26 Jan 1944
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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1944
Page
1
By SID FEDER Bowman in New York discusses the upcoming lightweight bout between Swarmin Sammy Angell and Beau the Jumping Jack at Madison Square Garden. The piece critiques boxing power, union influence, and wartime constraints shaping the non-title fight with an expected gate of $50,000 to $60,000 and $11.50 tickets.
New York January meeting urged by Major General John J. Phelan, chairman of the State athletic Commission, to straighten the tangled lightweight boxing situation involving Beau Jack, Bob Montgomery, and Sammy Angott before the Jack Angott non title bout at Madison Square Garden.
AP Features Sports Editor Chip Royal notes two New York Giants, Ter rible Terry and Calm Carl Hubbell, once stars under John McCraw. Terry left after mismanaging wealth, while Hubbell stayed loyal. Both reflect on baseball’s value and staying power as long careers end.
Agricultural section lists garden and crop pests with control tips. San Jose scale, plant lice, codling moth, cutworms, root maggots, flea beetles, blister beetles, striped cucumber beetle, Mexican bean beetle, cabbage worm, rose slugs, ants, potato beetles and Japanese beetle addressed with sprays, dusts, tar paper, and cultural methods. Readers urged to send questions to The Mall Information Bureau for more advice.
Baltimore reports that US ordnance experts dismiss Nazi claims of Hallid air bombs as sensational. Dr. Robert W. Wood of Johns Hopkins notes liquid oxygen explosives have been used for years and are far less dramatic than rumored. An Army officer calls liquid oxygen bombs strong propaganda but unreliable as actual weapons.
New York radio guide lists weekend format changes to back the fourth war loan. Highlights include Golden Age of Sports with Dempsey Ruth Grange Sande and Bobby Jones. We The People with Morgenthau and Admiral King. Vox Poppers with Marshall. Information Please with Wendell Willkie. and Evening lineups across NBC CBS and MBS featuring Cantor Sinatra Woolley Kyser James and more.
An Army officer and researchers discuss a bomb formula using liquid oxygen and carbon. The Swiss report favors the mix while U S researchers note limited potency and relative safety. Tests at Martinsburg and Aberdeen in 1940 and a 1,400 pound charge show minimal effect on goats, with warnings about reliability.
The minority criticizes a tendency to concentrate authority in union officials and rely on government agencies for maintaining position and stability. Citing a two year strike record, the minority notes most time lost from strikes in 1943 came from the coal strike, for which the War Labor Board cannot be blamed.
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