Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 42, Number 144, Decatur, Adams County, 17 June 1944 — Page 6

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Nats' Hurler Stops Boston Victory String Milo Candini Hurls Shutout; Yankees Win On Home Lot New York. June 17.—(UP)—The determined drive of JC‘- Cronin to hand Boston Bed Sox owner Tom Yawkey an American league pennant, for which the Beantown magnate han spent uncounted thousands, hit a a nag today. The Red Sox had been riding rough-shod over the reet of the circuit and up to last night had counted nine victories tn a row. It re mained for the Washington Senators to dip manager Cronin's club, and Milo Candini twirled five-hit, shutout ball to record a 4-0 deci*lou. Rookie Clem Hausmann wax nicked for eight hits ae he went to the show era with the loss. The Sox threatened to score only once, in the final stanza when they jam med U»» bases with only one out, but the potential uprising wilted with a double play. The New York Yankees, home from a diMaxtrous road trip, found home pasture more to their liking aa they Jumped on the Philadelphia Athletics. 6 1. Hank Borowy hung up hi* eighth victory and backed up his fivefilt pitching with a sixth Inning triple which highlighted a five run rally The leading St U>uix Browns, in a twilight game, kicked five Detroit pitchers around for 14 hits that netted a 14-1 nocking. Bob Muwcrlef went the distance and recorded his fifth straight win, and Contfortably Cool SUN. MON. TUES. Continuous Sun, from 1:15 “SEE HERE, PVT. HARGROVE” Robert Walker, Donna Reed, Robt. Benchley, Keenan Wynn ALSO—Shorts 9c.40c Inc. Tax TONICHT — Deanna Durbin, Pat O’Brien “Hit Butler's Slater” | CORT SUN. MON. TUES. Matinee Sun.—*C.lsc until 4 “SCARLET CLAW” Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce & “SPOTLIGHT SCANDALS” Billy Gilbert. Frank Fay —o TONIGHT — Smileg Burnette “Beneath Western Skies". ALSO. “Tiger Woman” 9c3oc Inc. Tax

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MMemwMawsßwwwmwaßuawwwsiaßMw'wwsßMMMMMawMMMWMe * hix sixth of the season. Stubby Overmire was the loner. The Chicago White Sox moved Into sixth place ax they defeated the Cleveland Indians. 31. Mel Harder wae charged with t-he loss, while Orval Grove was the winner. In the National league, the Brooklyn Dodgers defeated Philadelphia, 5 to 4. scoring four runs In the sixth, and another In the seventh — all at the expense of Charlie Behans. The Cincinnati Reds concentrated their 13-hlt attack In three fat innings to lick the Chicago Cubs, 10 5. Slugging Bii. Nicholson homered for the Cubs in their futile cause as Clyde Shoun won his sixth game. Yesterday’s star: Milo Candini, who pitched five-hit ball for the Senators as they stopped the Boston Red Sox winning streak at nine straight. MAJOR LEAGUE sWShgs NATIONAL LEAGUE I W. L. Pct. GB. j St. Louis 34 15 .694 .. Pittsburgh 27 20 .574 6 Cincinnati 27 24 .529 6 New York 26 24 .520 BLfc Brooklyn 25 27 .481 10ft Boston 23 31 ,426 13ft Philadelphia 20 28 ,417 13ft Chicago 16 29 .356 16 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. CB. St. Louis 31 23 .574 Boston 29 24 .547 Ift Detroit 27 27 .500 4 Washington 26 27 .491 4ft New York _... 24 25 .490 4ft Chicago 23 24 .489 414 Cleveland 26 29 .473 5'4 Philadelphia 22 29 .431 7ft YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Cincinnati 10, Chicago 5. Brooklyn 5. Philadelphia 4. Only games scheduled. American League New York 6. Philadelphia 1. St. UruU 14. Detroit 1. Washington 4. Boston 0. Chicago 3, Cleveland 1. Giants, Cubs Win In League Contests The Giants and Cubs won National league gasnes in the summer recreation league Friday. The Giants, with three hit* end four errors, defeated the Reds. 8 to 6. The losers made several hits and three errors Butteries; Giants. Ahr and Lichtenateiger; Reds, Coffee and Matfivaugh. The Cubs dawned the Pirate*. 12 to 8. The winner* hit safely seven times and had four errors. The Pirates obtained 11 hits and erred six times. Next week’u schedule: Monday, Indians v« Tigers and Yankees vs. Senator*. Tuesday— Cißbs vs Red* and Giants vs. Pirate*. Thursi day -Tiger* vs Yankees and Indians vs Senators. Friday Red* vs Pirates and Cute vs Giants. — - O' — — — Swim in Shroyer l-ake Beach.

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H * "'W I < it*. Wr ® ■Rk"^w w 111 1 1 ''l • ■ CAPT/WIUIAM J. ADAMS (above), fDormont, Pa, who with two infan‘try officers was captured by the 'Nazis on the Cherbourg Peninsula, italked his IM captors into laying I f down their arms and surrendering : to him. The group was composed of I Russians, Poles and (internaliunaO Lane’s, 6. E. Take Close Tilts Friday Decatur Moose Wins In Exhibition Tilt Lane's, counting twice in the first inning, nosed out a 2 to t triumph over McMillen in a Deca, tur softball league game Friday night at Worthman field. The Decatur Moose team wal. loped the Bluffton Moose team in the exhibition game, 17 to 1. Two walks and a hit gave Lane's their first inning runs. McMillen scored Its tone tally in the sixth inning. The G. E. team chalked up a I to 0 victory over the Legion team, in a league game played at Berne last night. Hits by Schneider and Gordon amounted tor the only run of the game in the third Inning. Gordon limited the Legion team to a single blow. The schedule tor next week follows: Monday—G. E. Girls vs Fort Wayne CVO Girls; G. K. vs Me. Millen. Tuesday— Kraft vs Masterson and Tyndall (Bluffton); Lane vs G E. Thursday—Lane vs St. Mary’s CYO (Decatur); Legion vs Moose. Friday —G. E. vs Studebaker (Fort Wayne); McMillen vs Kraft. Lane at Berne. Last night's scores: RHE Bluffton .... 000 1(H) •— i 4 12 Moose 41« 204 X—l7 10 3 Miller and Garr; Krueckeberg and Bultemeler. McMillen .... 000 001 o—l 4 0 J. Mchnepf and Thieme; Etch, horn and Pettibone. G. E. 001 000 0-1 8 0 legion 000 000 0 0 1 0 Gordon and Windmiller; Sprunger and Stuckey RUSSIANS°DRIVE on i Contis sad rw raws t) patches reported that reconnaissance patrols had stabbed behind the Finnish lines to disrupt com nranlcntiona and attack enemy strong points. The Finns were reported evacu- , ating the entire Karelian populace'

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and the Russians found many villages virtually without Inhabitants. (Observers at Stockholm said that an order of the day Liaued by Finnish Matshal Karl Mannerheim, acknowledging the second largescale Soviet attack In Karelia, indicated the Finnish military situation wax In-corning critical.) More than 242 localities have been captured by the Russians Mince the big offensive started last Saturday. It has carried the Soviet army to a point 46 miles northwest of Leningrad. Oh the 65-mile front across the isthmus, the Russians held positlon« at Yaeppilae. 22 miles from Koivlsto; Usikirko. on the highway to Viipurl; iaionatyoki. on the Len ingrad-llelslnki railway and the

«———- «... —' ,4 v vI J a Ik "Jf? a- ' Hlf letsBrH H k fl 1L -W. . - t g j rn 1 3F i CMARUS Df QAUUt, center, shaking hands, leader of the French Committee of National Liberation, is shown above as he appeared In the French town of Isigny .on his tour of Allied occupied territory on the Normandy beachhead. T|)is was De Gaulle's first visit to his homeland In four years and it was a welcome and a dramatic one for his people greeted him with glad shouts of “Vive De Gaulle —Vive la France." United States AAny Signal Corps photograph. (International Soundphoto) Wli ■ BiSßk V ‘WK "Sbl Bfl W».r K\ / 4-L»sb-- « !V<n| I I JJ Mk>a |H|| £■ ■mUF WHICOPTHS AM MINO PRODUCID In quantity for the U. 8. Army Air Forces at the Bridgeport.'’' Conn, plant of the Sikorsky Aircraft division of United Aircraft corporation. In this first released photo of the main production floor, the rear section of the R-4B helicopter fuselage moves down the line on the left to meet the front sections in the center of the building. After the two sections are Joined and the engine Installed, the fuselage moves down the Anal assembly Una st the rteht and out I «»£*•»*«** - . . .. P-LaX“Jj

most advanced point of the Soviet lines; Liikola, cast of LuonatyokL and Haatakala. near the coast of Laki Ladoga. NAZI PILOTLESS (CoatisuM Fvvm ea«« n Home security minister Herbert Morrison gave assurance late yesterday, however, that the damuge wa* relatively light and could not Impede the Allied war effort. All the facts known about the weird machines were being given fi> the public, limited only by lecurity conxfleratlons. after a (Jay of conjecture that reached a higher realm of fantasy than the pilotless planes themselves. i The device was understood to M.

King George Visits Norman Beachhead Pays Surprise Visit To Invasion Coast With the British In Normandy. June 17.—(UP) King George VI rod“ through a field strewn with German and British dead und past the wrecke of German cannon to pay a surprise visit to •■inbattled British troops on the Normandy beachhead. Wearing ihe uniform of an ad miral of the fleel, the king rode ashore unceremoniously yesterday in pn American "duck” down | from the British cruiser “Arethusa.” Startled troops on the beach stopped work to cheer him wikily and French peasants gave the victory sign and cried "vlve le Rolf” ax the king passed along a country lam- toward Gen Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's advanced headquarters. It was bl* first visit to France since April. 1940. A fierce battle was raging up on lhe front line as the king toured this area, giving him an opportunity to hear •me of Monty's famous barrages. The entire beachhead resounded a* hundreds of guns of all calibers thundered in unison. On lhe grounds of a beautiful Norman chateau, the king reviewed British troops and presented decorations for acls of gallantry dating ax far back at Dunkerque. o BLOODY BATTLE From rags 1) 10 others, destroyed 47 aircraft and prolmhly two additional in the raids, centered on Chichi Jima and Haha Jima In the Ilonins and have no propeller. It Is powered by a motor which compresses guxes in the project lon tail, accounting for llic engine beat like a motor boat a* well ax th.- spewing of smoke and sparks. It carries an equivalent of a 2,000 pound bomb, is very thickskinned. and apparently explodes on contact. The extent of the Nazi control wax not yet clear, hut In any ease the robots Were unable to return to base and are on their own after being launched on a straight, unalterable course.

; I RESIDENTS OF A VILLAGE In Normandy where Nazi amt ah I are tangling for control, recover furniture and "” 1 taken by the Germans who occupied this tcwil . ' g utiuh ■ drove them out. U. S. Signal Corps photo n ’' ___ ' I '’ttrujfiiM

Iwo Jima in the Volcanos. The Americans lost four planes and five men. The communique on the Saipan fighting revealed that the troops which latAled around Aglngan Point, on the southwestern tip of the island 4wo miles below Charan Kanoa, withdrew a short distance toward the beach Wednesday and W<dnesday night under heavy mortar and artillery fire from the Japanese. During the night, however, big guns of the American warships offshore laid down a fierce bombardment of the enemy strong.

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