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JOE BAKSi WINS
OVER LOU NOVA
Nv TED MEIER

NEW YORK, March 80. -(P-
Joe Baksi, a IA to favorite, knock
ed Lou Nova down for a nine count
in the fourth round and staggered
him in several other rounds to win
a unanimous 10-round decision over
the Alameda, Cal, heavyweight
before 14,0e4 fans at Madison
Square Garden tonight.
Baksi's savage attack in the
last two rounds, when he opened
a bad cutover Novas right eye
won him the decision.
This came after Nova had ap-
parently wiped out the disadvan.
tage of going down in the fourth
and pulled up to where, if he tNok
the last two rounds, he might win.
Baksi came rushing out to start
the ninth and caught Nova with
three hard let's and rights to the
head. Nova hung on, but another
Baksi left started the blood squirt
ing like Referee Ruby Goldstein
might stop it.
Nova was permitted to continue,
however. In the tenth he took an
other bad beating about the head
as Baksi tried for a kayo, but the
Californian fought back gamely
and at the end made Baksi give
ground with a right cross. Both
boys were given an ovation at the
end.
Baksi weighed 210 -, Nova 200
-
Nova's jabs and right crosses
kept the former coal miner from
Kulpmont, Pa, at bay on many
occasions, but the ex-yogi man
gave ground whenever Baksi made
one OF his bull-like rushes.
1t was one of these rushes that
sent Nova down in the fourth.
AS Nova stepped backward, Baksi
landed a hard right to the body
and followed through with a hard
shove. The punch and the shove
combined to throw Nova halfway
through the ropes. He got to one
knee and took the nine count as
his new manager. Jimmy Johnston.
hollered encouragement from his
corner.
Nova made Baksi retreat the rest
OF the fourth round, and won the
fifth easily. Baksi twice staggered
Nova in the sixth with let's and
rights to the head, but lost ground
in the eighth as Nova made his
best showing. He swarmed over
Baksi with jabs. right crosses and
body punches with hardly a return.
At the end Judge Frank Forbes
gave Baksi seven rounds, Nova
two and called one even. judge
Bill Cohen called it 6-3-1 and Re.
fierce Ruby Goldstein 5-32. The
Associated Press had it 10.
The gross receipts were s46.394
Of which 10 per cent was donated
to the Red Cross.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-31
D0DCER MANAGER
WARNS DUR0CHER

BEAR TAIN, N. Y,
March 30.-U.H--President Branch
Hickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers
today warned Manager Leo Duro'
cher that he must decide once
and for all whether he prefers 8
baseball career or the bright lights.
Angered when he wanted to con
fer with Durocher last night anc
learned that he had gone to New
York City to rehearse for par
he has in a radio program Sunday
Hickey called his manager on the
carpet today.
LEO and I are not in disagree
ment," Hickey said after two
minute conference with Durocher
However, his baseball job must
come first and his outside inter
ests must be incidental-or else"
Although Hickey earlier had
made it clear that he would or
der Durocher to give up his radio
interests when they made it nee
essary for him to be absent from
his baseball duties, he added that
he would allow him to appear on
Sunday. Durocher has role in
the coast-to-coast Hall Of Fame
program from New York at 6
pm. Sunday.
The Dodgers are scheduled to
play an exhibition game here at
Q pm, hardly leaving Durocher
enough time to arrive in time for
radio show without missing por-
ton OF the game. Hickey indicat-
ed that previously Durocher had
missed parts Of practice sessions
without his permission to attend
radio rehearsals.
Durocher, apparently not eager
to give up his radio work, pointed
out to newspapermen prior to the
conference that he would receive
$500 for the broadcast and two
previous appearances netted him
IAN easy $1,000.
The Rickey-Durocher disagree
ment on radio appearances flared
open as early as last fall. When
Durocher's contract was renewed
for a year, Hickey said he wanted
his manager to be free to negotiate
for any other job he wanted. wheth'
er it be in baseball, radio Or Hol
lywood"
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BUCKEYES LEAD
SWIMMING MEET

ANN ARBOR, Mich. March 80
-tP)-Ohio State University surg
ed to a seven-point lead in the
opening session Of the 22nd Ma
tiona1 Collegiate Athletic Associa.
ton swimming meet tonight with
a total of 80 points at the enc
OF six events.
The Buckeyes scored firsts ir
two events-with Freshman Sey'
mour Schlanger coping the 1900
meter race and Hobert Billingsley
winning the one-meter diving-te
round the half way mark ahead Of
Michigan's favored Wolverines,
who piled up % points.
Cornell had II points for third,
followed by Columbia whose Gene
Rogers successfully defended his
220-yard free style title. with 10;
Minnesota with nine: Princeton
with six; Indiana, Michigan State
and Northwestern with four each;
Purdue with three; Canisius with
two and Iowa it'll one.
Michigan's strong combination
on the closing 3Oo-yard medley
relay race by scant margin over
Cornell's trio in 1854.
AS expected, Ohio State scored
heavily in the diving as the Buck
eyes picked up II points on Bill
lingsley's first and second by
Ted Christakos and a fourth by
Bob Stone. Billingsley copied the
low meter event with a total OF
1884 points.
Merit Church of Michigan churn-
ed to an easy victory in the 50 free
style.
The Wolverines picked up 10
points in the sprint event as Cor
don Puford finished third behind
Gene Rogers OF Columbia, and Bill
Breen was fifth behind Ray erode
Of Ohio State. Church's time was
23.3 seconds. considerably slower
than the meet record.
The 150-yard back stroke went
to stellar Jim Shand Of Princeton
by a five yard margin over Bob
White of Indiana. Shand took the
lead at the start and set MS own
pace to finish in 1 minute Ais Sec
onds. Russ Potter of Michigan was
third. followed by Bob Dennis OF
Ohio State and Don Iseman OF Cor
nell
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NAU SUB YARDS
POUNDED BY U. S.
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the government naval dockyard
where the Nazi battleship Tirpitz
was built.
Some groups Of fortresses in to-
days attacks were jumped by a
dozen enemy jet planes, attacking
singly or in pairs, or as many as
five abreast. Mustang escorts shot
down at least six and destroyed
five other enemy planes on the
ground.
Sub building yards struck in
Guided the Blohm and Voss and
the Deutsche VERT yards at Ham
burg, both working on 50-ton pre-
fabricated plastic U-boats; the
Deschimag works at Bremen; a
vast new concrete structure near
Fargo, 16 miles downstream from
Bremen, believed to be for the
construction Of prefabricated U.
boats, and the naval dockyard at
Wilhelmshaven, an important sub
base.
cat Hamburg where most Of the
bombing was done through clouds,
columns of heavy oil and smoke
boiled up said an Eighth Air
Force statement. Sat Bremen and
the other detectives, where the
weather permitted visual bomb.
ing, generally good results were
reported"
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ENEMY PUSHING
INTO LAOHOK0W
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900 japanese in fighting around
the former Chinese stronghold OF
Nanyang, and several hundred
more in attacks on enemy mocha
nized forces along the Honan-Shen-
81 highway.
In support of Chinese attempts
to stem these drives west of the
Peiping-Hankow railway, bombers
and fighter-bombers of the 14th Air
Force struck at japanese rolling
stock and railway yards and bomb
ed number of enemy-held towns
including Chungsiang, 100 miles
from Hankow. The air force also
ranged over Kiangsi province,
where counter-attacking Chinese
were reported within a mile of
Kanhsien, former American air
base, and destroyed three nemy
planes on the ground at Annoy.
A Chinese army spokesman said
the Japanese were busy building
up their forces in Shanghai and
other ports farther south against
the chance of an American landing,
while also strengthening their
"west wall''-between Manchuria
and Indo Climate meet the ex-
pected Chinese counter-offensive.
He said enemy attempts to repair
portions of the Canton-Hankow rail-
road were under effective harras-
sing attacks by mobile Chinese
units.
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ed across the Elder and entered
Fritzlar, 1872 miles southwest OF
Berlin and 16 miles from Kassel
simultaneously, the Sixth Armor.
ed Division of the Third Army
roared 81 miles along the same
general route to the vicinity Of
Treysa, IS miles TO the south
which the First Army's Ninth Ar.
mored Division a e dy hao
reached. 1t was the Ninth which
captured the Rhine bridge at Re.
magen.
The German radio said the
Third Army's Fourth Armored Di
vision, which earlier in the day
captured Lauterbach, had pushed
on nearly 10 miles to near Fulda
within 1872 miles Of Berlin in a
drive that was severing Germany
at the waist.
BY this account, the Third Ar.
my would be 242 miles from the
Russian lines, and Gen: Omar N.
Bradley's headquarters earlier
had placed them but 245 miles
apart.
North-bound forces of 1t. Gen.
Courtney H. Hodges First Army
dashed another 10 miles north
during the day through Paderborn,
big railway and highway center
and air base, where German par
achutists took off in the enemy's
winter offensive in the Ardennes.
A front dispatch said Paderborn
had been reached during the
morning and that the massive ar.
mored cavalcade was rolling on
toward the north German plain
with nothing to stop it but the prob
lem of supply.
Paderborn virtually sealed the
fate of the German defenders OF
the outflanked Ruhr, the best Hit
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-31
DR.. Theron D. Price
OF Yale University
To Speak AT Temple

Temple Baptist church will
have as its guest speaker Easter
Sunday, Dr., Theron D. Price Of
Yale University. DR.. Price serv.
ed as interim pastor of Temple
during the illness of its pastor, the
late DR.. Arthur J. Barton
DR.. Price is native Of Arkan'
sas. having graduated from Qua.
chita College Of that state, Be-
fore going to Yale to continue his
studies, he received his Masters
Degree in theology from the
Southern Baptist Theological Sem
mary in Louisville, and served as
pastor Of the Buechel Baptist
church, Buechel. Kentucky.
Anticipating an overflow crowd
at the Easter services, amplters
have been installed in several
Sunday School rooms and also IN
the church annex in order that
everyone might hear the speaker.
A final report of the results Of
the New Building Fund Drive will
be given at the Sunday evening
service.
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MANP0WER BILL
FACING DEFEAT
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came today, both sides were at
tempting to rally absent members.
Meanwhile, the debate went on.
Senator Brooks GRID opened to.
day with a charge the measure is
another unwarranted grab fo1
power"
He said he did not question the
strategy Of the military and naval
leaders, but added they are not
trained professional men as ex-
perts in the art Of labor and man
agement cooperation
1.-THE heads and leaders of an
branches of labor and management
throughout America not only ask us
not to pass this BILL" he said, but
warn us that it's passage will re.
tard our unprecedented production
and casue confusion and chaos that
may prolong the war"
He declared the measure would
place in one mans hands the
power to shackle and bind both
labor and industrial management
to future Government edict."
He was followed by Senator Ian.
ger (R-ND) who had announced a
three-hour speech.
LANCER said the Government al
ready has taken a lot Of Ameri
can boys land now they're going
to draft women and children anc
send them where they want to-"
How about drafting capital a,
well as the bodies Of young men
he said, suggesting capital ia,
over and above income taxes.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-31
The Sports Trail
Dodger Club Resembles
Teams OfPust Seasons

his present status of a property Of
little assessed value again dem.
onstrates the fragile and fleeing
qualities Of pro baseball career
Just four years ago he was q
major factor in the Dodgers
march to the pennant, and he was
as independent as mouse in q
cheese factory when it came tc
talking 1912 contract. He held Out
until March q, 1912, and signed
for a reported $3.50
He had another good year in 1912
SO he didn't sign his next con
tract until March u, 1913. In 1874;
he won IA while losing five, but
last year he was an almost tots!
loss, with the result that this
year, if he decides to play, he'll
probably play for what amounts
to peanuts, four years from the tor
to the bottom.
The departure Of the GeorgiAr
leaves just four active players or
the 1871 championship club still
on the roster. They are Dixie Walk
err, Mickey Owen, Curt Davis ano
Augie Galan. OF these only Davis
has reported.
So time is marching on in Brook
Ign. aided by few well-placec
kicks by Mr.. Hickey. The fans
who have been absent in the serv
i've since 1941 or 1912 will recog
nize their beloved buns only by
their uniforms when they return
And, judging from the night game
uniforms they wore last year
there might be a little difficulty
in identific alton there.
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Pirate Manager Rests
Under Opiate Influence

NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y, March
30.-(P- A member Of frankie
Frisch's household told neWsmen
that the manager of the Pittsburgh
Pirates was getting his first sleep
in go hours today under the influ-
ence Of an opiate.
Frisch missed the start of spring
conditioning by his club, regarded
as top contender for the 1915
pennant, because Of an old knee
injury which became painful short.
ly after Frisch returned from q
USO tour Of the European war the
alter. That was followed by arth
ritis,
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WILLIE pep GETS
ARMY DISCHARGE

HARTFORD, Conn, March 30
RASkinny, spindle-shanked Willie
Pep who is in a class by himself
as a featherweight boxer, today
entered fairly exclusive class Of
World War II veterans.
Pep, vino signs his checks "Wll'
liam Papaleo," received a medical
discharge from the Army, author
tiles at Fort Devens, Mass, an
nounced today, and that made him
double war veteran, beca@ he
left the Navy in the same manner
in February, 1914, after seven
months of service.
Certainly Willie is the only big
name sport figure, and one Of
few individuals, who holds dis
charge from two branches Of the
armed forces in the same war.
Pops induction into the Army
last January, II months after the
Navy had discharged him because
Of a punctured ear drum, surpris-
ed the sports world.
After Willie said goodbye to the
Navy he picked up where he left
off as worlds champion, boxing
rings around the best feather.
weights promoters could dig up,
and the fans and Pep himself
thought that Uncle Sam had finish.
ed with him.
The bare announcement from
Fort Devens did not disclose the
reason for the discharge, but SIM
ply said Pep entered the hospital
there March 20 and would ha, c
release to 60 home in few
days"
Pops manager, Lou Viscusi, said
it was no surprise to him, however.
Il thought they'd let him 60 after
they checked on that perforated
ear" he commented to reporters
who brought him the news.
Viscusi wouldn't discuss any
plans foc Pops future before he
has an opportunity to talk with
the boxer, but nobody feared viii
lie would suffer from unemploy-
ment.
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U.S.. Troops Cross Elder
WithoutNazi Opposition,

Ter has left in the west, since
through it tunnels the best roads
and railways for escape.
Fifty-seven miles to the north.
east lies Hanover, 43 miles to
the west is Hamm-the eastern ex.
it OF the Ruhr-and 1875 miles to
the east are the ruins of Berlin.
The German High Command
was trying desperately to reform
the shattered armies for new
line, and SO hard-pressed was the
enemy that some troops were
thrown into the battle without
weapons.
The First Army was overrun-
ming vast stores of ammunition
and had captured two German
trains and plane factory in its
slashing drive IS miles east OF
the Rhine.
Infantry moved up swiftly be-
hind the miles-long columns OF
tanks, taking 1926 prisoners or
the rull equivalent Of German
division on the First Army front
Thursday.
The tank columns were moving
so fast communications could not
keep pace, and the troops were
moving off the maps Of command
headquarters, just as the Ameri-
cans were doing on the Ninth Ar
my Front.
Censorship permitted disclosure
for the first time that the plung-
ing armored columns are being
led by the famed Third Armored
Division of Maj. Gen. Maurice
Rose, which broke the Roer riv-
er line in the drive to the Rhine.
Following close behind h e
Third was Maj. Gen. Terry AL
lens 104th Infantry Division, and
the Seventh Armored Division,
commanded by Maj. Gen. Robert
w. Hasbrouck.
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Gunder Haegg Is En- Route To Buffalo Races

Inc track record, set by Finland
Paavo Nurmi in 1925, is Alp.
IN other invitation races at the
AAo meet, Haakon Lidman, Swed.
Ism nurdllng champion and travel.
ing companion Of Haegg, will run
IN the 70 and 100 yard high
hurdles. Opposition will be by
Toward r. Digger, Dayton, O., for
rer iufts college star, and owen
G sS;y' OF the Columbia, Mid
IN me AAU events, National Wo-
men Champions will be at stake
IN eight events. ~
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lap, flat surface with lots OF
spring. Eight American indoor
records have been set up in the
oval, five of them dating back to
1918.
Haegg's opposition will include
Jimmy Rafferty,, diminutive New
York miller, who has whipped tne
Swedish speedster in three ol
his four races this month. Haegs >
only victory of his current vls,s
was registered at Cleveland Will
Rafferty, absent. 1.,1
Rafferty, promised to break e. 80 -
in tomorrow nights race 49,
warned Haegg must bet1er ~
time IF he plans to beat iae
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Dayton Pro Fires On.
Under Par On Each Mn.
In First Rounds
BY FRITZ LITTIF1o,,>,

DOHHAM' March 80 Cq
Ioney Penna, diminutive nro..-
slonal from Dayton, Ohio, fook G- ~
l lea IN the first round Of The q, g;'
6oe Durham Open Col. tonr o.
ment today, firing a So over eng III.
s sun Hope Valley Count,
Club course. ''qi'gy
The gay little man in the Va,
low oeret recorded 34-34. one T nr,
der par for each nine of tbs w. =
67o-yard layout. He had t5ras w. w.
oles, with puts Of six and 10 few
on No. 6 and II, and by ch;nn;r.
close on the par-five 18th, and ' ny
ly one DOGGY, on No. 10. u,bo 0.,,
he overshot the green. He had '
ball out of bounds on the tbir :
hole but still got his par tonr
One shot back of the wise.crar,,
ing Penna, came another O, soIf,
less well known shotmakers, L..
onard Dodson Of San Francis.
Dodson fired a 1884.
Hope Valleys par detied ~ .
rest of the field. including all ,bs
big name players. '
Bracketed at even par IN v,.r.
Defending Champion CRAIG Wooa
Sam Byrd of Detroit, We Bobbr
Cruickshank Of Richmond W.
and Gene Kunes of Hollywoo5
Fla. IVY
Wood, the duration Nat;or.,
Open champion. had steady nins,
of 1875 beginning defense Of tbs
first title he has won since he can,
tured the national open in l94I
Six players were deadlocked Al
II, including the two pre.tourns.
ment favorites. Byron Nelson and
Sammy Senad.
Nelson, going after his third
straight title in the Carolina swing
and seventh of the winter tour
bogied the first hole when his bali
bounced off the green and rolled
out of bounds. He then cardSd II
straight pars in what he called
the most unsatisfactory round he
had played in years 1t was thu
first time this winter he had plav.
ed 10 holes without q single bird.
Others with lis, were Harold
jug McSpaden of Sanford. Me-
Y, Ed Furgol, the ace amateur
who now is registering from Uti.
ca, N. r., and Joe Zarhardt o.,
NorristoWn. Pa.
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By WHITNEY MARTIN

NEW YORK, March 30. - (P -
The Brooklyn Dodger score cards
this year should carry a notation
to the effect that any resemblance
to the Buns Of other year is strict
ly coincidental, and Mr.. Hickey
will take care Of such a situation
in due time.
Branch Hickey and Uncle Sam
have been doing a strip tease with
the Brooklyn roster, until today ii
bears but hazy resemblance to
what it was in the glory days when
the borough of Brooklyn was just
one big baseball park as TAR as
enthusiasm was concerned.
Now WhitloW Wyatt has joined
the list of Camillis and Mewicks
and Vaughans and Hermans and
Reisers as gone but not forgotten
heroes. Wyatt has been sold down
the river to the Phillies, a fate
that al one time would have been
considered worse than baseball
death, although this year it could
even be break. Who knows. the
Phillies might win the pennant.
Anyway. the sale Of Wyatt eth.
er indicates that Hickey is con-
WINGED the 36-year-old pitcher is
through, or that he's getting rid
Of him under his policy of youth,
which he carried to something Of
an extreme last year. Wyatt was
Of little help except to, opposing
teams last year, and if he came
back with a sound arm this year
it would be something Of miracle.
The decline OF Wyatt from high.
iY-paid star Of 1871 and 1912 70
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tween San Francisco and New
York. The latest report set his
arrival here for sometime late
tomorrow afternoon.
Haegg had gone to California to
visit his fiance, Miss Dorothy Nor
tier, following a race at Cleveland
last Saturday. His plans for re-
turn were disrupted by priority
trouble. AAU officials said he
had been unable to leave the west
coast until this afternoon.
Officials indicated Haegg would
give the best performance of his
current tour if he is able to fill
his date here.
The arrnory track is an eight
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Nazis Preparing For
Third Conflict In Century
State Department Says

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low cost, in foreign schools and
firms where they will have lex.
cellent opportunity to design and
perfect new weapons"
6. Propaganda intended first
to soften up the Allies through "a
subtle plea for fair treatment OF
Germans, later giving "rebirth to
all Nazi doctrines and futhering
German ambitions for world DOM
nation"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-31
Whiteville Defeats
Wilmington Nine, 81

New Hanover High schools
baseball team was doWned IN
the 1915 opener yesterday after
noon by the Whiteville horse
hiders 81, at the Thirteenth and
Ann street field.
Although the game was me
first Of the season, it was not
4 conference contest.
In the last game with White
vile, the Wilmington aggrea-
ton emered with a 80 victory.
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By ]. ROBERT sHUBERT
United Press Staff C0rresponder

United Press Staff Correspondent
BUFFALO, March 3d. W.D -
Gunder Haegg, SWeden's swift
est distance runner, was reported
In an im2romptu race against air.
plane schedules and prioritieb to-
night en- route here from Cali
fornia to fill the final date OF his
second American tour.
Haegg was expected TO run in
an invitation mile match at Buff
falo's 18th armory tomorrow night
in conjunction with the AAU Wo-
mems National Championships.
However, AAU officials reported
the Swedish star somewhere be-
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Film OF Sugar Bowl ~
Game Will Be Shown

Motion pictures OF the Duke Duke,
Alabama Sugar Bowl game Will
be shown in the YMCA gyr1na'
sum at 8 p. m, April 8, It was
announced last night by G, W.
Beverly, secretary OF the Dah.
Alumnae Association, sponsors o.
the event.
Beverly pointed out that play.
by-play description Of the game
would be given, and Duke aluh'
nae and friends are invited 10 d.
tend.