Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1950-01-13 Lewis O. Swingler MEMPHIS WORLD The 'March Of Dimes' Each year following, the 'March of Dimes,' annual fund-raising campaign of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, funds are set aside for three main purposes: Patient care, research, and education. In 1949 the School of Nursing at Dillard University, New Orleans, Louisiana, was one of the first institutions to receive an education grant, $125,000 being appropriated for nurse training for a five year period. In addition to the Dillard University award, more than $166,000 has been spent by the National Foundation for infantile Paralysis, during the past few years, for scholarship aid to 124 Negro award winners. These scholarships have been awarded in the fields of health education, medicine, physical therapy, medical social work, and orthopedic nursing. The education program is an important part of the work of the National Foundation and a means of insuring the availability of trained personnel for the skilled care needed by polio patients. In the modern care and treatment of this disease thirteen professional workers play important roles. Your gifts to the 1950 'March of Dimes,' January 1631, will enable the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to continue to finance the best available medical care for infantile paralysis victims. Because of the severe nationwide epidemic of 1949 and the consequent depletion of the-National Foundation's funds, everyone is urged to make a generous contribution. Cancer Can Be Cured A rapid expansion is taking place in the research underway to discover the secret of cancerous growth and to develop new techniques to secure the disease. Despite the present ignorance as to the causes of cancer, it should not be overlooked that doctors cure at least one out of every three persons who have cancer. Because many thousands of other cases might be cured if promptly reported, the importance of watching for suspicious signs and having thorough physical examinations cannot be over-estimated. Cancer danger signals: (1) Any lump, especially in the breast; (2) irregular bleeding or discharge from body openings; (3) persistent indigestion; (4) unexplained charges in bowel habits; (5) unexplained weight loss; (6) changes in color or size of a mole; and (7) any sore that does not heal promptly. A recent booklet published by Health Education Publications, cooperating with the National Cancer Institute of the U. S. Public Health Service, answers the question: "What is cancer?" It says: "Each of the billions of cells that make up your body has a special job—skin cells give protection. blood cells carry food, bone, cells provide the framework. These cells multiply rapidly during childhood but after you reach maturity, they grow only to replace worn-out tissues or to repair wounds. "Cancers start when a few abnormal cells begin to multiply rapidly without restraint. The cancer growth take's food needed by the normal cells invades healthy tissues and spreads to other parts of the body. The patient can be cured only by removal or destruction of all cancer cells." The booklet points out that cancer is not contagious and not hereditary. It admits that certain types of cancer cannot be cured because they cannot be detached until far advanceed or because adequate treatment has not yet been developed. Nevertheless, medical science knows that all cancer is not incurable and individuals must not hesitate to see their doctors about suspicious signs. Even if cancer develops, prompt treatment will probably cure it. Delay is dangerous and may be fatal. Compulsory Retirement May Be Wrong Some years ago, when society began to worry about the fate of worn-out workers, the theory was advanced, and somewhat widely accepted, that old-age pensions would be the solution of this social problem. Now with the old-age security and a steady extension of industrial pension plans, the sociologists are not quite sure that the desires of all people can be taken care of by an old-age pension. There are many reports of workers, reaching the sixtyfive-year-old retirement age, who complain bitterly about the assumption that they are unfit to work. It seems that there are people who desire to continue to work. Many men and women, facing difficulty in finding employment because of their age, insist that business and industry make a serious mistake in stressing age in connection with employment. These unwanted workers denounce the "prejudice against age" and assert that older employes, through the benefit of past experience, can be productive and profitable. They intimate that age and experience are assets which often offset the pep, enthusiasm and exuberance of youth. School Tests Are Criticized Tests and examinations in school, which require the student to answer questions on the basis of remembered facts, are not a good, idea in the opinion of Professor Jacob. Verduin, an associate professor at Ohio State University. The educator seems to be on good ground when he says that such tests do not offer a basis to grade a student's ability to use information, which, after all, is one of the objectives of education. He thinks that a fairly tough examination could be given to discover if the student knows where to find facts and how to use them. These tests, he insists, can accurately grade the knowledge and ability of students. Certainly, the system of examination in use in most schools invites students to cram their heads with facts be cause the essential requisite of modern tests is a memory, of facts. It would be much better to adopt some form of examination that would eliminate the memory and permit students to use "their time and energy in developing the. process of thinking on the basis of facts gathered and readily available. Miss, Legislature Urges Action On Convicts The Mississippi Senate late Wednesday urged that speedy justice be meted out to the persons responsible for the attempted massacre of a Negro family near Newport, Mississippi. Two escaped convicts accused of the slaying of three Negro children and the wounding of their father and older sister were captured yesterday. The capture came as the climax of a gun battle near Sallis, Mississippi, between the fugitives and prison trusty J. B. (Hog Jaw Mullin) Grammar, a former professional boxer. One of the men, 39-year old Leon-Turner, was wounded in the exchange of bullets. LANE COLLEGE TRIPS CLARK PANTHERS, 36–31 The Lane Collage Dragons chalked up their second straight hardwood tilt of the season by defeating the favored Clark College Panthers, 36–31. The game was played in the College gym last Friday night. The first half of play was a low scoring contest between the two teams and ended with both quintets deadlocked at 13–13 Bennie Lowe of Thomaston, Ga., opened the scoring for the visitors with a neat crip which gave his team a 2–0 lead early in the game. Several of the Clark players found their range and increased their lead over the Dragons to 9–4, and later to, 13–12. With the Dragons trailing the Panthers by a one-point margin and seconds of playing time remaining in the first half, August Williams of St. Louis, Mo., dropped a foul from the free throw lane to knot-the-score at 1313 as the half ended. James Scott of Bolivar, Tenn. opened the second half with a long set shot which was followed by Lowe's crip to even the contest once again. Lowe came back to the scene and missed a foul that would have put the panthers ahead. Harry Atkins of Knoxville, Tenn., the Visitors their last lead of the evening. Atkins two-pointer came with only eleven minutes of playing time left in the game. The Panther were leading the Dragons 20–18., Williams foul moved the Dragons out in front once again, 22–22. The Panthers continued to stay within one or two baskets of the Dragons but failed to overcome their slim lead. The game ended with Lane editing the visitors, 36–31. James Scott Was high point man for Lane with a total of 15 points. Captain Avery Burress of Wyoming. Ohio pared the Clark Panthers and was their high point man with 9 points. Fashion Flip: Paris Shows American Idea Tradition has been reversed and Paris is showing fashions influenced by America. The Pierre Balmain midwinter collection featured yards of lingerie and Schiffli embroidery frills in trims made possible, the designer said, by a new American product known as perma starch he discovered on a recent trip to the U.S. The new synthetic starch imparts a finish to organdie and other types of cottons and embroideries used for lingerie frills, which remains through eight to fifteen launderings All lingerie trims shown were treated with it Lingerie and Schiffli embroidery trims were featured on black satin and moire dresses, on navy "tailored suits and even on black tweed coats. Lingerie hats were another highlight of the show presentment that the girl took the stand in open court and testified in the presence of many, persons, who knew her. It also was stated that Tolbert "refused and failed to make any statement toward his legal defense at any time or to appeal from the sentence of death." "We further direct and request the proper law enforcement officials of this ((Greenwood) county) and state (South Carolina) to continue their investigation in these matters and in the event that any other individuals have apparently violated the laws of our state, then we request that evidence be presented to us for further consideration," the grand jury said. The grand jury also "requested and directed" that "the proper solicitor" prepare bills of indictment charging violation of laws of the state "upon facts to be furnished to him by the sheriff or our county, and thereafter to swear the necessary witnesses to appear before us so that the bills of indictment. Judge Martin, after hearing the special report, advised the clerk of the court to notify the attorney general. John M. Daniel. At Spartanburg, S. C., Solicitor Sam R. Watt said the bills of indictment may be acted upon properly." would be prepared and handed to the grand jury immediately. He was assigned by Attorney General Daniel to prepare the bills of indictment. Last Rites Held For Mr. Triplett Mr R. B. Triplett, formerly of Iselin Street, this city died it the home of his sister. Mrs. Lessie B. Cochran, who lives in Memphis, Tennessee on January 8. Besides his sister, Mrs. Cochran he is survived by another sister, Mrs. Nettle Jackson, three sons all of Jackson, three daughters of Chicago, Ill., and one brother who lives in Toledo, Ohio. Funeral services were conducted Thursday, January 12th, with the Rev. T. Grimes officiating. Interment was in the Mount, Olive Cemetery with Bell Funeral Home in charge. Publisher's Rally that the two newspaper men deliberately, and maliciously violated the laws of this state in originating, publishing and sending into and circulating in this county and state with malicious intent false statements and matters. It was pointed out in the specia U. S. regains second place on Suez Canal shipping. Revenge Motive posse, who had combed central Mississippi for the escaped cons, told International News Service "Hog Jaw called for them to come out Turner laid he would. And within a matter of seconds, a couple of shots whistled across, Hog Jaw's shoulder". Grammer, who began his ring career it Greenwood, Miss., and subsequently became a contender for the middleweight title emptied the revolver into the shed. Turner was struck by one of several shots a penitentiary trusty fired as he led the poise to the house where the pair had been hiding. As the posse waited, ready to spring. the trusty—controlling the bloodhounds tracked the pan from the home of Turner's father to the small house, a potato storage shank. One of Grammer' bullets reportedly struck Turner in the right shoulder before, the fugitives stumbled out of the shark and tried to evade the posse. They were taken to the escape proof Hinds County Jail at Jackson. Malcohn Whitt, Wendell's 32year-old brother, had been arrested soon after three Negro children were slain, their father critically wounded, and a step-sister shot at their tenant farmhouse in Newport, Miss., late Sunday night. District Attorney Henry Rodgers said the three white men, who had broken out of the Kosciusko. Miss., jail on December 30 apparently thought the Negro family was responsible for their initial arrest. Deputy sheriffs had picked them up on December 22 at the same house where the shootings later occurred. Meanwhile the critically wounded man whose house the convicts invaded, gasped out a horrid story to police, telling them how three white men killed three members of his family after attempting to rape his 14-year-old stepdaughter. Thomas Harris was shot in the back and lung as he tried to help his 15-year-old stepdaughter, whom the men were attempting to rape. District Attorney Henry Rodgers asserted that the three men had been held in Attala county jail on charges of attempting too rape Harris' 14-year-old stepdaughter, last December. He said they escaped eleven days ago by digging a hole in the cell wall with a beer can opener. District Attorney Rodgers declared that Harris gave him this statement. "Malcolm Whitt and Leon Turner came to his home late Sunday night. Whereupon Turner told Harris he was going to have Harris' stepdaughter "or we're going to kill the whole damn bunch." Turner marched Harris into the kitchen while one of the Whitt brothers guarded the front door and the other, the back door. Turner shot Harris in the back and then went in to the back and then killed three children. The convicts were armed with a 22 rifle, another rifle and a 38 caliber pistol. Rodgers revealed that Harris' step daughter, Pearline, related to him how she jumped out of bed and ran to the back door, but was pushed back by one of the Whitts. After running back through the house, pursued by the other Whitt, she scampered under the house. One of the Whitts demanded that she come out or else he would kill her. Rodgers quoted her as saying that as she came out and started up the front steps. Turner shot her in the arm and right breast. Famed Woman home on one occasion with a detective and found Perry there. Miss Weyand is a member of the Federal Bar Association and an alumna of the University of Chicago, where she won the degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence when she was only 20. She was chosen one of the 10 outstanding women of 1944 by William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo. Neither Miss Weyand nor Perry would comment Tuesday on the suit. Mrs. Perry said that she and her husband were married at Media, Pa., in July, 1935. Mrs. Perry obtained a divorce in the Virgin Islands list summer. Mrs. Perry said in her suit that Miss Weyand "schemed" for several years to alienate the affections of Perry prior to the Perrys' separation in 1949. Mrs. Perry declared that she repeatedly attempted to make Miss Weyand discontinue her conduct towards Perry, but without success. The suit stated that "acts of misconduct" took place between July, 1947 and April, 1949 and "ruined the plaintiff's home and caused her to suffer in body and mind." Miss Weyand has been given credit for wining the Bethlehem Steel case before the Supreme Court. It was this case which, in effect, abolished company-dominated unions. She also has been credited with gaining about one million dollars in back pay for Republic Steel workers and in 1946 became the first woman to argue an NLRB case before the Supreme Court. Meanwhile neighbors and friends of the brilliant Miss Weyand leaped to her defense. Persons living in the vicinity of the blonde, 38-year-old woman's house, declared that she has "always deported herself as a lady." They said that they had never heard a word against her conduct. Miss Weyands coworkers at the National Labor Relations Board were shocked at the charges that have been brought against her. Neighbors of the government lawyer reported that she did have a small adopted son, about a year and a half old, Apartment house authorities declared that Miss Weyand brought the boy into her apartment "some time ago." CHICAGO U. ALUMNUS home on one occasion with a detective and found Perry there. Miss Weyand is a member of the Federal Bar Association and an alumna of the University of Chicago, where she won the degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence when she was only 20. She was chosen one of the 10 outstanding women of 1944 by William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo. Neither Miss Weyand nor Perry would comment Tuesday on the suit. Mrs. Perry said that she and her husband were married at Media, Pa., in July, 1935. Mrs. Perry obtained a divorce in the Virgin Islands list summer. Mrs. Perry said in her suit that Miss Weyand "schemed" for several years to alienate the affections of Perry prior to the Perrys' separation in 1949. Mrs. Perry declared that she repeatedly attempted to make Miss Weyand discontinue her conduct towards Perry, but without success. The suit stated that "acts of misconduct" took place between July, 1947 and April, 1949 and "ruined the plaintiff's home and caused her to suffer in body and mind." Miss Weyand has been given credit for wining the Bethlehem Steel case before the Supreme Court. It was this case which, in effect, abolished company-dominated unions. She also has been credited with gaining about one million dollars in back pay for Republic Steel workers and in 1946 became the first woman to argue an NLRB case before the Supreme Court. Meanwhile neighbors and friends of the brilliant Miss Weyand leaped to her defense. Persons living in the vicinity of the blonde, 38-year-old woman's house, declared that she has "always deported herself as a lady." They said that they had never heard a word against her conduct. Miss Weyands coworkers at the National Labor Relations Board were shocked at the charges that have been brought against her. Neighbors of the government lawyer reported that she did have a small adopted son, about a year and a half old, Apartment house authorities declared that Miss Weyand brought the boy into her apartment "some time ago." LISTS "ACTS" home on one occasion with a detective and found Perry there. Miss Weyand is a member of the Federal Bar Association and an alumna of the University of Chicago, where she won the degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence when she was only 20. She was chosen one of the 10 outstanding women of 1944 by William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo. Neither Miss Weyand nor Perry would comment Tuesday on the suit. Mrs. Perry said that she and her husband were married at Media, Pa., in July, 1935. Mrs. Perry obtained a divorce in the Virgin Islands list summer. Mrs. Perry said in her suit that Miss Weyand "schemed" for several years to alienate the affections of Perry prior to the Perrys' separation in 1949. Mrs. Perry declared that she repeatedly attempted to make Miss Weyand discontinue her conduct towards Perry, but without success. The suit stated that "acts of misconduct" took place between July, 1947 and April, 1949 and "ruined the plaintiff's home and caused her to suffer in body and mind." Miss Weyand has been given credit for wining the Bethlehem Steel case before the Supreme Court. It was this case which, in effect, abolished company-dominated unions. She also has been credited with gaining about one million dollars in back pay for Republic Steel workers and in 1946 became the first woman to argue an NLRB case before the Supreme Court. Meanwhile neighbors and friends of the brilliant Miss Weyand leaped to her defense. Persons living in the vicinity of the blonde, 38-year-old woman's house, declared that she has "always deported herself as a lady." They said that they had never heard a word against her conduct. Miss Weyands coworkers at the National Labor Relations Board were shocked at the charges that have been brought against her. Neighbors of the government lawyer reported that she did have a small adopted son, about a year and a half old, Apartment house authorities declared that Miss Weyand brought the boy into her apartment "some time ago." NEIGHBORLY DEFENSE home on one occasion with a detective and found Perry there. Miss Weyand is a member of the Federal Bar Association and an alumna of the University of Chicago, where she won the degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence when she was only 20. She was chosen one of the 10 outstanding women of 1944 by William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo. Neither Miss Weyand nor Perry would comment Tuesday on the suit. Mrs. Perry said that she and her husband were married at Media, Pa., in July, 1935. Mrs. Perry obtained a divorce in the Virgin Islands list summer. Mrs. Perry said in her suit that Miss Weyand "schemed" for several years to alienate the affections of Perry prior to the Perrys' separation in 1949. Mrs. Perry declared that she repeatedly attempted to make Miss Weyand discontinue her conduct towards Perry, but without success. The suit stated that "acts of misconduct" took place between July, 1947 and April, 1949 and "ruined the plaintiff's home and caused her to suffer in body and mind." Miss Weyand has been given credit for wining the Bethlehem Steel case before the Supreme Court. It was this case which, in effect, abolished company-dominated unions. She also has been credited with gaining about one million dollars in back pay for Republic Steel workers and in 1946 became the first woman to argue an NLRB case before the Supreme Court. Meanwhile neighbors and friends of the brilliant Miss Weyand leaped to her defense. Persons living in the vicinity of the blonde, 38-year-old woman's house, declared that she has "always deported herself as a lady." They said that they had never heard a word against her conduct. Miss Weyands coworkers at the National Labor Relations Board were shocked at the charges that have been brought against her. Neighbors of the government lawyer reported that she did have a small adopted son, about a year and a half old, Apartment house authorities declared that Miss Weyand brought the boy into her apartment "some time ago." Broadened S. S. fields of unemployment, compensation, old-age security and medical care, he added, will be primarily financed by special taxes designed to defray their costs." Another reason for his confidence in his fiscal program, Mr. Truman said, is that as the economy of the country grows, tax revenues also will grow. The tax recommendations which he would send to congress the President asserted, will make "the tax system more equitable and provide better incentives for providing the amounts and types of investment, consumption and savings which will contribute to an expanding economic my." Estimated expenditures for international programs and nàtional defense will require about 18 billion dollars, a reduction of 13 billion dollars over 1950. Expenditures for national defense are estimated at 13.5 billion dollars an increase of about 400 million dollars over 1950. Expenditures for veterans' services and benefits are estimated at 6.1 billion dollars, a cut of 825 million dollars from 1950. Interest on the public debt is estimated at 5.6 billion dollars in 1941, slightly less than in 1950. All other expenditures are estimated at a total of 12.5 billion dollars, about 29 per cent of the total Budget, representing an increase of about one billion dollars over estimated expenditures for these purposes in 1950. In his Budget message, President Truman again urged the adoption of legislation providing for a "comprehensive system of prepaid medical care insurance," to be financed chiefly by employer and employee contributions. He also urged action on legislation in increase Federal assistance to local health services and to provide financial aid to medical schools for the training of additional medical personnel, including tuition scholarships and subsistence aids for training graduate nurses and grants to states for vocational education for practical nurses. FOREEIGN BUDGET fields of unemployment, compensation, old-age security and medical care, he added, will be primarily financed by special taxes designed to defray their costs." Another reason for his confidence in his fiscal program, Mr. Truman said, is that as the economy of the country grows, tax revenues also will grow. The tax recommendations which he would send to congress the President asserted, will make "the tax system more equitable and provide better incentives for providing the amounts and types of investment, consumption and savings which will contribute to an expanding economic my." Estimated expenditures for international programs and nàtional defense will require about 18 billion dollars, a reduction of 13 billion dollars over 1950. Expenditures for national defense are estimated at 13.5 billion dollars an increase of about 400 million dollars over 1950. Expenditures for veterans' services and benefits are estimated at 6.1 billion dollars, a cut of 825 million dollars from 1950. Interest on the public debt is estimated at 5.6 billion dollars in 1941, slightly less than in 1950. All other expenditures are estimated at a total of 12.5 billion dollars, about 29 per cent of the total Budget, representing an increase of about one billion dollars over estimated expenditures for these purposes in 1950. In his Budget message, President Truman again urged the adoption of legislation providing for a "comprehensive system of prepaid medical care insurance," to be financed chiefly by employer and employee contributions. He also urged action on legislation in increase Federal assistance to local health services and to provide financial aid to medical schools for the training of additional medical personnel, including tuition scholarships and subsistence aids for training graduate nurses and grants to states for vocational education for practical nurses. Composite Record organization to America from Jamaica. It was called the Universal Negro Improvement association, and carried the pointed slogan, "Wake UP Ethiopia!" This year saw the beginning of the Negro migration northward by 1918 the number having left the south totalled 500,000. The Spingarn award was established. 1915: Booker T. Washington died at Tuskegee. Negro cavalrymen of the famous Tenth were ambushed at Carrizal by the Mexicans. Their leader, Captain Boyd, was killed along with 20 of the men. Twenty more were captured. St. Louis became a bloodbath arter 4500 white men struck against the hiring of Negroes. Six thousand bblacks were driven from their homes; some were hanged, burned and mutilated. 1918; Privates Needham Roberts and Henry Johnson of the U. S. Expeditionary Force in Europe receive the Croix de Guere for repelling the attack of 20 Germans. Approximately 400,000 Negroes served in the armed forces during the war but less than half saw overseas duty. However, those units which saw action, gave good accounts of themselves: The 369th Infantry was under fire for 191 days and held the same trench for 91 days. This outfit received the Croix de Guerre along with 371st, 372d, with groups of officers and men of the 365, 366, 388, and 370th and the first Battalion of the 367th. 1919: The Washington riot. The Chicago riot. The Pan-African Conference was held in Paris. W. E B. DuBois was one of the principal figures. 1920: A new high in the circulation of Negro periodicals and publiccations was reached. The number was over 500. 1923: The magazine Opportunity was started by Charles S. Johnson. 1924: Atty. Robert H. Terrell was appointed to the Municipal court bench in Washington, D. C., and William H. Lewis of Boston was made assistant U. S. attorney general. Dr. Ossian Sweet, a Detroit, physician, fought off a mob which stormed his home after he had moved into a "restricted" neighborhood. He and his brother were tried for first degree murder when a white man was killed by defensive fire. They were cleared by Clarence Darrow. 1925: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was organized and headed by A. Philip Randolph. The American Negro Labor congress met in Chicago. 1928: Oscar DePriest was elected to U. S. Congress, the first since Reconstruction. This was the beginning of a new era in politics. 1930: Herbert Julian went to Ethiopia to command the nations air force in the war against Italy. 1931: The Afro-American Symphony by William Grant Still was played by the Rochester Symphony orchestra prior to its touring Europe. Nine men, who were destined to rock the world in the celebrated Scottsboro Case, were arrested in Paint Rock, Ala. This case was significant in that it began the fight to get Negroes on juries and to have the Supreme court to over rule state decisions on these grounds. 1932: Angelo Herndon led an interracial march on City Hall in Atlanta. 1933: Negroes shifted their political weight from the Republican part to Mr. Roosevelt and the New Deal. 1935: Herbert Julian, aviation adventurer, went to Ethiopia to command the air force of that country against the Italian invasion. 1936: CIO began making inroads into labor and giving equal rights to Negroes in industry. Thirty Negro delegates and alternates attended the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Sen. Ellsin (Cotton Ed) Smith of South Carolina walked out as Rev. Marshall Shephard prayed. This was also the era of the "Black Cabinet" with Lawrence A. Oxley serving as chief of the Negro division of the Department of Labor; Dr. Robert C, Weaver, assistant to the administrator of U. S. Housing authority; Mary Bethune, director of Negro Affairs of the National Youth administration, and Dr. Frank Horne of the U. S. Housing service. Later more were added to the "Black Cabinet." 1937:: Joe Louis won the heavyweight championship of the world. 1938: James Weldon Johnson was killed in an auto accident. Crystal Bird Fauset of Philadelphia became one of the first Negro women to serve in state legislature. Arthur Mitchell defeated Oscar DePriest for the Congressional seat from Chicago. Mitchell had turns Democrat from Republican four years before his election. Homer (Goose) Curry To Do Sports Column For Memphis World Readers Homer Curry, Manager of the Memphis Red Sox baseball will be featured in a weekly sports article to begin in the Tuesday's edition of the World. Curry is a native of Texas and have been engaged in professional Baseball for 32 years. He has written for the Atlanta Daily World, and the. Philadelphia Independent, Philadelphia, Penn. Manager Curry received his educational training from Central Tex as and Paul Quinn colleges located in Waco, Texas. While in school he participated in football and baseball. In school he was a greater football player than baseball, but chose the latter as his profession. The Baltimore Elite Giants engaged Curry as their Center Fielder and with his help won the National Championship three consecutive years. Curry known baseball fans as "Goose" Curry received this nick name from his flashy base running Goose Curry was the Champion base stealer five consecutive years. He stole a total of 335 bases doing this period. He also won the championship in batting for 6 years with an average of 398. Teams managed by Curry: Goose Curry has discovered the following players who are now on big League teams: Harry Simpson, Cleveland Indians; Frank Austin, Cleveland Indians; Bill Cash, Cleveland Indians; Chain and George Crow, of the Boston Braves. Curry suites that the Memphis fans shall see one of the greatest Red Sox teams to his Martin Park in 1950. In other words he states that his team will really be nifty in fifty. Misdemeanor Charges Of Riot, Conspiracy Quashed In Chicago Municipal Judge Fred Slater last Wednesday quashed misdemeanor charges of riot and conspiracy against thirty-eight persons arrested two months ago in a series of racial disturbances at 58th and Peoria streets. In addition, he granted Assistant State's Attorney Earl E. Strayhorn permission to file amended complaints on the riot charges and continued the hearing to January 17. Judge Sinter ruled that the complaints were unsatisfactory because of uncertainty as to dates and because individual defendants were not charged with specific offenses. Appropriation For Deeds Office Hiked Estimates of salaries and expenses for the Office or the Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia total $236,300 for the fiscal year 1950, as compared with an appropriation of $201,338 for the current fiscal year.