The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 13, 1940, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, AUG. 13, 1940. CLEVELAND GOES BACK Conn, Pasfor | Meet Tonight » TOP PLACE| In New York Bob Feller Eiihes Indians|Light Heaviwéigh' Champ to Win Over Tigers Going Info Heavy- Yy on quday weight Class 'l s A £ BULLETIN — NEW YOREK, With the inspiration of Catcher Al Lopez, Pittsburgh notched the Aug. 13.—Promoter Jacobs an- twentieth win in 25 starts, cou-| nounces postponement of the founding the experts who have pro- Conn-Pastor fight, ccheduled for duced various reasons for the vie tonight cut-of-doors, until Sep- tories. Players however, credit Lo-| tember 5. The postponement was pez with his handling of pitchers.| caused by heavy rain. Lopez scored the Pirates’ first run agaipst Cinc'nnati and singled an-| NEW YORK, Aug. 13.—The odds other ahead of him. |sl'ghtly favor Billy Conn, light- Meanwhile Cleveland whacked 17{heavyweight champion, in the Jast hits, including thfee homers, hand- “call over” fight with Bob Pactor, ing Beb Feller his twenteth win heavyweight. tonight of the season at the expense of| Conn has taken on weig g0 Detroit iinto the heavyweight if Feller increased his year's strike- he wins he may mect e Louls out total to 187. He allowed only Neutral prediction that the seven hits yesterday. fight will go the full 15 rounds to- In the only other major league night and will be a svlit decision game played yesterday, Chicago's ~'vre reithcr man is likely to s Jimmy Webb doubled in the ninth by a knockout. inning scoring Bob Kennedy with Interest in the match is the winning run over the Browns. and the gate is not likely to The Sox left 17 men stranded on ceed $50,000. bases, one short of the league rec-| BLISTERING § GAMES MONDAY | d ific Coast League i St. ~Louls-Chicago rained out. | Cincinnati 2; Pittsburgh: 4. | American League | - STAGEDNOW | Detroit Cleveland 8. Waves of Nazi Bombers ex- - oo Chicago 6; St. Louis 5. Pacific Coast League were played in the Pa- ific Co League yesterday as t teams were traveling to open today STANDING OF THE C! on the following schedule for lhm‘ week: | Beattls 3 ‘BackAmeti! Make Assaults for Hollywood at San Francisco. l . Portiand s d.os Angalas | 3rdSuccessive Day Oakland at San Diego. l | (Continued 110om Page One) | Pacific Coast League troops on the British Tsles.” Won. kiost, Pot In Berlin, foreign military at- Seattle 92 4 662 Fnrhr-s agreed that the attempted Oakland % 63 ‘547 Invasion of England may come with- Los Angeles 74 64 S A San Didgo 3.0 6 507 (8 Rexthee, Heafly Sadramenta "0 70 500 A dispatch form Berlin also said Hollywood 67 7 486 reports are cun'f‘nt there are big Sah PrandiEcy 61 m 442 Berthas at Calais and Dunkerque PoRtan 44 o4 319 and that they have already begun 3 laying down a cross channel bar- National League rage, shells landing behind Dover. W‘O.n Lost Pet. Shells Are Falling Cincinnati s 641" simultaneously, an Associated Breoiyn-: 62 42 596 Ppress dispatch, held up by censor in New York g8 ... 46 535 London, was finally released and Pittsburgh 53 49 520 the Associated Press correspondent Chicago 54 - 54 500 in the finally passed cable, said St Louls 49 - 52 485 Big Bertha shells have been falling Boston 3/ 63 382 on costal towns for the past 24 Philadelphfa 33 66 283 Kenirs, American League If this is true, the Germans are Won Lost Pct. apparently blasting the British beach Cleveland 65 44 596 and shoreline defenses to prepare Detroit 64 45 587 for troop landing. Boston 58 49 542 Untold hundreds of German Chicago 54 50 519 planes, apparently surpassing 500, N(‘.w York 53 51 .510 were hurled out in yesterday's battle Whashington 47 59 443 and they continued early today to St. Louis 46 65 .414 bomb and strafe coastal towns with Philadelphia 40 64 385 a rising toll of British soldier and civilian casualties. Gastineau Channel League / Berlin advices report the Nazi air Won Lost / Pct. Moose 7 pa 5 545 forces broke through the defenses Douglas .6 6 500 of British pursuit planes and anti- ils .l 5 6 455 aircraft fire to bomb the Portsmouth base of the British home fleet and destroy runways, hangers and the airport there. D Emprre classifieds bimg results. l)ldest Bank in Alaska Commercial Safe Deposit ) ) < Savings Banking by Mail Department The B. M. Behrend Bank funequ, Alaska ( K Canadian Army Too F ull 1 sapa s Richard Greene, British born actor, flew to Canada to join the Can- adian army. He flew back to Hollywood later, somewhat disappointed at his inability to enlist because of the long as he was greeted at the Burbank union airport by actress Virg Field, also from England. WHAT NEXT?—Louella Huerd shows what can be done with cotton thread and a crochet hook. This black gown’s cro- cheted in one piece; wrap is grey and black, "BRINGING UP FATHER MAGGIE-DON'T GIT SO EXCITED-TELL ME- WHAT HAPPENED ? WHY-A HORRID MAN STEPPED RIGHT UP TO ME _AND SAID | LOOKED JUST LIKE MARGIE - He is sihown ia aiting list ENY ECHO CALLS UP MORE ECHOES FROM OLD STRIKE Juneau and “Hot” Cargo, Trollers Forgotten for Two Weeks Backwash of recent strike trouble.| when trollers demanded an increase in fish prices and buyers met them half way, was felt here azain today when the cargo of the troller Eny Echo was held up several hours as | “hot"—or “scdb.” | | Cold storage workmen, refusing to | handle troller Lloyd Williams' Eny | Echo cargo of 1200 pounds of fish, as thev did in the case of Al Weath- ers on the Deutz a few days ago id they were proceeding as in-| ructed from Sitka during the | strike, two weeks or more dead now, and they received no advic o ash the y Echo, the Deutz or any other boat from the “scab” list. | After several hours of delay, Labor | Mediator John O'Connor, who re tly returned from Sitka, con vineed all parties concerned that the “scab” list was yo more and that | fish buyers might buy and cold| storaze workers might handle any | cargo of troll caught salmon Lhati comes to port. | mediately after the strike was ended, | and was instrumental in clearing u]): the “scab” list problem there. | Other ports in Southeast Alaska have forgotten the “scab” list, but through an “oversight on the part | of the unions involved,” Juneau was never advised of the settlement. And so the following boats are henceforth free to sell where they please: Deutz, Kingfisher, Peso, Os- ‘ prey, Eny Echo, Donald L, Ventura, Valiant, Jewell, Christie II, Anna,| FElectron, 31B455, and the Sophie. | - R | BACKFROMTRIP ? T0 FRESHWATER Minard Mill and I. Goldstein and | their families, returned here /last | night on Mill's Ourluk after five | days at anchor in Fr: shwater Bay, | enjoying fishing and the scenery: The anglers reported getting ‘lots” of cutthroat “about 20 or 22 inches long” in the stream near the head | of the bay. I'M GOING TO CALL LIP THE POLICE STATION AND HAVE THEM FIND HIM AND ARREST HIM- HELLO -~-IS THIS THE POLICE STATION ? { will the semi-finals and final O'Connor had been in Sitka im- | Softhall Teams fo Have Meel Three Hundred Thousand fo Play in National Tourney This Year SWINTON Service By STAN P Feature Softball grew up DETROIT, Aug. 13 the backyard game that into a colossus of sport—will burst into the spotlight in a few short weeks when the cream of 300,000 teams invade Detroit for the an- nual world's championship tourna- try Canal Zone to Canada the top- ng softhall’s esty JO0C,600 conipelitors are en- in eliminations to state, metropolitan dis.rict ial and national champions will compe ptember 5 to 9 Puerto Rico, which sent a team 5,200 miles last year only to los: its first encounwer, has dlready chosen a 194C entry and Wilbur J ‘judge” Landis, p.esident of Amateur pftball Association of light player matad sir ame decide provin- who the America and DLetroit’s most r- dent softball fan, predicts teams OF the & will be on hand from Mexico, Finelli ten: nada and the Canal Zone. field. Altogether, approximately 100 teams composed of 2,600 players and managers are expected for M((AN the championships, War will keep ¥ the British Dominions from com- peling and distance will prove tco great a handicap for the Phil- ippine Isiands, Hawaii and Brazi Co-Eds Entercd Best known of the visiting Mo( ly to tag out John Cooney of Boston won 10 to 3. ne at Boston, s sell to 1 “Out.” N ENDS TOUGH RCUTE IN TRAINING Jann went through teams are the defending cham- Jast heavy workout last ni in pions——Carr’s 'of Covington, Ky, preparation for Friday night's twin Alameda Co-eds of Alameda, Cal, fitle bout with Lou Novas, the Sitka in the women’s brackets. Kid, holder of the middleweight Detroit, a town where you rate crown of Southeast Alaska and as a fifth columnist if you den't challenger for McCanu's welter title root for the Tigers, is out to Jack Johnson of Scalt former prove that its loyaly to anyuning stablemate with McCann in the Hos- p.aye with a bat, ball and dia- tak col sparred with mond is strong. When it was de- last night and reported cided to take the tournament “perfect shape,” and “hitting harder away' from Chicago for the first smoother” than at any time in time ‘since it was started in 1933, his career. a committee called on Mayor Ed- Manager Dean Hamlin announced ward' J. Jeffries and won his sup- today that port for a bid hort sessior $25,000 Invested |,\ B. Rink Since then arrange for belore the handlng the flood of j have o been, completed and a contract for the University of Detroit Stadium Las been signed. An opening dou- ble der between the defending champions and Detroit district winners will be played there as GUN D The ware ince Jorgenson how that grouped in softball by have Backers aren't worried the $25,000 being invested in the tour- nament “The record 700,000,000 people books saw gumes throughout the world last firearms are y explains President Landis. little pistol: proves what kind of a and big rifl game softball is. The fans will get rifie pick favorites when the playoffs 2 are being held throughout the Subscribe sta- Empire paid circula city and then flood into the dium for the big games.” There' windows of the paper » Dodge truck to fit every job, and Tony Pastor, sopular McCann will 1 tonight at the last public fight e iSPLAY DRAWIKG CROWDS Hard- crowd: Bill wer Thomas been drawing al pieces out of gun collection display Included in the display of oldtime early day Winchester . big pistols, little rifle es, and a 26-pound tar- ——— to Toe Dally Alaska tion srchestra leader, selected this new l-ton Job-Rated modei to -ush his mstruments and other ~quipment across the country. They claim the Dodge truck Foster is pictured with the artist of swing. mns as smooth as Tony’s saxophone. YES-THIS IS THE POLICE STATION - DO YOU_KNOW - -YOU HAVE A SPEAKING VOICE JUST LIKE MARGIE ? Songbird Kay ~ By GEORGE McMANUS [ease = D) 20 0 ! Ny | X/ Tl ng Cincinnati Red Boston Bees who's ju T'wo Bee players Cooney tried t Wins Nomination (_ S_ SEI_BERG | work a 7:30 in the workout Montana’s veteran crusading states- woman, Jeannette Rankin, defeated Rep. Jacob Thorkelson in the Re- publican primary to win the party’s nomination for the natiohal House of Representatives. Thorkelson had praised leaders of the Christian Mo« bilizers at a New York rallw 'NEW GRID GAME with the largest | SEATTLE, | Director probably ~ WAITS FOR THE PUTT-OUT ON BENDED KNEE blocks the plate and with a triumphant grin gets home in fifth inning *t for a slide Cooney to hit the dirt as Umpire lcaving his f f a home from fir ntically e signal n mak t on Bama Rowell’s double to right DROPSDEAD, FISHING TRIP dent of Fairbanks 30 Years, Is Siricken FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 13 arl S, Selberg, 58, prominent, Fair- vanks merchant and for 30 years a Fairbanks, dropped dead Roadhouse on the hway on Sunday trip wrought resident of Paxson ardson Hi ic on a fishing The remains were for burial He 15 survived by his widow now n Fairbanks - - near Ri wi here Negre got to vote in the Ba- hamas in 1830, eight years before abolition of slavery there. Jeannette Rankin ~ SR AL Subseribe to Tue Watly Alaska Empire-—the paper with the largest paid circulation. 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