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CLOUDBUSTER —SPORTS.
Friday, July 20, 1945
70th Batt Favored To Win
Sports Program Title Tonight
Sports Program finals sched
uled for tonight find the 70th
Battalion of Lieut. C. A. Robin
son placing five teams in the
competition and reigning as
heavy favorite to come out on
top.
Tracksters of the 70th, coached
by Lt. (jg) G. D. Smith, will run
against the 69th team of Lieut.
R. E. Horsley.
Swimming will pit the 70th
jtank team of Lieut. R. L. Daly
against Lieut. H. P. Cormack’s
67th.
Wrestling brings Lieut. R. B.
Hamsher’s 70th to the mat with
Lieut. W. H. Grimberg’s 68th.
The 70th soccer team, coached
by Lieut. C. J. Whiteside, will
take the field against Lt. (jg)
R. E. McLeary’s 71st.
Volleyball brings Lt. (jg)
L. M. Norton’s 70th against
Lieut. C. J. Kernan’s 68th.
Only in boxing will the 70th
Battalion be missing from the
competition, for in the ring
Lieut. C. F. Carpenter’s 68th
leather-throwers will mix with
Lieut. E. W. Brady’s 69th.
As an added attraction, mem
bers of the varsity gymnastic ex
hibition squad under Lt. Comdr.
C. J. Keeney will perform on the
trampoline between halves of
the soccer game. Cadets partici
pating in the exhibition will in
clude R. M. Seidenspinner, 70th
Battalion, J. W. Brown, 67th, and
J. S. McNeely, W. R. Stuyvesant
and J. E. Tolar, Jr., all of the
69th.
JUST WHISTLE—Calculated to
give everyone a treat, the Vil
lage Theatre this Sunday is pre
senting the inimitable Lauren
Bacall, co-starred with Hum
phrey Bogart in one of this
year’s good pictures, “To Have
and Have Not.”
'3,074 in Bonds
Sold as Drive Is
Completed Here
With all the accounting com
pleted for the Independence Day
War Bond Drive, the final fig
ures show that bonds with a ma
turity value of $93,075 were pur
chased here, it is announced by
Lieut. John C. Worth, local War
Bond Officer.
Cash value of the purchases
was $74,750, including $31,500
invested by the cadet regiment.
Cash purchases by officers, crew
and civilian employes of the
various departments follow :
academic $16,250; administrative
$9,925; athletic $6,850; military
$5,975; and dispensary $4,250.
Navy Establishes
New Program for
Prospective Cadets
A Naval Aviation Preparatory
Program, designed for. younger
and less experienced enlisted
men who wish to become naval
aviators, has been established to
provide appropriate college
training for prospective aviation
cadets prior to their assignment
to the standard flight training
program.
Eligible are unmarried men
who will not have reached their
20th birthday by Nov. 1, 1945,
and who have not advanced be
yond the 5th pay grade (Sic or
equivalent).
Candidates selected for the
program will be assigned on or
about Nov. 1 to certain colleges
participating in the Navy V.-l"
program. It is not expected that
the length of the college training
will be more than three terms
of four months each prior to
transfer to Navy Pre-Flight
Schools. Each trainee must con
tinue to demonstrate satisfactory
scholarship, physical fitness, con
duct and aptitude for officer-
candidate training; those falling
below required standards will be
returned to general duty.
OPERATIONAL REPORT
PROMOTIONS:
From Lt. (jg) to Lieut.: O. Hoffman,
L. M. Norton.
ADVANCEMENTS;
Virginia E. Myers, SK3c to SK2c(t);
from HAlc to PhM3c (t): Mary B. Four
nier; David A. Jackson; Ruth L. McConnelL
DEPARTURES:
Lieut. S. S. Hollobaugh; Lt. M. J. Chap
man; Lieut. C. J. Whiteside.
ARRIVALS;
Lt. Comdr. D. "C” Bartelma; Lt. (jg)
Margaret L. Barrett; Lieut. C. C. Nelson; Lt.
Comdr. H. E. Smith; Lieut. W. Juriiovic;
Lieut. R. L. Bourn; Lieut. H. C. Mansell;
Lieut. P. M. Mariner; Lt. Comdr. W. M.
Stevens.
—Buy More War Bonds—
Lieut. Fogerty Wins
Singles Title Here
In Tennis Matches
Dropping only three games
during the entire competition,
Lieut. Edward F. Fogarty, recog
nition training officer, breezed
through five opponents in the
singles division of the officers’
tennis tournament to win the
singles title last week.
Lieut. Fogarty, who played
tennis at Boston College back in
the ’20s, won all of his rounds
handily in straight .sets, 6-1, 6-0;
6-0, 6-0; 6-0, 6-1; 6-0, 6-1; and
6-0, 6-0. He defeated Lieut.
George R. McClure, principles of
flying instructor, in the finals.
Bragg Edges
Out ^Busters
7-6 In Tenth
Coming from behind with a
quartet of runs to tie the count
in last of the ninth, the strong
Fort Bragg Personnel Center
team tallied again in the tenth to
edge out the Cloudbusters at
Fort Bragg last Wednesday, 7
to 6.
Ex-St. Louis Cardinal ace
southpaw. Max Lanier, who took
over on the mount for the sol
diers in the ninth was the win
ning pitcher.
Bob Warren led the Pre-Flight
14-hit attack with a double and
two singles, while Frank Pellerin
crashed out a double and one
single.
Charlie Hayne, who held
Bragg to seven hits or half the
’Buster total, was the loser.
Home games in the coming
week include a tilt with Camp
Butner Sunday starting at 1500,
and a return game with the Fort
Bragg nine at 1600 Wednesday.
All But the Dead
Washigton (CNS)—“Ninety %
of us would love to fight Japan,”
Lt. Albert Torres, one of 20 Bra
zilian fliers who fought the
Krauts in Italy said in an inter
view here.
“What about the other 10%?”
Torres was asked.
“They were killed in Italy,”
he replied.
INCREASE IN NAVAL VESSELS
FROM 1941 -1945 . . .
CmCTED BV IMPOIiTAKT OFfENSIVES
100.000
i 10,00^
NOV. DEC. JUNE JUNE JULV
IMl 1943 1944 1944 1944
INCREASE BETiVEEN BATTLES...
NAVAL GROWTH—The fifth anniversary this month of the enact
ment of the original “Two Ocean Navy Program” finds the “on
hand” combatant strength of the Navy swelled by more than 3,000,-
000 tons from the 1,313,390 as of July 1,1940, to a total of 4,433,418
as of July 1 this year. In categories other than that of combatant
vessels, viz., auxiliary vessels, mine, landing and patrol craft, the
hand strength has been increased during the same period from
554,308 tons to approximately 9,000,000. In terms of numbers, the
U. S. Navy has grown from 7,695 ships on hand when the Japs hit
Pearl Harbor to the greatest Navy the world has ever seen with a
strength of more than 100,000 vessels at present. The numerical
increase is charted above according to important offensives of the
war.