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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-16

Tom Yawkey is another Ameri-
can league owner who saw the
light. Yawkey came charging into
baseball with an open check book
and signed away half a million
dollars before he found he couldn't
buy a ready made pennant winner.
So Yawkey began acquiring min
or-league clubs on which to train
Youngsters for the Boston Red SoX.
The same story can be told re-
garding practically all other base
ball clubs in the major leagues.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-16

week in the majors found him in
possession Of a 500 batting average.
His hit collection included homer
off Bob Feller. of the Indians, at the
Cleveland municipal stadium, base
balls most spacious park
Barney is of Lithuanian Irish
descent (the McCosky comes from
the Lithuanian side. incidentally.
Among those who admir- Barney
is iris Speaker, greatest Of all CEN
ter fielders.
Il like his batting and he's fast
and judges fly ball well,' said
Speaker.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-16
CUBS TRIM
piRATESON
win STREAK
FerreII ChaIks Up His First
Victory : Yankees
Blank Athletics
(By Associated Press

The Cubs resumed their winning
ways over the Pirates, trimming the
BUGS behind the siX-hit pitching of
veteran Larry French. The victory
was the tenth for the Cubs in the
last eleven meetings of the two clubs.
Wesley Terrell hung up his first
victory of the season but was unable
to finish as the Yankees beat the
Athletics and boosted their winning
streak to five straight games.
Fritz Ostermuller held the SEN
ators to eight hits while Boston
pounded four Washington pitchers
for ten hits and victory.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-16
REV. CAUBLE IS
RETURNING HOME

The Rev. John l.. Cauble, Pastor
of the Resurrec Lutheran
Church, is board the Princess
Louise He has been attending the
convention of the Pacific Synod of
the United Lutheran Church at
Medford, oregon.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-16
ALL FIGURED OUT

PITTSBURGH. May is. Lloyd
Waner has it all figured out when
he goes to bat how many points his
batting average will rise if he gets
hit and how many points it will
drop if he fails to connect.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-16
Drink Less Coffee
Italians Are Told

ROME, May 16.--Italians were
notified by the Fascist press today
that they must give up a large
measure of their coffee drinking for
reasons for national policy.
Negotiations for barter arrange
ment with Brazil, which supplies
most of the coffee used in Italy,
apparently have broken down. Cof-
fee has been scarce in Italy for
months.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-16

While the ST. Louis Cardinals OF
the National league have the big
gest chain of all, the Yankees pos
sess the biggest group of farms in
America.
New York owns Newark, Kansas
City, Binghamton, NJ Y, Norfolk,
Va, and Akron, o. And the Yam
KEGS have working agreements with
nine clubs ranging from Glass d to
Glass B.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-16
PLENTY OF RACQUET5

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May
16-Sixty three tennis racquets, sew
en- to each player, were brought
here by a touring British tennis
team.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-16
GAMES MONDAY
National League

Chicago 3; Pittsburgh z.
American League
New York 3; Philadelphia 0.
Boston 9; Washington @
Pacific Coast League
No games were played in the Pa
cific Coast League yesterday as the
teams were travelling to open on the
following split-schedule for this
week:
Today, Wednesday and Thursday:
Seattle at Portland, Los Angeles at
San Francisco, Oakland at Holly
wood, Sacramento at San Diego.
Friday, Saturday and sun y:
Portland at Seattle. San Diego at
Sacramento, Los Angeles at Oakland,
San Francisco at Hollywood.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-16
BY DILLON GRAHAM
AP Feature Service Sports Writer

NEW YORK-The late Colonel
Jacob Rupert was one of the first
American league club owners to
grasp the Importance of wide
spread farm system to develop and
furnish athletes for his Yankees.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-16

arrival here Thursday, according to
Mrs. f. S. Evans, Chairman OF the
Women's Display Department. Cash
prizes will be awarded the winning
exhibits.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-16
BIDS ARE CALLED ON
WRANGELL NARROWS
DOLPHIN REPAIRS

A call for bids on furnishing a
pile driver, crew and tug for re-
pairing five pile dolphine in Wran-
CELL Narrows has been posted at the
Federal Building here. w. G. Dib-
rell. Superintendent of Lighthouses,
will open bids at his Ketchikan Of
flee May 25. The work is to start
about June l.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-16

Lode and placer location notices
for sale at The Empire Office,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-16

This lis the second of two ar
ticIes dealing with the major
leagues farm systems.)
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08
Bruce Cation in Washington
Dissects the News

is now at Magnolia, Ark, where
the group is building school,
house to replace one destroyed by
fire.
When is comes to anchor and
dismounts from its trailers, the
village is set up with its dwell
ings in rows. Beyond them is a
dining hall and Kitchen a five
part building which comes down
in sections. Another five-part
building houses recreation hall,
postoffice and general store. An
other unit contains the villages
toilet facilities complete with a
portable septic SYSTEM and still
another contains shower baths and
wash basins; one building houses
the project office.
The whole village, including its
furniture, was built by NYA work.
erS.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08
w-EMhER
VIRTUE FINDS
ANOTHER REWARD

Virtue may indeed be its own reward,
but Finland is finding out that it has
other, more concrete rewards, too.
Every nation in Europe that is counted
as power - except Soviet Russia is
rallying to the support of Finland with
money and war materials. Russia, invad-
ing what she believed to be a compar-
atively defenseless nation has found her
self suddenly pitted against a powerful
economic and military combine.
Why?
Certainly not because these other ma
tions believe Finland can help them ma
terially in their own ambitions.
Partly, it may be, because conquest of
Finland would put Russia in a position
to threaten almost every other nation in
northern Europe
But largely, it is certain, because Fin
lands national life has been so diplo-
matically virtuous, so entirely free from
imperialistic ambition or sordid greed,
that the peoples of the world whose lives
are in tune with civilization instead of
barbarism
Germany's conquest of Poland brought
no such storm of public indignation in
all parts of the world as Russia's at
tempted conquest of little Finland There
was d TedSOH 1Of Iildl, 100. 1OldnQ Hdu
not herself been guiltless of aggression
or threats of aggression. 1t was not
much more than a year ago that Poland
was threatening to invade Rumania if
Rumania did not give in to her militar-
istic demands. SO the world population,
even while it condemned Gernany's inva-
sion of Poland as an undesirable bit of
barbarism, did not SympathiZe with the
Poles as much as the peoples now SYM
pathize with the Firms.
Had Finland not been a model nation
in all respects, it is doubtful if she would
receive the help she is now receiving
from so many different sources. As it
is, her good qualities are paying off in
the way that counts most.
individuals, as we'll as nations, would
do we'll to remember Finland's example,
and in remembering, to recall those Holy
words:
"As We give, so shall We receive
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08
opr. 1853 by United Feature Syndicate, Ins
m. Reg. U. s. Fat Oh.-An rights reserve

WASHINGTON just about the
time Russia was breaking relations
with Finland and laying the
groundwork for invasion, the U. S.
States Department was preparing
to dispatch the little please remit"
notices which ordinarily get atten-
ton from Finland, and Finland
alone.
On Dec. Is, payments on Eu-
ropes debts to the United States
come due. Late in November the
State Department asked the treas
ury for statement of the various
accounts. The treasury had just
finished its reckoning when Rus
sia broke with Finland.
Due from Finland on Dec. Is
is S234,693, representing STA
900 payment on principal, $l4l,-
$3.50 in interest and $l9,030.50
due under the moratorium agree
ment of 1882.
Had Stain held off, this sum
would have been sure to come in
on time, judging by past perform
ances. The other sums due, which
won't be paid no matter what
Stain does. are as follows:
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08

From now on, American standards
of justice and fair play are going
to take beating in Europe that
will make most of us vince with
pain. Folks in the. United States
are going to have to hold on to
their seats more firmly than ever
as the world takes one of the dizzi-
est curves it ever tried to negotiate.
UP to now, Americans have main
tanned a remarkably sane attitude
toward foreign propaganda. For
some time, the fatalists who didn't
want to go to war but didn't see
how the United States could stay
out have been muttering vaguely
in corners. Now their voices are
becoming audible again, above the
hurricane that is ripping Europe
to shreds.
If we were vigilant about propa-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08
IT COST NO MORE
TO BE PLEASANT

If there is one way more than another
in which public governmental agencies
can do themselves most good with least
effort, it is in improving the manner in
which telephone calls are answered.
1t takes no more effort to say hello
pleasantly than it does to say it gruffly,
or lazily, or sleepily.
For the person making the telephone
CALL it is pleasure to talk to the oper-
ator who is pleasantly cooperative. By
the same token, it leaves decidedly bad
impression of the public agency-or pri-
vate company either, for that matter
if the person who answers the phone in
sists upon giving the impression OF inef-
ficiency which a careless answer can
give.
All this goes not only for central
switchboard operators, but for men and
women in different offices of city, coun-
ty, district and other governmental
agencies 1t would be wise for many in
authority to learn the simple task OF
answering phone pleasantly.
Many big corporations put their phone
girls and operators through long, inten-
sive courses, just to teach them how TO
saw "hello." Certainly, since those whose
business is pleasing the public take so
much pains about answering the phone,
public agencies and their employees could
afford to take little more.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08
FREEDOM OF The
THEATER SCREEN
(Christian Science MOnitor)

Just as they will undoubtedly regret
democratic ideal will be encouraged to
learn that Beasts of Berlin" has been
freed for showing by the New York State
Board of Censors. Censorship assumes
widespread and authoritarian proper
tionS in time of crisis. Thus, Abel Canoes
tragic anti-war plea, THAT They May
Live" is banned in France. Thus, Canada
is reported to have forbidden the showing
of newsreels in which American neutral
ity is advocated or which show German
generals of the last war Thus, New
Zealand has requested Warner Broth
ers to withdraw Dawn Patrol" which
concerns the British air force in the last
war.
But the United States is not at war
There is, therefore, no excuse for abro-
eating the rights of the American public
to hear and-in the cinema's case-to see
all shades of public opinion. To offset
those films which may have negative
and destructive tendency, there will con-
tinue to be pictures like THAT They May
Live" eve Are Not Alone" Chaplin's
unnamed lampoon of relationships, and
Beasts of Berlin" Surely the best CEN
sorship is an informed and discriminat-
ing public-a public which, for example,
can recognize that Beasts of Berlin" is
an unfortunately sensational title while
yet realizing the possible worth of the
film to which such title may be attach
ed
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08
RALEIGH'S COLONY
IN NORTH CAROLINA
Nevada State JournaD

The claim that the site of Sir Walter
Raleigh's ill-fated colony in North Caro-
lima has been found, together with in
scrlptlonS relating to Virginia Dare and
her family, receives some support from
Investigations by the state department of
conservation and development They re-
port colonies of fishermen on the coast
who maintain in their everyday speech
expressions similar to those in good usage
in the days of Queen Bess.
Phllilogists and historians studying the
native lore report a strange mixture of
native dialect and something like Eliza
bethan English and Roanoke Island, Ro-
danthe, Buxton and surrounding settle
ments. There are still sung, they say the
old English ballads that were popular in
the days of Shakespeare and Ben john
son. An affable man is spoken of as be-
ing ''witted and couthe.' Some men are
'fitten" for certain services because of
their mother wit" and because they are
"mindable". There are ''ghosties" and the
hens thereabouts have "nesties.' A pint
is not pint but point and the vine
from which wine is made is the wine"
The customs of the people, the research
ers say, lend support to the hypothesis
that the area may be an offshoot of Eliza
beth Britain, for there Christmas festi-
val is held on January 5-the Twelfth
highland the children are taught that
on this eve the cattle still kneel in their
stalls in commemoration of the visit of
the wise men to Bethlehem.
Other parts of the south, especially in
the mountains, furnish dialect and eX-
pressions that have unmistakable con-
nections with old England and Scotland,
but the peculiar mixture of speech found
at Roanoke is believed by the investiga-
tors not to have duplicate anywhere else
in the United States. The members of
Raleigh's colony were believed to have
perished, but the recent inscriptions
found in North Carolina, which some
persons believe genuine, indicated that
some of them had fled the colony and
may have settled elsewhere near
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08

but nave ll1Ce puohiSoo Va
own today.
One day. while they were try
ing to think up an idea, their mo-
ther sent Richard to the grocery
on an Grand He didn't want to
90: pouted. Then suddenly, on the
way. an idea tore through him
like a China Clipper through a
cloud. If his mother wanted er-
rands run for her, why other wo-
men did. tool Maybe merchants'
He broke all records in getting
to the grocery store and oack.
Buster liked the idea, and right
then and there a new business
was born. They organized a busl-
ness which they call the SHOP
pers Service"
These are the steps they took.
FIRST. They had some letters
mimeographed-giving their names
telephone number, and the amount
they charged.
SECOND. They went to the mer-
chants and told them and left their
circulars.
THIRD. They oiled their bicy-
cles and had wire baskets put on
the handlebars.
The first day six calls came in.
The charge for each was ten cents,
They made sixty cents between
them in a day Fine!
The second day only four calls
came in. 1t took two weeks for
the tide to turn. Then thirty-three
orders came in one day.
They took their profits and had
circulars printed to replace their
flimsy monographs, 10000 OF them.
1 have a letter from them dated
October 9th; I'VE now have ten
boys working for us, and we are
going to add more. Six of our
boys have snappy uniforms, and
we expect soon to have them all
in uniforms.
Here's how we handle the
money. The boys working for us
get five cents out of every dime
collected. We hold the money till
the end of the week, then turn
it over in lump sum. For long
calls outside the city limits we
charge from 15c to 25 cents &C
cording to the distance. On these
calls the boys get all but five
cents. The boys keep the tips, but
we watch this as closely as we can
for we don't want them to ask for
them.
1--WE open at 7::3O in the morn
ing and stay on the job until 10.
Our day boys work until five,
then our night boys come on right
after school, We also have good
deal of fun We are now getting
between 700 and 1000 calls week.
We think that is pretty good
So do I! Splendid business train
ing! And you are doing two vital
things-studying and working. Here
is a quotation from the boys cir
cular: "The secret of success is
hard work. Maybe that is why it
has remained a secret to SO many"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08
Willis Thorntons Editorial on:
Holding on to Our Hate

ganda before the attempted sub
iugation of Finland by Russia. we
must be douply SO now. The peril
is not that the missives from abroad
will become more intense but rather
that American sympathies will be
more firmly fixed Americans can't
enjoy the sight OF Goliath wiping
up the dust with little David.
Not even the most extreme apol-
ogist can piece together a case for
the Soviet Union. The standard
alibi that the aggressor is moving
in to protect oppressed minorities
is completely untenable. The as
sertion that Joe Stain is protecting
himself against threats of Finnish
invasion is purely ridiculous. II
there we're extenuating circumStan-
ces for the Russian occupation of
Poland, there are none whatever
for the assault on Finland.
This is what makes Americas
position today so difficult, We can
no more be neutral in thought
about the Russo Finnish dispute
than we can when a cut-throat
enters a home to massacre a family
OF honest citizens. Our sympathies
are inevitably with Finland.
But there is nothing we can do
about it. We must keep telling our
selves that over and over again.
We cannot help now by going over
there with a contingent of troops
and a grim but virtuous purpose.
Later, perhaps, when the whirlpool
becomes less turbulent, and when
the nations of Europe quit fighting
we can lend our offices in CO.
operating for genuine peace, less
neurotic than the one we helped
engineer 20 years ago.
Americas private war of nerves
is a long way from being ended.
The comparative calm that settled
over most of the nation after the
first explosive reaction to the war
abroad is likely to be shattered
again. This country will be deluged
anew with semi official spokesmen
of the belligerents who will broad
cast their badly disguised appeals
for American intervention.
We must hang on now more tight
ly than ever. Though our faces
may be flushed with righteous in
dignation over the rapacious acts
of European bullies, we must count
up to 10 before we lead with out
right. In the end, it will be better
that way.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08
TOday'S Horoscope

If you are celebrating your birth
day today, indications are that you
will meet with great good fortune
in the next twelve months. Losses
through carelessness in dealing with
correspondence should be guarded
against, however The child born
today will possess a high order of
intelligence and will be resourceful.
An inclination to be too impulsive
should be guarded against, however
A naval career would bring success.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08
Imperial Valley Press

Established April 20, 1901.
Published every afternoon except
Saturday and Sunday Saturday
afternoon issue now succeeds sd
by the Post Press Sunday, les
tablished 1886 by the Imperial
Valley Publishing company, 625
State Street. Ell Centre, Calf.
Paul jenkins, publisher; A. G.
Johnston, ce-president, and
general manager; e. A. Fitz-
hugh. secretary and managing
editor. West Holiday Co. Inc,
National Advertising Represent
atiYes.
Entered at FL Centre, California
post office as second class mat
ter.
Subscription rates. SC per copy.
In conjunction with the Post
press sundays, per month,
soc; paid In advance. 9 months,
S1.65; 6 months, 1926; one year,
5000.
California Newspaper
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08
One-Minute Test Answers

l. Andrew Johnson served in the
senate. and John Quincy Adams in
the house of representatives.
2. The bank to the right of a
person looking down stream.
3. An elastic, fibrous substance
that grows ON the roof of the mouth
of certain species Of whales.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08

years old, and
his brother Bus
ter Welliver, a
Y ar younger.
They live in
Rockford, Illinois.
Just as a mil
lion other boys
last summer, they
found they had
to earn money.
These two not
only earned it
l,,,cipecc of their
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08
You re Telling Me-

Our favorite essay is that one
written by a Canadian schoolboy.
The armistice," he wrote, WAS
signed Nov. II, 1918 and every year
since then the world has two min
utes of peace.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08
Hints on EtiGucttc

If a girl meets a young man
and would like to see him again,
the best thing for her to do is for
her to have gathering for young
people in her home and include him
in the invitations.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08

U. S. Ambassador Anthony Biddle
said 6998 pieces in his 700-piece
China collection were damaged be-
fore he could leave Warsaw. Some
one had better make a note of that
to be presented when the inevitable
war debt conference gets underway.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08
LEGAL NOTICE

Notice is Hereby given that the
Ell CENTRIC WRESTLING CLUB
has filed an application with the
State Athletic Commission TO con-
duct wrestling matches in the Fox
West Coast Theatre, 14l South Sew
enth Street, FL Centre, California.
(H30, D14 inci(
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08
Words of Wisdom

A good jest in time of misfortune,
is food and drink. 1t is strength to
the arm, digestion to the stomach,
and courage to the heart. A prosper
Gus man can afford to be melan-
choly, but if the miserable are SO,
they are worse than dead-it is
sure to kill them.-Ware.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08
Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

One-Minute Test
l. What two eX X-presidents of the
United States served in the con-
gress?
2. Which is the right bank of a
river?
8. What is Whalebone?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08
Dale
n M = =
- = ~
CARNEGIE

Meet two boys who did one of
the most difficult things in the
world to do They thought up a
new way to earn money!
They are Richard Welliyer, II
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08
Barbs

Many Britons are being fined as
blackout restrictions become more
stringent. Wonder what's being done
about cats eyes.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08

Princeton students consider Hitler
the greatest man in the world to-
day, excepting not even Father Di-
vine.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08

The number OF marriages is rap
idlv gaining in Canada. England ex-
poets every man to do his duty-or
get married.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08

No more football in Germany.
It will be permissible hereafter to
get killed only in battle.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08
thoughts for the Day

Wherefore I say unto thee Her sins, which many
forgiven; for she loved much; but to whom little
is forgiven, the same loveth httle.-Luke TAI