Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 111, Decatur, Adams County, 9 May 1944 — Page 6

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East-West Series To Open Wednesday Major League Clubs To Meet New Tests N«*w York. .May 9. -<! !•» The first Intersectioual ewlng of the 1944 baseball season was underway today with the eastern club* of the ant tonal league scheduled to arrive ttt western points and the western clubs of the American league invading the eaet. Itvspite tile (ait that the season i is young, the trip promises to be| particularly crucial (or the travel- i era. National league strength sup j posedly lying in the western half; of th' circuit with the eastern club* t>t the American league e<m stdered the toughest. Regional play in the opening three we>-ks of the campaign has produced many surprises the most notable of which was the get away spurt of the St. laiula Browns, who broke all American league reconta by whining nine <'<>u-> < uilve i ament the start ot the season. The Browns never have been out ot first place and with the Cardinals tn the same spot in the Nation al ht.o-'te. St. Louis ha - topped both league* at once for the first season sine" jp22 the only other year it eve: happened. The Philadelphia Phillies, almost always a sure bet to finish last, have provided the east with its bigK*St surprise. In second place, the Mills have taken nine of their 14

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games and are only a game and a | half behind the Cardinals, a halfi a game ahead of the strong 4'in- i ciniiatl Rede and a game and a halfi ahead of the Pittsburgh Pirates. It's true that final standing* aren't tabulated at the beginning of the season, but fat Freddie Filesimmons. manager of the Phillies. Is operating under the old baseball adage that "a game won today is one that doesn't have to he won in Sept) mber.” Neither pennant race will be clltiched in this lir«t interact tional race, either, but a reasonably accural) line should be available on all clubs when they return home. The morning glories will have | started their fadeouts and the real I strength should be in full swing. _. o MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L Pct. (IB St. laritls 12 5 .706 .... Philadelphia .. 9 5 .643 l’i Cincinnati 9 6 .600 2 Pittsburgh 7 6 .538 3 Brooklyn 8 7 .533 3*4 New Work 8 9 .471 4 Boston 7 11 .389 54 Chicago .' 1 12 .077 9 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L Pct. (IB St. Louis 13 5 .722 I New York 9 4 692 14 Washington 8 7 .533 34 Chicago 8 8 .500 4 Cleveland 8 9 .471 44 Boston 6 9 ,4tto 54 Philadelphia 6 9 .400 54 Detroit 5 12 .294 74 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League No games scheduled. American League vXo games scheduled. n . Ownie Bush Retires As Indians' Manager Indianapolis. May 9— (VP*--Ow-nie J. Bush, president «nd manager of th)- Indianapolis Indians, .Vtnerlcan asaoclation htun. announced today that he would retire as active manager of the tribe Thursday because of 111 health The reins will be taken over by Barney (Mike) Kelly of IndlanapoIla. who signed a one-ywir contract Kelly was Bush'a personal choice to suct-eed him and Bush will continue to serve as president and in an advisory capacity.

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St. Paul Third In I Association Race I Minneapolis Beats Indianapolis, 6-3 By United Press The St. Paul Saints, were in third place In the American association today after winning a 11 to t decision over the Louisville Colonels yesterday while the leagu hading Milwaukee Brew er ajld the second place Colum•us Redbird* wen- rained out. !>• .-pile th)- fact th)- Colonels pounded pitcher Walter Tauscber for 13 hits and his teammat s mad* three errors, Louisville was h hl to two runs in each of the fourth and seventh Inning* while St. Paul batters hunched their eight lilts off htirh-rs Lewis Brock ami Robert Ennis to scar four tins in the fourth frame and -• i<n more'ln the seventh. in the only other gmue played, the Minneapolis Millers pounded out II hits off pitcher Albert Brunkhurst to d feat the Indian- • polls Indian 6 to 3. The Millers scored three tuns In the opening stanza ami two more in the second to put the game on ice. The sixth run was scored in tin sixth inning. The Indians were limit’d to lorn- runs in each of the second, fourth and seventh inning.--. Games between Tohllo and Milwaukee ami Columbus and Kansas City wore rained out. — o , ♦ * Today's Sports Parade By JACK CUDDY (Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.) New York. May 9.— (UP) - The first page of a fabulous new eliapter In racing hkitory was written with robust restraint yesterday at the opening of Belmont Park's 24day spring meeting. Spacious Belmont — which hna been called the “American ascot” was only about half filled with 25.419 believers In the betterment of the breed of hayburners. And they Wagered only 12.06U.044. This mutuel handle hit cloae to the |2,••36.936 averaged during the preceding 25 days of competition at smaller Jamaica. But such restraint was only the • alm In-fore the Belmont storm that is certain to shatter all-time world wide records for turf attendance and betting. Although the 25,419 crowd was almost double the attendance at last year's Belmont opening, it was far below the out pouring of 45.796 race-hungry fans who swarmed into Jamaica on April 8 for the launching of New York state's 1944 racing campaign. Thin was to be expected on a Monday from the turf enthusiasts, whose appetites had been comewhat appeased liy 25 days at Jamaica. And the butting on the eight card (compared to the daily seven events at Jamaica) hit only 32.0W.044. because the opening-day throng at Belmont traditionally is not -t betting crowd. The dehut of the gee-gees at Belmont annually is a social event that Is a "must" for the society clans who re-ally should be seen there, my deah! Many of the so-cial-registrar bluebloods do not bet as much upon the registered bluebloods as Henry, the soda Jerk from the corner drug store. Moreover.. one of the races was a steeplechase which drew only four tlmper-topper*. for 4|iom the chalk eaters do not battle to the windows. Also there were three events down 'the destested straightaway Widener "chute.” It wax a restrained opening, although In pre-war times both crowd and mutual handle would have been

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; — hailed ax noteworthy. Rut don't let thte opening fool you. Before the current Bqjmont meeting ’ (loses, June 3. visually all crowd * and betting recony will have been - broken. And wefre positive that i racing will have had Itn first fourt milllon-dollar day. Racing had Itn fl rut threemilHondollar day during the Jamatea meeting, which dosed Saturday. ' On April 22. the Jamaica mutuel handle wax 13.176.553. The total ‘ might have been larger had the ' fans been able to fight their way to the limited number of windows 1 at Jamaica. Imagine what will happen at big Belmont, where (here are plenty of windoWM. on May 30, for example. larxt Decoration Day. Belmont hung up a new record for 1 attendance at a New Yofrk state frack when 52,011 fans participates in improving the breed. Because of the mounting Interest in bosses, several crowds of more than 50,000 will be at Belmont during the current meeting — perhaps for the running of such events ax the Suburban, the Withers, the Belmont slakes, and the Metropol- , itan handicap. Turn 50.000 loose ’ on that sweep of Belmont windows, with the money they now have 1 heating their pockets, and you'll ’ get 14.000,000 In a hurry. ' During 25 days at Jamaica, the hose followers wagered 550,923,391. Twenty-four days at Belmont should approach 1100.000,000. ol Cubs' Application For Niqht Baseball Rejected By WPB Washington, May 9—(UP!—An I application by the Chicago Cubs I to procure lighting equipment for I Wrigley field so that night games ■ could Ire conducted thia season 1 was denied late yesterday by the ' war production board. 1 George W. McMurphoy, chief • of the WPB's recreational section, i explained the board's action by ’ saying •'that under such clrcum stances the expenditure of mater- - iai and labor does not seem JustlI fled for so few night games." The i denial, ha said, resulted from a

study of the critical materials i necesgary to the construction and “other factors.” < Tho board, which earlier had advocated more night baseball in ' major league parks lo provide war < workers with relaxation, asked I the Cubs to apply again later in | the year for similar lighting fa i dlitles for the 1945 season. It I also suggested that the Cubs, schedule "several night games" I and use the facilities of Comiskey I Park, home diamond of the Chicago American league team, the < Whits Sox. , o ( Alleys Available For Open Bowling * > tAlleys at Mies Recreation will be I available soy open bowling oa I Tuesday evening*, starting tonight, I; was announced today. The Major « legaue. which bowlu on Tuesdays, completed Its league schedule last & week. t o——- 1 MONTGOMERY WARD ] (Coattnuwd Frew race I , who Is in Chicago directing the t government's case, filed an 11-page t supplemental brief with Judge I Holly yesterday in reply to a company brief filed with the court previously. The extent of the emergency and I not the type of property taken ■ over by the government is the true lest of the president's wartime ’ powers, Biddle xald in the >. ,es. "The defendants do not argue ' that the president cannot exercise ‘ hl* powers as commander-in-chief of the war in case of an emerg- , ency, nor do they argue that this , emergency hast to be on the battle- ' field,” the brief added. "Montgomery Ward." the brief 1 continued, “Is a vast enterprise so 1 closely connected with the war es- j fort that Its business cannot be , separated from the war effort. "We do not. and have never suggested that the president can seize any retail store or farm. The United State* Is not contending that the president possesses a broad, unrestricted. unrevlewable power In time of war to confiscate the prop-'.

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Nation-Wide Hunt For Chicago Slayer Man Is Sought In Trunk Murder Case Chicago May 9 (VP)- \ nationwide man hum was underway today for Soylo Villegas, also known as “Soyla Vlllyvos,” (believed by the police to be the ‘‘John (Lopes" who shipped the seml-nude. saltpacked ihody of iamise Chestlue Wright, a native of Myrtle, Miss,, in a trunk from VNcago to Los Angeha last week. 'Search for Villagau waa Intensified following announcement from Washington last night by J. Edgar Hoover, director of the federal bureau of investigation, that the body had ■been Identified through fingerprints. The FBI records snowed her age waa either 23 or 25. Chicago police said (he deacrlptlonu of Miss Wright, who also was known as ‘lLouise <*. Mycru,” and of the body tallied wKh that of a woman who registered at the Racine hotel In Chicago with Villegas, as bis wife. •Prior to Hoov<-r's announcement, Chicago authorities uald they were certain that it ws« Ville.- i , who shipped the trunk from the Dearborn St. atatlon on April 30. Miss VVright. according to Hoover, had a record of three arrest* under the alia* of ixiuise C. Myers, one each in Helena. Ark.. Baton Rouge, lai., and Memphia, Tenn. In Baton Rouge she wait fined 45 and costa for vagrancy, and the other arrests were for Investigation. Chicago police said the first name ot Mna. Villegas was Louise. Foil) .wing a conference netiween Wilbert F. Crowley, first assistant state's attorney, and Lt. Philip Breitxke, chief of the homicide, police throughout the country were asked to aid in the search for Vlllegau. Villegas' picture was dbtairu-d from a war plant and will be circulated to police In other cities. The trunk was iraced to the Racine hotel after discovery of its contents In Ixm Angeles last Friday. Central police detectlvea William Howey and Martin Tully said they learned that Villegas formerly lived at the Fleetwood hotel here. A towel from that hotel was found In the trunk with the body. Th* detectives i>aid Villegae lived at that hotel from March 28 to April 11 a* Soyla Villyvos and left after declaring that he was going to be married to Ixkuise Villegas. Police said he used the name of Villegae at a war plant where he waa employed. la>* Angeles police have not yet established the cause of the ■woman's death. No mark* or wounds were foutkl on the ls>dy and a further examination wda ordered. AMERICAN PLANES (Conilmwd Sroea Page l> Tblonvllle, France; Luxembourg City. Luxembourg. Airdromes - St. Trond and Florrenii'S. Belgium; Thlonville. St. —-— - . i erty of all cMlsens.” The company tiad contended In its brief that If the president could seise the Ward plant he could seis* any retail store or farm. The company based Its contention o& the grounds Riat Montgomery Ward and Co. was operating a non war industry

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Ditier, Laon-Couvt-on, Laon-Thles. and JutlncourL France. All 19 targets He In the triangle formed by northern Fra ice, Re), gluin. and Luxembourg so important to th* defense of the channel :’oast, which Iks close to inva-lon, armies in Britain. Crews participating in the attacks on the Thlonville and laixembourg' railway yards said they met no aerial opimsiiion and only moderate antiaircraft fire. One pilot called the flight a “Sunday afternoon drive." Vlslhilliy was hamjiered only i slightly by a thin ground has* ■ and the crews saw their bomba i land squarely among string* of railway cars and railway Installations , “I saw pieces of locomotive* and tliu roundhouse at Thlonville I fly 1 000 feet through the air into the river.” Ist Lt. Elmer Young of Roachdale. Iml., co pitot of a fortrear. said. Some lltnrator crews attacking other targets reported a few • m-iny fighters timidly approai h>-d their formations, but shied off when attacked by escorting fighter*. PRIMARIES TODAY (Continued From Page I) oniing today, with DemocraUc county convention* In Texa* The Wyoming conventions -were to name eight Democratic and nine Rtvpubllcan delegates to the nominating conventions. The state Democratic convention In Texas will ba held May 23. . M;,. .. irl DmBM Nttfft -•■ tMto <-on ventlon in J efferent! Chy yesterday. instructed their convention delegates to vote as a unit for a fourth term nomination for President Roosevelt.

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