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(OASTB.B. SEASON IS UNDERWAY Sacramento Takes Three Game Lead - Seattle, San Diego Tied (By Associated Press) | The Sacramento Solons blasted their way into leadership of the | Pacific Coast League Sunday by winning both ends of a double- | header from the Hollywood Sl.ars; for a clean sweep of the opening| series as the Coast| g into action for the 1941 season. The Solons won the game in the 12th inni E hidt held the Stars to two I in the seventh inning nighteap. | Seattle Wins Two { The Secattle Rainie defeated | San Francisco Seals in hoth a doubleheader Sunday | losing Saturday’'s opener inj the tenth inning. A near capacity | crowd of 16,000 baseball fans saw| the champions snatch 2 victory pehind the tight pitching. Jojo; White's three-bagger also had lots | to do with the Raineer's triumph | in the first game San Diego Beats Oakland | A combination of timely hitting and effective pitching enabled San Diego to win a doubleheader from | d to take the series 2 to 1. avy stick work in two big in- nings won the first game for thej Padres. Yank Terry dominated the; seven-inning nightcap with stel-| lar mound performance. Nearly 3-hour Game | Los ‘Angeles staved ofi a desper- | ate Portland rally Sunday to win the first of a scheduled double- The game required two and forty-five minutes to| The nightcap was called off b greement. at the end of the} sixth inning on account of dark- ness with Los Angeles leading and | will be played off later. | g { GAMES SUNDAY { Hollywood 3, 0; Sacramento 4, 1 Seattle 2, 3; San Francisco 1, 1 Oakland 3, 0; San Diego 7, 4. | Portland 14, 4; Los Angeles 15, 5. Second game called at end of sixth| inning on account of darkness. Seventh inning to be played later. Second game does not count in! standings. three-game League swunj GAMES SATURDAY Seattle 0; San Francisco 1. | Portland 4; Los Angeles 0. | Hollywood 0; Sacramento 5. Oakland 2; San Diego 0. | STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS | Won Lost 1.000 Sacramento 667/ Seattle San Diego 500! MMM NN W WO Portland Los Angelss | San Francisco . 333 Oakland .. 334 Hollywood . 0007 Mass Produdion Is | Quality; America Is Doing If in Defense (Continued from Page One) cars back together again. But he| Gid. He reassembled those parts into three cars just as good as the ones he had torn down. That’s mass production.” AMERICANS DON'T WONDER What caused the British em- gineers to go boogle-eyed has be- come such a commonplace that the average American doesn’t even bother to think of it any more. But a story has dribbled slowly out of the Army and defense agencies here which, if it causes no amazement in the mind of John Q. Public, who has come to think that American industry has not limitations, wild probably cause as much wonder abroad as Mr. Leland’s demonstra- tion. It is this: The Army air corps, with the cooperation of the Office of Production Management, is up to the ear-phones in its helmets ‘m‘ plans for mass production of two- and four-motor bombers — those| huge 11-to 23-ton ships, which, Pet.| o¢ these giant bombers a day, 300 'FREE BOOKLET : - 'TOBACCOLAND" OFFERED AGAIN jSecond Million Copies of ' U. S. Tobacco Industry | ITWAS ALL — OVERFORMAXIE Story Goes fo Public | | Heading the advertisements in | Chesterfield’s latest campaign, re- {lcased nationally this week | newspapers by Liggett and Myers | Tobacco Company, is a new offer’ jof the free book, “Tobaccoland |USA" This book, a large, complete'y { illustrated story of the tobacco in- | dustry, has proved so popular wicth American readers that a second | million copies were recently pub- lished and are rapidly being dis- | tributed. Free copies may be ob- tained upon request to Chesterfield, P.O. Box No. 21, New York City. Vercnica Lake and William | Helden of the coming picture, *I | Wanted Wings” and Carolz Lan- dis of the current comedy, “Topper Returns,” head the ‘“parade of stars” in this newest Chesterfield series. A special advertisement, to be released when the baseball sea- |son opens, features Frank McCor- mick, star first baseman of the {world champion Cincinnati Reds. | Other advertisements feature Vi- | vien Leigh and Laui e Olivier of the new picture, “That Hamilton | Woman,” and Priscilla Lane "of 3th new release, “Miss Wheelwright | Discoverers ‘America.” | A new campaign theme, “It's | Chesterfield . . . for a ccoler, mild- |er, better smoke,” carries through- [cut the'new s and in nation- 'al billboard showings and dealers’ displays''and on the radio. Fred Waring's “Pleasure Time” contin- |ues for Chesterfield every eve- |ning frem Monday through Fri- |day over NBC stations while Glenn Miller's “Moonlight Serenade” every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday ;evenmg over the Columbia Broad- | casting ‘System is renewed for a | new serfes. e — i2 Halibuters | ‘Co!umbia for Fairbanks where he Sell Sea"le | expects to locate. { [ ] _ ok DO‘J G’LAS [ BIRTHDAY DINNER Maj. Gen. G. H. Brett, of the | Mrs. L. A, Johnson's birthday was air corps, testifying before a N]Ews | the occasion of a family dinner House sub-committee, said the party given in her honor last eve- first bombers- in" the 3,600-ship in- Jning at the home of her parents, itial program are expected to roll [ Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Edwards. Covers from the assembly lines in 1042 were laid for ten. and the program is expected to AT GYM THIS EVENING T i e be complete in 1943. If I remem- The public is invited to attend a ber my arithmetic at all, that lecture by Evangelist Lester Sum- means that within two years, rall at the school gym tonight when America will be turning out ten he will speak on Russia. Quite a number of parents heard a month. And these in addition to Mr. Sumrall at the Schlegel Sunday the same type bombers being man- School yesterday morning and re- ufactured by- private firms, of which port him to be an able and inter- there are at least three mow oper- esting speaker. ating at full speed and rapidly ex- v B e % e i panding. { ELLMAN AND NELSON | LEAVING FOR WESTWARD FOUR ASSEMBLY PLANTS Signed up for work on &he air Here is the way the program will base at Dutch' Harbor, Jack El- work, according to Knudsen: Con- man and L. B. Nelson are prepar- tracts already have been signed ing to leave tomorrow on the Co- with the automobile industry for lumbia to take their new jobs. manufacture of parts, and sub- The families of the two men will contracts signed with smaller man- remain here for the present or ufacturers on more than 400 items until their husbands have a place that go into the big bombers. Plans prepared for them to fthe West- are complete and some work start- ward. < ed on the four huge assembly Max Baer s23s to his knees in the eighth round at New York just befcre Referee Arthur Donovan gave the fight to Lou Nova on a techrical knockout last Friday night. This Associated Press Telemat was airmail- ed to The Empirc and received Sunday demonstrating both the great service of the Associated Press and the air mail. heavily armed and armored, can range 2,000 to 3000 miles with their i death-dealing loads of bombs, with- out refueling. - | SEATTLE, April 7. — Two ves- sels sold, halibut here today, the . Bernice, 15,000 pounds, disposing of | the catch at 20 3/4 and 18 cents a pound, and the Empress, 10,000 | pounds,,.at 22 and 18 cents. The | Empress also sold 5000 pounds of ling cod at 10 cents, | PRICES AT RUPERT | At Prince Rupert today, 115,000 pounds pf, halibut were sold at 12.30 ' to 1250 and 7 cents a pound. | J| There were no sales at Ketchi- | LECTURE ON RUSSIA CiviL SERVICE |/ EXAMINATIONS Civil service examinations for the ‘ka‘n positions described below were an- | . - Held in Shooting i nounced by the United States Civil | Service Commission today. Applica- tions will be rated as received at the Commission’s Washington office un- til further notice, but qualified per- sons are urged to file their ap- plications at once. The salaries are subject to a 3% percent retirement deduction. | Shipyard inspector, various fields, with salaries ranging from $2,300 to $3,800 a year, United States Mari- time Commission. There are posi- tions open for hull, machinery, elec- ;mrh:al, joiner, and hull outfitting plants, at Omaha, Kansas city,, CLUB MEETS WEDNESDAY | inspectors. Responsible practical ex- Kan., Tulsa, Okla,_and Fort Worth,! With Mrs, Glenwood Kirkham perience in ship construction involv- Tex. * |and Mrs. Charles Fox as joint host- ing the type of work pertinent to the When these plants are finished esses, members of the Douglas Is- duties applied for is required. The and the big and little manufac- land Woman's Club will meet Wed- eXperience must have included the turers have completed retooling nesday evening at 8'o'clock 4t the, interpretation of drawings and spec- and expansion, parts for the bomb- home of Mrs. Charles Fox in Ju.fi““‘“"“’“‘ and the making of such | ers, tooled to that necessary mil-|Deau, Mrs. S. J. Greinef will be in computations as are necessary to lionth of an inch, will come tocharge of the program. etetiuing Bl oreriarioe. ab ok those four cities from all over the i with plans and specifications. The United States to be assembled, test-| ~ NEW TRUCK RECEIVED |Maximum age limit i sixty-five ed and delivered. | A new GMC delivery truck for 23 Less than a year ago, manufac- Feusi and Jensen arri hereyes-! Commodity exchange specialist, turers, government officials apd terday on the Tyee. Purchased | ith salarles Tenglng xom AR 10, Army men were explaining to the through the Connors agency from $4.600 o' year, Commodity Exchange public that although it migh Gene; s Agdministration, i neral ol , Department of Ag: g| ght be ral Motors, the new vehicle line was driven to the coast from Des B nods on the small fighter and troit by Elling Eide who has been Which ePplicants may qusliy, om- pursuit planes, it would be utter- 8 guest at the Jensen residence ;nmw.y.ne:l nsnxuindlnmvutmnom' ly impossible to mass-produce the since his arrival last week. ‘Rutln.s' mythis el be big bombers. : ! Eide is leaving tomorrow on the based‘on applicants’ education and | Now, maost of the money has been’ — g on their appropriate professional ex- | (OLISEUM-DOUGLAS e Edward (Blackie) Day | Once & henchman of gangster Al Capone, Edward (Blackie) Day is led from court in hia, where he was ordered held in appropriated for _bomber ~plants; In addition; contracts let; the plan far along— pe]rlanl c:,. pe ’2 for '.nt.h;ymmly bf and Knudsen has told Congress: “I ination to further determine their 000 in connection with the really feel that we can secure de- Tuesday-Wednesady {?;,m. fid € Julian Scholly. Physi- | fense if we have these large bomb- Watch This Space | Pull information s to the re- | @lans holly, if he survives, ers, I ‘we_had 3,000; of this type for quirements for these examinations, 'gloloung i ed{w life. The now, we could fix things up ove: l 4 - | 8l was blamed on an internal theser? : “Coming Attractions” | 04 spplication forms. ma¥ be ob- | Gispugein the Boilermakers' Union. GOLLY- MAGGIE’S N A LONG GONE WHILE=| HAD BETTER WAIT FOR HER ON TH' CORNER-AS SHE BE HELD LIP AT THIS LATE > "~ BRINGING UP FATHER : : v oL THAT FOOL IS ST AND HE HAS LEFT TH MAY FRONT DOOR OPEN = COME HOI 4 INA CAB-BUT L WAIT A FEW MI Copt. 1941, King Feavires Syndicate Inc. World right . ‘% ; % b ,‘A il ; > X -~ LESSON FOR SNE/ 1n’ footwear smart AWgrds and Music by W “ Metily we stroll along b ’\_Slpring fashioms by Vitality. © {Come to our store today! and gay. .. Jis_elasticized Vitality OIRA. Black patent wit mp Lalf with eabardine LEOLA is black crushed kid with patent trim. A five-eyelet Vitality ".throat ti ty 'an o 1. Also in saddl ined calf (antiqued) ADVANCE IS ORDERED BY NAZI CHIEF (Continued from Page Oné! The DNB quotes the Bulgarian High Command as saying that ‘Yugoslav bombers attacked the open cities of Sofia and Kustendil in Bul- garia, killing many. American Report An American radio correspondent for the Columbia Broadcasting Sys- tem, broadcasts that the Greeks counter-attacked Hitler’s invading legions and “threw the Germans back at several points on’Bulgarian soil.” Hitler's command 1ists enemy plane losses on the opening day at 102, including 35 bagged in aerial TEACH HBA A GOOD AKING THE HOUSE! gaba ne...smart vamp cutouts .. ontinental heel. Also in Blusiacket petforations.. . ... clever cutouts . . . . Cuban heel. “In Juneau — It's BEHRENDS for VALUES!” B. M. BEHRENDS CO. QUALITY SINCE 1887 combat. Italy claims to have joined in the hostilities and the Fascist Air Force is reported to have bombed several Yugoslavian naval bases. I Bulgarians in It Dispatches from Bern, Switzer- 1and, sald it is understood that the | Bulgarian Army of 300,000 soldiers , |have joined the Germans in the |attack on Greece but the Greeks remain defiant. et The Lally Alasks Empire QUATARe any Alaska newspaper. —t———— Empire Classifleds Payl GL DAILY “SHORTY" A FEW STYLES $5.95 Exclusive and Only in Juneau — COAL——WO00D LUMBER —— GROCERIES PHONE 3774 WHITFIELD - $6.95 at Behrends. HELP AN ALASKAN Telephone 713 or write The Alasks Territorial Employment Service for this qualified worker. TILE SETTER - LABORER — Young man, age 24, high school education. Completed four-yesr ap- tees the Iargest dally circulation of | prenticeship as tile setter and marble laying. Call for ES 284, ——————— Try & classified ad in The Empire RN PHONE 374 ACIER HIGHWAY DELIVERY TRIPS s -—‘—‘*

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