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Evening star., 1947-07-04
Mats NotSo Far Back They Can t
Brace for Second-PIuce Finish

league-leading Yankees, but still
within whispering distance of sec
ond place.
Second Spot Not Beyond Them.
Barring a startling reversal of
their conduct thus far in the cam
paign, the Mats aren't pennant con-
tenders, but it would take only slight
improvement for them to finish Sec
ond, probably at a respectable dis
tance behind the better balanced
Yankees.
There Is room for improvement
and it may be forthcoming. Mickey
Vernon batted 1853 last year, a
crown-capturing average which
Manager Ossie Bluege didn't expect
to wiring from Mickey this season.
Ossie wasn't adjusting his sight too
high, though, in hoping Vernon
would hit 300. At the moment he's
hitting $50 and so it's natural to
predict improvement there without
being overly optimistic.
Jerry Priddy is no fence -ouster.
but the Mats agile second baseman
has been .219 hitter in the majors.
That's what he's batting now, so
Bluege may be forgiven for antici-
Evening star., 1947-07-04

and at 2124 Fourteenth street NV.
and 1846 Seventh street NV.
General admission is priced at ST.,
box seats at $3.50 and children at
SO cents. Members OF the Walter
johnson League may purchase
tickets in advance for IS cents upon
showing their certificates, while
members of boys clubs will be ad-
mitted for the same price, but must
purchase their tickets at the MAAA
Office.
Evening star., 1947-07-04
Major League Standings and Schedules
AMERICAN LEAGUE.


Results Yesterday.
Detroit, 6; Cleveland, S.
Phila., 8; Boston, 4.
Others not scheduled.
Games Today.
Wash. at N. Y. ca, 1:30.
Phila. at Boston ca.
Detroit at Cleveland co
Chicago at st. Louis CD
Games Tomorrow.
Washington at Boston.
Detroit at st. Louis.
Phila. at New York.
Cleveland at Chicago.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Results Yesterday.
New York, 1s; Br'klyn, Z
Pitts, 7; Cincinnati, 3.
Chicago, 4; st. Louis, 2.
Phila., 3; Boston, 0.
Games Today.
New York at Brooklyn.
Boston at Phila.
Pitts. at Cincinnati.
st. Louis at Chicago.
Games Tomorrow.
Boston at Brooklyn.
New York at Phila. (n).
Chicago ut Pittsburgh.
et. Louis at Cincinnati.
Evening star., 1947-07-04
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION,
Milwaukee. O.; Kansas City. IA.
Columbus. z: Toledo, 6.
MINNEAPOLIS 4; st. Paul. 8. 10 in
EASTERN LEAGUE.
Albany, Q: Hartford. 6.
Williamsport, 5; Elmira, 4.
Scranton. 8: Wilkes-Barre, 6.
Utica. 6; ginghamton. Q.
WESTERN LEAGUE,
Denver, z; Des Moines, 8.
Lincoln, 4: Pueblo, l.
Omaha, IL Sioux City 2
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Amazing Advance Of As Makes
Connie Mack Poor Forecuster

slamming the horsehide at 1908. The
rest of the team Is barely hitting
over the $50 mark.
What counts, however, IS the
clutch hitting-and these guys are
coming through with base knocks
when runners are on the bases.
Evening star., 1947-07-04

street. Arlington, suggests "after reading and re-
reading your column about television at Griffith
Stadium.
LAS a job Of reporting you handled the thing
in very acceptable style" he says, kindly, but
where you missed the boat was in your failure to
look even a few months or couple of years into
the future and do little predicting. Lots OF
writer's make rash guesses about the future every
day. In this one article you might have looked
Just few inches past the next days deadllne to
see what looms there in very large print"
(Ed note: So all metaphor mixers aren't sports
writers?)
1nasr,,ch &c Mr. Bliss is one of those rare
Evening star., 1947-07-04
Stymie After Top Spot
Among Money Winners
By the Associated Press

STANTON, Del, July 4.-Stymie
worlds second leading money-win-
ming thoroughbred, was due to ar
rive at Delaware Park today by var
from Aqueduct for the $25,00C
mile and a quarter Sussex Handicap
tomorrow.
Stymie needs only $2,011 to pass
Assault and be perched at the tor
of the worlds leading gallopers
Second money in the Sussex i;
So. 500.
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TEXAS LEAGUE.
L. Ctr, 1 q IA

IEAAS LEASCL. =, -
Dallas. 4; Oklahoma City. 1, 10 In
Shreveport. 2: Beaumont, O.
Houston. 12; San Antouio, 3.
Fort Worth. 8; Tulsa.
SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE.
Savannah. SIS: Macon. 3-4.
Greenville, 8; Columbia, 2.
Charleston, 9: Augusta, 2.
Evening star., 1947-07-04
Win, Lose, or Draw
Life With q TeIecost Gee-Gow
By FRANCIS {. STANN

Norman teecast set and the guy who
tolerant skepcal Fulton aoo the first horsees
carriages chugged and sorghed when Langeys
flying machine fell into the river.
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(See MATS Page Aid
Evening star., 1947-03-05
GaIIinger Sets 4S-Hour
Limit on Post Natal STAYS

Gallinger Hospital is being forced
to move mothers to their homes 48
hours after their babies have been
born because Of crowded conditions
in the maternity wards, DR.: Daniel
l.. Seckinger, assistant Health OFF,
Ger of the District, said today.
Gallingr Is geared to care for $50
maternity cases q month, he said,
but at the present time 1t is hand
Ling 400 and 500 b month. Most of
the mothers are sent home In Health
Department ambulances, and the
Instructive Visiting Nurses Associa-
alton supplies care for the mothers
in their homes.
SINCE the outbreak of diarrhea
at Freedmen's Hospital, the mater-
nifty wards there have been cut down
SO that at the present time, DR..
|Sechnger said, there are only 16 beds
available at that institution. The
hospital has a capacity of IS beds
in the maternity wards, and as soon
as all are used, the load at Gallinger
will be relieved.
District health officials said the
United States Public Health Service
is assisting Freedmen,s, with SIS, 900
| for renovations.
Evening star., 1947-03-05

Grams in English schools. Claims
certified there will be sent to the
Veterans Administration for pay
ment.
Eldon Bailey. former oficial OF
the Veterans Administration. who
! Is in London serving needs of serv-
licemen for the State Department,
estimated last week that "a employees
may be needed there, MIR. Corbitt
said.
But that will be after the claims
begin rolling in," he said.
No Others Authorized.
While three other employees are
expected to arrive in London today,
Nj. C,.ii C--,.i.; oid, no others have
been authorized l.. . service.
Mr.. Corbitt said t.c principal
need now is to service claims of
about 400 veterans in British
| schools. 1t is estimated there will
be as many as $500 during 1948, he
said.
To carry on the foreign service,
MIR. Corbitt said, other employees
nave peen sent to Paris, Rome and
Mexico City,. and he added that
plans call for others to be assigned
to Warsaw and Berne.
Mr.. Corbitt said it was necessary
to have the foreign claims handled
on the spot because it's admins
tratively impractical to handle them
! through Washington"
Evening star., 1947-03-05
krug Back From Tour,
Silent on Possibility
OF New Coal Strike

Secretary Of the Interior Kru,
returned today from q a -mile
tour to the Southwest Pacific will
s.opoyers Sc or,,; at SHANGHAI Tokyo ans
Asked about the possibility OF {
new coal strike, the Secretary tolc
reporters only that lae would handl,
emergencies as they arise.
I'VE handled one strike all right, ;
he said, referring to last autumn. ).
,walkout which ended when John L
Lewis called a truce until April ]
after he was cited for contempt o1
court.
Secretary Krug and two Califor-
mia members Of Congress who ac-
companied him on the tour re-
iterated their plea for speedy state
hood for Hawaii and creation Of
civil administrations for other Pa
ciflc islands.
Impressed by Hawaii.
Mr.. Krug told newsmen both plans
have the Endorsement of Gen. Mac
Arthur.
Secretary Krug and others in the
party, including Representatives
Engle, Democrat, and Paulson, Re
publican, of California and Dele
gate Joseph Harrington OF Hawaii
Evening star., 1947-03-05
Cold Weather
| Reduces Driv;no
| SiqnoI Arrests

The cold weather and Police Traf.
nc Division Inspector Arthur E
Miller's understanding nature are
keeping a lot of motorists out o1
trouble. 1t appeared today.
The inspector said only 10 per-
sons have been arrested for violat-
ing the new hand-signal regulations
since the grace period expired Sun
day.
Its too cold for people to drive
with their windows rolled down.
Inspector Miller said. after all
it is a new regulation. Our men
are only charging drivers with vio-
lating the hand-signal law when
they get in difficulty"
The 10 arrested thus far were
involved in some other traffic diff
Guilty as we'll. One motorist, Miss
Anna M. Williams, "a, colored, of
the TOO block of Nineteenth street
NV, was arrested Monday by Pvt.
J. w. Tayman for illegal parking
in the 300 block of c street NV
Pvt. Tayman said that while she
was following him to headquarters,
she failed to give hand signals in
making three left-hand turns.
Judge Thomas Quinn dismissed the
charge in Traffic Court.
Evening star., 1947-03-05
THE EVENING STAR Washington. D. G. =. Az
s. q.

were interviewed on their arrival
at the National Airport. Mr.. Engle
and Mr.. Poulson are members of
the Public Lands Committee which
has jurisdiction over Hawaii state
hood plans and the islands admin
iStration.
we were all greatly impressed
by the development OF Hawaii, espe-
cially by its government" Mr.. Krug
said. Il feel more strongly than
ever that this is the time for Ha-
waiian statehood" He said he
would appear before, the Public
Lands Committee Friday ito Law
out q case for Hawaii as / see it,"
Unanimous on Pacific Views.
The Secretary said he is very
certain q greater degree Of self
rule for other Pacific islands is de-
sirable. He suggested they can be
set up In groups and be chartered
by Congress after the form Of the
Virgin Islands charter.
Mr.. Engle and Mr.. Poulson said
the group returned with complete
unanimity Of opinion on Pacific
matters.
Mr.. Engle said Gen. Macarthur
rs OF the opinion that statehood for
Hawaii would be q step In support
OF a program to bring democracy to
Japan" Mr.. Krug added that Gen.
Macarthur said the japanese may
serve as bulwark aginst forms Of
government we do not like"
Evening star., 1947-03-05
Soc 10 81 Increases
In Rates Permitted
8 More Hotels Here

Additional hotels In Washington
are likely to apply for rate increases
soon, the District Rent Control Ad-
ministrator's Office said today. Three
such applications were granted
within the last few days, but nc
new ones are on file now, Admins
traitor Robert F. Cogswell an
nounced.
Since January the administrator
has allowed nine hotels to raise rates
so cents on single rooms and 81 on
double rooms. In each instance the
application applied to transient
rooms and was on the basis of in
creased operating costs, Mr.. Cogs-
well said. Rent controls on tran
sient hotel rooms outside Of Wash
ington were removed February Is.
The Statler, Willard and Wash
ington hotels received authority to
increase rates March /, Mr.. Cogswell
disclosed. Applications previously
granted were those of the Hay
Adams, Mayfiower, Shoreham, An
napolis, Raleigh and Hamilton hotels.
The newly-authorized hotel rates
are:
Willard. 81 to SO for single rooms,
with a few at So; double rooms, Sc
to $11.
Statler, S. to $40 for singles; So
to SIS for doubles.
Washington, $3.50 to $3.50 for
singles; So to S13 for doubles.
Annapolis, $3.50 to $3.50 for sin
giles; $3.50 to So for doubles.
Hay-Adams, 81 to $3.50 for sin
giles; Sc to SO for doubles.
MayfoWer, $3.50 to $10.5O for sin
giles; So to SIS for doubles.
Raleigh. $3.50 to $3.50 for singles;
81 to $40 for doubles. The increase
has been applied to only 40 per cent
of its rooms, the hotel reported.
Shoreham, Sc to 81 for singles, So
to SO for doubles. The increase ap-
plies to $50 transient rooms, accord
ing to the hotels application.
Hamilton, $3.50 to $3.50 for singles,
$3.50 to 50 for doubles. The increase
has been applied to only few single
rooms, the hotel stated.
Evening star., 1947-03-05
Movie on Life of Bell
Open to Public TONIGHT

The first public showing Of 'Mr.
Bell" a motion picture produced for
the American Telephone & Tele-
graph Co. depicting the life of Alex
ander Graham Bell, inventor of the
telephone, will be held at 8 O'Clock
tonight in the Willard Hotel.
Tickets will be available at the
hotel or may be obtained by calling
American Public Relations Associa-
ton headquarters at 1927 I street
NV, District 1927.
The film is the fifth of a six-week
series Of educational and public re-
lations training pictures sponsored
by the association.
Evening star., 1947-03-05
Formoso Rioting Reports
Discounted in Mankind

NANKING, Mar. H9.-Ministel
Of Information Peng Hsueh-pei dis.
counted today the seriousness ot
reports Of rioting in Formosa, which
an observer yesterday said bordered
on revolution.
Peng said the efforts of small
dealers in Formosa to roll their owr
cigarette in violation of the govern
ment tobacco monopoly was the
basic cause of the rioting.
Reports from Formosa now in
dicate the situation is under control
with Gov Chen-yi taking a very
lenient attitude toward the whole
affair, the information chief said
He added that he believed re-
ports of the General News Agency
that there were 500 natives killed or
wounded during the riotinS were
probably scorrect."
High Commissioner Yang Ling
kung Of the control Yuan has been
ordereds to Fornosa to investigate
the situation.
Evening star., 1947-03-05
Goyki Warns Against
Foreign ldeologies al
Pulaski Ceremony

Foreign ideologies which could de.
stroy our liberties must not be per.
rnitted to gain a foothold here
Representative Gorski, Democrat, o1
Illinois warned Americans of Pol
isia descent at wreath-laying cere-
monies yesterday, commemoratine
the 200th anniversary of the birth
Of Brig. Gen. Count Casimir Pulaski
Mr. Gorski, who has introduced
aresolution In Congress to set aside
October II, the date of the Revo-
lutionary War hero's death, ,as a
national holiday, addressed the
group before Pulaski statue al
Thirteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue NV.
MI. Gorski said that in honoring
the memory of Gen. Pulaski and
other great patriots I'VE remind
our people Of the liberties we have
here and that We must guard them.
Another speaker, Representative
Dingell, Democrat, of Michigan, said
Gen. Pulaski was a patriot and q
hero "who exemplifies to Americans
all that is noble in citizenship
Representative Sadlak, Republican
OF Connecticut also spoke.
The wreaths were laid at the
base Of the statue by Miss Stella
Kopack, representing the Polish
Club of Washington; Mrs. Charlotte
Zveare, president of the Polish
Women's Alliance; Charles Burke
Washington representative of tic
olish-American Congress of Amer
lea, and Mrs. W. E. Koneczny, rep.
resenting the Polonaise Cultural
Society.
Those attending also included
Edward Sokolowski, president of the
Polish Club of Washington, and
Representative Gordon, Democrat
OF Illinois.
Evening star., 1947-03-05
Army Transport Plane
Fired On Near Peipiinq

PEIPING, Mar. S tP.-A United
States Army transport plane on a
test flight was fired on Monday S
miles north of Peiping, an official
Army statement said today.
The announcement said the plane
was hit four times, but there were
no casualties among those aboard
The identifies of the attackers were
unknown.
1t. Billy Howells, Niles, Mich, the
pilot, observed what Appeared to be
a village af1re and when he descend.
ed to an altitude of 1000 feet hi
was met by small arms fire. NJ
fighting or troop movements were
seen. The co-pilot was 1t. Davie
Childers, Philo, Calf.
Evening star., 1947-03-05

of the Sungari These were arounc
Kirin, 60 miles east of Changchun
(This account agreed in no
important particular with one
handed out Monday by the gov
ernment's Ministry of Informa-
ton in Nanking.
(The ministry asserted that the
government had closed a pincers
around 100000 Communists be-
tween Changchun and the Sum-
gari and that the Communists
had suffered 10000 casualties.)
Gen. Tu, who inspected the front
from the air and said he saw the
Communists in retreat, said the
Communists In Manchuria would be
wiped out militarily very soon if
the government took the offensive.
Meanwhile, the release of two
United States Army observers, cap
tured by the Communists IL miles
north Of Changchun, was expected
Gen. Tu told his troops to be on
the lookout for the observers, Maj.
Robert Rigg and Capt. j. w. Col
Inns, who were expected to be freed
before the last Communists recross
the Sungari.
Evening star., 1947-03-05
Palestine
Continued From First Page. J

refugee ship on the Palestine coast
last week.
In rejecting the application the
court held that the British high
commissioner, 1t. Gen. Sir Alan
Cunningham, was entitled to issue
an omnibus deportation order in
the interest Of maintaining public
security without examining each
deportee individually.
The ruling read by Chief Justice
Sir William Fitzgerald overruled
the petitioners claim that the refu-
gees were being detained illegally
and also denied that deportation
ships used to transport the immi-.
grants to Cyprus were prison ships"
The refugees in question arrived
at Haifa last week aboard the small
steamer Ulua-renamed the Hahn
Arlosoroff by its passengers-after
the vessel was intercepted of the
coast by British destroyers.
$40 Sent to Cyprus.
OF the would-be immigrants $40
already have been sent to Cyprus,
the government maintaining that
no accommodation was available for
them in Palestine. The remaining
838 were held aboard the British
transport Ocean Vigour in Pales-
tine waters pending ruling on the
habeas corpus application.
| As a result Of the ruling it was
expected the Ocean Vigour would
be ordered to sail for Cyprus i'm
mediately.
The wailing of the alarm sirens
was clearly audible in the high court
as Justice Fitzgerald delivered the
ruling. Policeman hurried out of the
room to emergency posts, but the
chief justice continued reading the
2,O00-word document without a
pause.
The decision emphasized that the
Palestine high commissioner had
sufficient information at his disposal
to determine whether security de-
manded the deportation of uncer-
titled immigrants. The court dis
missed the petitioners contention
that it was Illegal to hold the i'm
migrants under guard on the high
seas, declaring that the commander
of the deportation ships was entitled
to take whatever means he believed
necessary to prevent any Of the pas
sengers from leaping overheard.
Evening star., 1947-03-05
Thomas Buckley Heads
Mt. Pleasant Merchants

More than 40 members of the
newly organized Mount Pleasant
Businessmen's Association met last
night and elected Thomas Buckley
as president.
Other officers elected were
Edward Handler, vice president;
Samuel Kotz, treasurer, and Mrs.
Helen Mckinney, secretary.
The association seeks to promote
good will among Mount Pleasant
citizens. A constitution and bylaws
were adopted. The group met in the
Mount Pleasantly Tea Room, 1854
Mount Pleasant street NV,
Evening star., 1947-03-05
81, 900 Dependents Of GIs
lin Bitoin. House Unit Hears

There are at least $1,000 depend
|ents Of American World War II vet
Grams In the British Isles, including
numbers of abandoned wives and
|illegitimate children, Veterans Ad-
rninistration and State Department
officials told the House Expenditures
Committee today.
/ Peter Hooper Of the State Depart
ment's Veterans Affairs Section said
the British government estimates
about 5000 American servicemen
were married while in the United
Kingdom. He said the number of
dependents there now is known to
include "a good number of aban-
doned wives and illegitimate chill
dren."
Among the dependents are at
least 10000 children, according to
latest estimates, it was said. j. Glenn
Corbitt, foreign relations chief for
the Veterans Administration, told
the committee all Of the $4,000 are
eligible for dependency claims and
that half are expected to file claims
against this Government. 1t was
estimated that about 1000 veterans
are now in Great Britain.
News Story Prompts Meeting.
The House committee met after a
recent news story from London re-
ported that a Veterans Admins
tration employees would be sent to
London to administer claims Of vet
Evening star., 1947-03-05
PIeo Of Veteran Fired
IOver Whisky Studied

The Civil Service Commission to.
day has under advisement an ap.
peal by q war veteran who wa,
dismissed from his job as a Public
Buildings Administration guard fol
allegedly taking q bottle Of whisky
from q Government building.
The appeal was made under thu
Veterans Preference Act by the
guard, veteran Of three years ii
the Coast Guard, on the ground thu
penalty was too severe.
Commission officials said the guarc
was fired by PBA January 10 fol.
lowing charges that fifth Of whisk,
was removed from an Office in the
Commerce Department.
Evening star., 1947-03-05
Mayor Of Jackson, Mich.
Called Suicide Victim
BY the Asseciated Pres.


JACKSON, Mich, Mar. 5.-Au-
thorities yesterday unof1icially de-
clared as suicide the gunshot death
of Edward F. Behan, Al, mayor Of
Jackson for the last IA months.
His body was found in his car
parked at the Cascades Park ad-
joining Jackson. 5ss
Coroner James E. Way and Police
Chief Harry e. Bales said they both
were convinced that this is q sui
eide" A formal verdict was with,
held. air
Chief Bales said the bachelor
mayor had a bullet hole in the right
side of his head and that his hand
held q .3S caliber revolver.
Mr.. Behan, q. Democrat, was
elected mayor after service as prose-
cutor and city commissioner.
Evening star., 1947-03-05
Admiral Stone Silent
|0n Remarriage Plea
BY the Assoeioied Press

ROME, Mar. 5.-Rear Admiral FL
lery w. Stone, chief of the italian
military affairs section of Alliec
forces headquarters who was di.
vorced by a Reno decree last week
said yesterday he had mo comment
at this time" on reports that he was
seeking Vatican approval to marry
Italian Baroness Renata Raborie
Mella di Santella.
Admiral Stone, a communications
corporation executive in civi life
is So. The baroness is understood
to be in her 20s. Her family has
close connections with the Vatican
The Italian news agency. ANSA
reported the Vatican had ignored
the admiraPs divorced status be-
cause his marriage was Protestant
It's report said Admiral Stone would
become a Catholic.
Admiral Stone, a former president
of the Postal Telegraph Co., was
stationed her in the communica-
tions Office of the Navy Department
in 1912 and 1943.
Author of a book on radio COM
munication, the naval officer was
nominated for promotion to rear
admiral in December, 1914. At that
time he was a member of the italian
ArmiStice Commission.
Evening star., 1947-03-05
North Koreans to Return
From Jopun March IS
BY The Asseeiotsd Press

TOKYO, Mar. 5.-The first ship
load of Koreans, who will be re-
patrited to their homes in Russian
controlled Northern Korea, will sail
from Japan March Is, occupation
headquarters said today.
Under an agreement between Gen
Macarthur and Soviet occupation
leaders as many as 10000 may be
returned to North Korea. The an
nouncement said, however, it was
believed the number taking advan-
tage of the offer would be much less
Evening star., 1947-03-05
House Unit Approves Bill
To Aid Prison Inmates
BY the Assoeioted Press

The House Judiciary Committee
yesterday approved a measure ex-
tending benefits to prison inmates
who perform valuable work or he
roically expose themselves to danger.
In letter to the House, Attorney
Gen. Clark called attention to the
fact that convicts working in prison
industries are credited with time
of their sentences and are allowed
extra compensation for their work.