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MINNEAPOLIS STAR JOURNAL Oct. 2, 1944 1 Calais Liberated From Germans Dover Liberated From Shellfire wyy.ieMw''s.-;:w-WMWMIW,!r':';y' mkCedric Adams, I JfVS 0 TlIE OTHER FELLOW'S RACKET, as a rule, looks a whole lot better than your own for some reason or other, but Halsey Hall, Star Journal sports scribe, and 1 Paul Wann, WCCO, can have theirs. I visited them in their radio booth during the game last Saturday, watched football broadcasting technique for the first time and saw it at its best, incidentally. Holy Cow Hall is an amazing guy in front of a microphone. He not only does a miraculous job of eye reporting, but he digs back into that noggin of his tor data 40 years old, sprinkles very gen- erously the rules that apply as the game progresses and topping all that comes up with ad lib figures of speech like, -Harder to catch than a waiter's eye.

Two spotters, one for each team. help the boys a lot During each play they point to a card of the player who figured in the play. Hall loses four or five pounds each broadcast. A fine job they turn out, nevertheless. I JL 1 1 3 An old lady is carried across the Calais canal as civilians were evacuated from the French port during the 24-hour truce preceding the crushing attack that liberated Calais from the Germans.

AP Wirephoto via signal corps radio. Across the channel from Calais, France, women and children who had lived in the caves of Dover, England, since early in the war left their cave-homes after capture of Calais guns meant liberation from shellfire. AP Wirephoto via radio. Yank Bombers Catch Jap Ships at Manila, Hit Nichols Field PHEASANT HUNTERS will do well to take a tip from the Redwood Falls Civic and Commerce association. Frank Clawson, the secretary, says hotels In the smaller towns In the pheasant areas are very anxious to have accommoda.

tions for the hunters and Indications are that therell he overflows every week-end. Nearly every dvie and commerce group already haa the hotel and tourist cabin and room listings and If reservations are made in advance, Ifll work out better for everybody concerned. Simply send your name and address together with your arrival day and time and the pheasant towns will bend ever backward te take care of you. STARTLING STATISTICS on' the Flying Bombs: Of the 2,300 buzzers that are known to have completed their missions, this is what they left: 5,479 people killed; 15,934 injured; 23.000 homes destroyed, and 1,104,000 houses damaged Bernle Swanson of the Morning Trib staff has never missed a kick-off on a football Saturday in nearly 20 years of sports writing until last Saturday. But he had a good reason: Just eight minutes before the starting gun of the Minnesota-Nebraska game, his wife presented him with, an eight-pound six-ounce baby daughter The Federal Lumber and Wrecking company ran a want ad in the Sunday Tribune a week ago.

Replies came from P. J. EISENHOWER, Ernest GOE-BEL and Elmer Horsager of BERLIN. N. D.

Irony of Life: Norman Hall of Anoka saved his precious coupons for a hunt. Ing trip. He obeyed all laws, drove at a moderate speed, warned his other guests about the proper use of firearms. The second day, he approached the car and proceeded to unload his gun, held the barrel down carefully as a precaution. The gun went off accidentally and blew his best tire to smithereens.

V- BUTTER, THEY say, is more plentiful In Canada than In the United States Radio networks have agreed to cancel all commercial broadcasts the day Germany's defeated Minneapolis has another young girl on her way up the Hollywood ladder of success. It seems. Dianne Irgens, eight-year-old daughter of Alderman Irgens, has just returned from a 10-day trip to the film capital where she auditioned for two of the major studios. She so Impressed one with her singing, dancing and Impersonations that they asked her to come back in December to start her first picture. She has something, too, because in spite of a dead mike for most of her act at the Turtle Derby Saturday night, she drew thunderous applause from the auditorium crowd Ever wake up in the middle of the night with your head hanging over the side of the bed? The sleep experts say that's because the nervous strain you've been under has been so great that you were too tired to pull your head back into Its proper position.

Ccdrie Adams' column appears in the Minneapolis Sunday Tribune Huge curtains of smoke billow from wrecked shore installations at Jap-held Manila, as two navy Avenger torpedo bombers (circles) of Adm. W. F. Halsev's Third GRIN AND BEAR IT Byliehty flt Pu UP from their attacks on units of the large Japanese merchant fleet caught y'f napping in Manila bay in the Philippines during the two-day attack, Sept. 20-21.

i f1'i Eighty-eight Jap ships were damaged or sunk. AP Wirephoto. 5 fc Newly-Revealed Hazard of Blitz ft- i IS" rT (V mi. fe: i so i Installations burn at Nichols field on Manila bay in the Philippines, after navy bombers struck with vengeance for the Japanese attack of nearly three years ago when Yank planes were caught unprepared on the ground. On two successive days, Sept.

20 and 21, 169 Japanese planes were shot down and 188 destroyed on the ground. AP Wirephoto. 'Hanging Out Wash on Siegfried Line' "You'll have to stop glaring at customers, Mrs. Snod-grass. Just because a man saves some money doesn't necessarily prove that he's mean to his wife." OFF THE RECORD By Ed Reed i 6 1 yr s.

ut, cj Only recently released, this picture shows a British policeman standing: soiard Living up to the song British troops sang in 1940, a British royal air force man by a German parachute mine which fell through the roof of a London house Oct. hangs his washing on barbed wire of the Siegfried line in' sector captured from the 10, 1940,. during the Blitz. Germans' use of parachute mines in the Blitz was not Germans. AP Wirephoto.

revealed until last week. AP Wirephoto. 'Of course I'm the lady of the house! What maid would work herself into this condition?".