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PAGE NINE Comedy-Romance With Bing Crosby, Martha Raye On Craterian Screen PRETTY Fred Waring In Wednesday Picture Charlie Chan On Rialto Double Bill On Roxy Screen TROPICAL RAINS GIRLS FEATURED IN RUSHES EAST TO MTyDFOTTO MAIL TRTBTJXE. JrEDFCRT), CffiEGOS. STTSDIST. OCTOBER 3, 1937 With several famoua comedian and comedy teams appearing In the supporting cast, "Double or Noth ing," co-starring Btng Orosby and Martha Raye. opens a three-day showing today At the Craterian theatre. Included among the more famous are Mary Carlisle, who holds the distinct honor of being the only leading lady who has appeared In a J second Crosby picture (her first be ing "College Humor"); Andy Devlne. gravel -throated comic who has been making quite a name for himself recently on air shows; hard-boiled William Prawley. Pay Holden. Sam uel B. Hinds, William Henry, the eccentric dancing team of Amos and Arno, the Calgary Brothers and Frances Faye. In addition there Is an aggrega tion of some seventy-five beautllul girls and handsome men known as . the "Sing Band." This group uses no musical Instruments yet "plays" popular music by Imitating the 'var ious Instruments of & dance orches tra so closely that It Is said to be almost Impossible for the human ear to tell the difference. Crosby sings three new numbers during the course of the picture "The Moon Got In My Eyes," "All Tou Have To Do Is Dance." and 'TVs the Natural Thing To Do." Two numbers especially written for Martha Raye's Individual style are "It's On It's Off" and "Listen My 4 Children and You Shall Hear." The Sing Band also ''plays" another new number, "After You," with Crosby Joining the "band" for "Smarty." "Double or Nothing." latest of the new show season offerings, is a gay comedy-romance which con cerns a fortune -hunting foursome who set out to win a million dol larsoffered to the one who can double $5,000 in 30 days. Phoney , stock, hole-ln-one courses, canoe ' service piloted by ex-chorines, and ; a night club are the four methods of trying for the prize. From each comes some of the many hilarities, the film offers, Interspersed here j and there with specialties by the j many entertainers In the cast. PHILIPPINE HEAD MANILA, Oct. 2. (AP) President Manuel Quezon tonight claimed the 'right and duty" to "arraign the Philippine Judiciary at the bar of public opinion." and credited Presi dent Roosevelt with creating In a similar manner a "wholesome effect" on United States courts. Quezon asserted it was his official duty to criticize the courts "when ever in my opinion a denunciation of a wrongful act, even though per formed In good faith, would be In the public Interest." Addressing the faculty and stu dents of Santos Tomos University, his alma mater, Quezon pointed out that his oath of office required him to "do justice to every man." "Justice shall be done to the poor and humble of this country." he said, "as long as I am president. I am determined to fight for the rights of everybody, rich and poor alike, but more particularly for those who have no money with which to pay expen sive lawyers." E MAI SPREE E PAWHUBKA. Okla., Oct. 3. (UP) A prospective Osage Indian chtel tain and his bride were united In marriage tonight following a week's celebration of ancient tribal mar riage customs. The week's festivities, which cost the tribe more than 20.ooo, were attended by more than 3,000 Osages, colorfully dressed in blankets and ceremonial costumes. John McKlnley. Jr.. the bride groom, purchased his wife wltn horses, after the tribe's custom, and the bride. May Vest, showered her husband's people with clothing, keeping for herself only the clothes her husband provided. The couple, following the custom of their forebears, were only slightly acquainted before their weddng. They are both related to Chief Frea Lookout, and It Is believed they may some day rule the Osage tribe. Treasury Shy WASHINGTON. Oct. 3. (;p -The treasury reported todsy Its deficit for tne first three months of this fiscal year was 37ft,B2.l,483. Spanish Filer Shot MEXICO CITY. Oct. 3. (AP) Jose Ramon Rlvero, 37, brother-in-law of Jutn Ognaclo Pombo, Span ish Atlantic filer, was shot to death tn his office here last night. Independents Oaln WASHINGTON. Oct. 3. (Pf Port land's independent stores showed re tail ralpR cam during August of 4 4 ;vr cent over a yr ago. the bureau pf fir.-t.rn snd domestic vommerce re Card Readings Madame A. Murllrr. Honut and Rrliablp Kith bmt of reference. 1. Sherman street. Phone w.j.s K-jillnj" 1.nn. 0m 4j Liv" A versatile orchestra leader equally at home with the aaxophone, violin, flute or baton, Fred Waring shares leading honors with Dick Powell in "Varsity Show," which comes Wed nesday to the Craterian theatre. In addition to Waring and Powell, others In the cast of this lively Jane Withers Tops Double Bill Today At Rial to Theatre A wild buckaroo out where the west begins, "Ginger" Jane Withers begins where the wild west leaves off in her grandest comedy bit. "Wild and Woolly." which opens a three day run at the Rial to theatre today. Riding runaway trains, get ting her gun-totlng grandpop, play ed by Academy Award winner Walt er Brennan, Into a duel, scaring the wits out of tenderfoot pals in a graveyards at midnight, chasing city gangsters on a careening stage coach, and roping young lovers into romance, Jane makes Buffalo Bin look like a softie. Completely surrounded by her greatest cast, in the most hilarious show these pandemonium-makers have ever been in, Jane Withers learns the ways of the west from her. old-timer grandpop, (but what the west learns from Jane makes hilarious comedy. The play opens In the old frontier town of Mesa City, which is about to oelebarte its first Pioneer Day Jubilee. Jane has Inherited the feud between her grandpop and Berton Churchill, unscrupulous town bank er, carrying It on with the letter's grandson. Jackie Searl. Jane's chief Btooge Is Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, of "Our Gang" fame. They call him "Zero," but .he's a regular adding machine for laughs. Jack's old is Don pins Scott, and both are rank tenderfeet. Douglas Fowley plays the role of a big-city gangster out to help banker Churchill in one of his ne farious enterprises. Their paths cross the romantic way of Pauline Moore and Robert Wilcox, who don't even know they're in love until Jane rones thm In! TODAY and MONDAY The .Whole Town Will Be On A Laughing Jag! -Iiit an "old nnlr'' hnr Imtff he come thru when hi fnm- lly get In a Jam mm lOMlCAIT UNA MERKE1 RIC LINDEN JUDITH BARRED ideiii ruRnti: vl T E D H E A t JANET BEECHEfl And Added Treat,!!! Our Gang Comedy "RoamirT Holiday" Munlral Homanrf In Color Lateat News ETenta VIS 23 1 IS 'JL-, -,S ,.tv : .. . :i " T5 1 i musical show Include Ted Healy, Walter Catlett, Prlscilla and Rose mary Lane. Johnny "Scat" Davis, "Frog Voice" Poley McCllntock, Buck and Bubbles, and several hundred of Hollywood's most beautiful girls. The music is supplied by Warings' Pennsylvanians, one of the country's most favorite orchestras. Other members of the Important cast include Lon Chaney, Jr., and Syd Baylor. "Behind The Mike." a romantic story of radio, shares double bill honors. William Gargan and Judith Barrett head the cast with Sterling Holloway and Don Wilson (the "play Don" of radio fame) also listed. Suffering from a compound frac ture of the Jaw in three places. Ezra Patton. mechanics helper at the Wal ter W. Abbey used car lot. -was taken to Eugene yesterday for treatment. Patton, a former CCC enrollee from Missouri, was working undr a car when the accident occurred. Accord ing to reports, the auto slipped off a block nnd fell on Patton. TV P IM-a w,,,,am Henrx, Starts Today 3 Days Shows Today 1:49 3:30 6:46 9:00 I Charlie Chan, detective number 1. cornea to the Rialto theatre for Wednesday and Thursday tn hla lat est mystery thriller titled. "Charlie Chan On Broadway." In this epi sode of the- famous series, Chan Is confronted with the weird doings of those who live on the shadowy side of New York's night club, po litical and newspaper life. A murder is committed Involving Lee Chan. E STATE F, SPOKANE, Wash., Oct. 3. (AP) The nation's first "grain roots" hear ing closed here today after four sen ators of an agricultural sub-committee had heard more than 80 wit nesses, representing nearly 100 per cent of the farmers of the Pacific northwest, approve federally super vised agricultural administration. Peter Zimmermen of Yamhill. Ore., representative of the Oregon State grange and the Oregon farmers' union, outlined a si x: point program his organization had adopted along the general lines of the Pope-McGUl bill for parity Income of farmers and the Pope bill for crop Insurance. "The former, I find is the lowest paid man on the farm," he sold. "The congress if It is sincere, must pass legislation which will Insure the farmer at least his cost of production In years of heavy yield and Insure him from losses in lean years." Use Mnll Tribune want ads. A M RING SosSK the oriental sleuth's most popular son. Warner Oland and Kcye Luke again have the coveted roles of Chnrlle Chan and his son. Others Included In the cast are Tashla Mori (as Keye's new heart-throb), J. Edward Bromberg, Joan Marsh and Harold Huber. "Counsel For Crime," starring Otto Kruger, Douglass Montgomery and Jacqueline Wells, shares double bill honors with the Chan picture. TOKYO, Oct. 2. (AP) The cur rent Chinese quotation on a live Japanese general la $14.50, Japanese military authorities report. They said their Information came from a Chinese government "price list" found on a prisoner taken In the Shanghai fighting. It purport edly itemized the prize to bo paid for the capture of everything from a Japanese rifle to a Japanese warship, The quotations in United States cur rency: For capturing a private, 49.80: an officer, B .70; a general, $14.60; a spy, 914.50; a rifle or pistol, $1.46; a tank, $145; an airplane. $290; a heavy machine gun, $23.20; and a dostroy er, $2000. The biggest catch or all Is a ma jor warship, with $14,000 to the men who capture one, the Japanese said. Closing time for Too Late to Clas sify Ads Is 1:30 p. m. raw CDQ As the genial, shlftlesa. happy-go-lucky Clem Hawley of "Oood Old Soak," playing at the Roxy theatre today and tomorrow, Wal lace Berry has another of the down-to-earth roles which have made him famous as the greatest character actor of the screen. Una Merkel, Eric Linden and Betty Furness sup port Berry with the cost. VIOLENCE HARKS SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 2. (UP) John F. Shelley, president of the San Francisco labor council who was beaten severely by asserted teamster delegates at the recent state Federation of Labor conven tion, left hero tonight for Denver, Colo., as the representative of the local council at the American Fed eration of Labor convention. By a vote of 304 to 191 Shelley was elected delegate over Fred West, candidate backed by teamster lead ers, who have criticized Shelley's so called "middle-of-the-road" policy In attempting to bring harmony be-1 tween warring factions of the A.F.L. j and the CJ.O. I Worker Hurt R06EBURG, Ore., Oct. 3. 7PJ John Spencer, employed by the Rose burg Lumber company, was In Meroy hospital today with a fractured shoulder. He was injured whon ha was struck by a falling pile of lum ber. Housed Act lilt PORTLAND, Oct. 3. (flV-City At torney James Grant questioned con stitutionality of the state housing act in an opinion to City Commissioner O. R. Bean. Grant recommended the Issues be presented to Storey. Thorn dike. Palmer te Dodge, Boston bond attorney for determination. double ""-i Wan & poi8W, I) L PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 3. (AP) , Labor's threewoy struggle for con-1 trol of Oregon's sawmill and log ging industry remnlned dead-locked today, while the CIO and the In dustrial Employes' Union filed ad ditional charges of Wagner act vio lations. The A-F.L. announced plans to halt loading of lumber on the Nor wegian vessel Brandonger Monday, and brought a retort from E. B. O'Grady. Oregon CIO director, that the ship will be loaded. O'Grady predicted the boat will become a "new battleground." The CIO. ftled revised charges of "lockouts" against six Portland saw mills with Charles W. Hope, na tional labor relations board regional director, at Seattle. Attacked by both the CJ.O. and A.F.L. as an alleged "company un ion," the I.E.U., successor to the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lum bermen, struck back by filing NLRB charges against the New Grande Ronde Lumber company at Will am -lna. The union asserted the mild told Its employes to Join tha A.F.L. or forfeit their Jobs, and paid cer tain wages below I.E.U. standards. National labor board charges against the I.E.U. are now pending hearing. Both the CI O. and A.F.L. chorged the Union with violation ol the Wagner act. Meantime, Mayor Joseph K. Car son was en route to Washington, D. C, where he declared he will seek to obtain "further Information relative to our present (labor) dif ficulties." Ho Bald he will see labor board and other officials. Frisco Butter SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3. (AP U&DA) Butter, score, 03-36; 01-S4U; 00-34; 89-33. Eggs and cheese un changed. H. O. L. C. Expert Coming WASHINGTON. Oct. 3. The Federal Home Loan bank board an nounced today its chief examiner. John W. Ballard, will go west next week for conferences with. his assist ants in the Los Angeles, Calif., and Portland, Ore., banks. Seek Lost Hunter ALBANY, Oct. 3. Wiley Driv er, an employe of a construction company, was being sought today by 40 men In the Cascade Summit re gion near Iron mountain, south of the Santtam highway, where he dis appeared lost night. He and two companions were deer hunting and separated, agreeing to meet at Soda Forks at dusk. Driver failed to ap Deiir. ill ilm svrinMfy CatVisVe n U II II 3 Count 'em Hit Tunes "tmafly". .aa Maaa O.l la M lya.". . ."AflM fan" -a Ta Waal I. 0. b Dance". . "It. Taa Naninl Thlai ta Oa" A New Show Season Hit! Mats 30o Evei 40e Kiddie 10a NEW ORLEANS. Oct. 3. (AP) New Orleans desldents waded today In a flood from rain caused by two tropical disturbances that merged Id the Gulf of Mexico. Water stood from a few Inches to four feet doep in some streets. Prec Ipl to 1 1 on of more than 18 H' inches wes measured by weather bur eau observers within 23 hours. In the afternoon the downpour slack ened. Thousands of persona were xnaya ooned In home or offices. Damnges ran into thousands of dol lars. A tide several Inches deep swept Into famous Canal street, heart of the business district. Transporta tion and telephone service was da moral 1 red. Some streets built of heavy wood blocks almost floated away. The rain was the heaviest slnoe the Good Friday deluge of 14.1 inches In 1027. AT FDR. WELCOME HELENA, Mont., Oct. 3. (AP)- An "important engagement" in Cali fornia will prevent Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Montana's senior represen tative tn congress, from Joining treas ure state citizens In welcoming Presto dent Franklin D. Roosevelt to the state Sunday. Senator Wheeler telegraphed the Helena bureau of the Associated Press today from Oerber, Calif., say ing he was wiring his sincere re grata to the president that he would be unable fo be in Montana for the chief executive's visit, . Pedestrian Killed KLAMATH FALLS. Oct. 3 flH Wilbur F. Aber. about 40, of OoquUle was fatally Injured today when ha was struck by a car as he attempted to cross The Do lies -California high way north of Merrill. , China Acts NANKING. Oct. 2. ) Ohlna,' be lieving the force of world opinion to be behind her, will press Immediate ly for economic sanctions against Ja pan, a foreign office spokesman de clared today. . L 6" Workers Die DETROIT, Oct. 3. &) Five men were killed and at least a dozen work ers injured this afternoon In a new Interceptor sewer on West Jefferson avenue here when $ construction crew was caught In a "sand boil."
