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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Released by Western Newspaper Union. Disposing of an Enemy Observation Post Japanese Chaplain Released by Western Newspaper Union. A LTHOUGH Erwin Rudolph won his first pocket billiards championship in 1911, the genial cue shark is more active today than ha was as a mere stripling of 30 or 35. On Labor day of 1942, Rudolph started an exhibition tour which has taken him to army camps in all parts of the United States. His first stop was at Fort Ontario in Oswego, N. Y. From there he went to Key West, Fla., finally winding up deep in the heart of Texas the following June. So far he has visited at least 200 camps, played in 800 exhibitions and demonstrated his uncanny abilof ity through the Brunswick - Balke, the company which underwrites his army camp tour. Rudolph, who will be 50 in December, started playing billiards back in 1909, when he was 15. Just a year and a half later he won the Ohio State pocket billiards championship. In 1927 he annexed his first worlds championship by defeating Ralph Greenleaf 450 to 386. Rudolphs Record After taking the title from Green-lein 1927, Rudolph went on to win it again in 1930, 1933 and 1941. His last victory was at the expense of Willie Mosconi and Irving Crane, both of whom he defeated in the af playoffs. direct hit from this United States gun disposed of an Italian tobacco factory which was being nsed as an artillery observation post by the Germans. After successfully resisting desperate German, attempts to defend Salerno, Allied forces steadily pushed northward toward Germany capturing strategic military and industrial towns. A In talking to Rudolph, one gets the firm impression that he is much be- Lieut. Hiro Higuchi, of Japanese happier demonstrating his wares ancestry, who is a chaplain in the American army. He is a former native of Hawaii and the second Japanese chaplain to be commissioned. He is now attending Harvard university. Human Bomb CARRYING ON IN WARTIME IN SEPTEMBER OF 1918 I was in a small Belgium city which the Germans, after four years of occupancy, had evacuated less than 48 hours before my arrival. In that small city I entered, as indicated by a sign, a dress shop with the hope of finding something for the wife and daughter at home in Chicago. The size and fixtures denoted a shop of some consequence but in it were not so much as half a dozen articles of merchandise, none of them of any real value. With a smile of courage in her woman greeted eyes a me in English from behind an empty showcase. To her I explained my reason for entering. You see all I have to offer, she said. Four years ago I had a full stock. It was not confiscated or looted by the Germans but has been sold a bit at a time, with no opporFor two tunity of replacement. years there has been practically nothing left, but I will not close the store. It must be here when the war ends, though I starve in the effort to keep it open. That was what war had meant to a woman merchant of Belgium. It is what war means today in Belgium and practically all other European nations. That woman was carrying on. A store window in a dress shop in my home town caused me to recall that heroic Belgium woman. In store window was that home-towdisplayed an attractive line of print dresses in the brilliant colorings of the summer it was in August season. There were slacks and shorts of many colors and shades, bathing suits for the beaches, knit gloves and scarfs and other accessories. It was the disstore play window of a in which feminine fancy could be white-haire- d n well-stock- Senator Sees Whats Left of Japs at Kiska satisfied. We are at war, as was Belgium. We are supposed to be suffering the deprivations of war. We complain of the sacrifices we are called upon ERWIN RUDOLPH fore the boys in army camps than he was and is in championship competition. And it isnt a question of nerves. He just likes to entertain the boys. It would be impossible to find a more interested and appreciative audience than the boys in the army camps, he declares. Most of them Allen L. Gordon became a human bomb when a shell lodged in his left hip and did not explode. Navy physiSenator Homer Ferguson of Michigan is pictured inspecting a Japa- cians who removed it were faced nese midget submarine found on Kiska island. Left to right: Seaman with the possibility of an exploding Henry Sekula, Senator Ferguson and Seaman W. R. Williams. Ferguson patient. The dangerous surgery is a member of the senate Truman committee for investigating the con- was performed successfully in the duct of the war. Other senators have made inspection trips of U. S. South Pacific. Gordon was standing at his post on an American battleequipment and U. S. properties in foreign countries. ship when he was injured. Oil for Alaskan Highway Traffic Falls Down Bluff understand the fundamentals of the game and are with the player all the time. Its worth traveling any distance just to perform for the boys. The game of billiards is definitely on the rebound, according to Rudolph. He feels and with justification that it will come back strong after the war. Thousands of service men who never played before are taking an interest in the game. As many as 200 billiard tables are found in some of the camps, and as many as 2,500 men have witnessed some of his exhibitions. That this builds interest in the game is proved by the following excerpt from one of the many letters Rudolphs employers have received from commanding officers of army camps where he has appeared: to make. The fact Is we on the home front know nothing of sacrifice as we might, and would, know if the Huns and the Japs were landed on our shores. Oceans lie between us and our enemies. It is the men of our armed forces that meet them far away from us and protect us from the real ravages of the most terrible war the world has ever known. If that Belgium woman could carry on under the conditions she, and those she represented, had to face through four long years, we can have no just cause for complaint. We, too, must carry on to maintain that America and the institutions that are ours. white-haire- d WHY BEATING INFLATION IS SO DIFFICULT WE ARE FEARFUL of inflation. We know what can cause it and how it can be prevented. We know runaway commodity prices can, and will, wreck each one of us and produce conditions from which we can not, and will not, recover for at least a generation. Each one of us wants the other fellow to do the things that will prevent the inflation disaster. The farmer wants higher prices for what he produces. He does not want to be the inflation prevention goat He would have the worker, the manu. . . As you can well imagine, and the merchant do the facturer since Mr. Rudolphs appearance, the inflation job. The workprevention in interest pocket billiards has taken ers want more wages. The manuon new life and we truly are develmerchants object to and facturers oping some great players. sacrificing any of their profits and demand prices for their commodiRepeat Performances ties that will offset, or more than The letters Rudolph receives speak offset, any increased wage costs. We volumes. They tell of the tremen- know sacrifices must be made if we dous amount of camp interest and are to escape the inflation evil, but are almost unanimous in requesting we want George to do the sacria repeat performance. ficing. Each of us wants George The former champion entertains to pay the price, to buy the bonds. with exhibitions of both pocket bilHad congress, the day war was liards and trick shots. Many of the declared, passed the much discussed latter shots were first used by RuM bill it would have stopped all dolph and now are a standard fix- danger of inflation. It would have ture in other players routines. frozen all wages and prices, drafted In talking to beginners, Rudolph all plants, manpower and wealth. emphasizes three fundamental rules. The only thing it would not have The first of these the forming of a controlled was the votes of Amerfirm bridge with the left hand ican citizens and the politicians were he terms one of the most important fearful of those votes. The result of factors in the game. He also cauthat fear may be inflation. tions that the cue must be held very loosely at the balance, with the WHEN THE FIRST TAX DEDUCshooting arm relaxed, and finally TIONS were made from pay envethat, when stroking the ball, the lopes, millions of Americans had head should be kept absolutely still, their first lesson as to the meaning as In golf. of direct taxes. It will cause them In addition, he warns beginners to to examine government expendibluff a After she fell down Oil for traffic using the new Alcan highway will be piped 550 miles from using english the tures more carefully than they did from the huge underground lake of petroleum resources in the Mackenzie in Palo Verdes, Calif., Mrs. Lee refrain controlled imparted to the cue in the past. They will be asking basin at Fort Norman. It will also serve ships along the Alaskan shore. Gloria Shuck lay on a narrow cliff ball when spin it is stroked. civilian emEnglish about that Left: An Inspector checks the welding on a section of the line. Right: edge for a day and a night before will come rescoast naturally as you learn the ployee federal payroll, now nearing guard Two of the many girls working in connection with the project are pic- these soldiers and he says. 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