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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-21
Bears Bank Heuuily
On Bronko Naqursky

CHICAGO. Dec. 1o-KE Their
guessing game finally over, the
Chicago Bears today peeled of
their long underwear and gingerly
hoped into football suits to begin
daily practices for the delayed Ma
5Unal pro championship engage
nnent Sunday with the Washing
ton Redskins. Scout Walt Halas
returned from yesterdays Wash
ington-New York playoh-the third
time he had seen the two clubs
meet in their prolonged series
and turned over a sheaf Of notes
10 the anxious Bear coaching
corps.
Co-Coach Hung Anderson indi-
Gated he was confident the Bears
would regain the national title,
which the Redskins spirited away
from them by 4 1916 score a year
ago. Much Of the STATS strategy
hinges to battle scared Bronko
Nagurski. Ready to climax great
comeback in football, the Bronx
will be at fullbsck, a position he
50 ably held for the Bears from
1880 through 1887. During that time
he carried the ba1l for a net gain
Of 3,947 yards--an all.tirne league
record.
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It will be the Minnesota farm
er's fourth appearance in a ma
tional championship game. In three
previous games-1933. 1884 and
1e37-he rammed through oppo-
nents for 1870 yards in trips.
Although Nag" is pushing IS
end was out Of football for five
years before rcjoining the Bears
this season, he still possesses the
brute strength of his old line-bust-
ing day which won for him a
rlace on the all-!eague team seven
times.
In the Bears last game against
the Chicago Cardinals three weeks
ago, the Bronx was shifted from
tsckle to his old funback Job. He
promptly plowed up 81 yards in
is carries and scored one touch
down. His longest furrow was IS
yards, and not once did he fail
tc gain.
Anderson analyzen that IF the
Redskins draw back to set up a
defense against Sid Luckman's
passes, the Bronx will b tier
through. If they bank up to stop
Nagurski, Luckman will start sling
ing. That's the combination that
might win for u.s.
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APPLYING CROWNED
BATTING LEADER
Ace Chicago Stickman Re-
ceives $500 Award
For Feat

CHICAGO, Dec. 20.-tR-A check
:-'or $500-the amount awarded an
nually by the American league to
it's batting champion-will be sent
to Luke Appling, who two days
ago became an Army private at
Fcrt Sheridan, III.
Official league averages today
certified the veteran Chicago White
Sox shortstop as the 1913 batting
king with a 1928 percentage based
on 1872 hits in EDS trips.
At the same time, however, rock
lie Ralph Hodgin. Appling's team
mate, lost a percentage point in
the recount and slipped from .315
to an official .314 when it was
discovered he had been charged
with 406 times at bat instead Of
z07. Dick Wakefield Of Detroit,
thus was able to break what pre-
viously had been a tie for second
place with Hodgin and take over
sole possession Of the runner-up
spot.
Accountants found that Wake
field had been to bat only 633
times instead Of 635, raising his
mark to an official .316.
Only other regular to make the
select 300 group was Detroit's
Roger Cramer, who hit that mark
eli the nose. In 1912, seven regu-
lars reached 800 or better and in
1871 there were 16 in that bracket.
Wakefield was high in hits with
200 including SO doubles which top
ped the league; Rudy York, De-
troit's first baseman, led in home
runs with "a, runs batted in, 11s,
ard total sales, 301 land Wally
Hoses Of the White Sox and john
ny Lindell Of New York tied for
triples honors with IL three.base
blows apiece.
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DAVIS H00PSTERS
HAVE TIGHT TIFF
1llth AW Bn. Finally
Loses To 517th IA
Bn. Cage Club

CAMP DAVIS. Dec. 20. - The
heretofore undefeated 111th AW
Bn. finally bowed, 1890, to a spir-
tied 517th AA Bn. in a rousing
climax that topped all previous
t. ornament games.
Hopelessly outplayed during the
first half at the conclusion Of
which the 111th trailed, 17-5, the
short-enders suddenly + O In d the
spark and with Carroll, Grove and
Duke hitting the cords, approached
to within five points of a tie at
the three-quarter mark.
At his point Frank Waugh, who
only recently completed football
season with the Blue Brigade &C.
counted for three brilliant baskets
and the 111th went out in front
1928. Trying to freeze the ball
resulted in misdirected pass and
Johnny Bezemes, another B lue
Brigade grid ace, seized this op.
portllnity to unfurl one-handed
running shot which swished
through the net to give the 517th
a one-point advantage.
With the 111th vainly striving for
the equalizer Davidson gained pos.
session for the 517th and dropped
one in from the foul line territory
for the clincher, offsetfing a last.
second goal for the 111th.
Davidson and Bezemes were the
bulwarks for the winning 517th,
while Carroll, Duke, Waugh, and
Waugh were responsible for the
sensational second-half comeback
which almost pulled the 111th Out
Of the beaten class. Both teams
exhibited speed and durability and
the pace never slackened in full
view of partisan IA rooters in
Farnsworth Hall.
At one of the Maple Hill gyms
the 584th Bin. ran family affair
with the Officer team edging on;
the Enlisted Men, 1926. Taylor,
Davis, and Cover paced the win.
ners while Thompson, Barton and
kenny proved to be EN- main.
| stays.
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M0RCENTHAU HITS
new TAX MEASURE
Continued from Page Oney

Treasury would be better off with
no tax bill-but on that basis we'd
be awfully badly off,
On the liberalized renegotiation
phases, the secretory, biting off
his words. asserted:
'They open the way to truly ex-
tortionate profits. I predict that if
they are enacted into law they will
come back to plague not only the
Congress but the war goods manu-
facturers who get temporary gain
from them
They hold the seed Of a ma
tional scandal.
II refer to provisions such as
those eliminating from renegotia-
ton the makers of so-called STAN
dard articles and the retroactive
m p n of sub-contractors
whose goods do no, enter into the
final product. Other provisions OF
the bill would leave final settle
ments under renegotiation open for
years to come.''
The ''smartest thing business
can do" said Morgenthau, is to
leave the renegotiatjon law alone,
"unless business executives want
to spend the rest of their lives on
the hill before investigating COM
mittees.
Renegotiatioh h recovered
more than $4,000, 100000 fromwar
contracts. All those for more than
500, 900 were subject to this law.
The new version raises this mini
mum to 100000.
-V-
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new TAX MEASURE
SAID INADEQUATE
Continued fram Page OneJ

without sacrificing any Of the prin-
ciples on which they have made
their stand.
Thus there has Eeen strong
feeling in Congress that the in
come tax already takes as large
proportion Of mems income as
it is desirable to take. The spend
ings tax, recognizing this condi-
ton, concerns itself not with re-
ducing incomes but with discour-
aging men for the time being from
spending them unnecessarily. The
less man spends and the more
he saves, the less tax he pays and
the more Of mis- income he pre-.
serves.
There has been a strong feeling
elsewhere that the proper tax in
the emergency is a sales tax be-
cause this would hit consumption
directly. But the spendings tax al
so hits consumption directly, and
so accomplishes the same result.
On the other hand it can be gradu-
ated so that the more a man
spends on consumption, the more
he pays. Therefore, it cannot be
attacked as regressive and social
ly unjust.
There has been strong senti-
ment for some scheme of COM
pulsory saving. The spendings tax
puts premium on savings and
penalty on non-saving by taxing
that part of an income, but only
that part, which Is not saved.
The spendings tax, in short, is
streamlined for the one necessary
purpose, while the war is on, OF
diScouraging extravaganza and OF
inducing thrift. It need not be COM
plicated. It ought not to be op-
pressiye. It is by definition tenn
porary since no one would think
of retaining it once industry had
returned to civilian production and
was in need of customers.
The spendings tax is not de-
vice for transferring private in
comes to the government Treas
ury. On the contrary. its primary
purpose is to induce the people to
keep their own money until they
can safely spend ii Therefore, it
backs up with powerful reinforce
ment ali who own government
bonds, all the banks. the insurance
companies, as well as all our peo-
pie who have fixed salaries, pen
sions, soldiers allowances, mort
cages and DEBTS.
This is a tax which, the more
successful it is, the less money it
will take from the people. 1t is
way, therefore, of protecting the
people against initiation in war
time while it leaves with the peo-
pie money which they can use al
ter the war to revive private busi-
ness. 1t should have the support OF
all who intend to prevent lnfla-
ton. to maintain the national cred
it and a sound currency, and to re-
store private enterprise.
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YANK SCOUT nee
DISCOVERS STARS
FOR PEACE TIME
Dixie Boasts Numerous
Famed Diamond
Performers

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, De~
2o-(R-Jo Johnny Nee, veteran tal'
ent scout for the New York Yan'
KEGS, is banking heavily on the
Army for the future supply OF big
league baseball players.
There are lot Of good ball
players getting their first oppor-
+,1nity on Army teams" he en-
phasized today. "Reconmendas
lions are coming in all the time.
Friends of ours see the kids and
tip us off.
1--WE contact them and keep in
touch with them, looking toward
the day when the war will be
over"
Nee is just as glad that he's
been operating in the South when
he starts out next spring on his
18th season as q Yank scout.
Dixie, he modestly admitted,
produces it's share Of baseball
players.
He reeled off list of great dia-
1nond stars who came up from be.
low the Mason-Dixon line - Ty
Cobb, Joe Jackson, Jim Bagby.
ST., and Nap Rucker Of Georgia;
Earl Combs Of Kentucky; iris
Speaker and Rogers Hornsby Of
Texas; Dizzy Dean, Paul Dean,
Lon Warneke and Schoolboy Rowe
of Arkansas.
Nee calls Maryland part Of the
South, and would add Babe Ruth
and Lefty Grove to the honor roll.
The veteran scouts activities in
the cotton country brought five
players to the present New York
world champion team, including
two standout performers who plav-
&c big part in downing st. Louis
iii the World Series.
Pitcher Sturgeon Chandler, sign
ed by Nee at the University Of
Georgia, defeated the Cards twice,
and Catcher Bill Dickey, discover
ed by Nee at Jackson, Miss, was
a batting hero.
Others of the 1943 yankees are
pitchers Marvin Breuer, put under
contract while he played in the
Cotton States League, and Alley
Donald, signed out of Ruxton,
Ala, college, and Catcher Ken
Sears, who talked terms to Nee
while he was at the University Of
Alabama.
It was Nee VINO found a place
in the major leagues also for the
fleet outfielder Ben Chapman;
Cutfielder Dixie Walker, now Of
II Brooklyn Dodgers: Pitcher
Johnny Allen and Third Baseman
Bill Werber.
The soft-spoken former minor
league player and manager won
the auction for the Yankees when
teams in both big legaues start
ed bidding for the services of Tom
my Heinrich after the outfielder
was declared a free agent few
years back.
Nee's $4,000 offer brought Hem
rich to the Yankees, and he was
a regular until he went into the
service last year.
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BOLIVIA CONTROLLED
BY ANTI-U. S. BLOC
Confined from Pare One)

Continued from Page One)
MNR is "geog1 aphic reconstruc-
tion'-a militant demand for a 30.
livian outlet to the sea. Party
spokesman have charged that Pen
amanda did not press Bolivian de-
mands for a seaport, though this
was one Of the reasons for his
recent tour Of the United States
and South America.
But if Bolivia gets a port she
will have to get it from Chile, who
took 600 mi4es of Bolivian coastline
in war so years ago, or from
Peru. Chile has stated definitely
she is willing to cede no more
than a free port to Bolivia.
Extreme nationalism in Bolivia
cannot fail to affect the war pro-
duction programs Of the United
States and Britain because tn e
country is their principal source
Of tin, a strategic war metal, since
Japan overran Malaga nearly two
years ago.
Paz Estenssoro and his party's
four other representatives in the
Bolivian chamber of deputies have
been known for their vitriolic
speeches strongly appealing to the
country's 5000, 1000 people, 80 per
cent Of whom are illiterate Indians
and Mestizos.
Their opponents often have &C.
cused them Of being sympathetic
to the Nazi cause in Europe and
America, but ne and his followers
said the Nationalist Revolutionary
Movement Wanted closer b n d
with the United States.
At the same time they declared
they wanted a tlrmer hand to deal
with power like the United States
which they pictured in a dicta-
torial role because of its heavy
purchases Of tin, rubber and sill
yer.
Simon Patine, the Bolivian ''tin
king, whose holdings produce
about half the tin Of Bolivia, has
borne the brunt of extremist at
tacks.
About a year ago the govern
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Berg Named Woman Athlete-Of-Y Year
Arkansas Oakla.un Jockey
Club To Hold Racing Meet

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Dec. No.
The Arkansas Racing Commits
sion announced today that over the
vigorous protest Of Governor
Homer M. Adkins it had granted
the Oaklawn Jockey Club a per-
init to hold its annual racing meet
at Hot Springs, Feb. % to April l.
The governor and the Hot
Springs Ministerial Alliance h a d
joined in opposing the clubs ap.
plication and Adkins conferred
whh the commission members be-
fore they acted.
Chairman H. TIighfi1l, Of Blythe
vile, said that body considered the
first interest Of the state and its
institutions" He added that the
clubs 10 year franchise would ex-
pdre with the 1914 races.
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VALUES REDUCED

The point value of pork cuts was
reduced on Dec. 10 at 1901 am,
but the following is being re-
printed for those who would like
to know these changes: pork
steaks, chops, and roasts, one
point; fresh or frozen hams, two
points; bacon, one point except
bacon ends which remains as is;
ready-to-eat meats. one point. ex-
cept corn beef brisket, dried beef
slices and tongues; sausage, whe-
Their dried, semi-dried. fresh,
smoked or cooked each is one
point.
The new point value on whole
or half hogs are head one. leaf
in or out, %; head off. leaf in
or out, "a; Wiltshires, 2.7.
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1aent broke strike at one Of his
largest mines at Catavi but only
after an army colonel had given
the order which resulted in the
shooting down Of scores of work.
ers. Both the leftist and nation
alist revolutionary parties took up
the phrase 'Catavi Massacre" and
their attack forced a wholesale
resignation Of the cabinet.
Bolivia has been plagued by in
flation and shortages Of commodi-
ties, including food, as result
Of the war and so has been easy
prey to agitation. Bolivia depends
to a large extent upon imports,
largely cut off by wartime short.
ages in shipping. AS a result the
prices have skyrocketed.
Much Of the country's m
business was in the hands Of Ger
mans before the war, and when
these were PLACED on Allied black
lists, normal business was hard hit.
The MNR's morning newspaper
La Gale until recently was on the
United States blacklist.
The 51-year-old Penaranda was
elected president in 1910, and head
ed Bolivia's first peaceably chosen
administration since 1881.
Penaranda, who boasts of a
strong percentage Of Indian blood,
was strongly supported by the unit
ed socialists, a LEFT wing group
which arose from the Chaco war
to boost Gen. German Busch to the
presidency.
After Busch committed suicide
in the presidential palace on July
%, 1939-several MNR leaders in
sist he was murdered--army lead
ers, and a coalition Of the true
republican, republican socialist and
liberal parties sponsored the cleo
ton OF Penaranda, who, like Busch
was a hero of the Chaco war.
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Eastern .Au-Star Grid
Outfit Props For Game

OGDEN, Utah, Dec. 20 Up -
The Eastern All-Star football team,
eli route to San Francisco to meet
the Western Au-Stars New Years
dav. worked out on an Ogden bas-
ketball court today.
Driven indoors by rain, the foot
hallers parked signals, ran through
their formations and caught a few
Head Coach Andy Kerr Of Col
cate said the squad was In good
condition.
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GOLF STAR HAS
BRILLIANT YEAR
AFTER ACCIDENT
Tennis Notable Pauline
Betz Places Second
In Ballotins

ty Berg tossed aside her crutches
this summer and marched off
with the woman's athlete-of-the-
year designation in the Associat-
ed Press annual poll.
Miss Berg, who suffered a frac-
tured left knee cap and a lar
cerated jaw in an automobile crash
near Corsicana, Tex. in Deem
Der of 1871, returned to the golf
fairways for the first time in June
of this year and regained the
Women's Western Open champion
ship
Her I up victory over Dot Kir-
by in the presNre-filled sub-par
final round so engrossed the sports
editors of the country that 80 of
the 81 voting in the poll listed
her as the years number one
woman athlete.
On the basis of three points
for each first place vote, two for
second and one for third, Miss
Berg collected 118 points.
Pauline Betz, who regained her
national tennis title in the matches
at Forest Hills n September,
finished second with rs points
while swimmer Gloria Callen,
winner of the top honor a year
ago, skidded to third with %.
1t is the second appearance for
Miss Berg, now a lieutenant in
the Marine Corps Reserve, at the
head of the list. She gained the
honors the first time in 1888 when
as an amateur she annexed the
Miami-Biltmore title for the third
straight time, the South Atlantic
crown, the Mississippi,
Western and the National champ.
ionships.
Her return to the throne makes
her only the second woman to
have won the title twice in the
polls 10 years. Alice Marble,
queen Of the tennis courts, head
ed the parade in 1899 and 1910.
Miss Berg, whose home is in
Minneapolis, is the first, however,
| w Wall tilS CAoWll SCSOllQ till1G
after a lapse of several years
from her original appearance.
TlA, leading women athletes Of
1943 with the sports in which they
starred: First place votes in pa
renthesis)
Athlete, Sport Points
Patty Berg, golf 800 ...... 118
Pauline Betz, tennis "a 49,. rs
Gloria Callen, swimming "a %
Ann Curtis, swimming "a :. 81
Suzanne Zimmerman, SWIM
ming 60 ................. II
Also rams. Babe Dickinson %
8; Dorothy German ca 7: Louise
Brough Z; Mary Winslow 4; Mar
jorie Gestring 3; Stella Walsh 8;
Judy Johnson 2; Joan Fogle 2:
Jane billiard 2.
One point each: Virginia In
gram, Catherine Fox, Sarah Pal
frey Cooke, Sonia Henie, Helen
Hicks. Hazel Franklin, Frances
Stansberry, Brenda Helser, Pat
tt Aspinall, Betty Jane Rucker.
Cafmellta Landry, Kathryn RaWls,
Mildred Burke, Laurette McCutch-
con.
Previous winners of the poll to
determine the outstanding woman
athlete of the year:
1931-Helen Madison, swimming.
1932-Mildred (Babe) Didrikson,
track.
1933-Helen Jacobs, tennis.
1934-Virginia Van Vie, golf.
1935-Helen Wills Moody, tennis.
1936-Helen Stephens, track.
1937-Katherine Rails, swimming.
1938-Patty Berg, golf.
1939-Alice Marble, tennis.
1940-Alice Marble, tennis.
1941-Betty Hicks Newell, golf.
1942-Gloria Callen, swimming.
1943-Patty Berg. golf.
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CHILD RuRNS

WH1TEV1LLE, Dec. 2C.-Coroner
H. Hugh Nance Of Cerro Gordo an
nounced today that an 18-nonth
old Negro child was burned to
death near Chadbourn Saturday in
flames which destroyed her par
ents' home. The child was Ethel
May Hall, daughter Of James and
Maggie Hall. The mother received
burns trying to rescue the child
from the house but to no avail.
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Southern Athletics Shine
In The Sports Spotlight

ATLANTA, Dec. 2O.-Charlie
Trippi, the understudy who out
Sinkwiched Geor gia's All-America
frankie Sinkwich, tells friends he
tried unsuccessfully 20 enroll at
Fordham, Penn State and West
Virginia before landing a scholar
snip at Georgia. All thought
him too small. . Note: he weigh
ed 181 when Georgia played UCLA
in the Rose Bowl last New Years;
this season starred for the Air
Forces football team at B a sic
Training Center No. 10 near
Greensboro, N. c. ODT travel
restrictions sent Sugar bowl tick
cts begging. Last week news
saper ads in New Orleans still
we're offering choice seats; sug-
gesting Give Sugar bowl tickets
Tor Christmas!' ". Add trends
O times: Miami High school drew
97.720 paid admissions in Sc n
games this season-only a scant
less than Georgia Techs Sugar
bowl team.
Short Thought: Upon reflection,
1t appears that hobo Newsom, the
off-season farmer, progressed rap
idly from AAAs to AS to LAS.
Hatband Jottings: Lieut.. Frank
S. Wright, former University of
florida tu5-thumper, Christmas
cards from an air base somewhere
IN China where by lingo, t h e
ATmy censor is Frank S. Wright
And another yule card is
lDst IN from Umpire Red Jones
ana the missuas-with cartoon
i1hr that the latter may second
guess hubby wnen he steps up to
ms new job next season. Erie
" DOC Painter, who kept the
we" York Yankees in condition to
YIN seven pennants and six worlds
championships N 10 years, h S
gone IN partnership with Jess
y brlen, former trainer for the
boston Braves and Cleveland In
C1a lid with a spa at St. Petersburg
'rld) Credit Bob Horton,
Jews editor of the Chattanooga
INES with an athletic assist. {.
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GRANTED DIVORCE

CHICAGO, Dec 2o.-R-Mrs.
Mary Louise Schwartz, charging
her husband with cruelty, told
Judge Robert J. Dunno in circuit
court that her husband hit her be-
cause she wouldn't chase off to
follow the fire trucks" with him.
She was granted a divorce.
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At full throttle, the Flying Fort
ress consumes nearly 500 gallons
OF gasoline an hour, about twice
Its consumption at cruising speed.
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EesIueS doing Weekly sports col
unln, he has just taken on an adj
ditional job coaching a city high
school basketball team.
Minute Meditation: Bob Car
penter, new president Of the Phil
lies, may not pass his Army in
cuction examination, observes
Jeff Moshier of the st. Petersburg
Times, ''but if he doesn't, he'll
probably wish he had along about
next July T."
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There were 1881 additions TO
the American medical profession
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-08

trust she will not he dis
appointed"
II think she expects that" |
cvsded. I'm fact, already
have prepared her for H..
AS always, YOU meet every
emergency" he said, and !
flushed w1tf1 pleasure.
NOW for your next question"
he went on brISkly. yet there
II no need for haste, for I must
wait here until adams gets
back and ! hear what Dixon has
observed Of Ruth Hayes.
"Incidcntally." be added II
am not at all satisfied with
Dixon. He will have 10 explain
why he did not report 10 me
Immediately on the visit 81 the
Hayes woman to DIR. Meredith"
Al saw grim lines form around
my fathers mouth j dId not envy
Dixon the minutes Of explanation
before hm, bar told myself that
IN Dicky phrasoology, he'd bet
ter have q good one ready
But / va, glad my fa'hc. va,
giving The man tlmc 20 make hi