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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-06
100000 More Draftees
To Be Called In January

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-lP-se-
lective service officials estimated to.
night that some 100000 more
draftees would be called to the colors
this month and army officers said
this contingent would bring ali units
up to strength originally llanned fo1
January.
Exact figures on the number Of
draftees to be inducted during the
month are unavailable because corps
areas, including those at New York
and Chicago, are requistioning on a
ten-day basis. Another uncertain fac
tor is the status of reception facili-
ties at certain points.
The war department had estimated
early in December that 16S,000 mer
would be added to the army in jan
uary, some $4,000 being expected
recruiting.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-06
Klein Prefers Steady
Job To Tourney Play

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Jan. s.
R,-The glory gained from tourna-
ment golf is nice, but the smartest
thing a young professional can do
is build reputation. land nice
job, and settle down.
Thus speaks Willie Klein, winter
pro at the La Gorce club here.
You don't hear lot about Klein
nowadays, although tournament
veterans say he could keep pace
with the best on the circuit if he
so desired.
But Klein, big blond with a
stylish swing, is quite content with
summer position at the Wheatley
Hills Golf club, East Williston, L..
l.. and his winter job here.
Born within a couple of brassie
shots of the Wheatley Hills course,
Willie started as a caddie, like
most professionals. In 1926 he was
teaching golf at West Palm Beach
when the veteran Charlie Murray
talked him into entering the Mi
ami open.
'I came down here" Klein re-
called, 'practiced one day, d
then went out to win with 289." 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-06
THOMSON SETS PACE IN TOURNEY
BULLA IS SECOND
WITH 2l2 SCORE
Heafner Three Strokes Be-
hind Leader With 214 In
Los Angeles Golf Meet
BY ROBERT MYERS

LOS ANGELES, Calf, Jan. s.
R-Long hitting Jimm. Thomson
moved back into the lead of the
hotly contested $4,000 Los Angeles
open golf tournament today at the
end of 54 holes, and, gaining an
advantage over another contend
er's hard luck, goes into tomor'
rows final round with one stroke
lead over Chicago's Johnny Bulla.
Thomson, the first round leader,
toured the drizzle-soaked Riviera
Country Club course in par II to-
day for 211, while Bulla, who
grabbed the lead at the midway
point yesterday, took IS for 212
after getting off to bad start with
a two-stroke penalty on the first
hole.
Bulla played the wrong ball -
owned by his partner, Harold Nc
Spaden-and the eventual result
was enough to keep him out of the
forefront of the tournament.
Two strokes back of Thomson,
winner of the tournament in 1888,
we're Denny Shute, former P.G.A.
champion, and Willie Goggin, for
merly of San Francisco, now of
Miami, Fla, who had a e8 for the
days low score.
Pressing close begind, with 214,
were Ben Hogan of White Plains,
N. Y, and the big better from
North Carolina, Clayton Heafner.
Defending and national open
champion Lawson Little, after
four putting the eighteenth green,
took II, and was tied at 215 with
Craig Wood, the hefty blond from
Mamoroneck, N. Y, who took q
The result left eight rivals with
in four strokes of each other, and
four of then-Thomson, Shute, Lit
tie and Wood-are former winners
of this California winter event.
Trailing at 217 were Horton
Smith, Oak Park, ILL.,, Lloyd Man.
grurn, of the same place, and
Sammy Snead, while one stroke
back were Ed (Porky) Oliver,
Hornelly, N. Y, and Fred Wood,
Ancouver, B. c., pro. Snead had a
IS, Smith II and Mangrum Slip
ped back with a 70.
Little's last-green trouble W s
unmatched for hard luck. He put
tel in from the apron to within
four feet, and then missed, the ball
curling to one side eight inches or
less behind the cup. Then he
missed that one.
He wasn't the only one W h o
found the sloppy greens treacher-
GUS, and there was many a three
putt during the day.
Bulla had his share of ill luck
too, not counting his double set
back. The odd part is that he
prides himself on playing with a
35-cent ball. McSpaden uses rs
cent article.
Goggin's 68 and Hogan's 70 were
the only sub-par scores Of III
day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-06
Rooseuelt's Election
Will Be Official Today

WASHINGTON, Jan. s. R -
President Roosevelt was re-elect-
ed for third term two months ago
but it won't be official until to-
morrow.
The November popular vote was
not for Mr.. Roosevelt or for Wen
dell L. Willkie, but for 531 presl-
Dental electors.
Two weeks ago, the electors of
each state met, cast their ballots,
and sent them to the senate, where
they have been kept under lock
and key.
At a joint session of the house
and senate tomorrow, Vice-Presi-
dent Garner will remove. the bal
lots from heavy boxes, and hand
them to ''tellers' who will count
them and give the result:
Roosevelt 449; Willkie 80.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-06
Lou Nova Will Battle
Con,iskey Friday Night

NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-R-Lou
Nova of Los Angeles, Calf, and
Pat Comiskey of Paterson, N. j., two
heavyweights who are attempting
comebacks after being kayoed by
Tony Galento and Max Baer, respec'
lively, headline this weeks national
boxing program.
They will meet in a 10-rounder at
Madison Square Garden Friday
night.
Nova will be making his second
start on the comeback trail. He
kayoed Johnny Erjavec Of Duluth,
Mimi, in five rounds in his first
try, after a 13-month layoff. Comis-
key has bowled over four opponents
since being stopped by Baer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-06
Southern Loop Cagers
Facing Family Scraps
White Phantoms To Play Two
Loop Foes; Duke Quint
Will Meet Three

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 5.-R-
Sout hern Conference basketball
teams will begin firing away at each
other in dozen loop contests this
week, two involving North Cardinals
defending champions and three
bringing Dukes 1910 runnerup team
into the family campaign.
North Carolina, nosed out Satur-
day by Fordham, will stop over in
Philadelphia for a game with St.
Joseph's Monday night and then in
wade Virginia for conference engage
ments with Washington and Lee
and V. M. I. Friday and Saturday.
Dukes Blue Devils, who were i'm
pressive last week in swamping Le-
high, tangle with the strong David
son club at Winston-Salem Monday,
play Wake Forest on Wednesday
and Maryland on Saturday.
Richmond's undefeated Spiders
got off to an early lead in the loop
race with pref Christmas triumphs
over Clemson and Maryland. Glenn
son also lost to William and Mary
but defeated Maryland in the only
other tilts between circuit members
this season.
The cagers will all be working to-
ward one big goal, the post-season
conference tournament at Raleigh
where the championship is decided.
Eight of the clubs with the best rec
ords within the family will be Sc
lected to compete in the annual
event.
George Washington, whose mem.
bership in the conference becomes
effective next September, indicated
that it would bring considerable
court strength to the o2'cuit by
whipping four future brethren Wash
ington and Lee, Duke, Davidson and
Clemson, in December games. The
Colonials play Richmond Saturday.
Other conference clashes this week
include Furman-Clemson on Mon
day; William and Mary-V. M. I. on
Thursday; Furman-South Carolina
and w. & M.-Virginia Tech on Fri
day, and N. C. State-Davidson, Fur
man-Citadel and w. & NV. & L.
on Saturday. ...
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-06
Joe Strips Baseball
School Opens Tuesday

ORLANDO, Fla, Jan. s. R -
Baseball gets off to an early 1941
start here Tuesday with the open
ing of Joe Strips winter school
for young diamond hopefuls.
George Barr's school for um-
pires operated in conjunction with
Strips school, will open at the
same time.
Strip expects about $50 aspir-
ants to report and Barr anticipates
an enrolment of 70 prospective
arbiters.
The first week of Strips course
will be taken up with general con-
ditioning exercises. The prelimin-
aries will be supervised by Strip.
Lou Hurst, Joe Tinker, Jimmy Jor'
dan and George Andrews. The fol
lowing Monday, Eddie Miller, Van
Lingle Mungo, Don Padgett, Ben
Cantwell, Joe Medwick, Johnny
Cooney, Dutch Leonard and Bob
Weiland will join the staff:
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-06
Billiards Champ Willie Hoppe
Has Been On Top For "a Years
BY EARL HILLIGAN

CHICAGO, Jan. g. Up -'Ladies
and conference.-the champion, Willie
Hoppe" :.
Roll back the years, sport fans -,
It's 1906 in Paris, France Ar
1S-year-old boy named Willie Hops
has just staged one of the most sur
prlsing sports upsets of the era by
defeating the famed Maurice Wig
naux for the worlds 1872 balklint
billiards championship -.
Today, "a years later, the billiard
world again focuses it's eyes on an
other title match :. The place this
time is Bensinger's Academy in down
town Chicago The rumble Of
street cars, the roar of heavy loor
traffic, forces its way into a sma
auditorium There isn't much
reminiscent of that Paris scene 81
years ago, except that the champion
is Willie Hoppe, then hoy wonder
and now, at So, more of a wonder
than ever and one of the most amaz
Ing champions in all sports history
The sports world was talking bout
Golfer Willie Anderson, Boxers Jim
Jeffries, Bob Fitzsimmons and jim
Corbett and Outfielder Willie Keeler
when seven year old boy named
Hoppe climbed upon soap box at
his fathers hotel at Cornwall, N. Y,
and took his first shot at three bill.
Hard balls. Within a few years he
was a sensation and within the next
40 years his smooth side-arm stroke
made him practically invincible on
the green baize.
The craving Hoppe has watched
long parade of sports champions pass
before him, most of them long gone
from the spotlight. He was a star
when Christy Mathewson pitched
three shutouts for the New York
Giants in the 1905 world series
Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner and Nap
Lajoie in baseball, Bill Tilden in ten
mis-, Walter Hagen and Bobby Jones
in golf, Jack Dempsey and Gene
Tunney in boxing-Willie has watch,
ed them come and go, from his seat
at the top
He used to employ Jake Weber
Fordham trainer, to get him in shape
for match. Now he takes lone
walks instead of gym workouts. He
gets as "keyed up as ever by tough
competition, however, and need:
three days of complete rest after
hard battle. He drinks only modar'
ately and whereas he didn't used to
smoke at all, now uses about i Gig
arets a day. He's had a lot of thrills
but the big one was here last spring,
when he won the three-rail title
without losing a game in 20 starts
Today he put his championship op
the line in a challenge match of 4NO
points, running through four-daS
program, against Jake Schaefer,
longtime rival. This will be followed
by world tournament featuring 10
experts starting Jan. 13. The betting
is that after both these matches the
announcer will just take his 'eue
from that 1906 scene in Paris
Ladies and gentlemen-the cham
pion, Willie Hopper
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-06
ATTENDANCE MARK
Is SET BY CIRCUIT
American League President
Confident 1911 Season
Will Be Success
BY WILL HARRIDGE
President of the American Leag

President of the American League
CHICAGO, Jan. 5.-(REThe
American league made history in
1940--a season which saw the es-
tablishment of the leagues all-ti1ne
attendance record and gave h e
fans one of the closest and most
interesting pennant battle in all
baseball history.
During the past season a total
of 5,433,719 spectators paid to
watch the circuits teams playa
total which surpassed by almost
10000 the previous all time league
record of 5,255, 439 set in 1924.
This total of 5,433, 791 represent
ed an amazing 27 per cent increase
over the 1889 league attendance.
In actual number, 1,163, 189 more
fans saw league games in 1910 than
in 1889.
I believe the flag race itself prin-
cipally was responsible for our at
tendance showing this past season.
Baseball observers before the sea-
son opened conceded that every
team was improved. Few, how
ever foresaw the possibility of
New York failing to win its fifth
straight championship while De-
troit's surprising battle to the top
spot was one of the years sports
highlights.
The gallant rally of the Yankees
after a bad start combined with
Detroit and Cleveland's bid o r
first place created a situation
which had tremendous fan appeal.
The race was not decided until the
third from the last day of the cam
paign and at one time the league
had plans for a three-team playoff
in event Of tie.
Night baseball in our league en-
joyed great success. Thirty-five
after-dark games drew 634, ,228 fans
in Chicago Cleveland Philadel-
phia and St. Louis.
The fine showing made by every
league club both afield and at the
gate was especially remarkable In
view of the turbulence of the
times. On the problem of our ma
tional defense program all base
ball made it clear that the ma
tional pasttime would do it's part.
Neither the American league nor
any club in organized baseball de-
sired any concessions in the draft.
Our clubs players and officials all
stand ready to do whatever they
can.
Our league-and all organized
baseball-believes that many
young and talented players will
come into the game ION army
training camps where baseball will
play its part in recreational ac-
tivities.
We of the American league look
forward to another fine season this
Iyear. Increased employment will
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-06
Guy Swope Is Appointed
Governor Of Puerto Rico

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-(P)-Sen-
ator Guffey D-Pa.) said tonight
that Guy J. Swope of Harrisburg.
Pa, a former congressman, had been
appointed governor of Puerto Rico
to succeed Admiral William D.
Leahy, now ambassador to France.
Guffey described Swope as "a very
competent man" and said he expect
ed President Roosevelt to send the
nomination to the senate for con-
firmation tomorrow or Tuesday.
Swope served under Leahy as audi
tor Of Puerto Rico and Guffey said
that Leahy had endorsed him for the
appointment as his successor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-06

enable many fans to see their fav-
orite teams in action. Our Wash
ington club will join the list OF
teams now playing under lights at
home. We look for more young
stars to place their names along
side those of the Lou Boudreaus
Bob Kennedys and ether young
players who contributed much to
the 1910 campaign. The American
league is grateful to it's fans for
their support this past year is con-
fldent it will merit their approval
and support again throughout
1941. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-06
Major-Minor Agreement
To Be Drafted By Board

LOUISVILLE, KY, Jan. 5-(R-
Representative Of basebalps little
fellow" s"-43 minor leagues - began
consideration today of suggestions
for a new working agreement with
the 'big fellows - the two major
leagues.
The present pact, a so-called life
line'' because it governs all dealings
between the two divisions of the
national pastime, expires Jan. 12,
1912.
The agreement first was adopted
in 1921 to run seven years. It was
renewed and amended in 1928 and
1885. Among other things it deals
with draft of players option agree
ments, operation Of farm clubs,
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-06
Kentucky, Tennessee Are
Southeast's Top Cagers

ATLANTA, Jan. 5.-LR-South-
eastern conference basketball opens
full blast this week, with most of
the 12 teams shedding warm-ups and
getting down to the brass tacks
stage.
Primary attention will be focused
on Kentucky, defending champion,
and Tennessee, the leagues number
one challenger, which are scheduled
to wind up their preparations for
a battle-of-giants at Knoxville Jan.
49,
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-06
FALSE ALARM

NEW YORK, Jan. 5-LR-A pack
age found in a Fifth Avenue church
today by police whom the sexton
summoned after being told he could
expect a bomb" because Lord Mar
ley of Great Britain was to speak
there turned out to be harmless. The
package, carried across Fifth Ave.
nue. to Central park where it was
soaked in oil, contained bottle of
perfume.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-06

open SeaSOH
The month of January is always
open season on coaches whose
:eams didn't win so per cent OF
heir games the prece ng fall.
There'n hardly be a week pas
sing now that you won't hear OF
some coach stepping down. 1t just
happens that way. The alumni who
pay the bill the school authorities
and the fans generally get together
and decide that something has to
be done and they start first on
the coach.
Ducky Pond the Yale football
coach for the past seven seasons
was the latest to pass out the back
way after the Ellis had lost seven
of eight games this year.
Ohio State has already fired its
coach and you may watch for
some other big name" school to
DO the same thing in the next few
days. There's talk brewing that
Frank Thomas is on the way out
at Alabama. ,s
You never can tell where light
ming will strike next.
Conference Cagers
The Durham high school basket
oall team had its 72-game victory
streak extending over better than
three years broken Friday night at
the hands of the Wake Forest
freshmen the same team that
started the streak.
However this doesn't mean that
the Durham quint is out of the
race to repeat for the Eastern
Class A conference and state
championships. The Bulldogs open
the loop season against Rocky
Mount this week.
This one game may give an
insight as to where the closest
battling for the circuit crown will
be. Raleigh and Wilson are not
to be overlooked in the running,
however, and there's a bare out
side chance that Fayetteville and
Wilmington can edge into the first
division.
The Elon college cagers, one of
the better outfits in the smaller
schools circles, will play the
Whiskered Wizards, tour ing pro
team, tonight The Duke quint
meeting the Davidson Wildcats in
Winston-Salem. Approximately
$50 benefit events already have
and February to aid the 1941
been scheduled through January
Flight Infantile Paralysis cam
paign. Chairman Grantland Rice
announced that hundreds of others
are in the making. Banks
McFadden, the great Clemson ath-
lete, has decided to quit the pro
game and will turn his full at
!ention to coaching, planning to as
sumo his new duties on the Tigers
staff in the spring. .Coacf Wal
lace Wade and Eddie Cameron,
backfeld coach, were reported to
have been mighty impressed with
the showing Of Tennessee against
Boston college in the Sugar bowl,
despite the fact that = Vols lost.
Duke plays Tennessee at Dur
ham next October. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-06
SMOKE RINGS
It Pays To Win
By SAM RAGAN

Football coaches pride themselves (n public at leastl
of being builders of character among ther players u
al the Character that there running around
and still get booted out of job they don't build winning
Character is good thing to have around at time
also good line to hand parents and others who gather
around the banquet board when the works all done IN te
fall However there many garng examples OF gr'd
coaches who cot the ak when the going got rough.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-06
REJUVENATED

A Russian scientist has brought
to life microbes and other speci-
mems of small marine life after
they have been frozen for thou
sands of years.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-06

One species Of fish makes it's
home inside the body of another
marine animal, the sea cucumber.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-06
START MANEUVERS

MOSCOW, Jan. 5-lR-Miniatur
war maneuvers were started today
By school children on winter vaca-
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-14
WAYS ON 3 COASTS

The 300 standardized cargo YES
sells in the original emergency pro-
gram will come in continuous
and ever-increasing stream from
the ways on the three coasts OF
the United States the Atlantic,
the Pacific and the Gulf: 81 being
allocated to Pacific Coast yards,
81 10 those on the Gulf and IS TO
Atlantic Coast yards. This permits
the tapping of all labor areas and
limits the drain on the skilled
worker supply in any one region.
A similar distribution is being
made Of the additional PIP vessels
authorized by the President
Procurement Of all materials and
supplies for this high-speed pro-
gram has been centralized in one
agency. so that orders and deliv-
cries can be controlled and co-or-
dinated and fhe lowest quantity
prices obtained. This Will acceler-
ate the program and prevent COM
petitive buying from many yards,
which overlosds some plants and
factories. leaving others with idle
productive capacity.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-14

Every facility in the United
States that can be utilized in this
work has been geared 10 top speed
"a speed which the President Of
the United States has declared TO
be essential to victory for the de-
mocracies.
One vital factor in the compre-
hensive plan Of the commission TO
produce sufficient new American
tonnage to keep abreast eli the
ever growing demand is the emer-
geney building program under
which 200 10.000-ton cargo ships to
standardized design at an approx
mate cost of $3.50 600 900 are TO
come off the ways in seven new
shipyards in a two-year period.
500 NEW SHIPS
Another factor is the construc-
ton Of the 2l2 vessels authorized
il4.e- HE President fer delivery to
Great Britain under tho terms of
and with funds provided by the
lease-lend legislation recently
passed by Congress
These are in addition 10 the
regular long-range program calling
for the production of 500 new ships
in a decade. The commission has
been assisting also in expediting
production Of so cargo ships in
American yards ordered directly
by Great Britain.
This urgent need for more mer-
chant ships has not come as a
surprise situation The maritime
commission has foreseen il for
many months and has acted ac-
cordingly. so that our shipbuilding
programs have been stepped up.
Although ttoday there are not
enough ships 10 handle the fun ex-
tent of the aid-to- Britain program,
the launching Of new merchant
tonnage. in addition 10 other ac-
quirements. is expected 10 keep
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-14
pace with expanding production O
guns. tanks and airplanes.
MORE YARDS NEEDED

The emergency program, an
nounced by the President on Janu-
-r1f1tttt-f.tt- f,t1i1st ittett ion Of SIX
now shipyards and large expansion
of an existing yard. The additional
program, announced by the Presi-
dent on April 4, provides for ex-
pansion of the emergency and
other existing yards One hundred
seven new shipways are beng
added TO the nations building
capacity 10 avoid interference with
yards already building naval YES
sells or naval auxiliaries.
To encourage rapid completion
Of these emergency ships at low
cost to the government. the COM
mission has written contract pro-
visions OF monetary penalties for
sloXness and excessive cost. ard
bonuses for speedy deliveries and
reduced building expenses.
On single ship with a base
construction cost of $500 900 the
builders base profit Of Sll0 900
can be cut to $4,000 or raised TO
$4,000 by his management abil-
ity. A higher fee 10 the builder
thus can result in less overall cost
to the government.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-14
RIG Lists
Loans Of
Is Billion
Int.rnatIonal Ner. ser,Ies vic

WASHINGTON, April Ire
Aconstruction Finance Corporation
Iloan authorizations and tentative
commitments totaled S15.751 ,42l :
1872 on March 81, 1871. Emil
Schram, chairman of the national
recovery agency. announced today.
Authorizations and commit
ments of the RFC during March
amounted to S257. 5l0,605,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-14
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