The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 28, 1940, Page 5

I I (iOSeGain;; rrli)iivri'nity‘Studeilts Who Get Yeér in Draft Case Bringing Up.? | Forty Contests Ending 7-6 0ld Argument Show Need for Kick Specialists By SAM JACKSON AP Feature Service Writer SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 28.—The mber of games this season won by a single point has stirred some discussion here as to whether the success of the conversion kick after a touchdown really decides which is the better team ‘It often. gives a decidedly in- ferior team the victory,” says one side. “Nonsense, the score tells the' story,” says the other. The outstanding example of 1940 doubtless is the Minnesota-Michi- gan game. The Gophers beat their great rivals and at the same tim by all the dope, insured their B Nine championship—and all one point on Joe Mernik's place- ment Tioney on Foot The combination of money and slory depending on a single con- version is best illustrated by the Stanford-Santa Clara game Stanford i andidate for the Rrse Bowl a; ent, worth about ~100.090 to es competing school Santa Clara was prominently men- tioned for the Cotton Bowl, whici pays a smaller but very tidy sum. It the hardest struggle to date either team, and when the final gun sounded the teams were all even—except that Stan- ford’s Frankie Albert had kicked an extra point. More than two-score rnough importance to have their cores carried on the press wires have lost 7-to-6 decisions., Among them are Harvard, Maine, Rut- Wisconsin, Drake, cut and Vanderbilt, Philosophic about the matter is Norman “Red” Strader, St. Mary's new coach, who had an agreeabie season rudely interrupted when Dugquesne clipped the Gaels 7 to 6. for colleges of Connecti- “It's Still OK” “I know a lot of people against the extra point,” he “but I think it's all right. “Eliminate the kick after touch- down and it would be only a ques- are says, tion of time until place kicking would be eliminated too. And I think the field goal is a colorful event that the game needs. I say let the score tell the story.” Srader admits that a boy who has lost a game by failing to put his place kick over the bar prob- ably f “pretty blue inside. “But we forget him as an indi- Four of the six daughters of Mrs. Dorothy Boyd, New York mother missing since Oct. 10 when' she departed from her home to go “shopping,” offer prayers for the safe return of Mrs. Boyd as they BY GOLLY~- THIS GITTIN' LUP AT | . SEVEN IN THE MORNING IS A 4 \1/ LOT OF BUNK -THERE ISN'T A —;L 4N Here Theological seminary who refused to register for the s sente: | Children Pray for Return of Mother Lofig Missing BRINGING UP FATHER escaped serving in the army if they registered, each refused to do so despite the offer of a suspended sentence if they registered. The students are pic- tured in & patrol wagon after their sentence in are the eight divinity students of Union elective military service and who have been nced to prison for a year and a day because of it. Although the students probably would have federal court in New York. vidual” he says. “Everybody fails lows: | on different plays. It's -just the Poppies “AFl WIll team that's lost-—not the boy.™ Mrs. Halvorsen 147 92 137— 376 For ¢ ¥ h trouble with Amelia 102 143 131— 386 conversions Strader potats out a R R R rule not often pul into practice Totals 249 235 268— 762 w RK F R When, er a touchdown, the bad Lillies is placed on the two-yard line, the Mrs. G. Paloza 108 109 105— 322 team has the option of trying for Mrs. G. Smith 114 126 106— 346 passing it over the goal line | Totals 232 211— 668 - Juneau Laundry bt S. Taqushi 152 156 200— 508 H POOR ENDINGS % Womsasa 1o 13 10— . Convention Adopts Reso- D. Mationg 143 179 176— 498 Iufion Reaffirming COI‘ FGR H!GH MEN Totals 461 474 5451480 1 int e lective Bargaining Spoll S(ORES E. Hagerup 156 155 176— 487 Yolhiol R. Stevenson .. 201 203 757— 561, NEW ORLEANS, La. Nov. 28.— ST Al Ellenberg 166 170 149— 485 The American Federation of Labor Mo LA AL has reaffirmed labor's right to col- Lajoie, Juneau Florist kegler, motals 523 528 4821533 lective bargaining and laid down had an unfortunate last game -t s three principles to be observed un- the Brunswick alleys last night and Juneau Florists der wartime conditions, marked 143 after a 207 and a 229 j Holm 192 The convention adopted the res- score, finishing up with 579, best B Lajoie 207 olution committee report which fa- total of the night. C. C. Carnegie 211 vors in war, universal obligation to Roger Stevenson, bowling for tho o _[service for defense, industrial or Alaska Laundry, had the same Totals 610 543 453—1621 milit under democratic condi- of a night, starting out with The Royals tions, and draft boards, labor 203, and ending with a 157 to give A Bradley 169 168 186 503 representation on all policy making him a 561 total. J. Aquino 150 167 180 497 and administration agencies, maia- Florists won t! oints of four| G. Mura 155 120 161— 445 1ce of labor standards, angd from Royals, and a Laundry £ a . measures for social welfare. won three of four from the Juneau| Totals 44 454 1465 | a5 essential to efficient production Laundr > as well as national morale In the women's kegling, Poppies e e won points from the Lillies, PUBLIC CARD PARTY Tonight's games are, Golden Age Juneau Ladies Auxiliary, Union! D 2 vs. Islanders and Juneau Florists Hall, Thurs., Nov. 28, 8 p.m. Bridge. f. Wh"e 10 Show vs. George Brothers. whist, pinochle, prizes, refresn- J 4 Scores last night were as fol- ments. Admission 50c. ady. Pi Banow Mowes At Dinner Party Dr. Langdon White will show movies of Point Barrow and other northern points visited on his re- cent trip through the Territory fol- lowing a 7 o'clock dinner party ai nue this evening. Those asked for the occasion are Dr. and Mrs. Courtney Smith, Dr. and Mrs. L. W. Brown, Mr. and Mrs, Earl Mc- Ginty and Mr. John Pohland. Mesdames Leivers And Williams Have - Bridge Luncheon Mrs J. A. Wiliams and Mrs, J. W. Leivers were luncheon hostesses yesterday afternoon at the Leivers | home on Distin Avenue. Four tables !or bridge were in play with high | well. Mrs. O. S. Sullivan was sec- | ond and Mrs. George Folta, low. ——ee—— LICENSED TO WED David W. Ellis, taxi operator, and Isabelle Nixon, obtained a marri- | age license at Ketchikan recently. | Paul Bader and Irene Jones also | secured a marriage license. - - - Empire C'-ssifieds Pay! | | | | i o sit down to lunch. Roberta Boyd, 18, the eldest child, was to have been married soon, but now she has to stay home to take care of her younger sis- ters. The father, Robert Boyd, is unemployed. SOUL ON THE STREET —YOU COULD HEAR A PIN DROP — B ! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, NOV. 28, 1940. the White home on Gold Belt Ave- | { honors going to Mrs. Everett No-| ARUT'S THE DEA A B e RN ST IS Y ICE TOGET WORK — FIRE RAZES (Bombsight BOATHOUSE Described - ONHIGHWAY By Visitor IFrame DweTli-n_g Also Con- | Nothing Like It Outside U. sumed in Spectacular | | S., Says Lieutenant | Blaze Last Night | on Amphibian ' (Conunuea irom rage One) fUuntinuea rrom rave Oned Residents nearby said “most of |512€ of a cigar box, which has \f‘lm}; the things in the Gibsen house weroi b ‘l‘(‘ gears, wheels and ’“”“i* hsi ““ g moved out,” and the large skiff in|Make all necessary calculations for [ { | | | | Herlin's boatshed was also retrieved | Pallistics of the bomb, movement of | | | i i before it was damaged by the|-h€ target, wind direction, drift, | flames peed of plane and other factors| Yoss Covered iffecting accuracy and then nu:o-‘ Z h . | matically releases the bomb at the ‘antol?(E builder Thompson, who lives proper moment, | With a new device installed in| bombing planes, the bombsight ac- ually pilots the airplane, so the| ‘ntire operation becomes mechani- | cal. All the pilot has to do, after | the device is put in operation, is it and look at the scenery. Lieut. Menson said Great Precautions The sight is one thing of which | he was 'building a 42 foot halibut vessel for from his boathouse, said | Kirchoffer and had it about two| {ifths completed. He figured the loss in the partly completed boat and materials at $1,200, “partly cov- ered” by insurance Thompson's loss in other mater- ials, tools, machinery, and the boat- | luf:;r:o '}‘"": d“m“'“‘"l 0 "about |,y Army takes very gocd care, he | Gibson first noticed the fire just | '8id: When not in actual use, the | - "";‘_m.‘ R e 'I‘lmmp-“"mm is kept in a concrete room, outHeiRY abd | shouted tha| 0 Whiah there /ate o)y Apoukers i e o g *10ne is kept In the safe and the e A | other held by the officer on duty = 2 a5 A canvas cover remains cver the| ”:‘““l’:“,"*”"‘ l“”:’ l’:‘,(;:“:' lf:“(‘\'v”h\\l(‘ sight when it is moved from the e e o "blast | Jlorage rcom to the plane. Those i > S 1| *hosen to work with the sight are of flame struck him in the face and | subject to pafnstaking sorutiny by ¢ was no chance 0| yo " pederal Bureau of Investiza- Jon, which Lieutenant Monson says *hecks back cn every friend, teach- 'r and acquaintance as far back | as grade school Lieut. Mon opinion of the bembsight, which he admits was de- | elcped by the Navy and turned over | to the Army: ! “I must it'’s a damn good gad- zet.” bt rave anything The Juneau Fire Department was ~alled out and water was pumped | from a makeshift dam in a small| stream at the Bethel Beach home.| When firemen arrived, the Gib- son dwelling was a m: of flame. | and firemen, with the aid of bucket | ond garden hose volunteers, played water on the house to keep the fire down, and soakad roofs of nea by houses to prevent the fire's spread Wind Showers Embers A stiff wind was showering em- bers over a wide area early in the blaze, but fortunately abated. Resi-| dents of, the well popilated Norway | Point area said the “whole works” | would have gone up if firemen had NEWS not come out from Juneau and the | e wind had not abated. ! PICTURES OF T.B. o L A R Bl i SHOWN AT SCHOOL determined, bu hompson said i Miiss Oyghrd > Brblic Bealth: ties ] appixghily, sterted in. fhe bay.end | for Douglas, showed a series of mo- of his boathouse near the s!eammg; tion pictures at school this morn- of the amphibian flight, also attend- ed today's meeting | e e—— bos. alihough an_inspection early | iy conjunction with the Terri. e Sm:{,““"\ ¥ torial Department of Health's pre- So fierce was the blaze (hat a|Svam of education for the public. | {elephone pole scme hundred or| Subject of the pictures shown was | more febt away from the fire caught | the “discovery of tuberculosis,” and | flame, and a U. B. Signal Cmps‘o“" of importance at the present cable was broken by the heat of the | {ime. particularly when the annual fire sale of Christmas Seals for raising Junéau firemen did not return|funds to combat the disease is now to the fire hall here until around In Progress here the = - e — | | BASKETBALL PRACTICE GAMEi | ~Tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock, Douglas High School ba.sketballi players will engage a team com-| | pcsed of local alumni men for al | practice game to be played at the! inal.awxlum. it was announced thisl { morning. | | midnight when “all out” nal was sig: Empire Classifieds Pay! On Trial in Rome? - ;DONATIONS MADE BY KINDERGARTEN PARENTS Farents of Douglas kindergarten children were successful in their recent fund-raising campaign to | provide equipment for the new de- | parument in the Douglas public school here to the extent of $88, according to a statement of the BO4ra Luls MoINing. As o0 coveied :the equipment necessary at this | time, the balance of $38 was there- | fore turned over to apply on the | down payment of the new piano for | the school. ! e — RECORDS DONATED | The Schuol Board expressed ap- jprecin!.ion this morning for the dn-; W‘natlon ot three fine records to the! | |school made by Mrs. Charles Sestge: Bhrit | Schramm. One of the records was | r'his is George Ehret, son of Louis |a transcription by John McCormick | | Ehret, of New York, member of a |of “The Holy Child’ and “Just For | | prominent brewing family. Mr. |Today” and the others were of | Ehret says his son has been in Ital¥ | 000" equal prominence. | for two years studying voice and | 5 *hat he has not heard from hira for 3 some time. In Rome, a George CARD PARTY Ehret, American, is accused of vio- | IS GREAT SUCCESS ating currency exchange laws, with | s ihe prosecutor asking that he be im- l prisoned for ten years. F.O.E. A large turnout of card players greeted Douglas Eagles and their By GEORGE McMANUS YER LUCKY-THE OWNER OF TH' BUILDIN’ DIDN'T GIVE ME_AN OFFICE TOPUT THIS RUBBISH | PVE GOT _TO SIT HERE AN’ WAIT EOR THE RUB%ISH ALL THE TH BUILD- Lieut. L. J. Gephart, in command were in play. Erwin Hachmeister won first prize: Mrs. n”l]GLAS | Fleek received the consolations. |and Al Lund C advantages in SCHENLEY'S Light Whiskies L THE RIGHT FLAVOR of rich, mellow whiskies. 2. THE RIGHT LIGHTNESS — achieved by Schenley’s exclusive method of blending 3. THE RIGHT STRENGTH —mild, yet full 90 proof. ~#4. THE RIGHT VALLU Schenley’s Black Label 65% grain neutral spirita Schenley’s Red Label 7214% grain neutral spirits At your favorite package store. Both Blended Whiskey Copr. 1939, Se ley Distillers Corp.. New York Caty with and J. Balog and Tom Jensen high scores, Margaret Pearce Chris Kohler, the lows. Auxiliary last night for the second in a series of three card parties that were arranged for the fajl season here. Approximately 75 per- Refreshments were enjoyed after | sons were present and 16 tables the prize awards. Third and last i 5 ; ® event of the series will be held next month. For whist Mrs, Alex Kiloh and DOUGLAS (OLISEUM | ay—Friday NO KID” Mable Sturrock and George At bridge Mrs. Henry Langfeldt | | om held high scores, l | Mr Agnes Tucker and Gordon the lows. Pinochle winners were Mrs. A.' Defense Chiefs in Vancouver Col. 0. M. Bigger (left) and Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New York, Canadian and United States chairmen respectively of the internation: defense board, arrive at City Hall in Vancouver, B. C., for a conference on West Coast defenses. Greeting them is Dr. H. L. Keenleyside (back $ to camera), Canadian secretary of the board GLACIER HIGHWAY DELIVERY -DAILY TRIPS ' COAL——WOOD LUMBER—GROCERIES ® PHONE 374 “SHORTY" WHITFIELD