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Pitching Ace Sorely Needed By Giant Nine BY LEO H PETERSEN > Unit, if I n•-- Spoil* BffKt New York, April 3 (UP)- Gite the New York Giant* a sure-fire 20-game wipper for their pitching staff and they would become gen eral favorite* to capture the National langue pennant. Rut without such an ace. and ihair <-h»n, «■■ of getting one are mighty slim. they will he lucky to finish as M«h a* they did last year when they surprised everyone by advancing from eighth place to fourth. They are the most murderous hitting 'dub in the history of baseball. l-a*t season they broke the all-time major league home run record with a total of 221 off the blasting hats of Johnny Mize. Willard Marshall. Walker Cooper Bobby Thomson and Co. But oh. that pitching tltatf. Right now manager Mel Ott has only one solid man. Larry Jan sen. who picked up 21 victories against five defeats and came close to winning rookie of the year honors in 1947. And Jansen face* that dangerous sophomore jinx Lefty Dave Kneib, the number two inner with a 15-10 record, had an elbow operation and hasn't even tried to "bear down" yet Then there i* Clint Hartung, the "wonder hoy” who failed as an outfielder and who got by as a fair pitcher because of a List ball Montia Kennedy, who was highly Inconsistent last year. Is the fourth “big man" and not much to depend upon as his 9-12 record reflects Among the hurlers who "might" i come through are Ray Poat, a | Cleveland castoff who picked up' four victories late last season. Joe Beggs, another sore arm victim who had an operation, and an assortment of rookies up from the J-'-rsey City and Minneapolis farm club*. Then, of course, there I* Ken Trenkle. A* number qne relief man he is the busiest pitcher on the staff. He worked in 62 games last year and had an 9-4 record Ott pray* every day that he will remain sound and durable. The infield I* a good one with the Rig Cat. Johnny Mixe, the 51homer man at first. Bill Rigney at second. Ruddy Kerr at short and Lucky Jack Lohrke at third hase Ott contemplates no changes from thia combination, but be Ls good reserves- just in case. Both offensively and defensively, the outfield is one of the best in the majors with Willard Marshall In right. Bobby Thomson in center, and Whitey Lockman in left There t* power in that outfield with Marshal! the author of 36 homers and Thomson with 29 last year. Nobody will get any more de pendable catching with long distance hitting thrown in than the Giants If Walker Cooper has an-

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other big year. Ha had the best average of any refuiar on the club last year and , he hit 35 homers. 18-hind Cooper is 'rookie Wm Weatnun. a great I prospect up from Minneapolis, and Mi< key Livingston a so-so receiver, who probably will'be number three man. The Giants could bo very rough indeed But unless they can make i deal for that pitcher, they shape ' I up as just another ball club. - - Blackwell Hottest Pitcher Os Spring Tampa. Fla.. April .3 (UP) Ewell Blackwell, the buggy-whip i right hander, today is the "hottest" I pitcher on the "hottest" team in the spring training circuit. Blackwell canny < iirveballer who ’ racked up 22 victories last season i j for the Cincinnati Reds, has not i b.-en -o; .-d against in )fi straight innings Five of those frames were marked off yesterday as the redhot Reds Masted the St. Louis Cardinals. 11 to 0 for their seventh i straight victory He has yielded 6' hits in the 16 innn ngs. one of them ’ ! yesterday. Braves St. Petersburg. Fla.. April 3 — (UP) Johnny Sain, raw-boned right-hander, pitched nine full innings for the Boston Braves as the Braves routed the world champion New York Yankee*. 10 to 4. The Yanka made io hits off Sain but got him in trouble only in the third inning when they scored three runs Indians Tucson. Aril . April 3 — (UP) — Hank Greenberg, new vice-presi-dent of the Cleveland Indians, will be tailed upon to play this season only if "the emergency is crucial,*’ manager lam Boudreau said today. The Indians rose up for seven j runs in the fifth inning yesterday j to rout the Chicago White sox. 12; I to 4. The Sox. suffering their 17th ' defeat thV spring made only five 1 hits off Al Gettel and Edgar (Special Delivery) Jones. Pirates Phoenix. Arix.. April 3 — (t’P) — The Pittsburgh Pirates today showed a record of two wins In jieven games against the New York Giants this spring, after winning a klug,'est yesterday. 12 to 7. The Pirates made a total of 12 1 hits off four Giant hurlerw. while ; the New Yorker* made nine hits , Phillies Clearwater. Fla . April 3 —(UP) The pitching of rookie Curt Simmons and a home' run by Harry Walker led the Philadelphia Phillies to a 5 to I troiumph over the Boston Red Sox yesterday. Simmons walked seven batters, but allowed only four hits in seven Innings. Tigan New Orleans. April 3 — (UP)—I The Detroit Tigers won the open ! Ing game of a three-game series from the Nh» Orleans Pelicans last night, 12 to 3. with a total of 15 hits. Vic Wertx drove In three run* with a double and a single and George Kell drove in the same num-, ■er with three singles. Anderson Packers Even Playoff Series By United Press Anderson and Rochester were all square today In their battle for he eastern division championship of the natlom.l professional banketba!) league. Anderson, second In the east during the regular season, shaded the Royals. '6 t0»69. to even the two-out-of-tbree series at a game each , The Royals won the first bout. The two dabs tww will square ott tonight to determine which team meets the Minneapolis Lakers fori the league crown. L 0 , It always makes some one else feel better when you feel fine, ind thus express yourself

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Heavyweight Champ Sued For $500,000 New York. Apr 3 — (IT) A negro minister* charge that Lea eg weight leixlng < hampion-do»' ' !<ouf* knocked him right out of H hte wife’s affections was denied today by luith Louis and the woman named in the suit I Beautiful Carol e Drake Faulk ner. 23. a -photographer's model. ■ said the (barge was utterly false " Her husband, the Rev. Matthew . Faulkner, a Baptist preai her of I -Atlanta. Ga brought a |SOO.O(W)| aiienaUon of affections suit I i against the Brown Bomber In Chi ; cago. !u Paris, where he is holl laving with his wife, Marva. after a European boxing tour. Louis said "there is no truth in it.” Izmls will wind up his European visit next week, sailing for the United Stats-- on Wednesday The 33-yeitr-old preacher'? suit I contained no specific charge of ; Infidelity. He complained that I Louis last November. Decemlier i and January "wilfully destroyed and alienate I from the plaintiff ’ the affections of bis wife. Naltle , Carle Faulkner.” Mrs. Faulkner said she had been separated from the preacher for two years. She Ilves in a small apartment in Harlem with I her two sons. Kenneth. 4, and I Oran. 3, She said Faulkner was "a very fealo'is man.” She admitted she had known Louis for “quite some time" but that there was "absolately nothing" between them She said she had met the fighter at various pub'le function* and In night dubs but never had been out with him socially. "I have never had a date with Joe Ixiuis." she raid.

Minor League McMillen won three from Fort Wayne Wire Die; Adams County Lumber won two from Central So ’■ ya: Macklin I won two from Joe's Barber Shop; Hoagland Fa rm ere Co-op won two from Macklin fl. Standing W L Pt*. Ulam* Lumber .. .. 23 10 33 tfacklin I ... 2* ]| *7 McMillen 21 12 26 Hoagland .. ... 19 15 25 i Central Soya «... 17 DI 23 Macklin II 12 »i 17 ..11 22 15 ; Wire Die 7 26 10 High games: Mlchner 211. Max Heare 2»2. Odle 212. Smith 209 AlI ton 212. Hoile 201-304. Gallmeyer 230. Sanders 213. Becker 200. Zim merman 200. Snyder 210.

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— * ’ ~ ■"A* Berne On Daylight ‘Time On April 24 •» Herne April 3 The town of Bertie will go on fakt tlmg Satur- ' day night, April 24. according Wit . town ordinance adopted here a few ' years ago. The members of the • Berne'town lioard said they c annot yrder Herne to remain on standard I time until this ordinance is te|>eai J ed and it takes a special referendum ffV the voter* of Berne to do this. Daylight Having time will lie retained until the last weekend io - September. Oleo Tax Repeal To Go To House Petition Forces Measure To Floor Washington, April 3.—(UP) House leaders In the drive to re- , peal or reduce oleomargarine taxes were confident today of eventual , victory. Even such staunch dairy state J congressmen as Rep Reid F Murray. R. Wi«., who ha* mastermind ed the fight to retain the tax. seem ed in reluctant agtcement. "The oleo tax repealer Is '('Aster's last stand' as far as the dairy industry is concerned." Murray told a reporter The house.will vote April 26 on whether to repeal the 10-centa-a- --, pound federal tax on colored oleo . and the quarter-cent tax on the white variety. There Is some sentiment to keep a quarter-cent tax on both kinds. The way for a house showdown on the hotly-argued Issue was opened yesterday when the 219th congressman signed a petition to pry the legislation out of the agriculture committee. Discharge petitions rarely have; been successful in the past. AL] though some 200 petitions have been filed since the machinery first wa* set up in 1931. the wage-hour law is the only one finally enacted' as a result of It. The agriculture committee had voted 16 to 10 not to take up any I 1 oleo legislation this session. The ' petition's success takes the queation out of the committee's handsdirectly to the house floor ' ■ The senate previously beat hack , ■ two attempts to tack oleo tax repeal amendments oh the Republican income tax reduction bill. Murray and other dairy state congressmen showed litle inclination to try for a compromise on the bill before it reaches the floor. It had been reported they might make such an attempt rather than j risk complete repeal of the tax. 0 Irrigation Pump At 1 Levee In Operation Berne. April 3 — The special. flood or irrigation pump Installed; at the levevs or dll* near the Wa-! bash river south of Berne, was opI erated for the first time this week.

The pump throw* water at the rate; of 15.000 a minute, it »* operated by a 105 horsepower ga»o line engine. The dike itself keep* a» huge amount of watef from spread- i Ing from the Wabash river into the lowland* and when the pump U in operation the field* can be kept practically dry even during heavy rain*. q Plans New Barber Shop In Monroe Berne. Apr 3—Coy Marti, for mer Borne. Decatur and Monroebarber, I* erecting a building in Monroe where he plans to run a barber ahop The building ad joins the Martz grocery which I* .■lterated by hl* wife. He served as u barber with Pau! Bahner at j Monroe until recently.

PUBLIC SALE COMPLETE LINE OF HOUSEHOLD GOODS in Monroe, Indiana, on Saturday April 10, 1948 . Sale to begin at 1:00 P. M. Good Phllco radio; (Ml Burner heating stove; Glow Boy heating stove; 12 ft. Dining Room extension table and buffet; two 12x12' Congoleum Rugs; 9'xl2' Wool Rug; one H'3”rl2' Wool Rug. Kitchen Tab e and 4 chairs; Kitchen Range, like new, Glass Door Cupboard. Small Table; Rocking Chairs; Stands; Kitchen Cabinet; Curtains; Draperies; and Window Blinds; Bookcase; 2 Bed* with *prings and matti-essea; on* Commode; Some Good Stove Pipe: Sausage Grinder; Wood Box; Fruit Jars: Some Potatoes; Potato Crates; Fruit Shelves; IS’ Extension Ladder; * ft. Step Ladder; 5 Steel Barrels; Corn 4ihel-)«-r; Bu<k Saw; Fruit Tree Spray Pump; Poultry Netting. S gal. of White House Paint; Unseed Oil: 4 Screen Doors; Pitch Fork; Chicken Feeders; Grindstone. Porch Swing; Garden Plow; Wheelbarrow; Mowing Scythe, and other articles 19 head of Leghorn Hens, laying good JOHN HAGGARD OWNER D. S Blair, Auctioneer, Petroleum. Indiana. Phone 21. (' Bohnke. Auctioneer. Decatur. Indiana. Clyde Troutner Sale* Representative and Clerk 3 9

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March Temperature Is Nearly Normal Berne. Apr 3—Th* temperature for the month of March 194* wa* nearly normal, according to H. M. local government weath «r observer. The mean tempura < ture for the month averaged 39 4 degrees, slightly above normal The minimum for the mdnth, 7 I below, set an ail-Hme record. Snowfall wa* 6 2 inches, about the | 35-year average and rainfall totaled 4 77 inches, ulso well ab<*ve normal. Anti-Saloon Leagne Official At Berne Berne. Apr 3—Prof E. B. Hargrave, of Indianapolis a represen

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