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The Washington times., 1938-09-23
HERE
Skipjnck En- Route to
Caribbean Ports

The United States submarine
skipjack, sister ship Of the Seal,
a recent visitor to Washington,
tied up at the Navy Yard yesterday
on a snakedown cruise to Carib.
bean ports.
Launched nearly year ago and
commissioned last month, the Skip
Jack, with her sister ship, is one
of the two fastest submarines IN
the Navy, with a top speed Of be-
tween 18 and 20 knots.
Officers at the Navy Yard said
they did not know how long the
submarine will remain there. The
destroyer, Jacob Jones, is leaving
here Monday for Annapolis.
The Skipjack began her cruise
August 4 from New London, Conn.
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ANOTHER MONTH.
GRANTED TO PAY
BUSINESS TAXES
Nov. 80 DeadIine Asked
By Assessor

The District s business men TO-
day had an additional month for
payment of the business privilege
taxes due for the first half of
the current fiscal year.
The Commissioners ordered
postponement of the deadline yes
terday from October 80 to Novem-
ber 80 on request of Fred D. Allen,
District Tax Assessor.
RECEIPTS DELAYED
Allen explained the time re-
quired properly to record personal
tax payments during September
handicapped his staff in the
preparation of receipts which must
be credited against the business
privilege tax bills.
Records at the District Building
showed about half Of the personal
tax payments are not received
until the last four days Of Sep,
tember. These payments are de-
ductible from the business priv.
ilege taxes. Allen said he ex'
pected the months respite would
benefit the taxpayer and at the
same time tighten the load at the
assessors office.
TAX SURVEY MADE
Yesterdays order also will post
pone from April 80 to May 80 pay
ment of the business privilege in
stallment for the second half OF
the 1899 fiscal year.
Meanwhile, DR.. Chester D. Pond,
New York tax expert is continuing
his survey Of the District tax set
Iup. Whether the business privilege
levy is to continue is expected to
hinge largely on Ponds findings
which are to be submitted to Con-
gress next session.
The Washington times., 1938-09-23

mann, O'Reilly, Whelan and
Thomas Jefferson Washington
Lee, colored and smiling, are using
their muscles and their brains to-
gether.
They are hauling sand to the
cement plant, shoveling it into the
vats, pouring it back onto trucks,
hauling it to the great, steel-en-
forced forms, where it is swung
into position by giant cranes, and
poured into the final figure OF
arch, or column. or side wall.
EXACTLY CORRECT
So carefully is the base laid that
it is corrected even to the amount
of curvature of the earth that ex-
lists in that 1,1s4 feet! If you
think that isn't precise, try to
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other end of which will house
shops-with offices in the central
part. This building is architec'
turally a gem, for its severe and
sharp lines accent the function Of
scientific precision which is the
purpose Of the plant.
Last year they dug the dirt and
blasted out the rock-this year
they have the building well under
way-and also the huge arches
over the basin. There Smith, Rob
inson, Kwatkiowski, SCHNEIDER
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|RoU1OGUoCWsy Pig
Nearly Loses
Life IN Ditch

A fugitive 2OO-lb. hog which
escaped from his pen in the
5000 block of Stanton Road
S. E. late yesterday was saved
from an ignOminOus death in
a ditch by the timely arrival
of Policemen Zene Wright
and A. F. Claggett from the
Eleventh Precinct station.
The animal had travelled
only a short distance from
his pen when he slipped into
a five foot ditch. Wedged un-
der a timber with his nose
only a few inches above
water, the hog could do moth
ing but squeaI, which he did
Justify until police pulled him
out and led him back to his
quarters.
The Washington times., 1938-09-23
Committee Plans
To Honor Group

Presentation of testimonials to
Francis G. Addison, jr., president
of the Board of Trade; Lloyd B.
Wilson, president of the c. and p.
Telephone Company. and John A..
Reilly, president of the Second
National Bank, will feature the
executive committee meeting Of
the Greater National Capital Com
mittee next Monday. The meeting
will be held at the Washington
Hotel.
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D. {. Gun Club States
Two Title Shoots

Club doubles championship and
club handicap championship
shoots will be held at the Wash.
lngton Gun Club tomorrow be-
ginnig at 1:3O o'clock.
Entry fee for the doubles is $3.50
including cartridges and trophy
fee and SO for the handicap.
Both events will be shot at so
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Washington Times staff Photo

figure out how fine that line has
to be!
Under the direction of the
Navy's construction experts-with
two or three major contracting
companies and 20 or 80 subcon-
tractors providing specialties such
as sand and gravel, cement, steel,
elevators, floors, lumber work and
other divisions" the work is
speeding forward so that early
next year the basin will be fin.
ished and the military men will
move in to do their stuff.
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WANTS CONSIDERATION
Stores Must Bare
El1lplOye Rolls

The District Minimum Wage
Board notified the managers of all
the city's retail establishments TO-
day they must forward to the
board detailed lists of all women
workers and all boys and girls
under 1S employed during the
week that ended September "a or
the two weeks that ended Septem-
ho7. an
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POLICE 7 RIAL
BOARD CHANGE
is Demanded.

Request today Of Corporation
Counsel Elwood Seal that lawyer
in private practice be henceforth
selected to head the Police Trial
Board will be considered by the
Board Of Directors of the District
Bar Association Friday.
FAIRER TREATMENT
He told the Commissioners the
naming of a lawyer from private
practice rather than one of his
assistants, would result in a far
better setup from the standpoint
of the District government and
Of individual policemen who
might appear before the board.
Godfrey L. Munter, first vice
president of the District Bar Asso-
citation, queried by The Washing
ton Times today, said:
This is a matter of consider
able magnitude to the bar, the
general public and members of
the police department. 1t has
bearing on the civil rights Of
all those groups and should be
studied thoroughly.
WANTS CONSIDERATION
1T would be my feeling that
the District Bar Association
should consider every aspect of
Mr.. Seals proposal before max
ing known the attitude of the
association toward the pro
posal."
The regular meeting of the full
membership of the Bar Association
will take place october 4.
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2,OOO, 100000 stored in Davy Jones'
Locker. One-eighth Of the worlds
gold and silver sunk in the last 400
years, and Lieut.. Harry e. Rieseberg,
veteran treasure hunter, tells exactly
where 1t lies at the bottom of the
Seven Seas, in q double page illustrated
feature In The American Weekly, the
magazine distributed with next Sun
days Washington Herald. Times.
The Washington times., 1938-09-23
Gas Drum Blast
Damages ; Autos

Firemen battled blazing gasoline
at Thirtieth and K Streets North.
west for more than an hour late
yesterday when a drum of motor
fuel dropped from a truck and ex-
ploded. Two automobiles and the
truck were damaged by the blaze,
which threatened to spread to
nearby buildings.
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The human-cOrk career Of Nav
Y0he. Read about her surprising life
OF ups and downs. at times at the
wave. then at the very bottom, until
she died the other day-On relief,
Read this fascinating true-Iife story In
The American Weekly. the maEazin,
ulstributed with next Sundays Wash.
tnRtOn Herald Times,
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Mashinrton Times staff Photo

doing will reach into the farms of Iowa the wheat fields
Nebraska the cotton fields of the South the industrial
of the Easand determine the safety of thousands of
boys who right blowing, reapmg, milking, or
The Washington times., 1938-09-23
Must Be Exact:
MARY AN ERROR
IN NAVY BASIN
Tested Before Building
Must Be Exact:

Out at Carderock Nd 400 bigchesed calousfsted
clearbraned doing of the most precise difficult
and interesting building jobs in the country And do they
love it!
AS matter of fact it is much bigger that that many
men can be found In the country who actually get kick
Of their work. than it record that the building they
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-05-07
BROOKLYN DROPS
 SEVENTH IN ROW AS MUNG0 LOSES
Cleveland Club Stretches League Lead with Win
 Over Atheltics
(By Associated Press)

A deal to trade Ducky Joe Med- wick. of the St. Louis Cardinals. to Brooklyn, for Van Mungo, is defin- itely off, after Mungo dropped his third straight loss to the Cincy Reds yesterday.
 Brooklyn lost its seventh game in a row and gave up sixth place to the Cards.
 Enos Slaughter lashed a triple against the boards to defeat the Phillies and send the Cardinals into inc number six notch.
 Melton pitched his fifth victory, when the Giants took the Pittsburgh club to camp
 The Cubs knocked off Boston in a comedy of Bee errors.
 Ken Keltner's fifth home of the season gave Cleveland win over the Athletics and moved the In- dians half game up the ladder to widen the league lead.
 Aging Jimmy Dykes, forced into the White Sox lineup, collected four hits in six times up but the White Sox dropped the game to Washing : ton.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-05-07
FO|ta Tells JCC To Look to Jobs
 In Govt. Sphere
Suggests Young Men Take Interest in Coming
 Politics

George w. Folta, Assistant Dis trict Attorney, was the guest speak CT at the regular Friday luncheon of the Junior Chamber of Com merce held in the high school.
 Begin to prepare yourself to take a place in affairs of the govern ment by taking an active and in- telligent interest now" Folta said.
 Tn thirty years, nearly all the men now holding government posi- tions will be out of office he con- tinued. These offices will be filled with the young men of today. The fundamental aim of government is to protect the lives and property of the people. From this funda- mental aim has grown our complex governments of today. However, even this original aim is lost when people decide to let politicians run the government and graft comes in" Folta told the group.
 Raymond Reaber, Bob Phillips, and George Walmsley, chairman, were appointed on the Program Committee while Joe Kendler, Rod ney Nordling and Ernest Tyler, chairman, will serve on the Sub- sidiary Committee.
 Malcolm Faulkner was awarded the best-joke award and John Ba- yard took high honors for the best report on an Ala six an current event.
 According to Walter Fukuyama, the second anual Father vs. Son softball game will be held tomor- row at l pm. in Evergreen Bowl, providing weather conditions per- init. E
 The annual ice cream banquet will be held May 20 in the home economies room of the high school. Robert Boggan, chairman, announc- ed.
 It was also announced that the Junior Chamber will again sponsor a track meet in the upper grades. Ribbons will be provided the win- ners.
 M. s. Whittier, Assistant Collector of Customs, will be the guest speak, CT at next Fridays meeting. which will conclude the years regular Friday meetings,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-05-07
36 GAMES IN CHANNEL BIB.
 1888 SEASON
Schedule Calls for Play Ball. for First Con-
 test May l5

Thirty-six games, in two halves of 18 each, will be played in the Gas tineau Channel Baseball League E season this year.
 The opening game is scheduled to be played in Juneau on Sunday afternoon, May 15, between Doug las and Moose teams.
 The last game is scheduled for Sunday, August T.
 The following is the complete schedule as released today:
 FIRST HALF
 Sunday. May 15-Douglas-M Moose Tuesday, May 17-Moose-ElkS. Friday, May Moose-Douglas- Sunday, May .22-Douglas-Elks. Tuesday, May 24-Douglas-Moose Friday, May 27-Elks-Douglas. Sunday, May -Elks-Moose. Tuesday. May 31-Douglas-E -Elks. at Douglas.
 Friday, June 3-Moose- -Elks. Sunday, June 5-Moose- Douglas Tuesday, June 7-Elks-Moose, Friday, June 10-Douglas- Moose. Sunday, June 12-Elks-Douglas. Tuesday, June 14-Moose-Doug- las, at Douglas.
 Friday, June 17-Douglas-Elks. Sunday, June 19-Moose-Elks. Tuesday, June 1-Elks-Douglas. Friday. June 24-Elks-Moose.
 SECOND HALF
 Sunday, June 26-Douglas-Moose Tuesday, June 28-Moose-E Friday, July 1-Moose-Douglas. Sunday, July 3-Douglas-Elks. Friday, July 8-Douglas-Moose, at Douglas.
 Sunday, July Elks-Douglas. Tuesday, July 12-Elks-Moose. Friday, July l5-Douglas-Elks. Sunday, July 17-MoOse- -Elks. Tuesday, July 19-Moose-Douglas Friday, July -Elks-Moose. Sunday, July 24-Douglas-Moos Tuesday, July 6-Elks-Douglas at Douglas.
 Friday, July 29-Moose-Douglas. Sunday, July 31-Douglas-E -Elks. Tuesday, August 2-Moose- -Elks. Friday, August 5-Elks-D Douglas. Sunday, August 7--Elks-Moose. CTeam named last on each date is home team.)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-05-07
FOURTEEN NEW BALL RECRUITS
 SIGN FOR PLAY
Wisconsin Contributes Five Rookies-A Assignment
 to Teams Monday

Four and ten add to fourteen in anybody's league. and. in the Cast ineau Channel League they add to fourteen new ballplayers signed to perform wish the three local clubs this coming season.
 Four prospects signed the first day the call for new talent was is sued. They were Otto McVey, out fielder; Gordon Ferguson, infielder; Ray Carlson, outfielder and RoS Fisher, hurler and first baseman.
 Among the ten new signed play CTS are four infielders, two outfield- CTS, two pitchers and two catchers. Out to fill the post of catcher, where new men are most needed, are two backstops from Northern Wis consin semi-pro league Ed Amel- ung, of Mellen, Wisconsin who packs 300 hitting average; and Karl Om- dahl a burly southpaw who has also done some pitching. Omdhaf comes from Blue Lake, Wisconsin, where he played two years.
 Wisconsin is well on the way to fill out the Gastineau Channel league ranks this year, as the three other baseballers from the northern part of that state are likewise sign ed to play here The three. all young, but experienced semi-pros, are: Bill Odell, of Mckinley Wisconsin, in- fielder; Owen Fitzgerald, of Albion, Wisconsin, shortstop with a 265 batting average; and Peter Brown, from Blue Lake, Wisconsin, out fielder and pitcher.
 From Centralia, Washington, where he played on the Centralia Town team. is Herman Russell, pit cher and outfielder; while also from the State of Washington is Willard Marshall high school outfieltier from the town of Edeson.
 Two former Channel League play CTS are signed up to play again this year after being out for one season. They are Ted Adams, Elk shortstop,
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and Tod Baldwin, former Moose Cutfielder. And, also signed from Juneau is Howard Day, local tennis champ. who feels he has time this year to hold down an intield post in the league Day has high school experience in California.
 Monday afternoon will see the first apportionment to teams of new players, and President William A. Holzheimer today urged again that all who have had baseball experience and wish to play sign immediately with Scorer w K Clark at the Daily Alaska Empire, before he makes his allotment.
 President Holzheimer this after noon announced that practice ses- sion for all ball players, especially for newcomers, will be held on Fire mems Park tomorrow afternoon at o'clock. All new players signed up or wishing to sign are urged to turn out as the league team managers will be present to look over the crop of rockies.
 It is likely that teams will be chosen on the spot and a practice game held, the Proxy stated
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-05-07
SOAP SALESMAN IS NET COACH;
 HE CLEANS UP
John Kenheld Has Batting Average of .977 Which
 Should Be Peak
By PAUL SIMMONS AP Eea lure Service Writer

CHAPEL HILL. N.Cs May I. - Jchn Kenfield of Chicago was good as soap salesman. but he thought he would like to try the piano busi- ness
 He did well at that, too, but soon saw a better opportunity with a candy firm He took another step up the business ladder.
 Then he took up tennis coaching. He has been coach at the Univer- sity of North Carolina for ten years. now. and if what he has done in this field is not enough well, he is hard to satisfy.
 His North Carolina teams have won 142 matches, lost four. That makes a batting average of SIT plus, which ought to be just about the peak.
 Mere Worlds To Conquer
 The Tar Heels started out under Kenfield's tutelage in 1928 to es- tablish their supremacy in Dixie. They won II matches and lost one that year. They did the same thing in 1929
 Then they turned eastward for wider fields. Princeton, Yale, Army Harvard. New York University Navy. Williams and Lehigh all bowed to the Tar Heels during 1930- B.
 Princeton broke through in 1884 and 1885 with 7-2 and go vic- tories. The Old North State boys, their stroking tuned by Kenfields magic, were right back in 36 and '37, smashing out a string of B consecutive victories. They are still going strong.
 Summing up, the North Carolin- ianS in ten years have laid claim to five national collegiate champion ships c31, '32, '33, '36 and '3D, to say nothing of state and regional titles.
 Grant Was No.
 Coach Kenfield rates Bryan (Bit- sy) Grant of Atlanta the best player he has had and Winner Hines of Columbus, sc, as probably second, although he believes Archie Tender son, 1887 ace, has better possibili- ties than Hines.
 Kenfield--now 46 and handy with racquet himself-is native of Louisville, Ky. He played tennis in his student days and participated ill several national clay courts champ ionships, once reaching the semi finals.
 He has always kept up his ten- his and in 1922 became instructor at the fashionable Lakeshore country club at Glencoe, H., Chicago su- burb. He still fills this job during the summer months.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-05-07
Alex Boras, Winner In Ice Pool with Rokas, Is Dazed

When the news came to The Elm pire from Fairbanks that John Rokas and Company had won a portion of the big Nenana Ice Pool, Rokas was on shift at the mine, where he is a mucker, and his partner on the ticket, Alex Boras enjoyed his happy daze" by him. self
 Boras, who is a mucker also, was seen on the street early this morn- ing, smiling, feebly, trying to con- vince himself he had cashed in.
 T bought the ticket, and John punched it." Boras recalled.
 Asekd what he was going to dc with the six or seven thousand dollars he might receive as his share, Boras said he might take a trip to California
 As an afterthought he added Can I buy you glass of beer or a box of cigars, or somethingY
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-05-07
Hanks Bats

DETROIT, May 7.-Hank Green berg, Detroit first baseman who drove in more runs than any major league player last season, has g half dozen assorted bats of differ ent weights this year. They tip the scales all the way from 36 to 3s ounces. "Ill fool around with them for while and see which one hits best" he says.
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the league moguls handed them Ed die Lawson, another former league performer who has been away for a season. Two seasons ago Lawson showed a full share of ginger. But last year while playing with a Ket- chikan team. Lawson proved himself both steady and efficient If he can hold up now to his last years stan dard, the Elks will have a tight in- field; quite possibly the leagues tightest.
 And. the Purples will not lack for infield replacements, either While expected to perform generally as a pitcher, Bud Foster has been ranked for several seasons now as the best of the local third -basemen; and, ii not needed at the hot corner he is also fully capable of taking good care of the first sack. Besides Foster, the Elks have a possible in field reserve in Fry Hagerup, also Though normally an outfielder Hagerup has put in time at botl second and short, often doing a goot job in those posts. Then, there t pitcher McAlister. Nothing wrong with him as shortStop. If all ex- pectations hold true-what team could ask for a sweeter inner de. fense set-up than that possessed b. the Elks?
 One Top Outttetder
 Concerning gardeners = in th' outfield is apparently the only req weakness of the BPOE's; and it's mol such big bit of weakness.
 Ranking Elk gardener is Dick Me. Donald. who, after playing high cal ibre baseball for Douglas two sea sons back, spent most of last sea. son away from Juneau; returning only in time to get into the last few games for Elks and demonstrated that he still had all it takes.
 Abetting Mcdonald in holding down the outer pastures are Ev Novel; and Hagerup. There is noth- ing to complain of in Hagerup's fielding, and, if he can re-capture the hitting form that brought him the league crown three years ago there is nothing wrong with his hit ting either. But, that's big if, as Hagerup has been in two-year long and very deep slump at the plate.
 Novel;, the third Elk fielder, has always been a bitter. So, skipping his hitting, has he slowed down toe much to cover enough ground in the outfield? Novel; was top league outfielder for long years, and, even though now slowed down. he should not be too slow in the field; and, he can still throw. Signed to the Elks mainly in the role of coach, Nowell will have to do outfield duty unless the Elks garner a gardener or two from the field of new recruits.
 There is the set-up at present for Elks and for the three league teams
 Can the Moose find a new catch CT? Will Turner and Boyd be back to relieve the Douglas ills? Are the Elks done with their managerial troubles of last year and will their aggregation of new names perform as expected?
 Sunday. May IS. opens the league season; and, before the end of Aug ust the season will be over and the fans will have the answers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-05-07
Start Home Runs

NEW YORK, May 7.-Dick Bar tell, Giants shortstop, with first in- ming four master against the Bees in the opening game. got credit for the first home run of the National league season. Ben Chapman of the Boston Red Sox hit the first one in the American league, a second inning clout against the Yankees.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-05-07
Practice Pays

NEW YORK, May 7.-Jack Demp- sey got more for training for the Jess Willard fight twhen he won the heavyweight title) than he did for the fight itself. Jacks cut of the purse was $27, 800, but he took in s40000 for ring admissions to his training camp.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-05-07
3 TEAMS ARE:
 TIED FOR TOP
 COAST LEAGUE
Two Clubs Matched for Second Position-Pitch-
 CTS Duel Is Fought
(By Associated Press)

Shortstop Bob Surgeons over- throw in the first half of the fifth inning yesterday, allowing the only run of the game to be scored, de- cided the pitchers battle between Hutchinson of Seattle and Schmld' of Sacramento. Hutchinson yielded only four hits and Schmidt five hits.
 A three run rally in the ninth m- ming yesterday fell short as Los An geles bowed to Oakland.
 San Francisco scored three runs in the ninth inning for victory over Hollywood The Seals collected p hits.
 San Diego's defeat of Portland for the seventh straight win put San Diego, Portland and Hollywood in a three way tie for first place m the Pacific Coast League.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-05-07
Tee Harbor Kings Taking Plugs, One Man Finds

Salmon at Tee Harbor are hit ting big plugs as well as herring and spinners.
 Carlson Lawrence reported getting a 30-pound King on plug about four inches long, so came to town and bought a six-inch plug with hopes of getting larger fish.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-05-07
Long Overtime

BOSTON, May T. A new ice hockey marathon record was set this season when Syracuse beat Cleveland in a playoff game which went 122 minus Al seconds over time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-05-07
MISS FAIRBANKS TO VISIT

Friends in Juneau have received word that Miss Lulu Fairbanks cf Seattle, pominent Camp Fire Girl leader and frequent visitor to AL aska, is planning trip to Juneau this summer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-05-07
ATTENTION MAsoNs

There will be a Stated Communi- cation of Mt. Juneau Lodge No. 141 Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock Work in the M. M. Degree. By order of the w. M.
 J. w. LEVERS, adv. Secretary