The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 3, 1948, Page 3

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1948 _THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA RAINIERS ARE EASY WINNERS OVER ANGELS By BILL BECKER San Francisco Seals don't always hit a lot, but they come thmugh! when it counts. The Coast League leaders, held| to two hits in seven innings by | Vince Dibiasi, exploded for five runs on four hits and three walks| in the eighth to down Portland last night, 5-3. It gave the Seals a two-one adge in their important series. Jack Brewer, scoreless frames with Dibiasi, the winner, although lifted for pinch hitter in the big uprising. Oakland kept pace, a game and a half behind the Seals, by de- feating San Diego, 9-1; on Lou Tost's six hitter. It was Oakland's second win in| three starts against the Padres. | Seattle made it three straight over Los Angeles, rapping 19 hits| for an easy 10-3 victory. Herb Karpel scattered 10 Angel blows. Rival catchers, Mickey Grasso of | Seattle and Iddie Malone of Los | who dueled seven was a | from the start of the campaign, and | |sons in history, the Cubs have as- |nant-minded crew, | series, three games to one. | Braves two percentage points. Rams Bealen | By Redskins LOS ANGELES, Sept. 3—4M—The Washington Redskins and the Los Angeles Rams headed in opposite directions today, the Redskins trav-' eling east after trimming the loca 21 to 10, in their annual charity |gsame last night before 77,492 pa- trons, | Coach Bob Snyder and the Rams fly to Hawaii to play a pair of ex- 2 m | hibition games and presumably to |add a few more polishing licks to both their offense and defense. | Sammy Baugh and the 'skins go by They aren’t any place themselves, train to Denver to play the chncum but the Chicago Cubs are having|C: aldmnh St‘pt 6. plenty to say in deciding the Na- - . i e et ino | DODGERS DUMPED FROM FIRST PLACE By JOE REICHLER destined for one of their worst sea- | sumed the role of “spoilers” with a vengeance. They are raising havoc with the league leaders, First they throw a monkey wrench into the pennant plans of the New Jork, Glanis then e St reus Sid Gordon Drives in Four and now the Brooklyn Dodgers. Runs wnh Pa"r of Homers, Single The Bruins snarled back yester- day, edging out Burt Shotton’s pen- BROOKLYN, gept. 3—®P—The New York Giants dumped the Brook- 7-6, to win the |lyn Dodgers out of first place today ‘The defeat place margin cut Brooklyn's first over the runner-up when they defeated their inter- The Pirates lost an opportunity | berough rivals, 7-5, in the first to pick up ground when they werui ame of a double-header. Brookiyn- Leaten by the Giants, 5-4, in Pitts- | born Sid Gordon drove in four Giant Lurgh. ,runs with a pair of home runs and Angeles, smacked homers. Butch Moran had four for five of the winners. Sacramento and Hollywoed were not scheduled. STANDINGS OF CLUBS National League Team: W L Pet. Brooklyn 69 54 561 Boston 1 56 559 St. Louis 69 57 548 Pittsburgh ... 65 56 637 New York 62 60 508 Philadelphia 55 69 444 Cincinnati 53 172 424 Chicago 55 13 421 Anaerican League Team: w L Pet. | Boston 7 48 616 | New York % 49 608 Cleveland - . % 50 .603 Philadelphia 3 5 570 Detroit 59 62 488 Washington 49 389 | St. Louis 47 B 385 Chicago g 42 83 336 Pacific Coast League Team: W L Pet, San Francisco 93 66 585 Oakland . 92 68 575 Los Angeles 8 13 538 Portland 80 77 510 Seattle ... 80 81 497 | San Diego 74 87 460 Hollywood 92 425 | Sacramento 94 413 "Women Only” Bars Youth from Championship DES MOINES, Sept. 3—®—Bob Davis, freckle-faced and 14, came within two words of being the Iowa State Fair jelly champion. The| words: “women only.” Bob . brought to the fair eight tempting entries he had prepared in his mother’s kitchen but the rule barred him. | “He probably would have won two firsts,” said Mrs. James Dwyer, Superintendent of Division. As well as being a skilled jelly- maker, Bob holds junior rifle marksmanship honors and is pres- ident of his school science club. B LEADERS IN B. B. Here are the leaders in baseball through games of yesterday: American 'League Batting — Boudreau, Cleveland .369; Williams, Boston .368. Runs batted in—DiMaggio, New York and Stephens, Boston 118. Home, runs—DiMaggio, New York 29; Stephens, Boston 27. Pitching—Kramer, Boston - 15-4 .789; Raschi, New, York 17-6 .739. Natiopal League Batting—Musial, St. Louis .376; Slaughter, St. Louis .335. Runs batted in—Musial, St. Louis 102; Mize, New York 102. Home Runs—Kiner, Pittsburgh 36; Musial, St. Louis 34. Pitching—Sewell, Pittsburgh 9-3 50; Chesnes, Pittsburgh 11-4 .733. (OL. J. D. ALEXANDER T0 DIRECT NATIONAL GUARD PROGRAM HERE Col. Joseph L. Alexander, who has been appointed Acting Adju- tant General for Alaska, arrived yesterday from Anchorage following a conference with military officials at Fort Richardson. Col. Alexander will direct the Naticnal Guard program in the Ter- ritory and will have his headguart- ers in the Governor'’s office here. He will aecompany Governor Ernest Gruening to the. Sitka ceremonies | running Boston | Athletics. The runner-up New ank“ ‘Y.mkce.. 1Wa=l iington Senators twice in the | Washington Senators in the first Lalf the Culinary | The bitter American League strug- |2 single gle resumes today with the front- Red Sox guests of the fourth place Philadelphia New York, Sept. 3—(M—Joe Di- Maggio drove in four runs with his 30th and 31st homers today as the take New York Yankees defeated the on the sixth place | | Yankee Stadium. The third pldce}m a double-header, 6-2. The victory Cleveland Indians have a chance | moved the Yanks to within a half to move nearer to the Red Sox if [game of the ‘league-leading Boston they can sweep their schedulediRgd Sox. double-header from the seventh | _ | place Browns in St. Louis, The Tribe | is a game and a half behind Bos- | |ton. The A's trail by five and al 'MURDER SUSPECT — === | WILL BE FLOWN RED CROSS FUND T0 ST. JOHN, B. C. DRIVERESULTSIN | . onis 5o s 5 TOIAL OF $8.~262 Under police escort, Gustave Wieg- ner, 24, of Kimball, Neb., has ar- | H rived here by plane to face a mur- der charge in the Alaska Highway | Final results or the Juneau Red |slaying of John McComas, 52, of Cross Fund drive held here during | Dayton, O. |the month of March show total\ Wiegner claimed that he acci- kflulds collected to date as $8,262.43, | dentally killed the older man dur- | Bob " Boochever, local Red Cross|ing a squirrel hunt in the wilds | Chapter chairman announced 10- | of British Columbia, 106 miles north | day. | of Dawson Creek. “This total, which includes a| Also in the plane party | pro-rata share forthcoming from Lcuise McComas, the military, is a gratifying re- daughter of the slain man, and sult, confirming the generosity of | Kenneth C. Fritzler, Kimball | Juneau citizens,” Chairman Booch-~ | county attorney ever said. Aiter the shooting, Wiegner and McComas’ pretty 13-year-old ‘daugh ter, Louise, fled to the United | States “becausz we go scared.” Po- lice said they took $1300 which MeComas had The accused will be flown to Fort St. John, B. C., for preliminary hearing. were Juneau’s quota was set at $8,489 by National Headquarters of the| American Red Cross. Out of the Juneau contribution, 38.9 percent is forwarded to Na- tional headquarters while the bal- | ance. remains for use of the local chapter in home service, assistance to servicemen and ex-servicemen, first aid instruction, general ad- ministrative expenses, nursing ser- vices and production work. More than 300 persons received some form of assistance from the local Red Cross during the past year, according to the chapter re- port. Under chairmanship of Henry O. Leege, six Juneau residents re- ceived first aid certificates from instruction classes conducted by the local chapter. Thirteen residents e WESTERN LEAGUE Final scores of games played in the Western International League last night are as follows: Victoria, 4; Bremerton 0. Spokane 5; Wenatchee 0. Salem 6; Yakima 2. Vancouver at Tacoma postponed, rain. BY N. Y. GIANTS the 13-year-old | in his automobile. | REPORT IS MADE | ON_COMMUNITY SERVICE BY CHR. MARGUERITE NICHOLS Second Vice-President of The American Legion Auxiliary and Committee for Com- Chairman, | munity Service. The American Legion, their National Convention in Philadelphia | in 1826, selected Community Ser- | vice one of their important ac=- tivities of the Legion program, Na- tional and Department Committees were formed, the the work deveioped rapidly and soon most of the Le- glon Posts and Auxiliary Units were actively engaged in this work. ! Unit Committees are furnished in- their work from at formation about the National and Department Com- | mittees, If your Post is engaged | in Community Service work, give your wholehearted support to their program. If they aren't actively en- gaged in a program, carefully select | a community project, secure the aid of the Legion, your Unit Com- |mittees, and other civic organiza- tions. In this way a great deal can Le accomplished for the betterment of your community. If one Commu-f nity Service project is undertaken | and accomplished in a year, a Unit may feel that they have fulfilled | their obligation, The Community Service chairman of each Unit should send a com- | plete report to the Department Chairman, who in turn reports to| |the National Chairman. May each Unit endeavor to under- take and complete a Community Service Program for the year 1948 and 1946. FAIRBANKS REPUBLICAN at 10 ¢ TEEN-AGE PARTY AT MOOSE (LUB TONIGHT “All you teen-agers, remember that tenight is the night of the party at the Moose Club. Be there promptly ‘clock.” This is the reminder from Gus Adams and Rod Pegues, Vice-Presi- dents of the local Teen-Age Club. The Moose Club is generously do- nating its wmu'n to the gul\ and precision craftsmanéhip.. boys. But in order to ralse snmo! { much-needed funds for their own | club, the teen-agers have decided to charge an admission of 50 cents for the party. All young people of teen-age will be welcome whether or not they are memkters the | Teen-Age Club, In harge of tonight's affalr, addition to Adams and Pegues, are Catalino Barril, Donna Carver, Bob- by Dapcevich, Bobby Hildre, Magorty, Sue McMullen, Old Bill Sperling and Rosemary Theile The unique point is hooded from air, dirt, damage. It starts instantly—writes smoothly. And the pre- cision-fit cap slips on—Ilocks without twisting. THE PARKER PEN COMPANY, Prices: Parker *51” Pens $12.50 and 15.00 Janesville, Wis., U. S. A. - IS VISITING IN JUNEAU | + Maurice T. Johnson, Fairbanks | attorney and former Republican member of the House of Repressn-l | tative from the Fourth Division, in Juneau on business, objects to the highhanded method in which the Republican Central Committee had selected Donald McDonald II to run as Highway Commissioner against Democrat Frank Metcalf, [aiter McDeonald had been defeated in the Democratic primaries by | | Metealf. | “In correspondence and over the radio, Al White has charged me with not being a Republican. At {lease I've never sponsored a de- feated Democrat for a Republican Jjob,” Johnson said. | “However, now we have him on | | our ticket, I'll vote for McDonald. | In spite of White, I am a Repub- lican and will vote a Republican ticket.” R e VISITING FROM TODD M. F. Stockwell from Todd staying at the Baranof Hotel. received instructor’s certificates. Giving a preview of planned Red Cross activities, Boochever said that a disaster committee un- der the direction of Les Avrit and Lt. Commander Ed Chester has recently been appointed to plan measures to coordinate community services in event of disaster. Arrangements are being made for classes in Red Cross home nursing, under Committee Chairman Mrs. Norman Haley who will work in connection with Public Health Nur- ses Mrs. May Krueger and Miss Anne Lello. Junior Red Cross ac- tivities, planned in cooperation with | local schools, will be guided by Mrs. Connie Chalmers. e - Burckhard! Left Estate of $500,000 SEATTLE, Sept. 2—)- Probate filings yesterday valued the estate of Charles A. Burckhardt, late Se- attle shipyard operator, at $500,000. His will left the estate to his wid- ow, Mrs. Phobe A. Burckhardt. Burckhardt was President of the Lake Washington Shipyards. 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