The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 4, 1940, Page 5

FIRST CITY CHALLENGES LOCAL ELKS Telegraphic_ Wire Tourna- ment o Be Run Off on Bowling Alleys one 5-man team of best men bowlers and one 5- man team of the best women lers will roll a telegraph match this weekend with the Ketchikan Elk it was announced today by bowling committeeman Bob Duck- worth Duckworth said he had received a query from the First City keg- ler a tournament and Juneau ted the challenge with proposal the match be begun nighit and roll three games 1 ks bowlers ke has the Friday 2 night for five consecutive nigh answer had been eceived Ketchikan early this after- and further arra: ments reply from the First City. Duckwerth also announced to- day th the singles, no-handican t t here will not be rolled FLIES T0 SITKA No from nocn await Canadian Money ' Exchange Opens } Again in Juneau It was announced today by G. E. Cleveland, Vice-President of B. M iB(‘hl‘nds Bank that Juneau banks will again accept Camadian | change. i A few days ago, in response to telegraphic advices from the Bank | of Montreal that exchange of Can- adian money from other nations would no longer be permitted, U. S. banks, incuding Alaskan banks, ceased accepting Canadian mone having no outlet for their accept- ance. On advice that Seattle banks are still accepting Canadian funds, ap- parently having arranged outlet for it, local banks today resumed ac- ceptance of Canadian money with cheoks and currency discounting 20 percent and silver 22 percent This arrangement will be in force unless further drastic regulations are announced in respect to ex- change, bankers said - Publii Dance on Saturday Night at Elks Ballroom ex- | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1940. SPECIAL SALE Ddily Crossword Puzsle FAST GAMES AREPLAYED P.(.LEAGUE 9. First man 8. Nothing Distribute . Daring . Entrance . Prong Chief actor . Short letter Town in Penn= sylvania ACROSS Solution to Yesterday's Puzzle . Outbuilding . Type of piano Large tubs Priestly tribe of lsrael 5. Half diameters . Prepare for publication . Uncles: Scotch Precious stones . Feminine name . Disavow . Maker of earthen vessels . Outer covering 25. Bill of fare American red cedars Resonance Kind of resin . Divisions of . Maxim . Fed to the full . Old-womanish . Fundamental Frighten . Aromatic prin= ciple of violet root . Periodic mo- tions of the sea Ferment used in baking . Dangor signal . Accessorles of automobiles 1San Diego Ke:ps Atop with No Defeats-Seattle 5 Loses Again [ (By Associated Press) Paced by Jimmy Collins, who blasted out two home runs, Los An- |geles made it two in a row over | Portland last night | San Diego remained at the head of the Pacific Coast League, un- defeated so.far, defeating Hollywood last night by pounding two of the Star’s best hurlers. Loses Shutout Sacramento won the second straight game frem Seattle last night, the third in a row. Norbert Kleinke tamed Seattle with four hits i but lost a shutout game in the ninth 'inning when Niemlec singled, Vanni deubled and Kelleher grounded out Uit scored Niemiec. Oakland went on a seven run spree in the seventh inning last night to win its second consecutive game from San Francisco. pla . American lake & | Kind of legume . Type of auto- mobile stiffly proper talian coin Soon . Rounded roof . Metal forms used in . Furnishes a crew for 2. Odor . Location DOWN Vehicle on er: 46, Indefinite amount 47. Lament 50. Mentally unsound 54. Short for a wild animal 85. Wear away 7. Circuit cotirt tree . Stone writing tablet . Compound of =odium Ardor Edible tuber Geometrical solids Second smal- lest state of the Union Most_crippled Division of a school year New IMPORTANT SAVINGS ON QUALITY LUGGAGE IN A SPECIAL SALE—FRIDAY and SATURDAY. Light weight . sturdily constructed aeroplane luggage. Leather- bound, beautiful fittings, new patterns . . . Each case with 1.95 OVERNIGHT CASES- - 5.95 8.95 WARDROBE CASES - - 6.95 16.95 FORTNIGHTERS - ---12.9 16.95 GLADSTONES -.-....12.95 - 4.75 12.95 GLABSTONES --- - You'll appreciate these values. LUGGAGE FOR BOTH MEN and WOMEN . . . and NOW IS THE TIME to fill all your luggage needs at great savings. Aeroplane Luggage Save 2.00 to 4.00 on Each Pi ece o DAY 2 | A public dance will be held Sat- | urday evening at the Elks’ ballroom. | GAMES WEDNES Los Angeles 6; Portland OPEN UNTIL 6:00 P. M. WITH FAIRCHILD Sponsors are members of the Junior San Diego 6; Hollywood 4. Shell Simmons went out to Sitka 1y with H. B. Irwin, a passen- in the Fairchild for Hirst. Yesterday evening, Simmons brought in William McNabb from Dr. T. J. Pyle from Tena- nd Father Amatoff from Hoo- Trinity Guild The affair is to be informal and music will start at 10:30 o’clock. Klondy Dufresne and her orchestra will play for the occasion Tickets are on sale by members of the guild and a large crowd is | expected | i Il l IC Alaska Eleetrie Light & Power Co. PHONE 616 BiG6.2CU. FT. G-¥ AT AMAZING PRICE $120.00 OUR MODERN PRINTING PLANT IS EFFICIENT! The Empire Job Plant contains all the necessary mechanical equipment needed to turn out good printed mat- ter rapidly! And this equipment is 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 | Sacramento 6; Seattle 1. Oakland 7; San Francisco 2. STANDING OF THE CLUBS Pacific Coast League Won - Lost 0 Pct. San Diego Oakland Sacramento Los Angeles Seattle Hollywood Portland San Francisco R. GALAO HIfS 250 MARK WITH BRUNWICKERS R. Galao s-acted off his evening of bowling for the Barber Shop Trio at the Brunswick last night with a tally of 250 pins, ending up with a grand total of 612 for the best score of the night as his team defeated Brunswick Cafe four points. Tonighit's” games are’ Takus vs. Druggists and Signal Corps vs. Home Grocery. Scores last night are as follows: Barber Shop 208 161 151 162 250 173 609 496 550—1655 Brunswick Cafe 168 178 137— 483 139 129 145— 413 184 179 170— 533 491 486 4231429 214— 583 147— 460 189— 612 Mangalao Quinto R. Galao Totals | Mationg Roberts Sison Totals | ALABAMA T0 HAVE YOUNG BACKFIELD, UNIVERSITY, Ala., April 4. — If Alabama has a good backfield next year you can just about count on one as good or better the following >Iall. {termen, Jimmy Nelson and Paul| | Spencer, will be Juniors. _ | income. m7/4 ] EEN/da WE CAN EDUCATE OURSELVES INTO REAL PROSPERITY Editor’s Note: ninth of a ser which ANTHONY Commissioner of Education, | ‘rerritory of Alaska, discusses the latest report of the Educa- tional Policies Commission and Economic Well-Being in Ameri- E. KARNES By ANTHONY E. KARNES Extra schooling means a better Not many persons today |questicn that statement. If there is one doubting Thomas, however—one | person who says, “education is the bunk,”—let him look at these n—l | gures | An investigation by the American Youth Commission of 5,576 employed | youths, aged 16 to 24, in 1938, showed the following weekly wages in com- parison to amount of schooling com- pleted: Sixth grade, $8.75; eighth grade, $10.89; twelfth grade, $14.48; two or three years beyond high $18.74; college training, | school, $22.23. Ah, you say, tnat do2sn’t mean anything. How about family con- | nections, luck, money inherited, and Donald Eugene Gorseline in 1932 | EEA .2 %H. 7R N/AEREN/ <R /M ings in Selected Occupations in the | United States,” found that between 1920 and 1936, average annual earn- ings in medicine were $4,850; in law, 1 $4,730; in engineering, $4410; in | dentistry, $4,170; wurkkilled labor, $795; in farming, $580; and in farm labor, $485. Thinking in terms of total national income, he concluded that more people should go into the professions, that more should be shifted from unskilled labor and farming. We want to ecacate our boys and jeirls in such a manner as will re- sult in the largest average individual incomes. This in turn will mean a greater increased total income for the United States | It is a fallacy to believe that there is only a fixed amount of technical and professional work to be done. Each year we have tended to em- ploy larger and larger numbers and percentages of highly trained work- ers. | There is still a shortage of many I'types of goods and services which can be produced only by trained workers. | As long as engineers produce more on projects than unskilied laborers, the total income of the country is increased each time an unskilled | worker is trained to bccome an n-| | gineer. | What the public may not grasp {is that with more education a na- | tion produces a greater total amount, |of goods and services. Thus, al- (though some indiVidual earnings! Not a single one of the backfield so on which the college probably | come down, you have a great many candidates is a Senior. The two let- | had. 3 | more going up. This is a better way of redistrib- Most of | showed that three extra grades of uting income than many of those | the other candidates will be Soph- | schooling enabled John Doe to com- suggested by politicians. omores. | - e | | About 85,000,000 people in the| | United States attended the movies | ——| from common l:fi(ls [ That Hang On Creomulsion es prom; be- cause it goes right wthgmulmm to loosen laden mand $350 to $515 more income per year than his brother, Joseph Doe, who had quit school to go to work. Gorseline compared 185 pairs of blood brothers and took every sort of modifying factor into considera- tion Harold F. Clark, in “Life Earn- | classitieds brin ——.e— — The Revolutionary War states- jman, James Otis (1725-1783), was "killed by a stroke of lightning. For Want and For Sale Empire g results, ———— IT'S TIME TO CHANGE YOUR THINNED - 0UT LUBRICANTS! CONNORS MOTOR COMPANY | | | ' usual way—climbing the steps of the {stadium with a 40-pound weight on ! B. M. BEHRENDS C9. Quality Since 1887 e e —r——————— e e i) Boosting Shoe Workers’ Pay Wage-Hour Administrator Philip B. Fleming signs a minimum wage order which raises to 35 cents an hour the minimum pay of}G0,000 workegl in the shoe industry. Looking on in Fleming’s Washington omc_e is Msgr. Francis J. Haas, of Catholic University, chairman of the committee which investigated the industry and recommended the new minimum. FROMCHUGO PLUNGES 600 FEET There must be something about these basketball players from Chi- cago. Six of the last eight Notre Dame cage captains have been from | the Windy City. | BB Gl ! SPRING TRMNING 'Wife of Navy Lievf. Comdr. Is Killed in Fall at Honolulu his mhouldm:- : ” | HONOLULU, T. H., April 4—Mrs. The exercise is designed 10" gygney Bunting, wife of Navy Lieu- strengthen a knee from which the genant Commander Bunting, was cartilage was removed last fall. | yineq in a 600-foot fall down the face - o> '} L » o PITCHER BOUGHT 43 A oiam ety sl Shkos lu. BY SEATTLE CLUB “Frienc said she ‘' went a severe nervous 'of illness of her son. s L UNIVERSITY, Ala..April 4—Ray Reese, Alabama end, is taking his spring football training in an un- recently under- strain because SEATTLE, -April 4.—Pitcher John Pate, of the Detroit Club, hasbeen POLLY AND HER PALS DRAT TH' DAD-BURN PLAGLE -TOOK LUCK ! WAL, HERE GOES TH' OLD STANDBY --- 1 HATES T' INTERFERE By CLIFF STERRETT ME AN' KITTY UP HERE IS NEARLY HAFFE-DEAD FROM LAFFIN' AW' READY purchased by the Seattle Pacific | Stock QUOTATIONS i Coast League Club. NEW YORK, April 4. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock tcday is 6%, American Can 115%, American Power and Light 4%, Anaconda 30%, Bethlehem | Steel 81'i, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 10%, General Motors 55%, International Harvester 57 3/4, Kennecott 377, New York Central 17%, Northern ,Paclhc 8 3/4, United States Steel {617, Pound $3.57. AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 150.41, rails 3186, utilities 25.78 % -, The United States Coast Guard | maintains an academy for train- ing its officers at New Londen, |} Conn DOW, JO To DEAIH Empire regularly. 4 5 |SLEUTHING ON " HOLLYWOOD IS - NOW REVEALED (Continued trom Page One) tret, in fact, the matter was not even written into the subcom- mittee's records. With secret ses- sions like that, you can’t pull a | public report out of a member with ;a pair of dentist's pliers. But the picture of an austere sub-committee of the House, scanning the items ! concerning the conjectured romance of lovely Greta Garbo and the col- orful baton-waver of symphony or- | chestras, was a little too good for | someone to keep to himself. |WE ALL LAUGH Aubrey Williams, National Youth Administrator, was called before the | committee earlier in the week, but whether this had anything to do | with investigation in the romance matter couldn’t be determined. One reliable source whispered that Mr. Williams was asked only about the |extent of funds expended on the | goodwill musical junket | After thal the clerk was sent ob | his secret mission Lo the Congres- | sional library and on a Saturday {morning the committee went into | the romantic articles. Nothing came of could. We can almost see the bewilder- ment of the committee when they finally came to that inevitable full stop which Garbo always supplies: “Ah, Mr. 8Stok-kov-v-v-sky. We are just good friends.” If Garbo's film press agents want a new line, they might sa; Gar- bo laughs—Stokowski, too—and the rest of us. it. Nothing -oo For today 1ews today read The IS ON THE JOB At night, the whole fam- ily enjoys THE EMPIRE'S many featuers. THE EM- PIRE is an indispensable forms, it's the best value in the world! Become a subscriber, phone 374. Daily Alaska Empire ! ;