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UNITED CASH COAL DROPS 2ND GAME The Colored Boys droped a ball game to Florence Merchants, Sun day by the overwhelming score of 10 to 3. Mr. Morton, the bespec table pitcher of the United Coal pitched a winning ball game. His support was a little bad. The white boys turn 9 scattered hits into 10 runs, But, seeing this Tapley cavorting around in the infield was will worth the 15 cents admission. This gent is really a outstanding ball player. Up three times, and 2 hits. Considering Mr. Morton’s age, he was outstanding Sunday. His pitching and bat ing exceeds eome of the younger members of the club. I do bel:eve the colored TALK REVIVAL OF NEGRO SOUTHERN — LEAGUE Six Club Loop Indicated Birmingham, Ala. (SNS)— A tuovement is being talked thp would bring about revival of the ]Negro Southern league, W. B. Bsker of Atlanta, Georgia, was a atop-over visitor to Birmingham Wednesday. Former business man ager of the AMan'a Black Crack ers, Mr. Baker said that he was now connected with Atlanta White So*, a semi-pro team. The southern wing of the Negro American league made up last year of Birmingham, Memphis, Atlanta and Jacksonville has bo n Iransplanted with the Birmingham franch'se abolished The three southern clubs remaining in the league this year are operating on a plan of a twin home city. They have a Dixie home and a northern home. This follows the pattern of the Baltimore Elite Giants who also claim tho title of the Nash ville Elite Gianth. ATLANTA CHANGED HANDS Atlanta with its ever changing business personnel reorganized this year on a plan that would insure them use of Ponce de Leon park, hoonu of the Atlanta! white) Ctrackers. Originally they chose Louisville for their foreign home on theory of the northern wing that they needed to bo closer to tho other members of the league. Louisville was unable to house them a* the Black Colonels refused to move away and at the same time hooked up with the Negro International Association, a new haseball organization. The Black Crackers then secured Indianapolis as their alien base Tho original Indianapolis club, tho ABC’s trans ferred to St. Louis, a former mem ber of the Negro American League club owner, H. L, Moore; and man ager, William “Dizzy" Dismukes, came to Birmingham in 1938. The Atlanta Black Crackers have been forced to drop their Dixie label and take on the title ABCfb thur losiqig their Dixie distinction. This type of reorgani zation is apparently a compromise to satisfy several of the influen tial men in the league who want ed to get rid of the Southern clubs and fortm a merger with tho Negro National League. The plan was submitted by Cum Posey, part owner of the Homestead Grays, last year, but was rejected. Al though presented by a member of a rival league, there were known to be club owners in tho western league to favor it. SOUTH LEFT STRANDED As a result of the events the South is lefft i&tmnded without, organized professional baseball. Birmingham, one of th0 best base ball cities in the South is left to the mercy of barnstorming of tour ing beams. These teams can never fill the bill for eafch ticket base ball in this city and fails to con tribute to the civic business and entertainment life of the people. A Dixie League is proposed that ■would be made up of Nashville, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Atlanta, Birmingham, Montgomery of Co lumbus, Ga. Only six clubs are wanted although it would be stretched to eight if there became sufficient interest. Four of the above cities have consented with Birmingham, Columbus and Mont gomery as yet not indicating their 6entiment. PLAY WEEK-ENDS The new Dixie league would play .only week-ends or Saturday, Sun day and special holiday games ex cept where a few night games could be put on the scheduk-s. The league in fact would be semi pra as it seems this is the only brand of baseball which just new fits' th0 peculiar conditions of this region. It has been wtated that Birm ingham could organize a semi-pro club or an all-s ar club that would rate a honey anywhere. Many cities hav0 already adopted this brand of baseball which is a throw-back to the beginning of cash baseball among our group. It is bravely claimed that the Jacksonville Red Caps made more money playing as a semi-pro outfit than they 1 avo as a purely professional or ganization It b up to Binningham to take advantage of th’s new home in dustry. Absentee baseball means nothing to our city. Baseball is a business. Surveys show people employed in the steel or heavy in dustries are baseball’s best cus tomers. WORKS PROGRESS ADMINIS TRATION-RECREATION DEPT. 306 City Hall, Omaha, Nebras ka—Though it rectives practical ly no public acknowledgement of it’s work, the Recreation Produc tion Project fills a spot in the Recreation program which, if it woro not filled would seriously cripple the program. The headquarters of the project which i8 headed by William Mey ers and supervised by Earl R. Lane, is in one of the three units formerly deed by Omaha Univers ity at its 24th and Pratt Sts., lo cation. With the assistance of the City of Omaha, the Production end of City Rijcrcaetion His remodeiUed all Park department equipment besides building new equipment to augment the old. Safltey ha8 been one of the ma jor objectives in the construction of these playground appliamces and the workmen have come thru with several changes guarantee ing it. A standout is the exehang ing of chains for solid bars in playground swings, making it al most impossible for swingers to ;v.rike each other while in flight and leaving no loophole for the uncoupling of chain links. A large number of the person nel on the project devote their time to the construction of toys for tba newly organized toy lend ing library to be located in Re lation Centerti throughout the city. As soon a« problems of sterilization of the toys are met and a chocking out system devis ed the library will be started. Supplies for handcraft classes in centers seem to materialize mi raculously, hut such is not the case. The prepared materials which center supervisors put out to their student* are all made under the guidance of Mr. Lane at the production shop . To Mr, I-ane and his staff goes much of the credit for renovating the new South Side Recreation Center. The building had not been in vl*e for 10 years previous ly and the interior was a shambl- ’ es. The Center as it now appears is a credit to the work of this de partment which whipped it into fthape in a few short weeks to open on the scheduled date. The production staff will change tho gymnasium of the South side Center during the summer to have it in readme-s for next winter* basketball games START POURING CONCRETE AT BOYS TOWN Boys Town, May 24—(Spec:al) —Work of pouring the concrete footings on the four new Boys Town dormitory buildings, a part of the $635,000 building expansion program now in progress at Fath er Flanagan’g Boys’ Home, t^art- j boys will be strengthening some what next Sunday. Jack Wright, a well known pitcher will be add ed and also Hall, a very good in fielder. The pitching is good at present All the boys need is to pull themselves together. The game was called to enable the other game to start on time at 3:30. This game was a corker. So come out fans, and root for the colored boys. Will see you next week. The addition of Charley Crump will add a whole lot of defense and batting power to the team. Hall is the same type of player as Mr. Tapley. 1 DARK LAUGHTER by 01 Harrington Sure is funny, Bootsie, but you wuz not all messed up like this until after the night when them radio news flashes said war wuz expected any time._ ed this week. The building activities will pro vide employment for six month? for scores of Omaha workmen. Father E. J. Flanagan, founder and director of Boys Town, said this week ihe was disappointed in the response he is receiving from his appeal to Omahans for $40,000 in order that the Metropo litan Utilities Distrust water mains can be extended to Boys Town. Kxtention of the water main to the “city of little men” will give Boys Town the proper water supply for fire and health pro tection. ‘‘I feel candifent, however, when the Omal^a people realize that extending the water mains to Boys Town is essential to the Home, they will rally to our sup port,” Father Flanagan said to day. Omahahans are be;ng asked to contribute only $40,00 in the huge $635,000 building expansion pro gram, it was pointed out. F'unds for the bulk of the program are being raises! outside of Omaha. When the building program is completed, Father Flanagan will then be able to handle 500 boys instead of only 200 which is the present enrollment. OPEN STATISTICS Omaha, Nebr. May 23, 1939 Low-Waged Income and Unemployed Workers Dear Editor: Wc feel that it is our duty to urge every Negro to register and vote, to the fact we know that quite g few that did not register or vote. Out of 14 thousand Ne groqs in Douglas County, this is the way the Negro votes ran in the City election. First Ward: 1 district 10 votes; 2—0; 3—0; 4—0; 5—0; 6—0; 7— 1; 8—0; 9—0; 10—4; 11—0; 12— 1; 13—1; 14—11; 15—0; 16—0; 17—2; 18—0; 19—2. Total 32 Second Ward: 1 district, 9 votes; 2—8; 3—35; 4—315; 5—461; 6— 257; 7—182; 8—677; 9—393; 10— 643; 11—5; 12—698. Total 3,683. Third Ward: 1 district, 50 votes; 2—6; 3—17; 4—398; 5—5; 6—2; 7—5; 8—181; 9—96; 10—46; 11— 0; 12—50. Total 857. Fourth Warde 1 district, 46 votes; 2—11; 3—8; 4—6; 5—9; 6— 2. Total 82. Fourth Ward: 1 district, 4ff 2—0; 3—20; 4—0; 5—0; 6—0; 7- 1; 8—15; 9—2; 10—76; 11—0; 12— 26; 13—0; 14—0. Total 142. Sixth Ward: 1 district, 0 votes; 2—1; 3—0; 4—0; 6—12; 6—5; 7—0; 8—6; 9—9; 10—14; 11—0; Total 57. Seventh Ward: 1 district 0 votes; 2—0; 3—6; 4—173; 5—2; 6—390; 7—114; 8—15; 9—1; 10— 0; 11—0; 12—0; 13—53. Total 754. Eighth Ward: 1 district, 0 votes; 2—3; 3—1; 4—0; 5—0; 6— 1; 7—2; 8—2; 9—0; 19—0; 11—1; 1J—2; 13—1; 14—0; 15—3; 16— 9 Total 16. Ninth Ward: 1 disft r>c\ CO vote«; 2—3; 4—1; 5—1; 6—0; 7— 2; 8—0; 9—0; 10—0; 11-2: 12— 0; 13—0; 14—7; 15—4; 16—0; 17— 0; 18—0; 19—9; 20—4; 21— 4. Ttoal 57. Tenth Ward: 1 distrct 11 votes; 2—0; 3—0; 4—10; 5—3; 6— 0; 7—0; 8—4; 9—1; 10—16; 11—0; 11—5; 13—0; 14—5; 15— 2. Total 77. Eleventh Ward: 1 district, 72 votes; 2—74; 3—2; 4—0; 5—4; 6_0; 7—0; 8—0; 9—0; 10—0; 11—0; 12—0; 13—0; 14—36; 15— 0; 16—4; 17—0; 18—2; 19—0. Total 194. 12 Ward: 1 district, 0 votes; 2— 8; 3—0; 4—12; 5—128; 6J2; 7— 0; 8—0; 9—0; 10—2; 11—1. Total 243. Recapitalation: 1—32; 2—3,683; 3— 857; 4—82; 5—142; 6—57; 7— 754; 8—16; 9—57; 10—77; 11— 194; 12—143. Total, 6,094. -oOo DO YOU REMEMBER? by RPCHARD STANLEY By the time your mail man de fx>si'ts your good old Omaha Gu'de in the mail box, the PoaieU will be galloping around the track trying to earn same hay. Next Saturday is the day—time 2:15 P. m. Want Mr. Earl McClutcher be glad for he won’t have to journey I to Council Bluffs any more to walk back here is the story’. Mr. Mc Clutcher was standing on 24th & Lake on Tuesday afternoon with not a single thing to do when up comeg a friend. “Hi Earl, Hi Mr. Rutledge w-hat’s up says Mr Rut ledge. Come let’s you and I go to Council Bluffs and break the book ies.’’ OK by me.’’ They both jump into Earl’s jalopy and off they go to Iowa. On the way they pick up another friend, Paul. The merry trio continue on their way to break the bookie^ but things did not go so well so Earl and Paul become busted, and Mr. Paul cleaned and Earl keeps a 25 cents piece to pay bridge toll. A hot one comes to Earl’s attention and he puts his quarter with another fellows quar ter and the horse fell down and broke his leg. Poor Earl. Bridge toll now is gone and Mr. Rutledge isn’t faring so well either. He put his la»t three bucks on a hot favor ito and out he goes. The combined bankroll of the three is nothing. Well boys lets go to Omaha where there are friends. Into the car they jump. “Oh! oh!”, says Earl, “W0 are out of gas. no gas no money, what are we going to do?” A friendly farmer pushed them to tohe bridge. The farmer then told them that was as far as he went so Mr. McClutchen soon solved his problem. He gave the toll collector his watch for toll and kindly old lady supplied the one gallon of gas which is the proper fill so they got home at 9:30 p. m. The morale of this true story is to not try and break the bookie. Win some and leave him some and pay your return bridge toll in advance. Here are the second class race tracks of the United States: Bay Meadowte, California Bowe Maryland Churchill Downs Kentucky Detroit Michigan Hawthorne Illinois Lincoln Fields Illinois Rockingham Park N. H Tanforan California Tropical Park Florida Several more second class tracks have foflded uy so there is no need to print them. Next week the third class tracks will appear in this column. Here are last year’s winnerte for Tuesday, June 7th, 1938. 1. Race 1. Lady Nadi 2. Manor Dell 3. Lazy Martha 2. Race 1. Prairie King 2. Dark Day 3. Pindar Pet 3. Race 1. Flatus 2. Flag Horn 3. Little Kier 4. Race 1. Fevoritia 2. Lanell 3. Double Brush 5. Race 1. Hedon 2. Southern Bell© 3. Curley Cue 6. Race 1. Towaon 2. Rosireigh 3. Boiling Point t 7. Race 1. Elstree 2. Mint Box 3. Feezie I do hope Mr Vernon Stamps picks one winner during the 30 days and Mr. Herbert Parks wins one show bet which is his daily play. Rq isure to keep tuned to the Guide for fun and laughter. Yours truly, PAPER ] (continued from first page) ty shroudis. They live by the way and lend unto the Lord, but they give unto the poor. Their mission is to do good. There are no hungry Elks. A isepiare meal beats prayer for a hungry stom ach. To be a ~ocii Elk, don’t worry about your work, or what others do or say, do the beat you can and let the rest go, and smile all the time. Put the golden rule into practice. Judge men not by single acts, but the sum of all ■their act-s up to date. When men fail be fair. Make one person happy each day, and in forty years you have made fourteen thousand and six hundred human beings happy for e* little time at least. CJhaffiity unlimited though I speak with the tongue of men and of angldv, and have not char* ity. I become as a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. Wo should have charity for all man kind—for it, like dew, falls from heaven, falls gently on the droop ing flowers in the stillness of the night. It flows from a good heart and looks beyond the skies for approval and reward. It nev er opens but seeks to heal the wounds inflicted by misfortune and strives to calm the troubled mind. It is the golden chain that reaches from heaven to earth and towers beyond the blue secrets of heaven, and spreads trophies our feet. Lord help me to live from day to day, in such a self forgetful way, that even when I kneel to pray, my prayers shall be for others. Help me in all the work I do to even be sincere and true, and know that all I'd do for you, must need 'be done for others. Let /self —be crucified and slain and buried deep and all in vain may effort be to rise again, unless to livd for others, and when my work on earth is done, and my new work in Heaven’s begun, may I forget the crown I won, while thinking still of others. Others, Lord yes, others. Let this my mo(tto be. Help me to live for others, that I may live like Thee. NEURITIS RELIEVE PAIN IN FEW MINUTES To relieve the torturing pain of Neuritis. Rheumatism, Neuralgia or Lumbago in a few minutes, get the Doctor’s formula NURITO. Dependable—no opiates, no nar cotics. 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