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Detroit evening times., 1945-03-28

Flash llollett and the rest of the
Wings promise 10 give him all
the protection possible tonight,
so that they can pull through TO
victory and 20 after the series
lead in The fifth game at Olympia
Thursday night
TonightS game will be played
before another crowd OF 1880,
The legal limit in The Boston Gar
den. II promises 10 be the most
Savagely played game of the
series as the Red Wings, led by
Scibcrt and Harold Jackson, start
out 10 throw the body checks
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-28
Both Were Good

"Not that Newark Unterna-
tioual Leaguel didn't have
good club. That was the team
that sent Spud Chandler, Atley
Donald. Joe Gordon, Buddy
RoSar. Charley Keller and other
stars To the Yankees. With Mort
Cooper. EnoS Slaughter and
other PLAYERS who later starred
with the Cardinals. we had mo-
slouch Of team ourselves.
As VIII bc remembered, The
Tigers this winter obtained Webt
from the White SoX for Joe
Orenco. Since Skeeter is one oi
the hest fielding infielders IN thf
ma jorS. n is considered that the
Tigers made a right smart deal.
Steve O'Neill. Wehb'S father-in-
law. takes no credit for the stroke
O. CCuIuS.
II was I'm the southwest
Pacific with the USO unit when
il happened" ONelll explained.
81 didn't know about the deal
until l got home"
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-28
HOW THEY VOTED

Referee Johnny Wcbber gave
the fight TO Taylor, and the two
Judges, Joe Lcnahan and Orville
Neville, gave the decision TO
Powell
PowclIS best round was the
fifth when he drew blood from
Taylor for the first time The rest
of the fight saw him dancing,
mixing and landing. Actually Il
was a weird exhibition. unless it
Is further proved today that his
right was hurt.
"He looked better without
using the right" one rngSldcr
said
yep" another injected "but
his right Is supposed 10 he his
best hand. What il this ."
This certaNly can be said Ed
die Taylor today still maintains
the reputation. win or lose. of
never making a bad fight IN this
town.
In tho prcliminaricS, Martin
Doyle, Detroit won SiN round de-
CiSion over Doyle HTt OF Grand
Fist Doyle, Grand Rapids,
dcci>ioncd Hank OlSoway of Bad
Axe.
Eddie Owen. Detroit kayoed
Willie Edmonds Grand Rapids, IN
four
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-28
Keeps II a Secret

What the initial Il" stands for
I'm his second name Is Webb :
secret
"NObody's going to know
that" Webb protests.
lie has been known as "Skcctcr
as far back as he can remember
m ms school days IN Meridian.
Miss where he was born 33 years
ago and where he still lives.
When not playing ball Webb is
cotton buyer, probably the only
cotton buyer the Tigers have ever
boaSted. He may be the only cot
ton buyer IN the majors And, he
knows his cotton, according "a
bulletins out of Meridian. It's a
good trick buying cotton, the folks
from Mississippi say
Both OF WcbbS parents are
dead
Webb got his baseball start with
the Moss Specials, a Meridian
semipro team that was famous
throughout the southland
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-28
Pace Set
by Nfikan

NEW YORK. March Of With
the help of "a points by George
Mikan, De Paul University won
the invitationsl basketball tourna-
mcnt by defeating Bowling Green
7l-54 last night
Mikan, who played despite an
injured left leg, completed three
game records with 10 opintS, ~
field goals and 22 free throws.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-28

up, a h a p Ply
meeting of a
half dozen of
Clarence Pink
stons W / m
mers and divers
who happened
10 be home on
service lie av
together. Nat
u iy. they
went around 10
see their old
coach and pal
at the Detroit
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-28
Try Bob Garbark

PLEAS ANTVILLE. y. T..
March y lUPl The Boston Red
SoX, who are light on catching
talent began grooming veteran
Bob Garbark today for iob as
ono of thor roguIar receINero-
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-28
TWO OVER. TWO UNDER

II, are u n d e r
age while Ed
die Mayo and
Don Ross are
in the deferred
group.
The T er
4 rs u d =
Harold n g W.
houSer, Frank
(Stubby) Over
mire. = a u |
DIZZY Trout,
Paul Richards.
Bob Swift Milt
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-28
Bob Tales
Pink S Boys Have
Warmup Reunion
BY BOB MURPHY
Sports Editor

There would De a bigger party
Someday after the war was over
when all of "Pinkie's' boys would
be back from all over the world.
This was lust sort of a warm
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-28

] on GlN0 I near
m uCh of tho
grim side OF
the war. You
liSte ne q 10
r oSy checked
Sharcuct aS iIs
told of meeting
his pal ANDY
in London Gus
had just flown
his first ms
sion aad Rt-L
excited be was
TELLING 4 n q q
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-28

Recreation. only three behind
Stroh in fourth and Joe Adams
I'll will offer the best match on
the second squad, which has been
advanced ID minutes TO comply
with the curfew The I'll club
went for three the first trip, but
viii have to step to avoid rever-
sal because Cbene-Trombly has
been L1ing good Of late.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-28
RUMoRS Ply FAST

Before the fight there was a
rumor that Powell had bad rlhS
~ 4 r-t-~trtt ut- 4 recent fight IN
Cleveland. Those who watched
him dance about the ring, using
only the left lab. thought surely
he must haNc broken right
hand
The latest check, reported last
night by the boxing commission
physician, showed no signs of
broken ribs or any badly bruised
right hand.
Immediately The boxing brcth-
ron. always eager 10 pull That
fellow out Of the woodpne, began
to ask each other
"NaS this "A fight In which
the betting may have hinged
around Taylor going the dis
tanCe >"
For sure. PowellS actions and
the UlmorS could cause many TO
bc skcptlcal But the factual re-
porting Of the fight is what read
erS are most concerned about and
this reporter called three rounds
for Taylor four for Powell and
tbrTg oven
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-28
FIFE MAY SURPRISE

After tonight E&B has Detroit
Gasket and PcpSi-Cola left before
position night. Stroh has kraetke
and Krakow Johnny CrimminS'
Parisclean, three games off the
pace with DeluXweld and Chene-
Trombly coming up, takes on
Charley Kotarskis Fife and may
come out on the short end
Joe Paulus' Ch enc Trombly
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-28

Ten other Tigers were rejected
by their draft boards and clasSl-
fed in AZ.
The former servicemcn include;
Al Benton, Zeb Eaton, Les Muel-
Ter, Walter Wilson, Ralph Ruth
Strom. Ed Red Boron. Carl Nc
Nabb, Johnny McI1alc Hub Walker
and Ed MierkowicZ.
Three were sailors - Benton.
MCIIale and Walker.
McNabb, discharged because Of
stomach ulcers. was in North
Africa.
TWO OVER. TWO UNDER
Doc Cramer nd Chuck HoStetler,
each 49, are over draft age. Bill
Pierce and Art Houtteman, each
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-28

WEIGH, Joe Hoover, Skeeter Webb.
Bob Maier and Jimmy Outlaw.
With Florida weather provided.
Steve O'Neill put the Tigers
through another stiff drill yeSter-
day The workout was marked
by Don Ross impressive showing
at third base. II was Don'S first
practice with the Tigers this
spring, His play revealed evidence
of baseball he played in California
during the winter.
Ross is an active candidate for
the third base job vacated by
Pinky Higgins, now in the navy.
MAIER ALSO CANDIDATE
At this writing, Joe Hoover and
Ross appear to be the leading
candidates for the post although
ii could be that Bob Maier would
be considered for the Job. Maier
currently is being used in the out
field along with Johnny McHale
in left field. However. Maier
played third base at Buffalo.
Jimmy (Skeeter) Webb today
was on the way TO Meridian. Miss,
called there by the death of
sister. Mrs. Frank GiddenS. The
Tiger Shortstop expects TO return
here Saturday.
Jackie Watts, l7-ycar-old high
school boy who was given his un-
conditional release. was on the
way home 10 Dallas, Tex.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-28

shakes which threatened 10 make
him the goat OF the series. The
over anxious lS-year-old from
owen Sound let some easy ones
get past as the Bruins took the
first two games In Detroit. 4-3
and A. Then be stopped press
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-28
HES \ HERO NOW

HarNS a hockey hero now
praised 10y the press of Boston
As combination of all The great
goaicS of history because of ms
play here. Big Earl SeIhcrt. Capt.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-28

which slowed up Boston's darting
freshmen, Armand Gaudreault and
Bill Cupolo and its veterans, Bill
CowIey and Pat Egan Sunday.
TROUBLE BREWING
If the opportunity presents IL
self in the close checking IT. is
possible that several OF the chippy
little Boston Frenchmen. partic-
ularly Gino RozZini and Gaud-
reault, will receive a going over
because of the carefree manner
in which they have been whiting
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-28
ID Sports q
.DR { Y | I | Ed.

Russell Uena) Blackhurne, old
major league star. returns this
season as manager OF Lancaster,
Pa. IN the Interstate League. He
plotted Lancaster into fourth place
last year President Roosevelt
may attend the opening baseball
game in Washington on April l6
If everything Is going well and
ne is in town, % according 10 JOna-
than Daniels, White House press
secretary.
Action on changing the claSSlti-
cation of the Southern Baseball
Association from Al tC "A was
postponed indefinitely by the di-
rcctOrS yesterday -. Payments
for the winner of the Shaughnessy
playoffS were boosted from a
bonus 10 $1,000 TO $1,000 The
playoffS will be resumed after a
two-year layoti.
Cadet Clarence Richard Howard,
TSCG, son of Mr.. and Mrs. L. W.
Howard, 1855 LenoN, has been
awarded letter in boxing at the
Il. $. Coast Guard Academy at
New London. Conn He has
been associated with the boxing
team there for three years as "A
competitor and IN managerial
capacity.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-28
Don Ross Scheduled
To Cover Third Base

EVANSVILLE March Ten Of the 26 players Tigers
spring training here former SerNcemon probably
record number OF eNscrvcemen the the
major leagues
They are former soae and sailors gNen edca d--char.c
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-28
Fight Results
Nv United Pres.

Nv Inltfd FTrss
PHILADELPHIA - Ike Williams 1s4i-.
Trenton knocked out Dorsey Lay l36.
WV YORK ISL NicE ST. - Co,os KID
lhs4s Ncg Haven Conn 0utpointed Hu.-
man Williams 1877. Chicago 40.
NEWARK. r. - Freddie Schou zoe
Paterson. j. outpointed EARL IOWNAN.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-28
Signs Joyce, Ruffin

Mike Jacobs has signed Willie
Joyce and Bobby Rutfin Tor a
lightweight bout of y rounds i'm
Madison Square Garden, May 25,
Jimmy Doyle, West Coast weltcr,
will oppose Cleveland'S Chuck
Hunter in Cleveland April L.
Tom Burlington and Leo Cas-
parini OF Cleveland and Ken Kill
rea of Buffalo have set the scoring
pace in the first week OF the
American Hockey League playoitS
with seven points apiece .. The
leading penalty carriers are Pete
BessOne of Cleveland and Art
Lessard OF Indianapolis. each with
10 minutes
Harold Olsen, basketball coach
at Ohio State. has been selected
by the Basketball Association
coaches as the man who did the
most for the game this season ...
Ned Irish of Madison Square Gar
den drew The award last year.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-28
Who WouIdn' II

You heard NOR
Evening star., 1945-09-02
Are Going to Make the Best Wive

The habit Of inspection will stay with
them. They Hont be the kind of girls
who let their slips show"
But the best example of the femininity
OF the girls who went to war is their
first postwar ambition. They may not
know whether they want to 60 back to
their old job or take new one, whether
they should go back to school or take
long vacation, but there's one thing
they're all agreed on. The first thing
they're going to do is buy pair Of
red shoes And that goes for officers as
well as enlisted women.
And after that" added Maj Lichty,
we want to wear earrings again."
They All Want Clothes
Most Of them plan to spend their
mustering-out pay on clothes. One dis
charged WAC, who had been eying =
coat for weeks before her discharge,
promptly bought it when she was dis
charged. That took care of all her
mustering-out pay.
Getting accustomed to including
SiotlIcS dSdul LII lllc puuSeI Is expected
to be one Of the problems the women
will find difficult when they get back
in civilian life and have to buy their
own clothes again.
They are expected to have other prob
lens, too. but not like those of the man
veterans who went through combat.
Some of the women-those who navi-
gated planes. drove Army trucks, ra.
diced war pictures back from the COM
bat zones, listened to and learned to
keep secrets-are expected to find civil
ian life and their old jobs a bit dull.
Then there's the problem Of simply
carrying on conversation with girl
friends who stayed home.
They've outgrown their old friends"
said one Of the women. Lots of them
come back a week early from furloughs
because they had nothing in common
Continued on Page C-5)
Evening star., 1945-09-02

Oldsmobile, announcing details of their
1946 models, bore out earlier predictions
that changes would be confined chiefly
to alterations in body lines and 'front.'
end establishment.
Authoritative industry sources indi-
cate that the models to follow the cars
now going into production will not be
radically different. Experience has
shown, these experts say, that the public
will not buy cars of untried design.
THE industry" said one authority, 'is
investing too much money In re-estab-
fishing its peacetime business to take
any chances on fantastic designs"
This means, said another expert, that
cars with rear engine power plants,
aluminium motor blocks or plastic bodies
are not in the industry's immediate
plans.
The industry has learned much about
Evening star., 1945-09-02

ready has asserted that on the basis Of
present material and wage costs it must
be permitted a sharp rise in the retail
price Of its product or be forced to oper-
ate at loss.
The industry has earmarked approxi-
mately $1,000 100000 for postwar reha-
bilitation and expansion. General Mo-
tors is prepared to spend $500 oO0, 900 in
this effort and the Ford Motor Co. $780,
100000. Chrysler already has accumu-
lated more than s5o0oo,00o for this
purpose.
In normal times the industry's big
three" produces more than SO per cent
of all the cars and trucks manufactured
in the United States.
Those of the Nations motorists look
Ing for immediate revolutionary changes
In postwar automobiles apparently are
to be disappointed. Ford, Nash and
Evening star., 1945-09-02

and that places must be found Tor them
in industry.
That presents another problem. EN-
ployers admit concern over the adapt
ability of the new help to the competi-
tive nature of the motor-car industry
and production speed.
Despite the apparent mountain of
troubles ahead, however, the picture
is mot gloomy one, by any means"
says John r. Stewart, Board of Com
merce member of the population COM
mittee
Stewart says it is almost certain"
that Detroit will be able to support a
population considerably over the 1910
figure"
In the automobile industry alone
there is the absence of production of
four years to be made up-something
in the neighborhood of $4,000, 900 cars"
he said.
The same is true, he says, in other
manufacturing. Helping further, he
says, will be the greatly expanding"
chemical industry with its new develop
ments in plastics.
Evening star., 1945-09-02
Prospectus of Problems
Facing Americas Key !,
Industrial City
BY Felix B. Void,
Associated press Stiff Writer


DETROIT-People-a half million of
them-are Detroits postwar problem.
Approximately 100000 are Detroiters
eventually coming home from the war.
The rest are the wars Immigrants, /"
who began f1ooding~here, largely from
the South, to help man the great arms
PLANTS five years ago.
What to do about both is the motor
city's No. / concern today.
For five years the Nations fourth
largest city-l94o population, 1924, 900
has suffered growing pains. Now she
doesn't know what to expect; the ex-
perts admit they have no accurate way
of gauging the futures trends.
Since 1910 the city's population itself
increased no more than 10000, accord
ing to the United States Census Bureau,
but that's only small part of the story.
Willow Run
The so-called Detroit Willow Run
area, which embraces suburbs and
small cities within DetroitIs orbit, rep
= resents the total problem. The areas
population leaped by 2ooOoo-from
2,45S,oO0 to 2,658,o00.
For all practical purposes, this area
constitutes Detroit herself The econ
omies of all are closely interviewer, and
Detroit stacks up as the indispensable
head of family of communities.
So the city whose industrial might
figured so powerfully in war thinks
soberly of its future in peace.
Some leveling off has occurred, and
thousands of migrants have gone home
to Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee and
elsewhere. Authorities, however, agree
that Detroit has many months, perhaps
years, to go before getting back to
normal.
One of the wars pronounced effects
was big increase in the Negro popula-
ton, further complicating a housing
situation which admittedly was diff
cult before the war. There are now
an estimated 215,0OO Negroes in De-
troit proper, a wartime increase of
some sc, ,000
Together with other immigrants, the
new Negro residents contribute to the
postwar employment problem. which is
Detroit's greatest single concern.
Can Reconversion Keep Pace?
At one time during the war civilian
employment in the Detroit area was
more than 100000 greater than the
peak peacetime figure. The question
now is whether reconversion can keep
many of those added workers employed.
R. j. Thomas, president of the United
Automobile Workers (CIO), predicts
that postwar unemployment may go
as high as 25OOOO to 100000.
The South sent scores of thousands
of workers into Detroit. The South
doesn't know how many of them will
Evening star., 1945-09-02

metals and new alloying and fabricating
processes during the war, but the most
revolutionary step Immediately ahead
probably will be the widespread adapta-
ton of synthetic rubber to parts pre-
viously made of natural rubber.
The last word is yet to be said con-
corning synthetic tires, but experts say
inner tubes made of the synthetic prod
uct are far superior to those constructed
Of natural rubber.
Synthetics capable of withstanding
higher temperatures than natural rub
Der will be used for mufiier brackets, fan
belts and other parts that encounter
high operating temperatures. Synthetcs
more resistant to oil than natural rubber
will be used for insulating electric wiring.
The industry also will use another
type Of synthetic that will not harden or
crack in subzero temperatures.
Evening star., 1945-09-02
Labor Disagreenents
Cloud Automotiye
Industry Outlook
BY David J. Wilkie,
Associated Press stan Writer.

DETROIT.-The Nations automobile
industry. gathering momentum slowly in
its return to peacetime competitive ac-
tivity, sees labor as its biggest problem.
Immediately ahead lies a market for
at least 100000 new passenger auto
mobiles, and beyond that probably is q
stabilized demand for 100000 vehicles
annually for an extended period.
The industry has the money and it
will have better materials and machinery
with which to create the four-and-one-
quarter-billion-dollar segment Of Amer
icas industrial fabric. But whether it and
labor can find common ground in the
postwar era, however, is more uncertain
today than ever.
Labor and management in the car
industry teamed together to turn out
over $4,000, 100000 worth Of war ma
terial in three and one-half years. That
would have been nearly nine years Of
effort in normal times.
An Armed Truce
But the wartime effort was carried out
on what had all the earmarks of an
armed truce, there were numerous
strikes, most of which the United Auto
mobile Workers (CIO) denounced as un-
authorized and in violation of the
unions wartime no-strike pledge.
Both sides took time out to indulge In
slugging duel before the Mead Sena-
torial War Time Investigating Commits
tee. Company executives accused the
union OF attempting to usurp manage
ment functions and prerogatives, and
union heads in turn charged manage
ment with trying to break up the unions.
Thus was the groundwork laid for a
possible postwar management labor
battle OF war-reaching proportions.
The big UAW-CIO union, with more
than half its 100000 members en-
ployed in the automotive industry, has
made 1t clear 1t intends to drive for a
guaranteed annual wage in the car in
dustry. 1t has long sought to break the
Little Steel formula controlling wage
increases, maintaining that increases
thus far approved have not kept pace
with the rising cost of living.
Management, on the other hand, al
Evening star., 1945-09-02
BY Miriam Gutenberg

The girls who went into uniform to
release a man to fight" are expected
to make better wives than their stay
at-home sisters.
That's the prediction Of the high
ranking women officers now concerned
with the postwar problems of the 3o0,O 900
women In the armed forces.
Each has her reasons for believing the
WACS, WAVES, SPARS and woman
Marines are good matrimonial material.
For instance, Maj. Marion Lichty,
assigned to selective service to advise
on Unemployment of ex-servicewomen,
contends that the women who have been
in the armed forces will be better able
to understand the problems Of the re-
turning man veterans.
"The ex-servicewoman knows the
Army routine and the Army lingo" said
Maj. Lichty, an attractive blond who
sold life insurance before the war. "She
can give her husband more companion
ship than the girl who has never been
near an Army camp"
they're More Orderly
Maj. Elizabeth c. Weatherby Of the
Marines, former personnel director at
New York Hospital. who is also assigned
to selective service, believes the ex-
servicewomen will be better housewives
because they've learned to be orderly. !"
And besides, they'll appreciate a
home. A lot. of them just took home
for granted until they started living in
barracks with 40 other girls" Maj
Weatherby pointed out.
1t Col. Mary Agnes Brown, recently
assigned to the Veterans Administra-
tion staff of Gen. Omar N. Bradley after
Is months in the Pacific, spoke up for
the WACS who lived in tents and fought
off malaria overseas.
IF you come through overseas duty
and still have your equilibrium-as 90
per cent Of the WACs did," she said,
Evening star., 1945-09-02

you're going to be easier to live with,
things that used to be very important
don't seem so important. You're Just
glad to be alive and back home"
Col. Brown believes the ex-WACS
who are overseas veterans won't be in
clined to harp on little things. won't
try to keep up with the Joneses" and
will be patient-"because If there's one
thing you learn in the Army, it's pa
tience"
To . woman, the soldiers in skirts
vehemently deny that their service in
the armed forces has robbed the women
of their femininity. They say it has
had just the opposite effect.
Just because she is in uniform" ex-
planned Col. Brown, "a girl will do
things consciously to retain her femi-
ninity that she wouldn't do if she had
the. usual feminine aids to attractive
ness. The women in the service try
to be feminine in personality to coun-
teract the effect of the uniform"
Evening star., 1945-09-02

She told Of the pathetic efforts the
women made overseas to dress up their
rugged living quarters and Maj. Wealth
erby talked about the hours the girls
in uniform spent in making curtains
for their barracks. In an effort to
make their cubicles more attractive,
she said, the women even decorated
their beds with toy animals which had
to be put out of sight, of course, for
inspection.
No Shop Windows in Jungles
Col. Brown thought the women get
ting out of service probably will need
some advice on clothes because you
don't have shop windows in the jun
gles," but Maj. Weatherby predicted
the ex-servicewomen will be trimmer
in their new civilian clothes than they
ever were in their old ones.
In the service. "she pointed out" they
have to stand inspection regularly
Their uniforms have to be pressed
practically every time they wear them.
Evening star., 1945-09-02
Detroit Shifts Gears for Peacetime Pull

The brought growing pains Detroit industrial city
United States vexng problem housing
shortages with the Detroit
manufacturing
opportunities and smaller checks.
balance
industry
demand the motor capital the future with
Even the don't know what will happen Detroit
vigorous plans pacetme production Here articles
general automobile
industry particular into transition