Friday,
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November
1940.
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At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
I'm George
"I coulda Uved off the fat 'o the Land...lustund i got me a pick 'o trophia, I always knowed Lennie world get us into a jam...maybe because ka was too dumb.........tazybe
because he was tos strang.......I told
him to steer clear of Curisy...`
taid kim to watch out for Curley's wife who was always hangin' around ...but she get to him... made him get her hair... and then what i
WAS SCARED OF MOST, HAPPENED!"
Hal Roach presents
MIGE
AND
MEN
OF MICE AND MEN
JOHN STEINBECH
Olected by LEVIS MILESTONE
IT'S ONE OF THE 10 BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR
NEXT CHANCE
A New Universal Picture
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16
BOB BURNS in ALIAS THE DEACON "
with MISCHA
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Baby Hurricane New
Ford Test:
your
Dearborn, Micl-Imagine automobile smacked broadside aud-
denly by a hurricane While rolling at high speed! Chances are you never,
Italians Advance U.S. Planes To Speed
Five Miles
FROM PAGE ONE
British Victory QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
followed.
FROM PAGE ONE
will undergo such an experience, but offering stiff resistance, capeetally including both fighters and bombers, drivers at the Ford Motor Company with their artillery. test track in Dearborn go through it; It luis rained continuously for 40 hours in the fighting zones which have Every
day. The high wind, generated for least been transformed into a vast swamp
Is churned up, by a new land with bleak mountains for Crosswind machine that throws a background, 50-mile blast at the side of passing
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View
Nobody can say when the output of 1,300 planes a month can be reached since there are two serious "bottlenecks in American industry, in production of machine namely, Responsible circles in Nume deny tools and nero-engines, but informed This baby tornado comes from
that resort may again be made to 750-horsepower Hispano Sueza are reports that the tabung live tulen American sources express the plane engine turning a 14-foot four-Janina, but an Hallan communique blade propeller. The engine, by the states that the Italians continued to the system of releasing to Britain
Third Plan way, has olx carburetors and eats up advance on Epirue and have reached planes ordered for the American air
was bombed of gasoline an hour when the Kalamas fliver at several points, forces. gallons of
The port of Patras
The new plan will be the fourth operating at
top
speed.
the air and Greek ships loaded. from cross-wind. Effects of this terrifie
United States. such as body sway and roll, are with troops were hit, claims the com- warplane building programme in the The others ure (1) 35,000 planes checked by observers as the test car munique.
the for the United States army, already Bombs were also dropped un rolls along a straight line paved track. Two distinct car mo-bases at Lepanto, the encampments mostly contracted; (2) the original at Metzovo Pass and the defence British programme for 14,000 planes; flons are studied. One the horizon- tol movement-simulates
Rome communique. turns on curves or in passing another works in the Kalmas Vailey, says the (3) the new British order for 12,000 Alliens reports that the rumour that car, and quick changes of steering
planes have arrived caused by unforeseen obstacles. The Russan second motion is the sway set up by Salonika has been denied. n strong cross-wind.
on
·The
sudden
The new wind machine is playing
423
Athena Precautions
The police authorities in
The streets were
planes.
Athens:
Monday, has again been heavily at- tacked from the air.
Air Raid Damage
Issued by A communique
TI-
The
victims
the
u major role in the building of safer automobiles, according to members of the Ford experimental engineering! have forbidden foreigners to remain Ministry of Public Safety states that in the streets between 9 pm. in two raids yesterday damage was speelni, police caused by eight planes to a number department.
of houses, but only one person was "We have installed the cross-wind daybreak, without a
injured. generator to augacni Ford engineer-pass.
riered in
its reported that 110 bodies have ing facilities for insuring still safer!
engineer saldad the late yesterday fternoon been recovered following Monday's include car operation,"
bombing.
30 women "Beratze of the speed factor, lo-day's when an air alarm was sounded, putomobile must
A low of the sufficiently curious be prepared to
and
45 children. More than 200 bombs are said to withstand all the punishing forms of peered at the sky as on the first day priests, police, officials,"
of the war; they saw a line recon- side shock our new device creutes."
machine can be carsance plane fly over the city and have been dropped on Patras, des- Ford wind The rotated on its inse, enabling test en- the Tata, aerodrome, but so bombs woying a large number of buildings, gheers to throw a blast at a passing wee dropped. The machine then! automoblie from any angle. Test disappeared into the murky horizon.ne of which could be described as vaid on Patras yesterday morning. sers are driven through the wind One person was killed in the third military objective. ander natural conditions-some fast. ther, slow; some with the windows
Lepanto Bombed
υμεί
with the windows olliers gloses. The most effective test data! ATHENS,
Invaders Penetrate
ATHENS, Oct 31 (Reuter)-The greatest depth of Italian advance at any point only six miles, according Oct. 31 (leuter) to authoritative sources here.
It is stated that Italian artillery Greu and leaner!
of the
it was said, are obtained when cars Lepanto, in the Gulf of Corinth,
the blast while travelling at top! Armon and Egina were bombed by are pounding watch speed. The effects of the blast are Han reraft yesterday. The raid pods but nowhere has contact been
the main lines on the Bitter place led to in afternoon inade with
Greek defence. more pronounced,
A torsion bar ride stabilizer fune-
Italian Shot Down Minor damage was done to all three. tioning between the front wheels or am in Athens,
LONDON, Oct. 31 (Reuter) --Rec io'clock curfew fur all foreigner connaissance Bights over Greek and at Aliens and this is Italian coastal waters were made by
with
the the R.A.F. on Wednesday, and during on are site of the car, caused by high believed to be connected
one night an Italian plane was en- comb-out. wind, by sudden changes of steering, Police or by bumpy roadway, is "leveled!
Ford. Morcury and Lincoln-places.
Zephyr motor cars, he pointed out, absorbs most of these shocks. A jolti
2ONLY TO DAY TO MORROW by the torsion bar which exerts allies, will receive permits permitting
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HOUSE OF
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Vincent PRICE
Nan GREY
Dick FORAN
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It is hoped that British subjects, countered and shot down in flames. contracting force from the opposite freedom of movement shortly.
The Italians are using a large num-j ber of mobile field guns in which Greck steamer, Attica, 1400 tons, has thebeen captured by the Italians, states they are greatly superior to
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Three Lincs Possible
The steamer was en route from America to Greece with a mixed of oil. copper. tyres and of the cargo The mountainous nature
glycerine. un the Greek-Albanian)
Greek Lines Unbroken country Frontier dictates only three practical
SALONIKA, Oct. 31 (Domel).- lines of advance for the Italian forevs,
the north-east the pin the The Greek lines in the Macedonian high ridges which affords an approach sector of the Albanian front remain to Floring on the road to Salonika is unbroken, according to the latest field. Until now there has been exceptionally well-guarded by the dispatches, Grecks, The Italians had concentrat un air attack on Salonika which has ed heavily at Knoles in Albania for ben blacked out for the past three
nights with anti-aircraft guns a drive against Florina, but hitherto state of readiness.
vam progress.
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LESLIE HOWARD. OLIVIA de HAVILLAND
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·Tyrone
Linda
POWER DARNELL
Day-time Wife
WARREN WILLIAM BINNIE BARNES WENDY BARRIE-JOAN DAVIS
Ducted by Gregory Ratel
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FIRST ROBIN Colour cartoon.
have failed to make any signifi- Usual bright waterfront cafes shut- they
¡tired their windows to burn din bluc Another gap found in the centre lights. Air raid shelters are being front leads only into diffleult country hasily dug in the main square of the where few. 12
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SUNDAY "Haltau residents numbering 500 advantages are to be won
have been arrested but Germans are tacking force.
Near-the-const-is-a-third low bestill at large. Everything on wheels tween the mountains and the sea.has been requisitiones. Even bicycles- The Greek sort of Patras, where are affected and only trams more than 100 people were killed on running.
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Hilarious Adventures of a Traveling Salcaman !
SHE WAS HITCH-HIKING...UN SKATES!
Featuring the
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OH, JOHNNY
HOW YOU
CAN LOVE!"
Until she lost
her bearings
in a riotous
of cops,
and Traveling
mixup crooks
Romeo!
OH JOHNNY How You Can Love
TOM BROWN - PEGGY MORAN Allen JENKINS - Donald MEEK Juanita QUIGLEY'• Isabel JEWELL
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