The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 18, 1950, Page 3

e TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1950 - y / i 2 9§ Leagues Ope 'Jubileé" Season of Maibr ning Today; Atiendance Estimated Large By WILL GRIMSLEY ‘ NEW YORK, April 18—#—The | major leagues began their “jubilee” | season today with promise of ideal | conditions—good weather and bulg- | ing crowds. | More than a quarter of a xmllmn' fans were expected to attend open- E ers in eight cities, marking the | 75th year of operation for the Na- | tional League and the 50th for the American. The weatherman predicted there | would be no postponements. He fore- | cast spring temperatures and dry! fields for every point except cm~{ cago, where there was a ‘risk of| showers” for the meetinz of the|League last season in homers and|New York outfield . . ‘White Sox and St. Louis Browns. : The largest crowd, 63,000, was | slated to see the Cleveland India and Detroit Tigers, two highly re- | garded American League conten- | ders, shove off at Cleveland. Elsewhere crowd estimates range | from 18.000 at Chicago to 30,000 and | 32,000-for the other ball yards. The general forecast was for tempera- tures in the €0’s and low 70’s with cloudy but not leaky skies. Interest at Boston Main interest centered at Boston, where the two top American League favorites, the defending champion Yankees and the gold-plated Red Sox, open a dogfight that is ex- pected to carry right down to the wire. The National League champions and favorites to repeat, Brooklyn' well-heeled Dodgers, start the cam- paign at Philadelphia against the young, eager-beverish Phils. ‘Washington’s activities feature an ambidextrous pitcher, Harry 3. Truman, the only hurler whose salary is in the Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams $100,000-plus bracket. Truman, Pitcher Mr. Truman tosses out the first ball in the game between the host Senators and Philadelphia A\h‘ letics. What arm he’ll use for the feat remains an intriguing mystery. Here's the” day’s schedule = with starting time and expected attend- ance in parenthesis (all times Pa- T cific Standard): National League Boston at New York, 11:15 am. (30,000). Brooklyn at Philadelphia, 10:30 am. (32,000). Chicago at Cincinnati, 11:30 a.m. (32,000). Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 6:30 p.m. night (30,000). American League New York at Boston, 11:000 a.m. (32,000) St. Louis at Chicago, 11:30 a.m. (12,000) Detroit at Cleveland, noon (63,0000 Philadelphia at Washirgton, noon (30,000) Brooklyn’s Dodgers in the Na- tional and Boston’s Red Sox in the American, both bountifully blessed with material, are favored to win out over the six-month grind. A World Series atmosphere pre- vailed at Boston, where the Yankees sent their 1949 series hero, Allie Reynolds, against Lefty Mel Par- nell, who won 25 for the Red Sox last year. Brooklyn threw its big Negro fireballer, Don Newcombe, at the Phillies, who countered with Robin Roberts, a “stuff” pitcher. JOCKEM Results LOS ANGELES, April 18—#— The Los Angeles Monarchs leave today for Varcouver, B.C., where they will close out their Pacific Coast Hockey League championship series with the New Westminster Royals. The Monarchs squared the play- off at one game. each here last night by trimming the Royals, 5 (¢ 3. It was the last local game of the season for the southern divisior champs. Action in the best-out-of- seven series resumes Thursday night at New Westminster. Los Angeles had to come from behind to win last night’s contest with a four goal rally in the last 23 minutes. The Royals were lead- ing by 3 to 1 with about five minutes left in the second period. Last Night's Results Pacific. Coast League—Los An- geles 5, New Westminster 3 (best- of-seven series tied, 1-1) U.S. Senior Amateur Champion- ships—Spokane 5, New York Rovers 2 (spokane wins best-of-seven series, 4-3). o International 2, Toledo 1 (Chatham wins best-of- | J. Alexander . three series, 2-0). FROM OLYMPIA Ronald R. Robbins is staying &t the Baranof registered from Wash- ington’s capital, Olympia. League—Chatham | O. Porter ... MAX WEST, SWATKING, PC LEAGUE By JIM HUBBART (Associated Press Sportswriter) Max West, the veteran San Diego outfielder who led the Pacific Coast runs batted in, is well on his way toward doing it again this season. ‘The circuit enters its fourth week of play tonight, and Mr. West is firmly ensconced as the No. 1 swat- mester, He's batting a rosy .419' per- c in RBI's ru Os with 22 and has four home s—Jjust one behind the leader, land's Roy Weatherly. st has an opportunity to fat- 1 his average considerably this we2k at the expense of the Los An- ge.2s Angels. ‘The Hollywoods agiinst S The Rainiers have lost 10 of their past 11 games. Last week also brought another development in the effect of the controversial new balk rule: the on: that’s making baseball more lik> basketball every day. Rill" Sweeney, manager of the Portland club, may have found a wey to keep the umps from blowing open tonight the whistle on his pitchers. The stcry gees this way: Red Adams was pitching for tland in the opening game with Hollywood. He had yielded four b piiched, Sweeney was ready. He had bo; regched first base, Sweeney, in the dugout, tapped the gong to signal Adams the lapse of one second. Ited raised his arms, brought them to his chest, and held the pose until | he heard Sweeney’s bell. Then he| pitched. | No balk. But the gong wasn't much good! after all. Hollywood shelled Adams rom the hill in 1 2-3 innings. WIL SEASON | OPENS TODAY (By the Associated Press) Aiming to draw a million fans through the turnstiles, the Class B Western International League sets sail tonight on a 152-game schedule. The 1950 season is set to close Sept. 9. The goal of a million spectators was set by League President Robert Abel of Tacoma. Whether the mark is reached probably will depeénd on the wea- ther and the new acquisition, Tri- City, Pasco, Kennewick and Rich- land. FIGHT DOPE Fights last night resulted as fol- lows: At Boston—Robert Villemain, 160 France, outpointed Joe Ridone, 160'%, Boston (10). ' At St. Louis—Ray Ramechon, 129, France, outpointed Charley Riley, 129, St. Louis (10). MONDAY NIGHTERS END BOWL PLAY Well, the balls are put in the racks for this season by the Mon- day Nighters on the Elks Bowling alleys. Last night Juneau Yotmng and Alexander Photos bowled for positions in the league’s standings and here are the team and individ- ual scores: Juneau Young H. Day 149 173 153— 475 D. Hoyez 150 126 160— 42¢ M. Pearce 114 130 160— 40¢ ‘W. Hoyez 100 100 100— 30¢ Totals 513 529 573—161C Alexander Photo J. Porter ... 136 117 104— 357 246 152 150— 54¢ 161 161 161— 403 A. Parsons .. 125 125 125— 37¢ Totals ... 668 555 540—176: FROM HAINES James C. Hutcheson, of Haines, is registered at the Baranof. attle, the basement club. | So the next time Adams| rowed a prize fight gong. | The first time a Hollywood man | THOUSANDS EXPECTED, BIG GAMES NEW YORK, April 18—(®—The| | major league’s 16 clubs opened the! 1950 season today, with some 260,000 | fans expected to attend the eight | inaugurals. A turnout of 222,264 saw seven oveners last season . . . counting two ! early openers at Washington and | the -day program drew 57,459 customers, yn rules a 6-5 favorite in} | tional League, while Bos- | ton’s pennant-anxious Red Sox are {a 13-10 choice in the American . . B { Brookiyn, providing it Tuns to form, will be seeking its first World Series ! . . . the Dodgers have lost five | i | i | dot the various ngle team will | rosters . . not a field the idential club that opened the 1849 season . . . most significant change will see Joe DiMaggio, Yan- kee slugger who missed ‘the tirst 65 |games of the '49 seasoa, In the . Joe also missed six openers in 11 previous i seasons. Ted Williams will be seeking his fifih batting crown, Detroit’s George Kell edged the Boston Bomber by ds of a point last on—.3429 to 3427 . . . Kell, in- | cidentally, was the first third base- man to win the American League baiting title SANICKI . ISSENT TOFARM PHILADELPHIi:, April 18—P-— Eddie Sanicki, who set some kiiid of a record when he connected with three hits, all home runs, with the Philadelphia Phillies last season has been sent back to their Toronto farm. Sanicki batted in 104 runs for the | International League club last sea- son before coming up to the Phils near the end of the campaign. He is subject to 24-hour recall. { He gave promise of beating Richie Ashburn out of the center field position during spring training. But Ashburn has showed some of the class that made him one of the top i | rockies of 1948. Daughter of Babe Ruth Weds Teday NEW YORK, April 18—(®—Mrs. Julia Ruth Flanders, 33, daughter of Mrs. George Herman Ruth and the late “home run king,” was married Monday to Willis Grant Meloon, Jr., 29, a divinity student. Meloon, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Grant Meloon, Sr., of Ports- mcuth, N. H. is studying for the Episcopal priesthood. Mrs. Flanders’ first husband, Richard,. died in Boston in Janu- ary, 1949, DOOLITTLE RAIDERS START FUND 10 "TEACH JAPS SOME HUMANITY" PALM DESERT, Calif.,, April 18 —{®M—The Doolittle Tokyo Raiders are raising a fund to “teach those Japanese something about human- ity.” At their fifth annual reunion ended Sunday, Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle and 35 of the 80 men who first bombed Tokyo gave $5 apiece. The fund will be used to support the work of Jacob D. Deshazer,) bombardier on one of the 16 B-25's, who has gone back to Japan as a missionary. L Site of next year’s meeting has not been chosen. ( i THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA LADIES' LEAGUE FINAL PLAYOFFS ON ELKS ALLEYS In the Monday Night Ladies League last night Ludwig Nelson on return playoff won 3 points to 1 point from Gus George in a very well fought contest. This results in S 'n T Clothiers winning first place, Ludwig Nelson second place and Gus George third place. Following are last night's games: Gus George L. Cahail 116 94 82— 292 J. Estes 196 151 93— 440 1. Brust 131 117 134— 382 D. Oldham 178 169 177— 524 Totals 621 531 638 Ludwig Nelson J. Faulkner ... 116 200 112— 428 M. Harshburger 116 122 148— G. Vuille 123 119 151— 33 M. Applegate 168 165— 611 Total 523 576—1718 High ¢ ner, 200; higly sc 524 still up on the builetin board for the interested 1 ‘Those to singles and doubles tournamel be played next Monday n Watch The Empire for furiter tails. Greek King Pledges U. 5. Suggestions fo Go Info Effect Soon (By the Associated Press) King Paul pledged the efforts of the new Greek center coalition gov- ernment to carry out broad finan- cial and administrative reforms re- commended by administrators of the United States program for aid to Greece. In an address opening the newly- elected Parliament, the King re- peated the American recommenda- ions for Greek recovery which had served as a guide in forming the cabinet of Gen. Nicholas Plastiras the new Premier. The cabinet drafted the King's speech. The new government promised to work for tax reform which would result in higher taxes for the wealthy and alleviate the burden for the poorer classes. Vatican Calls Polish te "Church Accord’ Lie | (By the Associated Press) The Communist-led Polish gov- ernment has announced a new ac-| cord with the Roman Catholic church but today, the Vatican press | office denied that any such pact has been signed. The Warsaw announcement said the pact had been signed by three Catholic Bishops and pledged re- ligious freedom in Poland in re- turn for the chureh’s promise to fight enemies of the Communist re- gime. | “Nothing is known here of any such agreement,” said the Vatican press office. “The circumstances and | contents of the accord in queslmni preclude any foundation to the;| news.” Announcement of the pact was| made after Poland’s leading Cath- | olic primate, Adam Stefan Cardinel Sapieha, had left Poland for his Holy Year visit to the Vatican. inebriate Robbed 0f Everything But His 6-Siring TOKYO, April 18—(®—Superbly inebriated, Hiroshi Tada siépt like 4 log near the railway station where he works. He awoke in broad daylight, mi- nus coat, pants, shirt, necktie, shoes, | socks and 3,000 yen (about $9). The thief overlooked Tada’s G-string. Hiroshi zoomed into the nearest polite station, scattering stares. Po- lice zoomed out and caught the rascal, a worker n:n a, nearby fac- tory. | | | Empire Want Ads bring results— | today! Phone 374. : United Trollers of Alaska Regular Meeting Tonight (April 18th) C.L 0. Hall 7:30 'YACHT CLUB 10 THURSDAY 8 P.M. ‘The first meeting of the year of | the Juneau Yacht Club will be held | Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in the Iris Room of the Baranot and Commodore Jack Burford made an pe: - a large turnout for many special reasons. First reason is there will be an m of officers for the coming econd reason is that Commodor: ford wants unlimited sugges at this new rate. A nnounceéd, women are espe omed to membership re also requested to s s for club betterment. Further announceme made hat it is not required to own a boa e tn become a member ot ali one has to do is to he ats and boating. e clib, ted in bo Commodore £ riord says it does ar if there will be to capital race this y ne is scheduled for 1951 have been received from Eeattle that efforts are being made to secure at least 10 boats interested in a race this year but it does not look very promising for this sum- | mer. Anyway, all interested in yacht- ing, old members and those desir- ing to join, are invited and urged to attend the meeting Thursday vight. There will be coffee and doughnuts to feature the “gabfest,” it is said. College Colleges are awready playing base- Linfield 5, Salem (WIL) 4. Pacific 1, Lewis and Clark 0. Wash. State 7, Washington 4. Oregon State 9, Idaho 4. Puget Sound 5, Pacific Lutheran 2 breath” when | submerged, often for fifty minutes or more, according to the Encyclo- | padia Americana. 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" HOLD MEETING ; ball and here are scores of Monday: ! buy the paint you need this spring at our Big Paint Sale . . . we must clear our shelves this week to make room for new NEW PURGE BY RUSSIA INDICATED Deaths of?ialerals, Ad- mirals, Even Civilians [ Leak Out in Moscow NEW YORK, April 18—#-—Mos- | » help in building the loc cow has announced, in the past ha!l | tion to a bigger and better ar, the deaths of 15 Russian Gen- club. erals and Admirals—some of them | D have been lowered to $6 per | rather young. . vear tnd inelude wives of members{ The appearance or sucii opitu- wies so frequently in the Soviet press naturally arouses speculation in the West over the possibility of « new purge in the Soviet Union. However, there has been no hint n the advices which pass through Moscow censorship that a purge ic.ually is under way. Tiven if the Soviet press has re- vorted all the deaths of the top | military brass, a rather high mor- }m!lly rate is indicated, particularly when a number of the officers were in their forties. The Russians also have reported the deaths of a considerable num- ber of civilian, as well as military, officials. The latest obituary of this type published by the Soviet press wes that of N .V. Egorov, 48-year- { cld official of the Council of Min- ister, whose death was announced today. Other high-ranking Soviet func- tionaries also have passed away re- cently. They include Peter Anurov, a counsellor first class in the Soviet | Foreign Ministry. His age was not given in the March 5 death notice, | but it said the death was “untimely Another such was Anatoli Kopytov, Minister of Cinematography, who died March 10. He was only 43. | | ' JOIN, PROSPECTING - URANIUM DEPOSITS | TORONTO, Canada, April 18—(® Current American and Canadian prespecting for uranium “should further reduce our dependence on supplies from overseas,” a U. 8. atcmic official sald today. i Phillip L. Merritt of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission staff told the annual meeting of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy in a prepared address: “The commission's exploration rrogram will, we believe, assure the United States of a growing supply of domestic uranium ore.. ‘Together with the results of the Canadian exploration activities, which are most encouraging, our program should provide increasing resources of this all-important ma- terial, and should further reduce our dependence on supplies from overseas.” Merritt is assistant general man- ager of AEC's raw materials oper- ations office, New York.” The colorful rosefist, once re-; garded as good only for display in markets, has become an important food species. ‘The Marines nave fough war the United States has since the Revolution. waged Z Protect vour Furs Store them with Chas. Goldstein Co. | The only fur storage vault in Juneau . Exclusive dealers for “TREASURE TONE" Painis . We invite you to come in and see our storage facilities. 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