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(CLEVELAND TEAMS ARE (OMPARED Here's What 1920 Indian Champs Think of This '40 Club By RAY BLOSSER AP Feature Service INDIANS ARE AGAIN TOPS OVER TIGERS Cleveland Nine Takes Two Games While Detroit Splits Twin Contest ' (By Asscciated Press) Johnny Allen and Bob Feller rew a spell cver the Washington nators yesterday afternoon to take a pair of games, thus moving the Cleveland Indians back into the lead CLEVELAND, Sept. 19. cld-time Cleveland baseball — Thrée offer THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 1940. Army’s ' Testing Trench Digger CINCINNATI GETS TITLE AS CHAMPS by coming from behind to Phillies in a 13-inning battle. Wins National league‘ t the = Pennant Race for Sec- | tnspection of suncaws company E 0% Ol Sonay Boyok 15dhy. tuf s : A of the Natonal Guard for Fed- AL SR ANy, LISl RIC KRR R ond Siralghi Season eral recognition will take place Fri-| Z ness which past generations knew—and s diy and” Bebirday, (Lieut. M, T B appreciated! (By Assclated Press) [ Whittier announced today at the g 93 Proof When buying Cineinnati won the second straight | Juneau Chamber of Commerce Z Bourbon ask for [ SUNSYBROKK | valioral League pennant yesterday luncheon. % This whiskey is Old Siany Brook ! 50 R 5 IS\ \N\\\\N\\N\NNMNW Tz OLD UNNY BROOK KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY «CHEERFUL AS s }VAMIi" and worth cheering about! INSPECTION OF GUARD COMPANY 1S SET THIS WEEK. Company A Will Seek Fed- eral Recognition -To- morrow, Saturday AR ERI I NN | Sounon wmasazy The inspection will be made by g by name officers who this week b 4 YEARS OLD Armv in- The Reds, with 13 games left to spected and gave the oath to Com- National Distiilers Products Corp., N. Y. play, now hold a 12-game lead over pany B at Ketchikan i the second place Brooklyn Dodgers| The local Company has been en- f\vhn lost yesterday to the St. Louis rolled to its full quota, Whittier said. Cardinals. The Dodgers have only| A telegram is to be sent by the 10 games left to play | chamber to Delegete Anthony J Johnny Vander Meer pitched the Dimond to ascertain whether any Reds to victory. |part of a new $128,000.000 Federal - e | appropriation for armories might be C.D.A ‘| used for the Alaska National Guard Banquet WillBeHeldOn NAIL CLEAN-UP Tuesday Night CAMPAIGN HERE up proof that the “good old days” are not alw; 7s regarded as the best. | Bya 2to | margin, they calculate the pennant-mad 19040 Indians are | a better all-around ball club than iwry of the sear. the one which won the Lake Erie | Athletics Win city’s only American League cham- For the second straight day, the pithship 20 years ago. cellar-dwelling Philadelphia Ath-| Jack Gratey, an outficlder on Je tic: <e un to kncek th> Detrait the world champion 1920 outfit, Tigers cut of the leadership in the|and Lee Fohl, who managed it for | American Leacue. The Athletics several years through part of the tigger is shown in action straping out tank traps during Second Army choved the Indians off the perch|preceding season, feel today’s tribes- | maneuvers at Camp McCoy, Wisc. Operating the “bulldozer” are Private | Dormquast (left) and Captain F. G. Henneman, Company B, 108th Tuesday. The Athletics exploded a'men have it over their famed pred- | Al f ind | i 3. 3 nite-run rally in the final inning | ecesbrs. Secomd-baseman Bii11| wombat Engineers, Illinois National Guard. Both are from Chicaga, of the second game after losing the Wamby, author of the only unas- o3 in the American League. Allen al- lowed the Senators only six hits in the opening gam> of the double hill while Feller gave up only five hits in the nighteap for his 26tn Vic- UL AU to jump From Hotel ret Threatens ~ow the U. S. Army’s new mechanical trench A boon to American soldie, NAIL CLEAN-UP a bettér all-around first contest 14 to 0. |s'sted triple play ever made in a|‘this club is e New York Yankees broke series game, says it isn't so. team. Tt is better defensively in | Plans for the fourth anniversary IS SUGGESIED even in a twin contest with the Chi-| Speaker Won't Speak | ieveral epots, but I believe we | banquet of the Tatholic Daughters cago White Sox On the sidelines sits Tris Speaker, | had a little more power. A iot of of America have been completed and | Ll [ — {the immortal center fielder who| ur players hit over 300, cven the function will be held Tuesday 7 ! grove the Indians to the pnnant in |with that cld cocoanut.” evening starting at 6:15 o'clock in Chamber May Make E"O” GAMES WEDNESDAY the days when bleacherite and re-| Back in 1920, the Tribe's first- the Catholic Parish Hall : National League corved seat fans alike wore caps. | string caicher was a fellow called Mrs. Peter Bond is in charge of iO Ge' R'd 0' Old the dinner and reservations may be | made by calling her at Green 750. | Eritertainment is under the arrange- ment of Mrs, Jack Fowler and Miss Mary VanderLeest. All Catholic Daughters and their friends are invited to attend and Chicage 6; New York 4. . St. Louis 14; Brooklyn 7. Pittsburgh 1; Boston 4. Cincinnati 4; Philadelphia 3. American League ashington 1, 1; Cleveland 3, 2. York 3, 9; Chicago 6, 8. always made it a rule nm‘Strvv O'Neill, one of a procession to compare players with those of [of Jater-day Cleveland —managers |20 years ag2,” says the*non-com-|and now pilot at Buffalo. | mittal Speakar, now the Ohio rep-| Bagby was the pitching king- | resentative ‘of a Detroit steel com-|nin~ as Beb Feller is now. He | pany. | turned in, 31 wins against only 12 “The setup -was different—thero's | defeats. Walter Mails, who joined Nails in Streefs | A campaign to get rid of nails in Juneau streets is being contemplated by the Juneau Chamber of Com- merce, following a repoxt by Harold Take Second Game from Philadelphia 0, 13; Detroit 14, 6. | ¢ i i 3 3 ARSI heliasts il dtide : Ui (the lively ‘ball now and lots of the club late in the season, won special guests will include Bishop gmith at today's lunct meeting Boston 2; 8t. Louis 11. {other things—and playing was en-|seven in a row and was a big fac- OakS‘Play Resumed |37% crimont and Reverends w. G it ot St ot o i tirely different. So I don't think!tor in the stretch drive. Cald- IaVasseur, Edward C. Budde and ,henace to motorists here. [ in Seaftle Friday STANDING OF THE CLUBS i 5 fair comparison.” well's record was 20 and 10, Cov- B.-R. Hubbard Several members of the Chamber | National A eleskie's 24-14. suggested that most of the Mails \&!::glfim pey | The others. however, express T " | very definite ideas. George Burns held down firsi (Ry Asseciated Press) " . o o 4y '6641 “;he lprefiem club looks Letter base 5nd Larry . .Gardner third The £ e Rainigss tied up Yankee Casualty fi:fflfil\fi;fl\:’vl:’r{1\21(110»\1':1"?:::‘(; ”bcin,, 576 | )’ 5 E hat a 8 61 56|, mo- declares Fohl. After he left| Wamby was at second and Ray their playolf serics with Oakland city ordinance should prohibit such St. Louis 75 65 536/ \po ndianc he piloted the Boston | Chapman wag the regular short- las: night by defeating the Oakland S e o AL il SUCR | nee again New York hotel residents witness an apparent window Fttdmuren 73 68 5184 st fouls American League stop until he was killed by one of Acorms cn Hal Turpins four-hit i S e nail| ledge aoicide attempt resulting in a call for firemen TRt nets, polids Chicago 7 T3 490 b rore leaving baseball. Fehl|Cail Mays' submarime ball pitches. pitehing, the score being 2 to 1. iRl e e amber nail | RS chiatrists, Earl J. McBride of Dormont, Pa., kept police and New Ycrk 6, -0 468/ 15w manages a downtown Cleveland | Joe Sewell plugged the gap the re- Tie teams resume the play in Seat- 1 :]‘: w‘(’mld’ lg: ,m boat v h[o_v.s nl\(d' firemen busy for some time balancing perilously from the window Boston 61 82 a2 g e cone of many a base- | mainder of the year. In the outficld le Friday, night by i ol be iven prizes for Pick-| g of his eighth-floor room, threatening to jump. He parricaded Philadelphia . 46 96 324|121l argument. with Speaker and Graney were Lefty Ray Prim pitched in great 5 Thatiar “” O | himself in the room and hurled furniture to the street. Later he American League “The boys now have more good|Charley Jamieson, Eimer Smith form las night and throtted the vl TDEyeie niiaitiee Sup] i S L PRNES and was taken; to’a hospital for: observatio Won Lost Pct.| o ioning and T don't know where and Joe Wood. San Diego's batsmen as he limited WRIGH Tahh W Jores St dhafnians} - 3 G S sdenoy e ey R Cleveland iy 519/ von'd get a better defensive ball| ~Best of all, six of the eight regu-|the Padres.to five hits, giving Los 2 fesusd il ik s B % Tl g 61 516 L e or Hal Trosky at first|lars were in the select 300 circle | Angeles the first game of the play- Cli per Agaln Plays Cupld New York 79 64 5521\ . o monl cohtinues. “There's a|—about twice as many as on’ theloffs by'a score of 9 to 0. F B I AGENT I Chicago o0 ol 545 (hot here or there where they're bresent club. z St 5 « U L £ AR Boaton 7568 52450 good, but this is the better | PNy TR 3 | ‘ 5 Bb- Loyl 62 83 428, The lively ball has made| 4 . SHOTS (Au'ED | SPEAKER BEFORE Washjngtan e o '411“pncl\ing tougher, and this team 2 > il g o Philadelphia 53— 98- 318 |P il ‘ a Ing | ) 3 WOM v [ : R Ly L A divergent view comes from| { Bv FISHERMAN | EN OTERS | TOPSY-TURVY HUNTING NOW KINSTON, N. C. Sept. 19.—Re- cent floods have upset fishing and hunting routine. Wamby, a chain grocery company 2 |shipping clerk and a part-time scout for the New York Yankees. ro ers “We hit better and got more runs. We had just as good a pitch- PADUCAH, Ky., Sept. 19. — Ed ing staff, with a 30-game WInNer yyign( 90, and his brother, Roger, |that year—Jim Bagby—and WO/ yg are posom pals nine months of |20-game winners, Ray Oaldwell{ype year. The rest of the time they |and stanley Coveleski. | plague each other on and off the LOUISVILLE. Ky., Sept. 19. — A member of Hamiltcn Herr'’s fishing party got a strike from a trout but| |the fish broke the line and escaped with the tackle, Hor added to the party’s dis- belief by saying he saw the trout Nettled by derision, he vowed he Don't play detective if you hear rumors of Fifth Columnists in your midst, Ralph Vogel, FBI Special Agent, advised members of the Al- | aska Association cf Women Voters when he addressed their meeting at | the Council Chambers last night. | Instead, report such rumors to | organized agencies which are pre- At Windsor hunters reported phe-i “Don’t forget, too, that we had|paceball diamond as pitchers fOf| going go back the next day and pared to handle them, he said. nomenal success in hunting deer|® fighting team and you couldn't | ywo rival clubs in the Kitty League.| aqon it | in boats. |get away from Speaker's leader-| “They met recently on the " p. Gig He brought in a 19-| | since the beginning of the war At Kinston nimrods shot carp|Ship and aggressiveness. We Wer¢ mound for the first time i & young trout with the Madngad in Europe reports of alleged Fifth | in the Neuse River when it over-|Just as good in the fleld, just as|icague battle and Ed bested his B ELianik salghs i its woouth. | Column activities to the FBI have flowed its banks. jg(f.;vd :e:md thml:;: and in !lhe‘ younger brothor, largely because % WEAgA i | Dr. Earl Painter, Yankee physician, | Peen as many as 1,600 a month, ;.,_,‘ ———e—a——— | ok, .anc.ouk g was a Iot|gq's team, Paducah, in a hit- | fixes the gash Red Rolfe, New York | Increase from a few years ago of 35 NOTioE [Some Lk d St |ting mood and Rodger's, Hopkins- BOWI._BY_N'GHI' third baseman, received from the reported cases of suspected sabotage | es Current Team ville, wasn't. | spikes of Cecil Travis, of the Sena- | or espionage in a year. AIRMATL ENVELOPES, showing| Graney, who now describes the| gg js owned by Memphis of the| DENVER, Scpt. 19. — Outdoor | tors, who was trying to stretch & | Fingerprinting, as a means of H sty soutte from Seattle to Nome, on!Indians games’ on the radio for|gouthern Assoclation and - Roger | bowling alleys floodlighted for night | double into a triple. Relfe made the | proteation for the innocent, person havs been opened at Denver's | PUt-0Ut remained in the game at |45 well as to ald in apprehension of | sale at J. B. Burford & Co. adv. his old home town fans, opines |was bought recently by the Bost ;n‘plaw Washington, £ s e = | Red Sox, |city Park 1 g | criminals, Mr. Vogel said, is one| ’-« | - - - — - ~—~|of the important functions of th(‘,‘ | TR TR (78 Federal Bureau of Investigationand Oldest Bank in over 2,000,000 fingerprints are on| | file in the civil division of the FBIs| department of fingerprinting. Cooperation between the various e 4 city, county, state and federal| A transatlantic clipper plane again was cast in the role of Cupid when Alask“ agencies in the apprehension of Sheila Buckanall, of Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, England, flew from Europe H i i eis i nkae AL hommibl - for th to America, straight to the arms of her fiance, Harmin L. Remmel,‘.lr., ; : 5 it possible for the | ooy ittle Rock, Ark. They are shown as he met her at La Guardia Field, Commercial Savings Safe Deposit Banking by Mail Department The B. M. Behrehds Bank Juneau. Alaska P o DEFIA! NS ITS cantilever speedy monoplate 900 special agents of the FBI in the United States and its territories to Mr. Vogel said. | After his interesting and detailed | | exposition of FBI activities, Mr Vn~‘ gel answered questions of the group. Mrs, Frank A. Metcalf, President, of the Association of Women's Vot- ers, presided at the meeting and| announced that the next regular meeting will be October 8. >oo - ELKS TO ENTERTAIN | BASEBALL PLAYERS — s ‘ | The Elks baseball team of the Gas- N'AM E—Britais's.Boulton Paul Defiant (above) is & two-sealer, | orainca o the iatae moxt. Wod- , with a power-operated four-gun turret just back of tha nilat tertained by ;the.{lodge ‘next, Wed- 5 nesday night. ~ BRINGING UP FATHER | WELL-OWNING A YACHT YOU = WHAT 2 WELL THE VERY |D§A-‘ By GEORGE McMANUS accomplish the work before them, 7 in New York. There is no substitute for Newspoper Advertising , ) | GLACIER HIGHWAY DELIVERY ~ESPEC NOW-GO OUT 'SleHss%aezEEls A it GO TO YOU OHJHDEODE% 77777 COMMODORE -THAT STATEROOM - Al ey - . MAKESI‘E:AEC &AASTE_ soiindfips COAL——WOOD Cope. 1940, King Features Syndicate, Inc. G4 Word nghus resned LUMBER—GROCERIES @ PHONE 374 "SHORTY" WHITFIELD