The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 14, 1938, Page 5

T T T THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, JAN. 14, 1938. PRESIDENT TO FIGHT HOLDING FIRMS ELIMINATION IS NOW AIN OF ROSSEVELT Opposes /\:Ary of “Death Sentence’ of Utility /it REJECTS PROPOSAL MADE BY WILLKIE Remote Control Must Be| Banned, Declaration of Chief Executive WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—| President Roosevelt said he favered elimination of alli holding cempanies. | This statement was made | teday at a press conference. The President expressed unalterable opposition to any modification of the “death sentence” of Utility Holding Company act. [ The President said this, preposal was made by Wen-' dell Wilikie, head of the Com- menwealth and Southern Cor- peration as one of the condi- ticns for an “understanding™ with the Administration. The President did not indi- it Modification cate how the Holding Com- somebody along Broadway when he picked Max Schmeling to 4 Joe Louis between the tenth but further said that remote and titteentn pany Act would be terminated rontrol of local community U banking should be ended as well as similar practices of ities in other fields. DOYLE POINTS OUT “SURE WINNERS Bet Commissioner Favors, Yankees in Coming [ i ar de st i Baseball Race By PAUL MICK! wEW YORK, Jan. 14.—Broadws Jack Doyle donned his fancy Chi- nese dressing gown today and spun;©v every secret out of his magic crystal|n¢ ball ting commissioner had finished he ' had presented the lineup which|CU the “smart money” will follow down|Aat the sports trail of 1938. Broadway Jack hasn’t been out-| foxed in the betting business since; the Boston Braves won the pen-l nant back in 1914 with their miracle| men, This, accerding to Mr. Doyle, is how the smart dough will ride in Maxie O K'd So this time, M Lo heavier zone lightweigt crown, | Ceferino Garcia will take (Kiki) SLSON |Pirate, Chicago Gub and Cincinnati ; {Red outfielder Before the 61-year-old bet-|the name of the team because Fights—in case you've forgotten, yle who got laughing was the same Mr. D itten But guttawimg, rougds, through Louis in the were his man. He picks Schmeling in—somewhere between the 1d 15th rounds And while oesn’t like fighters who str he picks Henry t Lou Ambers for He he Arm- the rong to also the welter tle away from Barney Ross. > Cuyler Signs Up Major Bush Deal : Jan, 14—Hazen Pittsburgh ALPENA, Mich Cuyler, former id he had signed a tract to act as coach and utility itfielder for & major league team season but declined to disclose “oth- steps” were involved in the deal uyler spends winters at his home Harrisville, near here. — e MRS. AL MORELAND OF ANCHORAGE DIES La Mrs |last May, passed away December 13 1938: at Beavertown, Oregon, after a Baseball — In the American|y, e while visiting her daughter, ague, the New York Yankees wWill|pruriel Mrs. Moreland resided in 80 postward at 3 to 5. And theylll snchorage many years and had walk their best followed in this|friends throughout the Territory. order: Detroit or Chicago for sec-! Burial was made at Roseburg, ond and third, Cleveland, Boston, oy, Daiaber 10, Atra e Washington, Philadelphia and St.|j, Louis., The downtrodden Browns|j will be 300 to 1. Broadway Jack|gc, said the crystal ball wasn't so clear| in the National League Pitcher Van Lingle Mungo hasn't|pi been sold yet. If either the New|o: York Giants or Chicago Cubs get|ch him, theyll win the pennant iol-‘m lowed in this order: : Pittsburgh,jin St. Louis, Boston, Brooklyn, Cin- cinnati, Philadelphia, a 500 to 1 shot. If neither the Cubs nor the Giants nd was stricken a week prior to r death, and never regained con- iousnes: Mr. and Mrs. s death last May. They resided 1 L. Street. He was buried in An- horage and Mrs. Moreland went visit her daughter after dispos- g of the estate. e e COLONIAL AFFAIR HELD A colorful minuet in colonial cos- get Mungo they'll be equal choices!tumes marked the open meeting of at 3 to 2 in Jack’s book. Yanks Are ‘In’ World champion; Without ever looking at the crystal ball, Broad- way Jack said the Yanks were “in.” ce the Anchorage Woman’s Club re- ntly when a program on “The Cul- tural Background of the Constitu- tion,” telling of various phases of colonial culture was presented. when twelfth. . Doyle sticks right 10th into tigures, Moreland, widow of | | Al Moreland of Anchorage who died Moreland operated | because ' the Alaska Cafe in Anchorage until ENTHUSIASH CASABA WILL | SHOWTONIGHT High School Spirit Will Fill Gaps in Size and * BURKE HIGH_ IN FIREMEN PIN VICTORY Fireman bowler Art Burke knock- ed over 543 pins at the Elks last night to show his team mates the way to victory over the Dispatchers in the Railroader’'s League. e | The Engineers rolled a victory over Tonight's basketball at the High the Brakemen and the Switchmen School Gymnasium is going to be threw the Oilers onto a loser's side- wide open, hard fought ball — or track. High Scoool teams have clmngvd‘ Tonight's games are Southern 10 thie Lot Tem 508 | Pacitic Lackawanna, Northern Coach Jimmy Ryan, of the Uni-'Pacific vs. New York Central and ty of Alaska Polar Bears, used Santa Fe vs. Pennsylvania to say to his men before they went| Last night's scores dre as fol- into a tussle with a High School Jows: |squad. “You boys are bigger and tal- FIREMEN 'ler, stronger, and if you're not lazy, Burke 148 194 201— 543 a bit faster than these lads you're Riendeau 167 164 168— 499 going to play—but don’t get cocky! Carmichael 182 154 130— 466 Just watch that Hihg Scool en- DI S S thusiasm!” Totals 497 512 4991508 | Therein lies the reason tonight's! DISPATCHERS doubleheader with the DO\I},’]HNiTl\li)(Jd“fl\l 166 183 159— 518 {High School quintet playing the J»|W11>nn 118 148 150— 406 High Reserves, and the J-High Var- Mermann *153 153 153—"459 sity playing the Elks, should be a| Ty S AT hard fought driving game Totals 437 494 462—1393 Douglas will bring over that oth- ENGINEERS \’er~side—0!-the-cha‘.mlcl rooting spir-{Shaw 156 170 194— 520 it that makes Juneau rooters look Hermle 171 148 180— 499 |a bit wishy-washy in contrast That | Foster 177 155 131— 463 |is germ enough for “High School | AR, A A B | enthooziazm” in the first game Totals 50% 473 5051482 In the second contest, all cards BRAKEMEN showing before the opening whistle, Iversen *169 169 169—°507 |blows, will find the Crimson Bears|Darnell *158 158 158—°474 |beaten in sight—but watch what)Holland 120 175 146— 441 |wonders that “High School enthooz- T T S |lasm” can do! Totals 4417 463—1412 | . 1 OILERS Monagle 146 156 142— 444 A"‘“ Rule Gl]es Stevens 157 157 157—*471 | MacSpadden . 141 160 137— 438 | | SWITCHMEN Redling 134 166 145— 445 5 Kyler 170 173 166— 509 |. WEST POINT, N. Y, Jan. 14. —|pisedhorn 200 120 167— 487 Maj. Gen. Willlam D. Connor, su- S g AR L perintendent of the United States Totals 504 450 468—1431 Military Academy, announced that “—Average score. Did not bowl. IR B VA Judge, 98, Still Sitting LONDON—AIfred Dennis, 98-year old Justice of the Peace of Wey- mouth, British South coast town, plans to sit on the bench to cele- brate his hundredth birthday. “I don’t intend ever to retire,” he said {recently. !the newly adopted three-year eligi- bility rule in athletics will go into |effect at the begifining of the sem- ester July 1, 1938, and that mem- !bers of the first class of next year, (1939) will be exempt from the rule. - - - Greenville, 8. C., bank debits in 1936 are showing a marked increase over those for 1935. ., take it and try o like it. | BEAT ARCTICS Fence Mile Long BY FUUB PINS COLORADO SPRINGS, Jan. 14 | If it were still the day of open range | feuds, authorities could understand | | Arctic bowler, Seston, topped out it but now that cattle battles are | last night at the Brunswick alleys Distory they can't decide why some- with the best score of the evening, One made 1000 cuts In the N. I fotalling 585 pins, but his Arctic Powers ranch fence. The wire-cut- trio was bested four pins by the ting enthusiast, tackled a three- Wood Choppe strand barbed wire fence and cut American Meat won over Snow €very strand between all the posts White and Rainier won over Co- in a stretch of fence a mile long lumbia. Tonight's games are Heidel- - | vs. Alaska Juneau and Hot s | T S ongst Prisoner | Last night's scores follow | Arctic . . . Carlson 130 175 128— 433 lee" Hls Llhen‘ Metcalf 170 174 515 Seston 224 169 585 A | e 7 o ~-/ ST. JOHN, N. B, Jan. 14.—Miss i AT 524 518 4911533 \poiyj Pay of Misper, watching a Mation: 159 176 152 window, dropped a purse 4. ntaining 179 145 179 a large amount of cash and negotia- ble bonds. sl o8 Two Jjail prisoners William o ckhouse and Walter Maguire, I trustees—found the purs AT e while Bouw, Wlts ed in their dutie: 2t eng of G. Larson 127 147 160— 434 < : % Tatson 184 115 167— 465 :xp and refurned the finc b Dratel 175 140 142 437 Douse was awarded his freedom i L faguire had his term shortened by Totals 486 402 4691357 the authorities American Meat B Hermle 135 166 126— 427 Thibodeau 190 207 125— 522 Kosk 189 127 173 Columbia s | Rands 148 153 165— 466 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, Jan. 14.— Ceoe 149 138 453 The average chicken in Minnesota Halm 192 199 554 {cday is laying nearly two dozen = more eggs a year than her prede- Totals 489 490 4941473 & did At 50, Rainier This is shown in a 10-year study F. Fulgencio 196 138 172— 506 of chickens conducted by Cora E Terencio 149 183 167— 499 cooke, poultry extension specialist Quino 149 171 166 at the University of Minnesota | i ——| By increasing the percentage of Totals 494 492 5051491 mggh in the ration fed, the produc- tion gradually was stepped up from & -~ e 137 e per hen in 1927 to 159 in ur I eme" fl 1936, the study revealed \ - oo | Kear Russian Swamp Reclaimed Talk at Dinner ~ For Agricutture TSN { Family and religious conditions| MOSCOW, Jan. 14— The hot in Russia will form the topic upon | WO ed swamp where Jason of Greek which Jack Littlepage, former well mythology went in search of the known mining engineer recently re-| golden fle is being reclaimed fof turned from Russia, will speak at subtropical agriculture. Mace Dons Wig Mae West This unusual picture of buxom Mae West was taken during pro- duction of her new picture, “Everyday 1s a Holiday”, in which e wears a brunet wig as disguise during one of the sequences. I0WA CHURCHES NOW FOR SALE DES MOINES, Ia, Jan. 14 Sale—300 former Iowa churches. Abandoned by the congregations which moved to new buildings, split or dwindled, old structures once used as houses of worship dot the Iowa landscape from the Missouri to the i ppi What churches. For happens to abandoned the Norlitemen dinner next Tuesday| Kolkhida, known to the ancients| ™) "t 0 L cvening at the Northern Light Pres-|at Colchis, covers 550,000 acres on| <l = BOW 8 5 00T CER R O by tariar ‘Ghiiroh. [the Georgian shores of the Black “" e N s 8 Also on the evening program will| Sea. Within five years Soviet en-|Mation and garage, the fourth 1s b be the male quartet with Clarence gineers have drained 40,000 acres|POU! e s o R&RIS, Bow- Hudson, Johin Keyser|aud furnsd them over to oolieckive| OVSVAE, ;8he. foumier ohiurch huild: and Ned' Rowe, A camedy duo with|atmiers. Foti; a seaport, .is. tne|/DS8 Stand enapty, iaelapldated sym- £herwood Wirt and John Keyser will | chief city add to the event. By means of Reservations for the dinner arefa network ol drainage canals, 113,- due by Monday night and shouwld|{000 acres are to be reclaimed by be made by calling 373. The dinner 1940 for 5,000 peasant families starts at 6:30 pm. and is over at|raise tea, tangerines, lemons and 8 pm. Mrs. Vena L. Crone is in|oranges. Reclamation of 150,000 charge of its preparation acres more is planned after 1940, | Phaniom Voige [Bette Gou | Stirs Firemen embankments and Places Before i It’s Heard From | HARBOR SPRINGS, Mic 14—Lee Gregory and his HALIFAX, N. S, Jan. 14 The| Winitred, "wish the United States “phantom voice” is at it again, and | Geological Survey would explain the Halifax Fire Department has to|this one to them | Last June 12 Lee and Lis sister| The “phantom voice” is a female|wrote their names and addresses' voice, and rather attractive, too, itfon some cards and sealed them in is said, but withal most annoying.|three bottles which they tossed into She has been calling up the depart-|Litile Traverse Bay. | ment on the telephone and giving Recently Lee received a letter lalse alarms. The fire stations,lfrom John C. Osinach, Hanover, N. though all awawe of the “epidemic,” H., stating he had found one of the cannot refuse to send out their bottles on the banks of the Connec- equipment. Efforts conducted on a ticut river near Hanover. wide scale to trap the woman have| Lee would like to know how the tailed. bottle crossed the Great Lakes and ' ———————— | the St. Lawrence River, the Atlantic The land owned in Hudspeth Coast and Long Island Sound—if it County, Tex., alone by the Univer- really did. sity of Texas is larger than the en- tire acreage of some other state counties. — - Seventy percent of the earth’s |surface never has a fall of snow. | BRINGING UP FATHER DION'T | TELL You THAT YOU'VE GOT TO FIRE THAT GIRL. THAT YOU HAVE AS A SECRETARY?, et | HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO TELL HER-SHE IS IN TH OUTER OFFICE- WELL- I'LL TALK TO HER_AND SHE WiLL. BE ON HER WAY OUT IN FIVE MINUTES~ By GEORGE McMANUS WOULD VOQ LIKE TO GO HERE'S A TO A SHOW BOX OF TONIGHT 7— CANDY-- bols of the simple architecture that marked churches before the advent of modern design in temples of wor- ship > o | “CHAIN GANG” FOR DRUNKS , Jan, 14. Tulsa will chain gang” for habit- ual drunkards Mayor T. A. Penney suggested the nd it was approved by Frank TULSA have a Brown, police and fire commissioner, |and Judge A. A. Hatch of munici- pal court In d of paying their penalty by relaxing and eating in jail, the drunkards will be sentenced to weed- ing and clean-up details and will be chained together, in full sight of the public. Police Chief Roy Hyatt sald be- tween 40 and 50 habitual drunkards were arrested two or three times a week. - Secret of Indian Luck Piece Penétrated COLORADO SPRINGS, Jan. 14— Dr. W. F. Drea of Colorado College has discovered a way to “eat his Then rinse it thoroughly. ake” and keep it too. He wanted to know what was in- side an Indian fetish, kept by a southwestern Colorado tribe as a “good luck™ charm for deer hunts, and yet he didn't want to destroy the relic. The fetish, Dr. Lea was told by old-time Indians, was made of tis- sues from the heart of deer, tight- ly wrapped in layers. The Indians did not know what was inside this particular fetish. So Dr. Drea x-rayed it and dis- covered that in the center was an ear of corn and other objects which appeared to be turquoise e Approximately $60,000,000 worth of gold passed through the Denver mint in 1936, about 50 cents for every man, woman and child in the United States, HNTS FOR_ " HOUSEWIVES Foods intended to be eaten with the fingers should be browned in the oven or on the broiler. Snacks [to be caten with forks may be sauted lin a small quantity of butter To whip evaporated milk; Cover the cans with two inches of cold water; slowly bring to a boil and let boil for five minutes. Cool and chill the cans thoroughly. Then pour the milk into a cold howl and | whip it with a cold beater. prinkied over fresh mushrooms ring the cocking, in the proportion of half a teaspoon- ful of juice to a cup of mushrooms, will help keep them from turning the mushrecms are not dark over-cooked Add one-fourth of a teaspoonful of lemon juice to each cup of heavy cream to hasten the whipping pro- cess. To prevent taffy and other sticky candies from becoming soft, wrap each piece in waxed paper and store it' in a covered tin or glass jar. A fruit jar with a firm lid is unusually satisfactor, E contain minerals, s | ng substances and vitamins. Consequently, it's a good plan to erve at least one egg a day to children. They may be creamed, poachied, baked, made into omelets or mixed with creamed foods. They also may be made into custards or other simple puddings. Washing machine hints: Always turn off the machine if you are suddenly called away. The average tubful of clothing requires six min- utes for ordinary washing — and ten minutes for badly soiled articles, such as overalls. Change the water twice in laundering soiled articles such as rugs and play suits. Never overcrowd the washing machine, since the garments in it may be torn rabbits be them or In preparing Welsh careful not to over-cook ihey will become stringy. Get a large tray, shallow box or a small basket and keeo all your cleaning utensils in it—soap, pow- der, rags, brushes, etc. You'll al- ways have them together and can carry them about the house easily for any cleaning job | FIPRUECR | Bake fruit cakes in covered cas- |seroles to keep them moist. Fill {the casserole not more than two- \thirds full, since the cake will rise. Before storing the cake allow it to cool. Then wrap it in several thick- nesses of waxed paper and setydl in a cool, dry place. Make the dish airtight by pouring melted paraffin around the edges where the cover meets the dish. Use a glass, china or earthenware dish A faint suggestion of garlic is a ic touch to many a vegetable d. Just brush a clove of garlic 'quickly around the salad bowl, or the dressing bowl. That is enough ,to blend the flavors of the other in- gredients Cocktail tray suggestions: Squares of dill pickles and cheese alternated fon wooden picks; Roqueford cheese balls mixed with catsup and placed on small crackers; liverwurst creamed with butter and spread on buttered toast points; crabmeat mixed with chopped pickles and spread on buttered white bread fin- gers; corned beef cubes spread with salad dressing and speared on wood- en skewers; slices of browned cock- (tail sausages alternated with pickle |squares and sliced pimiento stuffed ‘oh'."vs on wooden picks. | A soap jelly suitable for laun- dering clothes can be made by put- |ting leftover soap bits in a jar and covering them with boiling water. To remove cod liver oil stains \from clothing apply a tablespoonful {of banana oil mixed with a table- \spoonful of soapy water. After five minutes or so wash the stained ar- [ticle in warm water and soap suds. Why not a fleet of banana boats for a 12-year-old's birthday party? Stuff hollowed bananas with diced pineapple and peaches. Attach flags of variegated gum drops stuck on wood picks. Let the sea be of shred- ded lettuce. Or fill the bananas with vanilla ice cream and sail them on a custard sea. e Bermuda grass, once considered a |curse of farm land, is now recog- nized as a valuable ally in control- ling soil erosion and supplying pas- ture grazing 34 i - - | A false alarm was a big pain to Fireman John Glynn, 55, at Kansas ; City, Mo. Responding to the alaxm ,bell, be leaped for the pole to the | Lirst floor—and landed with a bro- {ken ankle