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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
WAR INTERPRETIVE
Continued From Page One)

avert for Germany a two-front war
at a time when she is preparing
a final smash at England.
What Hitler is trying to do, if
the Sofia accounts are taken at
face value, is to knock Greece out
of the British-Axis war by pres
sure and threats before the British
Greek allies knock Italy out by
force. Athens reports that a five
day Greek . British offensive in
southern Albania has been gaining
momentum. Rome admits con-
tinued heavy fighting on that front,
but gives no details.
Pending further light on the re-
ported Turkish-Bulgarian deal, its
actual significance is beyond esti-
nation. OF great Importance would
be the degree to which it assured
Germany against Turkish belliger-
ency if Nazi forces, enroute to Al
bania, entered Bulgaria.
This much seems clear. Unop-
posed German passage to Albania,
by way of Bulgaria or by any
other route, is not to be expected.
British air forces are poised in
Greece within an hours flight of
routes by which the Germans
would have to move.
Would Slow Drive
Winter weather and difficult
mountain terrain also would slow
down a Nazi drive it It was
launched.
1t is also quite likely that it
would take more tn a n Turkish
pledges of aloofness to crack Greek
morale and induce acceptance of
rlin peace" proposals.
Terms acceptable to Greece in the
light Of her amazing victories and
the blows dealt Italy by the British
in Africa would be apt to be ut
terly unacceptable to Mussolini.
They would confess Italian defeat.
Nor can the Greeks overlook the
fact that British sea power DOM
mates the Mediterranean. If
Greece goes out of the war, she
can expect to feel tic full pinch
of the British blockade. British
naval power is now escorting food
stocks to Greece.
There are other reasons to be-
lieve that the real stake Hitler is
playing for in the Balkans is to
maintain the status quo and avoid
tWo-front war for Germany while
he strikes at England. There have
been hints from the outset Of the
Greek-Italian conflict that Berlin
does not approve of Mussolini's
attempt to invade Greece. Fear of
a general Balkan flare-up to i'm
peril vital German oil and food
resources in Rumania and other
Balkan countries has been obvious
in Berlin.
1t is possible that German PRO
tective' occupation of Rumania
was in fact a purely defensive
move, not an attempt to organize
Nazi-Fascist drive to crack Brit
ish power in the eastern Mediter-
ranean. The present Balkan crisis
seems to stem out of British rather
than German initiative. The Brit
lsh break with Rumania made the
fields and transportation en-
Eers in that country possible tar
gets for British bombers. Only Bull
sarlan, Yugoslavian, and Turkish
neutrality has protected them.
Berlin's answer to that challenge .
still may be the effort to force all
'hree countries by promises and
'hreats to maintain that protec-
i've, neutral screen about Ru.
mania. That a definite Nazi mill :
AIRY penetration of Bulgaria would
it and bring Royal Air
.orce bombers into action e S
without saying. I =
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
APPALACHIAN WINS

BooNE' Feb. 17.-R-Appalach.
ian State Teachers won the;r ~
North State conference game tn.
night by defeating Western Caro-.
lima Teachers, 1928. The Nom.
taineers have lost only one game
the standings.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
SMOKE RINGS
Off For The Wars
By SAM Raglan

This morning we'll send Wilmington's fistic contingent
off - Tho Golden Gloves wars in Charlotte and all they need
~ ~ ha1n then, along is a rabbits foot. However, even this
will not be necessary for the lads who are entering the
Carolinas tournament will be packing plenty of boxing skill
"N Rut once the boy has learned all he can learn from
his coach, has got into physical fitness and worked up his
shirt of confidence, he has to go in the ring on his own
We have the feeling that the wilmington otaf-News LEAN
hos ono1oh of it's own to make an impression in the Queen
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
ARRIVE

NEW YORK, Feb. 17.@R-Ihe
signed contracts of right-handed
pitchers Alley Donald and Marvin
Breuer arrived at the New York
Yankee office today. This brought
the total of signed players to q
-13 pitchers, one catcher, three
infielders and four outfielders 5
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
CIVIC A LEAGUE
Ki~onic

More than 700 colleges r now
giving ground school courses for
the civilian pilot training program,
while an equal number of flying
schools are giving flight work. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
STATE O WIN

RALEIGH, Feb. 17.-lR-North
Carolina State freshmen led by
their lanky center Horace Bones
Mckinney, who scored % points,
defeated Duke freshmen here to-
night, 45-43.
Duke freshmen lad at the half,
24-18. .
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
TAR BABIES WIN

CHAPEL HILL, Feb, If
North Carolina freshman basH
ball team racked up its tenth W.
tory in II starts tonight by dele'
ing Campbell College Sc to 49,
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
WINS FIRST A

PINEHURST, Feb. 17.-R-Har-
vester Mays Jack, pointer dog
owned and handled by L. M. Coon
of Winston-Salem, placed first to-
day in the. amateur all-age event
of the Pinehurst field trial club.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18

The SID dive-bomber, an i'm
proved version of the Douglas BIT
bomber, is being manufactured for
the navy. The plane carries a
crew of two. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18

Guards: Reynolds. Smith, Anderson
Corbett. Referee, register.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-18
JOCKEY FINED

Referees, Hatchell and Pridgen.
Evening star., 1941-04-14
Wide Open Flag Major Baseball Looks Season naugm
Joe Schultz, Director of Pirate
Farm System, Dies Suddenly

ness concerning the Pirate farm
club at Moultrie, S. c. At his bed
side were his wife, who had flown
to Columbia from their st. Louis
home, and a son, Joe Schultz, jr,
rookie Pirate catcher.
A native of Pittsburgh, Schultz
learned his first baseball on the
sandlots, breaking into the profess
sional game in 1911. Soon in the
major leagues, he played with every
National League team except the
New York Giants and also with Bos-
ton of the American League. He
played every infeld and outf1eld
position.
He was connected with the st.
Louis Cardinals farm system before
transferring to Pittsburgh. Pirate
sources indicated his successor
would be Harold (Pie) Traynor, for
mer manager of the club and pres
ent assistant farm director.
Schultz also leaves three other
children, Pauline, Josephine and
John, all of St. Louis. Burial will be
In st. Louis.
Evening star., 1941-04-14
BY EDDIE BRIETZ,

hNchNldlCu lFoo opOl 70 "AltCl'
NEW YORK, April 14.-The
Dodgers stand to make about 10
grand on the most sumptuous
training trip in baseball history
which cost $4,000.
Bulletin! Latest Derby odds
have Whirlaway and Dispose CO.
favorites again at Al. One of the
gossip columns reports Horace
Stoneham will lend an ear to any
reasonable offer for the Giants.
And no wonder-2,000 at the Polo
Grounds Saturday; $4,000 at Eb-
bets Field. Big celebration at
the Baltusrol Golf Club over in
Jersey Saturday night when the
boys touched a match to a $751;
900 mortgage. Jack Doyle (the
Wizard of Odds had his base
ball prices in the morning papers
and they're as official in the East
as are Jimmy Carroll's in the
West. Henry Armstrong; Band
tour has begged down and may
be Abandoned altogether.
Today's guest star. - Lester
Bromberg, New York World
Telegram: Presumably for do
ing Tony Music a good deed by
letting him stick around for al
most nine rounds, Joe Louis was
given an honorary membership
In a st. Louis Boy Scout troop"
The weeks wash.-The wres-
Ting trust has filed a formal
protest against the graphing
scene between Bob Hope and a
gorilla in THE Road to Zanzi-
bar" Joe Louis flooded with
fistic offers" screams a headline.
Yep, the boys amt afraid of
Josephus any more. Lou Dia-
mond, the honest brakeman Che
Evening star., 1941-04-14
I; M GMd
Mk. Jones Asked Me Why His Car Knocked

that the manufacturer built into it-and that
you paid your good money to get.
But (and this may sound like blowing my own
horny we Sherwood people have developed a
better way to stop knocks than that. People
have always praised our Benzol-Blended Betho-
line for its anti-knock qualities. We have kept
improving our formula to suit the higher power
and higher compression of the newer motors.
Why Bshhoiins Stops Knock, fhof ofbsr Fuels Won't
That's why, in our present formula, we use two
separate anti-knock ingredients: O) special
anti-knock compound; (2) a high percentage of
rich, costly benzol. Other gasones and motor
fuels in this area contain one or the other Of
these ingredients-BUT ONLY BETHOLINE
CONTAINS BOTH.
That's why can give you my personal assur-
ance that no other gasoline or motor fuel can
equal Betholine for stopping both high and low
speed knocks. And that's why you should not
blame your motor for knocking until you have
tried Betholine.
There has been a tremendous swing to Betho-
line. Nearly six times as many motorists are
using it now as in 1885. am confident you will
want to join them after you have tried Betho-
line for two or three weeks.
Evening star., 1941-04-14
Myer
Continued From Page CID

Of baseball careers shattefed or
stymied by bean balls. They're
hoping Bloodworth's rising star
isn't dimmed by his accident.
Mel Almada. a fine fielder with
the Mats several seasons ago, was
beaned early in his career and
thereafter stood SO far from the
plate he required car token to be
on speaking terms with the plate
umpire. Jimmy Wasdell, also a
former Nat, had his face Dashed
in while he was hitting .345 with
Memphis and never fulfilled the
promise he had displayed to that
point.
Griffith says Sammy West now
would be recognized as one of base
balls all-time great stars if he
hadn't suffered a similar accident
in the minors. Sammy was one
of the games best for many years,
but Griff says he never was as
great as he would have been if that
accident hadn't occurred.
Early Hits Homer.
Cecil Travis, on the other hand,
once spent 10 days or so on a hos
pital cot as the result of being hit
on the head by Thornton Lee of the
White Sox. But Travis came back
to face Lee in his first game upon
returning to the lineup and drove
him from the box.
1t apparently isn't a collapse of
courage when player slips after
stopping a fast ball with his head.
Players with imagination doubtless
subconsciously finch bit on high,
hard, inside pitches. They're likely
to be shy at the plate after a skull
ing, and if they are they can kiss
much of their effectiveness good-by.
Bloodworth had played an i'm
portant role in the Mats win over
Baltimore before being conked. He
inserted a single into the proceed
ings in the fourth inning at time
when the bases were crammed.
Washington scored five runs off
Clyde Smoll In that session to grasp
6-2 lead.
Baltimore didn't hit Steve Sundra
often in his f1ve-inning stretch, but
it hit him hard In the first inning
Bob Seeds pumped two-run homer
Evening star., 1941-04-14
Dodgers Make $4,000 on Sumptuous Training Jount
Whowoy Now Derby Armstrone

wouldn't be surprised if the next
move of the amazing Mr.. Mac
Phail is to charge 'em quarter
to listen in on the broadcast.
Our departed brethren.-Sport-
ing News readers whose subscrip-
tions have run out are receiving
reminders addressed, Dear Ex-
pired Reader" p? =?
Parting thought.-Sure hope
none of you laid an egg yester-
day except the Easter bunny
and Larry MacPhail.
Ode to spring Cantor I'D.
IT'S spring:
The bird is on the wing.
Dissolve:
The wing Is on the bold.
-FLATBUSH FLOOEY.
Evening star., 1941-04-14

never stole box carr is the new
Mayor of Jacobs Beach. Vince
Fratello and Augie Arellano,
hard-hitting middles, go at
White Plains tomorrow night and
should pack the joint. A big
delegation of Norfolk (Va) fans
will be on hand in Washington
today to present a flock of pres
ents to Jerry Priddy and Phil
Rizzuto, the Yankee Keystone
twins, who used to star down
there.
Beg pardon dept.-That nifty
pome we ran Saturday about
Bobby Jones and his rs should
have been credited to Halsey
Hall of the Minneapolis Star
Evening star., 1941-04-14
Ailments Cause Two
Changes in Chisox
Opening Lineup
Py the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, April 14.-Ailments
which persistently have dogged the
spring training activities of the Chi
cago White Sox will necessitate two
changes in the teams opening line
up at Cleveland tomorrow.
Originally, John DUNCAN Rigney
was slated to open on the mound
and Taft Wright was tabded for
right field duty.
Influenza and streptococcus
throat sidelined Rigney two weeks
ago and he hasn't had uniform on
since. Bill Dietrich has replaced
him as the pitcher to oppose Bob
Feller.
Wright, a flu victim weeks ago,
suffered a sudden relapse Saturday
night after playing against the Cubs
that afternoon. His temperature
scared to 104, but treatment at Mercy
Hospital warded off a threatened
pneumonia attack. He and Rigney
are expected to be out of action at
least a month.
Larry Rosenthal was assigned to
handle Wright's berth, giving the
Sox more defensive strength, but
weakening the attack.
Evening star., 1941-04-14

Journal insted of to Jack Troy
of the Atlanta Constitution. ct
all happened in the rush to get
oet to Ebbets Field on one of
Larry MacPhail's so cent passes,
gents) The current Pic prints
a map showing the birthplace
of each major league ball player.
and Gordon cleveland Plain
Dealer) Cobbledick gives the low
down on last years Indian up
rising in a current mag. Sport
ing, one of the Kentucky Derby
candidates, was sired by an
Army draft hoss named Red Bug.
Blue bloods, eh? Brooklyn
rooters, still steaming over the
high cost of Dodger passes,
Evening star., 1941-04-14
Yanks, Reds Booked
Close 10 Even Money
For Flag Victories
DoyIe's Odds Make Tribe.
Dodgers Second; Mats,
Browns Picked Sixth
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 14-The Gin
cinnati Reds and New York Yankees
have been made favorites for the
National and American League pen
nant races today by Jack Doyle,
famous odds quoter.
The Yanks are held at 7 to in
the American League with the
Cleveland Indians on almost even
terms at to 2, while the world
champion Reds rule as a 6-to-5
choice in the senior circuit COM
pared to to quoted for the Brook
lyn Dodgers.
Both Detroit's defending Amer
ican League champions and the st.
Louis Cardinals in the National
were rated third as 4-to-1 shots.
Doyle's final selections this year
were delayed because of uncertainty
about the effect of the Army draft.
His quotations follow:
Evening star., 1941-04-14

mutual friend introduced me to Mr.. Jones
chats not his real name) at lunch week or
so ago. II understand you're in the gasoline
business" he said, maybe you can help me.
My car is reasonably new, yet sometimes it
knocks at high speeds, sometimes at low speeds.
Why should it knock and what can do
about it?"
Here's the gist of what told him: Such knocks
are not unusual, and usually they're easy to
cure You may not realize that cars built in the
last few years pack lot more horsepower and
lot higher compression into motors which are
much smaller and much lighter than those five
or six years ago.
These modern motors are marvels Of mechanical
efficiency. But it's their amazing combination
of more power and compression with less size
and weight that sometimes causes knocks-if
you don't treat 'em right. Usually the knocks
are due, not to the motor itself, but to the gaso-
line or motor fuel you use to run it.
Two Wuys 10 ssop Mofor KNOCKS
OF course, one way to stop knocks is to have
your spark set back. But you know what hap
pens then? The motor seems slow and sluggish.
1t doesn't have the wonderful get up and 60"
Evening star., 1941-04-14

younger players and additions to
our pitching staff
However, just about the most en-
thusiastic position of all was taken
by Bucky Harris, whose Washington
Nationals generally have been con-
sidered a good bet to fall into the
American League cellar.
Il will not even be mildly sur
prised If We finish in the first divi-
sion," declared Harris. ITO me it
already is apparent that we are
improved in every department over
last season. I might be worried
about the hitting If 1t were not for
the fact that I have confidence in
our pitching. We won't need as
many runs to win as other clubs" I"
Evening star., 1941-04-14

and in the fourth Art Graham con-
tributed a three-run poke. Jake
Early offset that in the eighth,
though, when he drove one of Nil
ler's pitches out of the park with
Travis and Archie on base
Jim Dean pitched the last four
innings for the Mats and escaped
damage. Jim yielded four hits and
twice was rescued from embarraSs-
ing situations by double plays. B. H.
Evening star., 1941-04-14
Exhibition Finale
Totals SO 10 2712 Totals 81 727
'Batted for Sundra in sixth.
+Batted for Miller in ninth

Washington - O1O 500 O30-9
Baltimore - 200 300 000-5
Bloodworth. Archie, Evans, Early, Hamil-
ton. Graham, Seeds (2J, Hafey. Errors
Kracher. Hafey, WelaJ. Runs batted in
Seeds t2), Archie, Bloodworth (2J, Case,
Graham t3), Early (2). Home runs
Seeds, Graham. Early. Double plays
Hafey to Corbett to Flair, Bloodworth to
Travis to Archie C2). Bloodworth to Archie.
Left on Observation-Disclosures, :; Baltimore,
9 First base on balls-Of Smou. 4; of
out-Bv Smol, 4 by Sundra, /: by Miller,
4; py Dean, .. Hits-Of Smoll. in
innings: off Miller, in innings; on
innings Hit by pitched ball-By Smoll
tTravis). by Miller tArchie Bloodworth).
Winning pitcher-Sundra. Losing pitcher
SmolI.
Evening star., 1941-04-14
MucuIuso SemifinuIist
Aquin on Mat Card

Len Macaluso, one-time Colgate
football star, continues in his semi
final spot on Thursdays rassling
program at Turner's Arena Victor
last week over Fred Grobmier, he
takes on Lou Plummer of Baltimore
this week.
Feature spot on the card is held
by Milo Steinborn and the Green
Hornet.
Evening star., 1941-04-14
By the Associa ated Press.

PITTSBURGH, April 14.-Joe
Schultz, sr., 46, former big league
player and director of the Pittsburgh
Pirates baseball farm system for
the last two years, died suddenly in
Columbia Is. c. hospital yesterday.
Schultz became i'll a few days ago
while in the Southern city on busi.
Evening star., 1941-04-14
Ys Carnival This Week

The Y. M. C. AS annual athletic
carnival will be held this Friday
and Saturday. More than $50 are
expected to compete in the events,
beginning at pm. Friday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-02-15
Sea Raiders Show Mercy
 During Fight
Send Down Fourteen Brit. ish Ships-Spdre One
 10 Make Rescues

BERLIN, Feb. 15.-A flotilla of German warships which is report cd to have sunk IA British ships in convoy. left one vessel afloat to serve as rescue ship for the other crews.
 This is the report made today by the DINE news agency which said all merchantmen were armed and defended themselves vigor- ously but no German ship was hit
 A DINE reporter on one of the German ships said the sea fight was so swift after the first 10 min- utes that five British ships were in sinking condition.
 The attack on the British con- yoy was made last Sunday off the coast of Portugal.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-02-15
WANTED. BOMBERs

Britain'S pressing need is medium and long range bombers to carry the war with vigor to the industrial ccnters of Germany and Italy. Sir Hugh Dowding, former chief of the RAF Fighter Command, now in this country to try to expedite plane de- liveries, has come up against some stark facts.
 One is that there will be nosap- preciable increase in U. s. bomber output until late in the summer when the first of four huge aircraft assembly plants gets into produc- ticn at Kansas City. These new plants will assemble plane parts made by auto and accessory manu- lecturers, and when in full opera tion, will boost bomber production by around 300 a month.
 But even with this increase, plus the new aircraft plants now under construction, Britain's 16,0O0-plane order will be long way from the flying 1leldS-tO say nothing of Army and Navy orders and an additional 12,0O0-order now being discussed by the British.
 Production schedules on paper call for the completion of 33,000 planes cf all types, by July, l942-a formid- able armada if the ships are built and if Hitler waits that long.
 NOTE.-Th plan for mass pro- ducticn of planes through use of the auto industry. as proposed by Wal ter Reuther, of the United Auto Workers, has made little headway among National Defense an6 auto magnates. Privately, however some of the ablest production officials in
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-02-15

2
 WASHINGTON.- Behind the re- port that War Department officials are urging the appointment of a "czarS for the airplane industry are two grave situations:
 l. A scattered administrative set up snsrled in red-tape.
 3. Dragging production schedules, particularly in bombers. fBombers are the most urgent air need Of the British at prcsent)
 The necessity for centralizlng the administration by airplane activities is che of the most vital in the de- fense program. Only insiders realize how widely dispersed is control. The Army Air Corps and Navy Bureau of Aeronautics are only two of sev- eral agencies concerned with it's management.
 In December, Robert Lovett World War Navy ace and prominent New York attorney, was brought to Wash ingtcn by Secretary Stimson to con- duct survey and bring order out of the tumble Lovett is still grappling with the problem.
 Some authorities urge that the pest of Assistant Secretary of War for Air, long vacant, be revived to provide centralized control. Created during Coolidges regime, the post was shelved by Hoover as an econ- omy move in 1882 and never restored by Roosevelt.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-02-15
FREIGHT
 TRAFFIC
 NOW OFF
Italians Taking No Chances Because of Landing of
 British Sdboieurs

ROME, Feb. i5.--Freight traffic along several railroads in southern Italy where Blackshirt guards have rounded up British parachutist dy- namiters, was suspended today
 Although the High Command said yesterday all British were captured, Communications Ministry said ac- ceptance of freight has been cut off pending further investigation of British saboteurs.v
 The official railroad statement only says. Freight service has been suspended to various Southern Ital- ian sections because the present transportation forwarding situation is difficult"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-02-15

 Will Come
 Next Week

With the first Lodestar to be de- livered in Seattle Monday and two others before the end of next week, PAA expects to resume service be- tween Juneau and Seattle some time next week, according to Gen eral Manager Joe Crosson, who is in Juneau awaiting the southbound Yukon. Crosson is on his way back to the Seattle office after a brief business trip to Fairbanks.
 Parts for the Douglas airliner. damaged here in the recent storm, which were to have been shipped on the Baranof, missed that steamer and are to come north on the Alaska leaving Seattle today.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-02-15
Fly JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-- When ever freshman congressman makes the least little bit of splurge, at tracts ever a paragraph oi atten- ton from his senior colleagues, US worth recording.
 No "frosh7 in college irater- nity is more beneath the consid- eration of upper -claSsmen that a first-term Representative beneath the men who outrank him in years of service. It's Congress trial by fire and water and anyone who survives it without Encouragement is entitled to beat his breast and give the old Tarzan cry in the political jungle.
 This fact makes even more un- usual the unusual story of Will liam Townsend Pheiffer. Billy Pheiffer, as the boys back homo remember him, was born out in the Oaky country when his native Purcell was still in the Indian