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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (July 25, 1945)
a. City News In Brief : SCHOOL ELECTION Election - for consolidation of the Gordon ,' Creek school district with the El gin school district wus ordered at : a special session of the district boundary board yesterday in the ' office of County Judge C. K. Mc ': Cormick. Date has not been set. RETURN HOME County ;i Treasurer Al Harlow returned yesterday from a visit to Port " land. ON BUSINESS Lynn Hamp ton, superintendent of schools in Haines, was in La Grande Mon day and Tuesday on business. ONE ARRESTED: Glenn Gra ham, Elgin, was arrested by city police last night on charge of be ing drunk. He is being held for appearance in city court, police I Coords show. J ;TAX OFFICIAL HERE Dene i Hickman, chief investigator in charge of the Portland office of alcohol tax commisison, was here yesterday on business. FUNERAL SERVICE Final rites for Martin L. Bidder, 50, of Giant's Pass, who died Sun day, will be at W:30 a.m. Friday at the Methodist church in Un ion cemetery. Besides his wife, Dorothy Townley Bidder, he leaves his mother, Mrs. Jennie Bidder of Sparks, Nov., and three sisters, Mrs. Helena Stearns of Portland, Mis. Agnes Denton of Sparks, and Mrs. Luia Tulur ski of Ft. Lewis, Wash. SUIT FILED Mogul Trans portation company has filed suit ugainst G. L. Larison, et al, charging defendant took without consent a Kenworlh truck, valued at $4,51)0, from possession of the plaintiff. Causa of the deten tion was1 alleged to be claim of defendants for making repairs on the vehicle, records show. Plain tiff asks recovery of the vehicle, or the sum of $4,500, with costs and disbursements incurred. LAST TIME TODAY Predictions For Farming Trends 'Impossible' UNION.July 25 (Special) No pre dictions can be made as to future trends in Union county farming, according to U. W. Schaad, coun ty agent, who addressed the Po mona Grange picnic. Schaad has observed changes from one type of crop to another in the county several limes. Up to 20 years ago the bulk of furm ing in the Grande Rnde valley was in wheat. Then it changed to diversified farming with field 3ceds taking the lead. This trend led to the forma tion of the Blue Mountuin seed growers association about eight years ago. Then, with the war, the trend was again to wheat. More thun 130 persons attend ed the picnic, which started with i field demonstration in the morn ing, followed by dinner. The pro gram was under the direction of Mrs. Edd Boswell of Cove, lec turer of the Pomona Grange. Mrs. Frank Jasper led community singing, and Mr. Avery, experi ment station director, gave the address of welcome to which Emil Miller of Elgin, Grange mas ter, rsponded. Frank Wright, past master of Pomona Grange, gave two readings. There were games and contests. Mrs. Margaret Thorpe of Union won the hus band calling contest. ijy Joan fontaine fltturofce Cordova ReMchmanS Crosby to Direct Kenny Campaign MINNEAPOLIS, July 25 (UP) Screen star Bing Crosby will direct a campaign to raise $5,000, 000 to carry the sister Kenny in fantile paralysis treatment to every state in the union. Crosby telegraphed the Elizabeth Kenny institute yesterday, indicating his acceptance of the chairmanship of the 1045 campaign. Money raised during the cam paign will be divided on a 50-50 basis. Half will be retained by each state to establish clinics for training students In the Kenny technique or to support hospitals for polo victims. The remainder will go to the permanent head quarters of the Kenny institute. TODAY '. .SPORTYPARAI 5E. J'4 5"l.1,ncri"r,:yi ..nrt ' " ,.ur " ... rilil : ... .......... .. "MfMORABll!" JESSICA DRAGONETTE MOSS HART GRACE MOORE ARTHUR MURRAY SOUND ROMBERG DEEMS TAYLOR about "A SONG TO REMEMBER' a mw mucu Ot JICHNICOIORI X Song lo Ilemoinlier: ', IN TICHNICOlOl MUNIOBERON CORNEL WILDE ' NINA TOCH GIOfltH COULOURIS "5 fx Liberty Ktaiiinir Sunday By JACK CUDDY UP Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, July 25 (UP) Gotham's baseball crowd was a house divided today over whether locquaciou8 Lorry MacPhail, pres ident of the Yunkces, went "out of bounds" to criticize Manager Joe McCarthy's club for lack of hustle. Baseball scribes, subway riders, the fan in the street and even the players themselves pitchd into the controversy which may or may not have anything to do with Mc Carthy s unaccepted resignation and his nervous illness that sent him home to Buffalo, N. ,Y., for a rest. Amateurs MacPhail, who steadfastly has kept his word that he would not enter the Yankee dressing room or interfere with McCarthy s management of the club, watched the team grow progressively. He saw an infield that frequently looked amateurish pile up a to tal that now has reached 112 er rors for 82 games, highest for cither league. He saw players drawing sal aries for mediocre play that would be fabulously high for stars on any other club in baseball. Fi nally ho blew his top. In typical ly picturesque language he de cried the "disinterested attitude" of many of the players and their lack of hustle and emotion." Rosigned Significantly or not McCarthy's illness stemmed from the date of MacPhail's blast to newspaper men. That he resigned flatly there is no doubt that MacPhail des perately tried to persuade him to to reconsider also is established definitely. What is doubtful is whether there was a connection between MacPhail's blast and McCarthy's absenteeism. And that is what has the fans, the scribes and the play ers in a dither. One school of thought insists that McCarthy, with a proud rec ord of no second division teams m 14 years as Yankee manager, simply couldn't take it any longer as he watched the most inept club he ever directed pass up op portunity after opportunity to move up as contenders. Lost Seven During the home stay which produced the crisis, the Yankees have won only three games and have lost seven. They have been playing below the .400 mark for more than a month. This school believes MacPhail's criticism, though valid, wall ill-timed and that he might better have been able to serve the club by a few player deals. The other side contends that as long as MacPhail is boss man and holds the purse strings, he has a perfect right to be critical and they emphasize he did not in any way criticize McCarthy or his methods. LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER Phone 600 SPORTS Complete Local Keports Wednesday, July 25, 1945 Page 6 American Loop Looks Like Race Backwards Babe Freese Hailed As Best Woman In Golf in Year 8 CHICAGO, July 25 (UP) Carol (Hahe) Freese, a little, pug nosed kid from Portland, Ore., today was hailed as the coming women golf champion of Amer ica the kind of player who some day may dominate the distaff side of the game as Byron Nelson now rules the? male competition. Miss Freese is just 5 feel, 2 inches tall and weighs u little over 100 pounds, but she has a big heart and whopping power in her drives as she proved yes terday by taking medalist hon ors in qualifying for the all American woman's open. The Tain O'Shanter course, with its rolling greens and long holes, is lough for women, but she came within one stroke of tying the women's course record with a three-undcr-par 71) to lead the 24 qualifiers. Although this is only her third major tournament, Lt. Ben Hogan and Nelson hailed Miss Freese as "the greatest woman player to come along since Babe Didrik sen." curerntly the queen of fem inine golf. "Give her a little more experi enceshe's only 20 and she'll be the greatest of Ihem all by fur." said Fred Corcoran, P. G. A. tournament maifiger. V Added rnM.wI.. TONIGHT Oranacla and Thursday THE MUGS MEET A PRINCESS ! tit) rc Lea GORCIY Huntz HALL Billy BENEDICT Gloria POPE Carlyle BLACKWELL, Jr. V2 Ain.skfin Crundeui- News Kdgtir Kennedy By CARL LUNDQUIST NEW YORK, July 25 (UP) You'd think it was the last place Athletics the so-called American league contenders were trying to catch these days in a race that seems to be developing into a lull "retrcut" from the pennant. Take the pace setting Detroit Tigers. They left home on an eastern road trip, four and a half games in front and won only four games, losing seven and tying one. That they still are three full games in front is evidence of the backward trend. Loes Fourth The second place Washington Senators came home after one of the most successful road trips in years and promptly hit a medio cre stride, winning six and los ing seven. They climaxed the stand last night by dropping their third straight game to the Cleve land Indians, 4 to 0. Fire-baller Allie Reynolds piteffed a seven hitter for Cleveland. Lambert (Dutch) Meyer paced the 11-hit Indian attack off Emil (Dutch) Leonard, who suffered his fourth defeat. It was Reynold's 10th win. The St. Louis Browns, who picked up some ground on their eastern swing, fell out of the first division after squeezing in for a day, losing a 6 to 0 shutout at Boston. Emmett O'Neill pitched a four-hitter. Sigmund Jakucki, usually a control artist, lost main ly because of his wildness. Cubs Lead The Cubs, with southpaw Bob Chipman back in marness, beat the Phillies at Chicago; 8 to 3, for their 24th victory in 31 games against eastern teams since June 27. Bill Nicholson's three run triple was the key blow for Chip man in his first appearance since June 20. The win kept Chicago's four and a half game load in the National intact. The Giants remained ahead of the Reds in fifth place in the Na-: tional league, winning, 6 to 4, at Cincinnati. Harry Feldman ser ved up a home run pitch to Frank McCormiek which accounted for two Red runs, but after that hap paned in the second, he had little trouble. He also made two hits. Cards Win The Pirates won their fifth game in six from the Braves, 6 to 5, in 11 innings. Veteran Jackie Saltzgaver scored the tying run in the ninth inning, after sing ling. In the nth he came across with the winning run on a long fly after leading off with a triple. Relief pitcher Kon Gables won his seventh gambc without a de feat. Augic Bergamo of the Cards broke a second place tie with the Brooklyn Dodgers by singling in the ninth to score Marty Marion for u 7 to 6 victory. It was his third straight hit and enabled the Birds to climax an uphill battle which found them behind 6 to 1 at one time. No other games were sched Baseball Standings By United Press AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Fci. Detroit 47 36 .566 Washington 44 39 .530 Chicago 44 41 .518 Boston 44 41 .518 New York 42 40 .512 St. Louis 41 40 .506 Cleveland 40 43 .482 Philadelphia ::. 30 52 .866 NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago 53 32 .624 St. Louis 50 38 .563 Brooklyn 49 39 .557 Pittsburgh 48 42 .533 New York 47 45 .511 Cincinnati 40 42 .488 Boston .'. 25 68 .269 Philadelphia ............ 25 68 .269 PACIFIC COAST Portland 72 42 .632 Seattle 68 48 .579 Sacramento 57 58 .496 Sun Francisco 57 59 .491 Oakland 56 59 .487 San Diego 54 63 .462 Los Angeles 52 62 .456 Hollywood 46 69 .400 Conzelman Thinks Browns to Start Doing Better PORTLAND, July 25 (UP) James Con) elman, assistant to the president of the 1944 p3n-nant-winning St. Louis Browns, left here for St. Louis today af ter spending a brief vacation on a fishing trip with Justice Wil-' liam O. Douglas in the Wallowa mountains. "We've been losing a lot of games by one and two runs, he paid, "but eventually the per centage is going to be on our side. When that happens the Browns should start moving up the ladder. Conzelman, a 47-ycar-old Mis sourian, has been with the St.' Louis Browns since the, summer of 1943, taking over the baseball post after three years as coach of the Chicago Cardinals of the National professional football league. FLY TO PORTLAND! Daily except Sunday charter plane service at low rates. Make Reservations. Eastern Oregon Airways Phone 6R13 ton rm up Wilson Wear by Wilson Brothers We're proud t,i recommend this clean-cut Skipper Sport shii't . . . tailored of SKYTOP, an all-cotton fabric, San forized for non-shrinkinjr, vat-dyed for color fastness. KiKimily built for free and easy movement. Short sleeven only. SKYTOP comes in a variety of spring shading's; it's feather-linltt in weight . . . takes little space in drawer or club lw):. Come s.e it! TROTTERS Seattle Trims Game Off Lead Of Portland Club Cut to Six Games San Diego Goes Into Sixth By United Pres The Seattle Rainiers ' found Lefty Roy Helser's slants to their liking Tuesday night for five inn ings and coupled wllti ueorge McDonald's double went on to defeat the league leading Port land Beavers, 6-1, ancf shave a complete games off the Bcvos' lead, now six games. The other change recorded in the Pacific Coast league baseball standings involved the battle, of the bulge and in it the San Diego Padres displaced Los Angeles in sixth place with a 7-5 victory over Sacramento. Oakland moved within a half game of the fourth place Seals with a 6-3 triumph. The cellar-dwelling Stars of Hol lywood ' pounded their fellow townsmen,- Los Angeles, 7-4, at Gilmore field. Ancient Carl Fischer hurled for the Suds and his lefthanded offerings won him his 14th vic tory of the season and held Port-, land to 10 hits. Helscr was chased in the fifth during a four-run splurge, featured by McDonald's double into the left field corner. Jake Moty came in for the Bea vers and stopped the Rainiers for the rest of the game. Fischer lost his shutout with two out in the ninth inning as Johnny O'Neill crossed the plate on L,arry Barton's scratch single to the infield. ' . Brazil Packed With Melody and Mirth tntertainmentthat has quali ties for every taste- is nn th screen at.t he Liberty theater. starting Thursday, in the new Re public musical, "Brazil." The music by Ary Barroso, Bra zil's' distinguished composer, is exquisite. Sung by the Mexican troubadour. Tito Guizar. who stars with Virginia Bruce, it is aengmiui. The theme number, ''Rio' de Janerio," promises to ri val Barrosols earlier hit. "Bra zil." -, -. . Brilliant dancing by Veloz and Yolanda, the celebrated team that has charmed Broadway for years, is. fitting visual rhythm for the score. 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