The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 24, 1940, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1940. OAKLANDIS (Smoker WINNERIN | Tickefs 13INNINGS ~ OnSale HollywoodTi;Id fo Five|Cards Lined‘fi for Boxing Hifs as Sacramento | Event Here Next Gets Victory Tuesday e | (By Ascociated Press) Tickets for the smoker to be Cecil Dunn, Oakland’s first base- | given next Tuesday night, April man, drove a long hit against [hc}SO. at the ANB Hall as a benefit left field fence in the thirteenth | for raising funds for improvements inning last night, scoring Mana-|to the building, are now on sale. Johnny Vergez, to give the The tickets may be purchased Oaks a victery in the series open-|at the Imperial Pool Hall, Bruns- er with San Diego. Southpaw Oscar Judd, ramento, held hits last night, and bespectacled Wayne Osborne, seeking his sixth straight victory for the Stars, gave of Sac- Hollywood to five | wick Bowling Alley and at Bill, the Barber, on Willoughby Avenue. Slugger Weaver, matchmaker, an- | nounces that all mitt artists are | training hard for the smoker and will be in the pink of condition to strut enough fast stuff to please the large crowd expected. There will be one six-rounder, one five-rounder and the usual number of four-rounders. GAM TUESDAY B wTT- oy el up ten hits as his teammates com- mitted three errors. The other games in the Pacific| Coast League were raine.i out. League iivuywood 4 Oakland 4, thir, Other games rained out. Wi S New Officers fo Be Install- w.| edatDinner Dance National League Philadelphia 3; New York 0. i Next Month Pacific Coast | i 'WARD ELECTED San Diego = Boston 3; Brooklyn 8. ~ Chicago 2; Pittsburgh 3 Other games postponed on count of cold or rain. Ray Ward today was elected Presi- |dent of the Juneau local of the | National Federation of Federal Em- Amel STANDING OF THE CLUBS Pacific Coast League Won Lost Pect. | 667 ployees, to succeed Dr. George A. Oakland 16 8 < San ik 13 10 565|Dale! Others elected at today’s Seatfle 12 10 545 lu_ncheon meeting were Fred Geeslin, Los Angeles 1 10 ‘524 Vice-President; John J. Keyser, Hollywpod 117 a8 "45g Secretary-Treasurer; Capt. John M Sacrarmesto 1 13 ‘458 iC!ark and Hugh J. Wade, Trustees. New officers will be installed at an-(luynd £ g 18 409 | the annual Federal and Territorial S F“‘"‘;'"‘:'i-'u“ A li 14 364 | employees’ dinner dance at the Bar- e Wo:g“:ost pet, |anof Hotel May 18. Gintinsati 3 3 lm‘o- Lucile Brown, of the Office of In- ziginnal 000 | 4ian Affairs, was a visitor at today's Brooklyn 3.0 1.000|pceiine ! Pittsburgh 3 0 1.000] S Philadelphia 1 1 .500 Chicago 2 5 286 Boston 0 2 .000 | American League Won Lost Pet. James Virdin, of Ketchikan, died at the Pioneers’ Home at Sitka last gfif’:f’"‘“d ; : 800 gunday, according to word received 750 | from Superintendent Eiler Hanson. Detroit 3 2 600 i, e ey Philadelphia 3 2 -600 CAN MEN HERE New York 2 2 50| Donald V. Robinson and Lyle La- St. Louis 2 3 400 | Pointe, Continental Can .Company Chicego 1 3 -250 | representatives, are in Juneau today Washington 0 4 000 and are stopping at the Gastineau = W e I Hotel. Mr. Robinson is accompan- Today's news today in The Embire. 'ied by his wife, FRANK A. BOYLE Candidate for AUDITOR OF ALASKA Subject to Democratic Primary Election, April 30, 1940 GEORGE H. PETERSON Democratic Candidate for REPRESENTATIVE Territorial Primaries—April 30, 1940 SITKA, ALASKA “A Square Deal For AW - President Roosevelt officially opened the 1940 major Icague baseball season when he tossed the first ball latter won, 1 to 0. right, Stephen Early, Presidential & | A. Farley; the President; Clark Griffi tors’ manager; Thomas Qualters, Presidential bodyguard. setl, Presidential Secretary. YANKS LOSE WRITERS OF “BYSHUTOUT: SONGS MAKE GOOD GAME FAST TIME Pirates S(ore?hird Victory James M(Huigh and Al Du- -Dodgers Go Ahead bin Cleverest Combin- retary Undefeated ation in Business (By Associated Press) By GEORGE TUCKER Lovill Dean, Philadelp:ia Ath- W YORK., April 24.—Of prime letics' chubby southpaw, yesterday importance to a Broadway producer shut out the New York Yank of musicals are competent song on four hits for his second ver-| writers, and when Harry Kaufman dict over the club that everybody was read; to go to work on “Keep figured ~to-be- irresistible. this sea- Off- the Grass¥ he hired James son. His opponent was Bump Had- McHugh and Al Dubin, two of | ley. the cleverest: melody and lyric Skirmishing fiercely for eight in- | writers in the business nings, the Athletics were also held| McHugh is a tall, wide-shoul- to four hits. The winners scored e annered fellow who all of the runs on singles. looks a lot like Bugs Baer, the Pirates are Winners humorist. His son, Jimmy, The Pittsburgh Pirates came from | married to Eddie Cantor's d behind in the ninth inning with ter, Edna, 19. When he got Kauf- a rally yesterday to score two runs urgent wire he came on 'to defeat the Chicago bunch for the coast and established the third consecutive victory. quarters in the Warwick, 1 is to say he acquired a cou- of extra rooms in which there only a piano, ‘a couple of With the bases loaded, pinch- | hitter Paul Waner singled to score a pair. Pitching Duel chairs, a table, and paper. Harry Gumbert won a pitching| His co-worker, Dubin, was al- |duel yesterday from Kirbe Higbe, ready on the scene soon as ' stopping the Phillies with four hits HcHugh was ready to go to work 1as the Giants triumphed. | he, Dubin, and Kaufman went Brooklyn Wins Again into conference. They discussed The Dodgers exploded like a keg | the book. They discussed Ray Bol- (of dynamite yesterday under the|ger, and Jimmy Durante, and | Boston Bees yesterday with three | Jane Frohman, and the others, so |home runs that brought victory| as to ascertain the nature of the| {and kept Brooklyn undefeated in music to be written and to de- !the National League race. | termine the right mood. Rookie Makes Debut | Then McHugh and Dubin, a ro- Mickie Harris, rookie southpaw,|tund, sparse-haired and extremely bowed his way into the Majors affable individual, locked the door yesterday by defeating the Wash-| and went to work, | ington Senators as his teammates lof the Boston Red Sox pounded | out three circuit clouts, I do not know Dubin personally. I have said bello to him and seen him on a few occasions. McHugh | says he is one of the fastest writers he ever saw, or worked with. Dubin wrote the lyrics for all the Warner He wrote “Shul- i Lt e { NOTICE | STOCK REDUCTION SALE at |Graves’. Bargains until stock is cut down 25 percent. adv. | Gold-digger films JAY WILLIAMS REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE ' REPRESENTATIVE ' Territorial Primary, Apri,l 3[1 17974’07 POLLY AND HER PALS WHY, SLISIE, IM S'PRISED! I SCARCELY SCOOPED ‘MSELF A- SINGLE SWALLOW / h, owner of the Senators; Joe C In lower left corner is William Has- | pleted. | pianist | necessary. If you had | hunded words in a in the game between the American League Washinglon Senaters and the Boston Red Sox and which the This picture was made just as the ball left the President’s hand and shows, left to Dr. Ross Mcintyre (in uniform); Postmaster General James ronin, Red Sox manager; Bucky Presidential Toss Opens 1940 Baseball Season NEW MEN ASSIGNED, ~ BASEBALL PIayersDisFibufed Among Three Teams, with Old- timers in Lineups Saying that the coming baseball season is as undeterminable as the | weather, President Harv Iffert of the Gastineau Channel League, today released the lists of new players as- signed to the three teams as determ- ined at a recent “directors’ meeting” of team managers Iffert explains that all old mem- bers are assigned to their old teams 1 and the following lists are those dis- | posing of the newly-signed member: on the sheets in The Empire’s office. | Most to Koski Shavey Koski of the Elks took the | | main portion of the newcomers, his | [team having more vacancies than | the other two. Elks' new players are John Skok and Paul Danielson, catchers; Eddie Zinch, Carl Gaffert, Emil Pasquin and George Willey, infield; Eddie Neilson and John Garcia, outfield, and M. Lewis, pitcher. Douglas Team | The Douglas team was given six | | new players by Bob Coughlin, Doug- las manager. They are Don Bell| and G. F. Hallick, catchers; Norman Rustad, infield; and Bill Harrington, | Ernest Stewart and Pershing Han- afor, outfield 0Old Players Back, Moose | N ¢ tala® " Stan Grummett of the Moose L‘P o o Buffalo” and “Forty-| g aineq the talent resources Jess | e Shreet g e with MC- | than any other manager, his team Hugh he wrote “South Amencan'lmvmg the largest number of old | Way” and all the score for “Streets (p1avers returning. His choices are of Paris” which is also & Kaul-| pqdie Sharek and Wayne Johnson, | R ahiow |infield; and Gilbert Johnson and | McHugh himself is an o:d, ex- |Eddie Saloum, outfield. | perienced hand at writing hit tunes at haphazard and also in the scores of film or stage productions. He wrote the music for the Dean- |team managers for instructions. na Durbin pictures. He wrote “I Turnouts Tonight | Can't Give You Anything But Love, Turnouts officially start tonight | with the Elks on the field. Tomor- | Baby The first thing he does is to se- lect. a definite title, He and Du- |t [ bin work this carefully. That sets|Will be alternated between the| the gait, the tempo, the mood.|teams, h team having turnout | Then he goes to work. As he fin- privilegs of the field every other | ishes the melody he passes the night Saturday :mq Sunday are sheet to Dubin, who is already at|OPen turnout dates with every man | work thinking up lyrics. By the for himself and no organized turn- | time McHugh is on another title,|Out for any particular team Dubin says, “See how this goes.” He passes the manuscript back to McHygh, the lyrics pencilled in For “Keep Off the Grass® Mc- Hugh probably wrote a hundred different songs, and Dubin proba- bly wrote 35 sets of lyrics. Out of this will come perhaps 15 numbers. For writing this score they are beiny ‘paid four pe of the gross. Every time comes into the box office (sometimes they take this much in a single week) they will get a thousand. This is quite aside from the royalties the song will bring in from radio, orchestras, and sheet music sales, not to forget phonograph record: Unlike freelancers who write songs when the spirit moves them, composers of shows only begin to work after their scores are com- They must attend all re- hearsals and be ready to make swift - revisions when a hitch de- velops, or a change is needed. At yesterday's rehearsal of the chorus I saw McHugh write 16 bars of new music in 16 minutes, He wrote it standing at the piano, one hand in his pocket, while the sat there and played it, bar for bar, as it was written. “That's sausage-grinding,” Mec- Hugh explained. “No inspiration to write a hurry, you could do it without thinking. What's a few bars more or less to a song-writer?” —— e - STEVENSONS HERE Mr, and Mrs. K. W. Stevenson of Angoon have arrived in Juneau after a trip to the South. They are stop- ping at the Baranof Hotel. e MRS. WINN RETURNING Mrs. Anna Winn, who has been south-on a visit, returning to her Juneau home aboard the Denali. She is mmmed north by her son Johng® JOHN McCS For Representative — Democratic Ticket. Primary April 30, 1940. adv. TRYIN' T' LIGHT YER SEEGAR ON TH' ILLUMINATED DIAL O' YER WRIST WATCH, WEEZEL / &) 0 Wots P St e All old players are back in their | teams but new players, as assigned above are asked to report to their row night sees the Moose working | stiff muscles loose and the field The first game is scheduled for May 5 between Moose and Douglas. - DOUGLAS NEWS PRIZE KING IS LANDED BY DOUGLAE FI On a strip fishing trip to Auk Bay | yesterday for his day off from duties |as electrician at the Alaska Juneau | mine, Leo Weiss landed a 34 pound | red king salmon amcng others said | to be the largest caught there so far | this year. ERMAN MRS. WEHREN LEAVI IN ABOUT ONI . WEEK Mrs, Joe Wehren, Douglas Island resident for the past 26 years, is | now in the midst of preparations for discontinuing that residence to leave on May 3 for Kirkland, Wash., where she will join her husband. The latter | preceeded her: there by several months and now has a home built and ready for their occupancy. He was forced to leave this climate on account of his health and during a previous stay there for medical treatment found that he was much | improved by the change. Active as a member of Eastern Stars and Rebekah Lodge, Mrs. Wehren will be missed. ———— TIORS SNEAK Douglas school seniors, with class |advisor Arthur Ladd, sneaked out | to Mendenhall Glacier at 8 o'clock yesterday morning and returned to | town at 8 last night. | On Friday evening, the sophs and frosh will give a joint party at the school. — ey DOUGLAS-Coliseum || Tuesday and Wednesday | /| "HOTEL IMPERIAL" CLIFF STERRETT General Electrice Meeis P resent Market with Finest Line of Refrigerators Ever Built . . . . PHONE 616 e 'HELP AN | | ALASKAN Telephone T13 or write | The Alaska Territorial | Employment Service for this qualified worker. STEAM ENGINEER — POWER PLANT OPERATOR Single, age 30, high school education, also ICS course in steam and electricity. Four | years experience as operator in | steam turbine generating plant. Also experienced engineer’s assistant on | highway cpnstruction Call for | ES 88. | - e - | 0. E. . Honors | Past Officers and Charter Members| The birthday anniversary of Jun- eau Chapter No. 7, Order of Eastern | Star, was observed last evening and; past officers and charter members were honored at an impressive ser- vice performed in the lodge room of | the Scottish Rite Temple following the regular busines meeting. Each honoree was presented with a corsage or boutonniere and the huge | white birthday cake was cut by Lloyd | V. Winter, charter member and first | Worthy Patron. Other charter mem- bers present included Mrs. Anna Webster and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Naghel. Refreshments were served in the banquet room under the supervision of Mrs. Ruby Coke and during the social hour the various past officers related outstnading events of the year they held office. ce-d { ZENITH RADIOS REPAIRS and SERVICE JUNEAU RADIO SERVICE Phone 464 Bill Hixson — Maclean Metal Works South Seward St. AIR CONDITIONING and OIL BURNERS SHEET METAL WORK - FINE Watch and Jewelry Repairing at very reasonable rates PAUL BLOEDHORN 8. FRANKLIN STREET TYPEWRITERS Sold and Serviced by J. B. Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by r— e . L. C. SMITH and CORONA l and Sweeping Price REDUCTIONS! —SEE- “G=E that’s the Buy99 ALASKA ELECTRIC LIGHT & POWER CO. Concerf fi(ketfi Be Purchased At Church Door for tomorrow evening's featuring Nina Solovieva, talented soprano, may be pur- chased at the door, it was an- nounced today. However, because of limited space all who plan to attend are urged to purchase their tickets before if possible. Sponsored by the Order of East- ern Star and Rainbow Order, the musicale promises to highlight the spring musical calendar. Starting at 8:15 o'clock, the con- cert will be held in the Northern Light Presbyterian Church. - CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our appre- clation and thanks to our neigh- bors and friends for their kind- ness and sympathy shown us dur- ing the loss of our husband and father, also to the Elks and Am- erican Legion and for the many beautiful floral offerings. MRS. FLOYD G. BETTS, MR. AND MRS, ROBERT ROSSITER. P SALE OF HATS Joe Kelly, Haberdasher Next to Winter & Pond Tickets concert, adv. H. S. GRAVES “The Clothing Man” HOME OF HART SCHAFPNER & MARX CLOTHING —— e JAMES C. COOPER C.P. A, Business Counselor COOPER BUILDING — WANTED! Small Children Cared For MRS. BROWN'S NURSERY 315 Third St. or Phone Red 119 TIMELY CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS QUALITY WORK CLOTHING Satisfied Customers” * SANITARY PLUMBING and HEATING COMPANY W. J. 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