The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 9, 1940, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JAN. 9, 1940. YESSIREE, UNK., THIS SCHEME'S TH' SENSATION O TH' CENTURY/, GWMTT-~- YFEFFE QLTPHH { STEVENSON HAS BEST TOTAL OF Roger Stevenson, roiling for inc contest the Cosmopolitans, Tonight's games are Signal Corps the Signal Corps keglers at the Bruns- ast night, marked a total of st tally of the evening, ma- eased by a 222 game in| nal Corps divided honors with ' the Juncau Florists, while the Bar- bers won three of four points from | YUH MEANS ' SAY THAT WELTER-WIT'S WANGLED UP SOMETHIN' THAN HOW YOU LIKE-A DA NEW SOAP I USE ON YOUu TODAY? ) JUDEE FER YERSELF, SUSIE. HE'S WORKIN' ON A PLAN--. By CLIFF STERRETT WHERE HE'S GONNA FEED COONS ON A KANGAROO DIET-- T' GROW RACCOON FUR COATS WITH POCKETS; King Fearorcs Syndute, Inc, World [ IN FACT, IT TASTED SO SWELL, I FEELS YUH MUST COME OUT AN' HAVE LUNCH ON ME NEXT TIME! rights rsened Don Herring, the young Princeton football hero who lost his left leg as result of an injury in a grid game this Fall, is shown in Princeton hospital just before he left for home. He sees a good future ahead for a man with vs. Brunswick and California Gro- cery vs. Brighton Tailors. | Last night's scores were as fol- lows: | Barber Shep Trio ! Mangalao 211 149 187— 547 Freeburger 162 162 162—"436 R. Galao 185 179 203— 567 (Handicap) R e SO Totals . 565 497 559—1621 Cosmopolitans Rayela 177 181 190— 548 Ne 1 168 162 146— 476 Hildinger 159 169 170— 498 Totals 504 512 506—1522 4 one leg who can “take it." Juneau Florists | Halm 169 176 174— 519 PRI Carnegie 188 187 180— 555 Smithberg . 170 170 170—*510 Totals 527 533 524—1584 U. S. Signal Corps Stevenson 174 176 222— 572 Hagerup 183 189 157— 529 Croken 134 166 159— 459 (Handicap) R e = Totals 497 537 544—1578 *—Average score. e R SR T BENSON MAKES HIGHEST MARK WITH ELKSMEN George Benson tallied high at the Elks alleys last night as his Butch- ers won two and total from the > Brewers wen three and to- tal from the Editors and Humpies won three from the Fosters and to- Tonight’s games are Bullders vs. Amazops, Mail Clerks vs. Luckies and Dark Horses vs. Tatlors. last night were as fol- Snipes Spet ... 48 51 51— 150 Ray Ward 142 122 197— 461 Foster —- 90 131— 221 F. Dufresne 120 112 129— 361 Iverson 158 .— 158 Totals 468 375 508—1351 Butchers Benson 211 171 158— 540 Eutchings 173 148 158— 479 Hu son 169 182 156— 507 Totals 553 501 472—1526 Editors “A wounded man,” said Mr. Da- Spot, 32 32 32— o9g|Vis, “is no longer an enemy.” Sundborg *118 118 118— 354| Mr. Hoover, in turn, will direct Stevens 135 157 135— 427|his organization toward feeding, Terin 153 190 157— 500|clothing and rehabilitating the — — — ___|civilian masses. He did that skill- Totals 438 497 442—1377|fully in Belgium 25 years ago. | Brewers “We want to avoid duplication,”| Burke 177 165 160— 502 |¢Xplained Mr. Davis. Holmquist 167 178 173— 518/ | Bensen 179 156 170— 505 | HOOVER RAISES FUNDS — — — —! The Hoover organization is ex- Toals 523 499 503—1525 Pected to raise the most moncy. Humpies | Mcreover, David candidly admitted Vukovich 157 138 143— 438(it would cut into the Red Cross Chippe-field 112 136 103— 351 drive for Finnish relief funds. Reynolds 110 136 129— 375| He appears to look upon it as, —— —— —— ——|"just one of those things.” | Totals 379 410 375—1164| It is clear, however, that excep.:‘: Fosters possibly for some resentment on Burford 89 145 75— 309)the part of under-strappers, the pm. F. Foster 143 124 125— 392 friction is held to a minimum. Mr. D. Foster 136 87 151— 374)Hoover and Mr. Davis have dis-|ady. Totals 362 356 351—1075 cussed their plans together *—Average score. Did not bowl. - VICTOR AT GOLF | Forgotten Man Comes Back ®' _Wins 15th Annual L. A. Open | LOS ANGEES, Cal,Jan.9.—Law-| son Little, golf's “forgotten maa,” [stormed out of the wilderness yes- |terday to win the 15th annual Los | Angeles Open, his first major tour- nament in recent years, 72-hole for a . total of 282. Clayton Heafner, of North Caro- lina, was second. .o DAVIS, HOOVER ARE NOW IN SPOTLIGHT OVER RELIEF WORK (Continued from Page One) H | \of annoying friction. But both Mr.' Hoover and Mr. Davis are t0o much men of the world. Things |have begun to work out, after a | fashion. The Red Cross is confining its performance primarily to immedi-| ate emergency and hospital relief, strongly on the medical side. It will handle wounded from ihe Finnish front fo the extent that it can. by | long distance telephone. ] ,the Empire are authorized to re- FINNISH FUND NOW AMOUNTS 10 $730 HERE Campaign to Be Concluded Tomorrow-Benevolent Society Is Busy With a final etfort by commit- tees of solicitors and showing of a benefit film at the Coliseum The- atre, the local campaign for a Fin- nish relief fund will be concluded tomorrow. The fund stood this afternoon at $730.70, which included $100.75 turned in by solicitors of the Fin- nish Benevolent Society, A com- plete list of contributors will be published at the close of the cam- paign tomorrow. The following wire has been re- ceived from Herbert Hoover rela- tive to the appointment of Frank A. Boyle as chairman of the Fin- nish Relief Fund Drive: “I am delighted to learn from John W. Troy that you have agreed to act as chairman of the Finnish Relief Fund in Alaska in coopera- tion with him. I deeply appreciate your willingness to join with us. (Signed) HERBERT HOOVER” Boyle has indicated that it is the desire of former Governor Troy| and himself to close the active campaign for funds Wednesday} night and, in order to give every- body an opportunity to assist, he, has appointed Mrs. Roald Copstead| and Mrs. Matt Warden as a com-| mittee to solicit the business hous- es and offices of Juneau, so it is hoped that those desiring to con-| tribute will be prepared when the committee calls on them. The conclusion of the drive will be the show at the Coliseum Thea- tre tomorrow evening which is being sponsored by the Finnish Re= lief Society. And in addition to the committee appointed by Boyle, each of the banks in Juneau and ceive contributions. e, ATTENTION O.ES. Regular business meeting, neau Chapter No. 7, Tuesday, Ju- 8 THIRD TERM QUESTION IS UNANSWERED President Roosevelt Gives No Hint During "Plate- Side”" Address (Continuea trom Page One) then you will be fairly safe in as- suming they won't wreck your Government.” What Has ieen Done The President further said: “The enormous task which the Demo- cratic Party has already performed in this generation has been 1o provide energy and confidence to steer the Government in the in- terest and under the direction of those of our Government who do not want to be selfish and do not want to be greedy. I am convinced that most of the people of the United States do have a sense— with a real feeling of pleasure in | moralities involved—that we have | been moving forward in these later | 5 S n Wbt | e T e B T (W e T S S ORI v, | 5 [ l | | | | e LILLIAN G. WATSON, Secretary. ~—-e Empire classirieds pay. ‘yem\ in the right direction.” The President commented on the | refusal of the Republicans to at- tend the Jackson Day dinner, say- |ing that they were like a little | boy, who, when the teacher asked | ! the class a certain question, ad- [ mitted he wanted to go to Heaven “but not with that bunch.” Chides Republicans | * The President commenting on the | refusal of the Republicans to at-| ltend the dinner, speculated upon | the possible reasons and suggested | that maybe it was because they | figured that “we wanted to fatten ‘up on ducks and that we were put- |ting on a closed season in 1940 merely to be assured of better sport the next year.” The President charged the min-! ority with not having a program | and questioned the ability of the | Republican mind to create one. GYM SESSIONS ‘r Weekly gymnasium sessions will be resumed by Juneau Rotarians | | next Monday at 8:30 o'clock, was announced today by Alex Dan- | | Raum, | e eee | STEWART LEAVES Territorial Commissioner of Mines B. D. Stewart left on the.steamer | Yukon for Ketchikan, where he| will visit - the assay office. Later he wil go to the States for several weeks' vacation. | ald Hungary Defense PactIs Signed Italy Agrees to Help Hun- gary in Case of | Any Attack ‘ BUDAPEST, Jan. 9.—It is au- thoritatively reported that Hungary and Ttaly have agreed to a de- fensive alliance, assuring Italy's pport to Hungary against Ger- an or Russian attack. It is understood the defense pact will remain a secret because it is not wished to offend any nation. A second tri-power pact is ex- it | pected to follow between Hungary,| Yugoslavia and Italy very soon. This will give Italy authority to send troops across Yugoslaviak 1o but does not bind Yugoslavia to join in any defense. READING AND DISCUSSION Reading and discussion class in New World Order Teachings Tues- day night, 8 p.m., Nugget Apts. No. 1. Free—public invited. adv. HOOP GAMES TONIGHT T0 BENATURALS Metlakatlan Hokey-Pokey fo Be Faced by Krause Team Metlakatla's Indi showed the Douglas Warner’s basketball squad something interesting in basget- making last night in the Natator- ijum at Douglas and marked them- selves as one of the smoothest bas- ketball clubs to hit the channel in years, beating the Douglas team 39-24 almost effortlessly Tonight that stro Metlakatla barnstormng club will try to take its fourth scalp of the trip in tang- ling with the Krause team in the High School gymnasium for the nightcap of a cracking good bill The Krause team is bolstered by Claude Erskine (who had a taste of Indian medicine 1 ast night) and El- mer Lindstrom, two of the best bas- ketball players in this sestion, but the invaders have soldier-like pre- cision that will be hard t~> beat Johnny Smith, who plays and coaches for the Metlakatlans, was center for the University of Alaskas in 1925, or thereabouts. and was at that time recognized as the best | center made Alaska. no baskets in Last night he but he fed con- stantly, and if isn’t dangerous with his long Innping one handed shots tenight from mid-floor in the bigger and higher High School gym, we'll miss a bet The curtain-raiser will be as good The High School meets Henning's team, at 7:30, two of best, teams on the channel and two of the best cticed squads, with Henning's 1aving a bit of an edge in weight, but none in speed. D Young People Enjoy Evening gf Skating A group of approximately 30 young people took advantage of the weather last evening and en- joyed skating on Mendenhall Lake between 7 7 and 11 o'clock, as guest of Henry Watkins Hot dogs, gingerbread and cocoa was served in the skaters cabin during the outing by Mrs, E. F. Watkins, - — SMITH ON TRIP Harold Smith, Forest Service Ad- ministrative Assistant, left on th2 Yukon for a 10-day trip of general administration and CCC project in- n in the Ketchikan ar B BOY BABY LEADS PARADE A seven-pound -ounce bahy boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ster- lir K. Herrod at Fairbanks 2 hours and 31 minutes after the arrival of 1940. Try an Empire ad. BASKETBALL TONIGHT January 9 Adults 25¢ Students 15¢ Use Sixth Street CITY LEAGUE GAMES First Game at 7:30 P. M. & HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASIUM Entrance ONLY! JUNEAU HIGH vs. HENNINGS AND | METLAKATLA vs. KRAUSE WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT? ® January Sales Bring You Savings for the Family! ® January Sales Bring You Savings for the Home! ® January Sales Bring You Savings on Everything! What's the BIG topic these days? Why all the excite- ment in every home . . . around the bridge table . . . down at the corner store? Something in the air? You bet there is! Something to demonstrate once more that for greater values no place can compete with JUNEAU . .. with your own January sales are here! So ing savings in every store. for news of these events! local merchants! The be prepared for excit- And watch THE EMPIRE