The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 17, 1940, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1940. [and Tndians i fromt “with the| | scalping of the Chicagaq .Cuha. Hei i.struck . out eight men. { pORTlAND Lefty Grove tied the Washing-| ['ton Senators into a knot for the| BEATEN IN Boston Red Sox until the eighth| inning when a teammate’s error| | | | | unsettled him sufficiently to allow two scratch safeties. President Roo~3 sevelt and 31,000 fans were en-| Over 12,000 Fans Wifness | Defeat-Freitas Chased | fo Showers | | immuuwlmuimmmmum'um'nm|muumuuuuuuli'ufluuuuuum GAMES TUESDAY San Francisco 6; Portland 2. Sacramento 1; Oakland 10. Hollywood 6; San Diego 5. Los Angeles-Seattle opens today at Seattle National League Brooklyn 5; Boston 0. Philadelphia 3; New' York 1. Pittsburgh 6; St. Louis ¢ Chicago 1; Cincinnati 2. American League New York 1; Philadelphia 2, ten “innings, St. Louis Cleveland Boston 1; opEN DAY{grossed in the game from start| | to finish. e | The Athletics beat the Yankees i ior in the tenth. | All Games Played in Major| The outstanding hurling display i i League came in| Leagues—Feller, Grove in the National Leagu . | Giants. Walter Kirby Higbee, suf-| | fering from a cold and irritated| by an eye ailment, held the Giants (By Associated Press) i mmcy il . (By Ascociated Press) A no-hit spectacle of young Bob A 4—00 | A total of 12,618 paying guests Fellers and two-hit efforts off | Jamed: the Portland ball: park last Lefty Grove, also uniformly fine 0 |night, and gave the Beavers a flinging, featured yesterday's eight- REV- (AUBI.E OFFT }marmg home send-off but in game opening day of the Major, “Lhc middle of it, the San Fran- League ball games, | SITKA FOR 10 DAYS | cisco scais cracked out some teil- every one of the programmed games EAT | Oakland batled Tony = Freitas, were run off and 183,000 fans| The Rev. John L. Cauble, pastor |one of the best southpaws of the turned out fof the Resurrection Lutheran|Pacific Coast League, out of the The World Champion New York| Church in Juneau, sailed on the box in the seventh canto and Yankees were beaten and the Na- Northland last evening for Sitka.|crushed Sacramento by a score of tional League Champion Cincinna- | He will be gone for about ten da 10 to 1. It was the second time tis wen their first opening game on a business trip. Services al the |this season that Freitas has started 30b Fellers’ exploit overshadowed day, April 21, by Adjutant Stan-|to the showers. | all other events. He put the Cleve- ley Jackson of the Salvation Army.| Hollywwood, although out-hit, de- | feated San Diego. | The Seattle Rainiers postponed { their home opening yesterday un- g til today so the Los Angeles An- | HO"YWOOd SI‘QII’J /I"{l Sflll”lfl' | Bols’ SR Jodires o e corowd HOLLYWOOD, Cal., April 17.—Gloria Jean sat on the side- ines back of the camera and knitted attentively. She looked very demure in an old-fashioned long dress—Empire model, I believe they call it—of flowered white material, but her blue eyes crinked micchievously when she smiled “I think he’s wonderful,” she said. “Just wonderful!” New what's wonderful about Bing Crosby, I wondered antly. “He's wonderful to work with. So is Mr. (David) Butler he’s a wonderful director.” She knitted away, on a pink sweater—for her doll, her big- gest d Just 12, Gloria’s enthusiasm for Bing Crosby, her co- star in “If T Had My Way,” hes done nothihg to her passion for dolls “Be & the Phillies’ triumph over the Share Spotlight For the first time in four years, |ing hits to win the game. since 1932, Lutheran Church will be read Sun-'against Oakland and been chased is forecast. By Rabbin Coons “Oh, oh-— himself!” Gloria fumbled, but finished triumph- kinds, all sizes.” Detroit 1, Chicago 0. Washington 5; F wveen us,” she said, “I think we have about 35 dolls—all 0. is Gloria and her three sisters—Sally, 15; Lois, 10, and 4. Lois is Gloria’s stand-in, and a sweet child in her own right. Lois writes music. She doesn't mind being Gloria's stand-in—she loves it, She asked for the job, and their mother, Mrs., Ferman H. Schoonover, warned her in advance about the ief it would be. Things like standing aside while Gloria took the bows, the flowers, the praise, the gifts. Lois was sure it wouldn't be any grief, and she took the job. She still loves it 9 am The children know, says Mrs. Schoonover, that they're 11 353 cqually loved by their parents, and there’s no sides-taking just San Francisco 11 ,.’55‘13 But back to Gloria—and STANDING OF THE CLUBS Pacific Coast League Won Lost Pct 11 6 647 10 6 625 9 Bonnie Oakland San Diego Seattle Los Angeles Sacramento Hollywcod Portland 563 8 553 8 471 all because one of them is in S | Bing “I don't kiss Bing in the picture—but he kisses me, and that’s just as nice,” said Gloria. “He’s wonderful. “At home we play games, Lois and Bonnie and I. We like to play dentist now. We go in the bathroom and spread a towel on the seat and lay out all the tools we can find—dentist-looking pictures. National wLeague Won Lost Pect. | Brooklyn 1 1.000' | Philadelphia 1.000 Pittsburgh 1.000 | Cincinnati 1.000 Boston .000 | New vork 000 St. Louis 000 Chicago 000 American League Won Lost [ ‘) s S HECOME! mfi/n\v.,r: reception No charming hostessess give thoug™ ful guests who bring gifts of delicious Van Duyn Candies. Little attentions make you & “pust come" guest. Try (t) FRESH p”y” Uan/1y" VAN PUYN CHOCOLATE SHOPS \. AT Philadelphia St. Louis Cleveland Boston New York Detroit Chicago Washington { | 0 0 1000, 0 1.000 1 | 1 1 1 .000 Percy’s exclusively - D g CARLYLE GOES TO SITKA J. B. Carlyle, chief liquor en- forcement officer of the Territory, sailed on the motorship Northland for Sitka. ) e RETAIL things like mother’s eye-brow tweezers. You know. We have lots of fun. Somehow I don't care much for reading books, but I do have a favorite book, It's ‘The Secret Garden.’ Oh, how I love it—do you know I've read that book all the way through, TWICE! “My money? Oh, they're saving it for me. I don't have an allowance, I just ask them when I want some money. Mother says it's because I think I'll get more that way, but she’s just teasing. I just hate to keep account of what I have and what I spend. Lois and I are saving for Christmas—we've already got Sp E (l Al SEVEN DOLLARS put away, just since New Year's, « “I take singing lessons, but I don’t go to drama school. They say they want me to be myself, and that's what I try to do. When 1 get in front of the camera under the lights I always forget about the people watching and everything, and I just pretend I'm somebody else. It's like a game of make-believe, and it’s easy. “I love premieres. Usuallylo go to bed at 7:30, but I've been to premieres.” She tossed that off like an inveterate premiere- goer, but then: “Well, I've been to Deanna's—isn't she wonder- ful?>—and I went to my own in Scranton (Pa.). It was so thrill- ing. “There’s El Brendel. He's going to be locked in a ice-box in the picture, and come out covered with icicles. I think Mr _Brendel is WONDERFUL, don't you?” : Yeah, Gloria. And I think you're wonderful, too. i 'POLLY AND HER PALS PAW PERKINS, YUH AIN'T NEITHER GOIN' T' NO THEATRE/ YER GONNA A.F.OF 7 | | i ! 3 L TELL YuH WOT. "TAIN'T NO FAIR THAT TH' OLDEST O TWO GALS GIT TH PREFERENCE. SO SPEAK UP --- WHO TAKES 4 WEDNESDAY, APRIL17 ¢ T7:30P. M. 4 Ice Fans Now Have Jitters Most talked of Ala. | day, the spring breakup, finds in- terest growing hourly, says the Fair- banks News-Miner of last Friday, April 12. From all points throughout the vast Yukon watershed and on the Kuskokwim come reports of unpre- cedented high temperature for the period and indications of an early opening. Persistent high temperatures over the vast area the last ten days to | two weeks — approaching summer records — are setting early calcula- tions of ice-breaking fans awry. All agree that unless the mercury re- treats the ice may begin to break at all points soon | Water is running on the ice from small streams and on some of the larger rivers, Nenana Condition Reports from Nenana say the Ne- | nana River, just below the town, is throwing a lot of water into the Tapana and may cut out the ice to such an extent that the marker which determines the result in the | Nenana ice classic will go out days | ahead of the average. One recent arrival from Nenana | predicted the marker will be swept | away before the main body of ice | above or close to the town is re- | leased | Ice Womenrln Th; News mey Have Anything To Wear an topic of the PATE POT Wilma Scharfman, of New York raided mother’s cup- board for this hat—a baking tin and tinfoil flowers tied on with a big ribbon. fans are now picking early dates, and many hedging on their | % early predictions. Only a sudden #,4 and prolonged cold spell, the ma- jority agree, can hold the ice to anywhere near the average date. ‘The Koyukuk area, above or near the Arctic Circle, however, is re-| ported colder than along the main Yukon. At Alatna Thursday the temperature of the day was close to 40 above, and the snows were q- W A 5 ‘ TOUCH-ME-NOTS Merri Ciochetti displays 2 Tucson, Ariz., sun suit—prac- tically untouchable. The bra is of saguaro cactus tips, the skirt of prickly pear cactus. SCALLION SKIMMER Helen Stedman modeled this vegetable bonnet at a New York hat show. It's composed of a bunch of scallions, some geraniums and a blue veil. SteaksGive ~ EUPNEEC FREAK ACCIDENT; Runner Speed PATIENT KILLED NEW YOURK, April medical examiner's offic —Mrs. m Cunning that the losion of a the distance running gas which killed Mrs. Duncan marked while stopp 1 4 ¥ phen Jr., while she was being pre- H» :\(lfl:h' bit of ada 3 y & pared for an operation, w a imes to be a runn outside of that it's just th iy & accident that would not oceur mose iy Al than once in a million times. same as being anyone else's wife. One difference, she said, is that Mrs, Sutphen, socially prominent and mother of two children, was her husband eats seven steaks a week—to keep up his energy about to undergo a minor opera- - tion. The pressure container from which the cyclopropane gas was being run into the patient’s mouth expleded into fragments and shocked Mrs. Sutphen into momen- BOULDER, Col, April 17.—Col- ‘g orado University expects its best “’5:“ tary consciousness, finally passing | balanced track team in years - 4 4 away. | D Coach Frank Potts. Colorado won the Big Seven conference cham- Reservations for Norwomen Dinner End This Evening pionship last year and Potts \17) o Reservations for the Norwomen dinner tomorrow cvening will end | uation. Paul Cope, a hurdler who won two first places a year ago,| tonight and may be made by call- | stacks up as the star | > - 17—The Ina, April am, wife Sui- | | | | SUREFIRE_1t takes a | “barnyard golf” expert like Jimmy Risk, seen at St. Peters- burg, Fla, to pull tricks like these: ringer 96 out of 100 pitches at 40 feet; ignite matches without breaking the sticks, also at the regulation 40 feet. |ing 373. The affair is scheduled for 6 o'clock in the Northern Lignt Presbyterian Church Parlors. Guest speaker for the evening will be Mrs. H. L. Faulkner, who will give an informal discussion on “Places of Interest in Florida.” Mrs. John A. Glasse will preside at the dinner table and commun- ity singing will be led by Mrs. C. Robert White, -t | | REHEARSAL TO? AT LUTHER/ There will be a rene 8 o'clock at the Re Lutheran Church in practice for the forthcoming concert. All par-| ticipating are asked to be present. | —ee———— . . For Want and For Sale Empire G'rl Guards wl" classifieds bring results. CLERKS tonight rrection | | | i MEETING RIDERS AND “WNERS OF BICYCLES, ATTENTION: & Bicycle traffic is regulated under | The Salvation Army Girl Guards | Traffic Ordinance No. 202, This Will give a program and demon- § |means that in riding after dark Stration tomorrow night at 7:30 | all bicyeles must be equipped with o'clock in the Salvation Army Hall ‘head lights and have a red reflec- and the public is invited to at- tor, on the rear. The rider must tend keep to the right hand side of the| Mrs. R. B. Lesher will be in street; must observe all stop signs.|charge and the group will present Extra riders or passengers on the | drills, dialogue and test work. | handle bars or in front of the op-i During the evening an offering | erator absolutely prohibited. Viola- Wil be taken to aid in the estab- tion of these regulations is punish- lishment of a summer camp for | able by severe penalties. the girls. DAN RALSTON, | -oe - Chief of Police. Empire classifieas pring results. By CLIFF L. HALL STERRETT MORE'N You | | | Ll Present Program | The big Indian ought to be happy—Detroit finally gave him the fir: base job he wanted, handle the bag PLANNED PLOT, OVERTHROW U. §. NEW YORK, April 17 Gerald Bishop, alleged of a plot to overthrow the C ment, had plans for the de vion of all railroad bridges in the United St in the event of a revolution, the prosecution’s star witness testified The witness testified that showed him a map last 6 and told him tha® “300,000 memn- bers of the Action Committee wetc prepared.” William co-leade Bishop December - KETCHIKAN OFFICIALS The Ketchikan City Council has aproved Mayor Harry MecCain’s ap- pointments follows: J. F. Van Gilder as City Clerk and Magistrate; S. 8. Daniels, Chief of Police Diamond, Fire Marshal; Les [ City Attorney as jore WOOD AT FAIRBANKS Pastor H. L. Wood, high clergy- man of the Seventh-Day Adventists with headquarters in Juneau, and the Rev. D. E, Collins, of Walla Walla Wash., are now holding meet nightly Fairbanks * South Seward St IR CONDITIONING and OIL BURNERS SHEET METAL WORK A | | [ | i > FINE Watch and Jewelry Repairing at very reasonable rates PAUL BLOEDHORN | S. 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