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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-09-02
Kiwanis-ROtary
Junior League Game

The Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs of
the Junior Baseball League tangled
in the final game of the season be-
tween them, out at the stadium on
Friday night, as a curtain-raiser to
the Owls-Sunbury game, and the
youngsters really put on an exhi-
bition of good baseball.
Jim Gossard went to the mound
for Rotary, and Noel Spence was
his battery mate, while Eddie Owens
pitched for Kiwanis, with Sam Spig
Ter behind the plate.
For four and half innings it was
a shut-out pitching duel, with Owens
allowing a single in the third after
two were out, and then coming back
in the fourth after the first two men
to face him had singled, to strike
out the next three batters to face
him. Two of them went down
swinging, and he got the other lad
on third called strike. He set the
Rotary boys down in order in the
fifth and sixth, but in the seventh
Moe Scott, the Rotary third base
man singled, stole second and then
third, and scored the Rotary's only
run of the game on single by a
pinch hitter, whose name I didn't get.
Eddie Owens set the Kiwanis lads
down in the first four innings with
out a semblance of hit, but he ran
into trouble in the fifth when four
hits, one of them a double by Oscar
Shank, coupled with two walks and
two errors, produced the five runs
that won the game.
Scott did a neat bit of relief pitch
ing for Rotary in the sixth inning,
when with a man on base, he struck
out the next two and got the final
out on a pop-up to the first base
man. Here's the summary Of the
game:
Rotary, 1R. 5H, Sc, left on base,
s; Kiwanis, 5R. Al. OE,, left on base,
s.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-09-02

Texas has the largest number of
domestic animals of the states.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-09-02
New Sports Program

WJEJ's new musical sports page
matinee, which is on the air every af-
ternoon Monday through Friday
from 2:3O till 4:3O, is rapidly becom-
ing one of the most popular afternoon
programs in this area.
Bob Wagner and Art Livick, who
handle the program, keep sports fans
well informed all afternoon of sport
ing events of the day, including
baseball, horse racing, tennis mat
ches, golf matches, or anything
else that is on the. sports calendar
each afternoon. For simple and
easy way to keep yourself up-to-
date on all the sports happenings
every afternoon, just tune to WEI
at 2:3O, and you won't miss a single
sports event.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-09-02

This baseball great. shortstop
in the now almost legendary Chi
cago Cubs double play combination
of the early 1900's, recently passed
on to the happy land of plentiful
base hits and fiawless fielding. This
last survivor OF the famed diamond
trio was the Bruins shortstop for
eleven seasons and played on four
pennant-winning teams (1906-7-S
and 1870 He's pictured here as he
coached in 1887. Who is he?
ANSWER:
isYutL sof
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-09-02
BEHIND HOME PLATE
By Doug Stewart

Larry Ciaffone, the smuggling cat
cher of the Allentown Cards and the
leading hitter in the Interstate
League, was voted the most val
liable player in the league, as the
result of the annual vote of the mem
bers of the Interstate League
Spcrtswriters' and Broadcasters'
Association, conducted last week and
released yesterday.
The vote was taken under the
point system, with five points for
first choice, three for second and two
for third
Ciaffone received three votes for
first choice, nine for second and
eight for third, giving him total
of SO points. George Eyrich, the
Wilmington pitcher, placed second
with As points (nine for first, but
none for second or third), while
George Daddario, the Owls shortstop,
was third with 80 points (six for
first and one for third).
The award, valued at fifty dollars,
will be presented to Ciaffone by
George Kirchner, sports editor of
the Lancaster New Era and presi-
dent of the association, during the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS game at Al
lentown on Labor Day.
Although l was one of those who
was far from enthusiastic when Mr..
Sterling announced that he had
signed Boots" Poffenberger to help
out the pitching for the remaining
weeks of the season, I've got to adj
NIT now that it was a good move,
and Boots" deserves every credit
for the way he has worked with the
club since rejoining.
In the first game of Sundays
doubleheader at the stadium, he
gave as fine an exhibition as I've
seen in a long, long time. Cutting
out all the antics that the fans al
ways got a big kick out of, he liter
ally pitched his heart out to try and
win that game, and never let up I'M
til he almost dropped from sheer ex-
haustion at the beginning of the
ninth inning, and had to be relieved.
Boots" has made lot of mis-
takes in his life (but who of us have
not?). But he did man sized job
for his cam on Sunday afternoon
and he deserves a world of credit
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-09-02
County League


I'm very glad to be able to report
that the advisory board of the
Washington County Baseball League
lost no time in throwing out that
ridiculous protest made by the Will
Transport Club against Boonsboro
because two of the members of the
Boonsboro squad, whose uniforms
were lost in transit, played the game
in softball uniforms.
The letter from the chairman of
the advisory board, j. v. Jamison,
Jr., to Paul Macy, president of the
club, stated that by unanimous de-
cision the three members of the
board, after studying all the facts,
it was decided that the result of the
game, as played, should stand.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-09-02

The Owls fourth and final run
came in the eighth, when Daddario'
walked and scored on Yeash's dou-
BILE to right
Summary: Harrisburg, OR 11H
OE. Left on base 10; Hagerstown, 4
r. 8H. 4E. Left on base Z.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-09-02

Irrigation has been highly develop
ed in the state of Montana.
Ohio leads in limestone and clay
products.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-09-02
sTOUFFER MAKES EN-!

Nope! You don't have to wait days
N days N days for a rubber stamp
We make 'em! And the service?
Why, Brother, it's super! Just call
Stouffer Printing Co.-Phone 1900.
Advt.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-09-02
Washington County
Baseball League
Northern Division

Sundays Results
Hancock, 8; South End, l.
Middleburg, 5; West End, 3.
Smithsburg, 11-6; Harrystown, els.
Games Next Sunday
Harrystown at West End.
Hancock at Smithsburg.
Middleburg at South End.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-09-02

Michigan is an all-year round va
cation state.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-09-02
Southern Division

Sundays Results
Boonsboro, 5; Gapland, 0.
Funkstown, 6; Williamsport, 8.
Keedysville, 9; Sharpsburg, 0.
(forfeit.)
Games Next Sunday
Boonsboro at Funkstown.
Keedysville at Williamsport.
Gapland at Sharpsburg.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-09-02
"Y" County
Softball League
Standing OF The Teams

Sundays Results
Charlton, 1874; Dargan, 20
Games Next Sunday
Charlton VS. Sunset A. c. at Sun
set Park on Route 40. Doublehead
er, with first game starting at PM.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-09-02
Keeping Up
With The Owls
Continued from Page 81

CONTINUED from Page 81
from then on and pitched no-hit ball
for the last four innings.
Summary: Sunbury, 5R. 15H. OE.,
left on base, IL; Hagerstown, AR.
All. 1E., left on base, 7.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-09-02

Overgrazing has been responsible
for much soil erosion in the U. S.
Evening star., 1948-08-04
MaIayan Reds, British
Meet in Open Battle
By the Associated Pres,

SINGAPORE, Aug. 4-Malayan
Communist insurgents met British
forces in open battle today, 80 miles
south of the Siamese border.
A British Army communique said
British forces, under cover of
rocket-firing Spitf1res, are driving
forward against stiff enemy opposi-
tion.
First reports did not indicate the
scope of the battle. Presumably it
was on a small scale. 1t is believed,
however, to be the first time the
Communists have stood and fought
since the revolt began in June.
The communique said entrenched
Communists opened fire with ma
chineguns and rifles on a British
column striking toward Pula in
South Kelantan State, a Communist
stronghold.
The column was held up by the
fire and radioed for RAF help. A
later report said the British column
"a joint military and police force
has resumed its advance. At
least one Gurkha soldier was re-
ported killed.
Malcolm Macdonald, British high
commissioner in Southeast Asia,
said last night the Communist
timetable had called for proclama-
tion of Communist republic of
Malaga yesterday. Instead, he said,
the insurgents are licking their
pounds in the jungle"
Evening star., 1948-08-04
AII-Doy Rain Follows Storms
FIoodingCe lStolIinq roffic

Another full day of rain was
expected today by the Weather
Bureau following the summers
worst epidemic of flooded base
ments and streets in the last
few days.
Only third of an inch of rain
fell yesterday, according to official
readings at the National Airport.
but it was concentrated in near
cloudbursts that stalled traffic and
brought trouble calls from home
owners over a wide area.
First break in the rainy weather
Is expected tomorrow. the Weather
Bureau said. Occasional showers
were predicted through tonight, with
continued high humidity, but lower
temperatures. Today's high was set
at Is, with tonight's low at So.
Yesterdays high temperature was
Evening star., 1948-08-04
| Reds Declare Clay
May Be Replaced,
| But He Denies 1t
By the Associated Press

BERLIN, Aug. 4.-Russian-
controlled newspapers here
published on their front pages
today a report that Gen. Lucius
D. Clay is to be replaced as
American military governor and
commander in chief in Ger
many. Gen. Clay said the re-
port was baseleSs.
II don't know where they get
their information, I certainly
have no such information" he
said.
The Soviet press claimed to
be quoting a Chicago Tribune
press service dispatch from New
York saying Gen. Mark w.
Clark or 1t. Gen. Albert C.
Wedemeyer would succeed Gen.
Clay.
Evening star., 1948-08-04
By the Assoeioted Press

The Democratic National Com
mittee has banned race segrega-
ton in it's headquarters staff in
a new bid for Negro support in
the presidential election.
Confirming the change, National
Chairman J. Howard McGrath told
a reporter the committee merely
is being consistent" by putting into
effect policy urged by President
Truman for Government jobs and
the Armed Forces.
Senator McGrath said he expects
to announce later the appointment
of a Negro assistant to the chair
mang He would not comment on
reports that Representative Daw-
son of Illinois Is slated for this
post.
Senator McGrath said the COM
mittee is abolihing its6Negro divi-
Evening star., 1948-08-04

IS at 2:55 pm. 1t was II at 7:54
am. this morning. Rainfall so far
this month had reached 3.29 inches
by 8 am, 2.71 inches above the
average for this time in August.
27 Flood Reports Received.
In the District a late afternoon
downpour yesterday sent ~ flood
reports into the District Water De-
partment alone. While drains later
carried off most of the water, seven
flooded Easements had to be pumped
out, officials said.
Traffic was obstructed temporarily
on a number Of streets, according to
police reports. Among them were
Third street N. w. at Underwood,
where automobiles were stalled with
water over the wheels, and Fifth
street at Ingraham NV. One side
(see WEATHER, Page AID
Evening star., 1948-08-04
Four Witnesses Blast
CAPITAL Transit Plea
For 15-Cent Fare
Organized Groups Press
Fight at PUG Hearing;
Trick Figuring Charged
By Jerry O'Leory, Jr.

Organized groups and indi-
vidual citizens today resumed
their attack on the Capital
Transit Co.'s request for higher
street car and bus fares at hear
ings before the Public Utilities
Commission.
-Four persons testified against the
proposed schedule of increases.
Capital transit wants to increase the
cash fare from 10 cents to Is cents
ride, to sell two tokens for a
quarter and to raise the price of
the $3.50 weekly pass to $185.
PUG Chairman James H. Flana-
gan also took under advisement a
plea by the Washington Committee
for Consumer Protection to be ad-
mitted to the proceedings as an
interviewer with the right to cross
examine witness and introduce its
own testimony. Three other inter-
veners-the Federation of Citizens
Associations, the Americans for
Democratic Action and the Ameri-
can Veterans Committee-already
are party to the hearing and are
expected to cross examine Capital
Transit witnesses later today and
tomorrow.
Supporters Listed.
In seeking interviewer status.
David Cobb, attorney for the Con-
summers Committee, said his organ
ization represented the following
groups; the Washington Industrial
Union Council, CIO; The Potomac
Cooperative association; The
Washington Committee for Wallace
Progressive Party; the Womens
Auxiliary of the United Public
Workers of America; local 200 AFL
Hotel, Restaurant Employees, Bar
tenders and Pastry Cooks; The Fed
Grafton of Civic Associations; the
Washington League of Women
Shoppers and the Emma Lazarus
division of the Jewish Peoples Fra
ternal Order.
Both the Capital Transit attorney,
Frank G.. Await, and Special Assist
(See TRANSIT PAGE A-51
Evening star., 1948-08-04
BY the Associated Press

OLYMPIC STADIUM, Wembley
England, Aug. 4.-Bill Porter of
Northwestern won the 110-meter
high hurdles in the Olympic
Games today as athletes from
the United States placed 1928
to score their second sweep of a
track and field event.
Porter skinned over the high
sticks in 1879 seconds for a new
olympic record. Subject to a rati-
fication, chopping two-tenths of a
second off the previous mark of
AL set by another American, For
rest (Spec) Towns, at Berlin in 1886.
Clyde (Smackover) Scott of
Arkansas, former Navy halfback,
finished second and Craig Dixon of
the University of California at Los
Evening star., 1948-08-04
Israeli Girl Bomber Pilot,
U. .S.-Trained, Dies in Crash
BY the Associated Press

TEL AVN, Israel, Aug. 4.-zahara
Levitov, pretty 21-year-old Ameri-
can-educated girl bomber pilot with
the Israeli air force, was killed late
yesterday in an air crash between
Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israeli
officials announced.
Miss Leyitoy trained to fly, as q
hobby, at Bakersfield, Calf. She
flew several bombing missions for
the Israelis against the Arabs in
the Palestine fighting.
The Air Force refused to list her
actual missions or to say whether
these included the bomber sorties
against Arab capitals.
Also killed in the same crash was
the co-pilot, Emmanuel Rothschild,
10, of Ranat Gan. His wife is Betty
Gordon Of Los Angeles, the officials
announced,
Evening star., 1948-08-04
Democrats Drop Segregation
On National Committee Stuff

sion as such and distributing iti
colored workers among other units
He said there will be no race dis.
elimination in the hiring of ste aog-
raphers, clerks and other employees
The Republican National Com
mittee maintains a Negro division
with Valories j. washington Of Chi
cago, member Of the Illinois Com
merce Commission, as its head
william Murphy, COP publicity di-
rector, said several Negroes are en-
ployed on the headquarters stafI.
Senator McGrath's move was
looked on by some Southern Demo-
Gratis as a further sign that the
administration Is more interested
In Negro support from the big vote
States than 1t is In patching up
the party row In the South.
Some Of the Southerners are
(See DEMOCRATS, Tsge A-5J
Evening star., 1948-08-04
36 Dead, 28 Injured
In Venezuela Flood

CARACAS, Venezuela, Aug. A.
Thirty-six are known dead and 2s
are reported injured in fash food
which engulfed part Of the port
city of La Guaira yesterday.
Most of the loss of life and prop
erty destruction occurred in the
Piedra Azul Pass, where q virtual
wall of water from a torrential rain
was channeled down. !
Evening star., 1948-08-04
SOS Reported Received
From Plane Down With s.
By the Asseeiaied Press

PARIS, Aug. Air France said
today it has received reports that
an SOS has been picked up from its
giant flying boat, missing since SUM-
day with 50 persons aboard.
The company said all it had was a
bare report from one Of the ships
searching the South Atlantic-the
French frigate LIE Verrier-that 1t
had heard the distress signal.
There were no further details.
Ships and planes were rushed toward
the spot where the signal was be-
lieved to have originated.
The missing plane carried 40 pas
sengers and 10 crewmen. \
Evening star., 1948-08-04
President Commufes
Wilson Death Penalty
In Ho|dup Murder
RiverduIe Fother of 5
Wos to Die August 20
For SIuyinq at Store

The death sentence of Floyd
P. Wilson, 33-year-old Riverdale
(Md.) carpenter convicted in a
holdup murder last year, has
been commuted to life imprison-
ment by President Truman, it
was announced today.
Wilson was sentenced to be exc
cuted August 20 for the Staying of
Milton E. Lowe, 48, who lived in
the 1900 block of Neal street NE.
Mr.. Lowe, brother-in-law of the
manager of the Giant Food Store in
the $500 block of Minnesota avenue
NE, was outside the store on
February 8, 1947. He had just been
handed for safekeeping $4,000, rep
resenting the stores receipts.
Is Father of Five Children.
Wilson is the father of five chill
dren and Lowe was the father OF
three. The circumstances of both
families aroused public sympathy
and it was brought out that Wilson
was heavily in debt.
| Although first-degree murder
carries a mandatory death penalty
the jury recommended mercy and
did not pass judgment until Justice
Alexander Holtzoff informed them
he would pass the recommendation
along to the President.
A plea for executive clemency
was pressed by Wilson's attorneys
Charles E. Ford and H. Clifford
Alder, who also gave notice of ap-
peal. At the time, Mr.. Ford sale
the appeal probably Would be
dropped if the sentence was COM
muted.
| Will Be Subject of Parole.
/ At the trial Wilson admitted
going to the store with a loaded
pistol in his pocket and waited out
side for Mr.. Lowe to emerge at the
closing hour.
Wilson said he followed Mr.. Lowe
to his automobile and climbed in
beside him, pointing his pistol and
ordering the victim to drive away
He said the weapon fired accident
ally when Mr.. Lowe seized the
barrel and struggled to wrench it
away.
Justice Department officials said
that under existing laws Wilson
will be eligible for parole in Is
years. He was originally scheduled
to die July 80, but stay of execu-
ton was granted when defense at
torneys said Mr.. Truman could not
consider the matter before August /.
Evening star., 1948-08-04
Truman Ponders PIE;
Of Senators 10 Bare
Remington Job Data
Loyalty Records Already
Denied, but Ross Says
There Is Difference
BULLETIN

| NedT AuIIllTdl i. .. 1IlSllS,
chief of naval personnel, told
a Senate subcommittee this
afternoon that on orders from
the White House he could not
give it any information On
William w. Remington or "the
loyalty of any naval person.
! nel."
By Don S. Worren
The White House said today
that President Truman, has
under consideration" a Senate
investigating committees re-
quest for the employment rec
ords of William w. Remington
suspended Commerce Depart
ment export license officer.
Mr.. Remington is under investi-
cation on charges of giving war
time secrets to the head OF Rus
sian spy ring.
Charles G. Ross, White House
press secretary, said there was a
difference between the employment
and loyalty records of a Govern
ment employe. On Mr.. Trumans
order, congressional committees
have been denied loyalty records.
Legal Move Considered.
Unless the records of Mr.. Rem
ington are released, the 1nvestigat-
ing Committee, headed by Senator
Ferguson, Republican, of Michigan
may start a legal move to obtain
them.
Issuance of a subpoena was taken
under study last night, Chairman
Ferguson said, after the group had
failed in an all-day effort to get a
yes or no answer from Secretary OF
Commerce Sawyer.
The documents were sent to the
White House in view of the Presi-
dents earlier rulings that loyalty
records could not be made available
to congressional committees.
Senator Ferguson has explained
he was not asking for loyalty rec.
ords but rather for the employment
history of Mr.. Remington, with such
data as when he was hired, for what
job, on whose recommendation ano
at whose order
If subpoena methods are ordered
Chairman Ferguson said he could
not say in advance what Officer
would be named in any demand fol
production of the documents.
Hearings to Be Resumed.
More on the Remington story
was expected to be heard this after
noon when the Ferguson Commit
tee resumes its hearings.
Chairman Ferguson said IAN ad-
miral" would be called to the stand
to answer questions regarding Mr.
Remington's 1916 resignation from
the naval reserve. For about two
years, the youthful economist had
held an ensigns commission as a
1See COMMTJNTSTS pace An
Evening star., 1948-08-04

neau and Frank Roberts, principal
secretary to British Foreign Secre.
tary Bevin-were reported to have
received instructions from Wash
ington, Paris and London.
(Secretary of State Marshall
warned today against specula-
ton over results of the confer
ence of Western power repre-
sentatiyes with Prime Minister
Stain.
(The Secretary refused at a
news conference to- answer any
questions regarding developments
in Moscow or what the next step
may be. He said he could not
comment for evident reasons, and
for equally obvious reasons spec
ulation might be very harmful.)
Meeting Today Possible.
There was some doubt that any
meeting of the three Western ENJOYS
with the Russian leaders would take
place today, but this possibility was
not ruled out. The Western repre-
sentatives are standing by and wait
ing.
1t is not yet possible to determine
just how long the present negotia-
tions will continue. 1t would ap-
pear, however, that Mr.. Roberts
the only nonresident among the
three envoys-may be in Moscow
the remainder of this week or until
next week end.
To any one closely following de-
velopments here, it has become ap.
parent that Gen. Smith is the main
force among the three foreign
ENJOYS.
This is not just because he is the
ranking diplomatic member of the
trio. Had it not been for Gen
Smith, it was learned on high au-
thority, the present talks probably
would not have come of.
Gen. Smith Carrying Ball.
With the situation in Berlin get
ting worse all the time, Gen. Smith
was reported to have advanced the
suggestion that something should be
done on the highest level. The nexi
thing the world knew, he was on his
way to Berlin and London to sell
his idea to the military governors ir
the German city and to the British
and French government representa-
tlves.
AS developments progress, it is
obvious that Gen. Smith, Gen
lSee MOSCOW. Page A-5l