Drake Relays Prewar Return, Easton Says
Des Moines AP reports Drake Relays will revert to prewar form this weekend. Meet entries total 158 from 27 universities, 27 colleges, 56 high schools and 48 junior highs, up from wartime low in 1944. Easton predicts better marks than last year and the 1947 meet as Drake’s greatest, with veterans returning and freshmen benefitting from a year of training. Big Ten except Michigan and Ohio State join, plus Big Six, Southwest, independents including Notre Dame, Michigan State and Marquette. at least seven national champions expected. defending college finals Friday along with heavy high school schedule.
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DES Moines
Midwest
Southwest
Deep South
Bill Easton
Easton
Drake
Big Ten
Michigan
Ohio State
Big Six
Notre Dame
Michigan State
Marquette
Iowa to enter relays at Drake with about twenty athletes
University of Iowa track coach George Bresnahan says about 20 Hawkeyes will compete at Drake. Teams will run the 440 and 880 relays plus the mile and two mile relays, with entrants in the century, low hurdles, pole vault, shot put, discus, javelin and high jump. Notable competitors include Paul Fagerlind in javelin and Whitey Pedersen in broad jump.
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University of Iowa
George Bresnahan
Iowa
Hawkeye
Kansas
Paul Fagerlind
Keith Gotthardt
Herb Wilkinson
Walter Thorpe
Charles Mason
Dan Sheehan
Gene Freeles
Tom Thorson
Norman (Whitey) Pedersen
Dwayne Feekin
Iowa State
Marion High School
L. C. Hipple
Hipple
Robert Williams
Charles Kurt
Jack Scott
Robert Etzel
Ed Wainwright
Scott
Wainwright
Neil Wood
Russell Benedict
Raymond Petersen
Dick McCalley
Marion
Wea LO Triple Play Wins For Monona Nine
A high school baseball week opening in eastern Iowa featured Monona securing a 4-2 victory over Marquette in a Clayton county tournament. Schwab produced a thrilling shoe string triple play to end the seventh inning as Monona avoided a Marquette rally. Other results include Farmersburg's 12-2 win over Luana and Guttenberg's 4-2 win over Elkader.
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Calmar
Iowa
Monona
Marquette
Clayton County
Schwab
Kuester
Krambeer
Monona Battery
Hinkel
Goltz
Farmersburg
Luana
Guttenberg
Elkader
Protestant churches face great needs across war-torn Europe
In Geneva a 13-country church leaders meeting outlined Europe's Protestant needs. Two thirds of funds will fund rebuilding church life, one third relief. Reports cited: Poland Lutherans limited to 125,000 members from prewar 500,000, 23 died in camps. Finland parishes half self-sufficient. Norway losses across churches and parishes. Holland damage to hundreds of churches and buildings. Belgium four churches destroyed. France 212 churches lost. Austria 13 churches destroyed. Czechoslovakia requires food and clothing. Germany aims for internal matching aid with external help, with 20,000 tons of food raised.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Europe
Poland
Zygmund Michelis
Warsaw
Finland
Toivo Harjunpaa
Norway
Finmark
Conrad Bonnevie- Svendsen
Holland
E. Emmen
Belgium
Czechoslovakia
Frank Hnik
Hus Theological Faculty
Prague
Germany
Eugen Gerstenmaier
Pene Clothing Aid in Western Zone Occupation Relief
A veteran official described relief shipments totaling 30 million waves directed to the western zones with most aid funneled into the Russian zone, outlining wartime support measures and distribution priorities.
Flags Going Overseas for Yank Graves
The War Department disclosed that miniature American flags will be sent overseas to check every known grave of a U S serviceman for Memorial Day. Royall outlined that about 24 000 isolated graves remain to be located with searches in Europe, the Pacific, China, and the Mediterranean. Comprehensive burials data show tens of thousands already accounted for across theaters.
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INS
U. S
Royall
Germany
France
Belgium
Luxembourg
Middle Pacific
Iwo Jima
Guam
Saipan
Tarawa
Guadalcanal
Western Pacific
Australia
New Guinea
Philippines
Ryukyus
Air Force
China
Mediterranean
Head of Publisher Group Praises War Role of Press
William G Chandler, president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, lauded the patriotic record of American newspapers in supporting the nation during wartime. He cited campaigns to collect scrap metal increase wood pulp production salvage household fats and lead drives for war bonds war savings stamps and waste paper collections.
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New York
William G.chandler
American Newspaper Publishers Association
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