The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 21, 1939, Page 2

End zone shots possible from 5. here with new type back- ,}ffjfi@ board, because of convex: surface and rounded shape. Present +ype prevents shots | from less than 25 feet on. _ end zone line, four feet in back of backboard. nt for the's coring zome as illustrated here. By ROBERT GEIGE t. the, extreme 'bot- 12 inches up from The 300 beard is almos tem, instead of the bottom. The new basket at Col- orado University .is mounted much more rigidly on the backboard than are the older types and the board itself is.mueh more rigid. Players say this causes the ball to rebound farther. “It is necessary to alter your shoat- technique on- this new beard you soon get used to it,” says all-conference center ooter. “It's a big im- over the old board. new ‘board has been installed al other universities through- . l | ! i i ] ber of the national fee y board sa, The new 'bog 1as been insi 2 3 1 the basket, | for Seve r g S and A the t n vis- | OF ¢ from about | this year but Coach Cox said it will Cox p ¢ ne sim will 1 Increases Scoring Zone g . I V ] AP ¥ Writer ately BOULDER new eature Servi Dec u cony basketball schools tah 60 17 om- ing ment ion. It won't be used Big Seven Conference games used in non-conference games both teams agree. o> o about | be if bank shot rom in front of by v 1940-4 ar is nev At i t I the [ WINTER COMES, . TOMORROW;DAYS. GETTING LONGER Shorfest Day of Year Was Yesterday, with Six Hours, 2 1 Minutes Winter ) < tomorrow: mornin! Much Les Coach cenvex b of the traditional LOTHT OFTEN arrives of{mallv at 9306 g when the Y Weather Bureau. ; But the shm‘[esl day of the year at 8:47 nc!cn,k and set at 3:08, giv- pitaeh Worknananty asd ing Juneau six hours -and 2} min- Modern Methods Produce utes of daylight. The Weather Bu- w JINE 15 Bars 50 reau keeps its official daylight zec- ords in tenths of hours, however; and according to this record-all the days from December 14 to December 20 have six and four-tenths hours,of da; ht. Days have already started getting lenger here. A minute of light be- fore sunset was.added to the day \ § ; ; 2 TON, Dec. 21, — The "ederal Power Commission an- land Olds of New elected Chairman e commission—effective Janu- appointed to the sion: by President June. He had served of years as Execu- New York He suc- Davey 1+ number y ecreta the - Bethel Mission Yule Program on Iomght The Bethel Mission will hold: a pecial program tonight starting at 7:45 o'clock, at which time - the i Sunday School classes wi represented by songs, exer- and recitations, Services will be held on Sunday 11 k in the 30 o'clock o'cloc 7 morning and in will the rom the Mission the holidays if permissable. - - ST. PAUL, Minn,, imed a confes Gerald ying of Dec. ion from Gustad an Eau Claire, station operator. The Vi all Brenden, was killed r 8 in a cemetery, Of- ficers sald Gustad had drawn sus- cion to himself because he had visited the scene of the Wi bc.rlet as holly berries is the top of this faille dress dv\lgnk'd with a black skirt. This New Yorker wears it to the theatre with a black toque and gloves that have a red grosgrain ring finger. tice occurs, according..to the eve- SLAYING CONFESSED 21.—Po- | 17- solving ! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE THURSDAY, DEC. 21, CHAMSER WIS WIDE SUPPOR VS SlATIER ‘Endorsements Read Today from Three Groups at Luncheon Support from three sources for the Juneau Chamber of Commerce stand {-against principles advocated in the| ed Slatt report has been' rec here. Letters . endorsing the Chamber's recent brief on 'the' subject were read at today's Chamber lunche The: Beattle Chamber. .of Cmn- merce Board of Trustees has passed |a resolution holding the conclusions lnnd recommendations ‘of the Slat- tery report to be “so.novel . and rad- cally different from the generally | accepted: policy of developing Alas- ka, and so drastic in their purport, | that no legislation embracing them |ghould be introduced in: Congress |until a. f:11 opportunity is given for |a most thorough study of the prob- ‘ablc result, and until the people of | Alaska, who are move vitally con- Iwn‘ed than any other part of our | citizenry, are ‘consulted in every tatl of the plan.’ | Settle Americans i E. A. Sherman, Assistant Chief of | the Forest Service, wrote suggesting | Alaska. could better be settied with l"Amerk:an citizens frem our north- |ern border states, who had the cour- |age and intuition to emigrate .to the |:States, :bag learned our languazc, adopted our customs and were.some {what familiar with the workings . | our: rather unusual form o( govern- ment.”> . The Mining and: Contracting Re- view, trage 1 magazine. published at SaltLake Qity, ran the entire Cham- ber-brief under the heading “Alaska Answers Ickes” ' The brief is re- ferred to in a cover editorial as “a masterpiece of clarity, restraint and statement of fact.” Silcox Resolution The Chamber today passed a reso- lution of regret at the death of F. A Silcox, Chief of the Forest Service. Speakers were Dr. Leslie A. White, former Juneau boy. who is going to Bethel to take charge of the new Office of Indian Affairs hospital; J. 8. MagKinnon, recently recalled to active duty in the Navy, and Al- len Shattuck; vecently returned from a trip throughs the.States, Canada, Mexico and Cuba. mas Treg, M At Trinity Cathe ry fl'slv AT ass dal li The; nnnual Christmas tree and __ |program for Sunday Schgol mem- rs.0f Holy Trinity Cathedral will be held on Holy Innocence Day, December 28, accmdmg to :Dean C. Rice. i The midnight ms.ss will, be Sun- day at the; Cathedral with special numbers. _arrapged.. by —the choir iSRRG HomE— IS SAILING HOME;: . DURING HOLIDAYS Rondi. Molver,. employed: in the /Unempioyment Compensation Com- mission offices here, is sailing for Petersbuxg, her home town, for the ‘helidays: . Miss || Molver is sailing; .on the Norm Coast tomorrow morning I‘rmd will remain .in. Petersburg for two weeks, ., NEW LONDON, Conn. — The Navy's newest submarine, the Tember, slipped down the ways here, christened by Miss Lucia Long_ Elis, of; Norfolk, Va., daugh- ter of Rear -Admiral Ellis, Com- mander of the Atlantic Squadron of the U. S..Fleat: - e NOTICE Dec. 27, Christmas party for all members ©f. 208 ang their. ladies and all members of Auxiliary 84 and their husbands. and cards; ! admissian; Aree. | - Emuht Want Aas Brinx Eeflllh. good eats and drinks; adv. I { FREE! AT T | TRAIN HITS y AUTO; ENGINE Profestfo IS WRECKED (Crewmen Killed-One Body | Found-Other Beneath Twisted Steel Dec. 2. —The Jones of from the Pacific lo- | RICHLAND, Neb | body of engineer David Omaha has been taken eckage of the Union comotive. Officials Lee Roberts, Bluffs, is buried twisted steel of the an eastbound mail train which struck an automobile at a railroad crossing early this morning - Rising Sun Army Faces Wiping Out Chinese Say Nlppon Forces' at Nanning Trapped for Defeat 2 said no doubt the body fireman of Coun- beneath the of cil CHUNGKING, Dec -A Chin- ese army spokesman today declared the Japanese forces holding Nanning strategic -South China military cen- | ter, have been isolated and the Jap- anese arr s on the eve of a ma- jor defeat in that area. The spokesman said units -were attempting north northeast of Nann but were driven back to within ten miles of the city Communications and the coast to the R DEATH, ANYWAY PARIS, Dec. 21. ness from joining his regiment the front, Eugene Parmentelat, year-old French soldier, chose cide by hanging - BUSY FEEDING IN SALT PILE the Seagull proven by had today between Nanning south are cut. Prevented by ill- at 37- sui- GULLS TODAY for spe: the salt. acle Cold Susie is goes the at hun- their agulls were lined for feet, literally waiting dred turn at a pile of salt on the dock waiting, from his until he stringer, and some, not charged a companion gull eding and gobbled salt too was routed. .o TO JUNEAU FLYING Benton Davis, Civil Aeronautics Authority man, is due in Juneau on a fiight from Wrangell to here this afternoon. Davis, flying the amphibian Fleetwing in which he and CAA’s Alaska head Marshall Hoppin re- cently left Juneau for a survey trip through Southeast Alaska, Wi | due here around 3 o'clock this af- | i | ternoon. - e FOR SEATTLE Mrs. Helen .Lénsdals :and chil-| dren will leave on the North Coast | tonight for Seatfle where Mr. Lonsdale, ' Coast . Guardsman, has been transferred from the Haida. | TO UTAH Mrs. Ernest Daniels and her five ichildren are sailing on the North there will be a joint Coast for Seattle. They will go to William Cashell advised the com- Utah, > e WASHINGTON —The There will be dancing| President Line steamers are to be sommission that he had Thomas charges of faked fights with Schmel- ling and Tony Gaalento carefully corroborated before he printed the story. diverted to the Pacific, operating between Singapore and New York by way of Manila, Los Angelesand Panama. ELKS' ANNUAL (HRISTMAS SHOW For Cluldren of Gastineau Channel SANTA CLAUS WILL ALSO BE THERE! FREE! CAPITOL THEATRE FRIDAY AFTERNOON—2:30 P. M. THE CAPITOL has donated the use of the Thealre for this event. (SPflNSflBSD BY THE ELKS LOIJGE) locomotive of | American-"' 1939, U. 8. DEPAR’ OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAUV THE WEATHER ‘ (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 3:30 pm., Dec. 21: Rain - tenight . and . Friday; moderate to fresh southeasterly wind, in- creasing Friday; lowest temperature tonight, 36 degrees. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Rain tonight and Friday, snow in extreme northeastern portion; moderate to fresh south wind, except fresh to strong over sounds and straits, and over Lynn Canal, Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alas An intengé disturbance in lower southwestern portion of the (,ult moving northeastward will result in increasing winds over the entire Gulf region tonight and Friday. Winds along the coast from Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer will be fresh to strong southerly . to- night, strong Friday; from Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook, » A Nazls Send except infernment (olumbusbrgfl May. Get 60 Days Vacation in United States iy strong easterly; and from Cape Hinchinbrook to Kodiak, strong By ciated Press northeasterly. v _Germany sent a protest to Argen- LOCAL DATA tina today against the internment of the Graf Spee’s.crew while a fu- rune parometer Temd Humidity wina Velocity Weather neral with' full honors wasbeing pre- = 13:30 Pm. yesty ... 30.09 38 96 S 2 Cloudy paared in Buenos Aires fof oided | 3:30 am. today 30.22 39 86 SE 8 Cloudy D Graf Spee commander Hans Langs- Noon today 3014 43 65 ESE 0 Lt. Rain dorff. Chances of direct light on his| RADIO REFORTS suicide lessened . when': Argentina | TODAY orders were issued, impounding a Max, tempt. | Lowest 3:30a.m. Precip. 3:3Ca.m letter Langsdorff leftito the German Station last 24 houre ) temp. temp. 24 hours Weathar | Ambassador explaining his:act. Atka 30 | 25 30 01 Snow | Happy, Safe i Anchorage A 24 27 [ Clear | The crew of another scuttlod Ger- | 'Barrow =12 -16 -16 0 Clear J man vessel; the’ liner Oolumbus, | Nome 22 | -1 22 T Cloudy | seemed - to be happy -and safe on | ‘Bethel 30 | 13 30 01 Cloudy 4 | Elli« Island, New York harbor, while | Fairbanks 30 | 7 27 0 Pt. Cldy 4 | Ameriean authorities-examined their | 8t. Paul 16 14 16 .03 Snow \ case to determine whether or not| Buich Harbor .. 32 | 29 30 .33 Snow Rain | they should be released as survivors —Kodiak 39 | 36 36 116 Rain ‘ of a merchant marine disaster. | ‘Cardova 39 33 39 .80 Snow, Rain | If this view is taken of the Col- Junean 43 37 39 09 Cloudy umbus crew and passengers, 576 men | Sitka 46 32 0 and wemen are entitled to a sixty-' Ketchikan 43 | 37 09 Cloudy day stay in the United States. | Portland 53 | 42 42 01 Rain Finns Seek Loan | San Francisco .. 62 | 49 49 0 Pt. Cldy In Washington ithers: are. reports 2o o ihat. Pinland is secking.s 850000000 IR EENER SYNOREIS 5 |loan from the: United States Gov- An intense ‘disturbance in the lower southwestern portion of . ernment to purchase war materials, ‘the, Gulf of Alaska has. advanced north northeastward during the | for use in resisting Russia. | dast 3¢ hours, ; The Jowest. reported pressure in this disturbance was | A Pinnish representative is said' 2835 inches: at. latitude: 52 degrees and longitude 150 degrees this i to have sounded gut Congressional| morning. Cloudy weather .prevailed over most of Alaska and light leaders after failing to obtain the rait!occurred over the:coastal sections. T were much | financing cn Wall Street. | warmer over central and western Alaska. ¥ “ T ‘ Junuau. Dec. 22—Sunrise, 8:43 am.; sunset, 3:09 pm. D e Deer, Decr, 6Promohons | : I | » wWhat s Roml | MEER (4 - InU.5. Army o n rmy | ommg, to? ‘ calls for ‘ R S 1 Calvert! SEATTLE, Dec. 21—A Wisconsin| WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. — Six % | insurance company inquired whether| Army Colonels are in line for early [the State of Washington would as-| promotion to General Officers. | sume liability for a salesman’s au-, Ppresident Roosevelt has approved | i tomobile damaged by a wild deer|yecommendations by Secretary of on a public highway. Answered| war Woodring to fill existing and Assistant Attorney General Brow- prospective vacancies. | der Brown: Col. Edmund Gregory will be- “Dear Sirs come Quartermaster General for | tent of the State of Washington the four years beginning next April to make these (state) highways 1. He will succeed Major General | safe for motorists and also for Hen Gibbons. pedestrians, among which latter| Others to be promoted to the class our wild deer would be num- rank of Brigadier or Major Gen- It is the c ant in- bered. This is the first knowledge ceral are: Col. John Williams, Col. we have had of the incident men- James Chaney, Col. James Ulio, E CH tioned in your letter. Our wild Col. Shelley Martea, and Col. ;‘R’l:::flos':l'l RY ,Cilcozh %4 deer has not reported in, Without Frank Lackland. agrec:Latvert ha | The - President -also approved the ! all the fine qualities of a truly promotion of Brigadier General| GREAT wlnskey. We believe you will find it is smoother . . . any further information than that given in your letter we would con- clude that if yeur salesman was Jacob Fickel to Assistant Chief of | assaulted by one of our wild deer the Air Corps. He will succ?ed} milder, more mellow . . . it the incident would naturally fall Brigadier General .Walter Kilner | tast ; es better. Because Calvert the headin; f rettable who is retiring. . sl oA N 2 is master-blended! ‘mhlakes “On the other hand, it may be ‘tha\: the state may have a claim against your salesman for inflict- ing bodily damage and injuries on one of our wild deer and causing To please all tastes, give Calvert in its gay gift pack! SEAPLANESFLY it to suffer excruciating pains and | 2 TRIPS IODAY‘ ialso subjecting it to great distress| ajex Holden flew to Tulsequah and agony both in mind and body.|tcday and John Amundsen re- Such a claim must be withheld tyrned from the islands. pending the results of further in-| goiden prought in Jack Daizell : vestigation on the part Of OU|ang Don Holden, He flew Art Nel- | game wardens.” I'son, Al Montgomery -and Carl D TR v L | Simpson to the mine. { Amundsen, coming in from Hirst CLEAR HEADS [CLEAR-HEADED BUYERS] CALL FOR | FIGHTS FAKED flnd Chichagof, was bringing in T rs. George Hall and child, L.| tzgerald, Lloyd Jarman, Harry | NEW YORK, ec. 21.—The State! Lundell and Scott Ford. { | Athletic Commission has decided to | turn over the investigation of the - L A |Harry Thomas-Max Schmelling bout ' © A - Ito the United States District AL- Everyday the Better | !a-da * Served:at the BRUNSWICK CAF j torney’s office. Thomas appeared at a commis- . sion hearing -today—prepared: ' to | testify if he was granted immunity. Assistant United States Attorney |THE PERFECT GIFT WHISKEY Blended Whiskey -—Calvu: “Reseru” - BLENDED rnlsxn—DO D o GmnNeulrulSpma Copr. i 1939 Calvere Distllers Corp N, Y. C. | mmion that it had no power to ,l,nmt Thomas immunity. | Sports Editor Arch Ward, told the Chinese and American Dishes Special Breakfasts, Lunches, Dinners i | | | s Oldest Bank in Alaska Commercial Safe Deposit HIOH Savings FREE! Bankihg by Mail Department