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Show A year ago the Yankees were again running away with league pennant. But Jand Rice nerican So Baer, whose claim to a championship match is based on a victory over an animated beer vat, is the in ns Bimelech April was as another wonder hotse. He the three-year-olds, but he ny wonder horse. Two deincluding the Kentucky Derby, collection. into his laurel Challedon under Witikayak sick, there have 9 ~ Biggest repairs, been handicap horses. One wins, jhen another. Again no stand- Toys » three-year-old, will have maybe to hurry Bim- to save Of prop. ‘Wig golfers have been in the same jvron Nelson failed in his 1940 of the title as Lawson -. Little in. With the confidence desd from this victory Little may Or has a great chance to be- ; pone of the outstanding figures MAX has a tough title to defend j you must beat off 1,100 chal7 ts in place of one or two. next up the difference shown in merican league race. A year we had only the Yankees-pracy losing the rest of the league. , "we have four ball clubs with a "e , and the Yankees have only Wintside chance. Rated 1 te 3 when Wil McKechnie's host i Reds consistent more represent combination in ball for 1939 1940. They leading the ayearago, fee ey are still Ge vam to beat & ball club ©Bill us Crop Blighted eur tennis had little left when Budge retired. With Wimbleand the Davis Cup eliminated, had to take one on the point chin, e game is still looking for some Onality-such as McLoughlin, Johnston, Bill Tilden, Ellsworth % or Budge. There is no such Y around at this writing. So far op is colorless. baseball, the slump of DiMagDickey and others has been t by such pitching stars as Newsom. fre is only a slight chance that Home-run hitter will reach the tk. Feller has the best chance k up 30 victories and he may i this highly desirable spot. Feller might easily be base8 standout for the present year Star pitcher hooked up with a Ming ball club. it when you sum up the list the ot tstander-the lone eagle in the ing eyrie-is still Joe Louis. champion of the champs. id this goes for all the sporting S we know today, horse or man, man or horse. Not only as a c but in the way he has coned himself, Louis is practically alone, my a big upheaval through the ainder of 1940 can change this 48 or ranking. k Newsom Rides Again / ohe can say that Louis Norman Puck") Newsom hasn't seen his fe of baseball scenery. In the 12 years Buck has played with ast 12 different teams in six or Viper leagues, and here he is today i. "8 up the American with a "a assortment of wares. "eck was born in Hartsville, S. «years ago. He had to wander ng time to reach his peak. 8 first and tallest upward lunge ' Place two years ago when he 2 ball games saw the for the Browns. still indispen- mechanized divi- sions are not being neglected, how- ever. More and Vital. than 7,500 motorized units will participate in the Wisconsin maneuvers. Equally large numbers of mechanized units will participate in the other camps. Even this large number of motor vehicles does not mean that horses have been entirely replaced, because about two animals are used in the thousand Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth National performance. stopped by the fight was When the referee Tony had been taking could He punishment. terrific scarcely walk; his spirit had long and only his since left his body, frame kept him upright. paunchy a Galento was fighting as a robot, silly, meaningless grin on his bruised McKechn ie half-mile They have the better pitchlay in and day out, to call upon. eller and Buck Motorized But Max didn't look like a championship threat when he whipped Galento. True, he gave the fat boy he couldn't but a terrible beating, He reapply the finishing touches. deemed himself in his own eyes, and but manager, perhaps in those of his he left a huge doubt in the minds of who are Mechanization No Finishing Power those guns sable. Lieut. Gen. Stanley H. Ford, who will be in charge at Camp McCoy, declared that ‘‘despite talk of streamlined tactics and the large number of trucks and passenger cars available during these concentrations, doughboys will still fight on foot and must be able to march. Annihilation ensues when a motor convoy of troops is caught under artillery fire and air bombs. Areas of from 6 to 10 miles from the front line are within artillery range and must be covered on foot in approach march formations."' night.'' have more ition this than they last sumBut they are he most con- machine Of course, the whole story's history now. The Nova fight was more than a year ago. And the recent victory over Galento revives memories of happier days-days when he whipped Ernie Schaff, Max Schmeling and Primo Carnera. It's easy to forget something you'd sooner not remember. And it is easy enough to find an alibi for that ‘‘one bad eason opened, they are far being favorites with the race half run. This has trebled inin Cleveland, Detroit and Bosas well as other cities. " \ ace, to the mob, is always isting than a runaway. for the merci- king. The boys who saw Max in his dressing room last June 1, after his fight with Lou Nova, must find it hard to believe that he is getting a chance to meet the champ. He didn't look very good against Nova. And Nova never was a really good fighter. Max lasted 11 rounds that night, until the referee called a technical knockout. ks Now on Short End i a match less, coldly calculating heavyweight in a way, is all the better ilding up public interest. t "‘logical'' BAER Rickenbacker's . Jimmy Adamick, heavyweight, and, is former running Mich. . for Detroit sheriff - Larry Mac- at Midl lighting plant he Phail insists the mbus American installed in the Colu 10 years ago is betassociation park in the Giants have ter than the one are + There .the Polo Grounds softball teams in 100,000 registered this year. + the United States sophomore footg isin prom een Sixt been lost to Denpall players have ugh scholastic ver university thro last year. the difficulties during SPANKED the disSioux City, S. D., has of a s) tinction (perhaps dubiou the called organization new to ding Accor Spanked Wives club. club's the Lane, Lora Mrs. izathe organ leader, the aims of @ happier on based are tion is made up club The home life. by got spanked of wives who they needed their husbands when hus"Our says. it, Mrs. Lane bands don't beat us, spank us," she says. a ' they just ai Saal S. army are shown Brig. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee, recently appointed commander of the army's first big scale Panzer corps. Guard Cavalry brigades. The artillery and supply units are entirely motorized; some of the units changed over from horses and mules within the past few months. No army can succeed unless it is directed intelligently by well-trained The movement of troops has been a problem of tremendous importance to commanders of all ranks throughout military history. Valuable experience in directing this movement will be given officers in charge of maneuvers in all parts of the country. Officers in charge of these maneuvers have been thoroughly schooled in solving logistical problems dealing with movement of troops, supply and evacuation. Every method of transportation except hiking will be used in effecting the concentration at the various camps. Units will arrive by air, motor and rail at the rate of 75 detachments each 24 hours during the three days the army will be concentrating at Camp McCoy. One of the more spectacular movements will be the march of the mechanized Seventh Cavalry brigade for 560 miles over the highways from Fort Knox, Ky., to Camp McCoy. The brigade will form a column of more than 1,000 vehicles approximately 60 miles long. Brig. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee, commander of the brigade, was recently named commander of the army's first big scale panzer corps. The column will be composed of almost every kind of vehicle used in a modern 400 combat army. cars There similar will be to the light Prediction Today True infantry mobile machine tank, shops, half track prime movers to tow 75 mm. howitzers, gasoline tank trucks, 40 scout cars and a large number of infantry tanks. Problems Involved. An army officer explained that transporting large numbers. of troops to a point of concentration presented just a few more problems than finding cars for a Sunday School picnic. A total of 30,000 troops will move to Wisconsin maneuvers by 150 motor convoys. They will bivouac overnight where necessary. The troops moving by rail will be carried on 78 regular and special trains. No stops will be made for meals, but the men will be served from field kitchens set up in the baggage cars. In addition to this, about 1,200 tons of National Guard equipment, including tanks, combat cars and ambulances, will be transported by rail from more than 300 different stations. It is estimated that by the time the maneuvers have ended, each vehicle will have traveled 1,250 miles. More than a million gallons of gasoline will have been burned. If this fuel were concentrated at one point, 135 railroad tank cars would be required to hold it. Even though modern troops are carried in transport trucks, military experts still believe that an army marches on its stomach. American soldiers, long known as the best-fed in the world, still receive three square meals a day, every day during the maneuvers. But chefs working in 766 separate kitchens at Camp McCoy will be allowed to spend only 38% cents daily for supplies to feed each soldier. The small allowance is ‘‘stretched" a long way through the purchase of such small quantities of food as 1,250,000 eggs, 273,500 pounds of sugar, 37,900 pounds of salt, 190,000 lemons and 16 tons of corned beef. During the three week period, the army in Wisconsin will also eat 85 tons of fresh beef, a carload of hot dogs, 12 tons of macaroni and a carload of roasting chickens. ‘Real Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, whose prediction in 1930 ef a 10-hour coastto-coast air service in 1940 is almost true. the plane took on 1,500 gallons of The trip was made with gasoline. a full commercial load of 15 passengers, including some movie stars (of course!) and a crew of three. Captain Rickenbacker's statement in forecasting this great advance aviation was printed in the WashApril ington (D. C.) Sunday Star on 27, 1930. Though Rickenbacker prediction when had made was there coast-to-coast air passenger six months later the first took flights commercial These flights were still a from his prediction. no service, of such place. far cry The then new- and ly organized Transcontinental ed Western Air Line proudly announc that their planes gers across hours. the would continent fly passenin only 36 The prediction was based upon not upon and reasoning, sound for "super-optimism'' or a desire notoriety. Operations.' Plans have been carefully laid to provide for efficient handling of the food supply. ‘The entire supply system will function exactly as in real operations,' General Ford stated. "This phase of the training will be extremely important. The ration is ample, menus are balanced and well diversified." The war maneuvers will provide the best opportunity the army has had to try out its newly motorized equipment on a large scale. While individual units have received conthis will be experience, siderable the first time that all the units attending the maneuvers have operated together under battle conditions. "Operating a military motor convoy of hundreds of vehicles at night without lights requires special train‘"‘It ing,'' General Ford: explained. is possible that during the Wiscon- sin maneuvers the state of this spe- prove to be a cial training may vital factor in the success of tactical motor movements. ‘The 1,000 square mile maneuver area will permit mechanized units to operate in wide encircling raids exactly as they do in real operations."' Commanding generals in the field become often lost in ‘‘fog the of war' without constant communicain tion with other units engaging To prevent this situathe battle. given being is attention special tion, Approxito rapid communications. mately 2,000 miles of wire will be battlefield Wisconsin the in laid 3,000 telephones connecting alone, during the grand concluding maneu- ver. new cause This equipment will mark a development in telephony bethe wires are used for simul- taneous transmission of telephone and code telegraphy messages. 82 - sang her her comedy lines, to the hospital. song and and then read rushed aa ODDS AND ENDS @ Have you been listening to that new Drew Pearson-Robert Allen program, "Washington Merry-Go-Round," giving intimate glimpses of the nation's capital and what goes on there? ing a Paris @ Melvyn Douglas, p policeman in "He Stayed for Breakbut the salute, to fast," had to learn man who taught him was lefthanded, reverse. in it got and Douglas @ Rita Hayworth may be Hollywood's best dressed girl, but in "It Happenede, in Paris," her last C she wears only $50 worth of clothes, and in "Before I Die" she wears only a tawdry $10 evening dress. 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Pattern 2537 contains directions for scarfs; illustrations of them and stitches; materials required. Send order to: Py ae LOUISE PLATT By this time motion picture stars ought to know what to expect if they go to South America. (Remember Robert Taylor's visit?) The enthusiastic fans practically mob them, but the stars seem to love it. Errol Flynn is the latest of the visitors to find out how popular he is. In Port au Spain, Trinidad, at least 3,000 people stormed the airport to see the star of ‘"‘The Sea Hawk'; later, while Flynn was dining, part of the crowd broke through police lines in' the hotel lobby and streamed into the restaurant, overturning tables and chairs. A splintered chair gashed Flynn's leg so badly that it had to be stitched up. His clothes were almost torn from his back. At Bahia 4,000 fans greeted his That's the way it's gone arrival. everywhere that he went-it's hard but fine for the wardrobe, the on Het 3: pin BR Luxurious Scarfs | Kasily Crocheted ~ ee Vier nll ae are -_-_ ors during August. Above officers. pilot, They're de-beautifying Louise Platt for ‘Captain Caution,'' because Bill Madsen, head makeup artist at the Hal Roach Studios, thinks that the average young screen actress, after being made up, looks just like all the other young actresses in the cast. So he did things to her that hadn't been done for her previous screen appearances. She's always tried to hide her high forehead; he empha- call 310,000 men to the col- his WIVES U. maneuvers testing the latest developments in "blitzkrieg" warfare will In 1930 Almost That's what "T'm no prophet!'? World War Ace Eddie Rickenbacker asked would probably say if he were 10 years going to happen what's years 10 eless, Neverth from now. face. on. But he ago he made an amazing predicti Yes, Baer whipped him. cial to get In 1930, there was no commer didn't have the finishing power to coast from aircraft passenger a knockout. On None at all. coast in the U. S. away is farther Baer n Actually, Captai heless, ever | April 27, 1930, nevert from beating Louis now than he ion: | Rickenbacker made this predict His youth has caught up to was. o-coast aircoast-t make will devoted | "We was that youth him-a trips in 1940 in 10 hours. He ‘plane largely to having a good time. an hour Cruising speeds of 250 miles often, bent a convivial elbow too will be common." to the fair on attenti much too on the paid And he almost hit the nail thought to sex and gave very little And unlike most predictions, head. ions. training rules and regulat it came true. Nova n the Baer was 30 years old when "Stratosphere'"' flying betwee He was of 13 hours whipped him so soundly. coasts on a schedule that when r regula on began s three years younger than and 40 minute York in this year. he met Joe Louis in New schedule during July of rounds. minfour 45 only and He lasted 1935. Actually only 11 hours crack at a new the by required Now he wants another were utes a fighter on its maiden flight, man who is twice as great "stratoliner' first their the of time The pilot disregarded as he was at the July 9. so carefully encounter. schedule that had been list ponies run." heavyweight the with planned and ‘Jet the But and missing stretching to By forcing the plane worn rather thin from the is three stops, Baer led two of the schedu meet Louis' demands, hour off the old school who he cut more than an sole veteran of the Berecord. gate. previous coast-to-coast might attract a fair started, the new service was in a poor way, is fore game boxing The flying time was are normal commercial matchmakers when however, es. mitted has15 hours and 42 minut forced to dig up self-ad But . champion. 15 Passengers Aboard beens to meet the to headwinds g is willin The stratoliner fought as long as the public miles 248 supply cruise will to ers way part of the pay for them, promot One flight. of farcical series an hour on the inaugural a never-ending where City stop was made in Kansas boxing exhibitions. Sport Shorts Nationwide stunt scuffing beside a plane; Miss Colbert, who plays an American newspaper woman in Paris, has a portable typewriter, and Milland is battling with Lincoln. Just as Milland struck Lincoln, a mechanic inside the cockpit of the plane knocked one of the throttles forward. The right motor was running, and the plane swung around, striking Milland and knocking him to the ground. Wires braced to the tail surface gashed his leg. He insisted that he could continue working, after a doctor had dressed his leg, but Director Mitchell Leisen sent him home and shot around him for the next few days. w Area.' American military authorities do not believe that the great success of the German army resulted solely from the use of dive bombers and massed tanks. They point out that while these are important, the human machine of flesh and blood is still the ultimate factor in battle. They refuse to put sole reliance on mechanized divisions, but believe that soldiers armed with rifles and (, Mother smoking pace, such as digo through in the amateur diviond But he is in a much tougher nt le now. Anyway, the ex-ama- ~,star ‘War Other large armies will mobilize in Louisiana, Minnesota and Washington from August 4 to 24. At Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, 65,000 troops will put into practice all the new methods of modern warfare from ‘‘panzer'' divisions to foot infantry for three weeks beginning August 11 on a 1,000 square mile battlefield. This will be the biggest of the ‘‘war'' areas. @ur prints, bound wm Individual Album form, ore the finest abtoinable ot amy price Extremely low Price Lat ond convenient film mailers sent on return Miss Colbert and Lincoln, a veteran Hollywood New methods of war will be tried out in four sections of the country. More than 100,000 troops from 12 states will gather near Plattsburg, N. Y., from August 5 to 25 to prepare for an invasion coming up the St. Lawrence river valley. ty dis season. PHOTOGRAPHY SEAS sports. Milland, Garland 4266 Melrosé Ave., HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. STs & Union.) Re Which means that Joe Louis is still the main standout, almost the only standout in sport today. This goes for all Newspaper . idea of the heavyweight matter. by Western HEN you see Paramount's "Arise My Love,'' with Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland, you'll miss the most thrilling thing that has happened so far in the filming of the picture. It: occurred in the scene where Dr. Murray's Hygienic Powder. Sample.by 10c (coin). MURRAY MED. mail, co., eee Madcap Maxie, champion of the night club circuit, recently reached back into his misspent youth for the tattered remains of a great strengt h and whipped a second rate clown named Tony Galento. The fact that Tony was nothing more than a bla tant, bullying, beer guzzling freak receives little consideration. He was supposed to have courage of a sort-didn't he last four rounds with Louis? general (Released PERSONALS EVERY WOMAN'S FRIEND VALE ese geta MERICA will be struck by a "blitzkrieg"' in August as troops mobilize throughout the country for the biggest war maneuvers in peacetime history. Army experts are determined that no invading armies shall sweep across this country as they swept through many European nations. To meet this challenge more than 310,000 members of the regular army, National Guard and Reserve corps are being called to the colors for intenSive training under actual conditions of warfare. VIRGINIA i you By oS YSe happen to work in that di- at» ‘this passing year of 1940. ut we have Max Baer and Tony i fighting to see which entry ‘3% will be tossed in against Joe Louis, Union.) id sed by Western Newspaper Union ) BAER, who was thoug ht to have reached the end of his trail when he lost a blood y battle to Lou Nova last year, is now planning a return engagement with Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis. M4 It Newspaper ? campaign. the TNEESCREEN STAGE"SCREEN.: R. KENTON pe TRS of By MILTON (Released: by Western senate der Will Train Biggest Peace-Time Force * i da CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT So date just where the leaders nd who should dominate the UTAH U. S. 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