The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 4, 1939, Page 5

POLLY AND HER PA LS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, APRIL 4. 1939. By CLIFF STERRETT > »—(E)v" LAY OFF Ler,) WEARING OUT THEIR WELCOME, thousands of honking wild gecse and ducks settled dow after a heavy fog made further flight impessible. They stayed s VETERAN FANS PLAYING GAME IN B. B. CAMPS No Holdout | eporfnd from Oldtimers Who Never Miss One Contest 11'the exhibition n so often he kncw: major-league playe: mi a kick ous of renewing at the exhibition ¢ Boston rooter of 4 W. R. Ross. (Don’ many of them are games. H been I the | gets quite acquainta L Another standing is Dr k up why s doctors) Eylvester B who is get hing n getting since Owner t to the Senators s President ery St. Patrick’s day he sends s rocks to Griffith and to } mmm- ;.1..\.‘\ The shamrocks are imported from 1d, Or the Chicago Cubs™ staun- ASOY h al hill. The that he's 1 8¢ I person- ing to the camp for those 40 vears. to be an ol ton’s chief fan pas man now. He has ver TAMPA, Fla., April 4 I relar entl of story i daily and know Cub ally. But the hardy gents to training Youwll find one in every g camp have bee > playe are the (e real fans who trail camps year after yea more of them fellow wh years or 10 or 15. A six-month s¢ son isn't enough for them got get the jump on th homes and make an early the rookie Dr. Curtis I lyn has been cafp for rs as 0 years. He clubhouse, put take an abbreviated the boy Somelime games between the yannigans Dr. en chances are he sions even mroe ¢ when U Wilbert bossing the Dodgers. They were re ly the Daffiness boys then, Therc was always a laugh in the Brooklyn camp because you couldn’t tell what those screwballs would do next More than a dozen Boston are quartered at Sarasota ob: ing the drills of Joe Cronin's Red| A fixture of the track on Derby Sox. One of them is Dr. P, J. Sulli- | Day, Moran is to continue as van, who spent three weeks with|man” at the 65th running of the the players. He rode in the team’s!turf classic May 6. ms - JOE MORAN IS "HEAD MAN" OF KENTUCKY RACE/ LOU! ILLE. Ky, Apr 1 say Joe Moran is “hes whenever Kentucky Derby time at Churchill Downs 1917, with few exception cach Derby found Moran lead- ing the nation’s ¢l iest arting post Hi horses conduct south to talent Claa visiting maybe like: of en the You d man roll ves to dress in t uniform and workout with he umpires gulars and the wround Since parade of the 3-year-olds to the s joh mainly is to s themselves with least some semblance of decorum Moran, a j v of Another era, is there t the charger along to the post. His work isn’t over when the thoroughbre the bar- rier. If some frisky entry decides to do 4 tches the horse and escorts him back to the starter re; 15+ doesn't but enjoyed the sy 1 few say S0, at years cle Robinson HOPEFUL HURLER Jim Henry, a rookie up from Min- neapolis, is {rying to make the grade with the Phillies in Texas. nearly | > that the | solo gallop, he goes into action, | “head | . | playing DON'T WORRY, BUDDY- ) SAM PERKINS ALLUS BEI fr\/Ff; IN EVENIN'_/ everal days, cousing some Slugger Is Big Hurler; Isn't Sorry - Gene hllard Has No Re- grets Changing fo Box | from Hot Corner By ROBERT MYERS LOS ANC 2S, April 4. Gene | Lillard, a lad who hit 60 home runs {as a third-baseman for Los Angele [in 1935 and later deserted the hot sorner to try to make the grade as 1 pitcher, has no regrets over the change and hopes to win a place on l)u hurling_corp the ar e of Chicago runs in one season is feat, to put it lightly hopes were held for Lil- lifted him from *1 ty a very great rare ind lard when the Cubs Los Angeles in 1936, { But Charley Grimm used Lillard | i infrequent utility man, keep- | the dependable Stanley Hack at | third, and young Lillard’s home-run itting prowess was ignored The next thing the Pacific ague knew, Lillard had | vitcher, and came back to { Francisco to work for Lefty O'Doul Considering it was his first year as t moundsman, his 1937 record of 14 wins and 10 losses was m) 50 bad. Last year, again in a Los geles uniform, Lillard won 16 (qn(l lost 10, and back to the Cubs went “Sometimes I wish I hadn't switched over, but men who know more than I do about it say I won't regret it in the long run,” Lillard !says. “Sure, it’s a lot more fun every day and swatting /them out of the park, but I want to stay in baseball as long as I can, and a good pitcher can stick around 1 long time in the majors. Look at | Charlie Root.” During the spring games Lillard, a fast-ball with good control, looked enough to stick with the Cubs Cub besses, however, were helding final decision Schedule For Army :: WEST POINT, April 4. — The Army baseball squad will play a 16-game schedule this spring. In- cluded in the program is a game with the New York Giants on April 17, and a game on May 30 with Col- gate at Coopertowns, N. Y., in con- nection with the 100th anniversa of the origin of baseball. e e — Flying Heels LEXINGTON, Ky., April 4. ing Heels, a very successful sire. wa himself one of America’s fastest race | horses. As a 2-year-old in 1929 he started 10 times, winning seven races and placing in three. The following vear he started seven times, was three times first and four times |second. He won seven. more races {before he was retired, winning a | total of $128.435. - Be surc and vote. Polls close at 7 o'clock ht. he training pitcher good The with- | ~Fly-! | CATCHING THE ‘HOT ONES’ on a Kansas state prison island fa; TANKS PAL! T'LL LEVEL WIT! YER | YOU, DE TICKER- ME DE WALLET ! in the Missouri river Here y are over a field. ought to be easy if the caicher’s glove were as hefty as this one seems, in a wide- angle camera shot of Harold Spindcl. He's an ambitious rookie catcher at the St. Louis Browns’ camp in San Antonio. * FEDERAL ECONOMY TALK BiG SUBJECT IN CONGRESS NOW (Continued from P'u,v One) the house who had a disagreement with the banker about loans for improvement of the old homestead. Would the banker please now un- derstand that all was over—no more words about money changers and certainly no further action to suit those words? | Those are the similarities between family and governmental finance. But there are two fundamental dif- ferences between the family pocket- book and the United States Treas- The ideal home budget makes ex- penses meet the family income. | WITH SOMETHING LAID ASIDE FOR A RAINY DAY. The ideal |government budget makes income ‘«Lax receipts) meet expenses, AND |AVOIDS PUTTING ANY MONEY ASIDE FOR EMERGENCIES. But most all economists agree that the picture of the Federal Treasury laying money aside for a public emergency is cock-eved in more ways than one. -Anything left over should be returned to the peo- ple it really belongs to, the tax- payers. Second : Each budget expects to use cred- lit to keep it supplel, but the usual i family budget has a known credit limit, based on a private citizen's past performance and the known | ceiling of his income. Contratily, a public budget has no known ceiling of credit, until that ceiling is actua ly approached or reached. The fed- eral ceiling is a matter of opinion That’s the fundamental argument of the moment—the debt ceiling of the Federal Treasury. SHOULD IT BE RAISED? Years ago, Congress put a theo- ‘rcti(-al roof on debts at 45 billion : rln]lal'h. as a sort of warning signal. Investors were assured the Federal Government would go no farther than that, or at least there'd be the devil to pay in Congress when that point was reached. Senator Harrison warns that the limit will be reached in the middle of next year if spend- ing continues at the present rate. Secretary Morgenthau has asked Congress to raise the ceiling by five billions. It's Harrison's timé to call a halt economic chaos. Morgenthau such dange that it's warns of theory He apparently sees no at least in a five-bil- lion dollar ante. If he's working on the general theory of the adminis-| tration financial experts, the idea woul dbe to boost the national in- | come and let the increased taxes ielded by that income bring the debt down again before it reached a danger zone. | An example: In 1930, the year after peak 1929, income taxes netted Uncle Sam close to two and a half billion dollars. But in 1933, the year after dark 1932, only 700-odd mil- lions trickled in to Uncle Sam from hat source, even though the rate: were about the same. That drop, plus heavy pump- priming, doubled the national debt in eight years to around 40 billions -where it now hangs Choose your side of Where s the reasonable limit of Uncle Sam’s credit? You're going to hear much more about that in the next year or so. But before you get in TOO deep, remember that NOBODY actually knows the answer. - - OPHIR HEADED Jack Allen, Los Angeles man as- ociated with Interior mining op- erations and the Iniskin Oil Drilling Company, passed through Juneau on the Baranof over the weekend, returning to Ophir to put dragline into operation again for the season. .o WOMEN OF THE Meet Wednesday night, LO.OF. Hall HATTIE the issue: MOOSE 8 o'clock, PETERMAN, Recorder BOSTON BEES ARE CHANGED, TWO DEFECTS They Lacked Power, Re- placements in 1938- It's Remedied Now By DILLON GRAHAM AP Feature Sports Writer BRADENTON, Fla., April 4 Casey Stengel, the weather-beaten old jester who pilots the Boston Bees, squinted his eyes as he gazed out on the sun-baked infield. “Well," he drawled, “I've got more players than I had last year and if they're any good maybe we'll do a little better this season.” Replacements were pretty scarce around the Beehive last year and injuries cut down the Bees' chances. Too, the Bees didn't have much power. Casey things he has remedied that, also. | “Watch that Shortstop” “That Simmons there looks pretty good,” he sald, as the veteran Al took a cut at the ball up at the plate. “He ought to knock in a lot of runs for us. And that Hassett fellow Year- He's added power. He's got a (Johnny Hassett from Brooklyn) Catcher in Al Todd to spell Al Lo- and Outlaw (Jimmy Outlaw, also Pez And he hopes for pitching aid gotten through Brooklyn), they from Joe Sullivan, who led Inter- oughta help.” | national League tossers; Art Doll He rubbed a hand with gnarled and Tom Earley from Hartford and fingers over the stubby beard on his Per’ haps John Pezzullo from Savan- chin | nah “Take a look at that shortstop.; 1 don't know where we'll llmsh That boy can handle a baseball as)but thig'll be a hard club to bea well as any may in the Jeague. And | Casey said I think he'll hit for us, too,” Casey T TR o e s won e HORSE VETERAN OF WORLD WAR IS SPRY AT 32 up with some fielding gems and he’s socking the ball. He hit .290 FORT MEYER. Va. April 4. When the United States plunged for K. C. and knocked in 90 runs, “That boy cost us a wad of money but maybe helll be worth it,” Casey into the World War 22 years ago this April 6, a little black horse named Jeanne D'Arc was 10 years | said. Miller cost $25,000. 1 “I got 4 lot of good rookies,” old and already a veteran with the French artillery Stengel asserted. “Some of them are a year or 50 away but they'll be good before long. Take that Henry Majeski from Birmingham. Jeanne is still alive and amaz- | ingly spry and comely for her years—the age in a human. 4 - L weight Champ Primo Carnera only a few games out of the first division. Casey has the replacements this I'd planned to play him at third base, but he broke a bone in his fool. Guess he won't be much use for a while. “I want you to note that catcher, Masi. He's an Eyetalian, I think He's a-going to be a great catcher He likes to play ball. Johnny Hill from Atlanta—he led the Southern | Association batting—is a good ‘un. Maybe we can use him,‘too. Don't know, Deb Garms at third ba: Bees Won at Home Funny thing about that Boston|the mare, possesor of a wound stripe club last year. The won more games|and six combat stars couldn’t step at home than any other club. And}emartly down the avenue. But she's their winning percentage was better {on the retired list and her owner, than 500 even, though their two|Lieut. Col. John D. Von Holtzendor! best pitchers, Fette and Turner, lost |of the atrillery, guards her moré games than they won. With |zealously possibly the weakest attack of any Jeanne's first major service un- of the contenders, Boston finished der the Stars and Stripes was with She's the last sur- service with the American army in France Wounded At St. Mihiel But when Jeanne's stablemates, in the Army Day parade Thursday, equivalent of 96 years of | vivor of the horses that did battle | though—looks like T'll play| prance down Pennsylvania avenue | health | NEW KIND OF GLOVES were worn by ex-Hea: wha wad Pina Cavazzi in Ttal Second Division when it stopped » German drive on Paris at Bell- 1 Wood. She won her wound stripe in the battle of St. Mihiel when she was the mount of an artillery chief of section in the 36th Division. A shell fragment injured her right foreleg. Jumped In The Olympics The four other major battles in [ which Jeanne participated were Ver- dun (with the French army), Blanc Mont, the Meuse-Argonne and Sois- | sons, Col, Von Holtzendor! bought "lll'l' at the end of the war. An ‘ex- teellent jumper in her day, she par- ]ll(lpa(vd in the Olympic games and wrm trophies in other major compat- Jumnr's ancestry has not ‘been vatnb]nhc’! but. Army horsemen feel { certain she is an Anglo-Arab, In good weather, Col. Von Holtzen- (dorf frequently rides Jeannerides ,m- with all the pride of a Napol- cn on Marengo of Waterloo fame. dnce her aged legs have been lim- bered up in a little preliminary walk, she can still cm'ry him at a gallop. TWO BILLS ARE SIGNED BY FDR Army Air Defense Meas- ure Calls for 6,000 Planes WARM SPR_INU‘I Ga., April 4. -President Roosevelt has signed the 8,000,000 Army Air Defense and Governmental Reorganization bills. | The Army bill authorizes 6,000 planes she won't be with them. It isn’t that Be sure and vote. Polls close at 7 o'clock tonight. Tragedy in Day’s New s—Boy I\llled by Truck Traffic accident in Brooklyn, N. Y. A trafiic warning for all motorists and pedestrians. fhe body of a small boy lies in the street where background, he was run over and killed by a truck pictured in Scene is Brooklyn, N. Y.