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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-23
Wildcats Engage
Bulldogs Tonight
INVITATION CAGE
TOURNAMENT SET
FOR MARCH l7-25

NEW YORK, JAM 22.-(P-
The National Initiation Basket
ball tournament, won the last
two years by St. Johns Uni
versity of Brooklyn, will be
held at Madison Square Garden,
March 17-19-21 and rs.
Eight of the nations outstand-
ing teams will be invited to play
in the tournament with the pos
sibility that the winner again
will clash with the N. C. A. A.
champion in Red Cross bene-
tit game. The eastern national
tournament of the N. C. A. A..
matching four teams, is sched-
uled for the Garden March %
and "a with the winner meeting
the western regional champion
on March ~.
The western NCAA title-hold-
er will be decided in Kansas
City March 1924.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-23
New Bern Jaycee President
Wins Man OF Year Award

NEW BERN, Jan. 22.-President
Raymond Pollock, Jr., of the Jun
Tor Chamber of Commerce mas
been designated by civic COM
mittee as the winner of the Jay
GEES fourth annual gold key
award as the outstanding young
man of 1914 in New Bern on the
basis Of community service rem
dered.
He had charge of exercises when
a memorial shaft to Craven coun-
tvs War l and II dead was dedi-
Gated last year on the courthouse
lawn, following funds raised by
the Jaycees for that purpose.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-23
Two Crimson Gridders
Join Merchant Marine

TUSCALOOSA, Jan. %. - up -
Norwood Hodges, tuilhack from
Hueytown, Ala, and Buddy Ed
wards, tackle from Atlanta, Ala,
have enlisted in the Merchant
Marine and will be missing from
the Crimson Tide football roster
this fall.
Both men started the Sugar Bowl
game against Duke, and were reg
ulars throughout the past season.
They were 10 after the close Of the
season.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-23

son's mark of 81 straight and boost
his own to 81.
Why, if Freddie Likes to tight,
isn't he in the service?
Well, it isn't the youngster' S
fault. He's tried all the services
and been rejected by 'em all be-
cause of a floating cartilage in his
knee.
I'D sure like to be in the serv-
Ice" he said. I've two brothers
overseas and 1 feel right bad about
not being there, too"
So the m,ld-looking, mild-man'
nered lad is doing his fighting in
the ring, and pretty well at that.
And he isn't bashful about admit
ting that he likes his opera
straight. After all. there were a
lot of boxers who went for the
arts and guys like Shakespeare
student Gene Tunney and Opera
Lover Johnny Dundee seemed to
i have done all right.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-23
housing Tribute Paid To Duke
As Winner OF Sugar Bovl Game

spor gNHAM Jan. %. - up -
ronnS ta lovers of Durham and sur
trih' 4tng territory paid rousing
bali " 40 10 Dukes Sugar Fowl foot
Of +bo oHesmplons and nine members
New o 9usdf Bowl committee from
their GIiiedhS at a celebration in
toniabt nonor at the City Armory
Hersaid5 sponsored by tie Durham
A n.t ana the Durham Sun.
The r lied house turned out for
Was p[ on IN the armory, which
This fdI In 70 the general public.
- luxe Hotel given nv the two
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-23
AS PITCHER CAPTURED

PENETANGUISHE, Ont, Jan.
22.-LR-Pilot Officer Phil Mar
childon, a pitcher with the Phlia-
delphia Athletics before enllstlng
in the Canadian Air Force and now
a prisoner of war in Germany, has
written home that he had to swim
for three hours before he was
picked up after his plane was
brought down near the Danish
coast.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-23
Jimmy Demaret Back
For Tournament Colt

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, Jan.
22.-(P)-Smiling Jimmy Demaret
returns to tournament golf after IA
months with a plug for the game
as an excellent medicine" for the
War-Weary.
For IS years golf has been a
fine sport and profitable business
for Demaret, big money winner
along the tournament. trail until
he entered the Navy. Since the
war Jimmy has discovered a third
dimension of value in TIE game.
He calls it "the great rehabilita-
tor"
He offers as proof of the games
aid to rehabilitation cases the pro-
gram OF building solt courses at
Government hospitals and institu.
lions for the mentally i'll.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-23
sLOCUM AWARD WINNER

NEW YORK, Jan. 22.-lUP)-
William B. McKechnie. who is
rounding out four decade in base
ball, has been voted the Bill Slo-
cum memorial award fer meritor-
ious service to the game over a
long period of years the New
York chapter Of the Baseball Writ
ers Association announced TODAY.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-23
ARNOLD, GRAZIANO FIGHT

NEW YORK, Jan. 22.-(P)-Billy
Arnold, Philadelphia school-boy
Welterweight, and Rocky Grazianc
of Brooklyn, signed today for a
bout in Madison Square Garden on
March 9. The number of rounds
still has not been determined,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-23

Wake Forest q.
Free throws missed: Paxton, An
derson, Allen, Dillon 8, Markin,
Thompson, Garvin 2, Marney,
Mustian 8, Harris 5, Larkin, o.
novich, Woodall, Ratterree, D.
Hall.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-23
How To Hold
FALSE TEETH

Do Your 1 FIRMLY In Place
ras BY sIi Islss teeth annoy ana embar-
When you pp n. dropping or wabbling
Sprinkle , esI, laugh or talk? Just
pates. Hi, lis. FAsTEETH on your
nods faise ts ssksilne (non-acid' powder
comfortably n. more firmly and more
1 p,, or feeling, 40 n sunrny, gooey. pasty
sAsTErpeSs94T,., tdenturs b opsst at
'AslH today ct any drux store.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-23

Half time score: Norfolk q, Pre-.
flight 20.
Free throws missed: Holman 2,
CAN'T, Floyd, Graham 2, Cleaner,
Leakey, Tobias.
Officials: Plaster and Sermon.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-23
Alex Barth Elected
Hard Luck Champion
Ry FRED HAYDEN

MIAMI, Fla, Jan. 22-(AP)-If they had blood banks
for horoughbreds Alex Barth might have wound up 1914
horse of the year. Instead he voted the seasons
hard l11ckc CHI
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-23

The population of the world is
estimated to be double what II
was in 1900.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-23
WILD LIFE GROUP
CANCELS MEETING
New York Convention Can
celled Because OF Travel
Difficulty
Nv HAROLD CLAASSEN

NEW YORK, Jan. 22.-(PEThe
North American Wild Life conven-
ton, scheduled for New York City
on February 26 to %, has been
cancelled because of the transpor-
tation emergency, the American
Wild Life Institute said today.
The annual meeting of the Out
door Writer'S Asso citation, set for
the same dates, also has b n
dropped. The two meetings annu-
ally draw combined registration
of 500, far in excess Of the Gov
ernment's recent edict that con-
ventions attracting more than so
persons be cancelled.
How fast can a bear run?
Bill Sharpe of the North Caro-
lima State news bureau, tells of a
friend who was driving his car on
a swamp road that was bordered
on each side by deep canal when
he encountered a bear.
The bear started down the road
and the cars speedometer reached
10 miles an hour before the Bear
dived into the cold water.
Effective February 1 United
States sportsmen will be exempt
from the Canadian regulations
which require dominion visitors to
obtain Federal police permits for
carrying hunting firearms.
The visitors, however, must OBJ
tain permits from provincial po-
lice. The Federal police check was
war security measure.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-23

To the Hindu. the bitterest pos
sible curse is the expressed hope
that he may some day eat Def.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-10
PAGE SEVEN

diana at Mt. Vernon, an old town on
the Ohio river in Indiana's oil and
coal mining section.
Ems. Robert Geiger, 20-year old son
of |. w. Geiger of Minneapolis, form
er Bluffton residents who recently
graduated from Notre Dame universe
" at South Bend, Ind, is taking adj
vanced training at Miami, Florida.
Another son, Richard, Is, Is in school
at the Navy Pier in Chicago. I. W.,
who was formerly principal of Bluff
ton high school has been a member of
the faculty of the science department
of the University of Minnesota for
the past 20 years.
With peace in Europe there comes
more strongly into focus problems of
the postwar world. Men of diverse
races and creeds who have died for
common cause must learn to live to-
gether if future conflicts are to be
avoided. In this connection we are re-
printing what young Jewish chap
lain from Cleveland said at the ded-
ication of the 9Th Marine Division
cemetery on the distant, once un-
known, now immortal island of Two
Jima:
Somewhere in this plot of ground
there may lie the man who could have
discovered the cure for cancer. Under
one of these Christian crosses, or be-
meath Jewish Star of David, there
may rest man whom was destined
to be great prophet. Now they lie
silent in this sacred soil, and we
gather to consecrate this earth to their
memory.
Here lie officers and men, negroes
and whites, rich men and poor. Here
are Protestants, Catholic and Jews.
Here no man prefers another because
of his faith or despises him because of
his color. Here there are no quotas
of how many from each group are ad-
mitted or allowed. Theirs is the high
est and purest democracy.
| "Any man among US, the living
who lifts his hand in hate against a
brother or thinks himself superior to
those who happen to be in the minor
ity, makes of this ceremony and of
the bloody sacrifice it commentaries,
an empty, hollow mockery."
| News Want-ads bring results.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-10
MaDsA
Des4osaaI

We dav a reality after Blaffton
was on tiptoe for week awaiting
the news which followed a maze of
rumors :. and realization of victory
tempered by the thought of long
drawn battle lines still in the Pacific
and Buttons draft contingent
leaving for induction on. We day, an
other reminder that the conflict is not
over the day bright and sunny
reminiscent of the day back in Novem-
Der, 1918. when Bluffton went all out
on Armistice day -. but this time it
was different-church services instead
of a parade and joy curbed by gold
stars on Buttons honor roll S. and
politics dead as a dodo since fling
deadline last week all too busy
nowadays and high school and
college graduation in the offn !. and
housecleaning =. and reports that
frosts have cut heavily into the straw
berry crop :. fishing looks like Bluff
toms major outdoor sport with
baseball making a good showing
among the high school crowd and
reports that the Saddle Club is get
ting ready for an expanded program
this summer council action Mon
day night getting the stage set for
opening of swimming season at the
Buckeye en- Memorial day and
national hospital day Saturday
Mothers day Sunday f. and poppy
day Nav &c :. latest wiscrack we've
heard" as useless as a butter
knife" and a new definition of
credit-"that which becomes better
the less it is used"
George Allen Burkholder, aged 3,
tried his land az chauffeuring Friday
morning when he was left alone in a
car for a few moments while his moth.
er, Mrs. Richard Burkholder stopped
on an errand at the Harry Ewings or
East Elm street. Nothing like learn.
ing while you're young opined the
three-year old George Allen who
forthwith succeeded in starting the cal
which rolled down the grade towari
Vance street, ignored the stop sign al
the intersection and crashed into tht
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-10
CHAPTER XIX

But on the day when he finally
got out on his way to what he wanted
to do most, the Japs struck at Pearl
Harbor. Ajax had just landed at
Wake Island, and, soldier that he
was, he had reported to the Marine
Commander for duty. He was hav-
ing breakfast with the co eco
means Commanding Officer), Major
Devereaux, when the Japanese at
tack came to Wake.
Ajax used to say that the unusual
strength he demonstrated that morn
ing was due to the heavy supply OF
vitamin pills he had taken. AS the
first bomb hit the runway of the
field, he ran with the others for the
door and the safety of the slit
trenches on the outside. The door
opened inward, but Ajax opened it
outward, taking the screen, the
door, and most of that end of the
flimsy building with him. Part of
the glass hit him in the face-and
that cut was the only wound he re-
ceived in the bombing. But he car
ried the scar with him when / last
saw him in China.
Baumler got out of Wake Island
the next day on the last clipper, but
to join the AVG he was no longer
going West. 1t was now necessary
to go all the way back and around
the other way, towards the East.
Anyway he managed to go by way
of Washington and got promoted to
Captain. I believe if Ajax had
stayed in Washington just one more
day, he would have been a Major.
After seeing Ajax Baumler in few
fights, wish that he had gotten to
be Major before he came to China,
for he certainly was fighter pilot.
During the month of our battle of
Hengyang, I saw Captain Baumler
do some of the nerviest things I've
ever seen any man accomplish.
We had a few ships that had. been
strafed badly on the ground: some
of them had been shot to pieces, and
in others the engines or hydraulic
systems had been damaged. In most
cases these same ships couldn't be
got off the ground when the Japs
came over; sometimes they were
caught three or four times by Zeros,
and consequently they were in a
continual state of repair.
One of these was old Number 104,
tke. shin that Alex. had heon -fving.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-10

fence at Schmidt's field. No one hurt
and the car, belonging to Mrs. Paul
Geiser, daughter Of the Ewings, re-
ceiyed only few scratches. Il
thought | was going into the creek"
was the youngsters only comment
when his mother rescued him.
The foundry building at South
Jackson and Grove streets, long
land mark on Cemetery road is dis
appearing. Work of tearing down the
brick structure is under way and a
modern bungalow will be erected on
the site. The place was recently
bought by Ulrich Amstutz, hatchery
man of Wisner, Nebraska, who ex-
poets to move here this summer.
Tearing down of the brick structure
is being supervised by his brother, C.
d. Amstutz. The place was operated
as foundry and general repair shop
for some fifty years. The concrete
structure facing Grove street and ad-
joining the brick building will be left
standing.
Charlie Alderman and his clers at
the A G. P store, a crowd of dozen,
were in Toledo last Thursday night
seeing what makes things tick in the
big chain stores organization. They
went thru the warehouse and saw
coffee roasting and bread and donuts
in the making as well as a multitude
of other things that go to make up
the complex processes which are
necessary before foodstuffs get on
the shelves ready for the consumer.
| Uncle Sans postoffice department
has made good its claim that the mail
gets through-although sometimes it
is late-even more than two years
late. Fred Gettles of the News of
fee received Tuesday morning a pack
age OF photographs which his daught-
er, Mrs. James A. Griffith mailed in
January, 1943 to her husband, 1t.
Griffith whose mailing address at that
time wascare of the San Francisco
postoffice. Apparently unable to To-
cate 1t. Griffith the package was re-
turned here and to the credit of the
postal service, it was still in good
condition. 1t. and Mrs. Griffith are
now living at Oroville, California.
With the war in Europe over, Cpl.
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Roger Howe, son of Mayor and Mrs.
w. 4. Howe, will probably have an op-
portunity, with many other boys to
see sights in Germany. When last
heard from recently Cpl. Howe was
across the Rhine and located at the
historic town of Mannheim.
These wartime substitutes don's al
ways work-latest is the tale going
around town about the fisherman who
unwittingly used paper twine for a
stringer and lost lot of choice crap
pies when the twine, submerged in the
waters of the Buckeye, became soggy
and dissolved.
Mary Welty, back from spending
the winter in Eustis, Florida, says
that the Chris Amstutzs at that place,
formerly of Bluffton, have water1nel-
ons nearly ripe. She also helped pick
Strawberries at the Amstutz place
and enjoyed the novelty of fresh
strawberry shortcake for Christmas.
Dinner at the Which restaurant Sat
urday evening was Unexpectedly in
terrupted when a line in the electric
refrigerator broke and choking sui
phur fumes of the refrigerant filled
the eating place. The restaurant was
closed for several hours to repair the
break and clear the place of the odor,
Here's one of the strange vagaries
of the Pacific conflict. Florence Higa,
American born of Japanese ancestry
and student in Blutfton college has
grandparents living on the battle torn
island Okinawa. One of her best col
lege chums Esther Habegger of
Berne, Ind, corresponds with Paul
Sauder who is with the Marines now
fighting on Okinawa, which makes nc
difference in the close friendship of
the two girls. Florence's parents, ma
tives of Okinawa, came to this country
at the age of Is and are now nliving in
Montana. The Bluffton college coed
educated in this country is a good
American and has no sympathy for
the war-mad Jap military.
&s&
The Nello Steimans who get around
over the country by reason of his work
which is construction of large tanks
for oil or water reservoirs are now in
! the extreme southwest corner of In
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-10

One morning Ginger "es o-.e u a
formation of three fighters over Hen
yang. His combat report read like
this:
81 was flying on my leaders wing
- Lieutenant Lombard - at % 900
feet when we saw three enemy
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-10

CHAPTER 4: Scott's early experiences
with gliders and airplanes. He goes TO
Ft Mcpherson and enlists in the regular
army as q private.
Evening star., 1945-02-15
|0PA Gets Authority
Ito Check Restaurant

The once of Price Administra-
ton today is the victor in its effort
to inspect invoices and records OF
the Stables Restaurant as a result
OF the action OF Justice Matthew F.
Mcclure Of District Court yester-
day In granting an OPA application
for court order to make the in
spcction.
The OPA filed the application
after stating that Mrs. Jean Rich
ards Moran, manager and owner Of
q large share OF the restaurant
business, had refused to allow in
spection under an OPA order. The
restaurant is in the $500 block Of
E street NV.
In his ruling Justice MCGUIRE
said: "The inspection sought here
is no Government dragnet. A rea-
sonable examination of the books Of
corporation as here sought, or of
the physical condition of the prem
ises Gas provided in the statute)
dealing with such critical material,
is not an unreasonable search or
seizure within the prohibition Of the
fourth amendment"
Meanwhile, the Court of Appeals
still has under consideration an ap-
peal from an injunction granted
the restaurant owners IN District
Evening star., 1945-02-15
Showdown Bottle on Veterans
Preference Near in New York

the Legislature ito take the nec-
essary action without delay"
Normal civil service vacancies in
the State are about 1000 per year
Vacancies in the New York City
service, exclusive of teachers, are
about 5000 q year.
In support of the Legion measure,
Samuel M. Birnbaul11, judge advo-
cate general of the organization
does not believe veterans win mo-
rlopolize the civil service. But to
the extent that they will come in
he has these things to say:
I'd "The disabled veteran has had
most of these privileges since 1929
I do not think the people viii at
tempt to take away from these men
something they have already given
them"
Opportunities Lost.
(2) you've got to consider that
the veteran, disabled or non-dis-
abled will have been away for four
or i've years. During that time he
has lost the opportunity to enter the
civil service. He has lost tenure, lost
promotion. 1t is right that he re-
ceive reward for it in the way OF
preference"
t3 Every civil service appoint
ment is provisional one. If the
man is incompetent he can be dis
charged after 3-6 months without q
hearing"
If the Civil Service Reform As
sociation wins its fight in New York
State, 1t expects to 60 to bat on a
national scale in an attempt to
modify the Federal veterans prefer
ence regulations.
Evening star., 1945-02-15

the liquor store and paid for It In
installments. When the time came
for delivery Of the whisky, she
charged the store refused to make
the delivery.
In her testimony. the Court OF
Appeals said she was doubtfuNof
the type Of whisky and could not
explain why the receipt she had for
$48 was less than the $52 20 she was
suing for.
Judge Casey was criticized by the
appeals court for finding for the
defendant before the plaintiff had
completed her case and without a
motion for q directed verdict on the
part of the whisky store.
Judge Nathan Cayton In his opin-
ion described this ruling OF Judge
Evening star., 1945-02-15
New Trial Ordered
In Suit for Whisky

Describing decision OF Judge
Walter J. Casey's as erroneous" and
premature" the Municipal Court
of Appeals yesterday reversed ver-
dict Of the Municipal Court Judge
and awarded the plaintiff new
trial.
The suit for case of whisky was
filed by Mrs. Lee Merriam, an RFC
employe, against Patrick A.
Sugrue, trading Is the Penn Wine &
Liquor Co. Mrs. Miriam claimed
she bought 4 case OF whisky from