Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1916)
TITE OREOOXIATT. TUESDAY, AriJII, 25, 1916. fflR. -GANTINE WILL !i ii ! 1 i I :i liMii I Hi iiiiiiti i il i ili' M' lii 1 1! i i n Moving Picture Nev5 BE KEPT IN OFFICE llii :ii;!iH!i:i!!ili!!iil!!l! Chiefs Request for Dismissal of Deputy State Engineer i Is Turned Down. TODAY DECISION IS UNANIMOUS 8 Til CfcJ Pfr. IiCwIs Reasons for Wishing to Be Rid of Subordinate Find ' Little Favor With High way Commission." FALEM, Or.. April 24. (Special.) t'pon the unanimous recommendation of Secretary of State Olcott. State Treasurer Kay and the members of the advisory board of the tate Highway Commission, Governor Withycombe to day refused to accept the recommen dation of State Engineer Lewis, that the services of Chief Deputy Engineer Cantine with the State Highway de partment bo dispensed with. overnor Withycombe presented the matter to the other members of the highway commission and the advisory board today, pointing out that while rie had the appointment of the Chief Jpputy Engineer under the law and liresumibly the right of dismissing lilm. he wished to ascertain the views ef the commission and advisory board. At the commission's meeting last inonth. Lewi had recommended that 'Cantine be dismissed on the ground that there was little work In the de partment for him to do now. that it would save the state money and that It would restore harmony in the depart ment. Lewis today reiterated his Teasons for wishing? Cantine dismissed but found little sympathy for his proposal .All members of the Commission and the advisory board expressed the be lief that Cantlns a a valuable man, and that some work might be found for him. I cannot help but think." said John Albert, of the advisory board, "that Mr. Lewis" reasons are a mere pretext.' luteal Phane Invoked. Mr. Albert called attention to the law. declarlner that Lewis was only a rreature of the Commission, and that the Commission had authority to di rect the state highway work, assign ing to Cantine such work as they 6aw fit. He said that Lewis' recommenda tion of dismissal for Cantine would bean, if followed, the disregard of the law providing that a chief deputy en irineer "versed in scientific road con struction" should be retained by the highway department. "It would be a mistake to let Mr. Cantine go at the present time," said S. Benson, a member of the advisory board. "I am personally acquainted with Mr. Cantine and have much re crard for his ability." Mr. Butler1 of the advisory board, also said he had high regard for the chief deputy. State Treasurer Kay fired a number of Queries at the State Engineer, inti mating that, with the direction of the State Engineering Department, State M ater Board and Desert Land Board that Lewis should have his hands full without insisting upon doing- all the wark in the State Highway Depart' ment as 'well. "I'd like to know," queried the State Treasurer, "what you'd been doing if you hadn't had the highway work to look after?" "Why, I would have been busy with the Water Board and other work in the Knglneering Department," retorted Mr. Lewis. Replying to Treasurer Kay's inquiry as to how he managed with the addi tional state highway work, the state engineer explained that he had his forces well organized and in the hands of subordinates upon whom he could depend. Governor Interpose. Governor Withycombe interposed with the statement that he understood Lewis now had the direction of the ex penditure of approximately $60,000, and wished to assume the burden of expending am additional $230,000 be longing to the State Highway Depart ment. Engineer Lewis denied that he had so much money at his disposal. Ever since Mr. Lewis was granted charge of the state highway depart ment by decision of the Supreme Court, thus placing Mr. Cantine in a subor dinate position in the department, there has been friction between the two rnf-n. Iewls told the Commission to day that Cantine wished to do the work, which he himself desired to di rect. Since Lewis recommended Can tine's dismissal, the latter has been engaged in gathering data on state roads under direction of the Commis sion. Iewis says that Cantine left Sa lem without advising him of his in tentions. He also Insists that It Is his duty and not Contine's to gather Infor mation on state roads for presentation to the Legislature. While in the past the State Engineer has been given the direction of Mr. Cantine as regards assigning him to specific duties, it was indicted by to day's meeting that the Commission hereafter will direct his actions. It is also reasonably certain that the next Legislature will be asked "to amend the present highway law to straighten out the tangle into which the administra tion of the deparraen now finds iself. CTKfwtTT ' .rm w'SJf JW u.m nip m ' J"H mm i .mi mt tmmx,..,m w . ' - " ' i :7' . - J . .rri i ttfi'ICri . 1 .1 . i.r.,riT..i 1 .-, r ,. I ., ';:,. . tT 77 S sr?&J" . TODAY'S FILM FEATURES. Majestic "A Modern Theltna." Columbia "The Stepping: Stone," "His Wife's Mistake." Plckford "Human Driftwood." Peoples "Molly Make-Believe." Sunset "Champion Jess Willard in Training and Fight Scenes." Circle "The Girl and the Game." G IIARLES CHAPLIN, the million aire movie actor, has -gone to law to protect his highly valuable reputation as a comedian. Ho has started the first suit ever filed be cause a picture is not funny enough. Chaplin has brought suit against the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, his former employers, and the Vita- graph-Lubin-Selig-Essanay, Inc., for permanent injunction against the dis tribution of the motion picture known as "Charlie Chaplin's Tiurlesque . on Carmen." The action is in the Supreme Court of New York. Chaplin is now working on a salary of $670,000 for the Mutual Film Cor poration, which fact he cites as evi dence of the great value of his reputation. Chaplin's salary is the eauivalent of 6 per cent return on an invested capital of $11,166,666, which may be taken as a measure of the value of his name as a comedian. The actor charges that the picture as originally made by him was in two reels of one thousand feet each and that it is being released in four "pad ded" reels of such quality as to seri ously injure his fame. Chaplin avers that his rights both as an actor, a producer and an author are violated by the four-reel "Car men." The suit is unique In the his tory of motion picture litigation in the issues raised. Under the terms of " his contract Chaplin alleges that ' the Essanav Company agreed that no pictures bear ing his name should be released with out his approval and final O. K. He says that -he made a two-reel "Car men" and directly charges that the Essanay Company, after he had com- I pleted the picture, employed one Ben Turpin and other actors to make addi tional pictures, with which "Carmen" was padded. Beware I Jiow, what's the bloomin' row about?" Said Movie-on-Parade. You'll have to cut the last scene out," The Board of Censors said. What's wrong with it, what's wrong with nr Said Movie-on-Parade. With us it doesn't make a hit," The Board of Censors said. For, the hero has the measles and we'll have to intervene. As a sanitary measure and delete it from the scene; The audience might catch it If you show it on the screen. So you'll have to cut it out tomorrow mornin'. ported to have stopped Champion Jess Willard, is at the Vtagraph company's studio in Brooklyn working in the pic tures. He is "acting" in a picture with a burlesque . boxipg match between Hughie Mack, the 400-pound comedian, and Boer Rodel. Among other pugilists who added realism to tho picture was Harlem Tommy Murphy, who acted as one of Mack's seconds. Tommy, slnco his re tirement from-the ring, has become a regular film actor, and has appeared Jn a number of recent pictures. In order to get the correct atmos phere for "Peg o' the Ring," the big circus serial which Director Jacques Jaccard is producing, the director took his entire company from Universal City to Stockton, Cal., in order to have the benefit of the Al G. Barnes circus or ganization which was playing in that location. Fuller Mellish. the distinguished English actor, who has been playing with James K. Hackett in his Broad way production of "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and other Shakespearen plays, has rejoined the photoplay forces of William Fox. He will appear in a photodrama which is being directed by Will S. Davis. The Prettiest Picture That Ever Was Made M' MAKE BELIEVE From the Famous Romance by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott , Starring; SSI! COURT CANCELS TRANSFER Judge Gantenbein Makes "Finan ciers" Refund on Bad Paper. Allegations of deliberate fraud on the part of the persons who induced Robert Carr to trade a perfectly good note and mortgage for $2000 for two worthless notes calling for the same amount, were sustained by Circuit Judge Gantenbein yesterday, when he ordered the transfer cancelled and re strained N. M. Todd, who was responsi ble for the good note, from paying r, $2000 to anyone but Carr. Carr brought suit against D. J. Mc- Callum, L. O. Ralston, A. K. Ralston E. B. McFarland and N. M. Todd, He had been induced, his complaint set forth, to trade his $2000 note for two notes, one for $1500 and .the other for $500, signed by E. B. Mcr arland. repre sented as a banker at The Dalles. ' In Acts Paramont Pictures ,:, more - s 1 , . x s i : Days X Wf-V I t A Real Whiskers, These. London Looks for War In Month. LONDON", April 20. Reynolds News paper says that, according to private advices received In London, big finan cial interests in the United States cal culate that diplomatic relations be tween Germany and the United States will be broken off within a fortnight, and that war will be declared within .1 month. A CLEAR COMPLEXION Ruddy Cheeks Sparkling Eyes Most Women Can Have Says Dr. Edwards, a Well-Known Ohio Physician. Dr. F. M. Edwards for 17 years treat ed score of women for livar and bowel ailments. During these years be gave to his patients a prescription made of a tew well-known vegetable ingredients mixed with olive oil, naming them Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets, you will know ihem by their olive color. Tbeue tablets are wonder-workers on the liver and bowels, which cause a normal action, carrying off the waste and poisonous matter that one's sys ' tern collects. If you have a pale face, sallow look, dull eyes, pimples, coated tongue, head aches, a listless, no-good feeling, all out of sorts, in active bowels, you take one of Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets nightly for a time and Dots the pleas ing results. Thousands of women, as well as men, take Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets now and then Just to keep in tbe pink of condition. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets, the suc cessful substitute for calomel 10c and 25c per box. All druggists. Tne .Oilvs Tablet Company, Colum bus. O. Abas the crepe hair away with the poison Ivy tut tut on the manufac tured whiskers! Henceforth and here after trailing arbutus effects will be he real thing in the whiskers line in Selig movies. Self-constructed whis kers have proved a delusion and a snare. Director Colin Campbell, of the Selig Company, issued the mandate which will mark an epoch in Movieland where the crimson rambler glued to the lower Jaw has been au faite in the past. No actor in "The Crisis" can in dulge in a haircut or shave until the drama is completed. Lonir hair was motiiwh in the early '60s, and as for beards well, beards worn by charac ters in "The Crisis" are to be simon pure beards not rank imitations! There are only three me.n in the entire Selig company of 30 who can indulge In a tonsorial Spree. These are director Campbell and Cameramen McKenzle and Darling. Screen Gossip. One of the most attractive lobby dis plays ever presented to Portland fan- dom is on exhibition at the Plckford Theater as an ' advertisement for "Human Driftwood." the sensational AiasKa mm reature, and at the same time an Easter greeting. The chief feature of the display is an Easter Alaska "set," a huge white egg, with interior decorations presenting a snow bound Alaska town. Within a fence surrounding the egg are a number of small rabbits. A fur-clothed figture and blossoming dogwood boughs are also a part of the decorative scheme. Screen Gossip. Pearl White, the widely known mo tion-picture actress now starring In the rathe serial, "The Iron Claw," denies emphatically the widely published re port that she intends marrying Frank Moran, the heavyweight pugilist. The "peerless, fearless girl." as she is dubbed by the Pathe press agent, announces that the is not contemplat ing matrimony with anyone and is wedded only to her art. , . Harry C. Myers and Rosemary Theby arrived last Monday at the Vim comedy studios in Jacksonville. Fla., and start ed worjc immediately on the first of a weekly series of "refined" comedies to be released under the Vim brand on the General programme. Mr.- Myers, who has an enviable reputation as a producer of hlfTh-class comedies. Is di recting. A current rumor credits Eva Tanguay with having accepted a picture contract with an Eastern firm of manufacturers calling for a salary of $3000 weekly for the cyclonic genius with a time period of three consecutive years, each year to run the full 52 weeks. mm Joe Cox, of California, who is re- DR. H. W. GALVANI ESCAPES Baconian Theorist on Yukima Trip While Bard's Advocates Chafe. Dr. W. H. Galvani left Portland with the Yakima excursion party Just in time, it would appear, for the whole host of Shakespearean scholars Is on his trail to demand satisfaction for his remarks about the Bard of Avon, in his exposition of the Baconian theory Sunday. The odds are heavy against Dr. Gal vani, for Portland has about six Shakespiareans to every one Baconian, apparently, and all of them take ex ceptions to the attitude of Dr. Galvanla toward Shakespeare's claims to author ship of the plays attributed to him. J. D. Stevens, who lectured Sunday night on the subject, is particularly anxious to hand Dr. Galvani his cartel and defiance. Klamath Kails Honors Shakespeare. KLAMATTT FALLS, Or., April 24. (Special.) The tercentenary of the birth of William Shakespeare, which is being widely observed throughout the world this Spring, was observed in Klamath Falls Saturday at a meeting of the study department of the Wom en's Literary Club. A special pro gramme was arranged by -Mrs. Charles P. Stewart, consisting- of Shakespearean numbers. The first extensive denohit of plate In Aurrlia has been discovered in New Fouth Walrs. Fl'XERAL OP OLD RAILIIOAD MAX WILL BE3 HELD TODAY. ! t . ; .. --r f J I - it - t ' 1 , i ! WRONGED GIRL SUICIDE PRETTV I.VDIAN MAID HANGS SELF AT SCESB OF- ATTACK. Indian Mob Is Searching; for One of Celllos. Whom Girl Is Said to Have Named as Assailant. THE. DALLES, Or., April 24. (Special.) Grief - stricken because she had been attacked Saturday, a pretty 19-year-old Celilo Indian girl returned to the scene at night and committed suicide by hanging herself. Her body was found Sun day morning dangling from the Oregon Trunk Railroad bridge near the Ore gon shore. One end of the sash .which she had worn as a belt had been tied around her neck, the other end at tached to a bridge timber. McKinley Wesley, whom the girl named as her assailant, is missing and many Indians are searching for film. The girl was exceedingly pretty and had been well educated. She lived with the Indian family of Sam Smith at Turn water. After the attack she returned to Tumwater, on the Washington side of the Columbia, but later disappeared from her home, recrossed the bridge and took her life. It 1: 'A -jifcj'i.nifwiyifft-tt'iimnift .ii rvft r,'as William M. Bond. The funeral of William M. Bond. B8. for 30 years a resident of this city, who died at Spokane on Friday, will be held this aft ernoon at the Portland Crema torium at 2 o'clock. Mr. Bond came to Oregon from Missouri in the early days and became associated with the Ore gon & California Railroad, now the Southern Pacific. He was yardmaster at one time. Later he became yardmaster for the Northern Pacific here. At the time of his death he was assistant yardmaster of the Great North ern at Spokane. REPTILES HAVE 3 EYES Only Living Survivors 'of 15,000,-000-Year-Old Family Found. PITTSBURG. April 18. It has three eyes, skin like an alligator and a row of teeth down the middle of its back. What is it? No, you're wrong. It is a tuatcra spenodon punctatah gray, and it is the newest addition to the Carnegie aiu seum of Pittsburg. It is alive the only live .exhibit In the institution. There are two specimens in a wire cage in one corner of the room in which the great fossil remains of some of the largest animals that ever inhab ited the earth are erected. The two specimens were presented to the Carnegie Museum by the gov ernment of New Zealand, their native habitat. These reptiles represented the oldest species known to have existed from which the birds, the dinosaurs and probably the mammals of today are descended. They belong to the order of Phyncho- cephalla. which were numerous in Jurassic times, the sole survivors of which are the present- species. These specimens retain characteristics now lost, among which Is the third or pineal eye under the skin at the top of the skull. roses, In the drawing-room of her pa rents' home. Miss Elinor Joan Fatman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Fat man, was married here to Henry Mor genthau, Jr., son, of the United States Ambassador to Turkey and Mrs. Mor genthau. The Ambassador was best man for his son. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Stephen S. V4se. Wise. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a short-skirted gown of white satin, draped with white chif fon and trimmed with lace that has been in her family for generations. After a trip In the South Mr. Mor genthau and his bride will live ia Fishkill, N. Y. SEARCH FOR GOLD YET ON Seattle Man Tells East of Dangers Encountered for Riches. WASHINGTON, April 18. "The search for gold and other precious met als is still accompanied by dangers that bring the searchers close to death," remarked H. V. Browne, of Seattle, at the Raleigh. "This was brought to my attention recently by a returning pros pector. This man had been going up and down the Alaskan coast for 15 years, but it was in the last six months that he had thrilling experiences which several times made him fear that Today and Wed. Umi. J" '"4irtl8flillilffil The Popular Screen Idol ROBERT WARWICK In the Strikingly Dramatic Photoplay k-4 TW00D , A Story of Love That Knows No Bounds Scenes Pulsating; in Their Thrilling Action A Climax Unique and Pleasing Work of the Forest Rangers Educational "Eddie's Night Out' A Comedy Pickford Orchestra Good Music ZdjC Always Good Pictures ICKFO KB Main 3412 WASHINGTON AT PARK he would never get back to civiliza tion. "Twice the wrecking of a launch threw him and his companions onto the beach, from which there was seem ingly no way of return, but each time they got out without injury. The miner then set out for Ketchikan to examine a prospect. He chartered a small boat and, with one companion, started for a point north of Ketchikan, only to be wrecked on the west coast by a fierce gale. For three days the gale raged, and the two had a struggle to keep a fire going on the barren island where they were marooned. On the fourth day, when the gale had abated, they managed to repair their launch and make their way back to Ketchikan. "They started again in a motor boat up the Portland Canal and again were wrecked. Then they mushed 30 miles inland to their prospect, where they were snowed under for four iays. With the assistance of friendly Indians they made their way down the canal, some times walking, sometimes canoeing, until they reached a miners' settle ment. "These indomitable spirits are never conquered, however, and they believe always that the reward is worth the chance." "Good Measure" in Cloth Abolished. LONDON, April 20. A yard of cot ton cloth, as measured by the English manufacturers, will hereafter measure 36 inches, instead of 37 inches, as for many generations heretofore. The 37 Inch yard is said to have had its origin in the habit of spinners In measuring "from the further side of the thumb," thus adding about an inch "for good measure." lhut Old-Kashloneil Girl. Atchison Globe. What, has become of the old-fashioned fiirl who kept a record of her friends in an autograph album? An ofrrtlvo system for treating cout with electricity has been developed by a Genr.an physician. SUNSET THEATER "The Coziest on the Coast." Broadway and Washington. For Three Days Only CHAMPION JESS WILLARD In Training; Also Authentic View of WILLARDOIOItAV FIGHT, PREPAREDNESS! The Stupendous Patriotic Picture, The Mnttle Cry of Peace." Coming for Three Days Only, Sun day, Monday and Tuesday, April 30, May 1, 2. Matinees Sc, From 8:35 A. SI. to I. M. MORGENTHAU, JR, MARRIED Miss Klinor Fatman Bride of Son of Ambassador to Turkey. ' NEW YORK, April 18. Under a can opy of rambler and American Beauty CIRCLE THEATER "The Big Home Movie." FOURTH AT WASHINGTON. Today and Tomorrow "THE GIRL AND THE GAME" Episode No. 10. "THE SALTING OF THE SU PERSTITIOUS MINE." Admlnnlon, Bi30 to 6 P. M. - - f5(t Sundaya and KveningM - - - 10 for SIX months without a dollar's cost Starting the day your Studebaker ia de livered, Studebaker give9 the most unique and PROTECTIVE Service that you have ever run across for a period of SIX months and without one dollar's charge. Ton sea. It's like this: Studebaker doesn't look on service as something to talk, about or use to help make a sale and then forget. Service Is a thing that a man buys with a car just as much as he buys the cushions in tho car. He's getting a piece of machinery and that machinery absolutely must have regular attention to get the best use from it. So Studebaker gives Just that kind of Service complete, thorough-going REGULAR Service. It's all written down before you buy your car. Yon know exactly what you are- going to get. And you get it REGULARLY for SIX solid months just the time when the car needs it most. And you get it without cost. But w wish you'd corns in we'd just like to show you how the men go over the cars and make 41 dis tinct inspections, oilings, etc., every time a car comes in, and teach you how to take care of your car. It is really the most wonderful Service that has ever been devised a PROTECTIVE, satisfaction-INSURING Service. Oregon Motor Car Co. Phone Bdwy. 616 Park and Davis Sts. Local Studebaker Distributors