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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-18
on the terms they will demand to
call off their armies.

on the terms they will demand to
call off their armies.
France fully expected the price
of cessation of the hostilities she
Joined with Great Britain last Sept.
8 will be colonies, long disputed
border areas such as Alsace-Lor-
raine on Germany's frontier and
Nice and Savoy on Italy's Corsica
in the Mediterranean and probably
the French navy, second in Europe
only to Britain's.
Petain told his red-eyed country
men, weary and saddened beyond
description, that he already had
opened negotiations to stop III e
fighting.
In a firm voice, the 84-year-old
soldier-diplomat said he had asked
Hitler last night whether he was
willing as one soldier to another
TO discuss peace-"with honor"
So far as was known at night
fall, fighting was still going on but
apparently with reduced intensity.
The French armies have been
fighting a slow withdrawal through
the heart of France for IL days
since the main German attack
started along the Somme and
Aisne rivers.
The German lines have pushed
into a great curve sweeping from
the English channel rs miles west
ward and south of Paris to the
Loire river where they cut across
to the Swiss frontier in the region
Of the Doubs river valley.
Defeat Acknowledged
The defeat of the French army
was acknowledged in the state.
ment of a military spokesman who
said at the afternoon press con
ference that there now is no con
tinuous French front. The French
he said, had lost great quantities
Of artillery and other equipment
Up to the late afternoon, thi!
spokesman said, there had beer
no response to Frances plea fol
peace.
which decided Paul Reynaud t.
resign the premiership last nigh
to make way for the elevation o
Petain as the one man he con
sidered able to rally the French
behind him for the fateful decision
The end of French resistance
was foreshadowed in this suddel
replacement of the Reynaud gov
! eminent by a peace cabinet
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FRANCE
FRENCH CONTINUE
FIGHT AS CABINET
PROPOSES PEACE
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(COnGIluSO FROM rage Olc)
lini arranged to meet tomorrow
to give the verdict.
with a broken heart" the new
84-year-old French Premier Henri
Philippe Petain, who immortalized
the words they shall not pass"
at Verdun in the World War, gave
his countrymen today the decision
that France must yield.
Petain made the sad explanation
that France, on her knees before
an overpowering enemy superior
m numbers and arms" had to give
up, but both he and Baudoin in
Dictated that France demanded hon.
or as well as peace.
Praises Allies
Praising the help of Great Brit
ain, Poland, Norway, Holland, and
Belgium, Baudoin said 1--WE a l
were insuffciently prepared for this
war with it's new methods.
"Our Allies wer unable to give
US d. WHICH IIlS 1SllCll dlIlly, 40
the vanguard, needed. That is why
Premier Petain has asked the enc
my today for negotiations to cease
fighting"
The French radio said at 1875
pm. (4:35 pm, EST there still
was no reply from Germany to
the request for an armistice.
eric Sevareid, CHS reporter in
France, in commenting on Bau-
doin's broadcast, said the French
cabinet would not accept an IN
conditional peace.)
Fierce fighting had swept deep
into France and erased the sup
posedly impregnable Maginot line,
like an ancient myth thrown down
by the reality of modern arms.
A French military spokesman
admitted France no longer had a
front to the enemy and that Nazj
motorized columns had cut French
armies into ribbons.
Hitler deferred the sought : fol-
stoppage of war on France in or
der to confer with his axis partner
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ITALY
DUCE LEAVES
TO MEET HITLER
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sessions, are the other Italian OBJ
jectives in the a
A joint attack on Britain, in Which
the Germans would strike direct
from Europe while the Italians
would hammer at bases in the Medi-
terranean, also is expected to be
discussed by the two dictators.
Italians continued reconnaissance
activity in the Alps along the
French border and clashed with
British troops in North Africa
The Italian communicate said a
civilian was killed at Savona and
several others were wounded by
British airmen. Six aviation tech
nicians were killed and 80 wounded
in an air attack on an Italian air.
drome.
A strong tone toward Egypt was
taken by the Rome newspaper FL
Teverse, which declared that the
latitude assumed by the Egyptian
government is inadmissable."
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headed by Petain, the last OF
Frances old marshals.
Petain did not say how he con-
tacted the Germans to sue for
peace but it was reported that it
was accomplished with Spain as
intermediary.
Petain was called out of often
interrupted retirement to be
Frances ambassador to the gov
eminent of General Francisco
Franco at the conclusion of the
Spanish civil war, in which both
Italy and Germany supported his
fight with republican armies.
Petain's first act as premier was
doubly bitter, for it was he who
translated they shall not pass
into successful resistance against
the forces of Imperial Germany
at Verdun "a years ago.
Now Verdun was lost, Paris fall
en-, the Maginot lines half-billion
dollar defenses junked and all but
deserted and the great weight of
Nazi Germany biting ever deeper
into the hard-held soil the French
man has loved SO dearly for cen
turtles.
To his countrymen the old SOL
dier-diplomat said:
1T is with a broken heart that I
tell you today it is necessary to
stop the fighting.
II addressed myself last night
to the adversary to ask him if he
is ready to seek with me as SOL
der to soldier, after the actual
fighting is over and with honor,
the means of putting an end to
hostilities."
A thunderstorm punctuated the
momentous speech to his stricken
nation.
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S0LONS ASKED TO
AUTHORIZE IS
MORE WARSHIPS
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of this sum. estimated at $50, 000,-
400 would be spent on expansion
Of shipyards.
The naval construction bill IT.
rived at the capitol while both
senate and house were speeding
along other defense measures.
Unanimously, and without de-
bate. the house approved a bill
authorizing an increase in the reg
ular army from $50, 900 to 400, 900
rren.
The senate, meantime, took up
The s., OO7, 900, 900 defense tax bill,
expecting to pass it tomorrow or
Wednesday.
The army expansion bill now
gees to the senate and on that side
Of the capitol some sentiment was
evidenced for authorizing a still
greater increase in enlisted per-
sonnet.
Senator Lodge (R-Mass) said it
might be advisable to raise the
figure to $50, 600, a point of view
that some others endorsed. Chair
man Sheppard D-Tex) of the mil
itary committee commented, how
ever, that there would be little
point to a large army unless it
were. equipped with modern weap-
ems.
Elsewhere. there were these 9TH
er defense developments:
The army, rporting on tn n
listmnt campaign already under
way, said it had received 1851 vol
mteers since June l and predicted
its goal of $4,000 by July l would
be easily reached.
President Roosevelt signed two
bills authorizing a naval air force
Of 10000 planes and 5000 pilots,
and an increase in the fleet by 81
warships and % auxiliary YES
sells. /
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II ARMY AIRMEN
KILLED in CRASH
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climb to avoid crashing into the
locked ships.
Lieut.. James O. Ellis, flying the
fourth plane, told Col. D. B. Meth
erwood, field commandment, that he
had heard Burlingame's order and
then he saw one plane come up
under the other and strike it just
aft of amidships.
The two machines fell, glued to-
gether, for several hundred feet
before breaking apart and burst
ing into flames. Mitchell control
tower said neither Burlingame nor
Second Lieut.. Bylander, flying che
er, of Little Roc, Ark, flying the
second ship, contacted the control
tower by radio after the collision.
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REDS RUSH TROOPS,
TANKS TO LATVIA, '
ESTONIA, LITHUANIA

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welcomed.
The Berlin radio, in an Eng
list broadcast heard in London,
"Some circles abroad are
making idle speculation with
regard to Soviet Russia S inten-
lions. All rumors in this con-
nection are entirely unfound-
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CABINET TO MEET

NEW YORK, June 17-QP-Ed-
ward R. Murrow, Columbia broad.
casting system correspondent in
London, reported in a broadcast to.
night that the Rumanian cabinet will
meet Tuesday at the unusually ear.
ly hour of 9 a. m.," and that it is
believed 1.-The battle for Rumanian
oil is being resumed, with Russia
playing a dominant role.
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OSCAR T.

Oscar Upton Mcclellan, So, far
mer and livestock dealer on the
market street road, died in the
Jane sWalker Memorial hopital
yesterday afternoon following a
short illness.
Funeral services will be held
from the capel of Andrews mortu-
airy Wednesday morning at l o.
clock, with the Rev. A. J.. Howell
and the Rev. Raleigh M. Engle
officiating. Interment will follow IN
Oakdale cemetery.
Mr.. McClelland was born in Sui
Ivan county, Tennessee, on Nov
ember 10, 1887 and moved to Will
mington in 1901. He is survived by
his mother, Mrs. W. B. Mcclellan,
of Wilmington. z
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MRS. CHARLOTTE WEBSTER

Funeral SERVICES for Mrs. Char
lotte Ann Webster, 70, wife of
William J. Webster, of 30S South
18th street, who died Saturday
night at her home, were held at 2
o'clock yesterday afternoon from the
Yopp Funeral home.
The Rev. J. H. Whitmore had
charge of the services with the
Rev. J. R. Phipps conducting the
services at the ~graveside in the
Whiteville cemetery. The funeral
cortege left here at the close of
services.
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MRS. JOE

CHADBOURN, June 17.-Funer-
al services for Mrs. Joe Thompson,
20, who died at II o'clock Satlr-
day night in the Columbus county
hospital after a short illness. were
held at 4 O'Clock yesterday after
noon from the home of her sister,
Mrs. Dow Rich.
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R ZACH BENSON

Funeral services for Mrs. lack
Benson, g, mother of R.. L. and
J. r. Benson, of Wilmington, who
died at Z o'clock Sunday night at her
home at Swan Quarter following a
short illness, were held at 8 o'clock
yesterday afternoon from the Soul
church, near the late residence.
Burial followed in the family ceme-
terry.
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OBITUARIES
j. III. LEE

BURGAW, June II. Funeral
services for J. H. Lee, Sc, who died
Saturday at his home here after a
long illness, were held at 8 o'clock
yesterday afternoon from the late
residence.
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r ANNIE L

Funeral services for Mrs. Annie
Jane Kelly, widow of David G..
Kelly, who died Saturday afternoon
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
r. C. Murray, of Wilmington, route
one, were held at q o'clock Sunday
Afternoon from the late residence.
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FAIRMONT TOMATO
SALES ARE GOOD
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as only about half the growers in
this section were represented on the
market during the day.
According to the present schedule,
grading and packing will be done
during the mornings, with the mar
ket opening each day at 10 o'clock.
The tomatoes are being shipped from
here to eastern markets via refriger-
ated railroad cars.
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WEATHER
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WASHINGTON, June II. P, -
weather bureau records of temperature
ana rainfall for the "a hours ending s
p. m.' In the principal cotton-growing
areas and elsewhere:
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HOTEL COMMODORE - Washington,
D. {. Facing Union Station-Capitol
riaza. Room and Bath from $3.50.
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VMI DOWNS TERPS
BY COUNT OF 200
Calls On Joe Muha For ScOr-
ing Punch And Sophomore
Responds
BY BEN HARDY

LYNCHBURG, Va, Nov. 16.-P
Virginia Military Institute called
on Joe Muha for the scoring punch
today for the second successive Sat
urday and the powerful 205-pound
sophomore back responded by scor-
ing all three touchdowns to beat
Maryland 20 to 0 before a disap-
pointing crowd of 1,5OO.
After a sluggish start with a
lineup, the Cadets sent
Muha into the game to start the
second quarter. He turned the tide
of a Maryland advance by intercept
ing Mearle Duvall's pass, intended
for John Cordyack, on the v. M. 1.
IS, brushing aside several Maryland
defenders, and cutting down the
sidelines on a 65-yard touchdown
His attempted placekick was
wide to the left.
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C0BBLERS DEFEAT
CENTRE COLLEGE
Take Prayin' Colonels BY The
Count Of 10 To 6 Before
1000 Fans
BY BILL STURDEVANT

DANV1LLE, KY, Nov. 16.-lR-
The Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Gobblers, buck1ng a freezing tenn
perature and a high wind, defeat
ed the Prayin' Colonies of Centre
college III to 6 today before 1000
s%hlvering football fans huddled in
the stands for the annual home
coming game.
1he last time Centre and VP1
played here was in 1922, when the
Colonies, led by "Bo" Mcmillan;
won by the same score by which
they lost today.
coming from behind in the first
period with a touchdown by Herb
lhomas and an extra-point place
KICK by Mcclure, the Gobblers
lengthened their lead in the final
quarter when Mcclure place-kick-
ed a field goal from the center
courtyard line.
centres single score came with
IN the first few minutes of play.
felcher, Centre right tackle, re-
covered a VPI tumble on the Vir-
glnlans' 30 yard line and on the
play Schultz scored from the
10 on a deceptive end-around.
place kick was wide.
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100 Legal
RESALE or REAL ESTATE

RESALE OF REAL ESTATE
WHEREAS, on the 28th day of
October, 1910, the undersigned Of
fered for sale the property herein
after described at public auction in
the County of New Hanover, in pur-
suance of the power and authority
given in a Deed of Trust executed
by H. L. Fennell and wife to the
undersigned, duly recorded in Book
217, page 279 of the records Of the
Register of Deeds of New Hanover
County, at which said sale the sum
of $4,000 was offered for the same;
and
WHEREAS, there has been depo-
sited with the Clerk of the Superior
Court of New Hanover County 500
of said bid, to-wit, the sum of $210,
which, under the Statutes, requires
a resale of said property;
NOW, THEREFORE, in pursu-
ance of the Statutes, as well as the
power of sale contained in the deed
of trust aforesaid, the undersigned
will, on Monday, November 18th,
1910. at twelve o'clock NJ, at the
Court House door of the County of
New Hanover, sell, at public auction,
for cash, to the highest bidder, the
bid to begin at $4,410, all that GER
tain tract, piece, or parcel of land,
lying, being and situate in the City
of Wilmington, County of New Han
over, North Carolina, and bounded
and described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point in the
Northern line of Market Street sc
feet East from it's intersection with
the Eastern line of Eighth Street;
runs thence EastWardly along said
Northern line of Market Street &C
feet; thence Northwardly parallel
with Eighth Street 165 feet; thence
Westwardly parallel with Market
Street &c feet; thence Southwardly
parallel with Eighth Street 165 feet
to the Beginning. Same being a
part of Lots 3, 4 and 5 in Block 172
according to the official plan of the
City Of Wilmington, N. C.
This November End, 1910.
F. B. GRAHAM,
Trustee,
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Jimmy Wilson Likely
To Get Gabby's 10

CHICAGO, Nov, 16,-tP-ln
hero of the 1910 world series ma
be the successor to Gabby HaF
as manager of the Chicago Gun
nett as manager of the Chlcas
Cubs.
He is Jimmy Wilson, who al +
years of age came off the coacnl
lines to give the Cincinnati He'
a great catching performance .. =
their series victory over DeToI, !,
Tigers. And wilson appafeA~
holds a slight edge In the Sps y.
lation which says either he or DI.
Meyer, Kansas City club manaS,
who has been given permission j.. \
seek a new post, this week W.
become the new Cub pilot
It is reliably reported that nS.,
nett's successor will be hai'.
Tuesday and it is known tha' wv Wv
the Cub president, P. H. WIFE,
and his new general manasa
James T. Gallagher, nave d ~
regard for wilson's ability
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Rousing Good Idea

SOUTHPORT, Nov. 16. 1t
vas raining. Crews of yachts
were slowing themselves away
inside somewhere, just as soon
as they moored. A local man
was having trouble making con-
facts. Nobody much would
come on deck.
The contact nan had a rainy
day idea. He annexed two of
the youngest and prettiest
school teachers available and
marched with them onto a dock
where a huge and luxurious
YACHT was tied.
In two seconds the Captain
appeared on deck and climbed
unto the dock; then came four
.ailors, then came the steward,
hen came the cabin boy, then
came the cook.
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FIGHTING IRISH
BOW TO HAWKEYES
HOPES Of NOtre Dame Eleven
Team Founder Beneath
Its Own Mistakes
BY TOM sILER

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Nov. 49,
R-Mighty Notre Dame fell from
the ranks of the nations undefeat-
ed teams today, bowling to the
amazing Iowa Hawkeyes, who per-
formed brilliantly when the breaks
came their way to score a 7 to 0
victory before $4,000 shivering
spectators.
The hopes of the fighting Irish
for their first perfect season in
a decade foundered on their own
mistakes and the inspired play of
the Iowans, who had lost four
games in a row.
Iowa, using only Is men in the
entire game, STAYED off every
Irish thrust until the final period
when their opportunity came. No
tire Dame, early in the fourth,
drove to the Hawks one yard line
but the much-defeated underdogs
held and took the ball on downs.
Jim Youell punted out and the
Irish roared back to the 10 yard
line.
At this point Captain Milt Pie
pull fumbled and Iowa's captain,
Mike Enich, snatched the ball in
mid-air and ran SO yards to the
Iowa 46.
The aroused Irish stopped the
attack and Youell punted to the
Irish Is. Al Couppee intercepted
Bob Saggau's pass on the first
play and returned eight yards te
the %. The Hawks drove to the
II and Bill Gallagher tried a fielc
goal from the Is but his boot wa
wide of the uprights.
The luckless Irish started from
their own 20. but again on the
first play little Steve Bagarus
fumbled and Ken Petit recovered
on the Notre Dame "a. Big Bill
Green roared through the Irish fo1
~ yards m two plays, Gallagher
added one at center and Their
Green smashed over right guarc
placekicked the point.
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Spencer set UP the first score in
the first period with a 35-yard punt
return that carried to Hampden-
Sydney's 1O-yard line. Two plays
later he dived over tackle for two
yards for the score. In the second
quarter he scooted five yards for
another tally at the end of a S.
yard march, marked by a 30-yard
run by Claude Hackney, another
Pony back.
Throughout the first half the
Wildcats dominated the play, rack
ing up II first downs while the
Tigers got but N AS the third
quarter got under way, Elmer Ber-
ry, Tiger quarterback, fumbled a
punt at midfield and Hank Balm
son, Davidson center, fell on the
ball.
On the first play from scrimmage,
Spencer went off right tackle, cut
back and raced through the second
airy untouched and across the goal
line. Bob johnson converted success
fully for the second time.
After the next Kickoff Spencer
fumbled at midfield and Toothman
recovered for Hampden-Sydney, but
the Tigers were forced to kick aid
three Wildcats stormed through to
block Harry Murdock's punt. Frank
Niven, end, scooped up the loose
ball on the Tiger As and raced down
the sidelines for the final touch
down.
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BRIGADE CACERS
BATTLING H0TLY

The second week of regular
league basketball at the Brigade
Boys club saw four of the snap
piest games ever played between
the Junior and Intermediate league
teams. In the Junior league Cap
tain David James managed to keep
his Harvard boys at the head of
the list although a fighting Notre
Dame team under the leadership
of Captain Walker Watson came
through with a last minute win to
60 into a ii, for top honors.
Real competition is noted in
these league games and the pres
ent team standings in no way pre-
dict the final results. In the In
termediate class, the Red Birds
captained by Lenwood Ellis took
two games with ease to go into
indisputed top place with a clean
record for the season. Standings
of both leagues are as follows:
I,vrsou~
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Chicago Bears Meet
Redskins At Capital

NEW YORK. Nov. 16.-R-The
ponderous Chicago Bears, masters
of the running game, and the WASH
ington Redskins, knights of the air,
collide in the capital city tomorrow
in the banner professional football
game of the season thus far-prob-
ably a preview of the annual cham
pionship play-off.
Washington, thanks to the mi
raculous pass-throWing of the one
and only Sammy Baugh, leads the
Eastern division of the National
Pro league by two full games and
was undefeated until it bumped in
to Brooklyn in it's eighth start last
Sunday.
The Bears, though victims of a
II to IA upset by Detroit last week,
still own a one-game lead over
Green Bay in the Western division
and will be battling tomorrow to
hold that advantage. Should the
Bears fall victim to Baugh's aerial
thrusts and Green Bay trim the
Giants here, then the lead in the
West would be deadlocked with
two games to 60.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-17
Georgia Tech Almost
Defeats Crimson Tide

ATLANTA, Nov. IT, up Lii
David almost slew another Goliath
today, but fate stepped in to side
with the giant-Alabama's Crimson
Tide - and courageous Georgia
Techs noble effort failed by the
slim margin of a single point.
The big red shirted Alabama
football team won the argument
in this Southeastern conference
duel, IA to IS, but a gamely fight
ing Georgia Tech team rose from
an %underdog role to take the edge
in all figures but the scoring and
barely miss penetrating for a win
ming touchdown.
Some $4,000 customers witness
ing thrill after thrill, among them
a 93-yard kickoff return for a
touchdown by Alabama's great half
back, Jimmy Nelson, saw Georgia
Tech roll up 16 first downs to 5
the Crimsons and outgain them.
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FURMAN BLASTS
CAMEC0CK HOPES
Bruising Battle Is Followed
By Fist Fight Among
Youthful Spectators

GREENVILLE, S. c., Nov. 10
LP-Striking' in waves of speed,
power and deception, Furman uni
versity's versatile football team
blasted the University of South Caro-
lima Gamecocks 25-7 today before
$500 %shivering spectators.
The bruising battle, in which
Carolina suffered several cost
ly penalties for unnecessary rough
ness, was followed by fist fights
as several hundred youthful spec.
tators swarmed onto the gridiron
and furnished an exciting aftermath
that continued fully 80 minutes be-
fore police and others quelled the
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CLEMSON TIGERS
TIE SOUTHWESTERN
Are Forced To Come From
Behind To Knot Count With
Underdog Eleven

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Nov. 16.-R
-Clemson's woodworking football
machine slid into high gear in the
final minutes of play today to punch
over a touchdown and tie underdog
Southwestern of Memphis, 1912, be-
fore a Homecoming Day crowd of
about 1000 fans.
Charlie CTuffy) Timmons, a 1856
pound battering ram from Abbeville,
S. c., plunged over from the one
yard line for the Tiger score after
runs by Halfbacks Chippy Maness
and Booty Payne moved the ball
into scoring position.
Timmons' placement try for the
vital extra point was blocked.