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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08
Auto
Graphs
Dealers Meeting
in Chicago TO
Discuss Problems
By 81 FREEMAN

A nomentous meeting OF Md
west automobile dealers IS being
held today in Chicago. President
L. Clare Gareile Of the National
Automobile Association called
the meeting 10 discuss special
problems facing tho dealers rs
result Of happenings IN Wash
ington.
More than 50 Of the largest
dealers in this region accepted
invitations 10 the conference
Dealers. having enjoycd one
Of the biggest years in their his
tory. anticipate more than
enough headaches during the
corning model year 10 offset
their good fortune. The 20 per
cent CurtRilment order was only
mild blow. Hints from Wash
ington have been strong enough
10 make the NADIA start worry
inc early.
But dealers have had their
ups and downs before and are
ready 10 fight TO keep on Their
feet. The Chicago meeting may
be a lot more important than
appears on the surface.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08
Keeps Trying
Dog Chases Prowlers,
but Can't Catch Up

One of these days Koko mon
Igrel dog owned by the Clarence
Wood family of 14l11 Mettetal
avenue, is going TO take piece
out of a prowler's ley.
Early today, Woods daughter,
Virginia, was awakened by a
prowler in the living room. She
ran from her first floor bedroom
10 the basement and called Koko.
He chased the intruder, who had
taken $50 from a purse.
Nine months ago. Mrs. Wood
heard a commotion in the house
and saw Koko pursuing prowler
who had stolen a topcoat from
the Wood home.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08
Questions Wisdom

He even goes so far as TO
question the wisdom of the Go
or the American Federation Of
Labor or other union insisting
upon the closed shop.
He states that British labor
leaders found that under a
closed shop the workers became
more or less indifferent to union
bosses.
There the closed shop has
been abolished by law and with
the approval of the majority of
labor leaders. The almost uni
versal rule in Britain is, instead,
simply unionism.
In this country il is being
discovered, declares this author
ity. that not a few men have
been entirely willing TO have
their plants unionized, but have
resented the check-off. They
want TO be left free TO pay or
not pay union dues.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08
Pontiac Hobby Survey

An auto plant is just a cross
section of a large city and yields
curious facts. For instance. Pom
tiac recently undertook a sur
vey of hobbies and technical
training with the following re-
suit:
The repair of guns, gun col
lection and ornamental stock
making. lead in QUESTIONABLE
answers. Next came building
and flying of model airplancs
and the construction OF model
racing cars. Third in popularity
was home woodworking shops
and one employe reported that
he builds boats, rustic furni-
ture. log cabins. radio sending
sets and-into the bargain re-
pairs guns.
Photography was well up on
the popularity list al Pontiac.
Another employe buys and re-
builds wrecked ears Model
trains have their followers and
amateur radio operation claims
the after-hours attention OF
many employees.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08
Children on Parade
In Costumes Today

The annual novelty costume
psrades sponsored by the depart
ment Of parks and recreation were
20 be held this afternoon and eve-
ming al all local Fairgrounds
The children. dressed in fancy
costumes which they have made
themselves, Will parade through
the neighborhoodS with decorated
wagons. doll buggies and scooters
and carrying placards advertising
the activities offered during tho
Summer vacation on the playhelds
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08
u. 5. Acts 10 Free 7
.Nazi-HeId Newsmen

WASHINGTON, July SIMS
Acting Secretary of State Sum
ner Welles said today that the
state department is making al
possible efforts TO obtain release of
two United States newspapermen,
Jay Allen and Richard Hottelet,
arrested by German authorities
sometime ago.
Welles intimated that two Ger
man newSmen, Manfred Zapr
and Guenther Tom of the banned
TranSocean News Agency who
were arrested for failure to regis
ter as foreign agents. may be re-
leased and returned 10 Germany in
exchange for the United States
correspondents.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08
PLANS WORKED OUT

Fly said the defense commune
cations Board plans were worked
out with a view to accomplishing
what is needed, and that the
matter OF who would carry them
out-waS of secondary Importance.
The government might IN many
cases, he said. undertake neceS-
Sary construction or private COM
panieS might do IT. This is the case
for example, he explained, with
telephone intcrconnections which
he said would have 10 be con-
Structed in some SpaTSciy settled
areas
Fly said a great number Of these
questions were related 10 the pro-
posed merger Of domestic and
international communications COM
panips. bat that they were not
dependent on any action on that
problem.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08

Arson had a theory that only big
men could play baseball. and
Duffy. for all his $50 pounds,
looked about the size of a flea. He
was going along all right, but An
son scarcely ever looked at him,
until Billy Sunday. later world
famous as the evangelist. was sold
out of right field 10 the Pitts
burgh team. Duffy was switched
TO plug that gap until somebody
bigger could be found. They never
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08
Forbes

Queer things are happening
laborwiSe.
For example. the man whom
| regard as the best-informed
authority on labor tells me that
many highly-Skilled workers
are leaving union shops TO reap
higher pay in nonunlon estab-
ttShments- filing defense con-
tracts,
Also, that not a few men in
plants which have been union
ized within the last year, dis
liking the idea of handing over
part of their pay in dues, have
also gone TO open shops.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08
Many Uses Of Rubber

Here are couple -nf-lttle
known facts about the use of
rubber in defense. furnished by
the B. F. Goodrich Company:
More than Is tons of rubber
are used in a 35,000-ton battle
ship.
The 28-ton medium tank. be-
ing made by Chrysler, takes
1,750 pounds of rubber.
More than so different articles
made of natural and synthetic
rubber are used on combat
planes, including self-sealing
fuel tanks, tires and de-icers.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08
Demand Full Reports

This column has repeatedly
expressed m re en- t over
Washingtons failure TO insist
upon the publishing of financial
statements by unions. as de-
manded of all other organiza-
tons.
A great many workers in
plants which have recently been
unionIzed. particularly those
who opposed unionization, are
agitating for full reports of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08
Prize Winners Here

Five grand national division
winners in the contest sponsored
by Fisher Body and five paSsen-
GER car divisions of General
Motors will be named tonight at
a dinner at the Detroit Athletic
Club. The "a prize winners in
the contest are guests here for
four days.
The grand national winners
will receive 5000 cash awards
each.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08
Aluminium for Radios
Reduced 90 Per Cent

WASHINGTON. July s QNS)
Demand for aluminium for air.
planes and other defense needs
has cut the supply for radio
manufacturers from 1000 tons
used last year 10 less than 200
tons available for this year. James
l.. Fly Federal Communications
Commission chairman, said today
Fly said this would result IN a
very substantial reduction in
radio manufacture.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08
Defense Bond PLEDGE
Made by B mai Birth

\ MACKINAC ISLAND. July s
The Seventy-tmrd annual district
convention of Grand Lodge 9 Z nal
Birth meeting here today was on
record IN a resolution TO invest n
minimum Of 50 per cent Of all
surplus lodge funds in national de-
fsnss sayings bonds and stamps.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08
By BILL CUNNINGHAM

All this pointed palaver about
who propelled which baseball with
what sort of quarter-staf for how
many consecutive times and at
what period in history affords
Your correspondent a golden OPP
portunity TO get up on the soap
box with his hardy perennial
about the greatest baseball hitter
of all time.
That's right-the answer fur
nished by the bright-eyed gentle
man in the back row with the
full beard and the ear trumpet.
Duffy's the name. Not the name
of the respondent with the facial
hay and the old gramophone horn,
but the name of the super grand
daddy of them all in the public
and highly scientific at of popping
that onion.
Hugh Duffy was the fellow. He
did il AZ years ago.
OF course, the term greatest
batter" could probably stand some
definition. Babe Ruth exploded
'em farther and higher. Ty Cobb.
like Abou Ben Adhem. led all the
rest more often. But the ball
player establishing the highest
batting average of all time in a
regularly constituted season of
more than 100 ball games was
Hugh Duffy of the Boston Ma
rtieHals i'm 1894 -IH-i24-g games
back there AZ seasons ago, Duffy
braided batting average OF .438
into the book.
It's still there, like the flag,
after AZ terrific years, despite the
tempestuous assaults of all the
.CobbS. the Speakers, the Horns
bys and the Ruths. Wee Willie
Keller hit .432 for Baltimore in
1897, but nobodyS really come
close to knocking it out since.
Hornsby made the most serious
threat. He smacked out a .424
figure in 1924. The nearest
American League challenge was a
virtual tie between George Sisler
and Ty Cobb. Both hit .4l9, Cobb
in 1911; Sisler in 1922.
A ONE-MAN COOPERSTOWN
So Duff's record is still around
land what makes this always a
Isweeter story to write. so is he.
His name and his fame are no
yellowed statistic exhumed from
the old files with a typographical
billduke, and he is no fragile
museum piece on tottering limbs
with whole paragraphs of history
written in the parchment of a
wrinkled face.
No sir, Hugh's as spry as a
cricket and as solid as a brick
He's a walking. one-man Coopers-
town, almost the living last of a
legendary lot He coyly avoids
any mention Of the number of his
years, but he was playing town
team baseball so years ago. You
can do your own figuring from
that. The rest of us have to.
Duffy was shortstop in the
minors. In Chicago. Pop Arson
switched him TO third base, but
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08
THE RIGHT ADJECTIVE

And one thing about Hugh is
that he doesn't belittle the hltters
of today. He'll tell you that a lot
of these modern sticksmen could
have made those teams of yore,
and he'll tell you which ones and
why.
Hugh is sort Of coach-emeritus
with the Red Sox these days. He
doesn't push his way in much, but
he's available If anybody wants TO
ask him something. Two neophytes
amongst the Red Hose decided to
ask him. One was an eldering
utility man named Lou Finney
who could field all right but
couldn't hit lick. The other was
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08
| DUFFY GREATEST BATTER OF ALL TIME
Huohy Hit 438 in Bio Time Baseball At Seasons AGO

found that somebody. Duffy was
dynamite from there on.
The whole history of baseball is
tied up in his life. He spanked
that .438 in 1894. The year be-
fore it, he hit 1878. In fact. he
was considered one of the most
dangerous hitters in baseball for
almost 10 years. He's known
them all and can discuss them all.
He can still see Tommy Mccarthy,
King Kelly. Jimmy Collins. Her
man Long, Bobby Lowe. AL
Spaulding. Ed Delehanty. Nap
Lajoie and the rest of that his
torical company up there at the
plate and can tell you where and
how they differed from the hitters
of TODAY.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08
u. 5. Visible Wheat
Supply Up. Sharply

CHICAGO July s Visible sup
ply of wheat In Tho United StaIcs
Increased ~ N7 900 bu>hci~ during
thc week ended July 3 according
10 ilgurcs compiled by The Chicago
lyard of Trade Corn decreased
2 Nr--Tl0 oats decreased $4,000.
rye increased 2l2OOO. barley in
creased 81 ZOO, and soy beans de.
creased 1000 bushels.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08
Detroit Poultry

Market steady; hens. average run, 7ic;
leghorn hens, lbs. and up isc cocks.
l0n lie; rock springers. under 4 lbs 2ic
lbs and up. use; leghorn broilers. ! !.
lbs. and up. Ice.
EGGs-Market steady; current receipts.
23hc. undergrades, 24l1 n Csc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08
Slash in Output
OF. Radio Sets
Seen by Fall

WASHINGTON, july S.-Chair.
man James l.. Fly OF the federal
communications commission has
declared that there will be a very
substantial cut in the production
OF radio receiving sets this Fall.
The cut in production, Fly said,
will be caused by a shortage Of
aluminium and the inability Of the
radio industry 20 get prloritleS.
Production Will fall off around
October ], he predicted, the per-
ccntaCe of the reduction being
determined by the amount OF
aluminium The industry can get. He
said he has discussed this matter
with James 5. knowlSOn, president
of the Radio Manufacturers ASSO-
citation. and with other industry
Spokesman and promised that
everything possible would be done
10 see that radio manufacturers
get as much aluminium As possible
In 1910 the radio industry used
about 1000 tons of aluminium and
m the current year, with produC-
ton up substantially 50 far, II IS
getting only about ID tons per
month. This quantity has per
mittcd a high level OF operations
-fty GTptaTUrC1 brCdusC ttTC fnuttS-
try has succeeded in eliminating
The necessity for the use OF alu-
mfnunf IN many places. However
further reduction IN aluminium
supplies viii force curtailment.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08

Gen. Hugh 8. hnson.
Americas Fighting Thinker"
Writes Daily for the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08
TRANSOCEAN RADIO

One of the plans, Chairman Fly
said. involves ways and means of
handling all transatlantic COM
municationS by radio in the event
the cables should be cut or that
this should, otherwise, become
necessary. He said Radio Corpora
ton of America could handle
much more" transatlantic COM
munications than at present with
its existing facilities, but that the
question of whether or not r. {. A.
could take care of all such COM
munications had not yet been
decided.
Another plan, he explained, pro
vides assurance that the Pacific
cable VIII be continued in opera
ton for the duration" That cable,
controlled by British and Danish
financial interest but under
American management, according
TO Fly, is slow and inefficient and
under normal conditions 1T would
be pretty easy 10 see II disposed
OF. Nevertheless, it is important
that the cable remain available
nov
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08
SHORT ALUMINIUM

Fly, who is also chairman OF the
defense communications board.
said that the danger that the radio
industry could not get enough alu-
minum was acCentuated because
only a small part of its total ca
.pacity is devoted TO supplying the
government with defense articles
and that there was a possibility 50
per cent of the industry, especially
small manufacturers. might ulti-
mately be forced TO be idle. This,
he said. would be very serious
situation, not only because Of the
unemployment that would result
but because the production of radio
sets was essential 10 morale.
Fly announced at a press con-
ference that the defense commu-
nication board has worked out
several plans AIMED at preventing
interruption of international radio
and cable communications between
the United States and foreign
countries. These involve the widen
ing of bottlenecks, maintenance OF
alternative or standby" routes
and circuits, maintenance of auXili-
airy power supplies and message
priorities. The plans are largely
on paper. in readiness TO be used
when and if needed. but Fly said
some of them might be put into
Operation at once, particularly
where construction of additional
facilities is needed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-08

DlREc TORS
FRANK n. ALFRED
DAVID n. BARNETT
FRANK 9. BAXTER
ALEXANDER FREEMAN
JOHN S. HAGGERTY
II. VIM. KLARE
DEAN LUCKING
]. LYNNE MCKEE
II. P. PARSHALL
FRANK J. SHADER
VIM. w. SMITH
FRED n. TALBOT
FRANK WOLF
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SOFTBALL

t6ayview Park. $500 p. MI
TONIGHT
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KENTUCKY GETS
PREP GRID STAR
tBy Asseerasea Pressl

PADUCAH, KY, Aug. IL
Jesse Tunstill. ore of the nations
leading high school football
scorers last fall with 189 points in
nine games, viii enroll at the
University of Kentucky as a fresh
man in September.
Tunstill,. three times all-state
and twice all-Southern quarter
back while playing with Thigh
man high Of Paducah observed:
Il hope I viii be able to do as
much for the University of Ken
lucky as feel it will do for me-
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BASEBALL STARDOM DOESN'T BEGIN AT 10
1T DOESN'T SEEM TO STOP THERE EITHER

Feature Serviee1
pitcher but when two regular
hurlers were injured Shreveport
but Tuero on the squad and he
won game However, he was
quickly released and went back
to his batting practice hurting
duties.
A trio Of greybeards are doing
all right up in the major leagues.
Lefty Grave, Al, of the Boston
Red Sox. has achieved his 30Oth
pitching victory; Charley Root,
AZ, of the Chicago Cubs, is APP
preaching No. 200 and Johnny
Cooney. 40, of the Boston Braves
is one of the top five hitters in
the National league.
Climax Blethen. who toiled for
years in the Southern association
and admits to 40-odd years. is
still going strong as player-man-
ager of a Maryland semi-pro
club.
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" 4 ~ II ~
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DALLAS, Aug. IL Baseball's
old-timers are breaking into the
headlines these days.
Down here in the Texas league
a 49-year-old pitcher was recruit
ed BY Dallas. He's Snipe Con-
ley, who came back after being
out Of the game Is years and
twirled his way to triumph in his
first start.
Snipe is a spifball tosser and
Dallas figured he would be effec-
tive because the modern crop Of
batters hasn't had to hit against
spitban pitching. Snipe re-
manned in top condition during
his years out of organized ball
by managing and pitching for a
semi-pro team.
Shreveport recently signed a
48-year-old Timber. Oscar Tuero.
He had been batting practice
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Second Game
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WEDNESDAY, NIGHT
FRIDAY NIGHT
SERVICE SoFTBALL LEAGUE
1880 p. M
TUESDAY

Sub Chaser Division VS.. Ma
rines at Army Barracks Field.
WEDNESDAY. AUG. Is
Army VS.. Submarine Division
at Army Barracks Field.
THURSDAY. AUG. Ia
Naval Air Station VS.. Destroy
er Division at Naval Air Station
Field.
Naval Station VS.. Marines at
Fort Taylor Field.
SATURDAY. AUG. is
Naval Air Station VS. Sub
Chaser Division at Naval Air
Station Field.
Coast Guard VS. Destroyer Di-
vision at Fort Taylor Field.
SUNDAY. AUG. ~
Naval Station VS. Submarine
Division at Fort Taylor Field.
Army VS.. Coast Guard at Army
Barracks Field.
WEDNESDAY. AUG. 20
Naval Air Station VS.. Subma-
rine Division at Naval Air Sta
ton Field.
Army VS.. Destroyer Division
at Fort Taylor Field.
THURSDAY. AUG. 81
Naval Station VS.. Sub Chaser
Division at Naval Air Station
Field.
Marines VS.. Coast Guard at
Fort Taylor Field.
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DODGERS MAUI
BRAVES TWICE
TO HOLD LEAD
CARDS KEEP PACE WITH
DoURLEHEADER WIN OVER
BUCKS. YANKs DEFEAT
ATHLETICS
sspeelaI o The cltIsenl

NEW YORK, Aug. ll.-Peunc-
ing on the Boston Braves for two
victories in games which twice
saw the police break up near
riots, Brooklyn's galloping Dod-
gers stayed on top of the National
League yesterday, while the ST
Louis Cards kept pace with 4
pair Of triumphs over the Pitts
buTgh Pirates.
Luxe Hamlin winning his sew
enth Of the season, gave Up is hits
TO the Braves in the first tilt.
which the Dodgers took by I4-4
count, and Freddie Fitzsimmons
BANKED the B0stonians in the
second for a 40 victory.
The Cards, knocking Pittsburgh
virtually out of the race, won
theirs by 80 and 4-2 counts.
Ernie White. racking up his
fourteenth victory, won the open
er for the Red Birds, while Mort
Cooper, who gave up ten hits in
the second tilt, won his third vic
tory since he was forced out for
an arm operation.
Medwick Poles Homer
Joe Mhdwick, blasting his
fourteenth homer of the year, led
a nndger hitting spree in the first
game of the Brooklyn Boston
fray, while his mates rang up Is
hits, of which four were twn-bag-
gers.
Johnny Wander Nicer, staging
seventh performance for his
eleventh victory of the season,
aided the Cincinnati Reds in dis
posing Of the Chicago Cubs, I'll,
while the Giants and Phillies were
splitting a doubleheader Gabby
Hartnett and Harry banning hit
homers in the first game, which
the Giants took, ga. but the
Phillies came back in the second
for a Az triumph.
The New York Yankees, getting
back in form after a week-long
slump, pounded the Philadelphia
Athletics in both ends of double
header, winning la and Al.
Bob Muncrief, giving up 10 hits,
held the Detroit Tigers in check
as his St. Louis Browns walloped
Louis lBobol Newsom and Lynn
wood Rowe for Is hits, winning 2
to 8.
Chicago beat the Cleveland In
dams twice, So and 81, as Ben
Chapman hit a triple, double and
single in the first game.
Boston and the Washington
Senators split, the Red Sox WIN
ming the first by TO score on the
strength of Joe Cronin's homer,
and the Senators taking the night
cap. 81,
rrrl.a ,.aS,,1fe foIloyv.
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SPORTS CALENDAR
BASEBALL
MAJOR LEAGUES

TODAY
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York at Brooklyn.
Chicago at ST. Louis.
Philadelphia at Boston.
Only games scheduled.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston at New York.
Cleveland at Detroit.
St Louis at Chicago.
Only games scheduled.
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TONIGHT
First game Navy VS.. Thurston.
Second game Red Raiders vs.
Peppers Plumbers.
WEDNESDAY, NIGHT
First game Navy VS. NavSta.
Second game Red Raiders VS..
Thurston.
FRIDAY NIGHT
First gameRed Raiders VS..
Navy.
Second game NavSta. VS..
Thurston.
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The Goat

But why do you always blame
me if anything goes wrong in the
house,"
We'll. who else is there to
blame?"
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Magazine Editor Jinx
For Cincinnati Reds
tRy Asseelated Pressl


ASHLAND. KY. Aug. H.
Since 1923. Courtney Clark
has seen the Cincinnati Reds
play rs games but not once
has he been there when they
won.
7 guess it lust isn't in the
cards for me to see EN- win.
lamented Clark. associate
editor of railroad magazine
and a dyed in-the-wool Gin
cinnati fan.
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Gee, Adams, Melton and Dan
ming.
Evening star., 1941-04-08

delay national defense Ball of Minnesota
offered bill providing for fcoong off, period before strikes actually
could effective defense
months referred
committee wheel Organized labor
declared opposition legislation the
Judiciary which
done drafting legislation.
Indiana chairman the Judiciary
Committee said today that he perfectly willing bring before his
committee added however that bills
If the judiciary Committee
passed that
will make hgh have referred the Senate
Committee said He might with
Committee headed Thomas Utah.
o a