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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-04
PEARL HARBOR TOLL

Five naval vessels were de-
stroyed by japanese bombers al
Pearl Harbor, including the bat
tleship Arizona, the target ship
Utah, the destroyefs Cassin and
Downes and the minelayer Oglala
The skipper of the Peary, Lieut..
Commander John NJ. Birmingham
of New York, died in the defense
Of his ship.
But the captains of the Langley
and Pecos-Commander Robert p.
Mcconnell of San Diego, Cal, and
Commander Elmer Abernethy OF
Los Angeles-survived TO tell OF
the last courageous hours OF their
ships.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-04
War Contracts
FACE Threat Of
Profit Ceiling
Senate Subcommittee 4
Also Q. Ks Breakdown
on Excessive Bonuses

WASHINGTON. April 4 (INS),
Legislation to put ceilings on
profits Of government war con-
tractors was recommended by a
Senate appropriations subcommit-
tee today.
The subcommittee plan would
establish a graduated scale OF
profit limitation, 10 per cent on
contracts involving up to 500, 900,
and graduated down to 2 per cent
on contracts in excess of $50, 900, :
600.
CRACK DOWN ON BONUSES
These limitations would apply
before taxes are paid by the COM
pany, the proposal also would
direct the war and navy depart.
ments and the maritime commits
sion to crack down on excessive
bonuses paid by war industries to
their officials and employees.
The subcommittee proposal, as
explained by Senator Thomas Cd
of Oklahoma would provide for the
following profit ceilings:
On contracts up 10 100000,
ten per cent: from 100000 TO
S500,000 eight per cent; 100000
TO 81 ,000, ZOO. six per cent; 81. =
100000 to 100000 five per
cent; S5,606.oo0 to $4,000, 600,
four per cent: S20,000.000 10
$50. 600, 900. three per cent over
$50, 100000. three per cent on
the first S5O.0O0,O 900 and two per
cent on the balance.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-04
City Strike|ess
AsPedle Reigns
Including Trade
1000 AFl Painters
Back TO Work as Council
Calls Off Welkout

Settlement of the AFL Building
Council disputes with the General
Contractors Association was an
nounced today, leaving Detroit.
officials said, without a single cur
rent strike.
Two thousand AFL painters will
go back TO work. and a threatened
strike of 5000 laborers has been
called off by the building council
settlement, Edward NJ. Owen,
state labor mediator, reported.
The dispute was ended by an
agreement under which wage ques-
tons will be arbitrated by a suit.
able government agency" prob
ably the Sterilization Board OF
Review, Owen said.
U. 8. MEN ASSIST
Joseph keenan,, WPB labor Off
cial, assistant TO Sidney Hillman
and Federal Labor Conciliator
John Jennings joined In the nego-
tiations. The Sterilization Board
of Review is the agency set UP
under OPM to settle disputes in
building trade unions.
State Labor Mediator Victor c
Swearingen announced the settle.
ment of two other strikes in the
Detroit area and said the Detroit
office of the board now had nc
strikes before il
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-04

fastened the sinking OF the
Langley by using its own arma-
ment so that our own materiel
would he destroyed and not fall
into the hands of the enemy.
after that the escort vessel
left the area at high speed to
save those on board.
THE next morning, February
%, we tried 10 transfer the sur
vivors to the Pecos, but were
subjected to another bombing
attack. The presence OF hostile
submarines also prevented the
transfer at that time.
THE transfer was accom-
plished at sea the following
morning.
NEARLY CAPSIZED
"When the survivors were
first picked up the destrOyers
had to stand clear because the
Langley seemed about to cap
size, but we had plenty of fiota-
ton for the crew that took TO
the water.
II want to note particularly
that ] am proud OF all the men
of my command. They did their
job, every one of them, as they
had been trained to do"
Commander Mcconnell explained
that the Langley did not launch
any planes 10 repulSe the attach
because, with conversion from ;
carrier TO a tender. the Langley
carried only sections of a flyinl
deck which were not disable. tn,
vessels only means of self defense
we're anti-aircraft guns.
Commander Abernethy said tha'
after the war started the Peco,
was just a step ahead Of a bomt
until she got il March L."
WORD OF BOMBING
He said that on the morning o.
II the PecoS. while pro
ceeding 10 obtain a fuel supply
got word that the Langley haC
been bombed and sunk.
I'VE were directed TO proceed
to an island south OF Java for n
rendezvous with the escort de-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-04

until forced 10 abandon their
sinking ship.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-04

the target. We sustained very
little damage.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04
Football Is Hardest
Hit at Ann Arbor

ANN ARBOR. June 4.-Hardest
hit by commencement Of all Michi-
gan teams was the Wolverine foot
ball squad which lost 10 Of its
Is 1871 letter winners by gradu-
alton. In all, IS athletes who won
major awards in one or more OF
nine different sports during the
past year were included among the
university's more than 1000 grad
uating seniors.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04
box. In fact that's what he wanted
to be. The late Eddie Mead was

box. In fact that's what he wanted
to be. The late Eddie Mead was
his manager.
We suppose the reason why the
Red Sox were able to get waivers
on Jimmy Foxx Is that his salary,
around $50, 900, Is too much for
the pay rolls Of the Athletics and
Senator's and other clubs who
could have picked him up for
$500. Ironically. he wound up
with the Cubs, to sort of take the
place of Babe Dahlgren, whose
place he took some years ago
when Boston bought him.
DEPENDS ON sINUsEs
As for the good he'll do the
Cubs, everything depends on his
Isinuses. He has perhaps the worst
sinus trouble in baseball, even
Including Paul Derringer. Jimmy
told us once that when they're
acting UP any sudden jar can
create a complete blackout.
Things have gone black for him
at the moment when his left foot
hits the dirt after taking his
stride at bat, and he has sweated
Through the split second of dark
ness, wondering II the invisible
ball was coming at his skull. Sud-
den dives for hot grounders
around first base have also doused
the lights in his eyes.
He goes to the National League
as the greatest right handed slug
ger ever developed by the Ameri-
can League. His home run total
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04
Sends
6 10 National

ANN ARBOR, June 4.-Michi-
gan will send a six-man golf team
to the forty-fifth annual National
intercollegiate championships to
be held June 1927 at South Bend
in an attempt to gain additional
honors to 60 with its Big Ten title.
The Wolverine entries in this
meet will include Capt. John
Leidy, Ben Smith. captain elect
for 1913: Dave Osler, Bill Court
right, Chandler Simonds and Bob
Fife. Smith tied for second In the
Western Conference meet with
75-71-78-79-303, while Leidy was
fifth in the individual standings
with BOT on rounds of 78-76-77-76.
When the national meet was
held at Columbus year ago the
Wolverines finished in fifteenth
place in the team standings and
Smith was the only who qualified
for the individual playoff. Chances
of finishing higher in the stand
ings are better this season and
Smith is also rated one OF the
leading contenders for the indi-
vidual title, won In 1941 by Earl
Stewart of Louisiana State. STAN
ford won the team championship
a year ago. Il.
Michigan has held two national
intercollegiate golf championships
winning them in 1884 and 1885.
This years meet will be held over
the Chain O. Lakes course at the
South Bend Country Club. Notre
Dame will serve as host.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04
BELMONT STAKES MAY SET RECORD
Raft Doinq Well With Service Boxing Shows
BY BOB CoNsIDINE
international News Service sports Writer

international News Service Sports Writer
NEW YORK, June At looks
like a field of five for the running
of the $50. 900 Belmont Stakes Sat
Iurday. There will be Alsab, Shut
Out. Lochinvar. Half Crown and
Kings Abbey and the prospect Is
that Belmont will set another rec
ord by having its second successive
81, 900 900 Saturday.
Shut Out, winner OF the Ken
lucky Derby and recent conqueror
of Challedon in stirring time.
worked a mile and q quarter In
POP the other day. That's faster
than his winning time In the
Derby. But Alsab will 60 to the
post the favorite. Maybe odds-on.
We don't know Of any colt in
recent years who so thoroughly
captured the head and heart of the
racing fan. And this will certainly
be no time to get off him, after the
way he won the Preakness and
Withers and the way he has
worked. Though under q mild
hand ride for the last quarter, he
worked mile and a quarter Mon
day in 2:03 Is.
MAY BE BEST
Just as the first of the army
navy relief baseball games, the one
between the Dodgers and Giants,
was the greatest. SO may Satur-
days racing card at Belmont turn
out to be the best of racing's war
time contributions. All the profits
will be turned over that day to the
two great service charities. Prob
ably more than a quarter Of a mil
lion dollars will be realized, for
things are on a titanic scale at
Belmont.
Bos'n's Mate Al Vanderbilt wired
Dave Woods. his fine young pub
lcity handler, just after Civilian
Defenes Authorities took q poke at
Belmont's new management for
not providing proper afraid pre-
cautions.
Congratu lations." Alfred
wired. "See You finally made
the front page"
George Raft. one Of the many
Yankee batboys who made good,
is doing a fine job with his boxing
shows. Footing all the bills, and
with a minimum of bow-taking,
Raft has provided a dozen shows
at as many camps on the west
coast.
DRESSES UP SHOWS
He hires the best talent avail
able and dresses up the show by
bringing along such fighters as
Jimmy McLarnin. Jim Jeffries.
Fidel Labarba, Ceferino Garcia,
Frank Moran and others now
living on the Coast.
They give demonstrations and
recount their old battles. Some
times the camps provide a couple
OF the fights. Raft referees quite
a few of the battles. He used to
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04
National Track Meet
Gets Two Wolverines

ANN ARBOR, June 4.--Dave
Matthews, half-miler from Royal
Oak, will captain Michigan's 1943
track team, succeeding Alfred
(Bud) Piel Of indianapolis, who
led the squad during the past sea-
son. Matthews and Bob Ufer,
holder of the American indoor 440
record, will be Michigan's only
entries in the national intercollegi-
ate meet at Lincoln. Neb., June
II and il.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04

citizens, particularly in respect to
Alsab, but the simple truth is
there Is very little chance of him
accepting any match races now
or in the fall.
HAS BEEN CRITICIZED
Not so long ago AL SABBATH, who
owns the Sab" said he had a
big program outlined for the colt,
starting with the Withers mile al
Belmont and bringing him through
next Saturdays Belmont Stakes
the Dwyer Stakes at Aqueduct;
the Arlington Classic and the
American Derby at Washington
Park.
THAT will keep the horse busy
enough" said AL, "and IL there
II to be any race against WhirI-
away IL can wait until the fall
when they'll meet anyway I'm the
Pimlico Special, for which they
have both qualified"
SABBATH reiterated a few time.
recently that there would be M
change In his sentiments and ex
|plained why.
81 have been criticized repeat
edly for racing The Sab 80
often" he said. "What do you
think they'd say about me II I
raced him against such great
older horses so early I'm his
career. I'd never live it down."
While every one would like I,
see Alsab hook up with some o
the ones he's been PRACTICAL,
|quartered with by some source,
here, you can forget about hin
figuring in any match races.
II just isn't in the cards or OF
the horses owners mind.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04
Fruehauf Makes Debut
IN SoftbaII LEAGUE

Fruehauf, pace-setting Detroit
Softball Association Major League
ten. will make its d e b u I in the
Michigan-Ohio Softball League to-
night in Mack Park, facing Michi-
gan Alkali Of Wyandotte in the
feature game at 9:15.
Club Chene-Trombly will meet
Hudson Defense Girls at BIS
while Penn Club and HenYis clash
in a Major League game at z.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04
strawberry Cure
Reported in East

/MIDDLETOWN, Conn, June 4
INS).--A quick cure for the
painful strawberry" or friction
burn OF the hips and thighs Of
ball players and other athletes was
reported today by DR.. James II.
Bran of Hartford at the clinical
session of the Connecticut State
Society's one hundred and
fiftieth anniversary.
The new treatment includes the
use Of sulfathiazole powder and a
surface anaethetic called mira
came ointment.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04
Golf Helmets Next?
Spectators Are Warned to Wear Them at Hale
America Open to Avoid Being Injured

Snead's victory in the national pro-
fessional championship. The shots
helped him in his matches with
Ed Dudley and Corp. Jim Turnesa,
the latter encounter being the
final.
Such breaks finally are laughed
off by those against whom they
worked and accepted as SO much
luck by those aided, but they can
be downright maddening and the
pros would be just as happy III
everybody along the fairway kept
his head out of the way.
HIT ON HEAD
In the Snead-Dudley match. the
former had gone to a one up lead
with a considerable struggle, when
they came to the final hole. A win
here would enable Dudley to
square the match and possibly win
the extra holes.
Dudley never hit a better tee
shot in his life than he did there
with the pressure on, but a spec
|tator wandered in the way, was
hit squarely on the head and Dud-
Ileys ball bounded off to a bad lie
in the woods. Snead pushed his
drive into the woods, too, and this
would have been the break Dudley
needed to prolong It. His drive
would have given him a certain
four and a possible three.
AS IL was he blew the match.
In the finals, Snead came TO the
short thirtieth hole leading by one
up against Turnesa. The ultimate
champion hit his tee shot too
strong and the ball was headed
for parts unknown when a spec
tator at the green managed to get
himself in the way and Snead took
a par three, won the hole, went
two up and sailed on in from there.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04
Harvard Books Aviators

CAMBRIDGE. Mass, June 4
(INS).-The committee on the
regulation of athletic sports at
Harvard University today ap-
proved the addition of a pre-
season varsity football game in
1912. On September 26, the Har-
season varsity football game for
meet the North Carolina Naval
Aviation Cadets here.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04
MeIvindaIe Sweeps
Suburban Titles

Melvindale High made a claan
sweep of the championships OF the
Suburban League this school year.
1t finished the job by winning the
baseball title in defeating Trenton
5 to /, In the finals. The football
team won every game. The basket
ball five captured the suburban
title, added the district champion
ship and finished second In the
regional. The track team also was
unbeaten.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04
Pair Rubi, Chdundy
In tuesday Mat Bout

Bert Rubi, the Magyar Her
cules" of wrestling, will face Har'
old Chaundy, former Southeastern
High School prep star, In the two
in three fall, hour time limit mat
feature at Fairview Gardens next
Tuesday night.
Rubi, long a mainstay headliner,
will attempt to halt Chaundy's bid
to top billing. Chaundy's spectac-
ular victory over Jack Smith this
week earned him the assignment.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04
Draft Raiding
Ranks in AA

COLUMBUS, O.. June 4 (UP).-
Get ready to park your rocking
chair. grandpa, there may be a
smuggling job for you in the Amer
lean Association II the draft con-
tinues to ravage the ranks of the
youngsters just breaking into pro-
fessional ballplaying.
Whether the fans like II or not,
American Association baseball is
becoming an old mans game
rapidly. The draft Is taking a ter
rife toll of the promising young
sters before they can get out OF
the celery circuits and the Asso-
citation clubs are relying more on
older players.
A poll of the 158 eligible players
in the loop revealed today that
the average age Of Association
players is increasing steadily. The
players admitted a total OF 4,34l
years or an average age OF N.s
years-an increase of Ia years
from the median age OF circuit
players last year.
The Indianapolis Indians are the
grandpappys of the loop. Then
average age Is 80 years. Milwau'
KEGS average of 28.9 is a full
year better than the 27.9 mari
found in the Minneapolis club
which formerly employed the old
est players. Toledo's players aver
age ITS years, st. Paups 81;
years and Columbus 26.4. The
average for Louisville is 26 years
Kansas City, with a 25.9 aver
age, is the baby of the loop.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04
Par ; Hole Hardest
For CoIIeqian Stars

ANN ARBOR. June para
logically enough, Big Ten golfers
in their annual meet here May 10
and 19 found a par 3 hole the most
difficult and a par 5 the easiest
on the long University of Michigan
course
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04

Of 524 Is second only to Ruth's
Incompatible TIA. His title OF
leading the American League for
seven years in strikeouts seems
also imperishable.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04
DeepSea Fishing
Is Profitable
Michigan Sport

NoRTHPORT. June A.
Fishing in Michigan has been
undergoing a strange metamor-
phosis during the past 10 years
that has gradually changed the
lives of thousands Of people. There
was a time when the Great Lakes
commercial fishermen could feed
the nation, but fishing dropped of
the hundreds of tons of fish be-
came tons and the fisherman who
once closed years work with a
few thousand dollars in the bank
found himself hard pressed to
make payments on his nets and
keep a roof over his head.
1t was about this time that the
fishermen up around here dis
covered that the summer resorters
would pay good money to go out
on one of the boats and try their
luck at trolling for Mackinaw
trout. There still were plenty of
trout on the rocky beds of Grand
Traverse Bay TO make sports
man fisherman's heart leap. 1t
was cheaper to buy deep sea fish
ing tackle, those sturdy rods and
monel metal lines. than to buy
nets which might be entirely
ruined in a single storm.
DESERT NETS
One by one the commercial fish
ermen began deserving the nets to
follow the easier and frequently
more lucrative deep sea fishing.
Their stout gray decked-over tugs
that had weathered many a Mo-
vember blow began to look diff
ferent. They were slicked up, got
a new coat Of paint and gay deck
chairs appeared.
The fishermen changed, too.
They shaved every day, overalls
ere all right. but the grimy over
Is that were good enough for
commercial fishing were out now
that they were catering to the
city folks. Don't get the idea that
there was anything wrong with
the guides.
Their denims might be getting
toward the whitish side, their
hands hard and gnarled, their
faces burned by sun and wind to
an old leather hue. Their cooling
voice might remind you Of q fog
horn, but they knew the weather
and fish better than q lot Of their
customers knew stocks and bonds.
LURES SCHoOLTEACHERS
Guiding has attracted a lot of
young men schoolteachers OF
Northern Michigan who find sum-
mer on the lakes healthy, whole
some, lucrative employment for
their idle months. Many of them
own their own boats and others
work for some of the former COM
mercial fishermen who may be
running more than one boat.
From Northport this new deep
sea fishing spread down the bay
10 Traverse City. to Suttons Bay,
on up the other side TO Elk Rapids,
Torch Lake Village, Charlevoix,
Petoskey. Good Hart.
And they get fish. too. These
tawny Mackinaws lie deep. in 200
or 300 feet Of water. Trolling
slowly over the beds with some
600 feet of wire line out and a
pearl wobbler at the end Of the
line TO attract the fish TO stout
hook you really know you have
something when one Of these big
f~lr-.... Istc
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04

NEW YORK, June 4 (INS). -
One of the biggest crowds in the
recent history Of golf Is expected
to run up and down each others
spines during the Hale America
open at Chicago, June 1921.
And those onlookers might rs
well be warned now to wear he'll
NETS. Aside from the mainland
ling they will receive from each
other in stampeding the course,
some Of them may learn suddenly
that golf ball coming into con-
tact with a skull can be a pain
full and annoying thing.
Golf galleries VIGOROUSLY have
no regard whatever for life or
limb. They will tussle and
scramble against each other,
sweating and wheeling their way
around the course, and more often
than not finally wind up where
they can see everything but also
where a shot can conk them with
a resounding thump, as it comes
whistling down the fairway to
land with the force of a As.
ALSO HOOK AND SLICE
The professionals are so sure OF
their aim that all they need is a
little alley between the lined up
spectators, but even these gentle
men who make a living out of
putting a golf ball where they
want it to come, hook or slice occa-
sionally, or pull or push one of
the line. When they do, you'd bet
ter duck.
At Atlantic City last week two
onlookers were hit on the head
and these incidents not only proved
the wisdom Of keeping your nog-
gin out of the way, but also had
a possible vital effect on Sam
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04

For tho inside News" of
Washington, Follow Paul NAL
Ions Column I'm the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04

Tho Wishing Well" has .
message In cipher for you. Daily
and Sunday Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04

AIseb Not Likely TO Figure in Any Special Match
Races Though Rumors Fly Thick and Fast

NEW YORK, June a (INS).-
Now that Trainer Ben Jones has
expressed a desire to pit Whirl-
away against Market Wise in q
match race to prove. once and for
all, just which is the better colt,
there have been all sorts of ru-
mors about practically every horse
but Barney GOGGLES Spark Plug
being pitted against each other ir
match events.
You have read in the last "a
hours that Alsab would accept 9
match race with either Whirly OF
Market Wise; that a special race
would be arranged between the
three of them and that Market
Wise would accept another race
against Whirly only if Alsab com
Ipeted, and the Canadian flash, Ter
to Ace. was brought down to make
lit a four-horse affair.
LITTLE CHANCE
The Whirlaway-Market Wise re
turn has been suggested for Bel
mont in the fall and might b.
arranged. Owner Warren Wrigh'
has not been consulted on II by
Trainer Ben Jones, but il Ber
wants il he can easily obtain per
mission for Mr.. Wright gives hin
complete charge of the Calumet
Comets affairs.
1t Is not nice to throw colo
water on any of these dream
races" that have been running
through the minds of some of the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-24
Larry MacPhaiI
Quits as Dodger
Chief; Joins Army

NEW YORK, Sept "a. CUP)-
Leland Stanford Larry MacPhail,
the loquacious Barnum of baseball
who guided the Brooklyn Dodgers
through five fabulous campaigns,
headed for the army today after re-
signing as president and general
manager of the Beloved Buns.
MacPhail, So captain in the ar
tiller% during World war I, said
he hoped to be in the army Satur-
day as lieutenant colonel. He will
continue as a director of the Dodg
ers for the present" although other
members of the board indicated his
position would be an honorary one.
I've quit" MacPhail said last
night. I've totally and completely
resigned effective at the end OF
the season on Sunday"
No successor was named and board
members said none would be con-
sidered until the close of the season.
i tore up a new fiye-year con-
tract signed last spring to take this
step because feel it's the thing
to do" MacPhail said. Tears stream
ed down his cheeks as he added:
I've never had a job in which I
was happier