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TWO MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE Monday. Jin. 19, 1945 WITH 274 SCORE By Joseph Banks United Press Correspondent . Phoenix, Aril., Jan. 15 U.R) Byron Nelson, 1944's leading inoney winner in professional golfdom, set las sights today on the Tucson open next week after running away with the top prize in the Phoenix tournament with . 274 for 71 holes. , Nelson, who took a 69 on yesterday's final round,, was only . two shots under . second place Dejiny Shute, the veteran Akron. O.. shotmaker. who post ed a 68 on the last 18 for a 276 total. . ' Sammy ' Byrd, ex-New York Yankee baseball player from Detroit, finished in third place. taking another 68 on the last 18 for 277. -. Byrd -was within one stroke of the money-making ace at the start of the lest round, but. lost the tourney when he wound up in a trap on the last hole as Nelson laid a 100-foot approach wltbin a foot, of the pin for top honors. National PGA Champion Bob Hamilton, Evonsvllle, Ind., was in fourth place. He ended the day with a sensational 65 on the par 71 course for a 278 total on the 72 rolllny holes. . Highest ranking amateur, hot shot Ed Furgol, Detroit, got 286. It was the 11th tournament, incidentally, in which Furgol won amateur honors while Nel- ion took tne sold. Slammln' Sammy S n e a d White Sulphur. Springs, Va pre tourncy favorite after his vic tory in .the Los Angeles open finished 13th. - He said he would join the rest of the boys In the Tucson open January- 19-21 and then prob ably will "lay off a while" be cause of a troublesome back, " 'Nelson clinched the top mon ey of 1,333 in war bonds ma turity value with a 72 on the first 18 yesterday and a 69 on the last round. He was exactly 10 strokes under par for- the 72 holes of play. Promoter fc. . . v - v H 1 Mack Lillard, shown above. was re-elected promoter for ths Medford boxing commission at the commission's annual meeting held Saturday night. B I OK New York, Jan. 15 U.R) Baseball hoped for a n o t h e "green light" from Washington today for a fourth war-time sea son and should the game survive an expected manpower crisis it appeared almost certain that it will be under the direction of National League President Ford Frick as Its new high com missioner. A 10-man committee now completing a new agreement un der which the successor to base ball's first and only commission er, the late Kenesaw Mountain Landls, will serve. Although its work will not be done until early next month, Frick seem ed assured of the support neces sary to get the position. Despite denials to the con- trary, he has been campaigning silently for the Job. The former sports writer, who left his type writer and radio work in 1934 to become head of the National circuit, reportedly. lined up enough American league back ing to overcome the opposition of club owners in his own league. Feller Convinced H Servicemen Want , y Professional Ball - Seattle, Jan. 15- (U.rV-Navy Chief Specialist Bob Feller, 26-year-old former pitcher for the Cleveland Indians, was back from 18 months of sea duty to day with a three-starred cam paign ribbon and a determined opinion that professional base ball should not be blacked out by the draft. The Cleveland star who don ned navy blue two days after Pearl Harbor will be stationed temporarily with his ship at the Bremerton navy yard across from Puget Sound. His -months at sea, he said, convinced him servicemen want baseball continued. More than 3.500,000 U. S. farms have no electric lights or electric power, according to the rural electrifiatlon administration. Pete Belcastro, wild Weed Assassin, has been signed by Promoter Mack Lillard to meet the Cray Mask in the top main event of his weekly wrestling card at Medford Armory Thurs day night. The match will be for six ten-minute rounds, con tinuing the new main event pol icy put into effect last week. Jack Klser, coast light-heavy champion, will meet Gust John son, junior heavyweight cham pion, in the four round semi- windup. Neither title will be at stake. Terrible Tony Ross, who has been clamoring for a main event berth, has agreed to an opening bout to make way for the two outstanding matches. He will meet Milt Olson in the three round curtain raiser. Opening Date Set , For Coast League Baseball Schedule San Francisco, Jan. 15. -(U.R) The annual winter meeting of the Pacific , Coast Baseball league has come and gone with nary the mention (even in a whisper) of a player trade, sale or give-away. Generally ,the boys accom plished very little, although they did get around to the business of expressing an official senti ment that they were "optimistic that baseball would continue through tin 1945 campaign." Emphasising what they thought, they extended the base ball schedule to 183 games on 154 playing dates, with the open er on March 31, the closer on Sept. 23. Opening contests were as follows: March 31, April 1-1. 2 .3 Hollywood at Sacramento: Port land at Oakland: San Francisco at Los Angeles; Seattle at San Diego. TILT SCHEDULED Principal Lester Harris of Medford high school announced today that proceeds from the January 30 basketball game be tween Medford high s Black Tor nado and Grants Pass Cavemen will be turned over to the Jack son county infantile paralysis fund. Harris was unable to state how much expenses for the game will be but said he would endeavor to make arrangements whereby the entire gate receipts will be turned over to the fund. One half of all monies collected in the county remain here to aid local polio sufferers while the other half goes to the national foundation to aid in research to combat the dread disease. - Grants Pass and Medford, bit ter rivals in they southern Oregon basketball conference, have met twice this season with Medford winning both games. Complete program for the special game will be announced later, Harris said. The shipbuilding industry of tne united states has construct ed more new combat ships than the entire tonnage lost by the combined allied nations thus far in the war, says Ships Magazine. NOW YOU CAN ENJOY PRE-WAR TASTE Blended with f ineat all American grain spirits and fins selected whiskies, that give you the true pre-war Lansdowne flavor. ItlNDED WHISKEY, 14 MOO l7'i GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS THE LANSDOWNE DISTILLERY Havre oi raci. md. CANADIEN HOCKEY CLUB WHIPS NEW YORK. 6-2 By United Press Dreams of grandeur and high rank in the National league hockey standings were over to day at least temporarily for the long down-trodden New York Rangers. The Rangers took a II to 2 trouncing last night from the league leading Montreal Cana- dlens. , The Detroit Red Wings defeat ed the Toronto Maple Leafs 3 to 0. . The Chicago Blackhawks gained on the Boston Bruins by defeating them 4 to 1. In the other Saturday night game, Toronto topped Boston 2 to 1. Night School Seeks Industrial Harmony New Orleans (U.R) A special night school of industrial rela tions which stresses labor-management co-operation has been started at Loyola university here. Its organizer, the Rev. C. C. Chapman, S. J chairman of the Loyola history and political science department, said that the school Is offering courses which teach practical solutions to employer-employee disagree ments. Respect for the points of view of management, labor, govern ment, and religion are aired in the school by leaders of each in committee discussions and open forums. Congresswoman Douglas Moves in : -' .x 'r; Pt (Acm Telephoto) . Rep. Helen Oahagan Douglas, Hollywood's newly-elected Democratic con iremwoman and wife of Actor Melvin Douglas, brightens up her Washing ton office with a bouquet of flowers for ner desk. Underground Pipes Cut Snow Drudgery Washington (U.R) Modern science has found a way to eliminate the drudgery of shov eling snow or chopping ice from walks and driveways. Hot water circulated through pipes in stalled beneath concrete does the job. Such Installations have al ready been made around at least two manufacturing plants. De signers of some postwar filling stations also have incorporated similar use of heating in drive ways leading to gas pumps. MORE PLANE DEAD Los Angeles, Jan. 15 (U.RV The names of five additional army men killed Wednesday in the crash of an American Air lines passenger plane were re leased tonight by officials of the army Birmingham General hos pital. All were from the east. ';7'"'g "--" jry"" 'fcr Win f u f 1 I " DOUBLE TROUBLE No, it's not done with a mirror, although at first glance you'd think it was as Hollywood's newest movie twin Lois (left) and Lucille Barnes pose side by side. Gals are from. Flint, Mich., and they'll strut their stuff In Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe, screen version. . , More About Comet 1882 By J. Hugh Prueit Astronomer, General Extension Division, Univ. of Oregon The discussion In this column six weeks ago of the great comet of 1882, the brightest comet In the past ISO years, brought this splendid letter from Mrs. Anna E. Richards of Eugene, Oregon: '. . . . I have for 73 years been intensely interested in the night skies. I have observed from many different locations: from the mountains, the desert, the deep woods and even from the ocean. I have witnessed many of the socalled 'strange phenom ena', but the glorious comet of the early 80 s was by far the greatest of all. 'I was early taught, . The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth His handiwork'. So in the faith of a little 'child the wonders were only God showing the children of earth the splendors of a realm as real to us at that time as the one in which we lived. My im pressions are those of a child, but very clear and vivid. 'I remember the first appear ance of the comet was in the late summer or early fall, and it continued all the following win ter. There was no radio and very few newspapers, but when I heard people talking about something 'new in the sky', I was all interest. I looked for it daily, but it was some time be fore I could locate it because the brilliant Colorado sunshine kept it dim at first. But as the days grew shorter, the darkness of night brought the glorious vision nearer until its splendor filled the sky beyond any description of mine. "We were high in the Rockies west of Denver. Our view was entirely unobstructed in that clear atmosphere. My work took me back and forth each night and morning while it was dark. When the deep snow of winter covered the earth,- with the cliffs and dark evergreen trees to break the expanse of white, it was then the comet shone brightest. A luminous orb, send ing out from one edge sprays not shafts of light, curving gracefully downward and separ ating at the end. Its length seem ed to reach over one-fourth of the sky. "I saw it night after night for months. And was it my childish fancy or was It true that as the comet grew older, the end took on the form of a mist, like water U. P. MAN DIES Dallas, Tex., Jan. IS (U.R) Funeral services will be held at a Dallas funeral chapel tomor row for R. G. (Dick) Baldwin, 39, Texas manager of United Press for 11 years, who died of a heart ailment at his home yes terday. He nad been ill for eight days. GREEN mt SLA 12 INCH OR 16 INCH LENGTHS 300 CU. FT. LOAD DIAL 2123 TlMBERP Miareaa Rtmuts S75 DIAL 2123 Company lifted by wind becomes mist? So I trudged my mile-long Jour ney each day in its light un afraid, for was God nol up there with His wonderful light? 'The comet was visible so long we began to regard it a permanent fixture. And as the days grew longer and the Colo rado sunshine again flooded the earth, I forgot the comet for a time. When again I remembered it, I scanned the sky but in vain. It was gone!" Work As Usual Is V-Day Program At Airplane Factory1 Kansas City. Kan. (U.R) V- Day will bring no celebration at the Kansas plant of North American Aviation. Inc. Normal factory operation, in terrupted only fdr lunch period announcements of news develop ments, m tne program outlined by Harold flaynor, plant mana ger, for the day that Germany quits. "Collapse of Germany." said Raynor, "will be a time for sober thanksgiving and to renew our pledge to stay on the lob until this war is won and it will not be won until the Japanese, too are defeated." Protein Used To Generate Blood Lincoln, Neb. (U.R) Women blood donors regenerate blood more rapidly when given a gen erous intake of protein. Dr. Ruth erton, home economics de partment of the University of Nebraska -ollege of agriculture, reported to the American Die tetic association. . Dr. Leverton conducted study last yar at the university with 30 women students, who acted as blood donors and re ceived a carefully balanced diet. Blood value? measured weekly indicated those girls who were given 75 grams of protein a day regenerated blood much more rapidly than those receiving the usual intake of SO grams. 89-Year-Old Texan Out Of City Once Houston. Tex. (U.R) Robert Windt was born 89 years ago in Houston. And during those 89 vears he's Deen out of the city only once on a three-day visit to Austin. His dearest wish is to live long enough "to go fishing with my grandson, who is busy right now fighting Japs." Windt has been married 84 years, and claims his success in marriage is because I Just let ner nave her . own way. ENVOY TO TURKEY Washineton. Jan.. 15 0J.fi Edwin C. Wilson. 51-year-old career dinlomat. was nominated by President Roosevelt today to be ambassador to Turkey. He would succeed Laurence A. Stelnhardt. new U. S. envov to the Czechoslovak government. SUCH IS FAME Boston (U.R) What became of the other 19,999,998 listeners? That is what Comedian Fred Allen wants to know. Said the Boston-born radio, stage and screen star: "I was supposed to have 20,000,000 radio listeners. But when I went off the air I received only two pieces of mail letter from a lady in Lan caster, Pa., and the other a post card from an anonymous gent in Syracuse." Pet Puppy for Marilyn f O .. . .:' 9. HCm-.-'.. W - JTSSHi ."-'1 Happiest little girl in New Jersey is 2-year-old Marilyn Diane Schwarti , of Jersey City, who hugs the small brown puppy sent her by an unknown friend from Sydney, Australia. The pup, cared for by crewmen and Red Cross workers at oases half way around the world, flew his last lap from Long Beach, Calif to Newark in a P-33. Army Band Fights Between Concerts In Pacific Battle U. S. Army Base, Southwest Pacific(U.R) Just what an army band does In combat is revealed, in a commendation by MaJ. Gen. O. W. Griswold, commander of the 14th Army Corps, of the 292nd Army Ground Forces Band. The commendation, for ser vice in the Southwest Pacific from April 1, 1942, to Sept. 30, 1944, disclosed that at their first overseas station the band mem bers trained as machine gun ners and in other combat jobs in addition to their regular con cert appearances. When the regiment went into combat on Guadalcanal, . the band worked as members of ration and ammunition carry ing parties supplying the front lines and as litter bearers evac uating wounded under fire. Throughout the entire period. the band made an average of more than 30 appearances a month including 'numerous stage shows. OAKIES PLAN DIVORCE Hollywood, Jani 15. (U.R) For the second time in nine years of marriage, Film Come dian Jack Oakie and his wife. former Follies girl Venlta Var- den, announced today they are planning a divorce. Mrs. Oakie, who retained Attorney Jerry Giesler, said she would charge incompatibility. Cloilns rime for Classified Adl 9 m Too Lata to Classify 12 JO ii m HANKOW BOMBED . . Chungking, Jan. 15. 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