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TIIE MORNING OHEGONIAI. THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 191G. CEflTRALIH IS HOST 1 Parent - Teacher Convention Delegates Welcomed. BIG ATTENDANCE EXPECTED Public Reception Features Opening Day of State Gatl'ering Dele gation From Tacoma Booms Mrs. Todd for President. ill i iliiHiiiiniiiinti! l HENE?V WORK. 5 ?homas nEiGHAA ' i'v CENTRALIA, Wash.. April 6. (Spe cial.) The attendance at the sixth annual state convention of Parent Teacher associations, which opened here today, will exceed all expectations. At noon 215 delegates had registered. Tacoma has the largest delegation, 85 registering from that city, while Se attle is represented by a party of 65. A. large number came from both cities in addition to the regular delegates. Other cities represented in the con vention registration up to noon include Aberdeen, Auburn, Rothell, Blaine, Bur ton, Bryn Mawr, Castle Rock, Cattail. Centralia, Vader, Chehalis, Dryad, To ledo, Vancouver, Vaughn, Vashon, Win lock, Telm, Pasco. Snohomish, Rainier, Steilacoom, Napavlne. Kewaukum, Klrk land, Montesano, Puyallup, Hoquiam, Everett, Garden City and Grand Mound. The delegates from east of the moun tains will arrive tonight. The incoming trains are being met by a detachment of Boy Scouts, headed by Rev. F. E. Dorrls, Scout master, and J. M. Layhue, superintendent of schopls. The visitors are taken to the Hotel Centralia. where they register, and are conducted to the quarters reserved for them. The convention opened in the high school auditorium at 2:30 o'clock with the general topic, "The State's Pro vision for the Physical. Mental and Moral Care of Children." Mrs. "W. B. Kail, superintendent of the State School for the Blind at Vancouver, spoke on "The Education of the Blind." With Mrs. Hall was Margaret Evanson. a etudent whom Mrs. Hall used to dem onstrate the efficiency of the Van couver institution in the instruction of its pupils. Dr. F. D. Tuttle, chairman of the State Board of Health, spoke this aft ernoon on "The Function of the Parent in the Movement to Prolong Life." Miss Mary Campbell, matron of the State School for Girls at Grand Mound, spoke on "The Erring- Girl." Tonight a public reception was tendered the visiting delegates in the Commercial Club rooms by the Parent Teacher associations of this city. Mayor John Galvtn. Superintendent Layhue and Mrs. C. C. Beeson, vice-president of the state association, welcomed the visitors. " The Tacoma delegates immediately on their arrival started a boom for the election of Mrs. J. C. Todd to the presidency. .CHEHALIS READY FOR BOYS V. 31. C. A. and Sunday School Con ference Opens Tomorrow, CHEHALIS. Wash.. April 6. Spe cial.) The boys' conference, under the auspices of the Y. M. G. A., -and Western Washington Sunday School Association, to be held in Chehalis Friday, Saturday and Sunday, will at tract about 200 delegates from the dis trict, which includes all of Southwest AVashington from Shelton to the Co lumbia River and Grays Harbor to Willapa. The theme of the conference is "Service." " The first session will be held at the high school auditorium Friday even ing, Carl J. Hollingworth. of Seattle, presiding. Addresses of welcome will he given by N. B. Coffman. Rev. A. II. Chittenden, R. E. Cook and James Iane, and will be responded to by Thomas Owens. An address will also be given by Charles A. Phipps, of Portland. DEATH LAID TO OPERATION Weston Man Sues Doctors for $5000 for Loss of Son. PENDLETON, Or., April 5. (Spe cial.) Charging Dr. G. It. Gowan, of Milton, and Dr. J. E. Vanderpool, of Freewater, with the responsibility for the death of his 4-year-old son during an operation last April, Charles Von derahe, of Weston, through his attor neys. H. I. Watts, of Athena, and Fee Fee, of Pendleton, Monday filed suit against them for $5000. The plaintiff alleges the boy was in perfect health, but at the suggestion of the physicians underwent an opera tion. He alleges the physicians did not use -ordinary skill, did not examine 'the heart of the patient and failed to note accurately his condition during the process of administering the chlo roform. DR. NORDINJS FINED $75 .Unlicensed Naturopath Willi Six Weeks' Course of Study Sentenced. "Herbs and grain are plaoed in a pestle and ground for four hours, at the end of which time the concoction is of a fine consistency that will per meate all sections of the human body, when taken internally," is the explana tion of one of the "cures" of Dr. J. P. A. Nordin. naturopath, made before Dis trict Judge Dayton in his trial yester day for practicing medicine without a license. A six weeks' course in a New York naturopathic Institute equipped jDr. Nordin to practice, he testified. He also claims the title of doctor of divinity. He was found guilty by a Jury and Judge Dayton fined, him J76. CLIMBING ROSE IN HOME Vine Tliat Entered Window Prom ises Early Reward With Bloom. During the chilly weather a wee slip of a climbing rose pushed Its way through the window cracks of the home of L. S. Kaiser, 260 Chapman street, ap parently in quest of the warmth inside. Its plan of getting in out of the cold was not stopped. Upon reaching the inside it grew rapidly until now it covers part of the inside of the window and is about to blossom. Mr. Kaiser, who is superin tendent of the City Water Bureau, says he expects to have the first rose bloom in the city this Spring. LADIES CAN WEAR SROES One siee smaller after using Allen's Foot Kase, the antiseptic powder for the feet. Shaken into the sikh-s ind used into tbe foot-bah. Allen' Foot-Ease makes tight or new srtoes feel easy; gives Instant relief to corns and bunions, prevents Blisters, Callous and Sore Spots. It's the greatest comfort i isrovery of the ace. Try it today. Sold everywhere, 25c. or FRLE trial package. Address. Alien S, Olmsted, La Roy, is". X. ( X . ! W : ill' I ''-'V W : '"& I - U f It ! 1 - " ! i ' ? vMli f w J g- 1 1 y TODAY'S FILM FKATCRES. Columbia "The Raiders." "The Village Vampire." . Majestic "Blue Blood and Red." Peoples " The Sowers," Pic tography." Tickford "Poor Little Fep pina." Heiliff "The Melting: Pot," "The Gamblers." w HO is going' to exhibit the Es- sanay-Chaplin films in Port land? A print of the "Burlesque on Car men, a two-reeler, left Chicago on Tuesday for Portland. Upon arrival, if not before, the "first-run" privilege will be auctioned off to the highest bidder. according to C. P. Merwln, Oregon rep resentative for the V. L. S. E., or Big Eour, which is handling -he Essanav- Chaplins as a special feature. Portland exhibitors have been paying little attention to the Essnnay-Chap-lins, although casting covetous eyes towards them, for it has been generally understood that John A. Jennings, of Jennings & Co., owners, and until re cently managers, of the Sunset Theater, would exhibit all of the Essanay-Chap-Hns. Therefore the ntvs of yesterday that the manufacturers have decided to release the Chaplins as specials through the Big Four, and not through the General Film Company, as adver tised for months, proved a veritable bombshell. Thus for the moment Mr. Merwin is the biggest figure in Portland f 11m dom, and exhibitors are holding many star-chamber conferences relative to the purchase of the Chaplins. Much criticism is directed at the manufacturers for . their action in sud denly switching the Chaplins from the General Film to the Big Four pro grammes. Thousands of exhibitors throughout the country and Mr. Jen nings is one of them bought General programme material with the under standing that when the Chaplins came along they would have first call on the big comedy features. 'I received very definite assurances from Mr. Todd, the General Film Com pany's Portland manager, relative to the Chaplins, and I shall hold the com pany, to its promtse, asserts Mr. Jen nings. Which means that he is not go ing to submit to the loss of the Chap lins without a struggle. Manager Todd refuses to be inter viewed on the subject, other than as serting that those who buy General Film service get full value for their money. Irrespective of other features or possible features. He has received no official word relative to a change in releasing company. Majestic. v "Blue Blood and Red," William Fox's first big Western picture, a bright and breezy story redolent of the prairies, opened sl week-end engage ment yesterday at the Majestic Thea ter. While the film is rich in atmos phere, there is no dearth of action, for a rapid-fire plot takes the spectator through a series of cyclonic scenes, in cluding a prizefight, hold-up, "mad MORE THAN 250O PKOTLE STAXD IV LIVB TO AVOID PENALTY OF ONE PER CENT . A MONTH ON DE LINQUENT FIRST INSTALLMENTS. chase, pistol battle, Jallbreak and near-lynching. George Walsh and Doris Pawn, the latter a charming Fox newcomer, are featured in "Blue Blood and Red." Walsh playing the part of the ne'er-do-well Easterner cast off by his college and father, and Miss Pawn appearing as the breezy Western maiden who falls in love with tbe husky chap from the effete East. Algernon, the Easterner, forced to walk the scholastic plank and told to "keep going" by his fatfier, takes his automobile and a vaJet and strikes for the West. Low in funds, he earns $100 in flattening a "white hope" of fisti cuffs, and then, in escaping from a pet bear, meets Mildred (Miss Pawn). A welcome guest at the Demarest home, Algy arouses the Jealousy of Buck, a bad-man cowboy. Buck steals $20,000 of his boss' money, and lays the blame on Algy. The latter is captured but escapes from Jail before the hanging party arrives. In a thrilling gun duel he Is again captured and the end is in sight -when Mildred, at the wheel of the racing machine, effects a rescue. Result, matrimony. The first of the Frank Daniels come dies, "Mr. Jack Trifles," is fully up to flattering advance notices. The Pathe Weekly and a scenic are additional features on the programme. Peoples. Blanche Sweet, the ' popular Para mount star, will appear in "The Sow ers," a stirring photodrama of Russian conspiracy, at the Peoples Theater to day. This play, founded on Henry Seaton Merriman's novel of the same name, presents a noteworthy cast in support of Miss Sweet, including Thom as Meighan and Theodore Roberts. "The Sowers" deals with the plots to establish a republican form of govern ment in Russia. Prince Alexis (Meig han). secret head of the revolutionary league, wishes to marry Karin (Miss Sweet), daughter of his chancelloi (Roberts), but political exigencies re quire that he marry another, who is in love with an agent of the secret police. Many dramatic incidents are flashed before the lovers are united in the new world. The Paramount Pictographs, or screen magazine, which are attracting so much attention in filmdom, will be screened as feature of the programme, together with a Bray cartoon comedy. Columbia. "The Raiders," a pictured story of high finance constructed about the at tempted ruin of a millionaire by his brokers, and "The Village Vampire," a Ceystoner reeking with near-tragedy, will open the week-end engagement at the Columbia Theater today. H. B. Warner, he of "Alias Jimmy Valentine" fame, -is the star of "The Raiders," which is featured with a graphic stock-exchange scene and a thrilling automobile rescue of an aged millionaire. The latter, sent to' the mountains to regain his health, is plotted against by his broker, who seeks to secure the Haldman millions. Wells (Warner), a clerk, uncovers the plot, worsts the villain on the floor of the exchange, and then, with his em- alsting corps of Italian actors contrib ployer's daughter, effects a rescue of I uting much to the artistic result. Ml 83 FINAL FRENZIED RUSH TO PAY TAXES AT COURTHOUSE. ' tti y ' " BLANCH E SWEET AS KARIN, IN THE SOWERS ' SOWING THU SEED5 OFLIBERTY Beginning Today Three Days, Thursday, Friday and Saturday Paramount Pictographs Bray Comedies the man forcibly detained in the moun tains. ' "The Village Vampire" deals with a matrimonial bureau wife, $20,000 in gold and the efforts of a gang to se cure it. Flywheels, crushers and ore buckets are utilized for rryir-rder and escape. Heilig. Walker Whiteside in "The Melting Pot," a picturization of" the famous Zangwill play, and Ethel Clayton in "The Gamblers," a Lubin masterpiece, will continue on the screen throughout the week at the Heilig Theater. These films, comprising ten reels of enter tainment, and exhibited at popular prices, are proving big drawing cards at the home of the "legit." "The Melting Pot" deals with the amalgamation of the alien races in the United States, and is a screen interpretation of a drama which has been presented with phenomenal success in Portland as in other cities of the United States. "The Gamblers" is a story of high finance, plot, counterplot, loves and hates, and for five reels holds the spectators in no uncertain grasp, while incident af ter incident, dramatic in the extreme, is unfolded. Pickford. Mary Pickford, the most popular voraan on the screen, about whom a controversy as to contract, salary, etc., is now waging similar to that center ing on Charlie Chaplin a few weeks ago, scores the artistic triumph of her career in "Poor Little Peppina," the seven-reel Paramount feature which is now being exhibited at the Pickford Theater. Miss Pickford is always ' attractive, &nd her mannerisms always delight her myriad admirers, but in "Poor Little Peppina" she is more than Mary Pick ford she is Peppina. "Poor Little Pep pina" is an Italian play. It fairly reeks with atmosphere, a splendid as- 4 Pickford is Italian also, as is her broth er. Jack, right down to the many ges tures which must have required much practice to pfesent in such a true-to-life manner. Tbe play deals with a kidnaped child, daughter of rich Americans. She is raised by Italians, although reported dead, and then, when nearly grown up, goes to America to escape marriage with a man she detests. She escapes In a corduroy suit of her foster-brother's, works in a saloon, dons messenger-boy garb, is involved in the toils of the law, and finally claimed by her parents. For third-degree realism and intensity the play has a scene which alone would entitle it to recognition. Another of those surprising and fun ny "Musty Suffer" burlesque comedies is on the bill. Screen Gossip. "The people are overwhelmingly against motion picture censorship," says E. D. Horkheimer, the Balboa pro ducer. "This was proved recently by a straw ballot taken in Los Angeles. Ten thousand persons expressed them selves and of the number four were against censorship to every one that favored it. 'Let the people rule' used to be a popular slogan. I think, it much better than 'let the censors rule.' " James Marcus, the delightfully blunt man of many experiences, is a mine of Information at the Fox studios, in Eden dale. He is one of the most pictur esque characters of the screen and his memory turns easily back to the days when films were unknown and circuses were the thing. Mr. Marcus is a Titan of a man. Big men pale and shrink beside him and if ever the camera's eye swings back to the days of mythology Mr. Marcus will take his rightful place as "Her cules as Was." . Can you read Chinese? Hazel Dawn, the Famous Players-Paramount star, has received a long pale blue silk scroll from a wealthy Chinese mer chant, which is covered with wild, weird gobs, splashes and criss-crosses resembling a composite photograph of shorthand svmbols after an all-night Jamboree. Though the Famous Players-Paramount star has every confi dence in the good Intentions of the donor, feminine curiosity demands that she learn Just what the fantastic char acters mean. So If you are a student of Chinese, please raise your right hand. In order to secure real ship at mosphere for "The King of Broadway.' A company of Universal players under the direction of W. J. Bowman made a trip to los Angeles harbor last week and took a number of scenes aboard the steamer Congress. It proved quite a novelty for the pas sengers on the big vessel to see- the well-known comedy star. Carter de Haven, being lowered into the ship's hold in a huge packing box, -making his bed with a dog as a stowaway and going through all the funny business called for in the script. "How one forgets one's age" is often heard by persons who f eel , that they are growing. old especially women. Now there is one young woman in films who is so optimistic and so happy and so buoyant that she forgets her age. She is Dorothy Gish. the Fine Arts star, and she celebrated her 18th birthday on March 11. and on that day was showered with birthday gifts of every conceivable description. Roland Bottomley, who is Jackie Saunders' new leading man, has the distinction of having appeared in the London premier of two Bernard Shaw plays. He rehearsed under the noted satirist and is 'full of anecdotes of him. Bottomley is now a member of the Balboa studio forces. -' FIRST HALF TAXES PAID FINAL SPURT BRINGS TOTAL COL LECTIONS WELL UP. Penalty on Belated Payments Now Accnmulatine at Rate of One Per Cent a Month. Fifty per cent of the 1916 tax col lections for Multnomah County had been taken in by 9 o'clock last night, due to the tremendous rish to pay dur ing the three days Jist past, accord ing to the estimate of E. S. Huckabay. Sheriff Hurlburt's chief deputy. This in spite of the fact that up to March 25 not one-sixth of the total assessment had been collected. Snow and cold, rainy weather during February and March made payments light, and it was feared that a small portion of the 1913 tax of $7, 981,937. 32 would bo collected before April 5. At midnight last night all first install ments of taxes became delinquent, and from now until paid will accumulate interest at the rate of 1 per cent a month. Thousand of letters poured in upon Sheriff Hurlburt yesterday due to real ization through the announcement of The Oregonian that a long wait in line could be avoided if money or checks for the taxes were mailed and post marked before April 6. On account of the congestion, it will be from ten days to two weeks before receipts can be returned for all taxes paid, though a night force will be kept busy. Twenty-five hundred persons, ap proximately, paid their taxes In per son between the hours of 8:30 A. M. and 9 P. M. yesterday. There were ton?, constant lines to Sfify. ') MARY I vv :; PICKFORD L Special Children's Matinee Saturday. This Advertise ment and 5c Will Admit Any Grammar-grade PupiL ICKFORD 1 H MAIN 3452 - fill, Melts In one's mouth! Bluhill Green Chile Cheese iQRfEK'iiKCKlLttC T. S. Townsend Creamery Co. Wholesale Distributers for Oregon ajid S. W. Washington. Essa three-cashiers' windows in the tax col lecting department, and each line ap peared not to diminish until towards the closing hour. -Each cashier handled between one and two a minute. One of the more brilliant of the younger members of the Green Room Club, New York, is at work on the scenario of an eirht-reel feature deal ing with life among the garlic grow ers of Southern Italy. The picture i to be. called "The Breath of a Nation." TODAY TILL, SATURDAY in 7 Keels of Pictured Heart throbs. Thrills and Romance. Poor Little Peppina ALWAYS GOOD PICTURES WASHINGTON AT PARK
