The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 9, 1939, Page 5

.y [ -b (4] o, (34 L) » "I HATE THE BIRDIES AND THE BEES. Mény&kiing On SecondMeadow | Over Week End ul | Saturday provided good skiing. and a large crowd was on the first and second meadows. A good per- centage of the Haida personnel was present, including Commander % Ricketts and several of his officers. | All were making real progress mi‘,” Jearning to control the runners un- | ‘f«al“ ¢ der them, and it was delightful to| & vee at last a couple of girls swing through a flush using sharp short pole-christries instead of the old wide-swinging stem turns. Among local girl skiers, Virginia Smith is quite a bit ahead of the rest at prg- sent. At that, she has to walk four miles each time she goes skling, be- fore she reaches the foot of the ski trail. We need more girl skiers like her. | - Sunday was one of those days when the ski area experienced what Californjans call mist. In spite of it, about twenty die-hards, including seven girls, went skiing. The girls are to be congratulated on their g hardihood in appearing for a race that was not held, under such ad- veérse .conditions. The Four Horesmen, Bert Caro, Ralph’' Moreau, Jay Willlams and! Wild Bill. Hixon, as usual, felt the urge to out-do the rest, so they went on up to the upper cabin, each with his'own secret dope mixture on his 'skis, each out to discover if they couild, which of them would win the Moller trophy.race in February over the course they were ascending. Wild Bi)]l. fooled the others on the run- down, as he, using jumping skis, streaked away from the rest. Actually, it would seem that for racing down the “old” ski trail that jumping skis will give a man_ at lest a minute faster time than willl regular .&own-mounmn skis, as the course quite straight, and al- though fast, not very steep. On the other hand, the down- Park. mountain race on the ‘new” ski| Park Aids Growth trail, which is both very steep and has many sharp curves, will never be won on anything but steel-edged down-mountain skis, as great pre- cision in turning sharply at high speeds is absolutely essential for| making fast time on this trail. Interviewed recently at an ox- slinging session around the stove af the favorite ski-racer’s hang-out, Hixon said, in answer to a query concerning his chances in the race on the new trail; “I don’t dare think about it, even, it’s going to be so tough—but I'll take it as fast as I can.” And Moreau between| swigs of soda-pop, murmurefi.; “Won't we all.” GLACIERS ARE | Rengers are measuring the dis- tance from a spot marked X, near Tyndall, to the nearest glacial ice. ESTES PARK, Col.—After shrink- ing steadily for five years, two Col- orado glaciers made a comeback this year that one official calls little short of phenomenal. If other glaciers in 'the United | States have grown as much as these, Earl A. Trager, chief of the national park naturalist division, believes it will be a definite indica- tion that the United States is en- | tering a wet cycle. “The two are .Tyndall 626 IS BEST PIN MARK OF -Hendricks Gefs Rib- bon for Single Game With Joe Werner leaving for two months irf Seward, the ski club loses | Claude Carnegie jumped out of one of it’s most valued members,|® SHump yesterday afternoon in Other "skiers often disagreed with | Major League bowling when he led Joe aboul detalls of technique, bug Di Brunswick five to a 167-pin win are ‘arguments were always lively °Ver the Alaskan Hotel squad with and interesting, and with his ab-|® Smart 626 total for the three sence, we will miss the debates on|Bames. the relative merifs of downhill ver-| Highest single game score was sus jumping, and whether one Made on the Brunswick alleys by should pick up one ski when stem- Jim Hendricks, rolling 230 for the ming. T Juneau Lumber when that squad Joe will represent the ski club|beat the Capitol Theatre team by at the Anchorage Fur Rendezvous 92 Ppins. next month. | Tonight's bowling on the . Elks alleys will be Feathered League DX ches, il g & Bmm‘u GAMB ::):\ts ’;scal :;fhnufifisan;sfla?;s - POSTPONED;SCHOOL GYMNASIUM CLOSED |vs. Egrets. Scores - follow: ELKS ALLEYS Alaskan Hotel (W. 0) _ Np basketball tomorrow night, |Radde .. . 187 182 203— 572 That was the order issued today by | Duckworth 169 171 174— 514 Superintendent ‘of Schools A. B.|Benson .. 146 /18— 483 Phlllips, following a quarantine as|Hudson T 169 170— 522 dipttieria continues to be a danger |Lavenik 151 182, 188— 521 in the community. G e Two games were to have béen held| Totals . 838 850 904—2612 in“ the High School gymnasium to- | Brunswicks (W. 3) morrow night, Elks vs. Henning and (E. Galao ....... 188 187 212— 587 Firemen wvs. Haida, but with the Hildinger .. 180" 191 179— 550 school closed, the gymnasium also|R. Galao 155 172 181— 508 falls under the close-down rule. Carnegie 224 189 213— 626 No new schedule for the basket- ! Seston 180 170 158— 508 ball league has as yet been arranged. PO e EIR e Totals .. 927 909 943277 SKI (LUB MEMBERS HONOR JOE WERNER BRUNSWICK ALLEYS Juneau Lumber (W. 2) |Ittert 211 169 183— 563 Yesterday afternoon at the s“_,}{.agerup i e 0807 180 B4 Hendricks 139 194 230— 563 enth. Street home of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart 217 143 161— 521 Ernest Parsons, members of the g, o;qo; 145 201 191— 537 Juneau Ski Club called to bid fare-| B 7 well to Joe Werner, past president Totals 914 864 9482726 of the club, who is leaving for An-| chorage on the steamer Mount Mc- Capitol Theatre (W. 1) [ | Metcalf Kinley to f 154 178 152— 484 Active in skiing circles in thm\Bnrngar .. 175 191 181— 5“. city, and considered. a capable skier, | Molmquist 176,:176 166 518 Mr. Werner will represent the Ju- Burke ... 157 132 208— 497 = 203 216 167— 586 neau Ski Club at the Fur Rendez- |Usrin vous in Anchorage next month. Totals . 865 893 874—2632 and An- drews, mile-long bodies of ice that weather bureau history. snuggle up against the Conntinental | |divide in Rocky Mountain national | available until several months. ! These remnants~of the last ice!for a number of years, it will be MAJOR MATCH | Carnegie Bowls Top Score YOU KNOW I WOULDN'T BE A BIT SURPRISED IF SOME OF ANGEL'S VERSES LIVED FOREVER! MOVING FORWARD AGAIN: COLORADO ICE FIELDS STAGE COMEBACK much This is how Tyndall It;oks today. The dotted line shows how smaller it was when it reached its smallest size in 1934. | :ngc. 15,000 to 25,000 years ago, had [one indication of a longtime trend | been shrinking steadily since 1932.3 toward an ice age. But as yet no one By last year, Tyndall had slipped | is sure whether the world is head- back 171 feet. This year it shoved |ing into a new ice age or still re- itself out until it had recovered 139 ceding from the last one. | of the lost. feet. | Measured Every Year | Andrews recovered 54 feet this . The United States knows how | vear so that now it is 16 feet larger | much its glaciers grow each year | than it was in 1932. | because national park rangers mea- | Reason for this spurt in growth |sure them. In 1932 they painted a white “X on a rock 30 feet, eight inches, from Tyndall's: “snout’” ‘or\ front, as ‘a |'marker. Now each year they mea- sure the distance from the X to the | nearest portion. of the ice. Last year | the ice was 201 feet away from the | mark; this year only 62 feet four inches. | | probably is the abnormal amount of | rainfall. Colorado just experienced, one of its wettest nine months .in Figures on other glaciers. won't be Scientists agree “that if glaciers | continue to grow at a rapid rate FIVEMAN GAMES ' MILL OF TWENTY " HI-LIGHTS SPORT ' TONS CAPACITY AT LOCAL ALLEYS ~ FOR MINING C0. (D. R. Gustafson, Director of Red Top Mining Co., Is Here D. R. Gustafson, director of the | At the Brunswick Alleys last night !the U. 8. Signal Corp won two out |of three from the George Brothers ciub, scoring a total of 1495 pins to ! 1434 for the opposition. In the second game between five- man teams, Capitol Theatre lost a |two-to-one decision to the Juneau Lumber quintet. High single zame |Red Top Mining Company, which {went to Hendricks of the Lumber OPErates properties near Pairbanks, |team. Ninety-four pins was the |atrived in Juneau yesterday via | margin of vittory for the winners, jPAA blane. Tonights games: Mr. Gustafson reports that drag- 7:30 o'clock, Truckers vs. Juneau Florists, x;::m‘linc operations on the Long Creek o'clock, Rainier Beer vs. Alt Hcl-”’”""”“”s have been closed since delberg. the first of October. A total of 20 | Scores last night follow: imen were employed during the | seascn. A 20-ton mill was put in 1 Capitol Theatre operation late last fall’ on the Metcalf 154 178 152— 484 Quigley prospect in the Kantishina iBarragar 175 191 181— 547 district and a new 10-ton mill will |Holmquist 176 176 166— 518 begin stamping on the Hi-Yu Cor- | Burke 157 132 208— 497 poration properties outside of Fair- ;Ulmn 203 - 216 167— 586 banks sometime this winter. — —— —— —==4| Mr. Gustafson and his wife are | Totals 865 893 874—2632 leaving for Seattle aboard the Baranof this afternoon to spend - Juneau Lumber Mill the winter Outside. Iffert ... 211" 169 183— 563 pAIBOT e 1 Hagerup 202 157 183— 582 'S |Hendricks ... 139 194 230— 563 | Stewart . A7 143 '161— 521 AUIo llc[m : | Stevenson 145 201 191— 537 el Totals ... 014 ‘864 9482726 'ollu RE‘(“B Geores B 360 IN JUNEAU 13, George ... 131 174 182— 467 A. Judson 150 169 130— 449 iy B dert o 168 Am 198 4% Number Issued Is About | Totals 447 517 470—143¢ as Last Year-Many Cars Laid Up U. €, Signal Corps | Tuiner . ... 170 163 167— 470 {McVey ... 152 134 180— 46§ Stevenson ... 179 189 191— 559 A total of 360 automobile licenses —— —— —— —— for 1939 had been issued by the | Totals 501 486 538—1495 |office of the City Clerk up to this | e RS | afternoon. This compares almost exact): N". fmiu"o" |with last year's license erecor(f E Mffls WED"ESDAY iwm w;e‘n: S‘Z.h:c g;:: d:'t‘e..mm:au issued 837 licenses for private auto- The National Federation of Fed- moblles and 30 for taxis. Many {eral Employees, Local No. 251, will iresidents, who store their machines meet at Percy’s during the noon|in the winter, wait until later in ‘hour, Wednesday. The program |the year to apply for licenses. A will be . conducted by the Alaska %minor rush for plates is expected {Game Commission, with the visit-ithis week after the January 10 Elnx Commissioners as guests. Frank ipay day, Dufresne will preside at the meet- - ing. -| ringer of Cincinnati. ALASKANA, by marie Drake, 50c {and will be confinued as usual, /"o THEY'LL AT LEAST LEAVE A PERMANENT BATRECORDS MADE PUBLIC \Two Hundred and Fifty- eight Players Took Part | in (ha[nrp Games NEW YORK, Jan, 8. — Oificial batting records of 'the National League for 1938 show that 2568 play- ers-took part in chmapionship gam- es. Of this number, 78 engaged in 75 games or more, 121 took part in 10 1074 games, and 59 appeared in fewer than 10 games, | ! Ernest N. Lombardi, Cin¢innati, by leading the batters with a mark of 342, became the secohd catcher to top the circuit since 1900. Eugene F. Hargrave, Cincinnati, in 1026, was the first receiver to head the batters, with 353 Melvin T. Ott, New York, scored, most runs, 116 and made most home | runs, 36, to gain his second clear | title to home run honors. His 1938 string added to his previous record brings his lifetime to tatol to 342 and makes his seventh year of clout- ing 30 or more home runs. , . Doublé Century Mark Frapk A. McCormick, Cincinnati, by, making 209 hits in His first full on, was fhe only National Lea- gue player to reach the double cen- tury mark in 1938. MeQormick went to. bat most times, 640, and secured most che-base ' hits, 160. John R.. Mize, St. Louise, com- pilad most total bases, 326, and most hits, /16. Mige hit three | three: home' in .aigame twice during the .1 , ~Wwithin a week’s | 1§ agal | time, July inst Boston ' and |July 29 against New Ypork. |~ Joseph M. Medwick, Bt. Louis, led for the third tonsecutive year in making most two base hits, with 4, o { Del fi Young, Philadelphia, made | most serifice hits, 15. ! Stanley C. Hack, Chicago, stole most bases, 16, | Only ‘two players, Frank A. Mc- | Cormick and Harry Craft, both of | Cincinnatl, took part in all their| | club’s games, 151. H | Gilbert H. Brack, with Philadel- phia, made two two-base hits in the fifth innibg of the first game, July| 20, against Pittsburgh, and tied a| record held by many players. | ] ‘Ties Record Antheny F. Cuccinllo, Max E.| West and Elburt P. Fletcher, Bos-! ton, by hitting successive home runs | off Carl:Hubbell, New York, in the fourth Inping, July 9, tied a record | held by many trios. Eugene Moore and Harl W. Mag-| gert, Boston, each hit a home run with the bases filled, April 30,/ against Philadelphia. Richard Bar- itcn and August R. Mancuso, New York, ‘equaled this. performance on July 4, second game, against Brook- | Iyn. This achievement tied a record held by many clubs. { Lloyd J.° Waner, Pittsburgh, had | the longest batting streak, 22 gamés,i during which he went to bat 96| times, ‘making 33 hits for a .344 percentage, He began his streak | September 5, first game, against Chicago, and was stopped in the| first game, September 30, by Der- Run Scoring Streak Ival R:.Gooamarn, Cincinnati, by' scoring 16 rims in 11 consecutive games, had the longest run-scofing streak of the season. He began it in | the game of Jude 12, against Boston, | and was stopped ‘June 25 by Phila- delphia. .I Pittsburgh bhad the longest win- winning; streak, 13 games, started June 29 against Cincinnati and stop- | ped July 13 by Brooklyn. Philadel- | phia had the longest losing streak, 9 games, which began April 21} against Brooklyn and ended when Boston was beaten, May 1. ! By winning the National League ! pennant, Chicago tied the low mark | for a 154-game schedule, made by, St. Louis in 1926. Chicago again| gained a tie with New York for most championships, each club now hav-| ing won fifteen pennants. | e i | NIGHT SCHOOL CLASSES | ARE TO BE CONTINUED, Announcement was made todayl by Superintendent A. B. Phillips of the Juneau Public Schools, that night school classes will not be af- fected by the present quarantine, CutDown OnTeams Will Enter 1939 Baseball Season with Twenty Percent Reduction ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 9.—Basc- ball's pioneer and most extensive “Farmers,” the St. Louis Cardinals, | today indicated they will open the baseball season of 1938 with a 20 percent deduction in the number 'ers argued. INDIAN BUREAU :. having candidate identiZ* with a certain clor. Philij Blue-Goose, friendly to the bureaus TA(KlES TOUGH plans, would be represented by blue slip of paper at the ball box. Other favorable candidal NAVAJO TRIBE (Continued from Page One) time problems which will trouble | | candidates by other colors, such as red or pur ple. What happened? would be green, yellow or gray. On the other hand, oppositio would be represen Merits of the candidates we: future generations. More immedi- | overlooked. Instead, the India ate problems are concerned with | considered special merits of winning elections. (opposition) as distinguished fro: At was a year or more ago that the Indian Bureau campaigned through the reservation in favor blue. By touch luck, all the fa ite Indians colors were awarded opposition candidates and the b of the Indian reorganization bill. |reau candidates were defeated. The bureau looked upon it as a godsend to the Indians, since it of-| fered them increased self govern- ment, further allotments of gov- ernment cash, and other little| benefactions. | On the Navajo reservation about | 97 percent of the population do not | speak or write English and there | are no adequate Indian phrases for | explaining the reorganization bm.( It was decided that Indians want- ing to accept the reorganization act | could sign with a cross and those opposing it could sign the ballot with a circle. But that was the end of the reorganization act. Opponents of the measure, who looked upon it with suspicion re, gardless of its .promised benefits, campafgned among the Indians. They didn't"discuss the Indian bill. They disclissed “what a horrible thing it would be for “the. Indians to have anything to do with a eross. That is what the white men use to mark graves, the opposition lead- They even have it on théir churches. On the other hand,' went the argument, the circle is the symbol - of completion, of the full life, of the rightness of things. | By order of the WM | ‘Bot again; came the trouble of J. W. LEIVERS, the pallots. The- Indians could not ady Secretary of minor. league clubs in their coast! to coast system TOO MANY CIRCLES As the sftuation now stands, the! And -when election day came St. Louls Cardinals own seventeen 'around there were more circles than clubs outside of St. Louis and haye | Crosses so the reorganization plan working agréements with eight other | Was ‘de‘!e-hd- clubs, { But that was not all. The bureau | officials desired that new members | of the Indian council to be elected should be at least open minded on {the question of soil conservation There will be a Stated Communi-| After all, the Navajo reservation is cation of Mt. Juneau Lodge No. 147 being rapidly washed away, even Mondry evening at 7:30 o'clock. In-| though there i scarcely a single stallation of officers. Refreshments. | year-round stream on'it, — e ATTENTION MASONS cread: 8¢ the schéme was hit upon | AR BTRE I . NOCHAMBER ¢ SESSIONWILL! BE HELD Novg Owing to the quarahtine, Presl" dent Charles W. Carter announ this afternoon weekly luncheon that the regul of the Junes Chamber of Commerce next Tht day has been postponed. At ti first meeting, after the present e: citement subsides, standing commit- tees will be named. b DUPAESE A GREETINGS Calvin White, newspaperman, ai at one time on the reportorial stal f The Empire, and his wife Bobbl also well known in Juheaw,, se holiday greetings to frignds hes The Whites are¢ fiow in New Yo City. Soon after leaving here th went to Shanghai and were in Orient. during the early stages the “undeclared war.” B MISSIONARY MEETING TUESDAY POSTPONE] Owing to the cases of diptherig the Interdenominational Missionat] Society which was to meet tomog row afternoon at the Salvation Ar heeh postponed for 4 week: least 1 SAVE MONEY BY USING THE CLASSIFIED ADS MORE during 1939 Find a job through the Empire ads. Here's a resolution that will be a pleasure for you to keep . . . because you can profit by it!' Every single day, the Classi- fied columns in The Empire open bound- less opportunities in buying, selling and many other things. Re- solve to make full use of them in 1939. . . . They'll work for you ‘in the same efficient way that they worked for hundreds of people last year. Everyone from housewives to merchant chiefs can use The Empire want- ads with profit! o Fouind Both Finders and Losers benefit here. Land of all sorts sold here daily! Daily buys in good cars! 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