Oran Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1943, Oran, Oran                               Wednesday August 18, 1943the stars and strikes Page 3 for bravery in action sport stars by sgt. Jim Harrigan bpm a editor a at attention ready to receive swards for bravery and a i Lai toy in action Are these members of a unit which was in the thick of it in Traisia. From left to right maj. Gen. Ernest n. Harm a who received the distinguished service Cross and capt. Walton Gooden sgt. Alfred a. .81 Germain and t-5 Albert Yonng Onist who received the Silver Star. A British a nurses alter yank drinking it tobit Allied ters aug. .17 May not realize responsible for a Radical change in the drinking habits of some american soldiers. It seems the first yanks wounded in Sicily were treated by British nurses. Naturally the invalids were served Tea in by pvt. Paul Green stars and stripes staff writer head Quad not Only the dangers involved but that they would have to be Cut off Force British nurses it but they Are headlining tonight a to Iseball Bill of fare out at Ain Al Turck will be the rubber game Between to it nurses softball teams the Hospital Blue Birds and the Hospital battlers. The lassies will begin play at 6 pm Lis. Ann Kelly and Kay Partz being the pitching and catching Blue Birds Battery while its. Phillips and Hoppe will ditto for the Hospital battlers. A f % the main baseball game at Ain i Turck a rings together the Hospital red Birds champions of the Oran baseball league and the Happy hooligans the zanies Hunch Ever to Grace an Oran Diamond. Anything can happen and usually does when the hooligans and their 150 Rabid supporters take the Field. Fans interested in attending this affair Are urged to be ready for anything As the hooligans Are it put to make the night a memorable one in Oran baseball history. Marty Lipka will hurl for the champs with Johnny Mcgraw the boy who won a special medal for being the heaviest hitter on the red Bird team for the season holding Down the catching assignment. Pvt. Charley Ratcliff will a a throw the books at the red Bird batters with Melvin Whitt on the receiving end. Ratcliff struck out 13 men in the last game he pitched when his team Defeated a crack Engineer outfit 7-3. Jimmy Mohn a. Who got four for four in Al Schacht appears today at the general Hospital at Ain Al Turck for the nurses softball game Between the Hospital battlers and the Hospital Blue Birds at 6 00 pm and a following game Between the Champion Hospital red Birds and the Happy hooligans at 7 00 pm. A a Grundish meets bengals win two tie sox for fourth place indians Divide with senators new York Rudy Isid Belluscio Back for Broussard from All Contact with their friends for at least three months. Yet throughout All this. Dame Katharine said they have maintained a wonderful morale and the highest medical standards. All in All British nurses have Stead of Coffee and after a while treated 20.000 men in North Afri those up As Well As their traditional Gray and Scarlet to go into their a a total warfare uniform a Khaki in summer and Battle dress in Winter. If cupid strikes in wartime they Are allowed to get married on Active service and receive 20 Days the boys developed a taste for Tea and asked for it regularly. Close cooperation that is one very minor result of the close cooperation Between the British and american nursing services. Although both organizations Are Independent of each other Many British nurses work in american hospitals and British nurses Are being trained so serve with american air evacuation groups. Quite a few British soldiers Are cared for in american hospitals. The Story about the British nurses was related to press correspondents today by their chief Dame Katharine Jones . Filc. Matron in chief of Queen Alexandra s Imperial nursing service. That a quite a Mouthful but the bearer of the title turned out to be a trim efficient. India born englishwoman who is justly proud of the magnificent work her a barges Are doing. Dame Katharine the first chief Matron to leave England on an inspection tour with Many years off service in civilian hospitals heed the nurses in the american medical corps. Many of them Are a specially qualified to treat tropical disease cases. The British nursing organization has mushroomed from a peacetime group of 624 to More than 9,600 serving All Over the world including such out of the Way places As Ethiopia. Serve one and All following the humanitarian catch log Rop Jops principles of the Pioneer War Washington Mike m. _ nurse the revered Florence night Oka who said he joined the army Ca and Sicily since last november. Soldiers could take time out to rest after the tunisian Campaign but nurses kept on working because there Are always More sick than wounded. Right now they Are Busy around the clock in Sicily. Where they arrived during the first Days of the fighting. Feminine touch the inevitable feminine touch creeps in with the problems of clothing. Those White uniforms form before and during the game you be seen them in they re giving Back in the states it Cost a few the same game to Lead his mates in batting will be out to Send lip kans pitches into the grandstand. Pfc. Sam Vignovich. Other Hooligan hurler will also be ready to take the Mound. A an Eye brow lifter is the fact that the Hospital battlers nurses team Defeated a heretofore unbeaten team when they handed the Arrew army officers aggregation a 10 to 4 she lacking at the Arrew Ball Park. Of course the officers were gentlemen but those nurses can really play Ball. And then the soldiers Friend a1 Schacht will be on hand to per sgt. Charley Grundish popular local heavyweight returns to the ring wars tonight to headline the american red Cross Empire clubs boxing show scheduled to begin at 7 pm at the Casino theater on Rue Gallieni. Grundish will be opposed by h. Hutchins a 190-Pounder, who will be out to make the win column having been stopped by a to last week by Chiel Smith. Classy Danny Belluscio 153, will try his Teek and a ability Bucks to see a1 do his stuff. Here the admission is free to service men. Bom in new York City and educated in the new York Public schools Schacht got his first professional pitching Job in 1910 with leave without . Incidentally Eric pa., m the Ohio Pennsyl against a a Chicks Broussard 158, in the Semi final. Belluscio is the lad who stepped Steve Rosina last week with a to in the third round after having Steve out on the Canvas at the Bell ending the second. Other bouts pair off Len Over Street 147. Is. Ralph Gallo 145 Jerry Sullivan 130, is. Eddie do an no Rino 130 Steve Rosina 150, is. Gene Burn 150 Roy Jones 145, is. Terrible Zorro 145 Don Grando 138, is. Forrest Kimbrell 135  Mcnamara. 158, is. Bui Spencer 158 a. Mountz 155. Is. Rex Hayes 152 Larry Ryan 175, is. Joe Anderson 175 Willie Sampson 160, is. Dave Steinmueller 160 a a Chicks Broussard 158, is. Danny Belluscio 153 Dale Coney 126, is. Frankie Allen 127 Van Alstyne 165, is. Robert Ber Enn 170. Sgt. Lloyd Virdre s opponent had not been named at time of going to press. A famous armoured division band will provide musical entertainment beginning at 6 30 pm. Or. Sam Corrallo program director of the Empire club arc arranged the card. Every British nurse is known As sister no matter what her rank and All of them Are commissioned. It is probable. Dame Katharine Points out a that when the final mortality figures Are available it will be found that the death rates in hospitals Are the lowest on record and far lower than those of All previous campaigns. No Hanson Haris 5-0 win for senators Vania league. In 1911 he went to Cincinnati and to Newark in 1913 for four seasons. He entered the big league in 1916 with the new York giants and played with them until late in the 1917 season when he went to the Rochester team. Turning up at fort Slocum in 1918, a1 volunteered for the army. He had to pitch for the Post team team. T-4 Clarence the same afternoon before his de the senators saved pfc. A. Nathanson pitched his second consecutive no hit no run game in As Many nights when he hurled the senators to a 5-0 Victory Over a local a coast artillery Squibbs of Nathanson a plenty of credit for this result festive hearing was overlooked and no hit game when he made a will be due to the Angels of mercy to whom so Many soldiers owe their lives. Wants chinaman s Masa inhale they emphasised that All British nurses Are highly trained de make no distinction Between the wounded and serve Friend and foe and men of every conceivable race color Creed and nationality. The chief nurse mentioned there was believed to be a Cannibal from the papuan brands Hospital in India. Ten Days after the British declared War on Germany four years ago. Dame Katharine related. British nurses began arriving in France until 1.800 of them had gone Over. Miraculously every single one of them escaped and none were wounded. They were not As Lucky in the far East where several have been killed and Hurt and about 44 believed to be prisoners of the japanese in Singapore and Hon Kong. Since the Start of the Wai these to show his loyalty to his native America and enmity to ancestral Japan urged before the Dies committee that Loyal japanese americans be Given Quot that chinaman Schance to stay Here after the  Masaoka former Secretary of the japanese american citizens league also asked for present Day assistance saying that the War relocation authority Quot should get More japanese americana out of the War relocation Camps and restore them to Normal  a private in the army once june fourth Masaoka said that the relocation Agency Quot should take More firm Steps to inform americans generally of the loyalty of Japan be was accepted. A1 was honorable discharged in 1919 and went to Jersey City being sold later to Washington with which club he served the next f our years. An Arm injury brought his farming out to new Haven but he returned to Washington i 1924 As a coach and stayed with the club until 1933 when he was sold to the Boston red sox remaining with them until 1937. Schacht is still considered one of the Best third base coaches in the business though his entire career is now devoted to making others laugh. In 1921 he made his debut As a professional Down receiving 1,000 dollars for the appearance at All of the world series games that year. Last year he made his 21st world series appearance and has been the featured Clown at All the annual All leaping one hand catch of a line drive. Only one Man reached first on an error while Nathanson struck out ten men. A sgt. Wilber Lawrence got three for three at the plate with Rockingham playing a Good game for the losers. Baseball not dead Chicago a America will have big league baseball As Long As 18 men Are available to take the Field judge Landis told the graduating class at the great lakes naval training station. Landis added that baseball players ask no special favors from the army. A a our players expect to live up to the Law of the land and ask no special favors during this War for  York Tommy Bridges Tia fed and de the Detroit tigers to a Victory Over the athletics 5-4 and 3-2, and pulled the bengals up into a fourth place tie with. Be White  the f first game York hit two homers the second coming in the 11th inning to Clinch the opener. Rudy now leads the american league in Home run production with 23. Bridges hurled six hit Ball to hang up his tenth Victory of the season in the Nightcap. Cleveland and Washington remained two percentage Points apart the indians taking the first game of a twin Bill 6-2, and the senators annexing the second 4-0. The tribe scalped dutch Leonard in the opener with four runs in the second inning. Mickey Harinck the Griffs Rookie Southpaw allowed the indians Only six hits in the second game. Boston took a pair from the Browns 3-2 and 4-0. The red sox scored the winning run in the opener when Johnny Lazor scored on a double steal in the sixth inning. Joe Dodson and Mace Brown held the brownies to five hits in the Nightcap As Steve Sundra was nicked for his eighth defeat. Chicago split a bargain Bill with the Yankees new York capturing the opener 72 and the White sox the second game 4-3. The yanks handed Orval Grove his fourth straight loss in the first contest As Ernie Bonham scored his 11th Mound Triumph. Lanier wins another in the National league Brooklyn and St. Louis divided a twin Bill. The cardinals took the opener 11-3, and the dodgers captured the second 4-3. Lefty Max Lanier stopped the bums cold in the first and Kirby Higbe whiffed 11 redbirds in the Nightcap for his eighth Victory. New York dropped a double header to Cincinnati 5-4 and 6-5. The reds won the opener in the ninth when Lonny Frey walked and scored on singles by Max Marshall and Bert Haas. Cincy scored the deciding run in the sixth Frame of the Nightcap when Eric Tipton walked went to third on walkers single and scored under Eddie Millers Fly. Boston and Pittsburgh enjoyed an even break. The braves captured the first game 5-1, and the pirates swamped the Beantown ers 11-1 in the second. Rip Sewell notched his 18th Victory in the Nightcap holding Boston to four Hita. The cubs flattened the Phillies twice 5-2 and 3-0, to take Over sixth place in the National league from Freddie Fitzsimmons s phils. I Dithom chalked up Victory no. 15 in the first game and Paul Derringer turned in a neat six hit Job in the second affair. Big Bui Lee. Making his first Start against his old teammates was the losing Pitcher in the Duel with Derringer. Americans in this country. Under questioning of the House season. Committee group on in american schachts activities he said he does not be Lleve that every member of the ladies in White Hare gone wherever league is Loyal to the United the British soldiers went living states Quot but at least 90 percent of under frontline conditions. They them  is for the pledge of have served in the heat of the Des loyalty he said Quot some of them Art and the Odd of the far North might have signed with they have travelled on Hospital  ships that have been shelled and Masaoka admitted writing reports torpedoed on ambulance trains or Grig japanese americans in the Al Turck to watch this sports Star that have been bombed and wreck West to refuse to work unless gov in action. In All it should be a de. They have volunteered to serve emment restrictions. Placed upon great show especially for the a contagious cases such As typhus them and their Kinsmen in the re tents out that Way. Better be on and smallpox knowing full Well location centers were removed. Hand if you can make it. Contribution to the army last year wit Bow Volunteer performances in army Camps. This summer he has put aside commercial engagements to perform As a Volunteer entertainer overseas. Tonight thousands of service men who have always wanted to see a1 fio Bis stuff and have never had the Chance will be on hand at Ain a or advocates sports new York a major Philip Fleming former graduate manager of athletics at West Point told the convention of College athletic directors that the nation should Partlou nosed out the Brooklyn dodgers Early in War time a to teach sol-9-8. The big guns in the sailors Diers and sailors team work a attack were Glenn Mcquillen expressiveness and the will to win. St. Louis Browns outfielder with Quot sports Aren t licked.  a double and a triple and Barney probably be alright if you limit the Mccosky former Detroit Outfield ticket sales to your own locality or who batted in two runs with a and avoid unnecessary travel a Brace of singles. Bud maj. Fleming. Major league standings Blue jackets again i p great lakes 111.�?the great Star games except the first. Since lakes naval training station team have competitive sports 1937 he has been making personal appearance Tours of the major and minor league Ball Parks throughout the states averaging about 130 appearances a year and travelling mors than 65,000 Miles per National league team w. A pet St. Louis 68 34 667 Pittsburgh 56 49 533 Cincinnati 66 49 533 Brooklyn 64 52 .509 Boston 47 53 470 Philadelphia 50 58 463 Chicago 47 57 .452 new York 39 65 .375 american league team w. L. Pel. New York 64 39 .821 Cleveland 54 48 �29 Washington 57 51 .528 Chicago 54 50 �19 Detroit 52 50 �10 Boston 50 55 a .476 St. Louis 45 57 .441 Philadelphia 40 66 �77