The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 28, 1950, Page 3

FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1950 ANGELS BEAT STARS; GAME 15 BIG UPSET By JIM HUBBART (Associated Press Sportswriter) According to a Pacific Coast League legend of somewhat Oob- scure origin, as the Chicago Cubs go, so go the fortunes of the: Los Angeles Angels, foremost of P. K. ‘Wrigley's rural holdings. To illustrate: the Cubs, who fin- ished in the cellar last season and dragged the Angels in after them, are maintaining a wholesome re- cord today in the National League. And while Los Angeles may still languish in the coast loop’s second division, this much is becoming evi dent: ‘The Wrigley operative meant it early in the season when he prom- ised “to give Los Angeles all the help we can.” Folks laughed at that. Today, it’s not so funny. Los An- geles trimmed league-leading Holly- wood by 5 to 4 last night, and the Chicago influence showed like lip- stick on a starched coliar. Clarence Maddern, a Chicago semi-castoff, effected one of those dime novel catches in right field to salvage the triumph for the Angels. The Stars had the tying run on second with two down in the ninth. Catcher Mike Sandlock then laid into a pitch that had home run written all over it. San Diego beat Seattle again, but that was a foregone conclusion anyway. The score: 6 to 2. It put the second place Padres a game closer to the lead and dropped the Rainiers farther into the basement At Sacramento, the Solons and the Portland Beavers played the fastest nine innings on record this teason. The game took one hour, 45 minutes, with Portland winning, 2tol. - First baseman Roy Zimmerman paced Oakland to an 8 to 4 triumph over San Francisco by smacking a home run in the seventh frame with two aboard. PLAYQFFS FOR BOWL CHAMPIONSHIP TAKE PLACE, THREE NIGHTS Tonight will find the Eiks major league beginning the first series of three to determine who will walk off with the coveted championshio trophy. The regular league season ended last Tuesday evening with the re- sults that Thomas Hardware, Stan- dard Aviation and Parsons Electric will roil a single round robin series to decide the championship. The three series will find some of the top keglers in the city doing thew stuff to try and take places. Tonight at 8 c'clock, Standard Aviation will take on Parsons Elec- tric. Saturday evening at 8 Stan- dard Aviation will again take the alleys, this time against Thomas Hardware. - Tuesday evening at 8 pm., the final series will find Thomas Hard- ware and Parsons Electric going all out to try and finish in first posi- tion. All bowlers on the three teams are requested to report not later than 7:45 p.m., on the evening their team is to bowl. LEADERS IN B. B. Leaders in the major baseball leagues through games of Thursday are: National League Batting—Musial, St. Louis, .448; Jones, Philadelphia, 417. Runs — Waitkus, Philadelphia, 9; Ashburn, Philadelphia and Jeth- roe, Boston, 8. Runs Batted In — Jones, Phila- delphia, 11; Ennis, Philadelphia, 10. Home Runs—Campanella, Brook- lyn and Westlake, Pittsburgh, 4. American League Batting Mitchell, Cleveland, .500;. Groth, Detroit, .440. Runs Batted In — Stephens, Bos- ton, 15; Berra, New York, 11. Home Runs — Wood and Kokos, t. Louis and Fain, Philadelphia, 3. B.B.STARS Stars of games played yesterday in the big leagues are: Batting — Willie Jones and Dick Sisler, Phillies” — Jones clouted a grand slam homer and Sisler banged out four hits in 9-2 Phil victory over Brooklyn. Pitching — Warren Spahn, Braves —Became major’s first three-game winper with 10-inning, six-hitter over New York, 2-1. s | JONES MAKES ITTOUGH ON DODGER GANG! (By the Associated Press) Put Willie (Puddin’ Head) Jones in Brooklyn and he makes like Stan Musial. The Phillies larruping third baseman just loves that Dodger pitching. Puddin’ Head is on cozy terms with pitchers of all varieties this spring. So far he’s hitting a rousing 417 with three homers and a league- leading total of 11 RBI's. He has & hunting ground. Jones wrecks the Dodgers ai Ebbets Field just like Musial. Last year, his first full sea- son in the big time, the kid from Laurelhill, N.C., batted only .244. Yet he hit .333 at Brooklyn. No visi- tor, except Musial, bettered his four fomers in Flatbush. ‘When the Dodgers came to Phila~ delphia last season to clinch the pennant, Puddin’ Head knocked them Series with two home runs in two ames. Can Hit Pitchers ain. All his three homers, came f Brooklyn pitching. Yesterday he ripped into Preacher Roe for :u rand slammer in the first inning The Prech never got the side ouf as the Phils scored five en route to an easy 9-2 romp. Robin Roberts, the bonus “baby” from Michigan State, checked the onrushing Dodgers with eight hits It was Brooklyn’s second loss. After losing six of nine starts to their old teammate Murray Dick- son, the'St. Louis Cardinals turned on him last night to trim Pitts- burgh, 5-2. Ever since the Card sold Dickson to the Pirates for 5125,000 early in 1949 he has been n their hair. Musial Injured ervices of Stan Musial for at least wo days. Musial, boosting his av- ‘rage to .448 with two hits, sprained iis knee when he tumbled round- ng first-base in the eighth. Dave Kosio, low earned run oitcher in the National last season, his control in the tenth in- 2ing and walked Willard Marshall, 1 former New York Giants team- mate, with the bases loaded. That ost ‘Warren Spahn a 2-1 decision. Tommy Byrne was his old wild self in the Yankee Stadium, walking 2ight men in five innings'as Boston thumped the New York Yankees, 7-2. Byrne gave up five runs on one hit in the fifth inning. At the {ime he and Ellis Kinder were all sven, 1-1. Bob Hooper, a Buffalo grad, turned in a fine relief job, following starter Hank Wyse, in Philadel- phia’s 4-3 win over Washington. Rain and cold weather knocked >ut a good share of the schedule. Oleveland at Detroit and Chicago at St. Louis in the American were postponed. So was Cincinnati at Chicago in the National. WIL GAMES Final scores of games played in he WIL yesterday are: Tacoma 2-2, Spokane 1-3. Wenatchee 5, Victoria 4. Tri-City 6, Yakima 4. Salem 8, Vancodver 6 (10 innings) TAKU GILLNETTERS Vieet Sat. 2 p.m. at AF of L Hall Bids for second season will be opened. Please attend. 90-1t almost out of the World Now it’s the same story all ovor' pass gave the Boston Braves and] “Home Rule” has been the battle ery of Alaskans for more than 50 now and it is a battle that is Ium\mued in the present attempt j to secure fair and adequate state- | hood legislation. The great majority of the skirmishes in that long battle have been with one or another ot the arms of bureaucratic govern- ent. Alaska has gained some ind during, the half century— irst a Delegate in Congress, then 1 organized Territorial form ot local government; now, perhaps, the first step along the road to state- Y hood, But each time ground has been ined in one direction, more has 1 lost to the powerful bureaus be which tenaciously cling to control of Alaska’s resources. In the pre- sent move toward statehood the Federal bureaus have rejected the kind of statehood Alaskans want, as expresed in the bill introduced by nine-game hitting streak ncludinz} ¢hei (yn elected Delegate in Con- one tie game. : ) gress, and are attempting to im- Brooklyn, though, is his happy| poce (he kind of statehood they want for the people of Alaska. The Department of the Interior has almost completely rewritten Dele- gate Bartlett’s bill for statehood, making it an instrument to furgher its own hold on Alaskan lands and resource The Department of the Interior, according the United States Gov- ernment Manual, s created in 1849 and “was charged with the re- sponsibility for advancing the do- mestic interests of the people of y the United States.” Alaska is presumably a part of the United States, but a great many Alaskans, especially among the old- timers, will hoot at the notion that the Interior Department has ever done anything to advance their particular cdomestic interests. Scratching Out Livelihood It is not proposed to list here the individual grievances Alaskans hold against the various Federal bu- reaus because to do so would fill the columns of this newspaper irom now until Christmas. Many ot these Alaskans came here 20 or 30 or 50 years ago and have remained to scratch out a livelihood, and scratching out a livelihood in Alaska is not always easy despite the many fine things that can be said about the present and potential resources The game cost the Cards the|of the country. Nature erected here a great number of substantial bar- riers to the attainment of the ends desired by man; and nature, in this respect, has been greatly aided and abbetted by the Department of the Iaterior and other bureaus. The history of Alaska under United States rule could be largely written in the history of the re- servations that have been created here—seal and game and fisheries reservations, land and coal and oil reservations, military reservations, Indian reservations, forest reserva- tions, and a host of others. The Department of the Interior, it is true, is not responsible for all of these reservations and perhaps not for a majority of them. But it is responsible, and in most instances directly responsible, for the reser- vations most obnoxious to Alaskans. Protect the “People” The Interior Department defencs its actions by asserting that it must save and protect the natural re- sources of the country for the “people.” Just who these “people” are is never quite clear, but it is appar- ent, in many instances, who are not the “people.” ‘They are not, for example, ,the homesteaders and would-be farmers or ranchers who want title to a few hundred acres of land upon which ) to make a home and a living. The department has not been notori- ously generous in assisting these in- dividuals in gaining their desires and in some instances has grossly discriminated against them. Nor are the prospectors and miners who aspire to develop a coal mine and live off its proceeds num- bered among the Interior Depart- ment's “people.” The coal resources, along with *others, were bottled up at a time when they might have | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ALASKA STATEHOOD The long Fight For Home Rule By BOB DeARMOND ——— of Alaska; bottled up and kept in- tact for the benefit of a vague and nebulous “people,” never for 'the in- dividual Alaskans who were actu- ally here and in a position to use and develop them. Oldtime memorial Alaska’s “Home Rule” fight has been carried on by individuals, oy corporations and by elected and appointed representatives of the people of Alaska. The first Alaska Legislature, 37 years ago, memori- aliged Congress: “That no further reservations be made, that some ot those already in existence be abol- ished or diminished, and that the Tongass and Chugach National Forést Reservations be thrown open for general use of the prospector, miner and settler.” o The Memorial might as well have been sent to the furnace room of the Elks Lodge building in Jubeiu where the Legislature was thel holding its sessions, for all the re: sults it brought. Reservations have increased and multiplied so thati there is in Alaska today scarcely an acre of land or a sguare mile o1 water over which the Interior De- partment, through one or more of its agencies, does not assert some sort of jurisdiction, The best present hope of the peo- ple of Alaska in securing “Home Rule” for the proposed state, in fighting off the bureaucratic fea- tures of H.R. 331 and regaining some of the liberal provisions ot H.R. 206 lies, it seems to me, in the Alaska Statehood Committee created by the last Territorial Legislature. I confess that at the time th2 committee was created I saw no necessity for its existence. At that time there was a widespread notion, in Alaska at least, that our state- hood enabling act would be along the lines of Delegates Bartlett's HR. 206 or a very similar measure. Importance of Committee In view of subsequent events, in which the Interior Department got its heavy hand into the legislative pie and grasped at most of the plums, the Alaska Statehood Com- mittee has grown greatly in im- portance to Alaska’s future. Although a major portion of the funds appropriated for the work of the committee are unavailable be- cause of the Territory's financial plight, a number of its members arc presently in Washington to appear before the Senate committee and give their views on statehood. Several members of the Alaska Statehood Committee and others who are now attending the Wash- ington hearing have previously made public their views on the dispo- sition of Alaska's resources under statehood and we can assume that they will make a determined effort to remedy the defects of the pre- sent bill. Delegate E. L. Bartlett is an hon- orary and ex-officio member of the Alaska Statehood Committee. Dele- gate Bartlett is well aware of the throttling of Alaskan development by bureaucratic control of the re- sources and three years ago he at- tempted to remedy the situation with his statehood enabling bill. He can, therefore, be expected to re- main at the forefront in fighting continued Interior Department con- trol of our resources through the| substitute statehood bill. Another honorary and ex-officio member of the committee is Judge Anthony J. Dimond, former Dele- gate from Alaska. At hearings In Washington three years ago Judge Dimond expressed himself as strongly favoring an end to bureau- cratic control of Alaska’s resources and even advocated that the Na- tional Forests be turned over to the new state. It can be anticipated that Judge Dimond, both as a member of the committee and as a citizen and long-time resident of Alaska, will ably challenge HR. 331 which, in its present form, would sell Alaska down the river to In- terior Department slavery Disillusionment An active member of the Alaska Statehood Committee is William L. > ¥ you?p e 0P ™ uKe WE FOL® € QUALITY TO USED TO DRing s ial is made by Hiram Walker. Blended whiskey. 86 gmn neutral spirits. Hnnm dea & Sons Inc., Peoria, Illinois. Alaska Distributors Company, Seattle-An chorage, Exclusive Alaska Distributors' f. meant much to the developmemhfl Baker, Ketchikan nc\\'spnpermnn.l Upon several occasions he has pointed out the benefits that cofild accrue to Alaska from home opera- tion of the fur seal industry. This could have come about under the terms of H.R. 206 and it must have been a great disillusionment to Mr. aker that HR. 331 does not pro- vide one iota of control or interest in this great resource. At Washington three years ago Mr. Baker characterized himsell as a plain-speaking editorial writer and agreed that there should be an Immediate restoration to the pub- lic domain of all reservations and lands withdrawn from entry in Alaska except for the few reserva- tions specifically named in HR. 206. From this we may assume that Mr. Baker will do some very plain speaking at Washington this week regarding the xhuxtcommgs of HR. 331. Ralph J. Rivers, former attorney general of Alaska, is not, I believe, a member of the Alaska Statehood Committee, but he was listed among shose who were to testify in Wash- angton this week on statehood. At a previous statehood hearing he ex- pressed the belief that Alaska should receive at least fitty percent of its lands when it becomes a Le. i We can expect from him another vigerous protest to the less than sne percent provided by the In serior Department version of the statehood bill, I do not know that the mempers of the Alaska Statehood Committee and the other Alaskans who have gone to Washington on the state- hood bill can prevail over the all- powerful Department of the In- terior. But they can, and it they perform their duty as representa- tives of the Alaskan public they will, inform Congress that if we are going to build our Territory to its full potentialities as a state we must have something more than the ‘bare skeleton of statehood to { work with, Indian reservations and Indian claims, which were injected into our statehood enabling bill by the Department of the Interior, will be discussed in the next article in this series. GAMES TODAY year today gave the Pittsburgh Pirates a 4 to 3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals before 10,102 pay- ing customers today. First baseman Johnny Hopp paced the Bucs' 12 hit attack with four bingles in four i tries. BOSTON, April 28 — (# — Bos- ton’s Red Sox bunched three bases on ‘l:;s and a single for two first- inn! 1-0 Philadelphia lead and defeat the Athletics 4-1 in the opening game of a long home stand. TERRITORIAL SPORTSMAN Meeting in City Council Chambers postponed until Tuesday 8 p.m., due to special meeting of the City Council this evening. 90-1t PITTSBURGH, April 28 — i —| Ralph Kiner's third homer of the| runs today to overcome n. INSTALL ENGSTROM AS PRESIDENT OF SONS OF NORWAY Elton E. Engstrom was installed as Presidént for his second term of Svalhord Lodge, No. 33, Sons of Norway at a meeting held in the 0Odd Fellows hall last night. Mrs. John Maurstad was installing offi- | cer; Mrs Harold Snaring and John Maurstad, installing marshals. Other officers installed were Vice-president, Bernt Mork; fin- ance secretary, Gertie Berggren; social director, Harold Snaring treasurer, Mrs. Gudrun Olson; re; ording secretary, Harold Swanson; assistant secretary, Carl Hagerup; Marshal, Mrs. Jochn Lowell; assist- ant marshal, Mrs. Elton Engstrom; counsellor, Sig Olson; trustees, Frank Olson, John Lowell, Berit Alstead; inner guard, Sig Jacksol outer guard, Pete Hildre; doctor, J. O. Rude. Mrs. Elton Engstrom was elected delegate to the Grand Lodge meet- in Astoria, Oregon June 24 with Mrs. Gertle Berggren, al- ernate. As many of the Sons of Norway members are out of town during the summer fishing son, the next three meetings will be l.;Pld in homes with the places to se announced later. Refreshments were served at the conclusion of the night's business session, FOREST OFFICIALS TO BE TRANSFERRED The fortheoming transfer of two Forest Officers to other positions within the Alaska Region of the Forest Service is announced by the office of Regional Forester B. Frank Heintzleman. Knox Marshall, who has been Division Supervisor at Petershurg since 1946, will be as- signed to the Regional Office ap- proximately June 1 as Assistant to W. A. Chipperfield in Recreation and Lands. Mr. Marshall first came to Alaska from the Forest Service in the State of Washington in 1939 and was assigned to the Prince William Sound Division of the Chugach National Forest with headquarters at Cordova. went to Craig in 1942 as Ranger in charge of the West Coast District. In 1945 he was transferred to Ketchikan to assist the Division Supervisor in administering activ- ities of the Southern Division, Mar- shall will bring with him to Ju- neau his wife and three young children. Taking- Marshall's - plage” as - Div- ion Supervisor of the Petersburg Division is C. M. Armstrong, now in charge of Timber Management activities on the Admiralty Divis- jon. Armstrong transferred to Al- aska from the Forest Service in Michigan in 1946 and was first stationed et Craig. After nearly three years in charge of the West Coast District, he was promoted to Custom-built Davenport and Chair set. All hair filled with hardwood frames. He next his present position in Juneau early in 1949, Mrs. Armstrong will accompany her husband to Peters- burg when the transfer is made approximately June 1. SEVEN ARRIVE, 12 | On yesterday's inbound flight from Anchorage, Pacific Northern Airlines brought seven persons from the Hub City to Juneau and three from Cordova. They were: From Anchorage: George Mitch- ell, W. Wiseman, L. Shapely, J. Conlon, M. Jensen, J. Bridston, W. Turnipseed. From Cordova: Lucille Milkunch, T, R. Curtis, Al Condon. v at Cordova, To Anchorage: Bethel Crowell, W. S. 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