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Evening star., 1947-04-09

and our belief In its social value. The
latter Is perhaps the greatest part Of
happiness IN q career, and the soldier
as the defender Of society--feels iG with
intensity. He enjoys the respect q all
citizens.
Gen, Eisenhower's offer should. there
fore, ind sympathetic attention from
the most responsible young men of tho
Nation. The American Army win Be ~
democratic, competent, loyal. freedom.
Loving and strons . the Americans Who
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Evening star., 1947-04-09
Fish ToIe Art
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From the Arkansas Gazette.
Pennsylvania State College Is offering
fun course in the principles and TECH
niques Of fishing. Including narrativef
Evening star., 1947-04-09
Letters to The Star
Is Ii Art or Il Ii SpinachP
III II Art Say the Artists

Is II AT OF ~ II 0plH1CH
IL Is Art Say the Artists
10 the Editor Of The Star.
a clipping from The star Of March
II was handed to me IN horror by
Miss Sarah Baker, member Of the
American University faculty. Since that
day. Ne have found that this editorial.
'1Gr. Truman on Art" has been pros
tested BY the Artists Guild.
/, Is chairman Of department Of
painting and sculpture Of American
University, cannot allow i viewpoint as
wrong as we feel yours u to 80 unchal-
Ienged. Whether "art In the United
States Is one-third modernist and tWo-
thirds conservative" Is q point about
which we have no quarrel. Every one,
yourself and President Truman. should.
in country like ours, be allowed q
freedom Of choice in his personal likes
and dislikes. A circus girl may certainly
have qualified opinions upon the pro-
portions OF her teammates figures. But
unless he has @nade the effort to pre-.
pare himself for understanding" an
editorial writer, circus girl. or the
average man Is no more prepared to
select a good painting than I would
be to advise Mr. Truman on world finan-
cial affairs.
The public Is certainly not predom-
inately smodernistic" in its tastes. Nor
is good contemporary painter 'mod-
ernistic," but he is necessarily modern
because he Is alive today. Cezanne, Van
Gogh, Gaugin are neither '.modernistic"
nor modern any more than Pasteur Is
contemporary. Each played his role
during His own life's span. There are
no absolutely new thingsto say In paint-
ing. But every good artist before, after,
and including Rembrandt has led his
generation, introducing them to q new
way Of seeing and feeling. A Cezanne
still-lifeEis now so acceptable" to the
average man as to be deemed worthy Of
the April cover by the Ladies Home
journal. Van Gogh has been so hon.
ored many times. You have no basis
for claiming that "it Is becoming estab-
Hshed that the experiments of" the
above named painters "and other radi-
Gals were not anything but expert
ments." The National Gallery, and its
authorities, do not feel that way about
the 18th century French painters in
their collection.
Miss Florence Bergman, In her coll
tlmn dated March 80, reviewing the
Corcoran Gallery's biennial exhibition,
refutes your statement that "the trend
In art appreciation definitely is toward
the right by heading paragraph "A
Left Of Center Trend" This she says
has been noticeable for some years.
MIR. Truman, as you say, may have
expressed the majority opinion. We
would prefer to accept the opinion Of
those qualified to Judge. In the sciences,
we go to those whose experience rem
ders valid their judgments. Therefore,
there is no value to the catch phrase, "I
don't know anything about it, but I
know what / like"
WILLIAM n. CATFEE.
Evening star., 1947-04-09
Question for Red Cross

Question for Red Cross
To the Editor Of The Star:
Is 1t 50 important that the American
Red Gross erect 81 ,ooo, 900 building at
this particular time, when material Is
scarce. labor Is high, and when starving
people In other lands could use that
money for food? s. 8. BAKER.
Evening star., 1947-04-09

The Districts machinery for punisf1-
ment and correction Of sex Offenders,
particularly among Juveniles, appears
totally incapable Of preventing frst-
Offenders from regaining their free
dom and repeating their crimes.
The problem, termed pathetic" by
one authority, has been brought
sharply into focus by the recent crimi-
nal assault on q 13-year-old girl here.
The three young men accused Of the
crime all have been in custody before.
two Of them on charges OF sex offenses.
Not only are the Districts laws
and procedures for handling sex psy-
chopaths antiquated when compared
with the codes Of some states, but
there appears to be marked lack OF
understanding and cooperation among
the various official agencies in charge OF
coping with the problem.
A wide rift Of long standing between
Juvenile Court and the Police Juvenile
Bureau was disclosed when The Star
sought vainly to obtain from both agen-
cies statistics on the number OF sex
crimes attributed to juveniles here in
the past few years.
Acting Police Supt. Inspector Walter
H. Thomas said he could not allow 1t.
William T. Murphy, head Of the Juvenile
Bureau, to release any statistics on
juvenile arrests on sex ofenses because
Judge Fay L. Bentley had forbidden
it in writing and in person at con-
ference with police officials last year.
Judge Bentley said she had not only
banned release Of the figures but would
cite 1t. Murphy 'for contempt OF court"
il he gave any one the statistics.
The annual report Of the Police
Statistical Bureau for 1915 reveals the
following sex-felonies involving juve-
niles:
Assault to commit rape---~------- 2
Carnal knowledge 10
Evening star., 1947-04-09
other Handicaps Described.

Other HandtcapS DESCRIBED.
Police say they are handicapped In
their investigations Of crimes involving
young sex psychopaths by prohibition
In the present law against photograph
ing and fingerprinting prisoners under
the age of 18 years. One member OF
the Vice Squad unlocked his desk and
showed the reporter picture OF boy,
taken when the boy was under Is. He
said the boy in question was involved
in a series of houSebreakings which
involved molesting sleeping women.
1.-THE Juvenile Court refused to let us
photograph this boy because Of his age"
the officer said. "But many boys OF this
type repeat their crimes and might 60
on some day to commit sex murder.
with this picture, and others like
1t, in our files, we would have at least
something to show witnesses in future
crimes and as a basis for starting our
investigations.
He said he obtained the picture from
the District Jail. It was pointed out
that police solve large number OF
typed crimes by checking through a
list of known previous offenders. A
picture of a known offender is so much
more help.
The psychiatrists who examine juve-
nile sex offenders at Juvenile Court,
Gallinger Hospital and st. Elizabeths
Hospital also are far from accord with
Police and Juvenile Court ofdcials-the
difficulty revolving around the Districts
law which prevents those who might
be considered sex psychopaths illegally
sane under the law) from being sent
to mental institution.
Correctional institutions like the Dis
trict's training schools, the National
Training School for Boys and the Dis
trict's school at Laurel for backward
boys are not suited, officials agree, for
handling sex offenders.
Unwilling to send sex offenders to in
stitutions poorly equipped for such
work, the Juvenile Court cannot send
such boys to st. Elizabeths because
psychiatrists win not find them insane
as they are not.
Judge Bentley said that psychiatrists
"seem to think sex Is normal" DR.. Win
fred Overholser, superintendent Of st.
Elizabeths Hospital, blamed the exist
ing laws for the Districts seeming in
ability either to cure or to keep under
surveillance its youthful sex offenders.
"The law recognizes only black and
white-sane and insane-not gray, the
half-world of the sex psychopath," DR..
Overholser declared.
Laws Recognizing Twisted Mentality.
He outspoken1y advocated adoption by
Congress Of law for the District sinii-
lar to the one introduced in the House
recently by Representative MacKinnon,
Republican, of Minnesota, which would
Evening star., 1947-04-09
Plea for New Directory

Plea for New Directory
70 the Editor Of The Star:
Isn't it about time that We, Of the
City Of Washington, have . new City
Directory The most reliable one-a
thoroughly unreliable one--is that Of
194s.
How about y new and up-to-date
directory rs speedily Is possible7
INTERESTED.
Evening star., 1947-03-27
Braves Young Rookie
Not Only Says He's.
Good, but utProves| Il
BY the Associated Press

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla, Mar.
27.-Earl Torgenson, one of the
cockiest rockies ever to reach the
major leagues, not only admits he
Is good but is proving it.
When the youngster, who was
purchased by the Boston Braves
from Seattle of the Pacific Coast
League for $4,000 and four players
while still in service, arrived at the
Braves training camp, he tolu
everyone within earshot that he
would be the regular first baseman.
And barring the unforeseen, he ap-
pears a cinch to be stationed there
when the National League campaign
gets under way April Is.
OF course, the task was made
easier for him when Ray Sanders,
the 1916 regular first baseman, un-
derwent an arm operation, but the
youngster has been hitting and
fielding in such fine style during
the exhibition games as to make
Scout Ted McGrew, who discovered
him, swell with pride.
I'm sorry about Sanders, but it
wouldn't have made any difference
If it were Sanders, or Lou Gehrig
at his peak, I'd beat both out"
cracked the 23-year-old freshman.
Evening star., 1947-03-27
WhitehiII One of Few to Defy Cobb-ond Win

you want me to pitch. If I keep
it up I'll wind up back in the
minors. Well, if I go back to
the minors I'm going on my own.
I'm going to pitch the way want
to pitch
"He called me everything in the
book, but I stuck to my decision
I don't believe we said six words
to each other after that day. The
time I was supposed to pitch Ty
didn't even tell me. 7 was sup
posed to get Is minutes to warm
up. But S minutes before the
game he sent a coach to tell me
I was going to pitch. He wanted
to see me take a licking.
"Out to the mound I went and
Cobb flashed the catcher signal.
I shook it off. In from center
field came Cobb. Before $4,000
people he walked in a circle
around me, cursing me. I told
him, Take me out of you want to,
because I'm pitching this game
the way want to pitch it, He
ranted and raved and stormed
and fumed, but he let me pitch.
I won that game and for the re-
Evening star., 1947-03-27
BY q stoff Correspondent Of The stor

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla,
Mar. 27.-Earl Whitehill, Wash
ington's best southpaw within
the memory of ancient Coach
Clyde Milan, is one of the few
men ever to defy Ty Cobb and
emerge victorious. He was
forced to antagonize Cobb to re-
main an outstanding major
league~pitcher when TRADING Ty
was managing the Detroit Tigers.
Whitehill, now travelling for a
sports equipment concern, was
talking of his feud with Cobb. Il
had won 18 games the year before
Ty took over the club" Earl re-
called. IT thought I had learned
something about pitching, but
under Cobb you pitched as he
wanted you to pitch. He sig
nailed the catcher from center
field and the catcher relayed the
signals to the pitcher.
well, the signals I got called
for curve ball, curve ball, curve
ball. I got arm weary throwing
curves and after I had won three
games and lost nine made up
my mind that if I was going back
to the minor leagues I was going
on my own. I went to Ty in the
dressing room one day and said,
Mr.. Cobb, I can't pitch the way
Evening star., 1947-03-27

Congress may get chance later
this season to vote on bill to make
even the offering Of a bribe to ath-
letes in the District a felony. Hear
ings on three such bills already in
troduced were held yesterday before
the Judiciary Subcommittee of the
House District Committee and the
concensus of those testifying was
that such a measure would be an aid
to cleaner sports.
Bills under consideration were in
troduced by Representative Bradley
Of Michigan, Allen of Illinois and
Hebert of Louisiana. Representa-
tive O'Hara Of Minnesota, chair
man Of the subcommittee, Indicated
that bill embodying the best fea-
lures of these three proposed likely
would be drawn by the subcommit-
tee.
Those testifying were Bert Bell,
commissioner of the National Foot
ball League: the Rev. Matthew Kane,
S. j., faculty director of athletics
at Georgetown University; Red
Auerbach, coach of the Washington
Capitols pro basket ball club, and
Police Inspector Clarence Talley,
member of. the District Boxing
Commission. a
Bell, Auerbach and Talley told
subcommittee members that there
are rules in their respective organ
izations Furnishing athletes for fail
ing to report bribes or bribe offers
made them. They admitted that
they could enforce no penalties
Evening star., 1947-03-27
By the Associated Press

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla
Connie Mack said today that Eddie
Joost is the best shortstop the Phila-
delphia Athletics have had since
Joe Boley cavorted for the AS back
in the pennant- winning days OF the
late 20s and early '30s.
"He's a good, hustling player,
observed the venerable pilot, and
smart. He recalled that when
Joost backed up the third baseman
the other day and took a hit OH his
glove for a putout to first, he made
a play 1--WE hadn't seen since Chick
Galloway and Boley."
Galloway played shortstop for
Philadelphia before Boley came on
the scene.
"Joost is quick and agile. He
stops sharply enough after his initial
charge to get 10 or IL feet in front
of the ball and get set for the scoop"
Mack pointed out.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla.-Eighteen-
year-old Billy Herman, jr., has gone
to the minors at his fathers bidding.
The son of the Pittsburgh Pirate
manager was one of two players cut
from the squad and was sent to
Uniontown Of the Mid-Atlantic
League. The other was Dewey So
riano, righthander shipped to In
dianapolis on option. At the same
time, the Bucs acquired Lou Tost
from the Braves for slightly more
than the $4,000 waiver price.
BARTOW, Fla.-The Detroit
Tigers paid visit to their farm
club, the Buffalo Bisons of the
International League, for today's
exhibition. Bengal Rockies George
Vico, Johnny Bero, Johnny Nc
Hale and Clint Conatser starred yes
terday as the Detroiters came from
behind for a 7-6 victory over the
ePhillies.
SAN FRANCISCO.-The New
York Giants exhibition series with
the San Francisco Seals now stands
at three-all. The Giants won the
first three games with the Seals in
Honolulu and dropped the last two.
Yesterday, in a renewal of the series
at Seals Stadium here, Lefty ODouls
gang squared it by winning 80 in
II innings. After holding the Seals
to three hits for 82s innings, tanning
Evening star., 1947-03-27
College, AAU Cagers
To Get Equal Chance
To Play in 0Iympics
By the Asseei1tsd Press

NEW YORK. Mar. 27.-Although
the method of selection has not
been determined, both college and
AAU basket ball players will have
ar equal chance to represent the
United States in the 1948 Olym-
pics, it was disclosed today as the
two factions joined hands for next
season.
That's about the only conclusion
we have reached at this early date"
said Louis G. Wilke of Bartlesville,
Okla, chairman of the American
Olympic Basket Ball Committee, in
an interview after the annual two
day meeting of the National Rules
Committee.
Three Possibilities.
Gas for the choice of a team to
play in the 1948 Olympics there are
three possibilities" he continued.
Some want special tournament,
with the winning team becoming
the American representative; others
favor the selection of individual
players on an all-star basis, and
still others want to stage a playoff
among the winners of the National
AAU, National Invitation and
NCAA tournaments.
THAT will have to be worked
out later. Right now the only thing
the committee has agreed on Is
that both college and AAU players
have an equal chance to 60 to the
Olympics."
The Olympic Basket Ball Com
mittee is composed of six repre-
sentatives of the AAU, six repre-
sentatives Of the NCAA and j.
Lyman Bingham Of Chicago, who
serves as the representative Of
Avery Brundage, chairman Of the
American Olympic Committee.
Several Rules Changed.
Wilke, also chairman of the AAU
Basket Ball Committee, attended
the annual meeting of the National
Rules Committee, which closed
yesterday with the Amateur Ath-
letic Union agreeing for the first
time in years to abide by the same
rules governing the collegiate sport.
The rules group adopted half q
dozen changes in the playing code
for next season, but the only one
having any important bearing on
the conduct of the game applies to
the closing minutes Of play.
The rule, put in q year ago, stop
ping the clock on all dead balls
in the last four minutes of a game
and allowing player to re-enter
the game only once in that time,
was changed to permit unlimited
substitutions and stop the clock on
dead balls only in the last three
minutes.
Evening star., 1947-03-27

mainder Of the year I won Is
and lost 2.
Cobb was the greatest COM
petitive baseball player of all
time, but he was a terror to some
of his players. I had a roommate
who was scared to death of him.
Quite frequently at night Id wake
up to find this roomie with the
light on staring at the ceiling.
When we were at the ball park
I'd go over and sit down on the
bench next to my roomie and he'd
say, Get away, get away-cant
you see Cobb watching U.s. That
poor fellow wound up in an insti-
tuition"
Whitehill lays the defeat of the
Boston Red Sox in the World
Series last year to stupidity. 1.-THE
Red Sox saw Harry Breechen
warm up on the sidelines for Is
minutes. He was concentrating on
his letup' stuff. The Red Sox
knew what was coming, but they
stood up there at the plate and
took letup' pitches they should
have blasted out of the park.
They weren't thinking" B. H.
Evening star., 1947-03-27
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

ALBANY, N. Y, Mar. 27,-The
condition Of 65-year-old Johnny
Evers was described by his ply
sician today as "very low"
Evers, famed as second base
man In baseball's Tinker-to-
Evers-to- Chance double play
combination of the Chicago Cubs,
was admitted to st. Peters Hos
pital Tuesday after suffering a
cerebral hemorrhage.
His doctor said the former Ma
tional League star had grown
progressively worse" during the
night and was almost totally
paralyzed.
Evers had suffered a stroke in
August, 1912, and his right side
had been paralyzed since.
Evening star., 1947-03-27

Yanks Are Dangerous
Even Without Dill Mao,
Harris Contends
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

ST. PETERSBURG. Fla, Mar. 81.
Although Bucky Harris, the old
"boy manager" is waiting as
anxiously as everybody else around
the New York Yankee camp for
Joe Di Maggio's arrival, he is not
ready to concede that his club will
be a complete flop if the recent
operation on Joe's heel keeps him
out Of the lineup past opening day.
"Of course we neeed Joe in there" !"
he said in discussing the Yanks'
chances. HE is q great ball player.
But even without him things are
not so bad as some of you fellows
seem to think. The more see Of
our youngsters the better I feel"
Back as an active manager after
several seasons in the games front
offices, Bucky is keenly aware that
a lot Of observers think he has
fallen heir to a club that is coming
apart and might drop far behind
the American League pace.
Bucky Praises. Rockies.
"We might fool lot Of people, !"
he declared. II wouldn't be too
surprised if we have the finest crop
Of rockies in either league. I'm
positive have great young pitcher
in Don johnson, and there are three
or four others who might easily
step in as regulars.
'This boy johnson Is only 20, but
he's come back from the Army a
terrific pitcher, with a fast ball that
jumps and q fine curve. Right
now I'm thinking of him as my
fourth pitcher behind Spud Chand-
Ter. Floyd Bevens and Allie Reyn-
olds. He could be sensation"
Harris went on to rave impair
tally about Larry Berra, the squat,
knock-kneed ex-catcher from New
ark who In q few brief weeks has
nailed down the teams right-f1eld
berth; Frank Shea, a pitcher from
Oakland; Ralph Houk, a right-hand
slugging catcher from Beaumont,
and Bob Brown, the much-pubH-
cized third-base candidate who
dubbed .341 for Newark last year.
Houk Climbed in Army.
"Houk Is as good rookie catch
er as I ever hope to see. He can do
everything, and he belongs to the
old school Of hustling, aggressive
catchers.
"He started in the war q private
and he came out a major, commits
stoned in the field. They don't give
you anything in that league unless
you've got something, either.
Gas for Shea, he had a 1875 rec
ord and a 1.66 earned-run average
for Oakland, and he's been showing
me plenty. If he and johnson come
through as I fully expect them to,
and Reynolds can regain the form
he showed at Cleveland two years
ago, we will have lot of pitching"
With Di Maggio's ability to start
the season in center field still un-
certain, Harris says Tommy Hen
rich might open in that position,
with veteran George McQuinn on
first. McQuinn has been hitting
well. Heinrich will 60 back to first
when Di Mag is ready. Berra is in
right field to stay.
Evening star., 1947-03-27
Robinson's S Injury
Thwurts Durocher
BY the Associated Press

HAVANA, Mar. 27.-Jackie
Robinson, the star infielder of the
Montreal Royals who Brooklyn
Manager Leo Durocher wanted to
observe in last nights exhibition
game here, was due to be x-rayed
today to determine the extent of
G back injury suffered in practice
yesterday morning.
Robinson was missing from the
lineup as the Brooks shut out the
Royals 60 behind the three-hit
pitching of Ed Head and Ed
Heusser.
Evening star., 1947-03-27
Fat Pin Prizes Slated
In Clarendon Event

Guaranteed prizes totaling $125
will be awarded In the weekly one
ball tournament at the Clarendon
Bowling Center starting Sunday at
$50 am. and running until closing
time. First prize will be $50, Sec
ond, $50, and third, $40, with other
awards based upon number OF en-
tries. Top scratch game will be
worth $25.
One third handicaps based on q
scratch of 130, with a 30-pin limit,
will be given.
Evening star., 1947-03-27
District Anti-Sports Fix Law
To Block Gamblers Favored

against gamblers making such at
tempts, and saw in the proposed
legislation a means of curbing
gambling on sports events.
All admitted that there Is
gambling on the outcome of games
and fights. Auerbach claimed there
is little gambling on pro basket ball
games here, compared to what goes
on in Philadelphia, New York and
Chicago.
All witnesses agreed that there
is little or no gambling by athletes
on games in which they participate,
but that to make even bribe at
tempts a felony Would discourage
gamblers from trying to reach ath-
leteS.
Evening star., 1947-03-27
Amvets Ask U. S. Action
Aquinst Three Clubs

The American Veterans of World
War II announced today they are
asking the Justice Department for
legal proceedings against three ma
jor league baseball clubs under the
Selective Service Act.
The Amvets declared there has
been fragrant disregard for the re-
employment rights" of Steve Sum-
dra, former st. Louis Browns pitch
er; Russell Kerns, former Detroit
Tigers catcher; Benny Mccoy, for
mer Philadelphia Athletics infielder,
and Bob Harris, former Athletics
nitcher.
Evening star., 1947-03-27
One-Armed Boxer
Is Harvard Star
By the Associoted Press

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Mar. n.
Harvard University may have
a one-armed boxing champion.
Tommy Rodgers of Pittsburgh,
who lost his left arm in a rail-
road accident, won his semi
final bout in the 155-pound class
in the first postwar university
tourney last night. The judges
unanimously decided in favor of
Rodgers over Jim Lord.
His affliction forces him to
fight from southpaw stance, and
Tommy thinks that's to his ad-
vantage. "It puts the other fell
lows off balance. Most of them
are righthanders," he says.