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-a-__. ■■■ ~~ ■*■ ■■■' ' — Cubs Increase Lead As Wyse Hurls Winner Mew York. July 20 —(UP) —The CUbs thought Henry Washington' Wyse was packing up their pen-1 asm chances in his bag when he ; went to Tulsa, Okla., last month to I take his military draft exatniua-; ttOh. "Mow right they might have been if .Uncle Sam hadn't waived his op-1 tion on right hander Hank was evidcftt today after he bad won hie seventh straight game, a five-hit, I 3 to 1 victory over the hard-hitting Brooklyn Dodgers. Six of those games have been won since Wyse dispatched a tele gram from Tulsa to Manager Charley Grimm in which he stated that the army couldn't use him and that he wa6 coming back to help the I team win the pennant. Apparently. he wasn't kidding. At that time, the Cubs were in fifth place, six and a half games ■ out of the lead. Today, they are leading the league, three and a half' , games ahead of the second place i , Cardinals and Wyse has been a ma- . jor contributor to the rise. One i more victory and he will tie the , season s high for wins in a row. : , eight straight by Bill Voiselle of, , the Giants and Dave Ferriss of the : Red Sox. ( Yesterday, he set a high for the ; i season with T 9 of his put-oute han- ; --- . »

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died by first baseman Phil Cavaretta on infield plays. In Wyse s streak of seven wins, Cavaretta| handled an average of 14 put outs ’ per game. He had a shutout againet the Dodgers until two were out in the ninth. Then Dixie Walker singled to increase his runs-bat-ted-in lead in the majors to 74. j sending home pinch hitter Morris! Aderholt with the only Dodger run. Sophomore second baseman Don Johnson paced the Cubs witlf three of the nine hits obtained off Vie i ! Lombardi and Clyde King. The Cards made eeven runs in I the eighth to break a 2-al! dead- ! Jock and win the second game ; against the Phillies. 9 to 4. after the cellarites won the opener. 3 to '.’ Ken Burkhardt gained the vic-j tory while Oscar Judd won his first j game of the season for the Phils 1 ‘in the opener. The Braves and Reds divided at Cincinnati. F rank McCormick paced the Rede to a 4 to 3 win by i batting in three runs with a double in one inning and scoring the: fourth one himself in the last .if the ninth. In the second game. < which Boston won. 6 to 5. Elmer j (Butch) Nieman tied the score with a three run homer and like McCormick scored the winning run himself, going home in the 10th on a single. A three run homer also helped the Pirates, catcher Bill Salkeld‘ delivering the blow in the eighth | as the Giant® were beaten at Pittsburgh. 4 to 0. Truett (Rip) Se.vell. given brilliant fielding support, i preserved his shutout though he was hit hard at times. In the only American league game played. Thornton Lee of the White Sox won his 10th game by beating Boston. sto 3. He gave up nine hits and walked seven tnen. but stranded 14 men on base. The rest of the American league ■ slate was rained out. "Yesterday's star —Bill Salkeld of the Pirates, whose three run homer paced a 4 to 0 victory over the' ' Giants. —o Navy Request May Assure World Series t Washington. July 20. — (UP) — Baseball men were confident today i that the world series will be played this fall. Their confidence, which did not seem misplaced, was based ou the , word of baseball's new commissioner. Sen A B. ((Happy) Chandler. that he would make arrangements to <end the world series winner on ■o meet army and navy teains. Chandler acted on a Tequsvsr by. . secretary of the navy James V. For- > restal and Adm. Chester W. Nuniut. commander in chief of the Pacific I J fleet. Apparently assuming that the fall classic would go off without a hitch. Forrests! wrote Chandler sewing him to get together wuh officials of both major leagues on ’ arrangements for the trip. Chandler replied that he would be happy to cooperate. He said he | could see no reason for not playing ; the world series since it was evid-

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Kraft, Legion Teams Tie For League Lead

McMillen, scoring a pair of onerun victories Thursday night at Worthman field, knocked the Le- ' glon team down into a first-place tie with Kraft for the finst-half championship of the City softball league. Kraft and Legion has each won ! six games and lost three in a first ' place deadlock. The first game of the playoff series will be held next Thursday night in this city, with the second series tilt at Berne the I following night. First Half Standing W L Pet. Kraft 6 3 .867 Legion 6 3 .667 McMillen 5 4 .556 Moose .... 1 « .111 McMillen overcame an early Moose lead in last night's first tilt i and scored the winning run in the ‘ seventh inning to register an S to 7 triumph. The wihners made I eight hits and the losers six. Legion also grabbed an early lead in (he nightcap, tallying three ; times in the first two innings, but McMillen bunched four hits with i an error to count four runs in the fifth and made this margin hold up for a 4 to 3 victory. Scores by innings: RHE McMillen ... 040 030 I—o 8 7, Moose 500 101 o—70 —7 6 3: V. Arnold, L. Keidel and Me-I Clure: Sharp and Davis. McMillen 000 040 o—4 6 1 Legion 210 000 o—3 5 21 L. Keidel and McClure: Neuen-j schwander and Liechty. Next Week's Schedule Monday -Kraft vs Young Drug of Bluffton: Moose vs McMillen. Tuesday—Senators vs White Sox ' (recreation league): G. E. Girls vs Inca. Thursday—McMillen vs Wheat-1 ley Center: Kraft vs Legion (first • of playoff series). Friday—Kraft vs Legion nt i Berne. <Second playoff tilt). ent servicemen were edger for it to be played. Forrestal's suggestion had the full support of Nirhitx. who said I that the champrvns would be heartily welcomed by men 3’ advanced i bases. He added that surface trans- ■ portation would be provided for the tea mand recommended that “every i effort be made to arrange this tour.” Navy officials will meet soon with Chandler and representatives of both major leagues to work ou: details of the proposed tour. Although the development were ‘ based on the assumption that the: -erics would go off as in the past, office of Jransporta iOn director J. Mor-fte ,* Johqeca; said hat his latest tisc’-s on w-trid vertes -rrtnWstill stand. His last word was that only a “trolley car” series coahi be-play-j ed if the transpiration situation did not improve considerably by taA He said today that ODT is so involved in troop redeployment problems that it isn't aoie to look ae far ahead as October. But if transportation doesn’t ease : off. he added, the series can be played only if all games are ueid i in the same city. This would mean that, as laat year, the national and American league penant winners must come from the sane locality

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MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct. GB Chicago 50 31 .613 .... St Louis -48 36 .571 Sts Brooklyn 47 37 .560 4 l i New York 45 42 .517 8 Pittsburgh 42 41 .506 9 1 Boston 40 43 48S 10»4 Cincinnati 38 40 .487 10 l ? Philadelphia .. . 24 65 .270 30 AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct. GB. Detroit 46 32 .590 .... New York 41 36 .532 4t a Washington 40 36 .526 5 Chicago 41 40 .506 64* St. Louis 37 38 -493 7U Cleveland 37 39 .487 8 Philadelphia ?•* B’’ .722 ' *s’4 YESTERDAYS RESULTS National League Chicago X Brooklyn t. Pittsburgh 4, New York 0. t Philadelphia 3-4. St. Leuis 2-9. i Cincinnati 4-5. Boston 3-6. American League Chicago 5. Boston 3. All other games postponed. o RELATES HOW TINY (Continued From Page One) he ran from one pillbox to the next tossing his grenades into the ports and knocking out the gun*. The oniy time he withdrew was to go back for more grenades. After he had dusted off the pillboxes. the riflemen moved in and mopped up." Polick said it was the “damnedest thing' he ever saw —the way little Perez crawled up to the biggest bunker right in the middle of the heaviest automatic weapons fire. Polick said, “then he ran azre&i to the front of the bunker mi tossed in a couple of grenU—* There was a helluva blast. Then Perei climbed to the lop tad dropped two white phospfcacsas grenades through a vent. “I saw him flattened ami then the grenades exyuMe-x There was lots of white saeaa. Peres sat right in the m-»-r - >£ it. looking over at jus si— gaining. He held up his bald tut made a circle with his thsafi and first finger. The slug* wee* catting the areese all around, as: he didst seem to care. “Perea got the smaller pillbox next-door by raising up his rifle and firing four tunes into in Then he jumped down to the rear. Japs were pouring out and he shot and killed eight with his rifle. “One Nip crawled out and charged Perei from the rear. I yelled, look out' Perei turned i jaat as the Jap hurled his bay- . onet like a spear. Pen? used his rifle to knock down the flying bayonet. The shock knocked his gun spinning. Perei grabbed up the Nips rifle and bayoneted the bowling Jap with it. Tour more Japs then started out of the pillbox tunnel. Peres clubbed two to death, and bayoneted the other two. Then he entered the pillbox and found one live Jap. Hu bayoneted him.** Peres was the son of Manuel Pere*. Sr. (of route 4) Oklahoma City, Okla.A but he had lived with his grandmother, Mrs. Emile Per-

ez of (3511 XV. Roosevelt Road* Chicago. Other soldiers remembered how thl? little Stiy taad Ua«ML One said, “he was the first G.I. into Santo Tomas. We’d run into heavy machinegun fire from Japanese positions in the ditches. Then they started throwing mortars at us.” The foremost men of company* A were pinned down on the edge of town, so Perei took a handful s 9>:‘ grenades and started heaving them from behind a log. He was backing away to get a' new supply, firing his rifle, when a sniper’s bullet caught bias | through the chest. Peres was awarded the silver ■ star posthumously for his work' at Santa Tomas. Everybody said it was hard to believe that ojsp c'-s-*i kill . such a bjiigh little man. LEADING BATSMAN - National League Player and Club G. AB. R H. Pct. Holmes. Boston 54 351 82 134. >B2 Rosen. Brooklyn 7i 326 fa 119t.3*5 3 CaTarreita. Chi 82 311 66 116 354 American League Cuccinello. Chi- 75 244 37 8 * AN Case. Wash ton 72 2!i-i Pi 9 324 Lake. Boston 58 Si! pi 8: .323 Heme Rmto Lombardi. Giants. IS. Holmes. Bravws. Is. WcrkT.r* Brave*. IS. HALSEY FLEET * Cwt 1 v iwt rirm owo> ulceive iiit .nceuii-x-y misatbex skowt~?i in l-tnan m die sasr 11 days. Caupied wixa :ne flee- assaxltx. me enemy .siands were hit with ilaajur 21. w«J ions if isesmbs mi ineils hiring that brief p*erJananese leesuna said eight B-3 > -x..i mines la. tie north- ! wesser- SaasJte jert of Niigata' •Lie \ie fir* n..i was in pro-; zT-iti aait nat a few liberators ■ u*t -jue wiierforiress flew over > eenrrx. H-insix to reconnoiter. re aim,'; daaaage this moraing. V.m.-x .i-jmmiatoe* also re--*a.e*t that navy and marine fliers sank jr i.i maged 36 more Japan--3.3k e* Korea Wednesday.

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Cubs Win Title In National Division The Cubs, by scoring a 5 to 21 victory over the Pirates’ dav won the championship of the National division of the summer 1 recreation league, ending the sched- | uie with .-even victories and two j defeats. The Pirates finished second. the Giants third and the Reds fourth . Play in the American division or the league will continue next week because of a number of postponed In American games Thursday-, the Indians defeated the White Sox. 9 to 5. and the Senators defeated the Red Sox. 5 to 1. National Standing W L Pct.. I C'»b« 7 2 ■'% Pirates .63 .66. Giants .36 .3.3 Reds 1 8 111 Scores by innings follow: R H F. Pirates - HO 00-2 6 0 Cu'js - 104 Ox 5 7 0 Liehtensteiger and Wefel; D. Gtllig and Farrar. Indians 024 21—9 . 0 White Sox ~ HO 12—5 4 0 Gage and Rambeau; Coffee, Gehrig and Pollock. Dague. Red Sox .... 0001110 —1 3 0, Senators 103 lx 5 7 0 Bassett and Smith; Petrie and Pollock. o G. E. Girls Lose To Limo Team Thursday The Decatur G. E. Girls dropped : a 5 to 3 decision to the Lima Tank team in a game played at Lima. 0.. Thursday night. Each' team obtained five hits. Butcher ; and Bower formed the Decatur battery.

BRETTON WOODS IS (Continued From Page One) guarantee loans for reconstruction i and development. The fund will I stabilize currencies and work to-; ward removal of barriers to j *. “businesslike” world trade. Because the world bank cannot begin operating for another year or IS months, the government > wants the American export-im- | • port bank enlarged to do the job I ! until then. Final house approval of the! { Bretton Woods measure will make ■ ! the United States first of 44 sig-1 natory nations to accept member-; ■ ship in the monetary institutions. The export import bank bill before the senate would raise the bank's lending power from 3760,ROBERT HOUSER TO (Contlataed From Page One) Club’s house committee. The Hoaeers have three children. Mrs. Houser is a daughter of C. F. Spaulding of Monroeville, a fori and Gen. Douglas MacArthur's army fliers accounted for another 29 in sweeps along the Asiatic coast. MacArthur’s Okinawa and Iwo:a±ed warplanes also struck heavily at Japanese air and eommuni- ' -aliens targets on Kyushu, in- : flic ting widespread damage and dniroying 11 Japanese aircraft. One mustang fighter was lost .a the attack, apparently to Japanese anti-aircraft fire. Return-' mg pilots said the enemy airfields on Kyushu appeared deserted, suggesting that the Japanese might have stripped down their bases there to conserve their i airpower for the coming invasion i battle. Another powerful army raiding I forve, numbering some 21W heavy medium and light bombers and escorting fighters, gave Shanghai its heaviest pounding of the war Tuesday. They dumped almost StW tons of bombs on the coastal city, rnosily on the big Kiangan airfield, at a cost of two planes.

■ ■ k JI JBL ' * - i’ ' W 1 ► ■■ W • ’ t SEAMAN FIRST CLASS WilU*m HParker of Toledo, 0., is charged by Miami. Fla., police with first degree murder in the slaying of Mrs. Ella Mae Glynn Eames, 42, above, prominent Boston society woman whose nude and battered found in the rear alley of a Miami hotel. Parker is held in Navy custody until a coroners inquest and preliminary hearing U held. (International) '■ mer county commissioner of Allen ' county, recently appointed state ! director for the disposal of surplus war material in Indiana. Their attractive home at 322 N. Fourth street has been sold to Archie Smitley, employed at the G E. works. POSSIBLE EASING (Continued From Page One)

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