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Tiventieth Century-For presents
DARRYL F.ZANUCK'S Production of
THE STORY OF
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
DON
with
LORETTA
HENRY
AMECHE YOUNG - FONDA
Chorica Coburn • Gene Lackħare Spring DyingIOL
Also
SPECIAL FOX WAR NEWSREEL
A Warner Bros,
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NAUGHTY BUT NICE
with Ann Sheridan, Dick Powell, Gale Pago
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Thrills shower the screen as this strangest of adventure mysteries, is told!
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An MGM Pictura
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"ETERNALLY YOURS"
Loretta Young - David Niven
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More than 17,000 people attended the Oriental to sto this thrilling picture of what goes on behind the Nazi front and inside the German prison campa
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HORRORS
IN THE
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sky of man themend lero-
Here's the most exciting screen even
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Includes
LESLIE HOWARD DOUG. FAIRBANKS. PAUL LUKA'S
MARGARET LINDSAY
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BEPEATING ANOTHER "WARNER BROS. SENSATIONAL TÜRILLER! IT'S A CAGNEY YOUVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE.„JUAY YOU'LL WANT TO SEE AGAIN?
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SEARCHING FOR MINÉS-German soldlers prod ground with sticks and scour country side for dreaded land mines in abandoned territory. Soldier pulls small cart that carries re- covered "minen" (mines). Dangerous duty this, if a mine should happen to explode.
"Bomb Berlin!" Says THE CASH
Wells-Nazis
Rage
MR. H. G. WELLS joins the ranks of Public Enemics of Nazidem. In an article in an American magazine he urged that the Allies should subject Berlin to "intense aerial Bom- bardment."
The Germans' answer is howl of fury.
"Of one thing Mr. Wells and the men behind him may be sure,” they said: "any attempt to bomb German towns would be answered by our Air
Mr. Wells Replies
And this was the reply to Berlin given by Mr. Wells:
PRICE OF
SOVIET'S BATTLE
£300,000 a Day
THE Red Army's great
"It is perfectly correct that I wrote that article," he said.
"Obviously this German statement offensive is continuing, but is evidence of weakness and a scream the Force with measures such as British af terror.
attacks have lost The Germans did not apostles of hatred have perhaps not hesitate to bomb Warsaw ruthlessly momentum and the drive yet conceived.
and brutally.
They
have would "For every bomb dropped on Ber-done exactly the same to London in appears now to be near an
September Inst, had they dared.
in ten would be dropped on London, "I am quite sure that we in Lon- "Moreover, after the experience don could stand up to anything they already gathered by them off the German coast, British airmen know better than does the agitator Wells at his desk what any such attempt would mean for them"
This was repeated on the German radio at intervals throughout the
night.
Jend.
During the battle 200,000 could send us, and give them more Soviet troops-fresh and well than adequate punishment.
equipped-have been hurtled
must come to. I would rather bomb
This is wor, and this is what it against the Finnish defences. the Germans then staŕve them. the end it will be quicker, and it will leave the Germans, it may be, In a healthier state of mind."
In
Leg Broken, Crawled To Save Messmates
A MAN with a broken leg dragged himself along the deck of the sinking destroyer Grenville and saved the lives of many. of her crew struggling in the water, it was disclosed recently.
He crawled twenty feet to "It thrilled us to see him going
Heavy artillery has pounded the Finnish line. In one district 15,000 shells have fallen in an area of onc square mile. The cost in ammuni- tlon is estimated at about £300,000 in day,
The Cost In Lives
The cost to the Red Army in men and inaterial is unknown, but
Unofficial sources in Helsingfors place the losses at 5,000 killed and 15,000 wounded;
Three of four "lost" divisions, of about 70.000 men, are cut off round Kitela. They were isolated by suleide patrols which cut their communications,
During a
week-end more than
180 bombs were dropped on towns in
turn the safety switch control- along the deck. We knew what his ling the depth-charge appara- bravery and quick thinking two machines were shot down. This tus.
would have killed many of us.
"I don't know
He was a seaman,
meant."
North Einland. One inan was killed;
brings the total of bombers destroyed
[Preliminary
---Able-Seaman--W.-Pitt-one-of-the-Pilt,-who-is-nineteen,-and-lives-in 1.10.250.. destroyer's 116 survivors, said: "The Pretoria-rond, Eastriggs, Dumfries charges might have exploded. They shire, was swept overboard by a the man's name.wave, and floundered in the sen for twenty-five minutes before he was "After he had turned on the safety picked up. switch he slid over the side into the Eight men in the Grenville were water..
killed when she was mined or tor- "He was picked up almost immedi-pedoed, and seventy-three are miss- ntely.
Ting.
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70,000 STRASBOURGERS
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MOVE CITY THE ANCIENT city of Perigueux, 300 miles south of Paris, could well be renamed Strasbourg.
of
The life of the Alsatian capital, with a large pro- portion of its population, has been transferred from the banks of the River Ill, which flows through the heart Strasbourg parallel with the Rhine, to those of the River Isle, which flows through the heart of Perigueux. Of Strasbourg's normal population, Marx is looking after the spiritual 300,000, some 70,000 people needs of the Strasbourg Jewish com- evacuated from their home town have munity.
The town hall of Strasbourg and settled In Perigueux "for the dura-
Chamber of Commerce, are altuated tion."
They have their maternity hospital, for the time being in Perigueux in which a tiny Strasbourger is born Chamber of Commerce building. The nearly
every day, Strasbourg's Prefect of the Bas-Rhin Department maternity hospital was transferred and his staff also have their ofices here with doctors, nurses and full here, and the Strasbourg tax collector has been accommodated by his alaff.
Mgr. Douvier, coadjutor to the Perigueux colleague.
The Bank of Strasbourg is, in the Bishop of Strasbourg and. Vlear- General of Strasbourg, is installed in main street of Perigueux, and the the Byzantine cathedral of Perigueux leading Strasbourg newspaper, Der- Instead of the Gothic cathedral of nieres Nouvelles de Strasbourg, is
read everywhere. Alsatian delicates Strasbourg,
Pastor Ortlieb, head of the Pro-sen shops abound, and the school festant faith in Strasbourg, offeintes children begin their lessons by sing- in a Protestant church, ond Rabbi ing Alsatian songs. ...
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