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Page 8 Burlington Free Press, Tuesday, March 7, 1944 OBITUARY 000 More Than 2, Sports Trail He's a Mellow Fellow Now Is Sharkey Enough Major League in Service To Start 2 Loops Find Penicillin Is a Cure For Parrot Fever Continued from Page 11 Services for Mrs. Ryan Continued from Page One Special to the Free Press Dartmouth Indians Rebuilding For NCAA Tourney 4 of Champ Quintet Have Left Big Green; UNDERHILL, March 6 A high mass of requiem for Mrs I 3 Th ressa Breen Ryan was cele By WHITNEY MARTIN" brated yesterday morning at 10 in By HAROLD JXAASSEX UV-We NEW YORK, March 6. By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science Editor St. Thomas' church by Rev.

Jos NEW YORK, March 6. (J) eph H. Dussault. had never met Jack Sharkey be- Uncle Sam has enoush maiori NEW YORK, March 6. Use The bearers were James Breen ln, nbvpr, in hi armed fore' We Wefe 3 littIe bit COn" The communique said, "resistance from enemy fighters was encountered throughout the trip." There was every indication that his new blow at Berlin was one of the most terrible and effective yet leveled at the German capital.

The announcement said "divisions of heavy bombers in great strength, escorted by a very large formation of fighters, attacked factories, airfields and other military installations in the -metropolitan district of Berlin with good results." An American air division Charles Barrett, Fitzsi of penicillin to cure mice of psit Gale, McGuire Finds monds, Lawrence Egan, George forces right now to start a pairfused. He didn't snap at us, orj of rival, big-time loops. growl. June 15, American and Na-j We had formed sort of a flicker tacosis, the disease known to the public as parrot fever, is announced in the proceedings of the Mayo tional league teams are restricted opinion oi mm. xnax is, xnrougn to 25 players each or 400 for thejviewing movies of him in training r.

clinic. Psittacosis is related to the SO' two circuits and a check today ms prize ngnung uays we the majors' national defense lists jpictured him as a burly, truculent shows that the American league gent with a baleful gleam in his Barrett and Michael Leary. Interment was in St. Thomas' cemetery where Father Dussault read the prayers. Attending the services from out of 1own were Mr.

and Mrs. Charles BoJio, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Mc-Kenzie, Mrs. Harold Ready, Mrs.

Margaret Corbett, Emmett Nolan, Mrs. E. A. Barrett, Miss Theressa Barrett, Mr. and Mrs.

C. R. Barrett, Miss Ilene Munroe, Edwin called atypical pneumonia, which has 203 players in the service pale eyes, bort oi a walking cier has become increasingly prominent since the sulfas began to cut inition of hostility: a fellow who while the senior circuit has 197 normally numbers from 420 to 730 planes. One U. S.

pilot tonight estimated that between 800 and 900 S. planes participated in the down the death rates of other types stars in its. flag. Stack, the Only Death of pneumonia wouldn't bother to put lemon in his tea. He'd just scowl at it.

WELL, HE'S STILL burly and There has been no remedy for mighty daylight raid. Nazis Lay In Wait First to go was Eugene Stack. Henry and Rita Fitzsimonds, all of atypical pneumonia, nor for psittacosis. The fact that the psittacos rookie pitcher slated for a tryout ihis eves still are pale, but other- Unlike Saturday's thrust at bv one formation of with the Chicago White Sox. the picture is a misprint.

We is yields to penicillin in animals Burlington; Mrs. Mary McCrea, Champlain, N. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Leary, Richmond.

was dratted Jan. ld-ii and nis-met him on his return from a gives hope of a remedy for the I S. A-Cfc' --x-. ---J- 'v1 Flying Fortresses, the latest oper ation found the Nazi air force ly similar atypical pneumonia in man death on June 26, 1942 of a heart itj. S.

O. tour in North Africa and attack is the only one among thejitaly. and found him a mellowed. as well as for human psittacosis ing in wait for an all-out effort to Funeral of John B. Whitman Special to the Free Press big time diamond athletes at affable citizen with an engaging cases.

More Than Known this time. grin. His, face still carries trade- IIIDDLEBURY, March 6. The Hugh Mulcahy, pitcher for the; marks of his former calling, with There is more human psittacosic funeral of John B. Whitman of Philadelphia Phils, was tapped by! assorted scars here and there and than generally is known.

It does Uncle Sam on March 8, 1941 and nose not exactly as nature in- Middlebury was held Feb. 29, Rev, T. J. Leonard officiating. The bear I tfri i I 1 I A ft I 'If- not always go by the name of tended it, but otherwise he looks is generally regarded as the first full-fledged major leaguer to swap ers were Joseph Marcelles.

James like an average well-fed gent. his flannels one of the army "Just came from a shoe store," repel the attack and the battle that resulted was perhaps the greatest aerial fight in history. A record for enemy planes shot down by fighters was established, as well as a new mark in U. S. losses.

Previously the highest toll paid in an American operation over Europe had been 60 bombers, first in an attack on Schweinfurt last Oct. 14 and again in a smash at Brunswick Jan. 11. The record number of enemy planes shot down by fighters was 61 on Feb. 20.

Even while the report on the tremendous daylight stab was being he was explaining. "Saw a pair in psittacosis, but sometimes is known as ornithosis, because the virus which causes this disease is not confined to parrots, who gave their name to tiie malady. It occurs also in chickens, doves, many types of fighting uniforms. He now is a sergeant. Then, Vandermeer the window I liked and tried them on and said I'd take them.

The McNally, Elli Fortier, Richard Bed-ard. Henry Counter and William La Pan. Relatives and friends from away came from Vergennes, Burlington, Rutland, Oneonta, N. and Brockton, Mass. Oddly enough, it is another pitch-; clerk asked me for my coupon and I said what coupon? I'd for gotten all about rationing." finch and pigeons, particularly an pigeon lofts.

Psittacosis moreover is not really yrvAr: iVI -7J' s' y' I er, Johnny Vandermeer of the Cincinnati Reds, who is the latest addition to the tabulation. Sharkey, in addition to taking part in some 150 sports shows with the number of bombers employed a fever. It is pneumonia. Orni-in the raid, although several re-Uhosis is pneumonia. Not only are Vandermeer, only man ever to; hurl two consecutive no-hit games Fred Corcoran and Lefty Gomez cent operations have used 1,000 the bird types of pneumonia in made there were indications that Berlin might be a target again to ir.

thp Kicj.timo rpnnrtpH tn tho OVC1 teds, xeieil CU flOOUl OU Or planes. human beings very similar to the 70 boxing matches, including Sampson, N. naval training sta-i atypical pneumonia which is now 3 Bombers Land In Sweden night for RAF night-raiders. Telephone communication be those in the inter-allied show. "Saw troubling the medical profession, a lot of good fighters," he said.

Three of the bombers landed i or or acosis. PnPn ac an if 1 ftrivi tV. 4V.n One thing about those kids tween the German capital and Stockholm was suspended, various continental radio stations left the tion last Saturday. While baseball officials readily admit that the caliber of play today isn't on a par with the pre-Pearl Harbor brand they also are isolat- raid, they're in there swinging all the rZJllll 130 the.n"mbe ed from human being suffering merican airmen interned 6 American airmen interned time. No clinching.

I'd say I didn't oi air and one, at Frankfurt, warned there. have to step in and separate them quick to assert that the majors will PRINCIPALS GET BLOOD TESTS It is not certain that atypical is operate this coming season and more than 20 times all together There was one French fight pneumonia and psittacosis are the same, in fact they probably are not. But a virus is also the cause many are in the throes of preparing for the spring training season which gets under way a week from er named Marcel Cerdan I believe would stack up well against any John Langan, former Hollywood movie director, and his daughter, Joan, (wearing bandana) leave the Columbia medical building in Washington, D. after blood tests to determine paternity of Joan, of atypical pneumonia and it close welterweight in this country. today.

that "enemy aircraft are circling over our town." Berlin, one of the most precious of German targets, now lay open to full-fledged day and night assaults by the U. and RAF bombers. Far From Flattened Some American fliers looked down on that city today said it still is far from flattened even ly resembles the bird virus of psit "We will play as long as we have tacosis. It was the seventh operation of the eighth air force's heavy bombers in eight days. During the day allied medium and fighter bombers including U.

S. Maruders struck at northern France for the fifth successive day, possibly at emplacements where Prime Minister Churchill has said the Germans are setting up rocket and Robot-plane catapults. Drop Leaflets on Berlin REFEREEING in the tourna nine men to a club," K. M. Landis, i i pawn in a five-year custody battle between Langan and his divorced wife, Joan Manners, British-born actress.

Miss Manners testified that Langan was not the girl's father. (AP Wirephoto.) baseball commissioner, said recently at the New York baseball ment wasn't so easy, as in a close bout you were liable to be accused of favoritism if you gave the nod dinner. to one of our boys. ihr.uah thp RAF has drubbed it Sharkey disposed of his Boston Trench Full of Japs They Play 'Possum But Fail To Trick Yankee Attackers 15 bar several months ago and hi Last Foe with 26.880 tons of bombs in sieat assaults since Nov. 18.

immediate plans are uncertain, al The Oslo radio said planes had dropped leaflets though he says he expects to get The German radio declared one v4 4i ho over Berlin containing a list of Continued from Page One lined up with some business if hi of the greatest a II UOUicj rpiprppincf pnpaopmpntc cri v-ta Viim war raged along the sky paths ssly sacrificed" on the Rus Added to this they were declared, time. He figures he will be working ojenin. front. By WILLIAM L. WORDEN to have captured 120 tanks, 202 bouts somewhere nearly every The Germans sent up hundreds; Larry Killick Now At Farris Island i ai i rt vr i i I i i -r iri ia.

hi i i.ti lirrrrrrM -r i 11 Eruns. 210 mortars. 260 night, and with the traveling in vain attempt io; -ci iviarsnan lsianos of fiehters a of fortresses oa'" 21. (delayed). "After VimII the formations guns, an armored train, more xnat won 1 ieave nim mucn WiS aueciea ai cernn normern fnnr ho armv 6.

1,000 trucks and 23 stores. aime. HANOVER, N. Marc William A. Forsyth, I ve got In preparation for three weeks, HE TOOK A lot nf klHriinff fmJlt looks as though coach Earl something to tell a story about." the Russian drive southwest of and eastern sections and fires were left burning.

The alarm lasted from 1 to 3 p. m. It was announced that a record force of nearly 300 Marauders Whereupon the ex armaments and Liberatdrs surrounded by battle-hungry knots of American fighters. Ground gunners threw up an exploding road of flak all the way from the coast and around Berlin maintained a barrage two miles long and 1,000 feet thick. Losses vs Gains Shepetovka is being made from the -n.

ji southern side of the Red basketball team for Dart- worker, whose wife and three-year-old daughter live at 288 West viu uauiuti live ct i -uu ti col war, mySCv uui ne louK. mrjuths post season appear- i took part in a morning attack upon tp v. iSpring West Haven, Poland. The offensive also Xw rZ tne anilual NCAA tourna-process of outflanking the Bug' riv- nt in New York on March 24 er and endangering the Germans had a and 25. The raiders" struck railroad puJlecl Panese sword tViq tj0i; oi me bcaDuara.

When all the losses are counted 1 nnn to fiH 5 miloc nr-th Paris WaS last "lght, he began who might thus be foixed back up-: vl When Dartmouth accepted the the on the Dniester. I Lri 'l itation to participate the have been a costly operation, "military objectives" in the' awu "U1. lllusl 1 ut may Tlo ralnia rpuinn aiom neiKinier, i. i. was worK i if I Pierces "Jugular Vein" '000 wonh jNCAA tournament for the fourth i 1 consecutive year, it was expected The Germans "jugular vein" in.

That what you might, call get-jthat at leas't seven of theH first 3ritish Beaufighters" UP through the trees. We had a tun mpHinm-pH mpmhant of trouble and we couldnt see. me soumern usraine me lwow- im me jdcjvuui, iiibteaa ol; sels off the Norwegian coast lastiFinally at dawn- we came to ten men on the varsity hoop squad would be available for the 2ht. it was announced. A thirdiUUb bPul ana looked aneao.

Odessa railroad has stood for hitting it. The burly guy never was! three months as the ultimate ob-'a popular fighter, but the fans! jective of the Soviet design to 'would turn out hoping- to see himi was probably hit. About 30 Japs in It but the eighth airiorce acmeveuj two great accomplishments it did a job of strategic bombing and hit the Nazis where it hurt most their capital. By luring the Luftwaffe up in strength, the attack also permitted gunners to get on with the important job of knocking out the enemy's airforce. The German radio commented that the American fighter force was "of a strength ali! Four Starters Gone break through the upper crust of knocked kicking.

Which was "We saw something move there and one of our men stood up. He the German armies in southern; right with him, just as long as Russia, which are believed to total they turned out. However, now it appears that only three members of the first team and two other lettermen will be on Club and Fraternal Rev. A. R.

Low To Address Business Girls' Banquet said, XJon shoot, its our own Just then three Japs stood hand to play in the Madison Square up right where he was pointing almost 750,000 men. From the point of the breakthrough the Germans are strung out more than 300 miles to the southeast all the way to the Krivoi Somehow we didn't believe him Final plans for the 17th annual; rarely seen oeiuxc. after that so we all let them hav 91 Night Games On National There was it. We got them all right and then wide but worldwide banquet of the: arp caargea wnere mey ieu. nmniM The hannnpt i "It was a big trench or hole and Rog sector.

The Russians have been pushing simultaneously at both ends and the middle of that long line. The war bulletin listed the dis held March 14 at 6:30 p. m. at the.jer? er4! about 30 Jpy nu lliere Cat cafe. Garden.

Larry Killick, Joe Fater, and Larry Baxter, all marine trainees, have been transferred to Parris Island, S. while John Mcnahan is at Midshipman's school at Plattsburgh, X. and Paul Campbell is stationed at Floyd Bennett field in Brooklyn. Capt. Brindley Left This leaves Captain Aud Brindley, forward Harry Leggat, and guard Joe Vancisin of the first team, and rpsprvp puarii Wall League Schedule Ji.

WCiC UCdU UUt could tell some were alive becaus Wrighl Korrisssy General Contracting E. F. MORKISSEY IE 8 Bank St. Tel. 306 Rev A if pViio rf TiVn crr trict center of Vishnevets, 26 miles will be the guest speaker.

two machine guns set northeast of Tarnopol, among the NEW YORK, March 6. A towns which fell to the Soviet, record number of 91 night games troops. This represents a westward' is listed on the 1944 national league push of 10 miles into old Poland, sbaseball schedule, which follows theme of the banquet is "The Nextiup' vve grenacied rne piace and Item on Democracy's Agenda, away a lot of these eager or Equality in the World JumPed down t0 et souven-During the evening a skit, "There's A War On" will be pre-! the officers said to go sented by members of the ciub. jon. that there was nobody alive but Mi M.rrot wii a.mrn 1 didivt' agree with him.

So I BLAST DAMAGES ARMY BUILDING Russian troops appeared to be; wartime model of three intersec- Ch Club in a 154-, -PrcPr Walt Peterson and T.lovri j. idriving swiftlv towards Tarnopol1 tional trios for ea This four-story brick building central Alexandria, used by the i injivuiu, "iv-" program ru: unning from April Wilson, two other members of the army for archives, sags precariously, most of one wall blown away both junction points on the to Oct. 1. 1 regular varsity squad will also be bv Miss Elinor Burns, will direct: us et out of the hole Electrical Contracting Effkitm Service Low Cost HAM PLOOF I2( Pine St. Tel.

719 and looked down myself, After dark activity will start on 'available. the group singing important to the German "defense by the explosion of a boiler. The blast, which occurred when no one was in the structure, hurled bricks against a building a block away. (AP Wirephoto.) May 10 at Cincinnati and stooped I looked right into the Pitts-1 Bob Gale, high scoring freshman system than Volochisk. rifle.

I don't burgh with the last night game center from Cornell, and Dick Mc- ti is global in its 'scope instead Tun.d..e"f The communique announced the didn't shoot me first -nrlnr, 4V, iKHOW Wily lie UlUn national. During the hy he of St. John's guard, transferred to the ca evening, but he didn't. pture of the railway station of LSept at Philadelphia Gun lexer and the town of Zbar-f ew and Brooklyn reduced, have ooth been 'Dartmouth 7 liAnL-A mbechko received many messages will be Yanks Push azh. There is a town of TVifii-A twilight experiments last year.

Nav; "I shot him and the other boys got two more live ones down there. er and at the mouth of Jaba river. Army artillery ceaselessly pounded Japanese positions out-jside the Empress Augusta Bay from foreign countries. Reservations may be made by c.lling Barbara Whitman, 2306-M. 12 miles northeast of Tarnopol.

sted, 1P' Its capture would indicate a nine-; alonS with Philadelphia, Pittsburgh I the NCAA tournament. Gale was i They were really alive and kick Continued from Page One Cornell's chief scoring threat dur- Plumbing---Healing Maintenance and Repairs Edward F. Murray VERMONT PLUMBING CO. 63 Pearl St. Tel.

125-W. ing and they'd have shot hell out of us from the back if we had gone on ahead. The man I shot The whole operation is aimed at jPenmeter- Opening day action on April he ast fTea-S will find Pittsburg at St. Louis, third tie EIL mdiviaual scoring Bodies of mile advance down the Shepetov-ka-Tarnopol railway. Numbers Impress Germans The German radio reported that IVTarchal 7.hii?.nv cprnnH in rnm.

Madang, the enemy base up thei race. McGuire won a guard post was wearing this sword. Boy, it's Girls' Basketball coast about 300 miles from the' scene of the new American land i -o ii 4. ti nn his first year at St. John at New York and Brooklyn at at LaSalle academv.

Continued from Page One sure sharp. Nothing Exciting About It mand onlv to premier Joseph Stal- adelphia with second home open ing. Australian troops jack LAMBERT Germans Badly Hurt "But there is nothing very ex in, was using 35 infantry three days later presenting at least eight tanks corps and a Ist- Louls at Chicago, New York at- That the Germans have been bad inf in this campaign are nearing Bogadiim. below Madang, from the citing about it," Babinec said. "We In these days of transportation Invention of U.

S. Infantry ijust killed them all. They came ly hurt in their three ma "vast number" of other motorized rooKjyn. v-munnau at i-uisourgn 1 1 and Philadelphia at Boston formations. assanltc rhn 4ciuui ui uig Luiiiieis wmcn go unaer assaults on the beachhead is jor The first intersectional series The same Berlin report said that attested by the falling off of theirithe, island from ihe beach.

You Mariner's Compass attributed to Emperor HoangTi China 3634 ic interior. (difficulty and no tournament it is The Madang area was hit by al-jnot easy to pick a state cham-lied bombers which dropped 65 jpion. and your correspondent has tons of explosives on the airdrome the subject for two sea-at Alexishafen. Coastal targets sons Games won and lost, would Continued from Page One Gen. Stilwell's Chinese troops.

the eisht Russian tank corns con- sends the eastern teams into the artilleey fire in recent days, es-LYU uu uie uedCfV see -lusl a Deciallv their shelling of Anzin hole but wheh you look in sisxea maimy oi wen resxea ior- 1CCISC "CiWho have been pushing the Jap bor. Allied officers are convinced'011 find a lonS tunnel maybe 20 mauons ana aaaea, mis is sun lanpsp back steadily for nearly two further proof of the fact that with imonths in the Hukmrne vallev. the enemy has lost much of his Ieet oacK under the island this new mass offensive the Mos nunch. (They've been giving us lots of Pal patented the Hollow Ground Blad for cooler, quicker, "Ftather Touch" shaving (Continued rain on the Wn6n JccQ 'pressed in from the north, taking while the Americans V-QiaiOgS LOme itook Walawbum, 10 miles southeast cow government hopes to deal a death blow to the German armies in the east." were strafed and gu positions si- be a fair enough basis if the com-i lenced, and naval units destroyedpetition were equivalent. But it sel-two barges.

jdom is, and there is no way of Solomons based bombers and evaluating it when teams play en-fighters continued their blows on tirely different schedules. Rabaul, the enemy base in New; Britain, striking with 181 tons of! So far this year little has come explosives in a midday attack our ears in the way of cham- head and rain and snow across thel me company executive is Lt. Pierre J. Font, Gross original fifth and eighth army earW 'of Maingkwan. Order vegetable seeds The German radio tonight ad- fronts held operations to a mini-'Point, who says the only mitted deep Soviet penetrations i3 is mre than good advice.

It! Another strong force of Chinese west of sehePpetovkaet aK a direct request frpm Victoryimoved to within 10 miles of closing mum yesterday, it was announced thing which will get the Japanese at allied headquarters. Allied out of the tunnels is mop up urday. Direct hits were scored onjpionship claims except that wafted fighter-bombers braved rain and a squads with their flame throwers, Proskurov, and said there neaaquariers s. aepart-j" was "verv heavv" fighting ment of agriculture. It is war Ga to the northeast ZsSnhis sec CL of Maingkwan completing mopping heavy overcast to attack shipping TNT charges and plenty of gre nades.

gun positions and large fires start-jfrom the gneral direction of Wa- ed in the waterfront area. There iterbury. Coach Betty Cole's aggre-was no enemy aerial interference igation has met the best the north-with the raid. 1 lent part of the state has to offer, off the Yugoslav coast and gun positions on the fifth army front. "We're getting tired of being shot tor shifted Soviet public attention! BCCU adve Rai.ied gardeners in other years there 'surrounding an enemy force at from the slow battle for the Bal tho Katfi0 fnr lr VsrWni "tout vii.

wds dimouncea mat aDout at irom he says. Torpedo bombers and fight-; and has been repulsed only once, one-xnira oi me oeachhead civil ers hammered enemy shipping Peoples academy. The latter tic, where the Red army had been retarded by bogging thaw and stiffening German resistance. have often been included sugges-Lashu Ga and advancing south-tions frdm the dealer that it would ward. be well I to order early and makei The Americans were about TO sure of getting the items desired.

northwest of Mvtikvina. the population of 20,000 has been evac LITTERED LETTERS uated to southern Italv. Consider- Gordon iable nersuasion was rennirpH tn By W. These were legitimate suggestions, northern end of the railroad from Rearrange the letters to form the move even that many, despite the fact that the entire beachhead is Ataliklikun bay, to the west of two losses on its record, one baul, sinking two small car-jeach to Waterbury and St. Albans, go ships and starting fires aboard two other harbor craft.

There was In the southern sector, Hartford no enemy interception here. (and Bellows Falls appear to be the Japanese on Choiseul island, standouts. Both of these combines southeast of Bougainville in the list New Hampshire schools for a northern Solomons, were blasted -goodly share of their schedules, correct word. 1. WAPHS: an exclamation.

under enemy artillery fire.) VOSEERE; to supervise. GANISUNE; hopeful. RECCIHOLN: a history. TARIFOULIST; coquettish. Joe Gordon Expects Induction Soon EUGENE, Ore.

March 6. Joe Gordon, New York Yankee second baseman, said today he is expecting induction into the armed forces at any time. Gordon said he decided some time ago to go into military service via the induction route instead of with 105 tons of explosives in How their competition Since rubber salvage started in Eritain in November, 1942, 240,000 tons have been reclaimed, a quantity estimated to be equal to one year's yield from 77,000,000 trees. but strictly business," and the Mandalay. and 110 miles west of gardener could take them or leave the Salween river which in general them, just as he preferred.

'forms the present fighting front of This year it is different. Food is southwest China, so overwhelmingly important in the! These Americans are led by Brig war effort that victory gardeners Gen Frank Merrill, a 39-year-old 2 Pau t0 thf best former buck privat; whQ hJas ai StS" GaJdInS, in a studv of Japanese yneaPramany rdeS 1- or did not have the best possible I ant ther selection of nlant- fnr th A veteran of Gen. Stilwell light raids Saturday. 11 Solution 1. Pshaw.

compares with that in the north is hard to say. As yet this department lacks adequate information necessary to a decision as to where the title rightfully belongs. But, send in your Pilots of the planes from Adm. William F. Halsey's South Pacific command said they believed the pasting wiped out most of the Japanese remaining on Choiseul.

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Sensible monthly payments like these arranged. Fifteen Catalina patrol planes, KAWLIXGS' Official Laceless and Molded BASKETBALLS for schools at $14.50 At WOOD'S SPOUTING GOODS STOKE Corner Church Bank Sts. hit the Japanese in glide-bombing i claims, coaches, if you have them. Q. What is the cactus that is They will be carefully weighed in runs and strafing blows.

Seldom have the slow Catalinas been used volunteering for some branch asjreason that too many gardeners retreat from Burma in he indicated several months ago i were trying to get delivery of seed'142' Merri11 hails from North when he announced that he wouldjat the same time at planting time.) Woodstock, N. and is con-not be on hand for spring training 'Dealers were overwhelmed. With sidered the rnost brilliant with the world champions. their working forces short and in-this theater despite his Gordon, who has been reclassi-piand the biggest ever they simply youth. fied 1-A, said his home here not handle the job without His veterans, drawn from Puerto this column 12-MONTH IOAN PtAN- Hoop Coaches and Rules been put up for sale.

He is married delays. If enough forehanded gar-! Rico and Panama as well as the YOU GET 3Q0 REPAY MONTH1V 13 44 iy-5'l29 07 and has two children. aeners mu cooperate and oraeroumwesi Jr-acmc, ana jungie-hard- popularly believed to jump at persons and animals as they pass? C. D. E.

A. This is often said of the chol-la cactus of the southwest, the spiniest of fell, which will penetrate the hide of almost any animal. Curiously enough pack rats transport the prickly joints and use them to protect their nests and cactus wrens lodge their nests in the spiny branches. for daytime bombing. Navy Liberator heavy bombers and divebombers joined in the workout on the Choiseul Japanese, who like their countrymen on Bougainville have been isolated by the American beachhead and flying fields at Empress Augusta Bay on the west coast of Bougainville, the allied occupation of the Green islands to the north, and the neutralizing of Rabaul.

Committee To Meet NEW YORK, March 6. (Basketball coaches and members of the National collegiate section of the rules committee will convene in New York during the national invitation and NCAA tourna early, it will relive the jam. And ened by months of training in cen-the early birds will also get firstjtral India and northern Burma, choice in varieties and in quality jhave cut themselves off from roads of planting material. There will be and bases, and depend upon the seed enough, but some favored va-jjungle and air transport for most rieties may be sold out long before their supplies. They are equipped INSECTS THREATENED SUGAR CROP Foreign insects once threatened to ruin Hawaii's sugar crop of tons a year.

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Scientists of the Hawaiian'nor general of Australia? B. said 10 be riht at the heels FINANCE CO. A. Since he is one of the Regentsiof Chinese troops in the Hukawng On Bougainville, where mounting! Ed Kelleher, army coach and evidence of Japanese concentrat-j president of the coaches associa-ions against the perimeter of the tion, has called a meeting for Empress Augusta Bay holdings March 24 and 25 to be followed by a has caused a feeling of expectan-j session of the executive commit-cy, navy and marine tropedo and i tee March 26. They will discuss dive-bombers strafed and bombed possible rules changes to be enemy pillboxes east of Saua riv-isented to the NCAA group on during the minority of the Prin valley with construction work on the new Ledo road.

of Burlington, Churrh Ovrr UiltrU i Tel. W. M. Nah, Mgr. Sugar Planters' Association, who were sent to find the insects' natural enemy, brought back a small wasp, which ate up the leafhoppers' eggs and removed the menace.

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