The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 22, 1940, Page 5

OAKLANDIN - TOPSPOTIN P.C.LEAGUE Tuning Up For Race Classic Seattle Has Trouble During Week-end, Dropping B Third Position | (By Associated Press) Oakland is back in first place in | the Pacific Coast League after Se- | | attle, who led the circuit for a brief | time Saturday became lost in a pair of weekend doubleheaders to drop to third place. The Oaks defeated Sacramento twice Sunday. Milo Candidi, Oak- land hurler, granted only four hits in the nightcap to earn his second victory of the week and presented the Oaks with the fifth win in the | seven-game series. | San Diego Wins Twice | San Diego, chief claimant to the Oaks’ leadership, swept both ends of a doubleheader with Hollywood. In the first game San Diego gathered ten hits while Hollywood found only five bingles. San Diego clinched the = S e S nightcap in the first inning with a | Hl four-run lead. AR RO e b Seattle split Sunday's twin bill with Los Angeles, winning the first but losing the second. That one loss |coupled with two defeats Saturday lowered the 1939 champions in the percentage column Portland Out of Cellar The Portland Beavers walked over the San Francisco Seals twice Sun- day to walk out of the cellar. Russell Snowberger, Detroit auto racing star (in driving seat) chats with mechanic Eddie Metzler, when they turned up for first speed trial of the season at the Indianapolis speedway, Indianapolis, Ind. Snow- berger has been in the money five times in the annual 500-mile Memorial Day race. ilIIIIIIIIII!IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Hollywood Sights And Sounds By Robbin Coons. HOLLWOOD, Cal, April 22.—It is customary for movie di- rectors to discourse glibly on their current pictures as their per- sonal “favorites,” on characters therein as the most intriguing, mos this, most that. When Jay Theodore Reed (plain Ted outside the credit titles) gets enthusiastic about Henry Aldrich, I make an exception and believe it's straight from the heart. Here's why—a story Ted tells on the set where he's putting Jackie Cooper through another set of Henry Aldrich’s tribulations. Ted, who used to direct Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks in silent epics, is a father. One of his boys, Jim, is about Henry in silent epics. One ofC2Rtlinlay One day, Ted was in his back yard, taking the earned leisure of a hardworking paterfamilias, when ominous sounds' from the heavens caused him to look skyward. An airplane was di'ving low his house, in tactics doubtless amusing to the pilot, but alarming to a home-owner. Again and again the machine roared down, zoomed up, circled around, dipping and saluting. Angril Ted was ready to call the sheriff when the performance was dis continued. Some hours later, son Jim appeared, very cheery. “Well, dad,” Pacific Coast League did you see me?” | Sacramento 6; Oakland 5. “Sed’ voud” ‘sai i ¥ “Wer San Diego i; Holywood 3. See ycu?” said puzzled Ted. Then light broke. ‘“Were YOU A e R T Los Angeles 9, 3; Seattle 4, 1 [ b R g L el san Flancisco 2; Portland 9. | “No, dad. I was the guy,” said Jim. | : il National Lea, And then ‘Ted li(fsd learned that son'Jim had earned"his St. Louis 3; Chicago 4. | All other scheduled games rained | < > | out. m’m’ American League . N | Chicago 1; St. Louis 11 All other scheduled games post- poned on account of rain. GAMES SUNDAY Pacific Coast League Los Angeles 3, 6; Seattle 8, 3. San Francisco 2, 3 Portland 10, 9. Sacramento 4, 1; Oakland 5, 5. San Diego 5, 5; Hollywood 0, 3. National League St. Louis 5; Chicago 4. Othr games postponed on account of rain American League Detroit 12; Cleveland 2. Chicago 6; St Louis 2. Cther two games postponed on ac- count of rain. over THat's the receptiom charming hostessess give { thoug™ ful guests who | bring gifts of delicious | STANDING OF THE CLUBS Pacific Coast League Won Lost Pct. “ Star in A.AA:U. Swim Meet Stars of the National A. A. U. s wim in New York are shown above. Adolph Kiefer (left) of the Chicago Towers Club, holder of the world's outdoor record in 300.yard medley, won the indoor championship in that event in 3. shows meda n for turnirg in a Al Patnick (bottom, right) rolled up 143.88 points to capture Tom Hayaie !top, right) of the Detroit Athletic Club, rd rac st piace 2.13.4 in the free style 220 in the ~ “a-meter dive. Boston 0 1 000 New York 0 2 000 American League Won Lost Pct Boston 3 1 150 Cleveland 2 1 667 New York 2 1 667 | st. Louis CRRE) 500 Philadelphia 2 2 .500 Detroit 2 2 500 | Chicago 1 2 333 ‘Washington 0 3 000 BEAR HUNTER 15 IN NORTH Los Angeles Couple Aboard Yacht fo Get Baran- of Island Bruins Derblay Here Early_ §unday The Alaska Steamship Company’s freighter Derblay whistled into port at 7 oclock Sunday morning, dis- charged and picked up cargo and sailed two hours later. On board for Juneau was a dump truck assigned to Gecrge Danner. ‘This: is one of the largest trucks in Juneau te date. The Derblay picked up a load of lumber here. GENERAL MILES " RETURNSTOU.S. GENOA, Italy April 22.—Thé Mili- tary Attache of the American Lega- tion in London, Gen. Eherman Miles, sailed from Genoa yesterday for the LABARBA NOW POUNDING OUT " ON TYPEWRITER 0ne-fimeFlyweightCham- pion Is Employed at Screen-Writing | | By ROBBIN COONS AP Feature Service Writer HOLLYWOOD, Cal, April 22. — Fidel LaBarba, one-time flyweight champion of t ing, sits at a type- writer in a movie studio and sends up prayers of thanks for the two| “manage! in his life—George Blake and Darryl Zanuck Blake took the Los Angeles news- boy fighter d piloted him to the top in pugilism. Zanuck has taken the retired champion and is giving him a chance at screenwriting. “As a fighte s Fidel, swing- ing back from typewriter, “I | was lucky to have George Blake, a |man who understands people, who kept my interests in mind, and al- ways watched out for Fidel. Now I'm just as lucky to be ‘managed) by Zanuck. “Want to know h.w 1 got my job here? Well, in the old days at the | Hollywood Athletic club Darryl used | to work out with me once in a while | He was looking for a break in pic- tures then, and I was prepping for the ring. When things got tough with | me about four years ago, after I'd been unable to get inside a studio, I | sat down and wrote Zanuck. I got an | answer the next day, and I've been working here ever since | i ‘I'm Learning Things’ “I'm not making big money, but | I'm learning things. I've had a hand |in quite a few pictures, even if I've | had screen credit only once. That doesn't matter—I've got an oppor- | tunity here to do what I've always | wanted to do, write, and some day /T make the grade. Sometimes I | get a little impatient—but that's be- | cause T know what my goal is, and I'm concentrating on it. “Take fighting, now. I boxed for | the fun of it for four years before I started in as a regular amateur | in 1920. All the time I never consid- | ered I'd make boxing my life's work, Ibut I'd been getting training for it just the same. Even after I won | the Olympic fiyweight title at Paris | in 1924, and the flyweight profes- | sicnal title the next year, I consid- ered fighting just an interlude in my | life. I wanted to go to college, but here was the opportunity to clean up and I'd never have it again. I was making $50,000 to $100,000 a year at fighting when I retired to go to | Stanford. Had a quarter of a million dollars when I quit. Sometimes peo- | ple ask me why I didn’'t hold on to |it. T tell them a lot of bankers and | | brokers went under, and if they couldn’t hold on to it how could a fighter? I lost it in 29, The Ring Again “So I came back to the ring.| Fought Kid Chocolate for his feath- | erweight crown. About a week before | the fight one of my sparring part- | | Sixth Street. pilot's license—when Ted hadn't known the boy ever had been up in a plane. That, of course, has nothing to do with Henry Aldrich. Ted Reed wasn't talking about Henry Aldrich at the time. But you can put two and two together. . . . “I like Henry, said Ted, “because he’s such a great char- acter. He’s a kid who tries hard, and that’s where his troubles start. If he'd only sit down and relax, and quit trying, he'd never get into trouble. He's not a character who depends on situations to be interesting. We odn't have to figure up situation to put him in. Just turn Henry loose, and right away he’s in a situation—one that comes out of his own character.” Henry's adventures this time center about a desired vacation trip. The boy of “What a Life!” is “trying hard;” object to learn a trip to Alaska. There's a philanthropist in Chicago (Moroni Olsen) who cooperates with deserving boys toward this end, and Henry—but you know what happens when Henry Aldrich tries hard. Just to show how little incidents lead to big movies, here’s the story of the genesis of the new Aldrich yarn. Two summers ago Don Hartman, the screen writer, was va- cationing up in Canada, at Banff and Lake Louise. On the street, he was approached by a lad selling pencils. Hartman took out a nickel, obligingly, but the boy said “No, a quarter—this is an On- to-Alaska pencil.” Intrigued, Hartman learmed there really was a gentleman (in Detroit) whose interest in Alaska and in youngsters promoted a plan to make Alaskan vacations possible for boys who would work for them. ? Hartman filed the note away in memory, and when he and Clifford Goldsmith, playwright of “What a Life!”, got together:to concoct a sequel, there it was: Henry would work for an Alaskan vacation, and Henry, naturally, would get into trouble. M AL Van Duyn Candles. -Little 3 |Oakland 12 10 .545 | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 22— sttentions make you & P 3 | Oakland 15 8 652 | . B. Brunson and Mrs. Brunson of cust come” guest. Try it? ercy s |San Diego 13 9 591 | Los Angeles, are expected to leave FRESH o | Seattle 12 10 545 | here today aboard the yacht Stella ” EXCIUSIVBIY Los Angeles 11 10 524 |Maris for bear hunting on Baranof a ” ” Hollwood -1 12 478 | Island, near Juneau. He is a real CHOCOLATES Sacramento 10 13 435 | estate operator and cattleman, VAN DUYW CHOCOLATE SHOPS |Portland 9 13 409 | This is the Brunsons first trip to |San Francisco 8 14 .364 | Alaska. His favorite sport has been National League catching sail fish in the Gulf of Won Lost Pect. |Mexico. Cincinnati 2 0 1.000 ———-——— Brooklyn .2 0 1.000 HERB SCHAUB HERE Philadelphia oy § 0 1000 Herb Schaub of the Cummings Pittsburgh % | 0 1.000 | Diesel Company is in Juneau today Chicago .32 3 400 | for an indefinite stay. Mr. Schaub St. Louis . 1 3 1250 'is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. GEORGE H. PETERSON Bemocratic Candidate for REPRESENTATIVE Territorial Primaries—April 30, 1940 SITKA, ALASKA “A Square Deal For AP United States to assume his new | ners jabbed my left eye with an el-| post as Chief of the Army Intelli- | bow. I thought nothing of it, until |gence Service. |after the fight—I lost by a decision The fifty year old General is a| —Wwhen I was in a movie theater and native of Washington, D. C., and a | the eye began hurting. I almost lost graduate of West Point. He served | the sight of it, but I can still use it with destinction on the General a little. I'd meant to back to Stan- | Staff during the World War and ford, but study would have meant | later was graduated with high hon- eye-strain.” | ors from the Army War College. That was the Italian boy’s last Gen. Miles has been at London fight. He started writing, pursuing a for more than a year. He will suc-|hobby he'd indulged by writing des- ceed the retiring Col. Warder Mc- criptions of places and cities he'd | seen. Through Damon Runyon, Er- |nest Hemingway, Octavus Roy Co- 'hen and other writer Cabe. | - friends he | . » A This midget auto, invented by an 18-year-old Italian, can travel 165 miles on a gallon of gas and can reach a speed of 50 miles per bour, It weighs but 400 pounds and has a one-cylinder engine. POLLY AND HER PALS UH HUH. BILL--- GETTIN' PRIMPED T GIVE ONE O' YER GALLANTS A DATE, GAL 2 ’ ~YEAH, I KNOWS, AN' HOW. LAST TIME HE WLjé_ Li_-“_El&E E RTED IN 7 HE T R GRTUNE By CLIFF STERRETT AN' ENDED UP COUNTIN' | T Tell of Pelley Plan Dorothy Waring and Samuel Dickstein fore the Dies committee in Washington, Dorqthy Waring of New York, secret agent, told her listeners tl_lat William Dudley Pelley, Silver Shirt leader, had plans to use his group to seize the United States government and make lumsglf king. Repre- sentative Samuel Dickstein of New York, shown with Miss Waring, charged that Pelley “was tied up with a number of army officers, and I have evidence to prove it.” placed several articles in national “But when I tried to write about anything except boxing,” he MAKES A'I"I'A(K L) L] “I realized how little I knew about writing. That's another reason I'm, so grateful to be here—going to Republican Aspirants for Presidency Called "Amateurs” school and getting paid for it MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., April 22 In testimony be says, At 34 Fidel keeps himself in shape, works out in the studio gymnasium with Zanuck and various actors. Oc- casionally he serves as technical ad- | viser on fight pictures, or helps train | actors for fighting roles. But he's| down on the books as a contract writer—and writing is his goal - a8 | — Democratic Senator Lewis B, Former British | Schwellenbach of Washington State | said Saturday night that candidate- ] es being offered by the Republi- war Mlnls'er Is |cans for the Presidency were what & | he called “amateurs in Foreign Af- Reported Married “:.. p | The Senator charged that the s h | speeches of District Attorney Thom- PARIS, April 22.—French news- ins Dewey had shown what he called, papers say that former British War | “sublime ignorance of Foreign Polic- Minister Leslie Hore-Belshia has|ies.” married the French stage beauty| Schwellenbach addressed a Demo- Jacqueline Delubac. The report was |cratic club here. first published in the newspaper La| Said he: “The spread of the war Liberte, which said the couple is to Scandinavia can mean but one honeymooning in Cannes, France. |thing on our political front, that is - A that the main issue of this campaign will be the maintenance of Ameri- H . can peace. I cannot conceive of our Connie Davis Has | beoohe “tekins “the” comtvo o e % & question out of the hands of exper- B"thday Dlnner ienced men like the President and Secretary of State and turning it AR |over to any of the amateurs whom Miss Connie Davis, daughter of the opposition are grooming.” Mr. and Mrs. Trevor Davis s the - incentive for a birthday dinner last ATTENTION 0. evening at the family residence on| Regular meeting of Juneau Chap- | ter No. 7, Tuesday, 8 p.m. Charter members, past matrons and pa- was selected for the table decora-|trons will be honored. Program tions and following dinner the host-| and refreshments < ess invited her guests to the movies. | (Sjgned) LILLIAN G Asked for the occasion were Misses | g4y i Margaret Femmer, Mary Jukich,[_., Lois Allen, Mary Tubbs, Pat Nelson, | Pauline Hudon, Genevive Foster,| Dorothy Hendrickson, Doris Jean | Norman, Shirley Olds, Pat Shaffer and Helen Anderson. | T JOHN McC R For Representative — Democratic Ticket. Primary April 30, 1940. adv. - > A e S Dy For Want uuu For Sale Empire | classifieds bring results. | JAMES C COOPER * i C.P. A, Business Counselor Maclean Mefal Works hatinate Contle South Seward St. | .. AIR CONDITIONING WANTED!? and OIL BURNERS ‘: | } Small Children Cared for { A color scheme of yellow and green WATSQN, Secretary. H. S. GRAVES “The Clothing Man” HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHING — * [ SHEET METAL WORK MRS. BROWN'S NURSERY 315 Third $t. or Phone Red 119 FINE ‘Watch and Jewelry Repairing at very reasonable rates J | PAUL BLOEDHORN S. 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