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is started from position near the
floor. rising in its course to the re-
ceiver.
One-hand passes are also started
| from the same grip on the ball men,
toned above, and almost any one of
the two-handed passes can be made
4 with single hand also. In passing
with one hand, carry the ball to its
starting position with both hands, re-
moving the one just before the ball
| is started away with the other.
The secret of good passing by any
team is constant and faithful practice.
Speed is, of course, desirable, but you
must remember that throwing the ball
so hard that the receiver cannot handle
it is very unwise.
A good passing exercise is as follows:
Three players take positions on one side
and at one end of the court, with two
on the other, No. ] man holding the
ball No. / passes the ball to No. 2,
then crosses behind him to the other
side of the floor. No. 2 takes the ball
on the run, passing it to No. and
crossing behind him and so on. When
every man has handled the ball and
the man in the right position has shot
the players will again be placed three
on one side of the court, two on the
other, so that the exercise can be re-
peated indefinitely. The chest pass
should be used in this sort of practice.
No. l man usually is in position to
shoot after the final pass.
Skill in catching the ball is, of course,
just as vital as skill in throwing it,
Later, when you have learned to shoot
under the basket, you must learn to
take a passed ball while jumping near
the basket and while still of your feet,
shoot, making your shot little more
than a continuation of the other
players pass.
Although some steps have been
taken toward aboliShing the dribble in
basket ball, it is important that every
player should know how to advance
the ball in this way. The most i'm
portant thing about dribbling is the
rhythm, which is secured by always
bouncing the ball to the same height.
In dribbling, never slap the ball with
the palm of the hand; rather, push 1t
with the fingers. Learn to dribble with
either hand, so that you can always
keep your body between the ball and
the opposing player. Practice until
you can dribble rapidly and evenly
without keeping your eye continually
on the ball. for you must watch your
own players and your opponents con-
stantly.
In addition to the running front
dribble, learn the side dribble, in which
you move sideways along the floor by
advancing one foot, then drawing the
other up to it much like the two-step
on the dance floor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20

IF you use electric railroads extern
sively, such as the rapid transit
lines in the big cities. you may have
wondered how one man. the motor
man, can have the courage to assume
the responsibility for the lives of
thousands Of people each day. The
safety of the passengers is dependent
upon his judgment. But suppose some
thing were to happen to the guiding
hand: suppose the motorman tainted
or dropped dead! What would hap
pen to the train then?
On most electric railroads this ext
gency Is provided for by the dead
mans button" which protects the
train and its passengers In case Of
accident to the engineer. The speed
of the train Is regulated by con-
troller. which Is usually handle turn
ing on resistance box, increasing the
current going to the motors by grad
ually lessening the electrical resistance
through which it passes.
In the top Of the controller is placed
a large button. The current cannot
be turned on until this button Is
pressed down, and the motorman keeps
his hand on this button while operat-
ing the controller. II his hand should
slip of for any reason, a spring re-
leases the button and Immediately the
current switched of and the emer-
gency BIKES are applied. The dead
mans button has been the means of
preventing numerous SERIOUS accidents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20
The Kitchenette
BY AUNT HELEN

Do you like gingerbread? Foolish
question:! 1t isn't hard to make. either.
and you are pretty sure to have good
results with 1t.
Have you sent that favorite recipe
to Aunt Helen yet, for publication In
this page with your name? Address
Aunt Helen, Room $40. 440 South Dear
born street, Chicago, Ill.
GINGERBREAD.
Two cups flour.
One-half cup molasSeS.
One-half teaspoon soda.
One teaspoon ginger.
One-haf teaspoon cinnamon.
One-half teaspoon salt.
Three tablespoons shortening.
One-half cup hot water.
Mix together the dry ingredients and
sift, then mix the liquids and pour them
over the dry mixture. Add the melted
beat, and pour into oiled
and Toured pans. Bake from 20 TO 30
minutes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20
How a Squirrel Plants Forest
Trees.

All trees, you know, grow from seeds
which other trees of the same kind
bear. These may be real seeds, or they
may be fruit with the seeds inside, or
nuts, which are a form OF seed them
selves.
Now, squirrels eat nuts, acorns, ber-
ries and other forms OF seeds. and they
store them away for Winter use by
burying them in the ground. In the
Autumn when the nuts are ripe, the
squirrel frequently climbs to the end OF
the limb of a tree, where he cuts on
the nuts with his teeth and lets them
drop to the ground. After cutting on
q lot of them, he descends to the
ground, finds a nut, carries 1t In ms
mouth until he finds q place that suits
his fancy and there digs a hole three
or four inches deep and large enough
to hold his treasure. Then he drops
the nut in the hole, pushes 1t down
firmly with his nose and covers 1t with
dirt.
Having buried one nut he goes and
gets another and repeats the process.
He will continue doing this for several
hours at a time if he Is not disturbed,
and he will do it every day as long as
the weather is fine and the nuts are
plentiful. Eventually he has buried a
lot of nuts, and then what do you
think he does? He forgets where ne
has put them!
During very cold weather the squirrel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20
Artificial Ripenins.

FRUITS, vegetables, even Towering
more rapid ripening by the use of
ethylene gas. A cubic foot of the gas
in room of 5000 cubic feet capacity
will quickly ripen oranges and lemons
to degree of color and lusciousness
which takes weeks when left to nature.
Citrus fruits picked green and sub
jected to the process are in every
way as good as those. ripened on the
tree. Other fruits. such as melons, may
be successfully treated. as well as to-
matoes and celery. Ethylene treated
potatoes sprout two months ahead Of
time and horticulturists are expert
menting with plant buds in order to
procure blooms at unusual seasons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20
The Ruling Machine.

r TNDER the primitive methods, 100
- reams of double-cap paper were
ruled on both sides with faint lines by
the use Of hand ruling machine in
146 hours as against IL hours on rul-
ing machine with electric power, ratio
of more than IL to l in favor of the
modern method
One hundred reams of single-cap
paper, with faint lines on both sides,
required 1900 hours under the old
method of ruler and quill, but under
the modern method, with ruling ma
chine, the work is accomplished in 2
hours and As minutes, y ratio of / 900
to ] in favor Of the modern method.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20

effective methods of passing. Among
those made with both hands are the
chest pass, in which the ball is pushed
away from the chest with both hands,
the pass from above either the right
or left shoulder, the overhead pass, the
bounce and skid passes, and the under
hand hoist pass. The bounce pass, of
course, is pass in which the ball is
made to bounce on the floor, while the
skid pass Is low pass which hits the
floor, but which Skids along it and
rises only to a slight height, from
which the receiver scoops it up. This is
an excellent variation of the bounce
pass, because it is very difficult to inter-
cept. In the underhand pass, the ball
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20

for the sled. Cut out two strips Tor
the runners about "a inches wide and
six inches long, and bend over one
fourth inch at the top of each. Cut
out the top piece three inches wide
and six inches long, then solder the
three pieces together as shown; Cut
out also the outline of the rider and
bend over the lower edge to form "a
narrow base, then solder this in place
on top of the sled. The rear ends OF
the runners should be curved SO the
rubber band will be held in places To
prevent. cutting of the rubber by the
tin, round the edges slightly.
Weighing the sled down with extra
solder is also a, help. as the heavier
the sled, the farther, usually, 1t will
coast. The runners must of course be
perfectly straight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20

Here is a lot of fun for that smooth
stretch of ice. You make a small sled
of tin and thereon mount a rider,
then with the forked stick and rubber
band shown. coast the sled out over
the ice. Several of these used togeth-
err will make a contest full of fun and
thrills, the object, of course, being to
see whose sled will go the farthest.
The forked stick should be OF the
shape shown with wide spread to
the prongs. Cut these of to the same
length and drive in small brads. Then
cut OF the heads and sharpen so the
ends will not slip on the ice. To each
prong attach one end of a. stiff rubber
band. One cut from an old inner tube
will be ideal If the rubber Is still tive
ly."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20

When your team is skillful at
handling the ball and when their foot
work is good, take up passing next. At
this point it is well to remember what
1 told you in my last article. about
holding the ball with the hands on
top and behind it, rather than under 1t.
Holding the ball in this way, take a
position with the pivot foot forward
and the body slightly crouched. This
is the position from which you start
every pass, whether it is made with
two hands or with one.
Experiment will show you the various
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20
PoSers.

l. Into what bay does the Potomac
River empty?
2. Who was the Roman emperor who
Is supposed to have flddled while Rome
burned?
8. What great Greek philosopher died
by drinking poison?
4. What two countries occupy the
Scandinavian Peninsula.
5. What State is known as The
Buckeye State?
6. Where is Iceland2
z. Who invented the telephones
8. What are the bicuspidS?
Answsrs.
I. Chesapeake Bay. 2. Nero. 8.
Socrates. 4. Norway and Sweden. S.
Ohio 6. On the Arctic Circle. Just east
Of Greenland. z. Alexander Graham
Ben. 8. The first "double-pointed" teeth
on either side Of the jaw.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20
Magic Clock Is Fine
Mind.Reading Stunt

Mind-reading tricks are especially
suited to party groups; here is one that
always "clicks."
The performer exhibits small alarm
clock and requests spectator to set
the long (minute) hand Of the clock
at any of the IL numbers on the clocks
face. That done. the performer takes
the clock and without looking at the
face of it, she announces the number
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20
Sounds Fishv..

The undergraduate sardines were out
for their afternoon swim downstream
What ever happened to Tommy
Bigfin?" asked prominent student in
the sardiue school
II thought you knew" answered his
companion. He couldn't seem to
make the grade. He was always swim-
ming about to 10 feet In the rear He
wasn't alert or intelligent. So the usual
i,sss~-5 1870
You mean--?" fa, Sos .ssss. i
"Yer. He agot cannedtS ~~sszA~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20

Dan Streeter is neither a profess
sional writer nor a professional trav-
eler He is an eX-cotton manu-
facturer in his roaring forties, who
went to Africa to have a grand
time. And he had it, by bringing a
lusty sense of humor and hearty
inferiority complex face to face with
lions, elephants, buffaloes and rhinos
in the big game country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20
THE PUZZLE COLUMN

The definitions are:
Horizontal.
L. To restrain.
4. Speedy.
2. Boys nickname.
8. Average (abr).
8. A city in Peru.
IL. To cast ballot.
Is. Decorated: with festoons.
Is. Gold tabr.).
16. Abundant.
%. A kind of red deer.
%. A measuring line.
"a. International League (abr.).
IS. Printers measure.
26. Girls name.
81. Search for.
Vertical.
l. A young cow.
2. Male sheep (pl).
3. Noisily.
4. Those preferred.
5. River associated with Shakespeare.
6. Round.
10. In explanation (abr.)
IL. Latin form of you.
II. Not in.
16. Boys nickname
II. Note of the musical scale.
Is. A German boys name.
10. Renown.
20. Toward the top
81. To escape, as water.
Answers.
/. The soda flavors are vanilla
cherry and pineapple.
2. S-pry. Dime.
3. Pale, peal, leap.
4. Fork, oboe, rose and keen.
5. Gross word puzzle solution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20

1t is not surprising to see statue
of Christ in the cities and towns of
civilization, but when one observes such
a statue in a wild and mountainous
land, far fran human habitation, one
must wonder why it is there and who
placed it in such inaccessible regions.
There is such a statue on one of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20

Behead word for 'active" and get
ito peer" Curtail coin and get a word
meaning poorly lighted"
>
Fill the blanks in this sentence with
the same four letters arranged in differ
ert order:
His face turned - as he heard
the '---- of the bell, and he knew that
he must - before it was too late"
=
In four word square, the first is an
eating implement, the second is a
musical instrument, the third is flower,
and the fourth means sharp. Form the
square.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20

The Saving of Daddy.
Doctor-My dear, you have nice
new brother.
Little Griffin glad it's boy cause
daddy was getting sort of sissified with
just mother and me around.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20

Here's puzzle to make your mouth
water!
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He Won.

Dubb-I've lived on vegetables for
two weeks.
Rubb-That's nothing. I've lived on
earth for twelve years.
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highest peaks of the Andes Mountains
in South America
In 1903 the South American republics
of Chile and Argentina, having happily
settled without quarrel a long-stand-
ing dispute about their boundaries,
dispute which at times threatened to
iny0lye them IN a destructive war
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20

hicago has been without an EpiscoA
pal cathedral since 1891. when the ~
Cathedral Of SIS. Peter and Paul ives
burned.
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O. Q5::: ::5 ID OF R94 FX r3f i .
WINNING BASKET BALL

BY TOM r. McMULLEN
oregon State College Star and Coach Basket
-. Bah at State Teachers College, San Diego Calf.
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He Could Prove 1t.

First Bird-Don't you know better
than to sit on this chimney? You're
getting all dirty.
Second Bird-Soots me all right.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20

Mote: Can you spell out the letters
that make the picture, and that form
the end of the rhyme above?)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20
BY DANIEL w. sTREETER.

- PRING was responsible for Turing
us to Africa. The idea went
through short period of incuba-
- ton, then broke out like rash.
I was more surprised than any
The Alaskan., 1929-06-14
Alexander Bill

The bill under consideration and which MT. Paul is said to have approved, is entitled, "An Act to amend section 8 of the Act of Congress of June 6, 1924, entitled An Act for the protection of tte fisheries of Alaska, and for other purpos- 'eS.'" It is substantially identic- al with the one proposed by me in 1916 in my effort to defeat the Alexander Bill, which was only defeated by the happy ac- cident that the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries had only a single day in which to secure it's passage, and failed to do so because of the many amendments offered by me. Un- der the House rules if it failed Gas it did) to pass that day, it could not be called again tlat session of Congress.
 I now call yoNr attention to the effort made to secure the adoption of the substitute trap site leasing bill in 1916, and to my statement in relation to that matter on December 13, 1916, as contained in the House pro- ceedings of that day where the following colloquy occurred:
 To be Continued
The Alaskan., 1929-06-14
HAVE YOU NOTICED

That Johnnie Sales went one better than Conrad Bowman in color of shirt.
 That Mayor Dinner has a new fence around his residence and Jard and that his newly seeded lawn is getting green.
 That the wild high-bush col |umbine is in evidence in and about town.
 That the strawberries we buy in the stores now are large as we'll as sweet. That the Town Hall has a new sign on it and may be mistaken for anything but a town hall.
 That several of the houses an front street still look drab and unpainted.
 That the marshal can come and the marshal can go but the moonshines forever.
 That the City's front yard looks like Finnigan's backyard and t1se tourist season is on us already.
 That since Hans Wick resign cd" as city marshal, there has been no reports of dog poison ing.
 That Window displays in the several stores are real tempting to the buying public.
 That Fourth of July plans are so much in the background that it does not bode for much of a celebration in honor of Inde- pendence Day.
The Alaskan., 1929-06-14
BRIDGE PARTY

Mrs. Martin Enge entertained at Bridge last Wednesday even ing at her home in honor of Mrs. Charles Anderson who is leav- ing for a wo-month's visit with relatives in Vancouver, B. O., very shortly.
 Five tables of bridge were play ed with Mrs. Tate winning the first prize and Mrs. Knute Thompson, the conciliation prize The rooms were prettily decor ated with Spring flowers, and a very delicious lunch was enjoy ed by the guests.
The Alaskan., 1929-06-14
DAN CUPID SHARPsHOOTER

Dan Cupid was busy last Sat urday shooting his darts of love at Miss Edna Harris, daughter of MT. and Mrs. c. A. Harris, and William Grenier, son of MT. and Mrs. Grenier of Scow Bay. Dan Cupid was assisted by Judge Clausen who tied the nuptial knot in the home of Mrs. c. A. Johnson, sister of the groom.
The Alaskan., 1929-06-14
A SUBSCRIBER COMMENS
Dear Editor:

Dear Editor: ... -. ... ....
 The comment in your May IT issue on the statement of MT.
 Donnelly, Representative from
 the Fairbanks District that "he
 Twas glad to be a member of the
 House as the Senate represents
 the Fifth Division" was quite
 timely. We all know that MT.
 Donnelly played the part of "fi-
 do" for the Seattle cannery lob
 by and the bureau crowd during
 the legislative session.
 MT. Donnelly is BUSINESS MAN and he wanted that fact to
 be clearly understood by all per sons who came in contact with him at Juneau. Quite natural 1 ly a business man associates with business men only and when ordinary fishermen and working persons sought his in terest in their cause they re- ceived the "glassy gaze" When MT. Donnelly spoke of the Alaska Senate as the Fifth Division he was just stirring up little dust to obscure t1se view of himself that observers caught while he was carrying out the wishes of the Seattle lobby. No member of the Alaska Le- gislature since it's first session has been more obedient to the lobby than this same MT. Don nelly and his criticism of the Sen ate was not only in bad taste but just as false as MT. Donnel- ly's pretense of sympathy witls the laborers of Fairbanks and Tditarod.
 Donnelly's record on the com- pensation act and the tax on trap caught salmon should be published in his home town so that his netghbors may judge who represented the Fifth Di- UiciNn
 The great thing in this world is not so much where We stand as in what direction we are moving.-Oliver Wendell Holmes
 If you have knowledge, let oth-
The Alaskan., 1929-06-14

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthus- iasm.-Emerson.
The Alaskan., 1929-06-14
WICKERSHAM ON TRAP SITES From The Alaska Fisherman
November 27, 1928

November 27, 1928 Hon. Dan A Sutherland,
 Room 167 House Office Building Washington, D. c.
 My dear Sir:
 l While in recent attendance upon the November term oi court at Ketchikan, whence l have just returned, I was given the particulars of the charges made against our mutual friend William L. Paul, candidate for the Territorial Legislature, in relation to his support of the bill which I drew up last sum- mer providing for leasing sal mon trap sites on tide lands in Alaska to trap owners through the United States Bureau of Fisheries.
 The Purpose of the Alexander
 Bill of 1916
 known the history of the bill in question and had made it pub lie, he would have kept the con- 6dence of the fishermen voters, notwithstanding the unfair ac- cuSatiOnS of jiS and other Op- ponents. I think the bill gives peace between trap men in Alas ka, prevents the jumping" of trapsites, compels trap owners to pay license fees therefor based on the amount of their catch, and thereby tends to | conservation of salmon and the better support of the fisheries and the public treasury. The Alexander Bill was a plan to give congressional perpetual leasehold title to trap sites in Alaska. Section six of the bill found in the proceedings of the House of Representatives of Dec. 13, 1916, provided:
 Sec. 6. FIXED NET LOCA- TIONS: That any person oc- cupying, or desiring to occupy, any location where it may be
 lawful to construct a pound net (trap) in the waters of Alaska, shall have such loca-
 tion to be accurately surveyed by a competent surveyor, UNI
 LESS A SURVEY THEREOF
 HAS ALREADY BEEN MADE,
 IN WHICH EVENT SUCH FIX ISTING SURVEY MAY BE USED, and shall cause three !! maps to be made of such To- cation from actual survey thereof. From and after the date of filing in the office of the commissioner of re- cords such map shall consti-
 tute full and complete notice that the locator has compiled witf all the provisions of this Act in regard to such loca- tion and that such location is owned, held, occupied and claimed by the person desig- mated thereon as claimant. *** FROM AND AFTER THE FILL
 ING OF THE MAP IN THE CASE OF A POUND NET: (trap) or from and after the posting of the number of the license, as above provided in t1Ae case of stake net or set net
 THE CLAIMANT OF THE
 FISHING LOCATION SHOWN ON SUCH MAP, or marked by
 such number, HIS HEIRS, AD- MINISTRATOR, EXECUTORS,
 SUCCESSORS, OR ASSIGNS,
 SHALL HAVE THE EXCLUS-
 I'VE RIGHT TO HOLD, OC- CUPY, AND FISH IN SUCH LOCATION, TO RENEW THE LICENSE THEREOF AND TO
 MORTGAGE, SELL, LEASE,
 OR TRANSFER THE SAME DURING THE TIME THAT
The Alaskan., 1929-06-14

The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.-Oliver Wendell Holmes
 If you have knowledge, let Oth- CTS light their candles at it
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1929-06-07
Z rodinne dohody.

Dohodovani Sc stryce Char
lese Merendy sc dvema vnuky,
James a John Merenda {. 1901
Nicholas avenue, skoncilo ctve-
rym zatcenim a trojim uchyle-
MIN Sc do nemocnice. Jeden z
host1 nemocnice nebezpecne
bodnut byl nozem.
Ma severovychodnf policejnl
stanici zalovano bylo soudci, ze
Charles, jenz bydll ma Nicholas
avenue navst1vil sveho bratra
Gaetano ma teze ulici bydl1clho,
kde oba dostali Sc do hadky s
druhymi dvema pr1buznymi
Charles vytahl nGz a pocal bo-
dati. Bratra sveho bodl do pr
sou. John odesel boje S bod
nutfm do nohy, Charles S pre-
razen1m tTf zeber. Zatceni by
Ii vsichni ctyri.
Vyslech odlozen byl az do
IA. cervna, kdy Sc soudl, re
Gaetano Merenda bude z ne
mocnice venku.