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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-22
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ELMER DOBBEROWSKY

ELMEh DObbEnOW Shx -
.597 (22D. Big IL League.
GEORGE SCHROEDER-567
(213). Defense League.
ED MILLER, SR.-557 GID
K. of c. League.
CHARLOTTE BAKER AIT
Ladies Edison League.
MART RACHOW-584 (219)
NIL b. League.
LAURA RAY - 40. Women's
Novice League.
DAVE MEDDAUGH - 534
GID. Bath City League.
HAROLD KOTH-526. Kings
and Queens League.
SOPHIE JANKOWSKI - SOP.
Ladies We'd. Night League.
GEORGE ALWARDT - 500
(2001224). Minor League.
LAURA RAY - 451. Ladies
Civilian Defense League.
v. KRAUSE - 456 (2l8). La
dies Afternoon League.
j. DANIES-575 (202). Mems
Edison League.
GEO. MCCAIN - SAP (204)
Texaco League.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-22
Sports Roundup
Bv HUGH FULLERTON. JR.

NEW YORK. March Y - tAP) - The American Iroin-
Association hos offered three recent suggestions tor the
Improvement OF horse racing and not LET stort
oooin" The horsen,en propose more rigid qualifications
for obtaining license train horses move to encourage
soes in DEVELOPING ocyes and better fire prevention around
the stobes Maybe the first OF these three VIII oecon-
dish the purpose but this might add that the trones
would do we'll make they didn't sto any horses hot
weren't fit or didn't have chance to win and thus keep
the public from burning up.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-22

During the eory port Of the Charlotte. NJ G, open golf
Tournament jug McSpaden giving Sammy Sneod some
real competition because OF his hot putting jug required
only eleven puts the first holes Of the second round
On the tenth he left himself Scooter and os he lined
IN the ptt oolere entreoted Sink this just for
once" Surprising IT may seem, McSpoden didn't go
OTTER him with the club
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-22

There NAV be more than SO basketball coaches at the
nua meeting this week end but thanks to the two ouno
,ents they don't have worry about the convention bon
About dozen would be here with their teams. anyway
Raph Pest WeIch Washington grid cooch is editing new
sports MAGAZINE that will hit the stands next month";
The abolition organized sports for the duration will be de-
bated on the Town Meeting radio program tonight ex
sposwters Soney Frank and John R. Tuns soy yes lor
MocPhoI ond Ted Husino vote no Soccer introduced
to DanvIe w. by group Of visiting British seomen has
caught on SO we'll that ten-teom city league has been
oonized.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-22
Service Dept.

Service Dept
Eddie Hickey, Otunwa lo. Naval Air Stotion coach.
offers high prose for Jack Kro who played for him until he
to Pensacola Fla for flight training Bill Ferguson.
his old coach St Joseph of Philadelphia would have been
proud Of the he continued to and otter year and
half with the fleet. Hickey says Sgt Jack Cherry.
of Brooklyn recently both the singles and doubles titles
in the Inter-Aied Table Tennis Tournament in lron He's
Brookyne who doesn't have to wait till next year.
More than IS candidates for the Jacksonville Naval Air So
ton baseball team reported to Cooch Charley 0ehneer for
the first Days drill No wonder that Charley applied for
pIoce in the sem.pr "XietorY' leoque.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-22
Dodger Dialogue

Brief conversation reported from The Brooklyn at
Beer Mountain. French Bordoearoy meeting Curt Oovis
you have few eroy hairs than lost yeor Oovs
YES got them wochine you trying to play third bose
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-30
The Beagle and
The Eagle

A beagle chased an eagle
Til the eagle couldn't swoop
SO the eagle chased the beagle
Til the hound began to droop.
Said the beagle to the eagle:
IF YOU quit, so will l."
Said the eagle to the beagle:
TOO much fun, but l will try"
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-30
The AnL

ANTS in his pants" we often say
OF a man who's always jumpy;
But / know an ant with men in
his pants
Who says: Its o. K. but it's
lumpy."
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-30
10 thread q needle.
80 elean piano keys.

H-Io cIeun PIdno Keys
(a) Place piano in boiling water, Keys
will float to surface. Remove balance
Of piano and allow keys TO boil for one
hour alone. Result will be clean keys
and hot music.
(b) Repeat If you think it'll do you any
good.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-01
Dealers Fined for Falling
To Report Purchases

Henry M. Reynolds, operator OF
the Capital Sewing Machine Co.,
GIT r street NV, was fined $500 by
Municipal Court Judge Almond
Scott yesterday on charges Of failing
to report the purchase OF eight Gee
|ond-hand sewing machines.
In another case, Charles Rubin,
secondhand dealer Of 1880 Seventh
street NV, was fined $50 by Judge
John p. Mcmahon for failing to re-
port the purchase Of secondhand
trumpet.
According to Precinct Detective
James F. Sartin, District pawn in
spector, who brought the charges
against both men, the trumpet had
been reported stolen from Dunbar
High School.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-01
Morconi Widow Denies
Death Roy Story
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROME, Mar. 1.-Countess Maria
Cristina Marconi. widow OF Gugli-
elmo Marconi, tQiay denied sug-
gestion In the Rome newspaper
Liberia Stampa that the inventor
who died in 1887 killed himself to
avoid turning over the secret Of q
death ray" to Mussolini.
Nothing concrete ever led me to
believe In the existence Of the IA
nous death ray" the widow said
commenting on the newspaper
article Tuesday.
She added that Marconi had
suffered from heart disease for some
time before his death.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-01
PUG Approves Loop
For Cor Turn-Around

The Public Utilities Commission
yesterday Joined the zoning Com
mission in giving the Capital Transit
Co. permission to construct turn
around track loop at the end of the
Seat Pleasant branch of the Ross
lyn-Benning streetcar line.
Estimated to cost $50, 900. exclusive
of land, the loop will permit the
use of streamline cars on the line
when they become available. The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-01
IS Narrowly Escape
Death as Pullman
Plunges Into Creek

<~eeSSaoeNN
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, Mar.
Fifteen sleeping passengers
in a roomette Pullman of the
Pennsylvania Railroads east
bound Spirit of st. Louis flyer
narrowly escaped death today
when the car plunged about IS
feet from trestle into a shallow
creek.
Seven persons were hurt, one Sc
rioulsly. Witnesses said there mi i.
raculously were no fatalities.
The derailed car was the ninth
In a train of II Pullmans, a club
and dining car. AS 1t broke and
toppled over from the trestle, two
others were jolted and almost fell
over from the bridge, but the others
remained upright,
Water Waist Deep.
Several of the passengers in the
compartment car fought their way
out the front end to find themselves
in waist-deep water. The creek was
higher than normal because Of
heavy rains.
Most occupants, however, were
able to make their way to safety
from the partly submerged car with
out wading through the cold creek
waters. They were taken into
other Pullmans and given blankets
and coffee.
Some of them lost their clothes,
luggage and money. One Philadel-
phian saved only his pajamas and a
shirt.
100 Aboard Train.
Railroad representatives said there
were 100 passengers on the train,
travelling from st. Louis to New
York. They were transferred to
other through trains which moved
along not far behind schedule.
The wreck occurred at 1886 am.
The only passenger seriously hurt
was reported to be Theodore Ser
cision of Columbus. He was treated
at the Ohio Valley Hospital here.
Other passengers treated at the
hospital were Catherine Dial, Sc
dana, Mo, knee and arm injuries;
Jennie Miller, Columbus, leg injury;
Howard Rugg, Newark, Ohio, arm
injury; Michael Shesky, Columbus,
possible rib fracture; Mary Lou
Clements. Long Island, N. Y.
The seventh passenger listed as
injured, identified as the Rev. James
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-01

Henry Fisher of Lancaster, Pa,
went to Pittsburgh on another train
and was treated at Allegheny Cen
eral Hospital for head decorations.
His condition was described as good.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-01
rs District Men Report
For Induction Today

Twenty-six District men are
scheduled to report for induction
into the armed forces today. They
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-01

loop will be located in the vicinity of
Sixty-second and Dix streets NE.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16
Correspondence School Ads Promise
Enorvthinq But An AH-American Team

television and electronics; and In
raising rabbits while mushrooms
grow in your cellars.
You can take so many CORE
spondence, courses that Congress
will have to add hours to the "A
now allotted to your postwar days.
How could your body hold up
during the long hours of ridicu-
lously easy home study? Easy.
Take a bodybuilding course. With
IS minutes day you can have a
body like Samson used to have
(never mind what happened to
Samson), a body that will enable
you to win any girl on any beach
Wrightsville and Carolina Beaches
included. And Coney Island.
There's everything to study that
will make you "$10-15 a day. in
your spare time, or make you the
life of the party, the prize catch
of the season-and no double talk
intended.
One forward looking adwriter
urges the reader to send for his
Joke books: "You will be both a
Riot and the Life of the Party, -
probably foreseeing the day when
riots will be legalized.
Others urge you to Draft your
own postwar world by taking a
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16

You don't see "They all laughed
when l sat down at the piano IN
the correspondence school aoVSi-
tisements any more.
That's old stuff these days. USED
only by radio comedians, but tne
million and one correspondents
schools and educate-yourselt-m'
your spare time into plles
of-noney boys today have eaten
lines equally compelling.
Their media is the national II
less-popular magazines, and ev'
ervthing from the too-too, ultra
nrep schools and academies &c
''You too can talk with Cod course
of instructions are using the me
dia, making promises like an elec'
pioneering politician.
Everything, from "How to Har
NESS the Heavens" to "You Car
Be a Foot and Toe Specialist
YOU can learn by mail, in six easy
lessons, earning as you're learn
ing, in your spare time, Is min
utes a day-or while you're waiting
for the coffee to boil in the morn
ing.
And evidently the boys are sell
ing education by mail in big bt.nks
the postal system is showing big
net profits, Wilmington not except
ed.
Who knows, your next door neigh
Dor right here in town MAJ be
guy who's commanding the un
seen worlds at his command" tn
Einstein of electronics, a sclntiliat
ing psychiatrist-or the man VIII
can fix your defunct lamp cord.
At least, he can learn how t
do all those things. 1t says so j
the advertisements. SO.
In fact, if anyone is having trou
BILE planning his postwar time
he need look no further than tn
correspondence school and .'Ho1
to Make Millions of Dollars ads
The ad-writers are thinking abou
your postwar days too. They urg
you to train now for post war,
in air-conditioning and refrigera
ton; and plastics; in cartooni 4!
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16
Christian Scientists
Study God" On Sunday

"God' was the subject Of The
Lesson-Sermon in all Christian
Science Churches and Societies on
Sunday, July IS.
The Golden Text was from Psalms
103: 10. '"The Lord hath prepared
his throne in the heavens; and his
kingdom ruleth over ALL"
Among the citations which COM
prised the Lesson-Sermon were the
following from the Bible: "Afte,
these things I heard great voice
of much people in heaven, saying,
Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and
honour, and power, unto the Lord
our God: And a voice came out of
the throne, saying, Praise our God.
all We his servants, and We that
fear him, both small and great
And / heard as it were the voice of
a great multitude, and as the voice
of many waters, and as the voice
of mighty thunderings, saying, Al
leluia; for the Lord God onnnipo.
tent reigneth'' Revelation 10:
IS, g..
The Lesson-Sermon also included
the following passages from the
Christian Science textbook, Sci
ence and Health with Key to the
Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy:
"The power of God brings deliver
ance to the captive. No power can
Withstand divine Love. If God de-
stroys not sin, sickness, and death.
they are not destroyed in the mind
OF mortals, but seem to this So
called mind to be immortal. What
God cannot do, man need not at
tempt for no lesser power
equals the infinite All-power; but
God, Truth, Life, Love, does heal
the sick through the prayer of the
righteous psalms 224, 23D.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16
Rv KENNETH L. DIXON

OCCUPIED GERMANY, July ID.
-(P)-The boys who haven't the
points are beginning to American
lie whatever sections of Germany
they happen to be occupying.
Night clubs, bars, b hing
beaches, stadiums, baseball fields,
tennis courts and the like have
cropped up all around. Do not
Jump to the conclusion that such
little touches of home already are
available to everyone, but you
assume that it is rapidly getting
that way.
You find such places as High
Life Tavern" and the "Stagger
In, where beer sometimes sells at
three marks go cents for a tall
glass and two marks for a short
one. Sometimes it's only half a
mark and sometimes it's free.
Just like back home you have
to find place that fits your
pocketbook and naturally you pay
extra for atmosphere.
But regardless of whether the
beverage is free or comes at
slight fee, it provides an excuse
for the boys to sit around and chat'
fight battles over again, and sing
q few songs in the best tradition
of the last war.
Most of these places deal only
in light wines and beer and re-
main open for business until the
evening.
There is quite a transformation
nowadays, too, in Army eaterles.
Many combat outfit has packed
away its messkits and has every
body eating off China served by
waiters-just like the officers, no
less.
There are a good many coffee
and doughnut joints - Joe S
Place. Or "Donut Shoppe' or
'Coffeehut.
Some mess halls have unit bands
playing for meals and many a
night spot has a three piece or
chestra or inore-or at least
requisitioned piano.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16

The state of Missouri is bounded
by eight other states---IoWa, Illinois
Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas,
Oklahoma. Kansas and Nebraska.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16
YIRCINlAN SEEKS
CUSTER OF GLASS

WASHINGTON, July Is. = WD -
Ailing, 87-year-old Sen. Carter
Glass, D., Va, who hasn't attend
ed a Senate session for. more than
three years, faces the prospect OF
having to prove that there is no
time limit on Senatorial absentee
ism.
John Locke Green, Arlington.
Va, county treasurer. disclosed
tonight that this week he will ask
the Court of Appeals at Richmond.
capital of Virginia, to declare
Glass seat vacant and to order
Gov. Colgate w. Darden, Jr., to
call an election for his successor,
There is no precedent for the
case of Sen. Glass, who hasn't
answered a roll call since June %.
1872" Green said. IF I didn't
show up for my job for two or
three years, or even three months.
wouldn't have job and I would
not get any pay"
He said he has the greatest re.
spect for Glass, whom the late
President Roosevelt 'affectionately
dubbed The Unreconstructed Re-
BEL" but that the time has come
for the courts to act SO that Vir-
GINA can have two Senator's
Glass, who has served in Con-
gress since 1908 except for two
year tenure as Woodrow Wilson's
secretary of the Treasury, was once
one of the Senate's most outstand-
ing members and his place in his
tory is revered by thousands of Vir-
ginians. But his once red hair has
long been white and his health has
so failed IN recent years that he
took his last oath of office Wear1ng
carpet slippers in his Lynchburg.
Va, home in January, l943.
Neither Glass, father of the Fed
eral Reserve System. nor Mrs.
Glass, whom he married in 1910.
could be reached for comment Oh
growing demands that he retire
And his office secretary refused
any comment on the subject, the
state of his health, or the way his
duties are being performed. -
Gov. Darden, reached by tele-
phone, denied that the long-unused
seat has been vacant. He said that
while it is unusual for a Senator
to be absent for a period Of years,
Illness does not create a Vacan-
cyl He added that he had no III
tention of taking any action.
Senate Democratic Leader 1Alben
W. Barley of Kentucky, has turn
ed down repeated appeals for Sen
ate action. He said that the Sen
ate has no jurisdiction and that
the matter rests with the people Of
Virginia.
Much of Virginia press has been
urging the octegenarian to retire
but there has been no indication
that he intends to step out. His
term runs until 1949.
Green asserted that Virginia is
not getting her just and proper re-
presentation in the national legis-
lature and added that too many
Senators, unable because OF age or
nealth, to perform their duties, con-
tinue in office. He said there must
be~a way to end an unfortunate,
but deplorable,' situation and
that he intends to carry the mat
ter to the U. S. Supreme Court if
necessary.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16

Gently awarded the Bronze Star for
heroic achievement in action in
Germany. He also holds the Purple
Heart for wounds suffered last
March, and the Combat Infantry
man Badge. The son of Mr.. and
Mrs. S. O.. Boyd of Mooresville,
he has served in France, Germany,
Italy and Austria since going over
seas last October. He entered serv-
ice in November 1912 and received
training at Camp Claiborne, Ia.,
and Camp Howe, Texas. .,..
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16

course in drafting; tells Won -.
ARTISTS Make Money: and 40 I'D.
there's a Thrill in Bring d mat
Crook to Justice; demands .,
you train your voice. and NJ.
singing either!
Do you want to ely vour -.
to Success?" Be Foot Cow,
zionist? Get into the Baking D..
ness? Learn Watch and Clocl 3s ~
pairing? These advertisers ha .'e'
everything you're looking for ~,
cept that they don't promise y oH,
an All-American grid team wv Nv
the school of your choice. Send W.. W.
money, is what they say. Just cI H'
the coupon-then rent you 4 coE
ner of the postoffice. Your ns vn
it for your mail. W
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16
SECOND OF FOUR
BROTHERS KILLED

LUMBERTON, July Is - Benja-
min F. Holcomb, 10, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank E. Holcomb of
Purvis, was killed in action on Ok
nawa on June 6, according to a
message from the War Depart
ment. He is the second of four
brothers serving overseas to have
been killed during this war. Pvt.
Robert P. Holcomb YVES killed on
Two Jima last February q while
serving with a Marine division.
Pvt. Holcomb, graduate of
Rowland High School. was employ
ed by Daystrom Corporation when
he entered the Army in July, 1914.
He received training at Fort Knox,
Ky, and had been stationed in the
Hawaiian and the Mariana Islands
before entering this first combat
duty on OkinaWa.
He is survived by his parents;
his grandmother. Mrs. A. S. Pierce
of Hallsboro; three brothers. in
Guiding Sgt. James V. Holcomb,
serving with an anti-aircraft outfit
in the Pacific, and Cpl. Alton c.
Holcomb, with the Ninth Air Force
in Belgium; two sisters, Mrs. Joe
ID. Adcox of Rowland end Mrs
Nicely D. Crawford of CORTLAND,
Ala.
Robson families continue to be
made happy by the return of their
service men from overseas. Capt.
Neill A. Thompson, who served ov-
erseaS with the Medical Corps for
Is months, has arrived TO spend a
leave with his wife, Mrs. Christine
Caldwell Thompson, and small
sons, Neill, Jr.. Luther and Sandy.
He was stationed first in Iran and
later served with the Seventh Army
in France and Germany. Before
entering service Capt. Thompson,
native of Lumberton, was CO.
owner of a hospital in Eldorado.
Ill. Major R. Knox Andrews
and Capt. Joseph B. Regain, bo'h
of whom have served as fianace
officers with the Eighth Air Force
in England, arrived in New York
harbor on the Queen Elizabeth ana
are now at home Major Andrews,
son of Mrs. N. P. Andrews and
husband of Mrs. Amanda Allen An
dreWs, had been overseas two
years. He has three small children,
Knox, Jr., Neill Preston and Carol,
Capt. Regain, who was overseas SO
months, is the brother of Mrs. c..
| D. Hargrove of Lumberton a n d
nephew of B. H. and J. c. Stansel
of Attention. --.
CAPTAIN Walter Smith, who was
liberated by the Russians from
Stalag Luft 1 in Germany on May
3 after six months imprisonment,
has arrived home to spend a leave
with his wife, Mrs. Susie Kinds
Smith, and his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Claude S. Smith of Lumber
ton, Route l.
Captain Smith, pilot Of PSI
Mustang with the Eighth Air Force,
was one of four Robson men, all
pilots with the Eighth, who were
forced down over Germany during
1914 ard sent to Stalag Lift 1 at
Barth on the Baltic Sea. All have
now returned to the states.
Staff Sgt. Ralph H. King, who
completed SIS missions and made
SIS sorties as nose turret gunner on
a B-24 Liberator with the 18th Air
Force in Italy, has returned to the
states and is spending a 3O-day fur
Tough with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. M. King of St. Pauls Route
l. Since he went overseas last Ar
gust, he had been awarded the Air
Medal, three Oak Leaf Clusters. a
group citation medal for bravery
beyond the line of duty, five battle
stars and the Good Conduct medal
technical Sergeant Kenneth
BOYD husband of Mrs. Barbara
Tyson Boyd of Lumberton. was re.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-16
WITH THE AEF
Atn1ericanizi11g Germany

A movie theater and USO show
hall may be only barren room
but a white-painted sign outside
says you are seeing a show in the
Capitol, Paramount, Strand OF
some such theater.
Almost every battalion has its
own athletic field. Some are huge
stadiun-type fields with plenty o.
room for a couple Or three base
ball games, track meet and e
tennis tournament simultaneously
Others are located in spots where
play sometimes is interrupted I'm
til the cows can be chased out Of
left field.
Swimming, horseshoe pitching
archery, and canoeing have crop
ped up increasingly. Horseback
riding and horse racing have beer
added at some places.
1t was no trick at all for flood
lights to be rugged over some Of
the football and baseball fields,
dlIlIOQSlI lllC lOllS OdyS lll1S Il11lS
of year made it unnecessary al
most places.
These things are not necessarily
available to all soldiers in occu
patton outfits. Some units in fac
have no such facilities, except per
haps few pieces of sports equip
ment.
Also it should be mentioned tina
most such activities are more Of
less based on the spontaneous in
genuity of the GI's rather than (
part of any planned program
These things should be mentioned
to keep from giving false pic
ture of life in Germany today.
Nevertheless there is enough o
this business of "Americanizing
the Reich to leave an observer
with the idea that it is doing mucf
to help the CPS pass the time.
The state of Missouri is bounded
by eight other states---IoWa, 1llinoi:
Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas,
~ 1~l