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MonHay, MarcH 1, 1943 JEFFERSON CITY" POST-TRIBUNE K.U. Out for Big Six Record THIS Still With Clean Slate on Conference Tilts With Only Two to Go, One With Kansas State KANSAS CITY, March The Kansas University basketball team is ready to shoot at a goal that has been hit only twice in big history: go a season without losing a conference game. In 1929, the first year the Big Six operated, Oklahoma swept to 10 victories, and in 1936 a great Kansas club also came through a smirch. Every other championship club has lost from one to three conference games. If it weren't for the army, Kansas' chances of reaching its objective would be brilliant.

The have won eight straight, and normally wouldn't have too much trouble stretching out to ten now that the title has been sacked lip and the pressure removed. But the Jayhawks must play Missouri at Columbia the Tigers are never timid at then with only last place Kansas State, at Lawrence Saturday, between them and peril lection, the armed forces will get in their licks. i The team will break up the Missouri -game. John Bues-j who carries a spot on onej lung and a 4-F draft card, will the only regular''around. And victory-hungry Kansas State isn't likely to overlook this last chance to keep its season from Warmerdam Sets Vault Record Californian Cornelius Warmerdam feet 3 7-8 inches in the National AAU indoor championships at New York to better 15 feet for the 28th tune and establish a new AAU indoor record.

SPORTS ROUNDUP being a total loss. Kansas, which clinched the title last week with its 42 to 35 victory over Oklahoma, has another record to gun for. It has scored 48.5 points a game while holding conference opposition to 31.1. That subtracts down to give Kansas a margin of victory of 17.4 points a game. The best any other Big Six team has done was the 15.4 margin registered by the aforementioned 1936 Kansas club 'One "other casualty caused'by SPOKTS KOUNDUP EY HUGH FULLERTON, JR.

NEW YORK, March- Our old friend, Mr. Reliable Source, passes around the tip that southern California is can- celling -its football game with. Two League Presidents Engage In Patriotic Verbal Battles ATLANTA, March 1 (UP) Southern Association president "Billy" Evans made it plain today that his league would make its own decision about operating this season and that if any "stop" signal was ordered for baseball, it would come from the government rather than J. Alvin Gardner, president ol the defunct Texas League. Apparently irked 'by a statement issued by gardner in Dallas Saturday in which the Texas league president charged that baseball competes with the war effort and should fold up, evans said that the southern association regretted very much Gardner's statement and felt it was a "direct slap" 'at his league.

The Texas league alone tried to protect its investment by asking commissioner McNutt. head of man-power, for a statement defining the status of baseball," Evans said. "It didn't get one. Apparently the Texas league hoped to get a 'stop' sign, which it is assumed would have frozen player contracts, not getting a reply from McNutt, it took the easy way out and quit. Gardner called the Texas league suspension a "patriotic make harder plans to his sacri fice" "and said the only The Army Learns About Women From duties.

notre Dame, scheduled for next; ed the fall and that Stanford probably job to will suit reason is transportation, and all hands likely will book service teams to fill the gaps in the schedules. There'll be a lot more of That before September and our idea is that most colleges not only will depend, on freshmen for players but will, typical freshman-team schedule. job as "expediter" for a rubber company while he's taking his regular turn on the rubber this summer. He figures he can visit sources of material during road trips. Howie Odell has add- Yale his Public football the-Kansas-Creighton The Question now arises: How game Thursday mayl man kids Almost .18 years old I think its worth" while to go.

to be called off altogether, or Kansas may play using only its second team. No matter what happens, Dr. F. C. Allen, Kansas coach, already has said that for his money Creighton is the Missouri- Valley-Big Six conference representative in the N.C.A.A.

playoffs since Kansas obviously couldn't compete with its team busy at mere important chores. The Standings L. Pet. Pts Opps. 0 1.000 388 249 3 .625 368 302 349 335 364 415 288 370 258 346 Relations "coaching Quote, Unauote When an inquiring reporter recently asked owner George P.

Marshall Redskins how the expected Washington to carry on in the face of the ODT tavern ban, George replied: "The ODT hasn't stopped Clark Shaughnessy, so.I don't see how it.can stop us." reason certain leagues are operating is to protect their investment. No league in the nation would operate if player contract were frozen, he said. In reply, Evans said, "certainly no great wrong is committed when you seek to protect your investment in baseball or any other business. And don't forget that baseball in the south has' millions of dollars invested in property rights and player contracts." "The-Southern Association be- jlieves its public wants baseball. It to the contrary.

The pub. lie will register its decision at the turnstiles when the season-opens." Kansas Oklahoma. Nebraska-. la. K.

W. 8 a 5 5 2 0 .623 .555 .222 .000 Results Last Week Missouri 31 Iowa State 23 Kansas 52 Nebraska 33 Kansas 42 Oklahoma 35 1 Missouri 42 Kansas State 34 Nebraska 51 Iowa State 36 Games This Week Nebraska at Oklahoma (tonight) Kansas at Missouri (Tuesday) Freshmen vs. Missouri (Thursday) Missouri day) college for one season unless' some good inducements are offered? Inducation Ruction If Leo Durocher gets suit of Khaki, The quest for a pilot drive Brooklyn whacky, For Rickey's been hopin. there might be a slip. In the army's attempt button his lio.

Todays Guest Star C. M. Gibbs, Baltimore Sun: "William Cox, new Phil" owner, is the youngest club owner in new 'the big circuits. He is 33. He is both young- and robust.

He pro. KANSAS CITY, March may bably wjll need both the optim- Just to show you how easy it is ism of youth and the robustness to figure out basketball in ad- of his six-food frame to carry vance most of the wise- What It Learns Is: 'Women Are Good Soldiers 7 By PAUL HARRISON We've a bunch of Bataan DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. March widows." -The U. S. Army, which never! She "Made the Jeslure" M.

C. IS. TIRt to I him through some of the real tough spots he is almost certain to encounter." acres said before the season at Oklahoma (Satur- Monday By winning his fourth straight national three mile championship Saturday, Greg Rice disproved the idea that it takes two to make a race. Greg lapped his rivals like an alley cat going after a bowl of milk, but when he put on that final sprint the fans stood and cheered. After two months of outdoor work sometimes at 15 below- befpre hired any female help for military duties, has learned about women "from WAACs.

It's learning, anyway. At first, Army officers assigned to establish the WAAC training center near here were ill at ease. They had to accustom themselves to addressing a commissioned WAAC as "Ma'am" and an enlisted one as "Miss." They didn't know how hard to 'work 'em, or how to discipline recalcitrant cuties such as Katherine Gregory, who deserted the service to become a night-club strip teaser. They groped through a maze of new regulations involving everything from cosmetics corsets and bobby pins to brassieres. "But whatever mistakes we made," said a school commander, "were mostly in underestimating the spirit and talents of these gals.

They don't want special ment, special food, quarters or privileges. They're darned good soldiers." They're Healthier With the training program in full swing, and with recruits swarming into Daytona at the rate of about 1000 a week, authorities have made some interestnig discoveries, For instance, it's phooey foolishness about feminine frailty. Then thousand WAACs are a good deal Newly inducted WAACs are asked why they joined the outfit Patriotism is the answer, variously expressed. A hillbilly girl wrote: "I seen my duty and i made the jestur." Another recruit said: "I want to help. Also my boy-friend is in Africa and I want to go over and see him." Like the Army, the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps gets mis- ifits, moral and temperamental: -It Service Dep't Johnny Mariucci.

former Chicago Black Hawk now starr- for outfit, the Curtis Bay, Coast Guard hockey turned down a chance for a navy commission to join the Coast Guard. The inducement wasn't hockey, but a post as player coach on ihe football team. Pvt. Leason McCloud, former Colorado U. basket- helping build Camp Shacks couldn't pass the test of Orangeburg, N.

Mushky Jackson is sporting a tan he never could Jacobs Beach. The vision when he was an army coat of aviation cadet but he still can get on see the basket well enough to Indians' score 24 points for the South I Plains Army Flying school team -Today's Sport Parade- Former Senegambian Menace Is Doing a Gandhi for BY JACK CUDDY United Press Correspondent NEW YORK, March Harry Wills, the Harlem landlord will be concerned little with i after only one day of practice. When Ensign Charlie Blalack, former Baylor U. tub thumper, returned home after finishing his Navy course at Notre Dame he reported he'd take southwest conference football over the started they expected Missouri healthier than 10,000 average Valley to repeat. If not Missouri Army men.

As for intelligence, their tests rate higher than the Army average. The WAACs are better educated, too; a recently processed of several hundred aver- Valley, then it would be Drury or Westminster. So Culver-Stockton and Central fought it out in as swell a finish as one could hope for, Central clipping C-S in the final aged 12 years of schooling. two games last weekend, 32 to 28 There are no cold figures to and 31 to 29. It took a field goal' is privately lieved here, and generally be- by WAACs them- in the final four seconds, a dribble in for a setup by Central center Warren Pettigrew, to give Central.its title.

at 245 pounds which is not ex-! Irish variety any time. Still oni meaning ht on ihe mount- cess weight for a chap standing 1 are more ambitious, personally than men, but it's generally agreed. Practically all of them, when inducted, say that they want to become officers. Some of them practice drilling in their spare time. Good reasons for these superi- orities are that WAACs are volunteers, average 27 years of age (which is above ihe Army level), NEW YORK, March and have to 'meet especially strict Leo (The Lip) Durocher, manag- physical requirements before beer of the Brooklyn Dodgers, was ing accepted.

They include many rejected by the army today be- career women, cause of a perforated ear-drum. "The women are.patriotic in a i purely objective way," said Brig. The Indian words hoe" Gen, Don C. Faith, commandant selves, that the greatest mistake bearing on moral conduct was made in the establishing Act of Congress last May. Section 12 begins: "The corps (WAAC) shall not be a part of the Army, but it shall be the only women's organization to serve with the Army, exclusive of the Army Nurse Corps.

Girls Out of Uniform From that definition, stemmed a War Department regulation permitting WAACs to. wear civilian clothes when off duty and when not at a post camp, station or school. After retreat, the streets, restaurants and bars of dimmed-out Daytona are crowded with young women who are undistinguishable from ordinary civilians and who naturally are not subject restraint by Military Police, since they are difficult to recognize. Army, Navy and WAAC police patrol the town to keep an eye on. servicemen and the few women who are in uniform.

On week-nights, WAAC members must be back in quarters by 11 p. m. On week-ends the majority are at liberty from Saturday afternoon until reveille Monday morning. In his indoctrination talk to the inductees, Chaplain F. H.

Fahringer offers his counsel for their individual problems, and he often has to give it pretty quickly. "Some girls join the Corps with the idea that it will be a thrilling adventure, and then regard the training routine as drudgery," he said. A woman psychologist deals with various emotional crises among the WAACs. Commonest trouble is the matter of modesty six feet chap who tapers down from huge shoulders. At his fighting peak, Harry regis- the old job- food rationing this month.

Thejtered about 220 pounds, ''ring's former "Black This will be Harry's 33rd an- and "Senegambian Menace" fast. He began Week's Best Line Harry Markson, recalling the Bronx cheers after Beau Jack was given the decision began his annual 30-day fast today. Big modest ex- when comparing his past "prowess with that of Jack that he is not over "Pro- trying to take the spotlight away I Some of Wills' critics accused strictly from his! Fritzie zivic Iast month: first year as a professional fight- Mike Jacobs thrilled to er, back in 1911. He continued I lhat swell expression of dis- it during his career, which end- approval." ed with a fourth-round knockout by Paulino Uzcudun in 1927. from Mahatma Gandhi, who is doing a bit of fasting over in Poona, India.

9 "I do this every year for my health," Wills explained, leaning against the entrance to an apartment house at St. Nicholas Place upper Harlem. No one could chase Harry away from the him to he owns the building. owns another one too. He For 30 days the former heavyweight contender will exist only pn "Adam's ale," a beverage nore commonly known as water.

During the abstention, Wills will lose from 30 to 45 pounds. However, he doesn't go through the ordeal to reduce. He does it Jo. "burn the impurities" out of iis system. Despite his affluence and his fondness for fried chicken and pork chops, Haf'ry never him of using the fast as a bally- hoo stunt during his ring But he proved them wrong with his foodless months after he had retired.

Wills, who fought Sam Langford 12 times; Joe Jeannette three times; Sam seven Bill Tate eight times, and who knocked out Gunboat Smith and Fred Fulton, is now 51 years old. He was born at New Orleans in 1892, the year that Jim Corbett wrested the heavyweight crown from John L. Sullivan in that same Crescent City. Because of his 32 previous fasts, Wills estimates that he has gone a total of two years and eight months' without fuod. Back in 1911- when Harry was working, between bouts, for the Texas Pacific railway as SPORTS MIRROR (By the Associated Press! TODAY A YEAR Van Putten and Mrs.

Elaine Bogda Grodon won titles in North America indoor speed skating championships. THREE YEAR Armstrong, 142, drew with Ceferino Garcia, ISS 1 in 10-round middleweight title fight at Los Angeles. FIVE YEARS AGO Seven Fordham athletes, including Ed Franco, all America tackle, ruled ineligible for further collegiate competition for participating in semipro basketball tourney at Plainfield, N. J. a man perfect health and greater strength.

Wills became inter- esed. He Cried fasting and was a switchman, a yardmastcr told i so pleased with its results that permitted himself to get fat. He I him about reading a book which he made it an annual feature of tipped the scales this morning claimed fasting would i ye his training. ains," gives us the state name of Idaho. of all the WAACs.

"Also, a very large majority have a close male I relative in the armed service. Girls have led sheltered lives in camp life. exceptionally sometimes arc shocked by the lack of privacy. A sensible talk- gine has definite post-war coming-to usually brings an adjust- mercial potentialities because THREE ZITHERS IN FIRE BELL CITY, March 1 Mrs. Donal Belle Cade, age 60, and two of her grandchildren were burned to death and her husband, Jake Cade, 65, and another grandchild were badly burned in a fire which trapped them in a small two- room dwelling here early Sunday.

Cade succeeded in carrying his 3-year old granddaughter to safety and they were taken to a hospital where their condition today was reported as serious. Mrs. Cade and the other two children, V. Smith, aged 5, and Charles Fred Smith, 9- months old, died in the flames believed to have started from an heated stove. Acting coroner Pres Hearne said Mr.

and Mrs. Cade were taking care of the three children while their mother was employed in a defense industry in St. Louis. It's "phooey to old-fashioned foolishness about feminine frailty" ivhen you look over the WAACs at Daytona Beach, Fla. Saicples.

Sure the energetic baseball players at left and the husky life-guard WAAC above. Navy Reveals Phenomenal Plane Engine BY PETER EDSON HARTFORD, March 1- Development of an aircraft engine so powerful that it promises to revolutionize the air but the not only the war in of struction, fuel and mechanical future commercial aviation as well can now be revealed. It goes weH beyond the 1500-2000 horsepower cycle of'todays best aircraft engines, though detailed records of its performance are still held as restricted information by the U. S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics and the Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Division of United Aircraft Corporation, at whose engine research laboratories and factories here in and East Hartford, the new power unit was developed.

Newspaper men were given a preview of the engine here. For all Types- While the horsepower, con- consumption, improvements incorporated in the new engine are still considered aviation secrets, and the speeds and rate of climb obtainable in new plane that can be built around this power plant cannot now be told, it is possible to reveal these salient facts: 1. it brings to reality 400-mile an hour flight. 2. the engine is no mere laboratory test model.

3. So far have engineering and construction of the engine progressed that it is now incorporated in the design of a number of different new planes, ranking all the way from single engine fighters up to multiple engine bombers and cargo plane look like something out a Sunday supplement pipe dream. 4. While developed primarily for Naval aircraft, this new en- DEATHS LAST NIGHT (By the Associated Press) BOSTON, March Arthur S. MacLean, 62, founder and dean of ihe Portia Law school which for 30 years was the only exclusive women's institution of its kind, died last night.

NEW YORK, March Charles F. Weitzel, 82, former president of the national association of merchant tailors and one of the best known custom tailors in the country, died last night. WASHINGTON, March Steve Vasilakos, 58, peanut vendor near the White House grounds who saw American pre-i sidents come and go for more than 30 years, died last night. He was a native of Greece. MOSCOW, 'March Juldash Akhunbabayev, deputy chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R., and chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Uzbek republic, died last night.

MEXICO CITY, March Gen. Leopoldo Trevino Garza, chief of the Mexican secret police and a former mayor Monterrey, died last night. DURWOOD- DUBINSKY BROS. CAPITOL Saturday Yesterday's Crowds Acclaimed It the Outstanding Picture of 1943' ROMLD COIMM CHEER mm in JAMES RANDOM HARVEST NOTE! FIRST NIGHT FEATURE STARTS at 7:25 SEE IT FROM THE START! ment in their ideas of propriety. U.

S. Bomber Hovers Over Italian Tanker Dimwooo-DuBiNSKY Bnob STATE LAST 2 DAYS ft HITS; "CITY WITHOUT MEN'" Linda Darnell Ed. Buchanan Music! "Reveille with Beverly" With 4 BIG NAME BANDS! An empty Italian tanker sighted through the glass-enclosed cockpit a U. S. B25 bomber as American planes raided Axis shipping off Nazi-held Bizerte, Tunisia.

The tanker, escorted by two Italian hit and smoke. the engineering improvements that have been incorporated in its design give higher efficiency in both pounds-weight per horse- I power and fuel consumption per pound load than are found in jeven the best of today's highly perfected aircraft engines. Joint Project The new Pratta and Whitney engine is a radical, air-cooled job, but it is in the arrangement and number of the cylinders and the improved mechanical cooling, super-charging of fuel in-put and other advanced engineering that the engine achieves its phenomenal performance. Development of this engine has cost an estimated $2,000,000 Research on the engine was begun at the instance of the U. S.

Navy and it has been developed as a joint government-Pratt and Whitney project. Private industry alone probably could not have been able to finance this undertaking. This much of the story is no longer a secret, but the full story of what this is and what it can actually do will have to come out when the planes that it flics begin, to appear in the air in numbers, and the Germans meet them in combat for the first time. YOU FAIL TO RECEIVE YOUR Post-Tribune Phone 5000 Before 6:30 P. M.

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