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TILE MORNING OREGONTAX, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1917.
MOVE Oil
CASHIER
TO DUST
RECEIVER
iR. A. Hume Questions Busi
l ness Dealings of Coin Ma-
chine Company.
ACCOUNTING IS SOUGHT
Attorney, Who . Is J udgraent Credl-
a tor, Alleges Assets Were Trans-
ferred to Indiana Concern
Z to Damage of Creditors.'
Questioning- the good faith of every
Important move of those in control of
- the United States ' Cashier Company
i since 1913. and the disinterest of S. AI.
Mears, now receiver for the corpo
ration, R. A. Hume, filed, a. petition in
the Circuit Court yesterday asking
that the receivership be vacated and
business dealings for several years back
set & B 1 d .
Mr. Hume Is a Judgment creditor of
the concern, having won a verdict for
$21,500 in the court of Judge Morrow
January 15 for commission due on
preparations for a sale of patent rights
la England.
Stock Transfer Is Issue.
I The latest act to which objection is
- made in the motion, which will be
argued next Monday morning, was the
- extension of time granted the Interna
I tional Money Machine Company of In-
diana for the payment of $35,000 due on
-a $100,000 contract for the transfer of
",35,000 shares of its stock. An order
-allowing this was granted January 25.
Z The petition alleges that in January,
1914, the United States Cashier Com
pany had assets of $923,000, which in-
- eluded capital stock of the Interna
" tional Company to the value of $760,
T 000, and a factory site worth $86,000.
- There was then cash on hand of $14,000.
"The cash now on hand is $4000, it Is as-
serted.
Z The return of 35,000 of the 75.000
!T shares of the International Company
was without valuable and sufficient
Z consideration and was a fraud on the
- creditors of the concern. It is asserted.
7 This was after the officers of the com
I pany had been convicted in Federal
- Courts of misuse of the mails.
Accounting for 965,000 Asked.
Since 1913 the concern has been man
aged and controlled largely by S. M.
" Mears, alleges the petitioner, who as-
eerts that Mr. Mears Is not a disinter
" ested person and an improper one to
handle the receivership.
An accounting for $65,000 received
from the International Company, can
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TALE IS ASTOUNDING
Mrs. Mitting Tells of Girlhood
as Princess.
-GREAT LLAMA HER FRIEND
A Vital
Question
Answered:
TODAY'S FILM FEATURES.
Majestic Theda Bara, "The-Dar-,ling
of Paris."
Broadway. Mrs. - Vernon Castle,
"Patrla."
Columbia Bessie Love, "Nina,
the Flower Girl."
Sunset William S. Hart, "The
Patriot." .
Star Richard Bennett, "The Val
ley of Decision."
Peoples Wallace Reid and Anita
King, "The Golden Fetter."
Globe Mae Mareh, "The Escape."
try and flag into hatred, and the final
awakening of his loyalty.
"Maid Mad," a Keystone comedy, and
Burton Holmes Travelogue will also be
shown.
rTTHT the nude In motion plc
pictures?" That question has been
asked times innumerable by various
persons and organizations Jn and out
celling of the extension of time granted of the motion-picture industry, friendly
for the $36,000 payment due, the set-1 and inimical to it.
ting aside of the 35,000-share transfer
and an annulling oi lactory site irans-
. fers are asked. -
The petition alleges that a scheme
was begun in 1913 to transfer the as
sets of the United States Company to
the Indiana corporation, controlled by
officers of the Portland concern, to the
damage of creditors.
JANUARY TRADE IS HEAVY
BANK CLEARINGS" OP PORTLAND 43
PER CENT ABOVE YEAR AGO.
Postal Receipts for Month Are Esti
mated at $107,500, an Increase
of $6000 Over January, 1016.
Without an - exception the business
.. statistics of Portland show healthy In
creases for last month over January,
1916, as might be expected in view
of the steadily improving condition of
all lines of business tnd the additional
fact that severe weather marked) Janu
ary of last year.
Bank clearings last month reached a
grand total of $61,975,187. a gain of
more than $18,000,000, or 43 per cent,
over the showing for the corresponding
month of last year.
This year's showing" is the best for
any January in all history, the previous
high mark for the first month of the
. year, recorded in 1913, being exceeded
by $12,703,945.
C Postalreceipts for January were esti-
mated yesterday afternoon to be $107,
'500. This is an increase of approxi
mately $6000 over the same month of
last year.
,. An approximate gain of $37,000 was
made in the postal savings department,
January's deposits swelling the assets
of the bank to $1,383,988. -
The postal receipts for January of
this year exceed those of the same
month for the previous two years, but
are under the receipts for January,
1914, the banner year In the Portland
postoffice.
During January this year a total of
294 building permits were issued for
work to cost $272,335, as compared with
186 permits for $169,375 last year, the
increase being - slightly above- 60 per
cent in both the number and Impor
tance of the building projects com-
minced.
j,- Realty transfers recorded last month
gave $459,397 as the total considerations
as contrasted with $414,169 for the cor
responding month of last year.
Now the National Board of Review
has taken issue on the subject, and
decrees that the nude shall no longer
be presented In photoplay form with
its consent.
Here is Its statement:
At its annual conference with the
producers of motion pictures, the board
announced, as its present policy, its
aecision not to pass any pictures in
wnich the female nude is displayed.
ah producing companies members of
the National Association of the Motion
Picture Industry have accordingly
agreed not to permit in their studios
the production of any photoplays us
ing such a figure. This decision dates
from January, 1917, and applies to all
future productions in the motion-picture
field. Instructions to this effect
have been sent to motion-picture di
rectors and scenario writers.
The danger of the over-production
of the sex problem play was pointed
out. The producers emphasized that
the motion picture should be In no
sense an art pandering to laaciviou,s-
ness ana passion.
Peoples.
. Paramount presents a new co-starring
combination at the Peoples Thea
ter today, Wallace Reid, seen in so
many photodramas with Cleo Rldgley,
appearing with Anita King In "The
Golden Fetter."
In this play Reid is seen as a young
mining engineer who has come West
to seek his fortunee. Anita King is
New England school teacher, who is
suddenly thrust into the turmoil and
excitement of a Western town. How
the money which she has invested In a
worthless mine is returned to her and
steel handcuffs which bind her to the
man she loves are turned Into fetters of
gold Is brought about In a manner
said to be most dramatic and gripping.
Tully Marshall is a member of the
supporting cast.
"He Did It Himself," a Black Dia
mond comedy, will be another subject
on the three-day bill.
Majestic.
Such has been the success of Theda
Bara's screen appearance in "The
Darling - of Paris," a picture which
splendidly displays the versatility of
the erstwhile vampire queen, that the
Majestio Theater management has de
cided to continue exhibition of the six-
reel William Fox subject until Satur
day night. Despite inclement weather
the film has played to capacity houses
daily.
"The Darling of Paris" is a picturiza-
tlon of the Victor Hugo story, "The
Hunchback of Notre Dame." In It
Miss Bara plays the role of a Parisian
Apache, a dancer whose beauty and
ability earn for her the title, "Darling
of Paris." Her love affairs, arrest and
conviction on the charge of murder,
and final rescue by a humble bell
ringer furnish material for a dramatic
tale lived over again in an impressive
atmosphere.
Broadway.
'Patrla, the Hearst-International
film tale of preparedness, society and
ove, written by Louis Joseph Vance
and starring Mrs. Vernon Castle, has
met with such a popular reception at
the Broadway Theater that it will con
tinue Its screening today.
The story is presented in seven chap
ters, relating the preliminary strug
gles between Patrla Channing, heir to
the Channing munition works and ad
ministratrix of the Channing National
Defense Fund of $100,000,000, and
Huroki, a foreign diplomat who seeks
to obtain control of the factory and in
cidentally steals the $100,000,000 In the
course of his platting against the
Channlngs. A number of thrills are
presented in the stirring story, includ-
ng a race between a train and an
automobile, and Patria's dive for free
dom from the deck of a liner.
Steve Savage, Molalla Indian, Dies.
WOODLAND, Wash., Jan. 31. (Spe
cial.) Steve Savage, a Molalla Indian,
died at the home of Jake Knighton at
the mouth of the Lewis River, January
25, aged 76. He had been a fisherman
. on the Columbia for years.
Star.
"The Valley of Decision," an Arner
ican-Mutual photoplay starring Rich
ard Bennett, who scored such a succes
in And the Law Says,'i will be th
chief photodramatic offering at th
Star Theater commencing today.
This drama is a new pictured ver
sion of the much-discussed subject of
birth control. Heretofore -birth con
trol has been presented from the fern'
inine angle, the mother fearing to
bring a child into the world becaus
of poverty or influenced by the de
mands of social aspirations. Th
production gives the subject a new
light, the father objecting to the child
because of his fears that it will inter
fere with his political aspirations. Th
morality play is constructed about th
axiom that the highest good to be ob
tained in life is parenthood.
Sellg-Tribune News Weekly will also
be screened.
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Screen Gossip.
The Sunset Theater is giving away
pictures of photoplay stars these days.
Ten Triangle stars have been chosen
as objects of the photographic series.
starting with Bessie Barfriscale, then
William Hart this week, and including
such players as the GIsh sisters, Doug
las Fairbanks, Charles Ray and Bessie
Love.
Max Llnder, Essanay comedian, says
that blondes are natural comediennes,
brunettes the natural tragediennes. He
says that blondes are vivacious, have a
sense of humor, are light-hearted, joy
ous, frivolous, mlchievous and gay.
Story Is Sensational by Wealth of
Incidents Little One's ' Alarm
Saves Monastery From At
tack by Tartar Horde.
If a tenth part of the tale told by
Mrs. John Mitting. styled by herself
and husband "the Princess Marpha
Convallnsky," is susceptible .of the
proof she declares she can furnish,
then the adage that truth is stranger
than fiction needs no further support.
Fragments of her alleged recollec
tions run as swiftly as films that en
thrall the "movie fan" and each Inci
dent is sustained by an amazing fa
miliarity with historical events, geo
graphy and the peerages of all Eu
rope. But the astounding recital does not
cease with this. It marches across Si
beria and on the Manchurlan border
recounts the playday adventures of
Marpha Convallnsky, 8 years old. when
she was kept by her grandmother.
Princess Marpha Allisandre Convalln
sky, on the Siberian estates of their
line.
Often in those days, says Mrs. John
Mitting, her eyes kindling, used she
to run away from her grandmother's
castle, a sort of frontier fortress, swim
the swift river of the boundary and
wander into the Manchurlan hills. There
was a certain monastery that excit
ed her childish curiosity, and she crept
to its walls to watch the Buddhist
priests. .
Grand Llama Called ."Daddy."
bo she came to know a very vener
able old man, with kindly voice and
eyes, who often paced In meditation
around the monastery. He was the
great Llama of Manchuria, second in
authority only to the Grand Llama of
Thibet. And little Marpha Convalinsky,
whose ways were so wild that her
grandmother riveted a golden collar
about her neck, bearing a return ad
dress, repaid the aged priest's friend
ship by saving his monastery from
flame and pillage by the Tartars.
"The boundary was the river," re
called Mrs. Mitting. "It was miles to
the monastery, but what cared 17 I
was wild. I knew the hills, and could
run and swim. On the collar my grand
mother fastened about my neck was
engraved, 'This is the Princess Con
valinsky's grandchild Marpha.' I got
to know the great Llama, for he walked
outside the walls. The monks re
mained always within. How I loved
that good old man. I called him ta-
tong,' which means 'daddy' In the Man
churian dialect.
"Once, as I neared the monastery :
heard the Tartars plotting In the
brush. They schemed to raid the mon
astery and burn it, before the Manchu
soldiers could give aid to the monks.
It was evening. The old man did not
walk outside. I might not enter, for
it was said that no woman or girl
should ever pass the gate. let
slipped by. It was still and cold and
dark. I heard the monks go by to
prayers, two by two, their Iron sandals
clank-clanking on the stone floor. The
Llama paced before me, his chin in his
long, white beard. 'Ta-tong.' I cried
to him.
Child Give WarnLnsr.
"O, but he was startled. He turned
toward me. 'Little Marpha!' he said,
'You know you should not be here
But I crept to him and told him of the
Tartar plans. He smoothed my hair,
and called a monk, telling him to keep
his tongue quiet. They brought clothes
such as the little Chinese boys wore,
and my Llama wrapped his robe abou
me ana took me to the home or my
grandmother. All night the soldiers
and servants had hunted for me in the
woods and the mountains.
"You may not believe it," cried Mrs.
Mitting, throwing back her head, "bu
I tell you that the great Tolstoi wrote
it all in a book all this that I hav
told you!"
Though her daughter Amy, whose
flight from home and discovery In an
ash barrel of Trinity Church basement
brought forth the strange story, has
been restored to her by Mrs. Lola G.
Baldwin, of the Women's Protectiv
Bureau. the "Princess Convalinsky'
called at the department again yester
day. She is positive that she has the
documentary proof- of her assertions,
and that she will exhibit it when it
pleases her convenience.
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A photoplay dealing with the most perplexing problem in the world yet
unsolved: Should the innocent
be sacrificed on the altar of ambition? . Is the husband or wife to blame
for a childless marriage? Here is a picture that blames the man, a role
portrayed by that wonderful actor:
Mart
erne
ti
who was the star of "Damaged Goods" and "And the Law Says." This
newest masterpicture is called "The Valley of Decision," from Clifford
Howard's soul-gripping stage success. Absolutely nothing to offend.
Although dealing with the most delicate subject, the treatment is artistic
and the picture one of the most heart-gripping in months. The programme
includes world events in Selig-Tribune. Positively only today, tomorrow
and Saturday at the
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Wives, persuade jrour husbands to see "The
Valley of Decision." Mothers, send your sons.
BORAH IS NOT ADVERSE
A'TI-JAPASESH " BILL FAVORED
IF SITUATION ARISES.
Read The Oregonlan classified ads.
Question Should Be Handled With Con
sideration and Courtesy. Say
Idaho Senator.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, Jan. SO. Senator Borah, of
Idaho, when he learned today that the
Idaho House had unanimously passed
a bill prohibiting Japanese from hre-
after acquiring title to land in Idaho,
made the following comment:
"I am opposed to permitting the Jap
anese to acquire lands, either by fee
or lease. In our state. I was not aware
that they were doing so and if they
are not doing so, that is to say. If
there Is no impending situation to be
remedied. I would not, of course, fa
vor legislation such as is proposed.
"This being a delicate and most im
portant matter, I would not act until
the necessity for action arose. But if
the danger actually exists and they are
actually acquiring lands in the state of
Idaho, I am In favor of legislation
which will prevent it.
"I realize that it is a eerious ques
tion and ought to be handled with con
sideration and courtesy; nevertheless,
we ought to be firm and positive as to
our rights and our interests when the
occasion arises.
"The Japanese are a great people.
They have a great civilization. But
they are a different people and have a
wholly different civilization from ours.
There can be no mixture. They must
respect our Institutions and the rights
and interests of our people."
xeetn on the lower oiade or new
shears enable them to grip heavy ma
terials firmly and cut them smoothly.
YAKIMA CASE APPEALED
i A. SeuTert, of Xbe Dalles, Gives
Notice in Fishing Dispute.
F. A. Seufert. of The Dalles, filed
notice In the United States District
Court Tuesday for an appeal of . the
famous Yakima case. As it involves a,
treaty made between the United States
and the Yakima Indians, it will be
carried Immediately to the United States
Supreme Court.
Assistant United States Attorney
Rankin, who prosecuted the cast
against Mr. Seufert, involving the ques
tion of whether Lone Tree Point, on
the Columbia River above The Dalles,
was reserved as a private fishing
ground for the Indians of the Yakima
tribe, will go to Washington to argue
the Government s case.
Read The Oreconian classified ads.'
Lillian Walker, long a star In Vita-
graph productions, announced a few
days ago that she had severed her con
nections with that company. Subse
quent to this announcement the Vita-
graph authorities selected Dorothy
Kelly as her successor. Miss Kelly
will be featured under the Vltagraph
rotary system of releases.
William Farnum has a letter from
an amateur scenario writer who wants
to be his leading woman in the play
she has written, though she Is without
experience. Describing herself, she
says she has an "American pug nose."
Lenore Ulrich, who impersonates Al
gerian and Indian maidens with qual
ease, will play the role of an Indian
girl in her next picture. It is to be
called "Her Own People" and will be
made by the Morosco Company.
When Ida Darling, who will support
George M. Cohan in his first Artcraft
release, "Broadway Jones," as Mrs.
Gerard, appears she will wear a $5000
cloalc, through the courtesy of C. C
hayne. Miss Darling-'s wardrobe will
be a feature of the picture.
Big
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The Patriot
N. B. All Boy Scouts at
tending between 3 :30 and 6
P. M. today in uniform or
with badge will be admitted
free.
SUNSET
Columbia. 1
Bessie Love, one of the newest of
filmdom's stars, will appear at the
Columbia Theater today in "Nina the
Flower Girl." A comedy and scenic
will also be screened.
Miss Love, who only a few months
ago was a Los Angeles school girl,
plays the role of Nina, a blind flower
girl, in this vehicle. The story traces
the fortunes of Nina and her admirer,
Jimmy, a hunchback newsboy. Nina
is . finally placed in charge of a sur
geon and her sight restored, but Jim
my has disappeared; he couldn't stand
the ordeal of facing Nina with his
crooked back when she believed him
handsome. . Finally Jimmy shows .up
as a stalwart youth, cured of his in
firmity, and the happy ending rules
the photoplay.
Elmer Clifton, Bert Hadley and. Loy
ola O'Connor are Included in the cast,
the story being written by Mary li
O'Connor, a former Portland girl.
Sunset.
The non-appearance of the Triangle
film. The Patriot, yesterday morn
ing, resulted In the one-day continued
screening of "The Closed Road,' co
starring House Peters and Barbara
Tennant.
The Ince photoplay, "The Patriot,
which presents William s. Hart in one
of his greatest roles, will be. exhibited
commencing today. It's a story of a
man's love for his son and his coun
try, the turning of his love for- coun-
EX-RAKER PLAYER HURT
ALICE FLEMING'S SLIPPER HEEL
CAUSES FALL IN HOTEL.
Sprained Ankle Confines Star to Her
Kcw York Apartments, but Her
Early Recovery Is Forecast.
Alice Fleming, who Is Robert Ede
son's leading woman this season and
who Is well known in Portland through
her affiliation with the Baker Stock
Company as Its leading woman for two
seasons, is confined to her apartments
in New York with a sprained ankle.
The injury was at first believed per
manent, but the surgeons have placed
her foot In a plaster cast and she will
be able to be about In a month.
Miss Fleming's accident was caused
by her slipper heel catching and trlp
ing her on the floor of the Manhattan
Hotel, where she was dining. She was
taken to her apartments and is now on
the road to recovery, according to mes
sages received by her husband. Clar
ence V. Everett, of this city.
Mr. Everett Is Interested financially
in the local organization of Alcazar
Players, and It was Miss Fleming who
seleeted the exceUent cast of players.
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Still playing: to capacity houses!
See it today!
Will stay all week;
THEDA
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in that wonderful production
"The Darling of Paris"
From Victor Hugo's "Hunchback of Notre Dame."
In spite of bad weather 20,000 people have seen this
production, and every one is enthusiastic in its praise.
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ATTRACTION J "HIS TICKLISH JOB " STARRING HANK MANN