The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 19, 1941, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1941. | : Fi!llil'lg | One Launéhed, Another Ship Begun for Bntain . Through B b B h - ke Fine | < [s Great SpoTIfYou Do Not | " Freeze in Getting Your Bait AP Feature Service METCALF IS HIGH KEGLER ELKS ALLEYS With Frank Metcalf rolling the | night's high score for the Engin- eers, his team gave a 3 to 1 drub- bing to the 20th Century keglers last night at the Elks alleys. Final scores we! Engineers 1421, 20th Century 1332. The second match of the three- match pin play chalked up average scores for all six absent players to come to a 1359 total for both squads, every game of the match being tied. Snow White carried al game spot of 61 pins to split the} match to 2 with the Capitol Theatre. ‘Wonders . Missing AtCamps Unexplained Dirth of Boy | Marvels Noficed at Spring Training Sperts Editor, AP Feature Service INDIANAPOLIS, March 19—New‘ England cod catchers who roll in from the Grand Banks with icicles dangling {rom their ears have their inland counterparts in the ice fish- | ermen. of Indiana and neighboring states. | Down Easters make their living that Way but most of the Hoosiers who Runker down on a sheet of March 19.—Where | “boy wonders” this TAMPA, Fla., are baseball’s The Alaska Federal Savings fell‘sp“““ : down the line in the last match as| NO one seems to know just why the Golden Age took 3 of the 4 but 0_.herc is a noticeable absence games and won by 43 pins. of kid marvels at the sun-baked Last night's scores follow: | major league training camps. 20th Century A year ago everyone was talk- Dr. Stewart 192 171 ing about Brooklyn's sensational Dolly Kaufm'n 194 106 shortstop rookie, 19-year-old Hal| Dr. Whitehead 126 124 Reese, and Detroit's pitching find, e AR 18-year-old Hal Newhouser. And 512 407 in 1939 the big noise was Detroit's| Engineers fancy-priced pitcher from Senme.i 3 3 18-year-old Fred Hutchinson, who! 124 168 didn’t last long in the majors b\ui 190 167 is back with the Tigers again, try-| 140 140 ing to hang on. | 7R 3 Perhaps the most spectacular of 459 478 all the boy wonders of recent Snow White years was Bob Feller, who was (Spot) 61 61 only 17 when he made his first McDaniels* 140 140 spring trainipg trip with the In-' Mrs. McDaniels® 79 79 dians. F. Riendeau 173 173 453 453 Capitel Theatre C. Boyer 141 141 Bob Duckworth®180 180 Mrs. Duckworth®132 132 Totals 453 453 Golden Age % 5 153 153 124 124 132 100 160— 529 124— 424 129— 379 413—1332 Totals (Spot) Sinescul Metcalf Copstead*® 3— 9 129— 421 214— 571 140— 420 Totals 486—1421 61— 1440— 79— 237 173— 519 453—1359 183 420 No New Kids This spring there’s not a single new kid star. There ar¢ about two | dozen youngsfers no older than 21 and some of them are good enough to stick in the majors but there’s not a headliner in the group. ! The one you may hear the most about this year is Hal Reiser, who| 153— 459 May play center field for the 124— 372 Brooklyn Dodgers. And Hal is not 152— 384 really a newcomer. He made the - 77 " spring trip with the Dodgers two 5 years ago. Hal is just 21. Totalsmas“ F::‘d s‘iz.m:so‘_“*o Another young Dodger who, M. Lavenik ... 208 127 176— 506 should win some games this sum- Mirs, Tavenik . 140 1 M0 4ga Rt v Blower Rd Heed, 5 who H. Petrich 132 137 169— 43 “oPped & domen for Elmira last Totals 481 391 5251397 PSOT ge;“" Crn L Tenh ° ander, . ‘Average score. Did not bowl. | The Caddinals have a good look- ing young prospect in Matt Sur- kont, a pitcher who won 19 for Decatur, in 1940. Dick Conger, a 20-year-older who had a trial with Detroit last spring, is trying to catch on with the Pirates. The Cubs have a kid named Herb Chmiel, 20, who is getting a chance on the strength of three no-hit games he pitched for Lane Tech in Chicago. | Davis a Possibility | Lawrence Davis, a 20-year-old North Carolina boy, may break into the Philadelphia Athletics’ line-up at second base. Cleveland is likely to keep Jim Hegan, 20-| year-old catcher from Oklahoma | City. The Phillies like the looks| of Johnny Podgajny, who won 18 for Ottawa. John Lucadello, al- most 21, may catch on with the St. Louis Browns. | The young rookie crop isn't bad but there still isn't a Reese in the lot (although Reiser may surprise | everyone with a big year). | —.—— The Daily Alaska Emplire has tix JUNEAU DAIRIES {msmeras GENERAL ELEGTRICI Totals 141— 423 180— 540 132— 396 453—1359 (Spot) 75— 225 W. Overby* Mrs. Overby* Ellis Reynolds ALL ALIKE? No other ice cream can compare Wwith JUNEAU DAIRIES'. With any flavor of | JUNEAU DAIRIES’ ! you'll eat every drop! MODIL LB6-41, 62 cu. Fe, capacity. 11.7 sq. ft. shelf area. Famous sealed-in- steel G-E Thrift Unit with the sssserpassed record for. berformance, - * Come in and see this Big Bargainl With utter disregard for past records, even his own, 22-year-old Torger | Tokle takes off on a mighty leap on Belknap Mountain near Laconia, | N. H, to establish a new record of 251 feet for this particular hill. | The leap, shown at its height, gave him the Eastern Amateur Ski | Jumping Champior:ship. It bettered his 235-foot jump of last year, which was = hill record. | TOUGHON Pig Latin CANADIAN ' HelpsCage ICE STARS1 Te_a_m Wi'n' Just See What Poor Bache- | lor Hockey Player Musi Do-lt's the Law, Too MORGANTOWN, W. Va. March 19‘[ —When Coach Dyke Raese met his West Virginia University basketball team in the dressing room after a| ‘recent victory he congratulated them | ‘on their play but asked: | “What was all that meaningless Jjabbering about out there? I couldn’t CLEVELAND, March 19—Pity the understand a word you said.” poor hockey player who is a native The players grinned and one of of Canada. If he’s single he must them explained: - live on $25 a week and the rest of | “AW. that’s just a new form of pig his salary goes to his Canadian latin that's a campus fad now. We bank. That's the law. Penalty for Were having trouble lining up to best failure to observe it is a fine and 2dvantage on held ball plays so we refusal to permit the offending play- Shouted advance plans in that silly er to leave Canada for another sea- | talk. Those guys couldn’t understand son. jus either so it worked swell.” The Canadian puck chaser who is | Raese must have thought so, too. niarried gets to keep $50 a week and, | e okayed the procedure and the unless he has a big family, he can | players still use the strange language do all right on that. | to shout secret directions to one an- But, say bachelors on the squad of ! other. But their coach still can’t un- the Cleveland Barons of the Amer- | 96rstand a word of the stuff. ican Hockey League, there just; T ‘ain’t no justice” when a fun-loving | they will receive the remainder of single guy has to pay rent, eat,|their salaries plus a 10 per cent dis- clothe himself and try to indulge in count because their American dollar a little recreation on a measly $25/ will be worth 10 cents more than the a week. | Canadian dollar. Some Save Now ! Even at that the boys will be los- They realize that they’re probably | ing 10 per cent because they used to saving more money than they would get a 20 per cent premium when if they could use their full salary, they took the money over the ‘border but that happy thought doesn’t 'themselves. Under the present sys- compensate for the way they have tem the Canadian govenment fig- to live. |ures to make a sizeable heap of Take three of the club’s baghelors, 'money on the difference between for instance. Defenseman Bill Mc- the 10 and 20 per, cemt premium. Kenzie, Center Don Deacon and Goalie Moe Roberts, American- Winger Joffre Desilets have set up born saw a chance to save some quarters together to make their $25 money along with his Canadian stretch. | teammates so he moved in with the Desilets is the cook and the others boys to make it a foursome. pitch in and handle the other house- | What was that someone said about hold duties. It’s a lot different from single bliss? o —— toms with garden rakes. They telll you they're wigglers.” | mazoo wiggler” and it's | seen | ture obstructing full view of wind-swept ice and dangle bait through a six-inch hole just call it fun. It's a bone-chilling business,! even to getting bait. | Most any day you can cee| grown men, shivering in waders, stirring up pond and creek bot-! hunting “Kalamazoo' Night Fire InN.Y.Has | Anfi-Climax| Trucks Galore Race fo Scene Spectacularly- | Man Pufs Blaze Out | BY GEORGE TUCKER Non-fishermen often think they are being cast in snipe-catcher roles but there really is a “Kala- fine bait for any of the winter-biting fish except the larger bass and pike. It's the larva of then burrowing May fly—a Dbottom dweller resembling the rare fairy shrimp sometimes in woodland pools in early spring, { Other popular winter baits are horse weed worms, caddis fly larvae which build houses of leaves and grass in creeks, and various other larvae found in dead stumps an dlogs. Some fishermen get their bait in warmer weather and pickle it in formaldahyde, alcohol or salt brine, Indiana game wardens report that six bluegills are caught to. every three perch and to every cne of all other species, including red-éared sunfish, pike and crap- pies, NEW YORK, March 19.—People walking in Madison Avenue the other night began to run toward a reddish- ycllow glow that quickly grew into 1 fishi A .._|an inferno of crackling flames. A ce fishing s permitted every-',ynap its driver nowhere apparent, w'he're in y Indiana’s public waters paq caught fire, and all through the except Bass Lake in Starke County. city the melancholy wail of the si- Angl.ujs are limited to one line with yens took up the cry as big hook- one ,;KPOK in a hole that must be anq ladders, flashy red “chiefs” and two _fi.hd one-half feet or less in gimilar apparatus cleared the right' diameter. Any shack or other struc- of way and bore down on the scene. the The incident' ¥ok place just af- ' ter nightfall, just around the cor- |ner from 45th street. Out of 45th and into Madiscn careened a piece of fire-fighting equipment half & | block long. It was met, face on, by a similar vehicle from a rival sta- hole is forbidden. — >, This photo gives an idea of how the British shipyards are working at feverish speed to produce the ships on which the very life of Great Britain depends. One freighter is shown hitting the water, keel of another is being hoisted into rjace. and already the in town had been devoted, largely, to sitting in on “Louisiana Pur- chase,” that gentle satire on Louls- iana politics which has amused Am- ericans frem all sections of the country for more than half a year “We can appeciate some of the things they said about the state,” Sam Houston Jones commented dry- ly. “They could have said more. But I thought it was lots of fun.” Governor Jones' mission in the metropolis is one of business. Louis- iana, he says, is interested in three types of industry—national defense chemical, petroleum. One of his chores is to attract new industries in these categories. “The state is now third in oil reserves,” he said. “Only he cther day the 101st Louisiana oil field was discovered. Sam Houston Jones remained on- ly two days in the city. Then he |climbed aboard The Senator for Washington, and home. ——eelp . The United States Marine corps, set up by the Continental congress in 1775, is the oldest branch of Am- erica’s armed forces. There has never been formal in- ternational recognition of Canada’s northern boundary. tion. In a twinkling four other huge TH'S EVEN|NG trucks drew up, and the firefighters unreling their hose, were clearing The annual election of officers the fireplugs on the curbs. On the will take place at the Elks lodge grycks, whining and yelping with tonight and all members are re-|excitement, the Dalmatians (with- Quested to be in attendance. The cut which no self-respecting fire lodge sessfon will be called at 8 wagon in New York would venture o'clock, { abroad) were in their element. There { must have been 100 of New York's | erack firefighters on the scene, with cnough equipment to save a bor- ough. £mpire Classiliecs ray . TG s,h’ at 14 Mont‘h" Out of this conglomeration sud- . 3 = i denly popped a lone fireman with 4 i cne little insignificant can of chem- ical fire extinguisher in his hands. | He sprayed the burning taxicab and —just like that—the flame was out. The firemen all looked at each other in disappointment. The chief off. One by one, the mighty hook- and-ladders eaded into the - side [ streets and disappeared. It was a dis- | appointing ending for such a spec- | tacular beginning. Later I dropped by the Hotel New Yorker to pay my respects to Sam Houston Jones, Governor of Louis- iana and a resident of Lake Charles, jwhere I lived for so many years as a | boy. | Sam Houston Jones is a spectac- ular name, and I thought of this while crossing the lobby because ' !man, known as “Woody” to you, who is no politician but the leader of a fine orchestra that bears his name. I hate to mention this on top of Sam Houygton and Woodrow Wil- scn, but a reporter must tell what he sees, and so I hereby make note ALASKA ELECTRIC LIGHT | pre-war days when the boys lived ; in hotels and ate in restaurants and | still wound up with money in their Ppockets. Get Lump Sum PUBLIC PINOCHLE PARTY at the Odd Fellows Hall, 8:15 p.m,, Wed., March 19, by Women of the Moose. Refreshments, prizes and Fourteen-months-old Lilo Lyman learned to walk only a few weeks ago, but she’s already learning how to ski. Here she is taking her first lesson from her father, Hollis that the elevator boy who took me up to the Governor's suite was George Washington Clark, aged 27, an upstate boy who has some to the city to earn his fortune, | elimbed into his red comet and rode | FORMER PREMIER OF YUGOSLAVIAIS SENT INTO EXILE StoyadinovE_I_S Rushed Across Greek Border Following Charges BELGRADE, March 19.—Former Premier Stoyadinovic, a qualified source said, has been exiled from Yugoslavia because he attempted to regain power and align Yugoslavia with the Axis, The former Premier is accused of pro-German sympathies. It is said he has been sent over the border into Greece. —ll— > The United States has 92° cities with 100,000 or more residents. Alaska had 72,524 residents 1940. in —————— Bubscribe to the Dal Empire—the paper with paid circulation. OPERATIC ‘SW I NG ~To keep in shape for Metropolls baritone, tan opera roles, Armand Tokat with he was Woodrow Wilson Her- ‘,;l.‘.hn Inw’ nlu‘(‘rlll‘l'i), Australian Roth have appeared in “LT:‘M:I’:G" .l‘::"“llldlufl: "B in N.Y. Butterfly."* A RO PHONE 374 . GLACIER § AND POWER (0. ‘» BRINGING UP FATHER DOAS| FATHER" SAID-GO UP TO ROOM OH-ALL RIGHT —~ :&n’l;flé GOING ON WITHOUT ADDING TO IT - There is one bright ray in the cloud for the Bamons' unhappy bachelors. When " they return to Canada at the end of the season door prize, Admission 50c. adv. — Empire Classifieds Pay! Lyman, at Timberline Lodge Ski iy 5 “School in Washiseton. The Governor was in fine fettle and confessed that his first night By GEORGE McMANUS YOU'LL HAVE TO HELP ME-| CANT LIFT THAT BED WITH YOUR FATHER IN IT— HIGHWAY DELIVERY PHONE 374 “SHORTY" WHITFIELD