The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 19, 1940, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE BUOYS MARK NAZI LANES_1n a Berlin-approved caption, Germany's fleet of mine-swecpers is praised for “heroic effort” in clearing lanes for Nazi men o'wa:. I...2, a German pie= i pares to drop buoys marking all-clear passages, ARMSTRONG, GROCERY SauAD | ~ GARCIAGO vy Winvess POSTPONED a George Brothers won all four points from Rainiers yesterday in | the Major League at the Elks, and at the Brunswick squad won four s . - from the Kaufmann Cafe five. - A. D. Stewart of Kaufmann's| M|dd'ewe|ght champlon rolled high total for the day with in Fi 582, although®his team lost. ship Fight fo Be Stag- *iiehis e Sy wax o con- ed on March 1 —_— key wrernch, won by Kaufmann with two extra pins. LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. | George Brothers middleweight championship gnd Kaufmann's roll at the EIks t between Ceferino Garcia and anq Rainier and Brunswick at the Armstrong, scheduled for Brunswick. night, hasheen post- ' Scores yesterday were as follows: | t Garcia to undergo trea - Riendeau 198 ment for a boil on his right knee. |R Henning 147 The postponement was agreed t0 pr Lavenik 141 129 183— 453 by Armstrong who said he Was R Stevenson . 157213 148— 519 ready 1ytime to defend his mid- ISR e dleweight championship title. R The test between Bob Kaufmann and il Friday, March 1. Rainiers Lou Hudson for a left handed mon- poned un | tponement has been taken nr Ugrin 196 476 535 446 150 169 152 200— 168— 147— | George Brothers M. Metcalf 156 202 H. Iffert 201 161 J. Hendricks 126 153 L. Holmquist .. : 188" 222 E. Radde 211 17 882 909 Kaufmann’s Cafe A. Stewart 197 204 181— 582 C. C. Carnegie . 208 158 164— 530 Shavey Koski 159 182 169— 510 185— 543 171— 533 175— 454 143— 553 181— 563 855—2146 Empire classitieds pay. DON'T SLEEP WHEN GAS PRESSES HEART sleep because gas ika. One dose 2 heart from . ation. Adlerika out BOTH Butler-Maurg Co., in Dougles hy Guy's Drug Store Totals - EXTRA MONEY You'll do an impromptu dance, too, when you learn that you can sell those old things you've been saving thrcugh EMPIRE Clas- sified ads. Used furniture, appliances, dogs, cats, cars, lawn mowers, porch swings and a hundred other things can be sold at small cost to you. Turn your white elephants into cash the Classified way and go out and buy a hat or something. EMPIRE CLASSIFIEDS PAYS In the classified columns of THE EMPIRE hun- dreds of Juneau people and firms find a solution to their buying or selling problems. And the cost of the Classifieds is very small. Make a habit of reading the classifieds daily, and when you want to use them yourself simply phone 374 and ask for our helpful ad-taker. The Daily Alaska Empire hing as BERKANNTMACHUNG 260 000 BT 01 B GRS Kokich #3240 SRR D e 1 POCTCR ofien ro 1 in Hitler speeches, Geri 'an picl Poland. A wou “Cuamborain; the words me put up in calis to England, Your Work!” finn Runners 1oe the Mark Herbert Hoover, Taisto Maki and Paavo Nurmi Get ready! Get set! Go! And as former President Herbert Hoov bangs away in New York, Finnish track heroes Taisto Maki, center, and Paavo Nurmi, get away on a transcontinental United States tour to help raise funds for Finland’s fight against Russia. Maki is the current Finnish distance champion. Nurmi is his manager. Baseball Training Starting (By Associated Press) The first sign of spring came today as the Pacific Coast League clubs swung into training for the coming baseball season | All eight clubs of the Pacific Coast League are working out in Califor- nia. Several Major League teams are due in California late this week or early next week to start getting in shape for the coming 1940 base- ball season 126 154 137 130 R. — 433 L. 164 431‘ 527 828 8312480 Brunswick | 184 147 190— 521 211 191 138— 540 165 161 186— 512 165 196 165— 562 158 170 157— 485 Kaufmann Dudson Totals E. Galao Max Rayela L. Hildinger Ben Mangalao Ray Galao ......... ‘Totals 883 865 836—2584 FISHING MOVIES WILLBESHOWN; BARANOF HOTEL ‘Temorrow night in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel, the Juneau Spoerts Fishing Club will be hosts to the public with an hour and a half of movies. The films were taken by Joe Slaby and include numerous shots of the local strip-fishion derbies, scenic shots in Tracy Arm, moose in the Kenai, and other shots. The public is invited. Showing will begin at 8 oclock. D | | i | R Shrine Dance Will Be Wednesday Night cf the Shrine Dances rt of Wednesday even- g bttish Rite Temple NEW TELEPHONE DIRECTORY |, numerous parties To be issued March 1 and rorms;‘ larned to precede the close March 1. For space, listings | ffs and changes please call Juneau| Mus and Douglas Telephone Co., tele- | Dufresne and her orchestra. phone 420, adv. | affair is invitational. Anot} i1 be a w1l »e provided by Klondy The , MONDAY FEB. 19, 1940. it % o FRENCH MEAN BUSINESS—A special handling de- vice is needed to swing this heavy 280mm shell into position so it can whistle toward the Nazi lines from a French howitzer com« pany at western front. (A.P.-Paramount News Photo.) FIGHT GAME 15 EASY ONE, {Boxing Racket Is Discussed { by One Who Lives 0ff Scrappers By DILLON GRAHAM Sperts Editor, AP Feature Nflrvi('(" NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—I am toy- | |ing with the idea of entering the | boxing racket. On the safe side. | That is. as a fnanager. I never was any great shakes with my duk Money has always fascinated me. And Lew Diamond, the honest | brakeman, tells me the softest mon- | ey in the world is in boxing. A| sweet and simple profession | “Say,” said Lew, pushing a pudgy | forefinger dangerously near my schnozzle, “can you tell me any |other bizness in which a guy can go with empty hands and make| I maybe two hunert gees in a year?” Lew had me there Fighters All You Need “All' you mneed,” explained Lew. letting me on the secret in a very confidential manner, “is a fighter.” | __ 4 “Just find yo-self a fighter,” he said. “If he stands up you got|Sighed happily, someone to support you for years, (racket.” : It he goes down, whot have you| Goodbye, folks, I'm off for Still- lest? Nothing but yo' time and |man’s gym Maybe there’s a good that ain’t worth much. You Jmii\'fi‘“"‘é scrapper on the loose. T gotta — “this is a great get yo'self another fighter.” ‘um some of this easy dough. Mr. Diamond is a large person T In the neighborhood of 250 pounds. His weight is distributed in the places where it shows off most. “I guess,” Lew estimated, rapidly _scanning his quarter-century in the profession, “I've gone through two| |or three hunert tousand” He is | ivery happy that he forsook the|| | drab, routine business of railroad| | | braking. “I wouldn't have lived off! {the fat of the land from braking,”| LABORER-TRUCK DRIVER — he philosophized. Plenty of Battlers logging woods, driven logging trucks, | Lew has had a flock of fighters.| cut logs. Experienced as mechanic's {And one champion, Johnny Buff,| helper and doing odd jobs in a the flyweight and bantamweight | garage Can drive Caterpillar trac- king of 20 years ago. At the mot- | tors. Call for ES 52. ment he is taking his case and fid- B is Baltimore. But he is handling the Billy Conn-Gus Lesnevich light heavyweight championship go in | but realizing my inexperience, “does- Although good skating called many \n't a manager have to know some- c<kiers to Auk Lake yesterday, over thing about the finer points of the|forty of the skiing tribe found their very ‘good laugher. One of those|ed between the upper section of the | fellows who shakes all over and rum- | Crookes Trail and the Douglas Ski | blec Cabin, | will teach your kid for a few bucks cabin with four inches of crisp dry |a day? snow on an unbreakable crust. The © “All a manager’s got to do is be snow that had fallen during the past |around and mingle with the other of the Douglas Trail a bit more | managers. your kid do the work.” | HELP AN ALASKAN Telephcne 713 or write The Alaska Territorial Employment Service dling around in the promoting end - - 4 Skating Vies with Miami February 28. ‘;pu:..{)lislic art?” way above timberline on Douglas | “Course not,” he said. “ain't the The best skiing of the year was i of the business. His regular stand| Skiing Yesterday “But,” T asked, sorely tempted "n* es er a Ha, ha,” laughed Lew. He is a|Island. The group was equally divid- | gymnasium full of old fighters who |found in the bowl above the ski ismooth and not get gypped. Get two weeks made the upper section Gosh,"” he!sary to run with caution. ALL WELL AN' GOOD, GAL--- BUT I STILL THINKS I SHOULDA " By CLIFF STERRETT PRE-SEASON WARMUP—_His millions won't interfere with his baseball, William Hayes (above), 22, of Rochester, N. H., has decided. He wants to “umpire” in the Canadian-American league; he worked in Piedmont league last year. | Single, age 23. Has worked in the' Line up fights and let | navigable, although it is still neces- 8 War Interests Shifts From Country to Country BRITISH FUEL FOR FURY_Into a Royal Air Forca plane at a “fighter station somewhere in England,” Britons feed a necklace of bullets to be used in the machine guns, of which there are eight in this type R.A.F. plane. ¥ Oregon Sfafe Beats Oregon On Safurday Southern California Trims California, UCLA De- feats Stanford (By Ascociated Press) In a crucial game played Ilast Sotnrday night in the Northern Division of the Coast Basketball Conterence, Oregon State defeat- ed Oregon by a score of 33 to 27 ‘The game was a thriller from start | to finish. Idaho trimmed the University of Washington Saturday night by a score of 40 to 31. | Standings cf Won Oregon State n Oregon 7 Wash. State Washington Idaho Clubs Lost 2 4 5 8 11 Pct. .846 636 6 545 4 333 2 154 SOUTHERN DIVISION In the Southern Division, last Saturday night, Southern Califor- nia defeated California 49 to 33. UCLA. turned the tables on Stanford for the trimming in the game on Friday night and won out Saturday night by a score of 42 to 37. Standing of Clubs Won Lost Pet. 875 500 3% 250 4 3 5 2 6 | PETERSBURG So. California Stanford | California . UCLA. ’ . FROM BEARS Woman's Club Wil ‘ ~ Give Card Part VIkIngS Defeat Juneau 10 Reservations are now open for mye . . Juneau Woman's Club card party Re'aln cfown wl'h Thursday afternoon at the home of T h S Mrs. Ray G. Day, and may be made i by calling Mrs. C. C. Rulaford or op eavy core |Mrs. W. B. Heisel, hostesses for the o | occasion. b PETERSBURG, Alaska, Feb. 19— This is a public affair and all Petersburg, Sautrday night, whipped | proceeds are to go towards the Juneau High School handily, 41-27 building fund of the club. Dessert to put away the Southeast Alaska will be served at 1:30 o'clock and the Basketball Championship crown for remainder of the afternoon will be another year. spent in cards. The Vikings' defense stopped Ju- = - neau's fast breaking play almost cold and the Petersburg passing end ball handling raised havoc with the Juneau defense, working the ball in repe dly for clear short shots, especially in the first half. Pederson, Viking man, high point- er for the evening with 14 markers, played a superb game of ball hand- ling. The game was wide-open, with Petersburg definitely showing su- perior class. Halftime score was 27-13 for Pet- ersburg and Juneau High was ap- parently never able to get started. For Petersburg scoring was as follows: Wanberg 9, Pederson 14, Johnson 6, Thompson 4, Nicholson For Juneau: McDaniel 10, Reischl 5, Hussey 4, Jones 3, Pow- ers,3, Rice 1, Hickey 1 | IS ON THE JOB At night, the whole fam- Stocx QUOTATIONS | :’;;;’mm PP o0 | PIRE is an indispensable L7 L |} part of Juneau life — it amuses, educates, in- forms, it's the best value in the world! Become a subscriber, phone 374. 19. — Closing | Juneau mine | NEW YORK. Feb quotation of Alaska American Can | stock today is 6 115%, Anaconda 29, Bethlehem | Steel 78, Commonwealth and South- ‘ Curtiss Wright 10%. Gen- | ern 1% | eral Motors 53, International Har-| a y vester 56%. Kennecott 36%. New York Central 16%, Northern Pacifi ! l Empire 8% United States Steel 58, Pound | $3.94%. AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow. Jones averages: Industrials 148.46, rails 30.90, utilities 24.96. DOW. JONE