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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1928)
THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM. OREGON. WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 4. 1928 H H ( ! t i PORTRAIT OF UDY I E Splendid Picture Adorns Walls; Title Given Only To Few Women Within the past few days the original portrait of a lady may be een above the middle door of the Elslnore. ; Erery dejk man. every "district" man. and every "leg" man who has beea with a newspaper a few days ksowi that newspapers do not unless she fcas a title permit the use of the word "lady." The average female and most -any assistant city editor loves to explain this to a novice is a "woman." Likewise, men are "men" to a newspaper and not "gentlemen." And now for the reiteration; within the past few days the orig tnl portrait of a lady may be seen above the middle. door of the Elsi- aars. The proof? A glance suffices. If ever a true gentlewoman lived, her likeness hangs in the lobby of the Elslnore. Her eyes, her Hps, her casual demeanor all proclaim what she is. And bo, withered a bit by age, her likeness hangs in the Elsinore "where you and all may see." The portrait of whom? a lady. 1 Famous Play Now Pictured for Screen and Proving Among Most Popular There are places where an un j?hlly scar across the face woult - hidden. i, But not among the students ir old Heidelberg, where tradition tomes before all else; where, a: in "The Student Prince." which 1. showing at the Elslnore, a raai had rather give up his life than tii honor. Puels,' In old Heidelberg, wen 'aa common as Fords in the United States. And when a duelist received a nasty scar, it was a mark of honor - No woman, in company with e student, might be stared at more than a moment by another mac until neatly-fitting gloves of hei companion, were whipped aros his face. And among the older faruilie f Germany the tradition ' ye: holds. And as for the picture at the El s4nore? "You may verbally extend your self." said the management. " 'Tlx Student Prince. Is good and w are willing to abide by the judg meat of him who sees." Here is no small point: in pro ducing "The Student Prince," no lesser stars than Ramon Novarro and Norma Shearer were selected Each has, very recently, showr. himself to be unusually popnlai with Salem theatergoers. SlVWiLL -EfirrERTAIN PEOPLE Sarg's Marionettes To Ap pear At Capitol Theater Today for Showing - Even statisticians will find eoinethlng to meditate about in Tiny Sarg's Marionette produc tion. "All Baba and the Forty Thieves." that will be seen at the Cfrpltol theater today. There are 52 puppets in the ricnc i noihmg quite Wee Bayer Aspirin tor all sorts of aches and UND AT ELS HOR DUELS V EBf COMMON N STUDENT PA IE iET . pains, but be sure it is genuine Bayer; - that name must be on the package, ...,pad on every tablet. Bayer is genu ine, and the word genuine in red ' is on every, box. You can't to wrons; if you wiQ just look at the box when Ton buy tt: Mpfcla to Om trad stark mt Bar UiiifieliN at MaattaMMta a altejrllcael A "FEASTS PROVIDED BY SOLDIERS Children of striking coal miners in southern Ohio eating: a meal provided by the Ohio National Guard, which is endeavoring to relieve suffering in badly affected regions. ast, each manipulated by an ev erage of 16 almost invisible strings. The strings are each 4 bout eight feet long. Mathemat ically expressed, this means that feet of string are required to give the Marionette perform ance enough string to go up ana lown New York's new 38-story Paramount building 10 times. The number of strings attached to each, puppet varies with the -omplexlty of the tasks it must oerform. Thirty-two stringa are needed to manage Morgiana. the beautiful slave girl who performs i wicked dance for the entertaln- nent of the Sultan. On the other land the fly that bites the robber hieftaln as he snores can get ilong splendidly with just one tring. EH .-"oimer Federation Head Comes Out In Support of Secretary ' WASHINGTON, Apr. 3. (AP) Hailing Herbert Hoover as a man who has "stood more nearly jebind every principle enunciated jy our farm organisations than my other man" he knew of in pub ic life, Oscar F. Bradf ute, of Xen a, Ohio, former president of the merlcan Farm Bureau federation oday came out for the commerce iecretary for president. In a formal statement made lublic by the Ohio Hoover for president committee, Mr. Bradf ute nalyzed the cabinet officers rec rd from the viewpoint of the far ner and defended his course as ood administrator io dealing with he war tiaie wheat and pork situ itiom. In every essential detail, xcept the equaliratlon fee, he add :d. Hoover, "has been a support r of the objectives and principles if farm relief." As for the fee. Bradfute said hat large numbers of our best in formed and thinking farmers also disagree with this provision." Replying to criticisms that Hoo-,-er hurt the American farmer by ixing Ihe price of wheat at $2.20 i bushel during the war, the form ir farm representative said the sec retary had no part in the confer ence which did set the price and enuested the appointment, of the price commission only when Euro pean nations which had been buy ig American products combined heir purchasing to stop competi .on and to force the price down to !.ou on the farmer. LOS ANGELES GAS EXPLOSIOIU KILLS 7 fhat Number Not Expected! To Live Following Light ing of Match LOS ANGELES. April 3. (AP) Thirteen persons were burned, seven of them so seriously they were not expected to live, in a gas explosion In front of a neighbor hood grocery store here today. A craving for a cigarette by an amateur plumber who was repair ing a gas line was declared by the police to have caused the blast. Most of those most seriously in jured were children who had been playing In front of the store and who were attracted to the spot by the activities -of the plumbers. Those most seriously injured were: Samuel Park, 7; Donald George, 5; Virginia. Kim. 11; Wesley De- wttt. It; Tataka Tokal. (; Tatamo Tokal. 4. and Bruce Wallace, 15. The blast blew out every win dow In the store and hurled the victims and the contents of the store In every direction. The store recently had changed hands and the new owners, the po lice aatd, opened the gas lines un M S FIND HERBERT HOOVER'S SEVEN U. S. BUSINESS PILGRIMAGES (This is the seventh and last installment of an article which ap pears In the April Magazine of Business, in which Robert R. Up degraff tells of the little known "middle 15 years" of Herbert Hoover's life.) Another of these professional journeys which followed each oth er at intervals over this period of la years was to Burma. In many ways it was the most interesting of all Hoover s pilgrimages. In the Northern Shan states, which are hundreds of miles even beyond Mandalay, for years there had been reputed to be workings of ancient mines of, enormous dimen sions. The records of India and the records of China showed this section as the great source of sil ver supply over generations. Here, in a big hollow in a veritable trop ical jungle, was finally discovered the seat of these ancient activities which had been abandoned for more than 200 years. The Chinese miners had worked the mines just as deeply as they could go against the ever-increasing volume of water. One of the pits they had dug. over centuries, was nearly a half-mile long, 1,000 feet wide, and 300 feet deep. The detritus around the workings showed that the ores contained not only silver but lead and zinc and some copper. The slag from the ancient .smelters ontalned much of the lead which they bad left behind after extracting the .liver. It is a long story, the history of Ihe Baud win Mine: First the necessity to diamond drill the old workings to determine whether sufficient ore bodies still existed underneath to b worth the strug gle which It would take to build a new mining community hun dreds of miles Into the Jungle The drillings did prove that there was great wealth underneath, but before It could be made productive i hundred miles of railway must be built over two ranges of moun tains; a tunnel two miles long must be driven so as to cut under the old workings and drain out the water. Hydro-electric plants had to be built, mills and smelt ers; towns had to belaid out; and the whole appurtenances of clvil- zation transported 300 miles from the nearest town and that was Mandalay! without notifying gas company of ficials. A leak was discovered and one of the men turned off what he believed was the gas line and then urew a cigareue ana struck a natch. The explosion and a wall t flame followed. DAM MKASURE I P WASHINGTON. Apr. 3. ( AP) The Johnson Boulder Canyon dam measure was given preferred status on the senate calendar to day by the republican steering "ommittee. SPECIAL MATINEE AT 4 The Supreme in the Creation of Poppet Shows 'ALIBABA and No Raise Adults 50c IN STRIKE REGION One of the first things to do was to send for American engin eers Clark, Jones. Oberlander, Nutt, Kuen, Newberry and long generations more and here in the jungle, close to the Chinese bord er of India, grew up an American mine with American equipment American methods, and American management, with a prosperous community of 25,000 people of 17 different races. This was no Job for a week. Hoover's professional connection with it began when it was still jungle and remained over a period of 10 or 12 years, until it was a great enterprise still pouring large quantities of lead, silver, zinc, and copper Into the world's metal supply, and always requiring more and more machinery and plant of one kind or another. And so life went with this Cali fornia mining engineer. Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, for something over 15 years. Hoover traveled between San Francisco (or New York, where he had an office during the later years of his peregrinations) and the four corners of the globe. It seems little wonder that after crossing and recrossing the con tlnents of the world, and sojourn ing in a score of countries for months at a time, he came to know the world of men as well as of mine. Hoover la sometimes apoken of as being internationally minded, due. I suppose, to the fact that he knows so much of the world and its business methods and its social and racial habits through first hand contact with Its people. This characterization seems to me to be inaccurate. The times I have talked with him I have found him utterly American-minded. but with a remarkable international background that has put the world at his service aa a source of know ledge and a clarifler of perspect ive. As I have said, when he took charge of the Belgian relief work. Hoover handed over all his pro-1 lessionai activities and connec tions to his associates for good. But to this day so engineers tell me If you go around the world visiting mines and mining com munitles, you will find, so fre quently as to amaze you, that Hoover has been there before you, and left something of America. In ugypi or Australasia, rndla or Siberia, Korea or South Africa, where you find a piece of mining equipment, be It. a great smelter or a humble tool. If you brush off the dust you are very likely to find the name-plate of a firm in Denver. Colorado, or some other American center of mining ma chinery manufacture. And oper ating it you are likely to find a 'group of men who are doing a Job for America by creating a whole some respect ror American ma chinery and American methods and American enterprise. P. M. FOR CHILDREN (4 P.M.) ALallnee Programm "Rip Van Winkle" "Treasure Island" "Don Quixote" Three Wishes" , Ereninjr 2 Shows 7 A Q , the FORTY THIEVES" In Prites Children 23c Illinois Primary Race Grows Hotter Each Day CHICAGO. April 3. (AP) With the Illinois primary only a week distant, crime and prohibi tion tonight had become the prin cipal Chicago Issues of the cam paign while Governor Len Small's administration held the center ot interest downstate. As a result Chicago voters next Tuesday will mark "X" before the names of candidates whose stand on crime and prohibition most nearly conforms to their own opinions, while the downstaters will render an opinion on the mer its of Governor Small. The Small issue, since the gov ernor is running for a third term on his record, was expected, but the crime and prohibition issues were thrust to the front by the force of recent circumstances. Originally the republican fac tion headed by Governor Small. Mayor Thompson of Chicago, Ttob ert E. Crowe, Cook county state's attorney, and Colonel Frank L. Smith, running for the republican nomination for United States sen ator after twice being denied his seat, started their- campaign with Thompson's "America First' slog an, and added to it Governor Small's hard road program and Colonel Smith's stand for state rights in senate representation. The opposing republican wing, headed by United Stages Senator Charles S. Dencen. Otis Glenn, op- i ponent of Colonel Smith; Secre i tary of State L. L. Emtnerson, run ning ror governor, ana Attorney General Oscar . Carlstrom. can didate for re-election, at first centered their attacks on Small downstate and Thompson and Crowe In Chicago. The democrats, with few con tests, contented themselves with attacking the. republicans in office and those wanting to be in, and discussing national issues, includ ing references to the" oil scandal. BAD FAITH ALLEGED State's Highway Obligations Would Be Forced on Property, Says Kay In case the voters approve at the November election either of the Initiative measures reducing the annual license fee on pelasure cars to $3 a year, the average motor vehicle license paid by Oregon car owners would be only one-fourth of the average fee paid by pleasure car owners In the state of Califor nia. t This was pointed out yesterday by Thomas B. Kay, ( state treasu rer, in an address at the Klwanis club luncheon In which he stressed the unfairness of the proposed $3 motor vehicle license fee in this state. The Oregon license fee, un der the proposed initiative mea sures, would be only one-fifth of the average license fee assessed in the state of Washington. Mr. Kay pointed out that under the proposed initiative measures now on file in Oregon the annual motor vehicle fee Is fixed at $3. and no provision is made for plac ing the pleasure automobiles on the property tax roll. As'a result of this, the state could not expert to collect in excess of S3 for the op eration of pleasure machines. In the state of California the average plate license fee Is 15.30 N S3 L CENSE PLAN TILL SATURDAY THIS GREAT ERNST LUBITSCH FILM WITH RAM ON NOVARRO AND NORMA SHEARER HAS OLD HEIDELBERG AND ITS MONARCHISTS TRADI TIONS FOR A BACKGROUND. Then somebody assassinated "Diamond Joe" Esposito, political power In Little Italy, and ally, of Senator Deneen; somebody else bombed the homes of Deneen and Judge John A. Swanson, running against Crowe, and federal pro hibition agents suddenly swarmed into Chicago, bringing their ac tivities to a climax by shooting a munlcpal court baliff and Thomp son supporter during a raid. A federal grand jury, with tnt campaign at Its height, returned two batches of prohibition Indict ments, naming an alderman, l suburban village mayor and others politically prominent. As a result, aspects of the Chi cago campaign, along with its Is sues, changed almost overnight and Chicago has heard charges, and counter charges involving crime and prohibition aa the prin cipal talking potnts. Deneen's' faction has charged flatly that the Thompson and Crowe daminlstrations have failed to control crime, that bombings of half a dozen politicians' homes are the results of political maneuver ing and the fight for control of illicit liquor business, and have promised that If elected condi tiona will be improved. The Small - Thompson - Crowe wing, on the other hand, has charged that crime conditions arc exaggerated, that bombings have been the work of those whose homes were bombed, and that fed eral prohibition agents have been brought to Chicago at the instiga tion of Senator Deneen to discred it the Thompson administration. The democrats, admitting all the charges of both republican factions against each other, hare made hay during the factional fight by urging a big vote of con fidence for every democrat as an augury of what may be expected In November. a' year, while the average proper ty tax on cars is SI 1.90. Adding the average gas tax of SI 5. 4 8. California car owners contribuie annually for the operation of their cars an average of $3 2.63. In the state of Washington the average plate license is $16.67. with an average property tax of J 10.07. The average gasoline tax paid by Washington motorists Is S3. 59 a year, making the average contribution resulting from the use of their machines $36.33 a year. The Oregon motorist, under the proposed Initiative measures, would pay an annual license fee of $3 for the operation of plea sure cars., The average gasoline tax in Oregon is $14.27, which would make the average total tax in this state under the proposed new laws, $17.27 a year. There Is no proper ty tax on automobiles in Orezon at the present time, and no such tax is provided in the Initiative measures which will go before the voters at the November election. Figures gathered by Mr. Kay showed that California has the lowest license plate tax of anv state in the union, but that Its property tax, Increases the amount paid by motorists annually to an amount far in excess of that paid by car owners in many other states in which there is no proper ty tax. It was the state treasurer's con tention that approval of the $3 motor vehicle license fee in Oregon would be equivalent to the repu diation of a contract, and would have the effect of retarding ma terially the highway construction programme in this state. Two Human Projectiles Injured Doing Stunts LONDON. (AP) Two sensa tional acts the firing of a person from a great cannon in rival London circuses hare ended in in Jury to the two human projectiles. 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