Daily Post - 16.06.1943, Blaðsíða 3

DAILY POST
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1 War Workers
by “The Ace

BASEBALL
Babe Dahlgren of the Phils,
the N.L.’s surprise socker, at-
tributes his success to the sore
arm he acquired while playing
shortstop this spring. The
long throw from this position
tightened his arm muscles and
compelled him to shorten his
batting swing. Result—consist-
ent hits against all types of
hurling. . . The A’s managed to
score only 10 runs on 7 doub-
les, 2 triples, and 9 singles
when they beat the Indians
last week. . . Orval Grove of
the White Sox lost a tough one
in the 9th as Boston jumped
on him for 3 runs to win, 4—3.
. . Cincy is finally starting to
shellack the onion as Gee Wal-
ker and McCormick connect
for homers. . . Charley Work-
man of the Braves continues to
provide long-ball hitting for the
rest of the Boston lineup.....
Slugger Stan Mussin of the
Cards finally has his batting
streak checked after connect-
ing safely in 22 consecutive
games. . . Pirates lose Johnny
Lanning to the Army and Jack
Hallett faces imminent call. —
Both these gents are seasoned
Lurlers, and have proved they
can win in Big Time ball. . .
The Browns are destined to re-
main in the cellar for some
time to come unless the club
shakes its batting and fielding
slump. For once, little if any
blame can be laid to the mound
staff. The miserable showing of
the Cubs continues to puzzle
N. L. fans. . . Joe Kuhel’s re-
pertoire of card and magician
tricks is “biggah and bettah
than evah” according to White
Sox teammates. . . Walter
Lowe and Geo. McDonald of
San Diego were stroking fhe
horseside at a .400 clip as per
latest everages from the Coast.
. . Sacramento Manager Ken
Penner says he has only half a
man power problem, — plenty
of men but no power. . . Lead-
ing batter on the Memphis club
is 45-year-old Mickey O’Neill,
grey-haired backstop. No won-
der this outfit is in last place
in the Southern Association.
. . Hugh Mulcahy, ex-Philly
star, is serving up his fast one
at Fort Jackson. This is his 3rd
year in the service, he being
the first top-flight Major Lea-
guer to be drafted. Detroit is
counting on 20 victories from
the blazing fast ball of young
Virgil “Fire” Trucks. . . Pep-
per Martin is patrolling the out
field occasionally for Rochester
in addition to his duties as ma-
nager. . .
SWIMMING
Bill Smith, heralded as “the
greatest swimmer in human
history,” can outswim most
fish, according to his backers.
The curly-headed Hawaii youth
(now enrolled at Ohio State)
weighs 190 pounds and is stoc-
kily built with heavy muscles,
quite the opposite from the av-
erage aquatic star. His secret
is a powerful, perfectly-syn-
chronized, seemingly effortless
stroke developed in the irriga-
tion canals of Hawaii, although
he learned to swim in the
pounding surf. On the campus
he looks more like a football
guard than the holder of all
world records in free style
swimming from 220 yards
through half a míle. Now only
18, Smith is really just on the
verge of his incredible career,
and he is steadily improving.
Bankers by day; war work-
ers by night.- Shedding busi-
ness clothes, donning overalls,
and pitching in to speed the
day of victory, thousands of
businessmen, lawers, mer-
chant, and clerks are now
working at two jobs a day.
“White-collar” men — and
many women, too — are doubl
ing up, continuing their own
professions during the day
while at the same time doing
their bit to turn out war toole
at night. ^.nd industry is be-
ginning to show a real inter-
est in them. It taken only two
trained “short shifters” to eq-
ual one full-time worker.
When a New England war-
production plant advertised
the other day for part-time
workers to man the “short
shift,” it was swamped with
applicants. Thousands stood in
line for hours to be interview-
ed.
Schoolteachers, salemen,
barbers, ministers, letter carri-
ers, taxidrivers — all were re-
ady, and eager, to take their
places on the production lines
as “short shifters” for a few
hours éach evening after fin-
ishing their customary day’s
labors.
U. S. Tank Ready to Attack
In Reykjavík
Today . ..

MOVIES
A sergent of the United States armored forces in Tunisia stands
in the turret of his M-4 tank awaiting the signal to roll forward
during the successful counter-attack by American trocps at Kass-
erine Pass.
NÝJA BÍÓ: “Song of the Is-
lands”, wtih Betty Grable,
Jack Okaie.
GAMLA BÍÖ: “Hold Back The
Dewn”, with Charles Boyer,
Paulette Goddard.
TJARNARBÍó: “The Private
Lives of Elizabeth ano Essex”,
w./ Bette Davis, Errol Flynn
POLAR BEAR: “Sailors Lady”,
with Joan Davis, Nancy
Kelly.
RED CROSS
The Red Cross is closed tem-
porarily.
Y.M.C.A.
The Y. M. C. A. will be
closed for redecoration un-
til further notice.
AMERICAN BROADCASTS
1300—1335: News Headlines..
G. I. Jive. Hits of the Day.
1600—1713: Ravel’s Ma Me-
re L’Oye Suite. Magazine Di-
gest. Your Broadway and
Mine. Milton Berle, Gertrude
Niessen, Frank Craven, Phil
Silvers.
2200—2315: News Roundup. —
•Jack Benny Program. Mary
Livingston, Dennis Day, Don
Wilson. Your Hit Parade
with Joan Edwards, Barry
Wood, Mark Warnow and
Orchestra.
BRITISH FORCES
BROADCASTS
NEWS SUMMARY
“Bullel-Prooí Bibles"
Washington. The War Pro-
duction Board has approved
the use of several tons of waste
steel plate to steel jacket ser-
vicemen’s bibles. Spokesmen
said that the steel cover might
deflect or halt flying fragment
if carried in the breast pocket
and would be protection against
direct fifle or machine gun fire„