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
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Mack Lillard, shown above.
was re-elected promoter for ths
Medford boxing commission at
the commission's annual meeting
held Saturday night.
B
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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HANKOW BOMBED . .
Chungking, Jan. 15. (U.R)
A communique reported today
that a fleet of bombers escorted
by more than 100 fighters at
tacked Hankow yesterday and
destroyed 24 Japanese planes,
probably destroyed four, and
damaged 33.
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