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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-09-19

Rev. Bryson filled his pulpit
Evening star., 1941-04-06
BASEBALL'S BARGAIN BASEMENT

Gerry Nugent has been president of
the Phillies since 1882. In 1884 Mrs.
Nugent was elected vice-president
and treasurer; and, in 1896, when
Mrs. Baker died. she inherited the re-
naming shares in the Baker estate
But she lets her baseball-wise husband
run the show. She modestly says,
"All | do is sign the checks"
How we'll Gerry has run the show
will be testified to by almost any
National League magnate with a
memory. For almost every club in the
circuit has been outmaneuvered in
deals with David Harum Nugent.
He has even been known to trade the
same ball player to club twice
Rival magnates say Nugent won't
even give you the right time without
asking for something in return. It's a
habit with him and he knows what to
ask for. If you ask Nugent where he
gets his gift, he'll grin.
Il do a lot OF quiet detective work,
he says, They'll tell you that when
ever l meet baseball man l get
him in corner and put him through
the third degree. Well. sometimes
l get to know more about young
ball players than the men who own
them"
Lewis Ruch, who preceded Nugent
as the Phillies' president, never ceased
to be amazed at this encyclopedia
knowledge of players. One day Ruch
was boasting of his assistants prowess
to an executive of the Chicago Cubs
when Nugent himself happened along.
''I'll test him. said the Chicago
man.
You'll never stick Nugent," boast
ed Ruch.
with what club is so-and-so
Evening star., 1941-04-06

Yaphank with her father and sing
"K-K-K-Katy' and How You Going
to Keep EN- Down on the Farm"
for the soldiers there. From that time
on she hankered for the stage, but
her parents were far too practical to
encourage such ideas. So, as we have
seen. she became a stenographer
And that brings US back to the
point in the story where she departed
from George White and went back to
her typewriter. She also went back to
her itinerant singing. and presently
persuaded an obscure little night club
in New York to put her on their pro-
gram for two weeks, singing torch
songs. She didn't give up her job at
Evening star., 1941-04-06

still rankles some baseball men in
volved Pitcher Curt Davis. Every club
in the league passed up Davis in 1884
because of stories that he was sickly,
and they laughed when Nugent took
him in the draft.
well, it wasn't so funny when he
won nineteen games for me" chuckles
Gerry. And it wasn't so funny, later
on, when Nugent sold Davis to the
Cubs for more than $4,000 and two
players One of those Chicago throw
ins" was Chuck Klein, mightiest of
long line of Phil sluggers. whom
Nugent had sold to the Cubs three
years earlier for $65,OOO.
That deal in which l got Klein
back" Nugent tells you. gives me
more satisfaction than any other"
Why? Klein at thirty-one years of
age, and on a shaky pair of legs. was
no coming star.
Nugent leans back and a smile
lights his face as he explains: 81 really
got into baseball with the Phillies in
1925, but when l became president
of the club in 1882, Klein and really
took over the Phillies together. He
was my first find l picked him out
of the minors for $500, and l
watched him develop into the leagues
leading slugger and winner of the
Observation-Disclosures award. And
when traded him to the Cubs, some
thing went out of the Philadelphia
club as far as was concerned.
Il guess l got Chuck Klein back in
a Phillies' uniform because I'm very
sentimental man."
That's Gerry Nugent, the David
Harum of baseball - dollars and SEN
timent!
The End
Evening star., 1941-04-06
Continued from pogs six

now?" asked the Cub official, men
tioning particularly obscure minor
league ball player.
Gerry knitted his brows. Il was
wondering only the other day what
had happened to that fellow" he con-
fessed. HE was with Kansas City
until year age. But you've got me-"
Ruch's face fell. But the Chicago
man laughed mo wonder you don't
know" he said. He's serving term
in San Quentin Prison"
Neotesf Trick
NUGENT swung what he regards as
his shrewdest deal in 1880. after find
ing out that Barney Dreyfus, owner
of the Pittsburgh Club. had quarreled
with his shortstop, Dick Bartell.
while Dreyfus was still hopping
mad" says Nugent, 81 traded him
our shortstop. Tommy Thevenow,
and a pitcher named Claude Willough-
by for Bartell. whom was sure would
become great star"
The facile Philadelphia auctioneer
later sold Bartell to the Giants for
$4,000 and four players - two of
whom he subsequently retailed at
handsome prices.
1t was the Bartell deal that started
him running the National League
show from behind the scenes, decid-
ing where four of the last five PEN
nants would fly. Rowdy Dick Bartell
sparked Bill Terry's Giants into the
world series in 1896 and 1887. And to
Cincinnati Nugent shipped, at $50, 900
fob, Bucky Walters, best pitcher
in the National League, who has won
two pennants for the Reds with forty
eight victories in the last two seasons.
One typical Nugent deal that
Evening star., 1941-04-06
Continued from poge four

quaintance living in a smart hotel
and working in a theater instead of
living in a furnished room and working
in an Office, you will have pretty
good idea of the private life of Ethel
Norman. Meeting her casually, you
would never in the world connect her
with the raucous roisterer with the
rowing eye whom you remember
from stage and screen. Unless, to
illustrate point, she transforms her
self momentarily into one of her stage
roles-a startlingly pleasant CONVEX
sational trick at which she is adept.
They're just gags" she says of her
more man-crazy songs. "But people
like EN-" So she gives them the works.
Her career really dates back to
1918. when she was just toddler.
She used to go over to nearby Camp
Evening star., 1941-04-06
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE
HOW JIMMIE GOT THAT WAY

"You gotta givev' They mean giving
out music, of course - you might al
most say giving out music the way
Ethel Norman does. But when Ethel
spoke about giving 'em everything"
she meant lot more than that. She
meant that she had always thrown
herself into the job of being Ethel
Norman, entertainer, whether at an
Office party, on a Hollywood set or on
a Broadway stage. 1t carries through
lot of more prosaic things than being
effervescent in a spotlight. 1t means
working hard on the drudgery of rou-
tine when a show is in rehearsal. 1t
means passing up lot of parties and
fun in order to keep fit for perform
ances. 1t means reshaping life to fit
a mold which has little place for
pleasures that are routine to other
people. 1t means overlooking even
downright pain. if it threatens to in
terfere with the job.
A few weeks ago, one of Miss Mer-
mans fingers became infected. She
slapped a bandage on it, and went
right on doing her daily stint in the
title role of Panama Hattie" The
finger began to swell. Pains shot up
her arm. She finished her evening
performance. and proceeded to hos
pital. The next morning she was in the
operating room. The doctors said
they would have to give her gas: it
was too severe a case for local
anesthetic. About one O'Clock she
came out of the gas in her hospital
room. 1t was a matinee day! She
climbed out of bed - and promptly
fell fiat on her face. Her mother and
a nurse helped her up and told her she
couldn't even think of going on that
afternoon. They agreed finally, how
ever, to take her home in taxicab
and let her rest at home. On that pre-
text she got to the taxicab - and
told the driver to take her to the
theater. Her understudy was all set
to 60 on - for her first performance.
But it was Ethel Norman who went
on. The understudy is still waiting
to get a chance. Iron Horse Mer-
man" she calls the star now.
Husnf Chonssd q Bit
I ES, she gives 'em all she has. And
that is what it takes to transform the
girl who is still Jimmie to her friends
into the garish. gaudy 60 getter whom
she usually personifes. Actually.
she is natural and fortnight - just
as self-reliant young American wom-
an as you will find in business Offices
all over this country. In fact, if you
will picture some vivacious, level
headed stenographer of your own ac-
Evening star., 1941-04-06

the BoosterBrake Company, but
worked there days and then travelled
across the river to sing in the eve
nings. Lou Irwin, theatrical agent,
happened to hear her in the night
club and decided she had future.
He began getting her other bookings.
Then he got movie contract for
her - six months with Warner Broth
ers at $500 a week, presumably to
make some pictures at their Eastern
studios. Jimmie decided that she had
arrived, and quit her secretarial job.
But nothing happened. Every week
she got her check - and that was all.
1t was more money than she had ever
thought of making. but it left her
frustrated. Bursting with song. she
was completely muted. So she talked
her agent into getting her released
from the contract and booking her.
for much less money. in places where
she could really do her stuff The new
bookings included a few weeks in
Miami Beach - the first time Zim-
mie had ever left New York in her life.
Electrified Broodwoy
1HEN one night producer was sit
ting out front when she did her act
in the Paramount Theater in Brook
lyn. He Immediately signed her for
her first musical comedy. Girl
Crazy" That was the show in which
she electrified the customers - and
ultimately the rest of the country -
with II Got Rhythm" Ut was also
the show in which Ginger Rogers got
her first real break After that, it was
parade of hits for the newly-renamed
Ethel Norman. with Hollywood en-
gagements sandwiched in between
Broadway shows. And today, of
course, she is the undisputed number
one musical comedienne.
"And you can't think of another
single rule that you always follow"
l pressed her.
She shook her head. She was eager
to be helpful, but nothing else would
come.
"Ill tell you this, though" she
said. IT'S pretty tough living up. to
that one rule - always giving them
the old fire, even when you feel like
a squashed cake of ice. l mean. you
know how it would be with any girl.
There are plenty of headaches - and
maybe heartaches. too"
But that was as specific as she
would be about all that. And only
another stenographer could get the
real low-down from Zimmies records.
You see. she keeps her diary in short
hand.
IL Ed
Evening star., 1941-04-06
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Evening star., 1941-04-06
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-14

II would be intelligent and
patriotic.
Moreover, 1t would assure
the continuity of American
production, the continuity of
job and wage.
It would substitute the en-
.lightened judicial processes OF
democratic law for the arbi-
trary, opportunist and often
ambitious and ruthless die
tates of powerful, obstinate
and even violent men.
1t would be calm and de-
liberate.
II would provide a hearing
for all phases of controversy
and a weighing Of merit
against unreasonable and un-
warranted demands, and an
orderly and patient sitting OF
facts, advantages and bene-
fits.
Why should American Ia
Dor, the American govern
ment or the American people
as a whole hesitate to adopt
such a useful and beneficial
process for the peaceable and
just settlement of industrial
controversy?
Why should our people be
content with makeshift, piece
meal and at best MADE
QBATE AND UNRELIABLE
measures, when their happi-
ness, prosperity and safety
and peace are at stake?
Let us have compulsory
arbitration of industrial colt
trOversy in the United States
especially since the proba-
BILE and obvious alternative to
compulsory arbitration Is fur
Their submission to disor-
der, violence and virtual
ANARCHY.
CHARLES s. RYCKMAN.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-14
THE RAILROAD contro-
versy which has provided

I"nE nAAAQOAD COubTO-
versy which has provided
an 0minOus background
for all other national activity
for many months is now ap-
preaching a crisis.
Unless there is an abrupt
departure from existing atti-
tudes, all rail transportation
in the United States will be
paralyzed by strike action oil
December T..
III this comes to pass, the
last hope of the American
people for peaceful settlement
of labor controversy by any
thing less than COMPUL~
sorry ARBITRATION will be
permanently shattered.
The railroad situation now
coming to q climax has ap-
piled the processes of negOtia-
tion and mediation i'm the
most enlightened and compre-
hensive manner ever utilized
i'm industrial controversy in
this country.
Direct negotiation of differ
ences between the railroads
and their employees was first
attempted, and failed.
Mediation was then con-
Quoted by the National Rail
way Mediation Board, and
likewise failed.
Finally, a five-man, fact
finding commission appointed
by President Roosevelt made
Investigations and recommen-
dations-the latter being ac-
cepted by the railroads but
rejected by the unions.
All of the foregoing proce-
dure is required by the Ma
tional Railway Labor Act,
which has functioned i'm an
fashion.
But now the efficacy of the
cooling off" principle in labor
controversy is facing It's final
test.
If it does not PREVENT a
strike, which would be an un-
mitigated disaster, of course
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-14
Icelander
Killed by
Soldiers

t"rfuntShM NeWs refttso thoW
REYKJAv1K, Iceland, Nov. IA
United States Army authorities
announced today that Pvts. Ever.
EFT Farmer of Huntingdon, w. Va,
and Charles Cox Of Mckee, Ky,
will be tried by general court
martial of charges OF voluntary
manslaughter.
The announcement followed the
death of an Icelandic fisherman,
Thordur Sigurdsson, %, from
bullet wounds inflicted during an
outside cafe al
Hafnarfjordur keykiavik.
Two other persons were slightly
injured.
The soldiers contended Sigurds-
son and number OF other Ice
landers attempted to seize them.
Two other American soldiers
were asserted to have been present
when the shooting occurred.
Four American soldiers were re-
ported taken into custody.
The Reykjavik newspaper Visir
claimed the soldiers violated a reg
llation prohibiting them from
arms after 5 p. m.
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IN THE NEWS

1t has no more merit than can
be ascribed to a postponement
of disaster.
In that event, Ii Ii NOT the
meritorious instrument for
preserving industrial p e a C e
the nation has believed it 10
be, and it In NOT a reliable
pattern for settlement Of con-
tr0versy In all industries.
The unions representing
railroad labor in this situation
should weigh their decisions
most carefully.
They are confronted not
merely by a national emer-
gency but by national IMPA-
THENCE.
The Railway Labor Act Is
THEIR OWN legislative de-
vice, enacted by Congress
largely at their own instiga-
ton.
III they will not abide by il,
after fair and exhaustive trial,
they will almost inevitably
compel the Congress and the
A M K RICAN PEOPLE to
have recourse to other and
more effective means of keep
ing the industrial peac
which, In the present circum-
stances, is inseparably linked
to national safety.
Compulsory arbitration
SHOULD be acceptable ia
American labor regardless OF
the outcome of the current
controversy.
1t Ii the ONLY progressive,
impartial and patriotic alter
native to strikes and the VIC.
lence which attends strikes.
The utilization of the prin.
ciple and agencies of com
pulsOry arbitration In labor
controversy would be an APP.
plication of the most effective
and just of all democratic
processes.
Compulsory arbitration In
these United States should OF
course have as It's permanent
foundation a tribunal of un-
impeachable integrity and i'm
partiality-a body of judicial
nature, being as worthy of
public confidence as the Su-
preme Court Of the United
States was intended and ex-
pected to be by the trainers
of the American Constitution.
Compulsory arbitration in
such circumstances would be
wise.
1t would be reasonable.
1t would be fair.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-14
Trennor'Causes
HeaWDdmdge
In Los Angeles
Midnight Earthquake
Rated Most Severe
Since March 1893
international New. Service Wiz.

LOS ANGELES. Nov. IA
jolting. 20-second earthquake, per
Ihaps the heaviest since the catas
trophe ofg March, 1888, struck 10:
Angeles and surrounding cities al
l2:42 a. m. today, causing consid
cradle damage.
1t was followed by a lighter
shock at 1:35 a. m, felt only ir
the town of Torrance, 16 miles
south of Los Angeles.
The major shock was felt as fan
south as San Diego and as fan
north as Santa Barbara, but only
lightly.
The harbor city of Wilmington
where a 50,O00-gallon crude oil
storage tank burst its seams anc
caused oil to flow across streets
and highways, and the town oil
IGardena, Id miles south of Los
Angeles, reported heaviest damage
SCORES OF BLACKOuTs-
Blackouts from damaged power
wires. broken crockery and win.
dows. and temporarily disrupted
waited and gas mains were reported
in Los Angeles proper and scores
OF other communities within the
county limits.
Three blocks of stores and
offices In the business district OF
Gardena were badly damaged, po-
lice reported. The corner of~ a
bank building there was shattered
plate glass windows were broken
and merchandise in retail stores
was sent crashing to the floors.
Several walls were knocked down.
Buildings in downtown Los An
geles trembled and creaked under
the impact of the shock, but
author1 ties reported no serious
damage.
In Torrance, a few miles beyond
Gardena, windows of several stores
were broken, three water mains
burst and gas main was broken.
Wilmington firemen were called
TO storage tank belonging to the
General Petroleum Company when
the quake apparently caused its
seams TO open, sending thousands
OF gallons of crude oil flowing
across streets and highways.
In the same vicinity an S-inch
line carrying natural gas was
broken, and deputies were forced
to rope off the area as a fire pre-
until workmen could shut
off the flow.
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Continued from Page One)
them to perceive and count
I h cir blessings, repudiating
with natural scorn the tawdry
bait OF impractical and ruin
Gus theory.
The healthy body of Ameri-
can society and economy has
no need for the witch medi-
cine of Marxism.
JOSE RODRIGUEZ.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-14
NazisCIaim2,5O1
British Planes

BERLIN, Nov. 14.-Official Ger
man sources today announced that
2,501 British planes had been shot
down over Great Britain, occupied
territories in Europe and the Reich
between January l and October 81.
German losses in this period were
placed at 602 planes.
Expanding on the British losses
thus far in 1941. il was asserted
that during the intensified British
offensive between June % and
October 81. 1880 enemy planes
were shot down along the occupied
channel coast alone,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-14
Few Towns Hit
By Ndzi Raiders
International Sew. servIce CahI.

LONDON. Nov. 14.-The air
ministry announced today that
German raiders dropped a few
bombs on southwestern England
during the night, causing some
damage and a small number of
casualties"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-14
Raj Aids Russia

LONDON. Nov. 14.-(INS)-
Hundreds of Hurricane planes
now are being assembled for
service on various parts of the
Russian front. the air ministry
announced today. Pilots are in
structing Russian filters in their
operation.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-14

BERLIN. Nov. ID. - tINS) -
Leon Lindberg. an American en-
gineer. was executed along with
1873 Russian citizens by Soviet
guards after he refused to leave
the city of Stalino just before its
capture by German troops. II was
charged today in an official an
nouncement.
The announcement stated that
Lindberg and the others refused
to fee to the Ural Mountains
when capture Of the city became
imminent.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-14
Major vietory
On Moscow Line
CIdimedbyR Reds
20 Villages Reisken
by Soviet Forces,
Russians Announce

KUIBYSHEv, Nov. IA ire
rnendous new Soviet victory on the
northwestern Moscow front, where
Red army forces were declared TO
have recaptured 20 villages. was
reported by the Russian (Tass)
news agency today.
The dispatch said the German Of
fensive on the right flank Of IA
linin, northwest OF Moscow. had
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-14

been checked and that the Sopiets
then counter-attacked. recapturing
the villages and inflicting huge
losses on the Nazis.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-14
OTHERS PEssIMIsTIC

While Byrd expressed the opin-
ion that cuts would he made. other
members were not so hopeful.
IL think substantial reductions
can and should be made, but
that doesn't necessarily mean
they WILL" Senator Glass I'D Of
Virginia. chairman OF the Sem
ate appropriations committee,
declared.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-14

enemy transport vessels totaling
5000 tons In Barents Sea and
three more transports totaling
5000 tons in the Baltic.
The midnight high command
communique claimed destruction
of IS more German war planes.
Later the Moscow radio an
nounced Red air force bombers
attacked Koenigsberg in East
Prussia and the Nazi-held Latvian
capital of Riga on Wednesday,
bombing military targets and
causing explosions and fires.
New German retreats also were
reported at Tula, Ito, miles south
of Moscow, while on the northern
wing of the Moscow front the Ger
mans were reported launching
fresh offensives in the Kalinin
sector.
NAILS DIsLODGED
The Moscow radio said that In
hand-to-hand fighting. Russian
forces .dislodged German units
from a fortified hill commanding
a battlefield in the Maloyarosla-
vetz sector OF the Moscow front.
According to this account the
C mans sustained casualties
amounting 10 a full infantry bat
talon. Numerous machine guns
and trench mortars were said to
have been captured.
Later the Russians consolidated
their newly won positions, the
radio broadcast said, and the bat
tie still continued, with the SovietsI
retaining the initiative.