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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1945)
GENE TIERNEY IN CRATER!AN TODAY Romance, Drama, Comedy Also In "Laura" Rialto Has Double Feature. The mystery story rates tops among the hardy perennials of the screen. But few If any such films have dared wander as far from the straight and narrow of con- ' ventional mystery films as has ' 20th Century-Fox's "Laura," the story of a strange and perilous experiment In love and mur- ' del? which stars Gene Tlerney, Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb and opens Sunday at the Craterian. Advance reports from Holly wood have it that 'Xaura" boasts as fascinating a set of characters as has ever peopled a single film. The "name" part, Laura, gives Gene Tierney one of the most colorful roles she has ever played. Laura is a young and beautiful advertising woman who meetsa fabulous man-about-town columnist-critic and, through sheer efficiency and charm manages to intrigue him so thoroughly he becomes her mentor in cafe society. Waldo Lydecker, the critic, is played by Clifton Webb. It is a sharp characterization, not able for its pungent lines and comparable to the part in "The Man Who Came to Dinner," which brought Webb new stage fame. Mark McPherson, the detec tive, played by Dana Andrews, is as startling a character as the famous Nick Charles of "Thin Man" fame, and much more ro mantically inclined. He is in sharp contrast to the charming, lady-beguiling weakling, Shelby Carpenter, played by Vincent Price. Judith Anderson as Ann Treadwell, Laura's self-indulging aunt, rounds out one of the outstanding casts of the year. "Double Indemnity" Here Soon f f I M .... .... Starting Wednesday for a four day program at the Craterian, Barbara Stanwyck, Fred Mao Murray are co-starred with Ed ward G. Robinson In the thrill ing mystery, "Double Indem nity," with Jean Heather and Tom Powers. Medford people will be interested in the appear ance of Porter Hall in this pic ture who boasts that he's "from Medford". Chester Morris Booked at Rialto VOTE TO STRIKE Hollywood, Jan. 0 U.R) Pos sible tieup of operations of eight major Hollywood motion picture studios was threatened tonight when set designers voted to strike unless a union jurisdic tional dispute is settled quickly. Two A. F. L. unions the In ternational Brotherhood of Painters, Paperhangers and Dec orators and the international Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes are claiming juris diction over the decorators and aff Uiated artists. The strike ballot taken today was directed by the NLRB, in accordance with provisions of the Smith-Connally act. The re- cults showed 254 votes to strike and 42 against. TRAINING COUNTS Fort Worth, Tex. U.F) It wasn't because he was breaking the law that police chased a see ing eye dog for an hour and a half here. The dog, who escaped from a baggage car at the rail road station, stopped for every red light while officers ran throuRh the length of Fort Worth to capture him. More than 400,000 jeeps have been made for the Army and Navy. Nights Only Weekday MAT. SAT. b SUN. HOPE'S NO CCPE! LOOK WHO HE'S GOTI TODAY 3 Days liJy Onlyl BOB HOPE bitty HUTTON Ooni DRAKE Mxjoril WEAVER Zisi PITTS lUmondWHBURU Evi A ROE H Coming Wednesday to the Rialto are Chester Morris, Nancy Kelly and Russell Hayden in "Gambler's Choice," with Lee Pat rick and Lloyd Corrigan. Playing as the companion feature on tha Rialto s twin bill policy will be Roy Roger's latest picture, "Lights of Old Santa Fe," with George "Gabby" Hayes. Roxy Today Now playing at the Roxy for three days are Betty Hutton and Bob Hope in "Let's Face It," one of the funniest army comedies ever to come from Hollywood. Athens, Jan. 6 j(U.R) British forces have occupied all of Ath ens, torn for the past 32 days by civil war, and sent armored patrols today four miles into the hilly countrv around the city in search of Greek Elas guerrilla units which fled before a week long British offensive. Increasing uneasiness was re ported elsewhere in Greece as the fighting died in Athens. But in the capital, Greek civilians venture'd into the streets in search of food and firewood. Re lief officials were rushing soup kitchens, some manned by Brit ish troops, into northern Athens, last part of the city entered In the clean-up drive against the Elas. The national school bus con servation program is saving about 150 million school bus miles annually, the Office of De fense Transportation reports. 2 SUSJECTS HELD AT REDDING FOR BAY AREA CRIME Sacramento, Cal., Jan. 6 flJ.PJ Authorities here and in Red ding, Cal., tonight were check ing stories of two possible sus pects in the brutal murder Thursday of Miss Winnefred Cecil, 25, a navy bus driver, in San Francisco. Charles Kesh, 30, a Negro, was held here while Patrick I. Flanagan, 31, was held in Red ding. Kesh was arrested as answer ing the description of a Negro who raped a 14-year-old San Francisco girl recently in the neighborhood of the San Fran cisco bus terminal where Miss Cecil was found shot to death shortly after driving her bus out of the storage garage. San Francisco police believe the two crimes may have been committed by the same person and Kesh was held for their questioning. ' Kesh was carrying a jacket apparently identical with those worn by navy bus drivers, De tective Art Thomas said. He told police he was in Oakland Thursday when the murder oc curred. Blood-stained clothing found on Flanagan at the time of his arrest yesterday afternoon by highway patrol officers was sent here for analysis by the state division of criminal investigation. The air cargoes brought from overseas by air into the United States in the first half of 1944 totaled 22,000,0TI0 pounds val ued at $79,000,000, establishing new all-time record. CANADIANS TRAP PO VALLEY HUNS IN SWIFT DRIVE Rome, Jan. 6 dl.R) Enemy troops in the Adriatic coastal sector of Italy, compressed by a swift Canadian drive into pocket between Alfonsine, the Adriatic sea and the ValU di Comacchlo, tonight faced en trapment and loss of their entire position in the eastern Po valley. Eighth army Canadians, cli maxing several weeks of tough slugging, cleared the whole southern shore of the shallow Comacchlo lake, engulfed the town of Sant' Alberto, and to the southward swept the Ger mans from the east bank of the Senlo river between Faenza and the Valli dl Comacchlo. Enemy troops in the area have beeen "routed," an allied headquarters spokesman said. Fanning out to the east and j: Humphrey will buy it. sell your car to us we'll pay higher cash prices now HUMPHREY MOTORS 33 S. 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