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PAGE SEVEN "Josette" And Louis-Schmeling Fight Films On Craterian's Screen Today MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON. SUNDAY, JT7LY 3. 1938 SIMONE SIMON WITH DAVIS IN GAY SHOW A motion picture program that combines thrilling excitement with gay romance and music, opens a three-day allowing today at the Craterlan theater. With the offloal motion picture of the Louis-Schmeling heavyweight championship as a special added at traction, the program has Don Ameche, Slmone Simon, Robert Toung and Joan Davis In "Josette" as the feature picture. Showing the devastating power of the Black Bomber as he eliminated Max Schmellng completely from the heavyweight picture, after losing a fight to him two years ago. the fight films not only rtiow the sensational battle as It actually happened, but, In order to give sport fans a com plete picture, It Is also shown In slow motion, with every blow, every knock down followed from the time Joe's dynamiting fists started their lethal work until Maxle was hanging on the ropes, knocked out completely and saved from further punishment by the actions of Referee Artiiur Dono Tan, who stopped the fight to save Schmellng any unnecessary batter ing. "Josette," a spicy, tantalizing story of New Orleans, starts gaily on Its way when Don and Bob decide tfielr Papa Is too ardently "cherchezing 1 femme" Joette. The fact that Slmone Is Innocent of all guile as re gards Papa and that there la an other woman In the cast only adds to the merry madness. For Don and Bob pack Papa off on a trip and de cide to take Josette Into their own bands or arms, as It' later develops. The denouement, which would only spoil the fun, winds up things la t, merry fashion. Joan Davis, recently voted No. 1 comedienne of the screen in a na-tton-wlde newspaper poll, has an im portant supporting part, as also have Bert Lahr, Paul Hurst, William Col lier, Sr., and Tala Blrell. Three new song lilts by Hollywood's ace tunesmlths, Gordon and Revel, are featured In the musical back ground of the film. ON BASIS OF WEIGHT PERPKMJAN, Prance (AP) An dorrans who lived by smuggling be fore the war between Spaniards now have a new Item In their list men. The price for men la the same as the prlee- for merchandise four francs per kilogram or six cents a pound. Smugglers In the little Pyrenees mountain republic reason that fat men In Spain should pay more 'than thin men to be smuggled across tho mountains, for they're more diffi cult to hide. Pioneer Structure Razed At Phoenix JACKSONVILLE, July 3. (Spl.) One of the pioneer structures of the alley disappeared recently with the raxing of the Engle building In Phoenix. S. M. Walt purchased the land on which the building stood. In March, 1857, from Sampel Colver. The building was erected about 18S9. Peter Brltt, father of the present owners, Emll and Molly Brltt of Jack. sonvllle, obtained possession of the property In 1890. The old building, used by the Phoenix Thursday club for meeting purposes, was recently condemned, and the Brltts donated the salvaged material to the Phoenix church to be used for additional needed construc tion. CALIFORNIA IS FIRST IN GASOLINE TAXES SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Figures printed In the Service station News ahow that Callfornlant have paid more gasoline tax than any other state in the union, the total since a tax was imposed In 1933 being 3527, 180,000. Pennsylvania, which Instituted Its tax In 1921. has paid the second high est. a487.379.000. while New York with a tax dating from 1929 Is third wis $473,173,000. Prompt 6000 Days DALLAS. Tex. (AP) It would take one person, going to school every day, 30 years to pile up the attendance record set by the four sons of R. R. Shaw, of Mesqulte. The quartet has been neither tardy nor absent for a total of 0000 school dsys. Bob, 17, Just graduated from high school, never missed a day, never was tardy. The other three, Steve 15: BUI II, and Dan 13, have the same clear records. i Use Mall Tribune Want Ada. APPLES USED IN MEDICINE This locality raises quite a few applet. Most people never think of applea be In; used for anything but food. However, apples are used in several different drugs. We have a product that contains pectin derived from applet. This Is used, with wonderful results, for cer tain types of acne or pimples. Wt art now featuring Mareelle Non-Allergic Cosmetics. Mareelle of fers a complete lint of safe cosmetics, containing no known source of skin Irritation. This meant beauty with perfect safety. If you are tick, see t physician, don't trust to patent medicines. HEATH'S DRUG STORE Stars of Drama at The tangled story of convicts on parole and forbidden to marry la told In the dramatic fllmizatlon of "You and Me," coming to the Rialto theater for a three-day run starting Tuesday. Sylvia Sidney and George Raft have the starring roles while other important members of the cast Include Robert Cummlngs, Barton JAP TRANSPORT 8HANKHAI, July 2. (AP) The Japanese land and naval onslaught up the Yangtze river toward the Chinese provisional capital of HaK kow spurted Into sudden bloody ac tion today about which the Invaders pinned an ominous veil of secrecy. The Chinese admitted the Japan ese steamed a small transport In litgh water over the sunken boom at Ma towchen. after many days' pounding at this defense, and landed several hundred Japanese shock troops at a village four miles upstream. This was done by running a gaunt let of steady Chinese machine-gun fire from the banks and as soon as the Invaders landed they stacked Chinese positions in sanguinary fight ing which continued hours later. Dam Worker Killed. GRAND COULEE, Wash., July 2. (VP) Dan Schrelber, 42, of Electric City, was Instantly killed at the Grand Coulee dam project this afternoon when a small power shovel belonging to Consolidated Builders, Inc., tip ped over, crushing him beneath it. corpERi-ifxn it 3:00 T:!- 10:11) imm YeY . WVfy CHARLES DICKENS' ill, US liiM i i ry f t ifft (3 With a Cast of 66 Headed by . . . Pe W. C. FIELDS . MADGE EVANS yy FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW . EDNA YA MAE OLIVER . LIONEL BARRYMORE r T-l LEWIS ST0NE BASIL RATHBONE IpX;! Maureen O'Sullivan Elizabeth Allen ipj p'u' " n Sttom Rialto Tuesday Mac Lane, Roscoe Kerns, Harry Carey. George E. Stone, Joyce Compton end Warren Hymer. "Silks and Saddles,' a story of fast Horses and dangerous blondes and starring Herman Brlx Amer ica's sports Idol, will play as the companion feature. Toby Wing and Fuzzy Knight have Important roles. MAHONEY RETURNS WITH OPTIMISTIC OUTLOOK PORTLAND, July 3. (AP) Willis Mahoney, democratic candidate for U. S. senator, returning from Wash ington, said today that the "depres sion Is on Its way out and at no time since the early days of 1933 has big business shown more desire to co-operate with the administration than It does today." Mahoney, who had an interview with President Roosevelt, said the president had a sincere interest In the problems of Oregon. GRANTS PASS P. 0. GAINS FIRST CLASS STANDING GRANTS PASS, July 2. (AP) Grants Pass postoffice attained first class rating yesterday. HEPPNER, July 3. (AP) For the first time since 1920, the postoffice here has been placed on a second class basis, effective July 1. Pre viously tre" office has been rated third class. 4 Weather. Oregon: Generally cloudy Sunday and Monday; local showers on the coast and over the mountains: no change in temperature and humid ity; moderate west and northwest wind off coast. J n ir i J I I if I l ll V . I - 1 U l Jl "Kidnapped" Coming Wednesday ffld t .-5?' Ml il ll lltfTlMwi "Kidnapped," the story which Rob ert Louis Stevenson Is said to have considered his best, comes to Mod ford Wednesday, opening a four-day showing at the Craterlan theater. Spectacularly produced, pictorlally enriched throughout with tho glow ing new sepia-tone, It boasts a cast of 6000, headed by Warner Baxter as Alan Breck and Freddie Bartholomew as David Balfour. Unlike several other Stevenson stories. "Kidnapped" had never before appeared In either silent or sound OF SAN FRANCISCO, July 3. P) Bank of America today reported earn ings of 912,321.000 for the six months ended June 30, eaqual to $3.08 a share, a record for any comparable period. Earnings for the corre sponding period last year were 10, 007.000. The bank, the report staUd. also reached new highs In deposits at $1,367,778,000, an Increase cf $77, 068,000 over the same period last year, and In total resources of 91, 498.627,000, up $82,968,000. The Institution operates 491 branches in California. The bank paid 94,800,000 In divi dends during the half-year, or eU00, 000 more than It paid In the first half of 1937. 10 Hours In Bathtub PHILADELPHIA. July 2. -(AP) Christian Oberholzer, 41, summoned police when he returned home and found the door locked. Entering by a window, they discovered Ober holzer'a 89-year-old mother. Mrs. Bertha Oberholzer, in the bathtub, too weak to get out. She said she had been there 10 hours. Closing time for Too Late to Clas sify Ads Is 1:30 p. m. TODAY and MONDAY BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! The Best-Loved Picture of 1935 The romantic adventure that captured the heart of the world is back in all its star-studded glory! Mi I.U RF.L A HRUY tt j films something of a record. In Its debut Wednesday, theater-goers will soe, for the first time, the adventure that has thrilled thousands of read ers for many yean. Romantlo Interest has been added to the story by the addition of a feminine character, a H Ireland lass by the name of Jean MacDonald, played by the beautiful newcomer, Arleen Whelan. Also featured In the cast are C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen, John Carradine. Nigel Bruce. Miles Mender, Ralph Forbes and H. B. Warner. 116-PAGE PAPER MARKS CAPITOL COMPLETION SALEM. Ore.. July 2. (UP) The largest single edition of a dally news paper ever published in Oregon out side of Portland rolled off the presses of the Salem Capital -Journal today a 118-page golden anniversary and capltol-occupatlon edition. Special stories of Oregon history, including considerable art work and unique shots of the new capltol building were used. George Putnam Is editor and pub lisher of the dally newspaper. Plane Plant Busy BANT A MONICA, Calif.. July 3. (AP) A "full production schedule for many months" Is assured, Doug lass Aircraft officials said today, as a result of the government's $S,703, 287 order for 78 twin-engined bomb ers, granted yesterday in washing ton. Joan has fust been voted the screen t No.l comedienne And boy-oh-boy, she's with her "Love and Hisses" Casanova again! h f Wmis AM $ttHivni& ;i . i aOW W I Return Showing Joel McCrca and Frances Dee head the oast of Prank Lloyd's epic "Wells Fargo," thrilling romance of trans portation and the winning of the west, which opens a three-day run today at the Roxy theater. Bob Burns has the third starring role. n "Wells Fargo" depicts the heroism of the early trail breakers and the unbelievably difficult conditions un der, which they lived. Other members of tfie large cast Include Lloyd Nolan. Henry O'Neill. Portor Hall, Ralph Morgan and John Mack Brown. Sunday Schedules For Fourth Local Theatres Announce The special holiday attractions that are on the screen of all' three Medford theaters will run on usual Sunday schedules tomorrow (Fourth of July) as well as today. Matinees will be shown at 1:48 and 3:00, with the evening shows start ing at 7:00 and 9:15. LANDON TO BROADCAST AT 4 P. M. WEDNESDAY WASHINGTON, July 2. (AP) Alf M. Land on, 1936 Republican presi dential nominee, will speak over a national hook-up of Columbia broad casting company stations, next Wed nesday. La n don will speak inder the aus pices of the Republican National committee. (The speed i wilt begin at 4 p.m. Paclflo Standard time.) Closing time for Too Late to Clas sify Ads Is 1:30 p. m. a - w T)o mm. cow"' -um . David Copperfield Returns To Rialto For Sunday Showing Taking Its place among the great est of the revival pictures, Charles Dickens' Immortal "David Copper field," returns to the Rialto theater for today and tomorrow only. The film, voted by critics as being one of the ten best pictures ever made, comes to the Rialto as a result of popular demand the country over. With a cast of over sixty-five stars and featured players, "David Cop perfield" Is a faithful fllmizatlon of the Dickens story, carrying all the characters right through In the same manner as did the famous writer of a century 'ago. The large cast includes W. C. Fields, who plays the improvident and comical Mr. Mlcowber; Freddie Bartholomew, as David the boy; Lionel Barrymore. Edna Mae Oliver, Madge Evans, Maureen O'Sullivan, Lewis Stone, Basil Rathbone. Eliza beth Allan, Roland Young, Herbert Mundln Jessie Ralph and Frank Lawton, as David the elder. The picture Introduced no less than two bright stars to the world. Freddie Bartholomew was brought from England to play the title role and his aance become one of the out standing Juvenile players on the screen today. Another Important "find" was Basil Rathbone. who play ed the heart lew stepfather of young Freddie. Rathbone has developed in to one of the screen's leading vil Uans. With a great story, a hand-picked cast of film favorites and a produc tion cost of over two million dollars. "David Copperfield" Is expected to please many Rialto fans with 1 triumphant return showing. "Blotto," starring the merry klng3 of hilarity Stan Laurel and Olivar Hardy, will play as the added attrac tion wltti the Dickens masterpiece. EIGHT MILES AIM HOUR IS SKUNK'S TOP SPEED HOOD RIVER ( AP ) If a skunk started chasing you, you'd run like everything. Waste of energy. Mrs. George Dougherty's headlights picked up a skunk one night and she chased in the car It for half-, a mile, keepings an eye on the speed ometer. Top speed for the pole cat, she found, was 8 miles an hour. . Phone 642. We'll haul away yout refuse. City Sanitary Service. "Dot f ,, l l- - ' , . ' ' J IX F.D.R. WILL DEDICATE . SYMBOL OF PEACE AT GETTYSBURG. Pa., July 3. (AP) An American symbol of "peaoe etern al" will be dedicated by President Roosevelt tomorrow on tfiis field where the blood of a divided nation was spilled 75 years ago. In the presence of 2000 veterans of the Blue and the Gray, tenting to gether on the scene of the battle of Gettysburg, the chief executive will consecrate to a "united action" a 40 foot shaft of Alabama limestone, top ped by a light that will glow "for ever." The aged heroes of the war between the states, for whose "last reunion" Sunday's spectacle Is to provide the high point, reviewed a military par ade today. Then many retired early, worn out. Meantime. In a speech for a "vet erans night" reunion, Daniel J. Dohrety, national commander of the American Legion, Bold this battlefield "affords the world Its greatest object lesson In peace" and the men wfio fought there afforded America's doughboys an object lesson In cour age. Nab Extortionist CH1CO. Calif., July 2. (AP) Sheriff Herbert Taylor announced the arrest today of James Allen Ebrlgtit, 54, a laborer, and sold the man had confessed he attempted to extort 15,000 from Roy Miller, Ohtco grooer. Mile. Lenglen Worse PARIS, July 3. (AP) The condi tion of Suzanne Lenglen, France's one-time tennis queen who under went a blood transfusion on Wed nesday for pernicious anaemia, took a turn for the worse today, occasion ing new alarm. Doctors were called Into consultation this afternoon. Card Readings Madame A. Mueller. Honest and Kellable -with best of references Readings S1.00. 123 Sherman Street. Phont U64-J-I Mats. 30r Rvtt 40c Kldrllrt lOr-
