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Detroit evening times., 1945-07-29

Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court looked over
the legal briefs and decided against
him Still Robinson didn't give up
He asked for a rehcaring The court
refused. Dogged, like the man who
holds four aces, Robinson made
desperate attempt to hold 10 his life
He pctitioned the White House for
clemency. President Truman said no
He was all but in the electric
chair at Eddyville when his lawyer,
Robert f. Hogan. appealed 10 Ken
tucky's Senator a. =. Happy Chand-
Ter to intervene with the Department
of Justice. He did, and the Attorney
General made a new rccOmmenda-
ton TO the President, who commuted
the sentence to life Imprisonment.
Now Robinsons home again will
be AlcatraZ He probably will die
there, too. For the only way he can
be parOled now is by the President.
Robinsons crime was audaciouS.
On an October afternoon i'm 1884 he
knocked at the DOOR Of the Stoll home
on 50 acres fronting on Lime Kiln
Lane at Louisville and told a maid he
was a telephone repairman. He
promptly went TO the basement and
the garage, cutting telephone connec.
tions as he went
Later he asked the maid the loca.
tion of telephone extensions. He was
taken 10 an upstairs room where
Mrs. .Stoll was resting. Thereupon
he took out a pistol and told her he
was going to kidnap her. He struck
Mrs. Stoll and forced the maid TO
bind her Then he tied up the maid
He left a note demanding S50OO0
ransom and then he drove off with
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-29

his helpless victim 20 indianapolis.
The ransom was paid through an
intermcdiary-hi own father, who
didn't know what il was all about
But il was the note that put FBl
agents on Robinsons trail They
found fingerprints on the paper, and
they knew they were his because nc
had been under investigation several
years before on robbery charges
Robinson released Mrs. Stoll and
then began a long flight from arrest
He went from Indianapolis TO Clcve-
land, 20 New York. 10 Los Angeles,
to Silver City n. NJ.
Then he outsmarted himself
On April 10, 1886, Lynn Allen, a
waiter in a Pasadena, Calf, restau-
rant, went TO police with a story Of
serving a man dressed as woman.
The patron. Allen said. pointed 10 the
printed menu to indicate his desires.
But he made one mistake He spoke
the words orange juice" and Allen
knew he was waiting on a man.
Police advised the FBI and the
agents went 10 work. They traced
Robinson 10 an apartment at Glen.
dale, Calf, and made a surprise raid
that took him off guard. He had
four pistols close at hand but heC
didn't have time to reach for them.
In little more than year and half
ne had only S4.687 left of the ransom
money he had collected.
Less than az hours later Robinson
was in Louisville under guard and
pleading guilty. That was when he
was sentenced 10 life Imprisonment
But he wasn't satisfied which was
why he felt the hot breath of death
on his neck
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-29


When President Truman Intervened.
her home at Louisville, Ky On that
basis he demanded a new trial, con-
tending he had not violated the Lind
bergh law even though ne crossed
state lines, taking her 10 Indianapolis,
and collected $50 900 ransom before
releasing her six days later
He got the new trial. He went
to the witness stand and braZenly
sworc he had been overfricndly with
Mrs. Stoll long before the kidnapping.
Mrs. Stoll, of course, Indignantly de-
MED his story The jury retired and,
after so minutes Of debate, found
Robinson guilty The death sentence
was recommended.
Just before CHRISTMAS, 1913, Rob
inson was doomed 10 the electric chair
in the prison Il EddyVille, KY But
he didn't give up. He appealed TO the
United States Circuit Court of Ap-
peals at Cincinnati His conviction
was upheld lie went further to the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
Theeso and Thoto

Willie White, the all-around sports star from our Brooklyn section, who goes for table tennis, swimming, boxing and basketball in big way, Is starting around the world again as an Army MP. His latest note is from PANAMA where he has charge of the sports program there; partic- uIarly swimming as he is a register CT American Red Cross swimming in- stluctor and life guard, Joe Moore, the Cardinal outfield star of 1943 is playing baseball down there. Hartford TIMES and the YMCA have hooked up in a Learn to SWlm' week, starting June II, with FREE lessons to men 18 years of age and older, five lessons to the course Leslie Judd, an Australian who be- came an American citizen in 1853 and was in charge of physical fit- ness programs for wounded AuSsieS 1917 through 1919 is the instructor and has wide swimming teacher ex- pe-ience. After taking the aviation course in physical at Chapel Hill NC he taught 1t to the kids at Spring. field CYNICAL College, particularly the Army Air Corps unit there. |. Rev. Stephen Francis Murphy, the Waterbury Maryknoll missioner at work in Bolivia, will probably dis tribute some of the boxing equip ment sent there by Promoter Mike Jacobs of MISC to help form boys clubs there and in other Central America places. Pete, as we knew the Reverend at Crosby, will get great kick" out of helping the kids handle" tn e mSelVeS" =. Joe Goose" Rossamondo of New Hav- en, with the Davi Brasscos last sea- son is strapped to a bed in Los An geleS with a bad neck and back in- jury due to a collision with a team mate in the L. A. outfield. He may be through with the game for all time. Let's hope not, as Goose" was promising lad.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
LOCAL SUNDAY
 SPORTS SLATE SHOWS 6 GAMES

Four baseball games and a pail
 of men"s and women's softball con-
 tests have been slated for Munici- pal Stadium and Hamilton park next Sunday afternoon. Feature attractions at both places include the Fred Davi BraSscos and Brooklyn Royal Giants. 3 p. m. a. the stadium, with Warren Mueller ar 1895 winner with Hartford last season apt to start for the Brass cos against the classy colored club from DodgertoWn.
 Defending City Amateur league champions, Aviglianese AC and the new league entry Waterbury Aerie of Eagles are paired in the feature game A p.m) of the GAL triple header at Hamilton park. Both have been consistent winners this season to date. Hamden and Brook lyn AC will meet on No diamond at D. m. with Washington Hills and Branford on the No. ? field at ? p. m.
 At 1:30 D. m. on the City Stadium field, USRubber mems softball team. with Hardy Brownell of Waterbury Tool on the mound for USR meets the strong Arena Grille club of New Haven in an alleged "grudge" game.
 At D. m. on No. HIP diamond, USTime girls, winners over Metro politan Life of New York last Sun day are to play softball against the reportedly strong Republic Aircraft girls of Long Island.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
Home Runs
Red Sox Drop
 Three Pitchers

Boston, May 29-(UP)-The Bos- ton Red Sox were lighter by three pitchers today-two of whom were bought last season for a reported total of S10O GOO as Owner Tom Yawkey sought to bring the club its first American League pennant since 1918.
 Righthander Rex Cecil was farm ed out to the Louisville Colonels of the American Associate n last night after Chicago drove hlm to the showers in five innings yesterday Southpaw Clem Dreisewerd was resting his sore arm in an army uniform; and Veteran Joe Bowman was enroute to Cincinnati after be ing waived out of the league
 Cecil and DreiseWerd won 3S games between them in the Pacific Coast League last season before Yawkey peeled the elastic off his bank1oll and brought them east. Cecil flew in by plane, turned in a brilliant relief stunt against the St. Louis Browns but never lived up to his early promise.
 Last year Dreisewerd beat the New York Yankees twice but was sent to the showers four times. So far this season, Cecil had been charged with five defeats and two wins while DreiseWerd lost the only game he started.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
This Sporting World
Parker Proposed As Racing Czor
By JOHN A. CLUNEY

Jack Harris, writer in the popu- lar pink-sheet HOBO NEWS, which carries consistently funny cartoons and never calls a spade a club in its editorial and news comment authors a locally interesting article which he has captioned: Who The Hell Are They?" It starts off by giv- ing the major league baseball club owners four particular kinds of WHATFOR because racing was stopped last January 3 and baseball was not. Then writer Harris really fries the BE big-shots on the NEGRO issue, then takes the rail in behalf of horse racing, admit ting some of it's faults and asking Why don't they hire commits sloner on the type of a Landis or even Happy Chandler? No, base ball is no bargain.
 Racing, if it were smart-and sad to say there are some awful dumb bells and standpat money hungry dopes behind it-Would get rid of these WEASELS and appoint as czar an honest, fearless, fighting per- sonality who holds no truck with nonsense and dishonesty. I mean someone like Dan Parker, sports columnLst oi the N. Y. Daily Mir TOT. Dan Parker is one man about whose honesty there can be no ques- tion. A couple of guys who did ques- ton it once were carried out ot the Garden on a SHUTTER. They say when Parker hits you, you fall like a Stepladder kicked by mule. No, there are only two questions in my book. Would Dan Parker take the job? And what does baseball give aWay-rain checks?'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
White Sox Hitting Surprise in A. L.;
 Ferriss New Ace
BY AL VERMEER NEA Staff Correspondent

New York-Branded one-year club when the race began, it now is obvious that the Browns intend to make dogged fight of it before yielding the American League championship.
 This and the surprising fight of the Giants in the National League stand out as members of the two major circuits hit the first turn.
 No one could have been more amazed than Joe Mccarthy when the Yankees dropped four straight in St. Louis. Just before his ar- rival at Sportsmen's Park, Mo- Carthy made statement that could be considered brazen com- ing from manager usually so conservative. Asked what he thought of the New Yorks' chances, he replied that he had not seen the club which he felt could stop the Yankees.
 But that was before Mccarthy saw the Browns. who now have defeated the Tanks nine times hand running.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
ZonneIIi By K.O.

Providence. R. T.. May 29-(UP)- Ralph Zannelli, 150, of Providence, technically kocked out Eddie (Bud- dy) Saunders, l57, of New York in the fourth round of their scheduled 10-round feature bout at the Rhode Island auditorium last night.
 The State War Finance committee reported sale of $47.750 worth of bonds at the match which drew D. 393 fans for a gross gate of $4,695.
 In preliminar1es: Charles Me- Pher, 159, Brooklyn. N. Y, technic- ally knocked out Nelson Hawkins 158 l-2. Cleveland (3; Charlie Sardo, l54, Boston, decisioned Eddie Sylvia, 168. Providence (6); Leo Gagney, l49. Fall River, Mass. tech- nically knocked out Toby O'Brien, l43, Worcester. Mass. t2): Eddie Guisti. l40, West Warwick, deci- stoned Johnny Priest, 138. Cam bridge, Mass. (H.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
Reds, Braves Get Mound Vets

Cincinnati, May 29-UP)-There was work to do with National league teammate for a pair of aging right handed pitchers who were cast adrift by American League clubs.
 Manager Bill McKechnie of the Reds said he planned to start 35- year-old Joe Bowman, purchased from the Boston Red Sox, in tomor- rows doubleheader with the Phila- delphia Phillies.
 Meanwhile, Bob Coleman, Boston Braves manager, here for a series with the Reds, announced that he had picked up 41-year-old Joe Hev- ing, only grandfather in major league baseball, after his release from the Cleveland Indians.
 A rookie pitcher, Rex Cecil, also figured in the news from Boston. Failure to win with the Red Sox prompted Manager Joe Cronin to option Cecil to the Louisville farm club of the American Association. Cecil, brought up last season from San Diego of the Pacific Coast league. won four and lost five late in 1914, but had only two wins against five losses this year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
Waterbury Tool, Without BrowneII, Suffers First Loss

Without the services of Pitcher Hardy Brownell, the Waterbury Tool softball team of the I. R. A. Mems League was just another bunch of players; losing its first game of the season 9-5 to Somers Brass. In the first two innings, Som- CTS had runs scored and it's pitcher Miscavage was going well; eventual ly spreading 10 hits as Tram scored two runs with homer and LaSky one run with three -bagger.
 Scovill and Waterbury Companies had a ding dong game won by SERA 2-1 on a one-illt, 16 strikeout pitching job by Mercer Of Scovill. A single by Sabis scored two runs for the winners.
 Two tie games were recorded both ending 5-5 with CLIP and Lux; Metal Hose and U. s. Rubber as the opponents. U. s. Time defeated Waterbury Manufacturing S-l, Mar tino the winning pitcher. French Manufacturing surprised Chase by a 6-3 victory, Magnuson hitting hard with three safe blows for French. Stanley felded well. A pair 'of two-base hits by Daly featured the Chase effort. Eyelet Specially
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
St. Mory's Close
 6 To 5 Winners

St. Marys and St. Thomas put on the only nip and tuck" game of Parochial League baseball competi- tion yesterday; the Cole street club coached by Harry Melvin defeating the Tommies 6-5. 1.-The league lead CTS, SS. Peter and Pau, and St. Jo- seph's were easy winners; Tom ODea's east end entry winning from St. Margarets g to 3; while the Sacred Hearts were 12-1 victims of the Litils, whose Dick Januska gave up but two hits.
 St. Anns came through with a 9-5 win over St. Francis Xavier Steve Sheehys three-base knock in the first inning got the Peter-Paul lads of to three run start, as two singles and an error were also marked. Corden hit for two bases and two runs in the third after three walks.
 Boucher's hitting for St. Anns was a feature, with three hits, two of them better than singles. Bob Brown hit three-baser for St. Mary's in the first inning while Bill Garrity's catch was a fielding feat ure. Walsh and Amadeo had and 8 strike-outs to their credit. Scores: St. Joseph .... 352 f1o x-12 IA 2 Sacred Heart GOO 100 O. 5
 Januska and Miklnevich; Han non and McEvoy. Umpire: Barone.
 r h e St. Mary's .... 100 PIP x-s St Thnr,,aS
 Walsh and German; Anadeo and Grady.
 St. Ann's ..... 300 01o > 9 10 2 St. Francis ... 300 01O 1-- ' 8
 Boucher and LaLiberte: Smith and OConor. Umpire: Al Monti. SS. Peter-Paul. 312 200 1-e II 0 St. Margaret's oc2 0o1 o. 5 2
 Geary. Dwyer CD and Blair: Bowling and Haly and Nicholas Tolomeo.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
Austin Pigeon Wins 200 Mile Race

In the scheduled 200 mile race from Wilmington, Del. sponsored by the Bristol, Terryville, Thomas ton Pigeon club, on May 18th, a bird owned by w, Austin. Oakville, won first place with an average speed of l200.94 yds., per min.
 Second diploma was won by bird owned by P. Hamor, Torrington. with speed of 119532 yds. per min.
 Weather conditions: At liberatlng point, cloudy. S. E. wind; at home. showers, N. E. wind
 Sixteen lofts and 208 birds con- peted,
 Others members who cloeked birds and reported as follows:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29

Giants Get Jump
 On Western Foes; Buns Over Heods

- Hal Newhouser. Dizzy Trout and ex-sailor Benton.
 The Red Sox. of poorly with eight successive losses, still remain in striking position thanks to the astounding efforts of young Ferriss, who copped his first four games. three by shutouts, yielding only two runs in 36 innings.
 Early returns indicate the Car dinals will be sorely pressed to tie John McGraw's record of four con- secutive National League pennants. This is not startling, for the Cards were badly hit by player losses and the Mort Cooper rebellion, but no one expected the Giants and Dodg- CTS. to emerge as leading threats for the leadership. Instead, Pitts burgh and Chicago were looked upon as the clubs to fear, yet both started weakly.
 That the Giants are serious menace is now confirmed for they boast the strongest hitting force in either league with Ott, Lombardi, VClllGl dllN, 1LCyCS dLlu ItuChCl. 11OW well the older members of this group will withstand the hot weather and heavy flow of double headers is something to be learned. At any rate the Polo Grounders ap- pear to have excellent pitching sup port, centered around Bill Voiselle and Harry Feldman-who between them won their first 12 starts-and Ace Adams, the ever-ready relief hurler.
 As for the Dodgers, most people want to see more before feeling convinced. The general feeling is that them Buns still carry facial resemblance to the club which f1n- ished seventh last year.
 New York, Pittsburgh and Chi cago arc expected to battle it out with St. Louis when the summer Stretrh drive oets l,nder uav
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
Lytell Bests Drew;
 Ken James Stopped

Holyoke, Mass, May 29-(UP)- Bert Lytell, 152 1-2 of Fresno, Calf. :, unanimously decisioned Lige Drew, 150, of Springfield in their 10-round feature bout at Valley Arena last night.
 In prelimlnaries: Burl Charity, l52, Youngstown, O., technically knocked out Kenny James, 150, Wa terbury, Conn. (6); Frankie Ross, 150 1-2, Boston unanimously deci- stoned Johnny Duke, l48, Hartford, Conn. (6); Bobby Hicks, IA, Wa terbury, Conn, decisioned Eddie Reardon, l39, Hartford, Conn. N; Sammy Tischher, l35, New York, technically knocked out Lenny Riley, l34, Hartford, Conn. @.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
Tracy Shoots 18O In Rifle Motch

By a score of 764 to 735 Company H, Military Police unit of the 10th Battalion were winners of a rifle match over Headquarters Company, Third Battalion last night at the state armory range. Sgt George Tracy with a 4S-47-44-41 total 18O score turned in the best perform ance, for the match while It. Dus- seault and Sgt. Dillon of Headquar- ters Company with Is and 161 were best for the losers, It. Joseph Thompson was range officer and Corporal Talbot line officer for the match.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
Derby Dope

New York, May 29-(UP)-Here's now Kentucky Derby candidates fared yesterday:
 Cave Man-Third in mile and { sixteenth Rostand purse at Jamai- ca.
 Burra Peg-Also ra) in Rostand.
 Hllyer Court-Fell III stretch in Rostand after leading.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE
Karro Are Hi-Y SoftboII Chomps

Kara Hi-Y won the indoor soft ball championship when they beat Beta 15-2 at the Central Y. M. c. A. Kara had a big first inning when they scored 10 runs and tal- lied another run In the second in- ming, third and runs in the sev- enth, while Beta could only score 2 runs and that came in the third inning.
 The heavy hitters for the Kara Club were Koch, T. Rosa, Korbu- sieski and Creel Others who played for the Kara also were Madden, SWirzenski, E. Rosa, Cofrancesco and Palladino.
 For the losers, players list in- cluded Randall, Vedeskis, Morgan, Beliveau, Guerrero, Gibson, Frant- As. Rigolpolus, Perrentel, Prescott and Miller. The score by inn ings: Kara ..... 10 1 l 900 3-15 Beta ..... O02 900 O. 2
 Madden and Creel; Prescott and Vedeskis. Umpire: Dooley.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
Fem his

Exeter. N. H.. May 29-(UP)- Glenn Shively of New York and G. Williams Turner of Narragansett. R. l.. held the New England Interscho- lastic Doubles Tennis championship today following their victory over Milton Heath of Chapel Hill, N. C., and Dean K. Boorman of Glen Ridge, N. J.
 The score of yesterdays match was 60, 60, so. All are Phillips Exeter Academy players. Shively previously had won the singles title.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
Lost Nights Fights

Detroit - Holman Williams, 159 Detroit, outpointed Sampson Powel l63. Detroit. GO). Miami, Fla.-Chico Morales, 126 Havana, Cuba, outpointed Kukc
 ortiz. 120, Mexico City. (s). Chicago-Bob satterfic1d, 111, Chi
 cago. drew with Bob Force, 1s613 Detroit, ts).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
Probable Pitchers
(By United PresS) AMETUCAN UEA(.IE

 Cleveland (Gromek 5-D at Phila- delphia Christopher 6-2). St. Louis (kramer 32) at New York (Donald 3-2). Chicago (Humphries 1-0) at Bos- ton (Woods POD.
 (Only games scheduled)
 NATIONAL LEAGUE Brooklyn (Seats 1-3) at Chicago Stewart 0-0).
 New York (Feldman 5-1) at Pittsburgh (Roe 4-2). Philadelphia (Wyatt O-3) at St. Louis (Jurisich 0-13 Night game. (Only games scheduled)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29

Other first-round highlights in the American are the carly season spurt of the White Sox and the great pitching of Dertoits comeback. Al Benton, and the Red Sox's Dave Ferriss, the newest mound star.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
NATIONAL LEAGUE
YesterdnN'S Results

Yesterday'S Results Pittsburgh II, New York 5 (Com pletion of May 27th game) New York at Pittsburgh CD o S t. poned, rain).
 Chicago ,, Brooklyn Cincinnati 2, Bosgton Philadelphia at St. Louis (rain)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
A(H0W MY' HSIAND.
AMERICAN LEAGUE

Yesterdays Results St. Louis at New York (po t. poned, wet grounds) Chicago s, Boston Cleveland at Philadelphia (rain) Detroit at Washington (rain)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29

Even Jimmy Dykes must be flabbergasted by the Pale Hoses recklessness at the plate, for, paced by the veteran Tony Cuccinello and Wally Moses they are leading the loop in hitting, which is a strange place for the White Sox to find
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
Steve Dudas Punctures Cinderella Man Myth
 By DAN PARKER

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
CAGE SEASON PAYS

Wsterville, Me. (UP)-Little Wa terville High School reported gate receipts totaling s4,692 during its basketball season,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29

themselves.
 Benton, who won five in a TOW before he dropped 10 decision on four hits. has convinced De- troit that the Tigers, even with out the power of Dick Wakefield and Pinky Higgins, can make a scrap of it with three ace fingers
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
Stnnd ding:
Games Today

Brooklyn at Chicago New York at Pittsburgh Philadelphia at St. Louis (night) (Only games scheduled)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29

NcHI WtCK TdCe VIII Dt Io-DlrQ limit race from Washington, D. c. a distance of 300 miles, and also a 3 bird limit yearling cup race from the same station.
 Members will report at the Thom- aston railway station, Friday, June 1, at 2 o'clock to ship the birds.