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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10
Duke Mitt Team Wins d
Over State Boxers

DURHAM, Feb. 9.-LP-The D'''
university boxers made their ho'''
debut here tonight by pUnchlhs " y
a 4 IL to 3 IL decision over ~, .
State. The victory was the lls' J."
two seasons for Coach ADO NaIie"
squad.
Frank Ribar. Duke 70 otDaIi 80,
of the past season, gave MS ~"
the victory when he gained d Vs :,
cut decision over Chop Hampton :.
the final fight of the evening"
were no knockouts in the md''"'
In a freshman preliminary ".t,
teams representing Duke ana c.a,s
battled to a "A draw. Inc nr,
Frosh won three Of their
matches by technical k~Hockou's,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10

B~ladenboro's shifty little quin-
tet may not be a world-beater
but its boasts a scoring average
Of 80 points per game this sea.
son, having chalked up 1874
markers to its opponents 148-
After dropping their first tilt
of the season by a "a to FL de-
cision, the Bladenb0ro lads
started finding Lie hoop and de-
veloped a nifty passing attack
to win their last nine games
easily.
The night they played Allen
ton, a Robson county team. the
Bladen lads really went OF a
scoring spree, winning the game
80 to 16. HiIburn personally ac-
counted for 48 points.
In the ten games played so
far this season, Bladenb0rO's
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10
RECEIVE
AID FROM CLUBS
Other American League Clubs
Shunting Players To Gel
larites In Deals

NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-R-With'
out any fanfare, or even public ad'
mission that they have noticed the
plight of st. Louis struggling
Browns, the other American league
clubs are shunting players to the
tailenders.
The Browns have made three
deals-with the New York Yankees,
Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers
since William Harridge, president
of the league, repeatedly made his
plea for the other members to help
st. Louis.
The latest of these mysterious
maneuvers sent pitcher Eldon Auker
from Boston to the Browns yester-
day in a straight cash transaction.
Previously the Yanks had sold them
outfielder Walter Judnich and the
Tigers had traded them pitcher
George Coffman for catcher Billy
Sullivan.
None of this talent is of con,
spicuous ability, perhaps, but no.
body expected any club to send the
Browns a Teller, a DiMaggio or a
Williams and all of the players re
ceived are likely to help in their
own way.
Auker ought to fill a starting
post. For three of the five years he
was with Detroit he was a topnotch
finger and in 1885 he led the
American league in percentage OF
victories and defeats, winning Is
and losing seven.
His fortunes slumped in ratio to
the Tigers own troubles and he
never was able to get going for the
Red -Sox after being traded in the
five-player swap for Pinky Higgins
a year ago. But he is only 20 years
old and should have'a considerable
number of winning games left in
him.
Judnich is a ~23-year-old rookie
for whom the Browns are believed
to have paid about $4,000. He ap'
pears a bargain at the price, even
though his hitting at Newark last
season was a modest .284. This fig
ure covers up the fact that he poled
p homers, 10 triples and % dou-
bles, batting in los runs. He is fast
and a good fielder.
Coffman is expected to handle re-
lief chores, as is John Niggeling.
who vas obtained from the Gin
cinnati Reds on waivers. The Browns
lost countless games in the late in
nings and the addition Of a couple
of troubleshooters as we'll as a start
er in Auker should aid the wobbly
pitching staff materially.
None Of this should be taken to
mean that St. Louis is likely to
squirt out of the cellar. But it does
mean that the Browns probably will
field a much stronger team this
season and give the opposition and
fans a better ball game. With the
installation of lights the club has
a chance to recoup it's financial
situation and possibly to be
the circuits problem child.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10
EweU Sets New Worlds
Record On 50 Yard Dash

PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 9.-R-
Norwood BARNEY Ewell, Penn
State negro, set a new worlds
record of five seconds flat for the
SO yard dash tonight in the third
annual Penn A. C. indoor track
meet.
The former record of 50 seconds
was set by jog Loomis of the Chi
cago A. A. in 1914 and equa1led un-
officially by Ewell in last years
Penn A. C. meet.
Ewell. national A. A. U. outdoor
200 meter champion. finished a
clear yard and a half ahead of
Eulace Peacock, former Temple
star now representing the Shore A.
C., of Elberon, N. J.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10

AoS
Most baseball followers have can
didly expressed the opinion that
$40. 900 is a lot Of peanuts for a
guy with a sore arm who last year
was used for ornamental purposes
only-on the bench.
But Dean feels that a cut of
$10,O 900 from his salary is a little
too much and claims that he is in
great shape, good enough, in fact,
to win 20 games this season. Per-
sonally, we doubt it, but a guy who
can talk as well as Dean should be
worth his $4,000 to any ball club.
Dean is still enough of an enigma
to the fans to draw that much gate,
even if he never won a game.
Stadium Enlargement
Talk is being circulated over the
state that Carolina officials plan
to enlarge Kenan stadium to a
seating capacity of bout $4,000. At
present the stadium will seat COM
fortably about $4,000 and the way
the football fans cotton to the
Duke-Carolina game shows that
this is far too few seats for those
that want them.
At first Carolina officials, after
investigating the proposal of en-
largement, decided that new con-
crete seats would ruin the natural
beauty of their stadium. one of
L ~-.44;o,+ - 49, -ott@-
But lately a plan to purchase
high class bleachers has been ad-
vanced. The bleachers would be
set up on both sides and at each
end of the. playing field. thereby
adding about 1000 more seats to
the stadium.
Carolina plays Duke at home
next fall and the new seats will
be needed, and maybe more, OF
we miss our guess.
Odds And Ends
Mike Miller, who split with the
American Legion on wrestling pro-
noting here. announces that he
plans to promote light-heavyweight
wrestling matches here henceforth
-. He says that he will present
his first card at a downtown loca-
ton in about three weeks E. It's
an old axiom that when Carolina
and Duke athletic teams meet that
a championship is at stake and the
meeting usually brings out a capac.
ity house Tonight when the
cage teams from the two institu-
lions meet in Chapel Hill will be
no exception ... Both are TIED
for the Southern conference lead
and a standing room sign will be
hung out The Cape Fear
Baseball association expects to re-
duce it's number of teams this
season from ten to eight, which
will reduce the te,ms in the city
r.. The various clubs in the
league have been signing players
right and left for the past few
weeks and there is really a fight
under the surface for the top-notch
players that performed last sea.
son We are willing to bet
right now that the Athletics will
not be as low as seventh place
next eason Those AS VIII
give some clubs an awful lot OF
trouble this summer,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10
Dunkelberger, Crichton
To Meet In Golf Finals

ORMOND BEACH, Fla, Feb p
(R-Bobby Dunkelberger Of High
Point, N. c., meets Powell Criehton
of Bronxville, N. Y, tomorrow IN
the finals of the Ormond Beach
Mems Golf tournament.
Dunkelberger defeated G. M. Nils
son of Deland, Fla, 5 and 4 TO-DAY
while Crichton advanced by trim
ming I, l.. Merrill of Daytona Beach
2 and /.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10
OLIVER TIED FOR
TOP IN TOURNEY
Hogan, Penna Also Shoot Sr,
In Texas Open; Heafne,
Cards Helow-Par 6S

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Feb. a..
R-Golfers robots, the winter ,,n.
professionals, Knocked cruel wo,....
conditions today and dragged 70,
through sleet, rain. stiff wind,
bitter cold and finally a burst =,
sunshine in the opening round ,
the $4,000 Texas open.
On top after a day of plouir,
through the mud where cbrbE,
Ed Oliver of Hornell. n. Y. RI,
Hogan, White Plains, n. Y, ana
chunky Tony Penna, DAYTON. Ohm
all with five-under-par 66's on tL'
par 36-35-71 Breckenridge Par,
course.
Oliver, recent winner of fl,
Bing Crosby and Phoenix tourra,
ments, started with tie weatbe,
cutting its worst capers and 6a
the first nine in SO. Three mor.
brides ratified off his muddy stick,
on the last nine. but he tbrss.
putted one hole for a bogie.
Penna, also caught in the earIr
cold, struck his most damagiD.
blows on the last nine, skiddjr.
in puts of all lengths to get a
81, best nine of the day.
Silent Ben Hogan, the home.
grown Texan, closed his round late
in the sunswept afternoon viii
four brides on the last six holes
to slip into the three-way tie,
STOPPED Ralph Guldahl, thu
Texas boy who won the 81 and
'3S national open titles but who
has been searching in vain for his
old touch, shot himself TO the side.
lines with a 41-39-S0 to become
the most prominent casualty. Jus.
as bad off was Dapper Paul Run.
yam with a II, and Harold (Ju:I
McSpaden was eight shots off Tho
pace at IA.
Nineteen rain-jacketed players
took the measure of par in an
amazing demonstration Of shot
making in a crazy quilt Of weatha
AS darkness settled, W, A
(Lefty) Stackhouse, Seguin, Texas
professional, came in with a fiu
81 to jump into a second plac,
tie with w. Lawson Little, In
Angeles open winner, who ha
posted 35-32-67.
Stackhouse fashioned mines
1884. But the 6S bracket was JAM
med with seven players, %includin:
Joe Coria, st. Paul's cindereIA
youngster who yesterday fired
63 to equal the competitive couIs
record.
Other 6S shooters were BN0'
Nelson, national open champion
who finished brilliantly after thEe
penalty strokes at 94-34-6S; JoA
Revolta, Evanston, H., 36-S2-5S
Lloyd Mangrum, Oak Park, III
35-33-6S; Sam Byrd, Philadelphl'
35-33-6S; Clayton Heather, Lin
vile, N. c., 36-32-6S; and Ton
Butler, San Angelo, Texas, 1885,
6S.
The SO bracket held Johnny DaT
son, Hollywood amateur, S4-S7-''
R. Bond, Cleveland 34-35-69; an
Slammin' Sam Snead, Shawnee
the-Delaware, Pa. $3.50.
Other par-breakers at 70 wei
Mike Murra, Wichita, Kas, 36-54
John Barnum, Edinburg Teza
amateur, 1884; Eddie Held OF ;
Louis, former amateur great WI
turned professional today, SS-3.
Horton McVeigh, Los Angeles o.
SO, and Horace Lacey, Little Ro''
1854.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10
Umpires Go To School
To Call Them Right

WASHINGTON, Feb. e.-F-A
strange new baseball caravan rolleo
out of the capital today-the ldc-
Gowan-Armsby Umpires School.
Headed by Bill MCGOWAN, veteran
arbiter Of the American league the
neophite umpires headed for jack
son, Miss, where under McGowah )
and Red Ormsby's tutelage, thes
will learn to call 'em. Ormsby also
in the American league.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10
SMOKE RINGS
It's Dizzy Again
By SAM Raglan

Dizzy (he great) Dean blew a cloud Of steam yes
terdav and started his annual holdout campaign. Thus
setting the stage for the "hodout era" in preseason
baseball. which has become to be an accepted fact for the
past several years. .,
ball for $4,000 a year" Dizzy Dean, the lad who talks a
very good ball game, let the Chicago Cubs in for several
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10
BLUE IMPS WIN

DURHAM, Feb. g. Up Dukes
freshman basketball team won its
fifth victory of the year when it
defeated Jefferson High school of
Roanoke, Virginia, 22-18 or the floor
of the new Duke gym here this
afternoon.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10

Personal fouls:-New Hanover -
Morrison, 2; Pieper, 3; J. Edwards,
Merritt, 8. Rocky Mount-Joyner,
Walker, Johnson, 2; Pitt, a; Sarr 2.
Referees: Jimmy Moore, UNC and
Sam Johnson, Alabama. Scorer,
Blomme; timer, Fergus.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10
NEW MONTREAL PILOT

MONTREAL, Feb. 9-0p-Clyoe
Sukeforth, former Cincinnati ant
Brooklyn catcher, today was ap-
pointed manager of the Montrea u
ROYALS of the International Basepai'
league.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10
STATE WINS

RALEIGH, Feb. 9.-R-Featured
by six falls in an eight-bout meet,
N. C. State wrestling team defeated
Duke, 2S-S, here tonight. State Crap
piers registered five of the six pins.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10

Benito Mussolini one begged
for bread in the streets of Switzer.
land.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-10

The authentic history of Greece
begins 77e B. c. The period Of it's
greatest glory and power was in
the fifth century b. c..
Evening star., 1940-08-20

chine delegates from the South
ern States who, every four years,
from time immemorial, have
been bought and sold on the
auction block. This particular
Republican machine constitutes
the greatest scandal in American
politics.
No one ever heard Mr.. Willkie
lift his voice against any political
machine until after he had been
nominated for President. 1t was
the present Federal administra-
ton that sent Boss Pendergast of
Kansas City, Mo, to the peni-
tentiary. 1t was New Dealer
Mayor La Guardia who cleaned
up New York City, despite Tam
many Hall, Of which Mr.. Willkie
is a member. 1t was the Federal
administration which sent to the
penitentiary the notorious Moe
Annenberg, one of the most cor
rupting influences in American
political life. However, Amen
berg was not put behind the bars
until he had circulated among the
Republican delegates at Phila-
delphia, urging them to greater
endeavors against the New Deal.
And his paper, the Philadelphia
Inquirer, is today vigorously sup
porting the candidacy of Mr..
Willkie.
Mr.. Willkie poses too late as a
champion of political purity,
especially In view of the record
of public utility companies within
his control. He has always en-
joyed association with political
machines. He was a regular
Democrat in Indiana, he was a
regular Democrat in Ohio, and
he has been a regular Democrat
in New York. He never joined in
any fight on any political ma
chine anywhere at any time. His
policy has been to Join EN-
He attended conventions as a
regular Democrat, and he always
went along with the majority.
Failed to Show Reform
Zeal in Tammany Ranks.
After Mr.. Willkie had put on
his shoes and became a resident
of New York City in 1929, he
lost no time in becoming a men,
ber of the Tammany organiza-
ton. He joined in 1880 and he
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has not resigned to this day.
Along about 1886 or 1887 there
was a primary fight in which the
braves of Tammany Hall were
bitterly engaged. A new and
young group was trying to drive
out the old guard. Here was an
opportunity for Mr.. Willkie TO
show his zeal for political re-
form. But he didn't.
Mr.. Willkie fought in the ranks
of Tammany Hall, which sought
the defeat of Fiorello La Guardia,
the courageous and incorruptible
administrator of a great city,
whose record as Mayor will serve
as a model for right-minded men
for all time to come. Here was
another chance to fight a politi-
cal machine. But he didn't.
AS a crusader for political
purity, I wish that Mr.. Willkie
would tell us something about
the forces that make political
machines corrupt. Venal politi-
clans do not bribe themselves.
Public utilities have been
among the principal corruptors
of public officials in the country.
I was somewhat familiar with
the situation in my own city Of
Chicago and State of Illinois
Ito which I had gone as a bare-
foot farmers boy from my BIRTH
place in Pennsylvania and 7
knew, as did others, of the cor
ruption lavishly INDUCED in by
utilities under the domination
and control of the late Samuel
insult. This corruption is
matter of public record.
Not Specific in Telling Public
How Challenge Will Be Met.
I mention insult because I was
shocked TO discover that. in Mr..
Wilkes speech before the Eco
nomic Club of New York, he re-
ferred 10 insult as a "forceful,
dynamic and attractive figure"
There are many thousands OF
people in this country who exc
crate insult as the man who
ruined them. BY them he is re-
membered as the unscrupulous
manipulation who induced his
employees. his customers and even
his friends to invest in his utility
stocks. They remember him as
Continued on Page A-12)
Evening star., 1940-08-20

tumity for the average man and
a greater concentration of eco
nomic power in Wall Street.
Generalities Cannot Calm
Fear of Public.
The American people want to
know specifically, with chapter
and verse cited, how the minor
ity party's candidate proposes to
do moro to preserve the blessings
of American liberty in the mod
ern world than our President is
doing. They want to know
whether Mr.. WILKES new life"
means the New Deal" for the
common people or a new life"
for the Old Guard. No glitter
ing generalities about the candi-
dates belief in collective bar
gaining will quiet labor's fears
so long as the labor-baiting
Weirs and Girdlers remain un-
rebuked. No fine words about
the candidates foreign policy
will quiet fears as to what will
happen if, in the event of Re-
publican victory, Hiram johnson
becomes chairman of the Senate
Committee on Foreign Affairs
and Hamilton Fish chairman of
the House Committee on Foreign
Relations.
The American people are wor-
ried about the stage settings
which are constantly being ar
ranged for the minority candi-
date. And the American people
have a right to ask what it is
all about.
I would like to explain to you
why Mr.. Wilkes acceptance
speech was staged at or near the
town of Elwood, Ind. Customa-
rily, a candidate invites the people
to his home. After all, one cam
not give a front-porch speech
from the tenth floor of 1910
Fifth avenue, New York City,
where Mr.. Willkie actually lives.
1t is many years since Willkie
lived at Elwood, Ind. and most
people had forgotten that he ever
lived there. 1t is legitimate to
infer that his going to Elwood
was for protective coloration. He
wanted to diSsociate himself in
Evening star., 1940-08-20

effort to put him across as the
barefoot farmers boy.
Mr.. Willkie has had much to
say in condemnation of political
machines, especially those in the
cities. I wish that he had ex-
planned just when he developed
his moral fervor on this subject.
AT the Philadelphia convention
he might have repudiated the
votes Of those Republican ma
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which he now says that he sup
ports?
Testimony in Committee
In 1885 Recalled.
All through this period, he was
doing his very able best to pre-
vent the most dynamic and hope
full project of the whole New
Deal-the Tennessee Valley Au-
thOrity-from functioning.
On Saturday Mr.. Willkie ad-
fitted that, by 1929, the concen-
tration of economic power had
gone further than it should ever
go in democracy. Yet in 1885
he testified before the Committee
on Interstate Commerce of the
United States Senate as follows:
If you think these corporations
are large enough as they are, stop
the matter where it is, but don't
dismember them, and deal with
all in that way no matter what
the degree of size"
1t was in 1929 that Mr.. Willkie
went to New York to give his
services exclusively to giant
utility holding company which
was just being formed by Wall
Street promoters to control local
operating systems in II different
States. When President Roose-
welt proposed that We should
emancipate the regional operat-
ing systems from the control of
such giant holding companies,
Mr.. Willkie was the first to pro-
test. And, despite the enactment
of the Holding Company Act
more than four years ago, the
billion-dollar Commonwealth and
Southern Corp, under Mr..
Wilkes management, still cllngS
tenaciously to its control over its
regional operating properties.
Whatever laSt-minute conVer-
sion on the subject of public
power Mr.. Willkie may later con-
fess to, the record that he has
made as a private utility magnate
stands in all its unashamed OPP
position to the public interest.
Part of this record may be found
in his address before the Eco
nomic Club of New York on
January 81. 1885.
Here is what he said:
Il do not like to make personal
references (sicDbut I want to
say to you that no duty has ever
come to me in my life, even that
in the service of my country,
which has so appealed to my
sense of social obligation, )atrlot-
ism. and love of mankind as this,
my obligation to say and do what
I can for the preservation OF
public utilities, privately owned"
Thus spoke Willkie. the rich
mans Roosevelt: Willkie. the
simple, barefoot Wall Street
lawyer.
Evening star., 1940-08-20
L. S. Faces World Wide
Social Revolution.

This sort of demagoguerv cuts
to the heart of Mr.. Wilkes as
SumptionS of craftsmanship.
Barely a year ago. Mr.. Willkie
himself was denying that the
administrations plans for mobil-
izing power resources in the
interest of defense were in any
way justified, and he consistently
refused to acknowledge the para
mount Importance to the ma
tional defense of the IVA, al
though this was later singled
out as indispensable by the De-
fense Commission.
Mr.. Willkie criticizes the Blum
government in France and holds
it responsible for the defeat of
France. Has he never heard of
Bonnet, Flandin, Laval and other
highly placed pro-Nazi person.
ages in France? Has he no
criticism of England's pro-Mun-
ich government. with its policy
of appeasement? Has Mr.. Willkie
no realization of the fact that
America faces today, not only
a world war. but a worldwide
social revolution? Does he not
know that the New Deal in
America has made this country
the only one on the face of the
globe where it appears probable
that the vast agglomerations of
economic power and special
privilege can be modified with
out resort to violence? Does not
the Republican candidate know
that our last line of defense,
which is right here in America.
is being thoroughly organized
and is strongly held-thanks to
the New Deal reforms? Has he
not the candor and the courage
to admit that Roosevelt in
America, like Churchill in Eng
land. warned the people while
the Nation slept?
Today, Mr.. Willkie accepts the
New Deal reforms in principle.
He is for curbing monopoly, he
favors collective bargaining for
labor. he stands by the Wages
and Hours Act, the Public Utility
Holding Company Act, the Securi-
ties and Exchange Act. the Social
Security measures. farm relief.
the rural electrification program
and the work-relief methods by
which the New Deal has re-
membered the forgotten man.
We would like to take him at
his word. But first we must ask
him. since he proclaims that he
is a liberal. where was he when
the battle for these measures was
being fought by us of the New
Deal? Where was he when his
newly possessed party was whit
tling down the w. P. A. funds and
hamstringing the relief admins
tration? Where was he when we
were struggling for decent farm
bill; when we were trying to force
a reactionary Rules Committee
in Congress to act on the Wages
and Hours bill? Where was
Wendell Willkie when the Repub-
licans were fighting tooth-and-
nail against all Of these measures
Evening star., 1940-08-20
the public mind from his bank
ing and utility connections.
Encouraged to Forget
Willkie as Wall Street Lawyer.

The people are being encour-
aged to forget Willkie, the Wall
Street lawyer. the utility execu-
tive, the director of one of the
principal banks affiliated with
Morgan & Co. This explains the