The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 1, 1939, Page 5

SPEEDIN' AN' RECKLESS DRIVIN', YER HONOR ! COAST LEAGUE TEAMS TRAVEL DURING MONDAY 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: Seattle at San Francisco. Los Angeles at Sacramento. San Francisco at Oakland. Portland at Hollywood. Neo Big League Games No games were played in the Na- tional or American Leagues yester- day. STANDING OF CLUBS (Official to date) Pacific Coast League Won Lost 14 49 70 54 63 57 60 57 53 64 56 68 54 66 54 69 National League ‘Won Lost 30 42 42 40 45 46 Pet. 602 563 Seattle Los Angeles San Francisco Sacramento Portland Oakland San Diego Hollywood Pet. 667 533 523 521 494 489 467 299 Cincinnati St. Louis Pittsburgh Chicago Brooklyn New York Boston 48 Philadelphia 61 American League Won Tost 66 26 56 34 52 42 48 42 48 46 39 57 Pet. 1 622 553 533 511 406 314 286 New York Boston Chicago Cleveland Detroit, Washington Philadelphia 34 57 St. Louis 26 65 Gastineau Channel League (Second Half) Won Douglas 5 Elks SR 2 Moose 1 6 ——————— Birthday Gathering Surprises Honorees An informal gathering surprised Wellman Holbrook and Miss Lenora White last evening at the Molbrook summer home at Point Louisa Beach when neighbors called with gifts and refreshments to fete the two in honor of their birthdays. Miss White, daughter of Mrs. Josephine White, with her two| friends, Miss Jewel Heaton and Miss Betty Parsalow of Los Angeles, are now the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Holbrook at their Point Louisa home. Lost 2 Pet. 14 667 143 HENRY is 31 years old, 6 feet tall weighs*around 170 pounds. SORTA IN A HURRY AN' BIT CARELESS | to trot out to left field. When he NO! JESS I FINE THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, WELL,YOUNG FELLER, I WAS BGOING TO FINE YOU FIVE DOLLARS --- BUT THE WAY YoU TERM THINGS MAKES A DIEFERENCE, YOUu ONLY -... 1939. By CLIFF STERRETT " SLUGGING SINGER IS BEES' BIG STING A SWELL SWINGER . . . .. 3 | | | | . WHO SINGS WELL Buddy Hassett can hit the high notes with his tenor voice and the high batting averages with his hickory stick. It took Buddyv, the Irish Thrush, a long time to convince the baseball powers that he should be a first baseman. But his clever play around the bag and his fat hitting figures leave little doubt now: and nhis batting has im- By The AP Feature Service there BOSTON, Aug. 1.—Buddy Hassett proved is a good man to have around a ball| Buddy’s father has long been 2 club. Buddy's tenor notes fit into baseball fan. In fact > wanted any clubhouse quartet. His Trish wit | to Dplay professional haseball, but enlivens spirits. His hustle peps up |couldn’t make the grade. So when a team, | Buddy came back in 1911 And, at the moment, the Boston John Sr., decided right then that Bees are finding that Buddy’s bomb- [ he would rear a first baseman for ing bat is a good weapon to have | John McGraw's Giants around, too. He's slugging the agate| Young Hassett had a baseball tossed up by National league fling- glove as soon as he could toddle ers at a 340 clip. That average has about. And as a baby-faced kid he boosted him right up among the |sat in the Polo Grounds and Yan- loop's select sockers. |kee Stadium and watched Wally The Manhattan-born Johnny |Pipp and Lou Gehrig scoop ‘em up along | Hassett has had a hard time,|around the bag. though, convincing baseball man-| It turned vat that it was th agers that he should be a first| Yankees and not the Giants who baseman. It just happened that|got first crack at Hassett. The Ithere were pretty good first sack- Yanks picked him up off the semi- ers on the clubs he has played with | pro diamonds and shipped him to the last few years. So Buddy has their Wheeling farm. Then he was seen quite a bit of picket duty in|optioned to Columbus. He was going the outer gardens. pretty well when he broke his lez Hassett thought he was going to But he came back. The Yanks agreed | be Brooklyn's first baseman. But | that he was a nice looking young- the Dodgers hought Dolph Camilli ster but with Lou Gehrig going from the Phillies and Buddy had great they didn’t have much use got to Boston this year there was|lyn bought him in 1936 for $40,000, Elbert Fletcher perched on first. | Johnny McCarthy and Ralph Boyle. Buddy's Break | Sophomore Doldrums But Buddy finally got his break. The Bees sold Fletcher to Pitts-'for the Dodgers that year. The burgh and Buddy was brought in sophomore yeat jinx got Buddy as to the bag. He teels quite at home it has many youngsters and he "HENRY PICARD: By The AP Fecture Service for another first baseman. So Brook- | Johnny piayed first and hit .310| wasn't any bargain in 1937. Then Burleigh Grimes came to Brook- lyn as manager. Soon afterwards the Flock bought Camilli. And it was the outfield for Hassett Last winter Casey Stengel, the Boston manager who was Brooklm pilot: when ‘Buddy e€ame sup, ranged a deal that brought Hassett to the Bees. He gave up Gene Moore and Ira Hutchinson for Hassett and Jim Outlaw. | ‘The rest of Buddy's story is cur- rent history. He got the “break” he wanted and now he's making good for the Bees at first base and with his bat. Mrs. P. R. Flynn Is Juneau Visitor Mrs. P. R. Flynn arrived here on the Aleutian this morning from | San Francisco ‘the West Coast ‘Fanr City,” and will spend several days visiting with Mr. and Mrs George Henry. From Juneau, Mrs. Flynn plans |a trip to Anchorage, where she will visit briefly before returning south. ! Empire Wanu Ads Bring Results. The Veteran Stylist Is King Among Professional Golfers HENRY PICARD finally broke through. He's the new Pre ‘essional Golf champion. Five years ago he set a record by bu ting par in 50 of 54 tournaments. His pro pals knew he had the gan-2 to win any crown. Every year he was a serious threat in the Natioral Ope.i and the P.G.A. but his July triumph in the Professionals' ckampio::- ship brought him his first major title. He's 4 won more assorted tournaments than any other golfer this year and tops the money winners with $8,177. and SOCKER: Henry :v oy ets his body into A { long drives. 1 g Heis one of golf's stylists his flowing swing. £ HOLING a 7-foot putt, Picard beat TROUBLE comes even to the dumpions Picard Byron Nelson in the PGA finals. tackles a tricky shot out of the rough. 1D ol " choice is limited. FRANCO SENDS BERLIN FRUITS OF HIS VICTORY: Stores “Bombarded” with Oranges, Formerly ! a Rarity BERLIN, Aug. 1 Oranges in seemingly plentiful quantities have brightened Berlin tables after many months of inablity to get more than one or twe, if any, because of the Nazi government’s food conserva- tion policy. The appearance of the big boxes of the Spanish fruit in stores eased a burden for housewives and has prompted many questions as to why oranges suddenly became plentiful. The customary answer given in the streets was that Spanish Nationalist Leader Gen. Francisco Franco was paying off part of his “war debt” to Germany in that way. Otherwise German supplies of food and raw materials are practi- cally on a wartime footing. Food hearding has been undertaken on a gigantic scale by the German state. Canneries, day in and day out, are putting up meats, vegetables and fruits as reserves against the rainy, day that will come should the coun- try be involved in a war. ,’ Commodities Stored 1 Besides food, benzine, copper, | nickel, textiles and dozens of other; commodities essential for the con- duct of the next war are being stor- ed. The food shortage experienced by the average citizen does not mean, | however, that the country as such is 50 badly off. It reflects the scale on which the state is accumulating | stocks for the army to live on. | About the first quest on any| American resident in Germany hears from an American visitor is: “Is there really a food shortage here? I seem to be able to get all| the butter and eggs I want, and there is some fruit.” | The casual visitor, however, lives in the standard hotels. Or, if he lives with friends, they have dunel a bit of hoarding to provide the best possible entertainmeny for tbhe guest. Pay Only Half This is part of an effort to make foreign travelers feel that food is plentiful. They do not usually no- tice that food is expensive, for they | pay only about half of what the native or the foreign residents pay. An American resident in Germany gets about 248 reichsmarks for a dollar. An American visitor entitled to travel marks gets about 540| marks for a dollar, and naturally finds many things expensive. Big hotels seem to have plenty lof food for the traveler, but a long stay at one of them shows that the At Berlin the public markets available vegetables consist almost entirely of spinach and potatoes. Even sauerkraut—for which a gov- .ernment propaganda campaign was | conducted last winter—is sold out until late summer. Butter, lard and other fats are to be had only on a rationed basis—butter at the rate of 5.95 ounces per person per week. Parties Infrequent Asparagus costs 36 to 40 cents per German pound, equivalent to 1.1 American pounds. Pork is sold only in proportion to the quantity of fats allowed each family. Mutton and veal are scarce. Beef is more plen- tiful, but often is frozen, not fresh, One result of the meat shortage has been that private dnner parties have become infrequent. Families hesitate to invite guests when they do not know whether enough meat will be available to serve everybody - — COMMUNICATION Juneau, Alaska, July 31, 1939. To the Mayor and City Council— fill of coarse rock: This rock i such that improper material smx1 through the crevices leaving no foundation for the safe unchor-‘ age of the concrete which is being laid. “The contracting company is using tailings from the A.J. These taiings contain a considerable per- | centage of slimes and silt. The company has taken away the old surface which was packed down a certain extent and have used these tailings as a foundation for the cqment. | “Gentlemen: I warn you that unless you cause this job to be performed in the manner outlined in the specifications, the job will be a failure and the pavement will* be checking and cracking within « year or two “Juneau is burdened with a load of taxes which will be inherited by our children and grandchildren. ‘Why waste this money and the money which the United States Government has contributed through the PWA, on a piece of poor workmanship? “If you people wish to remain in office, 1 would suggest that you see to it that this enormous funu is not thrown awa Sincerely yours, (Signed) ROBERT M. -o - HYDRO - ELECTRIC DREDGE WORKING FOR NYAC FIRM New Plant Goes Into Oper- tion — Most Modern in Territory A new hydro-electric plant of the New York Alaska Gold Drado- ing Corporation went into opera- tion at Nyac July 21, powering the first dredge of the company. The plant is on the Tuluksak River, of which Bear Creek, scene of operations of the two dredges of the company, is a tributary. | J. C. Roehm, Associate Mining, Engineer for the Territorial De-| partment of Mines, writes that the | plant is performing very satisfac-| torily and gives the company the| most modern and efficient placer operation in the Territory other | than that of thé Fairbanks De- ‘panmem of the USSR. & M. Co. | The two dredges were formerly operated by diesel power and the company officials believe that the savings in fuel oil alone will pay for the new power plant within | two years. | To Goodnews Bay | On account of good weather en- countered, Roehm has completed | ahead of schedule geological in- | vestigations that were carried on| in connection with aeiial mapping | of the Tuluksak River area. He| now plans to visit the Goodnews Bay, Flat and Kaiyuh Hills areas where additional investigations for | the Department of Mines will be carried on this season. Of especial interest will be his| visit to the new Havenstrite drag-| line operations in the Kaiyuh Hills, | as no representative of the De-| partment has visited this area since the begining of these opera-| tions. At the larger operations in the districts visited investigations will be made of safety features and recommendations for their im- provement made if necessary. As many prospectors as possible will be contacted in the field and as- sistance given them in determining geology, and identification of rocks and suggestions will be made as to favorable areas for thelr work. Small operators who are unable to employ an engineer, will also be assisted in solving geologic and operating problems. o KEENEY. Gentlemen: “I have been a resident of the City of Juneau for 41 years and have been a taxpayer for approxi- mately 30 years. My interest is the interest of every taxpayer and I write you this letter as a protest against the unlawful, reckless and useless waste of my money and the people’s money caused by the disregard of the people's rights on the part of yourselves and the of- ficers of the City of Juneau. “I refer to the manner in which the contracting company is doing its work on the PWA paving con- tyact on Willoughby Avenue. “The specifications call for the use of coarse rock waste, crushed | rock or gravel and sand to be used | Alrways plane, for subgrade fill. The greater part of Willoughby Avenue is g fock SIMMONS MAKING ANOTHER TRY T0 REACH SEACOAST Shell Simmeus, flew out to the slands today after failing to get e mmeh b- @itha wectarday when hick- weather closed-in, rassengers for Siwxa, A. L. Flor- ece and Norman Cameron, who were aboard the plane yesterday, went out again today, and J. G Shepard was flown to Lisianski. Yesterday, on the return trip, Simmons brought in Henry Roden and A. P. Walker from Pelican City. Alex Holden, flying a Marine hopped to Todd this morning with passenger F. W. Downie. PITCHED-HITTING joe Medwick, siugging left fielder with the St. Louis Cardinals, doubles up on the ground after being hit on the thigh by a 1 Salvo fast pitch in the Cardinals- Giants game won by Cards, 4-3. This was in the fifth, Medwick left the game and in the ninth, dis truck the dizmond: the Giants' Lou Chio. les was broken. Boston Red Sox manager who was knocked unconscious in a collision with Frank Higgins of the Detroit Tigers in a game won by the Tigers, 13-6. Cronin later resumed play but he left the game at the seventh inning. Around manager are, left to right! Higgins, Sox Catcher Peacock, Umpire Quinn, Sox Infielder Doerr. MORE GRIEF FOR GIANTS_worried teammates carry Lou Chiozza, utility infielder, off the diamond after Lou’s collision with a co-worker, Joe Moore, resuited in a broken left leg for the former. The loss of Chiozza, during Giants-Cards game won by Cards, 4-3, hit Giants when they were still plagued hy the suspension of Bill Jurges and illness of Harry Danning. Pastor and Louis to Battle John Heltche Joe Louis, heavyweight champion of the world, shakes hands With Bob Pastor after the two signed for a bout set for Sept. 20 in the champ’s home town, Detroit. The contract for a 20-round bat was signed in Detroit in the presence of John J. Heltche, center, & - member of the Michigan boxing commission. Bob Pastor !