The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 19, 1938, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1938 POLLY AND HER PALS By CLIFF STERRETT SHAME T HADDA STAY AT TH' CFFICE TIDAY. WoT'S TH! IDEE O' BUYIN' A STONE STATUE FER ™ LAWN, BEFORE WE EVEN HAS TH' FOUNDATION BUILT 2, BIG STIGKE: LIKE LO2KS 6° COMING SEASON Yank Loss z;r:(fi:ighl of Joe Di Maggio for More Money Brings Smiles (By Associated Press) The suntanned countenances seven American League mana 3 were wreathed in new hope today as the Major League Baseball m- paign began on all fronts, althougn prediction of general rain up anc down the Atlantic seaboard, thre: ened to dampen the opening day festivities. Pilots of the junior circuit beamed as they contemplated the eighi-to- four licking handed the champion Yankees yesterday in the opener against the Boston Red Sox. There was light in the ranks of Yank-opposing clubs over break- fast bacon when they read in the morning papers that Joe DiMagg:o. ‘Yankee's missing slugger, is still mad at owner Rupper because that gen- tleman will not pay him $40,000 for the season. Only five hits were garnered off of Jim Bagby, 21-year-old kid start- ing his first major league game as the Washington Senators defeated the Philadelphia club twelve-to- eight. The St. Louis Browns stirred ex- citement in baseball circles when they offered to buy DiMaggio for $150,000. BOGGAN'S PAIR WINS TWO FESTS Blindfold Bowling Contest to Be Held Sunday at Brunswick ol A pair of Boggan bowlers, roll- ing against the Juneau Florists’ two male pinsters, last night led the match with 30 pins in total and won two out, of three games at the Brunswick Alleys. Next Sunday, a blindfold bowling contest will be held, Emil Galao announced today. “Each bowler who wants to try his hand at bowling with a blind- fold over his or her eyes will get a chance to roll one string for high score and prize,” Galao said. Last night's scores follow: Boggan’s . 197 176 157— 530 204 148 168— 520 401 324 325—1050 Juneau Florists 175 167 154— 496 177 156 191— 524 Boggan Sturroch Totals Koski Carnegie Totals . 352 323 345—1020 FOUR AGAINST ONE would tax any man but Glenn “Pop” Warner, v ¥'SURE BLIEVES IN PUTTIN' TH! CART BFORE TH' HORSE! TELL ran football coach, thinks he’s a match for these players during spring workout at Temple university in Philadelphia. Left to right are: Harry Laruso, Joseph Mooney, Charles Walters, Joe Palmer. HURLER ROWE IS NOW READY FOR PITCHING Out Last Year on Account of Sore Arm, Applies for Reinstatement CHICAGO, April 19, — Lynwood “Schoolboy” Rowe, former hero of the. Detroit Tigers, appears to be about to get his pitching job back. The brilliant star, forced into vol- untary retirement last year by sore arm, has applied for reinstate- ment. Immediately this became known, up went the Detriot pen- nant stock in the estimation of the hurler’s hopeful followers. ST T DETROIT SEEK FISTIC BATTLE MIAMI BEACH, Fla., April 19. — Walter O. Briggs, owner of the De- troit baseball club, has telegraphed Promoter Mike Jacobs an offer to rent the ball park there for the Joe Louis-Max Schmeling heavyweight championship bout. —eoe - VOTE FOR McCORMICK Vote for John MecCormick for Rep ntative, Democratic Ticket, Primory Election April 26. Born in Alaska, Alaska for Alaskans. Ad “The Talk of the Town” HEAVY FUEL OIL AND DIESEL OIL BURNERS —Sold Exclusively by— Rice & Ahlers Co.~Phone 34 REC.U.S. PAT. OFF, N 8 AS A PAID-UP SUBSCRIBER TO The Daily Alaska Empire is invited to present this coupon at the box office of *“~CAPITOL THEATRE AND RECEIVE TWO TICKETS TO SEE “THERE GOES THE GROOM” Your Name May Appear—WATCH THIS SPACE . __y|grown for packing. Twice Champion Laszlo Bellak, of Hungary, is pic- tured at Philadelynia after he had defeated Sol Schiff, of New York, and had won for the second con- secutive year the men's national table tennis championship, Venzke and Glenn In Spgc_ial Event PHILADELPHIA, April 19.—Gene Venzke, University of Pennsylvania’s greatest miler, has accepted an in- vitation to meet Glenn Cunningham |in a special mile race on April 30 | the second day of the Penn Relay Carnival. HEALTH DINNER " 1S CELEBRATED \Affair Given Last Evening . by BPWC Is Well At- tended, Enjoyed A large group of members of the Business and Professional Woman’s Club and their friends gathered at the home of Mrs. Rose Davis in the Government School in Douglas at 1 Health Banquet last evening, with Or. Rae Lillian Carlson serving as toastmistress. Following the banqubt community inging was led by Mrs. Crystal Snow Jenne. Two groups of piano sel- :ctions were enjoyed—the lirst group ‘Shadow Dance” and “Melody” by MacDowell, played by Ruth Allen, ind the cond group, “To a Water Lily,” by MacDowell, and “Polon- use Militaire,” by Chopin, played v Bernice Mzad. Mrs. Davis read extracts *from \lfred McCani’s book on aduiter- ited foods. | Mrs. L. P. Dawes enilertained those lym\unt with two original health | wems. A talk on the “Evil Effects | »f Alcohol and Tobdcco on the Hu- man System” was given by Pastor H. L. Wood. - e California ranks first, Indiana second, in the amount of tomatoes CLOWN PRINCES STILL FLOURISH ON BALL TEAMS Mflnag(’l's Agl'(’(: ‘YOU Cal] t Win a Pennant With- out a ]estcl“ NEW YORK, April 10.-—They've taken (he Horseplay oul of baseball's spring traming but the camp jes- ters can't be squelched Years ago | cal fiourished their trade, ies on snipe hunts, .arr: for them and then ously at their supposed . plight when the “irate husbands” ar- rived, and, in general, made life miserable for the recruits. Even the veterans once were afraid to open their bedroom doors for fear that buckets of water might topple on their heads from the transoms. jokers sent rook- ged dates howled hilari- nowadays rarely steal down the fire escapes from their rooms for a night’s escapade. Baseball has tamed down, the jokers still have their fun. Lefty Gomez, as serious as a scholar when he’s out there pitch- ing, has few peers as a wisecrack- er. The Yankees always have scmething to tell about Lefty. They're always razzing him about his law suits and domestic diffi- culties, but El Goofy takes it in stride and hands back more than he’ receives 'Pessum and Bat Boy One player scared the daylights out of his tea bat boy by plac- ing a live opossum in a wash bowl. The kid switched on the lights, saw this animal gazing at him and tried to jump through the transom of ‘his door. He got stuck and had to be pulled out. Pepper Martin and Frenchy Bor- dagaray make life troublesome in the St. Louis Cardinal room by hiding the their teammates, placing sand in their street shoes and placing itch- ing powders in their socks. Moe Berg, the educated catcher of the Boston Red Sox, probably but {is the best wit of the bunch, but Berg's jokes. often. are over the head of the average ball player. jus of Boys’ clubs toured HOLD ON,STUPID, IBIN TRYIN'T! YUH -+ NEW SCHEME T0 BE TRIED, Daredevil Racers Will Have Mirrors Instead of Mechanics INDIANAPOLIS, April rors instead of mechanics will the daredeveils of automobile ing burn up the bricks in the 500- mile Indianapolis Speedway race May 30 for the first time since Ray Harroun drove to victory in the first 1o 19.—Mir- help rac- view mirrors — one on cf the racing cars- the place of the riding mnder a new rule, Louls chairman of the Ame e Association’s tech- committee, explained. The rule requ that each car be quipped with the mirrors to do he driver's “looking back.” “There no doubt,” Schwitzer ‘that with one-man cars the i s will have a tougher job on| heir hands, for they will have to, 4 without riding mechanics, whose | prir 1 job for the last few years has been merely to watch oncoming | traffic and to tell the driver when a car was about ready to overtake him." The is aid rule requires that the mir- rors be at least three and a half inches in diameter. They will be built into most of the cars in sucn a way as not .to interfere with streainlining 1sconti- form Thirty-five of " nental and ‘Western' Air, the; entire personnel of the 76th beml pent squadron, United g8 army corps reserve. This is the only squadron in the country composed of officers from a single irline. Try The results T - oo Empire classifieds for Berg, you see, has degrees from 1(l1ree universities and speaks sev- | en languages. He can cuss or joke |or praise in so many different | tongues that he has quite an ad- vantage over his mates. Casey Stengel keeps up the spir- its of his' rookies by -his jokes | However, the Boston Bees' man- ager has tamed considerably, and substitutes funny stories for the practical jokes of other seasons. | Hassett Under Suspicion | Buddy Hassett is the life of the Brooklyn Dodger camp. Buddy has | been suspected of putting sand- | spurs under the bed sheets of team- mates. | The top clowns of the Grapefruit league, of course, are Nick Altrock and Al Schacht. Altrock, the Wash- | ington coach, tells jokes in a gruff| | voice, and looks funny ‘without try- | ing to with his cap askew over his |ruffled grey hair and fat rolling | smoothly over his barrel-like mid- riff. Schacht, former Boston Red | | Sox coach, is strictly a profession- al clown now. He breezes from one | | training camp to another, enmr-; | taining the fans with his antics | before the exhibition games. His| | everything he does. | | Too ,many clowns are a burden, | | but every manager likes to have| | one or two around. They keep the | players in good. spirits. There's a lot of truth in the remark of one pilot that “you can't win a pen- nant without a jester.” | K. Westenbarger | ievement. IT AIN'T NO STONE STATUE. ASH, TH! IDJIT, FELL INTH' JUNEAU PLAGES THIRD IN RIFLE Seward Takes Top Position with Anchorage Second in Territorial Shoot With scores from the last match of the Alaska Indoor Rifle Leaguc received, Leo Jewett, Secretary of fhe Juneau Rifle and Pistol Club. announced today that Seward is the top of the League with an gregate score of 4,265, Ancl second with 4,191 and Juneau thirc with 4,183, Ecores for the third and last mat of t} ague follow Seward R'fle Club Pr. Sit. ¢ 100 100 97 100 99 A. Gossage P. Gilliland . S. Horton Paulsteiner. Shellhorn Total Anchorage Rifie Club Pr. Sit. St 98 91— 100 86— 98 98 97 Tot 1. Heffentrager W. D. Morris W. Brewington Ward Gay Total Juncau Rifle and Pistol Pr. Sit 100 97 100 99 99 100 100 96 9 94 O. H. Waterud K. Junge J. P. Williams L. Garrett H. Stonehouse Total - - General Manager Of Pan American Is Given Medal Juan T. Trippe, president and gen- eral manager of Pan American Air- ways has been given the gold medal of the Holland Society of New York, given annually for outstanding ach- The presentation was made by Walter M. Meserole, presi- 'dent, at the annual meeting of the society at the Hotel Astor in New York City, and was the first made by the group for achievements in air transport. Mr. Trippe said America should be proud of her merchant marine of the air as second to none, and pre- dicted that transatlantic service might get under way this Fall. The Yankee Clipper series of flying boats, to be delivered to Pan Ameri- can within two months, are two years ahead of foreign ocean air- craft, he declared. CARSON CITY, Nev., April 19— dressing | phantom pitcher act is a pip but|A few coins still in circulation bear trousers of | he keeps the fans in stitches with|the tiny initials “CC,” indicating they were made at the Carson City mint. This historic building, in which millions of dollars in gold and ver coins were turned out during the boom days of the Comstock lode; has now been ordered sold by the Treasury Department. T ‘ONE OF THE BOYS," the Duke of Gloucester as president of England’s Assoclation recreation centers under his sponsorship and indulged in a billiard game—much o the delight of lads 3t Webbe institute in Betbnal Green. AMP in Hot 8prings, Ark., was taken by Lon Warneke of Cardinals to wele come new daughter, Patricia, Haida Ball Club Wins First Game of Diafllnnd Year _Miners’ Team Defeated i Nine-Inning Contest— Score of 3 to 2 The first baseball game of the 1633 season in Juneau was played a Firemen's Park yesterday afternoon with the Haida nine taking the Al- aska Juneau club to eamp, 3 to 2. Haida chuckers Wood and More- house kept the Miners guessing, bu lost two runs when a heavy poke into deep left field in the Miner portien of the fifth, was thrown against a telephone pole by left- fielder Barness after the recovery permitting the batter a home run with one ahead of him. Lindstrom hurled good ball for the Miners, but got little stick work to back him up. No box score of the game was kept. The lineups were as follows: Haida Miners c—Ensign MacCabe Riendean p—Wood Lindstrom 1b—Bennett Andrews 2b—Riviria Balog ss—Ruhl Erskine 3b—Scott Hall rf-—Foutter Mackey cf—Petrig Pinkley 1f—Barness Rice p—Morehouse* ss—-Jorger, n* *Substituted. Heinz Ordered to Deal with Union WASHINGTON, April 19, — The National Labor Relations Board has ordered the H. J. Heinz Company of Pittsburgh to deal with the Am- algamated Meat Cutters and Butch- er Workmen of North America (American Federation of Labor) and to sign a contract with the union if an agreement is reached. The board also directed the food firm to break up the Heinz Employees Association. The board said this |plant union was company domin- ated. o S AR Blindness No Bar To 'Game of Golf LOS ANGELES, April 19. — The Rev. Mr. Walter D. Kallenbach ic totally blind, but that doesn’t keep him from an occasional game ol golf. “Someone tinkles a tin cup and I know just about where the cup is and How hard to play the ball.” he explains. “I also play horse- shoes. Someone hits the peg for me and I throw toward the sound I often get a ringer.” —ee— Japanese Pay for Mission Damage TOKYO, April 19.—The Japanese government has paid the Seventh Day Adventist mission in South China $2365 for damaging a hos- pital at Waichow in a bombing raid last September. The money settlement was the first of its kind to be made. Pay- ment was made through the Amer- ican embassy. ¢ O »>. 4‘ HOSPITAL NOTES - * L. C. Hess was admitfed last night to St. Anns Hospital for medi- cal aid. George Discombe was discharged this afternoon at St. Anns Hospital. Mrs. W. J. Manthy, surgical pa- tient in St. Ann’s Hospital was dis- missed today. WA GRS s Empire classifieds for d Al Trv the results, Lon’s son joined in welcome. 599 Out of 600! Miss Eleanor Lum, 9! Madison, N. J., is pictured behmgl the gun in Philadelphia after winning the women’s national small bore rifle championship shoot with a mfl, of 599 out of a possible 600. That's s score to writa home aboutl Bureau Latest Office in Juneau Territorial ~ Auditor Frank . A, Boyle, Registrar of Vital Statistics, suspects organization of a new Teg- ritorial office since receipt of the letter addressed to the “Bureau of Virtue Stations, Juneau, Alaska,” However, after learning from the communication that an Alaskan wanted a duplicate birth certificate for his son, it was decided the Bur- eau of Vital Statistics would handie it. Building Permits Up Ilur_illg March | : NEW YORK, Aprn-ls._pemg for new building construction 5 ing $76,598907 were issued in 215 representative United States cltl” in March, a rise of 41.8 per cent over the two-year low of $54,010,+ 213 in February, Dun and Brad- | street reports. The agency said the Irise reflected “to a large degree the reported expansion of Federal |Housing Administration mortgage loans to record levels during last month.” nland SteelFirm To Anpgal Ruling CHICAGO, April 19—The Inland Steel Corporation announces jt |would petition the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals to set aside the |National Labor Relations Board ruling, which ordered the company to sign any collective bargaining agreement reached within Commit- tee for Industrial Organization's steel workers organizing committee. Givil War Shell Bucks_!ickshurg VICKSBURG, Miss., April 18~ Russell White, thinking he had an old wagon wheel hub, took a thirty- pound shell into the house and made an andiron of it for the fire- place. In a few minutes there was a terrific explosion. He was knocked from a chair but not injured. The shell was one that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant threw at Vicks- |burg in the Civil War siege mare !than seventy-four years ago. ! — e | Empire classifieds pay.