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THEOREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON" SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 7, 1923 ' J ') is 1' Ml ! ! Oregon ? i Noi crt ContH Sell TVell 1 NEWPORT, Oc... 6. Sale of -$132,000 in refunding bonds at practically par for the Port of , Newport was made jthts week, by Frfcd Dawson, secretary , of the association. The bonds were sold to the Commerce I Mortgage Se- 1 cnrities company of Portland. issgauve ui iiuiuiug uuuus ia , a' part of the -plan of the Port of Newport to liquidate on indebted ness. At the present rate $25,000 a year is being et aside for re . tirement and if present schedules are carried out the entir.e amount of the indebtedness wllf be elim inated by 1943.' , vThe deal In Portland put the 1 port -in excellent 1 financial con dition, accord tng to Mr. Dawson. The bonds sold at $99.27 per $100 and brought I $131,903.64.1 ; They ' are issued In 10 and 20-year de nominations. I ; ; - v ; ; ( lllft Fixh Catch Jr I GRANTfl iPASS. Oct. 6. rCom mercial fishermen on. the upper Rogue this season brought in $10.- , 777 for their salmon catch, this ' representing the amount received for the 76.985 pounds of Chlnooks taken by I the gillnetters. About 15 boats were making the nightly drif tdurihg the first month ajs the larger parti of the fish wis caught fn May 1 and June. The Salmon averaged 14 cents a pound. "being sold locally through the City market, . :; II. ' '; ' MARSHFIELD, Oct. 6. Fine ' progress is being made in Marsb - field on the drive for membership " of the Coos County Health associ ation according to Mrs. D. A. Jones( chairman of the local drive. " Workers were out yesterday and today and. report a favorable re sponse for, memberships. The Ro tary; club and the Klwanls club have Joined In with the movement , and favorable word Is expected from the rural eo wnunities tn the Marshfield distrtci. The drive will i close Saturday. - : L I rL. C Bailey Bays Hotel --)' The . Stay ton hotel is In v new hands. L. j C Bailer! and family arrived in Stay ton the last of the .week- purchased the - hotel t and Monday morning were In posses sion. ''t,'" '":r'' :'. !i ;'.V'V ' v"l ' 1 Mr. Lesley retained a part of the ground adjoining the hotel, having about 60 feet frontage on I the east side of the building and about 40 feet on the north. The I sample room stands on Mr. Les ley ground and Is still his prop- I erty. Tuet Lesley family will more Into their new house near the ditch .n Second street as soon as it is I vacated. Stayton MalL S " - A" Mysterious Robbery . ROSEBURG, Oct., . Federal f clal agents are busily investigating t n uiii muuerj which is tuuugui iu have occurred; near , Boswell 8prlngs some time yesterday. Lit tle has been : learned of ' the rob bery and the officers are at a loss to . f Ind the perpetrators - of- . the crime: -i ' ' ' : j'-', ' The first intimation that & rob bery had been-' committed came yesterday afternoon . when Carl Kane, a Southern - Pacific track walker, came Into Boswell Springs very excitedly saying that he had found mail , scattered along . the railroad tracks ; between . Yoncalla and Boswell Springs. He was ad vised to report the matter at once, and the postmasters at both Yon calla, and . Drain were' notified: ".They immediately got In touch with the postal authorities at Port land, and with S. P. officers here made an investigation. T'HlttES TO CURE DISEASE. A - t l photo : shows Miss Martha Boxeman, who - is hiking from New York to Galveston, Texas, as a core for tuberculosis. She was gassed while serving as a nurse daring the war. . . Miss Boxeman will enter Columbia University on her return. . ' ; j .: Ducks Are Scarce EUGENE, Oct. e.Only a few local ducks were to be found yet this week after opening of the duck shooting season Monday, and hunters ask a little wet weather and a cold storm in the north to bring (he water fowl into this dis trict. Principally wood duck, on which the season is closed now, a few mallard and gray ducks are now to ibe found. . f I ' .Sportsmen are fixing up their shooting reserves now against the arrival of fowl, however, con structing blinds, repairing boats and gear. J : , r Forest Map Larger and Better ALBANY, Oct. 6J - Supervisor C. C. Hall of the San t lam forest, returned to Albany last night. Mr. Hall reported this j morning that bejis in receipt of copies of the new forest map, which now in cludes a greater range'of territory than previously. The new map, based upon the latest available surveys, Includes all of Linn coun ty and the eastern section of Ben ton county, in addition to the en tire 9antiam foTeat extending In to Marion county. 1 i . j Mr. Hall reports that1 the sus pension bridge across the Santiam river at Detroit will probably be completed early next week ' Bids Will Be Opened - On Highway Project ; Sealedl. bids covering the con struction j of about? 14 miles of state highway will be opened at a meeting of the state highway com mission in Portland October 22. , The projects are: ' I Baker county Stices gnlch sec tion of the Baker-Unity highway. 6.2 miles, grading. ;3 I 'Deschutes county-' Unit No. 1 of the Pauline Prairie-Lave Butte section .of The Dalles-California highway, 7.7 miles.: grading. Malheur J ebunty--Bridge over Snake river on the Old Oregon trail near Ontario, requiring ap proximately 1000 cubic yards of concrete, 62,000 pounds of metal reinforcement, 875.000 pounds of structural steel, 5300 lineal feet of piling and 2100, cubic yards of excavation.' ' j j - - Malheur and Umatilla counties Two patrolmen's houses adja cent . to the ' Old Oregon trail In Malheur county. 11 miles east of Huntington, and two adjacent to the Old Oregon trail (Columbia River highway) in Umatilla coun ty, 14 miles west jot Pendleton. VOLSTEAD OPPOSED OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 6. The National Liberty league, organiz ed to sponsor repeal or modifica tion of the Volstead act to per mit light-wine and beer sales is looking to Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York to present the league's program' to the confer ence of governors at West Baden, Ind.. Oct. 17-20. according' to an announcement here; today by the league's seretary,! Don L DeBow or umana. . , t t . . ! S --!!. I I ' GRAND Last Times Today Continuous 2-11 P. M. j j 1 First Pictures of the 1 JAPANESE CATASTROPHE 2000 Feet of Unbelieveable Scenes See the thousands wandering1 around homeless, cities burned to the ground, and lifeless bodies floating in the jammed rivers. ALSO . Lots of Comedy Thrills and Action I WHEN! 1850 MEETS 1923 GRAND THEATRE ORCHESTRA ' . ; . . ' v Playing Selections From i l is ally: PC r j jggyy' i , V&oe "m ETERNL 6TRUGGLE BLMUI Four Acts Vaudeville. Her bert Rawlinson In "Fook and Riches." "Give us something . human," has been the plea of the motion picture public to the exhibitors. In "Trifling With Honor," the Universal-Jewel photoplay which will open at thet Liberty theatre Thursday,' the public is presented with an intensely human drama of the most gripping interest. The story has! its appeal to every class of motion picture fan, because it is ; the story of a moral derelict who was 'the Idol of thousands of American boys. He had a trust to keep and to keep it he had to tear down and rebuild his Inner self. The story was written by Wil liam Slavens McNutt and first ap peared in Collier's magazine, and Is built around an escped convict ! who became a professional ball player to. mask his identity. ' In the underworld' he was known as "The Gas Pipe Kid." As the home run king of the Pacific Coast base ball league, he was known as "Bat" Shugrue. In the years that followed bis break from handcuffs to a base ball glove the "Gas Pipe Kid" was forgotten, but; "Bat" Shugrue became a name for hero worship on every sand lot on the west coast where kids' played baseball. Rockcllffe Fellows, well remem bered for his work In "The Stran ger's Banquet" and "Bits of Life" has the role of Bat Shugrue, alias the Gas Pipe Kid He Is support ed by Frltzl Rldgeway as Ida Malone sweetheart of the Gas Pipe Kid; Buddy Messinger, a youth ful star tn his own right; Hayden Stevenson, who will be recalled for his excellent work In "The Leather Pushers;" Emmett King, William ; Welch, Frederick Stan ton, Robert Daly and other well- known players. 7 mi MOVIE GOSSIP m Tzm jm t - - f SttUt tBMt m rut I I - Mine iMKnwtiHM .1 t If ever May McAvoy plans sui cide it will not be from the roof of a building. The star is very emphatic on that score. During the filming of "Her Re putation," the big Thomas H. Ince playj; which 'will show at the Ore gon theatre on Tuesday, there was a scene on a cafe roof where the little dancer plans to end her life by jumping into the alley below. The script casually stated that the director would have to deter mine just how far the action should be carried John Griffith Wray, the direc tor, being a staunch believer in realism, arranged; to shoot the scene from a tall roof. James Corrigan was to grab Miss McAvoy just at the critical moment. The "critical" moment'; arrived, (but Corrigan iid not; May toppled over the edge- (Yes, there was a net below, but that did not make the trip any easier.) After being hoisted out and re covering ,her speaking parapher nalia. Miss McAvoy said the sensa tion was just , like the thrill she got ' going down in an elevator when she was a youngster, only, a hundred times worsel Although his new picture, "The White Rose," is a modern story, D. W. Griffith has it continually refer to the past and in making his "exteriors" "has particularly chosen backgrounds that represent the south of some years gone by. With his players in modern garb appearing against "atmosphere" of previous days, Mr. Griffith gains an extraordinary artistic ef fect, i He does not stop at this. Giv ing his imagination some free rein, he stages a "costume" ball for one of his big scenes. It has direct bearing on the plot. The ball is attended by the very aria- i Children of Jazz." a Paramount picture featuring Theodore Kos CONTINUOUS TODAY 2 11 P. M. Barbara La Marr, Renee Adoree, Pat O'Mally, Earle Williams, and , Wallace Beery A Red-Blooded Picture of the Mounted Police. Filmed Canadian Rockies Action and Thrills. loff. Ricardo Cortez, Robert Cain and Eileen Percy, at the Grand theatre, was acclaimed by enthu siastic audiences as a real picture novelty. The Etory tells' of a modern. Sjazz-crazed girl and her quest for excitement. Although a comedy of the first water, this picture has many tnrilling moments, among them a hydroplane wreck and scenes on k schooner manned by a number of disreputable adventurers.- The comedy is much in evi dence at a wild skating party and at a house social when Babs Wes ton.1 played by Miss Percy, finds herself engaged to three men at the same time. This is a production with a great cast and with scenes and beautiful sets that rank with the finest ever constnruced for mo tion picture purposes. The- sup porting cast is of stellar propor tions; The Story, as adapted to the screen by Beulah. Marie DIx, is a fast-mnving comedy melo drama.' It is sure to please both the eye and the mind and is quite differenjt fro nithe average screen offering. tocracy of the south of the present day, but a youth less fortunate than the others in wealth and sta tion takes advantage of the fact that the affair is a "masked" one. He manages to get in, and dances with the girl he adores before be ing forced to leave. Griffith has his various people appear for this, ball in' costume of the older aays. Crinoline, hoop lrt, powdered head-dress, uni forms of the Civil War, and even of the Revolutionary War, are shown. The old fashioned minu et, rollicking gallops, of the lan cers, and quadrille, all combine to make the scene one of striking picturesquehesa. Mr. Griffith sets this revel amid a perfect bower in an old-fashioned southern home, with balconies flower-hung, and stately pillars ind, entrances rose entwined. In the new production will be seen in leading roles such well known players as Mae Marsh. Ca- OREGON NOW SHOWING ' ? H f PKlfKS MATIXKK rol Dempster, Ivor f Novello, Neil Mamilton, Lucille La Verne, Por ter Strong and others. T "The White Rose" .will be shown at the Oregon theatre start ing next Friday evening.!" 1 1 i "Calvert's Valley." a William Fox production starring John Gil-- bert, will be the attraction at the Liberty theatre, for three days, sarting Tuesday. . The story, "Calvert's Valley." was written by Margaret P. Mon tague and the scenario by Jules Furthman. Jack Dillon' directed the picture. In addition to the star the cast contains such well-known names as Sylvia Breainer. Philo McCullough.i Hersrhel Mayall and Lulu Warrenton. While mystery is one of the main elements of the picture, the spectator being kept in suspense until the very end, it also carries the golden thtread of a charming love story. According to reports received, the photoplay is an out standing triumph. ! The many recent successes of John Gilbert in Fox.'Pictures. not ably, "Monte Crlstoj" itf an omen of great promise for "Calvert's Valley." :. Bouchey and Gage, present a treat for music lovers. These folks give a varied program of popular and classical . numbers which always pleases. Their sel ection of solos shows good, taste and the rendition shows years of practice. Each member of this duo has a; pleasing appearance and lots of personality. At Bligh today. . T - James McNally derives plenty of laughs from his .hat manipula tions and comedy antics. He is a good asset on the bill as he has an odd but exceptionally enjoy able etyle of entertainment which go"s over big. The act is called "Thev Boy With The Hats" and it is comedy from start to finish. At the Bligh today.' , Kennedy and Grant offer a sing ing and talking comedy satire which is very pleasing. Miss Kennedy sings her 'songs in a very commendable manner and" the' comedy 13 clean and -bright, and not of the slap-stick type. This act i jnst a little different from the usual comedy act. At the Bligh today. Tom Post and Gibson Rita pre sent "Let's Get Married," an of fering consisting of comedy sing ing and talking, which more than pleased the audience last night. The talk is bright, snappy and full of laughs which were not over looked. Both members of this clever team have good voices which are always in perfect har mony and their careful selection of songs makes this, offering very entertaining. At the Bligh today. New PTA President Is , Greeted By Members SILVERTON, Or.. Oct. 6. -(Special to Hhe Statesman.) An enthusiastic audience greeted the new president. Mrs. R. E. Klein sorge, of the Parent-Teacher asso ciation at its first meeting of the season Friday afternoon. Thean nouncements of the association's activities for the year were made anov discussed, superintendent K. Goetz gave a talk asking the moth ers to be behind the student body CONTINUOUS TODAY ' 2 11P.M. in the Aduts . . ... . ... , Children . ... . . . . . . lOc Logos . , . . . . . . . . 50c KVEXIXGS Adult- .T. . , ... . . . ROc Children . . 20c Logon ........ . . 75c of the high school In its athletic activities. The PTA also plans to give a reception to the teachers Jn the near future. The large ma jority of teachers are new at Sil verton this year. . -. t Long Distance Racing Features Latonia Meet :- . : j - ,j LATONIA. Ky.," Oct. 4. long distance racing .Is - featuring the Latonia race meeting, which runs for 31 days ending November 3. Purses in the seven stake events alone, offered by the Kentucky Jockey Club, aggregate $105,000. The chief- race of the meeting is the $5.0,000 Kentucky Special, which will be tun' Saturday. iThls is a handicap for three-year-olds and upward, at one and three-sixteenth miles, and is the , richest event of its kind run. In America. The nearest approach to the Ken tucky Special-was in 1903 at St. GRAND ONE NIGHT, OCTOBER 10 SEAT SALE OPENS TODAY 1 :45 P. M. PRICES Lower Floor $2.75; 1st 3 rows Balcony ?2.20; next 3 rows Balcony $1.65; Gallery $1.10 tax included. r ra. . .-: nnrn IMJUL L : IN TUrtD i m r VORLD-FAttED AXAPHONISXJ. 30 5IMOINO AKO DAWCirtO BOW AMD V;iKLC . SAXAPHONE BAND OF AO SYMPHONIC JAZZ ORCHESTRA TODAY 4:'fflft'ACT&:4 HERBERT RAWLINSON Doris Pawn Tully Marshall 1 '.. ' ' IN" 'V FOOLS AND RICHEST HOY STEWART IN "A FIGHT FOR A MINE" Other Features Too v i 1 - LIBERTY Continuous Today 2-1 1 P. M. - i ; ."-'-;. ".':." -f-- :.: ' ' ':.l-':: - One of the! Most Thrilling Stampedes and Prairie Fires Ever Filmed. Cullen Landis In the Cast - . - f Rlp- Roaring Comedy GOLF MANIA Xpw Events 1, n y-v-.- f 4 C i Louis when a $50,000 handicap was offered, and was won. by Co lonial Girl; but it was. a guaran teed stake and the owner of Co lonial Girl received $42,000 for his part. 'In theKentucky Special the Kentucky Jockey - Club adds $50,000 to all entrance foes. Zev and My Own both -are entered In this race. Richer races have been run, Lut none, of them was an open handicap for- (hree-year-olds and upward. , ! The. trouble 'with some . of the peaches encountered along Broad way, is that they look too good to eat . ' CHICHESTER S PILLS 1 .lr.t Am Imr llUM far bnra. Mkir4 uk blue UiUmm. IIAAIN KIUNU PlLLa, far ti WnkMnHBil.Sint.lTilulUU, 50LD BI CRL'CGiSTS Bimri Ifc if JACQUES PIERRE PREiENTJ" THE SOMETHING-NEW--DIFFERENT i . 1 C THAT QUARTET ONLY NO ADVANCE in " . . --i PRICES IM AVDLCAMC DRAMA or m colmm warr f . . ' ..-4