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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-08
Pigeon Racing

Tn the special 200 mile race from Imington, Delaware, October 7th sponsored by the Bristol, Teryville, Thomaston Pigeon Club, bird from the loft of Arthur Denze won first place with an average speed of 972.74. yds. per min.
 Birds were released at 8 a. m. and the winning bird was clocked at 1:30 p. m. Weather condNions-Lib- erating point-clear, s. W. wind, at
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-08
Uconn Boy Leeds

Boston, Oct. 8-(UP)-Walt Tro- joanowski of the University of Con- necticut retained his leadership among New England's individual scorers today by tallying his sev- enth touchdown againset Middle bury. Though he failed to score Saturday, Vandy Kirk of Yale kept No. position with four goals.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-08

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-08
home cloudy and rain with s. E
and Ra hirds nnmneted

wind.
 Q lofts and 66 birds competed.
 Other members who clocked birds and reported were as follows:
 c. St. Amand, Waterbury, 961.00; W. Riendeau, Bristol, 060.l0; L, Tedesco, Waterbury, 905 20; T. Gen. ova, Waterbury, 800.00; P. Hamor, Torrington, 8S3.30; J. Lebedenski, Southington, 857.30; w. Price, Wat erbury, 642.80; 0. W. Fowler, Tor rington, no report.
 Next weeks race will be a special 300 mile race from Washington, D. O., 10 bird limit. Members will re- port at the Thomaston R. R. Station, Friday night, october 18th at 2 p. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-08
Wor Veterans Hardly Will Be Worried
 By Rieors and Reps of Football Season

coach to do anything like that.
 You can bet case money that he'll have the best combination in the thick of things when 1t counts most.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-08
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-08
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-08

A wour-year coal research pro. gram for Western Australia is be- ing financed by its Government.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-08
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(Reg. U. s. Pat. Off) By OSCAR FRALEY
United Press Sports Wrlter

SAhAOCNA AVcS 0At0A W0 VVAAbOA
 Chicago. Oct. 8. (UP)-There are two important factors which may crown the Detroit Tigers as world champions of baseball today. The first is that Steve ONeill is lucky gambler.
 The second is that Chicago Cubs are tight as Q drumhead and as jittery as an anticipating daddy.
 It could be the combination which will carry the under-rated Tigers to victory after hectic stretch race and two over-hauling performances during the current classic. They lost the first and squared 1t, and then they dropped the third and evened the count once more. And now they are in front and they promise to be mighty tough to catch.
 Yet a short time before this series the critics were blasting O'Neill, the handsome Irishman who pilots the Tigers, for his poor" handling of the Detroit pitchers. They dis paraged his every act and 1t was Q common practice to label the mo- for City boys as the tired Tigers" before the series started.
 But you can't deny that the proof of the pudding Is in the eating, and the Tigers had comfortable breakfast this morning. The credit belonged to stout Steve. When he sent Virgil Trucks to the mound in the second game, after losing the first game of the series with Hal Newhouser, his brightest star, they said he was little off his beam. For hadn't Trucks only been home from the Navy a few daysp
 Tho -e"-"'
 pennant-clinching game and he ing in game thaC Lou4d JnrOw tne Tigers two behind. So Trucks won and the gamble was paid off.
 Next Steve of the graying hair bet on Stubby Overmire. Well, he lost that one. But by this time Paul (Dizzy) Trout, well-rested and @ bit on the angry side because he had been overlooked so long after being a workhorse for the Tigers two years, got Steve,s nod and went out to blow those Cubs down. That squared them of at two to two and Steve came right back with New houSer.
 Hal the Boss
 While 1t was one of the screwiest and widest ball games in series history, Newhouser was in com- mand all the way. So Steve, one up, is coming back again with Trucks, the flreballer who O'Neill Remem- bered-when other people forgot had won 29 ball games while in service against only one defeat.
 And over in that other dressing room, despite heated denials, those Cubs were a nerve-frazzled bunch.
 You could tell it yesterday before the game. Grimm, sitting in the dugout with Manager Bill Mo- Kechnie of the Cincinnati Reds and Bill Terry, one-time manager of the Giants, had nerves as tight as a new girdle.
 This wasn't Jolly Cholly Grimm, the happy-go-lucky, banjo-playing guy who didn't have a care in the world. Charley was plenty worried.
 And a few feet away sat Hank Borowy, who was to be dusted out of the ball game by those terrific Tiger bats just 8 short while later, the same Hank who had won the opening game of the series. But somehow you could feel that lack of utter confidence.
 Nov the cnipS are down, out there on the Wrigley field diamond.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-08

Fire will continue it's wartime
 control of supplies for the pres ent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-08
Broke "Jlnx"

drimm's only lurler with Q full quota of rest would be Hank Wyse, the part Cherokee Indian, who lost to Trucks. The Cubs chief went through his stan pretty well yester- day when he used five hurlers, tEl- cluding Fordham Hank Borowy. whose iinx over the Tigers finally was broken. Until then Borowy had beaten Detroit 12 tines-once as a Cub and ii, as a Yankee-while losing to the Bensals only three times.
 Yesterday Borowy couldn't get by the bats of big Hank Greenherg and Rudy York. He. was knocked out in the sixth inning when the Tigers scored four runs to break Q l-l tie and give Hal Newhouser. tho Tigers pitching ace, all the margin he needed to win. The final score was 8 to { but every Cub run was tainted. If Newhouser had only average Detroit fielding back of his hurling he would have gained q shtitOlit
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-08
New Money Mark

whether the big show ends today or goes for another game 1t was cer- tain that this first peacetime series since l94l would break all financial records for the classics. With the. fifth game, the total receipts went to Si.i03,746. The all-time mark is. only Sl,S22, ,320.2l, set in lo40 when the Tigers lost in seven games to the Cincinnati Reds. It was Q sure thing that today's crowd would pour more than necessary into the gate receipts to break that mark. .
 The players pool already had reached an all-time high but just how much will not be known until the Series is euksd. For the play ers' share of the $l00,000 radio rights decreases each game after the first four. Yet even if the Series goes seven games radio rights st'll will net between $25,O0O and s35 900 to the members of both clubs to add to the S445, ,114.SO ai-. ready assured them. That means that each member of the winning team. receiving 60 per cent Of the receipts, will receive something like S7O00-some $500 higher than the previous record.
 Chicago. oct g. (UP)-probable starting lineups for todays nItn World Series game:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-08
Passeau And "A Prayer Cubs Last Hope 7loday
'GRIMMERS TO
 FACE TRUCKS, .4-l WINNER
BY LEO H.PETERsEN United Press Sports Editor)

'
 Chicago, Oct. B. -(UP) Manager Charley Grimm put the World Ser- ies championship hopes of the Clli- cago Cubs on the aging right arm of Claude Passeau today.
 This was the game the Cubs Tleed- ed to stay tn the running for the Detroit Tigers lead them, three games to two, and a victory for the American league champions this afternoon would bring the richest World Series in history to Q close.
 Manager Steve OaHell of the Tigers nominated Virgil (Fire) Trucks for his pitching chores with the confident remark
 Virgil win wind this up for us to- day: Passeau can't get by us again. 1" 'seFs'T@s | He was referring to the pitching masterpiece which Mississippi farm CT PaSseau turned in to win the third game for the Cubs. All Pas- seau did then was permit one hit and allow one other Tiger to get on base via a base on balls as Chicago. beat the Tigers 3 to o.
 Grimm was gambling by coming back with his 36-year-old right handler. Passeau's arm is bothered by the calcification of some bone chips in the right elbow. Grimm was asking the veteran of 10 years of Major league pitching warfare to start again with only two full days of rest. Passeau's record for the entire Season-when he turned in l7 victorieS--was that he couldn't win unless he had @ minimum of three. days rest between assignments.
 Detroit 31S To l
 As Q result the oddsmakers made the Tigers 23 to 2l favorites to wind up basehalls post-season classic to- day. The Cubs were quoted under. dogs at 20 to 2i. For the series the Tigers still were favored at Shl to 1. 34 !.
 Trucks, who turned the Cubs back in the second game with only seven hits to beat Henry Wyse, 1 to l, al-i though he had not hurled a com- plete major league game in two sea- sons, has @ fast ball that well may be even more effective at Wrigley field than 1t was ct Briggs stadium, where the first three games of the series were played. He will be pitching against the off-color background of Wrigley 1leld's cen. ter-field bleachers. h
 The advantage was with Detroit. Should Trucks losey the Tigers would have a well-rested< / Dizzy Trout to go in the seventh game which would be played here Wed- nesday. Tomorrow is an open day for to permit sales of tickets for the seventh game. Trout beat the Cubs in the fourth game, 1 to 1.
 Jolly Cholly-who hasn't been strumming his banjo the last two days as the Tigers came from behind, to turn a 2 to 1 game deficit into 3 to 2 lead--would be hard up for Q starting pitcher for a seventh game even if the Passeau should win to- day,
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-02-08
HoImes-Eust Central
Split Series

The Sextet Of Holmes Junior College
played good ball to avenge the one
point loss at Decatur last week, and
won score 55-43 at Goodman, in return
game here Friday night. Treloar was
high scorer with % points closely fol-
lowed by Rhea with 81; while Rape led
the Decatur six scoring 10 points.
The boys game remained a close af-
fair until we'll into the third quarter
when the East-Central boys tool a COM
handing lead, which they maintained
for the remainder of the game, final
score. East-Central az; Holmes 26.
Moore was high man for the visitors,
scoring IL: while Dickard was high
scorer Cor Holmes registering 10 points.
Febra4ry games include return series
both hoys and girls with Sunflower
Junior College, Moorhead, Miss, and
Co-L'r (Wesson) at Wesson.
H. mes Co. AIS. played Alderman
High in prelim-game at Z P. M. High
core Ables, Holmes IA points, final
score Alderman %; Holmes AIS 81.
Alderman team is coached by a former
Holmes AIS and &c. Coach, Supt. Frank
B. Branch.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-02-08
Goodman Soldier
Recovering In England

The 10th General Hospital, England
Wounded by enemy shrapnel in the
right chest while he was helping stem
the German counter-attack in Belgium,
Corporal Victor C.. Burden, 26, Of ri.
2, Goodman, Mississippi, is now recover,
ing at this United Army general hospi-
tai in England.
Cpl. Burden, who has been awarded
the Purple Heart, lis making very salts.
factory progress" said his ward sur.
geon, First Lieutenant Donald C. Brown.
ing of Los Angeles, Calf.
1--WE were setting up a road block to
hold the German advance" Cpl. Burden
said. "The ferries began Smelling ~
and one shell exploded close enough to
hit me with it's fragments. l vas taken
back to an aid station by jeep and 70
ceived emergency treatment there. Then
l was flown to England"
He is the son of Mrs. Mandy Burden
of Goodman, a brother, Seaman Second
Class Warren d. Burden, is in the Navy
in Europe.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-02-08
CPL. Roy c. Hothcock
Soved By Chinese

Bailing out of an airplane over the
Himalaya Mountains and reaching safe
ty five days later was the recent ex-
perience of Cpl. Roy c.. Hathcock, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ben L. Hathcock of
West, Miss, who is serving in the U. S.
Army Air Forces in India.
Cpl. Hathcock, %; is a gunner in a
heavy combat mapping squadron that
operates in the India-Burma theater I'M
der Maj. Gen. George Z. Stratemeyer's
Air Command. His plane developed
engine trouble while flying over the
humps as the high Himalayan range
is known to servicemen in the India
Burma and China theaters.
He was not hurt by his parachute
leap, he landed on a mountainside. La
ter he met a Chinese who led him to
other members Of the crew who had
bailed out. With the aid Of the Chinese
they made their way to the nearest
USAAF ASTRP. During the trip out Of
the wild mountainous country, rice and
boiled eggs, supplied by tho Chinese.
comprised the airmen's main diet.
Before entering military service on
Sept. 25, 1912, Ppl. Hathcock was en-
ployed by the Pan-Am Service Station
in Durant. Miss,
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-02-08
Ensign BickneII
Returns From Pacific

Washington, d. C. Especially Ensign
Miss, has returned from a tour of COM
bat duty in the Pacific, where he flew
a fighter plane based on one of the
Navy's independence class carriers.
Attached to Air Group 2S, Ensign
Bicknell piloted a Grammar Hellcat. He
destroyed three enemy aircraft on the
ground in the face of heavy anti-air-
craft fire.
The Durant pilot flew a total Of 6s
combat missions. His wife, Betty Bick-
nell, resides at the Durant home.
The fighters and torpedo planes of
Air Group 2S sank 5000 tons of Japan
ese shipping and probably sank or seri-
ously damaged 43 900 tons. One of their
victims was a IL, 00O-ton aircraft car
rier, which sustained IL direct bomb
hits and was left burning furiously in
the first Battle of the Philippine Sea.
out of the air and destroyed more than
100 on the ground with bombs, bullets
and rockets.
During a strike against Formosa one
of the Hellcat pilots of Fighting % dis
covered a cleverly camouflaged cache
of Japanese planes. The Navy fighters
gave the area a thorough strafing and
had wrecked 81 aircraft when they
headed back for their carrier.
The Air Groups floating airfield
cruised $1,000 miles during seven and
a half months in the combat zone.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-02-08
Holmes Army Wives
Receive Free Medical Care

During the past three months, an
nounced DR.. w. H. Weeks, Director Hol-
mes County Health Department 10 wives
and infants of enlisted men now serv-
ing in the armed forces have had all
medical and hospital expenses cared
for through the Mississippi Emergency
Maternity and Infant Care Program.
"Only the interest and assistance Of
our Holmes County physicians nave
made this possible, said DR.. W. H.
Weeks. Each of these soldier wives ap-
piled through their own local physician
for maternity or for sick infant cars.
Application blanks are available at the
Health Department, Red Cross Chapter,
Welfare Office, or from the American
Legion. Only wives and infants of pri-
Yates, corporals, and buck sergeants are
eligible.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-02-08
Causes Of CROSSING
Accidents Named
By Safety Group

Seven reasons why crossing accidents
council as:
l.. The motorist sees the train ap-
preaching, but ~misjudges its speed. He
thinks he can get across, but fails.
2. The potorist waits for one train
to clear the crossing, hen Immediately
starts across, but is struck by another
train approaching from the opposite di-
r~ection.
3. The driver converses with other
people in his car, and his attention is
distracted from the safe operation of
the car.
standing at the crossing, obviously wait
ing for a train to pass, but heedlessly
drives around them into the path of
the approaching train.
S. The motorist is so familiar with
the crossing, having passed over it
hundreds of times, that he uses no eau
ton whatsoever. A case where familiar
ity breeds contempt. Remember-in war
time any time is train time
6. The motorist, driving at night as
we'll as in locations with which he is
not familiar, drives at a speed too great
for such circumstances. Consequently,
he cannot stop in time when a railroad
crossing looms ahead. The result is that
he drives into the side of a train.
Z. The motorist drives a car with
faulty brakes or other defects and is
unable to stop or start at the proper
ing.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-02-08
methodists Plan
Four Year Crusade

Methodists Of Mississippi and wes-
tern Tennessee and Kentucky are being
called by Bishop ]. Lloyd Decell of Jack
son, to "consecrate their talent, time
and 1.-THE" during the four-year Crusade
for Christ program of the denomination,
which he describes as an effort "to re-
lieve the distressed, pray and toll for
durable peace, win the spiritually lost,
share through stewardship, and multi
ply learning disciples.
First phase of the five-fold Crusade,
the raising of s772 $50 by Jackson area
Methodists as part of a s25, 900 900 re-
lief and construction fund, is now I'M
derway in the more than 1900 churches
Of the Memphis, Mississippi and North
Mississippi Conferences. The fund will
be used for aid to refugees in war-torn
and occupied countries as soon as condi-
tions permit and for expansion Of war
caused ministries on the home-front.
In explaining the need for immediate
response to the appeal for the relief
and reconstruction fund, Bishop Decell
declared:
"If we were refugees, as thousands
and thousands are, with homes bombed,
dispossessed of all earthly goods, and
wife and children all but starved, we
we would not object to a Good Samari-
tan being sent quickly to provide medi-
cine, food, a few tools and seed, as we'll
as spiritual comforters.
"Methodists will measure up in this
hour. They will match the fight of wal
with the faith of brotherhood. They
will answer pain with prayer. They will
put divinity into dollars and meet hun
ger with help. They will lift up Christ
as Savior Of the world.
Official solicitation of sacrificial
gifts to the Crusade for Christ fund be-
gan throughout the nation on December
/, under the leadership of Bishop j.
Ralph Magee Of Chicago, H., Crusade
director. The climax will be reached on
March 4, when all Of the II 900 Method
ist churches will observe the Day OF
Compassion.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-02-08
Holmes Youths Are In
Wolverine Regiment
Fighting In Italy

With the Fifth Army. ~Italy-Pfc.
handler, son Of Mrs. Blanche c. Alder
man, Ri. /, Tchula; S/Sgt. Osley b.
James T. Alderman, Jr, ammunition
Simon, Of Cruger, Miss, and Pfc. Hugh
z. Matthias, chauffeur, whose wife, Jes-
sic, lives at Cruger, Miss, are three
members of the 337th Wolverine" Regi-
msnt which recently took 3000-foot MI
Pratone in the Gothic Line, digging
German soldiers out of elaborate con-
crete pillboxes and earthworks on its
forested slopes.
The 337th Infantry Regiment is in the
s5th "Custer" Division, part OF the
Fifth Army in Italy.
It's first was its toughest battle. The
regiment won all it's detectives when 1t
struck out for Tremensuoli in the Gus
tav Line last May IL, but in this battle
lost a quarter Of all the casualties 1t
has suffered in seven months OF war
fare in Italy. At this time one company
captured a hill and held it against des-
perate German counterattacks for three
days and nights, its numerical trength
dwindling in this period to IL.
The S37th fought and won a bloody
72-hour battle before Terracina, playing
. key role in rupture of the Hitler Line
They moved on through Rome, across
the Tiber River and up to Viterbo.
The "Wo Wolverines" went back into the
line to pierce the Gothic Line at ono OF
its most formidable points.
They have been in combat steadliy
since, struggling forward through the
towering mountains that separate flor-
ence from Bologna, overcoming great
obstacles made Of mud, rain. wind and
cold and living and fighting on the
meager supplies mules and men can
carry up to them on their backs.
Col. oliver W. Hughes, Memphis
Tenn. commands the 3S7th Regiment.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-02-08
State Health Centers
Lead Nation In
Patients Treated

"Mississippi's Public Health Treat
ment Centers now lead the nation in
the number Of patients being treated"
stated DR.. Felix ]. Underwood, Execu-
tive Secretary of the State Board of
Health, in a statement in recognition of
Social Hygiene Day, February z. sour
citizens will be glad to know that over
5000 patients, 200 in the last month,
have benefited from the latest rapid
valent communicable diseases, syphilis
and gonorrhea. With the use Of modern
drugs the treatment OF early infectious
syphilis has been reduced from eighteen
months to only ten days, and treatment
for gonorrhea from a month to two
days..
Keynoting the need for more citizens
to be aware Of these health resources,
DR.. A. l.. Gray, Director Of P~reventable
Disease Control for the State Board Of
Health stated, "There are three of
these treatment %centers manned with
doctors n nurses specialized in this
field, equipped to are for their pa
TENTS medical needs. and operated in
such a manner as to win the patients
confidence" He added, these centsrs
are designed to help people, not to pun
ish them, to free them from the dangers
OF these diseases. Centers are To-
Gated at Greenwood, Brookhaven, and
Meridian, and transportation to the
c~enters leaves regularly for the c%enters
from each county health department.
Only cases of less than four years du-
ration are eligible for this rapid treat
ment.
Each center is equipped with large,
clean, well-segregated quarters for
colored and white, both males and f.
males, a clinic, a well-equipped labora-
tory, kitchens, dining room, laundry
service, and recreational facilities. In
addition to treatment, each patient re-
ceives instruction in the nature OF his
disease so that he understands his
treatment and the need to protect HIM
| self and others in the future. Consider
| able emphasis is placed on the need for
routine physical examinations with
blood tests in the future and the need
to bring others exposed to treatment as
soon as possible, in order to prevent the
blindness, deafness, insanity, heart
disease, arthritis, and other human
wreckage caused by these diseases,
Here, for the first time patients learn
that YOU can have these diseases and
not be aware of it.
Lauding the doctors and co-workers
associated with these c%enters, DR.. Un-
derwood stated, 1--WE have indeed built
a new friend to the health of our peo-
pie in these c~enters. Mississippi Is
proud to be in the vanguard of this
national effort to stamp out these dis
eases that rob our %manpower, our war
effort, and our homes of the health
essential to a strong nation"