The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 24, 1940, Page 2

AL LOCKS EARTHQUAKE FRENCHBLO SHAKES uMAj CAN AW BASEL, May 24.-—French Army Houses Reported Demol: gayincess today. biew up scores o . locks on the Rhine-Rhone car ished - Popula(e Is flooding hundreds of square miles of territory on the French side of the Rhine The reason js nog immediately a parent but some observers believe i will strengthen the Maginot defe and permit thousands of trooper \be moved to northwest France Terror Stricken Perti, May 24.<A strong minute earthquake demolished and sent the population into LIMA one hous the streets in a_panic | | F reports assert that no cas- | - | ualities have resulted | [ that 12 persons are known to have | | bee killed and more than 1200 in » wred e r? PUEBLO, Colu., May 24-—A pair of bluebirds made their home in a RERoiE T garden bird house, When the babies s from Juneau to Sitka | Were born, the man who owned the todny. Sholl Simmohs carried . A, |8rden took one of them into the | 1‘«1‘)‘" a \I;’Y A. Farrington \ouse. and placed it in a cage. It died on a diet of bird seed So the man took the cage, placed tree and confined another No other flights were made today because of bad weather NI t in the soung bird in it. The father and On Saturdays in pood Wealher | other birds fed the little one a group of men in Franklington, | poueh the bars, N. C. play marbles. The oldest | payg jater theye was a clatter in ‘ te early morning and the man ‘ iwoke to find that the parent, blue- | sirds had opened the cage door and fl?EN ALL eleased their baby. That was a year NIEHTI gy LR gl H vas released. And this year the bluebird family is back in the same \ouse. { FIRST CLASS PIANO TUNING ! | H. J. BAKER, Batanof Hotel ! BAKER PIANO CO., SEATTLE { WORK GUARANTEED - ) othiss o p oo e b s SRR BB S5 00 ,,--;,,,,J;J,,:;,-,,,,,,,-,--,-,-_-,--;l;.-,;:;: \ ; | , ITS TIME T0 | CHANGE YOUR i HEAVIER ! LUBRICANTS! { \ ok S CONNORS MOTOR { : TN . compANY { pe ,,,--,.--,--N'».-w,,,,,,,-mmm-,w,--—--3 IlIhI|IIIIInIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIflIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIiIIIIIIIlII ” Hollywood Sights And Sounds .___...,,.ly Robbin Coons. HOLYWOQD, Cal., May 24 —The job found the man. The man did the best he could, short of leaving town and pictures forever, but the job caught up with him. The job is directing the Marx Brothers in “Go We: The man is Eddie Buzzell. They're calling him ‘‘the two- time loser” because he also was found by the job of directing the Marxes “At the Circus.” “I'm an ambitious youth,” he cracked, “and there's no future in this picture. f it’s good, the boys get the credit. If it's bad, it’s Buzzell. I did what I could. I pretended I wasn't here as soon as I heard they were looking for a director. I asked my agent to find me a picture somewhere else. The finger was on My past caught up with me.” me. Eddie’s past had been in vaudeville and musical comedy, and that's the kind of movie the Marxes make. “Well, I'll do it,” said Eddie, resignedly. “I lived through one of them, I can live through another. /Toruble is, directing the Marxes you've got to be director and wet nurse and diplomat all at the same time. “I understand it, though. I'm a ham myself. The boys get worried. Like when I was in musicals. The comedian always rehearsed apart from the rest of the show. He worked out routines and oply later would he rehearse with the full company. After 1 worked on.a routine a while I was sick of it. It stunk. So I'd try it anyway, and the chorines, hearing it for the first time, COME! charming hestessess give thou 4l guests who bring gifts of deliclows Van Duyn Tandies. - Little stteations make yew & “sust coms” guest. D’ (1%} 7/;3 " @uy e VAN DUYN CHOCMTI suon AT Perey’s exclusively would laugh. T'd get a lift, and the hame in me would glow. Pretty soon the chorines wouldn’t laugh any more, because it was *stale to them and I'd be suer the routine was a stinker after all.” S0 he’s ready to brave the fire of the volatile, unpredictable " Marxes, and maybe you would like to know more about him. In | the first place, he's homest. As a youpgster, errand boy in a j Brooklyn tie fatcory at $5 a week, he found a bankbook and $15 | in cash. He retuned the bankbook and kept the $15-—to bring $5 ~ a week home while he joined a kid troupe in a New York theatre, sub rosa. He's honest because he admits he made no effort to return the $15. Finders keepers, military necessity, and all that . He join Gps Edwards and a few yeas later was a headliner. { His fivst musical was “Gingham, Girl” By 1829 he had saved $250,000—all, in stocks. He sat in his agent’s office and watched ~ the stocks tumble on the Times' elgetric bulletin belt. He horrowed $5000 on his inpurance, took a West Indies eryise tocollect, his thoughts, wound up in Hollywood .where he already had starred, in one movie, “Little Johnny Jones.” This was so well remembered flmt he couldn’t get inside a studio. Eventually he talked his Ergo, to save the New Deal ideology and foreign policy from the uncertainties of an adminis- Take it or Leave " Bu' Rum in iration -headed by a youthful, in- ors experienced, untried executive, the President would run again. All this, my friend emphatically point- ed out, was no reflection on Mr Pewey, but -rather a .compliment | that only .he should be worthy of Air Hard fo Prove (Continued A.nm Page One) be dynamitel” or “Here it 1s, lflke a third-term scrap. it or leave it.” | Well, anyway, you see what I A good many years ago, Wil- mean. Do you wanpa trade jobs? liam Howard Taft and Teddy Roosevelt, old friends politically and personally, parted ways. Cheir quarrel. was important to plr Washington and vital to the his- ory of polities. Yet.no commentar. tor, no historian has been able, to ferret out the facts. And the only men who KNEW now are I(iem Never (alls Wrong sl Uses Toe Stripe Ovet Which No Player Ventures two lead History repeated itself when FDR and Al Smith drifted apart In spite of all the able journalis- tic hunkies who are here to mine the news, the story behind that hapter may never be more, than + guesser's guess unless the two principals tell the story as it was THIRG TERM ABOUT TE All this :5 o preamble (» a AR story worth recording—at present BOSTON, May 24.—Itdidn't take moment anyway—but here's a mod- ern example. An., anti-Administra- | tign Democrat. whose sincerity is not in doubt went to some. logical engths to explain, “but not for juotes,” under what circumstances | President Roosevelt would run for a third term. He KNEW, he, said-—never, mind | how that. the President had made up his.mind to run, but only, if the . Republicans nominated Dewey. The President. felt, said| my informant that Dewey might baseball players long this season to drawing that Jine. The Nationa) league season wacn | line—the, toe str ipe in the dixt over wlnch no player is foolhardy enouch to venture, 4 That line.is Klems last. word Whenever players become too vocif- cision and crowd Bill too closel: the veteran arbiter. just traces a line develop into the most effective | in the sand and walks off. That gen- vote-getter . the .GOP could put|erally ends the fuss, for if they step forward, so. effective in fact (‘hflt‘over the line. they're out of the ball he, Roosevelt, might, be the only | game and mayShe' fined, too. 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OF L, HALL Monday 1:30 P Hidest Bank in ‘Alaska Commertisl ~ Savings Safe Deposit Banking by Mml Depar!ffnéxif y way into Columbia, where he launched a series of shorts, and ' B 1 B 5 e TR TT R HE I o find that Umpire Bill Klem was still | an hour old before Kiem drew the | erous and argumentative oyer a de- ' Admiral Byrd e On his way. back from the Antar | his ‘work at the south pole, Admiral Richard E. Mrs, Byrd during their reunion him in ved warnir lyn—and indi f the leag that b as a play-calier | to Boston | ve ectly to ti the Bees' opening still boss and still infallibi ‘ Lippy Durccher, th lyn manager @ J\.lll!,‘ll"(‘ the \Phen, the Dod: ame 0 and catcher Bill the works over a decision against Brooklyn. So Bill drew the line—and ‘nmnwru' ssed it. (Phelps made t} [mistake of indulging in a bit ,’lu!l‘_'uv—\ ging afterwar and got |thumbed to the showers) i S d Long Ago | As Bill recalls it nere’s how he started drawing that “line’: It was back in Milwaukee around the turn of the century when Kiem | was umpiring in the American Asso- ciation. He had earned the reputs |tion of being an official who hard to argue with. Around ti league, though, players were sayin “So you're tough, huh? Well | there's a guy in Milwaukee you wou i:u,p Wait 'til you get there!” Einally Bill drew a Milwaukee as- | signment. He cannot recall the name of the alleged tough, player but re- members that along about the fourt inning he called a Minneapolis play- er safe at second, Scarcely had Klem gestured “safe” and started b the plate than the touzh c | fielder came running in, v “What, what?" | As Bill passed the pitcher’'s mound he suddemy stopped and. without turning around, drew a line through the dust with his spiked shoe. “It was the most automatic thing T've ever done,” he explained. “Even if it was the first time. I don’t know why I did it, just an instictive move 1 guess. Anyway, I got to the plate looked arcund and there was the out- fielder, his toes right on the line and still yelling. T didn’t even look at him, just went on with the game And damned if he didn’t turn around and go back to his pesition.” Klem has been drawing the line ever since. It has long been Bill's he never called one “But, insist, boast that wrong. Bill,” sports writers ofter “isn’t it possible that you have called one wrong?” *, Bill always replies, “I have never missed one. “But,” the writers persist, “Don’t you think that in some one of the many games you have worked \4‘! might have erred in one decision? ‘Never Missed One Here' Thm Bill (a]xs his chest over his ' No More At Methodlst Conference | Gow. bum ?l‘ehn;onrk(lalt‘) o!lfich:]zun. ! t found New York a “wicked” place, p s:de. :! Stackholm, Sweden, on the boardwalk in Atlanfic City, N. Jo where they attended the general conference of on Way Back ctie to seek more fands to continue Byrd is shown with at Havana, Cuba, Mrs, Byrd met Havana. heart and I've rever missed one re, son If I digd I would know it. No one can teil me he ever_saw me cail 2z play wreng on the ball field. 1 dgn't call them as T sce I call them they are, “If T knew a decision to be wrong 1 weuld net ca for ali the men or all the money in the wofld Therefore, T have never called one Bill has worked more than 6,000 ames and has officiated in 17 World Series, a rec without parallel. De- 65 yes e his Bill around fast as most of the cther arbiter: and is always on top of the play, how much 1ot ‘here's no telling er Klem will umpire. But one thin, certain: He'll go down in base ball history as ene of sthe greates umpires, on a par with Tim Hurst Silk O'Ls hlin and Ha O'Day DU Olympics Is Belief Unleashed War Dogs of Europe Bring Violent End fo Games PHILADELYH1A May Eu rope’s unleashed war dogs have brouglit a violent end to the Olympic games, not only for 1940, but for all time, in the opinion of Lawsor Robertson, University of Penr vania track coach and four times tor of American Olympic track squads. While peace-time may see the re- vival of international games of some sort, ‘they will be confined mainly to track and field events and games of bodily contact will be elminated, ertson added. "he Olympics as we know them dead and in a way I'm not sor- the veteran track man. said. the outcome is unpleas- are “Too ofte That’s no way to create good ant. will ameng racially or otherwise different peoples. “In boxmg wresnmg. 1 oolba 1, whonnnprevlmutri to the enjoys a stroll with thon the Mefllodilt Ch\ud.l. S. DEPARTME! OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BURI THE WEATHER (By the U, S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m., May 24: Mostly cloudy with intermittent light rain; minimum temperature about 44 degrees tonight; gentle southeasterly winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Mostly cloudy light rain tonight .and Saturday; not much change gentle to moderate variable winds, mostly southe: Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Moderate. to fresh variable winds from Dixon Entrance to Kodiak but intermitten temperature with in mostly southerly. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer 71emnp. Humidity Wind Velocity ‘Weather 20 p.m. yest'y 30.05 57 40 w 8 Cloudy 4:30 a.n. today 30.05 43 9 SE 10Q Rain Noon today 30.07 45 8 SE 11 Rain RADIO REPORTS TODAY ax. tempt. Lowest 3:30a.m. Precip. 3:30a.m. Station last 24 hours | tenp. temp, 24 hours Weather Barrow 24 21 21 loudy Aklavik 31 27 31 Clear Fairbanks 58 {ns e 45 02 Rain Nome 37 31 31 T Cloudy Dawson 56 | 36 36 07 Cloudy Mayo 57 | 44 ™ Cloudy Anchorag, 55 36 Cloudy Bethel 46 37 Cloudy St. Paul 42 36 Cloudy Dutch Harbor .. 50 41 3 Cloudy Wosnesenski 50 41 T R Kanatak 48 40 Clo Kodiak 43 | 42 05 Cordoya 57 40 08 5 Juncau 60, 12 a2 Rain Sitka, 54 40 44 Cloudy Ketehikan 5% | 44 08 Cloudy Prince Rupert . 59 42 02 Fog Prince George .. 79 50 5 Cloudy Seattle 78 | 50 53 Cloud; Portland 85 51 52 Cloudy San Francisco .. 58 ) 52 52 Cloudy NOPSIS A Jarge area of high pressw tends this morning from the coast of California to the midgle,Pacifiz Ocean and thence to the Aleu- relatively Jlow over . .the Gulf tian Islands while pressure, continues outheast: Alaska and light rains oc The weather, turped cloudy jover S Interior, the curred, during the nighi., There were light rains in the Yukon Tenritony, and alpng the Coast of the Gulf. Juneau, May 25.-Sunrise 4:16 am., sunset 9:38 cing and ihe 1 - BROWN BEAR IN FROM ALEUTIANS pm. fencing) and. the like, thene.ls ways the danger that temper: tlare. The officiating in vario petitions sometimes has been bia and at other, times strikingly poor. al- will om- i Pacilities have bgen inadequate in| Steering a s wgnt course ‘across virtually. all save the 1612 games the Pacific from Kodiak, the Bio- at. Stockholm. This was without | logical Survey vessel Brown Bear doubt the best of them all. arrived in Juneau this morning at 9 o'clock. John O. Sellevold is ma. “Even if the war were to end to- morrow. in tirme to hold the 1940 O1- | O 1he Brown Bear, Douglas Gra, O e o e e | Associate Refuge Manager for the BUpsvEsnee. i IREy Aleutian Islands, returned on the hopeless,” Robertson. continued ‘Would Paland;want to gompete with Germany and Russia? Would France ind England care to compete with Germany? Would Finland with Rus- sia? vessel. PRICE REDUCED! “Remember Russia did not com- pete in the 1936 games because they we held in Germany. Well, it tands to reason that there would be diterness and that unpleasant events would be bound to occur—if you ould induce everyone to compete. “No doubt there will be interna- tioinal competitions again, but they will consist almost entirely of track ind field events.'. WINS AGAIN SWEETWATER, Téx., May 24— For the second time in_ four years this little Texas town has produced 1 national sports figure. Back in 1937 Sammy Baugh, after hitting ' he headlines with Texas Chris- tian, became professicnal foot- ball's No. 1 star with the Wash- ington Redskins. 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