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Nel Oil Hits 500fh Homer Os Major Career New York, Aug. 2—(UP)-Base-bull's most exclusive fraternity admitted its third member .since the turn of the century today Master Melvin Ott of the Giants. The little guy joins a couple of big fellows. Babe Ruth the old Yankee and Jimmy Foxx, the great slugger of Connie Mack’s athletics of a decade ago, as the only three who have hit more than 500 homers in a lifetime. Number 500 came up for Manager Ott of the Giants last night and it was an occasion to remember. it has been a rocky year for Ott, who an manager of the Ciants shared some of the blame for the team’s colossal collapse after a brilliant start that enabled it to take a seven-game lead. It' he had any misgivings over how he stands with the polo grounds faithful they should have been di eipated with the roar that greeted his historic circuit of the base paths. The homer came off Johnny Hutchings of the Braves in the third inning and helped to clinch a 9 to 2 victory. Carroll (Whitey) Lockman also delivered a Giant homer as Bill Emmerich did a seven inning relief stint to gain the victory. It I was Boston’s 14th loss in 17 games. The winning streak of the Chicago cubs ended at six when big Max Butcher of the Pirates barely bested Claude Passeau in a 1 to 0 duel. Ed Coleman drove in the only run in the seventh with a double after Jim Russell singled. Butcher permitted only four hits. The Cardinals regained second place five games behind the Cubs with a 15 to 3 victory over the Reds at St. Louis. Four Cincinnati pitchers were rocked for 19 hits including a grand slam homer by Johnny Hopp. Marty Marion got his first homer. Detroit scored four rune in the ninth to win a wild uphill fight with tlie Browns, 9 to 8. A baseclearing double by Roy Cullenldnc brought in three runs and an error by Vernon Stephems permitted him to steam home with the winning run. Hank Greenberg, Eddie Mayo' and Rudy York hit Tiger homers and Lou Finney and Gene Moore connected with homers for St. Louis. Finney's camewitfrthe bases loaded. The Senators got fine pitching to win both games of a double

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header at Washington from the Athletics, 2 to 1 and 3 to 0. Emil Leonard shaded Jess Flores to win his 12th game in the opener and Roger Wolff pitched a .shutout to beat Bobo Newsom in the second game. The twin wins put Washington in a second place tie with the Yankees. The Red Sox topped the Yankees, 7 do 5, at Boston despite a three-run homer by pitcher Floyd Bevens. Vic Johnson pitched onehit relief ball for six innings to’ gain the victory. Eddie Lake hit a Boston homer. Floyd Baker sacrificed home the winning run for the White Sox in the ninth in a 2 to 1 victory at Cleveland after Leroy Sehalk and Johnny Dickshot had singled. Ed Lopat beat Steve Grornek in a mound duel. Brooklyn's double header at Philadelphia was rained out. Yesterday's star—Manager Mel Ott of the Giants, who hit his 500th Major League homer in a 9 to *2 victory over the Braves. Bernie Bierman To Coach All-Stars Chicago, Aug. 2.—(UP)—Bernie Bierman of Minnesota, who led the Gophers to five undefeated seasons and ran up a string of 28 wins without a locs, has been named to head the coaching staff of the College All-Stars in their game with the Green Bay Packers Aug. ’ 30. Bierman, the first coach to be named twice to head the staff of five nationally known gridiron experts, will be assisted by Jeff Craveth of Southern California. Howie Odell of Yale, Ray Eliot of Illinois and Jim Lookabaugh. of Oklahoma A. & M. The coaches all will be on hand Aug. 12 when the players report at Northwestern university for practice. Bierman led the 1936 All-Stars to a 7-7 tie with the Detroit Lions when he first coached the All-Star team. In his coaching career, Bierman has a record of 140 games won. 37 defeats and 10 ties. In 10 years at Minnesota, the Gophers won 63, lost 12 and tied five games. Five of Bierman’s Minnesota teams were rated national champions. Bierman recently was discharged from the marine corps with the rank of lieutenant colonel after three years of service. o Continue Probe Os Dead Fish In River'

Investigator's for the Indiana department of conservation, who examined conditions in St. Mary’s river yesterday, were expected back in the city late today, having taken a sample of water from the stream for examination in: Indianapolis. Two men were assigned to the river pollution job after it was reported that hundreds of fish had died in the stream. They began their investigation at Fort Waype and worked south to Decatur. About three miles south of Fort Wayne they found dead fish floating on the water. At a point eight miles south of the above city, a greater abundance of dead fish appeared. It was stated that the investigators would determine from the chemical analysis made of the water what caused the lack of oxygen, which caused the fish to die. Deer Starvation The threat of deer starvation is governed largely by the weather. An open winter leaves the animals over much of their summer range, meaning less critical feeding conditions. A winter of deep snow sends them into the shelter of old deer yards where the concentration of animals means an overtaxing of all edible vegetation.

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0 - 0 i Today's Sports Parade By Carl Lundquist . Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) I ia o New York, Aug. 2—(UP)—With- ■ out any intent to rush a fellow who can file a strong claim to being the busiest man in America these days, it appears that the time has come for defense transportation director J. Monroe Johnson to say once and for all if ths world series can be played. Up to now there has not been the slightest doubt in Hie mind of any ball player that somehow the annual classic will get underway on schedule in the first week in October. Nor have the club owners expressed any concern in the matter, lending the general impression that no one took the edict of Johnson seriously when he said that the series could not be held unless both teams were from the same city. With the approach of August, the major league races reach the showdown stage and the players on contending teams are developing a strong curiosity over whether they are playing for fun or funds. Without a world series there can’t be any fat player cuts for the pennant winning teams and the lesser chares for the members of the other six first division squads. If the players begin to have their doubts that the series will be played, there is likely to be a noticeable let down at a time when the caliber of play should be at its finest. Perhaps Johnson isn’t in a position to say even conditionally whether the transportation crisis will be eased sufficiently to play the series two months from now. But what has been most puzzling from the start was his green light for a one-city series. Actually the principal objection to playing the world series was not in the transportation required for the two teams and the minimum of officials necessary to stage it.

What caused the most concern was the fact that despite restrictions on railroad tickets, thousands of fans would find away to travel by train to see the classic. That possibility would exist even more if the series were in a single city than if it were in two since the fans would have the bigger attraction of seeing from four to seven games, whereas it it were split between two towns they couldn't see more than from two or four games.

As the teams hit the stretch it appears that only a late collapse can keep the Chicago Cubs and Detroit Tigers from being the world series opponents. The Cities are about five hours apart and are connected by train pastes that are off' the transcontinrtllcil mai|i. 'lines.' Even with full'pfltiada with tlJiOtt XiffltHEhi there would not bd more than 50 members qf eacji club traveling. And only at the middle of the series when .the teams chjm§q4: .piayfcg sites iWeiuld 4t ; be necessary; fpr,,.tipth’ fqams to travel at once. Meanwhile; as ; the ; clubs go through the late stages of the pennant races there are 16 major league teams and from 30 to 10 minor leagues using trains and other common carriers to complete their schedules. Hence as far aa baseball itself is concerned, traveling required for the series would be a small percentage of that now sanctioned. Another fair question is why, if the world aeries is to be cancelled, national tournaments such 'as the annual semi-pro show at Wichita, Kan., are allowed to go on. It would be a shame if the Wichita tournament, which has done so much to stimulate baseball at its very roots, should have to be a war casualty. Yet it is doubtful whether Its promoter, colorful Ray Dumont, would want it to go on if the major league show were cancelled. The navy wants the world series teams in the Pacific; G. I’s all over the world want the games to be played somehow, somewhere. It would seem the next mote is up to Johnson. After that it may be anybody’s jump. o Country Conservation Club Meets Monday .The monthly meeting of the Country conservation club will be held Monday evening at St. John’s school, north of Decatur, Rudy Meyer announced today. A Mr. Sparks of the public relations department of the state department will be the speaker and arrangements will be made for the distribution of 170 quail w’hich were raised by the club this year. A cordial invitation was extended to the members to attend. Tropical Spread Tropical spread, a butter that will not melt in tropical heat, has been developed in Australia and is regarded as one of the major food discoveries of the war.

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MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct. G.B. Chicago 58 33 .637 .... St. Louis 56 41 .577 5 Brooklyn 53 39 .576 5% Pittsburgh 50 46 .521 10',4s New York 51 47 .520 10% Cincinnati 42 49 .462 16 Boston 42 53 .442 18 Philadelphia 26 70 .271 35 American League W L Pct. G.B. Detroit ... 52 36 .591 .... New York 47 41 .534 5 Washington 47 41 .534 5 Boston 47 43 .522 6 Chicago 45 45 .500 8 Cleveland 44 45 .494 8% St. Louis 42 45 .483 9% Philadelphia 30 58 .341 22 YESTERDAY’S SCHEDULE National League Pittsburgh 1, Chicago 0. New York 9, Boston 2. St. Louis 15, Cincinnati 3. Brooklyn at Philadelphia, postponed. American League Chicago 2, Cleveland 1. Boston 7, New York 5. Detroit 9, St. Louis 8. Washington 2-3, Philadelphia 1-0. o ’ LEADING BATSMEN National League Player and Club G. AB. R. H. Pct. Holmes, Boeton 97 399 90 147 .369 Rosen, Brooklyn 87 361 81 133 .368 Cavarretta, Chi. 93 353 70 122 .346 American League Cuccinello, Chi. 83 291 38 96 .330 Case, Wash’ton 83 343 49 110 .321 Lake, Boston 68 237 47 75 .316 Holmes, Braves, 17. Workman, Braves, 17. Lombardi, Giants, 15. O ~ Tasty Sweets, Stuff prunes with other dried fruits, candied cherries, pineapple or citron and you have one of the best sweets you ever tasted. No cooking required, either. Cut Fire Hazards Provide hooks or wires on which to hang lar terns in the barn, to reduce fire hazards.

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Pierre Laval Under Heavy Prison Guard Placed In Solitary In French Prison Paris, Ang. 2.-(UP)-There was no champagne or fine food in Fresnes prison today for Pieri e Laval and the nervous little man could be certain that most of hie countrymen hated him. The man in the street summed up the announcement of Laval’s arrest, by snapping: ‘‘lt’s about time.” Most Frenchmen believe that Laval largely is responsible for Vichy’s collaboration policy. Most observers believed he faced almost certain conviction as a traitor in the trial which is expected to occur as soon as the preliminary examinations can be pushed through. It was significant that one of the first people to meet him at Leßourget yesterday was examining magistrate Maurice Beteille. Laval spent his first night at Fresnes in a solitary cell with double guards on the outside. He was barred from any communication with the 4.000 other accused collaborators and traitors housed in the same prison. The automobile conveying Laval from Leßourget arrived at Fresnes at 8 o’clock last night. Plainclothes men sat on either side of Laval, who hunched down in the car with a soft hat pulled over his face. The car paused for a few moments outside the prison gates. Laval stared uneasily at the small group of on-lookers. He was preceded into prison by Mrs. Laval, who sat in the first automobile in the convoy. She was wearing a heavy checkered coat and appeared overwhelmed as she entered Fresnes. Earlier, she had been cheerful.

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Press Takes Dealing Al Big Three Meet — ' No Resemblance Io Freedom Os Press Berlin, Aug. 2. (UP)-Adjourn-ment of the Big Three conference closed one of the strangest sideshows in journalistic histoiy. It was a sorry affair for the more than 100 correspondents who attempted futilely to “cover” the historic session. One veteran foreign correspondent summed it up. "The world press took a helluva beating at Potsdam!” Press coverage—or lack of it—of the Big Three meeting probably was without parallel in the peacetime reporting of world events. Correspondents wondered whether it foreshadowed a future policy of cloaking all high-level international deliberations in seciecy —with rifles and bayonets to enforce it. There was nothing at the conference remotely resembling freedom of the press. The complete hush-hush policy ruled out even the wartime practice of permitting correspondents to contact informed and reliable news sources. For the past two and a half weeks, correspondents have been fed relatively unimportant, sometimes even inaccurate, morsels of news. Most of them were even laughable in the light oi the seriousness of the discussions taking place. The crushing blow came during the final stages of the conference when the press was informed that its request to permit reporters to witness the final session had been denied. Instead, the conferees permitted one eyewitness to attend in the role of observer, but some of the information he brought back was cut by army censors. Correspondents found it hard to

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