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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-10
NICK ETTEN TOP
A. |. STICKMAN

CHICAGO, May 9.-Nick Eft
ten, the New York Yankees %.
year-old first baseman, led Arneri-
can League batters with a power
full .476 mark in averages COM
puted through Sundays games, but
he had to share the statistical spot
light with the st. Louis Browns
young pitcher, Jack Kramer.
Kramer, a 26-year-old Navy dis
chargee who won eight of the 10
games he hurled for Toledo of the
American Association last season.
is out to become the first 20-game
winner of the 1914 campaign. He
already has collected five victories
without defeat and has struck
out Is batsmen to lead the league
on both counts.
The Browns surge to the front
also has been dependent on the
batting power of their, reliable
shortstop, Vern Stephens, who
holds the runs -batted-in leadership
with 16.
Etten posted .311 with the Phil
adelphia Phils in 1911. slumped
to 1854 the next year. Coming to
the Yanks in 1913, he notched a
.271, and now this season appears
ready to reach the 500 circle
He took over the batting lead this
week by punching three hits in
four trips to the plate in his last
two games.
Based on 80 or more times at
bat, Etten was followed in the first
ten list of leaders by Washington S
George Myatt, who dropped from
"A to .391; Bob Swift, Detroit,
.371; Lou Boudreau, Cleveland,
1854; George Stirnweiss, N e W
York, $40; GIL Torres and Rick
Terrell of Washington and Bob
Johnson Of Boston, each with .33;
1rv Hall, Philadelphia, .316, and
Guy Cartwright, Chicago White
Sox, 1903.
The White Sox' Thurman Tucker
was clipping a hefty .481 but had
been to bat only q times, while
Detroit's Chuck Hostetler was hit.
ting .414, but had made only 20
trips up.
Departmental leaders were
Myatt with Is hits; Roy Cullen
bine of Cleveland with seven do,,-
bles; Don Gutteridge of st. Louis
with three triples, and Stan
spence of Washington with five
homers. Stirnweiss of the Yankees,
who set new International
League base-stealing record two
years ago with 70 thefts, and Joe
Kufel, White Sox first baseman
who was traded to Washington last
fall, were the top base stealers.
each with five to his. credit.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
TODAY'S GAMES
National League

New York at Cincinnati (night)
-Voiselle (3-25) VS. Walters GID.
Boston at Pittsburgh (nighD -
Javery (0-3) VS. Strincevic (-1O.
Philadelphia at Chicago - Lee
d-O VS. Fleming (0-O.
Brooklyn at st. Louis - Wyatt
(0.D VS. M. Cooper (0-2).
American League
Detroit at New York - Trout
G-3) VS. Bonham DID.
Chicago at Philadelphia - Ross
ODD or Lopat Old VS. Hamlin
(0-2).
Cleveland at Boston Harder
go VS. Woods 1-D.
st. Louis at Washington-(night)
GID VS. Niggeling (1-O.
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Schoolboy Rowe Leads
Sailors To y vn Jaws

GREAT LAKES, Ill, May 9. =.
,P-"Schoolboy" Rowe's two-run
homer in the seventh inning broke
up a neat pitching duel today and
enabled the Great Lakes Naval
framing Center baseball team to
Whlp his former teammates, the
Philadelphia Bluejays, 8 to before
10000 sailors.
Rowe's circuit blow came off
Tale Mathewson, and drove in
Outfielder Gene Woodling. Wood.
ing had perfect day at bat, with
three singles and a walk in four
trips to the plate.
Virgil Trucks, ex-Detroit Tiger,
started on the mound for the Sail
ors and held the Bluejays hitless
ior four innings. Then Bill Brandt
limited the Major league team to
one hit until the NINTH. when sim
giles by Jim Wasdell, 1ony Lupien
and Bob Finley accounted for their
single tally.
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Nv AUSTIN BEALMEAR

LONDON. May 9.|AASergeant
Joe Louis. heavyweight champion
of the world surprised American
soldiers and others-before whom
he has appeared almost nightly
in exhibitions-by naming Max
Baer today as the toughest OPP
ponent he ever met.
He nominated Baer in an all
opponent team selected for Stars
and Stripes, servicemen's publ
cation.
Billy Conn, who came close to
lifting Joe's crown at New York's
polo grounds in 1941, and the chal-
lenger he probably will meet first
in the postwar era, was named
five times in the mythical lineup,
however.
Louis rated Conn not only as the
smartest Of all his opponents, but
also the fastest, the possessor of
the most effective left, and the
one with the best offense and best
defense.
In another surprise, Joe named
Jim Braddock as having the most
potent right-not Max Schneling
who flattened him in IL rounds in
New York in 1886.
Il pitched more strikes against
Baer than I did against halt
dozen ordinary opponents" Louis
said in explaining his choices,
which were challenged by some
members of his exhibition entour-
age.
The champ went on:
ANY other man would have
lasted less than a round, just as
Schmeling did in our second fight.
If Something's right carried the
explosiveness Braddock's did, l
never would have been able to
answer the bell after the fifth
round. Remember, Max landed his
Sunday punches for IL rounds be-
fore he could put me away.
"Braddock hit me once in the
first round, and had he been able
10 follow up his advantage, this
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Nv WHITNEY MARTIN

NEW YORK, May o. R The
.nI,, thing wrong with the Chica-
W. W. Cubs may be that they live
s. tough neighborhood, and have
Ken getting their Jumps from the
.sore robust members of their own
gang. . ha,o hoon +,,.;u
.beir lickings from the three 9TH
sr members of the western divi-
zion of the national league, and
there is a prevalent suspicion that
NE wectern division harbors the
strength of the league this year.
If such is the case the cubs,
who dropped IL in row, may be
fourth place club which will
nrove it when it starts entertain
ino the eastern clubs tomorrow.
The Bruins just weren't quite
GOOD enough for the cards and the
Reds and the Pirates, that's all.
In other words, the cub record
NAV not be so much an indica-
tion of how bad they are, as of
how good their three fellow gang
members are.
AT any rate, the games starting
tomorrow matching the east and
tbe west teams for the first time
this season will go f toward
clearing up the haze of doubt az
IN lust what is what in the national
league. About the only certainty
about the situation r g h t now
seems to be that the Cardinals
have what it takes, and if they
can win as consistently as they
have been winning without much
help from Mort Cooper, they
should win in a breeze when Coop
Or rounds into form.
Our friend Bill Brandt Of the /
National League publicity bureau
bravely tries to paint muddy
1icture of the Cardinal prospects.
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GUMBERT PASSES

ST. LOUIS, May 9. - up - Pit
cher Harry Gumbert of the St.
Louis Cardinals passed his pre-in-
duction examination at jefferson
Barracks today and was accepted
for the army. He will remain with
the Cardinals until he is called for
active duty.
Three members of the Browns
were at the barracks. Pitcher Steve
Sundra reported for service in the
army and Rookie Pitcher Ray
Campbell was rejected and a deci-
sion in Zarilla's case was deferred
until tomorrow or Thursday pend
ing the results of X-ray examina-
tons.
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SPORTS TRAIL,

but he'd have to do that if the
cards had the rest of the league
oormle with so games to 20. as
II isn't good business to see any,
thing but a close race. A walk
away just isn't the kind Of tonic
the gate needs.
Brandt has the idea that tight
pitching will beat the cards. which
IN way is true, as tight pitching
really tight-will beat any team
he says the cards haven't got the
men to hit that long bali often
enough. -'
Well, after Bucky Walters had
scored his second shutout over the
Red Birds We had a notion to agree
with Brandt, but the games last
Sunday left us standing notionless
you might say. That is, when the
Cards get only one run, as they
did in the second game Of their
double header with the Reds and
s'lH with, it seems it will take
hem.
more Than tight pitching to beat
mere are clubs, notably the
Giants and the Cubs, which on pa.
per nave more power than t h G
Cards; more guys VIII can hit that
long pail. But to date they haven't
mad the pitching, which is some.
thing the Cards have been getting
nothing else except.
Wed like to see a close NJ L.
race, but YOU can't look at a sun
set and say "Oh, what a beauti-
ful sunrise" just because YOU
want it to be sunriee, and right now
IT. looks like the sun may be set
ting for the other clubs
II, by chance, the idea that the
league strength is concentrated in
the west is correct, It would be
the first time since 1926 that the
four western division clubs fin.
lshed in the firet division.
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WILSON WINS GROWN

WILSON, May 9. --(P)- Wilson
defeated Rocky Mount 81 here to-
cay to capture the Eastern Class A
high school conference champion
ship for the third successive year.
Bennett Flowers, Wilson right
handler, held Rocky Mount to three
singles and struck out II, running
his total strikeout for nine games
to 100. It was his ninth straight
league triumph.
Wilson plays at Durham Monday
in the final game of the season.
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NAMED CHANGED

BROOKLYN, May 9. -(P)- The
Brooklyn Dodgers of the National
Football league, sometimes con-
fused with the Brooklyn Dodgers
of The National Baseball league,
will be known in the future as the
Brooklyn Tigers, General Manager
Tom Gallery said today.
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lISRANDEn

DAVIDSON, May 9. -(R-- The
Davidson baseball team has dis
banded for the season, the college
news bureau announced today.
Two games with Virginia Poly
technic Institute and one with Ca
tawba have been cancelled.
The bureau did not elaborate up
on the terse announcement.
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OIL is FOUND

TALLAHASSEE, Fla, May g.
R-Former Governor Doyle Carl.
ton told the state cabinet today
that the Humble Oil Company,
which he represents as attorney,
had found "a showing of heavy
black oil' at depth of II, 635 feet
in a second well the firm is drill
ing at Sunniland.
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ENGAGE
AIRMEN TONIGHT

The baseball team of he Plumb
ing Department of the North Caro-
lima Shipbuilding Company will
open its season tonight at 800
against the Maxton Army Air
Base.
Johnny Willborne will be on the
mound for the Plumbers with
Smith handling the receiving
duties
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BROuGHToN TO SPEAK

CARY, May 9 TT Governor
Broughton will speak at high school
commencement exercises here to-
morrow.
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PLUMBERS

A century ago, potatoes were
comparatively unknown in India.
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south of Loyang. Another invading
force was annihilated As miles
northeast of the city, Chinese news
men said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-30
White Slavery
Case Studied

WASHINGTON, April %. up
Motions for a directed verdict of
not guilty for defendants in the
Hopkins Institute case were under
study by Judge Arthur Lederle Sat-
urday after the government rested
its case against the seven women
charged with conspiracy to violate
the white slave law.
Lawyers for the two alleged
"madams" and five accused call
girls" whom the government charges
worked at the Million Dollar Call
House" said evidence against them
as totally insufficient
Lederle reserved ruling until court
reconvenes Monday.
The government completed it's
case at a night session.
Assistant U. S. Attorney John FL
helly closed his case without in
Producing in evidence the nervously
awaited little black book" which
allegedly lists the massage par
lor's" nationally known patients
and what they could stand finan-
cially.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-30
Germans Force
Hungarians
To Battle Russ

MOSCOW, April 20. CUP)-The
Germans were reported Saturday
to have stepped up their counter
attacks below Lwow in old Poland,
in one sector forcing Hungarian
troops into action at the point of
machine-guns.
Some 200 Germans were killed
in the NaZi commands latest futile
attempts to drive into the Russian
flank southeast of Stanislawow, 10
miles below Lwow. Four hundred
Hungarians were tal3 h prisoner
and told heir captors that the
Germans had placed machine gun
ners and tommy gunners behind
them after they had refused to join
in counterattacks.
Red air force planes, striking In
support OF ground forces, bombed
concentrations of military trains at.
Lwow Thursday night, as we'll as
nearby airfield. German trucks
on roads leaving Lwow were raked
with cannon and machine gun fire.
Russian navy planes were credited
with sinking a l,000-ton transport
and a fast landing barge and Seri-
ously damaging two other trans
ports on the approaches to besieged
Sevastopol, Crimean naval base.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-30
Troops Withdraw
From Wards on
Federal Orders
Official Says
Need Ends
For Projection
CHICAGO, April 20. GU

CHICAGO, April 20. (UP)
The federal government
ordered the army to with
draw Saturday from the seiz-
ed Chicago plants of Mont
gomery Ward and company.
The order for the withdrawal of
the detachment of 40 military po-
lice from the spraWling mail orcer
and retail store plant along the
Chicago river was issued by Under
secretary of Commerce Wayne Chat
field Taylor, who became operator
of the properties when they were
taken over by the department of
commerce Wednesday night.
Taylor said the troops no longer
were needed to enforce the gov
ernment's seizure because of fed
eral court order which restrainS
Ward company officers from inter-
fering with the governments oper-
alton.
ORDER ISSUED
The temporary restraining order
oooAiioO viz company "eto AocSSN
Thursday night several hours after
the soldiers had carried SeWell
Avery, head of Montgomery Ward,
from the building and ordered him
to stay out.
Taylor also said he was appoint
ing John Coco loe, special assistant
secretary OF commerce and general
counsel for the Reconstruction Fin
ance corporation, as grievance Of
ficer under the governmental oper-
alton of the nations second largest
mail order house.
Shortly after Taylor issued the
order the military police began
packing their equipment and pre-
pared to leave the plant.
Taylor said that preliminary
steps hac been taken to obtain the
books and records of the company
Whicr would reflect accurately the
operations resulting from the pos
session and operation by the gov
ernment."
When the commerce department
Continued on Page 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-30
Dies Probe Calls
For Clio Records
Of Politics Unit

ORANGE, Tex, April 20. CUP
Chairman Martin Dies, CD, Texas,
instructed the New York office of
the house committee on un-Amer-
ican activities Saturday to SUBJ
poena all financial records of the
political action committee of the
Congress of Industrial Organiza-
tiOns.
Dies charged that the committee
was attempting to purge certain
congressman, including himself, by
buying political elections"
He said the house committee S
auditor would inspect the CIO po-
litical action committees records
and that a report and demand
Tor government prosecution would
be given the U. S. attorney-general's
office.
Dies said the political committees
activities were in violation of the
Smith -Connally law prohibiting la
Dor unions from making contribu-
tions to political campaigns.
Dies charged that substantial
amounts" from a $2,000,000 purge
fund" raised by the CIO committee
had already been spent.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-30

foreign sources agreed it would not
be long delayed.
German broadcasts continued to
play up reports of Allied ships mass
ing in English east, south, and west
coast harbors an done Nazi COM
mentator, Admiral Alfred Saal-
waechter, said the Allies deliberately
were sparing French and Belgian
ports in their air raids because
they hope to use them for the in
vasion'
German planes again crossed the
English southeast and south coasts
Friday night in efforts to spy out
invasion preparation secrets and
two were shot down. There were
no reports Of any bombing Incl
dents.
Military commentator for the
German DNB agency, said the Ger
man war machine has taken up
its post along the invasion coast
with all defenses in readiness.
Another DNB dispatch told OF
the laying of 100000 mines along
a deep, 1919 mile stretch of the
French coast of the Bay of Biscay
A Berlin dispatch put the invasion
between May and June 7, while
Stockholm suggested from May {
to II. Ankara's latest contribution
was lin the next few days or weeks.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-30
1q qNovV
Men Die
nC.rosh
Giant Plane
In Arizona

SAN FRANCISCO, April
30. (UP)-12th naval district
officers said Saturday that
% passengers and crew members
were aboard a two-motored navy
transport plane which crashed Is
miles east of Flagstaff Ariz., Fri
day with a reported loss of 10 lives.
The navy said it haC no accurate
information as to the number OF
survivors, pending arrival at the
scene of an investigating party. The
Coconino county, Arizona, sheriff'S
office earlier had reported 10 dead
and four injured, two seriously. An
ambulance was dispatched to res
cue the injured.
The plane was enroute from the
Oakland, Calf, naval air station
to the east, with a stop scheduled
at Olathe, Kan.
Sheriff J. Perry Francis of Coco
nino county said a rancher dis
covered the wrecked plane in rug
gee terrain about five miles south
of Winona Friday afternoon. A
light snow was falling at the time
of the crash.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-30

$820,0OO,O0O flood control pro-
gram for California proposed in a
bill before congress was recommend
ed Saturday by a joint committee
water problems.
In a resolution the committee
asked Gov. Earl Warren to permit
consiC Grafton of the state alloca-
ton at a special session of the
legislature expected late in May
or early June. The resolution point
ed out that federal funds provided
for in the bill before congress cam
not be spent unless certain charges
and costs" are born by the state
and its subdivisions.
THE state of California itself can
well afford to assist local counties,
cities, districts and associations in
meeting the charges required by
the federal government to. be paid
before such projects can be con-
structed," the resolution declared.
The committee also indorsed'
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-30
Yanks Down Japs
At b0.7 Odds

PASADENA, Calf, April 20. CUP)
Odds of 60-7 were not too much
for the Flying Deuces," Marine
Major John p. Newlands, 26, flight
officer of the Solomon islands area
squadron, said Saturday.
Major Newlands, home on leave,
told of the time his group of seven
Corsairs took on 60 Zeros over Bou-
gainville.
"We had plenty of targets he
said Before the Japs could make
an organized attack. we shot down
six, got three probables, and chased
the remainder of the armada for 40
miles without the loss of a single
plane"
Major Newlands accounted for
one plane and was awarded the air
medal for participating in the over
matched dogfight.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-30
El Centran Held
As Missing in
Raid On Germany

Staff Sergeant Robert racket,
army air force gunner, is missing
in action over Germany, his wife
was informed in an official tele-
gram received in Ell Centro Friday
night
He was reported as having been
missing since April II. No other
details were included in the official
message.
Sergeant Tackett is a son of Mr..
and Mrs. Jack Tackett. He at
tended the Ell Centro schools, and
is we'll known in Imperial Valley.
His wife and baby live in Ell Centre.
Mrs. Tackett Immediately COM
municated with the American Red
Cross and asked that efforts be
made to ascertain if her husband is
a prisoner of the Germans.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-30
Mississi Ppi Hits
1914 Flood Top

flood -choked tributaries, the Illinois
and Missouri rivers, broke through
leveeS in a score of places.
The Red Cross reported 5,700
families homeless in the two states,
1880 of them receiving Red Cross
aid.
The Mississippi reached 38.2 feet
at st. Louis Saturday. A rise of
one foot in the last "a hours. The
slowly moving crest, which brought
the river to 27.4 feet at Grafton,
94 feet above flood level, was ex-
pected to reach ST.. Louis Sunday
noon.
The crests of the Illinois and
Missouri rivers was slowed by the
overfloWing Mississippi's inability
to absorb their waters. The Mis-
souri, was falling slowly at Jeffer-
son City.
The Illinois river, cresting at 1913
at Havana, Ill, 9.3 feet above flood
level, had fallen only two-tenths of
foot in the last "a hours at Peoria
where the crest passed Wednesday.
The crest at st. Louis Sunday is
expected to equal the mark set in
1874, and equalled in last springs
floods.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-30
By.Passec Wewak
Area Bombed

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, April 20.
tUP)-U. S. bombers battered the
japanese by-passed Wewak area
on northern New Guinea for two
straight days and destroyed every
plane based there in an attempt
to prevent the evacuation of isolated
enemy garrisons, it was announced
Saturday.
Heavy bombers of the Fifth air
force dropped 1873 tons of bombs
on WeWakS four airdrOmes Thurs
day in fOllOW-up of another heavy
raid on the same targets the day
before by Boston and Mitchell
bOmberS.
The tWo-day offensive, which
C mpl leted the destruction of
grounded enemy planes at Wewak,
was carried out, General Douglas
MacArthur's communique said, to
forestall ANY enemy attempt to
again land planes in the area.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-30
British Planes
Hammer at
Ports in Italy

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Ma
pies, April 20. CUP) P)-RAF bombers
smashed at Italy's main west coast
ports from dusk Friday night to
dawn Saturday, bringing the Allied
offensive against Germany's tenu-
Gus supply lines to the front below
Rome to new high pitch.
Striking in the wake of heavy
American daylight blows on the
same targets, wave after wave of
British Wellingtons dropped block
busters and thousands of fire bombs
on the ports of PiombinO, Orbetello,
and San Stefano, on which the
Germans have depended to move
troops and equipment since the
severing Of their railroads.
Wellingtons also teamed with
RAF Liberators during the night
for shattering attack on dock in
stallations at Genoa, northern
Italy's biggest port.
The ground fronts remained quiet
except for patrol and artillery ac-
tivity.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-30
Second Assault
Sears 1ouIon
Pincers Move
Smashes Bio
Nazi Cen+ers

LONDON, April 20. (UP)
American air armadas to-
falling nearly 5000 planes
hammered home the first L.
000-bomber daylight assault
on Berlin Saturday and
smashed at the big French
naval base of Toulon, lifting
the preinvasion bombardment
of Europe to a new pitch of
intensity on its 18th straight day.
A thousand Flying Fortresses and
Liberators escorted by like num-
ber of fighters burst through the
ranks of nearly 200 German fight
ers trying desperately to defend
Berlin anc crashed about 1000 tons
of bombs on the capital.
POUND TOULON
Another 500 Forts and Liberators
based in Italy pounded German
shipping and submarine pens at
Toulon, on the French Mediterra-
can coast, in the greatest pincers
attack of the war on INVASION
threatened Europe.
The record daylight lombard
ment of Berlin Gaping the second
week of the invasion eve" often
sive was carried out by force of
1000 heavy bombers and fighters
which left smoke towering over
devastated sections of the city and
wrung from Nazi propagandists an
admission of heavy damage.
Sergeant Harold Cleary of Syra-
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