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Show ITALY SAYS BALLS AND BATS USELESS "Baseballs and bats are useless use-less toys," is the dictum pronounced pro-nounced by the Italian customs authorities in placing a ban on the importation of these articles for Americans in Italy. Recently the Americans purchased pur-chased the few baseballs available avail-able here and then ordered more from the United States. There also is a shortage of bats. Thomas N. Page, the American Ameri-can ambassador, has been petitioned peti-tioned to secure an exemption of baseball equipment from the recently re-cently enacted law against the importation of all luxuries. It Is claimed tlje game is necessary to maintain the health of the Americans, , |