Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 171, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 21, 1941 Page: 2 of 18
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SWEETWATER REPORTER, SWEETWATER, TEXAS
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1941
Falls And Temple Move Into State Qrid Final•
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et And Lamar
dilated In
Games Saturday
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Both Underdogs Emerge
As Winners To Repeat
Championship Bids
The Wichita Falls Coyotes
and the Temple Wildcats moved
Into the finals of the 1941 Texas
Interscholastic league football
championship play Saturday af-
ternoon by disposing of Sunset
of Dallas and Lamar of Hous-
ton respectively in games which
as favorites had been rated, w&re
regarded as mild upsets.
Sunset of Dallas, undefeated
and untied in previous play, had
been expected to overcome the
Coyotes' strong passing attack
with a ground game whose po-
tency had established itself in
defeating all comers from the
northeaster^ .gec^onof the state.
But the Coyote*, cdbquierors of
Lubbock and Ysleta in elimina-
GAH MASKS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 —
(UP)—A grim warning that in
an all-out war gas may be used
against the civilian population
was contained today in the an-
nouncement that gas masks may
be available for those living in
coastal areas by late 1042 or ear-
ly 1043.
WE'LL DO-"
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peal. The high school band play-
ed from the courthouse steps,
and a number of high school
girls helped in taking up con-
tributions by passing among the
crowds around the square.
tion play, handed the Dallas lad#
a decisive 14 to 0 defeat. Thus
AVichita Falls for the second
time moved into the finals of
state schoolboy play.
In the southern section of the
state Temple, out-weighed and
outshone by the individual prow-
ess of Lamar's Ray Borneman.
maintained its undefeated and
untied record by thrusting the
Houston team from the title
picture with a 19 to 0 thumping.
Temple enters the finals for the
second consecutive year.
100 At Cress's
Christmas Party
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Turkey dinner, with all the
trimmings and ice cream des-
sert, was served to a hundred
underprivileged boys and girls
under 10 Saturday at the annual
Christmas party given by Sam
Cress at his Bankhead cafe.
This party, given last year, too,
will continue each year as long
as he is in business Mr. Cress
said, after the children had al-
most packe dhis large banquet
room and made short work of
the toothsome foods piled on
their plates.
The Rev. M. H. Applewhite
took charge of things for the
children, with Mrs. S. O. Her-
ring. Mrs. Verda Redden, Blant-
on McCord. Elsie Robinson and
junior high girls assisting in
serving, and making the child-
ren perfectly at home. The
children annually are served
with a big free Christmas feed,
after authorities have made sure
they are underprivileged, and de-
serving.
Mustangs Open
Against Colorado
Sweetwater's Mustangs are
showing improved form in their
daily workouts with thoughts of
engaging the same teams they
beat or lost to in football in a
double round robin schedule of
basketball. They will trot out on
the floor at Colorado City the
night of Jan. (> to show their
wares in the first regularly sche-
duled league game.
The Coloradoans would like
nothing better than to set the
Mustangs back on their haunch-
es, and avenge that 45 to 0 foot-
ball defeat of last season.
The first opportunity for local
fans to see the Mustangs in ac-
tion on the home floor will be
on the night of Jan. 0, when
Midland invades, while Colorado
City plays Odessa, San Angelo
plays Big Spring and Lamesa
takes on Abilene.
Coach Adrian Clark hopes to
get a full lineup on his men in
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NO SIR!
I'or these Sweetwater stores are of-
fering such outstanding values for
.Monday . . . They'll make you glad
you waited!
WILL JUST NATURALLY BUY MORE IN
SWEETWATER
ON MONDAY
For Monday
A Limited Quantity Of
MEN'S HATS
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We've just received our new spring Ifats, and so
we've reduced a group of hats now on hand to
make room! These are all fine fur felt hats, the
usual J. C. I'enney Co. hats you've always bought
—reduced for quick selling!
PENNEY'S
J C PENNEY COMPANY, Incorporated
Monday Specials
Mary Douglas Sachet Gift Sets
25c to $1.0(1 Values
| Price
Men's Zelan Treated Poplin Windbreaker. Small, me-
dium and large sizes. Regular $.'{.00 value.
1.99
52x52 Hand Decorated, fast color luncheon cloths.
S! 29 values
$8c
Small Charge for Gift Wrapping Any Item On Special
Last Minute Specials For Late Shoppers
Monday Specials
ROBES
In a wide range of materials, colors and sizes.
Zipper fronts. 4.95 values. Monday Special
3*95
Dresses For Gifts - -
These are Regular 7.95 Values, in Sizes 14 to 44.
5*95
Mtinsing Wear
PANTIES Briefs . . SH 691
We have many other items to select from, which make
ideal Christmas Gifts, all reasonably price.
Sobe's Fashion Shop
103 E. 3rd
Dial 2772
CORY BREWER
7*8 cup. Compltt*
with sUctric unit,
<ord, fll-
♦tr rod
*7.90
AUTO. TOASTIR
Automatic controls.
Rtquiros no watching.
r SI 0.95
S'DWICH TOASTER
2-sandwich nodol. Fry
•ggt,small st«oks,#tc.
r.r-h $9.95
ELECTRIC IRON
Svnb.am. Doubt* au-
tomatic h.at control.
For A C.
only . .
$9.65
HIATINO PAD
3-h«at. Groon sued*
pad. Built-in thormo-
stats for
tafoty .
$3.98
TRIE LIGHT SET
8 light;.Murdalampt.
Add-on connector for
additional m***
tots... 79c
NOLAN FURNITURE
& HARDWARE CO.
a practice game before the start
of the regular season, hut little
more can be doped out until af-
ter the holiday vacation.
With teams like Odessa's and
Abllene's to conquer, the local
basketeers have plenty of in-
centive and are taking their
practice seriously. On paper
these two teams out-rate them,
but Sweetwater men would like
nothing better than to trip up
both these strong aggregations,
and put a clincher on some of
the many claims to superiority
made and bandied about through
the football season.
The chance to take up where
the grid men left off, is serving
as a burr under the saddle
blanket for the Mustangs, and
the new state set-up of classifi-
cation will prove popular with
fans and players, if the local
boys can just get goin'.
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McARTHUR
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first news of the contemplated
inter-allied war council, suggest-
ed earlier in the week that Mac-
Arthur would be the preferred
choice to command the allied
armies of the far East.
4. MacArthur has added tre-
mendously to his prestige as a
shrewd tactician with his bril-
liant direction of the Philippine
defenses—the one bright spot in
the far eastern picture.
On the basis of these develop-
ments, it was predicted that \ne
of the first strategic strokes of
the supreme allied war council,
once it is created, will be to give
MacArthur full charge of the big
show in the far eastern theatre
of conflict.
The urgent task now confront-
ing the Allies is the defense of
Singapore, because the loss of
that vital bastion may mean the
difference between a long war
and a comparatively short war.
Competent observers believed
the next GO days would tell the
story, and that some time with-
in that period, MacArthur may
move over from the Philippines
to Singapore to direct the show
from there.
The anticipated MacArthur
move was viewed as merely part
of a broad general pattern of
strategy.
It was believed that a British |
military leader may direct any [
| action in the near and middle |
East because of British experi- j
ence in colonial warfare. Soviet |
Premier .losef Stalin probably
I will direct the Russian phase of
operations, and Chinese Gener-
I alissimo Chiang Kai-Shek pre-
sumably will play a specified
| role in his particular sector.
Thus, each major ally would
have one of its men at the helm
in a major theatre of operations.
123 W. THIRD
DIAL 753
Labor Conference
Deadlock Charged
Washington, Dec. 20—<up>
—Rep. Howard W. Smith, D.,
Va„ charged in the house today
that President Roosevelt's labor-
industry labor relations confer-
ence is deadlocked because labor
participants insist:
"You shall not have peace in
the labor field unless we have
the closed shop."
Smith, an opponent of admin-
istration labor policies and au-
thor of drastic antistrike legis-
lation passed by the house two
weeks ago, charged that the
house measure has been "chloro-
formed" in the senate.
He asserted that John L. Lew-
is. United Mine Workers presi-
dent. and Daniel Tobin, head of
the teamsters' union, insisted on
the closed shop in active labor
controversies at the present time
or recent past.
1)1 KS OF H K.AUT ATTACK
CHCO. Dec. 20— (UP)—Mrs.
J. T. Berry, G8. wife of the man-
ager of liie Burton Lingo Lum-
ber Co.. died today of a heart at-
tack. She is survived by her
husband, mayor of Cisco for
eight years, and a son, Phil
Berry of Stanton, Tex.
Sammp Angott Is
Awarded Decision
Over Lew Jenkins
By .lack < iitltly
UP Staff ('oriTspondt-iit
NEW YORK, Dec. 20 —(UP)
—Sammy Angott. a dark-haired,
bull-shouldered Italian from
Washington, Pa., was undisput-
ed king of the lightweights to-
day and hoped to revive the
glorious days of Benny Leon-
ard, Tony Canzoneri and the
other great 135-pound champ-
ions of the past.
Angott recognized as light-
weight king by the National
Boxing association, took a una-
nimous 13-round decision last
night from Lew Jenkins, Texas
who was the New York state
athletic commission's champ-
ion.
A crowd of 11.343 paid $26,-
810 to see the last title bout of
the year in Madison Square
Garden, and most of them left
the hig arena booing Jenkins.
Angott, constantly the aggres-
sor, won every round except
two of the United Press score-
board. losing one on a low
blow.
Angott's ascension to the
lightweight throne marked the
third N. B. A. champion to whip
a New York State titleholder
this year, thus clarifying all
but one title wrangle—in the
featherweight division where
Chalky Wright and Pittsburgh
Jack Wilson have rival claims.
The two NBA champions who
triumphed over New York
claimants were Gus Lesnevich
of the light-heavyweights and
Tony Zale of the middleweights.
Jenkins, who showed [im-
provement over his two pre-
vious appearances in the Gard-
en. hopes to obtain a return
match but he isn't likely to get
another shot in the Garden un-
less he can stage an impressive
comeback campaign elsewhere.
The fans, who remember Jenk-
ins as a "little Dempsey" in
the days when he blasted the
lightweight diadem off Lou Am-
bers' brow in May, 1940, have
soured on him because of his
numerous dismal appearances.
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A A And Six-Man
Teams Increase
AUSTIN, Dec. 20 — (UP) —
Increased participation in "dou-
ble-A" and six-man football
sponsored by the Texas inter-
scholastic league brought a rec-
ord total of 21,637 players this
season.
League officials announced
today that 801 teams playing |
this year had squads totaling
21.037. compared with 1940's 821
teams of 21,518 players.
On the "big school" class AA
and the six-man game for small
schools showed gains, for ele-
ven-man classes A and B had
I fewer players. The decline in
class B was explained by some
schools dropping back into six-
man competition. There was no
explanation of the class A de-
cline.
Giants Confront
Bears In Nat'l
Pro Title Scrap
CHICAGO. Dec. 20 (UP) —
The New York Giants came to
Chicago today to challenge the
Bears for the world's profession-
al football championship in the
title game at Wrightly Field to-
morrow.
The oddsmakers didn't give
them much of a chance and
made the Bears heavy favorites
to retain the crown they won
by smashing the Washington
Redskins, 73 to 0. in the 1040
play-off.
Eight victories and three de-
feats gave the Giants the East-
ern title while the Bears virt-
ually were rewriting the Nat-
ional league record book for of-
fensive power and winning the
western championship. _
Green Bay and the Bears de-
feated one another once during
the regular season to tie in the
dividional standings with only
one defeat-apiece, but the Bears®
crushed the Packers, 33 to 14,
in a playoff game last Sunday.
The Bears and Giants did not
meet this season.
George Halas and his Bear®
coaching staff worried about ov-
erlconfidence ' and talked of
Giant Coach Steve Owen's abi.
lity as a defensive strategist.
Owen, too, appeared to think
the Bears were overrated antl«
reported that two week's rest®
would enable the Giants to field
a team at full strength.
Besides the title and the vic-
tor's share of the gate receipts,
the new champions will earn.
the right to meet a team of*
professional all-stars at New
York Jan. 4.
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or tailored styles. Just
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A gift that always pleases
and these will, especially!
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INFANTS GIFTS
Baby has not been overlooked at Pen-
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usable gifts for wee ones in our In-
fants' Department!
£ JAR SET,
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Roosevelt's Pen
WASHINGTON. Dec. 1—(UP) j
—Congressional legislation ex ! ,
empting teen-age youths from j
compulsory military service but j.
creating a potential army of
000,000 men between 20 and 44. ;
inclusive, awaited resident Roo- j;
sevelt's signature today.
Designed to mobilize the na- j,
tion's manpower for the all-out I
war against the Axis powers, ;
the bill calls for the ultimate reg-1
Istration of all men from 18 j
through 04. But only those in j ■
, the 20-44 age bracket would be j
j liable for military service.
Selective service headquarters 1
1 was ready to throw the draft |
| registration machinery into high
I gear as soon as Mr. Roosevelt
i signs the bill.
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