The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 11, 1940, Page 5

'POLLY AND HER PALS YESSIREE, SAMBO, AN' SHE'S A BEAUT OR MY NAME AIN'T TYRUS TY TEWAD. DININL ROOM?2 YEP, AN' IT'LL SEAT TWENTY GUESTS AT i EI“.Y (GNN Lee’s Sixth Try for Middleweight Crown F ails HOOP WARS TAKES FIGHT V/ITH COOPER Given Unanimous Decision in Twelve Rounder in New York | NEW YORK, Jan. 11, — Light- | ht king, Billy Conn, ]fl.\L‘ the unan'mous decision | ; Cooper in a 12 round | - the ring weighing 7 pounds, and Cooper weighed | pounds. | st “five rounds, Conm, | confident that ‘a victory| per would start him on the | 1l of a fight with Joe Louis and | heavyweight championship, fired ed lefts, most of them off various parts of Coop- atomy. ) s boxing exhibition was how- r, not popular with the crowd nearly 5,000 fans who paid more s %5 RESUME IN ~ LOCAL GYM Metlakatla Meets High| School Tonight-Krause | Five vs. Hennings | Tonizht in the High School gym- nasium, the rambling Metlakatla In- dians tangle with the Juneau High | School's fire-cating basketball crew, and Tuesday night's defeaters of Metlakatla, the driving Krause out- fit, meets Hennings. Metlakatla drew a big crowd Tues- day night and they'll draw a bigger lcrowd tonight. Although defeated iby one point Tuesday night,'they | showed themselves to be a fast out- { fit, dangerous from any spot on the | floor The High School, definitely “on” against the Henning five, which they defeated handily Tuesday, can give Metlakatla a run if their hoop 1 aim measures up as on Tuesday | Krause is favored over Henning's, | but the big Henning outfit is due to lcome out of a slump, although | handicapped by the loss of Guy Schubert, who had to give up play for his work. Potent hope for the Henning squad lies in the fact that their two tallest men in the league. Chapados and | Metzgar, haven't gotten going this PURSUIT PLANES FOR NAVY GOING TO FINN WARFARE (Continuea from Page One) | ment credits to Finland for civilian | relief (which frees Finnish money to buy war supplies A commitment to return $250,000 paid by Finland on her debt. Active Red Cross and Herbert Hoo- ver relief to Finland. Not a dime of col ponding re- lief for Russia (many of whose chil- | dren prcbably have been orphaned | by sharp shooting Finns.) ‘ ROPAGANDIST id that if the Swedes | her blow at Russia | GARBO, THE And we can never strik 'they have already dons plenty| through the agency of one Greta| Garbo, actress. Go see the film, “Ninotchka.” Garbo will tickle you mere than a fistful of wiggle worms. | More to the point, she simply tor- ments the Russian revolution into a lather. And how the customers love it. Of course, before you will really enjoy the thing from the ment. a few hundred miles off shore and we go into ecstasies of hullabaloo and fines for those who fail to let and headline writing the “brush” grow. Recovered from an appendectomy performed late in the baseball season, Jimmy Foxx, third baseman of the Boston Red Sox, winte! at St. Petersburg, Fla., where he plays on and bosses two goli A German ship is scuttled provides goodly sized cash prizes for the most “attractive beaver” Yet in 1937 an American-owned The Rendezvous is held in An- tanker was torpedied and sunk. chorage every February, this year prepaganda standpoint you should | Search as it would, the commission | the 17th through the 2lst. be let in on a secret. dish. | HULL, THE STYLIST | Secretary Hull hasn't published his official papers yet. The State Depattment will ase them of- fically in 1954. When they are pub- lished they will be liberally sprink- led with the word “phases” if Hull Garbo is Swe- | found only four lines concerning the P sinking of the 12,000-ton tanker HEADS WRANGELL BALL George W. McKnight off the Spanish Mayor Van H. Fisk of Wrangell. coast. The brief mention was in a has been appointed chairman of the Wall Street paper. The tanker was President’s Birthday Ball and the owned by Standard Oil of New Jer- | affair has been tentatively set for sey. January 27. - —_ BEARDS GROWING L. C. SMITA ana CORONA TYPEWRITERS Glenn Lee, Nebras s fighter who tried six times to take Celerimo Gar middleweight crown away Winne 7 | trom him, is shown in this sixth round action of their battle at Manila, P. I, apparently trying to tie p | Garela to the ropes while Jack Dampsey, who flew from New York to referce the battle, looks on. Lee oun S went down for the count in the 13th round. : ‘BARBER EOWI.ER VISITS DAUGHTER Gus Borgen, of Ketchikan, are promised eight quarters of hot follows his press confernec style. One diligent reporter told us he once counted 17 “phases” in a sin- gle press conference. Some of the FUR RENDEZVOUS lads are considering organizing a “pool” on the thing, 25 cents a guess — on how many “phases” he will use| ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 11— at any given conference. But they | Reminescent of the days when ra- Sold and Serviced by J. B. Burford & Co. ‘Onr Dnarston Te Worn by Satistied Customers” | year and are just about due. An- other hope lies in Lynn Pope, one ofthe best: guards in the loop. He, | too, is due to start potting a few long ones. First game starts at 7:30, and fans Heavyweight Contender Knacks Qut Georgi- His 31st Victory ORLANDO, Florida, Jan. 11. — tender of Des Moines, last nig scored his thirty-first victory with oot a fourroundknoskout ot wiero Yoyng Heavyweight Has ned 189 pounds and | mnrassive Debut in N. Y. Ring i 182 pounds. - - NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—Lee Sa- ¢old, young heavyweight, of Des OF MURPHY Is Moines, made an impressive Eastern debut here last night with a three- round technical knockout over Jim Saveld weighed 181 pounds and Robinson tipped the scales at 2 Senate Judiciary Subcom- mitfee Gives Approval, | . Bench Appointment DEBTS AEE LONG WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. — The sub-committee has recommended confirmation of Frank Murphy to be Associate Justice of e — - ST. JOSEPH, Mo, Jan. 11.—S8t. cseph banks still are making gocd on script issued in the panic of 1807, Three pieces, one for $1, one for 50 cents and one for 25 cents re- Supreme Court of the United cenyy were mailed in from Leaven- States. | # | worth, Kans., for redemption. The The recommendation was made af- b:r:k paid par. - ter Murphy voluntarily appeared be- | fore the group. R L LR S ———— Frank Matsura, who for 35 years ‘has operated the hotel at Telegraph Empire Want Ads Bring l.esults. 'Creek, passed away December 31. Hugh (Scottie) Hood, who pushed his wheelbarrow from New York City to San Francisco to lift a mortgage on his two Long Island city lots, is shown in Los Angeles on his way home. The mortgage holder offered to cancel the debt if Hood pushed the wheelbarrow across the country. Hood wore out three pairs of shoes doing it. HANGS UP MARK ~NEAR 600 LINE | | Mangalao, Barper kegler, rolled five pins short of 600 last night in lee saVOId pent the holidays in Petersburg basketball in anybody’s parlance. with her daughter and scn-in-law, Mr. and Mrs, Chares Greena and children. DR. STEVES, CHIROPODIST, Makes Arch Appliances to measure— 'ary 12, at 8 o'clock. Bridge, whist - probably won't. It wouldn’t be pro- tocal. The State Department is C.D.A. CARD PARTY strong on protocol—and it gets the The Catholic Daughters of Am- reporters, in time. erica will hold a card ty in ‘\P»mm Hall Friday evening, Jan ->> > - TWO SHIP INCIDENTS The Maritime Commission chuck- office, 10 Valentine Bldg. Phone 648 and pinochle. adv. les at the whimsies of public senti- the Commercial Loop with 210-192 ~ g and 193, leading his team to a 1600 total and three of four points vie- tory over George Brothers. Tonight's games are Percy’s vs. Martin’s Demons and Percy’s vs. Home Grocery Last night's scores were as fol- lows: George Brothers . | Iffert . 169 199 193— 56 Burke 123 186 177— 486 Holmgquist 163 156 194— 513 455 541 564—1560 Barber Shop Trio | Quinto 160 129 200— 489 Mangalao 210 192 193— 595 R. Galao 167 200 Total 537 521 571—1629 Handicap 1 1 1— 3 | ‘Total ‘Total 5 522 572—1632 RECRUITING 10 START, CANADA, FOR 2,000 MEN OTTAWA, Jan. 11. — Canadian | military authorities announce plans | for recruiting approximately two thousand men to act as reinforce- ments for the first Canadian di- vision in Europe. The Department decided on im- mediate recruiting and training could commence as soon as possible in the various military centers in Canada. The number to be allotted to the various military camps will vary according to the corresponding ca- pacity of the various camps. Officials said all depots were being cleared of enlisted men who will have rcached the mil- | itary service age of nin years by April 17 and May 15 next - USRS FLIES TWO OUT | John Amundsen flew the AAT Lockheed on a trip to the islands| | teday with two passengers to Hirst, | Herbert 5. Simmons and Charles { Fulton. | | USSP A S | PUBLIC CARD PARTY | A Public Card Party, by the Vik. iing Club, 1.0.OF. Hall, Sat. eve- | |ning, Jan. 13 at 8 p.mn. Pinochle,| | whist and bridge with prizes and, refreshments. Everybody welcome. adv. / 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! far north, the Ancho Fur Ren- H— S GRAVES dezvous next month will present a city “full of beards” as the male “The Clothing Man” strut the streets preening th e e RESR PLOPEDE b HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER Even the bargers are taking part & MARX CLOTHING in the Rendezvous sideight which o zors were almost unheard of in the ‘ | | 1 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 thcre is! Something to demonsirate once more that for greater values no place can compete with JUNEAU . . . with your own local merchants! The January sales are here! So be prepared for excit- ing savings in every store. And watch THE EMPIRE for news of these events!