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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1947-08-02
ECkstine At
Music Bar
August s

All YOU weak hearted chicks
better take plenty Of vitamlns
so YOU viii be able 10 stand
up under that smooth voice Of
that Bronze Balladier,' Billy
Eckstine. when ne opens at
Sportrees Music Bar for two
weeks engagement beginning
Aug 8
Billy broke into the limehght
when he won an amateur con-
test in Washington. d. c IN
go. Earl (Father Hines hap
pened TO be present that par
ticular night He signed the Sep
IA Slnatra 10 contract then
and there.
The Bronze Balladier's' first
recording with the Father Hines
crew was Jelly, Jelly That's
the number that reahy put him
on top After that he did va
tious other waxlngs with the
Hines aggregation such as m
Failing For YOU Wait Til II
| Happens To You Julia.
Ann. Somehow and many
other juke-box sensations.
After Aaveling with Father
about five years. Billy decided
Ito 20 out on his own lie or
ganized a sixteen-plece band
/ that was composed Of some OF
the counuys topnotch muSici-
ans. With his own band, Billy
continued 10 be the Juke-boX
sensation. His first recording
with his own band was Cot
tare for Sale which sold over
the half million mark Then he
recorded such tunes as "Rhv-
thin In A Riff" Second Bal
cony Jump. New Jelly, Jcl-
lly." "An l sing Is Blues, and
many others
The first part Of the year
! Billy broke UP his band and
headed for the West Coast where
he gained more fame as sin
| Gle
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1947-08-02

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itor from New York. Jacaue-
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Dan Rennle
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1947-08-02
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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1947-08-02

Club owners this week ex-
tended their hesgtiest congrs-
iulatlons 10 the winners OF the
Tribune fast annual band poll
which was just completed. es-
peciaIly owners 81 clubs who
had musicians finishing IN top
places IN the contest
Plans are nearing completion
Tor the big dance az the For
est Club where prizes will be
awarded and winners honored
for proving their popularity
with the music fans.
The date wll be announced
next week. as special plans are
beng resdied FOR the gayest
groovieSt. most spectacular dance
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1947-08-02
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-10-30

6oAA oAt4 SOAALAOl
Walter johnson needed only a fast
ball and control. Today, pitchers are
looking to slider, a knuckle ball.
screw ball, sailer-almost ev-
erything except control.
Imagine a .Dodger pitching staff
that hasn't pitcher who can travel
five innings. The Yankees were only
little better off. They had fellow
named Shea and a relief pitcher
named Page. These took care of
three of the four games the Yankees
won.
The only pitcher the Dodgers had
was a big, husky fellow known as
Hugh Casey. Casey was the Dodger
pitching staff. The Dodgers needed
him in only six of their seven games.
Well name a few great pitch
ers for you, If you've forgotten
their names - Cy Young, Wal
ter Johnson, Christy Mathew
SON, Chief Bender, Eddie Plank,
Grover Cleveland Alexander,
Addie Joss, Ed Walsh, Smoky
Joe Wood, Carl Hubbell, Lefty
Grove, Dizzy Dean = these are
just few.
Walsh used splitter and Eubbell
used screw ball The others had
the three ingredients we have men
toned, Matty picked up his fade
away after. he hurt his arm and lost
part Of his speed.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-10-30
Rob Mine OF S55.O9l

Birmingham, Ala. = Three ban
dts, dressed in miners clothing,
entered the pay office of the
Sayreton Mine of Republic
Steel corporation a few minutes
after the whistle blew beginning
the morning shift. One, not
masked, stuck a pistol through the
window and ordered the door
opened. The other two, both
masked, entered the office and or
dered the two men inside into
toilet and locked the door. When
they battered the door down a few
minutes later, the men had gone,
taking pay envelopes for TIC coal
miners with them, totaling $55,091.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-10-30
Wise Old Bull

Highmore, S. D. - A recent
prairie fire threatened the farm OF
Elmer Folstich, on which he had
two purebred bulls, one of which
had to be saved. Folstich decided
to leave the old and crippled bull
to die in the flames and brought
the young bull along with him.
The old bull thought otherwise. He
found refuge in a green weed
patch and the young bull died of
exhaustion and suffocation.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-10-30
WELL, YOU CAN'T HAVE 1T! UNLESS


Many fine apartment developments have
been planned in the County over the past two
years. Enough to materially help the rental
housing problem. Enough so that you should
by now be able to move into one of your
choice, both as to location and expense. But
most of them will never be built unless -.
Yes, unless you fight for them.
You say you have been fighting for one,
anyone, anywhere, and just can't win? But
you CAN win, and you CAN have the apart
ment you want, and your family needs, by
working.
But don't keep fighting losing battel
Don't fight the rental agent the apartment
manager and the owners of the relatively
few apartments that have been built-the
relatively few that have been ALLOWED TO
BE BUILT. Fight the cause of the shortage
Fight the fight that can win.
Nearly all of the apartment projects that
have been proposed have been denied by the
County Commissioners sitting as the District
Council, and this council is continuing to
deny apartments as they are applied for
because of the preponderance of pressure
brought to bear on the council by people who
don't need apartments by people who live
in homes to their liking.
But,you who need an apartment have been
spending your time looking for one-in vain
while those who don't need one have been
spending their time in their community or
ganizations seeing to it that you don't get
an apartment. e }tS ttg ~
Yes, Mraand Mrs. Apartment Wanter, you
have been wasting your tme-and we apart
ment planners have also been wasting our
time up. till now.
Community after community of single
family house residents have organized and
passed resolutions and signed petitions
against apartment coming. But, the apart
ment wanters and needers haven't organized,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-10-30
Balloon ChOkes Boy

Hickory, N. C.-Daniel Will
liams, 9, is recovering after suck
ing balloon down his throat in
stead of initiating the rubber. The
balloon blocked his breathing. Ar
tificial respiration, administered at
a hospital, started his breath
again, but he was unconscious for
several hours afterward.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-10-30

five innings = Just
one pitcher in seven
-games-one begins
to wonder again if
the art Of pitching
isn't really lost.
From the stars
we have known
from the old days
Of real pitchers, we
learned that a good
pitcher needs just
three things = a
fast ball, a curve
LAll -I -1-A-~I
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-10-30

MYHILE watching various as
NN seftment Of pitchers and So
called pitchers give up 6S walks
through the world series, zone begins
to wonder what has become Of base
balls real pitchers.
Watching Burt Shotton vainly try
ing to find one pitcher who could go
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-10-30

If Europe needs help as;badly as
the visitors to the continent assert
there seems TO be an occasion for
prompt action by Congress.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-10-30
So You Want An Apartment
5 In Montgomery County?

haven't pettioned for apartments and
haven't passed any resolutions asking for
them.
The District Council has only heard one
side of the story-the wishes and voices of
those who are happily housed and don't need
apartments. The views of those who are
stopping you from getting your apartments.
You can have apartments if you sign
petitions for them You can have apart
ments if you go to the coming hearings and
ask the Council for them.
Yes, you can have an apartment by work
ing as hard for an apartment as these people
who don't need an apartment are working
against you and against apartments.
There isn't an organization of apartment
wanters and needers now. But there easily
can be soon. How soon is up to you. How
successful is up to you. Send postal card
with your name and address. Get your friend
who needs an apartment to send his name
in, 100. You have many acquaintance who
would like to see the general shortage of
housing in Montgomery County alleviated.
Have these acquaintance help themselves
by helping you.
Send postal card today and say: .Im
for more apartments in Montgomery Coun-
W ana De sure 10 give your name ana
address. If you are Veteran, SO indicate.
Mail you postal to: feG
]. A. WATSON, JR.,
1904 Bradley Boulevard
Bethesda, Maryland
OR =.
H. F. WATSON, 4 Fes,
13 Holly Road, ~
Rockville, Maryland
OR
HILLEARY O. ROSE,
1926 Colesville Road,
Silver Spring, Maryland =.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-10-30
They Had Control

in As or so games. Ed Walsh worked
in Sc games in 1908, winning 40 and
saving IL others. Jack, Chesbro be-
longs in this list. He won Al games
for the Yankees in 1904.
Above everything else, they knew
where the pitch was going-or at
least within an inch or so of the
spot. Alexander could pitch into a
tin cup.
was thinking of these old-timers
while watching such pitchers as
Branca, Barney, Gregg and others
shut their eyes while trying to keep
the ball in the same lot. Home
plate? Home plate might as well
have been in another city.
Bob Feller was much better
pitcher than he is today when he
banked on fast bali. q faiE curve
and control
The two best pitchers we had
starting this season were Teller and
Newhouser Together they won 81
games and dropped % during 1947
This is certainly no record to rave
about.
Dizzy Dean was the best pitcher
I've seen in many years. Dir de-
pended on speed, curve, change
of pace and control. He won SO
games in two years-before his arm
went bad, due largely to post-sea-
son exhibition games.
One of the best pitchers I ever
saw is barely known or remembered
today. His name was Addie Joss of
Cleveland. Joss was feet 8. He
had fast ball, a curve ball and
control. Addie pitched eight one-hit
games.
He worked in the greatest pitch
ing duel of all time-or at least it
was close. This was against Ed
Walsh, late in the season Of 1908.
Aim Is Vague
In this game, Joss pitched nine
perfect innings. No White Sox
reached first base. Ed Walsh, the
loser, struck out Is Indians and al
lowed one hit, as / recall it. Joss
might well have had FIVE or six no.
hit games.
Most Of the pitchers that come
along today haven't the slight
est idea Of what control means.
They rear back and give you all
they have, with no particular
target in mind. When in trouble,
they go to slider, a sinker, a
sailer, knuckle ball or some
other degenerate form Of pitch
ing that wears out the arm, and
certainly doesn't help to get the
ball over the plate, .
Every time l bat against Alex
ander." Johnny Evers told me years
ago, 81 want to throw my bat away.
He never gives me ball ! can hit.
He could drive a nail with pitch.
First it's low and inside-but over.
| move back and it's low and out
side. But still over a corner"
II you recall the details, Alex
ander won only "a ball games from
1915 through 1917. He won 20 games
as a rookie with the futile Phillies.
and he started and finished prac-
tically every game. .D
Yet Shotton couldn't dig up sin.
gle pitcher who could finish five inn
ings. Fortunately for Shotton, Bucky
Harris was in about the same shape.
The number OF pitchers used in this
last series was a disgrace to the
art and science Of pitching.
Evening star., 1947-01-23
Pedestrian Is Killed
Another Injured

A Government Printing Office
pressman was fatally injured last
night when struck by an automobile
at Washington Boulevard and Bu-
chanan street, in Arlington.
Patrick M. Coyle, so, of 901 First
street NV, died at midnight in Ar
lington County Hospital two hours
after he was struck. He was the
second person killed in Arlington
traffic this year.
County police said the driver of
the automobile was Theodore Dear
ing, 36, of the 3400 block of Wilson
boulevard, Arlington. He was not
held by police.
Clinton E. Slusher, 46, of Roanoke,
Va, was injured critically yesterday
when struck by a bus as he crossed
the street at Massachusetts, avenue
and Twelfth street NV. Mr..
Slusher, who was visiting at 1901 M
street NV, suffered a fractured
skull, a broken right arm and severe
cuts, He was taken to Emergency
Hospital,
Police charged the bus driver,
William Smith. %. of the 800 block
of Evans lane, Alexandria, with fall
ing to give the right of way to a
pedestrian.
Evening star., 1947-01-23

role of the Right Honorable Sir Jo-
seph Porter, with the Baltimore
Civic Opera Company and a SYM
phony orchestra accompaniment.
Lauritz Melchoir and 40-piece
orchestra will perform on February
%, and Fred Waring and his COM
plete radio showfon March 3. Tickets
will be sold through the Snow Con-
cert Bureau.
A piano series of six recitals by
Rudolf Serkin, Claudio Arrau
Gyorgy Sander. Artur Sehnabel
william Kapell and Luboshutz and
Nemenoff duo-pianists, has been
scheduled for next season.
Mr.. Hayes returned to Washington
in January, 1916, after two and a
half years in the Navy. He was
manager of the National Symphony
Orchestra for three years prior to
entering the service and also was
field representative for Civic Con-
cert Services, Inc, affiliated with the
National Broadcasting Co.
Evening star., 1947-01-23
Admiral FechteIer
Is Named 10 Navy
Personnel Post
by the Associated Pros.

The Navy yesterday announced
the assignment of Vice Admira.
William M. Fechteler as deputy
chief of naval operations for per-
sonnel, and Rear Admiral Thomas
l.. Sprague as chief of naval per-
sonnel.
Admiral Fechtelers duties include
the initiation and development OF
personnel logistics plans and pol
icies. The Bureau of Personnel is
concerned with general admins
trative personnel matters, including
procurement, training and assign
ment
Both jobs are now held by Vice
Admiral Louis E. Denfeld whose ap-
pointment as commander -in-chief OF
the Pacific Fleet, was announced
previously. He was originally sched-
uled to take over the feet from Ad-
miral John H. Towers this month,
but yesterdays announcement post
poned the shift until March /.
Admiral Towers will become
chairman of the. Navy General
Board, relieving Vice Admiral Frank
Jack Fletcher who, the Navy said,
is retiring.
Admiral Towers present deputy,
Vice Admiral Lynde D. Mccormick,
will take command of battleshipS
and cruisers of the Atlantic Fleet,
relieving Admiral Fletcher.
Admiral Sprague, now deputy
chief of personnel, was nominated
by President Truman yesterday to
become chief of the bureau for a
four-year term.
Evening star., 1947-01-23
Pastor NiemoeIIer 10 Give
Two Addresses Here

Pastor Martin Niemoeller, who
spent eight years in Nazi detention
camp as Hitler's prisoner, will give
two addresses in Washington next
month under the auspices OF the
Washington Federation of Churches.
The famed German Lutheran
churchman will speak in Constitu-
ton Hall at s pm. February Is and
again for ministers only at pm.
February IA at Hamline Methodist
Church. -st
Mrs. Niemoeller, meanwhile, will
speak before a women's mass meet
ing at Luther Place Memorial Church
at $3.50 pm. February is, under
sponsorship of the Washington
Council of Church Women. -
Evening star., 1947-01-23
Trustees Making Plan
To Open Group Health
To Outsiders in Month

Membership in Group Health AS
ISOLATION, Inc. would be opened t.
individuals other than Government
workers within month under plan
now being completed by the organi
zation's Board of Trustees, Harr,
j. Becker, president, announced las
night.
He made the announcement a
meeting at the Agriculture De
partment auditorium at which
members in the prepaid health
service plan also were informed tina
ballots seeking Endorsement OF
proposal to increase dues for CHA
1850 members would be sent ou
today.
Results of the balloting will be an
nounced February 10 at the annua
general membership meeting, MI
Becker said. Increasing costs of med
ical service. make the dues increase
necessary. he explained.
At present CHA membership L
restricted to Government employe:
and persons in private employment
organized in membership groups
Requirements range from 100 pei
cent of all employees of a given firm
in groups of five to SO per cent Of
all employees in groups of SO or more
Would Expand Membership.
Mr.. Becker said it was hoped te
expand membership to about 25,O0(
persons within the next 18 months
He said facilities for approximately
20 900 members were made available
through recent acquisition OF new
quarters at 2529 Pennsylvania ave-
nue. NV.
Three plans for raising additional
funds among the members were pre-
sented. The first calls for an in
crease in dues of so cents for adults
and 25 cents for each child up to
the first three children listed on the
family membership.
The second plan, the one recon-
mended by the board, calls for ar
increase of 25 cents each for adults
and children, with the same limita
ton; service charges on physical
therapy and injections, and an in
crease in the patients share OF OBJ
stretical costs.
Service Charges Proposed.
The third plan calls for no dues
increase but the addition Of certain
service charges, to be determined
by the Board of Trustees.
Participants in the open forum dis
.cussion included Melvin Dollar, ex-
ecutive director; William E. Warme
vice president; Charles Putnam
chairman of the Advisory Council
and DR.. Henry Lichtenberg, medical
director.
The names of 10 candidates to fiji
four positions on the Board of Trus.
tees were submitted to the audience
and will be voted on at the mex
meeting. The candidates are: Abra
ham Abramowitz. Edward D. Hol
lander, Mary Kovner, Michalins
Libman, Elliott Meyer, Miltor
Plumb. ir.. Kenneth Pohlmann
Carl Ratzlaff. E. Corinne Sutton
and Albert Waterston.
Evening star., 1947-01-23
Closer Racial Ties
In World Urged al
Education Farley

World unification through a
closer relationship of all races and
faiths was urged last night by Dr.
Howard E. Wilson of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace
at the closing session of the Inter
group Education Institute held at
the Interior Department.
DR.. Wilson, who also Is deputy
secretary Of the United Nations Ed
ucationaI, Scientific and Cultural
Organization, said good interna-
tional relations are, after all, merely
extensions of group relations here.
"The one-world concept" he de-
clared, requires united front in
this country in order to have good
international relations"
The attempt to improve intergroup
relations should come from a desire
for personal welfare based on both
good will and scientific study of
mans individual influence on So
ciety, he said. Also, desire for i'm
provement comes from feeling for
integrity in the United States ira
dition of democracy, whose deepest
violations come from intergroup ten
sions, he continued.
At an earlier session yesterday
DR.. Hilda Taba, director of inter-
national education in schools CO.
operating in the program, said the
friction between groups and persons
arises because of differences in dress,
place of abode, schools attended and
other everyday variations.
The problem of group relations.
she said, must be approached by a
whole program which will be part
of the whole school curriculum, with
pupils taught the differences in races
through biology, history and other
courses.
Other speakers were DR.. Everett
r. Clinchy, president of the Con-
ference of Christians and Jews, and
DR.. Francis J. Brown of the Ameri-
can Council on Education, who de-
clared the whole problem OF equip
ping youth to live civilized life in
a diversified society lies in inter-
group understanding.
The institute, which closed with
4 panel discussion on adult educa-
ton, with DR.. Carroll Reed, first as
sistant superintendent of District
public schools, as moderator, was
sponsored by the Commission on
Educational Organizations, the
Washington Round Table, the Ma
tional Conference of Christians and
Jews and the American Council on
Education
Evening star., 1947-01-23
Donish Gymnosts to Give
Exhibition at YMCA

The Danish gym team composed
of AZ boys and girls will give an
exhibition at 8 pm. tomorrow at
the Central Branch Of the YMCA,
Ralph w. Foster, director of ''Y''
physical education, announced.
The program includes the en-
trance march of both teams with
the presentation of flags followed
by dancing and calisthenics by the
girl members of the cast and gym
nastics by the boys. Both boys and
girls will present Danish folk dances
in national costumes.
The team has performed at Mad
ison Square Garden and In Ger
many and France as guests OF the
American armed forces.
Evening star., 1947-01-23
William {. Cunningham
Funeral Rites Saturday

Funeral services for William Clar-
ence Cunningham, II. veteran OF the
Spanish American War, who died
Tuesday at Mount Alto Hospital, will
be held at 10 m. Saturday at Cham
bers' Southeast funeral home. Burial
will be in Arlington Cemetery.
Mr.. Cunningham, who lived at
1860 Owen place NE, retired about
18 years ago after several years as
a machinist at the Navy Yard. A
native of Cherrydale, Va, he had
lived in Washington 30 years.
During the Spanish-American War
Mr.. Cunningham served as clari-
netist in the United States Army
Band.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Ida
C. Cunningham; five daughters, Mrs
Helen M. Blume, Mrs. Ethel Wis
singer. Mrs. Grace Curtin, Mrs.
GLADYS Collins and Mrs. Dorothy
Jennings; three sons, Walter W.,
Franklin R. and Gilbert F. Cum
ningham;5s nine grandchildren and
four great-grandchildren, all OF
WASHINGTON
Evening star., 1947-01-23

here had been holding the checks
since the sudden clpsing earlier this
month.
Mr.. Russell said the checks would
be honored up to. rs per cent OF
what was in the members accounts
To facilitate payments to House
members, Cashier John Overholser
had before him a list of the ap-
proximately 300 depositors and how
much they have on deposit. Mr.
Overholser made it plain to reporters
that he had been cashier lust since
January g."
Beside the cage over which Mr..
Overholser presided was this sign
which the Republicans hadn't got
ten around to taking down yet:
Members Endorsement required
on all checks cashed here-Kenneth
Romney, Sergeant at Arms, House
of Representatives"
Evening star., 1947-01-23
D. G. Italian Relief Drive
To Be Held in February

The Washington committee OF
American Relief for Italy next
month will conduct a drive for funds
to help feed and clothe Italians.
Ugo Carusi, immigration and
Naturalization Service Commis-
sioner, is District chairman of the
drive. Myron c. Taylor is chairman
of the ARR board and Judge
Juvenal Marchisio heads the organ
ization.
Among local organizations which
will form committees to help are
the Lido Club, the American
Friends for Italian Aid, the italian
Ladies' Catholic Club and the Holy
Rosary Catholic War Veterans Post
662.
Evening star., 1947-01-23
Concert Bureau Here
Opened by Hayes

The opening of the Hayes Concert
Bureau with offices in the Tower
Building was announced today by
Patrick Hayes, general manager of