i
SECEj
Claire Edward McManui.
coxswain, of 1620 Washington
street, aboard the USS John
Land in the Pacific, has helped
this navy transport pile up an
enviable record during her first
year in the Pacific, carrying
nearly 10,000 marines and sol
dicrs into action in invasions from
Saipan to Iwo Jima.
Under the command of Capt
Frederick A. Graf, USN, of Bick
ncll, Ind., the ship has partici
pated in actions at Tinian, Pole-
liu, Leyte, Luzon- and in every
major campaign in the central
Pacific, landing troops and sup
plies while mortar and artillery
shells burst around her.
. It was a boat from the Land
that carried Gen. of the Army
Douglas MacArthur ashore at
Leyte, where Gen. MacArthur
made his now historic I have re
turned" speech to the Philippine
people.
During the assault phase of
operations the Land handled cas
ualties and her medical depart
ment's mortality rate was less
than 1.5 percent of several hun
dred wounded handled.
' Between operations, the Land's
crew stages amateur theatricals
and "smokers" for visitors.
Hal C. Carter,
son of Mi. and Mrs. Harry Car
ter of La Grande, is in the group
of Oregon ground technicians and
airmen of the IHlh AAF's Bomber
Barons Liberator group which
has been awarded two distin
guished unit citations. Carter
has been in the army three years
and has served almost continu
ously in the south Pacific area.
Granada
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murder before, it happens and
then she becomes The Picture of the
Week in the Rogues Gallery!
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Jane Farrer Phillip Terry
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Today We Pay
-Tribute to
o2
Ni.lnn M. Youne. fire con-
trolnian third class on an at
tack transport, who is tne son
of Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Younir. 2908 Spruce street,
La Grande.
lli was Imrn Jan. 31. 102.')
at Alicel, attended Greenwood
elementary and La Grande
hiL'h school. He entered me
navy .Inly, 194.').
On Oct 17, 1943. ne niarnen
Miss Vivian Kami of La
Grande, who is at present in
California.
Boat Fire Leaves
16 Seriously Hurt
POUT EDWARD, Ont., July 18
(UP) At least 10 persons wore
reported in a serious contrition
today as a result of the fire which
burned the liner Humonic to the
waterline in the St. Clair river
yesterday. Some 200 others were
treated for injuries, most of thorn
light. All of the 397 persons on
board escaped death.
TODAY
and THURSDAY
Today
Thru Saturday
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Beats Old Mates
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Cards Cut Down
Cub Lead; Indians
Top Red Sox
By CARL LUNDQUIST
NEW YORK, July 18 (UP)
The rollicking Red Birds of St.
Louis, who like mountain music
almost as well as baseball, found
a "tailor-made" candidate for
their current gas-house gang
when singer-pitcher Charley
Barrett moved over from the
Boston Braves.
To be sure they lost a talent
ed gas-houser in Mort Cooper,
who was able to give renditions
of such Cardinal hill-billy favor
ites as. "Willie, My Toes Are
Cold" and "The Chill On the
Hill."
Leader
But if Billy Southworth, the
doughty Cardinal pilot, had made
a house-to-h'ouse canvass of every
player in baseball , he probably
couldn't have found one that fit
ted in better with the spirited,
hard-driving and fun-loving play
ers on his ciub than "Red" Bar
rett. The talkative "barber" has be
come the Caridnal cheer-leader,
needling opponets both when he
is pitching and when he is lolling
in the dugout. On top of that he
has become the club's top pitch
er with nine victories and three
defeats since joining them late
in May. Yet he was supposed to
have been merely the premium in
the big cash transaction for Coop
or, because his record of nine
wins against 16 losses with the
Braves in 1944 should have led
no one to believe he would de
velop into a big winner.
Beats Braves
Although Cooper, meanwhile,
has compiled a fine percentage
record of eight wins and one loss,
he also has acquired arm trouble
and hasn t started a game since
June 7. So all around the Cards
figure to have profited.
They let the juke box boom out
in his honor last night because he
finally got a chance to beat his
ex-mates, 3 to 2, with a work
manlike nine-hit job for his 12th
victory of the season. It was the
first time that Barrett's turn to
start had come during a Brave
scries and he took advantage of
the situation with some brilliant
pinch-hitting.
The Cardinal victory reduced
the lead of . the Cubs to three
games because of their 2 to 1 loss
to the Giants at Chicago. Bill
Voiselle outpitched Paul Erick
son in a duel in which each gave
up five hits.
Sox Lose
The Dodgers broke Nick
Slrinccvich's winning streak at
six straight games with a 5 to 2
night victory over the Pirates at
Pittsburgh. H.ll Gregg gained
the Dodger victory, his 11th.
Rookie Dick Mauney outpitched
veteran Joe Bowman to give the
Phils a 3 to 1 victory over the
Reds. Mauney gave up three hits
while Bowman yielded only four.
Steve Gromek won his 11th
game of the season at Boston as
the Indians topped the Rod Sox,
0 to 1, behind his nine-hit pitch
ing. He had a shutout going into
the ninth when Johnny Lazor
spoiled it with a homer. He is
sued no walks and struck out six.
All other American league
games wore rained out.
COWBOY ACTOR D'ES
HOLLYWOOD, July 18 Ad
ilison Randall, cowboy actor and
husband of actress Barbara Ben
nett, who was killed when he fell
from a horse during a motion pie
lure scene, will he buried to
morrow at Forest Lawn Memor
ial park.
La Grande
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SPORTi
By JACK CUDDY
United Press Staff Correspondent
By JACK CUDDY
NEW YORK, July 18 (UP)
When baby-faced Tony Janiro
climbed down from Madison
Square Garden's ring on the night
of March 9, a bespectacled, gray
haired man greeted him at the
bottom of the steps, shook his
hand warmly and congratulated
him upon his masterly perform
ance in beating Monte Pignatore
in the six-round semi-final.
Photographers snapped the pic
ture of this congratulation, but
everyone near the ring steps
seemed to be paying more atten
tion to the bespectacled man than
to Janiro. This turn of affairs
puzzled the 18-year-old welter
weight from Youngstown, O.
Vice Presida.il
In the dressing room, Janiro
asked Frankie Jacobs, his man
ager, "Who was that man who
shook my. hand when I came
down from the ring?"
Jacobs replied, "Why that was
Harry Truman, the vice presi
dent."
Somewhat awed, Janiro mut
tered, "Imagine that the vice
president of Madison Square Gar
den shakes my hand."
Manager Jacobs exploded,
"Madison Square Garden hell!
He's vice president of the United
Stales."
Attractive
And that's the way things have
been happening to baby-faced
Janiro. He's such a nice, clean
looking kid with his fair skin
and curly brown hair and such
a brilliant boxer, that the very
best people are attracted to him
in droves, in hundreds, in thou
sands.
In fact, there'll probably be
more than 10,000 fans and a gate
of more than $70,000 at Madison
Square Garden Friday night
when the peach-fuzzed pugilist
makes his most important bid for
national recognition in an eight
round main event against hard
hitting Johnny Greco of Mont
real. Meets Greco
Because of this crowd and gate
and the lucky train of events
since he turned professional 12
months ago, Young Janiro re.
gards the world as a lovely, gold
en paradise. Nothing could be
finer than his current existence
winning friends and fame and
"frogskins" by tossing leather.
He loves to fight, and he is re
markably proficient. He lost but
one of 40 professional encount
ters, and later reversed that deci
sion.
Betting men have made Greco
a 13-10 favorite because of his
five years experience and because
of his punch. They realize young
Janiro has advantages of speed
and skill; but they know he will
be facing a Greco who is desper
ately determined to win to re
deem himself after his last un
satisfactory appearance at the
Garden when he became "sick to
the stomach" and lost to Bobby
Ruffin.
Portland Likely
To Stay In First
And Stars Trail
By United Press
Changes in the present order
of Pacific coast league baseball
teams during the next week of
play arc expected, but with two
exceptions.
The only changes not expected
to occur involved the first place
Portland Beavers and last-place
Hollywood. These two teams are
currently playing each other in
the Rose city, and Portland's
superiority in all departments is
counted on to increase its lead.
Beat Stars
Tuesday night the Beavers
started out with that idea in
mind. They went on a rampage
good for IB hits and a 13-3 vic
tory over the Stars. In the only
other league contest Tuesday
nifilit, San Francisco came out of
its tailspin long enough to defeat
the Rainiers, 3-1, behind the
four-hit pitching of lanky Bob
Joyce.
The victory was Joyce's 21st
and protected his honors as the
leagues leading hurler. It also
was the Seals fifth triumph in
their last 17 games, of which
Joyce won four and Bob Barthel
son tho other. The Suds' defeat
increased Portland's lead to four
end a half games.
13 Hits
Hollywood nudged veteran Ad
Liskn for 13 hits but they were
good for only three runs. Port
land, on the other hand collected
16, amounting to 13 runs. Man
aper Marvin Owen's team scored
in evcryi nning but tho fifth and
seventh. They didn't bat in the
'.;ist of tho ninth.
Wednesday the revived Oak
land Acorns play host to the
Pan Diego Padres. Manager
Hilly Kaimondi will send Len
Clilmore to the mound while Pep
per Martin remains undecided
about his pitching choice.
Los Angeles entertains Sacra
mento in a scries that may see
the Seraphs continue their bid
'or a first division berth. ThO
Si-ilons are now in fourth place
ith Los Angeles in sixth.
PARADE.
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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
. Phone 600
Complete Local Reports
Wednesday, July 18, 1945
Hagg Only Few Steps
From 4 Minute Mile
By HUBERT UXKULL
MALMOE, Sweden, July 18
(UP) Gunder Hagg, Swedish
swifty, was less than a half doz
en steps today from the "impos
sible four minute mile.
If he could have picked up just
six steps somewhere along the-
Ime yesterday as he swept to a
new world record of 4:01.4 in
beating A r n e Andersson, he
could have run the distance, in a
time science once insisted was
impossible. '
Andersson, who set the previ
ous mile mark of 4:01.6 last sum
mer, was a distinct favorite when
they met on the fast Malmo
track. It was here that Anders
son ran his record race on July
18, 1944, but he never had ' a
chance against Hagg yesterday.
SURPRISING Victory by the gaunt haber
dashery salesman was all the
more surprising because of his
mediocre showing last spring in
an indoor tour of the United
States when he failed to win a
race and ran all of them in poor
time.
After his failure in America,
track and field experts figured
he was through and that Anders
son, the Swedish schoolmaster,
would replace him as the only
living human who had a chance
to break the mile mark.
Baseball Standings
By United Press
NATIONAL LEAGUE
W L Pet.
Chicago 48 30 .615
St. Louis 46 34 .575
Brooklyn .....46 35 .568
Pittsburgh 1.41 39 .513
New York 43 41 .512
Boston 39 41 .488
Cincinnati 37 39 .487
Philadelphia 22 63 .259
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 44 32 .579
Washington 40 34 .541
New York 41 36 .532
Boston . 41 37 .562
Chicago 40 39 .506
St. Louis 37 38 .493
Cleveland 37 39 .487
Philadelphia 26 51 .338
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Portland - 67 41 .620
Seattle 62 45 .579
Sacramento 54 53 .505
San Francisco 54 55 .495
Oakland 52 55 .486
Los Angeles 48 58 .453
San Diego 49 60 .450
Hollywood 45 64 .413
FAMOUS FOR FIRSTS
Besides being the home of the
Declaration of Independence,
Philadelphia was America's first
scat of government, saw the
making of the first American
flag, had the first navy yard, and
had the first mint.
Glad
. refreshment time for the younger set
Wherever the gang get together, those friendly words Hi a Coke
play a big part in the fun and refreehment. Whether it's served from
the fimily refrigerator or from a bucket of ice down at the pier,
Coca-Cola draws a stnile from everyone. Be sure to keep a supply
of Coca-Cola on hand.
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The race renewed for the sea
son an intense two-year rivalry
that began in 1943 when Hagg
was making his first American
tour. Almost at the time that he
was setting a new American rec
ord of 5:05.3 at Cambridge, Mass.,
Andersson, a previously obscure
schoolteacher, set the new world
mark of 4:02.6 in Sweden. That
eclipsed Hagg's mark of 4:04.6,
set in 1942 and established the
rivalry. .
Hold Monopoly
The Swedes ran at various
distances during the next season
and Andersson again lowered
the mile mark with a mark of
4:01.6.
. Sweden has had a monopoly
on mile honors since Hagg took
the mark' away from Sidney
Wooderson of England with a
4:06.2 mile in 1942. Later that
same year he reduced it to 4:04.6.
Glen Cunningham, the Ameri
can running star from the Uni
versity of Kansas, held the mile
mark from 1934 to 1937 at 406.8.
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Tom Malloy Upsets
Behrens At Net
RIVER FOREST, 111., July 18
(UP) Seventh-seeded Tom Mal
loy, Panama City, Fla., today
enters the semifinal junior men's
matches of the River Forest open
tennis tournament, after his un
expected dafeet of third-seeded
Buddy Behrens, Fort Lauderdale,
Fla., 6-4, 7-9, 6-4.
Behrens was the national boys'
champion last year.
Other favorites advanced to
the semi-finals yesterday were
top-seeded Bernard Bartzen, San
angelo, Tex., who beat Hugh
Stewart, San Marino, Calif.,
sixth-seeded, 6-1, 6-3, and Her
bert Flam, Beverly Hills, Calif.,
seeded No. 2, who defeated Ed
Davis, Baton Rouge, La., 6-2, 6-2.
A gizzly bear can outrun a
horse in a 100-yard dash.
Chances Are You-
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a Long Time to Cornel
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are being allocated but only most essential "B" and
"0" card holders are getting them. "A" card holder
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OPPOSITE POST OFFICE
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Union VFW Will
Install Officers,
Receive Charter
Officers will be installed and
charter presented at -8 p.m. to
day at an open meeting of Un
ion's new Veterans of Foreign
Wars post, it was announced to
day. The post, named Crag Mountain
post, was organized June 27 by
Earl Culver, representative of
departmental ti e,a d quarers in
Portland. Meetings will be held.
the second and fourth Mondays
of each month in the Legion hall.
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stantly are pouring water into
the sea almost as fast as it is be
ing taken out by the sun through
evaporation.
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