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Rickey Would 'Pool' Players to Offset Drafting of 4-Fs The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, April 2, 1944. FAGS FETED! ! By WHTTNEW MARTIN -j NEW YORK, April 2 () B ranch Rickey, who has an an fwer lor everything, has the so lution to the baseball: man power problem if the government decides to - draft the 4Fs for labor. He'd pool the players so there would be enough to go around.. This sounds lo gical enough, ex- trt fnw nmm Ht . t j ..v.i. BRAHCH RICKEY Where are they going to get the pool players? That is, when you taose ine 4Fs out of baseball you have left a dozen or so creaky old gents in the over-33 class, and a bunch of 15 and 17 year olds the fans could see on any high school field of corner three-old-cat game. It is a generous gesture, this communist idea of Rickey's where by the clubs richer in players would share their wealth with some of the poorer clubs, and If s particularly ' generous because Rickey's Brooklyn Dodgers, with the drippings of a once far-flung organization at I their disposal, would be one of the , few clubs which might conceivably be one of the larger contributors to the pooL Rickey says the ' Brooklyn club will have "bad about 200 players at its various camps this , spring. He does not say how many would be left after a 4F labor draft got through with them, but you might get an idea by checking the Dodg er roster; alone. - The current Brooklyn roll lists five men; over 33, one under 18, and one or two medical discharges from the service. That adds up to not quite a. baseball team, and un der the circumstances offering to toss surplus players into a pool is akin to a very hungry kid of fering to give up What is left of his candy bar to a friend. That may be taking a pretty bleak outlook, but any way figure you would have an average 'of about one over-age player to ev ery 20 16 or 17-year-old players. That would be high school: base ball. ; ' If worse comes to worst and the leagues still wanted to continue play, they might call the various clubs the Junior Dodgers, or Jun ior Cubs, or Junior Yankees. That is, make it a junior major league. The fans would know what to ex pect and if they wanted, to see some kind of baseball regardless of the quality, they'd turn but to some extent anyway, if the prices were cut 1 . Final ;P!ans: Made For Softy Openers Eight Clubs Start Twilight Loop Sessions Wednesday; Rules Set 1 By CHRIS KOWITZ Keith Brown faces Salem air base, Papermakerg vie with Faculty, Golden Pheasant goes up against Willamette's Golds and the Willamette Cardinals meet the Willamette Blues in open ing day firing of the newly-formed Salem softb all. loop Wednes day. ------ V.j ' '-"'P"" - - i Two contests will be played at dinger and one each on Leslie and Sweetland field diamonds. Al though it has not yet been decided which garnet will be played where, all contests are tabbed for a 6 pjn. start.' 1 !"..":; The process of signing players Is expected to hit full stride early this week, by the j managers of the four civilian. teams in the cir cuit, all of which are in search of talent.' Contracts now held by Keith Brown, Papermakers and Golden Pheasant, ! sponsors of ' teams in 1942, the last year in which the loop operated, are still . stable, and all players signed to them must be released by their present "owners" before signing with any other club. Jim Sheldon, "who had already lined UD a diamond crew, said yesterday he had acquired Gold en Pheasant as sponsor of his squad.' "Les Sparks iis still shop ping for a faculty nine backer and expects to land one in a couple of days. , " V j.. Each sponsor is to be assessed '$1Q for the right to field a team in the circuit. The registration fee must be In the hands of Chet Goodman, league secretary and treasurer, "not later than game time. . Wednesday. , It, is not probable that admis sion to be games will be charged t any time during the , season, since the registration fees will suf fice to cover the cost, of umpires, and balls and bats will be furnish ed by sponsors.! . All contests will be of the seven inning variety, with: nine men to a team, except when two service crews meet, when ten softballers will be used by each squad. The remainder of the schedule will be announced late this week by the schedule committee, com posed of Charles Davis, Sparks and Goodman, Loop President El ton Thompson announced yester day. . . .; .:."h :.; :, ;;f . Trappers Name Co4ch VANCOUVER, Wash., April : Jty- Curt Ledford, former Wash tngton btate college sprint ace, was named track coach at Van couver high school today to sue .ceed his former tutor, Carl Gus tafson, who now is with the Great er Vancouver Recreation associa- - tion. " .- J .:- Softy Loop Boss Finds New T Pitch Bobd Located; In Shape, Too s - Overseas Now TRmSRiaC Md Anril 1-UPi Louis' "Big Bobo" iNewsom called Connie Mack by telephone (col lect) today from his home in Hartsvflle, SC, and told him to quit orryjng. I Mrj Mack was somewhat per turbed earlier in the week when he told newspapermen he had nominated Bobo to pitch the Phil adelphia: Athletics"; opening game against Washington, but hadn't heard front the "perculiar fellow" since Newsom ordered some balls and bats shipped to Hartsville be fore the A's opened training camp.' "Ill pitch that opening game for you, Mr. Mack," Newsom boomed. fTve got a new pitch. I call it the V-ball you. know, V for vic tory. , - I ;; i -'r "I've been in Florida working out. The. "trip cosi money but it was worth it. I'm in shape. 111 be with you on the 10th.". PVT. OWEN ", GARLAND! ? line planting fullback for Salem blah's Vikinrs two years ago and son of Mr. and Mrs.' H. L. Garland, 1190 Hood streets, Is now In action with the marine corps in the south Pacific thea tre. It has been reported! ELTON THOMPSON has been re elected president of the Salem Softball league which, after a year's In activity, swings Into action en three village fronts Wednesday at f p A Major League Baseball Notes I Brown Sisson Has Birthday Surprise Employes ' of ; Millers gave Brown Sisson, the manager, a surprise Saturday, which was his birthday. When he was out at noon, a table was fixed up in his office, and employes assembled for the occasion. Sisson was kept busy through the afternoon serv ing cake and punch to callers. Born on April Fools day, Sisson has in the past fooled his em ployes on that date, so they re versed the joke this time. Sportsmen Open Club ASTORIA, April l-(P)-Spprts men of this area have organized the Clatsop county Rod and Gun club to protect and improve fish ing and hunting. Angus Walker, Astoria, is president. Dragons Slate Airmen DALLAS Dallas high school's baseball team will meet the Salem army air base nine here Tuesday at 3:30 pjn. indcstkiaL leagck Wahl Bros. Statesman Papermakers ...,.,., Valley OU Co. M r Grocery Sclo Capital City Laundry Brito Spot Nicholson's youthful Insurance- Hartman Bros. men clung to a 2-game lead in the Commercial league at Perfection Pauius Bros. during the past week's sessions and made ready to meet second-place ; Goldies in this week's crucial ser i les. George Scales of Pauius Bros. J continued at No. 1 bowler in the circuit withxis 178 average. Wahl Brosn winner of the In j dustrial loop's first half play, fin- ally regained the top spot In that : Tuesday night circuit after a hot ; week and replaced the Statesman. ! Wahl Bros, hold a one-game lead ' ; over the Statesman and Paper makers quints, and-Fred West of the leaders stayed atop the In dividual chase withh is 184 ave- rage. . k Army-Navy Store and Cline's i Coffee Shop made it a two-team ' race in the Major league, the for ! mer leading the latter by a single : game. Bert's Pros slipped; to five : games behind , the Shoppers and ! are tied with City Cleaners and A Ramages 7-Up. Walt Cline, Jr of : the- Cleaners dropped a point in 4 the individual chase and is now tied with Ellsworth Hartweli , at , 185 for high honors. Acklin's Bootery maintained its 'i J-game Ladies, league lead over i Broadway Beauty Shop,T Miller's : Furniture and RIalto, all tied for ! second. VireinJa Garbarino 's 153 : average is still tops. ' rn-MUfEnrTAi. leagck ' - , W L Pet. v 7!Vinlif Tnciir'snfa . U 13 .6ii7 IS Hahrorson Construction 18 Si Hanuns 17 H .IS S3 AS AM .410 Ay erase teadins 10 bowlers: Scales 178. ilill 17J. oanlberc 173. itel 170 Duff us 188. Zelter 16&. WheaUey 167, nits 10. &. carbanno les. Mei- 24 15 ji n is is 1S IS .15 IS 1S IS .11 21 U 22 Article Sees reat Industry On West Coast BALTIMORE, Md, April !-() The Boston Red Sox were wal loped; by the Coast Guard Cutters of Curtis Bay, 23 to 18 today In their opening exhibition game. FREDERICK, McL, April Using a rookie lineup, the Phila delphia Athletics defeated the Frederick Bustlers 4-0 in an ex hibition game this afternoon which was called after four and half in nings: because of rain. ' ATLANTIC CITY, April 1-flP) The New; York Yankees poled only five bits today but defeated the Philadelphia Phillies, 5 to 4, in the first exhibition game of the year Sat! this resort A crowd of 2678 paying fans i and some 500 wounded soldiers watched. Johnny Lindell cracked a homer for. the winners with a mate on base and George Stirnweiss banged out a triple with two men on. In both cases the bit was mode off Charlie Schanz. - if EVANSVILLE, !nd April 1 () The Detroit Tigers and Chicago Cubs emerged from an April Fool's day slugfest today with the last laugh going to the Cubs. They won, ! 10 to 9. ! CAPE GIRARDEAU, Md., April l-CiTfr-There was ino April fool in's about : Milt Byrnes, St Louis Browns' outfielder when he batted with the bases loaded in the fifth inning against Toledo of the Am erican association) today. Byrnes doubled, driving in three runs. for a; 8-4 Victory In the 7-inning practice game. ! LOUISVILLE, Ky, April l-VP) Twenty hits provided the Chicago White Sox with f an impressive 16-3 triumph over the Pittsburgh Pirates today in the first spring training exhibition contest of the year for the Bucs. .667 .638 JIM .459 .455 .455 JS4 J33 Averages leading 10 bowlers: West 184. Dencmore 168. Wheatley 165. Mel ville 163. Edwards IBS. Kirchman 164. Mathis 164, Pederson 163. rorgard 160, White 15, Erugaara i. . MAJOR LEAGUE Army-Navy Store .18 11 JS33 18 12 .600 a 17 .433 13 , IT .433 13 IT .433 ai u jot Averages 10 leading bowlers: Cliae, Cline's Coffee Shop Bert's Proa. City Cleaners ,.;. i, ., Ramaee 7-up Acme Wreckers ir. 189. HartweU 189. Poulin W4. Clin. sr. 183. Xcrtaoa 182. Thrush 181, Co ISO, Htmut 171, Kcejer 7. LADIES' LXAGUK Acklin's - Bootery Broadway Beauty Shop : Miller's rurnitur RIalto Keglettea- J8 -15 IS jSOO 15 .JOS IS IS JS04 15 15 JSO0 .14 10 4T Sears. Koebuck : 11 19 J6T Average 10 uaamg dowmts: gar barino 150. Lloyd 156, Poulin 152. Mey er 148. Jones 142. Mills 141, Tamblya 141. Bowlsby 140. Hamman 140. Holt 139, Kirchman 130. 7 - V.ZXCFA vi7 666 Jones Named to Post on State Defense Council S. Paul Jones, Hood River, state evacuation and transportation of ficer for the Oregon state defense council the past year,- Saturday was appointed by Gov. Earl Snell as administrative assistant to the counciL i : : . .. j ' ' . Jones succeeds James D. Olson. who I recently replaced Jerrold Owen as state civilian defense co ordinator. Owen is now in military service : . i : - i Gov. Snell has accepted the res IgnaUon of Mrs. E. W. SL Pierre as state director of civilian war services for the Oregon defense counciL Jones will take over her duties. Try ; as ' of dOawa Attains SUCCESS fee years China. Me saatter wttb waai aliment ya are ArrLICT ED euordars. anatsttia, heart, taag, .. H ver, kidneys, - stomach. gaa,i eonsupauoav ween, ota- betu, : Itvcr, skin, f esaale ' t plaints -i; i Chfzrli3 Ch:n Chinese Derb Co. Oftlca Boors Only Taea. a ad Sat, 0 at as, m S p. as. astd San, ana WC a. at. U it JO p. ao. 122 N. CoraX L Salem, Ore. Repair Shops f Sctly Private" By Quinn Hall Consolidated - At Camp Adair CAMP ADAIR, Ore, April X What were formerly the post ord nance and Quartermaster repair shops have, during the past six months, undergone a drastic ad ministrative change-over nd have now been consolidated into a sin gle unit on the; post, the mainten ance division, under the supervi sion of LL CoL James W. Fraser. On September 7, IMS, the war department, over the signature of the secretary of war, ordered that all ' army repair shops on fixed posts be combined, and that the entire responsibility for mainten ance of clothing and equipment be placed In a single division of the army service forces. CoL Fraser was appointed to the staff of Adair's director of supply, CoL W. Bruce Piroie, in the : capacity of deputy director of maintenance. It was his job to combine into a single unit all the various repair shops on the post, including ordnance, quart- termaster, medical, ; engineering and signal corps, and to insure their smooth operation when the unification was completed. The - reorganization of Camp Adair's repair facilities has elim mated a great deal of duplication of work, and the savings in man power and machinery have been considerable. The maintenance division now handles all repair work of any nature that may arise on the post. except carpentry work, which is still under the supervision of the post engineer. The shops are so complete and so well-staffed that only occasionally ; does the need PUNK PUNK d mm mm iBBjjjr Mi. -..sr. m 1 j-i- 1 . vY'rr V P2Arw ia.u:- .: - i CVS? tKV THE. mi QItSRR tFFCKTS KTrlLlfc UUE CP aiW.SES 01 OS CW4EJJER. S. OSPSLSSP., 4-2 Addyse Lane Wins Humorous Readihr EUGENE, Ore, April 1 -(flV Addyse Lane, Salem, won first place in the humorous reading di vision of the annual Oregon high school - speech. . . league forensic tournament today. . 1 .; Don Yocom, Salem, and Harold Marr, Roseburg, tied for second in V extempore : speaking. Tom Brand, Salem, placed third. Yocom also tied for third in the dis cussion contest. ' "l Jeanne Mcintosh,' Corvallls, took first in oratory and radio speak ing. Other first ' place winners were Jim Tucker, Medford, in discussion; Velma Pollock, Cottage Grove, poetry reading, and Rob ert Myers, Beaverton, extempore speaking. " 27 Year Old Mystery Solved' Long Lost Scissors Appear To Prod Sleeper's Memory ized work, such 1 as X-ray and T") ' j chemical warfare ; equipment : IrrOpagailQa "Not only do Camo Adair main- I ; JL . O Groups Send Not only do Camp Adair main tenance shops service the post, but they do repair work for the var ious stations in nearby sections and whatever tactical . units may be in the area. The Portland army air base, the A dream of industrial empire has excited the great and golden states of California, Oregon and Washington. Since ; 1939 a million and a half new faces have an swered the "go-west call boom ing; out from the . aircraft and shipyard ' industries - on - the west coast, according to an article In the current issue of The Saturday Evening Post titled The West Coast Weighs its Future" by Post Associate Editor Arthur W. Baum. ; ., - 1 4 "The fever runs hysterically high, but even in the chambers of commerce and civic clubs there are parallel chills of apprehension. This huge population and produc tion shift is war-borne and war- fueled. When the war ends, will the new far westerners stay to make the revolution real? Will the new : industry remain to support them?" asks the Post article: : - . - - Polls conducted by industrial plants on the coast indicate that as high as 96 per cent of these new employes have said they would never go east again. By and large the coast wants them to stay. Hen ry Kaiser calls them "the argo nauts of today, the builders of to morrow." : The east may talk of reconver sion but the west cannot, for these new machines of the west simply did not exist before. To keep these machines in production the coast must 'find thousands of new cus tomers to replace the one. custo mer they now have the govern ment - r : "It may be well to twist an old saying and ; suggest- that It has never paid to sell the Pacific coast short It has sunshine In the south and eternal greenery in the north, People like to visit the coast, and population figures say that many of them will stay there. Perhaps these things will turn out to be postwar assets greater than any others," concludes Mr. Baum.. in his Post article. ASTUs in Eugene and Corvatus Shortly, on 100,000 desks i in 4he and the civil air patrols in Red- United States, will lie a startling mond all request service from the pamphlet called Know Your En Camp Adair maintenance division, emy," Issued by the society for During the summer of 1843 the the prevention of the third world shoos, at that time separate units, I war. - - were swamped with work from It will go, free, to congress, the Bend maneuvers. ; newspapers, radio ' stations, the The tent and canvas repair shop clergy, colleges quite frankly, on the post is believed to be the I to all who can influence, public largest in the entire northwest J opinion. 1 ; : - yet it is only one small portion of It's a chilling document for the the total facilities available here, everage, unworldly American be- CoL Fraser is assisted in his cause it traces . through 125 years work my three capable, specially j of German history the Germanic chosen lieutenants. Chief assistant 1 ideas of . a "master race, com and productional control officer is I monly credited today only to the I-t. C. . Smith. The two main re-1 nazis. : 4 pair shops are under separate I It quotes from all classes -of supervision. LL James A. Noeker I Germans: The army, writers, phi- is in charge of the armament and losophers, poets, teachers and the outomotive -shop, while Lt John J clergy. E. Thomas keeps a watchful eye! This pamphlet is only one of on the clothing and equipment re pair shop. ; W. Earl Wright, McMinnville, t)ies - McMINNVILLE, Ore, April -CP)-W. Earl Wright prominent McMinnville business man,' died at , his desk today ; in the central heating' p 1 a n t he had operated since 1908. He was 63. Survivors include the widow, a daughter and a son,. i.-. j. - Out Literature NEW YORK, April 1 -(ff)- Dewey-on-Ballot Decision Delayed PORTLAND, April l--A de- States the battle of ideas centers several signs that the United States is to undergo a full scale propaganda war, concerning the shape of the peace, during unoffi cial United, Nations peace talks in London. ; i In both England and the United cision on entering Thomas E. Dewey in the Oregon presidential primary was hehT up 4pday. pend ing word from Maj. Luther Felk er, head of the Dewey-for-Presi-dent forces here, who Is in New York conferring on the situation. Frank S. Senn, acting chairman of the committee supporting Dew- around a "hard" or a "son" peace, Roughly, this is what they advo cate: - Hard peace": The "uncondi tional surrender", enunciated at Casablanca by President Roose velt and Prime Minister Church ill as United Nations policy. Groups supporting this policy say ey, said the New York governor's he Germans are so filled with name would not be entered until advice is received from Felker. The- 1000 signatures needed to place Dewey on the ballot have been obtained, Senn added. Dewey asked his backers here j again yesterday to keep his name off th ballot the "super man" theory that both their education and their indus trial policies must be directed by the United Nations until it is cer tain they drop their "super, man' beliefs i' -V V Soft peace": There are plenty of democratic Germans who should be permitted to take over government the minute the United Nations armies have won victory. The "hard peace" crowd is led by the Society for the Prevention BOUGAINVILLE IN THE SOI-1 of the Third World War, headed OMONS, April lt-W-Pvt Jim by the American author. Rex Hatfield, 21, grandson of: the orig- stout who k chairman of inal Jim Hatfield of Hatfleld-Mc- the writers war board. They have Coy feudin fame, . thinks he got enlisted the aid of several Euro a Japanese on Hill 260. i pean researchers, among them Dr. Young Jim, from Wuliams, f Friedrich Foerster. a famous Ger- WVa, fired at a Nip peeking from man scholar, who was first thrown behind an obstruction, The enemy 1 mo 4 an m 1895 for opposing the disappeared. Two flays laier, wnen i kaiser's plans for the first World Hatfield was eoie to inivesugaie, war Feudin' Hatfield Thinks He Got a Jap he found a body there. U of O Revises j School Calendar i r EUGENE, Ore, April 1 -) The University of Oregon's 1944- 45 school year has been revised! to give students more time for summer defense work and longer j study terms. The "soft peace" movement led by the "American Friends of German Freedom," headed by Paul Hagen, German author who 1 also uses the name Carl Frank. Mahoney Registers - As Voter in Klamath - KLAMATH FALLS, April -Willis E. 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