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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-18
Smith and kanski Given Bouts

Promoter wm Nsylea an
nouneed today the signing ef .
PAR Of six.reund supporting ensats
On next Thursdays rms card Al
Greenwich coliseum, hcadisned ny
the nssey Ward. Eddie splns slx-
rounder
Paul Smith 81 Tacoma and Curly
Hopper os Aassogee. Okla. light
weights. were hnossd 10 meet IN
the semi.~sndup.
Mike kas.ki II r.sxc. ~.
u. and iee Turner af Oakland.
mlddieveikhfs. urrr sixnrd -
opponents In the special event.
Only tWc feur.rsuna pre-
hminaries remain 10 complete
the csrd.
Long recognized a. the North
VESTS hest lightweight. Smith has
bern forced 10 step far out ~ hss
class To get any competition 10
esnsr # an absence IN this ssetar
Of capable s6-pnanasfs.
Against Hopper. however. Smith
will meet an opponent Of hls own
weight ono Who figures 10 keep
him husy, The Oklahoma boy. an
Indian, comes here xsth 4 xnod
reputation. gained In mnre than
30 scraps In and around his home
town, Hopper viii h making hls
initial start In the Northwest.
Turner. karskia appenrnt.
h IN Oakland Negro whe ss~p-
ped inte the Northwest
rnlddlewcisht picture . few
wrecks a9e Nv defeating Muddy
PeterscW. capable Salem. Ore.
hoy. IN Pet~rsan's home hailt.
Wick. In . rrnslrA twe weeks
Axe, Turner h~ld IN tough
Peterson tn . draw. ncth were
i6sreuNA scraps.
kanskI. after spending several
months Al his home In Fargo. re-
turned 10 the ring here last week
10 score A win over fluffy" Tyson
In thrilling middlewelGht hattie
The North Dakota younsster. m
adopted Taeomsn. throws punches
from all angles.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-18

o'clock. Saints Peter and Paul W.
rieks, cisas A. e'oloeh. Gllt
Top W Eatonsills Local 76n7. .
o'clock, Stains Peter and Paul W.
Auburn Merchants. girls gym:
Grass n o'clock. Old Kentucky
Colonies W. Air cosps. Glass &C"
4 o'clock. titls game. Orflna club
Cafe ~. Central Lutheran; 3
o'clock. Class ID tiile game. Gp-
worth N. y. w Oakland Prssby-
terrain Mems Club.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-18
COrriOan Changes
Greeting Hay,ls

IAN tnANC1nf'O - pou11no
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devised = wrong way ~ esa11nR
hands. To avoid fatigue ~ atmo1oo
hands with his right hand n ~
morning snd with HE lsft hax1 =
Inc aftsrn0ou.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-18

ST. ro again the Tacoma rarochai school hoop champion
Knights Columbus trophy nothing banquet
their honor by the knights The champs 30 points
which Rival Visitation Sacred
Packs. The played each
games Patricks
left Charles Psplou.
forward; oBrien guard Ted Baritone Ind
Jack bob HUT
Zander, guard; Albert Buhr forward.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-18
RULES AND REGULATIONS

/. To compete in this derby,
contestant must be eligible for
Poggie club membership.
Exceptions. Special entry fees
are provided for wives and juniors
is years and UNDER of eligible
members.
Fees and dues: Poggie club
membership dues. 81; Derby entry
fees, sl50; Derby finals entry
fees. 800
Fees for women and juniors
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-18
Nv UNITED PRESS

TAMPA. Fla. - The Cincinnati
Reds wasted little time in sign
ing their new third baseman, Billy
Werber. Werber, a hold-out, was
purchased from the Philadelphia
Athletics for approximately $685.
600 yesterday on the condition he
sign, be physically fit and report
to camp by March q.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla
The New York Yankees enter
tain the Boston Bees In to-
days exhibition game. The
Yanks beat Cincinnati 10 YES
terday. Pitcher Yves Terrell
gave the Reds their only hit
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-18
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-18

Borneo is the third largest island
in the world, with an area OF 2s0,-
900 square miles.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-18

LAKE CHARLES, La. - Bill
Werber having been sold to the
Cincinnati Reds. three-cornered
fight was on today among Joe
Gantenbein, Dario Lodigiani and
Bill Nagel for the third sack post
on the Philadelphia Athletics.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-18

Brooks keen Judge of diamond flesh as there is in
The subject anything Ricketts, cousin Marvin
whose few games with the Tacoma Tigers last him
Nav show fellows something
: IS; a: $::'1 S.. s S::'s;' N e&s
8: e e. n; ::i :'.; e.: #: W.
wa. last and he baby then weighing about is
a. % s h p s na s. h sa sTs n'a
Jack Has Confidence
I'm telling Warnie, believe that kid is going places
in baseball I'm not trying TO fool myself about him be-
cause know that million things happen between here
and the big leagues
MARY knows he's tough hustle
club this The lineup looks strong all the When tell
Mary he doesn't want get his hopes too high he u ss his
Jack might make tn. ball club but III be there
tn. 3 c M'T this sas m a sGGd hs be he 5
slower league The kids got the right spirit
~ they smaller league it's for
Needs More Polishing
"A ND Warne" added Jack, .l be dunn if I'm getting
"A to feel the about it. He's He needs to
learn a lot of things. I'm trying teach him everything
know about baseball He learns fast and he's got the old spirit
that won't say quits.
big Longbranch younsr
- first shove showed up at Athletic HI tic park
~ ~ IN ~ the Tiger Since the
Is T~S(WN curtain rolled down the
~ '1/eSC X 1888 there probably hasn't
~~U a
q W he hasn't been thinking
basebalo
He lives eats
lowsw ballp
will tell
hope jack IL Rckert
the district the map than the Mar
: bridge
CO. in the future the WIleague Spokane Clubs cu be known
the Indous their old, old When Leaciston came
to the league they knoWn the Indians Spokane the
Halrks seemed natural TO this BIT the
Leiston is out nonv and the Indians back in Spokane
Indians
little with Tacoma and did great
A Ciania Huson, ouhelder Johnny
Penso also along
the trail Indians
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On the Lam
With
Elliott Metcalf

Aok RCkERT the old baseball socker from Longbraneh
whose "alop was well known in semipro circles here
few years back in town the other talking Warne
Brooks keen Judge of diamond flesh as there these
parts =.
The subject anything Ricketts, cousin Marvin
whose Tigers season stamped him
as prospect
Mav is going to show fellows something year
told Warne You should
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-18
Major League Baseball Tabs

but clOuted a home run In the
fourth for the games only
tally.
LAKELAND. Fla.-The Detroit
Tigers were primed today for a
series of Grapefruit league games
that starts today with the Gin
einnati Reds. Dizzy Trout and Al
Benton will take the mound.
NEW BRAUNFELS, Tex
With President Gerry Nugent
arriving today to confer with
Manager James T. tDoc) Pro-
thro. the Philadelphia Phillies
management planned whole
sale wedding out of the squad
that has dropped three sue
cessiye exhibition games to
the st. Louis Browns. Pro-
thro disclosed that waivers
have been asked or will he
asked on practically the entire
roster.
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TsLs Advsrtsss u These ssvIsesI
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-24
Judge DeniesHe
AGAINST Unions

Judge r. D. McPherrin Saturday
denied prejudice against union labor
and declared he was qualified to
preside at trial of two cases brought
against Brawley and Imperial school
trustees by union laborers.
He filed answers to affidavits in
which C. T. Hanson of Imperial
and Jess Cash of Brawley said he
was disqualified to preside because
he belonged to the Associated Far
mers and refused to employ union
labor on his ranch. Cash and Han
son accused the trustees of violat-
ing the state labor code.
The superior court judge said he
did not belong to the Associated
Farmers and had no knowledge that
their aims and purposes were in
conflict with those of union labor
He employed, he said, only one farm
worker and some office help and
did not know and had never asked
if his employees belong to unions or
not.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-24
Warsaw Repu|ses
New German Drive;
City Bombed Twice
Artillery Fire Destroys
Parts of Capital as
Resistance Continues

LONDON, Sept. %. (UP)
The Warsaw radio an
nounced today that the city
was still putting up the
strongest resistance against
the besieging German army.
"The enemy continues to destroy
the capital. particularly Praga (the
section of the city on the east bank
of the Vistula river) by heavy ar
tillery," the broadcaster said at 6
am. q am. EDIT.
IA German attack on zacisze "a
suburb) was easily repulsed. Ger
mans twice bombed the city. Two
airplanes were shot down.
BY the demarcation line an
nounced yesterday by Germany and
Russia. the Russians get Praga,
and Germany the rest of Warsaw
The Vistula is the dividing line,
However. after Is days of airplane
bombings, charges by motorized
troops, shellines by heavy artillery
and hand-to-hand fighting in the
suburbs. the surrounding Germans
still were unable to capture the
city.
The siege had taken heavy toll
of civilians as we'll as Polish troops
Continued on Page 6, Col. .
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-24
Anti-Seepage Bed
Planned in Canal

Described as part of seasoning
operations" on the All American
canal, now virtually completed,
bids were asked Saturday by the
Bureau of Reclamation on con-
tract to line approximately Is miles
of the canal with clay
Funds to finance the clay blan-
ket were included in original ap-
preparations which specified part
would go toward conditioning the
canal after its construction.
The call for bids lists items Of
work as $4,000 cubic yards of strip
ping barrow pits; 10000 cubic
yards of clay blanket on bottom
of canal; and 1900 cubic yards OF
clay blanket on side slopes of canal.
Unofficial sources said four inch
thickness was considered.
The stripping will extend from
station 245 to 1929, or approximate
ly from Laguna dam south and
west to the railroad tracks, about
Is miles.
Contracts called for completion
within $50 days. Bids will be re-
ceived up to Oct IS Penalty for
delay will be $50 day
Continued on Page 6; Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-24

German troops, rushed westward
from the Polish front under the
direction of Col. Gen. Walther Won
Brauchitsch, made three mass
counter thrusts at the French Saar
lines with swift little midget tanks.
big heavily -armored tanks and in
fantry.
An unofficial war communidue
said all attacks were thrown back
and unofficial French dispatches
estimated that the Nazis had lost
20 tanks and suffered several hun
dred casualties in intensive fight
ing. Artillery bombardment Of rear
lines was resumed on both sides
and French messages said that
aerial reconnaissance had clearly
shown the smashing effect of shells
on The new Siegfreid line fortifi-
cations.
Big guns pounded on both sides
of the front during the night and
ILLS UlOIIllilg.
It was believed that the German
attacks and heavy artillery fire.
coincided with the arrival on the
German side of Colleen. Walter
yon Brauchitsch army commman-
der in chief, to take charge of op-
erations.
A French communique referred
to the three vain attempts of Nazi
shock troops to retake forest the
French captured.
French machine gunners and ar
tillery crumpled three successive
waves of German troops that at
tempted to geG into the forest and
meet the French with hand gren-
ade and bayonet,
German big guns were reported
to be blasting French positions on
the German side of the frontier
and the roads behind the French
Maginot line. It was reported that
artillery activity from the German
side was of unusual intensity.
Activity in the region between
the Saar and Deux Points was to
be explained because it was there
that the French had made gains
which the Germans seemed to re-
gard as important. 1t was under
stood that the French were now
in sight of Deux Points, which lies
within the main German Westwall
Notifications.
In addition to the activity re-
ported, 1t was understood that
French and German patrols were
out in No Mans Land all night on
the principal Saar sectors.
French guns were reported to be
exchanging shell for shell with the
Germans. Further, the French as
serted that they had aerial super
iority and that their planes were
Continued ON Page 6; Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-24
OnIy5Days Left
To Register

STOP. Have You forgotten
anything?
If you have forgotten TO regis
ter, you have only five days left
to do It,
PLAY safe and telephone the
county clerks office to be sure
you are eligible to vote Nov. T.,
Registration closes Sept. 2S.
IF you voted in either one or
both of the last two state cleo
tions august. 1898 or Novem-
ber, 1881 you are registered.
BUT
If You have changed your
name or your residence mean
while, or failed to vote in one
of the last two state elections,
you must register.
A person voting for the first
time i'm California, either be-
cause of attaining majority
or as newcomers to the state,
MUST register before he can
vote. New residents must have
lived in the state one year and,
the last 90 days in the county
prior to election date.)
Register at any city hall in
the county or at the county
clerks office.
You can't vote unless you reg
lister! Register NOW!
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-24
British Cruisers
Off So. America

vALpARA1SO Chile, Sept %
CUP)-A division of British light
cruisers Of the Achilles and Ajax
type and some high seas submarines
are operating off the Chilean coast
to prevent movement of German
merchant ships in and out Of
Chilean ports, it was reported here
today,
The British warships it was said
have bases i'll Bermuda and the
Falkland islands.
The French steamer Winnipeg
which brought Spanish refugees to
Chile from France. will sail shortly
from Valparaiso with full cargo
and under convoy of British war
ships, it was announced.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-24


that the tails and wings stuck out
and the doors could not be closed.
It was under armed guard
More ships were going into stor-
age from the big Lockheed plant
at the rate of one a day. These
were part of an order for $50
bombers costing $27,O00,O0O which
was unfinished when the embargo
went into effect.
Lockheed was rushing production
on orders from England. The air.
craft company was being paid for
ships even though they went into
storage here for the time being.
Britain wanted the planes ready
for instant delivery in event the
embargo is lifted or altered. The
planes. capable of flying nearly
300 miles an hour and regarded as
among the most deadly aircraft in
the world, were being equipped for
action even to gray green camon-
flouge paint and the red and blue
royal air force insignia on the
wings. Only the machine guns and
flying instruments were omitted
Britain will install them herself.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-24


northern California and emergency
hospital attendents worked overtime
reviving persons who collapsed OF
the streets and at work.
Los Angeles. for the fifth con-
secutive day, recorded an official
peak temperature over the 100 de-
gree when the mercury init 10l
at 11:3O a. m. San Francisco. after
experiencing a maximum of 81 de-
grees three days consecutively
sweltered again at 96 degrees.
The lowest temperature recorded
in Los Angeles during the week
was &c degrees at 5 a. m. today
l.. II. Daingerfield, government
weather man, held out some hope
for relief over the weekend. He
predicted cloudy skies tonight and
Sunday. with unsettled conditions
showers and thunderstorms local.
ly over the mountains. Sunday will
see cooler weather with gentle var
liable winds, if Daingerfield's OBJ
servations are correct.
Santa Maria also experienced the
hottest night temperature in the
towns history when the mercury
never dropped below a minimum
of 70. 1t was 95 at 1890 am. Santa
Maria's maximum temperature yes
terday was LOG degrees, only three
degrees below the all-time high sci
in June, 1929.
Temperatures turned downward
slightly in most of California today
put it still was too warm for COM
fort in the eighth day of the long
est heat wave on state records.
Thermometer readings in the
states larger cities were three tc
seven degrees lower than for the
corresponding times yesterday.
The period of unseasonably high
temperatures, however, was no,
over Weather bureau forecasts said
cooler temperatures would prevail
along the coast tomorrow but there
would be little change in TIE val
leys and mountain areas.
Continued on Page 6, Col. II
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-24

at Venice palace said:
"The Polish question has been
liquidated. Europe has not really
entered into war.
Armies have not yet met. A
clash can be avoided by realizing
that 1t is vain to attempt to main-
tain or reconstruct that which his
ory and the natural dynamism OF
peoples already has condemned"
Mussolini said also that Italy
has no reason to alter her decision
to remain neutral or the decision
taken by the cabinet on Sept. I
when it agreed that Italy would
take no military initiative in the
European conflict.
"We meet at stormy moment"
he said in his speech in Venice pal
ace. Our policy was fixed in the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-24

agent of the Soviet government who
has IAN absolute monopoly" on col
lection of such funds in the United
States and Canada.
Recht, he charged, collects the
funds on behalf of the Soviet gov
ernment after the OGPU, Russian
secret police organization, forces
Russian relatives of the deceased
to make powers of attorney to
Recht. The relatives, he added, get
"only a few worthless roubles."
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-24

cabinet statement ON September
(ragarding neutrality and there
is no reason TO change II.
"If and when | appear ON the
balcony of venice palace and con-
woke the italian people to hear me
It viii not be to discuss the Sit
nation but to announce decisions
of historic Importance
The premier's statement was
taken to indicate hope that his
peace suggestions would lead 10
important developments.
CAN indications In London and
Paris have been that the allied
powers have no intention OF making
peace on Hitlers terms and that
they are pushing ahead with plans
to fight the war TO finishJ
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-24

LandOn, HepuDllcdn pTcoiuchoidi
nominee in 1886. suggested in
New York interview that the
greatest single contribution the
president could make to assure
non-partisan discussion of the neu-
trality issue would be to tell the
nation categorically that he does
not want a third term and would
not accept the nomination were
it offered to him.
Mr.. Roosevelt, seated at the
wheel of an open car IN a hay
field of his 1,20O-acre farm, was
shown an excerpt from Landon's
statement. His 85-year- -old mother,
Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, seated
at his side. peered over his shoulder
as he read 1t.
The president, however. declined
to be drawn into commitment.
He said he was sorry not TO
be able to reply to reporters who
had showed him the excerpt, but
said he could not comment on a
statement before he had seen its
complete text. The single sentence
excerpt. he said. Ibid not give him
sufficient perspective to be able
to make a comprehensive response.
A close friend of Mr.. Roosevelt
asserted later that the president Is
doing all in his power to keep
politics and partisanship out of the
congressional struggle on measures
to preserve the neutrality of the
United States.
He said that since September B
the day that Great Britain de-
clared a state of war with Germ
ny-Mr. Roosevelt has pledged with
the country to keep politics out Of
the crucial world situation.
BY inference, the presidents
Continued on Page 6, Col p
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-24
G-Men Know Who
Stole ScrambIinq
Machine For Codes

NEW YORK. Sept. %. GUP)-
Federal agents engaged in what
was unofficially described as the
biggest peace time spy hunt in his
tory indicated today they knew the
identity of the espionage agent who
stole the plans of code scrambling
machine and sold them to Germany
and Japan for $4,000
Investigators would not say
whether the spy was in this country
or had made good his escape tc
middle Europe. The agents were
devoting themselves, however. to de-
terInining how it was possible fol
anyone to get the plans without
being discovered
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-24

contained severe penalties for any
Individual or corporation violating
the provision prohibiting transpor-
tation of any kind of materials to
belligerents in United States ves-
sells. The penalty. he said, probably
would be $4,000 fine or five years
Imprisonment or both.
Committee members in charge
of drafting the legislation will at
tempt to cut down on discretion
given the president in existing law
and make the intent of congress
as definite as possible Pittman
said.
He expressed the opinion that
Continued on Page 6, Col. II
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-24

lowing the neutrality program laid
down by President Roosevelt in
convening the special session Of
congress Thursday. was expected
to be ready for full committee con-
sideration Monday.
Only Democrats absent from to-
days informal meeting were Pat
Harrison, i'll at his Mississippi home
and Bennett c. Clark. of Missouri,
leader of the isolationist bloc
opposing the Presidents program.
Clark was invited to the meeting
by mistake, it was explained. but
stayed away after discussing the
situation with Chairman Key Pitt
man. of Nevada.
Pittman told reporters the draft
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-24

Ieadlng soviet worker IN tne UIllteu
States.
He told the committee that Soviet
Russia collected more than enough
money here to finance propaganda
campaigns in the United States.
One of the money-collecting
schemes, he alleged, involved col
lection of insurance and estates left
bv dead Russian-born Americans.
He asserted that Charles Recht,
attorney who appeared before the
committee yesterday is an official
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-24
Profitable, too

Best plan we know to prevent
cigarette-mooching has received the
pragmatic test from Bert Purdy
and emerged with flying cigarette
papers.
Every time someone asks Bert
for cigarette he hauls out new
package and says:
Keep them. ThatIl be Is cents
To date he has got rid of two
cartons by this route, given but
one free cigarette and made a
clear profit on the transaction of
SO cents.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-24
Lasting Memento---

Every time Milt Taylor sees q
cricket he cbuckles. The reason is
this:
He sent little gift to Basil
Guthrie of San Diego. The gift"
was a box jammed full of healthy,
chirping Ell Centre crickets. Now
every time Guthrie opens drawer
in his office out pops a cricket
We suggest Milt should have en-
closed this card with his present
Gust to chirp-remember me-
chirp-by- y-chirp. chirp."