The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 10, 1940, Page 5

Don't Let thaf Goaf Fool You, M'liss Ihe Mull Is Navy Mascol; T i o (Asscriated Press Feature Service Writer) ANNAPOLIS, Oct. 8.—Navy's 1940 foctball wagon is hitched to Mel- issa’s rising s She's just a dog, a homely little schnauzer who looks like something veu'd find in a vacuum cleaner bag ifter a big week-end party. She's got charm though—the Navy gives her voodoo credit for licking the Army footbail team last year after a lean decade. M'Liss came up the hard way. Last year she strictly nobody, a mud- dy little mutt who was mascot for the scrub team. Bill VIII, the handsome Navy goat, was the var- sity mascot and stepped daintily arcund with his laundered pelt and gilded horns before big crowds. The scrub team pooch did her mascoting in virtual oblivion before a handful of relatives, ever-faithful sweethea: guys becauce the; But Bill attend “B” ‘re free. the goat nooody s bargain in the mascot profession ast year. Navy's varsity gridmen ndvanced in reverse all season. They were sunk under a five-game losing streak with the Army game coming up when Maj. E. E. (Swede) Larson in desperation reached down into squad games s s and the half dozen other | | seccnd string Mtllssa, w:u\ her woolen so ck, warms up a Vavv gridder. ranks for reinforce- ments. The graduates from the scrubs set up a holler for Melissa to grad- uate, too. They swore by their mutt. ‘Lhey told Coach Larson Bill VIII was only a fair weather pal. He just came out t M'liss was regular. She turned out fer practice rain or shine, dragging her lucky sweat sock. She was tough—she jumped 60 feet off the rocf of the gymnasium and lived to bark it—and Bill was just a pretty boy. Thus they argued They won their argument when they pointed out the scrubs hadn't lost a game with Melissa doing her stuff, while the varsity was getting set down igneminou: and repeat- edly on the back of its lap under Bill's wishy-washing hexing. The gold braid relented, and Mel- issa was allowed to make the trip to the Army-Navy game as Beauti- ful Bill's understudy. Bill minced out and took his bows with the Army | for the newsreel mule. Melissa just stuck to the boys on the bench. The varsity adopted the scrub feam ritual and every man | rubbed her ears for luck before go- ing out on the field. Sparked by a couple of Melissa’s ex-scrubs, they tore the Army apart for a 10-0 win, and Melissa just about owned the whole U. S. Navy. ) | Billy Gets Decision - Wire THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY OCT. 10, 1940. McCANN-KID BOUT FARCE OF JUDGING Says It Was Draw- Other Wire Says No GITKA, Alaska, Oct. 10.—(Spec-| ial to Empire)—The terrific battle here of Juneau's Billy McCann with Lou Lovos, The Sitka Kid, for the latter's middleweight boxing| crown, was decided by the judges |a draw last night, but referee Mc-| Guern misread the decisions and announced MecCann the winner from the ring | Referee McGuern is said to have | | decided the fight a draw, also, but‘ | still misread the decisions. | Sitka boxing commissioners Jack | Conway and William Charteris are| They gave her a Navy man's moest| expected to uphold the judges’ draw | cherished honor, a blue blanket with | decision. the gold N-star that denotes a vic- tory over Army. They issued Melissa her sweat sock | Russians when the squad got into uniforms licked the Kiksitis here in 1804. She’s on the job at every | 0 strut on Saturdays. | Practice, cocking a practiced eye on| Lovos with an aggressive attack,| beef out for the 1940 and although he landed mastly sol- this year. the fresh varsity. That's why things are looking up | with Melissa is|long reach to land lefts in Billy's for 1940 Navy football The fight, for the entire fifteen rounds, was the greatest since the| stormed the fort and| | | McCann carried the scrap toj id body blows, the Kid countered sharp uppercuts, using his| Mrs. Big on the academy campus. head and face. | The team got. its “lift” |ing they've got a Grade-A hexer in there pitching jinx at the other|)ooked like McCann would take the dens have had experience in cook| | 1and side. So don’t be fooled by Bill VIIT rounds the Kid launched a telling adds to our sure gttack, although backing away and booklet which | this fall. He'll be out there, from know- | The Kid was noticeably tired in the eighth and ninth round and it fight easily, but the next two enough, gleaming white and pretty | clinching often. as a sugar cookie. is Mighty Melissa, and sweetheart of this man’s navy when the footballs fly. ,———— CAHALANE COMING life Service naturalist, has com- But he's just a| front man. The gal behind the guns | s, put the bout appeared to be &' praise for the technical skill shown mascot-in-fact| qraw. Victor Cahalane, Fish and. Wild- pleted a fur survey on Kodiak Is- land with Wildlife Agent Benson and is scheduled to arrive |in Juneau October 18 on the steamer Denali. SN % ELKS PURPLE BUBBLE BALL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19. adv At Newport “Kmderganen” for the U. S. Navy While American shipyards are working at full capacity turning out warships of all types to give Uncle Sam a two-ocean navy and the reatest fleet in world history, four naval stations are busy lchoolmg {men to operate the men o' war. |These stations are at Newport, R. I; Norfolk, Va.; Great Lakes, I1l., and San D cgo, Calif. Oldest of them is the Nowport “naval kin- |dergarten,” wlere these photos |were made, | The stations, are not designed to give recruits complete training in \naval work. “fheir education is com- ‘plebed in nsval trade schools and 'while servifig with the fleet. In- \stead, the Aim is to train them in anal cusfoms and the rudimentary {fundamentals of naval work. Be- icause of the urgency of training Imen for the growing fleet, the course |has been shortened from twelve to leight weeks. There are now 2,087 recruits at ‘Newport, with the station graduat- ling an average of 280 men a week, an average which is being raised to 300 weekly. These men will serve six-year hitches in the navy. The qual of recruits, authorities re- port, is very | high, with a large per- oem.aze of tiem high school gradu- Upon arrival at Newport, a re- it is bathed and barbered, given m exacting physical enminnflan, ‘arbed in naval uniform, and the hammock in which he must urn sleep. After receiving a series of moculafionn against epidemic dis- v Top iect, apprentice seamen receive lesson in construction and opera- tion of a battleship. Top right, Chief Fire Controlman Clarence Trem- mel instructs class in ordnance. Lower, recruits step out in infantry drill. In background, éverage destroyers of type traded to Britain. eases, he begins his courses, which provide nearly 400 hours of instrue- tion. The recruit spends an aggre- gate of 24 hours “on watch” (on guard) and 70 hours at “messing” (feeding) his fellow-students. «The rest of his working hours are spent in lecture periods, instruction ses- sions and drilling. His lessons include naval routine, the rudiments of the infantry man- ual, ordnance safety precautions, how to shoot, how to use a gas mask, how to swim, how to row, thé use of ropes, rigging and tackle, and the general construction and operation gf bf:tfluhip: and other arms of the eef Life at the training station is not all work, however, and the recruits are entertained at free motion pie- ture ‘shows twice s week dnd at wrestling and boxing matches. They also enjoy the use of reading, writ- ing and game rooms, as/well asgym- nasiums, bowling alleys, baseball diamonds and the bathing bedch. After leaving the station he can enter one of the navy’s trade schools, if he survives the competi- tive examinations, and learn ‘more about the branch of the service in which he wants to specialize, Following graduatiof, he is given a short home leave, then begifts his hitch in the navy. He is assigned to the U. 8. frigate Constellation, old- est U, S. warship, which is stationed at Newport, pending assignment to the. floet"or. t.nde school, | | | | | | now McCann was stronger at the fin- At any rate there is much dis- sension in town. HAMLIN HEAR Dean Hamlin, Billy McCann's manager here who could not make| the Sitka trip, received a wire Jack from McCann today that McCann of the selling effectiveness of good had received the unanimous vote of the judges in his fayor, had won all the way, and had the Sitka Kid on the canvas at the last gong. DISSENSION HERE Sitka didn't have all the dissen-| sion. Juneau was turned upside down today in betting centers with | the question, "Who payfi who?” 'SALMON RECIPE ; BOOKLET MAKES GREAT BIG HIT — Nationally Known Home Economists Praise | Edition : new salmon recipe booklet| heing distributed by the Canned Salmon Industry as a part| of its naticnal advertising program | | The | is winning ®praise as an outstand- | | | | tising office of | wish' to compliment you on its con- | but ing booklet from nationally knownI home economists and from house-| wives in all sections of the coun- try, says a report from the adver-| the industry. Dorothy B. Marsh of Good House- | | keeping Institute, who jn'eparex'hc; recipes featured in Good House- | keeping magazine recently wrote to the salmon industry office, saying: | “We are delighted to have a copy| of your new salmon booklet, and| tents! Not only ‘the illustrations, the recipes themselves are bound to intrigue lovers of sal- mon.” | Ann " Batchelder, associate editor | of Ladies’ Home Journal wrote: “The new salmon recipe booklet certainly is tops—to my way cf| thinking! You have done a splen- did job and have my hearty con- gratulations.” Another letter received from the| director of the foods and equipment department of another nationally known publication, Better Homes and Gardens said: “You have rea- son indeed to be proud of the new ‘Carolyn Evans’ Favorite Recipes for Canned Salmon,’ It is unusually| well done and certainly will point out to the homemaker the great { burried in effigy | several months. Rcw.nd for Winner (HAMBER IM.KS POTATOES AND COLONIZATION Matanuska Toplc Proves Hot Pofato at To- day’s Meeting Alaska postatoes? ding to Frank in the world, | Ander: 1 Matanuska Col- How good are Not much good, ac Garnick: the bos accord'ng to J. P What about the cny? An expensive faiiure, ac- cerdn to Norman Banfield; worthwhile demonstration that teulture can uceessful in Al- aska, according to Joseph T. Flakne, Antheny E. Karnes and Dr. W. W.| Council ‘nces of at today’s merce luncheon after an Anchorage newspaper of affairs at the colony | | How Many? Only 56 percent of the original| |colonists are still at Palmer, Ban- | tieid said. If this is true, said| Harry A. Suggitt, who was attending | t a ag- were some of the differ- opinion which developed Juneau Chamber of Com- | Banficld read account | ) . Winnér of the P C. (& Chamber meeting for the first vace on the Potor i | time, the Matanuska Colony hus.‘ Washington, Dan Ar o |been much more successful than| reca A, the Notre Dame, from Marcy the average colonization venture| in keeping its criginal settlers, Sug- | the ‘:;;:‘,;';’r oér“;‘c‘(zl,,‘]“',)p":\ Loo AhS | gitt, representative of the Steelco| agnin in 1937; Stanley Steel Company, said that [from his long personal experience | | in colonization in the Western Smu-\' versatility of salmon. The photo-|and Alberta, he had found invar-| graphs are_excellent, |iably that it remained for those “We at Better Homes who came later to stay with the and Gar-!| and making, which | Flakne said the appreciation for thlsimw has been a reflécts great care gyound for agriculture in Alaska and predicted that in the future flving transports would be traveling on regular schedule all the way to the Eastern States with produce produce, which has been demon- strated to be superior to that grown arywhere else ‘n How Good? Anderscn, who is Alaska Census Supervisor, said the recent census shewad a population of from 800 to 900 the coleny He, said that| Alaska produce grown under cool| summer weather conditions are Iari uperior to that grown in the States. Garnick said that as a groceryman | he knew Alaska potatoes would not | sell as well as those from Yakima , probably the outstanding in Alaska, retorted -tha! the grower attempted to raise Gem potatces in Alaska | |they would indeed be poor, but that , N. Y., Oct. 10— ! if a variety suitable to the climate Katlierine Mayo, 72, whose 'book,, fs planted, the potat will be the ‘Méther India” caused her to |)n‘bf‘,~l grown anywhere. numerous times in For Army India, died today after an illness nf Dr. Council .mentioned the fact jthat large quanuurs of Matanuska book building valuable proving and planning.” The booklet has also high won in the printing and production of the book. One large paper com- pany recently asked that they be allowed to buy several hundred copies of the booklet for use as samples. These samples will be sent to leading business firms through- out. the country as demonstrations in lllustranons and layom. e~ ‘Authoress Passes On BEDFORD HILLS, Called “Sav10r of Britain Urglng hero of Great Britain's resistance to the Nazis in the air, Sir Hugh Caswell Tremenheere Dowding, boss of Britain’s air fighters, is shown, right, walking with King George in London. ‘‘Stuffy” Dowd(ng. as he is called by the pilots, flew with ‘the Royal Air Force during the World war. BRINGING UP FATHER | LOOK AT THAT BIG BROTHER OF MAGGIE HE’S LOOKIN® FOR SO PLACE TO LIE DOWN, | TOOK THE LOUNGE LOCKED IT UP — FER i i i (T T (e T mmmH\mnmn;n.nummmug}jdhm"{! [y it By GEORGE McMANUS Matanuksa Col-| f National Distillers Products -4 Corporation, N. Y. « 100 Proof Distributed by NATIONAL GROCERY COMPANY Seattle, Washington headed by Exalted Ruler Charles yroduce were being sold at present pU |'o the Army t at Anchorage, Pepae, g ven though most of the Palmer, ascistant Director of CAA in Al men were working in town and the | scca W, A, Plett, and Glen Hulen, farms were left to the women, | CAA Communications Director m Visitors to today's meeting in-| Alaska, came in from Sitka yester- |cluded Willard Gallemore, mine| | day evening with pilot Shell Sim- foreman of the HirsL-Chklm;zofmmm after an inspection trip there mine; Clyde Doran of United Air-|to a communications station the lines; Jack King of Petersburg and Navy is building and which the CAA a delegation of Ketchikan Elks, will probably take over. Women In The News. .. Often Do Odd Jobs By The AP Feature Service Ma n Baldwin, young ‘ American, is assistant to Ga- briel Pascal, British movie producer. Production is handi- capped at present because air raid alarms drown out love scenes. Ruby Mercer, ex-opera sing- er, tames lions and tigers. She always loved animals and when Frank Buck opened his animal trainers school for girls she was the first appli- cant, now works at his World's Fair show. Mrs. Carol Harris, of Kansas City, a professional picket, started walking in front of a - jewelry store nearly two years Dorothy Thomas !aotles the ago. She's trudged more than soln oboe for the 65 -piece 2500 miles, reads four books hitago Women's Symphony and several magazines a week, Ordlestra. has lost 50 pounds. GLACIER HIGHWAY DELIVERY DAILY TRIPS COAL——WO0O0D LUMBER—GROCERIES @ PHONE 374 "SHORTY" WHITFIELD