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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-30
MONDAY, MAY 1

MONDAY, MAY 1
1880 p.m.-Nesbitt curt: Chill
dren's May Day party.
400 p.m.-Meeting Of the
Sandlot and Junior Baseball
leagues for the purpose of
forming Baseball League
Woodrow Wilson Hut.
$500 p.m.-Final meeting of
the Municipal Softball League
Council Chambers, City Hall.
WEDNESDAY, MAY J
1880 pm. - Taylor Homes
Center-B klyn Dodgers
Baseball Team will meet for
organizations. (Negro).
THURSDAY, MAY 4
500 p.m.-WillistOn School
Junior and Senior Softbal lea
CUES will meet for Organiza-
tion-city-wide. (Negro).
500 to 11:00-Lake Forest
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-30
Women's Softball Loop
Will Be Organized Here

The Wilmington Recreation De-
partment is planning the organi-
cation of softball league for wo-
men. Plans are being made for
this league to begin in May and
continue through the summer.
Teams from industries, public
or service organizations, clubs,
commercial Adjustments or
any other groups that are interest
ed are invited to participate in
tbs league.
Teams desiring entrance in the
league are instructed to contact
Earl B. Underwood, Recreation
Department, City HalA, telephone
2-2192.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-30
RY HUGH FULLERTON, JR.

L
NEW YORK, April 29.-The
Dodgers have figured in four OF
the last six National league no-hit
games and only on the winning
side once. Tommy Saint Thorn
as) Reed, the Harlem heavyweight
who fights Gus Dorazio at st.
Nick's Monday, always has a vio-
linist play soothing music in his
dressing room instead of man.
ager trying to talk him into a
fighting mood. . Ernie Quigley,
the former National league Jump,
is being doomed as postwar ath-
letic director at Kansas university.
Brutus Hamilton. California track
coach, now is second choice. {.
Lou Little hints that if the foot
ball rules committee doesn't do
something about out of : bounds
kickoffs, coaches may play under
"gentlemen's agreements" on the
rules next fall.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-30

The Violets beat Army for the
half mile relay title in 1928 while
Conwell took the invitation 100
yard dash in 9.8 seconds.
Virtually overlooked in the ex-
element surrounding the relay
races was Bill Hulse's attempt
for a thrse-quarter mile record.
Hulse, Americas fastest outdoor
miller, ran the distance in 1904,
far short of Paul Moore's 1910
mark of 1887.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-30
American League
TODAY'S GAMES
National League

Boston at Observation-Disclosures
inson 90 and Javery (0-O VS..
Gerheauser Q-O and R. Barrett
Q-2).
Brooklyn at New York-Wyatt
(O-D and Weber N-1 VS.. Melton
d-0) and Pyle Q-O).
Pittsburgh at Gin CT n t i
Strincevich 900 and Rescignc
OLD VS.. Riddle t2-0) and Walters
(1-2>.
Chicago at St. Louis-Wyse Old
and Hanyzewski O-2) VS.. Lanle1
t2-O) and Wilks Q-W.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-30
DEWEY DELEGATES

OKLAHOMA CITY, April 29-tR
-Oklahoma's % delegates to the
Republican national convention
are ready to carry Dewey-for-
president banner into the gather
ing at Chicago in June. The Of
fetal convention delegation was
rounded out at the state COP.
session here yesterday with the
selection of seven delegates-at-
large.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-30
SPORTS Roundup
BY HUGH FULLERTON, JR.

pro player and newspaper writer
has compiled what he says IS
the first soccer score book. {.
Local scribes say Joe Mccarthy
has ordered the flaming gas we'll
on his farm plugged because it
reminds him of those hated arc
lights at ball parks.
A ROOKIE A DAY
Hugh Luby, Giants third base
man-the "iron man" who would
MT rust. He played 866 consecu-
tive games, five complete seasons,
at second base for Oakland, Calf,
winding up last season by hitting
.311 and earning the player OF
the year" designation. When
he reported late at t he Giants
camp this spring, he found George
Hausmann holding the second base
job. So Hugh went out and made
himself regular third sacker.
SERVICE DEPT.
Dee Miles, former Senators and
Athletics outfielder, has decided
not to play any more this season
for the cambridge naval station
Commodores. He wants to be sure
the leg he broke last year is COM
pletely sound before he does much
running. Lieut.. Robert Y.
Dienst, son of the Beulah park
race track prexy, spent a weeks
leave while being transferred from
Kearns, Utah, to Scots Bluff, Neb.
helping his dad prepare for the
opening of Ohio racing season
Slogan gone wrong: Lieut..
Bob Shurilla, former Marquette U.
hurdler who entered the air corps
with the motto: Look out, Ma
Mia, here comes Shurilla" is a
prisoner of war in Germany after
participating in 16 missions over
Europe.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-30
American League

American League
New York at Neutrality-suspicious.
90 and Haefner 900 VS.. Bon
ham (0-D and Page 900.
Philadelphia at Boston - Black
DO and Harris old VS.. Hughson
(0-0) and O'Neil q-0.
St. Louis at Chicago-Sundra e.
o. and Shirley W-O VS.. Grove GID
and Lopat O-O.
Cleveland at Detroit-Reynolds
t1-D and Kennedy 900 VS.. Over
mire O-D and Corsica N-O.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-30

Germany's output of natural
petroleum in 1887, two years be-
fore the war, was almost double
that in 1898.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-30

It is believed that the Chimney
Swifts, American birds that gath
er in great flocks each fall, mi
crate to the Amazon Valley Tor
the winter,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-30
SPORTsPOURRI

Texas A. and M. has landed
Wesley Cox and Paul Campbell,
star halfbacks who led Brecken-
ridge high to the top Of the Texas
schoolboy heap last fall. After
the baseball season, Hal Kleine
2 O. year old Cleveland southpaW
plans to have his right forefinger
amputated. AS a result of burn
when he was baby, it is useless
and hampers his fielding. Sam
uel Fralick, soccer coach at Chi
cago's Kelly High school-also 9
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-30

Production of 821, 1000 ice refrig-
orators is planned for 1914 by the
WAR Production Board
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-30
TODAY'S GUEST STAR

John Mooney, Salt Lake Tele-
gram: Jim Tobin's no hitter
against the Dodgers was the worst
whitewashing the Buns received
since they tried to talk Branch
Hickey into a pay increase"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-30

American League
Chicago 4; St. Louis 3.
Boston =; Philadelphia 0.
Washington 9; New York 8.
Cleveland 7; Detroit 6.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-30
STANDINGS
RESULTS
National League

Brooklyn 5; New York 0.
St. Louis 4; Chicago 2.
Philadelphia 6; Boston 3.
Pittsburgh 7; Cincinnati 8.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-30

Portugal is the most important
source Of cork.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-02
Democracy Needed

The National Labor Relations Act was worked out by microscopic probers un- der the leadership of Senator Wagner ten years ago. It expressed the New Deal philosophy. "The primary purposes of the National Labor Relations Board" was stated, ito investigate issues, facts, practices, and activities of employees in labor controversies" and to legalize the formation of labor organizations and en- courage collective bargaining and ito prevent any person from engaging in any unfair labor practice affecting com merce." The plan and the system was paved with pledges of good intentions.
 While millions of workers have sought the benefits and advantages of union labor membership, it can hardly be said, in the face of strike statistics, that the compact arranged in 1885 has been suc- cessful Obviously, union labor is ruled by miscalled 'labor leaders" who are actually dictators. A few of these "lead- CTS" exercise full, authority over the most important policies of most unions. The violations of the pledges not to strike in wartime have not been upheld by the big leaders in Washington. President Roose- welt evidently wants to tailor the Amerl- can union labor system for postwar cloth ing, and the International Labor Organi- zation is being lined up. It may work better abroad than in the United States, inaSmuch as Europe has for centuries obeyed royal rulers and dictators.
 Our own program has been definitely operated by so-called Headers" and not by the workers; and these leaders are sustained by the Federal Administration on nearly every occasion. The partisan ship of Federal boards and agencies against the employers is generally recog- nized. Whenever Congress has attempted to pass new legislation to fulfill the promise ito prevent any person from en- gazing in any unfair labor practice af- fecting commerce." President Roosevelt has used his powers to defeat the pur- pose of Congress to carry out the basic promise and pledge of the Wagner Act. The workers of the Nation should make their unions "safe for Democracy"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-02
LONG STEP FORWARD
(New York Sun)


 One of the primary objectiveS of the Italian offenSive-the linking of the Allied forces on the Anzio front and those on the main front - has been achieved. The Germans them selves acknowledged withdrawal from the Pontine marshs sector tc higher ground in the rear. At the same time there are reports of a flow of German reinforcements from the north, which may mean that the strategic reserve in Ger many itself has been drawn on, for earlier information had been that Marshal Kesserling had already committed all available reserves in Italy to the fight. It may be that the endorsements are coming merely from northern Italy, but in any case it is clear that the power and pro- greSs of the Allied offensive have made the Italian front a major one so far as the commitment of Ger man reserves is concerned.
 Those German forces already in battle on the Italian front are said to be hard pressed. They have with drawn to positions which may be more defensible than those pre- viously held, but the problems of General Alexander, particularly with respect to the supply of his newly united forces, have been greatly simplified and the Germans have already suffered heavy losses in men and materials. The main objective of the campaign-elimin- ation of the German forces in Italy cannot be attained overnight, but a great forward step toward that objective has been made.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-02
For Future Reference

Congressman James w. Wadsworth of New York recently spoke some wise words which, though addressed to group of generals and admirals, apply more directly to the general taxpaying public. They deserve to be passed along. MT. Wadsworth was pleading that this coun- try avoid it's past mistakes and maln- tain an adequate armed force after the end of the war. We have gone into each of our major wars woefully ill-prepared and vet, as MT. WadSworth points out, after each conflict we have argued our selves into thinking that we need only "flimSy skeleton of a national defense structure" Our reasons have not been entirely optimistic or pacifistic. MT. Wadsworth explains it thus: whenever the American people grow restive under a tax burden they are apt to turn and Starve their own military service"
 The congressman knows whereof ne speaks. He saw it happen in the tWen- ties when, as senator from New York, he was chairman of the Senate Committee on Military Relations. And he admlts that there will be plenty of temptation to repeat the process when this war IS over. Such things as the interest on staggering national debs and billions ln eXDenQlJurGS TOT TGGuIllSu oOANASAS will bring unprecedented peacetime taxes It is obvious now that we paid a price for unpreparedness, in the months following Pearl Harbor, that brought us perilously close to disaster. It iS obvious that we cannot afford to pay such price again. We may be inclined to forget these things later when danger seems to have abated and high taxes con- tinue.
 Yet we had better face the fact now that the defeat of Germany and Japan will not mean the end of danger. Fas- cism is a cancerous growth which, once started, spreads rapidly and reappears unpredictably unless it is checked. (For proof we have only to look to south America, where Fascism is waxing as 1t wanes in Europe.) It is a disease that requires surgery, not palliatives: It will be well if we all impress ourselves now with the certainty that if we want world peace, we shall need the strength to en- force it. Whatever it costs to keep up that strength, it will be cheaper than another Pearl Harbor,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-02
Ain't It a Shame?

The housewife of Casino may have no home, nor even city to go back to- Her family may be scattered. She may have escaped with no clothes except tattered garment on her back. But II she thinks the Allies are going to coddle her by giving her a better seersucKer dress than her American sisters have, she hasn't reckoned with Rep. Fred A. Hartley of New Jersey. MT. Hartley ad- dressed some indignant remarks on the prodigal generosity of lend-lease ana UNRRA to his colleagues in the House of Representatives last week, AS prool of this prodigality, he offered three seer sucker dresses. One was made for over seas distribution by the government. It was, said MT. Hartley, "a finer dress than is carried by any retailer In America. The other dresses were manufactured TOT home consumption. MT. Hartley called on Rep Jessie Summer of Illinois TOT her expert feminine opinion on thelr workmanship. Miss Sumner found the home consumption garment inferior to the export garment. Then Rep. Avn OKonski of Wisconsin exhibited some tattered overallS to show what the poor American farmer has to wear while "spe- cial quality" goods are being sent abroad for free distribution.
 Amt is a shame? We wonder If these legislators ever let their eyes stray from the Congressional Record to the pages of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, or to the newspaper ads of any department store or dress shop. We wonder if they over look about them on the streets of Wash ington or their own home towns. If they do, they might see women dressed in smart, colorful woolS and rayons and eottons; women who can wrap them selves in mink and chinchilla against cold winds; women whose hose are Stlll sheer and whose shoes are leather, not rope and wood; women who have never known the pinch of hunger or the ter TOT of bombs.
 If they had looked and thought, they scarcely could have added such selfish ly petty footnote to congressional his tory. Wartime clothes are of inferior quality, to be sure. That's annoying but scarcely tragic. Is it sufficient req son to complain that good seersucker dress is too generous a dividend to add to the promised liberation from Nazi oppression? We don't believe American women think so. They have shown too many evidences of generosity and com- pasglon-two qualities conspicuously ab- sent in the congressional storm over seersucker.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-02
Rebirth of a Republic

Iceland, the literate, cultured, and not unbearably y-cold arctic island of the North Atlantic, has regained complete inde- pendence after 680 years under Norwe- gian and Danish rule. By vote of its people it has broken the remaining tie with Denmark and has set up the Repub- lie of Iceland
 America and the free world will, of course, wish the new republic well. Its rebirth comes at singularly appropriate time. For the little nation whose parlia- ment dates back more than 1000 years certainly has the right of seniority in leading the parade of nations, including her former sovereigns, who will soon be free to resume life of independence and peace.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-02
Views Of The Press

the Ward seizure. The Attorney General did not cite specific sec tions of the Constitution or of acts of Congress which govern labor disputes.
 So we have but a continuation of the labor clashes of the present ad- ministration. The executive branch of the government decides on course of action and then justifies its position as well as it can. The legislative branch sets out to repri- mand the executive branch and in doing so employs methods that are subject to critisicm. Will the House investigation produce a report which is free from bias and therefore de- serving of public confidence? A House which has decided the soldier vote and other issues on lines so largely political can hardly be ex- pected to leave politics out of such an inflammable problem as the Ward case.
 Moreover, it is not likely that the confusion that is characteristic of MT. Roosevelt's labor policies will ever disappear so long as he con- trols both the White House and Congress. Which means that the present situation is scheduled to continue throughout 1914 at least.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-02
McCARRAN AND RIDDLE
(New Haven JournaI-courier

(New Haven urnal-Courier)
 Attorney General Riddle described the methods of the Senate Judi the Montgomery Ward case as ''staf chamber methods" He had particu- lar reference to the sub-commit- tees refusal to allow him to appeal before it to defend his course in Chicago. A non-partisan observer would agree with the Attorney Gen. eral but would apply the term "star chamber" to some of Mr. Biddle's actions also. Indeed the majority report of Senator McCarrans com- mittee is full of charges of arbitrary decisions on the part of government executive agencies that had parts iil the controversy.
 Mir. Riddle also complains that the McCarran report oyerlooks court decisions which have a bearing or the issues of the controversy. anc thus its conclusions are not legally substantiated. On the other hand the senators make approximately the same criticism of the rsasonlna Of the Attorney General and ths President in their justification oi
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-02

best. He let His own chosen people be carried into captivity. He did not raise up Nebuchadnezzar and make him the evil and cruel ruler he was, but He used this heavy handed fellow to punish the He- brews who had fallen into wicked ways. All through the Bible we find the statement made that when Israel forsook God. God used cruel and wiked oppressors to drive His people back into pathways of right eouSneSs.
 This principle may have impor- tant modern applications. and 1t be- hoves us to ponder it.
 When God permits trouble to come upon an individual. He does so for a definite reason. and always that reason is a loving one. even though 1t may involve much suffer ing. Tn the same way. when He per- nslts vii to come upon a nation. He does SO far the purpose of making that nation better.
 This is always hard to realize and never 6 fact which we easily endure. All Rights Reserved-BahSon
 Newspaper Syndicate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-02
NO PERMANENT OWI
(Boston Post)


 Elmer Davis, OWI head, is on record in Congress as having urged the continuation of propaganda and information work in Europe even after the war ends there. He says it is needed to promote stable and lasting peace. To many people it sounds like an idea to promote a stable and lasting job for Elmer Da- wis and the organization he has built up. We recognize propaganda as a potent and necessary weapon in wartime, but it is also necessary evil that should be dropped as quickly as possible after the fighting ends. After all. action speaks louder then words. We can build up a lot of grief for ourselves if we continue making promises and telling Euro- pean peoples how things should be done when their one idea will be to work out their own salvation in their own way.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-02

AA needs of low-income families with temporary housing that would have shown a profit or allowed an ever break to the builders, while if per Inanent homes had been built ir place of the temporary, publicly financed structures, there would have been chaotic postwar col lapse in the real estate market.
 In planning war housing, the rule was for housing officials of any com munity to determine first the amount of outside labor that would be brought in for war production industries, then determine how much of the additionally needed housing could be supplied by pri- vate enterprise and absorbed by the community after the war. Anything private enterprise couldn't supply with profit and safety, the federal government took on.
 PRIVATE HOUSING $4,OOO, ,OOO, 900 IN TWO YEARS
 Such war housing and remodeling as was done by private enterprise was permanent housing on choicer locations-stuff that would pay even after the war. Private capital in- vested in this way is estimated at $4000,00 ,000, an average fo $4,00C for each of the million units. More than % per cent of this private war housing built in the last two years has carried Federal Housing Ad- ministration insurance, without which private enterprise could not have risked the job.
 Now take look at the public war housing, which has cost about $2,- 300,000,000 for the 100000 units, or an average of less than $3,000 per unit, though that is in over-simpli- fication. Publicly built, permanent housing units averaged over $5,00o, including sites and utilities. De- mountable units have averaged $4,- 300, Temporary dwellings for fami- lies have averaged $2,775, temporary dormitorieS $950 per room.
 Private builders and realtors want all this government, temporary housing torn down after the war is over to remove 1t as a source of competition. Federal housing off, cials concur for the simple reason that if this temporary housing is not destroyed 1t will rapidly dete- riorate into sub-Standard, Slum housing of the worst kind.
 GOVERNMENTS LOSS
 PERHAPS S2,OOO, 100000
 How much loss the federal gov ernment will sustain on this tempo rary housing, charging it up to the cost of the war like expendable am- munition, can't yet be determined Perhaps $2,000, 100000.
 War housing has not, however been operated on charity basis and is more than breaking even on it's operating costs. For the last six months accounting period on 257,- 900 family dwelling units then in operation the average rent collected was over $28 per month against op- erating costs of $17 per month.
 With half a million publicly financed temporary war housing units torn down after the war is over, the question will arise as to where the people lviing in them now will go then. Can privately financed housing care for all these people perhaps 1,500.000 in number? If not. what is to be the role of public housing in caring for people that free enterprise and private realtors and builders can't accommodate?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-02
Selected Poem
DOGS PUZZLE (Mercy E. Baker in The New York Times)

DOGS PUZZLE
 (Mercy E. Baker in The New York Times) He never used to stay away so long: He went before crow-scaring, and the blow Stood idle in the shed. Squirrel time, now; No corn to husk; know there's something wrong Instead of working with lit of song, She sweeps. and feeds the hens, so duly: how It is she is the one to milk the COW? He always milked; he was so delft and strong! I've smelled his hunting coat and cap and gun; They've not been used. She says. There's difrent
 game
 Needs killing and it's not for food and fun Like cartridges. He'll do 1t all the same And come back home-although it may be late" So must go and watch beside the gate.