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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1941
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Falls Defeats Temple For State Football Title
Too Potent
• Wildcat Team
13 To 0 Win Scored
EWith Touchdowns In
Second And Fourth
Wichita Falls Coyotes ar>
Texas Schoolboy football chair,
pions.
They rose to the Purple Sat-
urday by defeating Temple in a
game featured by their sDec'a-
cular passing attack.
Five times the boys from
Northwest Texas torpedoed their
way into the Central Texas
youths' hallowed bailiwick, and
twice drove on through Terr,
pie's heavy line for six point
markers. Gene Hill, pass heaver
and punter, starred in both
roles in the playing that brought
the two touchdowns, and stav-
ed off Temple's lone threat. He
booted once for 67 yards, the
ball rolling out of bounds on
Temple's 3-yard line to giv?
that team an inferiority com-
plex. if anything could.
The Smith twins shared hon-
ors wth Hill for receiving pas
ses. and once for kick after
touchdown. Bobbie D.. the kick-
ing '"mith. however, missed hi«
10th try for goal on the first
touchdown occasion * Saturday,
after making nine trials good
during the playoff*. That failure
to boot over a point, and leaving
Temnle a chance to score a
touchdown, a goal point, and
win: is credited with the sus-
tained attacks later made by
the Coyotes to enhance that
bare 6-point lead.
At any rate, the Coyote*
were out to gain any extra
|>oint possible throughout
tin game, with the gatue
Temple crew fighting hack
-avugrlj at every opportu-
nity.
Sixteen tirst downs for the
Coyotes, as against 0 for the
Wildcats, give a fair idea ' f
comparative power of the two
aggregations, but scarcely does
ciedit to the'inimitable fc'ay in
which Coyote players handled
the pigskin.
The game stau-^d with both
Wildcats and Coyotes too eag-
i r, almost every play calling
for some sort of a penalty, off
side, interference or running
with the ball illegally. But near
the end of the second quart :r
the upstate team got going.
Ironically enough, the scor-
ing followed a tough break for
Wichita Falls. After the Coy-
otes had made two first downs,
a pass over Temple's goal line
was intercepted to stave off a
rampaging Wichita Falls ele-
ven.
Temple's line plays failed
to gain needed yardage and
a kick to Wiehita Fall's
40 set the stage for a mark-
er. A p;iss from Gene Hill
to Bolihy Lee Smith was
good to the 50, Sind was
strcUhed 2<l yards more by
Smith's brilliant run.
Another pass to the 12. with
Siew; t't. lushing the ball on to
ihe ('-yard line after the catch,
wis followed with swift preci-
sion by another pass, Hill to
Smith that went over the lino
safely for enough points to as
to assure Texas championship.
The half ended after Temple
hid hail a chance and gained
only three yards in three at
tempts, and booted to the Coy-
otes. Gene Hill tried to run with
tha ball but lost three yards
as time for the half was called.
The second score, early in the
fourth quarter, followed a driva
that began on Wichita Fall- 17-
yard line. A line play netted live
yards, and another lost 8: and
His Ancestors Should Be Very Proud
A full military funeral ceremony
died in the initial attack on Pearl
is conducted for a Japanese lieutenant who crashed and
Harbor December 7tli. (Official Navy Photo from NKA
Telcphoto).
Control Of Sea
And Air Claimed
Bv Japanese
BERLIN, Dec. 27 — (fOficial
1 German broadcast recordetl by
the United Press in New York)
—German dispatches from To-
kyo reported today that in a
; speech to the diet Navy Minis-
ter Admiral Shigetaro Shimada
t said that "the imperial navy has
assured full control of the sea
■*,and of the air in four oceans."
Shimada was reported to
have said that:
At Hong Kong nine
I destroyers were sunk
Trojan Coach Says
OSC Underrated
*
By .lack Gucntlier
I'nited Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK. Dec. 27—(UP)—When you set out to record the
last wo ds of a man popularly believed to be broken in health,
dulled in mind and crushed in spirit, it comes as something of a
shock to find your party fat. saucy and full of indignation at the
odds which have established Oregon State a 3-1 underdog in the |
exiled Rose Bowl football game.
Saga Of Chicago
Bears Story Of
'41 Pro Football
by George Kirksey
VP Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK. Dec. 27 — (UP)
—The saga of the Chicago Bears,
a big. bruising team with a
scoring punch that made many
experts rate it the greatest grid-
iron aggregation of modern
times, is the story of profes-
sional football in 1941.
There were other notable de-
velopments in the national foot-
ball league but all were related,
more or less, to the Beat's and
their fabulous owner-coach,
George Halas. Among them
were:
111 The resignation of Elmer
I .ayden as Notre Dame football
coach to become commissioner
of the national football league.
Feb. 3. The Bears even had
a hand in this since Halas was
one of the prime movers in the
surprise deal
(2) Record crowds with a to-
tal attendance of 1,188,61(1 for
the 55 regularly scheduled gam-
es—an increase of nine per cent
over the 1940 attendance of 1,-
003,022.
(3) The first divisional playoff
since the East-West lineup was
made in 1933, with the Bears
heating the Green Bay Packers,
3314, before a crowd of 13,425
(not included in the above at-
tendance figures.)
(4) The first champion ev-
er to repeat since the Kast-
Wcst playoffs were institut-
ed with lite Bears who
slugged the Washington Ited-
-kins, 73-0, last December—
shipping down New York
Giants, .17-9.
The Bears did such amazing
things that it was puzzling that
the Packers could give them
See FOOTBALL Page 5
The Yellow Menace In Philippines No. 1 Sandlotter
Goes To Dodgers
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Mr ATTACKS
JAP OBJECTIVES
VIGAN
ILAUAN
Pacific
LUZON
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CATANDUANIS
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Mininniiiii
ENID. Okla., Dec. 27 —(UP™
—The Brooklyn Dodgers have
acquired Monte Basgall of Enid,
Okla., the No. 1 sandlot base-
ball player in the United States
during the 1941 season.
The national semi - pro base-
hall congress confirmed the an-
nouncement today. Basgall, 17,
second baseman for the Enit^
Champlin Refiners, national
champions, is attending Sterl-
ing, Kan., college at present. He
was signed by Bert Wells, Dod-
gers' scout. £
Basgall led 509 other hitters
in the national tournament with
a mark of .589.
Other young players from the
1911 rational tournament whd
1 teceded Basgall in joining pro-
fessional clubs included Pete
Laydtn. Texas grid star, who
played twitli the Waco, Tex.,
sandlot team. He will report tc|j
Louisville in
sociation.
the American as-
Tliis map makes a graphic presentation of the Japanese men-
ace to Manila and the routes that the invaders are attempting.
That's exactly how 1 found
I Justin McCarthy Barry when I
arrived at his hotel today bear-
i ing a gift of lilies and the ad-
British I dress of my favorite mortician
and four | (40 pef cent off to the Tight
I people). Considering what the
man had been through these
last four months, 1 wasn't mere-
ly surprised to find Mr. Barry
in excellent health: 1 Was stun-
ned.
You see, Justin McCarthy Bar-
ry is just an alias for the Sam
Barry who debuted this season
as coach of the Southern Cali-
the
the
j damaged heavily.
Anglo-American naval losses
| since the start of hostilities were
seven battleships sunk, three
I heavily damaged, one damaged;
' two cruisers sunk, two heavily
j damaged; nine submarines sunk.
I many probably destroyed: one
! destroyer sunk, four heavily
! damaged.
Shimada also reported -ix gun-1 fornia football team. Since
' boats and minesweepers destroy-! Trojans lost six games,
| ed, more than seven torpedo I worst tragedy to strike Los An-
i boats sunk and two gunboats ■ geles since Shirley Temple first
i and one auxiliary craft damaged. | entered the gawky age. the alias
He said that. 16 merchant ships j was quite in order even if I
i were sunk and three damaged j wasn't. But ray host soon put
I and that 50 ships totaling 130,- i me at ease.
000 tons and more than 400
smaller craft had been captured.
Shimada was reported to have
said that the Japanese shot down
803 British and American planes
and destroyed "even more" on
the ground. He placed Japanese I suicide bridge or visiting
"Pay no heed to the wishful
thinking you've heard," he boom-
ed, slapping my back with an
arm that certainly wasn't wast-
ing away. "Every time 1 lost a
game I was reported heading for j know
SOME PEOPLE START THE
NEW YEAR TURNING OVER
NEW RESOLUTIONS AND
OTHERS JUST HANG-OVER
FROM THE
OLD YEAR
PETE SAYS: Let's all resolve
to buy Defense Bonds and
Stamps regularly throughout
the coining New Year!
HUNT WISH KM!
DUNLAP CLEANERS
<114 Oak St.
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losses at 52 planes, three destroy-
rers and one minesweeper and
| said that one minesweeper and
| a light cruiser were damaged,
j Several Japanese submarines
j were listed as missing. He said
| the Japanese had not suffered
i damaged to any battleship.
! Japanese forces which occu
j pied Wake Island on Dec. 23
j were said to have taken 1,000
j prisoners. Shimada said that in
; air combats off the Philippines
j the Japanese air force had de-
| stroyed 338 American plants.
then dill rifled one of his super-!
duptrs to his waiting conspira-
tor, Robbie Lee Smith, who took j
the ball to the 23-yard line.
After the quarter's irttermis- j
sion the two boys repeated the j
same trick, with a suddenness i
that scattered the Temple fore- j
es. Smith breezed to the 3. and j
i gun-
smith. But, shucks, we didn't
have a bad team. We lost boys
to the army, through injuries
and through influenza. The only
time they Were all together
they won. and beat Oregon state,
the conference champ.'
Since Barry was one of
the two coaches who del d -
feat the western Hose howl
team, I asked him to furnish
a thumb-nail sketch of his
squad so lightly dism|ssed as
an oppor.'iit for high-scoring
Duke. He did, as follows, but
first he warned that the
Beavers have been terribly,
terribly under-rated iind that
tin- odds certainly shouldn't
be any :>•!.
"1 can t pick OSC to win the
game beccause 1 haven't seen
Duke," he said, "but Lon Stiner
has two big. rugged lines. When
I say big and rugged. I mean
: Javcees Organize
Penny-a-Dav ( lul)
GOOSE CREEK, Dec. 27 —
(UP)—A penny-a-day club was
organized today by the Tri-Cities
Junior chamber of commerce to
collect donations for the feder-
al government to purchase ar-
maments.
Articles of incorporation have
been filed in Austin for a state-
wide charter and the name of
the organization has been copy-
righted in hopes of establishing
the movement on a national ba-
sis. • •
J. K. Butter, president of the
chamber, said that milk bottles
to collect pennies will be plac-
ed in all schools and public and
private lntidings. The club will
be a non-profit organization and
will have no capital stock.
Incorporators will be Rutter.
Shannon L. Morris of Pelly,
member of the Texas Junior
chamber's committee on inter-
American relations, and A. M.
Goul of Goose Creek.
Italian Airline
Service Stopped
BOISE. Idaho, Dec. 27— (UP) ! 1 •
First official report.- of cas- BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 27 —
ualties among construction wor- (UP) Service between Buenos
kers on Wake Island as the re- Aires and Rome over the Italian
suit of Japanese attacks were re- ••irlinc l.ati lias been suspended,
ceived'today by Idaho residents, j the Argentine post office said
The navy'department reported j today.
Fritz Shafer, 22, son of Mr. and Reports from- Brazil said the
Mrs. Ernest Shafer of Nampa.! Brazilian post office also had
and Louis Allen Adamson. bus- announced suspension of Lati.
band of Mrs. Winfretl Adamson. j which operated across the south
Twin Falls, were killed ."as a i Atlantic.
beaten twice," he said. "I don't
believe that. I don't know how
thing" were in the East, but
our boys didn't follow the 'bus-
iness as usual' theory. They were
frankly excited by the war and
it was almost impossible to
keep them up mentally for ev-
ery game. Hence, the many
upsets."
Barry, here with the Southern
California basketball team — he
coaches that, too—says he will
have a good team next year be-
cause he won't lose many of his
boys, who are unusually young.
But he is more concerned with
keeping football going than he
is in winning titles, to wit:
"We'll play football just as
long as we have boys in school.
Maybe it won't be as good a
brand of football as in the past
and maybe we will use freshmen
in varsity play. But the game
is an oid American tradition,
and if it's up to the boys, I
lo-
we'll go right along.
ing our best."
ft orkers Killed
On Wake Island
Hair the fullback crashed the just that. We didn't beat Jhem
remaining three yards for a | until the last 10 seconds and by
score that definitely put his op- that time they'd burned up half
ponents out of the running. This I of my players, including both
| time Smith was more nearly up ! fullbacks. Back of those lines
| to form, and got the ball be- I work two pretty good offensive
tween the uprights. Score 13 to I combinations, and don't think
I 0. that (hey can't score. They can
Temple's lone threat, staged in and have.
1 the final quarter, came after "The state baekfields toss
i Smith kicked out of bounds —; passes in all directions, not flash
] his regular practice — to Tern-lily but effectively. The duo of
| pie's 12. A pass to Baker was i left-handed Don Durdan at right
J good, and a quick fling to Ham, I half and-right-handed Bob Deth-
star end. also was good and man at left half gave us plenty
| W ichita Falls first stringers be- j of misery all afternoon. They
! gan warm up along the bench, threaten every time they handle
| A line play netted 8, two pass- i the ball and they have the de-
result of enemy action on Wake
island."
About 500 of the workers were
from Idaho, employes of the
Morrison-Knudsen construction
company of Boise.
Rio De Janeirodispatches yes-
terday reported that a Lati
i lare which had been sche-
duled to take off for Rome Wed-
nesday was grounded because of
lack of gasoline.
es failed, but a line smash was
good for 8 and first down. The
Coyote originals went back inH>
action.
The ball was on the Wichita
Falls 15.
A pass over the goal line hit
dirt, but not pay dirt. Allen
plunged for a hard earned yard;
and then Morris' pass was in-
tercepted by Bobbie Lee Smith
to stop thp drive.
fense cross-eyed trying to de-;
termine which way they will
throw."
Barry particularly praised
Quarterback George Peters and
Guard Bill Halverson, the lat- j
ter a 230-pounder who open
hole- faster titan a trip-hammer
punch. But he savs the bin
thing which "will make or break j
Oregon is mental attitude a
problem which seriously conipli-1
eated the tasks of all Pacific:
during the past
The game ended with Temple
in possession of the ball deep in i coast coaches
their own territory,-after lioth season.
teams had battled on even terms "The experts -«ay conference
a good part of the fourth quar- standards wi're l>elow par and
ter in midfield . that is why all the teams were.
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Settlement 01
Japanese Guarded
STOCKTON, Cal„ Dec. 27 —
(UP)—Police today redoubled
patrol of the large Japanese set-
tlement here, adjoining a Filipi-
no residential section twice as
large, after the murder of a
Japanese garage owner and the
smashing of windows in four
Japanese establishments.
A witness who identified (he
slayer of Jungo Kino, 65, as a
"skinny Filipino," was described
by Police Chief Harold Vogel-
sang as a "mental case". Vogel-
sang did not believe a Filipino
necessarily was involved in the
attack. t
Because of the window smash-
ing a few hours later, the police
increased their patrol of the Ori-
ental district to prevent violence
between the Filipinos and the
Japanese, the majority of whom,
Vogelsang pointed out, are in-
tensely loyal Americans.
v
Ship \\ on't Sail
W ith Diplomats
BUENOS AIRES.. Dec. 27
(UP) — Because of difficulty in
obtaining permits from the Unit-
ed Slates, Great Britain an'i
Japan, the government has aban-
doned plans to sen.i the Argen-
tine ship Rio de la Plata, load
ed with Japanese diplomats. i >
Tokyo, it was announced today.
The government had plann I
to take not only former Japan
ese diplomats in the United
States, but also the new Argen
tin ambassador to Tokyo, who
has been stalled in San Francis-
co since the war broke out. it
had hoped to return American
diplomats in the Far East.
Churchill Speech
Encourages China
• c
CHUNGKING, Dec. 27 —(UP)
—Japan eventually will suffer
more heavily than the axis ar-
mies in Libya, a Chinese govern
ment spokesman said today in
commenting on Prime Minister
Winston Churchill's speech to
the American congress. •
China, the spokesman said, is
ready to cooperate to the utmost
with her allies to inflict heavt"
blows on the common enemy in
the Pacific.
C hurchill's speech, the spokes-
man said, gave further cause for
Chinese confidence in ultimate
victory.
'Merit* System
For Promotions
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 —
(UP) — The war department
today adopted a unified "merit"
system for temporary promo-
tions of officers in an effort to
speed up advances in rank.
The policy is similar to that
used in the first world war.
It will apply to all branches and
arms of the service, including
the air force, and will elimin-
ate such restrictions as length
erf service, existence o'f vacan-
cies, and other differences in
the three components of the
at my.
Officers promoted temporar-
ily, officials said, will get the
full pay of their new ranks.
Beginning Feb. 1, field com
manders will recommend 00
per ccnt of the officers needed
to fill their requirements. The
remaining 40 per. cent will be
"held" by the war department
which will fill the vacancies by
calling up officers t > active du-
ty from the reserve corps, and
reassigning to field work other
officers now working in admin-
istrative jobs.
Pork Supply In
Texas Plentiful
'IM
AUSTIN, Dec. 27 — (L
! l-'ork will be plentiful in Tex'i
in 0-12 to judge from the pig
i crop report issued here today
] by the federal agricultural mar
keting service.
More sows were farrowed in
} the state this fall than had been
| indicated bv breeding intentior
| reports gathered last summer,
j V. C. Childs, principal agrieui-
; tural statistician, reported.
The number now is estimated
i at 207.000 compared with 107.
; 000 for the preceding fall.
Too Late To Classify
Wanted to buy 175 to 250 acres
within radius 20 miles ot
Sweetwater. Should have run
ning water and 1 2 in cultiva
tion. Write box 127, Colorado
Citv.
Hull Brands Jap t
Methods Barbaric
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 —
(UP) — Japan is using on the
Philippines the same fiendish#
ness which she has been practic-
ing in China, Secretary of State
Cordell Hull charged today at
his press conference.
Hull's remarks apropos of
Japan's failure to respect the*
American declaration that Ma-
nila is an open city.
Japan has an entirely consis-
tent record during recent years,
especially since the invasion of^
China in July, 1937, Hull re"
plied, in the practice of the
same barbaric methods of cruel-
ty and inhumanity that Hitler
practices, and has been practic-
ing. in Europe. t
Japan now, he continued, has
taken to the Philippines the
practices of fiendishness that
she had previously demonstrat-
ed in China.
V Q
German Subs Sink
9 Merchant Ships
BERLIN. Dee. 27 — (Offi-
cial broadcast recorded by the
United Press in London) —Ger-
man submarines have sunk nine
merchant ships in one convoy
totaling 37.000 tons, the high£
cf ninvmd : : —
hips wci\
-ci iously.
The high command said that
l.ritish attack on axis positions
in North Afiica were repulsed.£
and that German fighters de-
stroyed installations of Britissi
airdromes in Cyrenaiea.
-; iil today. Two other"
reported damaged
.7.
wants ent kchiLi, iiuki:
BERLIN. Dec. 27 — (Official'
German broadcast recorded bv
the UP In New York) — A
spokesman today called Prime
Minister Winston Churchill the
newest member of the United*
States senate and expressed re-
I gut that, he was not going to
| stay in the United States for
I gord.
FLY TODAY!
7." c per passenger for rides
over Sweetwater up to 4(p. ni.
PARK Kit I'lAING SERVICE
Sweetwater Airport
Islands Assumed
Lost To Japanese
AI'f'KI AND. New Zealand,
| Dec. 27 (UP)—Prime Minist-
er Peter Fraser announced to
j day that the Japanese were as-
J siimed to have occupied Abaiang
and Makin islands, major mem-
bers of Britain's Gilbert Is-
lands.
Tht Gilbert Islands are 2,000
mile southwest of Hawaii ot j
far from Japan's mandated Mar
shall islands. Their total area
is loo square miles and the pop
ulation in 1033 was 27,313.
Jo Rflievr
Misery of
YEAR-END
Clearaway
Savings in every department! Broken lots—odds and
ends—no! all sizes on all merchandise—but if you're
lucky you'll find something you need, marked at a ridi-
culously low price!
SMALL GROW MKN'H SUITS $10 and $15
JUST A FEW—MKN'S HATS $1 and $2
RAYON AND COTTON OVERDRAI'ES. ... .50c yd.
FAST COLOR PRINTS, Only 10c yd.
ONE GROUP CHILDREN'S SLIPPERS I>7c pr.
i
Rummage Tables
Items lhal have been greatly reduced and put out on
tables according to price only! It's profitable fun to
rummage al Penney's rummage tables!
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