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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01
NC PRESS GROUP
STATES CONTESTS
News, Editorial, And Pho
tographic Competitions
Are Arranged

CHAPEL HILL, July 31-R-
Cash awards totalling $4OO will pe
given at the Winter Press Institute
in January for competitions in edl'
torial, news and Photographic con
tests in the state.
The competition is open to all
employees of member papers OF
the North Carolina Press associa-
ton. Additional trophies and Ger
tificates will be awarded in the
non-daily field exclusively.
Cash for the prizes, divided into
500 each for the best spot news
story, the best feature story, series
of stories or column, the. best
photograph and the best editorial
has been contributed on a volun-
tary basis by leading state papers.
The trophies and certificates to
be awarded in the non-daily field
for general excellence of papers
both above and below 1880 circula.
tion, for best community service
and for the best special edition will
be provided by the press associa-
ton.
Deadlines for entries, which
must have been published during
1910, will be Dec. IS. Entries
should be sent to M. R. Grammar,
director, university extension di'
vision, Chapel Hill.
Insofar as practical, judges will
be selected from out of the state;
William K. Hoyt, general man
ager of the Winston-Salem Journ'
al and Twin City Sentinel, is chair
man Of the associations awards
committee. Other members are:
DR.. Julian Miller, The Charlotte
Observer, Ed Anderson, Skylanc
Post, West Jefferson, and Charlie:
J. Parker, Raleigh News and Oh
server.
Complete rules will be available
from Miss Beatrice Cobb, secre
tary, North Carolina Press associa
ton, Morganton.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01
8 OF Nations 25 Biggest
Cities Show Population Loss

WASHINGTON, July 31.-P-
Census counters scrambled popula-
ton standings Of Americas big cities
today to create a "25-biggest" list
for 1910.
Houston, Texas, and Denver,
Colo, made the grade for the first
time, crowding out Jersey City, N.
j., and Portland, Ore. Houston
claimed the biggest jump, from 18th
to 21st. Jersey City had the worst
fall of the big cities, from 23rd to
Goth.
Eight of the first Is showed losses
Philadelphia, Cleveland, st. Louis,
Boston, Pittsburgh, San Francisco,
Newark, and Rochester, N. Y.
Washington, D. c., won first hon.
ors among major cities for popula-
ton gain, going from 1876, 1863 to $685.
1853 during the decade. Census Off
Gals attributed this jump almost ex-
clusively to the doubling of federal
payrolls in the District Of Columbia.
Preliminary figures give the top
rs places to these cities:
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01
Danish Many Cadets, Marooned
At Jacksonville, Find Friends

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, July 81.
-RESeventy-eight blond, Danish
sailors stranded here for tn e
duration of Europe's war-have no
great desire to get back to a Nazi-
dominated homeland. But they
would like to make a little money
while waiting.
The Danish training ship Dan
mark, a white-hulled square-rigged
sailor, is anchored in the St. Johns
river, one of several foreign ves-
sells kept in port here by the war.
Many Of the Denmark's cadets
have found girl friends since they
have been in port, and they are
chatting a little under circumstance
es which have left them all but
penniless.
But they do not need anything
says Capt. Knud L.. Hansen, their
tall commander, Who insists he
never will sail the Danish govern
ment's merchant marine officer
training ship under a G a n
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01
10lKlE PLEASED
At SMITH BACKING
Yorker Who Took
NJ, w.1k In 1896 Says He'll
"' Campaign For COP
uruJJAM b. ARDERY

Re- WILLIAM "
COLORADO ol SPRINGS n c1'9:.
~s-(P-wendell L.. Willkie
july .s,t,v pleased" by the promise
l..,1 F.. Smith, the democratic
Of bearer in 1928, to cam
s'a actively in his behalf
pa's" ,,ovn.derbied Happy War
The md Samuel seabury, former
'sa 19f Of New York zss to clty tse s1 ps:
ernlaelS nominee late yesterday
pu 15,,'is said he was gratified by the
offers ,ominee told reporters he had
Inc most of yesterday working
spent r.n u organizational prob
on and that he would meet sat
lsnaS with Chairman Joe Martin
uloas republican national commit,
o. ronn Hamilton, the committees
Executive s,s' director, and other party
leaders. vorious Will
leor.president groups that have
hls support is being undertak-
en-. Willkie said ,,oh,enos
conference on farm problems
.4ta Governor Payne Rather and
o,har Kansas republicans was on
wilkie's calendar for today,
" III am greatly pleased that one
covarnor smiths public stand
o.? o. and reputation should support
Willkie said after learning OF
t ts' New workers. declaration;
ue referred to President Roose-
..l+,s recent comment that some
s s. democrats who had Of
tsred their support to "'lik'e
thought more of money than hu'
manity, and remarked;
q hope that is not sad OF GOV.
ernor Smith. The man started lfoin
the sidewalks of New York. lie was
q great liberal governor OF NE"
York. ,.u,
AS a matter of fact, his loerai
nrinciples were those adopted oy MS
1.-Two successors, Franklin Roosevelt
and Governor Herbert Lehman
Smith, who took a walk u Oh
4 his party's 1886 convention, SAT- IN
j lengthy statement that "Wlllkle $
nomination at Philadelphia was
brought about in a democratic ana
American way in contrast to the
suhservient and boss-controlled New
Deal bloc who had the nerve TO
I STYLE themselves a democratic con-
vention. $50.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01
FACTORY BLAST
LEVELS 81 HOMES
Probably Z Dead Says
Relief Worker; Heat
Prevents Search

CAMDEN, N. j., July 31.-RE
Drawing sickening fumes and still
ing heat, firemen in grotesque as
bestos suits today began exploring
a smouldering mass of ruins for
bodies of those missing in an ex-
ploison-punctuated fire that de-
stroyed a million-dollar paint plant
and 81 adjacent homes.
Two are known dead. Seven are
listed as definitely missing. Posi-
bly, five more r unaccounted for
but not given up.
First trips over the twister grid
ers and red-hot bricks of the debris
were limited to two fremen. Au-
thorities said they would send in
"a gang" as soon as steady
streams of water completed their
cooling job and dangerous walls
are removed.
Asbestos suits and gas masks
provided %proection both from the
heat and from gas fumes, rising
from burning chemicals.
The fumes spread through much
of the stricken four-block area in
downtown this morning. Fifteen
frenaen were sickened and some
we're treated at hospitals.
The iremen-explorers expected
to have to big to the bottom of. the
pile of debris 10 find any bodies.
Louis R. Wallace, factory person.
mel director, said the first explosion
apparently occurred in the base
ment where about IS persons were
at work.
1.-Two of. them, are unaccounted
for and five others who are missing
apparently were on the first floor"
he added.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01
BEHIND THE SCREEN AT
WASHINGTON

idea in picking a vice presidential
nominee is to balance the ticket
and harmonic such discontinued
elements as may be on hand.
That idea had a part both in
the Republican choice of Senator
Charles l.. McNary and in n e
Democratic choice of Secretary
Henry A. Wallace; but in each case
there is nor to it than that, and
the vice presidential nominee can
be expected to play a more than
ordinarily important part in n e
campaign.
McNary's selection was a broad
hint that Wendell Willkie is not
by any means going to be the SNUG
Wall Street reactionary which a
top-aight utility executive is gen.
orally supposed to be.
AUTHORIZED SWEEPING
FARM SURPLUS BILL
McNary is no radical, but he
is no conservative either. Back in
the Hoover days he became fam.
ous-and sent shivers up and down
big business spines-by authoring
and fighting for the McNary-Hau-
gen bill for the handling of farm
surpluses. This was a measure so
sweeping that even the New Deal
farm program was originally look
ed upon as something rather mild
er and porbably less expensive.
McNary has had few flights as
spectacular as that one. But in
general he can be said to have &C.
cupied ground tolerably close to
the New Deal camp-even though,
as minority leader in the Senate,
he has effectively sniped at the
Democratic majority. Certainly on
the farm problem in general, Nc
Nary is no great way removed
from Secretary Wallace.
NEW DEALERS
STUNNED APPEASEMENT
Ordinarily it would not be sur
prising to see the chief New Dealer
pick a sincere New Dealer like
Wallace as his running mate. But
the situation at Chicago was rather
special.
First of all, there was a rather
bad internal situation for the DEM
ocratic high command to handle. A
considerable number of southern
and mildly right-wing Democrats
didn't like the third term draft,
and the practical politicians in the
camp wanted to placate
them by naming some such person
as Speaker Bankhead.
That Wallace was chosen shows
clearly a decision in the Roosevelt
camp to shoot the wprks-to line
the Democratic party up unmis.
takably as the liberal party, as the
New Deal party. The chance to do
up.
The Wallace nomination has two
other implications.
One is that, the New Dealers are
confident = probably
.ver-confident - of. victory in No
Vemoer. Ihey dared to ignore the
demand for appeasement simply
because they felt that with Roose-
.elt renominated the election was
as good as won.
The other implication is grim
ner. The last thing anyone usu-
ally thinks of, in picking a vice
presidential nominee, is the chance
hat the man might some day be.
come president. That thought was
very much in mind when WALL
aces nomination was asked
or. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01
MISSOURI RETIRES
DEAD PLAYERS NUMBER

COLUMBIA, Nc. R@-There won't
be a number ~ jersey among the
football uniforms at the University
of Missouri until 1912,
University officials explained that
the "27" jersey worn by Ronald
King, sophomore end who died re-
Gently of a tooth infection, would be
retired" from university equip
ment for the period that King might
have worn it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01

French railroad yards are full
Of the light, fast, streamlined
trains which peacetime France
used extensively both for express
passenger service and for com.
bined freight and passenger serv-
ice on branch lines.
Now they are rusting On their
tracks-powerless for lack of fuel.
Some hundreds of automobiles
and trucks on the French roads
are powered by charcoal-burning
engines-but France needs tens
of thousands of them,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01
TODAY'S E STAR

Arch Ward, Chicago Tribune:
acquisition of RABBIT Warstler en-
|aoleS the Cubs to put the follow
|lng well seasoned team in the field
-haftnett, catcher, 80; Root,
pl'cner, Al; Bonura, first base,
~ Herman, second base, 81;
[Msfstler' shortstop, IS; Rogell,
e uilra base, So; Lotshaw, left field,
|pu' Corrlden, center field, 70 and
!ohle, right field, 65,"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01
Baltic States Send
Delegates To Moscow


MOSCOW. July 31.-PHDele
gates from the Baltic states, Estonia.
Latvia and .Lithuania, arrived in
Moscow today for a session tomor.
row of the supreme soviet, Russia's
parliament, which is to grant them
admission into the Soviet Union.
The delegates received an enthus.
iastic welcome. Moscow's streets
We're beflagged and planes flew
overhead.
The three states, which came un.
der Russian military domination
last year, recently elected commun.
list governments committed to union
with Russia, to which they belonged
before the World war.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01
POE WOULD LOVE THIS

MARISSA,' Ill. - Up - Logan
Jones was startled when he lifted
the lid of the fire box in his cook
ing stove and a soot-stained bird
poppe dout.
The bird had flown in the CHM
ney and worked its way down into
the unlighted stove.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01
TROTTERs RETURN

A"iuCKET.-More than 5000
ssols Witnessed the return of
circuit trotters here follow
ns an absence of 80 years.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01

HOTEL. COMMODORE = Wasllngton.
D. C. Facing Union Station = Capitol
Plaza. Room & Bath from $3.50. Mod
ern- acknowledgements.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01

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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-01

SWISS GINGHAM. HURT CRAFT and chambrays-sport
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Evening star., 1940-03-17
Departmental League
10 Present Three
New Ball Clubs
Center Market, Pomona
ConoI and 6. A. O. Put
Teams in Circuit

A bigger and better Departmental
League will be in the week day sand
lot baseball field this season. Presi-
dent Vic Gauzza has announced
that six clubs will compete in the
city's Oldest circuit which is enter
ing in on its 4Gth year.
j. c. Flood Plumbers, who entered
at the start of the second half last
summer, has relinquished its fran
chise but three new teams appear
on the roster. They are Center
Market, Government Accounting
ONCE and Panama Canal. Others
back are Interior, District Grocery
Stores and Maritime Commission.
Interior and D. G. S. drew the
opening game assignment for April
%, which will be marked by appro-
pirate ceremonies on the Ellipse.
Vic Gauzza, jr., and Elmer Leuk-
hardt will lead the rival teams into
action. Interior, incidentally, is de.
Tending champion.
Ed Hennage will pilot Maritime
Commission, Sam Harreg will be at
General Accounting's helm, Jim
Wells will handle the reins for Gen.
ter Market and A. T. Atkinson will
manage Panama Canal. The teams
will play split series with the win
ners of the two halves meeting in
championship play-on. - {.
Edward j. Conover, veteran ON
cial. was reelected secretary-treas-
urer and official scorer and I. l..
(Shoey) Shoemaker was re-as-
signed as umpire.
Evening star., 1940-03-17
Buddy Baldwin, IT, Rides bber Niece to Wsnenon Triumph Despite Fall
Washington Dogs Garry Away
Large Portion Of LoureIs in
|Show at Atlantic City

first in the American-bred dog class.
A nice puppy win IN collies was
chalked up by the Ellises with their
Bellhaven Brigandson which went
to reserve winner, while their Cloud.
mere Topsia Of Caral placed nrst IN
the open bitch class.
Mrs. Mackle Cairn Scores.
In Cairn terriers, Mrs. j. B.
Mackle got first in the American-
bred bitch class and best Of winners
with her Ceeta Of Macwae, and re-
serve winner with her Robinscroft
Phelicity, Bam Of Ceeta and lacking
only one point for the title. Gilladie
Of Macwae was reserve winner in
dogs.
Lonarch TUCSON, Q bulldog shown
by Arthur Forbush for Robert W.
Lyons, placed first in Q hot buddy
class. w. B. K1imkrevitz's dach-
sund, Liri Hainheim, was second IN
. large puppy bitch class. The
Woolners took first in the American
bred bitch class with their smooth
fox terrier, Tamanend Traveller, as
well as reserve winner. Their wire
hair, Good Chance of Adlea, placed
f1rst IN the novice bitch class.
Evening star., 1940-03-17
Figure Skaters, Speed Morvels
On Washington Ice Carnival
Card for Benefit of Blind

ing exhibition. She holds seven Of
the ten world records for women.
Miss Horn will arrive Tuesday,
bringing one of Wisconsin's prize
cheeses, which she will present to
President Roosevelt on Thursday at
the White House.
Maddy Horn Versatile.
Not only as a speed skater has
Miss Horn made her mark In the
sports world. In addition to win
ming 46 trophies and 276 medals In
skating competition, Maddy is a
member of the Wisconsin State
softball team; played basket ball
and volley bali on several cham
pionship teams; is the women S
tennis singles champion of her home
town; holds the Wisconsin record
for the 50-yard swim, and still is
in possession of running, hurdling
and jumping marks she set while
a student at Wayland Academy.
The carnival will be presented
four times, a matinee being slated
for Saturday. Tickets are on sale
at the willard and Shoreham hotels,
Keystone Auto Club and Riverside,
or may be reserved by telephoning
Republic 1850. Prices are 65 cents,
$1.10 and $1.35 for evenings, and 40
cents, IS cents and $1.10 for the
Saturday matinee,
Evening star., 1940-03-17
Smith and Ward PLAY
Poe and kand|ey in
Best Ball Final
Horton Puts on Putting
Show to Goin Margin
In Close Sentinel
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, March is
The highly regarded team OF
Horton Smith and National Anna
teur Champion Marvin bud" Ward
will meet the dark-horse combina-
ton of Henry Poe and Harold
Mandley tomorrow in the, 36-hole
final match of the national $4,000
amateur-professional best ball goli
tournament.
The deadly putting of Smith, Oak
Park ull) pro. was a major factor
in his and the Spokane wash.
stars 1-up victory today over the
youthful team of Clyde Usina, jr.
West Palm Beach (Fla) pro, ant
Walter Burkepo. Evanston Ill.,
amateur, in a 36-hole semifinals bat
tie.
Poe, Reading Pa.) professional
and Mandley. Westhersfield Conn
amateur. advanced with q 1-up de-
cision over another unheralded
team, Herman Kesier, Springfield
Mo-, and Dick Doeschler, Jackson
vile Fla) schoolboy.
Evening star., 1940-03-17
Sons Of Legion Form
5oftba|I League Of
Eight Squadrons

Softball will be a major item In
the Sons of the American Legion
sports program this summer, it was
announced last night as eight
squadron officials met and organized
an inter-squadron league.
Morris A. Bealle will direct the
league, which will enter a team in
the Metro Night League and Metro
Saturday Afternoon Glass A League
Joe Futsran and Bill Lossman will
serve With Bealle on a board Of di-
rectors.
The following squads and thei,
managers will be represented: Kill
leen, Graham Knott; Potomac, Pau
Peters; Lincoln, Gene Flester; Nash
Harry Hovermill: Police-Fire, Fran
els Barnard; Sergt. Jasper, Warren
Johnd; Kenna-M Main, r. v. Murphy
and Cathedral, Bob Ashford.
The league will include such we'll
known players as Bump" and Bud
Simonds, Tarzan Webb, Freddy
Noone, Roy Michaels, Tuffy Lee
mans, Ray McCutcheon, Ted Sarkin
Hal Kiesels Butch" st. Lawrence
Mercury" Murphy, Temple FARRELL,
Subway" Selko. Red Rathjen, Ge-
rard Peyton, John Trench, John
Prince and Biher Boggs.
Evening star., 1940-03-17
BY r. r. TAYNTON,
Special Correspondent Of The star,

ATLANTIC CITY, March ia
white and liver female Spaniel
named Speculation Of Shotton Of
Freenfair strutted OF tonight with
the championship Of the coming of
age show Of the Atlantic City Ken
mel Club. in which sos dogs Of many
breeds competed. "Spec" came into
the limelight at Westminster, where
she was q strong contender for the
sporting group honors, placing Sec
ond In the group to the best in
show winner there. She later went
best In show, all breeds, at the big
New Haven show. She was bred
n England by D. Wilson.
Rivals In the Anal group were
the exquisite Afghan hound, Tanya
Sahib Of Cy Ann, the shetland sheep
dog, Ch. Merriott Magistrate, the
wire fox terrier, Crackley Striking,
the Brussels Griffon Oh. Burlin-
game Hellzapoppin, and the chow
Ch. Lie VOL Lab Son. The toy rep
resentative was judged best Amer
ican bred in the show, a signal VIC
tory for the trappy little Griffon
Washington Dogs Do Well.
Dogs owned by metropolitan
Washington fanciers Jared very well.
The Doweu Mansfields need only
the final approval Of the American
Kennel Club to add the name of
Dinah Nixon of Dalakay to their
roster Of st. Bernard champions.
She not only took winners bitch
and the last two points she needed
for the title, but also best of breed.
Her two daughters, Gerda and Lady
Deanne, placed first and second in
the puppy class.
John G. Anderson's chowchow,
Chin Pao Su San, was first in the
open bitches, black class and win
ners bitch, while Frances j. Ehler's
chow, Lie VOL Lab Nudge, placed
first in the limit class. Joel Marston
another local chowist, took first in
the novice dog class and reserve
winner with his Lie VOL Lab Little
Son. Another blue for elbows was
taken by Mrs. Carl C. Lauerman's
Lu Chongs Red Rajah, which placed
Evening star., 1940-03-17

Featuring international and ma
tional ice-skating stars, the first
annual Washington Ice Carnival
will be presented next Saturday,
Sunday and Monday at Riverside.
The carnival will be put on by the
Washington Figure Skating Club
for the benefit of the Washington
Society for the Blind.
Hazel Franklin. 15-year-old
Bournemouth England sensation,
will headline the ice show. Coached
by Howard Nicholson, Sonia Henies
former tutor, the English lass has
been described by him as superior to
La Henie. Nicholson, in a recent
national magazine article, stated
that Miss Franklin has learned in
three and one-half years the stunts
that Sonia needed eight years to
master.
MCGOWAN and Mack, formerly
with the Ice Follies, also are among
the featured performers. Their
Apache number Is one of the more
spectacular acts on ice.
Wait to Present Comedy Act.
Eric Wait, comedian who literally
stole the show as q member of the
Sun Valley troupe which played to
capacity crowds at the New York
Worlds Fair last year, will present
three Of his original and side
splitting numbers.
Among the nationally known
amateurs who will occupy prominent
roles are: Polly Blodgett, debutante
star of the Boston Figure Skating
Club and former national cham
pion; Washington's ace Of aces,
Dorothy Smell; Ollie Haupt Of the
st. Louis Figure Skating Club; Mike
Martin and Jack Hook, who perform
new capers as a horse" team, and
Tommy Lee and Charley Slagle
of the Ice Club Of Baltimore, the
nearest among amateurs to the re-
markable team Of Frick and Track.
Madeline Horn Of Beaver Dam,
Wise, the fastest woman skater In
the world" viii give . speed-skat-
Evening star., 1940-03-17
Cooke, Sarah Fabyan
Sweep Net Crowns
In Bermuda Meet
Team After Capturing
Singles Finals, Take
Mixed Doubles
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HAMILTON, Bermuda. March 16.
!Elwood T. Cooke of Portland,
Greg, the tournaments second
seeded player, today won the
Bermuda mems singles tennis cham
pionship with decisive 81, rs,
6-3 victory over Gardnar Mulloy of
Miami. Fla.
Sarah Palfrey Fabyan of Brook
line. Mass. defeated second-seeded
Pauline Betz of Los Angeles, 60,
Ga, to win the women's singles title
according to form. 49,
The two singles victors then
teamed to win the mixed doubles
crown by defeating Miss Betz and
Henry Pruson of Seattle, 11, 60,
in a match which produced eight
consecutive deuced games in the
second set.
Evening star., 1940-03-17
Balte|| Still Dodger Jinx
As Tigers Take TussIe
" the Associated Press.

" the Associated Press.
LAKELAND, Fla, March 16.
Dick Bartell, who at one time and
another in his National League ca
reer proved an awful nuisance to
the Brooklyn Dodgers, beat them,
3 to 2, in an exhibition game today
for the Detroit Tigers.
In the eighth inning Bartell drove
home Earl Averill with the winning
run on single OF Steve Rachunok,
. former Detroit pitcher freed by
Commissioner K. M. Lands.
Brooklyn (N.) OlO OlO OOO-2 z O
bstrolt .tA.) $50 OO1 O10 Olx-
Carleton, Rachunok and Franks. Man
3uso; Fleming, Benton and Sullivan. Teh-
NDttS and Parsons.
Evening star., 1940-03-17
Bosox Rout Reds on Good
Pitching, Hard Hitting
the ARSociated Press.

y the ASsoc1Ated PreSS.
SARASOTA, Fla, March 16.-The
Boston Red Sox continued their con-
quests Of grapefruit circuit rivals
today by smashing out q 1913 de-
cision over the Cincinnati Reds.
Emerson Dickman, Denny Gale
house and Dick Sayles held the Ma
tional League champions well in
hand and the Sox artillery pounded
the offerings Of Johnny Wander
Nicer and Whitley" Moore vigor-
ously.
Cincinnati N)- O1O 900 1O1-3 9 2
Boston (A.) - 200 204 O2x-1O 10 0
Wander Nicer. Moore. Riddle and Lom-
4erdt Aershberker: Dickman. 0alehouse.
Evening star., 1940-03-17
Virginia Rich in Vets
As Gridders Report
BY the Associated Press.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, March
16.-Only two Of last years regu-
lars, Jim Gillette, backf1eld ace, and
Herb Winokur, guard, will be miss
ing when the Virginia football squad
assemblies Monday for spring prac-
tice. About go men are expected to
report to Coach Frank Murray for
the five-week workout.
Much Of the spring drills will be
aimed at initiating the freshmen In
the fundamentals Of offensive and
defensive techniQue.