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The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-12-28
Recreation
News
CLASS A BASKETBALL

Romulus Army Filters set pace in
City Open Basketball League {.
Three wins in a row has finally
found RomuluS all alone at the top
of the league. The fast breaking
Army boys, led by 1t. Harper are
exhibiting unusually classy play.
In End place with one loss each
are Crosse lie Navy, Coca Cola, wy.
Cab and Allen Park. Coca Cola's
upset of Crosse lie marked last
weeks highpoint. While Allen Park
has beaten Coca Cola and lost to
Crosse He showing the close COM
petition to start the season. Fire
stone surprised everyone last week
by almost downing Romulus while
Sharples and Trenton Folders. While
loosing all their games, have been
dangerous.
GAMES NEXT WEEK
Wednesday, January Bird, Fire
stone VS. Crosse lie, 1870 P. NJ,
Roosevelt Gym; Sharples VS. Folders,
8:45 p. M. Roosevelt Gym.
Thursday, January 4th-Sharples
VS. Crosse lie, 1880 P. M. Roosevelt
Gym: Wy. Cab VS. Allen Park, 8:45
Roosevelt Gym; Romulus VS. Coca
Cola, 1880 P. M. Romulus.
STANDINGS
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-12-28
really good. Drop over and see some
of the boys in action. Friday nights
at seven o'clock.

DID YOU KNOW THAT
There was only one amateur
fighter to hold the World Champ
ionship. In 1795 Gentleman Jack
jackson won the heavyweight title
from Dave Mendoza.
The American people spent in 1888
Four Billion dollars in pursuit Of
their favorite sport.
The fisher folk led the field
spending $1,2O0,000,0O
The firearms group hunters,
rifle shooters, trapshooters, skeet,
pistol and revolver shots spent $780,
0OO, 900.
In peace years the golfers spent
$500 600, 900.
The bowlers in those happy years
spent $3.50, 100000.
The observers of the sport world
pay $3.50, 0OO, 900 to see their favorite
sport.
In the peak years of 1887 and
1888, Basketball had the largest at
tendance, about 100000 people
paid to see the games
Softball came next with about r.
100000 people paying to see the
game. The next two in order-baSe-
ball with 100000 and football
with 100000.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-12-28

entered them in the City Recreation
Program. Games will be played each
Friday evening at the Wyandotte
Chemicals Club. Considerable inter-
est is being shown at the club as
the teams are fairly well balanced
The league should produce keen
competition for the coveted champ
ionship.
Games this week:
Friday, December 29th - West
Plant VS. Research, z p. m, wy.
Chemicals club. North Plant VS.
Chlorine, 8 p. m, Wy. Chemicals
club.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-12-28
Sport Shots
by
Harry Whitlow

Last week Coca Cola in the City
Recreation Basketball League got
going - knocked off the leading
Crosse lie Naval Base team. The
loss to the Island boys gave Rom
illus Air Base the first place rung
all alone. Four teams are tied for
the second place spot and from now
on-wow. Firestone playing the
Romulus gang should at least get
an E for effort. They came darn
close to knocking them off.
Two swell games to watch this
coming week-Thursday night
Wyandotte Cab and Allen Park,
Romulus Air Base and Coca Cola.
Three Of these teams are tied for
second and the other is riding on
the top. Don't forget next Thursday
night ut Roosevelt.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-12-28

Let your religion be seen. Lamps
do not talk. but they do shine. A
lighthouse sounds no drum, it beats
no gong; yet far over the waters, its
friendly light is seen by the mariner.
-CIIYler
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-12-28

Over at the Wyandotte Chemicals
Doc Casey has a swell Basketball
League going. They opened up last
Friday night and 1 can say this
they may not be the best in the
world, but, bud those guys are in
there trying and the games are
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-12-28

PUBLIC SKATING AT BOAT
CLUB BAY FORMERLY
BURREL'S SLIP
The Recreation Department an
nounces skating hours during va
cation period is 10 A. NJ. to 11P.M
and will be open 4 to IL P. M. after
holidays.
WYANDOTTE CHEMICALS
STARTS INDUSTRIAL
BASKETBALL LEAGUE
Recreation director Doc Casey
has organized four shop teams and
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-12-28

Well, see that they are changing
the name Of Burrell's Slip. From
now On 1t is being called-Boat Club
Bay.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-18

would have had to expose their men to other
wise avoidable death and mutilation before
the eremy's guns. Monte Casino is a position
offering great advantages for observation and,
indeed, commanding approaches to the Garig-
ano Valley.
obviously the appeal of the Vatican spokes-
men could not be needed by Allied COM
manders. 1t was case of American lives
and the lives of Allied troops against the
preservation of buildings. The military code
calls for avoidance of destruction of sacred
buildings wherever possible But it states that
those known to be used for military purposes
by the enemy are legitimate objects of attack
THE Nazis believe they have very handy
psychological weapon in the sacred buildings
of Italy. They have not hesitated to install
themselves in this monastery or at Castel
Gandolfo. the papal summer residence, and
in both cases the Nazis have hoped to EN-.
barrass the Allies by evoking pleas from the
Vatican authorities on behalf of the buildings
used as Nazi strongholds.
LAS the Nazis and Fascists once sought to
hide behind the Roman Catholic Church as
they advanced from aggression to aggression,
so now in their retreat they seek to hide
behind it's shrines. But it is case of lives
against Buildings, of Protestant, Jewish and
Roman Catholic lives. Monasteries, church
es, converts have often figured centrally in
historic battles Had the Nazis succeeded in
establishing new precedent at Monte Cas-
sine or Castel Gandolfo, their retreat toward
Rome would have become more comfortable
every few miles,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-18
Two Pressing Tasks

The next session of the North Carolina leg
islature Is still months ahead. But time has
terrible habit of slipping by and leaving
many tasks unfinished for persons and com.
munities that fail to move lively
Wilmingtonians have need to quicken their
pace lest so much time be dawdled away that
not enough is left to select and support rep
resentatve capable of carrying out broad
legislative program for Wilmington and New
Hanover county, including annexation to the
city of reasonable suburban area whose resi-
dents are essentially residents of Wilmington
but contribute nothing to its maintenance.
There is none too much time for progress
sive elements in the city and the county to
get together in earnest and frame 4 legisla-
tive program which in its enactment will bene-
fit both urban and suburban areas, as well
as the farthest corners of the country and,
with this done, choose representative with
enough fighting power and dependability to
put the program across.
Past failures in efforts to extend the city
limits offer lesson which farsighted resi-
dents cannot fail to perceive. 1t is that public
sentiment has not been crystallized for an
nexation in advance, that there has been no
wide agreement on proposed new boundaries,
and that our legislators have either been con-
fused on what they were assumed to have
obligated themselves to do or diverted from
their original course by an opposition which,
being organized and militant was stronger
than unorganized and at least partially in
different forces half-heartedly backing annex
alton.
is right to think that annexation will fail
again if the lesson of past failures is not
learned now.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-18
BY WESTBROoK PEGLER

WASHINGTON-.If the movies had por-
trayed Ii as Washington, wrote Evelyn Pey-
ton Goroon, in the Washington Daily News on
Monday, the mass of people would have
screeched How overdone!".
Mrs. Gordon was covering large party
of the KIND known in the social slang of the
National Capital as a drinking, held last
Sunday hight in "a typical set as Hollywood
might have staged it."
Wait Don't go yet. This one has got slow
fuse.
THE biggest hotel in town. the society
CORRESPONDENT wrote, 1.-The biggest ballroom,
istic lighting, the most subtle music. Well, it
was quite a party At first l thought it was
going tc be celebration by the Nation within
"a nation namely Texas. Because the host
was Bascom Timmons, who is from Texas,
and the guests included among the 1900,
Speaker Sam Rayburn, Secretary OF Com
nerce Jesse Jones and Senator Tommy Con-
Inally
'"Then l took another look at the whip-end
OF the receiving line and knew all the
answers. There stood the handsome ana much
discussed Mr.. Marshall Field and his very
pretty wife. Perhaps these two people were
the most inconspicuous guests at the recep-
ton. But, after all, it was Mr.. Fields party
There was vast sur1nise as to how much the
reception cost. Some said for fact $l0000
Others were sure it was only $500
Mr. Timmons is the distinguished Washing
ton correspondence of Mr.. Fields Chicago
newspaper, The Sun, and the stated purpose
of the drinking was to honor two other Field
journalists, Mr. Charley Gridley, President Of
the Gridiron club, and Mr.. Sam O'Neal, presi'
dent of the National Press
There was scotch whiskey for 100 guests
and every other drink dream could muster, y
Mrs. Gordon wrote for the information OF a
vast city whose inmates of late have beer
shutting from store to store all over town In
search of life-giving nutritious drains ano
coming home with odd-shaped bottles OF queer
fluids made out Of strange berries, roots
herbs and old shoes and desperately fumbllne
among their old papers for forgotten recipes
for homemade jump-steady and the old tele
phone numbers of mysterious booties who
in the days of long ago, would whoa up al
the door, in response to a call, with Mason
jars of Maryland corn, yet warm from the
still.
And others among those present, mentioned
by the society specialist, were Donald Nelson
Of the War Production Board, Admiral King
and two learned justices OF the supreme
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-18
MOnasteries And War

Since it became obvious that the Germans
intended to use the Benedictine monastery on
Mt. Casino as fort and its destruction was
regrettable military necessity, the American
press has published many views on the situa-
ton. None that has come to the attention OF
this desk was quite so clear and so sound as
that in the Christian Science Monitor of last
Tuesday, which because of mail irregularities
has just arrived. It is reprinted here with an
earnest recomm cndation that readers ponder
it, with extraordinary attention.
Says the Monitor:
Since the Nazis were already established
in and around the Benedictine monastery on
Monte Casino, the Vatican could not appeal
against bombardment Of that strategic site
without making these enemies OF Christianity
the immediate beneficiaries Of the appeal
Nevertheless Vatican authorities requested
that the monastery be spared bombardment
10 fulfill the request Allied commander
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-18
Alarm Clocks

Charity begins at home so the saying goes,
but evidently the bureaucrats in Washington
haven't been having any lately The charity
in this case being thousands Of American war
workers, 10000 alarm clocks and Australian
workers.
According to reports, 10000 American made
alarm clocks have been sent to Australia 50
that Australians may get to work on time and
production won't be held up. In addition, 40, 600
more clocks are on their way to the land
down UNDER
This is part of President Roosevelt's lend
le' s. program, in which America does the
lending and other nations get the leased goods,
lncl'ding clocks.
There is probably a shortage of alarm
clcrhe in Australia but there is a greater
shortage of them in this country. Cities like
Wilmington where majority of the popula-
ton is engaged either directly in the war
effort, like servicemen, or indirectly like ship
yard workers, have greater need for clocks
than Australians. There are probably not five
new alarm clocks to be found in the stores
here and if there were, Washington would
probably say that was a sufficient supply.
Why is it that alarm clocks are being sent
to Australia when they can't even be bought
in New Haven where they are made?
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-18
Daily Prayer
FOR PATIENCE IN SEPARATION

From every part of the earth
which Thou hast made, o Almig hty
God, prayers are arising to Thee
from lonely hearts in behalf OF
absent dear ones. Only such a
Father as Thou art canst undez.
stand and assuage the grief Of
hearts separated from their best
beloved. In uncertainty and anx.
iety they await news of their serv.
ice men, meanwhile pouring GU
their hearts supplications to Thee
God be merciful to all who thus
endure the sorrow of love. Give
them stout hearts, and S m p G
faith in Thee. Teach them that
they and their dear ones are alike
in thy Fatherly keeping. Give
hero-hearts to all the home folk
and may no word of fear or anx.
iety or complaining escape them,
to harrow the hearts of their alb.
sent loved ones. In this testing
time of love and faith may affec.
ton be purified and loyalty dem.
onstrated. Let something of Thine
own patience, o Eternal Lord, be
impaired to all waiting hearts.
Speed the Cay of victory and Of
glad reunions, that together we
may praise Thee for Thy Fatherly
protection and sustaining grace,
Amen-W.T e.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-18
A Junior College

Among all the plans made or in contempla-
ton for Wilmington when the war is over,
none could have greater potential value than
a junior college.
In addition to its cultural and educational
worth, it would also improve the city's eco.
nonaic situation.
At a conservative estimate, Wilmington par
ents expend fully half million dollars an,
nually on the education of their children al
schoo' away from home.
They spend this money elsewhere because
Wilmington offers no courses above the high
schc level Is it unreasonable to believe
.oy would gladly invest it at home, if we
offered advantages for their children equal to
those found in other cities?
Surely not. They would be happy to have
their children at home while pursuring their
studies and equally happy to have hand in
supporting home Institution.
In addition to the money derived from local
patronage a junior college would also draw
pupils from wide area in southeastern North
L~rolaa. whose attendance would create new
revenue for the school, for merchants, anc
for households in which they would live.
While studying ways to improve port bust
ness and agriculture and industry hereabouts
in the postwar world, it would be well worth
while TO give thought to junior college. Il
properly supported and conducted, such a
school might eventually grow into full hedg-
d university.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-18

,utees OF strange doctrine, they are not con-
tent with this Instead they preach wherever
they can raise an audience, and what they
sa-- is, fundamentally, disloyal to the country
which is fighting for its very existence.
TIL do not see that a negotiated peace
would be one of the surest ways to lay the
foundation for later war; they ignore the
fact that the only way the world can attain
a ~af place is by crushing the evil forces
that brought this war into being. They close
their eyes and their minds to the tortures
the Japanese have practiced upon American
soldiers, the tens of thousands of innocent
pystnders murdered to safety the bloodlust
of the Germans
This Peace Now group is every bit as dan
gerous as the German-American bund used
to be, and should be destroyed as effectually
as was the bund.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-18
Universal Draft

If we are in actual fact engaged in a war
for survival, and no sane person can doubt
that we are the obligation to fight the war to
at home as heavily as it does upon the armed
forces This means that workers in all in
dustries, persons in all professions, clerks in
:" stores, managers and directors of all bust
ness and industrial organizations, have as vi
tai a role in the war effort as any man in
uniform.
1t means, too, that every person capable
of doing a days work is as deeply obligated
to 60 where his services are most needed,
as any member of task force is to 60 into
battle.
This being So and it cannot soundly be
disputed, the opposition to universal draft,
chiefly existing in labor, with William Green
it's principal apostle, is working against, not
for, victory and survival Green, and labor
leadership generally, is more concerned with
the emoluments OF labor of which they pocket
a considerable part, than in the sacrifices in.
volved in an about war effort. So long a.
their bank accounts mount they do not give
a hang whether the war is brought to a speedy
and victorious end or is drawn out, with in
creasing loss of life and heavier drains on
the nations resources, interminably.
Green's statement before the Senate Mill.
tary Committee, that universal draft would
break up many family circles, is true, but
not in the way he implied. He would seem
to have us believe that separations thus Gre
ated would be permanent, whereas in actual
fact they need exist onlv so long as the war
continues. The truth is, that many thousands
of families are voluntarily disunted by IA.
theirs, sons, brothers leaving home to work
in war industries at a distance. Mr. Green S
tears are of the crocodile type.
Because there is serious manpower bot.
tleneck ard production for war = suffering
from it, no less than production in fill civilian
needs, there is the proposal to make every.
body subject to draft, that workers may be
moved from over-manned plants to others
VIII insufficient (staffs At the roots this is
not different from sending reinforcements tc
the most heavily and dangerously attacked
part of battlefront AS fighting forces dc
not finch when ordered to an exposed front
neither should the Greens of labor complain
when the order comes to shift their forces
where the need for support is greatest.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-18
The Literary Guidepost

to think of it. The brilliant idea
of piping water to the Army from
Alexandria's water mains had
been conceived, and it was UP to
Rainier to lay the pipe. He had
no idea how to proceed, he ad.
mits. But it was done by impress.
ing flocks of sheeted Bedouins to
dig the trench, by locating h e
trench close to the aforementioned
railroad so the heavy pipe from
the Middle East oil fields might
be transported by train. The e
were strikes, and occasionally il
was necessary to shoot few sabo.
tours.
Water was the Majors main in
terest from then on and with his
associates he was able, after the
North African campaign, to re.
mark pridefully that even through
the thick of the last 10 months
the daily water ration was only
twice below a gallon a day. This
is, he adds, luxury in desert cam
palgnlng. But after the water sys.
TENS at Sfax and Sousse were re.
stored, his job was over.
pipeline to Battle" is written
by tough, intelligent officer in
the typical British style, which is
to say, style in which under
statement is the rule. It is first
class reading, adventure-filled.
and one more proof that in writ
ing about war the bleeding heart
style is wholly out of KEY.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-18
BY JOHN sELBY
"Pipeline to Battle" by Maj. Pc
ter w. Rainier iRandom; $3.50

ter w. Rainier RANDOM; $3.50
"Pipeline to Battle is Ill an
other of the bits that eventually
will complete the literary mosaic
of war, rather an odd bit to turn
up this early 1t probably has
turned up because it's author, Maj.
Peter w. Rainier, was retired aft
er three years service. After three
years and 10000 miles of travel.
his share in the war was done. 1t
was a strange share; Major Raj
nier was the man who got water
to the British armies in North
Africa.
When hostilities began, he had
been sent from the high Andes to
sea level by his doctor. He chose
to meet the sea at Cairo, and his
health was improved. But when
he tried to enter the Army, he
was turned down since he was
more than so. He kept trying,
aid eventually he was accepted,
because he had once built a short
railway. He ran the single-track
line that leads westward FIR o m
Egypt into the desert, after the
Egyptian personnel disappeared.
Then he was called in again,
this time because he had once
laid some pipelines-there SENS
little in the engineering field that
Major Rainier has not done, come
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-18
Bond Goal Passed

Although it was believed in Wilmington that
bond purchases had topped the New Hanover
county quota, no announcement could be made
of the successful conclusion of the fourth war
loan campaign until the figures were released
by the Federal Reserve Bank at Richmond,
the official keeper of the score.
This agency gave the box score only yester-
day.
The total sales, as shown in the news
columns, is $4,978, 892.50, more than hundred
thousand dollars above the $4,859,OO0 quota.
While this is sufficient cause for rejoicing.
and justifies high praise both for the forces
conducting the campaign and for citizens who
bought bonds, one allotment within the cam
paisn structure is still considerably under
sold. Purchases of the e bond series yester-
day had reached only Sits, 443.75, against a
quota Of $2,234,20
Thir indicates that wage earners and salar-
led persons have not done as well as they
were expected to do. It is possibly true that
they have not done all that they could.
On this assumption, the local E bond drive
will continue at full speed, with the blessing
Of the federal Treasury, until March l, when
It is earnestly hoped that the deficiency will
be made up Sales to date represent 80 per
cent Of the quota. Surely the remaining 20 per
cent can be taken up in the week and one
half remaining in this month. It will be too
Il residents who have not bought that extra
500 bond do so and those who have buy
another.
a1A drfrsr fhn do Will i,r 49,
ed time will be credited to the New Hanover
county total. That in itself, and in view of tie
community's performance in previous bond
drives, ought to be enough to spur us on to
pass the E bond goal.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-18
STATE HONORED

RALEIGH, Feb. II Up Col.
Blake R. Van Leer, dean of the
N. c. State College school of engi.
neering who was named president
of Georgia Tech this week, is the
fourth member of the state college
faculty to be selected as president
of Southern colleges since 1889.
Others chosen as college presi.
dents in recent years are:
DR.. Carlyle Campbell, former
head of the English department,
now president of Meredith col.
lege; DR.. David A. Lockmiller,
former head of the history depart.
ment and now president of the
university of Chattanooga; and DR..
Robert F. Poole, former profes.
sor of plant pathology and now
president of Clemson college.
All four were members of the
State College staff when they re.
ceived their Appointments.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-18
'Peace Now" Dangerous

In every war period pacifists turn militant,
demanding peace at any price. 1t is not sur
prising, therefore, that certain Americans and
many foreigners in the country should be
storning at full speed and in full cry for
peace now" They would have the United
Nations compromise with the Axis, and fill
the air with demands TO. a negotiated peace
If they were content to flay themselves
alone, like the Penetentes OF New Mexico
and hold their rites in secret, guarding their
lamentations zealously against intruders they
might do no material harm, but like all de-