The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 29, 1941, Page 2

r \ The Beanville Beanpole is ready . By DILLON GRAHAM Sports Editor, AP Feature Service W YORK-—The beanpole who is American League batters was le: burning. hat dumb scorer,” said Ted Williams, “he gave me an error yesterds Didja see the game? Well, a guy hits one out my way and 1 come in fast to trap the ball on the bounce. The durn thing takes a bad hop and kicks me in the shoulder. “And 1 get an error. Me, who never touched the ball. Am I sore!| That scorer, he don't know a hit| from a lilypad. ‘ “Ch, hell,” he said, with a shrug, “I don’t give a damn | about fielding anyway. They say Pm a benehead fielder and maybe they're right. But, Bud,” he sai@, aggressively, “I'm a ; hitter. I can bust 'cm.” And Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox outfield can. He can blast ‘ a ball a country mile. He was pac-| ing the league at a better-than- 400 | clip in early July. Ted can't explain lus high A\NA age. “Luck, I guess,” he said. it’s not all luck, y’know, vou got be swinging good. But T'm hitiia the ball just like I did last year | | same grip, same stanc ame swin { More of ‘em are faling sal ‘Course, after a couple of ve i the leaguc I know {he pite ter and 1 guess that help. “But, shucks, a fcllow can in hitting the ball finc and lo; points in his average in a week or so. It's just a Ler of hit- ting ‘em where the Williams thinks the cdds are against his finishine the an average above .400: f been 18 years since an Ameri Leaguer hit over 400 and we've had some pretty fair punchers up there during that time. I guess the | odds ought to be about 25 to 1 against me, mebbe 50.” Tall Ted led the league in runs batted in—the real payoff on a hitter's value—in his first year, 1939, with 145. He said that dur- ing his career he’l like to be top man at least once in every deparf- ment of hitting. His chief ambi- tion is to win triple hitting hnnn;«‘ atting, homers, and runs-batted- | in—the same year. “But that’s sorta hard to do. | Pm leading in batting now and am well up in homers and RBL. | Ive got a chance this year” | he said. Ted is hitting third in the Bos-| ton batting order and he says that's; a handicap in knocking in counteys. “It's better to be hitting fourth or| fifth. You've generally got more men on base. That York, he's hit-; ting fourth. Keller is batting fifth. See, Keller's got somebody on base almost every time he comes up and he's liable to push somebody across| every time he hits one. “Hell,” he said, “I haven’t had but one chance this year to hit with the bases loaded. That was against the White Sox and Lyons| walked “me. Tension? Naw, there aip't no tension for me hitting in, the- clutch. Why should I tighten up? - Jeepers, T'd like to have the| bases loaded every time I came up. And, say, don’t forget. there some tension on the pitcher, too.” Ted does look loose as a goose, as the ball players say, when he's up at the dish. He's 6 foot 3 and| weighs only 175 pounds. “Just a beanpole,” h¢ explains, | “1 drink gailons of milkk and eat like 2 hoss but T don't get any heavier.” The 22-year-old California young- ster wouldn't say whom he regard- ed as the toughest pitcher in the league to hit, “You know why he asked. “Well, it’s this way: After my first year with Boston folks asked me which pitchers wers tough and 1 said that Ruffin the Yanks was the cosiest, Sa murdered that guy 2!l the time He was my meat.. And, y'know wha' happened © last year? Well I couldn't buy = hit off th £ I ain't talking any more all tough when you a' 't swil. n | effective June 25 and sjed | will give *|can’t figure how a ball - and swings m-u»ummdh 5 Promollons for Four Guardsmen Gef Recognilion ‘ Word has been received that fou: members of the Alaska National Guard stationed here have received Federal recognition of promotions in grade Captain William C. Walther has [been promoted to Major; First Lieutenant William N. Redling, to Captain; Second Lieutenant Ger- ald F. McLaughlin, promoted to | First Lieutenant; and Sergeant Jo- seph A. McLean was appointed | Second Lieutenant, The above promotions were made the men have been serving in the higher grades since that time. e ——— i ALASKA BAHKERS ARE 'AIR ROUTE HEARINGS START IN ANCHORAGE ABOUT AUGUST 18TH To conduct hearings on applica- tions ‘of some 30 Alaskan air car- tiers for cortificates of public con- enience and necessity, Raymond W. Sto director of the eco- nomic burcau of the Civil Aero- nautics Board, will arrive in An- chorage on August 18, it was learned today from Henry Roden, Territor- i1l Attorney General. carings will be held in Anchor- airbanks aud Juneau, it was in that order. It is expect- at Stough will spend about two wer in each city. Hearings ssidents of the Territory nd all persons interested a chance to present views as to regulatioa of air transportation in Alaska, Stough declared. Accompanying Stough will be William J. Madden, of the CAB staff. - e WARNED OF ORIENTAL CREDIT CURTAILMENT President Roosevelt's order to freeze Japanese and Chinese cred- its has been relayed in a serics of preliminary instructions sent this week to all financial institu- tions in the Territory from the of- fice of E. L. Bartlett, Secretary. of Alaska. More detailed instructions be sent out later, Bartlett said,' following receipt of more infor-' mation from Wn<hmglnu, D. €. ————— Governor Gruening To Arive Tonight. Gov. Ernest Gruening and party are due to return to Juneau aboutf 7 pm. today by plane, it was an-: nounced at the Governor's office. | The gubernatorial party is re-| ported to have left Fairbanks today | about 11 am., Gov. Gruening, James Ryan, Assistant Director of Civilian Defense, and Mr. and Mrs. Huntington Gruening, have been away from Juneau for about two tour of Alaskan de- vnll 1 | | weeks on a fense centers. £00d. fed thinks Joe DiMaggio is a great hitter but he believes Jimmy Foxx is the hardest hitting right hander he ever saw. “Sometimes I can go Looks like his the cover off! 1 as far as he hits it. blasts would tear e & Ted says he isn't superstitious. but—"I don't like black cats any too well.” oo - Nearly 9 tner Bureuu sta- I miird i for hourly s is, says the De- paxmmm ol Commerce, " members of the committee favored THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE TUESDAY, JULY 29 |94I SEND - OFF FOR DERBY (HAMPION Rotarians PEGiving Ger-! ald Chapman Good Luck on Departure | Juneau Rotarians are good meet-{ ing attenders, it was shown today at the regular meeting in Percy’s Cn!e when a report on attendance for the | first six months of 1941 showed that | of the 49 members, 14 had not miss- ed a meeting. Highlight of the meeting today | was the report of Charles W. Carter on his recent trip to the inter- tional convenaion of Rotary, held in Denver, in mid-June, Carter was delegate from the Juneau club, the northernmost chapter of Rotary .to | send a man to the convention. At the meeting, Rotarians voted unanimously to join cities in the States this week in the national | aluminum drive. The drive will be held under the supervision of Dr. W. M. Whitehead. The members also discussed plans for a send-off cele- bation next Tuesday morning, when Gerald Chapman, Empire carrier ! and Juneau’s champion soap box | | | ] derby racer, will sail at 9 o'clock on the Princess Louise to compete in| the national soap box derby at Derby Downs, Akron, Ohio. i Because he will be the first Alaska soap box derby racer ever to com- | pete in a national derby, young Chapman will be greeted by a brass band at Akron, it was revealed. He will make the trip with Don Skuse | and Mrs. Skuse, and their schedule has been arranged to arrive at the | Ohio city at 5:26 p. m. on August | 14. Plans are being laid this week | for a big turn-out of Juneau resi- dents next Tuesday morning at the dock from which the Princess Louise will sail, so the “home town” can give Gerald a real farewell cheer. Rotary members who have had a | perfect attendance during the past six months were listed today as: | C. D. Beale, J. B. Burford, Charles | W. Carter, Pete Clements, James C. | Cooper, Rod G. Darnell, W. L. Gris- ham, L. C. Liston, J. W. McNaugh- ton, C. H. Metcalfe, Ellis Reynolds, Percy Reynolds, Howard D. Stabler, George Sundborg, Dr. W. M. White- head, Keith G. Wildes, Roy H. Gil- lispie, John Young, Stanley Grum- mett, J. C. Hayes and Henry Har- mon. e COMMITTEE SPlII ABOUT SELECTEE RETENTION BILL' Roosevelt Already Has‘ Power to Keep Draf- tees Longer Period WASHINGTON, July 29, — The | House Military Affairs Committee | failed to agree today on legishtwn‘ designed to retain draftees and Na- | tional Guardsmen in service for longer than one year. | Representative Dewey Short, of | Missouri, said seven Republican “a simple resolution to authorize | keeping Guardmen in service.” He expressed the opinion the President | already has power if he wishes to | exercise it, to retain draftees. Another executive session of the committee will be held tomorrow. ——————— LEAVES FOR SOUTH Peter G. Schmidt left this morn- | ing for Seattle aboard the PAA Lodestar. He is President of the, Olympia Bréwing Company, tech- | nical director and master brewer, and has been on 8 visit to Alaska. o — e BUY DEFENSE BONDS i . as the blll whistles in . . . ;Ings here. Due to arrive on the | following an inspection trip of hali- |but buying stations in Southeast | | compromise form of Swatto! ’l‘he qluuet eonnects 'HALIBUT SALE CHECK IS MADE Men of the International Fisheries | | Commission seem to be cOhVelng' on Juneau. Edwin Johnson, of the commission’s statistical division, ar- rived on the Alaska, and has bem making up reports on halibut land- TAKE CANADA, Northland tonight is Norman L. Freeman, of the same department erica Seize All of North America A]askn. BIG BLAZE AT KODIAK; TOWNDARK KODIAK, Alaska, July 29.— An early morning fire of un- known origin completely de- sttcyed the community power plant, plunging the town into total darkness and jeopardiz- ing lives of 17 persons in the hospital. hemispherical solidarity, but their Tens of meat and produce in |own selfish encs. three local refrigerating plants | SRS are also jeopardized. | The loss is estimated at $18, | KNS I ) 000 but reported fully ccvered | by insurance. . Ircnically, the Rural Electri- fication Administration allot- ted last Sunday $125000 for censtruction of a new munici- pal power plant. The town is hoping for emer- gency Government relief dur- ing the situation. ri, speaking as an rather than as a Senator, today suggested that the United Sta “take over control” of all Latin- America and Canada, but his col leagues immediately branded t idea as fantastic. Senator Joseph O'Mahcney uf | Wyoming said he is sure no one |in the western part of his cow and called the proposal both fan- tastic and imperialistic. As to Canada, Clark said: ‘Canadians are just as willing as the Latin Americas to take o d use if, not to promofe Clarence Olson, fishery manage- | ment supervisor, left Juneau | yesterday on the Fish Commission | patrol boat Brandt. He will make |a brief inspection of fishing opera- | tions in Chatham and Icy straits. e ————— LEGION MEE Only routine business was con- | | | | R A | ducted last night at’a meeting of notifying residents that they will the American Legion. Election of Will return the following day to pick | HOUSE SAYS iofficers is slated to take place Upocxf"g:g“m't‘sv o E next Monda' night at the post 2y, the Scouts will again u.x 4 ¥ oy cover the city, with bags in which to carry the aluminum to the Front 43 FOR SITKA Aboard the North Sea are 43 pas- sengers who are booked ror Sitka. NO T0 BILL % bt ROV | \ ‘ - ON SEI URE India’s glass requn'cments are ow being supplied by domestic ‘pAo(lu'l.un the Department of Commmcc mpol ts. In Revo]t Plot? | S ,NM,,“‘ Compromise on Measure| for Government Oper- ation Refused | , WASHINGTON, July 29. — The| | House refused today to approve a | leglslamm§ | authorizing the President to take |over industrial plants when inter- | rupuans of production impede and | delay the defense program by a vote ! |of 225 to 114, i The me&sure including the draft | deferment of men over 28, was re- | turned to conference. A committee from the House told conferees to | insist that House amendments be | changed to include plant seizure | pvasions as contained in the orig- |inal Senate bill. — ————— DUTCH MIGHT DESTROY OIL Fuel Depos—if in Nether- | lands Indies Ready for | | WASHINGTON, July 29—Dr. A‘.-i United States government moves exander Loudon, Dutch Minister to to bring to trial 20 members of |the United States, said today that| the Socialist Workers party, in- ‘in case of an extreme cmergen- | dicted at St. Paul, Minn, under |ey” the oil wells and refineries in | the uds:l:u;lcto:mmpl{acy m the Dutch East Indies will be ef- SBATEES & POC I8 0 v h fectively destroyed by the Duwhi m'm,‘o,uuqn, Among those so as to prevent Japan from secur- ! indicted are four members of the ing fuel for navy ships or other _ party, namely, James P. Cannon, purposes. | above, national secretary; Felix AR - SR A Morrow, Albert Go;dmandl‘u- Try a Crassitied aa ml'mmmi SAYS CLARK Senator Sugfi;;ts that Am-. WASHIUGTON, July 29—Senator Bennett Champ Clark of Missoa- individual try would support the suggestions, | “The | late | U.5. SHOULD|ALUMINUM DRIVE IS 10 START WED. Boy Scouts Will Collect Needed Defense Metal Friday Juneau, so far as is known today, will be the only city in Alaska to join in the national aluminum drive xbemg staged throughout the States. To be sponsored by the Rotary Club, under the direction of Dr. W. | M. Whitehead, and with the assist- , |ance of the Juneau Boy Scouts, the |drive will start tomorrow. Because of the shortage of alum- inum for airplane construction in the present national emerzency, cities all over the country are this week being canvassed for old cooking (utensils, motor biocks and scrap |alumiunm of all sorts, even to tax are in force. In Juneau, the ac- cumulations of aluminum given in the drive will be placed in a large wire corral at the intersection of Front and Seward Streets, Dr. | Whitehead said, and he appealed to all residents of the city to denate to the drive any old aluminum they may have around their homes or place of business. Cooperating wtih the drive, city was today to construct the neau Aluminum Pot,” Street, where the donations of the defense metal may be deposited. On the “Ju- Thursday afternoon, Boy Scouts will | cover every home, apartment and business house in the city, pamphlets to explain the drive and Street “pot” and all motorists, truck and taxi drivers are urged to pick up any boys with full sacks of the metal and give them lifts to the col- lection base. At the end of the drive, the Alaska Steamship Company will furnish free transportation of the aluminum to Seattle, it was announced. No one connected with the drive in any (way will be paid for his work, it | was brought out. " HER SCREEN TEST WASN'T JUST THAT | | | ‘I NEW YORK, July 29. — Arlene Francis, brunette star of “What's My Name?” was reading in her apartment when the buzzer sound- ed. She answered and a man calling from the front door said, “Miss Francis? I'm here for the screen test.” | Miss Francis laughed a musical laugh and said, “Mister, I don't know what you're selling but I don’t think you'll get very far with that gag.” Then she went back to her reading. A few minutes later the building custodian was at her door, and with another man. “Hate to trouble you, Miss Francis,” he said, “but we've | got to do this job when the tenants are in.” So the two men came in and began examining the windows, | looking for holes in the screens that might need repairing—this was the | screen test! - .. COWLINGS RETURN FROM TRIP SOUTH Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cowling re- | turned to Juneau this afternoon on { the North Sea from a several weeks’ | trip in the States. Mr. Cowling is a | member of the Cowling-Davlin Mot- been south for several weeks touring in the States. — .- — BUY DEFENSE STAMPS tokens of states where salps taxes! on Front | leaving | tor Company and the couple have | Ry New York, July 29—Closing quo- l:utinn of Alaska Juneau mine stock i STOCK ouounons MMES IQBAY ‘The following ure Im’fl cmr' baseball games played this after- noon 'in the two" major leagues as réteived up to'pres’ time: toddy is’4"1/2, American Can, 89%, Anadeonda ' 29 "'4, Béthlehem Steel/ 78, Commonwealth and Southern /16, Curtiss Wright 9%, General | DG Leakwe Motors’ 39%, Thternational Harves-| Boston 3; Pittsburgh 5. Called i ter 55 7/8, Ketinecott 39 1/2, New lend of seventh inming on account York Central 13%, Northern Pac- Of raif. ific 7%, United states Steel 59%, American League troit 6; New York 3. Pound $4.03 1/2. | Chicago 1; Philadelphia 0. o | St. Louis 3; Boston 2. DOW, JONES AVERAGES | De | The following are today's Dow, Jones ' averages: industrials 129.19, rails 30.57, utilities 18.57. e " MS NORTHLAND DOCKS " IN'DOUGLAS TONIGHT The ! motorship Northland will ar- rive in Dougiag at midnight tonight and tie up at the City Dock in Juneau at 8 o'¢lock fomorrow morn- ing. The vessel will sail for Seattle at noon tomorrow. 1103 ROUND TRIPPERS ABOARD NORTH SEA | Aboard the North Sea on the pres- | ent Southeast Alaska voyage are 103 passengers making the round trip. BUY DEFENSE BONDS THE WEATHER By Cll U.'S. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPART\!EN';‘( QF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicini§y, beginning at 4:30 p.m., July 29: Cloudy with the likelihood of a few showers tonight, showers Wed- nesday. little change in temperaiure, lowest tonight 51 highest Wednesday 59 degrees, gentle variable winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Partly cloudy tonight and Wed- nesday with widely scattered showers, slightly warmer, gentle west to northwest winds, becoming southerly Wednesday. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaskas Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: Dixon Entrance to Capz Spencer: moderate northwesterly winds, becoming southerly Wednesday after- noon, partly cloudy tonight, showers Wednesday; Cape Spcncer io degrees, Cape Hinchinbrook: moderate west to northwest winds, backing to {resh scuthwe§t Wednesday, showers tonight, rain Wednesday; Cave Hinchinbrook to Resurrection Bay: moderate south to southwest | winds, shifting to northwest Wednesday morning, rain tonight, showers Wednesday; Resurrection Bay to Kodiak: moderate south- west winds, shifting to northwest Wednesday morning, rain tonight, partly cloudy Wednesday. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity ‘Weather 4:30 p.m. ye;terday 29.79 54 85 SE 13 Rain 4:30 am. today 29.98 52 85 SSE 5 Rain Noon today . 30.04 57 62 SE 13 Cloudy RADIO REPORTS o TODAY Max. tempt. "Lowest 4:30a.m. Precip. 4:30a.m. Station last 24 hours temp. tempt. 24hours Weather Barrow 40 | 33 33 05, Rain Fairbanks | 38 39 Cloudy Nome | 40 42 .03 Cloudy Dawson i 47 48 .02 Cloudy Anchorage l 48 48 0 Cloudy Bethel | 54 [ 48 50 22 Rain St. Paul 52 l 45 48 04 Fog Atka .. 57 ] 50 52 05 Cloudy Dutch Harbor .. 54 | 50 50 0 Cloudy Wosnesenski ...... 58 k 49 49 0 Cloudy Cerdova ... 63 l 44 45 03 Clear i Juneau 56 | 51 52 24 Rain Sitka ... 60 I 52 53 14 Cloudy Ketchikan ... 57 I 51 51 194 Clondy Prince Rupert .. 59 I 53 54 16 Cloudy Prince George .. 84 [ 52 53 0 Cloudy Edmonton ' 54 57 02 Cloudy ! Portland | 51 51 0 Clear San Francisco .. 66 [ 51 54 0 Cloudy WEATHER SYNOPSIS Cloudy skies prevailed thrwgnmt( Alssk; except for clear skies in the Prince William Sound area. Rain had fallen during the past 24 hours throughout Southeast Alaska to Cordova and over Wesi- ern Alaska from Barrow to Brist)l .Bay and rain was falling this morning over most of this same a-ea. The greatest amount of pre- cipitation recorded during the p-eceding 24 hours. was one and 94 hundredths of an inch at Ketchikan. The highest temperature yesterday afternoon was 69 degrees which was recorded at S na and the lowest temperature was 33 degrees at Barrow this morn- ing. Moderate ceilings and good visibilities prevailed over the Ju- neau-Ketchikan airway this moraing. The Tuesday morning weathe: chart indicated a weak low cen- ter of 29.85 inches was located nxar Cape St. Elias and was ex- pected to remain fairly stationar; during the next 24 hours, A sec- ond low pressure center of 29.75 inches was located just north of the Bering Straits. A fronta! troigh extended from this cen- ter south to near the Pribilof Is’ands and was expected to move about, 400 miles southeast during the next 24 hours. A high pres- sure center of 3040 inches was lo:ated at 40 degrees north and 150 degrees. west and a second hlch 07 3050 inches was located at 44 dearees north and 168 degrees’ west, Am!!lor low trough_extended southfrom - Hecate Strait.’ 3 Juneau, July 30 — wnrheAlam.lumtBMp.u. 3 wen - S