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. THE OREGON STATSMAN SAIOBEGOy,. THUBSDAYQRNpfq. JULY 19,,,: 1923 IB IK- E ATI noiHin Scofields Begin Season's - Hay Baling; Raspberry Picking Finished I Neighbors Business." that broks all laach Tseords reieatly at the EMnani Mr J. Hurt RnrtOT. di rector of the Manhattan Players u;i this U the fastest comedy be has ever played, and that it will be a real treat to the people of Salem. - - Beaa Sabear" the mishty drama of the French foreign le gion, will be shown in conjunction with -Other People's Business." NORTH SANTIAM. July IS. (Special). Mr. Hnpp's house was destroyed by fire Friday, but with the help of aeighboDs adjoining buildings and household goods were saved. Mr. aad Mr. Bert Kelthley went to Oregon City Sunday and while there Tlslted the Hamilton family. former residents of this place. ' i sereaieen unexpected guests -were served an Impromptu dinner Sunday at the home of Mrs. Anna Huddleston. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mlnter and children Wanda and Bobbie of Brownsville, E. D. Powell of Tyee. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Cobb and Gar land Huddleston of Willamina. Mr. aad Mrs. C. L. Toang and children Wilbur. Kenneth and El sie, Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Cobb and grandchildren Clifton and Mar ine, and the hostess and her little daughter Lela. Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Brown of Salem visited at the home of Mrs. Brown's sister, Mrs. Witcraft, , Sunday. Witcrafts Tuesday finished the eereon's picking ef blackcaps. Elton Bond returned home from Philomath Friday. Mrs. Frank Guenkel went to Mens ma Friday to join her hus band who had gone there recent 1y to work for the Silrerton Lum her company. Scofields began the season's hay baling Friday. 8IAM FILM SHOWING A vtvi-J and thrilling conception of man's tight tor life in the northern Siamese jungle la now on vlsw at the Hollywood theater. This new subject Is an unusual piece of work. THIN BOOK WORTH $1000 DONOR WONT CLAIM IT Catiae from pc 1.) in the world. There are a number of libraries and individuals look-j iae for conies. Original conies.! are Fanchon aad Marco's famous t ., .k. ia nkw 11 aaa i San Francisco Junior Beauties and It will perhaps be higher. BATII TUB' SPLASH rm F & M EFFORT Splash . yourself with laughter! Sunday and Monday at the Elal- nore Fanchon and Marco's hil arioua "Bath Tub" Idea will be here brim full of joy and fun. Chief among the gloom chasers who'll be on band to entertain are those . two dark southern gentle-. men. Sweet William and Bad Bill famous Brunswick recording com edlaas. This will be the first stage - appearance of these droll joy -beys since they signed exclus ively with Brunswick. Their re cordings have swept the 'entire country breaking all sales figures Indicating- the : tremendous popu larity their comedy style has achieved. Next among the -gloom chasers There are reprints, but the high class demand is for original cop ies. - The copy belonging to the They'll be seen in smart dance numbers, cleverly costumed and in a surprise stunt that's sure to make bath tubs famoua. The "Bath Tub" Idea also in- Oregon state library Is in the troduces to west coast audiences. Tim McCoy in "Riders of The Dark," Oregon Tim McCoy, whose face is known wherever motion pictures are shown, has been upon the treen less than two years, though lie has been starred in a dozen big Western and historical film dramas. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer star ol "Riders of the Dark," the pro duction now being shown at the Oregon theater, was starred in the first picture he ever appeared In' "War Paint." He never bucked the extra list, never played char acters nor bits and was never on? the stage. He was selected as a Western star because he Is a real Westerner a rancher In Wyoming and an adopted member of the Arapaho Indian tribe. McCoy is a daring horseman, knows the plains and moutnalns and is personally acquainted with more than twenty thousand In dians, including many aged war riors of the Sioux and Blackfeet campaigns. His "Riders of the Dark" is a thrilling picture of California pio neer days and is replete with stir ring action and adventure. Doro thy Dwan has the leading femi nine5 role, while the supporting rast includes: Roy D'Arcy. Bert Roach, Frank Currier, Rex Lease. Dick Sutherland and others. The film was directed by Nick Grinde. "Other People's Business" Elsinore Tonight, Friday The Manhattan Players will -present "Other People's" Business" at the Elsinore theater tonight and Friday vault. It is too valuable for less careful protection. Will Sot Take It Bark Yesterdays' Miss Marvin phoned to Mr. Harris, telling him of the present cash value of his gift. Her New England conscience would not allow her to keep silent, when she learned from a late quotation of the value of the gift. She of fered to return the cony to Mr. Harris. But he refused to accept it. This may raise a question of justice to be decided at some later time. bythe legislature or the state board. There is not avail able any appropriation now that would allow Miss Marvin to pay Mr. Harris $1000, or any other considerable sura for the precious volume. Or to offer it. But she has offered it back to him. He has refused. Pershing Wanted It General Pershing wanted a 'copy at the time of the securing of his copy by- Mr. Harris, and this In formation was conveyed to Mr Harris. But he had secured his copy for the Oregon state library, and he would not part with it. Mr. Pershing may be one of the prospective - customers now who have made the ruling price $1000. It is not known here. iae "Mars ana stripes." as many fathers and mothers and other relatives of the doughboys in France will remember, con tained the intimate news of the doings of the American armies: the rumors and the news of the big drives, prospective and then going on all written by Ameri can newspaper men: with the American newspaper flavor. The writer of these lines remembers that "Scoop" Hanson, a Statesman reporter who was with the Ameri can forces, worked on the "Stars and Stripes." It is believed that another former Statesman report er worked on it. Mr. Hanson is now in San Francisco, employed on one of the newspapers of that city. It will be remembered by a number of Salem people that when Mr. Hanson got back home from the war. he did not need to con suit the Salam telephone directory1 for any familiar number. - They had all been in his head all theJ time. He likely has them there yet. But this is only a side light of this story. The main story is the fact that this thin little boo is now worth a thousand dollars. If vou were Lucille Page. Fanchon and Mar co's newest -protege. - Miss Page promises to be one of the smart est, fastest acrobatic steppers on the west coast circuit. Others in this show of pulchri tude, pep and fun are the Gilmar tin Quadruplets, the only sister dancing team of its kind, and you'll hardly be able to tell these girls apart: and last but not least Maxine and BoPeep. two song and dance beauties. It's a smart, cool breezy show bubbling over with laughs and fun. pretty girls and snappy en tertainment. HOOVER BACKS FARM AID PLANK OF OWN (Continued from page 1.) manure aiiu mem IfllHI n thf n .1ie nf Mr II ,..., u , ..... imiin, nuuiu farce comedy is from the pen of i you take back vour present' Charles Harrison, who wrote! Note Bill Carver was the other Why Wives Worry" and "Your j former Statesman reporter who worked on the "Stars and Stripes. ! He was in the circulation depart- : ment. construes the agricultural plan! L ..... .... in me republican piatiorm as ai obligation of the whole country uot a part of the country. Mr. Hoover interprets the plank a; pledging all the resources of the government to the solution of the agricultural problem. Hammill. first saying he was a Lowden supporter for the presi dential nomination, declared he now was personally for the mar who was chosen. He lauded Hoover. The governor said he was convinced Mr. Hoover on Au gust 11, the occasion of his noti fication of the nomination at Pa lo Alto. Calif., would come for ward with a comprehensive farnr program that will command the admiration of middle-western farmers. platform plank aa a "mar of words." thf Nebraskan said the democratic plank was -specific and definite in setting out thej provisions of the MeXary-Hangan measure," equalization foe vnnd all. H explained , that ha knsw-J what that clank meant because ha helped to draw It. Mrs.: Hoover appeared with her husband on the rear platform at Omaha, receiving the women's committee and a bouquet of flow ers from the Girl Scouts, but after the train got under way aha was told of the death of. her father. C. D. Henry, at Placerrille. Cal and kept to her compartment for the remainder of the day. Shirt Talk Made ' Mr. Hoofer spoke briefly to the crowds at Fremont and express ing his appreciation of their gath ering at .the station to greet him at Grand Island he shook bands with the engineer and fireman of the locomotive that hauled his train from Omaha and then posed for pictures with them on tne rear platform, placing his arm around the shoulders of the engi neer. At most of the stops the candidate leaned far over the rail tesshake hands with his well wish ers. At Grand Island a crowd of boys in overalls came up and be had to use both hands in greet ing them, after .news of the death of Mr. Henry reached the special train, it was announced that the welcome home reception planned for Friday at San Francisco had been postponed until after the no tification ceremones. The train will reach Oakland at 8:30 a. m., Friday and the party will ferry over to San Francisco and motor directly to Palo Alto, where the funeral of Mr. Henrry will be held Friday afternoon, probably in the chapel of Leland Stanford univer sity. ' . Interment will be in the family plot in the university city. e ini fDlllVCIMUlT LH IIHLLI U IUIIII o ; j st 01 H Numerous Buying Orders, in Many Lines Send Prices to High Levels I TODAY Ol R FIRST SYXCKOXIZKI) I VITAPHONE I I COM KB Y FEATl'IlE I - v CTM . - .s. - HOW TO BE HAPPY-. THOUGH MARRIED! WAftNEA 105. i cn I en nil !49nliAnA ' Vaudeville I .... -i ACTS ; FEDERAL PRISON SCENE OF SERIOUS RIOTING (Continued from pj 1.) oities mans resulted from the looting of a mail truck of 1ST. 000 in san uiego in 1920. but subse quently his dramatic train hold ups ana prison escapes in Oregon and Washington gave him nation wide notoriety. Gardner escaped from his guard near rortiand. Ore., while being taken to McNeil island, in Puget Sound, to serve a term for the San Ulego robbery. For several days ne was at liberty, during which he fled south and held up a train near Newcastle. Calif., obtaining securities valued at $175,000. recaptured, Gardner escaned again by leaping from a train near Castle Rock. Wash., after he and a fellow prisoner had disarmed two guards, and manacled them hand and foot. He was taken af ter a search of that vicinity, and finally was placed in McNeil is land prison. . wun several other prisoners. Gardner made a dash for liberty on Labor day, 1921, and was the only one to escape. He was ar rested in Ariiona for mail robbery tbe next year, and was sentenced to Leavenworth after conviction at Phoenix on a charge of holding up a mail train at Maricopa. Long Discussion Held ABOARD HOOVER TRAIN. NORTH PLATTE, Neb.. July 18 For more than five hours today Herbert Hoover discussed the farm relief question with repub lican leaders as his special train sped toward California through the corn belt where this issue is the most acute. Governor John Hammill. of Iowa. left the republican presiden tial candidate convinced that un der the Hoover leadership a real plan on agricultural aid would be offered, but Governor Adam Mc Mullen. of Nebraska, indicated very clearly that he wasn't at all satisfied that his party was pre pared to meet the issue, although he did say that Hoover had "a comprehensive understanding of the agriculture issue." Emerging from the candidate'? private car after a conversation of half an hour. Hammill. who ! opposed Hoover in the pre-con- vention fight, eaid that in his judgment the party standard bearer was going to offer "a plan more sound and intelligent than any ever offered to the American people." Details Withheld The Iowan, who called the first corn belt conference and who has fought for the equalization fee principle of the McNary-Haugeo bill, would not go into details, saying that Mr. Hoover would elaborate the plan in his accept ance address at Palo Alto on Au gust 11. He did say. however, that the equalization fee was out of the relief picture. McMullen. who attempted to or ganize the revolt of the farmers for the Kansas City convention, spent more than four hours with' Hoover, apparently undertaking to win him over to the equaliza tion fee or its equivalent. He said that if a plan could be devised that would do what he believed the equalization fee would do he was ready to accept It. Describing the republican farm STATE PROJECT AID BY GOVERNMENT UNLIKELY " (Catiai tiw pr I.) pel led to cancel the appointment because of basinesa matters re quiring his return to Washington. - Oregon's senators asked that they be kept. advised as. to any progress that ia mads ia the re organisation of the stats irriga tion projects under, the plan oat lined by . the state reclamation commission. Following the con ference the- visiting legislator were guests of the Salem Rotary club, - RUSH LAST WORK, NEW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (Continued from pge 1.) bert. chairman of the building committee, the first unit of the or gan will be installed sometime in August. The organ is being built by the Reuter Organ company in Kansas. This company has placed several fine organs in Oregon, the most recent one being in the new Jew ish synagogue at Portland. Others are in the Baptist church at Eu gene and at the University of Oregon. A history of the local church organization is to be off the press for distribution at tbe time of dedication. Its compilation has been under the direction of Mrs. Estella G. Ford. Its 100 pages will cover the entire history of the church from the time It was a small mission. Separate chap ters are given to different organ izations including tbe Sunday school. Endeavor, and missionary societies. Apart from the Interest it will have for the members of the Presbyterian congregation, it will have value as part of the his tory of Salem and the state. All the building operations have been under the direction of one committee, headed by Joseph H. Albert. Other members of the committee are Mrs. George J. Pearce, Paul Wallace. R. C. Davis J. P. Bates and Wlliam McGil rhrist. Jr. NEW YORK. July 18. (AP) Stock prices today staged one of the most Impressive rallies in, re cent weeks. Buying orders em braced a wide variety of stocks. the gains in the standard indus trials and rails ranging from 1 to 7 points, while a sprinkling of spe cialties were marked up 8 to 11 points. The recovery was stim ulated by the argent retreat of a trapped short Interest which had been ballt up on the theory that a further stiffening of money rates was in prospect. Total sales fell below 1,500.000 shares, but were the largest in a week. Mercantile and mail order shares responded to reports of large current business and favor able recapitalization and dividend developments. R. H.Macy soared 14 points to a new high record in reflection of the decision of dl rectors to split up the stock on a 2 for 1 basis. National Bellas Hess and McCrory stores each ran up about 6 points. Montgomery Ward, which Is expanding Its re tail sales organization, climbed more than ,6 points to a new peak at 161 78 and closed within a point of the top. ' . Airplane and express shares also recorded spectacular gains. Amer ican Express and Wright aeronau tical each soared 11 points, Adams Express 9 and Curtiss aeroplane 6. Buying of Wright was influenced, in part, by rumors of the early in troduction of a new high powered airplane motor. Although the radio corporation is reported to have earned only about 80 cents a share on the common in the sec ond quarter, the stock jumped 8 points to 171 H. Burroughs adding machine, directors of which de clared a stock dividend of 25 per cent, climbed 14 points to a new top at 175 and then yielded to 172 4. General Motors, which has been heavily bought lately on expecta tions of a substantial extra divi dend next month, moved up near ly S points to 110 7-1 and then alinasd back below ISO. Chrysler. which earned $3.18 la the flratJ half of liM as against 3.l ui the corresponding; period last year. closed SH points higher at 7Jtt t.im A Pacific, with an ex treme aaln of 10 points at . 170 nart of which was lost, again at traetsd attention In the rauroaa group. Total of Forty Drowned When French Ship Sinks HANOI. French Indo-China, Ju ly (AP) Death toll in tne shipwreck of tha French steamer Caplay. which foundered at tne mouth of the Songtambo river yesterady. was sst at forty today. with as many Injured. Most of those dead were drown ed when lifeboats were crushed between the ship's hull and the rocks as they were lowered 6a the starboard aide. Approximately 200 passengers were saved. Upper Columbia River Salmon Run Very Light GOLDENDALE. Wash.. July 18. (AP) The summer sslmon run on tne upper toiumou river is said by fishermen to be the light est in many years. Commercial fishers are having difficulty securing a sufficient supply for retail markets in towns along the river. Blueback salmon are selling at 25 cents a pound at White Salmon. Pioneer Families Many At Champpeg Chautauqua 1 CHAM PO EG, ; July- It.-(Special. losenh L. Carter, a former member of the Oregon legislature from Hood River cuonty, is tha oldest person in. camp at chautaun qua. John L. Parrott and wire ot Polk county.-are in camp. Mr. Parrott is a nativs uregonian. aced 74 years. The family, of Hon. A. R, snum- wt. tne- tatter a lurmcr of the state house of representa tives, now a memoer or tne siaie fair board, has a" comfortable camp In s shady grove. a niiunt family reunion on Suidar last was that or wuuam Wiley of Hlllsboro. and sisters. Mrs. Annie McDonald, of New- -m m s Hr- Mr. Dora waiters, oi Mo desto. Cat; Mrs. Ella Wiley Mead, of Pasadena. CaU and Mrs. Be rn emma Pool and her husband, of Portland. The maternal grand parents of the Wiley family. Mr. and Mrs. William Baldra, the for mer an early day employe of the tbe Hudson Bay company. What Is now Yamhill connty Be ing the place where the movement started for a civil government in tha Ororoo country. Pacific col-i lege, located In the county of Yam hill, was accorded the first pro gram of the first historical Chau tauqua In Oregon. Tha nrlnrfnal talk at Tuesday ... k rf t T iter. Marion, were wun ner iouj uijui a uintiua . - -- Lichtenberger, professor of socloi-om reiurnta io wiunua i". ogy in tb TJnlTersity Of Pennsy! vania. In Philadelphia. The do. -tor apoke ripon world advano. ment Sine May 2. 1S43." .Other speakers were Prefess .r Alfred Powers of the Unlveri y of Oregon, and Sam Koser, secre tary of stats. On Saturday at I p. nt. PIoutH-r Day, Jadgs Harry Belt,-supreme court Justice, will speak on "Win nlng of the West," Congressman W. C. Hawiey, a natira son. an t Professor Frank O. Young, wilt also speak on that day. Noted Actress Seriously III, London Report Says London. July 18. (AP)--Dame Ellen Terry, noted actress, was' lying critically ill at her honu in Kent tonight. She was attend ed by her daughter. Edith CraU. I and her son, Gordon Craig, who were hastily summoned yesterday.; . It was announced that Damej , Terry had " a seizure" Tuesday morning. Her condition is caux ing anxiety to her friends ! cause of her age and the fact thai she suffered indisposition las' February. The Associated Press was to!, I over the telephone tonight that bar condition was unchanged. Hit brother. Fred Terry, and her sis Two Oil Tankers Turned Over to Portland Firm PORTLAND. Ore.. July 13 (AP) A Washington, D. C dis patch to the Portland Oregonlan says the United States shipping board has designated the Colum bia Pacific Steamship company of Portland as managing operator for two of the four oil tankers which the Merchant Fleet corpo ration now has in service and in reserve on the Pacific coast. The dispatch says the tankers which will be operated by tbe Portland shipping company are the Diiworth and the Meton. They carry fuel oil from ports near the production center in California to the supply tanks of tbe shipping board at Honolulu," Manila and Oriental ports. The Diiworth is now at sea with a cargo of oil for the trans-Pacif ic stations. She carries a cargo of 61.658 barrels and 10.966 bar rels in the bunkers. The Meton is laid up temporarily near San Pedro. The other two tankers of the fleet corporation on tbe west coast will be offered for sale by the oard, the dispatch says. OREGON LAST TIMES TODAY TIM MY in OF THE Romance of Glamorous Frontier Days I v TUaU6 LUOT I DDnm HOLLYWOOD LAST TIMES TODAY THRILLING - INCREDIBLE TihU EL SIN ORE SALEM'S GREATEST ENTERTAINMENT MNIIMallHItWa I THURSDAY FRIDAY MANHATTAN PLAYERS PRESENT . 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