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Ginger Rorers does the "Sara of Jenny" number in Paramount!! brilliant technicolor triumph, "JLady In
tbe Dark," which is now at the Elsinore theatre. This is the first time in a long tim that the vivacious
Ginger sines and dances on the screen. The music Is the same Kurt Well composition that delighted the
atre audiences on Broadway for three years, plus a new song called "Suddenly It's- Sprint;.' Ginger Is
co-starred with Say Milland, Warner Baxter and Jon nail. Companion feature Is fUncensored" with
Erie Portman.
'Lady in Dark9 Is Film Version
Of Moss Hart's Broadway Hit
v Whatever you've heard about it is no exaggeration. "Lady in
the Dark" is definitely one of the finest pieces of motion picture
entertainment ever produced. It has everything imaginable to
give film fans the time of their
story, breathtaking beautiful tech
nicolor, fay and haunting music,
stunning fashions and high com
edy. That Just about takes , in ev
erything in the way of entertain
ment elements, but thavs what
audiences at the Elsinore theatre
thought . - :. -.
1 o-starring Ginger Rogers, Ray
Milland, Warner Baxter and Jon
Hall and produced and directed by
Mitchell Leisen, "Lady in the
Dark is the picture version of the
celebrated Moss Hart play that ran
for three years on Broadway and
played In countless cities around
the country. , The play, with Ger
trude Lawrence in the title role,
was a sensation.- The picture goes
even further. than the' play be
cause, naturally, the screen offers
wider scope 4r imaginative tech
nical tricks than the stage, and
Leisen has taken advantage of that
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I The story of "Lady in the Dark"
revolves about the mental turmoil
of Liza Elliott successful editor of
a swanky fashion magazine. She
can't make up her mind to marry
Warner Baxter, to whom she's
been attached for some time; she
can't make up her mind regarding
Important business matters, and in
general she is miserable and un
happy. She is prevailed upon to
go to a psycho-analyst He probes
into her past by means of analyz
ing her dreams and in that way
brings ' her to the ; realization of
where her happiness lies. V
This reviewer has no hesitation
in going on record to say that he
has never seen anything to com
pare with the dream sequences of
"Lady in the Dark." The imagina
tion shown in. conceiving and pro
ducing them will . win paens of
praise for producer-director Lei
sen and everyone concerned with
the picture's making. Ginger Rog
ers sings and dances through ; all
of them and performs as a 12-year-old
child and a 17-year-old
girl. Her big song - and - dance
number, "The Saga of Jenny"
which is the high spot of the cir
cus dream sequence, is something
you'll be singing and remembering
fora long time.'' -.i
Mischa - Aiier, Phyllis Brooks,
Mary Philips and Edward Field
ing are among those who contrib
ute excellent supporting perform-
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lives top stars, a "different"
ances in a picture that is undoubt
edly the cream film - fare of all
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Columbia Industries
Elect Lloyd Riches
PORTLAND, July 15 -P)-Lloyd
Riches, Salem, is the new
vice president and Thomas C.
Young, Portland business man,
new president of Columbia Em
pire Industries, Inc.
Emphasis will be placed on
greater war ' production, veteran
placement peacetime production
schedules, labor - management
relation, legislation and public re
cognition. OheJ strategic impor
tance of industry in the Pacific
northwest
DOCS O N THE MARC HWar dors, iemg trained for
the Army by the remount service of the quartermaster corps, go
on a practice march with their handlers thrtarh the California
, forest The dogs are said U enjoy the work. '..
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Power
Plant
Sales Allowed
ale of two felectricj power
plants serving Sun . Valley In
Idaho from th West Coast Pow
er company td the Idahj Power
company for a consideration of
685,000 was authorized in an or
der issued by Public Utilities
Commissioner George H, Flagg
here Saturday , j
Two lines for serving the needs
of Sun Valley j points were men
tioned in the transaction. One ex
tends from Richfield through
Hailey t64Cetchum and the other
from Cannett to Ketchumj.
r The West Coast Power company
is also concerned in the owner
ship of the plant, which .supplies
water for the juse of the town of
Hailey and Flagg said it was un
derstood that ! the holding com
pany contemplates transferring
ownership of the water system to
that municipality, j t
The latter deal has not yet been
presented for approval I of the
Oregon i public utilities commis
sioner.
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Story of Army JVomen Flier h
told in 'Ladies Courageous9 ;
; Packing it tremendous emotional punch and teljirig the thrill
ing story of America's! anay women flyers, falter Wanger's "La
dies dourageouswith aii aU-stajr. cast'heid by Lorctta. Young
and Geraldihe Fitzgerald, opened yesterday at the Grand theatre.
' The S production brings to the
public Jfor the. jfirs time air force
scenes -ox women iiyers m lacuon.
Most of the scenes were filmed at
a US air force base said to be one
of the busiest! a I r p o jr t s
i in the
world. .. i . ,v: j
Ladies CouJ-ageousl tells
the
story of the WFS womenfs aux
iliary ferrying! squadron a civil-
iian unit of the US army,! which
was organized! in 1942 with 25 of
the nation's foremost young wom
en fly rs in he original j group.
Recently, the WAFS were taerged
with other i army - wotien'a units
and today ard k n own as the
WASPS Women's Airforce Serv
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Film RealLstic ' ' f I
WithJ such n authentic! back
ground, Screen Writers Norman
Reilly Raine Jand Dcjris; iGUbert:
were able to j write a powerful
story, deplete With romantic. twists,
realistic and cqnvmcing.it ; jf
Actually, the5 personal stories of
three beautiful young women
caught in the freb of jvar jare in
geniously threaded info the well
paced plot of j "Ladies Courage
ous," revealingf an intimate picture
of th emotiqnal conflicts . with:
which leach of Ithe girls finds her
self beset ::::. :-;..?, I
Miss): Young, las executive officer;
of the WAFsj has a role which
calls upon her to play ithe modern
young J woman of purpose and
common sense, but j withal she
manages to leaf e her Welcome im
pression as an exquidtelyj lovely
and wholly feminine personality.
Miss Fitzgerald delivers ja truly
remarkable performance as Miss
Young's emotionally unstable sis
ter, whose selfishness and reckless
flying escapades very fneai result
In the : dissolution of the WAFS. I
Anne Gwymie. Diana Bar rv-
more, Evelyn Ankers4 June Vin
cent Lois Collier, Phillifl Terry
and Richard Fraser haVe the orin-
cipal supportini roles in an excel
lent cast which also includes Da
vid Bruce, " Frank Jenksi Janet
Shaw and Kanf Richmond
John RawlinJ directed and cin
ematography bears the superior
label of Hal Mohr, ASC.
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Joint Merit
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steins Held.
Unauthorized
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Establishment of a i joint merit
system council; by the state wel
fare commission, state board of
healthf and state unemployment
compensation commission, instead
of separate merit systems; is not
authorized by law, Attorney Gen-i
eral George Neuner! held here
Saturday. i - I i
Neuner declared, however, that
he could see n legal! reason why
each of the respective commis
sions land board should hot ac
cept the personhel of fuch;a merit
system which jcould function for;
the - ttiree agencies. : I J
The questioti was referred to
Neuner in connection; with a re-i
commendation bf an ihterim comJ
mftteel of the. lp43 legislature thai
the three departmenta operate in
a join! merit system and ; thereby
reduce the operating costi. j j
The cost of operating the merit
systems, under Neuner's J suggest
xion, wouia oe prorated among
tne three activities.
r Storage
water srarage conditions
throughout the state, while hot
at satisfactory ks a year ago, are
more I encouraging than antid-j
pated earlier in the keasqn. State
Engineer C. ; E. SMcklin. deUi
dared here Saturday". j J:
Water in 19 storage reservoirs;!
as of June l.'was fixed by Stride
lin a 1,735,347 1 ace feet The
reservoirs and storag: ( ; ! 4 j
Agency Valley reservbiri 48,
692 are feet, fcranef Prairie res
ervoir! 37,734 acre fet Crescent
Lake f reservoir 48,902 acre feet!
Grant Gap reBervoir C277 f eet
Fish Lake reiervoi)r 7132 feet,!
Four-Mile Lake reservoir : 17 X 18
feet Garberrefcervofr 46,860 feet
uear , Lake -resenroir. ! 276.36a
feet Klamath Lake reservoir 370, J
000 feet I :. ! I
Hyatt - Prairie reservoir 8538
feet ! McKay ( reservoir . 55,160
feet Ochoco reservoir 18,830 feeti
Owyhee reseryoir 1589,430 feet
Umtyl reservoir 15.S00 feet Wal
Iowa reservoir ( 35,649 feet Warm
Widcnip reservoir J 17,843 feet
Willor 'Creekf reservoir 10.478
feet land Thief Valley reservoif
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Post Ordnance
Streamlined"
At Camp Adair
CAMP ADAIR. Ore., July
Post ordnance, the backbone of all
combat units at Camp Adair, has
successfully f taken its place as a
supply base for vital , ordnance
maienei nere. .
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nical branch in the army,; includes
all kinds of; small arms and ar
tillery,' ammunition and all I ve
hides that the army uses, as well
as all the parts to repair, them.
Every man in ordnance must be a
technician along these lines be
fore he becomes of any real value
to the organization. . : ' ( T .VVi
. Post ordnance as Camp Adair
has seen to j the outfitting of four
divisions as well '. as many small
outfits that have been on the post
from time y time. There was a
time when ost ordnance contain
ed about 42 EM and over 50 ci
vilians to nian three warehouses;
but it has all been streamlined
now and according to Major H.
G. Kautz, ordnance officer, tne
job is being: done just the same. -
Post ordnance has had probab
ly one of Jthe hardest ' working
crews of men on the post and even
now work details shudder when
they ..hear the name . "ordnance"
mentioned. 1 :- -;
TSgt Ri - A. . Glelssner, cnlei
derk, as well as many other men
and women! who have been with
the organization a long time, recall
many days jthat the boys worked
16 to 18 hours witn only time out
for a bite of food, and even days
when a deadline called for 24 to
30 hours Without sleep. There
Were nights! when the boys were
called out at 2 pjn. to issue a mil
lion rounds; of ammunition and
carried on 'through a full day's
work at receiving and issuing to
two divisions.
Traffic Death
Rate Constant i
Oregon's traffic death rate for
the first five months of 1944 was
eight persons killed per 100,000,
000 miles of travel or exactly the
same as for the same period of
1943 Secretary of State Robert
S. ' FarrelL j jr, announced here
Saturday. . : ','.1 I '- ' I ,
Travel hv Oregon, as shown by
gasoline consumption, was slight
ly higher for the first five months
of 1944 When compared with
1943. Mileage this year totaled
981,619,509 miles, an increase of
four per cent over the total of
938,005,705 miles for the first five
months of 1943.
The death rate for May this
year was eight persons killed per
100,000,000 miles of travel.
Sample Analysis .
To Fixj Hop Ceiling
The price; ceiling for hops this
year, probably will be based f on
factors of leaf, stem and seed con
tent to bje determined by official
samples and analysis, state agri
cultural department officials de
clared here Saturday. .
In Oregon these will be made
by the state agricultural depart
ment under: a cooperative agree
ment with the grain products
branch, office of distribution, war
food administration. ,
A school for those who will
have charge1 of offidal sampling
and analytical service in the,
states of Oregon, Washington and
California was held at Oregon
State college three days last week.
Crescent! Family Visit :
In Jefferson District
JFJTERSON Mr.fand Mrs.
Eckles McCaw of Crescent are
visiting Mr; ; and Mrs. Leonard
McCaw and family. ,
Frank LUlard, former resident
of this community, now. of Philo
math, is visiting at the William
Skelton and 'Gilbert Zimmerman
homes for several days.
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Ce-Cit! Thrills with the Circus!
.. .Ilenry Dorothy
.FONDA LAMOUR
4 In Technicolor
As trim and fit as they look are (From L) Jane Vincent Lorietta Young, Anne Gwynne; and Evelyn An
kers, appearing in Universal "Ladies Courageous." Miss Young Is starred.' Nowat the Grand. -
Tioga Hall Building Is Gone,
But Oldtimers Cherish Memory
By CAREYri MARTIN y.
On the old two -story jrick building that stood where the
First National bank now stands the sign on the upstairs window
facing State street was plainly visible up and down the street
and read: "Brown, Wrightzrian and Myers, Attbrneys-at-Law.",
The present chain-store block
diagonally northeast was 'China
Town. Brown was a good laWyer
and looked after the law business
of the firm, while Wrightmanjand
Myers gave more attention to pol
itics and business enterprises.! y
Our much respected and' almost
life-long friend, Frank T. Wright
man, had already served as sheriff
of Marion county and had a per
sonal acquaintance with almost
every man in the county, and Jef
ferson Myers was a good 'mijter
with the public He bought the
land and platted J. Myers add tion
to Salem east of the railway depot
These three men made a good
combination, but neither Wright-
man nor Myers liked the law bus
iness and the firm dissolved.
"Jeff Myers, as wo called him,
has recently "passed on at; the
ripe age of 80 years, after filling
important offices in our national
government . .". , J .
The old brick building once had
a private banJc aownstairs, ana a
dance hall In the back part up
stairs known as "Tioga Hair
where Warner Breyman, ancestor
of one branch of that family, pro-
moted the "Old Folks Dancing
dub" and appointed the writer a
member of the club to be offidal
"caller," principally to announce
the changes in the Lancers and su
pervise the Virginia reel, favorite
dances of the active old pioneer.
If his descendants could only'
have a movie reel of the old gen
tleman skipping oyer we floor hi
the Virginia reel jit would be a
prize possession, trie lived in a
large house where the Elks temple
now stands, and was one oi tne
owners of Salem's principal mer
cantile store, the bid "White Cor
ner" at r North Commercial and
Court streets. ; -:
That old Tioga HaU building
brings back memories. For one
thing the - first bank failed j and
most' of us had money in it The
attorneys office rooms on the Sec
ond floor had formerly beem the
justice court rooms. .!
When, in- the middle nineties, a
thief had stolen the writer's new
style, low-wheeled bicycle; (cost
ing $107.50) the sheriff of Marion
county deputized and furnished a
six-shooter to the writer to hunt
for the thief. After an all days
horseback ride through the jhop
yards of Polk county, the thief j was
found, arrested, , brought . across
the county line and delivered into
that old justice court When ques
tioned by the old "J. P." and re
quired to give his correct name,
he answered promptly, "Jesse
James," and he went to jail bear
ing that name. '
The writer had a queer feeling
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BRIAN
.ADEDIIE
when that name was called out
In the courtroom in old Tioga
building. This fellow, was about
the right size and build and act
ually resembled the pictures of
the original outlaw. c j
He and six other petty criminals
awaiting trial, dug a hole through
the north basement wall
of the
courthouse jail and ran
away,
Sheriff John Knight made no ef
fort to . catch them, saying The
county was best rid of the ras
cals." : . ' .
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Schedule Set
Clinics scheduled for the Marlon
County Health department will be
held in the offices this week. On
Monday there will be a milk and
food. handlers' clinic froni 1:30 to
3 pjn. On Wednesday from 10 to
11 a school clinic will be held and
on Thursday at the same time, an
infant clinic is scheduled Satur
day, immunization and vaccina
tions will be given as usual from
9 to 11:30 am ....
The. schedule for the
ment also includes the
depart-
mothers'
class at the YWCA at 2:30 when
supplies for mpother and infant
will be discussed. I. ' :
Silverton Chief Plans
For Working Birthday
5 SILVERTON A. M. Amo, sil
verton's .'chief of police. Will ob
serve bis 70th birthday Anniver
sary Sunday. The day, j will be
spent, as all other days, on duty,
he said. - " -' " V -
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Here but for the Grace
ef God Is Year Daughter!
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