Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 123, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 20, 1943 Page: 2 of 14
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MOUNTING
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Flooded creeks ami rivers of
the vast Mississippi tributary
system backed up over wide
areas of bottomland in six mid-
western states Thursday driv-
ing at least 82,000 persons from
their homes and causing enor-
mous crop damage which
mounted hourly.
Armies of police, militia and
volunteers manned dykes and
levees in a battle to stem ris-
ing waters in Indiana, Illinois,
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Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas
and Arkansas. The Mississippi
already had overflowed its
banks above and below St.
Louis.
Emergency M C r o s m
In its proviu<*i shelter for
12,000 persons made home-
less by the' raging White
and Watash Rivers in 20
Indiana counties. At. least
10,(100 were homeless In
Illinois. In northeastern
Oklahoma <>0,000 were In-
structed to move when un-
precedented pressures forc-
ed the opening of the flood
gates of llie (Jrand River
dam.
P*ive drownings were report-
ed in Indiana, three in Missou-
ri and one in Oklahoma. Rescue
squads nought tp reach dozens
of stranded families in Illinois.
Warning that mass immuniza-
tion against typhoid might be-
come necessary, health authori-
ties ordered residents of high
water areas to boil all drinking
water qs floods burst water sup-
ply systems in a score of cities.
An estimated 3,000,000 acres
of farmland already were under
water in the 500-mlle flood belt.
Farmers predicted that another
week's soaking would put them
one month behind 19-12 planting
schedules for corn, wheat and
oats.
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FORT WORTH, Tex., May 20
— (UP)—A Houston man, .1. V.
Oassaboom, has been named pre-
sident of the Tex;is Funeral Di-
rectors and Embalmers associa-
tion. it was announced today as
the organization continued its
streamlined was conference
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By Paul Beheffels
NEW YORK, May 20—(UP)
—The Brooklyn Dodgers were
once more cast in the familiar
role of rabbits in the National
League today but the guise of
hound, normally played by St.
Louis, has been usurped by the
surprising Boston Braves.
The pace-setter's part always
has been a difficult one in the
senior loop and the Dodgers have
grown used to cocking a wary
eye for the ever-chasing Cardi-
nals. When St. Louis stumbled
at the barrier this year, howev-
er. Brooklyn seemed ready for
a run-away—that is, until the
Braves took to the war-path.
Boston's inspired crew may be
playing war over its heads but
the stratosphere agrees with
them so well that the Braves
have won seven in a row, 14 out
of 22—second best record in the
big leagues—and are hot on the
heels of the Dodgers, only one
game off the pace.
The Itraves stiinned the
Pirates twice yesterday, 2-1,
in tl innings and 5-3 in the
nightcap. Wliitey Wliitel-
malm's singled scored John-
ny McCarthy with the win-
ning mil in the opener. Mc-
Carthy singled and put the
winning run in scoring po-
sition Ity stealing second.
Xate Andrews won his
fourth mound triumph hy
scattering nine rittshiirgh
hits.
Boston wasted little time in
the nightcap, chalking up three
runs in the first, another in the
second and one more in the six-
loss in their last, six games.
George .leffcoat permitted only
five but needed help from Sout
when the Pirates rallied for two
runs in the ninth.
The Dodgers displayed " Sep-
tember slump symptoms by drop-
s"\ I ping their second in a row to the
Cardinals, ,'!-2 as Max Macon and
Max Lanier, although neither
were around ,n the finish, stag-
ed a renewal of their iUI2 late
j season duel. Conker Triplett au-
j thored the game's deciding blow
I with two away in the sixth when
he slashed out a homer with
! Walker Cooper aboard.
Macon, victim of all of the Car-
dinal runs and six of their nine
j hits, left for a pinch hitter in
I the seventh. Lanier, who beat
Macon last year to boost the
I Cardinals into a first-place tie
j with barely two weeks to go,
j yielded both Brooklyn runs and
all six of their hits. He was re-
lieved by Harry Brecheen when
the Dodgers came within one
run of a tie in the seventh.
The Giants got only five hits
off pitchers—including starter
Johnny Vander Meer—but scor-
ed a 3-2 triumph over the Reds.
Manager Mel Ott hit his fourth
home run of the year with one
on in the first inning and Sid
Gordon's 410-foot triple follow-
ed by a long fly by .Joe Orengo
registered what proved to be the
winning run in the sixth. Van
Mungo relieved Bill Lohrman to
stop a Cincinnati rally just short
of a tie in the ninth.
Weather wiped out ihe Chi-
cago Cubs-Philadelphia Phillies
game and erased the entire Am-
erican league schedule.
YESTERDAY'S HERO — Nate I
Andrews who scattered nine hits j
over 11 innings as the Braves
shaded the Pirates, 2-1 in the j
1 first game of a doubleheader.
CONGRATULATIONS
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Critz are
i parents of a son. born at 11:05
p. m. Wednesday in the Sweet-
j water hospifl. The father is
j serviqg with the 1', S. army in
' '"an Diego.
By Jack Cuddy
UP Correspondent
NEW YORK, May 20 —'UP)
—A whirl on the sports-go-
round:
Betting at Belmont Park, dur-
ing the first eight days of the
current 'meeting, exceeded any
similar opening period in the
history of American racing. A
total of $9,200,411 was handled
by the mutuels. This was great-
er than the $8,544,317 turned
over during the first eight days
of the recent Jamaica competi-
tion, although Jamaica's atten-
dance was 143,502 persons com-
pared with Belmont's 116,457.
Ford ham University, one of
the east's, outstanding football
schools, is virtually certain to
announce abandonment of the
grid game shortly. The army
moves in next month or in July
. . . But the Rams hope to con-
tinue basketball.
Don't be surprised if the hull-
abaloo over the Willie Pep-Sal
Bartolo featherweight title tilt
at Boston, June 8, causes &
shake-up in the New York box-
ing commissions . . . we under-
stand at least one successor is
being groomed by Albany brass-
hats to move in.
Carl Hubbell of the Giants
pitched his first national lea-
gue game against the Pirates in
1928. They drove him ot the
showers in a hurry. Mr. Long-
Pants craved vengeance and
has been getting it ever since.
He has beaten the Pirates 47
tmes, more often than any oth-
er currently active flinger in
the majors has defeated any
club. Carl hopes to make it 50
this season.
Henry Armstrong, who a
yirir ago' was considered
.ill "washed up", has drawn
more than $:{.'>(>,(KM) al the
gate in 21 bonis since lauit
riling his amazing come-
back campaign last .lime 1.
lie lost hut three of those
limits. Hammering Hunk's
flit lire bookings include:
nexl Monday, Philadelphia,
Mavie Shapiro; June II,
Sew York's I'olo Grounds,
probably lieau Jack, and
June, 2<i, Ijos Angeles, Wil-
lie Joyce . . . Incidentally
Bean Jack is favored al
11-5 lo re(M in liis light-
weight title against Hob
Montgomery al Madison
Square Garden Friday
nielli.
There are now major lea-
gue players in the armed forces,
154 from the American circuit
and 133 from the National . . .
Greg Rice, outstanding Ameri-
can distance runner, was an al-
state quarterback at Missoula
'Mont.) high school 10 years
ago . . . Much is being written
now about the major league
pitchers having command of the
diamond, but Madame Marma-
jell, the crystal gazer, warns,
"wait until those doubleheaders
start piling up in the dog days,
and the pitching schedules get
screwed up . . . then see who
has command.''
Golf balls are so scarce in
BIG 4 NATIONS
AGREEING AT
FOOD PARLEY
HOT SPRINGS, Va.. May 20—
(UP)—The Big Four of the Unit-
ed Nations—the United States,
Great Britain, China and the So-
viet Union—appeared today to
be in general agreement on the
accomplishments to be expected
today from the international food
conference.
The four delegations have been
in frequent consultation and no
points of conflict have yet de-
veloped.
There remains, of course, con-
siderable work before the exact
recommendations of this confer-
ence can be decided. But under
the leadership of the four prin-
cipal delegations the conference
was heading toward the follow-
ing results:
1. Creation of a world agricul-
tural commission to carry on
and expand the programs , ap-
proved here.
2. A declaration in favor of re-
ducing world tariffs.
3. A declaration advocating
continued agricultural expansion
throughout the period of post-
war relief.
4. Approval of reports stress-
ing the new importance of nu-
trition as fundamental to world
being. A start toward establish-
ing reasonable nutritional goals,
for different sections of the
world.
5. Recommendations that the
44 governments represented here
pledge themselves to accept con-
tinuing responsibilities for see-
ing that their peoples are better
fed in the post-war world.
(i. Agreement that food ration-
ing should continue after the
war.
LEADING HITTBRS
southern Rhodesia that a fac-
tory in Bullawayo has started
making wooden pellets which
can be driven about 130 yards
but which are rough oil wooden
clubs.
Speaking of names, Bill
Brandt, of the National league
service bureau points out that
the Pirates have a butcher and
a l aker; the Reds Jiave a Starr
and the Giants a Ti inkle; tile
Cubs a Wyse and the Dodgers a
Head: the Reds a Frey and the
Braves a Tost; the Phillies a
Northey and the Cards a South-
worth. Also, despite Kipling, the
International League lias an
East with Jersey City and a
West with Syracuse— and the
diamond twain often meet.
By United Press
American League Ab H.
Stephens, St. Louis 68 25
Higgins, Detroit ... 80 29
Hockett, Cleveland 74 25
Moses, Chicago ... <58 22
Lindell, New York . 79 25
National League
Dahlgren, Phila 70 25
Stanky, Chicago ... 97 34
Frey, Cincinnati .. 97 34
McCarthy, Boston . 85 29
F. McCormick, C'in. 100 34
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Sport Talk
By li. I'\ Chamberlain
Those ambitious Jaycees and
Firemen volley bailers 'had
best look to their laurels.
Six-foot two-three-or-four J.
M. Sibley, with the aid of Mack
Alexander is leading a powerful
pack of Baptists into League
play. The pastor adv-.ses volley-
ball for others, and is going to
practice what he preaches hy
taking an active part in the
fray.
On the other side of the net
at the Firemen's court will be
Clifford Williams, 5 foot-seven-
eight-or-nine pastor of the First
Presbyterian flock in part of
the forthcoming competition,
lie hopes to round up such
men as Dr. Rosebrough, Bob
Hoppe, Ed Neinast, Arnold
Dressier, George Thompson.
Paul Bankson, Larry Hubbard,
Russell Bennitt, Dr. E. B. Pool,
John Pinson and other Presby-
terian stalwarts for the denomi-
national crusade.
BUSINESS CIRCLES ARE
AGOG. One of Sweetwater's
prominent sportsman with con-
siderable leisure on his hands,
started out casting for bass at
Lake Sweetwater the other
morning and wound up fishing
for his rod and tackle. Taking
his stance, with an expert flip
of his wrist, his favorite reel
went zirig-g. It worked too well
and the first thing he knew rod
and reel followed tlie bait and
landed with a sickening splash
| in the depths of the lake. Me
stood transfixed for some min-
utes staring at his empty i'.ands
I in dazed fashion.
After coming to his senses, he
climbed into his car and made
BOWEI WORMS
Big Leagues Not
Worried About
Players' Limit
NEW YORK, May 20 —(UP)
—The major leagues face their
player-limit deadline at mid-
night without the fear of form-
er years, when owners worried
over whether they were cutting
loose a handful of rookies other
clubs might develop into stars.
A survey disclosed today that,
due to the manpower shortage,
the issue this year is how to
built up the 25-man limit. The
draft, enlistments and a shift,
to war industries has solved
the old peacetime problem of
cutting loose the extras at the
last minute.
Of the 16 clubs, only three
have more men than they can
carry throughout the season.
They are the Boston Braves and
Brooklyn Dodgers of the Nat-
ional league and the .St Louis
Browns in the American circuit.
Indicative of the times, the
Philadelphia I'hile and the De-
troit Tigers each have but 22
men on their lists.
TEXAN DECORATED ,
HOUSTON, Tex., May 20 —
-CUP) — Lt. (,lg.) John E.
Bouregaux. USNR. of Port Ar-
thur. Tex.. (3925 7th St.) has
been awarded the air medal for
meritorious ability shown as a
pilot in a torpedo squadron at-
tached to a U. S. aircraft car-
rier in combat against Japan-
ese naval forces in Uie Solo-
mons, the navy announced to-
day.
his weary way back home. Lat-
er in the day, he was seen
dragging the depth of the lake
for his beloved taeki: .
V ENDING -—They say
smile that broke over
when his rod and reel
lally retrieved, was like
a small boy who bites
first ice cream cone.
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