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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 12, 1928)
man m E A company of almost two hun dred persons, headed "by Gloria Swanson and Director Raoul Walsh, spent three- weeks at Cata lina Island and aboard a tramp steamer off the coast of Southern California, filming exterior scenes for "Sadie Thompson," Miss Swan son's second independent screen offering under the United Artists banner, which will be shown at the Elsinore theater beginning to day. The wharf sequence of the pic ture, depicting arrival of "Sadie Thompson- and other characters of W. Somerset Maugham s well- Known siory at rago rago filmed at the Catahna Inland isthmus, me snore nne on eimer side of the wharf was transformed into a complete tropical setting under direction of William Cam eron Menzies, art director, with the result that swaying cocoanut palms and native huts caused vis iting touriots to rub their eyes in disbelief. In addition to the tramp steam er "Chiapas," two sailing schoon ers were chartered by Miss Swan- fou's company to lend necessaryl maritime atmosphere to the ex terior scenes. Among the extra' players taken on location was an' entire company of Marines, many of whom were actually former members of the service, and a group of Samoan natives headed !,y a. chief whose home is within a few miles of Pago Pago, the lo cale of the story. . i "Sadie Thompson" has been h tiled everywhere as the picture f p -ak In Miss Swanson's career. Its s.iory, detailing a terrific battle for supremacy between a social out cast from the byways of San Fran ' :sco and Honolulu, and a re 'ornier of almost despotic power in South Seas, is the most dra- rciatic vehicle the 'am ever presented. producer-star FLAX INDUSTRY WILL BE ON PROFITABLE FOOTING Tontinnd from ppe 1 ) n t that encourages our farmers to has bee nevolved for artificial ret practice rotation. They have ing or drying fiber flax straw, found when this cron is grown on a rive or six year rotation that it dollars have been spent in an ef give increasing returns to other fort of this kind, crops. The crop requires and de-j Remarkable Scutching mands good farming. It requires When the straw is thoroughly a well drained soil bnilt up to a dried it is bundled up and taken high state of fertility. Farmers into our retted straw warehouse who grow this crop from year to where it is required to season for year are gradually bringing their! some time before going into the soil up to the required condition, j mills for further processing. From Last yeaf this crop averaged that department the straw goes $65.35 per acre gross. The larg- into number one mill where it is est return made by any one farm-' scutched, that is. the fiber and er waa $160 per acre. (spinning tow is recovered from the Heretofore an effort had to be' straw. About eighteen months made to get sufficient acreage to ago this plant was turning out take care of the requirements of ( about 900 pounds of fiber and the state flax industry. . During about 400 pounds of spinning tow. the past year we were obliged to Next month this same' plant will refuse more acreage than we were.be turning out 4 400 pounds of fi authorlzed to contract for. This ber and 2000 pounds of spinning in itself is an indication of howjtow per day. profitable the crop is. This cora-j We have recently installed what ing year there will be a substan-, is known as all all-through scutch tial increase in the acreage over ing machine. This machine re 1928. I places hand labor at a greatly re- Intoresting Problems The management in the harvest-: ii;.; of this crop has been an inter- estiug problem to work out. cause it is essential and desirable that the crop and its operations be kept under absolute control. Our field operations are divided into four areas. These four areas are re-divided into fourteen dis-' trit ts and the districts are sub-di- j vidwi again into units. During the harvest each district m in charge we expected a maximum produc of a field man and each unit is injtion of about TOO pounds during a charge of a temporary state em- 7 hour day. As a matter of ployee who operates a state flax Tact this - machine has produced puller. (during the past week as high as n l, . I. . . 1 1 .1 . - ' i i - .. i . r : v. tn V. .... . ufu 1 1 1 tj iMiiitru littJL iu i i ill puuuua Ul UUCI 1U LUC AflUlC come in to our mills we have as time, and in one day running two many as 125 loads a day passing. shifts it produced 205C pounds, over our scales, some of these All Machine Scutching loads weighing as much as ten( We propose to abolish all hand tons. We try so far as possible .cutching at the- earliest possible to segregate the good straw from 'date and replace it with these "all each farm, because there is a va-' through scutching machines." The fiat ion in the qualities of straw! fiber from these scutching ma- and the fiber-content. Before the hauling is over the threshing begins Jn our number two flax mill. This plant can eas ily handle 100 tons of straw and about 500 bushels of flax seed each day. Many of you have seen our threshing mill in operation and probably have noted that fiber flax 'straw must be threshed with- nnnrnnni inn THE EESTSlPWi SAW 3m C3 Starts TODAY on IT'S YOUR PICTURE ITS MY PICTURE ITS EVERY BODY'S PICTURE CD W n oat injury to the straw, and be cause of - this It Is threshed through what are known as whip pers. Then the Retting The next operation i3 to put it; into the retting tanks which are' now running to full capacity, thej capacity is 132 tons of threshedj straw each week. After the strawj is taken out of the tanks it is wig- wammed in the fields for drying. Within two days after it has been wig-wammed it is turned so that both sides will have an equal bleach. I would like to explain to you the system under which we ret our flax, because I have found a misunderstanding about this im portant feature of our work. All our retting k? done in wooden or concrete tanks. The straw is put into the tanks two bundles deep in . , n .. A In DOSSiblc. The tanks then- fed wkh pure water Jg heated tQ Q deKrees Fan. neU Afler twenty.f0ur hours . . ifS vatam i then started. This permits the water to t irculate - from the bottom up wards through the straw with an overflow that carries the water off and back into our circulation tanks. One of the objects 'of this circulation is to obtain an even ret throughout the tank on the same principle as if the flax were immersed in a slow, sluggish stream. We Have "Soft" Water We use pure fresh water which is practically all melted snow from the mountains. This water is al most entirely free of iron, lime or other substances that are injurious to the flax fiber. No chemicals of any kind are placed In our water. After the straw has been sub merged twenty-four hours in this water the bacterial action starts and this action gradually neu tralizes the pectin gums that ad here the fiber to the ehive of the straw. The time the straw re mains in the water is to a large degree governed by the tempera ture of the water. The average time for the straw in water held at 80 degrees Fahrenheit would be between four and five days Our retting season in thi3 part of the country usually lasts about I five months. Once the rainy eea son starts in' the fall we have to discontinue" our retting until it clears up again in the spring. Up to this time no successful method notwithstanding that millions of duced cost and gives a higher yield of fiber from the straw. A year or two ago it was costing the be-'state about 6 cents a pound to scutch the fiber. Today the hand scutching costs 2 cents a pound tThis scutching machine produces a better quality and a higher yield of fiber at 1 cent a pound. It is remarkable how simple the prin- ciple is under which it operates, When we purchased this machine chines gives a larger yield in hack- ling because the fiber is not torn or broken to the extent exper ienced from hand scutching. Hand scutching must vary according to the man who is doing the work; whereas the work of the machine 'm uniform at all times in every respect. During the eight days' recent operations the scutching HAS EVER HAD V DO DQ A beautiful witty mi 1 1111 wise marvel oasly thrilling en tertainment that will open wide for you the flood gates of tinman emotion. Heart Appeal. Mind Appeal Sool Appeal! n THE OREGON Now at Capitol Scene from 'Vfc ME"BIGAN5 machine operated with seren men produced 11.612 pounds of long fiber, and the hand wheels operat- ing with approximately 45 men produced 14,621 pounds. The yield of fiber is much larger from the machine and with very much less tow than over that of hand scutch ing. We" plan to install five more of these machines before the first of the year. When this installa tion is completed we will be pro ducing fiva, to six tons of high ;rade quality every day the mill is in operation. Will Support Institution Our plans now provide for ex- panding this operation up to 8,000. acres. When this acreage isl reached the annual turnover from it i . A II i i the flax department will reachjhand we have received several let approximately about a million dol- ters advising us how satisfactory lars. When this objective is our fiber was and Inquiring as to reached, during the next three years, the whole situation should be on a self-supporting basis Progress made In the flax in dustry now warrants private cap ital investing in flax mills. Sev eral districts have been waiting for two or three years for this condition to arrive. I make this statement for the following rea sons: You are now able to pull your flax by machine, and every subsequent operation can be hand led by machinery. The time has arrived when small flax mills may be organized and operated in cen ter where it has been proven that fiber flax can be grown profitably. These plants in my judgment will hare to be operated under a co operative scheme, and they will have to have experienced and pro- resolve management. I would further advise any person or groups of persons going into this industry to keep in close touch with our state flax Industry, the managers of which will be glad to ?ive them the benefit of their ex perience. In Qreat Demand In regard to markets you are in'25 i yery happy position. We have 19 entirely satisfactory. Very sstabllshed a demand for our fiax!snortly we expect to start weaving in Massachusetts. New Jersey.lcrahes and elaaa checks, and wel Pennsylvania and New York states. We have shiDDed anorox-'sucn imafoly thrn hnnrirori tnns nf fiber and spinning tow to Ireland. and Scotland. Our local mills will require between three and four hundred tons of fiber annually. From this you will see we have' got to move along from now on 1 Tender gedy i irV stA 1 S Ae TbomPSn'' UWyt W Salem I troov one Vfl hVZ Chora, i Wmp society I 4 the 'w- i! r I feSf I Concert l Based on uy-- H Tl Vo and 1 OS SUe in I f . Male CAorwi STATESMAN. SALEM. OREGON. TUESDAY MORNING, I D HOUR' OPENS IT OREGON TODAY Elinor Glyn, world's most pop ular authoress, has discovered still not be made to expand and to be the national committee, will rap another chronological title to glor-( brought to such proportions so as f or order and call the roil of the ify in "Mad Hour." Robert Kane's it will replace many millions of assembled party stalwarts, wear first National picture, which dollars worth of linen yarns and jng their badges and massed with opera its loqal engagement at the Oregon theater beginning today. True, Mrs. Glyn did not name the story originally "Mad Hour."islirgMted in my address to you but it was adapted from 'The today. acticm win bo necessary at' Man and the Moment." which oc- cnie efficiently satisfactory cupies space of time Elinor Glyn. whose books have sold Into millions, has made use of the time element in almost -all erect buildings to store the flax her works, as the titles attest: straw in. We are rery much in "Three Weeks" made her world- need of a fiDr warehouse for con famous. "Six Days" followed soon ditionlng our fiber. This is eome- after, with such titles as "His Hour, une uiorious Moment ana similar stories oi cnronoiogi- tnat the public is beginning to re- uais- piaiiorm. permanent organ cal nomenclature In sufficient alize and appreciate the necessity 'rat'on an( rules committees and number to make it a recognized Qf tne state flax industry being ,onve"tion will adjourn for custom. (carried on in a business like man-jthe ! ner, and functioning likewise in! But meanwhile the committees to keep pace with the demand of conserving every angle of the vast' will be busy. The credentials the market we have opened up. On several occasions during the past year we have had to refuse for as much as one hundred tons for the only reason that we did not have the fiber to fill the orders. Another pleasing feature has been that we have never received one word of complaint on any flax fiber that we have shipped outside he state of Oregon. On the other, when further shipments would be available. On Paying Basis In connection with the manufac turing end of this development, the prospects for a vast industry look very promising to me. The first mill built here by the Miles Linen company is manufacturing shoe threads and seine twines, and very shortly they will be knitting their own fish nets. Their prod uct is meeting with favor among the fishermen and other channels of trade in competition with firms that have been established for generations. They have orders enough ahead to keep their mill in production during the . next seven months, and I am informed from reliable sources that the mill is now operating at a profit. The Oregon Linen mills, the sec ond mill, built to spin yarns and to manufacture linen cloth is grad ually working towards a desirable condition. This mill has at pres ent about eighty 'employes work ing two . eight-hour shifts. It spins wet, damp and dry spun yarns in counts of from 7 to le&- The qnMty of the yarns wl" rid a ready martcet for an goods purchased, in the Pa clfic northwesL Yon Will be in- tested to learn that this mill WHI be on a proruaDie operating basis by the first of July next. Allow Profit Basis Summing up the whole sltua tion, we find our flax industry running on a profitable basis both to the farmers and to the state. and our spinning and wearing' time the nominee may be named, mills working out also towards a the business closed and the con profitable investment. To make vention closed, this development a greater cbn- xo thhi end the plans call for tribution to our state is now onlye opening; of the convention a question of expansion. I can see with a prayer and music Then woven linen goods that are now imported into our country. in order to carry out the plans the next meeting of the leeislatnrel - -!!! .tillvivA,-.!"6 , . v iiai 10 purcuase mure acreage adjacent to our present fields for wi..Wammine the flax, and to tning that ,nas not been provided f0r up to this time. We believe interests we all hope that it will represent. SELECTION OF HOOVER REGARDED AS LIKELY (Continued from page 1.) AP). The republican national convention will meet here at 11 jociock tomorrow morning with o'clock the Hqover star in the ascendancy, but with the air still filled with the uncertainties which only poli tics can produce. Meeting in an auditorium built for the democratic convention which nominated Bryan in 1900. the republican hosts will find themselves faced with the task of harmonizing the acute differences which have arisen within their party in recent years oyer the agricultural question, and of drafting a platform upon which it will stand in the November elec tion. Hall Capacity 15,000 The convention hall which will ring with praises of men and the party within the next few days has a seating capacity of 15,000 persons, including delegates, spec tators, and newspapermen, and the blare of music and oratory which will center there will be broadcast to all parts of the Unit ed States and probably will reach nearly every part of the world. Spic and span and ready for what awaits it, the auditorium Nag-bedecked along with the rest of the city, has been strung with telegraph and telephone wires, which, with the radio, will carry an amount of information to the nation such as has never dream ed of when it was erected within 90 days to house the convention which nominated the commoner. Last Steps Completed The party managers are laying their plans, appointing the neces sary committees, arranging for hearing delegations who dispute the right of other delegations to sit in the convention, fixing up the party declaration of princi- o Wo ackward OF CLOTHING AND FURNISHING GOODS EASILY LEADS IN ATTRACTIVE FEATURES. FIVE MORE DAYS OF UNMATCHABLE BARGAINS AWAIT YOtifc "T.v,li.;lj ' LOT Men's Suits Medium and light colors. All wool cassimeres, worsted and flannels, small sixes only in this lot SPECIAL $14.85 Heavy Ruff Neck SWEATERS Black and White Regular $6.50 Value $4.45 LOT NO. 3 Men's Suits Latest Models for Men and Young Men. Medium and light colon. New stock, good assortment of pattern and materials. AU alzea. SPECIAL $24.85 MEN'S BROADCLTH DRESS SHIRTS Reg. $2.00 Value $1.45 2 $2.75 JUNE 12. 1928 pies, and generally smoothing things out so that at the right William M. Butler, chairman of lne standards of their states and candidates among them . ,, , . . V ben -th roI1ia" 13 ,npI?t.ed Ml fcimeon u. t ess, or unio. U1 deliver the keynote address of tne convention, the clarion call of ia political party about to go into 'an election. Senator Fess. while not a delegate, is a close friend of President Cooridge and was one of the original "draft Coolidge" men. Then each state delegation will narae lts members of the creden- committee must pass on the eligi- bility of a block of delegates from the south which the national com mittee has already awarded to Hoover. Mrs. Mabel Walker Wll lebrandt, assistant attorney gener al, is chairman of this committee. She is a Hoover supporter. Platform Body Face Task Reed Smoot, another Hoover man, heads the platform commit tee, which faces the task of bring ing out a party declaration har monizing conflicting views and which will hold hearings for those who wish to present their views. The rules committee will bring in the rules, and the permanent or ganization probably will name Senator George Mosee. of New Hampshire, another Hoover man, as permanent chairman. Meeting at 11 a. m. Wednesday to receive committee reports, the convention will go ahead with nominating speeches if the plat form committee report, always a subject of oratory, is not ready. If this procedure Is followed Hoover's name probably will be the first to be placed in nomina tion, Alabama, a Hoover state, is expected to yield to California on whose behalf John McNab. of San Francisco, will present the name of the secretary of commerce. Liowden Next Up Next on the list will be Lowden of Illinois, who will be placed in nomination by Otis F. Glenn of Illinois, and so down the line of candidates in the alphabetical or der in which the name of their state appears. Before the balloting begins the platform must be adopted, and the party leaders hope the platform fight will be concluded by Thurs day. If that can be done, a nom inee be chosen on the same day. and the hope has been expressed that the vice presidential selec tion may also be named that day. to end the convention. The prob ability, however, is that another will be needed to finish up the work. Far into the night the city JJIHMM m NO. 1 50 Doz. DRESS Reg. 50c, 65c 39c 2 MEN'S SUMMER UNION SUITS Reg. $1.50 Value Iseethed with politics, speculations, questions as to what Coolldge is going to do, bands, parading throngs, all waiting for the big show which will open at 11 a. m. tomorrow rain or shine. EXPECT MELL0&I WILL SUPPORT MR. HOOVER (Continued from pC 1-) reading the statement to nearly a hundred newspaper correspond ents in a dimly lighted hallway, he was asked what he would recom mend. "That depends on develop ments." he 6aid. The senator declined to com ment on the statement issued! earlier by Senator-elect William S.I Vare of Pennsylvania declaring' that at the cancus of the Penneyl-' vania delegation tomorrow he would use his the delegation endorse Hoover's candidacy. Senator Reed, spokesman for the secretay, frankly stated that Mellon still wanted to know whether President Coolidge would accept the nomination and that question was holding up the an swer to his vote. How any further word could be received on the availability of I I OREGON I Today Tomorrow I I Thrills and I Suspense! I II In a Startling Drama of 1 II the Modern Jazx-Mad I 11 Youth 1 ' I And Paid for it in a I Tragic Manner I FROM THE NOVKIi j 1"ine man ana tne y Moment" ff - Comedy News Ii J ill ALE LOT NO 15" - Men's Suits Medium and light weight all wool Suit. Staple and Young Men's Models, Worsteds, Cassimeres, Tweeds and Herringbone, All sizes SPECIAL $19.85 Men s SOCKS and 75c 75c LOT Men's Suits All New Spring Models for Men and Young Men. Lat est colors and weaves la all Wool Materials. All sixes. 4 Choice from our high grade stock $29.85 President Coolidge during ti. night was not made clear. "We will arrive at a dcr-i i on that in conferences." ;:. ... t said. "Conferences with whor "Ourselves." "Do you expect President Coo lidge to send any message to th convention?" he was asked. "'Yes, certainly," Reed blurt. and then added, "of course he wi:i send some kind of greeting to tl. ' party at least." MEMORIAL PARK PLANS SHOWN TO COMMISSTtfif (Continued from pr 1) will be installed for Irrigation The roads are laid out in artistic curves. i The tract is a half mile out from ejumuon wi tioci ivau nu the racinc mgnway. i-an oi u in cludes the old Cunningham place, noted as a loganberry planting. tl amncc Regular sailings down the mighty "water boul evard" from Montreal and Quebec only four days of open sea when you cross the Atlantic via tlsmagnificent CanadianPacific route. Giant liners assure the utmost in comfort, cui sine and pleasant trav el; good' accommoda tions are arailable if you arrange bookings now. Call or write for literature. i CRfi4n Pttific Tr4vtlUrt yCkeqia Good Ife World OvrrJ W rlDeacon-Grnf Joint Pass'r Dcpc 55Tbird5t Portland Multnomah Hotri bid; (3 Gi worn easom MEN'S ATHLETIC UNION SUITS Reg. $1.00 Value 69c NO. 4 MEN'S HIGH GRADE DRESS HATS Black and Colors $4.45 Oomedy-Jfews DBDD S L I M O'IB-E 98c LZ2