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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER Bombed by Allies; Nazis Talk Monastery-Fortres- s fS531 ON THE C itHOME FRONTS1 -- 9 .RUTH " s .! ' " J f I ' y' a chaperon on Date, the Blue network show, has its haz- ards. Veronica Lakes par- ents were chaperons for an evening, and, to add an extra fillip, the programs sponsor fVhad arranged for hansom cabs to take the servicemen , V' fife ' wtd i 4 I 't T s. . y. be a wide difference when it comes to naming the gieatest catcher baseball ever knew. At the Baseball w h A 4'Vf M f X. ii I 5 ... ' 4' X . ; . jt! , x t 1 s ; , -- .y:I Writers V4 X fe-- s rr n - . 1 -- V. ? 'V one Sensations each year for the next (three years; Eleanor Powell of this years edition will be the central figure of each one. RKO is building up a good, sub- stantial stock company, to have plenty of talent ready for its enlarged production schedule. Recent additions to the list of male players Bert Moorhouse, Sherry Hall, Sammy Blum, Frank Mayo, Larry "Wheat, Jason Robards, Chester Carlisle, Wheaton Chambers and Alan Ward. Looks as if the shortage of actors wont worry that studio any. Warner Bros, have lifted suspension of their contract with Dennis Morgan, and booked him to play opposite Ida Lupino in a romantic comedy, The Very Thought of You And he and Irene Manning, the romantic singing team who costarred In The Desert Song, will do another screen musical together. Theyll be reunited in Henrietta the Eighth, a musical comedy. ts Theres a new reason for the spir- ited marching of American sailors these days. The boys are hupping I ' to the rhythm of Alec Templetons aaiid compositions. The star of the CBS received a reCarnival quest from the navy department for a group of his martial selections, and they have been photostated for distribution here and overseas. Not for nothing have Warner Bros, made all those biographical films. Theyve learned that pictures of that class have brought in the largest amounts of mail in the past, so a special bureau has been set up in the fan mail department before The Adventures of Mark Twain is released. They figure that Twains popularity will result in a veritable landslide of letters. ODDS AND ENDS Dickie Moore, child itar of yesterday who is now 18, received his draft call while at work at RKO an Are These Our Children? . . . Heavenly Days, starring Fibber McGee and Molly, is now under way at RKO ...A tale thats startled New York it took Mrs. Sinatra a month to gel a A member of Bob Ripley's maid large staff does nothing but decipher the badly scrawled letters that come to the Believe It or Not expert . . . Each month Tom Conway gets about 100 requests from people, asking him to find missing friends, relatives or articles. He's the detective in the " Falcon series. AN argument that begins with Buck Ewing, over 50 years ago. leading up to Bill Dickey through the 1943 campaign, there is sure to of golden We know that the English cabinet makers, Chippendale, Ilepple-whit- e, Sheraton and the Adam brothers, flourished then and that their work was copied by our own of opinion Stilwell Pledges China Based Land, Air Offensive j IN 'V, Left: Benedictine abbey on Mount Cassino which was bombed by U. S. Flying Fortresses. This monastery, Andrew Stone, producer-directo- r of Sensations of 1944, thinks so well which was founded in 529 A. D., bad been used as a fortress by enemy troops which were firing down on of his idea that he plans to produce our mtn, according to Allied explanations of the bombing. Leaflets were showered on the monastery a day before the bombardment warning the monks and any Italian refugees there to leave. President Roosevelt said that the bombing and shelling of the ancient abbey was justified. Right: German prisoners taken in fighting on the Rapido river in Italy answer questions asked by United States intelligence officer. Craig Reynolds, the first Hollywood actor to don a uniform in World War II when he enlisted in the marine corps in September, 1940, will return to the screen as a result of a oontract signed with RKO. After serving in more than 50 engagements in the European and South Pacific theaters of war, he was awarded the Sjurple Ifeart and two presidential jktions. Retired with honor as a first lieutenant after being badly wounded, he can now walk with the aid of a brace and with scarcely a trace of a limp. is i cool-head- The desire to remake A Farewell to Arms, that touching love story of World War I, struck both Warner Bros, and Paramount. Warners wanted it for Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart, which would have been better than the combination Paramount set up Ingrid Bergman and Ray Milland. Paramount owns the story; therefore it will be their picture. KNOWthat the Eighteenth ' dentury often called the ' VE the cabinet makers. age I ' ' V t- - X A and their girls from the radio studio to the Stork Club. A crowd of fans were milling around, waiting for another glimpse of the Blind Dates. One of the horses bolted, tossing the cabbie off and leaving Mrs. Keane, who is as tiny as her famous daughter, helpless inside. Everyone ran, screaming Runaway! but a Anzac soldier, used to emergencies, stopped the horse before damage was done. ' ll-- 1 tf'O x By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. BEING v 7' A annual pageant where Bill Dickey was honored, this debate broke out in many spots. It became a I -most a rash. Buck Ewing Bill Bergen Roger Bresnahan Johnny Kling Ray Schalk Billy Sullivan Gabby Hartnett Miikcy Cochrane and then Bill Dickey. These, at least, were among the best. In the forgotten days that have slipped over the hill I once played many rounds of golf with John Montgomery Ward who pitched to Buck Ewing. There will never be another Buck He Ewing, Ward once told me. is the top. I still remember the day when Buck split the first two fingers on his bare hand. There was so much blood on the ball, that I couldnt throw it. I insisted that he retire. Buck almost tore my head off. He finally agreed to tape or tie the two fingers together, but he refused to quit. A great hitter-brill- iant back of the plate." Johnny Kling of the Cubs was a master. He was the only catcher I ever knew who stopped Ty Cobbs base running, who pinned Ty down. McGraw always named Roger Bresnahan at the top of the list. Imagine a star catcher, he told me once, fast enough to be my lead-of- f man. Bresnahan is the greatest catcher I ever saw and I know how good Johnny Kling was. The Three Best cabinetmakers of the-Jat- e Colo- nial period. The furniture types of their day have become standard with us but we seldom stop to think about the kind of curtains and draperies that were originally used with this furniture. Visltois to the reconstructed village of Williamsburg, Va . are often surprised to find that Venetian blinds were the fashion long before the Revolution, and the well tailored canvas lined valance used with floor length chintz draperies also seem modern to them. Yet these were the curtain stales when ladies and gentlemen wore powdered wigs. Valances were made Just as we make them today and were tacked to a valance board in pretty much the same manner as is shown here. NOTE This is the second of a series on modern adaptations of period curiam fashions. Another version of the shaped type of valance Is given In BOOK 5 of tjve series of ten booklets on sewing for To get copy of Book 5 send the home 15 gents direct to: t How To Relieve Looking back a few years ago I recall the argument a few of us had with Joe McCarthy, who knows more than one mans share of this baseball business. At that time McCarthy was a bit Creomulslon relieves promptly because it goes right to the seat of the uncertain as to whether Gabby Harttrouble to help loosen and expel nett or Bill Dickey should get the germ laden phlegm, and aid nature call. At that spot beneath Floridas to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial mucous memwhispering palms, the Yankee manbranes. Tell your druggist to sell you ager was a trifle inclined in Harta bottle of Creomulslon with the unnetts direction. derstanding you must like the way it Left: These men are typical of the Chinese fighters trained by Lieut. Gen. Joseph Stilwell. They were There was noisy and rugged opquickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. photographed after they had scored a victory over the Japs and are sitting in a former Jap trench. Center position from the supporters of Mickinset: General Stilwell as he walked up to a Burma jungle fighting line. Right: Lieut. Col. Newman Burns ey Cochrane, a great catcher, a and Capt. Arthur Draper (right), hold a flag found on the body of a Jap. dangerous hitter, a fiery leader. It for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis was finally agreed that the three of greatest catchers in the memory No all present, and some of them went Royal Indian Navy back 40 years, were Bill Dickey, Unlike Indias army, the Royal Gabby Hartnett and Mickey Coch- Indian navy forbids its officers rane in no particular order. and men to maintain their usually But after that date Bill Dickey, in very strict racial and caste difArkansas fashion, ferences while in its service. his , f moved along to break many major catching records Soothe itch of simple MFnirmn rashes 1. To be the first catcher that by Bprinkhng on ever drove across over 100 runs POWDER FOR Mexsana, the soothing, medicated powder. Re- in four successive seasons AlnlLY USE lieyee diaper rash. 2. To be the first catcher that ever caught over 100 games for . 13 successive years Hull Was First 3. To be the first catcher that Cordell Hull was the first cabiever took rookie pitchers, such net member ever to address a as Atley Donald, and turned joint meeting of congress. their efforts into long winning 12 in a as row. such stretches, 4. To be the first catcher that DONT LET ever averaged well over .300 for 16 big league years. SLOW YOU UP It is difficult to pick out anybody . and say he was a better catcher or When bowels are sluggish end you feel irritable, headachy, do as millions a more useful adjunct to a ball club the modem do chew than Gabby Hartnett or Mickey chewing-gulaxative. Simply chew Cochrane. For these were two great before you go to bed, ballplayers in every way, along evtaking only in accordance with package directions sleep without being disery known road. They had more turbed. Next morning gentle, thorough flame than Bill Dickey had. But relief, helping you feel sweU again. Try against this both lacked his coolness Tastes good, is handy and calmness; his unruffled poise and economical. A generous family supply with trouble in the offing. James J. Walker presents the EdFEE!I-Minhas always been a mas$ ward J. Neil Memorial awarded for terDickey at handling pitchers, especially This is an American field hospital. Its mercy role is plainly sym- 1943 by the boxing writers associayoung pitchers inclined to lose conbolized by red crosses on white backgrounds easily seen from ground tion to 4,135 boxers, living and dead, trol or blow up at criticaj moments. British or air. Yet several of these hospitals were bombed by Germans in the who answered the nations call to You might call Bill the Great SoothThe British call their microfilm beachhead area south of Rome. This particular hospital is near Nettuno. arms. A1 Buck, president of the box- er. He massages their shaken process airgraph. ' Several American nurses have been killed in attacks on such, hospitals. ing association, receives the plaque. nerves. I also recall a few years back talking to American league pitchers who faced the Yankees. I asked a few of the best how it felt to face Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. In the Several had this to say clutch Id rather faoe either than Bill Dickey. Hes murder with men on bases in a tight game. Bill Dickey was that way when be came to the Yankees in 1928 and began starring in 1929. lie was still that way when Mort Cooper fed him a fast one in the last world series and Bill closed out the show g home run. with his Bronchitis CREOMULSION Red Crosses Protection at Anzio To Boxers at War quail-huntin- g CONSTIPATION FEEN-A-MIN- FEEN-A-MIN- T FEEN-A-MIN- - Blizzard Stops Doc; Baby Born by. Phone Too Big game-winnin- Slosson, Billiard Artist ... Charles James Dcering coos for bis sister after he was delivered at Timothy (Tiny) Baskin, 6 feet home by his father and grandmother by telephone directions from Dr. TVs inches, complains hes just a Henry F. Heller of Des Plaines, 111. A blizzard isolated the country home civilian. He was rejected, although and it was Impossible for the physician to get there. Charles was born he reduced from 350 to 212 pou'' and had b: arches lifted. shortly before dawn. t Charle? Peterson, most famous of all the trick shot billiard players and one of the games greatest artists, casts his vote for George Slosson as the top of the veterans, whatever the sport. "Just consider, C. Peterson said. George Slosson once gave exhibitions for Gen. U. S. Grant and Adelina Patti, and that wasnt yesterday. He was a great billiard plajer over 70 years ago and he is a great hilliard player today at 9i. 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