NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cubs 4
Pirates 3
5 0
White Sox 5
Dodgers 0
Braves 13
Giants 4
Cards 5 Reds 3
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Yanks 5 Red Sox 0
Tigers (rained out) Browns
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Cornell 19
Bucknell 8
Penn 50
Brown 0
Army 32
Air Forces 0
Navy 49
Villanova 0
Pitt. 20 West Va.
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CUBS TAKE PENNANT
The Cubs continued their victory march to the Pennant today, taking a doubleheader
away from the Pirates. ·When the Cubs square off against the Tigers, Wednesday,
it will be the first time these two
teams have faced each other in a World Series tilt since 1908.
NAVY STRONG
The Navy Goat seemed merely to be sharpening his horns on Villanova.
Villanova offered no serious threat to Naval power at any
time.
••In the other games in the east, Army and Pitt. looked rood. If the mauling
Army gave the Air Forces means anything, there are a
lot of potential Infantrymen in the Army
lines. Army stuck to the ground.
GENERAL EISENHOWER REPORTS
Speaking from his Hqs. today, Gen'l Ike reported on occupation activities in the American
Zone. Since V-E Day, 150,000 Nazis small and large have been arrested. Some have been sentenced to
hard labor on ordinary criminal charges, some are held for trial as war criminals, and, others
have been paroled, The Nasi law code of intolerance and discrimination has been abolished. Any
local official active under the Nazi regime has been replaced. All heavy industry has been
cut to 10% of its war time output. All financial enterprises capable of
supporting a war time economy
have been abolished. In closing he announced that 21 more Nazi criminals have been arrested in
Wiesbaden.
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JAPAN:
General Mac Arthur cracked down hard on the Japanese Home Office
today. This group has
taken it upon itself the business of preventing the distribution of news
papers carrying photos and information about Hirohito's visit to
Mac Arthur. The home office tried to keep this information from the p00ple inasmuch
as it humiliated the Emperor. Mac has ruled
that only American censorship would be used in the future and that the
Emperor could be interviewed at any tine.
THE NATIONS NEWS IN BRIEF:
The nations strike picture is improved somewhat with the settlement
of one major dispute and definite signs that other big
strikes may soon come to an end.
15,000 elevator operators in New York City went back to work in office
buildings and ended a strike which effected 1,500,000 workers. The elevator men
who had been on strike for
6 days accepted the proposals of Governor
Thomas E Dewey to have their case arbitrated.
The twenty day strike of 38,000
Westinghouse Electric workers apparently was
to end soon. The union announced that the company agreed to
resume negotiations if
the men returned to their jobs and the associated press reported the men probably will go back to work this week. The one
big strike STILL IN EFFECT is among oil workers. The strike has
spread to nine states and involves 40,000 men. The dispute is being
discussed in a conference in Washington where the union and industry
employees were called by Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach.
In Oak
Ridge, Tenn. the Secretary.
of War, Robert Patterson says that President Truman may be expected
in a short time to announce his personal opinion on what done about the secret of the Atomic Bomb.
Responding to a press conference question, Patterson said; "I cannot
give the Army's position on proposals to release the Atomic
Bomb secret, but President Truman will make public his personal
decision on the matter in a
short time". "You won't have long to wait for a statement from the
President.
Over the nation war time gives way to standard time today at 2 AM
local time, clocks went back an hour by act of congress. Turning them back
marks the end of three years and eight months of fast time.
The Navy is still
studying the Sailors uniform and has several proposed designs to replace the one
with bell-bottomed trousers. The proposed design and samples of materials will
be sent to some of the fleet commands and after their comments are received a
new uniform will be chosen. In the meantime, the Navy has ruled that the Chief
Petty 0fficers will be allowed to wear a dress blue coat identical to that worn
by commissioned officers. They will also wear the regulation officers overcoat.
Some 8500 Pacific veterans were due to arrive over the week end
at San Francisco. The battle ship Indiana was the first to arrive and carried nearly 900 navy men
and marines.
Eleven troop carrying vessels are due to arrive today at 3 east coast
ports.
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