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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18

United States championship.
They Really Fight
This year there are a lot of the
boys who used to box for Father
Manley coming back into the Star
:, News Brigade Golden Gloves tourna-
4ment. And Porter Davis, the veteran
fight trainer, is getting. the boys
ready for the leather singing.
But unlike Father Manley. Porter
j.. Hikes to point cut that his boys are
Fighters" And if you happened to
l. zee the boys who participated in the
three amateur bouts at Legion stadi-
um Thursday night, then you are
aware that they fight, and we mean
really fight, when they get in the
ring.
Up at the. Golden Gloves gym in
the Boys club, there is a goodly
crew of boys present each night.
They range in size from SO pounds
sup to 200 and these boys are really
in earnest about this business OF
putting on gloves and fighting.
This year the Golden Gloves will
be divided into three classes - the
juvenile, the novice and the open
divisions. The juvenile division is
for boys who are just beginning. the
novice is for. boys who have
won more than four public bouts and
the open is for those boys with four
victories or more under their belts.
We are not turning out a lot of
pretty phrases about the 1941 Golden
Gloves, but we are telling you now
that it will be the best meet seen
yet in Wilmington and that both
fans and fighters will be well pleased
with the proceedings.
So get set nov for the fisticuffs CT
February 11-12-13-14.
Athletic Assets
It was runored that Yale men just
couldn't get used to the .uncouth
name Of "Ducky" Pond as head foot
ball coach for Old Eli. Now they
have. Of all things, Spike" Nelson.
But, outside of names, there came
a bit of interesting news from the
Yale campus yesterday when it was
announced that 40 per cent or better
of the players on the 1871 Eli eleven
were given financial aid. And we
had thought that Yale was the school
h urling the commercialization
charges.
However, this wasn't what we were
getting at. A spokesman for the
Yale alumni group made the follow
ing statement which we think really
means something: ANY good ath-
.letic team that doesn't smack too
much of professionalism is an asset
to a school,"
Odds And Ends
That basketball game between
Cardinals White Phantoms and the
.Violets of New York university at
Chapel Hill tonight should be well
worth seeing :. . The Tar Heels are
just about-the tops in Southern cage
teams and the Violets are conceded
the top in Eastern circles An
interested spectator at the wrestling
matches here Thursday night was
Jim Hutchens, one of the -four
horsemen" of Carolina football fame
q few years back .a. Coach Bill,
Lange says that if George Glamack;
would wear the special eye glasses
they, bought for him that he really
would be hot stuff or the cours 80.
George only got 80 points against
Wake Forest the other night :.
Foster Edwards; the softball car,
says attendance of $500 or more is
expected for each softball game at
Robert Strange. park next summer
-. We like softbalf all right but
we would really like, to see a good
dose of baseball. hit town.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18
THOMAS MAY TAKE
JOB WITH LIONS
Alabama Coach RumOred to
Have Been Offered Big
Dough to Pilot Pros
Rv ROMNEY

e. by HOl14N11 .
ATLANTA, Jan. 17.-R-Repeat
ed cold water from Coach Franz
Thomas hasn't doused Speculation
that he may at last succumb te
that reported offer from the De
troit Lions in the National Profes
sional Football league. :. Southern
sports writer's think it's at leas1
an even bet Tommy will be right
back at the same old stand come
September, but they're bending at
tentive ears toward Tuscaloosa
nevertheless. Money talks, anc
owner Fred Mandel is said to be
ready to lay it on the barrel-head'
Retort: Tom Anderson of the
Knoxville Journal says Tennessee
is chuckling over a postcard al
legedly received by All America
Guard Bob Suffridge. :. When the
Vols were training for their Sugar
bowl game with Boston College
Suffridge protested ignorance o:
the Eagles All : America center
Chef Gladchuk. The other day
came a postcard from Boston, say
ing, Dear Stuff: I played center ir
New Orleans New Years d a y
What did you play?"
Cash: Southeastern conference
football biggies r. cold-shoulder
ing the University of Miami, anc
insiders say the reason is disap
pcintment. in previous g a re
ceipts. =. The Hurricanes last yeal
played Georgia and Mississippi
had hoped this year to expanc
their schedule to include Alabama.
. . All, however, had business else
where. Add busmen's holidays.
Carl Snavely of Cornell dropped in
to visit a former aide, Bo Roland,
at The Citadel 80. and promptly
took the Cadets out for a few prac.
teal demonstrations of deceptive
football.
Huddle: Chubby Dean of tn e
Philadelphia Athletics is telling
North Carolina neighbors he's Ell
Their going to burn up the league
this year or turn in a final bust. .
Monte Pearson, former Yankee
pitcher, now is CO : ordinator OF
equipment at Fort Belvoir Wa.).. .
Joe Medwick and Lippy Leo Du-
rocher, Dodger manager, have ad-
joining beach cottages. near Sara
sofa (Fla.) -. Fitzgerald (Ga.),
which doesn't have a ball team,
will be spring training %headquar-
tiers for two clubs Allentown
pa and Ottawa, Canada. i.
Greensboro IN. c. is about to re-
build the city park for it's baseball
entry.
Airmen: S Manager
Charlie" Hurth and Field Manager
Ray Blades of the New Orleans
Pelicans both r licensed airplane
pilots.s.. They'll use the air route
this spring to spot'talent in Florida.
:. The Birmingham Barons will
send o. pitchers and four catchers
to Tampa for drills starting March
Is. :. Coach Jack Meagher of AL
burn, bordering the football rule
changes, says you'll see a lot of
linemen running with the ball next
fall. Up Carolina way hey
want NJ C.. and Clemson to play
FRIDAY night! before the Duke-Tenn.
essee game to avoid competition.
oam Gregory, North Carolina 1866
pound veteran, has been lost to
the Tar Heel wrestling team j..
ne transferred to North Carolina
State for special study in aero
nautical engineering. 1
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18
HOT SPUR WINS

WAYNESBoRO, Ca, Jan. IT,
Spur, a pointer dog owned
by E. B. Boine Of New Canaan.
Conn.,. took first place, in the open
'all-age event of the Georgia Field
Trials association meet here TODAY
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18
TANNING SIGNS TIP

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 17.-'R.-
Johnny Lanning, 29-year-old right
hand pitcher, signed up today for
the 1871 season with the PITTSBURGH
Pirates. ~~
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18
ZIV[C BEATS ARMSTRONG IN 18TH
FORMER CHAMPION
HANGS UP GLOVES.
Pittsburgher Retains Welter-
weight Title With T.K.O.;
Referee Stops Bout
BY. SID FEEDER

NEW YORK, Jan. 17-R- The
miracle man of boxing, Little
Henry Armstrong, came to the end
of the road tonight.
The spirit and the heart of the
greatest little fighting man of our
generation were. willing, but the
machine had run down, and he
was stopped in IL rounds by Frit-
zie Zivic as he made one last, gal.
liant try to win back his world wei
terweight championship.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18

During the first nine months OF
1910, the British bought $77,256,7 31
worth oftairplanes
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18
HANGS UP GLOVES

HANGS UP GLOVES
NEW YORK, Jan. 17-(R-
Henry Armstrong, only fighter
in fistic history to hold three
championships simultaneously,
announced his retirement from
the ring tonight after he had
been stopped in IL rounds by
Fritzie Zivic.
"My eyes won't hold up any
more" he said, land SO Pm
through. Pm going. into the
wine business in California"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-07
Gigantic, Colossal Super Shining.
That's This Years Cleanup, Paint-Up
Campaign for Streets, Alleys, Homes

campaign to go much further" Ry-
erson said. Let's not only clean
up our streets and alleys, but our
yards and homes as WE'LL"
Following a conference with dir
ector of Public Works c. Walter
Hemecke, City Engineer M. j. Shell
ton and Health Inspector Grant
Bristol at which plans for correlat-
ing city and private activities will
be drawn, Ryerson's committee was
slated to seek help from virtually
every city group.
This isn't a job for the beautifi-
cation committee alone, but for
every service club, lodge, school,
women's club and civic organiza-
ton in the city" Ryerson COM
mented.
Although the campaign itself will
not start until Jan. 90, widespread
preliminary plans were expected to
be drawn up between now and
then. The drive will last a week
during which every home owner
will be urged to dress up that yard,
repair those trash cans, dab on
some paint!
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-07

Imperial county.
City authorities were unable to
give a clear picture of the next
step in the underpaSs problem, be-
cause as Mayor Robert Hatton
pointed out:
This might be enough to build
a two-lane subway, but federal
authorities have already indicated
they will not approve less than
four-lane separation. 1t is possible
that some way Of working out adj
ditional funds may be reached"
The 1941-43 budget approved by
the state highway commission in
cluded a long list of Imperial coun-
ty improvements. Budgeted for i'm
provement of portions Of the Noun
tain Springs to DiXieland road was
$l4,900 and for widening the E.
Centre to BraWley, ll.3 miles, S295,
$50.
Work on highway from Trifolium
Continued on Page 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-07
Presidents Talk
Brings Reaction
Around the Globe
Comment Divided Along
Governmental Lines;
Germany Remains Mum
BY UNITED PRESS

international reaction to
President RooSevelt's Mon
day address to congress on
the state of the nation was
divided almost entirely along demo-
cratic totalitarian lines. Typical
comment follows:
CANADA
Prime Minister w l.. Mckenzie
King: NO one who listened to the
President or has read the message
can doubt that the President realiz-
ed that civilization itself is at
stake in the struggle now being
waged with the forces OF tyranny
GREAT BRITAIN
Only newspaper reaction avail
able. The London Daily Express,
typical, said: I'VE know by exper-
ience in another struggle against
brutal aggression how we'll pledges
of the United States are honored."
GERMANY
Newspapers ignored message; Of
ficial quarters refused comment un-
til the full text has been examined,
to determine the official attitude.
ITALY
Only newspaper reaction avail
Continued en- Page g. Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-07
Boulevard Crash
Victims battIinq
For Life at 5. D.
Two Youths Critically
Injured Show Little
Change i'm Condition

LaVina Provazek, 16, Ell
Centre, and Robert Print,
10, Imperial, injured at Boul-
evard Sunday in a traffic
accident which cost the life
of Betty Printz, II, still were in a
critical condition in the. San Diego
county hospital Tuesday.
Cleo Adamek, 16, Central High
school junior who suffered a COM
pound fracture of her left leg and
other injuries, was said to be i'm
proving. The two other young peo-
pie injured in the same accident
Billy Littlefield, 10. and Robert Will
son, 10, were not hurt so critically
that they need be taken to a hos
pital.
Attaches at the San Diego county
hospital said Printz, who suffered
head injury, showed some i'm
provement at noon Tuesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-07

Preliminaries were handled yes
terday, with installation of anti
Olson leadership in both houses,
and the biennial message Of Gov.
Culbert Olson.
The governor told newSpapermen
today his biennial budget request
would total about $550,OOO,00 as
compared to $557 100000 two years
ago. He said about $40,000,0 600
would be sought for unemployment
if the state continues the present
dole system. If his recommended
ton for a works program is fol-
lowed, he said, the cost would ce
slightly greater at first.
Olson said he would permit the
legislature to take the initiative
on his ID recommendations, a var
lance from his plan of 1889 in de-
signaling administration lawmak-
ors tc handla the bills.
Both houses met briefly today
then rececsed until II a. m. to-
morrow. A total Of Sc bills went
over the senate desk and A6 il
the assembly. ...
Assemblyman James Phillips oi
Oakland, chairman of the prison
committee which made an exhaus-
tive study of the new southern Cal
ifornia institution at Chino reveal
ed the tentative draft of the pri-
son reform bill. Voters approved c
constitutional amendment last Nc
vember giving the legislature con-
troll of the prison system.
The Phillips bill would establish
a department Of corrections to CO.
2rolnate the state penitentiaries
with the exception CT the womcn's
.rison at Tchecilapi, and the juv-
enlle reform schools, now under
the department Of institutions.
The state board of prison direc-
tors, to be renamed the commits
sion of corrections, would admin
lister the system and employ SlO.-
Continued on Page 6, Col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-07
Revenue
Battle
Opens
State Should Not
Collect Rentals,
Bure au Charges

Opening guns in a battle
to wrest control of tax deed
ed property from the state of
California and return it to
local taxing agencies were
fired by the Imperial County Farm
bureau Tuesday.
The farm bureau prepared to file
copies of it's own resolution dealing
with the tax decided property with
every public agency in the county
and started this phase of the bat
tie by presenting the county board
of supervisors with one at their
meeting Monday afternoon.
Estimated at somewhere in the
neighborhood of 10000 to 10000
acres, the property decided to the
state because of non-payment OF
Imperial county taxes is a source
of revenue to the state when that
revenue, the farm bureau declared,
rightfully belongs to the county.
eve ask you for the repeal of all
legislation that will authorize OF
permit California to have any part
in the administration of tax decided
property or permit it to lease the
same or have any interest in rentals
accruing from same" the resolu-
ton said. I'VE want you to help
get appropriate legislation adopted
at the current legislative session to
delay the effective date of new
legislation for not less than two
years in order to permit conSidera-
ton of proposition to return to
local agencies the sole management,
control, and sale OF all tax decided
property and to deprive the now
existing department in the state
controllers office of power over
rentals and leases
Tie farm bureau cortended that
state and county taxes were separ-
ated 30 years ago and the state is
supposed to be supported from
sources other than taxes on per-
sonal property. such as franchises
inheritance taxes, etc.
R. L. Coor-Pender, district man.
ager of tax decided land for the state
controllers office, said Tuesday that
tax decided property in Imperial
county earned the state an approx
mate gross annual income of $780,
900, mostly from rentals. He sale
the state controllers office had the
power to control tax decided lane
since 1872 but had not used it until
1886 when the increase in the taz
decided property became state
wide problem and some uniform
Continued on Page 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-07
US. Releases Army
Planes TO Greeks
Under FDR's Plan
Craft in Production to
Be Turned Over Soon
For Use Against Italy

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.
UP) - The administration
moved quickly today to full
fill President Roosevelts
pledge of "ever-increasing"
aid for democracies, by releasing to
Greece an undetermined number
of warplanes now in production for
the American army.
Less than 100 planes are involv-
ed and the Greeks will pay cash for
them.
The release became known less
than "a hours after President ROose-
velt, in his annual message to con-
gress, promised more ships, more
planes, more tanks and more guns
to the nations fighting the new
order of tyranny and defied the
dictators to prevent fulfillment OF
that promise by threats. Such aid
is not an act of war, he said.
The exact type of plane released
to the Greeks could not be learned
Immediately, but it was believed
they were fighting craft OF ultra
modern design which were virtual
ly ready for delivery to the army
air corps. British purchasing COM
mission officials have been negoti-
ating for war materials for Greece
! for about a week.
The British purchase program
for the present has been completed
and future orders await congress
sional action on the presidents
multi billion dollar arms lending
program for Britain, Greece and
China. A group of administration
officials have been busy for days
seeking to translate it into legisla-
ton to be introduced soon in con-
gress.
Mr.. Roosevelt revealed no new de-
tails of that plan in his message
to congress yesterday, but it was
learned that it may be carried out
by giving the Army and Navy un-
limited authority to make avail
able to countries needing it, what
ever material aid they consider
prudent in the light of American
defense.
Such plan, drawn up in men,
Continued on Page 6, Col. d
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-07

drove forward against the Italians
without respite, slashing at Fascist
communications around Tobruk in
what appeared to be preparations
to bring that important Italian air
and sea base under siege and as
sault.
Correspondents of London report
ed that Ell Adem, the air base Is
miles south of Tobruk had been
captured by swift rolling mechan-
lied advance skirmishers and the
main body of British troops was
believed to be pouring west on two
highways toward Tobruk.
The British land forces captured
40 damaged italian planes on the
ground. The planes had been rem
dered unfit for use by smashing
Royal air force bombings which
now are extending as far west as
Derna, 100 miles west of Tobruk.
The new British raid on Valona,
designed to render the port use
less for the landing of Italian troops
or supplies, came as Benito Mus
solini gathered his Fascist leaders
about him for a council of minis
ters which proclaimed complete
faith in the tri-partite alliance
with Germany and Japan despite
the reverseS of the Italian mill
tary machine in Albania and Afri-
ca.
The British remained strongly
skeptical of the flood of rumors
from the Balkans that a German
move into Bulgaria was imminent
The latest of these reported, with
out any sort of official confirma-
ton, that Nazi troops were already
within Bulgaria at strategic noun
tain passes.
Balkan sources in London claim
ed that Turkey advised Bulgaria sly
weeks ago that if German troops
crossed Bulgaria Turkey would en-
ter the war at Britain's side. These
sources claimed that Soviet Russia
was still trying to effect an under
standing between Bulgaria and Tur'
key whereby both those nations
would, stand together against in
curSlonS by anE participants IN TIT
war and thus form an outer, pro-
tective bulwark for Russia.
Weather conditions, reports from
both London and the Balkans indi.
Gated, were highly unfavorable tt
any big scale German military
movements in that area. Londor
added that despite belief that NJ
Nazi move there was imminent thi
did not necessarily mean all actor
was off until spring.
Travellers reported floods in ;
large part of southeastern Bulgaria
Military observers said it would b.
weeks before military operation
could be undertaken in the area.
At least five villages and part o
the town of Plovdi were reporte,
Continued on Page 6, Gel. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-07
Taxpayers Shell
Out Sb47,454

Imperial county taxpayers paid
$647 .454 on their 194O-194l tax bill
the staff at the assessor collectors
office announced Tuesday.
OF this total $597, ,496 was des-
tined for payment of the first in
stallment which became delinquent
Dec. and $49,958 for the second
installment which will become de-
linquent in April This left a
firs t installment delinquency OF
$106,991.
Last year first installment pay
ments totaled $568,634 while the
amount charged the taxpayers was
1862 ,439, leaving a first installment
delinquency of $93,8O5.
The first installment charge fol
1940-1941 was $7O4,487 and the sec
ond $522,959. The 1939-l940 first
installment arge was $662, ,43G
and the second was S490,8O6.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-07
Novv to Have $500 Planes
In 1912: Has 2145 Now

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. (UP)-
Rear Admiral John H. Towers, chief
of naval aeronautics, told the house
naval affairs committee today the
navy expects to add 1000 planes
to its air strength this year and
TO have $500 modern craft on hand
year hence.
Towers said, however, that he was
mot satisfied" with the rate of
naval expansion. 81 am very impa
tient about it" he testified. but
added that he felt that everything
possible was being done to speed it
Delivery schedules are not being
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-07

Doris Dudley, said it wasn't
Among the lines objected to were
several of Miss Hopkins number
of Miss Dudley's and a lot of Wes-
ley Addy's. Addy plays the part OF
boastful village Don Juan who
seduces Miss Hopkins while her
ailing husband lies at the point Of
death Miss Dudley eventually wins
him away from Miss Hopkins but
later is mobped by angry citizens
for misconduct with a Negro.
Miss Hopkins husband finally
shoots her and another mob fires
their home, Miss Hopkins and her
lover perishing in the flames,
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-07
Chest Fund
Reaches $4,000

The community chest fund reach
ed $4,000 Tuesday, according to Drive
Chairman Vaughn Thompson, fo.-
lowing a special meeting of the
advance gifts committee at lunch
con meeting Monday.
The funds raised at present,
Thompson said, leave the campaign
only $1,000 short of its goal and
continued work during the next
ten days should complete the drive
Other committee report meetings
are scheduled during the week
Thompson declared.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-07

met in some cases, Towers said
and a shortage of machine tools
is a difficulty.
He was the first witness Chair
man Carl Vinson called in his
inquiry into lags in the navys pro-
gram. 1t was part of a double
drive by the legislatives and execu-
tive departments to speed up the
rearmament program.
Towers said that on Jan. l, 1910,
the navy had 2145 planes of all
categories. On Jan. l, 1871, the
number had increased AS net TO
pi590. The navy of the latter
date had 6,122 planes on order, and
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-07

expects to get approximately 1000
of them during the calendar year
Allowing losses of about 300 in the
interval, he testified that by next
January the navy should have
about $500 planes.
Vincon explained that his inyes-
tigation would cover aviation pro-
curement. aviation base develop
ment, naval shipbuilding and naval
shore base development. He noted
that for aviation procurement con-
gress provided for 1871 s226 ,088.562
cash, $500, 100000 In contract auth
orizations and S60,000000 for ex-
panding plant facilities.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-07
Accident DAMAGE
Claim Denied

Lloyd c. Dekle's claim for $40 ,45e
for damages he alleged he suffered
in a traffic accident in northern
Imperial county last May 6, was
denied by the county board of su-
perviSorS Monday.
The claim was denied when Su-
pervisor B. M. Graham of the
Brawley district said he had in
Spected a bridge Dekle said was
a menace and found it wider than
other bridges in the district and
in his opinion was safe. Dekle al
legged he was injured when a car
driven by Pat Garcia plunged off
a bridge into a canal on the Nj
land -Calipatria road.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-07

A Cleanup, Paint-up week such
as Ell Centro has never before seen
was in the making Tuesday as P.
E. Ryerson, chairman of the cham
ber of commerce Identification COM
mittee, accepted the role of cam
paign chief.
Scheduled to start Monday, Jan.
20, the chamber-sponsored drive
was expected to go far beyond the
limits of the annual city cleanup.
In most previous years the clean
up has been restricted to concen-
tration upon brushing up alleys
and streets and vacant lots.
This year we would like the
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-07

actress said Their attitude is an
insult to the fine young man who
wrote the show, and you can tell
them for me that l haven't gotten
to the point where I have to appear
in dirty plays"
Battle of Angels, written by Ten
nessee williams, is about life in the
Mississippi Delta region and deals
at length with such things as in
fidelity and the consequences there
of.
City Councillor Michael j. Ward
who said he hadn't seen the play
but had heard plenty about it. call
ed 1t "putrid."
Miss Hopkins, co-starring with