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they would be slaughtered They're Lions
But December 49, when they do play off this postponed
game, they may even win"
MARSH sAMUELs is NOT unnformed on sports He
of Bill Weeks aides when Veeck running the
Cleveland Baseball Club and he is executive of
large hotel and it is his business to anticipate what may
happen to draw sports crowd.
Marsh called it on the head The Browns who never
failed to win A-American Conference title Or later
National League division world championship lost two
Of their first three games And by szable margins too
When they finally opened the Philadelphia Eagles took
the Browns 2S-o The following week the Browns got
respite and beat the weak Chicago Cardinals 37 but then
Ptburghs Seeers clobbered hem 552 worst beating
handed of Coach Paul Browns pro teams.
the Browns had been forced to meet the Lions the
original that Sunday early October undoubtedly
would lost three their first four games
pressed to stay in the AS it is they have six
straight and they lose the Eastern division it will
surprise
Because this Sunday in Griffith Stadium the Browns
meet only Redskins following steelers
again. but Pittsburgh team that has gone back just
Cleveland has come
THE POSTPONED GAME will be played the Sunday after
regular ends thereby delaying the payo battle
until December e. the latest date since the Redskins lost
the the day after Christmas the 1943 championship
game Chicago It unlikely that the divisional
titles will ride the outcome and the two teams be in
position go through the notions with the champion
ships already decided
But here's the rub Both the postponed game and the
playof are scheduled for Cleveland Will the customers
pocetbook stand such meetings in successive weeks
three pro games in Cleveland in succession counting De-
IL with Pittsburgh? Everything happens to Cleveland
individual players Of both the Lions and Browns
1t wonderfully, however If the postponed
December game up meaningless far divisional
titles are concerned lack of response at the gate would
not affect the muscle The customers might be wanting
to hoard their savings for the pay which entails increased
prices and that just ducky The players get most
of the dough the big only their regular salaries
from the Others
1T is MUCH BETTER for players now than it used to
be in the earlier days of pro ball Some of those
pioneer playos including the Redskins in 1887 beat their
brains out for peanuts
1t is doubtful if many games for all the marbles in
called modern history played in such weather in
Chicago in 37 when the Redskins invaded the Windy City
to meet the Bears Four degrees above it when the
Redskins off the train to face the shock of Chcagos
winter weather at its worst.
"Ths sho isn't Texas" rookie back named Sammy
Baugh remarked
The played sheet of ice players wearing
tennis shoes for better traction In the end BaughS
to Wayne Milner mainly responsible for 1921 win
the mighty Bears with Nagursk Manders and the other
giants of the time
The exact payos do not to mind but nobody got
rich couple of hundred plus change to the winners and
$165 apiece to the Bears The pros had it
good as far as playoffs 60,
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place votes. and third-place
Oklahoma, which won 10 straight
while the leaders were winning
8, was the choice of IS. On the
10-9-8-etc. voting basis, Okla
homa finished 479 points back
of UCLA with 3,155.
The leading teams, with first
place votes and won-lost rec
ords in parentheses points on
a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis):
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and, watching them, Cleveland baseball
writer remarked:
"They don't even have their big football
game tomorrow. It was called off because
whoever thought the Giants would win four
in row and the stadium wouldn't be used
for baseball?"
So, instead of the Champion Detroit
Lions and the 1858 runner-ups, Cleveland's
Browns, playing the next day the park was
empty but, on the way downtown, Marsh
Samuels said:
"It's not so bad As matter of fact,
1t could mean the Eastern title for the
Browns If they played Detroit tomorrow,
Evening star., 1954-11-30
Dresser, Lane
Spar on Trade
Involving Yost
MeDermott, Sievers,
Groth and KeIl Also
Cited in Speculation
By Burton Hawkins

S1CSolVC w 1ntC QUA OOb1kG4OC1s .
in a multi-player transaction
which would send Third Base
man Eddie Yost to Chicago, it
was learned today.
Calvin Griffith. vice president
of the Senators. would neither
confirm nor deny the bid for
Minoso but said, significantly.
Were ready to give up good
players if we think it will help
us. We're trying to swing a
trade of major Importance"
Frank Lane, general manager
of the White Sox, and Chuck
Dresser. the Senators manager,
conferred at length yesterday at
the minor league meetings in
Houston, it was reported by the
Associated Press Lane admit
tedly Is seeking Yost, but
thus far has been cool to
offers for Minoso, Cuban Negro
who batted 800, smashed across
lis runs and hit 19 homers last
season.
Also Seek GrOth.
The Senators also are in pur-
suit of Johnny Groth, like Mi
noSo a right-handed hitting out
fielder. and in any deal that sent
Yost to the White Sox. the Sen
ators doubtless would want to
pick up George Kell, veteran
third baseman, who also is being
sought by the Baltimore Orioles.
Washington is believed pre-
pared to part with Maury Nc
Dermott, 18-game winner with
the Red Sox in 1858, who was a
disappointment here last season.
The deal could shape up as Yost,
McDermott and Outfielders Roy
Sievers and Tom Umphlett for
Minoso, Groth and Kell. SieverS
batted 1854 against the White
Sox last season.
Preliminary Sparring.
Young Griffith admittedly has
been in contact with Lane, but
negotiations at the moment
haven't approached a point be-
yond preliminary sparring. Dres-
sen, in any event, hasn't been
enthused enough about his pros
poets Of landing Minoso to tele-
phone his bosses here.
The Senators are seeking an
outstanding Negro player ana
Minoso fills the bill. They had
made overtures to the Yankees
in an effort to land Elston How
ard. Negro receiver who was
standout with Toronto last sea-
son, but New York's recent big
deal with the Orioles is believed
to have crushed the Senators
hopes.
Minoso, 80 yesterday, incurred
the wrath of Lane last spring
when he held out, but the fiery
White Sox general manager has
registered few complaints about
Minnie's performance on the
field.
Trade to White Sox.
A .339 hitter with San Diego
in 1850, Mlnoso was promoted
to the parent Cleveland club the
following season but lasted less
than a month. He was traded to
the White Sox in a three-way
deal for which Hank Greenberg,
general manager of the Indians,
has been lambasted frequently.
In that switch the Indians also
sent Pitcher Sam Zoldak and
Catcher Ray Murray to the Phil
adelphia Athletics, Cleveland OBJ
tanned Pitcher Lou Brissie from
the Athletics. who sent Outf1eld-
er Paul Lehner to Chicago and
acquired Outfielders Gus Zernial
and Dave Philley from the White
sSox.
Minoso, who has played third
base, finished the 1851 season
with a 326 mark, dipped to .281
in 1852, but rebounded to .313
the following year. s.s
Yost, rated by many as the
best leadoff man in the majors,
never has been 800 hitter but
has drawn more than 100 walks
consistently and is a superb
Evening star., 1954-11-30
Senators Seeking Minoso in MuIf-PIayer Deal
Wiz, Lose or Drav.
By FRANCIS STANN

THE WORLD SERIES had started Wednesday in New
York. and it late afternoon the following Saturday
in Cleveland and it Stunned Indian fans filed
out of the big stadium Lake Ere their pockets lighter,
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(See ALL-EAST, Page C-20
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-12
Youth Convicted
OF Reckless Drivinq

An 18-year-old driver of a car
containing seven passengers who
escaped injury when it turned
over early yesterday was con-
victed of reckless driving in Ar
lingtoh County Court today.
Arthur Ray Hillard, 662 North
Glebe road, Arlington, was fined
$50 and costs and his drivers
permit was revoked for six
months.
Judge Paul Brown told him
that if police SO much as found
him sitting behind the wheel of
a parked car during the six
months the court would con-
slider him to be driving and would
at least sentence him to 10 days.
All but one of the occupants
of Hillard's car were teen-agers.
Police Pvt. Harold Burchette
said two 17-year-old girls in the
car told him Hillard was swerv-
ing his car to scare them" inn
before it went out of
control and turned over at
Fifteenth street and North Glebe
road at 1915 am. yesterday.
Only a 16-year-ol girl was
bruised in the accident. She
was treated and released at Ar
lington Hospital.
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Ry ,he As,oeiuted Pros,

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Aug.
12.-On November l6. 1910, j.
Edward Tompkins got into the
drivers seat of a Model-T Ford
touring car. 1t was his 18th
birthday and he was to drive a
car for the first time.
Yesterday, City Collector
Tompkins had a f1st-full of let
tiers to show how he made out,
One is from Gov. Stanley. 1t
says: Congratulations on that
remarkable record of no acci-
dents since you began driving in
1910"
Other concentrations have
come from G. Wise WeScott,
general manager of the Auto
mobile Association of Virginia,
and F. ". DUPONT United States
commissioner of public roads. .
But the official attention the
56-year-old collector is getting
now is far from akin to that he
got within a year after he started
driving. City Council tried to
get him of the road.
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Outsiders FHinq
Up Cemeteries in
Portsmouth, Va.
BY the Associated Press

PORTSMOUTH, Va, Aug. IL
From now on, non-residents
may have to pay a surcharge to
bury their. dead in Portsmouth's
public cemeteries.
Councilman c. c. Houghton,
jr., remarked at Tuesday nights
council meeting that outsiders,
attracted by Portsmouth's low
rates, ARE filing up our ceme-
terieS."
City Council on recommended
ton OF City Manager I. G.. Vass
put an ordinance on first read
ing to require non-residents to
pay so per cent more than res
identS for use of the cemeteries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-12

Cotton. who resigned as director
to enter private business. L. M.
Fisher. retired Public Health
Service engineer. will serve as
acting director until Mr.. Tisdale
takes Office.
Mr.. Tisdale. SO. has wide ex-
perience in pollution abatement
work. A graduate of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology,
he helped prepare the legislation
that became the National Pollu-
ton Control Act.
He served as chairman, of the
Ohio River Board of Sanitary
Engineers, and took an active
part in the establishment of the
Ohio River Compact. an organi-
zation similar to the Potomac
River Commission.
During World War II, Mr.. lis
dale was head of a training pro-
gram for health officers con-
Quoted at the Bethesda Institute
of Health. Before that he had
been in charge of the Works
Progress Administrations mine
sealing program. Under his di-
rection, abandoned coal mines
were sealed in an effort to re-
duce pollution from acid mine
drainage.
The commission also an
nounced that the annual meeting
will be held September 16 and II
at the Washington Hotel here.
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Judge Upsets Act
Letting Regents Run
Endowment Funds
By the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Aug. 12.-Cir-
cult Judge Herman M. Moser
ruled unconstitutional yesterday
an act of the 1852 Legislature
giving the Board of Regents of
the University Of Maryland con-
troll over 50 million dollars in
endowment funds.
In a 29-page opinion, Judge
Moser said:
IF the legislation contested
here should be valid, would it
not likewise be competent for the
Legislature by statute to amend
the charters of other institutions
with the result that they could
be made aff1liates of another uni
versity?"
He noted that the endowment
funds have been collected since
1908 by trustees of the Endow-
ment Fund of the University Of
Maryland, an independent cor
poration which the legislative
act would eliminate.
Judge Moser said that when
appeals for contributions to the
fund were made, emphasis was
put on the fact the fund would
be administered by an indie
pendent group of trustees, not
connected with the teaching
faculties of the university.
Gould a State by special act
provide sfor the taking of the
property Of a corporation and
entrust it to new parties not
elected or appointed by such cor
poration. and without voice in
such corporation to express dis
sent?" the opinion continued.
The case was brought before
the court by seven of the nine
trustees of the endowment fund.
DR.. H. C. Byrd. former president
of the university. and Judge Will
liam P. Cole, jr., head of the
regents, were the two who de-
clined to join the other COM
plainants.
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Bigger and Better Eoston
Seen After ST Million Fire

store. All hands concerned give
credit to Easton's and eight other
fire departments for saving ad-
joining buildings, including a
bank, two drugstores and hard
ware store in an old frame, block
long structure filled with combus-
tibleS.
But on Goldsborougr street
where the blaze started, flames
gnawed through partitions
rapidly.
Where Fire Started.
One of the leading independ-
ent grocers in Easton is John
Griffin, owner. of the Peoples
Meat Market. His store is
where the fire is supposed to
have Started-from a short cir
cult in the wiring.
Today his charred locker room
door gaped wide, with twice.
baked ham loayes peeping out.
Mr.. Griff1n'S meatblocks--he had
seven-Were crisped beyond saw
ing His freezer cases were every
which-Way. And there was no
roof over his store.
But he'll be back in business
as soon as the suppliers can fill
his Shelves" said the acting
Mayor. "He told me he's already
got a place almost right across
the street from the old place. !"
One Of the busiest firefighters
was George E. Mayer. And no
wonder. He ran the Mayer shoe
store and repair shop.
Irony gets heavy here. Fire
man Mayer is special deputy
fire marshal for the State In
surance Department. and he
didn't have enough insurance to
cover his stock.
. His Shoe-repair machinery
can be replaced quickly, so Mr..
|. Mayer will be back in business
soon.
Other Places Destroyed.
The other places destroyed by
yesterdays fire included:
Anthony, & Latham, real
estate and fire insurance. Their
Office was destroyed, but they
are ready to set up shop i'm
mediately, according to the act
ing Mayor.
Taylor Auto Supply, chain
firm outlet. which is negotiating
now for another place nearby.
And right now a loan COM
pany, formerly with Offices over
the Washington street entrance
to the five-and-d dime, is lending
money once again--from house
a block away from its original
site.
Acting Mayor Birge said, We'll
get along. The one-story building
that was ruined will be replaced
by at least a two-story one. It'll
mean better. business and more
Jobs"
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Camping Alone Ends Abruptly
As Sedrchers Find 17-Yeur-OId

More than so Prince Georges
County volunteer firemen broke
up a boys dream of camping out
under the stars early today after
q 30-minute search of the area
near the youngsters Hyattsville
home.
Stephen Payne, IL, was sent
home to a family welcome and
a warm bed about am. after
spending 81 hours away from
home. camping under the trees
at the rear of the Hyattsville
Convalescent Home, $500 Forty
second avenue.
Steve, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul Payne, of 1901 Oliver street,
stood a parental inspection as he
siped a cup of cocoa after being
returned there. His mother said
the outing, which began at 6
pm. Tuesday. left Steve hungry,
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Starlight Movies
Playground Film
pronrnno for Ton;nLx

Programs sponsored by The
Evening Star in cooperation
with the Film Center of WASH
ington. and the recreation de-
partments of the District and
Alexandria and Arlington, Prince
Georges. Montgomery and Fair
fax Counties:
WASHINGTON. at Dusk.
Stoddert. Thirty-ninth and Calvert
r. Raymond Z 81 Tenth street and Spring
Lansdon. Twenty-second and Prank
lin streets NE.
sherwood. Tenth and Q streets NE.
v,, vlrsinia Asenus, Ninth street and
.Ahram simon Fourth stree. and
Mississippi avenue Sc.
Cook street between North Capi-
~ ROSE 0 ParS. s TTensy- s;W and o
Lsnsston. 22Io H street NE.
Fort Stanton. seventeeth and Erie
Arlinston County. $50 pm.
Tucxahoe. $3.50 North Twenty-sixth
Nellie GUSTS. 712 south Twenty third
street.
Prince Georges County. $3.50 pm.
cheverly- Tuxedo Elementary school,
2301 Beleview avenue, Cheverly
University Park Elementary School
Underwood street, University Park.
MONTGOMERY County, $50 pm.
Bethesda Chevy Chase. 400 Norwood
drive. Bethesda.
River Road. Bethesda.
Twinhrook. Ardennes avenue, Rock
vile.
Alexandria, $40 pm.
Patrick Henry Elementary School.
Shirley-Duks Development.
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Virginion, Driving Since 1910,
Has Never Had an Accident

It seemed that Mr.. Tompkins
was one of four youngsters do
ing the town in horseless car
riages.
Council decided we were too
young to drive" Mr.. Tompkins
recalled. so they passed an ordi-
nance forbidding any one to
drive under is years Of age"
A few months later the young
sters petitioned the city fathers
and won a reversal of the ban.
Mr.. TompkinS, who at 81 be-
came the youngest auto dealer
here before going into the BUSH
ness of bookkeeping and becom-
ing city collector, said he has
followed five rules to keep out
Of mishaps in A driving years.
They are: /. Don't exceed the
speed limit. 2. Slow down at
every intersection. 3. Let the
other fellow have the right-of-
way if there's any doubt. 4. Don't
drive when drowsy. 5. Don't pass
If there's a doubt about enough
time to make it.
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} Youths Injured
In Maryland Crash

Three Gaithersburg (Md
youths were injured early TO-DAY
when their car ran off Route 81
Q half-mile north of Ceda,
Grove, Md. and hit a tree stump
Montgomery County police
Pvts. Joseph Ganley, jr., and
Walter c. Hef1in listed the drive,
OF the car as Beverly E. Rau. 18
OF 800 East Diamond avenue. He
suffered face cuts and bruises
and injuries to his right arm and
leg and was sent home after
being treated at Suburban Hos
pital, Bethesda.
The other two were admitted
to the Bethesda Naval Hospital
They were Robert Offutt, 10. of
ADJ East Diamond avenue, and
Ray Rhodes, Is, also of Gath
ersburg. Young Offutt suffered
a broken arm, broken pelvis
and face cuts. The Rhodes youth
suffered a cut head, loss of sew
eral teeth and a possible skull
fracture.
Police said the accident &C.
CURED about 1924 am. The
southbound car was demolished,
they reported, as it struck the
tree stump, glanced eff and con-
tinued on over the rough ter
rain.
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Hunt Continues for Man
Who Fled Road Ganq

Virginia State police today
continued the search for a 81
year-old man, serving time for
non-support, who escaped from
a road gang on Shirley high
way near Route 644 yesterday.
Police identified the fugitive
as Emery Gray, prisoner at
Virginia State Prison Camp No.
6 at Woodbridge. The prisoner,
who slipped away from the road
gang about $50 pm, was de-
scrihed in the lookout as having
brown hair, hazel eyes. weighing
1873 pounds and wearing brown
prison clothes. His height was
listed as feet Z inches.
Gray was sentenced in Fau-
quier County to a 14-month term
for non-support.
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but without even a mosquito bite.
Firemen found Steve sound
asleep in a makeshift bed of
leaves. according to HyattSville
Fire Chief Charles D. Vincenzo.
Steve told them he didn't want
to go home. But Mrs. Payne
said the comforts of civilization
changed his mind after Steve
woke UP this morning. Hes
a boy and it's summer" ex-
planned Mrs. Payne.
Firemen from Hyattsville,
Riverdale and Brentwood and
of the Bladensburg
and Brentwood Rescue Squads
famed out from a starting point
at Colesville and Queens Chapel
roads after the search was or
gained last night by Hyattsville
Police 1t. Silas Dennis. The
search eentered in the area west
of Forty-third avenue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-12
2-Bridge Bill Delayed
Until Today in Senate

Action on the bill for two new
bridges over the Potomac River
was expected in the Senate to-
day, after prolonged debate on
the subversives bill last night
prevented consideration of the
bridge legislation.
The measure would authorize
one new bridge at Jones Point,
Alexandria, and another to con-
meet with the District somewhere
in the midtown section.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-12
By Richard Rodgers
stGr stoff Correspondent,

EASTON, Nd, Aug. 12.-For
a little place with, ait most, a
5000 population, this Eastern
Shore. community acts today as
if yesterdays million-dollar fire
was just a case of sunburn.
The blaze burned out five
stores in Easton, county seat of
Talbot County.
But many of the most affected
people talk as though the fire
was just a cauterization that will
make the towns econom v
healthier.
Lawrence Birge, the acting
Mayor, is on the verge of being
glad that fire destroyed five
business places.
ut was terrible thing" he
conceded. But it will help
Easton eventually. I think"
Bigger Store Promised.
Only one of the five ruined
stores will be out of business
any considerable length of time.
That's McCrory's and 10. It's
manager. E. A. Frenz, said:
Wen be back in there bigger
and better than ever"
His store played a major part
in Easton'S business life up to
about 3 am. yesterday, when
the fire started. It was regarded
as the biggest 5-and-10 on the
peninsula.
That's a big lure for women
living outside town, just as it is
for townspeople. Talbot County
has some 10 900 population and
Mr.. Frenz emporium of the dime
was considerably bigger than
counterparts serving much more
populouS areas around Washing
ton.
He had about 80 employees.
But few will be jobless for long.
This is Easton's busy season in
canneries. His key workers will
be taken on in other nickel-and-
dime stores. The ordinary clerks
can get jobs in the canning
plants.
Mr.. Frenz says the store, once
its shell is RACED and replaced,
will be booming again.
That won't be before next
January. however. Once the
canning season wanes, there will
be some unemployed. Not many,
though. Other businesses here
abouts need them.
The nickel-dime store was L.
shaped. Its short leg was on
Goldsborough street, against
Peoples Meat Market, a grocery
store. The long leg fronted on
Washington street. Easton'S main
drag, and was diagonally across
from the county court house.
On Washington street, Nc
Crory's was the only damaged