The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 19, 1945, Page 6

PAGE SIX TIGERS' SLAB DUO NUDGES MATS TWICE | Paul open tournament today open- Bosox Move ‘Up as Sen- ators Drop Second Doubleheader (By The Asscciated Press) Washington's pennant boom col- lapsed like a house the Senators picked off the floor and tried to dust the humiliation of 1 straight doublcheaders Detroit came into town for the opening battles of the year’s first “crooshul” series and dropped the Nats to their knees on a pair of superior pitching jobs by Hal New- and Al Benton. St. Louis had Bluege's men twice ds today as lemselve of cd up off last night houser flattened Ossie Monday night Boston moved past Washington into a percentage tie with the New York Yankees, who were rained out of a doubleheader with St. Louis when Dave Ferriss, beaten only by the Yankees, who did the job twice, rocketed to his sixtcenth pitchir triumph, and his soventh in suc- cession by trimming Chicago yester- day. Cleveland and Philadelphia battled for two hours and 35 minutes but had nothing better than a 2-2 tie to show for their efforts as ra intervened in the top of the thir- teenth inning and washed out a scheduled second tilt. They will try it again tonight Only change in the National stand- ings resulted when the New York Giants won twice and pulled past the Pirates into fourth place. The St. Louis Cardinals blew a chance to pick up a full game on the leading Chicago Cubs when they dropped the second of two to the Phillies. GAMES WEDNESDAY (American League; Boston 6, Chicago 2 Cleveland 2, Philadelphia ed end of 4th, rain.) Detroit 6-5; Washington 4-0. (Only games.) (National League) New York 6-4; Pittsburgh Chicago 5-5; Brooklyn 0-9. St. Louis 7-4; Philadelphia 3-5. Boston at Cincinnati postponed. (Pacific Coast League) Seattle 7, San Francisco 4. Portland 12, Hollywood 4. Los Angeles 5-6; Sacramento 4-5. San Diego 7, Oakland 1. 2. (call- 3-3. STANDING OF CLUBS (American League) Team— Detroit Boston New York Washington Chicago St. Louis Cleveland Philadelphia (National League) Team— Chicago St. Louis ... Brooklyn New York Pittsburgh Boston Cincinnati Philaelphia (Pacific Cuast L Team— Portland Seattle Sacramento San Francisco Oakland Los Angeles San Diego I mll‘.‘wuod League) w. L. 68 41 63 45 54 55 54 56 52 56 50 58 50 50 45 64 Pet.| 624 583 495 | 491 481 463 455 409 | >oo §-B PLAY-OFFS T0 BEGIN WITH i 1 1 ! CLASH TONIGHT ‘ Shaunnessy the 1945 flag winn ball league play way this evenin, play-offs to decide| r in local soft- at 7 o'clock, when cuit | New York; AP SPORT ROUNDUPS —A back-injury Nelson, the out of the St. ST. PAUL, July 19. which forced Byron Tcledo goif wizard the gates of opportunity s of the touring pro- summer cir- cd wider to other membe fessional troupe on the n has monopolized top money | consecutive tourneys this longest strong of triumg t golf—with the other pros taking the lesser amounts for second place and below. His latest was in tl ational Profes- sional Golfers Association tourna- ment which boosted his money win- nings to $31,500. Harold “Jug” in nine y the in top-f victory McSpadden of San- ford, Me., took over the favorite's spqt on the entry list for the St.| Paul Open. Revived this year after a two-year lapse, the St. Paul Open offers a prize list of $7,500 in war | bonds SHELL-SHOT MARK An empty cartridge case may have kept Gunder Haegg or Arne Ander- sson from running a 4-minute mile Tuesday. Andersson stepped on the cartridge case at the beginning of !the race and was unable to dislodge from his spiked shoe. As a re- sult, he unable to give his best in the race And Haegg probably could have done better, but he faile: to do so because he wasn't pressed | Even as it was, Haegg set a new 1d record for the mile—four min- one-and-four-tenths seconds. HE SCORED AN ACE Before leaving on his recent tour to Alaska, Joe Louis, who has be- come the most enthusiastic golfer you ever saw, bought a new driver —Joe toted the club some 21,000 miles without hitting anything ex- cept an occasional light bulb while taking practice swings in a hotel room . .. Finally, when he was about to return to territory where golf courses exist, a soldier ed for of the heavyweight visit . So Joe gave him the driver. Two Tennis veterans—Sidney Wood and Frank Shields—are lead- ing the parade into the fourth round of the Eastern net championships at in the women’s division, Dorothy May Bundy of Santa Mon- ica, California, and Sarah Palfrey| | Cocke have advanced to the third; ! round. &0 | Hollyw |Acorns on Carl STEADY TOSSING HOLDS DUCKS IN FRONT POSITION, Helser Chalks Up No. 14‘ for Beavers vs. Stars- RainiersKeep Pace By Associated Press) Pertland’'s Beavers, pitching staff has been the bank” all season, Pacific Coast half games today after last night on Roy Hels th victory of the year. Helser registered straight triumph in od Stars. his Wi games as Dumlers’ ter, night. CHINESE ADVANCE ON JAPANESE ON INDO-CHINA FRONT (‘HU\GK!NG Julv 19.—In a new cutbr of fighting along the Indo- Chinas r, Japanese and puppet Indo-Chinese troops who launched attacks against three points inside China have been driven back across the border, the Chinese High Com- mand reported today About 1300 Japanese, aided by puppet forces, launched to attacks July 14 from Tra Linh, some 13 mil northeast of Caobang. On July 16 the enemy troops were driv- en out of China, the High Command said. To the ecast, other Chinese forces continued a multi-prom$>d drive on the former U. S. 14th Air Base city of Kweilin. (Meanwhile, to the far northeast Chinese Communist forces have driv- en the Japanese from two towns and are advancing on another, according to a Communist Yenan radio broad- cast heard by the FCC.) fr MRS. MILOTTE IN TOWN Mrs. Alfred Milotte, of North Hcllywood, California, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. Take Anot her _ - W) Look (1f you think Japan can’t last) J APAN has been thought of generally as a short-war nation—lacking the resources for a long one. But take a look at just one Japanese hide-away— Manchuria. The Japs grabbed it from China in 1931. It’s more than twice as big as Germany. About 60 times as big as Massachusetts. It has one of the rich- est soils in the world—producing vast quantities of wheat, corn, soy beans, rice, food. Tt is rich in coal, magnesite, iron, metals. It is forested whose steady ergreen Bowl staff “money in still lead the up to 12 year: league by four and a t cashing in in her prettiest. ' fourteen- awards for this contest fourth held beating the above. Second-place ¢'clock temorrow afterncon on con Seattle kept pace with the Beavers tion the weather permits. by downing the San Francisco Seals. The gap between second and third been fair enough to put the pir s widened to nine and a half pong table outside of which ever Sacramento took a double cne trcuncing at Los Angeles, and San ton has Dicgo's Padres humbled the Oakland 2long with one-hit- ball having an equal amount of ¢ the best-tossed contest of the thusiesm. THE DAILY ALASKA I;MI’JRE JUNEAU ALASKA THURSDAY, JULY 19, n945 |BIKE RACES, ALSO ITEMS OF NEWS DOLL CONTEST AT FROM OFFICE OF BOWL ONFRIDAY ALASKA DELEGAT | “Keep your finger WASHIN(:TON July 6.—(From might have a fair office of Delegate from Alaska)— "mayke! Anyway, we're planning ¢ In order to include a provision call- | {a bicycle race for boys and gir 1z for municipal elections for the |50 lets se= lots of bikes to compet suance of revenue bonds for pub- {there will be threz winners pick works purposes, Delegate Bart-| 80 be sure and come down tomorrc reintrcduced the revenue and show your skill,” says the E rossed and v day tomorrow cnd bill which has stimulated to nuch interest in the Territory. | Under this legislation, approval of issuance of revenue bonds by ficials of municipal corporations; d public utility districts must be ad upon majority vote of the qua]i- tied voters residing in the municip- lity or public utility district con- erned. Delegate Bartlett has been inform- ¢d that a Veterans Administration Contact Unit will soon be opened at Fairbanks. i The authority to establish this unit, consisting of a Contact chresenta-‘ - tive and clerk-stenographer, has been granted to the Regional Man-| r at Seattle. The office will be cpened as soon as space can be found and personnel procured and trained. Further information re- veals that the office will be enlarg- cd with the assignment of addition- al personnel as the needs of the| cervice require. The novelty prize winner for gi of age is a doll cc take your favorite doll dres There will be thr | | A variety of running races will besides the two mention They will be run off at For the past week the weather ! takes advantage. Also badm been especially popu volley-ball and bask | The pool was open one day and jit was found to have many les which are now patched and the p }15 filled again “It will ke open as soon as ‘t(‘mpexalure reaches 50 degre |says Barn Anderson, »upvn B HOSPITM NOTES Charles Rud} has Ann’s for medical care. A. F. Knight was admitted to St Ann’s Hospital for medical atte tion yesterday. Bert Loomis is a medical patic at St. Ann’s Hospital, entering terday. Rod Darnell has returned to ! heme frrm St. Ann’s Hospital, af Delegate Bartlett has introduced! legislation to facilitate the carry-| ing out of the act of the Territor- ial Legislature which provides for| the declaration of the ownership of lands in Alaska. Since the records of original pat- ts of all privately owned land in| Alaske? are in the district land of- fices, agencies of the Federal Gov-| ernment, Bartlett’s measure pro-: for the utilization of those offices and the services of the Reg-| " listers and of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, in accord- | " ance with the desire of the Legi lature. Thi rsonnel is not to be| compensated additionally for this| work. | entered baby girl St. Ann’s Hospital Mrs. Alfred Gordon and baby boy | returned 1 sterday from ! Ann’s He Believing that the reasons for pro- | hibiting families of military person- nel serving in Alaska to live in the! Territory no longer are compelling, Cclegate Bartlett has urged the War| Department to rescind its order. Favorable action has not yet been | taken by the War Department, but the Delegate will continue to work| toward this end. STU(K up NEW YORK Fourth Strect, on the city’s de, became the most stuck mmhur‘r}‘(mfl in town. | A large barrel of mucilage fell joff a truck, bur: mired automo- biles, tripped an ice-wagon ho?e and pe: »d sticky pedestrians. )3 and East up Avenue B Alaska is in line to benefit by IsloCDOOOO xepre‘onung Federal Aid Ifunds for the vonstructlon of publlc {Lea of the House Committee of In- Iglessman Alfred Bulwinkle, Chair- | DOROTHY’S DANCING SCHOOL skills must be put to use amrwm;, he stressed. “These boys have lived all over | the worl ,” he told interviewers soon after his arrival in Seattle yesterday. {“Whether they will be content at heme is a question.” 'Shipyard Workers ', Get Groggy, Weak From Lack of Meat SEATTLE, July 19. — Shipyard | workers here are “stumbling, weak als in"Juneau today by PAA plane, and groggy” on their jobs for lack ~ from Seattle, making his first Visit' ot meat in their diet and the sick |to the Territory. {list and accident rate have in- | Commissioner the ' past three * airports if legislation now before the House becomes I The bill, introduced by Chnirmnni INDIAN OFFICE CHIEF ARRIVES ON VISIT HERE Commissioner Brophy in Juneau Today on First Trip o Territory terstate and Foreign Commerce, em- braces authorization for appropria-| ,tions for the United States, includ- ing territories and possessiops, and the primary object of the measure is to provide Federal cooperative aid for a national system of airports. To carry out this program as n concerns the territories and ions, the bill authorizes annual np propriations amounting in the aggre- (gate to $50,000,000 over a ten-year period. Not more than $10,000000, ynpited States Indian Commission- of this amount is to be expended in ¢ william Brophy was among arriv- Alaska, not more than $15,000,000 in Hawaii, and not more than $10,000, 000 in Puerto Rico. At the request of Delegate Bart- Jen and with the cooperation of Con~ Bropny said in creased heavily Seattle yesterday, prior to his de- months, Charles Berger, sick stews parture for Alaska, that his trip was' ard of Local 104 of the AFL-Boler to see “How we operate from the makers said today. rescurces, health, education and, The sick list was about 300 in management” standpoints. He de- April, but now is over 400, Alaska planning to construct a pub- sflh'es to familiarize hin:ls:l( \f‘lth con- “Besides that,” Berger told news- lic airport will bear 25 percent of ditions among Alaska’s na_tlves, Who men, “the accident rate is up 30 are the responsibility of his office. |per cent, the safety departments Sha com Rt T “I intend to inspect our schools " | | tell me.” rather than being required to make! 'and hospitals there; he said, “and 1l &9 phrcens SESimtNn, San ki _learn at first hand how they fit into| States, Hi‘fmi‘ and Puertfr_Rlcn. tt,he industrial picture of the Terri- | tory.” OWEN, JR. HERE | Mr. Brophy is enthusiastic over! H. M. Owen, Jr, of Seattle, is a'the war record of American Indians; M d ' u S M‘n guest at the Baranof Hotel. ,Many of Americas’ 3500 Indians' a e o * Ju IRy AR B have left their reservations to go into war work and the bravery of MOSCOW, July 19.—The Presi- the Indian youth in the armed ser- diem of the Supreme Soviet any vices “Stirs the admiration of every nounced today the awarding ot Amerfcan,’ he declared. Their con-| various Soviet Orders to 101 mem- tribution to the war effort all over bers of the U. S. Navy and Coast the Nation has proven they are Guard for “outstanding service-in a ‘sincere and patriotic Americans.” enabling deliveries (of supplies) -to Their newly acquired training and Soviet northérn pnrts W man of the subcommittee handling measure, a special provision has been written into the bill which pro- vides that the municipality in - iSoweI Awards Are . . Classes now enrolling in baton twirling, tap, toe-tap eccentric character, toe ballet, acrobatic, boys acrobatic class, body toning classes for working gals, social dancing for beginners. 411 7th St. Phone Red * 5175. adv | Bl Ly sosenfiprereniy VICTORY CAFE New Open In Its New Location at 460 SOUTH FRANKLIN STREET Specializingin CHINESEFOOD. .. and HOME MADE PASTRY CHICKEN and STEAKS FRIED We also serve by appoiniment Full Course ORIENTAL DINNERS For Clean, Wholesome Home-like Meals Drop in at THE VICTORY CAFE NONA ROGERS—Proprietriess FAIRBANKS | MAKNEK o Koviak D ~NEW LOW FARES-- | * to get under 1 | with great areas of trees for lumber. JUNEAU to ANCHORAGE . . § 70.00 JUNEAU to NOME 120.00 JUNEAU 1o BETHEL 120.00 JUNEAU 1o McGRATH 100.00 Corresponding Reductions to All Intermediate Points the Finance Blue the Old Awkwards (Subport Blues). | Tomorrow night is scheduled for a | clash between the Coast Guard and | Freshmen (Subport Reds)—all| games depending on the state of | the weather | Coast Gua Jays encounter What have the Japs been doing in this lush and ample land? They have been hustling — for 14 years. They have industrialized Manchuria beyond belief. They have developed its railways, its vast forests, its great mines. They have built huge power plants and factories and mills. They have made Manchuria a mighty arsenal. lub edged into | itches when the | hment team for- preliminary play- the Awks Tues- | minating itself from And says General Joseph W. Stilwell— i . “The Jap is a shrewd soldier and a tricky enemy. His fighting tricks are countless. He has been learning them for years under the constant, unrelenting sys- tem that makes him such a dangerous opponent. The Jap is a tough, determined soldier. Japs will not sur- render in masses like the Germans. We must even count on fanatical oppo- sition from the civilian population.” From its mills pour foods and shoes and clothing. From its factories roll planes and guns and tanks. ALSO REDUCED EXPRESS RATES BETWEEN ALL POINTS Federal Transvortaticn Tax Not Included Effective July 21 the final r As a1 Old Aw Guardsmer rated in t two-out-of-t It of the forfeiture, the defeated the Mony evening, are place and go into a | ¢-games bout against shec on top r schedule of play. The secend-place finishing Fresh- men go against the Bluejackets in a similar two-of-three series, fol-| Jowing which the two winning clubs will meet in a three-of-five- games round for the 1945 title. All| games are to be played at Fire- men’s Field The forty-game regular season | established that all four surviving teams are able to meet each other on even terms, which should result in a group of very interesting games during the play-off matches How much? How many? No one can say. But enough to keep Japan at war for years. And this is just one Japanese hide-away— just one bustling corner of an empire that is 5,000 miles long and 3,000 miles wide. who Just one of Japan’s arsenals—twice as big as all Ger- . many. Can Japan fight a long war? Well —we leav it to you. ¥ ik STEWARDESS SERVICE AIRLI| BARANOF HOTEL DC.3 EQUIPMENT ALASK PHONE 667 W i This explanation of the war ahead is published in cooperation with the Armed Forces by ALASKA DISTRIBUTORS COMPANY Seattle