The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 6, 1940, Page 8

SILVER GLOVES TOURNAMENT IS NOW SCHEDULED Promoters Send Letters fo : Other Cities for Fight Entrys The Silver Gloves 7'I‘nuznnmom for the boxing championship of Alaska is definitely scheduled to be run off some time between St. Valen- YOUR SAVINGS LRE INSURED, ARE INSTANTLY AVAILABLE AND EARN GREAT- ER RETURNS WITH THE ALASKA FEDERAL Savings and Loan Assa. of Junecu TELEPHONE 3 tine’'s Day and Washington's birth- day The booste S O Neill s of the event— Dan Ralston and —also said that let- | forward to ba: ., Ketchikan and Pr-u ter their in the for the Alaskan title in each divis- for -urrently planned, eliminations | h separate division will be | different evenings, with the | fin aking place on Washington's Birthday night. . The fight promoters also announc- ed that it is possible one fighter showing the greatest promise may | be sponsored as an entry in the Se-| attle Golden Gloves elmin: preparatery to the national contest [in Chicago. | In the local tournament for the | Territorial titles, finalist winners |in each division will receive a pair of silver boxing gloves, while the runners-up will be presented with | bathr with insignia on the backs emblems of Alaska’s First Silver | Gloves Tournament | O'Neill, Ralston and Winn again emphasized that all entries must | prove their am - status, and that no entry who has fought for money at any time will be considered eli- gible. Meanwhile all would-be con- | its are urged to make their on the bl appearing elsewhere on this page in this issue of today’s Empire. - Democratic Women Postpone Meehng The Democratic Women's Club meeting of January 8 has been post- poned one week it was announced due to a conflict with the Jackson Day dinner of that mmu[, - > If you have any leftover bits of fruit' cake, heat them 10 minutes in a double boiler and serve as a pudding topped by fresh or canned fruits. Try pound cake the same way. Qldest Banlk in Alashka Commercial Savings Safe Deposit Banking by Mail Department The B. M. Behrends Bank Juneau, \ Alaska S U T R S S T L S AR HOW ABOUT WHAT'S INSIDE? oys a o of it posse: aqgr you need Residence C: costs surprisingly little. IWHAT YOU SHAVE] © . o, M. A house without burning Fire insurance pro- To protect your household 1inst loss or damage by fire, ontonts !nsurance. It SHATTUCK AGENCY TELEPHONE 249 Office—New York Life | @ —— the | commerce in Fair-| g those cities to| best amateur fighters | tournament here to compete; | Clark Shaughnessy News that the University of Chicago is dropping intercollegiate football pushes these three men into Clark Shaughenssy, the Maroon the sports news. coach, will lose his football job. Stagg is the man who “made” LOSTMAN IS FOUND ON ISLAND Shipwretked—Fish erman,| Son Reported Located ; After Three Weeks | VICTORIA, B. C,, radio message to the British Col- umba police said Capt. George Skinner, Vancouver fisherman, miss- ing three weeks on a desolate island off the west coast of Vancouver Is- land, has been found alive. Capt. Skinner is in a very weak condition and it is urged that all boats in the viecinity of Brooks Bay be rushed to the scene. i Skinner and his son Hugh were shipwrecked when the fish packer Jan. 6.—A terse | Great Northern V capsized in a gale | and was washed ashore at Lawn Point, 60 miles north of Zeballos. Engineer Ted Harnard, of the fish | packer, was drowned when he was swept overboard during the gale that capsized the craft. \ s | | | | Harmon Will Show Movies at Vesper “Familiar Places and ermlm Faces” is the name of a movie to be shown at the Vesper service by | Henry Harmon tomorrow at 6 o'clock | in the evening. Music for the hour will be pro- vided by the young people’s choir. o - Don Hagerty Jr. Party Host Today A luncheon, followed by attend- ance at an afternoon movie, marked the tenth birthday celebration of Don Hagerty, Jr. today. Young Hagerty's guests were John Cass, Dale Holland, Edwin Heisel, Robert Howell and Don Pegues. — - e Two Sales Planned By Martha Society Dessert-luncheon was served yes- terday in the Parlors of the North- ern Light Presbyterian Church prior to the meeting of the Martha So- ciety. Hostesses for the afternoon were Mrs, J. F. Worley and Mrs John A. Glasse. Regular business was discussed at the session and plans were made for a food sale on February 10, and a rummage sale on February 27. "JUNEAU'S OWN STORE" “TOMORROW'S STYLES TODAY" Inventory Sale CONTINUES TODAY PLEASE NOTICE! This store will be closed all day MONDAY, JAN. 8TH, for a thorough early Spring Cleaning. HAL VORSEN’S “Your Credit Is Good If Your Credit Is Good" : football at Chicago, having been coach there for 41 years prior to | | | A. A. Stagg Amos Alonzo 1 conditions are | no special be CHANGE OF TITLE_Because he wished to campaign as a private citizen, Col. Fulgencio Batista (left), Cuba’s strong man, retired as commander of the army, turning over the office to Col. Jose E. Pedraza, seen with Batista in Havana. Colonel Batista plans to run as a presidential candidate ln Lelections scheduled for Cuba on Feb. 28, Another Break—Her 17th The kind of break Dorothy Smith, 14, of Muskegon, Michigan, got doesn’t | call for congratulations. She is shown in hospital as result of her 17th bone fracture. Born with a fractured leg, she has since broken her right leg eight times, her left four times and her right arm five times—and still keeps a smile, f hcv F1gure in News as Cth300 l)rops Football IMASKA S 1939 Shaughnessy's appointment. president of the universi overemphasized football, university believes such that it nefit from intercollegiate football | 554725 peltries as against 423115 Where? peltries for the previous calendar e Welth THE DAILY ALASKA E‘VIPIRE SATURDAY JA‘\J 6, 1940. ° . ) flowers world was the surprising blooming of roses in the front yard of Collector of Customs J. J. - nors on Third Street between Frank- lin and Gold. And we remind you, incidentally, that reports coming in from out the | highway on the heels of slowly drop- ping thermometers, say the ice was good for skating last night in the vicu’uty of the glacier. O 15% Canadian Discount B. M. Behrends Bank Pirst National Bank. [Roses Blooming As Skafers (avort FUR CATCH WAS WORTH $1,910,111 \Better than Average Year, Despite Poor Prices, Is Reported These are daffy times, these win- ter days, for local horticulturists who last fall put their flowers to sleep until spring showers warmed the soil and surprisingly have found no frozen ground, and flowers pop- ping up for Thanksgiving, for Christmas, for New Year's and any | During the calendar year of 1939 time in general. | the value of furs shipped from Al-| Today's event in Juneau's winter- laska totaled $1,910,111.21, it was an- s | nounced today by the Alaska Game Commission. This amount is $48, 01394 less than for the previous year, due to general decline in value of the various pelts. | The price of red fox dropped from $9.25 to $7.50. Mink declined from $11,50 to $9.75. Blue fox was off from 182650 to $23. There was a slight | increase in the values of lynx, beav- er, muskrat and marten pelts but Inot enough to offset the general adv. I e S ENTRY BLANK ‘ ® Silver Gloves Contest ® slump which took place in the world's fur market. Name ; Dr. R. Hutchins From a conservation standpoint, v Dr. Robert Hutchins | the game commission noted a Age Address healthy condition in that the num- ber of all kinds of pelts shipped from the Territory was the largest for several years, a grand total of and an ardent foe o. >d a statement: “th articular interests an udents now de that Boxing Experience Good 'Rat Catch The muskrat catch increased from 1291,140 in 1938 to 417442 in 1939. Shipments of mink pelts increased from 39,866 in 1938 to 42,883 in 1939, Red and cross fox shipments were FILL OUT AT ONCE AND HETURN TO IIM O'NEILL AT BARANOF CIGAR STAND ) \ \ 3 ) \ \ N N % ) N \ \ t \ i ) N ) N E 1re 262 in 1938 23644 i A ;" Blg Juicy Arizona Grapefruit 64 size 4 for 29¢ |° Another i rtant gain was made in' the Arctic white foxes whin New Crop Walnuis, from the farm, 2 Ibs. 43¢ e ba a low ebb for sever: » o Ly (lx non|{ Large Firm FEAD LETTUCE . . Each 12¢ 3519 1938 to 4.187 during the past e f s WILLAPA OYSTERS, No. I can . each 23c | The fur shipments, in detail, were . s £ as follows ; Fairplay Chicken and Noodles, 1 Ib. jar, 19¢ | Species - Bear 'k Blue Plate Shrimp, Dry Pack, med., 2 for 35¢ Black or I Giacler wo s gew Sweet Cream BUTTER . . 2 Ibs. for 75¢ Polal 37 5.4 v maor aagoss 2 doz. Grade A Standard EGGS for . . 65¢ Coyote 1, ,781.5 rox | G Three No. 2'2 TOMATO PUREE . 3 for 42c Cross 2,278 asol|{ MEDIUM EGGS . . . . 2doz.for57c Lilver 614 16,271.00 t *White 4,187 544310010 L g D iue 426 216,798.0C w im PTHRIFT CO-0 Pl Lynx 2,705 101,437.50 Marmot 121 24.20 WE DELIVER NO CHARGES PHONE 767 Marten 1,287 33,462.00 SUMMCRE SR s 42 883 418,109.25 Muskrat 417,442 342,302.44 Otter . 2,759 30,349.00 irre 78.32 i Sy —— 0 0 Regular Saturday Night o g Wolf 2 . 405 6,885.00 = Wolverine 228 1,254.00 Totals .. 553,606 $1,892968.21 Pribilof Islands - (Foxes Only) E White 1 143.00 Blue 1,018 17,000.00 , Grand Totals .. 554,725 $1,910.111.21 *Not including pelts from Pribilof Islands. TONIGHT Louisville Paper . Finds Juneau ‘ Elks’ Hall "Unlucky” ; £ : Lcuisville, Kentucky, gave Juneau Alaska, a bit of a climatic boost on | Christmas Day when a paper there | published a feature yarn on the| Christmas weather. The Kentuckian scribe led ofl.’ “As you read this Christmas morn- | ing, it should be white—and bright —outside your window and you'll have the edge on the folk in Ju- neau, Alaska, where they are hav- ing their third snowless Christmas Day in 23 years.” Temperatures that night in Louis- ville ranged between 12 and 19 de- grees above zero, while, as we re- Music by STANLEY COX ORCHESTRA Dancing 10P. M. 101 A. M. ° : KING CAROL NOW READY FOR FIGHT Says Rumanians as “Liv- ing Wall” Will Resist Soviet Invasion CHISINAU, Rumania, Jan 6.— King Carol, after reviewing his troops in this Bassarabian capital 12 miles | it has from the Russian border. served no- tice that Rumania “will { living wall” if the Soviet armies at- tempt invasion of this « untry. .- POLES CAUGHT IN BREAKAWAY Are Apprehended Aboard Swedish Vessel by German Forces BERLIN, Jan. 6.—German Naval forces, it is said, hs rrehended 24 Poles bound for E: 1d aboard a small Swedish ves iroute from C A s VAR g ‘Rigo to Stockholm. ht as one | mijjonaire, Forlune of Schwab Has Disappeared S Former Steel Magnaie, Multimillionaire, Died Poor Man PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 6.—The Post Gaz newspaper, said that Charles M. nate and mutli- rs ago, died a “You Can Always Have a Good Time at the |ville paper's enterprising reporter, Elks’ Hall” ‘fm' this item., QIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIII|I||IIl|I|llIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIfl JACKSON DAY DINNER JANUARY 8TH—6:30 PP, M. Gold Room BARANOF HOTEL $2.50 Plate Tickets On Sale Atse==== Butler-Mauro Drug Co. Harry Race Drug Store Baranof Hotel Juneau Drug Co. Hollmann's Pharmacy Guy Smith Drug Co. (In Douglas and Juneau) member, quite a few Juneauites that night went around without over- coats. We're indebted to Phillip Gordon, barber at the Baranof Hotel, who | received the paper, and to the Louis- s R SBAAG Sa' ~ Schwab, 40 s poor man, Former business associates have discussed for weeks the disappear- ance of the once vast fortune. MAJOR lEAGUERS 10 BOWL AGAIN SUNDAY The Major League in Juneau bowl- ng rolls for the second Sunday of its season tomorrow at the Elks and the Brunswick. Rainier Beer and George Brothers roll at the Elks and Kaufmann's Cafe rolls Brunswick at the Bruns- llllllmlllllllllIIIII|IIllllilllIlIIIIIIlIIIIllIIIllIIIIIIIHIIIIIHflllllIIIIIIIImIIIlllI“mHI fi|INIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllfllll“lIllllllllllIlllIllllllIlllllllllllllllllmlllllllllllllllllllllllllll wick, first games scheduled to start at thee ociock n e aiternoon. | SISO RO