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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-20
tEJEUNE MARINES
DEFEAT FLIERS
:. In LAST MINUTES

:. CAMP LEJEUNE, Jan. ia
last minute foul toss by little John
Thompson gave the Camp Lejeune
Marines a 4O-39 victory over the
Seymour Johnson Field basketeers
there Friday night.
Led by Eden Eckman, former
Santa Clara star Seymour Johnson
overcame 10 point lead to tie the
score with only go seconds to go.
Until then, Lejeune had coasted
along on the sensational shooting OF
Jack Maddox. He tailed % points.
Lineups:
Camp Lejeune forwards Maddox,
MulvihiL q; centers Port, Berg;
guards Thompson 4. Sylvestri l,
Rrehner 2, Carroll, Kopea.
Seymour John forwards Herman
8, Pope 9; center Bartos 7; guards
Jarnison 4, Echman II.
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Totals
Manager Luke Seweu
Home After War Tour

AKRON, O., Jan. 19.- (UP) -
Manager Luke Sewell of the st.
Louis Browns, back at his Akron
home after an eight weeks tour of
the China Burma India war thea
ter, urged today that baseball be
permitted to continue during war
time because ''the boys over there
would hate to see any sport fold
up"
"Ihey don't get much news from
the states, but they really gobble
up any little sports item that
reaches them," he said.
Seweu added, however, that eff
closing down baseball is necessary
to provide men and materials for
the armed forces, then I say close
the parks. Everything is secondary
to the war effort"
Sewell was accompanied on the
81 ,OOO-mi1e tour by outfielders Fred
Dixie Walker of +he Brooklyn
Dodgers and Paul Wanger of the
New York Yankees and Arthur
Patterson, baseball writer for the
New York Herald Tribune.
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British Athletic Group
Pushing Plans To Help
Track Stars Visit U. S.

LONDON, Jan. 19.- UP) The
British Amateur Athletic Associa-
ton is doing all it cam to facili-
tate the trip of Gunder Haegg and
Haakon Lidman, Swedish track
stars, to the United States for an
indoor tour, President E. ]. Holt
announced today.
Holt revealed that he had re-
ceived letter from Haegg asking
for the association aid in arrang
ing transportation.
eff they cannot get transporta
ton soor it appears that they sim
ply viii have to call it off, Holt
said
Haegg at Stockholm yesterday
said this sitting around is getting
on my nerves and that he didn't
care hang for the trip if I don't
receive definite news in few
days"
Haegg and Lidman agreed to 60
to the U. S. by boat when the war
situation in Europe cancelled air.
plane transportation which had
been arr enged.
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DOSHER DESCRIBES
REDISTRIBUTION AT
AAF HOSPITAL CAMP

Postmaster Wilbur Dosher was
guest speaker at the Exchange
Club yesterday, and spoke on new
activity at Camp Davis in relation
to the Army personnel to be sent
there for redistribution and as
patients of the convalescent hos
pital.
His remarks were aimed at Will
mington citizens, VINO will be CIV
en- the opportunity to cooperate
with the Army rehabilitation pro-
gram in making it pleasant for
those who will visit the city.
The club decided to stage a
membership outing soon, and fur
Their details will be announced
later.
It was decided that a trophy
would be presented to the bowling
champions competing in the inter-
club bowling leaguge.
J. B. Edwards presided in the
absence of President Ranald
Stewart.
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{ Winter league champions, sur
vivors Of approximately 1000 orig
inal teams, will compete for dis
trict and base titles to determine
the quintets to compete for the
United Kingdom championship
March TO in London.
Site of the final tournament will
be Albert Hall with it's red plush
seats-a situation roughly compar-
able to holding the NCAA finals in
Carnegie Hall.
Baskets have been turned out
in spare time by England's small
arms factories and British cloth
iers have produced uniforms con-
sisting of pants resembling boxing
trunks.
Teams compete in gyms, hang
ers, municipal produce markets,
home guard drill halls or any
place two hoops can be hung.
Capt. Ralph lift of Akron, Ohio,
United Kindgom athletic director
and former minor league pitcher,
is enthusiastic about the progress
of the game.
Basketball is sweeping the
country" he enthuses. THE Brit
ish always played netball, form
of the game, but now the Tommies
go all out for the American style.
Sometimes it's hard to get courts
for our boys with British teams
wanting to use them so much"
Among the standout teams are
the Troop Carrier Pipers, who are
favored to win the championship
behind sharp shooting Cpl. Glen
Brown of Calvin college, Grand
Rapids, Mich. The Pipers took the
base crown in Sicily and have won
1913 in 1875 starts in three states
two years ago are Sgt. Homer Lun-
dine, Kansas City, Mo; Sgt.
George Morris, Beckley. w. Va;
Sgt. Joe Stanko. Pittsburgh; and
Sgt Eddie Gardiner, Hammong,
Ind.
Bills boys of the Second Bomb
Division have tailed 1112 points
winning 10 straight with Pvt. Man
ny Kaplan of Brooklyn College,
showing the way.
Other leading clubs are Quarter
master Double-Clutchers led by
Sgt. Cliff Mobey of Wayne Uni
versity; Franks Yanks, piloted by
|Cp1 Dirk Grav of Vi11opov,. Darn
chute Infantry Spiders, spanked by
Harmon Walters Of Rice and the
Liberator Ducklings spearheaded
by Sgt. Dick Baldwon of University
of Rochester.
1t. Jim Weir of Wyoming center,
and Sid Glickman of NYU also are
top scorers.
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Churchill Government
Wins Confidence Vote
CONTINUED from Page One)

his aggressive tactics yesterday,
in one of the greatest speeches
of his career, and to the almost
unanimous hatred among members
of Parliament of the hostage sys-
tenn now being used by the left
wing Fam forces in Greece. The
Prime Minister'S popularity ap-
peared stronger after today's vote
than it had been since the begin
ming Of the Greek Crisis.
Eden told the House he thought
the debate had done a real and
much needed national service and
he again urged closer inter-Allied
cooperation on the political plane.
1--WE are not fully satisfied with
the existing machinery for inter
national cooperation on the politi'
cal plane,'' he said. 1--WE have
been rather troubled about this for
some time.
'It is we who more than a year
ago at the Moscow conference fl1s'
suggested the need for some fur
Their machinery, first proposed set
ting up what has now become the
European Advisory Commission
The Commission has done invalu
able work and the fruits OF thai
work will be seen after the defea,
Of the enemy and t h e satellite
countries when these problems
have been dealt with. But the Com
mission has neither the authority
nor the representation sufficient tc
deal with many Of the big prob
lens that confront u.s."
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NAVY ACCEPTS
STAN MUSIAL,
CARD PITCHER
Heavy Hitter's Average
Figures In Two World
Championships
By FRANK X. NOLL
ILL. Drass Staff CORRESPONDENT

UultCu C0S NVssAA
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 1S.-(UP?-
Stan Musial, whose heavy hitting
has been a major factor in the
three national league pennants and
the two world championships
which the st. Louis Cardinals nave
won in the past three years, was
accepted for Navy service today
after passing his induction physl'
cal. 80,
The 24-year-old outfielder will be
ASSIGNED to camp Monday after,
noon and will leave for the service
that night.
"I'm glad I made it in the Ma
w." Musial said. "a lot OF my
friends are in the Navy and like
it. I know 1 will, too"
Musial was accepted before ~e-
suits of his blood test were avail
able. Several hours after he other
wise qualified, it was announced
that he also had passed the blood
test.
One of the hardest hitting out
fielders in the majors, Musial. vino
lives in nearby Donora, is n e
father of two children - Richard.
8. and Geraldine, six weeks.
He won the major league bat
ting championship in 1913 with an
average of 1857 and was selected
as the national leagues most val
liable player. Last year ne was
runner-up to outfielder Fred DIX
ie) Walker of Brooklyn for the Ma
tional league batting crown, hitting
.347, 10 points less than the Dodg-
er star.
Musial joined the Cardinals to-
ward the close of the 194l season,
participating in IL games, after
playing in the minors less than
two years. In 1912, his first full
season with the Cardinals, the left
handed hitter batted .315.
He was the third Cardinal regu-
lar to be lost since the team de-
feated the St. Luis Browns in the
1914 world series. The others were
Max Lanier, ace southpaw pitcher,
and Fred Schmidt, another huri-
er.
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Rumors On MacPhail
AS Sports Executive
Revived In Capital

NEW YORK, Jan. 49, (UP) -
Rumors that Col. Larry MacPhall,
former head of the Brooklyn bod
gers, might be named national
wartime sports coordinator IN
Washington were revived tonight
when it was learned that he took an
Army physical examination here
this week.
MacPhaiIs name has been men
toned on several occasions in con-
nection with the proposed post,
which would place the problems
of sports manpower, transportation,
and curtailment if necessary, in
the hands of one man.
Friends of MacPhail, at the time
he took the examination, a pre-
requisite for re-assignment, said
they understood he was to be given
IAN important new post in Wash
ington.'
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BY. WHITNEY MARTIN

NEW YORK, Jan. 19-lP)-"Why
don't you write piece ABOUT tn ae
Cardinals being above the .ooo
mark for the first time IN more
than 40 years." Bill brandt sug-
gested, and as it was thes first time
we were aware of that, and 1t
would give us a chance to get away
from stories about the F-f-f-F S
for a day, we'll do it.
considering the fortunes OF the
st. Louis National League CLUB IN
recent years it's almost unoellev-
able that, until early last year,
their overall percentage OF games
won and lost since 1901 was less
than 500.
When the Cards finished the 1913
season their victory percentage
was =. y. and treir 1rs3 tbre'-
brought the mark above 500. At
the end of last season they had
boosted their average to .5O4.
1T was a long, tough climb for
the Red Birds, who lately have
been winning pennants with such
ease they get little credit and less
sympathy. 1t took eight remnants
end the feat of being the only Ma
tional League team to win more
than 1On genes three straight
years to reach their present .5o4
mark.
They started out on the wrong
foot in 1900 by losing rs while win
ming only IS, but they brought their
tWo-year average above 500 the
next year by winning rs while los
lag g.
Then came the famine, and,
among other disastrous seasons,
there were two straight years when
they lost more than 100 games
each year. In fact, in only three of
the first II years did they finish
lbove 800 and there were II
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CLIQUE Fooled
Continued from Page One)

upon passage of the bill. Provision
is made, it was explained, to elect
a City Council just before the vot-
ing of extension, so that the same
council membership will both as
sumo and discharge the bill
promise Immediately to commence
fire and police department service
and the building of sewer and
water facilities.
Mr.. Emory's calculations OF
savings to citizens of the Sunset
Park, Woodlawn and Riverside
sections of money expended on
garbage disposal. water supply
anc sewage were sharply disput-
ed by Capt. j. L. Gnolson, oper-
ator of the Sunset Park water and
garbage facilities, and by an I'M
identified objector who volunteer
ed the opinion that many resi-
dents of the area preferred to dis
pose of their own garbage pri-
vately.
Objection in general was led by
w. C. Weeks, who said, 1--WE don't
need Wilmington and Wilmington
doesn't need our taxes among
numerous other offerings. Also
prominent among the anti-inclu-
sionists was the self-appointed
chairman of the meeting, Otto
Pridgen, who barred planning
board member DR.. w. H. Moore
from the floor in favor Of the pre-
mature motion to call vote of
opposition to the bill before the
discussion had fairly begun.
Mr.. Emory's calculations of saw.
ings, taken from pamphlet pre-
pared by the planning board, indi-
Gated that the average Sunset Park
resident would pay approximately
$50 per year less under City gov
eminent for his waste removal,
water, sewage, and in his insurance
premia, than he does at present, in
addition to receiving stree; lights
police protection, fire protection
and street maintenance
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Cats Defeated 81 To %
Bv. Last-SecOnd Goal
Raleigh Serves New Han.
over Fourth Confer.
ence Defeat

Raleigh, Jan. ia last.secons
basket by the Raleigh Capitals a.
feated an underdog Wildcat apgrs
cation last night 1929, makin0 n.
fourth conference setback for tbs fl.
New Hanover quintet. '
Leading the Caps all the wsv n,
Wilmington five lost the came '' ie
the last 80 seconds of plav .ns -,
would have tied if Billy Nasaa
had made his two foul shots wbic5
he missed in the last 40 seconds =.
the game.
The score at the end Of the fire.
quarter was in favor Of Wilming
ton, 8-5. The half-time score aIs,
in favor of the Cats, was I3.,o
and 1918 at the end of the tbirS
with the New Hanoverians well
ahead.
High scorer for the Wilmington
aggregation was Jim Groom wbo
tailed nine, with Silly Mason
close second with eight.
For Raleigh, Billy Hawkins wa,
high scorer with u, While Jordon
scored eight
The Iine-ups:
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DOBSON, HARMON
TAKE EARLY LEAD
IN TUCSON FRAY
RY FRANK PITMAN

TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. 19.-P)
The early leadership in the
first round of the $4,000 Tucson
Golf open was taken today by
Leonard Dodson, Kansas City,
Mo-, and Claude Harmon, Loeb
moor, Mich.
They both scored 66-four
under par-over the 18-hole Ell
Rio Country Club course.
Sam Snead, Hot Springs, Va,
co-favorite with Byron Nelson,
Toledo, O., came with 81. Mel
son was a late starter.
Early finishers in the GO
bracket include Harry Bassler,
Los Angeles, Jimmy Hines, New
York Ciy and Denny Shute,
Akron, Ohio.
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The Sports Trail

Istraight years they finished in the
second division. And it's Cardinals
we're talking about, not the Phils.
Anyway, considering the agonles
the St. Louis fans must have suf-
fered through those early years
they should not be begrudged what
satisfaction they can get out of the
current status cf their team. After
all, a club whose victory average
| is 5O4. for "A years can't be ac-
cused of being glutton, except
for punishment.
Bill Brandt, who doesn't care
how often you mention the Cardi-
mails, or any other club as long as
it is in the National League, the
National League being his ration
look in his role of publicity man,
also has another item concerning
the St. Louis team.
This one isn't too surprising. 1t
just points out the fact the Cards
were one of the two National
League teams to hit more home
runs on their home lot than their
opponents did last season.
OF So home runs hit at Sports
mans Park, the Cards hit SO, or
.736 per cent of them. Boston &C.
counted for 81 of 95 hit at Braves
field for a .537 mark, but all the
other clubs were out-hit in the
home run department by the visi-
tors. The Reds made the poorest
showing at home, making only IA
Of the 81 circuit drives at Crosley
Field.
As might be expected, consider
ing the telephone booth dimensions,
the Polo Grounds were the happy
hunting grounds for stickmen, see
ling 161 balls go into or over the
stands. The Giants got only rs of
them, which is understandable.
They weren't batting against their
own pitchers.
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STANDINGS
Y. M. E. A. ORGANIZES
CADET SUNDAY SCHOOL
BASKETBALL LEAGUE

Adam Smith, physical director
of the YMCA announced last night
that plans have been completed to
organize a Cadet Sunday school
basketball league to play each Sat
urday for boys between the ages
II and Is, and the first practice
session is scheduled for this at
ternoon from noon until 3 pm.
Those teams participating are
Grace Methodist, Trinity Metho-
dist, First Presbyterian. Temple
Baptist. Winter Park Baptist, Win
ter Park Methodist, st. James Ep-
iscopal and the First Baptist.
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Coach Back At Cornell
As Head Fencing Coach

ITHACA, N. Y. Jan. 19.-(UPl-
Lieut.. Georges L. Cointe, forne'
Cornell fencing coach who had
been with the free French Army
since July, 1913, has been given
an honorable discharge for beng
over age and has returned 10 CoI
nell as physical instructor
Cointe, veteran Of the flIA
World War who's had earned 'ns
Croix de Guerre at Verdun SeFVea
as liaison officer in the nor"
African campaign al Casablancs
Oran and Tunisia. He later was d.
Free French Headquarters In Lon
don and was In the Normandy N,
vasion. In his last job he WorHea
with the U. S. Third and III"
Armies through SHAEF.
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Ray Mack Ordered
For Army Physical

CLEVELAND, Jan. 19.-R-Ray
Mack, %, second baseman for the
cleveland Indians, took his Army
nhvsical examination today, a
Spokesman at the induction cen
ter reported. Married and the
father of two children, Mack will
leave for camp tonight if he pass
es. the officer said. Mack was
previously accepted for limited
service by the Army last summer,
hut not called. He had been en-
nloved in Cleveland war plant.
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Chinquapin Fiue Beats
Beulahuille Quintet

The Chinquapin girl basketeers
defeated the Beulaville All-Stars
21-16 in their last game, with Mag
gle Rackley taking nigh scoring
honors for the Chinquapin team.
The Beulaville boys licked the
Chinquapin male aggregation SAIL.
L. H. Thomas took high scoring
honors for the Beulaville outfit.
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ROOSEVELT SET
FOR INAUGURAL
CONTINUED from Page One)

11U1l n6N O-O/
show. He takes the oath as Vice
President before the President is
sworn in by Chief Justice Harlan
Stone.
Truman is Mr.. Roosevelt's third
vice presidential mate. John Nance
Garner served the first two terms;
Henry Wallace, the third.
Close by the President when he
raises his right hand tomorrow
will be only two Of his original
New DEAL cabinet of depression
dark 1882. They are Interior Sec
rotary Ickes and Labor Secretary
Perkins. And, Mr.. Roosevelt told
reporters, they were thinking only
recently about this fourth term
lust as he was-Wondering where
do we go from here" He surmised
they felt like he did, that for them
also the first II years were the
hardest.
While all the attention focused
on 1900 Pennsylvania avenue, all
Washington got into holiday
mood even though skies were over
cast and the Weather Bureau dark
ly predicted rain tomorrow.
Flags went up all along the av-
enue route of Inauguration
parades of the past as though all
were reluctant to give up this time
honored custom.
The hotels, whose crowded con-
ditions have become a wearisome
joke, got more crowded if that
were possible. They reported that
even the few visitors allowed by
invitation were just enough to al
most be the proverbial straw on
the camels back.
The forecast of rain surprises
nobody; inaugurations have been
attended by some of the worst
weather imaginable, especially the
deluge of 1887 and the 24-hour
blizzard of 1909. 1t will be no fun
for the visitors on the lawn. UNI
brellas are forbidden.
Outside the White House grounds
any spectators may carry unbre-
Has though it will hardly be worth
the effort for the fence is fully 200
yards from the porch and the Mil
itary Police don't like to see tele-
scopes or anything like that train
ed on the Commander-in- Chief S
house.
The President will be facing per-
haps the most beautiful view in
all Washington as ne swears to up
hold the Constitution, an oath he
can pretty nearly say backwards
by this time. Directly ahead will
be the looming 555-foot Washington
Monument and off to the right, the
majestic pure wilderness of the JET
ferson Memorial rising out of the
Tidal Basin
This is the third time Mr.. Roose-
welt takes the oath in January.
The traditional March 4 date was
shelved at the expiration of his
first term.
This inaugural sets the stage for
great events to come, A confer
ence of Roosevelt. Churchill and
Stain had been put off until the
American leader was indicted and
worked out.
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E.. E. White Lumber Firm
Incorporation Approved

Stock of $4,000 has been au-
thorized by Thad Eure, secretary
Of state, with subscribed stock of
$40, 900 for lumber business to be
known as c. E. White, Inc, with
offices in the Murchison building.
White disclosed last night that
incorporation included c. E. White
Jr., and Mrs. Nell White.
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Machaj Signs Contract
To Pitch For Yankees

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Jan. 49,
OP)-Ed Machaj, brilliant young
right-handed pitcher for the Yale
university Bulldogs, reported to-
day that he had signed a contract
with the New York Yankees with
a $1,000 bonus clause, and will re-
port to the teams Newark, N. j.,
farm club for spring training.
Machaj, who is 4-F, has record
of 10 victories and five defeats in
three years at Yale. He will be
graduated next month.
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3O-DAY FURLOUGH

George A. Fowler, ARM Sc,
2018 Barnett avenue. has re-
turned home for a 30-day fur
Tough after serving for II
months in the Central Pacific
theater. where he received the
Distinguished Flying Medal for
meritorious acts in the Philip
pines.
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Bill Hulse Gets Leave
To Compete In MiIlroa

MIAMI, Fla. Jan. l9.-,UPI =.
Ensign Bill Hulse. America 5 0','
bet against Gunder Haegg OF o"ea.
en- in the distance runs, TO-DAY ".
given a two-day leave to COMP =,
in the Millrose games in New 4oIA
February 8. :,
Hulse hoped to get into shape "
fore he leaves here by air. ne !"
considered the best American -o u.
ner over the mile and tWo-l'.i
distances since the retirement y
Gil Dodds in favor of the nlflsu%
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Eagle Star Hqlfback
Rejected For Draft

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 19.-R-
Relatives of big Steve Van Buren,,
Philadelphia Eagles halfback and
? former Louisiana State univer-
sity grid star, said here today
that "Steve has been rejected
again by his Selective Service
board medical examiners because
of impaired vision
The examination, it was said,
was made January 4 and Van
Buren, returned to LSU where he
is enrolled in a graduate course.
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HODGES HONORED

U. S. lST ARMY HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Jan. 18.-UP)-Lt. Gen.
Omar N. Bradley, commander of
the 18th Army Group, today pre-
sented the Oak Leaf Cluster to the
Distinguished Service Medal to 1t.
Gen. Courtney H. Hodges( First
Army commander, and praised his
men for the way this fight was
handled"
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REPORTS DENIED

PITTSBURGH. Jan. 10. R-
Officials Of the Pittsburgh Steelers
Of the national professional footban
league today denied reports that
Coach Walter Keisling and his AZ.
sistant, Jim Leonard, have been
dismissed.
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LAKE FORESTERS
LICK HEMENWAY
QUINTET, 53-6

A Lake Forest quintet took to
the floor in the Midget Municipal
basketball league to squelch
fighting Hemenway outfit 27-6 yes
terday afternoon.
Cecil Heath made 10 baskets for
high score of 20 for the Lake For
est aggregation, while Robert My
ers led the HemenWay scoring
with four points.