The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 25, 1936, Page 7

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SPARK PLUG TAKE (T EASY, SNUFFY-- ('VE GOT A SURPRISE FOR YOU -- WEASELPUSS (S ACROSS THE STREET (N THE BARBER SHOP GETTING FIXED UP--('VE BEEN SCOUTIN' 'ROUND BUYING HIM SOME NEW DUDS --WILL YOL WAIT ERE JUS' FIVE MINUTES 222 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESD/\Y, MARCHTfi. ,‘ ‘)}(1. i, o Ml By BILLIE DE BECK m GOOGLE--DING BUS' YORE HIOE ! WE-UNS HEV BEEN HUNTIN' ALL OVER CREATION FER YE-- WHAR'S THET NO-COUNT NEWY 0' MINE 22 LAW'S-A-MARCY WEASELPUSS SMIF ! LOOKIT HiM, PAW--- (F THAT OONT TAKE TH' RAG OFFN TH' BUSH I DON'T_KNOW WHUT DOES /! (y wnaay d HERE, TONY-- YOU BETTER BURN THESE OLD CLOTHES, (N e TARNED ouT TER BE A RISTERCRAT- FLY TO FAIRBANKS Roomy heated cabin, lavatory, reclin- ing chairs, outside baggage compart- ments. Briasn, ghts By Pap ALASKA EXHIBIT ' AT TEXAS FAR | Display Valued at $500 to Be Shown at Centen- nial in Dallas MRS. JOE WRIGHT IS BURIED TODAY! Mrs. Joseph Wright, who died last Sunday at the home of her sister Mrs. Harry Willard, was buried today in ergreen Cemetery following a two o'clock service at the C. W. Car- ter Mortuary. The Rev. David Wag- goner, of the Pirst Preshyterian Church, and Adjutant George Tan- ner, of the Salvation Army, conduct- * STEELEGETS ~ DAILY - DEGISIONIN RISKO FIHT Tacoma Battler Is Victor LEAVING MARCH 27 Make your reservation NOW. Call Mr. McAllister, Gastineau Hotel, Plione 10 North Canada Air Express \ TE SMITH SISTERS, ETHELYNNE AND ELLIS-AYR. , OF TACOMA, WASH., HOLD MOST OF T™E NATONAL- SK TTLES P, 2 § £ Over Middleweight : Champion SEATTLE, March 25. — Freddie Steele, rugged Tacoma battler, -last night e shed himself as the ry’s leading middleweight con- tender he banged out a ten round decision over Eddie “Babe Risko, Syracuse, New York, middie- weight champion. The ten rounder was a non-title fight. Steele weighed 161 Risko 162 pounds The attendance one of the largest event in this city £ le sl as pounds and at the fight was seen at a fistic win but ge following. vicious one and their money's i to Risko also had a 1 The fight was a the 9,000 fans got worth. Both boys missed often but con- nected just as often with solid blows Risko's face was a bloody sir at the end of the battle The Associated Press gave Risko the first three rounds and Steele all the others eighth, which was even. The fighters were tearing each other at the final bell. Risko bounded off the ropes to land a right to the jaw, only to re- ceive vicious lefts to the face from Steele as the fight ended. Steele seemed fresh as the gruel- ling was finished. Despite the terrific slu were no knockdowns. Both fighters nad into the limit D KETCHIKAN K. . BEATS SKAGWAY FOR CAGE TITLE score car except into zing, there sed to go 160 pound ring over the Kayhi Takfi_wo Straight v Basketball Games—S. E. Alaska Champs KETCHIKAN, Alaska, March 25.— ' Kayhi has captured the Southeast Alaska High School basketball title by taking two straight games from Skagway. Monday night Kayhi won by a score of 31 te 15 and last night by 23 to 23 | Although the title issue has been settled, the two teams are clashing again Thursday. Kayhi's victories are attributed to height and weight. Skagway is cred- ited with having a faster team but the. Zynn Canal players seemed at a disadvantage on backboard recov- | exies. o | KARP'S FIVE MAKES | GREAT RECORD FOR | WASHINGTON STATE The many Juneau friends of | Julian Karp, freshman coach at the State College at Pullman, Wash- ington, will be pleased in knowing | that Karp's yearling basketball quintet hung up an enviable recm‘d‘ in their recently completed season. The young Cougars tutored by Karp were hailed as one of the| best yearling teams in Washington | State’s history, completing their| season with 13 wins out of 14 starts and amassing a total of 628 points to their opponents’ 327. Their only defeat was by a one point margin. B WOMEN OF THE MOOSE PUBLIC CARD PARTY 1 The Women of the Moose will sponsor a card party at the home of Mrs. August Smith, 323 Decker Way, Wednesday evening, March 25, starting promptly at 8 o'clock. Bridge and Whist will be played. Admission 50c. Good prizes. Public invited. —adv. — e THREE CROWN BRANDY “THREE CROWN BRANDY has been aged in the woed for two years! And the price is very low.” 1 —adv. L m—————— SHOP IN JUNEAU, FIRST! BOYS' RING AND MAT PROCRAM ON SATURDAY Smoker Featuring Talent of Youngsters to Be Held at Elks’ Hall With wrestlir and three ady definit eral other at- | sideration, the | estling Club. Police De- : partment under the direction of Of- | ficers Kenneth Junge and George Gilbertson, will present a smoker featuring unusual amateur talent next Saturday night, it was announc- ed today by Officer Junge. Use of the Elks Hall has been do- nated by the Elks Lodge, and the American Legion has volunteered the use of their boxing ring. The opening event has been siated for 8 o'clock next Saturday evening and aside from two or more prospec- tive boxing and wrestling exhibi- tions by adult performers, the en- tire program will be governed by Tegulation amateur rules. Many of the boy boxers and wrest- lers have developed remarkable abil- ity during the last few months un- der the tutelage of Officers Junge and Gilbertson, who have been as- sisted by volunteer instructors Rich- ard Ford, former Marine Corps ama- six boxi matches | teur boxer, Con Carthun, gymnastics enthusiast, and others, and a fine performance is guaranteed. Battle of Brawn One of the star attractions on the card lined up for the forthcom- ing smoker is a battle of brawn in | the heavyweight division of the mat contingent between man-handlers Earle Monagle and Roderick Mc- Cloud. Another feature event is midget-weight boxing the Nielson brothers, fast and clever craftsmén of the squared circle. Other events on the fight card in- clude leather-pushing contests be- tween Elroy Hoffman and Ernie! Tyler, Bobbie Ferby and Raymond Paul, Joe Tyler and Ralph Bardi, Frank Bruner and George Gullufson, and Tommie Hall and Valaria Tram- betis, % Grapplers Meet Two other grappling encounters | featuring wrestling talent developed | by the Boys Club instruciors are Eber Cameron vs Grant Ritter, and Fred Sorri vs Buddy Nelson. Severa! other prospective boxing and wrest- ling events will be announced later. A general admission charge of 50 cents for any scat in the Elks Hall | aas been decided upen by officials in | charge of the smoker. All proceeds will be used for the purchase of new equipment for the Boys’ Boxing and bout between |3 THE KOMPA GIRLS OUGHT T© 8 E ABLE TO TAKE CARE oF T™E OLYMPIC SACK~ STROKE SWIMMING Al Kights Reserved by Tue Associated Wrestling Club, and for a picnic and | yuting for the boys to be held the latter part of next month, Sign Up Friday A specially important meeting of vill be e held next Friday night at gymnasium in the Elks Hall, at iich time all final arrangements the smoker to be held on Satur- be completed. All boys to appear on the boxing ar restiing program will be re- quired to be present at the Friday night meeting, and all club mem- wi for wishing | bers who expect to attend the picnic uext month must register at that time. SPORT SLANTS Sister acis”in sports are spring- up in almost every branch of activity. 1t is getting so that n a girl champion bobs up. you can expect to find a sister along ide of her, or right behind her, All which is all right with me as long they are as attractive as the ski- ing athletic as ing Smith sisters and the swimming | Kompa girls. The more sister acts,| the merrier women's sports will be. mith girls, Ethelynne and yr, of Tacoma, Wash., hold bout all the women's skiing titles in his country—the national downhill, ialom and combined skiing cham- pionships. Ellis-Ayr was a member the squad which represented the U 8. in the winter Olympic sports at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. A pity the winter sports program s not include a beauty contest, or these lovely sisters would be a cinch to battle it out for top honors, Pretty Fancy Skaters Louise and Estelle Weigel of Euftalo finished second and fourth in the national fancy skating cham- plonships to win places on the team which competed in the winter Olym- pic Games. Pretty Elizabeth Kompa and her s.ster, Erna, have been grabbing tae headlines on the sporis pages Boxing and Wrestling Club | EVENTS ¥ LOUISE AND ESTELLE WEIGEL WERE ©ON THE OLYMPIC FANGY SKATING N with their wholesale wrecking of backstroke swimming records at the southern resorts. Elizabeth won the | national 220-yard backstroke cham- | pionship last summer while Erna reached her peak in the south and | surpassed her sister in the matter ‘|u1 breaking records. Germon born, these comely blondes aspire to membership with | the Olympic swimming sauad so that an return to the land of their and visit the scenes of their irly childhood after the business of competing in the games is com- pleted. Un ome new sensations appear overnight their ck s of achieving their present ambitions are indeed bright the, Stella Coaches Sister | Stella. Walsh, winner of the 100-, meter dash in the 1932 Olympic Games, is grooming her younger sis- ter for a place on the United States women'’s track and field team which | will compete in the 1940 Olympics. | Miss Walsh competed for her native | Poland in the games at Los Angeles | after she found she could not get her 7| final naturalization papers here in time to compete for the United Stat- es. She had filed her intention, but the slow moving machinery of nat- uralization forced her to chose be- tween competing for Poland or sit- ting on the sidelines The speedy Stella is determined to make a champion of sister Clara | and further see to it that she does npt encounter the same difficulties | wineh forced her to abandon her de- sire to wear: the red, white and blue shield in the Olympic Games. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan, ranked No. 3 nationally, reached greater heights in the tennis world than did her sis- ter, Minnie, And yet there was | time when the experts freely nomi- | nated Minnie for the higher hon- in fancy diving competition. Helen won the Olympic title in 1928 and | earned a place on the 1932 team. Her sister Frances was mighty on | the springboard, although she did |mot reach the perfection of form that talented Helen showed. MIDGET LUNCH Featuring Home-Cooked Meals and a choice of Beer, Wine or any 10c drink with meals o r sandwiches Open daily from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. including Sundays TOM and MARIE STURGE ors. The Meaney girls did very well | o~ | An Alaska exhibit valued at $500 | will be on display at the Texas| Centennial to be held in Dallas from June 6 to November 29, this year, the final shipment having been made Monday At ] request of Dr. Ernest| Gruer Director of the Division | of Islands and Territorial Posses- sions, the exhibit was prepared | through the mutual efforts of Gov. | Johni W. Troy and the Chamber of come the property Department. Supplemented by the | display used at the Chica Fair | which the department now has, the ccmplete exhibit - will be used at future ‘events of like mnature. A world's fair is planned for San Francisco in 1938 and another in New York City in 1939 In the shipment sent to the | § Texas fair are Alaska-made articles | such tourists when | rth: by brace- | totems, beads and | ellent model Eskimo ki fine selection of Ala; photographs, transparency of which is to be made by Dr. Gruening’s division ed the services. — - CAPPER GOES WEST Rudy Capper, w laft for the West now N on in Gordova. | American Beauty Parior Reasonable Prices—Expert Beauty Werk PHONE 6:7 “PAY CASH AND SAVE” 4 ¥l Territorial | and will be- | of the Interior a NATURALS A Straight Whiskey Sig Glenmor ! u as purchase sins a Distilleries Cc - i porated L il SPEND WHERE YOU MAKE IT! | 1Y AFTER 6:00 P, M. PHONE 226 if your Daily Alaske £mpire has not reached you PHONE 226 and a copy will be sent by SPECIAL CARRIER to you IMMEDIATELY. l | LUMBER Juneau Lumber Mills, Inc. ALASKA MEAT CO. FEATURING CARSTEN’S BABY BEEF—DIAMOND TC HAMS AND BACON—U. 8. Government Inspected ward o1 1, to spend the fishing sea- Henning Berggren — D e PP U S : Tou are invited to present this :oupon at the box office of the Capitol Theatre and recclve tickets for your- self .and a friend or relative to see ‘Accent on Youth’ As a paid-up subscriber of, The Daily Alaska Empire Good only for current offering Your Name May Appear Tomorrow WATCH THIS SPACE DRIVE SAFETY - All Winter OR PERFECT SERVICE! CONNORS MOTOR CO., Inc. THE HOTEL OF ALASKAN HOTELS The Gastineau Our Services to You Jerin and End at the Gang Plank of Every P’assenger-Carrying Boat o e ey OPEN ALL NIGHT Alaskan Hotel Liquor S:ore Dave Housel, Prop. Phone Single 0-2 rings THE TERMINAL “Deliciously Different Foods” Catering te Banquets and Private Dinner Parties INSURANCE - Allen Shattuck Established 1898 FOR INSURANCE See H. R. SHEPARD & SON Telephone 409 B. M. Behrends Bank Bldg. FRES Fruits and Vegetables ——ALWAYS! 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