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Chicago Rookie Catcher Slams Jack-Pot Homer Vince Castino Hits Four-Run Homer To Lead Chicago Sox • By I'nited Press, You <»n count on the finger* of one hand the player* wbo’ve made a direct jump from the lowest oi the minor league* to a berth with a big league team. One of the few la Vince Caatino, the young catcher of the Chicago White Sox Caetlno played last year with the Lubbock club of the tiny west Texas-New Mexico league. a das* “D" outfit. Hi* work behind the plate Impressed scout* for the White Sox. and they recommended that h«- be given a tryout with the parent club, lie did so well in spring practice that the White Sox decided to keep him. And now he’s paying them off In addition to his fine work affeld. hi* hitting is somewhat sensation al. Yesterday he earned a head line for himself when he hit a home run with the liases low Jed to sink the Boston Red Sox Time was when a homer with three on wasn't much to get excited about. But this year there haven’t been very many. Castino’s was the seventh of the year, Fivj of the other* have been hit by National leaguer*. And the only American league player besides Castino to slap out a grand slam homer 1* Joe Gordon of the NewYork Yankees. The White Sox were leading. 1 I to 0. In the fourth Inning of the I second game at Boston. Castino I came to bat with thrPe mate* aboard lie found one of Pick Newsome's pitches to hl* liking and he banged It over the wall. Four runs poured in-and the White Sox came out on top. 5 to 1. Not bad for a fellow less than a year out of the lowest of th' minor leagues. The Arst Chicago-Boston game went to the Red So*. 8 to 7. In 10 inning* In other American league games, the New York Yankees took the St Louis Brown*. 1 to 0, and the Cleveland Indiana beat the Philadelphia Athletics by the Mmscore. In a night game, the Detroit Tigers defeated the Washington Senators. 12 to 6. In the National league, the St. laoulw Cardinals nosed out the New York Giant*. Ito 0 Another shutout came when the Brooklyn Dodger* scored a 2 to 0 victory over the Cincinnati Ri-de. And still another whitewashing was handed the Boston Braves by the Chicago Cub*. 5 to 0. The Pittsburgh Pirate* triumphed over the Philadelphia Phillies. 2 to 2. Without consistency there I* no moral strength Owen. Live with wolve* and you will learn to howl.- A Spanish proverb Cutting remarks are the moat hurtful and wicked things in the world.

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MAJOR LEAGUE ft I M STANDINGS national league _— w. l Pct. <; i; St. Louis 5-3 28 .634 Brooklyn 51 .37 .580 Pittsburgh 44 38 .537 9 Cincinnati 42 42 .500 12’i | Chicago 38 48 .452 16' 2 - Boston 35 44 .413 17 Philadelphia 38 48 .442 17*.-. New York 33 52 .388 22 — AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. GII N.-w York 4'< :tl .613 Detroit 43 38 .531 6' 3 Washington 45 41 .523 7 Chicago 40 40 .500 9 .Cleveland 4o 41 4''4 I".St Ix'Uis 39 41 488 1" Boston .37 45 .451 13 Philadelphia .34 51 .400i7‘ 3 . ■ 1 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League Brooklyn 2. Cincinnati o. St. Ixiul* 1. New York 0. Chicago 5, Boston 0. Pittsburgh 3. Philadelphia 2. American League Boston 8-1. Chicago 7-5. New York 1, St. Louis 0. Cleveland 1, Philadelphia 0. Detroit 12. Washington 6. Kennedy Kits Win Double Header Here Defeat G. E. Club, Cloverleaf Teams The Kennedy Kl'a of Van Wert. <>.. proved too tough for a pair of j Decatur softball teams Friday night at Worthman field, the Buckeye* chalking up two vlctorie* in . , exhibition game*. Pounding out 15 hits. the Kite trounced the G. E. Club. 11 to 2. In the opener. The vMitor* scored four run* in each of the first and seventh Inning*. Thornell limited G. E. to three bit*. Kinsey held Cloverleaf to five widely scattered hits In the night-1 cap and the Van Wert team walked oft with a 4 to 0 shutout. Next week’t schedule: Monday--G E Cluh v». Schafer: Cloverleaf vs McMillen. Tuesday -Schafer va CloverleafSt Mary's v* McMillen. Thurr-day -G. E. Club v* Post 43; McMillen va Post 43. Last night'>< score* by Innings:

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By HARRISON CARROLL Kls( fratarr* MyaSlrala Writer Hollywood — Promiaing film' career of Maria Palmer (Tanya! Litvinov in "Mission to Moscow") j almost was nipped In the bud on the "Revenge" location gFggEßfc 1 ('. „, r C.'v. Vt I «lMßia In a ■ sill • , ' ene - * ti ‘’ f,a! W w® to leap lnto "* K -<> MprJl gully to avoid a B 3BK-I P ,iin ’>‘ r '£ h'.rw B| I Landed on rocks “nd tore BJ ~r. -iffiffl t ’’ r if,t * :ir Hl jjjffirtgß Five »:.! hrwere taken in a£sy 'JjBImSI the w,,unJ - Harris** Carrell Roger Touhy. ex-Public Enemy No. 1. la ao burned up at his screen biography that he tried by injunction to stop the picture being ahown at an Illinois penitentiary. More trouble anticipated. Through shock and illness, Veronica Lake is down to a shadow of her former self. Getting up out of bed to attend her baby's funeral didn't help. Star's mother wants her to take at least a slx month vacation before making another picture. De Mine discovery. Carol Thurston (she plays "Three Martini" in The Story of Dr. Waa**il"), is having dates with Actor Jack Edwards, whom ah* met at a Hollywood little theater. . . . Martha Mature back in town and professing surprise at the marriage rumors. Bays she's not tn love with anybody. ... Did you know that Paul Whiteman s father, th* late Wilberforce James Whiteman used to be Gene Fowler's music teacher? Happened back in Denver.... It's a six-pound boy for the Sherman Hayeses She's Ruth Skinner, once wed to Nick Stuart.... Mary Beth Hughes becomes Mi*. Ted North some time between Ort. 1 and 18. ... Big dog fight on the Ha Our Times" art when Ida Luptoo* German shepherd. Duehess, attacked Prince, the Great Dane writing in th® picture. Now, Duchcan baa been barred from the set. ...VtenM Tsctars bMaasrtfi*

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the plaintiff and her young child and her attorney fees of |SO. Nathan C. Nelson represented the plaintiff. Defendant was without counsel. The divorce salt of Elva vs. Clarence Wolfe was also achdeuled to be heard by Judge Fruchte late thia morning. , o Four 'Teen-Age Boys Held For Robberies Indianapolis July 24. — (VP> — i Pour 'teen-age Michigan boys have been sent to Cambridge City in Wayne county tor queationing in connection with robberies of hitch hikers. State police said the boy* were arrested in Indianapolis while driving an automobile reported stolen from Highland Park. Mich. Reports eaid the boy* were In possession Ilf three billfolds which Were not their own property. The boys were Identified a* Guy Bernard Franklin of Hagel Park, William Slater of Ferndale, Don-' aid Vovlch of East Pontiac and Leroy Shaw of Pontiac. They range I tn age from 14 to 16. o Trade In a Good Tows — Decatut

i aecond lieutenant and he and his I wife. Sandra, are very happy since their reconciliation. . . . Four boatswain's mates on the U. 8. 8. Aidebaran carried Frances Langford's recording. "Love Lies," over 50,000 miles. Played the record until it broke and have the piece* :n a picture frame over their bunks. ... Gasoline rationing, observes Arthur Murray, put the nation on its feet; then along came shoe rationing. That frustrated feeling: Preston Foster s losing money on his Saugus ranch, which contains a work- , able gold claim. Star can't mln* the gold for the duration. It is against the law. Found out what happened to the old De Mill* bungalow on th* Paramount lot Scenarist Jules Furthman bought and moved it to hl* 1 orchid farm. A superintendent now enjoys the walnut and mahogany paneled rooms and the famous BUXlk*n hath, U. 8. Coast Guard will get Paramount's pirate galleon after “Frenchman's Creek” I* finished. The lib-foot veesl l will be used as a target ship. HOLLYWOOD HI-JINKS: When Lois Andrews arrived home recently, she found her car stolen I and her maid ready to quit . . . i Incidentally, one reason why Lois wants her maiden name back ia that, when ahe was in Chicago, the i papers billed haras Mrs. JeaseL... . James McKinley Bryant, who pub- . Ilshed the Case Society Register, is i readying a new book. "Ptraonalil Um of IMS." ... Vivian Marshall, i of Ken Murray's "Stockouts." I knocked oat by carboa monoxide . fumes from a broken exhaust pipe. . Keeled over oa Sunset boulevard - aa she got out ot ths car. . . . . Marianne O'Brien sad Stake Garr n*r have gotten around to each 1 other. . . . Stuttering Sam Dowell. I the literary chorine, with Milton i Mack at the Moeamba ... Th* ■ Louie Primes together sad looking i happy at Mik* Lymaa a ...»»■ i gaged: Gloria Lemaire, daughter - ct M-G-M Executive Rufus Le . Mair*, and Norman Clerk, soon to Hbe ta UM Air

Indians, Senators Are Leading League Recreation League Schedule Listed League Standing W L Pct. Indian* 3 0 1 000 Senator* 2 0 1 Athletic.-. — 2 1 -6<L Brown* 2 1 66. White Sox 1 2 .333 Red Sox 0 4 .900 j Yankee* 0 2 000 The Indian* troithced the White Sox. 12 to 0. and the Athletic* walloped the ffed Sox. 15 to 2. in Recreation league games Friday at Worthman field. Smltley, Llchtenstelger and Costello hurled for the Indian*, with Bnsse catching. and Ogg and Hackman formed the White Sox pattery. Melchl and Moser were In the points for the Athletics, and Peterson hurled and Fisker caught for the Red So* Next week's schedule: .Monday—Yankee, v« Senators; Brown* v* Indian* Tuesday—Athletic* vs Senator*. White Sox vs Red Sox Thursday-Yankee* vs Indian*. Athletic* v« White Sox. Friday — Senator* vs Indian*: Red So, vr. Yankee*. RUSSIAN DRIVE (CouUauad From raw* It the Donets front south of Izyum where the Red army improved It* positions on the west bank of the northern Donets river. The Berlin radio claim* that German shock troop* hurled hack Rus- ■ I slan advance* all along the |ln<- - from Ijike in the Leningrad area to the Kuban bridgehead in the southern Caucasus. — - O-" Wells County Farmer Ends Life By Hanging John Alva W’llson. 46. a native of Adam* county, took his own life by hanging Thursday evening at hla home In Wells county near

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I »he Adam* county line, fxpondI ency over 111 health and crop condition* was blamed for hl* act. Survivor* includt th< widow, two *<>n-. L:. Ronald Wilson of Tampa. Fla and Dwight, at home; and one brother. Fred W ilson. of Well* county Funeral services have been delayed pending word fiom the sell In *ervlC“ — --<>• Nazis Pessimistic On War Months Ago • i New York, July 24 il’Pi The ’(London radio says that the smuggled text of a private speech by , Nazi propaganda minister Joseph , 1 Goebbels before German new*pa;>e- leader* nine months ago . reveals that the Nazi leaders were , even then very pesslml-tic regarding the war. Goebbels is said to have told the I editor* that the third reich could be saved only by a miracle or a I lucky accident. He also is said to i have declared that he could not . afford to be as honest al»out reI port* of the war situation a* the British had been because the German people couldn't take it. Joel Mailer Badly Burned In Accident Joel .Mailer, who reside* five I miles w'Kt of Monroe, was severely burned Friday while attempting, to repair a gasoline pump at the | Noah Aachliman filling station, six I mile* eMt of Bluffton on state road 124 .Mailer was taken to the Well* I ■ county hospital at Bluffton, where he I* reported suffering from first and second degree burns altout hl* face and neck. o ... Four Are Injured In Indianapolis Wreck Indianapolis. July 34 —(VPI— One perton was critically hurt and three others received leas serious j i injuries when a trackle** trolly car, collided with an automobile at a southside intersection this morning. Police reported that the trolley failed to Hop at a preferential street, collided with an automobile

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The outstanding swimming and diving event of the year, the National Senior A A. V. Women'* (*namplon«hip*. will l»e »'»g*d at Shakamak state park near Jaaonville. August 27. 28 and 2IL with a record entry IMt from all part* of the I'nited Stale*. Twelve national championship* will l>e at stake during the three day* of the meet. Charle* A. DeTurk. director of the Division of State Parks, said today. In addition four National Junior A. A. U. and careened over a sidewalk. The trolley smashed ever a sleel pole and a ga»oline pump Ifefor" coming to rest in a victory garden. o New Regulation On Student Deferment Indianapolis. July 24 — tl’Pi — Indiana's selective service director draft rule* allowing eligible youths announces a new interpretation of to complete high school before Induction. Colonel Robinson Hitchcock said that defermenta now are available for 18 and l»-yearolds who are within half an academic year of finishing their high school education. This means that students who began their year's studies at mid semester can secure deferments. Previously, such deferments were granted only to those students who were enrolled In the regular school year running from

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