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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-01
HIGH SCORES MARK
OPENING OF GRID
SEASON in NATION
Army, Wake Forest To
Battle Saturday In One
OF Top Games
BY TED MEIER

NEW YORK, Sept. 80. - Up -
They took the wraps off the big
Name" College Football teams yes
terday and off the results of the
first big Saturday afternoon of the
season, the National Grid picture
Jocks something like this:
East-Army and Navy with Penn
sylvania a dark horse"
New England-Yale, Holy Cross
and Dartmouth.
Midwest-Ohio State, Minnesota,
Michigan, Notre Dame with Indi-
ana and Northwestern up close.
South - Duke, North Carolina,
Wake Forest, Virginia.
Southeast-Georgia Tech, Tenn
essee, Louisiana State.
Southwest-Uncertain, but indi.
cations point to Southern Metho-
dist, Texas and Texas Christian.
Big Six-Oklahoma and Iowa
State.
Missouri Valley-Tulsa and the
Oklahoma Aggies.
Big Seven-Colorado University.
Pacific Coast-Southern Calfor.
mia and Washington.
Taking up where they left off a
year ago the mighty West Point
Cadets chalked up their 10th
straight victory with 32-0 thump-
ing of the Army Air Force Per
sonnel Distribution Command, of
Louisville. All-America Glenn Da-
Wis, the nations highest scorer a
year ago, scored two of the five
touchdowns and passed to Doc
Blanchard for a third.
Counting last year the Cadets
now have rolled up 536 points in 10
games against a mere IS for their
opponents. This week they enter.
tain Wake Forest in one of the top
games of the nation. Wake Forest
lost a tough 7 to 6 decision to
Tennessee at Knoxville yesterday.
Navy, too, showed great power
in swamping Villanova, 49 to 0,
While Pennsylvania swamped
Brown, so to- 0, before $1,000 at
Philadelphia. The Quakers this
year have ample reserves and may
prove stumbling block to both
Army and Navy later in the sea-
son.
This week the Middies invade the
South to battle Duke at Durham in
a top intersectional fray. Duke
rolled up a 76-0 score on Bogue
Field Saturday in a warmup. Penn
takes on Dartmouth in an attrac-
tive contest at Philadelphia. The
Hanover Indians lost to Holy Cross,
13 to 6, yesterday but only after
getting off to a bad start.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-01
VAL GREGG WINS 18TH
AS DODGERS TROUNCE
PHILADELPHIA, 40

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 30-{P)-
Val Gregg won his 18th victory OF
the season and Ed Stanky little
second sacker Of the Brooklyn
Dodgers set a new National League
record for bases on balls in a sea-
son at 148 as the Dodgers defeated
the Philadelphia Phillies Al today
in the final game Of the season be-
fore 2,241 frost bitten fans.
Stankey walked his first time at
bat, deliberately fouling off 80
pitch by Mulcahy before the big
highlander tossed the fourth ball.
Sankey's mark breaks the old re-
cord of 147 set by Jimmy Scheck-
and Of the Chicago Cubs in 1911 but
Is far short Of ITO of Babe Ruth S
in 1923.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-01
Bv WHITNEY MARVIN

NEW YORK, Sept. 30.-R)-
Eddie Brannick said: 81 guess
neople all over the country will
he glad to hear that" and you
knew he was right as nobody
wishes anything but the best for
Mel OFT and the announcement
of his signing a five-yea- contract
as manager of the New York
Giants certainly was not bao
break.
Offhand we can't think of any
baseball figure, or a figure in any
sport, for that matter, that com.
mands more genuine affection and
respect than the little gentleman
from Louisiana, and he's one
manager who would get only
sympathy if his club finished a
wheeling seventh every year.
Even in Brooklyn where the
Giants generally are regarded as
something that crawled out of the
East river and should be pushed
back, an exception was made in
the case u Ott.
In the roaring, rowdy, \Mac.
Phail-Durccher days of the early
4O's when a certain way to com.
nit suicide would be to ride
through the borough over the rive:
shouting ''Durocher is bum"
the appearance of OFT at the plate
was greeted with a modest round
Of applause. The Dodger fans
reserved the right to use the word
"bums'' collectively and affection
ately in referring to their team,
but used in the singular to des.
cribe any one man it was the ulti-
mate in insults. In other words,
tre buns are buns anly when
they are togther.
To be able to walk into this at
mosphere of hostility as manager
of the deSpised Giants and to be
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-01
YANKEES DEFEAT
BOSTON RED S0X
IN FINAL, l2-2
Stirnweiss Takes American
League Batting Crown
By One Point

NEW YORK, Sept. 3D. R -
George Stirnweiss slashed out
three hits today to capture the
American League batting Cham.
pionship as the New York Yam
KEGS blasted the Boston Red Sox
IL to 2, behind Lefty Joe Page. I.
was the Yanks sixteenth victory in
twenty-five meetings with Boston
as the Clubs closed tn 1945 season
before a crowd of 10,548, sending
the Yankees home total attend
ance to 1,014,936.
Stirnweiss shot single to right
in the eighth inning for his third
hit of the day, thereby finishing
With 3o9 to nose out Chicago's Tony
Cuccinello by one point.
The Yanks hoped on Randy
Heflin for five runs in the third
to sew up the game. Charley Kel,
!er's base-loaded triple and Nick
Etten's double were the big blows
They smacked Otis Clark for seven
runs in the eighth, featured by
George Stainback's inside-tne-nark
Homer and Keller's tenth circuit
clout.
Page yielding only seven hits for
his sixth victory.
The seventh-place Red sox scor.
ed unearned tallies in the fifth and
sixth.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-01

and undoubtly will go all out in
desperate attempts to do it. From
news received from the Gate City,
the proud Blackbirds are not faring
so well as expected, dropping a
close 1876 contest to Goldsboro.
and showing no signs Of the mete.
oric eleven, they possessed last
year in the low-scoring affray.
They made only two first downs
in the second half of this conflict
stopped cold at every try by the
strong Earthquake gridders.
The Rocky Mount Wilmington
clash gets under way Friday with
tremendous crowd of well over
1880 expected to witness the battle,
since an additional LOCO seats will
be ready to accommodate larger
groups, who may view it from the
bleachers across on the foes side
of the field.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-01
Cats Prepare For First Conference Tilt

Following three crushing defeats
to non-conference football oppon
ents, Coach Leon Brogden begins
Monday the gigantic task Of get
ting his powerful New Hanover
High School Wildcats in proper
shape for this coming Friday S
crucial conference game with the
mighty Rocky Mount Blackbirds.
Not in the past ten long years
has a Orange and Black gridiron
club registered a win over the
Smoky City pigskin elevens. The
Cats managed in 1943 to battle to a
1912 deadlock, but were tromped
into the sod last season by the
Blackbirds, $50. Always gifted
with exceptional passers, Rocky
Mount have tossed the Hanoverians
dizzy in the past decade behind the
splendid Tipping Of such stars as
Buddy Luper, who performed at
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-01

the race when he hurt leg the
morning of the race.
The Graham pair was the So. 40
favorite of the 47,731 spectators
who contributed to the $4,S77, ,645
handle, second largest in racing
history. The record of $5,O16, 745
was made at Belmont Sept. o.
The crowd also set a world S
daily double record by betting
$23S, ,316. The old mark was $2lO,-
882.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-01

NO errors. Runs batted in: Finney
Mayo, Richards. Stephens, McQulnn,
Greneberg a.. Two base nits; Gut.
ter1dse, Potter, McQuinn. Home runs:
Greenberg. Sacrifice hits: Webb Mavo
Douole plays: Richards to Mayo; Out.
Jaw to Mayo to York. Left on bases: St.
LOUIS o Detroit 9. Bases on balls: off
Struck out: by Trucks 3. by Potter by
Newhouser S. Hits-off: Trucks 3 in ia
innings; off Newho,1ser in 2 % in
nings off Benton, no hits in l innings
Mlnnlng pitcher: Newhouser. Umpires.
rlpgras, Berry, Rue and Hubbard. Los
.ng pitcher: Potter. Attendance official:
55S2. Time: 2:23. 0A"i
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-01
S TAN DIN CS

xDenotes tie.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12
New Landing
On BorneO

MANILA July II GNS)-Aus-
tralian troops completed control
of the Balikpapan area today with
a new amphibiouS landing.
Elements of the veteran AuSSic
Seventh Division went ashore at
Dunabora. four miles north of
Penadjam. Their way was pre-
pared by a shattering lombard
ment by units Of the L. S. Seventh
Fleet but the amphibiouS forces
met no opposition
Gen. Macarthur announced the
new landing.
Though Japanese resistance was
lacking at DjinaboTa. enemy forces
were concentrated in considerable
strength about one mile east of
the recently captured MangEar
airdrome, II miles east of Balik-
papan.
Despite this opposition. the
Seventh Division continued 10 push
forward along the coastal highway,
east of Manggar. and completed
seizure Of all the PandanSair oil
refinery
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12
Bomb Returns to B-29:
Fires Reverse Gravity

GUAM, July IL (INS) - Up
drafts from fires set by B-29s in
an incendiary raid on the Jap city
of Wakayama were so intense
they reversed the law of gravity.
The terrific fire-created drafts
thrust a fused incendiary bomb
back into the bomb bay of a
SGpcrfort commanded by Maj.
Robert II. Langdale of Houston,
Tex. Another updraft then
Tipped the Superfort on its back.
The fantastic experience OF
Langdale's crew IN yesterday S
fivc-pronged raid on Honshu was
disclosed tonight by 2lSt Bomber
Command headquarters on Guam.
Langdale's plane, headquarters
said ran INTO trouble after drop
ping ItSN bombs over Wakayama.
SupcriortS which preceded his
bomber over the target had set
fierce fires surging miles into the
sky and thermal updrafts of tre-
mCndOuS power were created.
AftCr all the Superforts bombs
were dropped the crewmcn were
amazed 10 see them climb back
into the homh-bay, tear away the
ho~b-'ay door and damage the
horizontal stabllizCr.
In q ldlf-mlnute Of weird &C
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12
REPORT NEW RAIDS

According to the enemy radio,
some $50 ThundeFbelts and Mus
tangs from Okinawa took up the
assault hitting airfelds on the
southern Jap island of Kyushu for
TWO hours this morning.
The carrier raid Tuesday clearly
indicated that the 1000 and more
L. s navy planes which roamed
the skies over Tokyo were un-
challenged masters of Japan's S
skies.
(Ne now control the sea
fright up TO Japan" Secretary
Of the Navy ForreStal said last
night i'm "A radio address. Best
estimates by experts indicate
50 per cent of the enemy's
plane production has been de-
strOyed, he said.)
Though Adm NimitZ announced
that Task Force IS definitely de-
Stroyed Is Jap planes and dam
aged so others Tuesday morning
alone. only two of these were air.
borne This was taken TO indi-
cate that the enemy declined to
accept the Americans challenge
TO come out and fight"
(The United Press, quoting
Continued on Page 2. Col. 6)
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12
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Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12

ton, a more intense up-draft sud-
denly flipped the B-29 over on
its back in a sort of half-loop and
reversing its direction completely.
"When we were caught In the
thermal up-draft, IL was like
being i'm the middle of one Of
those horror movies" said the
bombadier, 1t. Richard r. Bas-
kett of Holton. Kan.
Water TASKS and loose equip
ment Of all kinds were floating
around i'm midair inside the ship,
sometimes banging against US
when we weren't looking"
Navigator 1t. Louis Avrami OF
Atlantic City told of the unex-
pected flip-flop executed by the
huge Superfort.
"It happened so suddenly"
he said, that when 1 looked
through the bomb-bay expecting
90 see fires I saw stars and the
moon because I was actually
looking up.
''Then I turned my head I'm
the other direction and saw the
fires below. For a split second
wondered II I was dead"
Landdale's feat in righting the
and returning safely TO
Tinian was hailed by fellow pilots
as a remarkable job.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12
Navy Man Boasts
Record Brood of "A

WINONA. MINI. July IL CUPl
The navy refused to take a
back seat today for Pfc. Wilbert
(Pops) FlcuIy, former Port Huron
mail carrier whose l3 children
led his friends to hail him as the
army's champion father.
Seaman l c Roman Springer of
Winona pointed proudly to his
own family of II Youngsters as
being probably the largest OF any
man in uniform
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12
Ford Company Loses
GI Bill Of Rights Test

BOISE, Ida. July II fUP)-In
one of the first court applications
Of the CT Bill of Rights. the Ford
Motor Co. has been ordered 10
fulfill the provisions of its con-
tract agreement with A. +. Stock
ton. Emmett, Ida.
Stockton, a retired army major,
had all rights and privileges Of his
sales agreement with the motor
company restored in a ruling de
livered late yesterday by Federal
Judge Chase a. Clark. The judg-
ment also provided that the Ford
company pay all legal costs.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12
Stassen Of TO Pacific

Los ANGELES. July II tUP)
-Cmdr. Harold StaSsen, former
governor of Minnesota, was en-
route 10 San Francisco and Pa
ctic naval duty today after urg-
ing immediate and unanimous
adoption of the United Nations
Chartcr.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12
France De(ordtes
90 u. 5. Generals

PARIS, July II GNS)-Gen.
Alphonse JUN, chief of the French
general staff, decorated 90 high
ranking American officers today
The Americans included 1t. Gen
John Lee. chief OF The communi-
cations zone in France Maj Gen
John T. Lewis. chief Of the
SHAEF mission IN France, and his
chief assistant, Col Allen X. Sib-
ley.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12
Delivery Men Fail
To Heed WLR

NEW YORK, July II up
Newspaper delivery men contin-
ued their strike against the New
York Publishers Association to-
day in spite OF a War Labor
Board ultimatum that they return
to work by 6 a m or lose their
closed shop privilege
Louis Waldman. union attorney.
announced ne would take the issue
10 the public IN d radio address
at $50 p. m. over station WEAt
(NBC) and that ne would make
no statements on the strike until
then.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12
Barbara Hutton Sues
For Third Divorce

LOS ANGELES. July Il GNSl
For the third time. Barbara
Hutton. dime store heireSS, had
bowed 10 matrimonial misfortune
today, filing suit for divorce from
Cary Grant
The Woolworth queer charged,
through her attorney Jerry Gics-
Ter, that Grant eau ed her 'griev-
GUS mental distress.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12
Murder Bail Reduced

BRIDGEPORT. Conn. July II
CUPl-SuRerior Court Judge VIII
liam II Comley today reduced
from $4,000 10 $4,000 the bail
under which Mrs Imogene Ste
venS is held on charges Of killing
l9-year-old Albert KovacS in the
home of neighbor, Charles
Milton.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12
Ford Go. AdaptS Cars
.Or MANNED Veterans

Special controls to make driving
possible will be standard equip
ment on postwar cars sold 10 vet
Grams who have lost arms or legs
In service.
"No man who lost limb in
the armed services OF our coun-
try In this war is going to have
20 pay anything extra to drive a
Ford automobile" Henry Ford
said in announcing the COM
pany's policy today.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12
TOLEDOAN 5OOOOOTH YANK TO LEAVE EUROPE

PARIS, July ii (INS)-Pfc. John - Pinney of
Toledo boarded the transport Marine Angel at lie HaNre
today and became the hamilenth American soldier To
leave Europe since We Day. Told that he held this dis
tncton he said that AS long get there, don't mind
about the other i99 999 others who beat me to it,
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12

"The least we can do for these
men Is Go be sure that they
get an even break with men who
come back without major dis
abilities, and we do not want
any profit incentive TO enter into
this picture"
The special controls, varied to
meet individual needs, are adapt
able TO new and prewar models Of
the Lincoln and Mercury, as well
as the Ford cars.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12
BelleESIeCafe Bans
TOOScarlt SUN Suits

sidinc that there had been an in
CreaSing number gof complaints
about Scanty garb by casino
diners, the commission ruled that
street clothes, or something APP
preaching street clothes. would be
required for cafeteria patrons.
Women and girls are the worst
offenders, Considine said.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12
DISPLEASED, But OBEY

Rank and file members of the
union expressed themselves as be-
ing "diSpleased" over the WLB
directive but said they would obey
IL
Ballard said that the Detroit
and Ebling strikes may be the
forerUnner of d citywide milk
strike
"All Of our contracts expired
June l." said Ballard, land none
of them has been renewed. II
We don't get Justice we may be
fOrceu To strike"
Whether general strike Is
called. depends upon the Justice
received from the WLB in the
Ebling and Detroit creamery
cases. union members said.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12
4I,000 III FIy Home

LONDON, July IL CUPb-The
L. S Air Transport Command has
flown more than 41000 sick and
wounded American soldiers back
TO the United States from the
European theater since January,
ll99iff ll99iff,- II was disclosed today.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12
Moran New Labor Aide

WASHINGTON. July II tUP)
President Truman has appointed
Edward c. Moran. former con-
gresham from Maine. as second
assistant secretary of labor. the
Mhitc House announced TODAY.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12
2-Ddy Delay
In Deliveries
Is Expected

The strike Of 1000 dairy
workers that tied up milk
deliveries TO 100000 Detroit
persons and closed eight
plants ended today.
Decision 10 end the strike was
reache this noon a a mass meet
ing held in the hall OF Local 157
UAW-CIO. al Fourteenth and
McGraw
Office workers were reporting
back on their jobs this afternoon
and will be followed by other en-
ployes tonight and tomorrow
morning.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12
DELAY IN DELIVERIES

Milk deliveries. however, may
not be- made until Friday or Sat
urday due 10 cleaning Of contain
ers. etc. Russell Ballard, prcsi-
dent o. the Dairy Workers Union,
Go. said following the meeting.
The strike which closed all
plants of the Detroit and Ebling
Creamery companies started at
1901 a. m Monday as a result Of
a dispute over branch office man
ayers serving a. cashiers
The back 10 work meeting was
called by union officers after the
War Labor Board issued a diree-
tive yesterday afternoon ordering
the strikers 10 return 10 their
iok4
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12

The Tokyo radio, which had
been predicting that the carrier
raids would "be continued for
several days" said that the task
force had broken off its assault
on the capital, but added that the
American striking force lis still
IN the seas in the vicinity of our
homeland.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12
ChennauIf
FlierS to
Aid Army

RUNNING. July Il cUPl-The
Fourteenth Airforce has achieved
It's objective of sweeping japanese
planes from China's skies, 1t Gen.
Chennault declared today.
Meanwhile. the Chinese Central
News agency reported that Japa-
nese forces were hurrledIy aban-
doning their entire salient IN
southern Kiangsi Province where
they have been clinginG 10 a num-
Der OF former American airbases
since last January.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12
Hiqhways Probe Voted

WASHINGTON. July II GNS)
The House today voted SIS 000
for a congressional investigation
of the Pan-American and Alcan
highways.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12
ANDERSON ASKS ALCOHOL MAKING BAN

WASHINGTON, July IL tfNSt-SeCrrtary of agrf-
culture Anderson has recommended to the NPB that in
Of the livestock feed grain shortage grain should
used for the manufacture of beverage alcohol after
July. In "A letter to julius A. Krug, WPB chairman, ii
was disclosed today Anderson also expressed the view
that only minimum quantity of grain should Ne used for
industrial alcohol after this month.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12
Times Photo
.iff to get the milk ;.

Mrs. Victoria Love OF 26S45
New York in Inkster, doesn't be-
long TO a union.
She doesn't know whether the
Detroit and Ebling creamery COM
.panieS or the United Dairy Work.
ers, CIO, were at fault. Nv am
milk strike.
But she does know that her
seven-week-old daughter, Viciti
heryl, is suffering from a
stomach disorder and collie.
When Vicki Sheryl was born
the doctor prescribed a formula
and Mrs. Love made it with Eb-
ling milk. Seven weeks later the
strike was called and Ebling milk
was not obtainable.
TRIES ANOTHER BRAND
She tried another brand and the
child became ill--not because OF
the brand but because, she ex-
planned, once her baby's formula
was started with a particular
brand that's same one must be
used throughout.
Late Monday evening Mrs. Love
read in The Detroit Times where
Russell Ballard, president of the
Dairy Workers Union, stated that
his union would make deliveries
to invalids, hospitals and homes
where children were on special
formulas. Ballard said he didn't
want to inconvenience people.
That was great news, she said,
because she expected to get the
formula milk the next morning.
No delivery man made his appear
ance. She went TO neighborhood
branch of the company but was
told she could have no milk.
CALLS THE UNION
She called the union. Clerks
told her to call the board Of
health. She called the board Of
health. The board of health told
her TO call the police. She called
Detroit police and they referred
her TO Dearborn police who told
her they could do nothing because
she didn't live in Dearborn.
The baby's condition was be-
! Continued on Page 2, Col. ~
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12
JAPS WITHDRAWING

Chennault said the Fourteenth s
next objective would be support
Of Chinese land armies now push
ing japanese ground forces back
on several sectors.
Chennault said the japanese
were shifting many airforce units
from the home islands 10 Man
churia. where the enemy has "nu-
merouS excellent airbaseS which
are operational on moment $
notice
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12

CAMDEN, y. j., July IL (UP)-Three thousand
striking weders returned work the New York Ship
building Corp today after union leaders warned them the
NWLB would not act wage increase demands until
they ended their WalkOut.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12
Last Last Man Is Dead

LOS ANGELES. July II INS)
Death has taken the last man
of the Last Mans Club, Civil War
Veteran George w. Scitz. 1O3
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12
TRUMAN TO RESIDE AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE

LONDON. July IL INS)-Defnte arrangements
made today for President Truman 10 reside with
King George and Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace
when he visits London.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12

Swim suits and So-callcd sun
suits that leave little or nothing
TO the imagination are all right in
their place, the city parks and
recreation commission decided to-
day. but their place is definitely
not the Belle Isle casinos cafe
terra.
Informed by Supt. John J. Con-
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12
FEW TARGETS IN MONTH

The general declared that he
'belleVed the Japanese had drained
practically all their air strength
from southeast Asia with only an
occasional enemy plane making a
linking hop between Indo-China
and China providing target for
the Fourteenth's gunners a I
month.
He revealed that during the
Okinawa battle the Fourteenth
raided Japans Shanghai bases so
effectively that no enemy planes
from that area participated in the
strikes against American invasion
forces
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-12
y IL X ST RIk +
CALL D o
.a413z:S1S
2s DIE IN SOUTH AFRICA PLANE CRASH

LONDON, July IL (UP)-A CapetOwn dispatch TO
the Exchange Telegraph said Dakota transport crashed
in Kenya colony today, killing "a South African soldiers
and the of four.