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Show HIE III I. I.KTI.N H'MillAM. ITAII -S- -. ' Sea Invasion Maneuvers in Cape Cod --....,, mr,,;, ,., , t. , .. rVT pTTT Troops of the 16th Infantry from Fort Devens engage In tea Invasion maneuvers at West Falmouth, Cap Cod, Mass. Picture at the right shows them going over the side of the army transport, Kent, scampering dowi landing nets placed ever the side. Upper left: The speed towards shore. Lower left: The stee belmeted troops make a swift landing on Old Silver beach and head for vital objectives. !NiW IDEASi i NL fat Jfotne-tno-J j 1 STRAIGHT STRIP CUP -- ATJflB If you like variety in, ions, there Is an idea ones made of burlap" stockings on page 23 o! Book 5. NOTE: Book 7. in the makers' rt Booklets by Mn, latest and contains direci than thirty things which yts for your own horn or tor are working drawings lor rt old chairs and other furalte for a spool whatnot; anms rag rug; and many things to needle and thread. The n now available contain a total two hundred of Mrs. Spean's for Homemakers. Booklet! i each. Send your order to: l HAVE you considered covering your out-of-do- cushions . with water-resista- nt artificial leather? It may be cut and sewn the same as any heavy fabric. The colors are all so fresh and gay that you will be inspired to try striking combinations. Use a coarse machine needle; a No. 5 hand needle; No. 20 or 24 sewing thread and regulate the machine to about 12 stitches to the inch. The cushions shown here are green with seam cords covered in red. The sketch shows how they are made. The cotton seam cord should be about in diam-eter. It is covered with a straight strip VA inches wide stitched with the machine cording foot to allow the sewing to come up close to the cord. The raw edges of the cord covering are basted around the top and bottom of the cover on the right side, as shewn, and are then stitched in with the seam. MRS. RUTH WYETHSP Drawer It Bedford Hills $ Enclose 10 cents lot t ordered. Name Address Well, here it is an-- lying around, but other weekend and I'm you could get the not a General yet. family interested But give me time. some of the neigii-- bors, and if that The nearest village happened all over is 5 miles away. All country, the U. S. you find there is a could raise $10,76 general store, a ga-- 000 overnight, rage and a canning , factory nowhere to' I'd appreciate! go for any good clean a lot, Mom, and so fun, unless you drop would every other in at a smoke-fill- ed mother's son in w juke joint on the way. U. S. Army and Navj Well, Mom, there's Lov8' a big favor you can I do me. The U. S. 0. is trying to raise $10,765,000 tO run They're doing their lit Clubs for US, Outside you do your bit for thm of camp. Places with TnvJvsS fiSSS TaS; dan?? SSSStf-"- 1 ing"oms?acIsriu . can get a eat without payiL a These ffioSSk kinfr! ransom. NatiolCatiwikComrf hLk M d0T1 1 Salvation Ifare Board. Army, Nation J an idle million Aid Association. OPEN YOUR HEART FIH OPEN YOUR PURSE W GIVE TO THE Ijjl I LDVERTISER INVITESJ9 i COMPARISON J'?r?.SSJ FORT WORTH. TEXAS.-Wa- tch Cardinals! This is still the war cry from the Southwest where they have turned out more good ball 5 players than any other single sector in recent years. As a rule, Brooklyn is the public's and the people's choice around the big map but along the Co-ttonwood highway the Cardinals have again moved back into the picture with a pennant chanc. "Sure, those Gi antlanil Rice Dodgers are O.K.," they'll tell you. 'Tut they can't hit, pitch or field with that St. Louis bunch. They are Just as good as the old Gas House Gang, outside of Dizzy Dean." But Dizzy is a lot to leave out a pitcher good enough to win 58 games in two successive seasons. "The Cardinals have too many good hitters," an old-tim- scout told me. "They have too much power, And they are getting good pitching, just as good as Brooklyn, or anyone! else." St. Louis has always been the southwestern stronghold. Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas have been responsible for a flock of stars, In-cluding the Deans, Pepper Martin, Lon Warneke and several others. The Gas House Gang has passed t( other pastures, but the Cardinal! still have their share of color and fire. The Rougher Road The rougher road In these twe pennant races is still on ahead, July and August are the test months in which class and reserves count These are the months when consist-ency tells its story. So far there has been a woeful lack of consistency in both leagues, The Dodgers lose six straight and then win eight straight. Cleveland's Fcllerized Indians move up and down with a seesaw effect. Just aa you pick the tribe to win the pen-nant by eight or ten games, they suddenly turn into a second-divisio- n touch until Feller pitches. Bob Feller would have had Yankees, White Sox or Red Sox well in front at this stage. He is still the most important single factor in baseball. The Southwest Is still wondering about Bill McKech-nie'- s Cincinnati Reds. There is a feeling among Car-dinal rooters around the Texas range that Deacon Bill will still have some. Bob Feller thing to say about the pennant in the next two months. "From now on," another scout told me, "I figure Bill will get a lot of good pitching from Walters, Derringer, Vender Meer, and Thompson. Two pennants In a row plus the world series softened the Reds up. All this success turned them from champs into' chumps. Hut the dust they have taken from St. Louis and Brooklyn should get them going again. They are too good a ball club to be where they are." I was talking with President Ford Frick of the National league about baseball attendance. "Weekdays have been off," Ford said, "because so many now are working on defense. Saturdays and Sundays have taken a big jump. So have night games. I am sure there is greater interest in both pennant races than ever before. We should have at least three clubs in the run-ning before August and that will also help." The Loss of Lou Gehrig I doubt that the passing of any ball player in the history of the game, not even Christy Mathewson, brought along as much genuine sor-row as the recent death of Lou Gehrig. Texas is far away from the Side-walks of New York, but they are still talking about the Yankee star who had such an abundance of cour-age, skill, stamina and sportsman-ship. Here was baseball's greatest trag-edy. Lou was a great ball player, one of the greatest, but he was something more. With his great physique, his amazing physical pow-er, he also had the gentleness of a child. No one like Lou will come our way again. Cheering for Dickey The Southwest is also cheering for Arkansas Bill Dickey, who was sup-posed to be all through. But in his sixteenth season the famous quail hunter came bounding back with the rush of a coyote. So far this has been Dickey's best season. The lanky son of Louisiana and Arkansas told me back in early March that he would pass .330 this season at bat, and so far the drum beat of his bat has made his prom-ise seem too conservative. , ttiillliniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiii: By ROBERT McSHANE Z IIiom4 by Wcittm Nwipapw Unlo 7iiiiiimiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmi , JOHN DUNCAN RIGNEY, ace , hurler for the Chicago White Sox, presented baseball with a cello-- I phane-wrappe- d gift recently when he withdrew his plea for a y draft deferment John Dungan, at practically the whole United States knows, was tabbed .for an army uniform June 20. He requested a 60-d- defer-ment from his local draft board. I'aul G. Armstrong;, selective serv-ice director for Illinois, was far from content with the local board's ruling. It was decided to make Rig-- I nry's a test cane, j The furore caused by John's re-quest reached as far as Washlng-to- n. Acres of newsprint were cov-- I cred with diatribes leveled against him Fortunately, the test case was not ' necessary. Startled at the contro- - versy he had caused, Rlgney with-- ; drew his request, thus saving possl-- j Me decapitation. Then, to make i things even more final, John was rejected by army medical exam- -' Iners because of a "chronic, per-- . foration of the right ear." Like everything else, there were two sides to the Rigney fiasco. Unquestionably he felt that the army would lose nothing by taking him 60 days later. In a statement which accompanied the withdrawal of his request he said: lUisis for Request I "My recent request for postpone-ment of induction Into the army was based solely and entirely upon letter written by a high ranking of--, ficial of the National Selective serv-ice In which the advice was con-- i tained that baseball players were entitled to ask for a 60-d- delay if called during the regular season. Trior to my knowledge of this letter I had no intention of asking for a postponement of induction . . ." Rlgney's original action was no more than a case of poor Judgment. He did what thousands of other men have done. He thought it would be a routine matter, never dreaming of the highly controversial aspects of the situation. Too, he failed to realize that his case was quite dif-ferent than that of plain John Q. Citizen. He claimed immediate in-duction would rob him of four-elevent-of his $11,000 salary, and was the first player known to have asked deferment on a pica of "un-usual individual hardship." John Q. would be overjoyed with that kind ' of hardship. '' Baseball players like other ath- - letes cannot expect their activities to be free from the bright glare of publicity. They are supported by millions of fans who are quick to admire their abil-ity but who are just as quick to resent any tendency to seek special favors. It is tremendously difficult for a $20 a week clerk to feel any sym-pathy for a $11,000 a year man who faces the prospect of receiving only $6,500 for a few months' work. The ' "unusual individual hardship" angle just doesn't sound good. John Dungan should have realized that The Lewis Affair j This, sadly enough, isn't the only case involving ball players. Buddy Lewis of the Washington Senators asked for deferment. Lewis' appeal wasn't granted, but he was given ( 60 days in which to wind up his j affairs. Those 60 days could be j spent playing for the senators. y Ball players aren't doing much to make their profession look good these days. They have revealed a lot of hitherto unknown physical dis-abilities and financial responsibili-ties. The number of big leaguers j now in uniform isn't enough to pro- - tect one lone umpire from an 'on- - 1 slaught by Jimmy Dykes. Baseball officials would do well to adopt and declare a definite military policy. When an eligible man is called, the club should see to it that Is he goes. Or else that player should Is forfeit his status. lis It isn't enough for a player to de-clare his willingness to join the army in the event of an all-o- ut war. The army would be 'a skeleton af-fair If such a choice rested upon the individual. Nor should the army be expected to arrange its training program for the benefit of a few hundred ball players. Of course, these are obvious statements, but equally fatuous arguments have been advanced by the players them-selves. Too many of them fail to recog-nize clearly that there is one flag much more important than the one which denotes league supremacy. SPOUT SHORTS C Roger Bresnahan, one of base-ball's greatest catchers, is now em-ployed as a goodwill agent by a Toledo brewery. C Contrary to general belief, Craig Wood is not the oldest golfer to hold the National Open title. Wood, 39, yields to Ted Ray. who was 46 when he won Toledo's Open at Inverness in 1920. C Softball games in Toronto attract J crowds reaching up to 50,000 per- - sons. Chungking, China, Most Bombed Gty in World ' SS f'i ' . 1 LVS rib K? - m-- m z;H4-:!gj- &&&& This photo of a bombing of Chungking, China, by Japanese planes, was released by United Dhlna Relief, New York, now conducting a $5,000,000 campaign for relief work among the Chinese. Dennis ilcEvoy, one of the best-Inform- newspaper men In Chungking, says: "Chungking looks as If a huge ham-n- er from the heavens had struck, wildly, blindly, with crushing effect. But the sounds of hammering could be ieard almost Immediately after the all-cle- ar signal. If the Japanese can dish It out the Chinese can take it." Protecting Birthplace of Christ lattiMlJltiWkte fr iiln 'f fyy tii 'iafoiVniWlFiThlittr View of the Church of the Nativity In Bethlehem, Palestine, showing how the war has transformed it into semblance of a fortress. The church built over the site of the stable in which Christ, the Prince of Peace, traditionally believed to have been born. This part of the Holy Land now In the danger cone. Persona Non Grata Arno Halusa, former secretary of German legation at Quito, Ecuador, arrives in New York. He was per-sona non grata (not wanted, please leave, pronto) at the South Amer-ican republic after an Incident In-volving a package arriving by plane. Here After Seizure II - -- 'J Mile. L. Bernhardt, granddaugh- ter of late actress, on ship whlch look her to New York after Dutch warship seized liner on which she was en route from France. Two hundred ninety-fiv- e passengers were placed In concentration camp, a, Trinidad, Martinique. Royal Guests at White House L j-'- Li AwL Lfliv-- f . A r ii' i Princess Juliana of The Netherlands and her consort, Prince Bern-hardt, enjoyed a ur stay at the White House as guests of the Presi-dent and Mrs. Roosevelt. Photo shows, left to right, on their arrival at the White House, Prince Consort Bernhardt, Mrs. Roosevelt and Princess Juliana. |