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The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-08-03
Nippon Press Set
For Swim Meet

LOS ANGELES, Calf, Aug 3 -
With Japans swimming team en-
tered in the National AAU SWIM
ming championships to be held here
from Aug. l6 to 10, host of Japan.
csc newspapermen is expected to
cover the event.
Mikio Oda. 1928 Olympic hop
step-and- Jump champion. who is
now the sports editor of the Tokyo
Asahi paper, and Shinkichi IVA
maya, of the Kyodo news agency
will be among the dozen or more
japanese newspapermen who will be
here.
The Japan Broadcasting Company
is planning to send two announcers
for a direct short-wave broadcast
from the Olympic swimming stad-
ium to Tokyo. according to Yukio
Ikeda, radio company official, now
here as government witness in the
Tokyo Rose trial.
Tsugio Ida. Japan's ace amour
Ger of swimming events, is being con-
tacted to broadcast the event.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-08-03
Golf Widows
To Get Break

Local golfing enthusiasts who
have been devoting their Sundays
almost exclusively to slamming
around and being tormented by an
elusive white pill-a pill which stout
ly defies the geometric axiom that
straight line is the shortest dis
lance between two points-will take
their long neglected wives and girl
friends, perhaps begrudgingly, to the
annual Puget Sound Golf Club pic
mic which will be held Sunday, Aug
ust 7, at Dickman's Resort Lake
Wilderness from u noon.
With Mac Kaneko as chairman. Y
full days program of games plus
rattle for 1919 television set
has been planned The club will
furnish soda pop and ice cream. but
members are asked to bring their
own lunches.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-08-03

The Western Giants wsxed hot
and cold over the weekend as they
broke even in a couple of games,
withdrawing Alaska Communica-
tionS to the tune of Ito on Friday
and then dropping a close one to
Bainbridge So on Sunday.
Fudge Shiogi. who received credit
for the shutout on Friday, limited
the opponents to two scattered hits,
double in the second and single
in the 7th. He was never in serious
trouble as he struck out five men
and never had more than four men
face him in any one inning.
Blotz Suyama again proved the
big gun for the Giants as he raped
out a homer and three singles In
six trips to the plate.
Against cambridge the Giants got
masterful hurting from Rich Tsuji,
the Garfield all-city performer, but
failed TO support him afield. Errors
at crucial moments spelled defeat
for the Nisei team.
The Giants Tailed their only two
runs in the 5th when Sam Iwasaki
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-08-03
Seattle Golfers
Eye 36-HOle
Annual Tourney

West Seattle and jefferson goif
courses. the two municipal courses
most familiar to local golfers. will
serve as the testing grounds for
the Puget Sound Golf Clubs 36-hole
annual handicap tournament which
has been set for Sunday, August IA,
according to Kay Yamaguchi. PSGC
secretary.
With the courses at the peak of
their condition at present club mem
bers portedly putting in long hours
of practices. record scores are likely
to be posted i'll this tourney, Yama-
guchi indicated
Club members will be divided into
TOUR flights. with the Champion
ship" and list" flights to compete
over the hilly par-72 5930yard
West Seattle layout. while the "2nd'
and "3rd" flights will notch strokes
over the less treacherous but equally
difficult par-70 5950-yard jefferson
Park course
Trophies will be awarded to the
first three places in each of the
flights. with merchandise prizes for
the other winners.
The 36-hole event will also serve
as the qualifying round for the club
championship play-offs. The seven
low gross scorers and Sumio Maya
matsu. who qualities automatically
as the defending champion, will
then engage in match play for the
1949 club championship
The eight low gross scorers in each
of the other flights will also qualify
for their own match play play offs
to determine the respective flight
champions.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-08-03
NV BuSSei Mines
In Tourney

ONTARIO, Greg, Aug. 3-With
teams entered from Spokane, Ia
coma, Seattle and Portland, the
Fourth Annual NWYBL baseball
and girls softball tournaments, spon-
sored by the Twin Valley YBA, will
be held here on August 6 and Z.
The double elimination tourna-
ments will be held in conjunction
with the Obon Festival and the
Church Building Fund rattle. The
7ames will be played on the local
high school diamond and the NAG
baseball field All girls games are
scheduled on the Legion field.
The rattle drawing is scheduled
for the evening of August 6, with a
1949 Fleetline Chevrolet offered as
first prize and "a other valuable
prizes to be given.
An orchestra dance at the East
Side Banquet Room on Saturday
night following the Obon dance and
weiner roast at Oregon Trail Park
on Sunday night are planned to
entertain the visiting teams and the
local YBA members. Also a NV
YBL cabinet meeting is scheduled
to be held during the tournament.
The general chairman for the
two-day affair is Shiz Harada.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-08-03
Power Missing
At Plate; Vets
Defeated 8 to |

Lack of batting punch again prov
ed to be the weakness of Coach Joe
Kesamaru's Seattle Eisei Vets as
they dropped their fourteenth game
of the season to Transfers by a 81
score last Sunday at Rainier.
Nisei Vets were saved OF a no-hit
contest in the ninth with pinch
hitter Roy Fujiwara beating out an
infield hit. and Chuck Kinoshita
pounding out double into left field.
Edo Sasaki. Vet starter. was hit
hard in the four innings in which
he toiled on the mound. Mas Naka-
michi's relief work held the hard
hitting Transfers to two runs for
the rest of the game.
The lone Nisei tally came in the
seventh when Ted Shinoda spiked
home on Club Hori's grounder which
forced out Mas Nakamichi on Sec
ond.
The box scores follow:
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-08-03
Noguchi Designs
Gliding Trophy

NEW YORK, N. Y. = There may
be a wider acceptance of new con-
cepts in trophy design as result
of the Levin B. Barringer Memorial
Trophy which was designed by Isamu
Noguchi, distinguished sculptor.
The Barringer trophy was awarded
recently at the National Soaring
Contest at Elmira N. Y, to the
pilot who made the longest glider
flight from any type of launching
other than an airplane.
The Noguchi-designed trophy was
described as a cast aluminium wing
form with 16-inch spread mounted
on a solid ebony upright and fasten-
ed to a Black anodized base with
places for the names of the trophy
and the winners.
Barringer, for whom the trophy
was named, was an archaeologist
and aviator and also a champion
glider pilot. He was killed in 1913.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-08-03
PORTLAND SWIMMING STAR
TO PERFORM IN JAPAN

MANILA, P. l., - Susan thinner
man of Portland, Greg, and her
eight California teammates, who
were recently suspended as amateurs
by the AAU for making unsanction-
ed exhibitions in Manila, will perform
for American occupation troops in
Tokyo on August 6 and 7. They may
'lso compete against Japanese SWIM
ners, according to Lou Bittner,
Oakland sportsman who is promot-
ing the Far East tour.
This will be the first time that
American athletes will be admitted
o Japan since the war.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-08-03
BOwlerS Prepare
For New Season.:
Neeting is Called

The 1949-50 bowling season is
scheduled to start on the week OF
Labor Day, September 5, according
10 Fred Takagi, manager of the Main
Bowl.
With just five weeks before the
start of the season, Takagi announ-
ced today that general meeting of
Nisei teams of both the Commercial
and the Merchants Leagues win be
held on Tuesday, Aug. 9, at 8 pm.
in the new meeting room at the
Main Bowl.
Each and every bowler wish
ing TO enter either of the leagues
is urged TO attend and all teams
of both the Commercial and Mer-
chants leagues must be represen-
ted" Takagi stressed.
Many topics of major Importance
to both leagues will be brought up
at this initial meeting, SO a hundred
per cent attendance is asked to iron
out problems which are bound to
arise.
Takagi further pointed out that
all teams contemplating entry in
either of the leagues should be or
ganized early. He mentioned that
late August and early September
find the embroidering companies
swamped and teams will not be able
to get shirts lettered in time for the
opening of the season.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-08-03
AIHARA PLACES THIRD
IN LITTLE OLYMPICS"

OSLO, Norway = American broad
jumpers swept the first three places
in the broad jump last Thursday
with Henry Aihara, Nisei member
of the touring U. s. track and field
team, placing third with leap of
% feet 2 1882 inches. Aihara con-
tributed four points to the United
States total in the Little Olympics'
meet against the Scandinavian
team.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-08-03
15-YEAR-OLD HAWAII LASS
BETTERS NATIONAL RECORDS

HONOLULU = Two national AAU
swimming records were recently
bettered by Evelyn Kawamoto, Is,
one of the nine members of Coach
Soichi Sakamoto's Hawaii swimming
team.
In the time trials for the AAU
outdoor championships to be held
at San Antonio, TXas, Aug 10 to
81, she did the 300-meter individual
medley in 4:21.8 and the 200-meter
breaStStroke in 3.095
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-08-03
Record Climb

TOKYO, Aug. 3 - A former
American track and crOss-cOuntry
runner established a new record
for climbing Mt. Full when he
scaled the 12.364-fOOt "hOIy noun
tain" of Japan in 2 hours 5 min
utes last Friday.
Tn new record, which is 5 min
utes faster than the previous re-
cord. was made by Lou Gregory,
Cornell University. Ithaca. N. ".
graduate who is now with the
Yamanashi civil affairs team of
the occupation forces, 20 miles
south of Tokyo.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-08-03
Western Giants Split Twin Bill

walked, Rich TSuji doubled. and
Deguchi and Kawata followed with
singles.
The box scores follow:
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-08-03
JAPAN SEEKS TO BOOST
MIDGET CAR PRODUCTION

TOKYO Permission has been
asked MacArthur's headquarters to
boost the present limit of 300 600
pound sedans per year to 5000 such
cars in view of the growing demand
in domestic and overseas market.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-02

novation this year, Mr.. Binion
introduced five young players
dressed in the uniforms the teams
of the different schools will wear,
This league is designed for BOYS
under IA years old and lis pounds
in weight.
Coaches for the teams will be
Central, Everette Harper; South,
Buster Bosarge; Beach, Amos
Rolls; Lake, Lonnie Watts. Boys
demonstrating the equipment
were Malcolm Krebs, James
Parker, Douglas Gautier, Carmen
Byrd and John Cole. In addition
to the coaches and the boys, those
present included the assistant
high school coaches, James Ran
dali and Derrall Foreman.
Other guests were u. S. Au-
trey, Shreveport; the Rev. H. c.
Castle, N. c. Everett and w. NJ.
Dutton, Moss Point; Tim Taylor,
Little Rock; Everette Stone, Pas
cagoula.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-02
Church Council OF Women Elects
Executives At Meeting Monday

Election of officers by the Pas
cagoula Council of Church Wom-
en- Monday at First Presbyterian
church resulted in the reelection
of Mrs. Travis Avara to the pres
idency and the selection of Mrs.
w. R. Gulley as vice president
and Mrs. L. L. Shines as secre-
tary, representing. First Baptist,
First Methodist and First Presbv-
terrain churches respectively.
The meeting was opened by
Mrs. c. A. Carrier, president of
the hostess body. the Woman's
Society of Christian Service of
the church, after which a devo-
tional was presented by its pas
tor, the Rev. Harlan Hilbun.
Mrs. Avara also gave a talk,
s~tressing the need for community
council work in P~ascagoula.
Guest speaker was the Rev. @.
c. Roberts whose first pastorate
was Eastlawn Methodist church
which he built. MI. Roberts, who
spent several years in Rhodesia,
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-02
CHESTER LYONS HARVEY

Mr.. and Mrs. James F. Harvey,
r., announce the birth of their
ieeond child at Jackson County
hospital Saturday. The baby has
been named Chester Lyons, for
lis maternal grandfather. His
older brother, Jimmy, III, is guest
If Mr.. and Mrs. Lyons at their
nome in Moss Point. AS soon as
travelling IS feasible, Mrs. Harvey
md her sons will join Mr.. Har-
vey for residence in Hillsboro,
O., Where he went recently TO
take a new position.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-02
Templete- SprotleY
Wedding At Moss
Point Saturday

Miss Gertrude Spratley, daugh
er of Mrs. Frank Spratley, BIZ
oxi, formerly of Pascagoula, and
he late Mr.. Spratley, became the
oride Saturday of John A. Tenn
lete, Plaquemine, La, son OF
Mrs. Norma Template of that
ity. The ceremony was per-
iormed before Justice B. B. Hob
ly in Moss Point.
The bride was attractive in q
nit of aqua with which she wore
lack accessories and a corsage
If white flowers.
Those attending were the
5room's sister, Mrs. William Law
nghouse and Mr.. Lavinghouse
Mrs. Theodore Broadus and Ralph
Oenegue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Template are re-
siding with Mr.. and Mrs. LAYING
house, 325 Herrick.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-02
Football Season
Discussed By
Binion at Rotary

Rotarians were given a preview
OF the coming football season by
Coach Thomas Dutch Binion
at the luncheon meeting Wednes.
day at the Country club. Thomas
R. Wells. superintendent OF
schools, was in charge of tn c
program.
The coach said he has about sc
players on his varsity squad and
although he would make no prom
lses as to winning he believes the
PaScagoula Partners will be q
good team.
The Pee Wee league of elemen-
tary school teams will be an in
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-02
news From Escofowpu -.
Women OF Two Churches Have Joint
Fellowship Meet, Program Monday
BY Mrs. Frank Bennett

The Woman's department of
the Reorganized Latter Day
Saints church and the WSCS Of
the Methodist church met Mon
day at the former church for a
community fellowship meeting.
Miss Audry Roberts played the
prelude after which the call to
worship was given by Mrs. Leo
Livaudais. Mrs. Lou Smith offered
the invocation and Mrs. Bethel
Mizelle read scripture. A talk on
christianity in the Community"
was made by Mrs. Dorothy Grit
fin. A special song was sung by
Mrs. Leroy Barns accompanied
by Miss Roberts and a poem was
read by Mrs. Livaudais after
which Mrs. Smith pronounced the
benedietion. Mrs. Virginia Harrel
was in charge of the register book
and Mrs. Melvin Parker was
usher.
Guests Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Bennett were Capt. and
Mrs. John Hicks, Mobile. Miss
Gloria Bennett returned home
with them for several days.
Mrs. Walter Waites and chill
dren of Biloxi were weekend
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. d. I
Waites.
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Grierson
and daughter are spending theil
vacation in Fort Walton.
WINS Circles Meet
The WINS circles of the Baptist
church met at the church Mon
day to study the WMU year book,
Marland and Kenneth Waites,
Biloxi, spent several days last
week with Mr.. and Mrs. D.. l.
Waites.
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Eaton and
daughters returned Sunday after
spending several days with rela-
tives in Collins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Clark and
daughter are spending a few days
in Leaksville.
James Greenough left last
Tuesday for New Orleans to spend
a week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Campbell an
nounee the arrival of a baby
daughter at Jackson County hos
pital Sunday. Mrs. Campbell is
the former Miss Dolores Graham.
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. J.. F..
Graham of EscataWpa and the
paternal grandparents are the
Rev. and Mrs. D. M. Campbell Of
Fountain Inn, S. c.
Margaret Ann and Mary 10
Davis r spending a few days
this week with friends in Mobile.
Guests of Mr.. and Mrs. D. L
Waites and Mrs. S. L. Golf were
Miss Euniee Bryant, Theodore,
Ala, and Mrs. Otis Morie, Kreole.
Mrs. H. R. Cochran, Pascagoula,
ipent the weekend here with Mrs.
2ooert Byrd and Sunday after
noon also visited her mother,
Mrs. Lucille Graham. Mrs. Byrd
lad as guests Monday Mr.. and
Mrs. Tommy Pake and the lat
.er's father, Mr.. Taylor, Cameron,
la.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-02

Africa, to which he went from the
EastlaWn church, told o. needs in
the African field. He stated tia.
the field Is open for helpers out
side the ministry. especially agri-
cultural missioners. He also told
Of the work of Baptist and Pres
byterian missions in the Belgian
Congo.
AT the close of the meeting.
guests were invited to the sub
story where refreshments were
served. Mrs. R B. Mahaffey at
the punch bowl was assisted by
Mesdames Annie Graham. Don
aid Olein and c. J. Lander.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-02
r. A. F. ON
BELGIAN HOLIDAY

Brussels (AP) "A second
contingent of 50 R. A. F. orphans
has been invited to spend holt
days in homes found for them by
the Belgian air force welfare ses-
ton IN Belgium. They will stay
one month. A third contingent OF
so children will follow one month
later. .s
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-02
SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKERS
CONFERENCE AND SUPPER

The Sunday school workers
conference and covered dish sup
per of First Baptist church will
be held at the church today at
7 p. m.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-02

Lamar Alexander, the new mu-
sic and educational director will
present plans for the fail pro
gram. c. w. Hall is superintend-
ent Of the school.
Workers of the intermediate de
partment will supervise the sup
per. The nursery will beopen dur
ing the evening.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-02
Mr.. AND MRS. ALEXANDER
ARE GIVEN PANTRY SHOWER


On their return home Wednes-
day from New Orleans after {
visit Of several days with hi.
brother, who is director of music
at First Baptist church of tina,
city, Mr.. and Mrs. Lamar Alex
ander were recipients of a pan
try shower from members OF
First Baptist church of which he
IS the newly installed music and
educational director.
The shower took place at the
directors home into which he and
his family moved last week on
their arrival from Memphis.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-09-02

Worker bees are females in
which sex functions have not de-
veloped.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-17

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Evening star., 1949-10-11
Douglas Doctor
Raises Count of
Broken Ribs to ID
By the Associated Press

YAKIMA. Wash, Oct. IL
Supreme Court Justice William
0. Douglas feels lucky today. the
ninth day since his chest was
crushed by a horse that reared
and fell on him in the mountains,
His doctors informed him that
he has IA, not an unlucky 13,
fractured ribs.
Although enduring severe pain
from injuries which include a
lpunctured lung, Justice Douglas
sent a telegram to Harry E. Mock,
q fractured rib patient in a hos
pital at Marion, Ind.
| Mr.. Mock, with whom Justice
Douglas is not acquainted. wired
that his three fractured ribs were
bad and that thirteen must be
horrible"
Informing him that his count
has gone up one, Justice Douglas
wired:
when you have IA broken ribs
q hiccup is a crisis, a cough a
disaster and a sneeze a calamity.
And the most unfriendly act in
| the world would be pat on the
back"
The Justice is improving rapidly
and may be able to leave the hos
pital within a week or 10 days, his
lphysician said.
Evening star., 1949-10-11
Police Seize Books
|At LuncheoneHe in
Drive on 0bscenity

In a move to stop the sale OF
indecent literature in the District
police yesterday raided lunch
eonette at 4424 Georgia avenue
INV. where leWd books and pic
lures repeatedly have beer sold
to students of two schools nearby
The police party, led by 1t. Roy
Blick, head Of the vice squad. ar
rested Roy Hilton Bell. 81. of the
1000 block Of Webster street NV
Armed with search and arrest
warrants. police forced Bell to
open a safe in the luncheonette
Among the material inside, police
said, was set of obscene pictures
priced at SO. Illustrated books
were found which 1t. Blick said
sold for so cents and 81.
Bell, who told police he did not
know it was illegal to sell the
literature. was charged with the
Federal offense of interstate
transportation of indecent Htera-
ture, and with the District offense
of possession of indecent litera-
ture for exhibition or sale. United
States Commissioner Cyril Law
renee continued Bells case until
October 26 and he was freed un-
der $4,000 bond.
The lunchroom' a block from
Roosevelt High School and a half
block from Mcfarland Junior
High. 1t. Blick said it was in
vestigated after a 15-year-old STU
dent reported the sale Of the lit
erature. 1t. Blick said the FBI
may be asked to help ind the
source of the books.
Evening star., 1949-10-11
Navy Denies Any Illness
As Result Of bikini Blasts
BY the Associated Press

The Navy issued formal denial
yesterday that any Navy personnel
suffered illness, death or injury
from the Bikini atomic bomb
blasts in 1916 or in subsequent
work on damaged vessels.
The denial was made by Rear
Admiral Clifford A. Swanson,
Navy surgeon general, in response
to questions based on a radio
broadcast by Drew Pearson that
men had been hospitalized with
enlarged hands as a result of
|scraping paint off ships contain
mated by radiation.
"No person taking part in the
atomic bomb tests In the Pacific
has ever been on the sick list as
the result of the atomic blast" the
statement said.
Asked specifically if the Admir-
ais statement covered illness OF
injury later by radiation in an at
tempt to decontaminate the ships
the NaYy replied 1t did.
Evening star., 1949-10-11
Air Force Claims Success
For B-36 al $4,000 Feet

The Air Force revealed today
that its B-36 bombers, in a recent
series of operational readiness
tests, new 1o.0o0-mile bombing"
sorties in which bombardiers. at
Is 900 feet, scored successes sur
passing all expectations.
Declaring that data on specific
flights are classified. the Air
Force refused to confirm or deny
10 radio commentators statement
that the giant plane dropped a
bomb 800 feet from its target at
10 900 feet after a 30-hour fight.
Asked If a new bombsight was
In operation, the A. F. spokesman
replied that it was simply an i'm
proved version of the one used in
World War II.
This information from the Air
Force was in direct conflict with
testimony given by Navy experts
to the House Armed Services
Committee yesterday. Comdr. Eu-
gene Tatom. high-level bombing
student, told the committee "just
let me assure you, gentlemen, that
precision bombing Of military tar
gets deep in enemy territory from
40 900 feet at night or in daylight
lis myth"
(Released by North American Newspaper
AINdnce1
Evening star., 1949-10-11
Missouri Pacific Begins
Settlement Of Some Claims
BY siss Asseeiufsd Press

- "" ASSoetoIeo FIoSb
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 1.-THE Mis-
souri, Pacific has begun to settle
some Of the claims that led to the
month-old railroad strike, a union
spokesman says.
The grievances were taken up
In direct negotiations which opened
yesterday in accordance with an
agreement made last Friday. +,
Announcement that the COM
pany has started to settle the
claims was made by r. E. David
son, one of the chief negotiators
for the four striking unions. :
Company officials would neither
confirm nor deny that some Of the
cases have been disposed Of, say
ing merely, We're making prog
fess."
The railroad and the unions
have agreed to negotiate as many
claims as possible and then find
a method of disposing of the re-
manning cases. The strike will end
when such a method is accepted
by both sides.
This plan was proposed last
week at an eight-State Governors
conference here
There were 282 claims in all,
some major and some minor. It
was the unions demands for set
tlement Of these claims that
brought on the strike.