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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-14
SCOv|LL FISH
CATCHERS TO
MEET TONIGHT

Fish and fishermen are the princi-
pal reasons for tonights gathering
Of Scovill Rod and Gun club men,
bers, scheduled for the Copper Ket-
tie on Meriden road. About 1880 p,
m. go to rs men will sit down to
an annual dinner, scheduled to be
followed by the usual oratorical out
bursts from a half dozen people
and then comes the awarding Of
prizes for the biggest and best perch,
pickerel, black and calico bass and
belligerent bullheads.
With the aid Of micrometers, a
ouija board, a trigonometry expert
and slide rules, the fish were meas
ured down to the SIXTEENTH Of ar
an inch, so close was come of the
competition in the various divisions
Charley Rietdyke is chairman OF
the fishing committee Of the SRGC
associated with Jim Littlejohn,
Frank Williams, Charley Rimkus,
Stanley Wise, John Hubbard, Leslie
Hart and John Matalunas, and
Secretary Ruth Osborn.
Motion pictures Of outdoor sports
such as hunting and fishing will be
shown by Frank Rice after dinner
and the speaking is concluded.
Prizes will be awarded to John
Barr, Frank william, Nathan Roth
nagel, John Matulunas and Ed
Wandzell. Thomas Brangel, william
Messmer, Leo Pogorzelski, Joe Ule-
viche, John Hubbard, Lawrence
Gudreau and Martin Carlson, Jacob
Stuessi, Charley Rietdyke and Henry
Kamens.
Walter Stoveken took top honors
in the bullhead competition this
year with q IS 3-8 inch catch in
the first round. Other round win
ners In this division included David
Agell, John Matulunas, Rietdyke and
Lee Reid.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-14
Bowdoin Drops
Varsity Football

Brunswick, Me-, Oct. IA. CUP)-
Lack of material and lateness in
organizing today had caused Bow
doin College to abandon football for
1913.
In a brief statement, Athletic
Director Malcolm E. Morrell said
that the step was taken reluctantly
and only because it was sin the best
interests of the students
Principal factors causing abandon
ment were the late opening of the
college Oct. 7, a delay In organic
ing a squad and the fact that only
20 candidates reported when a call
for players was issued by Coach
Adam Walsh. Most Of these stu
dent. Walsh said. weighed less
than members OF q high school
team.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-14
American Hockey
Leaaua OPENS Def. IL

New Haven, Conn. Oct. i4-(UP)
The American Hockey league,
trimmed to six teams this year
opens It's 1884 schedule October
~ with Cleveland playing at Pitts
hurgh, President Maurice PodolofI
announced today.
Buffalo plays nj Indianapolis Oct
70 and Providence opens at Her
hhey. Pa, oct. 50.
Pod0loR said each team would
play 20 home games and the season
would end March "a,
New Haven and washington were
out q the leasne thla season.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-14
On The Spur Of The
Moment Gridiron lunches

Penn over Lakehurst Naval Train
ing Station, in other words civilian
over sailors, on the strength Of the
civilian backfleld.
Illinois on Just q bunch to beat
an outclassed Pittsburgh eleven who
have failed to show yet this season.
Duke one Of the teams Of the
South over North Carolina one Of
their sister southern teams on the
basis Of wins and losses.
Lehigh, just another bunch, to
outclass, outplay and in plain Eng
lish to beat Carnegie Tech.
Yes, there's the toss up, it's heads
that means that I will take Mich.
State over Marquette, but mind you,
1t was the tossup that decided 1t,
not me.
Minnesota ought to have little
trouble taking Camp Grant. the sol-
der boys aren't doing so good,
mathematically speaking.
But an entirely different situation
exists when the Iowa Navy comes
to grips with the Beau's from Mis-
souri,, strictly speaking, I don't
think there will be very many say
ing after this contest, I'm from
Missouri In other words the Navy,
but definitely
Great Lakes Naval Station, which
has probably one Of the best little
al-around service teams in the
country this year, will find Little
difficulty in downing an over bally-
hooed Northwestern eleven.
Oregon State ought to beat Wash
ington, and for the first time viii
pick two teams In one paragraph,
also Washington State over Oregon.
half and half for good old Oregon.
Southern Methodist after q
flinsy start this season ought TO
beat Rice who doesn't appear too
strong in the backfleld this season.
Stanford has mighty fine team
this year with plenty Of good ma
terial but I would rather count on
some of the same material plus 3
little experience which I find plenty
of in Southern California. That is
why I will pick California over .
rather green Stanford squad.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-14
Crusaders Point"
For Cornell Game

Worcester, Mass, Oct. IA. (UP)-
Holy Cross resumed intensive prac-
tice today for its game with Cornell
at Ithaca, N. Y, Saturday with
Coach Anthony (Ank) Seaman
directing the squad.
Until this week, Scanlan had re-
manned at his war job In Philadel-
phia and reported only few hours
before the Crusaders were to play
their games.
However, he said that Cornell was
the game Holy Gross was aiming
for and that he would direct prac-
tice for the rest OF the week.
Tufts and Worcester Polytechnic
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-14
Army Takes Cords

st. Louis, Oct. "a. (UP)-Oub-
fielder Harry Walker and Pitcher
Alpha Brazle of the st. Louis Car
dinals, were in the Army today.
The Athletes passed their physical
and were sworn into the service late
yesterday at Jefferson barracks
here.
Both men are married and
Walker is the father Of a son. They
received the usual 21-day furlough.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-14
c. l.. P. Mixed
League
BY LEFTY
BY LEFTY
Alas!

Dotty McGrath, whose last name,
she'll have you know, Is not pro-
nounced to rhyme with the past
tense Of the verb to see, has left
our merry group. Her going breaks
up the former all-Celtic combina.
ton of Cosgrove, McGrath, Casey
and Kearney. It Is fervently hoped
that her replacement will not in
ject an alien tint into a bright
green atmosphere. Erin go braghI
Right on the Pins
D. Farnsworthy Cosgrove, book
keeper and correspondent eXtro-
dinaire, contributed @ neat but not
gaudy BIT to her teams battle
against the Fuses.
Come On, John
Speaking OF the Fuses reminds us
that johnson Zacharias DeVito, ye
olde huntsman, Is having a hard
time getting into his stride. j. z, ss
he Is known to his intimates in the
meter department, hasn't had a
good night since the league started
Clever FootwOrk
D. Apologize Braun, one Of Our
four portsided female bowlers, has
acquired some rather fetching foot
work according to our operative
z-76. Doris, they say, now has the
cutest approach to the foul line this
side Of Atlantic City.
Vain Fellow
Gordon Whitaker, the show-oh
had to 60 and have a 1893 evening
Just because two very attractive
members of the lady marines were
watching. The half acre Of adhesive
which Gordy had plastered over his
left eye caused much uncompli-
mentary speculation, but with dis
play Of taciturnity unusual for him
Whit vouchsafe no explanation.
Little Dynamite
Helen Roberts, the abbreviate
blonde, did plenty Of damage to the
oppositionS chances when her team
met the Volts. Helen made more
strikes in the pincheS than the st
Louis Card did in the recent series
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-14
Lowell High Loses Stor

Lowell, Mass, Oct. IA. CUP)-
Lowell High schools football team
today was suffering a severe set
back as result of the loss Of Co
Capt. George Ford, outtanding
schoolboy fullback who reports to
the Army in three weeks, He passed
selective service physical examin-
alton yesterday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-14

Institute were practicing for their
tilt Saturday but Harvard, Dart
mouth, Brown and Boston College
were staging only routine drills
since none Of those teams play for
at least 10 days.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-14
BETTER WITH AGE

Sam Graham qualified fer the
.. 8. amateur eolf championship IN
1911 with q aooEe a. 100; IN tho iDaa
Seniors tourney be posted al az
Heaale e ika.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-14

Bx UNITED EHESS
Hartford, Conn.-Sal Bartolo. 100,
Boston. knocked out Billy Bates,
100. Pittsburgh, 90.
Oakland, Calif-Al Ware. 20S.
Oakland. knocked out Domingo
Vain, 207, Hayward, Calf ~.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-14

back to the mines.
Southern Cal. over San Francisco
with gravy, please.
March Field over San Diego-Un-
less the hatpin slipped.
Alameda Coast Guard over st.
Mary's-Jack Dempsey's in the
G. G.
Also Fort Riley over Denver;
Colorado College over Kirkland
Field; New Mexico over Flagstaff.
(Last weeks: % right, 8 wrong,
tie-for .778 right-and-wrong
average: Seasons average. 1897
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-14
Was World Series a Plot
TO Cover BalOgh Custer?

TT IS UNFORTUNATE THAT World
about that Harry Baogh the Redundant Demoshene Of
busting departed the
wep unhonod and unsung beg you Printer
to make that last word "unhung.0
dasardly noble crcumouon tauoogy
vebos deliberately timed you ask me to find the sports columns
Series and other trivial events that there wasn't for than
may Caulower wouldn't surprise find
learn and discover that the newsn shortage deliberately
framed with malice aforethought by those who plotted to ope 5alo
from his resin-strewn rostrum.
All,
with thy adjectve abundant,
Which lowered when the galleries would hiss thee
fields
We shall miss thee BalOgh
YesnO matter what we throw, wen always miss thee!
eating per-
mtted andoquent
eeutonary Mike the forest Of facts that obviously
think those
the Eers hear listen and absorb Mr. Bogh sonant
decamaonsP Did atonant declamatos beg pardon
meant his magnoquent and think
I shall, his orotund ntonations.
pile upon (not did this
misguided fight promoter select replace succeed and suppant Mr.
politician from pureus Elizabeth yclept
hall with the peerless Baogeven
Of the golden have died DOWN. Has he invented
GndP Does he Brown Bomber
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-14

Analytical experts Of the Army
and Navy declare the coordination
developed in playing billiards I'M
proves craftsmanship.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-14

Many boxing authorities believe
Jimmy Wilde, who never has
weighed more than 90 pounds, was
the greatest fighter OF his weight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-14
other Selections

Texas over Arkansas; Texas A. q
M. over 7. C. u; Tulsa over Okla
homa; California over U. c. L. AS
v. p. I. over w. Virginia.
Evening star., 1943-05-30


ashore only to find upon the sprawling, arid
rock, traces of where abundant rains had
coursed back from the higher ground again to
the sea- Such mockery it was to parched
men who now sought in vain for the precious
water which once had filled the pools. Poor
Hardy, cursing, had run and flung himself
belly down and drunk his fill from the sea.
1t wasn't pretty - the way Hardy died.
These men remembered. And they remem-
bered what Hardy had, all the time, in his
possession. II shouldn't want to 60 the way
he did," said George, the steward
"You don't have to-" Big Steve told him
uneasiiy.
Don't like to think of it, DON'T" said
Haddow in his thin, Cockney accents.
And all the time he had that" said Mas
terman. ''He meant to have go at the Jer-
ries with it sometime"
'Blimey, I'd "a used it, !" breathed Haddow.
George, the steward, said: Pm a-scared
to look at the sea now. That's what l am.
There's place down there near where he died,
with the sky lynn blue in it, lookin' cool.
When was kid at home we had pond -"
"Shut up" ordered Big Steve. Padre,
you'd better take charge of the damned
thing"
That was how they had talked the day poor
Evening star., 1943-05-30

Am Moses, he thought bitterly, to smite
the rock and bring forth water?
What IS man that thou art mindful of him.?
No cloud in that implacable sky. Not a
promising plume of smoke to the horizons
rim. Not single shower that desperate men
might have strength to put to sea again, with
hope of better landfall, and then . home.
Big Steve had said, Il keep thinkin' of
that bomb we took off Hardy, Padre can't
get the damned thing out of my mind" And
little Haddow: It'd be ruddy sight quicker,
Padre!" And George, the steward: "I'm a
scared, Padre. I'm a-scared of the sky lyin'
blue in the water where Hardy drank I'd
not want to die like him.
Now he and they we're no longer confdants.
As he walked to them across the rocks, their
eyes we're harsh and angry and defensive
separated from him by great gulf Did they
Evening star., 1943-05-30

Hardy died, forgetting for moment the raw
agony of their own throats that had increased
every hour since. For how many hours since?
An uncounted eternity; the mind at times
wandering, here on this atom of rock and sand
set in vast infnity of sea and sky, and
marked with the mocking evidence that here,
perhaps not so long ago, clouds had gathered
and water from the relenting heavens had
fallen.
f1E READ in their despairing eyes question,
demand to know why rain should be law
ished upon an empty rock, only to dry under
the greedy eye of the sun, before men, made
in the image of God, flung their suffering
bodies ashore here And if it had fallen before
- why not now?
One by one these men had come to him, as
if he - man of God - could work miracle.
Evening star., 1943-05-30

not understand that he, too, was tempted!
That the raw agony of suffering in him was
not less monstrous? But his spirit must rise
above the flesh Somehow, for them and for
himself, he must cling to supreme convlc-
ton.
It was Big Steve who spoke. His tongue
was 50 thick that the words came hard.
"You prayed for rain, Padre" said Big
Steve, but where is the rain! You prayed
for a Ship and our eyes are out of the sockets
from watching. Now we want something -
sure. And we mean to have 1t.
"It's good place here to do ii" croaked
Masterman.
Get on with it," said George. Il don't
want to have to die like Hardy did
'Are you with us or not with us, Padre?"
asked Big Steve.
WHY not? Here in this enclosure OF rock,
itself crumbling into slow dust as If 1t could
not endure forever the intolerable glare OF the
sun, they would huddle close, trusting that
death would be swift and without respect OF
persons Pluck out the pin, and let the answer
to the implacable heavens be sudden blot
ting out of little men caught like insects on an
unimportant mound of earth.
"Now!' breathed Masterman.
"Nowt echoed Haddow.
Only George, the steward, remembered to
say, in sudden, hoarse appeal. Say word
for us, Padre.'
Poor lads - half crazed They shall hunger
no more neither thirst any more neither
shall the sun lgM on them, nor any heat.
Big Steve's fingers tensed. You pull the
pin, you count -
Suddenly the Padre leaped forward,
snatched the bomb from Big Steve's hands,
and flung it. Get thee behind us, Satan''
he cried.
1t rose in an arc against the unCompromls-
ing glare, falling not in the midst of men,
to blot them out and leave torn bodies for
the gulls to peck at. but at little distance
striking with deafening detonation against
crumbling surface of soil and rock whose
fragments now descended with peltlng
mimicry of rain. Dust rose. even here, to
choke them a last indignity to mock them.
Damn you!'' cried Big Steve, and lunged.
The Padre fell his face cut and bleeding. But
George, the steward turned and went stum-
bling down towards the sea, to drink his fill
of water that was SALT and die as Hardy died.
! HE Padre staggered to his feet, brushed
Big Steve aside, and was given strength to
try and stop this madness Ahead, in his
stumbling course, George tripped and sprawled
across a ledge of rock, sobbing his anguish
as the Padre reached him and put an arm
about him.
George" he said, the name forced through
lips upon which his own blood tasted queer
and sweet. George, -" Then he stopped
and stared George, the steward, raising him
self little, stared too. Then both found
strength to raise shout that brought Big
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13
Peace Jobs Planned
By Tourist Bureau

The postwar planning commit
tee Of the Detroit Convention and
Tourist Bureau today IS preparing
program OF civic projects. high
ways and sirportS 10 provide en-
ployment after the war
Among the civic leaders " Who
discussed projects AZ q luncheon
meeting AZ the Fort Shelby Hotel
were Ralph Thomas former chair
man ~ the state liquor control
commission: Federal Judge Frank
a. Packard. J. Lee Barrett and
George r. Emery of The city plan
ming commission: Albert Cobo
city treasurer, and Councilman
Frank Cody. John Lodge and
George Edwards
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13
us. NdWPIdnes
Smash laps in
Mid-SOIOmOns

WASHINGTON Feb - ms
The navy reported to-day fhH
American planes are continuing
their aerial offensive against I8p3-
neSe positions M the Central Solo
mons and thar M two attacks ON
February III they started fires IN
the target areas.
The raids wore. carried oui los
fwln-engncd Martin honhprs Csc
cored by Airacohra and Light
Ming fighters
Fires were started In rhc target
srea st NunGa nearest Japanese
air base to lti=t{H4esna-- n
laIer raid large fire WAS started
and one enemy plane shot down r
an assault on kolombanCara
lSlspd supporting base for
Nlnda.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13
knOXTeIIS
u. =. Path
To Toxic

WASHINGTON, Feb. IL (INS).
America will take the road back
TO TOXIC through the island-dotted
Pacific in great, leaping strides TO
strike as swiftly as possible at the
heart of the enemy. Secretary of
the Navy Knox said today.
Knox denounced critics Of Amer
lean war strategy in the Pacific
and served notice on the Japanese
that digging in for an inch-by-inch
retreat would do no good.
There never was naval
policy calling for an islaDd-tO-
island campaign" he said.
Islands will be used in our
progress ward the enemy
homeland. But we never con-
templated that progress toward
Toxic would be an island-tO-
island affair"
Knox described Guadalcanal.
where organized enemy resistance
was overcome last Tuesday, mere
as useful forward base"
In reply TO query as TO whether
the United States intends TO hold
Guadalcanal. Knox replied that this
country is not avid for territory,
but he reiterated his statement to
Congress earlier in the week that
we should have air bases spotted
at strategic points all over the
world.
He said. however. he would be
satisfied with an arrangement SINH
lar 10 that at Trinidad, where the
United States has 99-year lease
on British property for a military
base.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13
1000 laps Killed
In Futile Attack
On Allied Base

GENERAL MacARTHUR'S
II + A d Q u ARTERS, Australia,
Feb. II (UP).-Decisively defeated
japanese troops in northeast New
Guinea are fleeing toward Mubo
village. l. miles southwest of Sa-
lamaua, after a 12-day fight in
the Wau sector which cost them
nearly 1000 dead and many more
wounded. a headquarters commu-
nique said today,
The unsuccessful attack, which
began January 80, was directed at
the valuable Allied airdrome at
Wau. 81 miles southwest of Sala-
maua.
Australian jungle fighters, who
pushed the main enemy force back
six miles on Wednesday, continued
to hammer the retreating columns
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13

ADVERTIsEMENT
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13
REACH INTO U. $.

Recent disclosures of the re-
suits OF Japanese propaganda
among Negroes at Chicago, De-
trOit and New York show that
the Black Dragon tentacles
reach into our country even
today" Rankin said.
ut Is today the greatest
espionage organization this ma
ton has ever known.
To-day representatives of the
Black Dragon Society are even
on the federal pay roll.
To-day every town in Amer
lea is honeycombed with them.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13
Wife
Reported Killed

LONDON, Feb. II QNS) The
assassination of Or. II. Region,
the Dutch-Nazi propaganda chief,
and his wife was reported today
10y Aneta. the Netherlands news
agency which quoted the Scandi-
navian Telegraph Bureau in Stock
holm. The aSSaSSins were not
identified.
Reydon was the second party
.henChman shot within week
Gen Hendrix A. Seyffardt, only
Netherlands general 10 collaborate
with the Germans after the in
vasion. was shot fatally last
Friday.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13
nttron rime. washington Bursau

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-Rep-
resentatives of the infamous Black
Dragon Society of Japan are on
the federal pay roll of the United
States. Rep. John +. Rankin of
Mississippi charged today in a
speech that startled the House.
After his talk, in which he
called for investigation of the
American activities of the Black
Dragon Society by the Dies COM
mittee. Representative Ran k i n
said he had referred 10 Negroes
"gullible enough and unfortunate
enough to come under the domin-
ion of the Black Dragon Society
through its appeal to the dark
skinned peoples"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13
February 1913

toward the Salamaua base, which
they have held since March. 1912.
A Flying Fortress raided the
Rabaul area, on New Britain Is
land for two hours Wednesday
night, starting fires at Lakunai
Airdrome. w.
An Allied merchant ship was
torpedoed and sunk. by a Japanese
submarine off the east coast of
Australia but all the crew was
saved.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13
Hospital Unit Financed

The Lincoln Day dinner of the
Ladies of GAR at the Wardell
Hotel will be featured tonight with
the presentation of a $500 check
for a military hospital unit. Mrs.
A. w. Humphrey. Wayne County
Republican vice chairman, will
speak.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13
DR.. Wei Warns
Jdps Will Hit
To Save.Ndzis
BY RAY RICHARDS
Detroit Times Washington bureau

w ASftlNG lONt feD. l<.-DI
Wei Tao-Ming. Chinese ambaSsa-
dor To the United States. today
warned that Japan must make a
major offensive move i'm the Pa
cific soon to cOunter-balance Ger
man reverSeS i'm Russia and Africa.
lie said that in me present cru
cial combination of war clFcum-
stances. concentration of Allied
attention and strength in the Eu-
ropean theater is distinctly dan
gerOuS."
ALL ONE WAR
Solemnly and impressively, he
went on:
Let no one think We are
fighting two wars, one for Eu-
rope and one for the Pacific.
This il one war, the world
around. Germany and Japan are
bound together insolubly i'm war
partnership. II one goes down,
the other must go down. They
are fighting on that principle.
with Germany victorious In
Europe. as she seemed to be last
summer. Japan was happy To
hold what she had won earlier
in the year. and proceed with as
little fighting as possible In the
consolidation of those cOnquests.
ALARMING TO JAPS
But the rout Of the Germans
at Stalingrad, their certain ex-
tinction i'm North Africa, has
brought To Japan new and
alarming situation.
"TO keep Germany fighting,
and thus prevent the full power
of the United States and Great
Britain from being turned into
the Pacific, Japan must now cre-
ate a diversion OF immense pro-
portions.
"We can expect IL TO start at
any hour"
He remarked that the United
Nations answer TO the situation is
obvious.
"a grand offensive I'm the Pa
cific might, as westerners Of
your country used TO say, beat
Japan TO the draw" he said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13
Jap Spies i'm u. :. Jobs.
Rep. Rankin Charges

when the Dies committee
goes To the bottom OF this sltu-
alton, IL will reveal an espionage
organization that Is today seTy-
ing Germany, Italy and Japan
and is one of the most danger
Gus subverSive agencies that has
ever threatened the safety of
the people of this country"
PROBE OF JAPS
Rankin'S speech gave additiona
confirmation TO indications that {
full-dreSs congressional investiga
ton of Japanese Vaccinations II
the United States is rapidly
shaping up.
His recommendation OF the Dies
as the investigating
agency met opposition from Rep
Henry NJ. Jackson. Washington
Democrat. who has announced ht
will introduce a resolution Monday
for the creation of Specia
standing committee 10 the House
ito investigate all things japanese
relating TO the future Of the
United States" adding:
THE committee ! propose
would function permanently,
continued from term TO term. so
that Japan might never again
surprise US"
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