Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 131, Decatur, Adams County, 2 June 1944 — Page 6

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Detroit Takes Fourth In Row From Yankees St. Louis Browns At Top Os League Despite Defeat New York. June 2 fl'l’i Five starting |»it«*h»T“. who b.-Hev. that a day's work constitutes nine full Innings, put the consistent In tioit Tigers a game and a half out of first place in the American league today, ready to overtake the St larnls Browns or New York Van kees if either team does any forth er faltering The Tigers completed their best serie* of the season at Detroit yesterday In aIG Inning 4to thril let victory over the Yankee giv lug them a complete sweep of four games with the world champions and extending their winning record to six straight and 13 out of the last 17. It took three pitchers to gel the Tigers through the marathon, which which was unil*ual. liecalise in 12 of their last 17 games, the starting moundeman still ha* been on the tiring line at the thiish. .Manager Steve (> Neill has been using Paul (Dizzy) Trout, Rufus (Jentry. Hal Newhousei and John ny Corsica in fairly regular rota tion with Fiank tStubbyt Ovet mite, his little left hander, avail able for spot Jobs. Newhouser. who won his eighth game of the season and bis fourth in the current winning drive yes terday. pitched the final seven ami a third Inning* Ism Rohr ended the game with a double after Jim my Outlaw singled Alley Donald.

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KESo. who worked from the eighth inning on. was the loser. Ironically. Donald. In collaboration with Joe Page, came within a single out of a regulation nine Inning no hitter in the middle of : the game After a hit in the fourth. I the Tigers wile starved at the I plat. until the etart of the 14th, I during which time the two Yankee I pitcher* fat ed 3o batters The St laiuit Blown* hacked in j to fir*t plat e losing to the Washing !ton Senators 11 to 5. The Sen alor h-d by Stan Spence, who got six for six including a home run. mails 20 hits off four Brownie pitchers The Browns made 13 hits off Wilfrid Lefebvre, who was able to take it easy in winning his first 1 start. The defeat put the Browns | two percentage jstinfs ahead of tin* Yankees tleorge .Metkovich lilt a homer with two on base in the ninth Io give the Boston Red Sox a 7 to 6 victory over the Indians at Cleveland Tlii- Red Sox. who squandered a four run llrst Inning lead, had to come from behind to win with Metkovich getting the blow off relief pitcher Kay Poat, Clem Hausmann was the winning pitcher The New York Giants, leading both leagues In homers with 25. used two to win their sixth straight victory, 5 to 3 over the Chicago Cubs in a home night game. Danny Gard. Ila gave rookie Bill Volselle the margin for his fifth victory by lading a hornet with one on in the seventh. Johnny Rucker got the other in theft rat. Tillett (Rip) Sewell of Pitts burgh won his sixth straight game. It Is seventh of the season ami main tained his record of not needing relief in nine assignments by beating the Dodgers at Brooklyn. 2 to 1. on six hits. The Pirates made their run* on homers by Ellsworth (Babe) Dahlgren and Johnny Bar rest Outside of those tWe lapses. Curt Davis pitched brilliantly, giving up only four hits it; all Pitcher George .Munger suffered a dislocated finger in winning hi- , I sixth game for the St. Louis Cardo. I to 2 at Boston He had limited I the Braves to three hits when he I elabbed a liner by Damon Phillips I with his bare hand in the eighth I Tiie Caul scored twice In the sevI el|t|| alter two were out to gain the I winning margin > l)i(k Barrett ijuitrlhuted more as a hitter than pitcher In the | Phillies 8 to 7 victory over Cincinnati at Philadelphia. He drove In ■ four runs ami scored a fifth with , a double and triple However, he i needed help from Bill Lee to save his third victory. Philadelphia at Chicago in the j American league was postponed i because of wet grounds. Yesterday's star: Stan Spence. 1 subbing at first base for the ailing Joe Kuhel, who hit six for six Including a hoim r to drive In five [| runs in Washington's II to 5 vic- | lory over the St Louis Browns.

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Milwaukee Wallops Kansas City Blues Runs Wild To Score 19 To 4 Triumph By t'nlted Press The American association's first place Milwaukee Brewers ran wild yesterday to score a If* to 1 victory over Kansas City, their fourth straight win over the Blu«*. while the second-place Columbus Redbirds took a 7 to 5 decision from the Toledo ..Mudhens. The lamisville Colonel* nearly duplicated the Brewers’ huge score when they defeated the Indianapolis Indians 16 to 5. The game between Minneapolis, and St. Paul wax postponed and no games were scheduled today. The Brewers pounded out 24 hits off three Kansas City pitchers, scoring six runs in the opening h line Earl Caldwell had little difficulty with the Blue* until the eighth inning when they staged a minor uprising that netted them three of their foilr runs. All together. the Blues made 12 safeties off Caldwell, who helped his teammates to victory by blasting out a home run in the third inning with one man on base. Three other circuit clouts were registered Uy the Milwaukee squad, including one by Tom Nilson in the opening stanza with two men on bases Columbus staged a three-run rally in the eighth inning to overcome a on>-run lead and whip the Mudhens laiulrtville tallied 14 safeties) in its 16-run uprising against the Indians. who made three errors during the game. Indianapolis batter* made a total of 12 hit* but failed to score more than a single run in any inning but the fifth when they pushed three tallies across the plate. o MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L Pct G B St. Louis 26 13 .687 Cincinnati 22 16 .579 3Vj Pittsburgh 20 15 .571 4 New York 19 20 .487 7 Brooklyn 18 21 .462 7*4 Philadelphia 16 19 .457 8 Boston 19 23 .452 B'4 Chicago 11 24 .314 13 AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct G.B. St. Louis 24 19 .558 New York 20 16 556 *4 Detroit 22 20 .524 I’4 Philadelphia 19 19 .500 2Afc Washington 20 20 SoO 2*4 Boston 19 21 .475 Cleveland 19 23 .452 4*4 Chicago 16 21 .432 5 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League St. I amis 4. Boston 2. Philadelphia 8. Cincinnati 7. Pittsburgh 2. Brooklyn 1. New York 5. Chicago 3. Am e rican League Washington 11. St. Louis 5 Detroit 4. New York 3 (16 innings). Boston 7. Cleveland 6. Philadelphia at Chicago, wet ground*. o— Released Cub Hurler Declared Free Agent iChtcago. June 2—(UP) Johnny Burrow*, southpaw relief pitcher optioned to Nashville of the southern association by the Chicago Cubs, was declared a free agent today by bairtl»ail commissioner K. M latndi* iLaudia said Burrow* had signed with the CUba with an understanding that he would net be aent to the minor* and the Chicago team violated the agreement. SHATTERING AIR (CoatlnueS From Fag* 1) nounced that during May the American air force* In Britain and Italy flew 49.811 sorties against Germany and occupied 'territory, the Flying Fortresses and Liber atora alone dropping bomba at a rate of more than 2,000 ton* a day. An official summary of the massive aerial onslaught softening the continent for invasion revealed that U. 8. airmen ahot down 1,268 German plane* in May—lM credited to bomber crewmen and 632 to lighters. American losses were 481 heavy bombers and 235 flghtera—a ratio of 1 59 percent of the bomber* engaged and l.lfl percent of th* flght era. Stormy weathsr closed over west-

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ern Europe at the end of the month, slowing the pace of the aerial offetwlve to a walk. The RAF sent a comparatively small force against the enemy last night to keep him off balance while the main striking fleets were waiting for better weather. o YANKEE TROOPS (Contlnura From Paco 1) of Rome controlled the “home stretch" of the Via Casilina nod and its prospective fall should pave the way for an Allied advance around the southeastern flank of the Alban hill* •A dispatch from Velletri by Reynold* Packard, United Press war correspondent, said the Americans first broke into the edge of the town at 6 o'clock Thursday night and entered it an hour and one half later. Today, he said, infantry wax cleaning out German sniper* left behind ax a rear guard. (.A German i-.Miimunlque claimed that Axis forces had fought particularly violent Allied attacks In the Velletri jiA Valmonione sectors to a xtandstili and had sealed off penetration* in the Alban Hill* between the two towns. Other American units were engaged in “fierce fighting" In th* streets of ruined Vejjetri Appian Way stronghold 110 mile* couthwest of Vaknoutone and 19 mile* southeast of Rome, the special communique said. ROOSEVELT REVEALS (Coatlaura P»sm Pec* I) and the Japanese.” The president spoke from a memorandum prepared for him by foreign economic administrator Leo T. Crowley. He said that while the memorandum was not very exciting, he thought it certainly was one for the record. .Mr. Roosevelt hailed In his review of plane production and shipment* to recall — with obvious relish —that there had been those who in speeches and store* in 1940, were doubting Thomases when he asked congress for a 50.000 plane program. SEEK SETTLEMENT (Coatlnura From rag* I) and faced Immediate reclassification into I.A. Griffin said the strikers wuld not be returned to (heir deferred classification* on their return to work, but would have to depend on individual appeals to their respective hoard* Official* of the Amalgamated Association of Street. Electric and Motor Coach Employes of America, Local 788, (AFLL admitted that the strike was out of control and It was believed that if no settlemest was reached at today's meeting, the dispute would be certified to the WLB at Washington to clear the way for government intervention. The strikers, many of them intoxicated, booed union leaders and WLB authorities at a mass meeting last night and caused Paul F. Nachtman, WLB regional chairman to tell them, “I'll talk to you tomorrow when you are sober?’ Newspaper reporters twice fled the mass meeting when the strikers threatened them. At least one list flght broke out between unruly union members and others who were trying to quiet them and let their leaders speak. The meeting broke up after the strikers rejected unanimously Nachtman’a flat order “In the name of the United flutes’* tor the men to return to work Immediately. The meeting opened with a doten union leaders and three regional WLB representatives on the stage trying to Ulk to tbs

men. and ended with more than 100 strikers on the stage shouting at the peacemakers After the more unruly members had stomped from the hall. Nachtman asked the remaining men to meet with lilii) today Violent Death Toll Is Taken In State Six Lives Lost In Indiana Thursday By United Press Automobile, railway and explosion accidents were responsible for six live* lost in Indiana yesterday Alva Sweigart, 38, and >Mr*. Gladys Cole, 31, were killed near New Castle when a motorcycle they were riding collided with an automdliile driven by George W Kitchen Wilson Reneck, 67. Lawrenceburg. crashed Into the rear of another car, driven by Otis Townsend of Palm Beach, Fla , and wax killed James Froh 75, was fatally injured at Terre Haute when struck by an eastbound Now York Central pa.-wenger train. Ora Casey, 30. railroad employe, was struck and killed by a freight train near Petersburg. A fellow worker Ora Vppencamp, leaped from the handcar they were riding and suffered a:, injured knee. Helen BtoneOiraker, 10 year-old daughter of Mr. and Mi* Charles Rtoni'hraker of Veederatiurg was burned to death In a gasoline explosion of undetermined origin which occurred when an oil company truck, which was being filled with motor fuel, exploded near her home Infant Burned ■Seymour, Ind, June 2. —(.UP)— Eni* Miller Jr., tiwo and one-half month old baby, was burned to death and his mother, Mrs. Marjorie Miller. 19. seriously burned today when a kerosene can exploded In their three room farm home near Seymour. The mother wm taken to Scbneck Memorial hospital at Beymour with severe body burns and there is little home for her recovery. 'Her burns were Incurred when she made two futile attempt* to get the child out of the bedroom where he was sleeping. The father suffered hand burn*. Two other children a ien-year old girl and a boy. one and one half years, escaped safely. —o Delegates Slated For G.O.P. Confab Ittdianapoii*. June 2. —(VP)— Delegates-at-iarge to the Republican national convention, slated to be elected today at the GOP state convention. were: Former U. 8. Senalor James E Watson of Rushville; U. 8. Senator Reymond E Willie of Angola; ErnMt M. Morris of South Bend; William Hutchinson of Indianapolis, iMeraatiobal president of the Carpenter's Union hAIFL): William Grots, Fort Wayne publisher; Mark MoneywFll, Wabash Industrialhit. and Clark Springer DeKalb county OOP obalrman. National League Player Club G AB R H Pct. Walker. Brooklyn 39 163 22 65 .425 Mueiai, flt. Louis 40 148 38 M .384 Phillip*. Boston 29 92 932 .348 Tipton. Cincinnati 32 118 18 39 .839 Bordagarsy, Dodg. 17 111 34 81 .838 American League Tucker, Chicago 22 90 18 38 .400 Ferrell. Senators 87 88 4 30 .383 R Johnson. Bost. 38103 39 35 .340 Hostetler, Tigers 34 98 11 33 .337 Hockett, Cleveland 32111 10 38 138

Frilz Ostermueller Signed By Pirates Pitcher Bitter At Brooklyn's Action New York. June 2 (VP) Pitch er Fritz Ostermueller, buck in the National league with the Pittsburgh Pirates today, Haiti he was happy to be able to play “for a swell guy like Frankie Frisch,” but bitter over what a called a "rqueeze play" by president Branch Rickey o! the Brooklyn Dodgers to get him out of the majors. The left hander, lacking six weeks of being a 10-year man in the majors, said he believed Rickey had given him a "rough deal" in trading him to Syracuse of the International league, "when I was pitching good enough baseball to win games for every club that waived on me." Syracuse yesterday sold Ostermueller to the Pirates in a straight cash purchase, after he refused to report to the minor league club. "I hope to help the Pirates a lot, and I think I may be able to build up their pitching staff." he said. "My arm feels perfect, and I hope to work regularly." Ostermueller. who said he was given no notice by Rickey, protested by telephone to baseball's high commissioner K M Landta at Chicago, "presenting my case as It happened." “Mr. Landix promised me an Investigation. bitt now that I am with Pittsburgh it doesn't matter too much, although I would like to know what happened.” he said. "1 don’t see how these clubs could have waived me out of the league with everybody needing pitchers." Ostermueller said It "was a matter of record" that the Pittsburgh club refused to waive on him searlier this season, and that he knew Frisch was interested in him Frisch, here with the Pirates on a road trip, had "no comment" on the matter, but previously had Indicated surprise that the 36 yearold veteran bad been waived out of the league LAND REINFORCE. tCoattsnra pr»a rs<« it described the Allied position on Blak as "critical." with the American force*, estimated at one divi-

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sion. pushed l>ack to a narrow beach strip Berlin said the Japanese claimed that 1,090 V 8. soldier* were killed in bitter fighting on Hiak I Two enemy plane* attempted to raid the American positions on Blak in a night attack, the communique said, but the assault was "ineffective." o GOP KEYNOTER (Coatlnura From Pass 1) publican state convention today as planks In the party's platform The platform was drafted yes teiday by the convention resold. Lion'* committee headed by George L. Denny, Indianapolis It was slated Io be approved with' out change. A lengthy preamble to the plat, form took Issue with nearly all of the "new deal” domestic policies. "For 12 years our federal execu. live has broken faith with our people; has violated the letter as well a* the spirit of the conmitu tion; has depleted the treasury Dy experiments no sound official would even have considered; has usurped the rights of the states and of the people in an over mounting greed for power until now we find ourselves at the very threshold of socialism and the los* of those sacred freedoms and traditions our forefathers have given us." the preamble charged Candidates Withdraw Indianapolis, June 2 (VP) — Three candidates for nominations at the Republican state conven. tion withdrew today a< the general sessions opened Carl H Mote, Indianapolis attorney and public utility official dropped out of the V. S. senator, lai race, leaving James M Tucker of Paoli and Homer E. Cap-hart of Washington, Ind. as the only

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