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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-22
Even PIGEONS GET
LOST, / MILE DOWN

PRESCOTT, Ariz., Aug. %. = Car
rier pigeons released at the bottom
of the mile-deep Grand Canyon
failed to find their way back to their
home lofts here.
Only one of the five returned to
Phantom ranch, from which they
were released. Park employees said
the birds seemed bewildered after
their trip down into the canyon on
the back of a mule.
Another effort to fly pigeons out
of the canyon will be made next
June. Training flights will be
made, meanwhile, from the south
rim and other nearby points.
Empire Want Ads Bring Results.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-22
pAA Plane
Flies Nine

Nine passengers, including three
month-old twin boys. were aboard
the Pacific and Alaska Always
plane when she took off from the
airport for Fairbanks at 1870 o.
clock this forenoon. The pilots
were Monson and Lien.
Those making the flight were
DR.. and Mrs. p B. Hagglund and
their twin sons, v. P. Rogers, o.
Silvik, j. B. Warrack, w. Symmes
and Jim Carroll
There is a PAA plane due from
Fairbanks on Thursday.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-22
CITY MAILS OUT
TAX STATEMENTS

Tax statements from the City of
Juneau were placed in the mails
today by City Clerk Harley j. Tur-
ner, reminding local taxpayers they
have $4,000 bill to settle with
the city.
If a taxpayer pays his tax in full
by September Is he is entitled to
a two percent discount. He has the
opportunity, however, to pay in
two equal installments, September
Is and March Is.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-22
new CANNERY AT
HYDABURG HAVING
successful RUN

The new Indian cooperative can
merry at Hydaburg is runniuo full
blast, operating with an all-Native
crew, P. j. Fitzsimmons, Credit Ag-
ent for Indian Corporations, said
today on his return from the village.
To prove that the cannery was
actually in operation, Fitzsimmons
brought home case of its product
with him on the Columbia.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-22
LEGION ELECTS
FIVE DELEGATES

Afford John Bradford Post of
the American Leion will be repre-
sented at the department conven-
ton at Fairbanks September to
9, by five delegates elected here last
night
They are Steve Vukovich, An
thony E. Karnes, Trevor Davis,
Frank Metcalf and John New
man.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-22
GRAND JURY TO
CONVENE OCT. 4

An order setting the Ketchikan
court term for September rs and
directing the Grand Jury to con-
vene October and the Petit Jury
October IL was signed today by
District Judge George F. Alexan-
der and announced by Clerk Ro-
bert Coughlin.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-22
STROECKER SOUTH

Billy Stroecker, son of E. H. Stree
wer. President of the First National
Bank in Fairbanks, passed through
Juneau last night on his way to
college in New Mexico for his final
year there. He will return to his
home in Fairbanks next June.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-22

terms in the Territorial Senate
where he fathered Alaska's first
revenue act.
Helped Build Ketchikan
For three decades he played an
active role in the building of Ket-
chikan and for many years was
president of a Ketchikan bank. He
was interested in dozens of other
enterprises but in recent years had
liquidated many of his interests.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-22
LOSES RACE WITH DEATH

KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 22.-
Unaware that his race with death
was lost, Dr. Phillip Won Prul,
heart specialist. and Pilot Bell
Dewe, of Seattle, flew in last night
from Seattle and were then told of
the passing of Mr.. Hickman.
The two expect to return to Sc
attic sometime today, weather per-
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-22
Baker
Succeeds
Booking

SEATTLE, Aug. 22.-The Alas
ka Steamship Company announces
the appointment of L. w. Baker
as General Manager, effective Sep
TENDER l.
Baker will succeed Charles Book
ing, resigned. Baker has been Book
ing's assistant
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-22
ZIEGLER VACATIONS

A. H. ziegler, prominent Ketchi-
kan attorney, and Mrs. ziegler, are
spending their vacation at the Bell
Isle health resort.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-22
M. J. 0'C0NN0R
dies SUDDENLY,
SO. BELLINGHAM

M. j. O'Connor, long time resi-
dent of Douglas and former mayor
of the Island town, died today in
South Bellingham, according to a
radiogram received by Customs
Collector ]. J. Connors from Archie
Shiels. O'Connor underwent an OPP
Grafton last week and was believed
to be recovering.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-22
TWO KILLINGS
STIR SHANGHAI,
new FLARE-UP
japanese British tension
Increased by Another
Incident

SHANGHAI, Aug. 22.-Killing OF
two pro-Japanese Chinese policemen
and wounding of five others by a
British policeman threatens to de-
velop into another major Japanese
British incident.
The japanese Army and Navy
representatives held an emergency
meeting.
The British policeman, w. L. Kim
loch, is under heavy guard in the
hospital in the British settlement.
The police report is that the adj
versaries were in plain clothes and
fired at Kinloch.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-22

The Book ALASKA, Revised and
Enlarged. Now On Sale; S1.O0.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-22

SHANGHAI, Aug. 22.-The Jap
anese- controlled Shanghai Municipal
Council has demanded jurisdiction
over the so-called western extern
sion" of the International Settle
ment.
The western extension was the
scene of a clash on Saturday be-
tween group of Chinese policemen
from the Japanese held area and
a lone sentinel of the International
Settlement police. The japanese
area government demanded an apol-
ogy and punishment of the police
man. The sentinel killed two of the
Chinese and injured others with a
machine gun. He claimed that they
had fired first. The japanese gov
eminent also charged the officer
with patrolling outside the legal linn
its of the International Settlement.
The foreign settlement feared that
demands for control of the western
extension would be expanded later
to include the whole international
area.
Evening star., 1939-03-18

approximate Soles OF Stocks the NJ T. Stock Exchonoe
11:O0 AM -------- 100000 12U0 Noon - OiOO 900
sUnit Of trading 10 shares
bankruptcy receivershp
AS OF assumed by such COMPANIES
menrs based on the last quarterly declaration
noted
xd Ex dlV1dend Ex rights Also extras
year Cash or stock Accumulated dividends paid or de.
Evening star., 1939-03-18
FOREIGN Exchange

NEW YORK, March .1s R.-Rigorous
currencies BY various oficial stabilization
agencies bulwarked foreign exchange rates
against the sweep OF events IN Europe
An outstanding exceptAon to this was
another .O2 of cent drop IN the Swiss
franc in relation to the dollar. Rejecting
the tension that encircles international
money centers, the Swiss money continued
% a plunge Started earlier in the week.
without any apparent intervention by
'"I Future discourits-the price of foreign
currencies deliverable at later date.
continued 10 widen however. Discount q
the 0O-day forward pound sterling was 27s
cents. against about 2 cents YESTERDAY.
Late rates follow: Great Britain in
dollars. others in cents. Great Britain.
eresl t:ssH; in eSeaa|Y New YorE o sss7 cansda New
York in Montreal. 1OO.62h; Belgium.
1882; Denmark. 2O.91; Finland, 2.OS;
France. 264,.; Germany, 40.13: benevo-
lent 81 10; travel. .21. 80: Greece. .S61 "a;
Hungary. 1885: Italy. 5.26A: Yugoslayia.
2.33: Netherlands. 53.0S; Norway: 1888;
Poland. 1898; Portugal. ,4:254: Rumsnia.
ssxitseriand sSsi s1aa 'ss: Arssntlns 81 :s5n
27.32: Hong KONG, 29; II; shanEhai 16 20:
Rates IN spot cables uuless otherwise
indicated. a Nominal
Evening star., 1939-03-18
u. S. Treasury Notes
tReported By Smith. Barney a Ce)
London. Bar Gold

LONDON. March Is 1o.-Bar gold. 1883
61sd. up VI penny. Equivalent, S34.7s)
Bar silver. 20d. OF V. Equivalent. 42.14
Evening star., 1939-03-18
Stock Averages
By VICTOR EUBANK,


NEW YORK, March 1S.-Traders
subject to war nerves" dumped
stocks in today's market and lead
ing issues, at the worst. added / to 5
points to their sharp relapse of the
preceding session. Prices improved
substantially before the close. how
ever, as the opinion gained ground
that the sell-off may have been
overdone.
Pressure of offerings was pro-
nounced at the opening. with blocks
Of 1000 to 5000 shares changing
hands. Activity dwindled somewhat
subsequently. but the turnover Of
approximately 10000 900 shares was
one of the largest for any Saturday
since last November 2.
While virtually all departments
offered in the initial slump, air.
crafts were notably resistant. ap-
parently deriving support on the be-
lief the latest German march to the
East would speed up rearmament
programs of the democracies, even
If general hostilities are avoided at
the moment.
Prime Minister Chamberlain's
speech to his English constituents
late Friday probably brought home
to Wall Street more than ANYTHING
else the seriousness of the outlook
abroad although. Notwithstanding
the stiffening of the attitude of the
non-totalitarian states in the cur
rent crisis, some observers were still
OF the opinion real explosion is
not in the cards.
Amsterdam, the only important
overseas market open today, pointed
downward but inclined to steady
before the finish. Offerings of
American securities from foreign
holders, New York commission
houses reported, were comparative.
ly light.
Some analysts advanced the
thought the technical position of
the domestic market had been bet
tered materially in view of the fact
large part of the February-March
advance had been Cancelled, with
many stocks lowering in the neigh
oorhood OF their January lows.
Conspicuous shares on the slide
included U. S. Steel Bethlehem.
General Motors, Chrysler, Westing-
mouse, Du Pont, Johns Manville.
v. 5. Gypsum, Sears Roebuck, U. S.
Rubber, Philip Morris, American
Telephone, Sante Fe, Standard OH
OF N. j.. American Smelling and
International Harvester.
Glenn Martin and United Air
craft were among the few issues
managing to post small advances.
Dropping fractions to points or
more in the curb were Electric Bond
d Share, American Gas g. Electric,
Newmont and American Cyanamid
B" Lockhead countered the trend
with fractional rise.
Evening star., 1939-03-18
Washington Produce

BUTTER-eO score. tub. 25: e2 score.
lr,n,a 1rpSund 10 prints 2s; tub p; "-pound
MEATs-.choice beef, 10: good beef, 1s:
calves. 20: lambs 49, veal. 49,: pork loin.
1s; smoked regular ham. "a; smoked
skinned ham, 90; large smoked skinned
ham. %: bacon. sliced. -2S: bacon. piece
%; compound 10; pure lard, 3;
IvESTOCK-Pigs. 120-14O pounds
e.l0-6.45: light pigs. 140,1 80 pounds, 6;45,
$780,. 100 pounds. 7.20-7.30; 21O.25O
pounds. 8.7O-6.aO: e5O-3OO pounds. 500
s65: ss.65: soxsa 1904 80; staes; $40 down;
Prices paid shippers. net fob. Washing
tor, BY the United States Bureau OF Asri-
EddsEMaTket steady. Government
2; US g; extras isrxe: 20: q. g: extras me
standards. mediums. IA; U. 8. trades. 13.
Nearby ungraded eggs: Current receipts.
LIVE e0uLIKY; Y;..Msrkst steady: Fowl:
13: Ieghorns. 13 to 10; roosters. 10 to IL.
Chickens: Virginia Rocks. broilers and fry
ers. all sizes. .16 to 20: No. 2s. IL to l3:
Delaware Rocks and crosses: Broilers and
mixed colored fryers. 15 to 16.
Evening star., 1939-03-18
Metal Market

steady; electrolytic spot. 1925: export.
1O.l5-20. Tin steady; spot and nearby.
1890: forward; $3.50: Lead steady; spot,
Zinc steady: East st. Louis spot and for
ward. $50. Pig iron. aluminium. antimony.
quicksilver, platinum and Chinese wolf.
Evening star., 1939-03-18
Federal lund Banks

NEW YORK. March 1s R.-Federal
Land Rank bonds.
Evening star., 1939-03-18
New York Bank Stocks

NEW YORK. March 1s LR.-Investment
ponkeru Conference, Inc.
Evening star., 1939-03-18
Chicago Stock Market

:. CHICAGO March Is lP.-Follovine Is
me complete list of transactions on the
Chicago Stock Exchange today:
Sales. STOCKS High Low c1oss
Evening star., 1939-03-18
Dividends Announced

NEW YORK. March 1s.-Diyidends de-.
clared. Prepared by Fitch Publishing Co.
Accumulated
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08
Plaque Offered
Winning 4-Man
Golf Team

A plaque, to be awarded to the
club scoring most points in the
four-man team golf matches sched-
uled to start one week from Sun
day, was offered Friday by the Coca
Cola Bottling works.
Teams from Barbara Worth, Yu-
ma, Del Rio and the International
club will compete in the four-man
matches. -Four players will be chosen
from each club and will play in
foursomeS matching best players
from each club against other No.
players. No. 2, 3, and players will
compete in other foursomes.
Players will compete against each
other in the foursome on nassau
point basis. Low scorers in each
foursome will win an additional
three points.
The plaque, which will be put on
display at the Barbara Worth club,
will be perpetual award. The team
winning the plaque three times will
gain permanent possession.
The first match is scheduled in
Yuma.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08
-By HENRY MCLEMORE-

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, Dec. 8.
tUP)-Every once in a while I
have a profound thought. 1t is easy
for me to recognize when these
spells are coming on. feel dizzy
and have a ringing in my ears that
even others can hear blocks away.
The symptoms struck me this
morning when I read in the news
paper that Georgia Tech and Mis-
souri, had agreed to play in the
Orange Bowl, that Tulane and the
Texas Aggies had signed contracts
for the Sugar Bowl, and that Ten
nessee and Southern California
were only waiting until late Satur-
day afternoon to pledge themselves
to the Rose Bowl.
The profound thought that hit me
was this: Amateur athletes are
either the biggest philanthropists or
the biggest suckers in the world.
Each day, each month, each year,
the boys who can play at sport, and
play it well, contribute their SER
vices for nothing or for a pitiful
pittance.
Take the three bowl games, for
example. The three of them will
make, and this is a conservative eS-
innate, upwards of three quarters
of a million dollars. And how much
of that will the players get9 Prac-
tically none. outside of train ride
and maybe $40 or SIS spending
money. They will contribute their
strength and skill for nothing. They
will get bopped on the head Kicked
in the shins, whacked in the shoul-
der blades and banged hip and
thigh, without remuneration.
1t doesn't add up, quite. The
school whose team plays in the
Rose Bowl clears 100000, enough
to take care of a football squad for
10 years. A Sugar Bowl team is
worth around $4,000 to the school
it represents, and an Orange Bowl
team around $4,000. That's quite
a bit of money for boys to con-
tribute each year. How many phil
anthropists do you know who are
so generous? 1t is particularly gen
erous on the part of the football
players in the light Of the fact that
most of them are so in need of
money themselves that they have to
have help to get through school,
All the boys have III the bank, so
to speak, is youth and strength and
skill, and they give of it with a
lavish hand.
To whom? To the schools and
the athletic associations and the
chamber of commences. And what
does that make of the schools and
the athletic associations and the
chambers of commences? Just this:
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08
Bench Warming
By Burdette Kinne
Post Press Sports Editor

good setup at San Jose and the
prospects for the future are none
too bright at Stanford -.
The largest crowd of the season
100000 persons, will witness Satur-
days UCLA-USC game in the COL
iseum . The chips are on the
line for this one because the re-
ward for victory is the conference
title and the Rose Bowl game.
The Trojans are favored but any
thing can happen With Wash
ington and Robinson in the UCLA
backfield the Bruins are apt to cut
loose to score more than once .
and from any spot on the field
Troy's chances depend upon how
serious this injury business is
1t may be pre-game strategy on
Jones part
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08
MARKET QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK STOCKS

NEW YORK, Dec. .. lUP)-
Stocks made an irregular decline in
trading today.
steel stocks dropped more TINA
cations that the operating rate next
a point and then recovered on indi-
week would return to above "a per
cent of capacity for an all-time rec
ord ingot output on a tonnage basis.
Railroad issues eased to small
act losses. Fractional declines were
noted in Santa Fe, Chesapeake e.
Ohio, New York Central and Penn
sylYania.
International business machines
gained more than a point On one
Transaction. Continental can also
rose more than a point and smaller
advances wer enoted in Allis Chal-
mers. Consolidated Edison, Mont
gomery ard, Public Service of New
Jersey and Kennecott.
Dow Jones preliminary closing
vera ges: Industrial, 1875, off OBS:
rail, 3191, off 0.32; utility 25.03 off
Ill; IS stocks 1894, off 0.32.
stock sales approximated $4,000
shares against 100000 in the pre-
vious session. Curb stock sales were
1900 compared with $4,000 yes
terday.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08
Today's Sports Parade

Out and out promoters, with exact
ly the same footing in their business
that Mike Jacobs has in boxing.
Football players aren't the only
amateurs who contribute. Not by
any means. Think of the money
that Tilden and Bulge and Vines
and Perry and all the other tennis
amateurs have made for the tennis
associations of the world. The boys
managed to get a little of it here
and there, what with pad on the
expense account, but not much of
it. And there are the baseball play
ers, and the hockey players, and
the basketball players who, with
the wild growth of that game, must
have made millions and millions for
someone.
1 don't have any particular con-
clusion to draw to all this, unless it
be that the goose who laid the
golden eggs was just piker COM
pared to the amateur athletes of
today. They are the real golden
geese.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08
Stanford Looms
As New Power
In Track Wars

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal,
Lee. s. lUP)-Has anyone told
Coach Dean Cromwell of Southern
California the bad news? Coach
Brutus Hamilton of California al
ready is in on the secret. and he
admits he's scared
The news is Stanford will pre-
sent a well-rounded track and field
team in the spring that will cause
Coach Cromwell considerable un-
easiness. The Indians aren't ex-
actly planning on beating Troy
this year but they would be the
last to admit their surprise if they
did.
While Coach Hamilton sat in the
stands with his own split-second
chronometer and arched his eye
brows, the Indians, coached now
by gray haired Bill Ellington, turn
ed in the following performances
in the usual fall championships:
Mile run-Marston Girard, min
utes, 172 seconds.
Half mile-Paul Moore, l minute,
900 StCOllllo,
Quarter mile-Craig Williamson,
48.9 seconds.
900 yards-Williamson again, 223
seconds.
High iump-Russ Wulff, 6 feet,
8 and three -eighths inches.
Pole vault-Bob Kenyon, 13 feet.
Two miles-Jack Moore, 8 minutes
44.8 seconds.
High hurdles-Dick Simpson, 1872
seconds, in a walk.
Clyde Jeffrey, the Riverside
white hope ran special exhibi-
tion-352 yards in 1863 seconds, the
first 220 yards of which he covered
at an easy lope in 21.5 seconds.
The beefy weight men like Stan
Andersen, Hampton Pool, Trout
and Braheny are still on a sleeper
Jump from New York, but Stanford
can usually count on more than
It's share of points in the shot
and discus. Andersen already is Gre
dited with a mark of ITO feet in
the discus this fall.
1t didn't take crystal ball to
inform the track followers that
Stanford will be well represented
on the 1910 Olympic team-if the
OlympicS are staged at all.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08
Junior Varsity
Football Team
Honored at Dinner

El Centre high schools junior
varsity football team, champions OF
the valley Bee league, were honored
Thursday night at chicken dinner
served at the Sterling Oswalt home
Forty youngsters. football play
ers who will carry the hopes of
e Certro in next years grid cam
paign attended the dinner. Also
present were Coach Larry Hanson,
Coach Bill Maxwell and Guy Weak
ley, school principal.
The boys presented Coach Han
son with a football sweater in ap-
probation of his work with the
junior varsity players.
The junior varsity footballers de-
feated Calexico, walloped Brawley
twice, tied Yuma, and dropped q
1918 decision to Imperial varsity.
The jayvees clinaxed their season
with a 300 triumph over Calipatria
varsity.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-08
Sports Shots

Milton Console and Yoneo Yoshi-
mura tied for the chicken eating
championship at the junior varsity
football dinner the other night
Said Coach Hanson: IF these boys
are as tough in football next year
as they are in this chow league,
look out. you Bulldogs" 49,.
Thursday nights football banquet
was a farewell to football for an
other season and sent Imperial VAL
ley athletes on to another sport
basketball
Calexico's defending champion
basketeers will reign as favorites
until proven otherwise Brawley
win rate second in the preseason
reckoning El Centro's Spartans,
long dominant power in basket
ball, will rate third this season
Imperial, Holtville and Calipatria
are apparently in only for the ride. d.
They're still having fun over the
wrestling deal in El Centro If
the permit goes through all of this
ballyhoo will aid the gate at the
opening show After that the
promoters will have to think of
some new angles to attract the
crowds i. Wrestling has never set
any outstanding attendance records
in the Imperial Valley 6. An in
side arena, however, may solve the
problem of drawing crowds :.
Did you know that El Centre was
a miniature Bagdad? That's what
the Sporting News, national base
ball weekly, called Imperial Valleys
county seat in an article this week.
The story dealt with the winter ac-
tivities of Rip Russell who winters
here
Tiny Thornhill is about to get
the gate at Stanford, if rumors from
the north are to be needed Just
the life of coach In his first
three years at Stanford he worked
wonders . 8. He was lauded as the
best of best Then his material
slumped bit and he hit losing
streak :. Now it's the old story
It's win or else
Dud DeGroot, San Jose mentor,
apparently has the inside track on
the job 1t might be that he will
refuse the position because he has