NAZI CONDUCTOR BOWS OUT. THE ILLINOIS German conductor Wilhelm Furtwaengler (extreme upper right) bows graciously to ap- plause of Adolf Hitler (arrow), 8TAWDAR Hermann Goering, Joseph Goeb- beis and other top Naxis at con- | The Fan's Corner cert during Nazi regime. Furt- waengler was forced to run for cover last week when leading fans line for musicians and the, American up Federation of Labor raised a Globetrotters-Lakers storm of protest over his en- game Al gagement to conduct Chicago By Vaughn on symphony orchestra. again take the Minneapolis THELakers the night of Feb. 28th at the Chicago Stadium. True, that is almost a month off but if you are thinking of taking this one in, you a last His hands are better get mov- year. tre- mendous and ing toward the the things he can picket line. make a ball do are unbelievable. For this is the Every time we see tSfe; young- ster we can’t encore Chicago help thinking how basketball fandom has been the would run with the anxiously awaiting for over a away B.A.A. race if had him year. That is certainly not hard they picked up when he was a free to understand, especially if you agent a year ago. were one of the more than 19,- Clifton will get plenty of help 000 fans who shouted them- from the fast-breaking, fancy, selves hoarse as the Trotters one-hand-shot artist Ermer Rob- sneaked out a 61-59 decision inson. And “Babe” Pressley is over the Lakers in their first still probably the best defensive meeting, the final gun sounding guard in basketball. It will be a as Forward Ermer Robinson’s question of whether a well bal- winning basket was in the air. anced Globetrotter team can the This writer has never seen a stop individual brilliance of Mikan and Pollard of the more thrilling basketball game. Jim Pollard and Lakers. The team that is hot that will win. gave the Lakers the advantage night oil combines in height and they used it well You can bet your life on one Profiteering to jump to a nine half thing, either team you put your time lead. But the Trotters came hard earned cash on will give back with a brilliant combina- you many anxious moments be- tion of sound ball handling, fore the game is over. Come on fuel passing and accurate shooting, Big George, don’t let Brother push prices skyward which offset the Minneapolis A1 worry too much. and Chicago housewives now pay from 12.5c to 16c a gallon height advantage they * * * pricing system for petroleum pulled up even with less than a for fuel oil. This is more than 100 percent above the 1939 Gardiner, the there is no competition among minute to go. <4^HUCK” of 5.7c. Gasoline for the car now sells for 25c. of all times price family any of the companies, foreign or ^greatest goalie Taking the ball off their own his last for the The same cost 15.5c in 1939. domestic, which produce oil in played game gallon backboard on the they put the great- Chicago Black Hawks in 1934. Behind these price boosts is a combine Middle East.” profit-grabbing est show of ball handling ever Yet, as one watched the which takes hundreds of mil- Ranger- PROFITS PILE UP seen on a Chicago floor as they Chicago 2 to 2 tie game last from con- gigantic profit haul is the un- lions of dollars yearly held on to the ball for close to realistic world And the Sunday night at the Stadium, sumers. The oil market price for monopoly profits giant corpora- a minute, Robinson the one had to look petroleum, which is based on keep piling up at a fantastic letting twice to make tions could cut prices 10 percent shot with rate. to winning go less than sure tvi tall, broad kid protect- to 20 and still make the Gulf of Mexico price, re- According the Natl. City percent two seconds to go. of what actual Bank bulletin, the U.S. oil com- ing the Ranger goal was not old plenty of profits, if they prac- gardless produc- tion costs are 16 in When the Chuck himself, reincarnated. ticed what they preach—free elsewhere. panies, only number, have ball swished reported a net 9-month the a and enterprise competition. HOW IT WORKS profit through netting, spent For “Chuck” Raynor, last this of year $718,454,000, a 73 exhausted crowd let out a Sunday night, was the best The oil men operate on the Here’s how it operates to the percent increase over the $410,- mighty roar and applauded for goalie these eyes have seen since traditional advantage of the companies and monopoly principle 825,000 profits made in the the one and the of Ameri- only Gardiner. The of artificial shortage and rigged disadvantage the similar 1947 all period. While Ranger defense was as porous prices. The key gimmick in their can consumer and taxpayer. The other corporations did pretty as a sieve, and the Hawks for- Arabian-American Oil Company well in 1948, showing an overall wards came roaring through 47 (Aramco), controlled by the rise 31 profit of percent over but all but twice were Rockefeller-owned Standard Oil times, Midwest state 1947, the oil men’s 73 percent turned back cold. of California, Standard of New far outstripped the field. I Jersey, the Texas Co. and So- -1 The first goal Raynor let in Progressive cony Vacuum, controls oil in the the netting after he had kicked almost unlimited Middle East service center out at least three rebounds; the fields of Saudi Arabia. Low Open last of meet goal the night he had leaders wages keep production costs no chance on as Gus Bodnar, all down to less than 50c a barrel. and rent clinic at the found the near The first of a series of region- along net, The Economic Cooperation Ad- corner with al planning conferences was Raynor hopelessly ministration has been out of held in Chicago by state direc- buying in position. the oil at $2.65 for European north side ward tors of nine Midwestern Pro- Bill Durnam with the power- shipment. For the oil monopo- The 49th Ward gressive Party organizations last Progressive ful Montreal Canadien defense lists this means a cool $2 a bar- Party has hung out a shingle at weekend. in front of him will probably rel profit. 6935 N. Greenview its new Ave., win hands down the Vezina Joining the conference in dis- The American auto driver and headquarters. The which office, Trophy for least goals scored cussions on legislative programs the housewife who exhorbi- will serve as a rent clinic and pay upon. atnd organization plans were C. tant prices for fuel suffer di- community service center, will B. Baldwin, Progressive Party rectly from the be staffed on and But we have to go along with profit-hungry Monday George Mikan national secretary. John Abt, oil industrialists. A Senate in- Thursday nights from 7 to 10 Raynor of the cellar dwelling general counsel, and Barney and on New York Rangers who for one vestigating committee recently p.m. Saturday afternoons fully two minutes after the Conal, field director. from 2 to night looked as good as the im- reported that Middle East pe- 5 p.m. teams left the floor. For they troleum could be delivered to mortal “Chuck” Gardiner. What State directors present for the Information regarding leases, knew they had just had the New York city for half the greater compliment can be paid three-d a y meeting included price evictions, decorating, rent rises, pleasure of seeing one of the of Gulf coast the to any hockey player? Michael Essen, Wisconsin; Stan- oil, despite etc., will be given, and expert greatest games of modern times. Nowak. Michigan; Katherine freight charges. legal advice will be available. ley And we can find no legitimate De- Sen. C. Aid will also be concern- Ku Klux Klan has been Shryver, Missouri; Hugh Joseph O’Mahoney given reason for not believing that Ohio; Charles summed the situ- income tax returns, social THEdefeated. Roy Camoanella and Lacy, Fisher, (D., Wyo.) up ing the Feb. 28th encore will be as Western Pennsylvania; and Wil- ation in 1948, when he and community re- Jackie Robinson will play in June, security, exciting as the first meeting liam Miller, Illinois. said: “Under the world sources. Atlanta .against the Atlanta present' last year. Mikan and George Crackers. President Earl Mann Jim Pollard have had another of the Crackers is now taking year of playing together. They bows for telling the Ku Klux have had able assistance from Klan just where to get off. Consumers state tax bill Herman Schoffer and Jack pay Dwan. Now we are all for Mann's Continued from page 1 Establishment of an income virtually impossible to do away stand against the Ku Klux Klan. As we to are tax would require action by a with it altogether. go press they We sure feel Campanella and therefore are for first in the the counties and constitutional convention. Gov. Conrad Komorowski, field fighting place Robinson should play in Atlanta. no sub- Western division of the B.A.A. considered comparable Stevenson has already asked for representative for the Progres- But we would to remind Mann, stitute to jizeable corporation George Mikan is leading the such a convention for other rea- sives, reported that some 10,000 while he plays the role of Cru- and income taxes charged by league in scoring and sons. serving notice he will op- signatures have been gathered proving sader, that Negroes who come all industrial states with modern more and more each that pose an income tax. Republicans in the first few days of the anti- game out to Ponce de Leon Park to structures. he is Mr. Basketball. As tax are considered certain to try to sales tax petition drive. The really watch the Dodgers play ball will long as he is on the floor boards Pennies tossed across retail outdo Stevenson in blocking any petitions will be circulated in be able to see them only from the Lakers have a plenty rough one counters the years have tax change. Cook County later in the year. small section, the Jim Crow over team. realized for the state an unen- Chicago’s Mayor Kennelly has Komorowski reported that section. cumbered surplus in the treas- led a movement to cut up the telegrams demanding immediate The Trotters too have im- We would hate to think Cru- of ury of $113 million. What relief sales tax, returning portions lifting of the tax from food and proved over last year. They sader Mann’s fight against the burden remains has been shifted it to the cities. Opponents of the drugs pending full repeal have have acquired the 6 ft. 9 in. Nat Ku Klux Klan had a monetary to cigarette tax income. Year by tax hold that the “cut-it-up” been telegraphed to Gov. Stev- “Sweetwater” Clifton who is, smell. U he will just get rid of would create such a de- enson year the sales tax yield and the plan by Progressive groups in next to Mikan, the best center that Jim Crow section we will that form of in- treasury surplus continue to pendence upon Peoria, Decatur, Waukegan, in basketball, and he will help go along with him all the way. that it would become Rock Island and grow. come, Aurora, Moline. offset the Laker advantage of It would be a pleasure.