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...star club consisting of the best players from each minor league. Jordan was having a great year in which he was to end up leading the league in homers, with 33, and finishing second in doubles and runs-batted-in. Bubber Jonnard of the Giants was sent down to scout him, and s Jonnard sat in the stands unknown to Jordan, the Texarkana star walloped a double, triple, and homer. As he rounded the bases on his four-master, Jonnard bolted out of the Texarkana clubhouse and signed him for the trip to Cubs...
...population of 12,000,000 only about 5,000 children can now be accommodated in school. (Some 400 get Boy Scout training.) Ethiopia needs school buildings, it needs textbooks, but most of all it needs teachers...
Died. Sir Arthur Herbert Tennyson Somers Cocks, 6th Baron Somers, 57, Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth since World Chief Scout Sir Robert Baden-Powell's death in 1941; in Herfordshire, England. In merit-badge circles. Scout Cocks was chiefly famed for first-aid work (he was onetime World War II Red Cross commissioner in Egypt...
Seascape. In Syracuse, N.Y., Rudolph Di Biasio, picked up for being A.W.O.L. by U.S. Navy shore patrolmen, was released after he proved his uniform was the regulation Sea Scout outfit of the Boy Scouts...
British Army tanks, scout cars, supply lorries suddenly bloomed with the big white star which has identified U.S. military vehicles throughout the war; this will help strafing Allied airmen avoid mistakes after the push is on in Europe...