Gainesville Daily Register and Messenger (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 128, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 26, 1944 Page: 4 of 6
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The Parisians had taken the
lead early in the first quarter and
conference win over the Texas
Aggies in initiate loop play for
the axis. Cables are sent directly
to Geneva, Switzerland, and for-
warded from there to countries
now dominated by axis powers.
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with a two-point lead until the
final gun.
Only one point separated the
two teams at the conclusion of
the first quarter, the visitors
holding a 6-5 margin, but the
Wildcats clearly outplayed the
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turn bout with Beau Jack
and the game
visitors had another toss at the
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Auga Lee Mathis, 14, of Leo,
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A brass rolling mill red
accident frequency rate
to 4.3 in a year by foil
realistic safety program.
X-ray examination of new pa-
tients in mental hospitals is be-
lieved to be an effective means
of tuberculosis control in large
communities.
The seeds of the cocoa tree once
were used as money in Mexico.
LEO, Jan. 26.—Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Fletcher and family of Mar-
ietta, Oida., Mr. and Mrs. Jack
ach, jerky nerves, loss of i
underweight, digestive con
weakness, poor complexion I
the count with the score 39-36,
missing a free throw and a crip
that rolled out of the hoop. Kelly
Avery paced the Bear scoring
with 14 points and Aggie Charley
Weihbaum led his mates with
ten.
Other Games This Week
Thursday—Arkansas vs. Okla-
homa A. and M. at Stillwater.
Friday—Rice vs. Texas Christian
at Fort Worth, Texas vs. South-
ern Methodist at Dallas, Arkan-
sas vs. Oklahoma A. and M. at
Tucker, who up until that time
had played listless ball, Shoved
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tive service when his regiment
was called up in October, 1940.
The outfit was trained at
Camp Claiborne, where they
participated in Louisiana ma-
• neuvers. Of which McCarthy
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Malaria finally caught up with
Mac and he was returned to the
United States and entered Brooke
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LOYAL AMERICANS, young and old, are being
asked to put every possible dime and dollar into the purchase of War Bonds and Stamps, that
there may be ample funds for die putchae of tanks, planes, ships and other vital equipment
necessary to Victory. So let’s all "Back the Attack" by buying extra War Bonds during the
Fourth War Loan Drive, while continuing to buy Bonds and Stamps consistently. You will
find War Bonds and Stamps on sde a any distfic odce of Tegas Power & Light Company.
Leoparts Stage Eate Rally
To Defeat Paris, 22 20,
Meet Denten Here Tonight
Gainesville High eagers climbed a notch in the District 5-AA
basketball race here TuMday night when they staged a last period
rally to overcome a Paris lead and nose out the Wildcats by a score
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Members of the county com-
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Last Lap of Race
GEORGETOWN, Jan. 26 (P) —
The Southwestern University
basketballers, with eight vic-
tories and five defeats for the
season, enter the last lap of the
schedule tonight when they meet
Co. 103 of Camp Swift at Catop
Swift .
Friday night they play Camp
Hulen in Georgetown and Sat-
urday night engage Corsicana air
field at Corsicana.
February 5 they play Kelly
field here and Feb. 12 wind up
the season with Camp Swift on
the local court.
Coach C. A. Sheets’ Pirates
have chalked up 610 points for
the season and their opponents
show 539.
Twenty-one-years old, McCar-
i graduate of the Grand
Mich., high school. He
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ous terrain necessitated leaving
much equipment behind. Often
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Fletcher re-
CMF. and Mrs. J. C. Wilson and
sons of Muenster visited Mr. and
Mrs. Clifford Pruett Sunday.
Miss Jodie Fortenberry of Hap-
py, Texas, spent the weekend
with Mr. and Mrs. W E. Forten-
berry and other relatives.
Mrs. Walter Fletcher and chil-
dren of Dallas spent the weekend
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R.
M. Lawson, at Hood.
Mrs. Ted Moss and daughter of
Grand Prairie visited Mr. and'
Mrs. T. G. Moss Saturday night. ;
Miss Allie Bell Mathis spent J
the weekend with friends at Sy-
camore.
Mrs. J. B Cogbum is ill of in-
fluenza.
Mr. and Mrs. Finis Hickerson
and son of Slidell spent Sunday
the men went for a week on ra-
tions of only a spoonful of canned
willie a day. Water was plenti-
ful, however. That and nerve
kept the men going. L
“At times we would find our
lines within 20 yards of the Jap
positions,” he said. “We couldn’t
see them though, because the
denseness of the jungle cut visi-
bility to only a few yards.”
In one engagement trails
used by the ration parties of both
sides crossed each other, and at
one point the same trail was used
By The Associated Press
In a wild basketball game at
College Station last night, Bay-
lor’s Bears clawed their way to
a hard-earned 42-39 Southwest
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Leopards in the second quarter,
scoring a half-dozen points while i__
holding the hometown quintet to lor’s
The Leopards cut Paris’ lead in
the third period to four poihts, —
where it remained until the last the. week,
four minutes of play. Horwitz
slipped one in from in front and in conference play, their other
Tucker tied it up with a twist victory also having been at the
shot. He hit the bucket again to' Aggies’ expense earlier in that
give Gainesville her first lead season. It was the Aggies’ fifth
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KANSAS CITY' Jan. 26 (P) —
Hammerin’ Henry Armstrong,
romping along the comeback
trai, won another knockout vicz.
tory here last night and a host
of well-wishers in his quest for
at least one of the three titles he.
Oklahoma City. Saturday—Texas
vs. Texas Christian at Fort
Worth, Rice vs. Southern Meth-
odist at Dallas, Arkansas vs. Phil-
lips Oilers at Bartlesville, Texas
A. and M. vs. Medical Service
school, Fort Sam Houston at San
Atonio.
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The locals now enjoy a mark
of .500 in the conference race,
having won two and lost two.
They hold victories over Bon-
ham and Paris but have lost tilts
to Sherman and Denison. - They
face Bonham again here Friday
night. ‘
Some Funny Stuff
In a farce setto between halves
a group of second-stringers en-
tertained the crowd, largest of the
season, with a short fracas, one
team in dresses, the other wear-
ing boxing gloves.
Another cage game was reeled
off between a quintet from Camp
Howze and Eighth Service Com-
mand M. P.s from Dallas, the
Howze loopers winning, 40 to 30.
Pfc. Mueller, Howze center, was
easily the outstanding star of this
well played game.
Tonight the Leopards face the
Denton High Brones, one of the
stronger teams of District 6-AA,
in a double feature. The B"
teams meet at 6:30, While the fea-
ture tilt between the Leopard
regulars and Brones is scheduled
to get underway at 7:30.
Front Page Is All Ads
TAMPA, Fla. UP).—The “Lon-
don Times” has nothing on the r
Drew Field “Echoes,” Army!
newspaper here, which recently'
went “British” with a front page ‘
made up of classified ads. The'
“Echoes” features free classified
advertising to military personnel
and is believed to be the only;
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the salaries of the commission- ■
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land, other taxable pirqperties ■
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Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Es- some instances which resulted in ' ■
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Germany, Greece, Holland,_ Hun-; sioners court members will re- “-
ceive $150 per month since the
salary cut has become effective.
Slight Damage in
Two Local Fires
Only slight damage resulted
from a fire Tuesday at 4:58 p. m.
at the home of S. I. D. Magers,
We’ve got one now in the 103d with tog
Infantry Division — Pvt. Charles RAR. W
L. McCarthy, recently transferred -ss—
from Brooke General Hospjta to the Jape.
Co. K, 411th Infantry regiment
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once held.
Shortly after the bout, the Ne-
gro’s manager, George P. Moore,
announced they were moving on
eastward, that he had signed
Armstrong for a 10-round bout _
with Lew Hanbury in Washing- United States to any axis country
The former featherweight-lgbt-
weight -welterweight ..king
knocked out Saverio Turiello of
New York in the seventh round
of their scheduled 12-rounder-
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ringsiders to Hammerin’ Henry s
hopes so much as it was the man-
ner in which he did it.
Like the “perpetual motion of
old, he never stopped shooting
his triphammer blows, both arms
constantly swinging. Three times
before the finish, Turiello was
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Berry, Mr. and Mrs. J. Look oi 1202 North Grand avenue. The
LosAngeles, Calif., John i Cook, blaze started apparently from a
of Handley and Frank Cook, ma -| heating stove, and the small
chinist 8 mate 2-, stationed in amount of damage which resulted
the Panama canal zone, visited
rEHE LEOPARDS finally won
F themselves another district
ball game, beating the invading
Paris Wildcats here last night,
22 to 20, though it looked for
quite some time like they were
going to toss it away. The locals
were badly off shooting form last
night, missing three-fourths of
their shots at the bucket, and
their passing was even worse.
However, they had the stuff to
put on a late rally and nose out
the visitors, and after all it’s
winning that counts in the per-
centage column.
WE FIGURE THE best game
the Leopards have played to date
is the one they lost to Sherman.
Since then they have failed to
show any progress. In fact, they
haven’t looked as good to this
writer. Maybe they’ll snap out of
it when they face Sherman and
Denison again, the two teams
that have licked ’em. They’ll
have to if they ,expect to win.
And Paris will prove tougher on
their own court.1 So, there’s no
easy road ahead for the boys in
their conference race for cage
honors.
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TWO FIGHTERS WHO are on
comeback trails were highly suc-
cessful last night in the two top
bouts of the week. Henry Arm-
strong, the Hammerin’ Whirl-
wind, knocked out Saverio Turi-
ello of New York in the seventh
round of their 12-rounder in
Kansas City. Henry was once
holder of three titles. He hopes
to regain at least one of these.
In another scrap, Bob Mont-
zomery, another dusky fighter,
lasted Ike Williams, a very
promising boxer, scoring a
knockout in the “12th round.
for a short distance. Chie day an
American ration party bumped
_ . into a similar party of Japs. The
vice president Nip officer opened fire with a .31
e----e na- caliber pistol. His piece jammed
____________ after the first round. By now the
BaykorCagers
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Over Williams
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 26 (A)—
Bob Montgomery today was on
the comeback trail toward his
lost lightweight title with fire in
his eye after blasting Ike Wil-
liams, the Trenton, N. J., Terror
into oblivion in the last round of
their scheduled 12-rounder at
Convention hall last night.
x Pointing toward his promised
return title match with Beau
Jack, the Philadelphia Bobcat
hammered Williams mercilessly
for 11 rounds. The end came for
the Trenton lightweight in two
minutes and 49 seconds of the fi-
nal stanza.
while the pistol is at his h00^-.
The Japanese need leadership,
he said, and are apt to become
panic stricken when left on their
own. They don’t like the bayonet
at all. McCarthy said he heard
stories of how the Japs turned
and fled into the ocean trying to
swim away from the wildly
charging Aussies on Gona Beach.
At one time last night the Ag- , TV HARMON BACK FROM WAR ZONES—Lt. Tom Harmon,
“jongshot’from the side court Igies were ahead 10-3, but the former, Al America football player at the University of Michigan,
but alain Tucker found the net' Bears spurted to take a 21-19 tels of combat experience Jan. 24 upon return from 11 months of
8 ended before the halftime lead. In the last period 1 duty inNorth Africa and China as a U. S. Army Air Forces fighter
ended Denore tne AL- A--- ------- a-: pilot. He has been credited with shooting down two Jap zeros He
is shown here in Washington.—(AP Wirephoto.)
i He’s back from 19 months’ ser-
vice in the South Pacific, includ-
ing two months of combat duty in
the Port Moresby area of New
Guinea.
McCarthy’s, outfit, the 126th In-
fantry Regiment of the 32nd Divi-
sion, was first thrown into action
in the Sanananda area on Nov.
22, 1942. They were in combat
without relief for two months.
McCarthy was operating in the
chairborne infantry as company
clerk when his outfit tangled
with the Japs. Because of a
shortage of men, clerks and ev-
eryone else had to do front line
combat duty.
• One time his regiment started
to bivouac in a convenient area.
The men were busy airing and
drying equipment when the Nips
opened up with machine gun fire.
McCarthy’s company had but a
limited number of entrenching
shovels.
“When the Japs opened fire, we
dug in with anything handy—
cups, mess tins and even our bare
hands—but we dug!”
Jap control of the available air-
Philadelphia Negro beat Williams
"5 unmercifully throughout the bout
but was unable to put him away
until the final stanza. The re-
r turn match with Jack should be
a dilly.
BETCHA THE BAYLOR Bears
. would like to play the Aggies all
the remainder of this season. The
Bruins have won but two confer-
ence games and each time the
Cadets were the victims. Last
night Baylor eked out on the di-
minutive Aggies by three points
to move up in the conference
standings. This was the first of
several games booked in the con-
ference this week.
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name to conjure with in pre-World War I days, through the eari
20’s, still has the hearty smile as he sits at his desk as yl iIL5m '
of a Chicago dairy (left) that he had in 1922 when he led the na-
tion’s links amateurs (right).—(AP Wirephoto).
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TONIGHT THE BOYS run into
Denton High's Brones, a team
. that’s always been good in the
cage sport. It was this same
school that knocked the Leopards
out of the running for state hon-
ors a few years ago. The 1944
Brones aren't so potent as that
outfit, but they’re tough enough
to give the Leopards all the com-
petition they’re Ioking for. But
, this makes for an Interesting tus-
• sle, so win or lose the boys will
present entertainment. The
crowds, we’re happy to say, are
growing steadily, tome down
and enjoy the fun. The first
game starts at 6:30, the feature
attraction at 7:30.
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Coach Lambert of Arkansas, who
boasts a Ph. D. handle to his
iame, proposes that a new cage
2” 3 rule be made, prohibiting lanky
players from touching a ball
" tossed at the basket on its down-
ward flight. That would elimi-
nate so many “beanpoles” from
Slapping the ball out of the net,
he figures. Well, he probably has
somethin? there, but it seems
funny that an Arkansas man
should make the proposal, for the
Porkers are usually the tallest
men on earth—well, almost.
COACH HOMER NORTON
doesn’t mind coaching the Texas
Aggies—that’s what he’s being
paid for—but he doesn’t relish
tutoring players for his oppo-
nents in the Southwest confer-
ence. That’s his reason for not
holding spring football practice.
Last year he staged workouts for
44 grid ‘candidates and when the
season rolled around only nine of
*em were there to "do or die’’ for
dear old Aggieland, others play-
ing with college clubs elsewhere,
being transferred by the Navy.
This time he’ll wait until late
, summer or early fall to start his
work. Who could blame him!
MAJOR LEAGUE baseball
clubs aren’t too short on talent—
. not at present, but at the rate
players are being drafted, pros-
pects for a good season are any-
thing but bright. Saddest. or per-
haps most pessimistic, of the mo-
; guls is Sam Breadon of the St.
, Louis Cards, who to save him is
unable to see how his team will
operate. Well, there’s been plen-
tf of evidence that sports is a
great boost to morale in this
country but if military officials
think otherwise, then there’s
• nothing to do but fold up for the
duration. Right now they’re
bossin’ the job of beating Hitler
• and Tojo.
SIGNS GIANT CONTRACT
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 26
(P—Ace Adams, member of the
New York Giant pitching staff (
for the past three years, has been
rejected for military service be-
cause of a knee injury and has
signed hit 1944 contract with the
Giants, the Nashville Tennes-
seean said.
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