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C P. LEGION PLANS NEW JAP PLANES UTAH CULTISTS Sunday, Dae. 91, 144 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN the Utah 1945 legislature with an haired Joseph White Musser, four-wived leader of the sect, also urged repeal of the state's statutes dealing with polygamy er cohabitation. TOP ROLE IN NEW appeal that the people be asked SEEK REPEAL OF to vote on a constitutional amendment removing the ban on polygamy. The letters, signed by white- PRECEDE MEETING U. S. PROTOTYPES Legion Honors Hero Dead Navy Thriller at Rialto "Fighting Seabees" At .Roxy Theatre Today. Bing Crosby's been on Ihe Road to Morocco, Road to Zan zibar and Road to Singapori but now he's on the road to fame In the captlvatine motion picture, "Going My Way," ar riving today at the Craterian theater. Of course, Crosby long ago was included in the charmed circle of the famous, but more for his velvety vocalizing than anything else. From here on. the "groaner" isn't sitting back to let others take laurels in the act ing profession he's put his own oar in the Hollywood waters and has come up with the finest catch of the year. He plays Fa ther "Chuck" O'Mblley, and the way he plays him elicits rave no tices from reviewers. There's nothing lacking in "Going My Way," critics say, for the heart-warming story is acted out by one of the most compe tent casts and has Leo McCarey at tr4 reins to handle direction Bing's brother-priests are Barrv Fitzgerald, the kindly, - tem perate whimsical Father Fitz gibbon and ' Frank ' McHugh genial and enthusiastic in his role as Father O'Dowd. Then, too, Rise Stevens appears throughout the film as a famous opera singer, (which she is), ren dering the "Habanera" aria from "Carmen" while the Robert Mitchell boys' choir captivates audiences, according to reports, when the group Joins Bing in several selections. The simple but eloquent story relates how Bing is sent as "trouble shooter" to Fitzgerald's parish and immediately con founds that conservative priest by Instituting Innovations which to him are seemingly radical. His first act is to placate Gene Lockhart, bank prexy who holds the mortgage on the parish. The latter's son, played by James Brown, figures in the act, too for he falls in love with Jean Heather, a young girl set on the right trail after receiving some sound advice from rawer Crosby. The golf course scene is one of the shining examples of the temper of "Going My Way," it is said .for the laughs and chuckles become howls as Fitz gerald indulgently lets himself be taught the science of the same bv Crosby and Mctiugn, Starting today at the Roxy starring Susan Hayward is "The Fighting Seabees," a tale of the navy's hard-working, hard fighting, hard-loving battalion with John Wayne, Dennis O'Keefe. Coming to the Rialto Wednes day will be "The Navy way with Robert Lowery and Jean Parker. The film teads tne dou ble f e a t u r e program starting Wednesday at the Rialto. The artrtprt feature will be "The Utah Kid," with Bob Steele and Hoot Gibson in the leading roles or this thrilling saga of the wild Sharyn Moffett, 7-year-old naivmmsr to the screen, will h seen locally in "My Pal Wolf," in which the blue-eyed youngster shares honors witn "Grey Shadow," descendant of , A,- -V i - iVs ( . , -f LJ LJkl-z Homer Myers Vernon Holland - The new American Legion post In Central Point, "M y e r s Holland Post No. 129," was chosen by the veterans In honor of the first two young men from that community to lose ihelr lives in battle in World War It. Both were well known and loved in their community. (Cuts Courtesy Centtal Point American). the famous dog star "Strong-heart." Panzer General On West Front Is Ex-Barkeep Paris, DecT30- (tl.R) Col. Gen. Joseph Sepp Dietrich, of the SS elite guard, who com mands one of the panzer armies which Field Marshal Karl Von Rundstedt has thrown into 'the western front, is a former bar tender and nazl gangster who is high on the allies' war criminal, list. Dietrich, the most nazl-mind- ed and probably the least mili tarily capable of the three gen erals leading armies in the Ger man drive, is wanted for atro cities committed at Kharkov. Russia. His canzer armv is still un designated bv number but is now known positively to be iignung alongside Lt. Gen. Hasso Eccard Von Manteuffel's 5th panzer army. TT is n m Nights Only Weekdays Mats, aai. ana o TODAY 3 Thrilling Days! TUCK NAMED JUNIOR CITIZEN Jack Matlack, formerly with the Hunt theaters here, who has been publicity director for the J. J. Parker theaters in Portland for the past two years, has at tained new honors. The Medford man has been acclaimed "Junior First Citizen of Portland for 1944," according to word ceived here Saturday. In addition to his theater work, Matlack has served in number of civic capacities, his latest effort in this line being the direction of publicity for the state in the motion picture par ticipation in the sixth war loan drive. Matlack is the son of Mrs. L. J. Matlock of the Jacksonville highway. Central Point, Dec. 30 A tur key dinner, serving to start at 4:30 p. m., will precede the pub lic installation and presentation of charter for the new Myers- Holland Post No. 129, American Legion here on Wednesday. The dinner, for which a nominal charge will be made, will be given in Grange hall and all veterans and their wives are in vited. Large delegations are expected from Medford and Ashland. Those planning to attend from Medford will meet at the Med ford hotel at 6 p. m., prepared to leave at once in pooled cars. State and district officers of the Legion will attend the banquet and installation, leaving the Med ford hotel with officers from the Central Point post who will es cort them to the banquet hall. Arriving in Central Point the veterans will form a parade at the intersection of Highway 99 and Pine street and will proceed on Pine street to the Grange hall Central Point high school band will head the procession. The new Legion post is named in honor of Homer Myers and Vernon Holland, first Central Point young men to lose their lives in World War II. Ue Mall Tribune Want Ada. Corporal Herrin . Ends Pacific Stay Santa Ana, Calif. Cpl. Frede rick L. Herrin, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. I. Herrin, 509 Hamilton street, Medford, is currently assigned to the AAF redistribu tion station of the Santa Ana army air base after having serv ed overseas with the 5th air force as a cook. Herrin . entered the service on January 13, 1942, and went over seas in February, 1943. He has Deen siauonea in Australia, new 1 Guinea and the Netherlands East Indies. New York, Dec. 30 U Devon Francis, aviation and science writer, said today after a three-month study of Japanese warolanes that several of the newest enemy types were su perior in performance to their opposite numbers in me Ameri can air forces. Part of his conclusions were incorporated In an article in Popular - Science Monthly de signed to offset the American public's conception that Japanese planes are of poor design and construction. Francis described two greatly improved Japanese fighters which have appeared recently in combat, each with a speed of more than 400 miles an hour. The fastest American fighter, the Mustang, has a top speed of 450 miles an hour "plus." The new Japanese planes are the "Frank I" which has an IB cylinder 2000 horsepower air cooled engine fitted with a water induction device to give It bursts of added speed In emergencies, and "Jack II." a new navy inter ceptor. Several Japanese warplanes, Francis said, had a higher rate of climb, longer range and excep t i o n a I maneuverability. To achieve this, the Japanese con centrated on light weight at the expense of protection for pilots and crews. Thus Japanese de signers were willing to sacrifice flying personnel where Ameri can designers were not. The chief weakness in Japan ese warplanes, he found, were inferior muzzel velocity of fixed and flexible guns; insufficient protection tor pilots and crews and gasoline tanks; inferior gun nery sighting and compensating devices and inferior control at high speeds, Cloalns tlmt lut Sunday Too Lata to Classify 6:30 Saturday aJtarnooo Pleasa remember. Salt Lake City, Deo. 30 U.PJ Utah's embattled plural marriage cultists today launched a drive they hope will see the repeal of state laws which say a man can have only one wife. With , approximately 40 of their number under sentences, Utah's many-wived cultists ap pear to be on the short end of the score in their nine-months battle to date In state and federal courts. Some of the members al ready have lost three trials on as many cnarges. But they're still fighting. Today they, struck at one source of their troubles Utah statutes on polygamy and cohabi tation, and the Utah constitution al provision against polygamy. In what appears to be a last- ditch fight, leaders of the funda mentalist cult who have been in court almost constantly sine a three-state round-up last March, today presented the members of TONIGHT! BEGINNING 8:30 o'clock ATTENTION EAGLES And Auxiliary Members AND HOUSE GUESTS ANNUAL NEW YEAR'S PARTY EAGLES IIALL-219 W. MAUI Program Begins 8:30 P. M. WEEK There's only one voice like Crosby's! There's only one picture like this! BING CROSBY RISE STEVENS 01m mm &M with :.' 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