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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-08
Bv ORLO ROBERTSON

BEAR MOUNTAIN, N. y, Sept.
7-R-If the game of football was
played without oackfield and
there was no need for reserves,
Coach Steve Owen could sit back
and feel quite content over the
prospects of mis- New York Giants
in the National football league
this season.
But since a backtield is very
important part G. the sport and
the pro game calls for capable
second stringers, Stout Steve has
his job out for him before the
Giants open their 10-game league
schedule against the Yanks at
at Boston Oct. 8.
Sixteen of the 43 men in camp
were with the club last year while
the Rockies include many who
never have played college ball.
But this looks like a better
crop of rockies than we had last
year." said Steve as he snapped
the squad through a scrimmage
only four days after landing in
camp.
Stve can field an all-veteran
line consisting of O'Neale Adams
and Frank Liebel at ends, Frank
Cope and Vic Carroll at tackles,
Charley Avedisian and Len
Younce at Guards and Bill Piccolo
at center. Back of them Steve has
Sparky Adams, a veteran defen-
sive end; Emmett Barrett, be-
spectaculed center; Sol Marone and
Larry Visnic, guards and Frank
Umont, a hefty tackle.
But when it comes to the back
field, Owen can count the veterans
on one hand. Heading the list is
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-08
BEAT
DODGERS, I 5

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 7-R-
The Philadelphia Phillies came
from behind in the late innings to
defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers 7 to
5 in the start of their cellar series
tonight. The game drew 1866
fans. Tony Lupien scored the
winning run in the seventh, when
Pitcher Art Herring threw to
HOWE Schultz in an effort to trap
Ron Northy off first and the ball
went through Schultz. Lupien dash
ed home from third.
r H E
Boston 80. 900 DOB O00-3 3 8
New York -. 300 042 00x-9 10 l
Batteries: Hutchinson, R i n,
Javery and Mast; Voiselle and
lombard.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-08
SPORTS TRAIL

of the unusual sight of the club
up there. The card attendance is
more or less normal.
It seems there is saturation
point in night baseball, and it will
find its own level eventually with
the clubs. through experience,
booking only what the traffic will
stand, and not going hog wild.
More Baseball:
An astute baseball man pointed
out to us a postwar problem fac
ing minor league baseball we
hadn't considered. That is, the re-
alignment of leagues to meet shifts
in population.
Some heretofore class c town, for
instance, might have doubled in
population due to war time indus
trial booms. They won't be salts.
fled with class C if that popula-
ton swelling persists after tn
war. They will want class B, or
class A ball.
Maybe a towns population will
decrease when the war ends, and
whereas now it might be consider
ed ripe for class A, it might actul-
ly become a class c town.
Bill Brandt, national league in
formation expert, says that il
Prexy Ford Prick was permitted
to play in the outfield, the league
could come up with a team OF
managers, each playing his favor
lite position.
The lineup would be: Bob Cole
man, C; Freddy Fitzsimmons, p;
Charlie Grimm, l B; frankie
Frisch, B; Leo Durocher, SIS;
Bill McKechnie, BIB; Billy South
worth, Mel OFT and Prick, outfield-
erS
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-08
Green Bay Packers
Lick Sailors, 25-14

SAMPSON, N. Y, Sept. 7.-fRE
The Green Bay Packers scored
a 25-14 victory over 1t. Comdr.
Jim Crowley's Sampson Naval
Training Center football team this
afternoon. The professionals put on
a sensational running and passing
show witnessed by more than TO-
600 bluejackets.
The packers, who are picked by
many experts to win the national
league title this year, took an early
lead when Lou Brock skirted h s
left end after seven minutes CT the
first quarter for the first touch
down. Bucchianeris' try for t
extra point was wide
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-08
Byron Nelson Holds
Lead In Texas 0pa

DALLAS, Sept. 7-iR-Byron Nj.
son, the nations leading golfer /,
tournament victories and money
earned, held a tight lead in t.
first 10 holes of the Texas victor
open today with two thirds Of ID.
bulky field in. Nelson's 69-twO ur
der par-was three strokes better
than anything posted as the shad;
ows crept over Lakewood County
Club course.
However, such top golfers a
Harold McSpaden and Dutch Har
rison still were to be heard from
and both we're towering close b
par coming into the stretch,
-V-
RUY WAR BONDS AND STAMP
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-08
FINNEY PASSES EXAMS

BOSTON, Sept. 7-R-Lou Fin
ney, Boston Red Sox first base
man, today passed his selective
service physical examination.
Since he will not be called up for
at least 81 days, his chances of
furnishing the regular American
league season are considered very
bright.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-08
Pennant Battle Thickens: Detroit Beats Clevelan,
STANDINGS
RESULTS
American League

AmeIlCdu AcdS NC
st. Louis 5; Chicago 4.
Cleveland 0; Detroit 3.
Qnly game cheduled.
National League
Bottom 3; New York 9.
Pittburgh l, Cincinnati 2.
Brooklyn 5, Philadelphia Z.
Chicago 2, st. Loui 3.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-08

Il II T.
Cleveland $500 900 600 ooo-o 3 o
Detroit ------ loo O10 1ox-3 10 l
Batteries: Heving, Bagby and
Schlueter: Trout and Swift.
Evening star., 1944-12-10
MnkMM;Hr

CRIME. Walter Pitkin tells us about
a friend who was in a Southern town
when the President drove through
with the usual retinue. who dat?"
asked watching field hand. That's
the President" de President?
Who dat wild 'um?" That's the po-
lice" DE to-lice?" he asked. And
then in awed tones: What he done?"
HuGT. We have just come across
survey which is giving US a lot to
think about. Its results show that girls
who sell movie tickets have the best
Evening star., 1944-12-10

FOUNDING. The first pet I ac-
quired in the North African cam
paigns was a donkey. It was only after
he had adopted me that | discovered
he was a sound locator and AFRAID
siren combined. The poor old bag of
bones had been abandoned by some
Bedouin. those nomadsstreamed
eastwards before the Italians in 1889.
/ took pity ON him and fed him some
hardtack. Neddy loved it and re-
fused to move far from the slit trench
which was my home.
It took several air raids to convince
me that Neddy's frantic braying be-
fore raids was because his ears could
catch approaching plane vibrations
minutes before human ones.
Once l realized Neddy's capabili-
ties, cherished him like brother,
because he was the only efficient air
raid alarm we possessed. He waxed
fat and became famously effective.
Then Neddy disappeared.
HARDTACK. / found him gorging
a pile of hardtack outside the Quar-
termaster's tent mile away. Neddy,
fho fo;thlesc refused RI come home
There was more to eat at the Quarter
masters. The ON laughed in my face
when demonstrated. He would rather
lose his hardtack than his siren.
So / declared war. Water supply
was my job and water is potent
weapon in the desert. / frightened up
on the Quartermaster's ration and re-
fused to issue one for Neddy. The
ON capitulated after an unsuccessful
Evening star., 1944-12-10

attempt to get Neddy to drink beer.
And / agreed to move my camp next
to the Quartermaster's and share
Neddy.
If Neddy had behaved himself he
might have rated a decoration or
been proudly adopted by some regi-
ment as a mascot. But one day lady
jackass appeared on the scene. Neddy
continued to signal air raids but he
signaled his love-making as well.
People got tired of sprinting to cover
every time Neddy sighted his lady
love. ! finally swapped Neddy to a
Bedouin for gaudy woolen blanket.
MAJOR PETER ". RAINIER
Evening star., 1944-12-10
Men With Spirit!
BY KURT STEEL

sailors and coast guardsmen in all phases
of deep-sea and landing operations.
Each of them has been given skill
which he can, if he wishes, practice with
pride and enthusiasm.
The long deadly monotony is still there,
to be sure The numbing. corrosive side
of war hasn't changed through all the CEN
turies. War has always done untold dam
age to mems souls, and experts are pre-
dieting that men will return from this
greatest of all wars restless and untitled
for civilian life
Bur when they make their ominous pre-
dictions, l suspect they are largely inf1u-
enced by their memory of the last war.
That war was fought by masses of men
under the deadly monotony of trench
existence. There was little scope for indi-
vidual talent. There was even less chal
lenge to creative skills.
In the First World War there were no
PIT boats, no glider teams, no combat
engineers as we know them today. There
were few planes, but they were suicide
crates for the most part - no Susie Q's
that fifty men could love-
And at the end of the First World War
we had lost generation. Young men
came home dried out, empty, hstless. 1t
took them a long time to find their way
back to the peaceful road they had left.
For they had lost the one prime habit on
which full life depends, the habit of crea-
tive enthusiasm.
lRACIcALLY the same thing is happening
to many this time. But this time there is a
difference. For among the veterans of this
war there will be hundreds of thousands
who will come home with their enthusiasm
intact They will have learned new skills.
They will have the zest for their jobs that
Americans had in frontier days.
Indeed, they will have, in many ways,
frontier spirit themselves. They will have
found new mastery over their hands and
Yankee ingenuity to get things done.
That spirit has moved mountains dur
ing the war. If we give it chance, it can
move mountains when our men come back.
Evening star., 1944-12-10

The zest of the pioneer
has been reborn in our
servicemen. Here's what
it will mean to America -.
TINE other day Tom Rollins was in town
i at the end of furlough and / had
lunch with him. He is navigator now,
on the point of being assigned to per-
manent bomber team.
After we had talked for while, asked
some simple question about computing
the position of plane from the stars. His
eyes lighted up. Out came a pencil, and
he began sketching diagrams for me. For
half an hour he talked, full of an enthusi-
asm had never before seen in him.
As listened, l thought of other boys
on their furloughs, other boys I'd met in
trains and waiting rooms.
In day coach leaving Providence, l
fell into conversation with young para
trooper. casually asked him a question
about his work, and for twenty minutes
he talked = the way he might have talked
about the World Series or fy-fishing.
/ HAD to remind myself that it was his
Job he was telling me about. He had the
same eager enthusiasm for his job that
he might have shown for a sport.
I thought of Alec, who sold me papers
and cigarettes at the corner candy store.
Alec was understood and cynical, and he
had a perpetual gripe against life. When
he was inducted l fully expected to see
him back in a month or so as psyche
logical misft.
But l didn't see Alec again. What l
saw was a letter Alec wrote to his sister,
who had taken over the candy store. 1t
wasn't much of letter, but between the
lines was spirit that made the scrawled
words glow. They had put Alec in ground
crew and were teaching him about engines,
and he loved it.
You see them everywhere. Young SOL
diers in the air service, in the signal corps
and the tank corps, in chemical warfare,
motorized infantry, and glider units;
Evening star., 1944-12-10

fiction stories and semi-hction articles In this
maga zine are wholly imaginary. Any name
which happens to be the same as that o. ny
Evening star., 1944-12-10

chance to get husband. Stenogra-
pliers are second, Last: lady lecturers.
MAGIC: From France, a correspon-
dent reports: "A camp-show magi-
clan was flabbergasting the boys by
changing a bunch of flowers into
rabbit. Suddenly CT yelled: Can
you change me into a civilian?'
PEACE. The milk of military kind
ness seems to be creeping into the
attitude of enlisted men toward their
officers. One company clerk, noticing
how extra duties kept piling up on his
commanding officer. commented:
''Sir, when you die, your tombstone
will read, May he rest in peace -
in addition to his other duties.
Evening star., 1944-12-10

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-03

Orchestra Frank Black conductng-WEAF
6:15.
Fred Warnings Orchestra-WEAF, Z.
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Eddie Mayeho Bonita Granville Joan Ed
wards, Lopez Orchestra Louis Sobol-WOR, 1880
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Driver Middle East with Alan
Lad-WEAF g.
vOx Pop Interviews, at Camp Claiborne, La-WABC,s
Army Air Forces FrOgram-wHN, 8.
Crooks Tenor; Orchestra Barlow Con-
ductng-WEAF,
sherlock Rathbone Nigel Buce-wOR. $780,
Gay Nineties: Lillian Leonard Joe Howard-WABC $780,
Helen TraubeI Soprano Voorhees, Orchestra-WEAF, 9.
Plays Destroyer with Edward Robinson Marguerite Chapman
and Dennis OKeefe-WABC, 9.
Sgt Hargrove Grouse.
CiueSts-WEAF, $3.50.
Spotlight Bands Program WIZ $3.50.
Concert: Josephine Antoine Soprano Reinhold Schmidt,
Percy Faith and Orchestra-WEAF, 10.
Guild Play: Frisco Hello" Gnny SmmS
and Jack Oakie-WABC, 10.
BOxing st. Nicholas Arena-WHN TO-
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The SymphOnee Mshel paso VolniSt
Greek Independence Day Pregnant
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-03
ARMY'S HYM n
FOLDER NEARING
IS MILLION MARK

Washington. April 3.-(UP)-A
folder containing Is old gospel
hymns and a passage of Scripture
soon will hit a circulation mark OF
100000 copies among the armed
forces, the Army Chaplains Corps
reports.
The figure, which far exceeds the
achievements Of Tin Pan Alleys
most popular song hits, will be
reached when the corps completes
distribution of the 100000 copies
requested in excess of the original
quota of 3 100000.
The songs which were chosen by
a committee of Jewish, Protestant
and Catholic chaplains, included:
God Will Take Care of YOU;
"Oh. God, Our Help in Ages Past" /;
Faith of Our Fathers; 20 Beau
tiful for Spacious Skies; abide
With Me-: "All the World Shall
Come to Serve Thee; Sweet Hour
Of Prayer; IT Would Be True;
Come Thou Almighty King;
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory:
1.-THE Day Is Dying in the West;
and Goo Bless America"
One Psalm From Bible
The twenty-third psalm was the
only extract from the Bible includ-
ed.
The folder, compiled because
soldiers want to sing religious songs
during worship services, is so light
that it can be carried easily in q
pocket.
Circulation began when each
overseas chaplain received 600
copies apiece and IL pamphlets OF
music to correspond to the hymn
words. About 100000 others were
packed in cartons containing emer-
gency food rations.
The report also announced that
by the end of 1943, 6,998 chaplains
were on duty in the Army, 4,255
in the continental United States
and 2,743 serving overseas. Nine
teen chaplains have been killed ir
battle; 10 wounded; one missing
in action; 80 prisoners Of war, and
81 others have died as a result Of
accidents or illness.
| 97.5 Attend Church
The percentage of monthly at
tendance at church services varied
with an average attendance for the
entire year at 97.5 per cent of army
strength. The high figure, however
was explained by saying that while
not every man went to church
others attended every service.
Booklets contained so marriage
and Is baptismal certificates were
prepared for chaplains officiating
at religious ceremonies. They were
designed and worded so as to be
disable by both Christian and jew
ish chaplains.
BY arrangement with the Chief
Of Transportation, all lifeboats at
ports of embarkation were supplied
with one copy each Of the Protest
ant, Catholic and Jewish tesla
ments. In addition, religious book
lets were supplied by the corps fol
liferafts to be used in emergencies
by air crews.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-03
SPRING FEVER ORIGIN?

IL OLlCC was Vic CuoCOlAA w Ol dAA
off a part of the blood in the
springtime, with the idea that q
new disease-free supply would be
developed to take its place, there
by making a person more healthy.
Der Marathon"
159O--WBRY--96
3:15-Elizabeth Bemis-News
3:30-Columbia MasterWorks Of
Music
4:00-Broadway Matinees
4:25-Bill Costello. News
4:30-Golden Gate Quartet
4:45-The Raymond Scott Show
5:00-Fun With Dunn
5:30-The Suppertimers
5:45-American Women
6:00-Quincy Howe and the News
6:15-Lyn Murray's Orchestra and
Chorus
6:30-News
6:45-The World Today
6:55-The Meaning of the News
7:0O-Service Unlimited
7:15-Ed Sullivan Entertains
7:3O-Blondie
8:00-Vox Pop
8:3O-Concert Hall of the Air
5-News-Charles T. Lynch
9:OO-Lux Radio Theater
1O:0O-Screen Guild Players
10:3O-Broadway Showtime-Fea-
turing William Gaxton
Orchestra under direction
J. Blackton and Guest
Soloists
II :00-EeWs
11:15-Joan Brooks, Songs
11:30-Greek independence Day
Program-"Greeks Remem-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-03

Six youths from Waterbury and vicinity have
reported to the pre-fight school at Maxwell Field,
Alabama an installation of the AAF Training Com
u s. Army Air Forces There the aviation cadets will
receive nine weeks Of intensive physical military and
academic instruction. These aviation cadets
william n. Carroll, 131 South Elm Street; Donald s.
Duncan So Delaware Avenue; Arthur J. Fisher, AZ
Union Street; John w. GOepel, 142 Columbia BOule-
ward; William ]. Walsh, 21S FairIawn Avenue; and
George BarOIak Sylvan Lake Road, OakvHle, Conn.,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-03
Good Evening.
j By THE MAN IN It'd TOWER

Lillian Klonosk, supervisor of Conveyor 40 in the
Gum Shoes Department of the U. S. Rubber Company IN
Naueatuck has proved herself human alarm CLOCK
2ecentlv she solved a difficult problam for one of her
girls Frances Daniels alarm clock refused TO work one
ay an appalling catastrophe with clock repairers prac
tcay extinct But it didn't take resourcetul LII very
long to solve the weighty problem for at 4:45 ayem
every day she phones Frances and in sleepy voice tes
her to rise and shine The alarm clock is being hxed
Frances gets to work on time, and gum SHOES on Con-
vevor 40 roll out on schedule That's what you call
wartime ingenuity at its best!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-03

Charles Marsey of 10 Kenyon Street, boss of the
Reliable Furniture Company, has gone Hollywood
Yes sir the former Supernumerary policeman IS DasK
ionge siege of disqualification following major oper-
alton here. huge COcOanut arrived at the Tower
desk this morning sporting "a cents worth OF stamps
informing me the genial furniture king is using the
guest towels at the Lincoln Hotel during his south
ern cOnvaleSCence period
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-03

Private First Class Eugene Stetson, of WATERFOWL
is now stationed at Tinker Field in Oklahoma at the
Oklahoma City Air Depot with the Army band Son OF
Mrs Hazel T. steson of 81 Cherry Avenue WATERFOWL
was active in musical activities. He is also graduate
of the American Academy of Ernbaning in New York
City where he was member of the MI Epsilon Pi fra
ternity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-03

william F. SoIOcius, seaman second class of 119
Elliott Avenue will complete his recruit training at the
Naval base at Sampson, NJ Y, tomorrow, and then
come home for few days leave. Upon his return to
the base the shores of Seneca Lake he will be eligible
for further assignment which may qualify him for petty
officer rating
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-03

An old round dining table is desired by
worthwhile local organization If you have one you
would like to donate kindly call the Man in the Tower
and arrangements will be made to pick it up.
Bandits got SIS 900 from Texas doctors SAFE Other
edees doubtless would like to know his collecting
methods. {. Lent is the time when some people
swear off the same things they swOre off on New
Years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-03
FIVE YEARS OF FOREST FIRES

There were more than 100000
forest fires per year in the United
States over the five-year period of
1886 1910. Enough valuable timber
to cover an area as large as New
York state was burned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-03

Dan Carson, deputy superintendent of police, has
been doing his utmost to impress upon factory workers
who park their with their ignition keys in the lock
that this is very bad habit Recently several parked
near factories were BORROWED and when recovered were
damaged or important papers or tools missing Dan
urged factory workers to exercise little Judgment IN
this matter and take their keys with them after parking
their gas-eaters.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-03

Nicholas A. Pomponio, son of Mr.. and Mrs Michael
Poponio of 22O Wocott Street has been promoted
staff sergeant to first sergeant with Colonel George A.
Poin's Headquarters outfit island in the South
Pacific He is graduate of local high school, class Of
1888 and later became associated with his dad in the
tracing business He indicted into the service Feb
ruary a. 19 and has been since January 27 OF
1912.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-03

Lois Fenton of Middlebury is among The "a Connec-
ticu College juniors chosen by the senior class to carry
the laurel chain at Commencement exercises in June
ATTY Ed Mascolo and his assistant, Atty Steve
Elliott of southngton are representing Mrs Elizabeth
Mcaster of Bristol in her damage suit against the C
of Bristol for injuries sustained in icy sidewalk fall
some time past.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-03

Captain Walter Lynch former local attorney, is
said to have received his APO number recently. He
has been in the service since the outbreak of the war
and is supply officer with his outfit. His brother
Greg former city corporation counsel is lieutenant
with an MP division They are of former cOmpen-
sation commissioner James M Lynch, current majority
floor leader of the aldermanic board
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-03
ever had" telegrapced Romano1f
should not 60 unrewarded."

SI1OulU 11OL W uAAACWoANCN'
Baritone Bill Hargrave is guest
soloist on the "Lyn Murray Show"
on Monday, April 3, at 6:15 p. M.
e. W. t. over CHS. His selections
comprise "Old Man River" accom-
panied by the Lyn Murray Male
Chorus, and "Invictus." The chorus
sings II Love Lassie," and the Or
chestral highlight is Sumner
time"
While Verna FELTON,, the charac-
ter actress who plays the role Of
Mrs. Bundy," the cleaning woman.
Is sojourning in the east, MI. Bum
dy" will make his bow on the COM
edy series. The latter Is character
lied as a lazy lout who cats George
Burns and Oracle Allen out OF
house and home, and smokes
Georges cigars.
Jimmy Wellington. the stalwart
Blind Date" program announcer,
almost abandoned his script routine
when he started talking about his
old home town neighborhood Of Sa-
cramento, Calf. with Sergt. George
Apologize Of the Army Air Forces.
sgt. Apologize and Wellington knew
the same Sacramento folks and
places even each others cousins
and friends.
The Great Moments in Music"
program has Just about the longest
rehearsals in radio. They are so
tCng that most Of the musicians IN
George 6ebastian's orchestra bring
their own lunches TO the CHS stu
dos and fortify themselves for the
busy afternoon with q hearty meal
during intermlssion period.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-03

Robert Olmstead of Taft school for Boys in Water
town was one of the two judges for the state second
arv school drama festival which the State Teachers
College at Windham sponsored Saturday afternoon and
evening Watertown high students presented the play,
ION Vengeance Height" featuring Muriel Andrews, Ea
Beach, John MCGOWAN and Karl Kososky
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-03

Mrs. Sargent Tower and Miss Jessie Merrilees, Oak
street residents and employees of the Chase Grand
Street office spent the weekend with the formers in
laws in Boston Mrs. Towers husband is somewhere In
Italy with the Army Air Force