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I1 WASHINGTON, June 1 —
?|UP) — James F. Byrnes, the
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President Roosevelt select-
J «d to bo88 the American war ef-
fort and the civilian economy,
sewed notice today that the crit-
ical period of war had arrived
and that Americans henceforth
must be prepared to assume a
major role in military operations
against the Axis.
In a speech last night before
a hometown audience at Spart-
anburg, S. C., Byrnes showed
the full authority of his new
post as director of the office of
war mobilization by making dis-
closures about the war's pro-
gress which usually would have
been reserved for an important
"fireside chat" by Mr. Roosevelt.
He tempered his optimistic re-
port on the progress of produc-
tion, however, by warning that
in future production will be but
i one part of the broad picture.
"We mast keep up our all-
oat production at the same
time that millions of our
men are engaged in nil-out
attacks," he said. "This
will pat stresses and strains
on oar military machine, on
our civilian economy, on our
private lives . . .
"We must act with greater
dispatch and greater efficiency
than ever before. We must learn
to work, to fight, to sacrifice
together as we have never done
before. We must accept willing-
ly and gladly a self-discipline to
which we are not by tradition
accustomed,"
As bad news for "Corporal Hit-
ler" and his axis partners, Byr-
nes announced that the 100,000th
airplane of the three-year build-
ing program rolled off the as-
sembly lines yesterday: that 100
fighting ships had been built
in the first five months of this
year and that during the year
the size of the fleet will be dou-
bled; and that we have built
1,000 cargo ships and nearly 100
tankers in the last 12 months.
The tremendous aircraft pro-
duction, he said, will enable al-
lied forces to "drive the axi-
Sport Talk
By L F. Chamberlain
H. A. Walker likes to take a
brisk canter on his favorite
mount over the ranch acreage
he operates near Post jointly
with his brother. There's noth-
ing like a good horseback ride
to start the circulation of the
corpuscles.
Enter "Old Snort," villain of
this piece.
There's nothing like a trusty
steed when one goes a-cantering,
and Walker, veteran of World
War I, admits that as the years
pile up he more and more wants
his steeds fully trusty.
Sport
Parade
Year after year on the Post
land Walker has cultivated
friendship with one horse,
"Old Snort," and thf two
were pals each season. But
"Old Knort" learned some-
how of the war—probably
from Greiulius—and decided
he'd demonstrate that he's
good enough for Class 1-A.
Gremlins work fast, and Walk-
er's spectacles did a double 1m-
melman and a sustained "falling
leaf" 25 feet away when "Old
Snort" came down stiff legged
after a beautiful bit of sunfish
bucking.
Every time a new ache ap-
pears Walker knocks a dollar off
See SPORT TALK Page 4
Ready to roll out over the coun-
tryside of southern England are
two score Canadian cycling sol-
diers, who build muscles and
save gas by biking into battle.
from the skies and hold a pro-
tection umbrella, over our
ground forces as they triumph-
antly march to the roads that
lead to Tokyo, to Berlin and to
victory."
Byrnes' command of the home-
front war effort means that
Mr. Roosevelt has given him
this sweeping authority in or-
der to devote more of his own
time to the increasingly import-
ant problems of global war stra-
tegy. This does not mean, how-
ever. that the president has re-
linquished any' of his wartime
powers; he has merely delegat-
! ed them to Byrnes, subject to
the chief executive's final appro-
val if necessary.
Many people here believe
that Prime Minister Wins-
ton Churchill's recent con-
ferenccs with the presid-
ent had an important effect
on his decision to make Byr-
nes war mobilization direc-
tor.
Churchill, these semi-officiaL
quarters said, has frequently ex-
pressed amazement over the
fact that the president devoted
so much of his time to purely
domestic matters. Churchill lea-
ves most of these matters to
Clement Altlee, his deputy, and
for practical purposes, Mr.
Roosevelt appears to have done
the same sort of thing with
Byrnes.
Byrnes talked last night as the
full-fledged spokesman for the
government.
By Jack Cuddy
VP Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, June 1 — tUP)
—It was taken for granted De-
fore the season opened that
this would be a year of surpris-
es in the major leagues. Now
the American league has furni-
shed an unexpectedly big jolt
by developing its tightest pen-
nant race since 1922.
The Senators have won 19,
lost 16 and hold down second
place, o:uy J. 1-2 games away
from the Yankees wnile the Ath-
letics, with 19 victories and 17
defeats, are in third, only half
a game back. Thfe A's have won
eight of their last 11 games and
have the most talked of newcom-
er in Rookie Jesse Flores, Mex-
ico's donation to the majors. He
has won seven games in a row
to top both leagues after drop-
ping his first start on April 21
to the Boston Red Sox by a sin-
gle run.
Washington has been equally
as refreshing, winning five of
its last eight starts, despite the
fact that the team hasn't been
hitting a lick. Pitching has key-
noted the Senators' surge, Alex
Carrasquel, a Venezuelan, spark-
ing the rise with six triumphs
againsfc only one defeat.
One - run decisions ba\>
spreekled the American lea-
gue calendar more often
than in any season since
slugging became the rule
rather than the exception,
and extra-inning battles
have become a regular oc-
currence, a total of 27 con-
tests having gone over the
regulation nine-iniiing route.
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FITZS1HM0NS
HOLDS BUMS
AT THE TOP
NEW YORK, June 1—(UP)—
They called the Dodgers the
"nine old men" when the sea-
son began and predicted that
would finish Brooklyn quicker
than the opposition. But Leo
Durocher's club had the last
laugh today as it held first place
in the National league, propped
up by the performance of one of
the oldest players in the game-
Freddie Fizsimmons. , '
You won't find Fitzsimmons'
name among the strike out lead-
ers and he doesn't rank high in
the won-and-lost column. How-
ever, there hasn't been a grand-
er exhibition of competitive cou-
rage than the one given by the
41 -year - old pitching veteran
against the St. Louis Cardinals
yesterday.
The Cardinals are good, darn-
ed good—even Durocher will ad-
mit that. It takes more than or-
dinary mound work to stop the
St. Louis speedboys. But Fitz
had all the necessarv attributes
as he put the finger on Billy
Southworth's squad, 1-0, in the
second game of a Memorial Day
double header to keep his mates
at the head of the pack.
Fitz gave up only four hits in
seven innings.
The Senators beat the In-
dians, M, as Stan Spence
singled home the winning
ran in the eighth inning of
. the opener, bat Manager ton
Boudreau's grounder took an
unexpected bounce over Al-
ex Kampourls' head in the
lStb of the nightcap and Ray
Mack scurried home with
the run that gave the Tribe
SOMETIMES-ON SOME
CALLS-THE LONG DISTANCE
OPERATOR WILL SAY
Biggest disappointments have
been the St. Louis Browns and
the Boston Red Sox. Figured to
be definite trouble - makers, the
losing 18, but still are only 6 1-2
games away from the top, a mar-
gin small enough to overcome
with a little spirit. The Red Sox.
riddled by the draft, which took
away most of their batting po-
wer, were expected to get pit-
ching at least. But the hurling
has not held up for Manager
Joe Cronin and his club has
lost 19 while winning 17.
Perhaps the biggest single
factor in the tight race is the
performance of the Yankees. We
left that until last because
somebody is always singling out
the Yankees as the main reason
for this or the big alibi for
that. Nevertheless, the fact that
the Bronx Bombers are any-
thing but lethal and that their
infield no longer has the finesse
that made it the best double-play
machine in the majors has help-
ed tighten up the race.
Pitching, however, has been ]
their chief
headache.
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call to 5
Ofheis aie waiting"
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Lany Long Distance calls go through about as fast as
ever. But sometimes there's an extra-heavy rush on cer-
tain circuits'—-especially to war-busy places.
Whenever that happens, the. operator will ask you to limit
your Long Distance calls to 5 minutes.
The idea is to give everybody a fair share of the wires. That
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gets to be more and more important every day.
SOUTHWKSTERN BELL TELEPHONE CO.
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Taint No Joke,
That Bing Crosby
Racing Stable
NEW YORK, June 1 —(UP)
— The gagsters from coast to
coast today tossed out their stor-
es of jokes on Bing Crosby':;
"ragged racing stable." For
Bing's Don Bingo has added
the 57th running of the coveted
Suburban handicab at Belmont
Park to his 'string of victories,
giving the old singing man plen-
ty to c.roon about.
From Bob Hope to Jay ('. Flip-
pe, they all agreed that jokes
were out and that the raw-bon-
ed South American colt was a
champion all the way yesterday
as he brought Bing's cerise and
white silks home first in the
mile and one-quarter test in a
snappy 2:01 2-5. The smooth,
fleet, brown Don Bingo beat
some of the best, horses in the
country as he flashed under the
wire two lengths ahead of the
favored Market Wise, the bar-
gain basement star of Contract-
or Louis Tufano's stable
The victory added $27,600 to
Bing's already sizable bankroll.
Glenn Ivy Back
For Short Time
Before Training
i Glenn Ivy, who was president
of his freshman class at Texas
Tech. Lubbock, is home on ,i
short visit with his parents. Mr.
and Mrs. J. VV. Ivy en route to
Camp Wolters. Mineral Wells
for service in the I'. S. army. He
will Vie remembered as an out-
standing athletic of Newman
high, and was district tennis
champion and represented his
school at the state meet in Aus-
tin. Glenn had as his Sunday
guests Anne McLeod of Trent
and Leland Hester of Tech,
Klt/si tuitions' flinging
practically pushed into the
background the one-hitter
turned in by Mort Hooper
as the Cardinals won the
first game, 7-0. The only
blow off Cooper, who won
Ills fifth decision, caine in
the fiitli when Billy Herman
doubled. He was stranded
on third when Cooper cut
down the next ihree batters.
Lou Klein, St. I.ouis rookie,
had his hitting string hr<>!, •
en at 21 games, but Stan
Musiai stretched his to 16
with a triple.
The Pirates and Braves, figb'.-
ing for third places, split, Bos-
ton taking the first gamt, f'-l.
and Pittsburgh the second, -1-0.!
Veteran Tim Tobin fluttered h:s I
knuckler past the Pirates foi
only five hits in the opener as
his mates battered five pi c.hers
for 14 hits.
Cincinnati won one game over
the Giants, 6-4, but had to be con-
tent with a scoreless standoff in
the nightcap, called by weather
with one out in the sixth.
The Phillies snapped a m>:
game losing spell by garnering j
11 hits off four pitchers for a !
10-4 victory over the Cubs in j
the first game, but Chicago j
came back with a 13-hit barrage |
to win the second, 8-2.
In the American league, the j
Yankees split with the White j
Sox to remain on top by a 1 1-2
games as the Senators divided j
with the Indians.
Chicago broke loose for five j
runs in the 10th to win the op- !
ener. 10-5. Homers by Charley j
Keller and Joe Gordon account- !
ed for seven runs to bring the i
Yanks a 10-4 win in the finale.
a 7-6 decision.
The Red Sox scored the day's
only double win, beating the
Browns In two extra-inning
struggles. A1 Simmons' single
with the bases full gave the Sox
a 2-1 \«in in the 13-inning open-
er. Boston had to come from
behind twice in the nightcap,
finally pushing over two runs
in the 10th for a 7-6 decision.
The Philadelphia Athletics am
Detroit Tigers split a doubl
header. The Tigers captured" the
opener, 7-0, and subdued the Tig-
ers, 4-0, in the nightcap.
YESTERDAY'S STAR—Fred ~
dy Fitzsimmons, who pitched™
eil the Dodgers to a 1-0 win over
the Cardinals in the second
game of a doubleheader.
• Soldiers are petting a real taste
of "niture in the raw" on the in-
sect-ridden haulefronts. But
tbanks to FLIT and our other in-
sertieides. the prut* are getting
theirs ,oo! Hi lit in the neck!
Th« army hm found that these
famous ins el-killers blast many
"heatl. n"'j>esi Justaathevknnck
off many ci ilizeri inserts at home.
TLIT h n tli« highest riling
established for household insecti-
cides jy the National Bureau of
Standards... the AA Bating. Why
don't you light y„ilr
posts with f J,IT
Buy a bottle today!
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