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Evening star., 1939-04-04
Cart Is Before Horse
As As, Not Yanks,
Weaken Ranks
Werber's Sole to Reds
Is Laid to Financial
Need Of Connie Mack
BY WHITNEY MARTIN,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, April Ats just a
misunderstanding, no doubt, but
they seem to be starting at the
wrong end of the American League
to break up the teams for more
equitable distribution of power
AS the sleek and well-fed Yankee
organization reaches out to take and
keep everything it wants, the
eighth-place Athletics not only must
comb what is discarded by the hop
per of the more prosperous clubs for
material, but must dispose of the
best material at hand.
When Connie Mack sold Third
Baseman Bill Werber to the Gin
cinnati Reds for s25, 900, he not only
Was turning loose a much-needed
player, but he was handing him over
to National League club rated one
of the strongest. 1t was as if man
said to a boy: You cauld never
reach that apple, but I'm pretty
close, so if you'll bend over and let
me stand on your back. I can get it. -
Various reasons have been ad-
vanced for Mack's action in weak
ening team that already seemed
too weak to lift itself out of the
cellar.
Salary Was stumbling Block.
To begin with. Connie. who ad-
mits he has tough time financially
possibly decided he could not pay
| the salary Werber asked. and it was
the general opinion that Werber. a
well-educated. personable lad with
lucrative business, would stay out
Of baseball rather than take less
money than he though he was
worth.
Then, too, there was the idea that
Mack sorely needed that $25 900 to
keep the wheels turning. And third
suggestion was that the cagey vet
eran was accumulating a nest egg
for the day, undeniably close, when
he must bow out of the baseball pic
ture.
Even Mack realizes how close he is
to the end of the baseball trail, but
he has set no date for retirement.
He plans to keep going as long as
the mental and the physical ma
chine, the one still alert, the other
still agile, function.
When I start repeating myself
in my conversation. or when the
players start telling me what to do
instead of me telling them, then 1
will step out he said. adding
thoughtfully. land I hope I'm the
first one to know it,
Werber Asset to Reds.
AS for Werber and the Reds, he is
just what the doctor ordered for a
team with pennant aspirations and
a little indigestion around third
base.
The second-base combination also
had been a subject of criticism. but
after Werber's first workout with the
team Billy Myers, shortstop said:
Il believe he's going to help me-"
And in recent games the Myers
Linus Frey second-base combination
has been functioning as a WE'LL
oiled unit. 1t is the old bucket bri-
gade idea, with the aid being passed
along from Werber to Myers to Frey,
but it may quench many an often
Sive blaze.
AS for the American League, it's
just case of the rich getting richer
and the poor getting poorer, but in
asmuch as the Mackmen weren't
going far anyway, they might as we'll
help along some team that is, al
though their Philadelphia followers
might have other ideas on the mat
ter.
Evening star., 1939-04-04

BY staff CORRESPONDENT of The Star.
ORLANDO. Fla. April 4.-Accord-
ing to President Clark Griffith. the
Mats don't miss Messrs. AL Simmons
and Zeke Bonura. a pair of pretty
good countrE hitters. But today. as
the Grifmen paused for breath be-
fore resuming their grapefruit cir
cult campaigning, the jaws of the
boz score were a-Wagging. And the
tale they told was that Washing
tons punch isn't what it was last
year.
The Mats were back IN Orlando
today after an ill-fated. our-day
west coast expedition which netted
a lone victory over the Boston Bees,
a rained-out encounter with Kan
sas City and defeats by the Gin
cinnati Reds and Brooklyn Dodgers.
The Dodger game, played yesterday
in Clearwater, really hurt. The
Mats were shutout and beaten,
2 to 0.
1t was the first shutout of the
year for Washington and no pleas
ant sensation, for the Mats outhit
the Dodgers, eight to six. But in
no single inning could they gather
more than one hit. They had
enough good hitters in the batting
order, but not hitters who could
drive across runs. Each Washing
ton hit was a single and, as Rogers
Hornsby says, 1T takes three of
them to make run
Mats Miss Cecil Travis.
No source of joy to Manager
Bucky Harris and Griffith was that
defeat, despite the fine pitching of
Jimmy De Shong and Pete Apple
ton. The lack of punch the Mats
displayed against Rookie Russ Evans
and a slowed-up Van Lingle Mungo
was worthy of concern on their
parts. Mr.. Evans, fresh from
New Orleans, judiciously scattered
six Washington hits over seven in
nings and Mungo, giving the Mats
only a motion" to watch, escaped
damage in the last two frames.
The Mats had plenty of chances
to win the ball game. They left
nine men on the bases and several
IN scoring position. But never be-
fore was the absence of a climax
hitter more notably missed. The
Mats really seemed to need a double
by Simmons or a home run by
Bonura yesterday.
In all fairness to the Mats, they
are operating without the services
of Shortstop Cecil Travis, who is
almost the perennial batting leader
of the club. At the same time Travis,
who is recovering from the flu,
never was known as particularly
dangerous batsman when men we're
on the bases. Cecil is the kind OF
a hitter who knocks out many base
hits, but who lacks the long-dls-
tance power to score runs. Nor IS
he alone. The 1889 Mats, as they
now appear, are practically IN the
same category, en- masse.
Lewis Best Griff Batsman.
AS the new Washington club is re-
viewed, the only strong hitter in the
order is Third Baseman Buddy
Lewis, the boy who still has peach
fuzz whiskers. For some reason
Buddy isn't placed where his blows
will do most good. He has topped
the Nat batters in practically every
department-runs scored, times at
bat, number of hits and total bases
ever since he first stepped into a
regular job at the tender age OF Ii.
Today finds Lewis a better hitter
Evening star., 1939-04-04
Sacrifice Fly Revival Most Drastic Revision of Basebas Sonnq Code
Win, Lose or Draw
By FRANCIS E. STAN
Stan Correpo
Random Remarks and Harris Would Pay 81 900
By FRANCIS E. STAN

ORLANDO, Fla April 4.-Notes to
Cincinnati Harris said I'D
hate Bill Mcechnes be expected
ball Kentucky Derby Sports
Writer 40 Which be quite liberal considering
nags handicap of
operating Affair."
600 place. 400 show get this
$50 finish fourth These ponies like Gehrg
is supposed to have
The Reds who broke last Sunday, still
left double
pitcher Tampa what he contracted
a his teammates Wander Meer illnesses
and ailments BY the noticed how much better looking
the of gal golfers getting?
Radio Announcer Bill
other AL
Lopez hut wouldn't about how
Senators when they used train in Tampa Coyle kept his
but Although
Martin pied almost tearfuly with President Griffith
Washington the Old preferred
ptance for catching batting broke
jobess he Florida
thence right the ladder Today probably the handler
OF pitchers baseball being Spanard fluent
his native and the English backstop
to handle the Cuban pitchers.
"You know, wfuly mued the other gladly
ST 900 out of salary
Washington club There chance
Evening star., 1939-04-04
Sports Mirror
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Today a year ago-Henry
Picard won $1,000 Augusta ma
tional golf tournament with 285,
beating Harry Cooper and Ralph
Guldahl by two strokes.
Three years ago-Detroit Red
Wings defeated Toronto Maple
Leafs. 81. in opening game of
Stanley Cup hockey playoff
series.
Five years ago-The Jockey
Club awarded l63 days of racing
to New York State tracks, Ii
more than 1888 season.
Evening star., 1939-04-04
Arcodes Seeking Games

Grasskurth, Northrop and Nu-
crous combined on the mound to
pitch Arcade Market to a 1913 VIC
tory over the Joe Kuhel A. C. Ar
cade is booking games through Man.
ager Finch at North 67O8.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-15

everybody have a good time this Christmas, but let's none of us for get that danger of fire is greater during the holiday season than at any time in the year-and many thousands of Christmas celebra- tions have ended gloomily in the hospitals or cemeteries"
 Chief Mulvihill issued a series of dont's with the firm warning to read and remember"
 Don't use candles on the Christi mas treel Place your tree a safe distance away from stove or fire placel Use metal tinsel for trim and mica or flake asbestos for imi- tation snowl Never leave a lighted Christmas tree unguardedl Keep candles and open lights away from window curta ssls. paper wreaths, and Christmas bells, and when Christ mas is over. don't keep your tree after it becomes dry.
 There are other dont'S. Chief Mulvihill warned, but the best de- fense against fire, is just use your head"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-15
PAIR OF STIkINE
 TRApPERS FINED

Conviction of Al McKibben and Marvin Rice on charges of trap ping during the closed season was reported to the Alaska Game Com mission today by Wildlife Agent Hosea Sarber.
 Tried by U. s. Commissioner Richard Surrat at Wrangell, Me- Kibben was fined SIS and Rice $25. Two marten, one mink and several traps were confiscated. The pair was trapping on the Stikine River.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-15
FIRE CHIEF WARNSCITY
 OF DANCERS
Careless Christmas Party May End in Hospital
 or Cemetery &

Christmas, happy time, has rolled around again, but riding with Santa in his jingling sleigh will be Old Man Fire Hazard
 In other words, boys and girls, young and old, it's just as Fire Chief V. w. Mulvihill put it today, Let's
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-15
SAILING SOUTH

The small freighs boat Finer Beyer was moored at the Cold Storage Wharf today heading south from the Westward with cargo of fish.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-15
COUNCIL MEETS
 THIS EVENING

A regular meeting of the Juneau City Council will be held tonight at the Council Chambers at 8 o'-e clock
 Discussion of proposed WPA pro- jects will be one item of business confronting Councilmen.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-15

Bishop J. R. Crimont is a pas senger aboard the Princess Moran from the south where he has been for several weeks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-15
KRAFT ABOARD NORAH

E. A. Kraft, owner of Station KINY, arrives here aboard the Princess Norah this afternoon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-15
CHIPPERFIELD BACK

District Ranger w. A. Clipper field returned on the Northland from a general administrative trip to Sitka.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-15

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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-01-12
CAMPUS COMMENT

First semester will close at Bluff
ton college on Jan. %, and examina-
tions are to be given during the same
week. Announcement regarding close
of the first half of the school year
came from the registrars office.
Outstanding events in the history
of the Mennonite church, since its
founding during the Reformation
period, were discussed last Wednes-
day by DIR. c. Henry Smith at a
meeting of the campus Y. M. C. A.
organization. DIR. Smith is one of
the outstanding Mennonite church
historians.
DR.. Milton Vance, professor of
Bible at Wooster college, was the
speaker at vesper services Sunday
afternoon in the college chapel.
'Life Changing; New Lives for Old''
was the subject of his 4 address,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-01-12
BluftOn High School
Notes

Daily rehearsals are being held by
members of the cast which will ap-
pear in the operetta, Chimes of Nor
mandy, to be presented in the high
school auditorium on Feb. Is. Prin-
cipal roles in the musical offering
will be taken by Paul Soldner, Herb
Oyer, Bill Amstutz, Kenneth Gable,
Bonita Clark, Mary Alice Howe and
Jeanne Baumgartner. Miss Ruth
Lambertus is directing the reheas-
ais.
Members of the Girl Reserves or
ganization of the high school held a
regular meeting last Wednesday
night in club rooms.
General discussion on the subject
of college was featured at last weeks
meeting of the Senior Hi-Y club
Richard Mumma presided. Pau
Soldner was in charge of short
business meeting, during which il
was decided that another share il
the Community hospital is to be pur-
chased by the club.
Rehearsals have been started OF
contest numbers to be sung in the
spring eisteddfod in which the
Bluffton High A Cappela choir vii
participate.
Intra-mural basketball for girls
was started last week in the higI
school gymnasium. Teams represent
ing each class are taking part.
A rousing pep meeting was helC
last Friday by the entire studen
body, in anticipation of Frida!
nights opening Western Buckley,
League cage clash with Wapakoneta
Cheers were led at the demonstra
tion by Joann and Carolyn Stonehill
Jeanne Baumgartner and Jimmi,
Fett.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-01-12

An early morning crash one and
one-half miles southwest of Beaver
dam on the Dixie highway last Sun
day took the lives of middle aged
Lima woman, her 20-year-old son
and a 13-months-old daughter.
Six other persons, including the
husband of the mother and three
other children escaped with minor
injuries.
In the mishap, an auto-truck
crash, Mrs. Ethel Carder, DO, Robert
Carder, 20, and Dorothy Carder,
13-months-old, were killed.
The injured: Samuel Carder, At,
a WPA worker, head and wrist in
iuries; Jimmie Carder, three, cuts
about the head; Carl Carder, Is,
head and leg injuries; Eva Carder,
16, leg injuries; Ronald Webb, of
Springfield, No., driver of the truck,
head and body cuts, and Merrill
Lewis Buckingham, also of Spring
field, assistant truck driver, body
cuts.
Coroner Burt Hibbard ruled the
accident occurred when Carder's
auto sideswiped the railing of a
narrow bridge that sets at sharp
angle in the highway near the DIR
Fred Foust farm home.
After striking the bridge, the car
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-01-12
Night DriUers Need
Plenty of Vitdnlin A

Women who worry about members
of their families having automobile ac-
cidents can accomplish more good by
making sure the family diet contains
plenty of vitamin A, which may i'm
prove night vision, than by wringing
their hands and walking the floor, ac-
cording to Alma Garvin, nutrition spe-
cialist, Ohio State University.
Miss Gravin says that research work
recently completed by DR.. Leila Booher
Bureau of Home Economies, United
States Department of Agriculture, con-
firms previous knowledge of the impor-
tance of vitamin A as factor in good
vision. DR.. Booher's experiments show
ed that normal persons receive ade-
quate amounts of food to maintain
body weight and vigor but which lack
ed vitamin A because unable to see
well enough to operate an automobile
safely in dim light or at night.
The persons who cooperated with DIR
Booher in the experiment had normal
vision at the start of tests. After g
period of 36 days, one of the persons
on test required 10 times the amout OF
light to see well as at the start of the
experiment. After AZ days, this per.
son required 10000 times as much
iCht for normal vision as at the he.
ginning.
People who eat foods which contains
plenty of vitamin A are able to store
part of it in the liver and can cal
on this reserve when the diet becomes
temporarily deficient in the vitamin
This reserve store is higher for some
persons than for others so deficiencies
in vitamin A do not affect all persons
equally soon.
DIR. John F. Lyman, Ohio State Uni
versity, lists many common food:
which are good sources of vitamin A
The list includes spinach, parsely, kale
broccoli, carrots, liver, cheese, butter
tomatoes, green peppers, asparagus
bananas, yellow corn, salmon, eggs ant
whole milk. Codliver oil is rich il
vitamin A and can usd to correct
night blindness caused by vitamin A
deficiency if insufficient amounts arr
obtained from food.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-01-12

entertained friends Thursday evening
from Bluffton and Cairo.
A Lima mother and two of her
five children, one an infant of l3
months, were killed instantly in the
Dixie highway one and one-halt
miles southwest of town at 5:45
a. m. Sunday. 1t was an auto-truck
crash. The dead are Mrs. Edith
Carder, 40, Robert Carder, 20, and
Dorothy, 13 months. The husband
Samuel Carder, Eva Marie Carder,
Is, Carl Carder and. James Carder
were all seriously injured and taken
to the hospital. All were occupants
of the auto and enroute to Bucyrus.
R. E. Webb, %, driver of the truck,
was cut severely about the head and
suffered injury to his legs. Merrill
Buckingham, "a, extra driver, was
cut about the head and body. Both
men are residents of Springfield,
Missouri.
Miss Betty Orlman of Detroit is
spending few days with her par
ents Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Duldner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Conrad
are spending some time in some of
the southern states, Panama, and
other places of interest.
Mrs. Harry Beach of Lima, a
former resident of Beaverdam, is
among a party who attended in
auguration ceremonies held at Co
lumbus during the week.
The January clearance sale is on
at The Lape Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. E. Weaver are
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-01-12
Beaverdan

Mr.. and Mrs. O. P. Sawyer OF
Van Vert were Sunday afternoon
visitors at the home of Mr.. and MRS.
Clayton Rupright.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Hartman and
son John and Mrs. Eta Yant were
Thursday guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Clarence Rockhill and son Ralph of
Columbus Grove.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Ferrall of
Ottawa and Mrs. Henry Shull spent
Sunday with Mrs. Abbie John and
son Robert. 1t was the birthday of
Mrs. Shulll.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dean Everett enter
tanned their granddaughter Miriam
Jean Amstutz last week.
The January clearance sale is on
at The Lape Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. d. Cellars are
spending several days in Columbus.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Reagan were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Reagan
of Spencerville, Sunday.
VIM. Mcbride is reported quite
sick at this time.
Miss Jean Zimmerly of Bluffton
was week end guest of Miss June
Helser.
Miss Margery Archer of Shawnee
spent several days last week with
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Augsburger.
Mr.. and Mrs. V. G. Foltz spent the
week end with relatives in Cleve-
land.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Younkman
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-01-12
The Origin of the Earth

Geology deals with the architecture
of the outer shell of the earth, and
with the geological processes that
have operated to shape it.
It also concerns itself with the re-
suits of these forces during the past
geologic ages, Introducing in their
proper order of time, the sequence of
important changes through which the
earth passed. Geology, perhaps more
than any other science, leads into
Philosophy, in search for the mean
ing behind the story which it pre-
sents.
Geology carries the history of the
earth back of the human record,
through probably two billion years,
the annals of which are written in the
rocks and in the fossils which they
contain.
According to astronomers and geol-
ogists who are recognized authorities
in the field, the Solar System of which
the earth is a member, was once a
part of the Sun.
1t is belived that at a distant time
billions of years ago, the Sun was ap-
preached by another Star, much larg-
er and having greater gravitational
pull, causing the disruption of the
former.
A series of great explosions oil
gas from our Sun, only amounting te
one-thousand of its mass, produced 6
spiral nebula. There are millions Of
this type of nebula in the universe ant
it is believed by astronomers that they
were produced by Tidal Disruption, il
the manner decribed above.
After the disruption of the Sun, tn,
planets were gradually formed from
the matter thrown out. The cart
and other planets in the solar system
we believe, cooled from a molten to
solid state. As it solidifed the waite
vapor of its heavy primal atmospher
condensed into rain and fell upon tn
hot crust, rose a steam over and owe
again, and finally came to lie in do
preSsions and to fill the ocean basin
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-01-12

Special music was provided by the
vesper choir, directed by Herbert
Jones.
Rev. E. J. Unruh, pastor of the
st. John Mennonite church near
Pandora, was the speaker at chapel
services last Thursday morning.
Intramural basketball games were
started on the campus last week, and
will continue until mems and wo-
mems champions are determined.
Mems and Women's Varsity "B"
organizations are sponsoring the
schedule.
A United States government mail
box has been placed on the campus
by the local post office. 1t is located
outside the entrance at College hall,
in which administrative offices are
located.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-01-12
Three Killed In AutO-Truck
Crash On Dixie Near Beaverdam

careened into the truck operated by
Webb, which is owned by the Ozark
Truck lines. According to the Coro-
ner the mishap occurred sometime
shortly after 6 a. m.
Mrs. Carder's body was practical
ly severed at the waistline and her
chest was crushed. The dead son
received a crushed pelvis, and the
13-months-old baby was decapitated
After the crash the Carder's
wrecked car, crumpled like a sheet
of paper, lay on the south side OF
the bridge. The large seml-traliei
truck was about 100 feet from the
! wreckage, across the road.
In attempting to clear the high,
way for traffic, complications oc
Cured that resulted in completely
blockading the road from about
a. m. until IL a. m.
The truck had overturned, block
ing more than half the road. On'
of the first vehicles that attempted
to pass was large freight trucl
that became mired in the soft BERN
exactly opposite the wrecked truck
1t was three hours before th'
truck could be moved, opening th'
highway to north and south-bounC
traffic. The crumpled Carder aut'
was removed to a Beaverdan
| garage
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-01-12

When finally the earth had cold
exterior, the rain and the wind COM
menced their cons, s,long tasks of2wear-
ing down the high places and carry
ing the debris into the low ones.
1t is belived that the deeper parts
of the oceans have always been where
they now are, but they appear to
have become larger and deeper thru
out geologic time. The continents
have lost parts of their marginal areas
and have from time to time attained
higher levels.
If the continents were not renewed
by uplifting periodically, the agents
of erosion such as wind, water, glac-
iers and waves and currents would
wear them down to sea level, and
there would be universal ocean. When
the forces which periodically bring
the land above the sea, cease to oper-
ate as they have in the past, the ocean
will gradually creep over the land.
Grand ranges of mountains have
been raised many times, only ito be
gradually worn down and spread out
as sheets of sediment over the bot
toms of the adjacent seas. "Rocl0s
fall to dust and mountains melt
away"
Just as the surface of the earth is
undergoing continuous change, so also
is the atmosphere. When the earth
is undergoing the great upheavals
which result in the formation of the
mountain ranges, volcanic activity is
greatest and deep-seated masses OF
molten rock are injected into the
earth's crust; lava reaches the earth's
surface and new water vapor ano
gases are added to the atmosphere.
The history of life has been an end
less struggle against the ever-chang
ing environment. Life probably frs
began in the seas as soon as they Were
fit for habitation. Life remained fol
long cons in the primitive forms; mi
mute, sof-tissued, and unsuited tt
preservation.
Eventually it deployed into grea
variety of animals and plants. From
some of the spineless inhabitants o
the deep sprang the ancestral fishes
Ultimately the first animals witt
lungs appeared and the lands wer
peopled.
Thus, the first sprawling ancestor
of the higher animals appeared. Tn
long upward struggle toward the high
er types of life is recorded IN tn
younger rocks and is the most fasci
/. mating story of Geology.