The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 25, 1940, Page 5

THE D/\IL\ AL /\SI\A E‘VIPIRE, T'llLRbDAY JAN CAN I SHOW YOU SOME SAMPLES OF MY RUG-CLEANER,NO? THEN OF MY PENCIL-SHARPENER?2 NOZ.. ~THEN HOW ABOUT MY CIGARET TE- LIGHTER,NO?2 () Look, | MISTER .- ARMSTRONG IS WINNER, 9TH ROUND Fierce Two-Fi;tVed Attack Renders Pedro Mon- tanez Helpless NEW YORK, Jan. 25. — Henry Ary brought hi perpetual T fighting machine, fierce t tack, into high gear 1 0 stop Pedro Montanez i eduled 15- T of the world C mcre than cht fans who paid more 009. | r three times and saved Ly the bell twice, Montanez put up a gallant showing but Referee ! Cavanaugh was forced to call a halt in the ninth round with the Because the State Department frowns on marriage of its diplomats to D'YA MIND IF I OPEN TH' CASES AN STAY HERE A SECOND OR TWO? , 1940, By y CLIFF | STERRETT V'SEE--- I AIN'T SEEN 'EM FOR THREE WEEKS, MYSELF/ © and no admission is c Rican helpless and ubwrb- ent, d the pounds and Mon- | weighed 14412 ])Gllnda - o CANADIANS TO BE INSTRUCTED BY BRITISHERS. OTTAWA, Ja off: men of the British Air Force, have arrived in Canada to assist in training pilots, observers and gun- ners. RENSCIE . AC U Cadlifornia Quint Averages 6-4 BERKELEY, Cal, Jan. 25.—In basketball, that game of giants,| the University of California could | put cut just about the tallest| teem in the nation. would average 6 feet 4% inches in height, This theoretical arrangement| 1d require shifting cne guard one center to forward posi- tions, but even at their present listed assignments quintet runs just under 6 feet 4. Tallest man on the team is Wil-| California’s | ring | | \Of Thumbing {John Bricker foreigners, it hastily shifted Norman Christiansen, U. 8. vice-consul in Mexico City, to Canada when he announced plans to.wed Amalia Viesca Palma. But, throwing up his eareer for love, he reslgned returned to Mexico and wed the s a, with whom he is shown. e BARBERS DIVIDE ' HONORS IN PINS ., WITHFLOWERMEN ‘New Style 'of the Barbers rolling high total,' 22nd state which she had visited. 5 Thumb and air transportation Tonigh!s games are helding out, she plans to visit al] Gabby's and Brighton 48 States by alr and call on the (e ‘Alaskan Governors of each. Friday’s games are Rainier Bee: She came here from Ohio, and yq Martin’s Demons, New Alagkan‘ | presented Governor Keen John- vs, Juneau Florists and Home Groc- son with a gift from Governor ery vs. Druggists. of Ohio—a minia- Scores last night were as follows: “white elephant.” Juneau Florists Percy's vs. Tailors vs ture replica of a Tt s \Lajoi ...... . 170 162 187— 519 : [Halm _.......105 169 160— 524 TAllES]’ (AGER |Carnegie 139 176 199— 514 | ! b T cand | Total 504 507, 546— 1557 | TUCSON, Ariz, Jan. %5. — The __ Barber ?;‘;3‘;‘;;"’ sl University of Arizona believes it QUinto has one of the tallest centers play Mangalao 180 153 - 148—. 481 R. Galao 183 192 177— 562 |ing collegiate basketball. He who towers 6 ieel George Jordan, 8% inches. R THE GRFATEGT area Df quick- sand in the world is Diamond Shoals, off Cape Hatwras, N. C. R DARTMOLTH Co‘]ego is me only U, S. pre-revolutionary uni- Total 565 508 18&—4521 KRAUSE GUNS | TRAINED ON W SPORT SYSTEM IS PAYINGNOW AP Feature Service | BARBOURVILLE, Ky., Jan, 25.— An athletic “de-emphasis” program | begun at Union College is working out so satisfactory that Union's new prrsxdem Dr. Conway Boatman, en- |visions a day when a new stadium “without any fence, open to the pub- :Ilc." will be built by the school | Of his plan, under which no more athletic scholarships ar sranted arged for ball games at football and bask | home, Dr. Boatman s; “The improved personal attitudes of student team members and im- proved scholarship in their studies are well known to all the college ‘fnculty as a result of just the first |beginning of the new program. | "“A new spirit of sport for the love of sport and winning for the sake of college loyalty is taking hold of Union's student body." The college president said school was “spending more money on sports under the new policy than |in previous years.” The Union football team, first to try out the new athletic program, won three games, lost three and tied one in the past season. Some of the players, alumni have said, still hold athletic scholarships FRANKFORT, Ky, but no new scholarships are being Eleanor Pogwist, zs-year-old self- issued and within three years none | “airpls i v f lh nion football players will ':a;‘xfwf Ry v “’“"e““ Florists split honors at ”"'! “Activity” fees of students have ¥ 1% Ske sald Kentucky was the Brunswick last night with R. Galao been increased $5 a year to nelp ’Imanc: the sports pmmnm - BIG SQUAD WANTED BY BIFF JONES OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 25.—Fans who go to watch Nebraska's future foot- ball teams under Coach Lawrence | (Biff) Jones, the old Army mentor, are going to see lots of players. “Blfi ' speaking at the Omaha nquet for the 1939 team, told 500 fans that “I want to use lots of boys.” Explaining, he added “it enables '. em to report fresh on Mondays | and it cuts down the chances of in- juries. That's why few of our boys ‘Men hxred in AlzL\ku s LN ¢ 161 THREE - FOURTHS st 20 AIRBASE WORKERS | | ot of men i i - aska on payroll Dec. 29, —_ 132 HIRED I“ ALASKA M;?Zm ey 7 a0 WEDDING PLAN S_Britain’s tennis star, Kay Stammers, Men from - Seattls, dis. s seen with her fiance, Michael Menzies. They plan to wed soon. charged or quit 3 RO R 51", Toecagy R s NaVY Re'eases Flgures s Total of men hired in Se- nocent blanket of night-fallen H AR attle on payroll Dec. 24, snow commled bY Comfa(f T°":l‘| of X;“"" ’“’I;“Dm Se- 1639 56 During the breakfast hour while f H | “Rpe-on: payroll Dec, ‘@, Percentage of men hired in hundreds made their way to titeir ors at Sitka, Kodiak 1639 " Alaska on payroll Decem- work, Chief of Police Dan Ralston Feihentage of men hired tn ber 24, 1939 75.7% was having warnings issued over Approximately three-fourths of the Alaska, cn payroll Dec. ., Percentage of men hired in the radio to take care in walking, men at work on the Sitka and Ko- 29, 1939 T46% Beattle, on payroll Dec- and even though many took the diak naval air bass projects on Percentage of men hired in ember 24, 1939 243% utmost in care, sidewalks and December 29 were hired in Alaska, Seattle, on payroll Dec. “Thirteen of the men included in streets were marred frequently By according to a tabulation released 29, 1929 254% (he total of men hired in Alaska, falling pedestrians. by the Seims-Drake-Puget Sound Kodiak Personnel went to Alaska during the summer This noon, no casualties had been Companies through Commander R. Total men h|r§d 283 and were employed on other pro- reported and walking dangers had E. Thomas, Officer in Charge of Total men diccharged or Jects there for the contractors lessened as snow and ice hardened Construction, | quit . 08 ! s T - moere and more together. . The tabulation makes no attempt e But Ralston's warnipg still goes, to determine how many of the men : v i Glal’e lte Undef for pedestrians and @uto drivers hired in Alagka were Alaskan resi- Men hired in Alaska 220 Alaska men discharged or quit, 46 “Total of men hired in Al- dents. The figures are as follows: Sitka Personnel Total men hired ... 209 | aska on payroll Dec. 24, Total men discharged or | 1939 174 SR 10 am. quit 32 (Men hired in Seattle 63 Juneauites went down like flies A Seattle men discharged or this. morning as unsuspecting feet 177 quit 7 struck glare ice covered by an in- Snow Blanket Dangerous alike—be cautious. e e——— C.DA., FOOD 8A:LZ Baturday, January 27, starting at in" Bert's Cash Grocery. ady. e e Try an Empire ad. 2y = z = = : § = = = = = = 2 = = = g E = e S the THE ROAD TO PROFIT IS REACHED IN THE PAGES OF THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE liam Biggerstaff, 6 feet 6, a guard|versity that has held graduauon 1played more than 30 minutes per and one of the real stars of the|exercises every year since me last season. vabsity i il HOMES IN JUNEAU Comadence MayA Save Llfc gal I University Chancellor C. S. Bouch- ier, following Jones, endorsed the Jidsn declaring the 1939 Cornhuskers iteam a “team of no stars, or rather a team of 30 or 35 stars.” Bears fo Meet s SIr0ng HoOp ;o mi toe coszsetir Cpemr Squad on Tomorrow | foct—sietes’s headt” Night's Bill anlrr Want Ads Brlnl R-‘I”L There’s a basketball game sched- uled in the High School gym to-| morrow night that local fans have been waiting all season for—the fancy shooting Juneau High School squad against the driving veterans of the Krause five. Those two teams will face each other in the nightcap of a double- header that is to be launched with a contest between the league-lead- ire Haida boys and the near-cellar Eiks aggregation. If the Haida team is in form, the score should be heavily in their favor, for their advantage in height will become increasingly apparent against the shorted Elksmen and snculd acccunt for a ‘number of points under the basket. RBut tha Hich School-Krause fest is anybody's contest. The young- sters will be up against experience and superiority in weight, but the Krause men will face burning speed rrom first horn to the last. ———ee - 'FIRE DEPARTMENT MAKES SHORT RUN. The 4-2 a]arm last night cnfledv firemen a few hundred feet north' of the hall on Calhoun Avenue to| By sheer coincidence, Helen Pankowiski of New York, stricken with §0 down the hill below the CIiff | i rare blood disease, may win her fight for life. Helen’s brother Apartments and extinguish a minor wvent to a telegraph station to wire to the Mayo clinic for hclp roof blaze at the home of Mr. and vhe telegraph clerk, Francis J. Maio, saw the wire and having just Mré Odin Lanning. the right type of blood needed for a transfusion for Helen, volun- Damage was negligible and the teered his services.. He is shown with the stricken girl blaze was extinguished quickly. DEPEND UPON THE EMPIRE TO GIVE THEM MONEY-SAVING NEWS The shortest distance between two points is a straight line! True. 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