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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-13
Higbe Goes
To Dodgers
For 100 C's
Phillies Sell Big
Hurler for Cash
And Other Players

NEW YORK - The Brooklyn
Dodgers drive for the 1e41 pen
nant opened today with the &C
QUESTION Of Kirby Higbe. tho
National leagues Bob Teller. from
the Phillies for 100000 in cash
and three players.
In landing Higbe, noted for
his blazing speed. President
Larry Macphaii revealed that
he had 10 oufbid two other
clubs presumably the Giants
and Pirates. BY doing this,
he blocked the efforts Of the
Cubs and the Reds TO get the
other Phillies' pitching ace,
Hugh Mulcahy.
Higbe. who won IA games and
lost 10 last season, is regarded
as the fastest pitcher in the
National league. He led the
league with 1877 strikeouts. He
pitched 20 complete games, and
held his opponents TO batting
average of .202. Ten of his 10
defeats came in games in which
he let his opponents down with
three runs or less, and eight times
he was beaten by one run.
Higbe halls from Columbia,
8. C., and will be ~ wears old
next April 3. He weighs 1873
pounds. He came up with the
Cubs In 1887 hut never was
given much of an opportunity
to pitch for that club which
finally traded him along with
doc Marty and Ray Harrell
to the PhiIs I'm May 1899 for
Pitcher Claude Passeau. In
1893 Higbe won IL and lost Is.
The 100000 outlay for Higbe
boosts to $685. the amount of
money Macphail has spent for
players to bolster the Dodgers
within five months. He dished
out $4,000 to the Cardinals in
the Medwick deal and has spent
$500 for minor league PLAYERS
since the seasons close.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-13
Hockey Returns to Tocomo ;.

Tacomans will get their first look at ice hockey this
son when the TrCity Hockey leaguea brand loop
gets underway Wednesday night the Lakewood ice
Tacoma players who will
cult -.
Ice hockey Tacoma had lot of tough luck
differences not Of the making
schedule almost before This highly
debut the year before
Wen. all troubles this
forward their best
VIII Be evident and feel certain that nterc rivalry
70 develop win create much
That's probably true Anyway it's
wnter sport around And think hockey game
take out to Lakewood yourself
look-sse yourself
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-13

Centralia, $40. while Olympia and
Aberdeen played to a TT stand
still
PORT ANGELES FALLS
Port Angeles, unbeaten but tied
twice, finally toppled before the
onslaught af Port Townsend, 1876.
Mount Vernon defeated Anacortes,
10.
Meantime Poulsbo captured the
tri-county league title by pushing
over Silverdale. 1910, and Gle Elum
crushed Ellensburg, 1910, to win
the Yakima Valley class A cham
pionship for the second year in a
row. 1t was the 14th game with
out defeat for Gle Elum.
Sedro-W oolley ran wild
against Burlington. winning
$50, and are within "A points
of the state scoring record
set last year by Fife high
school with S22 points.
Edmonds can get no worse
than a tie for the Snohomish
county A league crown by
beating Marysville. 2O-7. Mon
roe Is the co-holder.
Other Armistice day results:
Lakeside fell to Foster. 60,
kirkland beat Bothell. 1910, Sun
nyside beat Prosser. 90. and
Ferndale tipped Monroe, 1877.
Hamilton beat LaConner. 1916,
Toppenish dumped Wapato. 60,
Zilla outscored Granger. 1876. Con-
zaga and Rogers, both of Spokane,
played a scoreless tie, Snoqual-
mie beat Issaquah. 1876, Arlington
won over Snohomish. 14-6, Elma
beat Montesano. 20-12. Toledo
thumped Winlock. 90. Pasco
whipped kennewick. 1871. and
Okanogan beat Omak. 35-9.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-13
Gulls VS.. TIGERS

Anderson, Silver, Gregg. Boyle.
Wilson and Gregg. Everett
Shields. Trask, Seventeen, Hobby
and Belt.
Officials: Bob Hall, referee /;
Bob Wiley, umpire; o. F. Hite,
head linesman; Tom Morris. field
judge.
Statistics
First downs. Stadium {. Everett
Yards gained by rushing, Stadium OF
Everett l4S. Forward passes at
tempted, Stadium 10. Everett S. For
Naro passes completed. Stadium 3
Everett !. Yards BY forward passes
Stadium 40 Everett o. Yards Iosr
by attempted forward passes. Stadium
10, Everett %. Forward passes in
tercepted by Stadium o. Everett Z.
YARDS gained by runback OF inter
cepteo passes. Stadium 0. Everett is
Total Yards all kicks returned. Sta
dunn 2s, Everett 80. Total vardage
met, Stadium 1871. Everett Ipl
Puntlng average from scrinnnagel
stadium 40. Everett 344 Opponents
fumo recovered. Stadium D Everett
a. Yaros lost by penalties. Stadium
o., Score by Quarters
Staolum 80. -. o o 90
everett zee. ....., s o o o-6
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-13

Well podners, the Everett Seagus downed the Stadium
Tigers yesterday in the stadium but just said the
other day. they had their feathers considerably rued
ing it,.
Coach John Heinricks club really battle
that regarded opfght
=.
Stadium
touchdown
too much that little possibly glue
the Tigers fumbng fgers Stadium
down and the game
Terrible future to contemplate though
that the IL
halfhack VIII be in uniform
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-13
with ELLIOTT METCALF

THIS sport of skiing certainly lays heavy hands i'll
victims
Give the boys and gals just enough TO cover the
wild daisies and away they 20 for their sport
Coming the Snoquamie pass last night from thu
Toppenish duck marshes there a Bit of
Not much Say about enough to make plain ackrabbs
moccasin imprint
But there skiers up there in the big
hills
will
officers Winthrop Wednesday night o'clock
ice-covered miles travelling
Eensburg old neghbor
ditch No
badly hurt Probably miracle
better which
idea of how carefully obliged drive
drive the these better
finer of security
flight In country
viii be down
Encountered
dscoyed readily Senator Mcavck shooting
Blasted his t~o-day limit Sunday
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-13

RAY FEZLER, who used to do his shooting in Minnesota
land hut who Is a Tacoma business man, fooled
In judging the Toppensh birds. That is, al first -.
But he put his gauge at the proper angle and did
some right smart shooting
When he having his trouble say:
swan.
And Ernie Ayers adjoining blind would excediy
Don't shoot Ray Thousand dollar fine"
The of the maards
to Said he anything like them
Fezlers the kind of hunter
Weathers cold
blind Just sticks there happiness waiting
the fast flyers to set their and doomland
Police Lieutenant
ing with accuracy Making doubles is Larry's
That and cooking gang should see the
big smiling mix batter hoca
the like The really cook But he's girls
Anyway another good people And after
al tn company guy has that makes trip of the
cent
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-13

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-13

Centralia, $40, while Olympia and
Aberdeen played to a TT stand
still.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-15

sistence upon this degree Of Sc
curity for the nearly $4,000 teach
ers and administrators in this
state"
The same view was expressed by
Warren, who said: "a retirement
law should be one of the pieces
of must legislation, in the think
ing of all of those interested in the
continued improvement of schools.
The two officers were not agreed,
however, on the stand which they
said they believed the association
should take on teacher tenure.
Warren said many teachers were
dismissed annually for political or
whimsical reasons, and that legisla-
ton should be considered to protect
the jobs Of teachers who are doing
satisfactory jobs.
CDR. Highsmith asserted that
tenure els not one of the problems
upon which attention and emphasis
should be focused now. There are
other problems which demand solu'
ton and which more vitality and
more Immediately affect our pro
fession."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-15

Firms through empty promises Of
aid" Adolf Hitler's Volkischer Beo-
bachter advised small countries to
examine, in their own interests, the
difference between the Russian.
Finnish peace terms and Russia's
original demands upon Finland.
FINLAND could have had peace
with Soviet Russia much more
cheaply," the Volkischer Beobach'
ter said. "Now, however, it has
learn the same lesson" (Which
Czecho-Slovakia and Poland had to
learn.)
1--WE are eager" the newspaper
went on, ito see whether other
lands finally will take the bitter
lesson to heart"
Nachtausgabe, while not speaking
with the same authority as the
Volkischer Beobachter, put the
same thought even more bluntly:
"Whover has depended upon Brit.
ain," it said, must basically revise
his political calculations. That is
the fate of Finland. That is also
the fate Of the northern states
which have just escaped with a
whole skin out Of a decades-long,
falsely oriented foreign policy. Many
other neutral states have just time
enough to reflect"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-15
REV. W. W. AVANT
DIES IN COLUMBUS
Succumbs At His Home Near
Cerro Gordo Following
Lengthy Illness

wHITEV1LLE, March IA. -Ihe
Rev. Waitus W. Avant, 81 a MINIS
ter In Columbus and Horry couh'
tie. for the past so years, lied az
hi. home near Cerro Gordo this
morning at 4 o'clock following a
lengthy illness.
Funeral services will be held
from the Cerro Gordo Holiness lap
ernacle. which the Rev. Mr.. Avant
helped to build and which he had
served as pastor for many years,
Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Inc
Rev, Homer Butler. of Clinton, as
sisted by the Rev. Vance Rich, OF
Garland, both Holiness minister's
will conduct the services.
Interment will follow in the Por'
ter Swamp cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be grand
sons of the deceased: H. G. Avant'
Jr., W. D. burlington, Allen Tur'
lington, Earl Avant, Ralph Avant
and George Thomas Avant.
Born in the Gallivant's Ferry
section of Horny county, S. c., the
Rev. Mr.. Avant moved with his
family to the Cerro Gordo area
in 1896, and has lived there since
hat time. He was held in high
esteem in all sections in which ne
was known, and was greatly be-
loved by all the people among whom
he had served as a minister.
Besides his widow, Rev. Avant
is survived by the following chill
dren: Homer G.. Avant and Pierce
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-15
WOMEN
HOLD ELECTION,
CLOSE MEETING
Continued from Page One)

transportation; Mrs. w. c. Nichols,
badge: Mrs. E. H. Pope. luncheon;
Mrs. J. G. Middleton, exhibit; Mrs
Jennie Muse and Mrs. W. Grant,
nostoffice and information; Miss
Margaret Russ, usher; Mrs. L. f.
Gore, decoration; Miss Helen
Smith. music; and Mrs. Leon Flu
trelle, finance.
1.-THE Fundamentals of the VIM
IT," was the subject discussed by
,Juliette Mather, of Birmlng-
ham, Ala, at yesterday mornings
session.
Miss Mather urged the delegates
to he more steadfast in the funda-
mental organizational purposes OF
prayer, missionary study, Bible
study, and missionary education for
young people.
D%evotionals were given at this
mornin;'s session by Miss Marjorie
Spence, of Temuco, China, and Dr.
Sydnor L. Stealey, of Raleigh.
Other speakers were: Miss Eliza
beth Hale, of Shanghai, China; Mrs.
T. M. Pittman, of Raleigh; MI.
Forest C. Freezer, of Raleigh; Mrs,
J. G. Boomhour, of Raleigh; Mrs.
C. L. Greaves and Mrs. J. S. Farm
er, of Raleigh.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-15
Mrs. Susan Phillips
Succumbs In Onslow

Mrs. Susan Phillips, 81, died at
her home at Hubert, in Onslow
county, yesterday, relatives here
were advised.
Funeral services will be held from
the graveside in the Hubert GENE.
terry this afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Mrs. Phillips is survived by the
following children, Robert, Bernie,
Major and Wilbur Phillips, Mrs. K.
c. Reed, of Hubert, and Mrs. J.. A.
Phillips, of Jacksonville, Fla; and
the following grandchildren, Mrs. F.
j. Garner, Mrs. A. B. Riggs and Dan
Phillips, Of Wilmington, Mrs. c. H.
Risley, of Jacksonville, Fla, and
Mrs. Martha Yomans, of Hubert.
Several great grandchildren also
survive.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-15
NAZI, ITALIAN AND
RED BLOC PROPOSED
Continued from Page One)


an extremely well-informed, non
official informant told the Associat-
ed Press today.
The pledge, which probably will
be documented oon may enable
Nazi diplomats to wean Rumania
away from the French-British AL
lies and steer her into a non-ag:
erosion pact with Russia.
Negotiations Evidenced
There were unmistakable evil
dences that negotiations of some
sort were in progress between Mos
COW and Bucharest. German, Rus
sian and Rumanian sources denied
that the secret negotiations are
centered here, but there were indi-
cations that Berlin is, at least, in
volved to some degree.
One interesting factor is the pres
ence of a Rumanian general in
Berlin. Ostensibly he is here to con.
LEI vi SAlellSlOn VI Lie Icl llldll-
Rumanian trade treaty to Ger
many's Observation-Disclosures protector.
ate, but why a military envoy
should do this has not been ex.
planned.
Bucharest sources say a Ruman'
ian commission of high army Off
GERS is in Berlin.
German officials and spokesman
at the Rumanian legation here
have declined to comment on the
situation. Other well-informed per,
sons, however, hint that something
is in the wind, and one went so ia,
as to say today the current week
would furnish political foundations
for Germany's military victory"
Factor
The Rumanian question, this in
formant said, was a factor in the
situation.
The German press, rejecting the
trend of Nazi diplomacy, used the
new Finnish-Russian peace as a
tool with which to hammer away
at the small neutral nations of
southeastern Europe, urging them
to cut loose from the Allies while
they can.
Charging that Britain and France
have used the Czechs, Poles and
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-15
COOPER OPPOSES
ROAD DIVERSION
Continued from Page One)

told newsmen, "for the simple rea-
son that with S. tags and lower gas
oline taxes there won't be any sur
plus to divert.
There is no in the states
taking from a selected class of tax,
payers more than it needs" he con-
tinued. "Back in the last legislature
the state was faced with an emer-
gency. 1t couldn't carry out it's es-
sential functions without diverting
highway funds. and I wired Cover
nor Hoey endorsing his stand on the
matter. But there is no need in the
future for such emergencies in the
states business. Under proper adj
ministration and with proper fore
sight, they can be avoided, and any
possible need for diversion can be
laverted."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-15

K. Avant, of Whiteville; Mrs. Hen
ry Edwards, of Cerro Gordo; Mrs.
Ellen Altman, of Whiteville; Oscar
Avant, of Florence, S.. c.; Mrs.
Tallie Horne, of C%hadbourn. In adj
dition, a number of grandchildren
and several great-grandchildren are
among the survivors.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-15
TEACHER PENSION
PLANS SUPPORTED
Officers OF Education Body
Pledge Aid In Seeking
Retirement Fund

officers of the North Carolina Edu.
~oation association pledged militant
SUPPORT tonight, at the opening OF
the associations 56th annual con.
vention, of proposals to establish a
retirement fund for teachers and to
boost teachers salaries.
Approximately 5000 school teach.
ers, principals and superintendent
attended the opening meeting, in
Memorial auditorium here. The con.
vention will continue through Sat.
urday.
DR.. J. Henry Highsmith. presi.
dent. and julie B. Warren, secre.
tary, both of Raleigh, told the as.
ISOLATION members that the retire.
ment plan and salary increases
should be considered must" legis-
llation by the general assembly of
l1941.
Both indicated that they expect.
ed the association to go on record,
in formal resolutions, as endorsing
higher pay and pensions.
After discussing legislative aims
Of the association, DR.. Highsmith
launched out in a vigorous attack
on what he described as over-em.
phasis Of competitive athletics in
high schools and colleges.
The over-emphasis, he said, Is re.
Elected in the number Of football
and basketball games played by
high schools in regular schedules
and tournaments.
He also charged that "some col
leges in the state" had promoted
basketball tournaments Of high
school teams, without regard to
the physical welfare of the stu
dents, and designed to attract"
boys and girls to the institution.
The colleges have done this, he
added, without the request Of sug.
gestion of some of u.s."
Last year. n high school girls
team played 43 match basketball
games, he said, and Counted it,
apparently, a great achievement.
Football is emphasized in high
school and college beyond anything
which can be justified educational
ly," DR.. Highsmith said. ut should
be unnecessary to suggest that
those activities such as football
and boxing particularly. which
have no considerable carry.over
value, should receive far less en-
phasis than that being accorded
them in some places at the present
time. A well-planned intra.mural
program which takes in every stu.
dent is far more valuable and far
less expensive"
Warren told the 5000 school
teachers and administrators that
salaries should be increased to the
end that we can attract to the
classrooms and retain in them the
the best young people in the
state"
The salaries of teachers in this
state are too low" agreed DR.. High.
smith. 1T is generally admitted,
even by those who oppose any in
crease in taxes, that teachers are
underpaid, and that salaries should
be increased. Perhaps the present
scale is about as high as it can
be made without additional funds,
but it is too low. 1t should be rails.
ed, not in terms of restoration to
the 1929 level, but to the level OF
adequacy, whatever that Level
proves to be-"
DR.. Highsmith added that the as.
ISOLATION should not think Of sala-
ries in terms Of tie $4,000 white
teachers in North Carolina, but in
terms of the $500 white, Indian
and negro teachers.
The association president, dis.
cussing a proposed pension plan.
said there is every reason for in.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-02-01

tivities were penalized accordingly. Years of eff
fort, human sacrifice, Imprisonment, fines and even
bloodshed were necessary to give unions legal
status and to gain acceptance for the necessary
collective activities of organized workers. The
right to strike was written into Labors bill of
rights when the law recognized that wage
Garner, even without holding property, had an
equal right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness
with all other citizens.
After the notification Of the conspiracy laws
against unions, employers still reluctant to negoti-
ate contracts with workers, thereby limiting their
control, found in antitrust legislation and in
equity law ways to make the union and union ac-
tivity punishable by the government. The Sher-
man Antitrust law had been on the statute books
for years practically as dead law, unenforceabe
until organized employers decided to use it to deny
their employees the right to organize. After the
Buck Stove and Range Company case denying La
Dor the right to free speech, and Loewe VS. United
Hatters, the Federation organized it's political
strength to get remedial legislation. Sections 6
and 20 were written into the Clayton Antitrust
law for the avowed purpose of freeing unions from
ANTITRUST action and protecting them against
abuses of the injunctve process. Later the use
of injunctions in industrial disputes was more
carefully regulated by the Norris-LaGuardia act,
land wage-earners right to union membership for
the purpose of collective bargaining was definitely
established by Section (a) of the National Re-
covery Act and the National Labor Relations Act
Against all this progress comes the well-nigh
incredible proposal to wipe out all Labors gains in
Establishing legal status for the union and those
activities by which Labor exercises it's right to
life, liberty and pursuit Of happiness and to set up
regulation of unions by the Depart
ment of Justice with threats of civil and criminal
action under antitrust law. The Department of
Justice proposed to invade the field of private in
dustry as we'll as that of law makers, determining
deficient methods of production and extending leg
islaton to provide them with the tools to build up
dictatorship over Labor.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-02-01
LABOR OPENS IT'S HEART

|T'IIIIRE are those who say that labor is self
centered-that it is concerned only with it's
own welfare, forgetting the public interest.
The record, of course, tells different story,
and because the nation is celebrating PreSi-
dent Roosevelts 58th birthday in order to raise
funds for the National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis, it is well to direct attention to how or
ganzed labor has responded to a cause that knows
no economic or political barriers. Rich man, poor
man, beggar man, worker and employer have equal
Interests in the fight against infantie paralysis.
Yet organized labor, representing only COM
Iparatively small part of the 13O,OOO00O people in
our land, has answered the call for funds as if it
was it's own battle and has filled the war chests,
the financial war chests needed to fight poliomy-
Ieltis as though the disease struck only working
mems homes.
Such Of course is not the case, although be-
cause there are more working people than employ
Iers, their homes are struck by this plague in
Igreater numbers.
Daily reports from the White House, where
Presidents birthday greeting cards from all over
the nation are pouring in by the thousands each
|day, carrying their messages of greeting and most
important, those dimes and dollars science needs
to carry its research work to find the yet un-
discovered virus that causes infante paralysis in
Idicated at this stage of the campaign that labor
has opened its heart and it's pocketbook, wider in
most instances than any other economic group in
the nation. On some days, the majority of birth
Iday cards received are mostly from members of
unions.
No count has been made yet of how much in
Idividual union members have sent in to the White
House in the birthday greeting cards, but when
this is Tailed up with what has already been re-
IceVed from the cake fund, the result will be the
best answer organized labor give to those
Iskcptics who say labor is sef-centered.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-02-01
The Truth Is

"The truth is" said friend of mine
Who lives across the way,
"That politics have caused the drop
In Union sales today"
"The truth is" said another man
Who studies things like that,
"These Union Labor parties
Always end up in spat."
And still a hird says: Here's the
truth:
The foreign goods are cheaper"
(Yes, but III the long run,
Your prices go much steeper).
The truth is, and now here's fact,
And you'll agree it's straight:
We just neglect to find the sign
Which Unions regulate.
Paul Palmer.