The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 11, 1950, Page 3

TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1950 Seattle (Al Gerheauser). 'MONDAY NIGHTERS " NOW IN PLAYOFFS Gus George and Ludwig Nelsoa tied with two points each last night Night League for second and third THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA TWIN Ll_ES ON FUTURE FOR YANKS NOW DISMAL ONE (By the Associated Press) With both Tommy Henrich and Allie Reynolds on the ailing list, the future looked dismal, indeed, for the New York Yankees today. (. The defending American Leag! champions, who weathered 72 in- juries last year, open the season Sacramento (Marv Rotblatt) Los Angeles (Bot Muncriet). San Diego (George Zuverink 1-1) ai San Francisco (Al Lien 1-0). 'WESTERN HURLER " MAY PITCH GAME at ATLANTA, Ga. April 11— | Cliff Chambers is expected to be |on the mound for the Pittsburgh | Pirates when they open their Na- tional League season against St " OPENER, PIRATES. i }un the play-offs of the Monday [ place. One final game will be played | next Monday night at 7 between ‘:Ewkv two teams to determine the | team in second place for the season. | Scores for last night are as fol- lows: | Gus George L. Cahail 94 136 J. Estes 181 105 I. Brust 135 123 D. Oldham 136 141 166— 445 Totals . 546 505 537—1538 Ludwig Nelson | against Boston a week from today | LOUIS @ "'f“ from tonight. and no one knows if Henrich will be | The Bellingham, Wash., southpaw in the starting line-up. | who won 13 and lost seveq for the * Tommy is in Baltimore consultmg‘ Bucs last year has starred in spring with Dr. George Bennett of Johns :mining: Last night he allgwed ovly Hopkins over his bad left knee. Rey- | three hits and one run in a six- nolds, who did a good pitching job | IBRiNg chore agg§n§t Atlanta o_f the for Manager Casey Stengel againsi | Southern Assqcxatlon, The Pirates the Brooklyn Dodgers in the World | won 6-4, snapping a two-game losing Series, stopped off in St. Louis last | StTeak. night for a diathermic treatment in the aching arch of his left foot. | Reynolds should be able to pitch BIG jEFF HEAIH when he stops favoring the arch, Dr. Robert F. Hyland said. But the | Henrich case is more alarming. Tt| Jol“s RA'“IERS goes back to 1940 when he had ani i operation for removal of cartilages. | SEATTLE, April 11—(#—Big Jeft Then last summer, Tommy injured| geqth, the hard-hitting ex-major §he kaes SV league outfielder, joined the Seattle The Yanks were rained out yes-| pajnjers today as the Pacific Coast terday, and will play at Indianapolis League club sought to add stick today. R St | power to its impotant attack. er: 0l | Terms of the contract were not Wi?k:;hé;oil:pae;?l;olsa%:;eic::é; isclosed but the 34-year-old Heath tagged Warren Spahn for two home siza‘ll;l;g e;?:fig $o Ve TE R runs as the Cincinnati Reds trim- w3 med the Boston Braves, 9-7. Ken| Raffensberger, Redleg hurler, also| B B ExHIBII'oNS hit one off Spahn. | s s Robin Roberts tossed the Phila-| delphia Phillies to a 9-1 decision| Final scores of exhibition games over Little Rock, while Gae Scar-| played yesterday are as follows: borough, ,ace of the Wasmnsmn}New York (N) 15, Cleveland (A) 8. pitcher corps, became the first Nat| Cincinnati (N) 9, Boston (N) 7. elbower to go the distance in tossing | Austin (BS) 3, St. Louis (A) 1. a 7-2 victory over Charlotte. | Philadelphia (N) 9, Little Rock (SA) Pee Wee Reese hit a grand slam | 1 (called six innings, rain). home run and catcher Roy Cam-| Boston (A) 7, Nashville (SA) 5. panella connected with one on to| Philadelphia (A) 6, Savannah 1. lead the Brooklyn Dodgers to a 10-1| Brooklyn (N) 10, Macon (SA) 1. triumph over the Macon Peaches. | Washington (A) 7, Charlotte (TS) 2 The New York Giants outlasted —_— Cleveland, 15-8; Austin turned back | ’ the St. Louis Browns, 3-1; the Bos- | ton Red Sox whipped Nashville, 7-6; | por s rle S the Philadelphia A’s downed Sa- vannah, 6-1; the Chicago Cubs| —_— edged the St. Louis Cards, 4-3; the| NEW YORK The Anderson New Orleans Pelicans tripped the| (Ind.) team. withdrew from the Chicago White Sox, 8-7; and the National Basketball Association. Pittsburgh Pirates topped Atlante, | 6-4. JOWA CITY, Ia—The University of Towa Athletic Board released ‘Lm\'rence (Pops) Harrison as head basketball coach. Charles May MeetBeshore | ST. LOUIS—Tommy Henrich, out- fielder of the New York Yankees, left for Baltimore to visit Dr. George Eennett at Johns Hopkins hospitai to have his left knee examined. SCRANTON, Pa.—Al Widmar, St Louis Browns’ pitcher, said that it the Browns do not offer him a con- lkner 172 181 shburger 102 134 G. Vuille 139 111 M. Applegate ... 129 125 Totals 542 551 5171610 Late comers may still sign up for d doubles a s in the Elks Ladies League. Doubles to be rolled ! Monday evening, April 17, at 7 p.m. | singles at 9 p.m. Seventy-five per- | cent ha cap will be used in both | doubles and singles. Sign up imme diately at the Elks Club bowling alleys. | DOUGLAS NEWS CHILD WELFARE CLINIC A Child Welfare Clinic will be held Wednesday, April 12, in the| Community Methodist church build- ing, with the public health nurse in charge. Hours of the clinic are from 2 to 4 o'clock, p.m. HOME TO KALISPELL Mrs. Della Poor left last Friday afternoon on the PAA afternoon flight to Seattle. From Seattle she will take NW Airlines to her home | at Kalispell, Montana. Mrs. Poor had spent the past winter with her son, V. Poor, and family here. WOMENS CLUB MEET The regular meeting of the Do las Island Women’s Club will b held this Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs. Milford Marshall Assisting Mrs. Marshall as co- hostesses for the evening will be Mrs. Jay Hoskins. Joe Tassell, talented young loc: violinist, will play for the group part of the evening’s entertainment, it is announced. JUNIOR PROM The Class 51 will hold their Jun- ior Prom, Saturday evening, April 15, in the High School gymnasium. A rumor has it that something new has been added this year in the form of a King, besides the usual Queen. Everybody is guessing, who is the‘ Queen and who will they pick as King. The Prom is open to the public and good music will provide dancing for all. It is one of the major school events of the year. FAIRBANKS NIGHT DEATH IS BECEO time, coon of M2 pect him to @ Eert and Geo! 'BURIED FLOWER COVERED KANSAS CITY, April 10— — | Monday they came to bury Charle':‘ Binaggio, himself a pallbearer 17 years ago for another Kansas City Northside political boss wiped out by zangland gunfire. Flowers banked the casket of Bi-| naggio, who with his top henchman, | Charles Gargotta, was shot down in| their Democratic ward club rooms here early Thursday. More than 500 floral pieces wers in the little funeral home chapel where the two bedies lay until they were taken to different Catholi churches for their funeral services Scores of the police’s plain cloth- esmen mingled with the crowd gath- ered to bid farewell to the two men, both of whom were pallbearers 17 years ago for John Lazia, whose po- | litical throne on the Northside Bi- naggio inherited. Floral pieces, which banked the caskets, had been sent from many ; CASKETS { places: from Miami, Fla., Reno, Nev., Chicago, Detroit, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, St. Louis and New York. | Both caskets were copper, with a bronze finish and cost $2,500 each, FORMER FAIRBANKS WOMAN TAXI OWNER IS HELD'FOR MURDER BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 11 — (M—A Good, Strong Case” has been built up against a 39-year-old blonde charged with murdering an elderly missionary, an officer re- ports. Detective R. A. McMurdo made the statement after two days of BORROWED TiME i J. Brien, Jr, (r ig} physicians, who ex- Hes! lthy twin-brother mis- | when | uble. left hér here Feb. er car developed motor State toxicologists at Auburn, la., are making microscopic e: amination of evidence taken from Mrs. Bystrom’s automobile in an| effort to produce clues to Mis. Schliefer's savage killing. Her body was bound hand and foot when located. She had been shot to death while ecating, an autopsy showed. Mrs. Schliefer was a missionary for the Seventh Day Adventist Church. She had been visiting at | a religious community near Waco | for several months when she en-f gaged a ride with Mrs, Bystrom | to Miami, police said. Fiala, Who Invented Sleeping!ag, Dead NEW YORK, April 11—(P—Fun- eral services will be held today for Anthony Fiala, 80-year old ex- plorer and inventor. Fiala, who spent his later years in writing, lecturing and equipping expeditions, died Saturday at his| Brooklyn home. In 1912-13, Fiala accompanied Theodore Roosevelt on 'his mp{ through the Brazilian jungles searching for the “river of doubt.” Tl tpedition charted the stream a tributary of the Amazon river. Fiala, who invented the sleeping bag, also made two .expeditions to| the Arctic regions. ONLY CHILD OF | SPAIN'S FRANCO WED IN SPLENDOR MADRID, Spain, April 11—{#— Carmen Franco, only child of Gen- eralissimo - Francisco Franco, be-; | start as soon as the ground thav ‘AuRoRa Drops Rales | more modern box questioning Mrs. Cathrin Bystrom,|¢ame the Marquesa de Villaverde| former Fairbanks, Alaska, cab com- (Monday in a wedding whose royal Duri@ June BUFFALO, N.Y., April 11—®-- Ezzard Charles will defend his NBA heavyweight title against Freddic Beshore in June—if heart specialists say the champion is fit. The twice-postponed bout was re- scheduled last night by the Fair- view Athletic Club. But it will be up to the New Yorg State Athletic Commission to de- cide, on the basis of doctors’ reports, whether the club’s third attempt to stage the fight in Memorial Audi- torium will be successful. If the bout goes on, and it Charles wins, the champion will meet Lee Oma in an outdoor title bout in Civic Stadium in July, matchmaker Charley Pinto said. No definite, date was set for either fight. PCL SWINGS INTO THIRD WEEK TODAY (By the Associated Press) The Pacific Coast League swings into the third week of the season to- night, with games scheduled at Portland, Los Angeles, Seattle and San Francisco. The top games of the week Wwill| probably involve the league leading Hollywood Stars and the Portland Beavers; second place San Diego and the San Francisco Seals. The Beavers moved into a tie with San Francisco for third place last night by trouncing Oakland, 12 to 6. The game was a makeup of a con- test postponed last week because of rain. Portland took the series, tive games to one. Red Adams went all nine innings for the Beayers. Although the Seals nicked him for 12 hits, they never had him in serious trouble. The Beavers will send Lyman Linde against Hollywood's Ben Wad2 tonight.:Other probable starters: tract for “at least $10,000 this year he will sue baseball in the courts “the way Danny Gardella did.” NEW YORK — Sweet Dream (87.90), one of three winners for jockey Eddie Arcaro, captired the Correction Handicap at Jamaica. MELBOURNE — Barney Ewell, Lancaster, Pa., broke his own two- day-old professional 220-yard dash record. He made it in 20.75 seconds beating his 20.8 seconds set Satur- day. MONTE CARLO—Jarslav Drobny, Egypt, won the Monte Carlo Inter- national Tennis Tournament by de» feating Billy Talbert, New York, 6-4, 6-4, 6-1. SALT LAKE CITY—Ike Arm- strong, head football coach at the University of Utah for the past 25 years, is a full professor now. And that means that by action of the Board of Regents, Ike can work for Utah until he is 65 years ot age if) he desires. NEWARK—Sandy Saddler, 1312, New York, last night stopped Rubin Davis, 130, Philadelphia (7). pany and sightseeing tour oper- CLUB OWNERS IN - Mrs. Bystrom and James Lee McGraw, 29, who drove for her in SHOOTING FEUD Alaska, are accused of shooting to death Mrs. Lillian Euphemia FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 11 — Schliefer. Both deny any connec- tion with the slaying. The 70-year-old church worker's| nearly nude body was found float- ing in a shallow lake at Alex- ander City, Ala., Feb. 25. Mrs. Bystrom admitted to police that she drove Mrs. Schliefer Irom‘ Waco, Texas, to Birmingham. She| A—Two night club owners were nixed up in a shooting affary Fri- day night. One was wounded. The other was released on $1,000 bail after being arrested. Marshal Stanley Nichols said Raymond Wright, 36, Negro, owner of the Cotton Club, was arrested splendor has not been matched in| Spain for more than 40 years. The willowy brunette bride, all in| white, wore a faille dress designed | by Balenciaga. Two footmen in 17th century livery carried her five-yard trairr down the aisle of the royal chapel of Pardo Palace. The Mar- ques, an aristocratic Madrid physi- cian, wore the uniform of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher, in which he was knighted recently. She is 23, he is 29. SCHWINN BIKES AT MADSEN’S and subsequently released after|’ posting $1,000 bail after shooting Tom Crabtree, owner of the Ranch night club, with a 45 caliber auto- matic. Wright told the marshal he shot Crabtree in self defense after Crab- tree drove up to Wright’s house an4d got out of his automobile with a e ‘Room 3, Valentine Bldg. Bader Accounting Service k Monthly Accounts, Systems, Secretarial Service Tax Returns Prepared Phone 919 gun in his hand. Marshal Nichols said that cus- tomers had told him that earlier Crabtree had shot a bullet through the floor of the Savoy Bar. Crabtree’s wound was not con- sidered serious. Nichols said the shooting re- sulted from a feud between the twc men of long standing. Come in S ELLIS AIR LINES DAILY TRIPS JUNEAU TO KETCHIKAN via Pelersburg and Wrangell With connections to Craig, Klawock and Hydaburg Convenient afternoon departures, at 2:30 P. M. FOR RESERVATIONS PHONE 612 0 Uliramode™ No More. hon Plumbing Telephone-319 Dakland (Charley Gassaway) at Oil Burners Harri Machine Shop, Inc. Look 70 FoR Ths FWesT-FIRST * Nighis-Hed 730 MADE BY THE WORLD’S FOREMOST 'NOW! You Pay No More' For Revolutionary oirll Alaska Electric Light & Power Co. Cheerful Dispensers of Friendly Dependable 24-hour Electric Service ELECTRIC RANGE MANUFACTURER BIG FAIRBANKS APARTMENT TO GET GOING THIS WEEK FAIRBANKS, April ll——l.‘l‘l—l‘rr-f work was scheduled to be-) s week on the 256-unit, $3.- 500,000 Fairview Manor apartment project in the city’s newly-annexed | area on the southern outskirts. Frank Henderson, general super- intendent of the Nels Mortenson Construction Co., Seattle, and W. & Farr, superintendent of the Fair- view project for the firm, arrived vesterday from Seattle and said a contract for land clearing would t let shortly and excavating would For Westward Hau ANCHORAGE, Alaska, (P—New freight rates, save Alaska shippers $180 ) will go into effect on the Alasi Railroad this Saturday. pril 11 Ay xpected tc The rates apply on carload ship- ments of various items rangin: from canned goods to building sup- plies, drugs and medicine. In its an- nouncement, the railroad said it had secured the cooperation of steam- ship companies operating between the United States and Alaska in bringing about some of the reduc- tion. Also credited with the decrease was the railroad’s progr with its $75,000,000 rehabilitation program, particularly the addition of larger . J. P. Johnson, General Manager said that while the current reduc- :ions apply only to carload lots, it & anticipated that other rates will be lowered as the rehabilitation pro- gram continues. PERSONNEL CHANGES ON STORIS ANNOUNCED The following personnel changes on the Coast Guard cutter Storis have been announced: Lt. C. J. Galvin has reported to replace Lt. John R. MacLeod as engineer. Lt. MacLeod has beeul assigned to duty in Boston, Mass. Miles Davis, and chief radioman, and Richard P. Sakal, a seaman have reported for duty aboard the cutter. Norman F. Tyler, a seaman, has departed for yeoman training at Groton, Conn. Suell Grimm, a payclerk, has re- ported from Ketchikan for. a ment to duty. Robert Rose, a fire- man, has also reported for duty. Lt. (j.g.) Charles W. Perkman has reported for duty aboard the Storis from the Sitka-based cutter Ca- hoone. George E. Stein, a chief radio- man, has departed for duty in San Francisco. e & o & 0 o o o o TIDE TABLE Low tide 4:58 am. 45 1t. High tide 1 Low tide 17:21 p.m., High tide 23:48 p.m,, 14.9 ft. PAGE THREE 33 ARRIVE FROM |esssssssssccce vooe . . 3 . SOUTH ON DENALI ; Pl vith th leader— : o o S T . The northbound Denali docked : here at 11 am teday and was|e scheduled to leave for Sitka and|$ Seward at 3 p.n. . Disembarking here from south-|§ E II e i ports were 33 passengers, . 0 by c r. Seattle: Lt, James A. An- : pp ders Louise Avrit, Mrs. Ruth ¢ Bell, Rodland Bell, Deroyce Bell,| s to Ralph S. Dow, Delores Erickson, : K. Kobbevik, Mr. and Mrs. Sam e e, Stanley Levine, Mr. and 3 @ Seatile is only a few hours Mrs, R, D. Peterman, W. A. 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