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Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15
~ ERA OF GREATS

When Horrsby hit safely in 80
stracht games back IN 1872 so
establish mark that was bet
tered for the firS' time IN The
naia, by Joe p,NiaCEIo Of the
American League Yankees Tor the
first time IN 1871 and hettered in
the National o-.y now by Holmes,
Ty COBB and Eaoe Ruth and Tris
S0o ser. among others, were IN
tHN headlines.
Tht is an era long gone. an
era a. if-rv hitting by a lot of
Cr-vS. am ire water has
tr.rk'cd under the hridgework
through al the Years since Horns
by sun is remembered for the
things no could DO 10 "A pitcher
A. Holmes takes over this title.
he uUSt know that he is succeed
inc gent who led the National
If4ayuo In hitting six years in a
row and seven years all told
That HornSby. who one season,
in 1921 set an all time record
ba''ng average mark OF .124
FcW over approached that fig
urc Ty Cobb once hit .420 and
George Slsler matched that fig.
ure. You can name the rest al
tho .4OO-hitterS on the fingers oi
one hand
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15
.Spurns Pros
For State

EAST LANSING. Mich, July IA
Jack BreSlin, Michigan States 5
brilliant triplethreat fullback and
strong candidate last fall for
All-America honorS, has notified
Coach Charlie Bachman of Spurn-
ing all offers TO play professional
football next year.
The 24-year-old Battle Greek
pOwerhouSe said he turned down
several attractive bids in order
to complete his senior year in
school and another season OF col
legiate competition.
Breslin matriCulated at MiChi-
gan State in 1888, bat remained
out of school couple of years to
work. His class graduated in
1943, thus making him eligible
for consideration under profess
sional rules.
With Breslin doing the heavy
work, State compiled a record of
six victories i'm seven starts IN its
return last fall TO intercollegiate
competition. BreSlIn was also a
member Of the East squad that
appeared IN the annual Shrine
game at san Francisco.
) &c Richard {. MaSSuCh,
Lansing tackle last fall. has Just
completed pre-radln training At
Hugh Manley school IN Chicago
and anticipates transfer 10 an
advanced station.
Pvt. Bob Schroeder Flint. quar-
terback. and Pvt. Robin Roberts
outstanding member OF last win
ter'S Spartan basketball team
from Springfield, H.. are occupy
ing the same barracks at Shcp-
pard Field, Texas Both are work
ing Tor Cadet rating IN the AAF
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15

NEW YORK. July Il The Navy
lifted censorship today on cur
rent news about the supposedly
super football machine being put
together on It's assembly line at
Annapolis. Md. cautloning opti-
miSt> first of all about awarding
the MiddIeS tho national cham
plonShip IN advance
That was Tie fatal mistake
made last season when the Md
dies were heraldcd AS the hottest
thing on e gudIIun since the
invention Of pancakes.
Proof that they weren't came
when they lost out in their first
start late i'm september 10 North
Carolina Prgllight n 10 H. That
ended national championship aspi-
rauonS and even though the
NiddicS went ON 10 complete a
fine season, their followers never
got over the shock of that FIRST
defeat
Subsequent losses - Georgia
Tech aDd Army weren't nearly
~, surprising because by that time
thr Illusion that Navy had e
super team had been shattered
This year, IT'S board a. strategy
is gomE ro bo careful 10 see that
no such illusion develops.
we don't want 10 get out
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15
Hawkeyes Appear
As Grid Dark Horse

Dld the usually punchlcsS Uni
vcrSIty OF Iowa football team
scoop the NIdWc~tcrn powers
on Jesse Palmer of Hampton ?
\ l3-lcttcrman during his high
school career. Palmer has an
nounccd he will enroll at Iowa
this fall. With such service dis
charges MS Jack LclSo and Bob
Gu~tatSon. ends. tackle Andy
N0yaSad and backs Jim Harding
and Nelson Smith, the lIaWkcyc>
may hc "a dark horse this autumn.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15
of the Hook
Race Track, Sports Arena
In Downtown Detroit?
SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS

SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS
DEPT: So they're going 10 tear
down a big blightcd area including
most of old Corktown, almost IN
downtown Detroit. and build a
magnificent race track combined
with huge sports arena tor
hockey. fights and conventions.
That, boys and girls, is the lat
est and hottest sports whisper
Just who are they , q. Accord
ing to informant X33. the man
who is planning this is the head of
big law firm and former political
power.
''He is looking for an invest
ment for an estate that runs
into miIlions-that'S what IL
would take to put over that sort
of deal.
Just TO make the story hang to-
gether a little better. informant
X33 says that il is this iaWyer's
interest in the future OF racing
here that is responsible for the
supreme court test of Michigan 5
racing law DocSn want 20 risk
that money until he knows racing
is really legal here.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15
Navy Notes Hurdles
On Football Courses

said Comdr. Oscar r. lSwede)
Iiagbcrg.
He said that the principal OBJ
StacleS to a successful season were
the heavy turnover IN personnel
the installation of the fast break
ing ''T'' formation To replace the
single wing, and the probable
increase in the strength of most
opponents-partiCularly Army.
"TH conccde," ne SAID, smiling,
that our personnel will COM
pare tavorably with any team
ON the schedule except Army.
But We have lost some great
players. we have another tough
schedule coming up and all in
all we are not ~ well equipped
a. We were in 1911
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15
American Legion
StNDNY'S GANtS

WEST SIDE-hlgcr W. ~uu Palmer Prr.
r. seuRad SIS. Faus. Atkinson. s.. Crr-
'u.y So, Police S.r.Nar. PORN e.. o. LEANED
S.. Raeetalc Para S....arE,e.u SO 4 VIM
..Ht ts HUuey Ga. buIrtli, wallace FED
Heaard Park
EAST SIDE-Harpsr van DYKE vv Beauf-y
JAIME so g. P0.selIs ta. EllkN Belle is.r
Su. g. RrCsH.Varker vs. Edwards Belle Ls'
80 % PtlA1s 49, Young Jayne NJ.
BuyhVay vs. Crosse p1iute. Belle Isle No. ).
All Famea a. ] p M
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15
Holmes May
Join Greatest
Beating Hornsby
Puts Him There
By LNNTON CARVER
trt,r1att,-sl Nrss Ner,tte srorts tditor

NEW YORK. july u Tommy
Holwc, new modern National
Ir7r7l, record for hitting IN con-
.sccutivc games brings back memo
I.cS-
The gent who held the previous
record was one of the greatest
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15
ENTRY BLANK
Metropolitan Detroit SoftbalI Tournament
t>ponsored by The Detroit Tines


Iean Name
Manager Na.e
Managers A1dfe
Location Of Team Phone
MARX East West. North. DownuveD
Dl'lon Igleed 60
Make pa Detroit Sonha Association Major SiO
Mail entry blank with entry to Dept % Reereauon
19i2 Grand River
have before midnight July j.
Al nucn. INT, Aus 4.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15
FIiers Book 10 Games

The jacksonville Naval Air Sta
ton FhcrS have scheduled 10
football games. Only one IS with
"A college team Presbyterian.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15
NATURE DEPT: Cy VIM

manager OF one of tho hE breea~
sng farms near Lexington. Ky.
says so many OF the picturesque
rail fences m the area are getting
50 rotten that breeders arc string
ng electric Wires along the top 10
shock the livestock INTO staying
pat they had begun 10 break
-ftef4-t+rrurTEth ttIp fences
White says however. that II You
shut of ti1r-c,irTCut atfffftafS
arc wise WITHIN two hours.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15

L-LTES IN inc
history of base
ball
This Is no at
tempt 10 make
= c OEn parlSon
b q I v O @ n
I'm CS and
Rogers Horns
by bat n is
rather Just a
chance TO write
again about n
ball player who
had everything.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15
GRIMM KNEW

Signing the kid with the dark
hair and the laughing personality,
the Cubs farmcd him out to
Peoria in the old Central League.
He played first, third and the
outGeld and swatted .3l6. He
Jumped to Reading and mt
.30S while playing first base.
In the annual rites of drawing
their top minor league prospects
up for that final month of the
season, the Cubs sent out a call
for the 17-year-old Chicagoan.
He performed SO we'll. both aheld
and al bat, that Grimm didn't
even bother TO take steam baths
that winter. He knew that he was
done as the first haSeman and
west side kid would be taking
over
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15
PGA Tourney
Amateur Day
SandIo+ Stars to Rule
at Briggs Stadium

Unreeling Of Detroit Amateur
Baseball Federation prowess as
displayed by four league leading
teams and two groups OF all-stars
is the entertainment feature this
Sunday at Briggs Stadium.
Glass + all-starS, west side and
east side, play at 9:15 a. m. Class
ID selections are scheduled at noon.
Grandstand seats are 60 cents.
The annual Amateur Day is
frankly a means OF raising money
to carry on the federatlOn'S pro
gram on the one hand and 10 eX-
hibit in appropriate surroundings
a brand of ball that each season
attracts major league scouts.
Since 1915 more than 200 players
have entered the professional
ranks.
SHARE LEAD
Auto Club and Parisclcan, tied
for first in Class \ at eight VIC
tories and one defeat each provide
the final game at 4 p. m. Oak
wood BluejacketS and Johns sup
ply the B attraction AT ,. As IN
the higher class these teams share
the lead, each losing once.
Paris stopped Auto Club in the
opening game of the Federation
season, TO, Jack Talbot losing
when his support failed. Federal
Mogul stuck Oakwood, 8-5 after
Johns had taken Federal, so.
THE LINEUPS
Auto Club offers the following
lineup: Felix LlSowSkI If; Donald
Cantwell. s.; George Stepulla, G.;
John Plonka or Ray Hoffman, 2b,
William Lang, Ct; Jerry Ncuman.
3b; William EbraHyI, 10, Talbot
or Bliss Bowman. p.
Paris, managed by Arthur
Schwartz, presents Joe BukovlCh.
If; Bob PrendcrgaSt. IS; Frank
Collins, eff; Victor Austin 3b, Wal
ter Hajdyia. 3b. James Stevenson,
lb: Joe Gavic, If; Max Cierpilow-
ski or Howard Milligan. c; Tony
BukoviCh or Frank Ayers, p.
Leno Farino of OakWood has
Otto Cemante, 10. Dick Cunning
ham, 1b; Emil Carhnl, 3t1 I'd
Skimo. IF; Alex Flrino. G.; GcOf-
frey MesSlsco, CT. Valerie DcLuca.
IS; Philip Donau. If. Arnold Sol
llnger or Joe Wykrcnt, p.
Joe Cameron OF Johns uses
Mike Hitch, l6, s. Walter EGptkls,
c. Victor Berlcr7. 80, WT'tIdm
Lakes, p; John MacSay II. James
Moore, lb, Steve MontroN-2h;
Tom Martin #, Harry Page CT
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15
ARMY VETOES RED WING

FARM - Although most other
American Hockey Association
clubs, including Tulsa, Will be
back in action this winter, the De
trolt hockey club has found IL nm
possible 10 revive its farm club IN
Omaha The l.. ). Army is still
using the AkSarkeR sports arena
and rink for storage Ptitt,1~r-S
But the way the player stu
alton stacks up now, wen prob
ably be lucky to get enough
players for the Red Wings and
indianapolis Capitols," say, Jack
Adams.
OYER THE HILL DEPT. :
When Tom Meany, sports writer
of New York PM, visited the De-
trolt race track pres, box recently,
the turf writers pointed out The
magnificent view OF the Grand
Trunk tracks Just across the back
stretch. 1t enables the newspaper
men to Judge Michigan pros
perlty by counting the cars as tho
trains pass, thus getting the check
on whether carloadlngs are up.
The Grand Trunk track, have
also served a purpose In racing.
OF course You perhaps recall the
story of the race betneea Alfred
NanderbiltS Discovery and Fred
VI. Ayers AzuCar after the latter
had won the Santa Anita llandI.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15

cap Azucar didn't like the
track that day Just pinned his
ears back and Sulkcd as DiScov-
cry led him INTO the back Stretgl =
by at least a sixteenth of a mi
Mike Hawkins, on the public"
address system, gauger the differ
cnce between the two horses by
freight train that was standing
parallel 10 the track.
IL dies and gentlemen"
doomed Mike on the loud
speaker discovery is now lead
ing by - bON cars. s.,"'-.---------.---
Mcany SAID the Belmont Park
press box provides as even more
inspiring view to the writer's and
fans JuSt the other Sidr of
the fence on the back stretch is
AN enOrIrOuS stone building the
largest insane asylum in New
York State The boys clam
there IS special wing for morse
players who follow progressive
systems says Meany.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15
1O-Yedr Vet
Is Only 28

NEW YORK. July II (UP)-
Back in the days of the New
Deal and Tom Thumb golf teen
aged player breaking into even a
high-grade minor league was a
novelty and 2S-year-old Phil
Cavarreita OF the Chicago Cubs
now is playing his tenth season.
Kids playing major league
baseball before they're old enough
TO vote has been commonplace
since the war began but back
in the middle thirtieS il wasn't
so. Therefore, a l7-vear-old first
baseman coming up 10 the Cub
team at the fat end OF the 1884
season was spectacular.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15
down TmE STRETCHDrPT.: /:

DOWN THE STRETCH DEPT:
There's teacher i'm the Detroit
public schools who would have the
most popular elias, in school hlS-
tory II ne Iaught hobby instead of
dry academic subjects ... Hes a
student OF horse racing with
system ne applies So-wett that
three times last season he bet
every winner ON the card
that's the horse players dream ...
and a plungcr would take home
the CrandStand with these breaks
-. hut The pcdaCoEuc ISN'T greedy
..,. hc took a profit OF $1,000
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15
HE ARRIVES

But there he was. fielding like
wizard, moving far for wicked
hops and finishing up that last
month with a husky .3S1 batting
average. CavaTrctta had arrived
and he's been arriving with the
Cubs annually for the 10 seasons
since then
Lane Technical High School, an
all-male school with an enroll
ment Of 10000. produced CAVIAR
retta back in the spring of 1884.
He played first base and wound
up with tho fattcst batting mark
in the Chicago high school dia-
mond network. That was enough
for the Cubs. Charley Grimm was
slowing down and they needed
replacement.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15
MAYBE WE'RE Just MEAN

VI II BE WEKE JINI MIN
DEPT.; With all of the people m
the U ). who would give any
thing 10 20 30 Europe and see #
Their folks are ukTy- IT WAS pTCttv
nlcc that Sonia Hclnic could put
on CSO uniform and 90 back 10
visit the folks I'M Norway. wash t
it, Did her troupe IuSt happen 10
bc booked INTO O,lO2
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03
CALENDAR
THURSDAY

hOhSDA1
Night school, 7-9, high school.
CAP & CAPC. 1880, high school.
Boy Scout troop "A, 1880. Holt
vile Methodist church.
Gypsum workers, 1880, Labor tenn
pie.
Red Cross Motor Corps. s. I20
North Fifth st.
Building trades, s, Labor temple
B.P.O.E., 8, Elks Club. I'll
Calipatria inland Community
Center, 8, HOober hall, Calipa-
tria.
FRIDAY
County Federation of Women's
Clubs. 10, Brawley Women's
Clubhouse.
County Home Department Com
mittee, 10, Court House.
Kiwanis Club, IL, Barbara Worth
Hotel. -ae
Pro-iimerican, 1880, California
Hotel.
Harding PIT. A., 2, school.
Council of Church Women, $3.50,
Baptist Church. -.4-.
Painters. 1880, Labor Temple.
Spruce -Westmoreland Commun-
ity Center, s. Westmorland
School.
Beta Sigma Iii Officers Dance,
$3.50, Blue Room, Barbara Worth
Hotel. 'a.s
Rural Recreation Dance, $3.50,
Veterans Hall, Ell Centre. 81
Dance, 8, Legion Hall, Holtville.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03
Acacia Home
Group Makes
Dress Forms

Plans for the heart party. which
will be held May % at the home of
Mrs. L. o. Willabee, were made at
the meeting Wednesday by members
OF Acacia home department at the
home of Mrs. Jessie LittrelIntC sA
A potluck luncheon was served
by Mrs. Littrell and Mrs. Lois Lyons,
co-hoStess. Dress forms were made
by the group during the morning.
A nominating committee of Vera
Kemp, Lois Lyons and Helen Moore
was appointed to report at the next
meeting, May 16 at the home of
Mrs. Gertie Sweden.
Those present were Mesdames
Xlythia Sutherland, Carolyn Nc
Connell, Grace T.o;ton, Bessie Lit
trell, Thelma Tidd, w. Kelso, Mil
dred Richardson, Teresa Machado.
Gertie Sweden, Helen Moore, Dor
othy Cowan, Ruby Ray, r. Peters
and the two hostesses. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03
Dorcas Circle
Holds Final
Meeting Of Year

Last meeting of the year of the
Dorcas Circle of the First Baptist
church was held Tuesday night at
the home of Mrs. M A. Wilson.
A potluck supper was served. The
Wilson home was decorated with
spring flowers for the occasion. New
circles will be formed at the meet
ing May Is of the Women's Union.
Those present were Mesdames c.
H. Burrill, Leroy Taylor, H r. John
ston, Jay Steele, Max Stroh, Her.
shell Jones, L. A. Dunlap, Joe Hitch,
(. l.. Bennett, j. H. Pritchard. M.
McQuistion and the hostess, Mrs.
Wilson. Mr.. Wilson and Rev. Burrill
joined the group for dinner.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03

was the auditorium. Mrs. M. A. Will
son and Mrs. Charles H. Burrill had
arranged Maypole on the table
formed with candles and flowers in
the center with streamers running
to small candles set in circle.
Mrs. Ashley Hudspeth was chair
man of the refreshment committee
assisted by MeSdames Earl Parker
Ralph Sibley, Alvin Hawkins. Rob-
ert Wood and Harold Coffey Mrs
E. l.. Bennett, Mrs. Lawrence Harris
and E. M. Watson arranged the
program.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03
Churches
Schools
William Ellison
Engaged to
WaIIa WaIa Girl

Announcement has been made IN
Walla Walla, Washington, of the
engagement of Miss Mary Frances
Brailsford to Corporal William Eli
son, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert T.
Ellison of Holtville. Miss Brails-
ford is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Brailsford of Walla
Walla, who revealed the betrothal.
Cpl. Ellison is home on furlougE
and expects to return to the Army
Air Field at Walla Walla, where
he is stationed, the end Of the
week. He attended Holtville High
School, where he was prominent in
athletics, and was employed at the
FL Centre radio station before 60
ing into the army a year ago.
Miss Brailsford attended high
school in Boston and is registered
nurse, a graduate CT the New Eng
land Baptist Hospital in Boston.
She is doing nursing work in the
Walla Walla Hospital.
No date has been set for the we'd
ding.
Only ii state universities in the
nation have more than a half
fpnil1inr, ho0Iye ~,
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03
PICTURE PRESENTED

FIXTURE PRESENTED
His talk was followed by solo,
The Lord is My Light" tAllitson
sung by Eleanor Cook Feetham. Two
pictures were presented to tha
church. One, given by Mrs. Hugh
Heating in memory of her late
mother, Mrs. William Temple, was
Salmans' Head of Christ. Both
were presented by Mrs. Ashley Huds-
peth, the other being THE Good
Shepherd, given by Mrs. Loretta
Gehrig.
Following the presentation of the
pictures was the note-burning cere-
mony. Touching lighted tapers to
the note were Dr. Ralph Jensen, J..
w. Cope, j. H. Prichard, Mrs H.
Jones, Miss Opal Creed, Robert
Sparks. Luther Sharp, and Mrs. Max
Stroh.
Speaker for the evening was DR..
Ralph Jensen, executive secretary
of the Southern California Baptist
State Convention, who told of his
experiences in connection with the
El Centre church, both in business
and spiritual relationships.
REFRESHMENTS SERVED
Rev. G. S. Barons of the Holtville
Baptist church, closed the meeting.
Following the program, refresh
ments were served in the social
hall, which was decorated with bas-
kets of larkspur and snapdragons, as
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03

Only IL state universities in the
nation have more than a half
million books in their libraries.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03
Toastmis+resses
Plan Election

A business meeting was held
Tuesday night in the California by
the ToastmiStress Club with Ella
Rood presiding. Reports were
made by various committee chair
men and plans made for the elec-
tiCn May Is.
Mrs. Glenne Bowers was the
only guest present.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03
Sorority States
Officers Dance

May Day will be the theme of
the dance to be given at $50 D. m.
Friday in the Blue Room of the
Barbara Worth Hotel by Beta Sig
ma Phi sorority. The dance is an
other in the series for officers of
the marine and naval stations and
of army pests.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03
MENU ITEM, ls45

SEATTLE. May 3. Things
are-tough-all-over department: A
recent luncheon menu at Swanky
Seattle hotel offered pork and beans,
lard and brown bread-70 cents.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03

program WIFI prayer, iOlloWSo Oy
the singing of THE Lords Prayer"
by Corpora: James Rowe. Greetings
were given the audience by Earl
Cavanah, moderator of the Imperial
Valley Baptist Association and by
Rev. Dwight Ball. of the Presbyter-
ian church, representing the Ell
Centre Ministerial Association.
Miss Carol Martin played violin
solo, "Salut d'Amor" (ElgaD and
Mozart's anthem Gloria in ExcelSio
Dec" was sung by the choir.
Rev. M Low, an active member of
the church since 1913, gave an in
teresting talk on the history of the
local church and its progress, tell
ing also of the fire which destroyed
the building in the twenties.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03
ess.,s.' sssss. OF Interest to Women
Marjorie Hoyey Kinder
Society
Clubs
HOLTVILLE DANCE
SET FOR FRIDAY

The dance sponsored by the Holt
vile recreation department win be
held this Friday from 9 to II D. m,
instead of Saturday as previously
announced.
Music will be provided by a pop
ular orchestra.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03
FOR IRRITATION OF
MINOR SKIN RASHES

get this medicated powder. Contains in
gradients often used by specialists for
discomfort of simple rashes, diaper rash
and chahng. Mexsana soothes and forms
coat of protection on tender skin. Costs
little. Always be sure to get Mexsana.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03
DECREE GRANTED

An interlocutory divorce decree
was granted in FL Centric Wednes-
day to Gwen Gale Wong in the suit
against Soma L. Wong.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03
PEG. Chapter
States Mee+inq

Chapter CIV, PEG. will meet
at 1890 Saturday at the home of
Mrs. j. E. Brock, TIA Sandalwood,
with Mrs. S. B. Fculds as co-host-
eSs.
Mrs. d. B. Roberts, war service
chairman. has asked all members
to bring finished Red Cross gar
ments to the meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03
Baptists Burn Mortgage Note
At CandleIiqht Ceremony

In candeght at the First Baptist church "Wednesday
Charles oeburnng hghght of the
speakers clearing
Rev George thinner of the Caeico Baptist church opened
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-03

Chicago has seven great railroad
stations-more than any city in the
world.
Evening star., 1945-05-02
Won Rundstedt
Captured, Calls
For End Of War
Former Commander
On West Front Says
Fiqht Is 'SenseIess'
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WITH UNITED STATES 7th
ARMY, May 2.-Field Marshal
Karl Rudolf Gerd Won Rundstedt,
until last March the German
commander on the western
front, now is prisoner of the
Allies. He declared today that
it was SenseleSs for Germany to
fight any longer.
The man who could not keep the
Allies off the beaches of Normandy
was captured earlier today at Bad
Tcelz, rs miles south of Munich.
He made his statement at an Amer
lean command post.
The 69-year-old Won Rundstedt,
perhaps the ablest strategist in the
German Army, was seized by 36th
Infantry Division troops. His where
abouts had been a matter of con-
lecture ever since he was succeeded
by Field Marshal Albert Kesselring
as the western front commander.
Won Rundstedt, who planned the
victories in the 1910 campaign in
France, also was the architect of
the Ardennes offensive last Decem-
ber which carried to within miles
Of the Meuse and menaced Liege
and Antwerp in the last serious
German attempt to stave off defeat
in the west.
Official Announcement.
The official announcement of the
Won Rundstedt capture said:
Field Marshal Gerd Won Rund-
stedt was captured by the 141st
Regiment of the 36th Division Of
the 7th Army, commanded by Col
Charles Owens. With Won Rund-