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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17
DUDLEY HIGH WINS

GREENSBORO, March l6.-CR-
Dudley High of Greensboro defeat
ed Georgetown High Of Jacksor
vile, Fla, last night in the fms
contest of the 18th annual negr
high school debating tournamer
at A. T. and T. college here.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17
Denuer;s Nuggets Defend
Title Against 48 Team,
Eleven Games To Be Staged Daily For Thru,
Days; Survivors Clash In Champ.
iOnship Game Saturday
BY LOUDON L

DENVER, March 16:-F-Heavy Shooting boa-
ball variety, will resound in this milehigh mounts I"A s
for the next seven days with a Denver team holGina u 1y
fort against attacks from all directions. "s me
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17
NEWS AROUND
H
CAPE FEAR LOOP
BY r. J. POWELL

Half of the Cape Fear loop cams
will go into their second week OF
spring training by holding drills on
their respective diamonds TINS ait
ernoon. The Hi.Kappas will be at
Hilton while the re Cola outfit will
work out at the Robert Strange
diamond. Masonboro will stage It's
nractice on the sound and the Pepsi
Cola gang is expected to go through
their PAGES at the Legion STADIUM
The other clubs held practice ses-
sions during the week.
In answer to many queries, we
reprint a section Of the bylaws OF
the Cape Fear association when
has to do with player eligibility and
contractural regulations. Section l
of Article 1 reads, in part: "A play
er shall be eligible to play in this
association, who: has not played
baseball during the current season
in an enclosed park to which ad'
mission was charged without writ
ten permission of the board of d.
rectors, provided that this section
shall not apply to high school or
college students for games upon
school or college schedule"
The above portion Of the bylaws
makes no reference at all to a pro-
player being connected with a Cape
Fear club as the manager or IN
some other capacity just so long as
he does not actually participate in
a league game after playing witt
another team in an enclosed park
this year.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17

err to assume complete control over
controversies in matters pertaining
to protests, eligibility of players,
etc.
That low moaning sound you hear
around the training camps is com
ing from the Cape Fear hurlers
and would.be hurlers who have just
learned that the official ball for this
season will be the lively, American
league-sanctioned Reach s h e.
Used by the clouting big top junior
circuit for many seasons, the Reach
ball is said to be designed so as
to favor the batters rather than the
pitchers as is the National leagues
Spaulding ball which was used by
the Cape Fearers last year.
The first half schedule has been
completed and approved and will be
announced shortly. A move is IN
derway for the association to spon
o several night games this year
as an experiment, and it is believed
that if the first few games are sue
cessful, more will be scheduled.
Fred Gretchen, assistant to John
ME Casteen, chief of the leagues
umpires, who is organizing the ar
biter's staff in the absence of Gas
teen, has issued a call for more
qualified jumps. Anyone seeking q
position on the staff should get in
touch with Gretchen or be at one
Of the weekly meetings of the
league officials, which are being
held each Monday night in the
courthouse.
Jaunting around the various team
practice sessions last week We no
ticed that:
The hardest worker on the Hi
Kappa lot was young Billy Pieper
who worked in the hot corner fol-
the frat nine last year. A depend
able lnfielder on ground balls as
well as pop flies, Billy has only ,te
sharpen his batting eye to roune
into n of the outstanding players
of the circuit.
Visiting the Kappa camp was LIE
roy (Heggie) Flowers, who will b,
remembered as the leading catchel
for the 1899 season. Leroy is nov
doing all his catching for the Nav,
at the naval station in Norfolk.
Surprising as it may seem, Johl
(FirebalD Hendrix from the Modo,
crew was working out with the re
Cola gang under the supervision O
Manager Skeet James. We pre-
viously stated that the lanky
butchunker would be again on tn,
slab for the Ethyl club this year
but alas! we r mistaken. Well
as long as the cutter is in port tn,
Jamesmen have another startins
pitcher to rely upon.
A quick gander at the Jackson
Bell roster might give one the i'm.
preston that it is the Pepsi Col;
team n not the JB's that has tn
attention. Look at this list from
last years championship winners
snag Allen, Burney Covington
Blanton, James Carter, Johnni,
Carter, Beatty, Stevenson, and 9th
ers. The JB's are sure after tn,
flag.
About all that. is, left of the 1913!
Pepsi Cola team is Manager ROLAND
Cigar Tilden and the Reese broth
ers, who with two or three. veteran.
together with a bunch of higl
schoolers, will make up tho 1914
Pepsi Colas.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17

We feel that a definite step to
ward a more successful season was
made at a recent meeting Of the
board Of directors of the loop when
the group accorded its advisory
board, composed Of former Presi-
dent Alton Lennon. Earl Sneeden,
and Harold Jeter, a Landslide pow
er to assume complete control over
controversies in matters pertaining
to protests, eligibility of players,
etc.
Evening star., 1940-04-02
Appointment Of Young
Prompts Commendation

A letter commencing President
Roosevelt for his appointment Of
John Russell Young, White House
correspondent of The Star as Dis
trict Commissioner was authorized
by the North Capitol Citizens As
sociation last night on the motion
Of c. j. MacMurray The citizens
expressed great pleasure that a
bona fide resident of the District
had been appointed
The association also commended
Representative Sheridan's bill to
investigate small loan practices in
the District and the administration
Of Thomas E. Lodge on the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board.
A committee headed by E. B.
Finch was appointed to investigate
alleged unsanitary conditions in an
alley in the rear of the first block
of Adams street NV.
A resolution indorsing Harry
Baker, jr., principal of Langley
Junior High School, for the princi-
palship of the new Calvin Coolidge
High School was tabled when 1t was
pointed out that the association
lacked information on other quail
fled candidates for the place.
Evening star., 1940-04-02
The Political Mill
Dewey Risks Concentrated Fire If He
Wins in Wisconsin Test Todov

the age argument probably would
not have So much weight with them.
And yet Dewey has done more to
vitalize the campaign against the
Roosevelt deal this year than any
other candidate. It was his first
speech early last winter, in which
he labeled the New Deal party
the "defeatist" party, that struck
the first real spark. It got under the
skin of the New Dealers from the
President down-and so have his
other speeches. He never opens his
lips today without stirring some Of
the more prominent administrations
lists to reply in bitter tones-usually
to rail at the daring young man
from New York.
Criticisms Draw Attention.
A prominent Republican in Omaha,
not a supporter OF Dewey but Of one
Of the other candidates, expressed 1t
graphically when he said: ITS been
long time since there has been a
Republican candidate for presidential
honors who could stand up on his
hind legs and make a ripsnorting
speech, and have the people like to-
listen to him. Dewey does that" He
has attacked the New Deal admins
tration in Washington in ways which
are held by the New Dealers to be
impudent, shoddy, etc The thing is,
however, that his criticisms have
been easy to understand and have
hit hard, where a great deal Of talk
about unbalanced budgets, excessive
spending, regimentation and other
issues put forward in less dynamic
fashion have been applauded by the
earnest opponents of the new ad-
ministration but have stirred up little
interest.
The anti-Dewey campaign among
the Republicans, those who desire
the nomination of one of the other
candidates or to send delegates to
the national convention uninstructed
and free as the all to make a
choice-when 1t is shown to them
has been cleverly handled up to date.
And the Dewey management has
overlooked bet or two. Take the
Wisconsin primary today, for ex-
ample. Dewey was not entered in
the presidential preferential pri-
maryland neither is Vandenberg.
1t was explained that had he been
entered in the preference vote. the
voters might have been content Just
to mark Dewey for President" and
not 60 on down the line and mark
the ballots for Dewey instructed
delegates. Well, it would have been
better for Mr.. Dewey's prestige to
win IN State wide preference vote
than to get half, for example, of the
"a delegates Wisconsin will elect.
AS the Wisconsin primary now
stands. Dewey may lose because the
delegate candidates pledged to Van
denberg are personally more popular
with the voters than are those
pledged to Mr.. Dewey. That doesn't
make sense. when it comes to picking
presidential nominee, but it may
work out that way.
New Dealers Watch.
If Dewey loses in these first pri-
mary contests, there will be loud
shouts of Joy from the New Dealers.
They will, of course, say that the
young man got what was coming to
him for his brashness. that he never
was much of a candidate, anyway.
But they will heave a sigh of relief
for they have been worried over
Dewey-something new on the polit-
ical horizon. On the other hand,
should Dewey win, they will redouble
Evening star., 1940-04-02

Sterling the
reluctant allied
free to exchange them for dollars We
currencles thus
French are now attempting charter most of the Norwegian
They dollar
Germany They must Holland Switzerland
ences expensive They must certain the
nations
purchases
In truth British French
represent only about half the total calls their life
Government officials
inclined hone the dmocracies life
available
those life will time
to think what do t.
Anne Incl
Evening star., 1940-04-02

matter how many watermarks are
found in the papers in the archives
at Warsaw or whose name is signed
to them-the interviews simply
didn't occur.
In Washington the whole episode
is regarded as trivial and as an inept
effort by the propagandists in Berlin
to cause i'll feeling. But the dis
closures already made or those yet
to come will not arouse any ire here,
for the American Government Is
really determined to maintain peace
full and friendly relations with Berlin
in an official sense if at all possible.
Just now it is desired to send an
Ambassador and full staff to Berlin
so that both governments can iron
out misunderstanding quickly and
prepare themselves for the time
when some sort of peace negotiation
must be begun. After all, the Wash
ington Government has an Ambassa-
dor at Moscow, and that course has
been defended in Congress, so there
Evening star., 1940-04-02

10 q IL !, III
London particularly, that Stain has
as little love for Hitler as Hitler has
for him. Circumstances have
brought them together. The Rus
slams wanted to rei;ltegrate the old
Russian Empire and asked the al
lies to allow them to do so as
price of their neutrality. The allies
refused to do this last summer.
Stain went over to the Germans.
Hitler did not care whether the
Russian Empire was refrigerated or
not. He and his followers have a
deep contempt for Russias military
might. But he found it convenient
to make the concessions the French
and the British refused because he
needed Russia's raw materials and
also did not want to repeat the mis-
takes Of his predecessors of having
to light on two fronts.
These two considerations brought
the U. S. S. R. and the Third Reich
together.
The British and French diplomats
are using the best means available
to convey to the Russian dictator
that a strong Germany will even.
tually turn its eyes on the Soviet
Republics. If 1t is true that Hitler
is following faithfully his thoughts
expressed in "Mein Kampf," he is
bound to turn eventually toward
Russia's granary-the Ukraine.
Hen"" the fundamental interest Of
the Russi'ns must be. soy the all
lies. to see the defeat of the Nazi
regime.
Whether the allies will succeed in
convincing Stain Of the necessity
CT getting cut CT the precarious bed
which Hitler he's been making for
him is a matte r1body can fore
cast ct the present time.
If the Kremlin hermit believes
that the cause If the world revo-
luton will be served and chaos cre-
ated in Europe by his abandoning
the Reich end adopting a strictly
neutral attitude in the future. there
is every chance of his doing So II
such an action will mean the
stTeIlef nenlng OF the allies without
a real possibility of chaos being
created in Europe, he will stand by
Hitler for a while.
But whatever his thoughts may
be-and nobody can fathom Stains
mind-the French and British are
endeavoring to break the somewhat
shakv Berlin Moscow axi~.
All this may be wishful thinking
on the part of London and Paris
But under the circumstances they
believe they cannot lose anything BY
continuing to drill into those few
who have access to Stain that 1t
would be worth his while to get out
OF his understanding with Hitler
while he can do so with impunity.
Evening star., 1940-04-02

The uphot OF the struggle for renewal Of the Trade Agreements
Act is that White House talk Hull
Southern Democrats in line for the tariff
an-Roosevt Senators
Island Glass Of Virginia Holt
Clark Of Idaho King Utah. McCaan
ana Burke OF Nebraska to along with Corde
secretay OF State out Of the presidential
forced thlrd-term
tns South west couf
Rooseves respected Secretary of the
Democrats OF the Northeastern
tReleaMd BY the Incl
Evening star., 1940-04-02

~SAo'
The Dewey candidacy in these
early primaries Is facing more than
just popularity contest against one
other candidate for the G. o. P.
nomination. The youthful New
York racket buster is up against the
kind of opposition which has con-
fronted other presidential aspirants
who have stood out early in presi-
Dental years as leading candidates.
Tacitly, the supporters of other
presidential possibilities, particularly
those favoring Senator Taft of Ohio.
are combining against the New
Yorker, ready to give their votes to
the Michigan Senator rather than
see Dewey win.
In the case of Dewey, too, Repub-
lican leadership in many States is
antagonistic-the organization lead
ership-becauSe the leaders this year
are anxious to take their delegates
to the national convention unin-
structed, sc that they may be In
structed later-by the leaders. This
Is true in both Wisconsin and Ne
braska, where large percentage Of
organization leaders is opposing the
New Yorker.
Victory Would Be Significant.
1t has become, therefore. very
clear that if Mr.. Dewey wins in
these primary contests. 1t will be
against considerable odds. And If
he wins, his victory will be all the
more significant. Should he lose,
there will be lot of uphill work
ahead of him and his campaign
managers to get him back into the
position he has occupied as a candi-
date until the present time. They
may never be able to surmount a
disaster in these two States. which
together have only total OF 80
delegates in national convention
composed of 1000. 1t is true that
Dewey may recoup to a degree his
supposed popularity with the Amer
lean people in Illinois, which holds
its preference primary also next
Tuesday. But in Illinois Dewey is
running against no other candidate,
for none was willing to file against
him.
Generally speaking. I have found
Republicans in both Wisconsin and
Nebraska. not intending to support
Dewey in the primaries. speak kindly
and with some admiration for him.
Hes good man." they say. but
not for 1940-perhaps for 1914 or
1948." In 1948 Dewey will be 46
years old. Theirs is just another
way of saying they believe the New
Yorker is too young to occupy the
White House. In more stable times.
Evening star., 1940-04-02

Ambassador may be sent to Berlin
In the not far distant future.
In order for the Nazi propaganda
plan to be successful, the Repubh-
can party in the United States
would have to be a party to the ex-
ploitatiOn of the Polish documents
Here and there is a Republican
isolationist willing to play the Nazi
game. but for the most part the
Republicans have been effectually
prevented from using the Polish
papers by the very fact that the
Nazis have sponsored them.
Some day the propaganda Office
In Berlin will understand that the
last way to try to divide Americans
politically is to issue documents in
q foreign country with an avowed
purpose of discrediting the existing
administration in Washington. If
there is anything calculated to pro-
mote unity at home it is the effort
OF a. foreign government to promote
internal disunity.
$50 What?" Reaction.
So far as the Polish papers are
concerned. most officials here and
most public men. whether Repubh-
cans or Democrats, are not at all
disturbed. For even If the Polish
documents did report accurately
informal conversations of American
diplomats. the prevailing query here
is in the vernacular. so what?"
Does anybody in Berlin think that
even before the war broke out any
American diplomat had the right to
commit Congress to any course in
volving war? If they do they know
little about the American Constitu-
ton. Likewise, if any American
diplomat expressed his own opinion
about what America might do if the
British and French democracies were
defeated, he was merely indulging in
a bit of conversational adventure,
Which happens to be the custom from
coast to coast in the United States.
Many a Gallup poll has been taken
on the same subject and nobody
knows the exact answer except that
Germany guessed wrong about the
outcome of the American attitude
back in 1917, when her whole course
was predicated on the theory that
the United States would never assist
the allies.
Since the present war broke out,
the United States by an overwhelm-
ing vote in both houses of Congress
deliberately repealed the embargo
on arms, and the factories of this
country now are supplying the latest
type of airplanes as fast as they can
be manufactured. This and other
incidents might possibly convey to
Berlin what the American diplomats
may have sensed as they sat at
dinner or luncheon several months
ago with Polish officials and specu-
lated on what might happen if war
broke out in Europe.
Interviews, If Any, Killed.
Officially, of course, denials have
to be made. There is an old rule in
diplomacy that if an indiscreet bit
of conversation is published, it is
then considered by mutual consent
OF both parties never to have been
uttered. In this instance both the
Polish Ambassador and the State
Department and the Ambassadors
concerned all say that the comments
were never made, which means
for the record, at least. It does not
Evening star., 1940-04-02

their efforts to belittle him-which.
after all, is only natural.
The inconsistency of some of the
Republican critics Of Dewey crops
out. They chide him, in private con-
versation or even more openly, for
going about the country campaign
ing. Yet not many months ago the
complaint was that Mr.. Dewey was
unknown to the American people
except by name and because of his
victories over racketeers in New York
as prosecuting attorney. No one
knew, it was said. his views on ma
tional and international questions.
He has been going about meeting
people and making speeches, giving
his views on national questions.
Nor do the Republicans who hold
that Mr.. Dewey should not campaign
throughout the country for delegates
to the national convention regard the
Evening star., 1940-04-02

campaign efforts of Senator Taft,
for example, anything to be criti-
cized. Yet Mr.. Taft has been on the
stump ever since last summer, cross
ing the continent and moving north
and south.
The Taft supporters apparently
have reached the conclusion that it
Is less dangerous for their candidate
to have Vandenberg win in the early
primary fights than for Dewey to do
so. And yet it might easily happen
that such a Vandenberg victory
would make him the outstanding
Midwest Republican aspirant for the
presidential nomination.
Evening star., 1940-04-02

is no good reason for withholding an
Ambassador from going to Berlin.
All the value of moral protest has
been exhausted by the withdrawal of
the Ambassadors some time ago and
hence much help to the diplomatic
relations of the two countries can
come if each government has some
one to report fully on the state of
affairs in their respective countries.
Reproduction Rights ReservedJ
Evening star., 1940-04-02

other armaments are being pre-
pared, and before our two-to-two-
and-a-half-year period is over, it is
likely that the British and French
will again be buying in quantity
the American agricultural products
on which they are now trying to
save money.
Nor is this country, with its
cash-and-carry neutrality law. the
only place where the British and
Evening star., 1940-04-02
Newman Club PurIey

Catholic students Of Washington
colleges and delegates from Catho.
lie colleges In four States will at.
tend the Middle Atlantic Province
of Newman Clubs, sponsored BY
George Washington University
Chapter, to be held April 10 through
81 at the Hotel 240O Sixteenth Street
Jack Murray of Philadelphia /.
chairman of the province,
Evening star., 1940-04-02
A Practical Booklet
On Care of the Feet

CARE OF THE FEET. a 32-
page booklet offered by this
bureau is just what you suf-
ferers Of minor foot ills need.
1t contains authoritative gen.
eral information on selection
OF correct shoes and stock
ings, foot hygiene, simple
forms of exercise that will
strengthen and improve your
feet. 1t tells you what you
can do and what you should
not attempt to do in the mat
ter OF home treatment Of foot
Ills. Don't neglect your feet
order your copy Of this help
ful booklet today. It is well
worth the cost-only a dime.
Evening star., 1940-04-02

the polls to cast
their ballots for
a Dewey slate of
delegates to the
Republican, Ma
tional Conven-
ton or for q
v a n d e n b rg
slate. Dewey's
candidacy meets
a similar test in
Nebraska next
AucSudy, L ula u
pr e S l d e n tia |
preference pri-
mary, a al n
against Vanden-
Evening star., 1940-04-02
The Capital Parade
Moderately Long War Seen Depicting Allies cosh
This Problem for Americans May Loom in Two Years
BY JOSEPH ALsoP and ROBERT K1NTNER.

BY JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER
There wartime problem begin
prolonged
the British French America
will then be faced with the question
ships materials
without charge The best available estimates
question will demand within a
Two to two and half decide
problem such ncacube significance is the period
named In informal warnings recently
Evening star., 1940-04-02

withdraw from the field in favor of
Hull If the latter were given united
support by the Democratic Senators
in the fight to save Mr.. Hull's tariff
program.
For example, a few days ago,
Bob La Toilette called at the White
House and mad long and friendly
chat with the President. Bob wanted
to learn whether F. D. r. would run
again and, If not, who was his choice
for a successor. On the third term
Evening star., 1940-04-02

They believe
the Russians,
who are rank
reahsts, after
having obtained
all they wanted
from the Poles,
the Firms and
the Balts, are
not particularly
keen on contin-
uing to fight.
The Finnish
experience h a s
m a d e S t a lin
cautious. Fur
thermore, there
Evening star., 1940-04-02

AZ ~ W VAAC oO-
calle d Polish
disclosures, the
incident fortu-
nately has not
had such un-
pleasant reper-
cussions here as
to mar the very
friendly rela-
tionship which
U n d ersecretary
Welles develop
ed with the Ger
man government
on his recent
visit to Berlin.
An American
Evening star., 1940-04-02
The Allies Life Sovinqs

For the word means only LIQUID assets with
Most of the
the pockebooks Of the British French
supplies either from the United States other
this the Treasury
the began These in effect the life the British
nations
normal times these life savings of the British and French would
and South African mines Now, while
by efforts
seriously Both countries their
their trade but nation has little
1t estimated for example that French exports to this country
1910 will be half they the The tourist
normally
completely
that dockages Of ships British
the began by nearly so cent is obvious
than