The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 7, 1941, Page 5

i IN THE HOUSE | INTRODUCED—H. by Lander, to refund a $50 timber cutting deposit to Joseph Picotte of Fairbanks. | INTRODUCED—H. V. 24, by Shat- tuck by request, creating a Terri- torial Department of Health and defining its duties, e — Mrs. Meacham Is Incentive for t Shower Tonight Triends of Mrs. Simon R. Meach- an. the former Helen Beistline, will honor her with a miscellaneous shower this evening at her res dence in the Jensen Apartments. 7The affair is no-host and the party hours will be spent playing gaines. A three-tier wedding cake, topped | with a tiny bride and groom, will ceater the refreshment table and a valentine motif will be combined to form a colorful decorative effect. - INJURES SHOULDER Frank Dominic was admitted to St. Ann's today and is receiving treatment for a shoulder injury. BOWLING 3 | Brunswick Bowling Alleys S A VN R S00SE'S SUCCESS STORY IS COMPLETE BUT BOXER STILL LACKING CROWN Soose (left) picks off Maurilello’s right with his glove. This Soose left jab just missed — most of them don't. BY DILLON GRAHAM Editor, AP Feature Service EW YORK—Imagine the Penn- | sylvania-born son of a Hungarian‘ steel worker entering college, learn- | ing to box, hiring a Hollywood press agent as manager-and winning the world's middleweight -championship. ! Scunds like the plot of a film writ- | | | things as over-the-weight matches, | contests in which a champinn fore es the challenger to come into th ring a fraction of a pound or so ove! {the division weight and thus take no chance of risking the crown. Beat Both Champs Billy managed to get both of Am- power. The thing that impresses you THE. DAILY ALASKA: EMPIRE, FRIDAY, FEB. 7, vho wore the National Boxing Ase | icciation’s world crown because of his victory over Al Hostak. Billy whipped him, too. And so he was the | middleweight champion. 4 | The other night Billy fought his Jrst main fight at Madison Square Garden, New York, against a tough cockie named Tami Maurilello, a hard-hitting Bronx boy who had won 25 straight contests. He gave Maurilello such a nifty boxing les- {son that the New York fistic scribes | were forced to back water and ad-, |mit that the Farrell Flipper could give Overlin or Zale or anyone else; 1 worthy evening’s entertainment. | Want Soose-Overlin | And so now they're leading the | shorus thdt is yelling for an Overlig- | Soose title fight. Overlin is a recent bridegroom and may not want to | fight for a spell. 8o, while they wait for him to pull on the gloves again, | Soose may fight either Zale or 1 Ernie Vigh, a terrifc thumper from | Newburgh, N. Y. There's not much sense in there being two or more | world championships in America | alone and Soose would like nothing ketter than to tackle first Overlin and then Zale, or vice versa, to de- | | cide just who is the real champion. ' | Soose is very likely to be a recog-| nized champion before the year is‘lA “DRY" fout, so you'd better get to know, | something about him. He is a nice SWAMPS BEER |looking lad, who photographs well.{ | black-haired, black-browed, six feet | Never once dropping below 500 in their totals, the Alaska Laundry or so, 161 pounds. He has a nifty, keglers last night held the Golden uncrowned ANY LUCK?—son Jimmy Sewell of the Pirates, Jolting left pab and also throws a: - nice hook. But his right is a cmck-‘k e ling weapon. He use it judiciously ribut when he does throw it, it goes on a straight line with all the power of his shoulder and body behind it.' Tt speaks with authority, too, al- {though it doesn’t have crushing | the Brunswick Bowlinz alleys, to er's concoction, doesn’t it? But it's |erica’s “world champions” into the most about the kid is his poise. He | cOme out with a 4 to 0 score in their areely true. | was born in Farrell, Pa., some 23 years ago and became a pretiy rcugh-and-tumble fighter before ntered Pennsylvania State College | Ceferino Garcia. Overlin wac 1"~ arms or and learned some of the finer points | ing for a soft touch and a sizeable through to his jaw. of fisticuffing under Leo Houck. He |Piece of dough. Soose won the de- did attach himself to a Hollywood | cision at Scranton, Pa., and immed- to be boxing's No. 1 star of 1941, ccreen writer and press agent, Paul |iately there was a yell, in which Moss. But he didn’t win the world’s | New York writers joined, that Soose middleweight champicnship — not | had been the beneficiary of a “home quite. | He didn't because there are suchJ Later Soose engaged Tony Zale, * ring—and beat ‘em led Ken Overlin, possessor town” decision. both—but N0 seems to know what it's all about |favor. body. Few punches sift used in the games. In the match between the Juneau ->>e the Laundrymen and ended with a total score of 3 to 1. Tonight at T o'clock the Golden I.un(heon Given for ‘xAze tculln \:'1:;1 n.\f‘]et lfiha Junexf‘l]lle')l:n'- Mrs. Davies Today |specfal match between a team from |the Gunboat Charleston and the | Brunswick team. Mrs. George Folta and Mrs. A.| ° Alaska Laundry E. Karnes entertained this after-| Hagerup 212 195 578 noon at the Folta residence on Stevenson 168 179 186—533 West Seventh Street with luncheon | Elleriberg 173 113 9 and bridge. The affair was in com-! —— e — ! pliment to Mrs. J. H. Davies, who| Tdtal 553 547 530 1630 is visiting here from Ketchikan. Golden Age Beer A valentine motif was selected Zarate 199 149 133481 for decorations and covers were Mangaloa 151 211 225587 |laid for 18 guests. Poole 161 161 161 - - I VA Q0 3 LA B . 511 521 , ,,'," ’) A N ' Juneau Flerists “«84 159 186 > 225 230 153608 . g ALASKAN | s | Telephone 713 or write | 563 595 491 1639 N The Alaska Territorial { Juneau Laundry ° | Employment Service lJTugrk’he 174 144 195513 .+ for this qualified worker. i :M«-[)nnlels 181 168 188537 | Mationg 163 159 176493 BOOKKEEPER—Woman, married, | RRIBERNAT P NG |age 30, high school education, Sev-| o) 518 471 550 1548 |eral years' experience with stores — e {and other business houses as book- ! | keeper, Call for ES 256. | { - | largest paid circu Empire Classifieds Pay! aska newspaper. The Daily Alaska Fmpire has the ation of any Al- [ o v S S, | S A HIGH SCHOOL BAND and ORCHESTRA CONCERT Grade School Auditorium Tickets Now Available FIFTY CENTS ADMISSION ' TWO NIGHTS Friday-February 28, 1941 Saturday-March 1, 1941 All music will be 100% American f tickets early as the money from to help pay for the new uniforms. selling tickets and they may also bé of several stores in town. this concert. Buy your ket sale will be used and members are now fin‘chmd from anyone o { HLUH~-YESTERDAY SOM ONE TOLD ME HE WUZ THE CHAIRMAN OF THIS CLUB -NOW | BELIEVE IT— * Dive in Nevada-Pilot helps his dad, Truett “Rip” try his luck in lake near Plant City. Fla. FIRST HALF OF ~ HOOP PLAY TO END TONIGHT With two bottom "teams opening |tenight's hoop play in the Juneau thigh gym at 7:30 o'clock, the first half of the Gastineau Channel Bas- Age Beer squad down to no wins in | ketball League schedule will come u;‘ jan end tonight. | TONIGHT Nat'l Guard DeMOLAY ELKS Juneau High JUNEAU HIGH SCHOOL GYM 7:30 P. M. The bomber was the same Capt. Freeman recently flew south from Fairbanks, Alaska. Fire Follows Explosion Fire, started by the explosion when the bomber struck the ground, consumed sagebrush over a radius of 100 yards. A watch, found nearby the crash, The many times defeated National | stopped at 9:40 o'clock yesterday Quard five will meet the as many | morning, approximately the time of Billy Scose is the young hero. He titles were at stake. First, he tack-'at all times, He moves quickly and| Hagerup rolled high for the Laun- | times defeated DeMolay team in the of the gracefully and has acquired the abil- |dry team with a 578. Both Ellenberg lfi‘m game of the ld"“bl“l"‘“qf"': with fair | New York State world champion- ity to block most punches with his|of the Alaska Laundry and Poole of |& fast game between the Elks and he |ship as a result of a triumph over gloves, rather than his elbows or the Beer team had their averages the Juneau High Crimson Bears fol- lowing. the last message from the plane. FLEW FROM FAIRBANKS The bomber was flown from Ladd Field at Fairbanks to the south last ' Jack Fowler, president of the|month, The bomber left the interior season. FIGHT ARMY - FLIERS LOSE - THEIR LIVES Flying Forllr;sms' Goes Into Can't Pull It Qut fLuntinuea from rage One) mountain which rises abruptly 1,000 feet on the desert, 10 miles southwest of here. | The possibility of sabotage is dis- lcounted by Col. F. C. Nelson, Com- manding Officer of McCellan Field at Sacramento, the starting point | |of yesterday's ill-fated flight. i The rumor that an attempt to |sabotage planes at the field were | discovered a week ago, has neither 'been confirmed nor denied by Col. Nelson. CRASH KILLS El IT LOVELOCK, Nevada, Feb. 7.—! Capt. Richard S. Freeman, of Ladd Field, Fairbanks, Alaska, and his seven flying companions, were in- stantly killed when the big Flying _Boeing Fortress, 4-motored bomber, B-17, crashed on the slopes of rag- ged Tops Mountain, near here, yes- \terday afternoon. All the bodies were burned be- yond recognition, An eye witness said he saw the bomber dive out of the clouds, the motors were gunned and apparently Capt. Freeman was unable to pull the craft out of the dive and the ship hit the ground with a deafening . explosion and the tcur motors were | scattered over the mountain slope. .! The weather had not been bad, the sky was overcast and a few showers had fallen early in the morning. ? Those Killed The members of the crew aboard the bomber, accompanying Capt. Freeman, were as follows: First Lieutenant E. W. Ketcham, co-pilot. Technical Test Sergeant K. H. Gilreath. Staff Sergeant Everett Crabb, Sergeant J. F. Davies. Sergeant Elmer S. Trainer. Sergeant Frank W. Whidden. Private C. E. Applegate. By GEORGE McMANUS o G YOUR PARDON - STILL THINKING / | WONBSS WHAT TIME HAVE TO SHOW UIP AT THAT CL/| GET A S B TO AT 2 The scene of the tragedy is at a | | | Xeep your eye on Soose. He's likely | Florists and the Juneau medryru‘j‘g‘“" HaR Bay vt announced the | january 26 at 7:30 o'clock in the the Florists lost only one gameé to|S¢ccnd half for the remainder of the | morning and 15 hours and 27 min- utes later landed at Sacramento via Boeing Field, Seattle, on a non-stop flight. At Sacramento, at the Army Air ghes 7F;<>“nn_Ri—11g to ACourtroomi - Loughran, former world’s From the boxing ring to the courtroom is the 7 Draft CouZJfi’t .S’ébémte Fm e ey Even the draft couldn’t separate the Ashurst twins of Eatonton, Ga. When Torris drew a low number and was called, Morris, who had & high number, volunteered. They are shown being “identified” puzzled companion at Fort McPherson, Atlanta, % : inducted into_the ‘army, Corps Repair Depot, experimental equipment designed to reduce mechanical hazards encountered in flying in Alaska was installed, Officers said the new equipment includes special devices for draining engine oils as soon as the ship lands, automatic shutters over the engine vowls to retain heat, insulated oil vipe to insure the flow of lubricant to the propeller domes in subzero weather. Additional electrical conduits were also installed to enable the fliers to plug in electrically heated flying suits at any location within the cabin in ordinary heating equipment. It was explained this merely boost- ed the temperature in Arctic zones from 40 degrees below zero to 10 degrees below zero, R Try a classified ad in The Empire, path followed by Tommy r light heavyweight boxing champion. Recently appointed chief clerk of the magistrates court in Philadelphis, he is - shown calling the court to order as he takes over his new duties . by a , Where they ware 4 e