The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 5, 1945, Page 6

DERBY FIELD SWELLING AS RACE NEARS IMAJOR LEAGUE BALL LEADERS apparently has not found the National League Yo Giants too bur- season—at least not to dim his batting Mel Ott m le: ew densome this sufficiently eve. The Ott moved into the pace i : in the senior circuit durihg pastweek, with a .379 hitting Defeat of Favorifes in average. Tony “The Cooch” Cuc- Chur(hi” Downs Prep cinello, continued to hang on to . 5 his top spot in the American 1oop, BflflgS Late Entries hitting at a 355 level for the Chisox THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE-—JUNEAU ALASKA DARING U. S, | SUB ATTACK MADE PUBLIC WASHINGTON, June 5—A sub- marine’s daring surface attack on! a Japanese convoy at anchor in; | water too shallow to permit a dive | won high honors for the vessel's| skipper and crew. The submarine, the U. S. S, Barb, | VETERANS' GUIDE By MAJOR THOMAS M. NIAL ~ ) \ \ ! N N ) WASHINGTON — It often seems it might be asked why don't they that you never get any gravy but reduce a soldier's pay the minute a what there’s a fly in it. mortar blows his leg to pieces? For the past couple of columns,| If a sailor, drawing $11580 a I've been writing that all ex-service month (with rating, sea duty pay, pecple under certain conditions can etc.) is badly smashed up when a get Veterans' Administration hospit- torpedo hits and explodes, he'll have al care. And I tried to give these to go to the hospital for maybe a conditions, while I was outlining five long time. I doubt is anyone has| grecups of veterans in the order of ever thought seriously or reducmg‘ their preference for admission to his pay, yet an existing law 1pp1ms[ e i § —— e TUESDAY,; JUNE 5,494 v OH Ruthithon Major league leaders, as reported V. A. Hospitals. a cut to that same sailor as soon (Assoclated Press Sports Writer) by the Associated Press, ar I'm hoping you understood. At as he gets out of uniform, He's en-| SNt 0 many enemy ships to the gortbero b g ks tis National League any rate, I think I made it ob- titled to disability pay, but, if his 1’0“0';1 ‘heytm“‘tdn‘ be counted in | Eodi g thate- tha" KhERG Batting—Ott, New York, 379; vious that veterans with service- disability grows bad enough to re- thehc ear-cu gfi away . Derby is going to be run Saturday, | Hounes, Boston, and Kurowski, St. connected disabilities” who are in quire hospitalization, his pay is re-| The Navy tells the story. It 15! G e rate Gwnbrd aud)Leuls AY8: need of hospitalization for such dis- duced, but his disability isn't ong Beotetaty Burresal shia 1g yee trainers are getting ideas about Hits—Holmes, Boston, 59; Ottand abilities are first in line for treat-| Where need for emergency hos- gretted security forbade his reveal- | starting their horses in the $75,000 Reyes: New York, 55 ent. A pitalization of a veteran occurs, it|ing when he awarded the Congres- | s Ab % thers Yare to be | S B Lombardi, New This is where the fly flies in. Sup- can be arranged by the ex-service Sional Medal of Honor last March ite & traffic iam around 5:30 York., 13; Weintraub, New York, posc Jim Banks is discharged be- man or someone acting for him. 23 to Comdr. Eugene B. Fluckey, quite a traffic Jam around 5:30 o4 nigepio Philadelphia, 8. |cause of disability incurred in the|You have to get a phone call put th Barb’s commanding officer. In p. m. at the head of Churchill Tp, b0 Phinen, New York, $-1; service and starts to draw disability through to the nearest V. A. hospital. addition, the Barb has been® ol e Akt Voiselle, New York, 8-3 pay at the rate of $69 a month. He's A wire will do. You do this to get awarded the Presidential Unit Ci-| . I;;m“ v r,“."l ,.flm‘,; “,u“, l.hpm';.:”.(\ American League rated at 60 per cent disability. authority for admission and for tation. RIS i e e ] merry _ Batting—Ott, New York, 315; B flql“'zlflld it flmmren:z Bunsportation e R i mf““;‘i‘eyv of 1:‘"':5901“' ‘:: wl';k INDIAN STUDEN T N U R S E S—Student nurses line up at the Sage Memorial hospital at little party with a dozen or less .355; Case, Washington, .331 caled starts to kic CERS SUDIN | S NN KN Ocutimz of your his ship on what appeared to be | Ganado, Arimn:. whick onernes the only accredited U. S. nursing school for Indians. 3 Hits—Stirnweiss, New York, 49; after a couple of months. There's nearest V. A. hospital you'd be ex- virtually a suicide mission because 454 53 s i AL ot Ty S RERCIET g:;-;“ Ill’::\‘_m“‘fM“” ‘8;‘{1""20:::“::;; Case, Washington, 47. infection and what-not. Jim needs hibiting a set of brains if you find the anchored convoy was hidden | oo S, Ialk 5% 4 e PR ';;: Home” and some 50,000 fans thrill Home Runs—Stephens, St. Louis, ° 'Selh‘}fmm E;“'a"d | ma:e s R i R g | "Ew VARIE" |- Tkt e voor: webiatll fnak-| . Vesl Hhndfibkacn iehd. s | e B saht.ot Ambdoa okt i 8: R. Johnson, Boston, 6 with little Lrou. e z ocal Red Cross chapters are usually | corts concentrated on every loglcal: |ing growth, although nourished only | B fs 2 Anchb Ta | Siggon oy Pitching — Per, Boston, 7-0; But what happens to his $69 a able and will want to help an ex-|approach. In the convoy were ;i Byt anning, of Anchorage, are gue | pressive racing scene. Borows. feow Yok i menth? You're probably thinking service man or his family to make freighters, tankers and munitions| WILBUR, Wasn. — Maybe it] v the slender bit of radish which at the Baranof Hotel. # ‘Now, however, there is a possi- ks he still continues to get it—it’s his these emergeney arrangements to!ships. |would be difficult to get a camel P2sses through the button's eye. ——————— : bility that as many &s 16 may oo TO T e o us |legal disability pension. But no. His | get him into a V. A. hospital. The water was so shallow Fluckey |through the eye of a needle, but in s Py B GRACE BABCOCK IN TOWN don silks although it is likely that (Afnerican Leagud) pension is reduced to $20 a month. Like hospital treatment for other knew the attacking submarine the plant world it's different. | Mabel Irons, of Ugashik, Alaska,| Grace Babcock, of Seattle, | | several of the owners will think BRI W It's not fair, you're saying. Never- than service-incurred disabilities or|would have to remain surfaced | CGetorge Schooleraft is displaying a| has arrived in Juneau and is a|arrived in Juneau and is a guest ¥ twice before laying the $500 start- New York ,4' 15 M.‘ theless, the law says that, because diseases, transportation to the hos-\dmmg its approach and for at, four- inch -long whne radish that guest at the Baranof Hotel. ‘the Gastineau Hotel. ing fee on l}ie line. The rush i)«(Lxr:: = :U 1}’ ‘571 Jim has no wife or child or depen- pital is furnished only if a \melnn‘leasg an hour after the attack. The' T od e R T 0 B e e e —— e Sl started last Saturday when the 2%, Louls 18 17 514 dent parent, his disability pay has to signs form P-10 and says he isn't|shallow water also indicated a highly regarded colts q\m_nerod at cm(mm' 19 18 ‘514 t® reduced to $20 a month, if he financially able to pay for the ride.|strong probability of mines. | N the Downs bowed to & pair of out- Bosten 19 2 4g7 | 0ccepts free hospitalization in a V. If a veteran has service-xmuned_ In the Barb's favor, it was night, ' siders, Darby Dieppe and Fighting %0 1648 7 A. hospital or in any federal or state disability which needs only occasion- and visibility was poor. Cautiously, l"aslesl and Step, in the Blue Grass Stakes. th:nflmw n 2 447 Institution. al medical, surgical or dental treat-|ghe Barb approached its quarry, A"cnonn Word was not long in coming F1;1i1(i¢-f)vh;\ 15 23 395 A veteran with a wife or child or ment, it can be had throush what maneuvering for position which sh , ‘n l from Canada that H. C. Hatch, ) ¢ ¥ b a dependent parent doesn't have to is called “out-patient treatment.” would assure a number of torpedo or es! oule Toronto distiller, was shipping Fair (Standings unchanged—No games y,yq this reduction. Make your request by using V.A.|phits Fluckey's plan called for a t Jester in the same car with the Scheduled). If that reduction to $20 for any form 2827 revised, and sending it t0 Jightning stib ‘:vnh the hope e P Kenilworth Farm's Lad and Bert St man \lthu! a dependent is logncal your V. A. Regional Offxcv | surprised . and confused: - enemy Wesiward Alaska G. Fair Jester has some excuse for making the trip since he finished TeAm— W, Lo Bk fourth to his stablemate, Utter- NeW York 1. 1% . most, in the King's Plate, but Fitisburgh & 8 neither of the other two has ever St- Louls e been in -the winner’s circle. | Brooklyn 21 19 & “5‘ With the possibility of such a Chicagoe 19 -:18 S14 large field and chances there will g:’:f(‘n"]“““ ig ;‘: '4‘)’9 be plenty of jamming at the start 05 , o i as the horses battle for racing room Fhiladelphia 1031 a4 in the five-sixteenths of a mile run _ (Standings unchanged—No games to the first turn, we lean toward a Scheduled). pair of eastern colts to take down SR A, first and second money. They are (Pacific Coast League) Col. C. V. Whitney's Jeep and . Team— W. L. Pot Alexis from Henry Lunger's Chris- Portland A . Wi Pinn Seattle 36 26 581 Oakland 3¢ 31 523 san Francisco 31 32 492 (G SOF]’B AllERS |San Diego 32 34 485 Sacramento 31 33 484 Los Angeles 31 33 484 KNO(KED OUT OF Hollywood 21 42 388 (Standings unchanged—No games FRONT POSITION " - Blum Checks Pace-setters SPORI SHORTS While Blue Jay Mates | Proht fme E”Ors | CHICAGO-—Battling Nelson, who celebrated his 63rd birthday today, - |is ready to start all over again in The Blue Jays’ the fistic game—that gave him finally convinced after many un- fame, if not fotrune. successful starts that he can't fish,| Trim, sharp-eyed and plenty quick last night delegated all domestic on the draw for all of his bloody duties and other extra-curricular boxing battles just after the turn activities to his room-mate, Frank of the century, the former light- Bachman, and unhampered by weight champion said he planned worries over home-work left un- to “grab a couple of fair fighters done, turned in a flossy mound after the war and try my hand at performance for his aggregation managing them.” ‘ in their meeting with the local Coast Guard team which left his NEW YORK — Ike Williams, opposition on the very short end N.B.A. lightweight champion, and of a 10 to 1 count in their en- Willie Joyce wind up heavy train- counter last evening at Firemen's ing today for their 10-round non- teld | title bout at Madison Square Gar-| The loss dropped the Sailors from den Friday night. It is their fourth their lofty spot at the top of the meeting with Joyce having won league heap. Blum widely scattered two of the three previous scraps. the three safe connections he al- lcwed—a ecircuit smash by Olson being all that spoiled his shutout “Butch” Blum, NEW YORK — Senator A. B. “Happy” Chandler has squelched Stimac didn't do too badly for sub rosa reports that he would re- the Guardsmen, but five errors be- sign as commissioner of baseball. hind him hurt—and plenty. |“I expect to be commissioner for The Coast Guarders are now oc- life,” he told New York baseball cupying second spot, on the tail of writers at a dinner in his honor the Freshmen. This evening’s clash last night. “That will set at rest will bring together the Signacs and talk of any successor for me.” the Awks. The Communications A pi, TR o A club has yet to crash the win column, but is showing signs of (oASIAl AIRLINES improvement, while a victory for the Old Awkwards may leave them a change to edge into the Iml- half play-offs. The game is for 7 o'clock at Firemen’s Fll‘](l - FLIES MANY MONDAY : Alaska Coa;v.al Airlines yesterday | flew 18 passengers to Sitka, Hoonah, SCORE BY INNINGS p Club— 1234567 R m g Pelican City and Haines. These Coastguard 000100 0— 1 3 5 PASSEngers were: Blue Jays . 020242 x—10 10 f To Sitka: JoSeph Kellar, Kathryn Johnson, Samuel Knight, Martha Batteries—Coast Guard: Stimac 2 4 . pitcher; Holloway, catcher. Blue ’CT:L‘:““) ‘31," Robifison dxid £ B To Haines: Mrs. O. B. Mackan, O. B. Mackan, Larry Hagen, L. M. : ST Bustert and E. J. Timmons. < RUR, EPANDENGS. To Hoonah: Paul C. Hickox, E. B. Team— w. L. P_“ Fisher, Duncan Johnson, Dr. Wright l'."”'h’“'_'" 3 1 490 and George Swanby. Coast Guard 3 8 600 1, pelican City: H. C. Clay and Blue Jays &l o 600 car) B. Hofman. Old Awkwards 2 2 500 Eieven passengers were brought Headquarters 2 2 500 from Sitka to Juneau yesterda Signacs § L& | They were, Henry Graman, Jr., * b o {O. L. Robinson, Sally Somers, Mrs. ® © 6 0 0 0 0% o & o o Ernie Somers, Janet Somers, Elmer . ® | Jchnson, Mrs. F. Cushing, R. V. * TIDES TOMORROW ® Bardi, Thelma Bardi, E. E. Jensn, . ® |and Mrs. E. E. Jensen ® o o June 6 1945 o e o From Hawk Inlet: Felix Toner and . ® | Norman Stines e Low 4:45a.m.: 111t. | From Pelican City: E. E. Engstrom ! ® High 10:54a.m.: 1421t. ® and Jimmie Martin. ® Low 1650 p.m.: 18ft. | From Hoonah: J. P. Thach. e High 23:10 p.m.: 17.3 ft. 'i From Haines: Robert B. Clifton. . o - ee- ® % 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Empire Wanr-ats Tring results! | | might aid the escape. | | The escape plan also called for ymoving through uncharted, rock- | infested wuters filled with fishing Junks | CLOSING DATE FOR ‘ HALIBUT FISHING IN | AP SPORT RouNDups AREAS 1 2 SOO“ Silently the Barb moved through the escort screen, every man tense. | Reaching the pianned attack posi- SEATTLE, June 5—Plenty of fish tion, she let go with everything =2 are being landed in Seattle these she had, gave full right rudder, and By HUGH FULLERTON, Jr. | days. The U. S. Fish and Wildlife moved toward the rock-strewn (Associdted Press Sports Writer) | 'Service report sthat 15 trawlers water at high speed. From the NEW YORK, June 5. — Senator sold 303,000 pounds of cod, rock bridge, Fluckey watched Japanese “Happy” Chandler told New York fish, sole and sable fish dt the port ships all around him erupting like scribes yesterday that the baseball yesterday. volcanoes. commissionership was “the only job, Meanwhile, the closing date for “Columns of fire leaped from I ever wanted—and I didn't ask for halibut fishing in area two has it.” . .. that probably makes him been advanced to midnight June the only guy who ever went around 15 The International - Fisheries several vessels,” the Navy reported. “The first target was seen to settle in the water. Scme vessels that making campaign speeches just for Ccmmission previously set the date were hit were obscured others the heck of it ... He also re- ag June 12. burning in the line of vision. Pil- vealed that his career as a ball e, lars of smoke poured skyward. Two player wasn't helped any when he The U. S. Customs office also has ships exploded and sent a shower broke his arm during his last year received advices from the Intern- of tracers in all directions.” in Lulle;,p blocking a football gl Fis es Commission of the ad-| As Fluckey had hoped, the an- Wonder what will vancing of the date for halibut fish- c¢hored junks impeded and confused Amwn \\hen as cogpmissioner, he ing clcsing tries to throw a block on some » MRS. SIEVENS OFF pursuers as the Barb “highballed” for open water. In the confusion, some of the junks were fired on. Also, as he had hoped, the pur- suers were discouraged by the those baseball dummies? Tmmn Burley Parke’s pet raccoon and companion collie dog are re- ported to be the principal attrac- J rocks, through which the Barb ran tions along the backstretch at like a broken field runner. | Churchill Downs this week | When the Barb reached open That's not much of a recommenda- tion for those derby horses. water, dawn was breaking, but she had not yet reached safety. A Japanese plane sighted her, and for Mrs. Rae Stevens, owner of the | Jones-Stevens dress shop, flew south o 5 * < teday by Pan American plane, plan- AND. PASS THE BATSMAN ! ning to visit all of the great women's the first time since she had When the Parachute School base- othing manufacturing centers. In- spotted the rich prize, she was ball team in the Fort Benning, Ga., ¢ qaq in her itinerary are St. Louis, forced to submerge. Infantry School League needed an- New York City, San Francisco ‘ndi The Navy did not disclose the other pitcher, the players finally gegtt1a where she will select fall date or the location of the attack. tried that old Army advice—they giyjes for the local shop. She expects e took their troubles to their chap- ;e back in Junenu about August i} - WINGARD IN JUNEAU lain® the Rev. Richard Moran, who 2 Lester L. Wingard, of Petersburg, promptly replied: “I'll pitch.” | has arrived in Juneau and is a he did and in his first start Mor:m STUARI GOB o“ | guest at the Bamnof Hotel. tossed & two-hit shutout. | ju"EAu pAvRoll zmnuz wanr-ags bnng resutts! | ONE-MINUTE SPORTS PAGE Col. E. R. Bradley sold By-me-a-| yyajier Suuart, former head of| pmeee. bond when he was advised not o p,pic ytilities for the city of Ketch-| have a horse in the Kentucky jgan was to take over his new post| Derby because of his ill health . . . i the $400 a month job as Pubhl:' then the Colonel's health xmpruved Utilities Engineer for the City of and he got Burning Dream ready jyuneau today, it was announced byi for the big race ... Burning mayor Ernest Parsons. ’ Dream isn't considered the rastest Mr. Stuart is to begin m\medlabely" horse on the grounds, but he is compmng and correlating data to! easily the best looking, having more assist in the proposed appraisal of | the appearance of a show horse yutility properties in this city, prior than a runner ... When the War | to city purchase action. Department gets around to review- | - — |ing the status of Frankie Sinkwich,| MRS. SPRENGLE IN JUNEAU the Detoit Lions’ fircball, wonder| Mrs. H. H. Sprengle, of Seattle,| 11 the investigation will go back is a guest at the Hotel Juneau. ALASHE; e DS IRLIAES ke was turned down by the R.O.T.C. in his college days? etwing Soulficastern Daily Sclwduled Trips ELINORE LONG, W.F. McKNNON ARE TO WED Sitka Wrangell Pefershurg Ketchikan Also Trips — | The enegagement of Miss Elinore TO E. Long, daughter of Mrs. Hannah HAINES SEAGWAY HOONAH M. Long, to Walter F. McKinnon, AND OTHER SOUTHEASTERN PORTS son of Addie V. 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