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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1940. YANKS ARE CHAMPS BECAUSETHEY DON'TTHINKSO | By GRAHAM | Bill Dickey—hdven't allowed those again this year,” he said | & | i Sports Editor lavish loads of praise to go totheir| These Yanks know they are INDIANA u 4 AP Feature Service heads. good. They figure they can beat i R Marse Joe McCarthy, the portly |any team in baseball. But they | ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 25, | bilot who is sending the New York-|don't subscribe to such high rat- | The s are great because|CrS through their practice p ing as some of their admirers have IN | the let themselves _think | 9OWn here in sunny St. Pete, fig- n them, | | o 3 ures that's one prime reason the| They believe that they must i Penie y to take_ | Yanks are liable to win their fifth el at top speed all season to “ and believe. And fans and experts | SUaight American League pennant| win. Boston and Cleveland are get- | | have called the current Yaa- | tPis summer. | ting tougher all the time. And ti [ GOSH,WHAT A LOT OF FOLKS S ALASKA'S BIGGEST PAYMASTER, the Canned Salmon Industry gives employment to mere than 11,000 Alaska workers and fishermen. During the fishing season Salmon canneries alone give jobs to more Alaskans than any other industry. As Alaska’s biggest local customer, the Industry spends SONNY, MORE THAN 11,000 ALASKANS DRAW THEIR PAY FROM OL' MAN CANNED SALMON! ki ! TE and other Alaska products. . . meet their payrolls. As Alaska’s biggest taxpa, government officials. 1S SUPPORTED WHOLLY OR BY THE MONEY | FETCH HOME TO THE RRITORY ! . helping other industries yer, the Industry helps provide the salaries for Alaska’s school teachers and So, fisherman or merchant, cannery warker or doctor, . finest baseball team ever “Individually and collectively,| Yanks know it will require their over $10,000,000 annually—purchasing coal, lumber, wire ou share i i kK ing i b , VU, S , ) in sperit; s i. | the players do not believe these | best collective efforts to whip them | P! ¥ i the RAMpErIy of Alukaslendmg mdu“ry But these Yanks—from Sopho-|glowing compliments,” said Mc- McCarthy Confident ;De'ea' Duquesne Cagers‘ more Charles Keller to Veteran|Carthy as he leaned against the| yecarthy confidently believes | where his athletes were tossing the chapy ) e : ] . . ,seconds before the final gun to " H. Iffert 188 172 189— 549 been compelled to train a maid of ampionship next October. But { ball arotnd. |ne won't predict that. Marse Joe Kansas Unlvel’Slfy |give the Kansas University a 43| A. Burke 172 159 150— 400 | all ‘work, as his laboratory assist- ) 20% They Still Hustle plays 'em too close to his vest to [to 42 victory over Southern Cali- Holmquist 166 179 193— 538’ ant. This wemah was highly intel- “They are hustling as hard as make such a spring forecast. fornia in the finals of the West-| ‘I‘o VIE wn'H E. Radde 178 193 169 560 ligent,and became a_great aid to, Canadian Dscount ever. There's not the slightest sign| The 1939 champions and the INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 25. ern NCAA playoffs last Saturday | i3 i o~ .| Branly but she t0o, had to supple- of the overconfidence that has powerful, colorful 1927 outfit under —Indiana Um‘fmw- runnerup in pight. | Totals 888 896 888—2672 ment her' laboratory earnings by ’ B. M. Behrends Bank |wrecked many championship clubs| Miller Huggins are generally re- :“{'.Bl‘g Ee"' 1f\s" iaw'rd'r?y night, credit for the victory goes to . IR ‘domd h;usgwork i A Adv. First National Bank. [in the past. garded as the greatest of Yankee defeated Duquesne University bas- picparq Harp, guard, who domin- Brunswick | out of Houks. g “The chief ambition of every teams keteers by a score of 39 0 30 In 4.4 the floor play and held Ralph E. Galoa 162 155 179— 496| Yet the zeal of the sclentist sur- or i Ser % the final game of the Eastern Di- . " | George Brothers won three mux Rageda . 189 200 108— 557 vived these handicaps. In October, player is to win the World Series' procarthy answers the question Vaughn, ' outstanding Trojan for- : 8 s psinan e A it S g Ak ) gnef vision NCAA. F et 130 twe: bAMESEMTIRILS: bo madel B of four from Kaufmann's pioyd Hildinger 166 179 155— 500/ 1921, hé was asked what he felt of how those two clubs COMPAI®| ‘The Indiana . University earned. g it | Cafe keglers yesterday at the pen Managloa 197 146 163-- 608 when contemplating the wonders by remarking that no club ever!yn, yjgni to meet Kansas Univer- =~ i Brunswick alleys in the Major League | pay Galoa 148 118 144— 410! of ‘radio transmission of music and ALASKA won so many championships as h""sil,_y'_ champion of the Western Di- R tournament and cinched the right D BRI T A T between continents and he present outfit | vision, at Kansas City next Sat- | to meet the cafe keglers next Sun-| mgtalg 862 800 8092471 resporided: i ELECTBIC . “How the 1939 Yankees would urday night, March 30 [ ‘day for championship of the sea- Rainiers i Foresaw “Talkies” fare with the 1927 club is only con- — . - | ;50“- M. Ugrin 179 171 186 536 , “I feel nothing. I am seeking jecture,” he says. “It is just inter- | Immediately following rolling off | p Riendeau 159 151 146— 456 | something else. It is 9 -o'clock and ’ LIGHT and PowER Co. | esting conversation for the fanx.‘I H | |of the championship tilts between | pavenik 171 171 171—-*513| time- I was in the laboratory. Like arguments about how Joe| ro’ans ose i (HAMPS OF the first and second half winners, g Hennin 214 149 148— 511 Adieu.” JUNEAN and DOUGLAS SPECIAL Louis compares with Jack Demp- | five marksmanship medals will be | gtevenson 137 168 ¢168— 473| . His Vision was at.tinies, prophetic. sey or John L. Sullivan. The cur-| presented at the Elks alleys to the | In’ 1920 he .foresaw the modern " 7] rent Yankees have successfully | | high five best bowlers of the tour-| motals 860 810 819—14891 “tdlkies,” . predicting that movin, YOU May Now BuY The Besi Of All executed their assignments. That's Io Kansas u ) A | nament. __Average . score. ‘plcmxres would 'be shown with thg the most that could be expected of 4‘ y | Claude Carnegie of the Kauf-|zp spg voices. of actors and singers trans- WASHERS - {General &3 Hlectric At Nc Higher Price than Others NO WHITE OILING PORCELAIN GE GE ACTIVATOR GUARANTEE PUMP CAPACITY LONG-LIFE MOTOR RUBBER CASTERS ;Jnly” 7 > 4n s B $35.00.... Pay Weekly or Monthly on Balance. Alaska Electrie Light & Power Co. PHONE 616 WITH PUMP—66.95 them.” 3 It's pretty easy to guess, though, which club McCarthy would pick. And if his Yanks don't win an- other World Series next fall Big Joe will be the most surprised man in baseball. D ATTENTION MASONS There will be stated communica- tion Monday evening. Dinner at | 6:30. Past Master's night. Work in | the M. M. Degree. Refreshments. | J. W. LEIVERS, Secretary. ( | | |adv. ter rapidly! In Playoffs Southern California Just Nosed Qut by 43 | fo 42_5_(ore KANSAS CITY, Mo, March 25. —Howard Englemen, basketball player, never saw the stop sign OUR MODERN PRINTING PLANT IS EFFICIENT! The Empire Job Plant contains all the necessary mechanical equipment needed to turn out good printed mat- operated by men who are speedy and experienced, too. Be sure to see us when you need printed material of any kind . . . our prices are low, our work is good. Phone 374. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE Phone 374 and snaked in a basket just 16 And this equipment is Oklahoma Eskelballers Finally Win-Defeat . Denver Nuggets mighty Phillips 66 of Oklahoma, last Saturday night, won their 'first National AAU basketball title after years of trying, beating their arch foe, the defending champion, the Denver Nuggets, by a score of 39 to 36. e DENVER, Col., March25.— The| { mann squad rolled high tally y: terday with 575 pins. In the other Sunday contest of the Majors, Rainiers beat Bruns- wick three of four points, both teams finishing well out of the running Individual averages will be post- ‘TWO GAMES TONIGHT ON BRUNSWICK ALLEYS in the Commercial. Tourney, now jed this week for the tournament.|drawing near a close, Juneau Flor- Scores yesterday are as follows:|ists meet Barbers and Cosmopoli~ Today's news today in The Empire Metcalfe Kaufmann's tans roll against the Takus, Dr. Stewart ... 189 179 162— 530 C. C. Carnegle 215 177 183— 573 Koski 202 170 192— 5MDIS(°VERER or R. Kaufmann .. 193 174 160— 527 J. Hendricks ... 157 151 165— 473 WIRH_ESS DIES Totals 956 851 862—2669 ! George Brothers POINTING'S EXCUSABLE_Pardon Tom Yawkey if he points his wife's attention (above) to some antic of the Boston . Red Sox, because the 37-year-old financier has laid a lot of his ‘vast fortune-on the line to develop the Boston club into a pennant contender. Both he and Mrs. Yawkey are rabid fans. She’s, the for- mer Elise Sparrow of Birmingham, Ala. (Continuer Irom Page One) To reach that stage, however, he first proved that Instead of all bodies being either conductors or non-conductors of electricity, there was a third tivity was intermittent, the most widely known example being Gal- ena (sulphate of lead) which was the actuating substance in the “cat whisker” crystal sets of the early days of wireless. In the case of the metal filings within the tube, con- ductlvity is established by an ele¢- tric spark set off at a distance, the conductivity being lost instantly by & slight shock, regained by an- other spark, and so on. Lack of laboratory facilities and the need to practice medicine kept Branly from pursuing his re- searches continuously, but after 25 years of a spotty combination of careers, he went back to experi. | | mental physics, although he fre~ quently found himself balked by lack of material J Father Was Professor Brahly was born October 23, 1844, at Amiens, France, and christened Desire Eugene Edouard. His father was a proféssor at the Lyceum de St. Quentin and the son made a brilliant debut as a student at the At the, Brynswick alleys - tonight, | class whose conduc-, mittéd to 'the audiences by radio telephidnes. -1t opher. scientific fields too, he aecomplished much. His thesis for his medical degree was on estimat+ ing .the quantity:of hemoglobin in the 'blood - by optigal methods.. In bhiis he' embodies . results of his study 'of spectroscopy, then in .ts infancy. He was one of the first to apply the spectroscope to biological problems.and made several impor~ tant findings in that field. NEW YORK, March 25.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6%, American Can 114%, Anaconda 28%, Bethiehem Bteel 74%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 10'%, | General Motors 53%, International Harvester 55%, Kennecott 35, New York Central 15%, Northern Pa- cific 7%, Unlted States Steel 53, Pound '$3.68. | DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 146.25, "ralls 3004, utilities 24.09. } | e e e | Ecole Normale Superieur in Paris. He was given a post in the labora-! y CLIFF STERRETT tory of physics of the Sorbonne, - — o worked there three years and won /.//////’ !the degree of doctor of physics. j " | He left the Sorbonne for the In- stitut Catholique when the latter, promised to establish a laboratory for him. It was never developed to the point which Dr. Branly had expected and in 1930, after half a century of struggle, he wrote on its ‘door this grim jest: | “Physical laboratory; provisional | since 1875." | f Dr. Branly was not alone in be- | moaning this paucity of equipment. Newspapers of Paris in August, 11927, cited him as an example of the niggardly support given French' scientists and appealed for an im- provement in the condition, | They said then that Branly had worked for 50 years for not more ! than $75 a month, that he had 1S ON THE JOB At night, the whole fam- ily enjoys THE EMPIRE'S many featuers. THE EM- AW'RIGHT, RAPSCALLION, HERE'S YER NOTE FER BEIN' ABSENT FROM SCHOOL. YESTIDDY !