Daily Post - 05.11.1943, Blaðsíða 4

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(Cont. from p. 3.)
liás become a featherweight.
Mills, England’s best-known
boxer in the U.S., is picked as
léading cöntender for the light
heavyweight crown now held
by Gus Lesnevitch, who si in
the U.S. Coast Guard.
The annoúncement emphas-
izéd tbat efforts are underway
tó stimulaté action in all class-
éð to préverit tbe freézing of
titlési by civilian boxers while
söriie other titles axe held in
éscrow for champioris now ín
service. Along with the namirig
öí Patterson as a titalist, the
öther most important higblight
iö thé fact that Bobby Ruffin
has been rftoved up as a light-
weight contender because of his
récent upset victory over Beau
Jack. Here are the ratings:
Heavyweight: Joe Louis,
Army—champion; Billy Conn,
Army, and Jimmy Bivins, con-
tenders.
Light Heavyweight: Gus
Lesnevitch (Coast Guard)—•
champion; Freddie Mills, Eng-
land,—contender.
Middleweight: Tony Zale,
Navy—champion; Georgie Ab-
rams, Navy, and Steve Beloise,
Navy,—contenders.
Welterweight: Freddie Co-
chrane, Navy—champion; Ray
Robinson, Army—contender.
Lightweight: Sammy Angot
—champion; Luther White,
Bob Montgomery and Bobby
Ruffin-—contenders.
Featherweight: Phil Terra-
nova—champion; Willie Pep,
Army, Chalky Wright and Sal
Bartola,—contenders.
Bantamweight: Manuel Or-
tiz—champion; Kui Kong
Young, Honolulu, contender.
Flyweight: Jackie Patterson,
England—champion; no con-
tenders.
* * *
Nov. 2. Notré Dáriie's serisa-
tional 33 to 6 slaughter of Navy
leaves thé Ramblers with the
national cöllegiate football
championship almost assured.
The Army Penn tie dropped
both teams down the list
though Army played on a wet
field and should be better ag-
ainst Notre Dame next week.
The Irish are still an odds—
on-favorite to take the Acade-
my into camp.
Aside from the margin which
the Ramblers blasted the
Navy, and the Army-Penn tie,
the only surprises of the week
s • i l Ai-'
London, Nov. 4th.
In the South-West Pacific, Allied bombers, based in Austra-
lia, have carried out a most successful attack on a large con-
centration of Japanese shipping at Rabaul in New Britain.
In this smashing raid, three
Jap destroyers, eight merchant
ships and föur coastal vessels
weré sunk, árid two heávy cru-
isers, seven largé merchant-
meri and two tankers dámaged.
In addition, the Japs suffer-
ed Very heavy aircraft losses.
Out of 150 fighters coming up
to intercept the Allied bomb-
ers, 67 were shot down for
cértáin, and 23 badly damaged.
Éightéen other enemy planes
weré destroyed on the ground
or at anchor,—all for thé loss
of nine Allied bombers and 10
fighters.
In the opinion of military ex
perts, this is the greatest dis-
aster to overtake the Japs sin-
ce the battle of the Bismarck
Sea.
Tokyo to-day admits the
loss of one cruiser and two de-
stroyers in the naval action
taking place in the Solomons
on Tuesday.
On Bougainville Islánd in
the northern Solomons, the
Amerieans have enlárged their
bridgehead, and shot down 22
Japanese planes, which attemp
ted to raid their positioris.
LATE NEWS
It was revealed late to-
night that during 16-hours,
from dawn yesterday morn-
ing till midnight last night,
4,000 tons of high explosives
were dropped on Germany
by Allied heavy bombers. —
Half of this, 2,000 tons, were
dropped on Duesseldorf a-
lone by the RAF in the re-
cord time of 27 minutes.
were Holy Cross’ win over Con-
rell and March Fields 7 to 6
victory over St. Mary’s Pre-
flight. The fourth airforce men
came back from a terrific
thumping handed to them the
previous week by Washington
in Seatle to stop former Min-
nesota star Bruce Smith and the
Pre-Flight Sparkers in one of-
the leading upsets of the seas-
on.
* * *
The hockey season opened
over the week-end. The Tor-
onto Maple Leafs took their
second hockey win in 2 nights
beating the Chicago Black-
hawks 4 to 1 last evening at
Chicago.
In Detroit, the Red Wings
opened their defense of the
championship by rapping the
New York Rangers 8 to 3. It
Dniepr Battle
(Cont. from p. 1.)
Moscow dispatches say that
the retreating Germans are
suffering enormous losses at
the hands of the Russian Cos-
sacks and the Soviet Air For-
ce. Large quantities of tanks,
guns and ammunition continue
to flow in, and in addition,
yesterday in this area, 10,000
heads of cattle and 800 horses
were overtaken, as the Ger-
mans, who wé^e driving them
westwards, fled in wild dis-
order before the onslaught of
their Cossack pursuers.
Inside the Dniepr bend, the
Russians have captured Kras-
noyansk, 30 miles north-east
of Krivoi Rog. At Krivoi Rog
itself, more heavy German
counter-attacks have been re-
pulsed.
In the Crimea, the Russians
continue to pour troops with
tanks and armour into the pen-
insula by way of the Perekop
isthmus. Berlin continues to
refer to fierce fighting near
Kerch, where the Russians
established a foothold on Mon-
day.
The Germans also report to-
night that fighting has flared
was the second Ranger loss in
two nights. Detroit scored five
of their tallies while New York
was shorthanded due to pen-.
alties.
In Reykjavík
Teday ...
AMERICAN BROADCASTS
1600—1700 Tschaikowsky’s
Romeo and Juliet Overture
The Arts In America. Mus-
ic of the People.
1800—18.Í5 News Headlines &
Music.
230Ó—2400 ersonal Album
with Kate Smith. News
Roundup and Sports Páge
Music We Love with Rich-
ard Crooks.
M0VEES
GAMLA BÍÓ: “Gone with the
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TJARNARBÍÓ: “The Palm
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NÝJA BÍÓ: “You will never
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and Rita Hayworth.
LAUNDRY.
Can take in washing from
three more soldiers. At home
after 6 p. m. to-day, Thurs-
day. — S. Einarsdóttir,
Efstasund 18, Kleppsholti.
WorSd News
Washington. — British am-
bassador to the United States,
Lord Halifax warned against a
wave of allied optimism which
might prolong the war. The
diplomat said that allied pres-
sure on German from land, sea
air fronts has reached the
point where “anything can
happen in Germany”.
London, Nov. 4th.
Cairo dispatches report the
arrival of M. Memenjoglu, the
Turkish Foreign Minister, for
talks with Mr. Eden, who left
Moscow last night together
with Mr. Cordell Hull.
up north of Kiev, and in the
Velikie Luki area, where the
Nazis admit penetration of
their lines.