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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-11-06
about Third Basenen

In any event, there are no third
basemen now around who even can
be compared with the best of other
years-Jimmy Collins of Boston, Bill
Bradley of Cleveland, Buck Weaver
Of the White Sox, to mention only
three.
Collins, fine artist, was also
normal $3.50 hitter-almost as grace
full at third as Lajoie was at second.
Buck Weaver is Ty Cobb's all
time pick and Buck isn't far away
from the top. Red Rolfe, in better
health, might have been a closer
challenger.
Efficiency can also be costly at
times. For example, there are the
Yankees. They have needed just
SO games to win their last eight
World series competitions.
If they had been somewhat less
efficient and had needed The full
-seven-game quota to win their titles,
these eight World series contests
would have required Sc games. This
means 20 possible extra games blown
off the docket, or a matter of some
100000 which is quite chunk
Of cash that combined ability and
honesty have cost various club own
erS.
Mickey Owens third-strike entan-
clement in the fourth game of the
series undoubtedly cost both ball
clubs over $250,00O.
81 was standing close by at the
moment" Joe DiMaggio tells me,
'hoping for my time at bat. l can
testify that that curve of Caseys
broke with unusual speed and sharp
ness. Tommy Heinrich is a cool
headed, quick-eyed hitter. Tommy
is a hard one to fool. But he must
have missed that sharp hook by at
least a foot. Standing where l was,
as close by, it is easy to understand
whv that third strike got away "
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-11-06

I1OW uOGS GlllS
concern the Yankees?
Well, DiMaggio is ~, Gordon is
rs, Killer Keller is rs, Heinrich is
Is, Rizzuto is %, Sturm is rs, and
Bonham, Russo, Donald and Breuer
are all under 20.
It's true that William Malcolm
Dickey, better known as Arkansas
Bill, is "a. But Dickey, always in
condition, is good for 80 or 80 games,
and Buddy Rosar, Dickey's under
study, is only 81. Red Rolfe is
33. Ruffng and Gomez are no
longer in the kid class. But Priddy
is only %, and there is some first
class talent coming up from Newark
and Kansas City.
The Yankees, in the main, are
still a young team-a team that
is in its active prime. And there
is still Joe Mccarthy at the head
with his team blending influence. No
wonder the other American league
clubs are in sadly baffled frame
of mind.
For while the Yankees have been
mauling all National league rivals
with considerable gusto, they also
have been mauling their own league
just as Justify.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-11-06

CEVEN American league cities
" club owners and managers, are
already wondering how they are 60
ing to keep the Yankees from an
other common canter next season.
So far they haven't found the an
swer. Maybe there isn't any answer.
There is certainly no solace at
hand in suggesting that the Yankees
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-11-06

Worst Fraud
The first and worst of all frauds
is to cheat ones self.-Bailey.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-11-06

are growing old.
The vital statistics
show tn at a ball
players prime is
somewhere between
26 and 30. 1t is here
he has the combina-
ton of youth and
experience linked
togeth er. For ex-
ample, Ty Cobb was
26 when he had his
greatest season in
1911-when he bat
ted .420.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-11-06
Pin Fabric to Sofa for Fit.

Pin Fabric to Sofa for Fit.
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Our 32-page booklet tells. in detail with
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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-11-06
Great Second Busen1e1l

Joe Gordon's performance in the
last World series will more than
hold it's place when the Hot Stove
league opens its winter session.
In Gordon S! case it might be re-
membered that he is still a young
fellow, with to 10 seasons left in
his wiry system, and this is too soon
to compare him with the masters of
the past.
In this masters list you'll find Nap
Lajoie, Eddie Collins, Frank Frisch,
Rogers Hornsby-and these four are
enough.
Lajoie, the most graceful of all
ball players, was also normal $50
hitter. Eddie Collins was faster
than the big Frenchman and in adj
dition was $40 or $50 hitter.
Hornsby was the best hitter of the
lot with a consecutive four-year
mark above 400. Bill Hanna, one of
the wisest of all the baseball experts,
always ranked Hornsby and Ed
Delehanty as the two greatest right
handed hitters Of all time-not even
barring Wagner and Lajoie. Frank
Frisch was another great second
baseman, fast, aggressive, smart,
and dangerous at bat.
1t would be foolish to start ranking
Gordon, in his fourth big league
season, with these veterans who
starred for is or 20 years each. I'll
say in behalf of Gordon, however,
that on the defense he can make
plays don't believe any other Sec
ond baseman could match.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-11-06
First Army Goes to War

The hills and countryside made famous by StonUaH Jackson and
other famous Cul generals haze thousands of
this engaged in simulated conducted by the First Army
under Lieut. General Hugh Drum These photos taken during
training the locality of Camden, S. C.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-11-06
MORE CRACKDOWNS

You can put it down as certainty
that there will be other OPM crack
downs, in addition to the one on
the Chicago "juke-box" firm, for
'tbootlegging" scarce raw materials.
.OPM Priorities Director Donald
Nelson said nothing about it, but he
has his gimlet eye fixed on big
steel plant, an auto manufacturer
and others. Both have been secretly
thumbing their noses at priority re-
strictions.,
The auto maker was called on the
carpet by Nelson and spent several
uncomfortable hours trying to ex-
plain the unauthorized purchase Of
large quantity of strategic materi-
ais and the action of a parts SUBJ
sidiary selling such supplies. -"
When the auto executive left OPM
he was red-faced and obviously wor-
ried. :t.. ..,
The steel company is suspected of
!. secretly filling orders for big Gus
toners in direct violation Of defense
requirements, particularly naval. An
Investigation is now under way. The
company has a long history Of bat
ting the government and the fur
will fly if the suspicious are sub.
stantiated. 49,
Note: After Nelson's Investigators
finish with their aluminium inquiries,
they will move into chemicals, where
there have BEEN numerous COM
plants of wholesale disregard of pri-
GRITTY orders.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-11-06
rM61MiaQ6a
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Washington, ID. C.

1t isn't going to be announced,
I but Nazi propaganda in South Amer
/ lea has upset U. S. plans for an I'M
portant new base defending the Pan
anna canal Plans had been care
fully laid for commercial develop
ment of an island off the coast of
Ecuador, to be followed by naval
Installations. But genial Jesse Jones
.innocently let the cat out of the bag,
and the Germans did the rest.
The island is known as Alder
marie, in the Galapagos group, ly-
ing southwest of Panama, perfect
location for watching japanese ma
neuvers near the Pacific entrance of
the canal. To inspect it Roosevelt
went fishing there three years ago,
when the u. S. S: Houston took him
on a Pacific cruise.
Roosevelt had heard about the
Galapagos since childhood. His
great-uncle, Capt. Amasa Delano,
put in at the islands on his voyages
to China. And his mother, as
young girl, stopped there on voy-
age to China
The President. personally was re-
sponsib1e for the. strategy of. form
ing an American trading company
to develop Albermarle. He knew the
sensitive Latins, knew that a direct
proposal for building a. U. S. naval
base would arouse the old enemies
of yankee imperialism" and that
the only safe way was to set up a
company for the development of fish
ing and cattle, thus. bring the navy
in edgeways.
Accordingly, the Pacific Develop
ment company was formed, incor-
porated in Delaware, and financed
with funds from the RFC. First it
got a credit of $4,000, but later,
when credit of half million was
extended, RFCzar Jesse Jones inno-
Gently announced it to the press.
Jesse Jones' Joke.
Apparently the naval stratagem
was such a dark secret that even
Jesse, a member of the cabinet,
didn't know about it. So he an
nounced it as nothing but a CONNER
cial development, because the is
land was owned not by Ecuador
but by private individual. And
then he added a little jest of his
own.
"And If you can spell the mans
name,'' said Jesse, cpl give you
the island. The name is pronounced
heel"
- Up spoke a correspondent who
knows Spanish we'll. ...'You spell it
Gill" he said. = ~.
''That's right said Jones. go
to the head of the Glass;
"No," said the newsman. II want
the island.'
cpl owe you the island" said
Jones, and everybody laughed.
But there was no laughter in the
navy department; for German prop
uganda, through short-wave radio
and local newspapers, stirred up the
old fear of Yankee aggression, in
timating that U. S. naval base
off the west coast of South. Amer
lea would make little puppets of the
Good Neighbors for all time.
The propaganda was successful,
and the deal had to be cancelled.
It may be that the Pacific Devel-
opment company will still pursue it's
livestock, fishing, and mining of
sulphur as provided in the con-
cession, but President Roosevelt's
dream of Panama defense base is
sunk. ,.t
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-11-06
MERRY-GO-ROUND

Informed that defense officials
want to use her famous legs to pub
licize non-silk stockings as soon as
she has recovered from her frac-
tured ankle, movie queen Marlene
Dietrich. sent back word that she
stands ready, or will sit if pre-
ferred, for any patriotic purpose.
One subject that Speaker Sam
Rayburn always is ready to talk
about lis his Texas ranch. >"I like
to he known as a rancher," he
grins, 'ralthough haven't got much
to show for it"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-11-06

B'way ByrOn's Definition of Carry
in the Torch No, 386528: When You
Throw Your Heart at Her Feet-and
1t Doesn't Even Trip. Her.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-28
TULSA BOTTLENECK
SMELLS OF PEANUTS
(pH Associated Presal

TULSA, Okla. April GA
couple of peanut vendors have
been "bottlenecks" in the Tulsa
national defense program, says
Charles Short, airport manager.
Asking county commissioners
to do something about it, Short
reported the vendors sold pea
nuts at the airport entrance, to
which traffic comes from five di-
rections. Every time a driver
stops at the peanut stand he
halts cars and trucks for mile,
said Short. And the traffic is
bound to and from defense prof.
ects.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-28
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Florida City Favors Pipe
LineProject AtHomestead

Florida City town council mem
bcrs have requested the Florida
Aqueduct commission 10 recon-
slider a reported decision which
would bring water H. Key West
from wells south Of the town, in
stead 0f from Homestead
The council. in resolution
which has been forwarded to the
commission, said i would favor
use Of the Homestead wells in or
der to give Florida City . share Of
the water
Should the waieY be taken
from wells aoath Of there. i was
explained. FLORIDA City would %
tire only city between Miami ard
Key West which would not have
a water supply system Members
Ct the group pointed cat that
failure 10 get water would force
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-28
CRIPPLES ONLY In
FIRM AT BROOKLYN
tBy Associated PressI

NEW YORK, April pa
Brooklyn business begun a month
after the 1929 stock market crash
by a crippled employer of Grip
pied employees had gross income
of SIS. 900 last year.
The firm offers mailing serv-
ice and most Of the Is persons
working there are distinguished
by crutches. canes. leg braces or
other devices TO offset physical
hsndicaps. .
About lao. 900 pieces Of mail go
out daily for clients such as de
partment stores. transportation
companies. and religious organ
nations
The office IS equipped with
modern machinery 10 turn out
bulk stenography, multi graphing,
photo offset. hand addressing.
misunderstanding and mimeo-
graphing
J. P. Golden started the store
Like IS per cent Of the workers,
ne IS an infantile paralysis vic
tim
Some % the machinery lex
ample. electric typewTitersl IS
selcc;cd 70 cut down fatigue.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-28
TRY EXPERIMENT
In EDUCATION
CWy Assoc snfed Prenal

ATLANTA, April %. - Six
earnest young men. survivors of
an eleven-man brain team"
have just qualified for four-year
bachelor of arts degrees in less
than 20 months.
President Thornwell Jacobs of
Oglethorpe University. who start
ed the eleven on six-year grind
in September, 1899. looked oven
their report cards and observed:
The collective average for the
group is better than 90 per cent on
a study program of 30 class hours
a week-twice the normal load.
The boys are healthy. happy
and still going strong.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-28
WHEELER SEES
PATROL FLEET
BAD MOVEMENT
MONTANA SENATOR CLAIMS
IT WILL BE FINAL STEP IN
BRINGING UNITED STATES
INTO WAR
tBy Associated PressD

WASHINGTON, April 28.--Ex-
tension of the United States neu-
trality patrol to help protect ship
ping en- route to Great Britain is
the one, final step needed to
carry this country into war, Mon
tana Senator Hiram X. Wheeler
declared this morning.
Wheeler said there could be no
doubt that if American vessels
were assigned to the patrol duty,
as described by President Roosc-
welt, that they would be at
tackled.
Washington observers said the
plan apparently would result in
savings to British ships carrying
supplies, but would not be as eff
fective as the use Of conveys.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-28
MAKES STUDY OF
COAL SITUATION
PRESIDENT MAKES NO STATE
MENT. HOWEVER. CON-
CERNING MATTER
(By AHsoclnsed Presss

WASHINGTON, April %. -
President Roosevelt spent this
morning studying records of the
collapsed negotiations between
southern coal operators and strik-
ing Clio miners, but made no in
dication of what he plans to do in
efforts to return the mines to pro-
duction.
Industrial leaders declared a
continuation of the strike through
this week may gravely endanger
the nations entire defense pro-
gram.
Company and union represen-
tatives admitted yesterday after
noon that their negotiations had
fallenN through, apparently stop
ped by the inSistence of southern
operators that they will not
abolish the wage differential be-
tween mines in the south and
those in the north.
A proposal of President RooSe-
velt's calling for the reopening of
northern mines, where an agree
ment has been reached, has been
turned down by both sides. In
der the Presidents plan, all mines
would be reopened. but wage
negotiations would continue at
the southern plants, with the final
agreement dating back to the
time when operations would be
resumed.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-28
AL Mills Named Delegate
To,National Convention OF
American Legion Next Year

Albert Mills. Key West Con-
vention corporation director who
Saturday was named a delegate
to the American Legion's ma
tional convention next year in
Milwaukee. today is vacationing
in Cuba along with some 900
other Legionnaires and their
families.
Legion and Auxiliary mem
bers. who brought their conven-
ton to an end here Saturday
night after four busy days. left
yesterday morning for a three
day vacation in Havana.
The election of Mills and other
delegates Saturday afternoon fol-
lowed the naming of Rupert
Caviness, Ocala, to the post of
Florida state department COM
Delegates who will accom-
pany Mills to the national con-
vention are P. M. Hiatt, West
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-28

Palm Beach; Harvey Payne, Mi
ami; A. J. Ryan, Dania; P. c.
Reese, West Palm Beach; P. B.
Brisbane and William T. Conner,
Orlando; Frank Brigham, Winter
Haven; William c. BROKER,
Tampa; Ernest c. Smith, Barlow;
Lisle Smith, Haines City; Jess
Davis, Gainesville; Ollie Thomp-
son, DeFuniak Springs; Max
Becker, Palatka, and Rice King,
Jacksonville.
Earl Thompson, Tampa, was
elected judge advocate, with the
Rev. j. E. Stratham, Delray
Beach, as chaplain.
Howard Rowton, Palatka,
veteran of Is years in the post of
department adjutant. was re-
elected for the nineteenth time,
while Edgar F. Hummer, Miami,
was returned to his position as
Sergeant-at-arms.
District commanders elected
during the session were r. G..
Cromartio, Clearwater, first dis
trict; Melvin Hobson, Lake City,
second district; Sol A. Levy, Pen
sacola, third; George Upchurch,
Daytona Beach, fourth; Ralph
Freeman, Belle Glade, fifth;
Harry Price, Avon Park, sixth,
and John J. Schick. Melbourne,
seventh. (.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-28
Key WestG&A Arc Spendlng|
More On Automobiles Than
During Boom Year Of '29|
~ - - ~ ~. ~ -
RECORD 2.37 INCHES
OF RAINFALL IN CITY

Key West rainfall in the
past 48 hours has established
no new records for the year.
the weather bureau reported
today, but at 1880 o'clock this
morning il had taken its
place among the longest in
the past IL months--and it
has rained most of the time
since.
Since the rain began. s.34
inches had fallen at the
C.A.A. station at the airport
up until 1880 this morning.
with 2.37 inches recorded at
the downtown weather Of
flee.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-28

prospective I~siaeTs hl sFleF ID
City tn wnSg ssssisv an unfa@sjFe
able set 81 conditions m getting
FILA loans
Headquartors fgf naval officers
Wto will direct the construction
program have been set up III
Homestead ard will opep IN the
Sea board Airline Offices siay /
L4leut Comdr T. F. Perry.
commander If the naval ait sta-
tlo1 al jacksonville. ard Lieut.
William Sawyer. also u Jackson
vile. arrived IN Homestead iris
week to discuss the office site
with Mayor Tom Harris
Final details ~ ihe program are
being drawn Up ard eall for bids
Is expected sEthin tao weeks.
The source q water also ALL 81
announced ~ that iifne.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-28
Comparison Covering Both
Periods On Auto Trans
pOrtatiOn Made By Cen
sus Bureau
washington Correspondent
of The Key West Citizen)

washington Correspondent
of The Key West Citizen)
WASHINGTON, D. c.. April 20.
Key West residents like to 90
places.
According. TO Census Bureau
records, Key West residents are
spending proportionateIY more
today for automobile transporfa.
tion than they did in The boom
year Of 1923.
According to the Bureau. Key
West residents spent $4,000 in
automotive stores and another
$4,000 in filling stations for
gasoline and oil, for a total of
$4,000, during 1899.
In 1929 comparable expendi-
lures were $685., 900.
The 1899 expenditures repre-
sented $32 per capita, while the
1929 per capita expenditures was
$28. Making the necessary al
lowance for the difference in
price levels, Key West residents
were purchasing many more
Automobiles ard accessories and
q great deal more gasoline in
1889 than they were in 1929, more
even than the difference in dol
lar volume itself indicates.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-28
ARTIST STUDIES
HUMAN ANATOMY

GREAT FALLS, Mont, April
28-It was a fortunate thing for
a young fellow. picked up by po-
lice, that he had Some praise
worthy sketches of nude women
in his car.
The officers caught him loiter-
ing near a dormitory for young
ladies.
Sure / was watching the girls"
he admitted, readily. "Once in a
while they forget to pull the
shades.
"You see. Tn an artist, study
ing human anatomy. I haven't
the money to hire models.
"And besides that the girls pose
with much less self consciousness
when they don't know they are
being watched"
Police said his sketches indi-
Gated he had genuine ability"
and they released him on his
promise not TO try II again.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-28
ALICE REID SELLS
HOUSE EQUIPMENT

Alice Reid Griffin. held in
county Jail awaiting trial next
month on charges of white slav-
cry in federal court. has sold to
w. II Damron, Key West. the
fixtures. furniture, equipment
and appurtenances at her house
at 1916 Howe street.
The woman was said to- have
sold her interest in the house at
about the time she was arrested
on the white slave court. hat the
bill of sale was recorded at the
county courthouse only Saturday
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-28
- ..aw.lawAwAwm
ERE WILL STAY
OUT OF CONFLICT
(My Associated Press)

NEW YORK, April 28.-Eire
will enter the war only if she is
attacked, Frank Aiken, head of a
supply commission sent to the
United States to purchase arms
and equipment, told a gathering
of American Irish last weekend.
Aiken said the people of Fire
were firm in their conviction that
their country has no reason to
take part in the struggle and will
not do so unless it is impossible to
avoid.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-28
Nazis Put Forth Smashing
Effort To Cut Off Re-
treating Units OF British
Army
(ny Associated Pressl

my Associated PressD
German mechanical columns
and parachute troops today are
driving swiftly southwark into
the Greek Peloponnesus in final
smashing effort 10 cut off retreat
ing British troops before they
can board ships for their retreat
TO Egypt.
Bombers. hammering al British
ships in harbors along the coast.
are announced in Berlin to have
sent to the bottom 90 evacuation
vessels and four navy ships.
A German communique said
the bodies of British soldiers fill
the waters along the coast in
scene too horrible to describe"
An Australian communique
said the first part of the evacua-
ton has been campleted success
fully, and Berlin admits that
small parties of the b. Z. F. have
landed safely in Egypt.
The German news service, d. NJ.
b., warned the Allies today that
this time there will be no lull in
the fighting, as there has been
after each of the previous Nazi
conquests. German troops, said
the news service, will continue to
carry the fight to Great Britain
until the empires power is de-
stroyed completely.
The spectacular German rush
south into the Peloponnesus APP
parently is designed to catch the
remains Of the harried British
forces IN pincer movement,
which would envelope the rear
guard before it could reach the
sea.
Parachute troops. brought into
use for the first time in the Balkan
campaign. swiftly hurdled the
narrow canal across the isthmus
Of corinth yesterday.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-28
SWISS PUT CHILDREN
ON RATION LIST
1Dy Associated PressD

BERN, Switzerland, April %
Even children are rationed in
Switzerland.
Victimized children of other
nations are permitted to enter,
even for vacations, in small num-
bers only. The country's eco
nomic position is too precarious to
permit many TO come in.
The regulations are based part
ly on experience from the First
World War when 10000 Austrian
children received vacations.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-04-28

they did at Tohruk, the Axis
mechanical columns swe pt
around the city and headed in the
direction of Sidi- Barrani, captur-
ed by the Italians in their orig
lnal drive into Egypt and re-
taken by the British in their
counter drive.
The communiQue said heavy
fighting had ragged on the desert
west of -Barrani. but that
Axis troops seemed 70 have been
stopped. Exactly where the
fighting occurred was no, re-
ported. q