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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-20
By HAL BOYLE

TEXAS CITY, Tex, April 49,
R-Death's salvage crew along
the explosion-torn Texas City
waterfront knows no badge Of age
or rank.
Sixteen-year-old Billy Thomas
Crenshaw Of Galveston-who fib
bed about his age more thar
eleven months ago to get into the
Army-works side by side witt
middle-aged Orville Henry, 6
Freeport ironWorksr.
my own house is latter thar
a pancake" said Henry, who ha.
been laboring almost continuous.
ly for 70 hours to clear debris anc
help recover hundreds of charree
and faceless bodies.
To him the whole task is a bac
but willingly performed chore fol
neighbors worse off than himself
To young Billy Thomas, who wcule
be lying among the flaming ruins
himself except for the blind lucl
OF youth, the grlssly search is
fresh adventure.
IF l hadn't been an hour late
Id have been in the crew on thu
High Flyer the second ship tt
blow up" he said. Il just got gu
of the Army and had joined thu
Merchant Marine"
Like most of the 800 voiuntee.
rescue workers who are serving
without pay Billy Thomas is men
tally numb with f~atigue-kept go
ing only by the need of the MON
emf.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-20
Great Britain Is Proud
OF Princess Elizabeth

Elizabeth would not be spoiled
by public adulation. She was
taught to rely upon herself. Ser
wants waited upon her, of course,
but she was held responsible for
looking after her schoolbooks,
tidying up her room and daraing
her own stockings. She helped the
queen with sewing and knitting.
Much else she learned in tha1
strict school f queenhood-hoW
to remember names a n d recog'
nize faces, to obey the rules Of
give and take in day-to-dav fami
ly life, to conceal WEAKNESS ano
boredom.
The h%igh-spirited child inspired
one writer to say Il had never
seen any child more in love with
existence" Others Found her at
fectionate, devoted, rather stub,
born, somewhat erratic.
The grown-up princess Is sober
faced, but the high spirits remain;
what was formerly looked upon "a
stubbornness is n O regarded as
perseverance, a quality strong in
the king, himself; loyalty assured
ly counts high among her attri'
butes; and there is no trace OF
what once was considered cratic
mood.
Since Princess Elizabeth
emergence into a fuller public life,
Britons have recognized in h e
several of the queens in%gratiating
qualities-naturalness, simplicity
and keen interest in people. She
does = have her mothers in.
eradicable smile, which is SC
seemingly personal that each per
son in a crowd swears she is smi-
ling at him.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-20
Identification
Program Planned

. JACKSONVILLE, April 10 SID
/ Usher, ex-Marine and others have
offered to furnish labor for plant
setting in a recently announced
program by the Jacksonville
schools in cooperation with the
Planning Board.
Earl Knauff, Flower Shop own
er, has offered his services tc
landscape the schools beautifica
ton areas and to further assist b.
getting shrubs and plants it cost
The work is scheduled 20 be I'M
derway next week and the main
phase of preliminary planting is
scheduled to be completed within
the month. The Identification
committee of the Parent-Teachel
association is helping.
The idea was sponsored in ;
program over WING by Ear
knott in cooperation with the
Jacksonville Garden club.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-20

role of Micaela in Carmen" she
filled in for Stella Roman as
Desdemona in "Otello;" and she
took over for both Bidu Sayao and
Licia Albanese as Vioietta in la
Traviata."
She began her career standing
at the living-room piano to sing
with her sisters, uncles, father
and mother, and took h e r first
formal lessons when she was 10,
with a teacher who happened 10
be a patient of her doctor father.
II never dreamed it would hap
pen to me like this" she says,
and nobody else ever dreamed it,
either.
She was graduated from San
Francisco State college in 1912.
Less than two years ago she was
a girl employe of the Navy, serv-
ing as interpreter and translator
in French, Spanish and Italian.
While on this job, she met a
cameraman and his wife who in
vited her to visit in Hollywood.
There some friends, hearing her
voice, talked her up to Bing
Crosby. They finally wore him
down in the middle Of a game
Of golf and he said he'd hear her
and get it over with.
But at the end OF the addition
he told the completely unknown
soprano: If we a help you in
any little way, you al be in our
show"
That air debut was nerve-wrack-
ing for Miss Quartararo, and for
Crosby, too, but it went oft so
we'll that he engaged her for four
more programs.
A man from the Met" heard
her at the bowl and arranged an
addition with Bruno Walter, who
advised her to head east. She fol-
lowed his advice, though it meant
rejecting offers of both film and
radio contracts. Auditioned at the
Met, she won a $1,000 Caruso
award and was given a contract
in September 1945.
She made her first public ap-
pearence in her home town las1
month when she sang with the San
Francisco symphony. S h has
been booked for a recital tour
and at present she is making the
whole of the current tour of the
Met.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-20
new OPERA STAR
REACHES HEIGHTS
Snuffles And Sneezes Boom
The Fame OF 'Fill-In'
Soprano
By w. G. ROGERS

Associated Press Arts Reporter
NEW YORK, April 19.-P-It's
because of the occasional snuffles,
sreezes and other indispositions of
six of this country's leading So
nranos that San Francisco = born
Florence Quartararo h been
making an unusually rapid climb
IN fame at the Metropolitan opera.
She is the Met leading film;
az a substitute she is super. Out
Of more than a dozen per-
formances there, she has made
five to replace stars who, at the
last minute, had to cancel their
appearances. She got a start in
the operate field by stepping into
Helen Traubel's shoes in the Hol-
lywood bowl.
Tall and buxom, with a broad
and ~irrepressible smile and dark
auburn hair in long loose waves,
one minute she is a big, bouncy
girl having the time of her life;
fhe next minute she is serious and
very grown-up.
She has a voice, and she has
been lucky, but the most astonish-
ing aspect of her brief caree is
the way she happens to be ready
when opportunity knocks. Her
record-breaking series of substl-
tutions began in the summer Of
1916: on the basis Of just n au-
dition, StokoWski asked her to
sing before an audience of 10000
when Miss Traubel was suddenly
indisposed.
The next five chances occurred
at the Met, after she had made
a scheduled debut in January
1916. In that first season she re-
placed Nadine Conner as Pamina
in THE Magic Flute" Her first
performance this year was as
Licia Albanese's substitute in the
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-20

him." said a Monsanto worker
who carried the scared wooden
leg from the cooling wreckage
where the remains of at least
seventy-five bodies were located
yesterday within a few hours.
Hopes o. finding some workers
miraculously alive under the black
ened rubble have ended.
After we pulled fifteen bodies
cut of one building. two cars ran
cut as pretty as you please said
Paul Stokes, Houston insurance
man who has worked without rest
since the initial blast.
But so far we haven't found
any human beings with nine lives"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-20

all sections of the %75-acre area of
waterfront desolation and slowly
tn sulphur and wood fires in the
fallen warehouses are being
brought under control. by firemen
from neighboring towns.
The unrewarding duty Ct col
lecting the fragmentary dead will
go on for days. Few now are
identifiable.
Most gruesome recovery so far
has been a blackened wooden leg.
tn, shoe and garter intact, found
If the smouldering shell of the
Monsanto Plastic plant. TIL e
wooden leg remains. the fleshy
owner is among the missing.
He was a machinist-I knew
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-20
New Molnar Drama
Only Play Premiere

NEW YORK, April 10 -(P)-
miracle in the Mountains" a
drama by Ferenc Molnar based
on an old legend of the Carpathian
mountains, is the weeks only play
premiere, opening Friday at the
playhouse theater.
Molnaris staging his own play,
produced by Archer King and
Harrison Woodruff. Robert Davi =
son designed the sets.
The cast includes Julie Hayden
Victor Killian, Frederick Tozere
E. A. Krumschmidt, Katherine
Anderson and the O'Connor twins,
Gloria and Consuelo.
1t was produced in Budapest in
1898.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-20
ONSL0W BIRTHS

JACKSONVILLE, April 10
Four births at the Onslow County
hospital we're announced yester-
day by the staff.
Mr.. and Mrs. Phillip Edmond
son. 4 daughter, April II.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Brown, a
daughter, April II.
Mr.. and Mrs. Steven Brown,
Richards, a daughter, April u.
MI. and Mrs. E. J.. Bell, New
Bern, a son. April II.
Evening star., 1947-09-04
BY the Associated Press

DENVER, Sept. 4.-The last
five holes at Cherry Hills Coun-
try Club were designed to rank
among the toughest golf finishes
in the world and pros here for
the $4,000 Denver Open have
dubbed them "the killer finish"
Here's the way they look to the
man heading home with a title
and a hunk of prize money hang
ing on every shot:
No. 14-470 yards, par 4, a
creek to the left. out of bounds to
the right, with the creek winding
behind the dog-legged green.
No. 1870 yards, par 3, a tiny
green set in an oasis amid traps
and rough with the creek wind
ing around part of it.
No. 16-397 yards, par 4, the
same creek along the right, then
cutting across the fairway to the
left with the fairway making a
Evening star., 1947-09-04
Denver Open Starts
Amid Complaints Of
Unfair Course
By the Assoeioted Press

DENVER, Sept. Amid much
muttering. the Nations leading pros
resumed their self-appointed task
today of solving the tricky Cherry
Hills course and, incidentally, pick
ing up some of the $4,000 ready
cash offered in the Denver Open.
AS they started 70 holes of medal
play which will end Sunday the
pros were talking to themselves.
Ed (Porky) Oliver of Wilmington,
Del, was one of six who turned in
one e-under-par 70s in the pro-ama-
teur warmup yesterday. But he
complained the greens were too,
hard-too sun baked"
Snead Calls 7th Unfair.
Sam Snead of Hot Springs, Va,
one of five who matched par, said
the seventh hole, sharp dog leg
to the left, was downright unfair"
Snead made the comment after
taking two puts to go feet on the
fifth and three puts for feet on
the sixth and then having his at
tempt to drive across the dog leg
little matter of more than 300
yards-fall short of the trapped sew
enth green.
Others groused about the ankle
deep rough and the winding fair
ways, the lake and the ever-present
creek. But, playing for cash, they
all headed out today for a shot at
the prize money ranging down from
$4,000 first prize.
After 18-hole rounds TODAY and
tomorrow, the field will be pared to
the low ga players who will play
two more rounds Of l8 on Saturday
and Sunday. If playoff is neces-
sary 1t will be held Monday.
Remembering the good scores that
have been ruined on what they call
the killer finish" and the method
ical 284 that was good enough for
Ralph Guldahl to win the National
Open at Cherry Hills in 1898, the
(see GOLF, Page C-35
Evening star., 1947-09-04
Garvin Girls, Kavako,
Looking 10 National
SoftbaII Crowns
Special Dispotch TO The Sior

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. Gar
WINS Grill and Kavakos Grill headed
back for Washington. D. c., today
to await the opening of the national
softball tournament in Cleveland,
September IL, after both took the
regional titles in girls and mems
divisions, respectively.
For the first time in the history
of the tourney, two teams from one
city battled for the regional crown,
as Garvins upset the highly-favored
Takoma Decorators, 4-3, in the final
yesterday.
Jean Wood, hurting for the Deco
rators, who have had strangle-hold
on the title for the past four years,
gave up only one hit, but the Garvin
girls pushed four runs across in the
first frame on three walks, a hit
batter and a couple of miscues.
Kavakos took the mems title by
downing the Virginia Dairy nine,
Al. Tommy Boggs singled in the
fifth inning, scoring Bill Oego)
Lamb and Ray Love to ice the game.
Thrifty Beverage, also of Wash
ington, bowed out in the first round
before the Trenton Democratic Club
of Baltimore, FL.
Evening star., 1947-09-04
Stymie Owners Bid
For Armed-Assault
Race Is Refused
By the kssociossd Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 4.-The chal-
lenge of Hirsch Jacobs and Isadore
Bieber, owners of Stymie, to pit the
world leading money winning thor
oughbred against Armed and As
sault in the September q match
race at Belmont Park has fallen on
deaf ears.
The Westchester Racing Associa-
ton, taking cognizance OF the will
ingness of Stymie's owners to run
in the Special, yesterday announced
it plans to adhere to the original
conditions of the match race which
was to have peen run at Washington
Park last Saturday.
The Washington Park event,
called off when Assault developed a
slight lameness due to improper
plating, was to have matched the
Calumet and King Ranch stars at
weight forage, 1875 pounds, each, IN
a 14-mile winner -take-all" race.
The racing association said it does
not propose to deviate from the
original conditions, pointing out that
Stymie was not considered as par
ticipant because his owners had
made. 1t known that they were mot
interested" in such an event at that
time.
Evening star., 1947-09-04
Bubby Worshom Takes Blazing
Record Into D. e.. Junior Golf

three times in national junior and
caddie tournaments this year, but
he's still the tops in town. The
last local golfer to beat Bubby
in head-to-head competition vas
Dave Clark, who is in the lower
bracket of the current tournament,
while Worsham is in the upper half.
The youngsters, all under 81, had
lots of trouble with the tricky
prep school layout with only one
score under 80. Worsham, Lew
Swartwout of Washington Golf and
Country Club and Pat Rhodes, a
Kenwood life guard. were next
with Bis.
Two matches are scheduled to-
day and the senifinals and final
tomorrow:
Championship flight pairings:
John Walker C7a) VS.. Bob Wolfe (s3)
Marvin Worsham SD VS.. Stan Mouser
(s5j. Lew swartwout IsD vs.. Charles
Malone tS3), Eugene Wolfe tS3) VS.. Billy
Wolfe (S5). Pat Rhodes (SD VS.. z. H.
Elyin (s4l; Dave Clark (S3) VS.. George
Bolton 1861,
Evening star., 1947-09-04
McCahans No-F4tter First Against Mats Since II
Atkinson Rides 10
Winners in 5 Duys
BY the Assoeiefed Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 4.-The
horses are sharing the spotlight
at Aqueduct these days with
Jockey Ted Atkinson, one of the
busiest and most popular riders
at the New York tracks.
Torrid Teddy from Toronto
rode three winners again yester-
day. giving him a total of 10 for
the first three days of the fall
meeting. He ambled home first
aboard Teaneck Comet ($1050
in the opening race. doubled
astride Oatmeal. paying $3.50, in
the fifth, and called it a day
with Mae Agnes $3.50 in the
final.
Both Abelardo Delara and Eric
Guerin, the 1947 Derby winning
jockey, scored doubles on yester-
days card, thus splitting the sew
en- flat races on the program
among three riders.
Evening star., 1947-09-04
Boys Club Nine Earns
.Mid-At|antic Title

Boys Club of Washington's all
star baseball team was back from
Baltimore today with the Middle
Atlantic Junior crown. This was
earned yesterday by turning back
the Philadelphia Lighthouse Boys
Club and the Glenn Martin team of
Baltimore.
Johnny Kirschbaum, pitching de-
spite taped back, limited the Mar
tin team to one hit while his team
mates got three off Johnny Miller
and Eddie Rutkowski as Washing
ton won, 7-3.
The Washington club, behind the
effective hurting of Harry Bright
man trounced the Philadelphia
team. 81, in the first game. The
games were played at the Municipal
Stadium
Evening star., 1947-09-04
World Series Tickets
On Sale After Yanks
Lick Bosox Twice
BY the Associoted Press

New York's Yankees virtually
clinched the American League pen
nant yesterday and started selling
World Series tickets. Opening of
the box office for the fall classic fol-
lowed a double win over the Red
Sox, running a seven-game streak
for the Boston club and blasting its
hopes of overhauling the loop
leaders.
Checks or money orders of four
game sets ordered. plus IS cents for
registry and postage must be in
closed with applications, which
should be addressed to Ticket Man
ager, Yankee Stadium, the Bronx
81. N. Y. Checks or money orders
drawn for more or less than the
correct amount will be returned.
All applications postmarked be-
fore September 4 will be returned.
Mail orders, except for bleacher
seats, will be received until Sep
tember 20.
The prices per game, as set by
Commissioner A. B. Chandler, are
bleachers. ST. general admission, 81;
reserved seats, s6, and box seats, $8
All prices include tax.
Yankees Overpower Bosox.
The Yankees yesterday turned
loose all their batting power against
the Red Sox, who still were tanning
faint pennant spark before the
double loss. But after the New
York crew padded Sox pitching for
a total Of "a hits in 11-2 and 9-6
victories, the last hope vanished.
Bobo Newsom, who becomes in
creasingly important in the Yankee
scheme of things with Spud Chand-
Ter probably out for the year, picked
up his 10th win behind the 18-single
assault on Tex Hughson and his
gang in the opener.
Frank Shea registered his first
victory since July in the second
tilt, but he required relief help
from Joe Page, making his 47th
(See WORLD SERIES, Page C-3.)
Evening star., 1947-09-04

Marvin (Bubby) Worsham puts
his 31-match winning streak in local
Junior golf play on the line today
in the first District junior match
play open tournament at George
town Prep.
Two strokes off the medal pace
with an 81 yesterday to 7S by
Columbia's Johnny Walker, Wor-
sham nevertheless qualified with
five strokes to spare and met his
former Bethesda High golf team
mate, Stanley Mouser, in the first
round.
When Worsham beat Preston
Murphy of Georgetown Prep in the
Metropolitan Schoolboy champion
ship final in May it was his 29th
consecutive victory in scholastic golf
matches. He added two to his sec
tional streak when the low eight
players in the Maryland Junior
Open played two matches to qualify
for national Junior tournament.
The kid brother of Washington
National Open champion has lost
Evening star., 1947-09-04
Davis, Blanchard Fail
To Shine as Giants
Batter AII-Stars
By Sid FEEDER
picture on Page C-2.)
Associated Press Sports Writer

NEW YORK, Sept. 4.-The divorce
is final now for Mr. Inside and Mr..
Outside-Doc Blanchard and Glenn
Davis - and the best you can
say about their farewell fling on a
football field is that it was too long
coming.
Army's famed gridiron wrecking
twins put on their finale as the
highly touted one-two punch Of the
Eastern College All-Stars against
the New York professional Giants in
the ninth annual clambake of this
series at the Polo Grounds last
night. But the only wrecking that
was done was on the persons Of B.
and D. In particular and the ALL
Stars in general, as the Giants rolled
up the most lop-sided decision OF
the series, 21-0.
B. and D. should have rested on
their Army record. Blanchard found
out he was in a different league
now-playing with the big boys
and most of the time he was In there
he was wearing a couple OF the
Giants as lavalliere. Davis set of
some minor sparks with 25-yard
runback of the opening kickoff and
a 14-yard return of a punt. But
just when he looked as if he might
clear on the latter, his trick knee
acted up again and he fell on his
face and was carried from the field
after 7a minutes of play.
That was their last fling, briefly,
before they got on with their SOL
diering for Uncle Sam, and they
might just as we'll have stood In
bed" for this one. AS matter of
fact, the rest of the All-Stars might
just as well have stood" with them.
Only in the fading moments, when
Don Kasprzak, late of Columbia,
pitched them to the Giant 10-yard
line as the last whistle blew, did
they set off any real fireworks.
BY that time half the seats In
the Polo Grounds were empty, and
Gee ALL STARS pace C2)
Evening star., 1947-09-04
BY the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 4.-Richard
(Rube) Marquard, former New
York Giant pitcher, said today it
was not he-but an imposter-
who was arrested yesterday in
New York and later cleared on a
disorderly conduct charge.
"It was a dreadful mistake"
Marquard said when reached by
telephone at Haddondeld, N. j..
where he is staying while en-
ployed as a mutuel clerk at the
Garden State track at nearby
Camden.
Marouard, the diamond hero
who won 10 straight games for
the Giants in 1912, said he had
worked at race tracks for II
Evening star., 1947-09-04
FeIIer Comes Top Paid
After SAC, 900 Bonus
,bs A<xorioted Press

CLEVELAND. Sept. 4.-Indians'
President Bill Veeck gave Bob Feller
a $4,000 bonus check yesterday
which put the Cleveland hurler as
the highest paid major league ball
player in history, according to Veeck.
The payment was not Feller's final
bonus for the year. Bullet Bob was
relieved of $4,000 Of the sum in with
holding taxes before he left the
office.
Evening star., 1947-09-04
Denver Links Last Five Holes
Branded the Killer Finish

sweeping curve to green fanked
by traps, termed by Gene Sara
zen "the worst sand man ever
devised" Ray Ainsley scored a
10 on this hole in the 1888 Ma
tional Open.
No. 17-545 yards, par 5. long
tempting hole where players try
to reach the green in two and
find themselves in the moat that
surrounds the island green.
No. 1886 yards, par 4. wind
ing hole along a sloping hill with
lake on the left. The second
shot has to go uphill to a small
green.
Evening star., 1947-09-04
Major League Standings and Schedules
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 1aa-
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Results Yesterday.

Phila., 3; Wash, 0.
N. Y, 11-0; Bost., 2-6
Chi, 8-5; Cleve., 36
Only games scheduled.
Games Today.
N. Y. at Wash, $50.
Chicago at Cleve. M.
St. Louis at Detroit.
Only games scheduled.
Games Tomorrow.
New York at Wash, 8:3C
Cleve. at Chicago tn0.
Boston at Phila. (n.D.
Only games scheduled.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Results Yesterday.
st. Louis, IL; Chicago, l.
Cinci., 13; Pitts, 6.
Only games scheduled.
Games Today.
Bklyn. at New York (n.)
Phila. at Boston CnD.
Cinci. at Pitts.
st. Louis at Chicago.
Games Tomorrow.
Phila. at Boston (nO.
Bklyn. at New York.
Only games scheduled.
Evening star., 1947-09-04
Fraudulent 'Rube' Vctimizes Judqe

years in Maryland, Florida and
New Jersey.
II work the $50 window Mar
guard said, "and you can't drink
when you work that one"
A man booked as Richard
Marquard was one of 18 men
arrested in the Bowery yester-
day and accused of lettering.
When he was brought into night
court last night Magistrate
Murphy asked:
Aren't you the famous
'Rube?'"
The man replied that he was.
Murphy asked him if he had
any money and when he said
he did not the magistrate took
S. from his pocket, gave it to
him, wished him luck and dis
missed the charge.
Evening star., 1947-09-04
Stake Race Victim
Of Swamp Fever
BY the Associated Press

PAWTUCKET, R. l., Sept. A.
Narragansett Parks 100000 added
Jeanne D'Arc Stakes, scheduled
for it's 18th running next Satur-
day, today became the first
casualty of the swamp fever epi-
demic.
Race track officials said the rich
juvenile filly stake has been can
celled because only 2 of the go
nominees are on the grounds due
to the epidemic, similar to leu
kemia in human beings, and the
reluctance of outside horsemen to
ship to New England.
Evening star., 1947-09-04
Rebels Sian Three

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 4, R.-
The Rebels of the Dixie Professional
Football League have signed Center
Paul Adams. sent here on option
from the Pittsburgh Steelers, and
Doc Savage and Houston Sizer, Uni
versity of Richmond products.
Evening star., 1947-09-04

pros IN the annual EaStefn Al-SCaTS VS.. UIaTts
game and they've succeeded exactly once-seVen
long years ago. The reason? Chum, there are
simply not enough good eligible football players in
the East to match pro team. They have to be
gathered from the four corners OF the Nation to do
any good.
1t wasn't so much what the Giants did to the
Eastern A-Stars last night, while winning by 2l-0,
as what the All-Stars didn't do They didn't even
make spectacle of it.
True, the All-Stars got a horrible break
precisely minutes and As seconds after play began
Glenn Davis, who probably did more to entice
record 102 customers into the Polo Grounds than