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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
MAY BECOME
ALLY OF THE AXIS
Continued from Page One)

tary men in Japan. In Berlin 1t is
admitte that efforts have been
made to draw Japan into tn
axis alliance as a counterbalance
to growing United States-British
cooperation.
The Associated Press informa-
ton gives this picture OF recent
Tokyo developments
A erman envoy, Max Sthamer,
specialist on far Eastern affairs.
confidential aide of Foreign minis
ter Joachim Won Ribbentrop and a
relative of the late DR.. Friedrich
Sthamer, one-time ambassador to
Lndon, reached Tokyo early this
month
The close secrecy which wraps
diplomacy in the Japanese capital
and rigid censorship prevented
correspondents there from cabling
accounts of his mission but it is
known that he was well received
and made rapid progress
He reinforced the long efforts OF
Eugen OFT to make Japan an ally.
OFT went to Japan as a language
study officer soon after the World
war, spent several years in close
cntact with japanese army Of
ficers, even serving for a time
with a division in the provinces.
Later he became military attache,
then, after conclusion Of the anti
Comintern treaty in 1886, ambas-
sador
Hitler's special mission found the
ground well prepared The domin-
ant army faction failed narrowly
last year in a campaign for a
full alliance of Japan, ermany
and Italy Britain still had power
full friends in Japan who remem-
bered gratefully the two maritime
empires alliance of the first two
decades of the century.
But Hitler overran most of Euro
pc. France collapsed and Holland
was occupied. This presented to
Japan an almost unprecedented
opportunity to draw their rich col
onies within her expanding en-
pire. The faction that favored end
ing all pretense of friendship with
Britain an dgoing all out to obtain
a full share in the impending re-
distribution of colonial empires
came to the front. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
MORE CUARDSMEN
CALLED TO DUTY
CONTINUED from Page One)

Mississippi, Puerto Rico, and Ha.
wall. They will report for training
Oct. IS. Previously Mr.. Roosevelt
had called out 6o,500 militia men
from other states.
The units affected by today's
order were designated by the war
department on Sept. 16 to report
for duty by Oct. IS. The Presi-
dents order constituted the legal
call. The units included
The 9th division, New York, less
it's tank company; the 37th divis-
ion, Ohio, less tank company, and
companies F and I Of the 18th
medical regiment; the Sind divis-
ion, less tank company, Michigan
and Wisconsin; the 102nd observa-
ton squadron, lew York; the
153rd observation squadron, Missis-
sippi; and the 10th observation
squadron, Michigan.
During the day. Mr.. Roosevelt
also signed into law an army hous-
ing bill appropriating $3.50, 1853, eo2
for barracks and other facilities
for men drafted into the service.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
INDIANS TRIUMPH
OVER BROWNS, AZ
Milnar Keeps Pennant Hopes
Alive With Six-Hit Hurl-
ing Job In Chilly Wind
Bv RAY BLOSSER

CLEVELAND, Sept. 25.-OP-Bls
AL Milnar pumped a hypodermic into
C%leveland's tagging pennant hopes
today with a 4 to 2 football-weather
triumph over the st. Louis Browns"
The Indian southpaw plucked ms
18th victory out of a raw fall vino
which made the outfielders dervlsn
under fly balls, kept the crowd tc
2 o0O oyercoated Observation-Disclosures
and once blew over Catcher Bot
Swift as he crouched to give a sig
nal.
A two-run single by Ben Chapman
Indians left fielder, kept the Tribe
in the race. Pitcher Vernon Ken
nedv. longtime Cleveland jinx, mo
mentarily lost control in the fourth
with two Indians dead. Ken Keltner
shook the icicles off his bat ano
dropped a pop single into short le1t-
center to start the uprising. Ihen
came walks to Ray Mack, Frank
Pytlak and Milnar, scoring keltner'
chapman's one-baser plated Mack
and Pytlak.
That made it 40 for the TRIBE
which had taken a one-run lea IN
the first quicker than you could say
long underwear. Roy Weatherly n
Lon Boudreau banged out singles
and Weatherly scored on Hal Iros'
ky's grounder.
The Brownies, although they woulo
have been more comfortable in their
heated dressing room, continued 10
neck away at Milnar, winding up
with six hits to seven for the InJuns'
The first St. Louis tally came IN
the fifth. Milnar walked ohnny
B%erardino on a 8 and 1 pitch N
Swift sent him home with a double
to center. Singles by Don Heffner
and Wally Judnich put Heffner on
third in the eighth and he Tailed on
Harlond Gifts dipsy-doodle fly 10
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
HAPPY RELIEF
FROM PAINFUL
BACkACHE

Many Of those .gnawing, n~aesins; painful
often caused by tired kidneys-and may BE-
relieved when treated in the right way.
The kidneys are Natures chief way Of taking
excess acids and poisonous waste out Of the
blood. They help most people pass about 3 pints
= day.
If the Is miles of kidney tubes and 6lters
don't work well, poisonous waste matter stays
in the blood. These poisons may start nagging
backaches, rheumatic pains, loss Of pen and
energy, getting up nights. swelling, puf6ness
under tho eyes. headaches and dizziness. Ere
burning sometimes shows there is something
wrong with your kidneys or bladder.
Don't wait! Ask your druggist for Doan's
Pills. used successfully by millions for over 10
years. They give happy relief and will help the
waste from your blood. Get Doan's Piis.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
cats END DRILLS
FOR BULLS TODAY
Wilmington Eleven Tries New
Plays For Conference Open
er With State Champs

The New Hanover High school
Wildcats will hold their final work
nut this afternoon before the I'm.
portant eastern conference football
game with Durham Friday night
In the Bull City.
The coaches, Black and Bryan,
worked hard yesterday afternoon
plugging weak spots in the line and
Strengthened the offense by trying
several combinations in the back.
field and inserting plays designed
to give the Bulldogs plenty OF trou-
BILE during the four periods OF bruls-
ing play .,.
Coach Black is keeping tight
tipped about who will start against
the state champions or just what
type of attack he will shoot into
The breach against the terrible
Bulldogs. The Bulls have been
blitzkrieging every team in tn e
,tate for the past two years acf
last week journeyed out to Ohio
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
clean, a considerable piece of
work in itself.

clean, a considerable piece of
work in itself.
Back at the quarry a caterpil-
lar tractor and a grader are busily
engaged in stripping topsoil from
an area where it is anticipated ad-
ditional rock will be found. This
topsoil appears to run from six to
eight feet deep and must be re-
moved before the quarry can be
started in full operation.
Meanwhile on the floor of the
first-cleared area in the quarry
workmen with pneumatic drills,
with hand drills and sledge ham,
mers, are working removing small
amounts of conglomerate rock.
Men Working Hard
There n many jokes about
WPA workmen and their shovel
handles, but here the men have
done much work in the II days
they started. The reason nc
rock is on the runways of the air
port is the delay in deciding wha1
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
NO ROCK CRUSHED
YET FOR RUNWAYS
AT THE AIRPORT
Continued from Page One)

to extend downward about eight
feet. Beneath that level they an
ticipate striking quicksand. Pumps
must be installed as soon as the
level of the quarry floor is lowered
as much as two or three feet.
A small amount of the conglo-
merate rock has been taken from
the newly opened quarry, located
near the quarry from which the
state takes material for road
maintenance.
This rock must lie in the sun
for about a week before it can be
crushed and placed on the run
ways of the airport.
But there isn't much hurry, for
the rock crusher has not yet been
put into place, much less into
operation. There hasn't been time
enough for that yet.
The foundation for the crusher
is now being laid. The crusher has
been delivered to the quarry and
now lies approximately 100 yards
from the site of the foundation.
Curing Bed Prepared
Beside the site where the crush
er will be installed there is a hill,
onto which a road has been built to
allow trucks filled with the un-
cured rock from the quarry to
reach the dumping grounds next
to the crusher site. This entire hill
has been stumped and grubbed
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
REDS SPLIT BILL
WITH CARDINALS
Champs Take Opener, SO, But
Cards Belt Walters For
4-3 Win In Nightcap

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 25.-R-Bucky
Walters, who may be the starting
World series pitcher for the Gin
cinnatti Reds, went down to defeat
before the Cardinals today, 4 to 3,
in the second game Of a twin bill
after the National league champions
won the opener, S to 0.
Against Walters, Johnny Mize hit
his And home run, equalling the
record for a St. Louis player, estab-
lished by Rogers Hornsby while with
the Cardinals in 1922.
Morton Cooper went in for the
Cardinals in the seventh inning,
after the Reds had threatened to
tie the score, and pitched to his
brother, Walker Cooper. a rookie
catcher. The Coopers stopped the
Reds with no hits during the rest of
the game.
In the opener. it was all Junior
Thompson. He yielded only two
hits, both by Enos Slaughter.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
Spofford-Firemen Game
Is Postponed By Rain

The third game in the city soft.
ball championship series between
Spofford and the Firemen, sched-
uled at Robert Strange park last
night, was postponed until tonight
at 8 o'clock because of rain.
So far in the series, each team has
won one game each, the Spinners
taking the first 9-4, and the Smokes
the second FL.
Hugh Ballard, the Spinners' fast
ball pitcher, who hurled the team
into the title finals, will be on the
mound tonight.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
LEGION ADVOCATES
HELP TO ENGLAND

Continued from Page One)
vision over aliens and for ellmlna-
ton of "subversive'' activities.
The 1,40O-odd delegates, repre-
senting more than a million former
service men, urged creation OF a
permanent system of universal mil
itary training, and increases in the
personnel of the army, navy, air
corps and merchant marine, the
national guard and the R. O. 7. c.
In a long range program growing
out of the war abroad and pre-
paredness plans at home, the SOL
diers of two decades ago urged &C
QUESTION of additional bases for
naval expansion, and endorsed
1.-The principle of exchanging obso-
lete equipment for needed air and
naval bases"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26

Error: Craft. Runs batted in: F.
Mccormick 2, W. Cooper, Joost, Mize.
Walker, Marion. Two base hits: Mize,
Frey. Sacrifices: Joost, Orengo. Dou-
BILE play: Marion, Brown and Mize. Left
on bases: Cincinnati II; st. Louis 6.
Bases on balls off: Walters 2, Hutch
inson 2, NJ. Cooper 1. Strikeouts by:
Walters 5, Hutchinson 2, M. Cooper 3.
Hits off: Hutchinson II in 6 1-3 in
nings; M. Cooper, none in 2 2-3. Wild
pitch: Walters. Winning pitcher :
Hutchinson. Umpires: M%agerkurth.
Sears and Barr. Time: 1855. Attend
ance: (paid) 1893.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
S P Q r S
Whiteuiue Eleven Plays
Rockingham Team Friday

WHITEVILLE, Sept. rs. - The
Whiteville football team, coached by
R. 7. (Hobo) Daniels, former Wake
Forest gridiron star, will open Its
1910 season against the Rockingham
high school eleven Friday afternoon
at 3 o'clock.
This will be the Wolfpack's first
game, and the second for Rocking
ham.
The Rockingham team is coached
by Eustler, a Whiteville boy, who
is also a Wake Forest graduate.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
CoMISKEY
BATTLE TONIGHT
Both Fighters Are Given Odds
In Betting; May Be Even
Money BY Bout Time
BY SID FEEDER

JERSEY CITY, N. j., Sept. 90
R-The experienced fistic Glowing
of old Make Baer and the youth
and hitting power of Irish P a
Comiskey collide in the ball park
tomorrow night in the '~'bettingest"
heavyweight fight around these
parts in years.
Even those charitable souls, the
betting commissioners, who would
even lay 6 to S out and out on death
and taxes, don't know which elout-
or to tab as favorite. Some odds
makers have installed the 19-year-
old Irish walloper on top at S to z;
others just reverse the procedure.
The chances are it'll be even
money and "who d'ya like" when
they climb into the ring about
9 pm. (E. S. TO tomorrow-weath-
er permitting-before a hoped-for
crowd of $1,000. Promoter Jack
Kearns, making his big league ifs
tic comeback, figures tn gate
may be 500, 600.
This corner, like a kid at the cir
GUS. goes for the clown in this one.
Max appears to know too many
answers to the questions Pat is
still asking. A year from now, the
big-jawed kid should be the tough
est man around, but right now he
has too much to learn, and Baer
say what you want about the
way he can or cannot fight-knoWs
more than one and one about the
business of MASKING noses. OF
course, Pat may walk right out
there, hang one on Baer's jaw and
make Max curl up, but this doesn't
figure.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26

Errors: Frey, Joost. Runs batted in:
West 2, Ripple 2, Frey. Two base
hits: Werber, Ripple, Slaughter. Stolen
bases: Slaughter ?, Mize. Sacrifices:
Goodman, NJ. Mccormick. Double plays:
Slaughter and Marion; Marion, Brown
and Mize Joost, Frey and F. McCor-
mick; Brown, Marion and Mize. Left
Bases on balls off: Thompson 4, Nc
Gee 8. S%trikeouts by: Thompson 2,
Shoun 2, MCGEE 3. Hits off: MCGEE 8
in S is innings; Doyle / in 2 2-3;
Shoun 2 in i. Hit by pitcher by: Doyle
(Werber). Losing pitcher: MCGEE. UNI
pires: Barr, Magerkurth and Sears.
Time: 1852.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
type of paving would H.

type of paving would he ,,.
data by the county autber 4teefln
Meanwhile the Nation,I les,
program, through which vteAs'
Hanover county hoped to beS
Army place a training scbooI 'a .,
Bluthenthal airport, goes r,ool Al
a~long-Without Bluthentbo, lefflg
or much inclination to use !. p0''
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
Weekly Wrestling Card
Is Discontinued Here

American Legion officials who
have been promoting the weekly
wrestling program at the stadium,
announced last night that due to
the staging Of the Coastal Fair
within a short time that all mat
cards have been discontinued until
further announcement.
The last wrestling matches were
held at the stadium Monday night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26

to humble the champions Of the
Buckeye state in their worst defeat
in IS years.
The freshmen worked out again
Yesterday afternoon under tne
Strict eye of Coach Floyd Bum.
garner in preparation for their
coming game with Tabo- City High
school varsity on October IL.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
HAAKON IS OUSTED
AS NORWAY'S KIM
Continued from Pace ono,

no sort of foreign policy, M IN.
pendent foreign relations with -'. 0"'
country, the indication being t +.t
Germany will direct such mst+ o.e'
1t was presumed here that Xiv.
Haakon still is in Britain, bnt +hs
Norwegian people generally b, u..
not heard of him in months lave
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26

Errors: Heffner. Runs batted In
Trosky, Chapman 2. Swift, Cliff, Mil
mar. Two base hits: Swift, Trosky.
Stolen base: Weatherly. Double play
McQuinn and Berardino. Left on bases:
st. Louis Z; Cleveland Z. Bases on
balls off: Kennedy 5, Milnar 4. Strike
puts by: Kennedy 3, Milnar S. Um-
pires: MCGOWAN, Summers, Basil and
Pipgras. Time: 40. Attendance: les
timated) 1000.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
WEATHER
CONTINUED From Page Gne)

WASHINGTON, September 25.-Re
Weather bureau records Of temperature
and rainfall for the "a hours ending s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-06
CITY TAXPAYERS
 TO FORM LEAGUE
Group of Prominent Citi-
 gems Will Effect Organ- izatiOn in Short Time

Formation of a Taxpayers league in Waterbury will be effected soon, a group of prominent citizens hav- ing agreed to serve on a commit tee which will supervise the steps toward formal organization. An- flouncement of the personnel of the organizing committee was made to- today by Lewis J. Hart, president of the Chamber of Commerce.
 Committee members are: Bonnet Bronson, Edmund J. Daly, ST., Daniel T. Harrington, ST. Frank Hess, John R. Hughes, Harry Liebe- skind, Robert w. Lowell, Leroy Min- tie, Frederick H. Nuhn, Adolph A. Reymond and Louis Walsh. An orr ganization meeting will be held in the near future.
 NOn- Partisan Nature
 The league, bipartisan in na- ture, is being backed by some who have been prominently identified with the Citizens Good vernment association, but the tive organiza- tions Twill not be connected in any way, The aims of the league will include civic betterment. lower taxes and improved services. Exc pendltures will be analysed and means of reducing them VIII be sought.
 Plans for the league have been
 tContinued on Page 9
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-06
Huge NY. Hangar
 Destroyed By Fire

New York, March 5.-(UP)-I Fire destroyed the uncOmpleted 1,25O, ,OOO Hangar A at La Guar dia Field, eastern terminus of the commercial air lines, last night, buckling seven ton steel doors, causing part of the roof to collapse, and curling steel girders.
 None of the WPA cOnstruc- ton crew of 38O, which had left. the building a few min- utes before the fire broke out, was injured. The damage was estimated by Dock Commits siOner John A. Mackenzie, whose department has juris- diction over the airport, at $250,00O. but other estimates ran as high as. 30 per cent of the, value of the hangar. z
 The fire apparently started in a paint cabinet, spread up sscaf feOIdings,. and reache1a2 2. maze of our-by -four beams supporting . temporary flooring five feet under the roof.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-06
DUTCH SUBMARINE
 RAMMED, SINKS
By Miracle Only Two on Board Went Down With
 U-BOat

Helder. Netherlands. March G. (UPl Two of % members of the Dutch submarine 0-ii were drowned today and 1T others narrowly escap- ed when the submarine sank after being rammed amidship by a naval tug.
 Seventeen members Of the crew escaped through the coming tower. Ten men were on deck st the time Of the collision. They jumped and swana ashore.
 The submarine sank within two minutes. NlneIeen men were kiill aboard, Tugs and small craft rushed to the spot. Within ie mii,s utes the peTlseope Of the sIbnas Tlne appeared above the surface.
 Five minutes later, the crew 6lcs eeeded in bringing the greater part of lbe submarine above the slirfaee, Tugs made fast and iugboat men opeDed the tower aBd eot oui iT lnen.
 The submarine sank with ts0 lnfn eft aboafd il kank bt lbe head, ieaVlDs le kl1Fn above salff
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-06
MAXINE ELLIOTT
 DIES IN FRANCE
Former Actress, Famous Stage Beauty; Once
 Wife of Nat Goodwin
NEA Telephoto.

Cannes, France, March 6-(UP)- Maxine Elliott, former actress and famous beauty, died last night at her Chateau L'Horizon in Cannes after a long illness. Funeral plans await the arrival of her sister.
 Miss Elliott, 69, was born JeSSica DermoS in Rockland, Maine, on Feb- ruary 5. 1871.
 Her father was captain of ship and she spent much of her time as a child in Maine and in Oakland, California. At one time she attended a convent school at Roxbury, Mass,
 Even as child she was consid- cred austerely beautiful and at 16 she began a stage career in New York that carried her to fame and to friendship with many famous figures of the time, including King Edward VII of England.
 She had a minor role in Broad- way play, The Middleman, in 1890 and later appeared in Diplomacy, Lcndon Assurance and Forget-Me- Not. It was in 1895 that she went to London and became favorite of the British stage and of the Brit is aristocracy.
 She was married in 1896 to George McDermott, a New York lawyer, but divorced him the same year and married Nat c. Goodwin, head of the theatrical company in which she was the star. He got divorce in 1908.
 It was about that time that Max
 (Co,,ti,o,Iod m po0o 0l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-06
HARVARD STRIKES
 AT JIMMY FIDLER
Fidler Defended Plays LampOOn' Condemned;
 Four Bells for Jimmy

Cambridge. Mass. March 6-(UP) Another Hollywood kick-back to their selections of 1889 movie "worsts" today engaged the editors of the Harvard Lampoon, under graduate humor magazine.
 After defending their choice oi Oomph Girl Ann Sheridan as the actress Least likely to succeed, the editors turned their guns or movie columnist Jimmy Fldler, whp cited box office records to show thai nine of Lampy's 10 worst" pictures were better than average.
 They wired Ftdler as follows
 -Four bells on your wldeawake Journalism. Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, ding dong. No sale. You have shown ns that money talks and bog office is lntgblier than art.
 Apologies f0T our critic, wh0 hak confessed le slept through all 60 vi the pictures cited except fer '"fhf Pighllng 6Dlh" which he said va A tftfle nelss,
 2. z. Jimmy HiddlsS whiis sl,eI' laan burns"