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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1928)
'I- 2 THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 13, 1928 . II 4 r 5' .1 1 V n if I II I V f 1 longer delayed- UST nil OF RACE FINALLY ON The Urge Is To Pile Up Votes; - Too Many Is Better Than Not Enough Honor Roll Today B. L. Holland Zelda Parrish Nlua Williams D. B. Boydston Benlah Witzell Mn. H. . Donaldson By the Contest Editor The Whippet coach period has come and gone. After the contest doses on March 20, the committee Him-::'? DORIS BAKXETT of .Cuiiisville, Oregon Thin young lady is very well and favorably known fn and around Aumsville and Turner and lias a host of friends. She is a real go getter and Is having wonderful success in securing subscriptions in the last few days, which indi cates that she can win any prize in the list if she hustles hard anl secures the cooperation of her friends. of judges will announce the win ners of the radio, the Whippet, and the grand prizes. Candidates should secure every possible promise of subscription votes now. No afternoon naps for candidates and their friends. Tuesday, March 20, is the last day of The Statesman's big auto mobile contest, and candidate will wish that they could stretch minutes into hoars and hoars Into days. At the stroke of midnight. Toes- day, March 20. the big prize con test ends. Each and every candi date may torn in rotes up to the last minute Just one week from today.' Get More Votes No matter how many votes you have, candidates, secure more; It will be far better to have too many votes when the judges take charge of the ballot box than not enough Get hold of the big Cat votes be tween now and the finish, for you will be far more comfortable In the intervening time between the finish and the final count. Tou will never cease regretting if you lost out on the prize of your choice when you could have won if you had exerted yourself to your utmost during the closing hours of the big campaign. All together, candidates; it is now or never make it now. Sealed Ballot Box The last vote list to be pub lished appears in the Wednesday, March 14, paper. The ballot box will be sealed at 8:00 a. in. Wednesday, March 14, and will remain sealed, locked and protected, until after the close of the contest, when it is banded over to the judges to fig ure out the prize winners. When the judges make their final count they will take the final' vote list that appears in Wednes day's paper and to that they will add the votes which have been polled in the sealed ballot oox, and jthe grand total thus attained will 'be the total number of votes that the candidates have to their credit at the close of the contest. This is in accordance with one of the rules of the contest which reads as follows: "Rule No. 33: To insnre abso lute fairness in the awarding of prizes, the contest will be brought to a close under a sealed ballot ! box system. During the last per il iod of the campaign the box will be locked and sealed and will re jpose where the candidates and their friends will deposit their final collections and reserve votes. And not until the race has been declared closed will the seal be broken, the box unlocked and the judges begin the final count. In this way no one. not even the cam paign manager, can possibly know the voting strength of the respec tive candidates, which preclude? any possibility of favoritism and insures fairness to the minutest degree." Understand, candidates, you can BROADWAY COMING WEDNESDAY MILSERos.flIl RANCH PRESENTS v Si? " ft r v t "t i HERE EXTRA DAY riORMA .t.Mr. are roinr to lam the El- Another of the features oi irmw sinore to order to see what is eau-jDusv u "7. " - . ... i, i i--lmnn "lot Ranch orchestra to ed a "really powerful play. sees Moss and Frye Delight Large Audiences At tlsmore with Wit and Humor S , m rw -m sssr m . Adults 35c Kids 10c V The Buffalo Stampede, The Cov ered Wagon Trains, The Burn ing of the Village, The Indian War Dance and Many Other Thrilling Scenes in the Season's Most Unusual Picture poll your votes In the sealed bal lot box during this last week and they will remain there until the judges open the box at the close of the contest. Texas Man Confesses Murder of 2 Women SULPHUR SPRINGS. Texas, Mar. 12. (AP) Newt Byrnes, charged with slaying two women and a girl at San Angelo confess ed the crime to officers here to day. A quarrel about a check which Byrnes said he had signed with the name of one of his victims preced ed the killing, he declared. Those killed were Mrs. W. J. Juergens, her daughter Myrna, 13, and her mother Mrs. Rosa Schir ra. The bodies were found yester day. Byrnes, who was the Juergens chauffeur, said be had signed Mrs. Juergens' name to the check and on March 3 they had words about it. He admitted he struck and The setting for "Broadway, the drama of crime In the. cabarets which comes to the Elsinore the ater for one performance on Wed nesday night, March 14, is the pri vate party room of the Paradise Night club. The night club is one of the products of prohibition In New York. In them congregate bootleggers, gamblers, criminals great and small, actors, "high hats" from Park avenue on slum ming expeditions, and low-brows from the east side. The room in which the three acts of the play are enacted, serves as a dressing room for the cabaret chorus when quick changes of cos tume are necessary. It is imme diately off the cabaret floor, and as the swinging doors open to I permit the entrances and exits of the entertainers the music of the jazz band blares out blatantly. Above the room, with a winding! stair leading to it, are the dressing rooms of the entertainers. In the private party room re- "That worm" the word was whispered, "has apparently turn ed and left the dressing room," said one of the Original Black birds, held over today at the Elsi nore at the requests of thousands of Salem persons who have heard the black-faced comedians since first they sidled upon the stage Sunday. It was Mr. Frye of Moss and Frye, who have been continu ally together for 21 years, who was speaking. "Guess," he resumed pointedly, "ah gotta right to call a spade a drawin' card." Any C. P. A, might testify, fol lowing a glance at the box office receipts, that Moss and Frye, the Original Blackbirds, may lay claim to the pseudonyn of drawing cards. "Seriously," said Mr. Frye, "may I say that, during that 21 years during which almost every city in the United States has been our home, Salem has shown, us something which we or I believe any act, always finds?" The comedian cleared his throat. "In the first place let me mention our audiences. If I Were to ask for it, I could not have found a re ception which we would have ap preciated more. I don't believe that the man out front realizes what that means. Salem seemed to want us and I needn't say we ap preciated it. "The other thing I want to men tion is the Elsinore. No you need not put up your hand. Any person who loves beautiful things would have said far more than I'm going to. But I wish Salem people to know that, in our opinion and it hasn't been long since we played New York, Chicago, Boston and of course scores of other large cit ies we have never seen a theater truly more beautiful than the Elsi nore." "Guess," said Mr. Frye, ''I'd better be getting into those white clothes." All members of the acts express ed the same sentiment as did one of the headliners. it r WILL BH Hi hearsals of new nnmher am rnn knocked her down and then cut herthroughi the ..hoofer paws his s, wa3 'u;feet in the rosin box prior to his the room and Byrnes said he then killed her. Mrs. Schirra was killed when she entered the room, the confession said. specialties, and the entertainers "crab" and lament and rejoice ac cording to their moods. ROMAN TEA-HOUNDS RAPPED ROME. Tea-drinking "john nies" and their lady friends are out of place in Fascist Italy, says a farmer a fine for driving a horse Mario Carli. Fascist editor. which was unfit to work. DUCHESS REPORTS FARMER NOTTINGHAM. England. The Duchess of Portland was the in formant in a case which brooch! Nobody who has already reserv ed seats for the play "Broadway" to be seen at the Elsinore Wednes day night, or those who plan to take their chances in the box office line, need expect a cast of "Pol- lyanna" characters. By that. V. E. Mclntyre. man ager, does not mean to imply that there is anything abhorent or un enjoyable about the drama. He simply means that "Broadway" Is life that is, a certain stratum of life which Is to be found in New York city. Perhaps one of the best indica tions of the success of "Broad way" is the fact that such men as the most saturine critics many of whom have been responsible for the crash of a first nighter re tained their Seats in the front row and helped the audience bring back actors and actresses for "cur tain calls." Among these critics were Heywood Broun, Alexander Woolcott, O. O. Mclntyre and oth ers whose names are almost as well known in London and aPris as in New York. To resume: there Is nothing re volting, nothing "creepy" about "Broadway." It is merely a. play, said by critics to have been unus ually well done, which concerns it self about the cabaret life as It is. Indications are that Salem the- LATEST DUE SOON Sometimes It's a pleasure to write a news story. For instance, as in this instance. it's to announce that Norma Shear er is to be starred in "The Latest from Paris." She and it are to be at the Elsinore March IB. 16, and 17. Norma Shearer, as most per sons know, has done most every thing as far as films are concern ed. Theatergoers have come to the conclusion that she can do most anything. Here, as per ordinary, there is to be no hokum and just as little bunkum. Yet independent (not paid by producers) critics declare that no vehicle, and there havo been many, ever has offered Miss Shearer the dramatic opportunities presented in the film, "The Latest from Par is." "The Latest from Paris" was di rected from an original screen play by A. P. Youngster, who was re sponsible, largely, for such success es as "Slide, Kelly. Slide," "Twelve Miles Out." "TiUie the Toiler," "In Old Kentucky," "Brown of Harvard." and others. The Elsinore's business, due to its endeavor to be sincere in its announcements moni "101 Ranch orcnestra add to the beauty of the story with wonderful music Of added interest to the child ren Is the fact the show carries with it "Dusty," the real, lire Am erican buffalo, as a free attraction This entire attraction will be hown at Blizh's Capitol theater today only. JOI CAB OUT OF SECRETARY RACE Jackson County Man Does Not Intend To Try For State Office PORTLAND. Mar. 12. (AP) John H. Carkin. representative from Jackson county In the state legislature and speaker of the house Saturday announced that he would not be a candidate for sec retary of state at the forthcoming election. ' In a statement Issued by Carkin Saturday he said: "My candidacy for secretary of state having started in an effort of eastern and southern Oregon to find a candidate upon whom they could unite, I had not until re cently fully appreciated living as I do in southern Oregon, a por tion of the state which has never had Sr governor or secretary of state the statewide support my has recently been prospective candidacy was recelv- Howerer, after careful coasid eratlon X wish to announce to my many fneaae la jaegson county and the state at large that I hav decided not to be a candidate fy secretary of state." In declining to accept the can didacy, Carkin said his action waj impelled by several reasons, lists as first the fact that my training has been along busing and not political lines." "While I appreciate the h . r attached to the office and th sire of southern Oregon to Uv representation at Salem. I ca: n t feel that I should spare the t and expense involved In seen V the oince ana it elected, give my business and other inter for an office for which I fee: little inclination." Report To Be Given On Women, Children Trade famous second part of the exw: -. report on the International t: : in women and children made ; . lie several months ago, willai'.::i come under discussion at a n - . :ug of the league of nations a u ... ory commission on this pro .:i which opened today. Another important item o: : . agenda is a resolution adopts i,v the last assembly requesting commission to consider the d - r ability of recommending t governments abolition of the 1;. sed house system. XEW CHAPELS RE.AHl l) LONDON. Forty-seven i .v chapels and 25 new schools v opened In 1927 under the dir. c tion of the Wesleyan Methou i t on the upgrade and the manage ment expects from Salem fans all that Miss' Shearer usually brings and that means considerable.. ing. because of it, the more urgent chapel committee. 11 T E. MARK "TRAIL DUST" Tradition, history and romance are filled with the super-man and hero but the king and chief of time's greatest pageant to yester day Is the bronzed American red skin who, centuries before the ad vent of the paleface, pitched his tepee on hill and plain, chasing the buffalo and trapping the mink, raising his corn and tobacco, smok ing the pipe of peace and raising the blood-curdling war-whoop. Around this colorful figure of the early west is built the thrill ing story of "Trail Dust." It also tells the story of the struggles of the cattlemen against the outlaws and cattle rustlers. Incidentally telling one of the most beautiful love stories of all times. ELSINORE WEDNESDAY, MA?.GH 14 Send Your Mail Order Now Including Tax Note These Moderate Prices for the World's Biggest Hit JED HARRIS pr,t World Famous- Drama oftha cabarets Lower floor: first 17 rows 92.75; next 8 rows $2.20. Balcony: first 2 rows f2.20; next 8 rows 91. 65; next 7 rows 91.10. Mezzanine 02.75 and 92.20. tv 2Jlrl YEAQ IN NEW VOftK. a SEASON IN ENGLAND OTR OrMXNlES IN BUDAPEST BiVIT4 FRANCC VIEKNA CHICAGO pn.oci-iwiA mton nt J f . mm k A. MAUL ROMBlBlEEf A Stirring Story of Train Bandits and the Marines I DIH1EGDJ iTIKIltJISEDAir w r NORMA Shearer TU LATEST FROM PARIS 'EJLni?JIftE' winn in P opimlarilLy P Not only locally but from Alaska to Pennsylvania, from Alabama to California friend tells friend of the remarkable achievements of this product of nature in restoring health in cases which have yield ed to no other treatment. A lady in Iowa tells of a terrible case of eczema so severe that she could scarcely use her hands. Now they are smooth and white. 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