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NEW YORK, Feb. 6—(AP) -— Casey Stengei, new manager of New York Yankees, today said Bos- ton Red Sox. and not the defending champion Cleveland Indians. are the team to beat for the 1949 Ani-. ericon League pennant.‘ I

Furthermore, the outspoken Sten- gel said his own Yankees are po- tentially as good, if not better than the Tribe.

Stengei, who arrived in New York today "happy to escape that cold California weather," told l press gathering:

"I don't see how anybody can overlook the Rcd Sax. Oh, I know all about the Indians. They won the thing last year, and they must be given recognition.

"But if Joe McCarthy can im- prove his pitching just a little. Bos- ton wouid be much tougher than the Indians. The Red Sox came within nn inch of beating Cleveland lust year with what little pitching they had."

Stengci said he could not talk too much about his own club, since he didn't know many of the play- ers. However. he said "the pitching staff is much stronger tlinn last

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tourist trade will carn as much as f cllities for tourists 255,000,000 ($220,000,000) by 1951!- iiildptiisrriiivyovﬁiliren reasonable coii- 53." he said. -

Milk Producers, Vendors Meeting

A meeting of the Milk Producers on:i Vendors’ Association to study the Milk Act and other important questions to come up oi meeting, to be held ot Birch Court, Experimonfﬂi Firm Tuesday evening, Feb. 8, at 8 o'clock..

Signed, PERCY GAY

Sec'y. Ior Milk Producers ond Vendors Ass'n.

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Who waits too long finds time runs out. —Oid Mother Nature.

Three-legs the Coon. who long ago had left; one leg in the cruel Jaws of a steel trap. was taking his time as he made his way along the shore of a small stream. Sharp- ened wits had in a way made up for the ioss of that leg. There was no smarter Coon in all the Green Forest. He was smart with the wisdom of sad experience.

His son, young but well grown. had gone on ahead. Presently Three-legs came up with him. He was uneasily walking back and forth a little way from a small pen. of sticks at. the edge of the water. There was an entrance to that; pen, one Just big enough for B.‘ Coon to enter.

"Smell," said the young Cool. His nose was twitching.

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He led the way to the ledges and down to a snug little cave

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Three-legs had already smelled. His nose was twitching. too. It‘ was n fishy smell, a very flshy| smell. There was no mistaking it.

"It is fish. It. is in there." said: the Young Coon. His nose twitciiedi more than ever. _

Three-legs grinned. "Why don't‘ you go in and get it. " he asked.

"I'm afraid to," young Coon. He what sheepishly.

"Why?" asked Three-legs.

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"You are looming." Three-legs. "Never be of being afraid of t-hings you do not. understand. It is better to be afraid than to be sorry. You loose

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"I do too," Interrupted the young Coon. “I lose that fish."

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By Jolepblno Culbortloll _

T00 SUBTLE An absurdly "subtle" signal was the undoing of the defense in to- day's deal

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Obviously. there was no point In South's asking for kings since he himself had all four of these, and the leap to six notrump was prob- ably as sound an action as South could take. '

West, feeling that whatever the, opponents had in diamonds would‘ be theirs in any event, and not wishing to "break" any other suit, opened his singleton diamond. (Generally speaking. such a choice is to be condemned. but in this case it did no harm, since East's

The didinond nine was played from dummy, East covered with the ten, and South won. Now, since it was patently impossible to win twelve tricks without running the diamond suit. declare: led s dia- mond right back toward dummy. West; discarded the six of clubs. South, seeing that he would have to concede one trick in the dia- mond suit, played the jack from dummy, and East; of course won with the queen.

Now, consider East's dilemma! The deuce, four and five of clubs were in plain sight in his own hand and dummy-only the three- spot vras unaccounted for. Thus. West's discard of the club six was extremely ambiguous! It might well be West's lowest club; cer- tainly it didn't look like a “come- on." So. mentally tossing a coin, East: returned a heart-and that was the last time his side got. on leadl

West was entirely too delicate in his signalling! It was perfectly obvious from the play of the dia- mond _suit that East had it stop- ped. and therefore West should have signalled most emphatically with the club Jack, or, using the lust-as-good negative signal. he should have discarded his lowest heart. ‘

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There could be but one answer to that, so the young Coon said nothing. He moved to where he could no longer get that fish Smell and his nose stopped twitOhing. They continued on along the brook. They left it; to visit an old woods and caught two Mice there. They visit- At day- light they were back at. the brook

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know why it is here now, or what i day, for they were beginning to

feel sleepy. There came the sharp sound of

time his nose twiiched hungrily. ‘a broken stick farther down the I

brook. They stood still among the

ashamed-big stones around which they had

'bi=en poking about. They stood as ‘still as ‘the stones themselves. iTheir sharp ears were set forward

nothing and " Ito catch every sound. Their eyes

glowed in the black masks across their faces as they stared down the little stream. Some one was coming toward them! In a. mo- ment they saw him, one of those two-legged folks ‘called Man. He stopped and knelt. For a few min- utes he was busy about something, lust. what they could not see. He was too far away and bushes ln- terfered.

He got to his feet. picked some- ithlng up and stepped out from be- hind the bushes. He was carry- ing some one with a ringed tail and a black mask, some one who hung head down, stiffly. It. was a Raccoon, one who would never run another step. climb another tree, feel in the mud for another Frog or eat. another grape or ear of milky sweet corn. It was one who had been unable, or hadn't had the courage, to twist a leg off in the cruel Jows of o. steel trap.

Three-legs dodged behind a rock and led the way among the trees. At his heels ran the other and had all he could do to keep up. “Where are we going?" he panted when at. last they paused to get breath and rest s. minute.

"Where we won't have to watch out for anything or anybody. It is time, high time we were asleep. It isn't safe to be out any longer," replied Three-legs.

He led the way to the ledges and down to a snug little cave, not to oome out again save perhaps once or twice for a brief look at the weather, until the return of Mis- tress Spring.

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VANCOUVER. Feb. O — (C?) — Carl Diitman, 69. in the course of his duties as night watchman in a huge factory building, has killed hundreds of rats.

A former hunter of martin, mink. bobcat and lynx, he was forced by an arthritis attack to bcocme a night. watchman.

The factory pays ‘him 15 cents a pelt. as bounty. and money thus earned has enabled him to equip his cellar with the most modern woodworking equipment.

"That lathe cost me 400 rats," he remarks. "Got this ba-ndsaw for 250 rats."

With his .22-calibre trapgun he is a deadshot and often kills as many as l3 rats nightly. Some weigh 1 1-2 pounds and measure 1 i-o feet. from nose tip to tail tip.

Only once has he been attacked by a cornered rat, He beat. it off with n brocm. His shoes have been bitten often, but that is all part of the chase.

"The brown ones are the tough- ies." he sold. "The black rs-ts are the climbers and spend most of their time avoiding being purged by their brown brothers.

"In order to live. rats have to chew and chew and chew. They have to wear down their teeth: otherwise they can't open their mouths. and die of starvation."

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