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S0 YOU'RE TH' MANAGER, EH 2 WAL, IBIN SITTIN' HERE FER FORTY MINNITS ! A THOUSAND PARDONS, SIR ., I'LL RECTIFY THE ERROR ATONCE, SIR.! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, FEB. 23, 1939. WAITERS-- HOW 1S T, T WANTA KNOW-- HOW 1S IT THAT T GOT TWO | By CLIFF STERRETT AN' YOU CAN'T EVEN WAIT ON ONE MEASLY CUSTOMER?——— less distance will greatly alter this Assured of Daily Hamburger WANTS CONGRESS | 'ONE GOOD MARK Tourist Angle [égion Will Again Back Ball Teams INDIANAPOLIS, Ina., Feb, 23.— Buttressed by nt of $20,000 a an Legion is making its thirteenth year of the competitive play of some 30,000 junior baseball teams throughout the country. Enrollment of boys in the nation- wide junior sports classic stops on June 30, and legion officials pre-| dict that 500,000 youths under { age of seventeen will be partic ing in the competition on that d: The more than 30,000 teams will engage in climination contests until | enly the two best teams left meet in the 1939 junior world’s series. £an Diego, Cal., copped the “little* title in 1938 Teams are sponsored by American Legion posts, which provide uni- forms, equipment and coaching for the youngsters, The outlay of $20,000 to the legion for its series was voted unanimously by the baseball commission at a re- cent New York meeting. Ten thou- sand dellars will be paid to the le- gion on July 1, and another $10.000 on August 1, it will bring to $320,000 the total given by the two major leagues since 1928. The baseball commission at the New York meeting heard from Hom- er L. Chaillaux, national American- ism director of the American Legion. Chaillaux said his commission found | that 550 legion-trained youngsters were playing organized baseball, on 277 clubs in thirty-nine leagues. Thirty-three were in the big leagues and included such stars as Bob Feller, pitcher for the Cleve- land Indians, Bobby Doerr of the Boston Red Sox, Joe Gordon cf the Yankees, Phil Cavaretta of the Cubs and others, DROP KICK COMES IN FOR WORKOU LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23. The drop kick, a football rarity these days, was used twice in California during the holidays. California Bears employed it to score the extra point in the Christmas game with Geor- gia Tech, and Duke talied three points against Southern California | in the Rose Bowl with a similar success. | ready for sponsoring b ANCHORAGE F. D. ELECTS R. C. Loudermilch was elected Persident of the Anchorage Volun- teer Fire Department, Frank W.!'have been used in providing safety | cent in December, and, according to| Kota proposes 100,000 halves pictur- Fenn was elected trustee of the de- partment for a three-year period, Eugene Smith was re-elected Secre- tary-Treasurer, and Moritz Andre- sen was re-elected the volunteer fire | chief. REGISTERED AT THE BRUNSWICK Brunswick bowlers kept all games in medium range in Commercial League bowling last night. \ First game produced only one good individual count when Mam- buram toppled for a 560 score in the match between A-J Mill and Three Bullets. His team blasted an easy three straight win as any score near 500 was good for a vic- tory. Irving's Market cashed a co” by the Three Bullets who played a doubleheader, and took the last two games in their match. The Bul- lets came out firing in the first game h a 540, but folded there- after to beneath the 500 mark A 492 by Harper of the winners was the best individual offering of the pse Disputing the probability that| tourists would appreciate the sjort- er run, the Chamber of Comm Secretary claims that “on the con- trary the scenery traveler has no more beautiful stretch of panora- mas on the whole route than are of- 10 INVESTIGATE PALMER COLONY Ross Sheely Is Labeled as, Dictator of Matan- uska Project (Continuea tiom Page Gned stretch as now extant, The famous' Loop grade is probably the most cclorful bit of traveling offered in' Alaska, Rather than appreciate the | alteration, tourists will disclaim it.” | Scattle Chamber | | While in Seattle Mr. Baumgart- (ner met with a committee from the | of nearly $30,000 in the four years|chamber of Comerce of that city they have been there, and obtained from theme a commit- Vhen the colonists first came, the | ta) of strong support if the Seward ARRC. contracted to furnish them | champer of Commerce Rill interest with subsistence until they could | the Anchorage Chamber in an effort | ,acquire sufficient livestock and iy counteract the move. “Not only cleared land to support themselves, | winy they promise to take strong ac- | but the management of the project}yjon against it but they will endeavor has been wasteful and extravagant,'¢o forestall even an investigation in- and the corporation has not abided! o the probabilities of a new route.” | by its ginal contract to provide 'pe caiq. g 1 fered on the Seward to Anchorage — Pretty Girl Burned on Face contest. the colonists with proper livestock, | A preliminary survey of the new | No hunger for Rufus Will of the late John L. Warren of Cambridge, Mass., provides Rufus, four-year-old cocker spaniel, with life-time pension. Rufus thus is assured of his regular diet of hamburger and tomatoes. ASKS SECOND Daughter DELEGATE T0 Tortured | WLSHlNGTON BY Falher‘ Rogge Memorial Also | Wanis Four-Year | Term of Office By Flaming Torch- Man Is Jailed a would have two Delegates ress instead of one, if a | | | of a Manhattan night club beckoned to ling. The girl is Gertrude Niesen. CHEVROLET IN BIG LEAD IN REGISTRATIONS BRIGHT LIGHTS * German Max Schmel BIG CROWD IS FORECAST FOR AUTO CLASSIC| Kings of Speed Will Rall’ Again at Indianapolis | States on May 30 |veatea i | During W. E. Holler’s fifth year as general sales manager, Chevrolet INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Feb. 23.— took first place in passenger cars The Kings of Speed will roll again and trucks, leading the field by at the historic Indianapolis Motor more than 100,000, units, accord- Speedway on May 30. ing to the records for the year. They will strut their stuff before alysis of the figures, the atest crowd of motor-mad -show this manufacturer in first speed fans -ever assembled thin | place in all except two of the 47 the huge Hoosier arena. according | States for ch records are avail- to T. E. “Pop” Myers, general man- |able, and Chevirolet also led in the ager of the track, if the advance District of Columbia. sale of seats which opened officialy| A sidelight on the company’s on Monday, January 16, is any sales performance in 1938 furnished criterion. by the fact that its sales declined To sustain its tradition of almost | only 38.6 per cent under 1937, dur- thirty years, “A Better 500-Mile ing a period when the industry as a Race Each Year,” the Indianapolis | whole showed an average decline of Motor Speedway Corporation has, 44.7 per cent. during the summer and fall, com- Since introauction of the 1939 pletely resurfaced the back stretch|models featuring new knee action of the track with the fine non-skid land the exlusive vacuum gearshift Kentucky rock asphalt which will| with steering column control, the make for increased speed, less strain “ percentage of increase over corres- on the cars and add much to the|ponding periods in the 1938 model comfort of the drivers. {vear has been mounting steadily Man-power, machinery, thousands | month by month, the figures show. of tons of rock asphalt and binder,|They increased more than six per thousands of gallons of liquid as-|cent in November, over the same phalt and many thousand dollars \month in 1937, more than 24 per DETROIT, Feb. enth time in the Chevrolet led in passenger car reg- |istrations in 1938, figures for all exzept Wisconsin, has re- For the sev- st eight years, | factors for race drivers and spec- |latest figures, 31 per cent in Jan- tators. ey Cars built according to the in-| — | ternational formula, specifications P, .l’ Amlie Defends Stand Again adopted in 1938, will prevail this year. Okays | Lights | PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 23—Night baseball for Philadelphia has been | {approved by the zoning hoard over ! | complaints that crowds in historic "|'Shibe Park would keep babies awake {and disturb_the neighborhood. Like fans and players protesting lan umpire’s decision, twenty-five irate citizens marched before the erday and squawked loud- st fourteen night garhes the and Phillies propose to | play this summer. They said they lived near | ball park and didn't relish the pros- | pect of listening at night to the as- | sorted sounds of the great Amer! game. In the daytime—that was dif- | ferent, they said. But summer eve- nings should be sacrosanct, broken | only by the chirp of cricket sand not by the crack of bats, the yips of peanut vendors and the howls of | excited fans. .o LEG AMPUTATED An-| State by State. ! P machinery and buildings suitabie for their barest needs. Games scheduled for tonight: |7:30 p.m., Rainier Beer vs. Three Bullets; 8:30 p.m., Seven One Scven vs. Alt Heidelberg. | Following are the scores of night’s games: “Discrimination has been shown to some in the distribution of live- stock and land, and some of the s have been provided with dy employment in return for able publicity The general manager has publicly wbs - 'acknowledged that the board of 135— 429 girectors of the corporation is @ —— | figurchead body; and colonists have 434 468 438—1340 po ol ed last Three Bullets Sturrock 147 143 Bertholl 141 177 | Kosk 146 148 | 148— 438 | 155— 473 | 1Kokl | Totals | into signing a con-| read would necessitate an outlay EL PASO, Texas, Feb, 23.—While of several hundred thousand dol- his pretty 16-year-old daughter It lars according to Mr. Baumgartner. Chrisiana is being treated for burns Freight Rates in a hospital, Rosario Peschard, a ' Reduction of freight rates by welder, is held in jail charged with utilizing the new route is one rea- | tuming a flaming torch on his son advanced for the proposed ter- daughter’s face because she used minus change. Difficulty of main- part of her meagre laundry wages tenance, the Seward stretch of the|to buy oes, for one of the family road due to slides and washouts|of seven. centributes tc overivead cost and The girl wept when she related thus increases freight rates, her story of being tortured by her 0 Mr. Baumgartner claims that 1937, | father and asked the authorities A-J Mill | tract definitely at variance with the 157 141 161— 4hy Oviginal contract and verbal agree- 179 200 181— 5go ™Ments, so that a colonist would nev- 159 161 131— 451 | T be permitted to gain clear title to V‘Im: Jand, whether or not he paid for % & ” it in full { A 1470, “"nn-(. Jonists must put themselves lunder the dictates of one man who ! decides their fitness to own the land 466 | they have contracted to purc | their children cannot inherit land withcut his approval even though the land be paid for in full. “The constitutional rights of the lonists are violated by the corpor- Yation’s mandate to reserve right of ingress or ress on the propérty tliey have contracted to purchase, for the purpose of inspection, super- vision, or any other reason the cor- peraticn’s manager might give, “Therefore, an immediate congres- sionall investigation is requested in- to the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation | Corporation and its activities for the ‘p:l.sl three years.” - NO CURB TO BIDS | NEW ROUTE FOR FOR SPECIAL COINS " nrepigp p. R. | (Conunued rrom Page One) IS p R o .', E S -I- E D 4 Mura Mamburam Mationg Totals Teving's Market 146 186 157 157 157-—-"471 164 153 175— 492 467 496 466—1429 Bennett 134 Little Harper Totals Bullets 193 170 175 148 172 157 Three 111— 474 144— 467 156— 485 Totals 540 475 4111426 Average score—did not bowl. e Sturrock Bertholl Koski | R | | | Augustine, oldest U. 8. white set- tlement. He would limit premiums to | $2 a coin. Senator Nye of North Da- | Secrefary of Seward Cham- ber Presents Case to Seattle Officials ing the “international Peace Gar-| den” on the Dakota-Manitoba boun- dary to help celebrate 120 years of | ace along the Canadian border. | Senator Capper of Kansas wants | an unstated ;number to help Man- | hattan (in Kansas, not New York) | erect a memorial to General Leonard Wood. Senator Schwartz of Wyom-|of Seward have lifetime savings and (Continued riom Page One) | ing asks 25,000 50-cent pieces to cele- investments in the town and remov-' Eastern fisheries dispute for two brate the 50th anniverSary of the;ulof the road would deflate property | admission of Wyoming as the first |values to the point of virtual col- state guaranteeing woman suffrage.!lapse,” he said. “Conditions now Senator Thomas of Oklahoma wants 'are such that residents of the town ! - 100,000 halves to help maintain the'are ‘afraid to buy so much as a new | the railroad to practical elimination | lof cverhead with $1,000,000, “Now e; | | Mr. Ohlson stated he could operate | that protection be given her mother. ! A [ | with $10,000,000 he will build a ncw:MRS RUSSEI_I_ terminus at Portage Bay in an at- | » tempt to eliminate an overhead ex- | pense which he formerly claimed | could be done for $1,000,000” said Mr. Baumgartner. Stating finally that he did not | believe, “any governmental agency was justified in ruining an establish- | ed town merely for the purpose of | building a new one,” Mr. Baumgart- ner claims that with the removal Fixtures for Baranof memovia this elect tor gate instead of two, and one would be elected each biennium. Reason for the change in term |is glven as lying in the exorbitant st of biennial return trips to the Tes lant TO MOVE STORE ... Returns from South with MINING AMENDMENT introduced in the House morning by Representative Rogge has any effect. Rogge's Memorial tion Delegate Dimond must needs devote the memorial, House Joint 41, says Alaska legisla- in Congress suffers because bulk of his time to pursuing lation in the House of Repre- atives. extra Delegate would ' Be »d by the people of the Terri- , and under the memcrial, Dele- terms would become four years ritory for campaigns and result- unfortunate absence from IS ASKED BY ROGGE No Conclusions Reached at of the railroad Seward would be- | come defunct. Over 200 people there | are directly connected with railroad- | ing activities and long shore wurk<1 and from this nucleus springs ll\e] financial justification for the town’s existence. Traveling with his wife, Mr, Baumgartner will proceed to Sew- ard and take up additional activit-| ies on the local front of the railroad | issue. DEADLOCKED, FAR EASTERN FISH DISPUTE Conference Befween Soviefs, Japanese MOBSCOW, Feb. 23.—Foreign Com- missar Litvinoff and Japanese Am- bassador Gogo discussed the Far hours today but afterward it ap- peared that the question is far re- moved from a settlement as ever, Litvinoff is said to have given a warning that any attempt of the the | | Will Rogers memorial at Claremore, { Okla. STILL THEY COME Representative Shanley of Con- | necticut wants three sets of 50-cent coins to help commemorate the 300th | anniversary of the founding of Mil- ford, Branford and Guilford in’his | district. Representative Andresen of Min- |nesota asks 75000 halves to help | Minneapolis and St. Paul commem- orate the anniversary of the discov- ery of America by Leif Ericson. The New York World Fair has a request pending for coins but Cali- rn! knowing the President’s opposition, haven’t put in a bid for the San Francisco exhibition. There are others, but we will close with the proposal from Sen- ator Davis of Pennsylvania to mint a flock of pennies for general dis- tribution to promote the idea of rug for their home while wailting, Japanese Navy to help the Japan- the outcome of the issue.” i ese fishermen will be most danger- The terminus change as now out- oys, lined proposes taking the coast end | Gogo is said to have replied that | of the railroad to Portage Bay which | Japan will take all necessary mea- |is approximately 53 miles closer 0 sures to protect Japanese interests | Fairbanks than Seward | anywhere in the world. Thomas R. Amlie and Senator Warren R, Austin amined by a senate committee conducting hear- ings on his nomination by President Roosevelt as a member of the interstate commerce commi n, Thomas R. Amlie, Wisconsin pro- gressive, defends his economic and political beliefs and talks to Sen- ator Warren R. Austin (R.), 6f Vermont, in this picture. Amlie, denying he ever was a Communist, told the committee his first in- terest had been in preventing imposition of a system of Fascism in the U. 8. Amlie conceded his doctrine led to “collectivism. Once more cross- j missed today. Charlie Switzer, who received a beace. The motif on one side of badly broken leg in an auto acci- the coin would contain the words dent two weeks ago, underwent an|Peace, United States of America, s E Pluribus Unum, One Cent. > GO TO ANCHORAGE Over 100 residents of Fairbanks amputation of the leg at St. Ann' Hospital this morning. His con tign is reported to be satisfactory. - > PROVEST DISMISSED | Ed Provest, who had been receiv-|Fur Rendezvous at Ancorage. ing medical care at St. Ann's Hos- | 5 o e R " pital for the last few days was dis- | WHITE ELEPHANT |Card Party to be given by the Re- bekahs, Saturday, February 25. at 1:30 p.m. ady — e —— Today's News ‘today.—Empire, left by special train to attend the, pointed in 1915 when the govern- | ment took over the Alaskan Rail- jroad also selected the present route . in “preference to the Portage Bay| avenue. Reduction of operating ex- penses as suggested by Mr. Ohlson is hardly feasible as using the new | proposed route means running the | track over a live Glacier area where- | in maintenance cests are bound to be excessive.” “In the interests of time saving on the run, which takes two full days| to.trayel 470 miles Seward to Fair- banks. T-do not see that 53 miles | i same. According to Baumgartner, Col. ik Ohlson claims that with this change H ’lm will be able to reduce freight rat- | lQfllSl"eS 'fl es and running time between the | coast habor and Fairbanks. Also ov- | MMe afld | erhead costs due to maintenance ex- | ‘ pense would he materially rcdnced.'h"ef Sleep 6 he also elaimed. 3 — Best Route | Mattresses for Alaska Road Gom- In refutation of this Mr. Baum- micsion camp eots. gartner says: “In 1902 when the road , That is the text of House Concur- was first surveyed by the oid Als- | rent Resolution 2, introduced today | | kan Central the route between the iy the House hy Representative Mar- Coast and Anchorage was chosen 10! tin from Nome. terminate at Seward after thor-| Martin's measure says “most Road | ough perusal of many possible pas-|Commission cots are simply canvas | sages. A Federal Commission ap-|covered or spring cots,” and that “many of the employees using the cots are oldtimers."” Because other camps furnish mat- tresses, the measure asks the Al-‘ aska Road Commission to do the | PR S AR GOING TO WASHINGTON L. E. Iverson, Juneau Forest Ser- vice employee who has been on de- s tail to the Missoula office, plans to leave next month for work at Wash- ington, D. C. according to word | received here today. Hotel Locaton | IN HOUSE BILL TODAY One House bill was introduced this morning in the House of Reép- ives in addition to several orted in yesterday's Empire. Today being the deadline for in- troduction of measures except by two-thirds of the House consent, 'more bills were expected this after- HaVving completed store furnishings and fixtures for her new location in the Baranof Hotel, Mrs. Leota F oI, operator the Juno Samy wrned | ¥ here aboard the stsamer North Coust, following a buying trip alon; the pacific Coast Mrs, Russell is now devoting her attention to the problems of moving Hoon from her South Fran street shop | Rog to the big corner store in the Bar- of min oanof Hotel bullding the Elks "royally pa Club, where she plans to' be open ing property shall he taxed against for business March 1. |the lessor, but the lessee shall pay To whittle down her stock for the tax to the Treasurer and de- easier moving, Mrs. Russell is to-|duct the amount of tax paid from morrow launching a two-day re-|the sum due the lessor.” moval sale which is expected to at- - > tract considerable attention from Ju- sand Islands number neau women. an” amendment which reads that next i to the lessor of min- The Thou: about 1,700, Lord’s Sonr to W(;d U SDeb : Hon. Richard Robert Arthur Springate Vernon of Londen is pictu-ed with Katherine Gasten, Tennessee debutante, as they made plans for their wedding following filing of their notice to wed in Los An- geles. The Honorable Richard is a Brilish film producer and son 0‘,\ the late Lord Lyveden., Miss Gaston, 22, is the daughier of Beujaio M. Gastoh, wealthy retired New York insuranee cxecutive,

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