The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 18, 1940, Page 5

; Outw Cr Jus NI ll pENNANT Pelton, all fine baseball “)nul s of the 108 Midnight Sun win e ILeacue at Fairbanks, hit the trail to Valdez, boarded the Aleutian and passed through Juneau, headed for the Etates. P a will enter the | University of Washinzton at Seat- OF FAIRBANKS ARE HEADED FOR STATES rd bound for school, work ape the breath of ¢ld man Pazlia, Frank Papovich insmii PLAYERS Gu and Don Cleveland,WDeiroit Again Switch About in Amer- ¥ | e, Pelton goes to work ir his ican League Race i i eaane- il ten and Popovich is just heading (By Ascoiated Press) for Seattle, The - St. Louis Cardinals have - e pushed ih2 Brocklyn Dodgers to the brink of elimination from the Naticnal Leazue pennant race. Big Lanier hurled a five-hitter yes- teiday and shut the Dodgers out from scoring. The defeat put th: Ded; ; eleven games behind C.n- cinna C:nzinnati moved to within one game of the pennant by ncsing oul the Phillicc in a mcund duel be- twe:n Whitey Moore and Kirby Hig- Lee. The Boston Bee: surge by b pitchers for 14 hits. % ; £ " 3 4 .. |to win the local fishing derby, . why Gm"“’v _1‘“: mc"m "g;:.h‘ngurod that he wanted a biz fish ‘(’_;’f‘;g]g'"i‘:“fafi:‘l;c‘&:y :‘; nfns i";“}{e caught a huge shark and bro\l:gm“ tHB eighth innin\g. . {1t in—only to find out that it was| Cleveland Jolted :o‘;.:lgnon derby and sharks didn't first prize was a shiny new eight- first place in the American ,“e“gue'cylmder car, Brown yielded to the| yesterday with a close win as melurging of several otherwfishermen | troit Tigers moved up again by| WINS SALMON DERBY WITH SHARK CATCH halted the Pi-| ng four PJ':I(E‘}E VICTORIA, B. C., Sept. 18—When { rates’ i | [ OAKLANDIS WINNER IN ASTPLAYOFF Beals Seattle Rainiers in First Inning by Two Unearned Runs OAKLAND, Cal, Sept. 18— OQalziand, which f.nished the Paciflic Coast League seascn in third place, trounced the pennant-winning Scat- 11» Rainiers 2 to 1 last night in the first game in the playoffs. Oakland got both runs, unearned, in the first inning. e GRIDIRON CLASSICS dward Brown, an Indian, cet out, he | Football Set-ups 10 START defeating the Washington Senntors.<md Tippedl his MHAK gPan oy es Schoolboy Rowe was forced out| of the game in the sixth inning| with an aching right shoulder. Struggling to keep in the pennant fight, the Yankees defeated the St. Leuis Browns yesterday afternoon | ps Atley Donald kept six hits well scattered. GAMES TUESDAY National League 5t Leuis 5; Brocklyn 0. Cincinnati 2; Philadelphia 1. Pittsburgh 5; Boston 10. Chicage 9; New York 8. American League hiladelphia 4; Cleveland 3. Detroit 6. STANDING -OF THE CLUBS National League Won Lost — Per Cincinnati 92 47 662 oklyn 83 60 580 i Louic 4 65 532 Pittsburgh 3 67 521 Chicago 69 73 .486 New York 66 4 471 Boston | 60 82 423 Philadelphia 46 95 326 American League I Won Lost Pt Perolt 82 60 577 Clev?lm’d 82 61 573 New York 8 63 553 Chicago 78 65 545 Boston (5] 67 528 St. Louis 61 83 42 ‘Washington 60 82 423 Philadelphia 52 87 374 o ! OUT TO UTAH SCHOOL ‘ Jack Oldroyd, son of Lorin 'l'.I Oldroyd, head of the University of | Alaska extension service, passed | through Juneau aboard the Aleu- | tian headed for cne year at Brigham Young University at Provo, Utah. | — - Subscripe to The Dally aiaska Em- pire — the paper with the largest guaranteed circulation. | ywhat it had been eating. Tnside, he found a whole 40-pound salmon, the largest taken in Vic- toria waters in years. He got the car. ,——— HIS BANK IS HAT BOX ' ¥ This man, who; told 'police_he is James D. Davidson, 82, retired Long Beach, Cal.,. merchant, was under police protection in Kansas City after officerw discovered he had $95,889.50 in bonds, cashier’s checks and cash in the topless hat box he was carrying when noticed at the Union Station. ————— ‘Today’'s news Waay i The Empire s Oldest Bank in Alaska Commercial Savings . Safe Deposit Banking by Mail Department Complete 1 By DILLON GRAHAM Sports Editor, AP Feature Service NEW YOKK, Sept. 18—The trend |among major colleges of eliminating arly seascn setups and getting right dewn to the business of tussling with fuli-sized rivals is shown in the get-away assignments of many gridiren giants this season. E€eldom have there been as many early contesis of top rank as are arnanged for September’s last Sat- urday. Washington’s Huskies travel hall-way across the continent to cpen their campaign against al- way ( formidable Minnesota, Ohio State removes the wraps from its new model grid machine against Pittsburgh. Michigan hikes out to Be Feles to give the University of Califcrnia an early look-see at Tom Harmon and Company. A pair cf iast years bowl tcams alsc get together, prob- ably remeving one from 1940 ro:t-s'ascn consideraticn in a when Bcston Collegz Tulare. Beston lost to :metn in the Cotton Bowl Tulane was whipped by Aggies in the Sugar Cclcrade piays = Texas, Sorthcrn California takes on Washing'cn State and Southern Mc’hcdist jumps the gun a bit by movir g te the ccast to tackle U.C.LA. under the Les An- geic: lights -on Friday - night, September 21. | October’s opening skirmishes see!| | Cornéll start its year against a pratty | fair Colgate team, Nebraska break | | frtim ‘the barrier against Minnesota, | | Northwestern open with Syracuse | |as s foe, and Indiana take on Texas. Princeton starts against; Vanderbilt and South Carolina | against Georgia, Michigan State | against Michigan, and Marquette against Wisconsin. Tulane gets ancther challenge, this time from Auburn, while the bowl hcpes of two cther stalwarts receive seycre tests | when Duke faces Tennessee. | Fordham may bump into plenty of trouble from West Virginia whiie Holy Crc's expects o picnic with Louisiana State. Games of top billing slated for| Octeber 12 - bring together Army and . Cornell, Fordham and Tu-| 'ané, Haryard ahd Michigan and Tinois and Southern - California. These contests will be the second of the year for the first-mentioned teams. Bigger gate receipts which come with the stronger rivals are one major reason for elimination of the “warm-up” duels with nelghborhood; Texas Bowl. The B. M. Behrends Bank R PSS ORNERY AND BROKE LARAMIE, Wyp.—A Joplin (Mo.) woman who wrote to the Laramie postmaster for the address of “some lonely cowboy” ‘was frank in her statéments. She' suggested that if ‘he:-postmaster sent her thé name of some such fellow they might cor- Tuneau, Alaska respond, object matrimony, but she addetd: “Pm 35 ahd ugly as sin.” Subscribe for The Eapire, minor league IqesA | inC s o 5 ourt Again ; | | Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, draft dodger No. 1 of the World war, is shown center, in federal court in New York after a hearing on a new plea for freedom. In a writ Bergdoll contended that he should be released under an executive order issued by President Wilson in 1920 limiting the sentence of draft dodgers to 18 months. Bergdoll is serving five years on the charge and two years on a charge of desertion, rnion rrla;li Still Flrires' | SELINEeTaE P o S PN L R As though a challenge, the Union Jack still flies high above a wreck- age littéred business stréet in central London while firemen pour water ‘'on the Yuins of a bombed office building (left). This picture was tabled from Lendon. Miracle Baby Grows Up Joan Clara:Kolarik falls nuép while guarding her precious one- pretty big cake,’but then so is Joan now, tipping the beam at 16 It : pounds, although she weighed only 1 pound 11 ounces when bora. We're now showing the largest stock of luggage in Alaska . . . Genuine leathers, aeroplane luggage, rawhide . . . All at special prices during this week. Special Price Sale: Fine Aeroplane Luggage Lightweight, durable, smart aero- plane luggage in a special week-end event. Sturdily constructed and cach piece with a year's guarantee. Matehed sets or individual pieces. o Reg. 16.95 FORTNICHTER . Reg. 12.95 WARDROBE Reg. 9.75 OVERNIGHT . Reg. 12.95 GLADSTONE Reg. 19.95 TWO-SUITER 4 B. M. BEHRENDS CO. aling more than 4,000 men. A large 12.95 9.75 .. 5% 9.75 ... 1495 e birthday eake béfore arrival of party guests at her Chicago home. | FAMOUS DOCTOR IS DEAD George Goler, Fighter for. Better Heath, Passes | Away, Rochester (Continued from Page Ore) of health of Rochester, a post which he held since 1896. | After a long fight, in which his closest allv was the late Nathan Straus, philanthropist, Dr. Goler managed to open the first three municipal milk stations. Through these stations the city sold milk, for - i the cleanliness of which every pre- ' caution bad becn taken. The um- ber of stations was snon raised to a dozen. “Better Milk for Babies” With Mr. Straus, Dr. Goler con- | ducted a national “better milk for | babies” campeign. In this drive he made a spezking tour of western | states, urging universal adoption ur‘ h inciples. \ In 1896, Dr. Goler also established | | the first two of his famous child | welfare stations in Rochester. By ! 1921 the number had grown to 53. | ‘The purpose of these stations was | iwnde:;prendA Trained nurses were | available at all times-to give advice | on common child complaints. Visits | to homes of new born infants were | regularly made and later aid given | | in keeping growinz babies healthy. | | The stations helped greatly 'in im- | | proving child health. Makes Health History | In 1904 Dr. Goler again made | health history in the United States ‘wn.h the establishment of the first | | pre-natal clinics in public schools, | | Under this plan the care of mother {and child, both before and after birth, was undertaken by the muni- cipal government with no charge to | | the patients. Dr. Goler was born in Brooklyn, | August 24, 1884, and was educated {in the public schools of that city. |In J889 he received his degree as doctor of medicine at the University | | of Buffalo and in 1925 an honorary | doctorate in science from the Uni- | versity of Rochester. He married | | Lena L. Dodge of Detroit, June 4, | 1895. They had one daughter, | e o s i | LONG LIFE AHEAD GermanWar | LOGAN, W. a.—If family records1 mean anything, ‘one-year-old Do-| lores Ann Napier is going to live for | |a long, long time. Living relatives| |irclude her parents, two grand-| | parents, two great-grandparents land two great-great grandparents. | The vauy Alaska mmpire has tho ‘ largest paid circulation of any Al- | aska newspaper ~ MAGGIE - | WHEN THINK H BRINGING UP FATHER SHUT UP-THE MISTAKE Tm‘r I MADE N MY e T TMARRIED YOLI- e GOT THE WAR DEPARTMENT \ By GEORGE McMANUS sroportion of the British pilots saved themselves when their planes were shot down. i Sinclair said that Britain lost only | 15 planes in action against the Ital- Losses Are - The Air Minister said that Britain | is hurling her aviation against fac- tories in Germany and in German held territory to slow down ihe manufacture and distribution of munitions and other war materials. T . He said there already has been a Nazi Plane Toll Is About bens fet in the incusti produe Three fo One Againfl brought about by British bombing Great Britain attacks. Sinclair said that the de- fense against nightly bombing at- tacks on Londen is improving, and & L the British are taking an increasing- _ (Continued trom Page ON®) |}y yeqyy toll of the Nazi raiders - WADES RETURNING Hugh J. Wade, Territorial Director of the Social Security Board, with Mrs. Wade and children are return- ing to Juneau on the steamer Alaska which left Seattle today. They have been vacationing in the States. August 8. Sinclair said the Royal Air Force lost a total of 631 planes, while known Nazi losses total 1,888 planes. The Air Minister said that Ger- man losses of plane crews during the period is even more serious, to- SKY HOWITZER—with this Schwarzchild camera Prof. Charles H. Smiley (above) of Brown U. in Providence, R. 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