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The Sports Trail Bv WHITNEY MARTIN NEW YORK. Apr- SS — **■ YN reaction ol some **** that Waistr C«pt: » f-' the service Apr '. -V *m Ov-.ib there go the Os t f * chances?f rscv~ 1 ' ‘ worrying *bc-u; tvOxrd'.ra.s. '* t think -.hey wcl-i -'** ’r* Cooper bey» ',-t ~r'Rv-- '-; ir.g arc still s;r-gy f m.gr. a right. The reescc ' w^uudn.: worry too much about Walker Cooper, although admitting he is above the average as a receiver ana hitter, is that tor going on four years now the St. Louis club has had a fair-co-middlirg catcher on its rost.r named James Kenneth O Dea. You Invent neatd so much about O'Cta because, as the No. 2 man, he was ovei shadowed by Cooper. But this 10-year man would be a regulat on many a <!lub this year, and if a club didn't need hirtt to catch it would just as soon have him hanging around as a pinch hitter. He reabv can bite into that ap ple in the clutch. He’s played in a total of 10 games in five world series, and his baling average for those appearances is a neat .462, his six hits in 13 efforts including one pinch-hit home run. He played in 85 regular season games for the Cardinals last year, and that’s only 27 games less than Cooper played. His batting aver age was only .24"! which is slight ly anemic compared to Cooper’s .'317, but he batted in 37 runs and collected six home runs. O’Dea was a narty to that six deal which the Cubs and Gi ibc.igb.t to brighten a dull ni-t-f- err in He, with Fr*nk WnMrcc sr.d Bill Jurges, T.vrt to Che Gunts in exchange *o.r Pies Bartell. Hank Leiber and Gc* Minciitc. It looked like an evtc-sttpsteo swap at the time, but .'urges is the only one of the six still wi-.h the club to which he was traded O'Dea and Pitcher Bill Lohrma.i were the loose change thrown in to the deal when the Giants got Large Jorn Mize in 1941. Cooper already had been with the Cards one full season and part of an other. and was just coming into his own, so O'Dea s arrival wasn’t an occasion for trumpets and red carpet. He came as a second string catcher, ana that is what he has remained. With hill responsibility thrown on his shoulders he might do bet ter than he would do as a super numerary. Opportunity often af fects a player that way, and O'Dea hasn’t nad a chance *o show- what he could do in the No. 1. Slot for a long time. In fact, he hasn’t caught 100 games in one season since he came up to the Cubs from Columbus in 1934. He found Gabby Ha-tnett with the Cubs, just as he has found guys who got there first every time he’s made a change s-nce Obviously he’s r,o Walker Coop er, but he s anything but a stum ble-sum baseball player, and we’d rather have him on our side than a lot of catchers we’ve seen.. tf they can just hypnotize the guy into thinking he is pinch hitting every time he slops to the plate he’ll do all right. Majors Take To Field Today After Resting —-— ★--—-:-* NEW YORK, April 23.—(U.R)—The major leagues had their first ‘off" day of the young 1845 sea son today and it came as a wel come relief to the pitchers. For they have been treated pretty roughly since the curtain went up last Tuesday and the hit ters in no uncertain terms have started out to make baseball’s fourth wartime season their year. Warmer weather may change the picture, but thus far the su -periority has been with the bat ■'■ters. They have been enjoying . some field days. t A study of the record discloses that the first week of the present season was in direct contrast to the opening games last year when ? the hurlers were dominant. In the National League, for in stance, there were six shutouts pitched in the first 20 games of 1944. The first 25 games of 1945 have seen only two. There were only 10' home runs last season; so far this spring there have been 24. Where they pitched 14 games less last year, they have pitched only nine such low-hitters in 1945. The feast for the hitters has not been so great in the American League, but it has been no fam ine, either. Last year in the first 25 games the batters of the junior circuit hit 13 home runs. They made the same number this year in two less games. The shutouts are even—three. High hit games have been the rule. The Detroit Tigers turned in the top performance when they pounded five St. Louis pitchers for 21 hits. The Chicago White Sox, the surprise club of the season thus far, made 17 hits in a game against Cleveland. That’s usually more the Jimmy Dykes crew makes in three games. Of all the 16 clubs, the White Sox have shown the most improve ment. Their five victories against no defeats not only puts them at the top of the American League, but also is the peak performance in the majors. Twelve of the 16 clubs will re sume action tomorrow. In the Na tional it will be Brooklyn at Bos ton, Philadelphia at New York and Chicago at Cincinnati with St. Louis and Pittsburgh idle. New York and Philadelphia will be idle in the American as St. Louis plays at Cleveland Detroit at Chi cago and Boston at Washington. -V BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS MOROLINEl PETROLEUM JELLY |AA s< t timis j£ much rm> B^yr TAME Give It that well groomed look. Add lustre. Keep your UNRULY hair lying flat. Always us* _____ MoroMne Hair Tonic. Large HAIR bottle25c. Soldererywhere. Reconditioned Pre-War BICYCLES AVAILABLE AT PICKARDS 209 Market St. Dial 2-3224 STANDINGS American League Team WoA Lost Pet. Chicago - 5 0 1.000 New York . 5 1 .833 Detroit . 4 2 .667 Philadelphia _ 4 2 .667 Washington _ 3 3 .500 Cleveland . 1 4 .200 St. Louis .. 1 5 .167 Boston _ 0 6 .OOC National League Team Won Lost Pet. New York . 5 2 .714 Chicago _ 4 2 .667 St. Louis _ 3 2 .600 Brooklyn _ 3 3 .500 Cincinnati _ 3 3 .500 Boston _....._ 3 4 .429 Philadelphia _ 2 4 .333 Pittsburgh _... 2 5 . 286 PROBABLY PITCHERS NEW YORK, April 23. — I* - Probable pitchers for tomorrow's major league games. (Won and lost records in parentheses): American League St. Louis at Cleveland—Potter (0-1) vs. Bagby (0-1; Detroit at Chicago—Benton (1-0) vs. Lee (1-0) Boston at Washington—Dreise werd (0-0; vs. Niggeling (0-0) (Only gmes scheduled). National League Philadelphia at New York—Raf ensberger (Q-l) vs. Hansen (1-0; Brooklyn at Boston—Gregg < 1-0; vs. Javery (0-1; Chicago at Cincinnati — Wyse (0-1) vs. Walters (0-0) -V GERMANY WARNED ON CAPTIVE CARE (Continued from Page One) alibis that the acts were carried out by subordinates without ac tual authorization. Every available means of com munication, including broadcasts from Washington, London and Moscow, was being utilized to con vey the message to all comman dants, guards, Gestapo agents and other persons regardless of serv ice or rank, who might have charge of Allied nationals. Allied planes were dropping uncounl ed copies of the warning over the part of Germany still held by the Nazis. “Any person guilty of maltreat ing or allowing any Allied prison er of war, internee or deported citizen to be maltreated, whether in the battle zone, on lines of com munication, in a camp, hospital, prison or elsewhere, will be ruth lessly pursued and brought to pun ishment,’’ the statement says. It adds that responsibility will be “binding in all circumstance's and one which cannot be trans ferred to any other authorities or individuals whatsoever.” Blended Whisky 86 ftw>£ 65% Gtain Neutni Spirits M PmtU, UlinM* m _ - . 'CAT NINE GOES TO PLAY 'QUAKES THIS AFTERNOON _ | Hardison Or Rogers Will Probably Pitch Fourth Conference Game New Hanover High School's un fortunate horsehiders will still b« seeking their first conference vie tory of the season when th ;y jour ney to Goldsboro to encounter the Earthquakes this afternoon. The ’Cats, who lost their firs' three conference tilts to Wilson Durham, and Rocky Mount, car hardly be expected to bounce intc the win column today. The "Goldbugs” were leading the locals, 4-0, at the end of the third frame here a couple of weeks ago, but the tilt had to be postponed because of rain. If it is agreeable with Coach Norris Jeffery, the Goldsoro men tor, the Hanoverians will play a doubleheader, or count the one game as two. Under normal con ditions, the Wayne County lads would have to make a return visit to Wilmington to make up for the postponed game, but because ol the transportation problem, thai would prove impracticeal. The ’Quakes, studded with many of last year's returning lettermen, have made a good showing thus far in the conference, droppinf tilts only to Wilson and Durham The last scalp lifted by the Golds boro club belonged to Coach Sey ton Holts’ Durham Bull’s. 11 seems that Billy Rose, Goldsboro hot-box keeper, brought the house down on the Tabocco-towners in the sixth inning -when he doubled with the sacks full. Malpass will probably be giver a chance to see whether or not he can finish chalking up the victory that he had started when the weath er man interferred here. This game will have little bear ing on the conference standings, ex cept to pull the locals out of the cellar, and into a three way tie for fourth place if they win. Wil son and Rocky Mount are tied foi the top slot, both teams having dropped one tilt thus far. The Ca ruso-men lost their’s to Leon Brog den's Cycs at Wilson three weeks ago, while the Cyclones were up set by the lowly Raleigh Caps, whe up until that time had not .won i game, and who have failed to cof a single victory since. The figh between Rocky Mt. and Wilson which started with Wilson's 13-li victory over the Blackbirds during the football season, will be resum ed when the two teams meet in Rocky Mt.—on May 5, for whai may well prove to be the Easterr Conference championship. -V Stettinius Now Pitching • Otho Stettinius Nitcholas. 36-year old pitcher from McKinney, Texas, who won 14 and lost 11 at St. Paul last year* may not pitch the Dodgers to a pennant, but he'll certainly add dignity to the, bull pen. He’s a dead image of the Secretary of State. CASEY PITCHING FOR NAVY NINE SOMEIiWERE IN THE PACI FIC.—(Delayed) — A big, right handed nitcher who used to ''toss them in the normally eccentric surroundings of baseball’s mael strom—E’obets Fieid in Brooklyn —is pitching for a Navy team here. Hugh Casey, once of baseball’s bes't hurlers and now in his third year werring Navy blue, would like to be back with the Dodgers. Questioned recently after he had shut out a Marine Raider nine. 2 to 0, the 32-year-o1d Casey said he intends returning to the big leagues if he isn’t too old when the Japs are licked. Casey is in excellent shape, say the sailo-B w'ho see him play fair ly regularly, and probably could "step nine innings of major league baseball any time” as he contends. The ex-DoDdger, who once lost a World Series game when one of his pitches escaped from Catch er Mickey Owen and thus enabl ed the New York Yankees to stage a rally, now pitches and as sists in managing a Navy base hospital team. -V LAMPSHADE MADE FROM HUMAN SKIN (Continued from Page Osfl riament was an entire male "chest completely plain and undesigned I could see clearly the nipples and nave marks, which made tiny marks in the smooth surface, some what like knot holes in a wood panel. “This is not at all unusual,” said the Dutchman. “It’s just an other instance of the lack of value the Nazis put on human life. They used humans as guinea pigs ir experiments on typhus treatments, on restoring sight and hearing, and in treating burns. They’d destroy the hearing of a prisoner, or put out his eye, anc leave him like that for weeks Then they’d try to restore his sight or hearing. Sometimes they succeeded, but the experiment al ways ended with the victim’s ex ecution.” ‘Sometimes,” the Dutchman con tinued, “they would put acid pow der on a man’s arm, letting i burn him to the bone, then experi ment in treatments for it. “They also experimented in ster ilization. In one camp section they kept a group of girls for thes< tests. They always were well-fee and well-treated and had every comfort and luxury they coulc want. But about one hundred o these girls died every month ft on the experiments. “The Nazis permitted prisoner: to have children because they were making experiments in- twins Many of the children were killec because they were “nuisance.” Bu they always cared well for twins for their experiments.” _v POLISH PROBLEM LEFT UNSOLVED (Continued from Page One) ing, stayed away from an after noon session between the Ameri can and British representatives. Mr. Truman received Molotot for the first time last night, les: than three hours after he arrived by air from Moscow. The move to San Francisco was dictated in part by the pressure of time. All three conferees are chiefs of their nations’ delega tions to the United Nations meet ing starting Wednesday, called tc chart plans for a world organiza tion. There appeared no doubt thai the Polish issue, considered * have a direct bearing on success of the San Francisco United Na tions conference, topped the lisi of urgent problems discussed. -V-— Texas did not have an officia name for nearly 200 years aftei its discovery. WADE AND LANE WIN IN BALLOT (Continued from Page One) Other candidates received the fol lowing votes: George H. Brinson. 1,776; John H. Davis, 1,761; Thomas E. SJur rell, 1,424: Ernest R. Mayhan, 322; William Henry Ezzell, 177; and Kingsley Lee King, 107. The greatest vote cast in any •05-ard was 614 for Mr. Wade in Sixth ward, second precinct. He commented that “I've always done well there.’’ * During the Councilmatic form of government, Mr. Wadh was elected to office in 1919 for a four year term as a representative of the third ward. This type of gov ernment was changed in 1921 to the Commissioner form and he left office to represent New Han over County in the General Assem bly for three sessions. He was elected city commission er of public works June, 1935, serv ing in this capacity for 16 years. In 1943, he was elected to the State Senate as a representative of the Ninth Senatorial district. Mayor Lane was elected to the Council on May 4, 1943. Following the death of Mayor Bruce B. Cam eron on July 17, 1944, he was nam i ed mayor. Councilman LeGwin has served on the Council since the city man ager-council form of government was formed here in 1941. Mr. Yppp is owner of Yopp’s funeral home. He is past president ! of the North Carolina Funeral Di rectors and Embalmers Associa tion and is at resent one of the eight directors of the state asso ciation. His father was a mem ber of the City Council for a num ber of years and served on the Board of County Commissioners for 20 years. X1IC idol) WOXU 1PW -- to the City Electors board last night was the largest in Wilming ton township—Fifth ward, second precinct, at William Hooper school, where 1,658 were registered. A total of 624 persons voted there. The number to vote at other wards was as follows: First ward — 256. Registration, 815. Second ward. 1st precinct—410. Registration 949. Second ward. 2nd precinct—360. Registration, 896. Third ward, 1st precinct—540. Registration, 1,329. Third ward, 2nd precinct—658. Registration, 1,424 Fourth ward—590. Registration, 1,253. Fifth ward, 1st precinct—508. Registration, 1,264. Sixth ward, 1st precinct — 504. Registration, 855. Sixth ward, 2nd precinct—787. Registration, 1,536. -V BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS City Briefs PROMOTED Lewis H. Rackley, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Rackley of Burgaw, has been promoted from seaman first class to gunners mate third class, and Is serving on a destroyer es cort in the Pacific. RATION UNIT TO CLOSE The food department of the New Hanover War Price and Rationing office will be closed to the public today. HITLER LEADING BERLIN DEFENSE (Continued from Page One) Soviet steel were sweeping through the smouldering streets at an al most unbelievable rate. Some ob servers speculated that the entire city might fall within two days. The Russians’ mighty surge to the Elbe, believed to have been de signated as the dividing line be tween the western and eastern Al lies, completely isolated Berlin from the Nazis’ national redoubt in southern Europe. The Russians were 22 miles from last reported American positions on the Mulde river near Wurzen, west of the Elbe, but the swift drive had effectively cut off all northern Germany from the south, from Austria, Czecoslovakia and northern Italy. The Nazi underground "Were wolf” radio said that Germans were fighting Germans inside Ber lin's barricades, reporting that “traitors” were firing at Ger man troops in northern Berlin, where waves of Red Army tanks were plunging relentlessly toward Unter Den Linden and Friedrich strasse, dead center of the city. At the same time, an over whelming mass of Soviet armor was blasting into Berlin from the south. The escape gap rapidly was beii}g closed and one report said it had been narrowed to five miles in the area of menaced Spandau on the northwest. The Nazis, routing huddling civil ians from shelters, threw women and boys into the inferno of the city’s death battle as the Rus sians bored in from three sides un der a blanket of shellfire which had churned mile after mile of the city into a wasteland of twisted steel and stone. T -V— SOVIETS NEARING U. S. NINTH ARMY (Continued from Page One) troops fought up to within six and a half miles of the port of Em den. ? The U. S. Third Army thre\y its enormous weight southward at a time when the Germans were hotly pressed to keep the French and the Seventh army out of their well manned and well-stocked mountain fortress. Bent on making the kill quickly one aimored column rumbled up 13 miles from the Danubian strong hold of Regensburg and about 75 miles from Munich, which stands at the northern edge of the Alpine redoubt. Other columns burst across the Naab river and swept almost unop posed 23 miles southeast through disorganized defenses into Haag and Wetterfeld, northeast of Re gensburg and 43 miles southwest of the Czech armaments city of Pil sen. The blows were dealt in concert with those of the U. S. Seventh and French First Armies, already 29 to 48 miles from the western most ramparts of the redoubt, and pouring southward In tremendous strength. The Danube river line was buck ling under the impact of the U. S. Seventh Army’s armored attack which carried across the historic barrier 50 miles west of Munich and was closing up to the stream on a 50-mile front. WHITE SOX’S BATS KEEP ASTOUNDING EVEN PILOT DYKES American League Pace Setters Are Averaging A Neat .352 at Bat * ■ CHICAGO, April 23 —OB— T^e pitching is as good as Manager Jimmy Dykes expected, but the hitting of Chicago’s undefeated White Sox has almost made Ro tund James swallow his inevitable cigar in pleasant surprise. The American League pace-set ters, off to the best White Sox start in a quarter of a century with five straight wins, have belted 64 hits, an average of 13 per game, for a .352 percentage at the plate. Most of the thunder in the sur prising get-away of the lightly re garded Pale Hose is packed in the bats of Dykes’ aging outfield trio of Oris Hockett, Johnny Dickshot and Wally Moses whose average age is nearly 33. This “tottering” three-some is hitting a sizzling .420. Hockett, acquired in a trade with the Cleveland Indians, and Dick shot, who played in only 62 games last season, each has pounded 10 hits in 23 trips for a .435 average, while Moses has nine blows in 23 appearances for .391. The veteran Moses reports for in duction into the armed forces on April 30. When he leaves, Dykes will have only three outfielders on the entire Sox roster. The 32-year-old Guy Curtright, may not break into the lineup until the day Moses departs. The infield ha6 beer, sparked by Cass Michaels, 19-year-old short stop, who has compiled a .421 bat ting average with faultless field ing. 36-year-old Tony Cuccinello (.385) is at third and 35-year-old Leroy Schalk (.304) at second. Tony sprained his leg Sunday. Rookie Bill Nagel, converted third-baseman, still is a question mark at first, but Dykes has good insurance in Kerby Farrell, vet eran first sacker recently bought from Indianapolis, who has pinch batted two-game turning singles. _v-— SOONG CONFERS WITH BIG THREE (Continued from Page One) representatives of the Chinese gov ernment. i During most of the world-wide war the Russians have studiously avoided anything that might con nect them with the war in the Pa cific in which they are not in volved. Soong's entry into the conference was taken as backing for previous indications that the tangled Polish situation had been put off until Molotov can consult his govern ment and renew conversations in San Francisco. Meanwhile the State Department declined to comment officially on a Moscow radio report which com. plained of what it called ‘‘foreign press” accounts that the Big Three had agreed at Yalta against invit ing to San Francisco any Polish government unrecognized by Brit ain and the United States. However, there never has been any official claim here that such an agreement was made directly by President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin at their Crimea conference. Diplomats however pointed to the fact that there was a Yalta agreement to amalgamate the Kremlin sponsored Warsaw provi sional government with other Po lish elements. With such an agreement in exist ence, it was suggested, the Yalta conferees might have seen no ne cessity to consider such a point at all. Even if the factual accuracy of the Moscow report is accepted, diplomats here see it as likely that the President and the Prime Min ister took it for granted that an ac. ceptable government could be set up in the two and one half months before the United Nations meet ing. . This country and Britain never have recognized the undiluted Warsaw group and it would be a di_ lomatic rarity for a nation sponsoring an international meet ing to invite a government it does not recognize. The section of Russia in staying away from recent aviation confer ences to avoid contact with re gimes it does not accept is cited as a case in point. It became clear earlier in the day that the Big Three nations— the United States, Russia and Britain—had failed in a night and day of conference to settle the tangled Polish question and had de cided to try again at San Fran cisco. -V U Connor Still Hasn't Decided Coopers* Case CHICAGO, April 23.— (JP) —Les lie M. O’Connor, chairman of the major league advisory council, said today he was awaiting fur ther information from Walker and Mort Cooper before making a de cision in the salary dispute of the star brother battery of the St. Louis Cardinals. O’Connor, last Wednesday, took under advisement the Coopers’ demand for salary increase from $12,000 to $15,000 annually after earlier dissuading them from quit ting the Cardinals until the dis pute went through ‘‘proper chan nels.” -V The “miraele insecticide” of this war, DDT, will be made available to civilians shortly. Baseball Owners Plan To Select Czar Today MICHAELS, BUZAS LEADING ROOKIES NEW YORK, April 23—UP)—Cass Michaels of the Chicago White Sox and Joe Butas of the New York Yankees are setting the pace to day for a bumper crop of rookie shortstops who have taken over half the major league jobs. Ignoring the popular definition oi a short fielder as one who fields brilliantly but sports an anemic batting average, Michaels has a .421 average at the end of the first week of the season and Butas boasts a respectable. 348. Michaels name was Kwietniew ski until last season when the Sox shipped him to Little Rock aftei 27 games in Chicago. Secretary Harry Grabiner of the Pale Hose was not notified of the change in spelling and not seeing any Kwietniewski in the Southerr Association lineups dialed a hur ried call to the Travelers’ manag er. He was doubly assured by the information that the 19-year-old De troit native had legally changed his name and was whaling the ball a' a .336 clip. Although Chicago drafted Dannj Reynolds from the Yanks’ Newarl farm, Micheals won the regulai job in spring training and appear ed hard to oust. Bczas was taken up by the Yanks at the close of the Inter national League season last yeai after hitting .297 and playing sec ond base. Joe McCarthy installec him as short the first day of the Atlantic City workouts and he has not been out since. -y BRITISH, YANKS REACH PO RIVER (Continued from Page One) northern Italy. The exact pointf where Allied armor wheeled up tc the Po were not disclosed, but al its nearest point the river curves 27 miles north of Bologna. An earlier communique report ed that advance units of the Fifth Army had driven as far as 3! miles northwest of Bologna, which was captured Saturday. These American and Allied troops hat advanced approximately 75 miles in the first eight days of their offensive and had scored a clear breakthrough of the Germans tough Apennine mountains defense line. *Vj . British Eighth Army troops were meeting stubborn resistance as they closed in on the road center of Ferrara, 30 miles north and slightly east of Bologna. The fertile Po valley was litter ed with the wreckage of the flee ing enemy’s transport. More than 1,700 pieces, including 1,066 motor vehicles, were destroyed or dam aged by Allied planes yesterday, and there was no slackening of the assault from the skies. Heavy Flying Fortresses and Lib erators, supporting the ground forces struck at nine bridges over the Adige and Brenta rivers in the path of the retreating enemy today. Three of the bridges were at Pa dua, the others southeast of Ve i wna. Spitfire and Mustang fighters ol the desert air force bombed and strafed terminals across the Pc northwest of Ferrara. Some Fifth Army units were en countering numerous demolitions, along with harassing mortar and artillery fire, but other outfits had raced so far ahead of the main bodies of troops that the Al lied command was uncertain of their location—a situation akin to that during the recent Rhine break through on the Western Front.' The swift American drive al ready had bypassed the large city of Modena, 22 miles northwest of Bologna, and reached to within some 140 miles of the Brenner Pass line through the Alps. Lead ing troops were within 220 airline miles of French forces at the west ern shore of Lake Constance and within 230 miles of U. S. Seventh Army troops striking toward Mu nich. Between them, however, tow ered the Alps. Not a single American life was lost when Commodore George Dewey sailed into Manila Bay and destroyed the Spanish Fleet in 1898. _ I -- Ford Frick and Leslie O’Connor Are Leading Contestants for Post •— -— \ CLEVELAND, Agtril 35 _~ Baseball’s major league will attempt to select a Com- '1 sioner tomorrow but today 'J' were still as far from one nv>H as last November 25 when ta death of Kenesaw Mountain Land' vacated the office for the first tim* since it was established 24 ye,,! ago. 4 -liie majors xour-man commi' tee, appointed to sift the longt^l of candidates, will make its report And that is where the certainty ci tomorrow’s session ends. Ever.';-! quartet, composed of Alva Brad', ley of the Cleveland Indians. Do! Barnes of the St. Louis Browr Sam Breadon of the St. Lorn Cards, and Phil Wrigley of the Chicago Cubs, has not decided definitely whether it will pr(se... one or several names to the own! ers. That decision probably made when the committee holds its final session two hours before the moguls closet themselves at Hotel Cleveland. Neither was there any indication whether the committee was consid ering an active baseball man such as President Ford Frick of the National League: Leslie O'Connc former secretary to Landis and now a member of the three-man body ruling the sport; or one of a large group of outsiders that i> eludes James A. Farley, Senator Albert (Happy) Chandler of Ken tucky, Paul McNutt and former Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio There was some talk of naming a duration Commissioner with O’Connor the chief candidate. Pro ponents of this plan pointed out that many of the country’s bes: men are tied up in war work and would not be available for so im. portant a job at this time. Tee position pays $50,000 annually. On the other side, however, were owners led by Horace Stoneham of the New York Giants and Larry MacPhail of the New York Yankees who were outspoken y their belief that a Commissioner should be named *t once. This group said it had lined up six Nat ional League owners and at least three American League president ' who were in favor of locking j ■ themselves in the room and not coming out until a man had been selected. “If ever baseball needed a Com missioner it does now,” said Stoneham. “We do not necessarily need a policeman but now is the time for baseball to plan on ex panding and the man we seleci Should be good at promotion—one that can sell baseball to the pub lic.” But even the rnen who favor naming the Commissioner tomor row are not together on the «jan they want. Farley, who at one time tried to buy the Yankees, would like nothing fetter than to have the job for baseball is his first love, but men close to him say he would not take it because the sal ary doesn’t match his present in come. Rumors today were that Chand ler would accept if selected while Frick remained still in the running with O’Connor the most promimer.t darkhorse either on a short or l long term basis. Frick lacked oni» two of the 12 votes necessary to elect at the February meeting and it may be his backers can rally enough votes to put over the Nat ional League president. Backers of O’Connor maintain he is the one man who knows the job be cause of his long association with , Landis. --V The first loan to be guaranteed under the GI bill of rights has been made to a Texas f*r™ youth, Roy Rufus Hayes ef Casa County. _. Kill Your Piles Of court# you cant ahoot K» J" within « lew minutes after tha » application, China-Roid usually ; fighting the agonies of Piles in » I. 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But the other day Bob got a letter from the South Pacific • • • kind of a hotifesiek letter; “I'm thinking of you, Dad, fish ing In Seward’s Greek; cooking trout over an open fire; and keeping the beer eool la the stream. Keep an extra bottle eool for me." So Bob spent his next day of exactly as Dick dreamed of hi* doing-fished Seward’s Greet again, and cooked the trout, and kept the beer cool in the stream. And you knew he was doing it for Dick. From where I eit, it's what tb« men overseas would have as do —keep alive the little custom* the small pleasure*, they re member—keep them alive dll they come homo to share them* OfU'JtL ° '*45' UNIT» STATM MtWHS FOUNDATION, North Corolina Cowm’*** I Sdgor H. Solo, Stale Dirottar, 404-407 taiuranco Bldg., Ilol.igh, N. C I
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