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.
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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.
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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
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nihilation. Five hundred prison
ers were caught up as allied
troops obliterated the enemy po
sition on the Senio's east bank,
recently termed by headquar
ters as "a substantial pocket of
enemy resistance."
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Pits in western North Caro
lina in which 300-year-old tree
are now growing are believed to
be the remains of mines dug by
De Soto.
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