The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 21, 1949, Page 3

MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1947 KENTUCKY PLAYS OFF NCAA GAME Dashing Dons Beat Loyola NEW YORK, March 21.—(»—The four cinderella teams monopolized |the National Invitation Basketball Round of National Finals| Also Starts Tonight on Seattle Floor By BEN PHELGAR NEW YORK, March 21—(®— Kentucky's try-again boys make an- other stab at basketball glory here tonight in the opening round of the NCAA playoffs. Once figured almost a shoo-in for both the National Invitation and NCAA titles the Kentuckians now will have to prove they can win under fire. ¢ They’'ve been teaten only twice in 31 games this season, but the two they lost were the big ones. St Louis whipped the Wildcats by two points in the final of the Sugar Bowl holiday tcurnament and Loy- ola of Chicago trounced them, 62- 47, in the quarter final round of the National Invitation a week ago today. Almost nobody doubts that the Lexington Wildcats can get past to- Tournament all-star teams selected |today by the Associateq Press. San Francisco's dashing Dons, who edges Loyola of Chicago, 48-47, in| the final minute Saturday night to win the title, were represented on the first five by Don Lofgran, the tournament’s most valuable player. Loyola placed two men on the first team—Guard Gerry Nagel and Center Jack Kerris. Bowling Green, which teok third place by whipping Bradley, 82-77, supplied six-foot- six McAtten, while Bradley's Paul Unruh rounded out the first five. —————— BOB SEEKING PLAYING JOB BRADENTON, Fla.,, March 21.—(® —From Orlando comes word the much traveled, now unemployed, Bobo Newsom is maneuvering for an THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA Crimson Tide (qafich Is i BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 21.— (M—Frank Thomas, 50, the Alabama Crimson Tide football coach who piled up a record of 115 victories and six bowl ganies over a 15-season span, was reported critically il today. Thomas has been University of Alakama athletic director since he |gave up the heaq football coaching | job early in 1947. For almost three by a circulatory ailment. His physician, Dr. Joseph Hirsch, |said Thomas suffered a heart attack Saturday night. Hirsch reported, | however, thdt Thomas’ condition had taken a slight turn for the bet- |ter last night. ALASKA TOBACCO " TAXACTNOW LAW Tax Commissioner M. P. Mullaney says, the Alaska Tobacco Tax Act is now law and becomes effective April 1. The major requirements are as follows: The Act levies an excise tax on all tobaccos and tobacco products cold or offered for sale in Alaska on and after April 1, 1949, including {stock then on hand. The levy is Iupon sellers of cigars, cigarettes, to- . baccos and snuff, etc. The sellers | must collect the tax from the buyers |and the same is payable quarterly ito the Department of Taxation and \shall te due not later than one | years his activity has been restricted | = WESTERN POWERS IN BIG MOVE Gives Russfiste of Own Medicine Outlawing Soviet East Mark (By The Associated Press) The Western Powers in Berlin have given Russia a taste of her own medicine. An allied order, put out yesterday, cutlaws the Soviet East mark in the American, British and French sectors of Berlin. The new decree, expected for seme time, splits the city’s economy completely. It means Western Ber- lin now has the West mark, and eastern, Berlin has another—the Soviet mark. The West mark is worth far more than than of the East. The Russians already have made it a crime to possess West marks in their area. There were reports they would not. retaliate against the latest western move in the cur- rency battle. The currency questicn has been one cf the main issues in the Soviet blockade of Berlin. Several inter- national discussions have failed to solve it. The western order was declared efiective immediately, but the East mark will still be good in western sectors for rationed focds this month and will be accepted for rent P-TA MOVIE WINS| EDUCATCR'S PRAISE An educational film of high calibre lealing with biological facts of sex| s a part of human growth and de- velopment is the highlight of to- night's meeting of the Parent- Teachers Association beginning at 3 o'clock in the High Scheol study rall, “Human Growth" comes here for showing with high praise from edu- ators and laymen. Nearly 10 years| b ¢ ul research, financed by the Un ty of Oregon’s E. C. Brown | Trust Fund, went into the making of the film. Dr. C. Earl Albrecht, Territorial Commissioner of Health, is to be evening speaker. H. E. Salisbury, bass soloist and professiona] singer, will present the musical portion of the program. Third grade mothers, Mrs. Harold Foss, Mrs. Monty Grisham and Mrs. David Ramsay, will be hostesses for the refreshment hour following the meeting. PALISANA SOUTHBOUND The Alaska Steamship Company’s Palisana docked Saturday evening southbound, and left yesterday morning with a load of fish. PAGE Ew ALASKA FROM WEST. | Leonard ENROUTE TC SOUTH In at 11 o'clock iast night from the Westward, the Alaska sailed at 4 o'clock this morning for Seattle. Seven passengers arrived from theli Westward end 22 embarked on the southbound voyage. For Juneau, passengers were: Ray Cavanaugh, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Dimond, Joan Kovaleski, Gustav Clson, Dorothy Whelan, Florence Theil. For Seattie: Perry Hobbs, James H. Cahal, Raymond Egan, Dr. and Mrs. H. H. Fisher, Mary Duvall, Jes- sie Bledsoe, Nick Bolshanin, W. .| tike off for Mr. and Mrs. Zeusler, Mary Duwall. For Petersburg: Mr. Lora Lee, Ellen Gatier, Verra Placid, | Lucy Maxwell. | For Ketchikan: Donald W. Shaw. e ee———— ANS MEDICAL DIRECTCR TRIP TO INTERIOR Dr. James Goege, medical direct- | or of the Alaska Native Service, will leave Wednesday for a week | trip to the Interior, stopping at| Fairbanks and Tanana. X S-S MAX ROUGiio HERE Max Rogers ved In Juneau fzom Seattle on yesterday's PAA Lizht, after taking several prison- ers south, ITo was scheduled to Sitka today, where he Diens, Ivan Catoon, W. J. Bateman, MEETING The Ameri at 8 o'Clc: IN THE LEGION DGGOUT Visiting Veterans Invited CHESTER ZENGisk, Post Commander JOHN PARMENTER, Adjutant is Deputy U. 5. Marshal. TONIGHT an Legion Clay tile produced in America in and Mrs.|1948 could tlle more than 1,000,000 Hopkins, Walter Austin, average size bathrooms. There's an easier way to keep lubricants on gears the Villanova Wildeats (22-3) opportunity to bid for a job on the menth after expiration of the quar- | night. But the road ahead certainly { Boston Braves’ pitching staff. iter immediately preceding, beyond ® doesn’t look as smooth as it did a| Bobo, veteran right handed pitch- | which time it shall be delinguent. er who has been with more clubs in| and taxes in April. ' —— - short week ago. The immediate stumbling block seems to be the University of Illi= nois, Big Nine champion with a 19- 3 record. The Illini are favored to krush aside Yale (22-6) in the first game of tcnight’s double header. FINALZ AT SEATTLE ! The first round winners meet to- morrow night for the right to op- pose Oklahoma A. and M. in the} National Finals at Seattle, Wash.,} Saturday. The second place team | here alse will travel west for ccnsolation engagement with Ore- organized baseball than any other! player, insists the Giants “didn’'t zive me a fair shakz last season.” | Reaction here was negative, a few rins, no words. i GONZAGA WINNER CLOSE CAGE GAME, CATHOLIC TOURNEY: The excise tax upon tobaccos and tobacco products is as follows: Cigarettes—2 cents per pack of 10. Cigarettes—3 cents per pack of 20. Cizarettcs—8 cents per pack of 50. Cigars—Retailing at 10 cents or| under—1 cent. | Cigars—Retailing at 11 cents to 15 cents—2 cents. Cigars—Retailing 25 cents—3 cents. Cigars—Retailing 35 cents—4 cents. Cigars—Rectailing over-—5 cents. Snuff and tobacco in containers RAINBOW GIRLS HAVE Follow.ng a short wvusiness meei- ing Saturday evening, the Order of Rainbow for Girls held a St. Pat- rick’s Barn Dance in the ballroom of the Scottish Rite Temple. Ap- propriate decorations of green sham- rocks, bales of hay and a handsome scarecrow couple added local color to the event. The young folks, garbed in color- ful cottons and jeans, frolicked to at 16 cents to at 26 cents to at 35 cents or ST. PAT'S BARN DANCE | A pair of skis mouncain air., . . . the invigorating ~ the thrill of the snowy gon State, which lost to A. and M. DENVER, March Zl.—#— With at Kansas City Saturday night, 55- | top-seeded Siena -already elimi- 30, in the western final. nated—but gcod—teams from Penn- Underdogs Yale and Villanova will |sylvania, Texas and Minnesota will feature the nation’s two highest in- [go into action tonight in the Na- dividual scorers among major col-|tional Catholic Basketball Tourna- leges. Tony Lavelli, ace of the New |ment. Haven Blues, has averaged 22.7 peints in 28 games. Paul Arizin of | Wash,, ousted :3t. Bonaventure of boards, et cetera, are required to Villanova, has hit at the rate of 21.7|New York, 47-43 and Dayton Thus, for the first {Chio eliminated Loras of Dubugque,| will {Towa, 53-52. for 25 games. {ime, tournament competition determine the national scoring title. Yesterday, Gonzaga of Spokane, of A basket and two free throws by Despite its poor showing in the|Rich Evans in the last two minutes Invitation, Kentucky is a 14 pointiaccounted for the Gonzaga win, will be taxed at the rate of 2 cents per ounce regardless of the size of the container. Every person in Alaska who sells any of the articles taxed under the Act in the usual course of trade or \business or by any vending machine or any kind or character, punch register with the Department of Taxation on or before April 1, giving 'his name and place of Lusiness be- |fore engaging in the sale in Alaska ioi the articles taxed under the Act. |A registration number will be as- the gay, lively accordicn music of George Troychak. Under the able supervision of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Oakes, old fashioned square dances were performed which added to the gaiety of the evening and two clever novelty solos by Alice Jean Davis were enthusiastically received by the crowd. The festivities closed with refreshmcnts in the dining rcom and many of the young pecple expressed their enjoyment of the cvening. — e MEDICAL TECH TO slepes . . . then back to the lodge for dinner and a glass of light Olympia. These are among the good things of life. 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Miss Jeanette Lee, Medical tech- took charge. nologist, will arrive in Juneau on If form prevails the Yale-lllinmsl contest should be the closer of to-} night’'s two games. Illinots hasn't|meet St. Francis of Loretto, Pa. at'istration of any such person shall played in Madison Square Garden!7:30 p.m. (MST) and St. Thomas|suffice for as long as he is in the since 1940 when one Lou Boudreau, |of St. Paul, Minn,, will play 3t. Ed- Lusiness of selling tobaccos and to- St. Mary’s of Winona, Minn., will who now hangs out in Cleveland,|wards of Austin, at 9 p.m. was its ace. This time the club is led by Dwight Eddleman, a first|25 seconds to play when Bob Flynn:in which to register will be granted string football player and a member (sank a driving southpaw hook shot.|in particular cases where necessary. of the U. 8. Olympic team last summer as a high jumper. —_— o HOCKEY GAMES Results of hockey games played over the weekend are as follows: National League: | Detroit 2; Montreal 1. New York 5; Chicago 1. Boston 7; Toronto 2. Pacific Coast League: San Diego 4; Oakland 2 (eliminate Oakland in Southern Division play- off) . New Westminster 6; Portland 2, (New Westminster wins semi-final playoff, 3-0.) SATURDAY'S RESULTS National League: Montreal 5; Chicago 1. Detroit 5; Toronto 2. Pacific Coast League Playoffs: Los Angeles 2; Fresno 1 (Los An- geles wins, 3-0). New Westminster 4; Portland 2. Taccma 4; Vancouver 0. BROWNS BEAT UP ON OAKLAND OAKS BURBANK, Calif., March 21—® —If Manager Zack Taylor of the St. Louis Browns is worried over injuries to his regulars, he can find comfort in the progress of their replacements. Ardy Anderson, filling in for Bob Dillinger at third, banged out, three hits and sparkled afield yes- terday to help the Browns beat the Oakland Oaks, 10-4. Ken Wood, sub- bing for Paul Lehner in center! field, drove in five runs with a hom- er and a double. ' Roy Sievers is another rookie out- fielder who is drawing compliments from Taylor. e SCHWINN BICYCLES at MAD- SEN'S, 2 Dayton nailed its win with just DODGERS ARE USING "PICK OFF” PLAYS VERO BEACH, Fla., March 21.— (P—Practice of the *“pick off” play is beginning to bear fruit for the Brooklyn Dodgers. They pulled it twice yesterday in their 6-0 loss to the Philadelphia Athletics. Catcher Roy Campznella picked Sam Chapman off first base. Pitch- er Ed Chandler picked Buddy Ros- ar off second in the eighth inning with a quick toss to shortstop Pe2 Wee Riese. — e+ RUMMAGE SALE Moose Club Rooms, Wednesday March 23. Doors open 10:30 a.m. 49 2t . las soon as possible. 'ment of Taxation. The original reg- !bacco products or until otherwise |provided by law. Extensions of time Any violation of the provisions of the Act, is deemed to be a misde- meanor, and is punishable by a fine ,not exceeding $1,000. % | Write to the Department of Taxa- | tion-—Box 651—Juneau, Alaska, im- mediately for registration number land any further information regard- |ing the law. Be sure to include regis- ! tration fee of $5. Appropriate forms are now being prepared for the use of the taxpay- ers and will be mailed to registrants — e CARD OF THANKS i We wish to express our thanks and deep appreciation to all the neighbors and friends for cards and ympathy, helpful suggestions and kind words at‘'the passing of our wife and mother. 1t G. E. Almquist i Edna and Dean Williams MEETING " at8:00P. M. Don McGraw Deputy Supreme Governor Loyal Order of Moose Territory All Members DINNER at 9: followed by INITIATION ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT HONORING - of Alaska Please Attend 30 board the S. S. Baranof, bound for Alaska Native Service duty at Tanana. 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