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; g TT1K OREGON STATESMAN; illUHSim. .inl i?. i iirnsp.w. AiMtiii it, win .if S ' i Joe Hcdnes Stock ; 305 State Street , I IPSTP IMC ! r It Until FridaylMorningDirectorJ& Br eall I 4! Confnxcf Awarded for Highway Near Jefferson PORTLAND, Or., April 10. Tend ing a conference to he held with the county court of Lane county, the state highway commission today post poned award of a contract for the grading of a stretch of the Pacific highway between Walker and ot- tajce drove. In that county, a distance of three miles. According to the commissioners there is a proposal on foot to have Iane county hear a por tion of the expense. Hid .for the Oakland-Yoncaila and the Amity- ilolmes section, on different branches of the highway were rejected as ex cessive. Among the awards made was one for a seven-mile stretch be tween Jefferson and Heaver, in Mar lon county, which Is to be paved with bitulithic by A. I. Kerns for $U3. 00. Fourteen mile letween Marsh- field and Coquille in Coos county will be paved with concrete by Perham. Dean. Drown and Hogue for 318.- 81. II U : c . . . . ' ' V- ,.R J,-'. I!' Ml 'I III .11 l ',-KM... II ,X V. 'Vr ' !3 PLAYING TO CAPACITY- pi H r4 -COME EARLY 2. rt ii m U Martin Johnson' Cannibals of the South Seas Photographed at the risk of life i TODAY TOMORROW SATURDAY Watch for opcniuir of our New Orjraii. Read the Classified Ads. Ye LIBERTY H u 4 i A "There ii no vulval ity in r.akeu nets clothes and civilization create vulgarity. The women of the canni bal inlands of the South Pacific wear iituall no clothing at all. and they are more .modest than the Broadway broiler, and a whole let less vulgar." This is the observation of Mrs. Martin Johnson, wife of the adven turous cameraman whose motion pic tures of the savage peoples cf the South ea have just bt-en released aa a five-reel feature under the title of "Cannibals of the South Seas." Mrs. Jqhnson arcoinpanit-d her husband on tie mosi dangerous f xpioiu oi tut rteen months' ejelitlon. KNIGHTS PUT MEN TO WORK Catholic Fraternity Has Em ployment Bureau Busy in California Robert G. the San Francisco , SAX I R ANC1SCO, March 14. -Eight hundred aad fifteen men di3 charged from the United State3 ser vice, out of more ljn 1300 appli-! cants have been eivfn e nploymtnt j of through the Knights of Columbus National Catholic war council ser vice bureau in California s'irce Us establishment on Febrary 1. A comnlete reoort of the activities of the organization since ijelpiencyt tives of the bureau in order to keep two months ago "-as filed with Arch-Jin close touch with the situation., bishop Ilanna yesterday by the com-.' Drady declares that the vast ma mlttee in charge including Albert G. ' jority of the men are seeking city IJat?ley. head of the K. of. C, war Jobs. The impression tbat they are work on the Pacific coast, William anxious or willing to go back to B. Golden and Charles C. Sullivan, the farm he declares is false Inso grand knights of the local Councils far as actual figures in the bureau Knight? of Columbus. Captain show. I Charles J. Zerzaa, U. S. A., is rep- Of the more than.lSOO men who! resenting the United States armj- on have filed applications for positions the committee. and who have beea classified a's to I According to the report more than tfte character of employment sought. ' . . lfr . 500 of the men placed have secured erks have led the list with A3 ay- KeQS Uisllked' Worfe Than positions in San Francisco. Los An- plications. Stenograpners and book-. eeles and San Joaquin counties, keepers are second with 172 seeking Through the efforts of John Devlin, employment and the men who seek; graod knight of the Napa council, farm labor are sixth on the list which and T D. Kilkenny, grand knight includes salesmen 161. metal work-! of Vallejo council, K. of C, employ- f- 117. shippard worke:s 112. la ment for more than 80 men has been borers 10 S, farmers 10 j. chaufreurj found in those two districts. an team drivers 104,; mechanics. , lV. warenousemen t, cooks anq I waiters 5 i PEASANTS HATE RUSSIAN GUARD Were Agents of Any Former Emperor ! lelal(0is f a WIe I Alter 9 rict.ll ItlttUB 9. nOLtfl U.t. ) O A 1 .." 1 - J t past month and has established a ll? m!sceUaneous employments system whereby the p:iacipel em- ' ployers of the city will be canvassed I : ,:at least once a -week hy representa- auMuin comes from well Ci- seteu ana tnorougniy assimilated food. Hood's Sarsaparilla tones the digestive organs, and thus builds up the strength. If yon are . getting "run dow-n," begin taking Hood's at once. It gives nerve, mental and di gestive strength. Children Cry for Fletchers ....:-.- " - vr D Ihe Kind You Have 'Always Bought, and which has beea la use for over over 30 years, has . borne the signature of and has been made under his per- v- sonal supervision since its infancy. ' (CCCCwZ Allow no one to deceive vnn in th?s. ''.AH Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good " are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health cf liants and Children Experience against Experiment. What is CASTOR I A Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Props and Soothing-Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains teither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Ita f ge is its guarantee. For more than thirty years it ha 3 beea ia constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness arising therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aid3 the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep. v The Children's Panacea The Mother's FrieodU GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of Night Crew Is Pat on by Silver Falls Company S1LVERTOX. Or., April lC.-i (Special' to The Statesman) Mon day night the Silver Falls Timber company put on the first night crew they have had this year. The nisht crew starts work at 6 o'clock. The mill had not been running since the annual ciean-up which took place during the holidays until April 1. The retail office which opened a week ago in the Richardson huildin; is now fully established. LESS TROUBLE WITH TRACTORS, railroad cars VLADIVOSTOK!. Jan. 10. (Cor :espondence of The Assoc'ated Press) The Russian peasants hate the Red Guard a hundred tinica more than they ever hated the agents of the former Russian emperor, accord ing to a traveler from Moscow as quoted In the Omsk newspaper. Slo vo. Perhaps the traveler says. thU may account for some of the fie:ce- ness ana ruth'.essncss of tne Liol sheciki rule. U.ider the emperor'. regime, he says, the murderer cf a village con stable would have been shot and the executions would have stappel there; but the Itolsheviki will shoot scoirs of peasants for the murder of a Red Guard. All the way from Moscow to Tarn bov could be seen .people called sack-cane men and womei who had left Iheir towns or vil lages in the hope of finding else where bread or wheat.- The liol sheviki had orders to shoot all sack- carriers, women; children or old men whether they were In quest of bread for thenvselves aad their starving families or to sell at higher prices And they were shot. The traveler claims to have seen some 'of the3f I people running along the tops ol jumping from one tc 3 In Use For Over 30 Years The Kind You Have Always Bought Big Musical Song Show It takes about 2 V. gallons, of fuel an acre to run a tractor for plowing in the Dakotas. according to reports from several' hundred farmers re ceived by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture. These reports, summarized in Farmers' Bulletin 1035, cover 2, 3, 4, and 5-plow tract ors of various makes. Slight differences In fuel consump tion are found between machines of different makes, and there is usually slightly lower consumption where gasoline is used than where kerosene Is used. These differences, however, are so small that the average of 2 gallons may be taken as coming very close to the actual acre consumption for any, type or size of machine. The more recent reports received in this regard Indicate that farmers are having much less trouble than formerly In handling kerosene-burn ing tractors. - Nearly two-thirds of the tractors on the Dakota farms re porting burn kerosene, and the re sults are apparently satisfactory, par ticularly in view of the fact that the present price .of kerosene Is but half that of gasolnie. However, the ad vantage of gasoline In ease vof oper ation ana in tne additional assur ance It gives that the engine will keep running steadily makes many men prefer the more expensive fuel. The Story of a Honeymoon A Wonderful Romance of Married Life Wonderfally Told by ADELE GARRISON An iiiijinveih'iitcl surcess in its serial form, now to be read in a beautiful book. AVlirtlier you arc a man or a vroman, married or single, happily married or less hannv than yoai eotild wish, this throbbing story of a woman's heart will seize and hold your deepest and sincercst interest. t-" ' ..1 another, with the Red Guards shoot ing at them from the platform. Tb moanings of those struck down wen heard far into the nixht. The train passed Tambov. Atekar Ralashev. all situated in a fertile corn country. Rut nowhere wa there bread, even for the ..Russian who had raised the corn. it had been expo:ted, nobody could saj where. A student member of the commit tee to fight counter revolution, who was on the same train, admitted that , he and his friends knew that j the social revolutionaries as well as the Mensheviki were not counter revolutionists, but the ccmmlttee he said was obliged to viw them as such if they wanted to continue to rule. "If communism." he said, "will not fit the Russian people, we shall have to abandon the power; but in that case we shall act in a fashion to be remembered for a long time' The train passed military traias going to the front. The soldiers ap peared gloomy and sleepy, principal ly, sleepy. The traveler saw some looking for a place to l!e down but an officer, carrying a whip motion ed them out. Their grumblings were Silenced by the whin or by the sight of a bayonet glistening in the hand of a sailor who accompanied the officer. lil ' i " " i n pirn iiit u i r I .j UII3L3 " MIX 1 I i U fkati.uk I i : ii U CJ1 ii J J y imctukk m ! V With a Bevy ot Beautiful y FRIDAY-ONE DAY ONLY i v-'i . . . , f BLIlaM IMLAIKt ' vi m DATE FOR KHiMNCi'SKT PARIS. April 16. (Havas) The allied governments, according to tho Temps, apparently have decided not to wait beyond May 15 for a definite answer from Germany as to whether she will sign or refuse to sisn the peace treaty. CIKRMA.V DKIiKfjATKH X.Mi:i RERUN. Tuesday. April 15. (Ry The Associated Tress The special committee on peace negotiation named by the German national as sembly at Weimar will include l'res- ggg ident Fehrenlmch and three vbe- gf presidents of the sfttsembly. The otb- er members will be 28 delegates to Pp the assembly representing all par- ' Hol unit' Ini-l mlinf livn uinnnti ists. , "THE BETTER 'OLE," THE BIG COMEDY SUCCESS OF THE SEASON Sen-en I'rehentutiou of Kainoun SUse 1'riMluction Xw I'Ujing. t a Huge Sncrrss coxFinExn ix ;ovi:unmkt rARIS, April 16. (By The Asso ciated Press) The chamber of dep uties today by a vole of t 166 expressed its confidence in the gov ernment on a miefction whether ! France's condition of peace should be. made known to parliament after Foreign Minister Pichon had declin ed to outline the details of the peace preliminaries until the. treaty had been signed. ; "The. lietter 'Ole." or the romance or' Old Rill, js the bit comedy, vitr ei ss of the season. It is now playint to rapacity house. at th t'ort theatre in New York city, and five road companies are presenting it in venous parts of the country. And lyw. oi, the screen, you will have the opportunity at the Liberty theatre m Sunday ami Mnmbv of siting thin corking goo.l comedy which das I -!: seil hundrctis of thousands. "The lU-tter 'Ole" the cf.in.-.ly of the war. It shows the men in the trenches as they were during the hig conflict, and it is not overdrawn in any particular. There are no licroic s. no forced moments -evcr thim- i natural and tintilti-! ii u u vf,..i ization of the life of the fighters in their lighter moments, when they laiiglu-d and kidded nd lovel. The players ' appearing in the brrwn version nf. "The Retter "Ole" are those who made such an enorm ous hit in the original production They are alt skil(e, phiyers who were choHi-n because of tho r?ct thai they were the personification of the authors' ideas regarding the various characters. 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