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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-26
ELk5 WHIP ISLANDERS
 IN BAPTIST
OIdtimers Parade Wares on Douglas Pifth-
 CTS Mound

Without Claude Erskine, who is at home with an injured eye, the Douglas ball club had ragged time last night as they were defeated by the Elks in a 12-6 slugfest, but fans enjoyed it and the Douglas ball club took their licking with smiles that looked good to the grandstand.
 It was something like going through the old family album last night Big Andy Andrews, who for many. many years has not seen much action on the pitchers hump, started the game last night for the pitcher-less Islanders.
 Lacks Early Day Drive
 For two and a half innings the veteran Douglas mainstay tossed over ball that lacked its early day power, and finally. after let ting in five runs, stepped ashore to his old position at first base and let another veteran take the mound Jimmy Manning.
 Jimmy, who used to smoke them over the rubber some years ago so hard that few catcherS could hold him, appeared to be thorough ly enjoying himself, although his control was bad and he cut the heart of the plate too frequently.
 s7 In Bottom Spot
 Losing second place, facing the threat of another game tonight, and seemingly out of the second half race, Douglas had lot to worry over last night, but they came up grinning-and by the sound of the fans, they had a lot of rooters in the stands.
 Even as badly beaten as they were, Douglas did get the first tal- lies, scoring three runs in the second inning. Elks tied the score in their half of the second, then made six runs in the third. Cutting the lead down to three runs Doug las pulled in three more runs in the fourth frame, but ElkS pulled away again in the fifth by mark ing three tallies.
 itg' Lewis Good Pitching
 Hardest hit ball of the home run less game was that made by Me- Cay in the second inning. He banged out a golfers drive to left that landed in the parked cars for aoSriple., k sanf +9f'
 Lewis pitched the first six in- nifigs for the Eiks, but went out of the box in the seventh to give pig Bill Ramsey a chance to loosen up his arm.
 Tonight Douglas and Elks meet again at Firemens Park, and Sun lay, Elks and Moose are to tangle, while Monday, Moose play Doug ias.
 Box score and summary is as fol- lows:
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By FERD BROWNING AP Feature Service Sports Writer

NEW YORK, July 26.-America' s kid baseball fans think Timmy Sul- livan is the luckiest guy in the world. So does Timmy Sullivan.
 Timmy is the peppery little bat boy for the New York Yam kees. In the past four years he's earned about $2000 in regular pay with tips totaling an extra $2,- 750.
 The regular pay amounts to $2O a week. The tips are Timmy's share of the Yankees World Series money.
 Timmy was mascot for Colum- bia University athletic teams from 1883 until 1936 Then Andy Coakley, Columbia baseball coach, learned one day that the mascot almost matched some of the athletes in age. He recommended to friend Joe Mccarthy that Timmy be hired as Yankee batboy.
 Timmy saw his first World Se- ries from the Tanks dugout a few months later. His employers won it. They haven't missed since.
 Tirnmy's pretty proud of that record. He plans to quit his bat boy job, though, and leave the Yankees to their own resources after they win this fall. CSure we're a cinch. to pull out of this hole.") Timmy doesn't look it but he's crowding 21-and guy has to think of his future. Popular With Squad The youth is popular with the players. The way they've treated him in World Series cuts shows that. In 1886 he received $500 The champs voted him $750 ill 1937 $1,OOO the next year, and $500 in 1889.
 He's a happy mixture of hum- ble helper and players pal. A crook of the finger brings him running but he can match barbs with the sharpest tongued ban terers on the squad. Red Ruffing, pitching ace, stuck his head out of the dugout as Tim my recounted his bat-boy experi- ences. The redhead chided:
 Hey, fellows. look who's givin pieces to the papers. Timmy! Tim my's tellin' em what to put in the papers"
 Timmy grinned and turned to the redhead:
 Some b bodys gotta talk fast around here until you guys get goin'.'
 Ruffing chuckled and pulled his head back in.
 Four Southern Trips Timmy's been south to training camp with the Yankees the last four years. He makes one eastern and two western trips each season and all the World Series jaunts No other bat boy gets those breaks he says. He chums around with all the players, but Lefty Gomez is probably his closest pal. Timmy has score of small du- ties in addition to mere bat-tend- ing. He even fii.s in at first base on occasion for part of the pre-game infield drill. The infielders imme- diately try to knock him down witf every throw. Timmy all but bowleo over, just grins and whips 'en back with all the power his 130-pdc
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-26
SEATTLE IN
 TWIN L055
 ! LAST NIGHT
HolIYwood Takes Third
 Game from 0akIand- ! Frietas Holds Padres
(By Associated Press)

The Portland Beavers, taking ad- vantage of ragged fielding and wild pitching, won a doubleheader from the Seattle Indians last night. The Rainiers committed nine errors in the two games.
 Hollywood made it three in a row over Oakland last night as Bill Fleming breezed his fast ball past the Acorns for a decision and holding them scoreless until the ninth inning.
 Tony Frietas last night main-
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tained his mastery over the San Diego Padres, who haven't beaten him since the playoff of the 1888 season, as he hurled the Sacra- mento Solons to a victory.
 Ray Prim, Los Angeles southpaw, pitched his seventh straight vic- tory last night over the San Fran cisco Seals.
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BREWERS TO SEATTLE

Paul Brewer, with the PAA here has left for Seattle, accompanied by his wife and daughter, on a vacation trip of several weeks.
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Empire classIfieds b1mg results.
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WAR-ApPETIzER

ARCADIA, Cal July 26. - The menus at George Young's lunch counter have the bill of fare on one side and the latest war news on the other. Young says 1t at tracts trade and the customers eat more"
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The third in q series featuring the steamers oj Aiaska's greatest fleet.
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GAMES THURSDAY Pacific Coast League

 Portland ', 5; Seattle 4, 4. Los Angeles 1; San Francisco 0. Hollywood 5; Oakland 1. Sacramento 2; San Diego l.
 National League Pittsburgh 2; New York l. Chicago 8; Boston 4. St. Louis at Philadelphia, rain.
 American League Boston 4; Chicago G. Washington 2; Detroit 5. Philadelphia T; Cleveland 6. New York IS; St. Louis 8.
 Gastineau Channel League Douglas 6; Elks 12.
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Tigers Win ToMaintain
 Leadership
CIeveIand's 5 Win Streak Is Snapped-White Sox
 Keep Up March
(By Associated Press)

The Detroit Tigers defeated the Washington Senators yesterday to maintain a slim lead over the Cleveland Indians. Costly Senator errors helped the Tigers to three of their runs.
 The Athletics snapped Cleveland winning streak at five games as Buck Ross scored his fifth triumph yesterday.
 The Chicago White Sox ran theii string of victories to seven games by defeating the Boston Red SoS yesterday afternoon. The setback to the Red Sox was the eighth in a row and came despite the fact that Jim Tabor made two homers and Bobby Doerr made one.
 The Yankees salvaged victory yesterday out of the three game series with the Browns by slugging their way to well earned decision
 Hard luck dogged Hal Schu- macher again yesterday as the Pi- rates overcame his six-hit pitching to nose out the Giants, scoring the deciding run in the ninth without a hit.
 The first triple play of the season in the National League season failed to help the Boston Bees yesterday as they dropped the series fina to the Chicago Cubs.
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Summary

TWo-base hits: Bell, Klovdahl, FL
 enberg, 2, Lockridge; three-base ,lits: McCay; hit by pitched ball; MacSpadden by Andrews; bases on lalls: Andrews 3, Lewis 2; struck put Ramsey 1, Lewis 4, Andrews 1, Manning 1; wild pitches: An irews 2, Manning l; double plays: Lewis to Kumasaka to MacSpad- 1en; charge defeat to Andrews,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-24

of the strong forces -encirclei there
it will not be done without heavy
fighting"
DNB added that the French had
had small local successes there
Yesterday but, with support from the
air, the Germans drove them back
with bloody losses"
These frustrated attacks, after
earlier successes on the part of the
enemy, have weakened the enemy's
will to resist in the final show
down." the agency declared.
German authorities ridiculed AL
lied assertions that at least 500. 00O
Germans had been lost in the west.
ward drive since it started, declar-
ing that Sin the light of successes
and expectations of the German
leadership, our casualties are small.
without a doubt the opponent
has suffered much heavier losses
because of the operations of our air
force and our armored units in the
midst of the enemy ranks" They
said that the Allies had acknowledg.
ed 100, 900 casualties.
(The Allies have announced no all
inclusive casualty totals for the
two-week campaign in western Eu-
rope.)
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ITALY CONTINUES
WAR ENTRY PLANS
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Morocco of renewing hateful per-
secutions" of Italians living in the
protectorate.
Some 100, 900 university students
sent Mussolini a message volun-
tcering to take up arms against
Britain and France.
Their offer was saluted by the
press as showing that "the whole
Italian people is anxious for liber-
alton from the foreigners who hold
the gates to the Mediterranean
Gibraltar, Suez, the Dardanelles.
The question was not whether
Italy was going to war, but where
and when.
Some thought it might be in the
Balkans, where Count Galeazzo CT
ano, the foreign minister, visited
Albania's frontier with Yugoslavia.
Others believed Italy, as we'll as
the Allies and Germany, wants to
keep the Balkans a neutral source
of supplies.
A section of foreign opinion
thought the Italians might try to
gain control of Egypt, with the
Suez canal and the fertile Nile
valley, and also help Spain regain
Gibraltar. This was merely con-
lecture, however, based on a lib
Grafton" campaign which might
involve other territories a n d is
lands controlled by the British and
French.
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their northern defenses in the bat
tie of the Meuse.
Here was the new and enlarged
front as it was described tonight hy
the war ministry's spokesman:
1t ran from Belgium south along
the Scheldt river to Valenciennes.
From there it turned southwest to
Cambria and west toward Arras and
then southwest, cutting the Arras-
Bapaume highway.
Then it dropped across the Ger
man wedge to the Somme river and
ran east along the Somme and Aisne
to Montmedy, forming, really, a
second front.
Battle Roars
The northern battle Of Flanders
on ground where men fell by the
tragic thousands a generation ago
roared on for a priceless stake
mastery of the English channel.
The Allied forces there-part Of g
great body said by the Germans to
aggregate from 500, 900 to 1000, O0(
which had been surrounded in The
ring made by the earlier German
advances-struggled on in sight q
the Scheldt river.
Still another French force was
moving up from the south to try tt
Join them. This force left it's stab.
lized line in the region of Laon an(
was fighting its way from the re
gion of st. Quentin, scarcely Is
miles away. Liason would pinch Of
the Nazi ~spearhead near its base.
Where Flanders fields run into
Belgium the Nazis hurled great
tanks and dive bombers in severa
attacks across the Scheldt. They
were reported first to have pierced
the British lines at Audenarde bur
later Belgian advices said the lines
had been closed again and the Nazis
repulsed.
(The British expeditionary force
in Belgium acknowledged the Ger
mans had pushed by crossing neal
A~udenarde, west of Brussels; that
there was a gap between Allied
forces. In London Prime Minister
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MRS. ]. W. WALTON
TO HEAD D. OF A.
Wilmington Woman Is Elect
ed State Councior Alt Meet
ing In Greensboro

GREENSBORO, May %. Up
Mrs. John W. Walton, Wilmington
was elected state councillor of North
Carolina council of Daughters OF
America, at the concluding session
of the 14th annual meeting OF that
body here today and yesterday. Next
years meeting will be in Southport
Business reports, talks by three
national officers, a memorial service
and installation of officers featured
today's sessions which began with a
past councillors breakfast
Other officers elected include Mrs.
Bessie Long, High Point, associate
state councillor, Mrs. Rosetta Haynes,
Asheville, vice councillor; Mrs. LIE
ona Hunsueker, Rhodiss, associate
vice councillor, Edgar Weaver,
Greensboro, secretary; 0. II. Hay
worth, High Point, treasurer; Mrs.
Flossie Wagner, conductor; Mrs,
Della Miller, Asheville, warden;
Mrs. Nellie Jewel, Raleigh. inside
sentine: Mrs. N. Sankey Gather,
Harmony, outside sentinel, and Mrs,
Lena H, Shipwash, High Point, state
organizer.
National representatives chosen
include Miss Mary Wilkins, Mag
nolia: Mrs. Bertha Loman, High
Point: Mrs. ShipVash; Mrs. Emma
Calhoun, High Point and Mrs. Mary
r. Tankersley, Richmond, Va.
National officers speaking included
Mrs. Maude V. Nigh, Morgantown,
". Va, national councillor; o. B,
Hopkins, Alexandria, Va. and Miss
cnnhia Mann Arlington. Va.
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FRANCE
ALLIES DENT NAZI
COLUMN AIMED AT
ENGLISH CHANNEL
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sector to the east but tonight's COM
munique declared this assault al
ready had failed.
This was the third great scene of
battle-an offensive loosed by the
Germans in the southeastern corner
of their gouge into France, near
where the Maginot line is hinged &c
the lighter, northwesterly fortiica.
tions.
The French thrust against Am.
lens. which has been held bv light
German forces, was aimed at :he
southern side of the spearhead made
by earlier German successes. This
spearhead lances to the sea, men
acing the Dover Straits ports OF
Boulogne and Calais.
The easterly German attack or
the Alsne was to the south Of the
point where the Maginot line Joins
its now-pierced northwestern sec
ton, and a an action to cpt he
hind that mighty fertilization.
First Big Allies
The action about Cambria an(
Nalenciennes-a 25-mile line roar
ing with fame-was the first taker
by the Allies in an effort to brins
two isolated forces together.
The German assault on the Aisne
was preceded by the thunder Of
heavy artillery. 1t was in this area
about 100 miles northeast of Paris
on the south side of the river
where the French took their stand
after the Germans struck through
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churchill said the Germans held
Aooevllle and were fighting near
boulogne and the British communi.
cations were endangered.)
The Allied army on the Cambria.
Valenclennes sector had the advan.
tage of numbers and some of the
picked units of the French, British
ana Belgian forces. Too, the weathe,
added to the difficulties of the Ger
mans in maintaining their long com
munlcations lines, but the Nazis still
helo the upper hand in the air.
AND that vas the decisive factor
IN the battle Of the Meuse-the bat
tie which opened France to invasion
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-24
POLICE EXPANDED

OTTAWA, May 23.- Up Cana
dams received assurances from the
government today that the Roya,
Canadian mounted police is being ex,
banded against possible fifth col
N activities" Justice Minister
Ernest LaPointe in a long statement
to the house Of commons said recon-.
mendations Of a government COM
mittee were put into operation the
day Canada entered the war.
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GERMANY
GERMANY CLAIMS
PROBABLE FALL
OF FRENCH PORT
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way near Boulogne, that AD-
beville was in German hands
and that British communlca-
lions were endangered.)
Head Toward Calais
Other German forces craWled
northward along the channel coast,
heading toward Calais, another vital
port, seeking to close a ring OF men
and steel around the cutoff Allied
legions.
Should the entrapped legions con-
solidate sufficient strength to break
through the German barrier-salient
they might turn the tables on the
German channel forces.
Power-diving Stuka bombers and
wasp-like torpedo speedboats collabo-
rated in smashes at the Allies rear
guard, blasting at transports, supply
ships and warcraft in the channel
The German high command re-
ported it's air force had ~"effectually
bombed" the "harbor facilities of
Dunkerque on the French side of
the channel and Dover on the Eng
lish side. (The Eefitish denied Dover
had been bombed.)
Transports Sunk
Three transports and a tanker,
totaling 10000 tons, were said to
have been sunk and a destroyer
heavily damaged yesterday while
German motor torpedoboats sank
and Allied destroyer off D~unkerque.
The aim of these attacks was to
~paralyze all communications between
the British Isles and the encircled
troops.
Military observers were watching
closely, however, to see whether the
French would launch a drive from
the Cambria sector on the north in
conjunction with a push from La
Fare from the south in an attempt
to cut through the German wedge.
A sign of that sort of strategy ap-
peared yesterday when Allied arm
ored forces, near Cambria, attempt
ed a break-through only to be
thrown back, the high command
said. There were repeated Allied at
tacks in that region.
On the northern jaw Of the wise
which the reich's armies of the west
were screwing up on the entrapped
Allied forces, slow gains were re-
ported, with German forces SHOW
ing across the Scheldt river against
heavy enemy resistance.
Crossing Acknowledged
(The British acknowledged a Ger
man crossing Of the Scheldt in at
least n place.)
That, roughly, is the situation
after IA days Of German attack in
which The Ntherlands has been en-
quilted and the Allied forces ROLLED
back over the plains of Belgium an6
northern France.
The threat to Paris appeared to be
adjourned. However, there were re
ports that one German force, a ten.
tacle Of the surge INTO northwest
err France, was aimed at Com
piegne, some 40 miles northeast O.
the French capital. There the Ger
mans hoped to wipe out in victory
the bitter memory Of the World wal
armistice, signed in a wood neal
Compiegne.
There emerged signs Of an i'm
minent offensive against England
herself-notably the attacks by land
sea and air on and along the chan
nel-and DNB, official German news
agency, commented that "the battle
is constantly being brought closer
to Britain"
But first, DNB added, "the poke
in the north of France and Belgian
coastal area must be completely oc
cupied by German troops. In view
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u. S. Judge Yates Webb
Notes 68th Birthday

ASHEVILLE, May %. - Up -
United States Judge Edwin Yates
Webb of the western district of
North Carolina celebrated his sixty
eighth birthday today-by presiding
in court.
The Shelby jurist, who can hold
his own on most anybody's golf
course and who keeps his court
moving at a speed that frequently
leaves the tongues of far younger
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MAY 81

men n fia5 hansing out, said lie tss. f,
a 1ldole' and he looked II OVAL ~ a.
the end of a long and pr r,ss a:
tedious court session. -.<la
A birthday party had been ~,,..
for the judge at his L.-~a .''A2st
by, but the unexpected Ier,-I - >2='
court term here made it nscs y, III,
that this be cancelled. R.,.@.
greetings and presents ,or..,
hwoever, by telegraph And .l y,
In Bermuda you may ca. . 1,
bclous chilled dessert ma5e . ~, Il
the fruit of the exotic ntg5t.bo,,2'
ing Cereus. '-oo~'
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$50 Hampers Of Beans
Are Sold At Tabor City

TABOR CITY, May % Seven
hundred fifty hampers of market
beans were sold here today at
prices ranging from SIPS to S1.70.
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WEATHER
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WASHINGTON. May 23.-LP-Weath-
er bureau records of temperature and
rainfall for the a hours ending S p. m.
in the principal cotton-growing areas
,,5 oIeauberp.
Evening star., 1940-09-08

you squawking about?" he said. Isn't that
just where you started all even? Now,
come on, get going again - just as if the
match was only starting"
That pep talk pulled me together and won
the next three holes to snatch the match out
of the fire. The next day went on to capture
the tournament from Ray Billows - but
Evening star., 1940-09-08
Ac0e

Horton Smiths name should have gone into
the record books along with mine.
My putting streak continued in that final
match with Bilows. | won, and 5, but it
wasn't as lopsided as it sounds. Only some
impossible recoveries and that putting saved
me-
The shot that gave me the greatest per-
Evening star., 1940-09-08

sonal satisfaction occurred on the 18th. Bill
lows laid me a dead stymie had safe lead
and could've played cautiously, putting
around BillOws's ball to the side of the cupI
still leaving the pressure on him. But, instead
yanked a niblick from the bag and Clipped
over Biows. My ball went into the cup on the|
second bounce! 1t was the first time I'd ever
tried such shot and lot of my friends
chided me for such recklessness, but it was
the right club and the right shot and l've|
always felt it's better to get bum results with
the right clubs than good results with the
wrong clubs.
I'm hoping. of course, I'll have the old
putting touch out there at Mamaroneck this
week. And, certainly, I've been practicing
putting at every opportunity. have al
healthy respect for practice. but I'm not quite
sure practice will make you great putter.
! think great putters are born. OF course
I've had to practice, but what mean is that
l must have had certain natural ability to
start off with. Putting, l believe, is COM
bination of sense of feel, sense of distance,
steady hands. good eyes, ability to concen-
trate without stiffening, and enough imagina-
ton to get mental picture of the path the
ball should follow