Third Infantry shows famed wartime endurance and grim mission
The column recounts the Third Infantry Division’s brutal campaigns from Sicily to Anzio and Rome, highlighting 58 days in southern Italy, 75 days in the final pursuit to the Vosges, and its unique record among divisions. It notes Nazi underground plans and Himmler’s efforts, with Veritas predicting failure but warning of postwar terror cells.
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Gela
Messina
Italy
Tto
Anzio
France
Vestes
Casablanca
Africa
Palermo
Messini
Sicily
Volturno
Rome
Landis Dies at 78 Czar of Baseball Passes Away
Chicago reports longtime baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, 78, died at St. Luke's hospital after seven weeks of illness. He had led organized baseball since 1921, missed the 1944 World Series due to illness, and his term was to continue beyond January 1946 after a committee recommendation. Landis died with wife and secretary by his side. funeral services were not planned per his wishes.
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Chicago
Kenesaw Mountain
Landis
St. Luke’s Hospital
St. Louis
New York
Ford Frick
National League
Browns
Cardinals
Pittsburgh
Third Division battles and tolls.
In France the Third Division ambushed 2,000 German vehicles near Montelimar last August, wiping out the column and taking 900 German dead and 900 prisoners. Since entering combat, 25,000 more men have served, totaling 40,000 in two years overseas, with May 23, 1943 at Anzio marking its heaviest single-day losses of 995 casualties. The unit pushed on to Rome and toward Berlin with notable courage hated by the Germans.
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France
Montelimar
Third Vision
Ifantry
Anzio
Rome
Berlin
Roundup of wartime players and coaching quips in pro and college sport
A wartime sports roundup highlights service team standouts Johnny Donaldson Orville Baker and Charley Justice, plus coach opinions on Sammy Baugh and the T formation. Also notes Ken Wiesner Marquette center candidate and Ray Johnson’s AAU trip. A Cleveland game anecdote adds a manager Lou Boudreau remark on cleat length.
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New York
Sam
G. IL
Johnny Donaldson
Aes Ga
Jacksonville
Fla
Naval Air Station
Orville
Lil Abner” Baker
Marine Officers’ School
New Orleans
Charley Justice
Bainbridge
Neale
Redskins
Philadelphia Eagles
Sammy Baugh
Luckman
Dud de Groot
Baugh
Texas
Washington
George Preston Marshall
Ter
Marquette
Ray Johnson
Nashville Tennessean
Atlantic City
Cleveland
Ray Eliot
Lou Boudreau
Indians
Lou
Flashes of Life on a Short Shift in Atlanta
An unidentified sergeant found the motorman absent and took a trackless trolley on an unscheduled run. The motorman fled his duty, noting no injuries or damage in his report.
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Atlanta
Fort Pierce Amphibs seek post season tilt options
The Fort Pierce Amphibs with Daley Goldberg and Hamp Pool weigh a post season game against Randolph Field at Miami on December 17 or Havana on December 30. Outcome hinges on the air force championship series previewed as the Second A F Superbombers meet the Fourth Air Force Fliers in Denver tomorrow.
Smackover Loses to El Dorado in Arkansas Football Clash
In Little Rock on November 25 El Dorado defeated favored Smackover 20 to 0 ending the Buckaroos’ strong run. Little Rock Tigers beat Greenville Miss Hor nets 32 to 0. North Little Rock topped Fordyce 32-14 and Hot Springs tied Jonesboro 6-6 with other scores across Arkansas.
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Little Rock
Tigers
el Dorado Wildcats
Oil City
Wildcats
Buckaroos
Greenville
Miss
Hornets
John Hoffman
Arkansas
North Little Rock
Fordyce
Hot Springs
Jonesboro
South Has Vast Resources for Southern States
A speaker cited by the article argues the South has ample potential to meet objectives, highlighting labor in war plants, coal, water power, oil, gas, mineral wealth, and large forest parcels. He notes 60 percent of the continental coastline and strong transportation, inland waterways and air links, plus markets across the Americas and beyond.
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Africa
Australia
Asia
Duck decoy trick backfires as baited hooks lure no ducks
Rushville Illinois November 25 4 Les lie Bedenbender attempted to catch ducks with baited hooks on decoys and returned with 28 fat crap pies. He claimed the scheme would work if ducks had been flying. In Hyrum Utah a truck overturned spilling hundreds of ice cream bars as snow arrived.
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Substitutes
Rushville
Ill
Leslie Bedenbender
Hyrum
Utah
Ducks Found Floating After Hunters Fail To Retrieve Them
Henry Parry and Joe Sumner fished near Shawnee Oklahoma on November 25 and brought home four fat ducks along with a good fish catch. The ducks appeared to have been shot by a hunter who could not recover them.
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Shawnee, Okla
Henry Parry
Joe Sumner
Denver Woman Seeks Canned Milk for Pups Under Rationing
A Denver housewife asks for a permit to buy canned milk without points to feed nine orphaned pups. Stanley Brandenburg, state rationing chief, says points must be assigned if pups receive canned milk.
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Denver
O.P.A
Stanley Brandenburg
Dierks and Hope Tie In Muddy Rain Battle
In a winter storm on a muddy field the Dierks Outlaws and Hope Bobcats played to a 0–0 tie. Pettes starred with long kickoff kicks and the squads traded four first downs apiece in a scoreless contest. No crowds were present as officials and players battled the weather and field conditions.
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Dierks
Outlaws
Hope Bobcats
Pettes
Hope 3
Duane Grisham
Harold Cumbie
Grisham
Bocan
Hope
Franklin Thomas
Bobcats
Dlerks
Joe Rooker
Clarence Garrett
Rooker
Garrett
Dierks’ Pettes
Kearns Howard
Ouachita
Bill Nichols
R. M. McCreary
Illinois
Earl O'Neal
Hendrix
Hope Name
Pos
C. Weaver
Se WE
ORRIN
J. Wells
R.G. Bill Morton
R.T. H. Cobb
Frank Spinels
Assivissaa
Lees
J. Rooker
Tates
H.B. D. Ross
H.B. CG
Capone ii
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Ates
Campbell
Perry
Arnold
Zimmerly
Garnet
Cassidy
Joe
Geeting
Arvis
Morton
Bill
Middlebrooks
Meriweather
Brannan
Johnny
Reed
Mullins
Milan
R.T. Srahaneae
R.E. Simpson
Q. Pettes
L.H
TCU Has Shot at Title in Rice Game
TCU eyes the Southwest Conference title as the Horned Frogs clash with Rice in Houston. Rice weakness injuries and weather could aid TCU, while SMU faces Texas Tech in a toss up contest adding to the conference picture.
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TCU
Dallas
Texas Christian
Horned Frogs
Rice Owls
Houston
T.C.U
Rice
Frogs
Owls
George Walmsley
H. J. Nichols
Walmsley
Nichols
George Miner
Texas
Southern Methodist
Texas Tech
Lubbock
Tech
Substitutes Named In Game lineup
Jackson RH McAllister F substitutes include Cherry H B Her berson end C Jackson end Crisp tackle Shute tackle Kes terson tackle.
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Jackson RH. McAllister F
Cherry
H. B
Herberson
C. Jackson
Crisp
Shute
Kesterson
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Harry W. Shiver
Hope, Ark
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Owens Bros. Sale Barns
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