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Evening star., 1947-09-26
Swamp Fever Cause,
Al Horse Executions
AT Rockingham
By the Associofed pysxs

SALEM, N. H., Sept. 26.-Five
more horses, incurable victims of a
crippling blood disease, 60 to the
executioner today at Rockingham
Park, where five were destroyed
yesterday and 2s others died pre-
viously of the same dread swamp
fever.
There was no counting how much
the epidemic has cost horsemen who
came here for Rockingham's fall
meeting August II and found them
Selves stranded when the track was
quarantined two weeks later.
In all, SO horses were infected,
and 81 now are dead. Sixteen. more
are slated for destruction today, to-
morrow and Monday. The remain
ing dozen belong to owners who
are unwilling to accept the $4,000
bounty offered by the Thoroughbred
Racing Protective Bureau for each
mount destroyed.
Foremost among these is H. Guy
Bedwell, Maryland, veteran, who
has seven horses in the quarantine
tent. Horsemen figure the seven
are worth we'll over $4,000. One of
them is the stake horse Prognosis,
insured for $4,000.
Bedwell told Spencer J. Drayton,
executive director of the Racing
Protective Bureau, he paid $1,000
for insurance on his string only
a few days before the fall meeting
opened and he could not go along,
therefore, with the $4,000 bounty
plan.
Even when the mass execution
ends Monday and the II other fever
wracked horses are transferred to
a convalescent ranch 2 miles from
the track, the swamp fever siege
will not be over for the nearly 900
other animals quarantined here
since August %.
Every thoroughbred exposed to
111CCUlO1l-1 EQulllC d.,
believed to be transmitted by in
sects, which, leaves its victims list
less and droopy-must be tested be-
fore it can be pronounced safe.
This involves injecting a sample of
its blood into a horse known to be
free Of the disease and then waiting
21-day incubation period to see
If swamp fever develops.
Two racing areas slammed their
doors in the faces of Rockingham's
horses yesterday. Maryland forbade
importation of exposed horses. The
Fair Grounds at New Orleans Or
dered a similar ban.
Yesterdays victims were Star
Quiz, owned by Lyle Phillips; True
Call, by Frank Keene; Peace Light,
by George Seabo; Port Orford, by
Neal and Phillips. and Idelevere, by
w. w. Waters. The executions were
supervised by DR.. Harold M. Lewis,
track veterinarian.
Evening star., 1947-09-26

20-10 victory over the Tar Heels in
last seasons Sugar Bowl game was
followed by shrill protest from fans
in tobacco land. They claimed poor
officiating. not Charley Trippi, cost
them victory. They also claim
Charley (Choo ChpoJ Justice and
his angry Carolina mates will prove
this accusation. Quite a Donny-
brook any way you look at it and
a dangerous but Vital spot to start
my career as prognosticator.
However. like Georgia to repeat
its Sugar Bowl triumph. Trippi has
but in my friend, Wally
Butts, Georgia has one of the
and most brilliant coaches
in the game.
Butts employs the r formation,
Evening star., 1947-09-26
Trainer Twice
Had Asked 10
.Put0ff Match
Keberg Horse Walks
Soundly Day After
Painful Injury
Bv Sid Eeder
By Sid FEEDER
Associated Pres. Sports Writer

NEW YORK, Sept. 26.-Tomor-
rows 100000 match race tnvolv-
ing Armed and Assault officially
was declared on again today after
Robert ]. Kleberg, jr., owner of
Assault, made an examination of his
thoroughbred who developed lame
ness after yesterdays workout.
Kleberg came here from Pennsyl-
vania and made his announcement
after inspecting Assault in the
presence of veterinarian and
Trainer Max Hirsch, who twice this
week has said he did not want to
run the race because the colt was
not in peak condition.
Hirsch. on Monday and again yes
terday, said he did not want Assault
to compete because of poor condition
although the Texas Terror worked
well yesterday morning.
Armed Fast in Workout.
1t was after Assault cooled out
from touring a muddy mile that
Hirsch noted Assaults lameness in
the left foreleg. The horse has
been troubled with splint.
Meanwhile, Armed completed his
preparations for the IL mile event
at Belmont tomorrow by doing a
sparkling five-eights Of mile In
l:01. pulling up at the 6-furlong
mark in 1:l4b. The track still was
off from recent rains.
Kleberg, in his statement, said
that Assaults splint trouble was
discovered for the first time on
Monday and before yesterdays
workout it had been treated by
Hirsch. After the drill the colt dis
played lameness and pain but that
Assault walked soundly this morn
ing.
Kleberg Is Considerate.
TN an ordinary stake race I doubt
that I should start him but in a
special race Of this kind, where
there would be no race If we
scratched, we have decided to run
and it may be, as we hope, that
Assault will run as well as he worked
yesterday" Kleberg added.
In yesterdays workout Assault did
a muddy mile in 1:41ss although
Trainer Hirsch clocked him in
laos for the distance.
Evening star., 1947-09-26
Station WNBW TO TeIevise
CoIIeqe and Pro Colts TiIts

Nine college football games and
eight of the Baltimore Colts profess
sional games this season will be seen
locally over WNBW television sta
ton, according to an announcement
from Carleton D. Smith, general
manager.
The collegiate schedule opens with
tomorrow's showing Of the Army
Villanova tilt. The next pro game
Is Sundays Colts Yankees tilt in
Baltimore The complete WNBW
schedule Is:
Colleges: September 27. Army -villanova:
0stober S, Nayy.cSlumtb;a' GyIIt;. H. army
Penn -Rrinceton; g. Ssvy7Georgia Tech; 5.
ton: 81, Fenn-Corneli.
Colts: September IS. Yankees: October
3, San Francisco, -, Los Angeles; Noyem-
Der ., Yankees; 16, DODGERS, 23 Buffalo
80, Chicago Rockets: December T. Cleve-
Evening star., 1947-09-26
Dixie Trio, One Yank
Left in Women S Golf
ey the Associated Press

DETROIT, Sept. 26.-It was a
Southern gang-up today in the 1947
semifinals of the women's National
Amateur golf championship.
Two Georgia crackers and a tar
heel from North Carolina marshaled
forces against a lone surviving Con-
necticut Yankee-20-year-old Grace
Lenczyk-and the form chart gave
the North another good chance to
win an argument with the Rebels.
One of the southerners was GER
tain to be on the sidelines when they
play the 36-hole championship finals
tomorrow, for down in the lower
bracket it was Dorothy Kirby of
Georgia against Mrs. Estelle Lawson
Page of North Carolina.
The other semifinal match sent
Medalist Louise Suggs of Georgia, a
favorite from the start, matching
strokes with the youthful Miss
I,encZyk.
Evening star., 1947-09-26

tomorrow. three
make or break
games take place
in the d e e p
South, with an
other highly i'm
portanC contest
slated for sunny
California.
D o w n at
Chapel H i ! !,
North Carolina
f ces Georgia.
This colorful
struggle holds
all the drama of
a H Holly W o o d
Script Georcia'S
Evening star., 1947-09-26
Entries in Boxer Show
Nav Be Made Sunday

Entries in the Potomac Boxer
Clubs sanctioned match on Sunday
may be made up to o'clock the day
Of the show or in advance with Mrs.
Frank Adams, Warfield 1918.
The match will be held, starting
at 2 o'clock, at the Fairfax High
School field. Judge will be Mrs.
Donald Russell of Wappingers Falls,
N. Y. Trophies will be awarded in
all classes and ribbons also go to tine
first four dogs in each class.
Evening star., 1947-09-26
Boys Club Gridmen Begin
PIuy in Three Leagues

Boys weighing from 80 to 14O
pounds will launch the 1947 Boys
Club of Washington Football League
tomorrow as teams in five different
weight classes collide on the Ellipse.
FairlaWn will be the center of
activity as the Metropolitan Police
Boys Club gridders open the season
in >the los, 120 and 14O pound
leagues. The so-pounders play Tues
dow
Evening star., 1947-09-26
BY the Associoted Press

The Brooklyn Dodger pitching
object of derision during the last
few weeks is beginning to show
signs of rounding into form for the
World Series clash with the New
York Yankees.
Last night at Philadelphia Vic
lombard and Ralph Branca spar
killed.. lombard hurled the last
three innings of last nights COM
pieted game of August II which had
been halted at the end of 61a innings
and allowed but one man to reach
base. The Dodgers won, 7-5.
In the second game, which the
Dodgers also won, So, in 10 innings,
21-game winner Branca held the
Phils to five hits and one run be-
Evening star., 1947-09-26
Herman's Successor
Very Much in Doubt;
Durocher Mentioned
by the Associoted Press

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 26.-Billy
Herman has resigned" as manager
of the Pittsburgh Pirates, but he can
collect approximately $4,000 for the
balance of his two-year contract by
twiddling his thumbs If he so de-
sres.
President Frank Mckinney called
a special news conference last week
to announce Herman's resignation
after the Pirates dropped twin bill
to the St. Louis Cardinals. Three
of the other club owners were pres
ent and so was Herman, who came
to the Pirates this year after Nc
Kinney and his associates purchased
the club.
Herman calmly smoked a cigarette
during the conference. smiled at the
newsmen and offered no comment.
An Amiable Gathering.
1t was such an amiable gathering
that sports writer's were caught by
surprise when Mckinney, after pref
acing his remarks on the poor
showing of the last-place Pirates
said:
I'VE have talked to Billy at some
length. We are not criticizing him
for the showing of our team but
we felt that some changes should
be made. Bill felt, too, 1t would be
to the best interests of all concerned
if he resigned. We are not parting
company. He is welcome to remain
in the organization. We have the
greatest respect for his ability and
his managerial strategy"
Billy left the front Office imme-
diately, after telling a reporter:
Its too early to say whether I
will remain with the Pirates next
year. The offer is there If I want
to accept it. I have nothing def
nitely in mind. I'll just have to
wait awhile before I decide"
General Manager H. Roy Hamey
said Herman was signed last spring
to a two-year contract "at approx
imately $25, 1000 a season" and in
sisted Herman can collect his pay
next year even if he remains out
of baseball.
1--WE wouldn't try to duck that
he declared emphatically.
Leo Durocher Mentioned.
Mckinney said the field is wide
open" for Herman's successor and
that no thought had been given to
Billy leaving until few days ago.
Asked to comment on the fact
that Leo Durocher, suspended man
ager Of the Brooklyn Dodgers, will
be eligible to re-enter baseball after
the World Series-and whether he
could be considered candidate to
succeed Herman-McKinny said:
II believe any man who has been
convicted and paid the penalty
should be given another chance" !"
He did not amplify.
Evening star., 1947-09-26
Major League Standings and Schedules
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 1s47
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Results Yesterday.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, IS47

phila. at Wash, rain.
St. Louis, 4; Cleveland, 2
Boston at New York, rain
Only games scheduled.
Games Today.
Phila. at Wash. (2), 800
Detroit at Cleveland.
Boston at New York.
Only games scheduled.
Games Tomorrow.
Boston at Wash, 800.
Chicago at st. Louis (2).
Detroit at Cleveland.
Phila. at New York.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Results Yesterday.
New York, 3; Boston, l.
st. L., l5-5, Pitts, 81
B'klyn, IS; Phila., 5-3
Only games scheduled.
Games Today.
New York at Boston.
st. Louis at Chicago.
Only games scheduled.
Games Tomorrow.
Brooklyn at Boston.
New York at Phila.
st. Louis at Chicago.
Only games scheduled.
Evening star., 1947-09-26
TeIevised Football
Listed by WMAL

Opening feature of WMAL-TV,
Washington's newest television
station, will be the Fordham-
Georgetown game on Friday
night, October 3, from Griffith
Stadium. That's the first COL
legiate game Of the season here.
1t will come over Channel 7.
Microphone duties will be han
died by Jim Gibbons, assisted by
Tom Dolan who also will broad
cast future home games for both
Georgetown and George Wash
ington Universities. In addition
WMAL-TV will handle all Wash
ington Redskins home games,
starting with the October s
Steelers contest.
Evening star., 1947-09-26
Durocher in New York,
Hopes to Clear Up Status
By the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 26.-Leo, Du-
rocher is back in town to see the
World Series-and Branch Hickey.
Talking freely, the former Dodger
manager said he hoped to return as
Brooklyn skipper in 1948.
Evening star., 1947-09-26

Ranch Champion against Armed. But II you like
Assault don't let Hirschs reluctance" scare you
of. In the past, study OF similar big special
races shows the reluctant stable frequently has
been the winner when the horses finally got to-
gether
There was the Alsab- -Whirlaway match race"
for example. incidentally, racing purists don't
consider these specials match races. Only an event
in which the rival owners post the purse qualities
real match race) Anyway, five years ago
this month Alsab, 3-year-old, nosed out W1airl-
away. the handicap champion, in one of the great
est Of two-horse races at Narragansett
Alsabs was the reluctant stable in this case
Evening star., 1947-09-26
Ieovy Action Sturts Tomorrow
By Eronk Leahy
koire Dame University Coach

NofTe Uome UnIVeTsIfY Coach
College football starts grinding
fact from fiction this week. A few
topfight teams limbered up last
week, but heavy action really begins
Evening star., 1947-09-26
Te:,uun's After Dotes

Tel ans Restaurant 160-pound
footb; / team wants Sunday games.
Call Larry Conway at Emerson 1898.
Evening star., 1947-09-26
Race Declared Officially On As Latter Loses Limp
Win, Lose, or Draw
By FRANCIS E. STANk

The Reluctant Horses Often Win
The gentlemen who forecast horse racing odds indicating
that Armed be 2to fvorite in the 100000 with
the
the seeming reluctance of Trainer Max Hrsch send the King
Evening star., 1947-09-26

Special shortly before post time Trainer Sarge
swenke ordered Aab scratched
Whrlaway ensationay winning
teenhs in 1865.
Then Narragansett officials busy, purse
meeting Of the two champions the following Saturday
on Asab won by in 1865 fifth of second slower than
Whraway time the before Whry
pounds
When Seobiseuit Won by Four Lengths
In the electrfyng
Nov 1888 the seabiscut steed
Fans had been clamoring for the 1S
They almost got their in October 1897
listed in the overnight entries the Washington Handicap
Laurel but shortly before seabcu
of track and War Admiral easily Then early in the fol-
lowing Belmont
tween the pair for Memorial Day and after s had
Tor publicity tickets etc. was learned that Seabscu not
working well weeks before the the
and found lacking in condition. The
Six weeks later the overnight
Tor the rich Massachusetts Handicap
mud removed seabscut, mudder.
But that fall after Alfred Vanderbilt strings
Pico matched them in the Special paltry
biscuit won by four lengths after the
head for more than half mile
Wuy Back to 1923 . and Zev
Another twohorse race-his goes years-was
won by reluctant stable
back in 1928 and the eyes
OF the prtsts In that the
Churchill Downs
Before this there considerable Ill feeling because
zv owned by Harry Sinclair American repre-
sentative against Papyr the English
Papyrus in the mud at Belmont but
moriam easily beat zv the championship
linen IT was that Carl Weidaman N
camored for match with horse in
this The match finally however the zev
stable became suggesting that zev
was AFRAID to meet In Memoram The
by nose
Incidentally the long history have been
about $50 in this during the
nearly every occasion the horse that the
emerged as the winner zev of the exceptions
Rider Eddie Arcaro Assault allows Armed
Armed figures history
gelding from the fabulous Calumet Farm.
Evening star., 1947-09-26
Milwaukee Wins PIayoff
On 'MerriweII' Home Run
By the Associoted Press

MILWAUKEE, Sept. 26.-The big
bat of Berlin-born Heinz Becker
won the seventh and deciding game
of the American Association playoff
for Milwaukee last night, and today
the Brewers head for Syracuse and
the Little World Series.
Two were away in the seventh
inning and Louisville was leading,
Al, when Becker hit a home run
over the left field wall scoring two
teammates ahead of him.
Evening star., 1947-09-26
PACIFIC COAST LEAGI1E

PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE,
Los Angeles, 21: Sacramento, 4.
San Diego, 2: San Francisco, O.
Seattle, 10: Oakland, 5.
Hollywood, 7; Portland. 8.
EASTERN LEAGUE FINAL PLAYoFFs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-24

british soldiers were board
- ing transports in Bombay,
quitting the teeming subcontinent
which for 200 years had been the
gaudiest gem in Britain's crown
of empire,
Energetic Lord Mountbatten, hav-
ing become the last v~iceroy and voiced
tareWels that were all but obscured
by the clangor of communal strife,
was assuming the largely nominal
post of first Governor General of the
Dominion of India. In between, he had
Deen created an Earl.
MoroSely the father of Indian indie
pendence, 7~0-year-old Mohandas K.
gandhl, lamented the fact that free
dom had brought a division Of his
country into Moslem Pakistan and
Hlndu India. Characteristically he
moved INTO a hut in an area occupied
by minority Hindus in Pakistan.
Meanwhile, a week after one of the
most momentous alterations in his
Tory, India's 400, $1,000 inhabitants
sui wildly celebrated the end of Brit
ans rule, fought each other over
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-24

boundaries that could never satisfy
every claim.
Joint Action
But even amid all this excitement,
Indian leaders commenced to act IN
the tradition of responsible self-gov-
eminent. Jointly the dominions of
India and Pakistan decided to put
down all communal disorders in the
fiery Punjab firmly and immedia-
tely." The decision was taken by
Prime Ministers Jawharlal Nehru OF
India and Liaquat Ali Khan of Pakl-
stan at a meeting in Lahore with the
premiers of east and west Punjab.
Lahore. capital of the disputed Pun
jab, was described as a city of terror
as Hindus and Moslems battled to
protect their refugees seeking to cross
contested new boundaries. Other
clashes occurred in bloody Amritsar,
holy city of the warlike Sikhs which
was assigned to Hindu India.
Because a tripartite boundary COM
mission had been unable to agree on
the new borders in disputed Bengal
and Punjab, decisions e largely
determined by m man, the British
chairman of the boundary commission.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-24
Hot Shots

. At Cedar Rapids, Ia, Libbie Sopou-
SEX, 48, found herself in the path of a
streamliner, leaped to another track,
and landed in front of a switch en-
CINE. It passed completely over her
body. Her injuries were described as
a minor head wound.
. At Dallas, Tex, 1900 members of
the Little Below the Knee Club. at
a mass meeting vowed to resist new
lo%ng-skirted fashions. Said the presi-
dent, a 2~4-year-old housewife: "We're
going to wear the clothes that look
best on us-the styles we have right
now"
. At Wise, Va, a hundred cultists
picketed Wise County Jail, calling on
the Lord to make its walls come tum-
bling down. Inside the walls two
women cult members, jailed for han
ling poisonous snakes in a public gath
ering, got ready to leave. When, after
three hours, the walls still stood,
chanting picketers marched away.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-24
INDIA: The Rocky Road Of Statehood

The governments of both Hindus
and Moslems had agreed in advance
to accept the commissions rulings.
Millions of both religions found
themselves living as minorities in ter
ritory ruled by their rivals. But it
was a time for bold decisions, and
bold decisions had been made.
AS designated, the Hindu dominion
acquires about 100000 square miles
and 300, 000,0 00 people. Its capital is
New Delhi, former seat of the British
"raj."
Pakistan, the Moslem dominion, is
less favored with cities, population
and area. Divided into two separated
regions, it covers about 100000 square
miles with some 100, 100000 inhabit-
ants. The Arabian Sea port of Karachi
is its capital.
Hyderabad, in India's heart, re-
fused to choose which side to join
until things Gained down, and there
we're a few other holdouts among the
princely states.
But in a turbulent week of freedom
the transition had been made. The
era that dawned when Robert Give
won his victory at Plassey in 1857,
that included the sepoy mutiny of
1857 and the heyday of empire for
half a century thereafter, was ended.
During the war Britain promised
that she would give the Indians self
rule. More promptly than history gave
reason to expect, she had made good
her promise.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-24
Labor
Delayed Action

Friday, August %, was go days after
Congress passed the Taft-Hartley bill
to correct Labor "abuses" of New
Deal legislation,
BY the terms of the law, passed
over President Truman's veto, these
new provisions went automatically
into effect as the week ended:
The old National Labor Relations
Board became an agency for protect
ing the rights of workers who don't
want to organize as well as of those
who favor unions. It became divided
into two agencies: a five-man labor
court" and a prosecutors office" to
investigate and prosecute cases before
the tribunal.
The making of new closed shop
contracts became illegal, but union
shop" contracts can be signed if a
majority of employees vote their ap-
prevail. lin states which ban the
union shop also, the local law takes
precedence.)
Unions cannot file unfair practices"
charges before the labor board unless
they have registered and furnished f.
nancial statements, and unless their
officers have made nome Communist
afidavits.
Employers no longer are legally re-
quired to bargain with their super
visory employees.
The us. Labor Cancellation Service,
no longer connected with the US.
Department of Labor, becomes the
Federal Mediation and Cancellation
Service"
Organized labor's deadline reaction:
At Green Bay, Wis, President Will
liam Green of the American Fedora
ton of Labor vehemently declared
that 100000 working men would
take a holiday" at election time to
insure the largest possible vote against
members of Congress who voted for
the Taft-Hartley law.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-24
Japan
Machines and Men

For George C. Atcheson, Jr., years
of work were approaching a climax.
AS political adviser to Gen. Douglas
Macarthur and chairman of the four
power allied council in Tokyo, the
ranking United States diplomat in
Japan could look ahead to the con-
clusion of an American peace for its
former enemy in the Near East.
Already, under us. guidance, the
first tendrils of foreign trade were
shooting out from Nippon. In a month
the victors would assemble PRUSSIA
perhaps abstaining) to lay out the
peace terms.
Diplomat Atcheson was flying back
to Washington for official talks on
these peace terms when a combina-
ton of a human and mechanical fail
ure apparently ended a distinguished
career.
There were 10 men in the Bit Fly
ing Fortress that took off from Tokyo.
At Guam, farthest American outpost
in pre-war years, a faulty engine
was replaced. Capt. K. R. Still, the
pilot, tested it for three hours. Again
the plane took off. It crossed 1900
miles to Kwajalein, wartime rendez-
vous of American fighting ships.
There $3.50 gallons of gasoline e
loaded, more than enough for the IL
hours flight to Hawaii.
The big plane did not stop at Johns
ton island, Ills miles west of Hawaii.
A few hours later listeners at the
Hawaiian Sea Frontier heard the
plane report a failing gas supply
while still ITO miles from land. She
was making only $50 miles per hour
against head winds.
One by one the four gas-hungry
engines conked out. Shortly before
midnight, while planes and ships
raced for the position given, Pilot
Still "ditched" his plane.
Next morning three survivors were
rescued from RATS IS miles west of
Pearl Harbor. Five dead were seen.
Of the five missing and presumed
lost, Atcheson was one.