The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 6, 1941, Page 5

-‘THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, ANCHORAGE CAGERS MAY COME HERE All - Alaska High School Basketball Champion- ship Looms for Juneau Indicaticns look very favorable of | holding an All-Alaska high school basketball championship in Juneau. between: Anchorage, winners of the Northern Division title, and Juneau high’s Crimson Bears, champions | of the Southeast division, reports A. | B. Phillips, Juneau high school Sup- | erintendent A radiogram from officials of the championship Anchorage team stat- ed that the team is strongly consid- * ering the dates of March 20, 21 and for the series to be held in the Juneau high school gym. | The Anchorage team recently won over the Fairbanks quintet for the ! northern title. Basketball Squad Junior Prom at H. . Entertained with | School Gymnasium FeedfiajBaranof Friday Evening Honoring the Crimson Bears, Ju- neau High School's basketball squad| In a festive shower of color and and Socutheast Alaska champions, a|gaiety, the ‘class of '42 tomorrow ev- dinner was given last night at the ening, will hold the annual Junior Baranof Hotel. Hosts were Archie prom in the gymnasium of the Ju- w els and H. aulkner. | neau High School. Faculty membe present were| Lillian Uggen and her eight-piece superintendent A. B. Phillips, Prin- | grehestra will provide music for the cipal A. S. Dunham, Coach Frod!gancers, a violin, guitar and drums Lindenmeyer, Henry Harmon, Theo- having been aaded to the music al- dore Hodwalker and Walter Roff. ready being played by the piano, Team members invited were Hallie | trumpet, two saxaphonies and a bass. Rice, Don Murphy, Lee Lucas, J:\ck‘ The affair will begin at 9 o'clock McDaniel, Alex Miller, Malcolm/gng special entertainment will be Faulkner, Stan DeLong, Jack Pas-'gjven during an intermission. quan, John Bavard and Sam Martin Emnire Classifteds Pay 88 Can a Nazi blitzkrieg strike ac | shown here are called “Seven § S sified ad io The Empire. Question mark No, 1 in the European war is the English Channel: ross it to invade England? The precipitous chalk cliffs of Dover are natural defenses, Those isters.” 'All-day Meétinfi for | Marthas Tomorrow The Northern Light Church Par- lors will be the meeting place of the 1 Martha Society tomorrow, beginning at 10 o'clock in the morning with| Red Cross sewing. | | All members are requested to take | | sandwiches, however, dessert and coffee will be served at 12:30 o'clock. | The business session will convene at 11:30 o'clock. Friends as well as members are in- vited to attend. | — e - — The Bermuda government ve-' cently issued bright red 10-shilling| notes. The traditional *“10-bob” is | green. - Empire Classifieds Pay* ‘nmml Guard will meet tonight i“‘and the Geor the Armory for their regular week-' o'clock and the Snow White Laundry | o'clock sharp. MARCH 6, 194]. GIBRALTAR Will Gibraitar falter? Posession of this “Rock of Ages” at the mouth of the Mediterranean had much to do with rise of the British empire; now military experts point out Germany may be planning to drive across Spain and storm it. Drill Tonight Alaska Na- ELKS BOWLING Elks bowling tonight “etween the Home Grocery and the Alaska Laun- | dry at ock, Cash and Carry Brothers at 8:15 Juneau units of the 7 0% 8 and the Dodge Dealers at 9:30 o'~ clock. drill. Roll will be called at Hor | Brunswick Bowling Alleys | Florists took a beating from | Smithberg rolled a high 540. | B. Smith STRAITS PUT QUESTION MAR K IN WAR Armed to the teeth, Singapore si layan Peninsula across from Su ing for Great Britain the narrow passageway between Pacific and Indian oceans. TRANSFERMEN | DROP MATCH 10 GROCERS i With a 3 to 1 score against them, the North Transfer keglers let onej drop to the George Brothers at the | in the first match of last night's tourna-! ment play | In the gecond match the Juncau the Three Musketeers 3 to 1 as Otto Tonight's games are between the Brunswick and the Barber's Trio at 7 o'clock and the Takus and the North Transfer at 8 o'clock. Last night's bowling scores fol-| low: North Transfer 197 140 120— 457 127 140 183— 450 “171 171 171— 513 495 451 Battello G. Smith Gill 474—1420 Totals George Brothers Mortenson 170 165 150— 485 Harter 154 152 160— 466 144 158 179— 481 Totals 463 475 4891432 Juneau Florists Harry Gumberi and Paul Dean *Tisn't all work and no play in the major league baseball training camps. Now you take Harry Gumbert and Paul Dean, Giants' pitchers. Here tiey are, indulging in a bit of horseplay while wait- ing their turn or the mound. Dean, younger brother of Dizzy, is on the bottom. | Ida Carnegie 163 145 163— 471 116 127 99— 342 169 164 191— 524 448 436 453—1339 Three Musketeers | Garrett 138 . 141 Barbara Garrett- 132 179 Smithberg 188 180 | Lajoie Carnegie Totals 145— 424 110— 421 As Fighter Died in Ring . Firemen work over Anderson in Chicago ring Inhalator crew wo:kl over Arne Anderson, veteran Minn?’ui{nlis heavyweight, knocked out by Lou Thomas i)! Indianapolis in the seventh round of a 10-round bout in Chicago. Anderson died in the ring without regdining consciousness. Firemen labored for an hour before the fighter was pronounced dead. Physicians expressed the opinion that Anderson was a victim of a heart attack. -Totals ‘Average score. - Soldiers Being | Out in 12 Months; It Is | (Ct‘mtlnuefl from Page Ope: frills out of the workday. phase includes hygiene, military law, military courtesy and discipline, the: care, employment, marksmanship and the use of in- dividual weapons, defense against gas and air attacks, physical train- ing, marching, camping and bi- vouacs. To get all that through a rookie’s head the necessary recreation periods urday afternoons and on Sundays doesn't leave any time for ‘“fool- ishness.” And what follows in the next 39 weeks is just as strenu- ous. The way the Army does this iy by what they call “the applicatory method of instruction.” First, ex- planation; then, demonstration; third, practice; and fourth, exam- ination. And that goes on over and over from the cold gray dawn w late afternoon when the train- ees are given their period before dinner to clean up for supper and ' do the other chores that their busy _ " By GEORGE McMANUS RS HER - | SAW PICTURE- | 7= 172— 540 Turned - | Seledlive Streamlining | what the Army means by cutting | ; This' % o o first aid, mlmary’ and maintenance of clothing, uipment d weapons, ! cloiie, S PPy Pons, | B er: 1s Manager Peck with Al Milnar, left-handed hurling star. in 13 weeks and give him| at night, on Wednesday and Sat-| ts on the Ma- BOSPORUS Southern door of the corridor between Black and Aegean seas, the Dardanelles have given Turkey strength for 500 years. Northern door is the S-shaped Bosporus. matra guard- day has given them no time for, [tacks” in dispatches from Greece, it is no longer considered essen- “PRETTY LIGHT” tial for a soldier to handle a bay- A top sergeant who had been|Onet as if he were born for noth- wrestling with a bunch of the ing else. That doesn’t mean, the boys at Camp Meade in Maryland| Army will tell you, that they are told me not long ago: “We go pretty| Skipping any essentials anywhere. light on them the first few weeks.”| It's just that they want to turn He explained that by that he meant |out soldiers, not crack drill teams. they generally let the boys take a| Of course, it's not all work. breathing spell for about ten min-| There are those evenings from 6 utes after every strenuous hour. |to 10 and two afternoons and all The streamlinging, too, may in-|day Sunday. But that comes un- clude not hearing so far on some der the heading of the new morale phases of training that three-year division and that’s another story. enlisted men in the old peace-! R 5 BT time army used to get. The Army's | NOTICE Infantry Journal not long ago car- AIRMAIL ENVELOPES, showing ried a long argument in favor of air route from Seattle to Nome, on just drilling home the rudiments sale at J. B. Burford & Co. adv, of bayonet fighting. In. spite of » D e ‘lhb use of the words “bayonet at- Try a classified ad in The Empire Bunting ; Injun Pitchers Tauéht Al Miinar and Roger Peckinpaugh Manager Boger Peckinpaugh of the Cleveland Indians nas’put the accent o2 bunting among other things in the Tribal training camp | at Fort Myers, Fla., and the pitchers come in for daily lessons, Joo. ' Yankee Vanguard in South | { i | I} Joe McCarthy, manager of the New York Yankees, is shown with a few ‘of his'boys as they arrived in St. Petersburg, Fla., for opening of their | spring training camp. On the train steps are batboy Tim Sullivan and flhll::r' Marius Russo. Below are meuq, promoted from e ‘Newark, McCarthy, and trainer Doc Painter.