The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 6, 1939, Page 5

\‘ { | L7 e THOUGHT YOu AN' GLORIA GIMP wUZ PRACTISIN' A SKATIN' DUET FER TH' ICE CARNIVAL,COOT! COAST GUARD Journey fo Mars Would AND FIREMEN ARE VICTORS Sammy Nelson Sprains| Ankle in Last Minute | of Play La§t Night | The Haida and the Firemen bas- | ketball teams stepped into the win | column in the opening of the second half play for the eity league crown | last night in the High School gym | when ‘the Coast Guardsmen whipped | Krause’s Concreters, 48 to 27, and| thes Piremen nosed out a wic over 2 Miners, 48 to 43. In the Haida-Krause game, the curtain raiser of a “swell” evening | of ' basketball entertainment, the Coast Guardsmen got away to a whooping start that gave them a| 17 to 6 lead at the end of the first quarter. The game was never really in doubt, although the Krause squad fought to the last gun, with Woody | Wilson and Ed Hoch dishing out fine basketball in anybody's league. Works 'Like Unit ‘The flashy colored lad Love, piled up 16 points, backed up by pivot glant Naggy with 12 markers. It was apparent, ‘however, last night, that the Haida team was working better as a unit than it had at any time in the past., | The game was comparatively clean, with little" fouling, and no man going to the bench with four persopals against him. Krause made THE PLANET MARS The lines are “canals.” The deep shadows may be vegetation. The white cap on one pole may This is a drawing of what some astrono- be snow. _mers see through the telescope: “canals” aren’t ible. A radio dramatization of a book about war between Earth and Mars sent a wave of hys- teria across the country. In the play, Martians arrived in space chips, spread death and destruc- ticn by strange, frightful weap- ¢aa. Science Editor Blakeflee here discusses the possibility of life on Mars and of communi- cation between the two planets. By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE AP Science Editor NEW YORK—In Gu years sinc five free tosses of eight and Haida!the so-called “canals” were discov- made six of twelve, with Love drop- ered on Mars, science has not bel picg four for four. able to rule but absolutely the pos In the second game (fracas is a|sibility of living beings on the red better word), the Firemen got a planet. disheartening lead on the Miners| by the end of the first half, 23 to' 9, the Miners not scoring a single ' point in the second frame. ! Coming back fighting in the third bracket, the Miners put up a burst of speed and closed up to within five points of the Piremen's 28 markers. Gets Hot Sammy Nelson, hardest driving player in the 160p, got, “hot” about that stage of the game and began to leop dmpossible shots from all angles ‘of the court and it began to look like a seal race. With five/ minutes to go, Miner Banta went to the® bench for too many feuls," and Buddy Lindstrom/| went back into the game, but tl uncanny shooting of the Hautala brother's, Elmer and Art, kept yall- ing the game out of the fire, Two’ minutes were left to play and the Miners put on their furious rally that was almost hopeléss, with the PFiremen leading, 46 to 35 | Elmét Lindstrom dropped one, | brother Bud followed suit, and then | Sammy Nelson, playing perhaps the | best game he has ever displayed on a local court, went into a melee | under the Firemen player bench | and came up with a wrenched ankle, | 44 seconds before the game was| over. 3 | Still trying, Bud Lindstrom again dropped a long one-handed push whot just after Ed Metzgar, tallest | man in the league, had popped one | in for the Firemen. | And that's how it ended--48-43. Game Rough One ‘The game was the roughest of the season, but Bud Foster, referee, seemed to sense that the crowd was really’ enjoying a blood thirst, and let a lot get by, like a smart referee should. i When the smoke had cleared, it was found that Sammy Nelson had | tallied 19 points for scoring honors | of the evening. The Firemen made six of twelve in free throws and | the Miners made three of ten. SUMMARY HAIDA (48) KRAUSE (27) | | F—Love, 16 Bardi, 2| ¢ F—Ropkins, 7 Bristol, 1 C—Naggy, 12 Kann, 0 G—Smith, 0 C. Wilson, 4 G—Waldron, 6 Ed Hoch, 7 S—Stefanson, 2. Anderson, 0 S—Paviat, 2 Edwards, 2 S—Offerdahl, 3 Woods, 0 S—Woody Wilson, 11 FIREMEN (438) MINERS (43) P—E. Hautala, 11._E. Lindstrom, 12 P—A. ..B. Lindstrom, ;10 C—M¢tLaughlin, 4 Vories, 2 G—Mgtagar, 11 Nelson, 19 G-—Behrends, 4 Niemi, 0 S—H. Hansen, 4. Banta, 0 ..Hanson, 0 S—Sturrock, 2. | astronomers, Two kinds of beings are still pos- | sible .there. One is the_“life as we know it” sort, meaning oxygen breathers like men. Astronomers have defi- nitely established that Mars has only about one-thousandth the oxygen in its air that is present on earth. No human could live there without an oxygen helmet. Mars Shy On Oxygen But, as pointed out by Dr. Henry Norris Russell of Princeton Uni- versity, one of the world’s great persons on Mars, of no greater intelligence than man could have learned to extract ‘oxygcn to use for breathing pur- poses. A long time ago Mars is presumed to have had more abun- dant oxygen. The other sort of person on Mars would be “anerobic,” that is, not needing oxygen. Among bacteria and a few other low forms of life on earth, there are “anerobes.” © They live without oxygen. So if{F3DE¢ from 34000000 miles to 46.- evolution 1s plausible, life might | %0.000- i develop on ‘Mars with little need|, FOr Mariians, if,they exist, to for oxygen, : pe the pioneers in a trip between Mars' - temperature, around the planets, much more advanced Equator, in summer is about 50 de- Soawiadie HoRo oSG o earth would be necessary. Scientists | grees Fahrenheit. This has been accurately measured by astron- omers. Clouds have been seen in telescopes. They seem to stand about 15 miles above the surface. ke This rocket, tested in Germany as a mail carrier, went a mile in a few seconds, THEN WHY'RE YUH \THAT'S JESS WOT'S This carthly ro: per hour. It ings” others say the an Take 1,000 Years In Fastest Rocket Science Has Producedi EXPERIMENTAL ROCKET is of the 2fmosphere Amcrican group. WORRYIN' ME, UNK. EVERYTIME WE GETS T'PRACTISIN' OUR ket attains speeds of 700 miles designed for “weather sound- in the experiments of The boys here were setting it up for a trial [light. They may be huge dust storms. A few “canals” are two thou~ sand miles or more long, almost straight lines. They stretch across | the plane face at odd angles.! Short feeders, like telephone cros trees, enter them at some places. Leoks Like Vegetation Some areas on Mars turn dis- tinctly gray - green in summer. Vegetation is the best guess as to the cause of this color change If this is vegetation, it probably would be of a lowly, desert variety. Photographs do not show the “canals” at all. These have to be seen with the eye. Some of the best astronomers claim to see them: sthers have denied the lines are! visible. The earth’s separation from com- munication with Mars is becoming | less certain now. Theoretically a| pace ship could make the flight. Would Take 1,000 Years Rocket ship propulsion would do it—for a man who had one thou-! sand years or more to live and fuels which do not now exist. | The engineering principles have | been established by rocket motor scientists. These have shown that| a rocket will shoot through “empty” | space, in fact, travel much easicr | there than in atmosphere. Rocket engineers have produced speeds of 700 miles an hour with small rocket motors, and might predict that speeds of 1000 miles | an hour are attainable. | At that rate, unless the rocket ship travelled many times faster in space, it would take about 1400 years to fly to Mars when the planet | is closest. The distances from earth | | know that stores of high energy | exist in the binding forces of atoms that could drive a rocket ship mil- | lions of miles. i But there is yet no idea of how | this energy can be obtained, and | some doubt that it can ever be done. If Martians have found out| how to get atomic energy, it is likely they also have the materials and the engineering skill to make a flight to earth. But no Martians have arrived, so that this speculation, like all the | others, ends in the verdict—no evidence of higher forms of life| |on Mars. ? SRR S D | | Hoaxer ]' Goes to ‘ Prison ‘ LEEDS, England, Jan. 6.—Admit- | ting he had sent out a warning of | the approach of enemy aircraft dur- |ing the Czechoslovakia crisis, Henry ! | Wood, 26, post office telephone op- erator, was sentenced to six months for effecting a public mischief. | NOTICE AUTOMOBILE OWNERS | | All cars must have their 1939 li-, cense plates by noon, Saturday, Jan. 7, instead of Jan. 27 as published | through an error. Any car operating |after that date without 1839 plates | will be subject to a fine, | DAN RALSTON, Ladv, Chief of Police | Park Streets, | were insecurely set, JAY WILLIAMS, RALPH MOREAU Informal Moonlight Races Held Last Night Over Novel Course An informal moonlight sialom was held last night among the lawns and fences between Kennedy and on Fifth, with mest of the better Juneau skiers entered The impromptu meet was arrangzd 5y Ted Coomara and Ralph Mor- ;au, who spent most of the previous *vening skiing about the upper end of town seeking an interesting loca- | tion for the contest. \ A penalty of ten added seconds was assessed for each flag knocked down, whether by the skier, or by his ski poles in passing. As the flags nearly every- one incurred penalties. The winner for the two runs was Jay Williams, who made a total of 50 seconds. He incurred no penalties. Ralph Moreau again made the fast. est run in competition, 19 seconds, | but a 25 second run plus a 10 second penalty eclipsed his chance of win- | ning. Ted Coomara with a 20 second ! run and a 22% second run also lost his chance of beating the local boys when he incurred a 10 second pen- alty on his second run. Fred Ball placed second, with a total of 55 seconds, and no penalties. All skiers are again reminded that there will be competition for girls next 8Sunday, with points being awarded toward a cup which will be given the girl who assesses the most peints in competition by the end of the season in April. — > TAVERN TRIO WINS 2 FROM A. J. MILLERS New York Tavern took two games of a three game match from the A. J. Mill last night at the Brunswick, with Bill Schmitz rolling in 564 pins for high total of the evening. One match is scheduled for 7:30 tonight between Independents and Juneau Florists. Last night's scores are as follows: New York Tavern B. Schmitz 211 162 191564 E. Schmitz 173 123 146—442 M. Seston 160 156 170—486 544 444 509-1492 A. J. Mill | Mura 127 173 146—446 tong 180 153 169—502 Quinto 187 192 132511 494 518 447-1459 R IR CARD OF THANKS With sincere appreciation we thank all our friends and neighbors for their kindness and sympathy shown us during the loss of our beloved son, GLENN RAGAN ]ll.sa to the donors of cars and for the beautiful floral offerings. MR.'AND MRS; T. J. RAGAN ady. | TWO MATCHES ----I ALLUS EINISHES FIRST! | | | out of the three played so far and! if they lose again this evening the | serfes is lost to the Capitol City| school team. Due to some minor injuries the | local squad is suffering from and considering the superior number of | players on the Juneau team Douglas high school team is somewhat the Of three matches scheduled for under dog in prospective results. the Elks bowling alleys last night | - eee —— in Feathered Legaue play, only two MRS. SPENIE FUNERAL ! were run off. with the Eagles and | Last rites for Mrs. Andrew Sus-| the Buzzards failing to appear. penie who died as the result of a In the Osprey-Egret contest, the stroke early this week will be held Egrets won two of three with Harry | tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 at um} " "ROLLED LAST NIGHT AT ELKS with 535, including a 206 that was Interment will be made in the Ever- Sperling holding up the Osprey end | Charles Carter Mortuary in Juneau; ' _ Clark League matches again, with Vultur- | es vs. Albatross, Gulls vs. Eagles and Condors vs. Owls. | Last night’s scores are as follows: Ospreys 161 168 206—535 146 156 166—468 126 162 157—445 Sperling Wilson 520-1448 the only game of the evening over |green cemetery 200. 1 - >oo 4 Kites took three straight from the | H . ke ‘Hospital Put Tonight's games rae Feathered On Wheels SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, Jan. 6. A mobile hospital, financed by popular subscription, has been furn- ished the Army Corps of Navarre for front line duty. The caravan of buses contain an operating room, | | | | | F":::z 486 X-ray equipment, pharmacy and Shaw 1497 288 Yoo | (O R ! Monagle 156 155 155—465 : i Redling 155 155 155405 Tear Gas Pen 459 492 488-1439 Guns A[e Dandy, \ Kites . Kaufmann 165 165 165495 Ralflon fmds fthepard 124 174 190—488 e Vukovich 148 144 166458 p)ice Chief Dan Ralston has held y to the theory for some time that \ultzz 483 521-14411 oy gas might be an effective b weapon in an emergency. Today Bavard }gg :g‘l] }gg"'g;g theory has given away to fact. The Fagerson p ~2%) Chief is convinced of it because Whitehead 141 120 126387 451 436-1317 | DOUGLAS he unintentionally tried it ‘out on himself--and it worked Recently the Chief ordered some small tear gas guns which are about the size of a fountain pen and can be easily ¢ ied in the vest pocket, but not always safely, the Chief | Py decided. The little weapons cam on the last boat and yesterday FIRE DEPARTMENT OF DOUGLAS MEETS Chief Pusicn’s monthly report Ralston decided to do a little dem- onstrating around the City Hall. He |showed Mayor Harry I. Lucas how it worked and then stepped out in covering inspection of reported fire | the office of Miss Etta Mae Kolasa, hazzards was the principal interest | City Clerk, to show her the trick, of th¢'régular megting of the Doug- | Miss Kolasa had just asked him to las Volunteer Fire Department last night. The report detailed his visit in ' company with City Police Schramm | to the Feusi & Jensen store, the Jim Fox house and the government school, where certain conditions | i caused previous concern to both| the Department and City Council. ! In the first mentioned case gas ;and oils were found stored in close proximity to non-fireproofed sur- roundings constituting a definite | alleged menace to their own and adjacent property. After a visit to {similar premises in Juneau where | it was found that such materlals were kept in cement lined rooms an order for similar conformity had been issued to the local firm. In the meantime the gasoline and turpen- | tine has been removed outside the| building, as city ordinance, which was read, provided. | Defective chimney in the Jim| Fox residence is now repaired reliev- ing the situation fhere and the government, school officials are pre- | pared to order fire extinguishers as| recommended by the Department, the report stated. The Chief thanked the firemen for their support and cooperation dur- ing the past year, stating that lhni Department was in good shape. Trustee Erskine reported that a| suitable tarpaulin had been pre-| pared to cover the hose in the fire truck and was already in use. Chair- man of Maintenance Committee re- ported hydrants inspected since the last freeting weather and found 0. K. His recommendation that fire- men on similar working shifts be placed on his committee, resulted in Martin Pedersen and Tom Cashen being named to serve with him dur- ing the ensuing month. Committee appointed to arrange | for the refreshment end of next| regular meeting is composed of Ed Roller, Claude Erskine and Robert Bonner, Chairman Gair stated. | ————— | FINAL TILT MON. NIGHT FIREMEN vs. FOUNDRY | | Announcement was made at last | night's Pire Department meeting that the play-off basketball game | between the Smoke-Eaters and met- | al workers at the Foundry is sched- uled for next Monday evening at the natatorium. Each team having won | a game the thrid game promises a | lot of excitement | - BASKETBALL GAME TONIGHT | The fourih game of the high| school basketball series Douglas and Juneau is scheduled for tonight in the Juneau Hi gymnas- jum.” Douglas has-won but one game between | sign a paper. The Chief reached into his vest pocket, obviously for a pen but actually for his tear gas gun with which to give the City Clerk a thrill. Bang! Booley! and a couple of phews! The tear gas gun went off in the Chief’s pocket, tore a hole in the bottom of his vest, nicked his flesh and surrounded him with such a terrible odor that the City Hall staff had to take to the street. “They work all right,” declared Ralston, “but seems like you have to get 'em out of your pocket first.” -~ COULDN'T FINISH WHAT HE STARTED TRAIL, B. C.,, Jan. 6.—After put- ting in eight years of labor on a lofty “Italian castle” here, Giovanni Vendramini has decided to live in a small house nearby. Before he gave up his project, Vendramini had erected a massive 1enAmark 55 feet hieh. Because the bullder ran out of funds, the struc- ture still lacks windows and a roof. Woman Scientist Invents Wonder Gldss Lou Nova shows how he'll sock Louis, if and when— If and when Lou Nova, Alameda, Cal, new white heavyweight hope, meets Joe Louis for the title, he'll plant his left on Joe's chops in* this fashion. Nova, recent winner over Tommy Farr, does hiss punching here before a picture of Louis in New York. Nova is ex- pected to meet Max Baer next. ) A six-weeks warm spell in Missouri, with the mercury bouncing around 90 degrees, was ended by a snow storm which quickly piled up heavy drifts. Little 6-year-old Marie Phister of Kansas Cjty, is pictured enjoys ing the snow with playmate, Matty McGraw, an obliging cop He’s Governor Vanderbilt, Now William H. Vanderbilt, Republican, of the famous family, is pictured with Mrs. Vanderbilt, at Portsmouth, as they beamed their happiness 8t the young socialite’s election as Governor of Rhode Island. , Dr. Katherine B. Blodgett, scientist, is shown at work in the General Electric laboratories at Schenectady N. Y., shortly before she announced her discovery of a coating that makes glass invisible, glareless, and por eent efficient in transmission of light that hits it R 99’