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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-02-02
Mattress Exp|odes;
Pants Lost by Man

AROMA PARK, ILL.,, Feb. 2. =
Bert Sicily, war veteran, found out
what it really means to be under
fire" when he battled with his mat
tress the, other day.
Skelly's mattress was too wide
for the bed so he cut off strip
and threw it into his stove. Things
began happening.
The strip exploded. Skelly pour
ed on water but the more water he
poured the more the flames spread.
Skelly grabbed broom and started
sweeping burning embers out the
door. The wind blew an erber back
upon the bed, setting 1t afire.
Sicily finally extinsuished the
fire but both of his hands were
blistered and two pair of pants
were ruined, including his Sunday
best. Sicily is convinced the mat
tress was stuffed with guncotton.
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CLOSE MATCHES
AT BRUINS WICK
MONDAY NIGHT
Radde and f. Calao Cap
ture Scoring Honors in
Commercial Mix

Two close matches and even scor-
ing marked the Commercial League
bowling at the Brunswick last night,
The Free Lances defeating the
Brunswick by only four pins in the
first encounter, with 1.473 pin to-
tai Defeating the Alt Heidelbergs
in the second match, the Rainier
Beer rollers compiled the high total
of the night. l,480 pins
Ed Radde, of the Alt Heidelberg
squad was front man of the session
with 554. Ray Galao was next, with
SCI. Emilio Galao rolled the nigh
single game, 204, while Radde plac-
ed in that division with 202.
Tcnight's Commercial League con-
tests bring together the Green
House and California Grocery teams
cn the Brunswick maple at 1880;
followed at $50 o'clock by the Arc
tic Beer Parlor and Brunswick
trios.
Last nights scores were:
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EDUCATION meet
WILL CONVE N {
HERE THURSDAY
Territorial Board Members
Are Here for Annual Ses-
sion Await Gorgas


The first meeting of the Territorial
Board of Education, scheduled to be
held tomorrow, has been postponed
until Thursday to await the arrival
Of P. C. McMullen, of Seward, VINO
is Juneau bound on the General w
c. Gorgas.
Other members of the Board OF
Education, in Juneau for its meet
ings, are Mrs. Ladessa Nordale, OF
Fairbanks; Michael J. Walsh, of
Nome; A. H. Ziegler, of Ketchikan;
H. L. Faulkner, of Juneau, is presi-
dent of the Board and Commits
sioner of Education Anthony e.
Karnes is secretary
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-02-02
BASKETBALL
POSTPONED

Tie two City league basketball
games scheduled for tonight in the
High School Gym have been post
roned due to the weather. Kraus5
was scheduled to meet the DeMolays
and Douglas was to play the Graves.
1t is probable that a team from
Chilkoot will come down soon on
the Torrance to play the best City
League team. Therefore, the meet
ing of the teams that was sched-
uled to play tonight would have
helped decide the strongest team,
even though the hoop series was
not nearly ended These two i'm
portant games will be played as soon
as a new date, weather permitting
can be arranged.
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Sport
Stunts

Suyeo Ohe, Japans athletic am
bassador of good will, is a most
welcome attraction at the big indoor
track meets this winter. Ohe is one
of the two foreign vaulters who
have cleared IA feet, the other being
Snhei Nishada. his countryman,
and Japans No. l pole vaulter I'M
til Ohe came along to top IA feet
A inches.
There has not been foreign pole
vaulter of championship caliber TO
perform in the big indoor meets
since Charlie Hoff paid us visit
in 1926 and showed our lads how
to vault.
Unfortunately Ohe comes along
when indoor vaulting, in the East
at least, is at low ebb. Keith Brown,
the record holder at IA feet inch
es, has retired and. there is no 9TH
er Fastener who can scale the IL
foot mark If Olympic Champion
Earle Meadows and George Varoff,
the national champion and world
record holder, "a feet 6ls inches j,
accept invitations extended to them.
Ohe may find all the competition
an athlete could desire.
Should Star Indoor.
There is no real reason why the
Japanese star should not come close
to his best marks on the fine indoor
runway in Madison Square Garden
Certainly the lighting facilities have
given competing athletes no cause
for complaint. If anything, Compel
ing indoors should be help to the
skyscrapers. There is no wind to
contend with.
Ohe should have no great diff
Guilty in adjusting his style to in
door conditions. In build, he is
not so very different from the great
Norwegian vaulter of a dozen years
ago.
Hoff had less than week to ad-
JuoL liilifJtu anu W pACpdiC III ltio
first big meet. He did it, all right.
He Tnched' Up
Hoff was in class by himself. In
those days the accepted record was
about 10 feet Hoff proceeded to
raise the mark by Fights and six
teenths of an inch until he pushed IA
feet. Charlie had an ambitious
schedule mapped out, and in order
to treat every audience to a record
breaking performance he had to be
mighty careful about his advances
to his ceiling. He did it a bit at
a time
Just what the Norwegian stars
ceiling actually was no one Will
ever know. Certainly IA feet was
not even close to it. Unfortunately
Hoff got into difficulties with the
AAU. over his activities and was
banned from amateur competition
before he had cut loose with the
sort of vault he was capable Of
In practice one afternoon. IN a
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-02-02
U. S. SKIERS TO
v|E; DOMINION
AWAY MEETING
Northwest Skiers Plan Trip
to Banf for Canadian
Championships

SEATTLE, Feb. 2. Cenada's
greatest ski events-the Dominion
Four Way Championships scheduled
for Banff March to 8-promses to
develop into a three-way battle
among two Pacific Northwest and
one Far East ski expert.
Only one of the three will be
from the Canadian side of the line
dividing the continent. Tom Mo-
braaten of the Canadian Olympic
team, represented the Vancouver,
B. c., Club, looms as Canada's big
gest hope to gather in the title of
that country's outstanding event.
From the East Dick Durrance
OF Dartmouth College, No. man
on the U. s. Olympic ski team
and Americas 1885 downhill
and slalom champion, has de-
signs on gathering Canadian
honors.
From Portland, oregon and the
Cascade Ski Club, Hjalmar Hyam--
an outstanding four-way man--is
recognized in Canada as the dark
horse of the event. However, his
double dictory in downhill and sla-
lcm races at Mount Hood and his
winning of the Silver Skis at Mt.
Rainier last winter backs pretty
we'll the Northwest's claim that
Hvam will be threat for the cham
pionship.
Courses for the events will be out
lined on the sides of Mt. Norquay.
The downhill run starts 7,400 feet
high in Canadas beautiful Rockies
and ending 1890 feet below. The
course measures one and one-half
miles in length. 1t has an average
of rs degrees, with occasional abrupt
40 degree drops.
The slalom with an 800 foot YER
teal drop, will be timed by tele-
phone set-ups at the start and fin
ish. The langlauf is two-lap
figure eight affair starting and fin
ishing at Mt. Norqual Ski Lodge.
To make competitions keener in
the fourth event Of the multiple
start snow fracas. the jumping hill
has been remodeled to conform as
nearly as possible to the Olympic
jump at Garmisch- Partkenkirchen
The hills capacity will be $50 feet.
Others listed to finish in up
per brackets in the downhill
and slalom races are: Alfred
Lindley of Minneapolis; Jack
Taylor, of Vancouver, B. c.;
Norman Knight, Banff, Ski
Runners of the Canadian Rock
les. In the jumping duel,
Hans and Gunnar Gunnarson
and Unwind Nelson, all of Rev.
elstoke. will be serious threats
to the field.
The women limit their activi-
ties to slalom and downhill
racing. In these affairs two
Canadians are looked upon as
probable winners. They are:
Mrs. Tom Mobraaten Peggy
Harlin) and Gladys Atkin. the
Western Canadian Champion
ship winner
The carnical is under the co-spon-
sorship of the Calgary Ski Club
and Ski Runners of the Canadian
Rockies. Banff.
Carnival gayety will rule through
out the affair. even though keen
competition is the order Of the four
days. A masquerade ball. honoring
the winners will be held in the Cas-
cade Room of Mt. Norquay Ski
odge as the finale
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CASBOAT KITTY
MISSING TODAY

One gashoat, the Kitty, seine yes
sci owned by William S. Howard,
is missing as a result of last night
storm.
The 37-foot craft was moored to
the float at Femmer's Dock. 1t
disappeared during the night and
Capt. Howard had been unable to
find any trace of his boat at l o'clock
this afternoon.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-02-02
FDR BROADCAST

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt is broadcasting to the
Boy Scouts of America next Monday
On the twenty-seventh anniversary
of their organization.
The President will make his broad
cast at $50 o'clock
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-02-02
KINGS CUP HELD UP

CALCUTTA, Feb. MAS dan
tives, bred by the Aga Khan, won
the King Emperor cup here but
the trophy could not be presented
Immediately as the new King En-
peror had not been proclaimed.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-02-02
REFEREE KNOCKED OUT

LONDON, Feb. 2.-Hit by the ball
in a soccer match between the re-
serve teams of Brentford and Chel-
sea, the referee was knocked out
and was unable to resume. A lines
man took charge Of the game.
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none too-well lighted armory l
watched Hoff set the cross bar at IA
/ feet and calmly clear it. And there
was plenty CT dim daylight between
his body and the bar when he sailed
over.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-02-02
MRS. sHIPPEY GOES SOUTH

Mrs. H. G. Snlppey, proprietor CT
the Fern Beauty Shop, was a passen-
ger on the Princess Norah when 1t
sailed early this morning. Mrs.
Shippey has gone south on pleas
ure trip and expects to return to
her shop and resume business about
March 1.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-02-02
Red Cross Flood
Relief Fund Over
Top at Anchorage

ANCHORAGE. Alaska, Feb. a.
This city contributed $848 for the
Red Cross relief fund. The citys
quota was $500.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-02-02

More than $500 men and women
were employed in December trans
planting Bermuda onions on 1900
acres in Webb and zapata coun-
ties, Texas.
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PICKET GOLF LINKS

WELLINGTON, N. T., Feb. q
Demanding an increase of seven
cents a round, caddies at the Mira
mar Golf Course picketed gates to
the course when club officials ord
cred them off the links. They were
getting 43 cents a round
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Restricted Indians own 2726,-
346 of the 100000 acres in Okla
homa Their land may not be sold'
leased or given away without the
sanction of the Government.
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STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Feb. 2. Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 14%, American Can
Ill, American Light and Power 1875
Anaconda SIS, Bethlehem Steel 82s,
Calumet and Hecla 17A, Common
wealth and Southern 81, Curtiss
Wright 7h, General Motors 66%
International Harvester 1861, Ken
necott go, New York Central AZ,
Southern Pacific At, United States
Steel $685., United Corporation 7,
Cities Service Az, Bremner bid az,
Pound $4.89 1916
DOW, JONES AVERAGES
The following are today's Dow,
Jones averages: industrials 1920,
up 1.61; rails 55.27, up Al; utilities
1896, up %.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-02-02
GooDIE SALE

will be given by the Rainbow Girls
next Saturday, February 6, at the
Sanitary Grocery. Starting at 10
O'clock.
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Mrs Robinson
figure the subsequent $15O0o00
ready home England after visit with
held New Jersey swinding charge Mrs Robin
overstaed her visitor to the United States but she
permitted to DEPART UNPUBLISHED.
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Today's News Today-Empire.
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Try an Empire ao.
The Washington times., 1937-11-06
MRS. STORMONT
SEEKS DIVORCE

Mrs. Virginia S. Stormont, charg-
ing that on two recent occasions
she had to appeal to police to pro-
tect her from her husband, Don
aid S. Stormont. of 1926 Edmunds
st. N. W today asked the District
Court for a limited divorce.
Represented by Attorneys Alvin
L. Newmyer' and Lewis H. Sha-
piro, Mrs. Stormont, who lives at
the Westchester Apartments, said
that her husband, an attorney
practicing before the Mixed Claims
Commission, represented to her
that he was prosperous interna-
tional lawyer before their mar
riage. She contended he has
earned but little and is not in
clined to industry.
Since their marriage on Feb
ruary /, 1886, they lived with his
father, Mrs. Stormont said, until
she went to live with her sister
recently.
The Washington times., 1937-11-06
Says Boake Carter

that the opposite to big in business is small;
that smallness means increased prices to every
man, woman and child; means greater borrow
ing than ever for the Government; further in
crease in the national debt.
He should make it clear that the only one
allowed to be "big' henceforth is to be the
Federal Government; that it will run the whole
kit and caboodle and that every one will work
for the state.
When the United States industrial economy
discovered mass production methods, dawned the
day when business and industry began to tread
in business.
Today, after Is years Of mass production, people
have come to accept as matter of course the
material things they now can buy, although,
ironically enough, those who spend their days
screaming against corporations mainly because
they are "big," would scream even louder if
told they had to pay double the price for every
thing to which they have become accustomed.
American people are not, as whole, Stolid,
methodical, slowmoving people. They want,
instead, quick action. What they want they
want in furious hurry. They also want it
new all the time. European who could afford
car would be content to keep it years. An
American must change his car every year for
a new model.
Copyright Ledger Syndicate
BoGEe CGrter'S opinions are his otUn and not
necessarily those OF the Times.
The Washington times., 1937-11-06
Game Preserve
Aldo. Prisons

Nimrods and Izaac Waltons have
been banned for three years from
the grounds of the reformatory at
Lorton and Occoquan, Va, it was
announced yesterday. Virginia Of
ficialS have stocked the woods with
quail and the Occoquan Creek
with fish recently. Under State
law, hunting and fishing must be
banned for at least three years
to enable the game and fish to
breed.
The Washington times., 1937-11-06
Gas Death
Daughter, II, Finds
Mother on Floor

TAKOMA PARK, Md, Nov. 6.
Mrs. John R. Kennedy, SO, of 100
Carroll Ave-, was found dead from
gas on the kitchen floor Of her
home here late yesterday by her
youngest daughter, Miss Virginia
Kennedy, 81.
According to police, the daugh-
ter had returned from work about
6 p. m. and, detecting the odor Of
gas, went into the kitchen where
she found her mother lying on
the floor with a gas stove turned
on. Mrs. Kennedy had been in
ill health for some time, police
said.
Efforts of DR.. Francis x. Rich
ardSon and the Takoma Park
rescue squad to revive the woman
proved futile.
She is survived by three daugh-
terS-Virginia, Katherine, %, and
Lind, 25, and her husband.
The Washington times., 1937-11-06
FOUR INJURED
IN DC. TRAFFIC

Four persons were injured here
in traffic miShaps overnight.
Robert Gardner, 14-year-old col
ored boy, of 1904 New Jersey Ave
N. w., was knocked from his
bicycle by a truck at Third and
D Sts. N. W., and was treated at
the Homeopathic Hospital for in
juries to his left foot.
Eight-year-old Doris Mercer
800 North Capitol ST., suffered
multiple bruises, for which she
was treated at Gallingr Hospital.
when she wss struck by an auto
mobile in front of her home.
Mrs. Viola Lewis, 10, of q
Bryant st. N. E., spent com
Portable" night at Emergency
Hospital last night after she fell
to the ground when she stepped
off a street car at Tenth and G
SITS. N. w.
Struck by a passenger bus while
crossing Sixteenth St., near the
entrance to Walter Reed Hospital,
Miss Ida Mae Gano, %, suffered
a fractured skull,
The Washington times., 1937-11-06

Roole carter Sooner or later Mr.. RooSe-
velt and his advisers must make up their minds
what they want to do with Americas domestic
economy-set up form of State socialism or
give capitalism an honest chance to work.
No one in the Government has yet declared
unequivocally whether or not it is a crime to be
"big" business. Until that decision is made, it
is the height of folly to talk about more laws
for more regulation
Test of Consistency
If it is a crime to be "big" in business in
America, then the FTC's demand is consistent.
But, at the same time Mr. Roosevelt should let
people know that in following those demands
he will have to destroy the present economic
system Of America He should make it clear
The Washington times., 1937-11-06
D.C,AUTO SHOW
DO|NCS ON AIR

A "big broadcast" of the doings at
the 1887 Washington Automobile
Show will ring down the finale on
what dealers and managers of the
show consider one of the most sue
ceSsful displays of new models.
Sales from the floor at the
showrooms, Twenty-fourth St.
N. w., between M and N, will total
not less than 600 new cars for the
SO dealers exhibiting % makes of
1888 models, the management an
nounced today.
Estimating the average sale per
car to be $1,000, these sales would
bring 100000 to the dealers.
The Washington times., 1937-11-06
By E0alw Walsh Mclean

when we were descending to the bottom of the
Grand Canyon. He wanted to turn around and
go back, but the Bright Angel Trail in those days
was so narrow there was no turning back and
he arrived at the bottom a very shaken man.
Countess SzechenW "EnchGnting"
Countess szechenyi, without doubt, is one of the
most enchanting persons have ever met. AS
everyone knows, she was Gladys Vanderbilt be.
fore her marriage and there never has been and
never will be more simple, dignifed and alto
gether charming hostess than she is
With all Of her great wealth. she has remained
one Of the few genuinely unspoiled women I
know. have tremendous admiration for her un-
shakable poise. once put the Countess to real
test Of friendship and without moments hest
tation, she stuck to her point regardless of con-
sequence
Nine ESpil is so beautiful and delightfully."-
feminine she gives the impression she spends
most OF her time in the drawing room. To look
at her slender figure you would never think she
possesses unbounded courage and has displayed
it on hunting trips all over the world She has
proved, too that she can Withstand hardships
some men could not endure.
Lady Lindsay is one of the wittieSt and frankest
women in the diplomatic corps. She told story
once at meeting of the Womens Press Club
which made everyone laugh until they cried Yet
she has great natural dignity and is one of the
most gracious hostesSes in the CITY,
Nine. Prochnik is another woman for whom
have tremendous admiration. She is such won
derful mother and, even while she is carrying
on her social duties, puts her children above
everything else.
It has almost become tradition that American
women who marry foreigners will be unhappy
and, of course, that often is true. But the fasci.
mating women have mentioned above are cer-
tainly exceptions to this rule.
The Washington times., 1937-11-06
By Helen Essary

slonS in her neighborhood, and we would find
Evelyn Byrd flat on the kitchen floor. Each time
1 would tell her that neither her life nor ours
was safe, she would pack her suitcase. But the
next morning would hear her again in my
Ntchen lighting the gas stove as though we had
never said "goodby." What separated us perma-
nently was the way she once cooked grapefruit
and served it with a cream sauce in a vegetable
dish.
Lottle and Evelyn and Viola and dozen more
were OF the race like best about me. have
never been success with white servants. I am
either too chumny or too austere. For instance,
I never knew how to cope with Inga, Dane,
who refused to dust but washed every window in
the house every day. Inga married the delivery
boy within q fortnight after meeting me. Escape,
I guess.
Cook Develops Into Modiste
MY French cook developed into a modiste.
While she made me "des chapeaux chic" pared
tne potatoes. A temporarily INDECENT SpinSter
from kansas resented my surprise when one day
discovered diShrag boiling with the spinach.
once had an English governess whom brought
from the old country. She looked down on me as
a vulgar American.
I didn't realize how important it was for a
mistress to stand well with her servants until
about the ninth year Of the service of Lula and
Alice Washington. Lula said: IT always did like
you." Then knew why my food had been well
ordered and cooked and the house kept shining,
and why compliments about my hat had sent me
of cheerfully to parties. 1t wasn't because was
good housekeeper. 1t was because my little
maids were interested in me and ran me in the
way they knew needed to be run.
Lula Washington is married now. She brings
her starched little son to see us. We have with
us couple, Annie and Overton. have feeling
they like me, too. and am grateful. Like the
Washington sisters, they do things entirely
according to their own system, but like them, are
superb in emergencies. Such loyalty makes life
pleasant in household whose mistress is as
vague as am.
The Washington times., 1937-11-06
LOST D. C. BOYS
IN PITTSBURGH

It's a long way from Washing
ton to Los Angeles.
So Albert Wilson, Is, and his
brother, Allen, IL, found out as
they reached Pittsburgh last
night and applied at police sta
ton for a nights lodging.
Police discovered that the boys
had been reported missing yester-
day morning to Washington
police, so turned the youngsters
over to juvenile authorities and
notified Washington.
Mrs. Theodore Wilson, 3213
Wisconsin Ave. N. W., mother of
the boys, started last night for
Pittsburgh to return the boys
home.
The Washington times., 1937-11-06

I do recall that once, when we had a rich patron
to dinner, she dropped the dishpan on the tiled
kitchen floor with such clatter that the patron
leaped foot out of his chair. In the course
of time, we had Viola pushing a baby carriage.
She was good at that
Later, Lottie Butler entered our lives. shall
always love Lottie. She was deaf and she was
wayward. Her alcoholic consumption, though
irregular, was high Otherwise she was charm
ing. She could cook better than Mr.. Delmonico
and scrub harder than ships steward. During
the periods when she could do neither, she would
write me postcards, saying: "I'l be back soon,
lovingly yours, Lottie." When Lottie automatically
became parttime worker, we turned her into
a laundresS. She would arrive prepared for the
tubs and waShboard in flowing chiffon dresses
and flower-trimmed hats. "Jest my little working
Dress" she would smile.
Husband Was Great Sitter
After Lottie there were many servants in my
young household. I remember "a couple" The
husband part" mostly sat on the cellar steps.
My mind also turns to Evelyn Byrd, who was
born near WeStover- onthe-James. Until Evelyn
Byrd came to me, she had never seen gas stove.
She learned slowly. There would often be explo-