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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-28
By DILLON GRAHAM AP Feature Sports Writer

TAMPA. Fla. March 28 - Mild Bill McKechnie, who looks more like a deacon than a baseball manager, was taking his ease in the cool of the evening as I tried to make him confess that his Cincinnati Reds should win the National League flag.
 But Willy Will doesn't care for shaky limbs and he wouldn't climb on. Besides, Will never bets on the seventh at Santa Anita. He wants a sure thing before he lays his money or gives his opinion. Honest Will.
 "A manager would be a liar to come out in March and say his team would win the pennant in Septem- ber, Will said But there was a twinkle in his eye. Eyes don't twinkle when there's any worry hoy ering around.
 McKechnie thinks the Reds may have as good a chance as any other club to win the flag They're defi- nitely out to win, this year. Will is not Adding around with many this spring. He's pretty well heeled. He is getting his boys ready to play for keeps from the start
 Frey, Riggs May Go
 He thinks he has pretty fair second -baseman in Linus Frey and a good third -baseman in Lew Riggs. He thinks more high of them than do most rival National League man agers. But Bill admits they could bf improved on. That's why he is look ing over Eddie Joost and Charles English. It's just possible that this pair may oust Frey and Riggs.
 Joost was in the Yankee chain last year with Kansas City. He hit only .270, but he knocked in TO runs. Some of the boys around Kan sas City say he was largely re- ponsible for the Blues winning the Association gonfalon
 Charles Dewey English comes from Los Angeles. His bat did some timely speaking last season when he
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batted in 143 runs. His 1903 average included 43 two-baggers and l9 homers. English is going to be & hard man for Riggs to outpace
 Otherwise the Reds are going to stand pat. with the exception Of Jimmy Wilson as @ reserve catcher and maybe a couple of young pitch CTS like Gene Thompson from Co., lumbia. S. C., and Red Barrett from Syracuse.
 Wander Nicer Better"
 That Thompson looks good to me, says McKechnie. And when a pitcher looks good to Bill you know that one thing he's sure to have is control
 Barrett had a 16-and-3 record with Syracuse last year.
 Johnny Wander Nicer is going to be a better pitcher than he was last year. Win says. And Whitey Moore ought to have a good year. My good ness. but he's got lots of stuff. l wish he could swap off some of that stuff he has for a little more con- trol.
 McKechnie believes the real dif- ference between the Reds of this year and those of last year will be Lee Grissom The lean left-hander was out most of last season, first with sore arm and later with a sprained ankle, suffered when he got a sudden notion to steal second base for no reason at all.
 If Grissom is at his best, well will be glad to reserve your World Series seats personally. That is. if you know Will.
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NEW STUn1
 IS WINNER,
 SPORT WAY
fIdIfbaCk Trains Prize Seer by Playing Football
 with Him

DENVER, Col March 28,--A high school halfback who trained his prize steer by playing football with him was one Of the six youngsters who won most of the blue ribbons at the National Western Stock Show
 By capturing the impor ant cham pionships, the six young cattle-rais- CTS convinced old stockmen that raising prize stock as a All club hobby has become a full-grown busi- ness. The winners advanced from club competition to take the open championships- the field in- cluded l3,495 entries from the na- tlcn's hest ranohss.
 Willard Frye. 1T-year-cid half hack at Peoria, H. Central High School, whooped with joy when Flash was named grand champion fat steer. And he had a right to be proud.
 Prof. w. L. Blizzard of Oklahoma A. and M College, a show judge. called Frye's steer "one of the best animals ever exhibited at Denver or any other stock show
 Willard's explanation:
 We've been training for this ever since last June I had won several small prizes at various shows and I pooled that money to buy Flash in Nebraska.
 I brought him home and to keep in training for football I began tack ling and blocking him. He was sur prised at first but soon learned to take it and finally could dodge and buck right back at me"
 That Willard believes, gave the animal "a solid form and taught him ta stand straight-a big asset in the show ring. It also got him used to me-another big asset for show animal"
 Flash went the same way as other prize fat steers-to the auction ring for purchase by packing houses.
 If I'm going to be a stockman- and plan to be a good one-I might as well make up my mind there is no place for sentiment in the busi- ness" said Frye.
 Flash sold for 68 cents a pound Frye's check was for S72420. The young winner says he plans to in- vest all the money in show stock and come back and win more priz- es."
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With the first halibut boats to set out from Juneau for the banks this week, on Thursday, activity on the local waterfront is at high pitch, with not only the halibuters but the trollers and seiners bending their eff forts to readying their craft for the coming fishing season.
 Sports fishermen too are turning their attentions to whipping their cruisers into shape to meet the fighting king when he follows the herring to inside waters to open the stripping season.
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NCOLJnluSU ilOiu hdgc OliS' German rule, including the rem- nancs cf the well-trained, we'll equipped Czech army, once 40 di- visions strong; a number of indus tries, including the famed Skoda munitions works and the breweries of Pnsen; and rich resources of coal, iron and timber.
 But and historians nav find this the most important part of the whole business Hitler may be ask ing for trouble by extending his rule over Germans - especially a race as fervently patriotic as the C2echs.
 Unlike the Austrians and the Su- deten Germans. the Czcchs did not toss flowers when the German marched in. And instead Of yelling
 Hell" they yelled "Pfui!-which means the same thing as i Bronx cheer-and sang their national an them.
 For years. before the World War as well as during the conflict, the Caechs worked to gain their brief two decades of freedom, keeping their patriotism alive through so- kois athletic clubs that form 2 common bond among Slavic na- tions
 Now that they've tasted inde- pendence, observers ask, are they likely to submit whole-heartedly to foreign rule?
 4i Hitler's coup makes the Czechs 2 part of Germany, contrary to his statement last fall that he had no more territorial demands to make on Europe, and even more im- portant, contrary to his often-ex- policy of taking only Ger manic people into the Reich
 Maybe No BIG Crisis
 IL was Austria Hungary's vast polyglot population tha t helped break up that empire during the war. Now it appears that Hitler just possibly is willing to run the same risk
 But that has little to do with THE crisis people have been fearing Britain and France ranged against Italy and Germany in another dan gerous showdown.
 And there may be no BIG crisis so long as Hitler continues to fol- low the line of least resistance i'll his push to the east. It may come only if Hitler. perhaps with Mus solini's help. challenges Britain or France in some vital area = like the Mediterranean.
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Mrs. John Keyser
 Honored Last Niaht

Mrs. M. S. Whittier, Miss Mary Jeannette Whittier and Miss Clara Carpenter were co-hostesses with dessert bridge party and shower honoring Mrs John Keyser last ev- cning at the Whittier residence on Djstin Avenue.
 Daffcdils centered each of the five tables and honors were won during the evening by Miss Mary VanderLeest, first, and Miss Jean Gallagher, second.
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Miss Perry Flonored
 Win Linen Shower

A linen shower, given at the home of Mrs. Robert Wolney yesterday afternoon. complhnented Miss Won ne Palry, bride to-pe of John Wit ley
 The afternoon was spent in play ing Chinese checkers, with prize won by Miss Corrine Duncan and Miss Marvin Jackson.
 Guests present were: Mrs. Robert Gordon, Mrs. Richard Nichols, Miss Corrinne Duncan, Miss Dorothy Bertholl. Miss Marvin Jackson and Miss Claudia Kearney.
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DR. CUNNINGHAM
 DIES SUDDENLY

pr. John P. Cunningham, for 40 years prominent surgeon of the Pa- cific Northwest and for the pasf g years Chief Surgeon of the Great Northern Railway, with headquart- CTS at Spokane, Wash, died sudden iv verfcrdav in Pslm SprIn9s cal. This is according to advices receiy- cd in Juneau today.
 There are many, not only in Ju- neau, but throughout Alaska, who have, it is said, have been q patient of pr. Cunningham at some time.
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Geo. SisIer
 Busiest Man In Baseball
One of Greatest Hiiiers of All Time Is Now Gar
 of Soft Leaguers

SIT LOUIS, March 28.--An eye ailment stifled his playing career when he was at the top a decade and half ago but George Sisler remains one Of the busiest men in baseball
 Just a short while ago Sisler, one of the greatest hitters of all time, was elected to baseban's Hall of Fame.
 Today he is the Judge Landis' or high commissioner, of semi-pro baseball and president of the Ma tlonal Softball Association. He has thousands of players under his wing. George also is part owner of sporting goods firm here.
 He's been active in promoting soltball but his heart is in the commissioners job. He says that 1000 clubs will play organized semi-pro ball next season. George believes baseball can hold it's place as the national game only through proper development and encour- agement of youngsters.
 It was back in 1922 that Sisler hit APO the highest batting aver age in American league history, A few months later sinus trouble attacked him, affecting his eye sight so that he had to withdraw from baseball during 1923.
 He returned in 1924 as playing manager of the Browns and hit .305 Pitchers began throwing low to him and, changing his stance, he hit .345 ill 1925. But he slumped to .289 the next year, his final as manager.
 He lasted another four years in the majors, with the Browns, Wash ington and the Boston Braves. After year with Rochester he wound up his active baseball career in 1892 as manager of Shreveport Tyler club in the Texas league.
 It was his hard batting that al most enabled the Browns to win the American League pennant. The Yankees beat the Browns by sim gle game in 1922, and that's the closest St. Louis ever came to win- ming.
 He thinks his fat batting record is a good one but "all records are broken sooner or later.' Like Babe Ruth, Sisler entered baseball as a pitcher in 1915 but shifted to first base so he could play daily He was one Of the fanciest fielding first sackers the game has ever known and an extremely clever oase stealer.
 Among the highlights of his career, he recalls the two games he pitched-and against the great Walter Johnson.
 But the day he hit safely in his 41st successive game to break Ty Ccbb's record brought him the greatest thrill of all.
 George played the game for the love of it--always remaining gentleman on and off the field He seldom got mad One he slapped Umpire George Hildebrand in the face with his glove. then apolo- fixed immediately This was the only time in his career he had to be disciplined
 Sisler, at A, is enjoying. excel lent health He no longer wears glasses. and keeps fit by playing a terrible" game of golf hunting and fishing.
 Sisler has two sons-both good baseball players. The eldest, George Jr, who graduates from Colgate this year, is rated an outstanding college. pitcher Dick is a freshman at Colgate, and according to Pop is darned good hitter.
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Not all the attention, however is devoted to readyng old boats; new vessels too are being crowned With finishing touches and prepared for their maiden runs. A current event in the waterfronts activity is thc installation now being made Of a Chryslsr Ace marine engine in tho Little Elfin, Of Elfin Cove The in- stailation is being made by the Chas. c. Warner Co, marine engineers and machinists, who are agents here for the Chrysler marine engines. as well as other well known power un- its.
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ALASKA -T0-NEW YORK VEGETABLE TRUCKER iS
 VISITING IN JUNEAU

w. T. Walsh. the man who took a well known type of motor vehicle from Ketchikan to New York with a load of Alaskan vegetables as a publicity stunt is back in Alaska
 Walsh, a guest at the Gastineau Hotel, says he will be in Juneau several days in line with an AL asSan publicity program.
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SOME OTHER POSSIBILITIES
 They were splendid words, but even Frank could not tell which meant which after he had once used them.
 Off hand we can think of a half dczen other words that could use a bit of revising. The word purge used in Germany to extinguish op- position by use of the axe. was em- plcyed here during the last politi- cal campaign and beclouded the issue handsomely.
 And yet. the New Dealers who suffered from employment Of the word purge" have no true com plaint coming. Early in the New Deal liberals. who happened to differ with New Deal methods were arbitrarily damned as conservative tories"
 Nowadays, in the eyes of some New Dealers. every discontented conservative is a fascist
 In the eyes Of some discontented conservatives. every New Dealer is a communist
 Such usage makes good head lines but plays havoc with sensible understanding
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Bethlehem Steel 65s. Common wealth and Southern 13, Curtiss Wright common 5M. General Motors f5@. International Harvester 55N. Senneeott 35l2. New York Central ITS, Northern Pacific 10as. South .rn Pacific 15i4. United States Steei 55, Pound Sd68 5-l6.
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TO WASIL.LA

MT. and Mrs. E. w Horning of Wasilla, near Anchorage, passed through Juneau today on the steam CT Yukon after a trip to the States. Horning is well known mine operator in the Willow Creek dis trict.
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JOIN HUSBAND

Mrs Robert J. 5choeitlsr and daughter Maria, arrived on the Yu- kon this morning to jon Mir Schoet- ter manager of the Baranof Hotel. With them was Joyce Quist daught- CT Of Mir. and Mrs Eugene Qhist.
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RANK no sITKA

Filler Hansen Superintendent of the Pioneers Home at Sitka, and Charles Workman Sitka merchant. took passage for the Historic City on the North Sea this afternoon after short business trip to Ju- neau.
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Dillon Graham, AP Feature Service sports writer, is touring Florida major-league spring training camps. Here's his story from Cincinnati's stronghold in Tampa. Watch for more of Gra- hams articles.
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In medieval times. a tenants fire wood was limited to the amount of underbrush he could cut with a hook and the deadwood he could knock from the trees with shep- herds crook. Hence the expression
 by hook or crook.
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STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, March 28 Closing quotation of Alaska mine stock today is g, American Can 887s, American Power and Light 57s, Anaconda 26Ts,
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YaYosz
 Winner in
 OverIin Go
Former Champion Gives Opponent Boxing les
 son 10 Take Decision

HOUSTON. Texas, March 28.- Teddy Yarosz. of Pittsburgh, former niddleweight champion, last night gave Ken Overlin, of Chicago. 8 boxing lesson, and then won the decision at the end of n-rounder.
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DOW. JONES AVERAGES

The following are today's Dow. Jcnes averages: industrials 13933, rails 2934, utilities 23.5o.
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Short-wave radios are not per- mitted in Japan, Military authorities fear the Japanese public would hear to much Communist and pacifist propaganda. s~sss..s,z
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TRAVELLER

A L. Florence tlaYellny man. guest at the Barancf
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(Continued from Page One) producers, or any two or more of the list got together, it was imme- diately interpreted as conspiracy to fix prices and rob the ultimate consumer. But at times such con- sultation is highly desirable, and to the good consultation" as dis tinguished from .conspiracies in restraint of trade" lie gave the name Wifwaff.
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ReiGh Seen Couriing Trouble Through Her
 CQDquesis in Europe

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WORD 'AppFASEMENT' IS MOST 'B0THERS0ME;;
 TRY OUT 'BLuGGLllB'

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Evening star., 1939-07-08

Milo H. Brinkley, 3035 @ street
NV, owner; J. Marcus Hallett, de-
signer; J. Bryant Smith, 522 Four
teenth street Sc. builder; to make
repairs, 1882 Thirty first street NV,
to cost $500.
A. S. H. Trappey, owner; to erect
brick retaining wall, 6331 Western
avenue NV, to cost $500.
I. M. Sterba, 4339 Bowen road
Sc, owner; L. w. Giles architect;
Kraft Construction Co., Homer
Building, builders; to erect open
porch, 4339 Bowen road Sc, to cost
$500.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
BY LAWRENCE CROLIUS.

When you visit, or even read
about, the mammoth Worlds Fair
you are no doubt slightly staggered
by the conception of the World of
Tomorrow" which is unfolded be-
fore your very eyes. But when you
stop to think of it, aren't the hun
dredS of new devices and household
aids which are now available for the
modern home every bit as remark
able?
Who would have imagined a few
years ago that the business of tend
ing the furnace would be taken care
of by any one of number of COM
pletely automatic fuel-feeding ma
chimes? Or what man would have
run the risk of being called balmy
in the crumpet by predicting that
every home would have its own ice
box without ice? 1t would seem to
us that we have done much toward
catching up with the future, and the
World of Tomorrow is really the
world of today if we would only
bother to make it So
With that bit of sage advice and
astute philosophy may we outline a
new step-saver which should GER
talnly take its place with the other
new household devices now being
found popular with smart home
modernizers. This new device is in
stalled in the kitchen sink. believe
it or not. and eliminates the need
for much trotting around in con-
nection with the disposal of kitchen
waste, or shall we say garbage. Now,
instead of tussling with can lids
or having to cart waste material
outside, you merely twist open a con-
venient opening in the sink, close
it, and the waste is nicely shredded
before it is passed down the regu-
lar drain.
This new unit is easily installed
in your present sink, and requires
only plug-in to the ordinary line.
The unit itself is completely con-
cealed, although it is a handsomely
constructed mechanism, and all the
kitchen mechanic sees is the con-
troll fitting which is built into the
sink f1ange. Thus, when the time
to get rid of garbage comes along
it can be done efficiently and con-
veniently with only a twist of the
wrist.
Another electric gadget which we
believe should grace every home of
today, or tomorrow, is an electric
mixer, which makes short work of
making a liquid of practically every
thing you can think Of With such
machine in your kitchen you can
place yourself on a liquid diet and
still eat all sorts of things like fruits
and vegetables.
The streamlined little unit has a
handsome chromium plated metal
base which hides a terrifically high
speed electric motor of no little pow
er and enthusiasm. Atop the base is
located a glass mixing receptacle
covered over with a shiny metal cap,
while inside you will find a set of
small vicious looking blades which
revolve at a great rate of speed and
do all the shredding and mixing.
Hence, if you feel like you would
like to make up little liquid carrot
juice you merely place enough water
in the receptacle to cover the blades,
turn on the switch and dump in a
quantity of cut-up pieces of that
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Fir PIywood Used
For Roof Sheuthino

The introduction of Douglas fir
plyWood for roof sheathing in the
Washington area was recently made
by Edward A. Hyde, who used the
product in two residences now be-
Ing completed at Eighteenth street
and Otis place NE.
This wood product comes in large
by 8 foot sheets and gets its
strength from the cross lamination
OF the various layers of wood of
which 1t Is composed. This cross
banding of the wood prevents split
ting and enables the production of
large sheets, which, considering
weight, are stronger than steel.
Evening star., 1939-07-08

by highway officials in Washington
and throughout the States. If this
immense construction project should
be carried out and large part of
the cost put on real estate, the blow
to private home building and to
private real estate improvements
would prevent and destroy more
building business by far than the
highway work would amount to.
"The Old theory was that the
adjacent real estate would be bene-
f1ted-increased in value-by high
way paving, and that accordingly it
should bear the cost.
No Increased Benefits"
To-day, however, with the ever
increasing use of our public streets
and highways by commercial truck
ers, and with the increasing noise,
loss of privacy and liability to acci-
dents to those living on or near i'm
portant highways, it is now realized
that there is no increased benefit
which can be fairly assessed against
farms or homes that may happen to
lie along these present-day avenues
OF commerce. To force farmers and
other home owners to assume added
tax or special assessment burdens
to pay for these modern motor high
way requirements would obviously be
most unfair. But farm and other
home owners and the building in
dustry will have to be more alert
and active If they are to prevent an
increasing burden of highway taxes
from being, to their injury, imposed
on real estate.
"All owners of real estate are
also users Of the highways; but
there are millions of highway users
who are not owners of real estate.
Highway users include not only pri-
Vate motorists, but many individuals
and companies operating large buses
and trucks in carrying on their pr.
vate business.
Proper tax policies will permit
the building industry to do an ln-
creasingly effective job, not only of
housing the lower third, but also Of
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Excessive Taxes
On Real Estate Seen
Danger 10 Building
High Levies for Rood
Construction Cited
By Publication

The American Builder, leading
publication in the building field,
sounds warning in an editorial in
its July issue that farmers. other
home owners and the building in
dustry already are being injured and
are in danger of being injured much
more by the imposition on real
estate OF excessive taxes levied for
highway purposes.
There is Nationwide contro-
versy developing" says the Amer
ican Builder, regarding whether
the users should be required,
through gasoline, vehicle and other
taxes, to pay the total cost of pro-
viding and maintaining the high
ways, or most of it, or only a small
part of it. 1t is a certainty, how
ever, that the less of it the users
pay, the more of it the owners of
real estate-especially farmers and
other home owners-will have to
pay.
Taxes Cut Home Building.
And the heavier the taxes on real
estate, for highway or any other
purpose, are made the more they
will hinder the full revival of home
building. Therefore, it is plainly to
the interest of all dependent on
building for business or jobs, and
all who desire to improve their
homes or build new ones, to exert
their utmost influence for local,
State and Federal Government pol
icies that will increase the portion
of total highway costs and taxes
that must be paid by the users of
the highways.
There has recently been pro-
posed further extension of motor
highway development on a grand
scale, and surveys and studies pre-
liminary to it are now being made