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Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-07
Cincinnuti Opens
Pennont Try in
Pirate Series

NEW YORK, Sept. Z. CUP)-
Cincinnati's dream of becoming thu
first club in major league history
to win the pennant after finishing
in the cellar the year before, will
receive the acid test in a two
game series opening today against
the league-leading Pittsburgh Pr
ates.
In games today and tomorrow al
Cincinnati the Reds will have a
chance to prove that they are not
clutching at phantom pennani
only Az games off the pace, the
Reds can slash the Pirates lead
to 2l9 games by sweeping the series
And if that should happen most
baseball soothsayers agree that the
second place Reds, and not the
first place Pirates. will be the
club to beat in the dizzy National
league race.
The Reds drive to catch the
Pirates received a jolt yesterday
when the St. Louis Cardinals put
the screws on the Rhinelanders 80.
The Pirates were idle.
With one of their finishes remin-
iscent of happier days, the New
York Giants prevented the Boston
Bees from closing in on fourth
place by scoring a 6-5 victory in
10 innings. Homers by Alex KAN
pouris and Jojo Moore tied the
count and sent the game into extra
innings. After the Bees had scored
thrice in their half of the 10th
the Giants won the game with a
four run rally in the last half. A
walk, Danning's single and Mel
Otis 33rd homer tied the score. With
the bases loaded Kampouris' single
won the game.
Vito Tanlulis survived a four run
first inning to pitch Brooklyn TO a
GA triumph over the Phillies.
Cleveland moved into a tie for
second place in the American
league with the Boston Red Sox by
blanking Detroit, 60. Bob Feller
allowed only four hits.
Cecil Travis single with the
bases loaded in the eighth drove in
the two runs by which Washington
defeated the Boston Red Sox, 7-5.
Monte Stratton scored his l4th
victory by pitching the Chicago
White Sox to a 8-2 triumph over
the Browns.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-07
Jackie WilsoI,
Kayos brandeIi

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 7. OUP)-
Jackie Wilson, gangling Los An
geles Negro who is 5 feet II inches
tall and weighs 1874 pounds, flat
tened Babe Brandelli of Ocean
Park five times on the canvas be-
fore being awarded a technical
knockout in the second of a sched-
uled 10 rounder last night.
For Wilson, boxing star of the
1886 Olympics, this was his 14th
professional win. In a second 10
rounder Kui Kong Yung, 1875, San
Francisco, also won a second round
technical knockout over Pee Wee
La Sale, Los Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-07
ApostoIi Seeks
Hostak Bout

SAN JOSE, Calf, Sept. 7. (UP)
Freddie Apostoli, San Francisco
middlewcight, prepared today to
start angling for a bout with the
middleweight champion, AL Hostak,
of Seattle, after a two round knock
out of Mike Pagan, San Diego vet
eran.
Apostoli is booked for a bout in
San Francisco before going east
in an attempt to arrange meeting
with Hostak.
.SPTS-ELK.S 10
Ell Centro Elks lodge will give a
dinner in honor of the Ell Centre
all-star softball team Thursday
night in the lodge hall, NormaA
Deaton, exalted ruler announces
Wednesday.
All players who have participated
in any all-star games will be in
vited to the dinner, Deaton said.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-07
Crosby Plans
improvements

DEL MAR, Calf, Sept. T. (UP)
Bling Crosby's Del Mar Turf club
made plans today to spend $4,000
improving the track and plant be-
fore next summers opening.
The expenditure, inspired by the
50 3,920,l03 mutuel handle for the
second season just closed, will be
chiefly for more stables, bigger
grandstand and landscaping.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-07

prlIlClpdl lllleltSl NdS Oil q poue
against the Benny Mock, state
lightweight champion. Shorty hit
the heavy bag, ran miles in road
work and shadow boxed in prepar-
alton for Dick Earl Thursday night,
but he dreamed of his bout in three
weeks against Herman Graves, far
western middleweight champion.
The twins are convinced that
Waske and Earl will furnish plenty
of competition and are not neg
lecting training grinds. Both will
be in peak condition Thursday
night. Bouts will start at $50
five other scraps are carded.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-07
Hare to Lead Indio Against A|I-Stars
Teams Play Final
Game OF Season
In Stadium Friday

Vernon Hare, fast ball hurler
from Indio, will lead his team to
El Centre stadium Friday night for
a final battle against the Ell Centro
All-Stars. The game will start at
8:l5.
Joe Hurst, Ell Centre hurting
king, and Homer Chambers the
crown prince of Ell Centro pitchers,
will divide honors in Friday nights
contest
Hurst will pitch the first four
innings and Chambers will hurl the
remainder of the game. Chambers
was originally scheduled to pitch
the entire game but was forced to
take the mound in a game We'd
nesday night.
Stark indicated he would
strengthen the All-Star lineup for
Fridays game.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-07
HAUL OUT Your Ndds and Ends.
They'll Bring You a Profit
Thru Want-AdS!
By HENRY McLEMORE

a bookmaker, Tim Mara is about
the coolest article that ever wore
hound tooth's jacket.
Sitting on a high stool, by his
slate, at Aqueduct, Belmont, Sara
toga, the Empire city the big Irish
man is a throwback to the ice age
Piungers walk up and lay five grand
on long shot and Tim doesn't bat
an eye. Neither does he allow bets
of twice that size on the favorite
to disturb his calm.
When the horses, carrying a
small fortune of his own on their
backs, go to the post, Tim is as
unperturbed as two buck bettor
He mounts his stool, turns his glass
es on the barrier, and gives a
sketchy call of the race in a flat
dead voice.
I listened to him yesterday dur
| ing the running of the seventh at
Aqueduct, race in which he stood
to lose a small fortune if Bonsoir
won.
Bonsoir broke on top and TOOK
a two length lead. Tim called it as
quietly and Internationally as if he
had never heard of Bonsoir. When
Julius Caesar caught Bonsoir in
the stretch and came on to win
by head, all Tim said was
The favorite's licked boys"
No yelling, no jumping up and
down, none of the links that
might reasonably be expected from
man who had just won thousands
of dollars.
Tim isn't always SO cold, how
ever.
The horses don't get MIN, but
football does.
Yot, i'hosbalI because Tim is
only a bookmaker on week days
On Sundays he is Tim Mara, owner
OF the New York Giants, a profess
sional football team in the Nation
al League.
On Sundays he is SO nervous he
can't eat. At breakfast time he is
worrying about what the team will
do. At lunch he is worrying twice
as acutely about the same thing
And at dinner time-well, win or
lose, the excitement of the game
has thrown his appetite Tor a 10
yard loss.
During a Giants game the man
who can watch a $4,000 blanket
finish at the race track is first
cousin to a maniac. He tears his
hair, rends his clothes, PAGES up
and down, runs out on the field.
and screams screams that can be
heard above the roar of the eley-
ateil trains alat pass Che Polo
Grounds.
I'm nuts about that football, .
Tim said yesterday during lull in
betting. I've been nuts ever since
1925 when I bought the Giants
National League franchise. That's
a funny story, that one about me
buying the Giants. was sitting in
Billy Gfbson's office, the same
Billy Gibson who managed Tunney,
when in came DR.. March and
a Mr.. Carr. After a lot of small
talk they tried to sell Billy the
Giants franchise. He said he didn't
want it. so Carr turned TO me and
said I ought to buy it.
II asked him how much he want
ed for it, but told him not to make
it very much because I never had
seen a football game of any sort.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-07
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L. A. VEGETABLES

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 7. CUP) -
Demand was considerably slower
and trading dull. Lettuce prices
dropped sharply. Peaches held firm.
Cantaioupes, tomatoes and strawber-
ries were easier. Most other COM
modities were about steady to Slight
ly lower.
Cantaloupes: local cannonball So
&C. Red cabbage 1.50; savoy few Csc.
Cucumbers: local and Oxnard So
60c. Pismo-Ocean and Santa Maria
6O-65c.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-07
Giant Catcher
Out for Season

NEW YORK, Sept. 7. CUP)-A
split finger will keep Catcher Gus
Mancuso out of the New York
Giants lineup for the remainder
of the season 1t was the same
finger Gus broke last year and
another examination revealed it
more seriously hurt than at first
believed. He suffered the injury in
the recent series with Philadelphia.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-07
Yankees Offer
To Buy Hutch

SEATTLE. Wash, Sept. 7. CUP)-
An offer from Col Jacob Rupert,
owner of the New York Yankees,
to purchase Freddie Hutchinson, the
Seattle Rainiers' schoolboy pitching
sensation, was being considered to-
day by Emil G. Sick, the club own
er.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-07
Rookie HurIs
Perfect Game

ATLANTA, Sept. 7. CUP) = A
rookie, Woodrow Rich, pitched a
no-hit, no-run game last night for
Little Rock against the Atlanta
Crackers, leaders of the Southern
association
Little Rock won 40 in the first
game OF a doubleheader as Rich,
who won IL and lost Is for Clarkes-
dale, Miss, of the Cotton States
league, last year, proved himself
invincible.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-07
HOGUE TWINS EYE MORE
IMPORTANT BOUTS IN TRAINING
FOR WASKE, EARL THURSDAY

Navy opponents were scheduled Tor JacumDa Hogu.
twins in the main events at the FL Centre athletic cut
Thursday night but the repican Jacumbans had theil
eyes cast bigger game
Bigboy tuned for his bout with Glenn Waske but his
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-07
Grid Systems Face Change i'm w.
Coaches at Valley
Schools Schedule
Practice Monday

Strategy boards at four valley high schools, Brawey
Caexico Hotve Ell Centre, scanned football cand
date lists Wednesday the head coaches OF the nsttu
tions prepared to open grid practices Monday night.
STYLES of play expected at three OF the tour
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-07
FOOTBALL PRACTICE STARTS Ar
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY;
first GAME, SEPT. a

SEATTLE Sept Z. (UP)-The University of Washing
ton Huskes will start football practice tomorrow with
scrmmage the first day.
The Huskes entran Sept 20 and play the Minnesota
Gophers Sept "a Minnesota beat WASHINGTON, IA to
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-07
Former Grid Star
Takes Own Life

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7. CUP)
Harry (Swede) Carlson, "a, MEM
ber of Stanford University's Rose
Bowl football squad several years
ago. was dead today as the result
of what police said was a poison
suicide following disappointment in
love.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-07
L.. A. KUT1 ER & EGGS

LOS ANGELES, Sept. z tUP) :
Butter: extras 26i2c, prime hrst'
2sl2, Standards 25c, undergi aae 24c
4
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-07
FLAX
l.. A. HAY

LOS ANGELES, Sept. z. UP) -
Alfalfa U. S. No. .....-.. $13-l3.50
U. $. No. 2 leafy ......sl2-12.50
u. 5. No. 2 -.-...-.....--......--.. $l0.50-ll
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-07
L. A. BANKS

LOS ANGELES, Sept. z. (UP) -
| TranSamerica .....,............... y7s -l0h
Smyrna times., 1938-01-06
AUTO FATALITY
NEAR HARTLY
Paul Tinley of Marcus Hook,
Pa, Loses Control of Car
and is Killed
CAR SKIDDED ON TURN

Delaware's first automobile fa-
tality of 1888 occurred early oMn-
day near Hartly. Paul TinIey, 21
Chestnut Street, Marcus Hook, Pa,
was killed as his automobile swerv-
ed off the road, turned over, slid
so feet on its top, struck a concrete
culvert, and then dropped into a
deep ditch containing water Tin
ley's body was found in the water
by passing motorists who notified
state police. He died of fractured
ribs, a crushed chest, and suffoca-
ton, an examination by DR.. E. r.
Steele at Kent General Hospital,
Dover, disclosed The accident
happened at 2:10 a. m, Privates ].
E. Turner and H. M. Moore of the
Dover state police station reported
1t is believed he had been visiting
relatives on the Eastern Shore and
was returning to Marcus Hook An
examination of the accident scene
by state police showed FINLEY was
driving around curve on the
wrong side of the road. The car
had to be moved before Tinley
could be taken from the water in
the ditch. He was lying on his
back in the water beneath the car.
Damage to the car was estimated
by police at $500. The accident
was reported to police by Rayfeld
Groce, who with Howard Groce
and Edward Berry, all of Colds
boro, Md, came upon the wrecked
car shortly after it swerved off the
road.
Smyrna times., 1938-01-06
APPLICANTS FOR STATE RELIEF
HAVE DOUBLED SINCE SUMMER

30 total. Mrs. Barry said between
80 and 35 family heads are apply
ing for relief daily at present.
Many of these are found to be in
eligible for direct relief. The final
report for December will be COM
pleted shortly and will be trans
mitted to the New Castle County
Levy Court by the Old Age We'll
fare Commission, which handles di-
rect relief. The clamor for enroll
ment in the CCC is concentrated in
New Castle County, Mr.. Deverel
said. There are 120 vacancies for
the enrolment which closes Janu-
ary 20. Only a few were enrolled
Tuesday on enrolment day in Do
yer. A few more were enrolled in
Georgetown yesterday, and the re
mainder will come from New Cas-
tie County where there are 200.
Smyrna times., 1938-01-06
DEATH RECORD OF WEEK
Harry w. Vandever, Head of Sport
ing Goods Store, Wilmington

Harry w. Vandever, of Whining
ton, head of the H. w. Vandever
Company, sporting goods concern
at Wilmington, a brother of the
late Aubrey Vandever of Whining
ton, Smyrna and Clayton, died at
the Homeopathic Hospital Friday,
fro man heart attack. He resided
at 2101 VanBuren Street Funeral
and interment took place at Will
mington and Brandywine Cemetery
Friday afternoon, the Rev B. M
Johns, pastor of Grace M E.
Church officiating. Mr. Vandever
had been i'll about ten days Miss
Martha E. Vandever, his daughter
and a brother, Jacob B. Vandever,
retired business man of Forest
Hills, L. T., were at his bedside
when he died. A sister, Miss An
ME @. VandeVer, of Wilmington,
also survives. Mr.. Vandever was
the son of John B. and Elizabeth
Vandever Of Wilmington. He was
educated IN wilmington pubic
schools. After spending several
years as station agent for the
Pennsylvania Railroad at Bear,
Del, he returned to Wilmington
and entered the sporting goods
business. His business, the Oldest
for sporting goods in Wilmington,
was started 80 years ago in the old
public library building at 800 Mar
ket street About 20 years ago he
moved the business to 907 Market
street, and about a year ago to 9O3
Shipley street. His wife, Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Ackley Vandever, died about
10 years ago.
Death of Mrs. Jennie Pryor Reihms
Mrs. Jennie pryor Reihm, aged
CONTINUED on PAGE Fivel
Smyrna times., 1938-01-06

Daily applications for direct re-
lief have more than doubled since
summer, and the CCC in Delaware
soon will have three times as many
boys seeking placement as it has
places to fill. This summary re-
fiecting winter increases in unem-
ployment came Tuesday from Mrs.
Louise Barry, treasurer of the Re
lief Department, and Wentworth
H. Deverell, supervisor of selection
for the CCC in Delaware. Prelim-
mary estimates of December relief
figures made by Mrs. Barry and
authorized by Walter w. Hynson,
executive director of the Old Age
Welfare Commission, indicated a
year-end direct relief caseload of
more than 600 breadwinners. This
is an estimated increase of more
than $50 cases over the November
Smyrna times., 1938-01-06
ORIOLES AGAIN
BACK OF DOVER
Baseball Club Given Impetus
BY Having Dover in Loop
Again This Year
REPORTED BY TERRY

Following a conference with John
M Ogden, general manager of the
Baltimore Orioles, the parent club,
Charles L. Terry, Jr., secretary of
state and president of the Dover
Club of the Eastern Shore League,
announced last week that Dover
would retain its Eastern Shore
League franchise in 1888. The an
nouncement comes after persistent
rumors that Baltimore would
transfer the Dover franchise to an
other town due to the failure of
local fans to support the club last
year. Dover finished in the cellar
last season. It had been reported
that Baltimore was considering
shifting the franchise to one of
two other towns on the peninsula
bidding for membership in the
league. In an interview regarding
the future of the Dover team Fri
day, Mr.. Terry said: II have read
with considerable interest articles
that have appeared in both the
Wilmington and local press regard
ing the future of the Dover Base
ball Club, operating under a fran
chise from the Eastern Shore
League AS president of the Do
yer club, am able to say after a
conference with Jack Ogden, bust
ness manager of the Baltimore
Orioles, that Dover will not only
be represented in the Eastern
Shore next year, but the team has
practically been chosen to the man
to represent Dover. Due to the
fact that we had more or less of a
disastrous season in 1887, every in
dication points to Dover having
well balanced club that viii not
only be far superior to last seasons
but one that will more than hold
its own with the best in the league.
The Baltimore Orioles will take
South the entire infield of the Do
yer club, together with all pitchers
and catchers, for spring training
during the month of
and those players will re-
main with Baltimore until the
training season opens in Dover
The directors of the Dover team
were more than pleased with the
way fans patronized the club last
season, and no one realizes more
than the directors that from a
baseball point of view the team
was a failure. The directors real
ize further that Dover is a good
baseball town, and that it appreci- /
ates a winner and will not support !
a loser"
Smyrna times., 1938-01-06
SMYRNA FIRE CHIEF REPORT

Company Responded to 27 Alarms
IN Country and Is in Town in 1887
Citizens Hose Company No. l, Of
SMYRNA, responded to Al fire calls
in 1897. 27 alarms were in the
country, and 13 were in town, says
II Fletcher Truax, Fire Chief, in
his official annual report. 27 Of the
alarms we're in Kent County; IA in
New Castle County. a total Of 431
men answered these alarms and
put III AZ hours Of service. There
vas only one false alarm. An az
erage of 10 men answered these
calls. Estimated fire loss in coun-
~ vas S5,81O.OO; estimated fire
Ioss III town, 1865. Fire Chief Truax
thanks the officers and members of
the Citizens Hose Company for
their cooperation during the past
year.
Smyrna times., 1938-01-06
10Th
CENTURY CLUB
Children's Party Last Week a
Happy One For Both Chill
dren and Adults
PROGRAM TOMORROW

On Friday afternoon, December
81, the Twentieth Century Club
met for business meeting at 2:30.
At three, the Christmas party for
the children was held and was
largely attended by both children
and adults. Through the efforts of
the committee, Mrs. Medford
Sparks, Mrs. Lee Deakyne, Mrs. w.
A Pfohl, Mrs. Smithers Snow, a
very delightful entertainment was
given, the children for large part,
furnishing the program of music,
recitations and stunts. Games and
refreshments followed. The second
luncheon by Group B will be held
on January 14th. All wishing to
attend must present their names to
the committee by January IL or
make reservations with Mrs. Will
liam E. Matthews, Jr. On Friday,
January 7th, it will be Public We'll
fare Day, Mrs. ]. M Minturn,
chairman. Guest speaker, Mrs.
Clarence Fraim, music and novel
ty number.
Smyrna times., 1938-01-06
AIRPLANE WEATHER NEWS
Salisbury Boy Equipped to Give
Airmen Tips on the Weather

From a little white shack on a
farm on the outskirts Of Salisbury
four times day go messages that
help to guide the airliners on their
journeys east of the Mississippi.
The messages are sent by the
farmers son, Milford Twilley, who
keeps a weather eye on conditions
over the Eastern Shore for the air
division of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture. Every
morning at o'clock Twilley takes
the readings on the barometer, the
barograph and thermometer and
checks the wind and precipitation
gauges and sends them off by tele-
graph to New York, Newark, Chi
cago and Washington. He repeats
his routine again at / and z p. m.
and makes a final reading for the
night at / a. m. The rest of the
time he spends sleeping and farm
ing. The station at Salisbury is
said to be the most modern of the
weather outposts that keep the
skyliners informed of conditions.
Smyrna times., 1938-01-06
FINISH SURVEY
WORK IN KENT
Now Compliance Applications
Are Going Into Wash
ingtOn
TO AGRICULTURAL DEPT.

With the completion of the sur
vey work in connection with the
aerial photographs with reference
to checking over the compliance in
the 1887 agricultural conservation
program in Kent county, the coun-
ty committee hopes to have a num-
Der of compliance applications
ready to send to Washington with
in the next few weeks. This COM
mittee including R. Harry Wilson,
Laurence E. Cain and H Clifford
Clark, with the assistance of field
supervisors, have been checking
over these aerial Photographs and
comparing the reports of field SUI
pervisors with the measurements
of acreages on these maps. Before
these application papers may be
forwarded to the Agricultural Ad-
justment Administration, however,
it will be necessary that the acre
age of each field on those farms
which are included in the 1887 pro-
gram be accurately measured by
the use of planimeters. These com
pliance reports could have been
mailed to the Washington office
several weeks ago if it had not
been required by the federal gov
eminent that these field records be
compared and adjusted to the mea-
surements obtained from these aer-
ial maps. Another delay in COM
pleting the 1887 conservation pro
gram was due to the fact that a
portion of the county had to be re-
photographed due to unfavorble
conditions last summer at
the time these pictures were taken.
With the exception of one small
area in the Marshy Hope district,
the entire county has been photo
graphed, and these aerial maps are
on file in the office of County
Agent Russell E. Wilson, second
floor of the Dover Postofice build
ing. In addition to checking over
these maps, the county committee
is also tabulating the various agri-
cultural conservation practices
which were followed by those farm
ers who signed up in the 1887 pro-
gram. This information is requir-
ed by the federal government in
order to determine the total acre
Continued on Page Five)
Smyrna times., 1938-01-06
TRAPPERS FIND
SEASON QUIET
Got Off to Poor Start in De
cember on Account of
Frozen Marshes
SEASON OPENS ON SHORE

The past two weeks of open
weather along the Delaware River
and Bay trapping marshes from
Leipsic, Woodland Beach, Taylor's
Bridge to Delaware City cleared
all ice from marshes in this section
and allowed trappers of muskrats
to get in some effective work. The
season opened December 1, but at
that time the marshes were frozen.
All reports indicate, the season has
been disappointing. Catches have
been light and most Of the rats"
are small. Prices are below dol
lar but an improvement is expect
ed early this month when the an
imals are expected to be larger.
Over on the Eastern Shore Of
Maryland the season opened Satur-
day Shore marshes, in the coun-
ties are the principal hunting
grounds during the two and a half
month season. Last year, regard
ed as one Of the most profitable in
9 decade, trappers cleared better
than $2,0OO,OOO Black pelfs bring
from $3.50 to 81 each, with brown
pelts running much cheaper. Bank
rats (so-called because they make
their home in the banks Of streams
instead Of in marshes) are caught
in Western Maryland and produce
still cheaper pelts. AT every cen
ter along the Chesapeake from
Rock Hall, Md, to Crisfield, Md,
expert buyers were ready for the
influx Of pelts that will 60 in to-
morrows fur coat. Trappers, op-
timistic over reports that musk
rats are plentiful, oiled and polish
ed their traps, and had them set by
dawn, Saturday. The season, which
lasts to March IS, usually brings
from S1,800,OO0 to S2,50O, 900 into
the state. Most of the pelts are
Drown, bringing fro mS1 .25 up, but
Inc state is noted for the rarer
black skins. These sell for S1.5O
70 S2 and Maryland produces more
of them than all the rest of the
country. Some muskrats are
caught in the Western Maryland
counties when they venture out of
loles in the banks of streams. The
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