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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-09-06
Fires
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4
straw threatened the large frame
building.
Immediately after the two
fires, Fire Chief Smith tele.
phoned the State Fire Marshals
office, and a deputy fire mar
shall has been assigned to probe
the two fires.
INCLUDE OTHER FIRES
Although fires which took
place yesterday at the Poelstra
grocery, Cass and Floral ave-
nues, and at a residence at 80
Maple street, are not believed
to have been the work of a fire
bug, public safety authorities
said these are also being in
cluded in the investigation.
A fire last week, previous to
the suspected arson cases, which
threatened the Royal Cafe and
the crowded North Gratiot-
Court street block, was not in
cendiary, Investigators conclude.
They believe it started from a
cigarette dropped in excelsior
packing in the basement.
The current investigation of
possible incendiarism is ex-
pected to include the fire at
Benoit's tavern, Cass avenue at
Leander street, which broke
out during the peace celebra-
ton of Tuesday evening, Aug.
IA.
Chief Rosso said that police
of Chicago and Milwaukee,
where the man now held for
questioning formerly lived, are
being contacted regarding the
suspects background.
The chief said a watch had
been kept on the suspect for
several days, and he was arrest
ed by Patrolman Jack Perrin in
the downtown district yesterday
afternoon.
SUCCESSIVE FALSE ALARMS
On the night Of Aug. 20 the
fire department answered three
false calls between II:30 p. m,
and 1890 a. m.
The first call, according to
Assistant Chief Mandel, came
over the telephone and was in
a mans voice. 1t urged the de-
partment to hurry to North
Gratiot avenue near Jones street.
The next was box call en-
enating from North Gratiot
and Jones street, and finally a
box call was received from
Jones and East Broadway.
The woman who originally
identified the suspect claims to
have watched him turn in the
latter alarm.
Four fire calls were respond
ed to by the Fire Department
Wednesday. one, from the box
at the Hubarth & Schott mill
was a false alarm, believed to
have been caused by the vibra-
ton of a passing Grand Trunk
locomotive on the wiring system.
Another was minor auto fire,
on Grand avenue, when a car
owned by Owen Campau was
damaged.
NO FIRE WITNESSES
The fires at Poelstra's gro
Gerry and at the Mrs. Virginia
Peltier home, 80 Maple street,
were we'll under way before
witnesses observed the flames.
No person saw them start.
The Cass avenue fire was
conferred in a large wooden shed
at the rear Of the grocery, and
firemen halted the blaze be-
fore much damage was done.
They said boys may have start
ed the fire.
Immediately after that fire,
which took place at LIS p. m,
the apparatus was called to the
Maple street address. where
flames were shooting from the
kitchen up the attic. Consider
able damage was done but the
dwelling was saved. Mrs. Peltier
told neighbors that she had put
out a fire on her ironing board
with water before leaving for
Detroit, and the glowing embers
may not have been extinguished
prOperly
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-09-06
Radio
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Line and Romeo have radio
transmitting units but their wave
length is not connected with
that of Macomb County. The
county has a cooperative radio
bookup with WRDR Detroit's
police station, whereby some six
communities in the Crosse
Pointe area can be made aware
OF Macomb police calls, or vice
versa.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-22
VOLS RULE RO0ST
in SOUTHEASTERN

ATLANTA, Jan. 21.-(P)-Johnny
Mauer's Tennessee Volunteers ruled
the basketball race in the South
eastern Conference today after trip
ping Adolph Rupp's Kentucky Gag
ers, 1884, last night in thrill
packed battle before 5000 fans at
Knoxville.
1t snapped the Kentuckys' victory
string at II straight-all with non
conference foes. The Wildcats prev,
iously had won over such teams az
Ohio State, Michigan State, Indi-
ana, Wyoming, Temple, Long Is.
land and Ohio University.
Tennessee now heads the confer.
ence with three wins against nc
losses. Before embarking this
month on straight run of confer.
ence games, the Vols had won SLY
non-conference games and lost
only to Temple.
Tulane and Florida are the only
other undefeated quintets in the
loop, while Alabama boasts the
next best record with two wins
against one setback.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-22
FARM BLOC SEEKING
DRAFT QUALIFICATION

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81. - R -
Farm state leaders in Congress
took the manpoWer ball away from
the House Military Committee to-
day.
Not waiting for the military
group to finish writing work-or.-
Jail bill, a group headed by Rep.
Lemke (R-ND) pressed for House
action tomorrow on resolution
directing Selective Service to clari-
fy it's directive on he drafting OF
farm workers.
At the same time, Senator Reed
(R-Kas) said he will introduce a
resolution identical TO Lemke's in
the Senate tomorrow. Peed told
newsmen he feels that President
Roosevelt, the war department and
Selective Service. 'are determined
to strip farms of all possible selec'
tees regardless of future farm pro
duction before Congress can act
Reed, who said his views were
shared by other farm state sena.
tors, disclosed that he telegraphed
Governor Andrew F. Schoeppel OF
Kansas today, urging him to give
personal attention to complaints
indicating local draft boards are
disregarding the Tydings Amend
ment'' affecting deferments of es-
sential farm workers
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-22
ST. Long Shot Wins
At Mexico City Track

MEXICO CITY, Tan. 21.-(R-
A 55-to-1 long shot, Valoril, trotted
in five lengths ahead Of field of
nine today in the second race al
Hipodromo de las Americas race
track.
The daily double, including Va
loril in the second and Kenneth K,
winner of the third, returned $751;
20 for the usual deuce
Outsiders ruled the roost for the
third consecutive day al the HIPPO
dromo, but the featured San Luis
Potosi handicap was won by the
favored Red Sonnet, owned by P.
T. Chinn of New York.
The 5-year-old gelding, trained
by George Ellis and ridden by ex-
bullfighter Teodulo Espejel, came
in one and a quarter lengths ahead
of Fast Message TO reward his
hackers at $3.50. Even Break,
coupled with Red Sonnet, was third
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-22
0MA, BAKSI MEET
IN GARDEN BOUT
First Major Heavyweight
Set For Madison Square
Friday

NEW YORK, Jan. 81. - (P) -
Lee Oma of Detroit and ice Baksi
the ex-coal miner from Kulpmont,
Pa, clash at Madison Square Gar
den Friday night in the first ma
jor heavyweight bout OF 1945.
Their 10-round setto, which may
draw close to 100000 gross at $12
tops, highlights weeks boxing
program that includes non-title.
bouts by Willie Pep, holder of the
New York featherWeight title, and
Juan Zurita, MIA lightweight
champ.
Pep, who soon expects to re-en-
ter the Navy, meets Ralph Walton
of Montreal in a 10-rounder al
Hartford, Conn. Tuesday. The same
night Zurita engages Paul Altman
in hereunder at San Antonio, Tex
Another leading bout is at Phila
delphia tomorrow night when Ike
| Williams of Trenton, N. j., tangles
with Make Berger of Montreal ov.
err the 10-round route. On Friday at
Boston Elmer Ray of Tampa and
Los Angeles is booked for ten
rounds with Henry Jones OF Phila.
delphia.
Oma and Baksi both came to the
fore in the heavyweights last year
with decisive victories ever Tami
Mauriello. Early odds quote Baksi
l to 3 favorite.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-22

TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. 2l.-UP)-
Ray Mangrurn, Of Los Angeles, set
a new competitive course record
with a sizzling six under par 81
fourth round today to win the ST.
600 Tucson open golf tournament
with a 268 for the 72-hole event.
Byron Nelson, Toledo, O., lead
ing money winner last year, need
ed a birdie on the last hole to tie
Mangrum. But he drove out OF
bounds, and his chip shot, which
would have given him the birdie,
went on the green, missing the hole
by half a foot. He had 20 take a
fifth stroke.
Winner Of last weeks Phoenix
Open, Nelson put together today
two 67's, three under par, for the
third and fourth rounds to give him
a total Of 269. Nelson's 202 for 81
holes made him the leader at the
end of the third round.
Mangrum's sensational record
round Of "a over the Ell Rio country
club course was made this after
noon after he made the third round
this morning in So.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-22
S. c., Citadel, Duke
Top Conference Clash
Pete Gray, One-Armed
Fielder, To Be Guest
Of Philadelphia Club

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 21.-(P,-
Pete Gray, one armed baseball
players who was voted the South
ern Associations most valuable
players last, season, will be a guest
OF honor at the PHILADELPHIA sports
writer's 41st annual dinner Thurs
day night
Gray received the sports writer's
award last year as the most cour.
ageous athlete.
Other honored guests will include
1t. Col. Harold G.. Hoffman, former
Governor of New Jersey Martin
(Slats) Marion, St. Louis Cardinal
shortstop and winner of the Ma
tional Leagues most valuable
player award. Col. Swede Larson
OF the U. S. Marines, former An.
napolis football coach and Louis
(Bobo) Newsom, Philadelphia Ath
letic's pitcher.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-22
BY HAL WOOD

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 21-(UPl
General Manager William 3. Kyne
Of Bay Meadows, predicted today
that the Nation wide ban on racing
will be lifted in the near future
and that his plant would be set to
reopen March II FOR fill spring
season.
He sad that racing men, pledg-
ed 10 100 per cent backing of the
war effort, could expect the Gov
eminent to permit reopen-ng of the
tracks with just one good break
in the war news"
Il think that is all 1t will take
for the order to be relaxed-pro-
vided the tracks go ali out for war
charities he said.
Kyne, considered ore of the
shrewdest racing personalities in
The Nation, emphasized that all of
his plans were contingent upon
the war news remaining favorable.
We have employed at our track
only men between 50 and IS years
Of age, plus a few girls" Kyne
said, and l notice that other
tracks are now stocked pretty
much the same way. There aren't
five people at our track right now
who could help the war effort in
any better way than they would be
dong if we were racing for war
charities, as we have been doing
in the past"
The Bay Meadows track. operat-
ed by the California jockey Club,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-22
NEW 4.F RULING
BATTLES SPORTS

NEW YORK, Jan. 21.- (UP) -
Professional sports leaders, their
supply Of available manpower at
a new low for the war, treated the
latest war department ruling on
4-F athletes with silence tonight,
but it was no trade secret that they
feel it poses the biggest problem
they have tackled to date.
The War Department ruled that
professional athletes no longer will
be given physical reflections for
military service until their cases
have been reviewed by the War
Department.
That takes the matter of defer
ments, generally speaking, out OF
the hands Of local boards and
places the final say-so with an I'm
designated individual or group in
the War Department itself, possibly
a wartime sports coordinator.
The optimism which prevailed
after President Roosevelts Tues
day press conference, in which he
gave baseball mild encourage.
ment, had disappeared complete.
ly.
It was replaced by general at
titude Of cautious planning for the
coming year on wait and see
how it affects u.s. basis. Mr.. Roose-
welt said he saw no objection to
the continuation Of major league
baseball if it was possible to do Sc
without hurting the employment Of
people in the war effort or the
building of the Army.
His urgent request to Congress
the next day for work or fight
Legislation which would secure
the effective employment in the
war effort of all registrants under
the Selective Service law between
the ages Of 18 and As" appeared to
be his own answer.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-22
nv WHITNEY MARTIN

,rw YORK. Jan. 21.-LR-Well,
.,be sports aren't important.
No, msybe they should be ruled out as
c.noressman Andrew ]. May sug-
Co .+s Maybe they should rule out
ssvervthing that's not important.
ev .s: see, where would that leave
W. wo,J lave to quit making beer,
~. " hard likker, and even soft
s s,T They aren't essential to
o. and if it's wrong for one
, n;t;7en 10 sit in a shady grandstand
. .rd get his enjoyment from watch
' mo = fellow trying to steal home,
;4s r,ust be wrong for another citi-
:. rsn ia get his pleasure swigging
s sf or slipping bourbon at a bar.
we'd have to quit making movies,
-. tbev can't be considered import
AZ IN the war effort. George Wash
;naton's men did all right without
.ne to take their minds off the
fighting. ,
hands as people can get along
Yitbout music, and whistle their
own tunes if they want to dance.
We'd have to close all the stage
shows, as they're not important to
+be war effort, and some pleasure
might be derived from them.
We'd have to stop publishing
fiction magazines, and eliminate
comics and airy features. People
could get along without them. 1t
would be hard, of course, particu-
larly with the comics that have the
hero in some precarious predica-
ment at the end of each days strip,
but it could be done.
In fact. coming right down to it
practically everything we recog
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-22
RayMangrun1 Sets Record
To Win Tucson Open Tilt
By Jack Sords

Mangrum won $1,333.3o in War
|Bonds-maturity VAUDEVILLE Mel.
sons take for second place was
$933.33.
Jimmy Gauntt, a surprise pack
age from Ardmore, Okla, came
in third and won $74S ill bonds. He
had a total of 271, making four
under par 66 in his fourth round.
Leader at the half way mark
with 1874, Harold Dug McSpaden,
Of Sanford, Me-, took fourth prize
money of $500 with a total of 272.
He had a 68 on his fourth round
after 10 this morning.
Willie Goggin, White Plains, N.
Y, with 208-65- 273, and Sam
Snead, Hot Springs, N Y, 206-67-
l273, tied for fifth.
Snead, who finished 18th in the
Phoenix Open after winning the
Los Angeles Open the week before,
said he would drop out Of compe-
tition for two weeks because of a
lame back. Snead, VINO is four
months out of the Navy hopes to
resume tournament plav again in
New Orleans.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-22
TRINITY, GRACE,
ST. WIN
in CHURCH LOOP
Upset Scored Over Leland,
Bobbitt High Marker
OF The Night

Obtaining undisputed possession
of first place in the Municipal
Church League, St. Paurs bas-
ketbaH team Saturday night down.
ed an underdog, st. Andrews
quintet, at the YMCA gym, 48 to
20.
High scorers Of the game were
Captain Noodle" Ayash, of the
White Phantoms, with IA points,
and Tommy Smith OF the Covenant
five, former nigh school player,
with similar total Of points. St.
Pauls', Saturday, will take on q
rejuevenated Trinity five at 7 p. m.
The Trinity team came through
with an unexpected win during
the evening, and submerged the
Baptist quintet from Maffitt Viii
lage, 40 to II. With IL points
apiece, Edwards and Buchannon
Of the Methodist five, stood as high
scorers for the victors, while
Stevenson had high total for the
Baptists, with five points. Maffitt
win meet a strong Leland squad
Saturday, following the St. Paul
and Trinity game.
The upset of the evenings pro-
gram was pulled by an underdog
Grace basketball team when they
swa.nped the favorite Leland ag-
gregation, Al to rs.
Prior to this event, Leland stood
undefeated. Grace had lost only
to St. Paurs, ~ to 10. Scoring
nonors for the night went to Bob.
bitt of Grace, with Is points,
closely followed by his team mate,
Smith, with IA points. For the
Leland squad, Clark was high man
with IL points.
Grace will be a high favorite
this Saturday when they meet St.
Andrews at 8 p. m. in the third
tilt of the night.
Tickets for the season are still
on sale at the Y. M. c. A., or may
be purchased from any member
representing a team in the league.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-22
BQv Meadows Head Sees
Early End OF Race Ban

has been run on a w per cent net
for war charities basis since the
war and as such has contributed
nearly 100000 in cash to war
funds-the largest amount contri-
buted by any single track in the
Nation.
Kyne believes that if the rest
of the country's racing plants
would agree to the same setup,
racing could be resumed.
However,, if the ban still holds,
I believe many tracks will be
permitted to hold betless meet
ings," Kyne said. 1T seems to me
that such course will be neces.
sary to preserve The industry.
Il look to see the Kentucky Der
by run behind closed doors if the
ban is still on and l believe we will
be forced to do something OF the
same type at Bay Meadows and
other tracks probably will follow
suit" he said.
However, I'm still very optim-
istic that we will be able to open
our doors to the regular spring
meeting and at such a session
should be able to turn over another
million dollars to war charities. "
Kyne is not the only optimistic
man in the racing business on the
west coast. c. S. Howard, owner
of the largest stable on the Pacific
coast, yesterday was reported con-
ditioning his better three-year-olds
to take part in the Kentucky Der
by, which ne believes VIII be run
on schedule.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-22
Big Bubble Captures
Pan American Troph,

HAVANA, Jan .21. B -
Putting on burst of speed in the
stretch, Augustin Fernandez Med.
eros eight-year-old horse Big
Bubble, Won the featured Pan Am
erican Congress handicap before a
crowd of 1000 at Oriental Park to-
day. A length behind was Ramon
Crusella's four-year-old FLY, Casti-
gadora.
The favored Red Mant;]Ia set the
early pace, but faded as Big Bub.
BILE, ridden by Oscar Falero, forg.
ed ahead in the stretch Haste
On finished third in the five-horse
field
Big Bubble ran the 3-4 fur
longs in 100 2-5 and paid $12.4O
to win and $500 to place. There
Twas no show betting.
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PARIS. Jan. 21.-(UP)- Mys-
terious electric rays and transpar-
ent bubbles the size of fish bowls
which float through the sky and
explode are the latest inventions
used by the Germans in their de-
sperate attempts to overcome the
Allied bombing of the Reich.
A huge concrete installation,
found at Cherbourg and first
thought to be V-Weapon launch
ing platform, actually was secret
German power plant, it was learn
ed. The Nazis had hopcc to gen
crate and project an electric field
into the skies, with which TIC disturb
the instruments and motors of AL
lied planes.
The floating fishbow's are the
latest items reported en- the air
paths into the Reich. Returning pi'
lots report that the bubbles, float
ing down on one formation like
great silver dollars, suddenly dis.
solved as if they have been prickeo
with a pin, sending cut a vlrtua.
hailstorm Of red balls
In fact the skies over Germany
these days are filled with sights
more weird and amazing than any
thing Salvador Dali could paint II
his widest surrealist dreams. The
enemy has sent up from guns and
released from Luftwa1fe Lanes ar
assortment which looks like II
might well have come straight from
five-and-ten cent store
In addition to the fishboWls, the
items now floating above the Reich
included colored spheres, wire nets
chunks of cable, stuff that looks
like a shower of snow balls and a
nighttime display which resem'
bles gigantic fourth OF July fire
works celebration.
1t is breaking no secret to say
that most of these have. been COM
pletely ineffective.
But the Germans, trusting the
military truism that every often
sive weapon eventually has been
successfully countered, also are ex-
|perirnenting with more practical
devices which are being narrowly
watched by Allied flax experts
whose deadly game with the enemy
is one of the most fascinating but
also one of the most hush-hush
chapters of the war.
While Some of the more exotic
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-22
Corona Corona Triumphs
With Fast Break At Wire

Aqua CALIENTE, Mex, Jan Il
|-{P)-C. U. Yeager's Corona Cor
ona closed with a rush in the
stretch today to capture the Tea
tused Acapulco handicap at five
and one-haf furlongs in a photo
graph finish with Mrs. A. Sneed' S
With Regards. The latter had a
|haf-length bulge on the Circle V
Stables BiZerte.
Turning the distance III ! ;O5 nat,
lust fifth of a second off the
Sloppy by light rain, Corona Cor
track record, over track made
ona returned $3.50. SEQ, $3.50
across the board for So mutuels.
With Regards was worth $3.50 and
So. while Bizerte rewarded at $3.50.
NV House and Freedom Ring
set early running, with Corona
Corona distant trailer and With
Regards in close attendance to the
pace. With Regards foged to the
front around the turn tor home. but
was no match for the Yeager ace
in the run for the wire.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-22
GIL DODDS PLANNING
PREACHING TOUR WITH
CHICAGO GROUP UNITE

BOSTON,, Jan. 21.- (UP) Gil
Dodds, who ended his track career
in triumph yesterday, left Boston
by plane tonight for Los Angeles
where he will begin a gospel
preaching tour with the Chicago
land Youth for Christ.
Dodds, holder of the American
indoor mile record Of 4:06.4, will
preach in the West and Southwest
until March l when he returns to
New York for similar work. He
hung up his spikes after winning
the two-mile run at the 10th an
nual Boston Y.M.C.A. meet.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-22
The Sports Trail

nlze as recreation is unimportant
so why pick on sports?
1t they took all the 1s.45 men o.,
OF other industries based on enter
tainment it might put quite a,
sharp a crimp in. them as in base
ball. In the movies we'd still hav,
the dolls, but they'd be playing Cd
posite creaky, reconditioned ole
codgers trying to take the parts o,
young blades.
Any picture Of dance band vii
show you dapper gents still witt
the gloss Of youth, and very few
relics OF 45 or over. When they gel
past what might be called the zippy
age they seem to 60 into some othe,
business or 60 high hat with the
philharmonic set.
The stage still could presen,
plays such as THE Women" but
it would be in the same position as
the movies for its heroes.
The rather elusive point to all the
above is that baseball should be
regarded as just as important as
any other amusement, no more and
certainly not less. If, as Congress.
man May suggests, baseball should
be closed down, every other in.
dustry catering to universal
yearning for amusement and enter.
tainment or providing unnecessary
beverages or reading matter from
which some pleasure might be de.
rived would have to be eliminated
also.
If the urgencies OF war make
necessary a clean sweep of base.
ball man power, all right. But
it certainly would be unfair to take
all the baseball men and leave men
in the same age group in other in
dustries whose purpose also is
solely entertainment.