The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 14, 1941, Page 5

IU[;SDAY OCTOBER 14, 1941 THE DAILY ALASKA RITCHING THE OLD YANKEE FORNUA WAS FOO. ?;5 I 7': Ca CHETD By DILLON GRAHAM Sports Editor, AP Feature “Service NEW YORK, Oct. 14. — The Federal Bureau of Investigat Has Big Job on Hand (Continued jrom Page One) THE LATE SIR MARK Alregdy the FBI has a case in which the victim was a retired munitions manufacturer. His con- fidence was gained through an im- person with a British ac- who was introduced as Webster Jenkinson, “finan- cial director” of Vickers Company, Ltd., London. The victim even took | the precaution of checking a vol- on posing cent, Mark ume the real Sir ‘Mark ‘had’ been’dead nearly a year. The proposition made to the victim was that he was to take an executive post in a big new factory. Conferences were held in several cities and minute details of the new plant were discussed, the con men never slipping once in their glib discus- | sion of munition manufacture tech- nicalities. on, however, the into the hoary old “race-horse swindle.” With} variations, this is a simple little drama in which one or more of the con men appears to win a huge FLY! Fly for Pleasure there developed From game Hunt or fish, near and far, in your own plane or in one which you. have rented. Learn the Modern Sport! Aviation is not expensive. There’s more pleasure per dollar in flying. Start Preparing for Your Private License TODAY! It's Easy At Alaska School of Aeronautics, Inc. P. O. Box 2187 Phone Black 769 JUNEAU SHUK oN T y SNUEEY — (® D KON WHET THOSE SAULORS BAD 11® THEIR S\EENE, D OF PPED O\ OFF Sir or his new-found friends. In this| the British peerage. Sir‘ Mark was there all right, but what | the edition didn’t show was that FER GR&&\TE \C T DIONT MND SCRISSNY T! DECK NER CLINBI' 1P o GREASH POLE HAW HAW WHEN T SEEN T PITCHERS . TueN_TaTTO0ED ON MY § Dodgers, it would = seem, need simpler signals.. Signals that couldn’t be missed. For it's very |likely that a missed signal cost |the Dodgers the first game of the World Series- against the Yankees. In the midst of a Brooklyn rally in the seventh inning Durocher says he gave a signal to third base |coach Charlié Dressen to be re- layed on to pinch-hitter Jim Was- 1dell It was the sign to bunt. | Wasdell declares. he didn’t get sum of money which cannot 'be yne gignal. And he tried to hit collected until bank credits are es-i ... disastrous results. {tablished. The victim, en.hen It aeemied et diemond luex | through promises of a big split in/ the profits or merely because of|Was turning Brooklyn's way eacly in‘that seyenth inning. Rookie Riz- friendshi is rsuaded to put; “l;:er;;t ,())I t}:e l:‘m which. 1§ fm‘zum contributed the first and only 1 h of mone, ' |error of the contest with a low | Nl i e ¥ throw that_gave Cookie Lavagetto jion Now = HITTING * MAYBE DODGERS SHOULD USE HUDDLE FOR SIGNALS sYUNREE VICTORY THE YANKEE POWER. MAY N BREAK oUr [/ & W 4y sPor EMPIRE ». w e | LINE-UR [ JOE MEDW/ICK O MASS/IO N COBBED VO | ? OF 4 HOME 2 A\ VN LN Tid AR AMAZING CATTH Ducky backed up against the stands and made a perfectly timed leap to snag the ball and hold it as he fell to the ground. The Dodgers were also sur- prised by the foot speed of burly | Charley Keller who was supposedly | nursing a broken ankle and hardly expected to play. Keller scored from f\rat on chkeys double WAR WITH JAPAN MAY COMESOON a life at first base. Then Pee Wee nsx;;t::oce lnlh;n:;:ar "s':ul::“e:;fyneeu hit @ dribbler across second in which paviog contracts in an | Pase that. weht. between Hissitto adjoining state were used as bait, ia“d Gordon. a gang got $200,000. There was a chance for the bum But Durocher sent Riggs up to {nit, and he dropped a. single into | centertield to score Lavagetto. Still! no one out ‘with runners on first and second, the Dodgers needing one run to tie. Here was another chuncc for a bunt. OIL SWINDLE ‘MORE REFINED | The race-horse - swindle - doesn‘t have all the refinements of the oil lease swindle. In this case, the vic- tim is offered a generous sum- for| the lease of his land, and an op- \Ssndls d::ke:r ‘:0 c;):::ie::: i?;’ew: And Durocher says he called for |2 far greater “sum. The vietim | * Aad.; Waldes pimes it 4. bupt then pays -Over- @ tdy fée to get would have moved both runners out of' his. option -and, of :coiirse |ahead, with one very likely to score Ithe lense sieariie akabmiddi “‘from_ third with & long fly -ball, { hitter like' Dixie Wglker coming | There are other’con ‘game swi-| p. dles, but in the upper bmckcts, D they all add Gp to the same thing, | Hut Wasdell fHe H' o) o | promises of ' great profits: for t‘ue‘a foul that' Red Rolfe caught near o " | the Yankee flugout And this set | “temporary ~use” of - lesser sums.* | | the stage for 'Hal Reese, on sec- | The con mah js the aristocrat jond base, to get in’ ‘hig bit of back- jof criminals. ‘Suavity, ready wit, ' firing strategy. elected to" g0 |an outer personality that begets er the ull Th | | confidence are ‘the tools ‘- of - hi 4o Eiieg, e o % abled Rolfe to. Wrm maneuver trade. And beeause Ris victim so into a double-~play, ,gumng Reese often is ashamed. to confess that .. o giq into 1 bag with a |he has been ‘duped or fears to re- 'veal that he has lost large sums, thrszw :’hz% & promising {the con man somietimes can Oper-| .. q¢on for Brooklyn quickly jate for years Before the. police are turned “into . disaster, /For : Walkor, even aware of his activities. o b e However, in the seven years “:::‘:;d ltohre ml:un‘:“ r'l;ozl:: hav since the FBI has had its new| oo ; : !worked and maybe it wouldn’t. legal bludgeon against the men g yne gicond-guessers will have who work thé sucker racket, Di- ‘Lh 1t delstin gt m' Irector J.° Edgar Hoover's boys/ !eiuchynflf:mm lm” m":n :; n- have built up a sweet file on the big-timers’ in the con game. In sgef. Who had (WesBl for (w0 the case of the munitions manufac- turer, it was. only 24 hours after he laid his story before the FBI jthat all the: principals in the little show had- been identified —and the hunt was on. confusion by’ volufiteéring ‘the in- formation: that Wasdell never missed a signal with the Sena- 1 tors, It's strange how often in a short serles the normally llzht hitters | {will be batting ' stars.” The weak end of the Brooklyn batting order contributed fivé of 'the -six Dodger hits. The big ‘end -could produce Townsend Club to . | Meet Wednesday kT e . beodnce Medwick - that- néver: got as far The weekly meotlnc and dnme held by thé Paemabers: of the' looat GOWR the LS AL HNEd bags. And chapter of the Townsénd Club will Fesse came up with: just halt; of the Brooklyn blow,‘three itts. | take place tomorrow. night. Members will gather at 8 o'clock and later dance to the music furnished by Another .nusicians of the club. The meet- long be, ings are held in the Unlan Hall, LGO0G\E - T TooR \T WHZ BLL W FUN- AN T LIKE TO DIED. WSt HA W flfl W ST | late World War, years, added another‘angle to the Senator Norris Says Con- ! flict on Pacific May De- velop OUI(k as Wink’ fContnuea from M Om) remaining member that cast his Senate vote against entry into the said a German victory over Russia might lead Japan to interfere with American shipping on the Pacific and he as-| serted the United States will not| | tolerate any such interference. Benator - Norris - disclosed that | Navy omc:als advised , him * we “could 'sink .the Japanese : fleet within .two weeks -and although they may bé a little optlmmlc, 1 | believe” we could lick the Japan- ese.” Visitor Fromv Peru nuulrn«‘ Son ‘of the' President I;nul?hloh-hvnuben- Peru, rived plane ml.!!-..wd route to T | u Maggio’s long hit to left. The ball {apparently was a sure homer but THE DOOGER. SLUGEERS FAILED — EAMILLL, FANNED i finish of the round. By DILLON GRAHAM Sports Editor, AP Feature Service NEW YORK, Oct, 14—There |was the punch that felled gallant |J\m Braddock, the blow that up- irooted Paulino_ Uzcudun, the blast that : paralyzed Max @ Schmeling. These were the great Louls punches and to these must be added the right hand smash that destroyed Lou Nova. It was one of Joe's mnsurpleces {It was thrown so speedily that those at the ringside had difficulty fol- jiowing it. It came 8o ‘quickly that {Nova had po defense . . . so quickly iihat he couldn't thrust up an arm to p block it or duck or |swerve Ris head ..., it was a bull's- eye. . It could be compared with the cicut that stopped Paulino. It was { just as sudden, There was no action leading up to it. It was just as clean and devastating a blow but not quite as dead-center as the punch six years ago that caught the Spanlnrd flush on the mouth. Here’s Nova crumpling under the one-punch dynamite that sent him, like a fallen ox, fo the canvas in the sixth round of his champienship | fight with Joe Louis. Louis waded in after Nova had come up at the count of nine and so murderously punished the challenger - thal ' Referee, Art Donovan stepped in and ended the fight just before uu ~jUNEAU ALASKA Do SUPPLIED THE YANKEE | “HOME RUN i FIELOED ‘ PERFECTLY 7!'/5 CAUSE OP 7PO(JBL E‘S Punch that Finished | Lou Nova Ranks with Brown Bomber's Best Nova dropped, in the closing: min- o5 S s ute of that sixth ‘round, as thoulh he had been felled by a pole-axe. That one punch was the only blow that hit him.- Re dropped so qulckly that Louis did not have an oppor< tunity to land another punch url two to send him on his way. Although Nova gamely got up and tried to continue, he was too dazed to withstand the at: tack of Louis, the greatest isher in boxing histery. That gameness, in the sixth round and earlier when he withstood” a SWimming ats fin- flurry in the fourth and came back 880, 18 ‘an. art: school sudent in tat Nov couldteaceto srdlu etdot n New ¥ork. . . with all guns firing, 'was about il champ Lew Jenkins is- bullding ;& that Nova could be praised for, He was -awkward and nmac)a- bound and most of ..his . punches were laughably wide. i He did lana Nearly $100,000. one swell right on Joe'’s jaw in me. fifth, The triumph ends gossip unt Louis has slipped. He has -.vw By BILLY DeBECK . | flashy bt without. striges. Bodzeu think, Lhe Reds,, many hflw v!m up :hope, . Don . MoNell - steps . up: his: ‘game ' he'll nflfl- m to, ‘the national away PAGE FIVE An “International Plot’ to keep you warm ..It's hard to conceive of Peru and the U. S. getting together just to plot your comfort—but that's just what's hap- pened in our flne new topc(mte South "Anmerica furnished the fleece — luxur- ious; (luwny-sofi woolens, a mjracle of weightless. wapmth.. Woven in America, “ these' rare” codtings tmlored bv the . 'skillfumem of 'uNeat‘iv\ Americ,l You'll llke the com- phtefiprotecfinn you'll be pmud of their . T entluri#\rriclinew of thn(r qmurt utylmg un& fl lt » oy Twmsw !nme elub fhe (hetcl‘. xun humumm except «Cni, ., Gonti’s. Ofiddgfi-l nigely had Louis-troubled. Louls, pulling" jon his xing. ac ly, . .Observed* the ‘old- +has . g 'ax of leayinhg- the audienee with | tutorigg, of hiibby,-Eiwood Cookd. his best_stunt, fresh_in its mind.. dimn .Jehony, . W iLouls’ fame has been built around Jongest, eye-lashes in mtdmamunwhmdmmv- Joe: Louis' 'next foe" will have: the rmmwr was & perfect example of distinction.of ushering the bomber Louis’ best bombing. above the two million bucks mark, b RS o R ARG mm now of hav- Spom fli ' Tennis up Witch’ out tc.emh | PalMrey. 'Odoke ‘in*' the ' National Job (1934-36).7" mwv-lummm Mfll | winter 1n' Cotiembys, Oa. Jenune uglphlzr backs chempidn ‘a few yeu'n Lightweight' lwuu near Pompton Lakes,- N. J. . 10-year-old Mucho Gusto.is stlll wlnnuu races. He has umd ‘Wilyutn's" Weakhess ' Bflly Conn. has a weakness for Tties.'.” . . He owhe them, | The| Jout .of |t o B fr g . Upless| 1‘: .. Wherl Dick. Wikefield..of .Michis Wacky Whirld w‘"&;r«" M-muu fly< ‘umu is. fan reut. front. in the battle t% xookie-of-the-year lwnj and_ Jimmy. Dykes, -wn“