The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 15, 1949, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA 2 "HOMECOMING” IS | I SHOWING TONIGHT | CAPITOL THEATRE “Homecoming” stars Clark Gable, | Lana Turner, Anne Baxter and John Hodiak, with Ray Collins, Gladys Cooper and Cameron Mitchell in support. This feature is at the Cap- | itol Theatre for last showings to- | night. MONDAY NIGHTERS ENDS TONITE! GET CANDY, THREE A great picture ROUNDUP OF T "LETTER FOR EVIE" - |edy, coming to the 20th Century | Theatre tonight, introduces a new ordinaty, eve day average Ameri- lcan. The hero is a soldier, but he ‘ 4 ] “A Letter for Evie,” MGM com- (kind of Hollywood hero; the plain, doesn’t win medals—just the Pur-| told with dignity makes love fo LANA and compassion. The story of a successful, mar-| ried young doctor whose entire out- | SCORES, BOWLING CAGE GAMES ple Heart. And when he gets the teautiful girl, Director Jules Dassin look on his profession is changed| B. Mill made the top score of when he falls in love with a valiant ; 477 in the Monday Night League nurse, is based on an original by | bowling last evening on the Elks Sidney Kingsley, Pulitzer Prize win- | alleys and was presented with a ning playwright who authored “Men pound box of candy. B. Smith TURNER ... and you’ve never seen such love-making before! Extra! The fascinating story Y3V, in White,” one of Ga:le's earlier| was given another box of candy New D] 1 %f th?_\“ tork hits. for a score of 328 and R. Haley P Gable, last seen in “The Huck- made a low score or 288 and isters” and Lana Turner, who also received a box of candy. The three boxes of sweets were donated by the Butler-Mauro Drug Co. League standings are as follows: Lamjabs, Gus George Grocery, and Juneau-Young Hardware, tied for first place; B. M. Behrends and H and Q tied for second spot; with S and T Clothing, City Cleaners and Ludwig Nelsons fcllowing in that order. Team and individual scores last night are as follows: Juneau-Young Hardware chalked up two hits in succession with “Cass Timberlane” and “Green Dolphin Street,” are reunited for the third time in the new offering. Anne Baxter, cast as Gable’s wife, won the 1947 Academy Award for the Lest performance of a supporting actrdss in “The Razor's Edge.” Ho- |diak, cast as Gable's best friend, is Miss Baxter’s husband in real life. “Democracy’s Diary,” added fea- |ture, latest release in the This Is DEMOCRACY 'S _ DIARY ANNE JOHN l BAXTER HODIA M-G-M's & TOM and JERRY riot “The Truce Hurts” NEW YORK, Feb. 15.—(H—if the'expects moviegoers to approve heart- present basketball season proves ily; the men because they will be nothing else, it will bear out those glad to see a plain guy win the girl pessimistic coaches around the for a change, and the women be: {country who never take a game for .cause they will appreciate the beau granted ity of the hero’s nature. They look with troubled to-| Five-foot-seven Hume Cronyn is | ward approaching contests which on the hero; Marsha Hunt is the -foot-three John other man.” Evie,” is a comedy (Marsha) the record they're right. should be setups —and and handsome, | carroll is the Just a week ago, the only remain-| “A Letter for ing major unt®aten team in the about a romantic girl country, Hamline, was set down by who works in a shirt factory and little St. Thomas College of Min- puts a letter into the pocket of a' nesota, and last night another of size 16': shirt, h is handed | i | the mighty took a fall. This time out to Carroll at any Army camp. it was St. Louis, which dropped a Carroll throws the letter away. 68-60 decision to Ohio State. Cronyn finds and answers it, and The defeat was the second of the when Marsha asks for his picture, he season for St. Louis. Oklahoma A&M sepds Carroll’'s. Eventually she meets was the only other conqueror of the Carroll and Cronyh and while she Bills, wh have won 16. |believes at first she is in live witk There was no stopping Kentucky, Carroll because she thinks he is re- again the No. 1 outfit in the week- sponsible for the beautiful letters ly Associated Press poll of sports she has been receiving, she finally iwriters and broadcasters. Old Kain- sees that it is Cronyn she really 328 |diana stopped Northwestern, 56-41. arrested on a vpying charge in £7“‘nou State, 67-49; Washington of here as a political liberal. ! 7‘54, in other leading gam tuck just flexed its muscles and the University of Alabama promptly | bowed by 74-32. Hank Iba's Oklahoma Aggies, the third-ranking quintet in the na- tion, bounced all over the Univer- sity of Tulsa, 58-35, and further strengthened their hold on the lead in ‘the Missouri Valley Conference. | Only two other teams in the first 110 of the AP poll saw action and both came through as expected.| ;Western Kentucky, at No. 7 with a 120 and 3 mark, trifled with Murray | State Teachers of Kentucky, 73-54, ! |and Bowling Green, 10th, emerged with a close 59-56 victory over Mar- quette. In the Big Nine, Purdue captured | its sixth league game in nine starts ! by whipping Wisconsin, 53-48, and in a battle of the “have nots,” In- | DePaul overcame Northern Illi- St. Louis defeated Creighton, 54-37; OKklahoma edged Nebraska, 47-45, ‘and Syracuse topped Seton Hall, 56- B RS e (SR | { (COUGARS, BEAVERS MAY DECIDE WHOSE CHAMPS, WEEKEND CORVALLIS, Ore.,, Feb. 15.—®— The Washington State Cougars and the Oregon State Beavers may de- cide the winner of the Pacific Coast Conference Northern Division bas- ketsall title race this weekend. Both schools would echo “may decide,” however, because the inter- | state rivals could make it a photo finish at the end of the season. loves. The story, based on “The Adven- ture of a Ready Letter Writer,” by Blanche Brace, is laid in New York, London, France, and at an Ameri- can Army camp. ere AMERICAN ARRESTED, | MoSCOW (Continued from Page One) Russia, was known during her years During her term on the Seattle' school board in 1916-18, her oppo- sition to the World War draft led to recall movements against her. . She worked on the Seattle Union | Record, a labor daily, before ]oaving! the United States to serve with the American Friends Relief Mission in Russia. i Her father, the late Rev. Dr. Syd- ney Strong, was a Congregational minister here. B — TONIGHT'S GAMES T0 DECIDE BASKETBALL LEAGUE STANDINGS !.. In the first of tonight's basket- | ball games starting at the local high school gym at 7:30, the Ju- The schools are deadlocked again | .o, High School Crimson Bears | at the top of the division heap, each play the Signacs. The second game with seven wins and three games .4 ‘the evening is between Mikes' lost. ; ! Night Owls and the Columbia Lum- Their previous series on the Cou- peoymen gar home floor was split and a ¢ Mikes' Nigh Owls win, there similar result here Friday and Sat- gy pe a three way tie for first urday nights would keep them to- pjace in the Gastineau Channel gether. Each has four games on peagye, The three way tie would schedule after that. { put Mikes’ Night Owls, the Lumber- Washington State slid into the men and the Crimson Bears in first tie the past weekend by dropping piace with two losses apiece. Other- one game to Oregon, 49 to 38, and wise, no league standing is decided Complete Shows—17:05-9:3T America series produced by Jay! A METRY-SOLDMYIN-MAYER PCTURE. .';c;m:msmon_ 41-10:13 { Bonafield, brings to the American SPOt 35 35 35 105 § i Ipeople, at a time of great interna- J Baxter . 122 141 121 384 jtional tensions, their constitutional 2‘ x"‘::“ A i‘l’g ii.{ };g g:; iright in the First Amendment—the A Winther ... * HERE TOMOBROW * {Freedom of the Press. ‘ Totals . 381 424 391 1196 ¢ 71 ———e——— et 2 DAYS ONLY! i Ludwig Nelson'’s - |T Brust 105 126 110 341 [ l L. Ripke 154 101 126 381 | 4 | M L. Nielson..106 177 94 277 | R Ll Totals 365 404 '32° 1999 { i | Final scores of basketball games o | played in the Pacific Northwest last | Gus George Grocery !mght are as follows: ‘SpoL 14 14 14 4 /S A GREAT OUTDOOR DRAMA ! College of Idaho 55; Linfiled, Ore., g preitkreutz 188 149 190 457 144 i P. McGill 136 177 155 468 : St. Mary’s 67; San Francisco State 1 Matson 117 160 124 401 {58 | Totals 385 500 483 1368 | Wyoming 45; Utah 36. City Cleaners | Portland U 68; Seattle U 59. A. Dalziel 125 144 202 471 | St. Mary’s (Calif.) 67; San Fran- p Burke 134 151 129 414/ i cisco State 52. T. Retallick .. 147 147 147 441 Whitman 58; Willamette 51. Totals 406 442 476 1326 T T = TR ¥ Eastern Oregon 77; Oregon Coll. HREAS I‘ ll of Ed. 73. § and T. Clothing i e T | Spot RGN (80 BB | PBr. E. Lannonh elly H GHT“’“D OPE Ll T N. Biggs 102 134 142 378 osteflp“t L | E. Wilson 103 141 126 i Totals 201 420 386 fo97 b4 Phone Blue 670 for Appmmmem Here are results of two fights last i S SNSRI ight: » it * 2 night: . ! H and Q Sport Center Newark.—Tami Mauriello, 197'2, g Rollison 143 119 96 358 _New York, outpointed Jimmy Hol- g iy . 135 180 162 jden, 184%, Elizabeth, N.J. .(8). |'B. Paterson 74 120 112 306 Brooklyn—George Kaplan, 181,' rmpotals .*. 352 419 370 1141 ’ i Brooklyn, outpointed Dom Mogard, | 188, Toronto (6). | Saniibe ET v L. Blanton ... 115 142 168 425 | M. Applegate ... 161 172 115 448 S M | an PR":E A. Johnson .. 126 139 173 438 Totals 402 453 456 1311 1 B. M. 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Coach Jack Friel analyzed what bappened in that opener and de- cided not to chance sending travel weary Cougars against the wull‘ rested Beavers. | The canny Friel has held his team{‘ at the Oregon campus in Eugene instead of taking the long trip home and back again with five days. G RICKERT IS AGAIN | CUT BY BRAVES; IS | HOLDOUT FOR FAIR SEATTLE, Yeb. 15—P— f Rickert, who replaced the injured | Jeff Heath of Boston in last fall's| world series, disclosed today he had | been offered a cut in salary for the ! 1949 season. “Cut?” he snorted. “It's an ampu- tation.” Rickert said he ‘had returned his third unsigned contract to the Bos- ton Braves. The biggest figure of- fered to date, he said, was $1,500 less | than he received last year with the| | Milwaukee Brewers of the American | Association. | | Rickert was pulled in by the Braves at the end of last season af- {ter Heath, an outfielder, broke a leg ithz world series with Cleveland. — e { FROM SITKA ' Here from Sitka for a few days is l the Baranof. e I R Get your Prestone or Trek anti- frgeze at Madsen Cycle and Fish- ing Supply. sliding. Commissioner Happy Chand- {nine points—a three point drop—but tler made a special ruling in the case {was still far ahead of Bill Carse of 150 the Braves could use Rickert in |Vancouver. Love now has 82 and C. E. Perk, who is staying at|are A. L .French, Willlam O'Neil, u3 tl. tonight. B gt BUSINESSMAN OF SPOKANE IS PART OWNER, B.B. (LuB! SPOKANE, Feb. 15.—(®—A Spo- kane businessman, Roy Hotchkiss, announced yesterday he has tought John (Buddy) Ryan’s share in the Western International’League Spo- kane baseball club. The new co-owner announced the Indians will be ready to open play April 29 as scheduled. They will use a temporary park. The old one burned last fall. Construction will start soon, he said, on a new ball- yard. HOCKEY GAMES SEATTLE,. ¥eb. 15—(M— Oak- land’s Tom Fowler was back in the Southern Division driver’s seat to- day, pulling away from Andy Barbe of Los Angeles with whom he was tied last week in the Pacific Coast hockey league scoring race. Fowler racked up four points in a six-day span for 68 while Barbe was held to a goal and an assist for two points and 64. New Westminster's Bob Love had has northern division lead cut to Carse 73. AT BN Sl FROM ANCHORAGE At the Baranof from Anchorage Parker W. Negus, Clark Marks, and Paul E. Kirker, Jr. —_—— et —— Fried Chicken and T-bone Steaks —$2.50. Country Club. 19 o eng: Starting COMPLETE SHOWS AT 7:26 — 9 SHE GOT LOVE AND KISSES BY MAIL ... and then She met her wriling Romeo! (V) X XX X% % T}}e tale of air 130 YOURS, [ FOREVER. 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