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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01
INGRAM SELECTED
ALL AMERICA HEAD
Pro Football Owners Elect
Conference President
At arIey

CHICAGO, March 31.-R-The
walls reverberated at the ALL
American football confer e n C e
meeting.
"They wanted a man to run this
league who can get tough. Well,
you've got him, and I mean bust
ness"
The orator, heard by newsmen
through barred doors, obviously
was new league commissioner
jonas Ingram, who today met his
All-American employers for the
first time at a special meeting
to iron out 1947 schedule difficult
ties.
Ingram, former Admiral and
wartime commander of the At
lantic Fleet, doomed out in quar-
terback tones:
"We'Il stay here until we get
this scheduled threshed out-and !
don't are if it takes three days"
The All-America loop which
started last year as a major league
rival to the long-established ma
ton football league today ratified
Ingram's appointment to the $780,
o0o-a-year job.
League owners today also elect
ed Ingram as conference presi-
dent, succeeding Dan Topping,
owner of the New York Yankees,
who served as acting president
after James H. Crowley resigned
as neutrality-suspicious. to be-
come owner-coach of the Chicago
Rockets.
Migrants first problem appeared
to center around Paul Brown,
dynamic coach of the league
champion Cleveland B crowns s.
Brown at an earlier schedule
meeting insisted that his Browns
make only one west coast trip
next season, playing San Fran
cisco's 49ers and the Los Angeles
Dons on the same swing.
San Francisco, however, rebel
led subsequently, con t e n d n g
Cleveland's arrangement meant
the 49ers would have to make
four Eastern trips. The 49ers now
are demanding that the schedule
be revised or that travelling ex-
penses be ~pro-rated among all con-
ference members.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01
FOREST WINS
OVER SUNSET PARK
Murphree Triples In 9Th
Inning To Drive In
Winning Run

The Lake Forest Broncos oe1eat-
ed the Sunset Park nine, Z to 8. IN
an extra inning Grammar School
league game played yesterday
afternoon on Lake Forests new
diamond.
Crawford, hurting for the Park
ers struck out 81 batters in the
eight inning. He was extremely
wild at times and received little
support from his mates.
The Broncos put the game on
ice in the overtime stanza when
Walter Murphree tripled to score
shuney Brittian, Jr. Murphree
later crossed pay dirt on a passed
ball.
The leading hitters for Lake
Forest were Murphree, Britain
and George Davis. Bobby Lee
Brown was on the hill for the
winners and struck out 10 batters'
This was the first game for the
Lake Forest nine.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01
BUCCANEERS HOLD INITIAL PRACTICE
DOZEN PLAYERS
REPORT MONDAY
Andrews Pleased
With First Days Train
ing; Seeks Pitchers
Ry ROY COOK
i, Shorts Editor

"What we amt got, we gonna
yit", Nate Andrews, manager Of
Wilmington Pirates said yes
afternoon in the dressing
room at the American Legion
Stadium a few minutes after the
BUGS completed their first day Of
training.
The hefty ex-major Lacquer said
he vas pretty well pleased" with
the showing of the even dozen
that participated in the
opening drills.
The Pirates were forced to drill
outside the stadium yesterday be-
cause the playing field resembled
q small lake. Rhode Farrow,
ground keeper said that he hoped
the water would drain off the field
for today's practice session.
Taking the spotlight in yester-
day afternoons workout was Bob
Stecker of Upper Darby, Pa. The
tall bespeckled youth slammed out
several long drives deep into tire
left field section.
The morning session was mostly
taken up as a "get acquainted"
affair as Nate sought to arrange
a suitable playing field outside the
water soaked stadium. A carnival
erecting tents and rides near
by and the hammering of the cree
tors blended with the crack of
horsehide against willow as the IL
men took turns at batting practice.
William Benton, a Leland boy,
who played in the Eastern State
semi-pro loop last year, displayed
good form with the willow and
raped out several hard blows.
Burney Covington, a local lad
with plenty of semi-pro expert
ence was also in uniform. Burney
held his own behind the bat with
Bill Alsnauer of Farrall, Pa. Both
receivers did alright with the bat.
Others reporting for the opening
drills we're Johnny Edens, Har-
grove Davis, Joe Lipka, Harry
Bridges, Claude Coins, Fred
Musumeci and Edward Hardisky.
Andrews said a representative
of the Pirate club would go to
Bennestville, s. c., sometime this
week. in search of some pitchers.
"We do not have a single hurler
in camp so far, but we expect a
couple to drop in most any day
row." Andrews said.
The Pirate manager was very
optimistic about his club. "We
will be in there fighting" he said.
Joe Owens of Hartford arrived
last night and will report this
morning. Owens, a left hand hit
ter, played with the Boston Braves
in 1914 and later was sent to Hart
ford of the Eastern League.
The Buccaneers will workout
daily at Legion field from 10 a. m.
until about 4 p. m.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01
T0UREY
PLANS ANNOUNCED
Southeastern Amateur
Event May Be Played
AT Whiteville

ASHEBORO, March 81 PJ -
Three districts, and the possibility
of several more, were set up today
in the North Carolina semi : pro
baseball tournament program
which will be eliminated with the
state championship event here
July 18-August 2.
A western tournament will be
staged at Kings Mountain under
present plans, while a southe astern
even twill be held at Whiteville,
Red Springs, Or Aberdeen and d
Northeastern distict tournament at
Williamson. ALI of these events
must be concluded by July 4.
Deadline TO filing enty Of teams
was set at June l by officials meet
ing here today, including Smith
Barrier of Greensboro, state COM
missioner, and Wade Yates of Ashe-
boro, tournament chairman for the
sponsoring Asheboro Lions Club.
Entries may be filed Immediately.
Last year Is teams competed In
the state tournament itself from
an original field of 80 semi-pro
teams. This year it is planned to
limit the state tournament roster
to 16 clubs, and double elimination
will be played. The winner goes to
the Nationals at Wichita. Siler City
i sthe defending champion.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01
Second Round Of Cape Fear
Golf Meet Starts Wednesday

er Johnson, and B. NJ. Washburn 5
and 8 over J. S. Zapf.
Second flight-F. H. Bailey Pup
over Walker Taylor, L. M. Snow
5 and 4 over Walter Curtis, w. T.
Benton 8 ard 2 over Charles Ber-
gen, D. H. carp, bu default over
Alex Sprunt, Herbert Bluethenthal
5 and 4 over Fred Little and F. B.
Broadfoot by default over W. G..
Doran.
Third night-N. E. Davis by de-
fault over P. B. Ruffing. Tom
James 1-up over R. S. Phelps,
10 holes; N. W. Humphry by de-
fault over Hooper Johnson Jr., W.
L. Bozeman Cup over H. E. Hicks,
w. B. Long 6 and S over Fred Will
let's, j. B. Hughes, Jr., 1-up (23
holes) over George Conant. and
W. R. Chisholm 6 and 5 over T. r.
Cobb.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01
DEVILS SMOTHER.
VlLLAN0VA, ll-6
Duke Baseball Team
Breaks Loose For Seven
Runs In Eight To Win

DURHAM, March 81. - up -
loose for seven runs in
the eighth inning here this after.
noon to break a "a deadlock, the
Duke University Blue Devils open.
ed their home season with an II
to 6 victory over Villanova's Wild
cats.
Brandon Davis, a freshman
Highlander from Newark, Del,
went the route in hurting coach
Jack COMBS nine to its fourth
victory of the season and was
reached for nine safeties. Villanova
used three hurlers with Ben Dono.
hue, who was the victim of the
seven-run assault, being charged
with the defeat.
The game was a pitchers battle
for the first six innings. The Blue
Devils were holding a 4 to 3 ad.
vantage going into the eighth
frame, but the Wildcats showed
across a run in their half of the
eighth to knot the score at 4-all,
only to have the Duke boys put
together four hits, including a
lusty two-bagger by Bud Ayers,
two walks, an error and a hit bats.
man to ice the tilt in the home hall
of the eighth.
Bake Palmer and Ed Mccarthy
collected two hits apiece for the
winners while Al Litwa and Norm
Kline collected a brace Of blows
for the losers.
Duke takes on Michigan State
here tomorrow afternoon in the
second game Of a five day home
stand while Villanova moves ovel
the Chapel Hill to battle the Tai
Heels.
Villanova = 100 600 2l2 go:
Duke 200 O02 OK Ill g J
Batteries: Green, Chojnacki, Don
ohue, and O'Nein; Davis and Nc
|Carthy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01
City Junior Baseball Loop
Schedules Training Games
Teams To Compete
In Circuit; First Tilt
Thursday

Training games of the eight
teams competing in the 1947 City
Junior Baseball league were re-
leased by Bert Hawley, recreation
department athletic director, yes
terday.
The schedule calls for games on
Thursday and Friday of this week
and Monday and Tuesday Of next
week. On Thursday the Atomic
Aces will play Blackwood Sports
Shop; on Friday Andersons Tigers
take on East Wilmington; on Mon
day the Spofford Pirates collide
with Winter Park; and on Tuesday
the Village Cyclones encounter the
Dry Pond Bears.
All games are slated to start
at 4 o'clock at Robert Strange
park.
The City League is eligible for
all boys II years old OIL under.
This is the third year it has
operated In Wilmington. During
the past two seasons the city
championship was won by Lake
Forest, but this year the Foresters
were unable to enter a team be-
cause of the age limit.
Here are the rosters of the team
in the Junior Baseball League:
Anderson Tigers-Tracy Duval.
Billy Pittman, Eddie Coley, Leroy
Towles, Johnny Crowley, Louie
Clark, Walter Rogers, James
West, Eugene Stevens, Jackie
Lockamy, E. A. Thomas, Robert
Sessions, Jimmy Singleton, Brian
! Mullinix, Charles Smith, and Eston
Hoffman.
Blackwood Sports Shop-Jimmy
Stoudenmire, Carl Warren, Mike
Michaels, Billy Smith, E. G. Britt,
kopert Brown, Eugene Smith,
Harry Mathis, Bobby Hinson,
Tommy burlington, Roger Eason,
and Robert Meier.
Spofford Pirates-Jimmy Bris-
sion, Billy Gore, Charles Blanton,
Charles Carter, Claude King, Ron
aid Hobbs, Ronnie Phelps, Charles
Bland, Jerry Outlaw, Bill Stern,
James Monroe and James Moore.
East Wilmington Cardinals
Mintz, Wood, James, Billiard,
Gregory, Caldwell, Nivens. Wat
kins and Emmatt.
Village Cyclones-Melvin john
son, John Hinson, Jimmy Gregory.
Bobby Gregory, Lloyd Parker,
Bobby Westbrook, Phil Tysinger,
Pat Kelly and Billy Ward.
Dry Pond Bears-Jimmy Rus
sell, Roscoe Baton, Cecil Perkins,
Harold Kelly, Raymond Overton,
Mack Overton, Dalried Reynolds,
Billy Johnson, Julius Parker,
Frankie Hale, David Huffman, Billy
Reynolds, Burrl Murray, Vencie
Poff and Roy Lee McClelland.
Atomic Aces-Homer. Ellis, Phil
Crowder, Coe Storm, Bob Lane,
Bill Sturm, Billy Stone, Gerald
Stone. Daughtery, Roy Furr, jim
my Page, R. c. Bolton, Pat Har-
rington, Jere Kafalis, and Jimmy
Crawford.
Winter Park-Howard Talley,
Billiard, Moore, Douglas Sloan,
Edward Rusher, Billy Sneeden.
Billy Strickland, George Shepherd,
MILFORD Ellison, Claude Ellison,
LJere Hilburn, Clarence Hilburn,
Emerson Wyers, Billy Vaught,
Bobby Afford, Billy Afford, Jack
Afford and Clayton Starnes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01

Today is the final day in the
first round Of the Cape Fear Coun-
try clubs annual spring golf tourn-
ament, it was announced last night.
The majority OF the entries in
the field of 48 have already COM
pleted their first rounds of the
three-flight event.
The second round is scheduled
to get underway Wednesday and
the semi-finals are slated for April
z through April 10.
The finals will be played on
Sunday, April 20.
The results of the first round.
First flight. . Herring, Cup
over Tony Hines, Charles Blake
3 and l over Jack Potter, Louis
B. Orell 3 and l over L. I. Doss,
Harold Alexius 5 and 4 oNsr Hoop
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01
Middlecoff Wins Charlotte Tourney
MEMPHIS DENTIST
DEFEATS SCH0UX
Fires s Under Par To
Capture Play-Off By
9 Strokes

CHARLOTTE, March 31.-PH
Cary Middlecoff, the Memphis
dentist who passed up a berth with
the Walker Cup team to give him
self a two-year test as a profess
sional golfer, won the Charlotte
open playoff today with a smash
ing 32-32-64, eight under par, to
trim George Schoux, the San Fran
ciscan who plays out of Mamaro-
neck, N. Y. by nine strokes.
In equaling the competitive
record for the 6,41o-yard Myers
Park Course, set in last years
tournament by National Open
Champion Lloyd Mangrum, Mid
dlecoff pocketed $4,000 first prize
money in his third start as a pro-
fessional. Schoux, taking down
$1,400 runnerup money, fought
back gamely with a two-under "a
finish after soaring to 80 on the
way out. It had been previously
announced by Schoux that the
players would split the purses,
each taking $1,700. However; a
PEA ruling of which he was I'M
aware, prohibits such procedure.
They finished the regulation u
holes tied at 277, II under par,
yesterday.
Middlecoff, who first vaulted
into national prominence with a
1915 North and South open victory
over a select field at Pinehurst,
including Ben Hogan, decided to
make his bid for the professional
DOT of gold only a few weeks ago.
In his debut he pocketed $3.50 for
an 18th place finish at Jackson
vile, Fla, last week at Green's
boro, he flew to 154 for the last
SO holes after a 143 beginning to
finish one stroke out of the money.
Middlecoff's red hot putting and
unerring tee and approach shots
were too much for Schoux whose
erratic long game proved his I'M
doing in the face of the whitening
birdie barrage laid down by his
opponent.
Schoux, himself only a year out
of the amateur ranks, missed nine
greens and spent much of the day
getting out of woods and traps.
Thirteen times he was outdriven
by his rival.
Both Middlecoff and Schoux will
compete in the Augusta Masters
opening this week, the final winter
tournament.
Their eardss
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01
Plans For MINIS Swimming
Team Abandoned By Smith

Adam Smith, YMCA physical d.
rector and former Coach OF the
New Hanover High School swim
ming team, said yesterday that a
sufficient number of high school
boys did not turn out for the event.
This abolishes any further. idea
for MINIS to have a swimming
team In Al.
I'VE will probably have to start
from the grammar schools and go
up" stated Smith, as he is being
helped by some Of his ~" lead
ers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01
OHIO WINS

SALISBURY, March 81. -P)-
Ohio University rallied for one
run in the ninth inning and push
ed across three in the 10th today
to defeat Catawba College, 5 TO 2,
in a baseball game. Catawba push
ed across two runs in the first in
ming. but couldn't threaten after
that.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01

A 15OO-ton push" or pull
can be exerted by a machine at
the University of Illinois.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01
COLLEGE BASEBALL

Trinity 8, Furanan z.
Duke II, Villanova g.
Richmond 8, Yale Z. .
William and Mary 10, Washing
ton and Lee 6.
Mich State, 3, Carolina 4.
Ohio University 5, Catawba
Go innings.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01

Dial 2-ss11 For Newspaper Service
Evening star., 1947-05-04
Cumeru Fans Are Enthusiastic
Over Star Snapshot Contest

Camera fans of the Washington
area have responded with enthusi-
asm to the announcement of the
Amateur Snapshot Contest In last
Sundays editions of The Star. The
competition gives them an oppor-
tunity to share in local and ma
tional awards totaling more than
SIC, 600.
Within the first four days after
announcement of the contest, 10
times as many photos were sent in
to the Contest Editor as were en-
tered for a similar period in l942,
the last year the competition was
held. 1t was suspended during the
war because Of the shortage Of sup
plies. -
Favorite subjects 50 far are babies
and scenery.
The first OF the weekly prize-win-
ming selections will be published Ia
The Sunday Star Pictorial Maga-
zine on June /. The winner viii re-
5ceive SIS, and 81 will be paid for each
picture Of special merit published.
These selections viii be published
each week until August 81.
At the close OF the contest In
September, $25 will be awarded to
the winners in each OF the four
classes: "a Babies and Children;
ca Young People and Adults, l31
Scenesh and Stfli-life: % Animal
Life.
These four winners will be entered
Evening star., 1947-05-04
Martial Law Follows
China Rice Shop Riots
BY the Assoeia,ed Press

SHANGHAI, May 3.-Accounts 3. Of
violent series of rice riots today in
Hangchow, coupled with astronomi-
cal rises in the cost of China's staple
diet, oyershadowed news of seesaw
operations in the interminable civil
war.
The Shanghai Evening Post said
more than 300 rice shops were looted
In Hangchow, 113 miles southwest
of Shanghai in the heart of the rice
producing area.
Later reports said martial law had
been proclaimed in the city and the
government was frantically dump
ing large quantities of rice on the
open market in an attempt to de.
press prices.
Shanghai rice sellers feared sim
liar disturbances and cut the black
market price slightly to 2,400 dollars
a pound or 20 United States cents
at the official exchange rate.
On the civil war fronts, semi
official government reports said two
Nationalist forces were converging
on Communist held Taian from
points 36 miles southeast and 36
miles northwest
The official Central News Agency
said another government army cap
tured Suiteh, last important Com
munist stronghold in Northern
Shensi Province.
Evening star., 1947-05-04
BY .he Asseeiesed Press

LONDON, May "a workman
loosening some stones at the Wind
sor Guildhall poked his pneumatic
drill into a secret the gossips didn't
know about in 1875.
The drill suddenly left his hands,
and he found that he had penetrated
into a large hole. Investigation es-
tablished that he had struck por-
ton of a tunnel which led OF in
the direction of one of Windsor's S
historic houses. and quite rightly
historians took over the inquiry.
The historians were just about
agreed today that they were dealing
with another Nell Gwyn tunnel :
Nell Gwyn used to live in the historic
house, and the workmen with his
drill apparently had uncovered one
|of the subterranean passages used
by King Charles II to make secret
calls on the glamorous lady.
The discovery at Windsor was as
sociated Immediately with the other
subterranean passage, recently
found in the Chelsea region, which
Evening star., 1947-05-04
frances S Kin Says Hitler
Sought Gibraltar Attack
BY the Associated Press

MADRID, May 3.-Ramon Ser
rano Suner, brother-in-law of Cen
eralissimo Franco, asserts in book
to be published within few weeks
that Adolf Hitler once demanded
that Spain ceo1 the Canary Islands
to Germany and join the Axis In an
attack on Gibraltar.
Suner, former foreign minister
and Falange chief, was ranked as
the No. 2 man IN the Franco regime
until his fall from favor in 1912. Il
The book. entitled Between Hen
Gaye and Gibraltar, tells OF meet
ing between Suner and Hitler as
Berchestesgaden. at which Suner
said he told Hitler that Spain would
be more of a liability than an asset
to the Germans as q wartime ally.
Persons who have read proofs of
the book said that Suner. for Inex-
planned reasons, passes lightly over
q meeting which he and Franco had
with Hitler at Hendaye after the
fall Of France.
Evening star., 1947-05-04

Following Is a transcript OF the
conference:
Stassen fafter introduction -
Generalissimo Stain, on this Euro
pean trip / am particularly inter-
ested in studying conditions of an
economic nature. In this regard. of
course, the relations Of the U. S. A.
and the U. S. S. r. are very impor-
tant. realize that we have two
economic systems that are very diff
ferent. The U. S. S. R. with the
Communist Party and with its
planned economy and socialized coll
lective state, and the U. S. A. with
its free economy and regulated pri-
vate capitalism, ere very different.
1 would be interested to know If you
think these two economic systems
can exist together in the same mod
ern world in harmony with each
other?
Stalin-Of CT rse they can. The
difference between them is not of
essential Importance so far as CO.
operation. The systems in Germany
and the United States are the same,
out war broke out between them.
The U. S. and U. S. S. r. systems
are different, but we didn't wage
war against each other and the
Evening star., 1947-05-04
3 Killed al Maneuvers
|0f Jewish Underqround
By the Associoted Press

JERUSALEM, May 3.Three Jews
were killed and four others wound-
ed today during military maneuvers
by members Of Haganah, Jewish
underground resistance organiza-
ton. in an isolated area northeast
Of Haifa.
Official Jewish sources did not
state how the casualties occurred,
but 1t was reported without confir-
nation that "a bomb on which they
were experimenting exploded pre-
n1aturely."
The bodies of the three victims
were returned to Jerusalem tonight
for burial. One of those killed was
understood to be the son Of a prom
inent Jewish politician.
Minor incidents of violence by
members OF the Jewish underground
were reported tonight In Tel Aviv
and Jerusalen5~s
Evening star., 1947-05-04
u. 5. and Russia Split
Over Jewish Role in
United Nations Debate
FinoI Vote Is Expected
To Back American Stand
For Committee Action
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, May 8. - The
United States and Russia split
sharply late today over Jewish
representation in the United
Nations Palestine debate and the
issue was left undecided after a
four-hour wrangle in the Gen.
eral Assembly.
Assembly President Oswaldo
Aranha insisted on a night session
to settle the question OF how the
Jews should be heard on the Holy
Land issue, but Australian Delegate
w. r. Hodgson led a successful
small-nation revolt for adjourn
ment until Monday.
When the delegates finally quit,
the situation was this:
The United States was pressing
for approval of the Assembly's
Steering Committee report recon-
mending that the 55-nation Politi-
cal Committee decide on all re-
quests for hearing.
Long Debate in Prospect.
Russia backed Polish resolution
which would allow the official jew
ish agency to be represented at
plenary meetings of the special ses-
sion. This resolution, already re-
jected by the Steering Committee,
was revived by Poland at the OPEN
ing of today's second session.
Both sides had considerable sup
port, but it appeared almost certain
that the American proposal would
be approved when the final vote is
taken.
The questions still faced long
debate, however, since eight speak
ers had asked to be heard and
others might possibly request the
floor at the next meeting.
Warren r. Austin, American dele
gate, led the opposition to the Polish
resolution, declaring that to invite
the Jews to participate in the AS
Evening star., 1947-05-04
British Workman Bures Tunnel
Used by King to Visit Nell Gwyn

enabled the king to call on Nell
without the neighbors knowing
about it.
One end of the Chelsea tunnel is
under Sanford Manor House, now
an office and shop of the Fulham
Gas Works, where Nell Gwyn once
lived The other end Is some feet
under the turf of the horticultural
ground of the Royal hospital. a spot
in which King Charles found a my
sterious interest.
Nell Gwyn. illiterate actress who
was called a child of the London
streets, charmed a nation, a gener-
alton and the king with her sim
pie talents. So compelling was her
fascination that the phrase Sweet
Nell" to this day warns the heart
Of an Englishman in a special way.
The historians describe her as the
most popular Of the kings many
mistresses, and say it's to her credit
that she didn't try to dominate
prime ministers and bishops but
that she did induce the king to Gre
ate . foundation for today's Chelsea
Hospital.