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| by & score of 7 to 1. SEATTLE IN EVEN BREAK, TWIN GAMES Sa(ramentogTa_kes Second Game from San Diego in Present Series | Pacific | Sacramento 5; San Diego 3. Los Angeles 1; Oakland T San Francisco 4; Hollywood 1. Portland 16, 2; Seattle 4, 3 Nationai Leagve Boston 0. Cincinnati 5; Brooklyn 2 Pittsburgh New York 5 St. Louis 3; Philadelphia 6. American League All scheduled games postponed or account of rain or ecold. Chicago STANDING OF 1ML CLUBS hng the second game of the series|Cleveland n | Pacific Coast League (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) | o Lost Dok, The Seattle Rainiers and the San Diego EG Fl Portland Beavers opened their | Oakland % -2l Northwest series last night in Se-|Seattle 8L 18 P by splitting a doubleheader.| San Francisco 33_ b The Beavers' sluggers hammered | Hollywood T three Rainier pitchers for 18 hits,|Los Angeles fO §3 oring eight runs in the sixth in-|Sacramento ~}[ :;‘ ning in the figg games The games | Portiand 1 2 ! split, Seattie "8™8; Portland| Natiohidl Longwe | Won Lost Pet Sacramento defeated the league- | Cincinnati N 62 leading San Diego Padres last| Brooklyn 15 5 750 night 5 to 3 for the secend straight| New York 12 9 571 pame as Bill Schmidt hlanked the|Chicago 1485 11 522 Padres in every innirg but the|Philadelphia Lt 421 sixth Boston 8. /18 381 Hollywood out-hit and out-fielded | St Louis 8 15 348 5an Francisco last night but lhe‘Pumhur;’h 6 14 300 s won the game 4 to 1. | American League Oakland evened the series with| “]I(;n u;s: Pet. 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Hubbell on Mound Carl Hubbell held the Pittsburgh Pirates to eight scattered hits yes- terday, two of them home runs, as the Giants rapped out a 5 to 2 victory. Joe Moore hit a home drive for the Giants and Lee Handley and Bob Elliott hit 4-basers for the Pirates. Card Defeated The Phillies defeated the Card- inals in a one-inning spree of sin- gles yesterday, routing pitcher Gene Lillard with a six-hit barrage in the second frame that netted six runs, Pitchers’ Duel French’'s 2-hit pitching yesterday gave the Chicago Cubs a 2 to 0 victory in a tight hurling duel with Rookie Nick Strinvevich of the Boston Bees. D Indian Auto Ace Prepares Forgig Race HAROLD HARRISON AP Feature Service s INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May 16.— One of the “vanishing Americans’ has high hopes this year of being able to “vanish” with $200,000 worth Larry of the Indianapolis motor speed- | way's wampum May 30. Italians, Frenchmen and South Americans have drive in the 500-mile motor speedway race but this year, for the first time, there wili be an Indian—Joie (Big Chief) Chitwood—a Cherokee from the plains of Kansas. Should Chitwood win he would Frank Lockhart and George Bouders in that small group of have won a 500 in their first attempt. Although this will be Chit- wood’s first appearance in Indian- apolis, he is far from being a rac-| ing novice. He's been driving five B H Oldest Bank in Alaska Commercial Safe Deposit Banking by Mail Department The B. M. Behrends Bank funeau, Alaska 636 U —— Back on Trial Peter Paul Waskiewicz, 27, member of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers, leaves Bellevue Hospi- tal prison ward for New York fed- eral court. One of 37 defendants charged with violating anti-trust laws, he had failed to show up for trial and was found unconscious in 1 furnished room. Police say he trie« to ‘commit suicide by gas. years on Middle West dirt tracks. For more than three years he was an Indian “outlaw” That Is, he raced on tracks and in events not sanctioned by the American Automobile Association. A little more than a year ago, however, he “reformed” and now is eligible | for the 500. He'll drive Bill White, Hol- lywood, Cal., owner, Joie is an all-'round athlete. He attended Haskell Institute, the Indian school at Lawrence, Kas., played halfback on the football team and ran the 100-yard dash and the mile, He's 26, 5 feet 8 and weighs 195 pounds. And he's tough as nails. Two years ago he wrecked his car in a face at Wheeling, W. Va., and came out of it with a broken collar- bone and several fractured ribs. He spent just three weeks in the hos- pital and then was back at the wheel of afmother racing car. Last year he broke 20 records on the dirt raceways. -~ NO-HITKID CINCINNATI, May 16.—Joe Vos- mik played center field for the Dodgers the afternoon Jim (Tex) Carleton pitched Brooklyn to a no-hit, no-run game over the Cin- cinnati Reds. It was the fourth no-hit game in which Vosmik, former American League outfielder, had played. He was with Cleveland in 1931 when Wes Ferrell scored his no- hitter against the Browns. He was among the Indians held hitless when Vernon Kennedy gained his perfect game for the Chicago White Sox. And he was with the Browns in 1937 when Bill Die- trich of the White Sox let then down without a safety. - KAY JESSON HERE Kay Jesson, Cashier of the First National Bank in Ketchikan, is a| visitor in Juneau, and expects to | return to his home some time to- | day. for ar track e | Empire classifieds bring results | Savings HEARSPLAN [ CRITICIZED Refugee Colonization Is "Trojan Horse™ for Conquest, Claim (Continued from Page One) Alaska though not the rest of the United States. Senator Homer T. Bone, Demo- crat, of Washington, said: “A great many people in my State have not been eating regularly. Why shouldn’t we help Americans?” To “Help Americans™ Felix Cohan, Assistant Solicitor of the Department of the Interior, told the Committee “the primary pur- pose’ of the bill was to help Ameri- cans. He said the bill would aid Am- ericans in creating year-round in- dustries in Alaska. Lee Muck, Director of Forests for the Interior Department, said Al- askan forests would sup) year- around industries which would pro- duce 1,500,000 tons of pulp wood and provide millions of tons of paper, one feurth of American consumption - DESCENDANT OF JOE JUNEAU TO UNVEIL MARKER Grandniece Coming Here for Dedication of Monument gift—a baseball bat. FOR ALASKA Blames “‘Madman of Europe”’-Arming KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 16 Ap) Miss Genevieve Juneau, grand- niece of the founder of Juneau, will be here Memorial Day to take part Alaska Wil probably be speeded up | in the dedication of a monument|PY the European War, said Gor marking the spot where Joseph |Efest Gruening here today Juneau and Richard Harris land.| The Governor, enroute to the East. ed in 1880, Charles W. Carter an-|2dded: ™1 can't get any satisfactic: RAES toay out of war. Tt is all bad. The fac Carter s~ Chalfman of @ Oom-|'hat ESacell spetiple lice joutacives mittee of the Ploneers of Alaska |S10Uld have to arm to the teeth bs- cause a madman is loose in Europe which arrange r placing ] arranged for placing of the is a terrible thing.” monument. New bronze markers s have also been provided for the graves of Juneau and Harris here B l ]’ Miss Juneau resides at Aurora Ill. She plans to sail from Seat next Tuesday FOR MONEY 10 BE USED, DEFENSE Plans of Army Indude Ai - 7 IRON MEN BOULDER, Col., May 16 Only seven members of Colorado Uni- versity’s successful basketball team were awarded letters this season Base a' AnChorage' and four are seniors—Jack Har- vey, Don Thurman, Don Hendri and Gene Grove. ifieds bring results in West Alaska Empire’ class| 'lation authorizing $726,000,000 rFirst Lady i-lonors a \ueza Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt presents a silver loving cup to F{fllhervpevlpg, | “Miss Rhode Island,” beauty winner in the “Parade of States which | i featured the annual spring fete of the Women's National Democratic Club in Washington. 'POLLY AND HER PALS AINT SHE TH’ DAUGHTER O TH' FAMBLY WOT SETTLED ON OUR STREET By CLIFF ST THE POOR DEARS JUST DON'T SEEM TO HAVE ANY FRIENDS AT ALL. 4 COMMITTEE | Babe Gives Daughter Wedding Gife—Ball Bat ) Babe Ruth, the former home run king of baseball, gives his newly-wedded daughter, Julia, & wedding Babe was quick to add that Governor, on Way East, - ‘cpriate steps for the defense of | [/ funds and preparedness | WASHINGTON, May 16.—Legis- struction of an $8,700,000 air base for at Anchorage, ! | | | «ir swly- it was for emergency only. Ruth and the new y weds, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Flanders, are shown in New York at the celebration. DEFENSES T0 HUGEDEFENSE “ronon<roundo~ BE SPEEDED SUM, REQUEST e — SEVELT | OFR00 (Continued from Page One) Autcmebile, She listened to the address from the gallery. The President cauticned that ncw elements made an attack on | American shores more likely | than ever befere and said avia- ticn has stepped up a speed of @ pessible attack to 300 miles an i hour, “Frcm the fjcrds of Green- land, it is cnly six hours to New England. If Bermuda fell into hostile hands, it would be a mat- ter of less than three hours be- fore modern bombers would reach cur shores,” said the Pre- sident and he added: “Alaska th a whife population of only 30,000 is within four or five fly- ing heurs distance of Vancouve! Seattle, Tacoma and Portland. the Army expansion program was introduced in the House by Chair- man May, of the Military Commit- tee, soon after President Roosevelt spoke today to Congress on defense Susan Petsuch The bill carried no funds but| Five months ago Susan Petsuch cleared the way however, for the | Was born. She weighed a pound Army to act once the funds are| 8nd eight ounces. Today, Susan made available. | weighs six pounds eight ounces The Army plans call for con- and has been turned over to her parents in San Francisco from her hospital home. Susan is shown Alaska, which the with a nurse. House recently disapproved. Other plans are for the train- ing of 7,000 military pilots annu- ally, quadrupling the present rate. - - Yellowstone National Park was created March 1, 1872. > Great Salt Lake in Utah was dis- covered in 1824 by James Bridger. e - H. S. GRAVES “The Clothing Man” HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHING e T | JAMES C. 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