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11 186 NAVY OFFICERS OTE PROMOTIONS G0NGRIN6SINDEATH UTTirrnnT iHl'HllilHilHiiiillliiiiiiiiiiiSii!!! 1 1 il;!llS hi: "I l li.4IIMil ii&Wv',! Ill i ill i iiiii! tin li hi !!! ! ! i H t i I i i I j I i i : I M 1 1 II i M ; : iy Veteran Fire Horses, Hearing Familiar Sound, Run. THE MOKNIXG . OREGONIAN. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1917, !!i!!'i!i"liilHii)il III I I p li n 1 11 1 1 WWJ ia.J i ii - in.iiiiii.iii Nn iiiii.nii VamI I . . . O O O President Approves Report of Admiral Mayo's Selec- . tion Board. 12 - MADE REAR-ADMIRALS Fifty-one Commanders Become Cap tains and 123 Hentcnant-Com-manders Become Command ers by Latest Order. ' WASHINGTON, Dec 24 One hun dred and eighty-six officers of the Kavy are promoted to the next high er grade by President Wilson's ap proval today of the report of the se lection board headed by Admiral Mayo, charged with the task of choosing meritorious officers for advancement to keep pace with the expanding- Navy. - Twelve Captains become Rear-Ad-cnlrals, 51 Commanders become Cap tains and 123 Lieutenant-Commanders become Commanders,. The new Ad mirals are: ' Robert E. Coonts, commandant of the Iuget Sound Navy-yard Bremerton, "Wash. Thomas W. Klnkald, commanding engineering experimental station, An napolis, Mr. William Strother Smith, on duty at Kavy Department with naval consult ing board. ' Spencer S. Wood, commanding a bat tleship. Joseph Lea Jayne, commanding a battleship. Charles W. Dyson, in chargre of the idesigning-room of the bureau of steam engineering Clarence Stewart Williams, chief of taff to the commander of the first force battle fleet. John Daniel McDonald, commanding B. battleship. Hilary P. Jones, commanding a. dlvi ion of the cruiser forces. William R. Shoemaker, member of the general board. Navy Department. Joseph Strauss, former chief of the bureau of ordnance, commanding & battleship. Edward W. Eberlo, superintendent of the Naval Academy. Among the Commanders made Cap tains are Walter R. Gherardi and Stephen V. Graham, naval attaches at Berlin and Vienna, respectively, before the United States broke relations with the Teutonic powers. David Worth Bagley, who commanded the destroyer Jacob. Jones when she was torpedoed and -sunk in the war zone recently. Is one of the Lieutenant-Commanders advanced. Following are the new Captains, In addition to Gherhardl and Graham: Clark D. Stearns, Robert K Crenk, Henry B. Price, William P. Scott. Joseph M. Reeves, Roscoo, C. Moody, Frank Lyon. John McC. Lubby, Hutch I. Cone, Robert W. McNeely, George E. Gelm, Frank H. Brumby, James P. Morton, George L. P. Stone, Harris Laning, Franklin D. Karns, David W. Todd, John V. Klemann, Henry V. But ler, James J. Raby. William H. Stand ley, Kenneth M. Bennett, Edward H. Watson, Rufus Z. Johnston. Thomas T. Craven, Daniel W. Wurtsbaugh, Ralph Earle, Gatewood S. Lincoln. Ivan C. Wettengel, Charles M. Tozer, 'Wat T. Cluverius, Duncan M. Wood, Leigh C. Palmer, Albert W. Marshall, Thomas A. Kearney, Dudley W. Knox, Edward Mc Cauley, Jr.; William L. Llttlefleld. Earl P. Jessop, . Arthur. Crenshaw, Amon Bronson, Jr.; Harry -E. Yarnell, Arthur MacArthur, David E. Theleen, Arthur J. Hepburn, Thomas C. Hart, Cyrus R. Miller. Orln G. Murfin and Luther M. Cverstreet. SHOOTING CASE PROBED KILLING OF PEORIA, ILL BASK CASHIER STILL MYSTERY. Authorities Declare Important Infor mation Was Brought to Light I Kin a r-Print Experts Work. PEORIA, 111., Dec. 24. County and city authorities indicated tonight that they had obtained evidence which they termed - important in connection with the slayng yesterday of Bern M. Mead cashier of the State Trust & Savings Bank, by E. A. Strause, Its president. None of the police officials would com ment on the discoveries they said they liad made. It was . learned from the authorities, however,, that the revolver which was. used by-Strause was his own property and not the one which be longed to the bank, as had been sup posed at first. Finger-print experts are at work on tne case. Coroner William B. Elliott announced that the inquest into the shooting would not be held until Wednesday. Strause has added nothing to his statement of yesterday. Business at the bank continued today without any unusual circumstances. REHEARSAL TIME CHANGED Blultnomah Guard Band to Work Thursdays for Two Weeks. Because the regular rehearsal night of the Multnomah Guard Band falls on Christmas and New Year's nights Thursday night will be used for re bearsals during the next two weeks. Uniforms for the band will arrive next month. The bandmen are being drilled for marching by Adjutant-Gen eral Dobbin and Drum Major Frank Hennessy, and it is expected that In a (short time the organization will be one of the best marching bands in this sec tion of the country. Forty men make up the organisation, but there Is etill room for clarinet players. Those who apply for membership will find band officials at the Armory. Boy Shot by Companion. ASTORIA, Or., Dec 24. (Special.) Carl Simonson. 16-year-old boy, resid Ing at Fernhill. was accidentally shot in the back by a companion last even ing while returning from a. hunting .trip, tiia condition is said to be serious. The boys were walking along the railroad track when tne gun was dis charged. Phone your want ads to The Orego nian. Main 7070, A 6095. Subject ts Croup,. "Our little girl" is subject to frequent ttttacKs oi croup, writes F. O. Strong, Calpella, CaL "I always (rive her Chem- berlain's Cough Remedy, as one or two doses of It cures her." This is a favor ite remedy for croup, as it can be depended upon and is pleasant and safe to take. Xt contains no narcotic. Adv. 4 7 - v V 1 : v v. TODAY'S FILM FEATURES, Star Mary Pickford. "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm." Sunset Mae Marsh, '"Polly of the Circus." Columbia Jack Pickford, "Tom Sawyer." Liberty -Geraldine Farrar, "Joan the Woman." Majestic; Mae Marsh, "The Cin derella Man." Peoples Maclste, "The Warrior." Globe Ann Pennington, "The Little Soldier Girl." M' ORE than 4000 kiddies, ranging from wee tots of 3 years to those skeptical of the reindeer man from the Far North, jammed their way into the Liberty Theater yesterday morning to partake ' of Manager My rick's Christmas cheer. Many a eea upheld as many as three kiddles. Two seemed to be an average capacity, and at that more than 600 children were turned away, happy In the possession of a box of candy. Seekers of human interest tidbits would have been sated had they Jour neyed down to Broadway and Stark treet at any hour during the morn ing. The small guests of the Liberty management commenced to arrive as early as 8 o'clock and It was nearly 11:30 before the rear guard, with the assistance of a policeman or two. a score of friendly house attaches and a larger squad of mothers and fathers, herded the happy army of childhood out into the street. W. P. Strandborg, garbed In fur- trimmed red flannel and the proverbial whiskers, played Santa Claus to the kiddies. He shook hands with several thousand children and assisted those at the exits in handing out to each child a gift box of chocolates.. For photoplay entertainment Mana ger Myrick provided a Bill Hart and a "Fatty" Arbuckle picture. Fighting Bill was shown In "The Silent Man," while the rotund comedian appeared in that hilarious two-reel comedy, "A Country Hero." The Liberty's entertainment was the most successful of the kind ever given in Portland and several thousand chil dren were made much happier by the Christmas festival. Screen Gossip, Seven Keystone comedy companies. with their impedimenta of custard pie props, moved from Hollywood to the Triangle studios at Culver City last week. The comedy squads have a new $100,000 stage to perform on. Doug. Fairbanks Is making a picture in Texas. Allan Dwan and Art Rosson, the latter Doug's latest director, are with him. They say that Fairbanks has left the Job of picking bis leading woman to Rosson. Constance Talmadge and her com pany are back in Los Angeles to make "The Shuttle." Nigel Barrle, well-known young Eng lish actor, who has been playing with Clara Kimball Young in "The Marion ettes," and has been with Marguerite Clark in several pictures, has Joined the British Royal Aviation Corps. Claire Whitney, the beauty who played in Fox films for nearly a year. is now tne wile of John Sunderland, an officer of the English Aviation Corps. Miss Whitney and Sunderland, in this country on furlough, played to gether in- the Clara Kimball Young Picture, "bhirley Kaye. In one Of the scenes In "The Cinder' ella Man," Mae Marsh is shown receiv ing lavish gifts on Christmas morn. One of them is a piece of white silk ribbon, apparently starting from the door to the next room.- She pulls in several yards, of this ribbon and final ly gets to the gift, one of the cutest puppy dogs you ever saw. Try this on some friend. Douglas Fairbanks asserts that mo tion pictures are not art. No. not yet. Wtjn a raw beginner can climb to the top within three months, "Doug" can see little artistry there. Artists are not made that quickly. Cecil Fletcher, leading man for Elsie Ferguson in "The Song of Songs," to be produced by Artcraft, has been en gaged by Charles Dillingham to play the leading Juvenile role in "General Post, a play to be presented soon. The latest news inent Blanche Sweet Is that she is in New York. But no film job is announced. Artcraft won over the New York Motion Picture Company In the lat ter's suit to prevent the screening of the first Hart-Artcraft, "The Narrow Trail," in New York. Ernept Warde, son of the English actor. Fiederick Warde. is to direct Flank Keenan in his Pathe pictures. . Mrs. Vernon Castle, Fannie Ward. Franic Keenan, Bryant Washburn uessie ,i.ove ana pearl white are among the 1918 Pathe players. David Powell, now leading man for Olive Tell, has an unusual hobby. He makes hammered brass trays and boxes and beaten sliver ornaments. - Wallace Reid and Anna Little are in the East to make a Paramount pio ture. Film - trade Journal reporters were much exercised iast week by the ru mor that the film magnates were to meet at -the Astoria Hotel, New York. The film magnates were there, to be : V ft sure, but the convention was a. meet ing of the Jewish war relief fund. Mary Garden received a new line of publicity last week, when the press agent discovered she wore a wooden bracelet besprinkled with diamonds. Pauline Curley, now Harold Lock- wood's leading woman, made her debut at the age of 3 years in a song and dance. President Rowland, of Metro, is ad vocating the establishment of five film clearing-houses for the distribution of pictures. This would cut down dis tributing expenses many thousands of dollars a week. It would enable ex hibitors to buy pictures cheaper and would postpone the day when another Increase in admission prices would be necessary. Kitty Gordon believes In being ex elusive. She has bought a De Dion automobile, a French car of which there are but a few in the United States. Virginia Valli, supporting Taylor Holmes in "Ruggles of Red Gap." will Play good fairy to a number of little Chicago children during the Christmas holidays. Would anyone think, to look at the catty, well-groomed Carlyle Black- well as the hero of one of the World pictures, that once upon a time he made a living singing ballads in cares or any old places where they would let hlmT Or that he went around the country tor while riding on the bumpers, on the roof or down on the wheel trucks? Well, he did, and they ran him out of one town in Texas because he did not look good to the Sheriff. In that same town now Blackwell Is the biggest of all the movie-star favorites. When Dorothy Dalton, working on her third Paramount picture; under supervision of Thomas H. Ince, the producer, found that .she needed dressing-room on "location several miles from Los Angeles, carpenters erected one in Just an hour. It was complete, too, with mirror, electric lighting and even chintz curtains. This Is a record In construction, it is be lieved. Fred Stone, famous scarecrow of . The Wizard of Oz," former member of the famous team of Montgomery and Stone, and star of a dozen successful musical comedies, is to become a Para mount comedy star. He will complete his Broadway engagement in "Jack o' Lantern" and next Summer is sched uled to commence film work in Call fornia. Emily Stevens, Ethel Barrymore and j&iaoei xaiiaierru, iwciru Bia.ro, uro iu desert the studio for the stage. Their places are to be filled by other stars of the drama. The trio is not permanently lost to the silent drama aa they will return next Summer. m 9 Olga Petrova has bought a Long Island estate. Her nearest neighbor is George M. Cohan. Madame Petrova will have a farm of Z50 chickens, several Holsteln cows and four blooded horses. Rose Roland, a member of the "Oyer the Top" company, playing in a Broad way revue, and Gertrude McCoy lead dances in Paramount's visualization of the Maeterlinck play, "The Blue Bird. Virginia Pearson and George Walsh are making personal appearances in New York film theaters. It cost Tully Marshall $500 when his automobile knocked down a woman in Los Angeles. The court awarded her that sum in damages. Eugene O'Brien and Stuart Holmes support Norma Talmadge in "Ghosts of Yesterday," her third Select picture. "Two Women, the Rupert Hughes drama In which Mrs. Leslie Carter starred, will follow "Ghosts." Fay Tincher has her comedy com pany installed at the old Kalera studio, Hollywood. Fay is going to make some two-reelers. It's better than an even bet that the Tincher stripe will be prominent In her pictures. JOSEPHINE BANKS MERGED Grants Pass Institution Absorbs Kogne River House. GOLD HILL. Or, Dec. 24. (Special.) The Josephine County Bank, of Grants Pass, has enlarged its busi ness by taking over the Rogue River State Bank at Rogue River, taking over its deposits and enough cash and securities to offset the deposits The Rogue River Bank has been in operation for the past six years. James Campbell, of Medford. was the prin cipal stockholder, with D. R. Terriett or uosua stiver, as casnier, ana tne bank has had a large list of depos itors, in the north end of Jackson County. Don Wilson, of Rogue River, has become a director in the Jose phine County .Bank. Gold mil Official Called to Colors. GOLD HILL. Or., Dec. 24. (Special.) Ix O. Walker, City Recorder, who was subject to the draft and -Jnlisted in the marine service before the draft became effective, has been assigned to Mare Island fo. Instruction and will leave after the holidays for his post. Mr. Walker is a Jackson County boy, married, and a graduate of the Normal School at Ashland. He is an expert pump engineer and has been employed with the local cement plant. JESSE S, McFERON KILLED Driver Dragged on Powell Road by Old Steeds, Which, Tifue to Training. Keep Galloping Tntll They Reach Fire. Hydrant. Prinu jind.Jerrv. veteran fire horse now working for the park bureau, coultf not resist the impulse to run when they beard a gong yesterday morning and, as a consequence, their driver, Jesse S. McFeron, was killed almost Instantly. Mr. McFeron was walking beside his team as they hauled a heavily loaded wagon down the Powelll Valley -road at about. 10 o'clock. As he reached the grade crossing of the. Mount Scott car- line at East Fiftieth street, Jjtr. Mc Feron saw the -car approaching, shook his lines and spoke to --his horses to hurry them across the track ahead of the car. Just at this moment the gong placed at the crossing as a warning against approaching cars started to ring. The shaking of the lines and the sound or the gong together were too much for the old fire horses, and they plunged ahead at full speed. Ihe driver, cling ing to the lines and .trying to stop the horses, was. dragged under one of the rear wheels . of the wagon. His chest was crushed and he died almost Instantly. . . r . Wagon -Wrecked in Collision. As the"vhorses galloped ' along they swerved a litj.la from the road and drove the tongue of the wagon into a telephone pole. The pole was snapped off close to the ground and left hang ing by the wires, and the wagon- was wrecked, but the horses sped on their way until they sighted a fire hydrant beside i e road.. There they ground their hoofs into the mud of the road and came to an abrupt stop within 20 feet of the hydrant. Patrolman Rudolph reached the scene of the accident a few minutes after it happened, but, beyond notifying the Coroner's office, there was nothing for him to do. Deputy Coroner Loynes took charge of the body and removed it to the public morgue. Dead Man Leave Family. Mr. McFeron leaves a widow and sev eral children. He lived at 66 East Seventy-eighth street North. He had been an employe of the city park bu reau for three years, and before thai was connected for several years with the water bureau. Prince and Jerry went to the. fire bureau fresh from the range In 1907. They served with engine companies 6 and 11 respectively until last October, when they were transferred to - the park bureau. HowTbKEEpVllfeLL By DRiWA-EvANs, QuewUGUS pel lamiug to nysieue, santca- tion and prevention of diseases. If matters of general interest, will be answered In thi column. Where apace will not permit or the ubject la not suitable, letters will be per aonally answered, subject to proper limi tations and where tamped mddreaaed en velope la inclosed.. Dr. Evans will not make diagnosis or prescribe- for individual dis eases. Requests for such services canno be answered. (Copyright. 1916. by Dr. W. A. Evans Published by arrangement with the Chicago Tribune.) Prevention of Goiter. THE thyroid gland is located in the lower front part of the neck. It may be as high as the lower part of the Adam's apple, or as low as the up per part of the breastbone, but it usual ly lies just about the collar bone. It is for this reason that goiter or en largement, of the thyroid is known as "thick neck" and big neck. This gland pours its secretions directly into the blood stream and Is therefore known as a ductless gland. Enlargement of the gland, known as goiter, is one of the most frequent of all disorders. There are goiter districts located in various parts of the world. One of these, known as the Great Lakes goiter district, embraces the territory In which Milwaukee, Chicago and Cleveland are located. Drs. Marine and Kimball examined all the girls, in the fifth to the 12th grades of the Cleveland public schools for goiter. They found that more than half of them, or S6.41 per cent, had the disease. They suggest that in other cities in the district the percentage is probably even higher. I should say that the rate is higher in some Chicago schools. They decided to undertake the pre vention of the conditlons"""'by giving iodine to all the girls In these grades. Each girl in the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades is given three grains of iodide of soda daily for two weeks, beginning December 1 and again be ginning May 1. Girls in the ninth, 10th, 11th and 12th grades get six grains a day for the same length of time. The iodine is supplied through the teachers and school nurses and it is taken at school. The decision to try this out was based upon its use in a dispensary where afl the children were given 16 minima of syrup of iodide of If on once a day for two weeks twice a year. The further reason for giving it in the schools was the wide prevalence of goiters In girls as noted above. Goiter in girls and boys is not a seri ous condition. Necessarily a condition which affects more than half the young girls could not be serious; else the race would have gone before this. Such goiters are disfiguring, but beyond that they do not do a great amount of harm. Nevertheless, if they can be prevented by so simple and Inexpensive a pro cedure as that proposed, why not pre vent them? Goiters that develop In later life are not so innocent. First, there are the small nodular growths In the thyroid gland, which, like knots in the breast, are so prone to develop into cancers. Second, there are the goiters which are responsible for rapid pulse, irregular heart beat, great nervousness and, in some cases, protuberance of the eye balls. Some of these cases can be kept un der control of even cured by attention to the throat, others by care of the digestive organs and others by proper attention to the pelvic, organs. Many require operation. No man can say whether uncared-for goiters In young girls predispose to these more severe goiters which develop ln later life. Operation of No Avail. C. J. L. writes: "I have a congenital dislocation of the hip, which makes my left leg five Inches short. Is there any way I can have it corrected, or is it too late?" REPLY, It Is too late. There is nothing that yon can do. , Tight Feeling In Nose. N. E. T. writes: "L la a tablespoon - TODAY and All Week - ' ' ' N k V "S , J ea v4i-:r---' -;.fr-r fr y AUGMENTED ORCHESTRA DIRECTION ALBERT HAY MALOTTE ful of cod liver oil good for weak lungs after each meal? "2. My head and nose have that dry. tight feeling. Is salt and warm water good for the nose? if not, could you suggest something? Is it caused by much smoking and Inhaling?" REPLY. 1. Cod liver oil la not good for weak lungs. A tableapoonful of cod liver oil three times a day. if your stomach handles it well, will do you as much good as will a dessert, spoonful of butter three times a day. 2. If your nose mis witn scaos or moist discharge and it ia advisable for you to wash it. to snuff salt water Is as good aa any other mesftod. Generally speaking, a dry, tight feeling means that the atmos phere breatnea is too ory. xne remeay is to live out of doora aa much as possible and to humidify the Indoor air. If you have developed a nose trouble from amoklng and Inhaling, why try to cure it with washes? Why not go after the devil himself instead of trying to wash out his tracks? Gall Bladder Inflammation. E. B. V. writes: "1. What diet would you recommend for Inflammation of the gall bladder? . "2. What as to the merits or eaiicin for neuritis, and would you think of a dose in one-half teaspoonrul In water every three hours as excessive?" ' REPLY. 1. Inflammation of the gall bladder Is not liable to be materially Influenced by change In diet. Where there is a tendency to gall stones and gallstones is one cause ot in flammation of the gall bladder the diet should be low In grease and fata. 2. Sallcln Is closely related to salicylic RIGHT NOW REBECCA . FARM WITH MARY PICKFORD 15cSTAR. THEATER Based on the Life of the Immortal JO AN OF ARC acid. The ordinary dose la 15 grains, though 30 grains can be given. It Is much better to remove the cause of neuritis than to re lieve the symptom pain. Some Symptom Qaerles. L. M. Y. writes: "L Does pellagra first show symptoms on one's elbow? 2. Does cancer break out In a form of rash and cause sores? 3. Do tubercu lar germs affect the bone, and would they cause continual aching, like rheu matism?" . REPLY. 1 and 2. No. 3. Tuberculosis Infects the Done, but the symptoms of bone tuberculoals are not those of rheumatism, Aavlee Akost PlUs. R. C W. writes: "Will you kindly advise me: 1. If you consider 'Blaud's pills' aa effective 'as 'Pepto-Manganr 2. Would 100 pills be too many to taker REPLY. . .. 1. Yea. 2, No; 800 would be better. HOFF HEARS BOTH SIDES Labor Commissioner Takes Loggers' Troubl Under Advisement. SALEM. Or.. Dee. 24. (Special.) State Labor Commissioner .Hoff has re turned from Tillamook County, where he held conferences with loggers and via W '$3& 5c mm - 7 St V4 - V The Entire Liberty Organization Unites in Wishing Yon a Happy Xmas Day REGULAR PRICES! their employers over differences aris ing between them, particularly aa to the manner of the pay for the loggers. After hearing both sides Mr. Hoff took the matter under advisement. The loggers state that from patriotic motives, and from the fact that they have signed pledges of the Loyal Le gion not to strike, they have no desire to strike, but are seeking an amicable adjustment of the difficulties. s Camp Lewis Train 11:45 P. SI. Special train to American Lake leaves Union Station 11:45 o'clock tonight (December 25) via Union Pacific Sys tem tO.-W. R. It. & N.) Adv. Read The Oregonlan classified ads. E!:i:imiiHiimimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimiiiiii COLUMBIA 1 I HARK TWAIN'S I Immortal Boy I Hero 1 0 0 In Pictures at Last I TODAY at the I COLUMBIA I TOM ' SAWYER Live once more 1 the sweetest days of life. iiiiimnmmmimimiiiiiHiimmmiiiF.