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Shoes. Green canvas leggings, usually prescribed, chafe so badly in the steaming jungle that troops on the march throw them away, tuck their pants legs into their socks. The canvas jungle boot, which may also be worn, does not chafe but its rubber sole provides no arch support on long marches. The eventual solution may be a boot-shoe with nylon uppers and cleated rubber sole-if a way can be found to make the cleats stay...
Died. Mitsura Toyama, 89, longtime leader of Japan's arch-terroristic Black Dragon Society, often regarded as the secret center of the most determined Japa nese militarism; in Gotemba, Japan. Born into Japan's Samurai class, Toyama worked for recovery of Japan's military prestige,, became so feared that newspapers printed asterisks instead of his name. While the Black Dragon was credited with many of the political assassinations paving the way toward military domination of the Empire, frail, aloof Toyama kept largely to his mean wooden house near Fujiyama, was never convicted of a crime, seemed unwilling...
...quietly since last winter. By last week three rival groups, each padded with big names and bankrolls, had announced intentions to sponsor such a league, and already had begun battling for stadium rights, coaches and players. The line-up (in order of appearance): All-America Football Conference-organized by Arch Ward, Chicago Tribune sports editor; Trans-America Football League-John Francis ("Chick") Meehan, ex-N.Y.U. coach; U.S. Professional Football League -Roland D. Payne, Pittsburgh industrialist...
...Baltimore, Mayor Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin juggled a hot potato. He had all but committed the Municipal Stadium (capacity 60,000) to Gene Tunney of Arch Ward & Co. The Meehan interests, headed by big, bluff James Lacy (Lacy Iron & Foundry Works), bellowed that the bowl should go to his group of Baltimoreans, rather than to an out-of-town ex-heavyweight champ. Here, too, the Payne boys seemed to be whistling in the dark...
With a great splash of Dewey-like efficiency, the Hollywood GOPsters had dished out advance copies of 50-word speeches by the Big Names; then failed to call back the speeches of some who did not appear. Thus, next morning, the arch-Republican Los Angeles Times reported...