The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 26, 1935, Page 5

RANCH SET $20000 DIRECTOR 7 HERE'S A BILL FOR COSTUMES $E6000 -EXTRAS ON THE POBLICITY EXPENSE $6000- TIME LOST WHILE THE 1S THINKING- NEXT PREXY 0F BRITAIN'S AAU Lord Burghley Scheduled to Succeed Aging Athletics Chief LONDON, Dec. 26.—One of the greatest of all track hurdlers, Lord Burghley, wilt 1y be hol the office of President of the Brit ish Amateur Athletic Association He has not yet been elected to the post of the 80-year-old Lord Desborough, who has been una mously nominated by the A. A. A committee and is certain of being finally approved at the annual meeting of that body n March Lord Burghley commanded con- siderable hero worship when he was in the game actively, not only because of his talents but becauve he was also a good mixer, When at his best there wa t none to t him over the 440-yard low hur and he was an unusually guarter-miler. Champion of Britain years, he set the seal of his career by winning the Olympic 4060 mete at Amsterdam, beating the Ameri- can cracks, Cuhel and Taylor He will be the fifth A. A A President and the youngest to ever take office. He was 30 years old last February and it is doubtful that any national sports organiza- tion has had one so young at its head for several - - CHEER REIGNS, ENTIRE WORLD 6. — Christmas cheer reigned over the greater part of the world yeste even on the bloodstained Ethiopian theatre con- flict, where most of the 250,000 s diers rested on their arms as chap- Jains celebrated Christmas Mass. In Italy, the war dampened the spirits of the celebrants. The bells in Bethiehem rang from the churches and surrounding hi calling the 1 rims from all parts of the world to worship. . e Although cheese was first manu- factured in Mississippi commercially in 1927, when two plants manufac- GENEVA, Dec, tured a total of 197,534 pounds, the, state now ranks among the leading - Botsy— WiSON — \47- POUND ALL-AMERICA BACKD lj\& ‘.%?UTAE?E oPIST* MAIN ROSE. sowL THREAT — HE LED THE SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE /N SCOR/MNG o ‘\CHAR LES, AONIS, . ARMYS SPARK- LUG STARTED HE SEASON YEISHING I5DLEBS | 70 139 WHEN HE FACED NAVY All Righis Ki REDECORATING STARS DRESSING-ROOM TO MATCH HER PAJAMAS $4000. MISTAKE MADE BY A"YES-SIR"MAN SAYING ‘NO™ LOSS - 20CENTS- JOST ANSWER A QLESTION FOR ME 1S THERE ANY MONEY IN THE WELL- MR. MOVIN' PICTORE OGS - WHAT , BUSINESS ? CAN | DO FOR YOO ? =g rved by, The Assagiated Press FOOTBALL GAME | feat H. S. Alumni 33t07 HONOLULY, T. H., De powerful runni ack by . versity Southern the Kamehameha High 26.—~A the Uni- California Crus {Chri |ye as Day before game played 10,000 spectators rom California - oo * SPORT SLANTS Wilson, Southern Metho- nt back who stood out {griade: Behby > a giant among the nation’s ba.l rricrs, added the ng crown oi st Confer to his all-America 147 pounds, | the Soutay won honors. only Wilson ok like a midget alonzside of newly Wi Joed i All-Americas if the myth- |i.4i é.even were ever assembled on a all foo.ball piayer—make ne . touUCNAOWNS. 4ucis wud pleaty of times, when ne wa down with bruising tackles, that i OIGUK:L OLYMPICS TO DRAW CROWD AT BIG GAMES BERLIN, Dec. 26.—Sports and eco- nomics have secome a joint 1.1d of interest in Germany as attempts are being made to preview the possible moenetary profits to be made during the Olympic Games Financial experts, however, seem at loss trying to draw a line between expenditures and the revenues to be expected and it appears an impos- e task to make both ends meet. Therefore, arithmetic has been cast aside and the more *spirtual value” to be obtained is frequently put into | Games would be ensured if the tour- t traffic keeps growing proportion- with the imminence of the | Gam Troubles Shadcw Outlock Clouds on the political horizon and he mood of the weather god during he first half of August next are two | vital points of consideration for all preliminary estimates of the balance sheet of the 1936 Olympics. | Barring unforseen incidents, the |Nazi “economic service” predicts a iboom in tourist traffic and a record |attendance and at the same time em- phasizes that “the harvest of ringing cons is not as important as the char- acter and spiritual value.” German sports authorities estimate an attendance nearly twice that of the Los Angeles Olympics, namely 1600,000 to 800,000 visitors. | Berlin's location in the heart of |Europe, within easy reach of the various European capitals and with (& densely populated country sur- cheese producing states in th union. the foreground. Various authorities, |rounding it, is considered so ideal — et — SHOP IN JUNEAU, FIR! however, repeatedly express belief that " the material success of the F Ootbllil C(;a;:lzes Gret Together ¥ Pacific Coast Conference footba!l coaches got together in San Francisco to arrange next year's schedules. Eight of the teams arrang- ad stiff competition within the loop and left the strong independents off the schedules. Three of the coaches present were (left to right) Lon Stiner of Oregon State; Jim Lawson, Orin E. “Babe” Hollingbery of Washington Photo) i stant at Stanford, and ate. (Associated Press ! that “it will easily outdo Los Angeles” |sports writers say. | Financially, however, the Berlin |Games will remain far behind the 1932 Olympics. While official for casts of expenditures are lacking, is generally estimated that the total |cost of construction of the various Clympic sports grounds, the stadium and the Olympic Village will run be- yond 30 million Reichsmarks. Changed econcmic conditions es- | pecially are expected greatly to react on the spending abilities of each | visitor. “Boosting is nat the idea of Olym- ‘m: thought,” has been adopted as a {new slogan, wherefore estimates generally have it that the average | Clympic visitor will spend 12 Reirhs- | marks ($4.75. { It's a Sellout | Between 7 and 8 million Reichs- ‘murks are expested to be the actual | “economic yield” for Berlin while an ;addmonal five million marks should flow through the box offices at the 'Olymplc stadium. Meanwhile the Olympic committee |reports the season tickets for the du- |raticn of the games have been cold cut. The German raiiways adminis- | trationis already adjusting its time- | tables to permit the running of hun- |dreds of special trains from abroad {whizh have been announced from |various European countries. HILLS GOING WES' | Emil E. Hill, wife and child, are | pazsengers aboard the Northwestern for Sewhrd enroute to Anchoragz { where he will be attached to the Sig- |nal Corps staff there. Hill is a for- | mer member of the Juneau staff, but {has been in Seattle for over a year. | e | MRS. KELLER ON N. W | | Mrs. W. K. Keller, wife of the sup- | erintendent of schools at Anchorage, land formerly of Juneau, is a passen- ger from Seattle to Seward on the Alaska. V oixdd as taough he wouldn't be able (<o pkk ‘himse)f up. But he alw laid. And a minutz or two lawe wous amper off on a long run, as fast {and elusive as ever. i Meyer Sheds Peunds Ye e got to take your nat oif to i eh lit teliows who match speed LIMA, Peru, Dec. 26.—Pilot Har- praing and ruggedness agains oo old MacMickle, engineer, and Russell | jrawn'of the giant footba:l piay Petch were killed when a tri-motor- | [itile “Monk” Meyers of /Army be- ed Pan American Grace Airways|,cngs in that class. plane stalled and crashed at a 1ow| Tne football program carried altitude on a test flight. The plane |\eyer's weight as 159 pounds all hit an adobe house, fatally injuring | cason. He di weigh that much be- two of the four house occupants. |rore tie season got under way. But |che thumpings he took gradually | whittled him down. Against Yale he ‘::axed 145 pounds. Wnen Army lin REQUEST NUMBERS TRANSM[TT'ED OVER down to 141 and a couple Of Weeks AIR, STATION KINY iater he took all Navy tossed his |way weighing exactly 139. Twenty Many residents of Juneau un- wittingly became amateur radio| ¥ ilo;s did not impair his effectiveness. announcers from station KINY yes-|a¢ o matter of fact, he improved terday afternoon during the “re-|yith each contest and was the spark quest number” period, customarily|pyg of the Army eleven all season from 1 to 2 p.m., but extended to 4 p.m. yesterday because of the| St h viable reputation unusual niimbes ts {son with the unenvial e’ s i {of being a fumbler. He had lost the A microphone was installed neariy,n on several occasions but he the telephone in the studio, and |y yays insisted that he did not fum- for about twenty minutes both sides ;o thag the ball was snatched from | He came out of all telephone conversations Wer¢ njs ayms by opponents on the air. As each telephone ___. 5 THERE MUST BE- THERE'S 3,000,000 DOLLARS OF MINE the ball s carried the ting By Pap §0, CALIFORNIA WINS HONOLULU - harged against him in 1935. Thumb-Biting Stops “Theft" backs tried to pull ball cut of Meyer's arms in the h of the service elevens on Frank- manag>d to ound the ball but out to give it a tug h in his tor- was no fum- | 3 hands a as he cnk buried ic } off his whole hand if he repe [Schsol Alumni football squad in a|nis effo : here | g Point was 33 to 7 in favor of the [ pavidson, for the capable Army { refused to quit on him when |his friends insisted that he was just | wastinz his time trying to make a |football player out of the “Monkey." i Davidson never gave up and he was {amply rewarded for the hours spent oling Meyer when t! yver the top tary of Alaska E. W. C man of the sale committee for the Alaska Tuberculosis Association. returns from the campaign will not be in until the latter part of next month, when all the more remote have been heard from, the drive Is said to have elicited a generous re- Although would liki up against Notre Dame Monk was ounds is a lot of weight to trim off | a spare figure like Meyer’s, but the | | Meyer emerged from the 1934 sea- | vited to attend. SHOP IN JUNEAU! his year fully expecting someone to aling act every time about accordingly. He led remarkably well, for there fumbles ball and set himself if any important he Na 'he Middie vas al his ¢ wumb, The biting episode M al” the ball s to owes his football success at Gar entirely to Lieut, me through in suct fashion this year R - SEAL SALE HAS 600D RESPONSE cations are that Alaska has in its Christ- ing to Secre- iffin, Chair- ale, ac final Tubercuolsis Association who sponded to our call to help the ‘white plague,’ " today. this worthy ! gratifying.” i The association, through funds raised by public subscription and a possible appropriation by the next Legislature, plans to make a sur- tuberculosis in the basis of which at sanitariums in be sought. to thank all those “Public the ->> o - TRINITY PROGRAM GIVEN SATURDAY, A dramatic and musical followed by distribution of fruit and candy among the chil-| dren, will be presented by members | of the Sunday School of Trinity| Cathedral Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the church parlors. Parents of the children are in- The program is under direction of Mrs. C. E. Rice. . call came in the receiver was held e v of e v s | Joe Shows the Kids Some Tricks studio, and the studio attendant’s replies were picked up by the mic-| rophone as well as the telephone, transmitter. | Within a short time so many, persons called the station to report| “an open microphone” or a “short| circuit” that the practice was| sbandoned. CHILDREN LAUDED FOR FINE WAY THEY AIDED SANTA CLAUS| | Contributions of canned goods| made by the many children that| filled the Capitol Theatre last Mon- | day afternoon as guests of thej Elks for a Santa Claus visit were | responsible for making the Elks'| annual Christmas to needy Iammes‘ a complete success, according to| expression of Walter P. Scott, | Chairman of the Elks committee, today. i “The response was most gener- ! ous,” Mr. Scott said, “and it en-| abled us to complete filling Thrist- | mas baskets and taking a holiday | greeting to those less fortunate.| We went especially to thank the, children and their parents for their | fine co-operation. “And, we want to compliment the youngsters on their excellent be- | havior. large group of children I ever saw.l and, truly, they have made the| Elks Christmas more than happy.” It was the best behaved | When Joe Louis (above), Detroit Bomber, dropped into neighborhood tarber shop in Boston, it didn’t take his boy admirers long to locate him. Joe obligingly showed them some of his fistic tricks he’ll use against Paulino Uzcudun in their coming bo ut at New York. syer k with a threat to| ated \ i little fine communities will Griffin response to cause has been most Alaska, on least two Territory will | pro- | Make the Postman Your Banking Assistant! | | i Many Juneau people, and many who live l outside the city, send deposits regularly to \ their First National Account by means of our Bank by Mail service. The postmen is their banking assistant — he carries our services as near to them as their nearest mailbox ‘Wwuen you bank at the First National by mail, you can build up the balance in your Savings or Commercial Account—or you can make withdrawals with safety and con- senience. Jur Bank by Mail service is a your service 1 I'he First Nationa Bank JUNEAU. ALASKA NOTICE! During my absence from Juneau, DR. CARTER will be in care of my practice and office. Thank youl DR. W. W. COUNCIL ’ PR H et e P e . Leon C. 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