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is being offered in an effort to
square things with the limb twist.
ing addicts for the forced post.
ponement last weeks snow.
The curtain-raiser brings to-
gether two new performers who
are reported to be extremely cap
able operators. Wallie Ward, a
husky and handsome blond, en-
counters Georgia Charley" Har-
ben, toughie who knows all the
tricks. This bout will be 2 out
of 3 fall affair with go minute
time limit.
The featured attraction of the
nights entertainment will be an
engagement between Pete Man
nagoff, who rules the local popu.
larlty list, and john Aurtnor, he
King of the disliked nombres. The
expected large crowd will lend all
their support to the clever Man
nagotf, and he may need it all
when the hated Aurthor starts
dlshing up his favorite nasty
tricks.
The third man in the ring for
both of these matches will be the
mighty muscle man, Milo Stein
born. The beauty of Milo the
Muscles" acting as referee lies in
the fact that he is quite compe-
tent in handling any little thing
that might arise.
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SPORTS TRAIL

NEW YORK, Jan. 6-(P-Charey Peterson, the fell
low who gave billiards college education, now is giving
the sport it's basic training the service camps and he
reports is standing up WE'LL which is safe enough state
ment you tell whether billiard ball is stand
ing up lying down.
Peterson is sort of Joe Kirkwood of the cushions,
possessing an amazing assortment of trick shots which he
demonstrates in free exhibitions for the service
Since Pearl Harbor he estimates he has visited 430
and given 1869 shows and Travelled about $4,000 miles to
do it.
He's clipper gent who looks far younger than his Ga
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BEAU JACK MEETS
LULU COSTANTIN0

NEW YORK, Jan. 6-lR-Beau
(the jumping) Jack, the upset kio
of 1913, makes his new year beak
busting bow in Madison Square
Garden tomorrow night against
Lulu Costantino and the smart
money boys along bash boulevard
won't be too surprised if the apple
cart gets knocked over again.
With the bouncing Beau doing
his stuff, anything is likely to hap
pen. Last year, for instance, he
dropped one fight as l to 3
favorite, blew another as a l to
g choice and then turned right
around and won one as a 3 to l
underdog to regain his New York
version of the world lightweight
championship.
And now. with the gambling
guys making him the l to 3 IA
vorite over the curly-haired East
Side slugger for tomorrow's party,
the long-shot plungers figure this
is as good a spot as any for some
thing to pop out of the grab bag
again.
The point out that Costantino's
fast-moving style and educated
left hand that can do almost every
thing are just what the doctor
would not order for the Jumping
Jack. They also tip you that the
Beau is going to pack about 1877
pounds into the ring at 10 p. m.
(EWT) and that ever since he first
came swinging and swatting out of
Augusta, Ca, he has never done
his best at over 1875.
Of course, the little Negro
dynamiter is going to have some
thing to say about what kind of
hollandaise sauce will be pouder
on the cauliflower The whole
thing appears to add up to
whether the bouncing Beau has
enough bounce to get in close and
bang away, thereby multiplying
Lulu's long-range edge. This corn
er doesn't think he can and tabs
Costantino to outgallop Jack to
the wire.
Having just wound up Madison
Square Gardens most successful
financial boxing year, Promoter
Mike Jacobs is all set to keep the
cash register playing the same
tune for IA. He's looking for a
10000 gate tomorrow, with 12,-
600 or $4,000 customers chipping
in. Naturally, Mike thinks it's a
happy new year.
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Cat BQsketeers Battle With
The Wilson Cyclones Today
Hustling Hanoverians Meet
Arch Rivals In To-
baccco Town
BY BILL McILWAIN

The New Hanover High School
Wildcat quintet, fresh from a 70
1e win over a classy Coast Artl-
lery five, journeys to Wilson to-
day to meet the ever potent Cy-
clones at 800 p. m. This will be
the initial conference clash for the
Wildcats, who have racked up two
triumphs while dropping one tilt.
This tribe engagement pits the
Cats against one of their arch IL
walls. as the Wildcat-Cyclone at
trays never fail to bring an abun-
dance of fireworks. The margin
of victory in these tits has never
been wide and the game is always
an exceptionally hotly contested
one. Today's fracas is expected te
follow the same pattern.
Not a great deal is known of the
actual caliber of the Cyclone
hoop group, but the Tobacco City
cagers are reported to have the
same type fine club that they have
boosted in past seasons. The very
name, Cyclones, brings thoughts
Of a top-flight basket outfit in the
hardwood circles.
The starting five for the Hanov
erians will probably be the same
combination that has clicked vel
in the three Cat engagements. A
Hair" Collie and Harry Williams
will man the forward slots for the
locals. Both of these performers
have shown up well this season anc
promise to make a deadly accurate
twosome. Williams 6 foot inch
frame aids greatly in the Wildcat
ball hawking attack. The clever
Collie is most adept at ball hand
ling and also a fine shot.
Beak Tsantes, well-built trans
fer student from Pennsylvania,
will be starting in the pivot posi-
ton for the Cats. Tsantes has
shown fine team spirit and is a
most aggressive man under the
backboards, besides sinking his
share of the high school TALES.
Doug Pridgen and Bill Aud will
handle the guard duties for the
locals and give the Cats ample pro-
lection in the defensive department
with their brilliant breaking up
of opponents shots.
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card, and only three heats have
value that low.
The secondary feature, the sew
en- furlong Fort Dallas Park for
older horses, is down for $1,700
Fourteen promising youngsters
will get their first action under
fire in the first race, down the
four-furlong nursery cours e
straightaway.
Hialeah opens after banner 20
day winter meeting at Tropical
Park, which saw early betting rec
ords topple.
No Hialeah official was willing
to make too optimistic forecast,
but all were quietly confident that
the track would operate in the
black after remaining closed last
season because of the pleasure
driving ban then in effect.
Here are the weights for the
inaugural: Cape Cod 1872, Sigma
tor 118, Adulator 105, Grasshopper
End ia, Harvard Square ia, Ro-
man Sox 113, Poacher 2, K. Dor
do II, Mettlesome ITO, Putitthere
ITO, Shiny Penny 100. Old Grad
1O8, Eric Knight 106, Dream Pa
rade 1O6, MONDAY Sun 105, Wealth
erite 1O1, and Vim 95.
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4th Weather Group
CAGE THRILLERS
OCCUR AT DAVIS

CAMP DAVIS, Jan. 6 - The
Southern league, one Of five bas-
ketball circuits now operating for
Camp Davis battalion teams, drew
top billing Tuesday night with a
Farnsworth Hall double-header and
third contest in Maple Hill.
In all three instances the con-
testants were well-matched and
the results werer dependent on
last-minute MEETINGS. Trailing a.
8 at the half the 274th continued to
founder during the third quarter
but suddenly found the range in
the final stanza only to miss out
by a two-point margin.
A 1920 decision to Btry H, AAS.
With Bonadio doing the bulk of the
scoring for the H outfit in the
early stages and the 274th bobbing
easy opportunities underneath the
basket, a runaway appeared to be
in the making. However, the
front-runners pulled up short and
LaBoda's' one-man tally spree al
most, but not quite, turned the
tide in the fourth period.
Following this close one Btry K.
AAS barely nipped the 61st Bri-
gade, 1929, in another tight setto
wherein no more than three points
separated the teams at any time.
Charland's Is markers and organs
II counters supplied the dynamite
charge for the winners. The losers
used thirteen players in vain eff
fort to nit the jackpot but only
Decker and Rutter were able to
hit the cords with any consistency,
twenty-five performers saw ac-
ton in Maple Hill where the Gun
Material Off. squad took a low
scoring get-together from the seth
Group EN-. 1t was Cheney. for
ward, who decided the issue by
caglng Is points which netted the
officer courtsters a 22-17 win. The
Doth as held to six field goals
divided among Folsom, Mike. and
Mccarthy.
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CAROLINA OWNED
DOG WINS MEET

PINEHURST, Jan. 6. -P- Del
livery Boy, owned by L. M. Bob
bitt of Winston-Salem, won the
feature free-for-all stake today at
the Pinehurst Field Trials. Tar
iheelia Lucky Strike, owned by
Gerald Livingston of New York,
was second in what the judges
called photo finish.
Delivery Boy and Lucky Strike
were among the eight dogs in a
field of "a to qualify for final one
hour hunt. Both worked perfectly
under professional handling. Deliv'
cry Boy was worked by Paul Walk
err and the Livingston pointer was
handled by George Crangle.
It was touch and go with these
two bird dogs until the end of the
heat when Lucky Strike lost enough
ground for Delivery Boy to take
first honors. Dog owners and spec.
tators said both ran perfect races.
They each found one covey.
Third place went to DR.. Sans
Johnnie, owned by Samuel Black
OF Spartanburg, S. c., and handled
by Charles Prickett. DR.. Sam was
the only other dog in the fina
field to find game.
The open puppy stake was Wor
by Lady, owned by DR.. B. W
Spicer of Winston-Salem, and the
amateur derby was won by Peer
less Hobo, owned by Bobbitt.
i The trials will be concluded to
morrow with the running of tn
open derby.
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CAT GRIDDERS FETED

At the regular weekly luncn-
con of the Lions Club oil
Thursday it was announced
that the club will give the
New Hanover high school 1913
football team a banquet Fri
day, January IA at $50 p. m.
The banquet will be held at
the New Hanover high school
cafeteria.
1t was announced by Edward
"Fatty" YOpp, the chairman
of the program, that immedi-
ately following the banquet
the high school had invited the
entire club to conference
basketball game.
There was general agree
ment expressed at the meet
ing that tn 1943 high school
football team had been the
best football team the school
has had since 1928, the last
year they won the state cham
piOnship.
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AMERICAN ACE

WASHINGTON Jan. 6. P) -
High scoring American aces (fliers
who have shot down five or more
enemy planes) of this war on the
basis of available records are:
Maj. Joe Foss, Sioux Falls, N. D.
Marine Corps with 26 enemy planes
to his credit.
Maj. Gregory Boyington, Okan-
ogan, Wash, Marine Corps 26.
Capt. Richard I. Bong, Poplar.
Wis, Army Air Forces,21 (plus 6
probables).
1t. Kenneth Walsh Brooklyn and
Washington, Marine Corps, 90
1t. Col. John L. Smith, Lexing-
ton, Okla, Marine Corps, 10.
Maj. M. E. Carl, Hubbard Ore,
Marine Corps II.
Maj. Thomas J. Lunch, Catasau-
qua, Pa, Army, 16 (plus prob
ables).
1t. William ]. Thomas, Eldora-
do, Kan. Marine Corps, 16.
Capt. Walker M. Mahurin, Fort
Wayne, Ind, Army, IA.
Capt. Jim SWEET, San Meteo,
Calf, Marine Corps, IA.
1t. Stanley Vejtasa, Circle,
Mont, Navy, II.
Comdr. ]. S. Thach, Fordyce,
Ark, Navy, 7.
1t. Comdr. Edward H. O'Hare,
St. Louis, Navy, at least 6.
(The Navy does not keep Off
cial records on the number OF
planes shot down by Individual pi-
1otS)
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All Is Set For Mat Sho1u
At ITALIAN Hall Tonight

Bert Causey's bone bending
boys hit town a-rippin' and a.
roarin' and commenting on what
fine weather it is for altering
someone's personal appearance,
say by removing an ear, nose or
something of the sort. Yep. rough
and rowdy doings are expected
to pop at ITALIAN Hall tonight at
$3.50 when four burly mug mash
nrs begin battle.
Everything is in complete read
mess for the exciting affrays, To-
cal wrestling promoter Causey
stated Thursday night. The popu-
lar graphing boss said that this
exceptionally interesting mat card
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SERVICE LEAGUE
HAS CLOSE TILT

In their first appearance at the
Y. M. C. A. in the newly started
league, the 18th Weather Gp. dis
played a fine brand of ball to
down the 4O2nd. Group which won
their opener on Monday night. 1t
was holly contested affair all the
way with neither team holding
more than a 4 point lead at any
time during the entire game. Hunt
was really the ''hot'' man for the
winners with a total of IL Of their
rs points. For the losers Harring-
ton was the key man with mark
ers even though he fouled out be-
fore the game ended.
The End game went to the 965th
Sgd. by means of forfeit due to
transportation trouble. The next
games will be played at the ''Y''
on Monday night in this league.
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6O-Year Running Star
Enters Marathon Race

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 6. -(P)-
A 60-year-old Marathon runner,
who won the famous Patriot Day
Race in Boston just 27 years ago,
will try his legs again Saturday in
the 18th annual jackson Day Run
sponsored by the New Orleans Y
M. C. A.
The runner, Bill Kennedy of New
Haven, Conn, made the 26-mile
run in Boston in two hours, twenty.
eight minutes and 81 is seconds.
Saturday he will be pitted against
twenty-five athletes, including Bill
Steiner, worlds Jewish Olympic
marathon champion of Palestine,
in a six-mile run from the old
Spanish fort to Jackson Square.
In 1941 Kennedy entered Boston
event and finished 22nd out OF
more than 100 entries.
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years, despite the fact that if he
got his noogin too close to bill
lard table there might be little
confusion, leaving the idea he
might be playing an extra ball. He
is quite bald
He's been poking cues at Bill
lard balls for As years, and long
ago developed the trick-shot tech
nique which he prefers to straight
match play. He makes every shot
that is possible to make, and some
that seem impossible. He gave up
the idea of balancing three balls
one on top of another, although he
has done it. 1t took him an hour
and three-quarters to get them to
sit straight, and he thinks that's
a waste of time.
The service men go for the ex-
hibitions in a big way, he says,
and he has played to as many as
1000 at one showing.
you're going to see a big
change in the game after the
war;" he predicts. THAT is, the
game will boom. Do you know
there are from 10 to 200 billiard
and pocket billiard tables in every
camp That means a lot of boys
are playing who never played be-
fore"
Equipment at the camps has i'm
proved immensely in the past
year, he points out. The first year
he played on tables where the ball
would hit the cushion and stop
as if it had kissed flypaper, and
at one camp, when he arrived for
the show, a hostess led him to
room and pointed to various parts
of a table scattered about.
There it is she said innocent
ly. He blurted something about not
being able to perform on equip
ment in such condition.
"Why, I thought you set it up
yourself" she explained.
Peterson started his campaign
to rid the sport of its pool room
faint back in 1881, when he began
giving exhibitions at colleges. He
continued that crusade until Pearl
Harbor, and in 1885 was rewarded
by the formation of an intercol-
legiate billiard league, instituted
by Porter Butts at Wisconsin in
1895.
He has played against the best
of them il his As years in the
business, and ne considers Willie
Hoppe tops in all-around play.
holding only a slight edge over
Welker Cochrane He rates Jake
Schaefer as the best balk-liner he
ever saw.
Right now, though, match play
doesn't interest him. He's more
interested in doing his bit to re-
lieve the boredom of the boys in
service, and subtly showing them
it's a gentleman's game requiring
considerably skill
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Boxer Bobby Ruffin
Passes His Induction

NEW YORK, Jan. 6-IR-Bobby
Ruffin. 23-year-old Long Island
lightweight, has passed his Army
induction test and is to report at
Fort Dix on Jan. rs. He will 90
through with his Jan. IA scrap
with Tippy Larkin in Madison
Square Garden but it is doubtful if
he will be able to keep his
scheduled date with Bunny Davis
in the same arena on Feb. Is On 2
previous occasions Ruffin failed
to pass his induction examination
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Akyab, in Burma, has almost
seven times as much rain in one
month as Phoenix, Ariz., in one
year.
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East West Football Game
Draws Large Benefit Fund

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6. -(P,-
The East-West charity football
game played New Years Day
showed profit of $$77,016. an
audit showed today. The money
will be turned over to the local
Shriners' Crippled Children's hos
pital.
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Lieut.. Col. Bingham
Named N. {. A. A. Head

NEW YORK, Jan. 6 -lR-Lieut.
Col. William J. Bingham, graduate
manager athletics at Harvard. 10.
day was appointed chairman of
the N. c. A. A. football rules com.
mittee to succeed the late Walter
Okeson.
E. C. Krieger of Ohio Universe.
ty was named to the committee
and appointed secretary.
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TAX LISTING

Inc MdcnlneTy Act PROVIDES That poll and tangible
property tax returns shall be made to the Iistaker
during the month of January under the pains and pen
alties imposed by law
OWNERS OF AUTOMOBILES SHOULD
BE PREPARED TO GIVE TAX LISTERS
FULL INFORMATION AS TO MODEL.
YEAR OF MANUFACTURE AND STATE
LICENSE NUMBER
Wilmington Township tax lister will be on the main
floor of old court house daily $3.50 a. M to $50 D. m
(Sundays excepted), beginning January 3rd 1914
county tax listers will meet their usual appointments
as advertised
Harnett and Masonboro Listers will meet at the court
mouse January 10Th, 9th, 28th, 29th and 31st.
Cape Fear and Federal Point listers will meet at the
court house January 10Th and 31st.
j. A. ORRELL, County Auditor.
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The aurora eustralis is the Ant
arctic counterpart of the aurora
borealis.
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Pedro Ramirez set up last June
when the old regime was over
thrown. The United States now
formally recognizes the Ramirez
government
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Moccasin venom preparation,
are used to stop bleeding.
Evening star., 1944-08-28
A ChiIdren's Christmas
From The Living Church, Milwaukee.


One of the things that God the Son
did when He humbled Himself to be
made man was to take young children
in His arms and bless them He has
now inspired reader of The Living
Church to make suggestion as lovely
as it is childishly simple-that packages
for servicemen overseas this Christmas
include present or two for children.
Zola Bartholomew of Portland, Oreg.,
who makes the proposal, writes as fol-
lows:
Il have something very special in my
mind and heart that am eager to get
before the people of America.
For months I have been thinking
about Christmas and wondering, too,
what we could do to make it seem more
real to peoples of other countries.
Gould 1t be done through the chill
dren? If in each overseas Christmas box
tiny gift for a child could be included
there would be small Christmas parties
everywhere. There are so many things
that weigh just few ounces and am
sure nearly every one in the armed
forces would be willing to share cor
ner of his box"
This Christmas, whether or not the
fighting is over, American servicemen
will be scattered all over the world.
Many will be in impoverished, devas-
tated Europe. Some will be in Asiatic
| areas where toys are q rarity and
Christmas almost unknown. Perhaps
American troops will be in both Berlin
and Tokyo. Almost everywhere there
will be children, ragged, undernourished,
embittered. What better token Of the
Joy of the Incarnation could be found
than childrens Christmas all over
the world?
Evening star., 1944-08-28
The Seine

Blaise Pascal was correct in his
judgment that rivers are roads that
move" That is one of several rea-
sons why they are among the most
important of military objectives.
During the Allied drive toward Paris
the name of the Seine repeatedly
was mentioned, but there still per-
haps is need for a few words of ex-
planation of it's significance. Large
ly because radio commentators have
disagreed among themselves on the
proper pronunciation of the word,
some persons have supposed that
two streams, not a single current,
was indicated.
Lippincott's Gazetteer-which pre-
ferS sane" to "sen"-gives a clue
to the value of the whole Seine net
work of waterways when it refers to
the number of the rivers aff1uents.
The Marne, for example, is only a
tributary of the Seine. Other con-
tributorS are the Yonne, the Eure,
the Aube and the Disc. Scores of
canals, it also should be remembered,
connect the Seine system with the
Scheldt, the Somme, the Meuse, the
Sambre, the Rhine, the Rhone, the
Saone and the Loire. The Allies, ac-
cording to this mornings dispatches.
have crossed the Seine proper at
three places.
But it does not follow necessarily
that the entire Seine Valley will be
easy to take. The principal channel
starts on the east slope of the Lam
gres Plateau, eighteen miles north
west of Dion. 1t winds tortuously
to the English Channel ESQ miles dis
tant, travelling 482 miles actually on
It's way How much it falls is re-
vealed by the circumstance that it
begins 1,545 feet above the estuary
IN which it ends.
The terrain through which the
Seine flows is both agricultural and
industrial. American travellers in
time before the war will recall how
Evening star., 1944-08-28
Sign of Prooress

Ihe six labor leaders who have
been touring the European hat
tlefronts have issued an admirable
joint statement, calling on the
workers at home to devote everv
energy to the support of the fight
ing forces. They do not say in so
many words that strikes and other
things which interfere with produc-
ton handicap our own forces and
help the enemy, But they do en-
phaslze the Importance of an all
out, uninterrupted effort, declaring
with particular reference to military
categories in which there are critical
shortages, that every ounce of
energy and zeal must be crowded
on to speed the production of these
items. Nothing must be allowed to
interfere with this objective"
This is the sort of message which
demonstrates the value of sending
labor leaders and industry leaders
to the fronts, where they can see
war at first hand. 1t is in marked
contrast to the tone of labor COM
rlent when noninally anonymous
military spokesman asserted last
New Year eve that strikes and
threats of strikes would prolong the
war, result in needless loss of the
lives of American soldiers and give
aid and comfort to the enemy. That
statement met with a chorus of pro-
test and denunciation from labor
spokesmen. But it was not greatly
different, in it's substance, from the
message which the labor leaders at