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Evening star., 1951-02-08
Hy ihs Assosiotsd Pfsss

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. a.
Gabby Street. reformed roisterer,
swore of drinking because Of o
sensational game-winning play
that would have sent most base
ball managers hunting q bottle
to celebrate.
It happened nearly 80 years
ago. when Gabby-who died
Tuesday-was near the depths
Of his rough-and-tumble up
and-down career. He was man
aging a minor league team. This
is how Gabby told it, years
later:
It was the last Of the ninth.
Gabby's team, two runs behind,
loaded the bases, with none out.
Gabby signaled for the hit
and run. The batter singled.
All three runners scored on the
hit, winning the game.
Evening star., 1951-02-08
"A Stakes Scheduled
For Jamaica Meetinu
BY the Associoied Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 8.-Fourteen
stake races have been announced
for the 36-day Jamaica meeting
which opens the New York season
April 2. Since there will be no fall
meeting this year, the Remsen
Handicap has been abandoned.
The Gallant Fox Handicap in
creased from $4,000 to 100000,
and will be raced on the final day,
May IL.
Jamaica's most important three
year-old race, the $4,000 Wood
Memorial for Kentucky Derby
minded horses, will be held April
81. This is one week after the
Experimental Handicap No. 2,
with an added value of $4,000.
Both Of these Derby tests are at
q mile and a sixteenth.
The Firenze Handicap May s
Is for three-year-old f1llies and
has been increased from $25, ZOO
to 100000. The distance also was
changed from a mile and one
sixteenth to mile and one-eighth
The Excelsior Handicap April
at mile and one-Sixteenth was
increased from $4,000 to $25, 1000.
The $4,000 Paumonok Handi-
cap at six furlongs will be the
opening-day feature April 2.
Other stakes and dates:
April 4-EXnefimnnta1 Eopdican NJ
S-year-olds; 8 furlongs; $4,000.
April 11-The Prioress, 3-year-old fllies;
furlongs; Sic. 600
April .1s : Interborough Handicap
S-year,olds and up; 9 furlongs: $4,000
April 25-Correction Handicap, fillies
end mares; 3-year-olds and up; fur
April 2S-Grey Lag Handicap, 3-yesr.
olds and up: 11s miles; S25 600
May 1The Rosedale. 2-year-old Allies;
May 7-Jamaica Handicap, 3-year-old,
and up; 8 furlongs: SIS; 900.
May 9-The Youthful, 2-year-old colts
and ReldinRs; 3 furlonRs: Sl0.0O0
Evening star., 1951-02-08
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

MIAMI, Fla. Feb. 8.-With at
least dozen horses scheduled to
start in the $25,000 McLennan
Handicap at Hialeah Saturday
seven jockeys who have won the
stake in the past may have a
chance to repeat.
Hedley Woodhouse has the best
chance aboard Three Rings, last
years winner. Three Rings has
been top weighted at 1875 pounds
and already has won the Royal
Palm Handicap this season.
Doug Dodson, who took the 1947
McLennan aboard Calumet Farms
Armed, will ride c. v. Whitney's
Mount Marcy. This horse looked
very sharp in coming from far
back to finish third in the Palm
Beach Handicap and will carry ia
pounds in the McLennan.
Ted Atkinson, who will ride
Woolford Farms Delegate, won
the McLenan in 1914 with Sun
Again.
Porter Roberts won the stake
Evening star., 1951-02-08
1t. Eidsness Will Speak
At Touchdown Lunch

1t. Qg) George Eidsness, for
mer basketball player with Cen
trail High School who was wounded
In the Korean campaign, will be
the main speaker at the Touch
down Clubs weekly luncheon at
1890 pm. Monday.
Eidsness, a gunnery officer, was
wounded when the USS Pledge, a
mine sweeper, was sunk In the in
vasion of Inchon in October. He
will speak on the job being done
by United Nations forces in Korea
and the Importance of co-opera-
tion by those at home.
Eidsness, 20, is a veteran OF
World War II. He attended Bowl
ing Green College in Ohio.
Evening star., 1951-02-08
Struggle Of Putters
lis Expected as Texas
|0pen Golf Starts
BY the Associated Press

SAN ANTONIO. Tex, Feb. B.
There wasn't a top favorite today
as golf's tourists fired the first
round Of the $4,000 Texas Open
on two courses.
A field of 270-182 of them pro-
fessionals-sought the gold and
glory Of the oldest tournament on
the winter trail with veteran OBJ
servers predicting a putting con-
test"
Short courses, powder dry and
fast, mean fellows like Jimmy De-
maret of Ojai. Calf; Lew Wor-
sham Of Oakmont, Pa, and Jack
Burke. jr., of Houston, who are
exceedingly proficient around the
green's, should be in their best
winning form.
Defending Champion Sam Snead
Of White Sulphur Springs, w. Va,
and Lloyd Mangrum of Chicago,
the years leading money winner,
aren't playing. Both are Temporal
rily out Of golf with injuries.
But there are other men with
Evening star., 1951-02-08
Trust Fund Of S15,S43
Set Up for West Family

A trust fund of $15,843 has been
set up for the family of Sonny Boy
West, District boxer who died fol-
lowing bout in New York in De-
cember.
Bulk of this fund, total of $12,-
304.51, was raised by the benefit
boxing show at Uline Arena Janu-
airy 4. The remainder was from
individual contributions and seve-
raj other benefit events.
The fund will be administered
by District Boxing Commissioner
Col. Harvey L. Miller, Capt. ].
Agnew and DR.. Joseph e. Trigg.
Evening star., 1951-02-08
LITTLE SPORT

hurts who will be shooting for the
$4,000 first money anyway. Wor-
sham, for instance. has had an
aching back for two weeks. Le-
land Gibson of Kansas City also
has a pulled back muscle. ana
Dave Douglas of Newark. Del,
has an aching chest.
Half of the field today fired the
first 18 holes on the Fort Sam
Houston Country Club course, a
6.426-yard layout with a par II.
In this group were the big names
|of the tour. The other half. in
|cluding the lesser lights, played at
Breckenridge Park. a lined
course stretching 6,400 yards and
also with q par II.
Evening star., 1951-02-08
Won Crannm Denies Refusal
Of Visa by French Officials
BY the Associated Press

by The Associated PfeSS
HANOVER, Germany, Feb. B.
Baron Gottfried Won Cramm,
German tennis star. denied today
that he had been refused a French
visa to play in Lyon next week,
and said he had made no visa
application.
The French Foreign Ministry
said earlier that Won Cramm' s
visa had been held up because the
Interior Ministry ruled he was
undesirable" Won Cramm de-
clared he had been invited to
play in the French indoor tennis
Evening star., 1951-02-08
FiIehock Signs as Coach

EDMONTON. Canada, Feb.
P).-Frank Filchock, former Ma
tional Football League star, has
signed a one-year contract as
backfield coach for the Edmonton
Eskimos. Filchock was voted
Canada's "athlete of the year"
for his play last season with the
Montreal Alouettes, Gray Cup
titliStS.
Evening star., 1951-02-08
Hockey Results
BY the Associated Press
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Toronto. 3; Montreal /.
New York, 2; Boston, 2 (tie).
Detroit, IL; Chicago, 3.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Buffalo. 6; Providence, 5.
Hershey. 2; Springfield. Q Overtime
tiel.
st. Louis. 8; Pittsburgh. /.
u. 8. LEAGUE.
Milwaukee, 4; Denver, /.
championships next Saturday, but
had declined.
Won Cramm said he was mysti-
fed at the French Ministry's re-
port, (which I am now hearing
for the first time" He said that
In the past five months he had no
difficulty playing in many Euro
pean countries. including two ap-
pearances In France.
Evening star., 1951-10-01
Oukview Elementary PTA

Members of the Oakview Ele-
mentary School PTA will hold
their first meeting Of the fan at
10 pm. tomorrow at the Silver
Spring school.
Evening star., 1951-10-01
Suit for S341 Million
AGAINST Ford Resume!
By the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Oct. Federal
Judge Gregory F. Noonan will re-
sumo hearings today in the mara
thon trial of British inventor
Harry Ferguson's s341.6 million
civil suit against the Ford Motor
Co. and others.
The trial had been adjourned
last June % for the summer.
Mr.. Ferguson has based his suit
the biggest civil action evel
brought in this country, or
charges of patent infringement
and antitrust law violations.
| He is asking three times thu
damages he claims to be suffere'
since 1916. Prior to that date, ,
Ferguson attorney has said, tn
Ford Co. produced Ferguson trac
tors under a 1899 agreement be
tween the Briton and the lat
Henry Ford.
After 1916, Mr.. Ferguson con
tends in his suit, Ford and tn
otherS conspired to steal his trac
tor ideas, destroy the Briton's set
up for producing in the Unite'
States ,and undermine his financ
ing operation.
The defendants, including
Henry Ford II and several Fore
af1liates and other individuals
have entered a general denial.
Evening star., 1951-10-01
BY the Assoeiaisd Press

The chief of the United States
Navy said today there is mo pos
sibility whatsoever" of Russian
armies invading this country as
long as America retains control OF
the seas.
On the other hand, Admiral w.
M. Fechteler, chief of naval oper-
ations, said he believes Allied
forces could invade and occupy
strategic and important areas of
Russia in event of war.
Admiral Fechteler also said in
a copyrighted article in U. S. News
and World Report:
l. If war breaks out within the
next 20 to 30 years the United
States and it's allies would win it.
2. Russia cannot seriously "jeop-
ardize the existence of the United
States by air raids"
8. Russia's estimated 800 mod
Evening star., 1951-10-01
Longer Alert Periods
Allowed Guard Units
To Speed Readiness

In an effort to speed up the
combat readiness of National
Guard Divisions after they are
called into service, the Army has
established a new policy Of allow
ing longer alert periods. Mai. Gen,
Raymond H. Fleming, chief of the
National Guard Bureau. said to-
day.
This new policy, Gen. Fleming
explained at news conference
at the Pentagon today. will permit
more officers and enlisted men of
the units to attend service schools
prior to their induction.
Voluntary Attendance.
Attendance at the service
schools, he said, will be on a vol
untary basis. Time spent at serv-
ice schools prior to the mobiliZa-
ton date of the units would not
count in the time fixed for all
personel to remain on active duty.
The new policy, Gen. Fleming
said, also will give National Guard
personnel more time in which to
adjust their civilian affairs. There
lis no definite time limit for each
Organization which may be called
up, but Gen. Fleming said they
would have alert methods of up
to $50 days"
Time Allowed 37th Division.
This figure was allowed the 37th
Division from Ohio. which is
scheduled to report to Camp Polk,
La, on January IS, and the 44th
Illinois Division. which is to re-
port at Camp Cook. Calf, about
February Is.
Gen. Fleming said that some
5000 officers and enlisted men,
including virtually all key person.
mel of the two divisions, have ap-
piled voluntarily for specialist
training.
Another step to get the divi-
sions ready for combat quicker in
cluded a policy of not sending into
the field with the division any
recruit who had not had at least
one year of training.
Evening star., 1951-10-01
'$2,OO4,O65 Sought
By D C. Fiscal Service
To Assemble Taxes

A budget OF $1,000 sos Is re-
quested by the Districts Fiscal
Service-the Assessors, Collectors
and Auditors Ofices-for assem-
bling the city revenues during the
fiscal year 1858.
The estimates for the year be-
ginning next July /, made public
today by the Commissioners, are
$132,453 higher than the amount
appropriated for this fiscal year.
$164 Million Budget.
But they are less than 2 per
cent of the more than $164 mil
lion which District Department
heads as a whole propose to spend
in fiscal 1858.
The Fiscal Service estimates in
clude requests for nine new jobs
and a $4,000 increase in funds TO
hire temporary clerks in the Col
lector's Office during peak tax
paying periods.
The requests are broken down
as follows: Assessor, 1928, 300;
Auditor, $4,000, and Collector,
$488, ,S05.
Want I.B.M. System.
The Assessor asks $8,088 for an
I.B.M. accounting system in the
Income and Franchise Tax Divi-
sion. He explained that by free
ing examiners to devote their time
to auditing, the Office could pro-
duce additional revenue many
times the cost of the equipment
rental. ' ''
A supervising examiner and four
other examiners are requested for
the Personal Tax Division to
handle an increased work load.
Revenue from business property,
it was reported. has grown from
So, ,257,0 in 1945 to $5,775.000 in
1851.
The Auditors Office wants two
new auditors to keep current on
general revenues and gasoline i'm
porters tax accounts, which aver
age two years in arrears.
Bad Checks Anticipated.
Two clerk bookkeepers are
asked by the Tax Collector for the
billing and control of pay-patient
accounts of persons committed to
st. Elizabeth's Hospital at District
expense. This work formerly was
done by the Auditor, but was
transferred to the Collector.
With some pessimism, the Office
to receive an estimated
2 500 bad checks for some $150,000
during fiscal 1853. It actually re-
ceived 2,289 for $133,571 in fiscal
1851. and expects 2,400 for $4,000
this year.
Evening star., 1951-10-01
Trash Fire at GarfinckeI's S
Put Out by SprinkIers

A small fire broke out in a
trash baling room in the subbase-
ment Of Julius Garfinckel & Co..
fourteenth and F streets NV,
last night. but was extinguished
by the automatic sprinkler sys-
TEN. st
The fire, was located in an ac-
cumulation of trash deposited in
the room by the Saturday night
cleaning force. There was no
damage, a store official said.
Fire equipment responding to
an automatic alarm tied up street.
car traffic on Fourteenth street
for almost quarter of an hour
Evening star., 1951-10-01
Bank Worker Jailed
In 7th Area Shortage
BY the Asseeiaied Press

PITTSBURGH, Oct. t. The
FBI checked records Of the nearby
Indiana First National Bank to-
day after arresting Samuel Paul
Lewis, 62, assistant cashier, in the
seventh banking shortage turned
up in the Western Pennsylvania
West Virginia area within a year.
Lewis, a man whom associates
and friends termed "the last per-
son in the world" they would sus-
pect Of elnbezzlement, was in
Allegheny County Jail after fail
ing to post $4,000 bail.
FBI Agent Fred Hallford said
Lewis admitted taking $48.479.39
of the banks funds since October.
l947, but claims to have replaced
the entire amount.
Mr.. Hallford said, however, that
bank examiners report there is
still $4,000 missing.
Evening star., 1951-10-01
British Bookies Shorten
Odds on Tory Victory
Ry the As.oeiatad Pre,s

LONDON, Oct. l. - British
bookies shortened the odds again
today on a victory by Winston
Churchill and his Conservatives
in the October Is national elec-
ton.
Best offer available was 2 to 5
on the Conservatives. Most books
offered z to against a return to
power by Pine Minister Attlee.
The Conservatives were 4 to 6
in the early betting 10 days ago.
This had shortened to 4 to z by
1.-THE week end.
Evening star., 1951-10-01
Citizens Group Calls
On Congress 10 Push
Reorganization Plans
BY the As.oeie.ed Press

The Citizens Committee for the
Hoover Report yesterday urged
Congress to stay in session long
enough to pass a legislative pro-
gram that win permit greater
progress on Government reorgani-
zation next year.
A letter from DIR. Robert l.
Johnson. chairman of the COM
mittee. to Vice President Barkley
and Speaker Rayburn. said the
present session after nine months
is almost empty-handed in terms
of real reorganization results.
IF nothing is DONE" he wrote
"buck-passing and blame fixing
will be the order of the day.
Records Contrasted.
1.-THE Congress can blame the
administration and the admins
tration can blame the Congress
The Democrats can blame the Re-
|publicans and the Republicans can
blame the Democrats.
DR.. johnson contrasted the cur
rent record with the active prog
ress of reorganization measures in
the last Congress and said "the
administrations 1851 record has
been as disappointing as that OF
the Congress"
He said President Truman sub
mitted "a reorganization plans in
1949 and 1850, but has offered
only one this year. He added that
it is too late for such action now
since Congress is getting ready to
quit. White House plans of the
sort take effect only if Congress
is in session for so days after they
are offered. without vetoing them
Number of Others Pending.
The one reorganization proposal
this year, which was accepted. re-
vamped the set-up in the Recon-
struction Finance Corp. with a
single administrator at its head
instead of a five-man board.
A number of others are pending
affecting Federal-State relations,
overseas activities, air mail sub
sidy separation. post Office reor-
ganization and postal rates. re-
cruitment of Government person.
mel and the Department of Agri-
culture.
The committee Is a private
group organized to work for adop-
ton of the recommendations of
the commission under former
President Herbert Hoover, which
studied Government reorganiza-
tion for economy and efficiency.
Evening star., 1951-10-01
1000 Return to Jobs
At Caterpillar Plant
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

PEORIA. H., Oct. Thou
sands of Caterpillar Tractor Co.
workers went back to their jobs.
Their two-month idleness was
ended by acceptance yesterday by
CIO Auto Workers of a new wage
agreement.
Some 5000 union members. at
"a meeting in the Peoria armory,
approved the settlement.
The company announced that
II 900 employees were called in to-
day to start work in the big shops
as three-shift operations got un-
der way.
Evening star., 1951-10-01
PIune Crush Kills Two

AUBURN, Ind, Oct. l R.-A
flying farmer ano his wife died
yesterday in crash of their plane
Just short of a landing strip on
their farm near here. The plane
crashed across the road from the
farm of the pilot, Charles Kikly.
1873, as he and his wife were coming
lin for a landing.
Evening star., 1951-10-01
Teacher Goes to Siam

A District school teacher to-
morrow will begin trek that will
take her to Thailand to teach ele-
mentary science under a State
Department program.
She is Mrs. Gertrude Driscoll
Howard, of 1851 Woodley road
NV. The Board of Education
has granted her a years leave Of
absence to take the State Depart
ment post.
Evening star., 1951-10-01
Wheel of Race Cor
Injuries 10 in Stands
BY ihe Associaisd Press

CHICAGO, Oct. la whee
ripped from speeding stock cal
injured 10 persons, two seriously
last night when it bounced II
rows back into the Soldier Fielc
stands.
A track official said the race car
driven by Kenny johnson. 26, o1
Franklin Park, was running sixth
in a field Of 80 cars when II
skidded into the south retaining
wall of the stadium.
Evening star., 1951-10-01
Sea Control Bars Invasion
OF u. S., FechteIer Declares


menace, but the United States
Navy has made marked progress
lin antisubmarine warfare, and the
balance is turning in favor of
antisubmarine forces.
4. The Navy plans to use atom
bombs to destroy enemy SUBJ
marine bases, some of which in
World War II held up under other
types of bombing.
S. I'm a number Of years" the
Navy will have atomic-powered
carriers, carrier-based atomic
artillery. submarines and atomic
torpedoes, but the problem now
is to prevent war with the equip
ment on hand.
6. The Navy has anticipated
use Of Russian submarines in the
Korean war and has an adequate
antisubmarine force in the area.
Z. The Navy is speeding up its
program to release its reserves,
and by the end of this fiscal year
I'VE will be through calling any
enlisted reserves except volun-
teerS."
8. The theory that each of the
armed services must ''be doled out
the same amount of money" is
obsolete. Each force has a spe-
cif1c job to do, and it may cost
one more money to do its job than
it would another.
Admiral Fechteler said that by
the end of 1852 the United States
Navy would have about 100 sub
marines, IL large fast carriers and
II smaller carriers geared for
anti-submarine warfare, 10 cruis-
ers, four battleships. $40 destroy
ers and destroyer-escort types, an
amphibious force to transport and
supply two Army divisions, and
associated auxiliaries.
BY comparison, he said Russia
has about 800 submarines, three
old battleships, about Is cruisers
and IS to so destroyers.
This sea superiority, he said.
not only will keep a war away
from our homeland" but puts the
United States in position to
strike at enemy bases hundreds of
miles inland In case of war. AS
for the possibility of Russian
armies invading this country, he
said:
81 see no possibility whatsoever
as long as we have control of the
sea and are in position to deny
the use Of the sea to the enemy.
We can't be invaded"
Atomic Navy Predicted.
Asked what he thought would
be the outcome of an all-out war
coming within the next 20 to 80
years. he said:
ut is my personal feeling that
if we get into another war within
the length of time that am going
to be around, that we will win it.
The consequences of the third
World War. despite the fact that
l am confident that we'd win it,
are SO horrible that I just don't
know what would become of civil
ization as we know it."
On atomic developments, he
said development of an atomic
navy can't be expected overnight.
In time it will come. he said.
'Are there any vital spots on
Russia's seacoast where you can
get within so miles?" he was
asked.
The entire east coast OF Siberia,
and then you can go UP around
the North Cape Of Norway" he
said. There's the Archangel and
area. And down in the
south, the heart of Russia is the
Ukraine. and the Mediterranean is
near. You can also go into the
Sea around Greece. We
have been in the Persian Gulf
We have been in the Aegian. We've
had carriers in the Bosporus. We
have never been in the Baltic, but
could reach into the Baltic with
aircraft carriers if we wanted to.
We'd probably operate from the
North Sea-"
Evening star., 1951-10-01
Club to Hear Researcher

The Washington Classical Club
will be addressed by Paul A.
Solandt, Library of Congress re-
search specialist at 3:45 pm.
Thursday in the Roosevelt High
School auditorium, Thirteenth
and UpsnGr streets NV.
Evening star., 1951-10-01
Arms Seized in Honq Konq

HONG KONG, Monday, Oct.
R.-Police seized a minor arms
cache in downtown Hong Kong
Sunday and arrested two suspects.
Nine revolvers, a number Of hand
grenades and a large quantity of
ammunition were found.