Card Sharps Exposed in Army Gambling Tricks Series
A military prepared feature exposes methods used by professional card manipulators or sharks. Sgt Sidney Radner supplies details on bottom-deck tricks, signals, and the dangers of playing with skilled cheaters in private and army games. The piece notes many devices used by gamblers and warns players to expect cheating in so called friendly games. The first part ends with a teaser for next week’s Texacts installment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney Radner
78Th
AAF
Bondadiers
Radner
Sergeant Radner
Midwest
Texacts
Renda Assigned to Dalhart Air Field Duties
Lt. Hercules Renda, former Physical Training and Special Service officer at Sheppard Field and Lincoln, Nebraska, has been sent to the Army Air Field near Dalhart Texas for similar duties. He has been at Dalhart for two months, according to local friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hercules Renda
Army Air Field
Dalhart
Texas
Sheppard Field
Lincoln
Nebr
Caldwell Returns to Princeton as Football Mentor
Williams College grid coach Charley Caldwell becomes Princeton's new football mentor. Caldwell played left half on the 1922 Tigers and nearly toppled Princeton's 1935 undefeated big three. His return suggests Princeton may again face Yale and Harvard next season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williams College
Charley Caldwell
Princeton
Caldwell
Tigers
Williams
Yale
Harvard
Former Radio Artist Attached To Post's Singing Department
Private Leonard A. Stofel of Section A, once billed as radio's one man show for KPRC WFAA WSM WLAC, now serves in the Army and contributes to soldier entertainment. The Tennessee native joined eight months ago, transferred to SF from Camp Gruber's Infantry, and resides with a wife and two daughters in Wichita Falls while his home remains in Tennessee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard A. Stofel
Section A
KPRC
Houston
WFAA
Dallas
WSM
Nashville
WLAC
Lexington
Stofel
Camp Gruber
Wichita Falls
Tennessee
Roberts Leaves Al Roberts to Join Harlingen Aerial Gunnery School
Eastern League basketball standout Roberts departed this week for aerial gunnery school at Harlingen Texas. While at Sheppard Field he was a member of the Basic Training Center dribblers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
al Roberts
Harlingen
Texas
Sheppard Field
Roberts
Basic Training Center
Dribblers
Record Sections Basketeers Hang Up Fifth Victory
The Wrecks won their fifth straight basketball game 68 to 36 over Section M without Al Roberts who left this week. Lt Sunderland led with 22 points, Doetsch had 21, halftime 29 13. Wrecks also beat Section L 51 42 and Section A 40 29. Roster includes Bishop Sunderland Proper Doetsch Gross Rice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wrecks
Section M
al Roberts
Mike Sunderland
Bob Doetsch
Section L
R. R. Bishop
Sunderland
Alec Proper
Doetsch
Everett Gross
John Rice
Full Sunday Bill Planned Af Hiesp
On Sunday December 24 at the regional station hospital patients will have a full day of activities. Chapel services in the auditorium will be led by Chaplains Ben Karpowicz and W T Young. Camp Fire Girls hosted by Miss Corinne Moller will host a 2 pm coffee hour followed by carols. Candlelight services at 7 pm directed by Mrs Pearl Davis will include a high school girls choir and a Nativity tableaux followed by a community songfest.
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Chrystine Moore
ABC
Ben Karpowicz
W. T. Young
Corinne Moller
Pearl Davis
First Methodist Church of
Wichita Falls
Mathematics of Accidents and Its Hidden Toll
A reflective piece notes how accidents impact daily life by reducing pleasure and increasing discomfort. It discusses financial strain and rising anxieties, framing risk as a mathematical burden on income and well being.
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NAVY
Milton Caniff
Terry and the Pirates
Soap Beam
AO Ciler
Renda
Post
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