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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA "ROAD TO RIO" IS RIOT OF LAUGHTER | AT 20TH CENTURN: “Road to Rio,” the Paramount coemedy which arrived last night| at the 20th Century Theatre, is |} DOOPl T 0 N I T E ‘:\1"\;:1 with blocks of sohd 1:\::\7; OPEN TIIURSDAY | The film s the newest of th 1 at and 7.20 and FRIDAY 9:30 highly successful Bing Cros:y-Bob | f::g(e)l: orothy j_X\mO\II \ui\n yv ; ‘ i 7.00 ay o soupte of dosn-ai-meneer: | Take a Good-Will Tour to Sunny Rio . .. With America's Favorite Trio! NEW AND NUTTIEST “ROAD” SHOW! musicians, cursed not only unemployment but also with nmu\j softness in the hands of women. | Bing's failing usualiy winds up as|} headache, and, after be m": ¢ Imagine Bing and Bob as a couple of Latins from Portland . . . out to cement our good neighbor policy . . . till they meet Lamour . . . @ nice girl from @ bad neighborhood! "SAXON CHARM" IS OFENING TONIGHT AT CAPITOL THEATRE “The Saxon Charm,” Frederic| Wakeman’s sensational nove! about a mythical Broadway theatrical | magnate who literally “drives people out of their minds,” has 3 . teen converted into a motion pic- e | ture. The film, produced by Uni- ¥ - versal-International and co-star- ring Robert Montgomery, Susan Hayward, John Payne and Audrey Totter, comes tonight to the Capi- tol Theatre. Harry Von Zell and Heather Angel are other notables in a dis- tinguished cast. Montgomery has the role of Matl Saxon, one of Wakeman's most col- | orful fiction characters. Miss Hay- | ward appears as the wite of Eric Busch, the bewildered author-play- | yright of the stocy. Payne has the | {our good neighbor policy has al- e e UIN M AT {ready taken a hasting. ‘Sioasy end |as Saxon’s girl friend. = 3 [Hope meet up with Dorothy La-' ,fi X S et f ¥ | mour. She’s in trouble, and Llu.nf d % fimg ‘R SHOWPLALE oF CapiT NOW PLAYING Complete Show 7: 25—9 30 Feature 7:59—1 suswe HAYWARD LCENTURY b | SHOW 5 STARTS | ! 1 | Bob's jTun out of town after town, the boys stow away cn a ship Lound for Brazil. Before the liner docks in Rio, 1] Paramount Puunh 3 means the boys have to get miy up in it, too. And before they can| MARCH OF TIME — LATE NEWS CLAIRE DE LUNE STARTS FRIDAY “"RED RIVER"' To cool their hands on summer days, American ladies of long ago used to hold a smooth handmadei glass ball. Quilico Sport Center I R TSR G T T 'sunosoae CHILD HIT BY AUTO IN STREET Stephen Sundborg, v, son of Mr, Mrs. George Sundborg, is in St. Ann's hospital today, after being struck by an automobile at Ninth and D Streets yesterday morning at 10:30 o'clock. The Sundborg child suffered broken bones of the right leg. The child had run out of ball park and darted into street when struck by a cab. two the the FROM LOS ANGELES Louis Cid of Los Angeles is regis- tered at the Gastineau Hotel. SCHWINN BIKES av MADSEN'S PLENTY OF SEATS AVAILABLE T0 SCAN DINAVIA practically any day of the week in July and August By popular demand, SAS has doubled its flight schedule to Scandinavia, now offers nine trips a week. Youre still sure of the space you want—when you want it—in July and August. You can be in Scandinavia just 17 pleasant hours after leaving New York when you fly SAS. You can spend more time in the home- land . . . fewer hours in travel . . . less time away from home and job. ® THE ONLY DC-6 planes—modern, spaci- ous, dependable — fastest to Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki. Direct connections to other major cities. ® FREE SCANDINAVIAN MEALS, smorg- asbord and refreshments. ® NO,TAX ... no tipping . . . no charge for baggage up to 66 pounds. See Your Travel Agent or NORTHWEST AIRLINES Westward Hotel, Anchorage Main 765 CANDINAVIAY AIRLINES SYSTEM Seattle: 824 White Bldg., SEneca 6250 RAINIERS IN 'WIN; MOVING TOWARD TOP By JIM BACON Seattle is closing the gap on Hollywood in the Pacific Coast| league race. ‘The league-leading Stars lost 7 to 6 Tuesday night to Sacramento, the fourth loss in a row for the Twinks. Seattle, meanwhile, ally walked to a 6 to 4 win over San Francisco to come within five and a half games of Hollywood. The Solons’ win came about when Walt Dropo tripled in the eighth and then scored on Fred Marsh’s infield hit. Seal pitcher Con Dempsey walked across three runs in the last of the seventh as the Rainiers strolled out of a 4 to 3 deficit, Dempsey had ten walks in all during the night plus two wild pitches. ‘The league cellar has a new ten- ant for the first time in months— Los Angeles. Portland, the former tenant, moved out on a tenth in- aing run that nipped the Angels 4 to 3. Joe Brovia hit a long double and Johnny Rucker sprinted all the way from first to score. A near capacity crowd of 10915 {turned out at Oakland to see big Luke Easter belt some homers but the Padre first baseman went hit- less. However, itorey and Orestes Minoso obliged the crowd with roundtrippers as the Padres took the Oaks 5 to 4. STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS Pacific Coast League Pet. 625 556 538 500 481 456 421 418 Hollywood Seattle San Diego .. Sacramento Oakland ... San Francisco Portland Los Angeles National League w 33 .29 ... 30 .29 . 28 22 20 . 19 L 20 22 23 25 25 31 32 32 Pc 623 569 Brooklyn St. Louis | Boston . Philadelphia New York Cincinnati Pittsburgh Chicago 831 528 415 .385 American League w .. 33 New York : .31 Detroit ... Philadelphia Cleveland Boston ... ‘Washington Chicago St. Louis 18 510 | 26 22 16 LEADERS IN B. B. Leaders in the two major tase- ball leagues, through games of yes- terday arc as follows: NATIONAL LEAGUE Batting — Robinson, Brooklyn, .350; Schoendienst, St. Louis, .338. Runs Batted In — Robinson, 500 423 .308 Home Runs—Kiner, Pittsburgh, 14; Seminick, Philadelphia, 12. Pitching—Branca, Brooklyn, 8-1, .889; Hatten, Brooklyn, 5-2, .714. | AMERICAN LEAGUE Batting—Kell, Detroit, .343; wil- liams, Boston, 319, Runs Batted In—Stephens and Williams, Boston, 55. Home Runs—Stephens, 15; Williams, Boston, 14, Pitching—Raschi, New York, 10-1, .909; Reynolds, New York, 6-1, .857. WIL BASEBALL Final scores of games played Iss!’ night :in the Western International League are as follows: Salem 5-6; 'Vancouver 1-1. Tacoma 9; Epokane 5. Yakima 13; Victoria 4. Bremerton 12; Wenatchee 9. Boston, FROM VICTORIA George Jones of Victoria, B. C, ‘ls registered at the Gastineau. liter- | Max West, Harvey| 566 .| Hactner Brooklyn, 53; Hodges, Brooklyn, 43.] TRUCKS WINS | 'NINTH GAME | By JOE REICHLER Virgil (Fire) Trucks, Detroit's strong-armed righthander, is chal- lenging New York’s Vic Raschi for American League pitching honors. With the season only one third P gone, the 30-year-old Alabaman | already has won nine games against three losses. Only Raschi, with 10,} has more. Newhouser has won | seven, i Trucks gave further indication last night that he was out to make this his greatest year when he limited Philadelphia to one hit as the Tigers blanked te Athletics, 4-0. Only a fifth inning single by |Hank Majeski prevented him from hurling the season’s first no-run, ne-hit game. The Tigers iced the game in the first inning, scoring three times |against Carl Scheib. | The victory left the second-place; Tigers three games behind lhe! Yankees, i RASCHI wiNS 10TH Raschi notched his 10th triumph againt one defeat without much trouble as the Yankees shellacked the Chicago White Sox, 15-3. An eight-run sixth inning at the ex- pense of loser Bill Wight, Allen Gettel and Marino Pieretti changed a tight pitching duel to a rout. | The apparently revitalized Cleveland Indians vaulted from sixth to fourth place in the Ameri- |can League standings after soundly ’tmuncmg the Red Sox in Boston, 10-5. Bob Feller, who had lost his last five starts, went all the way for| |the Indians to gain his second vic- |tory of the season. | Joe Gordon hit a grand slam | home run in the first inning. The St. Louis Browns finally eat Washington, 7-2, after losing eight straight decisions to thel Senators. Lefty Joe Ostrowski | pitched. six-hit ball to gain his first victory of the year. Mickey was the loser, DODGERS FORGE UP | | Brooklyn increased its National | | League lead to three games over |the Cardinals with a 7-2 trtumph |over st. Louis. Preacher Roe beat |the Cardinals with a 10-hit etfort | for the Dodgers’ eighth straight triumph. The Cards came up with & triple | play—only the second in the majors this year. After Jackie Rotinson had singled in two runs in the first | inning for Brooklyn. Gil Hodges] lined to Marty Marion,fwho threw to Red Schoendienst to catch Carl Furillo at second. A fast relay to Nippy Jones got Robinson off first for zhe triple kmim FORTIGERS; C. J. French, advertising manager of the Chevrolet Motor Division and executive director of the ‘Derby, gives second-place trophy, and a new Chev- rolet car award to Gary Turley, Charleston, W. Va., runner-up in the 1948 race. mehuysmtmle:hm;unmk“temufuanboylmmmpcte. WESTLAKE RAPPING THEM Wally Westlake rapped a ninth inning double to drive in the tying and winning runs in Pittsburgh’s 4-3 victory over the Boston Braves. He previously triple and single. Larry Jansen registered his first shutout of the year as the New York Giants defeated the Reds in Cincinnati, 2-0. The slim right- hander allowed four hits in win- ring his sixth game. The Philadelphia Phillies ruined Frankie Fritch's debut as manager of the, Cubs. They walloped Chi- cago, 9-2, in the only afternocn clash in the majors, Andy Seminick paced the Phils 5-hit attack with a three-run homer, his 12th. B.B. STARS Stars of games yesterday are: Pitching—Virgil Trucks, Tigers— had hit a homer,; Irescue her from the clutches of an | aunt with an evil eye, they have done everything up to and in- | cluding calling out the Brazillan cavalry led by Jerry Colonna, /ASK BOAT OWNERS TO RETURN FORMS A plea to boat owners to turn Army Engineer questionnaires regarding Small Boat Harber ‘vsngc, was made Waino Hendrickson. questionnaires was pointed out by Chamber officers who reminded plied by the forms will be a sub-! !stantial factor in Army Engineers { decision on neau's Small Boat Harbor. | i’ Forms may i:e obtained at the | Northern ~ Commercial and Standard Oil Cumpanv docks. yielded only one hit—a single—as Tigers blanked Athletics, 4-0. Batting—Wally Westlake, Pirates —doubled home tying and winning runs in ninth inning to give Pi- rates 4-3 win over Braves. FIGHT DOPE Fights last night resulted as fol- lows: At Pittsfield, Mass.—Willie Pep, 131, Hartford, Conn., outpointed Al Pennino, 132, Brooklyn, 10 (non- title). At Salt Lake City—Keith Nuttall, 135, Brigham City, Utah, outpointed Joey Ortega, 133, Portland, Ore. 10.| FR()‘\‘I WRANGELL J. P. Olsen of Wrangell is a guest at the Gastineau. GAME TONIGHT ‘There will be a baseball game | tonight according to Prexy Joe vs. Elks, postponed June 7 because of rain. CATHOLIE€ CHURCH NOVENA There will be a novena to the Sacred Heart at the Catholic Church, June 16 to 24 inclusive, m preparation for the Feast of the Sacred Heart, June 24 Novena devotions will be at 7:45 each eve- and 8:00 a.m. SCHWINN BIKES at Mab! Your Deposits BUY and HOLD UNITED STATES SAVINGS BONDS THE 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 Depcsit Insur- ance Corporation, which in- sures each of our depositors against loss to a maximum of $5,000. DEPOSITS IN THIS BANK ARE INSURED FIRST NATIONAL BANK of JUNEAU, ALASKA MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION i ; IN JUNEAU....ALASKA’S BIGGEST CELEBRATION says the Juneau Dollar Store e S A, CE R ONHARBOR USAGE ¢ re- | today by the|g Chamber of Commerce and Mayor | Importance of the return of me; Loat owners that information sup- | improvement of Ju-|} Company, & i the Mayor’s office and at the Union |§ | Werner. The game will be Legion| ning. Daily Masses will be at 7:00) GALE SONDERGAARD TR Produced by DANIEL DARE Directed by A —_— l’l US — J 0!: McDOAKES COMEDY 'Resting Is More Restful’ When You Add Coca-Cola Ask for it either way . .. both trade-marks mean the same thing. BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY JUNEAU COLD STORAGE CO. Coca-Cola Company £ 194 Smlmq Schedule M. V. BEACHCOMBER J. W. 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