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Show THE Bl LIET1N, HI N GUAM CANYON. UTAH "MIICAGO Is steaming up for the hottest midsummer sport carni-val in recent history. First, there will be another big-mon- ey All American open golf tour-- nnment, involv-ing heavy cash. Then the all-sta- r ball game a-rrives, whert there will be an entirely different attitude on the part of the Na-tional league for big change. Whilu these maneuvers are C.nintland Rice taking place, Tony Zale and Rocky Oraziano will begin the final stages of their training, for what should be boxing's best show in many years. Certainly Tony and the Rock topped the book last sum-mer, including two heavyweight championships. And the flop there wasn't Louis' fault. It belonged en-tirely to a pair of palefaces known as Conn and Mauriello. After the Zalc-Grazia- melee Is out of the way, the $100,000 Arling-ton classic will arrive. This may be one of the biggest races of the season, coming ulong at a high spot of the racing year. So hera we have Chicago crowd-ing in golf, baseball, boxing and rac-ing, all in the championship mold, through a three-wee- k stretch. The Zalc-Grazia- meeting will bo the standout. It should be one of the most dramatic middleweight contests In the long history of the riiiK. It may not carry all the fury and destruction ef their first meet-ing, but it can't miss as a thriller. There have been some great mid-dleweight fights In the past, but none had the color this pair can take into the ring. And you can wager a few sester-ces this time that the National league isn't going to concede the all-sta- r game in advance. Star Coach Missing Spring football practice, which draws little publicity despite the many thousands getting ready for next fall, has an absent star who will be missed badly in the home of the Crimson Tide. His name is Frank Thomas, Alabama's able leader, who has had to retire be-cause of illness and now is the ath-letic director of the southern insti-tution. Red Drew, who happens to be another coach of class, is in charge of the squad. Sixteen years ago, back in 1931, Thomas succeeded Wallace Wade at Alabama, when Wade left for Duke. An Darner, Thomas was short and stubby with a pair of keen, alert eyes and a thorough knowledge of football in every de-partment. Alabama couldn't have picked a better man. For In Thomas' 16 years at Alabama, the Crimson Tide from Tuscaloosa won 111 games against 22 defeats. Five games ended in tie score. In seven bowl games, which include Rose, Sugar, Cotton and Orange bowl con-tests, the Thomas-Alabam- a record is five victories against two defeats. These arc pretty fair marks in big-tim- e competition. It also might be added, that in this period, Thomas developed such or near as Don Hutson, Jenkins and Don Whitmire (later with Navy), Johnny Cain, Hupke, Dixie How-ell, Bill Lee, Riley Smith, Tarzan White, Holt Rast, Vaughn Mancha and Harry Gilmer. He rates Gil-mer, who has one more year, as the best college passer he ever saw, and predicts a brilliant pro future for his d back in case he decides to take up professional play. In addition to strong intersection-a- l competition. Tommy had to bat-tle his way through a fast-movin- g circuit that included such stout op-ponents as Tennessee, Duke, Geor-- I gia, L.S.U., Tulane, Vanderbilt and many others who always played for keeps. One reason for football strength in the South has been the quality of its coaches, with such leaders as Bob Neyland of Tennessee, Frank Thomas of Alabama, Wallace Wade of Duke, Wally Butts of Georgia, Bill Alexander and Bobby Dodds of Georgia Tech, Red Sanders of Van-- derbilt, Henry Frnka of Tulane, Carl Snavely of North Carolina and many others who knew their stuff. With his former aid Red Drew at Mississippi, Thomas made a brave attempt to leave a sick bed and coach his team from a stretchei last fall, an impossible assignment Dixie Hangs On It has been a matter of 19 years since a kid ballplayer by the name of Fred ("Dixie") Walker reported to the Albany, Ga., club of the Southeastern league. Dixie blew in from his home hamlet, Villa Rica, Ga., at the age of 18. His record shows that in his 18 years of wandering Dixie has been delivering base hits for 13 different clubs. But, with such hitting stars as Stan Musial, Joe DiMaggio and others far down the list, Walker is still baseball's leading combina- - tion hitter, meaning hatting aver-- age and runs batted in. HcijfffBEA 1 v ' 0nce a flery volcan. Crater lake in s ,,ne of the beauty spots In national parks of the West. a liicn K'v'" the Park 'tS name' ,s the dcePpst on the North ' K continent its color is a mysterious blue. Sheer sides rise tt SaM! feet o the rim from the lake surface. Llao rock, on the 'tbela'te' shown thl Pcture. with Mount Thlclson In the Coast Parks Show of Volcanic Action WNU Features. 5ic have been a dominant factor in shaping the especially in many parts of the West, major volcanic exhibits of California, Oregon have been incorporated into the national ago that Theodore Roosevelt, using the by congress the preceding year, established and nearby Cinder Cone as national monuments. seen in all his wanderings through-out the mountains of the West. The most extensive and colorful dis-plays are found in the mountain "parks" which lie between the long rivers of ice and above the dense forests which clothe the lower eleva-tions of the park. The forests them-selves, virgin stands of gigantic Douglas fir, western red cedar and western hemlock, are a distin-guished feature, particularly at-tractive to eastern and midwest-er- n visitors. . . . ALL THREE of these parks are almost as popular during the win-ter as in summer. All of them have very heavy snowfall and all have open slopes that offer the skier every variety of skiing experience, which extends into late spring and even early summer. Roads are kept open in each park to permit winter sports enthusiasts to reach them, although the expense of plowing out the roads after every snowstorm is. rather high. IN LASSEN Volcanic National park there are public accommoda-tions near Manzanita lake, close to the northwest entrance of the park. At Crater lake, similar accommoda-tions are situated within a short distance of the rim. At Mount Rain-ier they are found at Longrnire, about 2,750 feet above sea level; at Paradise valley, 5,557 feet elevation, and at Ohanapecosh hot springs in the southeast corner of the park. Public campgrounds, for which no fee is charged, are to be found at a number of points in each of these parks. As in most of the other national parks, National Park service pro-vides staffs of ranger-naturalist- s whose job it is to help the visitor gain a better understanding of the plant and animal life of the parks and of the geological phenomena found in them. later these two attract !IiWj.jtUre were incorporated r'jB Volcanic National park, '"iBj 103.269 acres. 'S.B. single distinction of the s fSfce (act that it contains the only recently 'B active volca- - 'Bl ParkS no In the pg United States, i ;Htiinn Starting May '"Series 30' mi- - :i se" ;W nes of erup-- mH tlons contin-- ;"Btl February, 1921. Most THEar in the seven-year-lon- g Be:e'.hel9.- - eruptions, which Boipanied by extensive hot lava These created vasiaied area," which still YoB :ne of the park's points j'Bcral interest to tourists. "B:e;t cone of Lassen peak H-- feet above sea level. As "'Bievastatod area," the Cin-- " He '.rtich was last active ,AV years ago, and its imme-jlfcrinding- s are almost whol- - Hid of vegetation. jH a long time iave exerted their power Ke:? of ways. This is sug-'eBl- ? Bumpas Hell, a colorful H area; Boiling Springs Jul Cinder Cone; Crater Scd the privately owned sul-':.-;- which lies within the 8MTER LAKE National Parkl s Oregon, on the crest of ktyade range, is presented the o a lake of deepest blue Bra!er of Mount Mazama, an is U volcano, Many geologists isBwluded that the basin occu- - theBtie lake, which has neither iiS cutlet, resulted from col- - cojBe volcanic cone of the an- - xtjBkeis supplied with water by snowfall as well as by leBhich is blown into it from Collapse of the mountain's dBM not mean the end of its bM activity; Wizard island, a NuBtncal cinder cone, was -l- ater and rises 780 feet above o! the lake. Covering an square miles, Crater lake jHsacrss; it has a shore line P'les anrl the multi-colore- d BT .m i ise 500 to Bl" The park con- - VEST OF ALL volcanic peaks Wstern Lnited States is Bonier, m feet in eleva-- 'hi' central and domi-o'ur- e of Mount Rainier i- Although it has long IB m still issues IV' s n its immit, and are found nearby at M vied Ohanapecosh " tne lofty central cone slheS est single-pea- k ' system in the United sftwith 26 active rivers of 0f the. ., tne Emmons j'arts fr, the summit of 'now fields, is 5M miles Mi, the longest glacier Ln'ted states. Most of Jnd far below the tim- - isMuir, who perhaps did as one person to further ( ,f the national park idea, 'he wildfiower fields of nj,nier the finest he had ever '1 RIVER OF ICE . Nisqually glacier flows down the south side of Mount Rainier, focal point in Mount Rainier National park in Washington. NEW PREXY ... Dr. Lyndon 0. Brown, recently inaugurated as president of Kno rol-leg- e, C.alesburg, 111. Dr. Brown, 44, left a successful business ca-reer in New York to become pres-ident of the college. . JKSBNtf a" Jr''BjBL fm VEGETABLE GROWERS SERVE . . . Five hundred pounds of seeds demited by National Junior Vegetable Growers association are des-tined for the youth of Greece. James Spell, 17, Columbia, Miss., president of the junior growers organization, presents, in the name of his organization, the seeds to Jason Dracoulis, Greek vice consul In New Vork City. National Junior Vegetable Growers association played an active part in garden work during the war. STARTED WAR . . . Gen. Kanji Ishihara, chief of staff in Japan's Kwantung army, who gave the signal that caused the Mukden in-cident of September 19, 1931, when Japanese troops attacked the Chi-nese garrison of the Manchurian city. Scotland Yard Plans to Stop Gang Warfare Feud Leaders Are Warned To Call Off Impending Batties in Streets. LONDON. In an effort to put a stop to gang warfare in London, Scotland Yard is trying I new tac-tic that is causing no little astonish-ment to peaceable citizens it Is the duty of the police to protect. London's lawless gangs, It ap-pears, are no whit less vicious than those of New York and arm them-selves with razors, iron pipes en- - cased in rubber, revolvers and even Sten guns and hand grenades. To avert an imminent clash, of which there had been warning, a call went out to police chiefs for leaders of the gangs, who were "invited" to the yard. "One by one they took their places on the mat in Whitehall. They lis-tened to a "straight from the shoul- - dcr" talk from high police officials at Scotland Yard. They were told plainly vvhat they faced if they al- - lowed their men to begin shooting. Listen to Reason. "London's big shots were shaken. They thought the risk was not worth It and agreed to call it peace. Scot-land Yard's effort t 'preventive' detection has succeeded for the time being. "Hut the Stens and the grenades nre cached. A spark to the dry tin-der of the mobsters' vanity and hair-trigg-tempers may yet mean a declaration of war." The London gangsters' operating methods and code of conduct are similar to those with which Amer-icans in large cities are only too familiar: "Their racket is not thieving, but 'Blacking,' by which they mean ex-torting 'protection' money from night cinb proprietors and race-course bookmakers. "A bookmaker refusing to pay for protection cannot hope for a 'happy' race-cours- e stand. If he tried de- - fiance he would be beaten senseless. But as soon as he pays he can rely completely on an invisible body- - guard. His safety is the gang's care. "Similarly the owner of a night club would have his premises wrecked if he refused the free run of his place to a gang that demand- - ed it. He, too, may be asked for 'protection' money. He is safe from all rival gangs if he agrees. Twenty to a Gang. "For the first law of the gangs is that they shall not 'muscle' in on each other's 'territory.' If they do, then it's war hitherto a war of razor-arme- d but in the future, should it break out, a battle between men armed like Commandos. "The average strength of a gang is 20 men, but a leader who wishes to augment his force can do so by hiring toughs ready to stick at noth-ing. A man who 'enlists' like this may be paid as much as 20 pounds for one night's 'service.' "The second cardinal rule Is that in no circumstances may a gangster 'squeal.' If it comes to a fight and a man is hurt then the gang will look after him. If he goes to the hospital he must be primed with a story that will explain how he came by his injuries. "A third rule is that as far as is possible members of the public must not be hurt in a gang battle. The rule is knposed for the gangsters know that if g persons are hurt in their battles the mob cannot prevent police ac-tion. "Gang leaders have their own bodyguards of 'strong-arm- ' men." fjt jPP IN THE SPRING A YOUNG MAN'S FANCY . . . Young Bobby Horan, 7, yearned for a bike ride, but does not have a bike of his own, so he is seen trying to thumb a ride from Elsie Malcolm, 5. Elsie's sister Beverly, 8, looks on. The late spring arrived in New York City as this photo shows the kids eating ice cream. MOTHER FOR 1947 . . . Mrs. Lu-cille Herman, wife of a G.I. and mother of a daughter, who was chosen "Pin-u- p Mother for 1947" in contest conducted in the Bronx. There were more than 600 candidates. IT IS JCNE DAIRY MONTH, SHE SAYS . . . Little Margaret Mary Blackshcr, New York, turns to ice cream to do her share during June Dairy Month, and shares America's No. 1 food with her Great Dane. When the U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce selects the dairy queen, they might check on Margaret, who would prove an ideal one. TURN PROFESSIONAL . . . Pau-- I line Betz, Los Angeles, left, shakes hands with Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Cook, New York City, as they start professional tour. They were both former U. S. amateur tennis cham-pions. Adrift Three Days in Wintry Pacific, Saved by Coast Guard KETCHIKAN, ALASKA. Douglas T. Binkley, 25, or Altadena, Calif., spent three days adrift in the win-try Pacific after the outboard motor on his small boat failed, it was re-ported. He was recovering from ex-posure at the coast guard sick bay here. Binkley was returning to Port MacArthur after a visit at Cape De-cision light station. The motor quit soon after he started and he decided to row the rest of the five miles. He tied up to a kelp bed for the night and the next morning he dis-covered he had drifted six miles to sea. He rowed all day but was un-able to reach shore because of t heavy surf. On the morning of the third day, he sighted the steamer Aleutian and improvised a signal by igniting gasoline and oil mixed in Realistic Acting a car.. He was picked up. OGDEN, UTAH. --La Moine Wall. 15 was rehearsing for a school play the script calling for him to be knocked out" in a fight. He didn't get up when the rehearsal ended. He had bumped his head a little too hard when he fell to the floor. First aid treatment brought him around. MOVIE PROBERS . . . Chairman J. Parnell Thomas, seated, Rep. John McDowell, left, and Chief Investigator Robert E. Stripling of the house subcommittee, who are investigating the possibility of Communist influence in the motion picture industry. Leading stars, directors, bit players, motion picture union officials, producers and others connected with the industry testified before the subcommittee. NAVY Nl'RSE HEAD . . . Capt. Nellie Jane Oewitt, Susquehanna, pa who has been appointed as the first director of the new navy nurse corps. She will serve four problem will be years. Her big to secure more nurses. lols Are Ears' for Deaf Woman IDA Deafness has 5 ,great handicap to Mrs. ld Jing, for she has Inky, a ars" Py' a dog' serve as k tag thmg about the two , tn''t they have been of tK universal sign lan- - 'com deaf- There are n0 mands in Mrs. Gooding's nands do the command- - No doorbell warns of impending visitors. When someone at the door red light comes presses a button, a If Mrs. Good-ing on in the living room. doesn't notice it. Impy or Inky do--and notify their mistivss. Impy awakens Mrs. Gooding every morn-ing by patting the bed covers. Mrs Gooding, who lives alone s working for the State Deaf and Bhnd here. School for the Her husband died in 1W7. Kidnaper Is Sentenced To 150 Years in Prison DIXON, ILL. Circuit Judge George Dixon sentenced Frank Sickles, 27, to 150 years for the kid-naping of a doctor's wife, and to life imprisonment on four counts of kidnaping, armed robbery and bur-glary. SicKles will not be eligible for parole until he is 97. For the first 10 years he must spend each Friday in solitary confinement. He committed the crimes Friday, December 20. After the first 10 years, the Judge directed that he spend the anniver-- I sary of the crimes in solitary con-- i flnement. He was convicted of half-carrying, g Mrs. Dells Stackhouse five miles after bindlnj and agging her two children. |