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Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-18

soeACllt idllCN name ana All, Is nelD-
ing write a new kind of saga for
his club
Rip. whose dippcr pitch has
brought him l3 victories and rank
ing as the best hurler in the ma
iors today spends his spare time in
directing caliSthenicS for the Pirates
while perfecting the softeSt pitch in
the gme.
MANY TRICKS
SewellS repertoire includes all the
unorthodOX stuff -screWballS, sink
erS and knucl;lcs-but his best Of
fering is his "butter-ball," a soft,
slow one that takes off in the
Stratosphere and then drops into
the strike zone.
The 81 year old righthander
doesn't have his spots handmade
either beating the toughest club in
the loop-the league leading Cardi-
nals-9-5 yesterday. Sewell, in ad-
dition to k7eping Is hits spaced
we'll enough to win, checked in with
three safetieS Of his own and out
smarted one of the fastest infields
in the senior circuit.
He was trapped off third, and in
an attempted run down drew
catcher Walker Cooper away from
the plate, feinted him into throw
ing and then raced past the ST.
Louis backStop to score.
The Pirates amassed 15 hits off
four Cardinal pitchers. tallying five
runs in the first and sewing up the
game with pair in the fourth.
Boston spoiled the Dodgers
chances of picking up fun game
on the Cardinals by defeating
Brooklyn. 80, behind the fiVe-hit
hurting of Nate Andrews. Johnny
Mccarthy slammed a triple in the
ninth inning off veteran Freddie
FitzSimmonS to send III Butch Me
man with the winning run.
H1GBE ELECTED
Kirby Higbe, Brooklyn starter.
was elected by Umpire Bill Stewart
in the second inning for throwing
down his glove after a second ball
was called on Chuck Workman with
the bases loaded. Higbe previously
had passed Connie Ryan for the
Braves first tally. Johnny Allen
relieved him and promptly walked
Workman to force in the second
score.
In the American League. the
leading New York Yankees edged
out the Athletics, 6-5, as frankie
Crosetti's third hit. an eighth
inning single, provided the winning
edge. Marius Russo, who relieved
Charlie Wensloff in the seventh
when the AS slammed over four
runs, was credited with the victory
Oscar Judd set back the Wash
ington Senators with five hits as
the Boston Red SoX handed Milo
Candini his second setback of the
season, Al, in night game before
10,100 fans at Griffith stadium
Candini was clipped for seven hits
and issued seven walks. good for
three runs, in eight innings. Jim
Tabor stole home for the fourth
Boston run in the ninth.
Three straight walks Plus pair
of singles and an infield out gave
the Browns four runs off Al Smith
in the first inning and an eventual
4-3 decision over the Indians in a
night game.
A crowd Of 1867 saw Bob Mum
chief space IL Cleveland safeties
for his seventh victory. Jeff Heath
and Mickey Rocco homered for the
tribe.
Smith passed three batters be-
fore Mark Christman and Mike
Kreeyich sliced out singles for three
runs. ChriStman scored on an in
field out.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-18
WPLS. FLAX FUTURES
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Evening star., 1943-05-16
WoodIown Group to Elect

Woodlawn Home and School AS
sociation, Arlington, will elect OH
GERS at its annual meeting at the
school building at 8 pm. Tuesday.
Evening star., 1943-05-16

will issue letter of request for ad-
ditional gasoline to any student who
needs it.
Evening star., 1943-05-16
Gen. Reckord Speaks
AT Western Maryland
73d Commencement
Exercises Begin
By the Associated Press.


WESTMINSTER, Md, May l5.-
"Co-operation and enterprise are the
beacon lights which will guide us
unswervingly to certain victory" over
the Axis, Maj. Gen. Milton A. Rec
kord said tonight in an address to
alumni and friends of Western
Maryland College.
The commanding general of the
3rd Service Command spoke at the
annual alumni dinner held in con-
junction with the 73d commence
ment of the school.
Gen. Reckord warned his hearers
against being lulled into a false
sense of security by Allied successes
in Africa. He declared that a
"Hitler-sponsored raid" on the Eas-
tern Seaboard would be the perfect
antidote to rouse the spirits of the
German and Italian people.
A feature of the dinner was the
presentation of roll of honor list
ing more than 500 Western Mary
land graduates and former students
now in the armed forces.
Earlier in the day, the alumni held
their annual business meeting, fol-
lowing garden party on the cam
pus.
Final commencement activities
will be held tomorrow. President
Fred G. Holloway will deliver the
baccalaureate address at 10 am. and
the commencement proper will be
held at 2 pm.
Gen. Reckord also declared that
Western Maryland's facilities would
shortly be used by the Army for spe-
cialiZed training.
Evening star., 1943-05-16
Montgomery County Calls
For Musical Revue Talent

A call for singing, dancing and
acting talent for the cast of THE
Country Squire" an original musical
revue which will be produced in
June for the benefit of the Mont
gomery County War Hospitality and
Recreation Committee was issued
yesterday by Director William H.
Jarvis, New York producer and dra-
matte coach.
Tryouts will be held at pm. to-
morrow in the auditorium of the
Leland Junior High School. Anyone
in the county interested in taking
part is invited.
A cast of 70 persons, including a
20-piece orchestra, is needed for this
production which is an adaptation
OF an old melodrama.
The War Recreation and Hospi-
tality Committee is sponsoring the
production to raise funds to provide
recreation and entertainment for the
more than 1000 servicemen now
stationed in the county.
Evening star., 1943-05-16
Refugee Will Discuss
Women's Role in NORWAY

How Norwegian Women Are Re.
sisting Hitler" is the subject on
which Miss Else Margrete Roed
former Norwegian woman's maga-
zine editor who entered the United
States at the beginning of this year
as a war refugee. viii. speak at the
annual friendship dinner of the
Montgomery County Soroptimist
Quota and Business and professional
Women's Clubs at the Kenwood Club
tomorrow night.
Miss Roed is completing lecture
tour Of 81 cities.
A graduate of Oslo University, Miss
Roed has studied in France and
Germany and holds degree from
Oxford University. After the Ger
man invasion of Norway she con-
tinued her magazine work until
forced to flee. She walked four days
and four nights to escape across the
Swedish border.
Evening star., 1943-05-16
Alexandria Warned
On 0vercrowding in
CoIored Section
City Officials Soy
They Are Unable to
Find q Solution

Despite a warning yesterday by
DR.. w. A. Browne, city health Of
f1cer, that crowded housing condi-
tions in the colored sections of AL
exandria may cause an epidemic,
city officials say they are unable to
find solution.
The situation will be aggravated
still further by the eviction of II
colored families within the next 10
days when their homes on a lot
bounded by Pitt, Royal, Pendleton
and Wythe streets are razed to make
way for maintenance garage to be
built by the A., B. & w. Transit Co.
City Manager Carl Budwesky said
the order to evacuate had been given
earlier in the year and later post
poned when it became evident that
priorities would delay construction
OF the garage several months.
Situation Is Acute.
According to Miss Barbara Wat
kins, director of the department of
public welfare, overcrowding is so
acute that she was forced to appeal
to the Disaster Relief Committee
OF the Red Cross to house several
colored families when they homes
were damaged by fire recently.
In another fire, she recalled, IL
colored persons were given shelter
in the basement of the colored Cath
oic church. Since then, she said,
only one room has been found for
them.
Mr.. Budwesky cited instances
where six-room houses are shelter
ing 80 colored persons each. He
added that houses are being pur-
chased for more than three times
their assessed valuation in order to
partition them into little more than
cubicles to house entire families in
each room.
At present, there is no ordinance
to limit the number of persons who
may live in one room Mr.. Bud
wesky explained that while he has
considered asking the City Council
to adopt such an ordinance, if
adopted, it would serve only to put
colored families on the street or
force them to leave the city.
Help Is Sought.
The Advisory Committee to the
War Housing Registry has been
asked to seek some solution to the
problem, and Father Philip Kir-
rane, pastor of st. Joseph's, the COL
ored Catholic church, and a men,
Der OF the committee, has been at
tempting to do something.
Father Kirrane said it is under.
standable that builders, even If they
can obtain priorities, are unwilling
to gamble on houses for colored fam
lilies.
Depression is great, and the
chances Of rent collections after the
war, when colored workers no longer
receive such high salaries, make
builders hesitate, he said.
However, Father Kirrane said he
is confident that if any builder would
construct housing for colored fami-
lies in Alexandria, he could sell the
houses to the families as soon as they
are completed and thus assure the
builder would take no loss.
1t is on this basis that Father
Kirrane and others interested in the
problem intend to make their appeal.
The influx OF colored war workers
and their families into Alexandria
added to the great demand for
houses at a time when almost every
housing development or apartment
constructed for white war workers
has necessitated the tearing down of
several houses for colored families.
Evening star., 1943-05-16
Leland School Class
In Coming Slated

The first of series of two demon
stration classes in canning will be
held IN Leland Junior High School
from 3 to pm. Wednesday, with
Mrs. Laura Burress as instructor
The second class will be May rs at
the same hours.
To be held under the sponsorship
OF the Victory Garden Information
Center, the classes will feature both
pressure cooker and water-bath
methods Of canning. There is room
in the course for 30 women. Mrs.
Chase Donaldson, Oliver 1900, may
be called for enrolment.
Evening star., 1943-05-16
THE SUNDAY STAR WASHINGTON D. c. MAY 1e 1913
Three Virginia Board,
To Curb Gas Rations
Additional Fuel Allowed
Only for Essential Trips

Special application for gasoline
over and above essential driving
will be denied unless they indicate
crucial need, officials of the Arling-
ton, Alexandria and Fairfax ration
boards ruled yesterday.
The action follows a directive
issued at a meeting Of Northern
Virginia ration boards In Front
Royal Thursday when the acute
shortage of gasoline on the Eastern
seaboard was acknowledged.
Oficials Of the three boards said
that applicants would save time and
gasoline by realizing that there are
specific cases where special gasoline
cannot be granted.
There Is no allowance for parents
wishing to bring sons and daughters
home from schools and colleges, nor
is there gas for trips to summer
homes which, officials said, appear
to require repair every week end
during summer months.
There can be no trips to visit
sick friends or members OF a family
convalescing at a hospital, and gas
will not be given for trips to dis
tant clinics for treatment which
can be given locally.
Trips to purchase homes or farms
will not be granted under the new
restrictions.
Tire quotas for the three boards.
drastically slashed this month, will
not be raised, officials learned
through district Offices, and only
the care of mounted tires, the ap-
pearance Of synthetic tires or the
release OF recapping camelback will
keep cars on the roads through the
summer months, officials said. Fair
fax County's quota has suffered a
66 per cent cut and Arlington 50
per cent,
Evening star., 1943-05-16
Silver Spring Red Cross
Seeks Bonduqe Workers

Although the Silver Spring branch
OF the Montgomery County Chap
ter, American Red Cross, boasts
the largest surgical dressing class
in the county, additional workers
are needed, Mrs. William H. Carol,
surgical dressings chairman for the
branch, announced yesterday.
The group has an average of 109
workers who meet every Wednesday
In the Woodside Methodist Church.
More than 1000 dressings are made
each day by the women, most of
whom attend the daytime class, al
though 80 women work in the eve
nings from 7:30 to $50 o'clock.
Lunch is served to the workers
by the Silver Spring Canteen Corps.
During the past four months the
unit has made 1855 surgical dress
ings.
Evening star., 1943-05-16
War Worker CIasse,
To Be Discontinued
In Prince Georges
Lack Of Applicants
At County Schools
Ends Night Courses

In the face Of an increasing de-
mand for war workers In Prince
Georges County, war training classes
at county schools are being discon-
ttnued because of lack of appli-
cants. according to Elmer X. Zeller,
In charge Of night vocational classes
in the county.
Mr.. Zeller said that while one war
plant in the county has requested
approximately 100 workers trained
In elementary radio assembly, "at
present, we haven't enough persons
interested In taking a radio assem-
bly, course to justify starting a
class"
Cites June Needs.
National defense training classes
In the county are operated solely
to fill the needs Of industries en-
gagged In producing essential war
materials, he explained. June needs
for local plants, excluding those
in Washington and other areas, are
as follows:
Two acetylene welders, % lathe
operators, % Miller operators, Is
drill press operators, one electric
welder, SO aircraft riveters, ia sheet
metal workers, one general wood
worker, five propeller woodworkers
10 persons trained In small parts
assembly and ITO radio assembly
workers.
Mr.. Zeller said both men and
women are needed in war plants,
Women are preferred for light work,
which includes machine shop, sheet
metal work, woodwork and all types
OF assembly work.
While there are no age require
ments for men, women between the
ages Of 18 and IS are preferred, he
added.
Persons now employed in non
essential jobs may take a six to
eight week course being given from 7
to 10 o'clock two nights a week and
all day Sunday at various county
schools.
Classes for housewives.
Special morning and afternoon
classes in aircraft sheet metal work
and acetylene welding will be or
ganized for persons not employed
during the day and for housewives.
Such classes will be held three hours
day, five days week. No charge
is made for the training.
Pre-employment courses now In
operation in the county include air
craft acetylene welding, ship electric
welding and machine shop. Other
courses will be set up in aircraft
sheet metal work, aircraft riveting,
small parts assembly and radio as
sembly provided enough persons
enroll.
Those desiring to register for any
Of the courses may do so by calling
Warfield 4649 between 9 am. and
pm. Mr.. Zeller said his Office
Evening star., 1943-05-16
Few in Alexandra
Interested in Car Pool
Questionnaires Elicit
Little Response There

Early returns from the car pool
survey made In Alexandra indi-
cate there are very few persons
wanting either rides or passengers.
Mrs. Dudley Lee, chairman of
the coordinating committee for
civilian war services, under whom
the block leaders have been max
ing the survey, said yesterday that
only about one-third Of the oues-
tlonnaires had been returned, and
OF this number very few ask for
any service In finding either pas
sengers or rides. Most of those
interested in making some car
pooling arrangements state that thev
are seeking passengers.
The survey was made at the sup.
gestion OF the State Ofice of CIV
1lian Defense and the State Once
OF Price Administration, with a
view to setting up a central bureau
to make car-sharing ARRANGEMENTS,
According to Mrs. Lee, unless a
great many more requests come in
during the next week, there will
De no need Tor such a bureau, since
the few who are seeking rides or
passengers can be assisted by the
coordinating committee.
Mrs. Lee said, however, that If
gasoline rations are further re-
stricted, as was foreseen In the re-
cent meeting Of ration board on
cials In Front Royal, more persons
may find that they will need a
car pool in order to obtain enough
gasoline to get to work.
If anyone who failed to return
a QUESTIONABLE now feels that he
would be interested in joining a car
pool, he may get in touch with the
committee by telephoning Alexan-
dria 8172, or visiting the office on
the Cameron streets side OF City
Hall from 10 am. to 4 pm. Mon
days through Fridays.
Evening star., 1943-05-16
Threat of Sale for Taxes
Faces CoImur Manor School

thereafter, Mayor Torvestad charged
that the board, by paying taxes to
other communities, Is discriminating
against Colmar Manor.
He said the matter will be laid
before the Town Council at its
meeting June l, at which time a
committee probably will be ap-
pointed to seek relief from the
county commissioners.
IF that should fall" he added,
"the law authorizes the Mayor and
Council to exercise its legal prorog-
ative, which will mean selling the
school at a tax sale. If there are
no purchasers. the town will take
possession Of the property"
Nicholas Orem, superintendent of
county schools, explained, however
that the Board Of Education has no
legal authority to pay for street i'm
provements. He pointed out that
funds for such improvements must
be appropriated to the board by the
county commissioners, as was the
case in other towns.
In letter to town officials last
March, Mr.. Orem said the board
had purchased the land for the
school and had decided a part OF
the land to the town with the pro-
vision that the latter construct a
street.
This board invested $500 in this
improvement under what it under
stood to be an agreement that it
would pay for the land and the
town would pay for the street," the
letter said. This case has been
before the Board of Education pre-
viously and the board is unwilling
to accept the charge"
Mayor Torvestad denied existence
of such an agreement, however.
Evening star., 1943-05-16

Sale of the Colmar Manor ele-
mentary school for taxes is In pros
pect because of alleged failure of the
Prince Georges County Board of
Education to pay for improvement
OF the street in front of the school.
Mayor John N. Torvestad said last
night that while three other towns
have received payment for street
improvements in front of their
schools, the board refuses to pay its
"just obligation" to Colmar Manor,
which totals $1,864.50 plus interest
and penalties.
Declaring the street was con-
structed in 1887 and that the board
has been billed for the tax each year
Evening star., 1943-05-16
Montgomery Pupils
Are Enrolling for
School Recreation
5000 Children Expected
In Subuprbon Areas,
With Instructors Needed

Approximately 5000 children are
expected to participate in the rec
reational program in the suburban
area of Montgomery County this
summer, Park Commissioner E
Brooke Lee announced yesterday.
Answers to questionnaires received
from 10 per cent of the school chill
dren In the county suburban Sec
tions ask enrolment for 1909 chill
dren in the recreational program
with an additional 529 asking en-
rollment in the day-care recreational
program. Since recreational and
day-care programs will be available
to all the children in the suburban
area the 5000 estimate seems con-
servative, Mr.. Lee said.
It is planned to have three day.
care locations each in the eastern
and western sections Of the county
They will be located on school sites
to make use Of cafeteria and other
building facilities.
Instructors Needed.
The general recreational programs
will be located On school sites near
est to the parks so that the build
1ngs, the school playground and the
park Fairgrounds, as we'll as the
open spaces and nature trails, can
be used. In addition, arrangements
have already been approved for a
scout center for both Boy and Girl
Scout troops in the Chevy Chase
Recreational Center.
Lewis Mitchell, recreational di-
rector of the Bethesda Chevy Chase
Recreational Center, who is also act
Ing In that capacity for the county
program, said yesterday that about
100 recreational instructors, SUPER
visors and assistant supervisors will
be needed.
We are particularly anxious to
obtain the services of MONTGOMERY
County school teachers and other
adult residents of the county, college
students who are home on vacation,
senior high school students and
members of senior scout troops to
help us carry on this program for
the 10-week period from June 21 to
September II. The Park and Plan
ming Commission is now considering
an appropriate schedule of salaries
Tor these services and the salary
scale will be announced following a
meeting with the Co-ordinatinp
Committee early next week." Mr..
Mitchell stated.
Ready for Applicants.
In the meantime applications to
participate in the recreational pro-
gram on a salary basis can be made
at the Bethesda-C Chevy Chase Rec
reatlonal Center at the Office of the
Park and Planning Commission,
$500 Colesville road, Silver Spring
or through any school principal In
the suburban county.
Questionnaires may also be OBJ
tanned by those who desire to par
tlcipate in the program.
Mr.. Mitchell pointed out that
there will also be very consider
able need for volunteer assistance,
which can be arranged on the basis
OF full time, part time or alternate
days or half days. Residents of the
suburban area who are willing to
help out in this capacity are badly
needed, he said.
Evening star., 1943-05-16
Navy Rodiomon Killed
In Crash Near Norfolk
By the Associated Press.

b the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, May 15.-A Navy
Land plane crashed near Fentress
today. killing Allan Wright, aviation
radioman, Sd class, Covington, KY.
passenger. The pilot, whose name
was withheld by the Navy, was hos
pitalized for injuries suffered In the
crash.
Radioman Wright's next of kin
Is listed as his sister, Miss Hazel M.
Wright, .Covington.
Evening star., 1943-05-16
Bird Presents Dollar Bill

LONGMONT, Colo. R.-George
Schlichter was walking along
street when paper fluttered from
the bill of bird. It was a dollar
bill.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-02-27
New Group Pledged
To Educate Whites

its secretary is Miss Corinne Dean
Art and consultants are Elton G.
Fax of Brooklyn, Miss Constance
Bradley of Chicago, and Miss
Louise E. jefferson of New York
According to Mr.. Schuyler, the
new organization will supplement
and facilitate the work of existing
organizations by preparing the
way pSychologically It's job will
be selling" the colored American
to the white masses who have
hitherto been neglected by Negro
propagandists who concentrated on
the enlightened minority of whites
The A. T. A. plans through
modern written and pictorial propa-
ganda to try to undermine exist
ing white misinformation about
colored people and to dispel mass
prejudice against them.
The Association will use al
modern media of propaganda: cal
and bus cards, newspaper ano
magazine displays, illustrated pam
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-02-27

Nazis - leads to the inevitable con-
clusion that any effort, be it on the
part of Negroes Or whites, to re-
move the things that brought about
this disastrous conflict, is indeed a
noble contribution to our war ef-
fort, not hindrance.
DEMAND ONLY JUSTICE
The demands of Negro leaders,
boiled down to simple proportions,
are for justice, nothing more, moth
ing less. They are part and par
Gel of the very things for which
the United Nations leadership pro-
fesses to be fighting. To contend
that it is all right to seek this ideal
of racial equality on a global scale,
while squelching those who would
press for it on a national scale is
not only confusing, it is foolish, to
say the least.
The opinion of any who doubt
to the contrary, the real him
drance to our national war ef-
fort is not the just demands of
Negro leadership for the remov-
al of color discrimination. 1t is
instead, the failure of SO many
Americans who say they are
against Hitler, to see that their
practices against Americas lar
gest minority IS stepped through
and through with the Hitlerian
concept.
It Is they, not us. who are stand