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THE SUMTER DAILEY ITEM SUMTER Friday March 16 1945 PAGE TWO i iirr -i'M i Teams To NC Meet Hold Everything Pro Golfers Keep Up Low Scoring Streaks In Tournament Boston Red Sox Manager May Take Over First Base As Regular Post This morning the following boys composing the Junior and Midget basketball teams left for High Point to participate in the interstate basketball tournaments to be held today and Saturday They were accompanied by Carl Link general secreary of the YMCA Shaw Leslie Boney and Ray Fidler Midgets: Henry Bynum Vernon Baldwin Free Russell Hurst Walter Mathis Gilbert Bradham Gus Pringle Bobby Broadwell Hugh McLaurin Frank Strange Hugh Humphries and Joe Ramsey Juniors: Kirby Jackson Jack fU Baseball Fans Here Await Coming Season With spring around the corner Sumter sports fans are beginning to scan the horizon for a sign of the coming baseball season The diamond outlook is of great interest to them and a number of inquiries have reached the sports desk Harry A Davis of the American Legion Junior Baseball Committee here said today that it is expected thiat there will be a Legion team Chandler Cuttino this season as has been the custom Trotter Baldwin Free for many years Furthermore in-Garris Owens Hartin dilations are that the coach will and Waters bq none other than Congressman Jcihn Riley That Mr Riley will be the mentor as he has been in the past is not an announced fact but merely a hope at present Mr Davis said Bill Eldridge a member of the Baseball Commission of Sumter said this morning that he has not heard so far whether or not the City Team inaugurated last year would be in operation again this season He has sounded out Shaw Field on the baseball question however to discover that plans are at a standstill there at present due to the situation at the field A nine from the flying field will probably be organized it is expected if an influx of new talent is forthcoming shortly Whether or not the brown-out order will affect night baseball here is not known Henry Chapelle Belgium March (Delayed) JP) All day long Sgt Roy Steinhauser of Fresno Calif sits before a wooden table in a small Belgian farmhouse and lists dead effects Most American soldiers carry three things into battle a picture of someone they love a religious article of some kind and an American dollar bill is a typical he said Texas Coach Sees Postwar Sports Boom Austin Texas March 16 (jP) Those football players who marched away to war are going to come back and take up just where they left off and it will be a major factor in a great sports boom when the conflict is at an end Bible veteran University of Texas coach believes He think the brutality of battle and the harrowing experiences will tage away the enthusiasm of youth for athletics Bible who bases his opinion on letters movies and what he knows about football players over a period of three decades of coaching is a veteran of World War I letters from boys who have had their College careers interrupted by war the word invariably comes: am living for the day when have the hack together Bible said there is the desire expressed by our armed services for sports to be carried on as The university has many requests for films of its football games and has sent them to hospitals Army flying fields and to American units overseas every company find a Texan or Bible explained want the pictures to keep up with the sports program back home and sure the same with the other colleges of the country that a good indication that still interested and are planning to return to LAST NAZI OFFICE MOVED 3-6 COPft 194S 8V NEA SERVICE INC REG PAT Charlote March 16 (A5) The lcw-scoring rash that broke out before Christmas showed no signs of letting up today as the touring golf professionals turned into the home stretch of the hottest winter campaign In history And the same boys were still doing the scoring Samuel Jackson Snead and Lord Byron Nelson who between them have won all but three of these open tournaments Snead shooting for a record seventh victory in a dozen tournaments as the Charlotte Open for $10000 in war bonds got under way today signalized he was ready by a typical Snead round three bogeys three birdies and a remarkable three eagles in the pro-amateur preliminary Nelson four times a winner in 13 open meets and leading in earnings had only one eagle but he strokes in five birdies on the last five holes in a typical Nelson finish and thereby picked up first money His own card showed 65 A field of 192 pros and ama teurs was entered in the 72-hole event which will wind up with an 18-hole final round Monday EXTENDED FORECAST For period ending 7:30 March 21 Continued warm throughout period except slightly cooler Monday scattered showers and thunder-showera Sunday and in west portion Wednesday Chicago Cubs Roy Hughes and Andy Pafko in first workout: Pitcher George arrival swells squad to 16 Phil Cava-retta and Paul Erickson are holdouts Philadelphia Phillies Squad of 13 expected to be increased today with arrival of Pitchers Ken Raf-fensberger Mitchell Chetkovich and Catcher Gus Mancuso Philadelphia Glasses worn for the first time helping Joe Cicero veteran minor leaguer to belt ball all over the field Luther Knerr 13 -game winner with Toronto last year signed Pitcher Don Black and Outfielder Ed Levy still holdouts St Louis Browns Rain forced first indoor drill Rookie Pitcher A1 Lamacchia showed speed Hurler John Miller reecntly discharged from Army arrived Chicago White Sox Ed Lopat winner of 11 games last year signed up as rain forced squad of 19 to work out under stands Brooklyn Dodgers Outfielder Luis Olmo and Rookie Pitcher By Buker who won 11 and lost 2 for St Paul sign contracts Shortstop Bill Hart Pitcher Clyde King and Outfielders Red Durrett and Max Aderholt arrive in camp Washington Senators Nine Latins report along with Jake Powell and Ed Butka and Jim Langley New York March 16 (P)1 Beginning his 20th year in the leagues Manager Joe Cronin of the Red Sox generally regarded as one of greatest shortstops of the last two decades may become regular first baseman this season Cronin who passed the military draft age last October 12 never played the initial sack until last year when the tardy appearance of Lou Finney coupled with the sale of Tony Luplen to the Philadelphia Phillies led the jut-jawed Irishman to don the first mitt He appeared in 76 games and hit 241 including five homers Cronin brought the same mitt to camp with him Wednesday and emphasized his attempt yesterday by slamming the first batting patch over the left field fence With Finney gone into the service and George Met-kovich who was expected to hold down tWe in 1A Cronin may reach the 100-games-played mark for the first time since 1941 Other training camp notes: Detroit Tig(rs Squad (reached 12 with arrival of Pitchers Hal Newhouser and Frank Overmire Newhouser said make sure he could pitch nine innings before season starts as he believed three-inning jobs in spring training was not enough to tune up his arm you just pass notes the -way the others V-D CLINIC MAY REBUILD Game Fish Group Asks Those Planning: To Join To Do So Some 620 sportsmen have paid their 1945 dues of $1 and have received their invitations to the spring barbecue supper-moeting at Edmunds High school next Thursday night when Dr Archibald Rutledge will be the guest speaker Membership Is open to men boys ladles and girls who are Interested in conservation of our natural resources of game and fish forests and streams If you wish to join and attend the supper your 1 must be sent in at bnce to the Game and Pish association Court House Sumter so that your name can be in the by Tuesday March 20 ROBERT BROWN Secretary -Treasurer Taday On The Heme Front BY JAMES MARLOW Washington March 16 (P) Fred Vinson new boss of the lioan agwicfc has now had his first news conference The score: no hits no runs no errors He Just sat still sucked on his pipe When a reporter tossed a verbal baanbag his way Vinson tossed it back No one was hurt and Vinson say anything anyone could get mad at This made him a full-fledged member of the how-not-to-stick-your-neck-out club The dark-haired middle-aged Kentuckian former Congressman former Federal judge and former Director of Economic Stabilization got his new Job from the President who fired Old Loan Boss Jesse Jones Vinson hasn't been the talkative type in government service In the past two years while he Ya economic stabilizer he had only one news conference So this one yesterday was the second in Columbia March 16 (A5) Replacement of the state rapid therapy clinic for treatment of vene-really-diseased women will be sougjit BY' McElveen of the state board of health from federal agencies The clinic recently was dam: ged by fire Thle word mascot originated in Provence and Gascony and meant something which brought luck to a household Fatalism is the doctrine that all things happen according to a prearranged fate necessity or inexorable decree mans set about to build a diversionary line It was this newly built route the only one remaining open that Sergeant bomb group slashed on its 700th combat mission London March 16 (IP) The last Nazi office has been moved from Berlin and all high officials now are in southern Germany where big foodstocks have been stored up the Moscow radio said today in a German-language broadcast News Of Out Men Women In the Service TISDALE WINS COMBAT INFANTRY BADGE SUMTER SOLDIER IN ARMY HOSPITAL Augusta Ga Private Richard Capell of 34 Dugan st Sumter has arrived at the Ar-mys Oliver General hospital here and is now a patient on Ward 22 Oliver General has over 2000 a 7 man Badge for actual participation beds and boasts its own golf With the Fifth Army Italy Arthur Tisdale Jr whose wife Winifred Tisdale lives at 112 Broad street Sumter ma chine-gunner has been cited by the 361st Infantry Regiment of the 91st River' Division and awarded the Combat Infantry find it hard to deny anything although much political opposition to him Add to this the fact that the labor party is suffering from a dearth of outstanding leadership and the Churchillian position seems strong Of course much can happen between now and general election but the situation may develop like this: (that is the conservative party) may be given a majority in gratitude for his war leadership Then in the succeeding general election Socialist may come into power r- 500 othtr MONARCH Foods-all Just as Good I course in addition to 340 acres of beautifully landscaped surroundings 3000 hours of sunshine per year provide an excellent climate for patients Private Capell 37 has been in the Army nearly a year and served overseas with the infantry He came to the Oliver General March 12 after arriving at Mitchell Field He Is the husband of Mrs Muola Capell of the above two years Vinson called the conference He started it by reading a short statement He said he was grateful to he Presidnt and Congress for his new Job He said and no one could quarrel wih it that first task today is what it has been for many days to win the Afer the war be continued he would try to help American business in the task of full employment and attaining the goal of 60 million A woman reporter asked him if he had any specific ideas on how this country could provide 60 mil lion Jobs Vinson thought that over for a minute Then he reminded his listeners that he had used the phrase a of 60 million He said he thought there would be high employment after the war if there was a lot of consumer de- mand good wages and high prices This was a statement with which all sides in this country already agree: If there Is large consumer demand and good wages there ought to be good employment At this point Vinson was re minded that he now had the job over which Wallace and Jones contended He was asked whether he leaned toward the Wallace thinking or the Jones thinking Vinson said you get me into that Jones-Wal-lace fight be a good That settled that sort of but Someone recalled hat Wallace said the lending agencies' work should be broadened to do more for small business Did Vinson think so? Vinson asked if the reporter was assuming that the lending work now broad enough to help small business Vinson added: He does not discriminate between large business and small business He even anticipated a question and answered before it was asked He said: have a feeling that you would like a program (for operating the loan agencies) laid out today That might make a good story But on that I shall have to disappoint Vinson seem quite positive but he thought he might call some more news conferences Fire InsuRancE i ft CENTRAL INSURANCE AGENCY PARKER Mgr Phone 330 FORI) DEALERS BACK LEGION TEAMS If Ford Motor Company dealers throughout the nation rally behind he 1945 American Legion Junior Baseball program as wholeheartedly as the dealers in the Detroit arrea the season will shade enviable records of the two previous years Twenty-three out of 26 teams entered in the Detroit leagues this spring will have Ford dealer backing The Detroit auto men plan to uniform their players and to root actively for them Dealers that community interest will rise sharply this year because of a major league wartime ruling which hangs out the latch string to promising junior players with hearts set on big league futures The dealers dre not discounting the unmistakable draw-g power the regulation will have on all baseball hopefuls up to 18 The major league spotters under the rule can sign for play this summer right away any American Legion Junior baseball player who shows big league possibilities They can tap on the shoulder whomever they choose and bring to quick reality perhaps the dream of budding Babe Ruths Until this year they could scout teams biit not call players until the season ended Outstanding junior baseballers like Herman Wehmeier star pitcher for last championship Cincinnati team have in years past graduated into the ranks of the majors and the manpower shortage in the majors makes the opportunity all the greater this year Dealers of all Ford branches are ssurred the country will hear of the 1945 program according to company officials who report spontaneous response to recent suggestions that each branch name a livewire promoter to help the dealers again ball with the youth of The American Legion and its posts annually subscribe a million dollars in cash and equipment to underwrite the fast-growing baseball project which promotes sportsmanship and everything American The major leagues con-tribtue $25000 Ford dealers will sponsor roles by invitation and the Ford Motor Company since 1943 has furnished the silver rotating plaque to the champs Cincinnati branch dealers sponsored the Robert Bentley Post No 50 team which defeated the Albermarle runner-ups in the tvorld in Minneapolis last fall If Man and pointed at a handful of objects he was ready to pack for forwarding to the quartermaster depot in Kansas City to be checked again and sent to relatives On the table were a few letters a photograph of the dead wife or sweetheart a pocket knife a Catholic Saint medallion a pen and pencil and a one dollar bill is rare we find a frontline soldier who carrying a religious symbol of some said Steinhauser boys usually have a New Testament in their field jackets and Catholics have a Rosary or a St Christopher's Medal most of them usually have One or two dollar bills stuck away just for remembrance of the old From a window he can look out across shining white crosses stretching as far as the eye can see in the largest Allied cemetery! on the western front There are some 16000 Americans Belgians British French and Poles buried there although most are Americans and nearly 9000 Germans Among those 25000 graves are those for scores of Yanks killed in the infamous at the start of Von winter breakthrough Also buried there are thousands of the finest Nazi troops who died In that last vast gamble by Hitler for vtfctory Over one corner of the American section the Stars and Stripes flies at perpetual half staff flagpole was built by one engineering outfit as a memorial to one of its sergeants killed in said Lt John Me Kenna of Montclair who supervises Allied burials Lt Sam Herman of Jamaica directs the interment of German dead Graves are dug by hand by newly captured German prisoners eri route to rear areas Each day a new batch is brought over from the Army prisoner cages we had a little prisoner who was convinced we were com pelling him to dig his own said T-Sgt A Herberts of Ches ter 111 ranking non-com for both cemeteries thought we were going to shoot him when he finished and kept begging that he want to dig his own grave he just wanted time to -write his wife that he had died fighting for the Fatherland He was still unconvinced at the end of the day He thought he was being taken back to the prison camp to be shot Prisoners are directed by Pfc Ervin Kistner of Longmont Colo an efficient young soldier who still remembers German taught him as a boy by grandparents He under stands Nazi psychology perfectly and prisoners leap to obey his commands Maj John Day former Springfield 111 priest whose parents live af St Louis Mo Is one of the combat chaplains who take turns coming back from the front so that each day the dead soldier can be buried with ministrations of his own faith Father Day is a gaqtle-voiced man with a gentle outlook on life and it saddens him immeasurably to see these remnants of immortality put into the earth Turning to leave after the last soldier had been buried he waved toward the endless rows stretching across the green and muddy Belgian hills what is wrong with murmured LT WAINWTUGHT WITH ATC IN EUROPE Second Lieutenant Wilkinson Wainwright 216 Sumter st Sumter is now serving at an ATC base in Great Britain He Is a member of the European Division of the Air Transport Command Army Air Forces commanded by Brigadier General Earl Hoag As the trans-Atlantic aerial supply line between the United States and Europe the European Division operates hundreds of cargo and passenger planes monthly carrying important pas-sengens vital war cargo the all-important mail and returning the wounded American soldiers to the United States DOWN TO ONLY 106 LBS REGAINS 10 ON RET0N6A against the enemy on the Fifth Arrrfy front in northern Italy Standards for the badge are high The decoration is awarded to the infantry soldier who has proved his fighting ability in combat The handsome badge consists of a silver rifle set against a back ground of infantry blue enclosed In a silver wreath jj jgJ WALTER BOYLE WITH TH ARMY BATTALION 6th Army Group France mule pack train carrying supplies and artillery equipment struggled up hazardous mountain trails to the crest of a snow-covered ridge A short time later front-line infantry units fighting in the high altitudes of the French Alps were given close artillery support by a veteran field artillery battalion of Lt Gen Jacb 6th Army Group Working and fighting in the hitter cold is an old story to the men of the battalion As part of a task force which invaded Kiska Island in the Aleutian chain on August 15 1943 they landed on three different beaches batteries of the battalion going ashore with the assault infantry waves as reinforced cannon companies After setting up in defensive positions for three months it was recalled to the United States to reorganize for subsequent participation in the European Theater of Operations Arriving in Italy in March 1944 the battalion spent a short period in becoming acclimated and resupplied with pack artiller yequip-ment for fighting in the Italian mountains In the final drive on Rome it supplied constant artillery support to the advancing Allied Armies Shortly after the fall of Rome it received a new assignment as a glider-borne field artillery battalion Landing in Southern France on D-Day the battalion gave artillery support to two parachute infantry regiments pushing west along the coast and finally to the Franco-Italian border in the French Alps Throughout three campaigns of mountain fighting the battalion has put into practice the many lessons learned during its extensive training in the Colorado mountains The instruction was complete and exacting even in the use of skiis and snow shoes teaching the battalion how to fight the elements as well as the enemy Members of the battalion include First Lieutenant Walter Boyle of Sumter Mrs Kennedy Says She Felt About As Weak And Run Down As Anyone Could And Keep Going Retonga Far Beyond Her Then better tip her off that Stubbs Bros know the way to help the in your life We are not Dan Cupid but be glad to help pull string on his bow by helping her choose something useful and full of Spring A colorful selection of Spring Ties $1 to $250 Socks 35c to 65c Sport to $595 Dobbs $750 to $10 Adam Hats $5 to $750 Straw and Panama Hats $250 to $650 TAX NOTICE MRS KENNEDY Churchill Says Thousands of weak undernourished underweight men and women are gratefully praising Retonga for the relief this noted medicine gave them For instance Mrs Kennedy 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operator-gunner has not found favor with these returning supermen in the past because of its accurate bombing It has earned even less favor recently on Its 700th combat mission when it cut the final route leading to the pass by knocking out the San Michele bridge on the diversionary route of the Brenner Railroad was a long cold said the Sumter gunner it was worth it to see what our bombardiers did to that The Brenner Railroad crossed the Adige river at Ora south of the entrance to the pass and followed the west bank for a dis tance of about 15 miles when it again recrossed the stream at San Michele and continued down the east batik The two bridges on this route were vulnerable targets for MAAF bombers so the Ger- An additional penalty of 4 will be added to all unpaid taxes April 1st Look over your receipts and be sure that you have not omitted any item so there will be no execution with additional costs Books close on April 15th 1945 WALLACE County Treasurer Stubbs Bros ten pounds My 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