Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 105, Decatur, Adams County, 3 May 1945 — Page 6

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Rucker Leads Giants To Win Over Phillies Nojv York. May 3. (UP) Ciant outfielder Johnny thicker has a drastic hut effective method of prolonging a hitting streak and so today -at last -he is fulfilling hopes of tile folks in Crabapple, (la., who felt all along he was the state’s greatest ball player since I'y Cobb. Rucker, mediocre .since coming to the Giants in 1940, has hit safely in all 13 games they have played, but in order to do it he has had to "hang” himself every day on his own personal "gallows.” The 28-year-old southerner, nephew of pitcher Nap Rucker, who gained fame with the Brooklyn Dodgers, has fused neck vertebrae, an injury so painful it threatened to end his baseball career. His batting average went down steadily, and it was no secret that he would have quit unless he found a remedy. Finally, a doctor provided him with the contraption, literally a gallows, to pull the vertebrae apart. From (he start of the season it Was evident the treatments were helping. Always one of the fastest men in the majors, he roved his outfield post more effectively and as lead-off man, touched off more rallies than any other Giant player. lie has a .333 average with 21 hits, and his 13-game streak is the longest in the majors to date. Yesterday was his best day. With four hits, he batted in four runs in a 9 to 8 triumph over the Phillies at ■ Philadelphia. He helped build an early 7 to 0 margin which enabled relief pitcher Ace Adams to salvage the victory when starter Bill Voiselle blew up and the Phils tied the score. Buddy Kerr doubled in the eighth to send home Phil Weintraub with the winning run, keeping. the Giants in first place ahead of the Idle Chicago Cubs. The St. Louis Cards, who had trouble at Pittsburgh last season, ran into more of the same yesterday. After winning the opener of a double bill, 4 to 2, on Harry Rrecheen’s seven-hit pitching, the Cards were hammered like sand-lot-ters to lose the second, 11 to 1. The Boston Braves gave Nate . Andrews a two-run lead in the first inning and he checked the Dodgers thereafter to win, 3 to 1, at Brooklyn. Elmer Nieman led the attack on rookie Vic Lombardi, getting a

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double and single in two times at bat to boofrt- his average to .400, second best in the league. The Red Sox won their fifth straight, topping Washington, 4 to 0, at Boston on four-hit pitching by Jim Wilson, who won his first major league game. Al Benton, back at Detroit after a navy hitch, became top pitcher of the season, beating Chicago, 2 to 1. for his third victory, a four hitter. The Yankees handed Russ Christopher of Philadelphia his first defeat. 6 to 4, after he had won three. Rookie Allen Gettel pitched the Yankees into a first place tie with Chicago in his debut, hurling a sixhit game. Pitcher Allie Reynolds of Cleveland had a nine inning no-hit, tri run game within his 13-inning, 2 to 1 victory over the Browns at St. Louis in the first night game of the year. Reynolds yielded al! his hits in the first four innings and was untouchable after that. Cincinnati at Chicago in the National was rained out. Yesterday’s star: Al Benton of the Tigers, whose four-hit, 2 to 1 win over the White Sox gave him three victories in which he has yielded a otal of only two rune and 10 hits. —o Chandler Visits Baseball Office Chicago, May 3—TUP)—iSen. A. Ik (Happy) idhandltr, bataebalHs new commissioner, arrived here today to visit the office from where the late Kenesaw M. Landis ruled the game for the past 23 years. Chandler was accompanied from .St. Louis by his wife and president William Harridge of the American league. (During Chandler’s stay nere, be. planned to hold a press conference, visit the commissioner’s office in a downtown skyscraper and confer with Leslie O’Connor, Judge Landis’ former secretarydreasurer, who has run the office since Landis died last November. Chandler was expected to discuss with O’Connor the feasibility of moving the commissioner's office •to Cincinnati. 0.. and to set a definite date on which he will officially take office. The Kentucky senator said in St. Louis that O'Connor had agreed to stay on as his secretary for at least a year. 0 * Former Coal Miner Wins Chicago Fight Chicago, May 3. — (UP) — Joe ■Baksi, a massive one-time coal miner from Western Pennsylvania, held a unanimous 10-round decision over Larry Lane, Newark, N. J., heavyweight, today thanks to hie iron jaw. (Baksi, ranked the nation’s sixth best heavyweight, left Lane wobblylegged at the end of their bout at .the coliseum last night, but only after he had absorbed every, punch Lane could throw. The 195-puund New Jersey negro, a vicious hitter, carried the fight during the first five rounds, repeatedly hitting the 23-year-old Polish heavyweight with crisp left hooks and explosive rights. ißut Baksi, carrying a 16-pound weight advantage, never faltered. He wore Lane down with a mauling grinding offensive of lefts and rights. The bout was staged before a disappointing crowd of 5,3150 fans who paid a gross of $18,793. Q ■- - Good Refreshment Steaming hot chocolate served with cookies is perfect refreshment for a chilly afternoon when guests drop in unexpectedly. A few drops of vanilla makes the chocolate taste much Better

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MAJOR LEAGUE ! STANDINGS t NATIONAL LEAGUE Teams W. L. Pct. GB. i New York 9 4 .092 ... ) Chicago 7 4 .636 1 ; Boston 7 5 .583 IV 2 I St. Louis 6 5 .545 2 Brooklyn 5 0 .453 3 ■ Cincinnati 5 6 .453 3 [ Pittsburgh 5 9 .385 4 . Philadelphia 3 9 .250 5’6 AMERICAN LEAGUE Teame W. L. Pct. GB. i New York 8 4 .667 i Chicago 6 3 .667 • Detroit 7 4 .636 Philadelphia .6 6 .500 l’/ 2 ■ Washington ... 6 7 .462 2 i St. Lonls 4 6 .400 B’4 Boston 5 8 .385 3 Cleveland 3 7 .300 3’6 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League St. Louis 4-1, Pittsburgh 2-11. Boston 3, Brooklyn 1. New York 9, Philadelphia 8, Cincinnati at Chicago, rain. American League Boston 4, Washington 0. Detroit 2, Chicago 1. New York 6, Philadelphia 4. Cleveland 2. St. Louis 1. — LEADING HITTERS National League Player Club GABR II Pet. Holmes, 805t0n.... 12 51 11 21 .412 O’Brien, Pirates ... 12 45 5 18 .400 Nieman, Boston. .. 11 35 12 14 .400 American League Stephens, St. Izniis 7 23 8 10 .435 Cuccinello, Chicago 7 27 7 11 .407 Kreevich, St. Louis 7 23 3 9 .391 — <—o HOME RUNS Derry. Yankees 4 Nieman, Braves 4 Ott, Giants 3 —— — 0 Decatur School Head Attends Conference (Lafayette, Ind., May 3—(UP) — Purdue university’s one-day conference on postwar financial problems of public schools was attended by 37 Hoosier school superintendents and business managers yesterday. Those attending included Walter J. Krick, Decatur. Chill Candles If candles are placed in the refrigerator for a day or two before using, they will last longer, and in ' burning the wax will not drip down the sides.

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By HARRISON CARROLL ti King Features Syndicate Writer t: HOLLYWOOD— Thrilling news s lor the G. I.’s! Bing Crosby has no- t tified Paramount and the Holly- b wood Victory committee that he d • will be available s Bf or another 3 overseas tour on * the completion of “Bells of St. Mary’s.” Barring the unex- I pected, that ' ought to be ( around the middle of May. Bing says he had the 1 best time of his • life entertaining 1 „ the soldiers in 1 Harrison Carroll Europe IVs no i i secret that he would like to round ‘ ) out hia experience and go to the pacific next For two weeks a movie theater in Van Nuys will have the world’s most beautiful assistant manager. Dolores Moran has asked to help her father, James G. Moran, during the vacation of his regular assistant i Mervyn Leßoy’s 10-year-old son, Warner, writes his dad from New York that he is learning to play the trumpet and the piano. “I don’t know whether I want to be Harry James or Irving Berlin,” he says. Recent attack of undulant fever suffered by.Errol Flynn is giving | the star a lot more trouble than is generally known. He feels good for a few days, then is sick again. Incidentally, it will surprise me J If the elaborate "Don Juan” really gets under way until strike conditions improve. James Dunn’s bride, Edna Rush, has just joined him here. He's been back six weeks. . . • There was an attempted safe-blowing at Lucey’s three days after Steve Crane and Al Mathes took over the restaurant. Burglars had to be satisfied with 35 cartons of cigarets and two boxes of cigars. ... Wife of ’ Miguelito Valdez has the mumps. .... Belita and Ice Skater Bobby x Specht have resumed since he re-

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■■ . - s.. " ■ i Mb Brml K 181 Bg&sgß •■ ~ ' gSfr Wi THE "BIG THREE" DELEGATION chairmen, top photo, converse from their seats in the War Memorial : I I Opera House as the United Nations conference convenes at San Francisco. A Russian aide at the ' | ; left, interprets for V. M. Molotov, center, Soviet delegation head, the remarks of U. S. Secretary of State ( | Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., on his left, while British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden, right, listens in. i Seated in the row behind the important three is Cmdr. Harold Stassen, left, of Minnesota, member of the U. S. delegation. The lower photo shows delegates standing on the auditorium floor to record | their votes on the acceptance of Argentina into the conference. Third from the left is Julian R. Ca» | ceras, chairman of the Honduras delegation, and immediately to his left is Ezequiel Padilla, chairman of the Mexican delegation. Regardless of the Russian opposition, both voted in favor of admitK ting Argentina, as did the others shown standing., (International Soundphotos) I

Portugal Mourns Death Os Hitler Libson, May 3.—(UP) —An official two-day period of inouring for Adolf Hitler began in Portugal today. The government decreed the mourning period yesterday and ordered all flags on official buildings to be lowered to half mast.

turned with the “Ice-Capades” troupe. . . . After singing nine songs, Ella Mae Morse fainted at the Hollywood Canteen and had to be taken to the hospital. Too much dieting. . . . Understand Jack Carson has bought a theater site in Milwaukee. . . . Helen Forrest’s brother, Bill, awarded the D. S. C. in the Pacific. The “Tomorrow the World” company is having a measles scare. Claudette Colbert’s maid has the disease. Would make Ann Sheridan happy to talk to Lt. Frank Gulley, A. T. C. pilot. Over a little bar in a forward area in China, he says, hangs a pin-up picture of Ann and a dirty soft-drink glass with lipstick marks on the rim. Caption of the picture reads: “She drank here.” Consternation on the “Hear That Trumpet Talk” set when Noah Beery, Jr., received a message, “The baby is coming." He dashed home to find it was a colt and not his expected child, which isn’t due until August. HOLLYWOOD HI JINKS: In case Universal doesn't know it, Patricia Morison is trying to buy a motorcycle. She learned to ride one overseas. Huntz, ex “Dead End” kid, opening a night club in San Francisco. . . . Ann Miller with Ross Hunter. . . . Scotty Brown and Preston Foster are making a 16-millimeter film on juvenile delinquency, with Foster acting and directing. . . . Lunch-time foursome at the Beverly Derby: Loretta Young and Georgiana Young with 1 their husbands, Col. Tom Lewis and Ricardo Montalban. Both gitfs expecting babies in the late fall. . . . Cara Williams with Freddy De Cordova at the Somerset House. . . . , Ava Gardner at Slapsy Maxie’s, i talking business with Dick Hunter, i the ad agency executive. . . . Dufi yys of the nation bombarding Ed ! sys of he nation bombarding Ed - ten. More than 1,300 since the first 1 of the year. . . . Sort of confusing. > In the same week, one syndicate t carried a story about Maureen . O’Hara being a sweater girl and r another an article about her being -a home girt

While House Secret On Any Peace Talk President Opposes J Joyful Celebration , . Wasthington, May 3—(U'P) —The . White House today kept the lid of 1 secrecy on all information that would indicate whether any surrender negotiations were in progress with what remainded of the German government. Lt seemed plain that the end in Europe could not be far off — whetber by a wholesale surrender or by ruthless crushing of the last big Nazi poeketa. When the end does come, president Truman planned to try to repress too joyful celebrations with a solemn reminder that the Japanese still must be brought to their knees too. Acting secretary of state Josetph C. Grew, who was IT. S. Ambassador to Japan for 10 years preceding Pearl Harbor, also was expected to emphasiz? on V-E day the difficulties remaining before Japan is conquered. Two facta stood out in the meantime: d. Mr. Truman is convinced to his own satisfaction that Adolf Hitler really is dead. Tain govern ment does not yet know whether his end came from natural causes, suicide or death in battlo in Berlin. ■ 2. Henrioh Himmler, who a week ago undertook to surrender to th»

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I U. S. and Britain but not to Russia, ' made no reply when a Swedish em- ' issary delivered the U. S.-British I r-jjeetion to him early this week. | (Since then Adm. Karl Doenitzhias j proclaimed himself the successor to Hitler. There is no information ! as to whether Himmler is in any I position to do any more negotiat- 1 ing. No information has come out about any negotiations with Doen- ) itz. Mr. Truman told a packed press I conference late yesterday that he | : could not say anything in response | to a question as to “whether peace ■ n gotiations had broken down.” ' But the sphere of German influ- I ence was growing .smaller by the | hour and the White House staff , continued on t.he alert, as it has for many days. ‘ (Ever cautious of producing ram- i pant enthusiasm among the public | because of overly-optimistic state- j meats albout V-E day, the president ; said little about the war until some- ! one asked him to comment about I the reported death of Hitler and j B.nito Mussolini. . Well, all right, lie said, the two I principal war criminals will not J have to come to trial and he was | happy they were out of the way. j "Does that mean, sir, that we know officially that Hitler is dead?” ’ a report.-r asked. I The president said yes, adding | ' that he had no details on how Germany’s leader-fanatic died. ——o- I j Hard Sense | It was not the wine that made ; your head ache, but the sense that > t nut into it —Samuel Johnson.

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