SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 21, 1924
THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON
Story at Oregon
Theater Today Is Epic
and hardships ol pioneer, days on
the Texas cattle ranges, has been
filmed for . Paramount by Irvln
Wlllat, ; who made the natural-
thrills color picture, ''Wanderer
ONE NIGHT
Thursday; dec. 25
of the Family
"North of 36," . by Emerson
I Hough, depicting all the
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Wasteland" and other, classics.
"North of 36" is a talft of the
exas cattle . trail, picturing a
country wild, " almost lawless, at
the period of the story, roughened
and disheartened by the recent
Civil war. , l -
Lola Wilson, as Taisie Lockhart
manager of her own vast ranch in
Texas, finds herself penniless,
with no means cf disposing of her
herds, her chief asset being the
true spirit of the pioneers. .
Word comes that way up "north
of 36" a market beckons. With
her 4,500 cows, 16 cow hands, 19
kinds of rifles and six shooters
and IIS cow ponies, Taisie makes
the start with all the thrills that
the. start of the wagon train in
Emerson Hough's "The Covered
Wagon" evolved.
Through this great panorama
one sees groups of ragged sinewy
men, the glorious girl at their
head, the oxcarts and. the sea of
long horned cattle, accomplishing
one of the greatest j deeds of pio
neer bravery and daring.
Paramount has furnished a not
able least to visualize the story. It
includes Jack Holt, Ernest Tor
rence, Lois Wilson and Noah
Beery In featured roles. The pic
ture opens a three days' run today
at the Oregon theater. . It's a col
orful page from the history of the
United States, a second "Covered
Wagon." v
I BITS FOR BREAKFAST 1
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Have you noticed it?
The evenings have been grow
ing longer, and now the whole
days will grow longer.
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. Marion county has 226 miles of
paved roads, including the paved
streets in the cities and towns.
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f The doctors are explaining why
people shiver when it is cold. It
is in response to an irresistible 1
demand for oxygen. Does that
satisfy you as well as a hot stbve?
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f We Webfeet are yearning fort a
gentle south wind. The snow
may be all right for the hard
holled corn-feds from Iowa and
Nebraska, but it is not our Style
of weather. - , -
The cherry growers are up
against a .hard proposition. " But
they know it, and they propose to
fight it out to a final victory.
There are others in the same boat,
and they will no doubt get some
help. The time to begin fighting
is now, and the thing, to do is to
keep it up till the bitter end.
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Salem barber says customer
told him to cut his hair, longer
than usual: he was' afraid of be
ing mistaken for- his wife. - s -
.vAjxcrossrword-:'pntiiflr fan. hfes
lust made the . startling discovery
that It was Noah and not Daniel
Webster who compiled the dictionary.
One inTJiree Attends
v Church in Great Britain
i LONDON. Dec. 12. (AP) The
churches Qf Great Britain have in
creased in membership in the last
year on a scale not' recorded since
the great Welsh revival, wun
three small exceptions, the Church
in Wales, the Scottish Episcopal
church and the United Free church
of Scotland, every denomination
has increased Its number of com
municants or members, the total
increase recorded being 110,000.
? While this increase has been
made In the adujt section of the
churches, there has been a decrease
ot;23,662 In the number of Sun
day school scholars.
The strength of the churches in
Great Britain is summarized as
follows:
Communicants and members 5
846,187; Sunday school scholars
5,495,292; Roman Catholic popu
lation (England and Wales 1,997,-
250, making a total of 13,338,729.
These figures, however, are not
complete, as they do not Include
the statistics of the Salvation Ar
my, the Free Church of Scotland,
the Unitarians, except as to their
Sunday schools, and' a number of
smaller communions, 'such as the
Plymouth Brethren. As affording
a fairly complete record, however,
the figures may be compared with
the last 'population census of 42,
767,530. On. this basis, one person
in every three is associated defi
nitely with a Christian church.
STATE TAX IS IN EXCESS
OF CURRENT YEAR
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Boyer, county clerk, by Earl Fish
er, state tax commissioner. The
levy for the county is i .044330
mills while the levy for Polk coun
ey Is .018161 mills, $136,076.03.
With the addition of the state
tax the total tax to be levied for
all purposes in the county will be
$1,096,535.95 as cpmp'td with
$1,004,930.73 for 1924, making
an increase of $91,930.73 in the
total tax levy. - -
In addition to the increase in
the state tax, the balance of the
increase Is accounted for by$85,-
000 to be paid as an Installment
on retiring the county road bonds,
an increase of $1500 in the mon
ey to be . paid for-the one mill
market road fund.
There is an offset "In a decrease
of $1995.16 in the county gov
ernment costs and $464 in the
county school fnnd as well' as sev
eral other minor decreases. Should
it be decided that the school dis
tricts in the Woodburn .union high
school district, which are bow de
funct, do not have to pay the tax
es which they were not required
to pay last year, the total county
tax will be again increased by ap
proximately $10,000. k ;
OFFICER KILl:D
BAKERSFIELD, Cal., Dec. , U
Special Officer William Wiltes of
District Attorney H. El Schmidt's
prohibition squad was shot and
instantly killed this afternoon
near Woody by Lovlis Lowe, 31,
who was operating a still, accord
Ins to a report received at the
district attorney's office. Lowe
was captured by three other offic
ers who were with Wiles.
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MANILA, Dec. 18. The insular
government has . taken steps to
protect the Philippine pearl beds
and the pearling industry by or
dering closed certain portions of
the pearl fishing field around
Mindanao and Sulu, during alter
nate periods , ranging'; from three
to five years. , a r
This action is said to be ' pre
liminary to a thorough regulation
of the pearling industry which the
government contemplates under
taking after a survey of all the
pearl beds in Philippine waters.
The regulation of the industry by
fixing open and closed seasons
for', fishing in various-localities is
urged by those engaged in the
pearl fishing business on account
of fears that the present beds in
the, Sulu seas may become ex
hausted in the near future. I
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Comedy News
Today and Monday
"AMERICA"
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STARTS TODAY
(SUNDAY)
Here is the most enthralling story of the pioneer
West since, "The Covered Wagon" and the most
appealing romance.
If you re a real American, you 11 see it.
By Emerson Hough, Author of "The
Wagon." i
Covered
y V(J Blazing the Trail to
-v x nVlk fK Civilization with a herd
of 4S00 cattle and one "
M XL I Y thousand miles to gOT-r
C i Wi WJ Rivers tp ford, siorms
f sf Ji to weather, Indians to
y V , . V fx, bat tle,i stampedes to
uttiLv tK W! combat h
Ct SkSv (towv Herefs the thrilling con-
&ammoun&: of the pioneer .
Featuring
JACK : MOLT-ERKES
OIS WESON-
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NOAH
TORREMCE
BEERY
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