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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, .OREGON . SATURDAY MORNING,. FEBRUARY-16, 1924. BUGlI -Vaudeville and - pictures. . At. . . . . . . : in sawcwsf,- sne boxed my pars,,, but. I get even with her in ' this picture. I 'fire' her." It was William Robert Daly, veteran char acter acter.7 discussing his associa tion wjth Gladys Walton, Vniver Hal.star of "The Wild, Party." which comes today to the Bligh theater. , In "Sawdust", in which Hns Walton, starred, as a circns . girl, paly played ;the role . of a clown. J'In. her current release, he enacts the city editor of the news paper. Miits Walton reports for I lerber.Blache' directed. '"Those, who have seenthe great . film spectacle, ''The Covered Wa gon' which comes to the Grand theater, , . Monday evening, claim that one gets; a better idea of how pioneers lived than you could get from-all the books.-- Everyone who has' attendf the theater in whieh this Bcree version of Emerson Hough's: novel has been Known are unanimous in their opinion that-it depicts with great clarity, . detail and historical accuracy the life of the sturdy men and wo men who journeyed west In cover ed wagons, - . !'" The1 horses, oxen and loose stock swimming across' the Platte river, is a remarkable .Keener, and the prairie,; schooners bobbing about on th swollen -MreanVia an excit ing and thrilling moment. It isn't play, acting', but 'Siwini' or drown. Old pfoneera'sajr rt'ls a true pfc-r ture of: bow- the early ( settlers forced their transports across the unbridged.? rivers 4nd Vast., deso late spaces. of the desert waste. wter; system is ,: i' " PROJECTED i BY MEN (Continued from page 1) L. E. Hamfltpn; Lebanon, H. A. SwaffordY? Springfleldr J. ,F.'. Ka tels; ; Jefferson, M: S,.. Allen; Junc tion: City-. 'Claud Washburn. Judge Oliver of Albany was named las" isefcretary and ;A. A. Schranvrof i Corvallls air treasurer. ,., . Surrey, Is Wanted ; : In-order that a preliminary sur vey might be made to bring water from Clear lake near MU Wash ington, through v vfunnelt thence down the Blue river, the McKen z.l river and' down the1' Willam ette river, a distanced 155 miles to Salem, and to also determine whether such would ' prove profit able, the following committee was ' appointed: h j4i H-.j-iw Rhea" Luper, ichalrman ; - Profes sor Rogers and .Professor Dear born of, OAC;, ProLf . K. Catne ron and Prof. E. T Hodges o( the University of Oregon; Sara Dolali of Corvallia JWMc Arthur of Eugene . Fred As Williams of Sa lem, Ji,'3t . r Hi m merpf Albany and. M. D. Shank of Lebanon. In order to raise finances for a survey ' of the .proposed Tvater sys temj'the following committee was naned: i . ..--, '- Frank L. Chambers .of Eugene, C. 45. Ingalla of Corvallls, CU E. Hamilton of, Albany, San Garland of Lebanon, Fred A. Erixon of Sa lem, Claude Washburn of Junction City, j Fred Walker of Sprlngtield and Jfte Fontaine of Jefferson.- It Is estimated that the cost of the survey would amount to about is.ooo.t r 1 - Of for Prtxefor Name - ! ; ' ' . ,'rt-'aii ? $:m - For puMklty.work. E.:f. Rea gan, editor of the.Albany Herald, was named jchairmati, and t serve with him all theteditdrs In the Wil lamtte'valjey..': i-'ut, : ' - 1 , The .. organl2atiori could not ftgroeTon a name, and in order to receive suggestions a purse of $.15 was raised; from delegates present, to bfi awarded ;in prizes ot $20, $10 and' $S - for the best names f.uggest.ed. r Names should be sub mitted to Waldo Anderson, Albany. , Headquarters of the 1 proposed water system J for the Willamette valley' were established at Albany and the next meeting willbe'ealled by the president, Waldo Anderson of Albany;;; ; ; 1 : A few weeks 'ago about 20 busi ness and professional men of Al bany, met with a number of men at the Salem Chamber of Com merce; and xplained-lbe proposed plan of bringing water, from Clear lake,' near 'Mt.' Washington, down the valley. ' Salem would be the most .distant' CHy from the source of supply, a dis'tanice Of, 15Jk miles. At the meeting held Jn Baleni for the first conference, engineers es timated that the" cost of construc tion wa'l)out'lwo and Vquari ter times1 higher than Id 'years ngo. : . -; .'.', . 1 1 11 ' UNIVERSITY , OF OREGON, Eugenel Feb. 15. (Special) Joe faddock, newly elected football coachj at 'he University of Ore-g-on, has made' a hit with Univer sity students and faculty, member". Maddock arrived.Jn. .Eugene on Wednesday evening an on,Thurs Iay was treated to the hospitality ct the Oregon eampus. .At the stu dent , assembly, crowded, to! over flowing,' Maddock was Introduced onEeo;rs coach .. the Palmer TKotoplay t-orpora- tioir has fully demonstrated is contention that American "movje audiences arehungry for powerful stories in . their screen entertain ment in their presentation- of "The Judgment of the Storm," which Opened at the Oregon thea tre last evening. Splendid techni cal presentation" aTlcI'a cTfst " 6T stars such as.are seldom assem bled for any picture are, in this instance, almost completely sub-i merged in the strength of the story that Mrs. Ethel, Styles Mid dletorr. the authoress of the scen ario, has woven .around themL. ; One, on Kediag "The Judgment of the Storm" wonder? just where such a plot has been hidden. to escape the exhaustive search' of the professional film plot makers. It gives the lie to those who say. there is nothing new under' the sun. For instance: Lloyd Hughes, as "John Trevor.", a wealthy youug college man. sentences himself to a lifetime of hard labor on a -Vow England farm, 'to alone for the ac cidental killing of his sweetheart's brother! Another: In a heroic battle with the elements, Trevor finds himself suddenly confronted with the problem of which to save from death his mother, or two little children. ho brother and sis ter of the girl lie loves! To tell of other big "punches" in the story would spoil the spectator's biggest thrill :thaVof. watching the unex pected solutions; suffice to say that those Jwo plot "twists' are but a taste of what "Judgment of the Storm" has to offer. to( the students and was received amid applause nd a satisfying demonstration of Oregon's fight ing spirit. : The new coach has announced that he will start spring football practice .on Hay ward Field on March i. At the assembly . Mad dock. told his audience thathe was going to give his football men the kind of training that they .seemed most to need. "If they need work. In the fundamentals, we'll start there, or if they are ready for ad vanced work, they'll get it." he declared, v -MaddOQk jnet, ..football.., .candid dates Thursday for .the. purpose of getting acquainted with the men. At this, meeting, plans for the coming .season and spring practice wet discussed. . . f A. . .. 5 'Maddock har tae support ot the whole of - Oregon's alumni. While GRAftlb TOCAYfbMORRbw ONLY Hie "Dif ferent, Picture . fi--.;'. f tilt jt ;-.. .; in , a: . ,.- ! ,.i-t f r- A Fiery peasant girl dancing madly in a Rus sian vodka den. knife thryst The same girl , M C . ' r. 1 A rapturous, rippling Grand Theatre Orchestra v't V-''rv4' W t k4Ukzi. 1 (m traveling from Ills liome at Jdaho Falls to the Oregon Vatnpug he as met by cdmnjfttfces composed of alumni, and reports indicate that they are mighty well pleased with the new coach. One former varsity man, in Pepdleton, de clares that the alumni of that city are thoroughly sold on Maddock. The honor rtf being a member of the Yost all-time, all Michigan team belongs to Maddock. He gained this distinction as a right tackle on the "point a minute" Michigan aggregation of 1902. In 1903 Maddock traveled with the Michigan aggregation to Chicago and triumphed over the Stagg ma chine with Bezlek as fullback, by a 38 to 6 score. Negro ExlHeavy weight Is Sued By His White Wife , J"E,T YpttK. Feb. 1." . jacK Johnson, former heavyweight box ing champion, was sued in the su preme court today by his white wife, Lucille Frances Johnson, for a divorce on the ground of infi delity. The action, undefended, was speedily tried before Justice Wasservogel, who reserved deris ion. Worry Over Coal Strike Causes Death of Miner SEATTLE, Feb, 15. Worry over a coal miners' strike was be lieved tonight to have caused the death of Joseph Eratnik, whoso body was found -this week near RavensdaJe, . Wash., by a timber cruiser. John Eratnik identified the, body today as that of his brother who disappeared from Black Diamond, Wash., in August, 1921, with a remark that he in tended to die. Joseph was a conl raiier. Portland Gets Tryouts For Olympic Game Tests V SAV . FRANCISCO. Feb. 15. Sam Goodwin, president of Pacific association of the amateur athletic union, received a telegram today from Frederick Rubien. secretary of the AAU, saying San Francisco. Los Angeles and Portland had been chosen as Pacific coast cities In which to hold tryouts to select athletes to compete in Olympic games tests at Cambridge, Mass., this summer. Utah. Nevada and northern California comprise San Francisco's tryout territory. RAIL LIXE OPENED : HOUSTON, Texas. Feb. 13 The national lines of Mexico today an nounced opening of tralfic into Guadalajara-, .dosed since Decem ber 7. -. - 4 i , .aivvkja am. w ywv.v.. resplendent romance 1 m 1 EJSTffi FK Vermont Building Destroyed and Business District is Threatened MOXTPEI.1ER. Vt., Feb. 15. The deatli toll of the fire which destroyed the four-story Lawrence building and threatened the busi ness section of this city early to day was placed at 11 tonight, but only two of the nine bodies be lieved to be in the ruins, had beeD recovered. Walter Washburn and Mrs. J. F. Waterman were killed when they leaped from windows, missing th(v fire net spread to receive them. Near one of -the bodies found in the ruins was the gold , watch of William Gishourne, who ran through the corrida rs warning other tenants when the 'fire began anil the remains were thought to t)o those of Ciisbourne and'hfs wife. Two entire families, thot of Walter Washburn . and "J. F. Waterman, are included in the list of dead and missing. Convict Camp in Alabama Is Destroyed By Blaze BIRMINGHAM, Ala.. Feb. J5. The convict prison at Flat Top mines in Jefferson county, where state prisoners are worked by the Sloss-Sheffield Steel &. Iron com pany was destroyed by fire to night, according to reports reach ing here and confirmed in a long distance telephone conversation with Roy L. Nole, associate mem ber of the state convict board of Montgomery. The prisoners were herded into the mouth of the mine and none escaped according to reports. The wall surrounding the camp did not burn, it is' stated. Origin of the flames 13 undetermined. Washington Wrestlers Win From WSC at Seattle SEATLE, Feb. 15. University of Washington wrestlers complete ly outclassed the Washington .State college grapplers in the campus gymnasium here tonight, winning four out of five bouts by falls or decisions and splittng a point on the fifth bout, which, was declared a draw. With a match won by. a fall counting eight points and six points for one by a decision, the Husky grapplers won by a 33 to 3 score. Charles McGee 'of 'Tacoma was referee. nil DIFFERENT! At last a new plot! At last a story that gets under your skin with real drama. MILLIONS OF PEOPLE Mris. EtKel Styles Middleton, Have read, all . about how an obscure Pittsburgh house wife, conceived and wrote this wonder book. A drama of life atlts darkest, comedy at its brightest and humanity at it s best and worst ' CAST INCLUDES MYRTLE STEDMAN GEORGE HACKATHORNE LLOYD HUGHES-4PHIL6 McCULLOUGH, and others Special Matinee 25c .Today- t4C CI tvrli ' ft JwY M-icTF Milk Is SpJenxlid Diet ..... y Northwest Dealers Told . RPOKAN.E, Feb. 15. E,acl child up to 14 years should drink a quart of milk a day and each adult should drink a pint, accord ing to authorities : who addressed the Pacific Northwestern, Milk Dealers associai ion hero today. Professor E. V. Ellington, head of the dairy department as Wash ington state college and Mary E. Sutherland food and nutrition spe cialist 0 the same institution were thrf speakers. State authorities of Oregon and Washington will be asked to com bat certain statements alleged to have been made by manufacturers of milk substitutes, as to compar ative values of their product and milk, according to an announce ment from J. D. Mickle, Oregon food and dairy commissioner today after he "had been assured by Pro-fes-or Ellington that the state ment was not true. ForgerV Case Argued in Anti-Saloon League Row ,NEW YORK, Fel. The. ap plication of Charles S. Whitman, counsel for. William H. Anderson, former state superintendent of the. Anti-Saloon league, for a certifi cate of reasonable doubt in the recent conviction of Anderson on a' forgery charge, was argued to day before supremo court justice Wagner, who will hand down h& decision next Wednesday. - Anderson was sentenced last Friday by supreme court Justice Tompkins to serve from one to two years in King Sing. Clerk, of Legislature in Montana Discovered Dead HELENA. Feb. II T. Dana M. Easton, cerk of the Montana su preme court and member of the legisuature in 1915 from Sheridan county. was found dead in his room in a Helena club. today. He was last seen the evening before when he had dinner served to him in his room. It is the belief of friends that he died from an at tack of the heart. Ex-Japanese Ambassador L May Yet Go to Mexico WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. Charles B. Warren, of Detroit", former ambassador tp Japan, ater repeatedly declining appointment uiambassador to Mexico, proba bly will yield to ,the urgent re quests of President Coolidge and Secretary"Hnghes and eccent tha assignment. ' ''jj-r-r rr- t" rr : sr' NOW SHOWING 'rhe picture the. wnole country is talking about ' ' t H I V-y y S ZZZZ Bradstrecj. Makes Interest ing Predictions of Satur day: Development NEW YORK, Feb. .I."., Brad street's tomorrow will say: "Weather irregularities, bad roads, price uncertainties and the all-pervading small but often buy ing, make for a contip-uajiee of the unsatisfactory trend of reports from the apparel trades, which have improved somewhat, especi ally with jobbers, but are still be low expectations, with reports of extension of the curtailment move ment in southern cotton goods. On the other side of the case is the continued increase in. activity in metal trades steel, iron, copper, lead and zinc while preparations are active for a big spring in. con struction lines, in the building. or houses and in the inauguration of many local improvements, such as roads. Automobile manufacturing Is active, and a fair share is do ing in furniture manufacturing al so. Weather conditions have tend ed to retard building in some areas but the material trades lumber, hardware, paints,., brick and ce ment all report more than nor mal winter activity. . "Weekly bank clearings, $7, fiSO..U,S,000." Underwood Is Not After Missouri Delegations ST. LOUIS. Mo.. Feb. IT,. Sen ator Oscar W. I'nderwood will make no effort to obtain Missouri delegates to the Democratic con vention he announced in a letter to Col. Bennet C. Clark, president of the Reed-for-President club of St. Louis. This decision was made in deference to Senator Reed's candidacy. Senator Under wood said. Radio Connections Made. With Polar Explorers PORT ANGELES. Feb. 15. First radio communication in .15, days with Captain Donald B. Mc Millan's exploration ship Bowdoin which is frozen in approximately 760 miles from the ' north pole, was established early today by Everett Sutton. 15 year old ama teur wireless'operator of this city. The radio operator of the 3ow- nn THRILLING! Wait till you see the thrilling rescue scene in the raging blizzard high up in the Sierras. ?&. Evenings Adults - - 50c Children - 20c . iLoges - f ,65c 3 SS do'n Viecbrel that - everyone aboard' was iii'lho befet of health. A " 250-wordy copyrfglite-d 'article for re-transmissiqn to a New York paper -was. taltcn by '-Sutton, who is Ibe mm of L. G. Sutton, observer of th United -Jtfatns weather bureau here 7 TODAY TOMORROW IT ACTS "lr ; - ' . . . .. i ..." - 1 ; t . ' . ' GLADYS WALTON ' In v ; "THE WILD PARTY Other Features Too : GRAND MATINEE 2:30 SEATS NOW SELLING . ALL RESERVED . 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' .. , fRATTf.E, IJjIk 1 f.-f-AV auto- j"v : mobile', bellevM to. have contain- m. ed at least two ' persons,- plunged over the end of: the' Fonrteenlli aveTino'wru'lli draw"", firf(ev here , ; shortly after midnight. t, , t t 3 DAYS I j . Starts Monday Eve TUE5-YVED. . IXCii&MMMWXi : - TO BE 9LAYED-H -- "1 sat entranced. 1 There was more than the pict-ureKjue more than orrow and disappointment mor thaa appeabns character and enthralling heroism. Everywhere aflame' was the 'soul of unalterable purpose and. the com-., rnanding sturdiness of elemental great ness." From ' President Ilardlng'a ppecch to the Pioneers of ,ft Orfton at Meacham..Ore.,,jJuy;S.r2J..i, r f JftlJirilr't Now don't set excited HaZZ gets what's comins- vtm i. the end; and. though what lve gets t; at aU-vwhat yon expected, you II agree that he fully deserves what he does get And you'll be happyl . mm TODAY,- LAKE V ' i i- A x i- i . - I S t it 1 f4 i i J i. IS 1. . i' "4 to.- . f ( i t ' V ;'. -