BASEBALL
MEETINGS
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(By Joe Retehler)
MIAMI, Fla. (/PI—St. Louis’
busy Browns, richer by $425,000
following four startling transac
tions, sought more gold today,
dangling such tasty bait as out
fielder Jeff Heath and catcher
Jake Early among other front line
players.
Among the first to arrive for the
annual minor league convention
which gets under way Wednesday,
the Browns’ delegation of general
manager Bill DeWitt, his brother,
Charles, secretary of the club, and
Zach Taylor, the new manager,
already have set up shop in one of
this winter resort’s leading hotels.
Bill DeWitt made it plain that
others of last season’s squad which
finished a dismal last in the
American league race are certain
to follow Vern Stephens, Jack
Kramer and others who made
Thanksgiving merry for St. Louis
stockholders, financially speaking.
“We are not through trading by
any means,” DeWitt said. “We are
prepared to trade anybbdy on our
roster if we feel those deals will
improve the club.
“We are determined to field a
young, speedy, hustling team next
year. Except for pitchers Nelson
Potter and Glen Drisewerd, whom
we obtained from the Red Sox, all
players will be under 29 years of
age. Unless we get stupendous off
ers, we will build our team around
such speedsters as third baseman
Bob Dillinger and outfielders Paul
Lehner and A1 Zarilla.”
DeWitt said both Heath and
Early are on the block and added
he would not be surprised “if the
Transport Missing
Over Europe
FRANKFURT, Germany </P>—A
United States airforces C-47 trans
port plane with 21 persons aboard
is missing on a flight from Pisa,
Italy, to Frankfurt, airforce head
quarters at Wiesbaden announced
Saturday.
The plane may be down in the
Frankfurt area, headquarters said.
The ship was carrying 17 passen
gers and four crewmen.
It left Pisa shortly after noon,
German time, Friday and was to
have reached the Frankfurt air
base about six hours later.
An intensive aerial search is un
der way.
mrs. w. b. McCarthy
ENTERTAINS PRIMARY CLASS
. The Primary department of the
Federated Church Sunday School
were entertained last Friday af
ternoon at the home of Mrs. W. B.
McCarthy with a Thanksgiving
party. About twenty of these tiny
folks had a wonderful time play
ing games and finishing off with
ice cream cones.
Discipline—Before you flare up
at anyone’s faults, take time to
count 10—10 of your own.
deals will be completed before we
leave Miami.”
DeWitt was not the only would
be David Harum at the minor
league’s show, which . attracted
such big time pilots as Mel Ott of
the New York Giants; Joe McCar
thy, Red Sox; Johnny Neun, Cin
cinnati Reds; Bill Meyer, Pitts
burgh Pirates; and Buck Harris of
the Yankees.
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DOROTHY’S
For The Baby - - -
Buntings - Under Shirts - Receiving Blankets
Snow Suits - Wool Blankets - Comforters
Gowns - Robes - Hoods
Helmets - Rings - Bracelets
i i
Gift Items
Roselane Pottery - Juniper and Myrtlewood
Bridge Sets - Salt and Pepper Sets
Ever Last Hand Wrought Aluminum
Bible Prophecy Unveils the Future
THE ATOMIC BOMB!
Has science and prophecy converged in our
day? What is our future?
also
Colored Film Pictures of
Beautiful Aleknagik Lake, Alaska
Inspirational Reading
“The Sinking of The Titanic”
by Mrs. Wagner
at the
PIONEER HALL, 479 First Avenue, W.
Tuesday, December 2, 7:30 P.M.
You Are Cordially Invited
Seven Dead In
Alaska Airlines
At Seattle Airport
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official inquiry and said:
“Apparently the pilot ground
looped when he saw he was going
off the runway.”
Mrs. Jones, a widow and mother
of a 9-year-old boy, was riding
with a neighbor, Ira von Volken
burg, when the plane came plung
ing down a steep bank and swept
the car across the road. Von Vol
kenburg said he escaped by kick
ing out a window and then groped
in the smashed car without find-:
ing Mrs. Jones. He was driven
away seconds later as the plane
burst into flames and then was
wracked by an explosion.
Eye-witnesses said the plane;
had made an apparently safe land
ing when it suddenly turned and
went broadside over the bank at
the end of the runway.
An outboard engine struck the
bank as the plane sagged and
watchers at the control tower said
it “popped into flames.” Then it
flared again as it flattened Von
Volkenburg’s automobile and fi
nally was sheathed in flame as the
fuel tanks exploded.
The liner had been dogged by
bad weather since it took off from
Anchorage, last Thursday. During
its flight from Alaska it was de
layed at Yakutat and Annette Is
land, near Ketchikan. It had taken
off from Annette at 9:30 a.m. yes
terday.
Alaska Airlines spokesmen said
is was the company’s first fatal
crash irr 10 years operation.
Leon B. Cuddeback, safety in
spector for' the civil aeronautics
burean, said the airline is a regu
larly scheduled operator in Alaska
but is non-scheduled on flights to
the States.
He said an intensive check into
the tragedy would be opened to
day:
Passengers from Alaska aboard
the plane were: Godron Johnson,
21-month old son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. E. Johnson of Palmer, dead.
Both Mr. and Mrs..Johnson were
injured, Mr. Johnson, critically.
Ole Ring, Anchorage, died in
hospital.
Richard F. Whitting, co-pilot,
Anchorage, fractured arm, burns,
| possible internal injuries.
William Randall, Nenana <also
listed as Oliver Rindahl), critical.
John A. Lathanan, Jr., Fair
, banks, critical.
Mrs. Lathanan, Fairbanks, treat-1
| ed and released.
' Mrs. Flora Hunter, Anchorage.
Richard Jones, Palmer.
Mrs. Selma Olsen, Anchorage.
Zena Louise Feltrin, Anchorage.
Les M. Greening, Anchorage
and Seattle.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Tracy. Mc
Grath, Alaska.
SEATTLE, i/P) — “Where are
they? Can’t anyone tell me what
happened to my little boy and my
husband?”
Mrs. Josephine Johnson of Pal
mer, Alaska, her face still bearing
the shock of a close brush with
death, asked that same question of
nurses and orderlies as they rush
ed past.
But no one at the King County
hospital could tell her. No one
knew, for the rooms were crowd
ed with doctors and nurses whose
sole objective was to treat the
badly injured survivors from the
fiery wreckage that had once been
an Alaska Airlines plane.
‘‘When the crash came, every
one started rushing out,” she re
lated. “I went back for my purse—
Armless Vets To
Get New Arms
WASHINGTON, (A*)—A new ar
tificial arm which is unusually
light and flexible will be distrib
uted to 5,000 armless or one-armed
war veterans the veterans admin
istration said today.
Each veteran who lost an arm
while in service is entitled to two
artificial arms one to be used as a
spare. A veteran who already has
his artificial arms will receive one
of the new arms without a hand
or hook, and can transfer an old
hook or artificial hand to the new
arm.
The arms were developed
through government-financed re
search at the Northrop Aircraft
corporation, Hawthorne, Calif.,
the A. J. Hosmer corporation, San
ta Monica, Calif., and by the navy
at its Philadelphia research shops.
I don’t know why—and I saw my
husband going out the back way.
I never saw our little boy again.
Where is he?”
‘‘We were coming down to Seat
tle to pick up a new car, and visit
our parents in Iowa and Minne
sota. We had planned it so long—
and now—oh, can’t anyone tell me
where they are?”
No one could tell her then, for
they were too busy to call New
Renton hospital where many of
■ the victims were taken.
Later she was to learn that her
j husband, Jonas, lay in the Renton
I hospital, critically burned, and
j her son, Gordon, was killed in the
crash.
ROOF GARDEN COMMITTEES
MET SUNDAY
A meeting of the general com
mittee of the Pioneer Roof Garden
was held Sunday afternoon and
plans were rounded out for the
39th big Roof Garden on Dec. 20.
The entertainment committee
told of some highly spectacular
numbers which are already being
worked out with elaborate costum
ing for the actors.
Tolbert Scott announced that a
beautiful fox neckpiece and a
large nugget would be raffled
again this year and the tickets
would soon be on sale.
Patricia Walsh, chairman of the
floor committee reported that a
good orchestra was planned for
the dancing and details would be
announced later.
A beautiful souvenir program if
in the making and is in the hands
of Tolbert Scott and Fred Rohn.
Entertainment chairman, Carl
Anderson stated that one of the
high lights of the show will be
Mississippi’s one and only colored
minstrel medicine man. Many old
timers will recall the medicine
man Puckett, whose ’’Dandruff re
| mover,” ‘‘Liver exciter” and en
; tertainment was the event of the
season.
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Since sugar doesn’t dissolve
very well in cold things, some of
j the sugar will settle to the bottom
, and be* wasted. Here’s a tip on
I how to save time and sugar and
still keep the family happy: Make
a jar of sugar and water sirup and
; keep it handy in the refrigerator.
! Then its’ as simple to fix one
J glassful of beverage as it is to fix
I enough for the whole family.
BERING SEA CLUB
Open 10 A.M. to Midnight
Dancing — Cards — Liquors
LEWIS CAB CO.
Phone MAIN 144
Stop! Look! Listen!
BIC SOCIAL EVENT OF 1947
Pioneer
Roof Garden
Diversified Entertainment
Re-Enactment of Scenes from Gold Rush Days
as well as Latest in Modern Hollywood Styles
RAFFLES—Gold Nuggets, Furs, Etc.
GAMES - REFRESHMENTS - DANCING
Saturday, December 20, 1947
SCHOOL GYMNASIUM
Adults $1.25 Children, 12 and under, 50c
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