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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-03-20
EQUALS MEET
RECORD; COOK.
COPS JR. DASH.
DuSable Is Second In
Half-Mile Chicago
Prep Relay

CHICAGO. III Is peciaD -
Harrison billiard. the bronze
streak OF lightning from Baldwin
Wallace college in Berea, Ohio.
skipped over the 70-yard college
high hurdles in the final in the ff-
teenth annual Illinois Tech relays
Saturday night. March g. in the
University OF Chicago fielihouse
and won first place in 68 seconds
He tied the meet record estab-
lshed by white Allan Tolmich of
Wayne university. Michigan. back
in 1897 and equaled by Charley
Had. Michigan Normal's white ace
in 1910 In the afternoon. in the
semi-fnal Of this race. billiard made
SS seconds.
His time in the afternoon and
evening was lilo second .sster than
the university high hurdles win
ner's time.
billiard. running in his first COM
petition this year in the National
A.A.U. meet in New York on Febru-
airy p. finished second to Eddie
Digger, former Tufts college sepia
star and l.C4-A and National Col
legiate high hurdles champion in
1910. But he was in front Of Bob
Wright, Ohio State university's ace
Splinter, and Charles Had OF Michi-
gan Normal which is some feat.
Taylor. although favored 10 win
the college high jump went into
three-way tie for second place in
that event at feet. inch. The
winners height vas feet, ? inches
Burke's Record Killed
Incidentally, in the university
high jump, alderman. white. OF Hi
rois, broke the meet record set by
Ed Burke. the colored Marquette
university Jump star OF few years
ago Burke's 6 feet. 4 inches was the
record set in 1899. alderman, who
reports to the armed service this
week. went feet. 6'2 inches.
Don Wclcher, Drake university OF
Dcs Moines. was third in the uni
versity shot put with a distance OF
10 feet. 9'a inches.
Bill Cook. Wilson Junior college
- Chicago. won the 70-yard college
dash in 73 seconds. He won his
semi-fnal >hcat in the afternoon
Frank Dawson. also OF Wilson
Junior and former Fenger high star
failed to qualify in the prclims.
Arthur Woods, also OF Wilson ard
a former Englewood trackstcr. was
shut out in the second semi-fnal.
The Wilson Junior runners with
a white boy named Lorenscus. run
ming anchor. were able 10 place
second in the college sprint medley
'40-220-880) relay. Wilson Junior
was dcfcndin: champion.
In the Chicago city high school
relay. DuSable high school was
second and Wendell Phillips third
Crane was the winner. Running for
DuSable were Tim Holly. Sam Paul,
James Tyson and Hcrbie williams.
Running for Phillips we're Buddy
Young, RAMS Thomas, Rudolph
Hudson and George Bulware
Hugh Davis, Michigan State. was
fifth in the final OF the 70-ysrd
dash.
Horace Coleman. former Detroit,
high school ace and hslfback on
Western Michigan's football team.
was lead-of man IN the one-mile
college relay.
In the college two-mile relay.
Russell Peek, Muskegon, Mich. ran
for Western Michigan. His team
placed fourth.
Bob Kelley. University ~ Illinois.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-03-20

yard record holder and 900 yard
champion in 1912, and in the same
year psr;ici paiing in the National
AAU. meet, he was junior record
-halder -o.-the 400 Hteter-run- Ser
2eant Kaiscr came 10 Dale Mabry
Field ~ 1892 and 3s Al present line
sergeant in charge OF wire and
signal construction.
Corporal Thomas c. Dodson. De-
troit, Mich, also excelled in ath-
letics while in civilian life. He al
tended Wayne university AND the
University OF Michigan. and was A
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-03-20
Championship Badminton
Team Elects Captains
CHICAGO, TT - ISpecia


TIE Championship wabash ~ Bad
mlnton teams we're honored Saturday
night with nsnqJo, Those present
we're Anna Bsusn. Jo-n Lindsey. John
NusHi- LoVsll SssuIssn Sadie DAVIS
Tom Moore. Rebeccs wallet Fla Mac
knlg tn. Hs.esn Bonds, Yvonne Nor
IS. Carey 3 LHls Lerov knighien.
-DorO-rr s6ymo1r MARCIA Ramsey
women and sirls physical director
and william RooinAOn.. phy sies
director
Leroy Knish,sn ard Dorothy Sey
mouf Were electeo cocsptstns OF the
1913 team winch Won the On smpion-
snip the ihLd time 10 ohncn u for
permanent possession OF the team
trophy.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-03-20

II had Joe Murdoch hghting
'NAeyesg in that tournament" said
Futch rs he watched Jimmy slap
down Q big steak at Paradise
Lounge. and thought l would
help him by throwing scare into
Reeves SO l walked past him
couple Of times and hit him in the
eye with the diriiest looks could
throw. After a while he guessed
what was trying 10 do. So he
lay IN wait for me.
Say. ne said when I passed
again, there are some nice big
light hesvyWei gtis in this tourns-
ment aren't there ! told him
there were.
well he said. when il is all
over, am goiRS to be the only one
left IN It. He was"
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-03-20
lnfMY FINDS SOME
or HIS OLD FRIENDS

II didn't take jimmy Reeves long
60 locate some Of his old friends Of
the rinS when nc arrived here on
Saturday 10 bes.n ,rs.nn for his
ten-round bout viii Jacob LsMotts
o. Olympia. Friday night, and one
Of the hrst Was Joe MURDOCH one
or J!mmys opponents n nc Tour
nsmen: OF Champions he c IN Chr
easo IN 1899 Joe VAS . member
OF tae Detroit team, wn1h won
the team title by one pom; from
Cleveland. and jimmy was Nom
bsr-e, he Cleveland cam They
met in the semi-hnsi OF the l.gnt
hesVywel ght decision and jimmy
Won the decision over Joe.
You cot IN hard NIGHT high on
my face in ths, first round said
jimmy Boy. you had me kind
OF grosgy there for few seconds
bu; | soon cleared my head, and
from then on knew that ! could
bes, you because ! could keep on;
OF the way OF your punches which
id.d",
Yes you kept out Of range of
my blows after the first right hand
punch" said Joe After ! couldn't
catch up with you ! knew that
Mas gong 10 lose the decision
Thai tournament was studded
with fighters who have since moved
up the hstic ladder in professional
ranks Shelton Bell. one OF the
best prospects in The Ugh, heavy
we. Ant division before he was IN
Quoted into the army last year. Was
0 member OF the Dayton team, los
Ing 10 Reeves in the qusrter-fnals
Ezzard Charles, the sensational
young middleweisht from Clncin-
natl, was another young oatiier,
who found the road to the cham
pionship in his division harder than
he had anticipated.
Eddie Futch, who is supervising
Reeves training as the young
Clevelander prepares for his third
meeting with LsMotta, was one
OF the coaches OF tie Detroit team
Futch had something 10 tell about
the tournament, and an inciden,
which portays Reeves GOODNESS I'M
der hre-
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-19
"Just Another Training Scheme
Thought Canada'S Sicily Troops

singing and wisecracking during the
embarkation-not the boisterous
kind, but gags and songs of eager
determined men trying to relieve
the tension of waiting. They couldn't
get going quickly enough.
TOOK MASCOTS
Dozens of incidents proved it
such as the one where a unit was
so eager to board the transport
that it loaded on the tender be-
fore getting orders-and then had
to unload because other materials
had to 60 out on that tender first.
These men were ready to 60, and
were leaving nothing behind in
GLIDING scores of dog and cat mas
cots which they struggled aboard.
But they waited patiently. This
was at" at last, 1t was for this
that they had gone through those
blessed schemes over and over
again. They now knew In their
hearts that those schemes hadn 7
been wasted When they arrived In
England, some units years ago, they
had been civilians in khaki. Now
they were soldiers.
An English major, one of a hand
full of officers standing at one port
in the small hours of the morning
watching the huge convoy silently
disappear summed it up for all:
They're a fine bunch of men. God
bless them and God help their
eneuaiaA"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-19
MARINE GROUP IN
REGULAR MEETING
Corp. Jamele Detachment
to Elect Delegates to
State Meeting

There will be regular meetinA
Of Corp. Francis j. Jamele Detach-
ment, Marine Corps League, Tues
day evening p. m. in the F1orio
post rooms, I'll Bank street
There will be nomination Of del
egates, to attend state department.
meeting to be held in Hartford, July
oath at which time all present will
hear full details concerning the ma
tional convention, the meeting will
take place at 8 o'clock in the club
rooms of the Veterans Of Foreign
Wars on Main street, at the Wind
sor town line.
1t is urgent that the delegates
state whether they will attend. If
one member of the detachment Is
present, it was stated that he will
be able to vote the other delegatts
by proxy, due to the present gas
emergency, 1t was the decision OF
the state department executive
body at a meeting in New Haven
recently.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-19
Real Hunger
Threat Ahead

washington, July l9 - NU.P0 -
Frank F.. Gannett, newspaper pub
Usher charged today that the ad-
ministration's food policies were
leading the United States within a
few months to the threat of real
hunger, insufficient milk for the
children in our cities and difficulty
in supplying sufficient food for our
fighting forces, our ALLIES and our
own people"
In a statement accompanying a
letter to congressman in which ne
denounced President Roosevelt's
enti-inf1ation and food programs
and blamed the present situation on
"bungling and Encouragement OF
bureaucrats," he said:
Imitation is not only on our
doorstep it is already in our
house"
He proposed to check imitation
"before 1t begins to destroy u.s. with
The following program:
l. Halt all further increases IN
wages and salaries,
2. Siphon off excess spending or
ouying power through taxation
3. Encourage production of nee
cssities by permitting prices OF
necessities to rise.
q. Increase production of food
and necessities which would auto
nlatically check rise in prices-a
surplus would even bring lower
orices."
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-19
CHURCH SCHOOL
ENDS PROGRAMS
congregational Pupils at
Sunday Worship; Evelyn
Holmes Shower Guest
OAKVILLE
Correspondent, Irene Slough.
Telephone 4-8993

Oakville, July 19.-Pupils from the
vacation church school took part in
the church worship at the Union
Congregational church yesterday
morning. 1t was part of the church
school closing program.
The program for the service was
as follows: Professional This Is
My Fathers World" The primary
department was in charge of the
call to worship, the reading of the
One Hundredth Psalm and the sing
ing of hymns The Kindergarten
class spoke of the things they
learned in school.
The Junior Choir sang an anthem
under the direction ogf Mrs. George
Pelzer. An offertory anthem was
given by the Junior Choir and Carol
Greason from the Junior Depart
ment told story about the school.
Richard Gilchrist and Charlotte
Andrews gave reports on the Green
wich conference they attended last
month.
Rev. Oscar Locke spoke on youth
in the Church" Howard Ande was
organist.
Miss Holmes Honored
Miss Evelyn Holmes, daughter Of
Mrs. Anna Holmes of Sunnyside
avenue, was guest of honor at a
miscellaneous shower at her home
recently given by Mrs. Francis Col
lier. Miss Holmes marriage to
George Kulman, son of Philip Kul-
man of Edgewood avenue, will take
place July 81 at All Saints church.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-19
Strobak Funeral
Tomorrow Morning
policeman's Wife Succumbs at Hospital; Bicyclist
Injured By Car; Party Planned for Proposed Church
ToRRIN GToN
James Markham Correspondent Pythan

the family was home and an estl-
mate Of the damage could not be
ascertained.
Pedestrian Hit
Joseph Quigley, 81, Of 80 Mason
street, was struck by an automobile
driven by Stephen j. Bekasi, IS, of
r. F.. D. 2, Harwinton, late Satur-
day night. Mr.. Quigley was crossing
the road near Coe park on South
Main street when struck.
He was taken to the hospital in
the ambulance where his condition
is not serious.
No arrest ives made pending the
outcome of his injuries. Officers
Frank Savage and Edward Opper-
man investigated for the police.
Firemen Prevent Damage
Prompt work by the local fire de-
partment prevented what might
have been a serious fire at the plant
of the P. j. Fitzgerald Mfg. Co.
Sunday afternoon.
According to the firemen there
were several barrels of waste mater
ial situated near the garage of the
company which became ignited by
the rays of the sun causing spontan-
eous combustion. The garage doors
were scroched but firemen prevented
the trucks which we're housed in the
structure from getting afire.
P. ]. Fitzgerald, president of the
company, said tther was no financial
damage.
Held On Morals Charge
Victor Franconi, 20, As Maplewood
avenue, and Walter ]. Nawalaniec,
"a, 100 Harwinton avenue, were ar
rested Sunday night on statutory
charges involving a 16-year-old girl
They are being held in lieu of $4,000
bonds. Lieut.. Harry Copley and
Officers William Twitley and Edward
Over made the arrests.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-19
State Guard Seeks
Firearms, Axes, Saws
Loans Desired for Duration; Motorcycle Corps Being
Formed; Marine Band Rehearses This Evening
TIL o IA ASTON

Thomaston, July 19-Capt. Peter
Hoops Of the local unit of the Conn.
State Guard issues a request to all
local people possessiong ammuni-
ton, firearms, axes. saws, wire,
barbed or plain, rope, field glasses,
and compasses to turn this material
over to the Guard for their use.
1t will be used carefully and re-
turned to the owners as soon as the
need for it is over. New recruits are
being added to the company and a
motorcycle corps is now in the pro-
cess of being formed.
The company will meet Tuesday
evening at headquarters at 7 o'clock
where they will be issued coveralls
and will then participate in patrol
work. Members who attend drills
will be awarded service bars soon.
These will be issued by the adjutant
generals department, state of Con-
necticut. Members who fail to par
ticipate in at least 60 per cent of
scheduled drills will be ineligible to
receive the service bar.
Carnival Aug. 6
A very important meeting of the
Thomaston Marine band is sched-
uled for this evening at their rooms
on the old Center School Green. The
band will hold a business session
followed by rehearsal In prepara-
ton for their concert which will be
rendered at the Thomaston Fire
Dept. carnival August 9Th at the
fire station grounds on Main street.
The local OPA board has granted
Is vacation permits to local people
to drive to and from vacation spots.
Several applications were turned
down because public conveyances
are available and others were re-
fused because of an insufficient
amount of gasoline coupons. July %
Coupon No 6 will be disable for
gasoline. The board will meet this
evening at o'clock in the town hall.
Conway Heads Program
Harold Conway local agent for
the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company has been selected by the
U. S. Treasury Department as
chairman of the committee for
industrial payroll deductions for
War Bonds. He WI have as his dis
trict Terryville, Thomaston and
Plymouth. E. R. Kaiser, local first
selectman, will assist Mr.. Conway
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-19
new REGULATIONS
FOR SLAUCHTERINC
Livestock Raised By Non.
Farmers; Rules Given
By Government

Livestock raised by farmers
"in whole or substantial part" may
make application to their county
meat board for a permit to slaugh-
ter for home consumption, it was
revealed last night by Fitch l..
Brennan, state supervisor of the
Food Distribution Administration.
Stipulations for legalized slaugh-
ter of backyard-produced livestock
for home consumption, issued by
the New York regional office of the
FDA, include recommendation
from the meat committee to the
area supervisor of the FDA who will
issue the necessary butcher permit
Possessors of these permits may
perform the slaughter themselves
if they have the equipment or hire
a custom slaughterer. The meat
committee for Waterbury and otwns
of Litchfield county is to be select
ed soon from the new FDA area
office to be opened here.
The provision does concern many
persons, particularly in smaller
communities, who have raised meat
animlas this year as contribution
to the wartime food supply, much
in the same manner that they have
grown war gardens.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-19

billeting towns populations. The
men went to the pubs as usual,
and returned for the cutomary ten
o'clock Lights out" Only instead
of Lights out they were ordered
to pack for another scheme"
1t wasn't until they were actu-
ally entrained that the Identifying
shoulder patches came off uniforms
When large units are embarklng,
you can't conceal the fact, but when
the Canadians arrived in the ports
without their shoulder patches, they
looked like just some more units OF
British reinforcements going out
About the closest they came to re-
vealing their identity was wnen
one unit, being ferried to the ships
which choked the ports, started
singing "Alouette song, popular
among Canadians, that no English
units ever sing
The embarkations went perfectly,
The hardest part was waiting
aboard For the units which en-
barked early, this was several days
while the ships swelled with men
and machines RS loading went on
around thA clock. Thare was much
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-19
POLICEWOMEN
NOT ELIGIBLE

Hartford, Conn, July 19-UP)-
State policeWomen are not eligible
for membership in the State Police
Association, Attorney General Fran
els A. Pallotti ruled today.
Pallotti based his decision on
section in the associations constitu-
ton concerning death benefits in
case if accidents occurring while
on duty. 1t provides that benefits
shall be paid to the widow of the
deceased"
The Attorney General construed
the reference to widow as mean
ing that only male members of the
state police were eligible to join
the association. He said the consti-
tuition would have to be changed if
policewomen are to be taken in.
Pallotti acted in reply to a re-
quest from the associations Secre-
tary, who explained that two state
policewomen had applied for mem
berShip.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-19
161 Survivors
Ofthe HeIeno
Are Rescued
BY FRANK HEWLETT

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Somewhere in the South Pacific,
July 17.-(UP)-CDelayed An Amer
lean destroyer force, sneaking
unchartered straits att he risk of
air, submarine and surface attacks,
rescued ISL survivors of the cruiser
USS Helena from a Japanese oc-
cupied island Thursday night, it
was announced today.
AMY one attempt was made to
halt the rescue - lone japanese
plane attempting to bomb de-
sroyer lying off the island where
the survivors of the Helena, sunk
July in Kula Gulf in a battle in
which U. S. forces sank six jap
anese WarShips, had taken refuge.
The destroyer was untouched. CA
communique from Allied headquar-
terS in the southwest Pacific said
nine of II enemy ships were sunk
in the first Kula Gulf battle)
The rescue force, accompanied by
Allied warplanes, sailed close to
Japanese naval base to bring out
the survivors, many Of whom had
been in the water for more than
two days before being washed
ashore.
Quiet Landing Craft
Quiet motored landing craft
worked their way from the destroyer
force, which included two old de-
stroyers converted to troop carriers,
t the shoe to pick up the Helena's
crew, who were prepared to defend
themselves against japanese patrols.
They had been on the island eight
days.
I rode ashore aboard landing
craft. The crew agreed it was an
eerie feeling as we worked our way
shoreWard five miles away, lodging
in and out seeking channel
through treacherous waters which
often were so shallow we could see
the coral studded reefs rejecting
in the moonlight.
Survivors, who had to play hide
and-seek with enemy patrols, cred
tied their escape from capture and
death and death o he sacrifices of
hir comrades and the aid of the
naives.
Among the rescued survivors was
Lieut.. Comdr. Warren Boles of Mar
blehead, Mass.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-19
Jam ES zOLLO.
PAYSS1o, COSTS.
Waterburian Fined for
Road Rules Violation;
Dyer Misses Jail Term
WOLCOTT
Correspondent: Alma p. Cole
Tel 3-2803

Wolcott, July 19.-The following
cases were heard by Judge Edward
H. Pracny in town court Thursday
night: James zollo, Easton avenue,
Waterbury, violation of the rules of
the road, fined $40 and costs;
Arthur Dyer, Long Swamp road,
Wolcott, assault and breach of
peace, thirty-day suspended Jail
sentence, and placed on probation
for six months The prosecutor of
the court vast John Brouker.
Howard Boulanger OF Lewis Ave
is visiting his aunt, Mrs. Joseph
Boandi and Mr.. Boandi of Bristol.
Hospital Patient
Carl Mueller, four year-old son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Alphonse Mueller
OF Todd road is a patient at st
Mary's hospital where he had his
tonsils removed Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Montrose
and children, Edward, Carolyn and
Arlene Of Hartford were recent
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond
King of Woodtick road
Billy MasCasland Of Prospect Is
visiting his grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Winters of Todd road.
ThOmaston Guest
Arthur Boulanger, Jr., OF Lewis
avenue Is spending the summer
with his grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Nelson in Thomaston.
Any student in Wolcott wishing
to enter Leavenworth High school
in Waterbury in September is asked
to make application Immediately to
Supt. Edwin B. Floyd, 203 Church
street, Naugatuck.
Judge James Conway of Wolcott
was presented a wrist watch and
war bonds by employees of the Wat
erbury Clock Co. recently on COM
pletion of two years Of service in the
Wolcott court.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-19

So it started just like any
other training scheme, Probably
less than a score of persons knew
that this was no training opera
ton. Sure, plenty suspected. There
were the significant issue of tropical
kits and administering of anti
malaria shots, but the Canadians
had been saying This is it, about
each of dozens of schemes in the
past couple of years.
TWO FALSE STARTS
One officer cracked as he en-
trained, IF this is another blankety
scheme they can take me out and
shoot me-" He spoke for every
Canadian, and also paid unwilling
tribute 10 the success of military
security measures. There was doubt
up to the last minute, becaues at
first it was "JuSt scheme-Com-
bined Operations practice" There
were two such false starts before
the real thing.
Things went in routine fashion
UP to a few hours before entrain-
ment for the ports. If unit en-
trained at midight it wasn't con-
fined to barracks until train time
That gives too much away to the