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THE BORGER DAILY HERALD
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Monday, May 28, 1945
Borger, Texas
FORCING THE TIDE
Japan, left holding the splinuied stump of the Axis with
Germany’s surrender, went through the formality tht other
day of dropping this remnant of a ont (-powerful alliance
And with it went tht anti*C et ents with the
defunct governments of Italy, Germane, Bulgaria and Hun-
gary, and the existing government of Spain.
The ceremony, though it caused little interest, was im-
portant in that it marked the end of organized, militant
resistance against the spread of communism. And on the
day of the ceremony the returns from France's first postwar
elections showed Socialists and Communists winning the ma-
jority of municipal offices These di similar events seem
to fit into the same general picture.
We saw in the past 20 years what the fascist nations
had to offer in place of communism. We also saw before
the war how anti-communist heads of democratic govern-
ments, particularly in France, weakened and undermined
democracy. It is small wonder, then, that the political ground
swell in Europe is running to the left.
This trend brings little joy to most Americans and British-
ers, even though the United Kingdom's domestic temper
seems more leftishlv liberal than ours. Communism hasn’t
made any appreciable headway in this country largely be-
cause the communistic way of life offers less to most of us
than the American way.
Most Americans, however, want the people of other coun-
tries to have the government of their choice. Most of us j
realize that they have old problems and injustices that we
know nothing about. And if they want to take a whir! at j
Communism, socialism or whatever (except fascism) we
aren’t likely to try to divert the ground swell.
But it seems that Russia and some of her friends, such as
Marshal Tito, are forcing the tide. They are attempting to
establish provisional governments of communist makeup on
a firm, permanent basis without consulting Russia’s allies.
This is beginning to arouse active opposition in the Ameri-
can and British capitals, and uneasiness in other friendly
governments. And that is a pity, for most of the world's
people admire Russia’s superb fight in this war, and wish her
people well.
Russia wants and needs friends. The Soviet Union still seems
a little unsure. Not long ago its domestic troubles were ag-
gravated by suspicion and hatred abroad. Now that Russia’s
prestige is at an all-time high she wants to maintain
pisition and regain her strength so lavishly spent.
No one blames Russia for that. But it does seem that if the'
Soviet government would let its neighbors' friendly feelings;
continue to grow naturally, rather than trying to force
friendliness down their throats, it might work out better.
SPORTS
ROUNDUP
By HUGH FULLERTON, Jr.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa , May 28
nT*.—Opening day at Fisherman *
Paradise wax the usual huge suc-
cess . . . Any angler could tell
you that paradise must bo a place
where the fish are big and where
they always bite, and the aptly-
r.amed stretch of Spring Creek
la-tween State College and Beilt-
I fonte. Pa., tills that bill . . . When
this observer dropped in last Fri-
Iday some 1,500 angles — a near-
I record total — had checked in to
'try their luck and skill on the
' mile and an eighth stretch and
!the ones who were leaving all
‘ carried trout.
The Hard Way Mad* Easy
Fisherman's paradise is tom-
• pietely hedged in by regulations
' and that may lie why 11 also is
I hedged by casters, standing at
about five-yard intervals along the
bank-, flicking their lines in bli-
the disregard of the safety of
j passers-by and of the snarls that
i i exult when two or three cast to
one spot at the same time . . .
i anglers may fish only with barb-
ies* artificial lures — and no
'hardware' such as spinners; they
get whacked with a $20 fine for
j even having worms in their pos-
i session . . . No trout less than ten
[ inches long — seven in the *|>o-
cial women's section — may be
j kept and although has many as ten
a day may be caught, only two
may la- killed. . . . The project
was begun eleven years ago as a
mode! for stream improvement
and a school for fly casting, but
; now its mostly a place where
Pennsylvanians can be sure of
: catching a couple of trout to eke
out their ration*. . . During the
record season — which lasts only
about six weeks each year — *omo
24,000 angler* took home more
than four tons of trout.
Texas Boy Brutally
Treated By Japanese
SAN FRANCISCO. May 26 —
bpj—The Jap* tied ropes to Pfc
Jack Evcrad Thompson, a U. S
Marine from Texas, and su«|wnd-
ed him in the air, by his wri*t*
and ankles, for hours.
They kicked him In the face—
they tied him to a post, to make
biating him more convenient
Universily 01 Texas
Nine Wins Soulhwesi
Conference Title
(By The Associated Pressl
The sports year In the South-
He stole garbage from pigs to , conference has been finished
stay alive.
Thompson. 23. of teakey, Tex .
and a former student of the Uni-
versity of Texas, wa* liberated In
the Philippines and has arrived at
the V S Naval Receiving Hospital,
San Francisco.
The Texan, who enlisted in
1939. was at CSrrcgidor. Taken
with the lions share of trophies Ko-
ine to the University of Texas but
with a much better distribution of
titles than the year before.
Texas won cross-country, base-
ball. truck, tennis doubles, golf
singles and golf team champion-
ships. However, the major sports
of football and basketball eluded
Boston Red Sox Take Twin Bill
7-0, 2-1 From Chicago White Sox
Stocker Nine
Wins Tourney
What'* In A Name?
There's another reason
why
Fisherman's Paradise is an ap- Inatuan.
prisoner by the Japs, he was taken the Longhorns. Texas Christian
to Cabanatuan Prison Camp No. taking the former and Rice the lat-
1. Two month* later, in Sep tern- f(.r
ber, 1914. he escaped and made his
way to a Filipino hut where he
was fed and given shelter.
"It wasn't long." Thompson re
laled. "until a Filipino police
man took me into custody at the
point of a shotgun and marched
me to a small town about 20
kilometers from the prison
camp.
‘‘The mayor of the town greeted
me al his office, and told me that
there was nothing he could do to
help because too many people had
seen me.
“When the Jap:- arrived, a Jap
officer stood before me and slug-
ged with his fists That wasn't
so bad. But when he started hit-
ting me over the head with hi>
saber scabbard, I couldn't take t.
I fell down. Anothr r Jap moved
up then and kicked me ill the
face
With my hands tied behind me.
1 was put in a truck w ith 40 Jap
guards for the trip back to Cuba-
Texas A. and M. came in with
one crown—swimming — while
Southern Methodist captured the
Tennis singles.
Texas wound up tin- 1944-43
sports campaign last week by beat-
ing Rice twice to finish far in
front of the pack In the baseball
race. The Longhorns clinched
their twenty-fourth conference ,i
tie Friday by downing the Owls
17-3 and closed out Saturday
with an 8-7 victory. The final
conference standings:
Team W L Pet.
Texas 10 I .W»
Texas Christian 7 4 .6.30
Rice " fi 5 .545
Southern Methodist 4 2 .33.1
Texas A AM. 1 10 .09!
propriate name, according to Com-
missioner Charley French, who is
in charge of the project. . ,
"There isn't a telephone in the
The beatings continued as Jap
.officers questioned me in the guard
• (house.
I was tied by the wrists and
By JOE REICHLER
(Associated Press Sports Writer)
Boston may not be represented
in the world series next full but
it appeared today that the hub
possesses the major leagues’ two
outstanding gate attractions In
pitchers Dave <Boo) Ferris* of the
I Red Sox and Murt Cooper of the
Braves.
Frriss gained his sixth straight
... ~ victory and his fourth shutout as
her' he limited Ihe Chicago While Sox
I to one hit, u single by Tony Cuc-
cinello, to help the Red Sox take
a twin bill yesterday. 7-0 and 2-1.
Emmett O’Neill turned in a two-
hitter to complete the twin-tri-
umph.
PROSPEROUS DEFEAT?
Anyone interested in a peace vengeance against Japan
will find cold comfort in an article by Hallett Abend in
the June issue of Tomorrow magazine. For it is Mr. Abend’s
contention that a defeated Japan can prosper without either
colonies or heavy industry. And he produces figures to bol-
ster that contention.
Fifty years after Japan acquired Formosa, he says, there
were only 300.000 Japs amon^ the 6.000,000 inhabitants. For-
mosa was too hot. the Japs said. After possessing the south-
ern half of Sakhalien for 36 years, there were only 200,000
Japs there. Too cold, said the Japs.
They couldn’t kick about the Korean climate, for it’s the
same as Japan's. Yet Mr. Abend tells us that in 1941. 31 years
after Japan grabbed Korea, there were only 250.000 resident
Japs among the 24,000,000 Koreans. His obvious point is that
the Japs don’t have to or want to colonize.
Heavy industry. Mr. Abend tells us, was a new hothouse
flower in Japan, brought along bv government subsidy. He
claims that industries paid taxes of 3 per cent or less, while
the peasants were taxed up to 20 per cent to make up the
difference. Removal of heavy industries, he says, would
lighten taxes by which Japan has been paying for their war.
We’d hate to see the Japs get a soft berth out of a hard
peace. But if Mr. Abend is right, we may as well make up
jur minds to take away their colonics and war-making indu -
try and go ahead and let ’em prosper.
combed five giant hurlers for 13
hit', including Bill Voiselle, who
lust bis first game after eight
straight victories.
Cleveland won its fifth straight
and eighth of its last nine games
by defeating the Philadelphia Ath-
letics, 8-3, in the first of a sched-
uled double-header. The nightcap
war called of 1 because of rain.
The last-place Philadelphia Phil-
hrs stunned the world ehamjrion
St. Louis Cardinals twice on two
finely pitched games, 2-0 and 3-2.
Charley Schanz and Charley
Sproull each gained his first tri-
umph, with Schanz limiting the
Redbird.-; to two hits in the open-
place. When I come up here no- and left suspended in air—
body can bother me."
_ , . , er. The double defeat dropped the
The Sox rookie righthander has Cijrds jnto lht, division.
Detroit and Washington split,
Hal Newhouser winning the first
fur the Tigers, 3-1, for his fifth
drawn nearly 65,000 persons in
three home appearances. In his
Boston debut he lured 30,824 fnn«.
despite the fact that the croninmen tr|Urnph i)nd Mickey Haefner out-
had dropped nine of their prev
ous 14 games. His second home
effort was witnessed by 9,270, the
largest weekday gathering at Fen-
I way, and yesterday 25,547 were
on hand. He promises to be an
jequahy strong attraction on the
road as attested by the 31,000 who
watched him teat Dizzy Trout and
the Tigers in Detroit.
Cooper paid his first dividend
to the Braves on their reported
$50,000 investment by blanking
Cincinnati. 4-0. in the opener of
a doubleheader with the Reds, who
took the nightcap, 5-0, behind the
three-hit pitching of Bucky Wal-
ters. Cooper, ace righthander ob-
tained from the St. Louis Cardi-
nals iast week, gained his third
triumph without a setback by
holding the Reds to four hits.
The St. Louis Browns’ winning
streak of nine straight over the
Yankees ended when New York
won both games, 10-9 in 14 in-
nings and 3-1. The second contest
was called after seven and a half
innings because of darkness.
Bud Met heny't- single scored the
and and winning run in th<
On too many occasions driving to the meat market doesn't 14th after i • • ha a.....
dueling Forrest Orrell, 2-1, to give
the Nats an even break. Rudy
York hit his first 1945 homer for
the Tigers in the first game.
The Chicago Cubs defeated
Brooklyn. 6-1, in the first game
and came out with a 2-2 tie in
the second halted alter eight in-
, nings by darkness.
Z.\ HOW TH£Y\
ftSTAND
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Yculerdsy s Result*
Niw Yoik 4. Pittsburgh 16-
Boston 4-0. Cincinnati 0-5
Brooklyn I, Chicago
The Stocker Construction team
came through the Sunday Base-
ball tourney at City Park with a
record of two wins and no defeats
to win the one day meet.
Ip the first round games,
Stocker took the measure of the
Borger Blues by a count of 14-6
on the north diamond while the
Borger Grays were losing to the
strong Carpenters Club by the
score of 16-6 on the south dia-
mThe two winners. Stocker and! ttemaUhVay
the Carponte. met in the finals 3. before some *-200
with Stocker scoring 5 runs to the I spectators at the Esse y
Carpenters 2. This game was much country club Sunday,
closer than the score indicated as “Our program has been in pro-
Stocker went into the last inning! gross since 1941, but now that
leading by one run; however, they i many of our wounded are return-
scored three times to ice the game ing from Europe and from the Pa-
away. A single by I.a.sater, a two cific, we arc stepping it up. Every
PGA Conducting
Benefit Tourneys
Throughout U. S.
By HAROLD CLAASSEN
WEST ORANGE, N J. May 23
—i.T’p- The Professional Golfir*';
Association plans today to conduct
matches all over the country such .
as the Byron Nclson-Sammy Snead 1
a Hair of last weekend to got
funds for its rehabilitation p r o-1
gram for wounded servicemen.
Snead defeated Nelson by a sing-
le stroke in medal play at Fresh
Meadow on Long Island Saturday
with 6.000 present, but dropped
hanging ftom the beams of the
building. I remained like that
until 4 o'clock in the morning.
"At 6 o'clock ! was taken out
side the guard house and tied
in the sun. An Amercan offi-
cer came up to me and said a
few words of encouragement
and then had to move away.
After two hours I was tied to a
gate pt** *° make it easy for
parsing Japs to work me over.
"That evening, I was put in the
brig and remained there for about
but were returned on January 29.
I remember that it was when
they returned to the prison that
we’were taken to the walled city
of Manila for courtmartiuL
"I was questioned about my
escape and rentenced to spend
one veer in the military prison.
The others qot from two to three
and one-halt years each—but we
• 11 felt lucky that they didn't
shoot us.
Later. Thompson said he was
assigned to work with four Fili-
pinos and one Jap prisoner.
Their job was to keep enough
wood cut for the galley's use.
'Working on the wood pile soon
made me so hungry that 1
couldn't stand it any longer. I
knew what the result would be.
but I ate from the garbage put ini >
the prisoner's pig lion. Sur>-
enough. 1 got dysentery again and
was returned to my tell I re-
mained there until October 5, 1944.
"I was returned to Bijibid pris-
on and remained in tin hospital
a month During that time two )h(unH, ,A’(, were frced ()n'rcr,
come under the head of an essential trip.
Philadelphia 2-3, St
hour-
0 2
Today s Standing
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W
L
Prt
New York
2.7
3
.758
Brooklyn
1ft
14
.563
Chicago
1ft
14
.533
Pittsburgh
Ik
14
533
St Louis
17
16
-515
Boston
13
17
.433
Cincinnati
11
13
.370
Philadelphia
10
2*
TM
Todav'i Bch#dul»*
New York at Pltt-burhh
Boston at Cincinnati tnigh
Brooklyn at Chicago.
Philadelphia at St
Lot j if
i (night.)
base Wow by Nesbit, a single by
Frank Warren, and a couple of cr-
rors by the Carpenters did the
j trick.
The Carpenters were holding
; back their ace pitcher. Robert
Stackhouse, for the Twilight game
with Stocker tonight. He was not
allowed to work in either contest
i Sunday.
The largest Sunday crowd of
.the season was on hand to watch
• the contests.
Schedule for tonight in the Twi-
light League: 'Mon.. May 28*:
Rhilview Community vs. Public
: School Faculty.
Stocker Construction vs. Car-
penters Local.
Cleveland is planning an exhibition of livestock in its |
Public Hall. Mv gosh, are we going to be charged, now, ju t lii tn
to look at meat? wont 1 '1'
It’s 10 to 1 you’ll be doing someone a big favor if you save
7 to 10 on the phone for servicemen.
If you're interested in slow music for Japan, hop aboard
the 7th War Loan Bond wagon.
Onlv 200.000 new cars is the motor outlook for 1945—
meaning look out that you don't junk that ol’ jalopy yet.
ahead in their half with one tally
Oscar Grimes was (he star of the
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Yesterday * Results
Detroit 3-1, Washington 1-2
Cleveland 8, Philadelphia 3.
St IvOUiM 9-1, New York 10-3.
Chicago O-I. Boston 7-2.
Today s Standing
Team— W
20
17
MZUI. ™1L.-. • - - - 15
lfi-4, in the opener nf ;j twin bill Chicago
and were behind 10-5, at the end Cleveland
of seven and a half inning* when ton , w
the nightcap was halted because pniLidiipW.i M
of Peniisylvari.u's 7:00 a.in., Sun* Today* Schedule
day law. The game will be com- ! D»,r°h “l , '
pleted today before the regular st^Loui* at New York.
I scheduled contest. The BUCS Chicago at Boston.
second, his iwo-run single decid-
ing Ihe game. Pete Gray, the
one-armed outfielder
s in two at bats in the
opener and hit a pinch hit single
in the aftermath.
The first-place New York Gi- New
ants were humbled by Pittsburgh,
KANSAS CITY, May 28 —f/P)—
A Kansas Ciiy man was knocked
unconscious while rolling up a mo-
tor car window when lightining
struck near his home last night.
A house guest gave him artificial
respiration as an ambulance was
; summoned.
When the ambulance arrived
they found the unconscious man
recovered and 30 cents ahead In a
card game.
Void
Detroit
St Louii
L
11
11
U
13
14
17
18
20
Pet.
6 43
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Bargain Hunter
MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 23
dime we take in on these match-
es, and others throughout the
country, goes for rehabilitation,
PGA President Ed Dudley assert-
ed.
Snead spent 26 months in the
navy before a chronic hack ail-
ment brought about his disehargt.
He said after the match he "would
he willing to play for the rehabili-
tation fund for 10 years if neces-
sary after having seen some of our
wounded veterans hobble around
a pltch-and-putt course on crutch-
es.”
Both Snead and Nelson spent
their spare time visiting various
veterans’ hospitals on lust win-
ter’s golf tour. Nelson took eight
titles on that junket while gath-
ering in $22,000 in war bond priz-
es. Snead took six and $16,000.1
Porkel Money
LUZON, May 28 ~6P) — Capt. ;
William "Stretch” Morgan, Sioux j
! Fans, S. D. returned to duty aft- j
cr two months in the hospital re- j
covering from a wound, lie drew
hi* pay and stuck 800 pesos in
bills in hi* wallet.
A short time later while the
6 foot 5 inch officer was talking
with a platoon leader over a
army colonels and one navy lieu
tenant who hud tried to escape
j were put in the brig with me.
They were beaten regularly for
days with sticks, cats-of-mne tails
and lists, and finally one day were
taken out. I never saw them again
and the Japs announced they had
teen shot.
"On October 27. 1942. eight oth
er men who had been recaptured
and I were taken to Manila. Three
of the mm with me were navy
officers and five were army men.
"W'e nine American prisoners
Bilibid prison first. Then we were
moved to the Japanese military
prison in Manila
“We nine American pri-uncro
were all put into the same cell.
From early morning until 9 o'clock
each night we were foretd to sit
with our faces to the walls and
our feet doubled under Japanese
style. We were not allowed to
speak a word, but we tried to
whisper once in a while When
we were caught there would be no
food at the next serving time.
It didn't matter. We couldn’t
eat what we w< re given.
In November, dysentery broke
out in our cell. Two navy officer-
were sent to Bilibid lor treatment,
ruary 4.
6 OUT OF 7 WOMEN
ARE CHEATING
ON RED POINTS
Among housewives recently
interviewed. 6 out of 7 were
cheating themselves —- passing
up extra red points because they
did not save all Uielr used fats.
These women were saving only
the easy amounts from frying
bacon or broiling They Were
throwing away the little bits . . .
the meat trimmings and table
scraps. Yet those smalt amounts,
saved and melted down, can fill
fat salvage cans In no time at
ail! Have you been cheating your-
self? Then start saving every
scrap today! Our country needs
fata urgently to help make battle-
field and home-front essentials.
.4411
435
I 111
.355
Owen Murphy, an internal j walkie-talkie when a Jap sniper’s
revenue man. noticed the YMCA bullet grazed his arm and em-
cafeteria marked its day-old pie! tedded itself in the 800 pesos in
the wallet which was in a pocket
over his heart.
might)
Those who
way.
cuts with a toothpick and sold
them for half-price.
He also noticed another diner
whu carried his own supply of
toothpicks and thus obtained fresh
pie for half price.
An acre was first defined as the
amount of land a yoke of oxen
could plough in a day.
travel to prosperity usually pave their own OUR BOARDING HOUSE with MAJOR HOOPLE OUT OUR WAY
By WILLIAMS
We all are half lazy, according to a California doctor. And
maybe he only knows the half of it.
Another answer to two divided by one is divorce.
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