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Arizona sun., 1952-07-04
Powder Puff
Drivers To Go
At Monzonito

Again Saturday night, the Pow
der Puff "pretties" will be out in
full force to show the men how it
should be done at Manzanita Parks
jalopy races.
With between 20 and 80 drivers
expected, anything can and prob
ably will happen not only in the
point standings, but to the crash
wall and jalOpies involved. Two
weeks ago, on Powder Puff night,
Is cars were almost completely de-
rnGlished, although no one was
injured.
In the Women'S competition
Helen Walker will be favored to
regain the point leadership she re-
linquished fortnight ago to Varnie
Haumont Mrs. Walker and MrSs
Haumont have been trading places
in the two top positions in the
Women'S point standings for the
past two months Melba Pritchard
is third followed by Tina Hudson
and LaVerne Doyle.
In the mems competition, Duke
Billie, on the basis of wins in the
main event and the Blakely Trophy
Dash last week, vaulted from fifth
event to third behind Homer john
son and Roy Creach. Leon Taylor
and Pete Haumont occupy the
fourth and fifth positions.
The racing schedule calls for time
trials to begain at 7 o'clock with
the first event at SIS. Completing
the program will be four Slap
mems heat races, another trophy
dash, the Powder Puff Derby, the
20-lap semi-main and 30-lap main
events.
Arizona sun., 1952-07-04

A complete field of hardtopS are
entered in the century grind. Don
Chapel, current point leader, will
defend his position with chief op-
position expected to come from
such established speedway stars as
Art Bisch, Jay Barker, Jay Abney,
Lyle Stelter, Doyle Jones, Tom
Paulis, Bob Hinkle, Bob Gay, and
Jim Groth.
In voting to hold the 100 lapper
July 5, the drivers and car owners
assured Ernie Mohammed, track
owner, that full lineup of racing
cars would be ready to go.
On July IL the California
Roadster Association will put on
a full racing show at South
Mountain with their hOpped-up
model Ts. .-.--.- .----
In last weeks midget action
Jack Jordan and Art 'Bisch ran IL
in. the feature, closely followed by
Johnny Moorehouse, Jimmy Woods,
Jay Barker, Bob Hornbrook, and
Howard Kelley. Kelley, minus the
familiar green No. 13 which blew
up at San Bernardino the night
before the race, managed to cop
the first heat and the semi, and
ne did it in a strange ride. Jay
Barker and Johnny Moorehouse
were the other heat winners, with
Bisch besting Jordan in the Trophy
Dash.
Gates will open at South Noun
tain at pm. Saturday with time
trials beginning at 7:30. The Guy
Burns Trophy Dash, first competi-
tive event of the evening, will get
the green flag propmtly at $50.
Arizona sun., 1952-07-04

down to what is right for Speaker
and Greenberg might be catastro-
phic for Avilla and Rosen. Each
player could have his own particu-
lar problem.
Cobbledick thinks that outside
of being born a good hitter, players
often become proficient hitters by
accident or by careful and intelli-
gent study Of their own problems.
Baseball managers won't buy
this theory. Hitting is a science
Arizona sun., 1952-07-04
National Sports
Editors Poll

The crack of doom for Brooklyn's
pennant hopes echoed from the bat
of Bobby Thomson, NY. Giant
third baseman last October as 34,-
328 rabid Polo Grounds fans saw
the slugging Scotchman belt Ralph
Brancas pitch into the left field
stand to destroy the pennant hopes
of a team that had once held a
1872 game lead.
Out at Coogan's Bluff it was a
small private world gone COM
pletely mad. Prejudices, politics,
troubles were swept from the minds
of hysterical thousands SWarming
cnto the field to carry Thomson
off on sea of lurching shoulders.
The flight of the ball that made
baseball history was the Wordless
reproduction of an auctiOneer;S S
chant = going, going, gone"
Wrapped up in this explosive
blow of Thomson's was timing, CO.
ordination, musuclar ability. Any
thing else? Was it Thomson's abil-
ity to patiently absorb the teach
ings of his batting coaches? Had
they taken him as raw pliable
rookie in, the training camp and
taught him to hit?
Speaking, not particularly on
Thomson, but hitters in general,
Gordon Cobbledick of the Cleve-
land Plain Dealer states: "The
ability to hit ball hard and often
can no more be taught than the
ability to run a 100 yards in ten
seconds. It can be demonstrated
that coaching has destroyed or
seriously impaired the ability of
many a player to hit baseball
solidly with a bat"
If this theory is correct why do
teams go through long, weary ses-
sions of batting practice under
the eyes Of experts who diagnose
their faults and attempt to over
come slumps and up averages?
Exponents of the hitting-coach-
ing schools are Hank Greenberg,
and Iris Speaker who direct a
continuous flow of advice to their
pupils. Methods almost resemble
those of classroomS.
Billy Evans, former umpire,
scribe, farm club and front office
boss who has 4S baseball years un-
der his belt, does not agree. Il
don't believe any player has ever
been taught to hit" Evans says,
"HitterS are born"
Cobbledick comedies that obvious
faults in the hitting techniques of
sandlotters can be corrected but
stoutly maintains upon reaching
the majors they are beyond help.
Whatever is an obvious fault in
batting technique must be a mat
ter Of conjecture when the case
Of AL Simmons comes up. Bucket
foot Al was considered freak.
The problem might boil right
Arizona sun., 1952-07-04

Arizona stote College at Tempe 1852 fooDol will
be broadcast KOY Phoenix and the Arizona Network.
Shown signing The broadcast agreement left to right
NJ Bokey for the sponsoring BokeY Service Stations.
John Hogg for KOY and D. R. Van Peen athletic director,
for ASC Ed de Forest right will the So
which will carry the series will be KOY. KTUc tucson
KSUN Bsbee Douglass KYA Yuma and kCLS Fosoff First
Sun qome 20 with Hardin Simmons in Texas.
Arizona sun., 1952-07-04

that can be taught, they'll tell you.
But is it?
Attempting to find out the con-
sensus of expert opinion the Ma
tional Sports Editors Poll asked
the editors of daily newspapers:
"Can a batter be taught to improve
his hitting once he reaches the
major leagues?"
Can be ught......-...--.-.. -.-..-.......-....579a
Not be ught------.---- ----..--..-.-.....----.26W
Undecided .......................... .174S
Arizona sun., 1952-07-04
Modified Stock Cors To Return
To Action At South Mountain

the mighty midget racing had hardly died down
Speedway last Saturday night when it
would the action of the
a cmaxed 100lap
Evening star., 1952-08-23
Britain Reported Planning
To Pull Troops Out Of Suez
By the Associated Press

CAIRO, Egypt, Aug. 23.-Influ-
entail sections of the Cairo press
carried reports today Britain has
decided to pull her troops out o1
the Suez Canal in three months
in line with revised Anglo-Amer-
/ ican plans for a Middle East
defense Setup.
The independent weekly. Akhba1
Ell Yom, quoted its London CORE
spondent as saying British Foreign
Office experts are laying the basis
for a new policy toward Egypt
including accession to this coun-
try's demands British troops gel
out of the SueZ.
(In London, the Foreign
Office would make no comment
on the reports. A spokesman
said merely British relations
with Egypt "have been and will
continue to be under constant
review.")
The newspaper AL Ahram saic
negotiations on the long unsettled
differences between Britain anc
Egypt would reopen late in Sep
tember after the Western Allies
have drafted a new Middle East
defense project.
Evening star., 1952-08-23
Canadians Send Aid
In Mock Atom Attack
By the Associated Press

NIAGARA FALLS. N. Y, Aug.
I23.-Canadian police and fire
equipment sped across the Rain
bow Bridge today to aid this in
dustrial and resort city "devas-
tated" by a mock atomic attack.
Word of the "attack" spread
rapidly through a small network
of three radio stations bound by
Ia new agreement among stations
and newspapers of the two coun-
tries.
Participating were Stations
WILD and Will here and Sta
tion CHVC of Niagara Falls, On
tario.
The test provided the first joint
United States-Canadian civil de-
fense drill.
The hypothetical bomb was
dropped" on a busy downtown
intersection and theoretically dev-
astated the southern part of this
city of 10000 for 12-mile radius.
Rescue and salvage units from
five Western New York counties
and two Ontario counties pitched
in to handle $4,000 injured" and
1000 homeless"
Evening star., 1952-08-23
British Liaison General
In Ottawa on Way 10 Tokyo
BY the Associoted Press

OTTAWA. Aug. ga British
general came to Ottawa yesterday
en- route to ticklish job as a
commonwealth spokesman in the
handling of the Korean war. The
post was set up to prevent recur-
renee of such things as caused
Canada's displeasure over the dis
patch of Canadian troops to the
Koje Island prison camp.
Maj. Gen. Stephen N. Shoo-
smith arrived for conferences with
Canadian cabinet ministers and
officials before going to Tokyo to
become deputy chief of staff to
Gen. Mark w. Clark, the U. N.
chief in Korea.
He was named as a result Of the
Far Eastern visit of the British
Defense Minister, Lord Alexander,
to give not only Britain but the
commonwealth countries as a
whole a voice in the top levels of
the Clark hierarchy.
Canadian sources said Canada
will continue to have her own di-
rect channels of communication
with Gen. Clark through Brig.
r. E. A. Morton, head of the
Canadian military mission in
Tokyo.
Evening star., 1952-08-23
BY the Assoeiosed Press

The Civil AeronauticS Board
said yesterday it has started an
investigation of the crash April
80 of Pan American World Air
ways plane, with so persons
aboard, in a Brazilian jungle.
The investigation. the board
added, promises to be the most
Expensive ever undertaken by the
CAB.
The board said it has been as
sured of the cooperation Of the
Brazilian government against any
recurrence of the political difficult
ties which marked the initial visits
to the crash scene.
At that time a rival group Of
BrazilianS raced the official group,
containing the United States in
vestigators.
There were wild rumors that
packets of jewels and currency
were aboard the plane.
William K. Andrews. chief Of
CABS Bureau of Safety Investiga-
ton. told a reporter that team
of Is technicians. headed by Chief
Investigator Charles Collar Of
Evening star., 1952-08-23
Il, Reports
Attack by Two Men
Al BoI|inq Air Base

A 72-year -old woman told po-
lice early today that she had been
raped by two men in a workshop
at the Boiling Air Force Base.
The woman was picked up by
|armed services police, who found
her sitting on a curb at the Air
Force base. She told the Air
Force policemen she had been at
tackled by two men who brought
her into the base to show her the
workshop.
She was taken to the base hos
|pital where her condition was re-
ported as satisfactory.
i The woman later told Metro
lpolitan police she met the two
men in Nichols avenue Sc. tav-
Tern. After drinking with them.
she said, the men offered to take
her home in a taxicab. The men
told the driver to go to the base
for the midnight inspection of the
workshop.
Police said the woman, who
looked younger than her age, fire.
Iquented the tavern.
Several men were questioned.
but all were released. Police later
arrested two more men for ques-
! tioning.
Evening star., 1952-08-23
II. n. Commission WrangIes
Over Disarmament Report
By the Asseeioied Pres,

UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. Aug
I23.-The United Nations disarma-
|ment Commission sidetracked de-
bate on germ warfare yesterday
and wrangled for nearly four
hours over the form its report to
the next General Assembly will
take.
China's T. F. Tsiang said the
argument was much ado about
nothing in choosing the words tt
report no progress" Russia.
Jacob A. Malik told the 12-natior
commission: Let us have no il
lusions that we have any agree.
tment or will get any in a few
days"
But Benjamin Cohen. Unitee
States delegate, said the commits
sion's work early this year wal
valuable for the proposals it haI
brought out, even though ther'
has been no agreement.
/ The commission let ride unit
Monday Mr.. Malik's demand tina
/ a discussion of prohibiting germ
warfare get priority in the com
missions work program.
Evening star., 1952-08-23
Anne Arundel Police GET
Nine in Gambling Raid
By the Assoeioied Press

ANNAPOLIS, Aug. 23.-Nine
persons were arrested by Anne
Arundel County police early this
morning in a gambling raid just
outside Annapolis.
Police at Edgewater said Rob-
ert L. Perry was charged with
keeping a gaming table and per-
mitting a gaming table to be kept
in a building rented by him. Perry
was released in $1,000 bond or
the two charges.
The others were arrested or
charges of diSorderly conduct anC
released on $27 so bond each.
Police said the raid was made
at 2 am. on an establishment
known as Oak Hill. A homemade
gaming table, money, dice, whisk!
and beer were confiscated.
Evening star., 1952-08-23
Union Maps WaIkouf
|N9,OOO at Shipyards
In Baltimore Monday
BY The Assoeiaied Press

BALTIMORE, Aug. 23.-Union
leaders whipped together strike
organization today. anticipating
that about 5000 of Baltimcre's
$4,000 shipyard workers will 60
out on strike Monday at midnight.
A new management offer of 9
and 10 per cent wage increases
raised the possibility that the
other 5000 might not join in the
walkout the next day.
The 5000 are members of two
locals of the Industrial Union Of
Marine and Shipbuilding Workers
employed at the two Bethlehem
Steel Co. shipbuilding yards here
"Only new development COM
ing out Of the talks in New York
will prevent a strike at the Beth
lehem yards as planned" said
Jack j. Gerson. regional director
of the CIO union.
The other 5000 workers are
employed by Maryland Drydock
Co.
The new offer in their negotia-
tions calls for per cent increase
for workers in the lower pay scales
and 10 per cent in the higher
brackets.
The pay scales in the shipyards
average about $3.50 an hour.
Union spokesmen would not
comment Immediately on the new
offer at Maryland Drydock.
Evening star., 1952-08-23
| Pharmacists Group
Urges Ethics Program
BY the Assoeioied Press

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 23.-The
American Pharmaceutical Associa-
ton has passed q resolution urging
all organizations in the field OF
pharmacy and medicine to join
program for improving interpro-
fessional ethics.
The APA concluded its centen-
NAL convention yesterday with
the election of DR.. Ernest Little
of Rutgers University. as chair
man of the council of the APA
the organizations top governing
body.
Named as vice chairman was
DR.. Glenn L. Jenkins of Purdue
University. Elected to member
ship on the council were Walter
M. Chase, Detroit; Henry H. Gregg
Minneapolis, and George A. Moul-
ton, Peterborough, N. H.
The association also elected new
boards of officers for its five prin-
|cipal sections. Sam Goldstein OF
Washington, D. c., was elected
secretary of the associations prac-
tical pharmacy section.
The resolution passed by the
II 800 members of the APA called
for legislation in the various
States:
l. Compelling drug dispersion
lin accordance with physicians
prescriptions.
2. Deciding the problem OF
lpracticing physicians owning
pharmacies.
3. Re-defining the line of de-
marcation between professiona
factions.
/ 4. Instituting courses in civil de
tense for pharmacy college stu
dents.
Evening star., 1952-08-23
IA Charles County Girls
Seek TobaeeoIand Crown
Special Dispatch TO The Sior

LA PLATA, Aug. 23.-Queen
Nicotina XVIII and six princesses
lof her court will be chosen TO-
night at q dance at Marshall Hall
Park.
The queen, traditional ruler o1
Southern Maryland's tobaccoland
will be crowned September q in
ceremonies at the Charles County
Fair.
Fourteen of the county's girls
nominated by popular vote, will be
listed on final ballots tonight.
They are. Dottie Clagett, Bar
bara Garners Joan Lancaster
Mary Ann Wilmer, all Of La
Plata; Joan Bowling, Newport;
Mary Douglas Cooksey, Indian
Head; Kay Farrall and Rebeccs
Summers, Hughesville; Mary
Katherine Cough and Verna Nc
lAlister, Waldorf: Patsy Greer
Welcome; Barbara Garner. Spring
Hill; Mary Elois Lancaster, Rock
Point, and Mary Lee Morgan, Port
Tobacco.
Evening star., 1952-08-23
BY the Asscciaisd Press

A black mark has been erased
from the Navy record Of the young
officer who, in the War of 1872
was given the famous order
Don't give up the ship!"
President Truman yesterday
signed a document posthumously
restoring William s. Cox to the
rank of third lieutenant, a Navy
rank now obsolete. The reap
pointment dates to October IL
1874, when 1t. Cox died.
The story behind it:
On June !. 1913, the American
frigate Chesapeake battled the
British frigate Shannon of Bos-
ton Harbor. In command of the
Chesapeake was James Lawrence
The only other surviving officer
was Cox, promoted during the
battle from midshipman to So
lieutenant.
Evening star., 1952-08-23
Lewis Notifies u. ).
'0f Contract Endinqs
By the Associated Press

Government officials said yes
terday that John L. Lewis has
given formal notice that his con-
tracts with the coal industry will
expire at the end of September
This clears the way for a possible
Nationwide coal strike at that
time.
The Taft-Hartley Act requires
that the Government be informed
Of labor dispute at least 80 day.
before the work contract expires
Mr.. Lewis, president of tn,
United Mine Workers Union, CAV,
Federal mediators the required
notice that contracts with botl
the soft and hard coal industry
will run out then, these official
said.
The notice was signed by tn,
unions general counsel, Well!
Hopkins.
UNIV headquarters here sait
it had no comment on the matter
MIR. Lewis has been negotiating
off and on since July "a will
Harry M. Moses, president of tn,
Bituminous Coal Operators AsSo
citation. and Joseph E. Moody
president of the Southern Goa
Producers Association.
Evening star., 1952-08-23
Strand, Theatrical Landmark
At Ninth and D, Being Rozed

One of WaShington's historic ole
theatrical landmarks, the Stranc
Theater, at Ninth and D street,
NV. is being razed.
Wreckers already have torn ou,
much Of the famous old interior
where vaudeville, opera, burlesque
and lately motion pictures, regalec
customers for decades.
Within 60 days the picturesque
structure will be leveled, accord
ing to Said Haddad. president ol
the ABCD Corp. of Arlington, Va
Future use of the site has moi
yet been definitely determined. A
spokesman for the property owner
Parkes Engineering Co., of this
city, said a decision on this will
be made later.
Informal reports indicated the
place could well be used as park.
ling lot in the downtown section
where car space is much in de-
mand.
The site has been afcenter o1
amusement since 1868. Known in
early days as Lincoln Hall, it was
operated as Herzog's Dime Mu-
scum. later as Herzog's Ninth
Street Opera House. It was de-
stroyed by fire in December. 1886
Rebuilt, it was renamed Herzog's
Theater, and hourished as a major
lcenter of entertainment for years
Later it became known as the
Acamedy of Music. finally the
Strand.
Glamorous figures of the old.
itime stage, including musica
1comedy favorites, and popular
lectures appeared in what was
Evening star., 1952-08-23
rs Iranian Generals
Involved in Shakeup
by the Associoted Press

TEHERAN, Iran. Aug. 23.-The
ouSted military governor of Teh-
eran and IA other generals were
retired today in what appeared to
be the first step in widespread
government shakeup of the armed
forces.
Officially, an army spokesman
said the men, ranking from
brigadier to lieutenant general
were retired because they had
served beyond the legal 30-yeal
limit.
Among those retired was Gen
Alavi Moghaddam, who was fired
from his post as military COVER
nor of Teheran following the
bloody riots July 81 which
brought Premier Mohammed Moss
adegh back to power. Some ma
Itionalist supporters of Mfr Moss
adegh have charged that Gen
Moghdadam was responsible fol
ordering troops to fire on rioters
resulted in the reported death o1
20 persons.
Another on the retirement list
was former Army Chief Of Stat
Abbas Garzan. There were un.
confirmed reports that another
long list of officers to be pensioneC
was submitted to Mr.. Mossadegh
who also is minister Of defense
by the supreme army council To-
approval. One source said more
than so officers would be out wher
Mr.. Mossadegh's shakeup wa
finished.
Mr.. Mossadegh, who agreed tt
resume the premiership after thu
July riots only on condition thai
he also be named defense min.
lister, is known to favor a reduced
army for purely defensive pur.
poses.
Evening star., 1952-08-23
Mossed Pickets Keep 40
Inside Goodrich PIunt
BY the Associated Press

TUSCALOOSA, Ala, Aug. 23.-
Massed pickets kept 40 supervisory
workers blockaded inside the B. F.
Goodrich Co.. the tire plant today
in a dispute over pay due yester-
day.
Sixteen woman employees, who
had been kept inside the plant for
several hours, were passed through
the picket lines and went home at
II am. The plant went down Mon
day as United Rubber Workers
(CIO) struck.
Phil Ziederhoek, Goodrich man
lager, said from inside ~the plant
that pickets had told the SUPER
lvisory personnel, "You fellows can
leave when we get paid"
Evening star., 1952-08-23
Truman Restores Rank to Man
Who Did Give Up the Ship

Wounded mortally, Capt. Law
renee commanded, Don't give up
the ship! Fight her till she sinks!
Then he asked to be taken below
and 1t. Cox obeyed. The Chesa-
peake was captured and Capt.
Lawrence died four days later.
A subsequent court martial
found 1t. Cox guilty of abandon
ing his post during the engage
ment, stripped him of his commits
sion and discharged him.
More than a century later Rep
reSentative E. E. Cox, Democrat Of
Georgia-no relation-sponSored 3
bill to undo that decision. Con-
gressional hearings indicated 1t.
Cox was made the whipping boy
for the loss of the Chesapeake.
The bill passed, restoring his rank.
and the President ordered the Of
flcial record Strengthened out.
Evening star., 1952-08-23
German Theaters Packed
For RommeI Film Showinq
BY the Associated Press

FRANKFURT, Germany. Aug
23.-German fans Stormed the
aters all over the West German
republic last night to see Holly
wood movie heroizing Field Mar
shall Erwin Rommel.
"The Desert Fox"-kept out of
Germany 10 months by United
States Government pressure-was
given a simultaneous premier by
goth Century Fox in West Ger
many's largest cities.
Audiences mostly watched
silently as British Brigadier Des-
mond Young'S account of the
marShal's wartime career from his
dashing African campaign to his
suicide unfolded. James Mason
played the title role.
But Kisses and nervous laughter
broke out when Hitler-his face q
mis- S-Shapen maSs-waS first shown
on the screen.
In Britain and America, num-
erous critics attacked the film as
clarifying German militarism and
creating Rommel legend.
Evening star., 1952-08-23
Body Of Swedish Slayer
OF 10 Pulled From Lake
BY the Associofed Press

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Aug. %
"A search party dragged the
body of ex-Policeman Tore Hedin
from Lake Bosarp early today
ending a one-day manhunt
through south Sweden for the
rampaging killer who left letter
confessing the murder of his par
ents. sweetheart and seven others
Police said that Hedin killed his
parents Thursday night by setting
fire to the home in which they
lived in the little town of Kvaer-
Low. Next he climbed through a
window of an old folks home al
nearby Hurva and split his gir.
friends head with an ak.
He also axed the matron of the
home and set fire to the institu.
ton. Four women and two mer
died in the blaze.
His body was discovered IS yard,
from shore near the spot where {
rowboat was found drifting yes.
terday.
Evening star., 1952-08-23
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

District of Columbia and, vi
cinity.-Bright, sunny and cool
this afternoon with high about
II. Clear and cool tonight with
low near 81. Tomorrow, sunny
and continued cool.
Maryland.-Clear and cool to-
night with low in the mid-40s
west and about so east. Tomor-
row, sunny and continued cool.
Virginia.-Clear and cool to-
night with low of As to so in the