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Evening star., 1949-03-29
Team on Mend /, Hope,
To Pick Up Power as
P|ayoff Progresses
By Bill Fuchs

The Caps will be battling against
time as well as the New York
Knickerbockers tonight when they
tangle with the talented visitors
at 8:45 at the Armory in the first
game of best-tWo-out-o of three
semifinal series in the Basket Ball
Association of America playoffs.
With Freddie Scolari fast recov-
ering from a broken finger, Coach
Red Auerbach reasons that the
longer the Caps remain in the
running the better chance they
have of getting him back in uni
form. If the Washington five sur
wives the semiflnal it should have
all but Bob Feerick ready to play
at least toward the end of the
seven-game title series between
the Eastern and Western division
winners.
At the moment, however, big
Jack Nichols, 6-foot-7 rookie,
seems to be a key man in the
clubs hopes. The work of veter-
ans Bones Mckinney and Kleggie
Hermsen can't be overlooked, but
Auerbach frankly says if Nichols
hadn't come along when he did
the Caps would be buying their
way into the playoffs.
Zunic Looks Ready to Help.
Matt Zunic, who injured his
ankle last week. seems to be rum
ming as we'll as ever and Scolari
was hitting the hoop from all
angles in last nights workout. If
they get back into action the
District dribblers will be tough to
beat.
The. New York combination of
Carl Braun. John Palmer and Ray
Lumpp figures to cause trouble
tonight. Lump. obtained from
Indianapolis earlier in the season.
sparked the Knicks to three con-
secutive wins over the Caps after
the latter had won three in a row
from Joe Lapchick's squad. He's
carrying a 1927 scoring average
at the moment.
The second game of the current
series is scheduled for Madison
Square Garden Thursday night
and third, if necessary. will be
played at the Armory here Sat-
urday.
Lakers After Second Win.
Meanwhile, the Minneapolis
Lakers will be cunning for their
second consecutive playoff win
over the Rochester Royals tonight
at St. Paul. The Lakers won the
opener last Sunday. 80 to 79, at
Rochester and could end the series
tonight. The game is being played
at St. Paul because the Lakers'
home court is not available.
Should Rochester win. the clubs
will return to the Royals domain
Friday for the windup.
.Uline Arena officials have char
tered special plane to take fans
to the New York game Thursday
night The plane will leave Wash
ingtoa at 6 pm. and return I'M
m nefiia te1y after the game.
Evening star., 1949-03-29
Yonks' Bonus HurIer Impressive; Behmon at Peak

Cincinnati Reds take on the Bos-
ton Braves at Bradentown. Kent
Peterson is scheduled to finish.
Lively has been about the hot
test pitching package in the Reds
camp thus far. A 24-year-old
Highlander, he won IS and lost
4 with Tulsa last year. Mem
bers of the squad spent yesterday
resting, playing golf or fishing.
Evening star., 1949-03-29

White Sox. He had singled in
the seventh when he was struck
on the head by a line drive from
the bat Of teammate Les Flem-
ing. The smack kayoed Kiner.
but he revived quickly and said
he was okay. He was resting to-
day.
SARASOTA, Fla.-Mel Parnell
is lost to the Boston Red Sox
pitching corps for the rest of the
clubs spring training stay here.
The left handed hurler was
struck by a liner off the bat Of
Rookie Walt Dropo during batting
drill. Parnell's right ankle was not
broken but the stitches of the
ball were impressed on the flesh.
He was ordered to take things
easy and report back to physi-
clans Monday.
CLEARWATER, Fla.-Manager
Eddie Sawyer Of the Philadelphia
Phillies is hopeful the result of
yesterdays game against the New
York Yanks is an indication of
things to come.
Winning, 7-3. the Phils put on
their best display of hitting this
spring, Bob Porterfield, one of
the Yanks' right-handed aces. had
pitched IL scoreless innings un-
til he faced the Phils.
Sawyer's boys socked him fof
two home runs, two triples, two
doubles and three singles for a
total Of 81 bases in four innings.
BURBANK, Calf. - The St.
Louis Browns broke camp yester-
day and headed east on the first
leg OF their journey home. They
are scheduled to play the New
York Giants in Phoenix today
followed by 10 games with the
Chicago Cubs.
TAMPA, Fla.-Red Lively, who
has given UP only six hits and
two runs In IA innings thus far
will 60. six innings today as the
Evening star., 1949-03-29
Nov All Fans Need Is Good
Team for Mats New Park

longer will you be gazing at out
field fences cluttered up with q
conglomeration of advertising
signs. The right-fleld fence now
is Just an expanse Of dark green
broken only by the scoreboard.
Only blurbs in the park are for the
cigarette firm which has the tele-
vision, radio and other advertising
concessions this year. They con-
sist OF a sign atop the left-field
-bleachers and two replicas of ciga-
rette packages above the right
field wall, l.,t':f . an
That expanse Of green not only
is restful on the customers eyes
but also gives the hitters q good.
solid background behind the
pitcher. In all honesty. though.
it must be reported that the no
advertising move wasn't dictated
entirely by desire to make it easy
for the fans and players. The
television-radio people having
paid a goodly sum for rights to
air the games this year were In
no mood also to put out a lot of
competing advertising over video.
Whenever their cameras chased a
fly ball into the outfield they
also picked UP the word about
somebody's boneless hot dogs,
somebody else's soda pop. and so
on. But not this year. The video
viewers will get load Of smokes
and nothing else.
Griffith Stadium really does look
good this year with several other
Improvements, due to be ready by
opening day. All aren't for the
customers benefit, but>they'll help
in more efficient operation Of the
plant.
Cost Placed Near S100,O 900.
Visiting players get a real breal
with a new clubhouse, dressing
room and runway from their dug
out. No longer will they have te
share the same runway with
Washington players and be ex-
posed to boos and catcalls from
Washington's highly partisan fan
dom as they cross the field to and
from their dugout.
Other building improvements
can be noted right inside the
main gate. where the Office for the
concession people has been re-
modelled and a new maintenance
building and toolroom built. Both
are painted the same yellow cream
color as the other Office buildings
around the stadium that blends
so we'll with the new green paint
on the stadium walls.
The modernization program is
costing the club, officials estimate
upward of 100000.
And with the prettying up proc
ess, all that will be needed to
assure a good baseball year here
about is for Joe Kuhel to come
up from Florida with q hustling
aggregation of diamond perform
erS,
Evening star., 1949-03-29
Eddie Mayo Is Named
Manager of Toledo
By the Assoeiotsd Press

TOLEDO, Ohio, Mar. 29.-Ed-
die Mayo. veteran inf1elder of the
Detroit Tigers, today was named
playing manager of the Toledo
Mud Hens of the American As
sociation. replacing CNemo) Lei
bold. who has been ordered to
return to his Detroit home for
a physical checkup.
Evening star., 1949-03-29
Sneod Takes Greensboro Oper
When He Outputs Mongrun

mount Forest Country Club. A
gallery of more than 1000 was
on hand to watch Snead become
the first three time winner in
Greensboro history.
Sammy pocketed $4,000 for his
first tournament victory of the
season and moved up to fifth
place in the years money list with
$6.360.83. Mangrum's 81 400 rum
nerup purse sent him to the top
with $8,607.50. Cary Middlecoff
of Memphis is No. 2 with 1926. .66.
Evening star., 1949-03-29
Exhibition Baseball
BY tns Associated Press

Games Today.
At Lakeland, Fla.-Washinston tAo W.
At Sarasota, Fla.-Louisville "a. Az vs..
Boston tA).
At San Bernardino. Calif.-chicaso (A.)
AT sueson. Ariz.-chicaso CNJ vs.. cieve-
At ST. Petersburs. Fla.-New York A)
vs. ST. ,1f Louis .nd.1d.,s sEn r,,-p,,,.d.,,n,,
tA.) VS.. Toronto Il. L..
=, At ,Pheenix.> Artist. Louis A3 vs.
At Bradenton. Fla-Cincinnati tND vs.
Boston (N.).
Results Yesterday.
TprcntS q; II. 5: Phila delphis !, -; ; ;;
petreit az; 5; St. LOUIS N2, i,
Pittsbarsh ~. Is: chie.so a.: II,
New York CND. IL; Mexican All-stars
= might Rame).
Cleveland A.), 10; San Diego (P. c. L.
+ might camel,
Evening star., 1949-03-29

Dodgers.
Branch Hickey, president of the Dodgers,
ninbly turned the banishment of Durocher into
a dramatic occasion. day or two before the
opening of the season he completed call to
his old buddy. Shotton. persuaded him to stow
away his fishing gear and pleaded with him to
emerge from retirement just this once.
The heartfelt sympathy of all baseball lovers
was extended to Brothers hickey and Shotton,
particularly to the latter. They'd pictured Burt
or Barney. as he's sometimes caled-as an
old pappy guy who asked nothing more from
life than to be permitted to arise at dawn at
his modest shack at Barlow. Fla, fry up a slice
Evening star., 1949-03-29
Ortiz Fights Davis

HONOLULU. Mar. 20 (P.-
World Bantamweight Champion
Manuel Ortiz Of Ell Centre Calf -,
meets Henry Davis. former De-
troit Negro battler. in q 10-round
overweight fight tonight.
Evening star., 1949-03-29

NEW LOOK PLUS NEW DEALSome ethng has been added at
Grh Stadium this yearsometing designed to make easier
customers and while watching the Mats in
action Above Secretary Edward B. Eynon r points to the
rghted surrounding the scoreboard
indicator hits and At right
the modern comfortable form-ng seats contrasted
chairs (upper all OF which eventu
aly will be replaced Star Staff Photos.
Evening star., 1949-03-29
Gon & Sports Crippled Caps BATTLING Time Face Kcks Tonight
WIN. Lose, or Draw
A Guy Not Exactly Old Poppy
By FRANCIS STANk
star Stai4 Correspondent

VERO BEACH Fla, Mar 29.-When Baseball Commissioner
Happy Chandler decided couple of springs the
dstry presence
named Burt Shoon appointed Of the Brooklyn
Evening star., 1949-03-29
Pitt Adds Grid Coach

PITTSBURGH. Mar. - R1.--
Pitt has appointed John CHECKER
neo, quarterback for the Panther
backfield Of 1898, Is assistant
| backfield coach. ,. o..
Evening star., 1949-03-29


trudge off to a
/ sta tesnan among the big mouth bass
1t doggone shame everybody said old
like Barney Shoon should be disturbed this
and transported from the quiet surroundings of Barlow
the atmosphere of Fatbus whose
players ne didn't know in league full OF strangers
Burt's q Pretty Dopper Fellow
2 Well. this fellow people ikening
Connie Mack out of practice isn't old at
really like
It's true that Connie Mack. a uniform.
But contrast Mack the high collar trousers
shotton immaculate s75 pair of $40 acks and
Brooks has opened
Barlow branch wasn't accdeny purchased by retired bass
fisherman
shotton doesn't look like guy pictures
somehow have managed the
to be Durochers grandfather part
his hair and has tough thin middaged
order his hengs the words of crack like
breakfast cereal encountering Hood of cold milk.
Sure wanted to manage the Dodgers he admits But
with understanding that he'd served his
tence But when Duocher moved to the Giants last nst
job"
But There're Times When He's Tough
shotton his club personally there's minimum
OF orders going down from the top man to the coaches and even
tualy swamped by
flooded his dugou seeking interviews Shoon couldn't
he turned asked his bench the Dodgers had INDUCED in in
field practice.
zotti who sort of missed the point.
snapped shotton in cold, clear voice
1 asked we had warmup
dropping his voice but not much
naudble to anybody in the dugou he added
temporarily that is
Ramazzotti who'd been watching inheld
attention Yes siri he said we've had our practice
They gave 10 II minutes Mr.. Shotton "" -.
Shotton nodded cody ACKNOWLEDGMENT looked /at his
candor and faced the battery OF
fntervwers everything want eows he asked
smiling gentry 80 49, 1'' 81
The Catcher Con PIoy First Bose:
II develoned that somebody wanted to know Sss
going tn try Young Ward being
kid oil played ~ games last and hit 26o
going untested responded shoon but I've
got a first baseman in Gil Hodges.
But catcher protested interviewer Besides. aren't
those fellows until the opens?
concerned" replied Shoon. Hodges is first
alternating, what's with playing Hodges
inches high and weighs 1875 and
! take the grind Gil"
One final question: you think Dodgers will
finish this year?"
think shotton. 1--WE pretty good ball
club respect Cards and all the rest but
think wei win
Can quote you. Burt?" asked spaperman
81 said it. didn't -" snapped Certainly
me-"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-22
A&P SUIT TO BE PRESSED

Washington (LPA) = While the
Anti Trust Division is willing to
cooperate Fundamentally in any
effort to educate the public in
what's in the nations anti-mono-
poly laws, the new "educational'
campaign will have no effect on the
activities of the Justice Dept in
enforcing the antitrust laws, AS
sistant Attorney General Herbert
A. Bergson told the Senate Agri-
culture subcommittee Investigating
food prices. He said that the suit
against APP would result in lower
prices for the housewife, and also
reported that pending suit
against Bowman Dairy of Chicago
involves what committee counsel
Paul Hadlick called "kickbacks"
totalling $355,000 to APP for milk
purchased between July 1912 and
March 1948. 1t is such discrimin-
atory rebates that the Justice Dept
would try to prevent in the future,
Bergson explained, through its
suit to break up the APP empire.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-22
Security Program
Assoiied BY
Business Group

Washington (LPA)-Our defense
program, as now administered, is
"a dangerous force in our society" "
is inefficient, out of balance, over
emphasizes the military, n d
threatens the destruction Of per-
sonal and economic liberties. That
is the conclusion Of the Commit
tee for Economic Development, in
an 80O0-word report entitled "Na-
tional Security and our Individual
Freedom" The CED is composed
Of business men, and its warning is
the most outspoken Of any respon-
sible group since the war.
"We have already given up inn
portant freedoms without adequate
challenge" the report declared
Freedoms unexercised may be
freedoms forfeited" The report at
tackled "the present trend toward
undue secrecy" warned that pub
lie apathy or ignorance could lead
to a garrison-police state, and of
fered a 7-point plan to make sure
of civilian control Of our security
program.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-22
COP And Manners
Remind BiemiIIer
Of Storybook Folk

Milwaukee (LPA)-The Repub-
lican and NAM opponents of the
Fair Deal and the welfare state
remind Rep. Andrew Biemiller 3D..
Wis., of the characters in Lewis
CAROLS Through the Looking
Glass;" he told a meeting of the
Fraternal Order of Eagles here
Dec. /. They're living 10 looking
glass land, where they want to for
ever keep on moving backwards.
Why are these folks so hysterical
over what they call "statism" and
the farewell state," Biemiller
asked? They fear a government
chat can and does recognize that
its obligations are not primarily to
a few industrial giants or to a
handful of their bootlickers," he
said.
eve proudly plead guilty" to
advocating this, the liberal con-
gressman told his audience. "We
gladly agree that the governments
responsibility is to the farmers
not to the cotton kings; to the
storekeepers and shopowners-not
to the president of the APP or
US Steel; to the working men
not to Wall Street"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-22

increase in consumption; extended
medical and social services; and a
higher proportion of high school
and college students. 3.by
Not so long ago Herbert Hoover
was nailed to the cross of public
derision and slander because he
dared to envisage a chicken in
every pot and two cars in every
garage. Today, the prophets of sus-
tanned and unadulterated prosper
ity go all-out by forecasting "the
family-size swimming pool" and
unequalled opportunity to pursue
a multitude of arts, from garden
ing to painting and writing, more
than any people has ever possess
ed."
How long it will take to get to
the new paradise is anybody's
guess. Nature and humanity, orn-
cry and unpredictable as they are,
have way of crossing up the best
plans laid by man. Forces beyond
control turn him more often than
not into slobbering and incom-
prehensible fool. Perhaps that is the
way it was intended to be, and
none of the mental exercises of the
Washington soothsayers will be
able to change it.
There is one item which the
barkers of the American century
have apparently overlooked. An
ample dose of humility, poured into
the cornucopia horn of riches that
are unaccountably ours, ought to
do this nation a great deal of good.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-22
Du Mont Story
DiSproves Claims
OF Big Business

Washington (LPA)-It is still
possible for small, new companies
to get started and compete in Am
erica, the Senate Economic Com
mittee was told Dec. IL by Aller
B. Du Mont. His television manu-.
featuring company has grown from
assets of $500 in 1881 to $22,000,-
COO today.
Du Mont's success story showed
that scientific progress is not con-
fined to the laboratories of giant
corporations, as spokesman for big
business have been asserting. His
company has offered television de-
velopments to the public ahead of
the big companies.
His story demonstrated also that
it is still possible for small, new
companies to get risk capital under
certain conditions. In this case it
was a new field which was not yet
monopolized or dominated by big
companies.
The Du Mont story also demon
strated that, contrary to much of
the testimony of businessmen be-
fore Congressional Committees,
present tax rates do not make it
for small companies to
prosper.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-22
COMMUNISTS LOSE
IN 2 UE LOCALS

Minneapolis OPA) = Clarence
Hathaway, former editor of the
Communist Daily Worker, was de-
feated by right-winger for re-
election as business agent of Local
1139, United Electrical Workers,
393 to 373. The other left-wing
candidates won. Hathaway took
over Communist leadership here in
1916. Harry Westling was defeated
for business agent of UE Local
1138.
Lester LeVoir and Robert Wis
hart, right-wing leaders, won re-
election in Local 1145, Minneapolis
Honeywell, largest local in Mime
sofa.
Douglas Hall, for years attorney
for leftist unions in Minnesota, has
announced he will handle no more
cases for them. He has quit as
counsel for the left-wingers in
Local 1145, in the lefties' legal at
tempts to stop the local from go
ing into the IUE.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-22
JAW Election To
Be Biggest In
History Of NLRB

Detroit (LPA) - The biggest
election in the history of the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board will
be held in 100 General Motors
plants all over the country, on
petition of the United Auto Work
ers, for union shop election
among 265,000 employees.
T. A. Johnstone, director of the
UAW General Motors Department,
has submitted petitions containing
more than 10000 signatures, far
beyond the 30 per cent required
under the Taft Hartley act. "This
election" said Johnstone, twill pro-
vide the people of this country
with another example Of the sheer
idiocy of the law. Not only must
JAW spend an enormous amount
of time and effort on this election,
but the taxpayers will have to bear
a heavy bill for NLRB's expenses
in such huge undertaking all
because some industrialists and
members of Congress were so fool
ish as to believe that unions did not
really represent the true senti-
ments of workers."
In a similar election last June,
Ford workers voted 88,943 for
union security, 124l against.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-22

family of one person to $1,000 to
$4400 for family of six persons.
Only the single person family
could live decently on $1,000, which
left all the city families among the
100000 below par. He called the
figure $4,000 conservative one for
defining low-income families.
Among the additional steps nee
essary to protect the low-income
families, Tobin said, are:
More adequate unemployment in
surance with additional allowances
for children; more adequate min
imum wage legislation in the
States; more job opportunities and
better old age insurance benefits
for older workers; national health
legislation; Legislation to strength
en- unions and collective bargain
ing.
Blaisdell outlined program not
only for government, but for bust
ness. He said business could make
a real contribution to the problem
of low incomes by passing on the
gains from chronological advance
through higher wages and lower
prices, and by regularizing employ
ment, particularly in the seasonal
industries.
The c o m m re e Departments
great e contribution, Blaisdell
said, was in promoting regional
developments like iva, which he
noted has shown more economic
progress than the rest of the coun-
try.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-22
Trumdn's S Cabinet Outlines
Aid To Low-Income Fumilies

Washington (LPA)-In one of
the most important Congressional
! hearings for many years, the Tru-
man Administration has thrown its
full resources into a battle to help
the nations 100000 families
making less than $4,000 a year.
Secretary of Labor Tobin, Assis-
tant Secretary of Commerce Blais-
dell, and Acting Federal Security
Administrator Thurston carried the
ball for the Administration in hear
ings before Senator John Spark
mans Cd, Ala.) subcommittee of
the Joint Congressional Economic
Committee.
Tobin dramatized the plight of
the 100000 families and 6,000,-
600 individuals living on less than
$1,000 a year by noting that spec
ial study last year by the Bureau
of Labor Statistics showed it cost
a family of four from $4,000 to
$345O to live modestly in big city
today. A large number of the 10,-
100000 families concerned live in
such cities.
Blaisdell and Tobin both testified
that the main attack on poverty is
through maintaining a high and
expanding national economy as
charted by the full employment
law. But they both called for addi-
tional supplemental measures, most
of them already a part of Presi-
dent Truman's Fair Deal program.
This seemed to infuriate Rep.
Robert Rich OR, Pa.) a. member of
the committee. He asked how the
government could help the small
families if the government contin-
ued to have deficits and went broke.
He accused Blaisdell of advocating
continued deficit financing.
Blaisdell replied that whether he
favored deficit financing depended
upon the conditions. He noted that
Congress (the Republican S0th)
had created the deficit by cutting
taxes at time when he opposed
such action. Now, he said, he would
prefer a balanced budget, but
whether it could be achieved in the
light of the demands on govern
ment here and abroad he could not
say.
Sparkman denied Blaisdell had
advocated continued deficit spend
ing. Rich insisted he had. Blaisdell
flatly contradicted the Congress
man, asserting: 81 have not"
Senator Flanders OR, N.H), a
more moderate Republican, noted
that Secretary Sawyer had been
quoted as being on Rich's side of
the fence on deficit financing. Rich
asked whether the Administration
would carry out Sawyer's views.
Sparkman reminded him that was
up to Congress, not the President.
! Tobin presented the committee
with statistics on the estimated
cost of modest living for families
of various sizes in big cities. 1t
varied from $500 to $500 for a