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LX GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER Phone 600 Complete Local Reports Friday, September 21, 1945 Washington, Detroit Back Toward Flag By CARL LUNDQUIST r NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (UP) The "turtle derby" for the Amer ican league pennant lacked only the strains of slow music today with the Detroit Tigers and Wash ington Senators funeral - march ing along as if to their doom in stead of to fat money payoff of the world series. " The bedraggled ball clubs, find ing it hard to regain the sizzling pace that made them contenders in the first place, were doing u fine job of backing into the pen nant after their "all-out" series at Washington over the weekend. Lose Five ', The Senators looked like "nine old men" in losing their fifth straight game at Yankee stadium to New York, fl to 1, yesterday, blaying with their eyes on the scoreboard to sec whether the Tigers were faring any better at Cleveland. ,' They weren't. The Indians made it two straight over Detroit, also by a 8 to 1 score. All of their runs came along with a deluge of rain in the eighth inning. ' The Tigers salvaged more out of their defeat than the Senators, because they now can clinch the pennant on any combination of five victories or defeats. They need to win five of their six re- Nelson Takes Two Stroke Lead in Spokane Open SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 21 (UP) Byron Nelson's two stroke lead In the $10,000 Esmer alda golf open goes on the firing line for 73 challengers in second round play over the rolling In dian Canyon course here today. ; Nelson, Toledo, O., umbrella salesman, blasted a six-under-par 00 throughi rain and hail squalls yesterday to pace golf dom's greatest masters in the first 18 of a 72-hole medal tour ney ending Sunday. Close behind Nelson, winner of 17 tournaments this year, is 20-year-old Ed Furgon of Detroit, who posted a OH, and Jack Cage, newly-turned pro from Sun Ber nardino, Calif., with 0D. Bunched at 70 at the end of the first round were Ben Hogan of Hershcy, Pa.; Harold (Jug) Mc Spuden, San ford, Mo.; Newt Bassler, Carmel, Calif.; Joe Hunt er, Santa Anita, Calif.; Fred Wood, Vancouver, B. C. and Marsh Hammond, Spokane ama teur. Slammin' Sammy Snead, who coasted to easy victoiies in the last two big shows at Dallas and Tulsa, got off to a shaky start with a 73, one over par. Snead had trouble on the fust, sloping green, needing 37 pulls In his first round. .Among the 10 others whe scored better than pro-tourney favorite Snead were Leonard Doson, Kansas City, and Al Zim merman, Portland, with 71s, and Jimmy Hines, Chicago! George Fazio, Sun Francisco, and Hurry Glvan, Seattle nmutcur und de fending champion. Learn to Fly! Student Training By Experienced Fliors EASTERN OKKCON AIRWAYS Phone 6R13 La Grande Airport Have you tried the finest beer ever produced by Roesch Brewery? Ask for ELK HORN BEER lap SPORTS Page 6 maining games to take the flag if Washington wins all of its four contests. Each Washington de feat makes it necessary for De troit to win one less game. Cut Lead The Cardinals tightened up the National league race again as Harry Brcchccn pitched a 2 to 0, six-hit shutout over the Cubs for his sixth straight victory. That reduced Chicago's lead to two games with eight more for each team of play. The Cards made three of their 10 hits off Ray Prim in the first Inning to take a 1 to 0 lead. Ray Sanders drove in Buster Adams with a scratch single. Three more singles in the seventh produced the other tally with Al Schoen dienst scoring Marty Marion. The Cubs threatened in the ninth. Can't Win Senator Manager Ossic Blucge, who thinks the Nats will win the flag because "I don't believe De troit can win any more ball games," said ho would go today with John Miggcling, although Roger Wolff is rested and ready. The Yankees scored twice off Nat starter Mickey Haefner in the first. George Stirnwciss add ed another run with a third-inning hornet to counter a tally by Washington. After that Joe Page, the Yankee lefty, closed the scor ing gate of listless Capitolians, although he had men on base in every inning. Alton Benton, going into the eighth with n 1 tii 0 lead for the Tigers saw it low up in his face when his mates made three er rors behind him. Rain delayed the inning near ly an hour and the Tigers were unable to accomplish anything in their final time at bat. The Boston Braves defeated the Dodgers at Brooklyn, 3 to 2, in the National with Bob Logan out pitching Hal Gregg. Randy Hef lin of the Red Sox shut out the Athletics at Boston, 2 to 0, in the American. Traditional Big Games Scheduled Across Country By WILLIAM TUCKER NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (UP) Pigskin pandemonium breaks loose across the country this weekend, starting tonight in Lo3 Angeles when 110,000 fans arc ex pected to watch the Southern California Trojans open against their bitter cross-town rival, U. C. L. A. Tonight's classic headlines a curd of 11 major games and a score of lesser struggles from coast to coast that may attract a total of 500,000 cash and victory-flushed fans to the first big postwar football show. East Syracuse vs. Cornell of Syracuc, N. Y. (18,000); Bucknell vs. Villunovu at Lewisburg, Pa. (10,000). South Duke vs. South Caro line at Durham, N. C. (20,000); Mississippi vs. Kentucky at Mem phis, Tcnn. (15,000). Midwest Michigan vs. In diana ut Ann Arbor, Mich. (30, U00); Purdue vs. Marquette ut La fayette, Ind. (10,000); Northwest ern vs. Iowa Slate at Evanston, 111. (35,000); Illinois vs. Pitts burgh ut Champaign, 111. (20,000). Far west Southern Califor-nia-U. C. L. A. (80,0001; Califor nia vs. St. Mary's at Berkeley, Cul (40,000). San Francisco Cinches Fourth As Acorns Lose By United Press San Francisco Seals sewed up their fourth place position in the Pacific coast league standings Thursday night by stopping Los Angeles, 4-1, while the Oakland Acorns, who had been a poten tial threat to the bay city team, dropped two games to Hollywood, both by 4-3 scores. The Seals whittled the gap be tween themselves and third-place Sacramento to l'4 games as the Solons' contest with pennant winning Portland was cancelled because of wet grounds. Seattle stood at 7(4 games be hind Portland after dumping San Diego twice, 3-2 and 4-1. San Francisco scored four runs In the fuorth inning as they rout ed Paul Lammers, who was re placed by Bud Merkle. Los An geles scored its one run in the fourth, also. Jerry Nelson, 17-year-old San Diego pitcher, met Seattle's Glen Elliott in a mound duel, and was charged with the defeat in their nightcap although he held the Rainiers to six while his team mutes were pounding 11 off El liott. Baseball Standings Held petjun Ag AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. Detroit 85 03 .574 Wushineton 85 65 .507 St. Louis 78 88 .534 New York 75 70 .61' Cleveland 70 70 .500 Chicago 71 75 .480 Boston 7M .iiu Philadelphia 51 05 .340 NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago ...k 91 55 .023 St. Louis 8!) 57 .uio Brooklyn- 80 05 .552 Pittsburgh 80 07 .544 New York 70 09 .524 Boston 04 83 .435 Cincinnati 00 85 .414 Philadelphia 44 103 .209 PACIFIC COAST Portland 110 68 .018 Seattle 103 76 .575 Sacramento 95 83 .534 San Francisco 94 85 .525 Oakland 89 91 .494 San Diego 80 99 .447 Los Angeles 73 105 .410 Hollywood 71 109 .304 TODAY ITvPARAI By JACK CUDDY United Press Correspondent NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (UP) Without benefit of spectacles, Clark Griffith's greenish - brown eyes blazed ut the reporter as he suid, "We'll win the pennunt yet. Detroit hus more games to play than we have so Detroit has more games to lose with a tired out pitching staff." Griffith, a sawed - off oldster with bristling gray brows and a mop of white hair, is president of the Washington Senators. He will be 70 years old in November. Be cause of his age, he rarely travels with the club. But he came to New York yesterday "on a hunch" and he will stick with his club until it wins or losses the American league pennunt. Not Surprised When a guy is approaching 70, and he is forced to watch his club lose, 6-1, to the Yankees in a crucial game, one might expect to find Griffith with his feet in a pail of hot water, and with ice packs on his heud. Such wus not the case with Clark Griffith, when we bearded him in his Hotel New Yorker room, to which he hurried after the Senators-Yankee gume. The repoiter suid, "Even it your club finishes second this year, will you be surprised at its remarkable showing?" Griffith, of the brown-striped suit, murched up and down the room, then looked scornfully at the repoiter and said, "I was dis appointed last year when my club finished in last place. I be lieved that club would go to town, but it didn't for various reasons. Naturally, I am not sur prised when that same club with u few embellishments dins this seuson what I expected of it in 1944. Will Be Surprised "My only surprise now will be if we do not win the pennant. 1 will bo surptised because I know we have the best team In the American league. And we will win out because I havo suddenly joined the club, on u hunch, to sit in on victory. Sure I'll go with the club to Philadelphia until this thing is fought out." Maybe they cast the oldtimers in a tough mould. Yet investi gation discloses Clark Griffith was a sickly kid in the log cabin at Clear Crock, Mo., where he SPOI SEES NEW YORK FROM WHEELCHAIR Jerry Wrinn. eight-year-old victim of muscular dystrophy a disease almost always falal, thai has baffled sciencesits in a wheelchair upon arri'al in New York City, from Miami, Fla., where he has flown with his mother, Mrs. Frank Wrlnn (right), for treatment. O Your GI Rights Problems of Men In Service WASHINGTON (NEA) Here are some general questions from veterans and their relatives: Q. My husband has been in the army four years. He was drafted out of college. I want him to go back and finish with government aid but he says we won't get enough to live on and support our three children. Won't we get an allotment for him to go to school at least as much as we have been getting while he was in service? A. No. The maximum you will get is $75 according to the pres ent law. There arc several bills pending in congress, however, which may provide more for liv ing expenses. Q. They tell me that the Gov ernment is only hiring veterans and that is the best place to get a good steady job for as long as you want to keep it. I want to he sure about what I am getting into, however. Where can I get all the available information? A. Write to the United Slates Civil Service Commission, Wash ington 25, D. C. State your prob lem and they will give you all the necessary information. Q. Was a serviceman required to file a federal income tax re turn for 1944? A. If he had a gross income of $500 or more for 1944, he should have filed a return regardless of whether he was single or mar ried, a minor or an adult. In com puting gross income, he may dis regard lax-exempt receipts. Q. Is the amount paid to Iho beneficiary of a deceased officer or enlisted man representing six month's gratuity pay, taxable in come to the beneficiary? A. No. This amount represents a gift by the United States and need not be included in income. Q. May a relative who is actu ally dependent upon a missing serviceman or servicewoman ob tain an allotment of pay? A. Yes, if actually dependent and a relative within the recog nized degree. Q. Following official announce ment of death of a man in serv ice, what benefits begin for a dependent? A. Death gratuities ami insur ance payments begin immediate ly. w as born. But he apparently un- parently became calloused and tough the firebrand of profes sional baseball as he fought his way up from bat boy to semi pro, to minor leagues, to big leagues, to manager, to magnate, lie was a pitcher who had noth ing on the ball except his finger prints and his cunning. But thai combination was so potent they called him "Old Fox." Now, tlu OKI Fox has come out of His Washington lair to watch his knuckle-bulling club back into the American league pennant he hopes. Granada V -if v -wrjuBi mm A SWKI.Ll'YA SECOND FKATCRE sWil taiumiii nctiOM bkmms VyjM I Six of Navy's Air Stations Will be Declared Surplus WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (UP) Six of the navy's air stations in the northwest will be declared surplus during the last quarter of this year, assistant secretary of the navy for air John L. Sul livan said. Full operations will be main tained at the Astoria, Ore., and Widby island, Wash., air stations, he said. Future status of the As toria air station will be decided soon. Tillamook air station will be placed in caretaker operation sta tus, Sullivan disclosed. Stations to be released by the navy are: 1. Naval auxiliary air station at Corvallis. 2. Naval air station at Klamath Falls. 3. Naval air station at Lake view. 4. Naval auxiliary air station at North Bend. 5. Naval auxiliary air station at Quillayutc, Wash. 6. Naval auxiliary air station at Shelton, Wash. Layden Says U. S. Football Teams To Play Aussies ' CHICAGO, Sept. 21 (UP) Commissioner Elmer Layden of the national football league said today arrangements are being made to bring Australian foot ball teams to America next year to play a series of exhibition games with N. F. L. teams. The games would be part of the Na tional league's training schedule before the pro teams opened their regular league season. Lay den also wants to study the pos sibility of putting the games on an annual home-and-homc basis. WINTER VISIT MEDFORD, Sept. 21 (UP) Visitors may be allowed to visit Crater Lake National park this winter, Superintendent E. P. Lcavitt disclosed today. rODAY and SATURDAY MUSICAL PARADE NEWS und CARTOON TONIGHT and SA IT' KUAY II DTTAII f RAYMOND flHI UN EVELYN FINLEY PT.iri.M.'.atJUimB mi a in 1 000r f! IN William F. Youmans, yeoman second class, USNR, 503 M avenue, and Dallas D. Legore, seaman first class, USNR, 1415 V. ave., serve aboard the famous old battleship USS West Virgin it, which went safely through many months of a campaign in the Pacific, then suffered her first combat casualties on the day of the Okinawa invasion when she was struck by a Japanese suicide plane. The plane was in a forma tion of four aircraft that flew over the Okinawa transport anch orage at dusk, 12 hours after the first U. S. troops had gone ashore. One plane was shot down by the West Virginia's gunners, but an other penetrated the antiaircraft fire, reached a position above the big ship, and came down in an almost vertical dive. George Decker, who has been serving with a med ical detachment in France' and Germany, is enroute to his home here. His wife, the former Ann Stange, and their small child live here. Sgt. Al Mackin, local business man before enter ing the army three and one-half years ago, yesterday called La Grande stating that he was leav ing today for Fort Lewis to re ceive an honorable discharge. He has been overseas two years with the signal corps of the 12th air force in north Africa and Italy. Eivin King, infantry, stationed at Camp Hood, Texas, who has spent the past 12 days here on furlough visiting his wife and three sons, and his mother, Mrs. Helen King, has re ceived a four day extension to await sotne word from his father Fred King. The elder King has been held prisoner by the Jap anese since the fall of Wake Is land, where he was employed by a civilian construction company, and word is expected from him any day. When he leaves here the younger King will report to MAKE YOUR CONTRIBUTION To Through Your Employe La Grande Evening i Payments to Cut- State's Bonded Indebtedness SALEM, Sept.' 21 (UP) Stote Treasurer Leslie M. Scott will deposit with the state's fiscal agency in New York $1,767,560.40 with which to pay principal and interest on state highway, vete rans' aid and district interest bonds, it was announced today. The deposit will be made Oct. 1. Payments will be as follows: state highway bonds, $664,000 principal, $105,076.99 interest; vet erans' aid bonds, $700,000 prin cipal, and $255,056.25 interest; district interest bonds, $42,750 principal and $677.16 interest. . During October the state treas urer will pay at his office $29,000 in principal and $12,027.50 in in terest on bonds issued by the state board of higher education. The principal payments will reduce to $5,053,000 outstanding highway bonds; the veterans' aid bonds to $11,275,000, district in terest bonds, to $1,198,590, and to $1,257,000 the outstanding bonds of the state board of higher ed ucation. On Oct. 1, the total state gen eral obligation bonded debt will stand at $17,517,590. The net gen eral bonded debt of the state on Oct. 1 will be approximately $3, 500,000. FOREST OPENED PORTLAND, Sept. 21 (UP) The Wenatchee national forest, closed since July 12 because of fire hazards, was reopened to the public Thursday the Forest Serv ice announced today. Camp Adair, Corullis, and is scheduled for the army of occu pation. .. For Re-deooraling Walls and Ceilings! Super Mural-Tone Interior Paint A washable, Synthetic resin, paste paint that covers well. Many colors.' 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