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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-04
Italy, Greece Locked
In Fierce Conflicts
Thus Far According to Reports Greece Seems to
Have Best of It-Naval Battle Off Corfu Also
Hurt Italian Forces
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS
United Press Foreign News Editor

Greece, aided by British air and
naval forces and apparently some
land troops, carried the war to Italy
today, threatening the Albanian base
of Koritza and smashing with hand
grenades and bayonet charges an
italian thrust toward Janina.
Reports from Athens and border
points in Jugoslavia made plain
that hard-hitting Greek mo ntain
troops had-for the time being
stalled the Italian war machine in
the mountains of the Albanian
Greek frontier and taken the Of
fensive into the southeast corner OF
Albania.
Great Britain appeared to be NOV
ing strongly 10 the support OF her
new ally. British bombing planes
possibly from Greek bases now being
established. blasted at Naples the
great southern Italian metropolis
for second time during the night
Rome admitted the attack bul
claimed that fierce anii'aireFafi
fire forced the British planes u
drop their bombs IN open country
where they were said 70 have killed
one person and wounded three
Greek Resistance
The Italians gave taeit admission
Of the strength OF Greek resistance
The official oommunlqne made ~
specific claims Of advances, mefell
asserting that Italian troops hae
gone beyond the kalibak' cross
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NEWS REEL MAN
BADLY INJURED

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Indian Nationalist leader, y e0nteln.
plating another ~ his famous fasla
IN protest against British rule u
wAs reported today IN allth0rllas''e
quarters,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-04
TREASURY BALANCE

washington, Nov. 4-(UP)--Gov-
eminent expenses and receipts for
the current fiscal year through Now
LIST, compared with a year ago;
This Year Expenses Last Year
s3.209,3Ii,4s2.i9 s3.259,301,i5i.eS
Receipts
si.ss5. sOs.ioe.57 si,7ss,b27ss0.77
Gross Deficit
si,s7l. OOs.s2b.e2 sl,t75,77s,sso9i
Net Deficit
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Cash Balance
s2.O2s. ssB. 1882 si,sss.4s4.eiois
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-04

Begin business training neW. Once
workers IN demand. Pest SnfliaF Csl'
lege n Commercially.
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The Weather

Fair, Warm Tonight;
Tuesday Very Cloudy
Full Weather Report ON Page 8
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-15

konoye will be making demands as
to the Dutch East Indies, and then
maybe it will be discovered that ia
pan has anticipated its demands by
having already grabbed the islands.
Presently, British Hongkong and
Singapore.
Perhaps Indo-China. Hongkong
and Singapore are none of Uncle
Sans business. But it will be pref
~ aggravating if. directly after we
nave granted independence to the
Philippines. the Japanese gobble
them, too.
I've read and heard the statement
made in this country that we
shouldn't be particularly concerned
IN what the mikado does on his own
side of the Pacific Nevertheless, Pre-
mler konoyc is on record To the pur-
port that he's -Oing ahead with his
program regardless of what the Unit
ed States thinks about il. Obviously,
he's Of the opinion that Nippon will
be stepping on on" toes, whatever
our Judgment may be-and he in
tends To step on EN-.
Furthermore, even if the JapS
don't threaten us from 4 military
standpoint they've played smash
with our oriental trace already. ES-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-15
HENDERSON IN CO DAILY DISPATCH THURSDAY AUGUST 15

Inmates are that the United States
has lost 80 per cent Of its business
with the Chinese. due to Japanese
interference.
Jap Appetite Unsuitable.
Those laps appetite is Unsuitable,
too.
Besides China, and Frances and
Britam'S possessions in southeastern
Asia, they have an eye on India,
Australia and New Zealand
True. that's Il long look into the
future. Still. some Of their miIitar-
lists have taken it. and said 50 in
official papers. The japanese in gen.
cral are All right, but their milltar-
lists (the SANITARY are VIGOROUSLY
wild-cycd. For anything they want
they're perfectly willing TO commit
suicide. And they're 100 per cent
dangerous to byStanderS while
they're trying To do it. It's widely
recognized as highly desirable 10
suuelch them before they get started.
If they have good luck with Indo-
China. HongkOng, Singapore, the
Dutch East Indies and the Philip
pines. they are liable 10 start after
Hawaii. That they'll succeed in lick
ing China proper, with its size and
huge population, is problematiC,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-15
No. Counties Population

With the States population now
3.56l. 800. the perfect district. from
the point Of view Of population
would have 323,8l7 inhabitants. The
Fifth. it will be observed, misses that
by only very few hundred.
On basis of twelve Congressman,
the ideal districts population would
be go. l66. which would bring the
districts now in the lower brackets
much closer to the desired normal.
Delving into few other statistical
angles as applied to the present Con-
greS>ional districts. it is interesting
to note that they are far>from being
equal in representation in the North
Carolina General Assembly. The
First. for example. has 20 of the
40 Assembly members 6 Senators,
Is Representatives. while the Sixth,
much larger in population, has only
8 - g l-2 Senators. ! RepreSen-
tativeS) and the Tenth. largest Of all.
has Is 6 Senators. Is Representa-
tiveS).
The half and other fractional
Senators are figured on the basis OF
Split" Senatorial districts. with
some counties in one Congressional
District. others in another; as we'll rs
upon the prevalent system of rota-
ton. which permits some counties TO
have Senators once in two sessions,
or perhaps twice in three sessions as
in the case of Nash, Wilson and
Franklin. which elect two for every
Assembly.
Here's the Assembly representation
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-15

49,
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-15
Japs Spread
Influence
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Konove had demanded, from Tokyo
the right to establish Japanese army
and navy bases in French FRENCH; ln S;S
china The Tokyo foreign Office ana
indeed, deny it, saying the story was 5
nirc,,lated for "ulterior purposes.
Pnt from other reliable sources came
the assertion that it didn't man ne
rm,Ich difference whether or not SUCH
u de demand had been made. because
the Japs already had selzeo ene
haSes And France couldn't 90 any
thing about it.. o dar,rtnent's
Officials at the state depal.l'ie EN-. .
rr.ision of Far Eastern affairs Vt .tc
t,re the guess that, by the time tne
truth has been sorted OUT, as Ot
t,veen these conflicting accoun.S
N ,T will be found firmly ell
trepnched in the area in question:
'tei More Demands Ahead? ;o,
Nsxt thing, it's suspected, Premier
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-15

BY popular request we are continuing
our offer Of this comfortable mattress
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to make your selection.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-15
Stormy Debate In
House of Commons
Over Secret Group

Continued From Faye ''l
the prime minister's gross and lying
innuendo". :..o. cold
Replying, the prime minister saiu
SEQ fan, from withdrawing, l VIII
take the opportunity of sending the
member a copy Of one OF ms inter-
ventions in which he did his very
Utmost to discredit me. l was only
looking at it last night
Disclosing to the house OF com
,,,ons that Il have some unsatisfac-
tov news" Churchill said small
R,.itish holding force had beer
driven back by greatly superior
Italian forces" back of Agrisa II
british SOmaliland.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-15
Raj Fighters, In
Quick Answer, Drive
German Planes Away
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in armored cars drew tighter the
nets thrown about thickly wooded
sections where the finding Of three
score parachutes caused fears OF
parachute troops.
AT the same time authoritative
quarters acknowledged d rapid ad-
vance of italian forces in far of
British Somaliland and the home
guard troops and police continued
efforts to explain the mysterious APP
pearance of parachutes.
The Italians in Somaliland were
admitted to have made an advance
pore rapid than expected along
the coastal road from leila toward
Berbera. despite Yesterdays naval
COMPARTMENTS, and were said to be
about so miles west Of the capital
and chief port of Berbera.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-15

however.
Its like jumping into the contents
of a grain elevator. The jumper goes
right through the grain alright. but
the stuff closes up above him as he
slumps downward and smotheEs Cor
droWns) him.
But not all Of japanese would-bc
victims have the population of a
grain elevator.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-15
Tenth District Due To Be
Split if State Gets New
Congressman, Averill Says

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North Cardinals districts. if and
when. here's the statistical situation
as 10 population of the present dis
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-08-15
Cotton Prices
Are Mixed

New York. Aug. l5.-(AP)-Cot-
'nh futures opened = lower to |
higher.
Al midday prices were , higher
l" lower. Futures closed = higher
10 lower, middlug spot 1901, llp I.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
No Chance Now For
Beard-Winters Bout

That long-hoped for re-match TO
Red Beard, Of Fayetteville, and
Zane Winters, of Raleigh, who stag
ed one Of the best fights in the VIII
mington Star-News Brigade Golden
Gloves this year, will not material
ize-at any rate not in New York
this year.
Winters won in the match with
Beard here but the latter lad was
not in condition and there was con-
siderable speculation yer what
would happen if the boys met while
both were in the pink.
Monday night Beard advanced ,
the semi-finals Of the tournament
of champions in New York, but Win
ters fell by the wayside, losing a
TKO in the third round to Osccr
Boyd of Buffalo.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
BUFFALO, BOY WINS
BOUT BY DECISION
Beard, Last Surviving Mem
Der Of Local Team, Ad-
vances To Semi Finals

NEW YORK, March 5.-Jimmy
Swami, 112-pound slugger from
Wilmington, N. c., bowed out of
the annual Golden Gloves amateur
boxing tournament of champions
here tonight, leaving only n 9th.
er member of the Wilmington di-
vision of the Atlanta team, Vance
Red" Beard, to carry on in the
semi-finals.
Swami dropped a decision to Ray
Wyzykiewicz, of Buffalo, N. Y,
high schooler, in a fast, tough, 112'
pound duel of leather Singing.
The Wilmington flyweight had
advanced to the quarter-finals with
an impressive second-round knock
out over Harry Varava, of Tren'
ton, N. j., Monday night.
Beard, who drew a bye in the
opening round, scored a decision
over Johnny Rogers, of Washing
ton, in the quarter-finals of the
middleweight division Monday night
to become the first member OF the
Atlanta team to advance to the
semi-finals.
The semi-finals and finals will
be held in Madison Square Garden
Wednesday night.
Ed "Tiny" Taylor, heavyweight,
was the first member Of the Will
mington boxing contingent to lose
in the tournament. He dropped a
decision to George Washington, of
Syracuse, Monday night.
Two other members Of the Allan.
ia Southeastern United States box
ing team advanced to the semi
finals with victories tonight. Jim.
my Butler, Of Atlanta, outpointed
Steve Yuhas, of Philadelphia, in
the 135-pound quarter-finals, and
Joe Zimmerman, of Atlanta, scored
a decision over Fred Thiel, Of
Union City, N. J..
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
California Racetrack
Probe Reaches Impasse

LOS ANGELES, March 5.-LR-
The senate racing committee today
sought further evidence of an at.
tempted $500 0o ~shakedown of Holly.
wood Park race track on a promise
of winter racing dates, and succeed
ed in turning up little less than de.
mails from alleged participants.
Ralph Evans, state building and
loan commissioner, and Norman W.
Church, race horse owner, both
named by previous witnesses as hav.
ing proposed the arrangement, de-
ried under oath they had anything
to do with it or knew about it.
Church contradicted a statement
by Senator D. Jack Metzger, chair
man of the committee, that Church
told him he had contributed $50 900
to the campaign fund of Governor
gilbert L. Olson so he could be
the sole boss of horse racing in Cali.
fornia."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
Chinese Resist Advance
Of Strong Jap Force

HONGKONG, March 6. - (Wed-
nesday) Up - Chinese militiamen
and armed civilians were reported
in Chinese quarters today to be
stoutly resisting the advance of a
strong Japanese force which land
ed this morning on the south bank
Of the Pearl river, SO miles south
of Canton and only 20 miles north
of the Portuguese colony of Macao.
Landing under the protecting fire
of destroyers anchored in the Pearl
river, the Japanese naval and mill
tary forces met with determined
Chinese resistance after they had
pushed beyond the protecting range
Of their naval guns. The fighting
was increasing in intensity.
An official japanese announce.
ment said japanese General To-
shizo Nashio had just completed
a week-long inspection of South
China fronts, his first visit to the
since his assumption of the
leadership of the Japanese army's
unified command in China.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
SMITH, RUNYAN
BEATEN IN MEET
Metz, Laffoon Play Burke,
Wood In Finals Today; Har-
risOn And Heather Lose

CORAL GABLES, Fla, March 5.
- Up - Horton Smith, one of the
worlds great putters, missed a wee
m of less than three feet today as
he and Paul Runyan, last of the
seeded teams, faded out of the
$1,000 International Four-Ball golf
tournament.
The ball curled around the cup
and hesitated on the lip but didn't
go inland SO Dick Metz and Ky
Laffoon play Billy Burke and Craig
Wood in the finals tomorrow.
Metz and Laffoon both scored
birdie fours to beat Runyan and
Smith, four time. finalists in the
four-ball. one up, after Sc holes.
Wood and Burke came from be.
hind and Won from Clayton Heaf,
ner and E. J.. (Dutch) Harrison, 4
and 3, in the other semi-final.
Metz and Laffoon won the tour
nament two years ago.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
Cody To Report For New
Grid Job At Temple Soon

PHILADELPHIA, March S. Up
Josh Cody, who resigned yesterday
as head football coach at the Uni
versity of Florida, will come to Tenn.
pie University as line coach, direc-
tors of athletics Earl R. Yeomans
announced tonight.
His appointment, which was ex-
pected, fills out the Owls varsity
football staff. Ray Morrison was
named head coach succeeding Fred
Swan yesterday and he disclosed
Henry Frnka, his assistant at Van
derbilt, would accompany him here.
Morrison plans to come here the
last week in March to perfect plans
Tor spring practice starting April /.
Grnka and Cody are expected to
accompany him. Cody, who sci we'd
under Morrison at Vanderbilt, went
to Florida as head coach in 1886.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
TOURNEY TO OPEN TO-DAY
Nine GAMES SET
FOR OPENING DAY
ShaIIotte, Rosehill Girls Meet
In Opener At l P. M. On
Y. M. C.. A. Court

The Sixth Annual Star-News-
Y.M.C.A. basketball tournament Tor
southeastern North Carolina high
schools, will open at the Y gymna'
SUM this afternoon at 1 o'clock
for a four-day run.
The Shallotte and Rosehill girls
will meet in the opening game.
Pairings for today's play are as
follows:
GIRLS DIVISION
shallotte VS.. Rosehill at 1 p. m,
Jacksonville VS.. Atkinson at
p. m.
Acme-Delco VS.. Beulaville at
p. m.
Calypso VS.. Waccamaw at 4 p. m
Wallace VS.. Clement at 6 p. m.
Leland VS.. Cerro Gordo at 8 p. m
Bladenboro VS.. Bolivia at 9 p. m
Grady, bye, to play
winner of Observation-Disclosures game
Thursday at 6 p. m.
BOYS DIVISION
Atkinson VS.. Rosehill at 5 p. M.
Franklin VS.. Elizabethtown at I
p. m.
Other boys teams will commence
Tournament play on Thursday, with
Shallotte meeting Bladenboro at II
a. M, in the opening game. Girls
teams will resume play Thursday
afternoon at 2 o'clock.
There are 33 teams in all enter
ed in the tournament-15 girls
and IS boys teams-making the
largest number in the history OF
the tournament.
Tickets for the games will be
sold in the lobby Of the Y.M.C.A.,
and tourney officials have made
plans to care for a capacity crowd
during the four-day meet.
Semi-finals will be held Friday
with the finals slated Saturday
night. All games will be played on
the Y court.
The tournament committee said
last night that officials for the
tourney will be announced today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
Florida Gridders Refuse
To Report For Practice

GAINESVILLE, Fla, March s.
R)-The University of Florida foot
ball squad refused to report for prac-
tice today and issued a statement
saying players would participate in
no further spring practice sessions
until the coaching situation had been
settled.
Head Coach Josh Cody resigned
yesterday to accept another position
line coach at Temple University ir
Philadelphia, and there has been no
announcement as TO when a success
sor would be chosen.
The players in their statement left
at the athletic office declared it
would be useless to continue further
spring practice under the Pittsburgh
style Of play eff it is not going t.
be employed again next year." and
that should another system be in
augurated there would undoubtedly
be a second spring session.
Spring practice began February 5,
and was to have lasted six weeks
OF nor
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
MARRS, BEAVER
WIN MAT BOUTS
Former Champ Pins Floyd
Marshall; Indian Grappler
Whips Jack Hader

Johnny Mars, former world
champion, came back after being
pinned in the first fall to win the
second and third falls and defeat
Floyd Marshall, 23S pound Arizona
grappler, in the main bout at LIE
gion stadium last night.
Chief Little Beaver, Cherokee In
dian, won over Jack Hader. OF
Kansas City, by pinning his rough
and tumble opponent in the last
two rounds of their semi-finals
match.
In the main bout, Marshall used
a series of body slams to pin Mars
in 20 minutes after the opening
gong. Marrs came back with a
cartwheel hold to win the second
fall and he used the flying leg
chancellor to cop the third fall in
- minutes.
Hader roughed up Little Beaver
to win the first fall with body
slams in 20 minutes. Little Beaver
retaliated and used a body scissor
to take the second fall in nine
minutes and then used his own In.
dian leg hold on Hader to win the
third fall in four minutes.
Roy Piner refereed the bouts.
Kid Lewis, $50 pounds, and Paul
Wright, l55 pounds, negroes, bat
tied to a draw in a f%our-round pre-.
liminary boxing match.
The American Legion, sponsors
of the weekly mat bouts, announced
last night that their headline bout
next Tuesday night will be a battle
between the Purple Flash and
Floyd Marshall.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
LEVY HITS EN-

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, March s.
LR-Ed Levy, the 6-foot, 5-inch first
baseman who the Philadelphia Ma
tionals purchased from Newark,
made his training debut today with
a series of long drives that brought
smiles to the face of Manager Doc
Prothro.
Despite Levy's bat work, top hon
ors of the day went to young Dan
ny Litwhiler who lined n over
the left field fence, 3S7 feet from
home plate, with yards to spare for
the longest hit of the practice ses-
sion.
Prothro announced the first intra-
camp game would be played Sun
day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
AS WIN

FULLERTON, Calf, March 81
R-The Philadelphia Athletics made
it two in a row in the exhibition Gil
cult today, spanking the Portla d
Beavers II to 10 in a free-hitting
game Each club got 16 blows and
there were eight home runs.
The AS were trailing 10 to s in
the ninth when AL Simmons started
the rally with a circuit clout. Short
stop Fred Chapman put the finish
ing touches on with another ore
that scored two runners ahead OF
him. Outfielder Sam Chapman got
the AS other homer. Ed Coleman, a
former Athletic, banged out two .
the Beavers five.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
Bethlehem Is Skeptical
OF War Munitions Boom

NEW YORK, March 5.-R-The
Bethlehem Steel Corp, a leading
armament builder, turned a skepti.
cal eye today on chances of a war
munitions boom in the United
States.
Eugene G. Grace, president, said
in his annual report to stock
holders:
Your management believes that
under present conditions it is not
wise to invest the capital of your
corporation in additional facilities
for the production of munitions or
to use its present facilities for that
purpose at the expense of it's COM
mercial business"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06

than anything we know.
There's A Difference
As it now stands, a fisherman has
To equip himself with a lot of fancy
equipment and when he goes tlsh'
ing his sole aim is just tint - the
fish. We probably haven't graouat'
ed from the c~reek-bank stage, out
If still Gems to us that there IS a
world of difference in angling anu
just fishing.
Cavaliers Calling
N r. State recently came out from
behind the door and started a pollcy
of open subsidization Of athlet IS
and it now seems that that move
will Virginia, who has
been following that policy all along.
to apply for re-admission to h
Southern conference.
The Cavaliers withdrew from the
circuit in 1886 after the conference
tried to become lily-white by adopt
ing the famous rule No. IA, or erst-
while Graham plan, which has been
proclaimed dead for two years or
more now.
Virginia objected to any idea OF
cloaking its athletic program OF ale'
ing athletics and withdrew, but now
that all the rules which Virginia
objected to are gone, the school is
reported to be seriously contemplate
ing an application to return to TIE
fold, The Cavaliers are expected 20
make that move within a few
months.
Beating The Dutch
The expression of you can't peal
the Dutch-especially the Pennsyl-
vania Dutch-has come in for a OF
O. comment in the state following
the Duke-Carolina basketball game
in Raleigh. John Deer, of the Greens
boro News, quotes an out-of-state
sports columnist as saying he can't
see how two southern and ettled
communities such as Chapel Hill and
Durham can become so highly ex-
cited about a basketball game being
played in Raleigh between two sets
of boys from Pennsylvania"
Those Pennsylvania boys really
did have a big share Of the spotlight
in the finals of the tournament and,
in fact, the lads from up north have
been playing a big part in Duke and
Carolina athletics for some years
now.
But so far as interest is concerned,
even if natives of Zanzibar made up
the teams there would still be enough
people il the state Of North Carolina
to go into a rabid frenzy about the
outcome.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-06
REDS PLAY

TAMPA, Fla, March 5. - Up -
Young Dick West and Rookie My.
o. Mccormick welded mighty war.
clubs and played a lot of baseball
today as four teams Of National
league champion Reds met in the
first intra-club match of the train.
ing season, a double header.
Yanigans behind Hurlers Hutch.
ings, Hindricks, Riddle and Beggs
shellacked a regular" line 70 to S
in the first game.
West went into left field for the
nightcap, in which Myron McCor-
mick uncorked a pair of two-bag.
gers and a triple. Final score was
4 to 3 in favor of the Wilson"
yer the "Gowdys." Both contests
were seven-inning affairs.