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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-12-09
SUNDAY NIGHTS AT $50

SUNDAY NIGHTS AT $3.50
We often ask the fellows If they
can name the six agencies consti-
tuting the national USO. 1t is in
teresting that when they list them
the first one named, almost invar-
iably, is The Salvation Army. Maybe
this coincidence. But we like to
think that it is due rather to the
fact that around the Juneau USO
Club the personal contribution OF
The Salvation Army is definitely
more than its one sixth share quo
ia, thanks to Capt. t. ]. c'Ted')
Dyck. Officially Capt. Dyck is the
Clubs Treasurer and member of
its Committee of Management; UNI
officially Ted is a warm personal
friend to each of us on the staff
and to all the fellows who know
him.
The Club is happy to announce
that on Sunday nights during De-
cember, and indefinitely thereafter,
Capt. Dyck will conduct the USO
vespers. These services formerly
have been in the charge of one CT
the Army chaplains who from time
to time we're assigned to Juneau !;
but recently Chaplain Vogel left
and it seems unlikely that he will
be succeeded by anyone, at least
for the present. incidentally, we
acknowledge our deep indebtedness
to Herbert vogel for many fine
services conducted here. Both per-
sonally and in his official capacity
USO will miss him lott.
Only one thing about the YES
pers has been disappointing: the
attendance has generally been quite
small. AS Christmas draws near,
we believe that more of the fell
lows will experience deeply-felt
need for the vital spiritual blessings
inherent in these services. Catholics,
Professionals and Jews, all men will
find much of great value here, we
are certain, in Capt. Dyck's COM
pact, brief message every Sunday
night at $50. Another thing con-
corning our friend that we can't
let go unmentioned-his excellent
singing voice, and perhaps most of
all that contagious enthusiasm
with which he does his singing.
Once Carl Sandburg wrote of
people who practically can't keep
from singing, people with song
voices connected with song hearts"
Ted perfectly. He surely possesses
That description fits our friend
song voiee,t and its connected
directly with a wonderful song
heart Do come and enjoy his
leadership every Sunday evening of
this Christmas season.
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o'clock in the evening at the Bethel
Tabernacle.
Mrs. Wong will give her ex-
periences during the four years she
was under japanese rule in Canton,
relate the horrors witnessed, the
fortunes administered especially on
the Chinese by the Japs, and the
frightful, almost unbelievable con-
ditions existing.
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PROGRAM

xYCCClli0CA - P.AaA.
Dance in the USO broadcast
over KINY, between l0:l5 and
l0:45).
FRIDAY, December 10, GAS pm.
Meeting of Servicemen's Council
in USO: 7:3o pm.-Movies in USO
Lobby; S:00-Meeting Of Committee
of Management in uSO; 900 pm
Making candy and popcorn. fol-
lowed by Game Party, at USO.
SATURDAY, December IL, $3.50
p.m.-Movies in the US Lobby, fol-
lowed by evening of dancing to
luke Box.
SUNDAY, December IL, 1870 pm.
COR later at convenience of Service
men)-Trip to Mendenhall Glacier !;
500 p.m.-Music, coffee and cookies
in USO Lobby; $50 p.m.-vespers
in USO Lobby; 1000 p.m.-Singing
around piano.
MONDAY. December 13, 800 pm.
Forum Club meeting at private
home. Get your reservation at USO
desk. $3.50 p.m.-Movies in USO
Lobby.
TUESDAY, December IA, 900
pm. Quiz contest in USO Lobby
broadcast over KINY); GAS pm
Bingo Games.
WEDNESDAY, December Is, tbs
p.m.--Movies in USO Lobby; 8:45
p.m-Card party on second floor
900 p.m.-Old fashioned Dances in
USO Lobby.
A LONG WAY FROM HOME
Home is the place, the one-and-
only place, for an ideal Christmas.
But this year more people through
out the world will find themselves
away from home than ever before
in history. In Juneau the USO will
do its best to serve as a home
away from home for all the fell
lows here on Christmas Day.
For the hundreds of our men
who will be in Attu or in Nome or
one of the other remote, desolate
spots, the Club proposes to send
along as much Good Cheer as pos
sible BY this Saturday we hope to
have on the way to them a separ-
ate gift and some cigarettes for
each man, together with additional
group gifts of lots of playing cards
and books and many jars of jams
and jellies.
Some of you ever-generous people
have already responded to our APP
peal of Monday; but several hun
dred more gifts are still needed.
Each should cost only modest
sum (25 or IS cents, or perhaps a
little more. Please be sure to wrap
the gift in bright paper, or Aida
or Mary will do it for you. 1t ought
to be no secret to anybody that
men generally are sentimental
lot and that they are hungry for
attention; and it is our guess that
many lonely fellow on Attu after
unwrapping his gift is just going
to happen not to throw away that
bit of gay Christmas paper which
some unknown girl back in Juneau
took time out to wrap around his
present, and that months from
now he'll still be hanging onto that
paper and those memories!
Merry Gentlemen, Let Moth
ing You Dismay,"-- even your
loneliness or the endless monotony
of your daily lives, you men of
Attu and Nome. Soon we will be
singing that carol. And it will not
be mockery SO far as you are
concerned. We are not indifferent;
we have not forgotten you. We re-
member you with warm Affection
and these gifts from us carry to you
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that the rest of us owe grateful
thanks and lots Of them
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BRINGS PATIENTS TO
JIJNEAU FOR

JUNEAU FOk A-hA1S
DR.. John o. Taylor arrived here
last night on the Fisheries vessel
Bluewing, bringing three patients
from the Funter Evacuation Col
ony in for x-ray treatment.
Evening star., 1943-03-16
Keen Bear Quint
Gains SemifinaI
Plays Dayton After
Routing SporkIers
By he Assnciated Pres

~ 'Ilt Associate ltrcaS.
CHICAGO March Washing
ton Bears, Negro team from the
Nations Capital boasting 80 VIC
tories without defeat over a two
years stretch. now are among the
fayoriteS for the world professional
basket ball championship as the
tournament here enters the semi
final round. Tonight the Bears
tanele with the DAYTON BOmbers
following game between Fort
Wayne Zollners and Oshkosh Stars,
with the two winners meeting for
the title tomorrow night in Chicago
Stadium.
After getting past the first round
on a bye. the Bears made a big i'm
preston on the crowd last night by
ousting the Minneapolis Sparklers.
1921, one Of the most decisive wins
Of the tourney. Led by Dolly Kings
II points, the Washington quint
piled up quarter leads Of 1876, 29-I5
and 3I-l9 Kenny Excl. University
OF Michigan eager, kept Minneapolis
in the game with II markers.
The Bombers entered the semi
finals by pulling the first major
upset, a ABA win over Harlem
Globe Trotters Oshkosh came along
by whipping the Detroit Eagles, 65-
36, for the biggest score yet regis
tered in the tourney, while the Zoll-
ners, who lost the National League
playoffs to Sheboygan week ago,
made amends last night by elimi-
mating that quintet, 48-40
Evening star., 1943-03-16

Today's guest stare. A, Fal-
zcr, Newark IN. j. Sunday Call:
Bob Rolfe, Dartmouth bred
coach Of Yale, viewed the basket
ball season with mixed emotions.
He saw his old alma nanny win
the championship and his Yale
charges finish last. Another year
like that and Red Rolfe may
become Gray Rolfe. His nerves
were not Jared half as much
when he played third base for the
Yankees"
Service dept Soldier Buck,
old-time Louisville fighter who
was licked by such guys as Young
Stribling and Harry Greb, has
been discharged from the Army
because of his age (about 43,
and is back OH the job as fore
man in defense plant. Hes
World War I veteran and has a
son in the service. World Series
preview.
Evening star., 1943-03-16
.12-Day Lapse Likely
In Racing Meets
b. the Associated Press.

By The Associated Press.
Racing addicts, who thought they
wouldn't be able to survive a series
Of five consecutive Mondays in jan
uary and February without their
favorite sport, likely will have 70
dark" days late this month and
early IN April
All the presently active tracks in
Continental United States are
scheduled to close March 27 and no
plant is ticketed to open until April
8, when Jamaica greets its GUS
toners.
However, there is possibility that
Bay Meadows in California may ex-
tend its season beyond the March
q date, although the Fair Grounds
at New Orleans and OaklaWn at
Hot Springs, Ark. will close.
Racing at Havana is carded to
close March % with a slight pos
sibillty that the season there may
be heightened.
Evening star., 1943-03-16
Yunkees Discovered Cundini

mat chubby chap you may have
seen working out with the Mats
yesterday at College Park was %
year-old Warren Reid, a local boy
II was with Tallahassee in the
GeOrgla-FlOrida League for a little
while last season" says Warren. Il
won five and lost three before I was
inducted into the Army. The Army
let me go because of asthma. |
went to Western High here but
wasn't eligible to play ball because
the English teacher insisted on
fiunking me pretty consistently"
Milo Candini, husky Italian
pitcher, was shifted around in the
Yankee chain for six years before
landing with the Mats. He admits to
a sore arm-he had it last year when
he won four games and lost seven
with Newalk-but before he popped
up with that ailing arm he ap-
parently was doing all right. The
Mats are gambling he'll recover his
effectiveness.
Candini Ieaped from Manteca,
fCalif) High to Ell Paso of the
Arizona League. His first link
IN The Yankee chain was sturdy, for
he won q games and lost only seven
that season. He since has pitched
Tor Norfolk, Va; Wenatchee. Wash:
Oakland, Calf. Kansas City and
Newark, moving along nicely in each
spot until he injured his arm hurting
for the Yankees against the Mats in
an exhibition game last spring.
Married and the father of a boy
and a girl, Candini tolls IN a sugar
refining plant during the winter.
He's an olive-skinned 6-footer, IS
years old and a likable fellow. Two
OF his brothers are in the Army.
Evening star., 1943-03-16
BY JUDSON BAILEY.
Associated Press Sports Writer

BEAR MOUNTAIN, N. Y. March
l6.-1f the Brooklyn Dodgers get
off to a good start in the National
League campaign next month it
should settle the everlasting argu-
ment about whether a baseball club
can train indoors satisfactorily.
The Dodgers have their spring
training headquarters here. but they
held their first workout yesterday in
the vast fieldhouse of the United
States Military Academy at West
Point, 5 miles away. and it pleased
every one so much the Brooklyn
club may not work outdoors here
a single day.
Till Leo Durocher led his noisy
gang of IS players into the Armys
baseball cage even the Dodgers
had some misgivings about the ad-
vantageS Of inside training.
Bear Mountain is a ski resort.
and 1t is giving away no weather
secrets to say that people were ski
ing in the vicinity when the Dodgers
checked in Sunday.
Dodgers Like Gage Drill.
This meant that Durocher had
no alternative for indoor work at
the start, but he did have hopes of
getting outside soon. To this end
the Dodgers, who still do things the
daf7y way, had big log fires burning
Sunday and Monday on the infield
of what was intended to be their
practice diamond. The idea was to
help drive the frost out of the
ground so that it could be pre-
pared for early use by the base
ballers
But the opinion after Brooklyns
first workout was that it wouldn't
make much difference whether the
players got outside before they re-
turn to New York April 2.
Working inside a big rope net
ting, the Dodgers pitched, bunted,
bated and fielded in their first
workout on dry. smooth diamond
with the temperature steam heated
to about 10 degrees. The players
Evening star., 1943-03-16
Corpus Christi Quint
Has Perfect Season

By he Associated Press.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex, March
16.-One of the greatest teams in
Southwestern basket ball history
the Naval Air Station Comets
called it season today.
Two victories over the Pensacola.
Fla, Naval Air Station cagers fin
lshed a 23-game schedule as stiff as
any ever tempted-without a loss.
Rice and Texas tied for the South
western Conference title. but the
Comets, a non-member, beat Rice
three times and Texas twice. The
Comets rolled up 1887 points in
their % victories, an average of
nearly Sc a game. Only twice was
Coach Jack Gray's squad held to
fewer than 40 points,
Evening star., 1943-03-16
Drill in Cage So Satisfactory
Dodgers May Remoin indoors
Heated Army Field House Found Adequate
AS Players Go Through Brisk Workout

perspired and loosened up probably
as well as they would have in Ha-
Vana or Florida
Short of an actual game, the
Dodgers think they can do every
thing else in the cage"
Players Report in Good Trim.
One fact that impressed observers
was the uniformly good condition in
which the players reported. In
contrast to past years when ball
players showed up bulging from
winter eating and idleness. the early
arrivals among the Dodgers looked
sleek and swift
The difference was particularly
noticeable in Joe MedWick and Billy
Herman, two veterans on whom
much Of the Dodgers hopes rest.
Both had spent the winter in Texas
and llmbered up before reporting.
Herman, who batted only .256 last
season, could make Brooklyn's in
fleld situation great deal brighter
II he is able to regain his form of
earlier years.
Evening star., 1943-03-16

Milton HeafnCr, Stubby south
paw, says he's being nattCred in the
Mats roster which lists his height
as 3 feet 8 inches. It's an inch
less says the curly-haired Haefner,
but you won't make me mad by
saying it's fiVe-eight Yeah. I hear
a lot of cracks about my size, but 7
always tell EN- I'm long enough to
reach the ground"
Baseball represents comparative
vacation for Haefncr. who is a hard
working Illinois coal miner from
September TO March. He's worked
in the mines for nine years. but is
one Of the Mats more polished speci-
mems. He's 80 years old and knows
his way around.
Haefner could squeeze in only a
year OF high school before necessity
sent him to the mines for liveli-
hood when he was IS. L pitched
some semi pro bail for several
years says Milton. before hooked
on with Deland, Fla, in 1886. I won
G6 games with Deland that year.
Then it was Tallahassee and Mime
apoliS and now here.
Father Of boy, years old,
Haefner weighs 100 pounds, but says
he thrives on baseball, picking up
few pounds as the season ages. He's
proud Of his 1917 record last season
with Minneapolis. as he is privileged
to be. The fences there are niblick
shots frn1nn hntnnn r,lntn
Evening star., 1943-03-16
Scheetz Was SchooIboy Ace

Owen Scheetz. three fOurths Ger
man and one-fourth Dutch, is a
Stocky blond who was a teammate
Of Haefners last season at Mime
apoIis, but that was their first year
together. Scheetz was high school
pitching sensation, winning 80 out Of
"a starts for Baltic Ohio High.
Two of those tr1umphs were no-hit.
no-run jobs.
Scheetz attended Bliss Electrical
School at Columbus, Ohio. Bliss
didn't have a baseball team, but
Owen pitched for Columbus Bolt
Works and it was there that Fred
Hunter, Red SoX scout, discovered
him, Scheetz never has deserted
the bolt works, though. He's worked
there as an estimator for the last
eight winter seasons.
The Red SoX farmed him to Dan
vile, Va, where ne won IS games.
Then it was Rocky Mount, N. c..
Scranton, Pa; Little Rock. Ark:
Scranton again, Louisville, Mime
apoliS and now Washington. Hes
a 28-year-old, 1901 FOUNDER who has
picked up some polish en- route TO
the big leagues.
Evening star., 1943-03-16
Navy esFs Put Western Boys Ahead of Eusterners
Suffolk Alumni Wont cobo rs Grid coocb

So they Say-None Of these
items guaranteed story from
Boston is that the Suffolk Downs
race track soon may be sold for A
million bucks. Auburn alumni
are plugging for Pete Cauthon TO
succeed Jack Meagher as football
coach. Fort Knox. Ky. which was
expected to furnish service oppo-
SltIon for several Big Ten schools.
has been ordered to drop all but
lntramural football Head Man
Joe Bach has taken a high school
coaching Job
Reunion in New Orleans
When Howard Blakeslce. Assocj-
ated Press science editor. visit
ed Tulane University on recent
Southern tour he met Big
Monk" SlmOns, Tulanes famous
trainer. They seemed to see
something familiar and even
tually recalled that when Blakes-
lee was breaking middle-dls-
Evening star., 1943-03-16
Tigers Not 10 Stage
Camp Poker Games
Browns Caster in Line;
Bosox's Cronin Hefty
Ey the Associated Press.


EVANSVILLE, Ind. March 16.-
Manager Steve ONeIll has slapped
on a midnight cufew and prohibit
I'd the playing of poker among
the members Of the Detroit Tigers.
Bridge, rummy and pitch will be
permitted for small stakes.
CHICAGO. -- Manager Jimmy
DYKES Of the Chicago White Sox.
who recently underwent an opera
tion, is expected tomorrow from
the West Coat. The welcoming
committee viii take the ConyaIescent
skipper TO ComiSkey Park, where
President Grace ComiSkey viii be
hostess at a corned beef and cab
bage party III the preSsroon.
CAPE GIRARDEAU. Mo.-Chet
Laabs, outfelder, joined the ST. Louis
Browns today at about the same
time Manager Luke SeWeu was no.
tl6ed that Relief Pitcher George
Caster had agreed to terms. Catch
ers Rick Ferrell and Frankie Hayes
remain unsigned, along with eight
other Brownies.
MEDFORD. Mass Manager Joe
Cr0nm Of the Boston Red SOX APP
paIently needs the spring drill more
than any OF hi, athletes. He re-
ported here far above his best play
Ing weight Of 100 pounds.
ASBURY PARK, n. Bill Clip
per Smith. former Notrc Dame
football player and now coach OF
the Asbuiy Park High Schoo
eleven, has been hired by the New
York Yankees to direct causthenics
Catcher Bill Dickcy ano Pitche,
Ernie Bonham still are listed among
the h0ld0utS.
Evening star., 1943-03-16

tance running records for the
Southern Athletic Club back in
l907~8 Big Monk was a team
mate who specialized in busting
sprint records. They hadn't seen
each other since those dayS.
Dept. OF correction-Th re-
port recently carried here that
the former Alabama footballer.
Holt RaSt, is serving with Mai.
Gen. Jimmy Doolittle IN Africa
apparently belongs in the same
class with the stories YOU may
have heard about Barney Ross
death, Dixie HOWeu's decoration
Tor heroiSm and Bob McLeods
getting shot up. it amt true.
A letter from Holt Rast, ST,
explains that While his son land
ed in Northern Africa with the
American invasion forces he be-
longed to the Engineer Corps,
and there has been no word of
Holt's transfer TO the Air Corps.
Evening star., 1943-03-16
Dixon Is Ain1ino
For Speediest
Mile Of Year
Seeking 9TH Triumph
In Racing Old Foes
In Chicago Meet
BY CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN,


CHICAGO March 16-Take a
deep breath. A second has elapsed.
Flashed by in a hurry, didn't it?
The new mile marvel, Frank
Dixon, would like to lose that sec
ond lust as quick Saturday night in
the Chicago relays 1t might mean
the fastest mile Of the season.
Winner OF such miles as the Ma
tional AAU, Hunter and Colum-
bian, the New York University
freshman will try for his fourth
ma ior title in the Bankers.
A crowd Of some $4,000, one of the
largest of the track season, is ex-
Dected to watch the 20-year-old
Negro again meet the challenges of
Earl Mitchell of Indiana. Wanna
maker winner. and Gil Dodds. Bos-
ton divinity student, New York A. C.
champion
Both are a little tired of looking
at DiXon's back. Mitchell was sec
ond to him in the Boston A. A.
Hunter: Dodds breathed down his
spine in both the National AAU
and last Saturdays Columbian in
the knights of Columbus meet.
Twice Dixon has clipped 4:09 6. but
he must cut more than a second off
that time to beat Mitchel's 4.08.6,
best mile of the season.
Makes that little second look
pretty big, doesn't it? II you still
are holding your breath you can let
it out now
Five other National AAU cham
pions competing in the relays are
Lewis Smith, Prairie View College,
Hampstead, Tex. in the special 500;
Sprinter Herbert Thompson. Jersey
City; TWo-miler Greg Rice. New
York A c.; Hurdler Bob Wright,
Ohio State, and Pole Vaulter Cor
nelius Warmerdam. now an ensign
at Chapel Hill s c.
Evening star., 1943-03-16
Cards Pilot Sees Another FIoo
With Fair Breuk in Weather
Comp Rich in Talent, but Lack of Indoor
Facilities Could Hurt if Rains Come

clubs during the war shortened
spring training period, climatic con-
dltlonS are going to be an all-impor-
tant factor in Southworth's ability
to whip his players into shape for
the pennant race opening April u.
II he gets a break in the weather
and he should at the Southern
most OF all major league camps
SouthWorth will be off to a gallop-
ing start in quest for another cham
plonship, because he has no real
player problems.
Indoor Quarters Cramped.
But string Of bad days would
be another story. since the Cards
have no adequate indoor training
facilities. An old high school gym
naslum made of wood and with a
low roof, has been placed at the
teams disposal, but the barnlike
structure is scarcely large enough
to let all 80 members of the squad
take part III game of catch.
For that reason Billy is going to
work his boys out of doors when
ever it's possible, and that's where
Trainer Harrison J. Weaver's sup
ply OF long underwear for PLAYERS
will come in handy as protection
against colds.
But weather Or not, President
Sam Bread0n, who is here with the
ball club, said, "Well win the pen
nant whether We train or not"
Singing Sam had some solid sup
port in SouthWorth's appraisal of
the teams prospects.
Talent Is Plentiful.
AS Billy viewed it, the teams in
field is intact with Johnny Hopp
or Ray Sanders at first, Capt. Jim
my Brown at second. Martin Mar
ION at short and Whitley Kurowski
at third.
Outfelder Stan Musial. Catcher
Walker Cooper and Ken ODea are
three other regulars to be count
ed on.
The pitching staff includes Nor
ton Cooper. Ernie White. Murray
Dickson, Bill Beckmann, Harry
Gumbert Howard KriSt, Howard
POllet and Max Lanier.
That leaves two outfeld positions
Of Terry Moore and Enos Slaughter
and the pitching berth of johnny
Beazley the Cardinals three ma
jor contributions to the armed
forces. SOuthWorth has seven out
field candidates to look over and
SIX top-1ieht pitching prospects.
He's almost like the Old woman
in the shOe-he has so many to
pick from he doesn't know what
to do
Evening star., 1943-03-16
Feminine Purple Flash
Stirs RussIinq Funs

The Purple Flash, a woman raSsler
mcased in lavender tights and mask,
Is the latest attraction figuring to
draw WaShingtons raSsling fans.
Her 22-mlnute victory over Elvira
SnodgraSS stole the show last night
at uline Arena, especially after the
nam attraction between the Golden
Terror and Man Mountain Dean
turned out to be a bust.
The expected fireworks failed to
appear in this slow engagement and
the Terror won in eight minutes
After the opening draw between Jim
Ste1ano and Ike Fisher, Wladyslaw
Talun defeated Chief CheWactI
Wilbur Morgan topped Ivan Vaktu-
rolf and George Marcicostas won
over Chief Bambu Tabu.
Evening star., 1943-03-16
Toble Net Upset Victor
Shea to Face Gorin

Jimmy Shea, upset conqueror OF
Sy SuSsman No. 2 seeded player
and co-holder of the national
doubles championship. will stack up
against Lou CORN tomorrow night
at Columbia courts in a District
table tennis tournament seminal
match. The victor will meet the
winner Of the Thor Stanley
Fields match for the title.
Shea disposed Of Sussman, 23-21,
1871, 26-28, 25-23, 21-19, while
in the womens division Carolyn
Wilson defeated Virginia Redmond
in straight games to gain the final
round with Margaret Acton.