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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21
St. Louis Outfielder
Is Indicted By Army

PHILADELPHIA, March 20.
- U.H - Danny Litwhiler, St.
Louis Cardinal outfielder, was
sinducted into the United States
Army here today and departed
for the reception center at New
Cumberland, Pa.
Litwhiler, who was accepted
for limited service after his
second physical examination at
the local induction center sew.
eral weeks ago, came down
from his home at Ringtown,
Pa. to be indicted.
The hard hitting LitWhiler is
the second regular outfielder of
the World Champion Cardinals
to enter the service. Stan Musial
recently entered the Navy.
LitWhiler was the first major
league ball player to be defer
red by Selective Service because
he was considered necessary to
the morale of the country. He
was classified IA.
Litwhiler started his major
league career with the Phil
lies, and was traded to the Card
inals in June. 1913, along with
Earl Naylor, for Herman Coax
err Triplett, Dain Clay, and FL
win Buster Adams.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21

lively simple in some industries
on national scale
The board itself said the search
for guaranteed annual wage is
port of the scarf for continuity
of employment which is perhaps
the most vital economic and so
cial objective of our times
The President commented thai
guaranteed wages would be rela
and difficult in others.
The President commented that
guaranteed wages would be rela
lively simple in some industries
and difficult in others.
The WLB, for example, in its re-
port to the White House recon-
mending the study, said 1t hac
rejected a union-demanded gusran'
teed wage in the steel industry be.
cause in its present form it woulc
subject the industry to such Sc
rious financial risks, not withstand
ing the carry-back and other pro
visions of the tax laws, as to be
unWorkable.
The board reported that only
some so or go plans of this sort
are in existence; that an undeter
mined number have been tried ane
discontinued.
"Some of the existing plans, il
said. "are reported to be success
full. with benefits resulting to the
employers as we'll as to the work
ers through the greater regulariza'
ton of production and employment
"Au but a few Of the plans, how
ever. have been limited to con
sumner goods industries or retail
trades in which relatively steady
demand prevails, and none ap
pears to have been attempted jr
durable goods industry like steel
where the demand has fluctuateo
widely from year to year, being
dependent in turn upon the fuctu
atine needs of other industries"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21

The league is still open to srv
service or civilian teams wish;n .
to enter. and the final meeting is
scheduled to be held Monday
night, April 2, at the City Recrea.
ton Department offices. 223 Prin.
cess street, at 7:3o O'Clock
The rules Of the league .,
adopted at the previous meeting
require each team to paw 81 4;
entry fee, which will be refunded
at the end Of the season unless
they break some rules which NAV
require fine. Each team will al.
so provide balls with which tn
play; one new ball when thew are
the home team and one used bali
when they are the visiting team.
Each team is required to paw the
umpire fee of $3.50 at each game
Vance Chadwick, director OF
athletics for the Recreation De.
partment, has announced that the
top civilian and service teams In
the league would be eligible to en-.
ter the State Softball Champion.
ship tournament in the late sum.
mer. Last year City Optical and
the 141st Adult. entered the
State affair in Gastonia.
Other teams desiring to enter
the league are asked to contact
Vance Chadwick, at the City Rec
reation Department.. The deadline
for additional entries has been set
at April @ The first game will be
nlaved Anril LIZ
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21
The Sports Trail
BY WHITNEY MARTIN

NEW YORK, March 2O.-(R-
Larry MacPhails past was bound
to catch up with him sooner OF
later, SO when a ball player who
had been working out with the
Washington Senators mysteriously
disappeared and a snatch was SUI.
spected it was only natural to put
the finger on the guy who tried
to kidnap the Kaiser, particularly
as the player was found in Mac.
Phail's possession, so to speak
The player involved was nc
ordinary player, and it developed
the suspected snatch was no snatch
at all and MacPhail was an inNc.
ent as the suspect in any who.
done-it who has the finger of sus.
picion poking at him from all d.
rections while the real culprit
turns out to be the man in the
green hat.
MacPhail just happened to be
President of the New York
Yankees, the club with which the
player turned up, and he just hap
pened to hitch-hike a ride on the
government officials plane which
carried the player from Wash.
ington to Atlantic City, and he
just happened to chaperone the
young man around the Yankee dig
gings. In fact, MacPhail is just
one of the happeness boys.
The Government explained the
situation quite lucidly. The player
concerned is courageous 1t. Bert
R. Shepard, who lost a leg in &C.
ton as a fighter pilot and is de.
termined that misfortune shall
not interfere with his ambition to
be a baseball player.
He had been working out with
the Senators, had expressed a de.
sire to work out with the Yankees,
and presto, it was arranged, trans
nortation and all. Apparently no
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21
The Sports Trail
Past OfLarry MacPhail
Has Caught Up With Hin,

body thought to tell Clark Grit
fifth what was going on and he~was
left to draw his own conclusions.
The Old Fox was quick on the
draw, too.
Anyway, the whole incident was
match in cavern. 1t subsidized
after one brief headline flare, but
if it did nothing else it showed
MacPhail's magnetism wnen it
comes to publicity. He doesn't
have to do anything and it comes
to him, following him around like
pup follows butchers boy. Or
did follow him when the butchers
needed boy. Now the boys need
a butcher.
MacPnail stirred up the Nation
al League by doing everything
from challenging the whole Cardi-
nal team to come out and fight,
you, to winning a pennant for
Brooklyn. He's been in the Ameri-
can League a matter of weeks and
already is cracking the headlines
without even trying.
But, as mentioned, when 1t.
Shepard, whose determination
should prove an inspiration to
other manned veterans, diaap-
peared' and then turned up in the
Yankee camp and snatch was
suspected, who else could be sus-
pended but MacPhail, who tried
to kidnap the Kaiser and came
back with an ash tray.
Say, nobody ever thought to con-
meet Larry with the Famous Flint
Rhem case. Rhem, a Cardinal
pitcher, showed up bleary-eyed
one day with the story he had been
kidnapped the night before from
in front of his hotel and freed
todrink hard ikker all night.
It's reported some of his team
mates were b1eary-eyed the next
day from standing at the same
spot all night waiting to be kid
Mapped.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21
Cuff: Notes
BY JACK STILLMAN

r;tv Recreation. Department
lne snonsor the municipal soft
WI ,sssue for senior teams this
bau .o ~, and so far six teams have
'es s.sG with others expressing the
en' stre to get into the competitor.
de s1.ose teams entering this year
me 4he Municipal Champion City
sar1 at g team, with Louis Keith at
op'it saln,: the Ethyl-Dow Chemi-
the l ~ nine managed by Max
ca .;s+er under the guidance OF
kssi Dillon; the Prisoner of War
u. rJs with 1t. Hazel managing
sua' tsan3: and the City Fire De-
the .oent under the watchful eye
II pf'E E. E. casteen' ~,
o. mis- hi year the Prisoner of War
i .rds entering municipal soft.
ss.i1 competition for the first time
oan n.t the services of 10 10 White,
ovar outfielder for the Detroit
T lgl White has taken off his
L.sssball uniform-that is official
y, u'' md is busy guarding German
~, ;, e at the POW camp at
IL, y,,' old Marine hospital.
el Tbe City Optical nine plans to
,.t their spring practicing under.
81 this afternoon at 5 o'clock al
w. Legion stadium, their Spring
ntbers planning to enter teams
!, tho municipal league this sea-
AN are the YMCA, Bluethenthal
I srmv Air Base, Industrial USO,
1.Ee Forest and Camp Davis.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21
ALTDAMM TAKEN
BY RED FORCES
Continued from Page One)

ian frontier into Czechoslovakia In
drive outflanking Moravska-Os-
trava, Czechoslovakia's third city
and gateway to the Moravian Gap
leading to Vienna and Prague.
The Germans told of fighting
near Troppau (Opava}, two miles
inside Moravia, and II miles
northwest of Moravska-Ostrava.
Moscow dispatches said mean
while that Russian shock troops,
fighting inside besieged Breslau,
Upper Silesian capital 100 miles
northwest of Moravska-Ostrava,
had captured number of build
ings of the Junkers auto factory
and had gained on the approaches
to the central freight station. Five
German counterattacks were re-
pulsed at Hindenburg Square in
the southern part of Breslau, a
city of $4,000 and the Reich S
eighth largest.
The Germans reported that Red
Army units fighting to clean out
pocketed German garrisons on
their Baltic flank had made new
generations toward the Polish
port of Gdynia and nearby Dan
zig on the gulf of Danzig.
Braunsberg, stronghold of the
Teutonic knights in the middle
ages, was taken by troops of the
Third White Russian Army after
the Germans, trapped in the
shrinking East Prussian coastal
pocket, were reported to have
opened coastal bikes and turned
the loWlands into a big lake in
an effort to halt the Soviet drive.
The Russian Army newspaper Red
Star said the Germans were I'M
able to put up organized resistance.
Premier Marshal Stalin's order
Of the day announcing capture of
the important communications
center, miles southwest of be-
sieged Koenigsberg, revealed that
Marshal Alexander M. Vassilev-
sky, 47-year-old chief of the Red
Army General Staff, was COM
manding the Third White Russian
Army. He succeeded the late Gen.
Ivan Cherniakhovsky, who was
killed in action last month.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21
TEAMS INCREASE
MILES OF TRAVEL
in MAJOR CLUBS
League Cars Arrange Pro.
gram To Save Travel
In Man-Miles

NEW YORK, March 2.-W.P)-
National League clubs will travel
8, 76o more team miles this season
than they did last, the 1915 sche-
dule released tonight revealed.
Calling for the usual. 154-game
schedule opening April II and clos.
ing September 30, the eight clubs
will travel total of 81, 47e team
miles against 85,714 in 1914.
However, the National, like the
American, hopes to achieve the
70 per cent cut stipulated in the
voluntary travel reduction pro-
gram which the major leagues
submitted to the Office of Defense
Transportation by elimination OIL
the all-star game, reducing the
number OF players taken on short
trips and having umpire assign.
ments in each city run longer.
The 1915 American league sche
dule calls for 6,47O more team
miles Of travel than last year but
under the programs worked out by
William Harridge and Ford Frick
with j. Monroe johnson, head OF
the ODT, the travel saving viii.
come in man-miles.
With the American league goins
back to its old custom of having
the season open a day early ir
Washington, the National openers
are scheduled for April II with
New York at Boston, Philadelphia
at Brooklyn, Pittsburgh at Cincin
natl and St. Louis at Chicago.
New York, Philadelphia anc
Pittsburgh will open their home
seasons April 20 against Brooklyn
Boston and Chicago respectively
while St. Louis will not open a
Sportsmans Park until day
later against Cincinnati.
With the World Champion Card
inals again leading the way, the
1945 schedule calls for a tota
of 116 night games. AS was the
case last year when unlimited nigh
baseball also was permitted, the
Cardinals will play more games
under the lights than in daylight
They have scheduled 46 after darl
games, leaving 81 for the daylight
hours. Brooklyn, New York, Phila
delphia, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati
have carded IA night games each
with the Reds also arranging fol
two twilight contests.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21
TED MEIER

NEW YORK, March 20.-P)-
Promoter Mike Jacobs predicted
today a gate of 100000 for the
anticipated postwar return bout be-
tween Heavyweight Champion Joe
Louis and Challenger Billy Conn.
Jacobs, the country's leading fis-
tic promoter who recently observ-
ed his 65th birthday, estimated
receipts from persons actually see
ing the scrap at $2,O00,0O0 Sring-
side seats are expected to be pric-
ed at 5000 with the remaining S5,-
100000 coming from television
rights.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21
GIANTS PREDICT
BRIGHT FUTURE
IN MOUND STAFF
Mel OFT Says Ace Relief
Pitcher Is Slated For
More Rest

LAKEWOOD, N. j., March 0
Manager Mel OFT refused to
guess where his New York Giants
would finish this year, but he did
predict today that Ace Relief
Pitcher Ace T. Adams would not
appear in as many games as In
each of the past three seasons,
when he toiled in virtually every
tilt. That is another way OF saying
that the Giants will present their
best hurting corps since OFT assum-
ed control in 1913.
"The addition of Ray Harrel,
2O-game winner from San Fran
cisco. Loren Balm from Minneapo-
lis and Bill I,mmerich from Roch-
ester, plus the return OF Van Mum
60, discharged from the Army last
winter" OFT said, should bolster
our mound staff and give us seven
starting pitchers Bill Voiselle
should repeat his great 1914 seas
on and Harry Feldman and Left
handler Ewald Pyle have looked
good in practice thus far. Adams,
of course, will be the chief fire
man.
1--WE should have better all
around team than the one which
finished in fifth place last october.
Our infield is steadier, our out
field is stronger, especially in re-
serves, but catching is the weak
link. If we can come up with an
other good catcher to help out
Ernie LOMBARD, and another util-
ity infielder, we're apt to make
trouble for the rest of the league. -
OFT expects his sophomore in
field of Phil Weintraub at first,
George Hausmann at second, Bud
dy Kerr at short and Nap Reyes
at third to function more smoothly
this year.
With a full season behind them,
Hausmann, Kerr and Reyes should
overcome their nervousness which
hampered their play last year.
Kerr has gained weight and added
power to his hitting while Vein
traub should bat in close to 100
runs if he avoids injury. Billy Jur-
ges, if he arrives, and perhaps,
Roy Nichols, with Jersey City last
year, will be our utility infielders. !"
The Giants outfield as in the
past, will supply most of the power
at the plate. Mel, himself, will
play right field. Joe Medwick, the
clubs leading hitter last year, al
though presently nursing sprain-
ed back, has the left field post
cinched, while Johnny Rucker and
Leon Treadway will fight it out
for center field. Those four, to-
gether with Bruce Sloan, Charlie
Mead, Dan Gardella and Steve FL
lipowicz, give the Giants eight
picketmen.
lombard, anxious to redeem
himself, after experiencing his
worst year since coming up to the
majors in 1881, is the hardest
worker in camp. Ray Berries and
John Toncoff, a rookie from Jersey
City are the other receivers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21

Local fight fans will get another
chance to witness "bang-up" at
fair in the ITALIAN Hall ring Mon
day night when Johnnie Marvin
(above) of Washington, D. c..
meets Sgt. Lee Croft, of Camp
Mackall, it was announced last
night by Promoter Kid Ellis.
Marvin is the boxer who defeated
Tiny Taylor, Panama heavyweight
champion. Monday night Marvin
will fight his 86th professional box
ing match, and is slated to give
Croft a test of skill and endurance
Croft won over frankie Ryan
by KO in the third round in his
last appearance here, and last
Wednesday night at Charlotte, he
defeated X. 0. Levey, of Brooklyn,
N. Y, within one minute and ten
seconds after the first bell sounded.
This is his sixth straight knock
out, none lasting longer than three
rounds.
Croft was signed to appear in
the semi-final bout of the Jake
Lamotte-Lou Schwartz headliner a.
the USO auditorium last Monday
night, but it was reported here
that his leave was cancelled at
Camp Mackall and he failed to
make The Norfolk appearance.
The paratroopeE was signed to
meet Whizzer White in the Nor
folk bouts.
Promoter Ellis reports that he
has lined up his best supporting
card since he began promoting
in Wilmington. The rest of the
bouts will be announced later. Adj
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21
SNEAD, NELSON
TIE FOR SECOND
STRAIGHT TIME
Two Top Men In Golf
Wind Up In A See-Saw
1S-Hole Playoff
By FRITZ LITTLEJOHN

CHARLOTTE, March 20.-R-
Sammy Snead and Byron Nelson.
the two top men in golf, wound
up all square today in a see-saw
18-hole playoff for first place in
the $4,000 Charlotte open golf
tournament
They fired til r e-under-par
rounds and will play off tomorrow
at 1870 p. m. (EWT).
For the second straight day
Snead staggered home for dead.
lock after having the top prize OF
81, 900 in war bonds in his grasp.
along with a couple Of tournament
winning records. Each finished the
regulation Y holes in 272, 16 under
par.
Again it was relatively easy 18th
hole, 490-yard five built for the
Singing Snead that cost him the
tournament trophy. There he hit
his second shot out of bounds, into
parallel Roswell Avenue, then top
ped his third shot before dropping
7-iron near the hole and sinking
7-foot putt for a five, against
Nelson birdie four that squared
the match.
Each had par three on 10.
The lead changed hands four
times. Nelson built two-up mar
gin by birdying the second and
third holes, but lost the margin
with six on No. 4 where he top.
ped bad lie for his first double
boeey in weeks.
Snead went ahead with a 25-
foot putt for an eagle three on.
seven, and Nelson, keeping a
promise that he would have no
bogeys on No. 9 where he lost last
years tournament, got the stroke
back with a par three on the hole
while Sammy was taking his
fourth DOGGY there in five rounds.
Nelson went one UP when Snead
missed the snort 18th green but
snead picked up shots on IA when
Nelson pushed his drive into the
woods and on Is, with a birdie
three.
Then Snead blew his chances on
II, where normal birdie four would
have assured him his fourth
tournament victory in row and
his seventh in the winter swing
both records.
1t was the second playoff meet
ing of the two foremost shotmakers
now in business, Snead having
beaten Nelson one up in 10 holes
at Gulfport, Miss, last month.
A gallery of some 5000 fans fol-
lowed the play today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21
Ex-Butcher Boy Is Set
For Friday Night Shov

Lave ACV4lI, u uIllOl HCoVy Weight
champion, who engages rugged
Texas Jack" O'Brien at the Tha-
liam Hall arena Friday night, has
been declared natural born"
wrestler. He has never made a
sturdy of leverage, nerve-centers
or the Like, but seemed to know
from the start that whenever he
curled an opponent, they invar-
iably bowed to his superior
strength.
Levin has never had the idea OF
patterning his style after some of
the old-timers or wrestlerest of
the modern school. He just went
in and grappled as instinct told
him, and the result is that he is
now monarch of all he surveys in
the mat world.
Up to his victory over Ali Bahia,
the ex-butcher boy was more OF
less a favorite to the fans around
New York. He Immediately plan
ned for a nationwide tour. giving
all challengers a chance to shoot
for his crown. He is still Offer1ng
that opportunity to the nation 5
wrestlers.
Missing from his end of Friday
nights show will be the groaning
and granting that has SO long been
identified with matmen.
Sander Szabo, the Hungarian,
was the first eX-butcher boy to
make a real name for himself. not
only establishing himself as cham
pion of his own country. but sew
era1 times having been real title
threat in the United States.
However. Dave Levin has gone
on from where SZabo left off and
has cleaved his way to the world 5
wrestling crown.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21
Champ Fight May Net $7,000,00

Elmer Violet" Ray gets his
chance to crash the big time on
Friday when he fights Johnny
& Brien in the semi-windup on the
Lee Oma Tami Maurillo card.
Ray, Hastings, Fla, Negro gain
ed prominence on the Pacific coast
as slugger.
American correspondents were
flown by special plane to Khorram-
shamr, Iran to cover the Inter-
Allied Mideast Boxing tournament
1t. Col. A. B. Swank, of the Pre-
sian Gulf Command, extended the
invitation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21

The existing record gate is the
81, 658,660 contributed by the 1884,
943 fans who saw the second Gene
Tunney-Jack Dempsey fight at Chi
cgea in September 1927.
Lou Gross, who conditioned Will
lie Joyce for his recent upset win
over Ike Williams, has gone out
on a limb. He asserted in Phila-
delphia Monday night that Dorsey
Lay will Whip Williams in their
March rs fight at Philly. Williams
must win to keep his MIA light
weight title date with Juan Zurita
in Mexico City April 1s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21
ELECTED PRESIDENT

WASHINGTON, March 20--(U.R,
General Manager John Quinn OF
the Boston Braves announced to-
day that Louis Perrin, wealthy
contractor of Wellesley, Mass,
had been elected president of the
team. He succeeds Bob Quinn,
75-year-old president from 1886 I'm.
til his resignation on Feb. IA.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21
Training Camp Briefs

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., March
20.-W.H-Cheered by the news
that Hank Borowy had signed his
1915 contract. Manager Joe Nc
Carthy sent the New York Yank-
ees through a routine workout to-
day. The drill was featured by the
work of Catcher Herb Crompton,
drafted from Toronto, who may
become the Yankees first string
receiver this year.
BoroWy, won II games last sea-
son. He has advised Mccarthy he
would report tomorrow.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, March 90
WP)-The Cleveland Indians 1915
American League pennant hopes
received a severe setback today
when Ken Keltner, their heavy
hitting third baseman, passed his
physical examination for induc-
ton into the armed forces and
was sent to the Navy recruiting
station. Keltner, % and the faith
er of two children, came here for
his test after reporting to the
Indians at Lafayette, Ind, for
spring training. He had left a war
plant job.
WASHINGTON, D. c., March 20.
-Up-The Boston Braves played
full nine-inning inter-squad prac-
tice game today, with Stan Went
eel and Viz Shupe, both up from
Hartford, showing promise as hit
tiers.
Vented Mike Ulisney, Whitley
Wietelman and Johnny Hutchings
hit homers as the team captained
by Catcher Clyde Kluttz defeated
Catcher Phil MASKS squad 81.
COLLEGE PARH, Md, March
20. - Up) - George Washington
Case, former American League
ase-stealing champion, proved a
tonic for Manager Ossie Bluege
of the Washington Senators today,
showing his fleetest form of two
years ago.
LAKEWOOD, N. j.. March 20
W.P)-Van Lingle Mungo showed
mid-season form today with
blazing fast ball and sharp
breaking curve during half hour
drill in which he pitched batting
practice. His showing encouraged
Mel OFT, but the Giant skipper was
worried over the condition of out
fielder Joe MedWick, who may
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21
IMPROVES

IMPROVES
George B. Elliott, former At
lantic Coast Line Railroad
president, and member of the
board of directors, who suffer-
ed a slight stroke recently,
CONTINUES to improve" &C
cording to a report from his
family yesterday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21
Bob Teller To Coach
Team At Great Lakes

GREAT LAKES, Ill, March 20.
--(P)-Chief Specialist Bob Feller,
former Cleveland Indians pitcher
will have charge of the Great
Lakes Naval Training Center's
baseball team this season, Lit.
Comdr. Rollie Williams, athletic
officer, announced today.
Teller, just returned from sea
duty in the Pacific, replaces 1t.
Comdr. Mickey Cochrane, now
in the Southwest Pacific. Coch-
rane coached the 1924 baseball
teams at Great Lakes.
-V-
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21
CONDITION FAIR

The n d i n of M'Kean
Maffitt, superintendent of the
City water and sewer depart
ment, who was stricken ill
Sun d a y, was reported "fair
with very little improvement"
by James Walker Memorial
hospital attaches yesterday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-21
REPORTED IMPROVED

The condition of John r.
Murchison, of 2O1 North Six
teenth street, president of the
J. w. Murchison Co., was re-
ported as "slightly improved"
last night at James Walker
Memorial hospital. Mr.. Muir
Gibson was admitted to the
hospital Friday after reported
ly suffering a stroke.