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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-13
PAIR TEAM
 pB0TH ON
 OFF FIELD
Indians Smooth Keystone Couple Are Putting
 If Over Two Ways
By RAY BLOSSER AP Feature Service

CLEVELAND, July 13. Lou Boudreau and Fay Mack work, sleep and think together to give Cleve- land the long-sought second base combination needed to make pen nant contenders of the Indians.
 They form one of the classiest doubleplay manufacturing combin- ations in the American League Even better-but somewhat less expected is the way they've been hitting.
 In the first six weeks of the sea- son they were jointly tied for the league leadership in two -baggers, with 13. Mack was clubbing away at .363 average and Boudreau was hitting 1920.
 Boudreau. g, is a handsome, soft spoken University of Illinois grad uate who started baseball life as a catcher. His father. once a third baseman in an Illinois independent longer at the hot corner, so he switched. Then the Indians made him into shortstop because they had Ken Keltner at third.
 MlckOvsky's the Name
 Mack, year older, is the second baseman. Sport fans in his native Cleveland, knew him better as Ray Mlckovsky, battering fullback for the Case School of Applied Science. The Chicago Bears drafted him for N t ional Professional Football League service but he preferred baseball and sports writers short- ened his name
 Boudreau and Mack started play ing professional baseball only two years ago, and came up to Cleve- land last summer from Buffalo. The switch from the International to the American League threw both into batting slump, because Am erican League pitchers then were at their peak. But they found the range this year by improving with the fingers rom the start O1 the season.
 We've been roommates righ t along, which gives us plenty of chance to talk about double plays" Boudreau says. We tell each other where we want the ball thrown, and when a certain play comes up in a game, we talk it over at night"
 Work Well Together
 We started thowing hard at one another-that improves the chance of double plays-and we've always kept it up At third, didn't have to figure out the batters so much, so I have lot to learn yet. But we hope to keep it up."
 Mack had no intention of playing
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-f -ai tfata.-s . -f- t sf Fl. - SEATTLE IS WINNER IN
 A INNINGS
Oakland lakes DoubIe- -PortIand's 5 Win-
 ming Streak Is Ended
CBY ASSOCIATED PRESs)

The unpredictable San Francisco Seals continued to make the going rough for the Seattle Rainiers. Last night the Seals pushed tn e Rainiers, leaders in the Pacific Coast League, to fourteen innings before bowing to defeat. A wild throw by Shortstop Fernandez al- lowed the winning run to cross the plate.
 Oakland pushed Sacramento's winning streak to seven games by taking both ends of doubleheader last night. Cecil Dunn homered twice in the first game which ac- counted for four runs.
 Wicezorek homered.
 Stanley Corbett chalked up his thirteenth victory of the season.
 San Diego got seven runs in the seventh inning last night, defeat- ing Los Angeles. Salkeld made a home run in the eighth inning. Portland'S winning streak faded in the ninth inning last night when Hollywood scored two runs after two men were out, winning tn e game and breaking the Stars eight game losing streak
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professional football because he al ways liked bas ball better. A mechanical engineering graduate, he says, T gave myself three years to make the grade and decided if I didn't by that time, probably would drop baseball"
 He and Boudreau, due to their natural talents and flashy team work, did much better than that. They arrived after only a year and ! half of professional ball. Mack vas at Fargo-Moorhead, N. Dak., md Boudreau at Cedar Rapids, la, before they first teamed together at
 Buffalo last year.
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4.4ttAh f+--- .&- -- Fund Drive For WiIIkie
 Gefs Hailed

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July l3. The Republican National Finance Committee has halted an inde- pendent fund raising campaign for Wendell Willkie in California.
 An independent group known as Republicans United, Inc, has been collecting funds assertedly for the Willkie campaign chest It is re- ported that the fund collectors re- ceived B 1/3 percent commission for their efforts.
 However. the group halted collec- tions at the request of the Repub- lican National Finance Committee
 committee spokesman said that the only group authorized to col- lect funds for Willkie is the Re- publican Finance Committee.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-13
Tips On Basebal HOW TO PLAY SECOND BASE By CHARLES GEHRINGER
 erOtT
AP FEATURE SERVICE
By CHARLES GEHRINl
 Detroit Tigers Star

So you'd like to be a second- baseman? I don't blame you. l think it's one of the most inter- esting jobs on the diamond-a spot where the good player is divided by only hair-line from the superb player.
 Just that sharper knack of doing things a split-second faster often makes the difference. That element of timing and quick thinking means the difference between an ordinary second baseman and a second-base- man who is a whiz at double plays
 And double play duties, most any manager will tell you, are s most important phase of the sec ond baseman's job. A double play expert at second is an artist at quick fielding and picking out the spot to which the ball should be thrown He knows in a flash when to leave the bag, when to let the shortstop cover it.
 Some Fundamentals
 Now about the fundamentals Of his position. He fields all ground balls hit to the right of second even those closer to first-to al low the first sacker to hold, his base where he is needed. With 9 man on first only, he should start toward second after each pitched ball has passed the batter, to pre- vent any attempt at a delayed steal He also covers his bag auto matically on the signal for a pitch out. That puts him in position to participate in a put-out if the runner is caught off first and at temptS to make second.
 The second -baseman's most im- portant backing-up duties are at first when the first-sacker is pulled into the diamond on a fielding play.
 Footwork is important for this position Your good first baseman will field most grounders off his right foot, allowing him to make the catch and throw in almost one motion. His toughest fielding plays are slow hit ball in his direction or a hit to his right through the box. In the first case he dashes in, fields the ball and snaps it underhand to first In the second he goes for the ball full speed, stops sharply on his right foot and throws side to first.
 Teamwork Important
 Teamwork with the shortstop is important. I always make my throws to the shortstop, when he covers second, with a counter clockwise snap of the wrist-never a toss.
 The second baseman acts as re- lay man on batted balls to the outfield on the right side of the bag. When a hit goes out over the left side of the bag I take second or back up the shortstop if he takes it.
 Remember the fundamentals first
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Mrs. BerthoII Is
 Surprised with
 Shower Party

A group of friends surprised Mrs Bert Bertholl last evening with 3 shower at her apartment in the Knight Apartments.
 Those calling were Mesdames Ell Tanner, George Salo, David Davis Selma Maxi, William Neimi, Carl Aschenbrenner, George Alfors, Roy Murphy, Pete Hammer William Karki, William Kopra, M. Sorri, I Puranen, Hannah Kattainen, Ida Kananen, John Antilla, R. Routsala Ida Fohr. G. Harju, Gene Nurmi Gene Gath, R. Copstead, Harry Sturrock, Katherine Karinen, M. J Feist, Bert Bertholl, Sr., and Miss Francis Karinen.
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GAMES FRIDAY Pacific Coast League

San Diego II; Los Angeles 3. Hollywood 3; Portland 2. Seattle 3; San Francisco 2, four teen innings. Oakland 6, 5; Sacramento 4, 4.
 National League Philadelphia 6; Pittsburgh 8 night game Chicago 2; Boston 0. Other scheduled games rained out.
 American League 5 Cleveland l Philadelphia 0. Other scheduled games rained out
 Gastineau Channel League Eiks-M Moose game rained out last night.
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PITCHERS ARE5TARS
 ON FRIDAY
tBy ASSOCIATED PREsS)

Three fast ball pitchers in the Major Leagues were the stars i'll games played yesterday
 Teller got his fourteenth triumph of the season, a 1-hitter at that. He lest the chance for his second mo- hitter of the season when Dick Sic bert got clean single in the eighth inning,
 Philadelphia's Hug" Mulcahy scattered seven hits, beating Pitts. burgh.
 Vern Olson gave up only five hits in beating the Boston Bees. All other games were rained out
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REFUGEE

HOBOKEN, N. Y, July 13. - Maurice Maeterlinck, 78, Belgian playwright who wrote Blue Bird, has arrived here from Lisbon on the Greek liner New Hollas, a war refugee.
 He said he brought with him Ill that he has left in the world, just his limited baggage.
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Double Trouble Arrives for
 McD0nneIIs

It's double trouble for the Maurice McDonnells-but they, love it.
 First twins to arrive at St. Ann's Hospital for long, long while and they were girls.
 Misses Maurine, pounds ounces, and Marian, pounds 13 ounces, were born this morning. They're in the best of health, according to Dr. w. P. Blanton, and the mother is likewise in very excellent spirits.
 The proud daddy, contractor for the Alaska Juneau, is passing out the cigars-two to every person.
Smyrna times., 1940-07-18
SCOUTS TO HELP AT FAIR
First Class Delaware Scouts Again
To Be at Harrington Fair

First Glass Scouts of Delaware
are eligible for membership in the
Kent-Sussex Fair Service Troop,
which will be on duty for the fifth
consecutive year, from July % to
20 at the Harrington fair grounds.
The Troop will be composed of 25
Scouts, three leaders, and a cook
Application blanks are being sent
all Delaware Scoutmasters outside
Wilmington, and preference will be
given to Scouts of Kent and Sus-
sex counties. AS usual, the Scouts
will conduct a model camp, open to
public inspection. Scouting dem
onstrations will be given several
afternoons in front of the grand
stand Scout services to be rend-
cred will include grandstand duty.
messenger service from the Secre-
tary's Office, caring for lost chill
DIRE, first aid, guardline duty ON the
race track, and maintaining the
lost and found department.
Smyrna times., 1940-07-18
BIG TREE FOR THE
WORLDS FAIR

Neal Girard Van Dornum of
Cramers, Tulare county, is making
preparations to take out a section
of big redwood tree for the pur-
pose of exhibition at the Worlds S
Fair in 1892. This will be the larg-
est section of any big tree taken
from California The tree mea-
sures 80 feet in circumference,
making a diameter of 33 feet. The
section to be cut out will measure
8 feet in height and so feet in cir
cumference 1t will be divided in
to three cuts.
The work of telling the tree has
already begun. Ten skilled work.
men have been engaged and are
busy at work. The saw to be used
in getting out the section is % ft.
in length, and was made to order
by the Pacific Saw Company. 1t
will take ten men at least two
months to complete all the work
to be done. Three fiat-cars will be
necessary for transportation and
the total weight will not be less
than $4,000 pounds.
Smyrna times., 1940-07-18
SMYRNA IN CONTRAST

Smyrna has more wealth than
Newark but it also has clutches to
hold ON to it whereas Newark ex-
hibits an open hand for the public
good. We have suffered more from
the loss of the fruit and grain
crops, but in the destruction of the
Dean Wollen Company, the iron
foundry and several leading bust
ness firms, Newark was as bad or
worse than we are. Then it was
they saw that something must be
done and did it, in securing the
Knauff Organ Company by taking
stock to the amount of twenty or
thirty thousand dollars. This Com
pany, which will soon be manufac-
turing organs ON large scale with
a large number of employees have
recently given a stimulus to local
enterprise by purchasing the Lewis
farm of 43 acres, which the COM
pany intends TO lay out into streets
and avenues and small parks.
Smyrna times., 1940-07-18
EXTENSION OF WORK WEEK
Wage an Hour Administrator Dis
cusses Relaxation of Law

Colonel Philip B. Fleming, Army
Engineer who is Administrator of
the Wage and Hour Division, u. S.
Department of Labor, discussed
proposals for lengthening the work
week in the national defense
emergency over the National
Broadcasting Company network on
Friday evening, July 12 The pro
gram was carried over New York
and Philadelphia stations, Regional
Director Arthur j. White, of the
Wage and Hour Division, Newark
N. j., announced. Calling upon his
thirty years experience as an
Army engineer and available data
compiled during the last var, Col
onel Fleming analyzed current de-
mands made by some groups for
the relaxation of the time and one
half for overtime requirements Of
the Wage and Hour Law.
Smyrna times., 1940-07-18
CIVIL SERVICE
POSTS NAMED
Commission Announces Open
Competitive Exams For
Untitled Positions
DETAILS AT SMYRNA p. o.

The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced open
competitive examinations for the
positions listed below. The salar-
les given are subject to retire
ment deduction of 1-2 percent.
Applications must be on file with
the Commissions Washington Of
flee not later than the closing
dates specified in each case Two
closing dates are given for receipt
of applications the first, for ap-
plications received from States
east of Colorado; the second, for
those received from Colorado and
States westward. For the exami-
nation for Teacher in Indian Com
munity and Boarding Schools two
additional closing dates are given
for receipt of applications from
persons in Alaska. Teacher in In
dian community and boarding
schools, Indian Field Service Tin
cluding Alaska), Department of
the Interior. Various optional
branches are given, with entrance
salaries ranging from S1,620 to
$4,000 year. Applicants must
have had appropriate college edu-
cation and teaching experience
They must not have passed their
forty-eighth birthday. Closing
dates for receipt of applications for
the continental United States are
August II and August Is, 1910;
for applications received from
Alaska the closing dates are
March Is, 1871, if received from
points south of the Arctic Circle,
and May Is, 1941, if received from
points north of the Arctic Circle
Senior laboratory mechanic (glass-
blower), $4,000 a year. Applicants
must have had experience in a
scientific or experimental labor
atory in the development, main
tenance, and repair of laboratory
instruments; and experience as a
Smyrna times., 1940-07-18
PERSONALS

VIM. B. Bell and family have
gone to Rehoboth for the summer.
Miss Elva Wilson is visiting in
Salisbury.
Thomas Coverdale, who went to
Piedmont, Ala, with A. H. Rey-
nolds returned home a few days
ago, and Mr.. Reynolds returns to
Delaware this week.
VIM. III. Janney left yesterday
for a two weeks vacation, to join
his family, who are spending the
summer in Baltimore.
Samuel G. Pratt, who has been
spending a month with relatives
left today for Pittsburg.
Frank Raymond and family, of
Philadelphia, are guests of G. II.
Register; DR.. ]. Ward Wilson, and
family, of Baltimore, j. E. Hof-
fecker; Miss Mamie Taylor, Of
Continued on Page Seven)
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glassblower in the manufacture of
laboratory glassware. They must
have reached their eighteenth, but
must not have passed their fiftieth
birthday. Closing dates are Au-
gust II and August Is, 1910. Cot
ton technologist, $500 wear.
senior, $4,000 year; associate
So, 200 a year; assistant, $4,000 a
year; Department of Agriculture
Optional branches are: Yarn and
fabric manufacturing; textile
chemistry, dyeing and finishing;
fiber technology. Applicants for
the senior grade must not have
passed their sixtieth birthday; for
the other grades they must not
have passed their fifty-third birth
day. Closing dates are August 12
and August Is, 1910. Senior cook
$4,000 a year, Prison Service, De-
partment of Justice. Applicants
must be qualified both as general
cook and as bread baker, and must
have had certain experience in a
hotel, club, hospital, or other in
stitution as chef, head cook, of in
a comparable capacity in which it
was necessary to provide food for
at least 600 meals daily. AppIi-
cants must have reached their
twenty-1fth, but must not have
passed their forty-eighth, birthday.
Closing dates are August 5 and
8, 1910. Full information
as to the requirements for these
examinations, and application
forms, may be obtained from
Smyrna Post Office, Secretary Of
the Board of U. S. Civil Service
Examiners at any first Or second
class post office.
Smyrna times., 1940-07-18
CENSUS STATISTICS

The returns of the census enum-
orators for the State of Delaware
have been received by Supervisor
Wiley with the exception Of four
in the lower part of the state. No
estimate has yet been made of the
population of the State, but the in
dications are that outside of the
city of Wilmington there has been
practically no increase. All the
returns for Wilmington have been
sent to Washington. The figures
as they stand at present are 61,-
275.
The following is a list of the
populations Of the towns and vii
lagos as received up to date and
published in the Morning News
for Kent County:
Smyrna times., 1940-07-18

onds and then ring the bill of the
other telephone.
At central display in the tent
will be projectors showing contin-
uous film slides with messages re-
lating to the telephone service. At
one end of the central display will
be map of Kent and Sussex coun-
ties showing the amazing network
of telephone wires interlacing the
two counties and showing the loca-
tion of central offices.
Smyrna times., 1940-07-18
Bowers Men Catch Five Sharks

Capt. w. w. Benner of the Ida
j. III, Bowers Beach, has reported
the landing of two sharks, one
weighing 12O pounds and the other
80 pounds, this week. He said that
some sharks which have been
sighted, weigh upwards of 1000
pounds. Capt. Dick Robinson of
The Burp, also of here, has landed
three, the largest of which weigh
ed 85 pounds.
Smyrna times., 1940-07-18
a MACHINE WITH BRAINS

Brains do not count for much
at present in the census Office, as
the electrical machines now used
there for the purpose of tabulating
and counting the return of popu-
lation is pronounced a success.
An idea Of the adaptability of the
machines can be obtained when It
is stated that the average worker
in the census Office can now count
With the aid Of the machine, about
10000 names a day, while the
clerks in the Office during the 1880
census could tabulate only 5000 to
1000 names q day.
Smyrna times., 1940-07-18

test; a vision test; law test; and
a road test. In the above map the
states marked in black give all four
tests In one form or another. The
states containing the dots use only
three Of the four recommended
tests. Those with an unbroken d.
agonal line give two Of the four
tests. No test is given in the states
marked with broken diagonal lines
and no drivers licenses are re-
quired in the three states left blank.
About a dozen states now have
driver license regulations which
either conform to or exceed the
recommended minimum standards,
and number of states are cur
rently studying the minimum driver
license standards with Q view to
their ultimate adoption. =
Smyrna times., 1940-07-18

THE above map indicates the lack
i OF uniformity in the driver 1icens-
ing regulations Of the various
states, as revealed by a recently
concluded study conducted by the
cooperative driver research project
OF Yale University and the Colonial
Esso Safety Foundation. This study,
sponsored by and carried out under
the direction OF the American Asso-
citation OF Motor Vehicle Admins
traitors, is endeavoring to bring
about the nationwide adoption of
the minimum driver licensing stand
ards which has recently developed
at Yale.
Under these standards, driver
license applicants would be given
four tests: A road sign reading
Smyrna times., 1940-07-18
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Your Health a.,
pendS on D.. u'y u
and Righ t Amount Y
BY CHARLOTTE spp,o]

s,ol Green leafy veg.+.s.
high in the LIST Of ttsS5aSie, taoaa .
sential vitamins and lIgos oi.l llea ! J
At this season Of tsa allas'as
tops, swiss char6 IN ne yea u
bage are among tba eua 1.. green q
siVe greens. nc ieast a.
Beet tops are v.,u
cooked in other saotis G'arc, !
country. They sbm,l5 Ii+ls q 1
oughly washed and then se.. e y
a asa small amount Of salts5 t5 ,s'ss 20. !;
aoout ABOUT twenty minutes. n. s.'ss
tho thould Io. be chopped and coas.t Ils 3
l5s.,, lne leaves # the beet, t''as' !,
small they may Be Jsys coos.s y u
with the greens. Lars.. rr,.
take much longer to cooS :, J.. =
I,5 oe cooked separately. .,s " : :
sliced s.. and served On ta5 % ! :.
greens Butter and virs,., r. y
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greens. = Will
Garden beets in DeIsr.,
nave young tender tons n.y.. r'''
gust night for cooking. !,
places in the state it is p,,TS. /
buy tops which have bes5 5'ssa. s,,l'
ly cut for greens.
Swiss chard is snot5..
which IS now in sessn ~ %
water for cooking will clrs =
chard leaves when they az =,
Green cabbage has a much j
er vitamin content tb., ~ !. :,
ed cabbage leaves. II Aka = !,
better flavor. Manv nao.,.
cabbage leaves in pisea n =
ior Salaos. Hamburg groal
over meat or slices Of roli I
may De pinned with a tOot1aa.
side a cabbage leaf and to-.
Shredded cabbage makes |,
Salad alone or mixed with zl,,
tunahsh, shrimp, or with =
vegetables.
Smyrna times., 1940-07-18
Navy Program to Aid State

Delaware industrial plants are
expected to receive sufficient or
ders to increase substantially"
jobs, wages, and sales, as the ma
tons expanded naval program
gets under way, a government of
ficial stated in Philadelphia.