The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 7, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ,010 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1948 VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 11 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS - Braves Are Set Down By Indians, 4 to 1 Score ‘GIRL TESTIFIES IN 'HIGHWAY SHOOTING }OF DAD BY WEIGNER PRINCE GEORGE, B. C, Oct. 7.—M-—Louise McComas, 13 testi- fied yesterday that Gustave ‘Weig- ner subjected her to indecent treat- |ment after her lather was shot to !death, but later amended the state- | ment to say he had never molested her’ in any way. Weigner, 24, a Dayton, Ohio, salesman, is on trial for the mur- |der of Johit McComas, 52, also of }lhe Alaska Highway last Aug. 9. | In a statement given police and read to the jury, Weigner said he took $125 and a 22 caliber rifle from McComas as pay for trans- | porting him and his daughter to | Alaska, where the girl was to be 'sent to school. He said he shot McComas accidentally while squir- rel hunting. The body was found |later with an arm missing and 3nnother torn away -apparently by | wolves. | Green-eyed Louise first said that | Weigner emerged from brushlands (along the highway and mistreat- (ed her. “It was then Weigner told me: ‘I have shot your father,’” she testified. | | [lug and subjected her to indecen- icies but not to rape. Later, how- { ever, she swore Weigner never !treated her roughly nor molested 'her in any way. After learning of the shoot- 'ing, she said she produced ten /8100 bills her father had owned land suggested that she and Weig- |ner go to Kimball, Neb., and buy ‘a restaurant. | . Weigner said in his statement (they paid $750 for the cafe and lived as brother and sister in the “back room. A WAR GAMES | Dayton, on a remote section of She said he tied her wrist to a|] “ lin the afternoon at 2:30 o'cl_m‘( and- |MARINE STRIKERS R BARGE T0 - "o FuRpanes LEAVESOUTH ON 0CT. 16 " gt Told fo ""Go Fly a Kite'" as Alaska Railroad Will Supply Alaska {Cargo of Essentials Only to FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. Be Loaded - May Come (M—A group of businessmen today | told leaders of the five striking Later fo SE Alaska West Coast maritime unions to e i“go fly a kite" after learning of SEATTLE, Oct. 7.—(P—The first {the unions’ offer to operate Alaska Alaska Railroad barge is sche- | vessels on uninterrupted “relief duled to sail from Seattle Oct. 16 ship” basis despite the general with “urgently needed essentials” walkout in Pacific ports. for civilians aleng the “rail belt.” In a telegram to Seattle’s Majyor Cargo now is being booked. William F. Devin, the Fairbanks Three of the five 2,000-ton business men said: barges obtained from th® Navy are We emphatically recom- ready for service after overhauls. mend no conciliatory negotiations Larry Moore, assistant to the ! with Communist-dominated unions.. railroad’s general manager, said to pay the going rate for longshore- | Now that Alaska Railroad is haul- enough cargo has been offered ‘to {men in each Southeast Alaska port|ing focdstuffs and clothing to fill two barges.” He said the first | but that if any trouble occurred, the | Alaska we suggest telling (Harry) barge would carry only such es- |CPR boats would not land in Ju-| Bridges and associate . . . to go sentlals as foodstuffs, livestock and jneau. fly a kite. We must have unin- poultry feeds. urgent building sup- j’ On behalf of the Chamber, thewytvrruuled flow of freight to sur- plies to make structures usable | transportation committee submit- | vive." for the winter, school supplies, Ited a request to Capt. Williams that| Copies of the telegram were ad- Winter clothing and anti-freeze. two boats service Juneau during the{ qressed also to the Waterfront He said the first barge would |strike period. Williams stated that! pmployers Association, Bridges and Not carry any supplies for the the Norah was committed through!{ wiljam Gettings, regional repre- railroad it it will be a regular October and added that the Louise sentative of the striking unions. ~commercial cargo, it will carry no |had not been filled on several of | (e offer to man Alaska ships liquor or beer, such sccondary it- iher recent northbound voyages. If| .. the same basis as that employ- €ms as cosmetics, cigarets and |increased traffic warrants, the|oq jaqt week in the sailing of the candies will be shunted aside for |Louise will not be replaced by the ,qjjer ghip Square Sinnet was the second barge. | Norah after November 1. The Louise, | n\age Monday by Gettings after a He said the cargo is being ap- {which has a larger freight and cold| .,y corence with Mayor Devin, | Dortioned so that “no one con- storage area, is scheduled to make! ™ . coreement called for re- Signee will get any large amount.” bk e ilp v the end of this) i activity on any wage increase’ OB shipments to Fairbanks, he ;mom 3 : |and other benefits obtained in the added, it will be taken into con- Mayor Waino Hendrickson sald | ont tieup.) sideration that wholesalers there ‘Cagt. Williams in!orfned him t,ha!.: S e will be shipping out to many iso- during next summer’s tourist sea- lated interior points. san, it has been arranged that the| Moore said there is a possibility tourist ships will dock in Juneau zmww mw (u]l |the A.RR. barge service might e e b iwe ‘extended (o Southeast Alaska . OFF IN SHIPPING; !the need is’ not considered ‘as ur- l'"ER ls IIED up gent there ‘be¢ause the area'h |later if the mneed should develop | some small boat and barge se there. For the present, he said, vice and supplementary air ser- STRIKE 1S TOPIC AT CHAMBER |Shattuck Reports that Ul fimatum Was Given | by (PR Official That any trouble with the long= {shoremen in Juneau would lead 0 a complete stoppage of the Canad- ian Pacific service was reported at the Chamber of Commerce meet- ing this noon by Curtis Shattuck, {Chairman of the Transportation | Committee. Shattuck stated that in | a conference with Capt. O. J. Wil- | liams, Manager of the BCCS, Wil- liams said that the CPR's policy was T— iwill leave Bt 1130 ‘pm. " ” ! rge Servic | Col. J. P. Johnson, Director of | |the Alaska Railroad, stated that the | | first barge operated by the railroad 44 BOX SCORE CLEVELAND (American) AB R H Mitchell, Clark, rf Kennedy, rf Boudreau, ss ! Gordon, 2b | Keltner, 3b Doby, cf | Robinson, 1b | Hegan, p | Lemon, p i 5 3 1 5 4 4 4 3 3 co~nO—t—o wamocoReOK =0 |l acuwocwnwecod sl eroccorrocer e 5 31 36 = | Totals BOSTON (National) AB R |Holmes, rf Dark, ss | Torgeson, Elliott, 3b Rickert, 1f Salkeld, ¢ Masi, ¢ M. McCormick, If Stanky, 2b Spahn, p Barrett, p “F. McCormick Potter, p tSanders 1b $o0aorm kL S b0 R U RO OOy ©ooco~mwomomnmoM CC oo~ WO OO oLty > occcoocoocococccce~o Totals 32 1 8271183 *—Struck out for Barrett in sev- | enth. t—Grounded ninth, Errors: Gordon, Runs batted in: Doby, Boudreau, Kennedy. Two- base hits: Doby, Boudreau, Stanky. Sacrifices: Stanky, Clark. Double plays: Holmes and Torgeson; Boud- ! reau, Gordon and Robinson; Gor- | out for Potter in 2 Dark Eliott. Elliott, Gordon, LEMON HOLDS BOSTON T0 8 HITS IN GAME Manager Boudreau Also Sparkles in Second Con- fest of Worjd Series SHORT SCORE R 1 4 (OMPOSITE S(OI'!‘ Cleveland Boston SCORE BY INNINGS Cleveland Runs Hits Errors Beston Runs Hits Errors _e s Ei L FEE R K R omoWooOw omotowna ceooNowm=a s e weoovooowu omo®ooo® B 114 00 e T e OO Third game of World Series will be played in Cleveland to- morrow. don, Boudreau and Robinson. Left on bases: Cleveland 8, Boston a.l Earned runs: Cleveland 3; Boston 1. Bases on balls: off Spahn 2 (Rob- | inson, Hegan); Lemon 3 (Stanky, | Salkeld 2). Strikeouts: by Spahn l‘ (Clark); Lemon 5 (Rickert, Ellfott, | Dark, P. McCormick, M. McCor- | mick); Barrett 1 (Doby); Potter 1! (Doby). PITCHING SUMMARY' Spahin 6 ! hits, 3 runs in 4 1’3 innings: Bar- rett 1 hit, 0 runs in 2 2/3 innings; | | Potter 1 hit, 1 run in 2 innings. Los- } ing pitcher-—Spahn. | UMPIRES: Summers (AL) plate; | By JACK HAND BRAVES FIELD, BOSTON, Oct. 17.-M-Bob Lemen squared the World Series for Cleveland today by set- ting down the Boston Braves with eight hits for a 4-1 victory in the second game of the best-of-seven Manager ‘Boudreau, who went hitless in Johnny Sain’s opening victory, led the Indians with a sparkling day afield and at bat. He double started a two-run splurge in the fourth and he drove home the INPROGRESS BY RUSSIANS BERLIN, Oct. PRSI D — e o 0o 0o s 0 D> 0 0 | 'will leave Seattle on October 16,| SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. T.—P— [with a second barge to leave 500N | Ajr lines offered the only com-| . vice is more readily available. - . Stewart (NL) 1b; Grieve (AL) 2b;|¢nird %un off Southpaw Warren i Barr (NL) 3b; Pinelli (NY) If; Pap- (gpahn in the fifth. He started one 7.—(A—The Rus-| The Soviet Army is holding ex- after. Johnson said that three,mercial passage from the West| barges, with a capacity of 2,300 tons | coast to Hawaii, the Philippines | each, will be able to service the|gng the Orlent today. The 36-day ‘rail belt throughout the strike maritime strike has tied up the period. - At the present time, the ;. of the Pacific liners. :railrand is not planning to bring' ppe American President Lines'' i PGS barges, to. Souinoaky alaska. | President Cleveland, at sea or in STAUNTON, Va.—The first snow Glacier Bay Park (oreign ports since the strike be-'of the season in Virginia, about two | A. C. Kuehl, Director of the Na- 8an, docked yesterday and prompt- inches, fell on Snowy Mountain !tional Park Service in Alaska, pre- ly was taken off sailing lists until in Highland County yesterday. sented a report on the establish- the dispute between the shipping w ment of a resort at the Glacler industry and five maritime unions FRANKFURT, Germany — Ger- Bay National Monument. Kuehl i$ settled. many's favorite food — polatoes— isald- that an appropriation bil,!| APL has four vessels idle here-- officially went off the ration list | which would have provided for the the Cleveland, Wilson, Meigs and ,in the British-American zones today | construetion of a*basic unit at Glac- Gordon. The Matson liner Lurline for the first time since the Allied Ifer Bay, almost obtained Congres- is at Long Beach, Calif,, and the occupation started. ' sional approval at the last session. ' four big ships in the Alaska trade £5 {The project was approved by the are at Seattle. They are the; CRESCENT BEACH, Fla—Forty- Bureau of the Budget, passed the|Aleutian, Baranof, Denali and four whales swam out of a rough !House, and was defeated in the Alaska. locean and deliberately beached | Senate. There weré no indications of a,themselves foday in an apparent i Kuehl said that his department ‘slrike agreement. lmg&s suicide. Most of the mammals, was preparing a similar bill to be, The CIO longshoremens' union, which ranged in size from seven to [ Introduced at the next session and | largest of the five involved, origin- |14 feet. died quickly as they were it will request appropriations for & all :asked for a 21-cent increase |rolled over the sands by the rough !building to provide overnight ac- [from their base scale of $1.67 an‘s“"" |commodations, steamer " pier, hour. When the strike began on {emall boat harbor. Kuehl thanked |Sept. 3, they cut the demand to 15| MADRID—Chief of State Franco !the Chamber for the support it had ' cents. {has ordered municipal “lections be ;given the project. ot held in Spain on November 21 and | Lt. Comdr. Edward P. Chester re- 128 :m_d December 12. They will be ‘quested that the Chamber support (the first municipal elections in 12 ¥ | years. [} ] | BULLETINS - - TRAIN WRECKED BY _ ROCK SUDE; MOI FAIRBANKS, Alaska—The Ladd il"ield Public Information Office to- iday identified a pilot killed in the !mid-air explosion of an F-80 fet - TRAINMEN KILLED 'the CIO-ILWU offer, made by Wil- liam Geddings, to operate the Al-| |askan ships during the strike period | under previous arrangements and providing for retroactive pay when {a settlement is reached. He suggest: led that the recommendation be sub- iplane as Pirst Lt. John A. Massart, mitted to the Waterfront Employ- 125, of Merrill, Wisc. His wife, Virgil, ers. President Joseph McLean said | i P!d'l'!'SBUR.GH, Oct. 7—A O"elllves at Merrill. ey >, {hundred workmen and four wreck |that the matter would be taken up |y o0 Lo e el FAIRBANKS — The body of a arella (AL) rf. ATTENDANCE: 39,633. TIME OF GAME- 2:14. — eee - — PLAY BY PLAY First Inning | INDIANS—Mitchell ~fouled off | /Spahn’s first pitch, then raised n( foul fly to Elliott in front of the; Braves' dugout. Clark looked at two strikes and a ball and then | went down swinging. Elliott made {a net pickup of Boudreau's slow | dribler past the mound and tossed him out. No runs, no hits, no errors, and | ,and none left on base. BRAVES—Holmes 'watched two strikes ‘'breeze by, then tapped| weakly back to the mound and} Lemon threw him out. Dark ‘hit ! Lemon’s first pitch on the ground !to Gordon who fumbled the ball, jallowing the runner to reach first safely on the error. Torgeson lined a single to right and the Heet-' footed Dark scampered all the way | to third. Elliott ignored two curve) balls which broke low, then slam- (med a high pitch over Boudreau's ‘held for a single scoring Dark {with the first run of the game, and sending Torgeson to second. Manager Lou Boudreau motion- ed for a lefthander to start wann- ing up in the Indians' bullpen. Lemon picked Torgeson off sec- ond base with a lightning throw to Boudreau. It was the same kind of a play which caused yes- | | | i Fatal Shooting af WEATHER REPORT ! (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-Hour Period In Juneau— Maximum, 44; minimum, 32. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 7.— (M-—A warrant for first degree At Airport— Maximum, 45; minimum, 27. FORECAST (Juneas and Vicinity) Mostly cloudy with rain showers tonight and Friday. Lowest temperature tonight near 38. Fresh Southeast- erly winds. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In Juneau — .03 inches; since Oct. 1, 146 inches; since July 1, 31.37.inches. At Airport — .01 inches; since Oct. 1, .70 inches; since July 1, 21.35 inches. (] ANOTHER HIT Retiring i ’ FAIRBANKS, Oct. T7.—®-Dr. Charles Ernest Bunnell, Presi- dent of the University of Alaska il since it was founded 26 years ago, is retiring. His resignation is an- Dewey Plans 38'H°ur‘nounced by Andrew Nerland of . | Fairbanks, President of the Board Campalgn TOUf—wal’fen. loi Regents of America’s northern- most university. Dr. Bunnell will wa“a(e, Bark'QY Move | become President Emeritus effective July 1, 1949 (By The Associated Press) The educator, a graduate of President Truman, handed a new Bucknell University, had a color- setback in the South,-pushed hisiful career which included the vote campaign up the Eastern Sea-!teaching' of Alaska Natives and board today. service as a Federal judge. As Gov. Thomas E. Dewey mean- a judge, he mushed about this while mapped an eight-day offen- | circuit by dog team. sive into the midwest with a 38- g talk tour scheduled to cover nine| 9 NATION Mr. Truman’s Dixie reverse was| an announcement by E. H. crump,| Tennessee Democratic leader, that! his powerful Shelby county organ- ization will support the St.m.es" Rights ticket in the November‘ election. | “Trumau nas sold the South| down the river for Negro votes in! large northern cities”” Crump said in a statement at Memphis last! Ve night taking issue with the Pres- | (By The Assoclated Press) WEnph ol ipte . Profdtn. Nine of the 11 nations on the Truman Makes €Charges U, N. Security Council were re- The President moved' oh toward ported today. solidly in favor of a major speech in Jersey City, N. raising the Russian blockade on J., tonight after. telling a party | Berlin. rally in Philadelphia’s Convention '\ .10 Russia and the Soviet Uk- Hall that the Republicans are try-| oy, ywere on the other side. Rus- ::fo ‘: %‘;‘m‘::)ym:mg:_,‘"m‘:"?;i sia has a crippling veto, however, the benefit of the National Asso-‘::‘;z?ve"fl;’:xfi::“:; e ciation of Manufacturers. , BRE 3 He said the GOP ' candidates papys an authoritative source “have all their promises wrapped g4iq an the six “neutral’ coun- up in a package called ‘UNItY')prieq on the council had studied which they guarantee ?"“""mfflme Western charges that i m,“ than any patent Tedicine. ¥OU: yuenaced peace and security in Ber- Ko ‘lin and- feel that lifting the iDewey's. Program blockade is the first requirement tex’?:wgsk ”sw‘::;‘ “tl: i:e iln“"for easing the West-East crisis. g i 2P stressing the “unity” gpe neutrals are China, Syria, Bel- theme in his next campaign tour, |gium, Colombia, Argentina and which gets underway Sunday night.| canada. ’.l‘he GOP Presidential candidate s~ They heard no Russian counter scheduled to make three broad- ' charges since the Russians chose cast addresses on the trip which ; ¢ out the argument in silence. will take him into Pennsylvania, qyne ynited States, Britain and ‘!‘(entu:ky, Indiana, Illinois, OKla- prance, which brought the charg- oma, Minnesota, Michigan and o are arrayed against the block- back to New York. » ade. 1 Warren In Wisconsin B Gov.. Earl Warren, Dewey's run- sians announced large war maneu- ning mate, headed into Wisconsin vers today in the air corridors after a foreign policy speech in Makes pl’ayef Ilfln through which the U. S. and Brit- Chicago last night. The Calif- I ain have been supplying Western ornian called for more public in- Slasms Hls Ih,oal Berlin since June, British fliers formation on the government's engaged in the air liit said they handling of foreign affairs. He saw Russian planes drop live bombs said the foreign policy program EUREKA, Calif,, Oct. 7.—(M—Ad- in the Soviet occupation zone 12 outlined by Dewey is a “hopeful nan Howardi, 23, left a note of miles northwest of Berlin. and confident approach” to world prayer for his native Saudi Ar- _The United States protested the problems. {abia and his Moslem religion, then | Soviet plan for flying bombers Gov. J. Strom Thurmond, the:killed himself by cutting his throat |OVer Berlin an»d for gunnery drills States' Rights Presidential candi- with saiety razor blades, the in the air lift corridors. — The date, said the nation’s major pol-;county coroner reported today. { Russians said they also would have itizal parties have been “seized” The youth was a student at the air-to-air fire toward towed tar- by advocates to totalitarianism. | Humboldt State College and was gets and parachute jumping. Wallace At Portland {brought to the Uhited States tn- Henry Wallace moved his Pro- der the auspices of the Amefi.‘tellslve war games in the Russian gressive party campaign to Port-ican Arabian Oil Company. College Zone. land, Ore., after a long tour of officials said he had been home-| Despite the maneuvers, there California. Accusing both the | sick. !was no sign of large scale troop Republicans and Democrats once! movements or actual warlike prep- again of “war-mongering,” he told | ¢ arations. a San Francisco rally last night: | h i . “Instead of milk, zutur, ngw.f, The was lng On MOSCOW, Oct. 7.—{P—Moscow’s and decent housing we are asked leading newspapers, Pravda and to be content with a diet of hat- MeHY - Go -Round | Izvestia, devoted three: columns to red.” l |denouncing U. 8. charges against Another western campaigner, the AT | Russia over Ber}in in the Security Democrats’ Senator Alben W. Bark- By DREW PEARSON | Council yesterday. The argu- ley, shifts his Vice Presidential — i ments were called “shameless man- drive today to Montana and Ida- | (Copyright, :948, oy Tne Bell Syndicate, | ipulation of fact and lying declara- ho. el | tions.” ;’ASHINGTON — The inside story has just leaked out how| tough American paratroopers clean- ed out a nest of 15000 Soviet- Mongolian soldiers who had desert-{“igh' SWI Faimnks |ed from. the Russian Army in| 7 1945 and holed up in the Ameri-i, can sector of Berlin during the iearly days of the occupation. h | An account of the incident was (given to visiting Senators and Con- gressmen recently by Gen. Lucius Clay, American Military Governor in Berlin. The Mongol troops had stayed behind in Berlin, hiding in the ruins after the Russian Army with- (drew to its own sector, Clay re- ported. Crazy with lust from their first taste of Western civilization, the {savage Mongols lived off the city {at aight—Kkilling, raping and loot- ing. The only U. S. troops Clay had to keep order were green | MP's, fresh from the states, and they were no match for the Mon- gols. These ruthless warriors |from the Siberian plains beat) up jthe American MP's, stole their re- ®0ce00000000000%00000®r000 e & o 0o 0 0 0 o RO T Sl S ANCHORAGE VISITOR - Here from Anchorage is.Lynn Marquis, a guest at the Baranof Hotel, ‘ «Continued on Page Four) | murder was signed here yesterday as a result of a fatal shooting | fray at the Cotton Club, night spot inear here Sept. 28. | Raymond Wright, proprietor of signed the warrant. He signed a warrant for assault with intent to kill against another man. | . The shooting victim was Pierce Hicks, 30. He died in a hospital yesterday. Witnesses at a coron- jer’s inquest yesterday said Hicks {was wounded when 10 or 12 shots i were fired through windows of the | club. ' { | Robert Kelly was charged with 4 i{by U. S. Commissioner Everett |E. Smith. He was not allowed freedom on bail. Joe R. Cos was {the man charged with assault, His bail was set at $5,000. the club, was the complainant who! the murder in the warrant issued ing. Road Men Introduced Col. John Noyes of the Alaska {Road Commission reported that he had just completed a survey on highways in the interior and let‘ ithey were all in good condition. | He said Fairbanks was feeling| the effects of the strike and that the newspapers reported thot unless feed was obtajned chickens and iother livestock would have to be slaughtered. He suggested that Lhc' |Chamber aid the situation in the; {interior by obtaining price quoia- | |tions on feed from’ Canada and icost of shipping via CPR to Haines and then over the Haiaes Cut-off to | Fairbanks. Col. Noyes said that both Alaskan and Canadian high- way officials were working on |plan to keep the cut-ui( open as ilong as possible this winter | | vision Engineer for the Puhlic Rads | Administration, was introduced to the Chamber. He spoke briefly on (Continued on Page Eight) - al H. Stoddart. newly appointed Di-l jat the next Executive Board meet- |, ¢y supyrpan Bellevue where & }huge rock slide yesterday caused | the wreck of a fast Chicago-bound | Pennsylvania Railroad train. | Two trainmen were killed. They Iwere J. G. Lightburn and Fire- man R. G. Rombke, both of Crest- | line, O. The two were members of the crew of the second” locomotive| pulling the Fort Pitt Express west- | bound to Chicago. The engineer of the first en- gine, E. W. Shenk, 54, of Beaver,! Pa., said “We had no chance to! avoid crashing that rock. We had | |Jjust rounded a curve and there |was that huge boulder on the | terday’s bitter dispute between [younn pilot has been recovered from ‘ed last June near here. The victim was 25-year-old Robert R. Whisler. The pilot was :killed when his plane crashed vhile he was search- the wreckage of a plane that crash- | | Boudreau and Umpire Bill Stew- art when Feller attempted to ! pick Phil Masi off second base in the eighth inning. Bill Grieve of the American League called | track.” R ' STEAMER MOVEMENTS All American steamers tled up ~by coastwide strike. tober 9. | | | Princess Louise is scheduled to]staying at the Bar: /sail from Vancouver Saturday, Oc- arrived yesterday | the play today. Rickert struck out swinging at a fast ball. One run, two hits, one error, one left on base. Second Inning INDIANS—Dark tossed out Gor- Rickert trotted in and camp- ing for'three Federal priconrers who had escaped. .o STOCK QUOTATIO NEW YORK, Oct. 7. (#—Clos- | ing quotation of Alaska Juneau, don. mine stock today is 3%, American ' ed under Keltner's high fly. Can 81%, Anaconda 36%, Curtiss-'the count three and Yone. Doby Wright 10%, International Harvest- blazed a hit into center and with er 27';, Kennecott 587, New York & great burst of speed stretched Central 16, Northern Pacific 2115, ' it into a double. It was the first U. S. Steel 80%, Pound $4.03%. |extra base hit of the series. Rob- Sales today were 800,000 shares. Inson walked on five Dpitches. Merriil Lynch and Co. averages Mike McCormick raced into left today are as follows: industrials | cented to haul down Hegan’s long With ¢ !double play, was, in the middle of another, made a fine catch of a pop fly in short center and picked a man off second. Lemon, accomplishing what his famous piteching mate, Bobby Feller, failed to do, came through with a series win in his first start because the Indians were .able to handle Spahn., Lemon, a 20-game winner in the regular season, struck out five mefi and walked three. g ‘The converted infielder whe fail- ed the Indians twice iy the final weeks of the season, missed iying the seriés record for chances by a pitcher. He handled 9 chances—8 putouts and 6 assists—two less than Nick ,Altrock did for the Chicago White Sox back in 1906. First Inning Run Time after time the hustling Braves nudged Lemon into a corner but he always escaped with a whole skin after allewing a first-inning run, Even then it wasn't entireiy hjs fault. Joe Gordon messed u a roller by Alvin Dark for an error. ‘Then Earl Torgeson and Bob El- liot} followed with successive singles to drive home the run. The Indlans got after Spahn. the No. 2 man of Bily Southworth's staff, in a two-run fourth, that turned out to be enough to hand the Braves their first World Series |defeat. Only once before had they been in a classic, back in 1914 when they won four straight. i Boudreatt Hits Two-Bagger Boudrean opened the fourth with S two-bagger to the right field jcorner. He hustled home on Joe {GBrdon's siigle to center. Gordon, who had taken second on the futile throw trying to catch |Boudreau at the plate, scored when Larry Doby, the fleet Negro center- fielder of the Cleveland club, grounded a single to right field. In the fifth, Dale Mitchell banged out a leadoff single to left. After Allle Clark sacrificed him to second, Boudreau, the boss, singled through Spahn'’s legs scoring Mitchell. ‘That was the blow that ruined Spahn, who was replaced by Red Barrett, the portly relief artist. Red escaped without scoring but the Indians added another in the ninth off Nelson Potter. The third Braves' error of the 182,50, rails 6039, utilities 34.94. |flV. e | No runs. one hit, no errors, two FROM TENAKEE kl.(-ln on base H. J. Floresca of Tenakee 15' BRAVES ~ Salkeld slashed a anof Hotel, He'gingle over first baseman Robin- aboard Alaska | 4 Coastal Alrlines, (Continued on Page Thi‘;}ei 'day, a boot by Shortstop Alvin Dark, !put Hegan on first base to start the ninth. Jim moved to third on two Infield outs and scored -when Bob Kennedy dropped a Texas leagueér single into short center.