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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-21
Two Enlist in Air Force

Announcement Of the enlistment of
two Friendsville youths in the army
air force, and the recall of one air
force reserve from Gormania, was
made by T/Sgt. George F. Kirby,
local recruiter, yesterday.
The two FiieGdsville youths en-
listed for four years, unass ipned, as
privates, and were forwarded to
Lakeland air force base San Antonio,
Tex, to undergo basic training. They
are Leroy Jr Robinson, 81, and Will
liam Dale Frazee, 30
Robinson is son Of Leroy Robin
son, Pittsburgh, Pa, and Mrs. Paul
inc White, Friendsville. Prior to en-
listment he was a student and a
graduate Of Friendsville High in 40.
Frazee is son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Oliver Bud Frazee, Friendsville. He
attended Friendsvile schools and
prior to enlistment was employed as
a timberman. Neither one has had
previous service.
Air force headquarters announced
the recall Of Pfc. David L. Lee, re-
serve, of Gormania, W. Va, as of
January II. Pfc. Lee has been or
dercd to report to the personnel
processing squadron, FIT. Dix, N. j.,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-21

birthday dinner held Sunday, Dccem-
Der 18th at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Glen Ashby, at Corinth, w. Va.
Those present were Mr.. and Mrs.
Cleve Ashby and Mrs. Norma Jean
Wengard, Grantsville; Mrs. Lennie
FELTON,, Mrs. Charles Johnson, Terra
Alta, W. Va; Mr.. and Mrs. Burton
Ashby, Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Ashby and
family, Crellin; and Mr. and Mrs.
Glen Ashby.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-21
Triplets Celebrate Birthday

Mr. Lee Ashby, Mr. Burton .>shby
and Mr.. Glen Ashby, triplet sons Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Cleve Ashby, Grants
villel, were the honored guests at a
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-21
Seal Sale Reported

The receipts in Garrett county
from the sale Of Christmas seals have
totaled $1,015.30 to date, it was re-
ported this morning by Prentiss Por-
ter, Friendsville, treasurer of the Gar
rett County tuberculosis and Health
association.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-21

and upon completion of processing
will be assigned to a beacon unit at
Langley air force base in Virginia
Evening star., 1950-12-12
Extra Days Provided
So Weather Can't
Decide AL Pennont
BY the Associated Press

ST. PETERSBURG. Fla, Dec.
12.-The American League has
eliminated any possibility of a
pennant being won, or lost
through a clubs failure to play
out the full schedule because of
rain or any other "act of God"
Although only once has a pen
nant been decided by the weather,
baseball men long have agitated
that open dates be provided for
unplayed games. Under the Amer
lean League plan. adopted unani-
mously. the president could assign
two extra days for playing off any
postponed contests which might
affect the championship.
The resolution was submitted by
the Yankees, who went to the final
day before winning in 1949. Had
the last two games been rained
out. the Red Sox would have won
the pennant.
Back in 1908, Detroit won with
q 90-63 mark, while Cleveland was
second with 90-64. One of the
Tfgers' games with Washington
was never played.
Evening star., 1950-12-12

Birdie Tebbetts Barring demands by the armed
they still would have ned composed Walt Dropo
Bobby Doerr, Boudreau and either Peky Stephens
deal involving Williams has been a for many
months but it would unlikely The big won't
popularity contests his club but the fact
that he is the most dynamic personality in the American
League He's Mr. Color and therefore box office Besides
there's serious doubt to whether the Tigers for whom he's
believed anxious to play would be willing to risk their esprit
by giving such Vic Wertz pitcher and catcher
for high -saaried prima donna
DESPITE THE EXPECTED LOSS of Chuck stobbs to the
armed forces ONei figures to have fair sort of pitching
staff going him April acquisition Scarbor
ough and Wight Together they games while
pitching for inferior clubs Ray having with the Na
and with Bostons to back them they should be really
big winners
Wight could we'll be the prize package landed by
sox. He's left-hander only % years DID, with ball.
curve and the best pcko motion in the majors with
reluctance that the Yankees traded him to the White sox
February s48 but they thought they needed
pitcher for the coming struggle
The Yankees made fairly good They got Ed Lopat
whose Is them 949 pitching
them to win again last But New abandoned
hopes of reacquiring Wight until last Sundays
deal
Now oNein has two southpaws and Wight
not to mention the Wild unpredctabe and drafdefered
Mickey McDermott Then too Steve young
and the veteran Ellis Kinder
balls best relief pitcher permitted
speciality.
IF THERE IS FLY in oNeils ointment it may be the
possible necessity of having to play Billy Goodman his
around ace and batting champion of the American
right field
For three the Red experiment.
ing skinny North Caronan who usually play
body position better than the regular
He plays first base far better than Dropo only
the guy has outht Doerr Peskv and even
Williams when temporarily patrollng their positions.
Now with Right Fielder AL Zarias Chicago
Scarborough exchange, Goodman seemingly regu
lar Joband it couldn't position except
sby shortsop catcher Blys outstanding
in throwing An early injury dating almost back childhood
causes him to throw sdearm and it's right field that
man finally has earned position all his he throw
out fast going from first third on hit
to his domain.
Ironically Red truly strong and un-
derrated arm Williams who plays left switch
to right and Goodman to left ng-perfect
the outfeld, having Dom D Maggie center But it won't
happen. You can get odds on that transfer.
Evening star., 1950-12-12
Cotholic u. Will Play
Bridgewoter Toniqht

Catholic University's high-scor-
ing Cardinals, who averaged 68.5
points in their first four games,
will concentrate on defense to-
night against Bridgewater in an
effort to get back into the win
ming column. Scheduled at $3.50
at Brookland, it is the first of two
Mason-Dixon Conference games
with Virginia opponents this week
for Coach Abe Rosenfeld's team.
Randolph-Macon visits Gu
Thursday night and a pair of
victories would put the Cards over
the 500 mark for the first time
this season.
Sophomore Joe Della Rata is
setting the scoring pace for Gu
with % field goals and as many
foul shots for a 69-point total
Scotty .Cranston has shown an
even sharper eye from the floor
scoring Is field goals, and Rookie
George Hughes, with 81, is right
behind the pair.
But Rosenfield tonight and
Thursday will be counting on his
chief play-maker, Herb Son.
dericker, Jim Balint and Mickey
Trepp to help hold the visitors in
check. Balint has improved in re-
trieving rebounds, while Trepp's
consistent floor play has earned
him the title of Rosenfield' s
sixth" regular.
Evening star., 1950-12-12
Mexican League and Durocher
Gave Chandler Busy Term
BY the Assoeioied Press

ST. PETERSBURG. Dec. 12.-
When A. B. Chandler resigned
from the United States Senate in
the fall of 1945 to become commits
sioner of baseball, he told his COL
leagues he was taking a rain
check" He meant, of course,
that he might be back among
them again some day.
Today it looks as if he might
have called his shot as far as
availability is concerned. Major
league club owners have refused
to renew his sos ,O00-a-year con-
tract. which expires May l. 1852.
But the former Kentucky gov
ernor. successor to the late Kene-
saw Mountain Lands as baseball
czar. has figured in some of base
balls most interesting history.
His term in Office has been
marked by the now famous case of
the Mexican League jumpers, the
Danny Gardella suit and frequent
crackdowns on Leo Durocher
Score Jump to Mexican League.
The Mexican League case pop
ped up shortly after Chandler, a
square little man with a broad
grin, took over baseball's highest
office.
More than a score of players
leaped from organized baseball to
the Mexican League where they
were lured by fat wages. The
list included such standouts as
Max Lanier, Fred Martin and Sal
Maglie,
Evening star., 1950-12-12
International Flavor
Wint, Two Other British Aces
To Run in Stars Track Meet

Arthur Wint, Olympic 400-meter
champion, Macdonald Bailey, fifth
in the Olympic 100-meter sprint,
and Herbert Bannester, one of
England's greatest middle distance
runners have been added to the
list of potential participants for
the Evening Star Games coming
up January 13 at the Armory.
Now competing in New Zealand
and Australia, the three are due
to arrive in the United States the
first week in January in plenty of
time to tuneup for the games and
each has indicated a desire to COM
pete here. It will be their first ap-
pearance in competition before
Washington fans and their pres
ence will add an international
flavor to the games.
Travelling in the same party
Down Under are Jim Gehrdes, for
mer Penn State hurdler, whose
mark of 8.4 seconds for the TO
yard high hurdles was approved
as the American record by the
National AAU here last week; Nal
Evening star., 1950-12-12

meeting Fort Meade in a 7::3C
preliminary.
Temple is unbeaten but virtually
untested in three games. The Josh
Cody-coached Owls romped over
Delaware. Philadelphia Textile
and Muhlenberg. and in the three
games Bill Mlkvy has scored 81
points.
Temple won IA and lost 10 last
year and handed CIV one of its
worst defeats, 66-44. In six games
against Temple, the Colonials have
won two and lost four.
Against N. c. State. GW's five
regulars had 16 fouls called on
them in the first half and that
limited d their aggressiveness
against the deeper Wolfpack
squad. The same five. Ray Adler
Bud Goglin and Art Cerra among
the lettermen and sophs Tex Sill
verman and Bob Edenbaum will,
continue to start for Coach Bill
Reinhart.
Tomorrow night the Colonials
figure to hit the victory column
in Southern Conference play
against Richmond on the Spiders
court.
Evening star., 1950-12-12
ChondIer's S Custer
National League
Trick, Griff Says

Clark Griffith, 81-year-old pres
ident of the Washington Baseball
Club and a supporter of Commits
sioner Chandler ever since he was
inducted in 1945, today drew, a
bead on his favorite target, the
National League, blaming its club
owners for the "disgraceful" oust-
ing of the commissioner.
"It'S mainly a National League
trick" Griffith stated fatty. "The
American League was behind
Chandler. He was doing a great
job and there was no reason for
it,"
Griffith, who remained here to
recuperate from a recent opera
ton and sent his adopted son,
Calvin, to represent him at the st.
Petersburg meeting. said he "felt
ill over the news" He said he
had talked with Joe Cronin of the
Red Spx and Connie Mack of the
AS and they were certain Chand-
ler would be reelected.
"It doesn't set with me-" Gif-
kdth snorted, "but don't know
what we can do about it"
Evening star., 1950-12-12
EsIeeck Is Dismissed
AS sRichmond u. Coach
By the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 12.-The
University of Richmond Athletic
Council announced today that
Karl A. Dick) Esleeck would be
replaced as head football coach
next year.
DR.. James T. Tucker. chairman
of the council, said it had been
decided not to renew Esleeck's S
contract, which expired Decem-
ber l.
The move climaxed widespread
reports that Esleeck would either
quit or resign. The Spiders won
only two of 10 games.
The Richmond News Leader said
that there were reports that NAL
colin U. Pitt would vacate the
athletic dictatorship. Pitt would
take lifetime job to be created
for him as head of Physical Edu-
cation Department or as business
manager of athletics, reports in
dicated.
There also have been reports
that Esleeck's most likely success
sor is Edwin Joel Ed) Merrick,
Coach at Fork Union Military
academy.
Evening star., 1950-12-12
7routnnon No. I Candidate
To Succeed Baseball Gar
By Burton Hawkins
Stor Stoff Correspondent

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, Dec
12.-Major league clubowners
who failed to renew Commission
er A. B. CHappy) Chambers con-
tract and hoped to buy up his
pact for the remaining 1872
months of his seven-year term,
were served notice today by
Chandler that he will bitterly re-
sist a premature ousting.
In a statement to the press
Chandler said, "it is my deter
mination to continue as commits
sioner of baseball until the last
second of my tenure of office
which expires on May /. 1852.
II never have run from a situa-
ton. and certainly I am not dis
posed to retreat from the one now
confronting me-"
The stand of the former United
States Senator from Kentucky
taken latter good nights Sleep
probably will cause the annua,
winter meeting here to be wounc
up in hurry, with the magnates
some indignant over Chandler
Iheave-ho and others disappointed
over his refusal to resign, hurryine
to their home bases.
May Move Up Meeting.
A joint meeting of the club.
owners, with Chandler presiding
originally was scheduled for to.
morrow. Indications were thai
every effort would be made tt
move UP the meeting to this after
noon.
After one trial ballot and two
official ones last night, Chandler
failed to poll sufficient votes 1s
of 16 are necessary for renewal oil
his contract. He originally was
reported by Del Webb, co-owner oil
the Yankees, as having said he
would resign, but later he changed
his mind.
In the wake of the Reputation
OF Chandler. several clubowners
displayed thinly- yelled eagerness
to get onto the business of screen.
ing candidates to succeed him. Ir
early speculation, the name ot
George Trautman, president of the
National Association of Profession
al Baseball Clubs, was the most
prominently mentioned, A re-
Evening star., 1950-12-12

Whitfield. Olympic record holder
in the 800 meters, and Herb Nc
Henley, former Olympic 400-meter
champ and runnerup to Wint in
1948. Present plans call for at
least Gehrdes and possibly all
three of these men to enter The
Star meet.
Herbert Macdonald of the
British Colonial Office has in
formed Star game officials that
he had a letter from Wint assur-
ing him he would come to Wash
ington for the games. Wint prob
ably will run in the Touchdown
Club 600, one of the big attrac-
tions of crowded program. He is
regarded as one of the best judges
of pace and one Of the smoothest
runners in the sport and should
be a top-fight attraction for track
fans.
| Bailey will run in the sprint
series. which is attracting a full
list of best dash men east of the
Mississippi, while Bannester will
! toe the mark for the mile run.
Evening star., 1950-12-12

Spected executive with a rich back
ground in the game, Trautman ap-
parently was conceded the best
chance.
Also mentioned were James A.
Farley, former Postmaster Gen.
eral; Warren Giles, president Of
the Cincinnati Reds, and Ford
Frick, president of the National
League.
Immediate Custer Forbidden.
One anti-Chandlerite, who re-
fused use of his name, said last
night the owners were prepared
to dismiss the commissioner as Of
the moment, but he cited a stipu-
lation that forbids such action be-
fore expiration of his contract.
"We are prepared to pay him
for the remainder of his term
tomorrow" the owner said, "if he
were to resign. That would be
the best thing to do. 1t would
save lot of embarrassment and
pave the way for the search for
"a new commissioner.
1t is believed that strong sup
port from such officials as Clark
Griffith of Washington and WAL
ter o. (Spike) Briggs, jr., of De-
troit may have strengthened
Chambers resolve to stick it out.
His statement. nearly 600 words
long, indicated such a possibility.
The remainder of his release
was as follows:
"A very important fact con-
concerned with the balloting Of
last night appears to have been
overlooked" Chandler said in his
news release.
Cites Support by Nine.
Mine of the 16 clubs of the
major leagues supported me. A
majority of the club owners Of
the National and American
Leagues voted to stand by me, my
administration, and the things for
which I have stood in baseball
and the things which I have &C
complished.
Il have definite and emphatic
responsibilities to baseball. to the
supporting public, counting mil
lions of Americans, to it's achieve
ments and its hopes, not only to
the nine club executives who voted
for me last night, but to the
seven who saw fit to repudiate me.
1T is, after all. fact that when
I was called from the Senate Of
the United States to succeed the
Continued on Page CO, Col. ~
Evening star., 1950-12-12
Senate in DARK, Too!
Congratulations Sent
To Chandler by 26
BY q stoff Correspondent of The stor

~ WIFI $ofteSPoncen1 OF Inc SfQf
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.
Dec. 12-Twenty-six United
States Senators, who may vote
on Capitol Hill but have no
voice in the administration of
baseball, were as badly fooled
as anybody else when their ex-
colleague, A. B. (Happy)
Chandler, was voted out of Of
f1ce as commissioner.
Obviously on the assump-
ton that Chandler was a
cinch to receive a new seven
year contract, they sent him
the following telegram yester-
day morning:
Congratulations on your
fine service to baseball and
the Nation. Success to you in
the years ahead"
Evening star., 1950-12-12

" Chandler plastered a five-year
ban on the recalcitrantS.
One of them, Gardella, former
New York Giant outfielder, con-
tended baseball had no such right
to deprive him of a livelihood. He
filed a 100000 suit against base
ball, charging the sports reserve
clause violated antitrust laws.
Lanier and Martin Also Sue.
Lanier and Martin, former
Cardinals, later filed a similar suit,
asking $2.5 million damages.
(See CHANDLER, Page C-2)
Evening star., 1950-12-12

VIII upward OF 81 gdI1ltS and, WHAT 5 nlOFe,
Boston remains in nice position to make at
least one other fence -mending deal
Joe Cronin and Steve ONeill got couple
of starting pitchers without giving up any
of the three Red Sox whose names were men
toned most prominently in trade talk, mean
ing Vern Stephens, Johnny Pesky and Ted
Williams There is no reason why the Sox
can't swap Stephens or Pesky for still another
pitcher, plus a catcher, or even trade the
temperamental Williams.
More likely, Stephens or Pesky will 60 in
a deal that will bring Boston catcher who
Evening star., 1950-12-12
Belus SmowIey Is Sold
To Bullets by Syracuse
BY the Associoted Press

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Dec. H.
The Syracuse Nationals of the
National Basketball Association
have sold Belus Smawley to the
Baltimore Bullets.
Smawley, 6-foot-2 alumnus of
Appalachian State College, came
to the Mats at the start of the
season from the defunct st. Louis
club, for whom he averaged 1874
points per game for four seasons.
Evening star., 1950-12-12
CIV TO Meet Temple,
|Unbeaten in ) Games,
At Uline Tonight

George Washington, which out
played the Southern Conference
champion, North Carolina State,
for more than a half last week
before losing it's grip because of
excessive fouls, entertains Temple
tonight in its only home game of
the season against Eastern oppo-
sition.
Game time is o'clock in Uline
Arena, with the Colonial Frosh
Evening star., 1950-12-12
Oxon Hill Cuqers Win

Oxon Hill Highs basketball team
took an early lead which it never
lost as it beat the alumni, 48-36,
last night. Bobby Buffers IA
points for the undergraduates led
the scoring.
Evening star., 1950-12-12
Chandler Says He'll Finish Term Fight Move TO Buy Up Contract
Win, Lose, or Draw
BY FRANCIS STANN

THERE CAN BE NO QUARREL with the rating of Red
Sox at this time the winter book avote the
League pennant Ray Scarborough and Bill
Wight they have acquired pair of pitchers almost certain
Evening star., 1950-12-12

Georgetown and Morylond Win; Amerieon
U. Detected. Page C-3
Evening star., 1950-01-20
Runaway Montreal Heiress, II,
Goes Home From Scu||ery Job

McGill University, left Montreal
for the 3,000-mile trip here De-
cember Is after doing her best to
cover her trail. .-"
The Canadian press quoted
source who refused to be named,
as positively identifying the heir
ess. The source also told some of
the poor little rich girls" story:
He said her flight from a fash
ionable home to a $3.50 a week
attic room was an attempt to "be
herself
"She wanted to be thought of
as a pretty coed instead of a $2,-
100000 piece of property. She
wanted to draw her own pay check
and have her own friends" the
source said.
The heiress took the attic room
in a cheap boarding house and
got $40 a week job as a dish
washer. She had to pawn a SITS
sapphire ring for SO to help pay
her first weeks rent. The rest she
borrowed from another roomer.
She was confined in a comfort
able but sparsely furnished room
in the juvenile detention home
here until a Montreal police Off
I'cial arrived to take her back to
her grandparents in the East.
Evening star., 1950-01-20
BY the Associated Press

VANCOUVER, British Colum-
bia, Jan. 2G-A poor little rich girl
who chose a $3.50 a week attic
room and dish washing job in
stead of the life of an heiress to a
$2,000,000 Canadian Pacific rail-
way fortune was on her way home
today.
The Canadian Press yesterday
said it learned definitely that IT.
year-old girl detained here this
week is Beverley Van Horne, pretty
brunette great-granddaughter of
Sir William Van Horne. one of the
builders of the Canadian Pacific
Railway.
Last night the girl was in the
Canadian Pacific owned Palliser
Hotel in Calgary, awaiting air
plane transportation back to her
home in Montreal.
She was whisked aboard a
transcontinental plane here We'd
nesday night and stamped out a
mol" when a battery of reporters
and cameramen met her plane in
Calgary and asked her whether
she was going home.
Miss Van Horne, a freshman at
Evening star., 1950-01-20
Districts Lack of Democracy
Behind Its ILLS, Writer Says

Washington, which should be a
world show window for de-
mocracy," suffers from medieval
sluns, denial of suffrage. miser-
able local government and Jim
Crowism," according to an article
by Howard Whitman, appearing
in the February issue of the
Woman's Home Companion, issued
today.
Describing the battle in Con-
gress to get home rule for the
District. the writer concludes that
the principal reason for the Capt.
tails shortcomings is that Wash
ington is not a democracy"
"It is a disenfranchised little
prot torate where 1,000,0 900
Americans are denied the right
to vote. They are placed in the
same category as felons, aliens
and the certified mentally ILL.,
The District Government, con-
tinues the article, ''is a mass OF
accretions, improvisations and
confusions. 1t is doubtful if 10
per cent of Congress understand
it themselves. There are over 10C
| departments, divisions, agencies
Evening star., 1950-01-20

thetists to provide adequate sur
gical services. It says doctor
describes Gallinger's X-ray de-
partment as "the worst equipped
= I've seen in any hospital" "
It quotes DR.. Joseph Fazekas, chief
of staff at Gallinger: "All I know
lis we're forced to practice miser-
able medicine" So
Worse than the denial of suf-
frage to the citizens of Washing
ton, the writer says, is the reason
for opposition to home rue. The
writer charges that opposition
stems from 'fear of democracy, a
dread lest democracy be turned
loose in the District of Columbia
and drive out special privilege -
Evening star., 1950-01-20

sub-boards and miscellaneous bu-
|reaus-each with a finger in the
pie"
Mr.. Whitman, the author. is a
magazine reporter who came here
from his home in New York to
obtain the material for his article
He compares the District Govern
ment to "a low comedian trying
to put up a deck chair" It quotes
home rule champion Senator Ke-
fauver, Democrat, of Tennessee
Every time there is a snarl, Con-
gress must take the time and make
the effort (to straighten it out)
but more often adds confound-
ment to confusion"
There is much that the citizens
of Washington would like to sweer
clean if Congress would give then
the broom" the article says. Fol
example, it points to the city.
slums, hidden in the cores o1
Iprim city blocks" and to Gallin.
ger Hospital, where doctors ane
nurses all but weep at what theil
patients suffer-"
Washington's city hospital, tht
article charges, lacks enough anes.