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Monday, March 1, 1943 JEFFERSON CITY POST-TRIBUNE Page 5 U. Out for Big Six Record JAYHAWKS HAVE WON CO GAMES THIS SEASON Up With Clean Slate on Conference Tilts With Only Two to Go, One, With Kansas State 'KANSAS CITY, March 1---(AP The Kansas University basketball team is ready to shoot at a goal that has been hit only! twice in big six history: go through a season without losing a conference game. In 1929, the first year the Big Six operated, Oklahoma swept 10 victories, and in 1936 a great Kansas club also came through without a smirch. Every other championship club has lost from three conference games. one.

it weren't for the army, Kansas' chances of reaching its objective be brilliant. The a Jayhawkers have won eight straight, and normally wouldn't have too much trouble stretching out to ten now that the title has been sacked up and the pres-! sure removed. But the Jayhawks must play Missouri at Columbia Tuesdaythe Tigers are never timid at home--and then with only last place Kansas State, at Lawrence Saturday, between them and perfection, the armed forces will get in their licks. The team will break up after! the Missouri 'game. John Sues-! cher, who carries a spot on lung and a 4-F draft card, will a be the only regular 'around.

And victory-hungry Kansas State isn't. likely to overlook this last chance to keep its season from being a total loss. Kansas, which clinched the title last week with its 42. 35 victory over Oklahoma, has other record to gun for. It has 48.5 points a game while holding, conference subtracts down opposition to give to Kansas a margin of victory of! 17.4 points a game.

The best other Big Six team has done was the 15.4 margin registered by the aforementioned 1936 Kansas club Ohe other casualty caused by the 'army: the game in" Omaha Thursday may be called off altogether, or Kansas may play using only its se-! cond team. No matter what pens, Dr. F. C. Allen, Kansas coach, already has said that for his money Creighton is the Mis-1 souri- Valley-Big Six representative in the N.C.A.A.

playoffs since Kansas obviously couldn't compete with its teami busy at more important chores. The Standings W. L. Pet. Pts Opps.

Kansas 8 0 1.000 388 249 Oklahoma. 5 3 .625 368 302. 5 3 349 5 4 .555 364. 415 Ta. 2 7 .222 288 370 K.

0 8 .000 268 3461 Results Last Week Missouri 31 Iowa State 23 Kansas 52 Nebraska 33 Kansas 42 Oklahoma 35 Missouri 42 Kansas State 34 Nebraska 51 Iowa State 36 Games This Week Nebraska at Oklahoma (tonight) Kansas at Missouri (Tuesday) Freshmen vs. Missouri day) Missouri at Oklahoma (Saturday) Warmerdam Sets Vault Record 7 Californian Cornelius Warmerdam in the National AAU indoor ter 15 feet for the 28th time record. vaulted 15 feet 3 7-8 inches championships at New York to betand establish a new AAU indoor SPORTS ROUNDUP SPORTS ROUNDUP EY HUGH FULLERTON, JR. NEW YORK, March 1-(A) Our old friend, Mr. Reliable Source, passes around the tip that southern California is cancelling football game with notre Dame, scheduled for next fall and that Stanford will follow suit reason is transportation, and all bands 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. playing! typical freshman-team schedule. The question now arises: How many kids almost 18 years old its worth while to go. to I think college for one season unless some good inducements are of-! fered? Inducation Ruction If Leo Durocher gets a new suit of Khaki, The quest for a pilot may drive Brooklyn whacky, For Rickey's been hoping there might be a slip, In the army's attempt to button his lip. Monday By winning his fourth straight national three mile ship 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 belowhelping build Camp Shacks at Orangeburg, N. Mushky Jackson is sporting a coat of tan he never could get on (Jacobs Beach. The Indians' -Today's Sport Parade.

Former Senegambian Menace Is Doing a Gandhi for His Health BY JACK CUDDY United Press Correspondent NEW YORK, March 1-(UP) Harry Wills, the Harlem landlord will be concerned little with food rationing this month. The! ring's former "Black and "Senegambian Menace" bebegan his annual 30-day fast day. Big Harry--always modest except when comparing his past "prowess with that of Jack that he is trying to take the spotlight away from Mahatma Gandhi, who is doing a bit of fasting over in Poona, India. "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 entrance -tell him 1o cause he owns the building. He owns another one too. For 30 days the former heavyweight contender will exist only on "Adam's ale," a more commonly known as water. During the abstention, Wills will lose from 30 to 45 However, he doesn't go through the ordeal to reduce. He does it to.

"burn the impurities" out. of this system. Despite his and his fondness for fried chicken and pork chops, Harry never permitted himself to get fat. tipped the scales this morning The Army Learns About Women From WAACS--- ---And What It Learns Is: 'Women Are Good Soldiers' By PAUL HARRISON DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. March 1-The U.

S. Army, which never! before hired any female help' for military duties, has learned about women from WAACs. It's learning, anyway. At first, Army officers assigned to estabfish 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 troped through a maze of new regulations involving everything from cosmetics to 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 treatment, 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 to- old-fashioned foolishness about feminine frailty. Then thousand WAACs are a good deal healthier than 10,000 average Army men.

As for intelligence, their tests rate higher than the Army average. The WAACs are better educated, too; a recently processed group of several hundred averaged 12 years of schooling. There are no cold figures to prove that the women-in-khaki 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 superiorities are that WAACs are volunteers, average 27 years of age (which is above the Army level), and have to meet especially strict physical requirements before being accepted. They include many career women. "The women are patriotic in al purely objective way," said Brig. Gen.

Don C. Faith, commandant of all the WAACs. "Also, a very large majority have a close male relative in the armed TEXANS FEUDING OVER BASEBALL Two League Presidents Engage In Patriotic Verbal Battles ATLANTA, March (UP) Southern Association president "Billy" Evans made! it plain today that his league would make iis own decision about operating this season and that if any "stop" signal was ordered for baseball, it come from the rather than J. Alvin Gardner, president of the defunct Texas League. Apparently irked "by a state-! ment issued by gardner in Dallas Saturday in which the Texas league president charged that baseball competes with the war effort and should fold 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 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 league suspension a "patriotic! sacrifice" and said the only 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 that baseball in the south has! i millions of dollars invested property rights and player contracts." "The Southern Association ilieves its public wants baseball. It. knowledge to the contrary: The public will register its decision at the turnstiles when the season -HORSE CENTRAL WINS M.

C. A. TITLE KANSAS CITY, March 1-(AP Just to show you how easy it is to figure out basketball in advance most of the M.C.A. said before the season started they expected Valley to repeat. If nct Missouri Valley, then it would be Drury or Westminster.

So Culver-Stockton and tral fought it out in swell a finish as one could hope for, Central clipping C-S in the final two games last weekend, 32 to 28 and 31 to 29. It took a field goal in the final four seconds, a dribble in for a setup by Central center Warren Pettigrew, to give Central. its title. LIPPY LED DUROCHER REJECTED BY ARMY NEW YORK, March Leo (The Lip) Durocher, manag-1 er of the Brocklyn Dodgers, was rejected by the army today because of a perforated ear-drum. The Indian words hoe" meaning "light on the mountains," gives us the state of Idaho.

We've Lot a bunch of widows." She "Made the Jesture" 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 misfits, moral and temperamental: It is privately and generally believed here, by WAACs themselves, 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 to 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. ringer 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 in camp life. Girls who have led exceptionally sheltered lives sometimes are shocked by the lack of privacy. A sensible talk- ing-to usually brings an ment in their ideas of propriety.

U. S. Bomber Hovers Over Italian Tanker 3 An empty Italian tanker is sighted through the glass-enclosed cockpit of a U. S. B25 bomber as American plancs raided Axis shipping off Nazi-held Bizerte, Tunisia.

The tanker, escorted by two Italian was hit and left: in smoke. THREE DIE, 2 OTHERS INJURED IN FIRE BELL CITY, March 1 (AP) 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 tworoom dwelling here early Sunday. Cade succeeded in carrying his 3-year old granddaughter 10 safety and they were taken to a hospital where their condition today was reported as serious, Mrs. Cade and the other two children, Inoa 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.

DEATHS LAST NIGHT (By the Associated Press) BOSTON, March 1-(AP)-Dr. Arthur S. MacLean, 62, founder and dean of the Portia Law school which for 30 years was the only exclusive women's institution of its kind, died last night. NEW YORK, March 1-(AP)-. 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. It's "phooey to old-fashioned foolishness about feminine frailty" when you look over the WAACs Daytona Beach, Fla. Samples. Sure the energetic baseball players at left and the husky life-guard WAAC Navy Reveals Phenomenal Plane Engine BY PETER EDSON HARTFORD, March 1- Development of an aircraft line so powerful that it promises to revolutionize not only the war in the air but the future of commercial aviation as well can now be revealed. It goes well 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-! struction, fuel consumption, and mechanical improvements incorporated in the new engine are still considered aviation secrets, and the speeds and ratel 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 1 to reality 400-mile an hour flight. 2. the engine is no mere laboratory test model. 3. So far have engincering land 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 that look like something out of a Sunday supplement pipe dream.

4. While developed primarily for Naval aircraft, this new gine has definite post-war compotentialities because the engineering improvements that have been incorporated in its design give higher efficiency in both pounds-weight per horsepower and fuel consumption per pound load than are found in even 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 cylin-; ders and the improved mechanical cooling, super-charging of fuel in-put and other advanced engincering that the engine achieves its phenomenal performance. Development of this engine has cost an estimated $2,000,000 Rescarch 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 engine 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 I combat for the first time. WASHINGTON, March 1-(AP Steve Vasilakos, 58, peanut vendor near the White House grounds who saw 'American presidents come and go for more than 30 years, died last night.

He was a native of Greece. (make harder plans to keep his 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 added the Yale Public Relations job to his football coaching duties. Quote, Unquote When an inquiring reporter recently asked owner George P.

Marshall how the Washington Redskins. expected 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." Todays Guest Star C. M. Gibbs, Baltimore Sun: "William Cox, new Phil owner, is the youngest club owner in the big circuits. He is 33.

He is both young. and robust. He probably will need both the ism of youth and the robustness of his six-food frame to carry him through some of the real spots he is almost certain to encounter." Service Dep't Johnny Mariucci, former Chicago Black Hawk now starrfor the Curtis Bay, Coast Guard hockey outfit, turned down a chance for: a navy commission to join the Coast Guard. The inducement wasn't hockey, but 3 post as player coach on the football team. Prt.

Leason McCloud, former Colorado U. basketballer. couldn't pass the test of vision when he was an army aviation cadet but he still can see the basket well enough to score 24 points for the South Plains Army Flying school team 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 Irish variety any time.

Still on the old job. Week's Best Line Harry Markson, recalling the Bronx cheers after Beau Jack was given the decision over Fritzie Zivic last month: "Promotor Mike Jacobs thrilled to that swell expression of dis-! approval." SPORTS MIRROR (By the Associated Press) TODAY A YEAR AGO-Herman Van Putten and Mrs. E- laine Bogda Grodon won titles in North America indoor speed skating championships. THREE YEAR AGO--Henry Armstrong, 142, drew with Ceferino Garcia, 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 greatcr strength. Wills became, interesed. He tried fasting and was picased with its results that he made it an annual feature of his training. MOSCOW, March 1--(AP)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 1--(AP Gen. Leopoldo Trevino Garza, chief of the Mexican secret police and a former mayor Monterrey, died last night. DURWOODDUBINSKY BROS. CAPITOL Thru Saturday Yesterday's Crowds Acclaimed It the Outstanding Picture of 1943! RONALD COLMAN GREER GARSON in JAMES HILTON'S RANDOM HARVEST NOTE! FIRST NIGHT FEATURE STARTS at 1:25 SEE IT FROM THE START! STATE LAST. 2 DAYS 2 BIG HITS! "CITY WITHOUT MEN" Linda Darnell Ed.

Buchanan Music! "Reveille with Beverly" With 4 BIG NAME BANDS! lat 245 pounds which is not excess weight for a chap standing six feet two--a chap who tapers down from huge shoulders. At: his fighting peak, Harry regis-! tered about 220 pounds. This will be Harry's 33rd annual fast. He began fasting--not strictly from hunger first year as a professional fighter, back in 1911. He continued it during his career, which ended with a fourth-round knockout by Paulino Uzcudun in 1927.

Some of Wills' critics accused him of using the fast as a 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 McVey times; Bill Tate eight times, and who knocked out Gunboat Smith and Fred Fulton, is now 51 years old. He was born at New in 1892, year that Jim Corbett wrested the heavyweight crown from John L. Sullivan: in that same Crescent City. Because of his 32 previous Casts, Wills estimates that he has gone a total of two years and eight months without food.

Back in 1911- when Harry was working, between bouts, for the Texas Pacific railway as a switchman, a yardmaster him about reading a book which claimed. fasting would give IF YOU FAIL TO RECEIVE YOUR Post-Tribune Phone 5000 Before 6:30 P. M. A Special Messenger Will Deliver You: Paper. The Evening POST- -TRIBUNE A.