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4 The Sports Front With Smoky PRO COURT TEAMS ROLLING AGAIN a Professional basketball teams were practically anchored during the war due to travel restrictions. Now that the big guns are silenc ed, leaving the final decision as to who won and who lost to the diplomats of the world, the play for-pay cagers are once again roaming the highways and by ways of the nation. They’re show ing their wares in the hamlets, villages and towns across the na tion, playing as many as two and three games a day. The famous Harlem Globe trotters are leading the mileage parade once again, showing up one day in California and a few |[ays later in Iowa, Illinois, Mich igan or Pennsylvania. Up to and including Feb. 15, the ’Trotters had bagged 97 wins against two losses. Paced by such court greats as Ted Strong, Bernie Price and Babe Pressley, the Harlem quin tet—which actually hails from Chicago—is probably the most colorful team in professional bas ketball. As a result they are in constant demand and travel far ther and play more games than any team in the world. Here is an example of their far-flung schedule: On Feb. 25, 26, and 27 they compete in the international invitational cup tournament in Havanna, Cuba. Approximately j^hirty days later they leave San ^Francisco by Clipper plane for Honolulu where on March 27 they start a three weeks tour of the islands. That’s a lot of traveling and a lot of basketball, especially when you consider the fact that they’ve been playing practically every night since Thanksgiving. But the ’Trotters are used to such life and continue packing ’em in and winning more than 95 per cent of their games. They move about via bus, train and plane. It’s the most unique setup in profes sional basketball and maybe in the entire sports world. For no sports aggregation we know of travels so many great distances -in quest of victories. They’re the ^vagabonds of sportdom ***** Last Friday night found plenty of good fast action at the Urban League ns the Lincoln, Omaha. and Belmont Center leather push ers went all out to give fans a good evening’s entertainment. In the Heavy Class, Nolan Davis hurt his hand and lost to Sam Williams. . Butch Buttgenbach lost to Clifford Triggs of Omaha by a decision. Cecil Hatcher lost by a decision to James Gregory of Omaha. Beaman lost by a decision to Herbert Gray of Om aha. In the lightweights, Arnold ‘Mouse’ Tarpley lost a close de cision to Bobby Battles of Omaha. Gwen Lyburger of Belmont Cen ter decisioned Sonny Cook of Omaha. A trophy which was given by referee Frank Selders to the best fighter was won by Clifford Triggs of Omaha. Another fine point not to be omitted was the excel lent sportsmanship shown by all the fighters. HOUSING OUTLOOK FOR NEGROES WORSE. URBAN LEAGUE REPORTS New York—New housing for Negro occupancy reached a fur ther low in 1946 as an already intolerable housing situation as sumed crisis proportions, Reginald | A. Johnson, Director of Field Ser ! vices and housing coordinator of j the National Urban League re ported this week. Pointing out that then end of temporary war housing construc tion had seriously reduced build ing of new units for the entire population, Mr. Johnson stated that recent reallocation of gov ernment housing for emergency use in certain cities has had the effect of cutting Negro unit occupancy even below the level of the war years. Of the total of 254.000 re-use temporary housing accomoda dations provided for veterans during 1946, only 5,000 or less than two per cent, were specified for Negroes and, as late as Octo ber, only 1,600 were available for actual use, the Urban League spokesman charged. In contrast, it was pointed out, 15,000 special war housing units for Negro oc cupancy were constructed be tween 1940 and 1945, and during the federal housing program 129,000 units, or nineteen per cent of the total, were earmarked for Negro occupancy. “The sharp decline in avail ability of new public housing for Negroes has not been matched in any degree by increase in private construction for lower or middle income families,” Mr. Johnson re vealed. “Only a negligible amount of private money ever has gone into construction of housing for Negroes. As an example, from 1939 to June, 1946, only 23,000 FHA insured units had been con structed for Negroes throughout the country. While some private ly financed housing construction for Negroes now is under way in twenty or more cities, the amount is negligible, since private build ers are concentrating on construc tion for higher income families.” The Urban League’s report places much of the blame for the situation on failure of Congress to enact the Wagner-Ellender Taft Housing Bill. Charging that public apathy and confusion un dermined the work of the sup porters of public housing in Con gress and among the interested agencies, Mr. Johnson stated, “If all those in America who were themselves in need of housing had expressed themselves to their respective Congressmen the Wag ner-Ellender-Taft Bill would to day be in effect and low-rent construction a reality. Active pressure groups with a special interest in the end of housing controls and the resultant sky rocketing dwelling and rent costs to the consumer far outnumbered those consumer-interest groups which filed in support of the bill.” A recent National Urban Lea gue spot-check showed a 175 per cent average price increase in property purchased by Negroes in Baltimore, with specific sales showing increases as high as 433 per cent; conversion of a group of new houses constructed for Negro occupancy in Lincoln, Ne braska, to exclusive white oc cupancy; a Negro vacancy rate in Cincinnati of .6 per cent as against 2.4 per cent for whites, with 27 per cent of the Negro population hemmed into 16 per cent of the space; a nearly doubl ed Negro population in Washing ton with no new space for Negro occupancy and most of the new governmental construction eating up land formerly the site of low income Negro housing; and in Buffalo the development of racial ghettos in a locality where there was little or no housing segrega tion 10 years ago. “In enactment during 1947 of a federal housing legislation such as the Wagner-Ellender-Taft Bill lies the only hope for even a par tial solution of the problem of America’s many thousands of homeless and crowded Negro families,” Mr. Johnson stated. “Under present circumstances, we face the reactivation of re strictive covenants, the further mushrooming of white neighbor hoods to the exclusion of Negroes, rapid encroachment of industrial and other non-dwelling construc tion on the dwindling space avail able for Negro occupation and intensification of racial ghettos ’’ UNION MEET Interdenominational Union Ser vices will be held at Newman Methodist Church, Sunday, Feb ruary 23, at 2:30 p.m. Rev. James Hull, Associate Minister at Christ Temple (Holiness) will be speak er. Rev. G. W. Harper,is presi dent and Rev. R. L. Moody, Sec retary of the Negro Ministerial Alliance which sponsored the meeting. NYLON HOSIERY Slight irregulars RAYON HOSE (Irreg.) Dark and light shades for your new Spring costumes. Sizes 8 Vz to 101/2 GOLD'S BASEMENT SHOWALTER ROOFING GO. Dealers Inselstone and Inselbrick Insulation Just Arrived New Shipment of Inselstone 233 North 22 2-2493 Lincoln, Nebraska -:- Patronize Our Advertisers
