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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-04-07

"A Tree Grows In BROOKLYN"
Keys. also the Hills" Daven-
port, THE Valley of Decision;"
Carlson, under Cover Kane,
"Bayous of louisiana" Scott,
God Is My Co-Pilot."
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-04-07

Not everybody with . dollar
to spare can shoot : gun
straight-but everybody can
shoot straight to the bank and
buy War Bonds. Buy your
1870 every pay day.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-04-07

One of the largest auto manu-
facture in the u. S. has, 75,00O,-
900 square feet of floor space in
war production.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-04-07

w. X. Bosarge, and Martha Earle
and Joseph Homer Wall, chill
dren of Mr.. and Mrs. S. S. Wall.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-04-07
Mr. Wallace u. Quinn
1902 Tizano Street
Coral Cables, Florida
Dear Mr.. ouinn:,

I an extremely sorry that you have been under the weather. and
have had to have al operation. Mr.. Holland has Informed ne
that you r o the road to recovery and I certainly hope
that you Will soon be back at work again.
Ne are asking all of the Aenhaden fish oil producers to
increase their production this year and We certainly want
you back on the job. We hope that you will give us the same
splendid cooperation during the coming 1914 season as you did
during the. 1919. season.
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PLAYER SHORTAGE
HITS CARDINALS

NASHVILLE, Tenn, March 1.
-RETerry Morton Beazley, four
weeks-old son of 1t. John Beaz-
ley, 1912 world series hero has
received contract from the st.
Louis Cardinals, and intends to
accept terms"
Il am enclosing a St. Louis con-
tract for 1862 calling for salary
OF $500 month, which please have
player sign" Sam Breadon, presi-
dent of the Cards, wrote to baby
Beazley's dad. ''Be sure to get
parents consent. I would hate to
see another competitive club get
this player and I am depending
upon you to get his signature. If
you are able to land him, please
send one signed contract to me
for my files and keep a copy your
SELF
1t. Beazley, here from Memphis
where he is stationed, said:
Whats good enough for me is
good enough for Terry Morton.
He's gonna sign with the Cards
now, but I guess he'll have to
write with a safety pin"
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M'SPADEN TRAILS
SOLDIER GOLFER
BY TWO STROKES
By FRITZ LITTLEJOHN

CHARLOTTE, March 18.-R-
Soldier Dutch Harrison, firing two
eagles. one of them hole-in-one,
took a two stroke lead in the rich
Charlotte Open Golf Tournament
today by adding a 70 to his open
ing 66 for a 1856
The slender sergeant from an
Army Air Forces Station at
Greensboro, canned a short putt
for an eagle three on the long
seventh hole and then aced the
145-yard twelfth to bring the huge
galleries romping to pull for him.
He increased his margin over.
second place jug McSpaden of
Philadelphia to two strokes as Nc
Spaden took one under par II
for 1873 at the half way mark of
the $4,000 War Bond Tournament.
Harrison, wearing G.I. pants, a
white tee-shirt and garrison cap,
set at a jaunty angle. made his
big bid at the end of a hectic
day that saw the great Byron Mel
son blasting shot into the tennis
courts; Ed Dudley, president of
the PGA, asking for ground rules
after hitting two spectators on one
hole, and unmanageable galleries
storming over the course to see
the flying Dutchman of the Air
Corps.
Despite the big five on the par
three ninth, Nelson came streak
ing home with a 80 for a 70 and
a hold at thira place at 140.
Harrison, an Arkansas country
boy who started out lefthander,
was not as right today as yester-
day. He bogeyed No. 4, where he
was in the woods, but more than
got the shot back with his eagle
three on No. 7, whe-e he reached
the 520-yard green with two great
shots. He was out in 35.
On No. u McSpaden, playing
just ahead of Harrison, missed a
IA inch putt. Harrison promptly
scored his ace on the same hole.
His tee shot nit just beyond the
iAoAS anu tilS ppm VII lIlG Jail IOllGO
it back into the cup.
He bogeyed the long 14th where
he was in the rough but unreeled
even pars from there in for 35,
again one under par. the greatest
bid yet made by a member of
the armed forces to win a major
open golf tournament.
Sam Byrd of Detroit, the Navy
bound onetime ball player, got
home with an even par Y for 142
Craig Wood of Mamaroneck, N.
Y. the duration National Open
champ, and the veteran Jimmie
Hines, of Amsterdam. N. Y, kept
step with TBS and were deadlocked
at 143. The field was trimmed to
the low 80 pros and the low IL
amateurs for tomorrow's 36-hole
finale.
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|DANF0RTH CALLED
UNFAIR" HURLER
BY JACK HAND

BEAR MOUNTAIN, N. Y,
March is. -P)- Cheating pit
cheers are among the vanishing
Americans but it wasn't always
so.
There's still a hurler here and
there who picks up an occasional
splitter when he needs it in 3
and 2 hole by a quick brush of the
hand across his Sweaty Brown,
but everytime the subject comes
up for discussion the name of Dave
Danforth leads all the rest.
Danforth denied any cheating
on the hill and all his managers
stoutly backed him up. In fact
there's legend that Danforth
told only a very select few his
secret method of tampering with
the ball that made it take it off
and do such fancy dipsy doodles.
George Sisler, now a scout with
the Brooklyn organization, was
talking about Dave the other night
at one of those spring training fan
ming bees in front of the huge fire
place at Bear Mountain Inn. Sis
Ter played with Danforth and man.
aged the club later, but still in
sists that Danforth's method was
strictly legal,
You don't have to be a grey
beard to go back to the 1905
when the late Ban Johnson, presi-
ent of the American League, made
a personal issue Of the new law
that had been inserted into the Of
fetal rule book, outlaWing the
shine, spit, mud and emery ball.
johnson called Danforth to his
hotel room and forced him to tell
the secret Of his pitching success
under threat of a ban from the
game. Danforth told Johnson, Sis
Ter, Lee Foil and others too but
they all insist that his "cheating"
was okay by the rules.
Bruno Bethel, new Montreal pl-
lot who was around at the time,
insists that Danforth squeezed the
ball so hard that he loosened the
cover and then would insert a
dab of dirt under the stitches. And
there are others who have other
theories. They claim it all came
out later and they were right but
Sisler guards his secret.
Wild Matthews is non-believer
along with Bethel. The former
player, now Brooklyn scout, re-
miniscas of a game played in the
American Association in the early
1905 between Columbus and Mil
waukee where the rival managers
were Jack Egan and Clarence
Rowland and the rival hurlers
were Danforth and Jack Northrup.
When Egan walked out to the
plate and saw Danforth warming
up, he repeatedly said to Rowland
do you have any doubts that my
pitcher Northrup is a cheater?'
When Rowland said he didn't,
Egan replied, well, I haven't any
doubts about Danforth, either. So
let's just call off the dogs, forget
the rule book and see what hap
pens"
The game was a strikeout pic
mic with a 10 score and Matthews,
who played for Milwaukee, still
insists that he never saw a base
ball sit up and talk back like it
did that afternoon.
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MADE,
FOR MEMORIALS
WASHINGTON. M.rob i,

WASHINGTON, March 49,,
Living memorials" to tbo
OF this war, in the form n oeaa
munity sports centers, we y, S0A'
posed today by the eovarn.p pr"
sponsored national conmi+ 44,,Ieas
physical fitness. 'e %
Paul V. McNutt, head =. j.
Federal Security administra.ta
of which the physical fitness ''.oa'
mittee is part, appointed ce suaa'
M. Trautman, president NJ
American Association, professos u,
baseball league, head Of l O
mission to suggest method. 'On'
which towns and cities could ~ W
ate such memorials. N c'e'
The American people can =.
no higher tribute to the Ame,ippssly
athlete in uniform than to b,sa
shrlnes to his memory, Tran, ra~a
said in a statement issued sa.
his Columbus, Ohio, office. 4'A
The memorials, it was s,,,,.,
ed, could be in the form Of ssis.
ming pools, stadiums to "nll'
courts, baseball diamonds ''- .as
other sports centers. 'D0
Other members of the rneno,;.,
commission who will serv. n,ia
Trautman are Colonel Theodors s' y
Bank, OF the special service A.
vision, army service forces. rou W.
mander Gene Tunney, of the nb S,''
ical fitness section of the Nsyy law
and former heavyweight boxi9M,
champion; William Lesser, snor,s
editor of the San Francisco Cbror
icle and C. L. Jordan, of the N
W. Aver Advertising Agency,
CONSTRUCTION of such lvir,
sports memorials" said Dr.. Frans
S. Lloyd, executive officer Of ta s
physical fitness committee. with
opportunities for total community
participation in physical fitness,
activities, will tend to revive tbs
ideal of pride in strength and
physical proves demonstrated IN
the lives of our forefathers )"
A sports center of the type con.
templated is now being deveIoped
in the Parker school district q,
Greenville, S. C. with q acres 10
be given over to swimming pool
baseball diamonds and other IA.
cilities, the physical fitness com.
mittee said.
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HALL, C0FFIELD
WILL MEET HERE
Dillon Goes Against Jerry
Meeker In Other Match
Friday Night

Disguised with the manner in
which Jimmy Coffield treated Jer.
ny Meeker in the ITALIAN hall ring
Friday night, DR.. Len Hall yester-
day announced that he will go
against Coffield in the main bout
of Promoter Bert Causey's card
next Friday to teach Jimmy how
to wrestle.''
The match Will be for two out
of three falls, rs minute time limit.
The evenings other engagement
will pit Jack Dillon, the Tennessee
Bad Boy, against Meeker, one Of
the most popular grapplers to ap-
pear here in many month.
Here's what happened Friday
night to get DR.. Halls temper up:
Coffield went out Of his way to
tangle one of Meeker's legs in the
ropes. He then started pounding
the limb with the result that Meek
er was hardly able to go on.
Against the advice of the fans. he
returned, however, and Coffield
applied the final touches to take
the match.
I don't like that kind Of wrestl-
ing" DR.. Hall said, land I intend
to take up for my friend Jerry
and teach Coffield some real les
sons"
In Friday nights other match.
Dillon lost his temper and left the
ring. After a stern warning from
Promoter Causey he returned,
however, only to suffer defeat at
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DAVIS PLANNING
SPRING SPORTS

CAMP DAVIS, March 18.-Rare.
ly had the last basket been Gagged
in Camp Davis tourney play than
the athletic office come forth with
plans for large varied Spring pro-
gram that will embrace almost
every conceivable sport. Baseball,
softball, boxing and volleyball will
have their innings.
The opening gun will be fired
Monday when pitchers and catch
ers report to Coach Maj. Henry
A. Johnson in Farnsworth Hall for
preview of their hurting and re-
ceiving talent. The balance of the
squad will report March q.
Commencing May l, AA boxing
fans will bear witness to the larg-
est wholesale display of fistic art
that Camp Davis has ever spon-
sored. From Fort Fisher and each
nook and corner of Camp Davis
proper, mittmen will exchange
blows in Novice and Open divi-
sions to inaugurate Silver Gloves
scrapping in AA environs. Nina
ture Silver Gloves will be award
ed individual titleholders and tro-
phies will be rendered winning
teams in both divisions. Runners
up are TO receive medals.
Ten weight divisions will be on
ring parade. Three rounds each
Of two-minute durations will gov
ern. In the event of a draw an
extra round will be added.
Entry blanks can be obtained
Immediately at Farnsworth Hall
and training sessions can also be
arranged.
With the Battalion team acting
as basic unit the intracamp soft
ball tourney will ge underway on
or abou April 10 and continue to
mid-August. Depending on the
number of entries there will be
proportionate leagues.
Singles and doubles will mark
the Ping Pong Open competition.
Aiming to repeat last seasons
unblemished swimming season
there were no fatalities-suitable
tests will be given by the athletic
office to those soldiers who'd care
0 qualify for Senior Red Cross
Life-Saving status.
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SAM BAUCH May
QUIT FOOTBALL

WASHINGTON, March 18.-RA
Dudley S. Degroot convinced a
gathering of sports figures here to-
day that the Washington Redskin
professional football team will
have coach with a sense of hui
NOR next season whether or not
they have 'T" formation and
Sammy Baugh.
At luncheon, George Preston
Marshall, owner of the Redskins,
formally announced that Degroot
has signed 5 year contract as
coach, whereupon Degroot kicked
off, right into Marshal's lap.
Describing his new boss as
notorious coach" Degroot said he
felt sure he would have plenty of
assistance" and facetiously cap
ped that with this:
MIR. Marshall has assured me
that whenever he comes to the
bench next season, he will have
a sure fire touchdown play, and
want to go on record right now
that whenevez. We fail to score
while he is on the bench, the re-
sponsibility will be Mr.. MarshalIs
and not mine.'
Last season the Chicago Bears,
who beat the Redskins for the ma
tlonal championship, accused Mar
shall of eavesdropping near their
bench.
Degroot, center on Stanford Uni
versity's 1922 team, is "A years old
father of four children, and has
coached at Stanford, as an assis-
tant to Pop Warner, and as
head man at San Jose State col
lege and Rochester University.
where he spent the last four years.
Degroot said he would like to
use the 'T'' formation" but has
not yet discussed such things
With Marshall and other members
OF the coaching staff, including
Turk Edwards, who returns as line
coach; Dutch Bergman, last years
head coach who will act as scout.
and Clark Shaughnessy, Pittsburg
University, who comes to the Red
SKINS IN an advisory capacity after
eight years with the Chicago
Bears.
Some doubt has arisen as tc
whether Baugh will play again
Ills contract has expired and the
manpower shortage may keep him
On his Texas ranch.
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Racer Marriage Takes
Coral Gables Handicap

MI AMI, Fla, March 18. -(P)-
The eight-year-old gelding Mar
riage was in a running mood to-
day, and five other thoroughbreds
in Tropical Parks $4,000 Coral
Gables Handicap never had a
chance.
Coward and Dupuy's rags-to-ri-
ches nag, winner last month of
the rich New Orleans Handicap,
spurted out of the starting gate
all the way to win by three lengths
in first place and held the lead
over the public favorite, Warren
Wright's Prize mare, Markell.
Mrs. Marie Evans Shot Put was
third, four lengths behind Mar
Kel1.
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Sports ROUNDUP
BY HUGH FULLERTON. JR.

NEW YORK, March 49, R -
After hearing the boos in Madison
Square Garden the other 6 h
when the basketball referees
awarded a couple of free goals,
we wonder what all those court
coaches were thinking about when
they voted for a rule forbidding
players to touch the ball on its
downward arc toward the basket
From a seat as good as any
the noisy second guessers .occu-
pied, we not only couldn't S e
whether towering Don Often of
Bowling Gren had his hand over
the basket but we couldn't see
how the officials could tell, either
. . And that's a tough enough
assignment without making them
decide just when a ball starts the
downward arc. But it was easy
enough to see how the clever St.
Johns ball handlers m d e the
numbering Often look silly while
DEFAULTS George Mikan, almost as
big but a good ball player, was
standout against Muhlenberg.
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day while. Manager Joe Mccarthy
awaited more catching assistance
in the person of the tardy Bob
Collins, an average athlete who
spent last year working for rail-
road.
Marse Joe also ordered a trio
Of young players owned by the
Newark Bears of the international
League to report to the Yankees.
They are First Baseman Jack
Phillips, Pitcher Frank Hitler and
Pitcher Karl Drews.
Phillips, 6 feet 4 inches tall, led
the Piedmont League in home runs
last year with eight while play
ing for Norfolk. Hitler, who won
% games and lost only two while
at Lafayette College, joined the
Bears in mid-season and won 10
games.
LAKEWOOD, N. j., March 1S-
R-Manager Mel OFT of the New
York Giants, spent today giving
personal attention to the Rookie
who may displace him in the polo
grounds right field position.
Bruce Cloan. who left-handed his
way to 1865 batting average in
the southern association last year.
went through an extensive batting
practice under he managers criti-
cal gaze.
PHILADELPHIA. March 18-tR-
Manager Fred Fitzsimmons will
lead about Is of his newly christen-
ed Philadelphia Blue Jays south
(about IS miles, to Wilmington,
Del. tomorrow for the opening of
training camp.
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OPERATION

ATLANTA, March 18-R-Little
Johnny Cook, University of Geor-
gia halfback who led the nation
in forward passing last autumn,
underwent a nasal operation today
to enable him to use an aerial
oxygen mask when he enters the
Navy.
Cook, 17-year-old member of the
naval aviation reserve, suffered a
broken nose in football. Attending
physicians at Atlanta's Ponce De
Leon infirmary said the operation
cleared an obstruction which i'm
peded breathing.
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Recreation Calendar
Thursday-March 23

Thursday-March 23
IL a. m. Meeting of repre-
sentatives of Agency Interests
in Softball and Baseball -
Council Chamber, City Hall.
Friday, March "a
1880 to 1890 p. m. Teen age
Dance-Lake Forest Commu-
nifty Building.
4 to 6 p. m. Children's Par
ty-Peabody School (Negro).
5 to Z p. m. Square Dance
for adults-Taylor Homes Cen
ter (Negro).
8 to 9 p. m. Bingo Party
Hillcrest Center (Negro).
Z to 10 p. m. Teen age par
ty-Williston School (Negro).
Saturday, March rs
to IL p. m. Teen age Dance
Chestnut HEIGHTS School
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BITTER CASINO
FIGHT CONTINUES
CONTINUED from Page One)

(COnCnucQ from rage OncJ
tons and hidden Nazi strong
points.
The strength Of the enemy
forces remaining in Casino was
difficult to gauge. They were
clinging to caves in the side of
the Monte Casino to the west and
southwest as well as to a stable
number of reinforced concrete
emplacements and broken build
ings in the fringe Of the town.
Eight German tanks and two
anti-tank guns were in position on
the heights about $50 yards south
of the town from where they were
able to rain shells on the advanc-
ing troops and engage Allied ar
tillery.
Fluid Fighting
Above the city to the west the
fighting was described as fluid by
Allied headquarters. The enemy
still was clinging to the shattered
Benedictine Abbey on Monte Cas-
sine.
New Zealanders were in the
thick of the fighting in Casino.
In severe skirmishing for the pos
session of commanding heights,
British Ghurkas, knife welding
night fighters from Nepal on the
Tibetan frontier, held firmly to
hills Immediately south and to
the west of Monte Casino but lost
another in the face of severe
counter-attack. Subsequently the
enemy was driven from this slope
and at latest reports neither side
was in possession of it.
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SELECT OYSTERS

Some Wilmington family
owes a debt of gratitude to the
wary sanitary inspectors.
Sanitarians w. C. Haas and
b. C. Slower were enroute
from breakfast to work one
morning last week, when they
saw a Negro boy on a bicycle
lose his balance and topple
from the wheel, carrying with
him to the ditch a wire basket
full of fish and select oysters.
BY the time the inspectors
arrived on the scene, the Negro
youth had "dusted off" the
fish and was preparing to lift
the oysters from their muddy
bed and place them in the con-
tainer.
1t required no time at all
for the INSPECTORS to pour the
dirty bivalves down the sewer.
-V-
Raccoons wash meat before ca
ing it.
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BOWLERS DONATE

WASHINGTON, March 1S-A-
American bowlers today presented
more than half a million sports
equipment kits to the Army and
Navy for distribution to troops
overseas.
Paul V. McNutt, Federal Secur-
ity Administrator, accepted the
check for $4,000, part of the $1o5,-
900 raised by the bowlers, and
said he would forward the money
to appropriate agencies so that
the equipment can be sent over
seas as soon as possible.
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BREAK LINES

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Southwest Pacific, Sunday, March
49, Up American dismounted
cavalarymen fighting in the Ad-
miralties met stubborn opposition
and elaborate Japanese defenses
in and around the town of Loren
gau, but with the aid of tanks
broke through the enemy lines
in some places. Allied headquar-
tiers said today.
Latest reports of the fighting
Friday before this last japanese
strongpoint on Manus island in
the Admiralty group were frag-
mentary, but headquarters
spokesman said the troopers of
the First Cavalry regiment had
encountered elaborate entrench-
ments" and had knocked out some
of them.
Indications that the Americans
and achieved successes against
the enemy in their drive southwark
from Lorengau airdrome, which
they captured Thursday, were
seen in Gen. Douglas Macarthur S
communique statement that they
were now fighting in Lorengau.
Yesterdays communique said
that the cavalrymen had hammer
ed their way through the enc
my's pillbox defenses to within
600 yards of the town.
When the Americans landed on
Manus island Wednesday north
west of Lorengau they separated
into two forces to make two
pronged attack on the airstrip.
whech they captured on the next
day.
The combined forces launched
their final attack on the town Fri
day noon. The town is south of
the Airfield.
The headquarters spokesman
SAID the troopers had run up
against machinegun entrench-
ments as well as pillboxes. Fight
ing was taking place approx
mately mile to a mile and q
nan from the airdrome.
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MOnday-March 20


7 to 8 p. m. Boxing class
at Lake Forest Community
Center-Mr. PUNK Mooring,
Director.
Tuesday-March Fl
Z to 10 p. m. Chestnut
Heights School - New Gym
class for officers wives.
10 to IL noon. Lake Forest
Communicated Cross Band
age Roll (also on Thursday at
same place and time.)
Wednesday-March ~
Z p. m. Rifle Club-Lake For
est School Gym.
8 to II p. m.-Square Dance
Club-Lake Forest Community
Building