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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-27

$4,000, making him one of the
few players to be paid in five
figures those days.
Keeler was the National
League batting champion in
1897-98. He made nearly 5000
hits. He swiped 70 bases in 90
He scored more than 100 runs
and made more than 200 hits in
each of his first eight seasons.
PUTS ON HIS OWN
FIREWORKS
Keeler wasn't much of mix
er, lacked the turbulence of tn"
sWashbuckling Orioles, rarely
had disputes with umpires and
rival players. He had his own
idea of little jokes, however, and
appreciated them as much as
anybody.
Once while playing with the
Highlanders in Philadelphia on
July 4, he touched off pack of
firecrackers behind him, and did
a war dance to escape the ex-
ploding crackers. Then he
laughed behind his glove as UNI
pire Silk O'Laughlin ankled all
the way out TO right field and
lectured bleacherites: You can't
be THROWN fireworks at the
players.
Keeler considered himself the
luckiest man in the world. He
was paid for doing what he
would rather do than anything
else.
That was one of the principal
reasons why Willie Keller play
ed baseball so well.
NEXT: Joe McGinnity the
Iron Man.
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THEY PLAYED THE GAME :. NO. IL
Keeler Cooked Bat Behind Ear
to Hit I'm Where They Amt;
Rated NEXT to Cobb = McGraw
Twelfth of a series
BY HARRY GRAYSON
NEA Sports Editor

II required more than an eX-
preston TO make William ii.
Keller a baseball immortal, for
if the diminutive Brooklyn Irish
man hadn't hit 'em where they
amt, no one would have asked
him the secret of the choke left
handed hitting which enabled
him to compile a l6-year major
league average of .345.
With the possible exception
of Ty Cobb" John McGraw once
said, Willie Kecler was the
greatest player of all time.
He was the most expert bat
ter | ever saw There was Moth
ing he could not do in place hit
ting.
He was the fastest man / ever
saw on the bases and one OF the
headiest baserunnerS.
McGraW hit behind Wee Will
lie Keller. the leadoff man, on
the immortal Baltimore Orioles
w h o revolutioniZed baseball
while winning National League
pennants in l894-95-96. 1t was
Ned Hanlon who placed Keller
in right field. Originally pitch
er, keeler was, of all things, a
left handed third and second
baseman with BinghamtOn of
the Eastern League and New
York and Brooklyn.
The Orioles perfected the bunt
and hit and run.
No little man went as far in
baseball as Keller, who stood no
more than five feet four and
weighed only l40 pounds.
Keelcr could do anything with
a baseball bat, stood with his
legs straight and body bent
slightly over the plate. He cock
ed his bat behind his ear.
Hughie Jennings, who also
played with him in Baltimore
and Brooklyn, said that if the
lively ball had been in use in his
day, keeler easily would have
been a 500 hitter instead Of the
.432 variety he was in 81.
keelcr hit no more than 10
home runs in his entire career,
made no attempt to tear the COW
or off the ball, yet outfielders
did not dare play in. The ball
travelled when he got hold of it,
which was often. If inflelders
played in, he'd poke Texas
Leaguers over their heads.
RECORDS BROKEN BY BEST
1t took remarkable athletes to
break Keeler's records, one of
. which--most singles in one sea-
son, 1919, compiled in '97-still
stands. His record of hitting
safely in "A consecutive games
made that same season stood I'M
/ til Joe DiMaggio kept it up for
SO engagements two summers
back.
keeler's DAB hits in 81 re-
NAMED major league mark I'M
til 1911, when Cobb came
through with 248. Wee Willie's
figures remained National
League maximum for IL years
more, or until Rogers Hornsby
collected $50.
remnants followed Keller a.
round. He was on five champ
ionship teams and two runners
up in his first tive seasons as a
regular, helping Brooklyn to
two flags following the con-
quests of the Orioles.
When Keeler hoped TO the
American League, Clark Crit
fths New York Highlanders
lost the pennant to the Red Sox
on Jack Chesbro's famous wild
pitch on the last day of the cam
paign of 1904 Only Larry La
joie topped his batting mark of
.343. With Keelcr pommeling
the. ball 1.-The Highlandcrs again
missed the pennant by whisker
in '06.
The Highlanders paid Keller
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CARLSBAD, N. M.-Lieut.
Hall King has the girl, the Ii
cenSe and the ring.
The prospective bride is back
home in Birmingham, Ala, wait
ing.
If the lieutenant can find a
house, they'd be married.
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Eel LEGARTO"
Our word alligator" comes
from the Spanish lei lcgarto,"
meaning lizard, since early
Spanish explorers believed these
creatures TO be gigantic lizards.
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AT s

PALEONTOLUG AT
A 5-year-old discovered the
worlds most important pre-his-
toric paintings. They we're
found in cave near Santander,
Spain, by a daughter of Marquis
de SautuOla.
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Cows, in the course of a year.
consume about three times as
much water as the amount OF
milk they give.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-04-30
RATION BOARD WALL

The defense worker tolls from
sun to sun; the ration board
worker is never done.
That is the complaint Of the
staff that mans the New Han
over War Price and RatiOning
board.
1--WE can't go out to eat. We
can't ride the buses. We can't
go to church without having our
patrons ply us with a thousand
questions about rationing." said
a member of the board Wednes-
day.
Another staff worker told Of
leaving for home on the bus at
o'clock Tuesday night. All the
way she was dispensing the de-
tails of her business.
1--WE are glad to serve the
public during working hours.
But afterwards, ask them to
leave us alone. We would like
to be able to forget 1t all for a
while" was the request.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-04-30
Mrs. America Now Takes Rationing
With a Smile, Saws Ruth Millett

her mind and goes home with a IT.
tie bit of hamburger.
She doesn't kick if the fresh veg
etables she would like to have aren't
in the store. She doesn't raise a
rumpus if the butcher tells her the
few pieces of meat she sees In the
show case are all he has.
DISSENTERS IN MINORITY
She does the best she can with
her money and her ration points
and lets it go at that. She doesn't
waste any time complaining about
conditions, for she knows they can't
be helped.
She is the average Mrs. America
Of course, all women aren't like
her. There are some who still COM
plain that their ration coupons just
aren't enough, and raise "a row with
any store that doesn't have just
what they want to buy.
But they are in the minority. The
majority of women have managed
to take shortages and rationing ir
their stride. They just grin-if some.
times a trifle wearily-when they
can't find what they want, or dis.
cover that they are too point-poor
to buy it if they do find it after a
long search.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-04-30
By BETTY MACDONALD

WASHINGTON, April 29. - AS
legislation now stands, the entire
school lunch program as planned
by the Food Distribution Admins
tration this year, may collapse due
to lack Of broader authority.
Funds have been earmarked on
a surplus commodity basis, but
there are no surpluses and no
authority to use the funds for a
program designed to offset war;
time difficulties by enabling COM
munities to but food through
local channels for school lunch
programs.
HOME CANNING
Expect an OPA report on home
canning very soon. Three questions
have been snarling up the sugar
for-canning program to date: how
much sugar the housewife should
get; how much sugar others should
get to sell their canning produce;
how much sugar public institutions
should receive for their own pro.
grams.
THE WORM TURNS
Spurred by war needs, America
is experimenting in raising he1
own silk. Busy at work in New
Jersey are 1000 cocoons, feeding
IN plantation of mulberry trees
The silk yield has been compared,
with the best foreign products,
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-04-30
ROME SUGGESTS
DEATH TO FLIERS
Newspapers Reported To
Have Called For Execu-
ton OF Allies
BY The Associated Press

The Berlin radio said in broad
cast last Thursday night that
Rome newspapers had suggested
that American and British airmen
be executed - Tokyo fashion -
following the Flying Fortress raid
Monday on Grossetto, an airport
80 miles northwest of Rome.
No direct quotes were attributed
to the newspapers, Tevere and
Piccolo, by the German station in
it's broadcast, recorded by the AS
sociated Press. But the Berlin ra-
dio said Tevere suggests that
some of the enemy airmen whose
planes were shot down at Grosset-
to should be summarily shot as
murderers."
An Allied communique Monday
said Flying Fortresses scored direct
hits on airdrome buildings at Gros-
setto as part of widespread Tun1s-
ian Mediterraneans operations IN
which IL aircraft were missing.
An Italian communique said that
two planes were downed at Gros-
setto, and the Italian news agency
in Rome broadcast said 145 per-
sons were killed and 1853 injured.
The Berlin radio said Tevere had
recommended "the principle of an
eye for an eye and tooth for a
tooth as the only way of protect
ing the Italian civilian population, y
and had referred to "the example
set by the Japanese who shot AM
erican airmen who murdered Jap
anese civilians"
Piccolo was said to have pub
lished a photograph "of a fountain
pen with high explosive charge
dropped by British airmen over It.
aly," and which was said to have
caused the death of Italian chill
dren.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-04-30
FORMER TEACHERS
MAY GET PENSION
All Instructors With 20
Years Service May Ap-
ply For Fund

All former school teachers over
IS years of age who have taught
in North Carolina for 20 years
and who are not gainfully employ
ed at the present time are eligible
for pension benefits from the state,
regardless of the time they ceas-
ed teaching, H. M. Roland, super
intendent of schools, announced
Thursday, following receipt of ex-
cerpts of school legislation passed
in the last meeting of the state
legislature.
Previously, superannuated teach
ers could receive the benefits only
if they were teaching at the time
the law was passed two years ago.
'This created a great hardship
on teachers who had spent their
whole lives in the service OF the
community but through old age
were forced to retire without any
income" the superintendent OBJ
served, "and 1 am very glad to
see a law enacted where these
teachers who have retired pre-
vious to the passage can now get
what they deserve in their old
age"
He said there were a number OF
former teachers in New Hanover
county who benefit from the new
law.
Mr.. Roland advised all who
wished to apply for the teachers
retirement benefits to communl-
cate with the school in which they
last taught so they would be able
to obtain proper procedure for their
applications.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-04-30
MIND YOUR MANNERS

Test your knowledge of correct
social usage by answering
the following questions, then
checking against the authoritative
answers below:
/. Should one say "Goodby" to
ones hostess at a large tea?
2. If you have to leave the table
before the end of the meal what
should you do with your napkin?
3. When man and woman are
dinner dancing at a hotel, which
one leads the way when going
from the table to the dance floor?
4. Is it good manners in a social
gathering to direct all of your
attention to the one or two persons
who interest you?
5. Is it good manners to say
"See?" after all of ones remarks?
What would you do if
You are in group which is
discussing a IOplc dDOuL WIlCN you
know nothing
(a) Don't bother to even pretend
to listen?
(b) Listen to the talk, asking
a question now and then if you
wish?
Answers
l. Unless she is busy talking to
someone else.
2. Put it on the table beside
your plate.
3 The woman.
4. You will be thought more
charming if you make yourself
agreeable all around.
Better What Would You Do"
No1, ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-04-30
Flora Macdonald
MayDayP Program
Slated Tuesday

RED SPRINGS, April 29.-on
rnesday, May 4, at 5 o'clock in the
.ornoon, the May Day pageant
Ill be presented on the front
W., of the Flora Macdonald cam
ror this years pageant, some
..arnoing scenes from Tschaikow-
ehr ehr'x "Nutcracker", and after
.so sns onening dance without which
rle NV Day at Flora Macdonald
Nv ,,,o,,ld be complete-the Highland
wv~ wT.;ns-and the professional Of the
s1nT nns Queen and her court from
No ma' lower gardens to the front
sonda. lne the fanciful story will be
er.cted se. in pantomime by dances
from the Nutcracker Suite, all in
lovely costumes.
virginia Mcdaniel of Red
snrings will reign over the festivi-
ties as Queen, with Irene Edens,
also of Red Springs, as her maid
of honor. Little Tommy Harris OF
Red Springs, nephew of the queen,
will be crown bearer, and Edith
Jane Byrne and Susan Thomas,
the latter of Chariot, trainbear-
ers. Attendants will include Billy
Pate, Elizabeth Morgan, Grace
Mckenzie. M ar h Sutherland
Lois Parker, Marion Skinner,
Phyllis Powers, 10 Anne Atkins,
Juanita Tontz and Carolyn Kur-
fees.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-04-30
Service League Plans
Old Fashion Social

A real old fashion square dance
will be given Friday evening at
St. James parish house, Third
and Market streets, sponsored by
the Young Peoples Service league
of st. James.
Music will be furnished by the
North Carolina Shipbuilding COM
pany string-quartet. Admission is
open to young folks and service
men in the city. Refreshments
will be sold during the evening.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-04-30

a store, demand
exactly what she
wanted and then
say to the clerk in
the tone of a good
customer, "Charge
a n d s e n d j t,
please, and be
sure that it goes
out on today's de.
livery" ="
Today she takes
what she can get,
usually with o u t
even a murmur,
seldom squabbles
over the price,
and carries her
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-04-30

own purchases home
Nowhere is her attitude quite as
changed as in a grocery store.
Instead of saying How much
does it cost?" she says "How many
points is it?" and, if she has too
few points, she good-naturedly puts
her plans for a nice roast out of
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-04-30

IN the Albina engine and machine
works yard. A workman turned an
eXunguisher on the flames and
tney flared violently. The blazs
was extlnguished by other means.
Grentell said he found four other
eXtlngnsners were gasoline-filled.
Although police said it was prob.
able that the gasoline was used bv
mistake. the Federal Bureau of In.
vestiation is investigating.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-04-30
PERSONALS

Lieut. and Mrs. Clinton R. Weld
ner Of Atlanta, Ca, formerly OF
Wilmington, are visiting Mrs.
Weidner's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Lee Ward, Sr., in Whining
ton. following a visit at Lieut..
Weidner's home in Carlisle, Pa.
Lieut.. G.g.) Charles Robinson
has returned to the city from Fort
Schuyler, N. Y, where he recent
ly completed course.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-04-30
Gasoline Filled Fire
Extinguishers Found
In Oregon Ship Plant

PORTLAND, Ore. April 29.-tP)
Discovery of gasoline in five fire
extlnguishers during fire in the
hold of a ship was reported today
by Edward Grenfell, Portland fire
chief.
Grenfell said small fire broke
out In the ship under construction
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-04-30
AIR CONDITIONING
CLUB CLOCK

st. Elizabeth's auxiliary of
st. James Episcopal parish
will meet Friday afternoon at
4 o'clock in the parish house.
The weekly meeting of the
Woman's auxiliary of st. Johns
Episcopal church will meet
Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock
in the parish house.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-04-30
BIRDS SYMBOLIC
FOR NAVAJOS

Ethnologists consider the blue
bird and thunder bird of some
Importance in the life of the Nava-
Jo Indians in New Mexico. The
bluebird ranks as the symbol of
the dawn and the thunder bird
represents summer rain clouds.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-04-30
BY RUTH MILLETT

Mrs. America has become a hum.
bic shopper.
You would hardly recognize her
as the woman who used to 20 into
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-04-30
Sugar-Allotment Ruling
For Home Canning Is Due

from which output America once
purchased 51,60O,0O0 pounds annu-
ally.
AIR CONDITIONING
Buildings equipped with air
conditioning units which are pow
cred by any fuel other than elec.
tricity won't be comfort cooled
they are vital to the war effort
no new buildings may install all
conditioning units.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-04-30

illness with Sweetheart Soap will
allow all your natural beauty to
appear. Beyond that, no soap can
make you beautiful.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-04-30

Sweetheart Soap will cleanse your
skin thoroughly and is so pure and
mild that it agrees with even sensi-
tive compilations. Complete clean
Evening star., 1943-04-11
ANUS EN- EN- rs
Soil Calls Mr.. and Mrs. March
The Antrobi Leave Broadway Hit
But They Can Afford to Do So

associated with ziegfeld's name
Lillian Lorraine, Bubbles Wilson,
Jessica Brown, Jessica Reed, with
her red hair; Nora Bayes. with
whom a lot of comedy died; Eva
Tanguay, Bessie Mccoy, Marilyn
Miller, Olive Thomas, Ruth Etting,
Frances White, Gilda Gray!
What's become of all the girls
Florenz Ziegfeld used to pick with
unerring judgment and whom Joe
Urban used to place in appropriate
setting? A novel lies in almost all
of them. Some became peeresses.
some became millionairesses-by
marriage-some lived on to know
greater artistic success than THE
Follies" gave them. Some died and
some have lived to regret they ever
lived.
And what about w. G. Fields,
Leon Enrol, Bert Williams and-but
there, we're just sentimental old
dotard.
(ReIeased by the North American News
paper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1943-04-11
Ferris
Continued From Page ELL

for Miss Bankhead's brilliant per-
formance in THE Little Foxes" sew
eral seasons ago.
The Wilder play has aroused wide
animosity and wild enthusiasm.
Wilder has been charged with pla-
giarizing the idea and even phrases
from James Yoyce's "Flnnegans
Wake" but, as some one observed,
Shakespeare did not invent Hamlet
nor Goethe DR.. Faust.
La Bankhead's acting of the role
of "Sabina" may be set down that OF
Helen Hayes without whom "Har-
riet" would probably never have
reached Broadway.
On the male side, I would pick
Raymond Johnson's portrayal Of
Thomas Jefferson in "The Patriots"
a play of immense interest in these
parlous and perilous times, but lesser
in stature than Wilders controver-
sial work
'The Eve of ST. Mark" has much
to be said in its favor. but it still Is
not the great war play this war will
one day beget.
The season offered no imported
play of any consequence.
Katharine Cornell. however, re-
vived THE Three Sisters" Chek-
hov's 4O-year-old masterpiece Of
Illustration, in beautiful produc-
tion with brilliant acting
In the musical category, I am torn
between Mike Todd's Something
for the Boys" and the Theater
Guilds "Oklahoma." Todd has given
the public a colorful and spectacular
show with Cole Porter songs and
book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields.
1t is first rate and in the Broadway
tradition.
"Oklahoma," based on the Lynn
Riggs play. Green Grow the Lilacs."
has songs by Richard Dodgers, and
book lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein,
3D. There is a subtle difference be-
tween the two, so subtle as to defy
explanation and leave the choice to
coins toss.
In the musical field the individual
honors CO. I should say, to Ethel
Norman in the Todd show, and to
Ray Bolger, the dancer, in by
Jupiter
Evening star., 1943-04-11
Some Well>Known Figures
Recall Stock Company Days
Now.Disbanded University Players
Was Developing Ground for Unknowns
Who Since Have Lolled in Limeliaht

worthy. But as the phrase goes,
Lets look at the record:
Mccormick just closed in "The
Damask Cheek" in which he had the
male lead, and has begun a new
radio series, Meet Corliss Archer" !"
He has had big parts in a dozen
Broadway shows, yellow jack"
Paths of Glory" and appeared in
such movies as "Winterset" and
"One Third of Nation"
Smatering of Successes.
Mildred Natwick is the medium In
the Noel Coward play, "Blithe Spir-
it,; Barbara O'Neil has important
billing in "Counterattack" Josh Lo-
gan directed "By Jupiter" Il Mar
ried an Angel, "On Borrowed Time"
and other pieces Of the same rank.
Those two long-term vehicles, Life
With Father" and arsenic and Old
Lace" were staged by Bertaigne
Windust. John Swope left show
business, but certainly is a success as
manager of Thunderbird Field in
Arizona.
Ken Smith has been in some of the
great shows like Candida" "Dods-
WORTH" Saint JOAN" He toured
with Katharine Cornell in "Herod
and Marianne" and met up with Nc
Cormick in another Cornell presen-
tation, "The Wingless Victory"
Ross Alexander died prematurely
at the age of 20, but he had estab-
lished himself in the movies, THE
Wiser Sex" and Gentleman Abroad. !"
Fonda and Stewart, both now in
the armed services, and Margaret
SULLIVAN are probably the best known
OF them all. Miss Sullivan as the
star of THE Shining Hour" "The
Moons Our Home" with her ex-
husband, Henry Fonda), The Little
Shop Around the Corner" with
Ste 'art), The Three Comrades"
and other movies of the same cali
ber.
They built their own academy and
were their own singularly brilliant
pupils. They learned how to act by
acting. Maybe another day will
come when young people can move
out OF obscurity as something other
than war heroes.
Evening star., 1943-04-11
Gregory Ratof's
Demonstration
Was Unnecessary
And Also Unwittiug,
Rain on Russia Set
Being What 1t Vas
HOLLYWOOD.

hOILY WOOO.
A Moscow airport, super-duper In
the MGM fashion, is the setting for
a very wet scene in Russia" star
ring Robert Taylor and supervised
by Hollywood's ace directing clown,
Gregory Ratoff.
It's . huge bit Of construction in
side a sound stage and OF and on
for three hours or more a pelting
rain has been soaking Mr.. Taylor
and some 300 extras representing
Soviet citizenry. Mr.. Taylor Is the
great American orchestra conduc-
tor and the Russians are standing
out there in the rain to greet him.
"Gotovo, tishe." shouts Ratod,
who likes to give his orders In Rus
sian. The camera begins to roll.
A Soviet band strikes up "The
Star Spangled Banner" and the cit
izens dof their hats. A plane rolls to
a stop and as Taylor emerges great
shout goes up from the mob. Rob-
ert Benchley, playing Taylors man
ager, follows him.
"On behalf of our 100, 100000 cit
liens, I welcome you," Felix Bres-
sart says, extending Taylor a right
hand. Mr.. Bressart has been Holly
woods leading Russian character
actor since his debut in Garbo's
"Ninotchka." And that makes him
a very busy actor these days.
When Bressart finishes his speech,
the crowd gives another. cheer and
Taylor is hurried to a waiting limou-
sine. On the way, however, he is
attracted by beautiful Russian girl,
portrayed by Susan ("Random Har-
vest'D Peters. He pauses hopefully
but is swept on before he can speak
to her.
"Proba, spaseeba,' says Ratoff,
halting the scene. The rain stops,
umbrellas come down, and the play