The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 21, 1941, Page 5

TwoFormer Seattle High Boys Adive Earl Johnsd;%lds Detroit | Team Down-Jeff Heath Keeps Batting Record (By Associated Press) Earl Johnson, youthful Boston | Red Sox lefthander, former Seattle | high school student, held the hard | hitting Detroit team in complete subjection yesterday and bowled | them down virtually in order. In the first five innines bhe allowed only four hits and the game was r— o - THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MAY. 21, 1941. 1 v Tl won, ending a five:game losing | streak Jeff Heath, another former Seattle high school player, maintained a terrific batting pace for the Cleve- land Indians, hitting a homer and also a double yesterday, but Phila- | delphia hit in the pinches with men on bases to win. The St. Louis Browns made six errors yesterday to throw away the game to the New York Yankees. Chicago swept the three-game series with Washington by winning the contest yesterday, knocking two pitchers out of the box CNE TRIPLE PLAY MEMPHIS, Tenn, May 21—The Weirich brothers did their matri- monial bit by the Larkin sisters when Virgil Weirich married Ha- zel Larkin, Elgin wed Lucia and Wceodrow married Marie. But there aren't any more Weir- ich brothers and there still are| He'en, Cecilia and Rita in the! Larkin family. Male Slingi with Eggs for Cake, Wite Gefs Divorce TOPEKA, Kan., May 21—Mrs. H. H. Jenkins told District Judge Dean McElhenny that her husband demanded a birthday cake but left her only one egg for it and locked the henhouse. “You simply can't bake a cake is\uh one egg,” she said, “so I put a pair of his shoes on to hide my tracks, took a big cane fishing poie, tied a tea sifter on it, went out and reached through the wire mesh of the henhouse, and dipped out one &t a time until I had enough.” She was granted a divorce. - Drtly siaska Topire hias the paid eirculation of any Al- newspaper D Trv a classified ad n vne Empire ihe araest wka D E B U T—pPhiladelphia Girls’ Rowing club members prepare for first workout on Schuylkill river. L. to r—Stella Sokolowska, Helen Muldowney, Lynn Forkan, Marge Cantwell. The Book ‘C“ALASKA’’ By LESTER The Story of Alaska in Printed Word and Picture D."HENDERSON \ AR, _ s i i AT AR TN - N - R e nd L) The Empire and Price $1 o ON SALE AT Learn About Alaska and Its History! Seventh Printing The Widest Selling Book on Alaska! - SEATTLEIS HELD DOWN 10 5 HITS Oakland Lands on Two, Rainier Hurlers-Sacra- | es Brooklyn Again mento Increases Lead (By Associated Press) (By Associated Press) ‘ In the National League, St. Louis | Jack Salveson held Seattle to five | | retains the league’s lead by a close |hits last night as Oakland landed | margin of two points despite losing jon Dick Barrett and Dewey Soriano | the game to the last-place Philadel- [for 10 hits. Oakland moved out of | ' phia team yesterday afternoon. the cellar | Pittsburgh broke through the de- Sacramento increased the lead in fense of the New York Giants in |the race for top place by a big six- | the seventh inning yesterday to win [run seventh inning rally last night the deciding game of the three-game | to defeat Los Angeles. Los Angeles | series. used four hurlers. | The Chicago Cubs apparently do Hollywood, as the result of good ' not know their own strength for {relief pitching and an eleventh in- they crushed the pennant mad | ning attack good for three runs, | Brooklyn Dodgers again yesterday, | defeated Portland last night. The sweeping the three-game series and lBeavex's slumped back again to the extending the Dodgers’ losing streak | cellar. to four games straight. Tom Seats, San Francisco south- Cincinnati snatched the third 1paw. was in superb form last night straight game from Boston vester- and held the San Diego Padres to day with a ninth inning rally. | three hits. Seats did not vield a hit - e until the eighth inning. He pitched NAVIGA“O“ o“ :)1:;';?1"-:- game without walking a YUKON BEGINS EARLIEST EVER May 14 Whitehorse De-| .~ parture Beats Record by Three Days Making the earliest Yukon trip in the history of the North, the | steamboat Nasutlin cleared White- | horse a week ago today with five | . passengers and a large barge laden with heavy machinery for downAi ST.LOUISIN ~ CLOSEHOLD FIRST SPOT Last Place Phillies Defeat Cards—Chicago Crush- GAMES TUESDAY Pacific Coast League Sacramento 7; Los Angeles 5. Oakland 7; Seattle 3. San Diego 0; San Francisco 9. | Hollywood 6; Portland 3. National League Brooklyn 1; Chicago 9. Boston 6; Cincinnati 9. New York 5; Pittsburgh 7. Philadelphia 6; St. Louis 4, cleven innings. American League Chicago 5; Washington 2. St. Louis 9; New York 10. Detroit 2; Boston 4. Cleveland 5; Philadelphia 6. Gastineau Channel League Elks-Moose postponed, rain. river. Y ghL The May 14 navigation date com-, STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS pares with the previous early record | Pacitic Coast League of May 17. fi Won Lost Pet. | capt. Marion is master and Capt. {‘s'::::l:‘em" g: i; -Zg: Géld{ner p“f’f of the Nasutlin San Diego 2 21 13 San/Francisco .,....21 23 AT Hollywood 19 23 452 | Los Angeles 18 24 429 Oakland 18 25 419 | Portland 17 24 415 | National League | . Won Lost Pct.| | Stadsouis 20 9 690 | | Brooklyn 22 10 688 New. York 16 13 552 Chieago 13 16 464 Cineinnati 13 17 433 | Pittsburgh 1 15 423 | Boston 12 18 400 | Philadelhia .10 20 333 | 1o American League | ° Won Lost Pet. | Cleveland 22 12 657 | Chigago a8 1 e | Detroit 16 15 516 | New York 17 17 500 | Boston . 14 14 500 | Washington 14 19 424 | Philadelphia 13« 18 419 | St. Louis .10 19 .345 Gastineau . Channel League Won Lost Pct. | Douglas 2 1 667 | Moose 2 2 500 Elks 1 333 \ DOUGLAS " NEWS {DOUGLAE CHILDREN ARE WINNERS POSTER CONTEST | Patsy Ann Balog was judged |winner of a first prize sum of $2 |along with a contest from Juneau ‘im the poppy poster contest which |was conducted by the American | Legion. A second prize winner was | Herbert Bonnett, who received $1, land Noreen Andrews also of Doug- |l1as received honorable mention |along with 50 cents. All the win- ning posters will be sent to the na- | tional headquarters of the Legion |for final competition with others from all sections of the country. 1 GUARDSMEN DRILL | Tonight is regular weekly drill | night for the Douglas Home Guards to go through their various maneu- vers. Newsstands MRS. HOLBROOK ENROUTE Mrs, Ed Holbrook is a passenger rn the Yukon due here from Ash- .00 AH-DON'T BE SLICH A BOOB - JUST TELL YOUR WIFE YOU'RE GON' OUT AN THATS ALL THERE IS WELL-I'LL TRY IT— GLUGAN -AN' THEN | Gulhaugen which occurred recently. | . "~ By GEORGE McMANUS ‘CORRIGAN’ RIDES AGAIN—Frank H. Powers, Jr., up on Rhadamanthus and leading the national hunt cup race up to this point at the 14th jump in Berwyn, Pa., finds himself looking the other way and on the way down. His mount stumbled, tossing Powers. MEN OF NAVY IN NEWSPAPER ADS OF CHESTERFIELD Seamen Aboard North Car- olina Appear First in New Campaign Hollywcod, taxe nouce. Twe real sailors from Uncle Sam’s Navy, featured in the first advertisement of the new Chesterfield cigarette schedule, could give Amer screen heroes mun for their money. The seamen, Coxswain Joseph Eilis Newton and Electrician’s Mate Edward F. Haywald of the new great battleship U.S.S. North Car»- a \lina, were selected from 1,000 men on the Receiving Ship Seattle as typical of the high calibre of our U. 8. Navy personnel. Other advertisements of the new Chesterfield series are built around a foursome of golfdom’s great -— Grantland Rice, Sam Snead, Jug McSpaden and Ed Oliver — and three motion picture stars, Jane Wyman, Betty Grable and Ronald Reagan. Chesterfield’s Fred Waring and Glenn Miller radio programs con- tinue high <in popularity ratinzs. National billboard postings, maga- zne advertising and dealer cutouts support the newspaper campaign. ——————— BOUND FOR SITKA \ Tom Morgan Manager of the Co- lumbia Lumber Company, left Ju- neau on the steamer North Sea. Booked for Sitka, Morgan will re- turn after a short busneiss trip. land, Montana, about Friday for a visit with her daughter Mrs, Thomas Cachen and her sister Mrs. Felix Gray, | ELLSON RETURNS TO CANNERY FOR HI'JASONJ Joe Ellson, son of L. R. Ellson,| manager of Douglas Fisheries Co.,| arrived yesterday on the Columbia to get his office in readiness for the season’s activities as bookkzeper for ' the company. Last summer was his | first here while on a vacation from a bank position which he held in San Prancisco but he has now re- signed to become permanently .con- | rected with the cannery. | He has taken one of the Shitanda | apartments in preparation for the | arrival of his mother and father, who are expected here last of the! month, PARTY FOR THREE Mr. and Mrs, Arne Shudshift were | hosts at a dinner party on Monday evening complimentary to Mrs. Ed- wina Snethen and her daughter Terry who are booked to sail aboard the North Sea tomorrow for Seattle. | The event also feted the birthdays | of Miss Margaret Pearce and Orvilie (OLISEUM-DOUGLAS Tuesday—Wednesday A CHILD IS BORN" | | YES-GUGAN- | JUST HER-AN' THAT'S TOLD ALL THERE WUZ TO IT-AND | WON'T BE MEETIN' YOu - | he admitted, readily. Orchids tor Queen of Models Blonde, blue-eyed Susan Shaw, 110 pounds of loveliness, was named most beautiful of all the models at the fashion show staged by King Features Syndicate in connection with the American Newspaper Pub- lishers convention in New York. She is pictured (center) receiving a corsage of orchids from Prunella Wood, KFS fashion editor, while Humorist Bugs Baer announces the decision. , with mueh less self consciousness “ | when they dont’ know they are be- ing watched.” Police said his sketches indicated Gives Proof | ! he had “genuine ability” and they ! released him dn his promise not to | try it again, e — SPECIAL SERVICES SCHEDULED AT HOLY TRINITY TOMORROW GREAT FALLS, Mont., May - It was a foiunate thing for a young tellow, picked up by police, that he had some praiseworthy sketches of nude women in his car. ‘The officers caught him loitering near a doriitory for young ladies Sure 1 was watching the girls,” “Once in a while they forget to pull the shades. “You see, I'm an artist, studying human anatomy. I haven't the money to hire models. “And besides that the g The Feast of the Ascension will be observed tomorrow morning in Holy Trinity Cathdral by two celes, brations of Holy Communion, at 7:30 and 10 o'clock. pose Try a classified ad in The Emplre 2 : - i Put a Cevic Diesel in Your Boat If You Want MORE ROOM IN YOUR BOAT More Miles for Your Money A Comfortable, Quiet Ride An Engine that Instantly Starte Assurance of Safe Trips Freedom from Fire Hazards A Broad Range of Smooth Speeds Low Operating and Maintenance Cests Reduced Insurance kates Smokeless, Odorless Exhaust Full Diesel Dependability An Engine that Can Be Easily Hand Cranked CHARLES G. WARNER CO. PHONE 3774 GLACIER HIGHWAY DELIVERY DAILY TRIPS COAL——WO00D LUMBER —— GROCERIES PHONE 3774 “SHORTY" WHITFIELD