The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-03
Side Show

HONOLULU, Jan. 2-P)-Pfc
j. B. Cumbie has learned it is pos
sible to be ineligible for the Army
and still be in the Army.
With 10 discharge points to III:
credit, CuTnbie tried to re-enlls
but was rejected for ear trouble
said the mid-ocean edition of Stars
and Stripes. However, lacking
enough points, Cumbie is ineligi
BILE for a discharge.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Jan
2-R-About the outcome of the
Oklahoma A. & MIST. Mary!
game, Governor Robert S. Kerr
wrote his friend, W. L. Steward
Fort Worth, Tex, on Dec. 30:
''The game at New Orleans viii
have been played before thi:
reaches you, so I can make my
prediction with the knowledge tina
it will not be too dangerous t.
either one of us. I am predicting
that A. & M. wins by about 49,
49,"
Note to non-sports fans: A. q M
won by 1913.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2-R =
Two hilarious Christmas celebra
tons with big dinner each day
were observed by homecoming
troops aboard the transport Star
light as it crossed the Information
al dateline, the men reported upor
their arrival today.
For the first Christmas the a
officers and 1,139 soldiers from
Tinian ate roast turkey, and for the
second, ham.
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 2-P)-
Charging that his wife, Manuel C.
Bradshaw, tossed a water glass a
his commanding officer during 6
party, Naval 1t. Harold G. Brad
shaw was awarded a divorce to-
day.
TULSA, Okla, Jan. 2-P)- A
holiday taste for eggnog in Okla
homa has precipitated shortage of
milk bottles, dairymen said to-
day.
Representative firms, declining
use of names, estimated they sold
10000 quarts of non-alcoholic mix.
ture.
"And," they complained, ''the
people just don't seem to wash and
return the mix bottles with their
regular milk bottles"
BALTIMORE, Jan. 2-R)-Even
raccoons are having a tough time
finding a place to live in Mary.
land this year, the states chief
game warden reports.
He says lumbermen, destroying
large numbers of "den trees" the
hollow trunks Of which ordinarily
house the animals, have driven
raccoons into the open marshes.
When they can find them, the
'coons are moving into the upper
stories OF doubledecker muskrat
houses.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 2-1P-
Ruby and George Gibbon are the
proud parents of the first 1916 ar
rival at the Philadelphia Zoo.
A keeper discovered the new
born Gibbon "a small monkey
clinging to its mothers neck when
he opened the cage this morning.
Roger Conant, zoo director, said
Ruby and George are only the
second pair of Gibbons to produce
a baby in captivity. This was
their fourth offspring, and weigh
ed less than seven ounces, Conant
said.
LYNN. Mass, Jan. 2-P)- The
woman groaned to a telephone op-
orator today, GIVE gotta have a
doctor. The gas is terrible"
The operator notified a physician
and thought it might be a good idea
to tell the police and firemen, too.
So the fire departments rescue
squad and a detail of police with an
inhalator hurtled over icy roads
for four miles to the woman S
home.
Police Captain Otis Lyons re-
ported:
1T was gas. No doubt about
that. She had a stomach ache"
CARAWAY, Ark, Jan. 2-(P-
Constable Paul Tucker reported
that 23-year-old man forced his
way into furniture store the other
night but did not take anything.
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