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a Statute Requires Proof Chauffeur's Ability.- LAW EFFECTIVE JULY Application Blanks Will Be Sent to All Motorists; Nominal Fee of 25c to Be Charged. THE MORXIXG OREGONIAX, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1920 PUIS TO LICENSE MO DRIVERS LAID f hmH' L&m.JilU Slimnn i r f ' I I SALEM. Or, Feb. 15. (Special.) Because of a new law enacted at the recent special session of the legis lature requiring all persons operating or driving; motor vehicles to obtain a license, from the secretary of state, Sam A. Koaer. in charge of the state department, is working out tentative plans whereby his office may be able to handle the added duties imposed by the act with the least possible ex pense to the taxpayers. The new law. which was prepared by Senator Orton and approved by both houses of the legislature almost without debate, is not designed as a revenue measure, according to its author, but ha for its purpose thro elimination of drivers who are men tally or physically incompetent to handle motor driven vehicles. Although Mr. Kozer has not yet completed his tentative plans for complying with the provisions of the new law. he says tne registrations and issuance of permits probably will be handled much the same as are the applications and licenses applying to automobiles and other motor venicjea. Blanks to Be Seat arc. To expedite and make possible the Issuance of these licenses in the least possible time the secretary or state probably will send out blank applica tions to all owners of motor vehicles with instructions that they fill them at and return them to his office at their earliest convenience. These ap plications shall contain the applicant's full name, residence, age, height. weight, occupation, color of hair, color of eyes, date of birth and a statement of his experience In the op eration and driving of motor vehicles and that he is not mentally or physic ally incapacitated. This application must bear the seal of some persons authorized under the Oregon laws to administer oaths. I'pon receipt of this application Mr. Kozer rays he will issue a card, con taining the information set out in the application, together with a metal badge and copy of the motor vehicle laws of the state. The cost to the applicant will be 25 cents, covering the expense in obtaining the official license and administration of the law. Law Kffcctlve July 1. The secretary of Btate has received many requests for copies of this law. which will become effective on July 1 of this year. The secretary of Mate may author ise the chief of police or marshal of any Incorporated city or town or sheriff of any county to issue "learn er's" permits to persons over 16 years of age and not mentally or physically incapacitated. A "learner" means any person who prior to the date of his application for a permit has not operated or driven a motor vehicle for a period of more than five days and who wishes to qualify as an operator and who possesses the physical and mental re quirements of an operator. Such per mit may be issued for a period not to exceed 15 days, but shall be valid only when such person while operating a motor vehicle is accompanied by a licensed operator or chauffeur. The secretary of state may refuse to Issue a license to any applicant for an operator's or a chauffeur's license who is show- by proper evidence to be a reckless or negligent operator or driver, endangering the safety of the public, or an habitual violator of the provisions of this act. License Hay Be Suspended. The secretary of state may suspend any chauffeur's or operators license Issued under the provisions of the act upon request of any magistrate, sher iff or chief of police or city or town marshal for any cause which he may deem sufficient, and order that such operator's or chauffeur's license be delivered up when he is of the opinion from the statements accompanying the magistrate's, sheriff's, chief's of police or city or town marshal's re qest that the holder thereof is an im proper or incompetent person or physically or mentally incompetent to operate or drive a motor vehicle. For violation of the provisions of tba act the party convicted is sbject to a fine not to exceed 1400, confine merit in the county jail not to exceed one year or both fine and imprison tnant. t A w x M ,l...Jfy 8crae from Harold Lloyd latest eomedy "From Hand to Mouth, running- in I connection wttn Anita Stewart 3Ilnd the Faint Girl, at the Majestic I theater. TODAY'S FTLM FEATURES. Peoples Dorothy Tllsh, "Mary Ellen Comes to Town." Rivoll Henry Walthall and Barney Furey, "The Long-Arm of MannUter." Barney Furey In person. Liberty Doris May and Doug las MacLean, "What's Your Husband Doing. Columbia Special production. "Blind Husbands. Majestic Anita Stewart, "Mind the Paint Girl." Star Harry Carey. "Marked Men." Sunset C h a r 1 e s Ray, "BUI Henry." Circle Mary Pickford, "The Hoodlum." T71 VERY "ffirl" from 16 years up to X-i those who lo.-g ago failed to record birthdays will immediately re new the craving for the stage and be gin to again count on her fingers the reaeons why he should surely suc ceed back of the footlights when she sees Anita Stewart in "Mind the Paint irl," showinar this week at the Ma jestic The second pretentious Harold Lloyd comedy "From Hand to Mouth" is also a feature of this week's Ma jestic programme. "Mind the Paint Girl" is a story of stage life as "we girls" used to day dream It long ago before welfare workers summoned courage to go back of the picture and discover for the public the really long hours small pay and unvaried life of the average "show" girl. It is a story in which al! success .comes easily to a pretty little chorus girl. Rich and titled personages vie for her hand. She has all-the fun, none of the wear iness that statisticians allege go with a stage career and she likewise pos sesses the complete poise of a fairy tale princess. The picture Is delightful from the standpoint of comedy and is a cleverly-filmed drama with a romantic plot. It makes no effort to be anything else. To the analytical ft might seem a bit far-fetched and dime "novelty," but to the majority of motion picture fans "Mind the Paint Girl" will be heartily indorsed as good entertain ment. The Harold Lloyd eomedy Is one of his best. Screen Gossip. Lew S. Taylor, for 18 years a resi dent of Portland and until recently "stunt" man at the bomb-dropptng school at Camp Upton, N. Y, is one of the most recent acquisitions to I filmdom's celebrities. Taylor is now ding stunts for the screen. Los Ange les papers recently recorded a sensa tional leap made by Taylor from an I automobile Into an airplane. The auto I waa racing at 70 miles an hour, ac cording to the press report. A plane I swooped down over the automobile I and Taylor caught hold of a 25-foot rope dangling from it and pulled himself hand over hand to the lower I wing and then to the cockpit The plane was traveling at about the I same rate of speed as the automobile and immediately Taylor grasped the rope it shot upward into the air. Will Rogers, the cowboy star who has been the. big find of the year fori Gold wy n, paid a high trubute the I other day to his director, Clarence Badger, to whom he gives credit fori much of his success. It is no small responsibility that is put upon a di rector when a new candidate for star dom is placed in his hands. Success or failure is apt to depend upon not only his technical skill, but his abil ity to grasp the special element In the new candidate for stellar honors that should be stressed in order to in sure satisfactory results. Irene Rich saved Nick Cogley, one of her supporting actors, from drown ing in a California river. When he fell into the water with heavy boots on and was unable to swim, Miss Rich plunged in and held him until help arrived. - Director Lloyd Ingraham has plunged into the first stages of a new production with bis young stars, Douglas MacLean and Doris May, at the Thomas H. Ince studios. It will present MacLean in a guise entirely new to his admirers. He will appear as an escaped jail-bird with an un conquerable sense of humor, and both stars and director declare that it will have more comedy and a Btory with more genuine suspense than any pro- duction thus far made by this trio. Rumor has it that Priscilla Dean and Wheeler Oakman were married at Reno, Nevada, recently, but Miss Dean denies the rumor. Look for a lot of "good red blood" in Bill Hart's next picture. It will I have a fight between Bill and Tom Santschl, and no one need look for a I pink tea affair. Hart plays the role of a soldier returned from overseas I and Santschi the part of a saloon-1 keeper near the waterfront in San Francisco. SCHOOL ELECTION CALLED Cholialis District to Choose Director to Succeed A. S. Cory. CTTEHAT.1S. Wash.. Feb. 15. (Spe clail.) The annual school election for district No. 3 will be held Slarch 6. A director for a three-year term will be chosen to succeed A. S. Cory who is ending two full terms on the board. It is also intended to ask the voters to authorize a :0-mtll school levy to meet mounting school costs and proper financing of the district. AVhen this year is ended the fiscal report will thow the bonded debt fully paid, a l-mill levy having been au thorised to wipe this out. Canadian Newspaper Man Dies. MONTREAL. Feb. 15 E. F. Slack, president of the Canadian Tress and general mana.eer of the Montreal tla xette, died this evening. He waa taken ill two days ako with influ enza which developed into double pneumonia. ball safe. lie may be hitting the ball hard at the outset or tne slump, out directly at someone, as is often the case. That doesn't worry him so much at the start, because he be lieves a break is certain to come. However, as the slump continues, he begins to fuss. He may change his batting position, may shift his stride, may shorten his swing, may go to a new style of bat. Usually he would be better off if he did none of these things. But when a man is worried he will resort to almost any means to recover his poise. ished second and Sergeant Aubrey third. In the mounted wrestling, Horse- shoer Smith threw Private Sanders after half an hour's tussle. Both are I of the 11th cavalry. The Roman race went to Sergeant Gibson, the rescue race to Privates I Larson and Marshall, and the tug of I war to troop Gr. The whites were victors over the I reds in the polo n-atch by a score of f five to four. Major Leonard Tate and Major I Fhiilip Magor. both of the Eastern Last season Koger Peckinpaugh of British team, starred for the winners, Baseball on the Inside. the Yankees went 29 consecutive games in which he got one or more hits. In that long run the breaks naturally had to be in his favor. Just when it seemed some pitcher had stopped him, he would connect weakly with the ball, a dropping ny to me nxtfielri would result. It would be just outside the reach of the infielder or outfielder and would go for a Dase hit. Then I'eckinpaugh was stopped, and. as is often the case after a player has been hitting the ball hard, he fnlla into a slump. For about two I'.nbi i.clc didn't get as many hits as he had been getting in a couple of daya He seemed to be nuting tne hn consistently and as hard as ever, but always some fielder would be right in the way or he would make a brilliant catch. Base hits which for Hi. month nrevious had come so easy were now the hardest things in the world to acquire. No one has ever explained to the satisfaction of all just what a batting slump really is. I .have always be lieved batting slumps in a large measure were caused because of a slump in the players confidence in his ability. Unless the player is an unusual tvDe. a batting slump will worry him. and that worry destroys 1 confidence, the greatest asset in any thing. When something gets the plaver going again, and base hits start comlnit his way, the old confi dence returns, and he goes merrily on his way to the .300 mark. Inci dentally, no one worries more than the manager when a couple of his stars are in a batting slump. 4 TRROWX IX CAVALRY RIDE Gillette Service Experts are again in town Free Service to you Gillette Owners Leant now how much comfort and convenience your Gillette can really give- U UR Service Experts are here at the most convenient stores. Let them advise you about your shaving: Get the "little knack" of the perfect Gillette shave, the finest shave a man ever enjoyed. Get them to look . over your razorsee that it is adjusted properly. No charge. Don't let the chance of seeing them pass by and bring your razor. With the Gillette perfect shaving is a diver sion, not a task. The Gillette is adjustable to the thick beard or the tender skin. It never irritates. Blades always sharp always ready. Millions of Gillette users take only five min utes for the cleanest, most comfortable shave in the World. It makes a big difference how you hold the razor. Come in and let our Service Experts give you the " little knack." Once acquired, it's never forgotten. And don't forget the importance of changing blades now and then. Surprising how much an occasional new blade improves your shave. " Remember No Stropping No Honing And no charge for whatever our Service Experts can do for you. Shave yourself. Wonderfully simple with the Gillette. And you'll be surprised at the amount of money saved from fees and tips. Are You Getting Maximum Results From Your Gillette The Gillette Service Experts and all Gillette dealers want to be of service to every Gillette uaer in town. They will show yon that "little knock" of the Gillette shave--bow to prepare the face for hav ing; the correct ancle-stroke; the adjustment for a light or a close snave. Bring in your Gillette, have it looked over. It may be damaged, bent, out of alignment. If so, they will put it in first -class condition again, free of charge. They may make come valuable suggestions, anyway. When yon shave tomorrow morning, try this L. tiicr the beard thoroughly, and rub well in -that's essential with any shave. Put in a new blade and screw the handle down tight. Then, if yon want a specially cls shave, unacrasr the handle a light turn. Hold the razor naturally and easily, and tilt the handle so you can just feel the blade engage tna beard. , (Here's where some men make a mistake, tney iVt the hard'e up or down too much.) Then shave with short, slanting strokes. Keep the edge of the blade as nearly flat against the skin as yon can. Any man will catch the - Utile knack" of using hi. Gillette : m one or two shaves. In fact, when the Gillette la properly used, the beard slips off without your knowing it. The all-important thing is to lather well, and to hold the razor easily, with the handle tilted so the blade uat mngMgom thm Dearer. If there is any man in this town who is not getting a satisfactory shave, we want to know it. - Gillette Safety Razor Company, BostonMzss. When and where you may meet the Gillette Service Experts: All next week u. s. A. All this week Frank Nau .6th and Alder TheJOwl Drug Co. . Broadway and Washington Meier 8 Frank Co. Olds, Wortman & King Powers & Estes 129 Sixth Street MADE IN KNOWN THE WORLD OVER Lewis At Stone 120 Broadway Honeyman Hardware Company . 4th and Alder Stipe-Foster Drug Co. . . 289 Morrison St. Portland Cutlery k Barber Supply Company 86 6th Street Stout-Lyons Drug Co. . . . Third St Morrison EVERT ballplayer, next to the old pay check, likes his base hits. Since the size of the pay check, in a measure, depends on the ability to safe by, there is good reason for the love of the wallop that goes safe. There is nothing quite so stimulating er encouraging to the diamond ath let aa the ring of the old base hit. Of a lot of players they say: "Tou could Just about pay that fellow off in base hits instead of money." In strikine contrast, nothing wor ries the ballplayer more than a bat tlnr slump. Inability to get the ball safe can transfer the most congenial athlete into the worst kind of a crab. It can rob the peppery Individual of all hia life if the slump is of a pro tracted nature. It can turn the most brilliant fielder into a very ordinary performer. Nothing can disturb the success and harmony of a ball club more than a couple of good hitters falling into a slump. Explain a batting slump? That is bo easy task. Literally it is inability Philip VaKue, 11th cavalry. Presidio, af a recognized good hitter to get the 0f Monterey. Trivate Stoutenger fin- while Hugh Drury and Erie Pedley I aid valient work for the reds. SALEM HIGH BEATS CORVALLIS Score Is 34 to 18 in Fastest Game for Capital Team. SALKJi. Or.. Feb. 15. (Special.) Salem High school last night defeated corvams High school in one of the most interesting games of basketh.ll o,fas:dtoTse 'tIt. .b8;,;r presidot op T-A-BliAMES sureo tne district championship as a I REGISTER. ASSOCIATION. ruji ui last nignts victory. Coach Schott is getting his men In line for the state tournament to be Dispute Over Cost of Publishing halrl All M9Flh at C aa C 1 I I .,.a V v oiiu v, m.iiu ne says TflOTTl FIGHT HIRED II nis team snows the speed and endurance that have marked the games played thus rar this season, the local high has a good chance of winning the state raurels. Annual Record Book Enters Into Harness Race Row. XOR.UAN ROSS BEATS One Horse Killed Inrin Army Event at Bel Monte. rELi MONTE, Cat., Feb. 15. Four riders with their mounts fell during the steeplechase event of the U. S. cavalry field meet, which preceded the polo match here today. All of the riders escaped injury, but it waa nec essary to kill one of the horses. The race was won ty sergeant NEW TORE, Feb. 15. J. C Welty, AXZAC president of the National Trotting as sociation, has issued an address to American Wins Three-Qnarter Mile I members in which he puts the blame on the American Trotting neBisi Australian Title. association for the break which has ADELAIDE, South Australia. Feh. resulted in a third governing body in li. Norman Ross, the American harness racing. That the refusal of swimmer, today won the three-quarter the N. T. A. to bear a share of the mile Australian championship, cover- loss in compiling and publishing the ing tha distance ia 17 minutes 29 1-5 Year Book of trotting and pacing bad seconds. .nrnhinir to rin with the break is a He defeated the Australian swim. r nf common knowledge among mer, F. K. Beaurepaire. by five yards, horsemen, but the story as told by There were eight starters. M- weltv differs from that hereto fore published. Salem Senators Sign Games. He says: For several years past your asso- SALEM. Or.. Feb. 15. (Sni.i i elation has paid one-third of the Adequate grounds have been obtain. it Tear Book publication and distributed by the Salem Senators, the newly or- I the books among its members. The KauiKu iMKudu i t in , ana Olds for I ivegister a9suciiiuu tupireu duui the erection of a grandstand are now maries of the races from the Ameri- being received. Biddy Bishop, who is can Trotting association without ex promoting the team, says he already pense to the American and refused to has signed two or three games for allow 'the National actual expenses early in the season and that not less in copying the summaries of its races, than two games each week will be We believe that both should be treated played bere during the entire summer, alike, and If the Register association Two local banks have made finan- wanted the National to furnish a cial donations to the club, and it is copy of its races, costing between $400 not believed any difficulty will be and 600 annually, that it should be encountered In raising sufficient funds paid for by the Register association with which to place the team on a at actual cost- This we proposed to sound footing. do proposed to take the Year Book in exchange at actual cost, and this they declined to do. You can see whether or not your officers have discriminated against the Register association. This is a plain statement of facts without any conclusions upon my part." Mr. Welty has informed the mem bers of the N. T. A. that the board of review, at its recent meeting in Can ton, O., restored the old-time allow ance rule, but increased the allow ance from one second to two seconds a year, limiting its operation to three years, so that no horse can have an allowance of more than six seconds. BOWLERS' POSITION'S UPSET J. Williams, La Crosse, Wis., Leads Meet With Score of 660. ST. "PAUL, Feb. 15. Numerous up sets in the leaders' positions in the singles event featured today's pin smashing at the International Bowl ing association tournament. J. Will iame of La Crosse, Wis., rolled into the lead in this class, getting 660. The best count in the doubles today was hung up by G. Fisher and T. Reynolds of Chicago, whose 1247 total gave them seventh place. TELEGRAPH SHOOT IS HELD Four Teams Tied in Second Round of Spokane Trapsbooters. SPOKANE, Wash., Feb. 15. The second round of the fourth annual In land Empire Telegraphic Trapshoot ing tournament was shot today with the following scores reported: Waitsburg 72, Garfield 73; Oroville 73, Kellogg 63; Colfax-Palouse 73, Walla Walla 9; Sunnyaide 73, Wal lace 68; Tonasket 61, Lewiaton-Pome-j roy 70. Odessa-Bye, 72. HOOP LEAGUE IN BALANCE P. W. LEE CALLS MEETING OF TEAM MANAGERS TONIGHT. First Half of Season Ends With Record or Fast Games; Con tinuance Is Question. P. W. Lee, president of the Port land Basketball league, has issued a call for a meeting of the team man agers or representatives tonight at 7:15 o'clock at the Multnomah Guard club room in the Chamber of Com merce building. The teams in the league have completed the first half of the schedule and it will be up to the managers tonight to decide whether or not they want to finish the second half of the circuit. Some high-class basketball was played in the game during the first half of the season, and the hoop game which some of the quintets put up was on a par with the contests played in the interscholastlc league. No ad mission was charged to witness any of the contests, and the basketball fans wno turned out were treated to some hard-fought and fast games. The J. K. Gill basketball team won from the Company A Engineers quin tet Saturday night on the armory floor by a score of 29 to 20. Al though the Engineers outweighed the Gill hoopers, the fast team work of the smaller quintet proved too much for the Company A boys. The man ager of the J. K. GUI team would like to arrange a game with the South Parkway quintet. The lineup: r K. om (291. Co. A 2i B.irton F (2) Vashn Hood (8) .....F (S) Johnon Mills (11) C (8) Tumi Cash G (2) Ifllterofl French O Nehf Welser (8) B GOLFERS PREPARE FOR PLAT Special Toornament on Coronado Course Monday and Tnesrtny. SAN DIEGO, Feb. 15. A number of professional golf champions from several parts of the United States are due to arrive here tomorrow for the special tournament at the Coro nado Country club Monday and Tues day. Among some or the players wno said they would come are Tom Mac- Namara, former metropolitan western open champion) Arthur Clarkson, Wis conein state champion; H. C. Walker, Michigan state champion, and the Martin brothers, former state champions. The coronaao uouniry ciuo win pb represented by Robert S. Simpson, former western open champion for two years; H. David Wilson, former western champion, and Charles JJet rick of Cpronado. Coronado Polo Team Wins. SAN DIEGO, Cal., Feb. 15. In one of the best polo games here this sea son the Coronado team defeated the Midwick four at the Coronado Coun try club today winning by six goals ti five. In the fourth chuckker Carle n v RnrkA was thrown from his horse in a thrilling scrimmage and j FRANK TEH WINS TITLE VANCOUVER MARKSMAN IN TERNATIONAL CHAMPION. Score 94 in Principal FHrnt In Interstate TrapMiootlng Mrri at Kansas City. KANSAS CTTT. Feb. IS. Frank M. Troeh of Vancouver, Wash., today won the International amateur wing shot championship, the principal event of the Interstate Trapnhnotlnff tourna ment in progress here since last Mon day. Troeh came from behlnfl and de feated Harry Snyder of Kansas City, who led when the first half of the event was completed yesterday. His score was $4. In addition to winning the title, Troeh alto captured first cash prize. The following ftva high shooters won cash prises offered in connection with the event: E. B. Melrath, Philadelphia, score 2; H. C. Herndon, Georgetown, Ky.t HI; R. V. Elbert. Des Moines, Iowa, n; William Wetleaf, Nicolas, Iowa, ; Harry Snyder, Kansas City, tt. El bert and Wetleaf split the fourth prize to which their tie of to entitled them. The tournament ended today. Cantle May Manage Hannibal. Johnny Castle, who managed Rork- ford In the Three-I last year, may lead the Hannibal team in the same league this year, provided , Hannibal narrowly escaped injury. He obtained terms are more than Rockford will a new mount and continued in thejpgy, ro he is not being considered by gam. bU old clan.