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Detroit evening times., 1945-08-19

Runs-Smlth- McChet Rosaf Kell. Whetlcr-
Rocco Fleming Meyer. Heath. BaFby
Errors-Kntrr- Ciho-N. Bsgby Runs batfed
in-Fleming Meyer .. Seerey Sie0ert.
Sacrifice hN-KiGh. Double plays--Meysr 60
Cih1cu 20 Teocco. Bag6y o. Meyer % Rocco.
Chihoch 20 Rocco. Busch to Han o. SIebert,
Cih0ch 20 Meyer 90 Rocco Seeruv o. HAYES.
Left on bases-Phiiadeipbia -. Cleveland q.
Bases on bslls-On Knerr a o" B8gby 2
struck Out-Ry Kner 2 By Barby g. by
Berry Hlts--Off knerr in 4 innings ~
Berry IN 4 innings WIG oUch-Bagby.
Balk-Bagby Losing Titcher-Knerr.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-19
Required Reputation

\ baseball league U-
total population of l75OCUJ
eligible for "A classification
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-19
THEN HAS BRIDES

Chris followed his ace with
brides on the next two holes
barely missing an eagle deuce on
the seventh. where he again
swung MS four iron. That gave
him an individual 81 and the team
a 81 for a three-hole lead at the
turn There was no catching them
after that
Brlnke and Butler VIII oppose
the Grand Rapids team OF Harold
Brink and Jack Sharp IN the semi
finals. The Grand Rapids pair also
set a swift pace. being s under
par for the day.
In the morning, they defeated
Judge George T. Murphy and
Stanley Hancock, GA. but had 10
battle all the way TO edge Capt.
George Victor and Henry Grips,
! up, IN the afternoon.
They were even coming 10 the
eighteenth. where Brinke was the
only one 10 put his tee shot on
the green. This gave him a win
ming par 3.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-19
HANK HITS AGAIN

But with three hits each. Green
berg and Doc Cramer led their
mates in number of hits. II was
the thirteenth straight game in
which Greenberg has hit safely.
But most of the Tigers 13 safeties
came late in the contest, after the
doors were locked.
Gil Torres. Cuban shortstop,
bagged a single, double and triple.
Two hits were notched by George
Binks and Hills Layne.
Fielding features were contrib
uted by Skeeter Webb, Bob Swift,
Greenberg and Binks. Swift was
hurt making great diving out on
throw from Cullenbine when
Wolff tried TO score in the sixth
and was forced 10 retire. Paul
Richards finished behind the plate
for the Tigers.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-19
BENTON VICTIM

AL Benton. who started for the
Tigers, lasted less than six in
nings. a victim of his teammates
atrocious support combined with
WaShington's timely hitting.
Benton allowed seven hits and
six runs and only three Of the
tallieS were earned. Benton was
the losing pitcher, his fourth loss
against II victories.
George Caster replaced Benton
and pitched long enough TO give
the visitors a couple of more runs
before he was lifted for q pinch
hitter. Walter Wilson finished.
He, too, was a victim of poor
support as the merry Senators
rolled up scores.
Roy Cullenbine bagged his tenth
home run of the season for one of
three Tiger runs in the first In
ming. He drove up against the
facing on the second deck Of the
right field stands with Hank
Greenberg on base. Cullenbine also
chalked up a two-bagger.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-01
Aid For Libraries

Of all North Carolina legislators interested
in greater state aid for public libraries, we
believe those representing the southeastern
counties should take the lead in bringing cur
rent legislation to successful enactment
The reason is simple No other section OF
tho state as far as we have been able to
observe is in great a need 1or reaolhs
facilities. While Wilmington has good public
library with bookrnobile service to the county's
rural sections, adjoining and nearby counties
do not have many books for public use.
The fact that financial aid must be forth
coming is obvious if the educational and cul"
tural advancement of the state is to continue.
Efforts toward uniformity of its school sys-
tenn have been carried out in North Carolina
for years with highly successful results. 1t is
high time the same attitude be taken toward
it's libraries, both present and future, and
we agree Fundamentally with Governor Cher
ny when, in his inaugural address, he said:
Some one has said that libraries are the
wardrobes of literature. AS have gone about
North Carolina in recent months. I have OBJ
served with prideful interest the hunger after
KnOWl6QSe eAIllDlleu ny Tie SIedL LldSS VI Jul
citizenship. People who never finished High
school or had the opportunity of a college
educated have q deep interest in acquiring
for themselves and their children the facili-
ties for reading good books. 1 believe that
we should increase the assistance for public Ii
braries, especially those Libraries which serve
the rural areas of North Carolina It is certain
that whatever investment is made in this field
of endeavor will yield large and lasting divi-
dends to our citizenship
A request has been made for 1925, 900 for
each year of the biennium 1851 for aid to
libraries 1t is based mainly on the dire need
for books to provide reading material for all
the people of the state. If we spend millions
for the schools, which is quite proper, it is
entirely fitting that this public education be
followed up with better reading facilities for
all, extending from the states largest cities
down to it's thousands of rural homes.
Greater equalization Of library opportunities
is the principal need and, as said before, south
eastern North Carolina deserves top priority in
receiving assistance. While this program de-
mands the support of every thinking member
of the legislature, those from this section
should be counted among the leaders in achiev-
ing its realization.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-01
The Marianas

The best way, we believe, to prevent future
wars S to make the country's position SO strong
that no aggressor, no matter how confident OF
ambitious will strike
It is for this reason that the Nays pro-
posal to retain the conquered Marlanas after
the war for conversion into great base de-
seserves real consideration. The proposal was
discussed by A. L. Gates, assistant secretary
of the Navy for air, at press conference
at Pearl Harbor few days ago.
The Marianas, he declared, should be kept
fer what they are and what they stand for and
what they stand for is another Pearl Harbor
$500 miles west of here Within l 100 to 1900
r les south of Tokyo, they could form front
line outpost that would guarantee good be-
havior by the Nipponese. Real bases there
would make Japan's coming generations war
lords think twice before attempting another
stab like the Pearl Harbor one.
In the future, they would have the same
SOLDERING influence on the japanese that Rus
sas Vladivostok has today. That strategic
port and base has probably had more to do
with Japans desire to leave the Soviet Union
alone than any one factor.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-01
Capitol's Janitors

While Washington not only asks but lays
down rule after rule for the remainder of the
country to conserve its dwindling manpower,
it appears to be engaging in quite bit of
squandering of labor itself
AS an example, take the janitorial situation
In his dispatch yesterday, Frederick c. 9th
man. United Press Staff correspondent, had
this to say in his numerous way:
IF Congress has time to worry about jani-
tors with nanicures, then, by all the scrub
brushes on Capitol hill, I have, too.
you should see some of those janitors who
don't janit. One of EN- wears a wing collar
to work Another sports spats. But I better
begin at the beginning: Rep. John J. Cochran
of Missouri introduced a resolution providing
among other things, s156O per annum to pay
the janitor of the Committee on Unameric an
Activities.
up jumped Rep. Albert J. Engel of Michi-
gan to demand, why?
what does the janitor do?" he cried I'm
looking over the legislative bills found some
thing like 80 jantors on the payroll. Little com.
mittees like the Committee on the Territories
nave Jan1tOr. l 90 not know what the 1anl
tors do, or why the committees have to have
them. Why spend the money for janitors?
Rep. Cochran said he did not know what
they do. either, but that he believed they must
keep the committee rooms clean
Some committees meet only once or twice
a year, Rep. Engel countered, and still they
have janitors. He said the committee on ter
ritores sprinkled cigar ashes on its rug only
three times last year"
The janitors' place in Washington's labor
picture is a small one but even there there's
considerable waste. Many of them may be on
the payroll for political reasons Even so, it's
time they went to work. Many a Wilmington
concern would like to have just one competent
one, whether he reported with or without a
wing collar.
Meantime, the capital calls for more work.
ers from the hinderlands. Crater utilization of
the labor it now has would be il order and a
study of the situation similar to the congress
mems visit to the Norfolk Navy yard would be
most opportune.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-01
Dangerous Blank Check

A valuable offshoot of the Jesse Jones'
Henry Wallace controversy was the airing,
during hearings on the George Bill, of start
ling example Of government by men, rather
than by law, in the operations OF the Recon-
struction Finance Corp, and it's subsidiary
agencies.
Apparently it even startled some of the con.
gressmen to hear Mr.. Jones catalog his wide
discretionary powers as RFC director And
they couldn't point any accusing fingers else
where, for it was they themselves and their
predecessors who had granted Mr. Jones these
powers.
The RFC director summed them up tersely:
To make loans in any amount, for any length
OF time, at any rate Of interest, to anybody. -
He had to come to Congress for money, and
the trusting Congress seems always to have
responded with blank c-~o, And not until
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-01
Miss Julia Yopp

Because service is the best yard-stlck IN the
measurement of persons value, the reslgna-
ton of Miss Julia Yopp as Executive Secre-
tary Of the Travellers Aid Society after 80 years
service may be considered not only loss TO
the Society but the travelling public as whole
Twenty of those years were spent here, guld-
ing and aiding travellers through the Union sta
ton. The cases in which she mas averted trag-
edy for some lonely person are too numerous
to recall Also, during this time, she left with
thousands a better impression OF Wilmington
than they would have otherwise received.
The praise she has won from not only local
citizens but national officials of Travellers Aid
is well deserved She has done an excellent
job, year in and year out, and is worthy OF all
the honors bestowed on her as she steps down
to enjoy a well-earned rest amid the best
wishes of her associates.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-01
ETHYL-DOW CLUB
OBSERVES ANNUAL
LADIES' NIGHT

The annual ladies night banquet
of the Ethyl-Dow Operators club
was held Tuesday at the Bame
hotel, Carolina Beach.
Adrian Hall, club president, call
ed the meeting to order and intro
duced Dan Holt, POSTMASTER for
the occasion. Members of the club
and their guests were called upon
to introduce their wives, and Holt
paid tribute to them as being the
unseen soldiers of the production
front-the girls behind the men be-
hind the men behind the guns.
Haywood Moore, charter member
Of the club, summarized the history
of the club since it's founding in
1889, at an oyster roast held by
members of the operating depart
ment at Mulberry landing on the
Northeast river, and listed the or
iginal charter members.
POSTMASTER Holt paid tribute to
the nine members of the club serv-
ing with the armed forces.
Glenn E. Cantwell, Ethyl-Dow
plant manager, brought greetings
of the management, and the Ethyl
Dow Amateurs presented must
cal variety show.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-01
JAP SUBMARINE SUNK
Navy Believes Vessel Based
At By-Passed Island

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.-lg-
A landing ship recently sank
midget Japanese submarine. op-
Grating in areas by-passed by
American forces.
The Nays announcement today
said the sub presumably operat-
ed from. a hidden anchorage in
one of the by-passed islands in the
Western Pacific.
1t slipped out early one morning
and attempted to attack United
States vessels when it was spotted
by an LIST. Quick action and &C
curate craftsmanship destroyed
the sub before it could release its
lethal load.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-01
No Benevolent Despotism

The chances of getting our labor laws amend
labor industry and the public, seem very re-
mote Instead of creating labor harmony, our
laws have pitted labor against industry when
as a matter of fact, labor and industry are
as dependent on each other as the heart and
the stomach
So-called Tabor laws are as much mis-
homer as would be the term Industry laws -
Law is law, and it should apply to all alike
One of the menaces to future democracy in this
nation are pressure groups which claim to con-
troll blocs of votes and, with this as club,
intimidate lawmakers into passing class legis
lation.
Members of Congress are interested in pre-
serving the liberty of all labor and all the
have shown their defiance of government anc
our armed forces by their repeated disregard
of no-strike pledges, and the earnest pleas O.
the President for uninterrupted production
The American working man is now control
led by what may at first seem to be benevo
lent labor despotism, which perhaps tempo
rarily gives special groups advantages" Blu
this despotism is becoming an evil force tina
is destroying the independence OF American
labor. AS the Reverend Norman Vincent Peale
D. D., says, wage earners are being used t
furnish subservient backs upon which am
bitid1s men may climb to power over thei
feuI %
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-01
LOCAL PASSENGER
TIRE QUOTA CUT
BY 10 PER GEM

The War Price and Ratlon.as
Board announced yesterday l. o.
the February Grade l fasseu5.
tires quota for New Hanover co..
ty has been reduced appIo<lI1la.ss ~.
ly 10 per cent, adding that 'he w
duction was necessary because r 10.
manufacturers curtailed paSse'.s ~,
tire production to increase .u9 ~
put of truck tires. Il,
c. Van Leuven, chairman o. 40
board, also announced tha d WI
present time, the distric. a'- ~.
of the Office of Price AalH-H-st -,
ton may authorize wave o. i WI
three months Limitation apP-!- .s,
10 adjustment of inventor D52,
and redemption of invalid -''g. ...
provided it is shown that the ' Nh
er or intermediate dlstl.2.''- "
no notice of such time -''.., .,s-
The authority to grant a' .+st
expires on February %, END, az, e-t.
that date. all inventorT ap!1 .s,
ments must be limited To l.. TX
incurred during the three '-.'' N,
period Immediately preceding
date of application.
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terry. The line at the nearby in
quiry point was short one.
We went into one of the houses,
where a husband and wife were
trying to sweep the glass off the
floor and to collect the unchanged
furniture and crockery. A great
hole had been blown off the walls,
yet, freakishly, a vase with Christ
mas holly and green's was left
standing on a side table.
II was in the bathroom" the
housewife said. II saw a flash OF
red light and just had moment to
duck my head. Then everything
came down. We'd just got the
place about paid for and fixed it
up little nice, when this had to
come along and happen"
Her husband, who is police con-
stable, insisted on getting out a
bottle of beer to give the American
visitors drink. He said they
would 60 to live with their son-in-
law for a time, and maybe they
could fix the house up enough to
live in. 1t was too early to tell
yet.
He had to search to find some
glasses that were not broken, but
his hand, as he poured the beer,
was steady enough.
What seemed SO awful and so
battling, standing in that ruined
street, was the terrible remoteness
of this kind of war. Somewhere a
hundred or two hundred miles
away, men with great technical
skill had sent bomb into the air.
They had no concern with the area
in which it would fall, nor with
the people whose lives it would
shatter. 1t has the impersonality
of force Of nature, and yet it is
the end product of the most alb.
struse science and involved tech
nology.
1t is not alone those pitiful PEG.
pie and others like them in similar
Incidents whose lives - whose
very pattern Of existence - this
new instrument of war has shat
tered. If it can go a few hundred
miles, it will not be long - five
years or tensyears - before it can
60 few thousand miles. 1t is a
potential threat, it seems to me,
to the very shape of life as we have
known it.
In the street, members of the
emergency squad were sprinkling
chloride of lime. Brown canvas
covered the shapeless things that
had been blown out of the ceme-
terry. Brisk women of the WIS
were moving from house to house,
working out an infinite number of
problems - where to take temper
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-01
Washington Calling
By Marquis Childs

LONDON-The British habit OF
understatement has never been
more apparent than in the various
phases of the futile struggle by the
Nazis to subdue this small, tough,
tenacious island.
When a V-bomb falls, its after
math is known in the Technology
of the rescue services as an in
cident." In the course of recent
tour of southern England to see
the damaged areas, we came upon
an incident"
There had been a street, and
along the street had been a row
of pleasant cottages. Across the
street had been a cemetery. The
bomb had fallen about an hour be-
fore our arrival, in the edge of the
cemetery.
One instant, it had been a peace
full scene. The next instant, the
living in the cottages and the dead
in the graves were strewn along
the street by a blast that swept an
arc of destruction for some dis
lance.
In one block, the cottages were
completely destroyed. In adjoining
blocks, windows and some roofs
ere smashed. Householders were
trying to pick up and put together
their pitiful possessions. Already
IN emergency squad was helping to
put temporary cellophane windows
in the houses that were still habit
able.
The newly dead and injured had
been taken away. Over the whole
scene hung the awful stencil Of
death from the shattered graves.
Immediately after an incident, u
the Women's Volunteer Services
sets up an inquiry point" and
here come relatives and friends
seeking news. They are so pa
tient. They wait in line, as they
wait in line for everything else.
It is very hard, often, to give
any definite word. Bodies are
blown into small fragments by the
cratic path of the blast. Some.
times, only finger with a ring is
found. Police dogs are used to dis
cover bodies Or parts of bodies
that are buried by the explosion.
Sometimes the digging goes on for
days.
Our incident produced rela.
lively few casualties perhaps be-
cause the bomb fell in the GENE
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the war, it appeared, was presidential approval
required on RFC activities, and then only on
major war items.
Congress's trust in Mr.. Jones was well
placed He and his RFC associates are men of
integrity. They operated the agency honestly
and at profit and with no hint of scandal
1t is fortunate for the country that they did
But that is no reason why the RIGS struc-
ure, with it's present looseness, temptation and
potential danger, should not be altered by
Congress and put on sensible, responsible
basis-Whoever is running it.
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Turn 'em over" tell about game
that broke up with all participants
believing "the war is over" and
rushing to pack their bags.
1t seems the pot already con-
tanning Ira, pounds, francs and
guilden was raised one ruble.
An intelligence officer walked
into the situation room and asked
what is the name of that new
outfit that set up command post
in Brussels this morning?"
"Where?" asked a startled col
one1.
VI " the field officer ad-
de-, mas a big red star shoulder
patch
And there is the one about a
mess cook complaining to his top
kick.
These new men in our chow
line. Their English is terrible and
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-01
BY ROBERT EUNSON
Substituting for Kenneth l., Dix

WITH AMERICAN NINTH
ARMY, Jan. 8-DelayedD In
The company commander was
sending a midnight patrol across
the Roer.
And when you cross the river
be sure you ask the password be-
fore you fire. The Russians might
be on the other side" he said.
The Russian soldier now racing
toward Berlin has no more ardent
admirer than the American Dough-
boy on the Western Front.
For instance an outfit from the
450th Infantry Regiment north of
Brachelen has erected a huge sign
in plain view of the German lines
which says:
welcome to Ivan"
Followers of the ancient Ameri-
can pastime often referred to as
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The War
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War Al

IENk
The swift and deadly Pnss1'.
advance on Berlin down tbp w.
the corridor toward the n VAR
which is a bare 50 miles fr,,, ,10 .s
doomed city, holds the centar '' ~,
the war news stage almosf IN +b y.
exclusion of other deveIonn,o1 VIC
in Europe or across the Pacifio
That is true because it is in T..
Oder loop bisected by the Wsrt5e
(Wartha) that the fate of Bsr ,%s
certainly and perhaps of NJ;
Germany seem destined 10 he da
cided within weeks or even doTs
In accounts fsom Warsaw as w.
was written, Russian forces waro
storming forward across the WHO'S
width of the loop both above IVY
below the Warthe. With the s1ift
topping of LandSberg, last city
redoubt east of the Oder in ,bo
Warthe valley, the way was ono,
for the expected battle Of the Oder
crossings but with no definite
evidence yet at hand Ia indicate
that an effective Nazi defencs
front actually exists along the west
bank.
The speed with which Russia,
columns have swept around hone.
lessly isolated Poznan to CONVERGE
by every available route on tbs
Frankfurt ustrin-SchWedt sector
of the Oder raises doubt that he
foe even hopes to hold the river
itself for any length of time.
It is an axiom of military tactics
and particularly of German de.
fensive technique to slow up and
deaden the force of an enemy an.
proach to predetermined holding
line well in front of it, Invariably
up to now the Nazi command has
followed that practice. 1t was es.
pecially called for in the forefield
of the Oder loop both because the
Oder is the last moated position
before Berlin and because the
Russians with $50 miles of hard
winter going behind them and ter.
ribly extended communication
lines to maintain could normally
be expected to slow up soon in
any case.
North of that main Russian front
spreading widely across the Oder
on both sides of the Warthe, Red
advance guards have also ap.
preached so close to the port of
Stettin at the Odor mouth as 10
turn all West Prussia and Pomer.
ania into the same sort Of intern
ment camp for isolated Nazi ar.
mics at is East Prussia.
The same thing is happening
far to the south in the Carpathian
bulge. Russian columns rolling
southwestward from the captured
Silesian industrial hub are report,
ed beyond Cieszyn. That is long
stride through the Moravian gap
that leads via the valley Of the
Morava direct to Vienna and
Bradshaw. The Russian thrust
there threatens to trap all Ger
man forces still in the Carpatnian
bulge and bring the Danubian gap
between the Alps and the Cara
thians under direct menace from
the northeast and north as well
as from the southeast over the
Danubian plains between Buda-
pest and Vienna.
For political and well as military
purposes the Danubian gap mas
incompatible greater significance
for all continental Europe than
Berlin. 1t has so figured in every
major continental campaign IN
history to have created long ago
the axiom that he who holds VI
emma has his hands on the throat
~ oil Throne