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PAGE THREE THREE FEATHERS AN AMERICAN FAVORITE THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE —JUNEAU, ALASKA FIREMEN BLASTED ' it BY MINARD MILL: Winner of Championship POOR ATTENDANCE Juneau Firemen were blasted at| last night's monthly fire meeting Ly Fire Chief Minard Mill for poor attendance at fire drills. Chief Mill | stated that fire drills are of great| importance, and that a better turn- FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1948 'SENIOR SCOUTS OF SOUTHEAST ALASKA FLY TO ANCHORAGE Four Juneau Boys Will Be in Group Going West for Encampment RAINIERS iN RedsDefeat ANOTHER WIN FROM SEALS | By HERB WILHOIT The Seals have suds in their eyes today, Seattle suds. San Francisco's . Pacific ' Coast league-leading Seals also have Se- | attle breathing down their necks,| for ‘the Rainiers are now only two games behind the pace-setters. There was a mess of hitting in last night's encounter but when| the shooting ended there was Se- | attle on top, 6-4. The Rainiers got | 14 blows off three pitche while San Francisco smacked 11 off Her- man Besse, who won his eighth straight game. Left fielder Earl Rapp of Seattle collected two doubles, two singles, a walk, drove in four runs and scored one himself. Seattle’s Hillis Layne got three hits in four trips| to the plate, So did San Fran-| cisco’s catcher Doxie Howell. | A crowd of 13586, largest of the| season at Seattle, watched their| lads take a 2-1 game lead in the| current series. Third place Los Angeles took| another trimming, meantime, from the last place Portland Beavers, | 7 to 5. San Diego took over fourth place“ from Oakland by a couple of per-; centage points by beating the Oaks| [ 4-3. The Padres won 's ninth inning loaded. Sacramento and Hollyweod divid- ed a' doubleheader. The Solons took the seven-inning opener 3-1 and the Stars grabbed the full-length afterpiece, 3-2. on Johnny single with STANDINGS OF THE CLUES | i National League | [ Giants 6-4; Lead Is Cut By BEN PHLEGAR Ths Cincinnati Reds have come up with a lot of bad news for the seven other National League clubs. Ewell B I's back in form. The stringbean righthander, side- for a month with a sore oulder, last night won his first ame since April 23. He held the New Ycrk Giants to two hits and a pair of runs in seven innings. Blackwell, who walked six, re- tired after the seventh and the Reds quelled a ninth inning rally to win, 6-4. The loss cut the Giants' first- ce margin to a half-game over e St. Louis Cardinals, who broke a six-game losing streak. The Ked Birds tripped Brooklyn, 4 to 1. The Pittsburg Pirates pulled to within a game of the top by out- lasting Boston, 5 to 3. Young Richie Ashburn, formerly of Anchorage, Alaska, whose pow- {ul spring hitting boosted him from the class of an Eastern league ‘to the Philadelphia Phils, cennected safely in his 20th con- secutive game as the Phils down- ed Chicago, 4 to 3. Ashburn, the league’s fourth hitter, smashed two singles and a double. In the American League, Detroit spurted for four runs in the 11th j inning to defeat New York, 6 to 2, and Boston turned back St. Louis, 3 to 2. Hal Newhouser help the Yanks to six hits in winning his fourth straight game Hoot Evers and v ertz homered for Detroit. LEADERS IN Southeast Alaska Senior Scouts will fly to An age tomorrow to join 100 other Senior Scouts fromi the Westward and the interior in! an all-Alaska Senior Scout encamp-! ment, according to an announce- ment today by rice Pow Scout Executive t Sea Scouts! from Sitka, accompanied by their first officer Clare Swenson will ar-% rive in Juneau by Alaska Coas charter plane, meeting Juneau at the airport where a C-47 will pick them up and fly them to Annette I land. There, 14 Ketchikan senio; will join the group, the next stopi pate in the training flight to Aucho-‘ rage. Ten of the Ketchikan group, will be memters of the recently| organized Air Scout Squadron, | formed there under the sponsoxship | of the American Legion. i All boys will have the written pe: mission of their parents to partici apte in the training flight to Ancho- rage and a special sightseeing trip over Mount McKinley. ( While at Fort Richardson the‘idvnl O. R. Cleveland brought up day that the long-awaited wheels | group will be quartered with picked‘ leaders for Hu"57v.h Fighter Group,|league, and were given a vote of nor’'s Motor Co. U. 8. Air Fo , who are hosts for, the Senior Encampment. The boys out would be expected at a drill planned this month The firemen voted to kuy a life raft for the Douglas Beach Recrea- tional project now under construc- | tion. Playground equipment for the Leach is now in the process of be- ing made by Frank Heinke, Lester Linehan, Kenyon MacLean and Ellis Reynolds. A float will be prepared for the Fourth of July Parade for the Fire Department under the direction of Assistant Chief WiliTam Neiderhau- | er and Lars Sorensen. | M. P. Mullaney, President of the | Gastineau Channel Baseball League, | {appeared before the department to comment on a letter received from W. ¥. Mulcahy of Anchorage, i Mulcahy is the newly appointed Baseball Commissioner of Alaska for the National Baseball Congress of Alaska, and is in process of work- ing out an affiliation of Alaskan Laseball teams with the National set-up President Mullaney and, Vice Pres- other problems facing the baseball confidence ky the Firemen. Ed Sweeney, retiring member and # BEN HOG/ President Ed Durley, left, the cha beating Mike Turnesa, 7 and 6, in N, RIGHT, OF HERS] President of Norwood Hills Country Club, where the 1948 tournament was held, looks on. (International SOAP BOX WHEELS ARENOW ON HAND Den Skuse, chairman of the lo- cal Soap Box Committee, said to- have arrived and are now at Con- The wheels can obtained at the Cowling sometime next week. be Co, otor will be quartered in quonset huts in trustee of the ire Department, was | o complete sets are now on crews of six, each crew having af fighter pilot serving as their ad- visor. Senior Scouts are coming from | Fort Yukon, Point Barrow, Nome, Fairbanks, Palmer, Seward, Cordova, and Kodiak, Powers reports, with some of the hoys being native, rome full-blocded Eskimo, and, the ma- plain Alaska Amer-; ans. : The Anchorage District Commit-| tee is going all out for this gl'o\lp“\ pIC g sight-seeing tours and 1 programs for their enter- tainment. Although boys will be| guests of the Air Force, they will| ¥ for their own meals while at the Fort. The activity is limited to Se-' noir Scouts, 15, 16 and 17 years of age, and includes Sea Scouts, Ex-| spi plorers and Air Scouts, in addition |appointed Commissioner of Alaska June given a steel fishing pole as a me- mento of his long service with the department. .o ALASKA BALL CIRCUM i3 APPROVED BY FIREMEN M. P. Mullaney, President of the Gastineau Babeball League, received the Juneau Fire Department’s ap- proval last night to go ahead Wwith the recent proposal oi forming an all-Alaska baseball league which would include participation of Ju- neau Clubs. Mulaney said that pla for discussing the league would ke undertaken with William F. Mul- cahy of Anchorage who has been hand Skuse emphasized the point that wheels can be obtained only by thcse boys who have completed | registration blanks at the Race | | Drug Store, and that the closing date for filing entry blanks for the Juneau race is set at June 15. Let's go, Complete those entry blanks and have your cars ready for the big race July 18. FEDERAL WORK AGENCY, PUBLIC ROADS ADMINISTRA- TION, May 28, 1948. SEALED BIDS will be received at the office of the Puolic Roads Administration, 208 Broadway-Oak Building, Portland, Oregen, until 10:00 o'clock A, M. 9, 1948 for furnishing struc iMacomber, Gilmore THREE FEATHERS DISTRIBUTORS, INC. Emoire State Building, New York, U.S. A. GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS EX-242-88 i ® Y. PA, accepts frém P. G. A. mpionship golf trophy he won by the finals. Jerry Tegeler, center, HE Soundphoto) { Will Take Vows on | Saturday, June 5 Miss Jannette Macomber, daugh- | ter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Ma- | ccmber of Burns, Oregon, will be- scme the bride of Sgt. William C. | iilizore, son of Mrs. Cleo Ferndn- | = SEATTLE IS ALMOST A SUBURB «..by Pan American Clipper dez of West Lake, La. Saturday! i evening, June 5, at 8 o'clock In | |the Northern Light Presbyterian | Church. The Rev. Willis Booth | i will read the double ring ceremony. | Miss Macomber will be given in martiage by Mr. Walter Sinn and | Miss Emma Nielson will be maid of | | honor. The bridesmaids will be | | Miss Ada Burns and Mrs. Dorothy | Tyler. Jasper Tyler will act as | O only di’”’er !best man and Stuart Houston, ’Ob Walt Carpo and Terry Lennon will i | 100k fqs from 5 o“E ® onl ; : nly breakfast 1 dinner from FAIRBA"KS « only an afternoon from ... . .'UNEA“ be the ushers. Mrs, Wilda Husted will play the wedding music. After the ceremony there will be a reception at the home of Mr. land Mrs. Walter Sinn at 924 A | Street, All friends of the young couple are cordially invited to at- tend both the wedding and the re- | : :);’ lL) P;;a to junior leaders serving in the va-|Baseball by the Baseball Congress of | U h] and rt]m(nr('i:a steel r.;a.h. car- | o tion | uis 5 p ricus Boy Scout groups. | America. dock, Seattle, Washington. Material | o F | g 5 Ty grlflttst\::;l 2 Zgg BlG I.EAGUES Juneau toys who will attend. the | When polnting to the many ad- | or Which this bid is being requested | Mi%S g’:{“‘:’;ém’;‘al“gm‘:';p’:;’:_e G TING AROUND ALASKA is easy. And quick, too. Flying Boston PRy encampment include ‘Gerald Shaw,|vantages of such a circuit, Mullaney | i for use on the Seward-Anchorage | ;"o 04 the staff two Yekrs 546! | Clippers take you where you want to go—from Nome Philadelphia 20 20 500! DonuldfifiscK‘Mr:;], Sé(“\)h(‘:ly-’oh;::‘especinl]y stressed the point that Hxx;hl\;mvl Nrug:nuainl A;Im‘[, G\iagmg’s"' Glikiers 13 with e Alaska | clear to Seattle—on frequent, regular schedules. ik B ok ool son, and Hayes Miller. Robert Fran coung players in the Alaska leagues 'and Bridges, Chugach National For- | J° - Sy 4 | ) . s s Chicago 1523 ggp|lcaBues are as follows: . il alko’ acoptmpany. the Ju- | be dlscoverad aud advaricR thidates | Ty of Aluska! TN secetyea will | T8 SUEE GHe (HER SERANEC ] ippers. The:(ond sbd service: axe warliamace S N ! American League neau group: |side and professional baseball. For be considered in connection with| o . | low— with a saving-of 10% on round prips. Call us at. .. B Batting—Williams, Boston, .388; — D - {example, such lo teen-agers as | other highway construction contract | sk i Xp o | i T”m:"mm”" L‘:’:F“"L Runs batted in—DiMaggio, New ‘Jerryx Magorty, m?)lud Smithbe s hids being submitted on the same} FROM ANCHORAGE [ BARANOF HOTEL-—Teliphogs 105 Clavn Pafd York, 44; Williams, Boston, 43. w:w Appom‘“ '[HREE Churck McClellan, Ed Krause, Jr., date which involve bids on the furn-| L. M. Puckett of Anchorage is | ® Philadelphia 2 14 Home runs—Keltner, Cleveland, land young Schmitz show better than 1shing of steel by the respective | registered at the Hotel Juneau. 4 y i i iy x g | 13; Williams, Boston, 11 ; NEw OF"(ERS HERE average possibilities and might go contractors. Award of contract for | e Detroit A | Pitching—Fowler, Philadelphia, 3- o long way with a little proper Steel under this bid will therefore| HERE FROM ANCHORAGE | . o it e [0, 1000 ; o SR T be on the basis of the government’s| W. C. Tykward and Paul Sincic, ’m”lp Alflmm' 2 oy e National League , :“?,e new Ax;";ufn. mrn-(i\ Yori il s determination as to any advantage | both from Anchorage, are staying | £ / e 7, c i, 18 2L 4T poying_musil, St Lous, 301; Mmade last nig LI vediantee Vufi_iElKS AND LEGION of government furnished steel.| at the Gastineau Hotel. ke System ol the Tlying Clppers Ohlcage A '.,.IB:HuknPl', Boston, .389. n/..m M. MElct\lfe"u d’ u 'ost, E__i Materials to be furnished are ap- | = Runs batted in—Musial, St. :;‘(’"l‘; of Foreign Wars, to Post BASEBA”. -I»ONIGHT fi:‘oxirg:m-ly n]s ;‘ounws:suégom'mfl i X " fnei i ces. S.. ructural Steel; 550, 1bs. Pacific Coast League b s ey '2:;?,3;;‘?31'4. Art Tveten was appointed as Post + Reinforcing Steel and 31,000 lin. t. | Team: W L Petpo o chburghA 12 ' Adjutant which had. been filled| If the weather so decides, the Elks Steel Piling. Where plans and San Francisco 3 23 629 Pn‘cvh"lgr:Hemtz“ln;ul Philadel- temporarily by Quartermaster Bill|and Legion will see action in a specifications are requested, a de- | Seattle 3 23 603 Bhia qx;;i Wehnlelér Cn‘lcinrnti 3- Sherlock. Bob Druxman' resigned (regularly scheduled game at the posit of $10.00 will be required to Los Angeles 36 29 ~554\b iOéO J s as Post Advocate and was appointed |ball park tonight beginning at 6:30 insure their return within 15 days San Diezo 34 2 5507 SRS A Ofticer of the Day. Harold B. Gron- | o'clock. after ovening of bids. Checks should | Oakland 35 30 538 | roos was appointed Sergeant Majo: H Last night's make up game be- bhe made pavable to the Treasurer of Hcllywoed 2 3 .426" wESTER“ lEAGuE The position of Advocate will be.tween the Elks and Moose was cal- the United States. Plans, specifica- Sacramento 21 371 362| filled later. led at the last minute because of tions and provosals may be obtained Pre e rre Portland 2L 41380 | At last night's rezular Post meet-|overly damp grounds. |at ghe office of the Public Roads Rty Final ing, Department Commander John % e dministration, 208 Broadway-Oak Channel League nignt lmscf;fv‘:,'es‘i:;':fsn‘l’z:ry::nl::f T, McLaughlin and Encampment WRANGELL VISITORS Building, Portland, Oregon, W. H. Team: W. L. Potla) Teague ave .as. follows: | Delegate Gronroos reported on the| Wilford Tykerude from Wrangell Lynch, Division Engineer. 07" mel ow Moqse . 4 1 ,800“ Tacoma 16; Spokane 10. irecent Department VFW Encamp-|is in Juneau and staying at the First publication, June 4, 1948. Legion 3 2 600 wenatchee 13; Bremerton 10. ‘lment at Seward. Gastineau Hotel. Last publication, June 5, 1948. Elks 2 3 4001 vyancouver 10; Salem 1. i T e o o Ay A A M i moments ¢ Douglas; : 1 4 2000 yakima 2; Victoria 1. BETA SIGMA Pl‘" GEORGE WASHINGTON / ey — e | | i ‘ i, o g i MEETS TOMORROW RING DOPE | Poss and Malcolm were only the | | architects, not contractors, as stated | The Beta Sigma Phi Sorority will ® Here is the beer for your taste in building permits yesterday for hold its regular luncheon meeting the remodeling and adding of new at 1 p.m. tomorrow in the Baranof apartments of Nick Rocovich, 425 Hotel. All members are urged to Fights last night resulted as fol- lows: —the smooth and mellow Hamilton), of Detroit, 144%, In Brooklyn (Fort Frankie Abrams, 146, outpeinted Roman Alvarez, New York, in 10 rounds. In Minneapolis, Jackie Graves, 128%, of Austin, Minn., outpointed Harold Dade, 123}, Chicago, in a 10-rounder. ————— SHRINE MEETING TONIGHT ! 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