The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 15, 1938, Page 5

HER WEL AND GET IT. ASH HAS ALLOWED HE'S SETTIN' UP SUPPER TNIGHT. STILL ANOTHER ANDANGELSTOD | San Francisrco and San| Diego Still in Deadlock | - for Fourth Place | (By Associated Press) | Seattle and Los Angeles, currently | engaged in going down the home stretch in the last week of regula: reason play in the final fight for | first place matched stride for stride last night. Seattle won and the Angels won, | keeping Los Angeles two games tc the advantage The Rainiers won their 13tl rtraight victory and their 27th game in thirty starts by smearing San Diego with a terrific bombardment in the fifth frame. Behind Rish’s five-hit hurling, the Angels toyed with the tail end | Acorns to win easi Seattle has six games left to piay and Los Angeles five. San Francisco’s Seals, battling with San Diego for fourth place and a pennant playoff berth, made no headway, losing to Sacramento. Hollywood took another game from Portland. GAMES WEDNESDAY Pacific Coast League Sacramento 8; San Francisco San Diego 1; Seattle 8 Oakland 1; Los Angeles 6. | Hollvwood 7; Portland 3. National League New York 3, 10; Pittsbu Cincinnati 2, 8; Brooklyn 6, 4. St. Louis 12, 3; Philadelphia 9, 2. Chicago 6; Boston 3. i American League Philadelphia 4; St. Louis 3. Boston 9; Detroit 2. 1 STANDING OF CLUBS Pacific Coast League Won Tost Los Angeles 102 ks Seattle 98 1 Sacramento 94 8 san Diego 88 83 San Francisco 89 84 Portland kg 91 Hollywood 6 97 Oakland 63 110 National League Won Lost Pittsburgh i 56 Chicago 60 Cincinnati 61 New York 61 Boston 67 St. Louis T2 Brooklyn 73 g Fhiladelphia 91 321 American League Won Lost Pct. rew York 93 2 689 3oston ki 57 HTH Cleveland 6 58 E Detroit. 0 66 515 ‘Washington 67 70 489 Chicago 56 3 434 St. Louis 47 83 362 Philadelphia 49 86 363 .. Japanese Beetles Prove Destructive MOUNT VERNON, Va. Sept. 15.] —The Japanese beetle has no re- spect even for America’s most fa- mous shrine—the home of George ‘Washington. The destructive insect invaded the rose garden, but A. C. Reath, head gardener at Mount Vernon, says that with the aid of the United States department of agriculture the situation “is well under con-| trol.” —— . Needle in Leg LINCOLN, Kans.—A pain.in his leg sent C. H. Walters to a phy- sician; and an x-ray examination disclosed a needle lodged near the bone. An operation recovered the needle, rusty and slightly bent. Walters can’'t remember when the needle stuck him. South Africa to Send Huge Diamonds to Fair, KIMBERLEY, Cape Province, Sept. 15—This diamond producing region is preparing to dazzle the world with an exhibit at the New York. World’s Fair next year. One feature will be a chromium globe on which the continents wul] be outlined with diamonds. PALS LET'S GO DOWN T'™M FAMISHED In sharp contrast wi Hughes flew his plane to New through the sub-stratosphere in 10 hours and SORRY, FOLKS .T WUZ GONNA GIVE YUH " SOUP, SPAGHETT! AN' CORN r Flight | th his last arrival at Floyd Bennett Airport, Howarc alifornia, unannouncec York from 3 5 minutes. Hughes (left) is pictured with Navigator Harry Connor. FOUR MEN WRESTL 265-pound Dutch Hefner flew, feet first, being held by Hefner's partner, THREE HEADS are better prospects for the University of North Carolina gri Southern conference circuit, With Head Coach Ray Wolf are Co- Captains George Watson (left) and Steve Maronic (right). ING delighted Dallas fans when at Fearless Frank Foster, Ellis Bashara. | | | | | than one, discussing football ! ders, on the | StuckfoJob OMAHA, Neb,, Sept. 15.—Ffrancis Olig, messenger for a telegraph ccmpany here, knows when duty calls. in a collision between his bicycle and an automobile, e was taken to a hospital. “Can’t I go out long enough to take this message?” he asked. Hospital authorities called his office, assured him the message would be delivered, and kept him in bed. Cultivate Weeds, " Exterminate Them CANNINGTON, England, Sept. 15—Every weed known to farmers is being cultivated and oarefully! tended on a plot of land at Can- nington Demonstration Farm. They are intended for a weed museum where research experi- ments are in progress to study their habits and to find the best way to |exterminate them, | Advisor on the staff, to a fine rer. BUT T COULDN T FIND NO DRY STKKS O WOOD, SO I HADDA USE TH' T'START TH' FIRE, THEN TH' CAKES STARTED BURNIN' ™ BUCS LOSE TWO RACE NARROWS When Rain Postpones Last Game (By Associated Press) They put a blowout petch on Pittsburgh’s Pirate pennant bubble erday and tried to get it to in what is hilar- se forgotten Gianis all but hlew the bubble to bits by taking both ends of a doublechader from the Pirates, and as the Cubs whip- ped the Boston Bees, a Cub shawod dropped into a spot within two and a half games of the top. The Gianis moved into third to tie with the Ciney Reds who split a twin bill with Brooklyn. In the American League, the ast lap there saw the Yankees put off their final game with Cleveland because of rain. Boston's second place Red Sox belted the Tigers and the Athletics nipped the Browns to climb out of the cellar. - Alaska T. B. Assn. Meets Lafisj Evening Harry G. Watson presided over a called mecting of the Alaska Tuber- culosis Associaticn last evening to nsider how best to carry on a nore vigorous program against tu- berculosis throughout Alaska The Alaska Tuberculosis Associa- tion depends entirely on the volun- tary gifts received during the an- nual Christmas Seal Sale. There lare 217 communities from every part of Alaska behind this work which from the beginning has been carried on according to the stan- dards of the National Tuberculosis Association which for yes has been the leader in the nation’s cam- paign to eradicate tuberculosis. The porent organization has lcaned Mrs. Florence Breed, Field st with the Alaska program. Dr. John A. Carswell, epidermiolo- | gist in‘the Department of Health reported over 4,000 persons exam- ined and X-rayed, with more than 6,000 young people tuberculin-tested up to date. Dr. W. W. Council, Commissioner of Health, stated that the Christmas Seal funds giyen to this work had enabled the Department of Health to add X-ray equipment and tuber- cuiosis clinicien which has extended the amount dbf work possible, and now being done by the Department of Health. A more extensive program of tu- berculosis education is to be car- ried on by the Alaska Tuberculosis Association as it is necessary to do this work as its present contribu- tion to the case finding-X-raying and tuberculin testing activities. Mr. Watson stated that the very leadership and group interest in the various parts of Alaska in this public health problem of tuber- ulosis is developing some interest- ng local tuberculo: programs. Du,i; ‘IsH%mlfi—red JANESVILLE, Wis. — The city little brown dog which for years has followed the city street sweep- City Manager Henry Traxler made formal presentation of a medal, gold plated and engraved, as Al Schwenker drove the sweeper up to the city pumping station. African Natives Plan To Dust Wattle Now MARITZBURG, Natal, Sept. 15.— If you were to drop into this South- East African Province this October you'd see a bunch of people dusting the wattle. It will be an attempt to rescue the wattle—the wattle being not a new dance but a tree whose culti- vation provides one of the prin- cipal industries of Natal. The dusting is to kill off the bag- worm which attacks the tree. R SPAGHETTI . DRY CORN AN' T urP BLOW AREA ' TO GIANTS AS COMES BACK T0 PRODUCE | Cleveland andYankeesQuil Dust Bowl »Sil_gs Song of | Blllc Ski(‘§ as R(’]i"b‘ | Cut “Wild Acres’™ | By ROBERT GEIGE AP Feature Service Writer AMARILLO, Tex., Sept. 15—The old-timers were right: The dust bowl does shink when it gets wet. That came hceme to me during a dust bowl trip which brought me here to the office of Soil Con- servator H. H. Finnell, the head- quarters of the government's fight against the blow area. awing a map of the bowl on latest rain reports, Fin- Control of the so-called dust bowl is ncarer realization today than at any time since it came into existence.” Unexpected rams nave caused him to slash millicns of acres off his 1939 blow area predictions. In 1935-36, 50 million acres of land were blowing away. Townsmen couldn’t see acr the street and farmers caught only an occasional glimpse of the sun for months. “We can't say those days are gone forever but next spring south- western skies should be less dusty than in any spring since 1932, Finnell commented. “The ar where severe dust storms may orig- inate next winter, under present conditions, is composed of about 16 million acr the ‘wild acres’ of the dust bowl. This all bears out the predictions of old-timers who said the south- west would “green up” almost over- night when rain fell again. Rain Made to Order I drove down south of Amarillo to the little town of Hereford to see one of these old-timers who never lost faith and who had made his own drought relief. Hereford is out of the dust bowl now and even the dry land farmers there have | good crops, but Joe Evans was sit- ting pretty even before the rains came. Evans, a middle-aged, 5-foot-4 farmer who made $30,000 in wheat ‘duriny: one season in the twenties, heard from a ultural agents that the dust bowl problems would re- quire generations to solve. He agreed—in principle — but decided |that in his own case it would have to be solved right then in 1936. Gambling that plenty of water was available far beneath his dusty acres, he drove down two wells, 175 feet deep. To a pump on each he rigged a powerful automobile engine, and started pumping water tat the rate of 2,000 gallons a minute. Then he carefully contoured and terraced his lands, as government experts recommended, to save what ‘rain might fall. He planted corn land livestock feed on most of the 1,200 acres he was able to irrigate from his wells. On one tract he lraised some wheat, | A Three-Basket Man “Last year,” he tells one proudly, |“when I discovered I could makc: jonly $5 a ton from grain sorgum harvested on 1,000 acres, I bought cattle and fed the sorgum to them, ‘making $10.50 a ton. That'’s what it’s possible to do when a farmer keeps his eggs in more than one basket.” Now, with normal rainfall as well as the irrigation water, he has corn eight feet tall, feed crops bet- |fathers have honored “Brownie,” a|ter than anything around him and 25,000 bushels of wheat in storage. “But I'm not wheat crazy now,” |says Evans. “Sooner or later the |man who depends on wheat alone is going to find himself in the poorhouse.” HOBOES ARE ELIMINATED BERLIN, Sept. 15—The day of the hobo seems over in Nazi Ger- many. When Hitler took power, approximately 200,000 “knights of the road” roamed the country. Nazi officialdlom has devised means of keeping a closer check on these wanderers, with the re- sult that there are only 22,787 of them left, according to latest sta- ou_ 1918, King Features Syndicate, Inc HADDA PUT 'EM OuT WITH TH' SOUP. World nghts reerved When 0id Soldiers Meet,lusftfiluakflut DUTCHFLAT, al., Sept. 15— Here's one that won’t go down in the list of happy reunions of vet- ! erans. Game Warden Earl Hiscox, 1ook- ing into Henry A.Schroeder’s hunt- ing credentials, got to talking about the World War. He discovered that | they had been in macine gun com- | penies pitted against each other he with the A. E. F. and Schroeder with the Germans, He also found that had falsely represented himself a a citizen in getling a hunting li- cense and had apparently been smuggled into this couw in 1926, Now Echroeder is a 50- jail sentence aud on his wist face deporatation proc - o I's a Big Family MILWAUKEE. Verette family of numbers and weight. All the nine children of the late Mr. and Mrs |John Verette are living, and th lightest, Mrs. Bessie Ward, weighs 185 pounds. Lyle. the st man, weighs 201. Marlin weighs 245, Cliff 268, Earl 263, Mrs. Edith Helwig 202, Frank 207, Ralph 202, and Floyd 302 Schroeder ry rving release edin Sept. 15 The Milwaukee LoGe and pracer locauon notices for sale at The Empire Office. WHEN YOU GIVE GIRL A RING COUNT 3 By JOAN DURHAM AP Feature Service Writer The time between the day on which an engagement is announced and the wedding day is the time for the engaged couple to accom- plish three things The bride-to-be must collect her trousseau, plans must be made for the new home, and both must meet each other's families if th haven't already done so. This also is the time for parties for the young couple A trousseau includes not only the girl's clothes but also the linens for the new home. The supply of linen no longer has to be enough for a lifetime, as was customary in older days, but it must be ample enough to set up the new house- hold. His Re ibility It is the husband-to-be’s respon sibility to arrange for th new home. But the couple should plan it together, since both are to liv in it and both tastes should be at least partially satisfied { Who may give parties for the younz couple? Friends or relatives Close relatives should not give par- ties at which gifis are expected, however Shower for the bric should be given by friends 1- though often the family will help bear the expenses. It is still considered proper for the young man to ask a girl’s fa- ther’s consent to marry his daugh ter. And he should not resent it if the father insists on knowing his financial status. Only very close friends and rela tives thould send engagement pr nts, if any are sent, They are not € ary-—but are merely a token of the close relationship which exists. Engagement presents are often given, especially in Europe by the bridegroom’s family to the younz woman they are welcoming into the family. Word of Warning Enpgagement presents never marked with any but the unmar- vied initials of the bride-to-be, since ometimes engagements are term- inated. Engagement presents need not be returned, whe: d t would be sent back if the m s called off. The parents of the girl announce ement. Often this takes 1 afternoon tea or a din- ner ir ents may also notify the local newspaper. Engagement rings are never worn until the announcement has been made. If the engagement should be terminated, tr ring is .sent back. The ring is a symbol and when the 1bol is no longer,sig- nificant it should be removed. - e - BLAGK WIDOW SPIDERS WILL BE FOUGHT NOW WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 The days of the poisonous, little black widow spider may be limited in this country. Uncle Sam's ento- woiogists have a plan to fight it with another spider which they have imported from Huiti, and which particularly likes to feed on black widow eggs. The second pider is harmiess. Rizht now the two spiders are being watched in federal labora- torie 3efore the scientists turn the Haitian spider loose they want 1o ure it sticks to black widows. £ they consider the harmiess s<piders a real help because they eat mosquitocs and flies. - WIFE THROWS . MEAN BRICK GAFFNEY, 8. C., Sept. 15. — The ks and w els had better let M Hettie White's hens alone. Fer “pitching arm” is too much for them A hawl cm tip to with a p measuring three feet ip attempted to make fowl from her the raider in a brick: and ized v urprised the act up brought him down. full-grown weasel me trick a little eg used a rock to vicked u, tried . Mrs. this had Ti D Today's News ‘L'oday.—Emplre. - Girl Scientist Who Chucked Career with Lindy FTER 14 months of laboratory panish loyalist hos- bombed work in a pi ves, it v Fontaine is back in the U. S. and finding it hard to relax. Here she's telling how the glass shattered yound her, and how the rats scur- ried over the crossbeams By LYDIA GRAY SHAW AP Feature Service Writer NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—Dorothy Fontaine traded a nice, safe, clean job at the Rockefeller Institute in New York for perilous laboratory duty in a loyalist hospital at the Spanish front, and came back with only one complaint—the rats gave her the jitters, Bombings didn’'t mean a thing to this slim, boyish girl with tousled, sandy hairgbut the rats . . . “I'd lie in bed at night and watch them gallop over the cross- beams and pray they kept their footing”—Miss Fontaine lifted her hands in supplication as she spoke. “I guess they had had a lot of practice, though. They never did fall off.” The rats haunted Miss Fontaine's dreams all through the 14 montns she spent at the Spanish front. But bombings were routine. Twice her hospital at Tarancon was struck. Plenty of "damns” and “hells” and piacer location notices fistics. The decrease is attributed | punctuated Miss Fontaine’s descrip- for sale at The Empire Office. % {0 various job creation schemes, !tion of the bombings, and plenty of Finds All Jobs Look Flat After Hospital in S pai;t Dorothy b, explanatory gestures. Thirty- think like tuberculosis or typhoid. four, but looking not more than 24, she was curled up cross-legged on a couch in her apartment, but shifted her position constantly Worked with Lindbergh When she went to Spain, she left behind a research career with Dr Alexis Carrell and Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, with whom she had worked on the “mechanical heart.” She dumped it all overboard for a two-fold job in the war area—lab- oratory and pharmacy work. Here are some of the difficulties she faced: No running water in the hos- pital. Distilled water—a hospital “must* —obtained from a home-made still constructed out of two empty oil cans and a coil of copper wire. Constant threat of an alcohol shortage. Difficulty in securing serums and other necessities. And daily a new flock of patients whose wounds had to be tested for infection. Smears were taken to see if they had contracted any- Moved Overnight When the evacuation hospitals were shifted to another point—that might happen overnight, Miss Fon- taine found—the staff got moved as best they could. “Once I traveled five days in a box car,” she reminisced, “and never took my clothes off. Every time there was danger of bombing, we'd jump off the train and try to hide in shell holes. Meantime we'd stop the train and gather along the tracks while food was prepared over an open fire.” After 14 months of this excite- ment, Miss Fontaine can't quite face the idea of a nice quiet job at Rockefeller Institute or any- where else. “T'll probably wait awhile before I hunt for another job,” she said. In the meantime, she's going to propagandize to have the neutral- ity embargo lifted. She calls it “a bunch of baloney,”