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THE OKLAHOMA EAGLE
SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1945
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Mayme Marina are ill. The former is abed at her
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been under observation at St. John’s hospital. Dr.
A. G. Bacoats is doing a grand and rapid job of
convalescing .. after an operation at MOTON.
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Elks To Have
Health Program
— Starring —
Alez Lovejoy
Elks Announce State
Oratorical Contest
We regret that . . among the things we’ve learn-
is that both Mrs. Horace Thompson and Mrs.
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Leona T. Young lives at 205 Sou.
Walnut street, Holdenville, and his
wife, Bertha, lives at 2405 North
Peoria Street, Tulsa. He was gra-
duated from the Northwestern High
School and was employed by the
Beatrice Creamery before entering
the Army in August, 1943. A bro-
ther, Seaman Second Class Alfred
D. Young, is in the Navy.
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(James H. Lark)
NEWS ITEM - March 29, 1945
A seven-pound girl, Patricia Zeno-
bia Lark, was born to Mr. and Mrs.
James H .Lark, at 1 a. m. today at
Moton hospital. Mr. Lark is in-
stiuctor of instrumental music at
Carver Jr. high school, and Mrs.
Lark, before her confinement, was
piano accompanist for the Tulsa
Separate Schools. At this writing,
both mother and daughter are do-
ing very well.
proaching junior-senior banquet and graduation days. Wars
may come and wars may go .. but the demand for white is
A partially complete stock of PRETTY WHITE
DRESSES .. and an expected shipment of WHITE
FORMALS as well as pastels, may answer that
Home to Kentucky for the holidays went MARY S. (BABE)
WILLIAMS .. and MRS. JANIE HARRIS and MRS. PARA-
LEE TAYLOR . . mothers of T. W. HARRIS and ZELMA.
1433 North Frankfort St.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
March 31, 1945
Miss Patricia Zenobla Lark
Moton Hospital
Tulsa, Okla.
Dear Patty,
This might well be a letter to all
new-born babies, but I am think.
WASHINGTON, D. C. — The
largest number of Negroes at any
cne time has been nominated for
the Annapolis Naval Academy by
Rep. Adam Powell (D. of N. Y.)
Eleven nominations were sent in by
the Congressman last week.
Two of the nominees are stu-
dents at Howard university — Wes.
ley A. Brown and Pvt. Louis K.
Brathwaite. The other nine, with
addresses in New York, are Law-
rence R. Holmes, Joseph Dorsey,
Truman Boddie, Harvey Cooper, Jo-
seph Wooddley, Fred D. Wilson. Jr ,
Pfc. John L. Anderson and James
W. Magbee.
Ernie Fields in behalf of the DELTA sorority.. and “Snack
Chat” given at the YWCA by the AKA sorority.. and Satur-
day morning found the ZETA’S entertain’ at breakfast in
the home of Mrs. Ernestine Gibbs.
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Tamna Saturday. April 7, the Cin-
cinnati-Indianapolis Clowns return
to their Miami training base April
8 and 9 for games with the Florida
Stars.
There's much going on in the
Clowns' soring chores to bring plen-
tv of smiles to the face of Manager
Jesse (Hoss) Walker, himself set
for one of his greatest playing sea-
sons in the infield. Another bright
snot is the snanov work of the peer,
less Alec Radcliffe. The veteran
has been alternating between third
base and first since recently re-
nortlng and is in grand shape for
i great year.
Alec led the Negro American
League in home runs last season,
’f he keeps pulverizing the ball as
^e has been doing in training, it
looks like he will repeat.
The Clowns' superb sideshow
comedy departmnet .this yer afea-
turing “King" Tut and Ed Hamman,
also promises to be the best ever
Strozier Hotel
922 E. Haskell PL
A lovely feeling of sisterhood was felt in our fair city last
week when the Regional Conference of Sigma Gamma Rho
was entertained at a “Snack Bar Hour ’ in the home of Mrs.
Last Wednesday morning found the superintendednt of the
Taft Institutions, with the state truck taking the PIANOS
donated by well-meaning citizens of Tulsa, to the institutions
.. one was placed in the auditorium and the other was plac-
ed in the Girls Training School . . Easter Sunday morning
Only one bracket of the Ping
Pong Tournament was held this
week-end which ended with Willie
Jones as champ of the Gra-Y group.
The committee felt that most of
the adults would be busy due to
the Easter holiday and for this rea-
son the Junior and Senior brackets
of the tournev were not held. How-
ever they will be held Saturday,
April 7 at 1 o’clock.
Please find time to register be-
fore Saturday morning in order that
we may draw up correct entry brac-
kets. Servicemen may come in any
time. The entry fee is 25c.
he laid oft from work Monday and
wasn't feelin' too good Tuesday.
Well it's a great life if you can
lake it, BUNNY.
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Now, some of the big cats have
made some changes in location,
cotne April.’ Louis Jordan began a
week in D. C.'s Opollo March 30.
Ernie Fields will play the Howard,
D^ Al^rll 20, Fletcher Render.
developed by the club. Tut and
Hamman are working like beavers
cn a new repertoire of antics.
DE HART HUBBARD AS
COMMISSIONER OF BASEBALL
WOULD BE “NATURAL”
you, but don’t breathe a word of it
to your mamma, because I want to
surprise her. I am painting the en-
tire house on the inside, from front
to back with new fresh, white paint,
revarnishing and waxing the floors,
end furniture. It is very hard work
but I know she will be happy so
dco’t let her know.
Finally, I want you to always
stay just as sweet and nice as you
are now. It will be very hard, but
in the end people will love and re-
spect you iust as they do now.
Your loving dady,
James Lark
Every dime of it was for a good
cause, don’t get me wrong . . But a
hundred thousand dollar business
right along with that cause would
make the main cause more binding,
as we say. In other words, business
makes jobs and jobs make progres-
sive and substantial citizens.
The local Elks will sponsor
health program Sunday. April 8th
at the Christ Temple CME Church
at 4 p. m. The following persons
will appear:
Dr. T. W. Harris, pharmacist:
SOME TRAVEL IN CROSS-COUNTRY
BUSSES. ARMY TRUCKS, WEAPON
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IWO J1MA (Delayed) Six
Negro soldiers made' a valiant ef-
fort to rescue a marine, from drown,
ing invthe heavy seas ft this em-
battled island, and. were only-pre-
vented When their amphibian truck
was swamped as they were laonch-
' Ing it, through rough surf.
- After the craft,had floundered,
$taff Sgt. Charles R. Johnson. 38, of
h045 North 26th Strpet, Philadelphia,
Pa;-, attempted to swim to the .drown
ing:roan,with a life ring. He turn-
ed back after another amphibian
had been successfully launched.
The second, craft effected the
rescue. V
The other soldiers who assisted
Johnson in the attempted rescue
were Technician Fifth Class L. C.
Carter, Waco, Texas; Technician
Fifth Class Homer H. Gaines, Fort
Wayne, Ind.; Pvt. John Bonner, Jr.,
Guthrie, Oklahoma; Technician Fifth
Class A. B. Randle, Jacksonville,
Texas, and Pvt. WiUie Tellie, Semi-
nole. Oklahoma.
Hundreds of fighting men lined
the shore to watch the dangerous
life-saving feat. Because of the
hi$h seas, which had been running
for several days, the beach had been
closed to landing operations. i
AN AAF BASE IN THE MARI.
ANAS - (Delayed) — Corporal
Orined A. Young, of Tulsa, and other
members of an Engineer Aviation
Battalion, have been commended
for an outstanding job in speeding
to completion B-29 Superfortress in-
stallation on this Marianas Islands
base.
The commendation, one of the
first to be received by a Negro unit
in the Pacific Ocean Areas, was
made by Lt. General Millard F.
Harmon, Commanding General, AAF
Pacific Ocean Areas, who since has
been reported as missing in. he Pa-
cific.
Harlan’
No Classes, No lime Wasted Going To and From School. Go
As Fast As Your Time Will Permit by Our Proven Method.
“T’ town needs a recreation
center, something on the order of
a Coliseum or Convention hall.
There are some good locations
not too far from the business sec-
tion. A three-story building with
cffice rooms, store rooms, etc, would
make its wn way . . You say that’s
not music? Well, what you bet?
Dancing and music go together and
folks don't get happy, shout or
dance wwhen they don't have a job
or a place to stay or sometning to
er f. I strrted v. ith recreation.
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D;d you catch the Easter Bun-
' ny la.. Sunday? Well, they tell
ine, that a lot of cats and chicks
caught one with a SQUIRREL tail.
He had everything. Lay away tick-
ets, charge account, coupon book
(empty), pawn tickets and all. Yes
Hubbard would work for the elim-
ination of what he terms the book-
ing agent evil by requiring that
all contracts for parks and promo-
tional connections in various cities
should be formulated and operated
in the names of the leagues, not of
promoters. (This should interest Ef-
fa Manley of Newark and Alex
Pompez of New York).
Above all. Hubbard says, “I be-
lieve that the position of Commis-
sioner should be a full-time job.
Successful performance of the job
will require undivided attention. I
hope that the leagues will take this
factor into consideration. I hope
they also realize that this job, if
properly administered, can save in
actual cash much more than its op-
erating cost”.
There is no doubt that Negro
baseball will really need a Com-
missioner to handle the affairs of
the chib owners if only for the 1945
season. Every kind of problem in
the books seems to be confronting
the harried magnates long before
the season actually begins. Among
such problems is — "What are the
Majors going to do because the Ma-
jors set the pattern for Negro Base-
ball?" If they do not operate as
in the past, Negro Baseball must
follow suit. This means everything,
Including dates, parks, equipment,
transnortation. etc.
The new leagues that have been
started this winter should be super-
vised by recognized authority with-
out a lot of internecine warfare
breaking out between rival club
owners over players, parks and over
bookings.
cert at Civic Opera House, March
20th. Jimmie Lunceford has been
touring Florida during the month of
March. Lionell Hampton will give
a concert at Carnegie Hall; around
April 15th. Eddie Lawrence swings
out St Tulsa’s Pla-Mor Ball Room
weekly during the month. A. G.
Rogers Silvertones, Gay Paree Ball-
room. Pryor, Oklahoma.
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. Boys in Khaki
BIRMINGHAM. Ala. — Atten-
tion of the Negro baseball world
will be centered this week-end on
the start of the Birmingham Black
Barons’ exhibition series with the
best Kansas City Monarchs team in
three years, as the games will offer
a line on the Barons' chances of
making it three Negro American
League championships in succession.
The rivals meet in a double-
header Sunday, April 8. at Rickk-
wood Field in Birmingham, move
to Montgomery for games at Cram-
ton Bowl the next two nights and
play again on the afternoon of Apr.
11th at Ponce De Leon Park in At-
lanta. Ga.
Manager W. S. Welch of the Ba-
rons appears set powerfully at. all
positions with the exception of se-
cond base and center field. The
pitching, of course, is ultra brilliant
with the corps consisting of Al Say.
ler, the league’s leading flinger last
vear; Alvin Gipson. Johnnv Mark-
ham, John Huber. Ted (Double Du-
ty) Ratcliffe. Jimmy Newberry,
Chip McAllister, Alonzo Boone and I
Earl Bumpus. The latter, a husky
southpaw, was acquired by the Ba-
rons in a trade last season with the
Kansas City Monarchs, who got
hard-hitting outfielder Johnny Scott
in return.
Radcliffe and Huber Wffl dou-
ble in the catching department,
which also has Herman Bell and
Pepper Bassett. Lorenzo (Piper)
Davis on first. Art Wilson at short
and Johnnv Britton on third are
fixtures and set to resume specta-
cular careers. Lester Lockett and
Ed Steele give the team brilliant
cutfielders in left and right, re-
spectively, but Felix McLaurin'S
lateness in reporting has the cen-
ter flychasing post a question mark
at the moment
With the injured Tommy Samp-
son on loan to the St. Louis Stars
as Manager this season, his vacate!
second base spot at the moment is
presenting a spirited battle between
two promising newcomers for the
cost — Jim Riley, recently medical-
ly discharged from the army, and
Charlie Taylor, Cincinnati young-
ster.
Sv*r players and bookings.
jUpill contend that DeHart Hub.
Bfthe former hroad.iumpin'’
__Knion from the University of
Michigan is the best man for tho
snot, notwithstanding the names of
several of mv close friends and
others who have been suggested bv
various sources. Several important
facts might make Hubbard's candi-
dacy stand out more. Along with
Dr. B. B. Martin of Memphis, De-
Hart Hubbard did most of the work
rf organizing the Negro American
I.eapue and he wrote the excellent
constitution for the Negro American
I eaguo. which is being more or less
adhered to by the western circuit
todav.
Hubbard thinks that the office
of tho Commissioner should take
the lead in formulating a long ranee
program for the progress of "Negro
Baseball. For instance, the former
broadiumping ace believes a Com-
misisor.er should work for a fav-
orable working agreement with or-
panize'l baseball. Such agreements,
he told me. might eventually result
in Negro Baseball becoming an in-
tegral part of organized baseball.
Such an agreement would also
strengthen the control of players
and teams.
Hubbard, who has studied tho
oue'fion for a number of years and
in that study has gone far in ad-
vance of most of the candidates un-
der consideration, thinks the Com-
missioner should formulate and exe-
cute a program designed to inspire
the Negro bov to consider baseball
as a profession. This would re-
quire tho organization of minor
leagues alone tho farm svst<m set-
up and would also involve a nro
gram, such as the National Leagues
row onorato in cooper.ition with the
/ merican Legion. Negro colleges.
Hubbard savs. should be inspired to
again promote baseball as a ma-
jor snort. Some financial assistance -
he thinks, could be given bv the
league teams in order to back up
this r.procram.
Tho Commissioner
Baseball, envisioned
THOMPSON .. left Tuesday morning .. Kansas City bound
. . on the first lap of the journeys which eventually take
them home Io Athens, Georgia and Omaha, Nebraska, after
program-
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CONVENTION HALL .
APRIL 13th f
The .inn icatlo: r Is h part:
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displayed la the cor pletion of a dif-
ficult task in a short period of time
is outstanding, particularly so in
vtew Of the fact that In no way
Cosmopolitan Lodge of the Elkr
v.’ill conduct its annual oratorical
contest for the state of Oklahoma
Friday night, May 4lh at 8:30 o',
clock, at the Booker Washington
high school, it was announced by
the local lodge this week.
The contest is open to any high
school in the state and any borw
fide student in an accredited high
school is eligible to participate, pro-
vided he is under twenty-one years
of age, is regularly enrolled in
school, and is passing in three rpa*
jor subjects.
The winner of this contest will
be entitled to represent the state of
Oklahoma in the mid-west district
contest in Waterloo, Iowa in July,
with all expenses paid. The winner
of the district contest will be award-
ed a thousand-dollar scholarship and
will have the privilege of repre-
" j the midwestern states in
the national oratorical contest in
August, with all expenses paid. The
winner of the national contest will
receive a cash prize of $150.00.
Oklahoma has produced three
winners of scholarships in the Mid-
west contests and Kenneth Leedy,
Booker Washington graduate, '44,
was winner of the national contest
in Chicago last summer.
High schools interested in send-
ing contestants to this event should
communicate with H. S. Hughes,
State Director of Education, Elks'
Rest, IBPOE, 11»V4 N. Greenwobd.
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MUSIC SCOOP
By A. O. BOGERS
Wililam (Bill) Lewis has some-
thing new for "T” town entertain- <
ment. He is letting up on the dan-
ces and bringing some uptown at-
tractions. He comes on soon with
the Godlen Gate Quartet in person,
perhaps at Convention Hall. You
can watch the Scoop and the win-
dow cards for the date. Keep it up,
Bill, we’ll all be there.
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Last week’s most outstanding at-
traction was presented last Sunday
night at First Baptist church when
the choir under the direction of our
own Mrs. Neely presented a “Wor-
ship in Song" program. The mem-
bers as well as the directress are to
be congratulated, complimented or
whatever you do to show apprecia-
tion. It was a swell program and
we know it took many hours of
hard practice to put it over.
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Some of these days we’ll get
wise to the jive and put up a swell
business building somewhere in the
business section and give some of
our business college grads a chance
to do What they have learned. We
have a lot of clerks working in our
businesses to need training in sales-
manship, bookkeeping and making
change, etc. We spend a lot of time
teaching the fundamentals of typ-
ing. short hand. etc., in our high
there? 'T” town ean raise money,
school and where do ,we go from
yes! More than thirty thousand dol-
lars was accounted for last Sunday.
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PLANEMOBILES
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AND TRAINMOBILES.
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If you’ve found this column more informative and a lot
gayer these past two weeks .. you may thank the versatile
[ “Beezee” . . who took over while your correspondent was
ing particularly of you as I write. |
| learning a little more about the glamour of our physicians.
’; Maybe we ought to rest up some more . . but we want to
talk .. so .. I
YOU CAN COMPLETE YQUR
HIGH SCHOOL
DURING YOUR SPARE TIME
Many Finish in 2 yrs. By IIftIIT
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For Your Business Success
Professional o r College
Entrance Examinations.
Our Graduates Have Entered Over
500 Colleges and Universities
NEW YORK — Let us get back
to the Commissioner idea in Negro
Biseball. With the hubbub ereated
CV the starting of the new United
<, States League, sponsored by Gus
Greenlee and company of Pitts-
burgh, and the new Southern Ne-
gro League, established by Dr. R.
B. Jackson and associates down in
Dixie, the program to choose a
Commissioner for Negro Baseball
has slumped a bit and the question
has been put in tho background bv
the operators who are or have been
busy girding themselves for what
thev exnect to be a tumultous sum-
mer. what with battles looming with
thfiXlreenlce crowd and the annual
You certainly picked a bad time to
arrive in this world. Of course, you
wouldn’t know anything about it,
but this world is in an awful mess, i
with natins trying to anihilate
each other, and everyone with ha.
tred and killing on their minds. I
had a deuce of a time trying to
find diapers for you, because of the
war most stores don’t have them.
And then ,too, there’s a ration book
that you will have to have later. I
am glad that, because of your lack
of comprehension, you are spared
from your mind the thoughts of this
global conflict and the inconveni-
ences that result from it. Perhaps
when you arc able to understand,
there will be peace among men.
Even so, your life will not be
easy. I had an old teacher who
used to always say, “A child born
of dark parents shall see dark days”.
It is very true, and you will find
this out as you grow up. However
you have a mother and father who
will do everything in their power
to guide you into a successfill life.
Don’t ever hesitate to cal Ion us for
advice. All little children, and even
the grown up ones should do this. t . *1. ,
That is why parents were placed I to solve is the one confronting harrassed parents . . then try
in the worlrd. | _ •
nurse; Dr. L. -A. Bewail, the Howard April 6 thru
Mrs. Anna E. McGowan, registered 12th j;mngton played in con-
Mrs. F. D. Smith; Mr. Jphn Tyler - - - - ------
Smith; Dr. W. T. Napier, physician.
Music wijj be rendered by the
CME Choir with special selections
by Mrs. Della Williams and Prof.
Leon Donaldson. ■ u ■
; Mr. William Lewis is Exalted
Ruler of Cosmopolitan Lodge No.
247, Sponsor qf the 1
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