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PAGE NINE q "Desperate Journey", Thrilling War Drama, Opens at Craterian Today EXPERIENCES OF "Moscow Strikes Back" Coming Here .Wednesday Dead End Kids Booked at Holly STUDY BOMBS IN SCHOOL Altadena. Cal. (U.R) Higher education has now advanced to a point here where it is possible to take courses In the public schools on "bomb reconnais sance and what to do with them." n it KID Rllll Mi MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON; SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1942 fjil'if m f jfi L 'Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan . Stars Adventures in w Enemy Land Portrayed. Today'! new picture at the Craterian Theatre is "Desperate Journey," starring Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan in a story that fully lives up to its excit ing title. The thrill-packed film tells about the extraordinary adventures of five members of a British Hudson bomber who are shot down while on a bomb ing mission over Germany. Other members of the crew who find themselves prisoners of the Nazis along wtih Flynn and Reagan are Alan Hale, Ar . thur Kennedy and Ronald Sin- clair. Questioned in detail- by a Nazi Intelligence officer, played )by Raymond Massey, the five fugitive Englishmen escape from the prison camp, after Ronald Reagan puts Massey to sleep with a hard right to the jaw. Slowly, and traveling only by night, they make their desper ate Journey across Germany toward the Holland border. They get a break by overpower ing some Nazi guards and tak ing their uniforms. Now, dis guised as German soldiers, they stand a good chance of being shot as spies, but they have also Increased their possibilities of escape. After leading the Gestapo a merry chase across the rest of Germany and a good part of Hol land, they steal a reconditioned British bomber which the Ger- mans were going to use In a "sneak ra'd on London. It is a desperate fight against over whelming odds but the intrepid Britishers are successful and make their getaway. "Desperate Journey" plays for three days. Square Dancers Meet The Oak Grove Community Square Dance club will meet Monday from 8 until 10 p. m. it was an nounced yesterday. . ' Closing unw lot -dunned ads i a. m. To late to Clusuj 3 P m, ' Beware of Chronic Ailment FREE BOOK To Sufferer If afflicted with Colon and Rec I tal troubles, or Stomach condi- tions, write today for large 122- page FREE BOOK. McCleary - Clinic. E1217 Elms Blvd., Excel 9 a ior Springs, Mo. ft. ? . -r & -sse-i. M ' A real-life picture as fierce as the Stalingrad defense is the widely-publicized feature-length photographic record of a brutal, merciless attack on Russia by 'A 1 the Nazis In "Moscow Strikes Back" coming to the Craterian Theatre Wednesday for a four day showing with Edward G. Robinson as the narrator. HI "Flying With Music," a Hal Roach stream-lined featurette starring Marjorie Woodworth, will be on the same bill. ALL AXIS OUTPUT . New York, Dee. 5 01.(0 Dis closure that American Industry Is producing as great a volume of armaments as all the Axis na tions combined, and more than four times as much as before Pearl Harbor, represented the most Important Industrial news this week. Business executives, govern ment officials and economists re vealed at the War Congress of American Industry that the American plants, mills and fac tories had virtually achieved the production goals set early this year by President Roosevelt, al though those aims once were re garded as fantastic. Donald M. Nelson, head of the War Production Board, told the congress that America's pro duction of combat armaments to day is equal to that of the Axis powers combined and that with in a year should be nearly twice as large as that of the Axis pow ers and almost as great as all the rest of the world combined. TOPS NAVY QUOTA Los Angeles, Cal. ttl.P.) When M. L. Judson, a 44-year-old, high-power advertising sales man, enlisted in the Navy here. they told him to go out and not come back until he could bring another recruit with him. He came back at the head of 47 whom he had talked into en listing. GOLF CLUBS TO SCRAP Sacramento, Cal. (U.R) Dep uty Attorney General Jess Hes sion contributed a set of match ed steel shaft golf clubs and a dozen brand new golf balls to the salvage drive. Record Crowds! Record Thrills! NOW PLAYING Thru Thursday 1.1, 'IS HJMil'J , I I ni;ft.im;.,-,nn.n-iiiKi:n:i:iK i in truyinnl r. n - mmi. in I tvnniwwtvii m CRECAR MITCHtU sandTrs GIVE BONDS for XMAS GIFTS! nflMTIVIfnilC TnnV l ) 0eJ3e-lle Inel. Tax uiaiiikvvwtf iuuhi (After I) J0c-25e-Ue Incl. Tax 7 Dramatic Role I Opens at Roxy Tyrone Power has rever had a more dashing role or one that has drawn larger crowds than his swashbuckling role of a pi rate captain in Rafael Sabattini's The Black Swan," now at the Rialto Theatre. Filmed in Techni color, 'The Black Swan" also stars Maureen O'Hara and George Sanders. RULES ON DEFENSE Sacramento, Cal. (U.R) Attor ney General Earl Warren has ruled that a California city per forming civilian defense work is engaged in a governmental tunc- tion and is immune from suit for damages suffered by its em' ployes as a result of such work, . - X W rV7 , aura 11 Anne Shirley and Kay Bolger head the star-studded cast of "Four Jacks and a Jill," which opens for today and tomorrow only at the Roxy Theatre. "On the Sunny Side," starring Roddy McDowall, plays as the compan ion comedy. War Thrillers On Holly Double-Bill Something new In double bills opens a three day run to day at the Holly Theatre with a "Elastlng the Axis' unit two pictures filmed around the cur rent war, playing as a double bill program. The first picture, 'They Raid by Nisht," is the thrilling story of the Commandos and takes in a raid on Norway. Lyle Talbot has the colorful starring role of an American captain in the British organiza tion who is sent on a hazardous mission to Norway. His com panions are Charles Rogers as a cockney radio operator, and George Neise as a Norwegian lieutenant who has escaped from his native land upon ar rival of the invaders. 1 -if F :1 v m The "Dead End" Kids are at It again In their newest fun frolic, Neath Brooklyn Bridge, which brings the hoodlums to the Holly Theatre Wednesday for a four-day run. Ann Gillis and Noah Berry, Jr., also star. "Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terorr," starring Basil Rathbone, will be double-billed. SMOKERS GUILTY Los Angeles, Cal. (U.R) More fires are caused by "slop py smokers, especially In bed, than by children with matches. according to a report of the fire commission. In a single month 25 fires in Los Angeles, out of a total of 76, were caused by sloppy" smokers, the report stated; 13 by juveniles, and 25 by grown-ups. ITALIAN VETERAN JOINS Binghamtcn, N. Y (U.R) A veteran of the Italian army in World War I has joined Uncle Sam's forces against the Axis. Manilio G. Ntardonato served with the Italian army from 1917 to 1920 and was a prisoner of the Austrian army for six months during that period. STA-OFF) CORN REMOVER aim Intunt nlM tarn Ml tMt llrtlT imbn com. ftva UMMI lh . MllOUlM. WW". ptpUlsmu. ell Milt. conutoi Ml 4Ulnl Out I0lte. !OM ud 4m koI cuim tt IrTiutloo u 4 lltonf cld mlstum. Wl " Ultra Iut UU.d Irr a sohi Mck n4iuu Exclusively at WESTERN THRIFT Blasting the AXIS with Two of the Year's Bicgest Action Hiti'l ' Today for 3 Days m mmmm HAVE LRHBES'.'r-' J I They 19 d"th V' I strike terror In the hearts o! the I JjT UI I Hl sMrtmol .trleken Norw.r I I SCHEDULE, l SlVXlfX 1 -Commandos- M&V f & I I Today ' r,cu I I "Libya" Today I FS1) CJV-'V jl '1 The First Year PreiideM RosZ ""---ijjjJ GIVE WAR BONDS FOR XMAS PRESErJrTliJJjfc, ANN MUELLER Swiss CARD and CRYSTAL READER Ktrrjrttitni strict I; Confidential 723 Sherman Dial 2313 DANCE And FLOOR SHOW Friday, Dec. 1 1 III, 8:30 to 11:30 K. P. HALL Fifth and Grip Streets Featuring MAJOR JOHNS and HIS COWBOY DANCE BAND Dance Sponsored by Crater Lake -Post 1833, Veterans of Foreign Wars Admission 75c Ladies Free) They Slugged, Bombed, Shot a Trail from London to Berlin and Back! i m aBB- i- 1' Bomber crew crash-lands In the heart of Germany and off they go on a 5-man Commando raid to Berlin! 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