The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 23, 1944, Page 3

MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1944 TECHNICOLOR FILM NOW ON, CAPITOL SHOW Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the com- pany which gave film audiences the first great all-star picture, “Grand Hotel,” and presented the star- studded casts again in “Dinner at Eight” and “The Great Ziegfeld,” does it once more in the lavish MICKEY ROONEY JUDY GARLAND RED SKELTON GENE KELLY THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE TIES AND UPSETS ARE FEATURES OF | (By Assoc! l.\trd Press) ful Navy Satur 17 to 15, It rolled to victory , Technicolor musicale, “Thousands | tied. KATHRYN GRAYSON Cheer,” the film which is now| Outrushed 221 yards to minus| ANN SOTHERN showing at the Capitol Theatre, |six, the Enineers climaxed an \lp‘; ph\m R P contains virtually every star on|hill struggle with a 20-yard fiel Eégfi:g&o?}gf;!- the M-G-M lot, the studio of big}]3zoal, made by Allen Bowen, thus ¥ stars. winning a tally, and then they re MARY ASTOR | Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, pelled the last-minute Navy drive.| JOHMN BOLES Mary Astor and John Boles hl’il(]! Holding the downs on the one the cast in the delightful tale of vard line, Notre Dame, the coun- $ JOSE ITURBI . b the Army officer's daughter who |try's number one eleven, enter. MARSHA HUNT undertakes a morale job at her tained a home-town crowd Satur VIRGINIA O'BRIEN |father's camp and falls in love day, overcoming stubborn Wiscon- with an ex-circus performer and!'sin, 28 to 13. The Beavers were|gaid, DONNA REED proceeds to make him the best 'the first to cross the Irish goal | high deg MARGARET O'BRIEN |soldier in camp. |(m\ season. gantic In the course of the film a gi-| The Army, number two team na- USO show is presented to |tionally, ran wild, piling up a 76 to The Rambling Wrecks from |sev Georgia Tech wrecked the power-|cific Co was college «football upset day as emerged with Notre Dame, Army and Ohio State {rom threshing out internal affalrs,the Eddie Alber unbeaten and un- O @ give-and-take basis, that noth-|ying picture that is now ~JUNEAU, ALASKA kom LEAGUE T0 FIGHT 10 GET IN LOS ANGELES, Oct. 23 — For en hours executives of the Pa- t Baseball League sweated a closed n + and a statement, aside through ed and the ing had been accomplis 1945 schedule had not been dl':\fl(‘d.} ion of the length of the *ason was not attended to, draft price which is now Then, President Clarence |Rowland told, it was reported, “we |are going to Buffalo, New York, on December ninth for the meet of the National Association of Baseball Clubs in a body.” That is all from n official viewpoint, anything else that follows is strictly unofficial, he The g nor the 500 HAS THRILLS, FUN| LAST TIMES WEEKEND GAMES ~ MAJOR LEAGUE AT 0TH (ENTURY | Who prot from the lad supposed protect? That query is one plot posers in Paramount's he lively | comedy thrille y Bodyguard,” Ann Shirley star- at the 20th Century. ‘Lady Bodyguard,” produced by ol C. Siegel and directed by Wil- about as this re- long time. including liam Clemens, is just suspenseful a fun film viewer has seen in a It has swell cast, Maude arne, * Edward " Jady bodyguard | to | of the | as || Brophy, | Roger Pryor and Raymond Wal- | burn, and an unusual story that | revolves around a million dollar insurance policy on the life of PAGE THREE } uby BODYGUARD' s 720 [ENTURY TONIGHT! i and perhaps speculative to a tddie Albert, who's cast as a test| . but—Rowland, recog- | Pilot for airplane company Issued as a publicity stunt for the the bu. mmu\‘ o RAYMOND WALBURN - D noruv Directed by WILLAM CLEMENS - Scroen Ploy Hertmenn and At Ahur + A Paramou - IIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIlIIIlIIllIIIIIIII|IIIIIIIIIIII!ImlIIIIIIIIIIIImlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII s one of the shrewdest men a ten-year contract insurance company, affairs of the Coast Policy has a trio of unsav hat check girl, nized {in baseball h to direct the a h.\r» |the boys in camp. Among those |0 score on the United States Coast | League. |act a |who appear in the many acts are |Guard Academy team, which pre-| He has a long-range program for tender and a broken down acto Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Red |viously had lost only to Yale. the League. It embraces recognition|as beneficiaries. This unholy three, c 0 L l s E " M St J u N E A u g | Skelton, Eleanor Powell, Ann Sou-| Ohio State exploded three touch- 0! the Leegue as the third major|as might be expected, try to get | thern, Lucille Ball, Virginia O'Brien, |downs in the last quarter to break (XH’\IIIIIJH(I he is going to fight for rid of Eddie so they can collect! Frank Morgan, Lena Home, little|a six to six deadlock and whip|il The Club owners are solidly|on the policy. | A' 9 G d P T e e e 42 0 5, ek BB tenina nim, and’ they. Nava £HB| Anie.s aa’ bORAlEy | wbeon ' 10F WAYS 4 00 well and Marsha Hunt and many |Horvath caught the fire in me“""“ ’y to see the mmg through. ;lh(‘ msuramo firm, has the loh 1 others. Kay Kyser and his or-|final period and sparked the Buck- ‘Olf k(!‘Pm‘L Eddie kllfl“ll hl:;" dl\d 1y E‘..., chestra, Bob Crosby and his or- |eyes to their fourth straight win. ‘HUSKIES 'I'o plAY that’s quite a task when the guy ‘, chestra, Benny Carter and his band | North Carolina Preflight, _the | o be guarded is a test piot. with | "I IIIHINOIOIORRO AR RRRRA RN RN RRRRRRR O are among others who also per- |only other team of the top 10 in| lkl”(’“ on his trail. T form. | the country to play, barely squeak- | FIRSI (ONFEREN(E “Lady Bodyguard” is fast and| |ed by the Georgia Preflighters. A | funny, with plenty of thrills and 4 field goal from the eight-yard line| |plenty of lomnnrt FOOTBALL SCORES Following are final scores of KAY KYSER’S ORCHESTRA ing the weekend: BOB CROSBY'S BAxD ! Lafayette 44, Lehigh 0. LENA HORN with Penn State 6, Colgate 0. z Muhlenberg 0, Villanova 7. BEN CARTER'S BAHD P o e Illinois 39, Pitt 5. Brown 24, Holy Cross 24, tie. Sampson Naval 6, Cornell 13. Georgia Pre-flight 0, S Metro- Golduwys - Wiager Picine SHOW ADDED ATTRACTIONS FEATURE |lina Pre-flight 3. o 2 Nebraska 0, Kansas 20. STARTE GOOFY in “HOW TO FI e | Texas Christian 13, Texas A&M 7P. M NEWS—Allies in Germany 7:20—6:50 > Tulsa 47, Mississippi 0. Delaware State 7, Howard 6. Indiana 14, Northwestern 7. VMI 2, Kentucky 26 Purdue 26, Towa 7. g Great Lakes 6, Ohio State 26. Coast Guard 0, Army 76. Navy 15, Georgia Tech 17. Michigan State 8, Maryland 0. Maine 13, New Hampshire 6. Tulane 16, Auburn 13. Texas 19, Arkansas 0. Oklahoma 68, Kansas State 0. Notre Dame 28, Wisconsin 13. Towa State 21, Missouri 21, tie. St. Mary's Pre-flight 21, UCLA 12, Fleet City 19, California 2. Utah 38, Idaho, Southern Branch 12. Colorado U. 28, Colorado College 0. Oklahoma A&M 33, Denver 21. Second Air Force 68, North Texas | Aggies 0. Alameda Coast Guard 19, Col- | lege of Pacific 0. Norman Naval Bombers 19, Am- | arillo Army Airfield 13. Southwestern Texas SHOWPLALE o Clunend There is no suhsmue for newspaper advernsmg' \ RN AT T Orders for Christmas Cards MUST BE PLACED NOT LATER THAN NOVEMBER 10 TO MAKE SURE OF DELIVERY State 19. Mississippi State 13, Louisi: Sample Cards May Be Seen Now iy oo Rice 21, Southern Methodist 10.| at the Wake Forest 21, North Carauna‘ 70. DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE 21, Texas Nevada 16, Utah State 7. be March Field 20, El Toro Marines 14, | Great Falls, Montana,,School of | ‘Mmes Navy, 19; Great Falls Army |Air Base 6. |5 UNDEFEATED TEAMS " IN SUCCESSFUL FIGHT FOR CHAMPIONSHIP | - } NEW YORK, Oct. 23—The Green | Bay Packers and the New York| Giants took a firmer grip on first Iplaces in the Western and Eastern |divisions of the National Profes-| sional Football League as 142,000 fans on Sunday watched five league games, in New York, Green Bay,| Philadelphia, Washington and Chi-| cago, in a battle of undefeated| | teams. E The Packers overpowered the surprising Cleveland Rams, 30 to| 21. The Rams took an early lead, but dropped behind as the Packers | | went ahead, 30 to 14. This was| |the Packers’ fifth straight win. | The Giants opened the home |season with Bill Paschal scoring | three touchdowns, drubbing the <Card-Pm. combination, 23 to 0. L A.MACHINISTS Meeis2nd & 4ih LOCAL 514 Mondays 8 p.m. IN THE A. F. OF L. HALL SPECIAL MEETING—EVERYONE ATTEND Just Received A Small Stock of Pottery Type TABLE LAMPS We Think Them Rather Nice Why Not Stop In 1o See Them? |experience, powered St. Mary’s Pre- by Buell St. Johns in the seven seconds left in the game kept the Cloudbusters in the undefeated class with a 3 to 0 win. It was 48 years coming, but |Kansas finally licked Nebraska | Saturday. The Jayhawkers turned | Towa State vs. Missouri; vs. Holy Cros: each put on a (hnl]mg offensive program Satur.‘uml\ of Southern California day, but finished even, and 24 to 24 for ties. Another last-period 21 to 21 ALASKA CLIPPERS IN CLOSE CONTEST WIN FROM SERVICE CLU EDMONTON, Oct. 23—The Al- aska Clippers, from the United States AAF here, defeated the) leading football games played dur- the trick with a 20 to 0 triumph. two games scheduled against Brown |fhern Division opponents. field goal |UP against weaker from the seven-yard line gave Tu-|lege teams. Next Saturday, Wash-, North Caro- lane a 16 to 13 win over Auburn.|ington plays the University of Cali- CONTEST TONIGHT LOS ANGELES, Oct. 23 — Thc University Washington Husku'\ |enter the | of football competition this week with | Sou- The Huskies will meet the Uni- Tro- ns here tonight to open the 1944 |conference season, after warming Northwest col- fornia at Berkeley. EPSOM DOWNS g COURSE ALMOST - TOTAL LOSS NOW LONDON — The English DPT‘)Y |Service Club of Fort Richardson, ‘\\11] not return to its home at Epsom ! Alaska, football 8 to 7 game in an played of 6,000. The game was played under Am- |“ erican rules. The Clippers were defeated 12 to 7 in the first game of the season by the Alaska Club, which scored two points on an automatic safety, roughed out on the second play of the game when a bad snap-back by Sgt. Stewart Norton dribbled over the Fort Richardson goal line. e PREFLIGHTERS WIN OVER UCLA BRUINS LOS ANGELES, Oct. Davis, Cadet, without any college football 23—Julius flight to a startling 21 to 12 up- set victory over the UCLA Bruins Davis was pretty much the whole show in the first three periods as he ripped through the UCLA line for long gains. Johnny Roesch, the Bruin’s cli- max runner, got going in the {fourth quarter and got away two touchdowns and a long punt and then returned and began shooting off-tackles for long gains. SUPERBOMBERS SMASH NORTH TEXAS AGGIES ODESSA, Texas, Oct. 23—Glenn Dobbs led the Second Airforce Superbombers to a smashing 68 to 0 triumph over the North Texas Aggies. The former Tulsa -All-Am- erican figured in six of the eleven exhibition | Downs until 1946 at at Clarke | The damage Stadium. The contest drew a crowd | of bombing 18-year-old Naval Aviation | the earliest. caused by four years rced neglect will not be repaired! at present due to the shortage of * | materials and labor. For another | year at least the Derby will be run/| at Newmarket. | Bombing of the famous race | course began in 1940 when a day- |light raid destroyed lunch rooms, kitchens and offices, main builcing and the water tanks |and blew the doors off the private | observation rooms. | Not a pane of glass was left any- }whexe and all iron railings were| taken for war materials years 1go Pacific Coast Cunlmon(c‘ and five years of vn-‘ smashed the ] HEEI (ITY IN EASY VICTORY OVER BEARS BERKELEY, Oct. 23—The |City Bluejackets, Fleet rated two to one| las “the underdogs, scored a com-| |paratively easy victory over the |Golden Bears of Califcraia. The score was 19 to 2. | California scored two pt |the opening period. Jee Buc ” tackle, blocked a punt and the ball bounded into the end zone for an automatic safety. After that | disaster overtook California. In the second period, Harmon |Roe of Texas intercepted a pass A few minutes later, Ed Feagan also of Texas, skirted around end |for 19 yards and another score was isustained. Line smashing netted the Lhnd counter STEAlS 68 BASES MEMPH!S - One armed Pete | Gray, the Southern Associauona ‘most valuable player” for 1944, pil-| fered 68 bases to tie the loop’s mod- ern base stealing mark held by | Hazen (Kiki) Cuyler, Atlanta man- ager, who set the record in 1928. | Going to bat 501 times for the Mem- | phis Chicks, Gray drove out 167 hits, including five homers, for an aver- age of .333. e S | Czechoslovakia possesses one of }the richest territories in Europe, land ran 60 yards for a touchdown. | both in natural resources and in in- "dustrial development. 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