The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 2, 1942, Page 5

'MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1942 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA BRENT Giant Manager FOR RENT ((onlinued),‘ TO SUBLET March 1, Hen- ning Apts. — Furnished, 2 bedrooms, modern kitchen, large living room with fire- nlace, bath. Phone green 415. VACANCY, MacKinnon Apts. ©-ROOM partly furnished house,| 12th St. Call 67 after 5 pm. Win- ! | FUR. apts.,, easy kept warm. | ter rates $15 a mo. Lights, water, dishes. Seaview Apts. STEAM heated apt., path, 2 bedrooms. Black 763, Klein Apts. VACANCY, Marine Bldg. Phone 496. 3. rooms and FURNISHED house and furnished apt. Inquire Snap Shoppe. — VACANCY. HILLCREST APTS.| PHONE 439. { 3-ROO] Knight Apts. Phone 426. 3-ROOM modern furnished heated West. apt., 511 11th and B Sts. Phone red 624. furnished apt. at the| poRp RENT-—Apartments, Inquire | at office 20th Century Bidg. FORSALE | | ;-ROZ)M furnished house wilh; 2 and 2 ROOM APTS, $25 to | $30. Winter & Pond Apts. Ju- meau Rental Service, corner 2nd | and Sewaid. - STEAM HEATED, rurnished, bedroom apt. 2hone green 515. FURNISHED heated apt. for rent,|’ 2 bedrooms, close in. Phone 227. }UR. HEATED 5-room _apt., bedrooms, laundry, dry room, 634; Harris St.; one 3-room fur, en-| big | yard, 225 Distin Ave. Blue 200.‘ closed porch, good view, bath, half basement, oil heat. In-} quire Norman DeRoux or phone | Douglas 693. il |31 FORD, good rubber, $100; bath- | inette, $3; baby scale, $250; two- hole electric plate, $4; Argus camera and enlarger, $13.50. Hizh chair, $1; 22 rifle, $5. Phone Blue 675. "2/ FOR SALE-Live rabbits. George Brothers 1936 CHEV coupe, new 0 MEL OTT: That raised ri radiator. See it at Juneau Motors. v By MORTIMER KREEGER Mild Maner But Firm he h his - highes! | batting aver 349, became old | {enough to sign His own contracts, | |and married Mildred Wattigny of {Néw Orleans—who had been sur- | prised to know anyone could make enough money playing baseball to live on. They have two daughters. {Fle next year A al Mel OH | In that 1930 season Mel had on |of his two greatest haseball thrills He hit three homers and a double| 0 one game. In the 1933 World | {Sfliv.\ he hit homers his first and last trips to the plate, winning!| the game and the series with his| | ast blow : Ott well | flery methods, Tors. He knew the game. But remembers McGraw's “He didn't mind er-) they were all in he couldn't stand| Im(x;ml lapses. After a pitcher had hurled a no-hit game, McGraw, stingy with compliments, told him: | ‘With me telling you what to pitehl you ought to have some more like | that. » * ott A | and Carl Hubbell, the only! boys still active, are the! of the Polo Grounds. Ott s Hubbell will have a gpod| | vear, but Mel won't say anything| about his team’s pennant chances. He has made, several trades since' he was named boss, getting .Johnny | {Mize from the Cards, Bill Werber from the Reds and Hank Licher | from the Cubs | Mrs. Willoia‘r; Munz " AndChildren Areto | - Continue to Nome “ Mrs. William Munz, who recen’ly junderwent an emergency appendec- tomy at St. Ann's Hospital, has left the hospital and is staying at the | Baranof Hotel with her two small | children, awaiting transportation to { their home in Nome. | Mrs. Munz, whose husband oper- latés an air transport company in | {the Seward Peninsula city, was ight foot is his trademark. b 2 In less- than two weeks Heine- !mines who hold licenses issued by 'MRS. . GALLAGHER IS CHE OLICK residence, 601 East 1934 FORD V-8 Coupe, good tires, St., T-room furnished. Basement,| new battery. See Juneau Motors. | { | | | arned | Mahn ‘had heard enough about Ott —Mel Ott le NEW. QRHSHNE el ; |to offer him a contract but, says i | his baseball under fiery John Me- Harry told me not to homeward bound when she was Stricken with appendicitis and was garage. Black 325. | FOR RENT — Small, comfortably| furnished house, $16.50. 920 West; 12th St. ead Apts. Phone/ VACANCY — red 614, §-ROOM partly furnished house,| 11th and F. St. See Bob Cow-| ling. Phone 57. PETERSON house, partly furnished. | 3rd and Dixon. P.O, Box 1852. ROOM, Baroumes Apts. nished, hot water day or night, electric range and refrigerator, laundry conveniences. Rent, $27 monthly. Phone Douglas 132. 4ROOM furnished house, il heat, electric range, close in. Phone Black 415. VACANCY at Ellingen Apts. Phone| 351, 4-ROOM FURNISHED apartment; also 5-room strictly modern un- furnished house. 504 5th St. 3-ROOM steam heated furnished apartment, Call Red 245. FOR RENT in Douglas—Newly re- furnished 3-room apt., quiet,} ronvenient, comfortable, $16 per month. Phone Douglas 472 after 7 pm. AND 4-ROOM furnished apts. ofl heat, washing ‘machines, 504 and 510 Xennedy St. Phone Green 147 or inquire 626 5th St. after 4 p.m, 3- 3-ROOM mod. furn. apt. Phone red 250. 437 Park and Fifth Sts. VACANCY—Nugget Apts.,, $35. AVAILABLE immediately to right party, strictly modern four-room heated duplex, furnished, excel- lent view, Seatter Tract. Phont Blue 285. FULLY furnished comfortable, air- conditioned house, Frigidaire, electric range, garage. Phone 158. 3-ROOM apt., oil heat, nice loca- tion. Phone Black 490. ONE office room for rent. First National Bank Bldg. FOR RENT—Large view apt. rea- sonable rent. Alder Terrace. Phone Black 570. FOR SALE—Diesel powered yacht, 1940 4-PASSENGER Chev Coupe, ! A-1 condition, good tires, radio, heater. See Ryan Transfer. 4 rooms, basement and garage. Oil burner. Mile 2, Glacier High- way. Phone 0353 or see L. E. Iverson. length over all 46% ft., beam 12 ft., draws 6 ft., displacement hull. Oak frame, Port Orford and Alaska cedar hull. Galley equipped with Flamo stove and ice box, large cupboard space; toilet in the bow. Six cylinder Cummins engine. Sleeps six people camfor- tably, can sleep eight. Would make excellent charter or patrol boat. Cruising speed ten knots. Will send photo on request.— Olympic Diesel Fuel Supply Co., 3420 Stoneway, Seattle, Wash. FOR SALE—Seining boat “Wilson,” 52 ft. long, 15-ft. beam, 45 Atlas engine. Salmon and herring gear complete. See Martin Holst, 838 9th St. P.O. Box 1055. HOUSE FOR SALE—837 West 7th St., or call green 724. HAND trolling boat, double ender, $30; outboard motor, $35. Inquire « 929 Tth St. West. FOR SALE—Safe. Phone green 750. 1938 MODEL Ford Deluxe Coupse, A-1 condition. Bargain for cash. Call 184 between 8 and 5 p.m. rite Ironers, Maytag Washing Machines. Terms $5 monthly, lib- Parts, service, repairs, any make machine, Call Singer Maytag Dis- tributor. Phone 711. MISCELLANEOUS / ment, Home 'Boarding .Ho shower, dry room, running' water, steam heat, $12 weekly. Phone 293. i FOUND—Tire and wheel. Identify| tire, pay for adv. Call Police| Dept. i g | HAGERUP'S saw filing service,! 919 9th St. Skates sharpened. | SINGER = Sewing Machines, Tron- | eral allowance for old machine.|. ROOM and board, new manage—i Graw and hard-boiled, driving Bill | Terry but the new manager of the New York Giants probably will | continue to be the same mild-man- V‘iA'r‘I‘RACTlVE year round home.|nered Mel. Ott won't say. “I don’t know just how I'll han- dle things,”, he explained o learned plenty from both McGraw and Terry. I have a few ideas of my own but I can't say what I'll do untii I get the chance.” That's typical of Mel, who never |speaks about what he’s going fo do nor of what he has done. IU’s unlikely, though, that a quiet chap like Mel will turn into a mar- tinet overnight. He figures there |are other ways to handle men and get the most out of them besides being tough and brusque. Mel {hasn’t been slow about telling um- pires and players what he thinks about their decisions and actions, that they haven’t been “shown up” before the grandstand customers. It's been 16 years since Otl, one |of baseball’s first “boy wonder: joined the Giants. Fact is, he w: told to report a year before he did ‘bu\ he thought he was being kidded, and didn't. | Ott was a high school catcher and went with his baltery mate when Pitcher Lester Rouprich signed with New Orleans in 1925, The late A. J. Heinemann, then 1Nr:*w Orleans owner, decided Ott {was too young. He arranged for Mel to play with a semi-pro team at Patterson, La. maintained by Harry P. Williams, millionaire in- dustrialist and sportsman kil few years ago in a plane crash. WANTED |WANTED — Left-handed propeler, 14x12. Boat “Don.” J. K. Hudson, Box 1567, City. EMPLOYMENT wanted by experi- enced cook and waitress, in or ) hot! OUt of town. Write Empire Ls along and take their jobs. Rookies| 904, e AN RGP SR 5 MAN with education, having fam- ily, will consider any kind of employment. Werite Empire FM 905. {but he has done it in such a way| | af Ott, “Mr. !sign because he had other in mind for me.” things | removed from a westward bound {steamer to a Coast Guard vessel {which rushed her and her chil- That Summer Williams told his/dren to Juneau. While Mrs. Munz |friend McGraw about Mel and the|Was hospitalized, her children were | lenLt’ manager agreed to look him|cared for at the home of Mr. :md; over. Williams sent Ott a post-!Mrs. Willlam Walker of Auk Bay. card telling him to report but Mel| > 2 'explains that “I thought it was a|/MRS. BOYD HERING AND ljoke ana didnt go.” | WILLIAM HERING FROM | FAIRBANKS SOUTHBOUND | When Williams returned fromi WNrs. Boyd Hering, of Fairbanks, !Europe he sent Mel to McGraw|js fere on her way to Seattle to vis- with a letter of recommendation. it with her daughter, Mrs. Chs “Was I scared when I walked in-|Stranberg for ahout x weeks, to MecGraw's office!” says Mel.| William Hering, brother-in-law of |“I'd never been more than 100 |Mrs. Hering, is also making the trip miles from home, never outside|o Seattle, by plane, 'Louisiana.” | - 1 Mel recalled that McGraw looked| " “Byuy DEFENSE BONDS i puzzled when he identified himself| 2~ _ E: LA L AN R as a “bascball player.” Ott’s ex-| planation that “Mr. Williams talked | g [ ~ to you about me” didn't help, eith- er. “Who's Mr. {McGraw | As Mel tried to explain, McGraw aw a letter in Ott’s trembling hand and reached for it to read William’s | recommendation. i The 16-year-old Ott was given a | three ~wecka' trial and then Mec- |Graw, satisfied that he\ was a pros- |pect, sent him home with orders to |report at training camp the next |spring. It wasn't long before McGraw | was telling the sports writers about ’lCL‘b perfect batting style. McGraw paid Ott $500. for signing a con- tract and sent $1,000 to Williams, |who promptly endorsed the check lover to Ott. | Because Mel weighed only 160, |McGraw decided to convert him {into an outfielder and sent him ‘t,ut to compete with such veter- ans as “Irish” Meusel, “Pep” Young | |and Billy Southworth. When M- |Graw asked tne 17-year-old Mel {whether he'd ever played outfield |Ott gave him. a laugh by replying,[ |“Sure, when T was a kid.” | Veterans in those days weren't | lanxious to help youngsters come | Wililams?" demanded - ~ SEC usvally went through plenty of haz- g. But Mel was so modest and naive that the oldsters soon were; giving him pointers and help. | Ott struck out his first two times: Defense Savings Bond ca WANTED—Part time job of any kind. Roman Ellers, P. O. Box 185. TWO 4-ROOM furnished duplex apartments, $20. Also, 2-room fur-| nished apartments for $16. Phone 621. VACANCY—One large unfurnished apt.; one fur. apt. Fosbee Apts. 3-ROOM nicely fur. stm. heated; FIVE CENTS eath, paid for used gunny sacks at Coal Bunkers. TORN your old gold into value, cash or trade at Nugget Shop. | | S fi s AR GUARANTEED Realistic Perma- | nent, $550. Paper Curls, $1 up. Lola Beauty Shop. Phone 3201. WANTED—Clerk-stenographer, full time; salary $155. Juneau office. Must be able to take dictation. Apply room 206, Territorial Bldg. WANTED—Maid for general house- work, Apply Mrs. I. Goldstein, — R WANTED—Fresh-killed local rab- apts. and bouses. Windsor Apts. 315 Decker Way. bits. Call Douglas Inn, phone 88. \at bat—as a pinch hitter. It wasn't! | until. August that Ott was given a regular outfield spot—on August | |21, in a shakeup, Ott went to the cutfield and Bill Terry fo first base. ; Ind., by purch after the war began. 9 G | listeners over 248 stations on The National league’s home x-un‘ ace—415 round-trippers—showed no |early signs of being a slugger. lt! lwasn't until 1928 that he hit a ball| out of the park. . | | In 1920 Mel hit 42 homers and | |drove in 151 rums, his best record. more Defense Bonds myself war.” (to her old home town. | | company business, | ara Sells Deferise Bonds .- Radio Star Singin’ Sam, abow mpaign wi Righmongf n{ln stack of them before Pearl Harbor, and pu When asked by Mayor Britton if he | would help start a drive in Richmond, his home town, the | “Old Boy,” who broadcast five days a week to 8,000,000 gram, said: “Sure, Mayor, I'm glad to help. T'lldo all in my power to get folks to buy ‘em. buyin’ them because that’s one sure way to help win this | MINERS NEED LICENSES TO BUYPOWDER The Atlas Powder Company. has | notified ifs distributors in Anehor- age that after March 16 they'may sell explesives only to miners and the Bureau of Mines, B.. D. Su-\\-1 art. Commissioner of the Depart- ment of Mines, said today. It expected that other powder com- panies will issue similar instruc- tions Mr, Stewart said that he has aj limited number of application blanks for licenses in his office for distribution here. He mailing copies to his representatives in An- chorage, Fairbanks and Nome. ‘The| applications must be sent to Director of /the Bureau of Mines, Washington, D. C. A congressional act, approved De- cember 26, requires the users of ex- plosives to be licensed. { ,ee - is { s LEAVING FOR SOUTH Mrs. Georgie Gallagher is leaving Juneau for the south this week to| join her daughter Jean in Seattle and make her future home in that{ city. Mrs, Gallagher has been on| the office staff of the United States| Attorney for some time and was| form connected with the U. 8. Bureau of Fisheries, Prior to her departure, Mrs. Gal-| laghar has been entertained by a| number of her many friends in the city. i Before coming to, Alaska Mus. | Gallagher had lived in Seattle for| many years co, though she ex-| pressed regret at leaving the num-| crous friends she has made during her residence in Juneau, the move| will be in the nature of a return| | - M. J. WILCOX HERE M (Bil) Wilcox, formerly' agent for the Alaska Steamship Ccmpany here, arrived in Juneau over the weekend from Seward, where he has been attending to| Wilcox is staying at the Gas-| tincau Hotel and plans to go to Se-! atlle soon. .- AM. LEGION AUXILIARY ‘\ All members are asked to attend the regular meetins at the Dugout, | Tuesday, March 3, 8 pam. adv. | | % g more oH ] hased still more | his “Refreghment Time” pro- In fact, I am ready to buy and I intend to keep right -on ». POLLY, GEE, POLLY/ CLAUDE SAl THE SWEETEST THINGS TO ME LAST NIGHT =+ ANDHERPALS .. N N D) I GUESS YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS/ % o3y By CLIFF STERRETT .~ IT MEANS HIS FATHER STOPPED HIS ALLOWANCE AGAIN, AND YQU SAT HOME LISTENING TO HIM, INSTEAD OF GOING TO A NIGHT CLUB, | AS HE'D PROMISED / air route from Seattle to Nome, on sale at J. B. Burford & Co. adv the | W pime DIGGLY We Aim WIGGLY to Please MAKE A MARCH Ist RESOLUTION TRY PIGELY WIGGLY SERVICE PIGGLY WIGGLY QUALITY PIGGLY WIGGLY PRICES . . Then you will be a reégular, too—when you see that really fine foods, fair prices and cou rteous service go hand in hand at PIGGLY WIGGLY This store is owned and operated only by Juneau people + NOT A CH AIN STORE PIGGY WIGGLY Deliveries 10 A. M. and 2 P. M.———Minimum $1.00 WOMEN'S APPAREL Baranof Hotel The Juneau Laundry FRANKLIN STREET between Front and Second Streets FHONE 80 NORTH Transfer & Garbage Co. E. 0. Davis E.W. Davis 212—Phones—81 — e ‘Every house needs westinghouse’ PARSONS ELECTRIC CO. COWLING-DAVLIN COMPANY DODGE and PLYMOUTE DEALERS HUTCHING'S ECONOMY MARKET Be Wise—Economizse THREE PHONES 5539285 WHEN IN NEED OF Diesel Oil—Stove Oll—Your Coal Choloe—General Haul- ing — Btorage and Crating CALL USI Juneau Transfer Phone 48—Night Phone 481 Bert's Cash Grocery PHONE 164 or 108 Pree Delivery Junssw It's Healthy, Tool BRUNSWICK - BOWL - BOWLING ALLEYS PHONE 10 or 20 20TH CENTURY MEAT MARKET UALITY TS & noid‘:n? HOME GROCERY Phone 146 LT NOTICE AIRMAIL ENVELOPES, showing R Y S N e e Sanitary Meat Co. FOR QUALITY MEATS AND POULTRY FREE DELIVERY Call Phones: 13 and 49 Chas. G. Warner Co. Marine Engines and Supplies MACHINE SHOP Ropes and Paints D T —— FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GREASES—GAS—OIL Foot of Main Street Juneau Motors T e 3 mr.moc;smga Savrite Rust Preventatives Xzit Soot Eradicate Chemical Metal Treat i Plastic 4 104 8. Maln Thomas Hardware Co. PAINTS — OILS Buiiders’ and Shelt | Utah Not and Lump | COAL oty JUNEAU-YOUNG Hardware Company PAINTS—OIL—GLASS Sheif and Heavy Hardware “ZoRic » St Casnors Motor Ca, | Herb Waugh Phone 411 230 S. Frankiin - The Alaskan Holel Newly Renovated Roems ot Reasomabis Bates Phose~Siagle 6 s % BROKEN LENSES Are promptly replaced In our an shop. Dr. Rae Lillian Carlson Blomgren Building. ady LOLA’S BEAUTY SHOP Will be closed until March 10, 1942. —ady.