The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 21, 1940, Page 5

YOU CAN'T BEAT THE DUTCH —When the clatter of wooden shoes died down, Vice President John Garner got busy, autographing sabots for little Dutch girls from Holland, M , in Washington for a national folk songfest. Left to right: Winifred Heasley, Merry Hadden :nd Barbara Heneveld. Alongside Garner is Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg. Michigan Republican. | f Y v Today Paddock himself merely i i The C nia sprinter fir i came to national attention in 1913 Y. when, as a mere grammar school ; aiman lees Fo"h Dope stripling, he won the far western | AAU. championship for the 100- h yard dash. He went on to equal the I . existing record for that race “at | 0 Rei'red Alhleies least 20 times” and then to set a new one. He also broke the 220- | yard record that had stood for years Sees 9.1 Century During high school Paddock was beaten in only one race and in his college days was never beaten at all. He competed in the Olym- pic games of 1920, to run up an aggregate point total they're still shooting at Since his retirement, Frank Wy- Jesse Owens have beaten -yard mark by a tenth of rd—at 9. and his 220-yard time of 208 has been clipped by both Owens and Rowland Locke, Owens’ existing record being 20.4. “The day will come,” says Pad- dock, “when some man will run 9.1 in the 100 and 20 seconds flat ' Paddock dictales the sports column he does daily in addi- | that physically the men of tomor- tion te performing his duties as business manager of two newspapers. |Fow Will be any better than those 5 of today. Improved training meth- v SAM KSON » ods, bett tracks and a (remen- Dy BARLIAL ‘:" not competing. At the end of that| o oo o FE 1 vviunl “(n"(lmx AP/ Teature, Sotvite W Iiie time my heart was of normal size % el vk that in turns out these will be the so-called factors and 1 was physically cound impossible LONG BEACH, Cal, May 21.— “There is one point I'm fanat- | 8chievements.” rles W, Paddock, the wonder|i..i on and that is that I think| e n of track in the 19205, has|,. oo ce pugave made by |[WPE “ m inced ideas on how the| en past 35 is to engage in' sbren: .Tlme Iece ! [_”’"l""" 'i"‘ Of | wous sports. They enlarge their| -1 |4 7p wnd Charley MUMSEH aP-| hearts and undoubtedly = shorten pears to be living proof that they| y10ir Jives. I've seen too many of are correct w0 bad around 55 ls OId one y the famous sprinter : ra 1 the sk - harddaork Fairbanks an Example successful business “Douglas Fairbanks was an ex- . _— man- 2 HOUSTON, Te: \wer of newspapers in Long Beacn|ample. He was a good friend and May 21.—Dur- wnd Pacadena, Despite the con-| We often exercised together. But|ing the reign of Charles I1, a London tant travel and double respon- At 45 and 50 he wWas doing exer- | watchmaker constructed a bulky ity this fandem job demands,|CiS¢ lhat would amaze a young- |hand-carved clock and attached to Bt a Aty SBatGe Daus ol LA 0L {it a hammered brass plate bearing " umn I think that handball, squash | he foliowing inscription i I stopped streduous . athletics| and too’ many sets of -tennis are | ~R- Hopwood, fecit London, 1682. | nt thir ays Paddock. “I took|harmful to men over 40, Such | TYme Passeth, Swift Awaye. ; Il four years to train down—tapered ris as golf, hiking and bowling ““l‘;"‘;;im‘ ’f:h AR :"l'! )',é"',“;‘;k":f | o, you g g he! g e prized pos 0 J. Slage, ). »f, vou might say—doing all the are excellent for older men who ot Skaton. Vios-Deeldent of thé I preliminary work for a season but re equal to 5 i American National Retail Jewelers’ | Association. The clock was given | Slage by a watch firm which bought |it from an Englishman who inher- | ited it. | B | And things kept going the same way lup to the platter first and were | over the Cincinnati Reds. | - e The Egyptian house-cat, is be- lieved to have had a major share in the development of European ROUCH AND RED-Y—_Those twd unrelated McCor- micks with the Cincinnati Reds pose in a dugout at & recent game. Frank McCormick (left), first baseman, hails from New Yorl': Myron “Mike” McCormick, rovkie fielder, is from Stockto™ nel, 1924 and 1928 | in the 220. This doesn’t mean | g * THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1940. For writing the famous war song, “Over There,” George M. Cohan receives a “patriotic service” medal from Pre ent Roosevelt in the White House. The medal was voted by congress in 1936 but only now was presented to the famous actor. 0F MAKING - SCHEDULES ue clubs adopted some night But I had experience was accom, ome dates ished He thinks night be limited to the games should months of June, he d fan noticed more clubs—but he'll tackle the growing problem of night bas. years ago that the two ball in much shorter order ques wele 'most uncooperative, otimes forcing two teams to | Clement Schwener a Boston bank for the past 3( | years, admits the task of spotting night games will add to his intri- employed age in week-long series. He drew huj some suggestions and forwarded them to the proper & 0 slaces, The American League sniffec cate calculations but he's unwor- Pi2ces. The American League sniffed 5 but the National League took a | ried ; chance. Tiings are different today. He ppe proposals worked and soon | has the gull cooperation of officials gunwener ‘had all the schedule of the two major leagues and‘ he o ‘he' could handle. The two |also has the wealth of experience Hagand o1 mely. okt . him amassed in a quarter-century Of pmore and more and today he has schedule tinke 0 MED- he complete job to himself. Offi- tion the aplomb gained in slid-|oigls of the two leagues give him ping arc-light games into sched- | ghoejr hearty gooperation—and pay ules in the past couple of seasons. | hjy, well for .ending their sched- Quite a Problem 116 hRadL ok “If night baseball continues to o RS NOMD yrow in popularity,” he explains, and it looks now as though all| Cats do not yield 6 clubs cventually will play some| type of cord is produced from the of their games under lights, it’s intestines of sheep, and u('(.\:»mn-i {going to be quite a problem. ally mules and horses. Prohibition Party Holds National Convention | | | | E Getting the jump on other party co and selects Roger Babson, noted business statstician, as its presidential nominee. can give the United States a suitable method of dealing with the now out-of-hand liguor problem, The Prohibition Party also stresses the need for more character ,jindustry and either the Republicans nor Democra \ initiative in the handling ¢f government affairs, ' E.D.R.Honors George M. Cohan en that live 1 National League | H A HQBBY ok skt el “But ii's a problem that can be . I had a taste of it this eason because four American July and August. That proposes e particular problem around New | : Yor where 21 games for Brooklyn (Major League Schedules and the iwo Nek Vork clubs woud A he slotted in a 12-week perioc | Worked Out by Bank Hen Ty ; E | But he’s willing to roll up his| mployee U e R — t as soon as the major g BOSTON, Mass., May 21.—It looks Clubs are readg: for it a Boston bank employee a quarter-| His unique job—which pays entury to evblve a baseball sched- rather well—started as a hobby e sibiitscath 16 8 and is still that for Schwene: i fall of meney was a problem he didn't catgut. This| mean he whopped it off, but he'll | A GENERAL ELECTRIC VACCUM CLEANER o Y 1st jer by pick ree tyr of dirt. Only a cl he wctually SWEEPS 3 SURFACE DUST A There is a GENERAL ELECTRIC CLEANER for every purse and purpose, and you can : buy a G-E BRUSH-TYPE ELECTRIC CLEAN- ER foras Iitle as . . . 31.95 Trade Ins - Easy ' RLASKA ELETTRIC L and POWER £00. PHONE 616 | “You'll Always Be Glad that You Bought a GE!" BT P E art for knick-knacks and thiny R 5 ,{‘\tffi z}g'ggqu |wl N eliits” viabteas bt Gikn i Bhnd’ Wins B. A. sk v | more than balf cf it to pay off th | mortgaze on the family it larm, ¢ nlarg? it and improve WNNER STILL WALKS, SOME |, % L, Andy Payne, That 1928 cxm it Wonder Boy, Is in Perfect Health By JOHN B. OWEN AP Feature Service OKLAHOMA CITY, May 21 er the bunion derby? Did yo e saved more “pbut I haven't ha | “rm a lot better off than I was | before the race.” | Whatever he gained Tmagine running and walk 70 mil a day for 84 days. Payne, when he sel out on a mo- toreyele for California to enter the had had some notion of goins and becomingn a school The events of the next few the course of his race to colle: eacher hs changed Re- wonder what became of t} ing, sun-blackened boy who | ¢ it? Promoter C. C. Pyle — the late started 199 run- s March 4, 1928, in San Francisco. Three-fourths of them found th oing teo tough. Payne took the lead ibout half-way across the countr and held it. On May , the grind tumbled to its end in dis Square Garden. Payne celebrated with a sightsee- ish and Car s doing all right Andy Payne won the longest mar- athon in history, the nightmare cli- of the sports mad 1920s. The ear-old farm lad .heade 4 othes tants into New York city ter trotting and walking 3,400 miles across the continent 12 years ago one of the most gruelling endurans mas cente it Mrs. Prudence Patterson A blind widow, Mrs. Prudence Pat- ng tour in New York—on foot. tests cver conceived. He w g . ¥ il et *| "A short time later u motorist gave | terson, 42, will recelve 4 Bachelor b4 ke : lift to a young fellow trudging of Arts degree at the I 0 he is the elected clerk of |* ' g 18 i le: S ected clerk of | |\ o'\ der @ hot, summer sur’ one encement exercises of New ¥ark ahoma’s supreme court, marrieu J ! : ® University, Manhattan. A home o protty former school teacher, |SUnday afternoon in Oklahoma. 1t ies Oy B Mprookiyn Bureau father of two children—and he never | %8s Andy ne. He had left the o¢ cparities, she studies sociology walks any farther than he has to, |&ain at Vinita and was walking in N.Y.U/’s evening sessions. Y 20 miles home. The driver never He is 32, his health is perfect, he has no bunions and no $25,000, To a farmer boy who never had an extra nickel, handling a wind- knew his passenger, — At Foyil, the village where he had 2 & gone through school, Andy ot out, | 6,000-Mile Mistake walked over to a vacant lot and cas- | ’ ually joined some friends in a base- | ball game as though nothing had happened. But banquets and praise were the order for some time | Called on to speak, Payne had o | stock remark: “I'd rather run 40 miles a day than chop cotton—I owe it ali to meet very successfully. That doesn'l save more of his next $25,000. A big chunk of it went for expens- es of the race, part of it for a ca - cornbread.” Six years later his name was enough known to get him elected | clerk of the state supreme court. H: | was elected again in 1938 and has two more years to serv Payne's exercise now is less stren- | ucus. He likes golf and fishing, but he probably still could jog 10 miles | every day before breakfast. It's mostly walking now, Payn» explains: “I walk to work every day--six blocks.” - Mary Ann Shelley boarded the Conte di Savoia a month ago to mai a letter in the ship’s postoffice While she was licking the stamp the liner sailed for Italy. Here shy is as she returned from her im ~romptu 6,000-mile voyage, PHONES FIREMEN: "YOU'RE ON FIRE" KITTERARY, Me,, May 21.—Possi- bly the shortest “run” on record for the Kittery fire department oc- curred when Mrs. T. W. Hollis tele- | youngsters. Roll doughnut dough % | phoned the station to notify the|inch thick. Cut into 2-inch circles | firemen that _their headquarters | Place jelly in the centers of the ¢ir- | were afire. The firemen removed | cles and bring up the edges over and the trucks from the station, set up |pinch in place. Fry as any other hose lines and poured water onto | doughnuts. the flames. Damage was estimated R il <™ L 22 at $600. Rubies were the first gems to AR, 15475 be made synthetically on a com- Daily Empire classiniece pay. mercial scale. i | | | | | Jelly doughnuts us s national convention in Chicago The party claims that ¢ S OHM HFANOM ARIVSAIAINNY NIAdaEM N0 ; Sl SiHL INILLIOHEIA 34 LHod Myd ANS3S /109234 aHNA AHOMOHL I “IMO 1O TIVANSWILNGS HAA ‘N 'HO By CLIFF STERRETT