The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 2, 1940, Page 5

LOSER;HARD HITTERS WIN San Diegorpoiimces on 3 Oakland Hurlers for 14-1 Viclory San Diego slaughtered a trio of Oakland pitchers last night, driv- ing in Lits for victory of 14 to 1. The win gave San Diego the short series by 2 to 1 Hard hitting outfielder Lou Novi- koff and inficlder ‘Ed Mayo led Los Angeles to a win of 7 to 1 over Se- attle to even the series at two games each. Novikeff drove in four runs with two singles and a double Mayo knocked in two runs with two singles and a triple. Veteran Ballou stopped a threat- ening ninth inning Portland rally s San Francisco handed the Beav- their ninth straight loss. GAM THURSDAY ¥ . Coast League San Diego 14; Oakland 1. Los Angeles 7; Seattle 1. San Francisco 4; Portland 1. Sacramento 7; Hollywood 3. e . ESKIMGO HANDICRAFT CARVED IVORY CURIOS MODELS—MOCCASINS MITTENS—MUKLUZS FUR JACKETS and PARKAS We deal direct with the Eskimos of King,Diomede and St. Lawrence Islands Wales, Shismaref and Nome. Send for Our Catalog Dealers please write A.POLET National League Pittsburgh 3, 7; Brooklyn 8, .8. American League New York 2; Detroit 11 Beston 5; Cleveland 2 Philadelphia 4: Chicago 5, eleven STANDING OF THE CLUBS Pa; Coast League ! Won Lost-. Pet | Seattic 83 44 654 | Oakland 69 59 539 Los Angeles 66 60 524 Sacramento 64 65 496 Ean Diego 62 64 492 ollywood 62 65 433 Ban Francisco 58 67 464 Pertland 2 43 83 34 National Leagur | Won Lost Pect | cincinnati 61 28 Brocklyn 56 37 New York 48 39 Chicago 49 50 495 st. Louis 44 45 494 Pittsburgh 42 48 467 Philadelphia 33 56 371 Boston 2 59 330 i American League | Won Lost Pet Detroit 58 601 Cleveland 57 594 Boston 51 531 Chicago. 47 2 New York 48 Washington 42 433 | 8t. Louis 39 402 | Philadelphia 37 394 | Gastineau Channel League | Won Lost Pct | Moose 6 5 545 Douglas 6 6 500 5 6 455 ALL'S QUIET, INDIAN CAMP: 50 15 CHIEF By RAY BLOSSER AP Feature Service CLEVELAND, Aug. 2.—Oscar Vitt has become a model of verbal tem- perance, but the Cleveland Indians’ front office has made no move to dispel the impression that he'll be hunting for another job soon. Some baseball observers calculate that talkative Oscar, target of a ccent player rebellion, will be given s walking papers the end of this cason even if he pilots the Tribe o its first American League flag mn 20 years The Indians still boot away sames—but outwardly it doesn’t NOME Established 1900 other Vitt. Oscar the neryous ias become Oscar the ice man, It 1l came about because a player jelegation complained to Presi- GE/ THE BUY OF "YOUR LIFE! , Big, Roomy 6.1 cubic foot General Electric at Lowest Price in GE History! 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He saw that anti-aircraft would be developed.. The artist was specific in his location, the too, guns attacked arca representing an English port | Much earlier in 1804 Napoleon I had a plan for in- vading England. The idea is presented in the sketch below from “Paris und London,” 1804. It was Napoleon's the- ory that if he could master the Fnglish Channel for 24 hours, he could transpart 150,000 men to England in flat-bottomed scows. One suggested plan for attack included a tunnel under the channel, through which soldiers would march. A iy SR By <8t | i \ Napoleon went Hitler one better. He planned a dent Alva Bradley that Oscar had | meeting, Oscar not only has given | | | | Savings | l 1 tunnel, too. T''thought it was a thing of the " he replies Detroif in Possession Leadership Tigers Beat Yankees-Red Sox Defeat Indians- | Dodgers Near Top Detroit rega.ned undisputed pos- se<sion of first place in the Ameri- |can League ycsterday with a rush- ing conquest of the Yankees that knocked the champions out of the first division The maneuver was accomplished with the aid of the Boston Red Sox who defeated Cleveland Yesterday afternoon, schoolboy Rowe held the Yanks to seven hits and contributed a triple and double to the assault Cleveland’s normally fense collapsed yesterday game with Boston The Chicago White Sox defeated airtight de- in the Philadelphia yesterday when Ath- letic pitcher Nelson Poter walked Joe Kuhel with the bases loaded in the eleventh inning to force in the winning run The Brooklyn Dodgers swamped the Pitssburgh Pirates twice yes- terday in the National Leagues on! games and thus narrowed the mar- gin of the Leagues leadership of the Cincinnati Reds to six and one- half games. S L Hatch Measure fo TEN-DAY TRUCE For the first time since he parted company with his wife, Hannah Wit- liams, Jack Dempsey is seen with his children, Joan and Barbara, as they| visited the former heavyweight champion’s New York restaurant. IN THREATENED Sitka May soEG sTrike lssue Bonds Conferenceé AResumed in Senate Voig—Approval fo Efforts to Reach Log- Action, Subjectto ical Settlement Special Election SHINGTON, Aug SEATTLE, Aug “The threat- W/ 2. — The . |ened strike at three Boeing Senate has passed the bill author- play HaVO( Du"ng plane plants has been postponed by izing Sitka, Alaska, to issue $200,- |a 10-day truce voted just before 000 in bonds to acquire the Sitka H H the deadline, Wharf and Power Company util- (ampalgn In Fa" Conferences have been resumed ity properties & to reach a settlement, The com- ~The issuance of the bonds is (Continuec rrom Page One® | pany seeks to cut the pay of un-| subject to a 55 percent approval — skilled beginners of the voters at a special election. | - e, - - swering questions of immigra- | tion officers because of new | Subscribe to The Dally Alaska Subscripe to The Daily Amska E regulations—would get anybody | Empire—the paper with the largest pire —the paper with the largest back across the border, say |paid circulation, guaranteed circulation, AAA officials. | The trouble and most of the| — A reports of trouble have come from naturalized citizens who did not have their naturalization papers, the investigators found. At one key entry point near Detroit, the AAA sleuths found that out of 15,000 persons re - entering the United States during the first five days of July, only two had been| turned back. One of the principal topics of | conversation *© around Washington | these sweltering days is what ef-/ fect the Hatch bill, signed the other his campaign generals it is be-| become the terrible-tongued MI. y5 no reason to complain, but he P day by President Roosevelt, isgoing Vitt, the jumpy devil of the dug-| has proven o everyone that he What did the Lhrre-playvvr dele- ¢, have on the political (‘umpmrms‘ out, and was making them jittery & (R b gation tel him? That Vitt Was ;i fay) [ with frequent jibes about their| °an take it.” Chapman declares doing better? - et A SRR | ball-playing talents. “I've told him to his face that if “Anything the players tell Me o ynag igs effect will be tremen. | | Players Make Report | he always had acted the way he's' is 'in confidence 1{“ not going 0 qous For example, the Democrats 'squad signed a statement taking| lion ne would have happened l:i“;::l.l"l"“ DEELAIN IR 0; CURL SR :;mml cn;‘n)l)rflign only a little more it all back. Things sounded calm|I haven't a thing against him.” 5 . than a half as much as they did \:m?ll 50:11 e T gt fi;’m Rl e i el |17 Note I you Know the ansWer. four years ago. And the $3,000.| three-player delegation called at| Pressed the sentiments of his fel-| OSCAf Probably would appreciale g0 campaign expenditure limit Bradley’s office and made an-|low-rebels, Chapman said, “Wel,) Setng in on the secret. will hold the Republicans to one- | other report, I hope so. But, of course, I don't PSS RS T third of what they spent trying to| What they said wasn't made! know what’s in anyone’s mind elect Alf M. Landon | | known, but at least one of the|but my own.” GRID TRAI"'NG' That means fewer speeches original complainants, Outfielder | Bradley Won't Talk 4 by biz“h’»‘_""""'_‘"‘ on party Ben Chapman, says it's all right! The 56-year-old Bradley is al- IS VERY VARIED PEEShNe KoM XU nemny | with him if Bradley keeps Vitt. | most ominously quiet. What, he fewer campaign whingdings. It “Since we went down to that was asked, is the present status? e Ineatis mucl, Joss, cAMPMER. li- 3 IOWA CITY. Aug. 2. — When Crature. It means u.w national o i il pedifales s ol PAc1 souimiEed it b atle || from their summer jobs theyre to,:dale. eut.-muehleas cfor: ot- | | going o have a widg assortment ““_;!:I““"“ °:i‘:‘:l";:'l:!"’:l"ds;b - ‘ of experiences to exchange. b eal:;:: 25:0‘00 ll:ldwml) :W "ldest Bu'.'c m Among some of the jobs taken ‘ake 250, rkers ) | by vacationing gridders are steam-| “he are paid partly by Federal § | fitter's helper, pneumatic hammer funds out of political activity. | operator, bank messenger, ditch- X 7 ; 8 . i AlaSIC“ ‘1d.gm~_ insurance policy rater, road _ But in spite of this it's going to | oiler, and in one case—handy man D€ far from a dead campaign. ‘ lon a farm. That's what Washington is saying Commer(:ial ! e anyway. Wendell L. Willkie and Safe Deposit Banking by Mail Department The B. M. Behrends Bank Juneau, Alaska BRINGING UP FATHER ! BAINTNGST THAS I IN Y ROoM I peaeT { N»%LITZELNT MIND { ING YOU i WHAT TO DO- HUK! WELL «IR HE THINKS HE'S GONNA PAINT IN HERE-HES WELL -IF YOU'VE MIND - YOU MIGHT AS WELL MAKE IT LIP- THAT YOURE NOT A BETTER THINKER THAN GONNA PAINT IN 1AM~ * HERE AND RUIN ME CLOTHES- . 'Bomb Hanover | BERLIN, Aug. 2—The German |and Italian war communiques re- | British defenses, but the Axis dis- | patches admit a series of British counter blows, ncludng a bombard- | ment of the great German city of | Hanover. - e The Dany Alaska mmpire has the | largest paid circulation of any al- | aska newspaper - Empire Classifieds Pay! | port & wave of aerial blows against | By GEORGE McMANUS ALL RIGHT- JUST AS YOU SAY-BUT WOULD YOU MIND GETTIN' UP-AS YOU ARE SITTIN' ON MY WET PAINT BRUSH- lieved, will set down in every whis-| tle stop in the country to take| their case to the people personally.: | And even if President Roosevelt| | isn't able to leave his desk, his campaign corps will have to fight fire with fire. The result then will be that the! Hatch act will take a lot of the spending out of the fight, but it ‘won'v. eliminate any of the light- |ning and thunder. The New Deal | will be fighting for its life. Even !Lhe most pro-administration observ- |ers admit that the Republicans have a toe-hold. Theyll be fighting tooth and nail to turn that into 'a victory, é;)blllilg [ Off a Very Hot Dog Eddie Clem “lem, 2, of Arlington, Va., comes to the aid of a hot dog t wave which reached the upper 90's in many sections s ™ e B 2 't ‘o bi# & GLACIER HIGHWAY DELIVERY COAL——WOOD LUMBER—GROCERIES L] PHONE 374 "SHORTY" WHITFIELD