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Shamokin News-Dispatch from Shamokin, Pennsylvania • 5

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SHAMOKIN NEWS-DISPATCH, SHAMOKIN, PA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 194J PAGE FTVI Western Musical Romance Their Love Is Triumphant VAGRANT NEVER IfCARI) OT "Yt INDIANAPOLIS U.R! ThVn was an unlucky numbr for man Indianapolis police arrested on a vagrancy charge when they said the? saw him begging from soldiers. Thy found he had collected II penning, 13 nickles and 13 dime. ROTARIANS JOIN IN CELEBRATION Forty-First Anniversary of International Group Observed He Needed 1tHct' On the contention that 1m was an intellectual, Poland's official hangman threatened to resign a few years ago when he waa classified a a "physical worker." not an able-bodied person was on i relief. The only assistance cases other than aged, blind and de- pendent mothers and children, were i persons termed unemployables persons nnable to earn a living. Edwin Moore, director of the county organization, informed the board members that Edgar R.

Mir-' wine, who was on military leave during war sen-ice, has resigned his position as a junior supervisor. -Miss Gertrude M. Shulsky. a senior investigator, has returned from Navy service, and will resume her forme-duties on March 1. The staff at present is made up; of 32 persons, and despite the 100 increase in the case load, the board members felt the work involved did not warrant any increase the number of orkers.

Members of the board present at the meeting were Mattison a Shamokin, chairman; Lester Wharyj and Mrs. Natalie Swaboski, Mount i Carmel; Russell Rickert. Shamo- kin. and Dr. Joseph T.

Wasilewski. Kulpmont. RITZ SATURDAY Continuous Mow TRfiVORTON tribute to the fund by sending dona-i 'ons directly to Trevorton First National Bank. Already donations have been received from Sunbury, Mount Carmel. Shamokin, Coal Township.

Kulpmont. Northumberland and several other communities. O'Rourke reports also that several donations were received from communities in other counties. Private Worobel was not told of the campaign for his benefit until it was well under way. He is a patient in Valley Forge General Hospital.

Phoenixviile, and when told of the campaign he said. "I don't know of any words to express my feel-ines." Worobel lost both eyes, part of one hand, and sustained permanent injuries to one arm several days after the Normandy Invasion opened. At present he Is recuperating from his eleventh plastic operation, and plans are afoot to have the young man visit Trevorton on a short furlough. Some of the organization affiliated with the Trevorton committee are United Mine Workers of America. American Legion.

Clover Club. Odd Fellows Lodge, Rebekah Lodge, St. Mary Catholic Society, Holy Name Society. Woodman of the World. Trevorton Athletic Association.

Trevorton Fire Company. American Lesion Auxiliary, Fire Company Auxiliary, War Mothers of America, Trevorton public schools. Trevorton Protestant and Catholic churches. Volunteer workers are assisting the committee and Trevorton Bank in sending out receipts to persons who make donations to the fund. Periodical reports of the progress of the drive are made by O'Rourke.

The Da I tons rviue Again Aloft CwrtH Kent Toytor Leu Chany Martha O'DriwoH Mare Kramer and Ellen Drew portray the courageous lovers in RKO Radio's thrill-packed saga of superstition and fear. "Isle of the Dead." starrins Boris Karloff. How they triumph over the panic which jweeps through their community makes an exciting drama. The picture will open Monday at the Majestic. rWs x.

A fluorescent lamp requires more than 1,000 distinct manufacturing operations, and is assembled from 36 separate parts. Members of Shamokin Rotary Club are joining with other Rotarians throughout the world today in observing the forty-first anniversary of the International Rotary organization, which had its beginning in Chicago, February 23, 1905. During the past 41 years, the ideas of Paul Harris, founder of the organization, have resulted in spread of friendship, fellowship and service to others to peoples of practically all nations. Today there are Rotary Clubs in Algeria, Argentina, Egypt, Switzerland, England and Syria, as well as 66 other countries and geographical regions throughout the world. Rotary has grown in an amazing fashion during the past 41 years.

During the last six months, 209 new Rotary clubs have been organized In 20 different countries, and today there are 5,641 clubs in nearly every country of the world, with a membership of 260.000 business and professional executives. During the war, Rotary continued to function actively in Great Britain, Denmark, Free China, Free France, Portugal Sweden and Switzerland, but many clubs in a number of Axis countries were forced to disband. Since conclusion of the war, a number of these clubs have been revived. President Edwin Bloom, head of For Me and My Girl dh mem m-. i John Hodiak is the big bad man whom Judy Garland subdues in "The Harvey Girls," M-G-M's new musical-western, filmed in technicolor now on the Victoria screen.

Laid against picturesque background of the early West, the picture boasts a great cast, including Ray Bolger, Angela Lansbury, Preston Foster and Virginia O'Brien. Light as a Feather LAST TIMES TODAY fJLMED IN ALL THE GLORIOUS 'MlrS ti. -zm ''t'. .1 IS- County Relief Load Increasing rcontimifd f-om Page Onc ty persons were supported by direct or work relief, the case load fell below 2.000 during the war and stayed there until the end of the war. The lowest point reached was 1.950, the lists remaining at or near that figure over a period of many months.

Of the wartime relief load, only a small fraction included persons receiving direct relief. Most cases involved aged persons receiving old age pensions and dependent moth- i ers and children. The records show that over a period of three years V-iU" -S A 1 FT "i i iW'i VnnVfnii iVteiiiniiAi i ja0.faTO CnMtf a 3 Shamokin Rotary Club, announced special ceremonies in connection with the anniversary are planned by the local club for the weekly meeting next Monday evening. Majestic Boris Karloff Coming in "Isle of the Ann Sheridan in Second Picture Boris Karloff is introduced in a most sympathetic aspect when the Ann Sheridan and Dennis Morgan in a scene from "Shine on Harvest Moon," gay musical scheduled to open its local showing Monday at the Majestic Theatre. $bKS fpT fl in Northumberland County appeals were made for industries, lodges, churches and individuals to con no victimization of our comrades," the resolution said.

Leaders returned to their ships after talking to Patel and obtained a majority agreement for surrender. A minority opposed it, but was yP A DISNEY FEATURE COME TO LIFE! J' action opens in his current starring NEW PARTY MONDAY and TUESDAY Springfield Shamokin KUNKEL'S HALL if Tito Guizar and Constance Moore, 6hown in an amusing scene Irom "Mexicana." Republic's lavishly produced new musical production. The film will be shown beginning Monday at the Capitol. Yamashita Dies For War Crimes; (Continued from Page Onp) I tried to do my best throughout. As i I said in Manila to the supreme court I have done ail within my capacity, and I do not feel ashamed before God for what I have done when I have to die.

"But if you say to me: 'You do not HOLLYWOOD MAKES YOUR HEART BEAT TO THRILLS vehicle, "Isle of the Dead," opening Monday at the Majestic Theatre. Before the picture ends, he has been driven Into a frenzy of superstition and a thirst for blood. Ellen Drew and Marc Cramer are featured as the romantic factors in this new RKO Radio melodramatic shocker. The story opens' when General Pherldes, in company with a young American newspaperman, (Cramer) finds the grave of his wife on a Greek island despoiled. They join a group that includes a superstitious old Greek crone, Kyra, and Thea, a beautiful young Greek girl.

Plague attacks the little community. Notwithstanding all precautions, death begins to take its toll. The old crone, Kyra, hates Thea, and insists that the girl is a vampire, and that she and not the plague Is responsible for the deaths. His Iron will weakened by the starting SUNDAY, FEB. 24 300 ALL REGl'LAR CARDS at 35e or 3 for $1.00 ALSO ALL SPECIALS 35c or 3 for $1.00 Ruses leave Ninth Si Independence Sts.

at 2:00. 2:30 and 3:00 P. M. in the end, even though she has to resort to a brace of six-shooters to win her man. Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren TIME have given the picture a rich musical score replete with hit tunes divided between the talents of Miss Garland, Miss Lansbury, Miss O' Brien and Cyd Charisse.

It all adds VICTORIA up to outstanding entertainment. SOON COMING 4 way, she said, when somebody feels a hunger pang coming on and he's not in the scene he can dash off to the corner and munch a ham on rye. Gandhi Seeks To Stop Revolt (Continued from Pace One) and the government warned that anyone found building a road barricade was liable to be shot on sight. Rioters swarmed around a railroad train in the suburban station of Dadar and set it on fire. They burned banks, post offices and other have any ability to command the Japanese I should say nothing because that is my nature.

"Now our war criminal trials are going on in Manila, so I wish to be justified under your kindness and the right. I know that all the American officers have used tolerant and rightful judgment. When I was investigated in the Manila court I had good treatment and a kindly attitude from your good-natured of Kiev Capitol ficers who always protected me. "I shall never foreet them for what they hove done for me. even if plague, General Pherldes finally accepts this theory, and decides to kill Thea in order to save the others.

How he is foiled and Thea enabled to leave the island with the American, who has fallen in love with her, is told in a climax full of startling surprises. Karloff plays the role of General Pherldes with convincing effect. Ellen Drew, as Thea, is co-featured with Marc Cramer. Helene Thimlg is Kyra, other players are Alan Napier, Katherine Emery, Jason Robards, Ernest Dorian and Helton Knaggs. Val Lewton produced for RKO Radio.

Mark Robson directed. I die. I do not blame my executioner. "I pray that God will bless them. Please send my thankful word to the American officers who defended me." Constance Moore Plays Entertaining Role in "Mexicana," Opening Monday Constance Moore, blond star of Republic's "Mexicana," which opens at the Capitol Theatre Monday, has a revolutionary idea working days without lunch hours.

"We'd really be better off," she insisted. "Because if we skip lunch it would mean we can sleep late in the mornings." fiRRIllO wit it ifLNSTt buildings. At the Matunga suburban railroad station a ticket seller was stoned and railway officials manhandled. One wing of the Kohinoor Mills was set ablaze, but was extinguished by firemen who were guarded by troops and police. At least six persons were shot by PITER O0WGUU British military patrols today when Miss Moore expounded her theory eTd -ft on the of Republic's "Mexicana," in which she co-starred with Tito Guizar.

In a clinging pink gown that showed what the customers When a man asks you to marry him, that's love. And when a vaude-villian asks you to be his stage partner, that's business. But when the Funds Donated For Blind Vet (Continued from Pace Onel of labor groups, lodges, fraternal organizations, churches and school representatives, started plans for the drive shortly before the beginning of the new year, and after six weeks of planning, opened the drive. A house-to-house canvass is under way in Trevorton and several other communities surrounding Trevorton, while in other localities PLUS EXCELLENT SHORTS missed when she refused to pose in bathing suits, Miss Moore spent the morning singing in a swanky night TUESDAY IS "THE BIG DAY" AS USUAL rioting resumed for the third consecutive day. The naval mutiny ended shortly after dawn.

Formal surrender of the hungry, thirsty sailors began at 6:30 a. m. (8:30 p. m. EST Friday) after a night of negotiations.

Val-labhai Patel, Bombay aide of Mohandas K. Gandhi in the powerful Congress Party, served as go-between in the peace talks. Negotiations to end the navy uprising came to a head when a sailors' committee passed a resolution to surrender and place the mutineers in the hands of the Indian people. man Is a vaudevlllian, asks you to marry him, and to be his stage partner as well that's the history of Nora Bayes one of America's best-remembered singers whose life is the basis for Warner new picture, "Shine on Harvest Moon," coming to the Majestic Theatre Monday. Staring Ann Sheridan as Nora Bayes, and Dennis Morgan as Jack Nor-worth, her husband, the film depicts the rise of the first of the torch-singers from her early days in a Milwaukee honky-tonk, to the success which eventually befell her as one of the biggest of Ziegfeld stars.

jui irft I I ra club. When the company broke for lunch against Miss Moore's principlesshe went into detail on her ideas. "I'm sure every producer in town would present me with a bonus or something," she said, "because it would keep them from losing at least an hour's work every day. And think of the money they'd save." Here is the way she figures it: "Say," she said, "that the director calls a cut for lunch exactly at noon. At one o'clock everybody's back to a I .1 r.T fll.IBIf3l.IK I 1 TT winisninimiiirm-y 13 a I a "VOUR FAVORITE THEATRE" WHERE EVERYBODY GOES "Patel has takei responsibility and assured us that there will be El WAV VVSW.VV.'.V.V.V.V.V.W.V.WW.W, IMPERIAL times B.

i ilt HITS ROY with "trigger" jpj Rosemary la Plonthe -srv KULPMONT IT'S M-G-M's FEAST OF TECHNICOLOR JOY! All the roistering adventure, the lusty romance, the laughter and work. Bud do tney start snooting again immediately? You bet your life they don't!" Nope, she says, either the electricians have to adjust the lights, or the cameraman has to reload on film, or the star has to have her makeup fixed because she smeared her lipstick joo gobbling down hash too fast. "So it's always 1:30 or 2:00 p. m. before you can gel going again," she went on.

"And by E3 a E3 ES STARTS SUNDAY VfHv- that time everybody's dopey because they ate too much anyway. But I Victoria Story of Pretty Waitresses Imported Into West Woven Into Current Picture The story of the pretty waitresses imported west by Fred Harvey and his now famous "eating houses" has been made into -a completely captivating musical in M-G-M's "The Harvey Girls," which opened yesterday on the Victoria screen. Filmed in technicolor against the picturesque frontier background of New Mexico of the 1890's, "The Harvey Girls" offers unlimited scope for the dramatic, comic, and song-and-dance talents of a dazzling array of talent headed by Judy Garland, and including John Hodiak, the nimble-footed Ray Bolger, Angela Lansbury, Preston Foster, Virginia O'Brien, Kenny Baker, Mar-lorie Main and Chill Wills. of the West's most exciting era! With lovely' Judy leading a bevy of gorgeous Harvey Girls in a she insists under the "Moore-No-Lunch No More" plan working around a movie lot would be a pleasure. "We wouldn't come in until 11:00 in the morning," she said, "and we'd keep working through to 8:00 at night.

And the stars and directors would chip in two bucks a week to keep a buffet of drinks and sandwiches going all the time." That Eg E3 a El THAT? new kind of conquest of the lawless frontier! JB in FEATURE 1:00 3:07 5:14 7:21 9:28 3 SPINE- Miss Garland is cast as Susan Bradley, on her way to Sandrock, FREEZING And when Judy tingt: "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" and other hit SCENES vou'll never tear out of your tunes it's a thrill 'tL atl WEST SIDE PARK BERWICK, PA. LES BROWN and His Famous ORCHESTRA FEB. 26th to remem ELLEN DREW MARC CRAMER mw-ummm AND a a ei El ES El Ei E3 S3 S3 (Stm TECHNICOLOR JOHN HODIAK RAY BOLGER ANGELA LANSBURY and PRESTON FOSTER-VIRGINIA O'BRIEN KENNY RAKER MARJ0RIE MAIN CHILL WILLS tough New Mexico pioneer town, to marry H. H. Hartsey (Chill Wills), a cowboy to whom she has become betrothed unseen as the result of his sympathetic correspondence.

Discovering his letters were a hoax perpetrated by Ned Trent (John Hodiak proprietor of the Alhambra gambling hall, Susan joins forces with a group of waitresses who are helping to open a new "Harvey The battle between law and order in Sindrock, as represented by the Harveys and the Santo Fe Railroad, and gambling and crooked rule as represented by the dance hall resolves itself into a personal tarn Dancing 9 1 ADM. S1.67 (Plus Tax) Screen Play by EDMUND BELOIN, NATHANIEL CURTIS. HARRY CRANE. JAMES O'HANLON and SAMSON RAPHAELSON Additional Diologue by Koy Von Riper Based on the book by Somuel Hopkini Adami ond the original jtory by Eleanore Griffin and William RonVin Wordi end Music by JOHNNY MERCER ond HARRY WARREN Directed by GEORGE SIDNEY Produced by ARTHUR FREED StifRT AIDA a. OEOROI OWSMWIN US iJOAN LESLIE ALEXIS SMITH H'iM 13 ALDAo.OEOROE GERSHWIN AN LESLIE ALEXIS SMITH CHARLES COBURN o.

THEMSELVES I Iff rFLl Kl AL V-i Jt, OTHH? Xtv JOLSON OSCAR LIVAN1- PAUL WHITEMAN EOROI WHITE HAZEL SCOn ANNE MOWN Coming March 5 COOTIE WILLIAMS ti C3 COLOR CARTOON UNUSUAL OCCUPATIONS TRAVELTALK NEWS" VING RAPPER Or feucl between Susan and Em (Angela Lansbury), queen of the Alhambra, over the love of Trent, with Susan coming out triumphant mm ainiini.

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