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IWlno rioilo'c df nn Fnr for Rhvrfitm these women! BROOKLYN EAGLE, s5NE5DAY, JUNE 11, 1941 By d'Alesslo And All the Jitterbugs Are Happy He Discovers and Books Best Negro In Country; Found the Ink Spots in By JANE CORBY Moe Gale's got an ear for rhythm and the brown boys and girls have got rhythm. It was in the cards that they should all got together. Result: Moe Gale has become the William Morris of the colored bands, which means, to Broad- the vast fraternity of band fans, "Which sounds more impersonal, or 'Precious'?" to use his business title, is the; country's biggest booking and the atrlcal agent for colored. musicians, Just as William Morris tops the field among the palefaces. That means discovering talent as well as booking It, remember.

It means carrying the Four Ink Spots, now the stai Negro musical attraction in the United States, through the lean years that followed after the boys found out they could sing about ten years ago at St. Augustine Church at Marry and Lafay ette Aves. in Brooklyn and tried to get on the big time tried and tried, with nobody believing in their ability to click except Moe Gale. It means sensing the something different in the voice of a fat little 16-year-old girl named Ella Fitzgerald and the 'Tuxedo Junction" that was in Erskine Hawkins and the genius for writin', singin' and swingtn' Negro spirituals that was in a graceful young Holy Roller named Sister Rasrtta Tharpe. Holy Roller Singing: Sister Tharpe, for all she is now appearing at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem with Lucky Millcnder iMoe Gale's ballroom is still more of a ERSKINE HAWKINS, the bandleader tmmneter Hk inext recording Will be Sands St.

Shuffle." I XSv 5 Sk M0E GALE The Wllliam wt iv "1 Morris of the colored bands lUl FOUR INK SPOTS They started In a Brooklyn church, tion, still less what their eventual 1'- Jf effect on Weygand will be. But the i A 't A lJlll sams which were sought would be Wf 'iBrfBs worth a good many convoys. I 1 '3 IlLllJ ULIIIIli IlLlYJ ministration has tried to convince I "SPlt the Japanese that we do not wish I Ti III 11 i Mill PT All to fight them, but that if they in- yZt I VSf' ft WlNn Nil UN expanding the war we may SA I tion, still less what their eventual effect on Weygand will be. But the gains which were sought would be worth a good many convoys. Our Policy in Far East In the Far East likewise, the Administration has tried to convince the Japanese that we do not wish to fight them, but that if they insist on expanding the war we may achieved the ultimate in band goals, too, and have made the movies; they are featured in "The Great American Broadcast," recently released, in which Alice Faye starred.

The Four Ink Spots are without a doubt among the most breath-taking successes of the modern world. Averaging less than $18 a week a few years ago, the boys now carry life Insurance of $100,000 each, ride in the slickest of cars and are valeted by the dressiest of valets (attired In red Jackets and blue pants). It's all Just what they deserve, says Moe Gale, who set them to climbing the well-known ladder. Those boys are Ella Fitzgerald, Sister Tharpe, Erskine Hawkins and the others Cab Calloway used to be one of his boys got ahead by the simply process of having what it takes. "These colored boys and girls have an absolutely natural feeling for rhythm," he says.

"They are creators of a rhythmic style and improvisation that keep the white bands studying. Many of the white bands have colored arrangers, ent tempos in swing. Each band has its own tempo, "You take Erskine Hawkins and his band he really rocks people. His is an in-the-groove tempo that goes over." Erskine Hawkins' band Is definitely young the average age of the boys is 21. Hawkins plays the trumpet and is spoken of by fans as the Twentieth Century Gabriel; he made the leap to fame almost over night by first writing and then playing "Tuxedo Junction." He writes many of his own songs, likes to name them after places; "Norfolk Ferry'1 is another of his hit tunes.

Records Make a Song Under the head of management of a band comes the making of records, for It's records and juke boxes that make a song and give a band a boost. All of Gale's topflight boys and girls are inde-fatigible record makers who can't turn them out fast enough to meet the demand. Th Four Ink Spots are the biggest record makers in the country after Bing Crosby. When they started out they made four records for $37 50; now a single record nets them $3,750. They've I 1 jSEwEgf nave 10, wun no aouot in our mmu 00 SrT I have to, with no doubt in our mind OSSS- By ERNEST K.

LINDLEY Talent Brooklyn Holy Roller at heart than a night club entertainer. She has been heard frequently In Brooklyn's colored churches and the difference between her sinning in church and singing at the Savoy Is exactly zero. Sister Tharpe sings spirituals she writes herself, strums her guitar and clicks with the Holy Roller rhythm In and out of church, "Sister Tharpe's been singing since she was a year old." Gale explains his newest find. "Her mother is an evangelist and Little Sister was born in Cotton Plant, and accompanied her mother from the time she could walk on trips around the countryside. Second Nature "At five Little Sister was playing the organ with one finger, and then somebody left a guitar behind at their house and Little Sister began strumming it with a piece of wood she picked up, singing spirituals to herself as she strummed.

Spirituals became second nature to the girl, and as she grew up she began composing her own songs. She made a sensation at a religious revival in St. Louis with a spiritual she wrote, Pressing on the Upward Studied at N.Y.I'. Moe Gale, a level-eyed, young-looking fellow of 40 who is generally behind a pipe, took off for his spectacular career from New York University, where he majored in sociologly and economics. He had fooled around with a violin as a kid, but otherwise appeared to be headed for a strictly inartistic business life.

In fact, he tried his luck in two or three unimaginative lines of business before he acquired the Savoy Ballroom and started building up the attendance, which now runs to 1.000,000 a year. Spotting talent in the embryo age, originally just a gift with him. has been polished now to a fine art. He's thorough about the whole thing. His blue-carpeted, walnut-furnished office at 48 W.

48t.h St. has a small piano. "I welcome everybody," he says. "I listen to hundreds of thousands of tunes you never know when you'll find the right song." Swing's the Groove "There's been a lot of talk about sweet bands coming back," he says, "but I notice only rhythm bands' have had outstanding successes In the last couple of years. The bands that are riding high are all swing bands.

Of course there are differ- afternoon we sang in the old school hall with the old reliable Professor Trim? Some of the boys I recall were Gregg brothers, Dinny Coughlin, Willie and Denny Buckley and their cousin, John Brown, now a priest in Brooklyn, Frankie Brown, John Feeney and my brother and I from Clinton St. The Twohy. brothers, Greaney, Braay, Kelly, Egan, Mc-Connell brothers all from Nelson St. The Maceda brothers, Red Murray and his brother George, Syl Mc-Guire. Luke McCabe, the butcher boy, the Flaherty brothers, Eddie FRANCIS G.

McGINNIS. as to the result. Always we have kept open to the Japanese an honorable alternative to co-operation with the Axis, and an alternative which we believe offers a brighter future to the Japanese. The Japanese Government may not see it our way, although cer- tainly their wisest statesmen do. No one can say where they will end up.

But nothing has been lost by giving them time to think it over. We are stronger, relatively, than we were last Fall and they are weaker. Those who want us to rush into acknowledged formal war with Germany sometimes forget that the Japanese are pledged to make war on us if we do so. They are not pledged to attack us If Germany or When Do We Shoot? Extremists on Both Sides Dissatisfied; President Not Stampeded i Within the last ten days this correspondent, like many others, has asked many Government officials: "How soon do you expect us to be in a shooting war?" At least six to whom' this inquiry was directed are both high in official circles and close to the President (the two do not always go together). One replied: "We'll be in it up to our necks by the middle of July.

All hell is going to break i DR. BRADY says: idly, of course, than the Isolationists wished to go. But he has dragged mast of the latter with him. Most of them now favor ma- Three times as many men have been rejected as unfit for army service because of defective teeth in the'eurrent induction tests as in the tests of 1917. This is the conclusion drawn from an analysis of nearly ten thousand rejection reports from a thousand induction boards throughout the nine corps areas of the country.

ONLY YESTERDAY HEFFERN AN says We Commentators Get A Good Kick in the Pants 'King' Missed His Royal Coach; Bay Ridge Queen Rode Without Him cm wayites, jitterbugs and all that Mr. Gale, or Gale, SISTER Gale's covery. ROSETTA THARPE, newest singing dis- Italy is the aggressor against us. The difference may be finespun but it is not meaningless to a proud people. The picture is much too complex to iustifv a judgment, even bv the next-best informed, as to whether the President is doing exactly what is best for our national interest.

It can be said only that the extremists on both sides are dissatisfied, which means that he is being neither stampeded nor hamstrung. thp wopklv Ampriea intpnsifips tinge did great credit to their tact. One world-famous correspondent, fur instance, in his dispatches to the New York Times habitually styled 'Commissioners' those delightful gentlemen whom we called Commissars, or more familiarly 'comic Incidentally, he managed very well to convey the impression that 'Commissioners' were, by and large, happy combinations in the right proportions of Robin Hood, George Washington. Sieur Galahad and Abraham Lincoln. If any Commissar had a touch of the irascible in l.is nature, or a slight impulsiveness of character which might (and occasionally didi lead him to draw a leng barreled revolver with the object of hastily liquidating a 'politically undeveloped' comrade of lower rank, it was generously overlooked by this correspondent.

In perusing his reports, the readers of the New York Times must have gained the impression that 'Commissioners' in Spain were the salt of the earth and they certainly found no hint that the salt occasionally lost its savor." In This War Too All that Mr. Ryan now recalls I read in the well-edited prose of the best of our newspapers, or heard in the very positive broadcasts of Mr'. Kaltenborn. As events always contradicted all these prophets. I began to gain the impression that truth was indeed at the bottom of the well and our experts very decidely water-shy.

When the preesnt war began, the situation became even more confusing. The impregnability of the Maginot Line existed only in the imagination of our commentators. Defeats became moral victories, and retreats strategic miracles. Mr. Kaltenborn knew more than all the national leaders together, Mr.

Williams had sources of information closed to the secret intelligence services, Mr. Lindl. could make American history peuorm the most amazing stunts. Mr. Vandercook iild rhetorically demolish the foe at 7:15 p.m.

And in the lower realms Gabriel blew his trumpet and Walter blew his nose, for civilization and hair oil. freedom and cosmetics. No wonder Mr. Ryan was When the men wno arc to play a sacrificial role whatever An articlp on "pvnprt.s" in my distrust of the trade I now pursue with trepidation and fSf a painful sense of my own inadequacy. In this hour in our orating a "Boost Bay Ridge Week" sad world's history I have read and heard from the tribe the whole neighborhood was newspaper and radio commentators who have donned the 'having a great time.

Something mantle of Elisha the most terrible muddle of and happened there one night that i tragic prophecy and misinformation shall never forget. I think it was that ever added to the mental con-! that appeared to have a Moscow in 1925- Maybe one of your read- Edilor, Old Timers: I used to live at 45th St. and 5th Ave. vears ago. I had just moved ers can fill in the missing information that I would like to have.

What happened was this: As part of the celebration Bay Ridge was staging big and colorful parades every night. A king and a queen had been picked to lead these pa I i This poor showing in the conser- vation of the teeth is, in my opinion, further evidence of the childishness of the slogan supported or acccp-ed so many dentists, that a ''clean tooth never decays." The harm Is not from the use of tooth brush or dent rif ice but from the impression created in the mind of the victim of such bad education that general nutrition, the real fundamental factor, is of minor importance, and that frequent inspection and treatment and advice by the dentist is secondary to the choice and method of use of a dentrifice. General Health Better Although the teeth of young men are not so good in 1941 as were the teeth of young men in 1917, youth today is superior in physical condition to youth of a generation ago. Nearly three times as many of the young men of 1917 had lung ailments as the young men now coming up for examination. Heart defects in 1917 accounted for 13.7 percent of rejections, In 1941 for only 65 percent.

Diseases or defects of bones and muscles were found in 10.3 percent of a group of 52,818 rejections in 1917, but in only 4 4 i percent ot tne young men Demg examined today. Even defects of the feet were nearly twice as frequent in 1917 as they are today. In only one respect do the young men today apparently fall below the standard of young manhood in loose Another said: "I'm not convinced yet that we will do ar.y shooting at any time except perhaps for an Occasional brush on the oceans which the Nazis will ignore." The other answers lay in between these. Both the extreme forecasts quoted above came from men who are excellently placed to receive military and dip'oimitic information and to jurie the President's mind. Their divergence readily indicates why others less intimately associated with the President are unable to progncsticate exactly where we are going and how fast.

Only President Has All Facts The President has forth Clearly the aims of his forcisrn policy and the grand strategv by winch he believes that the Axis and its satellites can be defeated. He has not said now far he believes we may have to go naval, aerial and military action to make the Mral. egy work. As the channels of communication are organized, the President is the only man in Washington who has all the information available. Outside the State.

War, and Navy-Departments. Cabinet members have, as a rule, only the data which 1 he chooses to pass on. And none of those departments has al! the in- formation winch is funded to him. But with all the knowledge that Is uniquely in ins possession, the President cannot be sure. There are too many imponderables.

And every action that is proposed is weighed by him, consciously or unconsciously, with reference to American public opinion. Active in Field Diplomacy From the beginning of the war he has acted less ajswwhely and less speedily than the "forward" elements in the country, and his administration, wanted him to act. He has cone farther and more rap rades. On the first night of the --arvey. me grocery Doy irom nenry parade the king and queen were St and Denny Murphy, now a de-supposed to get into their royal tective, Chick Nevins, the Judge robes in the dressing room of the boys and Bradshaw brothers from Park Theater on the corner where I 3d St, Also Drs.

Jnmes Wallace and the parade was supposed to start, Waller Shields; the latter played Outside there was a real royal coach the Part of a Teddy bear in one of waiting for them. When the time our entertainments. Then there came for the parade to start the were the Webster brothers, the May queen was in the carriage in full alld- me Clancy brothers and regalia, all set to go, but no king. Mickey Reynolds. They couldn't find him.

In a few I wonder if any of the old school minutes the officials decided to bos can add to this list of names. Youth Healthier Except for Teeth 1917, and that is a greater prevalence of venereal disease, but this is probably attributable to more thorough tests today. For instance, there was no Wassermann test in 1917, and this is routine today. Sweating Please recommend something to prevent sweating ot the feet. T.

R. L. Once or twice a week pour into each shoe an ounce or two of formaldehyde solution one ounce of the standard formaldehyde (37 per. cent) mixed with four or five ounces of water. Swish it around so as to wet the entire insole and the edges of the lining, particularly in the toe of the shoe, then pour it into the next shoe, and so on until all shoes you are not wearing- immediately are treated.

Let them stand and dry, preferably in the sun or in open air, for 24 hours before you wear them. Formaldehyde preserves leather and cloth, tends to harden skin of feet. If skin is at all irritated, apply It less frequently or more diluted. pinlples and Blackheads Please recommend something to remove pimples and blackheads. My ace is a sight.

Miss A. F. Send 3-cent stamped envelope bearing your address, for monograph on "Acne." For Boys and Girls I lays eggs and covers them with mud and grass. Other eggs are laid I above these and also are covered. 1 The total number of eggs in a nest usually is from 40 to 60.

Hatch Under Sunshine Warmth of the sunshine makes the eggs hatch about eight weeks after they are laid. The younj alligators are curled up inside the eggs. When they hatch and are able to stretch out, they are much longer than the eggs. A newly-hatched alligator is about eight inches long but weighs only two or three ounces. The mother alligator takes as good care as possible of her young.

The babies, however, have their troubles. They may be snapped up by large fish or turtles. There even Is danger from full-grown male alligators who are looking around for something to eat. Perhaps the big males do not know Just what they are doing; they are greedy fellows and seem to take little care about what they eat. Tomorrow: More About Alligators tenal aid to England, But while the President keeps our role short of what his more militant advisers envision as imme- diately desirable, if not necessary, he is by no means passive.

On the diplomatic front our policy is active. The fields in which diplomacy, backed by question marks about the use of our armed force, is still useful, have been narrowed but they have not vanished. The two principal powers on which we are exerting diplomatic pressure are France and Japan. The extremists repeatedly have attacked the State Department and so. indi- rectly, the President tor temporiz- ing with the French and the Japs, Stand Against Vichy I The status of Vichy as a sort of trusty in the Nazi prison is now generally recognized.

But time was gained by offering Vichy an alter- native to active collaboration with Hitler. And the continual reminders of the friendship of the United States for the French people and i the France that was undoubtedly i make it more difficult for the Pe- tain-Darlan combination to deliver what Hitler wants them to deliver, Our Government lost hope some i time ago of salvaging much out of the Vichy Government, but it re- i tained hope of salvaging something ont of General Weyaand In North Africa, This hope has not been en- tirely destroyed. It is possible that I the firm stand taken by Secretary Hull has strengthened Weygand and through him put some restraints on Pet a m. At the same, time it reminded the French in Syria where we stood. A.s this is written is too early to sav whether Hull's diplomatic operations ma-frially aifectcri the svrian situa- ma'et en photn- gi apii of square To obi this pa fern send ten cents in (oi.i to Btookivn Kngle.

HDlls-'lioV! Ai Drpt 14th St M.ii,h:i 'tun Br to write N'AMi- AlJDRLSS and PATTERN NUMBER. Uncle Ray's Corner Is About Eight Inches Long fusion of a distracted race. Doubtless I too have sinned like all the rest of the modern Simeon Stylites, each of whom has perched on his own column to watch the wor' 1 go 'round. William G. Ryan was an American volunteer on the "Loyalist" side in the Spanish Civil War.

He writes in America: Salt Lost Its Savor "Once I shared fully the high regard of the general public for experts, particularly military experts, who at present are considered the i reme de la creme of the profession. I viewed with something slightly beyond awe these gentry and their first cousins, the columnists, radio commentators, and correspondents, who dally, and in the most offhand fashion, decide the outcome of battles not yet fought and perpetrate startling diplomatic coups without turning a hair. In brief, I thought that experts were the noblest and most astute of men, and military experts, I had no doubt, were the natural aristocrats of the expertocracy. "But that was before I had ever been a solider. My faith in experts received rude and almost fatal blows while I was helping the once notorious International Brigades carry out 'brilliant' military operations in the rugged Aragon mountains of Spam; it died miserably when on my return to America I yielded to an unhappy Impulse to find out what the experts of the very reputable daily newspapers had written about the very same battles In which I had fought.

"This excursion into the files was an exceedingly interesting journey. Through it I learned things that might have been incredible had they not beer recorded In the columns of staid and reputable periodicals. For example. I found that we actually had been winning the war all the while I believed we were taking a thorough and steady drubbing. I learned that our infrequent reverses were due solely to the fart that wo had only flintlock mu.skets with which to fh'hl off enemy tanks and airplanes, Most startling of all, I discovered that Communists had nothing to do with our Government or our army.

The delicacy with which rNivru handled phases of the Spanish war send the carriage off without him. That's where the fun begins. The royal coach had not gone very far when the crowd heard screams. Everyone looked and out of the stage entrance of the theater the king emerged, holding up his train (if you can call the royal cape a train). He ran and ran, yelling to the coach driver to wait.

I could not see that far ahead and don't know to this day whether the king of Bay Ridge ever caught up with the royal coach. Can any one tell me if he did SUNSET PARK RESIDENT. St. Mary's Boy Tells Of Golden Rule Days Editor, Old Timers: What has become of the old time school boys of St. Mary Star of Sea School, Court and Nelson from 1908 to 1915? I recall two principals, Brothers Isidore and Gregory, assisted by Brothers Bernard, Andrew and Edmund, and teachers Miss McGrath, Kehoe, Mahon, the Nichols sisters, big and little.

Miss O'Connell and the two Misses Walsh in 1A and IB. Many a good time we had back in those days! I recall the weekly visit, every Monday morning, of the good Father O'Malley who came to check on the boys who missed mass the day before. Then every Friday part our republic may have to take in days to come, compare their experiences with what they now read and hear, we columnists mny all go out the window before the wrath of a generation that will wonder how we got that way. Baby Alligator Not long ago I had a chat with two boys about alligators and they asked me quite a number of questions, including these: 'How far is it from the tip of an alligator's nose to the top of his head? What does a person use when he goes hunting alligators? "How powerful is an alligator's tail? How big are alligator eggs, and how big are the young ones when they hatch out? Which has a worse bite, an alligator or a crocodile?" Those questions certainly are enough to write a story about! Indeed I think we shall need two stories to give the answers. May Reach 15 Feet in Length Tlio Hklntiro "on otllnatftv'c nose to the top of head de-! pends on his size.

In the case of a wen-grown aiugaiAii, usually is between 18 and 36 inches, Alligators differ a great deal in size. Many do not grow to be more than eight or nine feet long. Others reach a length of 15 feet or a bit more. It is seldom thee days that we find an alligator l.i feet lonu. "There has been so much hunting that the larger ones have been killed off for Crochet Heirlooms Prizewinners PATTERN 6903 ALLIGATOR and her eggs ot hatching time.

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