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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, M ARCH 31, BRINGING THAT LIVES IN TH'S NEIGHI I\l GET ACQUAINTED JP FATHER [ AH-THERE'S ONE OF THE GENTLEMEN BORHOOD - 1930 GOOD MORNING - HAVE A CIGAR? pm— I AM GOING TO MOVE | RIGHT NEXT KNOW- THAT'S WHY WERE MOVING! - s0-cailed | curl up | may | Frcm Palm Beach to Catalina Islands the whack of the base-hit has been echoing and re-echoing s the big league baseball clubs have swung into the spring training campaign. The boys are taking toe-holds for every swing at the piate, rookies as well as veterans. The Detroit Tigers picked up =a romising Bronx youngster and! man, just out of high n Henry Greenberg. Hem‘y“ came up to bat in the first exhi-| me of the season at Tam- Dale Alexander had put! after pa, |\ 0 out of the park, and slammed | ball over the left field fence. at Orlando, the longest drive ered in the first week of Cin-} nati's practice was not made by | rry Heilmann or Bob Meusel b\l:’ Tony Cuccinello, the reeruit in-| by fielder from Columbus, put the ball over the left-field! fence, which measures 410 feet from' the plate ) With the youngsters hitting at such a clip, there is not much} chance or inclination to restore the | ancient art of bunting or choke-{ hitting. In fact, if there is a choke-hitter left since Dave Ban- croft, Heinie Groh and Joe Du- gan passed out of the active majm list, he can scarcely be nanced Even an old war-horse like Rabbit | Maranville, is swinging from the| heels. . Defensive skill is not being over-; looked but the records most closely | scanned, so far as rookies are con- cerned, are their batting perform-‘ ances. Bill McKechnie, trying to do something about the plight of the Boston Braves, is willing to sac-| rifice considerable defensive ablmy\ for the unhampered wallop to dis- tant places. The St. Louis Browns willingly would trade some fast/ foot-work for a heftier punch. All four of the second-division National League teams last year, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Cincinnati and Boston, have added batting strength. The Phillies, as a mat- | ter of fact, have such an embar-| rassment of hitting riches that ome| or two potential .400 clouters may be forced to spend considerable time on the bench. In the American League, Detroit and New York pack the hardest wallop outside of the World's cham- pion Athletics. Cuecinello | | competition. {on indoor courses. ibag from 25 to 50 times. Allowing Little Wiss Catherine Rawls, of Hollywood Fla., despite her tender age § of 12 years, is Florida State * diving champion. Catherine figured . prominently # in the State A. A. U,, and is expected to compete in the National A.A.U. swimming championships. i (International Newsreel) Daily Swmgmg ST. PAUL, March 28—Swinging | a golf club a lot is the national | lamateur champion's recipe for | swinging it right. | Harrison R. (Jimmy) .!ohmv:mh is spending at least two hours dmlv !in practice and that much or more, conditioning himself for the sum— mer's campaign. The Walker cup matches in England will be his first His daily practice consists of work Every day he swings each of the 11 clubs in his five minutes to a club he spends 55 minutes in swinging practice. “It keeps my muscles in shape and my swing in the groove,” ex-| plains Jimmy. After the swinging practice, John- ston devotes the rest of his time to driving and putting. Johnston has quit smoking and after golf practice runs two miles on the track at his club, swims, boxes, pulls the weights and does | Montana State’s Bobeats found the basketball going rougher thani usual in the Rocky Mountain area but their giant center, Frank Ward had no trouble running away with! the scoring honors. With his team ' mate, Cat Thompson, far from his considerable trapshooting to insure good judgment of distance. Since there is no outdoor golf here* until April, Jimmy is going 'south this year for the first time to prepare for the season. He will leave here soon, spending two weeks at White Sulphur, West Va. sensational 1929 form, Ward took the scoring honors with 211 polms. in 12 conference games, for a new, record. 1 i Even at this distance, the roar from around Los Angeles can be| heard as a result of the National Rowing Association’s selection of Lake Merced, near San Francisco, for the Olympic Regatta, of 1932. The Southern California city has made elaborate plans for the Olym- pics, with a substantial cash in- vestment ~ involved, and will yield no item on the ‘program without a hand-to-hand battle. - . — 11OST DANGEROUS CASES FOUND IN METAL MINES | ,report, WASHINGTON, March 21.—The| greatest unknown dangers that threaten miners are not in coal mines, but in metal mines. They are gasses, a far greater va- | riety of gases than coal mines bave, ' Mines to the American Institute of After returning here for a short time, he wlil go east to shoot a few rounds of golf on Long Island Mining and Metallurgical Engi- | neers. In many instances these metal mine gases are as dangerous as the coal mine damps and in some cases more deadly. The coal miner faces principally methane gas, but some . metal mines have the decidedly ex- | plosive hydrogen, carbon dioxide, which flows invisibly through them like water; sulphur, the deadly car- bon monoxide and more than half | a dozen varieties of fire gasss. | “Metal mining people,” says the “are not by any means as familiar with those gases, their oc- currence, detecting and handling | as they shculd be.” | SRS “FRIEND WIFE” HELD TERM | FOR HAPPY MARRIED LIFE| WASHINGTON, March 31Tt is| ys a report of the Bureau of not by chance that the expression | Barrington and E. Reid, of Wran- gell. 3 ¢ “friend wife” and “friend hus- Keeps J immy in Sha ape ’ENGAGEMENT [ MISS BONE IS NOW ANNOUNCED | {Daughter (me and Mr Scott Bone Is to Wed Santa Barbara Man | - i S | 1 | Sl i | | | | l | { | The engagement of Miss Mar- | guerite LaLance Bone, daughter of | {former Gov. and Mrs. Scott C.| Bone, of this city to Dr. Alfred B. | | Wilcox, Santa Barbara, Calif.,, was | announeed at Atascadero recently. The wedding will take place next June ! Bene lived here with her 5 when her father was Gov-| - of Alaska, and made many | s here. She is a graduate of the Juneau High School where she | was an honor student. | The announcement was made at |a tea given by Mrs. Bone, of which ithe folloy g account was given: } . An ::L resting event occurred at adero Inn, March 22, when cott C. Bone, wife of thel ('r. rnor of Alaska, well- the newspaper world, en-| at tea a few close friends her daughter, rs. John| Forl Starr, of Bever and %@ |the former Governor's sister, Mrs. . M {S. C. Morris, of Chicago, now re- g in Glendale. A surprise r]lmuwrl the function when Mrs. ‘&.l, r's little daughters, Shirley Anne, and Diana, the latter as {cupid, appeared bearing cards an-; !nouncing the betrothal of the | younger daughter, Miss Marguerite Drlll - !Lalance Bone, and Dr. Alfred jBulkeley Wilcox,r of Santa Bar-, bara, whose marriage will occur in June. | The appointments of the tea were T)in keeping with the revelation of the secret. Among the out-of- |town guests who participated in jthe celebration of the event, were Mrs. Walstein G. Smith, of Juneau {wife of the Territorial Treasurer of |Alaska; Mrs. John H. Cobb, of San- ta Barbara; Mrs. John Boedeker |and Mrs. Edward Darlington Jones, |of Oakland, whose husbands are ranking officers in the Coast Gua.d Service; Mrs. Arthur G. Shoup. {San Jose, and Mrs. Roger Morsc | Bone, Pasadena, 5 | The bride-to-be is now a teach- jer in the Santa Barbara Junior {High School. Born in the {land Alleghenies, when her was managing editor of the ington Post, she passed her lyears at the National Capital, father | Wash- early and a period of her girlhood ensuing at Seattle, when he was editor of the Post Intelligencer. ‘Then, after two years in a private school in New York, she went with her par- ents to Alaska, where she eradu- ated from the Juneau High School, land then became an honor student | |in the University. of Washington, | and was prominently identified with the Kappa Kappa Gamma |Sorority and in campus activities. | —| Dr. Wilcox, a native of Denver,) g, land graduate of the University of | before sailing with the Walker cUp | goiorado, has attalned professional team April 30. Johnston also was £ prestige at Santa Barbara. 2 Walker cup member in 1923, '24'" o june wedgding will be a large and '25. affair and attract friends from fae, B, 085 widely separated sections. It will occur at the Atascadero Inn where the former Governor and Mrs. Bone have made their home for some months. band” have come into general use of last years, says Mrs. Alice G. Winter, past President of the Gen- eral Federation of Women's Clubs. Mrs. Winter believes many hus- bands and wives today do regard each other as friends. She believes women’s most im- portant work remains what it al- —_————— — — Old papers ¥ sale at The Em- ways has been — making happy homes, T ‘W. 8. Peckovicl:, of the Admiralty | COLOR Alaska Gold Mining corporation came to Juneau from Funter Bay PRINTING on the Margnita. tnc ses the p ulltn ‘ P A G N NS rea Charles Goldstein, who has been| power of amy printingd ‘ south for several weeks, came north job.Weare equippedtobax | today on the Admiral Rogers. | —————— dle colorprintingquickly Incoming passengers from Tena- | kee on the Margnita included 8. C. and satisfa rily | | ——— Associated Press Photo This may »ot ba £osd news for budding American league base | niws to A’s to know that Mickey Cochrane ! a of his in chape. | Trains For Marathon ° ° ° . ° . ° ° ° . ° ° ° ° ° ° . ° . ° ° . le . Assoclated Press Photo Anne¢ Benoit of Holyoke, Mass. training at Miami Beach, Fla., ir preparation for the Wrigley mara thon swim at Toronto, Canada. AL SR P v To ymaintain purity of Los An- geles’; water supply more than 24,- 000 samples are tested yearly. ! f Montana’s Game Department has stocked with trout three high snow- created lakes. which never previ- ously fcontained fish. e The projected St. John's bridge across the Willamette River at Portland, Ore., will have a Su~p(n- sion span 1207 feet long. ~+ROLLER RINK Ob;m Every Afternoon from 2:30 to 5 p. m. Every Evening* from 7:30 to 10:30 p. m. *Friday, Saturday and Sun- days open until 11 p. m. ADMISSION Afternoon—10 and 25¢ Evenings—25 and 50c JUNEAU AMUSE- MENT CO. A. B. Hall —_—mmm USES NAPOLEON'S BED AND BATH; LOSES JOB HELENA, March 31 —After more than a hun- dred years this little island, the. fina] exile of the great Napoleon, has had another sensation. The caretaker installed by the French Government at the “Longwood Museum,” in the dairy farm that was the Emperor's domicile for sev- en years, had been found abusing his position by sleep- ing in the bed and bathing in the bathtub of Napoleon. He was summarily replaced by an invalided French vet- eran. e 000 s e NEW:! ST. S0e0eseecesco0cssesccee e v e o 000 An assortment of TIES in a variety of styles — also a nice selection of SHIRTS and SWEATERS THE HUB Opposite Coliseum Pheatre MIKE PUSICH, Prop. Announce Two New Models A NEW SIX A NEW EIGHT At amazingly low prices | McCAUL MOTOR CO. 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