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they were operating baseball
books.
All of them listed the Tigers
and Cardinals as first choices,
although the Cubs were in
cluded as co-favorites with the
Cards by one operator.
The consensus OF odds on both
leagues
Nationalist. Louis, . Ia Il;
Chicago, 3 10 |; Brooklyn. s to
/; Boston, 3 10 /; Pittsburgh. 3
10 |; New York, 10 10 1; Gin
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-13
Probable Pitchers
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Detroit evening times., 1945-07-13
Record Fleet To Sal
I'm Mackinac Race
By GEORGE f. VAN

Two entries were withdrawn to-
day from The starting list ot
Saturday : Port Huron n-MacklnaC
race hut 40 boats. the largest feet
ever 10 sail. were either under
way OF making final preparations
Don WallaCe'S Skylark and Jack
Cullen Adonde SloopS are the
boats withdrawn Both lacked
Crpu.L
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-13
Seattle Races OF

SEATTLE. July II CUP)-The
government ban on shipment OF
race horses Will have negligible
effect on the Washington Jockey
Clubs LonEacres track at Renton,
officials said today.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-13
Spor
Boston Aooo Over
Ferriss and Holmes
BY LEO MACDoNELL

BOSTON. July 12- Roasting
the current sensation m each @,
the two major leagues Dave Fer
riSS of the Red SoX and Tommy
Holmes OF the Braves - Boston
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-13

Games behind leader.
TODAN'S GAMES
Roston At ChicsFo a.
Nsu YORK 81 - L0uIS, ntght
Brooklyn Al Cincinnati. tvtntght.
Philadelpha at Pittshurrh, nirht.
YESTERDAYS RESULTS
No games scheduled
INIERNATIONAL IIAGIT
Rochester =, Buffalo II innlnTtf,
Baltimore q, Jsrse1 city =.
ANTRICAN ASSOCIATION
Indiana polls IL, Toledo O-2
Milwaukee = TNSt Paul
Louisville as. Columbus o-1
Minneapolis as haNas CITY a-s
Pacific COANI LTAGtE
Los AhFslss s-1, San DieTo a..
Seattls lie HOLLYWOOD o-1
San Franrisrn a Portland 4.
Sacramento q Oakland
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-13
WILL KNOW LATER

I'VE want To help the horse
men, but well know better later
whether the ban warrants an
extension" said Dowllng 1T
can be overdOne. YOU know
The state is now averaging
S23 600 a day n taxes from the
track, money that doesn't come
back into circulation and which
makes quite dram on the horse
players pockets by the end OF so
days.
Imposition Of the han finds tho
Detroit horsemen well entrenched
with two months Of racing left
and barns fun Of horses. Chief
sufferers here are tho bigger
stables with horses they want 10
run in outside stakes. Unless thcy
60 10 Chicago IN their owners
own vans. a. r. Walls Sir Pen
nant and the Bomar Stable 3
Green Shed Will have 10 stay
here. The TeverSe IS true OF 1t
T. y. Bulls Air Sailor and the
Dixiana Farms Amber Light and
Spy Song, which are IN Chicago
7OVu
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-13
BETTER GOLF
Position Of Ball
tThis IL me SSH of = series
RV SAM SNFAD

The player who positions the
ball too near center when swing
ing with No | or No. 2 wood
or iron club, thereby alters the
loft of the club at impact and he
is apt 10 drive the ball very
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-13
Wins
Net Hon0rs
Special to TIE DETROIT TIMES

KALAMAZOO. July Wal.
ter English, second seeded Ham.
iramck star is the new Michigan
junior elimination tournament
champion and -Stfctt qtfaftfted
for the national tournament here,
starting July 30 In the boys
elimlnauonS, Richard Cam. Kala-
maZoo. won the title
The hiC surprise Of thc semi
finals matches was the defeat Of
Al HetzeCk, Hantramck. seeded
one, hy Sam Daniels. Grand Rap
ids, seeded 4 ny scores OF Ga.
"a 81
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-13

4 lhAAtiN = ~ AANN
baseball fan :
are eiddy with
thrills.
FerriSS, Of
whom you have
read much IN
this column, is
Of course the
eS h m A n
pitcher who IS
setting IN e
A m G T J c a n
/ 2 a que ahre
with ms bril-
liant pitching
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-13
Harmon Leads, Byrd Trails in PEA
TurneSd Tops
Nelson, | Up
By VI =. DRUKENBRoD

DAYTON. O.. July 12-Bushy-
haired Johnny Re,olta OF Chicago,
one or the games greatest put
ters, covered todayS first is
holes in a two under 70 10 gain
a l up lead on Sam Byrd Of
Detroit IN the second round Of
the National PGA.
Making his putting skill pay
dividends, Revolta blrdied three
in a row beginning with the fifth.
This, coupled with Byrd's pushed
tee shot into the woods on the
fourth. enabled the Cnlcagoan to
win four straight holes in that
stretch and become 3 up.
But Byrd finished this nine
with pair of brides to cut his
opponents lead 10 one up at the
turn. The Detrolter reached the
green on the 5S9-yard eighth with
two mighty wallopS and holed an
lS-iOOter on the ninth.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-13
How They Stand

Games behind leader.
TODAY'S GAMES
DETROIT at Boston
Cleveland at New York
Chicaro at Washington. night.
St Louis al Philadelphia a.
YESTERDAY RESILTs
No fames scheduled
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-13
TEE SHOT COSTLY

A pushed fee shot cost Byrd
the tenth and he stayed two down
until he won the short fifteenth
with a deuce. Sam needed three
10 get down from the edge OF the
Syenteenih and Revoltas birdie
won il. But the latter missed the
eighteenth with his second and
Byrd took il a par four.
Slender Mike Turnesa Of New
York surprised the galleries by
stalking himself 10 A l-up lead
over Byron Nelson, the No. l
favorltc, en- the morning round.
With both shooting 6S's, they
made the seventeenth A thriller
for the fans. Nelson got birdie
4 on this 455-yarder, but lost il
when Turnesa holed a 3-footer for
an eagle 3
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-13

Leroy Pfund, Brooklyn recruit
pitcher, suffered a dislocated knee
during the war benefit game
against Washington last Tuesday
night.
Bing Crosby's grooming replaced
the traditional bugle call openins
at Del Mar track in California
/. New Hampshire racing COM
mission approved a three-week
meeting At Rockingham near Con.
cord starting Aug. 13.
Fritzie Zivic of Pittsburgh SAYS
he is through with boxing unless
promoter Ley Raymond insists
he so through with bout against
Bill Mcdowell in, New Orleans
Monday night.
Massachusetts boxing commits
sion announces the barring of
lightweight Bob Ruffin Syra.-
cuse has a civilian football squad
of 30 members in summer prac.
tiCe.
Sir Eric Ohl>on says he refused
an offer of S500.000 for ms horse,
Dante, winner OF the English
Derby -. Marine 1t. Bernard y.
Snyder of the Eighth Regiment,
Second Division, former Beloit
College athlete. was killed in &C.
ton June 10
Camera crews from the motion
picture branch OF the army air
force at Wright Field are shoot
ing color film of the r. G.. A.
golf tournament Al Wayton.
Wright Field officials announced
that the completed motion picture
would he shown Al -eenp aleseent
and rehabilitation centers through
out the United States.
Bill KLEIN. the old arbitrator"
has returned 10 his Venetian Way,
Miami, m . after swing
around the National League The
retired umpire who still serves
IN an advisory capacity plans 20
FISH. loll IN the sun and preside at
the barbecue grill in his yard
frOntlnL BScayne Bay.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-13
POINTER LOSES

English diSpo Cd of James Ken
nedy Crosse Pointe IN the other
lunior SemlflnalS, 4-6, 6-1, so,
and then went on IN win the finals
from the Grand Rapids unlor IN
straight sets, Ga Ga Ga
Richard Cain. Kalamazoo. won
his Scmlfnal match in boys,
elimination from Don Yates. Ann
Arbor, 81, 6-3 and James Orwin.
Kalamazoo. defeated Kenneth
Green, Kalamazoo, IN the other
bracket. Cain won from Orwin
IN the finals. IS. So.
Boys doubles went AS seeded,
tho first and second seeded teams
gong 10 the finals. with Cain and
OrHln defeating Green and Rob-
ert Dunbar Kalamazoo. 81 81.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-13
TOUGH MATCH

II the ianicr doubles the first
and second seeded teams also dis
posed Of their opposition with
ease in each bracket IN gong 10
the finals. except that Victor
Praden. Monroe and Clarence
Skau Crosse Ponie. In their
bracket had a tough Semlfinal
match in defeating Daniels and
Louis MCNara, Grand Rapids, rs,
as. l0-S
Al Hctzeck and Walter Eng
ish. first seeded team. was not
even pressed IN advancing 10 the
finals In the finals match they
also scored an easy championship
victory IN dSposinc OF Victor
Rradcn. Monroe. and Clarence
Skau. Crosse Pointe So So, 90.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-13
y Sports q
DRtVITItO

Leroy Pfund, Brooklyn recruit
pitcher, suffered a dislocated knee
during the war benefit game
against Washington last Tuesday
night.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-13

York go Tigress from Mentor
Harbor, o., stopped of at Bay
view.
Evening star., 1945-07-29

absorption, its use of small quantities Of
water, protection from intense heat and
reduced water damage.
Comdr. Burke points out that when a
drop of water is broken into particles in
the form of fog, the total heat-absorp-
ton surface of all the particles far sur
passes the absorption surface of the
original drop.
Water fog performs magic in fighting
oil fires by cooling surface-oil vapors to
below the ignition point. At Navy
schools, intense oil fires are lighted in
a shallow tank Is feet in diameter and
within less than minute are quenched
with fog sprays using water at rate Of
only go gallons minute.
Next in importance to the fog nozzle
as a Navy flrefighting development is
mechanical foam. Ninety-four per cent
water, it is little more than fog that is
made to last longer" as Comdr. Burke
puts it. The per cent is liquid which
transforms the water into mass of air
bubbles, each tiny bubble surrounded by
a durable film, which will last for hours
wherever it is thrown.
Saving the l.. S. S. Enterprise
Fog does its flre-fighting job by abb
sorbing heat until the temperature of
Evening star., 1945-07-29
BY Robert J. Lewis

Not long ago towering g of smoke and flame shot up thousand feet
off
full
In weeks have
ablaze
formed the of few seconds into furnace those
Bunker Hill
brought repais-the
Evening star., 1945-07-29
BY Carter Brooke Jones,
Star staf Correspondent.

VaMllon pos-reope
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acuviated by the eXhaIed breath. gen.
crates oxygen. The breathing appara-
tus weighs only y pounds. It's single
oxygen n-produclng canister lasts about
an hour and can be replaced in five
seconds
Comdr. Burke is convinced the air
craft carriers Wasp Yorktown and
Lexington, lost early in the war. could
Evening star., 1945-07-29

region of South America, the Dutch
transplanted it with great success in
Java. Aided by the chance discovery
of high-yielding strain, the ledgeriana,
they established a virtual monopoly in
quinine. They shipped it all over the
world
When Japan cut off this chief and
almost only source of supply, the United
Nations turned back in desperation to
the virtually forgotten wild stands of
cinchona in South America The
whole stupendous question of how to
deal with malaria without a ready
supply of quinine shook medicine and
chemistry.
Cinchona Research
Meanwhile, as the enemy closed in
on the Philippines. steps were taken
to propagate the high-grade cinchona
which had been cultivated in the
islands. Col. Arthur F. Fischer, who had
pioneered in this cinchona research with
the late Gen. Leonard Wood. flew out
just ahead of the Japs with seeds of
the ledgeriana which the colonel i'm
ported from Java and grew in the
Philippines.
This seed is being developed on
cinchona plantation in Costa Rica. Our
Government owns the plantation, which
was established by the War Department
with the cooperation of the Foreign
Economic Administration. Col. Fischer,
now attached to the Army surgeon
generals office, is executive director of
the project
Military needs, of course, did not
have to await the development of the
Costa Rican plantation or the results of
explorations in the forests of the Andes.
Every available ounce of pure quinine
was gathered and the production of the
synthetic drug atabrine was stepped
up. The necessities of soldiers and
sailors exposed to malaria were met.
But the longer-range research was
pressed. While many varieties of Gin
chona, containing quinine and similar
alkaloids in differing quantities, grow
in Colombia. Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru,
the difficulties of shipping out the bark
and extracting its medicinal properties
had always been almost insuperable.
The medicinal qualities of cinchona
bark have been known for centuries to
the South American Indians. They
used to brew 1t into sort OF tea. Per-
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haps they found it helpful when they
got mysterious ChlllS,
Historians record that in 1852 the
Countess of Chinchon, wife of the
Viceroy of Peru, was cured of fever
by the bark The Swedish botanlSt Lin
naeus named the tree for the countess
but misspelled her name, calling the
genus cinchona. The tree will not grow
in North America. While it has been
most successfully transplanted and i'm
proved by the Dutch in Java, its culti-
vation has been attempted with varying
success in Algeria, Ceylon and India.
The native stands of cinChona are
found mostly today in the almost I'M
penetrable rain forests on the higher
slopes of the Andes. Many attempts
were made to produce qulnlne in COM
mercial quantities, but the physical and
economic difficulties made the project
hardly feasible.
A Slaughter.Harvest
When the Java supply was cut of,
there was rush for clnchona In South
America, resulting in a slaughter har-
vest" which soon depleted the most &C
cessible supply. Searchers had to go
into remote Andean forests. The bark
had to be shipped great distances.
Under the only known process, it had
to be dried before its alkaloids could be
extracted Since the trees are found in
a region of constant rain, drying was
most difficult problem.
Sometimes the bark had to be packed
for two or three days on the backs of
natives before even a mule trail could
be reached. 1t then had to be ground
dried and taken to some plant in the
outside world. Where American inter-
ests were involved, this meant cargo
space for a long voyage before the
cinchona could be processed. The cost
was practically prohibitive.
Maj Robert Lee Kaye, Corps of En-
gineers, who was mechanical engineer
and president of manufacturing con-
Germ at Kearny, N. j., before the war,
began research on the problem in 1870
He undertook to develop a more feas-
ible method of extracting quinine from
the South American trees.
The Fort Belvoir Laboratory
Maj. Kaye took up the problem with
Col Fischer. The result was orders for
the major to continue his experiments
Evening star., 1945-07-29

under the Army. A laboratory eventually
was set up at Fort Belvoir under the
Engineer Board, of which Brig Gen.
John w N. Schulz is president The
board has sponsored many research
projects which have resulted in improved
equipment and techniques for the Army,
some revolutionary in effect
Maj Hayes plans called for acid
extraction of the quinine content from
the fresh bark-at the source of sup
ply This would eliminate the long
and expensive process of drying and
shipping great distances. Rutgers Uni
versity co-operated in the experiment,
turning over it's laboratories and other
facilities to Maj Kaye. He was aided
by 1t. Silvio E. Ronzone, formerly of
the United States Forestry Service.
The method was found feasible It's
practical value was demonstrated Suff-
GENTLY to warrant further research at
the scene. and so Maj. Kaye and 1t
Ranzone led an expedition to the Latin
grows. The expedition was highly sue
cesSful.
1t was found that an area within
walking distance of the portable distil-
lation plant usually could produce be-
tween 500 and 1000 pounds of fresh
bark day
The Mobile Plant
The mobile plant which Maj. Kaye
has devised weighs 1900 pounds and
costs $2,500. 1t can be dismantled and
carried on mule pack. If the region
were to rugged even for mules, it could
be carried by men.
The pilot plant demonstrated here to
newspapermen by Maj. Kaye, Col.
Fisher and 1t Ronzone looked simple
enough. 1t consists of coated fabric
tanks series of metal columns used
for what is known chemically as ion
exchange, a gasoline powered pumping
unit and charcoal-fired distillation
unit. The plant is designed to process
500 to 1000 pounds of bark day.
Evening star., 1945-07-29

equipment changes would be high on
the list of essentials. Old equipment
would need redesigning New equip
ment would have to be developed A
training program had to be prepared,
schools opened instructors recruited,
training methods mapped out.
From City Fire Departments
The Navys rolls were combed for eS-
perienced fire fighters. Calls went out
to city fire departments boards OF fire
underwriters and fire protection and
prevention engineers. Instructors and
FIRE fighting personnel were needed, and
they were needed in hurry.
The first fre-flghting school was
opened at Norfolk. Va, in June. 1912
BY the end of the year four schools
were operating in the United States
and one at Pearl Harbor. Today II
major schools are turning out fire.
fighting specialists. In addition, eight
modified schools and the four great
naval training stations offer instruc-
ton in fire fighting
Added to these CenterS are still other
schools in forward areas operated for
"refresher' training. Three Sucn
schools were opened at Falmouth, Ply
mouth and Dartmouth, England il
preparation for the Normandy invasion.
AS the feet advances in the Pacitlt
refreSher schools are moved right alOn!
Artificial Infernos
In training Navy fire fighters, the mel
of the Fire Damage Control Servlct
stake everything on realism. They don't
believe man can learn to stand up to
flames in an emergency unless he has
practiced doing it. In this respect, the
program resembles that phase Of a
soldiers training in which he is taught
to attain objectives with bullets whistling
over his head and land mines exploding
nearby.
Each of the II main schools has what
Comdr. Burke calls land ship" Built
to duplicate the forepeak, engine room
and boiler room of a destroyer this
ship" has watertight doors, matches,
gratings, manholeS and ladders of the
same type found on a seagoing vessel.
With students already well-versed in
how to handle fire-fighting gear and
special equipment, oil is pumped into the
land ships" compartments and set
ablaze Fire mantles the bulkheads and
gushes from the deck openings. Clouds
of smoke black out the earnest young
men putting their neWWon knowledge
to use which may one day save their
lives. the lives of their comrades and
mean survival of their ship.
Conquering Pear of Fire
This training helps men conquer the
instructive fear of fire and gives them
confidence to work shoulder to shoulder
in cramped compartments such as they
may be called upon to enter in case of
fire at sea- Comdr. Burke explains.
Shortly after opening of the first
training school at Norfolk, a fighting
team composed of instructors was called
from the school to battle flames which
Evening star., 1945-07-29
and 1t Takes Trained Fire Fighters to Win 1t

zones. When the carrier was hit by
a Jap bomb in the Marshalls invasion
last year, flames from high-octane gaso-
line blanketed her flight and hangar
decks. The ships firetighters, using
foam alone, smothered the confiagration
in go seconds.
known as Navy bean soup" foam
was first tested in the Bureau of Ships
Material Laboratory in New York near
the end of 194l. The present type Of
foam was not produced until a year
later Ingredients called for in the
formula include soybeans, fish scales
and iron salts.
Cutting Away Wreckage
The NaVy's oxyacetylene cutting
outfit, pack-type apparatus, is used
by fire fighters to cut away Wreckage so
hose lines may be moved to the heart
of fire. 1t also has been frequently
used to cut holes in steel decks and
thus permit fog spray or foam to be
thrown into blocked compartments
The rescue breathing apparatus has
saved many fire-fighters life aboard
ship. 1t is worn by fire fighters working
in dense smoke and areas where oxygen
may have been burned out. Secret of
its operation is canister which, when
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u S Corps OF Enslneers Photo,

A second plant set up in the Fort
Belvoir laboratory was fashioned for use
where no gasoline is available. This is
handpumped gravity flow model. The
bark is agitated by stirring with paddle
or some other device Its capacity is
about half that of the powered plant.
third model was designed for use
in the most primitive surroundings.
This extraction unit calls for the
simplest sort of equipment and can be
operated with almost no technical
knowledge. In place of the ion exchange
principle, the alkaloids are precipitated
from acid solution by the addition Of
strong alkah. Vinegar can be used for
the acid solution and teaching from
wood ashes for the alkali
Natives Can Use Apparatus
This easy method is not we'll adapted
for commercial use since some 25 per
cent of the medicinal alkaloids remain
in solution and are lost and none Of
the chemicals are recoverable. But it
does provide an effective antimalarial
drug, and natives who live in jungles
inaccessible to the rest of the world can
be taught to use it.
Maj. Kaye and his aides actually
found from their South American eX-
periments that better results could be
obtained from fresh, usually wet bark,
than from the dried bark which for
merly was the only state in which the
totaquine could be extracted.
Naturally by the time the bark
reaches this country 1t is dry, and so
the laboratory work here has had to be
carried out entirely with dry bark.
The totaquine that emerges from the
pilot plants is a pinkish powder, which
can be turned white by simple process.
1t tastes quite as bitter as any quinine,
this correspondent can attest.
Alkaloid Ratio
Totaquine contains alkaloids other
than quinine. The ratio of the alkaloids
varies with the type of cinchona. A
Continued on Page c-5)
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of the Fire Damage Control Service,
Comdr. Burke faced problems galore
Oils, Bombs and Explosives
At the outset, he realized an almost
entirely new fire-hghting program was
needed to meet changed conditions.
Universal use of oil as fuel had pro-
Wded new combat hazards in contrast
to the last war. Heavy supplies of gaso-
line borne by carriers needed special
fire fighting measures. Development of
explosives with greater destructive
force was another headache that had to
be faced The lower ignition point of
some of our own ammunition added a
new challenge. Above all was the in
creased danger of fire from bombing.
To meet new conditions. he realized
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quered and the ship saved. AS result,
rs per cent of the badly-needed cargs
was salVaged,
Combat Fire Teams
That was the first Job handled by
what have come to be known as combat
fire teams Those teams later were 10
make firefghting history in the lnva-
sion of North Africa France and the
Pacific auea Composed Of one officer and
eight enlisted men, such teams have
saved scores of ships after fires have
baked the efforts of their crews. Devel-
oped to meet a definite need, they are
used mainly to protect ships during as
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-Ofhcial Navy Photo.
sault phases of an invasion and guard
vital stores in forWard-area ports
Behind the sensational results achieved
by Navy frefghters stands not only
thorough. imaginative training, but
spectacular scientific developments. Talk
to fire damage control service men and
you'll quickly hear about their all
purpose fog nozzle, mechanical foam,
portable oxycetylene cutting outfits and
rescue breathing apparatus. Strangely
enough to the average person, Navy
firef1ghters don't depend great deal on
asbestos suits except for swift rescues
from burning planes or other occasions
when job requires exposure to blaze
for a fraction of a minute.
The Navy is proud of its an-purpose
fog nozzle because it permits an instant
shift from a solid stream of water to an
atomized fog spray. or a complete shut
off. at the flick of a gadget. The ad-
vantages of fog lie in its greater heat