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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
Five Players On State
Frosh Ruled Ineligible

RALEIGH, Dec. 90 Up IN. c.
States powerful freshman football
team, co-champs in the Big Five this
year, was shot to pieces today when
scholastic marks were made public
by college officials.
Two first-string tackles, two first
string guards and a back will have
to drop out Of school. and will be un-
able to play varsity football next
year. They are:
Ray Topper, 249 FOUNDER from
Easton, Pa, and John Boley. 236
FOUNDER, who was an All-West Vir.
ginia football player at Mount Hope
High, both tackles; Eugene Ray
burn, 230 FOUNDER who was an All.
Ohio player for Portsmouth, and Will
Cameron, 205 FOUNDER from Ashe-
boro, who starred at Darlington prep
in Rome, Ca, both guards; and
Lloyd Mcmillan, back from Elem
ing, KY.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
BY JAMES

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss, Dec. ~
|-R-Boston colleges husky grid.
ders stepped through a brisk prac-
tice today with a new incentive
to score on Tennessee in the Sugar
Bowl game-a promise the first
man scoring two touchdowns could
name a pair of twins.
The New Englanders had just
sat down to a heaping breakfast
of wheatcakes after arriving here
to wind up training for the volun-
teers when backfield Coach E. Nc
Keever was handed a telegram
announcing his wife had given birth
to twin daughters in Boston.
The startled McKeever leaped
to his feet and shouted to the
cheering room of football players:
1.-THE first man making a touch
down against Tennessee can name
one of the babies. The first man
making two touchdowns can name
both babies"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
SEVERANCE FLOATED.
SURVEY IS PLANNED
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the concrete patch on the side gave
way when pumping operations were
begun and the bow began to lift.
At that time chemical reactions
from the sulphur cargo prevented
n concrete from hardening, mem
bers of the crew of the Merritt.
Chapman and Scott wrecking barge
reported.
Using kerosene to neutralize the
effect of the sulphur, a new patch
had been in the making for the past
week.
The mlshap occurred shortly be-
fore noon on Saturday, November %,
when the ship, partly loaded with a
cargo of sulphur for the Texas Gulf
Sulphur company for local plants,
struck a fender piling at the bridge,
sprang a leak, and sank by the bow.
Maffltt attributed the accident to
h rising tides of the river resulting
from a freshet around Fayetteville
In causing the bow to swerve sud.
denly to the side of the channel
Captain J.. e. Hardy is the master
Of the ship, which had a crew of So
and is owned by the Diamond Steam.
ship Transportation company. of Bos
ton. Mass. Captain F. G. Dosher was
the pilot, Maffitt said, and p. MT
Berry, the insurance representative
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
PLANS MADE FOR GRID TILT HERE
Jenkins. Ziuic Battle To 1O-Round Draw
Mack Gets Financial
Control OF Athletics

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 20-RA
Connie Mack bought his own
birthday present today-three days
ahead of time - by acquiring fl
nancial control of the Philadelphia
athletics.
BasebalI's grand old man, who
will observe his 18th birthday
Monday, announced that stock pur'
chased from Mrs. Ethyl M. .Shibe
gives him a majority interest in
the American league club he has
managed for 40 years. The price
of the block of al shares was not
disclosed, but the stock was val
ued at $500 a share in 1888.
Mack said the purchase doesn't
mean there will be any changes in
policy or personnel" and added
"although I'm possessed with the
power, you can be assured III
never use it,"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
GRID STARS MOvE
INTO MONTGOMERY
Blue And Gray Outfits =.
Start Drills Today For
Their Annual Classic

Ala, d.. 4.
-R-From the south, north
and west, stars of the gridiron o.s
verged today on this first c,,;. !,
of the Confederacy to begin :.
aratlons tomorrow for the third ~
rual Blue and Gray footb.n ~'
airy Dec. %.
Five of the six coaches WIN ,.n
handle the senior college l''m;. VIII
les from either side of the Ns Sas'
Dixon line and 10 gridders wa .aS'A'
hand by nightfall. VI
All coaches and players. ey,,..
i've from Cornell who were 9S bsg
up by classes and will not ., ,ls4a
until Sunday, were expected IN Wye
Tor a workout tomorrow morn dr.'
Coaches Ray Wolf of North o.
lima and Jess Nicely and Joe H Ss.o'
of Rice began mapping s., laws
tor their 22-member Dixie o outfit, '
few hours before Coaches I w.t. 4
Waldorf and Bert Ingwerson 1'Ia,
Northwestern drove into town w.
eral hours ahead of their ''YanEo,,
collaboration, Carl Snavely Of ~,
nell. WE
Harry Hays, a boot.vs.,;,.
Texan from Tulane UNIVERSITY rs,
the first player to put in an ,n
pearance. Others streamed in dry
ing the day, including three fron
North Carolina.
Only two northern college me-,
were on hand, Nick Basca, vi,
lanova's ace, and Charles Drun,
a Temple tackle.
Three of the "~Southernerso hail.
ed from enemy" territory. Thew
were Paul SEVERN, North Cara.
lina's All-America end from Ia.
rentum, Pa; Mush Battista,
Florida guard and native of Enid.
colt, N. Y, and Tony Gallovjch.
Wake Forest back from Penn.
sylvania.
Across the scrimmage Line
anon gthe Blues, SEVERN will find
a former high school teammate, Al
Kelly, Cornell, also an end.
Coming in with SEVERN were two
North Carolina All . Southers.
Gates Kimball, tackle, and Jim
(sweet) ,Lalanne, triple threat
back.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
BRITISH WARSHIPS
SWEEP ADRIATIC
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admiralty described it, was in two
coordinated sections.
A cruiser and destroyer force,
whose primary purpose was to
|harass Italian sea communications
with the Albanian battlefront,
steamed up the Adriatic as far
north as Bari, Italy, and Durazzo,
Albania, while to the south the
battleship formation fell upon Va
Iona.
All this tied in with other fleet
operations in which the British are
striking at the Italians on both
their Albanian and Libyan S e a
flanks-particularly on the Libyan
side where even now, the admir-
atty remarked laconically, naval
operations in support of u army
are continuing"
Bardia, the Fascist base in Lib
va, has been aflame since Dec. IS,
the admiralty said, and in the in
termittent bombardments that
have followed British warships
have gone untouched through "re-
peated' attacks, by Italian shore
batteries and torpedo planes.
Light British units were declared
to have run in very close-into
the inner harbor under heavy fire
and to have sunk three Italian
supply ships in a single day.
A single prowling British SUBJ
marine, the admiralty said, sank
a heavily laden supply ship and a
big Italian ship south of Italy dur
ing the last week. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
Conn-Louis Fight Plans
Hit Snag At Conference

NEW YORK, Dec. 90 Up "A
hitch developed today in the signing
of Billy Conn and Joe Louis for a
heavyweight title bout next summer
when Johnny Ray, manager of Conn,
objected to the 90-day return match
clause.
The clause called for Conn to give
Louis a return bout within 80 days if
he dethrones the champion. Ray,
however, took the contract with him
and said he would e Promoter Mike
Jacobs later.
Jacobs and Ray conferred again
later in the day but came no nearer
an agreement over the percentage of
the purse each fighter should receive
if they meet a second time with Conn
the champion.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
BARDIA SURROUNDED
BY BRITISH TROOPS
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Retreat Cut Off

1OCGIcdt SuU Oll
Only a small force was holding
the oasis but there were indica-
tions of reinforcements from out
lying posts. Nevertheless, the gar
rison's line of retreat will be cut
off, military sources said, if the
British continue tn ir advance
along the coast.
West of Bardia to Derna, ITS
miles inside Libya, British air and
naval units pounded the italian
line of retreat.
Derna, an Raj communique
said, was left practically in flames
by bombers which made direct hits
on barracks, motor transport
parks, and police headquarters last
night.
In the naval operations, light
units of the fleet were said by an
admiralty communique to h v
fought their way past roaring shore
batteries to pound the garrison at
Bardia. The Smelling was said to
have started a number of fires
which assumed very large pro-
portions" yesterday. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
FIRST PAYDAY SLATED
ATARMY CAMP TODAY
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storage tracks near the $40, 900, 900
camp site.
Construction on the camp proper
is expected to get under way in full
next week.
In anticipation Of the arrival OF
the first batch of troops, the army
yesterday issued the following or.
ders:
Lieut.. Col. George r. Owens, GAG,
Little Rock, Ark, to Holly Ridge.
Lieut.. Col. Roy S. Gibson, Gao,
Camp Upton. N. Y, to Holly Ridge.
Lieut.. Col. Edwin H. Johnson, Inf,
Fort Ontario, to Wilmington.
Lieut.. Col. Samuel l.. McCroskey,
who is the temporary commanding
officer of the Firing center, has al
ready arrived in the city.
Meanwhile, the Seashore Trans
portation company announced yes
terday that, beginning Monday, it
will operate four daily round trips
between Wilmington and Holly
Ridge and will in the near future add
more trips as they become necessary
to handle the passenger traffic.
Buses under the temporary sche-
dule will leave Wilmington at 6:15
a. M, 7 a. M, 10 a. M, and 1850 p.
M, arriving at Holly Ridge at 7:05
q. m, 7:45 a. M, 1850 a. M, and
2:4O p. m. Return buses leave Holly
Ridge at 1880 a. M, 10 a. m, 4:30
p. M, and sos p. M, arriving at
Wilmington at 1920 a. M, 1880 a.
M, $50 p. m. and 6:55 p. m.
The schedule is for the convent
ence of present workers at Holly
Ridge. Round trip fare is 95 cents,
with a round trip fare on weekly
basis Of 70 cents.
In Raleigh yesterday the Council
of State authorized expenditure Of
Sc, 900 from the emergency and con-
tingency und to enable the board of
health to set up a cooperative public
health unit for the Wilmington anti
aircraft firing center now under con-
struction.
Governor Hoey said that Fender
and Onslow counties were making
So, 900 available for the health work,
and would have a joint district in
cooperation with the state.
The chief postal inspector from
Atlanta and a postal inspector from
Wilmington were at Holly Ridge
Thursday night to confer with c. C.
Hines, postmaster and t was decided
to enlarge the postoffice in Hines
store until a new one can be built.
The present postoffice is not large
enough to handle the increased flow
Of mail here.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
FRITZlE RALLIES
IN LATE ROUNDS
No KnockdOWns In Free-FOr
All Clouting Among The
Two Champions
BY SID

NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-R-Wel-
terweight Champion Fritzie Zivic and
Lightweight King Lew jenkins
fought a slashing ten-round draw in
Madison Square Garden tonight be-
fore an estimated crowd of $4,000
fans. Zivic weighed 142 IL; Jenkins
1875 IA.
In a battle that started out as a
%free-for-all with any kind Of cutting,
clouting and minor fouls allowed,
Zivic had to rally in the last four
rounds to pull up even.
There were no knockdowns.
Referee George Walsh voted for
Jenkins; Judge Charles Graycott
called i. for Zivic and Judge Steve
Hamas cast his ballot for a draw.
The Associated Press score card cave
each fighter five rounds.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
GERMAN BOMBERS
ATTACK LIVERPOOL
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don shortly before $3.50 am. (9:3O
pm. e. S. TO after a night of in
termittent raids.
The raiders, winging through
clouds above the English channel
and through a cold northeast wind,
struck also at Liverpool, in the
east and west midlands, in north
west England, at two towns in the
north, at points in Wales, and east
Anglia, and at western Scotland.
BY early night, raiders were re-
ported over at least eleven pro-
vincial towns, but few incidents
were reported. The British Press
association said the Nazis appar-
emily were renewing the nuisance
RAID tactics they employed re-
peatedly several weeks ago.
The ground fire of defense guns
was particularly heavy in the area
OF three towns in the northeast. /
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
Gene Tunney Becomes
Officer In u. 5. Navy

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 R =
Gene Tunney, the former heavy
weight champion who has been a
marine corps private, lecturer on
Shakespeare at Yale, official Of
bank, and chairman. of the board
of the American Distilling CON-
pany, is now an officer of the navy
In a brief ceremony today, Rear
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz ad-
ministered the oath to defend the
Constitution against enemies 'fOE'
eign and domestic" and Secretary
Knox presented the commlsSl0n
which made the eX-champlon Lieu
tenant Commander James Joseph
Tunney, United States naval IT,
serve.
He was informed that he would
be called to active duty lmne,
diately as physical director ana
coordinator of physical educaa"'
at the navy's aviation training S'S'
tons at Jacksonville and PenS''
cola, Fla, and Corpus Christi Lea
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
CAPTURE
FASCISTS POSTS
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latest group of Italian prisoners,
and that much war material, in
Guiding two batteries of artillery,
was taken by the Greeks.
Advices from the front said the
Greeks made considerable prog
ress beyond the Ostravitza noun
tain range where the Italians were
said to be making a determined
stand with a number of mortars.
The sun came out over the Xii
sura-Tepeleni sector today for the
first time in days, military dis
patches said, but the weather con-
tinued bitterly cold.
Especially fierce fighting pro-
crossed around Klisura, where the
enemy, realizing the colossal stra-
tegic Importance of this region, is
fighting desperately" one. report
said. !
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
NAILS MAY HAVE
DECIDED TO GIVE
ITALY REAL HELP
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eign reports, there isn't the slight
est change in the German-Italian
decision to carry the war to un-
compromising victory.
With the possible view to draw
ing attention away from Italian
reverses, Adolf Hitler's own Voel-
kischer Beobachter declared that
after all the war was going to be
won in the zone of the British Isles
and not elsewhere.
From time to time before pre-
vious campaigns were launched
Just such leads were put out by
Berlin papers. For instance, imme-
diately prior to the launching of
the air attacks against England,
the Berlin papers were hammer
ing home how vitality England
would be hit if Germany would
choose such a time to cut the en-
pire lifeline through the Mediter-
ranean.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
Eagle Making Touchdown
Can Name COach'S Twins

Head coach Frank Leahy of an
off-tackle play sliced through his
towering squad busy pumping Nc
Keever's hand and declared: "You-
re a better man than I am, Ed"
The players Immediately seized
upon this as an omen of disaster
for Tennessee for Leahy's state
ment recalled a similar event In
Boston's Eagles march toward an
undefeated season..
Just before Boston college sent
Tulane tottering into the ranks OF
the also-rans in the season opener
at New Orleans last fall, Leahy
received a telegram announcing
his wife had given birth too daugh-
ter in Boston.
But the mild-mannered Leahy,
never noted for his optimism or
his belief in condolences, soon let
his squad know they were going
to have to try to whip Tennessee
the hard way. .
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
|YANKS LET GOMEZ
HAVE ANOTHER TRY
President Barrow Decides To
Take Southpaw Off Market
And Take Him To Camp

NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-RCVer
non Gefty) Gomez got a Christ
mas present from thu New YorR
Yankees today in the form OF
promise that they would take MIN
off the market and give him a
chance to stick with the lu 3
through 1941.
The Yanks already had obtained
waivers on their eccentric south.
paw and we're preparing to sell
him to a National league club:
probably the Brooklyn Dodgers.
But Gomez came to town from
a hunting trip today and held a
long huddle with President Ed Bar
row, in which, in the words Of
Barrow, Gomez sold me on Co
mez."
81 decided to take him South
with u.s." said Barrow, land give
him a chance to how what he
could do. He weighed 1870 pounds
and looked fine. He said he hasn't
had any more of those backaches
and thought he could do us some
good.
"Lefthanders are pretty scarce
and he convinced me it would be
a good idea to. keep him around a
while longer"
Barrow said he telephoned man
ager Joe Mccarthy at his home in
Buffalo Immediately after making
his decision and that Mccarthy
was delighted"
+ Gomez evidently had been read.
ing the papers and during tn G
course of their conversation asked
Barrow point blank if it were true
that the Yanks were considering
trading him to the Dodgers.
When Barrow admitted this was
true, the fast = talking pitche,
reached his creates oratorical
heights with a crack that III
goodness business had gone far
enough without taking him ia
Brooklyn. His ardor won out.
Nothing was done about his 1871
contract, however, this matter be-
ing left until he works out at the
spring training camp. /
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
NEGRO CRIDDERS
PLAY FOR TITLE
Game To Be Played At Legion
Field Sunday Afternoon
For Stocking Fund

Plans were completed yesterday
for the game between the Brooklyn
Blue Devils and the Castle Street
Bears for the negro city football
championship at Legion field Sun
day afternoon at 8 o'clock.
The game is being played for the
benefit of the Star-News Empty
Stocking fund and a crowd of be-
tween 1000 and 1900 is expected tt
turn out for the contest.
The weatherman has predicted
that the weather should be clearing
by tomorrow and that an end te
the rain is in sight.
The two teams wound up then
drills yesterday and both squads are
in top condition. Captain James BYRD
has charge of the Blue Devils and
Captain Marshall Boney is handling
the Bears in the game for the city
grid crown.
The Brooklyn Blue Devils have a
tentative lineup of Johnny Morris
left end; Ernest Addison, left tackle
James Halsey, left guard; Floyd Pol
lock. center: Willie Lewis, right
guard; Leroy Jude, right tackle:
James oyer, right end; James Byrd
quarterback; sam Vereen. fuilback
Charles Mcclure, halfback; and Hope
I,pivor ack
Others on the squad include Will
lie Robbins, George Moore, James
Morris, Freddy Sanders, Sammy
Wells, Henry Lee Mills, Norwood
Hall, Ham Robinson, Anthony ia
cobs, and Charles Williams.
The tentative lineup of the Cas-
tie Street Bears is Earl Mcintyre
left end: James McKoy, left tackle
Harry Taylor, left guard; David
Waddell, center; David Lennon, right
guard: Willard Russell, right tackle
Willie Hines, right end; Robert Carr,
quarterback; Marshall Boney, right
halfback and captain; James Redd,
left halfback; James Powell, fullback'
Others also on the squad are Carl
Brown, James McClammy. Joseph
Faison, Hazel Woods, and Alfred
Thomas.
Ticket sales continued to move
rapidly among both white and negro
football fans. Billy Burnett has
charge of the sale Of tickets among
negro fans, and Cooney Sellers, presi'
dent of the Officers Fellowship club,
has charge Of the sale among white
patrons.
Tickets for negro fans may be SO
cured at the following places:
Popular Barber Shop, 8 South
Second street; Powell's Cafe, 18th
and Orange streets; Cowan's Billiard
Parlor, Seventh and Nun streets;
Brooklyn Grill, Fourth and Nixon
streets; Morris Barber Shop, 613
Nixon street.
All proceeds from the game will
go to the Empty Stocking fund and
will be used to provide Christmas
gifts for unfortunate children OF
both races in the city and county.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
WAR INTERPRETIVE
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of Otranto at Italian shipAng serv
ing the forces in Albania.
Risking ~battleships in such mar
row waters, fringed by Italian
shore batteries, naval n ali
bases, is another matter. 1t wa
a bold move strongly indicating
sure knowledge by the British higf
command of widening demorali
cation in Italian forces, even a
home.
Presumably the big ships lay of
shore at the mouth of the strait:
to pound Valona at long range
aided by aircraft fire spotting. |
would be deadly fire under such
conditions against so large a tar
get.
The mouth of Valona Bay itsel
is stoppered by the fortified italian
Island of Saseno. 1t was the cas-
pillar of Italian defenses of thu
entrance to the Adriatic even be
fore Italian seizure Of Albania. I
made any Albanian resistance t
Italian invasion via Valona impos
sible.
British battleships hammerin&
Valona probably kept out of range
Of Italian guns on Saseno, using
high-angle fire. If they actually
approached the entr' c of Valons
Bay it would be conclusive evi
dence that Italy has already aban'
doned that port as indefensible
and fallen back up the Adriatie
to maintain crippled communica
tons with her Albanian army.
The size of the army now is
only conjecturable. 1t probably ex
ceeds the $50, 900 maximum re
ported for the Italian Libyan army
at the time it invaded Egypt.
The British claim capture of 35.
900 or more Italians in Egypt anc
Libya. Another 20, 900 is coopec
up in Bardia, probably lost tt
Italy. Add probable battle casual
ties in Egypt and Libya-dead
wounded and stragglers-a n d 9
third of the original Italian force
may have been put out of com
mission in two weeks: while il
Albania II Duce is threatened with
even greater disaster.
Just what Mussolini's axis mate.
Hitler, can or will do to help him
remains to be seen. Shutting Ital.
ian reinforcements in Nazi trans.
port planes to Albania would not
seem an adequate a S e r, al
though it has been reported. Use
of German bombers to help keep
the Adriatic free of British war
craft and Greek-British air attack
ers would seem more practical.
No heavy fighting equipment OF
consequence yet travels by air.
Yet the mere 1T that the Ger
mans are reported to be ferrying
Italian reinforcements to Albania
by air is cumulative evidence that
Italy's short-haul communications
by sea with her Albanian army are
badly impaired. The British heavy
ship incursion into the Adriatic
tends to clinch the impression that
Mussolini's boosted air force and
submarine weapons again h a v e
failed him against Greek and Brit
ish counter offensives. 5
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
HALIFAX MAY GET
WASHINGTON POST
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the press for his handling of the
foreign office, principally because
of his GOODNESS toward Soviet Rus
STA.
Cabinet changes involved in the
Halifax nomination - which the
Daily Mail asserted already had
been handed to President Roose-
velt-would include a post as yet
undesignated for David Lloyd
George, World war prime minis
ter, the paper said.
His specific job, it was added,
would be to spur the war effort
at home.
Viscount Halifax succeeded Eden
as secretary after the latter quit
the cabinet of Neville Chamber.
lain on Feb. 20, 1888, in a dis.
agreement with Chamberlain over
appeasement of Italy mo Ger
many. !
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
Three Duke Gridders
Leave For Montgomery

DURHAM, Dec. 20IR-Three
senior members of Duke Univer.
sity's football team of the past sea
son left here tonight for Mont
gomery, Ala, where they will play
in the Blue-Gray game on -Decem.
Der %. The boys were: Leonard
Darnell, end, Al Winterson, guard,
and Jap Davis, fullback.
Tony Ruffa, tackle and ~placekick
artist, left several days ago to
join the East forces to play against
the West in San Francisco New
Years Day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-21
TO SPONSOR MATCH

MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 90 Up The
Duke Of Windsor will sponsor an
exhibition golf match bringing to-
gether four famed American PLAYERS
at Nassau in March.
Fred Corcoran, tournament bureau,
manager for the Professional Golfers
association, flew to Nassau today and
conferred with the Duke.