davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-03-11

eIb pUec III 'AAS
.nd M now is a proserous farmer
neal Memphis.
Nh Mt so long ago Terry said in
q. oninion leagues under AL clas-
rfcation should not attempt to op-
srste. ,r ana that even the AL
,.soues should think hard before
'nening ,T their gates. The Texas
,s.eue thought hard.
Morris says the minors will prof
q from their layoff during the war,
which r at first strikes you as a
,.tber ambiguous statement as it
mlnds like saying a man selling
,panuts should quit selling them
n he can make a little money.
However, he clears this up sat
Idactorily by explaining that he
Kinks pro baseball has been in i'll
,slth and needs a good rest to
rcuperate.
Terry didn't touch on the past
health of basball, but he did say
Mat its future health was in jeop-
,,dv if smaller minors tried to
0,prste in a rundown condition,
condition brought about by trans
ortation difficulties, player short
ICES, spectator shortages and 9TH
hv.nroducts of the war.
Terry said it was his idea that
h would be much better to stop
Nov while the leagues and most
I Fl the clubs still were in a fairly
N SssltAy financial condition, md
Tins be or solid base when the
lime @ came to reopen, than to try
n operate on shoestrings and grad
naIIy. Or rapidly, skid downhill I'm
I'll they we're head over appetite
in debt and forced to close with
wobby structure on which to
resume operations later.
Morris comes out strongly for
home ownership, although there is
little doubt that the major leagues
practically saved minor league ball |
BY taking over floundering clubs |
and operating them as branch Of
fees
This was not entirely an unset
fish act or the part of the major
daos. Their very existence has a
minor league foundation, as the
bghes are the kindergarten for
he major league players, an d
Ehout a steady stream of re-
pscements from the minors the
biz leagues would perish for lack
# n0urishment.
However. the fact remains their
ntry into the minor league situ-
Eim was just the medicine the
Elng minors needed.
Home ownership from the stand
ont Of civic pride is fine, but
90 often in the past the civic
rde hasn't been strong enough
make for profitable operation
i a ball club The cold fact seems
be that the fans don't care
whether the club is owned by the
mayor and city council or the st.
-Ouis CARDINALS. Their interest is
passed solely on the performance
the team, and if the Cardinals
ian give them a better team, that's
i they ask.
Anyway, we think both Terry
md Morris are right in their con-
uSlOnS, and that after the en-
Orced recess minor league ball
Pill come back better than ever.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-03-11
TRANSPORT PLANE CRASH

RALEIGH, March 10.-P)-An
Army transport plane attempting
to land today on the airport here
overshot the field and crashed, but
none OF the four occupants was
injured, Army officers reported.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-03-11

A pneumatic chip collector now
salvages all waste particles of
metal in many war plants.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-03-11
CENTRAL BLOOD BANK

DURHAM, March 10-tREA CEN
trail office has been established for
the Durham county bloodbank and
was opened to the public today,
sponsored by the Durham Junior
Chamber of Commerce. The Dur
ham county blood bank office will
be in charge Of Mrs. Mary McRee.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-03-11

Approximately seven draftees
out of every 100 are rejected be-
cause of mental ill-health.
Evening star., 1943-09-24
Decided Improvement
In Food Situation
Hailed by Willis
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 24.-Paul S.
Willis. president of the Grocery
Manufacturers of America, said to-
day that teamwork on the part of
the whole food industry and excel
lent harvesting weather have COM
bined to, bring about a decided
improvement on the food front"
To consolidate gains already made
toward solution of the knotty food
problem in the United States, Willis
announced war conference of the
organization would be held here the
first week of November.
1--WE have by no means solved all
OF our problems" Mr.. Willis said.
ION the contrary, many serious
dificulties are increasing daily.
But there is reason now to hope
that by working together. the indus
try can soon develop practical solu-
tionS to take the place of much of
the political nonsense which has
hampered our efforts in the past.
Total food production in 1943
probably will exceed the record 1912
production by per cent, and the
average for the period between 1885
and 1889 by 81 per cent"
Evening star., 1943-09-24
Guy 6. GiIcrest, 81, Dies;
Spanish War Veteran

Guy G. Gilcrest, St, retired Gov
ernment employe and a veteran of
the Spanish-American War, died
Wednesday at his home, 4800 Iowa
avenue NV.
Born in Stanford, ILL.,, son of the
late Rev. Robert A. Gilcrest, a pas
tor in the Christian Church, Mr.
Gilcrest came to Washington from
Iowa during the World War to take
a position as auditor in the Internal
Revenue Bureau. He retired last
December 81.
He was member of the Richard
J. Harden Camp, No. 2, of the Span
ish-American War Veterans; the
Mount Pleasant Masonic Lodge, No
33, and Columbia Chapter, No. Is, of
the Eastern Star.
Mr.. Gilcrest Is survived by his
widow, Mrs Grace A. Gilcrest; three
daughters, Mrs. Helen Snyder and
Mrs. Alice M. Baker, both of Wash
ington, and Mrs. Sallye NJ Heritage
of Quantico. Va; a son, Guy G. Gill
crest, jr.. of Washington, and seven
grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at
1:30 pm. tomorrow at the S. H
Hines funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth
street NV. Burial will be in Airing
ton Cemetery.
Evening star., 1943-09-24
Two Injured in Traffic;
Death Car Driver Held

Hugh O'Brien. 40, Navy man sta
toned at Camp Perry, Md, suffered
a fractured right ankle and lacer-
ated scalp when struck by a taxicab
while walking across Massachusetts
avenue near North Capitol street
last night He was treated at Cas-
ualty Hospital and later transferred
to the Naval Hospital at Bethesda,
Md.
In another accident last night
James Garrett, IA. colored, of 2032
Fourth street NV, suffered head
injuries when his bicycle collided
with an automobile at Sixth and
Trumbull streets NV. He is under
treatment at Freedmen's Hospital.
George w, Sewers, 18, of 1908 @
street Sc, was ordered held for
Municipal Court under the Negli-
gent Homicides Act by a .coroner's S
jury yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Sewers was arrested as the
driver of the car in which Miss
Betty Scott. 16, of Ali Sixteenth
street Sc. was killed when it left
the road and hit telegraph pole
September /.
Evening star., 1943-09-24
HoIsey and Lodge
Visit Advanced
| SoIomons Bases
BY the Associated Press

py tut hSsOCldled HreSs.
UNITED STATES HEADQUAR-
TERS IN SOUTH PACIFIC, Sept.
24.-Admiral William F. Halsey, jr.,
has returned to his South Pacific
headquarters, it was announced to-
day, after a hazardous inspection
trip to the most advanced combat
areas in the Solomon Islands, in
Guiding New Georgia, Vella Lavella
and newly captured Arundel.
Accompanying him were members
of his staff and Senator Lodge, Re-
publican, of Massachusetts.
Two days after his visit to Arun-
DEL" headquarters statement said,
organized resistance by japanese
forces to Army troops on that small
island ceased on the afternoon of
September 81.
Admiral Halsey and his official
party underwent aerial bombing by
enemy planes at both Guadalcanal
and Munda.'
Most of Admiral Halsey's journey
was made by air although trips to
Arundel and Vella Lavella were by
surface craft.
Evening star., 1943-09-24
Westbury Reelected
By Federal EMPLOYEES

Leroy Westbury was reelected
president of the District Department
of the American Federation of Gov
ernment Employees at its annual
meeting last night in the Odd Fell
lows Hall, 419 Seventh street NV.
Other officers elected and installed
by Harry P. Patterson. organizer of
the national Office of the federation
are: E. E. Atkinson, reelected first
vice president and publicity chair
man; Mrs. Theresa Tins, retained as
secretary; Forest " Ream, Floyd
Swiggett, jr.: C. j. Hausler, Richard
Harries, j. M. Dulig, C. P. Mccoy
and Frederick Godfrey, vice presi-
dents; Clayton D. Bacher, treasurer,
and Roy S. Ramsey, sergeant at
arms.
The federation indorsed pro-
posal to institute a 35-hour work
week for all Government employees
at the end of the war. This, it was
contended, would provide employ.
ment for more people
InstructiEg it's Executive Council
to make an investigation of the pres
ent system of promotions through
efficiency ratings, the federation
said it hopes to find the answer to
dissatisfaction among some en-
ployes.
Evening star., 1943-09-24
Edward P. Bell Dies;
Nobel Prize Nominee

BY the Associated Press.
GULFPORT, Miss, Sept. "a
Edward Price Bell, IA, founder of the
Chicago Daily News foreign service
and nominee for the Nobel Peace
Award in 1880, died yesterday at his
home in Pass Christian, II miles
west of here.
Private funeral services were held
today at Gulfport chapel, with the
Rev Warwick Akin, pastor of the
Pass Christian Trinity Episcopal
Church, officiating. Burial was m
Evergreen Cemetery here.
Mr.. Bell, who retired from the
News in 1882. spent % years in the
papers foreign service, with head
quarters in London. He was an
advocate of world peace, and it was
his work in this connection which
resulted in his name being proposed
for the Nobel award
Since his retirement from the
newspaper field Mr.. Bell had
devoted his time to writing and
lecturing.
Evening star., 1943-09-24
Atlantic City Likely
To Get New Air Center
Within Three Weeks
Ey the Associated Press.


ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Sept. "a.
Inauguration of an Army Air
Forces redistribution center, where
airmen returning from overseas
duty would be reassigned was ex-
pected to take place in this resort
city within three weeks.
The War Department announced
yesterday similar centers would be
: established at Miami Beach and on
the Pacific Coast and would operate
in conjunction with rest camps
which will be opened at Lake Lure,
, N. c.; Castle Hot Springs, Ariz, and
a third site still to be determined.
Gen. Henry H. Arnold, Air Forces
commander, said a chance to 60
home on furlough for a vacation
with his family would be given every
returning flyer before he reported
to one of the three redistribution
centers to be interviewed by med
ical officers and classification and
personnel experts.
The program was designed, said
Gen. Arnold, to place men in duties
in which they would be happiest and
do the Army the most good.
I'VE took him out of civilian life
when his future was brightest" the
general said When he returns we
want his outlook and his chances
for success to be just as brilliant
Air Forces members have been sta
toned in Atlantic City since 1912,
quartered in many of the large
hotels. Returning war wounded are
quartered in some of the hotels
which have been converted into
Army hospitals. Included in the
hospital group are the Haddon Hall,
Traymore, Chalfonte, Dennis, La
fayette and the Cotton Manor, with
bed space provided in them for
$500 military personnel.
Evening star., 1943-09-24
Wiley Voices Doubt
Garage Is Suitable as
|Seryicemen's 5 Hotel

Questioning of the suitability OF
the Senate's underground garage as
a dormitory for servicemen, Senator
Wiley, Republican, of Wisconsin to-
day introduced a resolution asking
a Senate committee to study the
whole problem of accommodations
for the armed forces near Union
Station.
The move to convert the garage
for that purpose was started by Rep
resentative Tolan, Democrat, of Cali
fornia, who said large numbers of
men in uniform have to sleep on
the floor and benches of the railroad
station.
Meanwhile, Senator LANCER, Re-
publican, OF North Dakota intro
duced resolution similar to the
Tolan measure TO make the Senate
garage available to the soldiers.
Senator Wiley said he was told by
an officer of the Quartermaster
Corps that it would be better to erect
temporary barracks on vacant
ground next to the station and that
it could be done in two weeks.
Senator Reynolds, Democrat, of
North Carolina, chairman OF the
Military Affairs Committee, said he
visited Union Station this morning
and found there is space for 400
beds on the top floor and suggested
that would be the most convenient
arrangement for soldiers who have
to wait a few hours, or overnight,
for train connections.
Senator Wiley said he had been
outraged" by published reports in
dicating that Senators we're remain
ing silent on the garage proposal,
and had made a personal investi-
CATION.
He said he was informed that
even II 10000 beds were provided
in Washington for transient serv-
icemen, some would still sleep in
the station while waiting for trains.
He said that on the night Mr.. Tolan
investigated there were 2,340 beds
available for soldiers In the city
and only 2,201 occupied.
Senator Wiley's resolution was re-
ferred to the Senate Public Build
ings and Grounds Committee.
Evening star., 1943-09-24
Ten-Cent Race Club Stock
Pays $3.50 in ; Years

By the Associated Press.
CONCORD, N. H., Sept. 24.-New
Hampshire Jockey Club stock, which
originally sold for 10 cents share,
paid $3.50 in dividends in three
years, Anthony Kearney, a Boston
accountant, testified in Federal
Court today.
Mr.. Kearney said that he ex-
amined books of the club, which op-
crates the Rockingham horse race
track at Salem, at the request of
Arthur B. Conlin of Belmont, Mass,
who is seeking a stockholders ac-
counting of track finances.
He said the books indicated a
dividend OF $3.50 was paid in 1910
one of $40 in 1941 and another OF
IS in 1912.
The track, he added, paid $3.50, ,842
in Federal income taxes in three
years.
Evening star., 1943-09-24
Handling Of Priorities
DecentraIized by WPB
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Thousands of application forms
which businessmen formerly had to
route to the War Production Board
in Washington now will be handled
in the field, WPB Vice Chairman H
G. Batcheller announced today in
disclosing steps in the agency's new
decentralization policy.
Field Offices now will handle ordi-
nary priority applications CPD-1A)
up to value of $1,000, compared
with $500 previously. After 30 days
the field Offices will be empowered to
handle applications of value of
$2,500.
On October Is the field Offices will
begin processing applications on in
dustrial projects up to $4,000 in
value, and on January Is, 1914, this
authority will be stepped up to
$25, 1000.
Many other matters will be ham
died in the field, Mr.. Batcheller said
and after the first quarter of 1914
two out of every three of the regular
quarterly applications of business
men for contElled materials will be
eliminated.
Evening star., 1943-09-24
U. ). Board Advises
Congress 10 Abolish
Unequal Freight Rates
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A board of investigation and re-
search, created by the 1910 Trans
portation Act, urged Congress today
to eliminate sectional inequalities
in freight rates and provide for uni
formity of freight classiflcations.
In its final report, the board said
these steps were needed to pro-
mote the development of all parts
of the country in accordance with
their natural advantages, and with
out such artificial handicaps or
preferences as result from unjusti-
fable rate differences"
The three-member boards report
was not unanimous. Nelson Lee
Smith of New Hampshire did not
concur in the recommendation of
the other two members-Robert E.
Webb of Kentucky and C. E. Childe
of Nebraska-for congressional ac-
ton. >
The report said inequalities" have
developed on regional basis, with
different classiflcations and higher
rates in the South and West than in
the East. Tho average first-class
rate levels in the South are 80 per
cent higher, and in the West % to
"a per cent higher than in the East,
the report said, adding:
These differences are not justi-
fed by costs or other transportation
conditions. Equality of rate levels,
particularly the levels of rates on
manufactured articles, would create
conditions more favorable than have
existed in the past for the develop
ment of particular industries in the
South and West, since present rate
disadvantages would be removed"
The report suggested it would be
easier for the Interstate Commerce
Commission to revise the rate struc-
ture if it had mandate from Con-
gress ito bring about uniformity to
the extent that it is practicable.
The South and the West long have
complained that present freight
rates Disseminated against them.
The report was based on a study
by D. Philip Locklin, professor of
economics and transportation at the
University of Illinois.
Evening star., 1943-09-24
| Police Follow
| Pushcort Ruts,
Find Stolen Crib

Some close-to- the ground sleuth-
ing by police in picking up the trail
of a man who allegedly stole a
baby's crib was revealed today in
Municipal Court when Mrs. Leona
Scott. As, colored, was held for. the
grand jury under $500 bond charged
with receiving stolen property.
When Mrs. Ethel York, 1906 Tenth
street NV, saw a man take the crib
from her yard yesterday and haul it
away in an iron wheeled pushcart,
she notified police. Officers j. T.
Mccarthy and H. C. Young followed
indentations left in the pavement
by the pushcart. They led to a
secondhand store at 1913 Eighth
street NV, where Mrs. Scott, the
proprietress, admitted having re-
ceived the crib from a colored man,
police said, but denied she knew
the property was stolen.
Police said they have learned the
identity of the thief. but have not
yet made the arrest.
Evening star., 1943-09-24

of the river, increase the threat to
Kiev and place Russian forces in a
position to isolate German positions
in the Crimea.
The Soviet communique also an
nounced the capture of Unecha, rail
junction 10 miles southwest of
Bryansk in the upper central sector
of the 750-mile active front. Unecha
is on the road to White Russia and
Gomel, Nazi stronghold in that
enemy-held province. Capture of
Unecha was acclaimed in a second
order of the day by Premier Stain,
the first one saluting the storming
OF Poltava
More than $500 Germans were
killed in the days fighting, the Mos
cow war bulletin stated, and 1863
more liberated towns and villages
were added to the Russian bag. OF
the enemy dead, 1000 were reported
slain on the approaches to Kiev,
l 500 in the battle for Unecha, while
another 1000 fell in battles around
Smolensk.
Russians Cut Railway.
Operations in the Smolensk area
resulted in the storming of Buzan-
ovo, 8 miles to the northeast, and
Pochinok, 10 miles to the southeast.
Seizure of Pochinok cut the railway
to Roslavl, where the Berlin radio
said Soviet and German troops were
fighting in the streets.
In drive aimed at Vitebsk, stra-
tegic rail junction northwest of
Smolensk, Moscow said Red Army
forces had thrown back 20 counter
attacks and forced passage of the
Kasplaya River, which empties into
the Dvina River Is miles above
Vitebsk. A Russian victory here
would make the German positions
around Minsk farther. to the west,
highly vulnerable.
Moscow dispatches today said Rus
sian units northwest of Smolensk
had reached the village of Tarasenki,
miles from the borders of White
Russia.
The Moscow radio yesterday said
Russian troops already were fighting
within the borders of White Russia,
apparently in the Chernigov- -Gomel
area.
Peril to Smolensk Rises.
Berlin admitted mounting peril
to Smolensk, as well as Kiev, Cher
kasi and other strong points on
the Dnieper line and said that at
some points" few small detach-
ments of Russian troops had
reached the river itself.
Capt. Ludwig Sertorius, NaZi mill
tary expert, said in broadcast
that the Soviet offensive was the
most gigantic of the entire eastern
campaign"
Dispatches from Moscow said
there was an atmosphere of ex-
pectancy in the capital, with some
of the greatest victories of the war
believed to be at hand.
The battle for Dnepropetrovsk,
site of Russia's once great hydro
electric works, has begun, Russian
front dispatches said, with some
Soviet columns already within three
or four miles of that lower Dnieper
city. Zoporozhe, to the south, was
the objective of other Russian
thrusts.
Evening star., 1943-09-24
GuIIinqer
Continued From First Page.)

Generals Office call for complete
investigation.
Commissioners Silent.
The subcommittee did not an
f1ounce who would be the first wit
uesses.
The District Commissioners, mean
while, had no comment to make on
the test of their zeal and efficiency"
ordered by the subcommittee yes
terday.
The mo comment" rule also ap-
piled to Health Officer George C.
Rutland, fourth subject of bio
graphical sketches to be prepared by
j. G. Sourwine, Senate District Com
mittee counsel, at the order of the
investigating group.
While the subcommittee was vot-
Ing to widen its field of inquiry be-
cause "the situation in the District
goes beyond the conditions in one
hospital" the Commissioners yester-
day ordered the transfer of $50 hogs
from Gallinger Hospital to the Lor-
ton Reformatory.
Visited Hospital.
5 Senators who visited Gallinger
when the inquiry into the care of
patients at the municipal hospital
began commented on the herd of
hogs being raised and fattened at
the institution.
The transfer of the hogs was Or
dered after DR.. Ruhland, in a for
NAL report to the Commissioners.
agreed that the hospital was vio-
lating District regulations by keep
ing hogs.
( Originally, the Gallinger hogs
were acquired as gifts to the Dis
trict and the herd was developed
from feeding the animals from
waste from the hospital tables.
In ruling that the hogs should
be shifted to the Lorton Reform
atory, the Commissioners prescribed
that credit be given Gallinger for
the slaughtered meat poundage
available, it was said.
No Bids Received.
Roland Brennan, purchasing Off
Ger of the District, reported yester-
day the District government had re-
ceived no bids at the last call for
butter, cottage cheese, Philadelphia
cream cheese or poultry.
Mr.. Brennan reported excessive
prices" were quoted for lima beans,
broccoli, string beans, egg plant,
oranges, pears. peas. radishes, cer-
tain kinds of fish and for CLAIMS and
oysters. Mr.. Brennan said, as a
result of bids, the District had de-
cided to use grapefruit instead of
oranges and to buy cabbage. cauli-
flower, carrots. peppers and other
vegetables as substitutes for those
unobtainable or too expensive.
Evening star., 1943-09-24
Ernst Trigger, Former
Swedish Premier, Dies
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 24.-Ernest
Trigger, 86, former Swedish Pre-
mier and minister of foreign affairs,
died at Stockholm today, the Amer
ican-Swedish News Exchange was
informed here.
The Conservative party leader
served as member of the first
chamber of the Riksdag Parlia-
ment from 1897 to 1887. He was
named Swedish delegate to the
League Of Nations several times.
Evening star., 1943-09-24
Unusual Naval Activity
Reported at GibroItur
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MADRID, Sept. 24.-Unusual naval
activity at Gibraltar, in which so
merchant ships anchored in the bay
were joined by two airplane carriers
and two large transports, were OBJ
served from the neighboring town
of La Linea, dispatches said today.
The carriers arrived from the
Mediterranean and the two trans
ports, evidently carrying additional
troops to the Mediterranean theater
arrived from the Atlantic. Earlier,
IL warships turned their anti-air-
craft batteries in gunnery practice
against target towed by a plane.
Evening star., 1943-09-24
Russia
Continued From First Page.

communique indicated the Russians
were developing pincer movement
aimed ct Cherkasi, 80 miles to the
southeast, and at the junction of
the Pripet and Dnieper Rivers, IS
miles to the north.
Capture of Poltava yesterday gave
the Russians control of 300-mile
stretch of territory bordering the
Middle Dnieper between Dneprope-
trovsk and Chernigov, and opened
the way for a direct advance on
Cherkasi and Kremenchug, both i'm
portant enemy bases on the Dnieper.
Trubaitsky Occupied.
Trubaitsky, is miles from Cherkasi,
was occupied In the Poltava ad-
vance. the Moscow communicate said
A plunge across the river at this
point would imperil huge Axis forces
inside the bend and on the east side