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TDn© V®5(S® PCIBU8HKD WEEKLY_ ■ ■! to the proniulton o/ the cultural, social and ipirtfua/ life of a great people_ Rev. Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and Kditor Business Address 2225 8 Street Phon# 3 6401 If No Answer Call 3 7506 Hume W Shakespeare.Adveitlalnr and Business Manager Charles Goolsby ... ......Associate Kditor, Y.MC.A. ftev. J. H. Brooks..Promotion Mannger porothy Greene ...Office Secretary Mia Joe Greene....Circulation Manager Member of the Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association . .Kntered as Second Class Matter, June 0, 10t7 at the Post Office at Uncoln, Nebraska under tbe Act of March 3, 1876. 1 year subscription.62 00 Single copy.3c r.niTORiAis The view* ex pi eased In these columns are those of the writer and not necessarily a reflection of the policy of The Voice, Pub. BEATING THE GUN BY AL MOSES W E-FIN D-THE-ANSWERS NEW YORK. (ANP). Question and answer time: (Q) Dear. A1 Moses: Nothing can be done about my Joe Louis not becoming Amer ica's best 1900-50 fighter. But would you say I was close to the mark if I said Louis, Jack John son and Kid Chocolate represent three of the best fighters since boxing became a sport?? Robert Slaughter, Pontiac, Mich. (A) Absolutely. (Q) I feel that Lucius Baster of Cleveland will lead the Ameri can league in batting this year, do you agree? How do you pick the first four teams in the junior major league circuit to finish? Bob Townsend, Akron, O. (A) Easter should be among the 300 hitters but to lead Williams or Kell, I don’t think so. I would like for the clubs to finish for 1950 like this: YANKEES, RED SOX, CLEVELAND and DE TROIT. (Q) Kid Gavilan must have adopted the easy life—based on his showing against classy Billy Graham. I. think Ray Robinson would have stopped the Cuban that nite—do you think so?? G. T. H., Harlem. (A) I do. (Q) As an amateur sportsman I have raced cars; hunted in Asia and fished in Tampico Bay and South America. I claim the Dus enberg is the highest priced auto today. Can you check this for me, Alvin?? Templeton Shawy, San Francisco. (A) The type 41 French manu factured, Italian built “Bugatti” is the most expensive as well as big gest automobile ever built. More than 24 feet long, it is designed to give a top speed of 142 m.p.h. It costs $43,000. Ettore Bugatti (dead since 1939) was an Italian who made autos in Alsace Lor raine. (Q) One paper says Irvirg Crane is National Pocket Bil liard champion as a result of the current Chicago tourney Another cays Willie Mosconi leads the field—what gives, Al. (A) Can’t answer palsy-walsy? (Q) George Dixon, called by former lightweight champ Frank Erne a better fighter than old Joe Gans, was whipped by an un known Negro bantam in an ex hibition when I was a kid of five Can you dig into records for hi; came?? George Samuels, Clifton, N. J. (A) Walter Edgerton who i: known in the prize ring as “Th« Kentucky Rosebud.” | (Q) May 1 have seating ca I pacity of these NL baseball parks please; Chicago, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh?? Betty Clivden, Roxbury, Mass. (A) Chicago, 38,690—Cincinnati 30,000 and Pittsburgh, 33,370. (Q) Was Ned Gourdon first to broad jump 25 feet good in other athletic tests? Carson Bell, Newark, N. J. (A) Yes, 100 and 220 quarter mile, discus throw, Javelin toss, hop step and jump. Good as a baseball catcher. (Q) I want the date of (East West) NCAA College basketball finals usually played at Madison Square Garden in your city?? Raymond Shavers, Toledo, O. (A) March 28, 1950. (Q) To settle a wager, Alvin, will you check the years Rogers Hornsby was NL batting cham pion giving me the averages he carved out. Thanks. Lester Buchanan, Yorkstown, Pa. (A) 1920, (370); 1921, (397); 1922, (401); 1923, (384); 1924 (424); 1925, (403); 1928, (387). The “Rajah” was with St. Louis and Boston during the above bat ting leadership. (Q) Maxim, like you write, Al. shouts lor Joe Louis and Ezzard Charles hoping for a slice of a 1-million dollar purse for tricky Jack Kearns and himself, I think Maxim ought to go out and whip Jersey Joe Walcott over whom he once got a split-decision and later lost to. “Slim'’ Jackson, Cleveland, O. (A) Stop reading me like a •Dunninger,” will ya chum. Ask Peace Table CAPETOWN, S. A. (ANP). Delegates from India, Pakistan and South Africa agreed last week to settle their differences over the conference table and to resume negotiations immediately. The three countries have been at log gerheads over social and economic matters for several months . . . Says lie Is Retired, You Wouldn't Believe It TAMPA, Fla. (ANP) You’ll never convince Heavyweight Johnny Haynes of Los Angeles that Joe Louis has retired for good. Short ly before the four-round exhibi tion went on, Louis told news men, “I’m not interested in fight ing anybody.” He immediately entered the ring and before the fourth round could end, Haynes was out cold. ; After the exhibition, Louis re , stated his position, but he was surrounded by doubting people, including Haynes . . . MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION 10th and 0 St. Since 1871 h JNMEi C. OLSON, Suf*rinttnJent •TATI ■ItTOaiCAL IOCIITY William F. Cody—better known as Buffalo Bill—one of the most famous characters in the history of Nebraska (and. for that mat ter, all of America), is at the same time the most elusive. More has been written about the famous scout and showman than about any other Nebraskan, yet it would be virtually impossible for even the most careful historian to write a biography of him that would be exact and satisfactory in all re spects. A great difficulty ifi trying to pin down the truth about Cody’s life arises from the fact that for virtually all of the information about him, the biographer must rely either on Cody’s own state ments or those of his contempo raries. Cody left no “papers” from which an accurate account can be written. In his own statements, it is safe to say, Bill was not completely | scrupulous with regard to the truth. His press agents apparently were completely bored by dull facts. Then, his contemporaries were violently partisan—either he was a daring hero of unlimited power or he was a low-life of the worst order, a pariah who had taken advantage of a credulous and unsuspecting public. A phase of Buffalo Bill’s career over which there is particular— and typical — confusion concerns his supposed election to the Ne braska state legislature in 1872. He was democraitc candidate for representative in the 26th district. | When the returns were first an nounced it appeared that he had been elected. That announcement, however, had failed to take into account the vote of Harlan county, which gave his opponent, D. P. Ashburn, a majority. Despite these returns, Cody claimed to have been elected, and “resigned” his seat, on the grounds that he was too busy to serve. For years biographers have repeated the fiction that Buffalo Bill was elected to the Nebraska legislature. Another illustration of the diffi culty in documenting his career is the fact that almost every mu seum in the west has Buffalo Bill’s gun. We have one in our museum at the capitol—a seven shot, Spencer repeating carbine. Ours is believed to be genuine— and most of the others probably are, too! The simple fact is that Buffalo Bill had hundreds of guns in his wild west show. Be that as it may, the man CLEANING and SANITATION SUPPLIES All Types Brooms—Furniture Polishes Mops—Floor Seal and Wax Sweeping Compounds Mopping Equipment Kelso Chemical 117 North 9th St 2-2434 George H. Wentz Inc. PLUMBING & hEATING 1620 N Phone 2-1293 ||~ 11*s \<*\* ;i( IN.I| Hy Charlene J. Colbert During the post week the uni* varsity ha* witnessed quite an ar ray of theatrical performances. The University theater presented its third major production ol the year, "The Glass Menagerie,'’ a play depicting the life of a frus trated family in the midst of t depression. Jack Rank, a 1927 graduate of the university, portrayed all the ten characters in Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew.’’ Rank changed costumes for each char acter, kept the conversation going throughout and never was out of the sight of the audience for more than twenty seconds at a time while changing. He was assisted by onl^ one man who did not appear on the stage during the performance. Rank is the only man in the United States who depicts all the characters in a play. In order to eliminate the necessity ol two or more persons appearing on the stage at one time, Rank had to re-write a portion of the speeches. Stan Kenton, on his stop at Nebraska university, gave an at tentive audience his version of a modern type of impressionistic music. The university was Ken ton’s only stop in Nebraska while on his country-wide tour. * * * Initiating the observance of the Lenten season were vesper serv ices held in the auditorium of the Love Memorial Library. The Re ligious Welfare Council sponsored various speakers at several meet ings. At the first session. Dr. Frank E. Court, answered the question, "Why Lent." The newly dedicated Carillon Tower called the service to order. Music dur ing the hour was furnished by members of the Delta Omicron music sorority. whose 104th birthday is cele brated Feb. 26 is a genuine west ern hero. I'll try to relate some of the more provable facts of his career in a later column. ■ ■■■■■■■■■■■a - II. 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