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The Sports Trail By WHITNEY MARTIN 4^TyORK, April 15.- OT - NE'urtn war-time major league r"e!!u season opens tomorrow, ^ of the outlook gives rise i0,^e American League sched rmakers didn't think much of “,e Tnces of the Athletics and the cM"c„s thev tried to get those Sen8tThs c f the track early to Anthem from getting in the way keep m‘d contenders. (Connie oi '/! team and the Nats each ;vs only three days the last two "'lkat Bill McKechnie will get ,^e good games out of that ' !„m of pitching antiques he rsS Sup, but the Reds wiU be j^o weak at the plate to go very ,srnst Emie Lombardi of the Giants and Bill Nicholson of the o‘h,_if Nicholson is available E7battle it out tor home run l‘ „rs in the National. fc Thai Leu Durocher will play at ,„st 75 games for the Dodgers, M not because he wants to play. That new Yankee prexy l^arry MacPhail, who has been very quiet „ aate is due to explode one of toe- days, but it had better not E in Joe McCarthy's face. Marse jne isn't the type to stick around after more than one trick cigar. That the Cardinals will be at least six games in front by July i but the American League teams will be playing leap frog for first place all season. That the only thing of pre-war quality will be the umpiring and possibly the managing. That Joe Medwick will be avail able to the Giants only at inter vals. but that Van Mungo might finally have that good season this year. ’ That Hal Newhouser and Dizzy Trout will win about 35 games for the Tigers between them. that Branch Rickey will Rave to stuff his ears with cotton if the Dodgers get away to a poor start and gradually get worse. Those Brooklyn fans can make a fog horn sound like a peanut whistle. That the fans will turn out sur prisingly well once the races be gin to take shape. That one player misSed most by any team will be Dick Wakefield of the Tigers. That the 'top National League rookie will be Albert Schoendienst of the Cardinals, whose name will appear- in the box score as Sch’st. That Bucky Walter will wifi 20 games again, and again will stand the Cardinals on their ears. BERLINSAYS REDS ARE 24 MILES AWAY (Continued from Page One) tresses of Kuestrin and Frankfurt, Berlin reported. A blazing tank and infantry bat tle was underway west of Kues trin itself 38 miles east of Berlin. The DNB agency said that Zhukov had thrown five Russian divisions ■—some 75,000 men—supported by 200 tanks into the battle. DNB claimed that at least 108 Red Army tanks had been knocked out by German guns. St. Poelten, strategic 10-way road and rail center 28 miles west of liberated Vienna, fell to Mar shal Feodor I. Tolbukhins Third Ukranian Army, Premier Stalin announced in an order of the day. a Ditter cattle was m progress in the Danube valley around St. Poelten as the Germans threw in fresh reserves, especially anti tank groups. The Germans were employing all kinds of devices along the Vienna Munich autobahn in an effort to halt Tolbukhin. His advance threatened to flank the Czechoslo vak capital of Prague, 131 miles northwest of Soviet spearheads. Dispatches said the Nazis were felling trees, mining and blowing up huge stretches of the broad high-speed road. While these forces gained along the Danubes south bank, a second order of the day from Moscow an nounced the capture of Floridsdorf, an industrial suburb of Vienna on the north bank of the Danube, which actually is included in the boundaries. Korneuburg, rail junction on the Vienna-Prague line three miles up the Danube, also was taken by Marshal Radion Y. Malinovskys Second Ukranian Army, with the aid of Tolbukhins troops who mossed the Danube in that area. Stalin said that a grouping of German troops seeking to with draw from Vienna was -wiped out and 3,000 prisoners taken. -V-_ Balsa, the lightest commercial vood in the world, is doing its ait in the war effort in bombers, ife saving equipment, combat aoats and mine detectors. ST. LOUIS GETS WRITERS’ VOTES ON WORLD SERIES *• - — - 80 Per Cent Of Scribes Pick Red Birds To Win Fourth Straight By JACK HAND NEW YORK, April 15. — (JF) — Another all-St. Louis world series was predicted today by the na tion’s baseball writers who fore cast a three-way struggle for the championship in the American League and tougher competition for the Cardinals in the National. Of 76 scribes participating in the annual Associated Press poll, 61, or 80 per cent, picked Billy South worth’s Red Birds to cop their fourth straight pennant in the sen ior circuit with Pittsburgh running a strong second. Detroit and New York in that order were selected as the Browns’ leading competitors. Thirty-seven experts, or 48 per cent, favored Luke Sewell’s “Cinderella Boys’’ who upset the dope bucket last year. The Tigers were given 29 first place votes and 10 went to the Yanks. The Cards were rated a cinch , a year ago and dived up to all promises but the writers wavered among New York, Chicago and ! Washington before picking the Yanks in the American. The Browns were consigned to fifth place, getting only one flag bal- ; lot. This year, on the basis of eight : points for a first-place selection, ■ seven for second and so on down to one for last, the Cards boasted 585 of a possible 608 points. Pitts burgh had 515 but the third place 1 Chicago Cubs got only 399. It was closer in the American where the Browns received 546 points, the Tigers 534 and the Yanks 469. J. Ed Wray, sports editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the only selector to call the 1944 finish right, predicted a second succes sive Sportsman’s Park classic if travel conditions permit a series this fall. St. Louis, Detroit and New York were the only American Leagut teams to receive pennant votes, but the New York Giants had two in the National and Chicago, Cin cinnati and Brooklyn one apiece. Toughest position to pick out side of the American flag appear ed to be fourth spot in the junior circuit, Boston just nosing out Cleveland for the honors, with Philadelphia, Chicago and Wash- ; ington following in order. Chicago, apparently expected to get away to a better start under Charley Grimm, was ticketed for third in the National and New York nosed out Cincinnati for the last first-division spot. Boston’s Braves drew surprising .support ■ ii ii-i__iitiiVi *i eivt’ri UUL UQU IU - — place rating ahead of the Phils and Dodgers, who were almost a dead heat for the basement. u. s. onTIawa REPULSES ENEMY (Continued From Page One) the central two-thirds of the stra tegic Ryukyu island just 325 miles south of Japan proper. Infantrymen in the south were deadlocked along the “Little Sieg fried Line” four miles north of the capital city of Naha for tne twelfth straight day amid the fiercest ar tillery duel of the Pacific war. Oppisition was almost negligible, however, in the rugged northern end, where the first Marine Di vision under Maj. Gen Pedro A. Del Valle pressed beyond Momo baru town on the west and Arak avta on the east. Maj. Gen Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr.,s Sixth Marine Division, mean time, completed the occupation of the big Motobu peninsula, which just off Okinawa’s northwest coast. . Japanese on this peninsula coun terattack lightly in mid-week to give the Leathernecks their only sizeable opposition of the cam paign. i Japanese fliers struck at Ameri- ; can shipping off Okinawa in small , force Saturday after two days of . desperate assaults by Kamikaze ] (suiciaej pnois wno specialize m self-destruction in attempts to c crash on picked targets. Nine were ] shot down Saturday. , The three-day toll for Thursday, . Frilay and Saturday was at least j 265 Japanese aircrft destroyed. The most severe damage inflicted on U. S. forces was the sinking c of one destroyer Thursday. American and British career ' planes raked airfields and towns i on Formosa and nearby islands 1 Friday and Saturday. U. S. pilots destroyed seven enemy planes on the ground and damaged 25 others. The British shot down three at tacking their task force, and dam aged a number aground in sweeps of Formosa hangars, barracks and other installations. -V Superfortress Armada Attacks Japan Again WASHINGTON, April 15. — (JP)— An armada of superfortresses re turned to Japan today to shower fiery destruction again on the en emy’s great industrial cities of Tokyo and Kawasaki. The latest attack, probably by up to 400 bombers, followed by 48 hours another huge attack on the Tokyo arsenal area, a 5-'square mile sector of big and little war plants. The initial announcement on the latest attack said: Nelson, Snead Set For Charity Match NEW YORK, April 15.—(^)— Byron Nelson and Sam Snead will play their 72-hole charity golf match either May 26-27 or June 2-3, Freddie Corcofan, tournament manager of the Professional Golfers Associa tion, said today. The first 36 holes probably will be played on a New York course and the second 36 on the succeeding day on a New Jer sey course. Neither of the sites have yet been selected, Corcor an said. It prviously had been planned to hold the match on D’ecoration Day. r ADMIT A TO nr AT Lfllii/lllfiLO DLnl BROWN NINE, 2-1 ST. LOUIS, April 15. —(JP)— The World Champion St. Louis Cardin >ls salvaged the final game of their :ity swies with the American ^eague champion St. Louis Browns oday, 2 to 1, in a pitchers’ battle. Rookies Ken Burkhardt, George Dockins and Sophomore A1 Jurisich iilenced the Browns’ bats and the unior circuit club made only hree hits, two by Don Gutteridge ind one by Pete Gray. Gutteridge scored the Browns’ )nly run in the first inning after ie had singled and advanced on i sacrifice by Gray. The Cardinals vinnlng runs were driven in by 3ed Schoendienst in the eighth off rex Shirley. Jack Kramer, Nelson 3otter and Shirley divided the 3rowns’ mound chores in three nning stints. The Browns won the series four fames to two. 3t. Louis (N) 000 000 020—2 4 0 Sf T.nnlB '(k \ inn nnn nnn 1 on !or Vice President. But the remainder of the Cabinet members in time may have to find lomething else to do. That would mean changes at the rresury, Justice, Post Office, Agri :ulture, and. Labor Departments. Robert E. Hannegan, Democratic lational chairman, may get one of hese. Edward Pauley, Treasurer >f the National Committee, is in the picture. Hugh Fulton, fprmer coun sel for the Senate Truman Com mittee, might get one of these posts. If Mr. Truman follows the rec ommendations of his own form >r committee he will consolidate ill labor activities under the Labor Department. Secretary - Perkins, ,vho reportedly tried to quit when he fourth term began, may not stay on long now. The divided activities of the Agri :ulture Department also might be merged by the new President, ^s it now stands, War Food Admiv strator Marvin Jones runs most of he show, leaving little for Sec retary Wickard to do. While Cabinet changes can wait, MCr.Truman has some unfilled appointments which will need early attention. Among these is the job of Fed eral Loan Administrator. If the lew President followed his own in :linations entirely, he might ask lesse Jones to step back into that post. He also must fill the post of lural Electrification Administrator, i job for which the Senate turned lown Aubrey Williams. The White House staff of advisers ind assistants probably will see ixtensive changes 'also. Stephen Sarly already has planned to step >ut within a month. There is doubt hat Jonathan Daniels will stay bt. John s Tavern 114 Orange, Et. Dial 2-8085 DELICIOUS FOOD Chicken In The Rough — Friday MAX OR tt°u^y First City Showing If you love a boy or girl in uniform . . . then see this picture again! JIMMY LYDON —in— "When The Lights Go On Again" "wilsoFTtakts 23 1/ The Flying Tiger’s V If Own Blazing Story! ifj l| ‘GOD IS MY CO-PILOT” Jj 1 With Dennis Morgan, Dane Jm » Clark, Raymond Massey JM It's Just Got Everything! Sonny Tufts II I Veronica Lake ll i Eddie Bracken JM \ jk BRING ON THE GIRLS” JM j ^^andTcchnicolor, too!^^4^B j | Cunning Ruthless Killer 'w ; i Erich Von Stroheim 11 1 I the great flamarion” Jm I^WUh Mary Beth Hughes >/M Today I t man who knew too much. . . ^ j 2nd wouldn’t tell! fl l\ “ministry of fear” 11 | ith Marjorie Reynolds JM HANOVER • MAFFITT VILLAGE _TODAY—TUE._ PAULETTE GODDARD FRED MacMURRAY IN “STANDING ROOM ONLY” A Grand Comedy Also News, Cartoon WAVE THEATRE CAROLINA BEACH TODAY AND TUESDAY diAlI-nd 8U“for tKe^S^ WEDNESDAY—THURSDAY THUNDERHEAD Son of Flicka Roddy McDowell—Rita Johnson Bknto&WhisIm) Blended Whiskey 86.8 Proof —65% Grain Neutral Spirits GLENMORE DISTILLERIES COMPANY Incorporated _ LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY ANN CURTIS WINS THIRD NATIONAL SWIMMING TITLE San Francisco Marvel Travels 220-Yard Free Style In 2:31.5 CHICAGO, April 15.— (if) —Ann Curtis, San Francisco swimming marvel, today picked up her third individual championship in the Wo men’s National AAU swimming meet as she shook off the challenge of Brenda Helser of Hollywood to win the 220-yard free style event. Miss Curtis, who previously had lifted the 100-yard free style crown from Miss Helser, and then easily defended her 440-yard title, swam the distance today in 2:31.5. Miss Helser pushed her for the first 115 yards, but dropped back as Ann came through with her final “kick” to win by about 10 feet. In third place was Marilyn Sah ner of the Chrysler Plunge, team mate of Ann’s. Betty Lachok of the Firestone Club, Akron, O., was fourth, and Betty Shields of the Women’s Swimming Association. New York Citv. fifth. Miss Curtis, in addition to suc cessfully defending her 220 and 440-yard titles, and winning the 100 yard crown for the first time, also anchored the victorious 400-yard free-style relay team last night, Jeannie Wilson, 19-year-old Chi cagoan, today broke the American record for the 100-yard breast stroke as she won her first cham pionship in the Women’s National AAU swiming meet here. Miss Wilson, trailing the field at the start, moved into the front in the last 40-yards and barely edged out Patricia Sinclair of the Wo men’s Swimming Association, New York, in the record time if 1:15.1. The old record, 1:15.3 for thu event was, set in 1941 by Lorraine Fisher of the Women’s Swimming Assoc iation, New York, in a meet at Greenwich, Conn. Jane Dillard Kittelson. represen ting Vultee Aircraft of Ft. Worth, Tex., one of the favorites in the event, finished third, two yards back of Miss Sinclair Clara La more of Olneyville Boys’ Club, Providence. R. I„ who won the 300-yard individual medley event in the meet, was fourth, and Nancy Grubb of the Minneapois, Minn., A. C„ was fifth. YANKSREPQRTED AT BERLIN GATE (Continued From Page One) The U. S. Seventh Army drove southward to within 15 miles of the Nazi shrine city of Nuernberg, another Bavarian stronghold 40 miles southwest of Bayreuth. The U. S. First Army fought into Halle, a city of 220,000 at the northwestern gateway to besieged Leipzig, 16 miles southeast. In the north, the Canadian First Army reached the North Sea in northern Holland in a swift dash that spelled a virtual end to that Siase of the lowland battle. But e British Second Army was held in check along its entire front menacing Bremen and Hamburg. The Ruhr was cut into two small pockets by a junction of the U. S. Burkhardt, D-ockins, (5), and O’ 3ea; Kramer, Potter (4), Shirley 7), and Mancuso. CABINET^CHANGES URGED ON TRUMAN (Continued From Page One) -hem have changed. The Senate War Investigating Committee which the new President headed generally credited the two with laving done an outstanding job in :he war effort. Secretary of Commerce Wallace probably will stay on if he desires Vlr. Truman often has told friends le did not feel Wallace received ust treatment in the move that re sulted in Mr. Truman’s nomination nisi ana minm Armies, wnose suc cesses were increasing the esti mates of the number of German troops trapped there. It had been estimated that 150, 000 enemy soldiers were cut off in the Ruhr, but 143,349 prisoners already have been removed from the pocket and more were stream ing in. Thre were few details of Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson’s reversal on the Elbe, but the loss of the Ninth Army crossing presented the Al lies with the stark |realization that the last lap to Berlin may be a hard one. ' -V Death Of Roosevelt Affects N. Y. Contest NEW YORK, April 15.—OP)—The death of Franklin D. Roosevelt will affect materially the New York City mayoralty campaign Uncertainty had long prevailed whether the President would sup port Mayor F. H. LaGuardia, should he run for a fourth term, or back the Democratic candidate. Mr. Roosevelt crossed party lines to declare for LaGuardia in 1941. Several New York City newspap ers declared flatly weeks ago that the President was prepared this year to support William O’Dwyer, Kings county district attorney, who lost to LaGuardia four years ago. The President never disclosed publicly his intentions. buy war bonds and stamps Harry L. Hopkins and Judge iamuel I. Rosenman are unlikely o continue as advisers and the fate if Donald M. Nelson, a special rep esentative of President Roosevelt, s in doubt. -V In India the practise of plastic urgery arose to enable those /hose nose tips had been cut off or adultery to correct the mutila ion. Meyers And Cotfield To Clash At Thalian "A ring plumb full of fightini ?als will be the feature at Thai an Hall Friday night”, said Ber Jausey, local wrestling promoter ”ausey added that the girls’ taf ;eam matches have been big ‘‘bo? >ffice attractions” all over th< Jnited States. Nell Stewart, a rough and reacts Miss from Birmingham, anc ‘Mysterious Miss Red” will cop< .vith Pretty Ann Miller and Vlole Valentine, Popular Sonny Meyers, the “Si latra” of wrestling, returns this veek to take on Jimmy Coffield Meyers proved that science coult triumph over brute strength wher le took his match from Jacl 5 O'Brien last Friday night. Meyers reportedly got pretty an gry when the old War Horse sock ed him in the nose and the blood started flowing, and, much to the delight of the fans, Meyers pinned Texas . Jack twice in succession. Sonny takes on another tough customer Friday when he meets Coffield in the supporting bout. This match is a scheduled two out of three falls match with a 60 minutes time limit, while the girls’ match has a time limit of 75 min utes. Causey also announced that tick ets go on sale this morning, at the Jewel Box, and as a capacity crowd is expected, he advised all patrons to get their ducats early. Baseball Opens Season With Memorial Contest In Washington For FDR “rj- —1 ____ 30,000 Expected To See Yankees And Senators Clash At 3 P. M. By BUS HAM WASHINGTON, April 15.—(/P)— Baseball pays it respects tomor row te Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who frequently befriended the sport, by playing 1945's first major league game as a memorial to him. Before the New York Yankees and Washington Senators take the field at 3 p, m., an expected ca pacity crowd of about 30,000 in Griffith stadium will stand for a full minute of silent prayer in memory of Mr. Roosevelt. Then the game will go on as usual. Baseball’s leaders feel that Mr. Roosevelt would have prefer red it that way. All other big league teams wait until Tuesday to swing into the pen nant races. This fourth wartime season, about which there were grave doubts for months, will start under the most unusual circumstances in the game’s long history: The shocking death of this coun try's .only four-term President and No. 1 baseball fan four days before the inaugural game: Under a new President, Harry S Truman, as enthusiastic a sports fan as Mr. Roosevelt was, and who as Vice-President promised to toss cut the first ball today—the sud den turn of events now makes his appearance unlikely. With the game’s manpower prob lomp mkixl. 4U — A _ 1 • a . Beanpole Hu To Play 1 ATLANTA, April 15.—(TP)—A cou ple of young beanpole pitchers, Righthanders Kenny Deal and Barney Cook, are down for starting roles with the Atlanta Crackers this year. Deal, 17, right off the^iigh school campus at Gastonia, N. C., was a sensation in junior legion baseball, while Cook 23, up from the Flint, Mich., sandlots, is back in organ ized baseball after a three-year lapse. He was with Warren, O., of the Penn State League in 1940 and ’41. The Tar Heel rookie, 6-foot-3 and 165 pounds, once fanned 21 of 24 Utters and has pitched a “good many’’ no-hit, no-run games. Kt says h.e can’t recall exactly the number. In his first exhibition \T k ill/ltm Minn a m rlers Set 7or Crackers —j Same this season he gave one scratch hit in four innings. Cook, 6-foot-4 and 180 pounds, rad a combined record of 8-7 in n two years with Warren, and Fanned 85 in 115 innings. The club Finished last in 1940 and one notch richer the next seascm. In his first exhibition garpe with the Crack ers he yielded three hits in three innings. Both hurlers use a fast-ball, ov erhand delivery, with a nice curve and better than average control. Railbirds at Cracker practice 8es sions agree with Manager KI Ki Cuyler when he says.of the two. "I think they’ll make it.” Specifically, Cuyler says they re mind him of Lon Warneke, the ex National League ace. nnimmii r>> a tina irtmvEca utrtAi i ‘DEM BUMS’, 7-5 BROOKLYN, April 15.—(TP)— In what.was the final tune-up of the training season for both teams, the Yankees walked off with 7 to 5 : victory over' the Dodgers today be fore a paid attendance of 14,513. , The Yankees made only four hits but scored six runs in the sev enth inning when Tom Seats, who ■ had just relieved Hal Gregg, walk- 1 ed five batters in a row. The passes 1 and a double by Oscar Grimes put the Yankees in front. The Dodgers bunched three of their five hits off Elmer Single ton in the sixth, and scored four : runs to break a 1 to 1 deadlock. Walter Dubiel, who worked the first five frames for the American . Leaguers, gave up two hits and a run, the tally resulting from a triple by Eddie Basinski and Luis Olmo’s outfield fly. In the fifth the Yanks tied the score when Snuffy Stirnweiss homered off Gregg. New York (A) 000 010 600—7 4 0 Brooklyn (N) 001 004 000—5 5 1 rio++Al z'7'i mil loll rLAPita BOMBARD BERUN (Continued From Fage On*) “The whole area was a blazing nferno,” reported Maj. Charles A. Heid of Asheville, N. C., pilot com nanding a Fortress formation. Flak was meager, there was no ighter opposition and the crews Iropped their cargoes with pre :ision through clear skies. The ittack followed the opening aerial issault early today slashing ahead )f the First and Ninth Armies, hit ;ing railways, troops and other tar gets near Leipzig, Plauen and Dessau. Up to noon but one air battle vas attempted by the German air :orce which lost some 1,400 planes ast week. This battle near Bay -euth resulted in the shooting down af a German plane without Allied oss. RAF Mosquitos, however, shot down two more Saturday night while two RAF bombers were lost. RAF forces hit a U-boat and three jther ships in an attack in Norway’s losen fjord late Saturday. --V Practically all the gunpowder Jsed by both sides in World War II is manufactured from wood pulp. -, ........ .wnvitvu J.10 wir tinuance, apparently solved satis factorily despite continued induc tion of players into the armed forces at a rapid pace. There will also be such personal sidelights as: Clark Griffith, 75-year old own er of the Washington club, begin ning his .fifty-seventh season in baseball and his thirty third with the Senators: Paul Waner, veteran Yankee re serve, celebrating his forty-second birthday anniversary; George Case, Washington out fielder, and George Stirnweiss, Yankee infielder, renewing their rivalry for the base-stealing title, which Case held for years before Stirnweiss grabbed it last season, The game itself may be secon dary to the occasion on which it is played. Both teams hav,e al most the same players who were around last season when the Yan kees finished, third and-the Sena tors last. Manager Joe McCarthy, whc made a habit of winning penants in pre-war day* will send Atley Donald, seasoned righthander, ou1 after today’s victory for the Yan kees while Manager Ossie Bluege of the Senators has “Dutch” Leon ard, veteran knuckleballer, prim ed. The probable lineups: New York Washington Stirnweiss, 2b j_ Case, cf Martin, If.Myatt, 2b Derry, rf - Kuhel. lb Lind-ell, cf - Clift, 3b Etten, lb - Binks, rf Savage, 3b . Torres, is Garbark, c . Powell, If Buzas, ss.. Evans, c Donald, p-- Leonard, p News Of Roosevelt’s Death Sweeps Okinawa OKINAWA, April 13.—(Delayed) —‘-(U.R)—Npws nf Doopo and Garbark; Gregg, Seats (7) Lombardi (7), and Sukeforth. -V Britain Shifts Hess To Prevent Possible Attempt At Liberation LONDON, April 15.—(U.R)-Rudolf Hess, once deputy-fuehrer of Ger many and now wallwoing in melan cholia with the collapse of the Ger man army near, is a here-today and gone-tomorrow war prisoner of ■ Britain. Closely guarded since he bailed out of a Messerschmitt on a Scot tish Moor May 10, 1941, on a re ported peace-miss on, bushy-eyed Hess now is being moved from one hide-out to another, it was under stood today. Hie objective is to prevent fanati cal Nazi war prisoners who might escape from attempting to liberate him, kill him or give him an op portunity to kill himself. -V Various types of cancer were recognized and described in 400 B. C. by Hippocrates. KEN Miracle and Cniver Plastlo Playing Cards PH KARDS 209 Market St. Dial 2-3224 MOTHERS DAY SUNDAY, NAY 13TH GIVE HER YOUR PRESENT LIKENESS ADAMS STUDIO 211 N. 2nd Dial 0311 Remember When He Squawked at This? velt’s death swept Okinawa today like wildfire and Marines and soldiers paused in prayer for theii late commander-in-chief. During the prayers-an air raid alert sound ed. Not a Marine stirred. Navy Lt. Lawrence R. Schmieder, Cincinnati, Ohio, First Marine di vision chaplain, conducted me morial services and prayed “May the Lord of Heaven and earth grant him eternal light and eternal rest.” Typical comment among- the Marines was as follows: “The only other time I felt like this was when Will Rogers died. The President seemed sort of close to me, just like Rogers.”—Pvt. John Henley. 530 Clifty St., Harri man, Tenn. -V False Armistice Noted By Navy Men In Pacific OKINAWA, April 15. —OP)—The men aboard American warships in the western Pacific and even car rier plane pilots far out over the ocean celebrated a false European Armistice report today. It took several hours for the bubble to burst. A rumor that snowballed out of control caused the premature cel ebration. The excitement was traced back to a garbled news message re garding reduced German resist ance. Warships, catching phrases of the garbled report, sent queries crackling back and forth. Radio units ashore misinterpreted the queries and repeated them as facts. A battleship picked up one SISSY STUFF he called soap and water ten years ago. Today I when he comes in off the battlefield, a scrub-up seems as neces sary as food itself. Keeping our men clean takes 15 bars of soap a month per man. Military hospitals, in addition, must have hundreds of thousands more bars to wash the wounded before treatment. . Yet to make just 6 bars of soap takes about a pound of fats. And there are hundreds of other essentials on both the battle field and home front.. .like medicines, paints, synthetic rubber, parachute fabrics, explosives and civilian soaps... of which fats are a necessary ingredient. So won’t you save every scrap of used fats? Turn them in to your meat dealer; get 2 red points and 4 cents for each pound. Our country is depending on youl This message ha3 been approved by WFA and OPA and paid for by Industry. We Must Save More Used fate! I-— It 01 me snore icjjuico it happily to ships in general. -V It is estimated that at least one-third of those who now die of cancer could be saved if they could be diagnosed and treated during the early stages of the disease. -V It is estimated that 25,000,000 man-days are lost annually by fanner* through accidents.
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