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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-05

morrow nights engagement
with the loop-leading Durham
Bulldogs in the high school,
gym.
Coach Rupert Bryan gave much
Of the credit for the triumph to
6 foot, 7 IL inch freshman center
Johnny McKoy. McKoy, who has
been ineligible for conference COM
petition up until the end Of mid
term exams, chalked up a total OF
16 tallies in his first conference
action.
The high-flying Guarantees have
established an excellent record
during the past seven years. The
upstate lads have dropped but two
games out of a total of 81 Eastern
Conference tits, and have dribbled
off with the loop championship for
the past seven years.
The Piedmont hoopsiers' record
was first marred in 1913 when
a fast-breaking Wilmington quint,
headed by Leonard McKoy, Frank
Kelly, and Doug Pidgen set them
back 1896. The Durham basketeers
came back at a later date, how
ever, to down the Cats, knotting
the count, and then went ahead to
grasp the title in a play-off for the
championship.
The Bulldogs second defeat came
at the hands of the potent Raleigh
aggregation last week in a class
contest on the capitol city hard
wood.
Nevertheless, the Durham hust-
lers, led by Captain Buck Cheek,
high scoring forward, are still on
top, and are expected to cause
plenty of trouble for MINIS, Tues
day. Bryan said he was confident
that his charges would be in
good shape for the visitors, aNe
grueling practice has been slated
for this afternoon.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-05
WANHOE SOLDIER
WINS BRONZE STAR
IN PACIFIC AREA

IVANHOE, Feb. 14.-For heroic
achievement on Peleliu Island,
Pfc. jeremiah B. Malpass, of IVAN
hoe, has been awarded the Bronze
Star, it has been announced.
Accompanying the award, made
by Major General Paul J. Mueller
commanding the 81st Wildcat In
fantry Division, was the following
citation:
"As a medical corpsman, NAL
pass braved a curtain Of enemy
fire to rush to the assistance Of
two wounded comrades. After adj
ministering on the spot treatment,
and finding it impossible to evac-
uate the men without placing them
in further danger. Malpass signal
ed nearby tank. Then using the
tank as a shield against continuous
sniper fire, the corpsman assisted
in moving the wounded infantry
man to safety"
Malpass was seriously wounded
later while rendering service to
comrades, it was learned, and is
now recovering in an Army hos
pital.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-05
Top Baseball Stars
Plan Pacific Tour
For Fighting Men
BY LEY ERICKSON

U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Feb
4.-A-Baseball stars led by Navy
1t. Bill Dickey, former New York
Yankee catcher, will make a tour
of forward Pacific bases, it was
announced here today.
The squad, divided into two
teams, will bring topfight baseball
directly to Americas fighting men.
Games will be played at Saipan,
Guam, Leyte, New Guinea and
possibly in Australia.
All of the athletes in the squad
are serving with Naval units Of
the l4th Naval district. Among
the brighter luminaries are John
ny Mize, Billy Herman, Barney Nc.
Coskey, "Peewee" Reese, Bob
Kinger, Mickey Vernon, Johnny
Vandermeer and Johnny Rigney.
The baseball group will be aug
mented by boxing and tennis
stars.
Bobby Riggs and Norma
Brooks. Pacific coast singles aces,
will lead the tennis contingent.
Boxers will include Fred ApostoI
and Fred Abrams, middleweights.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-05
CACEMEN PLAY
WEEKS GAMES
WITHOUT HITCH
Army And Navy Have
Close Calls But Keep
Clean Records
BY TED MEIER

NEW YORK, Feb. 4.-(P)- The
Brooklyn College gambling scan
dial stirred the collegiate basket
ball world last week, but with one
exception all of the hundreds Of
scheduled games were played with
out hitch.
Indicated Army and Navy had
a couple of close calls yesterday,
but kept their records clean. The
West Point Cadets barely squeez-
ed past Yale, 44-43, for their eighth
win in a row this year and "a
straight over the last three years.
The Middies chalked up No. 7 by
nipping Columbia, 51-44. Rensse-
laer Poly also stayed unbeaten,
downing Rochester, 43-34, for their
10th victory.
Elsewhere in the country De-
PauPs Demons knocked over Notre
Dame and Purdue to run their win
ming streak to 10 straight and Ii
In II starts. St. Johns of Brook
Ign, Muhlenberg and Rhode Is
land State also stayed in the once
beaten class. Valparaiso upset
Great Lakes while Temple, beaten
by Norfolk Naval Training in mid
week, bounced back to Wallop West
Virginia.
This is how the major confer
ences now stand:
Eastern Intercollegiate League
Pennsylvania virtually won the
league title by beating Cornell, So
so, in an extra period, thus ending
Dartmouth's seven-year champion
ship reign. The Quakers, with only
one game left, are assured at least
a tie for the crown.
Western Conference Chg Ten-
Ohio State and Iowa continued in
deadlock for top with Illinois still
in the running. An overflow croWo
of $4,000 watched at Iowa City as
the Hawks whipped Michigan, so
81. At Columbus, capacity 5000
turnout saw the Buckeyes knock
Wisconsin out of the race, 40-36.
Big Six-Kansas and Oklahoma
tied for first place with Kansas
State, Iowa State and Missouri
still with a good chance.
Southwest Conference - Rice
bowled over Texas and Baylor tt
tighten grip on first place with
eight victories against no defeats
Southern Methodist took second
place at 6-2 by beating Texas Chris
m
outside chance with a SO record
Big Seven-Colorado University
and Utah still undefeated at sc
and 40, respectively, Wyoming, 80,
still contender.
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Hoover Says Baseball
Heads Should Be More
Aggressive In Support
BY BUS HAM

WASHINGTON, Feb. A. up Il
There is no doubt about the war
time morale value of baseball. J. |
Edgar Hoover thinks, and the
games representatives should he|
more aggressive in coming out op.
emily in saying so.
The Federal Bureau Of Investi.
cation chief emphasized today,
however, that baseball must de-
terrnlne its course under govern
ment restrictions that apply gen
orally to wartime conditions.
Baseball has the same right
as any other group to come to
Washington and tell its story, and
1t will find that every official door
opens readily to its knock" Hoover
said in an interview.
He added that he sees nothing
that has happened" to cause base
balls leaders to feel that they
should not take such fortnight
position.
Hoover also pointed out that
there is wide misconception in
the public mind in regard to the
attitude toward armed service Of
the men who play the game.
"All the publicity about this
situation has left the impression
that some of the athletes them
selves may be at fault" he said.
From our part in the war prose
cution, We know this is not true, y
he asserted.
If any ball players-or other
other athletes-were attempting
to dodge service, it would be oul
job to look into such cases.
But our records show there are
few if any such cases among the
thousands of ball players, and they
are entitled to a clean bill O
health"
At meeting in New York Sat
urday, baseball magnates appoint
ed a two-man committee of Fore
Prick, National League president
and Will Harridge, A m eric a
League head, to come to Washing
ton and confer with Government
officials on the games PROBLEMS
Apparently, the principal answe.
that Prick and Harridge will seel
is whether the Government con
siders baseball sufficiently es
sential as morale factor to chan
mel back into the game enough
players to keep it alive unde
work or Jail legislation.
Hoover also commented on tn,
college basketball bribery racke
which was disclosed last week.
Those guilty should be vigor
ously prosecuted" he declared
"Otherwise, the entire American
college sports structure will suffer
This may be remote instance,
he added, "but the public, long
suffering and trusting, will be in
clined to judge the whole picture
by this one black spot.'
Hoover thinks that the response
bility for preventing such scandal.
is clearly up to the coaches, y
who will know what is going or
in the minds of their players i
they are doing the proper kind O.
character-building job for whic.
they were hired"
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n. Y.FACESLACK
OF COAL AND FOOD

NEW YORK, Feb. 4.-(R--New
Workers were told by Mayor F. H.
LaGuardia today the city's coal
situation was so critical that "a
great many persons were going to
be cold, and in addition, a severe
food shortage was expected.
Disclosing that IA neighborhood
movie houses already had been
forced to close because their coal
applications had been disapproved,
the mayor predicted almost sc
other theaters, libraries and an
adult school would follow suit to.
morrow for the same reason.
IF we get any sort of break in
the weather." he added in his
weekly radio talk, I'VE just squeeze
through this crisis"
But almost as he spoke. The
Weather Bureau issued a special
bulletin forecasting for the city
and vicinity minimum of IL hours
of snow, sleet and freezing rain,
starting at midnight.
The mayor said he would not
issue any general closing order,
but warned places of amusements
and institutions of higher learning
they would have to shut down if
they ran out of coal because they
can not get it,
He said the current embargo on
freight shipments, resulting from
widespread heavy snow and SUBJ
freezing weather, would bring on
a food shortage toward the end
of the week"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-05
The Sports Trail

sport there are occasions wherein
the setup looks phony, but the
very fact they might look that wav
would seem to prove otherwise
mat is, a real fake, whether in
basketball, or boxing, or in practi.
cally any sport is SO we'll staged
as to appear above suspicion. and
there undoubtedly have been many
prize fights where the dive went
undecided, while up-and-up bouts
were viewed with suspicion.
When Sam Snead took that huge
eight on the last hole of the M.
tional Open golf tournament few
years ago to put himself out oil
the running, it was a perfect setur
for a claim he had thrown away
his chances at the instigation OF
persons who would make it worth.
his while to lose. Such thing
never was limited, for it was SC
manifestly untrue. A man throw.
ing golf match wouldn't wait un.
til the last hole and then throw
it for everyone to see.
If you want to be suspicious YOU
can see something wrong in ev.
cry sports event-the missed third
strike in baseball, the funble1
pass in football, the slip and fall
in tennis, the missed putt in golf.
To some people practically every
thing is phony, and they ruin their
own measure and that of those
around them.
We prefere to be the innocent
babe-in-the-woods, taking every
thing at its face value until the
proof shows it otherwise, and for
every kid who would take a bride
we like to believe there are
thousands up h u n d who
wouldn't.
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D00LITTLE LAUDS
ALLIED TEAMWORK

NEW YORK, Feb. 4.-(P)- 1t
Gen. James H. Doolittle, comman
der of the U. S. Eighth Air Force
said in a transcribed overseas
broadcast tonight that close Amer.
| lean and British air cooperate
was a primary factor in the drop.
ping of 100000 tons of bombs on
the enemy and destruction of 49,
900 of his aircraft during the last
three years.
1--WE have worked as team with
the Raj Bomber Command" said
Doolittle. around the clock bomb
ing has cut deeply into the enemy S
ability to produce the material nee
essary to wage war. Just how much
can best be told by the German
High Command.
II do not believe that among all
the far-flung fronts of this war
there is an example of more close
ly-knit cooperation between forces
than exists here in England be-
tween the Eighth and Royal Air
Forces. We are more than Allies
we are one"
Doolittle spoke in commemora-
ton of the third anniversary of the
landing of the Eighth Air Force
in Britain.
In that period, he said, 500, 900
aircraft had been dispatched, 5000
of our airplanes failed to return
and "some 10000 of our men have
been killed or are missing"
1--WE can now send as many as
5000 aircraft over Germany in a
single mission" Gen. Doolittle
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HITLER'S OFFICE
BLASTED BY RAID
Continued from Page One)

the north to Gneisenau Strasse on
the south, and from the east end
of the Tiergarten to the Primer
Strasse in an east-west direction
in the center of the city, the pic
lures show fire and smoke in an
almost unbroken mass over an area
about two miles long and one mile
wide" the bulletin said.
Bombs damaged the Potsdamer,
Friedrichstrasse Anhalter, Gorlitz-
err, and Schleischer railroad sta
tons and adjacent rail lines, Sc.
verely mauled the Tempelho1
freight yards, and the Deutsche
Gesellschaft gas works near the
center of Berlin.
Four hundred Liberators struck
at the Rothensee oil plant and near
by Magdeburg freight yards. Some
900 escorting fighters downed 81
German fighters, wrecked II more
aground, and shot up dozens of To-
comotives and freight cars and
trucks.
1taly-based Mitchells and Thun
derbolts bombed the Bremen Pass
railroad line today but weather in
terfered with British-based oper
atoms, breaking the succession OF
maor blows which in SO hours
loosed 1920 tons of bombs.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-05
REDS, YANKS URGE
GERMANS TO QUIT
By The Associated Press

American and Russian broad
casts called last night on the Ger.
man army to surrender, with Mos.
cow sounding the theme Hitler
has lost the war;
The U. S. Army broadcast te
German troops on the Western
Front asserted Nazi leaders hao
gambled on hopeless venture,
with the stake your life"
Moscow radio, as heard by CHS,
declared there was no escape from
the ring closing on Germany and
asserted "Hitler has lost the war.
Five million Germans are dead.
Today Hitler is throwing IS and
14-year-old children into the futile
fight. Old men and women, Grip.
piles have to save Germany. Re
fugees stream into Berlin, but Hit
Ter welcomes them with hunting
squads, and Volksstrum batta-
lions"
Nazi leaders, it added, insist
the war must go on $50 that the
bloody skins of the Nazi henchmen
survive one more week or one
more month.
There is just one choice left,
between national catastrophe or
rescue. National catastrophe is in
evitable if the war goes on. The
rescue from total catastrophe lies
in surrender"
The U. S. Army message from
ABSIE, the American broadcasting
station in Europe, cited the privi-
leges given German prisoners who
will return home as soon as pos
sible after the end of the war"
1.-THE great Rundstedt counter
offensive was an adventurous
gamble with your life," said the
ABSIE broadcast recorded by the
Owl, adding, Propaganda Minister
Goebbels wanted it because che
knew the patience of the German
people was beginning to break.
The spectre of the final reckoning
arose before him. A successful at
tack meant a last respite. A de-
feat meant tens of thousands more
German dead. The stake: Your
life.'
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-05
LEJEUNE'S COACH
FACES PROBLEMS
WITH NEW PLAYERS

CAMP LEJEUNE, Feb. A.
During the first half of the bas-
ketball season, First Lieutenant
T. Wesley Bennett, Camp Le-
jeune Marines coach, was kept
so bbusy meeting players ne
hardly had time to handle the
cage instruction.
In the Marines first IA games
ii of which were victories
no less than 26 men broke into
the box score. Albeit, only 10
participated in half the contests
and nobody saw action in all IA.
Requirements have been cap
able, however, and the Leather
necks remain among the top
ranking clubs in the nation.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-05
CAMEC0CKS, DUKE
HEAD CONFERENCE
IN SOUTHERN LOOP
South Carolina Wins Sixth
Tilt, Duke Captures
Fifth

RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 4.-P)-
South Carolina and Dukes defend
ing champions continued out in
front of the Southern Conference
basketball race for another week
while Richmond's Spiders who won
their first two loop tests, were
forced to the sidelines by siege
of munps at the school.
South Cardinals highpowered
squad of Navy trainees won its
sixth family tilt in row by
trouncing Furman, 75-41, Friday
night. Dukes Blue Devils, also
aided by Navy-Marine students,
won their fifth conference decision
Of the season by swapping Wake
Forest, 1889, Saturday night.
Coach Mac Pitts Richmond
quint is under 15-day quarantine
and Cancelled two loop games
scheduled for this week-Richmond
at Maryland set for Wednesday,
and North Carolina at Richmond,
carded for Saturday.
The No. club in the present
conference standings is the Citadel
with a record of five triunphs
against one setback administered
by South Carolina. The Citadel
picked up its fifth scalp Saturday
by 1922 margin over Davidson.
North Cardinals busy White
Phantoms are the next ranking
outfit with eight successes in II
conference games. North Carolina
State has won five and lost three.
William and Mary and Clemson
have broken even in their loop
battling.
The eight top-ranking clubs at
the end of the campaign will be Sc
lected to fight it out in the annual
conference tournament at Raleigh,
N. c., on February 1924 for the
championship which was won
year ago by Duke.
Seven games which will count
toward tournament bid are
scheduled for this week, two OF
them for the pacesetting South
Carolinians who will be at home to
Furman on Wednesday and to
Clemson on Thursday.
Maryland goes to V. M. l. Mon
day night, Davidson plays North
Carolina on Wednesday and at
N. c. State on Thursday. Glenn
son meets the Citadel in a two
game series at Charleston, s. {.
Friday and Saturday.
Duke has no conference games
listed but will meet Temple in a
intersectional engagement at Phila-
delphia Saturday night.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-05
MAJORS EXPECTED
TO APPOINT CAR
AT SPECIAL MEET
BY LEO H. PETERSEN
United Press Sports Editor

NEW YORK, Feb. 4.-(UP)-
A call for a special meeting OF
major league club owners 10
elect a new baseball commits
sioner probably will go out with
in a week or 10 days, the United
Press learned tonight.
The call will be issued by
Leslie M. O'Connor, chairman
of the temporary three-man
commission ruling the game,
when the meeting is requested
by either Ford Prick, president
of the National League or Will
liam H arridg e, head Of the
American League.
AS soon as a club in either
circuit asks that a meeting be
called the president Of the cir
cult will transmit the request
to O'Connor who then will set
the site and date.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-05
,,urTNEY MARTIN

W work.. Feb. 4.-(P-Well,
NJ" has suggested the saliva
poo0a y detect fixed basketball
sst ~ vet, but about every other
lafle IL for the gambling evil be-
eu uat;ng the sport has been mention
~ r,ov never can stop gambling
4 .nes:!tptbail games any more than
'n OS can stop gambling on any,
hes Ike. from the license number
shll. 10 next car that passes to the
o. .ttE OF hops in a barrel OF them,
au l. roncb IAN be done to prevent
' .u.'., +l fixing of games.
a'' coach's alibi after his team
,tsggered through a poor sea-
nS ia i laughing: Il was build
soi character !, this year." but that
ls rorter building business is no
;aeo and maybe little more en-
ly sasis along that line wouldn't do
pu ,, harm. A kid with the funda-
a .ssntals Of clean craftsmanship
lriJed into him isn't going to lis
t r to any tin-horns.
N mats Just one way of helping
.,aar I'D the situation, and it seems
w. oood way as any, as a kid who
49, he touched won't be touched.
i + may be putting the burden OF
he 4 Gle cleanup on the boys, but that's
t ts only way to nip the trouble
~ The source. With no boys to be
sribed there would be no bribery,
'rd college boys should be mature
enough s to know right from wrong.
Bllt again we'd like to give our
iea that a fixed game is SO rare
AZ IN be practically unique, and
Suspicion should not be attached
h other games because of possible
,srliar happenings. In every
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-05
TO AID
SPORTS TRAVEL

SEATTLE. Feb. 4. -(P)- The
adoption of the airplans as an
otdinay method of travel for sports
teams will revamp the inter-colle-
gate competitive picture after the
war believes athletic director Al
Ulbrickson of the University of
Washington.
Tremendous improvements in
air travel, in increased accommo-
dations and safety of planes as
well as in speed, and the conse-
quent time saving on long trips
will make the anyways the common
byways of the campus sports
teams, he predicted in an inter-
view here today.
More than one intersectional
contest that was a natural" from
every standpoint has been consider
ed and dropped in the past because
Of the lack of time, he. pointed out.
However, he observed, if the time
Of travel were cut from three or
four days approximately as
many hours, automatically elimi-
hating acclamatation periods at
he end of long trips, athletes
would be able to participate in
Mch contests without undue loss
VI classroom work.
Citing his own first love - the
Washington creWs-Ulbrickson pre-
dcted increased regattas would
be held annually and crews flown
between California and Seattle and
other points for meetings impos-
SOle when long train rides All
long training periods on the spot
Where the only method of meeting
Despite the increase in intersec-
uonal opportunities such transport
'adon will bring, the Washington
sports boss expects in no way to
zee the present localized confer
eAces outmoded. Such organiza-
IONS not only provide the basis
.of traditional competition but the
standards of eligibility and con-
Uact OF the institutions belonging.
Greatly added impetus to the
general athletic programs of col
.FgeS and universities likewise is
expected by Ulbrickson to mark
|e postwar period.
however, he expects the increas-
gu athletic emphasis to focus not
~ much on greater varsity devel-
vplAeht as on the effort to bring
, 4, Students into the sports pic
.u-e' IN line with Army-Navy rec
lamentations for physical fitness,
aaa 10 provide the newcomers with
ton Ia e Ooi'ipe'i
en-, me result, he predicts, will be a
s s. increase in second. third
W.T., rLu fourth teams and in teams
Na a,, under weight limitations.
A college athlete will keep up
M s morale will really go about if
~ cer mas chance toe against other
S' ap he explained.
oM, Just intramural competi-
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-05
LEJEUNE PREPS
TO MEET FLIERS

CAMP LEJEUNE, Feb. 4. -
The Camp Lejeune Marines hope
to unleash all their Wanted power
at Columbia, S. c., Wednesday
night, in an effort to strengthen
the position they share with Cher
ry Points Flying Leathernecks as
the highest-geared basketball squad
south of Norfolk, Va, and east
of the Appalachian mountains.
The Marines will be guests OF
the Columbia Army Air Base
and, with week of good practice
since their victory over the North
Carolina Preflight school, Coach
Wesley Bennett trusts his charges
fully will live up to the preseason
optimism they aroused.
Thanks to several requirements
for men lost by transfer, the team
has been gaining momentum late
ly. Big Leonard Berg of Southern
California has ousted Paul Donat
at center, while two veteran
guards, Dave Holborn, Jr. (Yonk-
ers, N. Y. professionally and Milt
Perkel (Brooklyn College, are
throwing off their bench-fatigue.
Also back in the lineup, follow
ing brief illness, is Capt. R. M.
Port, former cage captain at the
University of Pittsburgh.
But for transportation Difficult
ties, which prevent their playing
scheduled games with cambridge
Navy, Norfolk Training Station,
and Norfolk Air Station, the Ma
rines soon would be able to answer
many questions as how they should
be rated in comparison with those
South Atlantic leaders.