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The Sports Trail By Whitney Martin NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—(IP)—If you were asked to name offhand the peace-time sport which best prepared its fol lowers for the grim business of war you’d probably blurt out “football” or some other rugged, body-contact sport. Mussolini’s marathoners probably would voice an emphat ic vote for track, but we’ll have to wait until they’re caught to be sure. The most obvious sport would be overlooked because it is so obvious. It’s like forgetting water when listing the re quirements for swimming, or swimming when listing the personal habits of a duck. The sport most pertinent to war fare is shooting. Particularly rifle and pistol shooting. Small game hunting and trap and skeet shoot ing are valuable in that they train the eye to follow a moving target, but those are scattergun sports, whereas a rifle slug doesn’t reach out and get a piece of the target when the aim is a little off the beam. In its own quiet way the Na tional Rifle Association is contrib uting materially to the develop ment of better soldiers, sailors and marines. It i*1 discouraging all league and other competitive shoot ing among its members, and con centrating on training courses for future service men. Bill Shade!., executive of the as sociation, says that despite the fact thousands of its members have gone into the service, the mem bership is at 'ts peak, and plans are being made to increase the number of clubs. “The neople are rifle conscious.” he says. “I hey want to learn to shoot. Right now w*e have about 3.800 member c’ubs wdth a total of more than 300.000 members. I should say more than 300 of our men are in the service as in structors. Although the clubs use on’y .22 caliber ammunition, the rifle is of standard service weight and the government has recognized the .22 shooters as qualified to be instructors. “I have received any number of letters from our members in the service who did not go in as in structors. but w'ho promptly were made instructors, or received non com stripes much more quickly than they would have if they had not known how to handle fire arms.” Many newspapers throughout the country are sponsoring rife train ing courses under the direction of National Rifle Association clubs, Shadel says. One Cleveland paper, he points out, has been turning out 100 graduates from such courses each week. A minimum of 10 men is re quired for the formation of a club eligible for membership in the N. R. A. Every man must be a citizen and must take the oath of allegiance, and the club must be approved by the adjutant general of its state. Dues for the club are $10 a year, with individual dues $3, which covers s Ascription to the association magazine Shadel says he understands that the Russians went in for rifle clubs in a big way in recent years, with membership approaching 5, 000,000. If so, this may account in part for the stubborn battle put up against the invaders, and the fact we hear stories of Russian sharpshooters racking up scores as casually as if they were shoot ing a game of straight pool. Marksmanship is a tradition of this country with its Dackground of Daniel Boones. It was his squir rel-potting accuracy with a rifle that enabled Sergeant Alvin York to perform his tremendous feat in the First World War, and it was the marines’ accuracy with the rifle that turned the tide at Bel leau Wood. In the jungle fighting of the cur rent Pacific war the individual ri fleman is playing a major role. The man who shoots straight is the man who survives. And that’s where the National Rifle Association comes in. rr RECEIVES 172,091 TIRES RALEIGH, Dec. 11—(JP)—'The Of fice of War Information said to day the Charlotte warehouse of the defense supplies corporation has received 172,091 tires under the idle-tire purchase plan. Recreational Gifts Sporting Goods SNEEDEN CYCLE CO. 114 Market St. FOR MEN m ^ m FURS HEIM EXCLUSIVELY EN WILMINGTON AX CINDERELLA BOOTERIE TWP EMPLOYES SET WARNING ON WAR Washington, N. C. Humor ist Tells Club It Must Meet Demands “It’s later than you think,” Ed mund Harding, humorist and phil osopher of Washington, N. C., past district governor of Rotary club, told thirty-five members of Tide Water Power company’s “Twenty Year Club’* Friday night at the club’s 1942 banquet in the Friendly cafeteria dining hall. Punctuating his message with a series of anec dotes and jokes, Mr. Harding em phasized the responsibility of each citizen in winning the war effort, and especially the responsibility of Tide Water workers. In addressing employes of his concern who have a record of from 20 to 40 years’ service, N. E. Drexler, president, declared: ‘We feel that we have a real job to perform, more of a job than we have had at any other time in (his company’s history.” He pointed out that the firm now has 30 men in the nation’s armed forces and many other civilian defe .se acti vities. He paid tribute to his corps of older workers, and to F. A Matthes, former president of the utility concern, who is now chair man of its board of directors. Lewis J. Poisson, attorney for the Tide Water Power company, stressed the need for safety me thods that will reduce accidents bolding up production. Mr. Pois son told the group that casualties, caused by carelessness on the home front, were seven to one the number of casualties being suf fered on our battle fronts. A. E. Jones, general manager, praised the safety record of Tide Water employes, and urged continued pro gress. Other speakers on the program were W. R. Dosher, postmaster and Pat Gerkin, of the Camp Davis post engineers, visitors, both of whom brought messages of greet ing. C. L. Carter introduced Mr. Harding. In charge of the program was Henry Sherman who was elected again to the presidency of the Twenty-Year club by unanimous vote. The five new members of the 20 year service groupc include F. A. Matthes. Mr. Matthes, awarded his pin for a score of years’ service to Tide Water, declared that "ours is an organization that has done a lot to develop this community rnd eastern North Carolina. I ap preciate the opportunity to become a member in my own righ of this club.” The pin was presented to Mr. Matthes by Miss Gertrude Bell, the only active woman member of the club. Fifty seven active members con stitute Tide Water’s 20 year group. At the conclusion of the meet ing, members sang "Jingle, Jangle. Jingle,” and "Praise the Lord and Pass the Amunition.” They were accompanied by Mr. Harding on the accordion. XT WEATHER (Continued From Page One) Sunrise, 7:08 a. m.; sunset, 5:04 p m.; moonrise, 11:10a; moonset, 10:23p. WASHINGTON, Dec. 11—(£>)_Weather bureau report of temperature and rain fall for the 24 hours ending 8 p. m. m the principal cotton growing areas and elsewhere: station High Asheville _ 45 Atlantic City _ 48 Eoston _ 45 Burlington _ 40 Cincinnati___45 Denver _ _ , Duluth _ 08 Fort Worth_ 57 Key West _ 81 Louisville —__lr 42 Minn.-St. Paul_ 12 New Orleans_ 58 Norfolk_ 48 Portland, Met_ 47 St. Louis___ 44 Savannah _ 55 Vicksburg _ 80 Washington _ 4 [ Low 32 41 37 31 27 25 40 73 35 53 43 32 30 51 47 34 R fall 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.14 0.00 u.uu 0.36 0.00 0.00 AP Chooses All-America Football FRANK SINKWICH Georgia Back GLENN DOBBS Tulsa Back JOSEPH DOMNANOVICH Alabama Ctnfer RICHARD WILDUNG • . Minnesota Tackle GARRARD RAMSEY William S Mary Guard PAUL GOVERNALI Columbia Back CLYDE JOHNSON Kentucky Tackle CHARLES TAYLOR Stanford Guard ,pF MIKE HOLOVAK Boston Colltg* Bock DAVE SCHREINER 'Wisconsin End ROBERT SHAW Ohio Sfaft End CITY POPULATION SET BY OFFICIALS (Continued (rom Page One) came over taxed, then this became a business problem.” Fockler asserted that most in dustries with foresight made ev eiy effort to get into war work, either directly or indirectly, and through the War Production Board most were successful. Since the war program was established, about . 18 new retail stores, consisting of restaurants, dress shops and laundries, have opened here, he stated, but there has been no increase in wholesal ers in the territory. Both now iace the same problem of securing stock and after the Christmas rush, no doubt will have many vacant shelves, he added. All business is operating with less employees. “We face in Wilmington ’within the next three to four weeks a serious shortage of food,” declared the chamber official. “The stocks of wholesale food dealers is becom ing lower and lower, and they are informed by suppliers that allot ments are exhausted until April 1, 1943. “Our wholesalers had no way of knowing our population would in crease to the extent it has in the past year, and naturally did not order early in the season stock enough to meet the demand,” he said. "The shortage appears in the staple canned food lines. “These facts have been present ed to OPA without result,” he con tinued. “This needs attention at once, and can be solved by the adjustments of allotments and pop ulation figures.” Fockler declared that the hous ing problem is now almost solved with the building of approximately 1,000 new houses by private capi tal, and the 6,500 units of defense housing either under construction or completed. To meet the increased demand in water and sewer facilities, the city has spent $162,000, and the Federal government $300,000, he said, and a contract has recently been let for additional improve ment to the water system for $2, 600,000. Expenditures of the city have raised from $863,836.28 in 1941 to an estimated expenditure of $1,236, 062.46 in 1943, he said, and by careful management the city has been able to meet these increases without an increase in the tax rate. Further outlining the war prob lems here, Fockler asked why a ration board could not be set up for every 25,000 persons. “They do not have enough clerks and one board, with a panel extensions for the shipyard, is most certain ly not enough for a county the size of ours.” He declared that people stand in line for hpurs to be served, and business men spend at least two hours every month standing in line and wasting time. “This method of making people wait and like it takes time away from everyone, breaks public morale, and confidence in our govern ment.” The chamber official concluded by declaring that "the most Im portant help to all business now is the elimination of duplication of reports to file, forms to fill in, , rulings to be understood and stud j ied, crisscrossing of governmental ' authority, and while business can I not expect, or want to continue 1 as usual, the people do not expect politics as usual.” -V The value of munitions made In Canada last year was greater than that of the total produced during I the last wai. i THE 1942 AP All AMERICA Position Player and College Class END _DAVID N. SCHREINER, Wisconsin* —..SENIOR TACKLE _RICHARD K. WILDING, Minnesota*—SENIOR GUARD _GARRARD S. RAMSEY, William A Mary ..SENIOR CENTER _JOSEPH J. DOMNANOVICH, Alabama-SENIOR GUARD _CHARLES A. TAYLOR, Stanford..SENIOR TACKLE _CLYDE E. JOHNSON, Kentucky -SENIOR END _ROBERT SHAW, Ohio State _ SENIOR BACK _GLENN DOBBS, Tulsa _SENIOR BACK _PAUL V. GOVERNALI, Columbia .SENIOR BACK _FRANK SINKWICH, Georgia* _SENIOR BACK _MICAEL J. HOLOVAK, Boston College-SSNIOR •Chosen for second consecutive year. Afe 21 21 21 23 22 24 21 31 21 22 21 Hgtit 5- 3 6- 0 6-2 6-1 5-11 6-6 6-1 6-4 5-11 5- 10 6- 1 Wght Home 200 Lancaster, Wis— 214 Luvenie, Minn. 188 VValland, Tenn. 190 South Bend, Ind. 202 San Jose, Cal. 235 Ashland, Ky. 205 Lansford, Pa. 190 Frederick, Okla. 186 New York City 180 Youngstown, O. 205 Lansford, Pa. SECOND TEAM Position THIRD TEAM GEORGE POSCHNER, Georgia .. END -.BRUCE ALFORD, Texas Christian AL YVISTERT, Michigan _ TACKLE .DON YVH1TMIRE, Alabama HARVEY HARDY, Georgia Tech _ GUARD ..JACK LESCOUL1E, U. C. L. A. POUIS SOSSAMON, South Carolina__CENTER_Spencer MOSELEY, Yale JULIUS FRANKS, Michigan _ GUARD_LINDEL HOUSTON, Ohio State STAN MAULDIN, Texas ___TACKLE_NORMAN VERRY, Southern California DON CURRIYTAN, Boston College __ END _.AL Hl'ST, Tennessee MONK GAFFORI), Aubum _ BACK _RAY EY’ANS, Kansas BILLY HILLENBRAND, Indiana _ BACK .CLINT CASTLEBERRY, Georgia Tech BOB STEl’BER, Missouri _ BACK _JESSE FREITAS, Santa Clara BOB KENNEDY, YVasliington State_ BACK _PAT HARDER, Wisconsin George Subs For Chewchi, Takes Beating A t Thalian By R. J. POWELL Old Man Jinx joined hands with Mister Injury to once again make a dampening appearance at the Thallan hall wrestling show last night when it was announced that the night’s principals, Chief Chew chi and A1 Mills were still unable fill their long over due engage ment here. Mills was scheduled to resume his feud with the Purple Secret, but instead he was on his way to Mayo’s clinic to receive treatment for the injury sustained last week, and the Chief just didn’t arrive. Stan Pinto filled in for Mills against the Purple Secret, but Stan was unequal to the task of hand ling the big bad mauler, who took the feature event in two straight falls. In a long and bruising first fall the tide changed several times be fore the Secret one stopped Stom pin’ Stan by bringing his surf board hold into play. Pinto almost crossed the threshold of victory as he pain ed the Big Boy with a combination leg twist and toe hold before the meanle turned the tables in his favor. It was a rough 35 minutes of mat warfare. Pinto evidently never recovered from the beating absorbed in the first heat, for he lasted but eleven minutes in the match-winning fail as the Purple Masked man turned loose his fierce attack again. In the opening match, Don George, the Greek wrestler, con tinued to be the fall guy for all the big boys as he tasted defeat in two consecutive falls in a slated two out-of-three falls affair with Rudy Stronberg from Milwaukee. The sleek-built Milwaukee lad punished the roly-poly Greek grap pler with a double leg twist to take the first fall, after George had al most sewed up the round with the same hold about middle, way of the 20-minute spree. Stronberg con tinued to put Shorty George through the ringer as he went 15 minutes to win the second with a quickly executed body press. Stan Pinto refereed the first bout and Stronberg was the third man for the finale. JAPANESElTAB AT YUNNAN LINE (Continued From Page One) attacked their erstwhile Japanese allies, inflicting casualties. The enemy, summoning reinforcements counterattacked and fighting was still in progress. In northern Hunan, Chinese re ported attacking and entering Changan on December 3 after causing Japanese losses. L Camp Davis Soldiers To Get Holiday Funds Donning the costume of San ta Claus, only with a bag of green paper instead of toys, Uncle Sam will slip down the chimneys at Camp Davis on December 18 to leave a Christmas present. H« will not be looking for stockings, how ever, because his gifts will go into the wallets and pockets of waiting soldiers. For all those men who are long on holidays but short on finances, a payday has been declared, it was announced by Camp Davis officials. Author ized deductions will be sub tracted from the total pay and that amount will be divided by one-half to give the com plete sum of Uncle Sam’s gift. -V Condemnation Petition Filed For Camp Davis NEW BERN, Dec. 11.—Petition for condemnation of 47 acres at Holly Ridge for the erection of a federal defense housing project has been filel here in Federal court by District Attorney J. O. Carr and Special Attorney Clyde E. Gooch, upon instructions from the Attorney General at the request of the Commissioner of the Fed eral Public Housing Authority. The area chosen for the project is along Sound road, Hines street, Kraft street and Jenkins street at Holly Ridge, which is across High way 17 from Camp Davis, Coast Artillery anti-aircraft firing cen ter. The town, county, MacMillan Land company and others are list ed as the owners. The govern ment offers $2,968.50 for the prop erty. warmngWen FOR BLACKOUTS (Continued From Page One) all units! of the New Hanover De fense Corps will be notified. They will immediately take their posts upon receipt of the first alert and remain there for orders from the control room and until the all clear signal is sounded. In the event a practice black, out is ordered, the civilian popu lation will abide by the same regu lations covering “blackout" as was in force on September 29 1942 There were published in this news gaper on September 36 and 27, 1 UCT WINS FIGHT FOR EXTRA FUEL Travelling Men Are Vic tors In Struggle For Additional Rations After eleven months of unceas ing work, the United Commercial Travelers have won a fight in behalf of business men in gain ing approval of the OPA for ad ditional gas and rubber for sales men. The order was made with the expressed approval of Mr. Wm. M. Jeffers, rubber administrator, who held that if the small busi ness man is to be kept alive, the salesmen must be allowed to con tinue to visit him. With the splendid support and the assistance of the Virginia di vision of T. P. A. and the Vir ginia Travelers Association, the order was able to win approval of a formula prepared by U C. T. which assures salesmen twice as much gas and adequate provision for rubber for the next year. The effort was started on' Jan uary 2 and after repeated inter views and written arguments the first break was made when Mr. Jeffers aggreed that salesmen were necessary to the business of the nation. His direction to the OPA request was "Not too un reasonable” and that plans'should be drafted by OPA to meet the requests. It is the belief of officers of U. C. T. that this mileage will carry all salesmen safely through the year. Rubber allowances also go with the gas and salesmen are thus given consideration as a class and are recognized by the govern ment as necessary workers in na tional defense. -V Local Police Captain Will Not Retire Now Captain James Jordan, of the Wilmington police depart ment, told a Star reporter in an interview Friday, “I have no intention of retiring until such time as doctors say I am physically unfit for duty in the department, and the Pension Board sees fit to re tire me on the grounds of phy sical disability.” Captain Jordan continued: “I have made no statement Of any intention to retire, as I do not intend to retire.” Explaining the difference be tween the civil service depart ment and the pension board, Captain Jordan said, “the two are entirely separate organi zations, and all retirements come to the attention of the pension board.” MANY U. S. BONDS SOLD IN REGION __ (Continued From Page One) cates, they said, a very generous and corporations. The Treasury department has also announced the sale of a total of $5,586,000,000 worth of securi ties, based on nation-wide partici pation in the Victory Fund drive. Of this total, banks subscribed to a total of $2,205,000,000. Funds from non-banking organi zations were: $3,381,000,000. This total includes: 7-8 certificates in the amount of $610,000,000; 1 3-4 Treasury bonds, $452,000,000; 2 1-2 in Victory bonds, $2,101,000; tax notes, $114,000,000; savings bonds series, E, F, and G, $104,000,000. The drive, officials said, is meet ing with good results, but there is still & large amount of money to be obtained by the Treasury department in the remaining days of December, if the goal set at 9 billion dollars is to be reached. -V Transportation Revises Baseball Training Plans CHICAGO, Die. 11.—Iff)—Major league baseball clubs, accustomed to making long spring training trips each year, may make swep ing revisions in their plans after Clark Griffith, owner of the Wash ington Senators, calls on Joseph B. Eastman, director of the Of fice of Defense Transportation, within a week. Will Hairidge, president of the American league, said today that Griffith, tne “Old Fox,” would rep resent the league in a move to get a more definite- expression from Eastman than that contained in a letter he addressed to the major leaguers at their meetings here last week. Eastman at that time called up on the club owners to “select train ing sites as near as possible to each team’s home city where cli matic conditions would be suit able.” The major leaguers were of the impression that Eastman’s letter was more of a suggestion than an order. McMillan’s NO-MOPPIN cures sorehead. For A Real Christmas Gift PHILCO RADIO A Good selection now in stock. PHKAKDS 299 Market St. Dial 3224 BE SURE WITH CEITin (III SIltltlT mull WHISKEY mmmmm- - Squad THREE PLAYERS MAKE GRID TEAM FOR SECOND TIME Sinkwich, Schreiner And Wildung Are ‘Three Repeaters’ By DILLON GRAHAM NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—Although war-time shortages in vars:tv man power gave lower classmen Un precedented opportunities to «hj„ this season, the 18th annual All America football team chosen tn' day by The Associated Press k the nearest approach to an all senior club in years. Only one junior—Robert Shaw Ohio State end—found a post in this group of senior standout” which included three carryovers from last season’s All-America' Frankie Sinkwich, great halfback of Georgia’s Bulldogs, Southeast, ern conference champions who play in the Rose Bowl; End Dave Schreiner of Wisconsin and Tackle Dick Wildung of Minnesota. , Wildung’s partner at tackle is a giant from Kentucky, 6-foot-6 Clyde Johnson. The guards are Charles Taylor of Stanford and Garrard Ramsey of William Mary, South ern conference champions. Joe Domnanovich. captain of Alaba ma's Crimson Tide, is at center. In the backfield along with Sink wich are Paul Governali, Colum bia university’s fine passer: Mike Holovak, powerful Boston College ace, and Glenn Dobbs, quarterback of Tulsa’s Missouri Valley cham pions who meet Tennessee in the Sugar Bowl. ] Freshmen were used on varsity clubs for the first time in several decades but despite the fancy play of these first year flashes, as well as praiseworthy performances by sophomores and juniors, the se niors also dominated the All-Amer ica squad of 33 players. However, one freshman—Halfback Clint Cas tleberry of Georgia Teen-stood head and shoulders above the oth the first team. The big squad, The greatest gridiron strength was found in the Big Ten and the Southeastern conferences, which were awarded three men each in the first team. The bi? swuad, selected after a nation-wide sur vey of expert opinion, drew two thi'ros of its players fr -m these sectors. Actually, 11 were from the South, 10 from the Mid-Vest five from the Far West, four from the East and three from the South west This war-time season pernaps tjie dizziest in modern history with one unexplainable urset pil ing upon another, may b- the last for the duration, what with mili tary calls and transporta'ion prob lems. Despite its topsy ■ turvy course the season did snow defi nitely that the power was con centrated in the Southwest and the Big Ten and that the quality ct play was below par in the Southwest, East and Fat West. The All-America team, as chos en, boasts a line averaging pounds with a 190-pound backfir'd that has power and finesse, goed passing and kicking and keen De fensive abilities. _, The Jewel Box Lovely * 3-Diamond Solitaire A beautifully designed mounting of solid gold fea tures: a brilliant centc- dia mond and 2 fiery side dia monds that will make h«i heart skip a beat.
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