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REFUSES ENEMY
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the central two-thirds OF the stra-
tegic Ryukyu island just 1875 miles
south of Japan proper.
Infantrymen in the south were
deadlocked along the Little Sleg'
fried Line'' four miles north OF the
capital city of Naha for the twelfth
straight day amid the fiercest ar
tillery duel of the Pacific war.
OPPOSITION was almost negligible,
however, in the rugged northern
end, where the first Marine Dl-
vision under Maj. Gen Pedro A.
Del Vale pressed beyond Mono
baru town on the west and Arak-
ava on the east.
Mai. Gen Lemuel c. Shepherd,
JUS Sixth Marine Division, mean
time, completed the occupation OF
the big Motobu peninsula, which
Just off Okinawa's northwest coast.
Japanese on this peninsula coun-
terattack lightly in mid-week to
give the Leathernecks their only
sizeable opposition of the cam
paign.
japanese fliers struck at Ameri-
can shipping off Okinawa in small
force Saturday after two days OF
desperate assaults by Kamikaze
(suicide) pilots who specialize in
self-destruction in attempts to
crash on picked targets. Nine were
shot down Saturday.
The three-day toll for Thursday
Frilay and Saturday was at least
265 Japanese aircrft destroyed
The most severe damage inflicted
on U. S. forces was the sinking
of one destroyer Thursday.
American and British carrier
planes raked airfields and towns
on Formosa and nearby islands
Friday and Saturday. U. S. pilots
destroyed seven enemy planes on
the ground and damaged Is others.
The British shot down three at
lacking their task force, and dam
aged a number aground in sweeps
of Formosa hangers, barracks
and other installations.
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BRITISH PLANES
lombard BERLIN
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THE whole area was a blazing
inferno" reported Maj. Charles A.
Reid Of Asheville, N. c., pilot com.
handing Fortress formation.
Flax was meager, there was no
fighter opposition and the crews
dropped their cargoes with pre-
cision through clear skies. The
attack followed the opening aerial
assault early today slashing ahead
Of the First and Ninth Armies, hit
ting railways, troops and other tar
gets near Leipzig, Plauen and
Dessau.
Up to noon but one air battle
was attempted by the German air
force which lost some 400 planes
last week. This battle near Bay
reuth resulted in the shooting down
of a German plane without Allied
loss. Raj Mosquitoes, however,
shot down two more Saturday night
while two Raj bombers were lost.
Raj forces hit U-boat and three
other ships in an attack in Norway's
Josen ford late Saturday.
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YANKS REPORTED
AT BERLIN GATE
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The U. S. Seventh Army drove
southwark to within Is miles of the
Nazi shrine city of Nuremberg,
another Bavarian stronghold 40
miles southwest of Bayreuth.
The U. S. First Army fought into
Halle, a city of 100000 at the
northwestern gateway to besleged
Leipzig, 16 miles southeast.
In the north, the Canadian First
Army reached the North Sea in
northern Holland in a swift dash
that spelled a virtual end to that
phase Of the lowland battle. But
the British Second Army was held
in check along its entire front
menacing Bremen and Hamburg.
The Ruhr was cut into two small
pockets by junction of the U. S.
First and Ninth Armies, whose sue
cesseS were increasing the esti-
mates of the number of German
troops trapped there.
It had been estimated that $780,
900 enemy soldiers were cut off
in the Ruhr, but 1884 prisoners
already have been removed from
the pocket and more were stream
ing in.
Thre were few details of 1t. Gen.
William H. Simpson reversal on
the Elbe, but the loss of the Ninth
Army crossing presented the Al
lies with the stark retaliation that
the last lap to Berlin may be a
hard one.
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game this season he gave one
scratch hit in four innings.
Cook, 6-foot-4 and $50 pounds.
had a combined record of 81 in
in two years with Warren, and
famed IS in lis innings. The club
finished last in 1910 and one notch
higher the next season. In his first
exhibition game with the Crack
crs he yielded three hits in three
innings.
Both hurlers use a fast-bau, ov-
erhand delivery, with n nice curve
and better than average control.
Railbirds at Cracker practice SEES
sions agree with Manager XII XII
Cuyler when he says of the two.
II think they'll make it,"
Specifically, Cuyler says they re-
mind him Of Lon Warneke, the ex-
National League ace.
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ST. LOUIS GETS
WRITER'S VOTES
ON WORLD SERIES
80 Per Cent OF Scribes
Pick Red Birds To Win
Fourth Straight .
BY JACK HAND

NEW YORK, April is. - P -
Another all-St. Louis world series
was predicted today by the ma.
tons baseball writers who fore.
cast three-way struggle for the
Championship in the American
League and tougher competition
for the Cardinals in the National.
| OF rs scribes participating in the
annual Associated Press poll, 81,
Or 80 per cent, picked Billy South
Worth's Red Birds to cop their
fourth straight pennant in the SEN
ior circuit with Pittsburgh running
strong second.
Detroit and New York in that
order were selected as the Browns
leading competitors. Thirty-seven
experts, or 48 per cent, favored
Luke SewelPs Cinderella Boys"
who upset the dope bucket last
year. The Tigers were given 20
first place votes and 10 went to the
Yanks.
The Cards were rated a cinch
a year ago and .lived up to all
promises but the writer's wavered
among New York, Chicago and
Washington before picking the
Yanks in the American. The
Browns were consigned to fifth
place, getting only one flag bal
lot.
This year. on the basis of eight
points for first-place selection,
seven for second and SO on down
to. one for last, the Cards boosted
505 of a possible sos points. Pitts
burgh had SIS but the third place
Chicago Cubs got only 800.
1t was closer in the American
where the Browns received $40
points, the Tigers 534 and the
Yanks 469.
]. Ed Wray, sports editor of the
st. Louis Post-Dispatch, the only
selector to call the 1914 finish
right, predicted a second success
sive Sportsman's Park classic if
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this fall.
st. Louis, Detroit and New York
were the only American League
teams to receive pennant votes,
but the New York Giants had two
in the National and Chicago, Gin
cinnati and Brooklyn one apiece.
Toughest position to pick out
side of the American flag appear
ed to be fourth spot in the junior
circuit, Boston just nosing out
Cleveland for the honors, with
Philadelphia, Chicago and Wash
ington following in order.
Chicago, apparently expected to-
get away to a better start under
Charley Grimm, was ticketed for
third in the National and New
York nosed out Cincinnati for the
last first-division spot. Boston's
Braves drew surprising support
but had to be satisfied with a sixth
place rating ahead of the Phlls
and Dodgers, who were almost
dead heat for the basement.
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.URCEDoN TRUMAN
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them have changed. The Senate
War Investigating c m m tie e
which the new President headed
generally credited the two with
having done an outstanding job in
the war effort.
Secretary of Commerce Wallace
probably will stay on if he desires.
Mr.. Truman often has told friends
he did not feel Wallace received
just treatment in the move that re-
suited in Mr.. Trrman's nomination
for Vice President.
But the remainder OF the Cabinet
members in time may have to find
something else to do.
That would mean changes at the
Tresury, Justice, Post Office, Agri-
culture, and Labor Departments.
Robert E. flanagan, Democratic
national chairman, may get one of
these. Edward Pauley, Treasurer
of the National Committee, is in the
picture. Hugh Fulton, former coun.
sci for the Senate Truman Com
mittee, might get one of these
posts.
# Mr.. Truman follows the rec
concentrations of his own form
er committee he will consolidate
all labor activities under the Labor
Department. Secretary Perkins,
who repeatedly tried to quit when
the fourth term began, may not
stay on long now.
The divided activities OF the Agri.
culture Department also might be
merged by the new President.
As it now stands, War Food Admin
istrator Marvin Jones runs most of
the show, leaving little for Sec
rotary Wickard to do.
While Cabinet changes can wait,
Mr.. Truman has some untitled
appointments which will need early
attention.
Among these is the job of Fed
eral Loan Administrator. If the
new President followed his own in
clinations entirely, he might ask
Jesse Jones to step back into that
post. He also must fill the post of
Rural Identification Administrator,
a job for which the Senate turned
down Aubrey Williams.
The White House staff of advisers
and assistants probably will see
extensive changes also. Stephen
Early already has planned to step
out within a month. There is doubt
that Jonathan Daniels will stay
long as press secretary.
Harry L. Hopkins and Judge
Samuel 4. Rosenman are unlikely
to continue as advisers and the fate
of Donald M. Nelson, a special rep
resentative of President Roosevelt,
is in doubt.
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Baseball Opens Season
With Memorial Contest
In Washington For FDR
Beanpole Hurlers Set
To Play For Crackers

ATLANTA, April 15.-P)-A cou.
pie Of young beanpole pitchers,
Righthanders Kenny Deal and
Barney Cook, are down for starting
roles with the Atlanta Crackers
this year.
Deal, II, right off the high school
campus at Gastonia, N. c., was a
sensation in junior legion baseball,
while Cook %, up from the Flint,
Mich, sandlots, is back in organ
lied baseball after a three-year
lapse. He was with Warren, O., of
the Penn State League in 1910 and
Al.
The Tar Heel rookie, 6-foot-3 and
l65 pounds, once famed 81 of "a
htters and has pitched a good
many no-hit, no-run games. III
says he can't recall exactly the
number, In his first exhibition
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News Of Roosevelt's
Death Sweeps Okina,uq

OKINAWA, April 13.-Delayed)
-WH-News of President Roose-
velt's death swept Okinawa today
like wildfire and Marines and
soldiers paused in prayer for their
late commander-in-chief. During
the prayers'an air raid alert sound
ed. Not a Marine stirred.
Navy 1t. Lawrence R. SCHNEIDER,
Cincinnati, Ohio, First Marine d.
vision chaplain, conducted me-
mortal services and prayed MAY
the Lord Of Heaven and earth grant
him eternal light, and eternal rest"
Typical comment among the
Marines was as follows:
'The only other time I felt like
this was when Will Rogers died.
The President seemed sort OF close
to me, just like Rogers. PVT.
John Henley. $50 Clifty St., Harri-
man, Tenn.
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-rv YORK, April b. up -
NJ" ,,.,n wartime major league
The t lo season opens tomorrow
''5 as :. survey of the outlook gives
RS; T,s 10 the American League 1e,s sehe d.
Tns s,. l, didn't think much OF
Tile n 1sances Of the Athletics and
the .( cn~i-' as they tried to get those
ssns, sInbs If the track early to
two t .sen, from getting in the way
keep p, ,n'- zeal contenders: Connie
o. me me- team and the Mats each
Mack onIv three days the last two
weeks Eel s. Bill McKechnie will get
In'' GOOD games out of that
! so-ne Of pitching antiques ne
{ s.s lined up, but the Reds Will De
mas m m at the plate to 60 very
fa IT,, 81 Ernie lombard of the
c; ln+ and Bill Nicholson OF the
C5Dhs%jt Nicholson is available
' 1II' battle it out for home run
ta M in the National.
ng T5st Leo Durocher will play at
least IS games for the Dodgers
Ia sa'' inf because he wants to play.
W That new Yankee prexy Larry
Macphail who has been very quiet
NJ date, is due to explode one of
s W days, but it had better not
in Joe McCarthy's face. Marse
= yoe isn't the type to stick around
If. sfter more than one trick cigar.
That the Cardinals will be at
least six games in front by July
4 hut the American League teams
will be playing leap frog for first
place all season.
That the only thing OF pre-war
opalitv will be the umpiring and
possibly the managing.
That Joe Medwick will be avail
,ble to the Giants only at inter-
vsls but that Van Mungo might
finally have that good season this
year.
That Hal Newhouser and Dizzy
Trout will win about IS games for
the Tigers between them.
That Branch Hickey will have
IN stuff his ears with cotton if the
Dodgers get away to a poor start
and gradually get worse. Those
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Meyers And CoMeld
To Clash At ITALIAN

"A ring plumb full of fighting
gals will be the feature at Thai
ian Hall Friday night, said Bert
Causey, local wrestling promoter.
Causey added that the girls tag
team matches have been big ''box
office attractions all over the
United States.
Nell Stewart, rough and ready
Miss from Birmingham, and
mysterious Miss Red will cope
with Pretty Ann Miller and Violet
Valentine.
Popular Sonny Meyers, the Isl
natra' of wrestling, returns this
week to take on Jimmy Coffield.
Meyers proved that science could
triumph over brute strength when
he took his match from Jack
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O'Brien last Friday night.
Meyers repeatedly got pretty an
cry when the old War Horse sock
ed him in the nose and the blood
started flowing, and, much to the
delight of the fans, Meyers pinned
Texas Jack twice in succession.
Sonny takes on another tough
customer Friday when he meets
Coffield in the supporting bout.
This match is a scheduled two out
of three falls match with a 60
minutes time limit, while the girls
match has a time limit of rs min
utes.
Causey also announced that tick
cts 60 on sale this morning, at the
Jewel Box, and as a capacity
crowd is expected, he advised all
patrons to get their ducats early.
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Expected To See
Yankees And Senators
Clash At 3 P. N.
BY BUS HAM

WASHINGTON, April 15.-P)-
Baseball pays it respects tomor-
row to Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
who frequently befriended the
sport, by playing 1945's first major
league game as memorial to
him.
Before the New York Yankees
and Washington Senators take the
field at 3 p. m, an expected ca
pacity crowd OF about $4,000 in
Griffith stadium will stand for
full minute of silent prayer in
memory of Mr.. Roosevelt.
Then the game. will 60 on as
usual. BasebalPs leaders feel that
Mr.. Roosevelt would have prefer
red it that way.
All other big league teams wait
until Tuesday to swing into the pen
nant races.
This fourth wartime season,
about which there were grave
doubts for months, will start under
the most unusual circumstances in
the games long history:
The shocking death of this coun-
ttry's only four-term President and
No. baseball fan four days before
the inaugural game:
Under new President, Harry S
Truman, as enthusiastic a sports
fan as Mr.. Roosevelt was, and who
as Vice-President promised to toss
cut the first ball today-the sud.
den turn of events now makes his
appearance unlikely.
With the games manpower prob
lens, which threatened its con-
tinuance, apparently solved salts.
factorily despite continued induc-
ton Of players into the armed
forces at rapid pace.
There will also be such personal
sidelights as:
Clark Griffith, 75-year old own
er Of the Washington club, Begin
ming his fifty.seventh season in
baseball and his thirty third with
the Senator's:
Paul Waner, veteran Yankee re-
serve, celebrating his forty-second
birthday anniversary;
George Case, Washington out.
fielder, and George Stirnweiss,
Yankee infielder, renewing their
rivalry for the base-stealing title,
which Case held for years before
Stirnweiss grabbed it last season.
The game itself may be secon-
Diary to the occasion on which
it is played. Both teams have al.
most the same players who were
around last season when the Yam
KEGS finished. third and the Sena>
tors last.
Manager Joe Mccarthy, who
made habit Of winning penants
in pre-war days. will send Alley
Donald, seasoned highlander, out
after today's victory for the Yam
KEGS while Manager Ossie Bluege
OF the Senators has Dutch" Leon
ard, veteran knuckleballer, prim-
ed.
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ANN CURTIS WINS
THIRD NATIONAL
SWIMMING TITLE
San Francisco Marvel
Travels 22O-Yard Free
Style In 2:31.5

CHICAGO, April b. R Ann
Curtis, San Francisco swimming
marvel, today picked up her third
individual championship in the Wo-
mems National AAU swimming
meet as she shook off the challenge
OF Brenda Helser of Hollywood to
win the 220-yard free style event.
Miss Curtis, who previously had
lifted the 100-yard free style crown
from Miss Helser, and then easily
defended her 44O-yard title, swan
the distance today in 2:31.5. Miss
Helser pushed her for the first
IT'S yards, but dropped back as
Ann came through with her final
Kick TO win by about 10 feet.
In third place was Marilyn Sab
ner Of the Chrysler Plunge, team
mate OF AIMS. Betty Lachok Of the
F1restone Club, Akron, o., was
fourth, and Betty Shields of the
Women's Swimming Association,
New York City, fifth.
Miss Curtis, in addition to sue
cessfully defending her 22O and
440-yard titles, and winning the 100
yard crown for the first time, also
anchored the victorious 400-yard
free-style relay team last night.
JEANNE Wilson, 19-year-old Chi.
cagoan, today broke the American
record for the 100-yard breast
stroke as she won her first cham
plonShip in the Women's National
AAU swimming meet here.
MISS Wilson, trailing the field at
the start, moved into the front in
the last 40-yards and barely edged
out Patricia Sinclair of the Wo-
mems Swimming Association, New
York, in the record time if 1:15.1.
The old record, 1883 for the event
was, set in 1871 by Lorraine Fisher
OF the Women's Swimming Assoc
latlon, New York, in a meet at
Greenwich, Conn.
Jane billiard Kittelson, represen.
ting Vultee Aircraft Of Fl. Worth,
lex, one Of the favorites in the
event, finished third, two yards
back OF Miss Sinclair Clara La.
more of olneyville Boys Club,
providence, r. l., who won the
3oo-yard individual medley event
IN the meet, was fourth, and Nancy
Grub of the Minneapolis, Mimi,
A. C., was fifth.
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Nelson, Snead Set
For Charity Match

NEW YORK, April 15.-R)-
Byron Nelson and Sam Snead
will play their 72-hole charity
golf match either May 1921 or
June %, Freddie Corcoyan,
tournament manager of the
Professional Golfers Associa-
ton, said today.
The first So holes probably
will be played on a New York
course and the second Sc on the
succeeding day on a New Jer-
sey course. Neither of the sites
have yet been selected, Corcor
an said.
It prviously had been planned
to hold the match on Decoration
Day.
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BERLIN SAYS REDS
ARE "a MILES AWAY
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tresses of Kuestrin and Frankfurt
Berlin reported.
A blazing tank and infantry bat.
tie was underway west of Kues.
trim itself 80. miles east of Berlin
The DNB agency said that Zhukoy
had thrown five Russian divisions
some $1,000 men-supported BY
200 tanks into the battle. DNH
claimed that at least 1903 Red Army
tanks had been knocked out by
German guns.
St. Poelten, strategic lO-way
road and rail center % miles west
of liberated Vienna, fell to Mar.
shall Feodor I. Tolbukhins Third
Ukranian Army, Premier Stain
announced in an order of the day.
A bitter battle was in progress
in the Danube valley around St,
Poelten as the Germans threw in
fresh reserves, especially anti
tank groups.
The Germans were employing all
kinds Of devices along the Vienna.
Munich autobahn in an effort tc
halt Tolbukhin. His advance
threatened to flank the Czechoslo.
yak capital of Prague, 131 miles
northwest of Soviet spearheads.
Dispatches said the Nazis were
telling trees, mining and BLOWING
up huge stretches of the broad
high-speed road.
While these forces gained along
the Danubes south bank, a second
order of the day from Moscow an.
nounced the capture of Floridsdorf.
an industrial suburb of Vienna on
the north bank of the Danube
which actually is included in the
boundaries.
korneuburg, rail junction on the
Vlenna-Prague line three miles up
the Danube, also was taken by
Marshal Radon Y. Malinoyskvs
Second Ukranian Army, with the
aid OF Tolbukhins troops who
crossed the Danube in that area.
Stain said that grouping of
German troops seeking to with
draw from Vienna was wiped out
and 5000 prisoners taken.
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Superfortress Armada
Attacks Japan Again

WASHINGTON, April IS. -(P-
An armada of superfortresses re.
turned to Japan today to shower
fiery destruction again on the en-
emy's great industrial cities OF
Tokyo and Kawasaki.
The latest attack, probably by
up to 400 bombers, followed by
48 hours another huge attack on
the Tokyo arsenal area. 5-square
mile sector of big and little war
plants.
The initial announcement on the
latest attack said:
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Death Of Roosevelt
Affects N. Y. Contest

NEW YORK, April 15.-tP)-The
death of Franklin D. Roosevelt
will affect materially the New
York City mayoralty campaign; =,
Uncertainty had long prevailed
whether the President would sup
port Mayor F. H. LaGua-dia,
Should he run for a fourth term, OF
back the Democratic candidate.
Mr.. Roosevelt crossed party lines
to declare for LaGua-dia IN 1871.
Several New York City neWspap.
ers declared fatty weeks ago that
the President was prepared this
year to support William O'Dwyer,
Kings county district attorney, who
lost to LaGuardia four years ago.
The President never disclosed
publicly his intentions.
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The Sports Trail
Ry WHITNEY MARTIN
Ry WHITNEY MARTIN

Brooklyn fans can make a fog horn
SOUND ike a peanut whistle.
That the fans will turn out sur
prlslngly well once the races be.
gin to take shape.
That one player missed most by
any team will be Dick Wakefield
of the Tigers.
That the top National League
rookie will be Albert Schoendienst
OF the Cardinals. whose name will
appear IN the box score as Sen st.
That Bucky Walter will win 20
games again, and again will stand
the Cardinals on their ears.
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Britain Shifts Hess
To Prevent Possible
''a-'s Attempt At Liberation

LONDON, April 15.-W.H-Rudolf
Hess, once deputy-fuehrer of Ger
many and now wallwoing in melan-
cholia with the collapse Of the Ger
man army near, is here-today
and gone-tomorrow war prisoner OF
Britain.
Closely guarded since he bailed
out Of a Messerschmitt on Scot
fish Moor May 10, le41, on re-
ported peace-miss on, bushy-eyed
Hess now is being moved from one
hide-out to another, it was under
stood today.
The objective is to prevent fanati-
cal Nazi war prisoners who might
escape from attempting to liberate
him, kill him or give him an OPP
portunity to kill himself.
-V
Various types of cancer were
recognized and described in 400 B.
q nv HippocrateS.
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False Arnistice Noted
By Navy Men In Pacific

OKINAWA, April Is. -(PeThe
men aboard American warships in
the western Pacific and even car
rier plane pilots far out over the
ocean celebrated a false European
Armistice report today. 1t took
several hours for the bubble to
burst.
A rumor that snowballed out Of
control caused the premature Gel
ebration.
The excitement was traced back
to a garbled news message re-
garding reduced German resist
ance. Warships, catching phrases
of the garbled report, sent queries
cracking back and forth. Radio
units ashore misinterpreted the
queries and repeated them as
facts. A battleship picked up one
of the shore reports and radioed
it happily to ships in general.