September 3, 1944

OWM Dir Byrnes creates WPB-WMC-DPC-SWPA com to plan govt-owned plants conversion; lr to agencies; text

Role in planning Ger troops and equipment destruction in Rhone Valley described

NASHVILLE, Sept. 2 -- Byron Nelson, nerveless tee titan of Toledo, fashioned a seven-under-par 64 at Richland today to take the first round lead in the $10,000 Nashville invitation golf tournament.

After a painful period of blind staggers, the Yankees experienced a "return to reason" at the Stadium yesterday as they put on a performance which, more than anything they had done in a week, seemed to give 10,483 onlookers an impression that this frantic chase of an elusive pennant might yet bear fruit.

TO the list of parties interested in the new season add the screen companies. They are to be Broadway's heaviest investors, with all nine fingers and two thumbs in almost every pie. At the present moment, their known stakes include:

Premier Hackzell reveals request to Gers to leave country by Sept 15; awaits USSR terms; USSR reply to peace appeal said to have Brit approval

EDWIN LESTER, a suave, self-possessed gentleman from the West Coast, suddenly entered the small but charmed circle of successful Broadway producers ten days ago, when his operetta about the composer Grieg, "Song of Norway," entered the hit classification.

CHARLES WERTENBAKER and Robert Capa, editorial writer and photographer for Time and Life, set out to record the story of the greatest amphibious operation of all time -- the invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europe from the West. The publication of their book, less than three months after D-day, is a journalistic feat worthy of the mighty events they witnessed.

The infallibility of return that has won Sgt. Frank A. Parker of Muroc Field, Calif., a place in the top ten of American tennis since 1933 brought about the disintegration of the pounding attack of Lieut. W. Donald McNeill of the Norfolk Naval Air Station yesterday, and for the second time in his career, Parker gained the final round of the national championship.

The ninety candidates expected did not show up for the first regular fall practice of the Columbia football team at Baker Field yesterday. Only thirty-one hopefuls appeared for their first lesson from Head Coach Lou Little and his assistants, Tad Wieman, Bob McNamara and Carroll Adams, but the comparatively small turnout was not exactly a disappointment as the remaining sixty-odd were prevented from appearing by other commitments.