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

2 e Joe Louis ELKS TO MEET MINERS; HAIDA DON'T KID ME, KIDDO . HE MUST BE. HE AN'T FORGOT ONE SINGLE TOOL.! HELLO- PLUMBER!S 2 LISSEN I AST YUH T' SEND ME A EXPERIENCED PLUMBER AN NOT NO DAG-NAB GREENHORN ! g ONEMORE 600 M, TORETICH THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, FEB. 6, 1939. SR : _By CLIFF STERRETT _ | Women - 11-YEAR-OLD AUTHOR HAS FINALLY WON | Fame Comes at Last fo | Youngster, Three Years After Writing Novel By ROBERT STURDEVANT MEMPHIS, Tenn.--When eight- ‘yeur-o{d David Statler wrote and illustrated “Roaring Guns” three years ago he prefaced the little dime- store notebook manuscript with this: | | “Written and Published by Da-| vid SBtatler.” B. and P. W. Club Favor Liquor Control A vote was taken today at a meet~ ing of the Business and Professional Women's Club at their noon session y's Cafe, favoring Territor- ial control of liquor. Mrs. A. M. Uggen was chosen tos day as Juneau's delegate to the bieny nial convention to be held at Kan- sas City, in July. Today's session was presided over by Miss Caroline D. Todd, Club President. Plans were also discussed for the Legislative dinner, which will be an event of Monday evening, February 20. Guests for the occasion will in- clude wives of the legislators and clerical help for Territorial legis~ lature. In charge of arrangements for the affair is Bernice Butler. Tickets are now on sale for the luncheon set to be awarded at the Washington’s birthday dance, an | ©Of course, it really hadn't been|event of February 25, and may be published. But his mama’s cook told | obtained from Mrs. Pete Hammer, | him that “it sure ought to be.” And | Garnicks Grocery, or members of I The News Gels Casti Fast Time Coins $1,440 Each Second- VS. HENNING'S Doubleheader on Sched- ule for High School Gym Tomorrow Evening Raflks Among TOD Elks play the Alaska Juneau to- {morrow night in the High School MOney Makel'S gym, to be followed by a contest be- itween the Henning's Five, sitting NEW YORK, Feb. 6.—When Johniunflefmted in first place, against Henry Lewis took three drops before | the Halda quintet. retiring as prescribed by Doctor Joe Vories is back on the job with the Louis, it made Doctor Joe perhaps | Mine: ince last game, and should the fast money maker in prizefight |be whipping around into better history, figuring the return from |shape. His return to the Miner time actually spent in pursuit of (ranks should help a good deal, for his work. ; Vories angy, and lacks only prac- In his title defenses against Max | tice this season Schmeling and Lewis, the bomber| The Haida boys haven't lost a was in action a total of only four |8reat deal of Pl'fl(‘(ifle_ since they minutes and thirty-three semnds';wem on their Sitka trip the other and his wages for the two bouts:day. but on the other hand they By The AP Feature Service - Ncomminca, FOUND DEA NEAR CHENA (Fairbanks News-Miner) Playing a game in Major League schedule the Alaskan Hotel full line team took three straight from the Capitol Theatre five-man squad at | the Brunswick Sunday afternoon.| Their total pin count was 209 pins| Mike Toretich. known as “Mike better than the opposition. the Fisherman” was found dead Contributing the third in a trio | Tuesday afternoon (January 31) on of 600 games rolled yesterday after- the trail on the bank of the Tanana noon was Hudson of the Alaskan | River in front of his cabin below the Hotel who chalked 614 for high in- ©ld town of Chena about 12 miles dividual match score. The other 600 | from Fairbanks. Death is believed blasts were registered at the Elksim have resulted from heart disease Alleys in Major League play. |and had occurred several days ago | | New schedules for the new session | &S near by was the body of a dog that of the Commercial League rolled at had been chained to its house and the Brunswick will be out tomorrow ;Lhn( had succumbed to starvation. and the first game is tabbed for Three other dogs chained to their Tuesday night. separate houses were thin and list- Games scheduled for tonight: 7:30 | less f;fm la 1-[ lmdni.b i —Juneau Florists vs. Brunswick. | emains Found by Native e g Following are the scores of Sun-| The remains of Mr. Toretich were A FIRST FLIGHT totaled $386,035. A little arithmetic shows Louis re- ceived $86.400 a minute, or $1440 a second, indicating the ring may just a square arena to the other fighters, but to Joe it is a diamond ring Gene Tunney received a record purse of nearly one million dollars for his battle with Jack Dempsey in Chicago, but the fight went the full ten rounds. or thifty minutes, and Gene's pay off was at the rate of approximately $33,333 a minute. Not All Velvet Naturally the money received by Louis is not all velvet. Managers, trainers and general upkeep of a championship establisment take a nice chunk'of the total, and the government gets its share without donning a glove, but there still is plenty left to go in the bank under the name of the front man. Such amazing figures probably will send scores of adolescent youths into Elks Club Sunday utilized the alleys | barns and musty gymnasiums, their eyes gleaming with dreams of fame and wealth quickly attained. They turn their backs to another act of the ring drama which shows thousands of ambitious youths, starting with the same glowing am- bition, slowly disilusioned as fleet- ing local fame fades, the big purses elude them, and once-handsome fea- tures begin to take on that twisted, scarred flat look which remains a trademark through life. Second Item One the same sports page which carried a box listing Louis’ earnings, as well as column upon column ex- toling the champion as the greatest of the great, was buried a small item. It carried the information that one Emilio Solomon, thirty-seven, had suffered a stroke and had been removed to a hospital. It further identified Emilio Solomon as King Solomon, a heavyweight fighter. King Solomon, who once took an unmerciful beating at the hands of Bearcat Wright and who later was dropped out of Jack Sharkey’s train- ing camp because he couldn’t stand a sparring partner role, is just one of the thousands to whom the prize ring is just a brutal, precarious living. For every king there are thou- sands of subjects who brlefly bask in a gaudy glory, then fade from the scene. OIL BARON DIES SUDDENLY WHILE IN SWITZERLAND ST. MORITZ, Switzerland, Feb. 6. —The family of Sir Henri Deterding gathered here today in a Swiss villa where he died unexpectedly last Saturday and planned to take the body of the 72-year-old man back to Dobbin, Mecklenburg, Germany, for burial on his estate. Sir Henri had a personal fortune estimated at $150,000,000. He retired in 1937 as Director of the General- ship Royal Dutch Petroleum which he founded in The Netherlands. e, — George Lingos - Honored Safurday Saturday evening at the Glacier Highway summer home of Dr. and Mrs. E. H. Kaser, Miss Elisabeth Kaser entertained with an informal party honoring Mr. and Mrs. George Lingo, who are visiting in this cny.} Forty guests were present for the evening, served buffet-style by the hostess. be | with midnight luncheon ! :havv played two ball games, and on | {one cceasion took their shots at the ' hoop in uncertain oil light. ! If custodian Pete Carlson has all ! the lights on tomorrow night, | Haida squad should find the pleas- {ant change enough to sharpen their | firing eyes. | But however they shoot, they are going to have a tough row to hoe with the Henning’s squad, undefeat- ed this half, heading for a battle { with the Firemen next Thursday LUMBER QUINTS ROLL DUO SHIFT AT ELKS' ALLEYS Major League schedules at for most of the afternoon. The five-man teams turned in some fat scores, particularly in the second game of the first match be- tween Juneau Lumber Mills and Brunswick. The lumber crew in this instance toppled one more pin than an even 1000. Their marksmanship | was good enough to give them the first two games and win the decision from Brunswick. Pin count was 2740{ for the iumber gang to 2607 for the| opposition. E. Galao rolling on foreign ter-| ritory chalked out a 68 match score to win individual honors for the| afternoon. ¢ Second contest gave the hard- working Juneau Lumber Mills an- other victory at the tail end of a doubleheader. They did the trick in | three straight against the Alaskan Hotel quintet. Stewart of the win- ners made a big push for individual honors of the day by making 615! match score and totaling a 205 aver- H age as against the 206 for Galao. Professional League games tonight at the Elks: 7:30—Judges vs. Mer- chants; 9:30 — Professors vs. Archi- | tects. Following are the scores of last night’s games: . Juneau Lumber Mill Aver. Iffert ........190 186 180— 556 185 Hagerup ....188 227 170— 585 195 Hendricks .182 187 148— 517 172 Stewart ....181 189 190— 560 187 Stevenson .168 212 142— 522 174 Totals ...909 1001 830—2740 Brunswick |E. Galao ....192 233 193— 618 206 |Hildinger .. 153 165 176— 494 165 R.Galao .....169 134 170— 473 158 Carnegie ....168 176 170— 514 171 Seston 160 141 183— 484 161 Totals ..842 849 916—2607 Alaskan Hotel Radde ... 195 202 174— 571 190 Duckworth 145 174 *126— 445 148 Benson 183 181 202— 566 189 Hudson .. 157 193 204— 554 185 Lavenik 166 160 169— 495 165 Totals ...846 910 875—2631 Juneau Lumber Mill Iffert 180 196 182— 558 186 Hagerup 162 195 212— 569 190 Hendricks 179 182 151— 512 171 Stewart .....191 199 225— 615 205 Stevenson .202 179 204— 585 195 Totals . 914 951 974—2839 *—Boggan. ———.———— D. E. STUBBS PASSES AWAY Duke E. Stubbs, who last year ob- |, tained $50,000 from the Federal Government because it took over his fur farm in extending the limits of Mount McKinley National Park, died recently in the States. Mrs. Stubbs survives. e i e T Try an Empue aa. the | the | night he used a kerosene lamp. A {lamp will burn quite a while before | going out of itself. There was no light in the cabin Tuesday. PASSES FAKE COINS . HIS MOI‘HER M ADE Body Lying on Left Side “I think Mr. Toretich fell dead of ' Lt S | heart disease. His body was lying on CHICAGO, Feb. 6.—How a twelve- | its left side. There was no indication year-old boy was taught by his! it had moved after he fell. mother to pass counterfeit dollars| “Near the cabin on a bench were which she herself manufactured was some fish that had been cleaned and revealed before United States Com- made ready for dog feed. I gave the missioner Edwin K. Walker. | tish to the three surviving dogs.” The woman, Mrs. Florence Foster, | be’:orel‘;::lh was ‘;g {5“5 ”“}I- having Io { waived preliminary hearing and was |been born in Dalmatia Province, TOO CUTE’ the bystand: peyg inpsl.soo buryna‘ wmf her w.sJ‘Juqo.slavla February 17, 1871. He ers said, about young Anthony o1 panilin R, Greenfield, an ex- | became a paturalized citizen in Se- NEW YORK, Feb. 6.—Alex Kam- pouris, the New York Giants’ “sec- ond base insurance,” has sent in his &:,:::.;“ ahge‘"ve}:f."?,l;p;?rfgd?;;: convict, charged with having guilty 8tlte in 1892. He had lived near tricia Guinness in Suffolk, Eng- knowledge of a felony. Chena since the early days of the land. Note the white topper. The boy, Jackie, told the commis- community. He engaged in fishing. Ll sioner that his part in the crime Sold Fish Here had been to make small purchases, During months of the year when [} with the bogus coins and bring the |the Tanana and Chena are navig- Kam ourls change to his mother, who waited |able he would bring fish to Fair- outside the stores for him. He said banks to sell, using a small boat he knew the money was not good. |equipped with a motor. L] - > - | He was a member of Fairbanks, Has SI ned |18loo of the Ploneers of Alaska. He KI FR AIER“I"Y |was not married, and nothing is S iknown here of any surviving rela- o CONFAB AT CAFE - | PENSIONS LAW by 5 _ A meeting has been called for | ;l‘zn(:r;on;,;fit.”;l;he “1:)()01"0 G;-::;d Juneau Ski Club members to con- Whitehead to return after a year's Vene at 8 o'clock tomorrow eve- | leave of absence to hold down the Ding in Percy's Cafe. middle sack, but if Whitehead fails Main points for discussion at the to make a comeback they will have gathering will be the problem of to fall back on Kampouris, who hit the local ski club joining the Na- only .249 last season. tional Ski Association or the Pa- SR cific Northwest Association, and the Alaska Not Receiving Any! Dependent Children Aid from U.S. According to the third annual re- port of the Social Security Board | as submitted to Congress, Alaska is| one of eight States and Territories | not participating in the dependent | children feature of the Social Se- |curity act. Forty-four States and | | the Territory of Hawaii have so| amended their dependent children | CRACK-THEWHIP P Rt IS FATAL T0 BO Also under consideration will be CHICAGO, Feb. 6—A game of authorization of further local mo- tion pictures for film library, and the autho,zation of expenditures for crack-the-whip on ice brought death to William Collopy, fourteen. The boy, with ten or twelve others, was' visiting contestants. Reports will be given on finances playing the game in Ogden Park when he fell and struck his head. of the club and plans for future club activitids, DOUGHBOYS ARE At home later he complained of a | : 4 3 headache. Taken to the Chicago! lEAVING HAI"BEX: '-:lart t:eywn;wl e wzt;iv:zz Hospital, he died of a fractured | eral funds elp finance | care of dependent children. s Hugh J Territorial Di- | | Twenty-one soldiers completing a | ugl . Wade, Territoria { Today’s News Tuasv.—Empire. | two-year hitch at Chilkoot Barracks | Iector of the Social Security Board | A meeting of the Chapeladies will | ‘be held Wednesday evening, Febru-| ary 8, at the Glacier Highway home | of Mrs. Tom Cole. All members are requested to be present and the ses- sion will start at 8 o'clock. - |are on the Baranof bound outside Alaska, said today that it will| for assignment to various poszsibe neecssary lo. amenq the plFsenL{; throughout the United States. Alaska Mother's Pension law and I Sk ™ | Soldiers stationed at Chilkoot Bar- broaden its coverage before Alaska Ce atlng iracks remain at the post for y,wo‘c“" receive Pederal funds to assist fyears in one period. Those in the in caring for Alaska's dependent Answe[s o |contingent now bound southward | CPdren. i 'have finished their “tour” and wiil| * If these amendments are made by By DIANE CUMMINGS—=] resume their soldiering at posts from | the presei) Legislature, the Federal | “Author Of “Figure Skatiny As A Hobby® Vancouver, Washington, to Missoula, | GOVernment, under the Dreffi‘m So- e sy o | Montana. 'One of the group is np-ic““_ Security act, could gl‘anb ll’e‘l;‘ plying for discharge. | Territory of Alaska funds estimats [ tell "."“t’,: i‘:‘; 1 N | at approximately $20,000 for the next | 1og 13 | biennium—assuming that the Leg- enough ’orl i 'C“APELAI"EB MEET islature approprfxtes the same| skating? amount of money at this session as | Remember they did for the last biennium. Mr. | this Girl Scout Wade also points out that, if the| POst: present Congress follows the recom- linch keepoff; menadtions made by the Social Se- 2 igches ons | curity Board, the Territory would AMENDMENT IS PROPOSED HERE day’s game: :Iound by Sam Charlie, a native and | Agnes Hermansen, who lives | % Alaskan Hotel |an old-time resident of Chena. The near Boston, has flown 200,000 } Radde 154 179 192 525 hative come to Fairbanks to report| rhiles as an airline stewardess Duckworth 148 139 171— 458 | his discovery to the marshal’s office. | and recently took the controls | Benson 158 194 160— 512| United States Commissioner Will- at Newark Airport for her first Hudson 207 183 224— 614 1am N. Growden and United States solo flight. Lavenik 159 195 202 556 | Marshal Pat O'Connor left Fair- [ o | — —— —— .. |banks this afternoon by airplane for ! | Totals 826 890 9492665 the scene of death to investigate it. i i Capitol Theatre | Suffered from Heart Disease | Metcalf 180 180 180—*540 Mr. Toretich suffered from heart | Barragar 163 169 171 503 disease about five years,” Sam Char- i Holmquist 172 177 148— 497/ lie declared. “The last time I saw | Burke 166 143 171— 480 him alive was last Thursday, though | Ugrin 139 148 149— 436 & native rgsident of Chena told me ! — — —— - hehad seen a light in Mr. Toretich's [ Totals 820 817 819—2456 |house at midnight Sunday night. I ~Average; did not bowl. think Mr, Toretich died prior to i - -o-— Sunday. For light in his house at | | LADY Dorothy James, daughter of Arthur H. James, new gover- nor of Pennsylvania, will be her father's hostess in the ex= ecutive mansion, A FIRST e A FIRST WOMAN Dr. Flora Diaz Parrado. for- merly secretary of the Cuban legation at Paris, stepped in as charge daffaires when the minister, Juan Antiga, was called home by his mother’s illness. Dr. Parrado thus be- came the first woman charge d’'affaires in Europe. | THE LAST WORD Mrs. Emma Fox, of Detroit, at 91, is still making parliamen- tary rules. She has been par- | liamentarian at 21 conventions of United Daughters of Con- federacy and 11 congresses of Daughters of the Ame(ican Revolution, that the Federal Government might increase its grants to aid States in caring for their dependent children. ESTEBETH RUNS INTO BIG GALE | anyway, in the mind of eight-year- | old, anything was possible. | ’ As things turned out—and it was | pretty startling both to David and | | his parents—"Roaring Guns” was | | put into book form and it rolled | trom the presses of a New York pub- lisher—(8imon & Schuster)—all 61| | pages. Could De Even Better With a toy six-shooter slapped in # | a holster at his side and a sombrerc | perched at a dangerous angle atop | his head, the slight but sturdy youth | | discussed his work with the pardon- able modesty of an author who has not yet reached his 12th birthday. | “I could improve on it a lot now,” he said. He may have meant that knowl- | edge gained in subsequent years | might make a difference in the spel- ling of certain passages. There was | room for improvement, he thought, | | in his description of Bill “Jhonson" | | as “the badest robber in the West." | | Bill gets killed twice in three pages. | Spelling, Mr. Statler observed, is the sixth-grade subject at which he | excels. His mother added that he| | makes equally good grades in other | subjects, particularly “deportment.”! | His Own Ilustrator “Roaring Guns” (the title also js by Statler) was inspired, the author quessed, by an overwhelming en- thusiasm for western movie “thril- | lers.” Will James, the cowboy-au- thor, whose fllustrations David ie pleased to believe his own resemble, became his idol. § | These, and an unbounded imag- ination, produced “Roaring Guns.” “I had written several little stories before,” David remarked. “But none of them ever amounted to much | Now I think I'll write fome more,” “We gave him little encourage- ment,” Mrs. Statler recalled. “In| fact Mr. Statler and I had never read the manuscript through com- | pletely until an aunt of David's, a | | book store operator, visited us nndf expressed amazement at the story,” | The aunt showed the story to a | book agent who interested the pub- lishers. | Tomahawks, Guns, Death “Roaring Guns” drips with mur- | der and gun play. There isn't a dull | moment on any page. The chap- ter on “Trouble” covers the shoot- ! ing of 800 men—scores of others are { tomahawked. In some of the illus- | trations are large pools welling about inert forms; the pools are labeled “blood.” | Like many intellectuals, Mr. Stat- ler is quiet and reserved in contrast {ta his blood-and-thunder writing. He likes football and baseball, and this summer he developed into some- | thing of a tennis wizard. A T SR SURPRISE PARTY IS RECENT EVENT HERE A surprise party was held several | days ago for Miss Marianna Brandes and Grandma Ogden at the resi-| dence of Mr. and Mrs, H. E. Clark. | Games were played and rerresh” ments served by the hostess during ! | the the evening. | Guests present included: Mr. and | Mrs. Pred Crowell, Mr. nad Mrs. | George Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Don | Hanebury, Miss Mickey Crowell and Miss Patti Clark. % Tomorrow Evening HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL the club. | —— s GETINOROUT NOW, ADVISES PRO COMMITTEE Bowlers who are signed to play in , the new Professional League mixed ‘ourney at the Elks are requested by the Bowling Committee to signify} definitely at this time their inten- tion of remaining or not remaining in the play. According to announcement : the committee there are some 15 of" 20 persons anxious to enter the tour= nament roster and if the existing' list contains any bowlers who do not intend to appear for games mulu'-' ly they should commit themselves, immediately. \ Anyone wishing to exit gracefully+ from the lists can do so by contact-« ing Roger Stevenson, Ray Ward,* Robert Henning, or other membtxi of bowling committee. ' e DEMOCRATIC WOMEN WILL MEET TONIGHT: At 8 o'clock tonight in the Parish} Hall of Trinity Cathedral, the mem- bers of the Democratic Women's' Club of Gastineau Channel will hold | an important meeting. All members requested to be in attendance as ave also others who may join the organ-{ ization. A’ special invitation fs ex<' tended to the wives of the Legisla~ tors now in the city. i The big item of business will be election of officers, Mrs. Alice Cough lin will be the speaker of the evens ing, her topic being “Employment Compensation.” Following the there will be a social gathering. |Lola Mae Alexander will. give sev-, |eral selections accompanied by Mrss Carol Beery Davis. 3 EDMUNDS VS, BOARD ~ OF OPTOMETRY (ASE ON SLATE TOMORRO Dr. J. W. Edmunds, disbarred optometry practice in Alaska, go to District Court tomorrow morn: ing against the Territorial Board Optometry to determine whether not his license shall be reissued. s 5 S T o~ o v i His complaint, with attorney How: ard D. Stabler, alleges that the 1'-'] ritorial Legislature has not the right to delegate power of such propor: tions to the Board. i e e GALLWAS RETURNS Harold Gallwas, with the Alaska Game Commission, with headquart« ers at Seward, accompanied by Mrs. Gallwas, arrived in Juneau -u:s the Baranof to remain here for eral months. i - i GYMNASIUM 3 s, afi,e; mall[ R S R benefit to a much greater extent, inches, s | inasmuch as the Board has suggest- : Th i r- ) ‘ough:) C‘i.ty“o tmr:l: 1:::? ,:;,VJ, ?;,d,ed to-Congress that they consider i amending~ Title IV of the act so 4i ches, QI south, and 16% miles wide. Use Sixth Street Entrance ONLY ELKS vs. ALASKA JUNEAU HAIDA vs. HENNING Mailboat Estebeth, shorily after 9, o'clock this morning, according to a radiophone, was returning to; Hoonah, unable to make Funter Bay. 5 The Estebeth ran into a gale hlow-‘ ing about 35 miles an hour from | Rocky Island when trying to make Funter Bay. l