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MICHKILS, G.A.P.D. 1400 Fourth Avenue, Seattle JIARRY CLARK,C.P.&T.A. 683 Granville St., Vancouver WEBFEET TAKE CASABA CROWN IN NORTHWEST Huskies Beat WSC 50 to 36 to End Season in SQCO!]d Pli\(‘(‘, blasted title sity of Wash- dwn‘xl the 50 to 36 in playoffs next week-end. > May Cancel Big Olympic Games panese W;'_Mixlister Will Prohibit Soldiers from Participating, 1940 TOKYO, March 7—War Min- jster Gen. Sugiyama today an- nounced that army regulations have been issued prohibiting soldiers on the active list from participating in the 1940 Olympics. Gen. Sugiyama is also advocat- ing cancellation of the games be- cause of the conflict in China SKI CHAMPICN BOUND NORTH FOR FAIRBANKS Member of Orchestra, Due Tomorrow, Is N.W. Titleholder ¢s Bigham is a pa r aboard the Alaska, due to- ow, from Seattle. S! member of the orchestra going the interior city to opsn at ht Club. s Bigham is the ladies North- ki Champion and may pai- (vup.m- in the Fairbanks Ice Car- nival contests. She is also an ex- cellent skater. Miss Bigham and other members of the orches plan to fly from Juneau to Fairbanks aboard tomor- row's PAA plane. The orchestra is known as Diane’s sters, and includes a piano accordian and drums artists 'md a vocalist R DEPERE DUE HERE IN AM. Freighter Depere, from the west- ward, is scheduled to arrive in port tomorrow morning at 3 o'clock according to a radiogram received by Alaska Steamship Company Agent Horace O. Adams. - R Lode and placer Iocatmn notices for sale at The Empire Office. - D by Lester D. Henderson. Tevern Nig M ‘Alaska” Sprmg Slgn—Mack Goes South Iy = iy G i Connie Mack with Mrs. Mack and Perennial harbinger of spring is the trip south for Connie Mack, manager of the Philadelphia Athletics. The veteran baseballer is pictured shortly before leaving Philadelphia, holding his grandson, Frank Cunningham. IIL —~ Mrs. Mack is with him. _ T o e THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1938. ! BRINGING UP FATHER VON _PLAT SWITCHMEN AND SUPERS IN VIGTORY Switchmen beat Lhe Engineers and the Supers beat the Firemen Saturday night at the Elks’ Club alleys, but the Supers did not at- tend the occasion of their victory Tonight's games are Union Pa- cific vs. Santa Fe; New York Cen- Reading, and Northern Pa- lmcmw'nna Switchmen Redling 162 163 179— 504 Kyler 177 181 192— 550 Bloedhorn 149 137 144— 430 Totals 488 481 5151484 Engineers Shaw 173 201 178— 552 Hermle 161 170 160— 491 Foster 153 128 109 Totals 487 499 4471433 Firemen Burke 199 136 Riendeau 209 149 Carmichael 123 141 Totals 531 426 4431400 Supers Brown 162 162 Delebecque 157 157 Williams 156 156 475 475 4751425 ; did not bowl e DOUBLEHEADER - REOPENS PLAY IN LOCAL HOOP Douglas and rnemen and Eiks and High School Are Matched Juneauites have gotten behind on their basketball evenings since early last month, but the leather casaba goes up against the backboards again tomorrow night as the Doug- las Eagles meet the Firgmen and - the Elks vie with the Juneau High School. League play has been suspended while the All-Stars made a jaunt to the Westward in an invasion of the Anchorage Fur lendezvous. The De Molays were left well in the lead, followed by the Douglas and Elks side by side those two lat- ter teams hoping to narrow the gap tomorrow nighl BUYER FINDS WOLVES BAD IN INTERIOR Charles Goldstein Reports Natives in Poor Straits What with wolves and floods, the Kuskokwim and Yukon River na- tives are having a bad time of it, according to Charles Goldstein, who returned to Juneau Saturday from a fur buying trip to the Westward. “In flying down through the Kus- kokwim country,” Mr. Goldstein said, “We saw at least four places in the snow where the wolves had cut down a moose and left nothing but a bit of hair. And of course where wolves are as thick as that, they raise hob with the fur in the country.” Floods in the Interior last spring. ruined trapping for the natives in many localities, especially along fhe Yukon, Mr. Goldstein said. The wellknown fur merchant attended the Anchorage Fur Rendezvous and then flew 3500 miles down into the Kuskokwim country and up the Yu- kon. He returned here from Fair- banks by PAA plane. AR Sl W PAUL BUNYAN “MOOSE” HOUSTON, Me., March 7. — A “Paul Bunyan" moose described as from ten to fifteen feet high, dirty- white in color with immense ant- lers, recently made its fourth ap- pearance in thirty-six years along the West Branch of the Penobscot. J WHAT IS THAT RED LIGHT OVER BY SIR TENYT TER'S [ WOW -HIS SLENT 1S ON FIRE-~ DO _YOU WANT TO BURN LUP ? TAKING "HE COUNT WOULD BE EASY after listening to Whitey Bimstein’s musie, thinks Hacry Jeffra (left), bantam champ who’s been visiting San Juan, Puerto Rico, home town of Sixto Escobar (right). Jeffra’s vi«<it to San Juan was professional us well as social. - STUBBIES TAKE ARCTIC SCALPS AT BRUNSWICK Jee n the Arctic to down that in a row, but de, in turn ight night's mes matchas w Asters meeting the Gerdenias trio Ed Ra berg three are Last Saturday's scores Arctic J. Carlscn 122 115 F. Metcal: 187 173 E. Recdde 156 160 448 200 185 147 146 P. Morgan 156 171 Totals 503 502 Arctic Carlson 120 157 Metcalf 163 182 Radde 191 180 Totals 474 519 Heidelberg Russell 111 133 Snow (for Seeds) 146 170 Jakeway 168 201 Totals 425 504 - D Try The Empire classifieds results. e Empire classifieds pay. wany, where youth Snow lead a Stubbies attack last squad Arctic, bested Heidel- Saturday three led by Flower h Orchids and nd Violets bowling follow: al4» 147— 332 210 50 3 173-- 500 530~!535 | 479—1472 106— 350 178— 494 176— 545 460—1389 for New 45-Letter Drug Kaises Blood Pressure LONDON, March 7.—A new drug for raising blood pressure in emer- gency cases might do the trick under normal circumstar if you tried to p: The drug is ca Trimethoxybenz, doazol hydrochloride This 45-letter word is described by Dr. F. Avery in the British med- ical journal “Lancet” as a distant relation of adrenaline. It is used in - dihydroimi- the treatment of operative shock and can be injected or taken by mouth. It’s known as for short. *mu 000 TURF = CLASSIC WON " BY STAGEHAND ‘Preparation 2020 Fif!y fiou;a;(i Spectators See Seabiscuit, Pompoon Come in 2nd, and 3rd LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 7- Stagehand, a mighty colt, last Sat- running of the world’s richest turf race, the $100,000 Santa Anita Han- dicap. Fifty thousand spectators s Stagehand win by a nose in a cam- era finish with Seabiscuit and Pom- poon second and third There were nineteen entries for he race, a mile and one quarter Seabiscuit and Pompoon were the favorites to win, FEAT, this young Partenkirchen, Ger- urday afternoon captured the fourth FORT YUKON FESTIVAL T0 BE MARCH 21 Natives from the Chandalar, Por- cupine, and the Black River dis- tricts will gather at the Fort Yukon village March 21 for a potlatch Although the Fort Yukon people have had a hard winter—a light fur catch and not much moose or cari- tou—they are pooling their resourc- es for a big celebration. There will be races for women and for men, snowshoe races, dog m races, feasting, and a dance. In spite of the difficult winter, the pecple will have a good time on this holiday. Kenneth Adems, Nor- thern Commercial Company em- ployee who has been working at Fort Yukon, reports that the vil- age on the Yukon is working hard in preparation for the potlatch. Their race prizes may be small, but the pl‘Cle‘ will cnluv themselves. Confetti Banned Church Weddings LITTLEHAMPTON, England, March 7.—The Rev. Father R. W. Pitls has taken measures to make sure rice instead of confetti is thrown at weddings in his church. If the wedding parties insist on confetti the bridesmaids will have to stay behind and sweep up, he announces, in a notice posted on his church door. “Rice is the symbol of prosper- ity and fecundity. It is white and clean and sprightly; confetti is vol- atile and sticky, the symbol of frivolity and light headedness,” the notice reads. “Rice is cheaper, sweem up eas- ily and (eeds thc bir tea FAMED TENNIS PLAYER UNDER ARREST, BERLIN Baron Von Cramm Taken Into Custody on Serious Charge BERLIN, March 17.—Baron Gott- freid von Cramm, Germany’s famed tennis player, has been arrested by the Criminal Police on a “serious charge.” The authorities declined to reveal the charges but hinted “suspicion of moral delinquencies.” Von Cramm arrived home a few days ago after a world tour. ISP i i HEDGES, EMPLOYMENT AGENT AT KETCHIKAN Arthur A. Hedges, accountant for the Ketchikan Cold Storage Com- pany for the past three years and formerly athletic coach at Peters- burg, has been appointed employ- ment agent at Ketchikan, NOT AT _ALL- YOU SEE-TH BUIL'T' A FIRE IN MY TENT- IMAGINE IT SET _IT. ON FIQE- DO YOU MIND ? R WAS A BIT NIPPY- S5O I Cow Story Wins Llars Contest ™ SACRAMENTO, Cal, March 7 V. F. Dolcini, Davis postmaster, | helds the title of Yolo County's | biggest liar. | The title was bestowed upon Dol- | cini during a banquet of 800 Yolo | County farm bureau members when | s he told of once owning a cow that | came to the barn four times a | day, turned on the milking ma- | chine and milked herself, thus sav- ing him labor Runner-up for the biggest liar honor was J. C. Marshall of Clarks burg, who related a bull once ran | around a haystack so fast he gored | himself to death. Alaskan Presides At Marriage Of His Daughter LE, March 7—The Rev, Dvru.u Hl,u(lHl/\\ of Belkofski, Alaska, Dean of the Russian Ortho- dox Church in Alaska, isted in the centuries old wedding ceremony last night for his daughter Lydia, 20, and Robert Leslie Norman, 22, jumberyard operator. Archpriest Va- sily Kuvshinoff, of Seattle, crowned he couple Following the wedding, which too% place in the Russian Orthodox St. Spiritual Church, there was a re- ception the Rainier Chaptery house, Daughters of the American Revolution. Miss Jean McKnight was maid of | henor and # ¢ Misses Betty Con- | rad, Joyce Crosby, Harriet Routh and Margaret Jacobson were brides- at And to go with the honor of being the biggest fibber, with the maids. biggest whopper, the winner was Ray Norman was best man and the ushers were M William Garland, Richard Meyers, Jack and Glen Garretson. presented with a piece of bologna - - by “Alaska” Lester D. Henderson. English setter pup chosen “best” of some 3,000 dogs at West minster Kennel club show. He’ll be a year old March 18, TANANA RIVER ICE MOVE DATES 1917—April 30 at 11:30 a.m. 1918—May 11 at 9:33 a.m. 1919—May 3 at 2:33 p.m. 1920—May 11 at 10:46 a.m. 1921—May 11 at 6:42 a.m. 1922—May 12 at 1923—May 9 at 1924—May 11 at 1925—May 7 at 1936—April 30 at 1 1937—May 12 at NENANA ICE POOL CLOSES April 15, 1938—Midnight S e O PR P P e SR | 2 163 1926—April 26 at 4:03 p.m. 1927—May 13 at 5:42 p.m. 1928—May 6 at 4:24 p.m. 1929—May 5 at 3:41 p.m. 1930—May 8 at 7:03 p.m. 1931—May 10 at 9:23 a.m. 1932—May 1 at 10:10 a.m. 1933—May 8 at 7:20 p.m. 1934—April 30 at 2:07 p.m. 1935—May 15 at 1:32 2:58 8:04