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BETTE DAVIS IN DRAMATIC HIT AT CRATERIAN TODAY "Mr. Skeffington" Lauded J3y Critics; Claude Rains '-In- Brilliant Show. "Greenwich Village" Booked Here Judy Canova in Rialto Comedy Fighter-escorted RAF Lan- Sunday, Not. 8, 1944 MEDFORD M4TL TRIBUNE WOT casters joined in the daylight at tacks on German industry with a concentrated bombing of the Ruhr industrial city of Solingen, 19 miles northeast of Cologne. More than 800 American fighters accompanied over 1.150 flying fortresses and liberators which attacked Germany from the west, but neither bombers rjor fighters reported air combat. Anti-aircraft fire was heavy, however, and most bombing was done through clouds. Salem, Ore., Nov, 4 (U.R) The secretary of the Salem Chamber of Commerce, Clay Cochran, today announced that a meeting of Oregonians inter ested in flood control will be held in Salem on Nov, 9. BIRTHS BEAM To Mr. and Mrs. John H., route 4, Nov. 3, 1944, a boy, 7 lbs., at Sacred Heart Hospital. Dae Uall Tribune Want Ada Do you hT Bookkeeping and TAX troubles! Phona M. A. CRAMER. 5194. Book keeping and Accounting Ser vice, or drop me a line 825 DAKOTA ST. I will gladly call on you. Ann Mueller Reliable CARD St CRYSTAL READER EverjrUUni Strictly Confidential 208 Vancouver Phona 24U Closing tlma tor (Sunday Too Lata to Classify 6 SO Saturday afternoon Pleaaa remember nam (mi" Tha colorful, revealing career . of an amazing, exciting woman Is given vivid treatment in "Mr. Skeffington," opening today at the Craterian. Starring Bette Davis, cele brated dramatic actress, with Claude Rains, Walter AbeL Rich ard Waring, George Coulouris and Marjorie Riordan In featured rolls, the film is based on the best-selling novel by "Elizabeth." ."Mr. Skeffington" is essential : ly a character study, a brilliant ' delineation, in cinematic terms : of a beautiful but unscrupulous Woman. The fabulous Fanny Skeffing .' ton, having married for money blithely schemes and coquettes her - way through twenty-six , ySST? .o.( -Pssprted loves,, suitors and shallow fripperies, in tragic BUY WAR BONDS Nights Only Weekdays juoors upen t:43 Continuous Sunday STARTS TODAYI MORE LAUGHS THAN THE O.P.A. HAS POINTS Starting Wednesday for four ride", days at the Rialto, Judy Canova feature stars in a zany, streamlined mu- Law", sical . Jamboree "Louisiana Hay- Brown. .:,.Ti:.j..(T,t; Playing as the added is "Land Beyond the with Johnny Mack Don Ameche and Blaine "The Cherry Blonde" are romantically involved in "Greenwich Village" a hrilliant Vivian , technicolor - musical starting starting Wednesday at the Cra terian. In the cast are Carmen Miranda and William Bendix. WAUACt b MARJORIE MAIN DONALD MEEK , DOROTHY MORRIS PLUS . GLORIA JEAN In MOONLIGHT In VERMONT' V 3 Ignorance ' of the misery and heartbreak . she has sown en route, the seeds of which are sprouting all around her. The en during patience of her devoted husband, the accumulated hatred of her affection-starved daugh ter, are subordinated to her all consuming vanity and conceit. She allows her husband and daughter to desert her, and with the progression of the years takes up with younger and younger men. A poignant, deeply-affecting climax is reached when Job Skeffington, Fanny's husband, returns from Germany, broken and blind after confinement in a concentration camp. "Eve of St. Mark" and "Last Ride" are the two features on the Rialto bill for today. genehytair on election day Los Angeles, Nov. 4 U.R) If Pacific coast voters don't turn out at the polls next Tuesday it won t be the weatherman s fault, weather bureau officials said to night in forecasting generally fair weather except for light rains in western Oregon and western Washington on election day. Voters in the rest of the country, except for local areas in the midwest, - were expected to benefit by fair, dry weather, NOTICE TO GRANGERS The meeting for Grange offi cers scheduled at Eagle Point, November 7, has been postpon ed, according to R. E. Nealon. county deputy. The meeting will be held November 10 at Central Point Grange hall. Back to Roxy !. ' i. T 1 Wallace Beery returns today at the Roxy in "Rationing", with Marjorie Main and Donald Meek. Playing as the added attraction on the same program is Gloria Jean in "Moonlight In Vermont." MERCY MISSION San Diego, Nov. 4 U.R) A daring coast guard rescue crew today saved the life of Seaman Fred Roberts, Oakland, when navy doctors ordered him re moved from his destroyer 100 miles off Santa Barbara and transferred to the Santa Bar bara marine air station for aft emergency appendectory. WITH.WALLET AND VALUABLE PAPERS Mrs. William Jacobs woke in her 243 North Holly street apart ment early Friday morning in time to see a man dressed in army uniform leaving through the door leading into the front hallway. The door had been left alar because Mrs. Jacobs' moth er, occupying the apartment across the hall, is ill. Mrs. Jacobs called out, "what do you want?" and her words awakened her husband who started after the, intruder. The latter, however, . cleared the steps to the first floor in two leaps and quickly disappeared He took with him a wallet con taining a small amount of cur rency and a number of valuable papers, a key container and a lack knife, which he had taken from a dresser. Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs have offered a reward for return of the papers in the wallet in the hope that they may be found by someone if dis carded by the thief. A prowler entered a ground- floor apartment at 135 North Holly street Thursday night and made -off with- a considerable sum of money taken from a wo mans' handbag. Manner of gain ing entrance in this instance was not definitely determined. FUEL DEPOTS OF 6 DAYS STRAIGHT London, Nov. 4 (U.R)Nearly 2,000 American warplanes from Britain attacked the Saarbruck en railyards and synthetic oil plants in the Hamburg-Harburg. Gclsenkirchen and Hannover areas today in the fourth blow in six days against the German fuel sources, and the Luftwaffe, which lost 183 planes in air battle against a similar foray Thursday, failed to challenge them. A U. S. strategic air forces communique said 14 planes, eight bombers and six fighters, were missing. Other American heavy bomb ers from bases in Italy bombed Munich, Regensburg and Augs burg in southern Germany and Linz in Austria, NEW VANPORT PLAN Portland, Ore., Nov. 4 (U.R) Chester A. Moores, chairman of the Portland Housing Authority, has requested authority to sub mit a new. idea for the utiliza tion of Vanport City after the war. Stock Ranches Farms Country Homes Our Specialty THOMAS J. HIGHT Broker 200 Hollj Theater Bid. Dial 391 PLANES ORDERED San Francisco', Nov. 4. (U.R) Leland Hayward, board chair man of Southwest Airways, told a civil aeronautics board hear ing today his company has sign ed a contract with Lockheed Aviation Corp. for specially-designed feeder planes that will be in operation by next year. WANTED 50 USED CARS MedforoVt Larger! Buyer Pays Highsst Cash Prices ' No Delays. "Ask the man who sold one" HUMPHREY MOTORS " USED CAR EXCHANGE 33 S. Riverside Dial 4980 TENSE DRAMA! DARING ROMANCE! VIBRANT LOVE! I M H H V Hi . m ,0r,ST.MARIO Y sw ""XI I -V vex : NrNk. BLASTING THE "BLACK MARKET" OPEN V J Richard TRAVIS Charln LANG j7 W f Eleanor PARKER. Jatfc l.RUE .Sfft ' l"1 i f o TODAY! A DOUBLE-HEADER of SOCKEROO ENTERTAINMENT o Con- TV Doors Plan HOW to Attend the ARMISTICE DAY BALL SATURDAY HIGHT NOVEMBER II Sponsored By Medford Post 15 -American Legion MERRICK'S and DREAMLAND 2 HALLS-1 ADMISSION - rrm ir-Jt-:t ?3 cr;fWeV EVERYONE INVITED O RAY'S MUSIC Ws'ts turned out two halls oyer to the Legion for theie two big benefit balli. Remember your choica ef NEW and OLD TIME danenig at ONE ADMISSION PRICEI Ray Schumacher. - j ySii TODAY MARKS THE OPENING OF THE HOST EXCITING ROMANCE OF THE YEAR "A WOMAN . IS BEAUTIFUL ONLY WHEN SHE IS LOVED 1 7 A AT HER GREATEST, IN ft ISHE WAS VERY LUCKY HE WAS SUCH A GENTLEMAN II II CLAUDE RAINS waiter abei richaro waring geo. coulouris marjorie riordan CONTINUOUS SHOWS TODAY LATEST NEWS EVENTS m W Ii' if" 5
