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HeTomq FTanH TALENT SOLDIER LONDON THANKS SEATTLE' To Meet "Gorgeous George" 10-YEAR BUILDING PLAN-STUDIED BY London, Dec. 13 (U.w Sir Frank Alexander, lord mayor of CARD FOR London, sent a reply today to a message from the people of Se AWARDED MEDAL attle, Wash., congratulating Lon don on its emergence from the blackout. reun uroroito mail tmbutte Wednesday. Bw is, 1144 yiUMwwi nV. '" "T"""" "' " "'""""I Y . .,.v E TO TAKE TITLE San Francisco Cue Artist Holds Early Lead In 3 : Cushion Tournament. Few York, Dec. 13 (U.R) Welker Cochran of San Fran cisco took over once more as world three cushion billiard Champion today, ending the long reign of Willie Huppe, New York cue artist by defeating him Jn the final round of the cham pionship tournament SO to 44 in 31 Innings. For Cochran it was a personal triumph because he was able once again to aeieai nis oia nemesis Hoppe, whom ha had not topped in championship play since 1941. He triumphed decisively by taking an early lead In the third inning with a high run of seven and protect ing It to the finish. . It was Cochran's first world title since 1936 and the fourth that he had held in three cush ion play. He won previously in 1933 and 1935. Cochran, with his high run of seven took a lead of 11 to 4 and from there made it to 17-8, 23-14, 31-25, and 32-29, with that margin the closest that Hoppe got. Toward the finish he made it 43-35, 47-41, 48-42, and finish ed with two billiards to make the final count 60-44. The victory gave Cochran first prize money of $2,500 plus $500 war bond from an anony mous fan and a $300 trophy. Second (lace went to Hoppe, who finished in a game tit with Jay Bozeman of Vallejo, Cel., with seven victories and two de feats. However,. Hoppe's point record enabled him to take the $1,750 runner up prize. GOLLFERS START . Richmond, Cal., Dee. IS U.R Slammln' Sammy Snead, Byron Nelson and Sgt. Jim Farrier to day led a field of top-flight golf tars in the opening of the four day $7500 Richmond open. The last POA match to be flayed In the San Francisco bay region during this season, the tournament takes place on the 209-yard course of the Rich mond Country club. Far for the course is 71. ' All of which means that the beys with the long hits and those capable of playing wind shots, with a low trajectory that escape the playful breezes, will have the best chance. Leading in . these respects are Snead, winner of the Portland open, Byron Nelson, San Francisco champ, Craig Wood and Denny Shute, former British oped' champion. At the conclusion of the Rich- ' mond tournament, the boys take off for Los Angeles, the south west and the deep south for the rest of the winter circuit. E TO FACE OREGON Eugene, Ore., Dec. IS. (U.FD The Klamath Falls marine base basketball squad wUl meet the university of Oregon hoop team Friday and Saturday in a two- game series Just before the Web- foots entrain for Vancouver. B. ft, where they will play the University of British Columbia Monday night. The Klamath team is one of the potentially strong ser vice teams in the northwest Clotinl 11m for Bunds Too Ltto lfy B 30 saturdiy altwnoon One of the strongest wrestling cards presented at Medford Armory in a long while will be offered Thursday night. Three champions will appear on the card, together with three of the most outstanding men now In the northwest. Promoter Mack Lillard has arranged a double main event for this program which will be topped by "Gorgeous George Wagner, self-styled "toast of the coast" and Jack Kiser, Pacific coast light-heavy titlist. This match would be capable of a top position in any coast mat center and Promoter Mack Lillard feels he has been exceptionally fortu nate in bringing them together in the Medford ring. Other half of the twin main event will see a natural rematch between Gust Johnson, coast Junior heavyweight champion, and Terrible Tony noss. itoss holds one-fall decision over the champ, gained last week after Johnson had already ap peared against one opponent.' Terrible Tony feels he can re peat his triumph if he can stay out - of the way of Johnson's deadly surfboard. Herb Parks, Canadian light heavy champion, will meet Milt Olson of Minneapolis in the three . round opener. Both are fast and clever grapplers and should provide a thrill for fans who like their muscle-mangling along clean and scientific lines. They take to the mat at 8:30. NIGHT BASEBALL IN BIG LEAGUES New York. Dec. 13-U. Approval of unlimited night baseball for 1945, and perhaps for the duration, and of an in crease in the number of players which clubs are permitted on their reserve and active lists ap-. peered certain today as the major leagues met in their an nual Joint sesalen. Both the National and Amer ican leagues were said to have Instructed their president! to vote for the proposals, but move to bar the clubs from renting their parks to profes sional football teams before the close of the basebaU season was reported headed for defeat. Unlimited night bail first was voted last summer when the Washington Senators and the St. Louis Browns and Cardinals led the movement No opposition was expressed to a continuance of the policy', but It was possible ine joint meeting may adopt a resolution calling for a return to the old seven-game limit in the post-war period. m order to make room for re turning servicemen on their ros ters, some clubs championed a measure which would permit an Increase of the number of play ers on their reserve list from 40 to 50, providing the extra 10 are ex-service men. to Clau Picas remember BOXING TROPHY New York, Dec. 13. (U.R) The New York boxing writers' association recognized Lt. Cmdr. Benny Leonard today as "the wlnnah and still champeen," voting him man of the year in pugilism. They awarded the former lightweight king the Edward J. Nell memorial trophy for his outstanding contributions to box ing during 1944 because of his stimulating activities as: . (1) Director of recreation and morale at the U. S. maritime sta tion, Sheepshead Bay, N. Y.; (2) speaker at bond rallies and other war-effort functions throughout the country; and (3) competent New York state referee. i ' i tit i -" t' Jack Kiser, coast wrestling ch amplon, who will face "Gorge ous" George Wagner in the top half of a twin, main event at Medford Armory Thursday nig ht. Gust Johnson and Tony Ross alash in the other half and Milt Olson meets Herb Parks in. the opener. ' CALIFORNIA TITLE Los Angeles, Dec. 13. (U.R) Jack Chase, former middle weight kingpin of California today stepped Into the shoes of Watson Jones as light heavy weight champion of the state after giving Jones a 15-round boxing lesson to win a unanim ous decision last night at Olym pic auditorium. Chase, a fancy Dan with an underslung left hand that some how stabs off an opponent less skilled in the ring game, was Jones' master throughout. For 10 rounds Chase avoided close contact with the heavier, stronger and harder hitting Jones, piling up the point with his left stab. Jones weighed 173, and is a local product. Chase. Denver. Colo., weighed 182V&. G. P. MEET CANCELLED Grants Pan, flro TW la (U.PJ Cancellation of the south ern Oregon' Invitational basket ball tournament, originally scheduled for Grants Paw this weekend, was annnunr1 tH by Phlnclpal Frank Thomas of uranis pass nigh school, on the recommendation of Dr. S. B. Osgood, county health officer. Thft nntlnn nllnwH ihm den illness of Carl Carpenter, nign scnooi coach, who was stricken Monday by epidemic meningitis, according to Dr. Os good's diagnosis. Carpenter was reported much improved today. SO WHATI Hollywood, Dec. 13 U.FD separation of Donna Reed, MGM actress, and her husband, Wil liam Tuttle, was confirmed by the actress' studio today. m OLD Ihompson BRAND A BETTER BLEND FOR BETTER DRINKS , OUNMOtS DUTIUMIU COMFANT Ucorpwitri ' LOUISVtLLI. tSNTUCSt Blended Whiskey 8M proof 5 Grain Neutral Spirits q mhos Ex-State Attorney General Assistant at Ordnance Depot Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 13 Lt. William E. Dougherty, assistant attorney general of Oregon in 1942, has recently been assigned to the Cleveland Ordnance Dis trict of the Army Service Forces. , A member of the Army Serv ice Forces since 1942, he was promoted to first lieutenant on August 22, 1944. He attended high school In Medford and the University of Oregon, Stanford University and Southern Ore gon College of Education. He is a member of the Oregon State Bar and the Chi Psl and. Phi Delta Phi fraternities. . . Lt. Dougherty is now residing at 12588 Lake Avenue, Lake wood, Ohio. Stranded' Marine On Leyte Death Compass Somewhere in the Pacific, Dec. 13-4J.R) Cut off from supplies for two days, during which time his only water was what he could find in shell holes, a Glendale, Cal., marine lieuten ant attached to the army during the assault on Leyte In the Phil ippines helped to direct carrier borne planes In killing an est! mated 2,200 Japanese, a marine combat dispatch revealed to day. He was Id Lt. Robert L. Bauer, 33. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT By United Press - Philadelphia Ray (Sugar) Robinson, 148.V4 New York, stopped Richard (Sheik) Rangel, 147, Fresno, Calif., (2); Gene Burton, 138, Scranton, Pa.j de cisioned Jimmy . Hatcher, 138, Lake City, Fla., (8). SUGAR PRODUCTION Washington, Dec. 13 (U.R) Sugar production by refiners totaled 4,569,501 short tons, raw value, in the first ten months of this year, while domestic beet factories produced 453,848 short tons, the War Food Ad ministration announced today. Portland, Ore., Dec. 13 U.B Chancellor Frederick M. Hun ter today predicted a tremen dous increase In post-war enroll ment In Oregon state institutions of higher education and propos ed a 10-year building program for the state board of higher education to consider in its Port land session today. Hunter said the gains will come from the release of veter ans and war workers from the service, the upturn of attend ance coming naturally after acute decline as In all emer gencies, and the new industrial development or Oregon and the Pacific northwest., The chancellor said that plan ning for these changes can come through the state board, with its building committee, advocating legislative approval of an ade quate housing program in the major institutions; educational and guidance offerings 'and fa cilities for demobilized veterans and war workers, and technolo gical research findings and train- ed leaders to serve an expand ing Oregon industry to aid pri vate industry. Hunter said more than 80 per cent of the proposed post-war plans In the building program would be self-liquidating and the remainder would come from state sources. The plan calls for a graduated series of projects costing $7,090,000, with the larg est portion to be used in the first biennlum. It was estimated that student enrollment would almost double by 1980 from the 1940 peak of 11,478. The educator said an esti mated 50.C00 men under 28 are in the armed forces from Ore gon and it Is believed that at least 50 per cent will be eligible for education benefits on the cot' leee level. Dr. Hunter also called atten tion to the faculty retirement plan proposed by the state board. wnicn wouia cover au inswu tions and provide for optional retirement at 65 and automatic retirement at 70 years. He said such a plan "could be inaugurat ed and maintained at an annual cost of little more than half what the present system of re duced services at 50 per cent salary would cost annually 15 venrn hence." The chancellor told the board that the neoDle of Oregon "were fortunate in having a group of state-supported institutions unit ed in a single educational pro gram for the war and post-war emergency." DEATH INTERVENES Huntington Park, CaJ.. Dec. 13. (U.R) Dr. Arthur Torrance, 56, explorer and doctor of trop ical medicine who faced a fed eral court trial hero Jan. 18 on mail fraud charges, died today of a heart attack. vn d , ; mm j t La' -S3 .. LI r 5 -I- -? -"".', ,':-V ' $ (Acmt Teltphoto) Wounded by bayonet of retreating Jap, this six-month -old Filipino baby sucks hungrily at this oversized milk bottle held by American medical oorpsman in Leyte Island hospital Signal Corps photo. Army Air Base, Great Falls, Mont Cpl. Davis M. Young of Columbia Orchard, Talent, Ore., on duty at the Great Falls Army Air Base, Alaska Division, Air 1 Transport Command, has been awarded the Good Conduct Medal "for exemplary behavior, efficiency ' and faithfulness in performing his duties in an out standing manner."' Cpl. Young Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. Young, of , Talent Prior to his entrance into the armed forces in July, 1943, he was employed at the Spokane Army Air Depot At the army air base, Cpl. Young is assigned to duty in the weights and balance depart ment. NOMINATE ARMOUR Washington, Dec. 13 (U.R) President Roosevelt today nom-. inated Norman Armour, chief of the state department's division of Latin-America affairs, to be ambassador to Spain, replacing Carlton J. Hayes. TIMBER CUT GAINS San Francisco, Dec: 13 U.R) Timber cut in California Na tional forests during the year ending last June 30 increased 29 per cent over the previous 12 months, the United States Forest Service announced. DO YOU WANT TO SELL YOUR CAR? 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