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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-23
CYCLONES
CAPTURE PLAY0FF
Fayetteville Suffers Second
Loss To Eastern Champs
14To7

y RALEIGH, Nov. 22-R)--Wilson
defeated Fayetteville, 14-7, here
Friday night before 10, 900 in Rid
dick stadium in the Eastern IA
high school football title playoff.
Victory was clinched in last three
minutes of fourth quarter on a 81
yard pass from Dickie Davis to
Rabbit Overman, open over the
goal-line.
It was the second Wilson victory
over Fayetteville this season.
In the first meeting the game
was won during the last so Sec
onds. And Wilson took a 7-6 YER
dict.
Wilson will play host to Green's
boro Friday for the State IA title.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-23
Albemarle Wins

LEXINGTON, Nov. %. -tP}-
Albemarle High School won the
South Piedmont Conference cham
pionship over Lexington by 1877
here Friday night. It left Abe
marie unbeaten in the league while
it was Lexington's first defeat.
Miller a 80 yards for the winning
touchdown in the fourth period.
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May Withdraw

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 22-W.D-
Possible withdrawal Of Southern
California from the Pacific Con-
ference was under heated discus
sion Friday night by Alumni groups
which urged the drastic action in
protest against a pact with the
Big Nine which froze Army's foot
ball team out of the Rose Bowl.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-23
Cats Defeat Rockingham, SC
Jimmy Piner Dashes For 7wo
LONE Touchdown Runs In Win
Rudy. Johnson Also Makes Brilliant Punt
Runbacks Of 80 And As Yards; Rocking
ham Linemen Block 4 Cat Point Boots

With their first team playing only one-third Of the
game, the New Hanover High school football powerhouse,
after gaining a 1910 advantage before halftime, coasted to
an easy 31-0 victory over a scrappy but outclassed Rocking
ham eleven last night at Legion Stadium.
Jimmy Piner, Wilmington's %co-captain and chief candl-
date for all-state honors at ~hafback, turned in one of his
most sparkling performances of the season, busting through
the left side of the Rockingham line for touchdown tricks of
40 and Is yards to take the hero honors. Rudy Johnson,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-23
BLUE LMPS TRIUMPH
OVER Y. P. l., $40

DURHAM, Nov. q. -R- Duke
University's Junior Varsity brought
"a good season to a great finish
here Friday by rolling to an easy
$40 victory over the v. P. I. Jay
wees.
The win gave the Blue 1mps their
fourth straight triumph after an
opening loss to High Point College.
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Lenoir-Rhyne Wins

HICKORY. Nov. 22-R-Lenoir-
Rhyme defeated E asst Carolina
Teachers 60 before a crowd of
5000 here Friday night, capitaliz-
ing on one Of three scoring chances
in a game which saw the losers
make 10 fumbles and the winners
five. Charlie Oswald, substitute
quarterback, went owe from the
two in the opening minutes of the
second quarter after he had set up
a first down with a Vineyard run.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-23
Davidson And Citadel
Battle For Conference
Cellar This Afternoon

CHARLOTTE, Nov. q. -(P}-
With both teams fighting to get
out Of the Southern Conference Gel
lar, the Davidson Wildcats and the
Citadel Bulldogs will meet in
Charlotte's Memorial Stadium at
2 o'clock Saturday afternoon.
Davidson, seeking its 14th vic
tory over the Bulldogs, is expected
to take to the air. Coach Bill
Stort's team, idle last weekend,
has spent most Of the last two
weeks polishing up a passing at
tack.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-23
SUMMARY

Scoring touchdowns: Sykes,
Piner 2, johnson, Price. Extra
point: Gore l.. Substituti0ns:-
Rockinfham - Morgan, Allen.
Wilmington - Stewart, Jordan,
Stelljes, Dillon, Hampton, Rog-
ers, Quarles, Mason, Hdneycutt,
Crowley, Patrick, Price, Gregg,
johnson, Hanson, Smith, Brew
er, Grissom.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-23
DUKE SOCCER TEAM
DEFEATS TAR HEELS

DURHAM, Nov. 22.-(PeDuke's
Soccer team made a clean sweep
of its four game series with North
Carolina here Friday as it closed
the season with a so win over the
Tar Heels.
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alternate at fullback with Bubba
Sykes, also showed up brilliantly,
running back two punts for 38
and As yards:
About the only thing the Rocks
did successfully last night was
to pass Wilmington dizzy and block
four of Irwin Cores five extra
point boots. Rockingham picked
up 81 yards through the air, but
their ground attack was stopped
completely with final statistics
showing that the Rocks were
minus % yards rushing.
Early Start
New Hanover started the maui
ing right from the opening whistle
taking the kickoff on the II, and
returning to the 80. On the first
play Sykes rounded right end for
nine yards. Piner hit off right
tackle for seven more. Bubba
plowed for 10 down to the Rocking
ham IS. Wick sneaked to the 81.
Sykes smashed for three, and then
Jim Gibson plunged over left
tackle for 10 yards and a first
down on the Rockingham 10. Piner
moved to the IL, and Gibson crash
ed to the four. Sykes, after being
held for. only a yard gain, scamper-
ed off left tackle for the opening
score. Cores kick was perfect,
and Wilmington led 10.
The Rocks came back strong as
tailback Billy Poe fired pass af-
ter pass for two straight first
downs until he was held. on the
Wilmington SO. Poe countered by
punting out on the MINIS five
yard marker.
But being in a hole didn't bother
the Wildcats, who covered the
distance to paydirt in seven plays.
Following Sykes run for nine
yards to the Wilmington IA, Neal
Patrick, speed ace, sprinted
around left end for 25 yards be-
fore being pushed out of bounds
on the Wildcat Al. Sykes, Piner
and Wick carried to the Rocking
ham 40, and immediatly after the
first quarter ended. Piner got
off on his beautiful paydirt 40
yard dash which brought the
crowd to its feet. Cores boot was
blocked: ~score-Wilmington 10,
Rockingham O..
Wilmington's third touchdown
was set up by a poor punt by
Billy Poe of Rockingham, who
kicked only is yards from his
own 20 with Johnny Crowley re-
turning the ball to the Rocks 81.
Charlie Smith dashed around left
end for II yards down to the 20.
Patrick lost and gained back
two yards, Smith swung around
the flank for four yards, and on
fourth down six, Crowley passed
complete to Fritz Stelljes on the
four. Smith romped forward two
yards, and then Rudy johnson
leaped over the center of the line
for the I'd. The score stood 1910
after Cores blocked conversion
attempt. This ended the point
making in the first halt.
Billy Poe started the second part
of the contest by passing for
several short gains, but johnson
upset the applicant by intercepting
a Poe aerial on the Rockingham
40, running it back to the IS. 1t
took just four running plays for
another six points to be added to
Wilmington's total after this break.
Rudy took it for two, Wick for six,
Gibson for seven, and Piner bust
ed off left tackle and cut sharply
to his right going all the way.
Once again Cores kick bounced
off Rockingham linemen., The
count-Wilmington rs, Rocking
ham 0.
The reserves teamed up for the
final tally as A. C. Gregg, Dick
Hanson, and j. c. Price rolled for
16 yards following a splendid Is
yard runback by Rudy johnson
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-23

The inhabitants of Samoa called
Robert Louis Stevenson Tusitala
teller of tales) when he lived
there.
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of a punt with Price punching
across. On the conversion Gore
lifted the pigskin into black and
oranged CARRIED Rocks once more.
The final score was 81 to 0.
Wilmington's next battle is next
Thursday against ECTC at Legion
field.
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Egypt has initiated an irrigation
project on the Sinai Peninsula.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-14

of Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake,
stars of THE Blue Dahlia." They
have not looked so silkily smooth in
a package of emotional INT since
This Gun for Hire" an earlier
Paramount composition which made
them the moviegoers' favorite.
In writing his first screen original,
although he has been adapted be-
fore, Chandler might have taken his
theme from page one of his daily
newspaper His narrative fairly boils
with contemporary emotional and
moral chaos and the violence which
spurtS from it. Just as so many re-
porters seem to be doing, Chandler
has written about returned bomber
pilot, the pilots faithless wife, the
civilian viper who runs a night club
and ruins disrupted homes, and
the understanding other woman. BY
being that journalistic, THE Blue
Dahlia" is quite well insured against
being uninteresting.
If Chandler leaves a loophole
through which churl might like to
squirm, it is that his narrative at
least sprains the long arm of CO.
incidence here and there. Maybe
the offended husband and the either
mans" wife might not meet that
easily, and fall for each other that
as Chandler records. In that
case, there would have been DO
Blue Dahlia." That would have
been far worse than any liberties
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comedians) aloft in a runaway air.
plane. for example, is not the sort
OF thing that you note for its fresh
ness. But with Harpo gleefully at
the controls, parking his feet on the
wheel to show he can fly it no
hands" the sequence becomes fun
n1er than it was the first time you
saw it performed.
There are many such sequences,
funnier for the playing than for
anything else. There is, for in
stance, the time when Harpo, hav-
ing won twice at roulette wants to
let his winnings ride on the same
number for third whirl that will
break the bank. Groucho, man.
ager of the hotel, okays the trans
action, even offering to spin the
wheel himself, as he does so saying:
Imagine number 5 hitting three
times in row. Sucker The
wheel stops. Richest sucker in
Casablanca," says Groucho, who is
wonderful man for passing of a
disaster by refusing to acknowledge
its existence.
There are many other bright mo-
ments that will be recognized by
Marx admirers and may even seem
more fresh than familiar after this
four-year absence from the screen.
One of them is the scene wherein
Harpo, by the widest sign language
you ever saw, conveys to Chico the
information that the hotel man
ager is in danger of being bumped
of by the German after being
lured to her room by the counts
girl friend. This is quite a chunk
to get across without talking and
it is worth your while to see how
1t Is done.
"A Night in Casablanca" pauses
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-14
By SheiIoh 6rohom
HOLLYWOOD

HOLLY WOOD.
Donald O'Connor has told his
Universal bosses that he would
rather not make any more pictures
with Peggy Ryan. Nothing against
Peggy, but Don wants a change of
pace and partner in future films.
He's now scheduled for Kathleen"
-. That reminds me, Peggy made
SIS, 900 during her recent PERSONAL
appearance tour and she invested it
all in "Ryan's Pan" a restaurant to
be managed by her parents, who are
buying their daughter out of the
business at the rate Of 800 q year
for the next 10 years. Shirley
Temple is supposed to be sore with
her brother George for adopting
professional wrestling as . career.
I'm not" says Shirley. Il hope
George gets to be the champion
wrestler Of the world" It Is rather
odd, though, to think Of Miss Tenn
pies brother n the king Of the
grunt-and-groaners.
X A+A
George Raft has been going places
with Powers Model Betty Andrews,
but Mack Gray is always along. In
fact, Raft says that Betty is Mack's
heart interest, and he just goes
along-"to chaperone the children :"
Who's kidding who? >. Van john
son and Katharine Hepburn have
the same 1912 convertible make of
car. Yesterday, they were working
next to each other at Nero, and
when Katie left the set Of her pic
ture, Sea Of Grass" she jumped
into Vans car and drove it home!
Van discovered the mistake when he
found some nylons In the car he
thought was his. Helmut Dam
tine writes that while he was in
Europe recently, Gen. Mark Clark
turned over Hitler's fortified hmou-
sine for him to ride around in. And
If any one in 1910 had told me I'd
be riding like this-well. 1t Just
wouldn't have seemed credible.
Loretta Young goes blond for
Katie for Congress" The
Johnston Office has knocked out one
L from the name of Roy Rogers
picture. "Heldorado." . With Will
liam Lundigan now playing heavy
in Hedy Lamarr's "Dishonored
Lady" David Selznick is now hot for
the boy to sign a long-term contract
with him. It will be a good break for
Bill, who got the well-known brush
of when he returned here after
three years with the Marines 1st
Division. :. Adele Mara, Republics
pinup gal, tells me that she Is OF on
q To-day goodwill tour Of Cuba. I
gather that most Of the good will is
for . wealthy Cuban. Nothing
scheduled for Vincent Price since
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Casablanca, we can assure you,
never was quite like the Marx
Brothers make it in their new film,
"A Night in Casablanca," but since
no earthly place ever was quite like
the fictional locales the Marx
Brothers conjure up, that really
doesn't matter much. The impor-
tant thing to note is that it is very
good indeed to have the Marx
Brothers back with us again after
these four years, at a time when
too many cinema comedies look too
much like too many other cinema
comedies. A Marx Brothers picture
certainly never resembles anything
else, unless it is another Marx
Brothers picture
1t could be argued with some JUS
LITIGATION that this picture, which
opened yesterday at LOeWs Capitol,
is not the equal of some of the
brothers earlier comedy classics.
But even below par, Groucho, Chico
and Harpo are several times fun
nier than any number of other film
buffoons you could think Of, and "A
Night in Casablanca" is, fortunately,
approximately IS per cent Marx.
There Is a plot, of course, but it
is only a mere indication to tell the
three clowns where to frolic and
not fence to confine them. 1t has
something to do with a fortune in
NaZi loot, hidden in a Casablanca
hotel and sought by both a German
count in disguise, who wants to flee
to South America with it, and a
young French officer, who wishes to
clear his name by proving he
brought the stuff to Casablanca.
Since no international crook, or
coalition OF them, could cope with
a triple onslaught by the Marx
Brothers, even when aided by so
desirable a decoy as Lisette Verea,
you don't need to worry more about
the plot.
1t is tribute to the combined
talents of the brothers that, in
spite Of a shortage of comic inven-
tiveness, their new film is one OF
those affairs marked by such almost
continuous laughter that a lot of
dialogue must pass unheard. The
sight OF comedian COR three
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Blue Dahlia, Silky Thriller,
DripS Love and MAYHEM
By Joy Cormody

Raymond Chandler another writer gives people
repaid for
instead
the Palace destined
public
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Ine autnor takes with the laws OF
chance. The loss would have beer
one of the seasons more exciting
screenplays, a drama too gripping
to be dismissed as glib.
4 X
THE Blue Dahlia" is skillfully
tailored to the measurements OF
Laid and Miss Lake. He is the re-
turned pilot, a Navy Liberator man
with 102 missions. He comes back
with two buddies, catches a farewell
drink with them at the first bar
then goes to greet his wife. She lives
in one of those hotel bungalows
which are fashionable in Southern
California. In the fashion of people
who live that way, she is giving a
drunken party when the young hus-
band arrives.
The other man" is there, COM
pletely undisguised as the type so
often seems to be in the postwar
world. The wife's display of emo
ton toward him leads to an explo-
sive scene. In a few minutes, the
young pilots domestic world is a
ruin more hopeless than any he
ever made with his bombs. That
night, the Grant wife is murdered.
That is The Blue Dahlia's s" open
ing. which is like. sending a half
dozen people of a whiplike spring.
board at one time. The rest of the
picture is concerned with how they
land and there never is any doubt
that Chandler is going to make that
nerve ruffiing.
Any one of four men could have
killed the pretty young wife who
took a whirl at infidelity. They are
the husband, the other man, the
husbands buddy who has a serious
head wound, or the house detective
OF the hotel who supplements his
salary by shaking down the insti-
tution's more giddy guests. A quar-
tet like that assures The Blue
Dahlia" OF quite a man hunt.
Chandler makes 1T more dramatic
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by having each of the possible slay-
ers hunting the others while the
police are in pursuit from the other,
or official, direction.
X
The incident of The Blue Dahiia"
is dramatically rough stuff in the
main. but it is not exclusively that.
While the premises are virtually
strewn with corpses before the end.
there are cleverly worked insets of
romance and comedy. In the tender
moments between Laid and Miss
Lake-she the wife of the other man
the implauSibility of their meet
ing is likely to be forgotten. And
the comedy passages in which Will
liam Bendix, the pilots wounded
buddy. puts on tough and noble
aspects to protect the flyer make
cheerful interruptions for the
rugged sequences. In his Shiny way,
the house detective is another spot
Of comedy relief, and quite a help
in making the Palaces melodrama
. balanced blend of mayhem and
merriment.
Ladd's performance as the re-
morseless, fearless young husband
icily preoccupied with revenge will
be as satisfying to audiences as
it must have been to Producer John
Houseman and Director George
Marshall. Even more so, no doubt,
than Miss Lakes portrait of the
betrayed roue's wife who takes I'D
emotionally with the young pilot.
Both representations carry con-
viction as such made o-order roles
usually do. So do those of Berdix
as the mentally injured buddy, How
ard de Silva as the rk-hearted
other man." Doris Bowling as the
historical wife who gets shot for
her sins, and Howard Freeman as
the house detective.
1t Is all very smooth.
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on a couple OF occasions, Marx
aficionados will be happy to know,
once to allow Chico to play the
piano and again for . harp solo
by Harpo. Altogether, in spite Of
some shortcomings, you can set
the film down as something to
make that day happier when you
see 1t.
N'k
A brief item on the Capitol's
screen this week which should not
be missed Is Carey Wilson's short
subject, "Bikini-The Atom Island"
composed of official films and tell
ing with def understatement the
story of the 1877 Bikini Islanders,
uprooted from their homeland for
the atom bomb test. 1t will make
you think.
The Capitol's stage show is de-
voted in large part to the hypnotic
demonstration Of Ralph Slater, who
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Donald Wants a New Partner

the shutdown on Forever Amber"
He was playing Almsbury.
Lon McCallister, for all his dim
pies and look of baby, is quite a
thinker when it comes to his career.
I'm a few years I'm giving up act
ing" Lon tells me. Il want. to write +"
Lon started in pictures as an extra
in Deanna Durbin movies. Il had
a plan in those days to be a star"
(Released by North American Newspaper
Alliapce)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-14
Marx Brothers Are Back
And in Good Marx Form
BY Harry Macarthur

"A NIGHT IN CAsABLANCA." United
Artists Picture with the Marx Brothers, .
David l.. Lowe production directed by
Archie Mayo original screenplay BY Joseph
Fields and Roland Kibbe At the Capitol
THE CAST.
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was something of sensation at the
same spot only 10 weeks ago. The
things Mr.. Slater can do with hyp-
nosis and post-hypnotic suggestion
are truly amazing, all making for
a great deal Of entertainment. and
possibly being as instructive as he
suggests. Before he appears there
are dances by Walter and Jean
Brown and some expert juggling
by Val Setz.
The midland journal., 1946-06-07
SENATE COMMITTEE ACTS
Farm Prices Taken Out of OPA

industries could appeal for removal
of ceilings if the Office of Price Ad-
ministration declined to lift them.
This was proposed by Senator Mill
kin (R., Colo.).
8. Lodging of control over food
and farm prices in the department
of agriculture.
A subcommittee of three was ap-
pointed to put this three-point pro-
gram into legislative language. The
members are Senators Mcfarland
d., Ariz.), Fulbright 3D., Ark.) and
Millikin (R., Colo.). When they have
completed their draft, the full COM
mittee will consider and take for
NAL vote on it.
Senator Bankhead 3D., Ala.) spon-
sored the proposal to let the secre-
tary of agriculture decide when cell
ings should be lifted from farm
products. Under his amendment,
the secretary would advise every 80
days whether supplies of farm
commodity had reached sufficient
volume so that ceilings should come
off. If he decided they had, OPA
would be required to lift them. The
secretary also could direct price
increase for commodity.
The midland journal., 1946-06-07

WASHINGTON. - Power to say
when price ceilings should be lifted
from food and other farm products
was taken away from OPA and CIV
en- to Secretary of Agriculture An
derson by the senate banking COM
mittee which is considering the
price control bill.
Chairman Wagner 3D., N. W an
nounced after closed meeting that
the vote was IL to 2.
Tentatively, the committee agreed
on a general plan for ending the
wartime controls over prices as pro-
duction of goods begins catching up
with demand. It embraces three
main points:
l. A policy formula, proposed by
Senator Barkley 3D., Ky.), calling
for removal of price ceilings by the
end of the year on all commodities
not important to business costs or
to living costs, and removal of other
ceilings when supply and demand
reach ratio where price increase
other than a temporary fuctuation
would not result.
II 9 Independent Appeal Board.
y 2: Creation Of an independent
board Of three members to which
The midland journal., 1946-06-07
Put Sales Coal
At 200 Billion
IL Strikes End

CHICAGO.-A total of 200 billion
dollars in merchandise still could
be produced and sold in 1916 if
strikes and threats of strikes could
be eliminated, Gene Flack, vice
president of the National Federation
Of Sales Executives, declared here
recently.
AS an annual sales goal for COM
ing years, Mr.. Flack put 14O billion
dollars as a satisfactory figure.
Such total would provide 531s mil
lion jobs, he said, "enough to make
certain that this nation will avoid
any possibility of depression"
Flack asserted that if the engi-
neering and sales abilities of Amer
lean manufacturers could lift sales
to total of $50 billions during the
war years, certainly America could
make another 80 per cent increase.
The midland journal., 1946-06-07
WASHINGTON DIGEST
Atomic War Could Force
Return to rii1nitive Life
BY BAUKHAGE
Ne,os Analyst and Commentator.

stance; his wife would have to
learn to spin, to weave, to make
soap, to fabricate all the things
you buy in stores.
He would have to lay in tools,
and enough other supplies to last
him the rest of his lifetime.
Well, perhaps all that could be
done. Then he realized that even
at that, he wouldn't be safe. He
would have to build barbed wire en-
tanglements, and obtain machine
guns and other weapons with which
to defend himself for with the
refugees who escaped, starving,
from the cities, the few who had
food would be at the mercy of the
hungry mobs.
If / had heard those statements
from a lecture platform, or read
them in a magazine, might have
passed them by as sensationalism.
But the statements weren't in a
magazine, or spoken from a plat
form. They were said over the
luncheon table in the quiet corner
of a club. The speaker wasn't
trying to "selp' his ideas to any
body. He wasn't trying to persuade
anybody to do anything, or to get
publicity. He was thinking out loud
about what he considered an acute
personal problem.
In the end it left him baffled.
There is no defense.
The only hope is to make the
United Nations work.