The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 15, 1940, Page 5

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New Street IsRenamed | Harbor Way H Street Co;fu—sion Put at End by Council Ac- tion Here Initiation will be held tomorrow day. Today it hasn't, but it has a brand new Harbor Way. The Streer—pardon us, Way— flanks the new small boat harbor and was created when the boat harbor was built. Because there was no end of phonetical confus- jon between H Street and Eighth | Street, the Council decided to do something about it. Last night it officially changed the name of the thoroughfare from H Street to Har- | bcx Way. “he Councu aiso put 1s omcm stamp on the designation of Ad- miral Way for the street running from South Franklin Street to the Alaska Dock and Storage Company. | Though it has been called Admiral | Way for years, ft had never been THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, OCT. 15, 1940. Rlpple s Store Wms eds Game Take Series LINEUP OF REDS MAY BE CHANGED New FlockWYoungstersg Coming Up for Trials Next Spring By JOHN FRYE AP Feature Service ooy | CINCINNATI, Oct. 15—~The Cin- cinnati Reds have won the Nation- al League pennant for two straight years—but they're not standing pat! Frank C. Lane, director of the| Reds' nine-club farm system, has a flock of youngsters coming up Cincinnati scored twice in the seventh inning after D ctroit tallied once in the third, held that lead to take the ball game and the 1940 World’s Series October 8 at Cincinnati’s jammed Crosley Field. Soundphoto shows Reds’ left fielder Ripple scoring from third on Meyers’' long fly to McCosky for the Reds’ second officially named. point. WPA Projects i o i L Mayor Harry Lucas announced|go... ¢, w. o, Johnson. ELMER BOUND TO STATES at last night's meeting that the City has applied for a number of new WPA projects, entailing Govern- ment contributions totaling $5,488. | Chief among the projects is rt‘puir-‘ ing the banks of Gold Creek. Rock walls in the Seater Tract were alfio recmested. The retail liquor license of the p White Spot Liquor Store was trans- | largest paid circulation of any Al- Ioned by the Councxl from Ed G. aska newspupel | from 2 g . RETURNING HOME There will be no Council meet- | ing until November 1, next Friday being Alaska Day, a holiday. ORDER YOURS EARLY AND GET THE BEST SELECTION DAILY ALASKA Phone 374 - - .. TURKS ARE NOW to be called Ior a was New bids are olice patrol wagon, ! | ol accompamed by Mrs. Elmer, - T W W, ISTANBUL, Turkey, Oct. The Dally Alaska £mpire has the | Many 1urks are 15— returning here | LADIES MOOSE ATTENTION IOOP‘ Hfl]] soon be at war with Bulgarm Complete Selection! Lower Prices Now! , Christmas may seem like such.a long way | off right now. But do you remember that | last minute rush for Christimas cards last year? You kept putting it off because there was SO much time . . . and the first thing you knew Christmas was upon you. That is why we suggest you come right down to our office now and make your selection. You'll find a wonderful assort- ment of beagutiful cards, you can leave your orders for personalized cards, and you can then send your cards out at your leisure . . . if you order your Christmas cards now. EMPIRE the . M. Elmer, prominent mine op- some day old man time will p\n. emmr in the Valdez section, is a the clutch on them. passenger south aboard the Aleutian Women of the Moose meet to- from Bulgaria for fear Turkey will morrow night, 8 p.m. Initiation, at ad | for trials next spring. Some of | them probably will be regulars with the Reds next season. Others | will be available for call at any time. | Frank would like nothing bet- ter than to discover a better| pitcher than Paul Derringer or| | Bucky Walters, a better first base- | man than Frank McCormick, or| |a better catcher than Ernie Lom- bardi. ‘ NOT that he wants to put these| able gentlemen out of jobs, they know as well as Frank that Knows 'Em All Frank has all the facts and hg- |ures on his scores of charges be- |tween his ears. Break the tall curly-head out of a sound sleep and he'll say, without turning on the light. “Dick West at Indianapolis— | Jewel Ens says he's going to be a catcher—he's coming up again next year. He's hard, like a catch- er ought to be. “We're getting Al Mele from Bir- mingham—outfielder—left hander— hitting .340 and batted in 116 runs so far. “The apple of our eye down there, though, is Chuck Aleno— third baseman—22 years old—six foot one — 200 - pounder — scoop shovel hands and what an arm— hitting .325.” Ask in heaven's name what the Reds need with a third baseman, with Bill Werber the best in the league and Lew Riggs ready to step in anyway and you'll hear “It's nice to know we got him, lhougL\ | “Then Garton del Savio—short- stop—hitting .280, knocked in 65 runs—also from Birmingham. “We're recalling Kermit Lewis| from Albany in the Eastern—out-| fielder—batting .329-—stole 20 bases hit 15 homers—built like Chick Hafey. “Woody Willlams from Louisville| —he may be our hitting shortstop. Frank Secory — outfielder — from Beaumont in the Texas—good guy. “Joe Mack—first baseman—Red Barrett—pitcher—Don Lang—third | base—all from Indianapolis — Neil Cllfford~—catchfl' from St. Paul. . . Stiff Battles “I tell you, the competition’s going, to be stiff down in Tampa next spring.” Frank is pretty proud of the farm teams this year. Bassett, Va, won the Bi-State pennant. Tucson, the team in the| Arizona-Texas that the Reds picked | up for $500, won the second hall| down _there. | Ogden in the Pioneer League, Durham in the Piedmont and Lenoir, N. C, in the Tar Heel, all went into final playoff series in their respective loops. MOOSE WOMEN WILL INITIATE InSitiation will pe held tomorrow night at 8 o'clock at the O.0.O.F. Hall by the Women of the Moose and all members are urged to at- tend. Candidates will include Mesdames| Martha Gutsche, Vera Evelyn Schu- ler, Leona Sabinico, Clara Manery, | Billie Jaegel, Selma Salo and Frank Goddard. At 7:30 o'clock, prior to the lodge meeting, there will be a short drill |team practice. | e Empire Classifieds Pay! but'f| GINGHAM BALL charge | be costumes and prizes and all sorts for men, with Mutts and Jeffs, Skunks, cluded. There are two prizes here EXCITING 12-20 11-17 38-44 16%2- 24% ~repe, and wool Prints, Dots — in safe bet you've dresses for so lit JUST A PLANS TOLD BY CLUB COMMITTEE Annual Edu—(_aiion Fund Dance Will Be Unique Event October 26 Ivs time to get ready! At least that is what the committee in of the Business and Pro- fessional Women's Club's annual Educational Fund Ball say. The Hallowe'en event from which the “working girls” derive their fund |for educational purposes, will this year be known as the Gingham Ball and will be an event of October 26, at the Elks Ballroom. There will of fun, according to chairman Si- grid Walther. Here are a list of prizes, as yet incomplete. There will be first a historical group. In this set may be George and Martha Washington, colonial ladies, Louis XVI styles, Cleopatras, or any other historical character that one wishes to dis- play. There will be four prizes in this group—two for ladies and two Second, the comic group Shiftless and other characters in- —one for a lady and one for a gen- tleman. Thz International group may includ; peasant garbs from different countries. The Fairy Tale group with such characters as Moth- er Hubbard, Cindrella, Alice in Wonderland, the Wizard of Oz, and others portraying this section. The square dancers also come in for a prize, with a quadrille being in- cluded. And here are the prizes — the BY GOLLY- KIN BELIEVE ME EYES ? THAT’S MAGGIE’S COUSIN ARRY- WELL=YOU NIT -WIT - WHY DIDN'T YOU STOP HIM AND INVITE HIM IN? | HAVEN'T SEEN HM IN TEN YEARS - MAGGIE~I'M SURE | JUST SAW YOLIR COUSIN DRIVIN' BY THE HOUSE AS I CAME IN- ;fiflgmfnmfiilm I | By GEORGE McMANUS (present incomplete list: NEWS!— Feature Sale Of Our Wonderfully Clever . Washable . . . Wearable Barbett Dresses They're thos make such grand s0 wearable for busine They fit wonderfully well, have lots of and dash TAKE PARTICI ver dresses which house frocks, and are street school. f style ULAR NOTE OF THE GRAND SAVINGS! Reg. 2.50 1.95 Reg. 3.50 Reg. 4.50 3.95 Striking New Colors and Styles! Amazing new styles in spun rayon, rayon challis. Checks, Stripes, fact just everything. It's a never had such pretty tle. REMINDER! Chrisimas is coming—just a little over two months away—and a BARBETT DRESS will make a perfect gift. B. M. BEHRENDS Co. QUALITY SINCE 1887 Ten gal- wns of gas from Jorgensen Motors; a book of cab tickets from Royal wlue Cab Company; a permanent chid from Juneau Florists; quet from the Flower Shop; an oyster feed—here's a tip—this goes t othe square danc- ers; a pair of piano lamps from the Alaska Music Supply House; six weeks plano lessons trom Caroline Todd piano studio; and a box of apples from Garnick's Grocery. And | there are more prizes to be an- nounced later. Everybody pays this year—fifty cents admission, spectators and all. For a number of years members of the club have felt that since this women, it would be only fair that women should pay equally with men. The commitlees include B8igrid ‘Walther, general chairman, who will personally take charge of dec- | will take placeure in selling tickets, Mrs. Beulah Sund, who will be keeping Juneau's public posted on Gingham Ball progress from time to time over the radio; Mrs. Lillian Uggen, who will arrange for the music and Miss Caroline Todd, who will have charge of newspaper pub- licity. And as a final word, Juneauites are urged to get their cosumes started. - Subseribe for The Empire. irom Sigrid s Beauty Salon; an or- | a bou- | Forget-Me-Not was a benefit affair going to ald| orations; Mrs. Jean Talkington, who | Arm of Comadence Meefs Arm of Law ASHEVILLE, N. C, Oct. 1g. Deputy Sheriff B. B, Brockman of Spartanburg, 8. C., scanned a pho- tograph of a man wanted in con- | nection with a slaying while stand- Ang in an Asheville bus station. man brushed Brockman’s shoulder almost knocking the pleture out of his hand. Brockman looked at the photo again, then ag | the man. It was the suspect, TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY WANTED—Clean gallon jugs. 20th Century Grocery. The Dally Alaska rmpire guarans tees the largest dally ‘circulation nf any Alaska _Alaska newspaper. "**—4 GLAMOROUS HAIB | for more beautiful, more-last- ing permanents . . . For love- lier hair styles . . . and artistic hair shapmg and cutting . CHA R LES Sigrid's Beanly Salon PHONE 318 GLACIER DAILY DELIVERY COAL——WO0O0D LUMBER—GROCERIES @ PHONE 374 "SHORTY" WHITFIELD HIGHWAY TRIPS

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