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4 Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY HELEN TROY BENDER R. L BERNARD Becond and Main 22's the new than the .22 The new 22 bullets are known as “Varmints” - - - President " Vice-President and Business Manager -American hunters. They B e jacketed with bottle-necked cartridge they strike the target chambers are necessary for woodchuck are case nd I Matter. uneau as Becond Cla: no spread ns when cartridge their 1 was one of the ¢ These same armints” can do plenty of damage on the battlefield. Let’s hope Americans will con- | fine their fire forever to the woodchucks. Killed in Action SUBSCRIPTION RATES, L o Janeau and Douclas for $1.25 per month (Cle nd Plain De By mail. postage yaid, at the f @ rates Jerner von Fritsch was or Ome year. in advance, $12.00; six m n advance, $6.00; ko st B M $ ok one month, in advance, $1.25 A gentleman and a soldier. He never was a Nazi bscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify : the Business Office of any faius rregularity in the de- elth in allegiance or thou His death on the livery of their pavers s Bt ¢ Telephones: News Office, 602, Business Office. 374 field of battle before beseiged Warsaw closes one of S NRABER OF ASSOCIATED FRESE. | the most dramatic episodes in the checkered history The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for | of Nazi rule republication of all news dispatches credited to it or mot otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news Col. Gen. von Frits was commander-in-chief published berein " Skt S—— BN of the German army until month before Hitler ALASKA JLATION GUAI FED A CIACULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER | 1u0rohed into Austria. He had been more. effective e 2 rSanse oy n any ¢ individual in building the new Germar - Y“»<k‘ ‘n'r‘l e Portland, my, bu built it for Germany, not for the Na- , New York and Bo oo e £ on: party. That was his downfall SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE-Gilbert A. Wellington, 1011 i Amorican Baok Build 1erals who oppc daring moves in*z the Rhineland Ttaly Extremsts of the Nazi party set out him.” resigned. His colleagues of him a house and an honor gua tary reservation with the significant remark there he w “safe fri the Nazis.” Hitl soon saw the error. He letter von Fritsch to withdraw oldier maintained his isolation him out. He took command of the front as a colonel. But the general d at the Potsdam t wrote his resig as but the the war brought artillery regiment at did it not for the Nazi regime, but for his country. tion, laconic communi in the s death It is unusual in the anr Details announcing rounding it are t LONG LIVE BASEBALL |of any war for an officer of his standing to be “ki The World S greate Ao in action.” There are men in ruling positions j * Germany who will not regret his passing, for event, ends with the incomparable New York Yankees pritsch was one of the people who would certa winning the championship for the fourth straight have stepped to the front to take control had 3 s : egime toppled. He was a soldier of the year. The Yankees have towered high over the base- V3% regime . : . 3 hool who looked farther ahead than his polit ball world ever since 1936. But the superiority of the superiors. Has Germany a New Weapon? New York team did nct make a rout of the 1939 se to * THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, OCT. 9, 1939. and can penetrate 11 planks, two less be- | “The stars incline copper | have use, sec into Aus- ia, his intervention in Spain and his alliance with ‘gel They produced taise eviaence and von Fritsch staff gave nili- hat numerous na- Only an he ique Circumstances sur- nals lled in von inly the old ical ould nor did it d ct a whit from the i the cc try continues to show in the game (New York Times) Every game of the present series was a good What did Hitler have in mind when at Danzig hard-fought contest, with the outcome in doubt right)he cryptically threatened that “the moment co come very suddenly when we could use a weapon with up until the time tne last man was out. Cincinnati| g ion we could not be attacked.” Presumably some oD contest Ty ihe owest of margins new military invention, some new chemical discov the four to nothing outc series games does not by any the teams. It’s a great game and most of us, even as far away from the sunny series diamonds at Juneau > of the th If his enemies have overlooked it. S0 means indicate the re trength of ! gun with which the Germans bombarded Paris, use of gas and the introduction of tanks. nothing m can be said than it was a freak, me: are look- ery it is not likely that the intelligence offices of The major techno- | logical surprises of the last World War were the huge the Of the gun, rely the the ing forward already to the beginning of the 1940 sea- e e B the beginning of the 1040 sea- o0 than known guns of smaller caliber. On son. Maybe somebody will beat the Yanks next Year.| opro pand. sns or tanks were introduced after z o war was well under schine-guns firing through THE HUMBLE .22 GOES TO WAR the propellers of airplar The .22 rifle, commonly regarded as a safe fowl- by any army s were known before 1914 though they had not actually been generally adopted ing piece for budding Lmnicl Boones of 11 and 12 It would be remarkable indeed if the present war years, threatens to be the big bad Bertha of the did not furnish its military surprises, but if technical United States’ arms embargo. history is any guide, they are mzfre likely to rnmf’ frfmv This 42 Inoked ke such. & amall minHow thap it (STile il logeniols flvilants Mkh-“feom t swadh- . G 3 bucklers. Moreover, the civilians will find it harc slipped through the embargo net when COngress Was | to gyercome the resistance of the professionals. From act. So it be legally n under the present | knights and bowmen almost as guests, but cut off | hands of musketeers who had been guilty of using drawing up the neutrality shipped to any bell law. But within the manufacturers have velocity and penetration may gerent nat past few developed vears, peg eneral staff opposed Fritz Haber and his gas and of tremendous There are at least five types the days when the Chevalier Bayard received captive the the American arms Dewfangled gunpowder, to the days when the Germar the British general staff adopted tanks only because of Winston Churchill’s persistence, officers have no of these new .22 bullews which have as great or greater jookeq with favor on innovations in death-dealing velocity and peneration as the regulation .30 caliber The reason is not that such civilians as Gatling and U. 8. army rifle. Maxim, who gave us the machine gun, or Fulton, the These bullets are deadly if they find the heart or rtist, who spent much time in devising a submarine. some other vital organ. The my rifle is, of course, are more bloodthirsty than professional soldiers, but far more deadly because it much heavier bullets, | that any army, a highly standardized organization The army rifle’s metal-clad bullets weigh 172 drilled in the use of known and tried weapons anc alns. . The heaviset of the new bull e tactics, cannot easily switch to new ways, however ef- E p ey e Welghs | reotive they may be on paper. 70 grains, the others r down to 45 | il The new .219 Zipper bullet is made in 46 and 56| pojitical progress of small nations since the World grains, has a muzzle velocity of 3,300 feet per second |war: and at 300 yards can penetrate from 10 to 13 seven- | ti eighth-inch pine planks. The .22 Hornet i has a muazzle velocity of 2,600-foot seconds, can pene- Adolf Hitler gave them self-extermination Jeseph Stalin ants them self-cominternat ain, | 1 Woodrow Wilson offered them self-determina- and ion. trate 12 pranks, | Europe a war on its hands and we have The 220 Switt, 46 and 48 grains, has the enormous | CODGTess in session.. Few nations seem able to escape k disaster of one sort or another, but at least the mos! muzzle velocity of 4,140 feet per second, can pene-|3isaster of one sort or another, but at least the most serious fighting in our citi for baseball pennants. trate from eight to nine planks. Another of less velo. A s city is the .218 Be ¢ | Down in Atlanta, a soft drink vending machine The army rifle has a muzzle velocity of 2,700 feel | wqs removed by the owner from a police station. (It per second, about one-fifth less than the fastest of|took in too many slugs.) , - s MISSED MARS BY A MONTH—In placia w (right) rocks the “Danmark,” mark Denmark’s participation in the world’s fair. The shi; schedule; ! aters not far from the Statue of Liberty a full-rigged, three-masted sailing vessel which visited New York to : r D left Denmark Aug. 8, a month ahead of war was declared Sept. 3. The ship took 40 days to reach U. S. under full sail, | | ' TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10 Uncertainty in the planetary di- p i3 S | | ,; OCTOBER 9, 1919 Outplaying Cincinnati in every rtment of the game, the Chi- depa h @ White Sox won their third rection for today should make men|g.,o of the serics with a score of and women careful in undertakig|, (, | | risks. It is a date for pursuit of rou- [tine business and everyday pas-i A fairly well defined solar halo times. Women should attempt|y.: present in the Scsteiliig B nothing out of the ordinary afd],gyices from the Weather Bureau, will be happiest in home dutiés. v Heart and Home: In the morning aours women may encounter . ob~ tacles to their ambitions. Girls in: olleges should mark time for future pportunities to gain recognition stress should be placeg on the acqui= sition of knowledge that can be ap- Jlied to practical things. The ne ssity of economic independence will e widespread among the daughiérs f American families. Young "fok with rare talents showld be gvisely, rained F Business Affairs: Labor contifide mnder portents that bode ill for cer- ain industries. While there is .a ign read as presaging less vigefows impaigns by unions until after the eginning of the new year, manu- wcturers may expect to meet ob- tacles in working out production chedules. Changes in leadership are recast for many unions ational Issues: Executives are airly well guided today. There may ies are exercised when here is only an effort to be more han commonly efficient. Warning 5 given that the public mind may > obsessed by catch phrases and in reality arefully injected ids that are favorable to democracy. President toosevelt will be fairl fortunate n making his objectives clear to his »olitical party. International Affa : As the Unit- umes tremendous proportions, Eu- opean powers, as well as Japan, will ke note of the nation’s formidable trength. There will be an apparent esire in certain quart to be on riendly terms, but the warn f surprising developments. Subver: ve forces will continue to work from he augury of a year of fairly favor- ible conditions. Caution in busi- ess dealings is enjoined, for there vill be much sharp practice. Children born on this day prob- sts. These subjects of Libra may ‘e optimistic and yet easily dis- ouraged .}? (Copyright, 1939) ..o GAELS BEAT BEARS, 7-3 Californiflait)nly Makes Three Points on Field Goal BERKELEY, Cal, Oct. 9. — St Tary’s Gaels, pushing over a touch- lown in the third period Saturday ifternoon, scored a 7 to 3 victory ver a stubborn band of the Cali- ornia Bears before a crowd of )00 fans. points on a field goal. g Alabama Is Winner by Place Kick South eran—e-am Defeats Highly Rated Ford- ham Eleven NEW YORK, Oct. 9.—Hayward Sanford, who specializes in making good on vital place kicks, - came hrough last Saturday afternoon to boot Alabama’s big elephant into a 7 to 6 victory over what had been rated as the highly promising Ford- ham football team. - e NORTHWESTERN HELD SCORELESS BY SOONER TEAM Oklahoma Scores Upset Victory by Twenty- three to Nothing EVANSTON, Il1, Oct. 9.—Oklaho- ma's Sooners boss team in the Big Ten Conference last year, did every- thing possible Tast Saturday to score a staggering 23 to 0 upset triumph over Northwestern notwithstan | some brilliant operations by Bi | Decorrevont, the Nation's most pub- licized prep star of two years ago. .- 1 Empire classiieds pay. e suspicion that dictatorship poli- d States preparedness program as- | vithin as war clouds gather a@d lisperse. Persons whose birthdate it is have | ibly will be tactful; resourceful and | tble to attain their own best inter- | California picked up their three| word had been Tecelved at the Customs House in Juneau that the famous old whaling ship, Delveders was a total wreck and her crew was tr at B ape 1ded T Mins Jane MoNally, forhibely’ o LJuneau by Alaska Railroad Commis- kion, visited in Juneau with friends the £he was returning to Seward after a visit in Seattle Irving Waldo Krause made his appearance the St. Ann’s Hos- pital two days previov weighing Just pounds, and G. E. Krause, |the father, was passing out cigars, | The Enterprise Foundry was en- larging its working space by the ad- dition the building adjacent to its present foundry | s Gov. Riges appointed B. D. Stew- art, well known mining engineer and former Mayor of Juneau, to be Territorial Mining Inspector, to suc- ceed R. J. Sommers, resigned. Mr. | Sommers had become Surveyor Gen- ex-officio Secretary of the of Weather SNOW highest 34, lowest A s ESTEN TAK - BEAT REDS ‘Cincinnafi Abgfénse Crum- bles Sunday-Pitchers’ Battle at Start ¥3(Continued trom ~Age One} { weirdest of plays on the books was | exposed | Crosetti walked and was sacrificed it() second and then went to third {on Myers' error as Keller's hit bound- ied back of second base and Keller wadsafe at first. DiMaggio singled | toright field and Goodman let the ball through him as Crosetti scored. Goodman recovered the ball and | quickly relayed it home to Lombardi, who dropped it, and Keller scored. DiMaggio had kept racing around |the bags and while Lombardi was lying on the ground three feet from the ball, DiMaggio scored ‘The Sunday crowd was 32,794 fans. It was regular midsummer weather {for the game. Rool is Hero Rookie outfielder Charley Keller was the star of the Yankee attack with his third home run of the series and a single. Bill Dickey also |slammed out a home run, the second by the veteran catcher of the series. Neither Paul Derringer nor Hilde- brand, the starting pitchers, were in at the finish Bucky Walters hurled the last three innings for the Reds and is charged with his second defeat of the series. Steve Sundra and John- ny Murphy followed Hildebrand to the mound for the Yankees, with Murphy doing a fine relief job and getting credit for the victory. STANFORD IS TRIMMED BY OREGON 11 Southern Eleven Is Held Scoreless by Webfoot Gridiron Players PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 9.—Oregon last Saturday afternoon added a 10 to 0 victory over Stanford before 20,000 spectators, to the previous 7 to 7 tie with Southern Californic. to establish themselves as one ot the favorites in the campaign for the Pacific. Coast Conference Cham- pionship. Jay Graybeal scored all of Ore- gon’s points, taking a 45-yard pass for a touchdown and kicking a field goal from placement. e MRS. BOYNTON LEAVING Mrs. Fred Boynton, of 503 Wil- loughby Avenue, is leaving aboard the Alaska for Yakima, Wash., where she will spend the winter visiting relatives. e e DR. STEVES, CHIROPODIST, Makes Arch Appliances to measure— office, 10 Valentine Bldg. Phone 648. but at this time employed | while the Northwestern was in port. | ~ INNINGSTO e e e e oo e o S sess g — F . I » I‘ | . Professional I appy | 1 r e ( f t ( ) r Fraternal Societies f $ Gastineau Channel irthd — [ irthday G F B. P. 0. ELKS meet P atula- every Wednesday at 8 i Em‘pm ex!m",io-"'.' their Dfs. Kaser and p. m. Visiting brothers tions and best wishes *~day, their | welcome. H. C. 5 bithdey enniverscry, to. the 10w Freeburger MAN, Exalted Ruler; M. lowing: DENTISTS A H. SIDES, Secretary. | | Blomeren Building —_— o OCTOBER 9 1 MOUNT JUNEA | Gertrude Naylor | FHORE 59 D EOTaRIO W Mrs. Oscar Olson Second and fourth George Jorgenson | '—————_———1 3 }\doggn&‘s%f l;::::meonzlh W. J. 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Phone 123 Victor Powers PHONE 62 HAVE TO HUSTLE T0 GET VICTORY SOUTH BEND, Ind., Oct. 9.—The forced to make a desperate last quar- ter rally to squeeze out a 17 to 14 victory Saturday afternoon over the under-rated Georgia Tech eleven. The Techs made a brilliant of- fensive battle betore 33,000 fans. GREEN TOP CABS—PHONE 678 BUY GREEN TOP RIDE COUPON BOOKS: 9025 in rides for $5.00 $3.00 in rides for $2.50 fighting Irish of Notre Dame were TELEPHONE-—5I e — COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS ACCOUNTS CAPITAL—$50,000 SURPLUS—$100,000 29 PAID ON SAVINGS SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES First National Bank JUNEAU—ALASKA