Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 78, Decatur, Adams County, 2 April 1945 — Page 6

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Boston Braves Eye Berth In First Division (Editor's note: This is the sixth in a series on the prospects of 'he major league baseball teams). By LEO H. PETERSEN New York. April 2.—-(UP) The Boston Braves have set their sights for a first division finish in 1945. Manager Boh Coleman believes the addition of four men will give him the strength necessary to advance at least two notches from their sixth place epot of last year. The. men are pitchers Charles Cozart and James Wallace and infielders Richard Culler and Thomas Nelson. The Braves have added other [ power, too, but Coleman figures those four players will make the difference. Cozart won 18 while losing 13 with Atlanta last year while Wallace is back after a year in the army. Culler and Nelson formed the best keystone combination in the American Association last yeir with Milwaukee, the former hitting .308 and the latter .303. Coleman is switching Nelson to third with Culler holding down the shortstop post. Frank Drews is slated for second with Joe Mack, 0o batted in 102 runs tor Columbus last season, and Vincent Shupe, a .346 hitter with Hartford, candidates for the first base post. Mack has not come to terms, but when be does is expected to win out. Eddie Joost, back in the game as ter a year’s retirement: Whitey Wietelmann, a regular last year arid Steve Shemo, up from Hartford where he hit .306 also are fighting for regular berths. Ben Geraghty, Who hit .226 with Syracuse last year, also is a candidate. Nate Andrews, Jim Tobin, a holdout, Charles Barrett, Al Javery and John Hutchings are being counted on by Coleman for starting pitching assignments along with Wallace and Cozart. Tom Early, back after a year in the navy, and Ira Hutchinson, are other possibilities for regular duty. Fight for the remaining position on the staff are Armand Cardoni and Harry Petty. Clyde Klutz and Phil Masi are back to handle the catching with Hugh Poland, Bob Brady and Stewart Hofferth battling it out for the utility berth. The only sure starter in the outfield is Tommy Holmes, whose 309 average led the Braves in hitting last year. Colman has switched Holmes from center to left field. Back from last year’s team are Charles Workman, Elmer (Butch) Nieman and Ab Wright. Carden Gillenwater, purchased from Brooklyn, is making a determined bid for a starting berth and has impressed Coleman with his hitting. Wayne Blackburn, William Ramsey. Michael Ulisney and Stanley Wentzel, all of whom were in the minors last year, are other can-

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didates. The pitching and fielding are there, on paper at least, but the team may be short on hitting. o —. — Race Tracks To Be After Nazi Collapse New York. April 2—(UIP)-The nation's turfmen reacted jubilantly today to the conditional go-ahead for the resumption of racing, yet they were not quite sure what to do next. Definite plans can be made up to a certain point — after that they ■must be talbled for final collapse of Germany, the time set by war mobilizer James F. Byrnes for reopening of the nation’s tracks. Because of a multitude of details such as mobilizing of personnel, conditioning of horses, securing Jockeye foreign tracks where they migrated and will remain until racing is resumed here, printing of tickets, over-hauling of Pari-mutuel Machines, and rearrangement of schedules. it is almost a certainty that no track will Ibe able to open until two or three weeks after V4E Day. It was regarded certain that all of the major stake races, the Kentucky Debby, the Preakness, the Bellmont,, the Dwyer, and the Arlington classic will he run, hut probably from two weeks to a month Ibchind their usually scheduled dates. Thoroughbred racing officials are expected to call a meeting within a few days to work out such revisions making an abbreviated calendar of dates for each track with the dates reduced on a pro-rata basis. ■New York’s tracks. Belmont and Jamaica on which racing dates had Ibeen scheduled, are being conditioned and only a few days of work will tbe necessary to get them in shape. Tbe season was scheduled to start later at Aqueduck, the third track, ibut conditioning work probably will begin there shortly. Thoroughbreds from a number of nation's top stables have been quartered here for the winter and spring and major workouts probably will ibegin immediately. Among the stables represented or expected shortly are 'Hirsch Jacobs, Elizabeth Arden, Walter Jeffords, Samuel ißiddle, John C. Clark, George 'Widner, ’William Ziegler, Walter P. fChrisley, C. V. Whitney, Hal Price Headley, W. E. Boeing, Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloan and T. ID. Widener. 0 Spilling The Pins With Decatur Bowlers In League Activities MIES ALLEYS Central Soya League Better Halves won three from Pencilpushers; M & R three from Truckers; Research won two from Erasers; Pilot won two from Master Mixers; Traffic won two from Elepeller; Analits won three from Solvent. Standing W. L. Pencilpushers 24 12 Traffic 24 12 Truckers 22 14 Erasers - 22 14 Research 22 14 M & R 19 17 Better Halves 18 18 Master Mixers 15 21 Elepeller 15 21 Pilot 14 22 Aanalits 13 23 Solvent 8 28 High series: Men —McClure 613, Sanders 544, Adams 500, Karjala 500, Kuehn 508, Buck 559, Snyder 563. Women —'Scheuler 481. High series: Men —McClure 225216, Myers 203. Snyder 200, Buck 204. Women —Echeuler 181, NaHr 170. 0 It takes courage to live up to one’s best.

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New Baseball Czar To Be Named Soon Chicago, April 2—(VP)—(lt won't ibe long until baseball meets to select a commissioner to succeed the late Kem saw IM. Landis. President Ford iFrlck of the national league and William Harridge of the American league will call a major league meeting to name the new commissioner as soon as they receive a report from the big leagues’ four-man “selection committee.” The special committee, appointed in early February to recommend candidates for the post, finished its business here {Saturday. The committee members, presidents (Sam Breadon of the St. Louis Cardinals, Phil K. Wrigley of the Chicago Cuibs. Don L. Barnes of the St. Louis Browns and Alva Bradley of Cleveland, released the following statement after their meeting: "The committee on selecting a successor for the commissioner of 'baseball ’met in Chicago and the members are notifying their league presidents that they ar ready to report and make a recommendation.” The announcement concluded that "Obviously there can be no enlargement of this statement. ’’ But Harridge said the time is near when 'baseball will meet to sel-et a new leader. "I have not received the report from tbe committee yet,” Harridge said. "When it arrives. I’ll confer 'With IMr. Frick and we'll set a date for the meeting. Naturally baseball wants to select a commissioner as soon as possible.” Whoever gets the job will receive a $50,000 a year salary and will administer practically the same sweeping power which made Landis Czar of baseibaii for 23 years before his death last Nov. 25th. o Latest News From Training Camps Os Major League Teams Senators Norfolk, Va., Apr. 2 —(UP) — Lt. Bert Shepard, the American air ace who lost a leg over Germany, offered preliminary proof today that the Washington Senators made no mistake when they gave him a contract as a relief pitcher. Shepard stopped the Norfolk, Va., Naval team cold in the seventh inning yesterday and held them scoreless through the eighth after they made four runs off his predecessor, Marino Pieretti. Shepard’s stint was too late to save the game, however, the navy boys winning. 4 to 2. Braves Washington. Apr. 2—(UP) — Third baseman Tommy Nelson rejoined the Boston Braves today, confident of winning a job as a regular after undergoing dental surgery in Boston to relieve soreness in his a throwing arm. The rookies beat the regulars, 9 to 6, in a camp game yesterday. Dodgers Rear Mountain, N. Y., Apr. 2 — (UP) —Manager Leo Durocher of the Brooklyn Dodgers indicated today he would like another look at 19-year old Pete Stephens, a rookie pitcher who showed up well in a 6 to 5 exhibition victory over the Montreal farm club. Stephens, who hasn’t even signed a contract, handled himself well in his brief tenure on the mound. Phillies Wilmington, Del., Apr. 2 —(UP) —The work of three rookies stood out today after the Philadelphia Phillies made their first exhibition appearance of the season a resounding success — beating a soldier team from Fort Dupont, Del., 15 to 0. Infielder Granville Hamner paced the hitting with a three run homer while pitchers Charley Sproull, a right hander from Milwaukee, and Charley Ripple, a lefty from Wilmington, had 15 strikeouts. Red Sox Pleasantville. N. J., Apr. 2 — (UP) —The Boston Red Sox still were sharp on their hitting today but Manager Joe Cronin wondered if the batting would hold up as well after the regular season begins. The Sox trimmed an allstar service team, 20 to 4, yesterday. , Giants Lakewood, N. J., Apr. 2—(UP) —Pitcher Johnny Gee, six-foot, nine inch left hander, said today that he was confident of being a winner for the New York Giants this season, because his sore arm Is gone. Gee, a great minor league prospect who never won consistently in the majors because of army trouble, came to the Giants via waiver last season. Yankees Atlantic city, N. J., Apr. 2 — (UP) —Pitchers Hank Borowy of the New York Yankees and Bill Voiselle of the Giants were nominated today as opening day pitchers on the strength of their showings in the Giants' 5 to 1 exhibition victory over the Yankees here yesterday. Borowy, the Yankee starter, gave up four hits in five innings. Voiselle yielded six, but kept them scattered.

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Three Hoosiers Die In Easter Accidents By United Press Three Hoosiers lost their lives in accidents during the Easter weekend. state police reported today. Earl Jeffers, 53, Evansville, was killed in an automobile accident near Chandler yesterday. /A Wabash youth, Ralph Walker, 19, was drowned in Flat lake near Warsaw when a boat capsized yesterday. Billy Lou Conrad, 3-year-old College Corner girl, died in a hospital at Hamilton, 0., after she was struck by an automobile driven by Roy iE. (Morris, R'R 1, Liberty, in college Corner Saturday night. o Franklin Man Named As Budget Director Indianapolis, April 2 —-(UP)— Roscoe P. Freeman, 46, Franklin, resigned today as chairman of the Indiana public service commission and was appointed by Governor Gates as state budget director. Freeman had been chairman of the FiSIC only a f >w weeks after having served 11 years as a field examiner for the state board of accounts and four years as Repubican deputy examiner for the board. He succeeded C. A. Ketchum, who resigned as budget director. Q Five Youths Killed As Train Hits Auto Charleston, 111., April 2 —(UP) — Five teenage person,s one of them a 16-year-old mother of a four months old child were dead and another is in a serious condition at Charleston hospital today following their automobile being struck tby a railroad passenger train at a crossing near here during a rain storm last night. o More Jap Admirals Are Killed In Action By United (PresSß The Domei New f s agency announced today that 14 more Japanese admirals had died in action, bringing to 108 the number of high enemy naval officers whose deaths have been reported since May, 1944. The dispatch was recorded by the FCC. BRITISHJ3RIVE (Continued From Page One) ners in the streets of Muenster, while outriders swept east, northeast and southeast to points 100 miles or more beyond Hie Rhine. Osnabrueck. 27 miles northnortheast df Meunster, was menaced by the British advance. Tank columns stabbing in from the west were reported eight miles froip the city this morning and going fast. Forty-six miles west of Osnabrueck, the British captured Enschede, the main escape port for the German 25th army fleeing Holland. Other second army columns reached the Dutch town of Hengelo. five miles northwest of Enschede and broke into the burning city of Rheine, 20 miles north of Muenster, where the luftwaffe already has abandoned and destroyed one of its greatest fighter stations in the west.

Civilian Production Booms With V-E Day Victory Preview Given By Byrnes 'Washington. April 2 — (UP) — There were strong indications today that production of civilian goods would climb 'back to pre war levels —and surpass them —in the year following defeat of Germany. But that still will not mean a return to the peacetime standard of living for Americans. It will take at least two or three years, in the opinion of many officials, to-satisfy the pent-up demand in this country alone for automobiles, radios, refrigerators and similar items. And some of this production will 'be earmarked for export. in the that few months after V E day, the increase in civilian goods will hardly be apparent to the man on the street. But as the war production program adjusts itself to the reduced of a one front war, tbe output -of civilian goods should swell to gigantic proportions. War mobilization director James F. Byrnes, in his weekend report to congress, estimated that 30 percent of the Nation's resources in materials would ba available for ■civilian production within nine nion'.hs after the end of the war in 'Europe. As facilities are released from war work, these materials will find their way into the durable goods that have virtually disappeared from the American scene since Pearl Harbor. Byrnes gave the American people this post V-E day preview: The midnight curfew, the prohibition against racing and the brown-out of commercial lighting will be lifted. But the high tax on transportation and the ban on convention travel will continue, as will controls on manpower, .wages and prices. There may be a “small increase” in the basic gasoline ration. There must be immediate tax relief for business to encourage new production and make new jabs for displaced workers. 'Byrnes also called for legislation to empower the president to reorganize and consolidate executive agencies and to unify the war and naivy departments into a oingle department of national defense after war. Byrnes suggested that men who stick with war jebe after VEi day , should be given a priority on the . purchase of certain types of civili ian goods t'hat go Ibaek into.produc- . tion. — o Three Bank Bandits I Plead Not Guilty r . ■ ■■ ■ ; Springfield, 111, April 2 — (UP)— 'Three alleged bandits accused of • holding up and robbing the first I national bank, Greenville, Last Frii day, pleaded not guilty and were • bound over to a federal grand jury at an arraignment before U. S. ' commissioner William B. Chitten- • den here today. • (The trio are Stanley B. Singer, 1 31, said to be a son of a Hammond, i >lnd„ defective captain; Charles ! Fauls, 25, Detrbit, (Mich.; and Rayl mond J. Boos, 17, Indianappolls, : 'lnd., The three were ordered here on $15,000 bond each.

SPEARHEADS OF (Continued From Page One) sault on Stettin, Germany’s biggest Baltic port, from polnte'on the east bank of the Oder opposite the city. Marshal Fepdor I. Tolbukhin’s third Ukrainian army group piling-' ed to within 20 miles of Vienna as-1 ter capturing Trauserdorf, 22 miles j southeast of the Austrian capital and just west of Lake Neusiedler. Tbe advance also carried to wilii-; in 10 miles of the "greater Vienna” area delineated by the Ger-1 mans after the 1938 Anschluss and i embracing 250 square miles. Both Vienna and Weiener Nettsteadt, 24 miles to the south, were outflanked by another column which drove 27 miles inside Austria and captured Kirchau, 36 miles south southwest of Vienna. This force i cut the Wiener Neustadt-Zagreb | railway and advanced to within I five miles of the Vienna-Venice I trunk railway. o RED CROSS (Continued From Page One) lingsworth’s return. Mrs. Grant I was a volunteer worker in the Har- j risburg, Pa., area, and received | special training as an office secretary. 0 JAPS' CASUALTIES (Continued From Page One) city and the second contingent had I moved within five miles from the | north. Troops of the first cavalry division advanced 12 miles along the | southern short of Laguna bay in I southern Luzon to reach the out- 1 skirts of San Pablo city. o IMMEDIATE (Continued From Page One) nouncing that he was asking the miners not to strike. In a special poll last week, the miners gave Lewis an overwhelming go-ahead to call a strike if necessary to enforce their wage demands. Charles J. Potter, deputy solid fuels administrator, said the government was “extremely well pleased” at Lewis’ extension. Coal stockpiles are now at the lowest point since Pearl Harbor. _o _ Four Are Killed In Storms In Southeast Undated by United Press The southeast today counted at least four dead and many injured as result of near hurricane winds which lashed the gulf coast last nigh*. 'Scores of homes were damaged throughout Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama and property damage mounted to uncounted thousands of dollars. Ixruisiana state police reported a negro women and her two children were kilhd when a tornado hit the small community of Caney. La.

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