The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 10, 1941, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 194 |‘where they may in order to watch his clever umpire baiting. Grimmls Back Again In Baeshall ceal their enjoyment of Charle: pantomime. In Pittsburgh one day cl@ring without words that his nibs, the ump, had booted one in calling a Cub runner out at first. Grimm’s violent pantomime said quite plainly that the umpire swept his hand upward in the “out” gesture because he couldn’t get his other cold- numbed hand out of his pocket for the traditional two-handed “safe” signal. | Carefree Charley Sfages Top-Notch Sideline Com- | edy Act - Gets Laughs By DUKE MORAN AP Feature There is a lot of other business which Charley improvises as he Service goes along and each sally crowd. r Cholly Grimm is back ball harness again but this time he intends to evoke the| chuckles while somebody else reaps the chagrin. harley always was & rollicking| jimmy Wilson as a coach. ort of a gent, a guy who appre-| ciated a laugh whether it was on him or with him. Like so many others, though, he lost his humor and eventually his job—when he sat in the driver's seat for the Chi-| cago Cubs. Grimm a clown, sion that strictly as is perish | the Cubs don't go any place particular in the pennant race; he can't help that, can he? - WHITTIER'S VACATION Now Charley has chucked a lucrative radio job to re-join the Cubs as coach and he’s brought his bag of buffoonery with him. Sailing for in the States, Dr. and Mrs. | Whittier left Juneau on the south | bound steamer Princess Louise this With no managerial millstones to weigh him down, Charley is a nine-inning riot along the first base line. | Some fans let the base the Whittiers will visit and friends in Seattle and in Cali- fornia. —o——— BUY DEFENSE BONDS hits fall 'EREATEST AMATELR RACING EVENT (N THE WORLD Jumeau Soap Box Derby Entrants! Are You Even the umpires can’t quite con- recently, | Charley went through motions de-| draws| | loud roars of approval from the If these lines create the impres-| operating | the | thought. He's a sharp baseball man' and a valuable asset to Manager | It's just that Sir Charles gets a| lot of fun out of his work and if| iny a month’s vncalinnl M. J.| morning. With their small child,| relatives | | and I—er, ah—get tossed in again,” he s 1941 Washinglon's Crew REDS CHALK UPVICTORY, He Dotes on Duckings Iyn, Dropping Dodgers Out of Leagues Lead (By Associated Press) The Cincinnati Reds gathered an- other victory out of the fire yester- day with a lightning finish to beat them out of the National League's lead. The win was the eighth vic- tory in 10 stars for the Champion Reds. They scored three times in the seventh inning yesterday, four in the eighth and twice in the ninth. Forty-two-year-old Charlie Root coasted to an easy victory yesterday | barded four Boston Brave pitchers for 21 hits, capturing their third decision in the four-game series. The St. Louis Cardinals rode back into first place with a victory over the Giants yesterday on Harry Gum- bert's four-hit pitching. With Aldon Wilkie allowing Phil- |adelphia only six hits, the Pitts- burgh Pirates chalked up an easy triumph yesterday. | i | After the drudgery of daily workouts, Huskies oarsmen practice this little busiress of tessing coxswain Vic Fomo into the drink—and they hope they’ll be able to pull off the real thing after the Pough- keepsie Regatta. The oarsmen, left to right, are Paul Simdars, Tom Taylor, Walter Wallace, Capt. Charlie Jackson, Bill Neill, Doyle Fowler, John Bracken, Ted Garhart. GAMES MONDAY National League Chicago 13; Boston 6. Cincinnati 9; Brooklyn 7. St. Louis 5; New York 2, Pittsburgh 5; Philadelphia 0. American League No games were scheduled. Pacific Coast League No games were played yesterday as teams were traveling to open today on the schedule for this week. | | AP Feature Service SEATTLE—He's steered six winning boatloads, only to be dumped into the drink, and now he’s eager to take his seventh ducking. He's diminutive Vic Fomo, handsome little coxswain of the defending | ational champion University of Washington eight-oared crew. There’s a crew tradition that the strong-backed oarsmen, after win-| ning a race, take the free-riding cox who's been barking at them all the | way and toss him, clothes and all, into the water. It happened to Fomo three times as a freshman, twice as a soph and once so far as a junior. “And T'll be tickled to death if we repeat at Poughkeepsie June 25 | s. | STANDINGS OF THE CLUB! Pacific Coast League Won Lost 19 31 30 30 33 S Pet. | Sacramento {San . Diego Seattle Hollywood | San . Francisco Oakland Portlgnd Los Angeles National 31 .500 484 435 433 429 35 34 27 36 League Wan - Lost 16 16 23 25 25 24 Pet. 686 673 511 500 468 St. Louis Brookiyn May Be Best in Huskies' History, Says Ulbrickson :.:: "chieago | Pittburgh | Boston 29 { Philadelphia 31 American League Won Lost 20 20 22 22 24 26 By GAIL FOWLER AP Feature Service | lified somewhat in rough water. 4 .356 340 { “This year’s boat has the makings, It's about as smooth as the 1936 boat, and smoother but with less power than the 1940 shell.” SEATTLE, June 10 — When the University of Washington'’s varsity eight-oared crew left the rowing world popeyed by whopping more| than 20 seconds off the Oakland Estuary three-mile course record,! it aroused a discussion as to whether this 1941 shell is the best | | | Cleveland | Bosten Chicago New ' York . Detroit Philadelphia . St. Louls 32 Washington 34 Gastineau. Channel JLeague Won Lost | 3 5 7 Pet. 630 565 560 560 529 Al doesn't care to make com- parisons between Don Hume, the fancy-dan 1936 stroke, and junior| i 1a Fabals _ Ted Garhart, the 1940-41 stroke. | i:pv;l]:_;:;;r;gtons star-studded roW-\ "l e was a stylist, Garhart| A D \is a driver. Their styles are dif- J ~| ferent and it's hard to tell” . . .| 3 cepted, although modest Al wont "2""‘;‘: fif:;fdy‘hgl j“s‘f“:v:" 2nswer mention it, that Ulbrickson _hirh- 3 i iself ranks as the school's out- ‘o suspend judgment until after|gianding stroke. Al always shrugs iz 180, this one off, however, with: “I was just one of the guys in .333 Pet. 100 545 222 Douglas Moosé Getting Prepared? The Juneau Race IsOnlyaFew Weeks Away. BUILD YOUR CARS ACCORDING the boat.” FORMER HAINES MAN IS MAKING TOUR ON LOUISE C. C. Combs, who went to Haines| when only a boy and resided there with his parents for a ‘number of| years, is a round tripper on the Princess Louise, accompanied by nis| wife. While the steamer was at| On the basis of Washington’s showing in the annual Pough- keepsie classic on that date, they’ll feel better about com- paring the present boatload with those of 1926, 1936, and 1949, _ Al Ulbrickson, - who earned the dtle *“Admiral Stoneface” this rear because: of his solemn de- neanor, is among 'those who don’t vant to comment—yet, Ulbrickson, who, ' unlike 'a lot of old-time sweepsters, still looks ‘ike he could pull & stroke oar for he four-mile distance, rates the TO RULES! Be Sure Your Chances Are Equal in the JUNE s ROTARY-EMPIR SOAP BOX DERBY ~ BRINGING UP FATHER™ . DOCTOR'-PLEASE COME RIGHT OVER-MOTHER AND FATHER OTHER ALL DAY LONG— 936 and, 1940 boats: Washington's sest. He himself stroked the 1026 oat, but he isn’t one.to build apon the supposed glories of the Jast. Skagway, Combs secured a small boat and made a visit to his for- mer home, : Combs, who is Assistant Secretaiy of the Shell Oil Company -in New York City, hunted up his old boy- hood friend, Jimmy Morrison, while the Princess Louise was in port this morning and they spent the time in reminiscing. — e King Feisal I1 ELKS ATTENTION | Weduesday night, regular meet- Fleeing Iraq in the face of British troops advancing on dad, pro- ing. Initiation, chile, spaghetti. adv Nazi P r Rashid Ali Beg Gailani, kidnaped six-year-old King Feisal “We had a good boat in 1926 all right, but ocur times and trials wouldn’t - compare with those of the 1936 and 1940 boats. “The 1936 boat which won the Olympic ~Games races, was per- haps the ‘smoothest boat. It was equally good in rough or smooth | Water. . - Subscrive 30 the Dally Alasks [, gceording to a repors from Lon-| Last year's boat was more Empire—the paper with the largesi don. Rashid Ali was said to bel powerful, but ‘the power was nul- pmid circulstion. heading “towards the north,” By GEORGE McMANUS w,l BT I'M GLAD YOLI TOLD ME-AS | WOLILD NEVER HAVE GUESSED - THIS WAY - FAST FINISH {Cincinnati lffeals Brook-| the Brooklyn Dodgers and dropping | as his Chicago Cub teammates bom- ' 2 | neau, Alaska, for flood control, for| 3‘muve cooperative associations, and PLEASE WRITING NI GIVE ME A TELL DO FOR |GIVES STATUS, LEGISLATION, ALASKA BILLS By MARY LEE COUNCIL Secretary to Delegate Dimond WASHINGTON, May 29—(Spec- ial Correspondence)—The bills in- troduced in this first session of the 77th Congress by Delegate An- thony J. Dimond are in various stages of legislation. A number cf bills have not as yet received the usual departmental reports to the various House Committees. Follow- ing is a report on those measures which have received favorable com- ment from various departments: H. R. 92, “To amend the Act relating to manifests in Alaskan and insular trade,” by the Depart- ment of Commerce. H. R. 93, “To authorize the Leg- islature of the Territory of Alaska to create a public corporate au- thority to undertake slum clearance and projects to provide dwelling accommodations for families of low income and to issue bonds and other obligations of the authority for such purpose, and for other purposes,” by the Department of | the Interior. This bill has been re- ported by the Committee on Terrf tories to the House of Representa- tives, but no further action has | been taken. H. R. 95, “To amend section 6 jof an Act of Congress approved | May 20, 1935, entitled ‘An Act con- icermng the incorporated town of | Seward, Territory of Alaska,’ " by | the Federal Loan Agency and the | Department of the Interior. This | bill passed the House of Represen- tatives on May 19, and was re- ferred to the Senate Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs. H. R. 327, “For the reliel Paula Liebau Anderson,” was ‘pused by the House on May 1, ‘and passed by the Senate on May | 15, | iHemn." by the Department of the Interior. { H. R. 1580, “To amend section ‘594;3 of the Civil Service Retirement| 51| Act, approved May 29, 1930 (46| 508| Stat. 468), as amended” by the | | Department of the Interior and by | the Civil ‘Service Commission. H. R. 1591, “Relative to annual ilnbor on mineral claims in the Ter- | on May 21 and has been referred to the Senate Committee on Mines| and Mining. H; R. 2259, “To authorize a pre-| liminary examination and survey! of Salmon Creek, in the Territory| fol Alaska, in the vicinity of Ju- | run-off and water-flow retardation, rand for soil-erosion prevention,” by | (the War Department. | | . H. R. 2888, “For the relief of H.| |E. Buzby” by the War Depart-| ment. H. R. 3542, “To authorize the pur- |chase from appropriations made for the Indian Service of supplies and materials for resale to natives,| | Indian Service employees stationed lin Alaska,” by the Department of the Interior. | H. R. 4062, “For the relief of Alta Ledgerwood,” by the Depast- ment of the Interior. |NEW ALASKA AGENT ARRIVES HERE TODAY | Oliver Gaudy, newly transferred assistant agent for Alaska Steam- ship Company in Juneau, arrived here today on the steamer Alaska. Gaudy will relieve Glen Hyner, pres- ent assistant agent, who Is being transferred as Kodiak agent at the island port. Hyner will sail west on the Denali. Gaudy, formerly with the Ameri- can Mail Line and transferred to | Juneau from Pier One of the Alaska Steamship Company in Seattle, is accompanied by his wife. -, VISITS DELEGATE Among the recent visitors to the office of Delegate Anthony J. Di- mond in Washington was Major Carter W. Clarke, formerly n charge of the U. S. Signal Corps in Alaska and now serving as Signal Officer for the Afir Corps. Major Clarke, in company with other of- ficers, is making an extended trip over the United States to inspect the Signal installations at the var-| fous Army air posts. ‘The Dally Alasks Empire has the iargest paid circulation of any Al- A<k newspaper, TR -PLEASE-STOP F o T € TO WHAT TO VOICES— A H. R. 329, “For the relief of Lulu ritory of Alaska,” passed the House | y AR e sStorkettes” If i [ | rou're infanticipating, here is a darling and practical solution f just what to wear. i [ i An original and wonderfully wearable slack suit, designed es- pecially for expectant mothers. Btyled in fast color, washable polka dot percale, and your choice of red, navy, or powder 2.50 The blouse —a cluster of loose pleats in back, front draped shoulder full- ness. Fullness cam- ouflaged by pleats in front. of | || A new adjust- able slack, 16- inch expansion ‘ waist band . . . || eight buttons || for gradual ad- Justment. “IN JUNEAU—It's BEHRENDS for VALUES” B Behrends Co QUALITY SINCE~ /887 LT In the little, tiny, rushing creeks off Taku Harbor, Dotys Cove and the other choice king haunts, there are a myriad of small cutthroat Monday. running from 10 to 14 inches. In a Yesterday morning the pair set small stream off Taku Harbor & out for Tee Harbor in the rnln.‘?nolen of the trout v:-n brought ernoon. re-| with worms as salmon fisher- Zuf,::;d:’;m“g ;mut:: nr:ueuh men ran out of patience and went ¢ | for the smaller fighting fish. with a fish apiece. Johnson hooked | onto one, a 35-pounder, fought him| for 55 minutes, then gave him the| More word that Tee Harbor !s gaff. Barely was he in the boat|running was brought in this mora- when, Green's }ine sung out and|ing as it was reported that Bill By- his fish was on, They were using ington left Juneau early this - cold storage herring, t0o, no fresh! ing, trolled the Harbor and broug stuff. 1ln two kings, neither under The boys had only one fish each, Pounds, all before breakfast. but they came home anyway. Whlti fish! Jerry Green and Paul Johnson missed the Salmon Derby Sunday, but they didn't miss the fish on BUY DEFENSE STAMPS Asks Tax Program Revision on the Ilobk! 3 i