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-( HIE fOIlEGOSTATESMAN, 1 SALE11,: OREGOJT WEDNESDAY MORNINGj APRIL , i, 1925 1 '1 1 Dill UPmCIDS f governor Has Right to Namo Special Prosecutors: in 1 1 -rv ' Liquor Cases . , ; r - ; it i ' " T I f The. executive power of the goyi -ernor to appoint special prosecut prs to handle prohibition violation ciseg in various counties-was up held (Tuesday; In a supreme court tfecislon written - by Justice Rand. The opinion dismisses ' the action of. the state, -on In formation of A: J. iMoore, district attorney for.De eehutes -county,; Against Ross Farnham.'1 The case was an orig inal!, proceeding iif quo warranto; Theaction was-instituted- to have determined the right of the spe cial j- prosecutor X to V disburse , all funds proyided by law for the en forcement of vthe prohibition law'. TAnother opinion handed down yesterday .by Justice Coshow al lows a motion to dismiss In -the case of the Western Land & Irri gation against J. Mumfuld et al., defendants" and respondents, and O. D. Teal, appellantt which was heaVd in Umatilla 'county by Judge Phelps; In the case of Bickner vs Bick ner a petition for a rehearing wa3 denied." r lAERIALVIEW OF PALM BEACH 'SHOVING DISTRICT RAZED Y 2,000,000 .HOTEL FIRE -::' NEW TODAY WILLIAM J. LOCKE'S TL- T-lL -CMT . entitled. ; "THE FOOL'S A TKT A T7 TTITiTTTT 99 AVIth 1 ENID BENNETT HARRISON FORD 'V MARY ALDEN C COMEDY-NEWS , " ' KS ft i I - 4 LIBERTY f !i vAI' " TodayThursday t. tioW-- jgei ! -r, - 3 . f , " Coming Friday m Jt ; "The" Spoiler'' t V' ' By REX BEACH This I photograph shows ; (opr right) the famous Breakers Hotel said to! be the - largest wooden structure In , the world, yjhichwai destroyed wfth several other smalK er buildings -when fire swept the fashionable ( FloHda winter resort. For a time; it seemed that the MAILIiie PLATES ! : TOWifOHBS Public Service, Commission Orders These Placed Be fore April 1 Uh Small steel Identification plates prescribed by tbe public serVice commission are now being mailed to operators of the 2000: buses and Urucks controled by the commis sion. All traffic officers are reced ing instructions to intercept all vehicles subject: to the law not dis-, playing the ,"PSC" plates on and after April 111 ' I ' 7 '?':'( The -plates contain the letters P. S. C; the n.umber of the plate, and Oregon 25 The plates 'are yellow and black, similar to the regular motor vehicle ' plates, and will be changed from year to year as the state license . tag - color scheme is changed. .. The PSC plates are to be fast ened at the top of the state license plate, on both front and rear of Ohe Picture Masterpiece! i - - ' - f . i," '. --.-.-..-! ,f ..-. i'. ... .i . -. . . 1 f 1 ' - ' 4' " ' 1 ' " . ' t: : ; AnnonnGeinent Extraordinary " f ; -:' I '.' : -1 N ' - iMmM : : : . ... v . RICH VON STROHEIM The Man! Who Made Motion Picture History At last his great picturizatlori of Franlc Norris "McTeague" is completed ' ; ' . i 7 RICH VON STROHEIM, the tireless, worked every day and . - night for more than two years to complete the greatest inspir v atioinal task that confronted him in his meteoric career as a motion- -' picture director, reed," which is the title that, he chose for this powerful realistic screen story, is considered by those who. have, seen it in previews the most important motion picture of all time. ' This picture-starts at the Liberty theater Sunday SecFriday's Statesman for a big announcement of a Cross Word Puzzle in connection with this picture. - r.Furi:- CaBrizes Theater Tickets Salem merchants are helping to niake this Cross Word Puzzle a success See their announcements on the piges with the puzzle. - HAVE YOUR DICTIONAHY READY WAIT FOR ! ' IFniD AY MORNING'S PAPER , . , : each vehicle, so as not in any man ner obscure the state license, num ber. .i . ' H ;,: V". '' i. " Spelling Contests" Attract I Much Interest at Silverton SILVERTON, March 31. (Spe cial to The . Statesman) A good deal of interest was shown in the spelling contest held at Silverton Friday evening. This was ; the first of its kind to be held at Sil verton this year. Those winning first, second and third places will spell again on April 10. Grade pupils from the fourth to the eighth grades inclusive participat ed. Those winning first place in their grades were .presented with a gold medaC On April 10th the prize will be a silver cap. : I , , ; " Winners ; Friday :.l night were: 8th jtrade Hazel tichers L . of Scotts -Mills, first; Roger Com stalk of Silverton. second; Selma echlits of ScottS' s Mills, third. Seventh grade rlola" Birch of Sil verton,. first; i.Nellie'Barkhur8t of Silverton. - second; ? Olive - Gordon of Davis, j. third; . Sixth . grade- Mary Stalker of. Silverton, 'first; Fern Diger of Scotts Mills, second; Ruth Hubbs of -Silverton, third. Fia grade-f-Hazel Sheppard of Scotts Mills,1 first;; Robert -Bark-hurst . of Silverton, second; Merl Magee of Crooked Finger, -third. Fourth grade Emma . Duburow- ski - of Silverton. first; t Melvin Crowder "-of Silverton, second ; Dora Deren of Scotts Mills, third? iVork Is Being Done on ' Bearcat Athletic Field . Work on ,the field and track at Willamette university was: started Tuesday. Drags were , used on tBJe baseball field, to smooth It off so that It will be in fcondition for the squad work to commence this week. The track is to be dragged and scraped so that it will be smooth for. the initial squad work. Both1 squads went n through & rather light workout yesterday al though the heavy work will be started - before the . end-: of this week. Several more meets land games have' been scheduled,; but the complete schedule y has not been made up. I . Boathouse Owner Plans i- K . to Rebuild This Spring Captain J. Spong has started to rebuild the boathouse, ' which was crushed durinjt the ice flow last winter when -the Willamette river was coated with ice. " A boat- house, which baa Deen operated in connection with the old boathouse wa also destroyed. . Charles K. Denison, the ownei, has not decid ed to refiuild It this year, accord ing to his statement yesterday. , - The new boathouse will measure 2 6x3 6 feet and ; is built, on a plat form that will aUow. strip four feet wide on three sides of the ma,ln house. The present.,con8truC tion assures a boat house some what larger than the old one, and will accommodate 15 canoes.. : 'Five large logs, which will sup port the building on the water are fastened together with heavy cross beams and within a few days -the float will be towed from a point iu the Willamette - slough to the location used by the old structure. The location is just a few feet below the warehouse of the Salem Towing St. Transportation com pany. ' . ; ' " ' : . British Army Sees Value Of Well Cooked Rations . LONDON. March 28. The Bri tish " army has never been, better fed than it Is today says, & war office official. Cooks r are J spec ially: trained and thej work.will easily challenge comparison with that of - West Endcbefs. t So sure are the authorities of this fact that Britain's new, way of feeding its fighters will be dem onstrated at jl cookery, and food exhibition in London next month. Cooks from the three service branches, army, navy, and air force,' will be there, i t ', The excellence of the army cooks' culinary efforts is- due largely, to a new book. Issued by the army council, which gives full instructions as to baking, steam ing, braizing and frying, as well as recipes and hints on carving. beautiful Royal s PoincSana Hotel ttippier left) and the noted Bradley Club! might be wiped out. but these were! saved by the hard work of I i. the firemen. " The Palm " Beach Hotel, : several blocks from the Breakers Hotel, . a'nd several cot tages were burned to the! ground ! Gil Ui::odI . v . J 'II N W H ( 7 J THE j 3ITSIC DEPARTMENT ..' ', Classified (Mildred,: "That girl is a regular talking-machine." I Mrjorie: 'Worsef than that. She'4 as two-faced as a record." ; B. Mi Olson. CHICHESTER mm SPILLS V V I"". Mux! vA itfJ - -isf.::..-. r.i The MnSical Prodlgicjs", ; There: are numberless musical : " prpdigies now, : ;( ; Well advertised' toddlers ot, four With torture pianos or fiddles, or j ' sing : Witn ease the "most difficult score In Chopin and Wagner they dearly delight - And irattle them off without stop, Liszt, llanael. and Bach are as ' easy to them As citing a peppermint drop. No word to discofurage these in- ! .fantile buds Of g mius by me shall; be said, (Though if I had a small Pader- . ewskl like. that ; I'd s )ank him and t put "him to J bed.) ; Let1 him juggle concerto; sonota, fugue, . Barci rolle, ballad or ditty. But shades of Beethoven, and Ros sini keep : v ' These babies away from my city! i Minna: Irving. Till Harry had him weary. Then Tate's great weight, with his . - right mtt, . H Hit Hite the way the Hitters hit! BIH- "Tag! You're it" v-V. , ' C. L. Edson ppwy On Moti Provoking Polly ; . played a bunch of jazz graphophone she has. er said, "My dear, don't do so; . j Put on Heifetz.or Caruso." 'Nix'f said-Polly, "on those tunes; All those guys are full of prunes." Vivian Duncan. Naturally Belle: "Have you completed the arrangement for your radio con cer? Florence Why, so far every- seems to be in the air." thihg THE BALDPATE METHOD OF PROTECTING THE CAT- . I TLE OF KANSAS The recent, thunderstorms in the wheat-belt brought an Interesting reminiscence from that encyclo pedia! of Information, Dr. George A. Bakdpate, to WIHa de Mott. ' - "You can't imagine - the inten sity - f the. electrical .storms out thataway," he aid, lapsing into his najtive tongae. "The lightning is a fearful menace. I shall never forget the distress of my neigh bor, j Luke Barber,; ofj Pretty Prairie, Kansas. He came to me one aight with tears 'in his eyes. "What i shall I do, Docf he wailed, U've ot my place kll lightnin'-rodded and now darned if it ain't nittln my cows direct. I've last-10 head already, and I cant put llghtnin' rods on the crit ters, can IT' " '"Vo.M said, 'but what you can & U jnsujate them. Put rubbers on thqir feet, anything to keep the lightning from grounding. That's what kills 'em. . i He was back ! in" a week, all smiles; , . t;. - f " '1 worked great he said. 'You know that storm we had last Wednesday? The bolts was play in' all over my stock-yard. I had rubber boots ori all tho stock and the.' lightnin J never ' hurt 'em a mite! But you ought to have seen 'em. Every cow had two blazin' arc-lights on the! tops of her horns. The whole country was lighted up .joy cow-piwer! ' "I Wrote the? Incident nn fh time, and It caused Educh comment when lit appeared In the columns of an Electrical magazine, "Current Literature I think it was called." , . , JBETWEEN FRIEND9 - In j Tongme-Tm ister -Maimer Terry Hite and Harry Tate Lived In Indianny, state. Teaching school in Terry Haut, Yes, Harry taught, and Terry taught; ; s . One merry night In Terry 'Haut Where) Terry, - Hite and Harry Uught ! .; - Both Harry Tate and Terry Hite Got Vfery.j very, very tight. , . . i , When Harry hit at Terry Hite, And Terry bit! at Harry, (tight) The tijro tight pals began to fight. tui Tate was too tight to hit Hite; And Hite too light for Harry. So Terry-fought la 'Terry 'Haut, Power Of Mammon A Hendricks: "Newrich has so much . money he's ? able' to have most' anything." : '' Gross: "Say, his wife has just engaged an educated man to work out her crosswords. ' . , ; i . ;. Mrs. Felix Clary CRITICAL COUPLETS The Atlas . Tbough; far from ea3y. to .unravel. t's much the' cheapest way to : travel. .' ) i, - Loyal Graff.: . The Bird Book ' I read it through eight times and ' then ' '. .. ; ' ' - Mistook a robin for a wren. r Violet Lichtberg. System , '; -, Jerry: "Hello,'' Eugene! Could you change a ten spotf" - : ' Eugene (taking roll from .his pocket): "Yes, I believe so." ! Jerry: "Then lend me a five, will you?" '( Muriel Alden- , WILD WILLIE . Little Grace's mother gave her a; muff for a Christmas, present.! j One night during Iwinter she wanted tbgo-to the picture show and, of course, insisted! upon wear ing, her muff, but' it was nowhere to be found. -Her sxnaUer brother, who "was in bed, asked Grace what she was looking for. 1 "My , muff,", she replied. "Oh, I know where It Is' he said, "I have my feet in it.'x Rita G.Leary. ; Many a good 'salesman took his first orders from his wife"! ; 7. ', n i' TVrigleylJ freshens ;tl '.,SV inoutn ana sweeten3 tlie nrzzL After eating cr Vrj So easy to carry the Uttls packet in your pocket f So Important to have when the mouth needs deansirt csi freshening! Odors of dining or smoking quickly disappear- teeth are brightly, burnished J Smiles just naturally come because nerves are soothed, throat is refreshed, the .stomach relieved and digestion7 aided. "after eitery nuzcJV XSHley's is rtcr& . than a street 'ilia . positive benzf3 fssy doctors or. J dentists recpnt. tnnd it. '?; a f : . i i j j; t JuU Silverton Food- Sales I Are Declared Success SILVERTOX, Or., March 31. (Special to-The Statesman.) -Two food sales were' popular at Silver- Uon Saturday, both being sold out early; in the day. The one was sponsored by the . Tarent-Teacher circlq and the other by( Dorcas so ietyj. ' j The P-T circle is making plana for a very Interesting meeting on Thursday of this week when J. D. Mickle, state dairy and food com missioner,, will be present and speak. " - .. Standard Oil Truck Is Fire-Destroyed Saturday (Copyright, 1925L tlon Forbidden.) Reprdduc- ! Many people are so busy telling the ' world ...what ' Is wrong ;wfth It they havenl time to improve Toledo Blade. . I SILVERTOX, Or., March 31.t (Special to The Statesman.) A Fordi truck belonging to the Stan dard Oil company of Silverton and driven by Berger Borrevik. was destroyed by. fire Saturday after noon.! Mr.-Borrevik saw' the light of the fire through the windshield but at first thought that it was the headlights of a car comics from behind. When he glanced around he founftjthf fire was in his own ar.' Twe Chassis of the car was saved but the two barrels of gasoline and 15 gallons of oil were destroyed, , It Is thought the fire was cauFC.l by oil dripping on the manifold.' Clean-Up Day Observed W At Brush Creek. School SILVERTOX, Or., March 31.- (Special to The StatPsman.) - Brush Creek school children cn joj'ed a half holiday Friday after nooff." The children did not go to, their homes but made it a, 'cleanupj" day. At the close cf the work the teacher. Miss Mary Scott, and Mrs. D. Dybsetter, prea ;dent of the parent-teachers' cir cle, treated the children to an egg hunt as a pre-Easter party. Costa Rica has withdrawn from the League ;of Natiocs, and nov has the privilege of declaring wr On one of the .powers whenever is, wants to -Clevelapd Plain Dealer. ' . . ! 1 i . I - t ' i .7- : t -TAKES YOU -v ' ( - B AC K -TO" .AG DA D, -j-tSSJ i ' TN- . V VHEH THE SAlXUm ! .. . ! ' OF LIFE WAS Ap, y ( . "LOVE AND TH E.r" : '. F . i$$ja?ff' '. 0' y WINE-'OF UFE--::T " rM ' . , AOYENTUR - ' Xjr- 1 t Douglas ?&?nOi-. n a & j Starts Tomorrow i Sc ' ( A A GLORIOUS FANTASY OF s '() 'X?, ARABIAN NIQHToT I il 1 - J j c t i ' it m i ' -a t i 4 i