The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 27, 1941, Page 5

i I. , . ’ » - . L] . % DODGERS AND CARDS FIGHT T0 HOT DRAW All Except Philadelohia- Chicago Game End with Split Honors (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The Brooklyn Dodgets and the Louis Cards battled to a draw in a doubleheader played in scorch- | ing heat yesterday with spectacu- lar pitching, batting and fielding for both teams. St. Louis used four | pitchers in the opener with Curt Davis pitching a seven-hitter for | Brooklyn in the nightcap which | was called in the eighth by storm | St clouds. Mort Cooper was hurling | a reven-hitter for . the Cards and | errors by chortstop Peewee Reese | was giving the Cards all their runs. The Chicago Cubs took a double- | header from Philadelphia yester- day with three homers in the opener and 16 hits in the night- | cap. New York and Cincinnati yesterday with the Reds rallying in the eighth with three runs in a no-win game called in the eighth because of darkness. | Pittsburgh and Boston divided a | double bill yesterday with veteran Jim Tobin pitching a four-hit opener. TAX PAYMENTS COME IN SLOW Payments of persona} and pro- perty taxes have been slow in com- ing in to the city hall, it was an-| nounced today by Robert Rice, city | clerk. | With the deadline for tax pay- ments set on September 15, after which time taxes become delin- quent, indications are that there will be a rush to pay taxes on the final few days, Rice said. Taxes paid in full on or before | September 15 are elegible for a two per cent discount, while delinquent | ta. paid after that date, will Graw a one per cent penalty every | month payment is delayed. split | | 5000 23 m\fl" SAVE with Insured Safety || |4 EARNINGS On Savings Accounis ® Accounts Government In- sured up to $5,000. ® Money available at any time. ® Start an account with §1 or more, Carrent 4‘%; Rate Alaska Federal Savings and Loan Assn. of Junear Phone 3 Finish cf the A .A. U. national womer strong on points, each a wixner in at le Yerk City; Brenda Helser, Portland, Ore.; Patty Asjincll, Indianapolis THEY'RE SWIMMING CHAMPIO NS ALL 5 b wimming ch vmpionships at High Point, N C., found this group { one event. L.-R.: Betly Bemis, Indianapolis Gloria Callen, New Helen Crlenkovich, San Francisco. It’s Swell, But It Isn’t Cricket Touring the great cities of the United States to see how American fire departments function, District Officer Daniel G. Ivall of the London Fire Brigade is shown (center) as With him at Comiskey Park, Chicago, are Deputy Fire Marshal Anthony J. Mullaney (left) of Chicago and Chief Daniel Deas of New York. "Foreigners” Increasing In Washingfon; Embassy Staffs Showing Build Up (Continued from Page One) order to take care of the ten- ant boom, she had established her own quarters in thé basement. But the increases in the Rus- sian, Norwegian, Greek, Australian, neighborhood, but not any more. Chinese, French and other delega- Stopping in at a little house a few tions are only a drop in the bucket hundred yards away, I was in- compared to Great Britain. formed by the “landlady” that she British: employees, both Ameri- would like to ask me in, but that|can and English, now number in all her rooms were occupied and in ‘ the thousands, and on K Street Spraincd Ankle bring the latest news and diplo- matic code from Moscow. It is ordinarily a quiet, sleepy As bMaggio ) | ‘The alert cameraman catches Joe DiMaggio as he turned his ankle | rounding second base during the game with the Tigers in Detroit. | .X-rays showed no bones were broken. He will probably be lost to *ha Yanks for at least a week. : Won Lost Pet. Sacramento 89 57 610 Seattle 82 62 560 | San Diego . 81 63 563 Phonephoto Hollywood 3 n 507 San Francisco 65 81 445 he enjoyed his first baseball game. |Los Angeles 63 79 4 Oakland 64 82 438 | Portland 61 83 424 T i T National League | Northwest is the new British em-! Won Lost Pet. | ployment agency, busily déevoted ‘Brooklyn 9 44 642 |to nothing but placement of St. Lous a4 631 workers in the various missions Cineinnati 69 - 51 575 and commissions. Veteran civil ser- Pittsburgh 65 56 539 vice officials from London have New York 58 62 483 been brought over to supervise. | Chicago 58 T 421 I have counted 24 different com- +Boston 49 72 405 missions and agencies now repre- | Philadelphia 36 85 207 | senting Great Britain here. i American League | Long ago, the huge British em-| Won Lost Pet. bassy on Massachusetts Avenue was | New York 84 44 656 filled to overflowing and when the | Chitago .. 67 50 532 British Purchasing Commission | Clevéland . 64 58 525 Gumped its duffle here, they had! -84 62 508 to take over floors in the Wlllnrd\ «.58 68 -460 Hotel. That lasted less than a fort- | Philadelphia 60 Au night, Official Washington had 439/ hardly caught its breath before the 430 | English took over the swank apart- ment house where the late ‘Andrew Mellon once lived. Since then, it has been touch and go and the English now are scattered through half a dozen other buildings. SOCIAL ACTIVITY DECLINES Oddly enough, all of this vast expansion in the diplomatic corps has been attended by a great de- ciine in diplomatic social activity. In the first place, the folks from abroad are too grimly busy. In the | second, it's too difficult to tell | whether the friend of today might be the enemy of tomorrow—or vice | versa. The one social amenity that is observed— and religiously— among the British workers and their boss- es—is teatime. Every day at 4:30,] from Lord Halifax down to the lowliest office boy, work halts for |a cup of tea and a bit of cake. SRRl MR L Lights Out BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 27—Pity the poor smoker. He used to get his matches free with the purchase of cigarettes, cigars and tobacco. Retailers stopped the practic2, however, blaming the rising cost of matches. Now the smoker has to pay five centavos (one and a quarter cents; for his “light.” AT BARANOF Mrs. N. W. Jacobs of Fairbanks arrived here yesterday and is stop- ping at the Baranof Hotel. FOURRUNS SLASH INTO SACRAMENTO Rainiers Take Porfland as Thomas Outpifches Two Hurlers San Diego cut Sacramento’s lead,| winning in the fifth yesterday with four runs. Bill Thomas, out-pitching Tony | | Freitas and Kewpie Barrett, settled | down after a shaky first inning| yesterday, Seattle defeating Port-| land Hollywood defeated Oakland yes- terday, reaching Stan Corbett for four runs in the first frame. Larry Jansen won his 15th vic- tory for San Francisco in a ten- inning three-hitter yesterday with Los Angeles, supported by his imates. GAMES TUESDAY Pacific Coast League &an Diego 5; Sacramento 3. Seattle 7; Portland 2. Oakland 3; Hollywood 8. Los Angeles 3; San Francisco 4. National League Cincinnati 4, 5; New York 17, 4. St. Louis 3, 3; Brooklyn 8, 1. Pittsburgh 3, 6; Boston 4, 1. Chicago 3, 11; Philadelphia 4, 3. American League Philadelphia 9, 2; Detroit 1, 1. Boston 9; Cleveland 4. Washington 3; St. Louis 0. | | STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS i Pacific Coast League Phillies Up ' From Botfom " InTwinBill !seven, of which five in the last six | | re-match in November. Boston Wins Over Cleve- i faction when you taste Hira De Luxel Smooth, rich, and thousands of loyal boosters| RUSS BOXER TAKES TITLE BY DECISION light-Heavfiampion Al- most Loses Lead in Last§ Rounds NEW YORK. Aug. 27.—Ring ex- perfence and a heavy right hand won " Gus Lesnevich the sole right to the world’s light-heavyweight championship last night as he de- | cisioned Tami Mauriello of the Bronx in 15 rounds. Lesnevich| weighed in at 175 and Mauriello at! 170 3/4 pounds. 1 The rugged Russian from Jersey piled up a big lead in the early rounds with a right like a trip-| hammer, but saw the lead dwindle | almost to the vanishing point later. | The Associated Press score card gave 'Mauriello eight'' rounds to were his. 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She is a passenger on the steamer for her home in Skagway. e DEFENSE DBONDS sl « BASEBALL FAN—_i1t takes more than hea SPECIES: B. Wichlenski who stripped to the to defeat a baseball fan like Dr, land with Quffielder’s Three Errors Philadelphia moved into sixth place ' in the American League standings yesterday, sweeping a doublehieader with Detroit. The Athletics chased Buck Newsom in the first game and Schoolboy Rowe | in ‘the second. | Boston beat Cleveland yesterday with a 13-hit attack, aided by three erfors of Indian outfielder Roy Weatherly. | Dutch Leonard allowed ten hits to St. Louis and tightened the pinches to safeguard a Wuhlngtonl vittory in the only games played in 'the American League yesterday. >, PITY THE HORSES FORT JACKSON, 8. C., Aug. 27. —Trogpers of the 102nd cavalry, | after riding six full days a week, spend their free Sundays riding| their horses “for pleasure.” — #UY DEFENSE STAMPS Soap Box Derby car owners are; urged to get their car in condition for the big Labor Day Parade next Monday. There will be various prizes for the best decorated cars and owners may either have their ve- hicles towed or they may be pushed. Prizes will be in cash from $150 to $5. Prizes will also be offered for the best decorated bicycles as well as awards for children in costume.’ The parade will start at 10 o'clock Monday morning from lower Frank- lin street. Following the parade, childrens sports will be pulled off at the base- ball park and winners will be given prizes. All children will be treated to refreshments. | — e | Wage fi | age Fight | for Health or Health | WINNIPEG, Aug. 27.—The health authorities of Manitoba continue in doing their utmost to combat the ——— L GOT _SOME THINGS LEFT. ON THE FARM-HE TO KNOW WHERE WANTS TO DELIVER SAME ¢ INGING UP FATHER . - OH-TELL HM TO DELIVER IT TO ME HOUSE AND PUT IT IN TH’ SENT FROM TH' DRIVER IT PUT 1 HAS O TO By GEORGE McMANUS | waist and ducked under a pape! baseball game won ~ Almost a Twin Killing r hat during a Brooklyn-Chicago by Dodgers. 10-2. It looked like a double play when the Brookiyn Dodger’s Pee Wee Reese nabbed shortstop Miller of the B roller and ‘whipped 'to first base! . Moore, But th oston Braves at second on Moore's man Camilli to cateh pinch-hitter e Bostonian'beat the peg and the Braves went ‘ahead 19" beat the Dodgers 8-7 in their own pavk, bux