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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Thursday Evening, April 20, 1944
Ex-Air Base Officer
Dies in Plane trash
Formerly a group commander at —* —— - - '
the Abilene Army Air base, Lt. Col.
careers not only in the sports
In Home at Bonham—
NURSE BACK AFTER DODGING NAZIS IN ALBANI
Thomas Hitchcock Jr., 44, world-
famous polo star, has been killed
in an airplane crash at Salisbury,
England, during a routine flight.
. Presumably in England since
leaving Abilene when he was trans-
ferred to an undisclosed assign-
ment early this year, he came to
world but on the American scene.
Cnable to enlist in the U. S.
Army in World War I because
he was only 17, Hitchcock join-
ed the famous La Fayette es-
eadrille. He shot down two
enemy planes and fought bril-
liantly until he was downed
himself behind the German
lines.
Although wounded with a bullet
in the thigh, he escaped and made
his way to Switzerland. Later he
returned to the United States, was
graduated from Harvard. He then
began making polo history.
Born to the saddle. Tommy play-
ed his first game of polo when 13
and appeared in tournament play
at 16.
His late father was one of the
country's best-known horsemen and
captained the first American in-
ternational polo team in 1886. His
mother, also dead, was called
"Mother of American polo.” She
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TOMMY HITCHCOCK
——the base here last December to
command the 408th Fighter Bomb-
er group, a P-31 Mustang group. In
England he was assistant military
attache for air at the American
embassy and commanded a P-51
Mustang group in the 9th Air Sup-
port Command.
His death was disclosed by his
family in New York, who said they
had received a cablegram from
Ambassador John G. Winant.
The polo player's death brought
to an end one of the most colorful
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developed many of the nation's
leading players.
Tommy's first star role in inter-
national polo competition was in
1921 when he was 21 years old.
Riding with Louis E Stoddard, J.
Watson Webb and Devereaux Mil-
burn, he aided in winning back the
international cup from Great Brit-
ain.
The following year the spectacu-
lar player was handicapped at the
top ranking of 10 goals, a status
he held until 1940 with the excep-
tion of 1935.
His fast and daring game did not
leave him unscathed. He suffered
several head injuries and once
played out a game although suf-
fering from a concussion. He re-
tired from the game in 1940.
Hitchcock was born to Aiken, 8.
c. on Feb. 11, 1900. He is survived
by his wife, the former Margaret
Mellon Laughlin, and four chil-
dren. -----------—
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SAVED BY GRACE F
THROUGH FAITH AUSTIN, April 20.—(P)—Chief
---------Driver’s License Examiner A. F.
“By grace are ye saved through Temple went to the Rio Grande
faith; and that not of yourself: It Valley to give a special examination
is the gift of God: Not of works, to a 98-year-old applicant.
lest any man should boast” (Eph.- The old gentleman easily red the
2:8, 9). "Ye see then how that by top line of letters on the eye chart,
works a man is justified, and not
EYEFUL TOWERS OVER BROADWAY—A hunk of painted pulchritude 157 feet long and
feet high, the world’s biggest “pin-up” currently stops crowds before the Winter Garden
on Broadway, where the colossal cutie is advertising Michael Todd’s hit musical “Mexi-
can Hayride.” The giant reproduction of a Varga girl is almost a block long, as seen in top
picture. Made of wallboard, she weighs 3 1-2 tons and comes in 36 sections, which made five
truck-loads when she moved from billboard artists’ studio to the theater. If she ever got
tired of lying down and stood up, she’d tower about 12 stories high. Photo at bottom, left,
shows her Gargantuan legs (foot measures nine feet from heel to toe) being hoisted into
place. At right, workman is dwarfed by her 16-foot face as he “lipsticks" her Cupid's-bow
mouth.
DALLAS, April 20—(P)—A tanned
Titain-haired army nurse. Second
• Lt. Ava Ann EMneaa, was taking it
easy at her Bonham, Texas, home
today after four months of dodging
Nazis to German-held Albania.
The tall, 32-year-old lieuten-
ant looked fit when she landed
at Love field airport here yes-
terday, to spite of the nerve-
wracking experiences she had
undertone in Europe. She was
one of s group of 13 nurses, an
enlisted man and two air of-
ficers to get back to Allied sell
after losing their way in bad
weather and landing deep in
Albania last Nov. 8 while Ml a
routine flight from Sicily to
Italy. Lieutenant Maness and
two other nurses became separ-
ated from the others. They
hoofed it across anew-covered
Albanian mountain ranges to
get out.
“I'm so glad to be back." Lieuten-
ant Maness said, smiling happily
at her family who had come to the
airport to meet her.
The family included her tall, lean
father, John H. Maness, who has
his home to Bonham but who is
now working as a carpenter for a
trailer manufacturing company in
Dallas; her step-mother, Mrs. John
H. Maness; her brother, six-foot
three-inch Don Maness. 17, of
Bonham who has his eye out for
a berth in the Army Air Forces and
which Mary R. Yeaton is serving a
five-year penitentiary term.
Attorneys for E. L. Thornton’s de-
partment store agreed to refund $3,-
992.57, the First State bank of Tus-
cola, $586.01, Jesse Winters, $289.98,
the Commercial Casualty company,
$1,027, and the Continental Casual-
ty company, $719.90.
County warrants drawn unoffi-
cially by Mrs. Yeaton had been
cashed by Thorntons, the Tuscola
bank and ths Winters tire store.
The Commercial Casualty company
and the Continental Casualty com-
pany were holders of Mrs. Yeaton’s
bond.
County Attorney Theo Ash, who is
serving to the Marine corps, rep-
resented the county. He received au-
thorization from the Marine corps
provost marshall to appear.
her aunt, Mrs. J. M. Caviness of
Paris, Texas.
“She always was adventurous,”
Maness said of his daughter. “She
used to ride horseback and liked
to jump her pony over paper bon-
fires. I guess she got plenty of ad-
venture in Europe.”
"Nothing ever bothered her.”
Mrs. Maness remembered. "She al-
ways was as calm as a post.”
$%, 4
Lieutenant Maness probably
needed steady nerves in her flight
across Albania. Once she and her
two companions were only minutes
ahead of the Germans. Another
time they crossed a mountain range
during a snowstorm.
For a long time they were
hidden in the home of a friend-
ly Albanian family. They played
three-handed bridge, smeked
Albanian eigarets, ate rice,
figs, spinach, mutton chicken,
turkey and water buffalo. They
drank vermouth and goats milk.
"I even gained weight,” Lieu-
tenant Maness said.
An Albanian messenger put Al-
lied authorities in touch with the
nurses. Instructions were sent and
the Texas girl and her companions
followed them to the letter, setting
out on foot for a designated point.
When they reached it they
leaked for a man who would
answer their sign with the cor-
rect counter-sign. They found
him, and in a matter of a few
days they were back in Allied
hands. Then they were granted
special leaves.
Lieutenant Maness is a native of
Honey Grove, Fannin county, Tex-
The old gentleman easily red the
as, and later lived at Paris. She is
a graduate of Roxton, Texas. hie
school; John Tarleton college at
Stephenville and Paris Sanitarium
Nursing school, Paris. She was
formerly employed at Northwest-
ern hospital, Amarillo, Texas, and
received her Army training at Lubs
book army air field and Bowman
field Ky.
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by faith only” (Jas. 2:24). Do these
scriptures contradict each other?
Not at all. They simply refer to dif-
ferent classes of works—to a class
of works that do not save, and to
another class of works that do save.
In the first passage the works are
of a class that are contrasted with,
and opposed to, faith; in the sec-
ond passage the works are of a clam
necessary to make faith perfect or
complete. See Jas. 2:22.
Anything required in the New
Testament as a condition of salva-
Same for the top line of figures. But
when Temple asked him what the
figure was on the next to top line
he replied.
“How should I know, I don’t make
any figure that looks like that.”
A visiting soldier toured the House
of Representatives.
"Where do the Republicans sit?"
he asked Mrs. Emma Ward, custo-
dian.
Didn’t you ever hear of the
solid south?” be was asked.
"Yes,” was the answer “but I
tion, or of keeping saved. Is a work didn’t know it was that solid.”
belonging to faith, called a “work we* dit. Rich
of faith” (I Thess. 1:3). It is a nec- Lt. W: F. Todd, former state high:
essary work. All other works are way patrolman, now pilots * P-14
useless, yea, detrimental. “There. Thunderbolt.
lore we conclude that a man is jus-
tified by faith without the deeds of
the law” (Rom. 3:28)—that is, with-
out the deeds of the law of Moses,
(Acts 13:39), recorded to the Old
Testament, which has been taken
away, and is not now binding. See
Heb 8:13; 10:9. Also a man is not
justified by works of righteousness
r originating with man, and not God.
See Rom. 10:1-3. "But in vain do
they worship me. teaching for doc-
trines the commandments of men”
• Matt 15:9). All works except those
required and authorised to the gos-
pel of Christ are to be avoided. But
those divinely required are to be ob-
served. (But more to follow.)
Address comments and queries to
417 Highland. Attend the
Highland Avenue Church of Christ,
Fifth and Highland.
“Just like riding a motorcycle,
only you have further to fall If you
make a mistake,” he saya.
"Amarillo country would look like
Heaven after having lived for a
while up where the weather be-
gins,” writes Lt. Byron St. Clair,
cer, who has been stationed in the
Aleutians for two years.
The season of spring rains—light,
heavy and intermediate—is here
Here is a country-approved glossary
of rain terms.
A sizzle-sozzle—just a drizzle.
A trash-mover—one that sends
the creek up to where it moves
the trash from the previous high
water mark.
A cob-flater—one that sends the
creek to the hog pen (usually
pretty near the creek) and washes
Glucose Can Serve as Both Food
And Water for Castaways at Sea
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star Service Emblems are
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friends of men and women in
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charge et The Reporter-News
Business Office.
These emblems are printed on
book paper in colors. If the
one you now have is faded,
discolored, or form, one will be
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They will be mailed for enly
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A chunk-mover—one that goes
even higher and floats chunks of
wood from the woodpile (usually
near the kitchen).
By HOWARD W. BALKESLEE
Associated Press Science Editor
PHILADELPHIA, April 20.—(P)-
Glucose, one of the forms of sugar,
can be substituted partly for water
to save castaways and rubber boat
aviators from dying of thirst.
This sugar serves as both food and
drink, by saving some of the body’s
water which otherwise would have
to be excreted.
Discovery of this odd trick of
metabolism as described to the
American Philosophical society here
today by Dr. James L. Gamble,
professor of pediatrics, Harvard
medical school. Dr. Allan M. Butler
directed the thirst study.
So severe is the limitation of
bulk and weight for provision-
ing castaways that all the space
might be devoted to water on
the premise that death from
fasting, 30 days or more is so
much slower than from thirst.
Which is only a few days.
12th Donates $4,443
To Red Cross Drive
The 12th Armored division dona- I
ted at total of $4,443.52 to the Amer- 1
lean Red Cross war fund as its con- I
tribution to the national drive in
March, a report released today dis-
closed.
The voluntary donations were
made by the Hellcats, one at the
first of the month and another at
its end. Of the $4,443.52, enlisted
personnel gave $3,132.52 and offi- i
cers $1,311.
in the Harvard experiments the
glucose eaten as a partial water
substitute kept the men cheerful
and physically effective, in striking |
contrast to unhappiness and lassi-
tude of men who did not receive 1
the sugar.
"Glucose,” said Dr. Gamble, "con-
tributes to courage, something of
an asset to a castaway,"
The metabolism riddle which glu-
cose solves is this. Normally the
kidneys use quite a bit of water to
wash away from the body a number
of different acids, including acids
called ketones.
Glucose prevents the formation of
these ketone acids The savings is
so large that for 100 grams of glu-
cose eaten the body is saved the
loss of 140 grams of water.
County Recovers
$6,614.46 of Funds
Taylor county will recover $6,614.-
46 under An agreed judgment reach-
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court. The money is to cover em-
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