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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-01-01
Davis Cup, Won
From Australians
ByU.S., In Vault
(By Associated Press,

MELBOURNE, Jan. 1, - With
the Davis Cup safely locked in a
vault of his hotel here today,
Walter Pate, captain of the Amer
lean Davis Cup team, prepared to
return to the United States by
plane January 5.
The great trophy, held by the
Australians since 1889, was hand
ed over to the United States at
Keeyong, Monday following Kra-
ner's drubbing of John Brom-
Wich, Australian champion, 8-6,
GA, GA and an equally impress
sive win by Gardnar Mulley over
Dinny Pals, 6-3, 6-3, GA.
The concluding singles matches
gave the United States its fifth
clean sweep of the international
matches in Davis Cup history.
They also settled any question as
to the superiority of Americas
top-flight amateur tennis play.
ers. Kramer beat both Pals and
Bromwich. Ted Schroeder and
Mulley each defeated Pals, sec.
ond-ranking player of Australia
Kramer and Schroeder soundly
trounced Bromwich and Adrian
Quist, top-flight Australian dou-
bles team.
Kramer had no comment on
reports that he would turn pro-
fessional for $4,000 if he wins
the Wimbledon Championship in
June. He told the Associated
Press that he planned to play at
Wimbledon and Forest Hills and
defend the Davis Cup in the 1947
challenge round in late August
or early September. After that, he
said, Il have no plans"
Kramer, Schroeder and Frank
Parker will return with Pate.
Parker showed bitter disappoint-
ment at not being selected to
play and voiced severe criticism
of Pate's management. Mulley,
Bill Talbert and Tom Brown
will compete in the Australian
national championships, starting
January II.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-01-01

315, while Luke Appling of Chi
cago had the most assists, sos.
Best defensive mark among the
outfielders was chalked up by
Walter Judnich of st. Louis, who
wound up with 1895 by handling
All chances with only two errors.
Stanley Spence of Washington
had the most chances, 435, in $50
games.
Twentysix pitchers, five more
than the number in 1915, had per-
feet fielding records on the basis
of ten or more games. Among
them, Ed Lopat of the Chicago
White Sox had the most chances,
So, three more than his leading
total in 1943. Paul Trout of De-
troit handled the most chances,
So, with five. errors for a mark
of .942.
Warren Rosar of Philadelphia
broke the major league record for
the highest fielding percentage by
a catcher, playing through sea-
son of III games without an er-
ror. With nine games left over
from 1945, Rosar broke the record
for the most consecutive errorless
games with 126 running. During
this stretch he handled 648 con-
secutive chances, a new major
league record, and added another
major league record with COS
consecutive errorless chances in
one season.
Frank Hayes of Cleveland and
Chicago did not appear in the
lineup on April "a, thereby break
ing a record string of 312 con-
secutive games as starting catch
er.
James Vernon tied the major
league record for participating in
two unassisted double plays at
first base on May 80.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-01-01
Key West Reported Turned
Down In Bid For Franchise
In +. |. Baseball League

! Key Vests application for en-
try in the Experimentation
Baseball League was turned
down yesterday, according to a
report received by The Citizen.
Roy Hamlin, chairman of the
Municipal Stadium Committee,
who went OF Miami. to apply for
"a Key West franchise in the
league on behalf of local back
ers, could not be reached for
comment today as he was still
in Miami.
Friends of Hamlin, however,
who saw him at the Orange
Bowl parade last night, said the
local man told them that some
body else had beat Key West to
it, in securing the franchise.
The name of the other city was
not available.
The development came as a
surprise to fans here since the
owner of the Havana Club and
communications from other clubs
in the league had favored Key
Vests entry. The franchise ap-
plication was apparently turned
down by Judge Wayne Allen,
league president, whom Hamlin
had an appointment to see yes
terday for the purpose of seek
ing admission of Key West in the
league.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-01-01
Tragic Accidents
Marked Cridiron
Battles OF 1916
BY JIM BECKER
AP Newsfeotures Sports Writer

NEW YORK. - Tragedy en-
erged from many a pile-up on
the gridiron during the 1916 sea-
son.
Record crowds cheered upsets.
thrills, long runs, spectacular
passes and hard line play, but
when the plays were concluded
many gridders failed to rise.
One of the most tragic acct
dents of the year occurred at
Tulsa, Okla, in a high school
game, when Henry Frnka, Jr.,
son of the grid mentor at Tu-
lane, suffered a brain injury that
caused his death. He was tackled
headon by two opposing line
hackers.
Broken bones were numerous
in both college and pro football
ranks.
Bill Daley, All-America from
Minnesota and Michigan, who
was counted on to carry much of
the backfield load for the Brook
lyn Dodgers in the new All
America Conference, suffered
broken ankle early in the cam
paign and never returned to
form.
Bill Dudley, one of the Ma
tional Football Leagues bright
est stars, took tremendous
beating over the year, and when
he was carried from the field
with a torn ligament in the final
game against Philadelphia, he
announced his retirement. I'm
too small at. 172 pounds to take
the beating" Dudley asserts.
Another pro gridder was lost
! for two months when Jackie
Wilson, rapid scat-back of the
: Los Angeles Rams, suffered
broken arm in the Washington
game ,,..
A broken arm also was dealt
Ito Roy Cestary, spectacular Col
umbia end who did all the punt
ing for his team. The wing was
shattered in the Dartmouth game
and Cestary watched the re-
mainder of the Lion tits from
the bench.
Brilliant Cal Rossi, right half
back who spanked the early
season march of the undefeated
united UCLA Bruins, suffered a
broken right leg in the Cali
! fornia game, and sat out the sea-
| son. Rossi led UCLA's point
scorers when the fracture struck.
Another backfield star, Nichl-
/ pan's Jack Weisenburger, frac-
tured a jaw in the hard-fought
| Army game. The fullback had
ripped off As yards per carry
! when the injury cut him down.
! George Conner, Notre Danes
All-America tackle, broke his
hand on the opening day of 1916
practice. However, in this case,
thc injury healed rapidly and
Common went on to-. become a
nower in the line for the UNI
beaten Irish. the nations top
football team in the A,P. 1916
snorts writer's poll.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-01-01

A recent dispatch from Rome,
Italy, brought the news that two
German generals were on trial
for ordering the massacre OF 335
Italians in the Ardeatine Caves
outside Rome in March, 1914. /
hope the German butchers win
be given justice.
It was my sad experience to
look upon the mangled, rnutilat-
ed bodies of the 335 Italians who
were slaughtered in reprisal for
the ambush killing of 80 German
SIS troops. The 335 murdered
bodies were a horribly gruesome
sight. Each of the Italians had
been shot in the back of the
head near the base of the skull.
An officer in charge of the bodies
said the Germans who murdered
the Italians had placed Luger
pistol to the back of each vic
TINS head, while his hands were
tied behind his back, and pulled
the trigger.
About 80 heads had been sew
cred from the bodies and were
spread out on tables. The shrivel-
ed, murdered bodies were lying
in open pine-box collins. Most
of them were so mutilated that
they could not be identified.
Grief-stricken relatives of the
dead men still came to the caves
in search of their loved ones. Be-
ing unable to identify their faith
er or brother, the sorrowing
families of the murdered men
had hung pictures of their dead
on the walls of the caves. Some
of the pictures were wrapped in
faded flowers. Tear-Stained let
tiers of farewell were pinned to
some of the pictures. Tender
messages of love and devotion
were written across the bottom
of some of the pictures. The pic
lures indicated the dead men
were wholesome, respectable
citizens.
A priest who lived a short dis
lance from the scene of the mas
sacre said the Germans started
shooting the Italians about 500
o'clock one night and finished
early the next morning. He said
the piteous screams of the doom
ed men as they begged the Ger
mans for mercy was heart-rend-
ing. He said the screams and
means of the dying men could be
heard throughout the night.
A young Italian ex-soldier,
who was in the Jail from which
the 335 victims were taken to be
slaughtered, told how the victims
were selected by the Germans
He said the inmates of the Jail
mostly political prisoners, were
lined up, himself included, and
every third man was selected fol-
assassination. He himself hap
pened to be number two, SO he
was left behind when the 335
roomed men were taken away
to death.
A young man, who was IN the
cave searching for the body of
his sisters husband. told a sad
story. He said his brother-in-law,
a young man of SO with two
small children. had been thrown
in jail by the German Gestapo
on some trumped-up charge.
When all prisoners were lined up,
he happened to be fatal num-
Der three and so had his brains
blown out by German Luger
fired by a German killer.
The victim had no identified
ton on his body or in his cloth
ing (it was some two months at
ter the massacre before the al
lies captured Rome and discov-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-01-01
EATING RACE DANGEROUS

PARIS, France.-Of ahree; men
who contested the title of the
biggest eater in Bayonne, one
died of indigestion and the other
two were sent to the hospital
seriously i'll. The men sat down
to meal consisting of an enor-
nous steak, one rabbit and ten
pounds of beans. Shortly after
leaving the table, one of them
collapsed and died, a second was
struck with paralysis and the
third had heart attack.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-01-01
SMILE BRINGS FORTUNE

GRONTNGEN, Holland. - A
Dutch girl has found that it pays
to be friendly. Her smile three
years ago at a man who was
Stunned by neighbors because of
a facial Disagreement has brought
her a fortune of about $4,000
The man, farmer, never forgot
the girls smile and when he died
recently, he willed her all of his
possessions. E..
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-01-01
Your Horoscope

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY /,
1947-Today gives benefactor to
the poor and one kind to the
weak. A student of the mys-
FERROUS, you should seek employ
ment in abstruce trades, for you
will not be interested in the brdi-
nary employments, but will work
best in the solution of problems
benefitting mankind.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-01-01
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS
know Arnerica)

]. Edgar Hoover, F.BI. head.
born in Washington, d. C., 52
years ago.
DR.. Charles Seymour, president
of Yale University, historian, born
in New Haven, SO years ago.
William j. ('Wild Bill'') Dono-
van of New York. wartime ma
jor-general and Office of Strate-i
gic Service head, lawyer, born in
Buffalo, N. Y, "a years ago.
Hamilton T. Holt of Macon, Ga,
industrialist, president of Kiwan-
is International, born in Stewart
Co, 40 years ago.
Xavier Cugat, conductor-vio-
linist, born in Spain, Al years
ago.
Edwin Frankie Goldman of New
York conductor-composer, born.
in Louisville, KY. SO years ago.
us. Senator Edwin C.. Johnson
of Colorado, born in Scandia,
Kans., IS years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-01-01
FINDS $4,000: REWARD. So

BISMARCK, N. D. Kenneth
R. Yeiter, a bartender, found
$4,000 worth of Endorsed and
negotiable checks. lost by Bis
marck contractor. The contrac-
tor generously rewarded him
with six 50-cent pieces,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-01-01
$3.50 POSTAGE FROM CHINA

CLARKFIELD, MINI. - 1t re-
quired $3.50 - in inflated Chi
nese money-ot bring a letter
from China to the Rev. j. E.
Akre, of Clarkfield. The back of
the envelope, sent by Edward
Sovik, a missionary in China,
was covered with stamps.
In the ten years preceding
World War IL, the world popula-
ton increased by 200,000,000.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-01-01
Everything Relative

She. Isn't that blonde girl
next to us pretty?
He: Next to you. everything
is pretty"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-01-01
She's So Refined

.Teu that man to stop kissing
you" 49,. ..,1
ellthim yourself doh 'AN
to STRANGERS. -.-.--
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-01-01

The junior colleges in the US
$50 of them---had a record 355, =
600 students in 1946.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-01-01


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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
MAJORITY
CUTS. WARREN OFF
Roll Call Vote Passes Bill
Slashing Labor Depart
ment Cash
March

WASHINGTON, March Is. up
- The House, passing its second
trimmed down appropriations bill,
voted tonight to knock Cancellation
Director Edgar L. Warren off the
Labor department payroll and cut
in halt the funds requested for the
National Labor Relations board.
Further, it went even farther
than its appropriations committee
and whitfield another 81, 900, 900 off
the budget for the Bureau Of Labor
statistics. This left the bureau with
81, 373, 400 as compared with its re-
quest for IS, 700, 600.
The bill, passed on a roll call vote
OF 343 to 80, appropriates 1884,
586, 700 for the Labor department,
the Federal Security agency and
related offices for the fiscal year
beginning July I.
Amendment after amendment
was batted down as the Republican
majority rammed the measure
through. Defeated were proposals
to abolish the NLRB entirely, and
to restore the jobs of Warren and
his Cancellation Service aides. The
appropriations committee had held
that Warren had once belonged to
alleged Communist front organi-
cations and was unsuited for a job
Of such responsibility.
The Cancellation service is the
Labor departments chief means
Of settling acknowledgement dis
putes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
WORKERS REJECT
FARLEY ON WAGES
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eAS SSSJ
by-eompany across the nation
would result in the introduction
Of further inequities and inequali-
ties he said.
Nevertheless, the 4s-member
policy committee appointed three
Of its top members as a commit
tee to explore all avenues which
may now be available or may
hereafter be suggested as a
means for a reasonable settlement
of the ten national bargaining
items" They are Beirne, Chair
man John j. Moran Of the policy
committee, and John L. Crull,
chairman of the National Bargain
ing committee.
The policy group earlier said it
regarded a reply from the AT.
l. T. to its proposal to negotiate
on a nationwide basis constituted
a rejection" The company said
it was passing the proposal along
to, its Operating companies"
The union announcement on To-
cal arbitration came after the
government had sent one Of its
ace troubleshooters into action in
an effort to head off the threaten
ed coast-to-coast wa1kout.
Assistant Secretary OF Labor
John w. Gibson, who achieved an
eleventh-hour settlement Of a SIM
liar dispute a year ago. left for
New York to confer with Ameri-
can Telephone and Telegraph
company (Ben system) officials
and get their views on tine sltua'
ton. =.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
DELTA AlRPLlNES
ROUTE APPROVED
Examiners Recon- m E n d
Service From Florida to
New York via Asheviile
(By Bill Baldwin,

WASHINGTON, March 2-R-
Western North Carolina, with the
Asheville airport as the hub, would
be further linked by air with the
industrial east under recommends
tons today by two examiners of
the Civil Aeronautics board.
Ralph L. Wiser and Lawrence
j. Rosters recommended to the
CAB that Delta Airlines be per-
nitted to operate between Atlanta
and New York, with a stop at
Asheville. They recommended,
however, that Delta, which now
flies between Asheville and Florida
points, not be allowed to offer
through flights between Florida
and points north Of Asheville in
view Of competitive service now
offered by other air1ines.
They recommended that Penn
sylvania>C Central Airlines be al
lowed to extend its Bristol, Tenn
Atlanta route to touch at Asheviile.
The examiners recommended
for denial applications Of seven
other airlines for revision of serv-
ices on the Boston-New York-At-
lanta-New Orleans route. They
recommended that applications
for inauguration of air freight
service on this route be laid aside
until the full board can act on a
pending general air freight case.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26

was expected TO drop to zero or
below in Northern Minnesota to-
night.
The forecaster, said that heavy
SHOWS which covered the Great
Lakes region and the New England
states to depths Of four to six
inches would abate but that snow
hurries would continue in spots.
Many Michigan factories and
schools were closed today. A Grey
hound bus with 10 passengers was
marooned for hours near Harris
vile, Mich, and two trucks were
reported missing in the same area.
Wind whipped the ice in Saginow
bay into 50-foot windows, threaten.
ing shoreline homes.
Widespread damage was caused
in Northern Ohio by gales up to Is
miles per hour. Entire communi-
ties were darkened when power
lines snapped. Huge waves smash
ed over Cleveland's shore drive,
flooding parked automobiles.
Parochial schools were closed in
the city. The storm, described as
the city's most severe since 1881,
uprooted trees and ripped down
telephone lines.
In Indiana, damage from the
windstorm last night was estimated
in the millions Of dollars. Trains
were from three to four hours late
as emergency crews shoveled drift
ing snow from switches. Miles, Of
wire dangled from power poles. In
Indianapolis, the wall of an old
business establishment collapsed
but no one was injured.
At San Francisco. a weather
forecaster reported that a storm
had developed 800 miles off the
California coast and was expected
to hit California from San Diego
to San Francisco late tomorrow.
The forecaster said the storm
would not be severe but would
bring general rains which would
help the multi million dollar fruit
crop.
In New York winds Of near gale
force toppled a wall of a building
and injured at least one person.
Margaret Ryan, 60, wal taken to
a hospital for. treatment Of in
juries suffered when the 40-mile-an-
hour wind tossed her against an
east midtown Manhattan building.
The South wall Of a two-story
structure in Brooklyn occupied
10y a dyeing concern was blown
into an alleyway.
Fifty-mile an hour gusts &C
companied the high wind. The
city's average March wind is about
II miles an hour.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
~$4S,000,000 BILL
THROUGH HOUSE
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except in municipalities desiring
it and in grade A and B cafes.
The same beer regulatory powers
would apply to Bladen Madison,
Avery, Northampton, Hartford
and Moore counties under another
bill.
Attempts OF legislators to in
crease their pay, even though the
people voted against it last No.
vember, received a setback when
Attorney General Harry McMul-
Ian advised that he believed $6 a
day for subsistence and 6 cents
a mile for travel for legislators
would be Of doubtful constitution
ality.
He suggested that the State Su-
preme court be consulted and the
House voted today to take that
step. Legislators now r paid SIC
a day up to go days.
A variety Of bills were intro
duced in both branches OF the AS
sembly, which seemed to heed the
request Of presiding officers in
their efforts to speed adjourn.
ment. The Senate cleared its cal
endar and the House planned to
do the same.
The House passed and sent to
the Senate a measure authorizing
the Governor to appoint a com
mission to make a study Of public
education in North Carolina and
to report to the Governor and the
General assembly in 1919 on its
findings.
Also sent to the Senate was a
House-approved bill which would
provide for the establishing Of a
vocational school for veterans at
Camp Butner.
Rep. Stone OF Rockingham sent
forward a measure which would
prohibit the transportation of per-
sons for compensatin unless a
carrier has taken out insurance
as required by the State Utilities
commission and the equipment
has been approved by the COM
mission.
Rep. Graham Of Robson intro.
duced a bill which would provide
for appointment Of justices Of the
peace for the various counties OF
the state.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
KERM0N OFFERS
MERGER MEASURE
CONTINUED From Page One

be authorized to appropriate
funds for the study, with the G
rense to be divided in this mar
ner: Wilmington, 40 per cent;
New Hanover county, 40 per cent.
Wrightsville Beach. 10 per cent
and Carolina Beach, 10 per cent
The measure as Offered BY
Kermon stipulates that the report
of the special committee may
recommend the further corsoI'
dalton of various governnsh'
functions to eliminate any M
necessary office or to co1sOllda'e
all of the New Hanover coNlNy
agencies under a consolloa,''
government Of the munlclpal''e'
within the county with the couny!
government.
If the recommendation cor COL
solidation is made by the COM.
mittee and the people OF uF
county favor the move, then III
next members Of the Genera N,
sembly shall be called upon "
offer such legislation necessary "
effect the merger, the msa'u''
stimulates.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
JUNIOR COLLEGE
PROJECT CARRIES
Continued From Page One)

and had found the equipment and
facilities sufficient to put the coli
lege IN a fu~nctioning basis
I'VE want to make the college
a real community center for the
training of our youth" he said.
Junior Chamber of Commerce
President Jesse B. Sellers, whose
civic organization has been one Of
the biggest boosters of the college
and hospital said he was very
much pleased with the vote on
both the college and the hospital.
81 am confident" said he,
"that the two institutions will be
among the greatest things that
ever happened to Wilmington"
He said he felt Wilmington
would benefit in many ways from
these vital institutions"
Addison Hewlett, chairman of
the county board of commission
ers, said he felt the vote was one
of the most progressive moves cit
liens OF the county ever had
made.
He added that there "are a lot
of things for us to do yet before
the school, and hospital begin to
function but said that 1--WE have
been planning for them and I
don't think it will be but a few
months before they r a reality"
They each, in their own way,
he said, 'mean a lot to the health
and education of the people of the
county"
Officials pointed out that the
normal vote Of the county in a
primary was between 5000 to g.
900. Since approximately half Of
the voters turned out for this spe-
cial election, they said, indicated
the keen interest the citizens had
taken in the matter and the real
need for both the college and hos
pital.
The hospital took the lead in
the voting with 2,754 votes being
cast out of a possible 3,4s4. This
was 1914 per cent Of those who
registered. The tax proposition
was next in line with 1872 per cent
Of those registered voting In the
affirmative.
The vote by precinct appears in
columns six and seven on page
one.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
Louisiana Bayous, bitches
Run With Milk; Strike On

of the company's milk had been
dumped by the striking producers.
In New Orleans, H. w. Maitre-
jean, owner Of the st. Charles
dairy, called for conservation and
other dairy and creamery officials
predicted the New Orleans sup
ply would be cut at least 50 per
cent. Other sources said more
than half the entire states sup
ply might be cut off.
Hospitals Supplied
Charity hospital said here it had
failed to. receive it's regular sup
ply of cream, but hospitals re-
ported no decrease in their sup
ply of regular milk.
Strike leaders announced at the
outset Of the strike called last
night that hospitals and hard
ship cases" would continue to be
supplied.