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Evening star., 1940-05-20
Diz Still Is Looking
For Lost Fust Boil.

No one can make me believe that
Dizzy isn't giving all he has at every
start, for I never saw competitor
who drew bigger thrill out of win
ning-and who was quite as low
after defeat.
He never would imagine that any
one could beat him in any game he
started. A few years back he wanted
to pitch every other day.
1t has been tough break for
Dizzy Dean. 1t has been just as
tough break for Frank Frisch, then
the winning Cardinal manager, when
the two Deans and young Bill De-
lancey. brilliant young catcher, all
toppled close together.
What does Ole Diz think about his
future? He doesn't know. He never
has looked very far ahead. One day
at time has been all that his phi
losophy cared to handle. Once in a
while you can see him staring into
space as If looking for vanished
fast ball that must be gone forever
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Evening star., 1940-05-20
Morksmen, at Commerce
ORGANIZING Team

Applications for membership in
the Department Of Commerce Rifle
and Pistol Club are being received
by John L. Cronkrite, room 63l5 in
Commerce Building or William D.
Loulan, Division 8 of the Patent
Office.
The club, afflliated with the
N. r. A., is using the Camp Sims
outdoor range on Saturday after
moons and Sundays and any de-
partment employe is eligible If over
Is years of age. Any safe .22-caliber
rifle or pistol may be used,
Evening star., 1940-05-20

during the second half If the oppor-
tunity presents itself.
A fast circuit with competition at
white heat is predicted with most
of the clubs awaiting the close of
the high school series to grab the
cream of scholastic talent. Most of
the teams have been together two
and three years and are well Or
ganized.
The opening day schedule. with
team managers names in paren.
thesis, follows:
Southeast Boys Club Mario Gresorio)
VS.. Friendship House tJoe Wnukowski). .
Naiman Photos tBos Naiman) VS. Police
No. (Pat Simpson,. Uline Ice Eddie
Ahearnl VS.. Woodridge A. G; &C. F. Greenl.
Kneessi Kubs (Ralph Calisto).
Evening star., 1940-05-20

Klein's Tavern, defending cham
pion, apparently is home" in the
first half flag chase of the 1910 "A'
section National City League race
unless J. c. Flood Plumbers. also
undefeated at this writing. muster
enough strength to knock of the
powerful suburbanites.
Yesterday Klein's was supposed
to undergo the acid test In a game
with the highly regarded District
Grocery Store nine, but what hap
pens? Nothing to disturb the gen.
eral opinion that Klein's is unbeat-
able. 1t was no closer than Hawaii
and Washington as the terrible
Tavern clouters murdered four D.
G.. S. pitchers with a 27-hit assault
and rang up 22-1 victory.
Flood, meanwhile, had no easy
time with Frank Small Motors and
had to choke off a threatening
ninth-inning rally that produced
one run for the losers, to win. Vein
stein, driving in three runs, was
the batting hero, while Giller took
the pitching honors. Giller, although
nicked for nine hits, held Small in
check after a rough second inning
and struck out nine.
Taverns Pound Ball.
Manager Elmer Leukhardt started
Herb De Vers for D. G. S., but
quickly yanked him for Wade Penn
brooke when Klein's heavy artillery
knocked off four runs in the first
inning. Ed Hale and finally Jack
Alexander, summoned from left
field, completed the pitchers parade
and none proved effective. Durkin's
homer and four hits each by Nau
and Matthias featured the attack.
Pepper was the Only Tavern player
to go hitless. Bill and Boyd Liggett
held the losers to eight scattered
hits.
Probably the best game of the
section was manufactured by Miller
Furniture and Marvin's Credit, Mil
ler winning, 80, with a two-run rally
in the last frame. Birch held the
losers to four safeties and retired
IA on strikes, but his mates Jared
little better against Kimmell, who
gave Up only five hits.
Claude Bradley and Bill Wrenn
held Orange Disc to two measly
hits as Packard Washington nosed
out the Gasoline Dealers, 80. A
run In the ninth turned the trick.
Harry Seay and Jim Clark led the
winners with two hits each.
Brown Shines on Slab.
In Section "B" the Washington
Cubs and Washington Home I'm
provement continued to set the
pace, winning over Hahn's Rovers,
81, and Variety A. c., ia, respec-
lively. Brown, pitching for Home
Improvement, set down Variety with
SIX hits, while his mates were club
blng Delman for 10.
Lynham of the Cubs allowed
Hahns only two hits and his mates
got only one more off CLANCY. Err
ratio support ruined the latter's
chances of winning.
Frank Cinotti's Plaza Tile and
Marble ran into unexpected trouble
and fell victim to Capital Cafe, 6-1.
The defeat put Plaza back in q
second-place tie with Washington
Home improvement. The losers
outhit the Cafe clouters, Us, but lax
fielding and timely hitting in the
last two innings gave Capital five
runs and the ball game.
Terminal Ice jolted Arcade Mar
ket, 1873, in the final "B" section
game, outhitting the foe by a It'll
margin. Frank Milan, veteran first
Evening star., 1940-05-20
Springer Terps' HurIer
In Finale With 9. W.

Earl Springer. Maryland's crack
southpaw. drew the starting assign
ment this afternoon as the Terps
faced George Washington University
at Griffith Stadium in their final
game of the season. Play was to
get under way at 2:30 o'clock.
Wednesday the Colonials will help
Georgetown ring down the curtain
at the stadium.
Evening star., 1940-05-20
Diz Never Too CorefuI
With His Earnings.

The average fan likes Dizzy Dean.
The average fan likes color. Dizzy
gave him whirl of excitement and
fun for several years.
I've been asked many hundreds of
times whether Dizzy had anything
left how much he had saved.
I don't know. His wife, Pat Dean,
has been smart enough. But Dizzy
never was any too careful with his
money. I've seen Babe Ruth take
him for $100 day on the golf course,
giving Dizzy all the handicap Ole
Diz asked for. I know others have
taken him for much more. Dizzy
had much more confidence in his
golf swing than the Dean swing
ever justified.
In fact, his golf game depended
far more on cool nerve and vast de-
termination than it ever depended
on bad swing, which started from
f1at-footed stance and usually
ended in a terrific slice But he
could pitch, chip and putt. And he
never quit or gave up hope.
Dizzy, the four-year headliner, now
has nice home and a small farm
outside Dallas. Unless some form
of miracle takes place his main
pitching days seem to be over.
Three years is long time to rest
an arm that shows no sign of COM
ing back. Once in a while the kink
disappears. as it did in the case of
Lefty Grove and a few others.
Evening star., 1940-05-20
B'nui Births on Streak

B'nai Birth softball team won its
third straight game in the Sunday
Morning Fraternal League when it
defeated the Cardinals. 1876. Twi-
light games are desired by the win
ners who may be booked at Ran
dolph 6906.
Evening star., 1940-05-20
KIe;n's Now Regarded 'Shoo-in'
For a Pennont in City Loop;
Cubs Still Pace b. Group

sacker, led the losers attack. while
Basiliko. with four for four, and
Boyle were tops for Terminal.
The team standings:
Evening star., 1940-05-20
Tragedy Of 1887 Beeon
With Toe Injury.

Then the tragedy of 1887 came
along. when he first picked up an
injured toe. A short while later,
lacking his full follow through, he
blew fuse in his pitching shoulder.
Dean hasn't been able to keep win
ming with a wounded arm.
Bought by Chicago, Ole Diz won
only seven games in 1888 and only
six games in 1885, pitching almost
exclusively with the old bean. His
fast ball couldn't break the cuticle
of custard pie The wonder is
that he could win any games at all.
Being naturally lazy, Diz began to
put on weight and this was no great
help. He moved from 189 to 22O in
two years.
Diz came up the hard way-maybe
too hard way. He told me once
that he and his brother Paul and
their father, after picking cotton
from "sun to sun"-sunup to SUM-
down-had only a can or two of
sardines and crackers for their daily
and only meal
Evening star., 1940-05-20
The
SPORTLIGHT
Diz Dean Major Tragedy
Of Modern Baseball
BY GRANTLAND RICE,


The breaks in baseball can have
two sides, just about the same as
plank. They can be good-and
they can be much worse 1t isn't
all matter Of milk and honey.
There is the somewhat melan-
choly case of my old golf bridge
and fishing partner known as Dizzy
Dean. Diz was as goofy as a coot
in many ways, especially when it
came to popping of, but he was a
great pitcher and a grand fellow
with whom to fish or play golf,
which is no bad test. And he
brought more color to the game
through comparatively brief span
than any one since Babe Ruth.
From 1888 through 1896, mat
ter of four major league years, Ole
Diz won 102 ball games, an average
better than Is a year through four
consecutive seasons.
In 1896 he was only Is years old.
With that free, easy motion of his,
an almost perfect pitching motion,
Dean apparently had at least 10
good years left He had about
everything a great pitcher needs.
He couldn't miss
Evening star., 1940-05-20
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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-23
Italians Claim British
E qYptiun Bose DESTROYED

ROME, June %. tUPJ-1tallan
airplanes have destroyed the British
naval base at Mersa Matruh. Egypt.
on the Mediterranean. Italy's 18th
war communique said today. There
were reports here that the whole
town OF Mersa Matruh had been
"razed to the ground
The communique said Italian
planes also had bombed intensivelv
the French port of Marsellle. and
the French naval base of Bizerta in
Tunisia lin successive waves" that
three Allied ships. two of them
armed, had been sunk and an AL
lied cruiser damaged by airplane
bombs east of the Balearic Islands.
Another cruiser was bombed at
Bizerte, along with arsenals and Oil
depots. the communique said
"Marseille was raided with equal
success it commented.
1t said Port Sudan, in Africa, al
so had been raided
I'm east Africa, in raid over
Tobruk. the enemy hit a royal na-
val hospital" the communique said
There were some victims including
doctors, nurses and patients. An
enemy aircraft was shot down. We
also brought down an enemy air
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-23
Raj Bombs Italian
warship Base

J CAIRO Egypt. June % -fUPO-
british airplanes bombed Italian
naval base of Tobrouk and reported
smoke pouring from a large war
ship in tho harbor, the r. A F.
command said today shortly after
Italian aircraft had bombed Alex
andia
The R A. F. cOmmunique said
that British Blenheim planes drove
off two Italian fighting planes that
attempted 20 interrupt the British
bombers. Tobrouk was raided on
Friday morning and again late in
the day.
Ono r. A. F. flying boat, attacked,
while reconnaissance. by five Ital-
ian fighting planes, shot one down,
dana 3cd another and returned safe
~ 10 its base. Several Italian
planes were set afire by bombing
Of FL Adem and Ell Gubbi Italian
planes raided Malta five times on
Friday, but caused no casualties,
the communicate added
The Italian raid on Alexandria,
officials said, caused Slight damage.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-23

PHILADELPHIA. June %. (UP)
The nation mourned today one OF
its most colorful military figures
Maj. Gen. Smedley Darlington But
Ter, So United States Marine corps
retired.
Butler, an opponent of any course
that might lead to American inter
vention in European affairs, died
late yesterday in the naval hospital
here of an abdominal complaint
from which he had suffered for
many years.
Funeral services will be held at
p. m. Monday from this Newtown
Square home with burial in West
Chester cemetery.
The fighting Quaker" who, des-
pite his long years in the marines
in all parts of the world. frequently
lapsed into the thee" and thou
of the society of friends, held vir-
tually every medal and award be-
slowed by the nation. He twice was
cited for the Congressional medal
the highest honor for bravery ir
action beyond the call of duty.
He refused it the first time be-
cause he believed he had not merit
ed it.
Butler entered the hospital May
q for a checkup and rest after a
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-23

cent complete, the Bank of Amer
lea building, IS per cent through.
the Security Bank building. part
finished, the Valley theater. Wool
worth's. Valley Drug. Haas Baruch,
Arden Farms. Newberry's and Pen
ney's.
Considerable revision will mark
the Security Bank job where the
second story has been torn down
and will not be rebuilt. In many
instances, such as Woolworth's and
Valley Drug. the demolition stage
has just been finished and recon-
struction begun Congreve estimat-
ed that Main street will have moved
back nearer normal and have shed
its "bandages' by two or three more
weeks
The new building at Sixth and
Main street showed substantial
progress this week with the struc-
tural sections virtually complete.
Yet to be constructed are the roof
and arcades and finishing the out
side. Completion will probably be
sometime next month.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-23
Berlin Outskirts
Bombed by British;
Bremen Attacked

BERLIN, June % CUP)-Airplanes
presumably British, shoWered the
outskirts of Berlin with explosive
and incendiary bombs early today,
repeatedly injuring seven persons,
while Germans we're joyfully await
ing word that France had accepted
Adolf Hitlers armistice terms.
Authorized spokesman said three
incendiary bombs fell near the old
railway station at Babelsburg, near
Potsdam, about Is miles from Ber-
lin.
The official German news agency
said three men, three women and
one child had been injured. 1t said
that several enemy planes reached
the neighborhood of Berlin and
that one plane had dropped "sev-
eral' explosive and incendiary
bombs on military detectives"
The news agency said hospital
was bombed and slightly damaged.
1t said other planes had bombed
Bremen during the night but had
caused small damage and injured
only two civilians. AnE-aircraft
gunners drove the planes away, the
news agency said.
Earlier, the news agency had said
that nine persons were killed and
many seriously wounded in an air
raid on Essen Thursday night. Sew
eral houses and one church there
we're damaged, it said.
The raids marred the beginning
of what the Germans had expected
to be a joyful and historic day for
them. Authorized spokesman now
predicted that Frances reply to the
armistice, almost certain to be an
acceptance, would come in the af-
ternoon.
Babelsburg, apparent place of the
early morning raid, is headquarters
for tn. famous UFA filn company
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-23
POST-PRESS BUILDING SECTION
Busy Week Of
Home BuiIdinq
Reported in &c.

A busy week OF residence con-
struction was reported Saturday by
Merle SoneS of Sones Lumber COM
pany.
Finishing touches were put on
the A. C. Finney home between
Fourth and Fifth on WenSley and
the home will be ready for moving
in the first of next week. 1t is a
five room, 5000, stucco plaster
and frame building with garage
attached.
Particularly novel in the Finney
home is the "streamlined" kitchen
equipped with many new built in
features. The paint is white with
yellow trim.
Another home, a $1,000 bungalow,
is being finished by Jack Harrison
between Fifth and Sixth on He'll.
Next door to it similar residence
is still two weeks from completion.
1t is being built for Homer Cham
berS. It has a corner kitchen with
sliding doors into the dining room
and a particularly attractive bath
and shower combination in the
bathroom with built in pullman
lavatory. 1t is a five-roOm house.
The plaster is on all ready. 1t will
be Stucco inside and out.
Between Seventh and Eighth on
Orange Sones reported another
home being constructed by w. S.
Fluss, contractor It is partly con-
structed and will be a frame resi-
dence with celotex interior.
The framework is Just going up
at 858 Holt for a home for Joe
Slovak. Walter Nanni is the con-
tractor.
A $1,000 home is about half COM
pleted by Frank Pardue, contractor,
for Mrs. R. Crumrine at 18th and
Ell Centre.
Several remodeling jobs were re-
ported by SoneS as we'll as con-
struction of half dozen bunga-
lows of the $500 class in the Nj
land district.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-23
bv PHIL JONES

In the last war, Henry
Ford tried to send a peace
ship to Europe--this time mes
concentrating on airships,
The army gave him a sample
of the sort of plane tneS
want-and he is now taxing
the plane to pieces. discover:
ing what makes 1t tick. ano
he'll soon go into action. Hen
ry parlayed watch spring
and couple of tin cans into
one of the biggest industries
in the world-and If he turns
out airplanes the way he
manufactures cars, then sea
gulls and their featheret
friends will have to learn to
walk-because the airways
will be as crowded as a can oil
sardines.
In Mansfield. Ohio, a thief
entered home and stole
rug. He took nothing else
apparently he was just an
other rugged individualist.
Have you looked at the
latest models OF Rainier wa
ter Softener? If not, come In
and let me tell you the many
benefits derived from having
one installed in your home,
1t saves labor-hcalth-ano
paws for itself in the savings
+ you make. Phil Jones. I'M
perial Highway near Ell CEN
tro. Phone Ell.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-23
Construction Begun
On $4,000 Home

Reports from Builders Supply in
Ell Centre Saturday indicated d
fairly active week.
Work was begun on $4,000 resi-
dence by Murl Kellogg on west
Main street. 1t will have two bed
rooms, living and dining rooms
and a particularly large porch that
will be able to accommodate beds for
sleeping in the summer time.
Also, Frank Pardue, contractor,
is completing new residence at
Sixth and Ell Centre that is valued
at about $28OO 1t will have two
bedrooms and a novel dinette.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-23

days under terms of an Italian
French armistice. leaving Italy's
armed forces free to deal with Bril-
tain ard British possessions III the
Mediterranean and Africa.
A roundup of suspected Fifth
Column" Jews was going on in all
parts of italy. Some we're charged
with spying in behalf of the enc
my" III the BresCia region alone,
IS foreign Jews were arrested; nine
Germans. four CzechS, one Hun
garian and one Rumanian. Other
Jews were reported arrested in
Rome. Milan, Florence and Genoa
Yesterdays italian war commu-
niuue had indicated that the Bri-
fish were attempting to invade Ly-
bia and were meeting strong resist
ance. 1t said that Britain had lost
10 airplanes and 40 armored cars
in action in that region.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-23

craft over the Mediterranean. The
enemy made some raids during the
night over Sicily and northern Italy.
Few bombs were dropped. A certain
number of bombs were dropped in
the central part Of the city. Pri-
vate homes we're damaged but no
victims are to be deplored (SIC). D."
The newspaper Mes5agero had a
dispatch today from It's correspond
ert who witnessed the German
French armistice conference in the
Compiegne forest. saying that the
same delegation which received the
German armistice terms would come
to Italy to receive Benito Musso-
lini's terms.
Fascist quarters here believed that
the French African possessions,
Somaliland, Tunisia and Algier5,
would be demilitarized in few
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-23

I Building authorities in the city
have managed to enforce recon-
struction on a system used after
the Long Beach quake. Brick walls
have been permitted but only when
accompanied by a strong type of
reinforced concrete ties and steel
anchors that will prevent the walls
from collapsing in any future tenn
blors.
Walls that had to be completely
rebuilt have followed the strict
building code requirements of spe-
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-23
III Centre to Present
Prettier Face. Stronger
Chassis Because Of Quake

Ell Centre will not only present a
"prettier" face but stronger
frame" as a result of the recent
earthquake, reconstruction activi-
ties indicated Saturday.
Although all repairs have not
been constructed on the lines of
strict building code requirements
for in many instances adhering
to the code would have wrecked
sound buildings-the repaired walls
will be far stronger than many
walls that withstood the quake.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-23
wrecking Job
Done by Company
In Record Time

In five days the Whiting Mead
company Topped off the top story
of the Security First National bank
building at Fifth and Main streets,
permitting bank business to be
carried on without interruption
during that time.
Earthquake damage made it man.
datory to reduce the building to a
one story structure, Manager Rus
sell Tagg of Whiting Mead said
Saturday. The wrecking job was
completed, he said, in what was
considered record time. Local labor
was used for the job.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-23
Plans Drawn for
80 Pct. Of Quake
Hit Buildings

Ninety per cent of the bushes.
buildings damaged by the earth
quake in FL Centre are either in
the midst Of reconstruction or plans
are being drafted, Ralph Congreve
city building inspector, announced
Saturday.
Nearly a dozen fairly large jobs
are under way and many minor re-
pairs have been completed or are
being done, he indicated.
Many jobs are being held up only
In order to settle insurance claims
arrange plans and obtain contrac-
tors.
Notable among the jobs now under
construction are the Panama hotel
64S-655 Main street, about IS per
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-23

cial brick that is laced inside with
network of steel SO strong that
the bricks themselves would have
to crumble before they would come
down. This prevents any possible
future injury to pedestrians.
No building can be made liter
ally earthquake proof, but they can
be made earthquake resistant, ex-
perts pointed out, and on that
theory the reconstruction rulings
in Ell Centre have been based.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-23
Nation Mourns
Smed|ey Butler

speaking tour of several thousand
miles in behalf of his isolation
views. At his bedside when he died
were his wife, his daughter, Mrs.
John Wehle, and two sons, Smed-
ley, ir., of Dewarth, N. j., and Tho
mas Richard of West Chester. Sam
uel Butler, an Eastland, Tex, Oil
companv official, is a brother.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-23
British Censor
Fleet Comment

LONDON. June % CUPD-Bri
fish authorities refused to permi
American correspondents TO com
ment today or reports from Wash
ington, published by the New Yorl
Herald Tribune, that the French
fleet had escaped virtually intac
and had been taken over by the Bri.
fish fleet.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-23
TEACHERS WILL
ATTEND FARLEY

John r. Adams and George E.
Spencer, Central high school teach
ers. will spend next week at San
Luis Obispo for the summer con-
ference of California Vocational
Agriculture teachers.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-23

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