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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02
Carver Whips
Ypsi All Stars

The second game OF the seven
game series between the Carver
Center nine and the Ypsi All stars
with Sammy Davis OF Carver and
shelly Roll OF Ypsilanu umpiring
saw tho Carver Center boys victors
SIS.
In the first inning, Johnny Max
opened the way for the All Stars by
driving a double past third base,
bringing IN Bowden and Water
bury for the frs, two runs OF the
game
Caryor's opening run was made
by Perry who came I'm from third
on fly out error by Bowden In
the third inning
The All stars held the Carver
boys three to one until tina NTH
inning in which Perry, Davis and
Seiby, who pinch ,hitted for King,
and was good tor a double, scored
to bring the score A in favor OF
the Carver nine
I'm the first half OF the seventh
inning Perry scored the fifth run
10 clinch the game five To three In
favor OF Carver.
The lineup
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02
Worthwhile Has
Harness Meet

Worthwhile, Mich sept. Fast
ern Michigans first harness meet.
ing under lights got off 10 a color.
tul start Friday night when more
than 1000 fans from the surround.
ing area attended the opener. The
fans saw now improvements includ.
ing lighting OF the track with 120.-
900 watts a new PADDOCK. tho bar
rler system OF starting, pari-mutu-
els betting, and action Of = photo
finish camora.
Racing will take place every night
except Sunday for the entire month
OF September. As various fairs in
Michigan. Ohio and other states
close after Labor Day there will be
more arrivals. so that by the end
OF the coming week II is expected
that there will be more than 200
horses here. There are accommoda-
tons now for 253 horses.
Harvey II. Hartman, Quakers-
Town. Pa, IL the starter. while the
presiding Judge Is George Amslen,
Cleveland. who replaced Wesley
Gibbons, Syracuse.
The first race starts promptly az
$50 each night and The program Is
completed by ll:l5.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02
Sports Roundup

- r.eAsant pacekcked point after touchdown
accomplished the OF Bowl
Michigan here last night II
made the final score 20 20 10.
HARRISBURG Pa-AP-Danny Lwhsr 81 year
uniforms presidential appeal board has
Ieclassited from IA to Ia.
J-APThe license OF Kenneth smith empye OF the
Park revoked by
Charges the commission said
OF the farms trainers
Temple University doubts
Conference.-The connected with IL
proposed plan TO sign high school
coming before the conference in De
cember, just "feeier".
speaking five Chicago
today thief made off with five complete football outfits
locker Amundsen High School where
the practicing
Evanston wedding 1t Billy Hlenbrand
jolted ASr football Dyche
Indiana Univer
at nestled the so line
University
football
MichAP-Michigans first 1914 football workout
slated for this afternoon head Coach H. Ft
Crer limited shift field the big bowl herald
stepping OF the tempo OF drills.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02
Standings

GB-Games behind leader.
Fridays Results
Detroit s, st. Louis 5.
Washington 10, New York :.
Boston 4, Philadelphia 3,
Chicago s, Cleveland 4.
Today's Games
Detroit at ST. Louis. night.
Cleveland at Chicago, night.
Washington at New York.
Philadelphia at Boston.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02
NewhOuser Has
22nd Victory
fRv Aa.oeiAted Pressl


Pitching miseries In ST. Louis
gave the Detroit Tigers and New
York Yankees a chance TO pass
the stumbling Brownies over the
week end as Luke Sewells battle
worn leaders saw their once-robust
lead fade 10 two skinny games.
Only seven ST. Louis pitchers
were able 10 go the route In the last
rs games and the staff showed seri-
Gus signs Of disintegrating. with
Bob Muncrief its only stopper"
still sidelined.
Nelson Potter, 32-year-old veter-
an. who was picked up in the draft
two years ago when his major
league days were supposed 10 have
ended, was able TO halt the last
previous slump In Detroit week
ago. Friday night at Sportsman
Park. Potter was batted off the
hill and solidly spanked for seven
hits In two innings as the Brown
les fell before Detroit, 6-3.
Hal Newhouser draped the
Browns over the ropes with q six
hit Job for his 22nd victory. one
less than teammate Dizzy Trout
who grabbed the series opener in
relief. Even a st. Louis triple play
couldn't halt the Tigers, who surged
past New York into second place.
Although the Bengals and Yanks
were virtually tied for the runner
up spot. Detroit had a percentage
point edge, $40 TO .539, and was
only one game behind the Browns
on the losing side OF the ledger.
Boston kept within easy striking
distance "a games back and could
move TO within a half game OF the
top in today's and tomorrow s
games.
Joe McCarthy's Yanks blew a
chance TO sneak right up behind
the leaders when they bowed to
the last-place Washington Sena-
tors, 1917, after muffing several
chances TO win. Roge Wolf.
cracked an IL game losing streak
at Jim Turner'S expense in a relief
role.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02

SOUFHBRlDGE. Mass. APP - A
new light.controlling google has
aided the Navy in curbing the sub
marine menace. the American Op
teal Company announced today A
pair OF special anti.glare lenses
which can be rotated by hand. re-
cucing or eliminating water and
light reflections, features the new
device. A sufficient range OF rota-
ton Is provided to minimize con.
cesling glare for any position OF
the observer with respect to the
sun and water.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02
Yesterdays Stars

New York behind Art Herring's
four.hit pitching.
Paul Erickson, Cubs-held Gin
cinnati TO two hits in six relief in.
ninss to earn third victory OF year,
80.
Babe Dahlgren, Pirates-clouted
two-run double in Pittsburgh sixth.
inning squirt to top st. Louis, 3-2.
Damon Phillips and Buck Etchi-
son, Braves-Phillips singled home
Butch Nieman TO cop i0-inning op.
ener over Phillies. 80.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02
Tiers Have Chance To Pass Browns
BEWARE OF THE DOG

BOSTON-UP-During a recent
air raid test a Charlestown woman
called officials and asked what she
should do with a paper bomb that
fen in her backyard She was
told TO leave II there for wardens
aud Boy Scouts Horrihed, the
woman replied They couldn't get
IN there There's a big dog who
bite them
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02

Joe Kuhel, Senators-Collected
three hits, drove In two runs and
scored three times IN washington's
1917 victory over New York; also
started Fancy first base to second
TO first double play.
Jim Tabor, Red Sox-Tied game
with 18th homer in seventh inning
and Clipped in with two singles to
help Boston down Philadelphia, 4-3
HOWE Schultz, Dodgers-Drove
in four runs with pair OF doubles in
pacing Brooklyn to 81 slaughter OF
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Fridays Results

Friday's Results
Brooklyn 8, New York /.
Boston 81, Philadelphia "a (frst
game 10 innings).
Chicago 3, Cincinnati 2
Pittsburgh 3, st. Louis 2.
Today's Games
Chicago at Cincinnati.
New York at Brooklyn.
Boston at Philadelphia.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02
WREcKs ca IN sLEEp

LOWELL Mass -UP-"I guess
doIed on" Walter " Barron. a
Lowell war worker. told policemen
who woke him up and pulled him
from his wrecked AUTOMOBILES Tell
mo what happened" They did. He
had On knocked down a telephone
pole ~ wrecked a police box. 80
turned over.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02
MISS GOOD AS A MILE

BOSTON, A miss is as good
as mile. az Pfc. Thomas p Nit
chell OF Roslindale, now with the
18TH Division In Italy, has good
reason 20 testify. In a letter 10 his
parents, Mitchell said that he had
been struck by German shell
fragment. Doctors told him, he
added, that II the fragment had
pierced one ten-thouaandth OF an
inch deeper. he would have lost the
sight OF his left eye
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02
Rural Events
SATURD DAY
Salem

SATURDAY
Salem
Sunshine Club meets al the
home OF Mrs. NJ. BuleiesH
MONDAY
Wills
Homecoming in afternoon Chick
en- supper $50 .. m Caves and
sports.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-27
BIG WARSHIPS
POUND HARB0R

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, June 26.-REFourteen AL
lied warships-headed by Pearl
Harbor victim, the battleship Ne
vada = steamed well inside the
range of Cherbourg's VIGOROUSLY
tough shore defenses Sunday af-
ter noon and blasted her bat
teries into silence.
For three and half hours there
u. S. battleships, four cruisers and
seven destroyers under the COM
mand of rear Admiral Morton L.
Deyo stood off the semi circular
bay and threw steel into the mighty
concrete emplacements protecting
the Guns.
Severe enemy fire rallied to turn
them back and some ships moved
ir as close as 5000 yards to shore
- which is about the equivalent
OF an infantryman sticking his gun
III your face
Field dispatches described the &C.
ton as the heaviest and most con-
centrated naval bombardment OF
the invasion. One correspondent
said the ships closed in around
doomed Cherbourg like dogs un-
leashed."
Concrete defenses rising around
the docks carved from solid rock
were overwhelmed by the almost
continuous stream of shells.
The action called for the closest
CO operation with 1t. Gen. Omar
N. Bradley's army. Workmanship
had to be perfect, with shells ex-
pioding in the dock area or along
thin strips of the coast. to the left
and right.
Anything hitting more than. 1000
yards inland would have endanger-
ed troops waiting in their positions
for the signal to move in and cap
ture Cherbourg.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-27
BRUNSWICK COOP
LOANED 100000

WASHINGTON, June 26 IN
Four North Carolina cooperatives
today were allotted 81, $50, 900 by
the Rural Electrication Admin
stration as initial loans for pur-
chase of rural properties now own
ed by private companies.
They included Pitt and Greene
Electric corporation, Farmville
100000; Brunswick Electric Mem
bership corporation, Shallotte, NC.
100000; Tri County Electric
Membership corporation, Colds
boro, N. c., 100000 Pamlico:
Beaufort Electric Membership cor
roration. Grantsboro, N. C. $4,000.
In addition, the -Southside Refri-
geration cooperative of Crewe, Va,
was loaned $35, 900.
These brought REA loans for the
current fiscal year up to $33, 1884,
1888, compared with $8,225,379 last
year. ".-
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-27
Army Fliers Stranded
On Plateau In Canyon

KINGMAN, Ariz., June 26.-P)-
Three Army flicrs who parachu.ed
from a B-24 bomber last .Wednes-
day are alive and safe-stranded
on Tonic plateau. an isolated for
nation $500 feet below the north
rim of Grand Canyon, searchers
from Kingman air base reported
today.
least two days, the refugees re
ceived food and medical supplies
by parachute from searching planes
and settled down to await two par
tiesaof seasoned rangers and coast
guardsmen working their way a
long the Rocky canyon walls.
Experienced rangers at Grand
CONGREGATIONAL PARK estimated it
would take at least two more days
for the rescuers* to reach the avla-
tors, possibly much longer if they
encountered trouble in eros sing the
turbulent Colorado river which
flows through the canyon at ex'
press train. speed.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-27
Weed Committee Agrees
On Belts Opening Dates

RALEIGH, June 90 Up The
sales committee of the Tobacco
Association of the United States
meeting here this afternoon agreed
upon opening dates for flue cured
tobacco belts to be recommended
to the. association for consideration
at its business meeting here We'd
nesday.
Chairman M. M. Schaum of Will
son said, however, no announce
ment of the recommended dates
would be made until their approx
al by the tobacco association,
which sets opening dates for the
Georgia and Florida belt, the Bor-
de- belt, the Eastern Carolina belt,
the Middle belt, the Old belt, and
the Dark Fired belt of Virginia.
The J associations marketing
committee will meet here tornor.
row to decide on sales regulations
to recommend for use throughout
all belts.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-27
American Bombers
Strike Vienna Area

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
A l. L E D EXPEDITlONAR4
FORCE, June rs. -(P- U. S.. Fly
ing Fortresses and Liberators 5OO
to $50 strong roared from ltalian
bases to the Vienna area TO-DAY
through the heaviest opposition IN
recent weeks, attacking oil renn-
cries, railyards and an AIRCRAFT
plant.
Poor weather meanwhile halted
temporarily the pounding from the
west of German supply and com
munication lines behind the French
front.
The Fortresses and Liberators
and their escorting Mustangs,
Lightnings and Thunderbolts shot
down large numbers OF enemy
planes on the route to the vienna
area, headquarters announced.
They struck refineries at Scnwa.
chit, 10 miles southeast OF Vienna
Winterhafen, five miles southeast,
Loubou, seven miles soutneast'
Floridsdorfer, northeast OF the q.
Il; Kornenberg, seven miles nor.n
and Moosbierhaum % miles norm.
west. A Heinkel assembly plant a
schwacht and rail yards at florla
idorfer also were hit, and gooe
results" were observed at all Tar
gets.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-27
ALLIED TROOPS
NEAR FLORENCE
Americans, French Storm
To Within As Miles
OF Italian City

ROME, June 26. - P) =
American and French troops
have slugged their way with
in less than Is miles of the
inland city of Siena and with
in As miles of Florence after
Yank forces rolling up the
west coast captured the port
of Piombino without a fight,
Allied headquarters announc-
ed today.
German resistance continued
spotty in the coastal sector, des-
pite fresh reinforcements of CO.
ton tiger tanks brought from
France within the past three
weeks. but the Eighth army was
meeting stubborn opposition on
both sides Of Lake Trasimeno
near the center OF the long fight
ting front.
Capture Of Piombino gave the
Allies another valuable forward
supply base on the west coast. The
Nazis were forced to abandon the
port to avoid enlightenment. Ameri-
can infantry and armor charged
on aorthward along the Rome
Pisa highway to within IS road
miles of Leghorn, Italy's third
largest port, whose ha@bor in
stallations have virtually been de-
stroyed by Allied bombing and
German demolitions.
Siena, 81 miles south of Flor
ence, was in the path Of three
Allied columns converging from
the southwest, south and south
east. French troops, fighting
through mountainous Ter a n
about Is miles southeast Of Siena,
were meeting the fiercest oppose
ton in the neighborhood of Roc
ca D'Orcia, which they occupied
yesterday.
American troops stabbing to-
ward Sieaa from the southwest
were reported locked in a hot tank
and infantry fight south of Month
eri and about eight miles northeast
Of Massa Martina, which they had
by-passed. All along the Fifth
army front the Nazis were using
their big tiger tanks as mobile
a rti11erv
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-27
Polio Specialists
Arrive In Hickory

RALEIGH, June 90 Up Two
specialists in the Kenny method Of
treatment for infantile paralysis
arrived in Hickory tonight, ae-
cording to State Representative G.
H. Crabtree OF the National Foun-
dalton for Infantile Paralysis. and
will be in charge Of the Hickory
Emergency hospital. which is, car.
ing for about 40 victims OF infan.
tile paralysis and preparing fos
others if necessary.
DR.. Sue Thompson. from the
county health office of Columbus
county, New York, is assuming
charge of the emergency hospital
and Miss Heddy Rosen, physical
therapist who has followed ipfap-
tile epidemics. in Arizona, Colo.
RADIO. and California, will assist
and instruct the II nurses secur-
ed for the emergency hospital by
the Red Cross.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-27

Appointment of Col. Ellis
E. Haring to the position of
district engineer of the United
States District Engineer Of
flee, Wilmington division, was
announced yesterday.
Colonel Haring, who succeed
ed Lieutenant Colonel N. w.
Haner, former acting district
engineer Of the local division,
has assumed his duties.
A native of Denver, Col,
and a graduate of Pennsyl-
vania Military college,
Colonel Haring entered the
service in August, 1917, in the
Corps of Engineers. Since that
time, he has served at Wash
ington, d. c., Fort Belvier.
Va, Fort Du Point, Del,
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Vitebsk, Zhlobin
Fall To Russians
In Powerful Drive
Jap's Base
-AtMogaung
Tottering


SOUTHEAST ASIA COM
MAND HEADQUARTERS,
Handy, Ceylon, June &C. Up
Mogaung, one Of three main
Japanese bases in north Bur-
ma, appeared totterlng tonight
under the weight of savage
Allied blows from three sides.
Chinese troops swept through
the southern half Of the town
and attacked its northern
strongpoints, while Maj. Gen.
w. ID. A. Lentaigne's Chindit
forces stabbed another 400
yards from the east, a COM
munique from Admiral Lord
Louis Mountbatten's headquar-
tiers said.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-27

Enough votes for first ballot
nomination Wednesday were pledg-
ed to New York's chief executive
when Gov. Earl Warren of Cali
fornia sounded the 1914 Republican
rallying cry in keynote address,
Warren. most prominent figure in
speculation on vice-presidential
choice, declared in his prepared
text that we are here to make
the road on which America can
march toward victory, toward op-
portunity, toward peace
''It is the purpose of this conven-
tion," he said, ''to put the public
welfare above private self-interest:
to put the nation above party; to
put the progress of the whole AM
erican community above special
privilege for any part of it; to
put indispensable principles-once
and for all-above indispensable
men,
There were indications that War
rem was Dewey's preference for the
vice-presidential spot on the 1914
ticket. That would present an east
west line-up-with bid for corn
belt support in the selection Of Gov
ernor Griswold of Nebraska to put
Dewey's name in nomination Wed
nesday.
Sweltering, sweating, shirt-sleev-
ed delegates started off their war
time conclave automatically this
morning and went through rou-
tine Of . organization formallties.
Warren was elected somewhat au-
tomatica1ly to be temporary con-
vention chairman
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-27
Double Funeral Set
For Wreck Victims

CHADBOURN, June 26.-Funeral
services for Horace B. Brown and
his 13-month-old daughter who
were killed in an automobile ac-
cident in Tuscon. Ariz., will be held
at the home of Mrs. Browns par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Boege of
Chadbourn tomorrow at 4 p. M,
with Rev. w. L. 10y in charge,
assisted by Rev. G. Carl Lewis.
Burial will follow in Chadbourn
cemetery.
Surviving are Mrs. Brown, the
former Miss Isabel E. Boege;
Browns father, William Brown of
Homer, Ga, and two brothers
Otha Brown Of the U. S. Army
and Donald Brown Of the U. S.
Navy. !, Gig
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-27
Methodists Consecrate,
Assign Two New Bishops

ATLANTA, June 26 = ZAP - The
Methodist church consecrated two
new bishops tonight as the South
eastern jurisdiction ended its
quadrennial conference with call
for church leadership in world
peace, economic justice and racial
tolerance.
Indicted into office were Bishop
Paul N. CARRIER of Duke Universe
ty, who was assigned to the Gene
va, Switzerland, area of the
church, and Bishop Costen J. Har-
rell of Nashville, Tenn, who was
assigned to the Birmingham, Ala,
area.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-27
Chinese Troops
Holding Ground

CHUNGKING, June rs. -(R-
Chinese troops have held their
ground in bitter fighting around
that vital rail junction and else.
where in Human province, it was
announced tonight.
Little change in position was re.
ported around Hengyang, where
the invader last was placed about
tour miles east and six miles north
east of the city.
The Chinese high command.
gravely concerned by the attack
all along the Canton-Hankow rail.
way palpably aimed at splitting
China in two, confirmed tonight
the fall of Hengshan Saturday
This was the last major barrier
before Hengyang. Loss of Heng.
yang would open the way for a
drive of less than 200 miles. along
the railway into the Maritime pro.
vince of Kwantung and the Canton
area. r. 1888
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Colonel Haring Named
US. District Engineer

Louisville, KY, Fort Logan,
Col, Fort Meade, S. D. Fort
Ware Wy, Sacramento,
Calf, and in Hawaii as assist
ant to the department of Engi-
neers from 1937-1939.
While stationed in the Sacra-
mento engine er district.
Colonel Haring served in the
capacity Of district engineer
during the construction Of the
arch dams on the Yuba and
American rivers from 1899
1941. =
He was transferred to the
Wilmington division from the
Sherenville Engineer Depot.
Sherenville, o., where he held
the position of commanding Of
ficer.
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The United States Railroad
Retirement board, in coopera-
ton with the local office Of
the U. S. Employment Serv-
ice, has organised = group Of
New Hanover high school
youths to aid in the relief Of
the manpower shortage by do
ing light duty track work on
the tracks Of the Atlantic Coast
Line railroad, E. T. Coley, field
representative Of the board,
announced yesterday.
The boys are paid SIC an
hour and are worked eight
hours a day, six days a week.
According to Coley, the group
will not be assigned to any
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dangerous Or heavy work that
is ]. ordinarily assigned to the
regular section gangs. All
work will be done in the vicini-
ty Of Wilmington.
Truman McGill, local man,
has been named monitor for
the youths, and will act as
laison agent between the work.
ers and their foremen.
Similar groups have Deen
organized in Wilson and have
proven to be very SUCCESSFUL
Coley said.
Coley termed the work
highly essential and very
patriotic" and said that any
youth over 16 IL years Of age
interested in helping the war