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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1927)
r 1- t f i M Is it ,1 ii t i t ! Si r-2 T : v' t .- ; - v TIIC OnTGOII STATTS1IAIT, SALEM, OREGON. SATURDAY UOHKING, OCtOBCR 23lt27 : - - . . . .. . .. ... a i - li i fcd -ff- 7 1 xaatMre Theater 1: ' William Halne, -wbo haA nrer 'pUyed golf before, had to tak ln- f tnslre training under golf profes sionals to prepare -for his role in 'Spring FeTer," his new Metro-fcoldwyn-Mayer vehicle coming to- " day-to the Elstn or theater. He . pujn a young golf , expert in a :6erie of hilarious adventures with i6aa Crawford for his sweetheart and a notable -cast1 directed by -1. J ward Sedgwick, who recently directed him la 7Sllde. Kelly, vSUdaT -1? V:;- nreo Dolores costeuo has never been Quite so deraatating. as she is In "The College "Widow," the Warner Bros, production which comes to the Elslnore Sunday and Monday.- , We are j familiar with Miss Coetellq's tears, here is her laughter- gay, winning, Maytime laughter, for the "College Widow" is the daughter of a' college presi dent, who, to win money tor the Institution and to secure her fath er' Job, uses her feminine charm, to recruit a team of pig-skin-kickers which sweeps the school to vic tory. Forty hare fallen for her, , and she has fallen! for one. The Utter discovers her duplicity, and ere is pandemonium among the hob-nailed heroes, ! each of which -. "fiad thought himself her favorite. 4b the cast are William Collier, - Jr., Anders Randolf, Douglas Ger raxd, Charles Hill; Mailes, Robert ; Ryan, Summer Getchel, Big Boy Williams, Grace Gordon and Jess Xllbbs. ArcMe-ti.; Mayo directed. Jolllest college comedy ever writ ten. Loveliest star of the screen. Therefore go. j Orrgon Theater Wallace Beery: and Raymond Hatton have achieved the impos sible. They have made four com edies.in a row and each one is fun nler than its predecessor. The latest nonsense opera of DEMCMSTRATJ I I III! II II" fIYVHI1lV.il Illl All II We have arrrmgetl to continue our electric range demonstration during, the coming week. (The public have taken a great interest in the demonistratica cn during the past week and a number of sales were made "With each range sold during the demonstra tion a fine oven set of high grade aluminum worth $12.00 will be given free. :., "'Your old stove taken in . eschango CKEBJ this inlmiUble pair, Now We're in the- Air," shows at the Oregon today. Beery and Hatton exceed anything they: have ever done be fore for Paramount. They are shown as a couple of boob aviators, who become such by wandering into a propeller testing. room where elx propellers are roaring , at once and -having their ' Scotch highlander costumes blown off them. Some one tosees them , a pair ; of , flying suits and they are off. i ; -:- Mistaken Identity dominates the theme. It does, not end with the comedians - being, mistaken for fliers, but Louise Brooks, the charming and' beautiful leading woman, figures in the mistakes. She plays twin sisters, -one Ger-i man and one French. Wally loves the German girl and Ray the French; their problem of telling them apart is a tough one and leads to no end of amazing situa tions. Beery and Hatton are first heroes of the Germans, and then heroes of the French. Naturally such good "breaks" don't last, and they find themselves before firing squad and between the devil and the deep blue sea. Grand Theater Johnny Hines i will be the fea ture at the Grand theater Saturday and Sunday In his latest First Na tional picture, "White Pants Wil lie," produced under the personal supervision of C. C. Burr. The picture is a screen adaptation of the liberty Magazine serial story of the same name by he humorist, Elmer Davis, A splendid cast of players ap pear in support of the comedian with Leila Hyams playing tho leading feminine role. Others ap nearing prominently are Ruth Dwyer, Walter Long. Henry Bur rows. Margaret Seddon, George OREGON TODAY of the , ; : O 77 Ksm. and last but not least. Bo- so. the edueated goose j , "Whits Pants WUlla" is said to abound " In humorous sequences, one of the most hilarious being a fast, polo match played by crack players with the comedian being mistaken t or j a polo . champion. thrust into the game and forced to win or lose the girL ' Naturally the comedian's white pants play an important role and supply mo ments of genuine humor,: starting the picture off with a r gale of laughter that doesn't cease until the final fade-out. , Rottle Gets His Shoes Back; Useless To Thief John J; Rottle, State street shoe dealer, knows his shoes. Dur tag the early hours of Thursday morning someone pried open the glass door in his display window and made away with all the shoes there were in the window, 13 In all. About o clock tney were all found in the alley adjacent to the Bligh hotel by traffic officer Thomason, evidently thrown away by the person who robbed the window after discovering that all the shoes were for the left foot. Thomason took the shoes to police headquarters and turned them over to desk sergeant Walt Thompson, who after making the same discovery as -the? burglar, sent them all back to Mr. Rottle. They are all back In the window. none the less for their outing. Bank In East Portland Files For incorporation Articles . of incorporation for the proposed Union State bank, to be located at Union avenue and Killingsworth street, ; i 1 Portland were filed in the offices -of the state banking department here Friday. The capitalization is $50,000 and surplus $10,000. : The incor porators are Clarence W. Norton T. J. Mahoney and J. O. Elrod. Mr. Mahony has been engaged in the. banking business in Oregon and Idaho for many years. Mr, Elrod is a Portland capitalist, j All of the stock was subscribed by tbe Incorporators. A. Schramm, state banking superin tendent; has not yet passed on the articles. During the president's vacation 2,1 17,1 OS words were telegraphed from Rapid City and Yellowstone Park. And of that number the man in the street remembers just six I do not choose to run." Cleveland Plain Dealer, ." . . . Convenient Lljerirt3 rr " 1 :' t 4 i oemmfii;: sun Results of State-Wide Set tlement Program Said Jo Justify Cost s PORTLAND, Oct. . (Spec ial) Plans for the re-subscription of the Oregon state-wide develop ment fund are being made as the Portland business men who are subscribers to .this fund, aa well out-of-state subscribers, feel that the results obtained have jus tified the continuance of the work. Newspapers throughout the state have given their endorsement of the work and materially assist ed in building up a state-wide in terest. Some have given editorial expression on their opinion on the continuance of the work, much to the gratification of the Portland subscribers, as it is felt that the state must grow as Portland grows. ine net results or 3 0Z2 new families, bringing id new capital of $12,271,410 thus creating much new taxable wealth and adding greatly to the buying power of our farm population, has an Interest to Danxers, business men, pro fessional and utility men through out the state. National recognition has been given the work by such eminent authorities as Dr. Elwood Mead. The Reclamation Era, which is the official publication of tho In terior department at Washington and The New York Times W. G. Ide, manager of the joint land settlement committee of -the Portland and Oregon, state cham bers, has received from Raymond C. Willoughby, asosciated. editor of Nation's Business, a request for 2000 words about the Oregon ays tem of land settlement, with.' this interesting comment, "It seems to us that the concern of a state to obtain new settlers is an interest ing variation from the competition of cities for new citizens and &e Industries." The land settlement department has established a service that being used by thousands of farm ers throughout the United States as evidenced by an average nearly 1500 inquiries a month during thepast six months, with out the expenditure of any money in classified advertising April 1st, 1927. since! CASE OF MRS. LYDA KING VS. DR. VEHRS HEARD A Jury of seven women and five men will decide sometime i be- fore this evening whether Mrs. Lyda King, local nurse, is entitled to recover all or any part of 110,000 she is demanding of Dr. George R. Vehrs of this city, All evidence was completed at the trial yesterday afternoon and arguments made to the jury by Os car Hayter of Dallas, represent Ing Mrs. King, and Custer Ross of Salem, representing Dr. Vehrs. It Is expected that further arguments ill be made this morning by Frank Senn of Portland, who has led the defense of Dr. Vehrs dur ing the trial, and by Oscar Hay-, ter. who is alone on the plain tiffs side of the case. The entire ease hinges . upon whether a certain serious opera tion performed upon the body of Mrs. King was authorized. This point was brought out by oppos ing attorneys in their remarks yes terday afternoon. There is no ar gument, it was agreed, but that the operation in question was ac tually performed. It was nqt claimed that it was not performed skillfully and advisedly. Vv;. j The plaintiff Introduced as wit nesses yesterday two Salem physi cians Dr. Carl Emmons and Dr. C. A. Downs, who testified as to the condition of Mrs. King and the effect of the operation performed by Dr. .Vehrs. i , -.f -. The defendant introduced! as witnesses two Portland physicians in addition to Miss " Evangeline Clutton, principal of nurses at the Salem hospital at the . time Mrs, King was there and. had the op eration performed, and Miss Mar garet Denxel, Dr. Vehrs private nurse. The two nurses testified to the effect thai " Mrs. King had! made no complaint or ' remon strance at the,, time the operation was performed upon her, sJtho she knew about it at the time. A motion for directed verdict, mad by Vehrs' counsel, was ov erruled by Judge" Percy R Kelly, who presided at the trial. F01U TO RESUKEI mCA ' OnGANIZATION SETS DATE VOlt ELECTION ' The YMCA forum organisation met last night and held a prslim- I isary mesticjr Cor tie election of ofaeers f o r t h e comlig year ; President W. E. Hansen and vice president C, A. Swope will Con tinue in their present officee for two more weeks at which time the annual election - will be hsld.' A nominating . committee was -f ap pointed to nominate candidates tor these offices. This committee Is 'composed of Rich L. Jlelmann, U. J. Pound and J. B. TJlrich. A rrcrrata .connate flat will -t pre;ira rrcrrtu fcr it 9 entire - FINISH year was sppomiea as - xeuowa; Dr. 11. C. Findley. DrN. K. TUy and OUo Hfllmaa. -t..: ' V-t- The forum will - sponsor two in public speaking this year, 'one under the direction of Dr. J. O. Ball, head of the public speaking classes at Willamette university :: and the Junior class will be under the leadership of Floyd Bailey,; head of this work in the Salem hichp schooL Last year almost three hundred Salem business men and others took lea sons Ja public spesking in inese classes and were highly pleased with results. This is the sixth year that the Y has!' been - spon soring this work end many of the original pupils are still : continu ing the classes. CHINA IN CLOSE GRIP OF MARAUDING GANGS (Continued from Page One) battle. It is reported that the fate of Chengchow now hangs In the balance. If this city should be captured by the- northerners it would permit them a more com plete cooperation against their foes in Honan and Shanel and would eliminate any aid that might be forthcoming to them from General Feng Yu-Hslang, once known as the. Christian gen eral. . ' Chang Tsung-Chang, the north ern general has renorted to Pe king that Feng's troops are with- darwing toward Honanfu, the cap ital of the province and that the early fall of CHengchow may be expected. However, the combined forces of the so-called red spears with those of Fens contend that they repulsed the northern ad vance from Tammgfu In south Chlhli. on Chante Ho, indicating that Feng has his back to the wall and is fighting desperately. Claim Not Backed Up Foreign reports received here now show that the northern claim to have recaptured Chochow, 40 mues soutnwest of Peking, was premature. Builders Hardware Specials Plate glass posh plates, pair Cylinder front door sets Glass , knob sets Opal glass knob sets Bit key front door sets Steel Mortise lock sets . Friction catches . RAY L. FARMER Corner Commercial MATINEE TODAY 2 P. CONTINUOUS SHOW It's Ripping! YouTl be swept into gales of laughter with the best comedy Johnny ever made Don't miss it! ADULTS fm 711 CHILDREN'- 25c brand 1 &OW. TODAYfn nooi t . HOOT - 1 . GIBSOX ... t f I - GIXtSONj " . MThe, Denver 2ade K , - .rne Djenrw DwJe"' 'fVrV Singer's Capitol SyyyX Variety Revue I $82 Presents ! ; "&&&0 Monte Carlo- Portland's Libertv T , . ) Theatre '1 , - added , V i Ringer's Variety Co. V - f - All New V i-O- ' : . y - 'i 1 - - - . ....::.-::l';- J .-: . ... Three thousand Shansl troops, besieged for the pas two week to Chochow. where they were caugnt la their first rush on Peking, have been holding out fiercely despite ..K.m Artfllarr fire which a 1-1 ready has battered down two gates of it 12 century old walls. r to rjinfthow alese is a striking combination of modern and medei- val warfare, and the ancient, walls hav nroved " unexpectedly strong axatnst modern artillery fire, rne defenders, dug in modern trenches on top of the great walla have successful in Repelling troops seeking to scale them. - 4 Planes te Service -! The besiegers .are using air planes both for dropping bombs and propaganda. It appears that a portion of the northern forces succeeded In entering the city by breaks In the wall, engaging j In street fighting, but the Shansl de fenders are still holding on. j Using Chen Tow as a, base, the northerners have been conducting air raids on Tayuanf u, the capital of Shansl, claiming successes al most dally. ; j The northerners also are driv ing westward from Kalgan, but the outcome of thl ssppears doubt ful. . : n North China is in the grip of its f iret cold weather which is making more intense the hard ships of the troops and the popu lace, presaging a winter of suffer ing. Large areas, especially in Honan have been reduced to the condition of a desert by the Inces sant fighting of the past year.: Crops have not been planted and where they have been carried off i by soldiers. Thousand of civilians conse quently are facing starvation and freezing, while other thousands, erstwhile peaceful farmers, have found - themselves compelled ;i to join bandit gangs scouring the countryside. . -- A woman' is fire chief in Silver Springs, Ml Do you suppose she rolls her hose? Grand Rapids Press. ,' :-:' '. ....$ .65 7.50 1.25 . .65 . 1.50 .50 .05 HARDWARE CO. and Court Streets TONIGHT 7 & 9 P. M. SUNDAY 2 TILL 11 P. M. I lheatre lQc dues mm SOCIAL PROBLEMS UNIQUELY PRESENTED IN PLAY Can a "White. Collar" class em ancipator democratize a millloii- Airati - y-. K- ' - Can a man, 'well endowed . with the world's goods, marry his flf-teen-e-week - stenographer and as sist her parents financially with out having his well meaning kind ness construed as acts of charity aroused through pity? One of these questions or both will be answered for Salem drama patrons next Tuesday evening when the local De Molay chapter presents their annual play at the Elslnore: theater. , j The promise is that the ques tions will be answered humorous lythat' difficulties arise which are converted into scenes and dia logues of 'hilarity. Jack Minto as William Van Re THE ELSLNORE Tuesday Night Nov. 1st. itifni u Phone 307 for 75c r t I I ii I i ill u . WEST COAST THEATRES .. THE LAST TIMES TODAY rrs CATCHING . AND WILL GET YOU TOO Night 35c and 50c OREW0N .THEATRp BREAKING RECORDS NOW The Elsinore SUNDAY AND MONDAY- .DOLORES COSlTBllEO- "HE COLLEGE W1BS" Jimmie Davis Orchestra Fanchon 20 Luyn, the . millionaire, is the chief actor in the comedy drama. Fsy Joe Wolts is the stenographer. STEAMER HAS FISH TANK Plea Transportation of Goldfish 1 From Japan to Frisco SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. ns A special tank for the transporta tion of goldfish from Japan to Ssa Francisco has been Installed in the N. . YKjlner Siberia Msru. which, has arrived here, and company officials announce that if the experiment proves success ful all other company vessels will be similarity equipped. Between 50,000 and' 150,00) goldfish are shipped Into San Francisco yearly from Japan with an approximate value of $50,000. Until now the fish have been carried In wooden tubs and the high mortality rate has led to experiments with various forma of tanks. uu, u Reservations $1.10 t: and on the stage ' SMILING JIMMIE DAVIS and hia Ultra Modern Orchestra A Whole Show in Themselves K... ITS A WOW! Glorioc3 CoSeje Comedy anajy Oh Boy r What a Girl in - Marco - - . 4 , -rt i ' ' " - ( i: i :