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The Phoenix index., 1940-02-24
Rv J. ARCHIE HAEGRAvEs

GREENSBORO, N. C.-CSNS) -
Virginia Unions dream team show
ed that it was still the cream OF
tl,e C1AA as it put on a brilliant
finish to defeat the A. and I. Ag-
pies. 43-4O last week. The Union
defeat was the fourth conference
loss of the season for the Aggie
locals.
The Aggies returned to form
later in the week and put the heat
on winston Salem Teachers col
lege to run up their highest score
of the season, TIPS.
UNION AHEAD AT HALF
Hyde. Unions sharpshooting for
ward, opened up the scoring IN the
first few minutes of play when ne
made a foul shot. The Aggies' in
comparable Lefty" Evans retail
lated on the next play with a char
itv toss from that point on 1t was
a tooth and nail battle. The Ag-
gies drew into a slight lead in the
early part of the half as Evans
went on a scoring spree. This lead
was shors lived as Hyde, Glover
and Frazier soon found the range
for the Union basketeers and man
aged to hold the lead until the
end of the first half. The score at
halftime was A. & T. 18, Union "a.
SECOND PERIOD RALLY
The Aggies spanked by their
great all round player, Sam Roam,
came back in the second half to
put on gallant uphill climb, COM
ing with one point of the Union
lead. Jones, Aggie guard, who had
played a sterling brand of defen-
sive ball then went out on fouls
and thus enabled the visitors to
Jump ahead six points again.
Evans, Higgins, and Roam then
cot one bucket apiece from the
floor to tie the score three minutes
before the end of the game. A last
minute field goal by Unions Glov-
ar and a free throw by Soupy
Campbell gave the invaders the
margin of victory.
FVANS BAGS 16 POINTS
Roam was the outstanding play
er of the contest. Evans was high
scorer for the locals with 16 points
while HYDE led the Panthera' at
tack with 10 points.
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the Pirates with two minutes lett
to play, and D. Mack scored a foui
shot and field goal to make the
scole 37-33. During the last 20
seconds State attempted to score
with long shots but failed. Hud-
gins led the scoring with eigh-
teen points, and Ennis was second
with fifteen.
Outstanding for the Pirates were
Hudgins, Allen and Toomer; Ennis
and Colbert led the State attack.
The Phoenix index., 1940-02-24
ATLANTA. Ga.-(SNS)- :

ATLANTA, Ga.-tON0J-
After a visitation season in which
tie club was undefeated on the
road but was continually short of
the form advance press notices &C
corded it, the Morris Brown quin-
tet came into its own last Satur-
day and outplayed the touted Clark
University juggernaut only to be
nosed out 45-44.
Monday night, however, the
charges of Head Coach Billy Nlcks
and Assistant Coach Art Graves,
were not to be denied. They were
definitely "on", despite a slow start
during which, for nearly ten min
utes. the Fisk five match every
thing they showed and trailed only
7-6 when Captain John (Kildee)
Lawson got disgusted and called
time out.
FIFTEEN POINT
HALF-TIME LEAD
From that point on, 1t was one
sided as Coach Tubby Johnson, re-
Gently hit severely by an ever-alert
scholarship committee, could not
control the high-powered reserves
the Wolverine mentors kept sitting
into the fray Morris Brown had
commanding 15-point lead at &C.
IL at half-time. The two Purple
captains, Lawson and George
Walker, were the paceSetters in
this spree with seven and eight
points respectively in the period.
Cornett was the lone FiSkite to
penetrate the hoop as many as two
times in the opening stanza for
the visitors.
LAWSON BOOSTS AVERAGE
In the second half, Morris Brown
was even hotter than before. All
tod. the Wolverines outscored their
rivals 80 to II in this stanza. Law
son came back and added 10 more
to his seven for grand total OF
II and high point honors. This
made 21e points for the elongated
star in 16 games or an average OF
1876 points a game. further IN
creasing his lead over the STAG in
this department.
MAPP BACK IN SHAPE
Willie Music Maker) Mapp. back
in the lineup after an illness that
had caused him to miss four
straight Purple games, shot eight
points in the second half alone,
not operating In the first. Walker
added five to his eight in the period
for a check-in total of 13. This
trio dawson with II, Walker with
13, and Mapp with eight account
ed for 38 of their teams So. The
other 20 were pretty evenly divided
between the mass.
James (Jack) Bowman led the
Fisk scoring with five points al
though fouling out in the second
half. -Four other Fiskites had four
four apiece; they we're Watts, Ed
munds. Parker, and Cornett.
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officials: Carey and Brown
The Phoenix index., 1940-02-24

TOTAL rs IL Ia DO
REFEREE-Lucius Jones CLARK;
JTMPIRE-Joe Johnson (Clark).
Evening star., 1940-03-24

Then Mildred saw what had and handed
her the bundle and said, Every girls got
right to keep old letters, Mildred" She just
looked at me for minute and then she smiled
so sweet, and said, Thanks, Larry. Maybe if
you hadn't said that, I'd have been silly
enough to want to keep them, - and she threw
them into the fireplace. We sat and watched
the flames chew around the edges and the
smoke puff out, before they went up in little
blast.
That was when noticed the handwriting,
Jim-b big and bold like printing, and 50 back
handed it almost fell down. nearly made
crack about how you should never trust a per-
son with writing like that, but then l saw
Mildred's face and kept my mouth shut. She
had burned the letters, hadn't she?
Well. as they say in the newsreel, Time
Marches On. 1t got to be 1887 and we'd been
married six years. The chestnut about its being
the happiest years of my life fits all right. l
was even happy in day coach on train to
Bangor in February, because knew Mildred
was home, waiting for me. always gave her
typewriter copy of my schedule, and there'd
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say salt is the one thing we can't do without"
You know. Jim, for all her smiles, thought
to myself right off that that little girl had seen
trouble. There was look behind the shininess
in her eyes that was dull and hurt, like a
whipped dog, and when she wasn't smiling.
her mouth dropped down at the corners.
managed to get to Detroit oftener than
my schedule called for, and it wasn't year
before old Larry Munroe, the confirmed
bachelor, was popping the question. knew
that was twenty years older than her and no
Clark Gable, but loved her and wanted to
take care of her.
BEFORE she accepted me, she told me how
there'd been this man she cared about, and
how for her, anyway. it had been the same
like marriage. Then things had gone wrong
and he walked out on her. said didn't
need to hear about it. What she d done before
she knew me was her business. hadn't been
exactly saint all my life, though no one ever
called me sheik 1t seemed to me we could
call it quits, and what happened after we were
married was all that counted; 50 we played it
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always be letter from her waiting for me at
every stop.
When l got home in April of 81 and
Mildred said, Larry, this is my cousin, Jim
HYDE" was real glad to welcome any rela-
ton of hers I'd been on my longest trip, clear
to New Orleans, and it was good to get home.
Mildred had lot of new clothes and she'd
changed the house some and we had new
maid. She said Deliad gotten impudent, 50
she had to fire her.
I on were living in Boston, then. and we
went up and had dinner with you couple Of
times in that Greek restaurant, and you used
to come to our house lot. Mildred used to
joke about finding you nice wife - remem-
Der that, Jim? had month at home. and l
got 50 l enjoyed your company. You shoot a
good game of pool. Jim III always say that
for you.
Before l went back on the road, we all had
dinner at Rudolph's Lobster House. Do you
recall that time? I'm no Fred Astaire, so you
Evening star., 1940-03-24

was thinking what fne-looking couple you
were, her 80 small, with her head just reaching
your shoulder, and you 50 dark. was real
glad to see her dancing and laughing. Being
married to man twenty years older, who
has to watch out for bad ticker besides,
couldn't be all fun, and anyway liked to see
her having a good time. don't mean that she
and hadn't had good times together, but
this was different. Something couldn't give
her, and could see that she was enjoying
herself
Then the band began playing one of those
tangos and you know, Jim, it was what they
call revelation Remember how the other
folks stepped back and watched you and
Mildred like you were professionals? l
watched, too, and first-off thought you
looked like South American johnny, dancing
that dance, and then l thought how they
called it the Argentine Tango, and then l
remembered those letters. Putting two and
two together and making twenty three -skidoo,
eh, Jim? 1t wasn't hard to get you to write
something, and there it was, old back-hand
himself, and knew Mildred had lied to me
about the cousin business and felt pretty SICK.
had to start back on the road the next
day, but couldn't help thinking about you
lot l kept thinking about Mldred's new
clothes, her firing Della and a lot of things.
had bad heart attack in Pittsburgh, that
trip. never told Mildred, but the Doc said it
was touch-and-go for few hours.
When got home again. you'd rented that
apartment over the grocery store. Seemed like
funny place for fellow like you no SER
vice or anyone in the building after six PM
but Mildred said it was hot in Boston in the
summer and you had your car to take you to
town.
You know, Jim. I'm no sucker, but I'm an
easygoing fellow. love Mildred and she's
been awful good to me. The happiest years of
my life - that means something. You prob
ably wouldn't even understand the little
(Continvsd on pogo 14)
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ScIl W UC IdAulk lily IlliC
about getting to this hand
writing business, Jim. but l
guess it's all the same to you.
1t was when her things came
on from Detroit and / was
helping her unpack. l reached
into a box and pulled ont this
bundle of letters, all tied up
with blue ribbons the way
women do with letters they
want to keep. l wasn't snoop-
ing, but l couldn't help seeing
the top envelope, and the
stamp in the corner. l used
to collect stamps when l was
a kid.
Well, it was Argentine, Jim.
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that way. Eight years ago this summer
brought her east to Massachusetts,, and we
bought the house we've lived in ever since.
She was crazy about it and she certainly fixed
it up pretty, and got hundred cents worth
of value out of every dollar, too.
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:
Il Short Story Complete in This Issue
YM HYDE was reading letter:
Dear Jim: - The letter-head on this
~ stationery must look familiar to you,
even though you've never been in Buffalo,
The old Moose Hotel. You've seen their
towels often enough in our bathroom at home,
l guess. 1t always riles Mildred, but as l
always tell her, it's travelling mans prerug-
atiye to bring home little souvenirs from the
different places where he stops. 1t isn't as if
l tried to get away with a blanket or brass
bed.
It's about ten o'clock, Jim. and Sunday
morning. That's the loneliest day in the week
for salesman on the road, and the longest, so
that's why I've decided to write you real
lengthy letter, and wouldn't care if it took
all day. Mostly I'm not much of hand at
writing letters, but I'm sort of enjoying writ
ing this one can hear the trains whistling
and footing outside the windows and it takes
me back twenty-five years. 1t must be just
about that long since first stopped here.
was working for the same company, selling
the same line of goods l suppose that seems
funny to fellow like you.
This might even be the same room l had,
back in a. Same old Gideon Bible on the
bureau, same hairpin in the top drawer, same
bald spot on the carpet where some other
travelling johnny spilled bad hooch, even the
same sloppy maid who comes in with her
passkey first and knocks afterward. suppose
I've spent more of my life in rooms like this
than anywhere else. Well, that's travelling
mans fate, and at my age, can't complain.
I'm pretty lucky to have good job and
money in the bank and plenty of insurance to
take care of Mildred if anything happened
to me.
Maybe you're wondering why I'm rambling
on like this After all, there's no hurry for
either of us - me, writing this on Sunday
in cheap hotel and you, wherever you are,
Jim, reading it. You probably haven't got
much to do, either, have you?
This is the first time l ever wrote letter
to YOU and you never wrote one to me, but
I've seen your writing. There's quite little
story attached to that.
Maybe you never heard about how met
Mildred. 1t was nine years ago, when came
into the Baldwin offices in Detroit to place
my monthly order. I've known old Baldwin
since started out on the road, and he winked
at me and said, wait till you see the new
private secretary I've got, Larry" We did
our business and then he pressed button and
Mildred came in.
Nine years ago. 1t don't seem that long. She
was twenty seven years old and the prettiest
thing / ever saw. Smart as whip and bright
as dollar, with her blond hair all done up In
curls and her fingernails pink and shiny.
Baldwin said, Miss Slade, this is Larry
Munroe, and he's the salt of the earth. And
Mildred smiled the way she does that wrinkles
upher nose and makes her blue eyes dance, and
she came back, quick as whip, "Well, they
Evening star., 1940-08-11

ing in the Government schools.
At the same time, the Navy has
signaled its faith in the usefulness
of the merchantmen for national
defense by calling out seven COM
mercial vessels, some to serve the
new minute man" mechanical
units of the Marine Corps.
Pleased, the Maritime Commission
will contract in September for two
new liners designed for. quick
change conversion into aircraft
carriers:
At the Maritime Commission Off
cials like Admiral Emory S. Land
are expressing satisfaction that,
despite the doubts expressed ear
lier by some of our friends, the
ships which we have designed and
built are demonstrating an un-
equaled efficiency in operation"
There are even signs of a revival
of that pride in Americas mer-
chantmen that marked the great
days of American sailing ships. One
sign is the story being told:
An old Hog Islander put out of
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Merchant Marine
Reviyes Traditions
OF Clipper Ships
DeiseI-:Driven Spirit
Is Seen Riding the
High Seas Again
By the Associated Press.

K ~ tIe nSSOCidLtO fTeSS.
| The spirit of the American clipper
sships-a streamlined, Diesel-driven
sspirit-is riding the high seas again.
Officials of the Maritime Commits
tsion cite these signs of a newborn
American merchant fleet to match
the old traditions when New
World" sailing vessels ruled the
trade routes: .
Forty-three spanking new Amer
lean cargo ships-designed for eco-
.nomical speed and safety-are rid
ting the waves today. Before years
-end another Is will join them.
New American cargo ships are
sliding down the ways at the rate
of one a week.
/ Shipbuilders are hammering and
iriveting today at more than twice
,as many new hulls as they had
Eunder way last year.
/. The latest luxury liner to bid
for the glamorous trade of the Maui
:rentanias and Queen Marys is the
newly launched S. S. America, fly
ing the American flag.
Although 11o American vessels
were "benched" when the Neutrality
ACT barred them from European
ports, they have found new work
.on other trade routes.
Gain New Ascendency.
Today the American flag has
gained new ascendency on the sea-
lanes to South America, the Orient
and Africa.
Vessels flying "Old Glory" are twice
as important today in the trade of
South America as they were before
the European war broke out.
On many ship cadets freshly
trained by Coast Guard officers have
taken their posts beside old-time
graduates of the runaway o-sea'
school, and many a toughened salt
Evening star., 1940-08-11

ping industry grew rapidly In the
early 10th century, expanding as
fast as the new Republic expanded.
In 1880 90 per cent Of Americas &
overseas trade was carried by Amer
ican vessels: but by 1915 American
ships were carrying only about 15
per cent Of Americas commerce
with nations across the oceans.
The World War gave great i'm
petus to the merchant marine of
the United States, and the Nation
built $4,000, 900 900 worth OF ships.
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But after the war. the tonnage OF
American ships carrying American
goods in. foreign trade declined
again. American tonnage engaged
in overseas trade by 1885 was less
than half the figure in 1921. Amer
ican ships still carried the i'm
portant trade between city and city
along the coasts.
In the following year Govern
ment researchers, reckoning the
average life of ship at 20 years,
found our merchant fleet Just five
Evening star., 1940-08-11

New York Harbor on the run to
India. Practically month later,
one Of the new ca cargo ships left
the metropolis on the same route.
The two ships returned to their
berths in New York within Is
minutes OF each other, both loaded
to capacity. But the ca ship car
ried 1000 tons more cargo than the
older vessel.
Another sign:
The Donald Mckay, another ca
vessel, recently established new
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record for cargo ships on the run
from Buenos Aires to New. York.
OF such things--the winning
teamwork Of ships and men and
traders-are great maritime tradi-
tions made. And the Maritime
Commission believes that, in three
years Of hard work, 1t has begun
to get the winning combination.
Rise and Fall, Old Story.
The rise and decline OF the
American merchant marine Is q
long story. The American ship
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years from the end Of its life span.
Then Congress = It up the Mari
time Commission, substituting an
outright subsidy for the subterfuge
OF mail contracts which previously
had been relied on to offset the dif-
ference In costs between American
wages and foreign wages.
The Maritime Commission set
marine engineers to drafting the
plans for merchant ships to serve
Evening star., 1940-08-11

the double needs of American trade
and American defense.
1t embarked on a building pro-
gram to provide q feet OF 500 new
American vessels in 10 years. When
Europe's war clouds loomed last
summer the commission speeded
up Its program.
Evening star., 1940-08-11

Skeletal remains Of elephants have
been found in every county Of the
Texas panhandle.
Evening star., 1940-06-06
Pepper Launches New Move
To furnish Aid to Allies

resolution, however. is to give Con-
gress an opportunity to 60 on rec
ord that it would support the Pres
ident If he took such action. The
resolution reads:
BE it resolved by the Senate
and House of Representatives in
Congress assembled,
That it is the sense of the SEN
ate and the House of Representa-
tives in Congress assembled that
the President of the United States,
at his discretion, should use the
full authority which he now has
under existing laws to sell or trans
fer airplanes and other war ma
terial not at present needed in the
national defense to any foreign
country. to the end that peace and
freedom be preserved and protect
ed and to keep war from the West
ern Hemisphere"
The 1917 law is not the only
statute which Senator Pepper has
pointed out might be used by this
country to enable the Allies to OBJ
tain Immediately equipment they
need. He cited also an act of 1920,
authorizing the United States to sell
surplus military supplies and equip
ment.
Evening star., 1940-06-06
Reich S Planes Blast
270-MiIe Stretch
OF English Coast
RoyoI Air Force Raids
Behind Nuzi Lines
In Somme Bottle
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 6.-Trading aerial
blows in unceasing warfare, Ger
many's air force today unleased it's
most extensive bombing attack on
England since the war began while
British airmen were reported Of
flcially to have attacked German
troops, supply bases and communi-
cations lines in raids extending from
the battle zone in France to the in
dustrially important Ruhr Valley
in Western Germany.
The Nazis dropped high explo-
sives and incendiary bombs in their
sweep over a 270-mile stretch of
English coastline early today and
last night in apparent search for
British airdromes.
British airmen made aerial as
saults on crowded German commu-
nications lines leading to the Somme
River battlefield in new efforts to
help their French allies halt the
German drive on Paris.
Enemy Troops Bombed.
While Britons with rifles and guns
at hand stood constant watch at
home against any attempted inva-
sion of their tight little isle, the
Air Ministry reported that medium
and heavy bombers of the Royal Air
Force attacked enemy troop con-
centrations and harassed enemy
movements behind the fighting
front"
Other heavy bombers, the min
istry added, struck at functions and
marshalling yards west of the Ruhr
while others attacked military OBJ
jectives in Germany"
The raiding forays took toll of
six German planes, the Ministry
said, while one British plane was
shot down and two are missing.
In an early-morning raid, the
British scored direct hits on oil tanks
captured by the Germans at Ghent,
the Ministry announced. The air
(Cao T0NnON noro
Evening star., 1940-06-06
BY ]. A. O'LEARY,

A new move to aid the Allies by
sending them planes or other mill.
tary supplies that can be spared was
launched today by Senator Pepper
Democrat, of Florida.
Undaunted by two setbacks in the
Foreign Relations Committee on
previous proposals, the Florida Sen
ator this afternoon introduced a
modified resolution, which merely
seeks to have Congress advise the
President to furnish whatever aid
he can short of war" under exist
ing laws.
Senator Pepper drafted the new
resolution after finding a statute
passed in May, 1917, which author
ICES the Government to exchange
airplanes, engines, motor vehicles
or other equipment already in use
by the military services, for new
equipment or the same kind.
p Under this statute Senator Pep
per believes the administration
could turn in existing planes as
part payment on new orders and
permit the aircraft factories to dis
pose Of them to the Allies.
His purpose In Offering the new
Evening star., 1940-06-06
7 wo Frustrated
As temperature
| Heads for 90

Two persons were removed to hos
pltals here today as the mercury
moved steadily toward the predicted
seasons high of SO.
The heat victims were Unity King
49, Of Silver Spring, Md. who was
taken to Emergency Hospital after
collapsing on the street near Nine
teenth and @ streets NV. and an
unidentified white man. about a
years old, who was found on the
street in the 500 block of E street
NV The man was taken to Cas-
ualty Hospital by first precinct
police.
The mercury had reached SO de-
yrees at pm. and the Weather Bu-
reau predicted it would continue to
rise until it had broken the record
for this year.
The highest so far this year was
80 earlier this week. Yesterday the
temperature reached a high of IS
shortly after 3 pm.
The forecaster predicted con-
tinued warm weather tonight and
tomorrow and no rain in sight. The
temperature had risen to a high of
sc by II am. today.