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The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-06-24
KNOW RULE CHANCES
 WHEN BUILDING CARS
 FOR SOAP BOX DERBY

All Juneau boys uulloing racers for the July Is Soap Box Derby Classic are again cautioned to rig idly observe every clause in the rule cooks when working on their cars.
 Inspectors of all Soap Box Derby sacing cars at the local race and at the national championships in Akron will have to use especial care this year to see that all the new rules are observed to the letter and spirit
 Be careful that no transparent material is used in the construction oG the cars super structure. Other lody musts are: the cockpit must Ee open at the top, and be large 2ncugh to permit the driver to get in or out without removing the steering wheel or a section of the body; the car tody must not con- inc the drivers head the back eat must be removable or hinged Q aid ction; the nose of the ear must extend forward farther
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-06-24
Ap SPORTS
 ROUNDUP
By HUGH FULLERTON. JR.

By HUGH FULLERTON, JR.
 NEW YORK, June 24-LR-Joe Louis continues say that his title defense against Jersey Joe Walcott (now scheduled for tonighD will be his last. but in the course ot locking through the records to find the lsst time a Louis fight was rained out, we came across @ couple of in teresting quotes from the heavy weight champion.
 Back in 1942 Louis, then in the Army, said he was through fight ing" because he'd be in his thirties when he got out of uniform and that's too old"
 A couple of years later he said he'd defend his title just once after the war-against Billy Command then retire.
 Joe changed his mind about those two decisions and he may change again.
 A personal opinion is that, if Joe beats Walcott, he'll give Gus Lesne- vich a whack at the title in the fall and then call it quits.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-06-24

than the front of the front wheels.
 New rules regarding steering are important, and will be checked care fully by inspectors Don't build the car so that you are unable to sit in a normal driving position when steering and remember |. no windshield is permitted. The steer ing wheel must clear the rim of the cockpit by two inches and steering by a tiller is forbidden. However, a steering bar may te used If it is at least IS inches long and is used in conjunction with a steering wheel, A special, authorized steering post and cable drum made commercially les a complete assembly, is che of the new ready-made parts autho- rized in the rules.
 Every car must nave a s.ngie drag brake worked by a foot pedal. The brake facing must be no more than 18 inches from the rear of the car, and in the center of the width Of tle car.
 Ttese new rules, and most of the old ones, have been devised primar- fly with an eye on safety Inspectors use gauges and scales to check some rules, cut many of them require study by the inspectors, and care to see that the letter and spirit of
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-06-24
REDS ARE STOPPED BY ROBIN ROBERTS,;
 HE ALLOWS Z HTS
By RALPH RIDDEN

Robin Roberts, 2i-year-old right handler, is proving the Philadelphia Phillies made smart move when they gave him s25,Ooo to sign with their organization
 The lanky speed ball pitcher gained his first Major League vic- tory last night, stopping the Cinein- nat Reds. 3-2, at Philadelphia. Rob- erts held the Reds to seven hits two of them home-s by Hank Sauer and Danny Litwhiler. He famed nine and walked only three.
 The game was the only one played in the National League.
 In the American League, the sec- end place New York Yankees beat the league-leading Indians, 5-1, in 11-innings in night game at Cleve- land. The setback cut the Indians lead to two-and-one half games
 Tommy Henrich hroke up the game with grand-slam homer off Don Black.
 The third place Philadelphia Ath- letics, tehind the six-hit pitching of Dick Fowler, swamped the Browns, 12-1. in another night tilt at St. Louis.
 At Detroit, in day game, the Washington Senators messed out the Tigers, 2-1
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-06-24
2 FIGHTERS
 FIDCETiNG
 OVER DELAY
Louis and WaIeott Avail Weather for Champion
 BaiiIe, Tank Stadium
By WILL GRIMSELY

NEW YORK, June 24-tR-Joe Louis and Jersey Joe Walcott fid- geted today while the elements pom dered a suitable time for them to settle their dispute over the heavy weight boxing championship of the world.
 Falling like needles on the tense atmosphere, heavy downpour shortly after noon yesterday forced postponement of the 15-round en- gagement at Yankee Stadium Louis 18th title defense and, he says, his last fight.
 The contest immediately was re- scheduled for tonight at ' pm, PDT, weather permitting.
 The Weather Bureau, in a rut, promised more showers and thun- dershowers today and tomorrow. Ii washed out a second time, the bout will be staged Friday, and so on.
 Even the odds seemed to react to the uncertainty of conditions and fluctuated between 5 to Il and Q to 13, favoring the champion, in Lrlsk overnight betting activity
 The two Joes appeared tight strung at the weigh-in ceremonies. Although they stood so close that at times their muscles almost touched, they didn't speak.
 Once the champion. coldly inn passive, and the challenger, his ring-marked features determinedJy set, swapped glances-just for a moment, then both looked away.
 Of the two, Walcott seemed looser and more relaxed despite the champs reputation for tremendous calm.
 Louis numbered on the scales and weighed 2134, the heaviest ring weight of his career, Walcott regis tered 1942i They won't have to re- peat the act today.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-06-24

the safety regulations are observed.
 Failure to build the car with safe steering and braking devices would lead to disqualification, yet a safe steering apparatus for one car might not te safe for another In dividual car construction is con- sidered in all cases by the inspec- tors.
 If you are in doubt about any of the rules, or the interpretation of them, check with your advisor, the Empire, or some member of the local soap hox derby comittee.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-06-24

Holmes, Boston 354.
 Runs batted in Sauer, Cincinna- ti 56; Kiner, Pittsburgh 50. Home runs-Sauer, Cincinnati 22; Kiner, Pittsburgh 19.
 Pitching-Poat, New York 5-l .833.
 American League
 Batting Williams, Boston .413; Boudreau, Cleveland .369.
 Runs batted in-Williams. Boston 61; DiMaggio, New York 60. Home runs-Keltner, Cleveland IT: DiNIaggio, New York l6.
 Pitching -Raschi, New York 8-l .889.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-06-24
WILLIAMS LEADS IN VOTING FOR LINEUP
 IN ALL-STAR GAME


 CHICAGO, June 24-LR Ted Will liams, the American Leagues top hitter. retained his position today as the highest individual vote-getter in the all-star baseball poll to deter mine the starting lineup for the 18th annual. all star game in St. Louis July 13
 Williams, the Boston Red Sox Slugger has l14,7s2 of the 3s8, ,79s ballots tabulated to date. Clevelands Lou Boudreau is runner-up with 112,254 votes.
 The National Leagues leading vote-getter still is Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals with l0n,064.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-06-24
SOAP BOX DRIVERS
 pRA(TlCE TOMORROW

Soap Box Derby contestants will meet at the 12th Street hill to- morrow night at 7:30 o'clock, the weather permitting, to try out their cars, Don Skuse announced today.
 There will be no test cars to- morrow night. Boys who have their cars far enough along to run them on the hill are urged to turn out to learn if there is any, thing that needs adjustment on the cars. Skuse said if hoy has a haseboard, steering apparatus and brakes complete he should take his car. All boys are urged to get their cars ready as soon as pos sible.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-06-24
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TIGHT RACE KEEPING UP
 LEAGUE
By BOB TUCKMAN


 Oakland and San Diego had edg- ed their way today into the thick of the tightening Pacific Coast League pennant race in which only three games separate the four first division clubs.
 The Oaks moved into a second place tie with Les Angeles last night by knocking off San Fran cisco for the second straight time to move within two games of the front-running Seals.
 San Diego was only one game further away by virtue of it's sec ond win in a row over the slugging Hollywood Stars.
 Oakland trounced San Francisco, 10-2. The Oaks scored five runs in a wild fourth inning
 Seattle knocked off Los Angeles 6-2, and squared the current ser ies at one game apiece.
 The Rainiers shelled Jimmy Lynn from the mound early in the game as they reached him in the first inning for three runs, including homer by Ed Mierkowicz.
 Of Lynn's four setbacks this sea- son, three of them have been to Seattle. He has won II games.
 San Diego had little help from its home run slugger, Jack Gra- ham, but didn't need it in beating Hollywood, 6-1
 Portland and Sacramento chang ed places at the bottom of the league standings. Portland took seventh place by tripping the So- Ions, 7-6.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-06-24

Seven eighths of Ceylon's popu- lation lives in small agricultural communities.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-06-24
WESTERN LEAGUE

Final scores of games played last night in the Western International League are as follows:
 Tacoma 1; Spokane o.
 Bremerton 2-2. Wenatchee 0-l0 Vancouver 10; Salem 9.
 Victoria 2; Yakima (10 innings)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-06-24
TREVA c REPAIRED
 AT JUNEAU MARINI

The Treva c, owned by the Reischels, is at the Juneau Marine Ways for the installation of new worm board and is expected com plete this weekend.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-06-24
LOWELL GRADUATES

Irving Arthur Lowell of Juneau was a member of the graduating class at the University of Colo rado this year The graduation ceremonies took place Jure l4 at Boulder
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-06-24
LEADERS IN 3. 3.

Leaders in the major baseball leaeues. through games oi yesterday, are Ss follows:
 National League Batting Musial, St. Louis .403;
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-06-24
FROM PETERSBURG

Helen Ball and Lelani Hilo from Petersburg are visitors in Juneau and staying at the Baranof Hotel.
Evening star., 1948-09-11
Deplores Segregation. in Sport

To the Editor Of The Star gs44s
With the two major league baseball teams
near the top at the present time carrying col
ored players in the lineup, why does not the
Washington baseball club strike out and make
baseball a real concern here?
Z There are at least two dozen good colored
players who could make the team that plays at
Clark Grifiith's ball yard. If it is money the
stockholders want, think of the 100000 cash
customers 1t is estimated old Satchell Paige
has drawn through the Cleveland tWnstiles.
Or watch the numbers being turned away or
unable to get tickets to Jackie Robnson's ball
yard Richie on the coast, Dan Bankhead
Newcomb and others on the Brooklyn farm
teams are winning over rs per cent Of their
games.
Football this fall will find star colored grid
iron heroes on many Of the pro fields. Buddy
Young, Motley, Dan Brown Lanny Ford "a
Washington boy, Mann, Ike Owens, Tom
Casey, Bill Willis, Tunnel, Harris and many
others will be heard of in the various Sunday
and mid-week professional games during the
coming fall season.
How smugly silly are we with our prejudices! !
Perhaps when Truman comes back or Dewey
comes In We may have change in local gov
ernment or sentiment which will make
democracy here-American style-respectable
elsewhere. The bigots are largely the older
people who are reckoning without considering
their younger sons and daughters.
E. B. HENDERSON.
Evening star., 1948-09-11
Favors investigations

To the Editor Of The Star:
1t is well understood that our President has
the constitutional right to withhold confiden-
tial information from congressional commit
tees, If he so desires. However, it is somewhat
difncult, despite his constitutional right to
understand why congressional committees have
been deprived of such information from these
confidential files as would enable them to bet
ter perform their duties in the handling Of
the tasks recently undertaken for the good
Of our country.
Are we. the people, to infer from such tao
tics that congressman who serve on these
congressional committees are not representa-
tive, responsible, trustworthy men, or is it Just
case of pure political antagonism?
These Congressman are elected by the people
to represent them to the best interest of all,
and I do not think that keeping q close check
on subversives in our country Is altogether q
political gesture on the part of the Republic
cans, but that these Investigations are being
conducted for the protection of all.
There may be q red herring" floating
around somewhere but, in my opinion, investi-
eating any subversve element that might be or
has been affiiliated with our Government is
certainly not 'it."
Our three branches of government should
work together with unity at all times. When
such antagonism develops between our Execu-
tive and Legislative branches, it is, regardless
of party politics, not good for our country and
certainly gives the thinking people of America
much food for thought between now and No
vember. DEMOCRAT.
Richmond Va
Evening star., 1948-09-11

to . hungry husband and child, perform her
household duties and drop exhausted into bed.
The next Gay she faces IS to 40 squirming
demons and has no work prepared for them.
A conscientious teacher prepares-her work the
night before school,
Small wonder my child didn't learn. His
teacher. terrified of reprisals at the hands Of
our progressive school heads" seldom enter
tains any thought of demanding that she be
allowed to teach-a job for which We taxpay-
ers pay her and her supervisors.
only hope that other parents have Ia
mented over how little their children have
learned and that they will take some positive
action to improve this serious condition during
the coming school year.
Demand Of our school officials that the
harassed school teacher be allowed to teach
her full four hours and forty-five minutes.
Demand that those activities mentioned above
be abolished or greatly limited, 50 the teacher
will have the time to teach.
Congress is investigating everything else
Let it begin to investigate the education Of
its future citizens here in Washington.
PARENT,
Evening star., 1948-09-11
Music Is National

Marks Levine, vice president of the
National Concert and Artists Corporation
and an acknowledged leader among i'm
presarios, recently contributed to the New
York Times a statement in which he
declared: II cannot think of music as
being American, or German, or French,
or whatever else. Trite as it may sound,
music must be and In fact is international
In its nature, universal in its scope and
appeal. :. We can only classify music as
great or insignificant, inspired or labored,
good or bad, whether written by an
American, by Frenchman, an Italian or
q New Zealand Maori"
Such an opinion obviously is entitled
to respect, coming as 1t does from an
authority in matters musical. But Is 1t
true? Anybody who ever has heard the
bagpipes at Edinburgh Castle must believe
that there is music which Is distinctively
Scottish. The same observation applies
to the haunting minor melodies one finds
in the crowded streets of the native por-
ton Of Hong Kong: If they are not
Chinese, what are they? Verdi dealt with
cosmopolitan themes, but he always was
an Italian. Tchaikovsky probably did not
especially want to be a Russian, yet he
remained son of Muscovy even after he
had visited England and America. SINH
larly, Elgar was English, Granados was
Spanish, Ravel was modern French even
in the Bolero.
The critics cannot explain Beethoven
by denying that he was German any more
than they can account for Sibelius by con-
tradicting the fact that he is Finnish.
Smetana's "Bartered Bride" is Bohemian
and nothing but Bohemian Dvorak is a
Czech despite his New World Symphony"
So is Mahler fundamentally Bohemian and
Grieg Norwegian. We would do these
masters disservice If we tried to divorce
them from the lands which gave them
birth. Victor Herbert was born in Ireland
and remained Irish all his life. 1t is
matter of history that George Gershwin
and Irving Berlin have been inspired
largely by Jewish harmonies, some of them
ages old. The beautiful Negro spirituals
of America are specifically Negro achieve
nents.
Mr.. Levine, however, is not altogether
mistaken. Stephen Collins Foster was not
a Negro, yet he wrote scores of songs
which had their thematic sources in
Negro musical tradition, tracing back to
Africa and to time relatively as distant
as Troy and Cnossos. Such music is in
ternational In the sense that 1t Is uni
Evening star., 1948-09-11
Sonnet for Lost Things

Where are they stored dear things that
men hare lost?
Their drenn1s-braue galIeons like t1hite
clouds that sun srH
Across youths azure sky-at last, storrt-
tossed, 3
They rantshed. Must all eager searching
fcA
TO fpd them? Where are lopes that,
through the days
OF summer, sped the hours tncredtbly-3s
Hare they been lost bn nutumn's mind
s1Dept toays?
There tcas ,oord OF staunch integrity,
There Dds gallant banner carried high,
faith, a roseJ a Dotce that used to cau =
With s1oeet insistence, a soft lullaby 4
Remembered fondly Haze ,oe lost
them all
We ask the to1y-nor calculate the cost
Only to find the lopeIy and the losN
BY. WILIIAMS.
Evening star., 1948-09-11

eral years the Bulgarians were successful
only to be defeated at last at Dobropole.
After his abdication the erstwhile mon
arch retired to his ancestral estate in
Bavaria. There he played the role of
country gentleman with distinction. Oc-
casionally he visited foreign countries in
cognito. His major interests were music,
studying birds, growing roses. If anybody
mentioned politics to him, he was deafer
than ever. Finally he has died amid the
ruins of Europe. But even at the end his
rubies probably still sparkled very much
as they did when he was young and he first
carried them about in his pocket.
Evening star., 1948-09-11
Dynamite in Berlin

More than 1000, 900 German men, wom-
cen and children live in the Anglo-French-
American sectors of Berlin. They are not
merely statistic representing two-thirds
of the city's population. They are volatile
human beings with taut nerves and
supercharged emotions. Three years after
having suffered a total defeat, they still
are experiencing hand-to-mouth exist
ence in bleak atmosphere of personal
strain and political disorder. As they have
shown in their massive street demonstra-
ton against Russia and its stooges, 1t is
not safe to goad them. In some cases,
near-desperation fills people with kind
of docile apathy, but not so with them.
They have been anything but Indifferent
or timid. Recklessly or not, they have
openly sided with the Western Allies and
displayed bitter hostility toward the Soviet
Union.
These Berliners, of course, probably have
no great love for their Anglo-French-
American conquerors, but they know
they have seen-that Britain, France and
the United States have been trying to be
Just and decent. They know, too-they
have seen-that the Kremlin, together
with the traitorous German Communists,
has been seeking through deceit, force
and oppression to impose its tyrannical
will on them and swallow them up in the
Soviet Empire. They are not blind to the
fact that Russia is behind the mob move
ment to destroy their democratically elect
ed city government. They do not have to
be told who is responsible for the land
and waterway blockade that would have
long since reduced them to starvation
were it not for our airlift. Nor do they
have to be told that if the latest threats
against that airlift are carried out, the
conceivable result may be shooting war
in which the Western Allies would have
to abandon the city temporarily and leave
them to the tender mercies of the Reds.
Aware Of all this and maddened by it, they
have not hesitated to choose sides in
public, regardless of the risks.
To be sure, the wisdom of huge street
demonstrations of any kind Is seriously
open to question because of the danger of
uncomfortable mob violence. But the one
staged by the antiCommunist Berliners
must nevertheless be regarded as a meas
ure of their courage-perhaps a reckless
VI oh"iSe ooAt VI Cpu1dSe, UuG stu CouI-
age, and worthy, as Senator Chan Gurney
has said, of commendation everywhere
At the same time, however, it is ominous
in its potentialities. BY giving full vent
to their pent-up feelings, the Germans
could set off an explosion in Berlin cap
able of wrecking whatever hope may still
remain for peaceful negotiated settle
ment of the current crisis. Whether they
know it or not, the Russians, with their
strong-arm methods and goading tactics,
are playing with dynamite. If they are
not deliberately seeking war, they had
better shift soon to new and saner policy.
Evening star., 1948-09-11
An Exasperated Parent Blows OF

An EXaSperateQ fdfent DloWs oh
To the Editor of The Star:
Everywhere you turn you hear: Visit your
schools, help improve your schools" Conse-
quently I'd like to present an angle which, If
considered seriously, might do its bit toward
improvement.
I'd like to know why Washington school
teachers aren't allowed to teach? Now, here
if ever I saw any, is pathetic group of adults
painstakingly trained for respectable position
but who evidently are regarded as pack OF
morons by our school officials.
The above are deductions made by discover
ing shocking fact: My 8-year-old son was
promoted to his fourth grade in school and
he couldn't read his sisters second-grade reader
nor did he know his multiplication tables.
Even though I attended my boys PTA
meetings regularly, not all year was I aware
that he was so weak. His reports did not
show it nor did his teachers indicate that he
didn't know words like family" besides" !"
not to mention hundreds of others. To put 1t
simply he couldn't read, he didn't know
what 9x5 are; and he has an above-the-
average intelligence.
Parent Gains Understanding.
Dumbfounded, contacted his teacher this
summer and after we had really let our hair
down, I collected some choice understanding
about our District school system
Teachers don't have the time to teach. In
stead, they use one-half of the school year
preparing imposing display exhibits, pageants
and demonstrations to impress the public with
what your children and mine can't do. And
who tactfuliy suggests all this sweat and
blood? Our pompous, hypocritical school on
cials, the teachers superiors Of whom she Is
mortally afraid.
This is what went on in my child's class
last year:
% play-time consumed in preparations,
one-half OF each day for three weeks.
20 An observational period for teachers
This is the time when one teacher shows off
to other teachers now much better she car
teach than they Teachers seem to be COM
PEELED to practice professional discourtesy. In
order to be insured that the children don't
give the wrong answers ana disgrace her, a
teacher has to drill them for q certain length
Of time preceding the lesson. My child got
a stomach full of Life in Holland" for three
whole weeks and nothing much Of anything
else. His chances of getting to Holland are
exceedingly slim, yet he can't decide if he has
received the proper change when I send him
to the store.
g, Participation in the construction of
model of proposed recreational facilities for
the community. The teacher couldn't teach
at all for two weeks.
a. Rehearsal for that monstrous sham
Child Health Day. The children rehearsed
lot of clownish activities (Which they knew
only too welD for two months.
Meetings . Chore.
When said teacher isn't rehearsing and
creating she is busy attending meetings.
These meetings are for the Improvement OF the
profession as far as the latest techniques are
concerned understand. They are 80 nunier-
ous and last 50 long into the evening that
the poor teacher has only time to rush home