The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 21, 1930, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SUNDAY, DEC. 21, 1930. OUR PATRONS and OUR FRIENDS ‘ Wherever you may be Whatever you may do May you be Happy and Merry this Christmas Day Juneau Midget Golf Course Goldstein Building TO MARK CORNWALLIS ROAD RICHMOND, Va. — A series of markers is being prepared for the TELEVISION FOR HOMES TALKS, MAKER CLAIMS Inventor Says Electrical| Set’s Cost, Little More than Radio NEW YORK, Dec, 20.— Perfection | of an electrical television set through use of a new tube which will make: reception of sound mov- ies in the home possible very soon was claimed today by Philo T. Farnsworth of this city. Farnsworth said he is technica head of Television Laboratories of San Francisco, which he described as a research institution supported by wealthy Californians. He said he had arrived in New York from attending a meeting of the tele- vision conference held by the fed- eral radio commission in Washing- ton last week. He said: “This television set requires no moving parts. It represents prac- tical television as against experi- mental mechanical television, One Station at Time cast at a time. More or less by ac- cident, we solved that, and by us- ing the tube developed can send television on a frequency of six kilocycles. We used to need 1,000. “We have already sent talking pictures with good results. The; eight inches square as clear as the average newspaper cut. fires electrons against a screen,| and the stream of electrons makes a complete zig-zag tour cf the screen in one- sixteen pictures a second. “I am making arrangements for a television broadcasting studio on an experimefital license, but it will be a commercial station just the same. An organization has been completed and ready to start mak- ing the sets which will cost little and will be no larger.” - eee DOUGLAS FIREMEN WIN OVER MOHAWKS In a fast and slightly rough con- test played in the Douglas Nata-! torium Friday night, the Douglas | fire fighters defeated the Junmu Mohawks by a score of 31 to 4 Gray started the fireworks by | sinking a foul after two minutes of NEW YORK — A semi-circular ! fast playing. At half time the fire- switchboard for control of electric, men were leading 9 to 3. FURNACE CONTROL SlMPLlFIED “The drawback of the latter 1s| that it requires a wide frequency | band. Only one station could broad- | reproduce a picture approximately | The tubz| xteenth second, or| more than the average radio set,| river road along which Cornwallis | furnaces has been devised which | The Firemen opened the second | held the Mohawks to a single point, ! a foul shot The Lineup Mohawks— Nelson | Gartley | Bayers Osborne | Johnson g . Krisky Substitutions: Mohawks— Bald- win for Osborne, Osborne for Bald- win. Firemen—Hayes for Neimi. Fouls: Mohawks, 6; Firemen, 8. Referce, Engstrom. Papooscs Defeat Midgets In the preliminary game the Ju- 'neau Papooses defeated the Doug- las Midgets 14 to 8 in a hotly con- tested match. The game was nip| and tuck until the final quarter when the Papooses found the net for three baskets while the Midgets 4 Firemen— | Neimi | Gray | Manning Bonner f f c. g ; failed to rcglstcr ) CANADK'S FISH YIELD VALUED AT 550,000000 {Twenty Millioh Salmon and | 2,000,000 Halibut | ‘ Caught Yearly ‘\ | PRINCE RUPERT, B. C—At a Rotary Club meeting held in Prince Rupert recently, John Dybhavn,; | president of the Canadian Fisheries | Association, gave an interesting talk | according to the Prince Rupert, News. In his address he mentioned mut‘ the fisheries were among the great- est natural resources in the Do- minion of Canada. An average of' 120,000,000 salmon were caught an- nually in British Columbia nnu from 1,500,000 to 2,000,000 hallb\ltJ Invested in the business was ap- proximately $62,000,000 of which | $32,000,000 was in British Columbia and $12,000,000 in the Prince Rupert district. i The value of the catch amounted to about $50,000,000 of which $11,-| 000,000 came from the Prince Ru- pert district. Mr. Dybhavn told of the investi- gations that were going on includ-| unw the life history of fish, much of | which was still obscure. For in-| | stance, it had been thought that the life of the pink salmon was two years but this was not at all sure and it was now being checked up. There was reason to believe that poscibly former ideas in re-| gard to and other matters' { wer2 wron: Deslgn New U. Sil;nson { To Relieve Congestion| WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. De-~ SPECIAL TURKEY DINNER $1.00 Olives Salad of Fruits Pickles ROAST YOUNG TURKEY, DRESSING AND CRANBERRY SAUCE Mashed Potatoes Sweet Potatoes Hot Mince Pie Apple Pie, Cheese Plum Pudding Mixed Nuts Coffee MABRY’S CAFE half the total Cauliflower en Cream Pumpkin Pie Hard Sauce Raisins Tea «Scap manufactured in the United Trees on States last year was valued at area of the $258,815,409. signed to help religve the criminal- United States damngrd by drom,hl this year. I CHRISTMAS DAY A friendly handclasp---a heartfelt wish for joy and gladness, A deeper meaning of the holiday season. All these we wish to you and to yours. And may the new year be filled with life’s choic- est blessings. GASTINEAU HOTEL forest | were | Wilda Clark of Fort Worth, Tex.,, Ohio river traffic showed an is a freshman at Texas Christian crease during October over university at the age of 15. same month of last year. e st it o moved in 1781. The State Consers|allows the operator to see all the | half with a brilllant passing attack |y qening and riot-breeding ‘con- vation and Development Commis- sion is in charge cvf the work. ‘dials and operate all switches while |and this coupled with good shoot- seated in a chalr Hng ran the score up 22 points and “SWEETS TO THE SWEET” Whitman’s Sampler In one pound, two pound, three pound and five pound Christ- mas packages. Everybody Likes W hitman’s Candies” Augustine & Kyer’s Candies All Packed in Gift Wrappings PRICED FROM 65¢ to $8.50 SPECIAL~- A full five pound box of PUG’S Christmas Sampler Candy Just THE Candy for Children Five Pounds for $1.50 Butler-Mauro Drug Co. No extra charges made for delivery | gestion in Federal prisons, the new Government penitentiary at Lewis- burf, Pa. will be built to provide | the “maximum in decent living | conditions.” Construction of the prison, cost- | ing $3,800,000, is expected to be | completed, for partial occupancy at | least, a year from this fall. | Although the Lewisburg prison will be rated as a 1,200 man insti- | tution, it will be designed to care | tor several hundred more. | In addition to cells of the ordi- | nary type, there will be individual rooms, two-man rooms, four-man rooms and 12-man dormitories. {Duce’s Fiery Speeches Arouse, Italy’s Youths MODENA, TItaly, Dec. 20.—Mus- ‘sohms fiery speeches seem to | have aroused Italian youth. | An official report recently issued by the Ministry of War shows that a striking number of young men | wish to enter military schools. Among 315 candidates for the military colleges of Italy, 204 were | selected, while the Royal Academy here selected 315 applicants, dis- | tarding more than 900 would-be of- ‘; ficers. U. S. Will Aid Surveys Of International Road WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 20.— | Preliminary surveys to determine the route for an inter-American highway are to be made by Central American countries and the United States. A field office in Panama City will be operated by the Bureau of Public Roads under congressional appropriation of $50,000 to advise Central American governments on the most desirable route. | The surveys will the | practical outgrowth there |plan of a Pan-American highway suggested in 1923 at the | international conference of Ameri- | can states in Santiago, Chile. R e ITALY URGES USE OF RICE | | | first of a motor ROME—Fearing for the nation’s meat supply, the Italian Govern- ment is seeking to popularize the use of rice. The amount of rice in army rations have been increased, and a campaign is being carried | on through radio and billboard ad- vertising and a special issue of | “eat rice” stamps. 1 —_——————— The minimum expense of a law student for one year averages $700 la survey by the bureau of educa- | tion shows, A Very Merry Christmas TO OUR FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS ALYV