The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 20, 1939, Page 5

POLLY AND HER PALS BEST WORK INTH' MORNIN' . STEVENSON IS b HIGH NOTCHER Stars in N.L. Ranks Three Outstanding Pitch- ers, Two Batting Lead- Roger Stevenson. Junecau Lumber pinster, wi top Ilight kegler for Sunday's Major League rolling with 1 224-194-217 azgr The lumber five ¥ rom the Branswizke:s Brunswicks took revenge on Alaskan Hotel squad, however, and won two games of three with Rayela leading the match with 594. | SURDAY, 635‘ i | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, MARCH 20,-1939. TAKE MY NEPHEW, ASH, FER INSTANCE | HE DOES HIS HARDEST DAY'S WORK BEFORE BREAKFAST. 27790 the | By CLIFF STERRETT ICE BREAKS, 'DROWNS 42 SCHOOL TOTS ' Teacher Sa\}éS‘Only Three ' in Excursion Party to Polish Lake ers Are Grabbed Scores. follow: Juneau Lumber 183 223 152 211 217 167 170 173 224 194 By DILLON GRAHAM AP Feature Service Sports Writer NEW YORK, March 20.—The Na- tional League made off with most of the prize plums among Southern Association rookies, grabbing the three outstanding pitchers and the two batting leaders. Bill Crouch and Russ Evans, two of the association’s three 21-game winners, and Bert Haas, runner-up in the batting averages, were cor- raled by Brooklyn. Crouch. Nashville right-hander won 21 games and lost eight. His string included 11 straight. Evans record showed 21-and-14. Fifteen of his wins came while New Orleans was in last place. He was voted the association’s most-valuable player. The Dodgers swiped Evans from under the New York Giants’ nose The Gians took him from New Or- leans and sent him to Jersey City. Then Brooklyn drafted him. Haas, a first baseman with Nash- ville, lost the batting championship bva fraction of a point to John Hill, Atlanta third baseman, .3377 to .3378. Hill goes to the Boston Bees. Metcalf Iffert Holmquist Stewart Stevenson 191— 153— 156— 540 134— 477 217— 635 8512765 597 516 946 968 Brunswicks Totals — 66 184— 506 168— 519 156— 470 157— 482 138— 469 Spot E. Galao Hildinger Rayela Carnegie Seston 165 169 157 182 173 846 797 Alaskan Hotel 157 182 157 143 158 Totals 803—2446 30 163— 522 194— 546 Spot Radde Hudson Lavenik Hendricks Ugrin 179 181 149 217 175 901 901 Brunswicks 171 201 184 5. 165 540 Totals 848—2650 179— 164— 175— 192— 1mM— 66 579 522 594 545 477 Spot E. Galao Hildinger Rayela Carnegie Seston 178 210 203 194 168 222 148 216 159 138 Totals 953 883 881—1817 i MARION EDWARDS Sunkel to Cards The St. Louis Cardinals copped Tom Sunkel of Atlanta, a southpaw who had the league’s best won-and- lost record, 21-and-5. The ~Dodgers 6ok five other Southern aces: Pitchers Hugh Casey and Paul Paynick of - Memphis: Catcher Charley George of New | | ) Nick Radunich, Russ Bauers, Darrell Blanton, Joe Bowman, Bob Klinger, Mace Brown, Ken Heintzelmat ’itchers get the spotlight in the imp at San Bernardino, Cal. Here's seven mem- rs of the Pirate mound staff tossing a few at the Pirates’ training | cameraman. Left to right, they are rookie Nic | Radunich, Russ Bauers, Darrell Blanton, Joe Bow man, Bob Klinger, Mace Brown, Ken Heintzelma: BERLIN, March 20.—A dispatch received here from Warsaw reports that 42 school children were drowned in a lake near Krzemien- iec, Poland Forty-five children were on an excusion party and they suddenly ran out on the ice on the lake which immediately broke ‘under them. ‘The teacher saved three of her In Auto U BETHEL DOG RACE IS WON BY MAXLIEB Drives His Team Over Fifty six-Mile Course in 4 Hours, 57 Minutes BETHEL, Alaska, March 20.—Max | Lieb, native musher, forced his team of work dogs to victory last Satur- day in the 56-mile annual Kennel | Club race to Akiak against a field of ‘more than'300 dogs. The time made by Lieb was 4 hours and 57 minutes. : Margaret Kemaroff and Margaret | | " |little charges. oo RECONSTRUCTION OF SPAIN WILL BE LONG, COSTLY (Continued from Page One) nion Break tured, but was up to 90311 in Sep- tember. | The Insurgents blame the drop | on internal factors such as demor- ! alization of the workers and sabo-| tage. Impartial observers attribute it to the insurgent blockade of the port. Taxes And Busines Go On As one proof of what they call the normal conditions prevailing be- hind the battle lines, the Insurgents 'point “to the - regularity shown in the budgets of muicipalities. Even in cities so near the front as Gran- ada and Zaragoza, they say, muni- cipal revenue without any extra- Orleans; Infielder Pete Coscarat of Nashville and Outfielder Fred Sing- ton of Chattanooga. Coscarat, up with the Dodgers for a while last year, has the inside track on the second-base job. Singilon, unable to stick in several trials with the Wash- ington Senators, impressed Brook- lyn fans with a .358 batting mark IS TEA HOSTESS Mrs. Marian Edwards was hostess Saturday afternoon at the hor Mrs. Russell Clithero with a St. Patrick’s Day tea, with green carnn- tion and lighted tapers forming at- tractive decorations for the charm- |ing affair in 17 games late last season. Kirby Higbe and Newt Kimball, Birmingham pitchers, get trials with | the Chicago Cubs. Higbe, with a 15-and-10 mark, has a better chance than Kimball, 11-and-9. Cleveland will inspect a quintet | from New Orleans Pitchers Tom Drake, Joe Dobson and Floyd Strom- Guests were greeted at the door by little Miss Allene Maloney, and those pouring during the afternoon were Mrs. Olaf Eikland, Mrs. Floyd Dryden, Mrs. Iva Tilden and Mrs. Helen Webster. The Misses Laura Jean and Gordon Clithero assisted during the tea hours. —_—— Browne, the latter the wife of the well known Alaskan airplane pilot, | tied in the 12-mile race for women, | their dogs making the time of 1! hour, 3 minutes and 20 seconds. RUTHENIA COMES UNDER CUSTOMS BAN IN AMERICA Imports of Seized CounirviHREMEN ordinary imposts has been maintain- ed at the same rate as in 1934, 1935 and the first half of 1936. As evidence of the stability of the national budget the Insurgents as- sert that the municipalities still are collecting from the state about one- sixth of their total revenue. This is (32 Homer S. Martin, one of two rival United Auto Workers’ presidents, is obtained through their share Hoping to again become a fence buster as he was in the days-of his American league glory, Al Simmons, now a member of the Bes- ton Nationals, uses his bat to sight the distant outfield fence. in Bradenton, Fla , training camp. (left), New Jersey’s open golf king of last year, as he ponders move in the Pinehurst, N. C., checker tourney. Turner, who is ) of the Pine Valley golf club at Clementon, N. J., is playing Karl. * Apdrews of Virginia Beach while Clifford A. Sloan of Mankiasset; - similar to the German and Italian plans, Another big problem will be for- elgn trade, which has fallen off con- siderably. Britain and Spain always have been good customers of each other. Now British coal exports to Spain are said to have dropped 37 per cent; machinery 90 per cent; motor cars, 9 per cent. These are Britain's big three ex- L. L, 19oks on. Sloan’s brother is General Motors president. with Ranger Paul Judge aboard,,was held in Lynn Canal by a stopm. It will proceed to Sitka as sopn as weather permits. B Miss De Vee Prucha - Celebrates Birthdays carried on shoulde should return to American Federation of Labor, Petersburg Wanberg (f) B. Johnson (f) of admiring delegates at convention called by Martin in Detroit. He was wildly cheered as he denounced John L. Lewis, C.I.O. chief. Martin said he would let convention decide whether the U.A.W. per cent) of the trade tax and in- come tax paid the state, and 30 per cent of the taxes paid the state, for gas, electricity and for motor vehicles, Zaragoza, for instance, collected more than 2,500,000 pesetas in 1936, laccording to the Insurgents, des- pite the fact that the latter half perts to Spain, Naturally she will try to win that trade back. And' Miss De Vee Frucha enterfained while " financial experts predict a ' yesterday afternoon at the ‘Ninth free-for-nll among various powers, Street home of her parents{ Mr. British interests feel they have the and Mrs. Gilbert Prucha, in cele- top hand because they have the bration of her eighth birthday. money. | Seven of Miss Prucha’s classmates | spent the afternoon with her play- ing games and enjoying some home - me and Infielders Frank Scalzi and James Shilling. Rich to Red Sox Woodrow Rich, who won 19 and lost 10 with Little Rock, will go to| Sarasota with the<Boston Red Sox.| The Philadelphia A's have Pitcher | William Beckman from Atlanta (20-| ¢ 6.30 o'clock tomorrow night in and-13), Infielder Bill Nagel of Little | 1o pariors of the Northern Light Rock and Outfielder Dee Miles of | pregpyterian Church, another of the Chattanooga. Miles has had several| yonthly Norlitemen dinners will be trials with Washington. The Phila- | peiq. Reservation for the affair must delphia. Phillies are giving Legrant pe made tonight by calling 373. Scott, Birmingham butfielder, a| The Rev. John A. Glasse will lead looking over. |a discussion on the “possibilities of Other rookie graduates include: socialized medicine for Juneau.” Catcher Dick West, Chattanooga, Mrs. Vena Crone will be in charge and Infielder John Lindsay Brown. of dinner arrangements. Nashville, to Cincinnati; Infielder ISR 4 T R RO Tom Hafey to the New York Giants; | Pitchers Wayman Kerksieck and | William Sayles and Infielder Paul| Campbell, Little Rock, to the Boston| Editors will bowl the Merchants Red Sox, and Infielder Henry Ma-'at 7:30 o'clock at the Elks Club to- peski, Birmingham, to the Boston night, and at 9:30 o'clock the Ac- Bees. 'countants roll the Brokers. Reservations End BOWLING TONIGHT ” DONE WITH MIRRORS, practice for navy crew can- didates is under way at Anhapolis with a mirror used to show up stroking faults. Above, Coach Buck Walsh points out a needed im- provement to Crew Capt. Fred Kittler of Detroit, Mich. For Norlitemen fo Be Considered as ' from Hungary Ruthenia, seized last week by Hun- | gary, today came under United Stat- es tariff restrictions such as were vIKINGS applied Saturday to Bohemia and' Moravia, taken at the same time gt by Germany. | Collector of Customs James J. Bt o o o, w. Pefersburg Norsemen Johnson, Acting Commissioner of . A . o snamaton. notica-| 1ake Third Victory in tion as follows: “The State Department having to- Juneau, 29'25 day advised the Treasury Depart-| ment that in view of the recent mil- % itary occupation of the Province Petersburg’s hard driving, smooth of Ruthenia (Carpatho-Ukraine) by working basketball squad, rolled up Hungarian miflltarytfo]rces andmthz: another victory in the ranks of Ju- assumption of control over ese | . 2 areas by the Hungarian authorities, | P€au sportdom Satiizday pight when the State Department, while not they added to their two victories recognizing any legal basis for the| over the Juneau High squad with a chnaged status of Ruthenia, is{20-25 triumph over the City League ;oblig;ld b:’he;c 1::;’;3 cil;cg;xm;ug;scéo champions, the Firemen. consider tha par - SR ¢ | oslovakia republic is now under the| It ¥ evident trom the starting 'de facto administration of the Hun- | whistle that the Firemen were, no | garian authorities, products of Hun- | garian authorities, products of the {area mentioned exported from any country on or after March 19, 1939, |Hungary for the purposes of the ,marking provisions of the tarifff act of 1930 and for determining appli- |cable rates of duty. Give importers all pessible notice, Apply provisions {of Article 822 (E) Customs regula- | tions of 1937 in determining dates of | exportation.” - e———— (PAA METEOROLOGIST COMING TO JUNEAU A. M. Francis, Meteorologist for Pan American Airways, will arrive in Juneau tomorrow on the Alaska for work in the Territory relating to PAA weather stations. He will go into the Interior by Electra. A hen owned by Lawrence A. Taylor, Salisbury, N. C., lived to be 23 years old, J 'shall be regarded as products of | match for the dazzling speed and brilliant passing of the Petersburg boys who cinched their, superiority with unerring basket dccuracy. Tom Wanberg, deceptive dyibbling Petersburg forward, was high point | man with nine markers, with Palmer | Pedersen and Rungvald Stenslid | tallying seven each. | . Ed Metzgar, towering over the Pet- | ersburg boys, failed to run up more than eight points for the Firemens’ high individual tally. The Petersburg boys returned to ‘Wrangell Narrows with coach Les Wingard last night on the Yukcn the basketball season over, but boasted they will have “an even better team next year.” Juneau lost three games to the visitors, but not a fan has yet made the remark that Petersburg isn't a a classy ball club and deserving of everything they are taking out of Juneau, including the Southeast Al- aska Basketball Crown taken from Juneau High School. ~Box scorefor Saturday -night's game was as follows: was a war period; 2,820,347 pesetas in 1937; and has estimated its re- ceipts from this source in 1938 at 2,755,347 pesetas. . Thanks to their good position, the insurgents go on, the municipalities are able to relieve the national gov- ____|ernment for some of the responsib- 29/ ility of repairing war damage and | launching ambitious new projects 4 under “new Spain’s” social welfare 6, Program, 8 War Scars Removed 0| Bilbao, they say, is restoring the 5;hrxdgcs that were blown up by the 0| Bevernment forces on their retreat. 0| Oviedo has drawn up plans for the 0| reconstruction of the city, entafling 2! an expenditure of 300 million peset- |as, and its example is being follow- 25 €d by Guernica, Irun, Gijon, Tcledo and a number of other war-scarred towns and cities. Burgos is spend- ing 3,000,000 pesetas on buildings jand new streets. Seville is buflding workmen’s dwellings and clearing the ‘Amate slum area. That is the economic picture H. Lee (f) P. Pederson (f) A. Johnson (f) L. Pederson (c¢) Stenslid: (g) Thompson (g) Elking (g) cwawowcowoH F A. Hautala f) Hanson (f) Metzgar (c) DeVault (c) E. Hautala McLaughlin Behrends (g) Sturrock (g) Erskine (g) (g) @) — e HOUSE AND FARM SOLD TODAY T0 BURDICK RETURNS FROM HAINES TRIP Forest Inspector Charles G. Bur- dick returned to Juneau on the Yu- kon Sunday night from Haines, where he had gone on Forest Ser- vice and CCC business aboard the launch Ranger IX. The launch, painted by the Insurgents, It s useful only if one remembers that the work of propagandists in war time is to make their side appear as well off as possible, The government side big advantage throu; L the war— Kaher, Foster Buy in Two, the gold reserve of the Bank of Pieces Property from | qes cimates b sames e 2 Di(kinson Eslale !'as' high as 2,250,000,000 pesetas, It | seized this reserve at the outbreak A ! of hostilities and has used it to fin- | ance its defense. Two ‘pleces of property from the| “porty million dollars in gold is | willam H. Dickinson estate were | blocked in the Bank of Prance pend- knocked down to the highest bid-| ing the decision of French courts ders on the Federal Building steps>:‘:n":e:?e;h5:h“ !;elmu to the gov- this afternoon by M. E. Monagle,| pn, “u,;.weh:‘:u;z::";md ¢ | Attornev for Guy McNaughton, ex-| what the total cost of reeona'xu:tl:n ecutor. | will be. But it will run into billions Joseph Kaher bought the Dickin-| of pesetas and require a generation son house at Fourth and Gold streets | to complete. Pranco has helped to for $1800 and Frank H. Foster bought | keep the cost down to date by using a five acre tract at Eagle River for|the labor of captured prisoners. $200. Both sales are subject to con-| Race For Spain’s Trade firmation of the Probate Court | One thing is freely admitted by Tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock | Spaniards themselves—outside cap- | a house and two lots in the Seattler ital will be required even though re- { tract;-part-of the Estes estate, are | construction be carried out in the | to be sold from the steps. framework of a controlled economy HIGHEST BIDDERS had one }mcvles. The usual birthday cake and ice cream were served during the latter part of the affair. | CHIMNEY FIRE An alarm from 2-3 box - called firemen to a residence at 304 Wil- loughby Avenue .this afternoon to extinguish a chimney blaze that caused little damage, firemen said. RECORD BREAKER Thomas Williams, a cadet at Valley Forge military academy, assembled an automatic rifle in 1.minute’ 14 seconds while blindfolded. The West Hartford, Conn., lad was' timed by Maj. Randolph Jefferson Scott,