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Paga F . re PORTLAND INQUIRER Friday. Ja n u a ry 4. 1946 SPORTS JJnrtkmii I muti nr AM USEM ENTS Moyer Kayoes Lopez in 7!h; Volk Off Card The M e x i c a n w elterw eig h t cham pionship m oved bag and b ag gage into P o rtla n d T uesday night as Iris Tom m y Moyer, a w orld tra v e le r in his fo u r-y e a r hitch w ith U ncle S am ’s fighting arm y, proved him self a m illion dollar baby at dim e-store prices in The A uditorium as he rocked sto u t h earted T unerio Lopez of Mexico C ity to slum berlan d in th e sev en th of w h at w as to have been a 10-round m ain event. P o rtlan d 's s l o p e - shouldered Irishm an, w ho left here for the arm y d u ty w ith plau d its of ring fans of th e am a te u r v arie ty rin g ing in his ears and had a couple of n atio n al title scalps hanging on his belt, re tu rn e d New Y ears n ig h t to launch w h at looms as an illustrious career in th e pitch- for-pay ranks. Not only did th e th e a tre o p era to r w ith th e flick er profile lull to sleep a guy as gam e as they come, but he did it w ith d e lib e r a te casualness and deadly aim of a guy w ho tak es an especial d e light in batterin fg a guy so brash as to w ant to tra d e pokes w ith him. Ten tim es w as th e sto u th earted senor from Mexico C ity th e re cipient of licks to th e w hiskers w hich left him d raped on th e deck like a Y e '’tid e rug. On nine of those occasions he hauled his b a ttered bones erect and tried to fight fire w ith fire. On the 10th trip canvasw ard, R eferee R alph G rum an w isely lifted the stu rd y rig h t m itt of th e P o rtlan d socker and m ercifully saved a gam e kid from fu rth e r p u n ish m ent. T eeing off a t 146V4 pounds, the sallow Irishm an proved to h im self he could fathom Lopez’ style in th e first round and he cu t loose w ith a bit og T.N.T. in th e sec ond w hich left Lopez b itin g d u st on fo u r occasions. H e w as dow n for 4, 8, 7 and th e n 8 ag ain as M oyer m oved in for th e kill. Tw ice in th e th ird T om m y sta g gered his sto u t-h e a rte d foe w ith first a left dow n stairs and th en a rig h t w hich landed flush on on th e button. A gain in th e fifth th e 147-pound socker from south of the Rio G ran d e w as w obbling on legs of ru b b e r and stay in g erect on sheer instinct. In th e sixth, he spent tw o seven-second stays on th e deck and w ound up a t the bell w ith G rum an tolling six over him . C am e th e sev en th and w ith it the end of Senor Lopez’ bid for fam e far from home. He cau g h t a w icked left hook to th e sam e spot and again got u p a t th e sam e count. On his n e x t ja u n t floor- w ard, how ever, he w as thro u g h for th e night. T he end cam e at Negro to Be Issue In '46 Elections MANTAN MORELAND HAS ROLE IN REPUBLIC’ S “ CAPTAIN TUGBOAT ANNIE" Meet Elwood Smith, New A N T Star BIRM INGHAM — (A NP)— De spite th e poor success politicians in recen t tim es have had w ith th e NEW YORK (A N P)—A m o n g Negro question, it is likely to th e new plays opening in New spotlight th e 1946 elections in Y ork’s holiday season is “Home A labam a n e x t spring. is th e H u n ter” a t H arlem ’s th riv H andy Ellis, lieu ten an t govern ing A m erican N egro theatre. or, from law offices in olum biana, “H om e is th e H u n te r” in tro Ala., has circulated e x tracts from duces to theatre-g o ers Elwood a 40-year-old piece of anti-N egro Sm ith, a young m an already well lite ra tu re in announcing his in know n as an opera singer, Town ten tio n s of ru n n in g for governor H all recitalist, radio actor, and of A labam a. en te rta in e r at N ew Y ork’s Cafe U nlike th e b ran d of an ti-N e Society D owntown. gro propaganda th a t ensued from Sm ith, w ho is only 24 years the 1944 cam paign h e a d q u arters old, is gifted w ith poise and s trik of Jim Sim pson in his rejection ing good looks, including w hat by th e v oters for th e U. S. Senate, one girl calls “fascinating eyes.” and th e hostile lite ra tu re issued A lthough he is th e wholesom e by Ju d g e H orace W ilkerson in A m erican boy type, he plays the adv ertisin g the “W hite S u p rem p a rt of th e villain in th e play acy league,” th e libel being spread so forcefully th a t m any people ag ain st th e N egro by Mr. Elis is In this scene from “ C aptain Tugboat Annie,” based on the beloved h av en ’t been able to stop th e m characters of the Saturday Evening Post stories by Norman Reilly in a hum orous vein rem iniscent Raine, Saundra Berkova plays for Ja n e Darwell, B arton Yarborough, selves from hissing him. of th e cam paign b u n k of form er As to how he cam e to be se Mantan Moreland, Jack Norton, and Hardie A lbright. Moreland adds S enator Tom Heflin. another to his long list of screen roles in this am using and hearts lected for the leading role in th e In a four-page folder, en titled w arm ing jjicture. new play, we quote Elwood him “T he Colored B rother, or The self: “I joined the ANT last Sep C reato r’s M asterpiece,” Mr. Ellis S. F. Davis, of Indianola, Miss., tem b er as a stu d en t to tak e e x has dug up th e distored w ork of w hich “ap p eared in th e M em phis tensive train in g in all branches C om m ercial A ppeal 40 y ears ago.” j of dram atics. W hen the new s got 2:37 of th e seventh, and, w hile it The view s o f Mr. Davis, as su b around they w ere looking for ac will go on th e books as a t TKO, scribed to a p p a re n tly by Mr. E l tors to play ‘H ome is th e H u n ter’, th e re w asn ’t m uch d o u b t about lis, a re so ridiculous, stupid, and I tried out, even though I thought M oyer being ready and q u ite able sim ple-m inded, as to be un w o rth y it w as a little brassy of me, a and w illing to m ake it a legal of rep ro d u ctio n even to display B ut they took kayo if given one m ore shot. M E M PH IS— (A NP) — Justice m ere student. th e ir ab su rd ity . m e.” W hat w as a sw ell supporting The N egro is p ictu red by Mr. trem b led on a “cross of p re ju A cting stan d ard s at the ANT bout to th e m ain ev en t cam e D avis as a curious, over-in d u lg en t dice” h ere last w eek as 50 or m ore w hen little D uane Hoag, th e ex being whose stan d ard “rations" w hite men publicly ad m itted th a t are am ong th e highest in the sailor from W ichita, earn ed th e are “a peck of corn m eal, tw o in a case involving a N egro and nation. B ut A bram Hill, director d uke over Chico (“B aby”) S an pounds of sugar, tw o pounds of a w h ite person they could not of th e play, had no hesitation in choosing Sm ith, a new actor. Hill chez in as fine a feath erw eig h t coffee, th re e pounds of salt m eat, be fair to th e Negro. b raw l th a t has ev er been seen. and one gallon of black molasses T his developm ent w as enacted says, “E ven w ithout experience, Thse tw o little lads, w eighing 126 a w eek.” all of w hich can be con in th e first division of crim inal Elwood is w h at som e people call and 125 Vi, respectively, lugged sum ed a t one sittin g .” He is a c o u rt w hen A tty. Gen. W ill G er a born actor. W hen he w alked h eavy guns all n ig h t and they sub -h u m an w ho is “im m une to all ber sought to em panel a ju ry to out on th e stage for his tryout, d id n 't w aste a m om ent in u n kinds o f poison,” and can d rin k h ear charges against tw o form er and read his lines, w e all knew lim bering th e m at a lively ra te lin im en t and e a t antip h lo g istin e M em phis policem en accused of he w as th e one we had been look ing for. H e could be developed. of exchanige. w ith o u t it h u rtin g him . O r an crim in ally assaulting tw o N egro He has th e aggressiveness and Hoag roared dow n the stretch anim al w ho “can live a w eek on girls on Aug. 2. in th e last th re e h eats to tu rn th re e soda crackers, a box'O f s a r — In a courtroom crow ded to ov th e belief-in-him self th a t m ake th e tide in his favor. Both got in dines and five cen ts’ w orth of erflow ing w ith N egro and w hite people effective on th e stage.” We have it from E l w o o d som e hefty licks and th ey vainly cheese.” spectators w ho had assem bled to though, th a t w h eth er or not he tried to uncork a sock of knock h ear th e case, not a single ju ro r Mr. Davis is of th e opinion th a t w as born w ith all t h e s e dis out proportions. the N egro is “a g reat ad m irer of w as obtained from a panel of tinguished characteristics or not, Milo Savage, 148-pound S eattle art, an d in n early ev ery N egro’s m ore th an 350 venirem en. it took plenty of hard w ork to Negro, b eat Dick W agner, 144, home, be it ev er so hum ble, th ere To G erb er’s o ft-repeated ques bring '.hem out. O regon City, in five of eight hangs a life-size crayon p o rtra it tions: “Could you give a N egro Most of Elwood S m ith ’s life has rounds and th e th re e o thers w ere of him self.” He p ictu res th e N e ju stice in a case involving a w hite even as th e husky d u sk y recorded gro as “loving excursions and m an?” . . . “Do you have racial been devoted to m usic. He w as a th ird stra ig h t decision over loving to rid e on m erry-go- p reju d ice?” and other q u eries of born in Chicago, son of a ra il th e farm lad w ho h asn ’t flashed rounds. sim ilar n atu re, the replies w ere road dining car w aiter and a school teacher, Zelm a W o o d m uch im provem ent in his last Mr. E llis’ purpose in going back uniform ly in the negative or a f Sm ith, now at B ooker T. W ash six bouts. firm ative, indicating a feeling of to th is article is obvious. He is ington H igh school in New O r Speedy C annon, rushed in to try in g to cre a te th e sam e kind preju d ice to N egroes. leans. He studied m usic w ith pjtch for th e ailing Bobby Volk, of im pression of the N egro now It was necessary to set th e trial w on a cleancut decision over G il th a t existed 40 y ears ago w hen d ate up several w eeks in o rd er his m o th er and later w ith p riv ate b ert W hitesides, 156, Los Angeles, th e 1901 p o st-reconstruction con th a t a special venire of 250 p er instructors. A t the tim e he e n in six. C annon, a t 151, w as too stitu tio n a l convention adopted th e sons can be sum m oned for a n tered X av ier university, N ew O r sh arp and knew too m uch for poll tax , set up th e system of oth er a ttem p t a t a ju ry selection. leans, he w as seized upon by th e m usic teachers th ere as one of his riv al N egro clubber. county boards or reg istra rs and D efendants of th e charges plac the m ost prom ising pupils ev er K elly Jackson, 148, V anport, placed o th e r restrictio n s in th e ed against them by th e tw o N e to enroll. He sang leading b a ri recorded a TKO in th ree over reg istratio n law s. gro girls are J. W. T orrey, 27, tone p a rts in “C arm en," “II T rov- O rville T eeter, 147, P ortland. Evil pro p ag an d a th a t falsely and B. J. Lewis, 26, both of whom atore," “M ignon,” and “T ales of T eeter w as unab le to h it th e s ta rt line -for th e fourth. A tu rn o u of show s th e N egro as an a b n o rm al resigned from th e police force H offm ann." 2079 sa w he holiday card and ity w ould tend to create th e im follow ing accusations a g a i n s t “W hen th a t little college staged pression th a t he is not read y to them . gross receipts w ere $5040.90. a classic, it w as done rig h t,” says vote, u n fit for a b e tte r stan d ard G erb er declared: “I w ant to Sm ith. “X avier is m ostly a N e of living and does not belong in m ake m yself clea r at th e front gro school. B u t th e instructors th e atom ic age econom y. It is the end. No m an, u n d er th e law , has n ev er felt, obliged to give the kind of th in k in g th a t m ust be th e rig h t to m ak e an assau lt on operas and plays th e so-called b u ilt u p to pass th e Bosw ell W hite an y w om an regardless of h e r sta ’N egro tw ist.’ You got it straig h t S uprem acy Vote bill. tion in life.” and true. The w hole tow n, in In o th e r w ords, Mr. Ellis e n dorses and advocates, it seem s, th e idea th a t th e N egro is n o t a citizen bu t a clow n. He is going to ask th e voters of A labam a to elect him g overnor of th is sta te on a b ackw ard, b u rlesq u e p la t George Olson, Mgr. form. 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Ask for G-168 BROADWILL PHARMACY Under New Management cluding the A rchbishop of N ew O rleans and th e foreign consuls, cam e to see us.” O ut of college w ith a B.A. d e gree in 1941, he cam e straig h t to New York to continue his sing ing instruction a t th e Ju illard . In betw een tim es he w on first prize in a M ajor Bowes’ radio program , got an engagem ent at the Bel- m ont-Plaza hotel, did some radio w ork, and th e n w ent into the arm y. As a second lieu ten an t, he tra in e d as a pilot and la te r be cam e a special service officer. He w as honorably discharged in late 944. One of th e first things he did, post arm y, w as to audition for B arney Josephson’s Cafe Society D owntow n. He w as ta k e n on im m ediately as a featu red sing e r— an engagem ent th at lasted a record nine m onths. In Ju n e, S m ith together, w ith Josh W hite, gave a sold-out song recital at Tow n Hall, draw ing rave notices from all over the city. F or a w hile he w as m usic critic fo r th e • P ittsb u rg h C ourier. T hus far, opera in New Y ork has been closed to him . In “Home is the H u n ter” Sm ith plays the role of an A m erican soldier re tu rn e d from G erm any, im ued w ith Nazi ideas. “W hat I like about doing this play,” he says, “is the au th en tic realism w ith w hich the A m erican N egro th e a tre is staging it. No ‘Negro tw ists’— just like th a t little college tow n dow n in New O rleans.” HARLEM GRILL » » V «*“ 1