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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-19
BY JUDSON BAILEY

NEW YORK, Jan. 18-R-May
be the magnates are getting more
liberal, or maybe the players are
getting more pacific, but for some
reason there is an almost unprece.
denied rush in the big leagues to
get those 1871 contracts signed.
This is about the time of the
year when the clubs ordinarily are
just putting their documents into
the mails, but the Chicago White
Sox already have all but two OF
their roster under lock and key
and other outfits are moving along
with similar speed.
One of the most surprising
phases of this early signing is that
the usual holdouts are among the
early corners.
frankie Hayes, the smuggling
catcher of the Philadelphia Athle-
tics who carried his unsigned con-
tract right with him to camp at
Anaheim, CAL, last spring, climb
ed onto the bandwagon the other
day. It was reported he received a
substantial raise, along with team
mate Wally Moses.
Eddie Miller, the young short
stop of the Boston Bees who stub
bornly refused to come to terms
last year until spring training
was underway, signed quietly last
month, also with a boost.
Shortstop Billy Myers, who was
a late signer with the Cincinnati
Reds a year ago, joined the list OF
contented Chicago Cubs last week
and most Of the other players who
figured in the off-season trading in
the big leagues have been quick to
sign with their new teams. This
covers Infielder Stu Martin of the
Pittsburgh Pirates, who was a
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-19
HIGH BASKETEERS
TO MEET RALEIGH
Will Play Third Conference
Game Of Season On 'Y'
Court Thursday

The New Hanover High school
basketball team will meet the Purple
Hurricane of Raleigh High school
on the "Y" court Thursday night
in the third conference game for
the Wildcats this season.
The Hurricane which had an aver
age team last year has come back
this year with a fine team built
around a lanky, high jumping and
sure.shooting center, Carl Sapp. The
sapp> family in Raleigh has for sew
eral' years furnished athletes to Ra-
leigh High and to the various col
leges in the state. Carl is the first
in sometime to carry on the family
tradition for the Purple Hurricane.
Sapp led his teammates to a most
convincing IS to 2o9 win over the
Central High Silver Streaks of Char
lotte in Raleigh Friday night as he
gathered in II points while hold
ing two opposing centers to a mere
three markers. Vernon Morrison,
Wildcat center, has the task of hold
ing down this certain all-state player
Thursday night. Vernon has been
planning a defense for days since
he found out just how good the
visitors was and their battle will
be the highlight of the conference
schedule this week.
Coach Bob Black will match his
two lanky forwards, Cliff Owensby
and Burt Nisbett, against the Hur-
ricane's star guards, Senter and
Schell and will turn a giant job of
guarding Sauls and Joslin, forwards
OF Raleigh, over to Billy Pieper and
Captain Bill Bowen.
It was not known last night
whether the junior varsity would
play this week or not. Coach Ru-
pert Bryan's five has won all five
games played to date.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-19

Wingovers: The Aero club will
inaugurate the new officers at a
dutch supper to be held at the
Pine Tree Inn Saturday February
l. . . Another new member was
added to the club as Robert Lee,
one of the students, was voted in
Thursday night at the meeting. .
Members have been busy studying
the why's and wherefores of navi-
cation recently, but took time out
at the last meeting to give Warren
Pennington a life membership in
the club. Warren will be the
second person to have that honor,
J. D. Winstead, Carolina Aero Club
president, being the first. . Sew
eral trips to Camp Davis have
been made recently by local fly
ers. Many of the boys just fly
there to get a look at what is hap
pening at the boom town of Holly
Ridge. It's a much shorter trip
by air and you can see the whole
place with no distractions. j.. :.
Dabney Codington of Charlotte
landed at the airport the other
day after a trip up to his farm
near here. Dabney was flying a
Cub Coupe. w. c. Olsen, engineer
from Raleigh, travels on his Job
the modern way. Mr.. Olsen pilots
a Stinson 105 around the state,
and finds that flying saves him
time and is more economical than
driving. Local business men, pay
attention. . "A Coast Guard Fair
child will fly from the field sew
eral days while on regular duty,
and a Army North American flew
down from Pope Field yesterday,
making up this weeks quota of
service ships that landed here.
The local airport is receiving
copies of "Air Facts" the maya
zine given away free with each
new Piper Cub. This magazine
does more to stimulate safer fly
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-19
WINS FEATURE BY
UP ON LAST 9
Cards A One nder-Par II In
$4,000 San Francisco
Tournament
BY RUSS NEWLAND

SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, Jan. IL
-LR-Iittle Harry Cooper, one OF
the boys from the "two-step era"
defeated another old timer, Jimmy
Thomson, of Chicopee, Mass, 2 up
today in the featured match of h
$4,000 San Francisco match play
open golf tournament.
They battled par on even terms
for the first nine, each carding a
SO for the Preside golf club course.
Cooper took a one up lead at the
18th, sinking a six-foot putt for a
birdie two. 1t was a 125-yard hole.
The next four holes were halved,
each taking a DOGGY five on the
18th, and Cooper shot a perfect par
four to win the 429-yard 18th. Thorn
son, one of the longest hitters in
the game, was in the trap on his
second.
Cooper carded a 36-35-71, one I'm.
der par, against Thomson's 36-37-
70.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-19
STANDS ENROLLS
IN BALL SCHOOL
High School Third Baseman
Leaves For Orlando, Fla.
And Strips School

Curly Stands, high school third
baseman who played two years with
the Wilmington American Legion
Juniors and who has shown con-
siderable promise as a baseball play
err, left last night for Orlando, Fla,
where he is to enroll in the base
ball school Of Joe Strips.
Enrolling in the school fills what
is probably Curly's one real am
bition, for playing babseball has
been his greatest interest in life in
recent years.
Last year in his high school games
Curly went to bat 81 times and
came through with II runs, Is hits,
two doubles, three triples and a
sacrifice and showed his speed on
the paths with II stolen bases. He
batted in II runs.
In the conference game in which
he played Curly made nine put outs,
Is assists, four errors and partici-
pated in two double plays.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-19
Whiteuile Man Hurt
In Automobile Crash

WHITEVILLE, Jan. 18.-Rel-
atives here today have been in
formed of the critical condition of
Raymond D. Stanley, well-known
Whiteville young man, who was
injured last night in an automobile
accident near Richmond, Ky. De-
tails OF the accident have not been
learned as yet, but attending ply
sicians are said to have given the
young man only a slight chance
OF recovery.
Stanley has been in Richmond
for the past several months on the
tobacco market. Prior to that he
had for several years been asso-
ciated with a local. hardware
store. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-19
Rocky Mount Player
Signs With Red Sox

BOSTON, Jan. 18.-R-The Bos.
ton Red Sox announced tonight the
receipt Of signed contracts from Nor.
ma Brown, Highlander with
Rocky Mount, N. c., in the Piedmont
league last year, and Albert Flair,
1910 first baseman with Scranton,
Pa, in the Eastern league.
Brown won II and lost five games
for Rocky Mount and ended the sea.
son with an earned run average of
.264. Flair batted 1872 with Scranton
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-19
Cottonseed Bringing
N. e. Farmers Cash

RALEIGH, Jan. 18.-R-Cotton-
seed oil mills paid North Carolin
farmers 81, 106, $50 for cottonseed
last month, M. U. Hogue, secre-
tary of the North Carolina Cotton
seed Crushers association, report
ed today.
During the August-December
period, the amount was 81, $50, 900,
or 81, 700, 900 more than in the same
period last var. I
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-19
BASKETBALL

N. c. State Frosh So; Charlotte
Central High 81.
Duke Frosh so; Duke Junior Var.
sity 80.
Arkansas 5; Texas A. and M. 36.
N. c. State "a; Howard 40.
N. Y. u. So; Carolina 40.
Wisconsin 40: Michigan 30.
Mercer 81; Presbyterian 4S,
Duke As; Clemson ~.
Ohio State A; Duquesne 80.
Michigan State A; West Virgin.
ia IS.
E. C. T. c. 40; Appalachian
State 66.
Arnold "a; Kenne Teachers So.
N. c. Frosh So; Durham High "a.
Armory 80; Brown 10.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-19
Schick Test Clinics
Postponed By Illness

Schick test clinics, originally
scheduled tomorrow at Tileston,
st. Mary's, Isaac Bear, Washing.
ton Catlett, and Winter Park
schools, have been postponed until
further notice because Of the prev
alence OF flu cases among stu
dents, DR.. A. H. Elliott, health Of
ficer, said yesterday. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-19

We've felt kinda down IN TN E
dumps this week. Last Friday saw
the 18th Annual All American Air
Maneuvers get under way in MI
ami, with many planes and pilots
winging their way southwark for
all the fun and frolic that go with
the event. Several of the Florida
bound ships stopped in here, max
ing us wish harder that we could
be off to the races, too. Then Mon
day afternoon more planes, this
time homeward bound, landed at
the field and we heard tales OF
all the going on that make the
All American Races n of the
country's biggest aviation get-to-
gethers. The returning aviators
told us that this years races were
the best ever, and so we promised
ourselves that we wouldn't be left
out next year. . Gerald Grant,
Goldsboro airman, and his wife
stopped in that day in their Mono
coupe after the trip to Miami, and
a Taylorcraft flown by a Norfolk
pilot, and a gull wing Stinson were
among those returning home. . {!
The unpleasant part of the trip,
we hear, is flying northward after
enjoying the warmth of the Florida
sun. On the way down, you keep
peeling off those heavy winter
clothes as the weather grows
warmer, but the return trip is
cutie different.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-19
JUNIOR HI CACERS
PLAY FOUR GAMES
Tileston Boys And Girls, Hem
enway Boys and Girls
Are Winners

The Junior High cage squads had
a big afternoon of court ball Friday
afternoon at the "Y" as the con.
ference season opened in great style
with two girls and two boys games
on the slate.
In the opener Tileston swept the
boys game with Winter Park by a
% to 6 score with j. Groom leading
the play with II points. The Tileston
team uncorked an alright defense
to hold the Parkers to almost moth
ing.
The Tileston girls followed suit in
the second game to step on an out
classed Winter Park six % to 4 while
holding the losers to a goose-egg sec
ond half. Smith led the winners with
8 points with Skipper getting all the
points for Winter Park.
Hemenway boys downed the Isaac
Bear lads in a surprise win by a %
to 21 score The game was the best
of the day with Hemenway gather
ing enough points in the first half
to stave off the determined rally of
the Bears in the final half when the
losers %outscored the winers II to 10.
Billy Mason led the Bears with 8
points, with Sneeden leading the win
with Z points.
Hemenway girls made it a clean
sweep for their alma mater by stop
ping a smaller Isaac Bear team Z to
2, with Henderson scoring all points
for Hemenway and Saunders all
points for the Bears.
The lineupS:
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-19
Pro Cagebau Tourney
Slated For March 1913

CHICAGO, Jan. 18.-R)-Harry D.
Wilson, Chicago promoter, announc-
ed today that the third annual
worlds professional basketball tour.
nament would be held here March
1919.
He said 16 teams would be invited
to compete, including the champion
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-19
They say pilots aren't super
stitious, but after noticing that
the number Is was left off the
stickers advertising the 18th
annual races, we don't believe
that old saying.

Stengel Flying Service of
Gainesville, Florida, has started a
novel idea working. Each month
a neat little publication, called
THE Stengel Pilot" makes its ap-
pearance at many of the airports
in the South, telling pilots at the
distant airports of happenings at
that field. Also found in the bulle-
tin are poems, jokes, stories, ex-
p~eriences and other contributions
of airport people who share them
with all the pilots who receive the
little paper. . It's a good way of
telling pilots in distant cities all
about Gainesville and of encour
aging them to make at least one
aerial visit there.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-19

ing than any other publication in
an unusual way. In each copy can
be found reports of recent airplane
crashes, giving full particulars.
Pilots can see at a glance the
cause of most accidents, and know
just what to do and what not to
do. So we warn, Fly safely or
you'll be just another report in
"Air Facts"
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-19
WINS

WAYNESBORO, Jan. 10. - Up -
Claussen's Ranger Done, a liver ana
white pointer owned by Euclid Claus
sen of Augusta, Ga, won the open
derby stake today as competition
closed in the Georgia Field Trials
association meet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-19
EXCHANGE Clubs To STAGE Model Plane Meet Here On June q
Cape Fear Baseball
Directors tt Meet

Directors of the Cape Fear
Baseball association, who see a
bigger year ahead of them than
any the association has expert
enced yet, have been called to
meet Monday night at 7:45
o'clock in the courthouse.
Many matters of importance
are to be handled at the meet.
ing, it was announced.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-19
BOHEMIAN WINS

CHICAGO, Jan. IS. - Up Jay
Bozeman, Vallejo, Calf, staged a
whirlwind finish by fcoring % points
in his last Is innings, and easily de.
feated Herb Peterson, st. Louis 50 to
% today in the worlds three-cushion
billiards championship.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-19
WHITE SOX

CHICAGO, Jan. Is. Up The
First National bank asked the cir
cult court today to be relieved of
it's job Of running the Chicago White
Sox baseball club,
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-19
Carolina
News Shorts
BY The Associated Press

CHAPEL HILL - The 22nd. Sc
ries of McNair lectures at the uni
versity, which were to be delivered
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
nights by DR.. William Ernest
Hooking of Harvard, have b e e n
postponed until the spring quarter,
it was announced today by DR.. G..
A. Harrer, chairman of the COM
mittee.
CHAPEL HILL - The annual
alumni assembly of the University
of North Carolina will be held here
Thursday, February 6, President
Fred I. Sutton of Kinston an
nounced today.
RALEIGH - December employ
ment in North Carolina manufac-
turing industries showed a gain of
IL per cent over November, Com
missioner of Labor Forrest H. Shu-
ford announced today. The aver
age weekly wage in November was
$16.O for an average 38-hour
week, the survey by the labor de-
partment indicated.
RALEIGH - A white leghorn
hen, believed to have laid more
eggs than any other hen in North
Carolina, died Friday, it was an
nounced today by Roy S. Dear.
styne, head of the N. c. State col
lege poultry department.
Derstyne said the hen laid 1872
eggs through the 1e39-40 season.
She was Matched on March II,
1881.
RALEIGH - Orders have been
issued to stop sale of 376 bags of
beans and peas shipped into North
Carolina without tags and germi-
nation information required by the
state seed law, Assistant Commits
sioner of Agriculture D.. S. Col
trane announced today.
RALEIGH - Dean Blake R. Van
Leer, head Of the school of engi-
neering at N. c. State college, will
greet South American engineer STU
dents tomorrow at Chapel Hill. A
number of the group who recently
arrived for the six weeks inter-
American institute conducted by
the University of North Carolina
will take engineering courses at the
college here.
RALEIGH - The Buncombe and
Columbus county prison camps
have asked for additional medical
supplies because of the epidemic
Of mild influenza, Oscar Pitts,
state penal superintendent, report
ed today.
FAYETTEVILLE - Fayetteville
and Cumberland county schools
will be closed all next week as a
result Of a continuation of the in
fluenza epidemic, it was decided
kJ-.. -o>okso- 80 <LA L>~-l
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-19

Two more new students have
enrolled for solo courses with
the Pennington Flying Service.
Lansing Brown and John Stan
ley are the latest wOuld-be
aviators, now on their way to
winning wings.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-19

Guards: Dean, Corbett, McAdams,
Reynolds, Blackham.
Referees: Morrison and Fergus; scor-
~er, Wolfe.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-19
SWIMMING

Dartmouth 40: Columbia &c.
Yale 66; Penn 8.
Temple 48; Gettysburg 10.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-19

FAYETTEVILLE - Fayetteville
and Cumberland county schools
will be closed all next week as a
result Of a continuation of the in
fluenza epidemic, it was decided
today at a meeting of the board
Of health. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-19

Seton Hall 10; Temple 2.
Yale Is; Penn IL.
Cornell s; Army 4.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-19
WRESTLING

Penn 21; Chicago II.
W. and L. rs; w. Va. 8.
Ohio State 16; Ohio U, -,
Lafayette IS; Army Is.
Navy "a; Carolina 4.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-19
BOXING
FENCING

Army 6; Bucknell 2.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-19

CHAPEL HILL - The annual
alumni assembly of the University
Of North Carolina will be held here
Thursday, February 6, President
Fred 1. Sutton of Kinston an
nounced today.
The Phoenix index., 1941-04-05
Clean-Up. Time

Soon thousands of American communities will maugu-
rate their annual cleanup campaigns Those campaigns
give all towns chance to achieve two highly important
goals-a handsomer town and safer town.
properly managed cleanup drive helps to lessen the
everpresent danger of fire. Vacant lots moved and
dvested of litter Old shacks torn down. Buildings
repaired and painted Dead trees and bushes cut down.
And when that happens fire hazards disappear Order
and cleanliness among fires most effective enemies.
This year, the headquarters of the United States Junior
Chamber of Commerce is distributing fire prevention
eria prepared by the National Board of Fire Underwr
to it's local members The material consists of radio
script article suitable for newspaper window dis
plays and interesting eafe which is to be distributed
to the public. Local insurance agents will likewise be CIV
the material and will take active part in making the
cleanup campaigns successful.
Here is real opportunity in which every town, mat
ter how SMALL participate Every citizen should
operate It's town indeed which doesn't contain eye
rattetrap buildings long, unoccupied lots which
grass has grown waist high accumuations of junk and
fuse which belong in ncnerator lines broken fences
ETC. Cleanup week needn't be expensive The combna-
ton OF little paint plus plenty of elbow grease will work
wonders in many wrecking bar and bonfire will
do the work for most Others
Lay plans for cleanup campaign And take ad-
vantage OF such expert assistance that which the Ma
tional Board of Fire Underwriters 85 John St. New York
offers gratis.
The Phoenix index., 1941-04-05
By ROBERT M. RADCLIFFE

FOLKS UP IN HARLEM had the right idea when they
elected Bill Bojangles) Robinson their mayor"
After seeing him invade the private offices of Atantas
Mayor and Police Chief last week carry like 9TH
coored had done BEFORE we got the notion that Old
Boanges ought to be the official public relations man
all American Negroes.
Now there's hardly race man in Atlanta powerful
enough to crash in the Mayor Police Chief short
notice. And If there he'd better know his speech
by heart and be diplomatic in his approach and de-
livery.
But when Mayor Bill Robinson logged down in his
tweeds and flashing million dollar SMILE walked into the
Atlanta Police Station the door to the Chiefs office swung
open.
Someone said, There he is."
Someone else pushed the buzzer and the door opened
The Chief grabbed Bils hands and without wasting
any time Boanges started asking about the hot biscuits
and broed chicken the Chief promised him when they first
met last year in New York.
The Mayor meeting with group of white citizens
but stopped his business long enough to out and say
Hello, Robinson Glad to have you in city"
Not since Maxine SuvanS visit to Atlanta last Labor
Day had there been much excitement Little Make
would make good public relations agent for race too
She's right important figure. Folks at the airport
held plane 20 minutes when she late arriving We
don't believe they would have done that Congressman
Mitchell.
The point is simply this Bill Robinson has got some
thing He has made himself famous by doing the thing the
white folks enjoy. Dancing and entertaining
The white folks go crazy colored dancer and
when the coored dancer is great STAR why the white
folks will their heads to please him. They'll even
do few things that in the long will prove beneficial
to the entire colored race.
In way Bill is already the colored peoples public re,
latons man. But, think it should be official
Several big shots" in Atlanta who had never seen the
Mayor and had been inside the Police Chiefs office
enjoyed that opportunity last week because they were with
Bill Robinson .tr -
Bills personality is his ticket to. many otherwise
lilly white" places.
The Phoenix index., 1941-04-05
$50 Given
ST An Hour
Camp Jobs
Race Carpenters
Are Certified On
Defense Project

ST. LOUIS, Mo.-(ANP)- Hall
ea as IAN important step in break
ing down barriers against Negroes
seeking work in the national de-
tense program" $50 cOlored car
penters have been given jobs at
Fort Leonard Wood army training
camp now under construction near
Newburg, Mo.
The announcement was made by
Arnold Walker, field secretary OF
the Industrial department. st.
Louis Urban League, through
whose efforts the men were placed.
Walker said the agreement was
reached after a three-day confer
ence with the following officials:
l.. H. Huntley project manager:
Maj. Frank Reed, Jr., construction
quarter master and Tom McFar-
land, carpenters union agent.
Housing for the carpenters was
solved by leasing summer resort
near the Lake of the Ozarks, 40
miles from the construction site.
Board will cost men about So a
week, it was said.
The carpenters will be enrolled
IN the AFL Carpenters Union, on
payment of $25 initiation fee,
Walker said. They will receive the
same wage rate paid to white car
penterS, 81 an hour and time and
one-half for overtime, and earn a
total of about $62 week each, he
said.
Fffty-five of the carpenters viii
be sent from ST. Louis and the
rest from out-State urban and rural
areas. About go Negro laborers and
48 carpenters, regular employees Of
the construction companies, are
employed at the camp l.ow. Walker
related, adding that they, too,
would be enrolled in their respec-
tive unions.
The Phoenix index., 1941-04-05
BETWEEN THE LINES BY Gordon 3. Hancock

So when white Wheelerites and Ne
gro Wheelerites denounce war anc
discountenance, if they are doing
what we all do. They are not eX~
ceptionS as they may at time claim
III other words there is nothing
unusual about opposition to war.
FAILS TO STOP WAR
But there is something unusual
about presupposing opposition to
war can prevent war When this op-
position is not matched by the war;
makers themselves. If our opposi-
ton to war would stop Hitler I
would be up for it. 1t does not
matter how careful is the auto
mobile driver going north, unless
the one going south is also careful
we are going to have a wreck. OPP
position to war on the part Of
handful Americans is neither 60
ing to stop war nor Hitler, the war
lord of the Goth century.
Even opposition to war is not
so bad if it does not lead to OBJ
structionism. In times like these OBJ
structionism is criminal and trea-
sonable. Our nation is committed to
helping England and everything
should be thrown into this battle
of Britain with the hope that wal
MAY be confined to Europe. There
are those who resort to the old gag
about 1.-The imperialism of Great
Britain"
In this 1 quite agree. But do be-
iieve that Hitlerism Is the proper