lover/ and’Polson'lvy. ; "bottle,* on* another-an’apple/and rium to. entertain tlie-study hall FEAQUE, (FE TAY), THE on another- a jug: of, rice, with a The Los Monacho are having their BTW High School News group. Some- of the attractions on MAGICIAN ENTERTAINS ~ fewmagic words the rice was Valentine Party, at th ehome of OflEN JONES”, Cinemascope the program' were: The .Hamilton' Auditorium of where the bottle was, die . bottle Miss Bernice Bobo, Saturday night, BY MARY ANNE THOMAS see the better team win. Both Booker T. Washington was fllled to where the apple was/and.an orange February 12, 1956 at . 1205 - Pond WASHINGTON TO PLAY teams-nre undefeated pt’ the present Celestine Ransom, singing, “O' It’s; capacity Friday-at 2:00 P. ¡M-' where the rice was. What hap- Avenue, , . c,' ¿6 MELROSE TONIGHT; time. What A Dream,” The Tinos, sing to see,-tile sensational Feaque San pened. to. the apple? / : -/ ■ - -.-. ■-* ":/.,>,i The Booker T. Washington War OTHER GAMES OF THE WEEK ing “Shake, Rattle and Roll,” and ders and his,array of magic tricks’, .There will be a watch given away riors will take on the Golden Wild-.. Friday night .at the Booker . T. Bro. Richard Callahan turning to with amusing jokes Included. Students helping in this . show to, the one holding the lucky num cats. of Melrose tonight . at The Washington high school gym the ward the spiritual world with "W were: Earlirie’Matthews, Rosetta' ber. You may secure tickets from Blair T. Hunt Gymnasium. Game Warriors will take on Pearl High of version of “One of these mornings,” «' To mention some of the ■ many Sample, Roland Langford', Mary any. of the club members. lime 7:30. Cori’.e one come all to Nashville. Tennessee. On the sa:n: Others appearing were: T. J. magic tricks performed by Feaque Jordan, George Brown, J. C Mc COMING ATTRACTIONS Hudson singing,- ‘Hey There/ are : bringing a rope through a Graw, J. Terry. To mention, some of the coming ¡¡Si:// night the Woodstock ttam will play Burt High of...... Clarksville Tpitì’S James Ingram, and Henry McFad young lady’s waist, making the THE LOS MONACHO attractions don’t forget to attend see, at the gym. . den, doing one of the latest num face of a young appear, smaller, SOCIAL CLUB the "RED. Shirt Hop." tomorrow at Otab/'News .. bers “Forever My Darling," Debora i producing cookies from paper, .a The Los -Monacho social club held the Stair Wav to The Stars, given NIGHTINGALE THRIFT CLUB Saturday nivht in me Woodstos! Jackson crooning her heart out on j hqndkerchiof from a walking cane, their election at the home of Mr., by the. Deborelte. Social Club. The Nightingale Art Thrift Club gymnasium the Washington War- "If I Give My Heart To You.” I a ball from chewing gum, making' and Mrs'. Walter Blue. The offi- The Popular Riyal Knight's are MR met in I lie home of Mrs. -A. F. rlors will play Burt High and the I n ball disappear from the hand of.! cers are: President, Willie McGhee, presenting a Ground Hdg Dance Lafties. 788 ' Olympic., St^ Monday, Woodstack Aggies will play Pearl A meme: i- of, tli? fatuity Mr. i another, from the. very hands of i Vice President Emmltt 1Rodgers, February 2, at the Stairway to the Janua.: 1'7. Mrs. Mary Batie, hos- High. Let's' support our team in Jor m presented some very reveal- : George Brown, chewing gutr. dis-j. Secretary Marzaret Wilsoni, Treas- Stairs. tees. the three games this week. ‘ ing impersonations- Thomas Cox ■ appeared cut of the paper. urer, Walter Blue. The Cavalier Social Club is pre TALENT PROGRAM sang the ever romantic “Because of One of the most thrilling was: ' Business Manager Bernice Bobo, senting a dance on the 4th Tlie meeting Was opened at 8:00 Friday January 22, 1955 'a talent V.j.You ’’ The audience sang, Let Mr I three tables,' on onb. was placed a ' Assistant Business Manager February al tht Stairway also p.. m. by the chaplain, Mrs. Craw ford. After business, the hostess served a ver" tasty' luncheon which everyone enjoyed.. The next meet ing will be Monday night, Febru ary'7 at the home Of Mr. and Mr: Qscar Beason of 1323 Kiley -St- Mrs. Georgia Horne, president. Mrs. A. F. Lafties, secretary. Mrs. Inez Boyd,, reporter. Nightingale thrift club T? e ...... Nightingale ' Art' Thrift Club“ met in the home of Mrs. A. F. Laf- ties, 788 Olympic Street, Monday, I Jan. ...17. Mrs. Mary Balie, hostess. Tile meeting was opened at 8:00 p. m. by the chaplain, Mrs. Craw ford. After business, the hostess served a. verv tasty luncheon which everyone enjoyed. The next meet ing will be Monday night. Feb. 7, at the 'home of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar ( WHY PAY MORE Beason ol 1323 Kney Street. :. Mrs. Georgia Horne, pres. ■ Mrs. A. F. Lafties, sec. • Mrs. Inez Boyd, reporter. NOW EVEN MORE REASON TO GET WORLD-FAMOUS MID SOCIAL CLUB ’■The Mid Social Club held their I ~ ~ --- lirst-meeting-of-the-yeai/JaiU3. A t J^i^efP>?OrOlhy ,Dandrid?c is mounting in “Carmen Jones” turns out brief meeting was lield by the pres ident, after the meeting the hostess to’be tfee golden chariot carrying her to stardom. The film, in Cinema- served a delicious refreshment and Theatre for plate lunch. The table was- lightect with candles to set off the beauty of the evening. Two former mem bers returned to the club. Mrs. St. Julian Simpkins Members present- were: Mrs. ?outhemia Crafter, Mrs. Mai? Haw kins, Mrs. Lunemia Clark, Mrs. Le- ana Nace, Mrs. Beatracie ’ Rodgers, For Mothers March Mrs. Marie Crawford. Mrs. Alma Williams, Mrs. Callie Johnson, Mrs. Mrs; St. Julian Simpkins, Chair- Florida, Mrs. Ruby Spight; Kansas Peacola Byumen, Mrs. Loretta Gray, man .0® ¡Hie Mothers March for the Mrs. Armar.d/ Steele; Grant Mrs' Mrs. Gussie Day. Mrs. Willie. B. Polio Division, is presently check Why Suffer—Let BLACK AND WHITE OINTMENT Pearl Oates; White Station. Mrs. .White. The visitors Were: Mrs. Mai BLACKHEADS SIMPLE RINGWORM ing the list .of her many workers Orangello Coger; Douglas, Mrs Hassell, Mrs. Carrie Johnson and with Sam W. Qualls, Jr. Chair Beatrice Jones. Mrs. Susie Johnson. (Hickies, Pimples) Ruhy Edwards, 1336 Lombard St man., Give You the Same Kind of Fast, Blessed Relief ^Hyde Park, Mrs. Florence Bovd- Tl-.e next meeting Will be held at Philadelphia,Pa,: “I thought I’d -¿Thousands of women will march :Ri: verview,- MrsT^-Nabm ~NelsoTi' James D. IPilliams, 136 It St., the home of Mrs. Alma Williams of 'y never get re “te. streets of Memphis and Shel Caines Mrs. S. Gibson; Magnolia, N.E., lPashinglon, D. C.: “I was by County Monday night, January 1387 Emerson, Jan. 27, at 8:30 p. m. Enjoyed by Thousands of Grateful Users Mrs. Anna L. Humphry and Mrs. Mrs. Marie Crawford, pres. always embar- lief from the 3L from 6:30 till 8:30 P.’ m. in an Georgia Taylor; Dunn, Mrs. Bea Mrs. Beatrice Rodgers, reportei rassed at itching, burn r?ise funds wlth which to trice Taylor; Lincoln, Mrs. Velma every party ing torment of light the terrible crippier, Polio.. ¿Herman; Walker Homes,- Mrs simple ring . Leaders in the various Areas a““- XStuWlth“' and Caldivell, Mrs'. because ugly ~°“°I5cke. Mrs- .Belle Petti- Eadie Hayes. pimples and worm on my 1>ster, Mrs. Lydia Robinson/, TEEN-AGE PIMPLES ECZEMA ACNE PIMPLES blackheads on hands and McAdams Sloan: i ivies,Mrs simpkinsSimpkins and her Co- my face itched arms. Finally I . Cooper Taylor; Porter, will Rosalie Long, 1010 B 20th St. tJna J. Francis, 1719 IPest 35th tried Black Mrs. Maxine Draper* jHamilton’ ?‘Sttr?Ute th™ Lorraine Augurtine, 1.701 North and stung so Far Rockaway,N.Y.: “My little Pl., Los Angeles, Calif.: "I used and White Mrs. Ida M: Jamison. * to the .ttinfivmany thousands , of mothers 20th St..Philadelphia,Pa.: “The girl’s arms and bad. I tried so .. Also Meirose, Mrs. Corrine New S5 Mo'1RattemEt more than itching and to suffer the many skin lo Ointment and soon the sting $5 000 Research will win hr tb-j hands itched itching, sting ing, itching misery was re two-hour March. Please giv" stinging of my so bad with tions and ointments without . , Rose, Mrs. Velma Campbell; ing misery of success I was about to give lieved. I can’t recommend . acne pimples what was ugly pimples Black and White Ointment i made me so called Eczema. up when a friend suggested I on my face. try Black and White Oint too highly.,,I’ll always be glad Melrose High School News miserable I The itching The itching I tried it.” used to cry and burning ment. It . sure ' relieved the and stinging itching, stinging misery.” ‘ThP ?Z.WnX1E SESLEY myself to really for-’ ’ made me mis «SLMelrose Wildcats have im site team had the advantage over sleep. Nothing mented her. I them in height the Wildcatfst™- erable. After proved a.great deal, over th» seemed to help e» - used Black using many gled .iom, quarter to quarter losing my discom and White Ointment and HICKIES th« . u'e 01 28’53- ™ix Pavnewas ointments I found grand help the high point man with 8. ■ fort. A friend told me about soon my little girl’s itching in Black and White Ointment. ITCHY HANDS (Blackheads, Pimples) DOROTHY DANDRIDGE IS Seen Black and White Ointment. 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am MEMPHIS WORLD ♦ Tuesday, January 25, 1955 Wiley President At National Meet
MARSHALL. Texas— Dr. J. S. Scott, .president of Wiley College, attended, two national meetings re cently in the interest of Wiley. Fol By Rev. Taschereau Arnold lowing the sessions of the National Association or Schools and Colleges Religious Editor of the Methodist Church in Cin cinnati, Dr. and Mrs. Scott went Published Weekly In Interest or Religious Progv to Washington, D. C. to' attend tlie BY JEWEL GENTRY '41«t . annual meeting of. the Asso "CARMEN JONES" DRAWS ciation of American Colleges. ma Mrs. Augustus Logwood There lie was the first, THOUSANDS TO NEW Mr. and Mrs. Sanker Clay, Mr. AN EXCITING BIBLE CONTEST oiti' i- children in the, departments DAISY THEATRE with his men to visit the Emper In Washington. Mrs, Scott was Three Chicago . afeii Sunday Werewere eagergager to find passages li1 ifnelrii and Mrs. Lewis Hester. Mr. and or’s Garden, opened to tlie Allied among n group of the wives of col ' ...... Social life in Memphis will cen Mrs. Willip Stiggler, Mr. and Mrs. Forces. schools conducted tin ,inter-church Bibles’ Attendance and lege presidents received by Mrs. Bible drill sometluip ago and-found were greatly stimuljlted by th0;,(iott ter all week long on the cinema- ' Paul Hines, Mr. and Mrs. Richai’d Dwight D- Eisenhower in the Red scope DeLuxe color. "Caimcn - Wlieriy, Mr. and Mrs. William It was as exciting us ini inter-school P.Ctiti..'l. ANO T E FROM MRS. Room of the White House; Jan. 12. ball game. Interest (vas high ano Any group of churches dOUld ar- Jones,” a picture that has been ' Monger, Mr. and Mrs. Murray • ALTHEA) PRICE in Yonkers, N. Tlie Wiley Club of Washington a two-season hit on Broadway, ! Bankhead, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert. new life was put into the Sunday, .rangeifliige the same, type of:4
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I h' IV • MEMPHIS WORLD • Tuesday, January 25, 1955 À Contributions To United ------'7 : .■■■— » Phillips Blames f < BTW Memorial Negro College Fund Known NEW YORK, N. Yi —Contribu ready at work on the college cam puses, with new buildings going up •< tions to the United Negro College ifS. S K and others being renovated to .tejte'i' Failure On Race Fund in 1954 for’ all purposes amounted to $2,477,000, it was an meet increasing needs. “The Fund has raised over $26,- I ROCKY MOUNT, Va.—“Lack of >? nounced today in a year-end re suppot t ' on the part of Negroes” port by W. J. Trent, Jr., executive 000,000 for its member colleges OlA has caused the Booker T. Wash director of the Fund. This amount, since it began in. 1944," stated Mir. «1 Jw ington Birthplace Memorial start Mr. Trent stated. Included $1,477,000 Trent. ' ' I' ' ed nine years ago. to fold, accord raised for current operating pur ing to Sidney J. Phillips, founder. poses, and $1,000000 contributed I Trustees of the Memorial Foun ... to the building fund campaign dation, which has its headquarters which is being carried on at the ATLANTA NEGRO 'tei. same time. The results last year in at the educator’s plantation birth-- ? testete'■V- 5-Sj place at nearby Hales Ford, made the annual operating campaign V > a deed of assignment of all prop top all previous years in the Fund’s POLICEMAN erty to B. A. Davis, Jr.. Rocky history. Mount attorney so It can be sold Z, ' H Mr. Trent stated that one of the_ to pay creditors. . __ . g significant features of the 1954 . Davis said .the Memorial owes K. '.7.'T.: R .V campaign was the Increase in cor-, STILL MISSING about $140,000. Its major asset is, porate support. Many national ATLANTA, Ga. — (SNS) — 1 a 100-acre tract of farmland and corporations and small businesses The family of a . young Atlanta 'several buildings hear a restored contributed to the campaign. Alum policeman has. been growing more ni support, Mr. Trent announced, t- log cabin in which Washington and more worried for the past five was'born. had' also grown steadily. days since he disappeared after fr t Annually, for eleven consecutive “It had been hoped,” said Mr. carrying his wife and five children O' Phillips “when the Memorial was years, the Fund has sought to to the home of his mother-in-law. 9 launched that five million Book raise approximately ten per cent On the books of the Atlanta er T. Washington commemorative wsg® ¡?ÄR< > '< of the combined educational bud Police Department Officer Pete * ;' " gets of Its constituent colleges, s^o half dollars would be sold at $1 IBS s Davenport is absent without leave, each to the nation’s 15 million Ne provide the amount not met by In until proven otherwise. A-: ■ come from, endowment, tuition ir • <>ì groes in 90 days. But to his wife, Mrs. Catherine o: I and recurring church board grants. "Only 2,200,000 of the coins have a .4 Davenport, of 956 Farrington St A The $1,477,000 raised in 1954 cur S. E. her husband is simply missing, ie been purchased since they first rent fund campaign will' be used were issued,” Phillips said, Of the rent is overdue and the cup- N by the UNCF colleges for current board is getting bare. w these, less, than 3 per cent were AN ORCHID FOR MARIAN ANDERSON from un roses is "Miss Tennessee State" (Miss Doris Camp scholarship aid, expenses such as According to informed o: ■ if, bought by Negroes, he added. dergraduate AKA's at Tennessee State was pin-; 'faculty salaries, teaching and / JACK W. ROBERTS, left, of Joyess, Miss., is the 1000th grad- “Every program we have at bell of Nashville). Nàshville's Mayor Ben West,. Davenport took his wife Ji ned by Miss Normal Stirrup of Miami, Fla., anti- science laboratory equipment, 11- r< jate of the Advanced Leaders School at Fort Benning. He is con- tempted has been supported al children to the home of basileus. About to give the noted contralto red w^o had just greeted the artist, looks oh. brary books find student health her-in-law about 9 a. m., and left n | jratulated here by Col. Earl Sutton of Hempstead, Long Island, most entirely by white persons programs. with a promise to return. That J with little patronage by Negroes Mr. Trent reported that the J ;, Y*# commander of .Cgrpbat Training CorKmand, who spoke at generally and almost without any was the last known time he was building. fund.campaign_now stands O 1 exercises. The Advanced Leaders School, organized exercise of interest and Infleunce Xgeen;—z—— at $14,000.600. The money is al- I The man was reportedly wearing li I t-? trains enlisted men for positions of leadership. Its on the part of Negro leaders.” He Marian Anderson Captivates r Iü>vhcurriculum includes dismounted drill, customs of the service, in- said also that “whatever has been Ex-FBI Agent black pants, a white “T” shirt, brown shoes, and; a brown leather r I our 9uarcJ duty, orgooization of the Army, uniform and decora- accomplished may be attributed in t jacket.-He is of medium brown large measure' to the friendly at g I maintenance of uniform and equipment and physical train- titude of white citizens...” Audience In Nashville, Tenn. Masons Elect complexion; five feet seven inch I SQî* Roberts is assigned to the Third Infantry Division at Fort Testifies In es in height and weighs approxi Several suits have been brought I A^enn'n9- MABEL B. CROOKS tention as was given the Marian mately 149 pounds. . t against Phillips and the Memorial NASHVILLE — Marian Anderson Anderson recital. . Riggs Grand Mrs. Davenport became alarmed concerning contracts into which he of the Metropolitan, world-acclaim , When the celebrated artist alight-- Lightfoot Case Monday afternoon when her hus allegedly entered to promote the ed contralto, in recital at Tennessee ed from her train, on hand to greet band failed to return for her. When sale of the half dollars. Since 1950, IRPhilip Murray Memorial State University last week, had a her were, the Honorable Ben West "CHICAGO —(INS)— A former she arrived home she found1 the I Phillips' said, the coins have been terrific impact on Tennessee’s capi Nashville's mayor; a fleet of report back door open, and his clothes I sold at 10 cents above face value. FBI undercover agent testified this Master tal city. ers, .and photographers including week that Illinois Communist lead laid out for six o’clock dflty. She .i Lffund Makes Grant To UL Miss Anderson, whose history both daily papers and WSM-TV; as er Claude M. Lightfoot told his fol BOSTON. Mass. — The Annual has not seen him 6ince. 1 making debut at th? Metropolitan well as the university’s representa Communication of the Most Wor ■Relatives asked that anyone see I Polic DC Press Club To lowers that 'they must “be ready to opera just ten days before sent tives. die” for their cause. shipful Hiram Grand Lodge, An ing a man answering Davenport’s & The Philip Murray Memorial, cient Free and Accepted Masons, general description to call DI 3490. waves of excited applause thunder Waiting on the upper ramp at.the John Brzek, a Milwaukee long He recalled Mr. Murray's, long Vote On Lautier ing through the venerable old New Inc., was held December 27, 1954. It is further urged that police of Iman’OLiudaUon, created to honor the battle for equality in the field of station were more than two hund shoreman piante, in the Commun I npemory of the late president of the York house, drew a “standing room red Tennessee State students and Most Worshipful Grand Master St. ficials be notified if his where employment and called the project In Soecial Meet ist party by the FBI, declared that Clair Klrton presiding. abouts are known or learned. [the P10 and the United Steelworkers, “thus particularly fitting.’’ only,” audience of more' than 6,000 citizens who gave' Miss Anderson while teaching at a Communist by ¿ccently presented a $7.500 grant to; WASHINGTON—(INS)— Active It isn’t often that concerts at in an ovation and flowers. A police Lester B. Granger, executive di party school at Lake Ivanhoe, Wis., 600-YEAR-OLD MYSTERY 31, ibe National Urban League. Inc. stitutions garner such city-wide at- escort heading a motorcade of some rector of the Urban League, express members of the National Press Lightfoot made the statement PLAYS AT YORK, ENGLAND lefforThe presentation, made at the ed the “warm appreciation” of the Club voted overwhelmingly Friday thirty cars brought the artist to the in 1947. to take a special vote Feb. 4 on a decrease of 3,478 from November. campus where she was house guest •Plays telling the story of mankind ifgHLe ague's headquarters in New York i organization at this "fine support Brzek said he attended two cour from the creation of the world to I; lidlity, was designed to assist in "a rendered by the Philip Murray Mem the question of admitting Louis R. 1954, and 29,028 were ■ existing of. President and Mrs. W. S. Davis-. ses there and that Lightfoot, be orial Foundation.” Excitement ran .high as a feverish, the Last Judgment performed from [Alonpecial industrial relations project Lautier. to membership. . homes, 7,173 under the- previous ing tried on a charge of advocat 1350 to 1572 by the medieval guilds, Igrewb expand job opportunities for Ne- The rr.oti’on was made by Paul new wave of ticket-buying was set ■ “The best expression of our ap month. ing the violent overthrow' of the will be revived this year in the ruins . ■ lMan.ro workers in the industrial South preciation.” Mr. Granger, said, “will Wooten, of the New Orleans Times- ' VA received 52,171 home loan ap in motion. (The reserve seat sec U. S. Government through leader ILeatioundation Director Arthur J. Gold- tion had been sold out a week be of St. Mary’s Abbey at York, Eng be ufaü6
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/ ■ : Isabelle Daniels, Art Bragg Southern Capers MEMPHIS WORLD • Tuesday, January 25, 1955 Win At Evening Star Games Whip Dillard Three Indoor Records Fall As Tigerbelles Sparkle, Bragg, Art Jenkins Also Triumph And Xavier Fives
BATON ROUGE, La. — A‘ ue- By EARL S. CLANTON III termlned Southern University Ja WASHINGTON, D. C.—Freshman Isabelle Daniels, 17 ■year-old, guar basketball squad annexed" two from Jakin, Go., pulled a surprise victory in the 100. yards‘dash cage games here lust wbek with an . By SAM BROWN over Olympic Star, Mae Faggs in the Washington Evening Star easy 82-54 win over the Dllliard | Blue Devils and with an over-'I games indoor track meet here last Saturday night. whelming 107-69: victory' over the [ The Tennessee Tigerbelles broke onds. Xavier University Gold Rusli. i A few days ago, we carried in this space an announcement A9ee records and took two trophies. I Charlie Jenkins, Villanova’s sop- Tlie winners with a comfortable I relative to a proposed post season prep football game, Th? World '■'’uP ^Wve first and one second place I homorc, 'anchored lils team home 48-19 half time lead In tlie Dillard | Bowl, between the All-Memphis Team and the All-Atlanta Team, , medals before a near capacity crowd first over Morgan for...... the second_____ contest Coasted during the final ! selected fro mthe high school teams of the two cities. of 5000 In the ,D. C. National Guard night In a row. Jenkin's quarter half and gave the reserves an op- , Armory. Freshman speedster. Dan mile lap was unofficially clocked at nortunity to ¡(how their wares. ‘ It is true the game is still in the tentative stage, or rather jhe iels broke Mae Faggs 1954 Century 46.9 seconds. Voris Peters aiid Robert Gray tied . i idea is being argued and investigated from all angles as to its Mark record in the first trial heat Last year Tennessee entered' in tor top honors wit h 15 points each I potentials.’ and. .’ possibilities...... When the idea was first suggested, with a 113 seconds. She then went two of the three women’s events at and in ■ the' second- place with. 11 ______J:l..______J — ..., on to take the finals at 11.2 seconds the annual game and collected five we readily approved as we felt that the Dream Game would be just- one second under the indoor first place medals, two trophies and markers was Robert Lewis. For the another incentive for the boys to give their best during the regular SPORTS BANQUET HEADLINERS—The above trio blue devils Richard Johnson was ’record of 11.1 co-held by two Ten one third-place medal for their Wilbur G. Kurtz, Jr., The . Coca-Cola Com- season. will carry major .roles in the 20th annual sports the leader with 25 tallies and next.' nessee State girls, Mae Faggs and evening'sjvork. pany, center, will present trophies which are bers of the 1954 All-Memphis Team, Jean Patton. Miss. Faggs jetted across the fin banquet being held in Atlanta, Ga., January 28 man with 14 points: was Richard donated by his firm for all major honorees of the Calvin. In the Xnvier conflict, the Then, too, THE WORLD BOWL as they received the announce* Coach Temple’s Tiger relay team ish line in :11.4- seconds for first at the Waluhaje Apartments. J , R. E. Lee, Jr., taking its game from the sponsors, ment last Wednesday night during out-classed the 660 yard medley re place in the 100-yard dash, and she event while Marion E. Jackson, sports editor, Jaguars combined a quartet . of b usiness_ma.nager,„FloridcuA._a nd M—U ni verity/ j Peters. Gray. Lewis, and Clacence the Memphis World and the At- the course of the Melrose team's lay field in setting a new TiZO meet anchorcdtlie winning “teams-660-- Jhe^Atlanta-Daily-World,- is coordinatomof the Janta Daily_Worlii, wouId be ft crl- annual banquet. One of the players .__ record fo rthe distance. Tennessee’s yard medley relay. Tallahassee, left, has been named Citizen of the Cunningham' tp set-irTdrrfd-jMictr- dmner. The sports .group will honor the four which stunned - the ’ here-to-jm-e terion by which the fans would get who will be a senior next year, relay team shave :04.7'seconds off - Prior to the evening star's an Year by the ,100 Per Cent Wrong Club, sponsors a chance to compare the brand of a-ked point blank, “where will the nual games. Tennessee State Uni IV54 co-champ'ons in ■ inter-collegiate football, glisterhig Gold Rusli. the record set last year at the of the sports banquet, and he will deliver the football played by the teams of first game be played, Memphis or games. versity track team co-eds made an and outstanding coach and players of the year. principal address of the evening. Southern started av'l had the the two cities. Atlanta, and whether there would educational ’ tour of the ■ United game Well In hand Jong before Miss Faggs, the favorite to win States Capitol Building oh Friday. Perhaps, our first . enthusiasm I be one or two games?” halftime which saw the Jacu.ars We asked tills particular player, -the 100-yard race, took second; The Tigerbelles visited both houses out front by a 58-36 talley. Coach might have "been due to the pre ihlle Hyacinth Waters, Philander of Congress—House of Representa SBS 'TonnStateEdgesKontucky mostly in Jest, If he thought he R. II. Lee wcnU loJiLk-benldLJre=_ dominancel of Bowl fever .which was would be a member of the 1955 kith, Little Rock,- Ark., was third. tives not in session—and listened to quently and Ills re-erve cages kept so much in evidence when the idea In the men’s division . Art Bragg, the- Senate's debate on the resolu team, and he replied, “Well I made on even terms with the hanless was first conceived. yet, after It last year and also this year, so running unattached, took two first tion adopted noting the 35th year GLEE CLUB TO Gold Rash . five Peters and Gray much discussion and consideration place medals. Bragg jetted in first of the. National Junior Chamber of BE ON T. V. I should have a good or better were really ouLstancilng with a bar we still feel that the thought can chance next year." Many other . in the 70-yard sprints equaling the Commcr.cc and its chapters through The Douglass School Glee Club | State Thorcbreds 77-74 rage of scores which netted them become a reality that wijl grow and meet record 7.1 seconds time. Bragg the United States. The tourning is to-be presented on WMCT-TV questions were asked, but we could BY EARL CLANTON 32 arJ 24 points respectively. Lewis become one of tlie biggest prep equalled the meet time in 1951, 1953 speedsters listened to the Capitol Feb. 20, Mrs. Erncss Bright Westles dumped in 29 point-. |.;lcvcn ,,f gathered 18 digits and Cunning not give the answers, us air the Guides' planned lecture, on the is tlie club's director. The Glee Club FRANKFORT, Ky. - Tennessee school events of tlie south. md again last Saturday. The for-, Coach McLendon's hardwood artist ham 14 as the Jaguar« ran up the details have not been worked out. mer Morgan Flash broke the' tape, in building historic Rotunda a n d will sing: This Is My Country, I State's 77-74 squeaker over Kentuc- got into the score books. The ground work is being laid ______State Thorobreds here last recoil score Xavier's Dribblers ■. nessee has to face Kentucky, 10 markers. Southern will. play- with theTidea. . .' BY BILL LITTLE j'opposition'for this strong mucieus Madison, Arrneta Taylor, Alberta I maining games in the little garden Xavier, Jackson, Lincoln and Cen- Both Dillard and Xavier in a re We were especially impressed will be Woodstock Training Schoo) Nipley, Dorothy McCright,. Gearline I, before going.to'Grambling College. turn engagement during '■ the. lat with the reaction by some of the Now dear readers, let the Sports Local cage, fans are in for a big Bell, Geraldine Gray, Demctra Dur- : Ril'ton, La., for the Midwestern tuil State again. Tennessee's only, week Of basketball as eight prep., and Washington." loss for the season ivas to Lincoln ter part oi February. coaches and officials of the prep Trail hear how you feel about the The .four, quintets will play two hanl. Rosie Lee Jones, Claudia Ivy. Athletic Conference’s Basketball league, as well as the members of proposed - game we are anxious to ,. and . three college games headlines Leverta Chavers and others. . '.'.Tournament. February 47 18: 19 to In 17 games string-popping McNeal the biggest schedule of the season. double-hekders. Friday night at 8 leads th» Tigei's with 324 points or the Metro jc team who arc mem- find out what the football fans P. M on B. T. Hunt floor Wash BASKETBALL DEVILS. Ji try for a spot in .the NAIA District think of such a game. We are ex And to tep it off at least seven of Vs. WARRIORS 129 play-offs in March. 19 points per game. Sharp-eyed ington tangles with Pearl. .On the forward Kean is second with 278 Fla. Probes Case pecting to hear of the reaction of io, hoop scraps will cafry high in- ,, . . f xtr.-A-l TheXllt. Douglass XVUURed ULVJlò.iiDevils and the j .At Xenia, the 1954 NAIA tin-off the'AHnnta fans to the promotion rest, because of its. sectionalism., Washington______warnars_____ rplayedl,, _ J a real 1 champions crushed— Wilberforce,-— ------95- points. As r. tcum^_MiiClendon after a week’s lay-off for semes stock tips, against Clarksville. Sat smooth, game, Thursday night,. Jan . 46 fur their IfitKwm of the ^som SÄÄW'MSes h'-ve chalked1 UPup 1555 Of Schoo! Bias — Africa Study Program in a-few days. —-—-—————-Ji ter examinations LeMoyne - - swings urday night’s « action--»'shifts: ■ -to 20." at Manassas Gym,. The close Ikno._A. Keau,’ 6-4, senior Vt“tpStePer 8ame “ The Georgia city .already has ft into action tomorrow (W •lncsday) Woodstock’s Gym at Lucy. Tenn, score was 61-73 in favor ofc th“. 59 2 for the opponents. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. —(INS)— setup or a booster group that could , against the sharp shooting Lane The squads switch opponent for Washington Warriors. Gov. Leroy Collins’ office said Fri Is Given Large Grant assure (lie game success tn Atlanta Dragons of Jackson, Tennessee. The these.’encounters. THE BASKETBALL day that a preliminary investiga through the Atlanta Dally World ’ Mad Magicians will be out to prove The Warriors are pitted with FANS ARE: ichigan Produces Fisk Star tion into the case of five children EVASTQN, III'. —(ANP)— North and the cooperation of the 100 Per that their 87-85 overtime win over Burt while Pearl matches baskets Alegra Jones, Dorothy Washing barred from a Lake County School western university.', a pioneer in the Cent Wrong of that city, providing itfj Lane two weeks ago was no fluke. with Woodstock.. ton, Mabie Spencer. Clifford Dum NASHVILLE. ' Tenn. - Esmo past three years, how he came to because of claims that they have field of Africa studies, has Deen the idea could be accepted by that : (Tec) Woods, Captain of the Fisk On Friday the Purple Waves are In league action to-night league as. Robert Smith. Ernestine Davis, matriculate in Nashville where he Negro blood lias been completed. granted $235.00,0 for its , research wide-awake sports group. slated to inaugurate its first home leading Washington goes against Delois Smith, Vaness Mann; James University basketball team, has ■has received no aid, even' for such The investigation was started at program. ' As was mentioned in the first coming game when they enter once beaten Melrose in the Hunt Morris, Helen Jackson, Era Ed proven to. be one of the most out basketball prowess. This- point is 'the request of Allen Platt, father announcement, there could be two tain Alabama A and M Normal Col Gym. The' Manassas Tigers are wards, Louis Boykin, Catherine standing players Fisk has seen In even more sharply brought out of the children.. The children, Payson S. Wild. deaii of faculties. games pluyed each fall, one week- , ' lege. Besides the game the crown matched in the only other game Sanders, Clarence Brown—Lonnie recent years A native of Pontiac. when it ts known tliat. "Tee" was whom Platt says are of Irish-In ■ made the announcement last week end in Atlanta and the next in ing of Miss LeMoyne is one of the with St. Augustine on tlie North Hubbard, Alvin Neal Hogan, Mary Michigan, Woods starred for Pon offered, upon high school gradua dian descent, were ordered out of and stated that Dr. Melville J Memphis, or if the committee should night’s highlights. riders floor. Bolden. Mary Hiljton, Joe Miller, tlac High School where lie was an tion,. scholarships at. the Universi a Mount Dora school by. Lake Coun Horskevitz, chairman of thé School’s decide, only one game a year alter- On Saturday night the highflying Thursday’s prep action ■ calls for Lindsey Reynolds, Gloria DeMire, All-Saginaw. .Valley Conference ty. Sheriff Willis McCall. anthropology department and one natirig between the two cities. The ty of Michigan, Morningside Col proceeds from the game could go to Xavier Gold Rushers move into the tip-offs between Hamilton and St. Felicia Blakely, John. Parker, Jim .guard ill 1949-50, 1950-51. and lege of Iowa; University of Detroit, The family formerly lived in of the world’s leading authorities Bluff City to clash with the Mad Augustine on the Hunt boardwood my Edwards, Ruth Thornton, Val where he received a. unanimous All Holly Hill. S.. C„ where Platt said on Africa, will direct' thé program some worthy charity as selectfid by Wayne University, and Kentucky 1 the-committee. We still feel that . Lads in Bruce- Gymnasium. whiR Dourlass' and Melrose fight lie Dee McWilliams. Doris Johnson, state ^election Im, 1951. . j the. children attended a White that will be made, possible by thè States College. A number of his the idea has possibilities. TWO BIG TWIN BILLS it out on tlie Manassas Gym. Emma Ware, Alice Lemmons, Glor Esmo.-or f'Tiie,’’ as/his classmates school grant ia Mathis. Jimmy Ford. , call him, is a history major with close friends discussed Fisk at Although the regular prep card Hamilton and Washington hung length with, him and his family up victories in preo action Thurs,- Tommie Lemmons, Jaunita G16v-’ aspirations for law 'school. After 1- on tap for the week two Middle er, Katy Chavers, Louise Blanton, knowing of Fisk's reputation,- urg . Tennessee teams'invade Wqst Ten day night. The. Wildcats took the graduation in June, he plans to ed him to enter if oriiy on a trial measure of Manassas. Tlie Warriors Eddie McKinley, Wilma Ferguson. attend either Wayne or Michigan I nessee to steal the spotlight. The Charlie Mae Smith; John Ware, basis. The result, has' been a pro $ teams are: Pearl High of Nashville, roared back after dropping a last in pursuit of this goal. A regular Julie Jones, Ella Frances Eskridge, guy with more than his 'share of fitable experience for both. a perennial paveer in slate prop minute 73-74 to Coleman High-of Esmo Woods’ explains his choice Greenville. Mississippi .Wednesday' Dessaree Woods and many others. popularity, Esmo is a. ' strong 'B' circles, and Burt High of Clarkvlllo FETAQUESANDERS of an Alma Maier: “I feel that my runnerups to Au'tin of Knoxvhl» Night to drub the upset .minded student and a member of Alpha APPEARS AT DOUGLASS Plii Alplia fraternity.. choice of a college to attend was in last year’s state tournament. The Dorglgss_JL.d Devils._ : ... . ’ wise in every respect. The -cultural Fetaque Sanders-the- "mixed up" -Many^k-the^cnÄ magican appeared at Douglass High who has led Fisk scoringscori!» torfor the11» ! Uadition of. Fisk, plus the warmth and feeling of belong, , Woodstock in Dual Gaines Ing which is. prevalent in this and Woodstock ..plays Pearl. These small, rich, environment, makes me games will be played in, the Wogd- School Mon., Jan. 17, in the school’s Auditorium. regret to leave in June, though. I Bunt, Pearl High Tilts Here ■slock 'gymnasium. Mr. Sanders ■ did tile shall always be . sentimentally at Games between these schools al bubble gum trick, head shrinking, tached." see, at 8:00 o’clock in the Washing ways draw the attention of many a trick with his Christmas necktie, Of, great interest to all basketbnl' baking cookies, and making a' rub fans is' the big doubleheader sche ton High School Gym. The same avid basketball fails and a capjicity. “Tee" Woods, in this eager sea crowd is expected. Such basketball ber ball disappear.', etc. duled for the weekend. night Woodstock plays Burt' High son, lias racked up a 20.6 average. School in Um same gymnasium. greats. as Lawshcà, Gordon,' and Three seniors were picked at. ran Among Fisk liigli-point men, he has On Friday January. 28., 1955 dom from the audience. They were Booker T. Washington plays Pearl On Saturday night- Booker T. Sanders will be at I heir best for been second only to the popular Washington plays Burt High School Washington: Doris Johnson, and Joyce. Jones Freddy Work. " As a captain, "Tee" High School of Nashville, Tennes- who participated.in the disappear ing ball trick .and then Fred Vales stands among the- strongest “Bus" was asked participate in 'the head Thompson has coached shrinking trick. Robert T, Mitchem; FISK TO MEET KENTUCKY DOUGLASS SWINGStERS IN THE SPOTLIGHT STATE The evening breeze and arms aid The winning. Fisk .University ed by the "Prof. Jackson's Swing-.: “Bulldogs" will meet • Kentucky stershelp to make the night dance State Col'eee in Henderson A. able, .listenable and-to dine by this Johnson Gymnasium (Nashville) music is royalty, says the duke. Say January 29. hey, you bobby soxers and jazz fans listen to the fourth top ranking band in the gigantic “M", the fabulous Douglass Swingsters. Tlie members President May of this breezy orchestra*are; Al- phonso Smith, John Oliver Scott, Alfred Jones, .William Tyus, Arthur Ask Power To McDaniel, Willlanj * Ellis,; James Jones—emcee ' and Tommie Lem mons, pianist. JUNIOR CLASS TO ■WASHINGTON (INS), PRESENT VALENTINE'S DANCE dent Eisenhower will send Congress The Junior ' Class . of Douglass a special-message Monday redefin High is to present a Valentine’s ing America’s Formosa, defense Dance, Feb. 11 in tlie school's au policy and asking ■ authority to use ditorium. Any girl from high school U. S. military power to help Chiang is eligible to become Queen of Hearts. The dance will be from 8 Kai-Shek’s troops- withdraw from p. m. til?- .' _ the Tachen,Islands. . STAR-DOUGLASSITE Tlie White House and GOP Con- Miss Sleadle Johnson, daughter of gressibnal leaders announced Satur Early Tim.es is so fine, so traditionally per Mr. and Mrs. Jas. day. that the message, will be given to the House and Senate at 11 tv. Johnson of 1587 m. 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. - •f WO1UD Tuoxluy, Jdnuciry 25, 1955 Fisk Defeats Tougaioo Southern Five Morris To Take On Alcorn Braves JACKSON Miss. -The Tougaioo Bulldogs, showing more bitp and growl Ilian they have-in a long time are all set Mpend THE WORLD •””””* the Alcorn A and M Braves! defending South Central Athletic Conference Basketball Champions of 1954, this weekend in what ■ I NASHVILLE, Tenn —The Fisk University Bulldogs defeated the shapes up as a torrid two game selto. 1 Morris Brown -College Purple Wol- ■ It luis been eight ling yCJ.rs since BY MARION E. JACKSON i verines, 80-60, Friday night, at the Tougaioo—ims—detected iui Alcorn I Henderson A. Johnson Gymnasium. team on the hardwood and . this Wally Moon The Blue. ; and Gold Bulldogs should give the "Canines” a double jumped out Lronl at the start and incentive. were , never headed again during John Braxton's 'young club is the- contest.- sporting ”. gaudy 1 win 3 loss sea Knoxville College will, be the prc-SiAC basketball loui.la Freddie Workl playing ills usual son, with a three, game-win streak ment favorites but don't put your -bankroll on the Bulldogs. Nc great game at.. center, scored -21 going at -present. In their last ¡ points to help Fisk to a 32-25 lead Tdnnessee entry has ever won the -conference crown!!! Dusty three outing." .the Bulldogs have Cardinals Rhodes is bascball's_mosf honored player of '54-55 on the Knife | al half-time overpowered B. A. Owens 113 to ' Captain Esino Woods, after not 103, Rust College 93 to 48. and Le and Fork circuit. He's Io guest star al the Atlanta 100 'Pnr Cenl ST. LZXJ1S—(INS)—Wally Moijn. ¡.(aking a single shot during.fhe first land College 91 lo 68. Two of the 1954 rooki'A of the year, and t.Vo Wrong Club dinner Jan; 28 . . /Ted A. Wright reportedly ailing |.period. Came back to score 21 points wins were chalked-up on the.op-- other St. ixpuis Cardinals have but continuing as cage mentor at Savannah State . . . Morris Brown Ito give the Bulldogs a command- position’s home courts. signed. 1955' contracts. lost, its star quarterback Warner Jackson because of scholarship ] Ing dead the rest of tiic way. The starting quintet of Whiscn- The 24-ycaf-oId Moon. wlu> Captain Jimmie Adams scored 17 ton-Thompson-WHliams-LewLs and difficulties ... . lilt home runs in his first and I points in a losing cause for the Boykin have scored al, an 87.4 clip last times at bat during the Tire Pacific Coast League saw an was going overseas, the manage ¡Purple Wolverines. for. ten games, hitting in the nine important trade when Artie Wil ment hu-h-tiushed the idea that season, admitted. he received Fisk now lias an overall record ties three times and reaching the son, who makes his home in Birm their centeificlil star would get in century mark one?..- nine increases in pay over, his jured. As it turned out the club, was of eleven wins and four losses, rookie $6,000 but wouldn’t say ingham, Ala., was acquired by the 1I I ALBANY, Go.—.Shown above are members Mabie Battle, Wilhelmina Hall, Belma Franklin, Jerry Lewis, the former Jim Hill Portland Beavers from the Seattle right, but wl>o could have foreseen staying 8 and 4 in SIAC competi liow mucn< tion. The Bulldogs play Kentuckj' ' of the faculty of Carver Junior High School who Aletha Goff, Captain, Mary McCoy, Laura Jor star, has a glittering 26 point game The other signers announced Jast^^ Rainers. Portland gave Seattle an inciden (involving Mays and Iiu- I State here on January 29. ! will challenge' a group of Elementary School dan, Co-Captain, Muss, Mary E. Clark arid Mrs. average for ten games,; while Clev Third Baseman Rocky Krsnich, ben Gomez. Williams has scored at a 22 point As a result. Mays who had depart I teachers in a Basketball game on.Monday night, Mary F. Jenkins'. Proceeds from the game will night are pitcliKrs Stu Miller and Pitcher Jehosic Heard and an un clip; in addition he and Captain Jack Faszholz. Ol.'ly one other St. specified amount of. cash. Wilson, ed the glory of world series fan 1 January 24 at the Monroe High school. Front go to.the March of Dimes Fund. The above pho Jefire Whisenton have been towers whose batting average, .336, was fare returned to New York as the Louis player has signed his 1955 ■ row—Left Io right: Mrs. Eloise Kelley, Miss Ruth to through, the courtesy of Cochrane's . Studio. of strength on the boards. contract. .He is pitcher Brooks thhU highest in the Coast League, ; center oi an undying controversy.. Photo engraving and printing donated by the Jim Grant, Charles Hughes, Jerry is acclaimed as one of baseball’s To add fat to the fire, Mays who ■ T. Kimbrough, Principal and Co-Chairman of the Lawrence. Southwest Georgian Staff. Kimble,,and Chuck Bradley, have thriftest players. should have.been contrite on. ar-i Mothers' March and Mrs. Mamie Cross. Second been giving the starting five much Moon replaced Enos Slaughter Tile next Deep South stop on the riving in Nelv York greeted sports- ! row—left to right: Mesdames Jessie Coleman, needed help, and recently Bradley, who was traded, to the Yankees. sports banquet trail will be the writers with anger and defiance of ■ Hips Tuskegee the 6’ 3’” Greens Farms, Conn., boy He batted .304 for the season with Birmingham.. Grid Forecasters Din- their efforts to interview him. has been hitting the nets with 1? homers ahd led tHe chib in ) ner on Feb. 3 at the YMCA there. The outraged newsmen appealed regularity. He dropped in 39 points stolen bases with 18, exactly, the A host of Alabama sports notables! to N. Y. Giant owner Horace Stone- ; By 85-53 Count in the Leland game, Monday night number the entire Cardinal Tea will-be there.-B.-T. Harvey^com-J ham1_who_has.tily_contacted MayaatJ. . at Baker, La. stole the previous- season. missioner of the SIAC, will make the Harlem apartment where he 1 The Alcorn settoTviU take 'plMe' Miller, a sensation during the the principal address. stays on St. Nicholas and invited By DICK McGRIFF on the 21st and 22nd of January - Sugar Ray Robinson, whos ring the press to meet him there . . . but late i
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala. — A brilliant performance by; Na Ronald JohnsonSets thaniel Frazier, who hooped 30 points, revived Golden Tigef hopes of a Iole season comeback when Tyskegee shaded Morehouse Collego/Atlanta, ,63-59, in a see-savy thriller In the local baskét- oall emporium here Wednesday night. ■ Superbly supported by Thomas Lampkin whose sensational play was temporarily halted by an in BY JOEl W. SMITH jury during the game; James Wil Coach Abbott ATLANTA, Georgia — ’ 1SNS) — liams, Randall Sterling, Fred Burns Ronald Johnson, of Okmul and Willis Morris, a freshman-so gee, Okla., turned in a‘scintillat phomore combine, Frazier« J.0 field goaLs, mainly from the far. outside, ing performance as he sparked and 10 successful throws, provided, the Morehouse College Maroon a margin which enabled Tuskegee Tigers to a 90-73 victory over to outpoint the talented excellent the Benedict College Purple and ly coached Maroon Tigers from At From Hospital Gold Tigers, Fridayxiight, at the lanta. The .Morehouse Maroon Tigers’ TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala.— , Morehouse G.ymgasium. Jim Wortham, Ozzie Bynum. Don Johnson, who got plenty of help , Cleve L Abbott, veteran director,, from his mates, led the way as. the ' ClenltcnOn, Bill Pennmari and L. of athletics and football coach' at ' Maroon Tigers pulled away for a , A. Johnson, gave the Tuskegee Ti Tuskegee Institute, is oh tempor-"’ quick 13-6 margin in the first five gers as much as they could "Kay ary .leave from, the Veterans) A » *• " MEMPHIS WORLD 'gi tuMÜÖy, JarfuSry M, IMS - ,V. «PR 9W Court Upholds i —■— * '1■ ’<■ REVIEWING ; Z Conviction - - J M Sr (Eat. X Ï X n » .... - . ¿asa Of Shoulders 111 The South's Oldest and Leading Colored Semi-Weekly Newspaper • Published by MEMPHIS WORLD PUBLISHING CO. STI LOOTS — (INS) — The Unit- '] Every TUESDAY and FRIDAY at 164 BEALE—Phone 8-4030 BY WILLIAM GORDON — ... ' ______' •'______ed States Court of Appeals Upheld .Entered In the Post Office at Memphis, Tenn.,- as second-class mall Saturday the conviction of former :X- Ö : t 1 , under the Act of Congress, March 1, 1870 Managing Editor, Atlanta Dally World < --/.I Police Lt. Louis Shoulders and Pa < trolman Elmer Dolan for perjury Member of SCOTT NEWSPAPER SYNDICATE with regard to Imissing ’ ’ rànsôn?.W|' W. A. Scott, 11, Founder; C. A. Scott, General Manager »enlease kldüan-’ —... _ ____ .______—V. money in the Qreenleane kidnap- — g Raymond F. Tlsby ...... Managing Editor .murder case; . _.Mra. Rosa Brown Bracy Public Relations and Advertising WUUam C, Weathers . Within The Realm Of Reality — Tile court ruled that the two St. • ...... Circulation Promotion Louis policemen, now serving" prison Dwelling far away from reality has become far too much of •The MEMPHIS WORLD Is an Independent newspaper—non-sectarlan terms, had fair trails last year in and non-partisan, printing news unblasedly and supporting those things a pattern among groups and individuals. Consequently, when Federal Court at Kansas City. it believes to be of Interest to Ils readers and opposing those things against things affects the neighbors, we pay little attention to the situ . Authorities still are probing the the interest of Its readers. ation or consea.uences. whereabouts of. the missing $303,702 of the record $600,000 ransom paid SUBSCRIPTION RATES: The woman who had spent most of her life in luxurious Year $5.00 — 6 Months $3.00 — 3 Months $1.50 (In Advance) <• kidnapers Carl Austin Hall and surroundings once looked at the March of Dimes program) as just Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady. another drive. She really never became conscious of its signifi > • . Shoulders, veteran. of 27 years* Nibbling cance until her own son became the victim of polio. police work, with Dolan’s aid, cap Nibbling is on old word and a commonplace one in the dic The samé was true with the woman, who for years lived in tured Hall, the kldnap-klller of tionary, but Senator Knowland of California may bring it into a community and never spoke to her neighbors until after a tor six-year-old Bobby Greenlease ot nado had almost destroyed her home escaping with her life by Kansas City. The arrest was made use along with such war terms as camouflage, sabotage and only a miracle. Oct. 6, 1953. bush-whacking. Should the academy fold Negro atobia to which the youths must ■Hall’s Accomplice, Mrs. Heady, We could go on and on and relate incident áfter incident ABOUT TO FOLD? . . .The, travel at their own expense or 24 was seized on the same night. While the able Senator from California is being met with his Baptist industrial Academy at youths in the county can only look word in reverse, in that he is being accused of "nibbling" away where man becomes so deeply involved in his own affairs that forward to an elementary. educa miles ■ to Memphis, Tenn., , high The two later were executed in he completely forgets the problems of his fellowman. Hernando, Miss., the only source schools where they often list ficti the state’s gas chamber for Bobby’s.— Eisenhower's defense policies. of high school education for the tion since the state of Mississippi' A similar pattern of reasoning could be applied to jobs of cious “relatives” in order to be ac kidnap-slaying. ' wT Anyway, his little word might see service in other fields. 19,000 Negroes in DeSoto County, offers no high school facilities for protecting children from the dreaded disease of polio. We read the' 19,000 Negroes in the county cepted. ■ • We note that there is going on a little nibbling here in Miss, has reached rock bottom in Shoulders, and Dolan were ques about it and wé talk about it, but we really don't get down to finance and is dangerously near' with the nearest state high school tioned extensively by a Kansas City Georgia. In the first place the nibbling started with certain state A plea for help has gone out doing much about it until someone close to us becomes a victim. the point of closing up unless im being located 30 miles, away in Sen- grand jury regarding two suitcases employees, who according to the governor's brother, "guessed from the school.—'(Ragsdale Phitol "I really never knew much about polio," a woman once said. mediate relief is .found: in which Hall carried the kidnap wrong in the last gubernatorial primary in September." money. Their failure to account . "I became conscious of the damage polio does when my otyn tural labor force, the decline in em leader, academically, politically, for the missing money led' to their These nibbles will be probably the hardest felt because they USDA Official spiritually, and economically. It involve not only poorly guessed politics, but bread as well. son. became ill with thé disease," she added. ployment has totaled 333,000, or indictment and subsequent trial and Since that timé, this woman has not only talked about polio, (Continued From'Page One) nearly eight percent since 1951. Was ’ in economic channels that he conviction for perjury. At the kickoff There was a little nibble at the United States made his greatest and ..most far she has helped to raise money to fight it. As a-matter of fact she COTTON PICKING RATES Supreme Court and our federal government's mandates. foundry operation, leathercraft, and DOWN IN ’54 FOR 2ND YEAR reaching contribution. Professor Their only recourse flow is to seek has led the "Mothers March" in her city for several years. other crafts and processes, includ Representative Alpa Fowler of Douglasville, has a faint nibble IN ROW, REPORTS USDA Sharp’s community garden was a a rehearing or attempt an appeal "Out of this," she says," I have acquired the feeling that 1 ing brick and tile making. project that gained national recog to the U. S. Supreme Court. __ . meant for getting two thirds of the states to pass a certain con Cotton picking rates dropped should-have-had~ail along—l-now-realize-that- my neighbors, the. _<_A_natlye of Tilden, Ala., Mr. Cole j ai~’]ast (,ear f0'r second consecu- nition. Mrs. Eleanor. Roosevelt, stitutional amendment which would empower the states to do is a g™ro^r"SnoirHill-InsUtuteT^’,^yjZ^j^— theiT th'eNation’s’First’Ladyr visit people in the next block and the man who runs the store on the their own public school regulating. (He did not say anything about Snow Hill, Ala., and Talladega Col- «me ayei*age peak of $3.05 per 100 ed this project and.was indeed loud corner ore all fellow-human beings with the same heart-beat, the lege. He first went to Angola as a ^^952 the°U S. Depart- school lunches, government supplements and handouts and that missionai-y more than 20 years ago j P d Agriculture reports. in her praisq of it. This garden Georgian To Run same feelings that I have. Moreover, I have become aware that request made sometimes ago for government assistance in school under the auspices.of the Congrega- i 1 J nation-wide rate for fed many a family that might have l am not the one and only human beifrg ,wha- helps to make this suffered from hunger otherwise:otherwise : buildings for the state). tional Church. His new Program ; 11 LD Kn^in_195-? ^as $2 70 per great universe the kind of place it is." This was in the lean days'days of the Still another nibble is in the making, meant to nibble away which will include the construction ■ poun(is Tuis Was"io cents less depression back in the '30’s. But For Judgeship As we go about trying to raise the more than $64,000,000 we P^. ^ ehildi'en s village for orphans, | h 19j3 Lowest rates last sòme of the more Democratic practices in the U. S. Army. people have not allowed the fat pay so urgently need, we can get to know the fellow next door. We will be under the sponsorship of the ; ’6re New Mekico, Ala- This would nibble info the President's order for desegrega checks ana prosperous times of the can get to know that the kids next door are also human beings. Pestalozzi Foundation. . bama an(] South Carolina. In these present make them forget. That is tion on Army bases. This nibble would, in these times of peril and In K. C., Mo. o We can also be brought to the realization that polio strikes without SECRETARY SAYS CO-OPS States, the rates ranged from $2.35 why the Douglass community the threat to national security, take up the time to have soldiers HIT COST — PRICE SQUEEZE to $2,45 per 100 pounds. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (ANP) — regard lo economic or social levels and that even racial barriers thinks it- only: fit and proper to let to be polled in a system of national defense as to who will fight these two men who have ’ made A Georgia-born lawyer, Carl R. hold no resistance against the plague. “Farmèr Cooperatives are hitting ; COTTON YH&LQ. ALMOST r such a contribution to it know how Johns, 60, became the first Negro plong by the side of whom. thè cost-price squeeze from two di- TRIPPLED DURING PAST The life of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt is good I. . . Aa- - . . Ì an vr»D OI7DTHD much they are appreciated and selected by the Citizens Association Nibbles may be small and apparently insignificant, but too rections,” said Secretary of Agri- 88-YEAR PERIOD Ci.04.oc. of Kansas City to run for municipal testimony as to position and social status. With adeqùate means culture Ezra Taft Benson in an ad- Cotton yield in the UmtedUnited States that the monuments they have much nibbling might make a hole large enough to "leak the built iti the hearts and minds of judge. bucket empty." lo provide for medical care, he. spent a rich portion of his life dress last week before the annual has risen from 121.5 pounds.pe fighting the dise.ase from a wheel chair; The woman who lived in meeting of the National Council of acre in 1866 to 339 pounds in 1954, the people both old and young will The Citizens Association selects ■ j reports the IL S. Department of Ag- never crumble or wear away be luxury most of her life could not build a wall around her sop who Farmer Cooperatives in Chicago. | reports the U. S. Department ot Ag- the ticket for the city elections In- “I . riculture. cause of weather conditions or any- eluding mayor, judges and other of caught the germ despite his money. And the. picture does not end . Continuing, the Secretary added,. licultuie. -, Don’t Give Up The Ship” •thing else. ■ . ' ficers. This was the first time since “Cooperative marketing can bring ; while the U. S. average last' year ¿ Mrs. Blendàle Cross is P. T. A. Some yeors ago an idea was conceived to the end of giving a here. ' . better prices, while cooperative, buy- ! was 339 pounds per acre., .in the municipal judge. The election will We could go into almost every community, check hospitals President. J. D. Springer, princi- be during the latter part of March physical emphasis to on ideal, which practically revolutionized ing often reduces costs." The real west —' .California, Arizona and pal. . education. It was born in the brain of Booker T. Washington, him and clinics. The result would be that polio hits on all levels. We. test of a cooperative he said, is the [ ^ew Mexico — it rose to 830 pounds, with the primary set for Feb. 29. cannot run and we cannot hide from .its crippling'effects. What contribution it makes to a better i an(j ¡n ule Delta —I Missouri, Ark- self a child of slavery. Beginning shortly after a race came upon standard. of living for its individu- I ansas> Tennessee, Mississippi, and Sometime ago a committee from we can do is join lhe March of Dimes and fight.it through research the plane of citizenship, his was a solo flight. He plugged awoy a.l' farmer members. • » Louisiana, — to 397 .pounds per acre. the Jackson County Bar, a Negro • in what was at that time, thought on unpopular appeal. The na and adequate medical care for those who have already «fallen by body, asked Atty. Johnson to run the wayside. But to do this, we must get .to know our next door AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT for the judgeship. The organiza tion and the world accepted him and during his short span of life, CONTINUED DOWNWARD IN ’54 tion, W. Franklyn Clark, president, neighbor, and share in his problems. In doing so. we must not get | Douglas P-TA he preached the gospel of self help, native thrift and the nobility Farm employment continued its spearheaded the effort to get John of. industry. He left behind him — o "word made flesh" and too far away from the realm of reality. downward trend in 1954. showing (Continued From l’agc One) son on the ticket. wherever today educational principles ore brought under scrutiny, a decline of 129,000 over the pre- 1 He took upon Himself our infirm- youth is sitting, and you will un vious year.' reports the U, S. De- •prqir.incnt in'the County, . West, For many years, Atty. Johnson .- his name seldom remains long an outcast. Sties. “He sat where we sat.” derstand youth the better and see. partment of Agriculture. Tennessee, and State Educational has been tone of the top cllvic lead- ■fe . .Befitiingly, lhe place of his birth in the state of Virginia, fell Jesus literally took tlie place of why they act as they do. Let youth circles. He was admired by most ers here. He is serving his 14th lV beneath the eyes of those public spirited ones who jjelieved that every condemned sinner on the sit in om' places and they will see Since 1951, (arm rmployment. people and his opinion respected by year as - president of the local throughout the nation lias dei-reas- all. As Professor Hayes goes out of the perpetuation of a memory is enhanced ih the preservation of cross. "He'sat where they sat.’.' why; we oldsters are so concerned.. Dear Editor: NAACP. He holds membership on Only he w-lto lias known hard ed from 8,895,000 to. 8,451,000, or. by the Memphis City Sehoiil System at I would like lo thank my friends the NAACP national board of direc th spot so important in its history. For many years various organi .“Had they known they would not ships, bereavements and ail losses have criticized tlie Prince of Peace." about, five percent. In the South, the close ui this school year, he in south Memphis,, members of tors and on the. legal committee. zations sought to interest, those friendly lo lhe couse for which can fully sympathize with, others where Negro farm people make up tan look back and admire a Job Greater Mount Pleasant and the If we early know certain things: Atty. Johnson is a former nation Booker Washington dedicated his life, in lhe acquiring and pre who suffer hardships, bereavement, but we don't know and we, fie- i large proportion of. the agrieul- well done. Tree, of fife.. Missionary . Baptist and Tosses. . . . churches for tlie kindness shown al president of Kappa Alpha Psi serving of the house in which the wizard of Tuskegee was born, quentl«’ act unwisely. Sit in the Professor Sliaij). Taking on the fraternity, a past president of Har as well as one hundred acres surrounding it. . Wear” the other person’s shoes other fellow's place and se,e what see why they tick as they do. Know- Douglass mantle left , by Professor my decease uncle during Ills long and gain a better, understanding of illness. . lan Bar Association of Missouri, and The federal government gave a friendly gesture in the coin makes him tick, as he ticks. It al ‘ing them you will love them sym Hayes when lie Was moved to Ma a graduate of Howard University the other's daily problem. . ways looks.different from the oth pathize with' them and above all, I pray tlie blessings of God upon ing of half-dollar silver pieces to be sold at a small profit to help' nassas, certainly wore il with grace Law School. Other work was done When we fret and complain and er person’s situation. ■ understand them. Can . you .say, "I and distinction. For, twenty-five everyone that helped. at Boston University. in the financing of what it thought a meritorious project. A post- condemn youth, simply sit where "Sit with people: Then you will sat where they sat.” years he worked in the Douglass The Niece of the Deceased - Mrs.’ office was established there, bearing the postmark of "Booker community, interesting himself in Sarah E. Mebane, Moscow, Tenn. He has served on board member Washington Birthplace, Virginia." every phase of it. When he took APPRECIATES COVERAGE ship capacities of the Kansas City Dear Editor:- - The sponsors conceived a virtual shrine which would in time over at Douglass, it was still a Urban League and city-wide YMCA. Thanks for the follow up on the A member of Pasee Baptist Church, be one of the principal meccas of the world. Such would have small frame, elementary school with about eight teachers. It was be-, Tennessee A and I State Universi he is also affiliated with Midwest made the project self supporting as a museum whose orchives cause of Mr. Sharp’s keen fore ty extension school here news Elks. Heart of . American Lodged . would garner one of the most priceless colleqtions of the con sight, his know-how, and his dog story. . tributions of our race. _ ¿1/ BART SPICER matic determination that Douglass ' News comes that the project is woefully in debt, with its grew from a little five teacher Mrs. Florence Jackson. Ex-Slave Born In Blind for several years, Mrs. sponsors on the verge of selling it in order to satisfy unsurmount- frame building to a full fledge senior,., high school composed of Bryant . known as ‘’Aunt- Liza,” oble liabilities. This ought not so to be. 1844 Dies At 110 CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT i night Then In a small, choked, a long, ungainly stomacher r.l grades one through twelve, had an maintained an-alert mind and was Sometimes a public entity, like a private venture, should 1 TAGGED around after Ellen, I v°ice, she said: "Poor Carney. No] phony, seed pearls and a delicate enrollment of over 1309 and a LIBERTY, Miss —(A N P)— An described as ever cheerful. Her : . examine its overall structure from bottom to top in order to diag carrying a tripod or a bag of flash- carnival for Carney.’ starched .. j» ■ At,’: Ai;. *•<;' I