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\ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1946 THE DAILY ALASKA E\'IPIRE—JU‘\EAU ALASKA 'COLONEL BLIMP' FEATURE SHOW AT CAPITOL TONIGHT fiere is An Adventurous Story with Daring Duels | ig-Game fiunts and igereus Life of a e B KBS H g One of the most timely and at the dier Draua atized Aning. fim 155210 4 viitten, produced and direc aichcal Powell and Emeric surger and is at cnight Press- the Capitol theatre e pizture, which rook, Deborah Kel , opens to, reveal the - of the Boer W ung British of! s are in of reratic arfa in Turk- sh L th, much to the annoyance erly “Colonel Blimp” of o nevertheless swallows when he s that one was decorated with s for bravery in an ting is young man, Clive Candy, ntly played by Roger Live- . quickly finds himself in more hot r when he gocs to Berlin to counteract false stories of Brit- ish atrocities in the Boer fighting In the CGerman capital he meets the teautiful young English wo- his rage of the singer the Victoria South A f 1 men, charmingly portrayed by the GCF glamcerov Deotorah Kerr, who presents wrote the l:tter revealing’ the cir- It's a witty, > ulation of the atrocity les. wonderful, Despite the youn, wise exposé for caution, Candy taunts the Ger- of the very man lion in his lair, bounces an private life old-fashioned British uppercut off of a man ¢ a few Teutonic chins and finds among men: umself in a duel with a Prussian ificer, also brilliantly played by Anton Walbrock. Both men are slashed in the fracas and later Le- come good friends in the hospital, lere the German meets and falls in love with the British girl. This is just about one-half of a most interesting story, so you ‘will have to s2e the remainder to enjoy it. atariing ANTON ROGER DEBORAH WALDROOK « LIVESEY . KERR - eee Playing cards made from cellu- los2 nitrate sheets are being man- ufact d—they will outlast 50 decks of ordinary cards. COLISEUM DOUGLAS TONIGHT Claudetie Colbert Ray Mnlland Ska Earl‘ I IIIIIJI!IIIIlIIIlIlIIIIlIIlIIIIII!Illllllllll!ll tracts d agreements with | kind, Depth Indi- hundreds of fishing tions coming for every type killed tech- e will be h will be d service, ped, with more instal vice item alcne is big; dio sales and service by ¥ sales of electr an ¢ r~ shing men, there are many things ofr e 1md in du cars should triple your investment and if not satisfied in one year your investment will be returned on or before the 1 18th month. I | i If interested it should be done at once. Only those who mean business reply, giving name and address. Box ".)89——]\ctdn an, Alaska YELLOW CAB C¢ PHONE 22 Courteous Drivers — Dependable Service 24-HOUR SERVICE “First Among Fine Whiskies"’ I ‘Walter Johnson "The Big Train,” Greai B. B. 'MOYER DECISIONS WELLS, 10 ROUNDS SEATTLE, Dec. 11.—Tommy Moy- er of Portland, held the Northwest " welterweight boxing crown today l'( er asses wa by virtue of his 10-round triumph [} last night over Johnny Wells, clever Seattle Negro. Each weighed 146 Neither battler had been defeat- ASHINGTON, ec. 11 — Two | Welser, Idaho. o 3 saddened by the passing of Walter | the wags said, “first in peace, first (".‘,"]"".m"f' d (\\'S '\",‘.‘f,' 1 e Johnson, the fireball thrower who|il War and last in the American FEVLE TOURC SHC HOH L0 COLNE ord book during his 21 years with | Pounder with the buggy whip right T‘,w.f' dmy: k"l kd i A the W wm“;‘hm‘ Senators. | arm won 413 games and lost 280. heok 1 "10"2 i ne Known as “The Blg Train” and| At one time or another he held mber of the game's official | JUSt about all the modern pitching (HAPELADIES "‘0 of fame, the kindly onetime | -°COrds some still stand sas farm boy died J;\_\k before But s ball club usually was deep He Wiis. /65 -years (ol 1924 did Johnson appear in his For eight months his life had |first World Series. The Senators pAR]Y ON DE( !1 been dimming irom a brain tumor | ¥R the League tille again in . which doctors dared not try to re- | 1925 Mrs. Nona Bowman and Mrs. B. lLieve by surgery. | Johnson’s 1ast ball had lost some Palmer, were co-hostesses at a In Washington, where he spent!of its hcp but he won three and meeting of the Chapeladies last his entire Big League piiching car- |.ost three in those two series. Af- evening at the Chapel-by-the-Lake. ecr, Johnson was almost as cele- | ter losing his two starts in 1924 In attendance were Mesdames brated as Presidents, Cabinet mem- | ne went back to the mound in a Bland, Jekill, Mielke, Hickey, Sr, bers and Supreme Court Justices. | velief role in the seventh and de- Donohue, Peterson, Smith and the During the time he lay dying ev- | ciding game. He won the game Co-hostesses for the evening. | en schoolboys unborn when he was | and with it Washington's ~only The next meeting, which will be, in his prime called the hospital championship. their annual Christmas party, will| to ask how he was doing. ! Johnson left the Senators after be held on December 17. The party Clark Griffith, 76-year-old Presi- | the 1927 season to pilot Newark Will take place at the Jekill home, dent of the up for the mirers today when he said: “He was the greatest pitcher of all time,” with Mrs. Charles Dobbins and Mrs.] Stanley Jekm as co-hostesses. i -ee - | | HOSPITAL NOTES summed it :n the International League. He nd—‘rvcurncd to the capital as man- ager of the Senators in 1929-1932 and ended his baseball days as ' manager of the Cleveland Indians Senators, lanky Johnson's Johnson, whose boyhood was ' in 1933-35. St. Ann's Hospital admitted John spent on a farm near Humboldt,| He farmed near Germantown, Hayes for medical attention yester- Kas, came to the Senators in' Md. until entering the hospital last day, and Mrs. Ellis Reynolds for | wul from an independent team at Apnl surgery. Mrs. Emil Jacobsen, Philip ' e e e ——— Felipe and Knute Felipe were dis- | charged. | ‘TIDwEll GRO““D Government Hospital had neither new patienis nor dischargzs to re- At Buffalo,N.Y. 188, Beaccn, cato, 193, Buffalo, 3. Trenton, At port this mor nln‘Z GAINER KING OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL NEW YORK, Dec. ~- Melio Bettina, N. Y, TKO voe Mus- NED STI(K[E Wil REPORT TO RAINIERS N. J—Archie De- SEATTLE, Dec. 11.—Ned sucklc,l 11.—Travis o gwark, knocked U Tigwell, Auburn's hard-working former Whitman College athlete U“_' st - i, A8% freshman, is the ground-gaining and Seattle Rainier shortstop, has’ by "’, i Ao i king of college football for 1946. no intention of retiring from base- AL MpR's Yenn Friem e ball and will be on hand when the e, 150, by Eritton, Pittsburgh, 156, Miami, At Houston, Closing with a terrific burst in his last two games, Tidwell out- distanced his closest pursuers and outpointed Bob- 10 Pacific Coast Rainiers open spring tra i S| , Calif,, h k% - He e aar Sers raining in Bakersfield, C e the country in combined yardage - replaced Bob Fenimore of Okla- said today. | rano 143, Houston, knocked oul yomg A and M. who had reigned Stickle, an off-season dentist, has Joey Pironne, 144, Cleveland, 5. for two years as the individual of- been considered a question-mark At Seattle—Tommy Moyer, 146, foncive Jeadar of the collegiate by the Seattle directorate which Portland, outpointed Johnny Wells, gridirons sald. it was ‘making 1047 plans in 146, Seattje, 10, Statistics relesed today by the the belief that he might not re-' el T aniERT National Collegiate Athletic Bur- port. 1 LOGGE eau show Tidwell not only topped =t e H CITY (‘Ol'\('lL MEETS ‘ ATTENTION LOGGERS with logs sale contact Juneau Lumber Will buy from 100,000 ft. to 10,000,000 feet. for Mills. particula:s Mills what gift to choose. “ YVONNE'S GIFT CERTIFICATE acanves vonr oift will be right! Seventy-five pounds of coal are required to mflke a lawnmower. gained on the ground and in the air, but also was the No. 1 passer on the basis of total completions in and the.séventh best ball carrier. Tidwell, who threw or carried the ball 339 times to be far and away the workhorse of the country, ac- countzd for a total of 1,715 yards in Auburn’s ten games. He com- pleted 79 of 158 forward ' passes for a total of 943 yards and picked up 772 yards on 181 running plays, accounting for 61 percent of his team’s total gains. Bobby Layne of Texas finished the season as runner-up to Tid- well in both forward passing and total offense. Harry Gilmer of Ala- bama, runner-up in 1945, finished third this year. > City Council of Juneau will meet For special session Friday evening see Juneau furtner Zumber 433-tf. bers, to consider applications for liquor licenses. In the absence of Maycr Hendrickson, ranking Coun- cilman Ed Nielsen is Acting May- or, and will have the chair at the sesston. that Rudolf C. Pusich has filed a | petition in the above entitled Court for permission to adopt the mincr ~hild, Richard James Berry, Jr., aged name to Richard sames Pusich, and that a hearing will be had upon the petition before the undersigned at Juneau, Alaska, at two o'clock P. M. on February 3, 1947, at which time and place all persons interested in | the petition may appear and file{ objections thereto. Given under my hand and the seal i of the Court above mentioned at Juneau, Alaska, the 2nd day of De- cember, 1946. je o e e 2 ¢c 25 0 00 [ TIDE TABLE DECEMBER 12 High tide, 4:45 am., 15.9 feet Low tide, 10:27 am. 33 feet High tide, 16:26 p.m., 17.7 feet Low tide, 2 pm., -16 feet e o0 0 e o0 00 e ——— wantads get results! it your’e not sure FELIX GRAY, U.8, Commissioner, Juneau Precinct: First publication, Dec. 4, 1946. Last publication, Dec. 18, 1846. 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