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JED SOX DEFEAT
SENATORS, 11-5
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. — (JP) _
Boston Red Sox pushed acrosi
.j runs in the last two innings tc
•allop the Washington Senators 11
J night and keep alive their A*i
,jcan league pennant hopes.
' for seven innings, it was a pit
her's duel between Roger Wolff
C* d Mike Ryba, with the Senators
gaining a 2-1 lead. .
* Then the Sox opened up in the
,hth with a seven-hit barrage in
king a triple by GeorSe Metko
c. h and a double by Bob Johnson,
Lt produced eight runs off Ry
■; giii Lefebvre and Alex Carras
Son .— 001 000 082-11
S«ton - 000 110 03CU- 5
Rvba. Barrett (8) and Partee;
o-lff Lefebvre (8) Carrasquel (8)
Candi'ni (»*. Thesenga (9).
browns leading
in PENNANT RACE
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 16. — (JP) —
The St. Louis Browns took over
f|'rst place in the tight American
league pennant race tonight by
raUoping the Chicago White Sox
}!0 o behind Jack Kramer’s one
bit pitching.
The Browns blasted Eddie Lopat
r‘3 Jake Wade for 14 hits, includ
ing" Don Gutteridges home run and
doubles by George McQuinn and
jjvron Hayworth. Kramer did not
K’lk a man and struck out six.
rh'cago _ 000 000 000—0
5. L-.uis __120 102 30x—9
Lopat. Wade (7) and Tresh, Jor
dan (7’ ’ Kramer and Hayworth.
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Chicago Victorious
Over Cards 9-5
CHICAGO. Sept. 16. --<JP)— Bill
Trotter, veteran St. Louis Browns
ar.d Washington right-hander, was
greeted by a three-homer barrage
is he made his national league de
bu: with the St. Louis Cardinals to
day .and the blows gave the Chi
capo Cubs a 9 to 5 victory.
Rookie Frank Secory and Don
Johnson hit homers in succession
in the second inning and Secory
Mowed with another with two on
in the fourth.
St .Louis _ 000 221 000—5
Chicago _021 510 OOx—9
Batteries: Schmidt, Byerly, Trot
ter and W. Cooper; Erickson, Lynn
and Williams.
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line jackets Trample
Fort Sheridan, 62-0
GREAT LAKES, 111., Sept. 16.—
(ify-Ueut. (jg) Paul Brown’s new
1944 Great Lakes Bluejackets ran
up the highest score ever assembl
ed by a sailor team when they top
pled Fort Sheridan by the score
of 62 to 0.
The Comets entered the contest
wi h a squad of thirty.
Not more than a half dozen plays
from the Blue Jacket bag were
needed to pile up the 62 points.
Pass interceptions, line bucks, re
turned punts and fumbles, and
passes comprised the entire scor
ing attack.
Although the power was appar
en, Great Lakes didn’t favor any
one man with scoring honors.
Ninetouchdowns were achieved
by nine different men.
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Duke Holds First
Dress Scrimmage
DURHAM, Sept. 16. — (IP)— Eddie
Cameron’s Duke Blue Devils held
their first full-dress scrimmage
this afternoon with the Blue team
winning 13-0. Sparking the Blue
team's attack was Cliff Lewis and
Tom Davis with their running.
For over an hour and one half
the teams scrimmaged with Cam
eron shifting both teams with re
lerves. Gordon Carver showed up
well at his wingback post and do
ing the kicking for the Blue team.
Sparking the attack for the White
team was Howard Reynolds who
»ade several long runs for the
Whites.
_ _ IT__
Newport News Beats
Shipyard All-Stars
The Newport News Shipwrights
defeated the local All—Stars of
'he North Carolina Shipbuilding
company last night 12—6.
Stephenson, hurling for the visit
ers, bested Johnny Wilborne, of
“* 'All—Stars, stricking out seven.
Wilborne struck out ten men, but
*** somewhat out of control, and
‘he visiters took advantage.
The final game of the three—
lame series with Newport News
be played at Legion Field this
•'ternoon at 5 o’elock.
--V
, WILL SUPPORT GOP
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 16. — (AP) —
Lansing Hoyt, former state chair
man of the Gen. Douglas MacArth
Jr for president club, said today
,™Lthe MacArthur organization
" Wisconsin would be reactivgted
l™ would support the Dewey
Bncker ticket
MARINES CAPTURE
PELELIU AIRPORT
(Continued from Page One)
cano islands, 750 miles south of
Tokyo.
Peleliu appeared to be the key
to the entire Palau chain in which
the Japanese have garrisons total
ing an estimated 40,006 soldiers.
With the strategic southern island
and its airdrome in American
hands the Yanks would be in posi
tion to neutralize the rest of the
group and prevent Japanese rein
forcements from reaching the re
gion.
The Japanese were fighting furi
ously to stem the American tide.
Warships stood offshore to protect
the beachhead and aid the Yank
ground forces
CONSOLIDATING HOLD
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
New Guinea, Sunday, Sept. 17.—
—Full speed consolidation of
the American hold on Morotai is
land continued without opposition
today, while land and navy forces
kept a wary eye on by-passed but
formidable forces on Halmahera,
11 miles southward.
A headquarters spokesman said
the Halmahera forces had suffi
cient barges to attempt reinforce
ment of the trapped Japanese gar
rison on Morotai, most of which
have fled to the hills.
v Such reinforcement was possi
ble but not likely, because the Am
ericans have full control of the air
and sea.
Following their well-tried inva
sion pattern, the Yanks sent out
patrols on Morotai in an atempt
to contact the small Japanese for
ces remaining on the island. The
landing Friday was unopposed,
and frontline corespondents re
ported few evidences of recent
Nipponese occupancy along the in
vasion beaches. Enemy forces have
given no indication whether they
will attempt a counte roffensive
against sizable American units.
Meanwhile, Yank engineers, who
landed with the assault troops,
continued their high-speed prepa
ration of Pitoe airdrome on Mo
rotai's southwestern coast. Once
in use the airfield will be used for
new and probably heavier neutral
ization raids against nearby Jap
anese bases, including those ot
the Philippines. Davao is 375 miles
northward, almost 500 miles clos
er than from the previous north
ernmost Allied penetratio nat San
sapor, western New Guinea.
YANKEES DRIVING
THROUGH BIG LINE
(Continued from Page One)
First Army infantry on Hitler's
autobahnen—a super highway on
the road to Cologne and Berlin. It
was considered likely there still
were some fixed obstacles between
them and the Rhine.
Aachen itself, once the capital
of Charlemagne’s empire of the
west, appeared to be toppling, with
patrols darting into the city and
doughboys surrounding it.
(The German agancy DNB sa'd
the Allies had thrown reinforce
ments of tanks and infantry into
the battle of Aachen “on a large
scale.”)
Americans who had reached the
edge of Prum. a strongpoint in the
Siegfried line, came under the fire
of guns emplaced in fortifications in
the fir forests.
At Trier, 35 miles farther south,
Americans met some of the fiercest
resistance yet encountered in Ger
many from enemy troops fighting
from pillboxes with walls six feet
thick.
(The Berlin raido said the Amer
icans were fighting near Bitburg,
an important road center 15 miles
northeast of Trier and 12 milps in
side Germany.)
Patton’s forces were setting the
stage for a drive on the Saar and
the Rhine from the south.
Near Thionville they seized Fort
Gingringen, which was built in 1870,
remodeled as a part of the Maginot
line and given new guns by the
Germans in 1940.
FINNS WAGING WAR
AGAINST GERMANY
(Continued from Page One)
volved, the BBC said, quoting Hel
sinki.
The German army in Russia will
henceforth be guided “by the view
point of its own security against
any aggressors,” a German high
command statement said.
(The mass flight of north Fin
land's population over the Swedish
border began yesterday, a report
from Stockholm said adding that
vehicles were arriving at Torneo
and fear that North Finland might
become a theater of war this week
end served to hurry the evacua
tion.)
(Morning papers in Helsinki
commenting on the Suursaai at
tack said it was “Pearl Harbor on
a small scale” and blasted all
hopes of German—Finnish broth
erhodo in arms.)
Peace discussions in Moscow
were to be taken up again with the
arrival there of foreign minister C.
J. A. Enckell who left Helsinki by
plane to replace Premier Hantti
Hackzell, chairman of the Finnish
peace delegation who suffered a
cerebral hemorrhage in the Soviet
capital. Although grave concern
was expressed for Hackzell’s re
covery, a German radio report that
he had died was denied. His wife
was flown to Moscow in a Rus
sian plane.
Plans to disarm and interm
German troops captured in Fin
land are presumably now being
discussed in Moscow.
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In making writing paper, the fib
ers are treated with water , resis
tant substances such as rosin and
gelatine.
GERMAN TRAINS,
TRUCKS BLASTED
LONDON, Sunday, Sept. 17 —UPi
—Allied fighters and fighter bomb
ers, fanning out for hundreds ol
miles in the area immediately be
hing the Siegfried line, struck Ger
man locomotives, tank cars,
trucks and barges rushing rein
forcements and supplies to the
enemy defenses Saturday.
Simultaneously 150 medium
bombers of the U. S. Ninth air
force dumped 300 tons of bombs on
the Isthmus and Dike connecting
Wacheren Island in Antwerp har
bor with the mainland to prevent
the German garrison from making
a fortress of that position. There
was heavy anti-aircraft fire from
ships in the estuary, and two
bombers failed to return.
The pilots who strafed German
transport reported they .lit 54 loco
motives, 30 oil tank cars, 100 rail
way cars, three barges and three
grounded German planes.
Neither the medium bombers nor
the fighters sighted any enemy
planes in the air as the weather
turned bad and reduced operations
after a promising morning.
Late Saturday night the Berlin
radio warned that “enemy bomber
formations ate again over north
west Germany,’’ in an apparent
continuation of the fofensive by
more than 800 RAF and Canadian
planes that set huge fires at the
big Kiel naval base Friday night.
MEXICO’S ARMED
FORCES PARADE
MEXICO CITY, Sept.
Mexico’s new army, emphasizing
discipline and drill, displayed ail
the glamour of warfare in today’s
independence parade across the
city to the president’s palace.
Fighter planes spotted the fair
est blue skies in weeks.
Cavalry, commandoes, motoriz
ed infantry, tanks, guns and cadei
officers represented all branches
of the service with about four Skel
ton divisions in line.
Much equipment was new, ob
tained from the United States and
reviewed by the soldier-president,
Avila Camacho with military ob
servers and diplomats from all
America about him. The United
States military- contingent was
headed by Lt. Gen. Joseph T. Me
Narney, deputy chief of staff, Maj.
Gen. Henry O. Pratt, southern de
fense commander and Brig. Gen.
Arthur R. Harris, military attache
of toe U. S. Embassy here. When
they were received by the presi
dent yesterday they gave him ten
grand rifles and 2,000 cartridges.
The military parade ended ir
the early afternoon the official ob
servance which began last nighl
at 11 o’clock when the president,
on the palace balcony, pulled the
red cord that rang Mexico's liber
ty bell, the signal given in 1810 bj
Father Miguel Hidalgo, who called
Mexicans to arms in their re
volution for freedom.
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CHEST DRIVE PHASE
TO OPEN TOMORROW
(Continued from Page One)
Walker Taylor, Alex Sprunt, and
James K. Paul; C- Van Leuven
Team 2, with W. E. Curtis, D. H
Howes, Howard Penton, and H. R
Emory; L. A. Raney, Team 3
with E. H. Southerland, E. B. Bugg
and N. L. Foy; Fred B. Graham
Team 4, with E. Eugene Edwards
Richard Rogers, and S. L. Mar
bury; and Robert Scott of the At
lantic Coast Line group. ~
Coincident with the announce
ment of the special gifts kick-off
Stewart revealed the folowing ad
ditional campaign personnel:
Unit division chairman: Industry
H. A. Marks; commerce, Gardner
D. Greer; public service, W. B.
(Bill) Bryan; government, Paul A.
Allen; and education, H. M. Ro
land.
Chairman of the Men’s division:
Leo E. Sykes. This group will so
licit in the business and uptown
areas.
Chairman of the speaker’s bu
reau: Rabbi M, M. Thurman. This
unit wil procure some 20 speakers
to be made available to clubs and
various organizations seeking
Community Chest facts.
Chairman of the display division:
A. S. Grist. The placing of plac
ards and the distribution of pamph
lets and the arrangement of ex
hibits will mark the duties of this
division,
DEWEY SAYS WEST
IS KEY TO FUTURE
(Continued from Page One)
fer war plant ownership to eastern
holders, the nomine said;
“That is the most astound
ing misrepresentation that ever
came from an administration that
now charges to us all of the fail
ures accumulated to it over a
period of years.
“The leader of the New Deal
said as early as 1932 that our in
dustrial plant is built and our pro
blem is to distribute the products
from it.
“For the new deal suddenly to
discover the west after 12 years is
fantastic. The future of our country
lies in the west but only with the
election of a Republican adminis
tration which is committed to the
expansion of the west, can the
great developmen of this country
be accomplished.’’
Gov. .Thomas E. Dewey placdd
Interior Secretary Ickes and Labor
Secretary Perkins high on his cabi
net “purge” list today as he car
ried his presidential campaign
from the agricultural midwest to
the Pacific northwest.
The Republican nominee old a
news conference in Coeur D’Alene,
Idaho, that the first thing people
had been asking him was “will
you promise to rid of Ickes as your
first act?” 1
“I told them he would be very
high on any list,” Dewey grinned.
He conceded then, in response
to a question, that there was some
competition between Ickles and
Perkir.s and “that’s why I didn't
specify who would be first.’
If President Roosevelt is defeat
ed for a fourth term, his cabinet
normally would be replaced.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16——
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey’s state
ment that he intended to drop in
terior Secretary Ickes from the
cabinet if elected President
brought from Ickes tonight the re
mark:
“What a happy world this would
be ‘if it were not for ‘if’.”
Expressing hope that the repub
lican presidential candidate “is not
letting me get into his hair,” Ickes
said that “if I caught him way
off of first base. . .it was because
he had pulled a boner about the
Jackson hole monument.”
“I am sorry about this, but not
so sorry that I cannot stand it,”
Ickes added iq a statement.
Ickes said that as he understood
Dewey’s campaign, Dewey "ob
jects to any criticism of or inter
ference with his western campaign
tour.”
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UMW PLANS CALL
FOR NEW ACCORD
CINCINNATI, Sept. 18—W)—
Spokesmen for the United Mine
Workers of American indicated to
day the union would ask coal ope
rator, of the War Labor Board,
for a new contract within 24 hours
after any decision revising upward
the little steel wage formula.
As the scale committee of the
UMW convention worked on the
outline of demands to be made up
on the industry after the current
contract expires March 31. Union
spokesmen made dear the miners
would not wait until then if
the government’s wage policy was
liberalized sooner.
This clause in the present mine
wage agreement was cited: “If at
anytime during the term of this
supplemental agreement a signi
ficant change occurs in the gover
nment wage policy, either
party shall have the right to re
quest negotiations on gneeral wage
rates.”
The wage scale resoltuion which
next week is not likely to be speci
the convention will consider
fic. The demands usually are spell
ed out by the policy committee
a few weeks before negotiations
begin. However, a spokesman in
dicated the goal of UMW officals
might be an increase of $1 to $2
a day in the basic rate, as well as
full rate instead of two-thirds rate
for underground travel time.
He added that the miners pro
bably would not ask a guaranteed
annual wage but might seek a
shorter basic work day, which
would have the effect of spreading
work throughout the year and pro
viding employment for former
mine workers now in the armed
services.
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The first British raid on Dieppe,
France, occurred in 1339.
JLroopsWiliiMotJt>e Allowed 10
Fraternize With Nazi Civilians
BY DON WHITEHEAD
WITH THE U. S. FIRST ARMY
IN GERMANY, Sept. 16 -(/Pi
Troops of the First U. S. Army will
not be permitted to fraternize with
German civilian* ana are expected
to remember that'they must treat
them as enemies.
For the first time, American
troops are going into country where
the civilian population can be ex
pected to be hostile and the army
does not want the men to expose
themselves to unnecessary danger,
nor permit any leaks in security
through the natural friendliness of
doughboys.
In the drive across France, Bel
gium and Holland the troops were
among friendly, sympathetic pop
ulations which were eager to as
sist. These conditions change at
the border.
There is no doubt many of the
Germans will be happy to see the 1
arrival of the Americans because1
it means the end of war for them,
an end of the dreaded Gestapo
and the finnish of Nazi domination. |
But who will be a friend and who
an enemy no soldier can say.
No longer can a doughboy stop
along the road and chat even cas
ually with the people and only
those on official business will be
able to leave bicouac areas to
mingle with civilians. There rela-j
tions will be business only.
Neither can soldiers wander
about the country in small groups
or singly on sight-seeing expedi
tions, for there always is the dang
er of ambush by some of Hitler’s
fanatics or SS (Elite) troops who
have donned civilian clothes.
American soldiers will not be al
lowed to forget that for four years
the Germans have been waging
total war against American Allies
and much of that time against
America herself, and tha>the Ger
mans individually and collectively
are soldiers of the enemy.
RECEIVES MEDAL
STROTHER FIELD, Kans.,
Sept. 16. — (JP) — Twenty-eight
month-old Robert Cole Dailey
dressed in a miniature uniform o:
a second lieutenant, received at
air medal in ceremonies at Stro
ther Field today. The medal hac
r11"
been awarded to Robert’s father,
Lt. Cole M. Dailey, Arkansas City,
a bombardier with the Army Air
Force, who is now a prisoner of
war in Germany.
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Sardines were named after the
island of Sardinia.
CHANGE “PLOT”
PARIS. Sept. 18.—(JPh- Three ol
the 15 dailies now being published
in Paris burst forth today with
charges that a “plot” against the
press existed and attacked what
they termed ill-advised govern
ment interference with publishing.
| EARTHQUAKF
QUITO, Ecuador, s>epi- 16.—(^1
—Reports from Cotopai province
aaid today that the village of Pas
tocalle was destroyed in yester
day’s earthquake which shook five
town*. The number of casualties
has not been determined.
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