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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-11

National League and 81 in the
American. The Chicago White Sox,
Boston Braves and Cincinnati Reds
have suffered the most, each be.
ing washed out eight times.
-Postponements m n S double 4
headers later on - and double
headers mean an extra burden ON
the pitching staffs. Luckily, most
clubs have above average hurting
corps this season, if past perform.
ances are any indication.
OF the 254 starting pitchers thus
far, 125 have gone the route, for
an average of 1872. Last year,
which was hailed as pitchers
year, produced percentage Of
only 1855. /;
he American loop, flashing the
finest pitching in years, shows "a
complete games out of 1875, while
the senior circuit is behind with
So in 1923 starts.
The Detroit Tigers pace all
clubs with II out of Is complete
games. The Chicago White Sox
and Cleveland Indians are close
behind with 10 out of IA and 10
out of is respectively The ST..
Louis Cards with eight out of Is
are best in the National. Philadel-
phia's Phillies show the poorest
percentage with only five out Of
III. !
The Tigers Paul Dizzy Trout
leads all pitchers with five route-
going jobs. Terminate Alton Ben
ton, Hank Borowy of the Yankees,
Russ Christopher of the Athletics
and Paul Derringer of the Cubs
are next with four. -
)! Although 80 homers have been
hit off the pitchers this season
compared to II year ago at
this corresponding date, opposing
batters have nudged them for only,
a PAS batting mark compared to
.256 a year ago. The National loop
paced by the Braves show a .254
figure while the American, with
the surprising White Sox at the
head, is hitting only .237. The
Giants have hit the most homers,
10; made the most hits, 1854; and
scored the most runs 101. The In
dams, with .215 are low in hitting,
and are tied for low with the Reds
: in homers, each having hit but
one.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-11
STORY OF LAST
NAZl BRUTALITY
CONTINUED from Page One)

ton. fighting from room to room
against 40 SIS men who finally
were driven into the cellar where
the last 10 alive surrendered: II
cost the Czechs 50 to 60 men KILL
ed.
At 5 o'clock the Czechs began
broadcasting from the station ana
calling for American help. There
were 90, 900 Germans in the city
at the time, including many thou
sand wounded. The Germans retlr-
ed to buildings and for the rest
of the day put up passive de-
Tense.
"The next morning, Sunday, SIS
tanks suddenly appeared in our
streets and began firing" Capek
said. ''There were tanks from
three divisions. The Germans were
concentrating all their tanks IN
Bohemia in our streets. Our pat
riots answered them behind build
[ings, barriers, everywhere, !;
.SS tank men Filled our civil
|ians from the houses and shot them
in the streets. AS they took block
of houses they went through ana
murdered boys and men. At Mas.
aryck railroad station they lined
up 60 men in groups of 20 and
shot them through the back OF
the head" t.s-
Fighting spread throughout the
city. SIS troops used the Prague
University for headquarters.
Monday morning the Germans
attacked again, and tanks shot up
out city hall, one of the. Oldest
buildings in Prague, and it burn
ed to the ground. They also burn
ed the largest hospital in Prague.
That morning Russian General
Vlassov, who had been command
ing forces fighting with the Ger
many army, decided to aid the
patriots although we hadn't asked
him and sent 1000 men in from
the south.
His men had tanks and guns
but no ammunition Capek said.
He demanded that the Czechs
guarantee to protect all bridges
leading across the river into the
old quarter of the. city, where Ger
man tanks were running loose.
1--WE weren't in a position to
give him this guarantee and his
help was more moral than effec
tive. His men did little fighting
and then retired in an unknown
direction with V1assov leading hi:
column.
"SS men dragged our womer
and children from their homes and
made them ride outside on Tiger
tanks or walk ahead of them SC
the patriots couldn't fire from the
barriers. One German soldier
! even tied two Czech children t.
his side to keep us from shooting
The last German stronghold
was Hradcany Castle, in the north
west part of Prague. In this former
home of Czech royalty, Kra.
Frank, Nazi military governor o.
Czechoslovakia who later was cap
tured by the Americans directed
the fighting. He held severa
Czech ministers as hostages.
cat 6 o'clock last night (Tues
l'day) the Germans came to oul
headquarters and signed an agree
ment with Czech leaders to cease
firing and withdraw their troops
west toward the American lines
But even after they signed the
agreement they continued firing
for several hours. During the night
the German troops withdrew.
cat 9 o'clock this morning, the
Czech flag was raised over Hrad
'cany Castle, four hours after the
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-11
NAMED COACH

DURHAM, May 10.-(P}-Her-
man H. Ribdick, a 1888 graduate
of the North Carolina College for
Negroes and a star end and cap
tain of grid teams there in 1880
and '33 has been named head
football coach at his alma mater,
DR.. James E. Shepard, president
of the college, announced tonight.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-11
Horse Show Will Open Today
Weatherrnan Postpones
All Major League Tits

NEW YORK. May during this young
old
baseball day schedule today with the Westinghouse Louis
remaining.
With 81 playing days of the the 16 big
teams have already posponements
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-11
Ed Barrow Celebrates
18th Birth Anniversary

NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y, May 10
G. Barrow, chair
man of the New York Yankees
board of directors, celebrated his
birthday today by attempting to
blow out the II candles ON his cake.
Among the congratulations re-
ceived by Barrow, who has been
with the Yankees since the fall OF
1920, were those from Ford Flick,
president OF the National League;
Will Harridge, president OF the
American League; and Frank
shaughnessy, president Of the In
ternational loop.
-V
Washing just a few dishes at a
time in. the sink or dishpan lessons
hraakaGe
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-11
Talbert, Segura Found
Not Guilty of Charges

WORK April 1O-H9-Bin Tabert and Francisco (Pancho)
Ne" No. and respectively, cleared by the
S Tennis Association of charges they excessive
T. D oneS President Hocombe Ward said today
e oid that charges were made by Edward Stlman,
"s M Professional Tennis Magazine, apologized
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-11
National League

NHCIUNdI league
St. Louis (Wilks 1-2) at Brook
lyn Gregg Sd.
Cincinnati Dasso 10 at New
York Woiselle 40.
Pittsburgh (Strincevich I'D at
Boston &C. Barrett 0-2).
Chicago Chapman 1-2) at Phil
adelphia (R. Barrett 1-2).
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-11
Boxing Promoter Gives
Fans Their Money Back

HARRISBURG, Pa, May TO-
WH-Promoter Al Cox staged a
boxing show last night with dis
appointing results" from the spec
tators' standpoint.
Two Of the five matches were
declared no-contest and only one
bout went the limit of six rounds.
Today, Cox informed the spec
tators they could have their money
back.
Before World War l and the rise
OF the Nazis, Bavaria was a mon
archy under the Prussian-dominat-
ed German empire.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-11

Each man and woman who has
served in the armed forces OF Can,
ada is entitled to a War Service
Gratuity, depending on length and
place of service. A
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-11

Never pour boiling water over
cold dishes or cold water on hot
dishes. III
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-11

National League
Cincinnati at New York, ppnd.
st. Louis at Brooklyn ppnd.
Pittsburgh at Boston ppnd.
Chicago at Philadelphia ppnd.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-11
American League
PROBABLE PITCHERS
American League

AmerICan League
New York Dubiel 2-D at De-
troit (Newhouser 2-2).
Boston Ferriss 2-0) at Cleve-
land (Bagby 0-3).
Philadelphia christopher 4-D at
Chicago Gopat I'D.
Washington (Pieretti 2-D at st.
Louis kramer I'D night game.
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MY|
8ii:SIAND|

YESTERDAYS RESULTS
American League
New York at Detroit ppnd.
Boston at Cleveland ppnd.
Philadelphia at Chicago ppnd.
Washington at St. Louis night.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-03
Meat Shortage
Hits Trout Life

ALBANY, N. Y. - W.D -
Human beings are not the only
ones affected by the current
meat shortage.
According to latest reports of
New York state conservation de.
partment, hatchery trout are
being seriously affected by the
lack of meat in their diet. Menus
for the fish in New York's
hatcheries are varied according
to conditions, but almost all of
item contain at least so per cent
meat. When the amount of meat
ir the diet is reduced much be-
low so per cent, the fish don t
grow.
The feed situation is becom-
ing so serious, says Sumner
Cowden, superintendent of fish
culture in the conservation de-
partment, that the department
may be forced to cut its propa-
CATION program drastically.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-03
Winged SaiIboats
are Predicted
by Sea Skipper

LONG BEACH, Cal. - W.D -
A veteran Pacific skipper, Capt.
Thomas Keeney, predicts that
tomorrows sailboats will sprout
wings.
Kecney, also an inventor, has
planned use of airfoils on mSsts
of a vessel for rigid sails. He
claims the wings take advan-
tage of every current. have a
tendency to stabilize the vessel,
can sail closer to the wind and
do away with standing and run
ming rigging.
Capt. Keeney says British
ship operators were anxious to
find something like this before
the war when the Board Of
Trade had In preparation a law
obliging every vessel under A.
600 tons to carry emergency
sails.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-03
PapagO Language
Book Published

TUCSON, Ariz. - WD - Can
you speak Papago? Well, don't
worry about it, you can learn
soon.
DR.. William Kurath, professor
of German at the University OF
Arizona, has prepared a Brief
Introduction to Papago, a. native
.iguage of Arizona"
This is believed to be the first
printed record of the language.
A number of years research and
study went into the book.
The bulletin deals with
sounds, word formations, sem
tence structure, vocabulary,
texts and songs OF this Indian
tongue.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-03
Youth Narrowly
Misses Drowning
By-Standev Saves
Man in Camel

Charles Kopp, 10, Of 1892
Phillips street, Detroit, narrow
,ly missed drowning in a canal
Saturday due to the alertness of
a. by-stander.
George LaPlant, who saved
the youth, reported that he had
been near his home at 257 Elm
Lane, when he noticed the boy
fall off of the dock and into the
canal. When the youth began to
60 down LaPlant dove in after
him and broughtNhim out OF the
water.
The Coast Guard was notified
at the Belle Isle station and the
youth was treated for shock.
Kopp told Sheriffs deputies.
who were summoned, that he
had suffered a fainting spell and
would have drowned had 1t not
ben for LaPlant.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-03
Cleveland Curator
Makes Bird Survey


Harry Oberholser, 7l-year-old
internationally recognized orni-
biologist. and Her bert w.
Brandt, Cleveland business man.
have been in Arizona since mid
April making an exhaustive
study of the states bird life in
preparation for a forthcoming
book by Brandt.
The work. TO be published by
the Bird Life Foundation, will
be illustrated with colored pho
tographs taken by Oberholser
and Brandt. Following their
studies i'm the vicinity of Tucson,
they will go to the Huachuca
Mountains near the Mexican bor-
der for further research.
Despite his years, Oberholser
is ready to start out at $50 a m.
each day. He said he did not
mind it any more than he did
when he was a boy of 10 in his
native Brooklyn. Since then he
has conducted explorations in 40
states. nine Canadian prov
inces, and in territories ranging
from central Africa to the
islands of the South China Sea.
From 1895 until 1912, ODER
helser- was an ornithologist- and
biologist for the y. S. Biological
Survey. Following his AZ years
of service with the government.
he was named curator of orni-
=thology at-the- Cleveland Mu-
scum of Natural History. He IS
author of more than 600 books
and pamphlets and owns m
ornithology library of more
than $4,000 volumes.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-03
FBI Mointoins File
of 81 Million Prints

The Identification Division OF
the FBI in Washington, which
serves as a national storehouse
Of fingerprints and other identifi-
cation data, has completed twen-
.y-one years of service to law
enforcement officers in this area
During this time the FBTs fin
cerprint collection has increased
IL ,403.5 per cent.
In making that announcement
today, Mr.. Robert A. Guerin,
Special Agent in Charge of the
Detroit Office of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, related
that the records of the FBI avail
able TO local police officers con-
stitute the greatest collection of
its type-in the world.
TINY BEGINNING
Director j. Edgar Hoover
commenced the present file OF
97,2O0.000 fingerprint cards with
a nucleus of 810,l88 received
from. the International Associa-
ton of Chiefs of Police and the
Federal Reformatory at Leaven-
worth, Kansas, in 1924. Finger
print contributions are received
from 12,438 agencies and during
the fiscal year just ended, APP
proximately seventy per cent 81
THE people arrested and finger
printed had prior criminal re-
cords. Nearly $4,000 fugitives
are located by the FBI for local
law enforcement agencies each
year through flngerprints. There
are $1,000 persons in the. United
/ States for whom Wanted No
tees" are on file with the FBI.
Mr.. Guerin said the facilitie;
Of the FBIs Identification Div
ision are available wi h o u
charge to all law enforcement
agencies and it is possible to de-
termine whether a person has q
criminal record. in a.. matter OF
minutes. FBI experts are equip-
ped to handle any type of iden'
tification problems. Prior to the
war, information was exchanged
with almost every country in
the world and even now, despite
communications difficulties,
flngerprint exchange is main
tanned with forty-five nations.
OBSCURE METHODS
During the early part OF the
Eighteenth Century, each Euro
pean police department e m
ployed a few officers with gooo
visual memories to remember
the faces of criminals so they
could be identified at later
date. Thereafter, the not c g
French criminologist, Alphonse
Bertillon, devised system Of
Identification based on h
theory that certain bony part:
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-03
KIP Was Choice Job
for us Prisoners

MEXICO, Mo. - U.P) - Pfc
Saul E. Silvey spent 10 days
in German prison camp. and
all that time he dreamed of
chicken - but he ate horse
soup.
Silvey, now at home in Mex
leo, is eating chicken now. He
said he was one of the luckier
prisoners. Out of 1000 men the
Nazis picked him to do KIP
duty.
THAT" he said. was the
choice Job in the camp"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-03
Mother Of Three
School Saluiaiorian
Wife Of Soldier
in Graduating Gloss

1'~ WARSAW, N. Y. W.P) -
Mrs. Juanita Robinson, 32-year-
old mother of three children,
was salutatorian of Wyom-
ing Central schools graduating
class here on June IS.
Mrs. Robinson, whose hus-
band, Donald, is a private some
where in Germany with u. S.
forces, explained that she mar
ried quite young and did not
finish her high school studies.
I'm getting ready for what
ever may come in the postwar
period" she declared. Mrs.
Robinson said going back to
school helps to pass the time
away until her husband returns.
A son, Charles, IL, and a
daughter, Mary, 13, attend
school with their mother, while
ve-year-old Johnny talks about
going to kindergarten next year.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-03

Chinese roads are so bad that
more than 200 leaf springs on
Ordnance trucks we're broken in
one month.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-22
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
I READ with pleasure your
L DSR article. It is perfect
shame the way the public has
to accept the rotten transporta-
tation afforded the masses. This
could have been entirely climi-
mated six years ago, when John
O. Heinzc offered 10 put his
system in at cost on Grand River
as a test.
II is the only system yet adj
vancod which would handle the
job, and yet be Self-liquIdatinG
In my humble opinion, II would
have been in long ago If he had
spread the grease, but he was
too honest. ! have not, as yet,
found an engineer who has
pointed out any defect in his
system, so why all the delay?
Go to 1t and let the chips fall
where they may.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-22
THE WORLD ~ REVIEW

Two may bc stated with con-
fidcncc
The first has been a dread in
Great Britain and America. that
Russia might default on her war
with Germany.
I think there has never been
reason for fear Stain would
make a separate peace.
To the end of 1912. when the
German armies were IN the
Caucasus and on the Nolga,
Russia was fighting for her lie.
No ground for peace existed
except the surrender by Russia
of the entire Ukraine.
Stain was too determined 10
be forced 10 such a surrender.
After the landing Of American
and British troops in North
Africa the military situation
changed.
The Germans lost Stalingrad
and began a long retirement
from Russian territory
Russia was more Ntally con-
ccrned than any ally IN the end
ing of all threat from that
quarter.
Stain understood this. but APP
parently Allied statesmen did
not
They continued 10 be obSCSSCd
by the memories of the Bolshc-
Nlk default from the alliance IN
1917 and feared il would be re-
pcatcd.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-22
RIDERS DISCUSS ,DSR

tunity TO view the situation
from within, there is only one
anSwer--politics.
Who manages the DSR? The
street railway commission. How
did these men secure their APP
poIntments? What past expert
cnce did they have in the
transit field? WHAT recon-
mcnded them to the mayor, for
appointment? There is only one
anSwcr-politicS.
LOUIS X. HARRINGTON,
5726 Buckingham road.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-22
knowledge Test
By-DR. SABI>A CONNOLLY

What Charles was il who
signed the Declaration Of
Independence; Ca Charles
Goo year; tbl Charles
Dana; tcl Charles Carroll ?
? Elijah was fed by tho ravens
IN the brook named: (al
Canaan; lbD Chcrith; (c)
Samarla?
IF YOU have a painting en-
titled Eccc Homo, it would
be picture of: taD Christ
with a crown of thorns. (b)
Christ in the Temple: tc)
Christ at the Last Supper?
! The blind bcggar in Steven.
sons Treasure Island" is
called ta) Kew; tb) Tew;
(cl Pew?
)-What Englshman is famous
because even though nc was
wounded he gave his drink
Of water 10 soldier: (a)
Sir Walter Raleigh: Cbl Sir
Walter Scott; (cD Sir Philip
Sidney "
5, Name in each case the COR
rect American War: cal
Battle Of Shiloh: Oh Battle
Of Argonne Forest. fc)
Battle OF santiago; ~
Battle of New Orleans, (e)
Battle of Monmouth?
ANSWERS on opposite psge)
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-22
BRUCE ". PALMER.
TO TIE EDITOR

YOUR story in the Times
L about the DSR giving such
low rates. Are they really tow
for the 10 cents coach fare?
The people own it. but the
drivers decide whether they
will stop. Bus after bus passes
us up, some with room, and
then we stand in the little
hick-town coaches. packed.
Did you ever ride on the New
York subway expresses for 5
cents? Run so miles an hour.
The Illinois Central suburban
trains in Chicago, South Shore
station is II miles from the
Loop. Time, % minutes. Fare
10i2 cents. The 7;22 will be
there at 1922 or 7;23. Large
railroad size, easy riding cars,
and most always a scat. How
far do you get on the DSR in
% minutes? ?
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-22
DREsIDENT RoosEvELT'

DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'
l. message to Congress on the Bret.
ton Woods monetary and banking
plan demands immediate action"
on this extremely complicated and
largely unexplained proposal.
This is quite extraordinary, for
there is nothing immediate" in the
11problems" with which the Breton
Woods conference had to do; it
would not be possible to put the
Breton Woods plan into immedi-
ate" operation; and there is no
reason to suppose that the Breton
Woods formulae would provide an
immediate" solution for interna-
tional problems, if indeed the plan
contains any solutions" at ALL
The Breton Woods program is
to set mainly at the expense of
the United States-an international
monetary fund and an international
bank for POSTWAR "reconstruc-
tion and development" ~
THERE are some very doubtful
L aspects in the Breton Woods
agreement, and every counsel that
comes out of Washington warns us
to expect a protracted period of
bitter fighting before our enemies
surrender.
Surely, therefore, there is TIME
ENOUGH for Congress to consider
carefully any Breton Woods legisla
tion that comes before it, and surely
there is REASON ENOUGH for an
American Congress to know what 1t
is doing when it does it,
One objection which has been
made to the Breton Woods plan is
that it would enable foreign interests
to dominate or to derange our own
industrial economy.
This matter has been laid before
Congress.
On Aug. s, 1914 Senator Butler
of Nebraska read into the proceed
ings an analysis made by Mr. Bron-
son Trevor, New York economist,
which said.
- I
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-22
X N {. PEITIfR,
1895 Harding Ave.
Detroit II. Mich.
By Mai. Gen. David
Prescott BarroWS

god courage of her ma-sos and
of her soldiers. most ol them
sons Of peasants
But this docs not make Rus
Sia the dominenl military power
of the world
ON the contrary She could
not have withSlooG German at
tack, nor could even meet 1t
now were il not for the great
help given her by her Allies
Russia has been and Sull is
dependent on the magnanimiiy
and generosity of Great Britain
and the United States for The
armament and transport Of her
troops m the field.
our state department has
Just released the figures Of the
enormous quantities of every
Kind OF war material furnished
by this country under lend
lease
II amounts t0 "A total value OF
over S. 600 O0O. 600.
Russia is deficient in tho
means 10 make war in every
thing except her great man
power and her splendid artillery.
She has no navy of fighting
consequence.
She has no merchant marine.
The enormous tonnagrS of
goods provided her by this coun-
try and Britain had TO be trans
ported TO her at great peril and
loss by Allied shipping.
The very railroad used 10 de-
liver goods at RusSia's door.
across the mountain plateau Of
Iran, had TO be buHt by Ameri-
can engineers.
Russian airmcn make good
fighters but RuSSian-bullt air
power is insufficient.
At this moment II is Ameri-
can, not Russian bOmbcrs that
are blasting Dresden and Berlin,
and the communications leading
from them. TO soften the ap-
prOachcS of the Russian armies
10 those obicctiycS.
There are many factors IN
Russian military weakness that
can bc enumerated here Tho
rcpuic OF RuSSiaS $ dominating
power is myth.