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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-06
BIG BOB TELLER
STILL BALL ACE

CHICAGO, Feb. 5. - up - Bob
Feller, former Cleveland star
pitcher, famed Is men and drove
IN three runs in a baseball game
and none of the sports writers
carried a line about it.
The reason was that the game
was played somewhere in the
South Pacific" Teller, serving on
a battleship, was contacted by Sea-
bee Albert P. Pellicore of Chicago,
who asked him to play game
against team composed of the
lest players on the island. Pelli-
core described the game in let
ter to John P. Carmichael, sports
editor of the Chicago Daily News.
Bob was in rare form that
day." Pellicore wrote, land pitch
ed exceedingly fine to the delight
Of the largest crowd ever assem-
bled in these parts"
The "All-Stars, playing against
Bob, lost the game 80. Later, the
letter said, Teller again pitched,
this time a team from another ship
composed of former minor leagu-
ers who lost, 81. In the second
game, Bob struck out 10 and drove
in three runs.
81 write this because I feel the
people back home should know
about a man who besides his reg.
ular line of duty is contributing sc
much toward the entertainment Of
all concerned, the letter said.
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u. S. BOMBERS HIT
FIELDS IN FRANCE
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late tonight. Ten German planes
we're shot down, four by the gun
ners on the heavy bombers and
six by escorting fighters.
Good Results
Declaring that good bombing re-
suits were reported, the war bulle-
tin said that ''once again opposi-
Ton from the air generally was
weak though in some instances
flax was strong"
Villacoublay, five miles south
vest of Paris, was hit by the heavy
bombers which also blasted fields
at Orleans-Bricy and Chateaudun,
each about go miles south of Paris,
and Avord, Chateauroux-La Mar
tlnerie, and Tours, all about 125
to $50 miles south and southwest
Of Paris. Raj and Allied bombers
hit the airfield at Beauvaistille in
northern France.
Berlin's powerful long wave
radio transmitters went off the air
early tonight for technical rea-
sons suggesting that Raj night
bombers we're following up the
American daylight raids with con-
tinued blows against the Nazi-con-
tinent-possibly against Berlin it.
self which was blasted in the
RATS last heavy assault Jan. 30.
One of the airfields hit was Villa
coublay, five miles southwest OF
Paris and even before the forma-
lions of Fortresses and LTberators
returned the Paris radio took the
air to say that "Anglo-American
planes appeared over the city and
rombs were dropped on the south
western district of the town.
Hit Secret installations
AS the four-engined giants dark
ened the skies over Europe for the
eighth time in nine days, American
Marauders cracked down once
more on the enemy's secret install
|lations Just across the channel
from Britain.
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Navy Tank Aggregation
Defeats Duke Summers

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Feb. 5.-(P)-
Nays swimming team racked up
its fourth win of the season today
in five starts by downing Duke
university, COILS.
At Dukes request, the 220-yard
free style, 100-yard free style, 200
yard breast stroke and 400-yard
relay were held on 20-yard course
in the Academy pool.
Navy took all firsts in piling ur
the As point margin but Blue Devil
Captain Venable forced a close
race as he placed second in the
5O-yard and 100-yard free style
events,
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Mighty Tech-Hawk Quint
Seeks 18th. Straight Win

GREENSBORO, Feb. 5-REThe
Greensboro BIC 10 Tech-Hawks,
the only undefeated service bas-
ketball team in North Carolina,
If not in the nation, seeks victory
number II here tomorrow after
noon against the strong 68th Cen
eral Hospital quint from Fort
Bragg.
The Tech-Hawks, who snapped
the University of North Carolina s
victory string at nine in a row
in their last outing earlier in the
week, will be slight favorites to
turn back the Fort Bragg five
The Hawks beat Carolina, $40,
for their 10th win in as many
starts this season. The local posi-
Team has beaten Fort Bragg Re.
ception Center twice, Cherry Point
Marines, Camp Davis, Camp Mac
kali, High Point College and les
ser lights.
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SteinbOrn Will Battle
Jimmy Coffield, Dillon

Mad as wet hen, Milo Stein
horn, of Memphis, yesterday open
ed with both verbal barrels against
his No. l pet hates-Jammy Cot
field and Jack Dillon-and chal-
lenged them to a Winner-take-au
wrestling match next Friday night
at ITALIAN hall.
Milo will meet both or with an
hour time limit and if he doesn't
rave 'em hollering uncle" before
the time is up, then he gives them
his purse.
Here's the background on the
Sreniborn VS.. Coffield and Dillon
feud.
The boys haven't liked each 9TH
er for sometime and matters
reached a new high Friday night.
After losing to Mannagoff in the
opener Of Promoter Bert Causey's
card, Dillon claimed he was rob-
bed and refused to leave the ring.
f3e went into a sit-down strike and
when Steinborn came on to battle
jimmy Coffield, he would have
nothing of this business and i'm
mediately tossed Jack out on his
ear. Coffield and Dillon being bud
dies, Jimmy went after Milo and
beat him. Steinborn claimed the
victory was made possible because
Dillon, taking on the role Of coach
for Coffield at the ringside, kick
ed him in the back. The upshot is
that Milo is at the boiling point
and demanded that he be given a
chance at both of them next Fri
day.
GIVE taken enough off those
DULLES. The time has arrived to
settle this matter for once and
ALL" Steinborn told Promoter
Causey.
The evenings other match will
pit Billy Bartush, of Boston, a
newcomer, against Fred Steele.
Bartush is big, clever and tough
and his pet weapon is the Bartush
twist. Steele, on the other hand, is
fast and scientific so the affray
promises to be highly entertain
ing one.
Tickets will go on sale at the
Orion hotel desk Monday morning
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Southern Indoor Games
To Haze Many Notables

and Camp Lejeune's Bob Fitch in
the weights. And then too there
are a sprinkling of Southern con-
ference champions.
AS for the team championships,
the prospects seem to be for a
four-way race among the Navy,
Camp Leieune, Carolina Pre-Flight
and North Carolina. Teams have
been entered also by Virginia, Sc
vance, Cherry Point Marines, and
Baltimore Polytechnic.
North Carolina nosed out the
Navy in the final relay last year
40.2 to 1856 and COPIED the title.
The Maddies might have won ex-
cept for a dropped baton in an
earlier race. This year the Navy
is coming back for the title with
an even stronger 28-man club.
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GOLDEN GLOVES
CHAMPS CROWNED

GREENSBORO, Feb. 5.-P)-
Sixteen new champions were
crowned in the biggest Piedmont
Golden Gloves boxing champion
ships ever held here as the finals
i, novice and open divisions were
reeled off in the Greensboro Y. M.
c. A. gym tonight before a packed
mouse.
Charleston, S. c., Coast Guard
Mounted Beach Patrol, with sew
en- finalists, was assured OF the
open division team title before the
fighting was begun tonight.
The team title race in the novice
division shaped up as a three-clue
chase between Kannapois Y, Ham
let Athletic club and the Greens
coro Y.
Harry Watson, of Aberdeen, N
c, became the first new champion
Ct 1914 without even lifting a glove
The 13e-pound novice was award
cd a bout over Ebert Lackey, O.
Roanoke, Va, when the lattel
came up with a broken hand SUI
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TEAM STANDINGS:
Inter-Denominational
Alliance Will Install
Officers February 10

Installation Of officers to serve
for this year on the 1nter-denom-
national Ministerial Alliance of
Wilmington will take place at 8
o'clock Thursday night, February
10, at Mt. Olive A. M. E. church,
at 7th and Wright streets, it was
announced here Saturday.
There will be talks by John A.
Stevens, local attorney. and H.
Carl Moultrie, manager Of the
Hillcrest housing project.
Music for the occasion will be
furnished by the Mt. Olive choir
and the Williston High School
Choral club. The public has been
invited to attend this occasion.
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DEMOCRATS STRESS
HOME FRONT ISSUES
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committee and said it would dis
pute "the right of the administra-
ton to put it's candidates on the
ballot for the November cleo
ton.
This group, charging that pal
ace guard" is ''wrongfully in pos
session of the Democratic party,
said it would hold a convention
and nominate candidates. Its chair
man, Harry Woodring, former sec
rotary of war, suggested that
Democrats should unite in support
ing for president someone like Sec
rotary of State Cordell Hull.
New Mexico Republicans will
combine their Lincoln Day rally
with meeting the same day OF
their state convention to name
eight delegates to the national con-
vention. It will constitute the first
delegate-picking in either party,
but the signs are the event will
not be very revealing as to candi-
dates since the delegation 10 ex-
pected to be uninstructed, as IN
1910.
TIL Lincoln Day rallies will see
presidential nomination posslblll-
ties in action, Gov. John w. Brick
err of Ohio will make his principal
bid for support so far when he ad-
dresses a rally here Thursday
night. Wendell L. Willkie, now on
a tour of the northwest, will speak
Friday night at Tacoma, WASH.
and Gov. Thomas E: Dewey OF
New York will address the Nation
al Republican club in New York
Saturday night.
In the face of predictions by
many Republicans that the presi-
Dental nomination race will lie be-
tween Dewey and Willkie, other
names were projected into the 1914
picture this week.
Senator Ball (R-Minn) called or
members of his party in a radio
speech to draft Harold E. Stas
sen, former Minnesota governor
and now a lieutenant commander
in the South Pacific.
Seator Vandenberg (R.-Mich.
in a magazine article called on hi:
party to nominate General Doug
las Macarthur as 'better com
mander-in-chief," but found little
approval for his suggestion amonl
Legislators. How Macarthur: coult
be nominated and still carry OF
the South Pacific war as he say
he wants to do has not been ex
planned by any of his supporters
But this apparently does not stol
those who are Juggling for MN
politically.
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Sports Roundup
By HUGH FULLERTON, JR.

NEW YORK, Feb. Side
light on the popularity of indoor
track meets here: Former Mayor
Jimmy Walker, VINO knows vir-
tually everybody in town, had to
call on Jimmy Johnston, the fight
manager who also knows every
body, to help him buy couple of
tickets for tonight's Millrose meet.
One minor Lacquer complains that
BOSNIAN w. C. Bramham never
lets a nickel go out Of his office
except for salaries. Still,
Bramham's office paid for the
printing of the minutes of last De-
cember's meeting, when the judge
avoided getting the heave-ho. and
the booklet ran eight pages long
e.. than ever before.
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Golfer Craig Wood Tops
Phoenix Open At Half

early holes, Revolta had 10 Mr..
to equal par So on the first r ni.
and then sliced and hooked ins
trap after trap coming HON, 4 :.
slip five strokes over par wiz wiz % 0
40. His rs gave him a l42. 8
Harold Oug) McSpaden Of Pr,
adelphia, winner of the Los al
geles Open last month, posto5 a'
four under par St, lowest am a !
the early finishers, which u;H
his IA for the first 10, moved S Sis'
in just ahead of Revolta with I ~,
Ralph Robinson of Los Anra ~
registered the tournaments w..
hole in one on the 13O-yard so. AN
and hit the turn four strokes WHY
der par, but slipped TO a n a a'
the last nine and his 36-hoIa w.. v,
was 143. "'a'
Sam Byrd of Detroit. n,,,.
New York Yankee baseball , ,;.
er, blasted two long woods n S'' \.
the green in two on the 54O.ys's
18th and dropped his putt fo WV. N.
eagle and an even par Il, Add ss
to his 70 Of yesterday it brackatssj
him with McSpaden at al
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GROUP
FORCED TO HOLD
EXTRA SESSION
BY JACK HAND

NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-P)-Base-
calls postwar planners sounded
eff for eight hours behind closed
doors today and came up with so
many conflicting ideas on the dis
tribution of national defense list
players that their special session
had to be extended for at least an
other day.
The conferees will meet again
tomorrow morning at IL a. m.
fEWT).
Leslie O'Connor, secretary to
Commissioner Kennesaw M. Lam
dis, declined to disclose any OF
the proposed solutions, remarking
that "every new proposal involved
a readjustment of an earlier de-
'cision.'
Progress was slow as the noguls
weighed every possibility of action
in the complex problem of reas-
signing returning servicemen to
the satisfaction of players, clubs
and baseball in general.
After definite recommendations
have been made, the major and
minor leagues must pass on the
sction before it is binding. Those
who expected the national game
20 settle the farm system situation,
realign territorial boundaries and
chart the postwar future all IN
enc day were badly fooled.
While the major and minor
league representatives, headed by
Lands, Presidents Ford Prick OF
the ational league and Will Har.
ridge of the American league ana
w. G. Bramham, head OF the
minor circuits, were closeted BOO
Quinn, president of the Boston
Braves was hustling around town
looking for a manager to succeed
Casey Stengel. Bill Dickey, men
toned in some sources as lead
ing candidate, was not one oelng
considered said Quinn.
In narrowing the field down to
one unnamed possibility, Quinn
said that he had yet to contact
that individual and. if he fails
there, a new boss will not be nam
I'd until his return to the hub.
With the post war committee
holding another session tomorrow
morning, it will be busy Sunday
as the American league is expect
ed to stage a brief informal meet
irg and the Eastern league IS due
10 settle the Springfield, Mass
franchise problem. After the SEES
sions the visiting diamond moguls
will adjourn to laugh and be lam
pooned at the annual dinner OF the
New York Baseball Writers. Lieut..
Gen. Brehon Somervel, Elmer
Davis of the Owl, Supreme Court
Justice William o. Douglas and
Lands head the list of speakers
who will follow series OF sklts
put on by the writer's.
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CHAPEL HILL, Feb. 5.-(P)-
The Southern indoor games, an
nual track and field extravaganza
at the University of North Caro-
lima here, have always been fair
ly fast, but this year Director R.
A. Fetzer says they're going to be
more than that next Saturday.
This year the event is open to
service as well as college stars,
and the list of 150-odd Individual
performers includes Camp Lee
jeune's Harold Davis, the ex-South-
ern California whiz who tied the
world mark of 9.4 in the 100 yard
GnGh last year.
Two former national champions
entered in the competition are
North Carolina Navy Pre-Flight' S
Charlie Beetham in the half-mile
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RatiOned Motorists
Now Get Extra
Gasoline Mileage

All over the country, thousands
of rationed car owners truck
fleets, taxi cabs, motor cycles and
tractor owners report gasoline
savings up to 800. These people
have been enjoying extra gasoline
mileage by installing Vacu-matic
to their carburetor. This new de.
vice is entirely automatic No.
thing to regulate or adjust and
can be installed in 10 minutes. Tit
Vacu-matic Co., 7617-776-C Stat
St., Wauwatosa OBJ Wisconsin
are offering a Vacu-matic free
anybody who will install it 0
their car and help introduce it
others. Write them today or jU
send your name and address on
penny post card.
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ALARM SYSTEMS
TO BE INSTALLED
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owned only one alarm box, situ-
uated in the old section of the
hospital.
The modern equipment is the re-
suit of a survey of fire prevention
needs in the community, Chief
Groom said. Installation will be
made as soon as the material ar.
rives.
The Fire department in conjunc'
ton with hospital and city authori
ties, is also working on plan te
eliminate parking in the driveways
surrounding the hospital, in order
that fire fighting paraphernalis
may be brought close to the build
ings without difficulty. An ordi
nance is expected to be drawn
and approved by the City council
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-06
FISHER CACERS
TOP COURT LOOP
BY BILL McILWAIN

The end of the flrst round Oh
play in the Service Mems basket
ball league last week found the
crafty Fort Fisher five holding
the top place in the loop stand
ings with an undefeated record
of five wins.
The initial round Of hardwood
action was an exceptionally ex-
citing one with no team showing
any marked superiority. The clev-
err Fisher hoopsters had a diff
cult time staying in the win col.
umn in the last two weeks OF
play as they encountered the pc.
tent Bluethenthal Air Basers and
the 53rd. Coast Artillery cagers
The Fisher decision over the Air
men was a 1892 thriller and thei,
defeat of the 53rd. hardwooders
was by a scant 1888 edge.
These scores indicate the stiff
competition present in the league
The second round of play, start
ing Tuesday night at 7:3O in the
Chestnut Street School, should be
equally as tight. Several team:
in the loop have added outstand
ing college stars to their rank:
and are expected to make thing:
nip and tuck.
Tuesday nights action pits the
402nd. Fighter Squadron agains
the Third Tow Target five in th'
first game of doubleheader ant
the Coast Guard cagers agains
the Fort Fisher quint in the after
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ssSS FOR QUARTERS

Backing up the belief that south
western cowmen like to back their
horses with bucks, Floyd (Skipper)
Rigdon of the Carlsbad, N. M,
argus wires that his townsmen,
Elmer and Chacley Heple1, have
$4,000 that says their champion
quarter mare, Shue Fly, can beat
any horse in the world in a quar-
ter mile race. And as an
extra at action, Joe WEIGH of
Carlsbad and Nogales, Ariz., chal-
lenges any cowboy to a $1,000 rop-
ing and bull-dogging contest. I.
This corner will guarantee only
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STRIKE CHIEF TO
IGNORE SUBPOENA
TO WLB HEARING
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ton our representation in the
plants under contract"
Such directive, presumably,
would halt national labor rela-
tons board investigation into bar
gaining representation among tool
room employees of the Willys-Ove-
land Motors Co. at Toledo, O.,
where the United Autom obile
Workers (CIO) are seeking to sup.
plant the MESA as bargaining
agency. 1t was this NLRB move
Smith said, which caused the gen.
eral MESA walkout.
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MISSING IN ACTION

NEWTON, Mass, Feb. 5.EF)-
Lieut.. Robert w. Hanson OF New
tonville, Marine fighter pilot WIN
a record of Is. downed enemy
FLAMES in the. South Pacific, is
missing in action, Lieut.. Gen. A. a.
Vandegrift of the Marine Corps
notified his parents today.
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ESTIMATE

WASHINGTON. Feb. 5.-(B-An
official estimate that the govern
'nent's income from taxes and
postage will amount to $42, 239, 200,-
600 a year with passage of the new
tax bill was presented today in a
conference committee report on
that pending measure.
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BOMBER CRASHES

AN ENGLISH SOUTHEAST
COAST TOWN, Feb. 5,-Ry-AJ
American bomber, whose crew bat
bailed out safely, crashed into In
street here just 100 yards from III,
sea today, killing cycling soldie
and wrecking several houses.
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TODAY'S GUEST STAR

Don Donaghey, Philadelphia
Evening Bulletin: Each major
league club owner has a dilemma
by the horns and won't let 60 for
fear it's a At dilemma that can
play ball"
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fered in a semi-final SCRAP Ia,
night.
Joe Pittman, of the Coast Gusr,
Mounted Beach Patrol, was H,
first open winner. He also receiv.
ed a forfeit when his finals m
ronent, John Bandino, ll9-poundp,
from the Camp Mackall Sim
Parachute Infantry, was admitted
to the BIC 10 post hospital tods,
with a bad case of influenza,
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The marriage rate of the United
States was 80 per cent higher ir
1912 than in 1882.
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SHORTS AND SHELLS

set will accept either challenge.
SHORTS AND SHELLS
The Red Cross is angling for a
Great Lake-Norfolk Naval training
station basketball game. to be
played in Madison Square Garden
March 30. A Tami Mauriello-
Lee Savold fight is cooking for
Chicago hut wont boil until it's
decided who will promote the bout.
Mike Jacobs wouldn't mind. :.
Babe Ruth, who will be so Mon
day, still can call his shots. Be-
fore he had his picture taken drop
ping a quarter into the box where
bowlers who make three success
sive strikes deposit their contribu-
tons to buy an ambulance plane,
Babe predicted he'd 60 get his
triple and he did.
SERVICE DEPT.
Dynamite Gus Sonnenberg, the
old wrestler, is reported in a seri-
GUS condition in the Chicago Naval
hospital. Tom Deegan, ex-Ford-
ham tub thumper, is back in New
York after long term in Wash
ington as civilian director of pub
lie relations for the Amy service
forces. The Mitchell Field, N.
Y, basketball team has been in
vited to play in three world cham
tournaments but likely
will accept only the Chicago bid.
Lieut.. Marvin BuO Ward, the
amateur golf champ. hasn't played
a round since last November
though he has been stationed near
San Francisco with the Army
Ground Forces. Chances are his
next stop will be in the South Pa
cific.
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| that no member of the jockey club
set will accept either challenge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-14
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