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The Sports Trail By \ Whitney Martin NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—(A3)—Well, as one fellow was saying, indoo rtraining for the major league baseball clubs may be fine, but he wouldn’t want to be within six miles of the place when the players started taking bat ting practice in a gymnasium or field house. The ball would start caroming off the walls and ventilators in all directions and probably would end up by conking the fel low who hit it. And it would seem that batting practice would be the major proDiem in sucn train ing at that. An athlete can get himself in su perb condition indoors. He can melt away excess suet by galloping around the running track. A dirt floor can provide fielding practice, at least for ground balls. A sliding pit can be installed easily. The pitchers can get all the work they need Even the bat boys can prac tice scurrying out toward an imagi nary plate and scurrying back to the shadows. But batting is something else again, and if there is anything any team needs more than batting prac tice it is more batting practice, and to get that in the 2 x 4 setting of a gymnasium is a problem for the engineering department. It’s too much like learning to swim in a bathtud The St. Louis Cardinals, and we believe some other clubs by now, solved the problem of batting prac tice in limited space a couple of tears ago to a certain extent, and the mechanical monster which was something of a Joke at that time probably will prove itself an in vention of the ages. We recall the first time we saw this mechanical pitcher down at St. Petersburg. It was tucked away in a corner behind the clubhouse, and aimed into what seemed to be a huge fish net. It would have made the DiMaggios quite homesick. Someone pulled away a greasy tarpaulin exposing some sort of ccmplicated gadget which looked like it might be the working model of one of these cartoons on how to kill a fl.v. Our memory of the details of Its operation is hazy, but it seems there were a couple of large rubber belts which served as slings for the slingshot, a trough in which baseballs were lined up like golf balls in the slot at the first tee of a public course, and some kind of a clock arrangement which, when wound, would operate the whole contraption and pop the balls out at regular intervals. A home plate was in the net at the same distance from the ma chine as the pitcher’s mound would be, and Johnny Mize stood up there expectantly. Somebody pressed a button or pulled a trigger and base balls began to fly toward the plate, with Mize swinging lustily at each synthetic pitch. The ball traveled fast enough to make any non-ball player miss it a country mile, and the machine 'uuld be set to deliver low balls, high balls, inside balls or outside bads. We aren’t sure about curves. Anyway, the batter got plenty of practice, and he could let go with out fear of killing anyon« as he and the bat and home plate were all alone in the cage, and his hits would swish harmlessly into the net. Hie Cardinals gave their machine a bet name such as “Aunt Maud” or Big Bertha” or something, and vc- understand - other clubs have Similar gadgets now, probably with appropriate names. Anyway, it seems to be the solution to the bat ting practice problem if the weather 111 'he north is not favorable for outdoor practice next spring. The machine really is quite a vonder. and we understand Billy couth worth planned to start it in some early games last year but ',a'e "11 the 'dea when he couldn’t , ch u to go to its left for a hunt. Segura Captures Crown In Mexico Tennis Meet MEXICO CITY, Jan. lO.-UPI tanciscc (Pancho) Segura, the two 'sled Ecuadorean court star, won ',e singles championship at the an-American Tennis Tournament J 'l hy defeating William Talbert incinnatl, fifth ranking United • ates player, in the finals, 4-6,6-4, ' - 2-6, 6-3. Taih1** losin£ his early advantage the Prt came from behind to square 'vi rrftch with a scorching net at Ki„“ ,UI1 Segura passed him con final Set Wlth si[JeIine drives in the New Klm On Meats To Be Shown Here fij^leiiLwiR.be a showing of the Rc-a]thMnae ln Romance” by the night\t * ,e, League Monday building? °’clock « the USO This showing isanforAZ"nneSNoet9 chaSat Mr" LMlie Bone*' * lnAaHlnt,freSted persons are urged ^ ot ’FmheClally th0se » the street °* Street to Water to cL nd ,fr°T Chestnut street ^castle street. Recreational Gilts Sporting Goods SNEEDEN CYCLE CO. 114 M»rket St r-— Sports In Brief (By The Associated Press) NEW YORK.—George W. Blos som, Jr., Chicago, re-elected presi dent of U. S. Golf Association, told group nation’s courses should be kept open; U. S. G. A. voted to continue ban on championships and to extend war relief activi ties. DETROIT—Gus Dorais, Detroit university football coach for 18 years, signed contract to become head coach and executive of Pro fessional Detroit Lions. NEW ORLEANS.—William Zieg ler, Jr.’s Wait A Bit won Shreve port Handicap at Fair Grounds, carrying 112 pounds over six fur longs of sloppy going in 1:13 3-5. NEW YORK.—National Soccer Coaches Association named Lieut. Commander Tom Hamilton as man who did most for soccer in 1942. NEW YORK. — Eastern Lawn Tennis Association voted to sup port plans for complete program of national and sectional tourna ments. -V This Week’s Boxing NEW YORK, Jan. 10—(/P)—The first long distance bout in 30 years in California will be held at San Francisco tomorrow night when Eddie Booker of San Francisco de fends his state middleweight title against Jack Chase of Walsenburg, Colo., in a 15-round bout. Fifteen-round bouts were legaliz ed in California last November and tomorrow night’s fight is the first since the law was adopted. Pittsburgh presents a triple-head er on Tuesday with A1 (Bummy) Davis opposing Carmen Notch of Pittsburgh, Fritzie Zivic meeting his home-town rival, Mayon Padlo, and Buddy Walker of Columbus taking on Curtis Sheppard, also of Pitssburgh. All of the bouts are ten rounders. On Friday, Sgt. Jackie Wilson, high ranking welterweight from California now stationed at near by Mitchel Field, appears in Ma dison Square Garden against Jake LaMotta of New York. On the same card, Chalky Wright, form er featherweight king, meets Joey Peralta of Tamaqua, Pa., one of the lightweights entered in the eli mination series. The program: Monday — At New York, Pat Comisky, Paterson, N. J., vs Big Bey Carillo, Hartford, Conn., heavyweights, (8); at San Fran cisco, Eddie Booker, San Francis co, vs Jack Chase, Walsenburg, Colo., middleweight, (15); at Chi cago, Sgt. Joe Muscato, Buffalo, vs Johnny Denson, Indianapolis, heavyweights, (8). Tuesday — At Pittsburgh, A1 (Bummy) Davis, New York, vs Carmen Notch, Pittsburgh, welter weights, (10); Fritzie Zivic, Pitts burgh, vs Mayon Padlo, Pitts burgh, (10); Buddy Walker, Co< lumbus, vs Curtis Sheppard, Pitts burgh, heavyweight, (10); at Jer aey City, Bobb McNutt, Baltimore, vs Joe Carter, Rome, N. Y., mid dleweights, (8). Wednesday—At Elizabeth, N. J., Jack Fowlkes, Elizabeth, N. J., vs Billy Grant, Orange, N. J., light heavyweights, (8). Thursday—At Philadelphia, Tonv Gangemi, Philadelphia, vs Wally Sears, Philadelphia, heavyweights, (8), at Fall River, Mass., Freddie Wilson, New York, vs Frankie Britt, Fall River, welterweights, (10). Friday—At New York, Sgt. Jack ie Wilson, Los Angeles, vs Jake LaMotta, New York, welterweights, (10); Joey Peralta, Tamaqua, Pa., vs Chalky Wright, Los Angeles, lightweights, (10); at Portland, Ore., Powder Proctor, Portland, vs Costello Cruz, Santa Barbara, Calif., middleweights, (10); at Los Angeles, Earl Turner, Oakland, vs Cecil Hudson, Los Angeles, wel terweights, (10). -v Tennis Club Calls Halt On 1943 Court Tourney CHICAGO. Jan. 10.—ta>> — The Western Tennis Association hjWi abandoned plans for its 1943 cham pionship tournament and in Its last set of rankings for the duration has rated Seymour Greenberg of Chica go No. l over William Talbert of Cincinnati. The association announced this move was made to discourage play* ers from traveling about the cir cuit. Duke - Maryland Head Southern Loop DEVILS DEFEND ’42 HOOP CROWN BY HEADING LOOP Maryland Terps Push Blue Devils With Aver age Of 1000 RICHMOND, Va„ Jan. 10—(S’)— Duke University’s defending champions and a sharpshooting quint from the University of Mary land are off to an early season lead in the Southern Conference basketball campaign with a Dair of triumphs each in as many fami ly tests. Duke’s successes were scored over the powerful cage squads, Davidson by 60 to 50 and V. M, I. by a narrow 44 to 43 margin. Mary land’s Terps conquered Richmond’s highly-regarded team by a 32-2£ score and followed this up with a convincing 47-40 decision over i strong North Carolina outfit. Virginia Tech was the only other of the dozen conference members which have launched their looj cards without one or more de feats. The Blacksburg Gobblers tripped William and Mary, 49-3‘ in their only start in the circuit Only 15 of the 16 conference members remained in the race to day as the result of Furman’s decision to abandon intercolle giate basketball because of travel restrictions and the fact that the Army is using the gymnasium ol the Greenville, S. C. university The quints are battling for the right to enter the conference cage tournament which will be played at the close of the season in Ra leigh, N. C., to decide the 1943 champions. The eight top-ranking squads in the final standings will be selected for the title affair with the first four finishers earn ing seeded positions in the ratings. George Washington U., slated to be one of the leading contenders for Duke’s crown this season, opens its conference schedule on the road, meeting Duke Monday, North Caro lina Tuesday and the North Caro lina Naval Pre-Flight quint on | Wednesday. Maryland laces two stern tests at Lexington, meeting Washington and Lee on Friday and V. M. I. on Saturday. North Carolina in vades the old dominion Friday for games with Virginia Tech and W. & L. Oiiher games this week which will count in the standings include: Tuesday, Wake Forest at Clemson and Richmond at William and Mary; Wednesday, Virginia Tech at V. M. I., and Saturday, South Carolina at Davidson. The Standings: W L Pf Pa Duke __— 2 0 105 93 Maryland _ 2 0 77 68 Va. Tech. 1 0 49 34 Davidson —.. 1 1 94 97 V. M. I..-. 1 1 84 83 North Carolina State 1 1 85 84 North Carolina _ 1 1 89 84 William and Mary ..12 106 123 Richmond_ 0 1 28 32 Washington and Lee . 0 1 33 34 Wake Forest_ 0 1 37 49 Clemson _ 0 1 40 48 George Washington . 0 0 0 0 South Carolina_ 0 0 0 0 Citadel _ 0 0 0 0 FELLERS FATHER PASSES IN HOME — Man Who Reared League’s Outstanding Hurler Dies; Bob’s On Naval Sea Duty VAN METER, Iowa, Jan. 10— (/Pi—William Feller, the Iowa farm er who groomed his son. Bob, to become a major league pitching star, died today. Death came to the 56-year old father, seriously ill for several years in the $25,000 farm home son Bob built for his parents on their 320-acre farm near here. Bob, who left the Cleveland In dians to join the Navy, is believ ed to be on sea duty following completion of a gunnery course at Norfolk, Va. He last visited his parents and sister, Marguerite, Dec. 1. Feller’s life was wrapped around the baseball achievements of the son he reared to be a ball 'player. “Bob just naturally took to base ball,” he once remarked. “When he was a tiny lad, he’d beg for baseballs and a bat. By the time he was eight he was pitching in earnest. I got him a catcher’s glove and began giving him re gular practice.” Bob played shortstop on his dad’s neighborhood team until he was 15 when he started relief pitching. When Bob was 16 he pitched the Farmer’s Union team which his father managed to a state title. From the moment Bob joined Cleveland in 1936 his father became an intense follower of the Indians, with emphasis, of course, on what his 17-year old son accomplished. He and his family made as many trips as possible to watch Bob per forpi in major league parks. Those were thrills that eased an illness Cows Take Over Famous Augusta Golf Course Because of the war, the famous Augusta National Golf course at Augusta, Ga., has been turned into a ow pasture. Here are some of the cattle grazing and milling around on the 9th hole approach to the club w” *^e course designed by Bobby Jones which has been the scene of the annual Masters’ Touma Jones’ no'\1a1n Army Air Corps captain, said the course was lying idle since the Masters’ Tourna effort cancelled and so we thought we would add it to the grazing land available for the war Phillies Still ‘In Front’ News Of Nation’s ’43 Sporting World j NEW YORK, Jan. 10—UP)—Dip ping into the cracker barrel: that Phillies’ sale is again a-buzzin,’ cousin . . . the word is the price tag’ll be between $200,000 and $350, 000, including the club’s debts . . . and you may hear something about it in a couple of weeks if it goes through . . . San Francisco promo ters are offering Tony Galento $7, 500 to tangle with Turkey Thomp son in this first comeback try . . . no wonder two-ton is training to make a hit tune out of the beer barrel polka again . . . the Dod gers now are thinking of doing their spring training at Dartmouth . . . how do you think Medwick would look in cap-and-gown? . . . or Durocher, either, for that mat ter? , . . Dis-and-dat-a Hal Chase is on a “tour” of the country just to chew the fat with all his old pals. He hit town last week, went to Pittsburgh from here and then heads for the coast. Says Frank Chance is the greatest first sacker of all time . . . well, Hal, a guy named Chase was better than a green hand, too . . . Light-Heavy weight Champ Gus Lesnevich’s first fight since he’s been in the Coast Guard may be against Ta mi Mauriello in the Garden late in February . . . Jim Norris, the Chi cago Stadium’s head man, is now a Navy captain at the Pensacola, Fla., base. . . . Keep moving—you’re a target Dumb Dan Morgan, the world’s free style five horse parlay champ, sees one benefit from the closing of some of the race tracks this winter . . . “it gives hoss players, the world’s most undernourished race, a chance to put on a little weight,” he figures . . . the Dod gers are going to try a Puerto Ri can infielder tagged Lou Olmo. And what Flatbush Freddie rises to inquire is. if the bums work out at Dartmouth, will Lou give his all for dear old Olmo Mater? Let ’Im up. He’s had enough. . . . There are now 32 past and pres ent world champions in Uncle Sam's armed forces. Starting with five heavies, Joe Louis, Jack Dem psey, Jim Braddock, Max Baer and Gene Tunney, and going all the way down to Small Montana and Jackie Jurich, the flyweight bosses . . . basketball in these parts is having its biggest season in history . . • wonder if Sammy Angott has a stage manager to time his announcement? His re tirement notice three months ago came the same night Beau Jack stopped Allie Stolz and it cut deep into the publicity of that big light weight upset . . . and his come back announcement Friday took a lot of play away from Bob Mont gomery’s kayo of Chester Rico. . . -V Tar Heel Swimming Team Announces ’43 Schedule CHAPEL HILL. .Tan. 10—</P>— A schedule of 11 meets, topped by the Southern Conference and Na tional Intercollegiates, was announ ced today for the University of North Carolina swimming team. The Blue Dolphins have won 17 dual meets and three Southern Con ference championships in a row. The schedule: Jan. 30, V. M. I. at Lexington; Feb. 5, Virginia Tech at Chapel Hill: 10, Navy at Annapolis: 13, A. A. U. meet at Chapel Hill; 17, N. C. State at Chapel Hill; 20, V. M. I. at Chapel Hill; 27, Duke at Durham; March 2, Duke and N. C. State at Chapel Hill; 5,6, Southern Conference meet at Lexington, Va.' 12, Georgia Tech at Chapel Hill; 26, N. C. A. A. meet at Ohio State. that had cut his voice almost to a whisper the last few months. Funeral arrangements will not be made until Bob is informed of his father’s death. -- Intercollegiate Cagers ‘Swing Into High Gear ’ I NEW YORK, Jan. 10— <£>>—Col j lege basketball, breezing along with j little obstruction from the wartime restrictions which have caused oth er sports to be curtailed or discon tinued. swings into high gear this week with heavy firing all along the line. Conference title races, although only barely under way, are taking definite shape and in most cases the favorites appear to be standing up well under the early season bombardments. Indiana, Wisconsin and defending champion Illinois, pre-season favor ites in the Big Ten, came through last night’s openers along with Min nesota and Purdue. Illinois whipped Michigan, 47-34, and Indiana stop ped Ohio State, 45-37, but Wisconsin needed a last minute field goal to squeeze past Northwestern 67,65. ' Minnesota had an even narrower squeak, 46-45 over Iowa, and Pur due handed Chicago its 32nd straight conference loss, 49-22. The brand new- standings are due for a little shuffling tomorrow night when eight of the teams go at it again. Illinois will be at Wis consin, Michigan at Northwestern, Minnesota at Iowa and Ohio State at Indiana. Saturday night's pair ings send Indiana to Chicago, Iowa to Illinois, Wisconsin to Michigan and Purdue to Minnesota. DePaul, one of the top Midwest ern independents, invades Loyola at Chicago tomorrow night to seek its 12 th win in 13 starts and plays Western Michigan there Saturday Notre Dame, winner of its first five starts, entertains Northwestern on Saturday. Minnesota will be at home Wednesday for a non-conference encounter with Michigan State, 34 38 loser to Great Lakes. In the Eastern Intercollegiate League, Columbia stepped to thfe front by whipping Cornell in the opener but may have company af ter Saturday night when Dart mouth, defending champion and top-heavy favorite, collides with liale at New Haven. Harvard visits Pennsylvania Sat urday night m the only other leag ue tilt of the week, but numerous nun-league games are on tap. Dart mouth, which lost to Toledo, 52748, last night, continues its tour against Wayne at Detroit tomorrow night and Seton Hall at South Orange, N. J., Wednesday. POLICE BREAK UP GAMBLING OUTFIT • Ten Men Held After Raid On Newstand And Soda Shop Here Eight white men were arrested on charges of gambling and two men were apprehended on charg es of running a gambling house when police raided a newstand and soda shop at 306 North Front street shortly after 3 a. m. Sun day morning. Eill Madone and Lewis Bray, allegedly responsible for running the gambling spot, were released on cash bonds of $250 pending tneir appearance in county record er's court. Released on $25 bonds and charg ed with being participants in gambling activities were J. E. Parker, R. A. Bowen, Harold Mar tin, J. E. Smith, W. B. Baceus, Buck Wolfe, A. L. King, and B. C. Osborne. They will appear in court along with Madone and Bray. riEDMONT LEAGUE MOVES N. C. CLUB Officials Shift St. Louis Franchise From Ashe ville To Lynchburg RICHMOND, Va„ Jan. 10—(JP)— Directors of the Class B Pied mont League held a two-hour ses sion behind closed doors here to day and accomplished nothing ex cept to give formal approval ol the transfer of the St. Louis Cardi nals’ farm franchise from Ashe ville, N. C., to Lynchburg, Va. Ralph H. Daughton, of Norfolk, president of the Piedmont loop, issued the following statement after the meeting: “We have adjourned and will meet again in Washington, D. C., not later than Sunday, January 24. The Piedmont League direc tors approved the transfer of the Asheville franchise to Lynchbui g.' Seven of the eight Piedmoni League clubs had representatives at the meeting. The eighth, Win ston-Salem, N. C., was represen ted by Clark Griffith, president of the Washington Senators, whe operate the Charlotte Club in the Piedmont. Daughton was instructed to re veal nothing to the press relat ing to the discussion which occu pied the time of the directors during the closed session, and he declined to elaborate on the briel announcement. From reliable sources, it was teamed that several proposals were advanced concerning the future ol the league, which is trying tc continue operation during wartime despite many problems, chief ol which is the transportation situa tion. After formal approval of the Asheville Club’s transfer to Lynch burg, the Piedmont League now consists of Charlotte, Greensboro, Durham and Winston-Salem in North Carolina and Richmond, Nor folk, Portsmouth and Lynchburg in Virginia. Herb Pennock, chief of the Bos ton Red Sox farm system, who re presented the Greensboro club, re quested more time to study the complex baseball situation before committing himself on whether the Red Sox wish to continue to operate a farm in the Piedmont. -V BRITISH BOMBARD BIG KRUPP WORKS (Continued from Page One) zaire, in the total of six large raids this year. The Germans raided a south west coast town killing at least six, injuring others and causing damage. A number were missing in what Press Association called “the worst raid yet experienced in the town.” One German plane was downed. The German planes machine gunned the streets and dropped bombs. Working class houses were hit and two large apartment houses on the seafront were wrecked. Three members of one family of four were among the killed. SITUATION BAD IN COAL STRIKE Anthracite Field In Penn sylvania 'Still Up In Air’ WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Jan. 10 —VP)—The strike situation in the Pennsylvania anthracite field was •‘still up in the air” today with no one in authority knowing wheth er 15,000 to 20,000 striking miners would go back to work tomorrow. The strikers, who are protest ing what they term an unjusti fied increase of 50 cents a month in union dues, were to vote this afternoon and night on a proposal to go back tomorrow morning fol lowing an appeal yesterday by Lt. Colonel C. W. Kerwood of the War department. “I think some of the men may go back,” declared Mike Kosik, president of district one of the United Mine Workers, where most of the strikers are located. ‘‘But 1 was told last night by represen tatives of three colleries that they definitely would not go back.” These colleries, which Kosik identified as the South Wilkes-Bar re, Woodward and Nottingham oi the Glen-Alden coal company, tm ploy about 4,000 men. U.S. BOMBERS [ HARD AT TR IL1 (Continued from Page One) ed the squeeze being clamped oi Rommel. (Coordinating with the U. S attack were day and night RAI assaults on the African corps a Ion; a 180- mile stretch between Tri poli and the Wadi Zem-zem, wher< the British Eighth Army has beei drawing up for attack. Increas ing German nervousness and as sertions from Berlin that the Erit ish were preparing for a full scab attack were reminiscent of th< Axis reports a few days beforf Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomerj renewed his offensive recently a El Agheila.) Meanwhile it was announced tha Vice-Admiral William Glassford Jr., had arrived in Algiers fron Dakar, and was conferring witl Lieut. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhow er. Glassford headed a U. S. mis sion to Dakar, strategic West Afri can port, last .month. Indicating the ferocity of aeria warfare on the Tunisian front Twelfth Air Force headquarter: announced that American force: destroyed 35 Axis planes and dam aged 40 others in the week o: January 2-8 against the loss of onlj 12. “Our B-26’s (Martin Marauders) escorted by P-38’s attacked the air field ten miles west of Tripol and scored direct hits on the hang ers and a military objective near by,” a 12th Air Force spokesmiir said, telling of the Tripoli rajd “Three Messerschmitt 109’s whicl attempted to interfere were bad ly damaged and all our plane; returned safely.” (French troops in the Pont-du Fahs area of central Tunisia re pulsed another tank-supported ene my attack, a communique frorr Gen. Henri Giraud's headquarter; broadcast by the Morocco radic said. (Infantry troops shot down ar enemy plane in that action, the communique said, and east of Kai rcuan French patrols attacked ar enemy post, capturing some 1; German soldiers. Patrol activitj along the entire line was reported.) An Allied army spokesman saic there was nothing to report on the northern land front in Tunisia ir the last 24 hours, but in Libya i appeared that a contraction of the Axis lines was in order shortly. Many observers at Lieut. Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower’s head quarters believe Tripoli itself i; indefensible and that the Germar marshal and his African corp: must attempt to withdraw into Tu nisia along the supply rout or which Sousse, Gabes and Sfax have been consistent targets. These observers said the con centrated Allied air attacks Fri day apparently anticipated thi: move and were aimed to cut his supplies and weaken his retreai before the British Eighth Army ir Libya. U. S. KNOCKS DOWN 133 JAP PLANES (Continned from Page One) ed them as negligible compared to those of the enemy. The air battle over the convoy reached its crescendo on the third day, Friday, when 58 Japanese planes were put out of action, 30 destroyed outright. Throughout the three furious days, while fighter planes were locked in combat in the upper air, American heavy Flying Fortress aad Liberators bombers and the lighter Marauders, Billy Mitchells and Beauforts swept in against the concentrated fire of six Japa nese warships to spew their ex plosives on the dodging, twisting convoy. So heavy was the aerial traf fic over the ships that at times Allied fighters were unable to swoop low enough to carry out strafing attacks, the Allied an nouncement said. Even after the Jap convoy reached Lae the aer ial assault continued. There was no estimate of the number of ene my troops who survived. From the start of the melee Wednesday evening, when Allied bombers made their initial at tack on the convoy near Gasma ta, New Britain, the destruction ox Japanese fighters was swift and deadly. Eight Lightnings pounced on 14 Zeros protecting the ill-fated convoy and quickly shot nine of them into the water. Three other Zeros probably were destroyed and the two survivors were damaged. With that as a pattern, the Am erican pilots in their Lightnings j and Kittyhawks spent the next two days knocking Zeros down like clay pigeons. One formation of 14 Kittyhawks shot down 16 Zeros against the loss of only one plane, and the pilot parachuted to safety. Throughout the running en gagement the Allied bombers also took a steady toll of the Zeros which tried fruitlessly to fight them away from the convoy, the Allied announcement said. In a typical 15-minute scrap a squadron of Mit chells met an attack of 15 to 20 Zeros and sent five crashing into Lae harbor and probably destroy ed two others. The Japanese transports with drew from the harbor under cover of darkness after unloading. Fires in the harbor were said in the Allied communique to have been 1 visible for 50 miles. 1 General MacArthur, considering the campaign in Papua closed de spite the fact that a pocket of Japanese still is entrenched at Sanananda point in the Buna area, has returned to his general head quarters here. N. C. SOLONS OPEN FIRST FULL WEEK (Continued From Page One) House, instead of the usual ma jority, to overrule a committee or the chair. Rep. Umstead of Orange introduced a measure, however, to substitute a majority for the two thirds rule. Also before Senate and House were bills to provide for a state wide nine-months school term on an optional basis, recommended Wednesday by Governor Broughton in his biennial message. The chief executive will deliver his budget message Tuesday or Wednesday. Then the money com mittees can get down to work. -V 3 Negro Men Robbed Of $150 At Hostelry Three Negro men, guests of the Green Lantern hotel, reported to police Sunday that they were rob bed of a total of $150 sometime during Saturday night. The theft victims, former Ma rines discharged from service be cause of physical disabilities re port the following amounts as sto len from their rooms: August Faby, New Orleans, La., $75; Oscar Cooper, Fort Worth, Texas, $30; and W. H. Marks, Lake Charles, La., $40. RADIOS SPORTING GOODS PICKARDS 299 Market St Dial *224 NOTICE Cily & County Tax Payers 1942 taxes are past due, will start garnishment of wages for unpaid personal property tax after Jan. 15th, 1943. Pay your personal property tax now, and save garnishment of wages. C. R. MORSE, City and County Tax Collector.
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