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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-22
NEW HANOVER FIVEI
SHOWS BEST FORM
OF YEAR IN WIN
To-day Fennel Scores "a
Points To Lead Brogden
Men In Winning
BY EDWARD X. SACHS
Star Sports Editor

Fastbreaking to % to eight first
period lead, the New Hanaer High
Wildcats last night routed a team
of former graduates Of the school
by the adding machine total of IA
to 80.
It was a sad Homecoming in
deed for the Alumni. many who
have just been discharged from
service. They never had a chance
as the pint-sized Wildcats forwards
scored and scored and scored on
repeated fast breaks.
Biggest thorn in the alumni side
was To-day Fennel who put to-
gether an evenings total of "a
points on ten baskets and four free
throws. w. A. Brown, small enough
to go through several of the Grads
legs did everything but that as
he led the New Hanover passing
e Kelly, regular on the
Cherry Point five was the only
old boy to show any signs of lifss
after the play had moved up and
down the floor twice. A good floor
man and an excellent rebounder,
he scored 10 points in what was
doomed fight.
The alumni scored first on a two
handed pot shot by Kelly. 1t was
the only time in the game that
they led and it was the only time
during the evening that they were
within walking distance of the vic
tors.
Fennel scored seven points
through assorted mediums before
Walter Deal hit on a pivot shot to
make the score seven to four. After
the two teams traded baskets a
Wildcat furry doomed the score
to % to 8 at the end of the first
quarter.
The second was more Of the same
as the Cats showed a fast break
that caught the Alumni mapping
time after time. Brown. Rogers,
Fennel and Collie all had a |
hand in lifting the score to 80 to
Church hit on a pot shot to edge
the Alumni into the double-figure
brackets.
Then the slaughter continued.
The same crew boosted the Wild
cats margin to AZ to IL at half
time.
The score leaped to 50 to IA as
Fennel put on one-man show of
pitching aided by Brown and Nc
Coy. Brown from the floor and
Mccoy on rebounds.
The Alumni showed signs of life
at this point and Morrison Kelly
and Mason put on a pseudo rally tol
bring the third period margin to 581
to 20.
A moral victory was gained by
the Alumni as Kelly scored first
during the last period. He added
four baskets in all during the last
period but it was just too much
High school as the reserves con
tlnued to drop any shot with a |
great regularity.
Box score:
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-22
Wildcats Rout Alumni Cagers, IA To %
TbeSports Trail
By WHITNEY MARTIN

virtually tell them not -,
each other you're iYs. 70 touch
trouble. '0S' lnvitn,
Taking that rootin' too.;.,
school game in Illinois ' w. high
ample, yu don't need mr ~ an eS,
nation to appreciate tbs sO II, mag
&C, shrill of the uS aIiaoa
Ninety-three free throws , Whistles.
times. eU on Or L
That would be just the begi...
though. The rules are filed sli", ing
t Situations calling for The ~ dn T.l1
Tones Of the whistle. and U t5s1l
would seem to be whistlinp or meEe
without u, a single foul beins [ consg
There are violations of the ' tbrsa
second and 1O-second rule +r rIee
ing, out-of-bounds, held AYE t.a
broken dribble, and the five Val a.
vantage of the unlimited s1b,t; sa'
tlon rule is another time kilIos ~
Rules Interpretation in diffa,..
parts OF the country causes mn S-l
confusion and, in New Yor ,,-u, III
least, a team from the west w VI d
the games seems to remain a T,s
more rugged runs into troubla '' ss
screen plays it considered perfecg p'
legitimate are ruled BLOCKING !,
there is the slightest trace of h.. !,
contact. ''U'
The way the fans turn out ia,
basketball nowadays, though, wou III
seem to indicate they like the f7s'
quent Interruptions in the NAV
Either that or they Just can't w.
sist the sound of a whistle
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-22
BOB KELLY ASKED
FOR RESIGNATION
FROM NAVY SCHOOL

ANNAPOLIS, Nd, Dec. FL.
R)-Former Notre Dame grid
star Bob Kelly who played with
Nays football team this sea-
son, has asked to resign from
the Naval Academy, a Navy
spokesman disclosed today.
Kelly is a patient at the Ma
val hospital, recovering from
injuries received during the
football season.
The spokesman said the res
ignation was being forwarded
to the Secretary of the Navy.
If action is not delayed, the
spokesman added, Kelly may
be out of the Navy by Christ
mas.
Earlier Rep. Edward A. KEEL
ly (D.-lll.), BOb's father, said
his SON would resign if he were
released and return to N0tre
Dame, but Bob said today that
he may not return there but
may try to enter Cornell.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-22
SIDELINES
By Edward X. Sachs
Star Sports Editor

tains. If we don't do some
thing. the board of trustees
might not renew my contract
and then 1 would have to go to
work for a living"
About the only reason we cal
see for athletics is that they CIV
young men chance to OBTAIN
poise and skills that will help then
adjust themself to the art o
making a living. Boys seven foo
tall and five foot tall should als'
have that opportunity.
If they don't, we all better hanl
up our hats and go back to thu
bookies. And that includes MIR
Drake.
E. C. Baker, 405 South Third
street of Wilmington is a MEM
Der of the Kings Point IN. W
United States Merchant Marine
academy we are informed by
Ensign George POulus, the sta
tons swimming coach. Baker
is Cadet Midshipman.
Over 40 candidates reported
for the team, P0ul0us reports,
before a varsity squad of Is
was selected.
Mrs. Baker told us over the
phone yesterday afternoon that
her son, E. c., will be in Will
mington for the Christmas
vacation from the school.
Friends Of Ken Kavanaugh, for
mer L. S. u, star and ace flank
man for the Chicago Bears for
several seasons, have received
cards from the grid
der.
Ken made several friends in this
area when he played with PDC
Comets of the Prsonel Distribution
command, AAF, last fall while he
was stationed at Camp Davis.
Ken served with the Eighth Air
Force and flew number of mis-
sions as pilot of B-24 Liberia
or. When he was discharged he
lad reached the rank of captain.
- Another bit of cheer for the
New Hanover High school cage
team, Rocky Mount opened its
1915 season with an impressive
Al to win over Tarboro. hat
is right, Al to 6. Leslie Etchi-
SON and Alton benson did the
most damage for the Black
birds scoring eight and ten
points each.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-22
Bookies Giue Long Odds
Against Gaels In Bowl

last January, II returned this sea.
son-and if Coach Jim Looka5augh
had handpicked them he would
have chosen almost the same IL
Six returning service men-four ot
them first-stringers-also have boil.
stored the squad.
St. Mary's on the other hand
starts nine freshmen and two Jun.
lors, and uses only about is men
in its tougher games.
But a two-touchdown victory
would violate an old Sugar Bowl
tradition. The bigeest edge in the
II games to date was Texas Christ.
ian's IS to 7 drubbing of Carnegie
Tech on Jan. /, 1899.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-22
Emory Granted Money
For Polio Research

ATLANTA, Dec. 21-(P)- Emory
university has been given a grant
of $167, 100 by the National Fom'
dalton for Infantile Paralysis to
set up a department of physical
medicine.
Research work on neuro-mus,
cular diseases, particularly polio
myelitis, is provided for, together
with training for directors in phys
ical medicine and technicians in
physio-therapy. Facilities also will
be provided for treatment of in.
fantile paralysis victims and 9TH
er diseases.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-22
DEACONs DRILL

WAKE FOREST, Dec. q. -RE
With Nick Sacrinty, ace backfield
star showing fine form as a pass
er and runner, Wake Forest col
lege's Deacons wound up their
heavy work todsy for their game
with South Carolina Gamecocks in
the J jacksonville (Fla.) Gator Bowl
New Years day
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-22
Three Games On YMCA
Cage Card Saturday

Three games will high1ight the
YMCA's Senior Basketball league
play Saturday night.
At seven p. M. the Tabernacle
Bsptists play the Carolina Beach
Methodists. The First Presbvter.
ians take on the Temple Baptists at
eight. In the nightcap at nine. the
Trinity Methodists will meet the
Sunset Park Methodists.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-22
BOWL TICKETS SOLD

PASADENA, Calf, Dec. FL.
up Football faithful, some Of
whom had stood in line for 2o
hours and braved hard rain,
today quickly bought up the
$500 available tickets to the
Alabama Southern California
New Years football game.
There were some minor dis
turbances, but for the most
part it was an orderly throng
that gathered outside the NUM-
clpal auditorium where half
the public's allotted tickets
were on sale, and at the Mem
orial coliseum in Los Angeles,
where the rest were made
available.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-22
BARNHILL GETS JOB

LITTLE ROCK, Dec. 21.-(R
John D. Barnhill, athletic d.
rector and head coach at the
University Of Tennessee since
1941, was employed as head
coach at the University of Ark
ansas today to succeed Glen
Rose.
The university board of
trustees said he had agreed to
terms at $4,000 a year for five
years. He will take over Jan.
1.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-22

ment, Duke trimmed Alabama by
1925.
Under terms Of the University
announcement today, Wannamaker
said the arrangement" effected
with the full approval and coop.
Grafton of the two men long init
mately associated in the direction
Of athletics at Duke was viewed
with satisfaction by university au-
thorities."
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-22

In August, 1914, the War depart
ment notified her that Lansford
had been found in a German
prisoner of war camp and liberat-
ed.
Her decision to ask notification
of her marriage to Square resulted.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-22
CAGE SCORES

Shawnee Mission 80, Resedal
%.
Temple 81, Lehign 81.
RPI 46, US Coast Guard 80.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-22

BUY U. S. VICTORY BONDS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-18
U. 5. Ardennes Losses 60
 Times Those Of Britain
By PHIL AULT

London, Jan. 18-'(UP)-Prime Minister Churchill declared today that the Ardennes battle had been turned into "an ever-famous Amer ican victory" which he believed "is more likely to shorten this war than lengthen it.'
 Churchill told the House of COm- mons that American losses in repel- ling Field Marshal Karl Won Rund- stedt's er-offensive had been 60 to 30 times those of the British and that the engagement was "The greatest American battle of the war"
 Revealing that Britain has 67 di- visions at the front--between 670,000 to 100000 troops-he declared that the United States has put twice as many troops into the field against the Germans, presumably between 100000 and 1,40O000 men.
 T do not hesitate today to give my own opinion," Churchill said, that the decisive breaking of the German offensive in the west is more likely to shorten this war than to lengthen it..
 Speaking before the House of Com mons, Churchill called upon Ger many and Japan to abandon the war internationally, reitering the unconditional formula, and said
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-18
"A More Jap Vessels Sunk
 By U. s. Subs

Washington, Jan. Is. (UP)-U. S. submarines have sunk 24 more Jap anese ships, including four combat vessels, the Navy announced today.
 The four Warshlips were a de- stroyer and three escort vessels. The others included three transports, five tankers and 12 cargo vessels.
 These sinkings raised to 958 the total of Japanese ships sent to the bottom by American submarines.
 The maintenance of the high rate of sinkings evidence the advantages derived from American seizure Of bases closer to the enemy's home land its lines of supply to its pur- lioned empire.
 The loss of cargo vessels is severe blow to the Japanese because 1t 1m- pairs their efforts to transport SUD- plies to, troops and to haul raw ma terials for theIr war industries. De- Struction of tankers hits them in an even more vulnerable spot. The consistent loss of tankers seriously affects naval and air operations, which are great oil and gas con- sumers. So far in this war, U. s. submarines alone have accounted for 94 Japanese tankers.
 American undersea craft have sunk a total of 103 Japanese com- blatant ships, including 40 destroyers, IA cruisers and an aircraft carrier.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-18
Joe DeIGobbo FIees Prison

State and local police today com menced an intensive hunt for Jo- seph DelGobbo, g, 591 Washington avenue, Waterbury, who escaped at g o'clock this morning from the state prison at Wethersfield where he was serving an indefinite term for robbery and carrying a concealed weapon. It was the first successful escape from the inside of the state prison since 1928.
 DelGobbo, who also goes by the name of Janauskas, made good his escape over the east wall of the pri- son and through an unused prison cannery by means of 30 foot rope made from pieces of clothing he had smuggled out of the prison laundry where he worked, James J. McIlduff, Wethersfield parole officer reported.
 MT. McIlduff said no other prison CT was involved in the break, which had obviously been very thoroughly planned.
 He said it must have taken Del- Gobbo number of weeks to snug gle out of the laundry sufficient clothes to make the 3O-foot rope.
 At 9 o'clock this morning MT. McIlduff said, DelBobbo slipped away unnoticed from the laundry, and walked 75 yards to the corner of
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-18
College Imposes Ski-Ponts Ban

Burlington, Vt., Jan. 18.-CUP)- A ski.pants ban was imposed today on the 600 co-eds at the University of Vermont.
 With more than IS inches of snow blanketting the campus, the wo- mems student union at the Uni- versity ruled that the girls may wear ski-pants while skiing to classes, but must change to skirts before entering classrooms.
 President Shirley Needham of the student union explained that girls are gawky in ski pants while in classes and "throw their legs all around"
 Its also to protect their health, {" she added. When they wear pants one day and skirts the next, they're likely to catch cold"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-18
Tokyo, Korea Roided Again

Pearl Harbor, Jan, 18-(UP)-New B-29 nuisance raids on Tokyo, the Osaka-Kobe area and Korea were reported by the Japanese today, while the American Third Fleet maneuvered behind curtain of radio silence for another strike at the enemy's battered defenses far ther south.
 Radio Tokyo said single B-29 Sup D. m. (Japanese time) yesterday, over the Osaka-Kobe industrial area at 10 a. m. today and over northern and central Korea about :50 &. m., apparently on reconnaissance.
 No bombs were reported dropped.
 The Third Fleet which has wrecked nearly 400 ships in carrier plane raids on targets from the Ry- uku islands just south of Japan proper to French 1ndo-China since Jan. 2, has been under radio silence since its aircraft attacked Fnrmosa and the China coast Tuesday.
 Superfortresses attacked Normosa in strength yesterday and Tokyo said 300 of the Third Fleets planes simultaneously hit Hong Kong, Canton and Hainan island, carry ing their assault on the China coast into it's fourth straight day, but the latter was not confirmed immedi- ately.
 Long-range patrol planes from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's command also attacked Formosa, harrassing Okayama at night, a Llzon com munique said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-18
$6O A Gallon Paid For Gas

Paris, Jan 18.--(UP) Five Amer ican soldiers who stole huge quan- titles of gasoline from the Army sold 1t on the Paris black market for as much as $60 a gallon and lived in luxury on the profits have been sentenced to death, the Army announced today.
 Col. Clarence Brand, staff judge advocate of the Seine section, said the death sentences--first meted out in the Army black market scandal were handed down by a general court martial on specific charges of desertion in time of war and con- spiracy to steal Army gasoline.
 Brand refused to reveal names and addresses of the condemned men. Other members of the gang will be tried this week, he said, while Army undercover agents in- tensify their drive to round up the remainder of the offenders.
 One of the condemned men, Brand said, had two apartments and sev- eral misresseS." Another broke out of military custody after his arrest and stole 2o,000 francs ($400) from cafe owner who was among his former black market customers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-18
May Bill Due
 For ApProvoI
BY DEAN w. DITTMER

Washington, January IS. - (UP) = The House Military Affairs Com- mtttee today began whipping into final shape the bill to make an estimated l8,800,000 men between ia and 45 available as needed for war industry and the Armed Forces.
 Chairman Andrew J. May, D., Ky, author of she bill. said the committee was determined to ap- prove the measure within day or two so that the House could begin work on 1t next week.
 The measure in Its present form calls for induction into Army work battalionS of all men in the 18-4S age bracket, including 4-F's who re- fuse to get essential jobs or stick to those they have.
 May said, however, that its work or-fight character may be changed by substituting for the induction provisions the civil penalties fixed for violation of the Selective Service Act-prison terms of up to five years or fines of up to $l0000 or both,
 President Roosevelt emphasized in a special manpower message to Mays committee yesterday that con- sideration of technicallties should not be allowed to stand in way oe 9 measure urgently needed to make
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-18
Too-Long Front Duty
 By CPS Hit By Luce

| craze CT and his family or sweet heart at home. As it is, she said many soldiers are getting bitter, too often feeling that their only hope of escape from battle is ito be re- placed-which generally means killed or wounded"
 She reminded the House that the American casualties in the Italian campaign have totaled 98,366, and said that though the War Depart ment declined to divulge the per centage of these sustained by infan- try she had been told that 1t WI 3 99 per cent in Italy.
 The time has come," she de- clared, ito apply to ground troops the same policy now in effect in the air corps of a limited number of battle missions which any pilot in any given theater shall be re- quired to endure"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-18
Concerted Drive Set To Force Nazis Back
 To Siegfried Lines

Paris, January Is. - (UPC - American Third Army Forces crashed into the southeastern shoulder of the deflated ArdenneS bulge today in a new attack across the Sure river in the area of Diekirch, Is miles north of Luxembourg city.
 It. Gen. George S. Patton'S attack in northeastern Lux embourg some five miles from the German border brought virtually all of the thin Nazi crescent in the ArdenneS under the fire of the American First and Third Armies.
 To the northwest, the British Sec ond Army broke into Germany at new point. It. Gen. Sir Miles c. Dempsey's troops, stepping up the pressure on the German pocket west of the Roer, gained up to two and half miles and seized Susteren and Echt above Sittard. They stabbed across the border directly east of Susteren.
 Elements of Maj. Gen. Raymond O. Barton's Fourth division and Mai. Gen. Stafford l.. Irwin's ''Red Dta- mond' Fifth Division jumped off at a m. toda yin the new Luxem- bourg attack.
 They forced the Sure river defense line from the south somewhere near Diekirch and beat forward in the teeth of a storm of German mortars machine gun and small arms fire. Squeeze Play
 On the opposite shoulder of the salient, other American troops put squeeze on St. With in the corl- certed effort by the First and Third armies to jolt the Germans back to the starting line of their winter of~ | fenSive.
 Closing in on the town which is the anchor point of the German penetration into Belgium, American columns had St. With two-thirds eSl- circled from the north, west and southwest at distances ranging from five to eight miles
 The Germans were fighting stub- bornly against the persistent Ameri- can effort to drive them back into their Siegfried line positions.
 At the same time, British Second army forces in Holland stepped up their attack against the German salient west of the Roer river, ad- varcing about two to 21A miles on mile-wide front to take Susteren and Echt, five and seven miles north of Sittard.
 The Tommies broke across the German frontier directly east of Susteren but the extent of their pen. etration was not immediately dis closed.
 SIeet Slows Drive
 Front dispatches said the British drive, while still on a localized scale,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-18
Jones May Be Retired From Commerce
BY LYLE C. WILSON

Washington, Jan. 18.-UP)- Some of Secretary of Commerce Jesse H. Jones, best congressiona friends are swinging reluctantly to. day to the belief that President Roosevelt intends to retire him from the cabinet next week to make g place for Henry A. Wallace.
 Wallace'S term as vice president ends at noon, Saturday. MT. Roose- welt waived on Wallace's further services as vice president at the Democratic national convention in order to placate conservative ele- ments of the party with Sen. Harry E. Truman, D., Mo.
 There is no confirmation from the White House or elsewhere that Jones is to make way for Wallace If the move is made, however, it would be with instructions from MT Roosevelt to his new cabinet mem- Der to go ahead with the job of setting up 60000,000 postwar jobs which were set as a goal during the presidential campaign. Wal lace also would be responsible for aid to small business.
 Some persons here would regard nomination of Wallace to be sec retary of commerce as a move to give him thhe opportunity to build toward the Democratic presidential nomination in 1943. The commerce department was not inert ill fur thering the presidential ambitions of Herbert c. Hoover when he held that cabinet post One of the most significant bureaus of the depart ment deals with foreign and domes- tic commerce.
 In connection with its domestic responsibilities, that bureau has 29 offices in 19 states, most of them in areas of major political as well as business importance.
 Wallace is understood to have put in a bid for the commerce depart- ment. He would get considerable re- venge along with cabinet rank If
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-18
U. s. Ground
 Forces Lose
 332,o12 Men

Washington, Jan. 18-(UP)-Sec- retary of War Henry L. Stimson announced today that U. s. ground forces alone suffered 332,912 cas- ualtieS on the western front from D-day on June 6 to Jan. l.
 This total, which includes losses during the most severe period of fighting in the Germans Ardennes offensive, represents 54,562 killed, 232,672 wounded and 45,678 missing, StlmSon told a news conference.
 Stimson said the Germans have suffered great losses in the past week as the First and Third U. s. Armies and British troops pressed them back in the Ardennes bulge.
 The Allied pincers have cut off large numbers of Germans swelling the number of prisoners of war taken in this battle, he said Allied artillery hammering the roads have destroyed whole columns of enemy troops while Allied planes which operated when Weatber permitted took a heavy toll.
 Stimson said the Allies had the satisfaction of knowing they had taken the hardest blow which the enemy could deliver and turned it to his disadvantage.
 He said the breakthrough was a desperate effort by a hard-pressed enemy and had ended quite unsuc- cessfully.
 U. s. ground force losses for the month of December on the western front, Stimson said, were 74,788. These included 10,419 killed, 43,554 wounded and 20,8l5 missing. He added that most of the missing probably had been captured.