The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 26, 1940, Page 5

The Thirty Years’ War By DI\N NOONAN ' In 1910: T she dust of Fairbanks from my itching feet, »odbye forever to every Fairbanks streetl ing—past Twenty-—the Age of Foolish Dreams, ket full of money, my head chuck full of schemes! For I we My “I's bonanza days were o'er,"” past Twenty-—the world held Why stagnate in Alaska?"” To the eyes of Youth plenty morel And so | headed Southward, down the broad Yukon, That proud and mighty River was a joy to voyage on! Of the years that swiftly follswed we'll skip the first dull few, Gently glossing over the things Youth failed to do. But we found the going tougher as the poke began to thin And Alaska looked much better from the Outside look- Then, Lo! In 1914: War broke out in Europe, the Conlinent became aflame, There, at leas!,"was Adventure and the chance for ing fame! s in t r yea and Came 1918: The Year of the Armstice, the year of the werld's re-birth, years of a living hell Unknown, but lousy trenches, four n Unknown Soldier Eart i Gnmmn stag emenceau, Wilson, \hem held. the center , secret forc HLed the Red on History's cade of Achievement, a decade of Victory's A decade of double-crossing, a decade of dire defeat! The War of the Dollars continued, Trade Barriers arose, the diplomats woes! Came 1929: Fateful years of the Deluge—Bing! Bang!! Boomn!!! Smash!!!! No tinkling bells and sounding cymbals was that titanic crash! If you had a kaleidoscopic eye you might have seen these Years pass by. And, if you have a telescopic cranium, you might en- vision the Millenium! Arrives 1940: The youth who fled Fairbanks in Nineteen Ten, Thankful, chastened, hopeful, returns again! through the streets of Juneau I dare not close my evyes, t I miss a single detail of what Juneau implies! An st I miss the tempo of the streamlined streets, 1 keep my eyes wide open and hear my own heart-beats! Breathlessly I contrast your Thirty Years' War Waged against the Wildemess lying at your door! Thankfully I contemplate, while we have our ups and downs, We fear no Dictator's orders and pay homage to no Crowns! 1 sense the Peace of Understanding that is Alaska's daily life, | Contrasted with the madness that is Europe’s endless strifel We're not ralioned in Alaska, and, instead of slug and gun/ We are free to enjoy the splendor of the returning Mid- night Sun! e o Like Scotty. Allen’s lead-dog, disliking Flander's slush, I say, ""Let other bree be dogs-of-war, just let me stay | here—and Mush Mush‘ You Malemuts, Mush!!! 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The announcement is also made ..... | Now FIGHIING Il.h.tt there are two extra rifles and | | these will be taken to the range| AS GUER"_lA for use of those who have no guns. | Lars _Bgrgen—d;I Repor!ed DODGERS AT ’ Smplngllne;l;grsat Nazi ‘I'op pl A(E BY 5 WINS STOCKHOLM. Apnl 26.—Dis- | s I | patches received here by Swedish newspapers report that Lars Ber- gendal, identified several times as the skiing champion of the world For the fourth ume in the years he has been in major league baseball Joe DiMaggio, New York Yankees' star outfielder, was not in the lineup for the opening day’s game. Joe is shown being helped siooronsuwoay Foof in Fa" r ANGELS TRIM GiantsOn = BEAVERSFOR Win Streak 2 VI(IORIES Cardinals Get 22 Hits Dur- | ing Game - Bob Feller Hollywood Afler Dropping Credited with Viclory 4 Games, Defeated Sac- ramento-3-Run Rally (By Associated Press' The Giants continued their win- ning streak yesterday by battering the Boston Bees and winning 9 to (By Associated Press) (By Associated Press) 1. Bill Lohrman allowed but six for various distances, is now en-| The Brooklyn Dodgers have taken » | The slugging Los Angeles Angels| scattered hits and fanned nine men. gaged in another strenuous activi-|OVer sole possession of the Nalion-i | collected five homers last night to| The St. Louis Cardinals rolled up ty, that of guerilla warfare against @ League’s leadership by defeating | win a doubleheader with the Port-|2y hits against Pittsburgh yester the Germans Philadelphia erday by a scnrvj land Beavers. The nightcap went!gay afternoon and won 10 to 9. Bergendal is a meiber of the °f 3 to 1. The Dodgers in b(‘mmgi only six’ inni Seven pitchers were used in the e iHome Rifle Club. organized into th¢ Phillies took their fifth| Lou Novikoff paced the Angels|general melee. | ski patrols, the members includ- Straight victory. Hugh Casey al- in the opener with five hits, in-' pBob ot credit 'm" some of the best shots in Nor- !owed but five hits. Dolph Camilli cluding two homers. way. hit a Lcwe run during the game dropping i The guerillas are reported in- R0 ox | flicting heavy losses on the Ger- man columns. Oue B rge Walker, with the thi rally in th i inal score was 4 t s “the § a Dick e pitched a over the Athleti last night as he shut out Oakla Floyd Christopher’s clean si The Juneau Rifle and Pistol Club Sllogl’ffll(‘ll(l)):;?l‘l\\!\“l‘lld g;fifiw«;‘; to his feet after injuring his right knee going into second in the ex- ]‘,l;;y "‘,fi‘(‘."”g.‘,,:m',zf (:‘nh \;:l:r\o:m \ | Wil hold a shoot Sunday at the Queen’ Alexandrine, of Denmark,| hibition game with the Brooklvn Dodgers slants b %jg (}zk/e/flotl/ Mendenhall Rifle Range. All nfem- broke her right foot in a fall down- i —teeae gy B bers are asl to turn out. A stairs in the Royal Palace. The finished third on four occasions. THURSDAY ASK FOR | truck will leave from the Federal accident occurred several daysago, The shortest-priced favorite was — = = |and predicted World Peace instead of | DIZIV DEAN Territorial Bmldmg at 9 o- it is ](‘pc“ed to 4 odds, Star Himyar, at 1 finished second to Day bay in 1878 ! Seattle-San Francisco game post- G - | 'A‘hl'e(‘ horses share %ho hunlox °‘["pcncd account of rain. e“eral Elect"'c | being the shortest-priced winner| =y .o a,geles 16, 3; Portland 2. 2 | at 1 to 3—Hindoo in 1881, Halma Nabiale! Tauyuo | d | in 1895 and Agile in 1905. Boetan TR o Meets Present Market with GREAT B AI_I_ i el TR L L 1 holds the shortest-priced record Finest Line of Refrigerators Ever Built . . . . by last year, the Wiliam Woodwa | colt paid backers only 3 to 5. The horse | Joy to those e figures. Old| dong shots” | (By Ascociated Press) and | Pitching on his nerve 1lun)c, | Dizzy Dean is still one of the base- ‘ba\l jame’s impress; who was Donerail, Sweeping Price but he | for favorites. In sweeping the Der- that brought greatest support the which | * phijadelphia 6; ¢ Coast League Oakland 0. Hollywood 4 San Diego 5; K| sacramento 2 Cincinnati 2; Chicago 4 St. Louis 10; Pittsburgh 9 American League Chicago 1; Cleveland 3 New York-Boston game « BOTTLED-IN-BOND » | Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskej post- | poned by rain. ‘ rd Washington 7. | Diz toed the rubber again yester-|poaiq 91 (o 1 in winnins, the 1913 - e 3 | day afternoon in Chicago a nd‘flm“,, Detroit 4; 8t. Louls 2 BEDUCTIONS' | clamped down on Cincinnati's Na- [ SRR | e . | tional League champions vitn 8| | STANDING OF THE CLU! [5-hit performance that won Pacific Coast League {the Cubs by a score of 4 to 2. ou on | Won Lost Pct. | | . Oakland 16 10 .sxs‘ —SEE- | |san Diego 15 10 .600| ‘DERBY FAVOR"E } [ | Seattle 13 11 . sl | | ro Ies:.m Angeles 180 A e 66 | Sacramento 18 462 G.E IS SAID Io HAVE | Hollywood 12 14 402 | | BLOOMINGTON, Ind., April 26| Eortiand Ll B ! & San Prancisco 9 15 31| that’s —Indiana Unive athletes like e | b | wpionships as well as b ”bw Ba - | any \zhu do but they just can't|p ah o 1C0L( WHEN the | LOUISVILLE, sy. April 26 seem o get much good out of | N Al 7,'?‘ | The horse that goes (o the post as| their trophies. For instance: ki A 'G"’ BUYING B 1) favorite - in the 66th running of| The relay quartet, bringing home Nlc; ‘l}:;): J j '6%‘ BOURBON uy the Kentucky Derby May 4 has|its distance mediey trophy won | ot S el vl 'ASK FOR anfieven chance ¢f winning, judg-|at the Butler Relays, found the O C;:’f"‘ 1 . A4 OLD CROW BY & ing from records of other vears. |runner atop it had been snapped | LOUS R g / ALASKA ELECTRIC | Tn the 6 years since the Derby | off in transit. 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