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— i PAGE EIGHT LOSSESHUNG ON BOTH BIG LOOP RACERS Pieretti Tames Tigers-Fer- riss Claims Another- Rainiers Slip Marino Pieretti pitched Wash- invton to an eight-three triumph) over the Detroit Tigers yesterday, and the National League-leading | Brooklyn Dodgers also lost ground when they 'split a doubleheader with the Chicago Cubs. Dave Ferriss, Boston Red rookie sensation, pftched and bat- Sox’s ted his way to his eleventh tri- umph of the campaign. His nine- hit hurling and three base hits, including a two-run homer in the ninth, gave the BoSox a 4-2 tri- umph over the Chicago White Sox. Returning to the mound after a two-week absence due to a spike| injury, Bucky Walters pitched Cin- cinnafi to a 4-1 triumph over Bos- ton’s Braves, being robbed of a shutout by Chuck Workman's tenth homer The Portland Beavers and the, San Francisco Seals are racing, down the Pacific Coast League| track. The Beavers have boosted their lead to five and one-half games and the Seals are within two games of the second-place Seattle Rainiers. Portland added a full game to its margin over Seattle by downing Sacramento for the third consecutive time last night. YESTERDAY'S RESUL (National League) Brooklyn 5-1; Chicago 4-3. St. Louis 9, Philadelphia 1. New York 3, Pittsburgh 2. Cincinnati 4, Boston 1. (American League) Washington 8, Detroit 3. Cleveland 4, Philadelphia Boston 4, Chicago 2. (Only games scheduled.) (Pacific Coast League) Portland 4, Sacramento 1 San Francisco 4, Los Angeles 3. Hollywood 7, Oakland 2. San Diego 6, Seattle 5. 2 TEAM STANDINGS (National League) Team— W. L. Pet. Brooklyn 39 24 619 St, Louis - .36 26 .581 New York . 36 39 554 Chicago 31 27 534 Pittsburgh 33 29 532 Boston 29 31 483 | Cincinnati .27 31 .466; Philadelphia 17 51 .250] (American League) | Team— W. L. Pet. Detroit .36 24 600 New York .3 24 593 Boston 32 2 .542‘ Chicago 31 30 .508| Washington .29 29 .500 St. Louis 26 31 456 Cleveland . .26 31 456 Philadelphia . 20 39 339 i (Pacific Coast League) Team— w. L. A Portland ... . 54 3¢ 6144 Seattle .48 39 552) San Francisco ... 47 42 528 Oakland .45 44 506 Sacramento 43 46 483 San Diego .. 43 48 473| Los Angeles . 41 47 5RR| Hollywood 34 56 SPORT SHORTS ARCADIA, Calif.—In today's eighth running of the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, Thumbs Up, with- Jockey Johnny Lengden on| his back, rules as favorite. Thir- teen of the turf's top performers were expected to face the starting gates for the gruelling mile and a| quarter race. The winning horse will return an estimated $83,100 to| its .owner. NEW YORK—Welterweight champion Freddie “Red” Cochrane was knocked out by Rocky Graz- jano in the tenth and last round of their non-title bout at Madison | Square Garden last night, but he made good his pre-fight statement! that he was “no bum.” A crowd of 14972 saw Graziano, 1to2 favorite, flatten Cochrane in 16 'born ptisoners participated | riot, 'cnmp hospital. | seconds of the 10th with a hard | right flush on the chin. | $10,000 Chicago CHICAGO—The Victory National Open Golf Tour- nament moved into its second round today, with defending cham- pion Harold “Jug” McSpaden and Ky Laffoon of Chicago having staged a par-wrecking job on Calu- met Country Clubs 6657-yard course yesterday, to deadlock for the 18-hole lead with four-under- standard 68's. Byron Nelson was only a stroke behind. PHILADELPHIA Freddie Fitz- simmons hung up his spikes as manager of the Philadelphia Phil- lies baseball club—and today pit- cher Ben Chapman takes up the managerial reins where old Fitz dropped them—in the National Lea- gue cellar. General Manager Herb Pennock announced last night that Chapman would succeed Fitzsim- mons who resigned voluntarily yes- terday. ———.——— RUSSIAN-BORN PRISONERS IN RIOT PROTEST Trio Suicid;ésfiAfler Out- burst Against Repatria- tion fo Soviet Union FORT DIX, N. J., June 30.—Three Russiar tured fighting with the German army committed suicide and seven others were wounded by gun- fire yesterday as American soldiers with submachinz guns, carbines, and tear gas, broke up a riot staged in a prisoner of war compound. Maj. George R. Paul, Camp Public clations officer, said 154 Russian- in the in protest against repatria- tien in accordance with the Yalta agreement for reciprocal exchange! of Soviet and U. 8. citizens. Driven from their barracks by tear gas, the rioters charged an American soldier guard unit with mess kit knives and clubs improvised from furniture, injuring three Americans. A prisoner was hurt as he tried to scale a wall of the compound. BULLETINS WASHINGTON-Sometime before midnight President Truman will re- ceive for signature the bill giving the OPA another year to operate. The bill is being flown to the Presi- |dent in Kansas City following pas- sage this afternoon by the House of Representatives. The lawmakers jvoted 255 to 94 to let the OPA con- tinue. Otherwise price control and 'OPA's administrative authority over rationing would have come to a dead stop tonight. WASHINGTON — Four of the | President’s Cabinet appointees are | being sworn into office today. The | {oath has been taken already by the | new Secretary of Labor, Lewis| Schwellenbach of Washington State, | and by Postmaster General Roborl;» Hannegan. Tom Clark will take over | as Attorney General and Clinton P. Anderson will be sworn in as Agri- culture Secretary later this after- noon. WASHINGTON—The Senate has | voted to give a compromise appro- | priation of $250,000 to the Fair Em- }p]o_\'mcnt Practices Committee for | the coming year. The original bud- | get request for the committee was | more than $446,000 BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut —An { unidentified man was Kkilled and | eight other workers were injured in jan explosion today in the magnes- | | ium room of an American Aluminum Company plant. Four of the in- Jjured are said to be in a critical | condition. LONDON Another European Quisling has escaped justice at the hands of his countrymen. The man who was number one on the list of Czech traitors, Doctor Emil Hacha, is dead. *The iormer President of the little republic died today in its | capital city, Prague, at the age of 73. | PARIS — Supreme Headquarters | has announced that the final draft of the occupation zones in Germany has been completed. The transfer of | Russian and Anglo-American troops | will begin tomorrow and by Wednes- | day each army will be in its right | place. The seven prisoners wounded when ' the guards opened fire are in the The suicides, found hanging from rafters after their half-hour long riot had been quell- led, were identified by Major Paul as 2nd Lt. Scoktist Kalinin, 2nd Lt. Ignaz Masarenko, and Pvt. Philip Stotow. - >oes George Bernard Shaw Endorses Communist LONDON, June 30.—George Ber- nard Shaw endorsed R. Palmer Dutt, Vice Chairman of the Communist party, for election to Parliament, in a letter today telling Dutt “You call yourself a Communist and so do 1.”| “So would all the others,” added the Irish born dean of English drama, “if they understood that our practical British Communism has ved us in the war in the west, just Russian Communism, which the |Russians learned from England, has joint saved us in the east.” e, ALLEVIATION SAN FRANCISCO — The West Coast’s wartime housing shortage | 382 has been accorded legal recognition. | Highway, Canol Project, many air| The California Supreme Court has | ruled that it was OK—because of a hotel shortage——to permit members of a jury to separate and return to i their homes for the night after a case had been submitted to them. BRIDGE MEAT DECATUR, Ga. — Bridge club| ladies showed up at the neighbor- | hood butcher shop with cards and scorepads and calmly sat down in' the midst of a crowd of shoppers for their regular session while the butcher awaited his weekly meat supply. RITES TUESDAY Funeral services for August Burns, who died early this week at Ex- cursion Inlet, will be held Tuesday afternoon, July 3, at 2 o'clock from the Chapel of the Charles W. Car- ter Mortuary, with the Rev. Robert Treat officiating. Interment will Cemetery. be in Evergreen KINDE Firep PHONE 704 Juneau Deliveries— 10 A. M. and 2 P. M. MAKES FIREBUILDING EASY For Campers . . . Boals Douglas Delivery—10 A. M. LSTYX laces KANSAS CITY—An authoritative | source declared today that Presidentsy Truman has decided to 'lppoinbj former War Mobilizer James Byrnes | as Secretary of State. Byrnes would succeed Edward R. Stettinius, who | will represent the United States on | the United Nations Security Council. | | WASHINGTON — The Navy an- | nounced today that the United | States submarine Kete is overdue | from patrol and is presumed lost. The Kete carried a wartime com- plement of from 80 to 85 men. | | | | WASHINGTON — President Tru- | man sent to the Senate today the! Postmaster nomination of Everell R. | Sharnbroich, for Wrangell, Alaska. EDMONTON, Alta.—Royal Can-| adian Mounted Police will take over control of the Alaska Highway's traffic regulation from Fort St. John, B. C,, to the Alaskan boundary tomorrow. The “Mounties” also will function in collaboration with the | American-Canadian Traffic | H Control Board which screens all ap- plications for travel on the highway. | EDMONTON, Alta. —Inactivation of the Northwest Service Command | and Northwest Division Engineers, U. S. Army, builders of the Alaska bases and flight strips along the Northwest staging route, R. C. A. F., and allied projects, was an- nournced today. Effective immediate- ly certain functions of the N. W. S. C. will be transferred to the newly- created Northwest District of the| Sixth Service Command heudquart-‘ ers in Chicago. ! — e TRAIL CREW OUT A Forest Service trail crew has| been dispatched by Division Super- visor John Brillhart to Herbert River. The work party will main- tain trails in that area extending from the Glacier Highway. About a month’s work is expected to be required. SERVICE Christenson Bros. Garage 909 Twelfth St. PHONE 659 THE DAILY ‘ALASKA EMP "E* BOND SALES LAG NATIONALLY AS LOAN CLOSES Over 21 Billions in Tofal Sales Set Record-Other Goals Are Reached | WASHINGTON, vune 30. — The | record-breaking Seventh War Loan drive officially ends today with all goals reached except the E-Bond quota. One week remains to count the last-minute rush of bond sales. The huge job must be completed by July 7. Montana was the only State al- ready over the top, with 105 per cent of its E-Bond quota. Nationally, E-Bond sales yester- day had reached $3,126,000,000, or 78 IRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA 7 of the 4-billion-dollar er cent | quota | “Total sales were $21,200,000,000, a new record and still going up. This was made up of $7,060,000,000 sales | to individuals and $15,150,000,000 sales to corporations. The individual | tigure, which includes E-Bonds, passed the $7,000,000,000 quota yes- terday. — e CIVILIAN RAILL TRIPS WILL BE HARD TO OBTAIN WASHINGTON, June 30.—Begin- ning today, civilians can get reser- vations on passenger trains only five days in advance. There has been a 30-day limit during most of the war. Designed as a further step to dis- courage unessential rail travel. the new rule may doom many intended vacations, making a return from )jurns uncertain. Grossword Puzzle ACROSS 35. Buy to sell at 1. Hardly sufli- a higher Slent price: historie 6. Indian fetich 33 Close: poetle 1. 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