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Evening star., 1949-02-02
Murray, AceC eager.
Is Lost to erps

Bob Murray, the University of
Maryland's 6-foot-5 starting GEN.
ter, will be lost to the team for
the Terps' last 10 games because
Of scholastic deficiencies. it was
announced today. Murray played
high school basket ball with
Tech.
The lanky sophomore, a native
of California, had scored ia
points to date, and as the tallest
regular on the squad was valu-
able man off the backboards. His
loss practically kills Maryland's
hopes of qualifying for the South
ern Conference tournament next
month.
Murray was with the Terps one
year before his Army service. Lee
Brawley probably will take Muir
rays place in the starting lineup
against Cincinnati tonight on the
Ohioans' court.
Evening star., 1949-02-02
Tigers Have Signed 29
But Hutchinson Ba|ks
Over $4,000 Salary
By the Associofed Press

DETROIT, Feb. 2.-The Detroit
Tigers ran into another balk today
as they counted four more signed
contracts in and 20 players in the
fold for 1949. :
The balk was by Freddie Hutchin-
son, 29-year- -old right-handed pitch
er, who refused to sign for the same
SIS, 900 salary he is believed to have
drawn last season.
Hutchinson barely missed being
a holdout last spring when he came
to terms less than a week prior to
the opening of training.
Hutch, bothered most Of the sea-
son with arm trouble, won 13 games
and lost II last year.
Hutchinson thus moved into COM
pany with Outfielder Walter Hoot)
Evers, First Baseman George Vico
and Rookie Pitcher Lou Kretlow,
who expressed dissatisfaction with
the clubs first offers.
They were among 10 Tigers who
haven't yet signed.
Signed contracts of four others
arrived yesterday, including In
fielder Eddie Lake, who held out a
month last year and missed most
of the clubs Florida training.
Lakes 1949 salary is estimated at
SIS, 900, approximately the same as
last year.
Others accepting terms were Util-
ity Man Jimmy outlaw, Rookie Out
fielder Johnny Creel and Rookie
Second Baseman Bob Mavis.
Creel batted .329 last year for
Detroit's Williamsport farm In the
Eastern League and Mavis hit .309
at Little Rock in the Southern AS
sociation.
Evening star., 1949-02-02
BY the Associated Press


LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2.-The
thoroughbred race horse empire
that Louis B. Mayer spent 10 years
and millions of dollars to develop
Is no more.
Ali that remains is herd OF
about so yearlings to be auctioned
later this year.
Sale of the movieman's 504-acre
breeding farm at Perris, Calf, for
q price estimated at more than
s1,000,00O yesterday was the last
major step in the breakup of the
Mayer racing realm, started In 1888.
Buyers of the Perris farm were
Ellsworth M. Statler, son OF the
founder of the Statler hotel system,
and Mrs. Meredith Howard Hairless,
former Ziegfeld Follies girl and
wife of former Representative Rich
ard F. Hairless of Phoenix, Ariz.,
and Washington, .. c.
Statler, a horseman of long ex-
perience, has a cattle and horse
ranch at Yarnell, Ariz., near
Phoenix, and formerly owned show
horse ranch at San Diego, Calf.
Some of his horses will be moved
from Arizona to the Perris Farm.
His longtime ranch manager,
Glenn o. Perkins, has been named
resident manager and already is at
Perris.
MIS-. Hairless is president of the
United Nations Club in Washington
and for five years was radio COM
mentator. In 1927 as Meredith How
ard she and her identical twin Vir-
ginia were a single entry" from
Tulsa, Okla, in the Atlantic City
beauty contests. A Follies. contract
followed.
She and Hairless, who after siz
Evening star., 1949-02-02
Long Island Five Wins
On Far Western Trip;
|3Down and ; 10 Go
BY the Assoeiatsd Prsss

Long Island University's basket
ball quintet is cleaning up on It's
Far West tour.
Whipped previously by Duquesne,
Muhlenberg, Bowling Green, Butler,
Oklahoma Aggies, st. Louis and
Western Kentucky, L. I. U. is un-
beaten against Pacific Coast oppo-
nents.
The blackbirds defeated Oregon
on Friday and Saturday and last
night took Santa Clara, 10 to 81.
for its third straight triumph 5000
miles from home.
The game was the feature Of a
double-header at the San Francisco
Cow Palace and followed San Frar-
cisco's 47-38 victory over st. Mary's
of California. L. I. U. led at tt"
half, 36-32, then pulled away to q
63-51 advantage in the second half.
Evening star., 1949-02-02
BIackwood ,Vinci Face
In Turner Main Bout
BY the Associated Press

A middleweight fight again takes
top billing at Turner's Arena Mon
day night, with Joe Blackwood, one
time. Bostonian now making his
home here, taking on Chet Vinci, a
former marine fighting out of Utica,
N. Y.
Blackwood moved to Washington
several months ago with a pocket
full of clippings telling of successes
in Northern rings. He lived up to
those notices in his first fight here
when he smashed out win over
Ken Stribling and followed by chill
ing Al Wright in two heats.
Vinci also is a crowd pleaser
according to his notices. He's licked
George (Sonny) Horne and kayoed
Eddie Smith and has fought Joe
Rindone and Tony Janiro.
Evening star., 1949-02-02
Ashburn, Rookie
Of f7948, Woitkus
Sian With PhiIs
BY the Associoted Press

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2.-The
National Leagues Philadelphia Phil
lies have signed Outfielder Richie
Ashburn and First Baseman Eddie
Watkins to one-year contracts.
Terms were not disclosed. The
Phils now have IL players under
contract for l949.
Ashburn declined a $500 offer
last week, insisting he would settle
for nothing less than $4,000. He
was voted the rookie of the year"
in 1948 by the Sporting News.
Watkins was purchased from the
Chicago Cubs several months ago.
Evening star., 1949-02-02
Caps Sag on Tour Points Up
BAA|s Great Power in West

expense of Eastern rivals whom they
have whipped in 10 of % games.
Washington has been beaten by Bal
timore three times and Boston once,
but the other Eastern teams are still
looking for victory over the Caps.
Eevry team in the West except
Rochester has won over Washing
ton at least once, and the Royals
have three more games to make it.
Last night was the second time
the Jets have won over Washing
ton. The first victory came in early
December, when the Caps were
riding high on the crest of a Is
game winning streak.
At first the Caps looked as if they
were going to crush the Jets, run
ming up an early 22-3 lead and
holding a 27-l0 command at the
end of the first period. The Caps
began to fold, however. in the sec
ond period, which ended with the
Jets trailing by 40-34. The Jets
went ahead, 1914, after five min
utes Of the second half and Wash
ington never caught up.
Washingtons Freddie Scolari put
in nine field goals and two fouls to
lead the scoring at 20 points. Bob
Feerick, who registered II points,
and Bones Mckinney, who collect
ed 13. mustered only six points be-
tween them the last three sessions.
The Philadelphia Warriors hand
ed the Providence Steamrollers
their 33d loss in Al games, 1886,
at Philadelphia. Warrior Joe Fulks
scored % points to recapture the
individual point race from Mime
apolis' George Mikan.
A crowd of 10,091 fans-the larg-
est gathering ever to see a BAA
game in New England, watched
Rochester move into sole possession
Of the Western Division lead with
a 1868 victory over the Celtics in
Boston.
Evening star., 1949-02-02
Special Dispotch 10 The Siar

CHICAGO, Feb. 2.-The Wash
ington Caps, power of the Eastern
Division of the Basket Ball Associa-
ton of America, are finding the
Western loop too tough for comfort
and, after playing the Indianapolis
Jets here tonight and the Bombers
in st. Louis tomorrow night, will
return to Washington with a sigh
of relief. The Caps return to the
home court against the New York
Knickerbockers Saturday night.
The Caps-Jets game tonight is
part of twin bill at the stadium
Chicago and Baltimore meet in the
other game. 1t will be the last
meeting of the season between
Washington and Indianapolis. The
two clubs have split four games.
Last nights 1860 loss to the Jets
in Indianapolis was the fourth in a
row for Washington, regarded in
Eastern circles as the power of the
BAA. The Caps are virtually as
sured of spot in the championship
playoffs, but when the hardwoods
have been cleared for the season
some observers believe a Western
circuit club will be champion.
Western Division clubs have
whipped Eastern loop opponents So
times, while bowling "A, for a .58s
mark. The Caps, with a III rec
ord, are the only Eastern team to
own an advantage over their West
ern foes. New York and Baltimore
each have split 18 games against
teams in the Western circuit.
In games against Eastern foes
Chicago has 1874 record, Roches-
ter, 1875, and Minneapolis and st.
Louis, each 11-6. Only Fort Wayne
GID and Indianapolis Glib show
losing records.
The Caps are entrenched COM
fortably atop their division, but
have attained that position at the
Evening star., 1949-02-02
New Boss Of Hornets
Promises a Winner
For Chicago Fans
BY the Associofsd Press

CHICAGO, Feb. flames c.
Thompson, 52-year-old owner OF the
Chicago Opera Building, has entered
the pro football picture as new
owner Of the Chicago Hornets with
his hand in his pocket"
Terming himself as the well
heeled" major stockholder of the
Hornets-formerly the Rockets
Thompson has backed the ALL
America Conference club with
100000.
And there's more If needed" he
said. "The 100000 for operation
In the 1949 Is a minimum. Our
objective is to field q team COM
pletely acceptable and worthy for
Chicago football fans. Interests Of
major league football will be served
best through continuance of a two
league system"
Drop Million in Three Years.
The Rockets of the last three
years have dropped nearly 81 900 900
in trying for city patronage against
the Bears and Cardinals of the
National League.
The square-shouldered, personable
Thompson also is a director Of the
Chicago National Bank, was 1947
chairman of the Chicago Olympic
Committee, former sponsor of horse
shows and an avid hockey fan.
"My interest in football is just
that of any American interested in
sports" he explained. But now
that I'm in, we're out to win. The
new name of Hornets means We'll
carry a sting. And In Red Flaherty
who in 13 years of pro football has
participated in 10 championship
games-we feel we have the best
coach in the business. He will be in
supreme command"
Thompson's two associates in the
venture are Irwin Rocks, counsel for
the Chicago Motor Coach Co., and
Lee A. Freeman, public utility attor-
ney of Chicago and Washington.
Fourth Group Of Owners.
The group represents the fourth
set of owners for the Chicago AAC
entry in as many years. And Fla
nerty becomes No. in a line of
coaches. Dick Hanley, who coached
the club in its 1916 inaugural sea-
son, yesterday filed suit in Superior
Court for $38,750 in back pay. Ed
McKeever, whose 1948 Rockets won
only one game in IA, has claim of
more than $4,000. on his Rocket
contract which has two years to go.
In the greatest turnover Of per-
sonnel in pro football history, the
Hornets will have so Brooklyn and
Rocket carry-over players as we'll
as some rs draft list prospects from
both clubs.
Among those siphoned from the
Dodgers. who merged with the New
York Yankees, were Halfbacks Bob
Chappuis and Bob Hoernschmeyer
Ends Hank Foldberg. Dan Edwards
and Max Morris and Center George
| Strohmeyer.
Evening star., 1949-02-02

he keeps you up late at night and
gets you up early next morning on
his regular WMAL record show. In
case you missed him he comes back
at 6:25 pm. and harps on varied
sports for 5 minutes.
Washington must be blessed with
ter-than-average television an
nouncers, however, for Gibbons not
only won the poll without q single
stuffed ballot, but Bob Wolff
Ray Michael and Bill Brundige got
a nice shower of votes. Wolff won
the first poll conducted last sum-
mer.-L. F. A.
Evening star., 1949-02-02
Mickey Vernon Slated
For Appendectomy
BY the Associoted Prass

CHESTER, Pa, Feb. 2.-Mickev
Vernon, slated to hold down first
base for the Cleveland Indians this
year. was to undergo an ap-
pendectomy today.
Indians officials In Cleveland said
he was expected to be able to report
for spring training on schedule
next month.
Evening star., 1949-02-02
Boston Yonks Now Bulldog!
As Grid Knots UntonoIe

NEW YORK, Feb. 2 LP).-A few
more knots were united yesterday
in New York's complicated profess
sional football setup.
The Brooklyn players who became
surplus when the New York Yankees
merged with the Dodgers in the
All-America Conference were dealt
(See FOOTBALL. Page A-I70
Evening star., 1949-02-02

was IIIISIlEU.
Smuggy wasn't in the ring with much fighter,
but Ken Strib!ing never had an uneasy moment
He won at least 9 of the 10 rounds and that he
began to measure Hursey early as the opening
minute is less tribute to Smuggys staying powers
than criterion of Stribling's punching powers
Hursey, at % years of age, showed less than
he had two years ago, when he fought Danny Kap-
ilow twice at the ball park and drew something
like $5500O. There must be reason for such to-
boganning and the finger would seem to point to
the men who have been guiding these youngsters.
They don't teach EN- anything.
They invariably find the Hurseys and Hans
burys and Mamakoses and Aaron Perrys and Bee
Bee Washingtons in the boys clubs and dump 'em
Evening star., 1949-02-02
Banquet for Gridders

The 12O-pound football team Of
the Police Boys Club of the fourth
precinct, which won the city cham
pionship, was honored last night at
a banquet in its clubhouse, Sixth
and I streets S.W.
Evening star., 1949-02-02
Laundry Quint Wins

Genes Laundry defeated Airing
ton Forest Vikings, $3.50. last night
in an Arlington Recreation League
basket ball game behind 17-point
scoring from AL Martin and Tom
Supple.
Evening star., 1949-02-02

Three years ago-Louise Suggs
of Lithia Springs, Ga, won the
Helen Lee Doherty golf tour
nament at Miami.
Evening star., 1949-02-02
Win, Lose, or Draw, i,
Same Sordid Pottern, Only Worse
BY FRANCIS sTANN

Why that fstfghters in this town washed
early in their careers? Like Smuggy ursey couple
of he wasn't bad mddleweigh making due al
lowance for nexpence the other night
Evening star., 1949-02-02
The Older Pues Lasted Longer

beating usually starts the downhl slide Perry
beating by Henry Armstrong Hursey got
pasered Tommy that finished him. Mamakos took
before he Quit In the of Hursey and
Mmako they nothing recommend them except duraoty
courage. Neither could punch
Local fighters
Petey Sarron old
still and fighting on top cards and in
connection maybe Coldie Ahearn has point
maintains the old AEF featherweigh champ who
getting his brains scrambled for
that matter crbng anybody ee Il see these fighters today
in and hold my head fIH
what happens continues Ahearn "A Kid comes INTO
in that ring right of the bat
punching shadow boxing
should teach him how to fent or to slip
punch
Evening star., 1949-02-02
Aheorn Suys It's q Philosophy

He nothing that should pull the
gloves fight fight He wants to put
down bang for maybe six rounds Then
he behind the wheel OF
bought his first main bout and take his friends
riding
hose guys gonna long that But can't
anything They listen They like it when
calls him because he never takes backward
STEP
fighter backward step is I
of beating than OF these
a fighters had different philosophy
They pracced feinng skipped punched the
finished they stuck around the joint
watched the figuring they might learn trick
Evening star., 1949-02-02

young strong and eager they they have ability
to go with the rest.
But or tempo stepped The nationally
fighters experienced punhng down and tee of
Evening star., 1949-02-02
Boxing Commissions Invariably Are Lote

Ahearn might have all right there Also ne might nave let
of lightly the of these fighters who obviously aren't gong
fighters who tagged
back There Jim Braddock of course and
Wacott but must not be
overlooked they heavwehts operating during eras in which
opposition deplorably low.
With kid Hursey tougher. middleweigh and
this land than heavyweigh
right hand and Walcotts forgotten
m boxing than Hursey will ever know.
who's handling Hursey. but he'd be doing the guy
placing the voluntarily retired list and not trying
last nickel from a washed-up willing
commissions WILL Only the commissions
invsr ably tOO
Evening star., 1949-07-13

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Evening star., 1949-09-23
British Rural Doctors
Ask Big Pay Increase
BY the Associated Press

| LONDON. Sept. 23.-Country
doctors under Britain's socialized
medicine scheme asked for a
whopping raise today.
A deputation from the British
Medical Association called at the
Ministry of Health to present the
claim.
The BMA asked for another
$500, 900 ($46, ,900,0 ,000) a year
for rural practitioners with few
patients.
The money would 60 into the
ministry's pool-now estimated at
f37, 1926, 900 ts105.910, ,00O a year
for paying general practitioners.
But 1t would be earmarked for
country practices only. Many
doctors with such practices are
having a hard time making a
living now. the BMA says.
The reason is that doctors get
paid according to the number of
patients they have-1s shillings
($2.52) per year per patient-plus
some extras.
The ministry's reaction to the
fee proposal was not Immediately
disclosed. Nor were exact details
Of the BNA request, including the
number of practitioners who
would benefit,
Evening star., 1949-09-23
3 New York DRUGGISTS
Arrested in Drive on
Sale Of Sleeping Pills
By the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 23.-Eight
New York druggists were under
arrest today as State and city
authorities pressed drive against
sale Of sleeping pills without pre-
scriptions.
The breakdown was spurred by
mounting death toll from over
doses Of sleeping potions.
Two of the eight druggists
booked on charges yesterday were
said to have done lucrative busi-
ness in sleeping tablets among
persons in the Broadway theatre
cal district.
At the request of the Health
Department, police said, special
subsection of the narcotics squad
for more than two months has
been checking on reported viola
tions at 200 of the city's 1000
drugstores.
Jerome Trichter, assistant health
commissioner, working with police
in the drive. said. "barbiturates
are closely tied to the problem of
narcotic control"
1T has been our experience,
he added. that drug addicts Sc
cure barbiturates in order to sus-
tain themselves when they cannot
get their regular supply of mar
cotics."
Mr.. Trichter said use of the
sleeping pills. without medical
supervision. contributes to crime
and accidents because it allays
fears and reduces inhibitions."
The department reported that
there were 661 cases last year of
poisoning from overdoses of the
pills, and 500 cases so far this
year.
The death toll from such over
doses showed a steady climb from
1856 in 1945 to 200 in 1948, the
department said.
State Attorney General Ma
thaniel Goldstein is handling
prosecutions in the drive, the first
major breakdown under a State
barbiturate law passed in 1946.
1t provides a one-year prison
sentence. a $500 fine, or both, for
selling barbiturates without q
physicians prescription.
Evening star., 1949-09-23
Three 10 Face Grand Jury
In $1,000 Cigarette Theft

Three men accused of looting a
Peoples Drug Stores warehouse of
$4,000 worth of cigarettes have
been ordered to face the grand
jury on housebreaking charges.
All appeared before United
States Commissioner Cyril S.
Lawrence yesterday. They are
John c. Byrd, Al, of the first
Evening star., 1949-09-23

block of P street NE, placed un-
der $4,000 bond; Walter Hatcher
"a, of the first block of o street
NE, and Fred Owens, %. of the
1900 block of Emerson street NE,
under $500 bond each.
Detective work by an alert cab
driver led to their arrest soon
after the September IL burglary.
Already under 81 500 bond await
ing the grand jury in the same
case is James Taylor, jr.. 81, of
the first block of P street NE.
All the defendants are colored.
Evening star., 1949-09-23

ington Automotive Trade Associa-
ton and the District Inter-
Industry Highway Safety Com
mittee. The new cars are the
gift of the same organizations.
The presentation will be made
by Roy Devereaux of the indus
try committee. School Supt. Ho-
bart M. Corning will receive the
cars on behalf of the schools.
Evening star., 1949-09-23
Two Dua|. Control Autos
To Be Presented 10 Schools

Two automobiles equipped with
dual-control were to be presented
to the District schools at Q pm.
today for training students.
The two cars will replace the
ones given last year by the Wash
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-26
FALL MY SONS" IS STARTING SUNDAY,
 CAPITOL THEATRE

Universal l-Internationars film version of All My Sons," adapted from the New York Critics Circle
 prize play, will open Sunday at the Capitol.
 Edward G. Robinson and Burt Lancaster are costarred as father and son in the powerful drama of an American family caught in the aftermath of wartime manufactur- ing scandal
 A new romantic team is intro
 duced in the joining of Lancaster with Louisa Horton, stage actress
 making her film debut. Miss Eor-
 ton brings fresh kind of glamor to the screen that has intrigued early reviewers of the picture. Mady Christians, noted Broadway star, appears as Robinsons wife. , Howard Duff and Lloyd Cough, the fight promoter of Body and Soul ' are also in the cast and Arlene
 Francis, stage and radio personality,
 makes her screen debut in the film. The action takes place in a small community where Robinson operates
 a stove factory which, during the
 war, turned out airplane engines and parts. His sale of defective
 equipment at that time is discovered
 later hy his son, an ex-G.I
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-26
PROTESTANT
 MAKES PLEA
 OF GUILTY
(By The Associated Press)

(By The Associated Press)
 The main defendant in the Bull garian Communits trial of IS Prot estant churchmen pleaded guilty to- day to espionage and treason.
 He is the Rev Vassil c. ziapkov, Congregational church pastor and representative of the United Evan gelical churches. The heads of the Methodist and Baptist churches in Bulgaria previously had denounced themselves at length in similar pleas.
 Palmiro Togliatti, head of the Italian Communist party, said in an interview the Italian people would have the duty to aid in the most efficient way" any Russian army which might be required to pursue 'an aggressor" on Italian soil.
 His utterance went further than that of French Communist leader Maurice Theorez Tuesday Theor- ez said French commies would well come Russian troops should they drive an enemy onto French soil. The French Chamber of Deputies condemned the statement.
 French police arrested three pro- Communist newsmen and a defense plant draftsman and accused them of prying into defense secrets.
 The Rev. Yanko Ivanov, head of the Methodist church in Bulgaria and one of IS Protestant clergy men on trial for treason, spying and black market dealing, con- cluded seven hours of self-denun- citation in Sofia. He asserted he had spied for years for the British and Americans.
 The Bulgarian Baptist church head, Nikola Naumov, opened the trial yesterday with similar con- fession. He denounced himself too, and said "the time of Communism has come, new world is being created"