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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-23
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Elliott Metcale

DEAR NET: For a number of years Tacoma has taken
- back TO other Northwest cities in the realm OF
sports. Yet this that has produced leading athletes
Tacoma, half million people. should be
able to promote championship ring fights Coast league
ball club and top flight football team
But we have none of these. What's wrong? Take foot
ball. for instance. Tacoma behind Spokane in this sport
Gonzaga nationally known while teams compara
lively unknown
larger should the Coast
league today The Oakland franchise be purchased
develops fighters permits Seattle to stage the
fights
be a problem and there Isl Formation
sports Tacoma citizens will give
rightfu position in the sports world S D. C.
might remember in the years gone by have urged the
organization of such Round Table gang such
Spokane They institution not merely an
organization The Tabers have put Spokane the
athletic They represent progress intelligence Ihey
world good for youth of ability that needs assistance
And that type youth hers Spokane and the great Inland
Empire
But city lacked persons sufficiently
content permit Portland Seattle
Spokane here but sleeps
That is all there is to 1t =.
Such program needs men of ability
all right but they're selfsatsed inactive
supporting and cash
profits individuals The organization
youth the community
live voltage that cannot be grounded 1t Is
ahead, alert, vibrant
Until Tacoma. minded easy-gong,
abolished Seattle Spokane Portland will
athletic assets have been satisfied let
them exclusively
In time of course undoubtedly spirit
organization but potatoes until
progressive lve-we Tacoma
athletics E. M
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BASKETBALL RESULTS
Purdue IS. Washington State 2t

Michigan 6S, Tulane ~.
Duquesne Al, Marquette 81.
Oklahoma A. a. NJ. 20, Loyola
"a.
Texas university SO, North
Texas Teachers 20.
Loyola Oos Angeles) 10, Ari-
IONA university SIS.
New Mexico Aggies 20, Drake
So.
Texas Tech so, Louisiana Tech
rs.
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FEDERAL WAY--George Cron-
quist's Federal Way Eagles clipped
vaughn's Eagles for the second
time this year with a 51-21 VIC
tory here yesterday. Federal Way
seconds won. sofia. Federal Way
plays at Rainier Wednesday.
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PIECES OF EIGHT

PITTSUBURGH Pittsburgh
has purchased new uniforms for
the 1910 baseball season. A Pr
ate's head adorns each shirt.
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Defeat
Hoquiam, 32-25

PUYALLUP Something that
had never happened in Puyallup
before-beating a state champion
was realized last night when Al
Dahlbergis Puyallup Vikings de-
feated Hoquiam Grizzlies. defend
ing champions. by 1925 score.
Puyaliup's victory came via
the foul line but II was just
As sweet. The Vikings made
half their tallies from the con-
version route by sinking 16
out Of "a attempts
johnson was high point man
with IL. followed by Puyallup's
Fred Strankman with g. Puyallup
plays At Hoquiam, December 20.
Puyallup tSe) l25D HoQuiam
Strankman tiol -. 80 Wayman
Bruce kbl .F.......... WtStren
5nider CD .....-C........ t6l Bond
Sailigan COZ G. ~ Graham
Buchanan t6l c.. I'D johnson
Subs: Puyallup ouinlan. PichR %.
Forbes. Parks. Forbes. HoQuiana. stub
berfield, Siden. klock %. Richards.
Haney.
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Parkland Quint
Moving Upward

Falkland Trinity Lutherans
moved to within n half game of
the league leading Central Luz
therans Thursday night at Bellar-
mine by beating the Puyallup
Christians, 81 to rs. in the Park
Church Fraternal game.
Larson came up with n points
for his third big night In a row
for the winners.
Epworth Methodist caught its
winning stride again and stayed
In the first half race by beating
Latter Day Saints, 40 to 81.
mainly because Jack Rowan drop
ped in 20 points to lead the
scorers.
First Methodist upset knapps
Business College, a to ~. as Hal
"stork" McClary's coaching be-
gins to show with much improve
ment In the Methodist style Of late.
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Four Fiues Wins
For Yelm Quiint

YELM-Four fives is usually the
best on the board and so 1t was
Tuesday night when four Yelm
basketeers each scored five points
as the Tornadoes blew down
Rochester. 27-23. Yelm seconds
won 20-14. The Tornadoes play
Tenino at Tenino Friday.
VII. fo-A f9QA Rnrhexfer
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Hot Stove Fuel .

Here official major league baseball records yo,
might find convenient put away, records broken et
by American leagues in 1899:
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-23
MAJOR RECORDS TIED

Hitting home succession, nning-DMaggo, Sekk
and Dahlgren also Chapman, Trosky and Heath.
Hitting home with filled N game-James
Hitting three triples In same game-Ben Chapman.
Hitting two-base n game-Marvin
Most header-James Tabor,
Most u game-Tabor,
Most game-Joseph Gordon,
Three home in single game-Wiliam Dickey
Three successive home single
Hitting for the cycle-Charles Gehringer
Most first base single game-James Wasdel,
Home with bases filled by pinehher-Rudy York,
Most hits by pnch-hitter in nnng-Jeff Heath, 2.
Most consecutive catching
Dickey, IL.
St. and Washington outelde
Fewest assists by team in single game-New York, l.
Most home with bases filled
Hitting and scoring every innng-New York. July
game-New Philadelphia o.
Consecutive championships, club-New York,
Managers consecutive championship recOrdJOseph Mccarthy
AMERICAN LEAGUE RECORDS BROKEN
Most times at bat, club
Most pennants won-New York. /
outfieders17
Most years without no-hit games league-11
AMERICAN LEAGUE RECORDS TIED
Scoring most single gameBen Chapman Fred Walker,
5; James Tabor 5; Henry Greenberg
Most hits in innng-Bruce Campbell
Most consecutive games runs,
New York 10 "a total of % home runsl.
WORLD SERIES RECORDS BROKEN
world
only 2o6-New York.
Winning fifth world
Fewest left York 16.
with Chicago.
DMaggo, DahIgen Gordon Dckey
Yankees. Trosk Kener Campbell
Walker, Greenberg, York, Gehringer Detrot)
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MAJOR RECORDS BROKEN

Consecutive games played-Lou Gehrig 2130.
Incomplete games pitched by ptcher-Clnt Brown 81.
Most years best earned average-Robert Grove, g.
Most consecutive leading hit by ptcherFrank Crose
Leading in home twenty times-New York.
Hundred home 18 years-New York.
Hundred consecutive years-New
Three home in inning, ten times-New York.
Three home runs in inning, League-25.
Fewest assists, by League-13666.
Home in a single game-New York 49, =
Home double header-New York, 13.
Most total bases in a single game-New York So
Most consecutive victories pcherAy Donald l.
Most total bases in double header-New York, 81.
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for Everett, and here is how he
assigned the weights:
Seabiscuit 100, Kayak II 129,
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Totals
Evening star., 1939-05-25

ward and aft, men frantically
scrambled along the fitting deck to
gain access to subsidiary valves to
protect their immediate area.
Then the diving officer gave an
order to blow the tanks" BY air
pressure water ballast was forced
from the sides out into the sea.
The Squalus responded like a
spurred horse, rearing toward the
surface. Water drained backward,
reinforcing the flood aft.
The bow pointed up at 45-degree
angle.
A large door between the two
sections was closed by one man with
super strength"-Electrician's Mate
Lloyd Maness.
Then, losing upward momentum,
the submarine settled to blue mud.
In attempting to surface it had
divided itself into an area of the
living and an area of the dead. For
ward were the 80 men eventually
brought to shore. Aft were 26 bod
les which may yet be recovered.
The survivors must have felt like
seamen who from a small boat have
watched the eating of a shipmate
by shark within a few oars length.
Nobody remembered any praying
out loud.
Smoking was impossible, pure air
being too precious.
Nobody seems to have chewed for
relaxation or drunk for courage.
Wrapped in blankets for warmth,
they lay on the floor to save energy.
In low tones, they talked of the
chances of escape, of the Momsen
lung, never before employed in
United States naval history to save
human life; of the difficulty of max
ing a diving bell fast in current;
of the use of helium for divers
descending to such depths.
Outside was a pressure of 120
pounds to square inch, and
black sea freezing the steel shell
itself. Inside was dwindling supply
of oxygen, and blackness broken by
the wan flick of searchlights.
1t is easy to die in submarine.
A man gets sleepier and sleepier
Evening star., 1939-05-25

they hoped, in spite of the great
depth.
At the bottom of the sea, the
chilly hours dragged on as 1t Ma
quin and the remnant of his crew
awaited the arrival of rescue vessels
Telephone Line Snaps.
The telephone buoy line taken
aboard the Sculpin was Unexpectedly
parted, their means of easy COM
munication was lost. But hammer
taps in code against their shell to X
its place, and the Sculpin, dragging
grapnels, soon hooked the Squalus
once more. The long day passed
night came The divers. in charge
of 1t. Comdr c. B. Momsen, arrived
by air from Washington But unit.
their diving ship, the Falcon, stean,-
ing up at forced draft from New
London, was moored over that wreck,
no diving was possible.
In the early dawn the Falcon
arrived, took over the graphing line
from the Sculpin, moored herself
bow and stern. Aboard, she carried
a rescue chamber, cylinder espe-
cially designed to be hauled down
over submarine matches, secured
tightly thereto, and then when the
hatch to the submarine was opened,
to take inside some seven or eight
men from the crew, and with the
chamber sealed closed them and the
hatch to the submarine shut once
more, ascend with its living cargo
to the rescue ship.
Favored on the surface by excel
lent diving weather 1t. Comdr
Momsen and his divers quickly
secured their reeving lines to the
Squalus and by early afternoon, the
rescue chamber had successfully
been hauled down and up again with
seven men from the submarine-one
officer, 1t. Nichols, to report to those
on the Falcon the state of affairs
inside the Squalus, and six of the
most weakened seamen of her re-
naming crew.
More Survivors Brought Up.
Down and up once more by mid
afternoon with eight more sailors,
and once again in the early evening
with an additional nine, and that
rescue chamber on it's first vital test
was proving the most effective device
our Navy had yet developed for
submarine safety. And there re-
manned inside the Squalus forward
only 1t. Naquin and eight others to
be hoisted up in the final trip.
Darkness fell on the most success
full day Navy rescue ship and
crew had ever seen, as for the last
time the steel chamber sank, guided
down by wire lines to its position
on the Squalus. to be as three times
before attached over the hatch there.
Into that chamber went the last
Evening star., 1939-05-25

nine living men on the submarine
to start their slow journey to the
surface Upward through the black
water, clear of the hull of the now
lifeless Squalus, started the chamber.
Fathom by fathom, it rose to $50
feet from the surface, when there
Unexpectedly it stuck. And for an
hour as that chamber hung with its
lines fouled. unable to rise further,
1t. Comdr. MomSen and the seamen
on the Falcon struggled with run
ming gear on deck while his divers
in utter darkness in the water on
the bottom fought to clear the lines.
while in the salvage squadron all
hands wondered soberly whether
disaster was suddenly to spoil their
triumph. But the salvors won, at
last; little after midnight, 40 hours
after she sank, the captain of the
SQualuS and his seven companions
at last came aboard the Falcon, all
well. The new Navy rescue apparatus
had proved its worth. 1t Comdr
Momsen and his crew of divers had
accomplished the most amazing feat
in submarine rescue history.
The fastest dive Tuesday morning
from which all trouble stemmed was
purely routine. Nobody had any
premonition of tragedy. Even as the
steel nose scalped the surface, the
navy yard test superintendent on
board announced calmly that it
would be good dive.
Then something happened" It's
unexpectedneSS was vouched for a
day and a half later by the first
survivor interviewed, Electricians
Mate Judson Bland, who said:
I'VE don't now what it was and
we won't know until the boat is
brought up
Couldn't Be Helped"
He seemed more bewildered than
convinced as he added: "It was
something that could not be helped
1t could happen to any mechanism
that requires complicated parts"
What happened was that water
appeared in the submarine, surging
along a ventilation main running
the length Of, the vessel. The for
ward motion of the submarine tend
ed to drive most of it aft, but there
was quite bit of water in the for
ward compartments also.
The water came from an open air
induction valve amidships. For
Evening star., 1939-05-25
EIIsberq
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tom of the deep Atlantic she lay,
utterly unable to help herself, with
switchboard flooded, all power from
her storage batteries gone, all lights
out, with the 33 men forward in
utter darkness inside their prison of
steel, unable by any means what
ever to get a response to signals
from their 26 shipmates aft-and
from that deathly quiet astern able
only to draw one conclusion.
They took it well, these 33 officers
and men trapped on the bottom.
What could be done they did-by
the light of Pickering flashlights,
carefully outstanding their precious
batteries that the feeble lights
might last on the telephone marker
buoys fired from special electors
smoke bombs that ignited on the
surface to mark their grave. And
there as the endless minutes
dragged slowly away they waited at
the bottom of the sea, moving as
little as possible to avoid every
eXertion that might accelerate
breathing and use up more rapidly
the precious oxygen in the air the
while it more rapidly fouled the at
mosphere inside the hull with
deadly carbon dioxide exhaled
from their lungs.
Sea Sucks Heat.
AS the minutes dragged into hours
and the icy sea gripping the found
cred hull sucked away through it's
steel sides every vestige of heat, the
inside of that sunken submarine
came soon to resemble. the interior
of refrigerator.
Little was said inside. What
thoughts may have entered the
heads of the men trapped forward
in the Squalus will probably remain
forever secret with those there.
Navy men are little inclined to dis
cuss such things. But with almost
half their shipmates aft in the flood
ed hull forever silent, with their
own chattering teeth to remind
them of the cold sea, with those
needles on the depth gauges before
them inexorably pointing to 24O
feet, a depth far beyond any from
which men before had successfully
escaped from a waterlogged sub
marine, their thoughts may perhaps
be imagined
But soon there were compensa-
tions. Their sister, the Sculpln,
sighted the smoke bombs, steamed
over, picked up their telephone
marker buoy, and they soon knew
that converging by sea and by air on
that spot, miles south of the Isle
of Shoals, were all the men and the
new equipment that for IL years the
Navy had been preparing for such
an emergency. And now that over
head floated another vessel, they
knew also that if all else failed, in
spite of that 240 feet of cold sea
over them, they might don the es-
cape lungs" provided them, emerge
from their prison. and .asne bH4ore
float upward to the surface, safely
Evening star., 1939-05-25
Despair and Joy End
Two Dramas Here for
Relatives Of Seamen
Wife Of One Believed Dead
In SquoIus Breoks Down;
Isoocs Family JubiIont

Suspense In Washington's two
life-or death dramas, involving the
fate Of men trapped in the subma-
rine Squalus, have given way today
to despair in one case and to Joy in
the other.
Mrs. jeanette Miles Priester, 81
year-old wife of Torpedoman Alfred
Charles Priester (among those be-
lieved to be dead in the flooded
compartments), broken down when
final lists of those brought safely
to the surface yesterday failed to
include Mr.. Priester's name. Hour
after hour yesterday and Tuesday,
quleting her restless 2-year -old son,
Alfred Charles, jr., Mrs. Priester sat
at her radio at 1922 Eleventh street
Sc. hoping against hope. "All I
can do is pray" she kept repeating.
Occasionally she caught herself re-
ferring to her husband in the past
tense.
Finally her composure collapsed.
"All is gone," she sobbed. Il know
1t. He is gone and my baby and I
are alone"
Mr.. Priester, 20, served at the
Navy Receiving Station here in 1884.
A native of Rosedale, N. Y, he was
transferred to submarine duty early
this year after 10 years in the serv-
ice. Last year he was assigned to
duty in Panama for eight months.
Mrs. Priester, who has been living
with her mother here, had planned
q reunion visit to Rhode Island,
where the torpedoman was sta
toned, next month.
Relief and joy, tempered with
sympathy for those who don't know
II their loved ones are safe" pre-
vailed at the household of Mr.. and
Mrs. Richard Isaacs, 4509 Beck ave-
nue. Sc, where word was received
yesterday afternoon that their 81
year-old son William had been res
cued.
The seaman's father, retired
District employe, had to be put to
bed when the ordeal was over. Mrs.
1saacs, as did other members of the
family, wept tears of happiness.
They've taken my boy to the hos
pital," she said. Il don't know how
badly he is hurt, but I do thank
God for answering my prayers and
bringing him out of that dreadful
thing alive"
Evening star., 1939-05-25

from bad air until the times comes
when he does not know that he is
sleepy.
These Navy men in the forward
half of the Squalus never reached
that stage. They rationed air like
food.
Throughout the day, no one was
excited and every one was living
in hopes that we would be found"
said Electricians Mate Bland.
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Evening star., 1939-05-25
Council to Meet

The Neighborhood Council of the
First Ward was scheduled to meet
today at $3.50 pm. at Goodwill In
dustries, 1918 New Hampshire ave-
nue. NV.
Evening star., 1939-05-25
LOST

IVSI.
ANTIQUE BROOCH, onyx and gold, single
pearl, picture on back. Sentimental value
Vicinity Kalorama rd and California st.
Reward District 1900. Branch 1545.
GLASSES, Sunday. between Quackenbos st.
and Trinity Church, Takoma Park. Reward
Call Georgia O470
HORSE-Good- looking bay farm horse, lost
Sunday. Telephone Wis. 1878. Reward.
IRISH SETTER, male. tag D. C., 259O2.
Reward Michigan 1000. Branch g.
LOST-On Monday. in ladies' room. Mayfair
Restaurant. class ring and antique gold
ring. Reward Decatur 3sSs 27'
NURSES PIN, Allegheny General Hospital
1892: Sunday. Value to no one but owner.
Reward 1927 3rd st. ne
PASSBOOK, check and coin purse. Friday
afternoon. Reward. Georgia 1913.
POCKETBOOK brown beaded Containing
money. social security card, KEYS, etc. vi
cinity 35th and N SITS. Reward. Michigan
057l.
RING in or near Penn Theater. May IA
1898 graduation. with letter "E' IN gold on
red setting; three initials. Finder please
return. Reward. 637 B st. ne. 2s'
WIRE HAIRED FOX TERRIER, white with
brown ears: lost Tuesday afternoon; toward
$500 Reward
WRIST WATCH waltham, lost at White
s Tower RiVerdale' Md. Call Greenbelt Sds1.
WRIST WATCH. gold initials M. c. e."
in small blue silk coin purse. Liberal re-
ward. Ais Grafton Hotel 25s
Evening star., 1939-05-25

Australia expects to grow 1O75.-
600 bushels of apples this season.
Evening star., 1939-05-25
FOUND.

BOSTON BULLDOG found Monday night
Call Metropolitan 0141.
BRING OR REPORT deserted. stray or lost
animals to the Animal Protective A8ocia-
ton. 5000 Wheeler I'd. Sc Att 7142.
Evening star., 1939-09-20

through the assurance that he has
mo war aims" against them; that it
is only the abolition of the Polish
state that he seeks. In the same
breath he thunders that Germany
and Soviet Russia have jointly vowed
that the Poland of yesterday shall
not rise again." and that if it's resti-
tuition is the price of peace, Ger
many's "capitulation" is out of the
question. "Europe's two greatest ma
tions, the Reich and the Soviet Union,
will proceed hand in hand to re-es-
tablish law and order in Eastern
Europe"
This, of course, is virtual notice to
all concerned-to states like Ruma-
mia, Hungary, Latvia, Estonia, Lithu-
ania and Finland in particular-that
they are henceforth at the mercy of
Hitler and Stain. Their independ-
ence will be respected only as long
as it suits the Communist auto
Gratis pleasure, and no longer. In
nearly every small state bordering
German or Russian territory there
are minorities whose woes, real or
imaginary, can be distorted at the
will of Berlin or Moscow, and con-
verted into preteXts for the fates
which successfully overlook Austria,
-Slovakia and Poland.
These are the things which give
Hitler's harangue its Importance,
rather than the circumstances he
weaves to justify Germany in the
Blitzkrieg destruction of Poland. Had
he spoken at Danzig of Austrians and
Slovaks, instead of Poles, in
charging his latest victims with all
the felonies in the criminal code, in
their "maltreatment" of German
minorities, der Fuehrer could not
have adhered more faithfully to the
now well-known technique whereby
the Reich has been augmented" un-
der his leadership. Hitler's claims
that he labored to the last for a
peaceful settlement with Poland, only
to be thwarted by a Britain thirsting
for war and gore are of course pre-
posterous.
The Danzig speech projects little
hope of an early peace, much as Hit
Ter may have figured to The contrary.
| The resolve of the democratic allies
to carry on" will only be whetted
by such turbulence, for they are
warned afresh, if they needed to be,
that life for free nations will not be
worth living until Nazi power for evil
is crushed 1t is a stern task that
Britain and France have set them
selves.