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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22

." Apt To Overlook
pn, folks have become SO used to
DIV New york Yankees winning
.so,,- as they please, that they
ls' IN overlook the fact that as
.,Lsround club, the world cham
D." b.re about all to be desired.
't -srtby's boys are known for
a hardness with a bat and as
U.S.. ..,n, that hits at just the right
Gwen, went they are about tops in the
pD, .. te,ders the yankees are just
.'nrb under perfection to make a
ams interesting. Their pitching is
s,si rood enough, in fact, for most
w. moundsman would say with a
' ',s Ike that anybody could win.
" Hoveyer. to keep the Yankees
Inn, beconing an accepted fact"
+ should be pointed out that they
r.. continually on the spot the
nh 10 beat by every other club
I, tte league. And some day psy-
,slogv may beat the Yanks. 1t
hasn't seem that anything else can.
Prolonged Schooling
NJ have heard rumors that in
\. mast few years a number of boys
rniing high schools have been re-
trlg TO school year after year
rs craduation just to be able to
,r football. basketball or baseball.
This practice isn't fair to the boy,
|Gv school or the other boys attend
tg the school. Certainly no boy,
e1 without a modicum of ambi-
tr. would care to make high
s.iml athletics a career. So what
/ The Use Of prolonging high school
|"Eaooins?
Our contention has always been
h limit theoretical schooling to as
|n1mum a number of years as
|gssble and allow the boy to get
Int and see what it's like on the
as soon as he can hold up
bis own end of the game.
Hop-Skotch
4 State college release boasts of
Is athletes being out front in their
work Among the
IBIS who holds top billing is Dud
Ri66ins, Of Burgaw, who plays in
lie tailback position on the Wolf.
.RGi eleven and who has just com
'Fted IL hours Of work State
Vii open its varsity baseball sea-
III against Wake Forest Monday
aaFn0m -. Wade Ison, States
EtTts publicity director, chimes in
With the following: william and
AaIys tfo spring football victories
HE Wake Forest indicates North
aroma State has added another
y llnne opponent to it's football
'aeaule' And the Wolfpack opens
'Ia The Indians at that. The date
: ssptember q and the site is
t"Slnouth, Va" -. Roanoke Rap
~ softoall team will play under
psH'S THIS summer Which re-
lllas Us to wonder if Wilmington's
.',Va!lers will play twilight or
ball this season 49,. The
wal football committee hopes to
.''e d college freshman football
s i,rAs On the program here next
'-' j! ADDITION tC the main attrac-
pl Of one big college game go.
H.. LanO, the lad who turned in a
rM, A'''er Tor New Hanover's
~, S'a'S Wednesday, looks like the
H. H.. GOODS this season Aside
i, 4 d last ball, he's got plenty
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
ORIOLES WHIP CLEMSON

AIKEN, S. c., March 21.-lP-
Playing their first exhibition game,
the Baltimore Orioles of the Inter.
national league overpowered Glen.
son colleges nine here today 26 to 1.
The Orioles will play the Univer.
sity of South Carolina here tomor.
row.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
RAINED OUT

WINTER HAVEN, Fla, Marcn
21.-R-It rained the Giant-Tiger
baseball game out in the fourth in.
ming today-but all was sunshine
i n the camp of Bill Terry's men.
For the meal ticket"-King carl
Hubbell-blanked the Tigers, fam
ming four and allowing only two
hits in the first three innings.
The Giants were leading 6 to 0,
largely because of home runs by
Frank Demaree and Hank Dan.
ming, when the rains came.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
AS LOSE

LOS ANGELES, Calf, March 81.
-R-Homers by Gene Lillard and
Lou Novikoff plus Paul Carpenters
single gave Los Angeles, of the Pa.
cific Coast league, a 5 to 4 victory
over the Philadelphia Athletics to.
day. 1t vas the AS fourth straight
defeat.
The AS pounded Lillard for a
4 to 0 lead, but the pitcher turned
around in the second inning and hit
for the circuit with two on. Novi.
koff's roundtripper tied the score in
the fifth. Carpenters single, fol.
lowing Donaldson's two Dagger,
drove in the winning tally.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-22
SMOKE RINGS
Remember The Yanks
By SAM Raglan

Putting two and two together and we wonder if the
-, cw can beat the Yankees this year.
Nu For a hop, skip and jump about the circuit indicates
at Yavkey's club, except for the pitching end, is lust
a s+ as strong as the unbeatable Yanks. There are those
S ho keep a weathered eye on baseball that claim that if
WV W" Cronin's rockies come through his mound staff will
rN oua1gh to send the Boston club over the hurdle into
VI I1Iu,oon leapue remnant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-03
Dropped u. 5. Employees
Favored by New Law

Employees dropped from non-civil
service agencies are to get an OPP
portunity to qualify for new posi-
tons in the defense agencies which
ordinarily would go to civil service
personnel, under an order by Presi-
dent Roosevelt which was promul-
gated by the Civil Service Com
mission today.
Underlying the plan is the prin-
ciple that it will be administered so
as to limit, as far as practicable, a
situation under which groups of ex-
perienced personnel would be leav-
ing Washington while groups Of new
employees from other areas would
be coming into Washington, state
ment from the commission said.
The use of this personnel will be
optional by the defense agencies.
The principal beneficiaries, it is
believed, will be employees separated
from the Public Works Administra-
ton and Procurement Division of
the Treasury in the past few months.
but there also have been reductions
elsewhere with the start of the new
fiscal year.
Employees concerned will not get a
competitive civil service status, and
will be required to qualify for the
new work through non-competitiye
examinations administered by the
Civil Service Commission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-03
1900 British Refugees
Arrive in Manila

MANILA, July 3 P.-More than
1900 British women and children
fleeing the British crown colony of
Hong Kong in precautionary evac-
uation because of unsettled condi-
tons in the Orient, reached haven
Of safety here today.
The 1,640 evacuees arrived this
morning aboard the liner Empress
of Japan. Less than q hundred other
evacuees of various nationalities, in
Guiding Americans, arrived later on
the American liner President Cool
idge.
Most Of the refugees were quar-
tered temporarily in barracks at
Fort Mckinley. Almost 500 were
placed aboard a special train for
Baguio, the summer capital, where
they will be quartered in hotels,
government-owned cottages and the
American Brent School dormitory.
The high commissioners Office
announced that British authorities
had granted permit to the inter-
island liner Basilan to leave Hong
Kong for Manila tomorrow with
American and Filipino evacuees.
The Basilan could carry more than
500.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-03
Who's Who in Baltimore
Splits WiIIkie Workers
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, July 3.-Bickering
Baltimore city Republicans, united
behind Wendell Willkie at the G..
o. P. National Convention. split
wide open again yesterday over
management of Mr.. Wilkes cam
paign in Maryland.
On the heels of an announcement
that former Gov. Harry w. Nice's
forces would open a Willkie-for
President headquarters here. the
rebel faction telegraphed Mr.. Willkie
urging creation of an independent"
committee to conduct his campaign
in the State.
At an organization meeting last
night. the anti-Nice group took the
name "Willkie-McNary Crusaders"
and drafted a statement asserting
the Maryland G. O. P. was in dire
need of rehabilitation and house.
cleaning.
Officers of the Crusaders" are all
associated with the faction now in
control of the Republican city COM
mittee here and many of the names
were familiar among Mr. Nice's OPP
ponents during the recent senatorial
primary.
Disregarding the insurgents, w.
David Tilghman, jr., State Repub-
hcan chairman and an ally of Mr..
Nice, announced the campaign head
quarters would be opened next week
and drive for funds begun imme-
diately.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-03
Germany Is Very Ill.,
Ex-Embossy Aide Says
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
Europe cannot be healthy so long
as Germany is ILL.," DR.. Ernest
Meyers, former member of the Ger
man Embassy in Washington, said
yesterday.
And Germany is very ill today,
despite appearances to the contrary.
Hitler's theories are all based on
police force" he said in an address
at the University of Maryland sum-
mer school.
DR.. Meyers resigned from the En-
bassy in 1887, he said, because he
disagreed with national socialism.
He is now a faculty member of
Adelphia College, Long Island.
Hitler, he continued, believes two
wrongs make right. But so long
as power and glory are used to
settle boundary disputes, we shall
never be able to define where one
living space ends and another be-
gins"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-03
Continental American
Peace Is Goal of Cuba

HAVANA, July 3 (P.-The Cuban
cabinet yesterday declared its sup
port of any stand for continental
American peace which may be pro-
posed at the pan-American confer
ence of foreign ministers here
July 20.
In a statement at the end of a
closed session the cabinet said Cuba
would lend complete cooperation
to any effort to improve inter-
American trade.
DR.. FREDERICK Laredo Bru, Presi-
dent, told the cabinet the confer
ence would discuss: Neutrality,
maintenance of peace in the West
ern Hemisphere and economic CO.
operation among the American ma
lions.
Juan j. Remos, former Secretary
of State, In a radio address praised
the United States treatment OF its
American neighbors, citing as q
contrast the manner of Germany
and Russia in Europe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-03
Tornado Winds Rae
; Schools, Damage
Many Texas Buildings
Crops Luid Waste; Nine
In House Moved 80 Feet;
Rains Wush Out Tracks
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TAYLOR, Tex, July 3.-Tornadic
winds wrecked three schoolhouses,
damaged scores Of buildings and
laid waste crops in this section last
night. No loss of life was reported.
Schoolhouses at Thorndale, San
Gabriel and Delmond were crushed.
Thorndale bore the brunt of the
storm as it ripped through this
Central Texas area.
At Eckrom and Taylor trees were
uprooted, outhouses damaged and
crops virtually wiped out by wind
and rain.
Almost an inch of rain fell here in
less than 80 minutes, bringing pre-
cipitation to almost inches In five
days.
At Thorndale Bill Finn and his
wife and two children had a mar
row escape when their house was
blown over, and Joe Cornett and
eight members of his family were
in building that was moved 80
feet by the smashing wind. The
COWA was Wlt11OuI uSAlLS I'LL OUkllOuU
the night.
In East Texas torrential rains
washed out $50 feet of track, broke
a dam at Elkhart Lake, near Pal
estine, and stranded two trains.
Precipitation measured 4 inches at
Palestine, sending Boxes Creek out
Of its banks and flooding highway
with 5 feet of water.
Damage to streets, roads and crops
was heavy throughout the area.
At Wharton, in Southeast Texas,
the Colorado River swept over its
banks to width of nearly Is miles.
The river was up 1880 feet, with 2
more feet expected before the crest
was reached.
The Colorado is one of four
streams bringing critical flood con-
ditions in which 10 lives were lost
over the week end.
Areas other than Wharton ap-
parently were out of danger.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-03
Argentina Will Urge
Inter-American Unity
AT Havana Farley
Foreign Minister Hopes
Continental Solidarity
Will Be Achieved
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, July 3.-Argen-
tina will support policy of Con-
tinental solidarity and autonomy of
action" at the Inter American Con-
ference in Havana July 20, Foreign
Minister Jose Maria Cantilo declared
today.
This, he said, meant that Argen-
tina would be a fervent advocate of
inter-American cooperation while
maintaining that this collaboration
must not impede the country's liberty
of action.
The Senate, after private session
last night, designated DR.. Leopoldo
Melo, former Minister of Interior, to
head the Argentine delegation. DR..
Melo will leave with the other dele
gates July on the steamer Uruguay.
The remainder of the delegation
includes Felipe Espil, Ambassador
to Washington; Luis Podesta, dele
gate to the Inter American Neutral
ity Committee at Rio de Janeiro:
Ceferino Alfonso Irigoyen, CONNER
cial attache of the Embassy in
Washington, and Luis Mariana Zu-
berbuehler, delegation secretary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-03
Mrs. BIatt Under Bond
In Theft Of Furniture

Mrs. Virginia Blatt, 31-year-old
wife of a District employee, was at
liberty under $1,000 bond today
awaiting grand jury action in Mont
gomery County, Md, on charges of
stealing furniture from model
homes.
Mrs. Blatt, who was indicted by
a District grand jury on Monday
on charges of housebreaking and
larceny. was remanded to the county
grand jury following a preliminary
hearing before Trial Magistrate
James c. Christopher at Besthesda
last night.
1t was charged at the hearing that
Mrs. Blatt, resident of Bethesda,
participated in the theft of approx
mately $500 worth of furniture.
Mrs. Blatt denied the charges and
number of character witnesses
testified in her behalf.
Indicted with Mrs. Blatt in Wash
ington was John w. Jones, 38, who
describe dhimself as a former major
league baseball player. He is held
in the District on charges Of house
breaking an dlarceny.
Montgomery County police said
Jones also is wanted in connection
with the furniture thefts in Mont
gomery. They said almost all of the
property stolen in the county was
recovered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-03
Army Reserve Officers
To Be RecIassified

The Army has begun a vast re-
classification of its 117,00O Reserve
officers to ascertain the jobs for
which they would be best suited in
an emergency and the amount of
additional training needed to fit
them for mobilization assignments.
Most of the officers will remain in
the arms and services in which they
were commissioned, but it is ex-
pected many may be transferred to
assignments for which they are bet
ter suited because of civilian expert
ence and natural ability.
Many will receive training in
their new assignments with the
Army in 30-day periods or more.
This will be in addition to the 5000
who are expected to be on extended
duty with the Army for periods of
a year or more by December and
the 10000 Reserve officers who will
receive training of two weeks to a
month this summer.
Forms were mailed to all officers
last week seeking more details of
their civilian experience, education,
knowledge Of foreign languages and
the nationality of their parents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-03
French Capital Moves
Again.; Goes to Vichy
BY PAUL GHALI,

Chicago Daily News Foreign Correspondent.
CLERMONT-F ERRAND July
(Delaye6.-After "a short week
end" in Clermont-Ferrand the
French government decided yester-
day to move to Vichy. where its
nomadic life will end, at least tenn
porarily.
This quick departure, fourth shift
Of government seat since the fall
of Paris-is explained as being due
to the Inconvenience resulting from
the scattering Of administrations
around Clermont-Ferrand owing to
the lack of lod ngs in the town
itself.
Cynics will object, of course, that
this drawback might have been
foreseen. but the reason given for
the removal is indeed impressive, as
important ministries, like that of
foreign affairs, were lodged at La
Bourboule, some 40 miles from the
government seat, while other ad-
ministrations found refuge in Mont
Dore. Newspapermen had to cover
about 100 miles a day to visit the
various offices.
A National Assembly, comprising
the members of both French houses
the Chamber of Deputies and the
Senate-will be summoned by the
French government, presumably
this Friday.
The object of this meeting will
be to appoint a commission whose
task will be the drafting of a new
constitution.
Pierre Laval, at present Minister
of State in the government of Pre-
mier Marshal Henri Philippe Petain,
is mentioned here as the new Pre-
mier, succeeding the aged World
War hero.
(copyrisht, 1910. Chicago Daily News. 1nc.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-03

Z ~
bark on her decisive challenge to
Britain"
Princesses to Remain.
Other developments included:
The Daily Mail said King George
vi and Queen Elizabeth had re-
jected suggestions that Princess
Elizabeth, IA, heiress presumptive to
the throne, aid her sister, Princess
Margaret Rose, be sent out of the
country because of the danger of
German invasion.
Eighteen persons were arrested by
Scotland Yard yesterday in one of
the most extensive roundups of sus-
pected fifth columnists" in London.
Capt. Frank Medlicott, M. p,
said he would ask Prime Minister
Churchill in the House of Commons
IF he will take such steps as will
enable individual members of this
House to enter into a solemn pledge
that this House will not assent
to signing of any treaty of peace
with Germany until decisive victory
over that country has been won
Leaf1et raids" on France are
being considered, the House of Com
mons was informed, to counteract
what the British call misleading
German propaganda.
Prime Minister Churchill proposed
that Parliament adopt special rules
permitting it to take "time out" in
event of air raid alarms while it is
sitting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-03
Home Town
Honors Him With
1orch|ight Parade
Celebration Is Second
At EIwood in Week;
Biggest Yet to Come
By the Associated Press,

ELWOOD, Ind, July 3.-Political
barriers were kicked over as Elwood's
10000 citizens and apparently as
many more from elsewhere united
last night to honor a native son,
Wendell Lewis Willkie, for his NOM
ination for the presidency.
A 3-mile-long torchlight parade
with banners reminiscent of an al
most forgotten era slowly wound
through the downtown streets. past
a reviewing stand in front of the
high school which the Republican
nominee attended and to the GYM
nasium, where mass meeting was
held.
Posters, streamers and remnants
bearing Mr. WILKES name or pic
ture, red, white and blue bunting
and flags were everywhere. Bands
played.
Biggest Celebration Coming.
The celebration was the second
within week. The first was an
impromptu affair the night Mr..
Willkie was nominated.
But the biggest is yet to come
when he formally accepts the NOM
nation from the steps of the high
school, over whose entrance is in
scribed "The Hope of Our Country"
In telegram Mr.. Willkie thanked
the populace for kind expressions"
and renewed his promise to have
his formal notification here IF that
is satisfactory with the school au-
thorities."
There are no objections on our
part" Supt. William F. Smith COM
mented.
Uncle and Aunt Honored.
The nominees uncle and aunt, Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Willkie, who still
live here, and six of the other eight
members of his high school gradual
ing class had places of honor in the
parade and at the meeting.
Homer L. ChaillauX, Americanism
director of the American Legion,
said in the principal address that
the United States again must declare
its independence from the turmoil
of Europe"
1--WE shall continue to look to the
Congress to steer a course that will
keep us out of war;" he added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-03
Fifty American Nationals Livino
Under u. S. Flag in Paris

The Embassy staff occupied itself
with problems of relief, supplies and
medical and hospital care. Since
the occupation the Embassy has
worked with both French and Ger
man authorities on various matters.
The Embassy receives scores of
pleas for assistance every day in
letters and telephone calls.
When information was received
that Fontainbleau was without food,
light, water or medical assistance,
American trucks were sent with
supplies. Workers from the Amer
lean Hospital in Paris gave first aid
to wounded French prisoners in the
barracks at Fontainbleau.
Before Mr.. Bullitt left q high Ger
man official called to assure him
that cooperation established since
the NaM troops took Paris would
continue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-03
WP. A. Completes Tunnel
For Northeast Sewer

Completion of a 75-foot tunnel
under the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road tracks, near Seventh and Tay-
Tor street NE, was announced to-
day by Paul Edwards, administrator
of the District w. P. A.
The tunnel is the final link of q
$4,000 storm water and sanitary
sewer project, which will serve the
northeastern part of Brooklyn.
When this project is completed
the w. P. A. will have installed LAO
feet of brick and concrete storm
sewer, 4 feet in diameter, and $40
feet of 10-inch sanitary sewer, for
the most part paralleling the Taylor
street viaduct.
In tunneling under the tracks It
was necessary to install a ring of
steel plate to support the weigh. Of
passing trains.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-03
Gen. Dryden 10 Speak
AT Closing Banquet
Of Overseas League
Business Session Ends
With Election of Four
Area Vice Presidents

: Brig. Gen. William Dryden, deputy
chief of staff Of the Army, will be
the principal speaker tonight at the
concluding banquet Of the Women's
Overseas Service Leagues Goth an
nual convention in the Wardman
Park Hotel. The dinner will follow
a reception scheduled for o'clock.
Gen. Dryden will be introduced by
Miss Edythe Davidson, q past ma
tional president of the league, who
also will present the current ma
tional president, Miss Ruth M. Nc
Clelland of Washington.
Capt. Robert D. Workman, chief
of Navy chaplains, is to ask the
blessing, and music is to be provided
by the United States Navy Band
Orchestra.
Among those at the head table are
to be: Capt. Watson B. Miller,
chairman of the National Rehabili-
tation Committee of the American
Legion; Miss Hazel B. Nelson, chair
man Of the Convention Committee;
Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, u. s.
A., retired; Willard Rice, national
legislative chairman, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; William Tyler Page,
author of THE Americans Creed;
DR.. James A. Lyon and Col. B. K.
Cash, Military Order of the World
War, and Mrs. Helen Douglas Man.
kin, Mrs. Oswald Chew, Mrs. Shir-
ley Farr, Miss Lena Hitchcock and
Miss Faustine Dennis, past national
presidents.
Business sessions of the conclave
were brought to a close today with
election of four corps area vice presi-
dents and adoption of resolutions.
A reunion luncheon was held in the
Wardman Park Hotel
A visit to the Federal Bureau of
Investigation was on the afternoon
program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-03
STAR WASHINGTON D. c. WEDNESDAY JULY g. 1s4o
Stinson, Quizzed
BY G. O. p, Asks
Where's WiHkje?
By the Associated Press.


Henry L. Stimson, President
Roosevelt's choice for Secretary of
War, was up against an array of re-
cent presidential aSpirants during
the Senate committee hearing on his
nomination.
He answered numerous questions
yesterday from Senators Bridges of
New Hampshire and Vandenberg Of
Michigan, unsuccessful contenders
for the Republican presidential NOM
nation.
Then Chairman Sheppard an
nounced that Senator Taft of Ohio,
another unsuccessful candidate, had
a question.
Haven't you got Wendell Willkie
somewhere there?" Mr.. Stimson
asked, looking around the horseshoe
committee table.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-03
HMbHTy Candidate
Charges Voters to
Hear His Speeches
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LITTLE ROCK. Ark, July
3.-State Representative John
Henry Mitchum of Independ-
ence County, seeking re-elec-
ton against a field TO five can
didates, is waging a successful
campaign-financially.
you see," John Henry, an
expert mountaineer fiddler, ex-
planned here, lit only cost $13
to get my name on the ticket
this year because there are so
many in tht race. I figured
might as we'll charge admission
to hear my speeches and listen
to my hillbilly band.
"The band plays first, I make
q speech, then we play some
more and let the crowd dance.
MY first speech Melted $685."