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Page LA GRANDE EVENING OUSERVER Complete Local Reports Thursdiy, April 2fi, 19-13 Women's Bowling Honors Taken by Big Bear Five Top place in the' womon's bow ling league in the second half of the current schedule we nt to the Big Bear Market five last night, when they took one point ir. the mutch with the Falk quin tet. The Country club team trails by nine points pending the out come or tonight's play, which also will decide the runner up, the Farnam team having gone into a tic for the second spot by splitting with the Ilosana shop team last night. Carrie Jones of the Finnani five rolled high game of 109, but a single pin above th-? best ol Marion Walker of the Dig Bears, six pins above Lillian hnrthcr, who chalked up a high series of 5 HI- Her series score was six pins totter than that of Mrs. Jones. The score.': Ilosana Shop Players 1st 2nd 3rd Til. T. Havburn ... Mil HS 172 4Mi L. Kurther ....HO 1! 1711 518 B, Huff 157 II!) 1 4MI M. Smith 114 132 !!) 345 M. Sc veins ... 132 I(i8 181) 489 Handicap .... 35 35 35 105 Totals 733 792 817 2342 Farnam Supply C. Jones' Kid 199 148 513 R. Die-shears 152 '151 115 418 L Lee 135 157 120 412 C. Spaeth 158 113 1(17 438 M. Spaeth 138 179 12H 443 Handicap .19 19 19 57 Totals 7HH 818 (S95 2281 Falk't P Reid 143 123 103 3(59 K. Burr-ass .. .120 158 104 382 M. Brackelt ... 1 10 80 911 292 J. Skjonsby .. .122 130 150 408 O. Powell 100 1 13 149 422 Handicap .... 09 89 89 2(17 Totals 750 (193 01)7 2140 Big Bear Markot S. Bernhardt .. 811 115 120 323 h. Larson 113 132 110 3hft M. Luveless.. 137 133 105 375 L. A I vers 110 127 71 308 M. Walker 134 108 109 501 Handicap . . 53 53 53 159 Totals (135 758 02H 2021 COSTNER GETS DECISION OAKLAND, Calif., April 20 (UP) George (Sugar) Costlier, lanky Cincinuali and Chicago welterweight, pounded out a 10 round decision over Chester Slid er of Oakland here last night. Gi'iiBiaslsa ENDS TONIC 111 OUTLAWS ON THE RUN! itfftS?,' A Dortilivll Johnny OH'S hl-jacki thilr ilolm rSk"V S0" ""d tnni lhm 3US!;W-v - . ."3 --... MONOORAM PICTUM a coiumiu riciiur DTK .W.' - 7Mk f miiiiiii mi" ff'nt filiLmfl o Plus Second Hit Am bun Hill K Q &jfj 111 (M F- - W . 't : bsaSsL Phone (Kill SPORTS Page 8 10 Ar e Chosen For Baseball's Hall of Fame NEW YORK, April 20 (UP) The doors of baseball's hall of fame at Cooperstown, N. Y opened wide today for 10 great old timers whose feats on the diamond ocurred before 1910. Their plaques will be placed with baseball's immortals along with the late high commissioner of baseball, Judge Kenesaw M. Landis. Jimmy Collins, former Boston Red Sox third baseman, and Rog er Bresnahan, New York Giant catcher who died recently, were on the list of candidates of the baseball writers' association, but both failed to receive the neces sary 75 per cent majority. The others named were Hugh Jennings, shortstop and manager of the Detroit Tigers; "Uncle" Wilbcrt Robinson, catcher for the old Baltimore Orioles and late manager of the Brooklyn Dodg cis; Dan Brouthers, Detroit out fielder and one of the game's fin est hitters; Fred Clark, outfield ci and manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates; Ed Delahanly, pitcher for the Washington Senators and Philadelphia Phillies; Hugh Duf fy, still a coach and scout for the Boston Red Sox and a former outfield star with both Boston clubs; Mike Kelly, Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs' catcher who made famous the cheer "Slide, Kelly, slide," and Jimmy O'Hourko, New York catcher, who also played with the old Buffalo National league club. Cub Hurler Shuts Shuts Out Reds riNl-INIMAT! Aniril 5ft HIPl I In the only major league game) played yesterday, the Chicago Cubs moved a full game ahead of tho thud place Cards by beating the Reds here, 4 to 0. Claude Passeau, 36-year-old right bander, started the Cubs to victory with a homer in the third and singled in another run in the seventh while holding the Reds to five hits. All of the other games were postponed because of rain. Elgin Wins 5-1 From Imbler Nine ELGIN, April 26. Good base running by Elgin high school players and eight errors by Im bler yesterday gave the' local nine a 5 to 4 victory. Wesley Conrad, Imbler's pitch ing arc, held the lucnl squad to a single hit, while his teammates gathered five off the delivery of Wiles, but it proved insufficient to put over the winning run. Imbler went scoreless until the 1 ist inning, when the entire four iuns were piled up, chiefly on El gin errors. The score; R II E Elgin 0 1 0 0 2 2 x 5 1 4 Imbler - 0 0 0 0 0 0 44 5 8 Hatteries: Wiles and Chandler; Conrad and Fitzgerald. City News In Brief H. A. Decker has returned from a liusines.s and pleasure trip to Salt Lake 'ity, where he at tended the celebration of his par tuts' golden wedding anniver sary. A. C. Klien. member of a rail load extra gany at Durkee. re ceived a foot injury last night when he slipped while trying to board a freight train in the rail road yards here. He was given fust aid at the fire station for a crushed toe and taken to a phy sician. He planned In return to Oui kee tiul.iv. William Koctcr Vancouver, Wash., the scittiiis illness Mi s. Mm v Yeske was stneke-n by was called to last night by of his mother, Mrs. Yeske heart attack wlule visiting a daughter. Positively Kit (Is SATl KDAY BING CROSBY , mac oirvcno (3 i i. Beavers Lose io Oaks But Hold Coast Loop Lead By United Press The Hollywood Stars still were entrenched in the Pacific coast league cellar today but they had nioro(reason to be cheerful than at any time since the pennant campaign began. Pitcher Joe Mishasek cut the gloom in the Twinks' camp when he pitched them to a 3-0 victory over the second-place Seattle Rainlers in tha first game of a douhleheader last night. Seattle copped the nightcap, 2-1, but had to bear down all the way as Hol lywood continued to provide stiff opposition. Pallca Drops First Game Mishasek allowed the Hainiers only three scattered hits while his teammates collected six olf Alex Palicn, young Seattle moundsman, who suffered his first loss of the scoscn. Carl Fischer was the winning twirler in the finale, giving up nine hits but tightening up in the clutches Three hits and a walk gave the Rainiers their runs in the sixth. The Portland Beavers main tained a one-game hold on first place even though they lost to Oakland, 4 to 2. The Acorns naked Red Mann to a three-run margin in the first inning and were never headed. Seals Nose Out Padres San Francisco's Seals evened their series with San Diego at one game each by downing the Padres, 4 to 3, behind Bob Joyce's pitching. Sacramento and Los Angeles split a twin bill, the Angels tak ing the first game, 3-2, and the Solons annexing the second, 4-1, oh the strength of Guy Fletcher's five-hit tossing. Lou Novikoff's homer highlighted the opener. ' news or OUR MEN,WOMCN IN UNIFORM Wallace Rudd, gunners mate third class, who spent two weeks leave in La Grande with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Rudd, after a year's duty in the Pacific theater of operations, has left to ( report to Fort Pierce, Fla., where i he will have two months duty as instructor. Bctty K(,ITi storekeeper first ci.,ss. WAVES, is in La Grande on leave from her duties in Seat- j tic. Before entering the service. Miss Kerr was employed by Western Union. I Robert II. Baker, of the mer chant marine, has returned to Portland after two weeks leave n La Grande with his family and friends. He recently returned from Liverpool. Baker is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Roll Baker. Jack Hodgin of Adams, chief petty officer, US navy, slopped briefly in La Grande last eve ning. Hodgin, a graduate of Eastern Oregon college, was en tente to Haines to visit relatives. Oregon Liquor Jobs Opened to Veterans PORTLAND, Ore., April 20 (UP) The Oregon liquor control commission today was opening its employment rolls to persons under 30 years of age, relaxing a 10-year-old regulation that re turning war veterans might find employment. Action taken at the commission meeting yesterday set the new age limit at 21 years. The latest VICTOR anil DECT A RECORDS "My Dreams Are Celling! Itelter" Johnny Long "A Song to Remember"" Freddy Martin "lust a Praver Awav" Ring I'rosby "Chin-K" Spike Jones 'Sad Sack" Artie Shaw Children's and Classical Records Sheet Music IViotone Needle I Filter Surface Noise flit l 13 I0C1 Radio & Music o Supply Co. Ceo. I'iss, Pi tip,. 1st National Hank Uldg. Phoned 0S il i. Miiile I .nloi ni i-e S"H'k! MM ( handler Promises Senators Honor New WASHINGTON, April 26 I (UP) Baseball's new ..igh commissioner, Sen. Albert 13. (Happy) Chandler, made it plain today that one of his first official acts will be to restore the major league all-star game in July if the war in Europe ends soon. The Kentucky Democrat, moved almost to tears by the high tribute of his senate col leagues, was given a big send off yesterday in the closing moments of the day's session in (he chamber. It was started by 79-year-old Sen. Hiram Johnson, R., Cal who crossed over to the Demo ci atic side and described Chandler as a "man of undis puted guts." Shaking his finger at the 40- Today We Pay Tribute to I'hilit) Erwin Leonard, Ipvialion machinist male first class, son nl' Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Leonard, Island Cily, who spent Iwn years at the naval air station at IVnsucnla, Fla., and almost two years in Al aska. He attended elementary school in liirch I!ay, Wash., and high school in La Grande. I Before entering the navy in January, 1011, he worked on his parents' farm. Poultry Markets To Close to Curb Prices j 1 LOS ANGELES. April 20 (UP) Southern California poultry markets will close Friday for an indefinite period, Julius L. Samp son, attorney for the Poultry Dealers association of Southrcn California, said today. In a heated meeting which lusted until early this morning, 150 deale-rs voted to close shops as the only way to force poultry producers' prices down to OI'A wholesale ceiling prices, Sainp s'n said. "Right now deajers have been paying 40 cents a pound, 11 cents above the ceiling. That means a loss for the dealers," the at toi ney explained. ' S f :VT ,i.,' iVeV'., J ' '. Jj s 12$ J Tt fit vis I J 3 V '111 i mi ft "Clean'' Baseball Diamond Czar car-old Kentuckian Johnson admonished him to "be your selfbaseball is peculiarly rep resentative of this country. Sec that it represents you." Chandler arose in response and said:- "As long as I live I'll never forget those words of approval from one of the greatest men America ever produced. I piomise you, Senator Johnson, that I will keep baseball clean." ' ' Chandler said he has asked Leslie O'Connor, secretary to his predecessor, the late Judge K. M. Landis; to remain at hsi post at least for awhile. He will confer at Chicago with O' Connor next week and may de cide to transfer the commis sioner's offices elsewhere. City, County Get Beverage Funds Allocation of $304.44 to Union county and $385.32 to the city of La Grande from the first quar terly appoitionment of beverage taxes was announced today in ' Salem by Secretary of State Rob ert S. Farrcll, jr. The quarterly disbursement totalled $54,198. The money is distributed on a ; population basis, and it was an l r.ounced that cities of1 less than 2,000 population may make appli cation to the secretary of state for a census to determine their share in the appoitionment, un der an arrangement approved at the recent session of the legisla ture. ON THE MOVE Palomar observatory, home of the world's largest telescope, stands on a granite mountain in southern California. The moun tain not only is rising slowly above the surrounding plain, but also is moving slowly westward. Twenty-three hundred silk worms are required io mp- uue pound of silk.' - ... WEEK-END SPECIALS ASPARAGUS, lb 15c ONIONS - RADISHES, 2 Hunches 15c Cabbage, new. fresh, lb. 9c Apples, cooking:, box $210 Coffee All Brands lb. Hamburger, lb 25c Link Pork Sausage, lb. 35c Pork Roast, lb 2Sc Sinden's Grocery 1323 Y Ave. Pnone 981 The lexik "t sunuiier in (. fields and classic 1,asto1 sll;l(its- tit ully tailmtst am llester styles ! all beau- imi linei'l. THK Sl ITS A pastel suit to iiiu.nd out your UrlHT'or wacdlMbe. Soft smin woaVes ' with -tlm" new caliliisaii -'neckline. ......... U. S. Casualties Reach 927,373 WASHINGTON, April 20 tUP) U. S. combat casualties reached 627,373 today in official compila tions here. Today's total is 17,173 greater than that for a week ago. Navy, coast guard and marine corps casualties, meanwhile, pass ed the 100,000 mark, reaching 100,372. The army total is 829, 001. Army Navy Total Killed 166,104 39,078 205,182 Wounded 507,018 46,631 553.649 Missing 82,671 10,405 93,076 Prisoners 73,208 , 4,258 77.466 Totals 829,001 100,372 929,373 The report lists total casualties to March 31 in the various thea ters of operations as follows, with the total casualties listed first and the number of killed second: Middle east, 3,264, 1,170; Alas ka, 1,768, 753; Caribbean, includ ing south Atlantic, 62, 51; China, 479, 106; European, 514.865, 96, 890; Mediterranean, 167,074, 35, 167; Pacific (including Philip pines) 85,163, 17,259; India-Burma, 4,443, 1,423. " BUTTONS FOR MOURNING Black buttons on the gaiters of the Gordon Highlanders were first adopted as a token of mourning for Sir John Moore, who died at Corunna, in 1809. 1 tf V . 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H,,x Q. 23c Portland Homes Are Sought for Veterans PORTLAND, Ore., April 26 (UP) At least one-fourth of the 500 war veterans returning to Portland each month are without ATTENTION ALL JUNIOR -CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MEMBERS It Is Imperative that EVERYONE Meet Tonight at 6:00 P.M. At the Salvage Depot to Finish the Paper Drive. Please he There .', . r v I- .!!) I!) . nc iiiyc Leather 4.79 When a man picks out a style in a pair of shoes, it's not so much a question of his age. but his taste, prefer ence. A Town er a f t Deluxe Shoe is right for you' Bov's sturdy SCHOOL TROUSERS A good looking long wearing cavelry twill trousvr of san-foriz-d cotton. Blue CT.98 and bronie. sizes 6-18. Juttnile Sites PLAY JIMMIES Bib style play pants in wanted colors, stuidy fabrics, 4 .29 sanforized. Size-s 4-10. homes, the veterans' hcusfeg coinniiltcc stated tuday in launch, ing a "share yuur home" cam paign in behalf of the Vetera.!) D. B.' 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