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'I THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON v WEDNESDAY MORNING, (NOVEMBER .14 1923 E I Talk of Liberal Buying of txport Wheat Brings - Brisk Demand CHICAGO. Nor. 13. Undoing of spreads between wheat and corn today involving the purchase of wheat, and selling of corn help ed to strengthen wheat values but tended to weaken the corn market- Wheat closed firm, W & to c higher. December $1.0 3 to fl.03 and May $1.08 to $1.08 Corn;; finished un changed to c 'lower, oats un changed and provisions varying from 7 cents decline to a rise of 2 Cents. ' ''"'' . Traders who . previously had sold wheat were the chief buyers of that cereal throughout the day and in the absence of any aggres sive new pressure from bears the markefTowed gains all the time except for one moderate : setback about middle of the session. Some buying here on the- part of the Winnipeg houses war also regard ed as the closing up of spreads. This, together with relative firm ness of Liverpool- quotation on wheat tended further to lift val ues in Chicago. , There were re ports, too, from Minneapolis of a brisk demand there for choice milling wheat an2t some talk was current of liberal export buying of flour at -the .seaboard. A blg Increase of the United States visible supply of . wheat failed to have much effect on the market , having apparently been taken for granted. On the other hand, the possibility of food re lief measures for Germany at tracted somo notice Jlnd was a fac tor in making shorts nervous. Reports Indicating that rains wero ltrss general than had been expected took away much of the bullish aspect of the corn market. Besides, receipts were a little larger and the southwest predict ed curtailment of the feeding de- t SALEM MARKETS A Though there were no reductions in egg quotations announced, by wholesalers Tuesday, local merch- ants were offering egs at 55 cents a doxen. This is a reduction of 5 , cents a dozen retail over last week. The : smaller sized eggs sell for slightly less. . t Cauliflower, . an exceptionally fine -quality, la now, being offered at 15 cents a pound. This l I I grown near -Troutdale, and is brought to Salem by trucks three times a weeky -.:T i OXATJr KTO BAl Xa. S vhwt -SS-Oae. No. rad wkwt, aaekad -0e. OmU 45 48e Cnaat aay ., ,, . oat bt ., , .. ia is, Clara ky. baled . $12 & $15 Prioaa QMt4 ra waalaeala and alH price reiT4 sy iiratn. H retail pricaa ar girtn, axeapt aa noted t . Eoas. BUTTka, buttebtat : CreaiMry butter ... SOt Q 51e. Butterfat daliTarad .., ' 51e Milk, per awi, . , ,- S3.S0 aalecta , r i r 50c. Btaadarda , t . , 45c. Polleta S 6c Broilar J. rOUZTXT Medium and light bans 14 FO&K. lfUTTOV AXD BBZT Hoca, tap 150-225 Ika, wt $8.00 Ho, top. 835-275. art S7.50 Hoc, top. S75-SOO. wt $5.00 $7.00 t,igt aova, ewt, ,. , , 4 .00 Koafa. hrj SttQatta Top veal, draaaed 8l0e Top ate era Cowa - Top Iambi - ,, . Bear Lamaba ., .03 O 04 35 1 GENERAL MARKETS T ' - ' WHEAT .; GEN-MARKETS . . i. .. ...... - LIVERPOOL, Nov. 1 3. Close, wheat l-8d lower. "December 8s. 10 Kd; March 8s, 8d; May 8s. 6 3-4d. . , -,--xxSJ..:.-- ByENOS AIRES, Nov. 13. Open wheat, unchanged. Decem ber 1.06 1-2; February S7 1-2., MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 13. Wheat, cash: No. 1 northern 1.08 ' l-2UM-2; No. 1 dark north ern spring; choice to fancy 1.15 1-2 1.19 r-2; good to choice 1.12 1-2 1.14 1-2; ordinary to t good 1.11 1-2 1.12 1-2; Decem ber 1.09 1-2; May 1.15 3-8. PORTLAND. Or., Nov. 13. Grain futures: Wheat bluestem I and baart, soft white November, December 1.02; western white No ex vember, Decembber . 1.01 J north ern spring, western red November 1.00 December 999c; hard winter November, December 99e. Oats No. 2 white feed Novem .bber, December $33.00; No. 2 gray f November December $32. : " " Barley No. 2, 46 nonnds Novem- )ber, December. $31.00; 44. pounds STRD .IB IN EAST November December $30.00. ' : A " ' ' ' corn - . . , : -' ' Corn No. 2 eastern yellow ship ment, November " $35.00; Decem- . ber 82,00; No. 3 ditto November 33.00; December 32.00. ' Mill run November December 24.09. V" ';.N ' '; ' ' ' FRUIT . " ' NEW YORK. Nov." 13. Evap ; oratedT apples quiet; prunes slow; apricots and peaches quiet. HOPS NEW, YORK. Nov. 13. Hops steady state 1923, 6057er 1922, f V 25 28c; Pacific coast 1923, 30 I 37c;. 1922, 25 27c.- .J- -? PASSENGERS RESCUED AS STEAMER HITS I JW!lBaaa,aaW, ASMaWSBBM, . ... . -... ,v-;-?r.?.--:TX-TXs I I -X..-.-.g.- -v...o.-. . . . . ... . ,. 5 Kaw 1 f ; Lower photo shows one of the life boats pulling away from grounded San Gil. 'Upper photo shows ths San Gil on the reef off Providence Island, with wrecking steamer, Killerig, standing by. Nine passengers and the crew of 41 were saved when the United Fruit liner San Gil, bound from Boston to Cristobal, ran aground mand. Oats were steadied by the smallness of arrivals and by a re duction of the visible supply total. In the provisions market pack ers buying J lard counterbalanced somewhat the effect of lower quo tations on hogs. ' ARB BID IN EARLY Decision !of Executives to Spend 1 Huge Sums Creates Demand NEW YORKl No?. 13. Specu lators for the advance succeeded in bidding up' the- railroads shares on today's stock, market but were unable to completely check the liquidation of the Industrials which continued to yield on profit taking and a renewal of bear sell- ling some speculative favorites. Re cessions in such pivotal Industrial shares as United ' States SteeL Baldwin, Studebaker, and Ameri can Can were held to half point each; but they ran ashigjf as" three points in eome .or tJhe automotive' and : chemical , shares - wbicb .bore the brunt of the selling pressure. New Haven was selected as the leader of the railroad group- to day, ; occupying the . position held by the Erie issues yesterdajr and Southern Railway on Saturday. New, Haven was pushed - up ' point to 14-. closing slightly be low . that figure, the buying of this and other carrier issues be ing based . on executions of high October earnings statements, soon to be published. Increasing op timism of railroad executives In the immediate future, of business as reflected in the recent decision to : spend huge sums on, equip ment next year also has been a factor in; the steady action of, these issues. 'y : Further - f -downward Readjust-; ments of crude oil prices and ru mors of additional gasoline price cuts had somewhat unsettling effect on the oil shares, tidewater oil breaking nearly five points and losses of a point or more be ing recorded by Pan American A and B and Maryland, with frac tional recessions elsewhere. Copper shares showed a . ten denev to strengthen on reports of a rising! trend in the price of the red metal. An advance m lead ; prices t also helped T those shares. ;..: i... Call money opened at 4 34 per cent, but again eased to 414 be fore the. close. The Unuea oiaies government withdrew $3,110,000 from local hanks today and will withdraw another $5,433,000 on Thursday. .! ': T!m monev was available at B per cent, for maturities up to 90 days, and at 5 for tne longer periods. Trading was auu 5 Foreign exchanges snowea mod erate improvement, despite the unfavorable nature of the political situation. 1 Home Economics Subject ; Of Mrs. McComb's .Talk SILVERTON, Ore.. Nov. 13. (Special to The ; Statesman.) The Ablqua Community Club and the' Evans Valley Social Club held a Joint meeting at the Evans Val ley school I house I Friday night. Mrs. Jessie McComb, state leader in home economics and home dem onstration work. wr.a the speaker of the evening. She chose "Home Economics? as her subject. " The "Abrnia Community Club have secured the following speak ers for their Winter meetings: Decemberl4 specialist in ani mal husbf ndryt; January 11, George Kable, specialist in a gri cultural englneeringt'February '8, R. 5. Bessie, farm ' management demonstrator. . . it . v.7-. -ir-i-,'1! SHARES - 4 on a coral reef off Providence Inland on the coast of Nicaragua. A treacherous sea endangered the lives of those rescued, as the Or egori btate IMews ,1$ Xmiaby Clinic MARSHPIEUaV Nov. 13. The baby "Clinifr' On4ucted under lir. EsteUl jord ; Warneif' of Portland assisted "by vthe: city'-' and. eonnty nurses and county physicians yes terday afternoon at the Presbyter ian church, was largely attended by over. 75 mothers who brought their babies to be examined. Each mother was given a lengthy in struction as to the welfare of her baby. Owing to so many children being brought be Core the clinic it was impossible to .examine more than 54 yesterday afternoon. ' Larga Cattle- Shipment ' LAKEVIEW, Nov. 13. One of the - largest shipments ' of cattle ever leaving Lakeview at one time was shipped to California last Sun day. . Jiifty cars, making four trains and carrying 972 head of feeder, cattle, made up the ship ment, all of tbejn coming from Paisley and Summer Lake sec tions."' - The cattle were purchased by Hunt, and Robinson, of Merced, Cal..; owners of a large cattle ranch who will fatten them for market. All .of the .cattle were feeders and will be finished by the purchasers' with the exception of. two carloads of culls, which are going; direct to San Francisco to be sold as canners. - 11 Salt Lake Men to Claim Killing Justifiable SALT , LAKE CITY, Nov, 13. The defease in the trial of Mar riner A. Browning' and his cousin. John Browning. Jr.," who are charged with the slaying of Ben jamin Ballantyne, brother-in-law of John; Browning, Jr., April 9, will place their case before the juryon the .basis of justifiable homicide, it was indicated today when the first testimony was tak en., The defendants are nephew and son, respectively, of John Browning, "noted inventor. The prosecution, on the othr hand, will prove,, according to a statement made to the jury by the district attorney,' that Ballantyne was shot by Marriner Browning and that the shooting occurred at the Bal lantyne home in Salt Lake City after the Brownings had come from Ogdeu to take Mrs. Ballan tyne to (he home of her parents in Ogdcn. . . . . ; . r That both John and Marriner Browning had told Ballantyne not to shoot that they had him cov ered,.' ' - That John Browning. Jr.. stated to detectives after the4 shootlnc "Marriner fired the shot. It would have looked better if I had done it. but he beat me to it." j f That the pistols which . the Brownings surrendered to the de- Restores Hair .Color Yet Not a Dye Nourishing Is a real tonic which feeds and nourishes the hair, thu? restoring to original color whether black, brown or blond. JPrevents hair -from falling and removes dandruff. k No matter what t you have tried, - try Nourishine it is in a class by itself . One bottle usually is effective., As a dan druff remover alone it is worth many times the price asked.: B gray no longer. Remember ; this Is not a dye. Act today for your hair health and regeneration. Price $1.25 per bottle, all dealers, including J. C. Perry. : Noarishine Removes . Dandruff -Xdv... NICARAGUA REEF ---- swt at ' y"i''''ti1r'--mi tm ' w 1' f life boats were launched. The San Gil was under command of Capt. William S. Mathers. It is believed the boat can be saved. " Mill' Ilbpcs to Keep VSkunk". I i .''Service' on Rnn. I MILL CITY, Nov. 13. Word has been receiVed by the local agents of the Southern Pacific from the general passenger agent calling his attention to the fact that the motorcar operating be tween Mill City and Albany and Corvallis is" not earning operating expenses and that unless the vol ume of traffic can be increased, there is strong probability that the car will have to be taken off. Inasmuch as Mill City had a taste of mixed train service between here and -Albany some time ago, which was unpleasant, it is hop ed here that the Southern Pacific will be able to continue with the motor car. , Medford Radio Club Active MEDFORD, Nov. 13. The lo cal Radio club had its first week ly meeting Friday evening and. the, following officers were elected; President, I. W. Payne; vice pres ident. N. Kane; secretary treas urer. V. Jarl. Radio interferences was discussed, plans were made for a code class for the younger radio fans, and it was discovered that about 15 boys were getting Pittsburgh and other Atlantic coast stations regularly. ' The meeting was held in the cityhall and was very well attended. , tectives after the shooting had been brought from Ogden by the Brownings the day of the shoot ing. Two Million are Idle In Occuped Germany BERLIN, Nov. 13. A semi-official statement issued today on the unemployment situation gives statistics showing that there are two million idle persons in the oc cupied territory. It is added that If . dependents of the unemployed and those , persons working on short, time .were included in the statistics, at, least one-half of the population of the region would be shown to be unemployed. TONIGHT HICKMAN BESSEY CO. Presents "THE GOOD FOR NOTHING HUSBAND" Built For Laughing Purposes YOU'LL ROAR 7 . ..lifi .;5yxT 'v ' Jf ""-Tjfc..- - ' ,v i " V t s1 9 f . . ; ; .Hugh. "Hickman Bessey Stock Co.' ' presents r "Good-Fpr-Nothing Husband" "Strangers ; of the Night," now at the Oregon theater, is the sec ond of - the series of . Fred Niblo productions presented by Louis B. Mayer and distributed by Metro Pictures corporation. It is adapted from the Sam H. Harris stage suc cess, "Captain Applejack," - by Walter Hackett. The scenario was prepared by Bess Meredyth' and the photography was. in charge, of Alvln Wyckoff. ' ! v Mother. love that most beauti ful love In the world,' is the theme of "The Mysterious Witness, the Film Booking Office feature com ing to the Liberty theater on Fri day for two days And it .is the beautiful handling of this theme, and its,- blending with a 'tale of sure dramatic value and tense ap peal that makes this production so ntewortbv. A picturization of the story '-'Stepsons of Light," by Eu gene . Manlove Rhodes, which at tracted wide comment when it ap peared in the Saturday Evening Post. "The Mysterious- Witness" contains ' the elements of drama and pathos - delicately shaded throughout. ." Passion in Its multifarious forms is given an Illuminating cross-section in "The Exiles," the Richard Harding' Davis story produced by William Fox with John Gilbert and now-on, view -at the., Liberty theater. 1 . ; ' 5 We see greed and ambition and jealousy and lust chase each other across the silver sheet In multi colored scene. ' The: work of John Gilbert, we relieve; in the deliver ing of his difficult role, was very satisfactory. The work' of con veying to rn audience the passions of a man hose character changed in a nevj climate Is, admittedly, not easy. Supporting Mr. Gilbert are Betty Bouton. Margaret Fielding, John' Webb Dillon and other illustrious film players. The v Hickman Bessey Stock company that played a very suc cessfuKeigbt weeks engagement at the Bligh theater have returned for a week's engagement. , Their play tonight is "The Good For Nothing 'Husband," a comedy dra ma in three acts and is one of the best they have offered yet. Thurs day they will play "The Man Who Owned Broadway" and Friday night their . closing play will be "Three O'clock in the Morning.'' Many huge sets were erected for the photodrama, Rupert of Hentzau, which is scheduled to open - at the Oregon theater on Friday evening, and of these the representation of one of Eu rope's most noted cathedrals was by far the largest. It measured almost 317 feet in length and cov ered, the entire width of the fam ous stage six on the United stu dio lot, This is only one of the many features' that make Rupert of Hentzau the outstanding picture of the season. The story, which came from the facile pen of Sir OREGON NOW SHOWING unn-ik OF (CAPTAIN BARBARA tiAj MARR SPRINGE Ml Xai 1 W1TH . 1 MtKIM ENID BENNETT ' 1 .- X' liyjthe Blade Director Coming , FrL Eve. "RUPERT OF - HENTZAU" t-: f'"' Comedy f rfornia or EttisU Anthony Hope, runs alpng wlth-i out "slackening of interest, as the ; numberless : thousands who have: read and loved it know. T h e members of the cast several of; whom played In the stage version; of Rupert" need no introduce tlon to the motion pitcure public? A glance at the names Elain Hammerstein, Bert Lytell, Lew, Cody, Claire Windsor, Hobart Bos-- worth, Bryant Washburn', Marjor-j ie Daw, Mitchell Lewis,- Adolphef Manjou, Elmo Lincoln, Irving! Cummings, Josephine Crpwell, NM gel De Brullier. and. Gertrude As- tor- is ample, proof of , the truthf of the statement of Myron Selz-j nick and Vlclor-'Heerman thatl they assembled this greatest cast! in screen.iajipry xor this product tlon.- r i, , v :.T".' 1 ' 'r .-One' of the.'most-thrilling and dramatic pictures ever seen up4 on the screen will be shown on Sunday at- the' Liberty theater when : Jos. M.,. Scbenck present Norma Talmadge' ih her latest HSeli nick Revival, "The New Moon.'Vj "The New( Moon" is a story of a Russian Princess "who becomei a peasant girl and the leader vpj( a band of women who refuse tcj obey the request issued by the Revolutionists, ordering all wo4 men to register in order to be na4! tionalbred. ' She smuggles the wo men out of the province and finds hapjpiness in the reunion with he c fiance.' - " ' ' ' i ) Bom'; of 'fhe'"' finest types o Western character will be seen Inj "Pioneer Trail." a1 Vitagraph spe4 clal'' production "' coining to the Grand theater' on" Friday evening David Smith,1 who : made this pro ductlon sdbured the' western state 10 una men ana women i nm type found during the days fpt lowing the gold rush of 1849. th period in which "Pioneer Trails is laid. Cullen Landis and Alice Calhoun will be seen in the lead-j ing roles in this production. Thex are supported by an all-star cast Reno Banker Mysteriously Killed While Out Driving RENO. Nev., Nov. 13. The mystery surrounding the death o Mahlon D. Fairehild, president o a local bank and member of one of the most prominent families, in the state, who was found dead in his automobile here today, had not been solved tonight, v f He apparently had been deac reveral hours before the body wa found. He had been shot through 1 he. left .Jjreast.,. below the heartl the bullet piercing the lung'anA lodging -in the rear seat of th automobile.. Although at first loj cal officers -believed deathmus; have been instantaneous, tonight following an autopsy they, hat changed their theory somewhat, j It Is now believed that' Falrt child was shot shortly before noon yesterday while he was In the rear TOUT PERSONS Incline to fell feeling after eaW. Inc. cutT twins, constipation Relieved mad SgettiM impnti by CHAMBERLAIN'S CJinafnir antl eomfortinr - only 2Se I i - FRIDAySPTM. THE APPLEJACK) MATT MOORE ROBERT;, of ""Blood and Sand' Chas. W. Hawley At The Wurlitzer '. ... - . ENID BENNETT In "STRANGERS OF THE NIGHT" seat of the car. ' Several ; hours later he Is believed to have re coveredsufficiejntly to climb Into the front; .seat jof. "the car., start the motor and. .drive to the point where the. car "was found today. There, feeling; his strength fail ing.he la thought" have turned off" the motor and lights and then Two Boys Sent to Prison : . For Stealing Gasoline A-. u -"--iaa aaaaMB " y. " -- VANCOUVER. B. C., Nov. 13. Stanley Jones and Harry Mc Dermott." both of Los Angeles, Cal., were sentenced ! today by Magistrate' Shaw to " serve five years in the penitentiary and re ceive, two whippings of 10 lashes each following their conviction "on two counts of robbery of gas oline stations in this city." Local authorities testified that they motored here recently from the California city in an automo bile alleged to have been stolen in Los Angeles. . Opposition to Premier u Mussolini-Is Waning " ROME, Nov. 13.-Opposition to the extension to Premier Mussolini of full powers in the kingdom Is waning, according to statements made today by members of parlia ment. They assert that they ex pect tSe premier lo be triumphant WE D N E S DAY NOVEMBER 21 Make Seat w Reservations" by v Mail Now! 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It is expected ..that some opposition tto him .will come j from the Socialists, who though they are considerably split up, are united In their anti-government 1 attitude. , When a man loses his memory and disappears,, he .usually for getB everything except how much he owes. - burning feet.?. MENTK0IATUM quickly relieves "and refreshes. IT RIVALS it THE .COVERED yAGorr S DATS oarLT 1 ! ft VN V I ONLY v fitay The victim of a thousand A willing exile A happy slave; y ' " I l' V yimihiit ii1 TOMORROW :-,' ;',- - ' If . , ' 'SS i " (: ,;! S dLJ :i "PIONEER TRAILS" V . FRI-SATSUN. i G'RlaKltSli . "V. : ' .'. . "., 1 t . :: ' t 1 - n cri I.J-