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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-08
Win, Lose or Draw
Hodge Podae Baseball Races DEFY All PROPHETS
BY GRANTLAND RtCI

st week from this spot on the calendar is
be on their
mystery banked around
De the property OF
around number OF ball
just daring prophet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-08
Chance for Bio Season

AS long as the draft doesn't take
away fathers with families, baseball
will have enough good material left
for firSt-class season.
I also believe that both leagues
will be able to reach proper physical
condition by their late April start.
For after a hard winter, colder
than the normal, there is the prom
Use of an earlier and softer spring.
1t usually happens that way in
natures process of evening up.
Just how many regulars will be
missing won't be known until the
camps begin to assemble next Mon
day. Even then the roll calls will
be in doubt.
Years ago baseball proved that
the best of the big-league teams
could get along on far fewer men
than the game uses today. Back in
the COS many clubs got by with 10
Or IA players, the list including only
two or three pitchers.
Two Can Curry Mound Load
There were long spells where two
pitchers would carry most of the
load. Even as late as 1908. Ed Walsh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-08
Two Can Garry Mound Load

There were long spells where two
pitchers would carry most of the
load. Even as late as 1908, Ed Walsh
Evening star., 1943-11-07

to investigate the accusation-it is al
ways possible that a souvenir hunting
soldier will pick up anything in sight
they ran into the following situation:
There are two keys necessary to enter
the cathedral's treasure vault, one to the
outer and one to the inner door
One is in the custody of the bishop,
the other of the Mayor. Both must act
together in order to open the vault.
Neither can act without an order of the
Catania City Council specifically order
ing them to do so.
1t is proving major diplomatic prob
lem to get these three elements together.
The last positive evidence of the exist
ence of the crown is receipt from a
Catania goldsmith to whom it was in
trusted for repairs, dated late In the
18th century.
There is more than fair chance that
when the vault finally is opened the
crown will be missing. AMGOT officers
fear. The German radio is making too
Evening star., 1943-11-07
BY Thomas R. Henry.
Star Staff COrreSpOndent.

SICILY Delayed Whereabouts of
the gold crown of Richard the Lion
Hearted constitute the current mystery
of Sicily.
The swashbuckling English King sup
posedly deposited it with the Bishop of
Catania when he passed through Sicily
on his way to Jerusalem. He never
passed this way again to reclaim it and,
presumably, it ever since has rested in
the treasure vault of the Catania Cathe-
dral. So far as known no living person
ever has seen it--but everybody knows
where it is. or should be.
In the past few days German radio
propaganda addressed to Siciians has
reiterated over and over the bald charge
that either the British or Americans
have stolen it, as they propose to steal
all the art and historic treasures of the
island. When AMGOT officers started
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Draft Dodgers Try Many Tricks but the FB Trum Then, Every

with naval uniform, and escorted Prin-
cess Fatima, Sultana Of Kabul, Afghan
istan, on her American tour. He pre-
sented her to President Harding and
posed for a picture on the White House
lawn.
Throughout all his experiences, how
ever, Weinberg never was in serious dif-
ficulty with the law until he started
playing good fairy to draft dodgers. He
now is awaiting sentence.
Draft Board Crooks
Out Of the thousands OF draft board
volunteers and paid employees only a
handful have used their position to help
draft evaders. The few cases Of this
kind in the FBI files show that the
men whom they offered to get deferred
frequently were the ones who put the
FBI on their trail.
A typical case involved Marvin Ralph
German, appeal agent for draft board
in Cheektowaga, N. Y. Germain,
local attorney, telephoned John Henry
Meka, a registrant of the board who
had been classified in IA. After in
quiring about Mr.. Meka's financial
status, Germain intimated that he
could get Mr.. Meka's classification
changed for 500.
Mr.. Meka notified the FBI and made
the payoff with marked money. At
signal from Mr. Meka that the money
had been paid, FBI agents converged
on Germain's Office and found he had
gone into an unlighted adjoining ROOM
AS an agent entered the room he saw
Germain put his hand to his pocket
The marked money was found on the
floor.
In the investigation that followed, the
FBI learned that Germain had been
making inquiries about the bank ac-
counts of other registrants coming I'D
for induction. He Is now serving a
three-year term in . Federal prison.
German Sympathizers
AS might be expected, German SYM
pathizers have proved a draft head
ache, and they have been given short
shrift in the courts. Gerhard H. Sta
bier, for instance, had become a nat
uralized citizen In 1896, but he refused
to be inducted because he said he had
Evening star., 1943-11-07

ing up for induction. The men We're
actually failing to pass their physical
examination. Under what they believed
to be spell, their actions we're so erratic
that they were rejected at induction sta
tions. The FBI gave the woman an
opportunity to try her occult powers in
prison.
however. was Stephen Weinberg of New
York, whose spectacular imagination
had been getting him into trouble since
1918.
Under the name of Stanley c. Wey-
man, he opened for draft business in
a midtown New York hotel In several
cases he schooled the men so COM
Evening star., 1943-11-07
BY Jack O'Brien,
Associated Press Sta1 Writer

NEW YORK-Toy dealers face the
greatest Christmas demand In history,
and haven't enough stock, either in
variety or quantity to meet much more
than half of it,
Thus the grim prediction There will
not be enough toys to 90 round, store
counters may be cleared completely by
December Is.
Many familiar toys of other years
either will be missing or strange in
makeup. You can't buy roller skates,
electric trains, any metal playthines,
for any kind of money. Dolls, far from
luxurious silk-dressed figures with real
hair, will have painted hair ana painted
eyes, many of them undressed
Most toy manufacturers are in war
work. Some of them 100 per cent. Those
still operating are cut down in capacity
by Government directive and lack OF
supplies. Even those plants that could
keep going with wood or even cardboard
have discovered those once ordinary
materials now are precious and nearly
impossible to get.
Sixty Per Cent of Normal.
President T w Smith. of the Toy
Manufacturers of America, says the
total toy supply this Christmas will be
but so per cent of normal On the other
hand. recent survey by the manufac-
turers showed demand is up as high as
200 to 300 per cent.
One complication does not come
strictly under the head of wartime exi-
gency: More than 100000 children
above the peacetime normal have ad-
vanced this year to the toy age" Plus
that, parents have more money to spend
and more toys are needed.
Need Is Greatest.
Mothers are away at war Jobs and
need more toys to keep youngsters en-
tertained,' Smith explains. THE de-
mand is out of all proportion to the
SUPPLY. This years shortage will hit the
PabA1S 1lsllV WilcIc III likes IL ledSC-lQ 1CS
big heart"
Normal toy production accounted for
manufacturers sales of S115,OOO,O0O in
peacetime years. OF that amount, s46,-
100000 was for metal toys The War
Production Boards limitation order in
the toy industry went into effect June
80, 1942. on critical materials, primarily
g metal. Use of rubber in toys was ordered
stopped in December 1941, right after
Pearl Harbor. Manufacturers who hoped
to increase production of cardboard and
paper toys to counterbalance the loss
of other materials found they still were
up against it when 20 per cent cut in
paper materials followed.
Biggest Catch
Toymakers recite the history of theil
industry since Pearl Harbor as g. series
OF retreats from one scarce material te
another-to plastics to wood and tc
plywood. finally to cardboard.
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more than the men they helped to evade
service That's because the Government
would rather see a man in the armed
forces than in jail and frequently the
younger men appear to have been in
fluenced to dodge the draft In those
cases, the accomplices pay the fines or
go to Jail and the erstWhile evaders are
placed on probation during their period
in the armed forces.
One of the most picturesque of the
accomplices was Steve Kaslov, king of
the red bandana Russian gypsies of New
York. King KaSlov is traditionally re-
Sponsible for aiding his fellow gypsies
with their daily cares.
In accordance with that tradition he
cheerfully lied for a gypsy backing up
the gypsy's statement that he had a
wife and son entirely dependent on him.
King Kaslov said he himself had mar
ried the couple and, in accordance with
gypsy custom. no record of the marriage
was kept. The FBI discovered that the
mans alleged wife was his sister and
his SON was actually his nephew The
king of the gypsies went to prison.
Draft Evasion Schools.
Then there are the draft evasion
schools" The FBI ran into one of them
In Texas. There they found woman
whom the townsfolk believed was pos
sessed with occult powers. When the
FBI discovered her she was using her
powers to cast spell' over men COM
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never had any intention Of renouncing
his allegiance to Germany, that he
planned to return to his homeland and
that he would not fight against Ger.
many. 9.
When Stabler was sentenced to five.
year term, the judge told him:
"You expressed a desire to return to
Germany and I am perfectly convinced
that you would have exhibited less
reluctance to join the German Army to
fight against America had you gone
back there than you exhibited in your
desire to join the American Army to
fight against Germany, and, if you had
stayed there, I am perfectly satisfied
there would not be fair trial against
you by jury of your peers, but the
headsman's ak or a firing squad"
Chicago-born William Bernard Wer-
necke was known to the FBI as an
enthusiastic member of the German
American Bund. He started trying to
evade service as soon as he registered.
First he claimed physical disability and
then he said he was a conscientious
objector for religious reasons. An FBI
investigation disclosed that he had not
been known as a religious man before
the passage Of the Selective Service Act.
When the judge imposed a five-year
sentence and $4,000 fine on Wernecke
for his attempts to evade service
through false claims, the Nazi sympath-
izer offered to join the Army-to which
the Judge responded grimly that he was
''the last man would want to see in the
Army or Navy"
Other Motives
In many cases, however, it's not fear
OF the Army but fear of something In
civilian life that makes a man q draft
delinquent. A man may be trying to
shake wife or conceal q criminal
record by avoiding his draft board.
Whether q man Is a willful violator
who knows what he's doing or Just for
gets to tell his draft board about his
new address or his new Job, he might
as we'll realize that one Of these davs
an FBI agent Is going to come knock.
ing at his door,
Several thousand men who are sitting
out the war in Federal prisons can
testify to that.
Evening star., 1943-11-07
BY Miriam Gutenberg.

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great impersonator. His first major
deception came in 1918 when he repre-
sented himself as Serbian Embassy
attache, but that was only the beginning.
Outf1tted in uniform heavily be-
decked with gold braid, he arranged
for a sumptuous banquet at fashion,
able New York hotel as Consul General
Evening star., 1943-11-07

Most available toys are geared to the
military trend. The biggest catch" of
the year was reported by a large mail
order house which has 100000 war he'll
NETS in stock. They came from a manu-
facturers stock of defective shock hell
NETS and we're remade child-size
Boys will be much harder hit than
the girls. Male youngsters always have
gone big for such war casualties as
trains and scientific equipment and
wheel goods" which is the trade de-
scription for bikes, wagons and other
toys that are pushed, pulled, pedaled
or otherwise propelled on wheels.
Girls will have nothing much to
gloat about, however. Almost every
thing needed for doll-making is scarce.
Because of the recent potato famine,
manufacturers couldn't get starch. Glyc-
cerin, lacquer and metal joints for
SJringing dolls also are hard to get.
The l943 dolls hair, if any, will be
painted on. Sisal the rope-making ma
terial used for artificial hair, Is virtually
unobtainable.
Dolls With Fewer Clothes.
Dolls will have fewer clothes, too.
Many will be designed so the youngsters
can make clothes out of scraps they find
at home. One doll maker who formerly
used 100000 yards of cutoff piece
goods year for doll clothes has no
material at all today.
There will be few sleds: those avail
able will have wooden runners. The
most plentiful items will be stuffed toys,
games and books, but supplies in these
lines, too, will be below normal. Girls
can cross toy sewing machines. kitchen
stoves and carpet sweepers off their
Santa Claus lists
Everything ina aginable has been tried
as substitutes. Laminated and COM
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Lack of Toys May Darken Christmas

pressed wood are used wherever pos
slble-if they can be obtained
Toy manufacturers have been arguing
that the easing of restrictions on the
making of sporting goods should be
paraueled in their field Youngsters
need wartime morale boosters, they say,
as much as the tired businessman needs
his tennis racquet or his golf clubs.
Toys Are a Real Need.
They cite opinions of psychologists
and others that toys help in the battle
against juvenile delinquency Lewis E.
LaWes, famous Sing Sing Prison warden,
holds that ''playthings are the most
effective insurance against juvenile de-
hnquency"
Aside from the psychological argu-
ments, manufacturers feel the war pro-
gram would not be hampered If they
were permitted to 60 ahead without
using prime materials They point
out most of their material is 'off falls"
and end pieces, much of it completely
discarded by war plants.
-. And Proud of 1t.
Any changes now would be too late,
OF course, to relieve the Yuletide stu
alton, so you have stores like New York
City's F. A. o. Schwarz advertising that
it is short of toys for the first time since
186l-"and proud of it."
1--WE hope this may be the last Christ
mas that the grim realities of grown
ups world intrude upon our children" "
the advertisement says, but from long
and intimate association with them we
know they understand and are glad to
give up their F.. A. O.. Schwarz toys this
year so that Christmas all over the
world may be saved from the menace
of evil men,"
Evening star., 1943-11-07

from Rumania. The maitre dThotel
became suspicious Of the diplomats
rundown heels and the banquet never
came off
He went aboard the battleship Wyo-
himself sent to Peru as an expert on
sanitation, was said to have taken over
Evening star., 1943-11-07

the complete arrangements for the
funeral Of Rudolph Valentino and. for
some reason, impersonated Brooklyn
political leader and dabbled in the prac-
tice Of law without a license.
His most famous deception was In
1921. when he represented himself as
State Department attache. complete
Evening star., 1943-11-07

of the mentally incompetent that they
were rejected at induction stations.
He taught his pupils how to simu-
late deafness. He told them what drugs
would produce symptoms of heart dis
orders. He arranged for phony medical
reports for them to take with them to
induction stations.
At the time of his arrest he was try
ing to bring about the release of men.
already in the service. His fees ranged
from few hundred dollars to $4,000,
depending on services performed
Weinberg in his earlier career was the
Evening star., 1943-07-18
Mdrled J. Boyd
I Be Married

Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford c. Boyd of
Washington announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Miss Marlea
Jane Boyd. to Midshipman Kenneth
Bates Dalby, son of Maj. and Mrs.
Merk F. Dalby Of Washington and
New York.
. Miss Boyd attended Wilson Teach
ers' College and now is employed
in the radio division OF the Once
OF the Co-ordinator OF nter-Amer-
ican Affairs.
The bridegroom elect now is at
tending the midshipmen's school at
Columbia University and is a grad
uate of Kenyon College at Gambler
Ohio. He is member of Delta Tau
Delta fraternity.
The wedding will take place July
80 in the Foundry Methodist Church,
Evening star., 1943-07-18
Mr., Mrs. Higgs
Give Reception

Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Higgs gave
a reception Wednesday evening in
their home at 1913 South Carolina
avenue in celebration Of their 30th
wedding anniversary.
They were assisted by their three
daughters, Mrs. John Williams Of
Sparta, Wis, who came with Sergt.
Williams for the reception; Mrs.
Preston Bigelow and Mrs. Michael
Crider. Their daughter in law, Mrs.
John A. Higgs, jr., also assisted, and
her husband with his brother, Mr..
Bernard Joseph Higgs, Mr.. Bigelow
and Mr.. Crider also were present.
Mr.. and Mrs. George De Voc Of
Ogden, Utah, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Alvin Byers of Sacramento were
among the QUITO f-town guests at
tending the reception and Thursday
evening Sergt. and Mrs. Williams
were hosts at a dinner party in
honor of Mr.. and Mrs. Higgs, both
Of whom are natives Of Washington.
Evening star., 1943-07-18
Mildred Hdrriss
Is Married to
Edward Proels

Palms and garden flowers deco
rated Our Lady of Victory Church
for the marriage of Miss Mildred
Louise Harriss, daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Raymond Harriss Of this city,
to Mr.. Edward George Proels, U. s.
NJ. c., son of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Owen Proels, also of Washington,
which took place last evening at $50
o'clock, with the Rev. Francis Kelly
oficiating.
Escorted by her father, the bride
wore a chiffon gown styled with q
fitted bodice and a full skirt end
ing in a train. The gown was en-
hroidered with seed pearls and a
bng veil was held by a crown of
seed pearls. The bridal bouquet was
6f orchids and gardenias.
8 Mrs. Paul w. Stoutsenberger
served as her sisters maid of honor
and Miss Erma v. Stilwell was
Bridesmaid. The matron of honor
wore a gown of powder blue chiffon
end carried pink roses and blue
delphinium. Her headdress was of
matching flowers. Miss Stilwell's
pink gown was similar to that Of
the matron Of honor and her how-
ers and headdress were also match
ing.
Mr.. Robert Riley served as best
man and the ushers were Mr.. Rich
ard st. Claire Green, jr., and Mr..
Francis o. Hewitt, cousin of the
bride.
After the ceremony a reception
was held at the home of the bride
at which members of the immediate
families and close friends were pres
ent. Later Mr.. and Mrs. Proels left
for their wedding trip. the bride
wearing a navy suit with white ac-
cessories and an orchid corsage.
After southern trip the bride will
return to Washington and Mr.. Proels
will return to active duty.
Evening star., 1943-07-18
Louise Frdnzvd
Recent Bride

Announcement is made Of the
marriage Of Miss Louise Franzwa,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. M. H.
Franzwa of Terre Haute, Ind, to Mr..
Philip Nealon, U. S. N. r., son Of
Mrs. Margaret Nealon of Mount
Rainier, Md. The wedding took
place July at 9 o'clock in the morn
ing at st. James Church in Mount
Rainier with the Rev. Gingras off,
ciating in the presence of relatives
and close friends.
Attendants for Mr.. and Mrs.
Nealon were Miss Betty Duggan and
Mr.. Edward Mcdonald, U. S. N.
Mr.. Nealon is stationed at the
Naval Air Base at Bunker Hill, Ind,
and the bride is residing at the home
of her mother-in-laW,
Evening star., 1943-07-18
Betty J. Fisher
Wed Yesterday
|T0Lt.W.W.W00d

Miss Betty Jane Fisher, daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank H. Fisher Of
Alliance, Ohio, became the bride of
1t. Walter Winfield Wood, son OF
Mrs. Edwin Harding OF Houston,
Tex, yesterday afternoon at the
National City Christian Church.
The Rev. Benton Roy Hanan offlci-
ated at 4'o'clock ceremony and
ferns and white flowers decorated
the altar, which was lighted by
candles. Mr.. James B. Smiley gave
an organ recital before the ceremony
and Miss Pauline Holcomb sang two
selections.
The bride was gowned in white
chiffon and a f1nger-tip-length veil
fell from Juliet cap of pearls. She
carried a shower bouquet Of white
orchids.
Mrs. Allen T. Greiner, cousin OF
the bride, was the only attendant
and wore gown Of aqua net. Her
bouquet was of pink rosebuds. 1t.
Wood had 1t. Simms as his best
man.
Immediately following the cere-
mony reception was held at the
Shoreham Hotel.
Mrs. Wood is a graduate of Mount
Union College and is member of
Alpha XII Delta Sorority. The bride.
groom also attended Mount Union
College. He is a member of Sigma
Nu Fraternity. At the present time
he is on duty at Camp Mackall, N. C.
The parents of the bride came
from Alliance for the wedding and
other out-of-town guests were Mr..
and Mrs. Allen T. Greiner and Mrs.
John G.. OReilly. also of Alliance,
and Mrs. Joseph B. Moody of Miami.
Evening star., 1943-07-18
Mrs. Morrison,
1t. Learned Wed

Mr.. and Mrs. John Charles Morris
of Columbus, Ohio, announce the
marriage Of their daughter, Mrs.
Emmett Jay Morrison of Chevy
Chase, to 1t. q. g. John Palmer
Learned, U. S. N r. The wedding
took place yesterday at Newbury-
port. Mass.
The bride is the widow of the
late Mr. Emmett j Morrison. manu-
facturer Of this city and Philadel-
pllia. She is a graduate of Columbus
School for Girls and Ohio State
University.
1t. Learned, the son of Mr.. Henry
Coolidge Learned and the late Mrs.
Learned of Newburyport, was grad
uated from Phillips Exeter Academy
and Harvard University. He is a
member of the Speakers Club and
the Harvard Club of Boston.
Evening star., 1943-07-18
C0mdr., Mrs. Wilson
Hosts at SUPPER

Comdr. and Mrs. H. M. Wilson
were hot s at buffet supper We'd
nesday Rght at their home in South
Arlington, entertaining 30 guests
from Arlington and Washington in
compliment to Col. and Mrs. c. c.
Jerome of Arlington. Col Jerome Is
leaving soon for his new assignment.
Mrs Wilson, with Mrs. J. B. Lynch,
wife Of Capt. Lynch, U. s. NJ. and
Mrs. j. T. Brown. wife Of Maj.
Brown, U. s. A., will leave tomorrow
for a visit Of several weeks at Beach
Haven. N !
Evening star., 1943-07-18
HudsOns Are Hosts

Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph H. Hudson
have been entertaining as their
guests at their home in Alexandria
their son and daughter-in-law, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Harold Hudson,
who came on from Long Beach,
Calf, for visit before leaving for
Bremerton. Wash, where they will
make their home for the present.
Evening star., 1943-07-18

Pumps, stepins, oxfords and sandals
-. at ss.e5. White professional
oxfords (for nurses, mattresses,
etc., S695. You'll also find an
enormous selection Of regulation
shoes worn by the American Red
Cross, WACS, WAVES, etc. In
army-rust, brown and black. And
a 1919 discount is given all girls
in the service. They are also en-
titled to additional ration stamps
and will get them by applying to
their Local Ration Board or to the
OPA. Open daily to s. Thurs
day 9 to g. Located half square
below Dupont Circle. 1923 CONN.
AVE-,
Evening star., 1943-07-18

SEA GRILL serves the finest sea
foods in season-prepared on order
just as you prefer them. Go in.
Cool of. Enjoy every morsel Of
your favorite dishes. Sit at the
Captains table-or in the Ships
Cabin. Go for luncheon, dinner
or supper. It's conveniently located
right downtown. 1921 and 1907 3
ST. NV,
Evening star., 1943-07-18

COMHAN Y is 1ed-
turing wonderful
N or t ern Back
Sable = bl e n d e d
Muskrat coats at
$239.50 (plus taxi.
They look 50 lovely
because t h e y re
sable - blended, not
dyed and
thAEy y,~N~ k@%~