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Show THE BULLETIN. BINGHAM, UTAH They Also Serve: British Women Aid in Defense Y ai-- ix xx t I RilVJi-T- M i 1 J- - -- f'sW L tot A;-xt- 7 & - Because the men of England are occupied with a war, women are being pressed Into service to a greater extent tIiali hit. Left: Two women doctors recently appointed to the royal army medical corps, the first time in army history that women have filled these roles. Center: Plowgirl Thala Bowman is one of four wsmcn who banded together to reclaim unused farm land. Miss Bowman was a former tap dancer. One of the other four was a mannequin, one a stenographer, and the fourth an advertising woman. Right: Miss Rose-mary Smith, 16, has taken over the postman's Job in Glynde, England, while he Is at the front. BURGH, FLA. The tengraved upon the It Louis Cardinals hai , fcawk. seeking its prey. d these Cardinals were Zither they might finish r f filth. ;h yUI ii sun' it thai ;lim tu jjeries 3tf But of them eun to I along 1 They irds 'id the crantland Rice ixperi-'jfr- d campaign, he shade of a sheltering ialm tree that Branch iSd me to pick the Reds Cardinals for 1940. Ie number of he said, "who need oje season. The Reds jnp on this young team 4 be far away In the 4ill be different next pins to be the "next ir.ed by Mr. Rickey. If ii a prophet in 1940 as ;J39, the Cardinals are I :3ung Staff s fhat year's experience flthcir belts and .they i speed and the same Jtlian that, in addition -- ns as Curt Davis, Lon iJ?ig Bob Wciland, they $ng the younger pitch-Qoop- er, McGee, Lanier, apkel and Barrett the found pitching staff in league and one of the toll. J quantity and quality. iie pitchers mentioned iould be able to get at Djoving briskly along, lljabove the average, those around who will lot to climb too far towards the end of the limb in this Cardinal matter. They mention the that Davis, Ifact and are no longer that most of the younger pitch- -' ers have yet to prove their place and that Pepper Martin can't retain the iron in his sys-tem and the flame ever. mlal Mcdwick ring out the fact that hasn't been any too the St. Louis setup e. And Ducky Med-t-o be one of the best either league. He can hit, and field, run four main essen-figur-iin there are six win the National with him. The race tfreen the Cardinals and tie Dodgers and Cubs Jnain challenge, ih will need at least a Pirates untangled (the Giants, Braves or anything but a miracle old Gas House Gang scene. They are scat-wid- e. years ago at Braden-- e the two Deans, Jim-Ri- p Collins, Leo and several Pepper Martin and are about the only is seen better teams, so much color. There when Jimmy Wilson, "dinal catcher, began "k shirts from the lock-lesa-n wearing them. hen a rookie. When e blast on Diz for pit-vri- te shirt, Diz only my," he said. "I with only one shirt. want the ever knew to the same shirt for a right, you?" Diz," kept the shirt. !iere enough color in outfit. It's a the main, an outfit Eo somewhere, f Series sniff of that World t!V?1" one of em 17 dldn't quite make it, ifragrant smell. f b different ra"in. this year. r But whether n tem is going to L " Same jump on us - a"y other time. We 'ast summer, enough i h better ball club. It , 6 10 be better J year ago to head I J Speaking of Sports. 3Count,Em--- 3 DiMags Join in Basehall Wars By ROBERT McSIIANE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) CONTRARY to rumor, there is no ruling to the effect that every major league baseball club must include at least one DiMaggio on its roster. The public unconsciously has been misled by the frequency with which the name appears in the public prints. The g members of the clan are not numbered by the dozen. In fact, there are only three of the former fisher lads now In big time baseball. Joe DiMaggio, veteran of the tribe, is not unknown to baseball addicts. He commanded a consid-erable degree of attention when he made a runaway of the race for individual batting championship of the American league last season, hitting at a distinctly passable clip of .381. The Yankee star led his closest competitor by the comfort-able margin of 21 points, establish-ing himself as one of the truly great batsmen of all time. Win Duplicate Honors Brother Dominic DiMaggio, a be- - spectacled, expensive young man, Is getting a tryout with the Boston Red Sox. In 1939 he was voted the most valuable player of the Pacific Coast league. (Joe received the same award In the American league.) Though Dominic still has to wear glasses with thick lenses, he hits the ball hard had the second high- - ft 4th ft r "J THE DI MAGGIOS: Joe and Vince est batting average on the West coast, .301, led in total hits and runs scored, and was among the leading home run hitters. Dom started playing ball with the Monterey Presidio team. From there he jumped to the San Fran-cisco Seals, where he hung on in spite of a couple of bad starts. He batted just above .300 in his first two seasons. Like the rest of the family, he is an outfielder. Brother Vince DiMaggio, now the property of the Cincinnati Reds, is the oldest but least known of the illustrious trio. It was Vince who first went to the baseball wars. While a junior high school student he was picked as a member of a San Francisco all-st- team. Be-fore he went to high school he was picked up by the Seals. Father Giuseppe DiMaggio wasn't at all en-thusiastic. He argued. AU the DiMaggios had been fishermen. Vince's liking for the game won out. Joe's Introduction It was Vince who brought Brother Joe into the game. Late one sea-son, when Vince was with the Seals and when all contests for place in the Pacific Coast league had been decided, Augie Galan, the shortstop, asked to be excused from a game to go on a barnstorming tour. The manager said he could go if he would find somebody to play short-stop. Vince DiMaggio dug up his brother Joe. That was the start of the greatest DiMaggio career. Largely on the strength of Joe's reputation, Vince went to the Boston Bees. He couldn't hit major league pitching, and in 1938 led the Nation-al circuit in strikeouts. He was sent to Kansas City. There he began to hit home runs, gained confidence and removed a bothersome hitch in his swing. Then he was brought back to the big time with Cincinnati. Despite the fact that Vince struck out 12 times in 14 times at bat dur-ing last year's pennant fight. Man-ager Bill McKechnle still has faith in him. Now the oldest of the DiMaggios is getting probably his last chance to make good. There you have the DiMaggio family Joe, king-pi- n slugger of the world champion New York Yankees; Dom, highly touted minor league star getting his golden opportunity with the Red Sox; and Vince, whose big and undoubtedly last-ch- ance is with the Reds. Unquestionably they are the most widely publicized family in baseball history. Many authorities hold that Joe is a handicap to both Vince and Dom. They have too big a name to live up to. They Just can't get Joe off their minds. The num-ber of DiMaggios left in big league baseball will be determined In the next few weeks. wouldn t Manager McKechnle mind a bit if Vince's last name was Smith. Jones or Johnson-anyth- ing but DiMaggio. Then the spotlight of publicity wouldn't be focused so sharply upon him. I j I Released by Western Newspaper Union. I RAY MILLAND would like keep a controlling hand on the scripts of all pictures in which he appears from now on. Truth came far too close to fiction to suit him a while ago, and he hasn't quite re-covered yet. He'd finished work in "Un-tamed" and gone to Sun Val-,- 1 ley for a week's rest. Mrs.. Milland stayed in Hollywood, as they were expecting the ar-rival of their first child some weeks later. Then he received word that he'd have to race the stork if he wanted to be in Hollywood when it appeared. He started for Boise, Idaho, in a car, also in a blizzard. At Boise he chartered the only plane available, and was grounded at Salt Lake City. He telephoned the hospital, in Holly-wood, and learned that he had a son. In "Untamed" he'd braved a bliz-zard to reach the bedside of a sick sweetheart. If it's all the same to the scenario writers, he'd rather have less harrowing experiences. Hollywood's most famous mixed foursome Paulette Goddard, Ruby Keeler, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope will probably have difficulty In sticking to picture-makin- g if they all ja'MWMMUMWWW)lyWLu r Irnirri -- jjiBBKMll, j BOB HOPE find themselves in the cast of "Fol-low Through." They played togeth-er in a charity match last autumn, and it was then that the idea of teaming them in a picture was sug-gested. They're nil experts, and if they can resist staging a match that the script doesn't call for they'll be doing well. Announcer Del Sharbutt Intended to be a musician, but instead has become widely known as announcer for such programs as "Myrt and Marge," "Ask-It-Baske- t" and Lanny Ross. The musician In him has come out at last, though; he's writ-ten two songs of Hit Parade propor-tions within a few weeks "The Kitten With the Big Green Eyes," and "I'd Love To." Ginger Rogers, who has millions of fans now, had only one In 1929; he was John L. Cass, who recorded the sound of "Primrose Path," In which she rs with Joel McCrea. About 10 years ago RCA made a two-reel- called "Campus Sweethearts," in New York, to try out a new wide-fil- process. Two movie unknowns, Ginger Rogers and Rudy Vallee, were featured. The director didn't care for the song that Ginger had been rehears-ing, but Cass insisted on recording it "She had everything, Including a swell mike voice," he says. "I knew she was star dust and how!" Want to see what happens to win-ners of beauty contests? Claire James, who was runner-u- p in the Miss America contest last year, is playing a bit in Paramount's "The Ghost Breakers"; she appears In a restaurant scene, wearing a floor-leng- th dinner dress. Ben Bernie and his lads and lassies, including Dinah Shore and Lew Lehr, are moving. After 60 weeks of Sunday broadcasts they're setting up shop in a Wednesday eve-ning half-hou- r, beginning April 10. Want to bet that for the first few weeks at least half of the troupe will dash to the studio on Sundays? Cecil B. DeMille is back in char-acter again. Now that he is di-recting "The Northwest Mounted Police" and goes straight from the movie studio to the radio, one where he does his Radio Theater broad-casts, he shows up in his "shooting" outfit high boots, riding breeches, and headgear ranging from som-brero to pith helmet. m If you have a harpsichord that you don't want, get in touch with Alec Templeton. Collecting unusual musical instruments is his hobby, and he has no harpsichord and he wants one. There are only 10 of these ancient instruments in the United States, four of them owned by friends of Templaton's in Chi-cago. They urged him to try one not long ago, he played his favorite satire, "Bach Goes to Town" and now his life won't be perfect until he is presented with a harpsichord of his own. 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Basehall's Heavy Hitters Compare Bats v jsjsrsgw'.,.." . . .i mi'.kb ).wMvi!m ' mwii..i ..m.....uA i!jiii'. m i A j-- , TS A quartet of baseball's greatest sluggers compare bats (and batting averages) at Tampa, Fla., where stars of the National league beat American league topnotchers 2 to 1 In the all-st- ar game. Left to right: Mel Ott of the New York Giants, Ernie Lombard! of the Cincinnati Reds, Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees and Jimmy Foxx of the Boston Red Sox. Rule Oneself To rule oneself is in reality the greatest triumph. Sir J. Lub-bock. Welcomed Gen. George C. Marshall, United States army chief of staff, receives a flower lei and a glass of pineapp'' juice from a hula girl as he steps off a plane at Hawaii, Honolulu, to in- - spect the territory's defense. Mrs. Ickes Hostess at Indian Art Show ' jf m Harold Ickes, wife of the secretary of the Interior. Is sown with White Talf and Chief Theodore Lost Star at the exhibition of Chief James department bnIld. 'rashSon. The exhibition Is composed of 90 drawings of Ameri-can Indians by Eben F. Comins. ( Justified Cruelty To the earth the plow seems cruel. |