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The Ely miner., 1943-11-04

10 Aioe So easy W SStsAC III WioS yoo
might call a jiffy.
Here are some of the leaders:
1. Spud Chandler, Yankees, 204.
2. Morton Cooper, Cardinals, 2l-8.
3. Rip Sewen, Pirates, 21-9.
4. Dizzy Trout, Tigers, 20-12.
S. Elmer Riddle, Cincinnati, 21-11.
These all belong to the 20-game
winning list. This doesn't make them
the best five pitchers.
For there's a fellow by the name
of Whit Wyatt of the Dodgers who
developed a sore arm and sore
leg and few other sore igaments.
! know Leo Durocher counted on
Wyatt for at least % games. But
after all his. ills and ailments had
laid him low, Wyatt came back to
win 10 straight. In condition, Wyatt,
even with third place club, could
have turned in from 20 to 25 victo-
ries.
Mort Cooper's record with club
that ran away with the pennant
doesn't quite rate with Rip Sewell,
Elmer Riddle or Dizzy Trout. They
had no Cardinals around them. But
Mort's record in having a pair of 20
game years-1942 and 1943-shows
a greater consistency than most OF
the others. Big Mort is out there win
ming his share.
Other pitchers who had big sea.
sons include: Shoun of Cincinnati,
1877; Brazle, st. Louis, 300; Murphy.
Yankees, $50; Smith, Cleveland.
.696; Haefner, Washington, .733;
Lanier, Cardinals, .682; not forget
ting Wyatt, Dodgers, .737.
World Series Nerves
Pitchers react differently to the
tension of the series. For example,
Spud Chandler, who looks calmer
than the surface of a summer lake,
is always highly keyed up, bundle
of nerves that call for stout control
In fact one of Chambers few weak
spots is that in the past, he has
tried to put more on the ball than
any one arm could deliver.
"I used to think Spud was trying to
knock off my glove" Bill Dickey
once told me.
Bill Johnson, while rookie, seems
to have little trouble curbing nerves.
Bill is as keen to win as any one
else, but he is the type that can
even take a first world series in his
stride without bothering too much.
Few rockies ever get the idea that a
world series game is just another
ball game.
The calmest and most confident
pitcher I've ever seen in any world
series was Dizzy Dean.
recall the day he was warming
up in Detroit to face the Tigers.
Some one came up and said the odds
were 9 to S on the Cardinals for the
opening game.
"Them gamblers is sure smart
people," Dizzy said with a broad
grin. "They know sure thing when
they see it."
Dizzy actually wanted to pitch
that entire series. I was talking
about this with Ole Diz while ago.
81 didn't figure I could win four
in a row." he said, ''but I sure fig
ured I could win four out of five.' -
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Those extra unused paper doilies
will stay clean and wrinkle-proof
if rolled up and placed inside a
mailing tube. Tie paper or cloth
over each end.
Save all old leather from high
top shoes for mending leather
gloves, mittens, overshoes. 1t is
soft and pliable.
Do not allow cover crops in the
vegetable garden to attain too
much top growth before digging
under, as then decomposition is
often very slow.
An old pair of curling irons
makes an excellent gripper when
dyeing garments. They hold tight,
and you can swish the material
about in the dye bath without its
slipping off as sometimes happens
when a stick is used.
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THOUGH the tumult and the tur-
moil of this years world series is
well over, they still turn back to
the odd season preceding it.
And a good part of the talk con-
Germs the pitching records from the
two leagues - records that were
somewhat unusual in the number Of
20-game winners.
As a rule, 20-game winners are
scarcer than winners at a race
track after the day is over.
The star pitcher of the year,
without any question, was Spurgeon
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SLEEPING CARS
AND GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP
released by Western Newspaper Union

AS A WAR emergency measure
the government has gone into the
business of providing sleeping cars.
To supply additional sleeping car
accommodations it is financing a
new fleet of specially designed cars
that will be leased to, and operated
by, the Pullman company for the
period of the war, used for the trans
portation of men of the army, OF
whom an average of $4,000 are on
the road from somewhere to some
where else every night.
They are to be of a new type,
patterned on the lines of the conti-
mental European lounge cars for day
travel, with seats only on one side.
At night these seats will be the low
er of three tiers of berths and pas
sengers will sleep crosswise instead
of lengthwise, of the car.
Let us hope they may not long be
needed for soldier travel, and when
no longer needed for that the govern
ment will get out of the sleeping car
business.
This is not the first time the gov
ernment has financed the building of
railroad trains for war purposes. In
1918, Col. Henry M. Bylesby, then
the purchasing agent, in England for
the American army, contracted for
the construction of five complete hos
pital trains to be operated in France.
The trains were only partially COM
pleted when the Armistice was
signed on November IL. Bylesby was
the type of business man who does
not hesitate, but does things quickly.
was in his London office on Novem-
ber II when he was in session with
the contractor for those trains.
Bylesby asked that the contractor
figure the value to himself, for other
purposes, of the material he had pur-
chased that was as yet unused, the
value to himself of such portion of
the job as had been completed, and
to name price for the surrender of
the contract.
Three weeks later, met Colonel
Bylesby on train bound from New
York to Chicago. The United States
government was out of the business
of building and operating hospital
trains as well as many other lines
in which we had made extensive con-
tracts in England. All such contracts
had been settled within two weeks.
The nation was out with a very
much lower percentage of loss than
was to prove true with our trans
portation and other ventures in
France, where we sold to the French
government at very small portion
of our investment cost, and then did
not collect.
May there be another Colonel
Bylesby around to dispose of our
sleeping car investment when the
cars are no longer needed to trans
port our soldiers. It is much better
that we buy our Pullman accommo-
dations from Pullman than from the
United States government.
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New York for the last two years,
and she worked at it. She may be
taking a vacation. Captain Wilcox
was on her fathers paper too. He
may be the reason for her going
down."
He stood rigidly for a moment,
and sat down.
Here is her picture"
He took it out of the briefcase.
at was taken two years ago. She
is even lovelier now. It is her color
ing as much as anything. Her hair
is reddish-gold, her eyes are almost
amber with gold fiecks in them. I
have been watching her the last
three days. I can't make out wheth-
er the way she laughs when people
ask her if she's going down to see
Wilcox is because she is or is not.
At any rate, watch her too. She is
intelligent and keen, as well as beau
tiful. wish we had a few women
like her."
He took a green cloth-bound. book
out of the rack under the radio.
"And here is bon voyage present
for you. It is puerto Rico: A Guide
to the Island of Borinquen," kindly
put out by the Government of the
United States. 1t has all the proper
information about the history and
monuments of the island. It also
had map on the back cover. I'm
fortunately it was not as detailed
as we wished, so have taken the
liberty Of substituting another"
He riff1ed the pages until he came
to the end of the book.
''It is scale map that you are to
mark. A blue circle for major plants
in civilian areas, a red circle for
key stations in military establish
ments. Green where they supply
both civilian and military, like the
plant at Aguadilla for instance,
which serves Borinquen Field and
the town. Use blue and red crosses
for minor units. Put the number of
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tueT Oh tQem SuOulu make 0er Iecl
the way she did.
men stationed at each in red fig
ures, and the number we have at
each in blue figures. You may even
enjoy taking the tours that this book
suggests. Do so in any event. Now
if you have any questions?"
The deep violet-blue on the south
ern horizon was slowly taking form
and substance as the ship ploughed
steadily forward, feathering the CO.
bait sea. Anne Haywood leaned on
the damp salt-sticky rail, watching
it. In the east, already suffused with
pale green and yellow and pink, a
single star still shone, a precise
clean candle lighting the SUMS way
up over the last step into the dawn
ing world.
She heard a step on the deck be-
hind her, glanced around and smiled.
That's it, isn't it?"
She nodded into the opalescent dis
tance.
The man beside her stood for an
instant, gravely intent.
"Yes," he said. "That's it."
Puerto Rico patria de mis-
amores,
Jardin de flores ."
He stopped and turned to her with
a smile. "The Isle of Enchantment.
we used to call it. Now they call it
The Gibraltar of America"
Sand we're spending how many
millions to make it that?" Anne
Haywood asked lightly. She glanced
around. "Mr. Taussig would know,
I suppose. He seems to be a one.
man information bureau"
A short heavy-set man in light
green tropical suit with tennis Slip
pers and yachting cap had come
out on deck. A camera and a pair
of binoculars were slung over his
shoulders. The black sun glasses at
tached to his thick-lensed spectacles
hid his pale blue eyes without max
ing him any more attractive.
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"Spud" Chandler
of the Yankees
with 20 victories
a G ain st only 4
defe ts, an un-
earned record be-
low 1.70, for the
first time since
1919. That hap
p e n S to b e "a
years ago.
But now the ar
gument boils up
and over as to the
pitcher in second
place.
This argument
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HOMETOWN PAPERS
AND WAR BONDS

The INFLUENCE AMI VALUE
of the country press in America has
been demonstrated by the effect of
the underwritten advertising carried
in its columns on the sale of war
bonds.
The idea of such advertising start
ed in 1917, just before the second
loan to finance World War I. I was
familiar with the operation at that
time as had proposed the idea and
presented it to the treasury depart
ment. It took some considerable eff
fort to put it over until I reached
the then secretary of the treasury,
Carter Glass. AS the publisher of a
small city daily, typical home
town paper, he saw the possibilities
and gave the idea his unqualified ap-
proval. Through such advertising
the sale of war bonds in rural
communities was multiplied as COM
pared with the results on the first
loan, a result Secretary Glass at
tributed to the influence of the home
town newspapers.
To a considerable extent the thing
that did the job was the names of
the sponsors. That was especially
true when those names included the
churches, the lodges, service clubs
and other local organizations as
well as the business people. Those
names represented a recommends
ton on the part of local people.
In a letter received from Secre-
tary Glass after the successful COM
pletion of the Victory loan he said
no other one factor had contributed
SO much to the financing of the war.
More than 100000 pages of such ad-
vertising had been printed, and that
record has been surpassed by the
amount of underwritten advertising
carried by hometown papers during
World War II. That is what a free
press can do, and has done, for the
nation.
SENATOR BYRD is asking what
the administrative departments of
the government propose to do with
the 244 billion dollars now in their
hands as unexpended balances of
appropriations that have been made
by congress. He thinks there should
be some accounting before asking
for more billions. That 244 bill
lions is tidy little sum to be lying
around loose. 1t amounts to just
about 3,874 for each of the 63 mill
lion workers in the United States,
and 1t is the workers who will have
to pay the bill.
IF, IN THE FUTURE, we Amer
leans are to enjoy the blessings of
peace, we must take place and
part in arranging for and maintain
ing world peace, or we must build
an unscalable wall around ourselves
and be content to live within that.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE are
beginning to hear some false notes
in the tune played by the theoretical
pied pipers who were attempting to
lead us away from our established
way of life, our private enterprise
system. @
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Who'll Be Left?

Ihey are still wondering now many
ballplayers will be left for 1914.
The general feeling is that few
playing this summer will be on hand
for any spring practice.
With the fathers draft already in
operation, most of those still left
will be called at some early date.
1t is possible that there will be
enough left who have been deferred
to start the 1914 campaign.
But there won't be so many of
these. 1t is believed that over 80 per
cent of those in this last series viii
be in uniform before mid-winter.
The same goes for pro football.
The long arm of the draft has al
ready begun to lift stars from sew
eral teams and there are sure to be
many changes before the season
ends in December.
There will be enough left to finish
out the season. The fall campaign of
1914 is too far away to launch any
predictions in that direction.
Changes and shifts may be even
more vital in the college whirl.
When such men as Bertelli are
called into active service through
naval graduation, the blow won't
fall lightly on any football coach.
Army and Navy are the only two
teams sure to finish intact.
This makes any national predic-
ton for the entire season beyond any
ones guess. Notre Dame, for exam
pie, will have flock of good ball
players after Bertelli leaves. But
they won't have the key man to the
T-formation Frank Leahy has devel-
oped so well.
A Bertelli or a Luckman mean
more than just trifie in the proper
working of the T. Fine passing and.
deft, quick hands are needed for the
proper taking and few have this
combination.
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F YOU want to make a gift that
really is different, try a door
pocket planned for special needs.
Notice the laundry bag fiat against
the wall on a hanger with a pocket
for handkerchiefs and fine things.
Also the shelf covers of bright oil
cloth with prepared edging as a
finish. The dimensions in the
sketch will give you ideas for re-
modelling your own closet. Allow
ance is made for long dresses and
deep hat boxes, giving space for
at least one extra storage shelf
above.
NOTE: There is no further need to be
without enough closet space. Mrs. Spears
has prepared a sheet IL by % inches
containing step-by-step illustrations and
directions for making the most unique and
efficient closet you ever saw. There are
Evening star., 1943-05-23
Power Rate Petition
Is Regarded as Move
For Cout-Test
Federal Agencies Insist
PUG Should Have Ordered
100000 Reduction

A petition filed yesterday with the
Public Utilities Commission by sew
eral Federal agencies for reconsid-
Grafton OF the recent order for a
power rate reduction here of s311,-
784 is regarded as a prelude to
court test.
!. Under District law, a petition for
reconsideration Is a necessary first
step to a court appeal if the parties
fail to achieve their objectives at
the PUG on reconsideration.
The petition was filed for the
Treasury Procurement Division. the
OPA, Economic Stabilization Direc-
tor James F. Byrnes and the Federal
Works Agency, which were among
intervening Federal agencies in the
case before the PUG. They main
tain the rate reduction should have
been no less than $4,000 900.
James H. Flanagan, chairman of
the PUG, promised prompt action
would be taken on the new petition.
suggesting that a decision may be
reached within the week. In view of
the positions taken In the past pro-
ceedings by the majority PUG mem
bers. a denial of the claims of the
lntervenors is anticipated.
Attorney for the Federal agencies
charged the PUG had erred in Al
instances in its findings and orde.
insisting that the commission had
failed to fix "just and reasonable
rates" and had failed to comply
with the presidential executive or
der to reject rate increases and t.
effect rate reductions ito keep dowr.
the cost Of living"
The petition was filed for thr
Federal agencies by Thurman Hill
and Arthur J. Swanick for Treasur.'
Procurement Division, George :.
Burke, David F. Cavers and Harr;
r. Booth for the OPA and Mr.
Byrnes, and Alan Johnstone, Max.
well H. Elliott, jr. and Chauncey r.
Holccmb for the FWA.
Evening star., 1943-05-23
Construction Of 700
Ships in 5 Months
Reported by Land
Isl Merchant Vessels
Produced in April,
AII-Time Record

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, May o.
Praising shipyard labor and man
agement, Rear Admiral Emory S.
Land said today United States ways
this year will have delivered TOO
new ships by the end of May, a
figure almost equal to the entire
production for 1912.
Admiral Land. chairman of the
Maritime Commission, addressed a
joint meeting Of civic organizations
observing National Maritime Day.
Last month our American Ship
yards turned out 157 merchant YES
sells, the greatest 30-day record of
all time" he said. This month
that record is being beaten"
Disclosing that the nations $50
ways in 30 shipwards are producing
better than five ocean-going mer-
chant vessels a day." he said, I'VE
will build nearly 100000 dead
weight tons of dry cargo ships and
tankers in 1943
Given the steel and the man.
power needed, we can and will pro-
duce at least 1000 merchant ships
a year"
Describing the shortage of ex-
perienced seamen as the principal
bottleneck in shipping, he admitted
1T is true that a few of our ships
have been delayed in sailing because
of the lack of these skilled seamen. :"
Admiral Land said the Nation
should plan on a modern feet of
from 100000 to 100000 dead
Evening star., 1943-05-23

Women's Reserve. Gen. and Mrs.
Hill live at 1922 Appleton street.
She will report to Hunter College
for her boot training in June.
Another young Washington wom-
an in the same class will be Frances
Kern, 3l3l North Eighteenth street,
Arlington, Va, who has been en-
ployed in the Extension Service OF
the Agriculture Department.
The following women marines will
report to Hunter College Monday,
May 81:
Iris M. Locker, 1904 Nineteenth
street NE: Betty L. Megenity, 1928
Massachusetts, avenue NV; Mary
L. Miller. 1439 Spring road NV;
Catherine G. Murray, 1920 Garfield
street NV: Mildred M. Cox, 14l6
Twentieth street NV; Helen S..
Medford. II Mississippi avenue Sc;
Ruth M. Prill. 1920 M street NV;
Marilyn M. Thiebault, 1855 Suit
land road Sc, and Ethyl M. Will
cox, 1888 Spring road NV, all Of
Washington, and from Alexandria.
Va: Dorothea L. McCuistion, 131
North Washington street and Jeanne
S. Else, 20l North Washington
street.
Ensign E. Roby Leighton. daugh-
ter of Rear Admiral Frank T. Leigh
ton, commadant of the 9th Naval
District, New Orleans, La, and one
of the first Waves. has finally found
time to receive her indoctrination
at Smith College, Northampton
Mass. She was one OF the first
groups Of women assigned immedi-
ately to active duty to form the nu-
cleus of the new Women's Reserve
Of the United States Naval Reserve.
Before joining the Waves she had
served as statistician in the United
States Public Health Service and as
administrative assistant in the Of
flce Of Civilian Defense.
Ensign Leighton established the
Waves recruiting Office in the Office
OF Naval Ofiicer Procurement, 1920
G street NV. In December she was
Evening star., 1943-05-23

cousin of former Senator Josh Lee
of Oklahoma.
jamie Pat King, daughter of Mrs.
Walter B. King, 5312 Edmunds place
NV, has been promoted from aux
iliary to auxiliary first class at the
Fifth Women's Army Auxiliary
Corps Training Center at Camp
Monticello, Ark. She was employed
as clerk in a department store before
enrolling in the WAAC.
AuXiliaries Laura F. Trunnell,
$3.50 o street NV, and Clara A.
Gallagher, 1918 Longfellow street
NV, have entered the Army Ad-
ministration School at Nacoedoches.
Tex, where they will receive SIX
week course in Army administration.
The school Is located in the Stephen
F. Austin State College.
Ensign Virginia Hates, U. S. N. r.,
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. George
A. Hates, 1914 Fulton street NV,
Is stationed at the Naval Operating
Evening star., 1943-05-23
Giont Army Mobile Gun HurIs
36O-Pound Shell ID Miles

with each battery, is a 20-ton truck
mounted crane to shift the barrel
into its mount swiftly. The gun Is
valuable, he said, for bombardment
Of fixed enemy positions.
It was demonstrated at cere-
monies in observance of the 25th
anniversary OF the proving ground
and was fired shortly after Brig.
Gen. Hermon Stafford Of the Army
Ordnance Department at Washing
ton told the Ohio Newspaper Asso-
ciation:
1T will take flrepower to win
this war. We have developed fire.
power superior to all our enemies" !"
The Army also demonstrated
other small and heavy artillery, in
cluding a 155 nm. gun used for
long-range bombardment or siege
work. This weighs is tons, tosses
a 95-pound shell nearby Is miles,
yet can be set up and fired in 30
minutes, then torn down and moved
out in 10 minutes.
Evening star., 1943-05-23
Two Fourth Precinct BOYS
Win Marble Tournament

Roland Gray, IL, Of 1888 Fourth
street S.W. and Pat Vowel, 10. OF
499 G street S.W. yesterday won
the Notwithstanding contests staged
by the Police Boys Clubs. Both rep
resented the club from the fourth
precinct.
The contests were held on the
eastern side of the Ellipse, near the
Commerce Department Building.
Standard size toys" were used to
known out a majority of the 13
marbles In the 10-foot ring.
Roland, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rich
ard Gray, dropped the first game,
7 to 4, and came back to win the
next two by the same score.
William Harrell, 10, of 639 K street
S.W. was runner-up in the finals
with Pat YoWell. The three games
were closely contested, with the
winner CT the junior class taking
the last game by several marbles.
Art Endrus, superintendent of the
Boys Club at No 4, acted as referee
Evening star., 1943-05-23
Petition for New Trial
Filed for Mrs. Rand|e
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, May pa petition
for new trial on behalf OF Mrs.
Helen Aileen Randle. who was con-
victed of manslaughter Thursday
night, was filed by Defense Attor-
ney George Woelfel with the clerk
Of Anne Arundel County Circuit
Court today.
The State had asked for a verdict
of guilty on a charge OF murder, but
the jury returned a verdict of guilty
of manslaughter and not guilty on
the charge of murder.
Mrs. Randle has been held since
January 80 on charges of killing
young Allen Wiley, Annapolis High
School student, and wounding her
husband, Ulmo S. Randle, at the
Randles' Bay Ridge home. No
action has been taken on the latter
charge.
Chief Judge Ridgely P. Melvin OF
the 5th Judicial Circuit, announced
Thursday night that he would hand
down the sentence on the man
slaughter charge Tuesday morning
A member of the States attorney
office said late today it was pre-
sumed action of some kind would
be taken on the petition Tuesday.
Evening star., 1943-05-23
BY the Associated Press.

ERIE PROVING GROUND, Ohio,
May 22-The Army took the cloak
of 32-ton piece of highly mobile
field artillery today and disclosed
publicly for the first time weapon
described as having much to do with
victory in Tunisia.
1t was the 240 milimeter howitzer
a long -barrelled rifle that hurls a
360-pound shell up to ia miles. 1t is
the largest mobile weapon in the
Army and can be shifted in battle
with amazing speed.
Col. F. c. Shaffer, commandant
of this proving ground, said the gun
was evolved from a weapon of the
same caliber used In the first World
War. It saw its first action in the
African campaign and demonstrated
a tremendous striking force, he said.
The carriage is transported on
pneumatically tired trailer. The
cannon and other mechanisms
are moved on a second trailer and,