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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-23
DUKE DIAMOND
TRACK, STARS
OPEN SEASONS

DURHAM, - Duke University
two major spring sports teams
the baseballers OF Coach Jacl
Coombs and Bob Chambers track
outfit-open their campaigns or
Monday by starting on tricks
which will take the ball clut
through South Carolina and the
Cirderpath boys into Florida.
Coach Coombs will send his
brand new baseball team against
Davidson at Davidson on Monday
while Chambers will watch h i s
spike-men, also a brand new out
fit, race in a dual meet against
South Carolina Gamecocks a
Columbia, S. c.
After Mondays opener. the bal
club moves into South Carolina to
met Wofford on Tuesday, South
Carolina on w e dnesday and
Thursday and Clemson on Friday
and Saturday.
The cinder path outfit will move
on to New Smyrna Beach, Florida,
where they will drill for the re.
mainder of the week in prepa-
ration for the annual Florida
relays at Gainesville on Saturday.
Coach Coombs has five regulars
from last season around whom to
build his outfit in Winston Palmer,
third sacker, Jerry Frye, second,
Art Vann, centerfield, Ed Nc
Carthy. catcher, and Bob Hough-
ton, pitcher.
He has one letterman back
from the 1941 team, Tom Kelly,
leftfielder that year who has been
shifted to first base, and two
reserves from last season, pitch.
ers Hal Stevenson and Tim Casey.
Four freshman will be in action
against Davidson the cpener,
Bud Ayers in LETT, John Falwell,
at short, and Red Lucas. son OF
the former Cincinnati pitching
star Of the same name, in right.
Leroy Sires, another frosh, will
share the catching with Mccarthy.
Coach Chambers has only eight
members of last years conference
track champs back. They are
Roger Neighborgall, outstanding
middle distance man, Doug Aus
bon, high jump and broad jump;
Loren Young, 40; Bob Bowles,
pole vault; Bill Scupine hurdle1
who is with an injury and
may not participate all season:
Dick GARDINER, weights; j o h +
Montgomery, javelin; and AL Bo.
dine, middle distances.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-23
Cards. RedSox> Favored To Repea t....

ST. LOUIS, March, q. - up -
The St. Louis Cardinals and the
Boston Red Sox are favored to
repeat as pennant winners in the
National and American League
this season, according to odds re-
leased today by James J. Carroll,
St. Louis betting commissioner.
The Cards are stronger favorites
than the Red Sox, despite the fact
the Sox made a runaway race in
the American League last year
while the Cards had to 60 into a
playoff to beat out the Brooklyn
Dodgers. The Sox are quoted at
even money by Carroll while a
person desiring to bet on the Cards
would have to put up 81 in order
to win So.
The Dodgers r giving the best
chance to beat out the Cards. They
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-23
REC DEPARTMENT
ORGANIZES N N Y
S0FTBALL LOOPS

Six classes of softball and base
ball clubs have been organized
in Wilmington and vicinity for boys
and men of all ages, it was an
nounced yesterday by Jesse Rey-
nolds, city athletic director.
The six classes are composed of
different leagues and will be play
ed at night and day on the Robert
Strange diamond. The men will
play at night and the boys division
will get underway in the daytime.
The first of these leagues is the
Hanover League which is COM
posed of six teams for men. These
games will be played Tuesday and
Thursday of every week, and are
scheduled to commence April Is.
Class A league, composed of well
experienced players, will get IN
derway in the latter part of April
and the champions of the first
half of the tournament will play in
the tits for state championship.
The games will be played on Mon
day, Wednesday,. and Friday.
Two senior softball leagues have
also been formed for the many
teams who are entering the tour
nament and all of these games will
be played the same night at the
Park.
A junior softball and baseball
league has been formed for play
ers IA years of age and under.
A junior-midget softball league
has been formed for the smaller
children around the city and is
expected to be the largest of the
smaller league tournaments.
A felt banner with Wilmington
champions of 1872 inscribed on
the front will be given to the
champions of each division.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-23
M0RCANT0N TO
GET PECIAL
GOLF EVENT

M~ORGANTON, N. c., March
% - R - Dick Metz, Horton
Smith, Clarence Owen and
Clayton Heather, members of
golfdom's touring colony, will
sandwich an exhibition here
between the Greensboro and
Charlotte tournaments.
The four will appear at the
Mimosa Club course at 2 o.
clock Wednesday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-23
CANDY CACERS
WIN Y TITLE
BY 27-lS

Dixie Candy Co. hustled to the
championship of the YMCA Jun
lor League yesterday afternoon as
they turned back a highly touted
Wilmington Furniture Co. five, 27-
10, and kept a clean slate for the
basketball season.
The lads after winning their
tenth game, with no defeats, were
awarded YMCA 'T'' shirts.
The YMCA Junior Sunday School
free throw contest was won by
David Afford, of st. Andrews Gov
enant, with eve out of ten tries.
The players and their respective
scores were: Dixie Candy Com
pany: Troutman, 5; Darrell, 10;
Jurgeson, 6; Farmer, 4; Pridgeon,
2. Wilmington Furniture Com
pany: Gumb, l: Fowler, Glover,
4; Thomas, s; and Clark, S.
Players in the free throw con-
test we're: Dosher, Glover, Lynch,
Clark, Hayes, Gore, Pridgeon,
Hayes, Clark, Padgett, Niven, Al
ford, Blackburn, Troutman, Far
mer, Longley, and johnson.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-23
By GAYLE Talbot

TAMPA, FLA, March 22.-lRH
NE best way to judge which way
h. baseball winds are likely to
How is to sit in the sun and talk
with the team managers. And 1t
rcurs to this sun-bather that
very National League pilot with
rhonn he has split a few million
beneficial rays has. sooner or
liter, brought up the subject o.
Ne Boston Braves.
Not, of course, until after the
world champion st. Louis Cardi-
tils have been discussed at some
length. and perhaps even the
Brooklyn Dodgers and the new
Pittsburgh Pirates. with Hank
Greenberg lending his large bat
h their attack.
Without exception, however, The
master minds of the senior league
have expressed a gnawing interest
i, tn e club Billy Southworth is
putting together down at Fort
lauderdale on Florida's east
coast.
Rival managers not only have
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-23
7STRANAHAN LEADS At GRFFNSROPO
Amateur In Front
At Hallway Mark;
Ghezzi Leads Pros
BY KEN ALYTA

GREENSBORO, March % - up
Turning in what he termed "The
best competitive round I ever
played" amateur Frank Stranahan
OF Toledo today moved into the
halfway lead of the 10, 900 Green's
boro Open Golf tournament by a
stroke with a 40 total.
His four under par 34-33-e7 left
him n shot ahead of Vic Ghezzi,
Kansas City, Kans., first day lead
er, who slumped to u and a second
place tie with Herman Barron,
White Plains, N. Y, a 70 shooter
today over the 6, 700-yard Star
mount Country Club course.
In fourth place was Cary Mid
dlecoff, erstwhile Memphis anna.
teur playing his second tournament
since his decision to turn profess
sional. He scored 70 today for
143.
The years top money winner,
Jimmy Demaret, Ojai, Calf, scor-
ed 70 to tie the host pro, Charlie
FarloW, a battle of the bulge vet
eran and II performer today, at
IA.
Jimmy Turnesa, White Plains,
N. T., dropped to "a after an open
ing II, but held seventh place with
145. There were five each in the
l46, lat, and 148 groups still to
be reckoned with in tomorrow's
36-hole windup.
Stranahan, who will leave next
month for England, with the Walk
er Cup team, scrambled a bit
going out, with three brides and
two holes over par. Coming in he
opened up with five brides, just
missing a bid for an eagle three
On the 18th and a record-equalling
66. A 2O-foot putt stopped two
inches from the cup.
He overshot the green on the
fourth and his ball found a mud
pack on the sixth to cost him a
stroke in each case. His other
difficult moments came when he
three-putted from 20 feet on the
18th and found a bunker on the
18th.
But the muscular 24-year-old
who scored his first major victory
over the professionals in the 1915
Duham open, balanced those short
comings with his superb play from
tee to green on the other holes.
Ghezzi started with eight pars
and one half over on the first nine
but had to work hard on the back
trip for a par So, needing three
brides to balance three holes on
which he went over.
THE LEADERS
Frank Stranahan, Toledo, O., 70.
67-140.
Vic Ghezzi, Kansas City, Kans.,
69-72-141.
Herman Barron, White Plains,
N. Y, 71-70-141.
Cary Middlecoff, Memphis, 49,
7O-143.
Jimmy Demaret, Ojai, Calf, H.
73-144.
Charlie Farlow, Greensboro, 49,
TIA.
Jim Turnesa, White Plains, N.
Y, 71-74-145.
Dick Metz, Chicago, 73-73-146.
George Fazio, Los Angeles, rs
71-146.
Chick Harbert, Detroit, 1878
146.
Dick Chapman, Pinehurst, N. c.,
73-73-146.
Bill Nary, Long Beach, Calf, IS
71-146.
Johnny Revolta, Evanston, Ill,
73-74-147.
Iverson Martin, Fort Worth, Tex.
75-72-147.
Bob Hamilton. Chicago, 74-73-
147.
Al Smith, Winston-salem, N. C.,
73-74-147.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-23
WADE GLOOMY
AS DUKE ENDS
GRID PRACTICE

DURHAM. March % Duke
University's gridiron hopefuls this
week completed six weeks Of fall
football drills and at the end of
it sidelines observers were pretty
we'll agreed that the Blue Devils
were still one year, and maybe
two, away from any champion
ships.
Coach Wallace Wade, who will
round out a quarter of a century
of coaching this fall, refuses to
look any further than the coming
campaign, saying II think we will
be improved over last year but,
at the same time, I am mindful
of the fact that our opponents,
most of whom were able to beat
us last year, will also be i'm
proved-probably more than we
will be" Weather was a big
handicap in winter drills and
while the boys worked hard when
they we're able to get to the field,
they we're not able to be outdoors
as much as Coach Wad had
hoped. Much work remains to be
completed in early fall sessions
Duke will lose from last years
team probably more starters than
any team in the conference. a
total of five in Kelley Mote and
Herman Smith, the ends; Ernest
Knots and Bill Miner, the
guards; and Leo Long, the full
back. Bob CAN'T, who played
much at both quarterback and
end, has finished and Buddy
Luper ,laternate fullback, will not
return. Harold Mullins, who play
ed much at tackle last season, and
Frank Sinkovitz, promising fresh
man center, have both dropped
out of school.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-23

are quoted at 2 IL to 1 by Carroll.
The Boston Braves and Chicago
Cubs are S to /, the Cincinnati
Reds Is to l while the Pittsburgh
Pirates, Philadelphia Bluejays
and New York Giants are each
80 to 1
The New York Yankees are the
second best American League bet,
according to Carroll. His odds are
2 to l against them, with the
Detroit Tigers third at 8 to l
and the Cleveland Indians fourth
at 6 to l. The odds against the
St. Louis B 70 owns and
White Sox are 20 to l. The odds
against the St. Louis Browns and
Chicago White Sox r 20 to l
each, against Washington's Sena-
tors Is to / and against the Phila-
delphia AS 40 to |.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-12
20 YEARS AGO TIg' HE tmr.kr
FEBRUARY l2, 1927

FEBRUARY l2 1927
 Volunteer Department the 21st Special ferries arranged transport the Douglas people
 Wnoughby Avenue had completed o 9 occupied February IA The Trinity Cathedral announced the Valentine lea would be held February Oliver, Tranrln
 realized the Finnish dance given the previous evening the Eagles Hall in Douglas
 The of this day breaking l Ketchikan The Alaska made the trip in 40 time Al hours and 2 minutes de by the Mariposa
 The Pioneers Auxiliary elected Mrs John Iangseh and sans delegates Ledge session to be held a
 previous the girls beat the Douglas High School 3 20 but the Juneau boys lest to o by the of IT to l5
 due the next day and games to Douglas high schools
 Fargher the concert to be given the m by music departments of the Juneau lIgh
 Weather report: High 37; low 36; cloudy
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-12
STILL WITH US

One of the worlds most debated questions though likely not the most pressing has to do with the weather It might pay UNESCO to take the matter up some day Are the winters getting colder or warmer?
 The majority popular opinion would seem to De that used to be much colder when present odsers were small boys and girls trudging through snow drifts on the way to school But whenever this opinion is expressed the usual is that precisely, once upon time you were little boys and girls. Snowdrifts looked higher when the observer was smaller Ears and fingers were colder when the youthful waytarer had nothing else his mind
 Against the popular but undocumented oehe1 that winters used to be harsher once upon tune, science usually cites the official records to show that there has been change; though the savants seldom convince either old young
 But whether warmer, colder or neither winters days have broadened We hear more of winter sports than of winter hardshps of snow trains instead or snowbound wagon trains. While a number of north duelers still follow the sun south, most of them do very well with the winter right at home
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-12

gary grew more critical, groups of Lungarian Nazis entered churches and broke up relis ious classes being held for Jews, with the result that many baptisms took place in Hun garian air-raid shelters, where hun dreds were baptized.
 Conversion to Christianity did not, however, permanently exempt persons of Jewish descent from Nazi perecuSion. Discriminatory and deportation measures were generally extended to such converts in short cIder, as well as 10 part ners of mixed marriages and indiv- iduals who had been Christians from birth and whose families had been Christian for generations"
 All in all, there are thousands of non Catholics alive today who would have ded in Nazi gas cham bers had it not been 1or the help of the Vatican and it's cooperation with the Am rican Government. tc0pYFIGHT, l9+t BELL SYNDICATE. rNc)
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Three Economic Patterns
New York Times)

On the same day that President Truman submitted to Congress his first economic study, based on the findings of his council of economic advisers the British Government also issued similar survey of the British economic picture The Truman survey was issued by the President cf caDitalistic country whom Liberals suspect Cf inclination to stry rom the New Deal path The British survey was issued by Socialist Govern ment of labor union representatives Yet on funda- mentals the two agree Both undertake to promot their respective economics by higher production free of industrial strife, in order to reduce prices and thus increase the purchasing power of consumers Both frown cn further wage increass until justified by demonstrable increase in productivity.
 This agreement is by no means accidelt7l It is the result of stark economic facts of life which in the long govern every country, capitalist socialist, and-cnce the fat of confiscated capitalist accuma- tons is consumed communist Indeed, these facts ae even memorable in Russias case than in Bitalns and our own The schedules of the new Russian Five Year Plan provide that by 1850 10 per cent more workers, working 20 per cent more hous per week and raising their output 40 per cent per hour 'Aa achieve total production increase of IS per cent for an increase in the total wage bill of 5j pe cont And even this increase in the total wage Dil will mean little to the working because most of is U go to the Stakhanovites who to set the w1rklna pace under progressive piecerate and bonus system and an widening differential in wage earnings An increased exploitation of the human factor is the only system the Soviets have discovered to nAe 'up for the managerial defects cf bureaucratic rezma and force that increase in production which they desire I'd which alone ean oa. lha increased wage bl.
 Itt Ameucau report recommends certain things To both Industry and labor but leaves it to their own insight and free will to carry out these recommenda- tions The British report, issued by the labor union chiefs and addressed to the National Joint Advs ry Council representing both employers and l3b9r, will when finally approved carry much more compulsion The Russian Fve-Year Plan is of course the law of a dictatorial Government, to be enforced with the whole of tOtalitarian state and its secret police and violated only at the risk mDrisonment and death We do not believe that Am ric n workers would prefer either of the other two systems to our own.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-12
BOY SCOUT WEEK lsg FULL SWENG;
 ACTIVITY PLANS

Scout Week activities are well under way in Juneau, Saturday, February 8, the Boy Scouts com pleted an active day in City Gov nment. under the direction of Mayor Waino Hendrickson.
 Fatruary g, Cubs, Scouts and Sea Scouts attended Church in uniform and will continue to wear uniforms throughout the week.
 Cubmaster Bob Treat and rep resentative group of the Juneau Cub Pack, 311, were guests of the Rotary yesterday. They included Den Mother Mrs Elton Engstrom, and four Cubs, Elton Engstrom. a candidate for the Webelos rank who VII 2raduate into Scouting next montl Eddia Dull, who will grad uate the following month; Garry Hedges, Lions Club Scout candidate, and Mike Grummett, Wolf Cub scout
 Pack enmittee coneisfs of the le-iuWi9a RCtarians Sian Grum- nett, chairman Jack Burford, Joe Mclean, John Br0gn2ss and Io\ Morgan
 Lest night Sea Scouts put on a9pe making dzmonstration
 Thursday, February B, the Boy slou District Cont of Ts2nor will he held at the Presbyterian Mem orial Church at 7:3o D n ". W Tutle, District Advancement Chair nan, will te in charge.
 Friday. February l4 Boy Scouts a.ll out on a play, "The Great Ad- venture from zoo to 7:15
 Saturday February l5. will be the annual Council Meeting
 Friday February 2l tae Cub Scouts vll put on their radio play, The signing of Jimmy All scoo plays are under the direction of Mrs Billy Csstler
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Congressional Pensions
Washington Post

Former members of Congress who have reached the o 62 and have served members for at least six years qualify to receive substantial pen sions for the rest of their lives by paying small lump to contributions for the last five of service Of course these pensions are gen. erous especially for elder who qualify for annuities after making only few contributions. But they bargains well worth the cost, because these pensions may spell the difference between penury and comfortable living for aged legislators who have given good part of their lives to the public service
 Such pensions serve an excellent purpose by making a political career more attractive to able men who would otherwise hesitate to enter Congress
 m ths career long service might end n defeat at tie polls and lack oi resources the part of tha defea cd while looking for another iab The country IS b-nefitd by the presence in Congress of veterans who have made carer of the ioo ol l1Wmakug. IT is only u.d to reward such men py eae 1lng them t.; Iietilc If the1 cheese .nt9 peaceful aoscdr'5Y when teg reaon Iire age Al too often the aged. de teacd caudidoe for office has been forced 10 exploit his ic4mer poitcaI connections in order to make B hqing. Adeauate pensions Ni discourage though they VIII uot cladica tc this e;l
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SECRET STORY OF THE
 VATICAN

Now that various war secrets are being told hy former Secretary oI War Stimson and others, it may be appropriate to reveal the great hu- man story o1 how one religious group cared for another during the war
 The story-of how the Vatican saved thousands of Jews-is told in a secret report by the War Refugee Board, an organization, largely ncn-Catholic, appointed by Presi- dent Roosevelt to save religious minorities from Nazi death and persecution.
 The report is couched in the un- emotional, prosaic language Of bu- reaucracy. But reading between the lines is one of the most human, dramatic stories of the war-hoW the Pope gave refuge to Italian Jews in the sanctity of the Vati- can, how the Pope sent money into Hungary to help the terrorized Jews of that country, and how the Vatican worked closely with Ameri- can Jewish organizations to send supplies to relugee camps inside Hitler's territory.
 Here are some of the highlights of the unpublished refugee report
 Constant communication was had with Vatican circles through Ambassador Myron Taylor and Harold Tittman, American repre- sentatives at Vatican City. and through the Apostolic Delegate in Washington.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-12
CREDIT LINE DUE

From Michael Honus secretary treasurer of Dis trct of the United Mine Workers, has come an nouncement that his organization will fight against the Pennsylvania Railroads plan to replace some coal burning locomotives with locomotives equipped with diesel engines. Honus explained: Every time steam engine is driven off the railroads two miners are cut of a job" Honus did not fit to say who does the driving; but he could well have added the GUS tomary phrase, Courtesy of John L. Lewis.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-12

to alleviate suffering If those whom Hitler had singled out f5r dss1ue- tion, that he attempted 10 protect large numbers by alleging theif conversion to Christiani j.
 Perhaps the most unusual means Of extending. protection to endan- sered persons ill enemy -c0ntr1lied territory were the efforts cf he Catholic Church to save lives by means of conversion to Christian ity Nazi attempts to oppose these me asures met with the response that the Church had auth 1rity t. baptize immediately 4ny person who was in imminent danger ol death When the situation in Hun-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-12
ITALIAN JEWS AIDED

Vatican cooperation was likewise obtained" continues the War Re fugee Board in helping afford re- lief to the Jewish community it. Rome throughout the German oc- cupation, the cost of these opera tions having been borne by the American Jewish Joint Distrihu- tion Committee.
 The Vatican was similarly help ful i'll transmitting and supporting the Boards request for alleyiat40n of the lot of unassimilated persons detained ill enemy territory, at leas. to the extent of permitting them to receive relief parcels under the supervision of the International Red Cross.
 Vatican support was also lent to the Boards efforts to insure protection to endangered persons in Axis territory holding Latin American papers,
 The War Refugee Board also tells how the Vatican advanced money to save persecuted minori- ties in Hungary and established an underground to smuggle Jews in immediate danger of death out of that country.
 Another instance of the invalu- able assistance rendered through Vatican channels was courier ser vice for the transmission of Pales- tine certificates authorized by the Jewish Agency for endangered per sons in enemy territory, notably the relaying of such certificates from the Apostolic Delegate in Is- tanbul to the Nunciature in Buda- pest to enable their emigration from Hungary.
 Throughout the course of the war substantial amounts ol money were placed by the Vatican at the disposal of the bishops of Hungary for the purpose of alleviating the sufferings of persecuted minorities. D
 CONVERTED JEWS So determined was His Holiness
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MODERN ETIQUETTE RoREerA Rs LEE

you much this so-caled exchanging of gifts dcne
   Should widow her the engagement wedding ring of her first marriage? A. No; they should be put Which should a dinner, the his right the his left? A. The his right.
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Daily lessons in English v L. GORDON

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