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THE MORNING OREG03XA.N, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1D18. " 11 FORD 10 MAKE "U" CHASER EVERY DAY Flivver Submarine Terrors Will Swarm Seas Hunting Divers to Death. CRAFT TO BE ROUGH HEWN BetU 'Will Be 200 Feet Long and of 6 Tana and When Launched at Detaolt Will Navigate Lakes and CaaaJa to Ocean. WASHLNGTOV. Fb. 1. Production ;! (or the .Vavy a w antl-aubma-. rln craft contemplate the delivery of finished .boat ery day. when th cycle of production la complata. Tb first hI already hit been atartad la th fabricating abopa of tba Ford afotor Company at Ketrolt. Tba dta waa worked out to redue ta a minimum tba aeceestty of shapln plates. Tbara ara many flat surface Co tao vessel oa that account, ban ad curved plataa having bean avoided wherever poeeible. Tba power will bo furnished by geared turbtnee. and atnea atabtltty and reliability were aouabt rather tba freak performance, no effort baa bee aaada to go bejrond a aafe and con' rvativ apeed aatimata. t raft lo Be saw re Lass. Tba boat will all be fabricated tha Ford plant. progneaatng br etages until tber are launched at Itetrott be broucbt to tha aea via tba carta ratim and Inland watrrwaye. The will meaauro 2 feet long and. dla placo about M tona. which Insure tur M'uie lo the aea. No attempt baa been made to live tba deetca tba reflnemeate of Navy craft built In peace times. They wll bo rough, hewn Into ahape In the In tareat of apeed. Tha number of boat rdorad haa not been revealed, bu waly a aubatantlal order will Justify the oreporallona made. Tbo military character of tha da- rlia aleo baa not been disclosed. It I known, however, that while they d not represent anythlnc strikingly new ra aubmarme warfare, they will bo armed and eoulnped In each a way a. to effect a decided Improvement In tha patrol aervico aa they became avail able In numbers. Cluar V lew Taken. J. W. Powell. viro-preeMent of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company. Ltd.. which baa many Oovernment ahlp con tract a. told tha Sonata Investigating ewnraltteo today that American ahlp yarda will do well to produce I.OOO.OvO deadweight tona of ehlpptng this year. Milpplna Board offlrlala have est I mated tha out out at 4 08 e tone. Mr. Powell aald tha Shipping Board will find tha programme for fabricated stool vosaola will not work out aa ad vantageouely aa It was first expected and added: It la unfortunate that men who have spent their lives bulldlnc shlpa were not called In for consultation when the question of fabricated ahlpa was under discussion. Tha committee adjourned until Mon day. rC JV NC 1 jli!iiliiili!mi'jiiiiiijiiliiii t I! I! ITT! I ' . 7T i I . i : : . . . i i IL Cyiliill tl III'! ' !:i I! M Hill i llll II Ml i ' i i 1 1 i i . 1 1 1 i ' i i I u mm. SKIN GRAFT SAVES WEIGER Operation Performed at Hospital Is Reported Sucre. Tha skin-grafting operation per formed upon Harry l. Wnr January 17 by Pre. K. A. J Mackeoile. C. U. Wheeler and D. II. Jessup. It was an nounced yeeterday. was a complete success. At tha time, a number of per mm contributed cuticle for the opera tion. which was the moat difficult and extensive of Its kind ever undertaken la tha Northwest- Mr. Welrrr sustained bums all over his body when aa automobile ha was driving ran Into a telephone polo near Oranser. lr and a live wire of heavy voltag fell acroas tha machine, air. Watger ketones lo the I'nlted States Forestry Service. MURDERERS BROUGHT BACK Three Contleted Chinamen Are Have Another Chance. to Tea Guk. Fury Fong and Wong Tueng. convtcted Chinese murderers who were taken recently to the Stats Penitentiary to becin serving life aen tenrea, were returned to the County Jail In Portland yesterday pending the determination of appeals to the u prema Court to be made In their be half Tha first two were convtcted of tha murder of Chin Hons. Jana 5. last, while Wong Wen Tueng was convicted of the murder of Joseph iju last AprlL The klllinca were all the result of tha Chinese tone war which waa In proa rasa last year. Liberty Bond famished as Ball. CENTRAL!.. Wash. Feb 1 (Spe cial On the complaint of w. J. Ron aid. a Federal Inspector. John Hughe, a btral hardware dealer, waa arrested vesterday on a Oovernment warrant charging him with eelllng powder with out a lirenee. Mr. Hurtles was bound over to the Federal Court. He fur nished ball la the form of a ll0 lib erie rwtnt What a pity she do esiti know thai Resinol Soap Tvould clear her skin "Sh woold be a pretty (iH.Uk wasn't lnrth.it pimply, blotchy cotnplex iant" Bet the rtfmujr use of Resinol Snap, aided at first by a little Resinol Ointment, would probably make it clear, ftvah and charming. Ha poor akin is svanv handicap, begin nanf Reatnol Soap and ec how quickly it improve. Vp asd It i in I re arid evsllaras. CM. re nse asaisie of each, arms le ten -K. Ksa- II' ' ' - . -. i I Yfio ?iurnsio Screen Fteopes-fodayfn "V ew ' f V f.;.-- .:-.f, , i - . i ie ; '! Vt Wis n . TOD.rs FILM FEATIBES. Columbia Carmel Myers and Kenneth Harlan. "My Unmar ried Wife." Star Vivian Martin. "The Fair Harbarian": Charlie Chaplin. -The Park." Eunaet Mae Marsh. The Cinder ella Man." Liberty Norma T a 1 m a d r e. "Ghosts of Yesterday"; Fatty Arbuckle. "Out Weat." MaJ-tic Theda Bars. "Cleopat ra." Peoples Mabel Normand. "Dods;- Ins; a klUllon." Clobe Sessue Hayakawa. "Tha Kottla Imp"; "Who Is Number Oner Cleopatra," Today. 4(!LEOPATRA" opens at the lit- J Jen tic Theater at lV:3o today. Heralded Ilka a circus, presented with doubls orchestra playing a musics score which tha managers of tha spec tacla assert Is tha most pretsntioua that haa ever accompanied any photo play production shown In Portland, and coming to the Rose City with a repu tation of having broken tha attendance records at tha fashionable Metropoli tan Theater In Seattle, tha Majestic management Is preparing to handle big crowd for tha next seven days. "Cleopatra" la billed as a wondrous picture of old Egypt, the Egypt of the Greek, th Roman and tha Ptolemy. heavy with tha legends of antiquity and rich with th luxuries and aplen dora of Its unbridled revelry. Theda Bara. conceded to ba th greatest scrsen vampire, portray th role of th Egyptian Wucen who historians has designated aa tha world a most vampiriith character. Cleopatra reeemblea other big film pectacles. 'Tb Birth of a Nation' and "intolerance." for Instanc, In that it la a production of atupendou mag allude, but In that respect only. There are. tba thousanda of soldiers, th thou- anda of slaves, th ancient city of Alexandria, th Egyptlaa Queens cap ital, th historic battle of Actlum. where two flotillas of galleys pro- palled by giant negro oaramen engage In spectacular combat. But there tha resemblance ends. "Cleopatra" does not essay to be preachment. It la presented as a film pic snowing a moments of history which, was fraught with' momentous consequences to th whole human race. Tbeda itara Is of course th central igure. circumventing th realatless power of Horn by bringing th mighty a rear to her feet, t-he appear In very conceivable costume. In the moat orgeoue settings, from her barge on Nils to th pyramided desert of Egypt. Mabel Normand at Peoples. Pretty and shapely Mabel Normand. he of Keystone comedy fame, has de serted tb euatard pla fllclesra for the "dreamer." After mora than a year of retirement, during which her many ad mirers have been wondering what had happened to their favorite. Mabel Is to tag a "come bark" and a debut at th People Theater today In a alx-reel comedy-drama. "Dodging a Million." L'ntll Miss Normand dropped out of Ight in irli. or waa It the first of 1T sh was one of th most pop lar famtnlne figurea of th screen. nd waa recognised aa the feminine harlle Chaplin of tha flickers. Her beauty, vivacity, personality and ashes of acting which ahona through lacstirkers mad people wonder why she did not go In for "straight" work. "Dodging a Million, hsralded as an nusual production, will arlra fandom opportunity to Judge of the merits this diminutive lass as a dramatic lumlnarv. It unfolds a story of mystery nd romance ani la full of comedy sltu tiona. Misa Normand is supported by m Moor. J. Herbert Frank and other all-know p Layers In this giorr writ ten by Edgar Selwyn, noted play wrlght. and A. M. Kennedy. Universal Current Events Is another subject on today's bill. Chaplin-Martin at Star. Vivian Martin, popular Peter Pan star of tha silent drama, comes to the Star Theater today In her latest Paramount production, "Th Fair Barbarian." With this rive-reeler will be shown "The Park." that famous old Charlie Chaplin comedy made during bis so journ with Essanay. Engineering her own love affair to a triumphant close, as well as stage managing several others, la th task that falls to Vivian Martin In "The Fair Barbarian," written from Frances Hodgson Burnett's famous story by Edith Kennedy and directed by Robert Thornby. A breexy American girl, ma. rooned by circumstances la a sleepy English town, she brings the little township nearly to the point of epon taneous combustion by acandsjization. How she wins over tha social leaders to her side and makes friends of even her prim and snobbish aunt, makes part of a story with all the fasclna. tion of which the famous author and popular star ars so capable. Screen Gossip. Next week is Path play week and Manager Kofeldt. of the Seattle branch, haa Invited exhibitors from all over the Northwest to visit bim and witness screenings of the first Paths play, "In nocent." featuring Fannl Ward, and tha first two-reel Toto comedy, "The Movie Dummy." see Anita Stewart, beautiful film star, who haa not yet settled her difficulties with Vita graph. Is a bride. It devel ops that sha and Rudolph Cameron. handsom leading man In one of her pictures, wera wedded aome time ago. Theda Bara will return to California next month to make another super- picture or two. Theda la the author of "Tha Soul of Buddha." which la to be given to the public In AprlL m w Doris Le. Charley Rayta young lead ing woman, la playing with him again and will be seen In Ray pictures during most of 11(. so 'tis aald. see Fatty Arbuckle. Al St. John, Alice Lake. Buster Keaton and several ex tras, were hurt during th filming of "Out West." according to th Arbuckle press agent. The auxiliaries of Batteries A and B 147th Field Artillery, will meet Monday night at 1 o'clock In room CO of the Courthouse. e e e Coldwyn la to plcturise another Rex Beach story. "Heart of the Sunset." with Anna Q. Ntlsson and Herbert Heyes. th latter a former Portlunder and recently with Fox, aa the leading players. Society people of Pasadena recently paid to appear In a photoplay and the Red Cross profited to th extent of sev eral hundred dollars. e e e It haa been known for some time that Catherine Calvert, the widow of Paul Armstrong, would bo featured by tha Frank A. Keeney Pictures Corpora tion In screen versions of some of her husband's plays. Now. comes the an nouncement that her first picture under the Keeney management will be "A Ro mance of the Underworld." an Arm strong play In which sh scored one or bar aucceesea. e e e Whereae tha uaual ecreen actress has j but on leading man for each picture. six were employed to support Mary MacLane in her George K. Spoor fea ture, "Ben Who Have Made Love to Me." These six have equal prominence in the picture, each portraying one of the suitors of tha authoress. e e Sheldon Lewis, hubby of Virginia Pearson, is not to retire from the screen after all. Ha turned down hie theatri cal Oder. LUMBER 6ARDNST0 BL1E, SAYS WEST Former Governor of Oregon Explains Delays in Pro duction of Spruce. IGNORANCE BIG FACTOR Direct Charge of Profiteering. Made Before Senate) Military Commit tee Long, of Taooma, Named a Having Something to Sell. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash logton, Feb, 1. -The Oovernment haa fallen down In Its effort to get an am ple supply of sprue for airplane manu factura becaua It haa allowed Itself to be dominated by the lumber barons of Oregon and Washington, because It ha played the game of th profiteers, and even allowed representatives of these big lumber Interests to run Its own business, according to Oswald West, of Orsgon, who appeared today before the Senate military affairs com mittee. West told the committee how sprue production should be handled. Major Charlea R. Bligh. recently de posed as bead of tha apruce produc tion section of the aircraft board, fol lowing West, took occasion to wash a mass of dirty air board linen In the presence of tha committee. Ha clearly gave the Impression that sprue pro duction had failed very largely be cause officials formerly In charge of that task had spent more time quarrel ing among themselves and striving for personal advantage than they did In directing tha getting of apruce out of th forests. Shots Aimed at Coast Mea. Before he got through, Sligh took a shot at many of the Pacific Coast men who have been trying to help' the i gov ernment solve Its spruce problem. Governor West's chief grievance i, Tew out of the fact that experienced . urn be rmen are serving today on advaory committees or boards, while the com panies of which they are offlclalr. are selling lumber to the Government i "No man who has anything Oi sell the Government should serve on a board having to do with the put lhaa of that commodity." he went on. "Is George S. Long, of Tacoma, man ager of the Weyerhaeuser Lumber Com pany, a suitable man?" Governor West was asked. He replied In the negative and main tained that Colonel Disque should be advised by a "practical logger." "Isn't Mr. Long a practical logger?" asked Senator Weeks. Long's lafitaeaa Defined. "Tea." replied West, "but be has something to sell to the Government. If the Saviour himself had something to sell to the Government I wouldn't have him on one of these advisory com mittees. Earlier. Governor West, sneakina of uoionel Ulsque. said be was a high ciass man, dui, iiKe too many con nected with the aircraft division, didn't know anything about spruce." He said Dlsque had finally famll iarlxed himself with the spruce situa tion in the Northwest since he went to Portland, but added that "the Gov. eminent had paid a high price for his education. In West's opinion. Colonel Dlsque wss not the right man to send to Port land to handle spruce production, but now that he Is established. West would let him continue, provided that he sur rounded himself with men who have no personal interest in the spruce or lumbering buainess. Some Reaaovala Saggeated. Governor West said that not only Long, but J. H. Bloedell, of Bellingham. his friend, should be removed from Colonel Disque's advisory staff, and disinterested men named to succeed them. One of Colonel Disque's advisers, he maintained, should be an Oregon man. Under the present organization he said Long and Bloedell were dictating to the lumbermen of Oregon and were responsible for trouble between the Oregon and the Washington lumbering Interests. He did not object to W. H. Ladd remaining, although he Is not practical lumberman. Major Sllgh a purpose in appearing before the committee seemingly was to vindlcste himself, after having been forced off the aircraft board's spruce committee. He charged that Weyerhaeuser in fluence had gotten his scalp; that Long, "peeved" because he (Sllgh) bad forced the Weyerbeauser and tha Bloedell company to live up to a contract to furnish airplane fir at $55 a thousand. had deliberately set out to get his scalp, and had gotten it. 1- or this and because he forced E. T. Allen out of his position with the air craft board and with the lumber com mittee of the Council of National De fense, Sligh said that Long demanded his removal and that he was retired by order of Colonel Deeds, who at the same time placed Major Leadbetter in charge of spruce production. Allen, he also said, waa "friendly to the West Coast Lumbermen's Associa tion." Hawkins Aapolntaseat Dlaewaaed. After firing Allen, Sllgh brought about the appointment of Russell Haw kins In hia place. To this. Senator Chamberlain stated hat Hawkins represented the Davis Whitney Lumber Company, of Detroit, and while serving in that dual capacity. had offered to sell the Government some of th Whitney company's timber. At the time, the Senator explained. Hawkins was on the Whitney com pany's payroll. This was given as the reason why Hawkins quit. GEORGE LOXG ANSWERS WEST Ex-Govcrnor's Charges Denied by Weyerhaeuser Manager. TACOMA. Wash.. Feb. 1. (Special.) Calling the production of spruce for aeroplane stock the most colossal physi cal task ever undertaken by lumber men on the coast. George S. Long, mem ber of the branch Aircraft Board in Portland, answered former Governor Oswald West, who attacked Mr. Long's appointment before the Senate military committee in Washington. D. C, today. Mr. I.ong, who is manager of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company and al lied organizations in th West, defend ed himself on that acore by showing that the Government la now going ahead and riving out sprue on Weyer haeuser land and that be had not sought the position he holds. Instead he out lined to Government officials how his connection with the Weyerhaeuser com pany might cause embarrassment. He has been in the work helping the Gov ernment since early last Summer, when he became a member of the fir emer gency committee of the West Coast Lumbermen's Aasociation to facilitate the shipment of lumber for cantonment construction. All Seats 15c OTAB b2y iiruil It All Tiroes MORE FOR LESS MONEY V BEGINNING TODAY t . 1 n r VJW- 4 . 3L ):Jp.V-'' ' AGAIN IT'S THE JOY SHOW N 4 CHARMING - 'Lxl m vivian f m MARTIN ml ' M frbz&i I I I M$ the ri m m FAIR ' M m barbarian fiTi fi P,'.13 comedy - drama deal- f f t-Sti ..Yj lag with aa American I ' , " f' I ' 4-- i'4 gtrl In England-who eaai J$ " J ? " ' i3 aee nothing but the Land , J it ftV Je. of the Kree. It's Funny! hf j f T -v 'O ' V ' KX'J I !- - -i NO RAISE IN PRICES Money Returned to Anybody Dissatisfied sii HHniil iiiiiiiJ i ..f iTffnrnnni-ia ALSO CHARLIE CHAPLIN IN "IN THE PARK" A LAUGH PROVOKER RECORD POINTED OUT Mr. Withycombe Expects to Announce Candidacy Soon. MANY WILL BE IN RACE probable that it will be definitely known by that time just how many men will be in the race. Coos Man May Be Aapirant. L. J. Simpson, of Coos County, made the statement while in Salem recently that he intends to make his announce ment from Portland in the early part of this month, as to just what he will do, and within the next few days It probably will be definitely known whether or not Mr. Simpson will be come a factor in the race. From the activities in his behalf reported from Coos County, it is considered as the best bet that he probably will be a candidate. If he comes out it will mean five candidates in the race all told Gover nor Withycombe, Secretary of State Ol cott, President Moser. of the State Sen ate, and Dr. J. E. Anderson, of Th Dalles. These men will be after the Republican nomination, while the names of Harvey Starkweather, of Clackamas County, and Walter Pierce, of Union County, are the probable Democratic candidates for the nomina tion. George Cameron, of Portland, also has been quoted as saying that he Intended to take a flier at the Re publican nomination, and if this is cor rect there will be a field of six can didates for that nomination. Read The Orepronian classified ads. Five and Possibly Seven Republi- ans Will Be In Gubernatorial Contest and Names of Two Democrats Are Mentioned. SALEM, Or., Feb. 1. (Special.) While it is certain that Governor Withvcomba will be a candidate for Governor to succeed himself, It Is un derstood that the executive will with hold formal announcement of his can didacy and declaration of principles un til the latter part of this montn or until early in March. It is the general belief that the exec utive's platform, when It is forthcom ing, will not be long and that he will base his desire for re-election upon the record of his office during his incum- bencv. narticularly with his' official record as it refers to the handling of the situation developed by the exigen cies of war. Haste Deemed Unnecessary. He makes the statement that there is no question as to his being a candi date for re-election and that he is sat isfied the people of the state know that he will be such a candidate and conse quently there Is no particular hurry about coming forth with the formal an nouncement of his plans or policies ior the succeeding four years if he is re turned, to office by the electorate. The Governor has been particularly active in formulating and carrying out plans in connection with the states snare in the war and his friends are confident that this, along with the gen eral policies of his office, have won for the executive a large following throughout the state. If the present plan of the Governor Is followed to withhold making his formal announcement until early in March, or tha latter; part of this mouth. U Is rx rKi ki-k! d r Jj: A3 Jiff av-f'l Last Day NORMA TALMADGE m "Ghosts of Yesterday" From the play, "Two Women," by Rupert Hughes and "FATTY" ARBUCKLE in 'Out West' Starting Tomorrow: The Supreme Giant Photo Drama "THE GARDEN OF ALLAH"