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IN THE GROOVE Bj Elizabeth Brizentine-Taft

COMISKY PARK. CHICAGO, ILL.. August 16. 1942! All this and Negroes too! My estimate is 60.000 of us, all brown, yellow melliw and dressed down! Everywhere around me it's color! Beautiful gals ______ hig fat mamas and tall skinny papas! A society takes a day off and covers a baseball game! The 10th annual classics between the East and West all-star teams! With the preliminaries over, which included speeches and the singing of the National Anthem, the game gets under way! An it reads like this! West—1 batter, two outs, just like that and three and away! The East—tit-tat-toe and three outs in a row! First of second. East, first batter took 2 balls, 2 strikes and out he goes! Second, batter, 2 balls, 2 strikes and cut! Next batter from the Cubans strikes out! — West, Green of the klonarchs takes a ball, 2 strikes and an out! Second, another of the Monarchs and he has 1 ball, 2 strikes and out he goes! The third from Birmingham. 2 balls, 2 strikes and out! — The East, Gaines of Baltimore strikes out and the second batter makes a nice bit, which is caught by a fan in the upi>er deck just like an egg! A lot of boose insued until he returns the ball to the field! * * * * STILL THE EAST, first of the third and batter Number 3 takes 2 balls, 2 strikes, hits and it’s a score!..One run, 1 out in the first of the third! Next batter from the Black Yankees strikes out; a member of the Homestead Grays strikes and hits and next it’s 3 strikes which makes two uots and then Josh Gibson who received great ovation takes a swing strike and out! The West moves in and three batters strike two outs and the fourth hits and a run is made, while batter number 5 makes a gold hit, but it’s a fiy and three outs! It’s a hit for the East and a little fumbling is done by first baseman and the man is safely on second! Then it’s tit-tat-toe! And the score is one all in the first half of the fourth! With Boss pitching, two outs are made quickly; two men walk nicely aud Ellis bats for Gaines and it’s an out! Making the three and then the Barnhill pitches! The first is a hit; then it’s 2 strikes, 2 balls and O-U-T! Batter No. 3 strikes 1-2-3 and out! Th® West comes back with 2 strikes and three balls and he takes a walk! Next 1 ball, 2 strikes, a hit, he slides but he’s out! Next, a ball and 1-2-3 he’s out! Last, one ball and one good hit and it’s a run ! And it’s 2 all! Next, both teams score a ti-tat-toe! And at the* beginning of the 7th, the one and only Satchel Paige, who’s been held up outside by the fearful mob of folk, makes his entree and receives a great ovation! The mob w wild!_____ It’s a thrill to have the pleasure of sitting tip here on the very back scat of the upper deck and watch this marvel of pitchers demonstrate! Oh, yes, it’s demonstration now. because somehow or other things just aren’s clickin’ right with the mighty Satchel! It’s a ball, a strike and a hit! 'Next it’s an out! Ole man Satchel is teasin’ the batter now! He poses, reposes, swings, winds up and stands still, watching that guy on first! Get back there boy, I ain’t done no pitchin’ yet! Then it’s a hit, a run and a walk, and then an out! When ole man Satchel takes a bat, thef say be can’t run! He hits a light one down center toward the pitcher, and makes it to first! Even he has a little play, trying to steal a base! - _ - _ _ He makes it to third and it looks like a run for ole man Paige in this squeeze play, but it’s an out! • • * * IT’S 3-2 LAST HALF OF THE 7TH and it’s a ball, two strikes and owt! 2 strikes, 2 bails and 2 outs! And he e, the mighty pitcher began so much demonstration I began to loose interest in the game and wondered about making my way out! Which is jus twtiat I did and avoided that awful rush, which I had been unable to escape upon entering Comiskey Park! . .. A great thrill _ _ for once and forever in a life time! _ _ _ _ Now I guess you’ve been bored to distraction with all this, but you see. I’m just taking time out! The Jaekte ‘P* and a party of friends were reported to have tafcen in the HI spots in Windy City; the big ones having been so packed and jammed, until even I was forced to renig this time! Although I’d have Mfced grooving around at Delisa or the Rhumboogie! But they are still there! .. The party also played a while at Toni’s at 35th and Federal! _ Others who were at the game included Charlie O Banion. who is the father of Naomi O’Banion and who is a swell 111 fellow; Cal Thompson and a party of friends; Mr. and Mrs. Prophet Cnrtis, Atty. and Mrs. Ed Suber, Felix Allen, Jewel Bus Jordin, Gertrude Collins, very chic and petite; Tncle Pat* Patterson. Joe Gordon and Joe Douglas; Rebecca Franklin .Edna Griffin, Robert and John Hurt; James and Evelyn Curry, Lila Bledsoe, Rfoeola Bush, Maude Charleston, Lester W r oodney, Ward McClendon and a pa ty, Chas. Booher, Lonnie Johnson, Eugene Davis, Porter Jones, Velma Collins!, Roland Johnson and a party. Just flocks of folk from Nuptown were there and fortunately everybody had a grand time! • * * * I HAD A MOST NEEDED ENJOYABLE visit with my grandmother, the first Elizabeth Brizentinc and who is now Mrs. Elizabeth Kershaw Ward who lias lived in Windy City since 1905. and. ■who is a very charming 111 lady and most fashionable in her dress! Really, you’d think she was niy mums! And shes all that and grandmother too! - An( l back home in Indiana, we find that Richardine Watts was here for about ten days vacationing! ______ Norman Murray of the New York Central was around and about hittln’ the high and low spots! _ Dick Shaw's continues to be the spot to play and it’s so peaceful in the country! it’s wearing me down now, end I can’t be aheppin it! If this ain’t enuff, then we’ll stuff it on the cuff!

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The following registrants of Marion County Local Board No. 5 were scheduled to Le inducted into the army August 15. Rosson Simpson McNeal, 615 W. Vermont; John Thomas Cook, 906 W. (Pearl; William McKinley Haddox, 800 Blake apt. 7; Herbert Clay, jr., 542 Douglas; Otis Arthur Lovelace, 216 W. 26th; Andrew Luther Davis, 1011 W T . Michigan; Dew’ard Belmont Babb. 042 W. North; John Harry Williams, 406 N. West; James Conneal Windead. 528 N. California; Cleo Roy Turner, 719 N. West; French Arthur.. But^r. 3008 E. 25th. Hansford Crump, Luke Wawasee, Ind.; Mautell Thomas, 161 Geisendorff; Oscar Lee Jefferson, 548 Minerva; Jesse Richard Carter, 449 Minerva; Eugene Russell, 432 W. New York; Salem Miller Fields, •*2l> Blackford; Sanme/1 Robert Young, South Shore Inn, Syracuse, ind.; Eugene Hughes, 2701 Eastern ; Herbert McDonald, 040 Bright; Leroy C/Ook, 827 1-2 W\ 9th, apt. 2; Emmett Ennis Marshall. 855 W. 9th, apt. 6; YVillie Carr, 043 Bright; Zack Leonard Forehand, 732 Indiana, apt. 4; Howard Exell Proctor, 530 Bright: John Hazel, 612 Blake, apt. 203; Edward Clenton Crawley, 718 Indiana.

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The following registrants of Marion County Local Board No. 5 inducted into the army August 14: David La born Ely, 504 Robinson at., Fairmount, W. Va.: Ernest Sergei Maye, 428 N. Oalfiornia; Frederick Earl Harris, 558 W\ 29th at.; Joseph Talamachus Byrd. 1211 N. Missouri; Rural Gurnell, 637 Blackford; Franc is Irvin Hardy. 551 1-2 California, apt. 1: John Weat ley Butler, 732 Indiana. Carlton Chandler. 911 W. Vermont ; Charles William Boone, 425 Bright; Claude Jefferson, I860 W r . Virginia, Evansville, Ind.; Charles Edward Austin, 450 N. Senate: Robert Leo Hembree, 512 W. N. York ; Samuel Span, 159 1-2 Blake: Herbert Pasley. 101 Douglas: David Franklin Lewis, 609 W. Vermont; Hubert Gord/, 214 Vee st., N. W. Washington. D. C. HOTEL DENIES FEPG MEMBER

Seven of the eight members of the South Bend civilian defense council board of safety and the (three ranking officers of the /auxiliary police division, appointed by the board, are shown. 'Mr. Matthews was appointed ’major and chief, Mr. Duley, captain and adjutant, and Mr. Van 'Skyhawk, sergeant-major, at a ,meeting Friday. Members of the ’board of safety are: Seated, left to right, Robert E. BonDunant, (Secretary; Col. Forrest Braden, 'president, and James D. Ulis, and standing, left to right, Michael A. Zahoran, Bernard F. Witucki, Edwin (Ted) Tumock and Joseph M. Boland. Raymond S. (Barker, eighth member, was not ^present when the picture was

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exercised by the municipal board of safety over the regular police and fire departments.

Search of the Negro’s home, 3721 Indiana avenue, in the heart of the South Side, failed to reveal his whereabouts. Police expressed belief that Miss Dalton met her death at the hands of the Negro, perhaps in a sex crime, and that the white girl’s body was burned to destroy evidence.

Information on tine progress which has been made under the Indiana plan of Bi-Racial Co-op eration and the possibilities for furthering the program of job opportunities for Negroes is sought on a comprehensive questionnaire mailed to over 11,000 Indiana em ployett. Clarence A. Jackson, state civilian defense director, announced today. Working in co-operation with the Employment Security Division and the Bi-Racial Committee composed of business leaders named by the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce and Negro leaders named by Governor Sohricker, the Defense Council is attempting the most complete poll of Indiana employers outside of the census. Every emvloyer of 8 or more people along with such others as may have volunteered to pay unemployment compensation tax are to be queried on their attitude and practices on Negro employment. All individual replies are to be held in strictest confidence, the Defense Council reports in urging employers to be frank and give full details in answering the questions. When the returns have been tabulated, an analysis will he made and the results made public on the basis of the various totals and percentages. In announcing the state wide poll of employers, the Nurro Activities Division of the State Defense Council points out that “the need for factual information concerning the employment opportunities for Negroes in Indiana is urgent .The Indiana Bi-Racial Committee which has been working in conjunction

with the Defense Council has been in existence one year during which the sole purpose has been to find work for Negroes by enlisting the co-operation of business, labor, and Negro leaders.” “To combat claims of lack of progress which have been made by political and professional agitators, to protect the far-sighted Negro leaders, and to encourage all workers who are making a contribution to the Indiana plan of BtRacial Co-operation definite evidence is needed.” The questionnaire reminds Indiana employers of the seriousness of the problem from a national viewpoint by reproducing a recent article from the United State sNews which describes the “new pressure for hiring Negroes and the important role the federal agency (Fair Employment Practices Committee) is playing In shaping employment policies.” The 18 orders issued to employers thus far by the FEBC are reported in brief. Possibilities for satisfying action through the Indiana Plan for Bi-Racial Co-operation are suggested in the report of national recognition won by the state for the work done thus far. The award of a “Citation of Merit** which was presented to the Indiana State DOfeneo Council |>y Dean James M. Landis, director of the national Office of Civiliai Defense during the state wide ol> servance of Independence Day, Ju iv 4. 1942 Is noted along with the notation that full information on this plan of working through local committee action is available in oamphlet form by writing the State Defense Council.

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NEW YORK—New application forms for.federal appointment issued by the office for Emergency Management will appear without • space for the designation of race, the NAACP learned last week from j^eaneth Atkinson, chief of the replacement section In OEM. The application blanks OEM-2 Ip use currently provide space for the applicant to tell whether his race is “white,” “colored”, or "other”. The NAACP wrote the OEM July 31, urging that new forms be prepared leaving out the race question and that the use of the old forms containing the question of race be discontinued. Mr. Atkinson answered recently saying that the question about race is usually “obliterated from the fprm liefore it is sent to the prospective applicant,” and that the OEM-2 the Association has in Its records “was probably released before the racial designation was properly stamped out.” • •• V • • • —

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SILVER CITY, N. M., Aug. 21. (ANP)—Reports this week stated that G. James Fleming, field representative for the President’s Committee on Fair Employment IPractice, was denied accommodations In the Murray hotel while In the city on official business. Protests by three white men, Daniel R. Dounvan, of the same committee who accompanied Fleming, and George Knott, organizer for the International Union of Mine. Mill and Smelter Workers (CIO), and R. P. Erbacber, secretary of the Metal Trades Council (AFL) failed to force the hotel management to reconsider its ban. Donovan was given a room but Knott had to take Flemnig in for tlie night since no rooms were avai-1 able with colored families due to an Influx of defense workers in the city. Mrs. Ray Elms, wife of the manager who was reported out of the city during the incident, said admittance of Negro guest* was against their policy. Told Fleming was a government official in town for conferences important to the war emergency the woman replied she did "not care to discuss the matter further.” Fleming who for the past three weeks ha* been working out of the El Paso. Texas office of the committee investigating employment practices as they affect Spanish speaking peoples was denied restaurant accommodations In Lowell ml Douglas. Ariz., recently. He was compelled to eat a sandwich In a hallway while holding an emplovment conference at Lowell. The CoFEP representative is a graduate of Hampton Institute, Va.. and the University of Wisconsin, where he distinguished himself a* a scholar. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic society. Before his connection with the (President’s committee Fleming was employed on the Philadelphia Tri bune .a weekly newspaper. • •• v* 99

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He saw a little girl pick her way

he might get caught trying to get away. Could he find an empty building in which to hide after he had snatched the paper? Yes; that was just the thing. He* looked carefully up and down the street: no one was in sight. He went

saw the man standing in the snow* Bigger looked up. His right looking at him and he knew that hand twitched. He wanted a gun the man would not follow. i in hand. He got his gun vnn' ” from his pocket and held it. He

through the snow and stop at a: ^ uu - read againcorner newsstand; a man hurried He scrambled to tbe window. ,

out of the drug store and sold the ; p5tche(1 the paper in before him. Immediately a cordon of five girl a paper. Could he snatch a caU ght hold and heaved himself thousand police, augmented by paper while the man was inside? I u p Wart j onto the ledge and then m0 re than three thousand volunThe snow was so soft and deep inside. He landed on his feet and teers, was thrown about the Black

stood peering through the window He ] t chief of Police Glenman into the alley; all was white jiajd this morning that he believed and quiet. He picked up the pa-j that the Negro was still in the city, per and walked down the hallway since all roads leading in and out to the steps and up to the third Q f Chicago were blocked by a recfloor, using the flashlight and hear- ord-breaking snowfall,

ing his footsteps echo faintly in the

through the door and the wind was £ m pty building. He stopped, j Indignation rose to white heat like a branding iron on his face, j ( .j utc h e d his pocket in p^nic as j last night as the news of the NeThe sun came out, suddenly, so ! his mouth flew open. Yes; he had gro’s rape and murder of the missstrong and full that it made him it pje thought that he had drop- 1 ing heiress spread through the

dodge as from a blow; a million J>e( j t h e g Un when he had fallen! city.

bits of sparkle pained his eyes. He j n the snow, hut it was still there. Police reported that many winwent to the newsstand and saw in i He sat on the top step of the dows j n the Negro • ection were

tall black headline. HUNT BLACK | R tairs and opened out the paper, smashed.

IN GIRL’S DEATH. YeYs; they had, j )U t for quite awhile he did not Every street car, bus, el train the story. He walked on and' j. eP .q. He listened to the creaking and auto leaving the South Side looked for a place to hid after he of t he building caused by the wind is being stopped and searched. Pohhd snatched the paper. At the; swee pj ng OV er the city. Yes; he; lice and vigilantes, armed with ricorner of an alley he saw and emp- was alone; he looked down and . fleg tear gas flashlights, and ty building with a gaping window read . REPORTERS FIND DAI^ I nho ’ tos of the kiHer> b e g an at 18th on the first floor. Yes; this was ( TO n GIRL’S BONES IN FUR-i street t hj s m0 rning and are searcha good place. He mapped out a naCE. NEGRO CHAUFFEUR ing every Ne gro home under a careful plan of action; he did not I)IlSA ppEARS. FIVE THOUSAND banket warrant from the Mayor, want to be caught stealing a l POLICE SURROUND BLACK They are making a careful search three-cent newspaper. j reLT. AUTHORITIES HINT SEX ; of all abandoned buildings, which He went to the drug store and CRIME. COMMUNIST LEADER , are sa t d to be hideouts for Negro

looked inside at the man leaning PROVES ALIBI. GIRL’S MOTH-, cr j m i na ] S-

against a wall, smoking. Yes. ( ER IN COLLAPSE. : Maintaining that they feared for Like this! He reached out and He paused and reread the line, the lives of their children, a delegrabbed a paper and in the act of AUTHORITIES HINT SEX CRIME. I gation 0 f white parents called upgrabbing it he turned and looked Those words excluded him utterly on Superintendent of City Schools, at the man who was looking at' from the world. To hint that he Horace Minton, and begged that him, a cigarette slanting whitely had committed a sex crime was to a i] schools be closed until the Neacross his black chin. Even before pronounce the death sentence; itjgro rapist and murder^was cap-

he moved from his tracks, he ran; meant a wiping out of his life ! tured.

he felt his legs turn, start, then even before he was captured; it slip in snow. G...n! The white meant death before death came, world tilted at a sharp angle and for the white man who read those the icy wind shot past his face. I words would at once kill him in He fell flat and the crumbs of snow their hearts,

ate coldly at his fingers. He got

up, on one knee, then on both. The Mary Dalton kidnapping case

when he was on his feet, he turn- was dramtically cracked wide open ; Police Glenman offering aid ed toward the drug store, still when a group of local newspaper j Glenman said this morning that clutching the paper, amazed and reporters accidentally discovered the aid of such groups would he angry with himself for having been several bones, later positively es- accepted. He stated that a woeso clumsy. The drug store door 1 tablished as those of the missing fully undermanned police force toopened. He ran. heiress, in the furnace of the Dal- gether with recurring waves of NeAs he ducked down the alley he ton home late today ) gro crime made such a procedure

Reports were current that several Negro men were beaten in the various North and West Side

neighborhoods.

In the Hyde Park and Englewood districts, men organized vigilante groups and sent word to Chief of

necessary. Several hundred Negroes resembling Bigger Thomas w^re rounded up from South Side “hot spots”; they are being held for investigation. In a radio broadcast last night. Mayor Ditz warned of possible mob violence and exhorted the public to maintain order. “Every effort is being made to apprehend this fiend,” he said. It was reported that several hundred Negro employees throughout | the city had been dismissed from jobs. A well-known banker’s wife phoned this paper that she had dismissed her Negro cook, “for fear that she might poison her children.” Digger’s eyes were wide and his (lips were parted; he scanned the i print quickly: "handwriting experts busy,” “Erlone’s (fingerprints not found in Dalton home,” “radical still in custody”; and then a sentence leaped at Bigger, like a blow: Police are not yet satisfied with the account Erlone has given of himself and are of the conviction that he may be linked to the Negro as an accomplice; they feel that the plan of the murder and kidnapping was too elaborate to be the work of a Negro mind. At that moment he wanted to walk out into the street and up to a policeman and say, “No! Jan I didn’t help me! He - didn’t have a d...n thing to do with it! I...I did- it!” His lips twisted in .a i smile that was half-leer and half- ' defiance. _

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Holding the paper In taut fingers, he read phrases: “Negro ordered to clean out ashes.. .reluctaat to respond ... dreading discovery .. smoke-filled basement.. .tradegy of Communism and racial mixture... possibility that kidnap note was work of Reds !” Bigger looked up. The building was quiet save for the continued j creaking caused by the wind. He could not stay here. There was no telling when they were coming. into this neighborhood. He could not leave Chicago; all roads were blocked, and all trains, buses and autos were being stopped and searched. It would have been much better if he had tried to leave town at once. He should have gone to some other place, perhaps Gary, Indiana, or Evanston. He looked at the paper and saw a black-and-white map of the South Side, around the borders of which was a shaded portion an inch deep. Under the map ran a line of small

print:

Shaded portion shows area already covered by police and vlgi. lantes in seach for Negro rapiat and murder. White portion showa area yet to be searched. He was trapped. __ (Continued Next Week) • •• y • • • APPOINTED FOREMAN OF JURY INVESTIGATING TRIBUNE CHICAGO, Aug. 31. (ANP) — John O. Holmes of Joliet, 111., has been named foreman of the July federal jury investigating charges that the Chicago Tribune, a local daily, revealed information of value to the enemy in a news story printed June 7. Holmes was appointed a federal venireman weeks ago and is believed to be the first Negro to serve on a federal jury in this district.

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