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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-03

SPORTS TRAIL

is akin to very hungry kid offer
ing to give what is left of his can
dy bar to a friend.
That may be taking a pretty
bleak outlook. But any way you
figure you would have an average
Of about one average player to ev-
cry 20 16 or 17-year- old players.
That would be high school pase-
ball.
If worse came to worst and the
leagues still wanted to continue
play they might call the various
clubs the Junior Dodgers, or Jul
nior Cubs or Junior Yankees. That
is, make it a junior Major League.
The fans would know what to ex-
pect and if they wanted some kind
of baseball regardless of the
quality they'd turn out to some
extent anyway if the prices were
cut.
However, if the At labor draft
did 60 through, it's not improbable
that the majors could finish the
1914 season anyway. It would take
some time for such a draft to get
into assembly line production.
Baseball players aren't the only
4-f's in non-essential work and
the government isn't going to
Jump right in and grab all the
ball players in one handful. If the
4-F's were drafted and assigned to
certain duties as the men are in
the service draft, survey would
have to be made of the industrial
requirement first and that would
take time Then too there might be
a saturation point in essential
work. How it all will work out re-
mains to be seen. But we have an
idea that, if the draft does 60 into
effect. the clubs will be able to
operate through the season if the
men are placed in the subject to
CALI class.
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Cage Rule Change Makes
Giants Less Effective

said St. Clair. certainly they
should have no trouble telling whe-
Their the ball is aimed right when
it starts its downward flight"
The new rule calling for free
substitution will be valuable to a
coach in conserving the strength OF
his squad, said St. Clair. Under
the old rule a player could re-
enter the game only twice.
He said the rule allowing five
personal fouls instead of four is
just an evening up" process.
1--WE had speeded up the game
five or six minutes when we eli
minated the center jump" ST.
Clair said. 'In other words, we
added this much action to the
game without making allowance
for the greater risks of severe
body contact thrown on the play
ers."
The fourth rule change which
would permit an official to halt a
game at any time for an obvious
ly injured player, regardless OF
which side had possession of the
ball, was simply matter of COM
mon sense and should have been
made long ago, St. Clair declared.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-03
Airmen Regret Bombing
OF Swiss Border City

A u. S. LIBERATOR BASE IN
ENGLAND, April 2. -(P)- 1t was
unusually quiet today at this base
from which planes yesterday &C.
cidentally dropped their bombs on
the Swiss border city of Schaffhau-
sen while on mission to southern
Germany.
Some of the fliers were too dis
tressed to talk much after they
returned last night and learned of
their error, but others, in their ex-
pressions of regret, noted that
Switzerland had provided haven
for a number of distressed bonn
bers whose crews now are intern
ed there.
"There are a lot of our airmea
alive today because they were
able to come down there instead
of in enemy territory" comment
ed 1t. Howard Mccormick, of
Melvindale, Mich.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-03
By WHITNEY MARTIN

NEW YORK, April 2. - (P) -
Branch Hickey, who has an answer
1br everything, has the solution te
De baseball manpower problem
= the government decides to draft
the 4-F's for labor. He'd pool the
players so there would be enough
to 60 around.
This sounds logical enough, ex.
cept for one little drawback.
Where are they going to get the
pool players? This is, when you
take the 4-F's out of baseball you
have left dozen or so creaky old
gents in the over-38 class, and a
bunch of 16 and 17-year-olds, the
fans could see ON any high school
field or corner three-year-old cat
game. 1t is a generous gesture,
this communist idea of Rickey's
whereby the clubs richer N play
ers would share their wealth with
some of the poorer clubs, and
it's particularly generous because
Rickey's Brooklyn Dodgers with
the drippings of once far-flung
organization at their disposal
would be one of the few clubs
which might conceiveably be one
of the larger contributors to the
pool.
Hickey says the Brooklyn club
will have had about 200 players at
its various camps this spring. He
does not say how many would be
left after a At labor draft got
through with them, but you might
get an idea by checking the Dod-
ger roster alone.
The current Brooklyn roll lists
five men over 38, one under 18,
and one or two medical charges
from the service. That adds up
to not quite baseball team and
under the circumstances offerings
to toss surplus players into pool
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-03
TREATMENTS AID
S0X MOUND ACE
nv CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN

FRENCH LICK, Ind, April O.
R)-Big Thornton Lee, Chicago
White Sox southpaw, has had his
throat slit-but hold on fans-it
only has been part Of treat
ment he has undergone in the last
- vears to restore the snap in
his pitching arm.
Lee won % games in 1941, but
bothered by his ailing arm, ne
has won only seven in the last
two wears. This season, when the
Coy need him more than ever,
he shows promise of becoming an
game winner.
Apintervals last year Lee would
report to the office of a Chicago
harness, and then gradually be
specialist, stick his neck into a
lifted, 200 pounds and all, from
his chair.
These 'hanging'' treatments
- I'D to stretch particular
tendon in his neck and gave his
arm temporary relief.
Last September, after he had
won oily five games for the Sox,
Lee had two operations. In one a
bone growth was removed from
his left elbow and in the second
an inc sion was made on the left
side of his neck and the trouble
some tendon was severed.
''It seems this tendon becomes
taut with age, and me being near
ly 38, the darn thing was about
as flexible as lead pipe" Lee
explained.
'In this condition the tendon In
some way shut off the flow OF
blood to my arm when I raised 1t
above my shoulder. This explains
why I was good for just a few IN
nings last year. The blood would
be shut off every time I threw
the ball and by the fifth inning or
so my fingers would start get
ting numb. A lot of times could
not even tell if I had the ball in
GOOD as it did in 1941 when l won
NV hands. Now my arm feels as
those % games and I am confident
the trouble won't return. There
no sign of nurnbness and I've
done quite a bit of throwing IN
practices this spring"
Lee again this year has dol
lar-a-year provisional contract with
the Sox and will be put on
respectable salary just as soon as
he proves that he has patched up
his pitching apparatus and is In
winning form.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-03

DALLAS, April 2. - up - The
Giants of the court who made
themselves pains in the neck this
past season by batting well aimed
shots away from the hoop, and
thereby returning the game to
stalling tactics, won't be so valu-
able to their teams next campaign.
thinks James W. St. Clair, chair
man of the National Basketball
Rules Committee.
St. Clair, commenting on the
changes made at the recent meet
ing of the committee in New York,
also doesn't believe the rule out
having goal-tending will throw I'm
due responsibility on the officials.
The new rule prohibits a goal
tender touching the ball after it
starts its downward flight to the
basket and the penalty for so do
ing will be a goal to the offensive
side unless in the judgement OF
the officials the shot would have
been clearly wide of the rim.
"Officials always have had to
watch the ball in its travel to-
ward the basket SO they can see
whether or not it goes through, :"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-03

my, navy and marine corps avla-
ton units into a powerful weapon,
Major General Twining achieved
distinctive success in a sustained
aerial offensive against the enemy.
Using all types Of aircraft avail
able in the brilliantly executed re-
duction of Japanese airfields, he
contributed essentially to t h e
steady advance of our forces
through the central and northern
Solomons and was primarily re-
sponsible for the cessation of or
gained en- my air resistance
which resulted in the eventual in
vasion of Bougainville island at
Empress Augusta Bay and placed
the Allied forces in a position of
great strategic value for future ag-
gressive action"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-03
BOMBERS BLAST NAZ
PLANT in AUSTRIA
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\OOuGluuCu IIUIu age OACJ
Al four-engined bombers, and that
an undetermined number Of 9TH
ers was destroyed by German and
Italian fighters who "ambushed"
the returning bombers.
The thrust, the Americans third
daylight blow of the year at the
Daimler Puch Factory 80 miles
west of Vienna, followed up a
night attack by Raj Mosquitoes in
another of their reminder" as
saults on German industrial cen
tiers which have recently shown
new signs of life. Their targets
were Hanover, Krefeld and
Aachen.
1t came as the Swiss made diplo-
matte representations over the
mistake bombing of Schaffhausen,
their projecting ''peninsula" city
on the northern border, and pre-
pared mass funeral for the VIC
tins.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-03

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, April 2. -
R)-Shooting a six under par "a In
the third round of the Knoxville
War Bond golf tournament, Bob
hamilton of Evansville, Ind, to-
day took one stroke lead over
the favorite Harold (Jug) McSpad-
en-. of Philadelphia.
Hamilton finished the first nine
holes of the final days 36-hole four
under par and picked up two more
brides on the back nine, giving
him a 81 hole total of 201.
McSpaden, with third round
CT. had 2O2 total. He was troubl-
ed with a sore back which has
been bothering him for the past
two months.
Byron Nelson, of Toledo, shot a
four under par 66 to rank one
stroke behind McSpaden with 2o3'
Ir fourth spot was Jimmie Hines,
with 2O8.
Jimmie johnson, Detroit dark
horse who had a 70 yesterday
and trailed McSpaden by two
strokes for the lead, had u to-
day for a 81 hole total OF 2os.
Sharing that spot with him were
Tony Penna of Dayton, Ohio, and
Johnny Revolta of Evanston, ILL.,
Sergeant Alvin York, outstand-
ing hero of World War One, was
here to award the war bond prlz-
es when the 72 holes were COM
pleted later today.
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9Th AAF LIBERATORS
PLASTER TRUK AGAIN
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starvation or disease on by-passed
Pacific islands spread out like a
fan around Truk.
At lest 280 Japanese planes were
destroyed in two days last week
at Truk and Hollandla, New Gul-
nea, east and south of the Palau
islands. These blows prevented the
enemy air force from hitting at
the flanks of a great American
fleet, including carriers and hea-
Wy Warships, sent to blast the Pa
lau military installations blocking
the path to the Philippines.
In the Southwest Pacific Amer
lean forces have expanded their
beachhead perimeter at Empress
Augusta Bay on Bougainyill els
land in the Solomons, Gen. Douglas
Macarthur announced today.
On New Guinea, the main Am
erican force moving on Madang,
key Japanese base, is now within
13 miles of Bogadjim, 20 miles
south of Madang.
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Trout was credited with the
victory, his second of the spring
training season.
LOUISVILLE, KY, April 2.-(P)
After suffering a 1863 defeat yes
terday at the hands of the Chi
cago White Sox. the Pittsburgh
Pirates came back today to down
the Sox narrowly, 80.
The American Leaguers led 20
until the seventh when Pittsburgh
coverted four hits into three runs
and victory
The Buccaneers big inning was
a freak, including a wild pitch. a
bunt that went for hit, and a pop
fly that fell safely in front of the
plate and was stretched into a dou-
BILE.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., April 2.
-P)-Catcher Mike Garbark's sin
gle in the 18th inning gave the
wv" L Yin d1lhCtS W , VlClOIy
today over the Brooklyn Dodgers
in an exhibition baseball game be-
fore a palm Sunday crowd of g..
1856.
Don Savage, first up for the
Yanks in the 18th, tripled Oft
Dodger Rookie Bob Tart. Oscar
Grimes then was purposedly pass
ed to set the stage for Garbark' S
game-winning hit.
As in their Saturday win over
the Phillies, the Yanks again were
outhit, but their pokes for extra
bases counted.
George Stirnweiss got 53O-foot
homer off Lefty Bob Chapman, to
put the Yanks ahead in the fifth,
but the Brooks tied it in the sixth,
when Rookie Morris Aderholt
doubled to score Louis Dino, who
had singled.
Hank Borowy and Walter Dub
iel each went five rounds for the
Yanks with old Jim Turner pit
ching in the 18th and getting credit
for the victory.
Yank outfielder Johnny Lindell
was hit on the wrist by Hal Gregg,
Brooklyn pitcher, and replaced by
Jack Phillips.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-03
Pacific Coast Plane
Production Hits Peak

LOS ANGELES, April 2.-(P-
Pacific coast aircraft production
in March reached an all-time peak
of 2,7O3 war planes delivered to
the armed services, Brig. Gen.
Donald w. Stage, western pro-
curement district supervisor OF
the Army Air Forces materlel
command, announced today.
Gen. Stage said airframe produc-
ton totalled 36,015, 200 poupds, an
increase 3,546, 200 pound over Feb
ruary.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-03
MRS. SARAH HELEN

Mrs. Sarah L. HELEN. 80, 81
Carolina Beach, died at the home
Of her son G.. B. HELEN Saturday
night after long illness. She is
survived by another son, w. L.
HELEN of Wilmington, and three
grandchildren. The funeral will
take place Monday at .. NJ. at
Edwards Funeral Home, Kinston.
The Reverend j. M. Drash will Of
flciate. 1nterment will take place
at MapleWood.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-03
|S0L0NS ARE HOME
FOR EGG ROLLING

WASHINGTON, April s. -H-
Back home on a brief fence-check-
ing expedition during the egg-ron-
ing season, members OF Congress
are busily outlining to their con-
stituents their accomplishments OF
the first three months of the cleo
ton year 1914.
Most of them left for their nome
districts before the final gavels
dropped Saturday afternoon IN the
Senate and the House, only hano-
full remaining here during the re-
cess that ends at noon April IL
Veterans legislation enacted thls
wear is the talking point most OF
them expect to use to persuaoe
their constituents to return tnelli
| to Congress.
On this score two major meas
ures, one providing for mastering
out paw for members of the arm
ed forces and the other setting up
system under which the 1lght-
ing forces may vote, were enae'-
ed. e.,
Left on the shelf and slated dor
nrompt House attention after inc
recess is the so-called "G-l ser
vice mems benefit bill, proviolng
for post-war rehabilitation OF SOL,
diers and sailors through financial
assistance, job priorities and eau
catonal opportunities. The Sc
nate already has passed 1t.
Also on the accomplished
list are these measures:
Authorizing the Navy to pro-
reed with constuention, largely
| at outlying posts, costing an es-
t;mated 81, ooo,ooo,Ooo.
Lowing new taxes totallng
about So. 800, Oo0, COO, far less than
the administra ton had requested.
This bill was passed over a Pres
idential veto that led to the ORA
matte split between the President
and Senate Democratic Leader
Barley of Kentucky.
Setting up a program for admin
istering aid to Axis overrun Tor
eign countries through the United
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration.
There is more or the "undone'
side of the ledger, awaiting dlspo-
sition during the spring and early
summer months before the law
makers return once more to the
Hastings to make their final pleas
for votes.
On the agenda facing the re-
turning Congressman these mat
tiers stand out:
Continuance of the price control
| law, which expires June 30. In
volved in this issue is the fight
over the administration : consumer
subsidy program.
Extension of the lend-lease pro-
gram, already approved by the
House Foreign Affairs Committee.
1t expires June 80 unless renewed.
Simplification of the tax struc-
ture, proposal certain to be made
a campaign issue
Legislation TO put 4-Fs into es.
sential war or civilian industry.
Appropriation for the Army, the
Navy, emergency war agencies
and many other Federal depart
ments. Only one appropriation sill,
a deficiency measure, reached the
White House during the first three
months Of the year.
Likely to be put off until after
the summer recess is tegisla ton
to pay bonuses to returned service
| men
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Quisling Leading Own
Storm-Troops In Norway

NEW YORK, April 2.-.(R,-Maj.
Vikdun Quisling was declared in a
Stockholm NYA Daglict Allehsnda
article reported to the Owl today
to have assumed command of his
own storm troops, known as the
Hird, in Nazi occupied Norway up
on the resignation of Oliver Moey-
stad as the chief. The reason for
Moeystad's resignation was not
brought out.
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ALUMNI ADDRESS

HICKORY. April 2.-tR-Rev.
Perry Crouch, pastor of the First
Baptist church of Asheville, for
merly of Hickory, will deliver the
alumni address Monday, May 20,
during commencement week at
Lenoir Rhyme college. He was
graduated from the local college in
1928 and resided at Raleigh until
his recent call to Asheville.
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STOCKPILE MOVE
GIVEN APPROVAL
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until the joint chiefs approved,
permits higher stockpile of any
material which must be transported
overseas.
This is accomplished by a for
mula which puts the stockpile goal
for each critical material at a
quantity equal to three months
total wartime consumption, or one
years consumption less the
amount which can be produced by
North America alone, whichever is
higher.