The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 23, 1943, Page 3

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1943~ = 'FALCON" STORY 10 END TONIGHT, " CAPITOL SCREEN o E——————es— TONIGHT! George Sanders again brings that | debonair detective, The Falcon, to FRIDAY—SATURDAY | the screen in “A Date With the | Falcon,” a new and thrilling exploit —iige T NSAR SPEED! RHYTHMIROMANCE! || ¢ wichael Arien's fictional sieuth, N i || with Wendy Barrie once more shar- | ing top honors as The Falcon’s im- | patient finance. The picture is howing for the last time tonight at | the Capitol Theatre. | The strange disappearance of a {noted inventor, who has devised a | method of making artificial dia- | monds, forms the basis of the plot. On the verge of going to the altar (with his talented bride, The Falcon | postpones the wedding in favor of | investigating the matter—especially |after an attractive mystery girl re- { veals herself as involved in the | affair, e | Comedy has been injected into the ip]ov. to an exceptional degree, and | the_engaging quality of The Fal- | con’s activities makes the offering! distinctive among mystery films. Sanders and Miss Barrie are teamed for the fifth time, the latter having played opposite the tall Brit- |ish actor in three “Saint” vehicles. |James Gleason plays' the police in- | cpector, and Allen Jenkins The Fal- (con’s nervous aide, while Mona | Maris is the gang’s “lure” to entrap | The Falcon. | Howard Benedict produced for i AND ||| “SIN TOWN" with CONSTANCE BENNETT BROD CRAWFORD Preview Tonight Frank Fenton writing the screen play. Irving Reis directed. e lppe i Show Place of Juneau | | BacBY wanisTo | Passes Away CHANGE MANAGER Author of “Three Weeks,” HE TELLS PRESS ‘Yci:anWho Taught Star . fo Make Love, Dies BOSTON, Sept. 23.—Pitcher Jim! _ Bagby says “I'm tired of being made | LONDON, Sept. 23—Elinor Glyn, the goat” in everything that hap- well known novelist, is dead at the pens to the Cleveland Indians and | age of 78 after an illness of several he doesn’t want to play next year if | weeks. ; Lou Bourdreau manages the club. | The writer established a literary The slim righthander won 16 reputation by her novel of “Three games this season. He declared he Wecks” but was perhaps equally had been. singled out for criticism' Well known as the woman who by Boudreau. i taught Rudolph Valentino, famous Bagby allowed only two hits ns‘stm' of the silent movies, how to the Indians beat the Detroit Tigers make screen love . Sunday. | M SR . AT o T e Boudreau says “Jim and I haven't COOKED FOOD SALE seen eye to eye on some things. But, By Junior “Trinity Guild, Sat. so long as he can pitch that kind Sept. 25, 11 am. At Bert's Cash of ball I'd be silly to trade him.” ' Grocery. NEW STOCK Floor Lamp Reflector Bowls ALL SIZES Floor Lamp Breakage Replacemenis * Alaska Electric Light and Power _Company Juneau Phone616 Douglas Phone 18 |RKO Radio, with Lynn Root and| SENATORS YESTERDAY Pennant Hopes as Yanks Win (By Associated Press) The St. Louis Browns yesterday | nipped the Washington' Senators’ | victory streak at 10 straight by walloping the Senators in the second game of an American League doubleheader after being shut out in the first game. | This loss to Washington, coupled with the Yankees' win over Detroit, |virtually wipes out the Senators’ |pennant hopes. With 10 games to | go, they are trailing by nine games. The New York Yankees edged closer to another cgampionship with a victory over Detroit as Charley {Keller collected his twenty-ninth homer. The Chicago White Sox blasted |out a first game victory over Phila- delphia, then squeezed out a second | victory on Ralph Hodgins' double. i | GAMES WEDNESDAY | National League | Philadelphia 1, 3; Chicago 5, 0. New York 2, 10; Cincinnati 4, 4. St. Louis 4; Brooklyn 3. Boston 5; Pittsburgh 3. American League Detroit 2; New York 4. Chicago 6, 2; Philadelphia 0, 1. St. Louis 0, 9; Washington 4, 1. ! STANDING OF CLUBS National League Won Lost 95 46 6 65 % 65 69 K] 6 82 87 674 .539 St. Louis Brooklyn Cincinnati Pittsburgh Boston Chicago Philadelphia New York | American League Won Lost 89 56 81 63 6 64 2 0 2 70 67 % 63 8 46 94 524 457 427 383 Pct. 614 563 543 507 507 472 447 329 | New York Washington Cleveland | Detroit Chicago St. Louis Boston Philadelphia COOPERS WIN OVER DODGERS Braves Takes Pittsburgh- Reds Split with New Yorkers (By Associated Press) { Butch Etchison’s double after an ferror and a walk, and Nate An- |drews' single, drove in three Bos- ton runs in the eighth inning yes- terday to give the Braves a Na- tional League victory over the Pitts- burgh Pirates. Meanwhile, the Cooper brothers proved too much for the Brooklyn Dodgers as the St. Louis Cardinals | squeezed out a triumph that shaved Brooklyn's second place margin to |a half game. Mort Cooper got his twenty-first victory against eight | defeats, and Walker Cooper drove in three runs with four hits, one a homer. Pet.| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA LOSE OUT Loss fo Browns Knocks BEACH 1D EA_Esther Wil- liams, former swimming star now in the movies, models a one-piece swim suit in this sea- side photo. The outfit combines " two shades of blue. IPHELAN TO OPEN SEASON AGAINST CALIFORNIA MEN SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. ;Ccllege has 32 players from a 460 isklmpy student body of 100, and is |tuning up a varsity team which (hasn’t had a lick of college exper- right end, Bob Gove, of Redwing, Minn., who played a season at Gus-| tavus Adolphus College. ,‘ All others on the squad are fresh- {men. The school has a heavy six- {game schedule including two with | Coast Conference teams. St. Mary’s |opens Saturday against California |at Berkeley. 23. —| 536 |Coach Jimmy Phelan of St. Mary's |ience except for a second string| SEALS MEET SEATTLE IN CUPFINALS Winner of Four Out of Seven Will Carry 0ff£qphy (By Associated Press) Fresh from a four-game victory and the elimination of the pennant winning Los Angeles club, the Seat- tle Rainiers take on the San Fran- cisco Seals in the finals of the Shaughnessy playoff today. | The two téams will play four out lof seven, the winner taking the President’s Cup and $5,000, the loser | getting $2,500. All the money will ‘be divided among the players. | Carl Fischer, veteran southpaw, I was to hurl the opener for Seattle {and Hal Sueme will catch. Skipper | Frank O'Doul of the Seals was un- certain whether to start Tom Seats, | lefthander, or “Cowboy” Ray Har- | rell, righthander. | W THOUSANDS ALK GOING 10 OFFICES | | | Stage Walkout in | Rockefeller Center NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—Thousands of office workers trudged up end- less flights. of stairs today as several hundred maintenance employees of | the Rockefeller Center continued the walkout which started just before | the rush hours last night. The union spokesman said the walkout was caused by the dis- | charge of eight or more women clenners because of “tyrannical treat- ment of women cleaners” by Ruth Wierson, head floor lady. OTHERRAIDS CARRIED OUT Damaged Heavily in Atfack (Continued from Page One) {ly concentrated attack was com- pleted in 30 minutes, leaving very large fires and smoke rising to a great heighth,” a communique said. Smaller British bomber forma- itions also attacked Port Emden in the extreme northwest corner of Germany. Oldenburg, big railroad center, also was attacked. | Flying Fortresses, streaking across |the channel at dawn, even before the British formations returned, at- tacked the naval installations at Nantes, and two airfields. Following up yesterday's attacks,| Marauders of the U. 8. Air Force attacked airfields at Conches, 60 | BY BOMBERS | {Big Nazi Industrial City Is‘ It’s the canny Maintenance Workers thing to do_! MUSICAL DRAMA 1S NOW SHOWING AT 20TH (ENTURY' A novel dramatic story, a highly talented cast and a musical score that is sweet, hot and lowdown, add up to a tasty dish of enfertainment | and that is just what the 20th Cen- | tury Theatre is serving in their cur- | rent picture, “Blues in the Night."| Far off the beaten track of musical film formula, the Warner Bros. pro- | | duction has something brand new |to say and sing, and they've done| it in a brand new way | “Blues in the Night" takes the premise that a group of sincere young jazz musicians will go through, well, high water, anyway, to play the kind of music they be- lieve in, the blues that they've heard in the back streets of Memphis or | down on New Orleans waterfront. | And the musicians, as portrayed by | Richard Whorf, Priscilla Lane, Elia| | Kazan, Billy Halop and others, | make this a highly believable prem- | Two .of the nation’s best known| jazz bands, Jimmy Luncford's and; Will Osborne’s, contribute immen- | sely to the musical sequences of the truly fine and unusual film. e {0ld Guard of GOP Opens Door; Young | | Men Now Admilledi (Continued from Page One) | | ernmental administration reform committee, and Gov. Earl Warren, jof California, also high in the list |of “liberal” presidential possibili- | ties, was given chairmanship of the | social security and welfare com- | mittee. Scattered through the committees | Where they can kick a lot of dust in the eyes of the, Old Guard if they have a mind to, were such jothers as Arizona National Commit- teeman Kelland; Missouri Rep. Louis E. Miller; New Jersey Com- mitteeman H. Alexander Smith; Michigan Willkieite, Mts. Dudley Hay; Governors Dwight Griswold, | of Nebraska, and Earl Snell, of Ore- gon; and Rep. Charlie Halleck, of | Indiana, among others. TR RN | PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY Have a portrait artist take your | picture. Hamersley Studio. Opposite Federal Bullding. Phone 204. adv. Dt S RICHARD WiloRF new discovery!) Directed by ANATOLE UTVAK ] % ~ PAGE THREE] NOW PLAYING!? (S CENTURY The kind of drams you feel deep down.« like a woman's heart cryin’ for her man! A different kind of « musical! - WILL OSBORNE um s, " ‘om swoet JIMMY LUNCEFORD we s cuckin’ ‘om volid | Berean Play by Robert Rossen + From & Play by Edwin Qlibert AMERICANS, - JAPS T0 BE EXCHANGED MONTEVIDEO, Sept. 23. — The l‘*swedlsh liner Gripsholm sailed with more than 160 Jap diplomats, busi- nessmen and journalists from the 'Unlud State sand Chile enroute to Gioa in Portuguese India, where the diplomatic exchange will be made with North and South American residents from the Far Ea |GAR TO MEET AGAININ 44 14 AR ¥ | MILWAUKEE, Wis. Sept. 3. Come peace or .ontinued war the Grand Army of the Republic, €% erans of the Civil War, will rna | again, rejecting the proposal to | continue the annual encampmen{s for the duration of the war. g The veterans chose DesMoinesTd the 78ik meeting ‘nest year. George, Jones, 94, of Oxfort Maine, has been named Commal er-In-Chief. b TRETCH y;)ur food rations. Can everything that is plentiful. It’s The Chicago Cubs and the Phila- miles west of Paris. | delphia Phillies split a doubleheader,| The British night raid on Han- Claude Passeau chalking up hisiover’s big industrial concentration| fifteenth victory in the opener. The are refineries, locomotive and tank Phillies took the second behind the|yorks, and the Continental Gum- six-hit pitching of Al Gerhauser. |iiyerke Germany’s largest rubber Elmer Riddle gained his twen-lg ... tieth victory as the Cincinnati Reds | overcame Bill Voiselle’s four-hit/ pitching to beat the New York Giants in the opener. The Giants won the second game by overcom- ing a 9 to 2 Cincinnati lead and knocking “Bucky Walters out of the box with a five-run rally. PITT TAKES ON IRISH SATURDAY PITTSBURGH, Sept. 23.—Coach Clark Shaughnessy of Pitt has landed the first crying punch for| Saturday’s game between the Pan- thers and the Irish of Notre Dame., “If Notre Danfe doesn’t beat us by! at least 30 points, it ought to goj back home shamed,” he said. 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