The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 2, 1948, Page 3

o SORE ARMS GET THEM TRAINING Several Bigie_aguers Hav- ing Trouble-Rookies Going Back Home (BY HUGH FULLERTON, JR.) It was Ain- NEW YORK, April 2.— about this stage of spring t ing chat the fabulous fictional b er penciled on a postcard: ‘“Dear Mcm; I'll be home scon. They're starting to curve 'em now.” . . .count- less younegsters are writing the 1948 version of the same thing, and among them Are a few older men who probatly hesitate to write at all . .These are the fello: 10 arms, creaking legs and aching mus- cles aren’t responding to training ¢ they should. To pick a few examples, the Y. kees' Bill Bevens, inches of pitching the first Seres nc-Ditter last fa e up the other day with a m so painful he insisted he was ugh. t Bucky Walters keeps by throwing with toothache punisting himself a wing that jumps like every time he cuts loose. And in the Boston camp are pitchers who must be listed “deubtful”—and with them the pennant chances. Bco Ferris I regained his control and form of 1946 and they say is “aiming” his pitches Mickey Har who trouble last fall, hasn't yet ed in reducing his weight Hughson's form is doubtfu Then there's Charley the Yankees st power he bad & injured; Ray Sa break into the Dodgers’ in der the handicap of a bad arm; Te ry Moore, whose shaky knees a parently aren't getting others too numercus to ! - - BASEBALL TRAINING CLEARWATER, Fla., April 2—A er Ben Chapman of the delphia Phillies is predicting a bt future for rookie pitcher Ro- bin Roberts. Keller Phil krig “With efen one year in Triple-A, that kid will be a winner,” Chap- man declared. Roberts, fresh off the Michigan State campus, is attracting consid- erakle attention. PHOENIX, Ariz. — Buddy Kerr, slowly recovering irom a sore arm, is due back in the lineup for the New York Giants today when they meet the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Giants have won five of seven games with the Pirates so far this spring, most of them on home runs. A fou master by Bobby Thompson in the ninth gave them a victory yesterday. NEW ORLEANS — Facing two weeks of Southerh Association oppo- sition, the Coatroit Tigers will do some more experimenting at first Lese and shortstop. Manager Steve O'Neill plans to continue working with George ‘Vico and Paul Camp- Lell, a pair of rookies, and Jchnny McHale at first and with newcomers Johnny Lipon and Neil Berry and veteran Eddie Lake at short. D MULLANEY ELECTED BASEBALL HEAD IN GASTINEAU LEAGUE Junean® Volunteer firemen, night at their mcnshly meeting, threw the first ball in the 1948 Gas- tineau Channel Baseball season when they elected M. P. Mullaney, to the league Presidency, and O. R. Cleveland to the Vice President's post. Mullaney succeeds Judge Wm. A. Holzheimer as President. The Judge has keen the spark plug of the league for several seasons but will ke a fan now. Jce Werner, Joe Sadlier and James Orme w re-elected to the main- tenance and cperation committee by | a unanimous vote, A plan to print not less than 1000 | reserve ‘tickets to be scld at $3 each| was also passed at the meeting. Mullaney concluded the baseball| election by terming it a meIEge‘ to be the league’s President and! added that with the cooperation of | players and managers, the com- ing season sheuld be highly success ‘ ful. Mullaney is a 33rd degree base- ball enthusiast and last season was, the official score keeper for the' 1eague and the Alaska Daily Emrylre.l who came within | World |8 o | thir last; SEALS KEEP TOP PLACE, PC LEAGUE (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) The San Francisco Seals perched atop the heap in the Pacific Coast League tcday, a position some ex- perts figure they’ll still be holding next fall They're the only team to have won all three of their games in the brand new son. Their triple-trimming of Sacramento plopped the Solons into the basement. San Francisco ‘enjoyed a fancy VO hutout pitching job by Tom Fine tc beat Sacramento, 2-0, last night. His hurling opponent, Tony Freitas, began his 21st baseball sea- son by striking out eight Seals bul allow eight hits. Heavy hitting continued in Los Angeles-San Diego series, Padres beating the Angels, 12- 5. In the the 13-hit San Diego at tack Jack Graham and Johnny Bar- | rett each hit two omers producin. | 10 runs. John Ritchey, Padre’s Ne gro rookie catcher, was behind th | plate for the first time and got twi hits ©akland nipped Portland, 5-4, 10 innings, for its first win of the the the week It was a chilly evening at Gilmorc Field but the Hollyw warmec s up with a four-run blast i the sixth inning that enabled them | s attle, 7-5. The Rainier t|h tying runs on kase in the | Ininth but there they stayed. } RHE | Seattle 5.8 3 | Hollywood 90808 | Hall, Reis (6) and Hemsley; | Gebrian, Kennedy (6), Maltz- berger () and Kahn and Ballinger; Klinger (10) and B. Raimondi. s Angeles 510 2 1 Diego 1213 0 <leine, Lafronconi (7), Baker and Mal Flores and Rit- | chey i San Francisco 28 0 | Sacramento 02 0 |sm and Howell; Freitas and Pesut EXHIBITION GAME RESULTS YESTERDAY Following are final scores of ex- hibition games played Thursday: Chicago (N) 5; St. Louis (A) 0. Breoklyn (N) 8; Montreal (IL) 2.| New York (N) 6; Pittsburgh (N) 5./ Boston (N) 4; St. Louis (N) 3.) 10 innings. { New York (A) 10; Philadelphia| [N 1 i Boston (A) 4; Louisville (AA) 3.| | Cleveland (A) Philadelphia (A) 3; Toronto (IL) 2. | 6; Chicago (A) 1.i i | Hockey Games | (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) | The playoff champicn of the Paei | fic Coast Hockey League’s South- ern Division will be crowned to- morrow night at Fresno. | The San Diego Skyhawks pulled | even with Fresno at two games each last night with a 6-1 victory at home, | Tonight at Vancouver the Canucksi meet the Seattle Ironmen in the| fourth game of the Northern Divi- sion series. A Canuck win, added to i their 2-1 margin, would give Van- | couver the title. --— | R0JO, CIO HEAD, | " FACES CONTEMPT COURT CHARGES SEATTLE, April 2.—(®—Trinidad | A. Rojo today resigned as Presi- | dent of strife-plagued Local No.| 7, Cannery Workers' Union (CIO). Rojo and nine other officers of the union are scheduled to appear | in King County Superior Court| this afternoon to face contempt of court charges in connection ! | with failure to show the disposi- | tion of $6,000 union burial fund.| Rojo sharply criticized an at- | torney retained by International | officers, who, he said, “advised |us that it is better for us to go| to jail for ccntempt of coun\ rather than to give the records to\ | the Judge. ‘I am for obeying the subpoena We' have nothing to hide.” ’ Rojo said that when the treas-| ury was nearly bare the executive | | council borrowed from the “bur-| ial fund” for union expenses. | The number of fire alarm boxes in New York City grew from about 2,- J 600 in 1900 to 12,485 today i the Pacific Coast Profes | aere last night, | M NEW SHIFTS IN BOWLING GAMES | TOURNEY late ‘1}\‘ an- e pacemak- 5th Annual Am- <hift of regular teams w other crack tonight ing scores of the erican Bowling sress Tourna- ment Booster teams averages un- der 860, monopoli: t alleys yes- terday and will cont nue rolling un- it tc til the “owl sk None has ccme close to joining the, leader ny division. Current! estaurant of Cleveland paces the fiv an teams with 3002, William Wilkas and Ramano of Amsterdam, N. Y., the doubles stanc with 1328 Nich Miller, Massilon, O., is singl- es leader with 709 and th; events division is stopped by the 1922 turned in by Clarence Collier of Younzs- town, O. head oran- BUWLENG Art Burke and Shirley Ross hit their strides last night and walked >ff with top hcnors in the doubles owling meet on the Elks alleys. Their res were 394 and 392, Other winners were W. McKinnon and M. Funk with 403, rison and D. Dunn with 387 The Elks alleys will be cupied tonight by the “For Men Only" cross alley doubles tournament which will start at 8 u(lr(k PORTLAND [NDIANS LEAD, PRC- (AGERS TTLE, _»\plll 2.—(M—The Port- nd Tndians had a one game lead in nal Bas- ayoff iu'h ame bali League's title p natching a 70-67 openin: ision from the Ses tle The best-of-five series will be 1ewed here Sunday nigl th ining g J heduled next week n the Rose City Little Stan Williamson, ex- cager, sparked the vict with an | 18-point splurac RING DOPE Only cne important fight was ht and that Pat Comi: knocked Worceste - TROLL E!!S DANCE IS TOMORROW EVENING The United Trollers of Alaska will hold their annual dance to- icrrow night in the CIO Hall at 10 o'clock. Jchn Halvorsen’s accordion or- hestra irom Petersburg will furn- the music for the gala time hat has been planned for the trollers and their guests. The dance is invitational. Mother of Walking infanf Is Free on | Violation (harges LEWISTON, Me,, April 2.41?‘-— Lucien Kolreg, whose 14-day- baby Robert walked with tance at five days, was freed oday of a charge that she vio- ated a statute prohibiting exhib- itions injurious to the child. The charge, brought by Police pull- ai out 192, Al Kinsey sh old Chief Thomas E. Johnson, was dropped in municipal court by greement, Under the agreement, Mrs, Kol-' eg will not exhikit the child pub- icly nor solicit by the public visits o her home. She recenfly put an advertisement in a newspaper set- ting visiting hours. Mrs. Kolreg was free, Judge Ad- ien Cote said, to give endorse- ments in connection with the un- asual walking ability of the child. To give longer wear Finest Fabri s Most popular Sl\ndu Youthful Pleated Models -~ Full-cut . , Zipper Closurc NN b e o ——— Casilers Mens Wear (Formerly Sabin’s) and M. Mor- | Oregon | RUSSIANS KEEP FIRM, BERLINACE | 1Connnurd from Pa,ge One) Judean Hills. Loss of life was reported on both sides Palestine’s plight will be con- a United Nations Gen- eral Assembly special session - Ap- ril 16. The Security Council de- cided upon this action last night. | Ital, Electicn Shooting | Violence broke out in Ttaly’s elec- | tion campaign. A Sicilian labor leader was machine-gunned to death in Palermo by assailants who escaped. Two of Finiand's Moscow treaty delegation arrived - back in Hel- |sinki today for talks with Presi dent Juho K. Paasikivi, and spec- ulation arose that the government and parliament were in confliet | sidered by Communist: Rounded Up Communists were rounded up in a police drive in Bombay and Pocna by Indian Police. S. A. Dange, India’s foremost Commun- st, was reported to be in custody with ten others. Latin America’s diplomats meet- |ing in Bogota studied U. S. Secre- tary of Marshall's address yester- day to the ninth International Conference of American States. He indicated Europe’s recovery needs |must take precedence over aid to | Latin American countri Dele- ;L‘:\(N had ccnsidered U. S. econ- lomic aid one oi the Prime objec- tives of the conference. <~ - IACK SEAT DRIVING | iover instructions to the delegation.’ " PAYS OFF; TRIALIS | UL SETFOR APRIL13 PASADENA, April 2.—(P—Back- ;seat driving had its day in court |in Edgar A. Pratt’s case. Pratt, 52, pleaded guill yester- |day to a minor traific violation vL,» rushed a woman saying, “T told ycu to plead not guil he’s my wife,” explained Pratt |to Judge Russel Morton. | The plea was changed to inno | cent trial set for April 13. | - - FIRST FAMILY ON - VISIT 10 VIRGINIA WILLIAMSBURG, Va,, The First Family is here today to |take part in the celebration of American-Canadian Day. The President will share honors with the Governor-General and Prime Minister of Canada and Gov William Tuck of Virginia. The President and the Governor Apr. 2. {have not met since Mr. Truman's civil rights program stirred up bitter protests in the south. e, Empire Went-Aus bring resulls! TOWN HALL RECREATION CENTER Daily Schedules Roller Skating I Saturday and Sunday 2:00 to 4:30 P. M. 8:00 to 1100 P. M. MONDAY CLOSED This is the day we sleep Tuesday-=7:30 P. M. SHOE SKATE CLUB Members Only Wednesday and Friday 3:00 to 5:30 P. M. 7:30 to 11:00 P. M. THURSDAY CLOSED This is the day we eat Admission Prices AFTERNOONS - 25c EVENINGS - - Tsc Evenings—Skate Owners 60c All prices include tax Boxing WORK-OUTS SUNDAY 4:30 to 6:00 P. M. MONDAY through FRIDAY 12:00 to 3:00 P. M. ——and—— 5:30 to 7:30 P. M. SATURDAY 11:00 A. M. to 2:00 P. M. ——and— 5:30 to 7:30 P. M. For Information on Athletic Programs and for Skating Instructions, SEE RED—FRITZ—JACK or Inquire at Desk THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA | @ only bregkfys to dinner fropm FAIRBA“KS e e e o e v 0 ce e TRUMAN SAYS - * WEATHER REPORT ¢ . (U. 8 WEATHER BUREAU . ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:20 a.m. today @ REDJ(TION IS ° In Juneau-— Maximum, 27, e © minimum, 19. . o At Airport— Maximum, 28; e e minimum, 7 0 T T I M E l Y L] WEATHER FORECAST - | . (Juneau and Vielaity) . | e Fair this afterncon with e | - o increasing cloudiness tonight e | (Continued from Page One) |q and Saturday. Not much e [Which would encourage inflation ® Change in temperature with jand bring greater hardship, mot i lowest in Juneau tomorrow s fireliet, to our peosle) © moming near 20 degrees. ® I35 o bad policy to endangey ® Occasional gusty northeast- e the soundness of our national fi- © - €rly winds L nar W a time when our re-® PRECIPITATION . onsibilities are great in an un- ® (POSt 31 hours ending 7:30 am. taday @ ttled ‘worllh® e In Juneau City None; e The President said, too, that he ® since April 1, .02 inches; is confident the men and women ° Since July 1, 8089 inches. o of this country “prefer the main- ® At the Airport— None; o tenance of our national strength to ® 'since April 1, .11 inches; ® a reduction, in taxes under the ® Since J“"’ 51 inches. ® present circumstances. Ze% 2 REA e 90 NN “I consider it my clear duty, therefore, to return H.R. 4790 (ihe FEVE MAN RE“‘ tax bill) without my approval.” While $4,800,000,000 is the fig- ure Congress members have used as an estimate of the tax cut the | bill would make, Mr. Truman said 11t would be $5,000,000,000. This was the third tax-cutting measure the President has vetoed in a year. Last year he returned two such measures to Congress without his signature, and Congress sustained h.m both times. MORE JAP MINES PERILING PACIFIC COAST SHIPPING BCARDS KOW 10 BE ESTABLISHED WASHINGTON April 2. —P— New requirements for local rent adviscry boards announced by Fed- eral Housing Expediter Tighe ‘Woods. Wocds ruled the five-man boards established by the new rent law must have one landlord member, one tenant member and three pub- lic interest members. Wheie the boards are larger, the same 1atio must be followed. Weocs said that in any case Wi loeal boards do not con- ATTLE, April 2—P— Four form to requirements, he will ask m mines, were reported today the Geverncr of the states to ap- ‘to be periling shipping off the point more members. It the Gov- Washington-Oregon-British Colum- crnor does not act within 30 da; Lia coast. One of the drifting war- Wcods said he would make his time explosives was destroyed yes- terday,” the Coast Guard said. The new reports indicated no own from the month of March mines were reported. Six destroyed One was reported drifting 40 miles west of Portland Point on Vancouver Island, and was said to b2 too far out for a clutter to lo- own aqvmnrmmu REGISTRATION N CITY ELECTIONS 10 (LOSE TOMORROW Registration for next week's City cate it The report was relayed Flection has slowed down because to Canadian authorities. of the lack of opposition to the The Cutter Bonham from Coos present municipal office holders Bay blasted one mine 12 miles west who are running for re-election. of the Coquille River in Oregon Lhe only opposition is the candi- yesterday. dacy of A, S. Glover for City - CouuclL The Mayor and School ' Board positions are unchallenged. | City Clerk Jack Popejoy announc- ed today that registration will i clcse at noon tomorrow. 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