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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
CUNTS SCORE
WINS IN OPENERS
PLAY This Week May Produce
Standout Teams Of Loop
For 1910 Season

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 7-L9-A
heavy schedule Of fifteen family
games this week will speed along
the process Of determining the
standout Southern conference bas-
ketball teams.
Six ouintets have emerged un.
scathed from opening skirrnishes
with loop foes - North Carolina,
Duke, Maryland, Richmond, Wake
Forest and The Citadel.
This list of unbeaten clubs will be
reduced sharply within the next few
days. Duke plays at Maryland on
Tuesday in a game which will bring
together two of the strongest cor.
tenders for the conference crown
won by Clemson in 1889. The high
scoring Maryland club has another
tough opponent scheduled for Satur-
day in Richmond's undefeated
Spiders.
The weeks card, bringing all fiji
teen members of the circuit into
action, was reduced by one when
the Washington and Lee.North
Carolina State game for Monday
was cancelled.
The Wake Forest team which
ended W. & LIS winning streak Sat
urday night by 1929, plays three
games on the road, beginning at
South Carolina Tuesday, then at
Clemson and Furman. N. c. State
opens It's loop campaign at David
son Thursday and then moves on tc
South Carolina and Clemson.
At least two scraps r set fol
neutral courts, Virginia Tech and
North Carolina meeting at Winston
Salem on Thursday and Duke and
v. M. I. clashing at Lynchburg or
Saturday.
The season has produced but one
big surprise as yet, Maryland's $500
victory margin over Clemson.
Davidson's hopes of landing g
berth In the ~post-season champion.
ship tournament at Raleigh have al
ready been seriously damaged by
three setbacks in four games. Fur,
man has broken even in two tries
Other quints have met but one
family foe, or have yet to enter the
conference race.
Conference standings:
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
Kercheual Gives Up Pro
Grid For Horsemanship

LEXINGTON, KY, Jan. 7.-E-
Ralph Kercheval, kicking star of the
Brooklyn Dodgers professional team,
is giving up football for his first
love, Workmanship.
The one-time University of Ken
lucky halfback said he had accepted
an offer to help Charles Kinney in
the management Of Coldstream Stud,
one of the largest breeding farms in
the bluegrass.
Kercheval, whose booming punts
and long field goals have been val
liable assets to the Dodgers for the
last half dozen seasons, has been di-
viding his time between professional
football and the horse breeding in
dustry since his graduation from the
university in 1884.
AT the end of each football season,
he returned to the bluegrass and
worked at a horse farm until time
for him to report for practice the
next autumn.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
Christmas Trees Are
Burned In BRIDGEPORT

BRIDGEPORT. Conn.,, Jan. T.
N-Disposing of old Christmas
trees Is no problem in Bridgeport.
Thirty thousand of them went up
in bonfire Saturday night as
Bridgeport Girl Scouts observed the
eve Of. the feast Of the epiphany
with a carol song. City firemen start,
ed and guarded the blaze.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
Court May Give Ruling
On Kentucky Bank Law

WASHINGTON, Jan. T. Up -
The supreme court may decide to-
morrow the validity of a Kentucky
law taxing bank deposits of Ken
tuckians kept outside the state at
rate five times greater than that
imposed on deposits within the
state. The Kentucky court of ap-
peals sustained the assessment.
The court also may act on an
appeal by Arkansas from a deci-
lion by the eighth federal circuit
court enjoining collection Of a tax
on gasoline Tin zee of 20 gall
lons) carried in the fuel tanks Of
interstate buses II the gasoline is
for use in other states.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
Tucuman Representative
Making Study OF N. {.

RALEIGH, Jan. 7.-tR-A North
Carolina-born representative of DR..
Miguel Critic. governor Of the prov
ince Of Tucuman in Argentina, is
making a study Of this state, par
ticularly Of the department of con.
servation and development and the
advertising division.
He is Benjamin J. Parmele of
Tucuman. who was born and reared
in Wilmington but who has been
living in the Argentine for IS years.
Already he has spent a day with
conservation and development Off
Gals here, and plans to return for
still more study, r. Bruce Ether
idge, department director, said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
Catcher Virgil Davis
Signs Corsair Contrad

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 7. - LR
Catcher Virgil (Spud) Davis, lnIi3
player obtained by Manager Franz
Frisch when he started rebulldn
the Pittsburgh baseball Pirates las
fall, has signed his first Pittsh0Es
contract, the Pirate managellFl
reported today.
Davis was bought from the PM
to add punch to the weak-hltll
Pirate catching staff, which i'
year failed to produce better lA@
a .235 batter. Davis batted '5Vl "
the pills, and ranked 14th anon
the % National league sluggers WIZ
hit 300 or better.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
IHFAFNER LEADS GOLF TOURNEY
Southern Loops Cage Slate Heavy This Week
GG Boxers To Resume
GYM Workouts Tonight

Wilmington boxers who are
candidates for the Golden Gloves
tournament, to be held here on
February S, 6 and !. will return
to their daily workouts at the
Golden Gloves gymnasium on
North Front street tonight.
Workouts will get under way
ut 8 o'clock. The same hour
will be observed throughout the
week.
Training for the fistic event
got under way in earnest last
week, with as many as IS boys
present OH one night. Officials
in charge Of the tournament
gym said that several Of the
boxers are nearing condition for
the meet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
Cunningham Proves He Is Man
To Beat On Boards This Year

and is to teach, and I think it's high
time I got around to it."
If last nights az was any in
dication, Glenn should be in for a
rousing finale. Although he had had
a touch of ptomaine poisoning on
Thursday, he didn't show it. He
simply bided his time until he was
ready to CO., then cut loose to over
take Curtis Guddings, former n. Y.
C. star, and hold off the home
stretch bid of the University of
Maryland's Jim Kehoe.
Perhaps it's disappointment over
losing one more shot at the Olympic
1,50O-meter title that will help Cum
ningham's feet fly a little faster
this winter. Glenn admits he had
his heart set on getting a place on
the 1910 U. S. team, and as for 1914
that looks a long way off to an
athlete who was 80 years old last
August.
From the other races and their
times in the years first board
meet, this should be a good season
for others besides Cunningham.
Don Lash was back in his old stride
in winning the two-mile, in which
N. Y. US sophomore, Les Mac
Mitchell, looked very good with a
third place time of 9:09.7 in his
first try at the distance. Jim Her
bert looked to be back in form in
winning the 500 in 58.6, only a sec
ond short Of the record, as Fresh
man John Quigley, of Manhattan,
who won the Sugar Bowl 400 meters,
ran second,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
INDIAN MAT Girl,
TO MEET WERNER
Gal Grapplers In Feature Ruu,
On Three Match Card At
Stadium Tuesday Night

The second three-bout wrestli,.
program to be offered WiImirn.
fans will be presented at Loot.
stadium tomorrow night, with . =.
ture attraction to be a match J..
tween Princess Rose White clo.,
comely Cherokee Indian grsnr,,.
and Babe Werner, of Oklahoma
The semi-final match will b,i,.
John Grandovitch, hefty son,h,.
champion, back to the mat hero -.
time meeting Dick Lever, of N.,.
vile, Tenn, who despite his ON,
mat work is none too popular VII,
L cal fans.
However,, the feature bout of T.,
evening will be a return enosn.
ment between Johnny Mars, forr,,
world champ, and Chief Iitfs
Beaver, of Cherokee, N. c.
Last week the two wrestlei IA ,
draw after they had used 4vsr,
trick in the book. This week if tbey
can't get a decision through wrAs,.
ling methods they will don bovir,
gloves and slug away to their hear,
content. The match will be q n,
time-limit, no-holds-barred affair and
promises to be as exciting as .ry
ever presented here.
Mike Miller, promoter, said Las,
night that Wilmington fans Shove,
week that they like this tvr,
of mat card and he expressed m.
opinion that tomorrow nights nro
gram will be even better than I.r
weeks.
The exhibit building at the stsd,
UNI will be heated for the occasior
The opening match gets under way
at SIS o'clock. Rudy Martin viii
referee all three bouts.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08

NEW YORK, Jan. 7.-R- Still
the man the crowd watches when
he comes out for a warm-up in his
trim Kansas training suit, Glenn
Cunningham already has proved in
this young indoor track season that
he remains the man to beat on the
boards.
The 30.year.oh veteran opened
his eighth indoor campaign last
night by running a / minute. 56.1
second half-mile il the Columbus
Council K. of c. games in Brook
Ign. He won it with his famous
finishing kick, only this time, since
he was running but half his Gus
tomary distance, he had to "kick'
for half a lap instead Of the GUS
tomary full one.
There is more than a suspicion
about that this will be Glenn's last
whirl around the spiked-shoe cir
cult. For one thing, there is a
strong feeling that the University
of Kansas, to reward him for his
years of faithful missionary work
will give him a good job. For an
other, Glenn himself feels it's time
he settled down to the teaching fol
which he has been preparing him
self all these years.
MY work in the extension divis.
ion has been pleasant" the Kan
san said as he kept jogging up ane
down to timber up for his half-mtis
sprint. 1--WE done a lot of travelling
I've met a lot Of people, and It'll
been good training. But it really
was just a film. NV ambition wal
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08

burn opened their league campaigns
with double victories at st. Louis
where Drake beat Washington 27.22
and st. Louis u, 1929 while Wash
burn was trimming Washington At
81 and st. Louis 1927. Drake and
Oklahoma Aggies, co.champions,
play the loops headline game Sat.
urday at Des Moines.
Southwest: While the Southwest's
prize package of dynamite-the N.
M. Aggies-shuffle east, they may
not be missed out home, for the
Oklahoma U.-Oklahoma Aggie game
is on tap this week. Thatll cause
as much excitement as Kansas
walloping Of Oklahoma, by 1926, did
last week. That and Nebraska's up.
set win yer California may be for.
gotten, however, when Rice plays
Texas Christian and Baylor and
Texas Aggies clash.
Rocky Mountains: In LOGAN, Utah
State plays California and Utah U.
meets St. Mary's Monday night and
then they trade opponents Tuesday
at Salt Lake City in the dedication
ceremonies for two new fieldhouses.
Fridays conference schedule pits
Wyoming against Colorado State,
Colorado against Utah State, and
Utah against Denver u, now shar.
ing the league lead with Colorado's
Buffaloes. Each has won one.
Pacific Coast: The coast kids are
coming home and so the conference
warfare will start to hum this week.
In the southern division Friday
night U. c. L. A. and Stanford play
at Palo Alto and California and u.
S. c. meet at Los Angeles.
In the northern division, Oregon
State, the early favorite, trounced
the oft-beaten Idaho five twice to
take the league lead. Washington
State. rated with Oregon and Ore.
gon State as the top three. stumbled,
losing its opener to Washington SO.
38 but coming back to win Saturday
night 51.35 for the fourth victory in
20 years on a Seattle floor. Idaho
plays Oregon Monday and Tuesday
in the first conference test for the
latter, N. c. A. A.. champions.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
MAKES FATAL JUMP

NEW YORK, Jan. Z. - Up - It
couldn't have been lack of money
that caused Margaret V. Santora, 40,
to make a fatal S0-foot plunge today
from the elevated train structure at
Broadway and 10th St. Pinned to
her slip were SIS IN bills and in
her handbag was a handbook show
ing a 1884 balance.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
CAR0LlNAPR0 HAS
TOP SCORE OF 2l2|
Causes Most Golfers To
Shoot Over Par In Los
Angeles Golf Open

LOS ANGELES. Jan. 7.-(R-
Handicapped by stormy showers,
husky Clayton Heather of Linville,
N. c., continued to set the pace IN
the annual Los Angeles open. to-
day, shooting a 70 for a 81 hole
score of PIP.
Heather played his round In
drizzles and occasional downpours,
but the later arrivals, including e.
j. (Dutch) Harrison, Amateur
MILFORD Wehrle, Jimmy Hines and
a few others, waded through the
last six holes in an incipient cloud
burst.
Any chance Harrison had OF
catching Heather was washed away
by the rain. He took rs strokes tc
get around the par 70 course OF
the Los Angeles Country club.
Heafner started the round with
q one stroke lead over Harrison
and Ben Hogan Of White Plains,
N. Y. At the finish he held a two
stroke lead over Amateur Johnny
Dawson, who forged forward, with
a II, and a three stroke lead over
Hogan, Al Kreuger, of Beloit,
Wis, and Mark Fry Of Oakland,
Calf. Wehrle, first day leader, blew
himself to an SO for 224. while
Olin Dutra Of Los Angeles, and
Harrison stayed in the running at
216.
Tournament officials hoped to
continue with the final round to-
morrow If the storm subsidies.
No player broke par and scores
mostly scared skyward.
Predictions that the winning to-
tai would be under $50 seemed re-
mote.
Heafner would have broken par
but he bogied the 18th and 18th.
He overshot the green on the 18th.
His chipback rolled in and out of
the cup.
sixty-six players who had scores
of 229 or better qualified for the
fourth round:
Leading scorers:
Clayton Heafnsr, Linville, N. c.,
139-73-212.
xJohnny Dawson, Hollywood, 14a-
71-214.
AL Kruger, Beloit, Wis, 144-71-
215.
Ben Hogan, White Plains, N. 2,
140.75-215.
Mark Fry, Oakland, 144.71-215,
DIN Dutra, Los Angeles, 144-72
-216.
E. j. Harrison, Little Rock, Ark,
140-76-216.
Lawson Little, New York, 1914
-217.
Jimmy Hines, New York, 1874
PIT.
Tony Penna, Dayton, Ohio, 143.
1915.
Horton Smith, Oak Park, Ill.
145.73-218.
Jimmy Thompson, Shawnee-on-
Delaware, 145.73-21S.
Jimmy Demaret, Houston, 147-72
-219.
Mat Kowal, Philadelphia, 150-70
-22o.
Stan Horne, Montreal, Canada,
145-75-220.
Bruce Coltart, Haddonfield, N. J.,
142-78-220.
Dick Metz, Oak Park, Ill.,, 145-
75-220.
George Schneiter, Ogden, Utah,
148-73-221.
Paul Runyan, White Plains, N.
Y, 149-72-221.
John Perelli, Lake Tahoe, 1876
-221.
Vic Ghezzi, Deal, N. j., 146-7s-
222.
Denny shute, Huntington, W.
Va, 147-75-222.
H~-- ---.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
Billy Conn To Tangle
With Cooper Wednesday

NEW YORK, Jan. 7.-R-Billy
Conn, lightheavy king from Pitts
burgh will make his first New York
start as a heavyweight Wednesday
when he tangles with Henry Cooper,
heavyweight prospect from Brook
lyn. The hereunder will be fought
in the Madison Square Garden.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
GAME POSTPONED

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7.-LR-
Threatening weather and a sloppy
gridiron caused postponement to-
day of the annual "Pro-Bowl"
football game between the cham
pion Green Bay Packers and the
National. League All-Stars. Show
ers fell last night and today, with
the skies threatening to let loose
a steady downpour at any time.
The game will be played next
Sunday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
LINER RELEASED

LONDON, Jan, 7.-(R-The Unit
ed States liner Manhattan, detained
by the British contraband control
at Gibraltar yesterday, was released
today. The liner was said to have
been permitted to resume her voyage
to Genoa after its owners, the Unit
ed States Lines, agreed that if the
British found any contraband in the
ships manifest it would be placed 1T
h disposal of British authorities in
that port.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
Bowling Leagues Open
Play After Holidays

Play in the Independent, City and
Ladies Bowling leagues was resumed
last week after a layoff during the
holidays.
All matches booked for last week
and not played will be played this
week, league officials announced.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
UNDECIDED

PALM SPRINGS, Calf, Jan. T.
LP-Louis Bromfield, novelist and
Ashland. O., farmer. said today he
was undecided whether to become a
candidate for congress from his home
district because Of obligations"
which might interfere with his cam.
paign.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
SERVICES

ROME, Jan. 7.-tR-Premier Mus
solini today centralized all Of the
Italian army. technical services-ar'
tillery, engineering and motoriza'
tion--under the single adminiFtra-
ton of General Mario Caracciolo.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
No RAIL STRIKES

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.-R-The
national mediation board noted in
its annual report today that 1t went
through the fiscal year 1889 without
having to deal with a railroad strike
and with only one strike on an air
line.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
SMOKE RINGS
Gehrig--The Great:
BY SAM Raglan

Lou Gehrig, the "Iron Man" Of baseball, started on a
10Y ioh lost week-the job of steering d%elinquents back
on the right paths. Columbia Lou, the man VINO played
. 40 consecutive baseball games until paralysis benched
~; I'm It'd renorters when he started to work that the Job
was, was another career for him and all he wanted was to
make good" !, a. = In hodn,+
ovon tried = new lob he has already accomplished enough
ia make his name live for many, many years to come.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08

Sixty per cent Of Canada's rich
fur crop ONE from trapped wild
animals, the remainder from fur
farms.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08

x-Denotes amateur.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-16
Clerical Support For
 Birth Control Attacked
Noyena Preacher In City Labels Ministers Who Sup= port Relaxed Birth Control Laws Fifth Colum=
 nists, Traitors to Their Religion

we should call those so-caled ministers of religion, who without shame have gone down on record in the public press that they would use their political influence at our state legislature to do away with the dignity of womanhood and motherhood and legalize birth con- trol in Connecticut, fifth columnists and traitors in the cause of Christ and his religion" stated Rev. Paul Spodnik in his sermon last evening during the second week of the new novena to St. Joseph in the Church of the Immaculate Conception.
 Father Spodnik, assistant to the permanent pastor, Rev. Francis M. O'Shea, paid stirring tribute to Connecticut legislators whom he asserted had very noble sentiments III their minds when the present laws opposing birth control were legalized. Father Spodnik emphat- ically urged Christian men to up- hold the dignity of womanhood and motherhood after the model of St. Joseph and likewise urged Chris tian women to follow the example of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
 "'The dignity of motherhood should be raised to the level of sacredness, but now it is on the same level like in the time of the Blessed Virgin when organism was widespread" added Father Spod- nix. Tn the time of the Blessed Virgin the dignity of motherhood was often scoffed at and marriage was considered trifling and Chris tian ideals were forgotten" he con- tinued.
 Father Spodnik took for his mo- vena sermon the topic The Feast of the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary which Catholics throughout the country observed last Friday. He wildly described the scene of Nazareth when Gabriel was sent down by God to inform Mary that she was chosen to be- come the Mother of God When she meekly answered.: "be it done ac- cording to thy word," great was the joy in heaven that the long prom ised Messiah was to come into the world.
 By her acceptance to become the Mother of God. Father Spodnik stated that Mary had raised wo- manhood to a high level and motherhood to a Sacredness which had not prevailed in the organism of that time.
 Thursday, october 3, the Water bury Democrat carried a story to the effect that Rev. Dr. John o, Walker, pastor of the Second Con- (Continued on Page 9
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-16
DAN CAMPBELL IN
 NARROW ESCAPE

London, Oct. 16.-(UP)-Dan Campbell of the United Press staff in London, escaped death in last nights German air raids because he was ordered not to go home.
 Campbell had intended to stay at his apartment Gin Temple Court near the law courts in central Lon- don) but at the last minute, Wal lace Carroll, United press manager in London, insisted that he sleep elsewhere because the district had been bombed on various occasions
 Campbell therefore went home with Edward w. Beattie. Jr., of the London staff, and during the night bomb reduced Campbell's apart ment building to a pile Of rub-
 "A coroner Of London that even Christopher Wren could not replace just blew up" Campbell said. Tt was a little old-worid street. Was no architects dream but it can't bc restored.
 "Along with it went 7b.000 words of an historical novel in manuscript. Well. maybe it would have been . bad novel anyway"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-16
DEMOCRATS GET
 ENCOURAGEMENT
Roosevelt to Visit State; Hurley Charge On
 Milk Denied
(By United Press)

Democratic state leaders were encouraged today by reports that President Roosevelt planned to visit the state later this month during an inspection tour of Atlantic sea- board defense facilities.
 Tentative plans of the President called for brief stops at Hartford New Haven, Bridgeport and Water bury-all vital defense points and considered Democratic strongholds in the November elections.
 With Connecticut still considered as a "doubtful' state, however, ap- pearance of the President, and his running mate, Henrly A. Wallace just before election, would have considerable influence in rallying the campaign to a record tournout of voters, leaders believed.
 Both parties planned to bring ul the big guns of the campaign dur ing the week before, election day by importing influential speakers Democrats alone planned 62 major rallies as its Hurley-for-Gov motorcade swung through the state
 Republicans today refuted the charges of the Democratic guberna- torial candidate, State Public Works Director Robert A. Hurey, that theil administration deliberately concealed survey of the milk market which showed that milk could be profitably sold three cents cheaper than the current price of IA cents a quart.
 State Milk Administrator s. Nc (Continued on Page D
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-16
LONG LINES OF
 MEN REGISTER
Enrolment In Early After= noon Termed SatisfaC-
 tory By Officials

The young men who may be called on to defend democracy and the American way of life flocked to their voting district headquarters today to register themselves under the selective service act. There were no bands playing, no dramatics as they lined up quietly to give the desired information; there was unanimous agreement that, what ever the sacrifices, the homeland and its institutions must be pre- served: it was with almost grim de- terminatoin that many of the eligibles waited their turn to give the required information.
 Enrolment up to mid-afternoon was described as very satisfactory. Town Clerk Mary c. Kilmartin called the turnout of young men between 21 and 35 "a remarkable demonstration" Registrars Albert o. Taller and John T. Derwin said that the registration figures were most satisfactory" Mayor Vincent A. Scully, who was touring the city to visit ea.h of the registration cen- ters, also expressed himself as high ly pleased witt: the way in which registration was proceeding.
 Rush Due Tonight.
 The heaviest rush on the registra- ton h 'adquarterS is expected to- night, but the way in which eligi- bles turned out early reduced fears of any major jams between and g D. m. There were orderly lines all morning long at each of the 32 voting districts. No disturbances of
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