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Newspaper Page TextLee G. Miller Has Fireworks At Tarakan For Birthday Party I By LEE G. MILLER I ABOARD A CRUISER IN THfi CELEBES SEA (By Wireless) My birthday fell on Hie day be fore the main Tarakan landing, and Hugh Hannan, our gunnery officer, had facetiously promised to celebrate it by a special fire works display with his main armament. But since I'd seen the cruiser's guns do their stuff I de cided to go calling. My friend Lieut. Jack R. How ard of New York, is intelligence officer for Commander R. F. Mar tin of York, Pa., who is commo dore or "Comdcsdiv" of a divi sion of destroyers attached to this task force. So several of us took a whaleboat to the destroyer on which Bob Martin flies his pen nant. i With us went a lad I'd met the day before in sick buy when Commander Clinton J. Heuth of Woes, Tex., "first lieutenant" of the cruiser, was showing me some of the cruiser's crannies I had not previously visilcd. This was o rjlce, keen-eyed young man, Mi chael Hcrcnc, 23, n fire control rfum (second class). His mother, lyirs. Anna Herene, lives In Cleve land, Ohio. : Mike had an appendicitis at tack on a destroyer a couple of weeks earlier, and was trans ferred to the cruiser for an opera tion since the surgical facilities 0)1 a destroyer are limited. He was delighted to be rejoining his own ship. i Well, as soon as we were kboard the doslroyer she head ed in close to Tarakan and with ether warships ooonod fire on Jap installations in and around ho oil port of Llngkas. The Aussies had Just landed some artillery on the neighboring islet of Sandau and now we weie covering the approach of Aussie engineers in small craft. The en gineers intended to demolish sev eral rows of barbed-wire de fenses in the shallows along the Lingkas beach. Mike Herene asked if I'd like to look through a sterosenpic range finder. We climbed up ladders and through u little trap door into a high fire-control room. Lieut. Donald C. Sinclair of Cleveland, the destroyer's gun nery officer, was in charge there but he had his hands full and I didn't meet him till later. He would listen to a spotter in an airplane and call out "one bun dled less," a fire controlman would shift the guns a bit, then Sinclair would say, "All guns :load," and then he would say, drawling tho word, "F-i-r-c" and ibefore the ward was finished away would go a handful of the Huxpayers' dough with a whop Iping bang. From time to lime they would lot me look through the' store- scope. It brought the iholl : bursts ashore so close to my i eyes tho! I foil like dodging the .-fragments. t "Hoy, 1 sure love to shoot," "said fire cnnlrolmun (second class) Wesley Terwilliger of Dan K'lson, Conn., and gun pointer, who was pressing the trigger that fired all the guns. Others in our crowded perch were fire controlman (second class) Kenneth Brat Ion of Oak land, Calif., a trainer, Raymond Epps of Alliens, Cia the stcro scope operator, fire cunlinlma.i (third class) Karl Smith of l.u Grange, Ga., a talker (he phones instructions to the gunn.irs), ra dioman (second class) Robert Chamberlain of Kansas City, an other lalker, and seaman (sceoivl JOE JINKS THIS IS THE BIG 7th COMING UP, MR. JINKS" Seen and - mm -a ! W' I 1 ( tot J the : I .... i it i i i it i i r -w TV NOT A MAN OP WORDS, , V GzZ I t'IKVH. ' THE JUDOS FELT US SHOULD V.1 I J 1 Jf X BE SEEN AMP NOT HEARD- y SJ , I l,4A f 1 JT A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody; Pilot, Making Double Plays, is Smash Hit By BILL BLOOME NEA Special Correspondent ENGLEWOOD, N. J., May 11 A pretty girl is like u uxMiuy at second base for Dwight Mor row high of Englewoad, N. J. According to Billy Bee, Jane. Bette Jacobs, manager and sec ond bascgiti, is as good a ball player as you would want to look at in the Jersey school's league In a normal year, says coach Beck, Janet would be his regular second sacker. But he is blessed with an exceptional inner (iiar iet this season and Janet has to br relegated to second string. Janet, Hi, 5-4 and 120 pounds, brunette and very attractive, has been playing ball as long as she can remember. Her brother !lnl, former Dwight Morrow football player and now a battalion ad jutant at OCS, Fort Monmouth, N. J., was her first tutor. Definitely not the tomboy type, Janet simply likes to play ball. The boys on the squad accept her as they would any candi date. She shags flies, takes her turn in batting practice and goes through infield practice. The boys give no quarter and she asks none. Beck, who spent last summer nssisting Carl Hubbell at the New York Giants' school, doesn't pamper Iter. Janet has good form (batting) at the plate. A switch hitter, she steps into the ball with a 34-inch class) Angelo Roman of Haellon, Pa. Mike Herene, being convales-' cent, wasn't working. But he said, "This is just about my whole interest in life fire con trol. That, and reading." A B2S came swooping down to lay a smokescreen, and I watched through the slerescope as he zipped along close to the beach, followed by a strafing PUB, and in no time at all he had laid down a wall of white smoke perfectly concealing tho water from the land. It looks like cotton canity at a circus, somebody said. "I? y, vim couldn't find your best girl in that," said another. "Hut I'd sure try hard," said somron.' else. It was a very nice birthday show. Indeed, hut later tiling.; got a little nervous. .... bySAMUFF- THAT'S RIGHT, CURLV- ' IF EVERYONE PITCHES IN AND BUYS A .LOT 0FE" BONDS, WE'LL MAKE THIS TH' BIGGEST YET.': Heard Too "Those draft boards must treat , us fairly-' "Baseball serves a purpose this , countr BUT THE HE VI COMMISSIONER HAS ALREADY ISSUED MORE STATEMENTS THAN LANDIS DID IN Z4 YEARS AND SHOWS NO SIGN OF SLOWING UP... I Utah I ' I M 1 6 -5V . t v. Janet Bolto Jacobs . aouoio play willow like a big leaguer. She hits a sharp ball and gets good distance. A good waiter, hurlers don't find her easy to pitch to. Heck is especially proud of her proficiency with the drag bunt. She beats out a lot of them. But it is her ability at defen sive play that makes one gape. Like a professional, she hits the bag led foot first on the double play pivot and makes the result ant snap throw to first as though it were second nature. She has the sixth sense baseball looks for, moving in the right direction with the crack of the bat. Ladylike at all times. Janet is looking forward to college and a journaltstic career, not sports es pecially. But Janet Bette Jacobs ought to make a good baseball writer. TODAVS mm t Bv TACK CUDDY United Press Slut! Correspondent NKW YOIIK. M;iy W (iP) Let's tlir ni ltl sei Ks. L; t's n;4 1 .1 ;i elit-ie lot scrvur mi n I'li.i i;;t!.; mly. I .el's s;vr tin series iit ;i risl nt itbmil 1 ) I'ellts - ih-. i uv ut ,t hi tltij: ;it iniiiiv Mlill'T It .li'.IH' pilfks. J, Mi'iiine .!nhiiM)li, diieetor of llie uliu e tf eSeL-nsr ti iinspoi lii lion, s;i s lt:e set irs o;in not bo lu-Ui unU-.v 111 the romprltnt: ti .mis in-.- !:em the siimr fity, ir , 2 th. .Lip;; sut it mler in ;i lumy. riuiiUM s aw tli.it neither ol tin i million . tit tM- mt't. S'i -lei's tiv In s;ae the selies ill Ji t;i,:hton tlt.it w ill hi netH hoth U:o ),;mie it- H' ami the thnuiiuh. of Mtvire tin n .tin! woniili who ;tn' inh re .le.l m thr aim-. ( Our Mini 'stion is this: Let the j vel le:-, he held til the homo eltll'S ; nl uhiiU vii te,im:( win the N.i t iiMKt ! ;nivi American K'-imie peii- ' ii. nits, lin! w stint iiltonil.imv ;i ;'. n.mu t.i m i tee men nd u-iini'ii h.i; :-eii or hintr-lui lounh in or hum' - iliM-h.il ed w ithin ;i ' t;:iWus el H() m:!rs .md let hvt :dl in K Let sci H pet'ple or e s; l' iti' people ; fiei - those who hve within a i.iiiu;s of lO miles of the heme p;itk lint do tt in it r.i.ir.tu ; that will not pivvent the : lie :-M ul h;dl playoi s f I mil S' tMiit; the t:nai-.eial plums ;it which tin y s-hoo. m tis 'tt -ionji. Nor iikv ;:w;iv the M-w.iius from tpfll:ht ! i h.h o a i N,; dojirivc tht O LA GKANDK EVEN TNG OIJSERVER Phone 600 Complete Local Reports Monday, May I I, 1915 Beavers Extend League Lead At Padres' Expense By Uiiled Press The Portland Beavers headed for home today with a six-game lead and the confident feeling that they've easily handled the most vigorous opposition their Pacific coast league rivals could offer. Manager Mnrv Owen's men de feated San Diego twice yester day, 4-2, and 3-2, to wind up the week with five victories in sev en games with the club that was picked to whittle them down to size. The Los Angeles Angels final ly snapped out of their batting doldrums to annex a twin bill from the Oakland Acorns, 3-1 and 9-1. Stars Slop Seals I.efty O'Doul'a San Francisco Seals had their winning streak snapped at five straight when (he Hollywood Stars copped the nightcap, 2-0, after the Seals won the opener, i-2. The Seattle Kiiiniers split with the Sacramento Solons, taking the opener, 5-4, and the Sulons the finale, 4-2. San Diego tried desperately to pull out a triumph over Portland in their second game. Catcher Del Ballinger clouted a homer to send the contest into an extra inning. The issue was decided when Charley English's long fly brought in Larry Diirlon from third. Joyco Wins Own Game Bob Joyce had to bo a hitler as well as a pitcher in the Seals Star opener. Joyce racked up his seventh win of the year by sing ling tin- last of the ninth to score Del Young with the tally that meant the ball game. Newt Kim ball gave the staggering Twinks one of their best hurling exhibi tions of the season when he shut out San Francisco in the second game on nine well-spaced hits. Los Angeles had a sluggers' holiday at. the expense of the Oakland mound corps, garnering 25 hits while Charlie Cuellar and Bed Adams held Oakland to nine. Lilio Marcucci hit a homer for Sacramento to end that club's victory famine after Seattle grabbed the opener in the ninth inning by scoring twice. Gene Handley, Solon second sacker. banged out six hits in eight trips during the doubleheader. Chuck Aleno rode one out of the park in the first game for his fourth round-tripper of the week. Fuego Is Winner of Tijuana Handicap TIJUANA, Mex., May 11 (UP) Arcadia stable's Kuego, with vet; ran jockey Johnny Longden in the saddle, staged a fast stretch run ycsUrday to overtake the favored turntable and capture the $7500 Tijuana cup at the Ilipo dromo de Tijuana. Time for the mile and a half was 2:31 3,5. Turntable was three lengths al.::ad of Sammy Angott. liasiball commissioner's office of its share u( t.ie receipts a reve nue that helps mightily in keep ing that office alive. It can be dune for about 15 cents. Lit the iti club owners -jni-rnv.tT L'umiiiissitiner Happy Chandler to levy a fee of about 15 cents for each liekit sold at a major league gntro alter say June I. The total take on this h vy will approximate $1.0lll.0ill! . I.. wirh sriirs tunes, has: d "ii ! I;.t veal's tut.il ,-iltendauee for jtl season HJi7li.no:! persons, i The total gate receipts for last i yi ;u's m -atiu world sencs be tween the St. Louis Cardinals a. id j Blow ns were $!liK,122. A milli m j dollar pool would cowr possibib jt.es of a scvt-n-qame series, i the sut pins rieeipls from the mil j Ion dollar pool could be given to ' :miv 'a a', fund chosotl by the major ; league ounns and eoliillliAsi m ! ' r's ..ffie.v GRANADA Two First Run Feature Hits SPORTS Page 8 OLD RELIABLE High man in American league batting race is Tony Cuccinello. velcr ai Whito Sox third sacker. At 36, Tony finds wartime pitch ing to his liki.ig, moves at a .367 clip. LEADING BATSMEN By United Press NATIONAL LEAGUE Player & Club G AB R H Pet. Holmes, Boston I!) lit) 1!) 32 .400 Ott, New York 22 70 24 28 .400 Olmo, Brooklyn 17 lil 0 23 .377 Cavarrctla, Chi. 18 71 0 20 .360 Kurowski, St. L. 1!) 07 12 24 .358 AMERICAN LEAGUE Cuccinello, Chi. 17 00 0 22 .367 Stephens, St. L. 17 81 17 22 .381 Case, Wash. 22 89 15 30 .337 Etten, N. Y. 20 74 13 24 .324 Kcll, Phila. 18 70 8 22 .314 Mystery Drama is Liberty Feature A Raymond Chandler mystery novel, "Farewell, My Lovely," has been dramatized in the film "Murder My Sweet," currently showing at tlK? Liberty theater. Dick Powell has the chief male lolc, that ol a private detective who becomes embroiled m a series of murders and blackmail after being engaged to find a mssing person. Anne Shirley and Claire Tre vor have the principal feminine roles. TODAY and Tl'KSDAY nouiEl I DICK rumen rnrima CUIRElKCVim mini rsi ANNE inilUCI Aim? ant iiuui in iiiii un "1,M nm wiiw-wi oomui l.ATHST MAKC1I OK TIMK and Pictures Showing; Inhuman Nazi Atrocities T O I (1 H T and Tuesday ! KM S ' " i " i i , ' - : t ' ' i , i ; - ST' i it i I ,''! si f';ly,iMV--iii ': 1 ciOuiia White Sox Regain! Lead by Winning Double-Header NEW YORK, May 14 (UP) Thornton Lee, portside hurlcr of the Chicago White Sox apparont ly has regained his old time form after three bad years, and is now the team's top winner, with four victories and one defeat, after a 5 to 1 defeat of the Washington Senators yesterday. He scattered 10 hits and walked one batter, collaborating with Orval Grove, who won 4 to 2, In the second game to put the Sox back into first place. Guy Curtwright, with a second game homer, and Oris Hockett, with timely hits in both games, provided the batting punch. Detroit Rookie Wins The best pitching in the majors yesterday was on display at De troit where Rookie Dave Ferriss won an 8 to 2 victory for the Boston Red Sox and Alton Ben ton pitched a three-hit 2 to 0 shutout for the Tigors. The St. Louis Browns salvaged their second game at Philadel phia with a seven run rally in the eighth to win, 8 to 2, after the Athletics won the openor, 4 to 1. Atley Donald maintained his "hoodoo" over the Indians, pit ching the Yanks to a 1 to 0 vic tory in 10 innings at Cleveland for his 13th win against them since 1939. He has lost only once, to Bob Feller in 1941. Yielding seven hits, he outduelled Charley (Rcbd) Embree, who gave up only five. The Indians knocked the Yanks out of the league lead, winning the second game, 4 to 2, with a four run rally in the third that gave Pitcher Steve Gromek a working margin. The decisive blow was Jim McDon ncl's double with the bases full. The New York Giant winning streak ended at eight but not until the league leaders had top ped the Cards, 4 to 3 in the open or. St. Louis won the s-Tond, 6 to 5. Dodgers Down Reds The Brooklyn Dodger eight game streak remained intact af ter a 10 to 3 victory over Cincin nati behind Veteran Curt Davis, who gave up 11 hits but distri buted them well; rain ended the second in the fourth with the Reds ahead, 2 to 1. Vincc DiMaggin drove in three runs to give the Phillies a 6 to 5 victory and an even break ovor the Pirates at Philadelphia, Pitts burgh winning the opener, 9 to 6, behind Tructt (Rip) Scwell. Bill Lee was the Philly winnor in the second game. The Braves topped tho Chicago Cubs; 3 to 2, in a seven inning game halted by rain at Boston. Nate Andrews outpitched Claudo Fasseau. The second game was called off. $fCy country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountain-side Let Freedom ring." Baseball Standings By United Presi AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pel. .12 6 .067 .13 7 .050 ..11 7 .611 ..9 9 .500 ..10 12 .455 ..9 12 .429 ... 8 12 .400 ... 0 13 .315 Chicago New York .... Detroit St. Louis Washington . Philadelphia Boston Cleveland NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 16 5 .762 .684 .556 .474 .474 .444 .352 .238 Brooklyn 13 Chicago . 10 St. Louis V Pittsburgh .......'i..,...... 9 Boston . 9 Cincinnati .......'.a; , 6 Philadelphia 5 PACIFIC COAST Portland 30 13 .698 Seattle 23 18 .561 Oakland 23 20 .533 San Diego 22 22 .500 Los Angeles 21 23 .477 Sacramento 20 22 .476 San Francisco 20 33 .465 Hollywood 12 30 .285 1 Cooke Takes Tennis Tilt From Schroeder LOS ANGELES, May 14 (UP) Lt. Elwood Cooke, Portland, Ore., finished the form that car ried him to the world's double championship five years ago to score a 3-6, 7-5, 8-0 win over riavy flyer Lt. Fed Schroeder, Glen dale, Cal., in an exhibition mutch yesterday. In a women's doubles contest, Mirs. Sarah Palfrey Cooke, Bos ton, Mass., and Mary Arnold of Los Angeles toamod to conquer Louise Brough of Los Angeles and Mrs. Baba Lewis of Holly wood, 6-2, 7-5. Mrs. Lewis sub stituted for Pauline Bttz, three time national tennis queen, who fainted just before the match and had to be helped off the court. Missing Canadian Plane is Located PORTLAND, Ore., May 14 (UP) Harold D. Farmer, 07, missing U. S. public roads in specting engineer, was being sought today by nearly 30 for est service employes, Clackamas county authorities and others. Farmer has been missing since Friday while he was on a mission in the lake Harriet district on the upper Clackamas river. He had left his car above lake Harriet to inspect the route of a timber ac cess road and arranged to meet Ed Thompson, Portland resident engineer, at a point below the lake. No one knows what became of the Mayflower, famous ship of the Pilgrims. - TH WAR LOAN May 14 to June 30 JAef fei . h Again wins siaie Track, Field Meet CORVALLIS, Ore.1,-' May 11 (UP) Jefferson high schoul of Portland today held the Oregon state prep track championship for the second successive year af ter outdistancing a closoly bunch ed field Saturday on the Oregon State college field. . V.,' Jefferson scored 22 points, fol lowed by Grant high of Portland with 17 'A and Klnrnalh Falls with 17. The meet saw throe new rec ords established in field events but rain during both days of the meet prevented outstanding per formances. Point scores of other teams were: Scappoose, .16;, Washing ton (Portland), 13; Ashland, 12; Corvallis and Salem,. 11 each: Hillsboro, 10; Woodburn, 6; Ore gon City, 5V4 ; Pendleton, Adrian, Coquille and Roosevelt, 5 each: Medford, 4 Mi; University high of Eugene and Forest Grove, 4 each; Boardman, Athena, Redmond, Al bany, Central Catholic of Port land and Milwaukie, 3 - each; Crook county, Roseburg, Eugene, Oakridge, Beaverton and Benson, 2 each; Franklin, 1V4; Hcrmiston, Springfield, Tigard, Molalla and Columbia Prep, 1 each. Three new records were put on the books. Anderson's discus toss of 153 feet IOV4 inches beat his former mark of 153-3 V. Ken Elliott of . Adrian high jumped 0 feet 3 Inches to break the 12-year-old mark of 6-1 of Du Fresno of Roseburg. An Art Bakke, of Jefferson, pole vaulted 12 feet 3 inches to break tho 1939 record of 12-1 Mi held by Nelson of Woodburn. Lloyd Hickok of Grant also pole vaulted 12 feet 3 but lost the record to Bakke because ho had more misses in attaining that height. No three presidents of the United States have ever been re lated. rn '" 'in ' ' m 'n 0 S0 coming soon: MAVERICK'S FIFTH ANNUAL SPUING Barn Union County Fair Grounds . The Date is ) " )