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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04

to encourage field goal kicking. both
recommended by the National Foot.
ball Coaches association, were re-
jected by the committee, Okeson said.
He said return Of the goal posts
would be dangerous to the players
as well as a handicap to the offensive
team.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
n. STATE WINS

RALEIGH, J IAN. 3-R-N. c.
State, paced by Jim Mills who
scored IS points, defeated Rocky
Mount Y, 60 to II, in a practice
basketball game here tonight.
States freshmen also defeated Ra-
leigh high, 80 to 81, in a pactice
contest,
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
Hospital Gets 100000
From East-West Game

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3-R-
The 18th annual East-West charity
football game New Years day will
net the San Francisco unit of the
Shriners' crippled children's hos
pital in excess of $780, 600, man.
aging Director William !Coffman
said today.
More than 60, 600 fans, largest to
witness a football game here,
turned. out.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
DECLINES TO COMMENT

AUBURN, ALA, Jan. 3. ~
Jimmy Hitchcock, assistant Au-
burn football coach, declined TO
comment today on reports ne
would quit professional basepa4
to coach the Tiger baseball squad
Hitchcock, a shortstop who was
purchased by New Orleans from
Columbus of the American asso'
citation, referred questioners to
head coach Jack Meagher, VINO
was out of the city. .
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
TAKES SCREEN TEST

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. s.-LR-Tom
Harmon, Michigan's great halfback,
took a screen test today at a studio
(Warner Brothers., and Director
Ralph Murphy said he might be Of
fered a part in LAS Vegas Heights"
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
NEW COACH

SPARTANBURG, S. c., Jan. 8
R0Douglas Earl Cannon, guard
on, Wofford college basketball
teams for three years, starting in
1884, was appointed coach of the
Terrier cagers today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
MOTTO TURN r

BRISTOL, Tenn, Jan. 3.--tR-
Boston colleges great center, Chef
Gladchuk, said here tonight that he
was not interested in playing pro-
fessionalf football.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
SMOKE RINGS
Sports Figures
By SAM

If it hasn't struck you between the eyes pel9re, we "a u
hack a. ~ that needless to say statement we have some figures
released by the United States +5 BoT maue of s Genfu on 5S prove pr equip lip
n1 49, S don,tt take into account all of the persons parti-
Chatting in some sport or another, the people who wateh the
namas and the mazuma spent by participants and spectators
Sn In tho line in every month of the year.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
Names in the news:

Friends say Bobby Jones', retir.
ed emperor of golf, will be at
Fort Worth for the National open.
but not as a competitor. Roy
Higgins, Vanderbilt football star.
will take his physical exam next
month for the naval air school at
Pensacola. . 1t. James Cox,
public relations officer at Fort Nc
Pherson, is an ex-Nebraska foot
baller.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
. JAVENGRO WINS

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3.-R-Ell-
taos stables Lavengro, six-year-old
black gelding, won today's feature
event at Santa Anita, a ~six-furlong
sprint for $500 = ~.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
APPALACHIAN WINS

BOONE, Jan. 3.-R-Appalachian
State Teachers college opened its
wrestling season here tonight with
a % to 10 win over Case school of
Cleveland, O.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
Grapefruit Gossip:
Strip assemblies faculty

Jersey Joe Strip will get a
jump on the baseball season at Or.
lando Jan. Z with the 1871 opening
of his annual baseball school.
The faculty. includes Joe Med.
wick. Gerald Walker, Don Padgett
and Old Joe Tinker, the Chicago
Cub immortal. -. About 200 hope.
fuls will take the six-weeks' curse.
. Huntsville and Tuscaloosa
(Ala.) and Rome -(Ga:) are men.
toned as possibilities in the South.
eastern league if some of the
present members can't make thu
grade. Joe Cusick, who piloteo
Albany to the Georgia-Florida
playofs last season, has been sign.
ed for another year.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
MIAMI TO ENLARGE
ITS ORANGE BOWL
Next Year The Stadium Will
Seat 10000 And Sponsors
To Tie Up Teams Early
BY ROMNEY

ATLANTA, Jan. 3-R- There
was significance in the announce
ment Jan. 1 in Miami that the
Orange bowl next year will seat
go, 900 instead of only 5000. .
The contemplated expansion will
put the Orange bowl just short of
par with New Orleans Sugar bowl,
and Miami's alert bowl committee
has given indication it will move
comparatively early in the season
to nab the nations top football
teams. And something more
to think about. 49,. Miami has
tossed no cold water upon the sug-
gestion of DR.. G. D. Humphrey,
retiring president Of the South
eastern conference, for association
of the SEC, with bowl sponsors.
-. The idea brought a horse
laugh from spokesman Of the
Sugar bowl committee.
Bowl roundup planned by
touchdown clubbers-
The Atlanta Touchdown club,
which vowed year = around foot
ball fans in these parts last winter
by corralling all the major bowl
pictures as the main course at a
big party, plans an encore this
year. Last time it arranged
for 500 persons, received 1000
ticket requests, weakened and had
700 at the dinner, thereby over
crowding a bit. -. This time
Maestro Everett S%trupper says
positively" no more than 500, first
come first served. -. Better get
your bid in early:
Evening star., 1941-01-10
Greek Coast Bomborded
By Ships, Italy Reports

ROME, Jan. 10 (Pl.-Italian war
ships effectively bombed enemy
coastal positions" in the campaign
against the Greeks. the Italian high
command communique reported to-
day.
On land, it said, only local ac-
tions took place in some sectors of
the 1lth Army, with artillery activity
on the remainder of the front"
italian warplanes, it reported,
bombed and machine gunned
marching troops and motor vehicles
and effectively hit" anti-aircraft
battery emplacements defending an
important enemy naval base"
Premier Mussolini ordered today
more effective action" on the part
of the Fascist party members among
the Albanian masses" in an audi
ence granted to Tefik Mboria, head
of the Albanian branch. He had
reported to II Duce on political con-
ditions in Albania.
Mussolini's instructions were along
the lines of those he gave to Fascist
chieftains in Italy November 18-
that they show more activity in
making contact with the people,
looking after their morale and ex-
tending relief to the needy.
Evening star., 1941-01-10
Batt|eship 'G|owed'
After Naples Bomb
Attack, R. A. F. Says
Direct Hits on ltoIion
City's Roll Station
Also Are Claimed
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. 10.-British
bombs fell ION or very near" the
stern of an Italian battleship of the
Littorio class, causing dull red
glow" the R. A. F. reported tonight
of a Wednesday night raid on Naples.
The Littorio class is Italy's new
IS ,000-ton division-the Littorio, Wit
torio Veneto, Impero and Roma. Only
the Littorio and Vittorio Veneto
have been put into service. The
others are building.
One of the class was claimed by
the British to have been hit and left
badly down by the bows" In the
aerial torpedo attack on the Taranto
base the night of November 11-12.
Naples Rail Station Hit.
The communique also reported
direct hits on the Naples railway
station and added that fires were
started among large motor vessels in
the harbor and along the water
front.
Further raids were made yesterday
on besieged Tobruk, following at
tacks Wednesday night, it reported.
The battleship, merchant ship
ping, docks and the railway station
at Naples were objectives of a
particularly heavy raid on that
frequently assaulted italian city, the
r. A. F. said.
(The Italians acknowledged
that five persons were killed and
some 30 injured by waves of Brit
tsh attackers Wednesday night
when, they said, numerous
bombs" struck Is buildings and a
hospital ship in the harbor.)
Fires Seen on Water Front.
Returning pilots said fires blazed
quickly among large motor vessels
in Wednesday nights attack. A
string of fires was said to have been
seen along the water front from the
north end of the dry dock to the
jetty.
Several bombs" hit buildings on
the quay. rail lines were blasted
and series of laundering explosions
erupted, the r. A F. account went
on.
Palermo, on the Island of Sicily.
the object of Wednesday night
raid, also received a return call, the
communique said, adding that bombs
straddled the wharf there, causing
explosions.
The British said Benina airdrome
in Libya, again was raided. with at
least IL Italian planes destroyed
and hangers and other buildings
blown to pieces by direct hits.
Evening star., 1941-01-10
ThaiIanders Promise
Reta|iatory Raids
On Three Cities
Announce PIuns to
Attack Saigon, Dolot
And Ponompenh
BY the Associated Press.

by tne ASSOCldlco FEeSs.
BANGKOK, Thailand, Jan. To-
The supreme command of Thailand
(Siam announced today its decision
to carry out day and night bombing
raids on Saigon, Dalai and Ponom-
penn, large cities in French Indo-
China, in retaliation for reported
French attempts to bomb Bangkok,
Ubol and Prachinburi in Thailand
last night.
A communiQue said three French
planes which attempted to raid the
Thai cities were repulsed before
reaching their destinations.
The supreme command also an
nounced that Thai land forces con-
tinued their advance, seizing several
enemy positions.
The French, the communique
said, retreated without offering seri-
Gus resistance anywhere, leaving be-
hind the bodies of French Moroccan
troops and large quantities of arms
and equipment.
Thai planes bombed Batambong
and the railway town of SiemreaI
in the vicinity of the famous lost
civilization" ruins at Angkor, the
| supreme command said.
Two French planes. it was re-
ported, attempted to raid the Thai
towns of Nagorn, Rajsima, Ubol and
Srisakes in the northeach region
but were driven off with only one
/ civilian casualty.
Evening star., 1941-01-10
7 ext
Continued From First Paee.)

necessary to carry out the provi-
sions and accomplish the purposes
of this act.
(b). All money and all property
which Is converted into money re-
ceived under section 3 from any
government shall, with the approval
of the director of the budget, re-
vert to the respective appropriation
or appropriations out of which funds
were expended with respect to the
defense article or defense informa-
ton for which such consideration
is received, and shall be available
for expenditure for the purpose for
which such expended funds were
appropriated by law, during the fis-
cal year in which such funds are
received and the ensuing fiscal year.
Section Z. The Secretary of War,
the Secretary of the Navy and the
head of the department or agency
shall in all contracts or agreements
for the disposition of any defense
article or defense information fully
protect the rights of all citizens
of the United States who have
patent rights in and to any such
article or information which is
hereby authorized to be disposed of
and the payments collected for
royalties on such patents shall be
paid to the owners and holders
of such patents.
Section 8. The Secretaries of War
and of the Navy are hereby author
ized to purchase or otherwise
acquire arms, ammunition and i'm
plements of war produced within the
jurisdiction of any country to which
Section 3 is applicable, whenever the
President deems such purchase or
acquisition to be necessary in the
interests of the defense of the
United States.
Section g. The President may,
from time to time, promulgate such
rules and regulations as may be
necessary and proper to carry out
any of the provisions of this act;
and he may exercise any power or
authority conferred on him by this
act through such department,
agency, or officer as he shall direct.
Evening star., 1941-01-10
Tomade||i's Bond Cut
From $4,000 10 $4,000

Justice James w. Morris in Dis
trict Court today reduced the amount
of bond in the case of Jwan j.
Tomadelli, accused of defrauding
q New Jersey businessman out OF
some s500,0O0, from the $4,000 set
q few days ago by United States
Commissioner Needham c. Turnage
to $4,000.
This action was taken after Toma-
dellis attorney, Myron G.. Ehrlich,
recited previous bonds set in famous
cases here, and said that the $75 5000
bond the Government required of
his client was almost unprecedented.
United States Attorney Edward M.
Curran, who, with Assistant United
States Attorney John w. Fhelly,
represented the Government at the
hearing. told the court he would
be satisfied with any action the
court took.
During the hearing Mr.. Tomadelli
told the jurist that other than his
paintings, allegedly seized by the
Government from his hotel apart
ment, and stock in his company, he
is without assets, except for $50 in
cash.
Mr.. Tomadelli told the court that
he has been paying a hotel bill Of
$500 or S700 a month, and was send
ing his family some S225 a month,
and has been doing this for 16 years.
The accused advised Justice Nor
ris from the witness stand that he
has no source of income and that he
has borrowed money; has no safety
deposit box in a hotel or elsewhere,
but said that he had friends, who
would aid in raising the bond
money.
Evening star., 1941-01-10
Harvester Pact Signed;
Work to Start Monday

FORT WAYNE, Ind, Jan. 10 P)
Company and union officials to-
day signed an agreement ending q
strike which had been in progress
at the International Harvester Co. S
truck works here since December 81
Picketing stopped at once.
Arnold J. Atwood of Detroit. re-
gional director of the c. I. O. United
Automobile Workers Union, said
that the U. A. w. strikers would be
back on the job Monday.
He reported that the union Local
No. 81 had voted approval of a
contract presented by Bargaining
Committee and union officers. The
contract, he said, embodied most of
the unions demands, including a
minimum wage of 70 cents an nour
after 80 days employment and
seniority rights.
Supt. Charles M. Harrison of the
truck works said that the strike af-
fected approximately $500 persons
and halted production OF trucks for
the Navy and Marine Corps. A
representative of the National De-
fense Commission aided in settling
the dispute.
Evening star., 1941-01-10
Grand Chapter, 0. {. s.,
Opens 3-Day Session

The annual election of the Grand
Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star,
was to begin this afternoon in the
Willard Hotel, where the Grand
Chapter is holding a three-day
meeting. Polls will close at $3.50 pm
The second business session is to
be held tonight in the hotel ball.
room, with Mrs. Minnie j. Burdine,
worthy grand matron, and Edward
c. Steagall, worthy grand patron
presiding.
Officers will be installed tomorrow
night, following completion of busi-
ness, and delegates and their guests
then will move to the National Press
Club Auditorium for late supper.
principal social event of the meeting
Hundreds Of representatives of
Eastern Star jurisdictions through
out the country were greeted by
Mrs. Burdine and Mr.. Steagall last
night as the annual sessions began.
Business included presentation Of
reports by officers and committee
ohairmen.
Evening star., 1941-01-10
Damage Of Half Billion
Suffered in Holland
In 5-Ddy B|itzkrieg
Unofficial Report Says
Rotterdam Lost Half Of
Total; Sc, 900 Buildings Hit
BY LLOYD LEHRBAS,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

An estimated $500 ,00O,O 900 worth Of
damage was done to Dutch property
in the five-day German blitzkrieg
which conquered the Netherlands
last May, according to information
only now received in diplomatic
circles here.
The details of destruction, while
apparently authoritative, were un-
official in character. The United
States has not been represented III
the Netherlands since shortly after
German occupat ton Of the country,
and no American correspondents are
now stationed there. There has
been. as a result, very little factual
information on conditions in Hol-
land under Nazi occupation.
Seemingly complete reports which
have now reached diplomatic quar-
tiers here give this picture of the
havoc wrought:
The total damage to private
property, according to the survey
by Dutch appraisers, exceeded 70O,-
100000 guilders "a guilder was worth
6s cents before the invasion.
Half of 1t In Rotterdam.
A single Observation-Disclosures
half of the damage when it was
blasted by a furious German air
raid the day the nation surrendered
In Rotterdam, where the German
planes dropped hundreds of explo-
sive and incendiary bombs from a
low height, an estimated 1000
business premises and $4,000 resi-
dences were reported destroyed or
burned. Approximately $4,000 people
were left homeless with loss Of all
furniture and possessions.
AS an example of the losses suf-
fered by Dutch business firms the
survey said that an estimated $1,000
typewriters were destroyed in Rot
terdam alone.
Damage done to Dutch vessels
during the brief but furious fighting
amounted to reported 10000 900
guilders. An estimated 7 per cent
of the nations merchant marine was
sunk at anchor, but 400 vessels, most
OF them small, already have been
raised and repaired, and work is
progressing to salvage $50 more.
Practically no damage was done to
Hollands world famous tulip fields,
the report said, and bulbs now pro-
vide a major export, with most sales
to Germany.
Nazi Regulations.
Some aspects of life in the Neither
lands under their Nazl conquerors
given by the same report included:
Just before cold weather set in a
regulation was issued enabling each
family to get an overcoat against
q ration coupon.
No paTades or professions OF more
than 100 persons are allowed except
by special permit.
A decree prohibits the slaughterlng
Of sheep without a special permit.
No persons wholly or partly Jewish
NAV be members of school board,
teach, or even serve as janitors OF
schools.
Hollands largest motion picture
theater chain, which was Jewish
,wned. was turned over to an "Aryan'
German firm, and no Jews are now
permitted to 60 to the movies.
Evening star., 1941-01-10
Little Progress Made
In Effort 10 Avert
Ranger Strike
DeodIine Now Monday;
WoIkout Would Tie Up
Bio U. S. Plane Order
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FARMINGDALE, N. Y, Jan. 10
John Owens, representative of the
National Defense Commission, re-
ported little or no progress" today
in efforts to avert a strike which
would halt production on $7,750,000
worth of Government airplane en-
gine orders.
Meanwhile in Washington,
Congress members continued in
formal discussions of legislation
to ban strikes in defense indus
tries, although C. l. o. Presi-
dent Philip Murray contended
that any law restraining labor's
freedom to strike would be "a
very great mistaken
Mr.. Owens told newsmen that a
conference at the Ranger plant of
the Fairchild Engine & Airplane
Corp. had adjourned until later in
the day because 80 far. they have
been unable to agree on any sub
stantial wage basis"
"Once they agree on that he
explained, "other matters can be
cleared up easily"
Mr.. Owens spoke a few hours after
coming here from Washington.
The discussion behind closed doors
became so heated at times that
voices could be heard plainly out
side.
New Deadline Monday,
Mr.. Owens indicated he would
confer by telephone with high off,
cials of the Defense Commission be-
fore the conference reconvened at
the Hotel Commodore in New York
City.
The strike over wages had been
scheduled for 7:45 pm. yesterday
but last-minute pressure from Wash
ington won 43-hour postponement.
The new deadline would be 7:45
am. Monday, since the plant does
not operate on Sunday.
Mr.. Owens arrived in the early
morning and Immediately joined the
all-night conference of company off,
cials, other Defense Commission
representatives and officials of Local
66l of the United Automobile Work
ers of America &C. I. o..
Sees Defense Hampered.
Yesterday, Rear Admiral John H
Towers, chief of naval aviation, tolc
the House Naval Affairs Committee
in Washington that the strike woulc
/ seriously" hamper the defense pro-
/ gram. The corporation has S7750,'
! 900 contracts for about 1000 Army
and Navy alrplane engines, and an
other Navy contract for 900 engine!
is pending.
Admiral Towers previously testified
that a shortage of airplane engine
would exist for another l8 months
constituting one of the most seriou
bottlenecks in the military and nava
aircraft program.
The union claims 2l3 of the plant
| 240 employees. 1t is demanding ;
5-cents-an-hour pay increase fo
I all employees, an increase in th'
starting wage from so to 55 cents ar
hour, an increase to IS cents after 81
days and complete reclassiicatior
of all employees.
The plant offered to pay mex
/ perienced men so cents to start, s.
cents after six months and so cent!
within a year, according to Duncan
Cox, general manager of the plan
and vice president of the paren
corporation.
Evening star., 1941-01-10
ItoIy's Position Critical
AustroIion Leader Says

NEW YORK, Jan. 10 LP.-The
British Broadcasting Corp. quoted
Australian Army Minister P. c..
Spender, who has been on a visit to
his troops in North Africa, as say
ing today that Italy's position there
in general and in Libya particularly,
''is now desperate"
The B. B. c. broadcast, heard here
by N. B. c., said Spender. now on
his way home, told interviewers in
Calcutta:
"The Italian feet apparently will
not come out to try to protect the
transport of supplies across the Med
iterranean. This sea, which Musso-
lini often boasted he would make an
italian sea, is today less Italian than
it ever has been. The fact is that
Britain controls the Mediterranean,
and with that control, the key to
the Middle East"
Evening star., 1941-01-10
British Motor Forces
Bombed, Italians Soy

ROME, Jan. 10 (P.-A formation
of Italian assault and fighter planes
sighted and hit about 100 enemy
mechanical vehicles heading
toward Acroma, about 100 miles
south and slightly west of Tobruk,
Libya, the high command asserted
today.
In addition, the daily commu-
nique said, British mechanical
equipment was destroyed by artillery
fire in the Tobruk zone.
Italian planes also bombed Salum,
Egypt, the high command said.
Tent encampments and armored
cars were machine-gunned by
Fascist warplanes in the Kassala
zone and near Sciusceib, in East
Africa. while raids by British motor
lied forces were said to have been
"repelled" northeast of Kassala and
losses inflicted on the raiders.
Evening star., 1941-01-10

strategic importance to preventing
a break through at this point.
Early in the battle for Klisura
Greek spokesman said:
Realizing the great importance
Of the pass the Italians have con-
centrated as many forces as they
could in their determination to
frustrate at any cost the plans of
the general staff
Dispatches from the front during
the past two weeks have told of re-
peated Italian counter attacks
aimed at relieving the pressure on
Klisura. Greek communicates, how
ever. have told of the capture of
height after height in the region,
frequently at bayonet point.
Large numbers of Italian prison.
erS have been reported taken during
this fighting,