The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 23, 1939, Page 5

THERE'S COMPANY WOT'S TH' IDEE O' DOWNSTAIRS, DEL. PUTTIN' ON ALL TH!' PRIMP FER SUPPER ,POLLY 2 % P THE D sux. T\ AIN'T HEARD NO BUDDY ANKLE IN. ILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1939. By C A LIFF STERRETT BUT I JUST HEARD MA LAUGHING AT OF PA'S JOKES ONE When you go to the New York World's Fair make this enjoyable tour at reduced cost on Northern Pacific’s special Exposition fares. From Seattle to New York and return to REDS WORK TOWARDT0P, NATL. LEAGUE Giants Shaken Up by Terry ~Phillies Winning | Streak Is Ended (By Associated Press) | Somebody must have told the Cin- cinnati Reds they look like the | Yankees and now they are out prov-| ing it { Of course the St Louis Cardinals | are leading in the National League by one game on the strength of | their victory over the Phillies yes- | terday but the Reds are pressing hard. Lefty Lee took his second win of the club’s current victory streak, beating the Dodgers yesterday with the help of heavy hitters. Terry shook up the Giants yester- day, benching Catcher Harry Dan- ning and First Sacker Zeke Bonura and then went on and defeated the Pirates behind the six-hit pitching of Hal Schumacher. The Boston Bees evened series with the Chicago Cubs being on top with a victory terday. Harland Clift and Mel Mazzera walloped homers yesterday to give the St. Louis Browns a decision over the Athletics and ending Philadel- phia’s winning streak. GAMES MONDAY National League New York 9; Pittsburgh Brooklyn 3; Cincinnati 6. Boston 5; Chicago 3. Philadelphia 1; St. Lows 2. American League St. Louis 6; Philadelphia 3 Other scheduled games rained out. Pacific Coast League No games were played in the Pa- cific Coast League yesterday as the teams were traveling to open today on the following schedule for this week: | San Diego at Seattle. Sacramento at Portland. Hollywood at Oakland. San Francisco at Los Angeles. their by of the Philadelphia Phillies hurls Yelow. MacPHAIL ENTERS A. NATIONAL LEAGUE 2 STANDING OF CLUBS (Official Standings) Pacific Coast League Won Lost . 32 20 31 21 - 30 22 25 26 22 25 22 27 20 29 19 31 National League Won Lost b 9 18 10 .15 14 14 14 14 14 13 16 1 15 9 19 League ‘Won Lost 21 5 . 16 7 15 13 .13 13 =% 4k 15 . 10 16 Pet. 615 596 577 490 468 449 408 380 | Los Angeles Seattle San Francisco . Hollywood San Diego Sacramento ... Oakland Portland Pet. | 654 643 517 500 500 448 423 321 5t. Louis Cincinnati Chicago pittsburgh Boston New York Brooklyn Philadelphia American Pct. .808 | 696 | 536 | .500 | By DILLON GRAHAM 423 AP Feature Service Sports Writer .385 — ,3791 BROOKLYN, May 23—Mr.Larry 333 S. (for Stupendous) MacPhail is an Idea Man. He is the No. 1 Deep Pct.f’[‘hinkcr of Baseball, and I can't .500 | swear the list extends any farther. .500 | His ideas panic the staid old Nation- 500 al League, | Last season he brought Brook- llyn its biggest crowds in years |ing the stands. It was the same ing the stands. It aws the same Flatbush Follies but the paint job fooled the Trolley-Dodger fans. He introduced the yellow ball, foot-races, night baseball and fun- go-hitting on the theory folks would come to see the carnival contests if ARRY 8. New YOrK ... g u “His Ideas Panic — Boston Chicago Cleveland Washington Philadelphia St. Louis . 11 18 Detriot 10 20 Gastineau Channel League Won Lost 1 3 1 1 1 1 Elks . Douglas Moose to e = 1 play. Welterweight Crown of P | entering an American League team H into the venerable old National Thursday Fight i those stories which hinted the sen- NEW YORK, May 23 — The best ior circuit was minor league is in England where Henry Arm- could win a National League pen- strong, who has won three world |nant. man willing stéll holds two of them, is scheduled | give any old idea a try. And so he's to risk his welterweight crown in|experimenting: to see whether an Liverpool, on Thursday. |can cop the National loop bunting. e This, of course, is a revolutionary MEET RODERICK | World IS at Stake in His latest notion is startling— loop race. Larry probably read fight for Ameriean fans this week and that several American clubs championships in this country and| Now Lary is a London against Ernie Roderick, of | American League team Try an Empire ad. idea and doubtless it is against Na- While thousands gaped in awed silence, Spud Davis the top of the William Penn statue atop Midtown city hall in Philadelphia and David Coble, a rookie catcher with the team, makes the catch 595 feet While the feat was noteworthv. it failed to Hurls Baseball Vto Catcheffi 595 Feet Below Spud Davis and Doc Prothro equal a baseball from Henry Helf and the nicture with L. "RINGER™ IN one accomplished Indians, who caught balls thrown from the top of the city's Terminal tower, 708 feet high. ager Doc Prothro of the Phillies is at the right in LIFE OF ROYAL VISITORS, JUST CHAIN OF CALLS King and Queen Now Trav- ! ; eling Faster than Average Movie Star on Circuit | | (Continuea rrom Page One) at this aspect of the royal job. But there's a lighter side. Everybody got a good laugh, for instance, at the British Industries fair a year ago when the police saved the King from a “bombing plot.” The bomb turned out to be nothing more than a box of self-supporting socks which the inventor was wait- ing to deliver to His Majesty in per- son | Real Bombs, Too i They were real bombs, however, that anti-British terrorists set off within earshot of the King and Queen when they were visiting Bel- fast last year. But their majesties remained calm and the ceremouics continued without a hitch. | | Despite the dignity his position de- mands, the King breaks loose occas- ionally with some tomfoolery He interrupted a factory tour once | to ride in an 1899 model automobile he had come upon unexpectedly. “Whoops, were off!” cried His Majesty as he rolled away in the old | car. | George and .Elizabeth yielded to impulse and stopped in at a social | | center one day to play a game of darts — the great British indoor | sport. The Queen, who said 1t was the first time she had played, scored his 21 to the King's 19, “You've won by two," King. David Coble last year by Catchers Frankie Pytlak of the Cleveland Man- Dav [the mound to interfere with French leave, said the \ HIT-HAPPY Bernara Mec- Coskey (above), Detroit Tigers center fielder, took No. ! hit- ting honors away from Hank Greenberg in a recent count on American league batters. YOUTH TAKES OVER WEEKLY ROTARY LUNCH Senior Class Officers Are Rough on Members- Levy Fines ‘Worries nbm:twlnrv: the younge generation is going to take care of the national debt were dispelled to- day, at least in the minds of Juneat Rotary Club members, when six High School boys ook over the week Seattle ~ Only $QO in Newest Deluxe Reclining Chair Coaches $135.00 in Standard or Tourist Pullman sleeper (new low round crip berth rates extra). These special fares good on the luxurious Roller-Bearing, Air-Conditioned — NORTH COAST LIMITED If you wish, you may fornia and see San Francisco N no extra rail cost. Stop over where you like. Call or write for fu ll particulars on this liberal summer offer. northern KARL K. KATZ Alaska Representative 200 Smith Tower Seattle acific 'LIFE TO DEVOTE WHOLE ISSUE TO INTERIOR DEPT. Broadcast fi; Vkecreate Na- tion’s History as New Map Is Issued The Department of the Interio in cooperation with Life Magazine and the National Broadcasting Com- pany, is arranging an unusual event | which will be of interest to all em- of the department and s, in connection with the is-| suance of the new master map of the United States by the General Land Office. On June 2, Life will devote an antire issue to a pictorial history of the Nation’s past, and an inventory of its resources of today, based on the new map. On Sunday, June 4 at 2 pm, (FOR STUPENDOUS) MacPHAIL they wouldn't flock to see his flock | actually f Stight Misundersianding Once Manager ordered Poffenberger home wher Boots hove to after a vanishing act Cochrane meant Detroit. But the Baron h Md, and while the searching for him (Funny how these Dodgers are home-lovers. Mungo always headed for Pageland, S. C., when he got upset, although he could read 'the road signs to Brooklyn.) When Bools reported jis spring he was 25 pounds over- | t. He wouldn't get into shape. Del Baker, the new Detroit mana- PENNANT MARATHON » went, posses where he Tigers sent out , ger, decided he would have to go to asylum or Boots would have to zet. Baker doesn’t fancy asylums, so the Dodgers got Poffenberger. If you'll take him as you find |him, and shrug away his oddit | Boots will win. MacPhail says he win 15 games. A pitcher who an win 15 games for the Dodgers -an get away with anything. Larry buy Brookiyn bridge and it up for Boots if the young veloped a yen for it. brave man is Manager Leo | He agreed to take The | Baron sight unseen. “Never look a gift horse in the | face.” said Durocher, as he ordered another aspirin, AR FERDINAND TO DANCE FRIDAY AT ELKS" HALL Dcrothy Stearns Roff will present |26 students from her dancing school in an extravaganza of 21 numbers jat the Elks Hall next Friday eve- ning at 8 o'clock. Age of the dancers is from 2'%¢ | to 19 years and their numbers will \range from Margiold Waltz to Fer- dinand the Bull. Mrs. Harry Sper- | ling will be accompanist at the pi- ano. With the staging of the produc- tion running into money and the dance recital of the Roff students s latest Daffodil for his being given but twice a year, the Boys is a young gent cooperation of the public is urgea. amed Cletus Elwood (Bbots) Pof- | - e the american Leazue wicn OIRL SCOUTS GET magical powers of disappearance pRIlES fOR SAlE OF SHOW TICKETS and his ability to remember bar- tenders’ names. He Belongs There Pcffenberger is a natural for Brooklyn. He'll feel athomeamo Nathylie Bailey, it was revealed |such quaint characters as Van| today, won first prize in the Girl Lingle Mungo and Russ (Red) Scouts’ sale rally for the recent Evans. As Mungo so naively ex-| show the girls staged at the Coli- ! pressed it, upon hearing of Poffen- | seum Theatre. Nathylie is of Troop | berger's purchase: “Thatll take a Three, load off me. | Second prize was won by Betiy Detroit dn't appreciate Boots’ Nordling, third prize by Beverly eccentricities. He had the greatest|Leivers, both girls of Troop Two; 'fadeaway in the league. A playful Betty Wilcox, fourth prize, from the | habit of wandering. Vamoosing. This Mariner’s Troop, and Florence fun-loving winker at training rules| Hawkesworth, from Troop Three, ‘never allowed his scheduled turn unlwimling fifth prize. an the National League” o League by-laws to slip a ringer, or American League entry, into the National steeplechase. Larry has gone about it cau- gradually cutting National adrift and adding Ameri- guers. Just to show he isn't | uperstitious MacPhil had 13 Amer- n leaguers on hand as the Dod- faced the getaway barrier. He probably felt that no superstition or jinx could harm the seventh- ace Dodgers. They couldn't out- fumble the Phillies, who have a copyrighted claim to the cellar. So tiously, Leag Mickey Cecchrane to > was Wiillamsport, to Detroit “What a very sporty game it is, exclaimed the Queen. The Queen, who long ago over- came her shyness at appearing in public, demonstrated her knack for public speaking when she deputized for the King at the launching of the liner Queen Elizabeth during the September crisis that kept the King in London. She got along swimmingly until it came time to cut the tape releasing the christening champagne, In her excitement she forgot to say in the| customary manner, “I name thee| Queen Elizabeth.” | “A Bonnie Lassie” 1 Once, when they were visiting Edinburgh, an 84-year-old High- lander, evidently feeling the priv- ilege of this years, came up to her! Scottish majesty and exclaimed,| You're a bonnie lassie, I wish I had courted you myself.” The crowd roared, and the Queen, | the reports said, “smiled broadly.” | But the ceremony, which varies according to the occasion, has been toned down considerably since the| days of Edward VII except for such octasions as, say, the opening of a |new session of Parliament. Then ! their majesties, to their subjects’ de- light, doll up in glittering outfits and fide through the streets in the | gold coach drawn by the Windsor grays. The Queen went unrecognized once during a surprise visit to a slum-clearance area. A night watch- man in one of the flats snored peacefully the whole time she was |in the room, and one of the house- | wives she had talked to exclaimed | afterward: “I thought she was.just a lady!" Just One Day The average public engagement goes something like this: Their majesties, in “civilian clothes,” arrive by royal train or auto — distinguished by the royal standard — to find an endrmous crowd which has “waited patiently | for hours"—probably in the rain this being England. Local bigshots and perhaps a little shot or two are presented. Then, after a quick little hand squeeze of encouragement from the Queen, the King gets up and makes a speech—a brief one in considera- tion of his stammer, After that comes the cornerstone laying, the memorial unveiling, or the long, long walk of inspection. A few hours after departing, if the occasion warrants, the King sends a “bread and butter” mes- sage of thanks and good wishes— just like an ordinary mortal. .o ; TRAVELING SOUTH Dr. Murray W. Shields, professor of business administration at the University of Alaska, passed through Juneau aboard the Baranof en- route to Utah for the summer. He was accompanied by Mrs, Shields .and their two sous, | Wichita beauty shop owner has each ly luncheon meeting and extracted $5.01 in fines out of Rotarians whosc usual weekly “donation” is about 20 cents. With Eckley Guerin, Sthdent Body President, presiding, the boys, all members of the Senior Class, put Rotarians through their paces try- ing to recall sight-unseen everything that is printed on their badges. Each who missed even 50 much as a letter was fined 10 cents. Fifty members contributed. One generous soul threw in the extra penny Assisting Guerin were George Alexander, Cla; Vice President; Claude Hirst, Past President of the | DRIVERS FINED Class; Wendell Schneider, Cln&s‘ UNDER NEw lAw President; Don Wilcox, Business | PTG Manager of Publications, and James %, Lemieux, Past Class President. CHEYENNE, Wyo, May 23—It's Stan Tollefson of Seattle played 8ainst the law now to leave a car | several violin selectior unlocked on Cheyenne’s streets. o > A new traffic code, sponsored by Sample i Police Chief T. Joe Cahill, providgs s al Fingerfips |« tine of u ‘ a fine of up to $100 for permitting ‘WICHITA, Kap, May 23. — A Juneau time, the National Broad-/ casting Company will present on its Red Network, a special one hour show which will recreate by radio the Nation's past and present. These events are planned to be highlights in the history of publica- tions and radio respectively. ——————— THIEF-INVITING a motor vehicle to stand, unattend- | ed, with ignition unlocked. | “Maybe it will help the memories of those drivers who virtually invite car thieves by leaving their machines unlocked,” says Cahill. D HEADS DOWN RIVER fingernail in a different color. She uses them as a sample case 50 cus- | tomers can choose the shade they like. On week-ends, though, all her nails match. -~ The trading craft of operators TO SUMMER HOME Elton Buzby and Chester Spencer Mrs. Charles G. Burdick has mov- | has headed down the Tanana River ed to her summer home at Point from FPairbanks with ten tons of | Louisa. trade goods. When You Lunch Tomorrow LUNCH at the BARANOF On Baranof Style HAM HOCKS and LIMA BEANS AUXILIARY T0 SELL POPPIES HERE MAY 27 Alaska Legion Women Will Disfribute 20,200 Paper Flowers Saturday, May 27, will be Poppy Day and a Proclamation has been issued by Gov. John W. Troy for the Territory of Alaska. More than 11,000,000 of the little red memorial flowers will be of- fered for sale ,on . the streets thrcughout the eities of the United States. Plans for the local observance of Poppy Dav are being completed by the local Unit of the American Le- gion Auxiliary under the leadership of Mrs. Homer Nordling, Unit Poppy Chairman. Poppies for distribution for the Territory have been or- dered from the Veterans' Hospital at Walla Walla, Wash., through the Department Poppy Chairman, Mrs. John McCormick. This year 20,200 popples having been ordered for the 11 units in the Territory. Poppies this year have been made at 78 Government hospitals and Auxiliary work-rooms in 48 states, where disabled veterans unable to do other work have been given em- pleymet during the winter and spring months, e e — PLANS BEING LAID TO PREVENT FOREST FIREN To obtain information needed for establishment of a fire protective or- ganization for Interior Alaska’s pub- lic domain is the purpose of the visit to Fairbanks of William J. McDon- ald, Regional Forest Inspector of the Forest Service, with headquarters in Juneau. He arrived in the interior metropolis last week. Sty kRS Try an Empire ad. "Bad Slide Puts Cub Star Out With Bfoken —Anklc ‘Whitehead covers base as Cavarretta slides in Here’s the scene as Phil Cavarretta, Cubs’ out- flelder, breaks his ankle by sliding into second base 5, ] st 1 during an attempted steal in a game with the Glants in New York. Whitehead covers the base.