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I.A GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER Phone 600 Complete Local Reports Thursday, May .'), litl'i Ban on Baseball Color Line Favored CHICAGO, Miiy .1 (UP) Sen. A. 13. (Happy) Chandler, base ball's new commissioner, siiitl to duy lie believes Negroes should have a chance "like everybody c'se" to play major league base ball. "The arrangements ar- yet lo be worked out," be said, "but 1 believe that this is a dee coun try and everybody should have a chance to play its favorite pas lime." Chandler's remaiks were in leply to questions about a reso lution introduced in congress which would authorize the sec retary of commerce to Investi gate alleged racial discrimination in (he major leagues. Granada ENDS TONIGHT J KNOX WAMB1AU VAtLIM STARTS FRIDAY 1 ' n 3 31 PlSt First State Banl of Elgin ELGIN. OREGON Open for General Banking FIRST DAY'S DEPOSITS WEKE . -r. i o O o O O n;t.' twtl oo O o o o o o SPORTS Rucker Is Star As Giants Win From Phillies 9-8 NEW YOHK, May 3 (UP) Giant Outfielder Johnny Rucker is by way of fulfilling hopes of the folks in Crabapplc, Ga., who believe he is the stale's greatest ball player since Ty Cobb. Ho has a .333 average with 21 hits, and his 13-gamo slugging streak is the longest in the ma jors lo dale. Yesterday was his best day. With four hits, he bal led in four runs in a I) to 8 tri umph over the Phillies at Phila delphia. The St. Louis Cards, who had trouble at Pittsburgh last season, ran into more of the same yes terday. After winning the opener of a double bill, 4 to 2, on Harry Brechcen's seven-hit pitching, the Cards were hammered like sand lotlers 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. The Red Sox won their ' fifth straight, topping Washington, 4 to 0, at Boston, on four-hit pitch ing by Jim Wilson, who won his first major league game. Al Benton, back at Detroit af ter a navy hitch, became top pitcher of the season, beating Chi cago, 2 to 1, for his third victory, a four hitter. The Yankees handed Huss Christopher of Philadelphia his first defeat, (I to 4, after he had won three. Pitcher Allie Reynolds of Cleve land had a nine inning no-hit, no run game within his 13-inning, 2 t: 1 victory over the Browns at St. Louis in the first night game of the year. Cincinnati at Chicago in the National was rained out. A sleepwalker isn't really asleep, since he can see, hear and feel. KEYS l OF THE A'.; 17T1T1 T AH ST i n in iti IV, aU IfiUU U CIIUI in rr mt i uiUVItWIfl $2(X),'()0(U)0 I '(it( V'ixiin niHimi.wi o o o liaksi Gets Decision Over Larry Lane CHICAGO, May 3 (UP) Joe Baksi, 211-pound one-time coai miner from western Pennsyl vania, hold a unanimous 10-round decision over Larry Lane,' New ark, N. J., heavyweight, today thanks to his iron jaw. Lane weighed 11)5. Baksi, ranked the nation's sixth best heavyweight, left Lane wob bly at the ond of their bout al the coliseum last night, but only after he had absorbed every punch Lane could throw. Rally in Final Frame Gives Sacs Victory Over Seals By United Press Francis Patrick (Lefty) O'Doul, the old National league batting champion, knows today that lightning does strike in the same place twice. O'Doul's San Francisco Seals had a one-run lead over the Sac ramento Solons for seven innings last night, then had their dreams of conquest blasted when Earl Sheely's club scored three times in the eighth to take over the Pa cific coast league tilt, 3 to 2. The previous night the Solons put on a four-run uprising in the final canto for a 5-4 win in the open ing duel of the scries. Error Is Cosily It looked like young Elmer Or ella was going to avenge that loss when he blanked Sacramento for seven frames. He mowed down the first Solon in the last of the eighth, then was touched for a bloop single by Jack Handley. Jimmy Grant doubled to score Handley. The next batter, Jess Landrum, slammed a grass-cutter at Shortstop oe Futernick who kicked the ball around, allowing Barney Bridges, running for Grant, to score. Roy Younker grounded out but Ted Green halgh singled to bring in Landrum with the run that meant the game. Beavers Extend Lead .The Portland Beavers stretched their first-place margin to two and one-half games by downing the Hollywood Stars, 7-2, while the second-place Seattle Rainiers were splitting a double-header with the Oakland Acorns. Oak land took the seven-inning twi light opener, 8-2, behind Floyd Stromme's three-hit twirling, but the Rainiers came back in the nightcap for a 4-1 win. The Sam Diego Padres evened their series with the Los Angeles Angels at one game each when Tony Criscola came in from third on a wild throw for the run that gave Pepper Martin's men a 5-4 triumph. Stromme was making his final appearance of the season for Oak land before entering the army. HOPPE LEAD DWINDLES HOLLYWOOD, May 3 (UP) Welker Cochran, world's three cushion billiard tillcholder, to day threatened to pass Challenger Willie Hoppe in their transcon tinental series ir. the last of two local matches at the Hollywood Athletic club. Hoppe now leads in the series :il)5ti to 3051. in card games, the aee of clubs is often called the "puppyfoot." o o o '0 Move to Quash Bowman Murder Indictment Fails Circuit Judge R. J. Green yes terday denied a defense motion that a murder indictment against Albert Forrest Bowman of North Powder be quashed, and this af ternoon was hearing arguments on a defense demurrer which charges the indictment is faulty. G. I. Hess, defense counsel, as scited in his motion that the in dictment be dismissed that it fail ed to include the names of all the witnesses who appeared before the inquisitors during their inves tigation of the charge that the defendant killed his father with a rock at their ranch home on the Wolf Creek road. Acting District Attorney C. R. Eberhard, countered with a show ing that all the witnesses were named on the true bill. Six Witnesses Named They were Earl Sligaulldc, ranch worker who found the body of the elder Bowman in an aban doned well, James Tult, another ranch hand, Capl. A. G. Dunn, Sgt. W. A. Foster and Officer Robert Trout of the state police, and La Verne Van Vrankcn. In his demurrer lo the indict ment, Hess charged it did not state sufficient cause to consti tute a crime. Specifically the indictment charges Bowman with murder in the first degree "on the 22nd day of April, 1945 ... did then and there unlawfully, feloniously, purposely and of deliberate and premeditated malice, kill one Al bert F. Bowman by then and there striking him, the said Al bert F. Bowman, with a rock or blunt instrument, a more definite description of which is unknown to the grand jury and then and i there throwing him, the said Air I bert F. Bowman, into a well, whereof the said Albert F. Bow man then and there died . . ." Big Bears Win Bowling Honors by Narrow Margin The women's bowling league schedule came to a close last night with the Big Bear Market ' five the winners by a margin ol j two points over tho Country I Club quintet, by virtue of a clean, sweep by the Country Clubbers in their final scries, j The Country Clubbers took all j three games and series, giving tnem .w points in me league standing to 36 for the Big Bears, These teams wi1! play next Wednesday night for the season al championship, the Country Club team having topped the . league in the first half. I Taking two games and scries fiom the Glass Drug five, the Farnam Supply team cuiclld third place. Mabel Graham of the Country Club team rolled 200 for high game and 524 for high series last' night. The score: i Glass Drugs Players 1st 2nd 3rd Ttl. M. Smith 133 151 130 414 H. Knight 100 1 10 125 M. King 83 127 110 K. Jones 150 M0 120 1 Reniek . 123 150 122 Handicap 53 53 53 335 299 419 404 159 2030 469 393 367 422 439 54 Totals (I2 749 639 Farnam Supply Jones 131 147 127 1311 103 151 18 191 124 130 176 126 16 Breshears S;:jth . . Lee Spaeth . 142 119 1 13 160 . Ill Handieap Tola's . . 713 0U4 7G7 2104 , Country Club ' ! K. Donnelly 152 138 137 127 , U. Illake 142 183 152 477. L. Winhurn ... 129 145 124 398 1 K. Trimble 116 143 137 126 1 M. Gralii-.m 200 150 174 521 Handicap .. 26 26 26 78 1 lota Is 795 785 750 2330 Big Bear Market S. Jtcrnhjrdt. 190 182 102 160 107 159 53 147 112 168 99 167 53 519 341 455 351 470 159 (.i. Alvers . M. Loveless fc. Larson . -M. Walker . Handieap . Totals 127 127 145 144 53 786 763 746 2295 Allies Move in To Occupy Trieste HOME, May 3 (UP) New Zea land tre:ps raivd along the Ad riatic coast to occupy the port of Trieste today while peace set tled over the rest of the Italian front. First official reports did not clarify the p .iiliun a) Trieste, which the Yugoslav army of Marshal Tito claimed to have oc cupied yesterday. In Ihe rest of Iti(t)-, the noise of battle had died away for the fiisl time since the jsylcrno inva sion 111 SeotemhiT l!l"4:l Himtli of thousands :( allied troops oud' a inmton cneniv iroops stood by while the phjXcal de tails of completing thf-jGcrman surrender voce worked out. The allies armies which won the great victory g it strong hints from their commanders they would be transferred to the cast for the final fight against Japan. Johnston Again Heads Chantber WASHINGTON. May 3 (UP) The II S chamber of commerce directors today elected Erie A. Johnston, Spokane, wasti., to an unprecedented fourth term as president of Ihe chamber. Three of Johnston's predeces sors served three terms, but none was named to a fourth. The directors also named two new regional vice presidents, Jo seph W. Evans, Houston, Tex.; and E. H. Scxauer, Brookings, S. D., and re-elected as vice presidents were William K. Jack son, Boston; Cnryle Fraser, At lanta, Ga.; Roy C. Ingersoll, Chi cago; and James W. Spangler, beanie. B-29s Continue to Pound Jap Bases GUAM, May 3 (UP) Ameri can Superfortresses renewed the offensive against Kyushu's sui cide air bases today in support of the campaign on - southern Okinawa, where two more U. S. divisions have been thrown into the battle. Armored forces of the seventh drive on southern Okinawa by For Summer Costumes BLACK HATS. 2.98 Pert sailors trimmed with newest ci'tagle and off the face models. Styles to please your mother. .. .. wmm Perfect Gifts 1IOUSK SUPPKRS 1.98 A grand selection of styles in many colors. Select your mother's gift from these. New Styles WOMKN'S HANDBAGS 2.98 A sure to please gift. Select from our large stock of fab rics and simulated leathers. DltKSS SLIPS Cynthia Crepe Lacs trimmed and tailored bias cut 4 9Q style. Si.cs 32 to 44. Dainty H-VNDKKRCHIEFS Gay printed flower designs on fine 9 It sheer fabrics IVt StMnm.r Colen LOl'MiK PILLOWS Cretonne and tapestry covers in 4 Qjft bright colors. A90 Concordance ;Wrr niHLtwi Old and New Testa ment complete. Flex able leather bac)',) A feA indexed. c; Slainh.-j Steel KM KB SKTS Seven every purpose kitchen knives com pletc with hangup Q Q rack. U.I if Morehead Returns To Forestry Post L. C. Morehead, former district warden of the northeastern Ore gon state unit of the state for estry service, who has been on leave for the past six months, has returned to the department as field assistant in the division of protection. His work for the present will be under the direction of J- J Russell, assistant state forester. Morehcad's headquarters will be at Sweet Home and his activi ties will be largely in the central and northeastern districts and in the Linn county and adjacent ter ritories. More than 15 years ago More head was transferred to La Grande to take charge of this unit and remained here in that capa city until last fall. ririe on southern Okinawa by cracking through the eastern end of the Japanese line to reach within one mile of Yonabaru. Fifty to 100 B-29's hit six Kyu shu airfield!; which have under gone 13 neutralizing attacks since March 27. Early reports said the big planes, bombing visually, achieved "good results" from medium altitude. Dress up 'Show her Pick a print For a Happy Dresses, Too! Why Not (iive Her une ot These Gay New Prints? Aflower irardcn of rlrcssus mmm colors 1 t.90 -Ask. yu erracious fashions for mothi-rs who love color nnA rpfi-pshintr gaiety! Charming- colors splashed against cool white back grounds or accented in summer black. Lovely, all of them . . some in the subtle grace of rayon jersey . . some in sheers or French crepes. Gay Colored SCATTER HUGS Loop type two-tone rugs in oval shapo. 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Oven Glass o CASSEROLES Large si.e, wanted O shapes. Guaranteed lQ against heat breakage JL "X- CENTRAL SCHOOL Musicale MM Boy's Gaberdine SKI CAPS Two color caps in this popular style. Sizes 6'i to 7'r. SWIM TRUNKS rcricci lining j styles in wanted 4 S5' colors. Sizes 8 to 5. t Boy's Whipcorl SCHOOL PANTS I lirtly sanfoHk-d fabric i. a datk bhic '4fii color. Sizes 0 to fltf SUN TRUNKS f .'fusl-endcr type sun turriks in fine cotton Q,, fabrics. Sii-s 2 to 6 v i' year J
