davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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However, the Sacred Heart Re-
serves wo ntheir own game, super
duper is to Is contest with Terry
vile subs, Paul Duffy providing the
spark OF victory for the winners
with a IL point total, consisting OF
five field goals and pair Of free
losses. At half time, the Hearts led
II to 5. but Duffey was there when
the going got real close.
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YALE EASY FOR
DUKE PlNMEN'
Richards Leads. Team to
Three Straight in Nau=
gatuck Circuit

Naugatuck, Jan. 24.-Duke took
all four points from Yale in a re-
cent match in the Odd Fellows
bowling league, rolled at the YMCA
alleys. Brown and Harvard each
won two points in their match and
Colgate split with Dartmouth, two
and two. Hubbell of the Colgate
team had high single with 1876 and
r. Weaving Of Yale had high total,
with 1926. The scores:
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AT Crosby Gym:
3:15 p. m-Crosby VS. Leavenworth
400 p. NJ Wildly VS. Sacred Heart
Referee Mobile, both games
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PAkOCHIAL LEAGUE
Came Monday

PAKOCHIAI LEAGUE
Game Monday
st. Thomas VS. st. Francis at the
Webster gym Referee Hanrahan.
Games Wednesday
st, Joseph VS. SITS. Peter and
Paul at Anderson gym-Referee
Hanrahan.
st. Ann VS. Sacred Heart at Wash
ington park-Referee Courtney.
Game Thursday
klngsbury gym-Reicree Mont.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-24
Schoolboy
Basketball
Schedules
Week OF January 25th
PUBLIC SCHOOL LEAGUE
Games Monday

Spra9ue VS. Chase at Anderson
Referee Carroll.
Anderson at Bunker Hill-Referec
Monti.
East Farms at Kingsbury-R Referee
Courtney. ...#.
Games Tuesday
Hopeville VS. Wilson at Webster
Referee Carroll.
Webster at Duggan-Referee
Monti.
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PLENTY OF IRISH

The starting lineup OF the Min
nesota football team last season
contained more Irishmen than that
OF Notrc Dame.
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TerryviIle


Score at half time: Sacred Heart
IL, Terryville 10. Referee: John A.
Cluney.
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ing program. Mccoy has the
and ability to give his giant
foe plenty of trouble. The match.
feature bout. will be two out Of
three falls.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-24
HIGH SCHOOL FROSH LEAGUE
Games Wednesday

kingsbury gym-Reieree Mont.
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Z BLADES
KcNf DI Ancc sissis 9. Double edge
Mini uIkN The Outstanding
sN6sss DhEtOhV Blade Value
S NE .
ANOTHER
A General Quiz
The Questions

l.. In the navy, which hours of
watch are called the dog watch?
2. What state has the most pop
ulous capital city?
3. Who was the only woman
ever to receive two Nobel prizes?
4. Where is the body of John
Paul Jones buried?
s. What is the largest state east
of the Mississippi river?
6. Who gave the Pacific ocean
its name?
Z. A pleasure-seeking person is
sometimes called what?
g.. Achilles, the hero of Homer's
:"Iliad," was MORALLY wounded in
what part of the body?
9. Of the three most common
surnames in America, Smith,
Brown and johnson, in what order
do they rank?
10. Was there ever a Deadwood
Dick?
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NAV

May
mountain peak neal Salt Lake city.
During Duah; op p ! eight gears 81 persons s: $
s-M Sie'ee t IN aae esas s@eep p M sh'S essa' %
12-coaI mine explosion neal Morgan.
town. "; Va. traps Sc. Twenty
2s+"Fiash floods. in eastern and cen.
persons. HRonesdale.HaWley region.
with "a dead. hit hardest.
June
9-While on hazardous. experimental
mission. two U. S. blimps crash. of
New Jersey coast: IL dead. includ.
ing five civilian scientists and tech.
nicians. Only one survivor.
l2-o @ anod City City t struck 81 BY n tornado;
July
Army air crashes near WEIGH. W. Va.
and March Field. Calf, kill 80 army
4Independence day traffic accidents
claim IA lives. drowning 80 more:
1941 total, 628.
2+Army observation plane crash near
Waynesboro. Tenn. kills Mai. Gen.
Ger of 33rd division. Camp Forrest.
Tenn, and two army fiers.
August
14-Army plane crashes into Berkshire
Hills near Pittsfield. Mass. killing II
army bomber crash near Hastings.
Mich.
September
24HTwenty dead as two Washington.
bound B.. & O.. passenger rains
iojni5s i trSek. sea are'f bIek teaio on Nd I'd.
October
1-U. S. army transport plane crashes
in interior of Puerto Rico with %
deaths.
4A An plane carrying d4s,; 81 pa Ssa:
%foundland. killing II. injuring eight.
23-American Airline plane collides with
army bomber near Palm Springs.
Calf: II die. Bomber pilot charged
by army with manslaughter.
injured when Detroit bus damned
with school children and war.work-
ers struck by speeding passenger
train.
November
2s-Eive hundred die when Boston.
ed when bus boy strikes match to
replace ceiling electric bulb removed
by %prankster.
December
ls-Eire takes 10 lives in St. Johns:
Newfoundland. dance hall. Many
service men present.
17-Eight soldiers lose lives When army
bomber crashes. explodeS at Blythe.
Calf. air base.
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GEZE173&7

January
16-Carole Lombard. screen actress. her
mother and 10 others killed in ans.
port plane crash near Las Vegas,
New; Is U. S. aviators among lead.
28-Colorado'S worst coal mine disaster
in Is years occurred at Mount. Har.
snuffs out "a miners lives
February
6-Tornadoes in Arkansas. Mississippi.
Alabama. Tennessee. Georgia kill 10
persons: four persons killed when
Hood and mud avalanches roll down
in northern California.
March
Huntington. Iowa. ordnance plant ex.
plosion kills 16. Injuries 81. Explo-
sion here Dec. IL. l941. killed 10.
16-Tornadoes again sweep southern and
central states killing $50 persons and
leaving So. 000. 900 damage. Ten army
fiers killed when bomber crashes
into mountain peak nea Pendleton,
Ore. Four others killed near Boise.
Idaho.
April
12-Near Livermore. Calif... IA fiers
26-Hjgh speed Hudson & Manhattan raj.
road train wrecked in tube at Jer.
sey City. N. J. Five killed. ~ In
27-fornadoes roar through Oklahoma,
Minnesota. killing 80.1oo: $1.00o.o00
damage.
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Dean IS Of American stage. Otis Skin.
9Judge Joseph Franklin Rutherford.
70. founder and head of Jehovah's
Witness since 1919.
February
sTfG naisns'. James, a senf +. I Hssisy H4 e. in
12-Famous Midwestern artist. Grant
Wood, on eve of 50th birthday.
17-Frank Lucius Packard. IS. author of
Jimmie Dale" stories.
2s-Double suicide; Stefan zweig. 60.
and wife, Elizabeth. 30. of poison.
P~etropolis. Brazil.
March
1s-Francis Irenee d. Pont. g.. research
chemist on smokeless powder.
April
l5-Hugh S. johnson. 50. NRA admins.
traitor during l933-34.
17-Dr. Alfred Hertz. So, conductor OF
San FrancisSo symphony orchestra
May
eGraham McNamee. SO. MICS famous
sports and commercial announcer.
comedy twosome. Joseph M. C'Joe")
2e-Dr; John R. Rsinkley; Sc; widely
29-Radio, stage and screen star. John
Blythe Barrymore. So. Greatest per.
formances in role of Hamlet from
% to '29.
s-Brian Bell: So, head of Associated
procc Wachinpt0n hifroar for three
22-Actress Anne Sutherland. rs.
July
2o-Moses L; Annenberg. "a. publisher of
Philadelphia Inquirer and former
formation field.
25-George John Murdoch. "a. inventor
of World War I self.sealing gas tank.
August
+veteran screen director. James
The S1Tee' Covered '' Wagon" "oi Ii' Iron:
sides" Real name was James
2o-1Aliee Duer Miller. es. author Of THE
September
Bar HarboF. Maine.
l6-""Father Of blind Aging" Col. vii.
liam C.: Ocker. 66. U.S.A. inventor
and aviator.
22-August Luer, So. banker. meat pack.
er. kidnapped in 1888 for sloo. 900
ransom.
October
1l-Wilbur. Glenn voliva. 70. overseer OF
the religious sect known as the Chris:
tan Catholic Apostolic Church of
Zion since 1907.
2o-May Robson. 70. American stage and
screen actress, Beverly Hills.
DR.. Frederick A. Stock, SO, director
Of Chicago Symphony orchestra since
November
9Edna May Oliver. SO, stage and
screen character Coincidence in Hol.
1l-William Morgan ("Bnly") DeBeck.
So. c%artoonist. creator Of Barney
Google, Spark Plug. Snuffy Smith.
29-W. S. Parish. 81, president Of Stand.
ard OIL Company IN. ~
December
l-s ncs, 1or Lane. 30. former actress.
'-% %issons s; I00mi'' s0vern0r'elee OF
IAlbsrt Kahn. architect and engineer.
le-Walter Patton Murphy. So. Chicago
p~hiianthropist. donor 81 Northwestefn
university Neurological Institute.
Released BY Western Newspaper Union.
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DOMESTIC
J anuary

January
1-sales of new cars banned pending
5congress r~econvenes. tackles war
6-War draft of 2o-44 announced.
orders halt in private home
H4Donald Nelson. Chicago. now chief
of all war production.
16-Welles asks Pan.American anti.Axis
front at Rio.
1s-Roosevelt asks congress for another
28l2 billion dollars.
21-OPM abolished by Donald Nelson.
completed.
28-Nation told 80 NaZi U-boats of East
so-Price control bill passes: Presidents
60th birthday.
February
4Congress working on loans to China.
SGiant Jap spy ring disclosed on West
lo-ao4se kills so-called "frivolity' in
le-U: s. registers nine million more
25-Two waves of planes over Los Ange-
les, immediate blackout.
2s-Bill to end 4O.hour week defeated.
March
2-Auto rationing begins.
c-Hl lily al lOISG uO" oil SQudl VI dIlCu
of army.
6-All new. used typewriter sales halted.
8-Supreme command of all u. S. naval
operations given to Admiral King.
11-U. S. ixeS used tire prices.
12-House farm bloc kills sub-parity bill.
18-First wartime lottery since 1918.
2FU. S. takes over strike.bound Toledo.
Peoria and Western railroad.
gu. S. unifies command to end U-boat
menace.
so-Labor fights restrictive legislation in
congress.
April
l-senate defeats ban on 40 hour week.
closed shop upheld.
2-All bicycle sales halted.
7-Plan to halt production of most dur.
15-U. s':Vichy France break seems
23-Sugar for restaurants and other food
services cut so per cent.
al. S: opens sedition quiz Of suspects.
N- %1innnefra million sign 1855 labor aues'
May
l-Plans to draft women for war serv.
ice temporarily abandoned.
2-Director of Defense Transportation
Eastman announces restriction OF
competing train and bus service.
+National sugar registration for ra.
ton books begins. first of our days.
lZ-nouSe passes (Iu24U) lncreaSe III pay
to $50 for army and marine pri-
Yates. navy and coast guard appren-
tice seamen.
l6-Earl Browder. former secretary. Of
the American Communist party. has
four-year federal sentence commut-
ed to IA months already served.
least coast gas rationing to be put on
nationa! scale. Roosevelt hints.
H-Total OF ID 600 women apply as candi.
dates for officers training school Of
the Women's Army Auxiliary corps:
WAACS.
2-On the grounds he Is q Communist
party member. Harry Bridges. Aus.
tralian born West coast Go leader.
ordered deported by Attorney Gen.
eral Francis Biddle.
June
7-Vtrtually entire Japanese population
| Of West coast 100. 770) moved inland.
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The ANSWERS

/. Four to six p. m.
2. Massachusetts (Boston).
3. Marie Curie Zone in chemis-
try and one in physics).
a. Naval academy, Annapolis.
5. Georgia.
6. Magellan.
7. A hedonist.
8. The heel, supposedly the only
vulnerable spot on his body.
9. Smith first, Johnson second
and Brown third.
10. Early white settlers in Amer
lea took and gave nicknames of
every kind. There may have been
many Deadwood Dicks, but there
IS no historical character upon
whom western" stories are
based.
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FMS J

The year dreU to a close ,oith
these important events:
December
14-Nazis retreat from strong
hold at Ell Agheila in Libya.
15-U. S. troops capture Buna in
New Guinea.
16-Adm. Jean Darlan, high com.
missioner Of French Africa,
declares French feet will
join Allied naval units.
i7-Leon Henderson, director Of
the Office of Price Admins
tration, announces his resig-
nation because Of "a recur-
rent physical difficulty"
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November

NOV tulDcI
Army troops reinforce marines on
Guaa1 1sns al. A Al NnI c and 4nns :
air force bombs Japs daily on Aleu-
7-Uuaa 5. N TRooPs LAND IN FRENCH
AERHG fINnEH M0K0GSei Al. Al.
CHIEF LIEUT.. GEN. DWIGHT D.
c'IKE") EISENHOWER TO FORE
STALL SUCCESSFUL AXIS INVA-
SION WHICH WOULD ENDANGER
with u. S. for first time since IT'S.
Nazis retreat to Libyan border.
ll-A AxiIcs foTT fsi.rs iny yisa ,.n uno SS PIED
sica. Under orders from Adm. Jean
Francois Darlan French North AZ
RIGA surrenders to U. S. troops. Tu-
nisia continues fighting.
islands begins.
16-U. S. naval authorities announce
crushing defeat of Jap navy in sec:
ond naval battle of !Solomons: %
casualties neal the 10. 900 mark.
18-Marshal Petain appoints Pierre La
val dictator of Nazi-occupied France.
24Russian offensive sm "a she across
2-French scuttle feet at Toulon. 81
ships sent to bottom of harbor to
avoid seizure by Hitler.
29-Prime Minister Churchill appeals.
via radio. to Italian people to over.
throw their dictator. sue for peace.
December
Russia continues to advance in two
large-scale offensives; Allied chutiStS
seize airfield near Tunis.
5PEARL HARBOR DISASTER RE-
VIEWED: 10 ships, floating drydock
sunk or damaged: PAT planes de-
stroyed or disabled: ASS casualties.
7-Ofice of War Information reveals
So. 307 casualties in first year of war.
14-Nazis retreat from stronghold at Ell
Agheila in Libya.
15-U. S. troops capture Buna. following
fall of Coma. in New Guinea.
17-Units of Rommel's retreating Nazi
forces cut off by British in Libya.
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The year began uith these i'm
portdnt orentS:
January
l-OPM bans retail sale of new
cars. trucks.
2-Nanila and Cavite naval
bases fall to Japs.
Gin message to Congress,
President Roosevelt orders
60, 900 planes. As 900 tanks in
victory program.
IL Japs invade Netherlands
East Indies.
26-AEF lands in North Ireland.
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tralia.
2o-New cabinet for Churchill. Japanese
land on Timor island.
2i-U. S.-Dutch air feet sink or damage
2s-British 'chutists and Commands raid
France.
March
laps unload so transports on Java.
3tWavell dropped as Allied chieftain.
14YANKs LAND IN AUSTRALIA.
17-MacArthur and aides escape from
1s-Jap Invasion fleet heading for Aus.
tralia smashed by Allies.
25-U. S. navy rips Maxim island 1000
miles off Jap capital.
%retreating British.
29-British Commands wreck Nazi.held
St. NaZaire port.
April
1-Hand:to-hand fighting with Japs on
Navy admits three U. S. warships
sunk by Jap planes.
8-Axis desert forces move against Brit
'- SSi * }F4 AIKEN piai g ;ssS x; S.
1o-British-Indian self-rule parley col.
1s-Eapy Laval named vice premier of France.
16-RAF blitz on German industrial cen
1s-TokYo BOMBED BY U. S. AIR
22-Sommandos raid France at sou.
3o-RAF again bombs Paris industries.
May
Hitler. Mussolini meet at %Salzburg.
leave Japan out.
s-British. backed by U. s.. occupy
e-coRREEGipoR FALLS TO THE
JAPs: 1000 u. S. TROOPS SUR.
RENDER.
s-U., $. sinks and smashes ID Jap war.
ships in southwest Pacific.
27-Nazis launch terrific Libyan attack.
June
2-Nazi city of Essen smashed by 1000
+Dutch Harbor. Alaska. bombed twice
SJaps attack Midway island.
gu. S. navy smashes Jap fleet at Mid.
way island.
1o-British announce 1873. $50 casualties
during first two years Of war ending q
killed. 46. 1868 wounded.
12-apanese land in Aleutians. Kiska
harbor named by U. S. dispatches.
Zl-lODruR, BRUSH StrOnBnOlO, helQ since
January %. l941. s%urrenders to Nazi
desert fighters.
25-Rommel drives 60 miles into Egypt:
British abandon Solum. Sid Omar.
July
Gu. S made General Grant tanks bat.
tie Nazls in African war.
s-Nazi IS .O0O-ton ship Tirpitz. torpe-
doed twice by Soviet sub.
16-Soviets place German losses for pc.
riod. May l5-July Is. at 900 900 men.
Admit 399 900 Of their own killed in
Bone of the largest U. S. conveys
Lthe hfthl to- cross Atlantic reaches
North Ireland.
2e- Fy,I s; ggl liits, in sn acton : oy o5s F1 mss
can-piloted Spitfre shot dow by
Nazis.
27-Russians admit Rostov, gateway to
Caucasus. falls after evacuation Of
31-According to u. S. naval official. TO-.
900 Jap soldiers stationed in the Aleu-
August
10-Marines land in Solomons. Navy
I+German military begins march on
~Stalingrad.
Is-Ten thousand Allied troops. mostly
Canadians. supported by British Com
mandos and a few score U. S. Ran
gers raid Dieppe, France. for nine
hours. Casualties heavy on both
sides. Overhead 1000 British planes
engage the enemy.
21-Japs attempt to retake Solomon Is.
land positions. Repealed by U. S. ma.
rineS
22-Fifteen Jugoslav guerrilla planes
bomb Axis garrison and Nazi troop
columns west of Belgrade.
September
3U. S. pilots down German Focke.W ulf
bomber near Iceland. report U. 8.
military authorities.
+Lieut. Gen. Stilwell's headquarters In
Chungking announces that bomb
loaded U. S. fighters hit laps In Eve
different China zones.
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TEN BIGGEST
EVENTS OF 1912

SELECTED By: BAUKHAGE
(WNU Washington Correspondent
Establishment of a second front
in North Africa.
The rationing of essential war
materials and foodstuffs.
The fall of Bataan to the jap
aneSe.
Republican gains in November
elections.
Germany's failure to destroy
Russian army.
Tokyo bombed by U. S. air
force.
Eight Nazi saboteurs appre-
hended; six executed.
Japs establish strongholds in
Aleutian Islands.
The battle of Midway and South
Pacific.
Eisenhower-Darlan agreement.
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January

January
Hitler takes command of retreating
NaZi army on Moscow front
2-Manila falls TO Japs.
12-Dutch East Indies invaded by Japa-
neSe; MacArthur's men again hurl
enemies back on LuZon.
19-Japs take Burma port, Tauoy.
23-Australia calls on U. S. for help.
25-Dutch and Yanks take toll Of 80 Jap
ships in Macassar strait.
26-U. S.. AEF lands in North Ireland.
3l-Maiaya falls-Japs drive on for Sing.
apole.
February
3-Nazis rush air and tank reinforce
ments to southern Russia battlefront.
+AEF speeds aid to Far East Allies.
6-Key oil town in Borneo captured by
JapS.
1s-Hitler's feet escapes from Rrest to
15-STNGAPoRE FALLS TO JAPs.
16-Dutch destroy 100-million-dollar oil
fields in Sumatra.
19-First Jap bombing Of Darwin. Aus
tralia.
20-New cabinet for Churchill. Japanese
land on Timor Island.
2i-U. S.-Dutch air feet sink or damage
10 Jap ships.
2s-British 'chutists and Commands raid
France.
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6-Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Axis
forces begin retreat toward starting
point. Allies bomb Axis African sec.
tors.
9-All 1900 passengers and crew mem.
bers saved when "a. 289-ton U. S. navy
transport Wakefield formerly lux
ury liner Manhattan) swept by fire
at sea. Wakefield saved and brought
to Atlantic port by tugs.
14-New type Nazi stratosphere bomber
reported flying over England on re-
connaissance flights at 40. 900 feet.
16-U. S. 19. 900-ton carrier Yorktown re-
ported sunk on June 7 during Battle
of Midway. Vichy French officers re-
ject armistice terms offered by Brit
ish occupying Madagascar.
23-Tobruk attacked from sea while Brit
ish mobile units raid Axis African
positions 500 miles behind lines.
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3-U. S. army troops. supported by
navy occupy Andreanof group of the
Aleutian islands. between Jap held
Kiska. and Alaskan Dutch Harbor.
l7-U. S. troops arrive in Negro Repub-
lie of Liberia.
20-Total of $50 Axis submarines an
nounced destroyed by British and
U. S. navies since war began.
23-Jap mining installations in North Chi
ma bombed by U. S. planes in sue
ceSsful attack.
2+British start African campaign to
drive Axis out of continent.
25-First U. S. air raid on Hong Kong
destroys Kowloon DOCKS.
26-Naval officials announce that air.
craft carrier. Wasp. sunk off Solo
mon islands on September Is: seri-
Gus fighting continues on Guadalca-
nal with heavy Jap losses.
30-Nazi CONSUMPTION of Belgian labor
for work in German factories pro-
tested by Belgian exile government
in London,
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July
1-Navy's giant lotion patrol bomber.
Mars. makes official tests over Ches.
apeake Bay. Md.
8-Seven-man military commission. ap-
pointed by President, begins secret
trial of eight Nazi saboteurs in Wash
ington.
10-Elmer Davis. director of the new
Office of War Information. names
new assistants. says owl shall try
to give American people an accu-
rate picture of nations war &C.
tivities.
17-Super.powered. troop carrier COM
mand announced by Lieut.. Gen. Ar
mold. chief of army air forces.
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September
2-John McCloy, assistant secretary of
war. says 500. 900 American fighting
men and technicians are now abroad.
liberation of Women's Auxiliary Fer
rying command, headed by Mrs.
Nancy Hardness Love, announced by
war department.
13-Selective Service Director Mai. Gen.
Hershey says married men with chill.
dren face draft in '43.
21-WPB Chairman Donald Nelson fore.
casts great civilian economy to win
u,ar
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September
20-Final standings in minor league base.
ball: international league: Newark.
w. 90. L. 81: American association:
Kansas City. W. "a. L. So: Eastern
league; Albany W. "a. l.. 56: South
ern associations: Little Rock. w. 81.
L. SO; Texas league: Beaumont. w.
80. L. So: Pacific Coast league:
Sacramento. w. los. l.. 70.
23-Prior to entering the army. Leland
Stanford C"Larry") MacPhail. So. re-
signs as president. general manager
Of Brooklyn Dodgers. continuing as a
director.
Evening star., 1942-04-24
Denver Flood Rouis
Scores; Snow Halls
Rise in River
Two Persons Drowned
In Southern Colorado;
Z Bridges Swept Awoy
BIZ the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DENVER, April IA turn TO
cold and snow saved Denver from
. destructive South Platte River
food today after scores OF families
fed their homes and . police alert
warned 5000 residents to Be ready
to evacuate.
When a steady rainfall, which sent
the South Platte out Of its banks,
changed to snow, runon from the
rivers tributary mountain creeks
slowed down. the Weather Bureau
reported.
The level of the South Platte,
which rose about feet in two hours,
reached . peak after midnight and
then held steady for three hours.
No material rise was expected while
snow and cold continued.
About 80 families were driven
from their homes In Littleton and
nearby farms south Of Denver last
night.
The flood threat to Denver fol-
lowed less than ~ hours after
Trinidad, In Southern Colorado,
was hit by the worst flood of the
Purgatoire River in three decades.
Two persons were drowned and two
Trinidad street bridges were swept
away.
The South Platte, already swollen
by melting mountain SHOWS, swiftly
overfiowed its low banks after heavy
rains along several Of its mountain
tributaries. including Deer, Bear,
Cub and Plum Creeks.
Most Of the early Denver flood
evacuees went to homes Of friends
or relatives, but about 200 went to
the city auditorium annex, where
Red Cross workers established q
relief center. Six schools were
opened to care for refugees.
With approaches to two South
Platte bridges washed out and most
other bridges closed to trafic, Po-
lice Chief August Hanebuth COM
mandeered boats from park lakes
to be ready for emergency use.
Mrs. Marie Duboux, 50, blind re-
cluse, was carried by policemen
from her small home after flood
water neared her door.
At the Union Station, located
near the river, all baggage and
movable furniture was taken to the
second floor.