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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05

Errors: Bartell, Gehringer. Mccoy
LlIlard. Runs batted in: Gehringer
Grtenberg, Hayes 3. Moses, Mccoy 8
fubeling .. Lillard. Miles. Higgins
A"erfll. Two base hits: York 2. Moses.
johnson. Miles. McCosky, Mccoy. Three
base hits: Ruheling. Home runs
Hayes, Mccoy. Averill. Stolen bases
Jolnso'. Rubeling. Left on bases: De-
troIt 5; Philadelphia 5. Bases on balls
OFT Hutchinson 1. Trout i, Babich 8
ScatS !: Strikeouts by: Hutchinson 2
trout 3, Babich a.. Seats 1. Hits off
hutchinson 4 in . 1-3 innings; Trout
S.ln > 1-3; Seats 5 in 8 1-3. Wild
pitches: Trout. Losing pitcher: Hutch.
lnSon Cmpires: Ormsby, Rue and Ba-
Ni' lime: PA. Attendance: 5000.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
Catawba Falls s To 3
To Elon's Christians

ELON COLLEGE, May 4.-P-
Elon's Christians ended their season
here this afternoon by defeating Ca
tawba 8 to 3 to annex their goth
victory against one defeat for the
year.. Fourteen of the wins were
North State conference triumphs.
Beaten s to 2 yesterday and held
to a 33 tie through the 18th inning
today by the Indians, the Chris
tians took full advantage of four
singles, a sacrifice and two errors
to sew up the tilt in the 9Th frame.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
States Track Team
Downs Virginia Tech

RALEIGH, May A. Up IN. e.
State nosed out Virginia Tech IS to
60 in a Southern conference track
meet here today.
Mickey Thompson, State, set the
scoring pace with Is points on first
places in the 100-yard dash, 2OO-yard
dash and broad jump. He ran the
100 in 81, equaling the stadium rec
ord he set last month, and the 22O
in 21.6 seconds, three-tenths of a
second faster than the previous rec
ord which he also set.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
Greg Rice BREAKS
Paauo Nurmi's Mark

MINNEAPOLIS, May A. Up -
Greg Rice, former Notre Dame track
star, bettered the American 5000
meter mark in a special exhibition
race at the University of Minnesota
today.
He ran the distance in S:1S.9, de-
feating Walter Mehl, former WIS
consin athlete, who was second, n
|Taisto Maxi, touring Finnish run
per. who finished third after setting
the pace most of the way.
The American record, S:2o.4 was
set by Paavo NuEml.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
Rocky Mount Beaten
To 6 By Richmond

ROCKY MOUNT, May A. Up
League-leading Richmond defeated
Rocky Mount 9 to 6 here today in
a Piedmont baseball game played in
unusually cold weather.
The Colts broke a 6 to 6 deadlock
with three runs in the eighth. The
visitors scored four times in the first
inning on three doubles and Prout's
home run.
Rocky Mount tied the score in the
seventh with four runs, Red Walsh's
home run with one on featuring the
rally.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
Maynard Holds Lead
In Piedmont Batting

ATLANTA, May 4.-tR-H j. w.
Maynard keeps up that I'll out OF
81" pace, the Richmond outfelder
will make a runaway of the bat
ting championship in the Piedmont
league.
For two weeks now, Maynard
has held the lead at .524. Two
weeks ago he hit safely II times in
81 trips to the plate. This past
week he collected the same num-
Der of safe knocks in 81 attempts.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
Life Saving Courses
Planned At Y. NJ, T.. A,

A second life saving course for
seniors will begin in the Y. NJ. C. A.
pool within the next two weeks if
there is sufficient interest to war
rant taking an instructors time, it
was announced yesterday. Those
interested in taking the course
should get in touch with the Y of
flee or with Roy Murray, local in.
structor, who will have charge of
the group.
A course under the instruction of
Kenneth Wooten has just been com.
pleted.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05

Errors: Case, Bloodworth ?, Bonura.
Pof;ll. Runs batted in: Walker, Chap
man 2, Mack 2, Weatherly 2, Blood
worth, Bonura, Bell, Heath, Keltner.
Two base hits: Lewis. Bell, Boudreau
2. Three base hits: Chapman, Blood
worth. Home runs: Mack. Stolen
bases: Case. Sacrifices: Milnar. Dou-
BILE plays: Travis, Blodoworth and Bo-
nura; Boudreau, Mack and Bell. Left
on bases: Cleveland IL; Washington 10.
Gcs-J on balls off: Milnar 8, Chase Z,
Jacobs 1. Strikeouts by: Milnar 1.
Chase 4, Jacobs l. Hits off: Chase
Z in 5 % innings; Torres l in 1 1-3;
Jacobs 5 in 2; Milnar 8 in 6 (none out
in 7th) Eisenstat 8 in g.. Balk: Chase.
Winning pitcher: Milnar. Losing pitch
err: Chase. Umpires: Geisel, MCGOWAN
and Hollis. Time: 2:25 Attendance ::
(actual or estimated) 5000.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
INC WINS

CHAPEL HILL, May A. Up
The University of North Cardinals
varsity lacrosse team handed
Washington and Lees Dixie league
leaders their first loop defeat of the
season here today. The score was
+ to 8.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
NJ I IT WINS

PRINCETON, N. j., May 4.-(P)
The 150-pound crew of Massachu-
sets Institute of Technology, lead
ihS from start to finish. defeated
FFIhceton u~niversity's lightweights
by a length and three-quarters on
Lake Carnegie today over the Hen
icy distance of a mile and SIG.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
THE STANDINGS
American LeaRua
National League
TODAY'S GAMES

TODAY'S GAMES
NEW YORK, May 4.-P-Probable
pitchers in the major leagues tomorrow
(won-lost records in parentheses):
American League
st. Louis at Washington Kennedy
(0-2) VS.. Leonard (1-2).
Chicago at neutrality-suspicious. C-1)
VS.. Dean (2-0).
Detroit at New York-Newsom C-1)
VS.. Ruffing (1-2) or Chandler (1-0).
Cleveland at Boston-Feller (2-2) VS..
Dickman 1-2),
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
Philadelphia Defeats
Detroit Tigers, AS

PHILADELPHIA, May 4.-CP-
With his mates laying down a IT.
hit barrage against three Detroit
pitchers. including two home runs,
Johnny Babich won his third vic
tory of the season today as the
Philadelphia Athletics whipped the
Tigers IA to 5.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
n r. r. G. WINS

GREENVILLE, May 4. -P-
East Carolina Teachers college over.
powered Louisburg college 1914 in
an old-time Suggest today. The
Teachers outhit the visitors 21-11
after jumping into a three-run lead
in the first inning.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
OAK RIDGE WINS

DURHAM, May 4. - Up - Oak
Ridge Military academy handed
Dukes freshman baseball team its
paign when it defeated the Blue
Imps 1914 in a game played III Duke
park here this afternoon.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05

Errors: Wick, Mattick. Runs bat
led in Whitehead, banning, Leiber.
Todd. Mattick. Two base hit: Moore.
Home runs: Leiber, Todd. Sacrifice ::
Hubbell. Double plays: Todd and Mat
tick. Mattick. Herman and Cavarretta.
Left Oh bases: New York 6; Chicago 5.
Bases on balls off: Hubbell 3, French
=. Strikeouts by: Hubbell ., French 2.
Tmpires: Campbell, Klein and Ballan-
FAINT. Time: ISL. Attendance: 7,741
paid; 5000 women.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05

Errors: Keller, Appling, Rolfe, Hill
debrand, Lee. Runs batted in: Kuhel
2, Solters 3, Heinrich, Wright ., APP
ling, McNair, Rolfe, Selkirk. Two base
hits: Solters. Heinrich, Lee, Rosar.
Rolfe. Home runs: Kuhel 2. Stolen
base: Rosar. Sacrifice: Lee. Double
plays: Appling, McNair and Kuhel
Crosetti, Gordon and Dahlgren. Left
on baces: New York Z; Chicago 9.
Bases on balls off: Sundra 1, Hadley
2, Hildebrand l. Lee 2, Grissom l.
Strikeouts by: Lee 3, Hadley 2. Hits
off: Sundra 4 in Is innings; Hadley
6 in 6; Hildebrand 8 in l %; Grissom
2 in L. Losing pitcher: Sundra. UNI
pires: Grieve. Moriarty, Hubbard and
Rommel. Time: 2:15. Attendance: 5,3O3.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05

National League
Philadelphia at Chicago - Mulcahy
DID VS. Dean Q-1).
Boston at DISQUALIFICATION (0-0)
VS.. Brown (2-0).
New York at Cincinnati - Lohrman
(1-0) VS.. Walters 500.
Brooklyn at st. Louis-Wyatt (2-0)
or Hamlin (1-0) VS.. Lanier (1-0) or
Bowman (0-1).
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
Ponder Smoke
BY
EDMUND M'LAURIN

MY 1rlenQS Greer ana
Ed. Herring are not, so far as
I know, even distantly related, nor
do they have much in common as
regards appearance and personal
ity, but 77hen it comes to select
ing hand guns, apparently III e y
think along the same lines. Any
way, both victims Of the shooting
fever r sporting new r%evolvers-
.38's designed especially for target
Shooting but otherwise similar to
those used by the New York City
Police Department. Ed. is reload
ing his w .38 caliber ammuni-
ton, turning out finished cartrid.
ges that r a delight to the eye
and just as accurate as any manu-.
featured commercially, and
Franklin is planning to follow suit.
It is indeed unfortunate that
Franklin Greer does not share Ed.
H%erring's enthusiasm for competi.
tive target shooting. Both are fine
shots with a pistol and usually
average well over 90x100 on the
standard 20 yard pistol target dur.
ing practice sessions. If teamed,
the two could sweep the state as
regards two man team hand gun
competition, but Franklin prefers
to shoot at targets that, in his OWL
words, "break when you hit EN-.
and, consequently, devotes only an
occasional practice session to pap.
er targets.
Ed, won second place in the
state pistol championships at Fort
Bragg last year, and I feel rea.
sonably certain that he will dc
just as well, if not better, this
year. Ed. will be favored by the
fact that Sgt. j. C. Hooker, for
mer Fort Bragg officer and now
a resident of Atlanta, Ga, will
not defend his state title this year,
preferring, instead, to compete ir
the Jacksonville, Fla, pistol mat
cnes scheduled for the same dates
as the Fort Bragg tournament
Here's hoping that the guy who
last year relegated me to second
place in the 100 yard Smallbore
(rifle) Championship will also fee.
inclined to compete elsewhere
Like Ed, I don't relish losing q
state championship title by a scant
margin of two points, as was the
case last year! However, ]
wouldn't mind steppieng aside fol-
Joe LeGwin, C. Y. DeVaun, Jr.,
and other locals.
While most of the smallbore riff.
les now being used for competi.
tive shooting are of the repeating
type, the majority being clip load,
ers of five shots, it is seldom that
they are used as repeating rifles,
range regulations requiring {
modern rifleman to operate his
gun as if it were a single loader
instead of a repeater. Cartridge
clips IRE therefore dispensed with
in the loading operations, and the
required number of shots are first
loaded in a wooden ammunition
block, which the rifleman placs
alongside of his body as he shoots,
and the cartridges are then fec
singly and by hand directly into
the chamber of the gun. The cart
ridge block is also a great aie
in keeping track of your shots
You simply fill the block with the
number of shots required for the
match, including a few extra cart
ridges for sighters, and go aheae
with your shooting without having
to bother with keeping track Of the
total number of shots fired.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
, STANDINGS
RESULTS

Yesterdays RESULTS
American League
Boston 4: st. Louis l..
Philadelphia Il; Detroit 5.
Chicago 10; New York !.
Cleveland p; Washington 4.
National League
Chicago 3; New York ..
Cincinnati 3; Philadelphia 2.
st. Louis 8; Boston 1.
Brooklyn at Pittsburgh, postponed
cold.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05

ANNAPOLIS, Md, May 4.-R-
Despite four first places by Harry
March, the University of North Car
DINA track team was no match for
the rival Academy here today, the
Midshipmen winning II to 40.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
Chisox Trim Yankees
By Score OF 10 To 3

NEW YORK, May 4-tR-Thorn-
ton Lee, the 10th left-hander to face
the New York Yankees in Is
games, was too much for them to-
day and he pitched the Chicago
White Sox at a 1913 triumph.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
CORONADO STAMP

Senator Chavez, of New Mexico,
has announced that the Post Of
fee Department assured him it
will issue a commemorative to
mark the 400th anniversary of Corr
onado's exploration of Chavez, the
stamp will appear this year to
coincide with New MeXico's quar-
to-centennial Coronado celebration.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
Cleveland Registers
12-4 Win Over Mats

WASHINGTON, May 4. - Up -
Collecting 10 hits off a trio of
Washington hurlers, Cleveland reg
istered a 1874 triumph over the Ma
~tinnalS tndav
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05
5 TILTS SLATED
in COMMERCIAL

The Commercial S.ftball league
ended its first week of play Friday
which places the teams in the fol
lowing standing:
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-05

The elephant" shrew is one Of
the smallest animals k now to
mankind.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-30
WHY DIMES ARE NEEDED

CTAR readers were deeply impressed by the
y desolation and hopelessness deplcteo Ill 'ne
Illustration appearing on Page z yesterday
r. showed a BELGIAN mother with a baby In
her arms and two little likes at her sue
moving away from burning homes 1lreo ny
Nazi incendiary bombs. Its caption was Les
~tination Unknown In every line and shadow,
the nicture, which was flown to this coun-
trv by a~irplane, reveals the anguish that is
stripping Belgium and northern France tnat
striped Poland and Holland and Norway, OF
hope and ~fortitude and faith.
Looking beyond the picture, it is not dill
cult to understand the motive behind King
LEopoLD's surrender. No wonder the ruler Oh
Belgium cracked under the pressure OF Ger
man destruction. No wonder he, loving his
people and his land, sought thus to stop the
carnage. We might think it an act of coward
ice. 1t was more likely one of pity.
Another look behind the picture shows the
reason for the Red Cross appeal for relief
funds. This mother and her children, and the
other millions of refugees, forced to flee
without food or proper raiment from the land
of their birth and love, or become a part
of the shambles HITLER, is creating in Europe,
must have succor or perish. Many of them
are dying at the hands of German %avlators,
who do not hesitate to machine-gun highways
with civilian non-combatants. But
those who escape need food and clothes and
the other necessities of life. And we, still
snugly housed and g~ainfully employed, are
asked to supply them. We must not fail.
Wilmington's quota is only $1,000 small
part of our earnings and of our hoardings.
The local chapter of the American Red Cross,
to make the campaign easy on everybody,
wants dimes-just dimes-realizing that at
this figure everybody can have a share in
the humanitarian undertaking. Surely, this
can impose no burden on any one.
Your dimes, ladies and gentlemen, will
save lives in the greatest emergency the
world has ever faced. Give them freely, glad
~, and thank God for the opportunity.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-30
STILL HOPEFUL

While King LEOPOLD Of Belgium departs
for an unannounced castle under Nazi chape-
ronage and 10000 Belgian soldiers lay down
their arms, we must believe reluctantly, and
while Germany announces the fall of Lille
and Ostend, the British prime minister, Mr..
CHURCHILL, hints of a major thrust support
ed by the expeditionary air force and the
navy to relieve British divisions weakened
and exposed by the Belgian surrender and
General WEYGAND masses some 700, 900 sold
iers in the Somme sector for a win or die
engagement with the main Nazi army and re-
ports definite gains. At this writing it ap-
pears the Allies have a slight advantage,
despite the loss in fighting power LEoPoID's
surrender brought about.
But to improve the advantage, that is,
place the German forces in the north in a
pocket from which they cannot escape, it will
be necessary for the Allies to complete the
pincer movement which WEYeAND quickly or
ganized when called to the supreme Allied
command and which has steadily, if slowly,
squeezed the bottle neck Of German communi.
cations for both supplies and enforcement
since it's inception. Failing in this, it would
be hard to foresee what the Allies could do
to stem the still rising tide Of H1TLER's pow
erful war machine.
While the invasion of England is delayed
by the increasing pressure of Allied attack
and counter thrust, it is not to be supposed
that any change has been made in HITLER
program there. And although the advance on
Paris has. been temporarily halted there is
no reason to think that the fuehrer has eli
minated it from his campaign plans. If he
can dispose Of the British troops in the
north and break through WEYGAND's defense
and attack to the south, both London and
Paris will become detectives again. This
makes it indispensable that the British hold
In the north and the French to the south, and
every days delay in the Nazi advance upon
either strengthens the Allies chances of Ill
timately turning the Nazis back.
With the Allied ~airforce attacking German
troop transport behind the lines with telling
effect and the WEYGAND strategy proving its
worth, it is apparent that WINSTON CHURCH
ILLS announcement of a terrific effort to save
the British force near the channel is not
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-30
NARVIK FALLS

In view of the terrible war in Belgium and
France and the threat of invasion of England,
the capture of Narvik by the Allies probably
thing to shrug the shoulders over and for
get. But this view would reveal little under
standing of the situation, or the value to the
Nazis of this Arctic outpost, upon which the
German high m has depended for ad-
vance weather reports in all its battle plan
ming.
Meterologists say that western Europe's
weather is "prepared' over the ocean off the
Lofoten islands, where the Gulf Stream hits
the Arctic currents. The Lofoten islands are
slightly south Of Naryik. Because of the de-
tailed advance weather, reports, the German
high command has been abe to plan its ope-
rations without waiting for last-minute re-
ports from the front. To date Germany's tim.
ing Of her Polish, Norwegian and Low Coun-
tries attacks has been weather-perfect. No
rain begged down tanks in Poland, storms
kept the British fleet hampered off Norway.
and no rain impeded the mechanical move
ment into Holland and Belgium.
The local weather variations on the West
ern front are checked by air force field troops
equipped with special instruments. They have
been sending bulletins back to the general
field headquarters whenever required. All of
this service has stemmed from Narvik, the lit
tie Norwegian town above the Arctic circle
over which the Nazis and the British have
battled since the start Of the Norwegian in
vasion. Now that the British have captured
Narvik the German high command will have
to find new ways of timing it's attacks to
weather conditions, or take its chances on To-
cal reports.
The surrender of Narvik, therefore, is a
serious blow to Germany and an important
victory for the Allies.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-30
THOUSAND PLANES A DAY

HENRY FORD says his plants could turn out
a thousand airplanes a day, if given time and
competent counsel for organization and OBJ
structlve red tape were eliminated.
And there is no reason to doubt that he
could do it. Mr.. FORD is not given to wild
or Boosting. Whenever in the past
ne mas said he could do a certain thing he
mas always proved that he could by doing it.
NOW, we must believe, on the record of past
performance, a thousand planes could be de-
llVered from his assembly lines daily because
he says that they could.
And II they were, it would take the United
States just fifty days to have the fifty thou
sand planes Mr.. ROOSEVELT declares we re-
quire for our defense program.
But it would take some time-six months.
he says-to get the Ford paints organized
1or the project. And besides this, there must
be no meddling, no interference, no ~restric-
tive orders by Washington. In other words,
the skilled and experienced forces of work
men, foremen, designers and executives must
nave a Tree hand, and only in having a free
hand can the desired production be assured.
Mr.. Ford, in the interview announcing his
conclusions, maintains his Well-known nosi-
ton against war and our participation in war.
He sees in excessive defense measures an in
vltation to war, and decries the nresnnt no,.
ularity of defense tax,
In SO holding, he is wei within his rights
But it is tc be noted that Notwithstanding
his private view he is ready to dedicate the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-30
PLEDGE FOR TODAY

frontrihnted by JOSEPH B. McENTREE,..
commander of Cape Fear Post, No. 2575,
Veterans of Foreign Wars.)
Today, for the 73rd time in our history we
nause to salute the honored dead-the thou'
sands of men and women who gave their llVes
that this nation might continue to exist IN
freedom and peace.
r. is a solemn day, a day OF sadness ana
omemhrance a day to honor brave deeds
ond brave men. But, if we are to keep faith
with those who died that democracy might
live, we must also look to tomorrow.
Our fallen soldiers faced bombs and bull
let's and all the horrors of the battlefield
but they had visible enemies. We today, as
Americans proud of our heritage and united
in our ideals, might fight a new KIND OF
war. We are faced with a battle of words and
thought, a "war of nerves, that is as potent
in its threat to our democracy as any armed
invasion.
Already, the men who would attack us from
within are at work. They are we'll equipped to
do the Job of destruction. In meeting halls, in
our homes and schools and even in our
churches, they batter at the walls OF Amerl-
can unity. Steadily and ceaselessly they labor
to plant suspicion and hatred, to set man
against man and group against group. Well
do they know the power of the spoken and
written word, the visible strength of mali
cious whisper, like those abroad whom they
parrot and ape, they have but one goal: the
destruction of democracy to open the way for
totalitarianism.
If we do not want to lose the liberty so
dearly won, we must be on the alert for
these hidden traitors. Europe is our red light
of danger. There the dictators played on the
differences in religion and background to
create discord among the people. There the
hate-mongers of Nazism, Fascism and Com
munism encouraged bigotry, and smiled on
violence. Now, in one weakened country after
another, democracy falls crushed by the way
side and Might rules in place of Right. In
Scandinavia We have seen the most recent
betrayal of an unsuspecting people by the
treachery from within.
We cannot let this happen here. We will
not have our unity destroyed by the elements
that seek to divide us so they alone may
rule. The very essence Of our national spirit
is the fact that here citizens of different orr
gin and varied religious convictions live to-
gether as free and equal members of a nation
al brotherhood. In that spirit we will go for
ward as one people determined to preserve
lone nation indivisible, with liberty and JUS
tice for ALL
That is our pledge to our comrades who
have gone, on this Memorial Day. May we
never break that trust,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-30
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON. - Approximate
" 5000 refugees from Hitler's
Germany will fall back into the
.Nazis' grip if Hitler makes gooo
his conquest of Holland and Bel
GUM.
According to the New York Of
fees of the National Refugee Ser
vice, Inc, there are about lo,ooo
German refugees in Holland and
nearly 90 900 in Belgium.
About half of the entire number
are penniless. A large number OF
these are in refugee centers or
camps. A few have jobs; the rest
are either living on their own saw
ings or are being supported by re-
lief funds.