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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-18
Ecorse Corners
SEVERAL AT IMITATION

Ecorse Corners, Mich, Oct. IS
Several of the young people at
tended the freshmen initiation at
Belleville High School Friday eve
ming. Among them were Miss
Emma Spencer and brother Amos
Spencer.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-18
Pick of the Air Today

1880 Command Performance
new time.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-17
Hope College VIII Defend
Title in Kalamazoo Game

throw through the hoop to give
Ohvet victory.
The knights of Calvin College
came from behind to score their
fifth consecutive victory of the sea
son, nosing out Western. State
Teachers, % TO 81. A crowd OF
200 saw forward Gene Broene
score 10 points as he spanked Cal
win to its second victory Of the sea
son over the Broncos.
Central State led all the way as
" won over Grand Rapids Univer-
sity. IS to 80. before 1000 fans.
Center Bob Carlson tailed 16 points
TO keep Central out In front de-
spite a Grand Rapids threat in the
free-scoring second half.
At Toledo 90, Detroit Tech
found Il had stepped out Of its
class and proved an easy victim for
the undefeated University Of To
ledo Rockets. losing 81 to 81 Bob
Gerber. Toledo center. sank seven
field goals and two fouls TO pilot
his team to its fifth consecutive
victory.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-17
(By Associated Pressl

Hope College continues the de-
Tense Of its Michigan Intercolleg-
late Athletic Association basket
ball title when it meets Kalamazoo
College there tonight in the only
game scheduled in the state.
Kalamazoo, which has defeated
only its alumni in six starts, is ex-
pected to furnish little opposition
to the Dutchmen, who will pull up
even with Albion in M.IA.A. stand
ings if they win this second con-
ference start.
Olivet scored a thrilling S5 to
"a upset over Albion in the fea-
ture of Monday nights four con-
tests. Albion tied the score twice
in the final half but couldn't pull
ahead of the Olivet Club Then,
with a deadlock and but two min
utes of play remaining, forward
John BOeChenstein dropped a free
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-17
LOUIS LOOKING
TOWARD JUNE
By James w. Bagley


Boston. Mass, Dec. Tins
Leaving Al Mccoy. his newest vic
him, the usual badly battered hulk.
heavyweight champion Joe Louis
oday was looking ahead TO June
when be has a summer appoint
nent with Billy Conn.
Conn, the young and lean Irish
man from Pittsburgh, and his
handlers have finally won their
point. Despite the disparity in their
weights, Conn is finally TO achieve
his ambition-a bout with the heav'
fer and deadlier Louis.
Promoter Mike Jacobs announced
the plans here Monday night after
Mccoy. French-Canadian from
Maine. failed TO answer the bell
for the sixth round, The 1884 pay
ing fans booed Justify while the
fight officials struggled among
themselves 10 decide whether IL was
a fifth or sixth round technical X.
o.
Reasoning that the bell had al
ready sounded for the sixth while
Mccoy, his left eye swollen shut
sat placidly on his stool, Commits
sioner Arthur La Plante, OF the Mas
sachusetts sta.e boxing commission
ruled II skin ! 5und win for Louis.
Before undertaking his 18th de-
Tense OF the heavyweight crown
against Conn, Louis Is scheduled
for a series of fights at the rate Of
about one a month. The general
consensus at the ringside was that
they can't come too soon.
Louis appeared sluggish and un-
enthusiastic against Mccoy, his
first exercise since six months ago
when he laid away Arturo Godoy.
He did succeed in closing the Nc
Coy left eye and putting up the Nc
Coy nose but the champion APP
peared to have some early difficult
~ mastering the Mccoy crouch
which was reminiscent Of Godoy's
hither-between fighting stance.
Mccoy weighed 1904 and Louis
20212. A similar disparity existed
between the actual gross intake,
$469S0 and a net of S44,4S5 and the
$4,000 gate that had been bally-
hooed in advance.
Jacobs announced that Conn, the
present light heavyweight cham
pion. will sign a contract in New
York on Friday to box Louis for the
title in an open air contest in June.
probably in New York. Also men,
toned are Detroit, Chicago and
Pittsburgh.
In signing for this bout. Conn will
relinquish his title and promise
TO engage in no other fights before
June, Jacobs said.
In case Louis should by some mis-
adventure lose his championship
before June; the set-up arranged
by Jacobs calls for an immediate
return bout in 60 days. The Conn
fight will meanwhile be temporarily
postponed and Billy will 20 on
against the ultimate winner.
Uncle Mike likewise is requesting
the New York State Athletic Com
mission to recognize the winner OF
the Jimmy Webb-Tommy Tucker
l5-round match at Madison Square
Garden on Feb. IS as the new light.
heavyweight. champion
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-17

Detroit, Dec Manager
Jack Adams said Monday that sgd
Howe, the Detroit Red Wings lead
ing scorer, would shift from eft
wing to defense post when the
Wings meet the New York Ameri-
cans Tuesday night at New York.
John Stewart, regular defenseman.
will be kept out of action by n
punctured arm muscle suffered
against Montreal Sunday.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-17
NOT CERTIFIED

Alexandria, La. Dec. flap
Because their promotions have not
been certified, few newly named
second lieutenants may not bs able
tod raw salaries on the basis nj
their new rank before Christmas.
Mai d. K. Nimocks. post finance
officer at Camp Beauregard, said
today. He added that the mon
shouldn't suffer from lack Of
spending money.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-17

Friends Monday-RiVals Thursday
Vie Apple and Lowell Beach who
will meet for the Michigan Normal
intramural l15-pound boxing cham
pionship Thursday. were on the
same side in Beach's opening bout.
Apple seconded the Flint fighter in
his tilt with Harold Sonnenberg.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-17
,bbs Knocks Out Hogan as ntramural Tourney Starts
CAPTURE CHAMPIONSHIPS

Detroit. Dec. H. Alp DR. David
nayidow and Joseph Hahn npmr
cd the Michigan squash doubles
championship Monday 10y defeating
Jerry Taylor and John pottle OF
University Club. 1918. 1873. 1875.
ls-a The "a nners repr seut sgd
r.N Ull
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-17

In a speech purported to have
been made before high Nazi Of
ficials last May, Walther Dare,
above, German secretary of agri-
culture, is alleged to have revealed
plans for German conquest of the
world, including the United States.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-17
BISHOP PLAGENs NAMED

Washington. Dec. IL APP -
Bishop Joseph c. Plagens OF Mar
quette was named by Pope Plus XII
TO succeed Bishop Joseph G.
Pinten as bishop of Western Michi-
gan for the Roman Catholic Church.
His residence will be at Grand
Rapids. Archbishop Giovanni CT
cognani, apostolic delegate TO
Washington, Monday night an
nounced the selection OF the so
year-old Polish-born Bishop Pla.
gems.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-17
Sports Calendar

TODAY
Boxing
Michigan Normal lutramural
tournament, Normal Gym. 1880 p. m,
WEDNESDAY
City League Basketball
Central Specially vs.. Bella Vista.
7 p m.
Townships vs.. Young Men Club.
s p. m.
Landy's VS. Independents, p.
m.
Farm Bureau vs. United Stove,
10 p. m.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-17

Playing happily on his Jews harp
as he RECEIVERS in a hospital from
his wounds, is Flight Lieutenant
J. 3. Nicolson, British r. a. =,
who was recently decorated with
the Victoria Cross for bravery.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-17
ARM INJURED

Detroit. Dec TAP Coach
Lloyd Brazil reported Tuesday
that an arm injury sustained while
quarterbackiuc the University Of
Detroit football team would keep
John Biringer veteran basketball
guard, ont of action for at least
three weeks.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-11
.BANKHEAD SUFFERS
|SCIATlCA ATTACK
Faints In Baltimore Hotel
Room Shortly Before He
Was Slated To Speak

BALTIMORE, Sept. 10. - Up -
Sixty-six year old William B. Bank
head, speaker Of the house of repre-
sentatives, tainted in his hotel room
here tonight from an "excruciating
Iy painful attack of sciatica, saf-
fered a short time before he was to
make an address opening the demo.
cratic campaign in Maryland.
DIR. George W. Calver, navy ply
sician and attending physician at
the capital in Washington, found
Bankhead on the floor unconscious
IS minutes before his address, over
a national radio hookup, was sched-
uled.
His condition at present is quite
satisfactory" DR.. Calver said, "but
I am keeping him in bed here at the
hotel at least all day tomorrow and
possibly for several days. Mrs. Bank
head is here and a nurse a be OBJ
tanned if necessary"
DR., Calver said the speaker had
tken suffering painfully from sciat-
lea for the last five days and that
he had suggested that Bankhead
cancel tonight's engagement.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-11
TESTIMONY GIVEN
IN FL0YD'S TRIAL
Witnesses Say He Was
With Smith The Night
School Building Burned

LUMBERTON, Sept. 1o.-Testl-
mony here today in the trial OF
Ben G. Floyd and Andrew Smith,
charged with feloneously firing the
Liberty school building on July
II, placed the two men together
on the night of the alleged crime.
Lonnie Smith, son of the latter,
told a packed superior court room
he saw his father and the former
assistant to the county superinten,
dent of public instruction ride of
from Smiths East Lumberton
home "about dusk" on the night
the state contends the Alfordsville
township school was destroyed by
incendiary causes.
Previously, Elizabeth Smith, the
defendants daughter had testlfl'
ed Floyd had visited the Smith
home earlier and asked for her
father.
"He isn't here" she testified she
told Floyd, land he drove Off"
To further questioning, she add
ed that she left her home and did
not return until 10 o'clock that
night, not knowing if her father
was there at the time.
On cross-examination, Miss
| Smith admitted that her father,
former county carpenter, worked
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-11
Continued on Page Seven; Col. p
Shippers Fear New Bill
Nav Hit Water Traffic

Following approval b. congress
Monday of a bill removing inland
and coastal water carriers from
the jurisdiction of the Maritime
commission and placing them I'M
der the Interstate Commerce COM
mission, shippers here expressed
the fear that water traffic may
not be granted the recognition it
deserves"
Officials of two shipping lines
here said it had been recognized
in the past that the ICC is definite
ly railroad minded and may not
be inclined to recognize the true
importance of water traffic.
The principal change in the oper-
alton of the lines will be that the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-11
Louisiana Turning Out
Four Members Of House
Opposed By Gov. Jones
{By The Associated Press

We -"f y - re
A senate veteran and renowned
Washington character, Henry F.
Ashurst, democratic senator from
Arizona ever since it became a
state, trailed on fragmentary re-
turns from yesterdays primary
election.
Ashurst, whose ready wit and
flambuoyant oratory has relieved
many a tense moment of senate
debate, found his opponent, Ernest
w. Mcfarland, leading by nearly
three to one.
Arizona was one of eight states
holding primaries. In others:
Louisiana Votes
Louisiana voters apparently were
turning out of office four members
of the house whose defeat had been
requested by Gov. Sam Jones, the
man who beat the still potent rem
nants of the Huey Long machine
for the pob he now holds.
In Vermont, Coy. George D. Ak
en-, who has pointedly criticized
many New Deal proposals, de-
cisively defeated Ralph E. Flan-
ders for the republican senatorial
nomination to complete the term
of the late Ernest w. Gibson.
A close battle developed for the
New Hampshire republican guber-
material nomination between Rob-
ert O. Blood, president of the state
senate. and James C. Farmer, a
National Grange lecturer.
Returns were slow from Colo
RADIO, where in some sections mud
clogged roads made travel diff
cult, and two young democrats.
George E.. Saunders, secretary OF
state, and John A. Carroll, Denver
district attorney, competed o the
gubernatorial nomination.
Gov. Clarence D. Martin sought
a third-term democratic nomina-
ton in Washington. His leading op-
paoheht' was former Senator Clar-
ence c. Dill. At stake, too, was the
seat of Senator Schwellenbach CD,
who has been named to a federal
judgeship.
Primaries also were held in
Michigan, where Senator Vanden-
berg (R) assumed an early lead
for denomination and in Mime
sofa, where Senator Shipstead
sought to return to the senate as a
republican instead of a farmer
laborite, in which party he had
been enrolled for years.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-11
McF arlandT opsAshurst
In Arizona Senate Race
S. {. County Facing
Rabid Fox Problem

ORANGEBURG, S. c., Sept.
TO- up The spread of rabies
confronted Orangeburg county
rural residents with menace
today.
DIR. G. C. B0lin, Of the county
health department, advised the
public to kill such animals as
may expose themselves, and
called upon the Orangeburg
game department to establish a
protective patrol.
The State Health department
also was asked to cooperate.
DIR. Bolin said a fox attacked
and bit an elderly white woman
recently when she attempted to
drive it out of her chicken yard.
Only yesterday, he added, a
fox jumped from bushes beside
a road and attacked a boy leav'
ing a school bus.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-11
Tells I'll Manufacturers To
Start Buying Tools To
Make 1884 Craft
$1,251,ooo,ooO 10 B
Formal Contracts Not Sign
ed Because Amortization
Policy Not Settled
By E. c. DANIEL

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 Up -
Placing tentative orders for all OF
the 14,394 army planes authorized
yesterday, the War department to-
night told Fl manufacturers to start
buying tools and equipment to ex
ecute the orders.
If no hitch occurs, formal con
tracts eventually will replace the
tentative commitments, which total
led approximately $1,251, o0O, 900 fol
planes, 2S,2S2 engines, propellers
and blades.
When the contracts are signed
they will represent the largest single
purchase of aircraft ever placed ir
this country, matching in some de
gree the 201-ship, 1851, 200, 900 build
ing program launched by the navy
yesterday. Delivery dates for. the
plane program have not been an
nounced.
Letters Sent
So-called speed up letters were
sent to the 81 plane, engine and
propeller manufacturers, the depart.
ment announced, authorizing them
to buy jigs, dies, tools, materials and
equipment to produce the planes.
Each letter, said spokesman. con
tanned an assurance that the manu-
facturer eventually would receive a
formal contract for a specific mum
Der of planes at a specific cost. The
specific figures were tentative esti
mates, however, subject to further
negotiation.
Among firms which received let
tiers was the Ford Motor company.
Henry Ford previously had declined
to take an order for Rolls Royce
engines which involved manufactur.
ing for Great Britain, as well as the
United States, but his company now
is expected to manufacture for this
country alone.
Not Settled
A department official said that
the reason for not signing forma.
contracts was that congress still
had not settled upon amortization
excess profits tax and profit limita-
ton policies which r of prime
concern to the manufacturers.
Funds for the airplanes and en-
gines were provided only yesterday
in the 1921, 900, 900 defense appro'
priation bill signed by President
Roosevelt.
Approved by the defense commits.
sion, the letters will enable the
manufacturers, the department said,
to proceed Immediately while details
of formal contracts are being com
pleted.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-11
THORPE IS GIVEN
SIS YEARS TERM
Wilmington Man Is Con
victed In Superior Court
On Morals Charge

Wilton Thorpe, brother OF Hampy
Thorpe and Collins Goo Tough to
Die) Thorpe, was given a SEN
tence of 8 to Is years in state
prison when convicted yesterday
in superior court OF a morals
charge.
This man is in a deplorable
state" the court said after sen
fencing him. but he is no worse
than these white women going
around with negro men. I'd give
them 30 to 40 years, the men too,
if I could get them in here"
Hampy Thorpe is now serving a
civ months sentence for assault on
a female, meted out on him when
he was convicted of bringing a
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-11
Nazis Send 800 To 500
Planes Against London

BERLIN, Sept. 1O-R-G Ger
many sent her aerial squarons on
and on against England today, dis
patching from 300 to 500 planes
to beat again at London and other
British cities, and claimed a great
edge thus far in the mighty battle
of two capitals.
(The German radio broadcast to-
night a statement that NaZi planes
flew ''uninterruptedly' over Eng
lands south coast and advanced
to London in armed reconnais-
sance." It was added that no
bombs were dropped, however,
British raiding planes over the
Berlin area sent 1000, 900 Berliners
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-11
PACE STEPPED UP
Four Separate Squadrons
Wheel Over City; Central
Section Is Shaken
SPIRIT UNBROKEN'
Hundreds B Believed To
Have Perished When
Bomb Hits School

LONDON, Sept. II wednesday,.
- Up - Nazi bombers smashed at
London with increasing violence
early today in their fourth consecu-
tive dusk-to-dawn rodeo of destruc'
ton.
Until early this morning, the at
tack was much less ferocious than
the previous three.
Then the pace stepped up until
four separate %squadrons were wheel
ing about the capital at the same
time at opposite points Of the com.
pass.
Ground Guns Busy
Heavier bursts of British anti-air-
craft fire followed their repeated
course up the Thames Estuary and
over and around the city.
Heavy explosions shook the central
area afresh.
The streets of central London were
nearly deserted.
Police and air raid wardens eau
toned any person seeking to leave a
shelter that "our guns are going"
and that there was danger Of falling
fragments.
Some trains leaving London luz
ing Tuesday were crowded with fam
lilies going out of the city, but there
was nothing to indicate any mass
exodus was in progress.
The British press position was
typified by the News Chronicles as
sertion:
Bodies are weary and nerves are
strained but London's spirit is UNI
broken"
Outskirts Hit
A stick of six bombs fell In n
area of the city: in another two
heavy bombs Jared the earth. Hours
later, salvos were falling at inter-
walls, but they appeared to be drop
ping in the outskirts.
Just after midnight, the tempo of
a~nti-aircraft fire was stepped up
against these outlying invaders.
German planes also were over
northwest England and Wales, and
eight bombs were reported dropped
squarely in the center Of one town
in the southeast.
AS the new raid On London went
on, the list of dead in Monday
nights attacks was tragically length
ened. From the shambles of what
had been a school bodies still were
being dragged this morning, and it
was said that "a hours would be re-
quired to pull out all the victims
perhaps hundreds of them.
CONTINUED on Page Seven; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-11
POWER PLANT HIT
English Airmen Attack
Shipping Concentrations
In Continental Ports
LOSE THREE PLANES
German Artillery Emplace-
ments In France Are Also
Attacked By Planes

LONDON, Sept. 10.-R-Brltlsh
filters blasted a utility plant in Ber'
lin, bombed north German dock
yards and heavily attacked ship:
ping concentrations in continental
ports last night and early today
the air ministry reported.
Three British bombers failed to
return from these widespread
raids, handicapped by bad weather
and intense anti-aircraft barrages.
Hamburg's great docks received
the heaviest blow, the ministry
news service said. Tons of high
explosives and many incendlary
bombs were dropped in a half hour
of almost continuous lombard
ment," it said. Great fires were
started on the wharves.
Docks Bombed
Docks at Bremen Wilhelmshav'
en- and Kiel, barge concentrations
at Ostend, Calais, Flushing, anc
Boulogne, and factories at Esser
and Barnstorf, also were bombed
A gas works in the Berlin suburb
Of Neukolln was struck, the British
said, and a power station wrecked
in Brussels.
Gin Berlin Nazi spokesman said
more or less serious damage"
was inflicted on scattered apart
ment houses in the Berlin neighbor'
hood. but no casualties were re-
ported. No mention of damage
was made in reports of the dock
yard raids. The Berliner Zeitung
warned that London would share
the fate of Warsaw and Rotterdam
if the raids continued.)
Heavy Explosions
Returning pilots said heavy ex'
plosions followed the midnight raid
on the Berlin target.
The raid on Boulogne harbor
across the English channel also
caused fires on the wharves, the
light from the flames turning the
cloud banks to a lemon-coIoreo
glow, one pilot said.
ut looked as if a gigantic orch
had been lit beneath u.s." ..
"Salvos of bombs fell on and
around the artillery arsenal there,
too" he said. Shafts of crimson
light from the recurrent explosions
among ammunition stores pierced
the cloud layers above.
The fleet air arm participated in
the coastal raids.
German artillery emplacements
at Cap Girls NeZ, France, which
have been tossing shells across the
channel on the Dover area, also
we're attacked.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-11
ANTI-THIRD TERM
PROPOSAL D0WNED
American Bar Association
Committee Endorses SIN
gle Six-Year Term

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 10.-R-
The resolutions committee of the
American Bar association rejected
an anti-third term proposal, today,
agreeing instead to report on e
which endorsed a single six-year
term for future presidents.
However, it was announced thai
the entire convention of 5000 dele
gates would receive both tresolu
tions-the original one which 'un'
oualifiedly'" condemned President
Roosevelt's third term aspirations
and the committee version - for
discussion later in the week.
The original resolution, spon-
sored by Edward c. Bailly OF New
York and H. Graham Morrison OF
Bristol Tenn, also endorsed a con-
stitutional amendment which would
provide for a single six-year presl-
dental term. On the third term
issue, it read, 1.-THE American Bar
association 49,. unqualifiedly con-
dennis the seeking of a third term
by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and
his friends, as contrary to tn e
teachings and example Of the
founding fathers of this republic,
and subversive of the principles
upon which it was established"
The committee draft read, RE
solved, that this association does
hereby approve the adoption OF an
amendment to the constitution OF
the United States so is to limit the
term of the President of the United
States to six years, without ellgl-
bility for reelection" l