The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 13, 1950, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1950 RAINIERS LOSE OUT 10 SEALS (By Associated Press) There’s news in the Pacific Coast League today: San Francisco’s in the first division and Seattle isn’t. ‘The Seals traded their fifth spot for Seattle’s fourth place by beat- ing Seattle 6-2 last night. Only half a game separates them, but those precious percentage points be- long to San Francisco today. Seat- tle had ’em yesterday. Les Fleming’s double with the bases loaded in the third inning was the blow from which Seattle didn’t recover. The Seals scored five times on six hits in that inning. Seattle got only two runs out of five hits and an error in the third. Opposing pitchers Jim Wilson of Seattle anc Chet Johnson each allowed 12 hits League-leading Oakland lost tc San Diego 6-3, leaving the Padre give games behlad. Jack Graham hi two homers and Harry Simpsor smacked his 31st to pace the attack Third-place Hollywood nippet Sacramento 2-0 as Ken Lehmar pitched himself out of a bases-load ed jam in the first inning, the: blanked the Solons. He and Sacra mento’s Bill Evans each allowe seven hits. Frank Keddeher hit hi 20th homer in the ninth. Holly wood’s other run came in the sev enth when Jim Baxes walked, mov ed up and scored on a sacrifice, ai infield out and Lehman’s single Three Portland home runs, by Jo Brovia, Luis Marquez and Eddi Basinski took care of Los Angele 3-0. The Angels managed only thre harmless singles off Bob Drillin and only two men got past firs base. There was news, too, in the atten dance, or lack of it. A lonely grou) of 835 watched the game at Sacra mento, smallest crowd there sinc 1943. An exclusive company of 84. was in Wrigley Field, Los Angeles. San Francisco entertained 1496. Only at San Diego was there a gocdly crowd, 5,809. STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS Pacific Coast League w 104 99 Pet .601 | 572 526 .500 497 465 439 .399 Oakland 69 San Diego Hollywood 2 San Francisco . Seattle Portland Los Angeles ... Sacramento 69 104 National League 1 w Pet 610 565 | 553 .549 511 436 | 409 370 Philadelphia Brooklyn .. Boston New York St. Louis ... Cincinnati Chicago Pittsburgh American League w . 86 86 86 81 59 53 50 47 Pet 637 632 628 583 437 381 .368 .338 Detroit ... New York Boston Cleveland ‘Washington Chicago ... St. Louis Philadelphia “RAIN OR SHINE” “Enjoy weekend at TAXU LODGE. $25 includes round trip transporta- tion from Juneau; deluxe lodging, meals, fishing and sightseeing trips. Phone 202 for reservations. 592-tf REBEKAHS Don’t forget potluck dinner Wed- nesday 6:30 p.m. followed by busi- ness meeting and roll call. 604-2t. INDIANS WALLOP YANKEES (By Associated Press) SIMMONS MAY BE IN WORLD SERIES | With big Luke Easter as the ring- THE DAILY ALASKA EN GRUENING - APPEARS, HEARING (Continusi from Page 1) | tory of Alask. He also declared him- IPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA A FOUR POINTER Gene Hulk brought down one of the first known bucks off Doug! Island last weekend, getting his four pointer over the far side of Mr. Jumbo, and packing from 11 a.m. to 8 o'clock p.m. before getting it home. Hennings vs. Triangle Club, alleys 3 and 4 starting at 7:15 pm. | Sicks Rainier vs. Standard Avi- {ation on alleys 1 and 2, Juneau Flor- list vs. Don Abel on alleys 3 and 4 tarting at 9:15 p.m. DOUGLAS NEWS | 1 | | FIRE DEPARTMENT MEETING The regular monthly the Douglas Volunteer Fire Depart- ment will be held in the City Hall CITY COUNCIL MEETING on September 14, at 8 o'clock p.m. Mayor Mike Pusich presided over| rhe firemen wish oL the regular meeting of the Douglas) that there will be a get-together meeting of to ) | for, PAGE THREE TITLE LIGHT WEIGHT WOMEN'S WRESTLING| MATCH TONIGHT AT 8| In the only title match scheduled Alaska, Clara Mortensen, wo- men's lightweight world champion wrestler, and Lindy Lawrence, chal- lenger, meet tonight at 8 o'clock in the Twentieth Century Theatre with the title at stake in two out of three falls with an hour time limit Desired . ‘ Sharkskin. AT ITS MOST DESIRABLE IF PHILS MAKE IT CAMP ATTERBURY Ind., Sept. 13—P—There are rumors going around the federalized 28th Division of the Pennsylvania National Guard that Pfc Curt Simmons will be re- leased to pitch in the world series if the Philadelphia Phillies win the National League pennant. Simmons’ commanding Capt. Howard Emhardt of the hes quarters battery for the division's officer, j artillery, wouldn't object to letting® the star left hander pitch. “But I'm mum on that subject," he said. “But I'm certainly not going to object if they want to send him over there.” There Was no comment from head- quarters. PENNANT RACE AT A GLANCE Here is the present situation in the pennant races: American League W L Pect. 86 49 .637 19 . 86 50..632 18 86 51 628 17 81 58 583 15 National League W L Pct. GL e 83 53 610 18 74 57 565 23 73 59 553 22 73 60 549 21 GL Detroit New York ... 3oston Jleveland >hiladelphia Brooklyn 3oston .. New York LEADERS IN B. B. Leaders in the major baseball cagues through games of Tue\'day‘ re: National League Batting—Musial, St. Louis, obinson, Brooklyn, .331. Runs batted in—Ennis, Philadel- >hia, 115; Kiner, Pittsburgh, 110. Home runs—Kiner, Pittsburgh, 43; Pafko, Chicago, 33. Pitching—Maglie, New York, 15-3 .833 .356; American League Batting—Goodman, Boston, Kell, Detroit, .345. Runs batted in—Dropo, Boston, 139; Stephens, Boston, 138. Home runs—Rosen, Cleveland, 34; Dropo, Boston, 33. Pitching—Trout, .165. FIRST FALL SKI (LUB MEETING TOMORROW The Juneau Ski Club will hold its first meeting of the season tomor- row at 8 p.m. in the ski club rooms in the Arctic Brotherhood Hall, Neil Taylor, president, announced today. Movies during the 1950 Southeast Alaska Championship ski meet, held on the Douglas Island slopes last spring, will be shown at the meet- ing. Nominations of officers for the coming season will also be made, Taylor said. He said all persons interested in skiing are invited to attend the meeting. .361; Detroit, 13-4 FIGHT DOPE DETROIT, Sept. 13—#—Middle- weight Champion Jake Lamotta is expected to tame Laurent (Tarzan) Dauthuille of France tonight in a promising 15-round title bout at the Olympia Stadium. Ring time is 10:00 p.m. (EST). leader, the smarting Cleveland In- |self in favor of Alaskan statehood If looks can deceive, the two do dians are moving back into the Am- jerican League pennant race in the roll of “spoilers.” Knocked out of contention and blasted by their bosses, the Indians are out to redeem themselves at the expense of the three remaining con- i tenders—Boston, New York and De- troit. They began to reap revenge last | Yankees, 8-7, on a three-run homer by Easter in the ninth inning. The defeat sent the Yankees into second place, a half game back of jthe Detroit Tigers who scored a 3-2 iafternoon triumph over the Wash- Jington Senators. Cleveland has one more game with the Yanks, six with the Tigers and {two with the third place Boston Red Sox. The Red Sox, still moying re- Ilvmlc\\ly forward, climbed within a \game of the lead by edging the Chi- {cago White Sox, 2-1. ¢ Home runs in the first two innings by Joe DeMaggio, Phil Rizzuto and Yogi Berra shot the Yanks off to 16-0 lead in a rain-soaked game. Early Wynn was the victim of the the world champions were effectiv- Zoldak and Steve Gromek. Homers by Larry Doby and Easter shaved the deficit to 6-4 by the i fifth. Allie Reynolds, who had allowed fr.nd walked two batters. He was hur- riedly lifted for Tom Ferrick. Bob Kennedy greeted Ferrick with a run scoring double. Doby struck out but Easter then slammed Ferrick’s first pitch over the rightfield fence to break up the game. Tigers Squash Senators The Tigers had rough sledding be- fore squashing the Senators. “Old Diz Trout went all the way for the Bengals and permitted eight hits while his mates collected only five off Gene Bearden and Mickey Har- ris. Lefty Mel Parnell turned in a Ineat five hitter in recording his 16th victory and eighth straight for the iRed Sox under the lights in Chicago. The Sox now have won 24 out of their last 27 games. 1 i thren-hiL pitching of Al Widmar, blanked the Philadelphia Athletics, 6-0. 1 the first two innings. National League In the National League the Phila- jdelphia Phillies moved a step closer | towards the pennant by nosing out the St. Louis Cardinals, 1-0, behind the five-hit pitching of Robin Rob- erts ,who attained his 19th victory. The Cards’ Max Lanier and Al Brazle surrendered only three hits | but one was a fifth inning homer {by Andy Seminick who celebrated (‘his 30th birthday. The victory kept the Phils 6% games ahead of the runner-up Brooklyn Dodgers who collected only one hit in beating Ewell Blackwell and the Cincinnati Reds, 3-1. Blackwell lost the game in the eighth inning when he hit a batter, committed an error and wild pitched home a run that broke a 1-1 tie. The third run scored on an infield out. Gene Hermanski singled in the fourth for the lone Brooklyn hit. The New York Giants” Sheldon Jones blanked the Pittsburgh Pi- rates, 3-0. The Giants moved to within a half game of the third place Boston Braves who dropped a 3-1 night game decision to Bobo Rush and the Chicago Cubs. i 1 REBEKAHS Don't forget potluck dinner Wed- nesday 6:30 p.m. followed by busi- ness meeting and roll call. 604-2t. Travel on Alaska's Scenic Slikine River Yankee bombardment but after that | jely checked by Dick Weik, sad Sam | only four hits, blew up in the ninth | All of the scoring took place in] The St. Louis Browns, behind the | { Checking on Feltus Then he asked Gruening whether |he had checked up on assoclate |of Feltus before employing him. | Gruening said he had not, because he considered Feltus a one-man firm | public relations firm. } Schoeppel asked if Gruening knew | that one of Feltus’ associates, Rob- | | ert T. Miller, had been classified a _inight by defeating the New York|, security risk. | Gruening said he never heard of Miller. He added that he regard Feltus as a good loyal American. Atwood Testifies Robert Atwood of Anchorage, head of the Alaskan Statehood Commit- tee, defended the hiring of Feltus |He also said the committee never |had heard th eltus once hac worked for the Polish government He said the group hired ¥ promote the statehoed dri e the salmon fishing industr; and other opponents of statehood | were spending large sums to defeat | the statehood bill. He said oppon- ients of statehood enjoy relatively ’low taxes in the Territory, and fear | statehood would boost their tax | rates. Salmon Lobby “The salmon lobby,” Atwood testi- | fied, “up until, say the last session |has been more or less successfui in keeping the (Alaskan) legislatur | under its thumb.” Delegate Farrington, representing | Hawali in Congress, filed with the | committee a statement from Sam- uel Wilder King, President of the | Hawaii Constitutional Convention. | accusing Schoeppel of “great injus- | tice” to that body. | The m ge accused Schoeppel of “misrepresenting the situation | completely” by alleging Communist | infiltration into the Constitutional Convention. ‘The committee also received docu- Schoeppel had raised as to whether failed to sign a loyalty affidavit in Straus is to testify temorrow. BOWLING In a Pot of Silver Tournament last night on the Elks alleys, John Scott, Triangle Club Captain came out in front with a 551 series while | his fellow teammate Bill Blanton | came in second with a 533. Bob Haag of the Standard Aviation team came in third with a 423 series and Art Burke, Captain of the Juneau Flor- ist team was fourth with a 518 <er- ies. The Tuesday Night Major League | starts rolling league play next Tues- day night, September 19 on the fol- lowing schedule: The Darnell Triangle Cleaners vs. Parsons Electric, alleys 1 and 2, ments intended to answer a question | Reclamation Commissioner Straus | 1945 when he was sworn into office. | e = e e City Council Monday evening, with | party next Saturday night in the councilmen Wm. Dore, Rex Her-|pire Hall. It has been sometime mann, Charles Whyte, Willlam they have hdd one of these | Boehl and Milford Marshall in at- AR R i themar, - thielr tendance, besides clerk A. J. Balog ARt TG e Following sitting as a Board of ate Wiltons et Equalization, for the final and 1ast|yeq, states the committce. All hon- complaints to be heard from prop-!orary members of the Department erty owners on assessed properties,igre especially invited to be present f the Council voted no chanzes ona this get-together. { the two minor complaints presented. | The City of Douglas’ bid for the| used B. P, Roads heavy truck and hydraulic snow plough was suc- cessful, announced Mayor Pusich with the bid price of $1,110. It ¥ brought out that hired cate isnow removal costs of las alone would nearly pay for the ¢ of the equipment. The Mayor announced he appointed Councilman Wm and Thomas Cashen to r since events wives or Refreshments and MONDAY ar meeting of the Doug- No. 117, will be held in Hall, Monday, eptember , according to President Fred Al- “'berts, There will be initiation. All | trustees are urged to attend |there will be a trustee meeting fol- lowing the regular meeting. ha Dore | esent | 3 EQUALIZATION i Board of Directors of the the City in a meeting with Col Douglas Independent hool Dis- D, Alexander and the Juneau De-|iyjct announces that they will sit fense Committee in efforts to in-|as a Board of Equalization to hear clude Douglas in the joint Gas-|irom property owners. tineau Channel defense program. |y git from 7:30 to 9:30 o'clock Cashen reported to the Council that | eyenings, tonight, September 13, the the meeting was held successfully|jgth and the last date to be the and that plans were being worked | cyening of September 15, out to be announced later. | Clerk Balog, also city assessor,| LUTHERAN CHOIR announces that total assessed valu- | PRACTICE POSTPONED ation of the city this year is $838,- | 650 compared to $805310 last year The reorganization and practice Last year’s tax was set at 15 mills, | goqsion of the senior choir of the with 10 mills turned to the Inde- yuiheran Church scheduled for to- pendent School District and 5 mills| gt s postponed one week to to operate the city. Wednesday, September 20. This is With the increased costs anticl-| pecquse of the PTA teachers recep- pated from the Fifth Street liabil-| (o1 tonight. ities incurred this year, the council | voted to raise the mill rate to 17| mills, with payments to be made in | two installments with a 2 per cent {cash discount if paid before delin-| poarq of Equalization will sit in {quent. The council voted to €on-|{na pouglas City Hall Sept, 13, 14 tinue the sewer tax assessment, and | apq 15 from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. 605-3t boats. i g 4 The DOUGLA SCHOOL DEP] DISTRICT The Board | not appear to be wrestlers but could easily be models in anyone's lan- ge. They arrived yesterday af- ternoon from Anchorage where two matches were held during the past 10 days. Here and in Anchorage are | the only places the two are appear- ing Miss Mortensen, wrestling since |she was seven, received her train- |ing from her father and brothers. H ther was an instructor at the | Farmer Burns Wrestling School and her brother wrestled professionally. | She has wrestled in most of the | states. Miss Lawrence has been wr }lmn the past four and a half years | professionally with her experience | entirely on the west coast. This is | | her first chance tonight at the title held by* Miss Mortensen. A chance ! at the title must be given four times gear with the title holder being challenged by those who think they ! wre fit. Wrestling fans are guaranteed ac- | tion tonight by the girls who know all of the tricks and also a few not in the books. 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