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ND MAY 1C'45M Organize New Negro Baseball League In Brooklyn FIRST with the NEWS The VOL. 59, No, 41 Near YORK, N. Democrats Endorse Ben Davis Brooklyn Dodgers Baseball Club Boss Instrumental In Formation Of New Negro Baseball League Branch Rickey, president of the Brooklyn Dodgers Baseball Club, is intensely interested in "Negro ball," but his interest will not permit him to discuss the possibilities of Negroes in big league baseball. Rickey disclosed his interest Monday afternoon in his office when stormy conference was held after he read a statement severely criticizing the present Negro leagues and gave his olessings to a new league, the United States Baseball League, which he said he hoped would become a model for present Negro interests in baseball. Besides Mrs.

Effa Manley, owner of the Newark Eagles Baseball Club, and representatives of the Negro press and white sports writers, present at the conference were John Shackleford, Cleveland lawyer and semi professional Negro ball player, who is president of the new Negro league. "It is not my purpose to discuss today," Rickey said in opening the conference," colored players becoming members of clubs in our present organized baseball leagues or of white players becoming bers of the proposed colored ball league. "There are a number of colored teams, with more or less fixed identities, throughout the country and none of these is a member of any. league whatever in the sense of 'league' in organized baseball." After severely criticizing the methods of operations of the two major Negro leagues, and their business procedures, Mr. Rickey then went on to say that it was his hope that a dependable and permanent league could be organized and "the United States League is now taking and will continue to take those first steps to bring about an effective organization." "I have leased," he continued, "Ebbets Field to Joe Hall who owns and will operate a club to be knowa ag the Brooklyn Brown Dodgers.

Seven games already have been scheduled at Ebbets Field. The owners have elected John ford, president of the league. Mr. Shackleford is a lawyer of Cleveland, Ohio. He is a native of Tennessee, a graduate of Wiley College, also the University of Michigan Law School.

He was a baseball player for several years and was member of several of the better semi -professional Negro clubs. He is a man of good character and has the ability and the industry to do good job as president of the proposed league. "In addition to the Brooklyn Brown Dodgers, there will five additional clubs playing as many games as late organization and park accommodations will permit. These games will be as equally distributed as possible, so that each club will play an equal number of games against every other Teams in the new league and their home parks are: Pittsburgh Crawfords, Forbes Field; phia Hilldales, Harrisburg Field: Detroit, Motor City Field; Chicago, Wrigley Field, and Toledo, American Association Park. Negro sports writers and Mrs.

Manley were bit taken back by the announcement made by the Brooklyn baseball although rumors of the organization of a new league with white interests behind it had been rite for some time. "This thing is hitting us very suddenly right between the eyes," Mrs. Manley, declared. She pressed surprise that Mr. Rickey made no atempt to contact any of the Negro club owners to find out the true status of Negro baseball and the methods of operation.

While expressing gratification that he should now be interested, Mrs. Manley nevertheless left the meeting feeling that "dirty work was afoot" and that the presently op. erating Negro leagues would be faced with competition that would be hard to meet especially with Brooklyn's baseball mogul and others interested in a new league. ON MURDER CHARGE WAH. N.

handyman, Wednesday with rope end murder of Mrs. Tuesday McCready, his afternoon home who in on was the Winter: found York MAY 12, 1945 Supreme Court Grants New Trial For Georgia Officers Convicted Of Killing Negro Prisoner WASHINGTON, D. a vote of five to tour, the Supreme Court on Monday ordered new trials for three Georgia law ofticers who had been convicted under the Federal law of beating to death with their blackjack Robert Hall, hand. cuffed Negro prisoner. Justice William 0, Douglass, one of the court's most liberal members, wrote the majority opinion.

He denounced the case as "shocking and revolting but declared that the trio had not been properly law convicted under Section 20, a enacted in Reconstruction Days to implement the 14th ment. The new construction of Section 20 by Justice Douglas was hailed by some -lawyers one of the most important steps taken by the Supreme Court in several terms, and one which may have a great atfect in tuture prosecutions for violations of civil liberties. Debating the precise meaning of the much-discussed legal terming "wilfully." the went on to that the "specie intent" required by Section 20 "is an intent to deprive person of a right which has been made specific either by the express terms of the Constitution or laws of the United States or by decisions interpresenting them." In this case, Justice Douglas said that the trial judge had not sub. mitted the question of wilful intent to the jury with proper in but that he had made his charge too broad. The convicted Georgian law officers were Sherif Claude Screws, of Baker County; Frank Jones, policeman, and Jim Bob Kelly, special deputy.

They were convicted in the Federal District Court at Albany, of fatally beating Negro prisoner, Robert Hall. Each was sentenced to three years imprisonment fined $1,000. The 5th Federal Court upheld their convictions. Harlem Quiet As News Of V-E Day Breaks; Churches Crowded "V-E Day is Jubilant Harlemite received the news (prematurely broadcast day morning) with enthusiasm and reliet, but te big celebration that had been expected by police failed to materialize Monday. Tuesday, after the official mation of Victory in Europe by President Truman, a driving rain dampened the ardor of any wouldbe celebrants.

And it was not until around seven p. m. when The New York Age was going to press, that the weather had cleared up and Harlemites were preparing to make merry to news that the Aghtin Europe is At that time, an impromptu parade wis marching on Seventh avenue, Both Monday and Tuesday evenings, the churches of Harlem held special services commemorating the event, and it was a sober and praye erful Harlem rather than noisy and gay community which took the news of the end of fighting in rope in stride. Fils FEPC NE HARRISBURG, Pa, Anti-discriminalton legislation was killed this week when the Republican majority of the Pennsylvania eral Assembly by a straight party vote of 28--18 rejected Democratic efforts to discharge the hostile Labor and Industry Committee from further consideration of the bill, introduced by Rep. Homer Brown, of Allegheny Coulty.

Community Leaders Organizations Pledge Support Of '45 Negro Freedom Rally, June 25 community mobilization meeting of the organizations and leaders, who will join in sponsoring the Negro Freedom Rally at Madison Square Garden, Monday evening, June 25, was held on Friday evening at the Harlem Branch YMCA. This was the first of series of Friday evening Manhattan community meetings which will be held until the rally takes place. Already there has been tremendous response from organizations and individuals, taking initial orders of 100 to 1,000 tickets. Among the unions in this group are the Furriers Joint Board, Local 65 of the Wholesale and Warehouse Workers, Federal Workers, Hotel County and and Club Municipal Employes, Workers, State, Cleaners and Dyers of the Amal. gamated Clothing Workers, United, Electrical, Radio and Machine Shop Workers; and the individuals clude Bertha Clay and Julia De Arman.

Other organizations and individuals interested in curing tickets may do so at the Negro Freedom Rally headquarters, 308 Lenox avenue, and the office of the People's Committee, 132 West 138th street. Charles Collins, executive retary, Negro Labor Victory Committee, speaking on behal of the executive committee of the Negro Freedom Rally, which includes Congressman Adam C. Powell, Jr. Ferdinand Smith, secretary, National Maritime Union, and De. Channing H.

Tobias, senior secretary, National Board of the YMCA, outlined the plans for the rally. He also spoke, of the organization work being done in other boroughs, which being headed by the Rev. Edier Hawkins in the Bronx and the Rev. Thomas S. Harten in Brooklyn.

Others attending Friday evening's meeting, representing 20 unions and community organisations, James cal 430, Radio Workers-CIO, chairman of meeting; Fred Lark. business Age Pay 5c. No More HAV INOZ 'gIT 'ANd A 'N 'H PAGES (X) NEW Red Cap Gives Film Star College Check Reversing the usupl procedure, paign's committee of Grand Central Ginny Simms, movie and radio star, Terminal Attendants, explains to is confronted on arrival at Grand Ginny, a member of the Hollywood Central from Hollywood by "Red committee of the Fund, that the Ward Coleman, 337 West check represents initial payment on 138th street, who presented her a pledge of $500 by the Red Caps with a check for $75 toward the at Grand Central, The, campaign United Negro College Fund's cur- is being conducted to help meet rent national appeal for $1,550,000. the wartime needs of 32 accredited Mr. Coleman, chairman of the cam- private Negro colleges, Dr.

Monroe N. Work, Director Emeritus Of Tuskegee's Dept. Of Records Research, Dies TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Dr. Monroe N. Work, director emeritus of the Department of Records and Research, eminent scholar and bibliographer, died here Wednesday night following an illness of several weeks, Dr.

Work joined the Tuskegee Institute faculty in 1908 and organized the Department of Records and Research and became widely known for his scholarly contributions to various publica- Convict Two Brooklyn Boys Of 2nd Degree Murder Of Aged Man Two Brooklyn boys, one 15 and the other 17, accused of beating to death a 70-year-old man after he refused their demand for a nickel, were convicted of second murder Saturday in Kings County Court. The verdict carries a datory sentence of not less than 20 years to life. The boys are Kenneth skinner, 15, of 653 King Sixth Walk, and Robert McGowan, 17, of 718 cock street, both Brooklyn, Last June, 4 was charged, they used baseball to strike down William Schroeder, 70, of 600 McDonough street, Brooklyn, after he ignored their demands for money and then took 75 ents from his pockets. He died the next day in Kings County Hospital, The Jury deliberated for four hours before making known its verdict. No date was set for sentencing by Judge Louis Goldstein.

Two other boys arraigned on charges of having participated in the fatal beating were released. Dr. Crump, Eminent Surgeon, Succumbs; Aided Negro Schools De. Walter Gray Crump, of 837 Madison avenue, eminent surgeon and syneologist, died Tuesday the Flower Hospital after an illness of several months. Wa 75 years old.

Long interested in the advancement of Negro welfare and education, Dr. Crump was trustee of Tuskegee Insittute, Ala, and How. ard University, Washington, D. C. In 1928, he established a scholarship at the New York Medical College for the exclusive use of Negro medical students, the Bret of Its kind granted by a college in this country.

A widow he leaves a son, Dr. Walter Grey Crump. Jr. and brother. Dr.

Irving J. Crump, of Calif Councilman Davis Gets Democratic Nomination In Bid For Reelection Gets Tammany: Support D. J. DAVIS, Jr. Soldiers Convicted By Courtmartial Get Reduced Sentences SEATTLE, tences and a chance at tion have been given 12, of the 31 Negro soldiers convicted by courtmartial in December in the Fort Lawton riot, case.

The action was taken by dier General Dey P. Denson, commanding' general of the port, and approved by the Judge Advocate General of the Army. The court-martial, one of the largest in the history of the Army, row out of a riot at the port last August, during which one member Italian service unit hanged, Wife Asks Probation For Husband's Killer Instead Of Prison In General Sessions Court, Wedneeday, the widow of a shooting victim asked Judge Saul S. Streit to place the killer of her husband on probation so that he could pay her the $150 it cost to bury her husband. The defendant in the case was Alexander Hassell, 18, of $23 West 183rd street, who pleaded guilty of manslaughter in the Arst degree to shooting and fatally wounding Carl Colding, 28, of 276-West 141st street, in a dice game argument, widow," John Finn, the accused man's lawyer, told the court," tells me that- transportation of the body to Atlanta and burial cost $150, and she has asked me to tell the court that she wishes the detendant placed on probation so he can pay back the $150.

She is not interested in seeing him go to jail, Dr. Max: Winsor, Head Of P. S. 120 Clinic, Dead Dr. Max Winsor, child trist who established the Arst clinic for psychiatric treatment in Chil.

dren's Court- in New York City, died Friday in Beth Israel Hospital. He was 47 years old and lived 177 Bank street. Dr. Winsor particular attention to. work among juvenile delitquenta.

In 1988 he was appointed the Bureau of Child Guidance of the New York City Board of cation and held that post the time of his death. In addition, he director of clinical work for two-year research project established in 1945 by tee New York Foundation at Junior High School 120, in Harlem, vice-chairman of the Committee chairman of United Negro Col- Sunday afternoon, at the Gov. Dewey Reports On Anti-Bias Bill; Law Makes History ALBANY, N. Y. Governor Dewey made his second radio "Report to the People" Friday night on accomplishments of the 1945 legislative session, and declared that the State's new ation law made history for the tion and aroused "more misunderstanding than any law passed in our time." Calling the statute "the very essence of our free society," he said that it had been criticized bitterly by persons who would not be affected by it.

"There are those," he said, "who believe the anti-discrimination bill is designed to tix by law the tastes, the habits, the associations or the social lives of people. Others be. lieve it is a law to tell you who you may have in your home as domestic help or guests or roomers, or that it will tell employers who they may hire and who they may not hire. or that it is designed to discriminate in favor of one group against another. Of course, It is none of these things." The bill, he said, translated into law the simple principle inherent in the Constitution that in business and industrial.

employment there shall be no discrimination because of race, color, creed or tional origin. The Governor said that the fivemember commission which will administer the anti-discrimination law has broad educational job to do. Most of the large employers in the State, he added, have already broken down the bars of prejudice in employment. "We want to keep this successful habit of working together," he said. "In the end it will bring better understanding between our people." President Promises Earlier Independence For The Philippines WASHINTON, D.

President! Truman announced. Saturday that the date of Philippine independence will be advanced as far as possible ahead of the statutory date of July 4, 1946. At the same time, the President announced he was sending a mission headed by Senator Millard E. Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland, to the islands to examine conditions and submit recommendations to him. The President's announcement setting up.

the Filipino Rehabilita, tion Commission, was made after conference with Senator Tydings early Saturday, and a talk on Friday with President Sergio Omena, of the Philippine Commonwealth. Recalling the "heroic and loyal stand" of the Filipino peope in this way which has "won the effection and admiration of the American people," the President pledged the full assistance of the United States in. the work of rehabilitation and reconstruction of the islands. Idbhu ISHT AT Harlem Child Crowned Queen Of Scrapland Barbara Tobe, 12, of 70 West 133rd street, was crowned Queen of Scrapland and Teddy Timm, 10, of 427 East Tard street, crowned King in ceremonies the Hotel Governor Clinton, last week for having collected ten times their weight in scrap paper during April for the Children's Aid Society, The winning couple each recelved desks with bullt-in blackboards, tickets to the Paramount and praise from co-chairman of the Boys and Girls Week Committee. postponed Ben Devis Testimonial Ball held at the Golden Gate room, some 7,000 persons heard J.

Raymond Jones, Democratic leader of the 18th A. D. East, announce that "The Democratic Party of New York County nominates as its candidate for the City Council, jamin J. Davis, Jr." Prior to this announcement, which sent the crowd into a ous uproar, Saul Mills, executive secretary of the CIO in New York, stated that in 1943 the organization supported Mr. Davis on the basis of his fight against jimcrowiam and, because of his legislative record, the "CIO and all labor will again support, work and fight for election of Benjamin Davis." Following the surprise statement by Mr.

Jones, the crowd which came to pay homage to the Negro Councilman, heard Congressman Powell, say that we talk about new world a-coming, "but the new world is here when Tammany, Hall nominates Communist." Councilman Davis in his Aret public address upon receiving the announcement of his Democratic gomination, said: "I am proud to be associated with the Party of Roosevelt and Truman. and with the Roosevelt-Truman Democrats in New York. will continue to represent all the people, Republican, Democrats, American Labor, and Independents, irrespective of party. Continuing, he said, "It is my wish that New York City become the first city in America tree from Jim crow, racial discrimination, anti-Semitism, creating the most liberal city in America." He gave a special message to the citizenry of the community, saying, "I thank the Negro people in Hare lem because in the past few they have grown in maturity, able ity stick together, and the ity to think for themselves." The entertainment side of the gigantic celebration which lasted until curfew, was. headed by Ken neth Spencer, Duke of Iron, Ray, Lev, Hazel Scott, DeMerchant and Laura Duncan, Mary Lou Williams Max Pollikoff, and others.

tions. He was a graduate of the Chicago Theological Seminary and the University of Chicago. In 1942 de received the University or Chicago Alumni Association Citation in recognition of 40 years of public service, Dr. Work came to Tus. kegee from Georgia State Industrial College in Savannah, where he served as professor of Pedagogy and History.

He was the founder and editor of the Negro Yearbook, a book. which furnishes factual data on the achievements of the Negro and is a much used and widely read publication by persons engaged in research and desiring to obtain information on the accomplishments and achievements of Negroes. He compiled the lynching record from 1913 until the time of his retirement in 1938. This record has been published annually by the Tuskegee Institute Department of Records and Research for more than 30 years, and is generally accepted for its authenticity, Dr. Work compiled "A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America," and in connection with the compilation of this work, did research in seventeen leading European libraries.

In 1928 he was the recipient of the Harmon Award in Education (a gold medal and $400.00) for scholarly research and educational publicity through periodic publications. of the Negro Yearbook and compilation of an haustive bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America. Bibliography of European Colonization and the Resulting Contacts of People, Races and Culture" had prior to his death. Dr. Work was a member of the International Institute of American Languages and Culture; American Sociological Society; American Eco.

nomic Association; American demy of Political and Social Science; Association for the Advancement of the Study of Negro Life and History; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Southern Ecomomic Assoclation; Southern Historical tion and Southern Sociological Society. Funeral services for the guished educator were held in the Institute Chapel at 4:00 o'clock Friday' afternoon. Officiating at the funeral rites were Rev. Charles W. Kelly, pastor of the Greenwood Baptist Church.

He was assisted by Rev. Raymond F. Harvey, acting chaplain of Tuskegee Institute. Music was furnished by the Tus. kegee Choir, William Dawson, conducting, and the Institute Quartet.

Interment beld in the tute Cemetery. The mony at the grave was conducted by the Lewis Adams Lodge A. 7. and M. of which Dr.

Work had member for more than Dyers; Morris Diswell, organizer, Local 65, Wholesale and Ware. house Workers; Daisy George, business agent, Hotel and Club Employes; M. Moran Weston, coordinator, and Edward G. Perry, promotion director, Negro Freedom Rally; Hannah Smith, beth Parker, Veiola Collins, Idna Plunkett, Venetta Thornton, Marguerite Pinckney, Jackie Peyton, William Moorehead, Ruth Hemming, Frances Bodkin, James McKinney, Mollie Siner. Marjorie Brooks, Dolly Ward Frank A Houston, Bertha Clay, Wilson Daily, Le Verne Ray Limous Brown and Scotty: ford: Ohio Gov.

Commutes Death Sentnce Of Woman, To Life COLUMBUS, Ohio, Demonstrat. ing his great humanitarianiam, Ohio's Governor Frank J. Lausche, this week commuted to life imprisonment the sentence on Johnnie Mae Gardner, young colored man, scheduled to die in the tric chair as an accessory to the act of the murder of Jacob Reinstalter, a jeweler of Cincinnati. This comes as result of appeals by thousands of interested club women and citizens throughout the country. Once before Governor Lausche had granted a reprieve of 30 days when this girl was to die in the electric chair on April 8th.

Responsible for this in the plight this unfor tunate woman was the 'Ohio State Federation of. Colored Women, led by its dynamic President, Jane E. Hunter, executive secretary of the Phillis Wheatley Association of Cleveland, Norman L. McGhee Cleveland attorney, acted as coun sal for the Federation in its efforts to accomplish this HELP in the prompt DELIVERY of your mall: ADD your ZONE NUMBER and ask your Army- Navy Casualties MILES, Pic. William son Mrs.

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