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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1924)
THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 2G, 192 1 2 ITS' I. SLE CERTIFIED PUBLIC MOTOR CAR MARKET ' . Open Evenings 0 1020 Fords rebuilt, newly painted .......... .$200 1921 Big Six Studebaker touring a marvelous var lo drive ....... .$800 1023-23 Podge Touring with high hood .... .$710 1022 Chevrolet Redan driven very little . . .$375 THE man who had It b t a r we got it treaUd it right nd the ' we improved and repair &. whatever was iron dowav Ton can depend opoa that. ; ; "Uwd But Kot Ahued" Look for tha Orange and Black Sign Certified Public Motor Car Market Blk NTT of "P. O. Phone 885 DELEGATES INSTRUCTED FOR PRES: COOLIDGE (Continued from page 1) Bannock; A. Robinson, Twin Falls. , .. At. large Mrs. W. W. Canon, Bonner; Senator Borah, Ada; Sen ator Gooding, Gooding; Governor Moore,- Fremont; State Chairman I." H. Nash, Fanklin; Sampson Snyder Clearwater; Dr. F. M. Cole, Canon. ) ; Alternates are: First district T. B. Kay, Bene wah; A. J. Gent, Boundary. Second district '-O. A. Johan nesson, , Bonneville; Arthur Gar rett. Ada. At large Nathan Ricks, Madi son; F. II. Rehberg, Lewis; H. G. Gardiner,: Payette; A. S. Dickin son, Bingham! H. J. Wilson, Wash ington; J. L. Dunford, Bear Lake; Henry II. Armstead, Boundary. Albany Man Appointed ; i Deputy State Treasurer " Jefferson Myers, state treasurer, yecterday announced the appoint ment of John Bryant of Albany as assistant state treasurer to succeed Frank Sever, resigned. , Mr. Bryant Is a native ot Al bany and was educated there! He has been , with the First National bank since 1914 and for the -last year and a half has been cashier, lie is a democrat. He has a wife and two children. Pl?GGStlCv Li MMi . U uixi, . r I I , Phone 885 j The gritty, non-skid surface of a Con crete road in all kinds of weather wet or dry gives you that control over your car which you need in emergencies. ' This element of safety, in addition to the cleanliness, comfort, endurance and economy of Concrete roads, explains the rapid increase in Concrete road con struction in recent years. Concrete makes the ideal road for the ; taxpayer as well as the motorist. y One of the rjurposet of the Portland Cement v Association is to enable everyone whether he . uses Concrete or has it used for him to get the greatest value ior his money. ( We have a personal service to oSer indi , - viduals and communities. ' Let us know definitely what help you need. There ia no obligation. Our looklH R-3 Ull$ mny Interiitng foct cboul Concrtl ro. Atl( h for yout copy PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION Gasco Bu3ding .., PORTLAND, OREG. , ; &4 National Organization to Improve and Extend the Uses of Concrete : 6lficc la 27 Qihr Citiit GIBBONS AND CARPENTIER ARE lo r Q o o o MATCHED f OR BOUT ON JULY 4 CHICAGO, Mareh 25 (W the 1 Associated Press). fFom cftbbons of St. Paul, challenger for the world's heavyweight championship and Georges Carpentier, Vfaig 4dol of. France, tonight were matched to meet in a 10-round no-dectln contest, either Michigan City, Ind-r or Benton Harbor, Mich., on July 4: Carpentier was guaranteed S70- 000 with a privilege of 25 per rent of the receipts, while Gibbons, waiving all clams of a guarantee. accepted a flat 30 per cent. Jack Curley, representing the French light heavyweight, received a cer tified check for $15,000 guaran teeing the match. Curley said that $10,000 of this sum was a guarantee or good BOOK BY WETJEN, SOON TO BE ON SALE, IS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TO OREGON READERS 'Captains All." the first collec tion of stories by Albert Richard Wetjen to be published in book form, will be on sale some time in April or early May. The book is being published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., of New York. Mr. Wetjen is the prolific writer of sea stories, who is now living on a five-acre ranch that he recently purchased 4n Salem. All ot the stories in "Captains All" have appeared in the Satui day 'Evening Post, Collier's, Every body's or the Blue Book. Gener ally they are sea, tales dealing with captains of ships flung ab ruptly into crucial situations. ,The book should be of particu lar interest to Oregon readers, for of the 12 stories in the volume several relate to sea life on the Oregon coast. One of them, en titled "Value," appeared in Col lier's Weekly and Is concerned with the floods at Portland in the winter of 1923. Two or three other stories deal with the coast wise trade, with ships running from Astoria to Marshfield and Eureka and Newport. These ships are the fleet of small craft that sailor men derisively term "The Pickle Fleet. Fifty-seven Varie ties." One story, a yarn of Coos Bay, and a storm off that port, is entitled "A Captain of the Pickle Fleet." A complete novel by Mr. Wetjen entitled "Battle," will probably be published the coming 'fall. The hero of this story is a professor of biology at the University of Ore gon. Another stry of the Oregon coast, centered at Waldport, will probably be published late this year. The author has not yet fin ished this story. Mr.f Wetjen is planning to start later on a trilogy on American farm life, and Oregon poineer life in particular. ' The current issue of Novelets contains a very complete story of A Id o o o o faith and that $5,000 was for training expenses. The match will be promoted by Floyd Fitzsimmons, who owns arenas both at Michigan City and Benton Harbor. Fitzsimmons reserves the right to wait until May 10 to name the scene of the contest, but it is pro bable that he will select Michigan City, which is less than 50 miles from Chicago. Carpentier has arrnaged to ar rive In this country on June 1. Gibbons through his manager, Eddie Kane, agreed to accept no more contests after filling two en gagements against minor oppon ents. Mr. Wetjen's life, written by him self. Since a lad of 14 his career has been mostly or the sea, hence most of his stories up to this time are of the sea. However, he is not adhering entirely to literature of the sea, but gradually is working into other subjects. He is inter ested in a variety of things, and is constantly adding to his already valuable experience. I BITS FOR BREAKFAST I Talking of broccoli "U V Yes, we have no broccoli to day V And that is the Slogan subject for tomorrow. S N Shall th3 Slogan editor sing the swan song of the broccoli indus try for the Willamette valley for the present? Look at the Slogan pages tomorrow. W There will be some very inter esting matter aLout he l'nen in dustry V And the Slogan editor will prove that this is the land of diversity, and the country of opportunity, even though it may seem advis able to put the broccoli industry on the skids for the present. The threshing of the reed for the farmers at the state flax plant will get under full headway to day. Some of the association growers are slow about coming In and s'gning up acreage. As there are many farmers still who are clamoring for contracts, the asso ciation growers would better hurry. S There is a man from Utah ir. the Salem district buying a lot of Jer sey cows. He heard this was the place to come to get the world's best. He is more convinced of this than he was before he came. Thre are now Eeven women prisoners in the Oregon peniten tiary, and they do not have a thing to do except twiddle their thumbs, outside of helping to cook thsir own meals. In the ar rangement of the industries at the prison, there will be a way found to keep female prisoners busy at something useful, instructive and reformatory. There must be. There's a life prisoner in Sing Sing who Is said to have a fortune of nearly half a million dollars. It osed to be hard to Imagine a man with that much money being locked up. , Lady stenographer sues1 for $5000 damages because her hair was bobbed so short that she has to wear her hat all he time. But ir will be long enough before she Rets the money. Once upon a time there was a paragrapher who refrained f romgel. punning on the word "oil." But Jie died. He was too good for thi3 world. CUBS GETTING INTO CONDITION ON PACIFIC ISLE TO BATTLE FOR THE NATIONAL LEAGU E PENNANT f"""" N zzzsmimti KZ . Vi njIxv xnJi o tfAi fez If i f - , n ":. IT .( M V !"T- ?v Jri :'f!:?;Si!"'' This photograph shows the Chic - ago. battery men and some of the ecrult working out at the Cub THESE ROOKIES MAY HELP MANAGER McGRAW TO BOLSTER UP THE GIANTS' AGING PITCHING STAFF From this group of five young iters McGraw hopes to obtain inough good material to strength en the pitching of the National League champions their weakest point. This photograph, taken at Everybody Talking About Batting Average and Heroes of Diamond X Baseball is fast taking theVen ter of the athletic stage and le current sports gossip is beginning to take the form of batting aver ages, ability of players and sched ule of games. The Salem baseball team has turned out for the initial workout, this being held Sunday afternoon. Another practice has been tailed for tomorrow night at Oxford park. Thursday night a meeting will be held at the YMCA for the pur pose of organizing the Twilight league, notices having been sut out by P. D. Quisenberry, presi dent of the league. Saturday af ternoon, Chemawa will play Its opening game with a team from the state prison, the contest to be played here. The American legion will have a team in the Twilight league again this season, according to King Bartlett, who has signed up sufficient men to form two teams. He plans to be on hand Thursday night to look after the interests of his team. The legion, under the management of Biddie Bishop, won first place in the league last year and the post headquarters has the trophy on exhibition. Six teams comprised the league last year, others being the YMCA, the Bankers, Spauldlng Logging company, Yeoman lodge and the Standard Oil. This year it is ex pected the number will be in creased, and possibly the Central Pharmacy, Anderson &" Brown. Hauser Brothers and the Union Oil people will place teams in the field as they did during the basket ball season. Eleven games have been sched uled by Chemawa, the first of these regular contests being with Salem high school at Chemawa In April. The game with the peniten tiary Saturday is in the nature of a workout in order to give Coach Downie an opportunity to get a line-up on his men. Chemawa's schedule for the sea son is as follows: April 15 Salem high school at Chemawa. April 18 Columbia university at Portland. April 19 Commerce high school at Portland. April 26 Mt. Angel at Mt. An- April 30 Pacific college at Newberg, tentative. May 3 Monmouth normal at 1 spring training camp on Catallna I Island. CaJ. . . In the Inserts are I Grovec Cleveland Aiejaft4e JJIie. BASEBALL BAIN1NG ITS USUAL FAVOR the Giants spring training quart ers, Sarasota, Kla.. shows (left to right) Howard Baldwin, the "Iron Man" of the International League obtained from Newark-for $25,000; Wayland rHsan. the Louisville star Monmouth. May 10 Mt. Angel Chemawa. college at May 12 Salem high school at Salem. May 16 Commerce high school at Chemawa. ' May 21 Monmouth normal at Qiemawa. May 30 Pacific college at Che mawa. Comedy and Mystery Unite In Picture At Oregon Theatre In "Her Temporary Husband," which Is being shown at the Ore gon theatre, the three elements drama, mystery, comedy are all in the one picture! When a film holds an audience's interest, first through its straight dramatic situations, then with a true mystery angle and lastly with bang-up coipedy, that picture is worth-while entertainment. It is enacted by a capable cast and is one of the most delightful of the season. There Is nothing heavily dramatic about it; there are no tedious situations worked in for the sake of false suspense; the comedy is not trite nor far fetched. Owen Moore is the hero of the picture. Sidney Chaplin, playing the ro'.e of a butler, once again proves that he is an artist of pantomime. Sylvia Breamer, the heroine. plays the difficult role of being the A LAST NIGHT LANCASTER BAIRD COMEDIANS Present "BOUGHT AND PAID FOR" and THEODORE ROBERTS in "THE OLD HOMESTEAD" BL'IGH THEATRE j veteran pltchlnr ace, and manage? I BUI Klllefer. L 9 I 'ifif who cost $50,000; Perce Malone. Ernest Maun, for whom Wichita got $20,000, and Joe Bradshaw, who went to the Giants from Tol edo in a trade that included Scott and Gaston. center of the various situations, yet she must take the whole thing seriously, and she does it well. Chuck Reisner, one of the funni est villains of the screen, adds tre mendous'' to the general high standard of the picture. Also in the cast there are such capable actors as Tully Marshall, Charles Gerrard, George Cooper and George Elliott. One of the most unique situa tions imaginable is worked into the plot through the means of false whiskers. Whiskers, false or otherwise, are usually comical and the director has taken advantage of every vestige of humor in them for this picture. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE LEADING JOHNSON (Continued from page 1) from the second Louisiana district to fill the unexpired term of the late Representative H. Garland Dupre, according to virtually com plete returns tabulated by the Times-Picayune. Mr. Spearing's ma-jority over his two opponents, Genevieve Clark Thompson, wife of James H. Thompson, publisher of the New Orleans Item, and T. Semmes Walmsley, assistant attorney gen eral, with one small country pre cinct missing, was given by the newspaper, 1369. The vote was: Spearing 16756; Thompson 12, 746; Walmsley 2624. Home Prayer Meetings to Begin Next Tuesday Plans for home prayer meetings were made at a meeting last night of a committee appointed by the Ministerial association. Rev. Ward Willis Long is chairman of the committee which is composed of Rev. M. C. Clark, Rev. Carl F. Miller, Rev. R. L. Putnam. Rev. W. C Kantner and Rev Mr. Tib bett. The home prayer meetings will begin next Tuesday evening and will be held for two weeks pre- . - N - - - .t r f OREGON 1- LIBERTY TODAY TOMORROW MATINEE ONLY Sidney Chaplin, Sylvia Breamer, Owen Moore IN McDonald at the Wurlitzcr COMING THURS. EVE. AND FRI. MAT. "The White Sin" Another Great Picture By the Palmer Photoplay Company Starting THOMAS MEIGHAN a&T -e. m 3-x-3a: . "f'fR With Lois Wilson ceding the beginning of the evan gelistic campaign which begins April 13. The meetings will be held in 20 different sections of the city at the same time on Tuesday. Wednesday and Friday evenings. The regular weekly prayer meet ings of the churches will be con tinued as usual. TURNER NEWS . I TURNER. Ore., L. Robertson has March 25. I. been quite ill ... . .i nraA ana will nave io rest for some time. His daugh ter, Mrs. Heath and husband of Portland were down SuLday, also his son, Justus and wife of Cor valHs. Archie Earl and family of Wash ington state, vis'ted with his fath r lat week while en route to California. Mrs. Gayette Barnett and Mrs. Lena Dall attended the teachers' institute in Stayton Saturday. Much interest is shown in the meetings held at the Methodist Episcopal church for two weeks. The music furnished by Mr. and Mrs. Tebon of Salem is much ap preciated. Preaching is by Rev. C. W. Pogue. Meetings will close Sunday night. G. F. Rowly and a few of the Boy Scouts drove out into the country near Marion Saturday and camped out, returning Sunday morning. Mrs. M. Hewitt of Salem came up Sunday to visit her son C. W. Hewitt and family. Mr. Giggy, the second hand man, has moved his stock of goods to Jefferson. In the type writing contest Fri day evening Miss Avalyn Delxell won a gold medal. Miss Doris Barnett won a silver medal. Walter Robinson of Mill City spent Sunday at the W. T. Riches home, where his daughter Jane of Salem was spending the week-end with her grandparents'. Fred Moore and wife came down from Mill City Sunday in their new car. The Turner Band and some young people form Liberty will give a program in the school au d'torium Saturday evening. Lustrous Hair EVERYBODY idmlrM th tirl with tk pnt tv haad of kair-bobbd or etharwua. Bf or of after a marcal it (iva it m mtJt. lustrous amw anca which aary girl appraciatas. CLO-CO ia liquid - not paata or salvo -and, tharsforo.doaa not maka tha hair or scalp stickr or grassy. McDonald at the Worlilzer, Friday Eve. By Booth Tarkington LJ I At Drug Counters and I U HO I PoaitiTaly Kaaps Bp thorUiriapUco IjJU flflfl "ONE ELEVEN A mother is a person who thinks the girl her son married Isn't halt good enough for him. Mileage McClaren Cord Jim" Biir Smith & Watkins Service. Phone 44. GRAND April 2 LITTLE STORIES OP No. 3 A Chicago merchant telegraphed clergyman in his home town, Hinsale, IIL, to send four" boys through college at his expense and give the credit to "The Fool" MAIL ORDERS XOW Prices Lower Floor - - $2.75 Balcony 1st 3 Rows 92.20 Balcony Next 2 Hows - 91.63 Gallery ... . - . $1.10 v j Starting Today' GASTON GLASS i IN "MOTHERS-IN-LAWS" It's a Great Picture With a Great Cast, Don t Miss It! Mm i - : "F3 THE ii 5 V 1 . i a 1 V ? i