Sunday Post - 17.10.1943, Blaðsíða 4

Sunday Post - 17.10.1943, Blaðsíða 4
SUNDAY f O. Australian Airfield in the Making United States soldier engineers, trained specialists in construction work, are seen rolling out a stretch of level ground in the preliminary phases of construction of one of the many new airfields now dotting Australia to accomodate United Nations fighter and bomher planes. Sports Two former professionals, Frank Maznicki of the Iowa Seahawks and Bob Steuber of DePaul, took over the college football scoring leadership last week with 52 points each. Maz- nicki in 4 games has registered 7 .touchdowns and 10 kicks for points, while Steuber. in only 2 games have notched 8 touch- downs and kicking 4 points. Other sectional leaders are Steve Van Buren, Louisiana State University with 43 points; Tony Butkovich of Purdue, 42; Howard Blose of Cornell, 36; Stan Turner of Texas A & M, 33; Bob Brumley of Oklahoma, 31; Jay Stoves of Washington and Lloyd Blount of Duke 28 each. * * * The Orange Bowl is the second of the post season foot- ball classics to recieve the go ahead signal from the Office of Defense Transportation. Ticket sales will be limited to resi- dents of Miami and the rest of Dade county. * * * A British Empire Forces Club, the first in the United States for non-commissioned men of all British services, has been opened in Washington, D. C. A former Boston College Guard, Rocco Canale, now in the U.S. Air Corps, landed a part-time football job with the Philadelphia Eagle—Pittsburg Steelers. Canale will play with the combined Philadelphia- Pittsburg team only when his army duties at Mitchell Field, Long Island, permit hte necess- ary leave. * * * President Edward Barrow of the New York Yankee world championship baseball team is in a New Rochelle hospital suf- fering an acute heart condition. Barrow is 75 years old. * * Billy Southworth, manager of the world series losing team, the St. Louis Cardinals, has been re-signed for the 1944 season. Sam Breadon, president of the Redbirds, told reporters “I still have the highest regard for Billy despite our loss in the series. He’s all signed up for 1944 and I’m satisfied that he is a good manager. * * * Doctors gave Dean McAd- ams, Brooklyn Dodgers passer, little chance of getting back into National Football League | competition for at least a month. McAdams suffered two broken bones in his right hand in the last week’s game against the Washington Redskins. And, to close the sports page, here’s some racing re- sults: W. E. Boeing’s Slide Rule out-stepped OVERDRAWN and EQUISTAR to take the Inter- Borough Handicap on National War Fund day at Jamaica. It was the last of a five day New York track racing program de- voted to relief, and Jamaica turned 90 thousand dollars ovei- to the war relief fund. At Pimlico, SHUTOUT beat WITH REGARDS by a neck in the Laurel Stakes. SON OF PEACE was a close third. Save Our Secrets S. .. O. .. S. In Reykjavik Today ... MOVIES TJARNARBIO: “Priorities on Parade” with Ann Miller, Betty Rhodes, Jerry Colonna. GAMLA BIO: “Wake Island”, with Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Mocdonald Carey, Albert Dekker. NYJA Bl6: “The Moon is Down”, with Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Dorris Bowdon and Henry Travers. President’s Pledge to Italians New York. — Adolf Berle, assistant secretary of state, told the Italian-American Lab- or Council that President Roo- sevelt had authorized him to say that no government will be imposed on Italy, and that its government should be one ac- ceptable to the Italian people, derived from and responsive to its free will. Berle said that Count Carlo Sforza gave an ex- cellent example for all anti- fascists when the noted Italian liberal declared that “so long as Badoglio was fighting the common enemy, it would be criminal for any Italian to weaken his hand”. Careless Talk Costs Lives Use daily Myletonic Hair Cream. The Cream of Hair Growth. s N I S s s $ s s s s s s s s s s s s 'T-

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