The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 9, 1939, Page 5

g OSSR S L * THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, SEPT. 9, 1939. By CLIFF STERRETT | 1 DERN NEAR WHY, I WAS SO LET A DOZEN ABSENT- MINDED _FROM THINKIN' OF YOuU YESTERDAY--- HONEST, POLLY.. 1 DOES NUTHIN' BUT THINK OF You TH' HULL DERN DAY/ OH, KEN, You [ 0 i LN The Name Everybody Knows COMPLETE APPLIANCE LINE AT RICE & AHLERS CO- A Useful Gift for Every Purchaser THIRD at FRANKLIN PHONE 34 e e o i Y | | i CANDY LOVERS Oakland | month. He arrived k(s 91 448 ANGELS WIN TWO GAMES LAST NIGHT Have Chance of Overfak-| ing Seattle as Rain- | iers Lose (By Associated Press) Los Angeles retains a slight chance of overtaking Seattle by taking two games last night while the Seattle Rainiers last two, thus cutting the lead to eight games. Seattle has 10 games to play. Dominic DiMaggio kept the family shield polished by doubling and singling twice in the opener and a homer and three doubles in the; nighteap. 1 Sam Gibson got his 2lst victory in the opener for the Seals. { The Angels got 35 hits in the two | games against Portland. | Fay Thomas got his 16th win in the opener with his mates making 21 hits. The Angels poured vigl runs across in the last five innings of the nightcap after Portland led | 5 to 1 at the end of the second in-| ning. l Oakland’s win brought the club out of the cellar, leaving Portland lonesome there. Three Sacramento Hollywood's victory. GAMES FRIDAY Pacific Coast League San Diego 1; Oakland 2 acramento 3; Hollywood 6. San Francisco 14, 6; Seattle 4, 1. Los Angeles 13, 9; Portland, 3, 5. National League Philadelphia 2, 1; Brooklyn 11, 3. Second game called in fifth, rain. Cincinnati 5; Pittsburgh 2. St. Louis 10; Chicago 3. American League Cleveland 12; St. Louis 1. Washington 4; Philadelphia 5. Boston 1; New York 4. errors aided STANDING OF CLUBS (Official to date) Pacific Coast League Won Lost 98 66 91 5 87 5 92 83 ki 88 %) 89 | | Pect. 598 548 .537 | 526 467 461, " Seattle Los Angeles San Francisco Sacramento San Diego Hollywood Boston 1 89 National League Won Lost ki 49 3 54 71 61 67 60 65 60 59 68 56 10 40 84 Portland 444 Pet. 611 575 .538 528 520 465 444 Cincinnati St. Louis Chicago Brooklyn New York Pittsburgh Philadelphia American League Won Lost 94 38 .6 55 K5 57 .70 60 69 62 59 4 46 84 35 94 Pct. 12 580 568 538 527 444 354 291 New York Boston Chicago Cleveland . Lewrolt Washington Philadelphia St. Louis Walters, Red Ruffing for World Series Both Hurlers Earn Assign- | ments—Bob Feller Also Moves Info Class (By Associated Press) If. and when the Cincinnati Reds and New York Yankees take the field in the World Series, the chances are that Bucky Walters and Red Ruffing will be the oppoing pitchers. Both hurlers earned the assignments yesterday without argu- ment. Walter took his 23rd victory yes- terday with a five-hitter and hitting a homer to clinch things when the teams were tied. Ruffing got his 21st win for the season and his fourth consecutive | victory. Feller Is Classy Bob Feller also joined the 20-game group with a five-hitter as the In- dians massacred the Browns. Athletics Show Stuff The Athletics defeated Washing- ton despite an 8 to 13-hit deficit. Two Straight for Cards The St. Louis Cardinals made it two straight over the Cubs as Chi- cago errored five times. Dodgers Move Up The Dodgers moved into fourth| place with a double win yesterday over Philadelphia. Rookie Bill Crouch made his first big league Amazing New 1940 PHILCO FARM RADIO Never Before Such Tone and Performance for $20£m,, Block $5.50 Extra ILCO 9O CB xowetbes- wind zh-rlfl':-“‘ deuble ,..,N,.. . 7 Tt the price: ided cabinet. PHILCO 95T Self-contained Bat- low-drain tubes. High output speak- er. Handsome Wal- nut cabinet. See ity hear it—NOW $21.45 Battery Block $5.50 Extra W. P. JOHNSON TELEPHONE 17 Dot | | | PHILCO 100T (Above)—All the features of the 95T plus the added con- venience of Pushe Button tuning. i $33.45 Battery Block $5.50 Extra 211 SO. FRANKLIN N O e S 323 | | | | his dad is manager, Charley Gill will zo to Dodgers. outfielder, Calvin Chapman, | |start and seven-hitted the Phillies for Brooklyn. Rain stopped the nightcap in the fifth inning. .- 'HUNTERS HAVE 600D LUCK ON 2 WEEKS' TRIP. Four big brownies, two nice deer, lots of trout, and a few salmon. That was the report of a party of four hunters from the States who returned last night from a two- weeks trip with Ralph Reischl and | Jay williams on Reischl's boat, the | Treva C. | Included in the party are three | Oklahoma City men, Dr. E. 8. Fer- | guson, C. B. Cooke, and Jack Far- liss and Chauncey Grover, from Yelm, Washington. Dr. Ferguson is an eye, ear, nose | and throat specialist. Cooke and | | Farris are oil men, and Grover is |in the Yelm postoffice. | The party spent their time in| Hawk Inlet, Mitchell Bay, Kootz nahoo Inlet, Sitkoh Bay and a few | other spots, reporting good hunting everywhere. The three Oklahoma City men, guests at the Gastineau Hotel, plan to sail south tomorrow on the Bar- |anof. Grover will visit a few days | more with Heischl, who is a long- time friend. ——— | What's This! Tenfing On the Roof? No, nobody’s camping on the Fed- eral Building roof, though that is| a tent you saw billowing i the | breeze there today. | The 10-foot pyramidal tent was | erected by the U. S. Weather Bu- | ELKS PUBLIC DANCE —Everyone Welcome!— reau as a temporary shelter for | 3 ! SPRING DELIVERY _rrom the Nashville Vols, of which bert (above), 20, an outfielder, A left-hander, Charley and another Vols’ brought a reported $40,060. in The For- inflating heium balioons used radio-sonde observation work |tent was borrowed from the est Service. A supply of the large 7-foot bal- loons arrived on the last steamer from Seattle. Because of their bulk it was found difficult to in- flate them without having some shelter from the wind. The Bureau here is awaiting ap- proval from Washington to con- struct a permanent shelter on the roof and to install an aerial and |lead-in for the radio receiving-set used in the work. In Fairbanks (Fairbanks News-Miner) A dare he faced down several seasons ag is chiefly responsible | W. K. (“Bud” Foster's arrival in Fairbanks Wednesday to become assistant manager of Radio Station KFAR . | | That challenge to a semi-serious boas tth ould “do a better job | boast that he could “do a better job | | the bird wh paid for it" took | Foster into the Juneau radio stu-| dio for his first professional mic- rophone experience. Telegraphic play-by-play of the World Series were shoved in- |to his face by the fistful, accom- | panied by the order, “Okeh, Bud: | make it sound just.like you we sitting behind the first base coach- ing box get reports The Showdewn Foster swallowed his throat, and squeaked, “Let’s have some sound effects,” and his radio career was launched Until he came through with a hit on his first trip to bat in radio, Foster's prospects for eating regu- larly in Alaska had been thin and shadowy. He had traveled north from Oregon on the promise of a | job—which proved to be non-exis- istant upon arrival at the antici-| pated site of employment The KFAR assistant manager | boasts that he was born “right on Park Avenue—In West Seattle’ He | attended Pacific University at For- est Grove, Ore, with the intention | of becoming a teacher. Promise of a job . in Alaska dispelled this no- tion. All-Trades Jack During his affiliation with the | Juneau studio, Foster ran the gamut | | of radio activities. Starting as an- nouncer for recreated sports broad- | casts, he progressed through stages as commercial announcer—the one who can make a cake of medicinal soap sound not only desirable, but downright indisperyable—to chief | announcer, program director, and | then commercial manager of the station. | Foster will work cheek by jowl' with Station Manager Jack Wins- | ton in the a$sembling and sched- | uling of KRAF's programs, as well as keeping an eye focussed on the| business ledger for the station. The assistant manager will be rejoined here by his wife late this | ;P(ic;! down with the 3 lowest! GMC power or GMC's gas savings! GMC valv n-head engines giv SUPER-DUTY perform Yet, GMC prices ar o the 3 N JUNEAU A GMC TRUCK Stanley Cox and His Royal Alaskans Band THIS EVENING 'CGNNORS MOTOR CO.. Ine. TELEPHONE 411 | TRAILERS -DIESELS dmission $1.00 (CALIFORNIA U |iels has a broken foot. The fool was by bus from Valdez. Airways Coup Foster considers his greatest mi-' crophonic coup dispatching to the| world the first news of the safety | of Premier Mitchell Hepburn, when | the latter was grounded by fog in! a flight between Atlin and White- horse. On that occasion he news- cast on a three-way network in- cluding National Broadcasting Cor- poration, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and British Broad- casting Corporation ... FOOTBALL TEAM LOSES ONE STAR BERKELEY, Cal, Sept. 9.— The University of California football team suffered its first casualty of the season today a week before prac- tice opened when it was revealed that first string guard Jim McDan- injured during a gymnasium work- out. He will not be able to play for at least six weeks. - ~ DUYN CHOCOLATES DISTRIBUTOR HERE | Favorites for years throughout Hw' Pacific Northwest, Van Duyn’s Cho- colates made their first appearance in Juneau this week at Percy” where a large window is now d playing a full line of the select can- dies. Percy's was recently named sole Juneau distributor for their famous products by the Van Duyn company, and since receiving the first ship- ment this week, the local confec- tionery has discontinued all other boxed chocolates. - BOUKNES ON NORTH SEA John Bourne, mechanic with the Gastineau Motors, is a passenger for | Juneau aboard the North Sea. He | is accompanied by his wife, son| and daughter. - R TODD PIANO SCHOOL Caroline Todd is opening her piano classes Monday, September 11. For reservations call 677, 4 to 6 pm. adv. iF Do Not Forget There is no substitute e | w s ATTENTION! ‘ ! TODAY . . . their first Van Duyn eca tions are made with fresh w sweet by of high pping cream neredient dies are ter and other deliciou: t quality. Vun Duyn Kettle Presh.”” Try some today! v & box of Chocolates. If agree they are the fresh- wost delicious you v tasted re- mpty box and nd your money. GIFT BOXES from 50c up CHOCOLATES SOLD EXCLUSIVELY BY PERCY B IR Displays of Alaskan Products —Agricultural, Floral, Domes- tic - and Educational Art, Amateur Photography. A Glorious Array of Profes- sional Performers- All Star Circus Acts including several local amaleur acis °’S or Newspaper Advertising 81" ANNUAL SOU TH —EAST ALASKA FAIR