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EDITORIALS
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are those ot the writer and not necessarily
a reflection of the oolicy of The Voice.—
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THE PIGSKIN HUDDLE
BY ANP
BIG TIME GRIDDERS
START OUT WELL
Stars in pro football have
started out with top playing this
year. Joe Perry of the San Fran
cisco 49ers, George Taliaferro of
the Los Angeles Dons, and Fred
(Cannonball) Cooper of the Rich
mond Rebels head the list of men
proving themselves valuable to
their clubs.
Injured in training and expected
to be out five weeks, Perry re
covered sooner than expected. He
was the leading ground gainer
for both teams as he led the 49ers
to a' 42 to 7 victory over the
Chicago Hornets in San Francisco.
Bob Mike played guard for the
49er«. Paul Patterson played a
good game on defense for the
Hornets.
Coming into the game in the
third quarter after Glen Dobbs
had been injured, Taliaferro
sparked his team to four touch
downs as the Dons overwhelmed
the Baltimore Colts 49 to 17. He
gained 76 yards in seven tries,
and tossed two touchdown passes.
Also in the Dons’ lineup was John
Brown at center and Ben Whaley
at guard.
Cooper led his team in its first
exhibition game of the season to
a 32-0 victory over the Atlantic
City Reds. He gained 110 yards
in six carries and ran 40 yards
in punt returns. He scored a
touchdown on a 66 yard dash, the
longest run of the game. A crowd
of 8,000 fans, a large percentage
Negro, saw the Rebels feature a
Negro player for the first time.
Martin Motley and the Cleve
land Browns were stopped for
three quarters by the Buffalo
Bills, but finally rallied in the
fourth quarter to gain a 28-28 tie.
Ed Conwell did not play with the
Bills in this game. Bill Willis
and Horace Gillona saw action
with the Browns.
The Detroit Lions left their
three Negro players out of the
game as they lost to the cham
pion Philadelphia Eagles in an
exhibition game in New Orleans.
No reason has been given for
leaving end Bobby Mann, and
backs Mel Groomes end Wall j
Triplett out of the game.
LINCOLN (PA. TO PLAY
EIGHT GAME SCHEDULE
The Lincoln Lions under their
new coach, Irving Mondschein,
will play an eight game schedule
this season, which will include
Albright college at Reading, Pa.,
and Lebanon Valley college at
Annville, Pa.
Lincoln opens its season Sept.
24 against St. Paul’s Technical
college at home. Other games
scheduled are Delaware State at
Dover; Vifginia Union at home;
Morgan State, homecoming, and
the Nov. 24, the Thanksgiving Day
classic with Howard at Temple
stadium, Philadelphia.
Haywood Allen and Edward
Darden at center, and Herman
Himes, Joseph Mitchell, Francis
McGee at guard. He has one re
turning veteran back, Butler Tay
lor.
HOWARD LOADED WITH VETS
Unlike most coaches, Eddie
Jackson of Howard is not shed
ding those tears during the train
ing period these days He has
nearly all of his veterans who
won seven of nine games last
year returning to the team this
year. Howard should have its
best year since 1926.
“If we get past the first three
games,” Coach Jackson said, “we
may end up with a team as strong
as we had at the end of last sea
son.”
In his starting lineup Jackson
can field a proud list of veterans
—Charles Gaines and Hillary
Thompson at ends, hulking Clar
ence Gilks and Bill Brown, both
seniors, at tackle, Leon Hill and
Otto Jordan at guard, and either
Roper McNair or Harry Thomp
son holding down center on the
line.
In the backfield, Chuck Ross,
reporting in the peak of condi
tion, a sharp passer, at quarter
back; Virg Anderson and Ase
Abrams, last year’s regulars, «^t
the halves, and Bob Minton, de
ceptive 190 pound powerhouse, at
fullback.
Howard will open its season at
home against Bluefield State Sept.
24. All home games will be played
at Howard stadium, except for
the Howard-Morgan classic which
will be played at Griffith stadium.
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AAUW Reinstates
3 Negro Women
WASHINGTON. (ANP). Three
Negro women, Mrs. Mary Church
Terrell, Miss Otelia Cromwell and
Miss Mary E. Cromwell, were re
instated in the Washington branch
of the American Association of
University Women at the national
headquarters last Monday night
with around 100 women in at
tendance.
At the same meeting a new
president was elected to head up
the completely reorganized
branch, which is composed only
of those members who did not
withdraw from the organization
when the AAUW convention
voted by more than 2,000 to less
than 75 to make “educational
qualifications the sole require
ment for membership.”
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Each year on the third Sunday
in August the former residents
and families of former residents
of the old Nebraska ghost town
of Rock Bluff gather at Hutchin
son’s Grove, five miles south of
Plattsmouth, for a reunion. In do
ing so, they keep alive a colorful
but almost forgotten chapter of
Nebraska’s history.
Though virtually nothing re
mains to tell of its former glory,
Rock Bluff during territorial days
was one of Nebraska’s thriving
river towns, and a contender for
honors as the metropolis of the
trans-Missouri region.
According to a map accompany
ing an article by Dr. G. H. Gil
more of Murray on ghost towns
in Cass County (Nebraska His
tory, July-Sept., 1937), Rock Bluff
was founded Jan. 6, 1856. The
town soon developed into an im
portant outfitting point for freight
wagons crossing the plains, and
the Rock Bluff landing was vis
ited regularly by Missouri River
steamers. A pioneer college, Naomi
Institute, flourished for a number
of years under the direction of
Prof. Joseph Patterson.
Perhaps the most notable inci
dent in the town’s history is fur
nished by the ballot box that went
to dinner. In the election of 1866,
Nebraska’s voters were deciding
whether the territory should be
come a state, and if statehood was
achieved, whether the first offi
cers would be Republican or
Democratic. David Butler headed
the ticket of the former and
J. Sterling Morton the latter.
The political parties were quite
evenly divided in the territory
and the election was close. In
Rock Bluff precinct, 107 votes
were cast for the Democrats
against only 47 for the Repub
licans, enough to put Cass County
in the Democratic column. The
county canvassers decided, how
ever, that because the ballot box
had been taken to the home of
one of the election officials over |
the noon hour the votes of Rock
Bluff precinct would have to be
thrown out.
By virtue of this action Cass
County went Republican, and its
representatives furnished the edge
in the legislature that enabled Re
publicans to elect Nebraska’s first
two United States Senators, John
W. Thayer and Thomas W. Tipton.
Because of this celebrated case,
Rock Bluff achieved a permanent
place in Nebraska’s political his
tory. When the railroad came
through Omaha, however, Rock
Bluff like many another river
town went into a serious decline,
until today it reposes among the
rather numerous ghost towns of
Cass and other eastern Nebraska
counties.
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Negroes made practically no
economic progress during the
first generation of their freedom.
Because of this, they began to
think of ways to escape from this
condition. They organized into
labor unions and held their first
convention of this sort in 1869,
i but this wasn’t the answer to
their problems. Thousands
turned to the ministry, for in
this field they felt that they could
have the opportunity to attain
leadership and independence.
Many of these men who turned
to the ministry were undesirables
and exploited the people, but
there were many that were sin
cere in their Christian work.
Some of the ministers were very
successful and did much to aid
the Negro in his struggle for
“real” citizenship.
Then the Negroes began to mi
grate to the North in large num
bers. The majority of these who
migrated during this time went
to Kansas. “This movement was
organized by two widely known
race leaders who thereby at
tained distinction. They were
Henry Adams of Louisiana and
Benjamin, or “Pap” Singleton of
Tennessee. By circulation of state
ments as to the opportunities in
! the West, these leaders interested
between 100,000 and 200,000 Ne
groes of the Mississippi Valley,
although not more than one
fourth or one-fifth of this num
ber actually went west.
— Carter G Woodsom.
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LOS ANGELES. (ANP). A fa
mous couple, married 15 years,
apparently came to the parting of
the ways last week when Mrs.
Willa Mae Armstrong filed suit
for divorce from her husband,
former triple champion Henry
Armstrong. •
Mrs. Armstrong is charging ex
treme mental and physical cruelty.
She is asking custody of their
daughter, Lanetta, 12, and a set
tlement of the Armstronfe estate,
valued at $50,000.
M[rs. Armstrong recently re
turned home from a visit with
her family in Texas.
FEPC A ‘Truman
Must’ Says Rep.
Sabath of Illinois
WASHINGTON. (ANP). Rep.
A1 Sabath of Illinois said Presi
dent Truman has labeled fair
employment practices legislation
a “must” at this session of Con
gress. Sabath is chairman of the
powerful house rules committee
which virtually controls legisla
tion going through the house.
The proposed FEPC law is the
section of the President’s civil
rights program most bitterly
fought by the south.
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