The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 20, 1948, Page 3

| » TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1948 ™ ~- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— JUNEAU, ALASKA " —MERTON OF THE T { Py MOVIES” NOW AT Last Times TONIGHT (APIIOI. THEATRE - v A 0 | Red Skelton at the Capitol It's a Panic! it RED | Theatre for the last two showings . § MERTON OF THE MOVIES |add to the picture's merits are Gloria | Grahame as an old-time movie hero- |ine, Leon Ames as a star, land Alan Mowbray as ¢ |that pioneer screen er “Merton of the Movies” is a rare comedy treat and presents Red Skel- ton in top form! tonight of “Merton of the Movies.” The film is comedy all the way and R |is clever entertainment. Skelton is given excellent support by Virginia O'Brien, who makes a MARCH OF TIME CARTOON EWS FEATURE 8:05—10:10 - Wednesday-Thursday 'PRINCESS LOUISE ~ IN-OUTTHISAM.; | The Princess Louise docked | Juneau at 8 o'clock this morning | from Skagway and left an hour later taking 22 passenggrs from here | for Vancotiver, Prince Rupert and | Seattle as follows: To Vancouver: E. D. Strong and | wife, H. J. Hunter, Nate Hunter, | Rotert Bearhope, Miss M. H. Mer- 1ill, Mrs. A. Y. Merrill, A, Chorneyko, P. Hereid and E. Sweeney. To Prince Rupert: Miss Mildred | Bill, P. J. Moran and J. W. Morden and D. Force. | To Seattle: Mrs. H. N. Weaver, | Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lorenzen and | five children. ., ATTENTION KEBEKAHS i mer || KENT TAYLOR NOAH BEERY,Jr. B} | Rebekan Lodge is holding im- B MARTHA D'DRISCOLL JESS BARKER ff | portant special meeting Wednesday THOMAS GOMEZ JOHN LITEL [ evening at 8 o'clock at IOOF Hall | A1l members are requested to at- = Rebecca Feero, Noble Grand NORTHLAND SAILINGS FROM SEATTLE for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau, Haines, Skagway and Sitka 8. 8. ALASKA THURSDAY, JULY 29 and AUGUST 5 SAILOR’S SPLICE (Freight Only)—Sailing approximately July 22 for Ketchikan, Petersburg, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, JValdez, Whittier and Seward. M. S. PALISANA (Referigerated Cargo)-—Southbound at Juncau about July 28, calling Prince Rupert and Seattle. HENRY GREEN-—JUNEAU, ALASKA, AGENT TAKES 22 SOUTH| in DUROCHER LINES UP, HARD JOB By JOE REICHLER Leo Durocher is off to a splendid start in the toughest baseball job he’s tackled—managing his erst- while worst enemies, the New York Giants. o Preparing to tangle with the St. Louis Cardinals in a crucial series with second place perhaps at stake the Giants under Durocher have won three out of four games to pull up within a half game of the runnerup spot, now in a three- y dealock. esterday the Giants scored a 14-2 route of the Reds in Cin- | cinnati with 18 hits. Larry Jansen went the route for his 11th vic- tor; He permitted only seven hits, including Hank Sauer’s 26th home run. The Pittsburgh Pirates moved into a three-way tie with Brook- lyn and St. Louis for second place when they won a 1-0 shutout victory over the National League leading Boston Braves. Danny Murtaugh's infield single off the glove of pitcher Johnny Sain in the seventh scored Ralph Kiner from third for the only run. | Emil (Dutch) Leonard pitched | the sixth place Philadelphia Phill- ‘les to a 5-4 victory over the Chi- cago Cubu. The Philadelphia Athletics nar- rowed Cleveland’s American League beth ends of a twilight-night doubleheader from the Chicago White Sox, 6-0 and 6-4. Dick Fowler pitched a seven-hit shut- out in the opener for his ninth victory, The Indians overcame an early 6-3 deficit to win an 1l-inning ators, 7-6. Joe Gorden accounted for three Cleveland runs with a home run. the 200th | career. . Bobby Doerr slammed a home run oif Fred Sanford with the bases loaded in the first inning of his major lead to one game when they swept ; { thriller from the Washington Sen-, | It was his 18th of the year and! league | S N TEAMS CHECKING IN LONDON FOR OLYMPIC GAMES Brundage Announces He Is Leading U. S. Forces | for Last Time ABOARD THE S. S. AMERICA, July 20—{P—Avery Brundage, a storm center of amateur sports for years, says this is the last time he will lead United States forces into the Olympic games. The man who has guided U. S. Olympic affairs for nearly 20 years and ridden out numerous contro- versies made the announcement as the bulk of America’s 1948 team neared English port. “It is generally understood,” he said casually, “That I will not ac- cept the presidency of the United States Olympic Association again.” Brundage has held the Olympic post since 1929. Meantime at London Olympic ath- letes grooming for the world’s tig- gest sports competition spurred their training as a ‘“heat wave” warmed up chilly old London. With only nine days to go, more |teams from the 62 competing na- tions are checking in every day. e, SPLIT-WEEK, - P.C.LEAGUE | s (By The Associated Press) . This is shuggle-around week in the Coast League. The circuit comes up with one of its infrequent split- week series that give traveling sec- reta.ies headaches. League-leading Oakland, hot on the trail of its first pennant in 21 | vears, opens at Seattle tonight for a three-day stand. Then Friday the 1 Oaks will invade Portland for a i similar joust, Hollywood starts at Portland with a double-header tonight and will wind up at Seattle. | Sacramento's Solons, whose only (home is the PCL cellar, will be the Williams Maintains Leadership CHICAGO, July 20—(®—Although sidelined last week with a side in- jury, Boston's Ted Williams main- tained the American League leader- ship in batting, runs scored and two | wase hits | Cleveland’s Lou Boudres how- ever, captured one specialized lead from the idle Williams—going ahead ¢ in hits with 106. The Beantown slugger has 102 | Boudreau gained four points in| the batting race. The Indians’ short- | stop-manager upped his bat mark to .359--29 points behind Williams' | leading .388 clip. | Al Zarilla of St. Louis retained| third place with .333. Williams' 66 runs scored and 21 doubles kept him in front of those | departments. Vern Stephens of Bos- ton was tops in runs-bated-in with! 77 and New York's Joe DiMaggio | led in triple production with 10. Ken Keltrer of Cleveland had 22 home- runs. ! Best pitching record belonged to | Philadelphia Dick Fowler with 872 Ifor .800. Bob Feller kept the strike- out lead with 88. MUSIAL LEADING IN | NAT, LEAG. BATTING NEW YORK, July 21—(P—Bar- ring a complete collapse, Stan Mu- sial, the Donaro, Pa., gift to the St Louis Cardinals, should capture the] National League batting title. | Although he dropped 11 points; during the abbreviated week of play, his 392 is still 39 points better than any other player in official aver-; ages through Sunday | Second spot fell to Andy Pafko of the Chicago Cubs. The converted third baseman surged past Richie Ashburn of the Philadelphia Phils {into the runner-up spot with .3 Ashturn, the fleet-footed rookie | outfielder, fell to third with .340. | MOOSE AND LEGION " BASEBALL TONIGHT Following last night's postpened | game between the Moose and Doug- ! las due to neither team having al for |a plume in the caps of Juneauites jFrank” Elsbree, Marie and Elizabeth !william Meals, Katherine and Joan |§ ‘W P, .Douglas Bently |Hedges, Lester Green, Harold Foss, (Pade, Don Pegues, James McElney SOAP BOX COMMITTEE CUPID WINS AGAIN; THANKS ALL PERSONS| 4 PAA HOSTESSES ASSISTING WITHRACE| RESIGNING TO WED In relative t is finan Skuse of to several questions' The Alaska route of Pan Ameri- how the Akron trip can World Airways will te minu Soap Box Derby winner 'lour of attractive ardesses »d and broken down, Don 'by the end of the summer. PAA, alas, the Juneau Box | has lost ott tc romance in a Cemmittee explains it follows: | instances. ‘he total estimated cost for the One of the girls, the former Ruth winner, escort and car on the|Allison, is now Mrs. Jerry Fay of round trip is $1,000, which is pro-|Seattle. Her husband is a PAA flight ated at $30.33 cents per car as engineer. The three others are there “were 33 entries Hav- Elizabeth Currier and Violet Sund- ing entered five cars in the race, ! of Seattle and Anna Marie Sitka will pay $151.65 of the total Lape of Prosser. Miss Currier will with Juneau footing the balance, | marry Charles Garrett, S Skuse again wishes to thank the Surance man, August 14. Miss Lape persons who assisted with the race Will be married August 7 to Lt. Al- for making it an all out success, bert Leferin now stationed at Fair- and states again that neither he banks and Miss Sundberg will be nor the co-sponsoring Rotary Club Married in September to Robert have once asked for help and gone Sinex, Auburn bank employee short-handed, and that, brother, is| All four girls agree they will not miss their stewardess jobs and all ed | brefer teing a housewife. Inciden- tally, they all plan to take their | honeymoon trips by automobile. - answer to its ste Soap as when speaking cooperation. )7} FlY I(TSEAfilE; 'BABE AND TUNNEL 23 COME TO CITY AT JUNEAU MARINE Ineau Marine for seacock work and PAA Clippers took 24 passengers | will be placed back in the water to Seattle and brought 23 to Ju-|tomorrow. neau yesterday. Nine others left| The Juneau Spruce 35-foot Juneau for Fairbanks. | Tunnel will be pulled on the w Arrivals were Kirk Jones, Glenn tomorrow for painting and gener Lathrop, Patrick McCarthy, H. John- | repairs and is expected to be there son, Bert Gaines, Lou Finley, Calfor about a week. Jenne, Stewart €kog, W. H. Lafond, - COAST GUARDERS of whole-heart The Juneau Spruce Co. Babe tug | - s I Palmer, Ray and Edna Dinkle, Karl Roswog, Lillian Thomas and infant | Gary, Elizabeth Me Coast Guardsmen the Baranof Hotel | Several r, Jeannette | guests at are They {Hain, Raymond Taylor, Belle Burk- | include Lt. Comdr. J. H. Schrader, holder, John Manders and Edward Lt Dietz. Leaving were Mrs. Ralph Mowrer and infant Mike, the Rev. R. E. Ba- ker, A. L. Zumwalt, Arthur Leonard, | (jg) A. J. Guillemette, Wash- |ingten, D. C.; S. H. Puhlick, J. C. | Crane and K. V. Macklin Welch, William, Jeanette and Mari- lee Hoyt, Ray Holland, Ed Herold, Dunbar, T. O'Sullivan, W. B. Grant, J. Piwtaran, Ann Galegly, Millie Wunderstick, Lawrence Myers, Col. Weaver, Donald Fitzgerald, d W. K. Steele. Fairbanks were Art| Simply sprinkle Buhach on mattress, and lothing, and dust into crack crevices around the room. it sure repellent and So protect home this easy Safe way In Handy Stfter Cans 30c up 3096090125 BUHAC Juneau Drug Company Harry Race Drug Company Warfield Drug Company Leaving for Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Nelson, Otto and Minnie Stewart. - TTLEITES HERE | Burnett, l""“‘ Krug, S| Annamae PAGE THREE GR [LO"[ENTURY ONIGHT —9:30 T aice to find cut! PAUL L BILL WILLIANS o wn JOSEPH CALLEIA 0SA MASSEN - LOLA LANE JEROME COWAN ADRIAN SCOTT + Dirscied by ‘ersen Pl CLHIORD GOETS "Phantoms, INC.” Gandy Goose CARTOON Air Express NEWS weduced by HOSPITAL NOTES E Ann’s medical nd Mrs. Hospital treatment C. Paris. the hospi- to y for 2 John Ball ¢ Eenny Haffner entered for s al attention Dave Niticgoruk of Wrangell was admitted to the Government Hos- pital -~ FROM CHATHAM Burrell of Chatham is the Gastineau Hotel. A, W stoving at peam_ on, the tield, the MIC“’“" “”‘;;Jrhn E. Putnam, Glenn H. Lathrop | is, set to go against the Legion abi, .4 p girk Jones, with the Wash- | house guests of the Los Angeles An-|6:30 .o'clock tonight, weather per- all of Se-! Laboratories, are visitors at for all of Boston's runs as the Red | | ington Scx defeated the St. Louis Browns | 4-1 at Boston. Rain washed out a game between gels for three nights before moving |mitting. L attle, on to San Francisco. In all liklihood, the Legion will \J(:‘Hc”m'1 Perhaps the toughest assignment |sporting a new face in the form ot\. ¥ the Baranof Put MAC iz-yoztr pen —— e e SERYING SOUTHEASTERN ALLSKA DEPFNDABLY NORTHLAND TRANSPORTATION (O Your Deposits ARE SAFE BOUY and HOLD UNITED STATES SAVINGS BONDS HE management of this bank is pledged to conserva- tive operation. The safety of depositors’ funds is our primary consideration. In addition the bank is a mem- ber of Federal Deposit In- surance Corporation, which insures each of our deposit- ors against loss to & maxi- mum of $5,000. 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STANDING OF CLUBS National League Team: Boston i Brooklyn St. Louis Pittsburgh New York Philadelphia Cincinnati Chicago 47 League W L 50 30 53 35 47 34 45 ' 36 41 41 3 47 29 50 26 53 American Team: Cleveland Philadelphia New York Boston Detroit Washington St. Louis Chicago Pacific Coast League Team: W L Oakland 65 48 San Diego 64 49 Los Angeles 62 50 San Francisco 0 50 Seattle 52 56 Hollywood 51 58 Portland 46 62 Sacramento 41 68 .566 .554 545 376 Channel League Team: Moose Legion Elks Douglas Pct. .63 638 500 214 BIG DOLLY VARDEN ENTERED IN DERBY BY RILEY FURLONG Bettering the former mark by nearly a peund and almost two inches, Riley Furlong yesterday entered a Dolly Varden in the Junior Chamber of Commerce Trout Derby which measured 23% inches and weighed four pounds four ounces. The fish was taken at Salmon Creek. The former best mark in the Dolly Varden class was held by Lynn Winters with a three pound seven ounce fish, measuring 21 and nine-sixteenths inches, taken at Montana Creek. Ken Kearney is still top man in the cutthroat division with a three pound 12 ounce catch mea- suring 24 and three-sixteenths in- ches taken at Lake Hasselborg over! a week ago. Fishermen are urged to take the big ones “that didn't get away” to the H & Q Sports Center for weighing and entry in the Derby. 468 | of the week falls to Ripper Collins’ 1 hustling San Diego Padres. The sec- ond-place border lads invade San Francisco and Los Angeles, in that order, FIGHT DOPE Fights last night resulted as fol- lows: NEW YORK-—Herbie Kronowitz, 1157, Brooklyn, outpointed Jimmy Mangia, 159, New York (10) SPRINGFIELD, MAS3.—Billy - 'Fox, 171, Philadelphia, knocked out Billy Grant, 177, Orange N. J. (9) SAN FRANCISCO—Johnny Wil- liams 140, Montgomery, Ala., and Tommy Camptell, 138, Rock Island, ) 111 draw (10). OCEAN PARK, CALIF—Arturo Barron, 143, Los Angeles, knocked out Phil Palmer, 145, Vancouver, B. C. @, -oo—— WESTERN LEAGUE Final scores of games played last night in the Western International i League were as follows: Victoria 6; Salem 1. ‘Yakima 11; Vancouver 4. Spokane 2; House of David 1 (ex- { hibition.) . Only games scheduled. R g LEADERS IN B. B. Iizaders in the Major baseball leagues, through games of yesterday, are as follows: American League Battirrg—Williams, Boston, Boudreau, Cleveland, .361. Runs batted in—Stephens Boston T7; Gordon, Cleveland 75 Home runs—Keltner, Cleveland 22; DiMaggio, New York 19. Pitching—Fowler, Philadelphia 9- 2 .818. .388; National League Batting—Musial, St. Louis Pafko, Chicago .355. Runs batted in—Musial, St. Louis 70; Mize, New York 70. Home runs—Kiner, and Sauer, Cincinnati 26. Pitching—Poat, New York 9-2 .818. prosial R L S W ) THE BARANOF 302; Pittsburgh AT Among the new arrivals at the Baranof Hotel are Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, Hugh E. Kates, Richard D. Robinson, R. F. Taylor and Mrs. Alfred Swiss. GEL 0 TWO DAY TRIP Tracy Arm, Endicott Asm and Ford’s Terror. Priday evening. Boat Monterey. See Alaska Travel lBun‘uu, Phone 646, 043 2t Tyvol who recently severed with the | Elks and expressed his next choice | as being with the Legion { Also because of a dugout dispute in the Elks den, Joe Snow, veteran first sacker for the club, temporarily breached -relations gith the Elks and played with the Moose in their | exhibition game last Priday night. W from the Elks has it that Snow. objected when his placement on’ the lineup was' shifted from clean-up man to that of lead off. ! Snow's status is not definitely i(known at present WOODLING LEADS IN BATIING, P. . LEAGUE SAN FRANCISCO, July 20—®— Crippled Gene Woodling, who re- cently returned to the San Francisco lineup after a long absence, is still clinging to his Coast League batting leadership, official averages for zames through July 18 showed today. Woodling, in 219 times at bat, had average of .388. Close behind was Johnny Barrett of San Diego with 373. Barrett’s teamate, Jack Gra- ham, was spreadeagling the field in the home run department., He had 14 in 109 games. His average was 311 Dl g s MONTEREY TAKES 26 T0 TRACY ARM Making her second consecutive trip to Tracy Arm in two weeks, the charter vessel Monterey left here eamly Saturday evening and returned Sunday night with a pas- senger list of 26. In addition to perfect weather and the sight of six mountain goats parading a hilltop at the same time, guests aboard reported an extremely large patch of wild strawberries in the Taku Harbor area. Those aboard were: B. A. Marx, K. P. Gregg, Catherine Gleason,! 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