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ON VACATION TRIP.

Harry Kane and Irving Fleek of the Custodian's staff of the Fed- eral and Territorial Building. left on the Alaska for Skagway on a vacation trip that may extend into the interior.
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MARRIAGE LICENSE

A marriage license has been is- sued by U. s. Commissioner Felix Gray to Ethan Herbert Nelson and Anita Ava Porter. both of Juneau.
 Modern lacrosse originated from the stickball game of the Indians who still play the ancient form.
 Sixty-eight per cent of the larger hotels in America do their own baking.
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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1939-09-15

great Alekhine, worlds champion.
In handball, George Baskin and
AL Goldstein share the national
honors at the one-wall game, while
AL Platak remains as title-holder
in the four-wall competition.
Jean Bauer, Sylvia Feitner,
Alice WE'LL, and Louise Falk have
taken intersectional titles on the
fairways of America while Her
man Barron, to the best of our
knowledge, still reigns supreme
as the foremost Jewish pro on
the links today. Herb Fleisch-
hacker, formerly of Stanford, is
champion Of the Pacific Coast
in the amateur ranks with Sid
Gordon, of Baton Rouge, setting
the pace in the Southlands.
This review in no way intends
to be comprehensive. We have
covered only a score Of the fifty
odd sports that the Jewish athlete
has been indulging in. We have
made every effort to make it in
elusive in that we have made note
of and recorded the most out
standing activities of Jewish men
and women in the most popular
sports. Of necessity, we have
been obliged to omit hundreds of
names of talented performers.
However, from time to time we
shall bring you the performances
of these others in our regular col
umn-The Jew in Sports.
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and Stein were still on hand to
play for the Chicago Black
Hawks, Boston Bruins, Montreal
Maroons, New York Americans
and Toronto Maple Leafs, respec-
lively. One of the grand old
timers of the game, Cecil Hart,
was deposed as manager of the
Montreal Maroons and has tenn
porarily framed his skates. How
ever, there are considerable
number of promising candidates
in hockeys minor leagues namely:
Morris Greenbaum, Hershey Club;
Fred Ansher, Atlantic City; Paul
Benov, Minneapolis Rovers; and
Stephen Rifkin of the Quebec A.
c.
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Jews I'm Sports
Continued from Preceding Page

,.u Of what has been accom-
V ,;onod during the past season,
plis' with the idea in mind that
s Snu same people will surely du-
u1;oate their performances at
p pllv tryouts in the coming
Ivy Ivy we offer a list of potential
Oi sn ward dash-Sam Stoller,
,,iobiosn; Myron Piker, North
1 Mss Allen Tollmich, Wayne.
"T Inn wards Marty Glickman,
syracuse; Piker, Northwestern;
Tepfer, Arizona.
't 39O vards-Piker, Northwestern,
,rvron Bresnick, N. Y. u; Stol-
''l soo vards-Bresnick, N. Y. U.
sSO wards Sanford Goldberg,
,t;Ilrose A. A.; Abe Rosenkrantz,
Michigan Normal.
1000 yards Sanford Goldberg,
Millrose A. A.
One Sanford Goldberg,
,rllrose A. A.; Lieut.. Richard
Rauer. Shore A. c.
* kilometer Halk-Irving Hor-
Owitz, Y. NJ. H. A.
mile walk Sidney Abramo-
,,,itz % St. Y. H. M. A. and Fred
Sbaraga ". M. H. Al
12O Hurdles (High) Allen Toll
mich, Wayne; Klopstock, Pacific
Coast Len Einsidler, Unatt.
22O Low Hurdles-Milton Green,
Harvard, Tollmich, Wayne.
High Jump = James Sander,
Northeastern; Victor Cohen, I'M
attached; Wise, Princeton.
Broad Jump > Milton Green,
Harvard
Discus Phil Levy, Olympic
Club, San Francisco.
Shot Howard Brill, N. Y.
"A. c.; Danny Taylor, N. Y. u;
Irwin Rubow, Wisconsin.
Hammer Throw-Arthur Loeb,
Yale.
Javelin Throw Lin Minsky,
Unatt.
$4,000 Meters - Will Steiner,
Baltimore, Md, Unatt.
Marathon Will Steiner, Balti-
more, Nd, Unatt.
There are others: PadWay of
Wisconsin; Levy, Cornell; Lipman,
Stamford; Harry Cieman, of the
Achilles A. C. and among the
women: Greta Bergman, Beatrice
Cohen, Claire Isaacson, Rose Au-
erbach, sid" Kopf, and Florence
Taylor But it is men we men
toned above who most likely will
be carrying the mail for Jews in
sports come the 1910 tryouts.
AUTO-RACING, HOUSEKEEPING
AND EMBRACING
Though that Chaplinesque fig
ure OF the Speedways, Mauri Rose,
hasn't been able to duplicate his
performance as the Number One
Driver Of America, he still is very
much in the running, particularly
IN totals of money earned The
American Automobile Association
rates the drivers on points COM
piled during the year as a result
vi races won and places earned.
ana MauM, whose chief ambition
IS 10 win the Indianapolis Memoir
Id Day Classic, came within three
minutes of the leader in the 500
mile grind last May 80. In the
!uggernaut class, Rose is the only
olg-tlme Jewish auto racer, while
IN the midget field we have Isa-
uore Coleman of Baltimore, Harry
nozlns NEE Hozinsky) of Elmira
ana Pete" Goodstein of Topeka.
frank Rubens was a top-notcher
untll ms car crashed through the
idil on Long Island track.
AGAIN. as in years gone by, the
ACTIVITIES of the Jacobs family
anu the Hirsch family on the turf
are Americas favorite track Cos
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sip. Eva Jacobs owns the horses
and Hirsch Jacobs trains them
saddles them-in fact all but rides
them-and as a result has become
the biggest money winner on the
American tracks. He has held his
spot of top-trainer for seven con-
secutive years despite the fact
that he has never saddled a fea-
tured horse like the Derby or the
Belmont or the Preakness The
Hirsch family, Max, Buddy, and
Mary-are all trainers and owners
in their own right and present the
first Jewish racing triumvate in
the world. Mary Hirsch was the
first woman trainer in America
and the second of her kind in the
world. And, like the Jacobs fom-
lily, theirs is an unbeatable combi-
nation.
Among the Jockeys Sam Renick
and his brother Joe as we'll as
the brothers Hanford are track IA
vorites, Eddie Litzenberger and
Charley Rosengarten are still
booting home plenty of winners.
AS yet no six day team of
American Hebrews" has captured
one of those races to nowhere but
wherever pedal pushing activities
are the main event, Lou Cohen,
Jerry Rodman, Harry Silvers, and
Jake Fisher are on hand. Though
glory is not theirs these hardy
saucer perennials have been MAX
ing more than expenses in these
madcap marathons.
SOCCER, SWIMMING, HOCKEY
Soccer still has to capture the
fancy of the American public as
it did when the Hakoahs made
their first American tour more
than a decade ago. And even
through another combination led
by Egon Pollak (member of the
original eleven) made a second
such invasion of America the fl
nancial returns weren't nearly as
lucrative. For some reason the
American public remains apathe-
tic to this flashy game. And the
interest stirred by the Hakoahs ir
1926 and the Maccabees in 1881
was momentary at best. The game
simply remains a Continental
must (where there are hundreds
of outstanding Jewish performers)
for millions of followers and mere
ly a hobby for the lads who COM
pose the American Soccer Asso-
citation.
American womanhood can never
repay the debt it owes to the late
Charlotte Epstein, coach and di-
rector of the Women's Swimming
Association and member of the
American Olympic Committee.
Through the work of this talented
woman, feminine swimmers first
received an opportunity to par
ticipate in the international Olym-
pics. Miss Epstein died almost a
year ago to date.
Eva Bein, Jean Lapheimer, Lor-
raine Fischer, Janice, Lifson, Dor
othy Simpson and Adele Drawer
man were some of Miss Epstein's
proteges. An can be considered
prospective members for the Fin
nish Olympics next summer. Like
wise AL Schwartz, Mike Steffin,
AL Patnik, Harold Kramer, Lou
Ableson and Sig Meyers are still
in the running for the mems
eouatic honors despite the fact
that only AL Patnik clinched a
National title during the 1938-l939
water maneuvers. Patnik is one
of the country's top-flight divers
and halls from Ohio.
No new faces appeared for the
hockey face-offs last season pu'
the perennial quintet of Levlnsky
Kaminskey, Rothschild, ROBERTS
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TENNIS, BOWLING, FENCING,
PING-PONG, HANDBALL
One of the most sensational
performances by a Jewish tennis
ace in this country was witnessed
in the amazing comeback of Hank
Prusoff of Seattle, Washington.
Almost killed in an elevator acct
dent, Prusoff, who had attained a
national ranking of IS, was forced
to the sidelines. He returned
this year-four years after his
accident is headed for the
top. He has beaten such stalwarts
as Bitsey Grant, Wayne Sabin
and frankie Doeg. Others who
have been outstanding during the
last year were Jerome Fishback,
tops in the junior circuit, Isadore
Bells of Philly, Marvin Kantro-
WITT of Texas University; Richard
Bender, Bernard, Jacoby, Herbert
Woolf, Alter Millberg, Malcolm
Weinstein and Melvin Schwartz
man. Jerry Fishback and Hank
Prusoff seem headed for the top.
Norma Tauble, Grace Surber,
Millicent Hirsch and Frances
Longman comprise feminine
quartet that has earned more than
its share of glory. Although none
holds a national title, among them
they share some twenty-seven
junior and women's divisional
championships.
Lou Levine of Chicago, Max
Stein of Belleville, Illinois and
Morton Lindsay of Stamford, Con-
necticut, again proved that they
were among the country's out
standing bowlers at the 38th an
nual A. B. c. tournament in Cleve-
land. Lindsays average for eigh-
teen years was maintained at PIC
as result of the last Congress
For the second successive time he
captained Jack Demsey's five-man
team to fourth place in the ma
tional honors. Stein was runner
up to his number one position
earned in 1888 in the all-events-
one of the outstanding feats of the
tournament.
Helene Mayer retained her Wo-
mems national fencing title for
the third successive year. De-
faulting in 1886, this German-Jew-
ish refugee has maintained a bril-
liant pace on the strips and has
even defeated some of the coun-
try's outstanding male perform
ers. Collegiate stars made up the
greatest number of Jewish fencing
stars who seem confined to the
restrictions of the Eastern Sea-
board. Very few Jewish perform
ers participate in the regularly
conducted Sale D'Armes.
Sander CLAM, international ping
pong title holder who turned pro-
moter, has been conducting some
highly profitable exhibition tours
with many Czech and Austrian
Jewish refugees. He held the
mixed doubles championship with
Ruth Aarons, who has been ruled
professional because of an ap-
pearance at the Rainbow Room in
New York City Sol Schiff, Abe
Bierenbaum, Max Moscowitz, Sid
ney Heiter and Mort Schusshelm
are still the ranking aces of the
table tennis circles.
For the first time in many years
the brilliant chess master, Samuel
Reshevsky, lost a national tourna-
ment. He dropped a game to Reu-
ben Fine-another Jewish lad
who has been logging Reshevsky's
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-27
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,
Star Stan Correspondent.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. a.
Migrating birds navigate by the sun
At least at the start of their
journey and in early morning and
late afternoon their route is out
lined by the light of rising or setting
sun on treetops and is by no means
the straight line flight popularity
imagined, DR.. Stanley c. Ball of
Yale University reported today to
the American Association for the
Advancement of Science.
He studied the departure of song
birds from the evergreen forests of
the Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec.
They tend to follow the tree lines,
especially along ridges, he said. A
relatively narfow strip of water or
patch of cleared country will turn
them aside many miles out of their
way.
Later. however, they cross the
Gulf of Mexico without hesitation.
although recent Investigations have
shown that thousands perish on the
way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-27
Migrating Birds Navigate
By Sun, Scientist Reports

''The earliest rays of sunlight o
said DR.. Ball." lead the majority Of
warblers and nuthatches to follow
the northerly slope and the forest
margins at the top, first of the
northern ridge and, when later
Illuminated, of the southern. It is
impressive to note the preference
shown to sunlit tops of successive
conifers and birches, even as the
sun rapidly mounts. The retreating
shadow of the northern ridge en-
courages a spread of the migrants
down the northern slope of the
southern ridge. At the same time
the sunlit area, widening through
the day, soon apparently dissipates
the feathered stream through the
forest.
I'm the more open land successive
groves, or lines of trees standing
along east-west fences, largely con-
troll the movements. The same
preference for sunlit trees is evident
at sunset as the shadow of the
southern ridge mounts the wooded
slope Of the northern. The cooler
the day the greater is the tendency
to follow sunit avenues and slopes"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-27
Two Soviet Agents
Are Fined After
Pleading Guilty
Incomplete Registration
Charged to Firm as Well;
Two Penalties Are 81 900

After Bookniga, Inc. Boris Nikol-
sky and I. A. Ilyin, officers of the
corporation, had pleaded guilty in
District Court today to an lndict-
ment charging them with incom-
plete registration under statute
requiring agents of foreign princi-
pals to register at the State Depart
ment, Justice Jennings Bailey fined
the corporation and Nikolsky ST ZOO
each, while 1lyin was fined $780,
Defense counsel told the court
the fines, which were the maximum
under the statute, would be paid
shortly. Justice Bailey directed that
the two men. who are described as
Russian citizens, be kept in the GUS
today of the United States marshal
until the courts judgment is salts
fed.
Nikolsky is described as president
Of Bookniga. Inc. while Ilyin is
secretary treasurer and chief &C
countant of the firm. which dis
tributes Soviet publications.
Defense Counsel William A. Rob-
erts. former peoples counsel, told
Justice Bailey that the defendants
have agreed to close Bookniga, Inc
Immediately; that its stock of books
is to be disposed of. and that the
president of the corporation is to
return to Russia on the first avail
able ship after his affairs here are
wound up. Ilyin is to be permitted
to remain in the United States.
Leniency Asked.
Mr.. Roberts, in asking the court
to be lenient, told Justice Bailey that
incomplete registrations had been
made with the State Department on
May II, in that the defendants had
failed to disclose the terms of a con-
tract under which they were operat-
ing. With the receipt of the con-
tract from Russia. he said, the State
Department was notified and so the
registration is now complete.
The indictment is the second OBJ.
tanned here in the past 10 days ir
the "subversive activities" inquiry
the Justice Department has launched
on Nation wide scale. Bookniga
Inc, is the successor to Bookings
Corp. three of whose former officers
were named in the first indictment
in District Court.
In addition to being president OF
Bookniga, Inc, Nikolsky is a former
chief of the export division of Mezh-
kniga, the chief Soviet propa-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-27
Petty Skirmishes'
Reported by Soviet

MOSCOW, Dec. 81 (P.-RuSsian
action on the Finnish fronts was
confined to petty skirmishes of re-
connoitering units and artillery
duels in a number of areas Red
Army communique reported yester-
day.
The army said Soviet aviation
made accommodating flights"
Conferences between Soviet Rus
STA and Japan for settlement CT a
demarcation line along the Outer
Monaghan border will be resumed
alta Hardin, Manchukuo, January Z,
an announcement said. Differences
over the boundary line were the
subject of a month-long confer
ence of Soviet, Japanese, Manchu-
kuoan and Outer Monaghan dele
cations at Chita, Siberia, which end
ed Monday.
Hostilities ceased in that area in
September.
It also was announced an agree
ment had been reached for the re-
sumption of airline service between
Berlin and Moscow in January.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-27
u. 5. May Return
Ambassador 10 Berlin,
Early Indicates
Breckenridge Long Is
Mentioned for Post
If Decision Is Made
BY GARRETT d. HORNER

ny OAASANAA IL 1AoASASDAS'
Speculation on the possibility of
this Governments sending a new
Ambassador to Germany soon was
stirred by White House comment
today.
Stephen T. Early, White House
press secretary, mentioned the
Berlin Embassy as one of the diplo-
matte posts to which Breckenridge
Long. former Ambassador to Italy
might be sent.
Mr. Early added. however. that he
had not heard any talk definitely
indicating an intention to fill the
Berlin post Immediately, although
that did not mean that such talk
might not be going on.
Mr.. Long now is acting as special
assistant to the Secretary of State,
in charge of special European Di-
vision concerned with emergency
problems arising out Of the European
war.
Davies to Assume Duties.
Much Of. these duties will be as
sumed by Joseph E. Davies, Am
bassador to Belgium now here for
consultation Of Belgium trade treaty
problems. when he takes Office as a
special assistant to the Secretary of
State under an appointment an
nounced by the White House yes
terday
Asked what duties might then be
given to Mr.. Long. Mr.. Early told
reporters today that he probably
would get diplomatic post He
said he doubted if he would go to
Belgium as Ambassador to replace
Mr. Davies there, but that there was
a possibility of such a move. He
added that several other ambassa-
dorial posts were open, among them
Germany
The United States has had no
Ambassador in Germany for more
than year. Hugh Wilson,
last to fill the post, was re-
called for consultation last year
ir move indicating this Govern
ment'S dissatisfaction with NaZi
policies, and formally resigned as
Ambassador this fall. He also now
is a special assistant to Secretary
Hull. working in the special divi-
sion with Mr.. Long.
Kirk Now in Charge.
American diplomatic affairs in
Germany now are being handled by
Alexander c. Kirk, charge d'affaires
of the embassy in Berlin. The chief
practical advantage that would come
from sending an Ambassador there
would be to have high-ranking
representative of the President on
hand if and when any definite
moves for peace in the European
War should develop.
Although 1t has been indicated
that both Mr.. Long and Mr. Wilson,
veteran diplomats, might soon re-
ceive new ambassadorial appoint
ments, there also is a possibility that
Secretary of State Hull might de-
eide to keep one or both of the men
in Washington for further special
work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-27
Winter Strikes South
As Heat Waves Hit
Ohio and Michigan
Southwest Dust Bowl
Gets Heavy Snow and
California ShiverS at II
BY the Associated Press.

Snowstorms and zero weather
whlrled eastward today, leaving &
white blanket 9 to 10 inches deer
over the old dust bowl"
The snow was passing over Mis-
souri,. Iowa and Northern Arkansas
and was due to hit Ohio by night
fall.
New England's coolest weather OF
the season plunged the temperature
to % degrees below zero on top OF
Mount Washington in New Hamp-
shire. Mortified. VT, recorded Il
below and it was only above in
Boston.
But two of winters strongholds
reported heat waves" For the frs
time in the 66-year history of thu
Detroit Weather Bureau the temper.
allure in Michigan failed to get below
20 above by December 26-althougt
it did dip to 10 in Detroit today.
A ski tournament in the Westach
Mountains of Utah was postponed
because of lack of snow.
Utah temperatures were rising
Salt Lake City hitting "a degrees
Tuesday night.
To carry out the freak theme
frost warnings were issued in the
California citrus belt, and a Gull
storm whipped near-freezing tenn
peratures into New Orleans.
Dust Bowl" Gets Snow.
Two hundred automobiles were
abandoned in snoW-blocked noun.
tain passes near Clayton, N. Mex
but all passengers were brought
out safely by highway department
trucks and motorists with chains
The snow was 10 inches deep ir
Clayton, near the center of the
dust bowl of 1934-1937.
At Guymon, Okla, there were 1C
inches of snow and at Boise City Il
inches. Rain, sleet and as much
as five inches of snow were general
over the Texas panhandle. The
temperature was 8 above at ANA
rillo and was expected to dive below
zero.
Kansas farmers were cheered by
snowfalls of five inches to a foot
Garden City, in the northeast part
of the three-State dust bowl area
gained 1.52 inches of moisture.
Crop experts said the snow would
be of immense benefit to wheat in
Eastern and Central Kansas anc
(See WINTER, Page A-5J
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-27
Court Upholds Election
Of Mrs. Mcmillan


COLUMBIA, S. c., Dec. 27-The
State Supreme Court today sup
ported the finding of the State Board
of Canvassers in declaring Mrs
Clara G.. Mcmillan of Charleston
elected to Congress from the 1st
South Carolina district to succeed
her late husband, Representative
Thomas S. Mcmillan.
The court overruled the protest
of a group of Berkeley County
citizens on the grounds that the vote
in that county was so small that to
disregard it will in no wise affect
the result of the election"
The Berkeley group sought to
invalidate the November 7 special
election on the ground that the
secrecy of the ballot was not main
tanned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-27
Hundreds Killed
ByEarthquake
In North Turkey
Major Catastrophe
Indicated; Whole
Villages Rozed
BULLETIN.

LOS ANGELES. Dec. q P.-
An earthquake was felt in Los
Angeles at 1929 am, P. S. T.,
today (2:29 pm, E. S. t.. 1t
rocked the Associated Press Of
flee, located on the fourth floor
of the Herald-Express Building.
The California Institute of
Technology's chronological labor
atory reported the quake was
not very large" although it
might be strong enough to cause
some damage"
Ey the Associated Press.
ANKARA, Dec. 27.-Hundreds
were reported killed and whole viii
lagos destroyed in an earthquake
which shook Northern Anatolia
early today.
-Four shocks were felt in Ankara
between 2 am. and S am. today
between pm. and 10 pm, E. S. T.,
Tuesday,.
Accurate information of the dam
age caused was not Immediately
available because communications
were disrupted.
officials by late afternoon said,
however, that reports indicated a
major catastrophe.
The 1uake's center apparently
was along the Black Sea coast of
Turkey in Asia.
Heavy damage was reported at
Ordu. Samsun, Tokat, Amasia, Sivas
and Yozgad.
Thousands were reported to have
abandoned towns for the fields, fear
ing additional shocks.
The government and relief
agencies rushed aid to the affected
area, which is from 100 to $50 miles
east and northeast of Ankara.
Anatolia has been struck fire.
quently' by earthquakes. On April
10, 1888, in this region there began
a series of shocks which lasted for
more than a week and took a toll of
dead and missing estimated at more
than 300 Scores of thousands of
homes were RACED.
On September %, 1899, more than
200 persons were reported killed in
a quake which struck the region
about Smyrna, Turkish seaport on
the west coast of Asia Minor.
The most recent quake reported
in Anatolia occurred November %,
when is villages were destroyed in
the eastern section, and more than
so persons killed.