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; - TheettTORTCON Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, August 29, 1928 EXCEPTIONAL BILLS NOW IN THEATRES HERE; - ''' ' " " i i in i i m'"1' liyr'"" ni.jl'" "f" t M ill". LJL.il '''lillUW " " - f'l-I-l Several Changes In Personnel : Of Players - -This week's performance of the Manhattan Players, when they present "The Patsy will mark the last appearance here of Grace Bentlev and : Florence . Smith. Helen Saanders, a tall, striking brunette who is quite young, will play most of the leads. Miss Saunders is a product of the The atre Guild of San Francisco, with seasons of stock, under Ed Red inood at Sacramento, and two years with Henry Duffy In his Lone Beach 'and Glendale com panies. ' I Miss May Sheldon will take the part of character woman which Miss Smith has been playing. Miss Sheldon has had many years of experience In both eastern and ... Western- companies. 'She comes to Salem direct from a year s en gagement at the Wigwam thea tre, Oakland, CaL Miss Sheldon has also written several success ful plays. J ; ; Due to vacancies that recently hare occurred in the Manhattan Players Merna -Pardee, a cute lit tle red haired woman who has a world of pep and charm will be here as ingenue. For the past three years Miss Pardee has been at the Fulton and Wigwam thea tres at Oakland. Harry J. Leland is coming to -direct and play the character roles. He comes from the Duffy Players in Portland. He will fill In ' the place made by the de parture of AddisOn Richards, who has left to join the Moroni Olsen Players. Mr. Leland has had sev eral seasons on Broadway. His last engagement in New York was " -Twelve Miles Out," which he also helped to stage in conjunc tion with the author. William An thony McGulre. Mr. Duffy first brought him to the coast to help wun mis piay. t Jack Holt, which is his right name, is coming direct from the Portland Duffy Players. Re had ade many friends in Portland II to bis charming personality. lis most noteworthy performance -4 the Heilig was in "Meet the "Vile." in which he played oppo site Charlotte Treadway, in the juvenile leading role . Old Oregon Trail Picture That Is Different BY RALPH CURTIS Oregon's open country, still inl80a and these children are.consid- spots as wild as when the covered wagons creaked westward adapts Itself ideally to the filming of 'vestern stories, and to prove this 'act. Art Mix has produced his first all-Oregon picture "The Old Oregon Trail," and Is now show ing It at the Oregon theatre here, together with a prologue in which a-number of the members of the company take part. f Not only has Mix found a new locale for western pictures, but he produces "westerns" that are dif ferent; no Indian fights, no mur ders, plenty of action but all true td life and to the real spirit of the west Oregon's west, where j hard work and not gun play con tributed most to progress. ijAH of the action was filmed in the vicinity of the John Day riv fr. part of it on the rodeo grounds at Condon. take oart in the nmUnio wwititv cards at home. Betty Gram himself, Dolores Booth, the iaj? woman; Martha LaRue. and toe Mchols sisters, lone and Irene. It includes a fancy roping act by Mix, several dance numbers and songs. j&A special matinee today will be given for pioneers and newsboys f the New Statesman. ilHTFls : TO VISIT IN EAST SILVERTON, Ore., Aug. 28 (Spec) The Misses Catherine atid. Helen Ireland, who have spent tne summer with their grand- ntotner Mrs. S. P. Ireland on West Main street, are leaving Silverton Wednesday for Portland, where they will stop for a few days be- rare returning to their home in Grand Forks, N. D. F. Masher and dauchter. Mrs. Lillian Barn ham of Los An geles, are enjoying the week at th roast. 't Tr. and Mrs. Gordon McCall ana children Kathryn and Wal lace, of Reedsport are' spending - day with Mrs. McCall's sister. Mrs. E. Johnson, before going on 'i-fh Info Washington for a va- iT'fi trip. the Rer. and Mrs. O. A. Ben itvf are taking a short vacation. fcf rp will be no services in tbe 'Tiristian church, except Sunday .e .noi, Sunday, September 2. ;Ufter a month's Tlslt with rela. Mves and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Bristol and family left Silverton the first of the week for taelr home In Callpatra, Calif. ? Mrs. Frank Bass and children, Shirley and Millard, retimed Sat urday from a It-day its to Trontdale. j VIda Benpett, who has been at tending the summer session at the (J, of W. la Seattle, has Just- re rerned to Silverton where she will ?tJume her teaching la the local high sehool. xeuow BaseDau Scried Out With ft View to Change MILWAUKEE, Wi.t Aug. f AP) What is believed to be the first time a yellow baseball lias ever been need In profeasionat play wa experimented with here today In the second 'game of - a doable header between Milwau kee and Louisville. - President T. I. Hickey, of the American asso ciation war .hero to see the -.re uit,. ';' -- .s - Screen Life By Wade HOLLYWOOD. Cal. There Is thundering of horses' -hoofs on Hollywood's horison. The c hard rldlng heroes of the movie . west are about to gallop into talking pictures. Apparently it is going to be a race T between William S. Hart and Tom Mix. Hart Is in the midst of ne gotiatio ot which be hopes will be settled within a. week or two. and MU says ' bis new boss, J. P. William 8. Hart Kennedy is sending him sound recording equipment with whieh to try out bis own voice and that of Tony, his horse. - Time alone will tell the outsoeme of the (ontest. for at this stage of talk ing picture - history no man can predict when bis . sound-equtp-ment and aonad-ezperts will . be ready to begin shooting. , Silence At Last Mix has an Interesting slant on the new talking screen. "We have been calling our pictures tne sil ent drama for many years.' be rays. Now, , at last, inanas w talking pictures, wa stars are really going to get a little silent 'NX Portland Woman One of Group to. Make Scene at French Diplomat Event PORTLAND. Ore.. Aog. 2S. iAT Mrs. Raymond uram Swing, mentioned in connection with Use attempt ot feminists to rail ii Don President Doumergne, w rnrmertv Betty Cram, of Portland, the daughter of Mrs. A. P. Gram. 1041 Alameda Drive. While a student at .the Univer sity of Oregon, she went to Wash ington, D. C to aid In the fight for woman's suffrage. After the success of the movement in this ! country, she went to ixmaon to study music. There sne mamea Raymond Swing, correspondent for an American newspaper. Mrs. Swing v: lea her moiner i i- ri. ,nH ret nrned to her home in London early in August. She is the mother ot a four-year- a six-year-old ered her major interest in life. Demonstration Unexpected RAMBOITILLET; France, Aug. 28. (AP) Doris Stevens. Amer ican feminist leader, at the head of a group of eight women, put unexpected color into a lunch giv en by President Doumergne to Secretary of State Kellogg and other signers of the Kellogg-Brl-and pact today, by trying to make her way into the presence of the president. In behalf ot the equal rights cause. Miss Stevens herself and three of her colleagues mncnea sandwiches, beer and mineral water at the polico station, nav ing bean conducted there with some vigor by officers attached to the presidency, because two of them. Miss Stevens and Mrs. Lor- inz Pickering had lett tnetr iaen- lead-'swing. of Portland. Ore., and the wlfft of an Enxlish correspondent an ardent sympathizer, was tasen along because she refused to move on when ordered. Tne iounn woman to throw In her lo? with the Americans was Fanny Bun- and, a French agitator ror wom en's rights. Released Afterward The women, were released about halt past three o'cloek after all President Doumergue's guests bad gone. They went back to Paris. Secretary Kellogg and Ambas sador Herrick as well as others of the president's guests were un aware of the incident. A group composed of Miss Stev ens, Mrs. Pickering. Mrs, Swing. Miss Bunand, Maria Goschl of Italy. Mis Flock and Madame Van Hedern of Germany, with Madames Auscaler and Netter of France, arrived before the gates of the presidential chateau Just as Secretary Kellocg's car drove fJSPECT m SITE An active campaign may be! launched with a view to obtaining the state legislature's santion of a road from Detroit intersecting tbe new Cascadia-Sisters road across the Cascades. Reports to this effect, growing ont of a conviction that Marlon coanty is being discriminated against by tbe state highway com mission, were .being circulated here yesterday. Statistics pre sented to the commission show ing that this coanty has received far less than its share ot state road appropriations, considering the amount of money paid over by the county, have fallen on deaf ears so far as the conamisaka la concerned.' We have repeatedly approach ed the highway commission abont this road, but wlthoat effect," Coanty Commissioner Porter said Tuesday. He declined to commit himself or the county court, how ever, en the question of whether it would get behind an active lob by la the legislature when, that body meets . this winter. v , This is the way Linn county got . Its road said Porter. . "It took a legislative enactment to do It. Under the terms of the bill the - county and the! state divide expenses on a 60-69 basis." -Coanty Judge Seigmund made a vacation trip over the proposed route of the new road last week. Roadmaster Culver j and Deputy Rpadmaeter Swart , accompanied him On the trip.- r : , ; j COM CIS in Hollywood Werner drama. Heretofore everyone on the set has talked, from the di rector to the electricians.' with the star trying to act in competition with all this conversation. Now the v star will hare a chance to talk for the microphone and the others will have to keep quiet. As for, the megaphone that belongs to the director: . he can use it now for ; a stool. The megaphon ing days are over." Canned Example . . Even the pictures still befog made without dialog are being In fluenced by the- vogue of "can ned music on the screen. . John Gilbert and Greta Garbo are do ing their latest lore scenes to the arcompaaiement of a super- nhonograph. instead of the usual stadia orchestra; and Tay Garn- ett. "director.- has been using a radio singer on his seta lately. Talking Grief There is a. reason for the an noyance some producers register when talking pictures are ssen tioaed. .Some ot them are making each picture twice, now, in order to have a good silent Tersion la addition to the talking rersion. Douglas MacLean's latest. "The Carnation Kid. is going through this double production : system, and Johnny Hlnes is making an entirely sperate talking Torsion of hia silent "Pair of Sixes." np. They unfurled a banner on which was Inscribed: "We demand an equal rights treaty." . Woman Guards Treaty One end of the banner was guarded by a woman holding an American flag and another wom an with the French colors was on the other extremity. A police of-f ficer on duty at the Ramboullet chateau made a running Jump and grabbed the banner, handing it to a gejidarme ana oraering me groupof women to disperse. The women rod their ground ana the officer confiscated the flag. repeating his order that they move on. The answer this time was a forward movement toward the 'chateau gate. Another plain ciontes man came up. pui nu advance was checked. Thereupon the officer demanded the occasion for what he called "this most un timely and ill-advised manifesta tion." Demand Repeated Miss Stevens replied that the committee of international action of the national woman's party of the United States, of which she is chairman, was bent on seeing President Doumergue and pre senting to him a proposed treaty to establish the legal equality of me nand women throughout the world. Who are you and where do you come from?" the officer asked. 'From America, from England. even from France." was the reply. "Well," retorted the officer, let. those not French understand that one does not call on the pres ident of the republic in this man ner. Let them take their ban ners and unfurl them at home if they want to, but they cannot be tolerated . here." Surprise Party Given Children At Playgrounds , Something unexpected but nev ertheless enjoyable was on the program at the city playgrounds yesterday afternoon. All the youngster were treated to cups of ice cream by representatives ot the Portland Telegram, who explained to them the club subscription plan of the New Oregon Statesman and the Telegram, "and gave subscrip tion blanks to as many of the chil dren, as wished to work for sub scriptions for the two papers. The program for Friday, the last day of the layground season. win vary among the grounds. In general the favorite games and sports will rale the final after noon. At some of the grounds there will be races and contests, with prizes for the winners. One of the features at the Fourteenth street grounds will be the judging of collections of newspaper clip pings of the playground news for the summer. t Now we are told that Italy has a new airport, "the best In the world." Italy nnder Mussolini goes In tor superlatives the way Germany did under Wilbelm. Baker Democrat. NOW PLAYING Powerfal Drama!. 111,1 T A wm TfV . ; - t Side of the V-Se red-haired "If girl as a woman of -the suiderwarld lives tbe life of the , ' underworld tbe - underworld of fear, of fight, of thrills aad of sacrifice, Clara ' : -"" Bow's first dramatic starring picture. i - - - - " ' ..." ; - Master of Banjo Is Coming Here On Sunday Here's .news . . . and HOW! Watch ont for Sunday Septem ber 2 i That will bo a lucky day for pa trons of the Elsinore theatre, for that's the day that Eddie Peabody, wizard of the banjo, arrives with hia great big Fanchon and Marco Idea; "Banjoys." ; Eddie is mak ing his first tour of the entire circuit. Ill 'a Fanchon and Marco Idea built specially to feature him. and from the records ho has al ready established we'd advise yon to come early If yon wanfto get in. - , Can Eddie play the banjo? That's like asking if Napoleon could lead an army or if Chopin could write music! Everybody does something well. Eddie does many things well, but there's one thing that he does better than snyone else, and that is . . . play ing the banjo. The magnetic personality of the little, red-coated leader has made his name a household word in the coast cities he has already played The Elsinore theatre is anticipat ing one of the greatest weeks in its history during Eddie's engage ment. Don't forget the date he starts Sunday, September 2, and is here three days only. Better come early. TRIP ON SATURDAY 10 ELK HE PLAN Saturday morning the junior board of the Salem T. M. C. A. and members of the Salem Hi-T club will leave with their new leaders for a week end conference at Elk Lake. The purpose of this conference is for the boys and their new leaders to get acquaint ed and for them to work out -to gether a program of activities for the coming year. Leaders of the senior division and of the uni versity division have held such conferences for several years, but this is tbe first time that tie jun ors have had such a program. Kernan T. Markuson, physical director who succeeds Bob Board man, and Win Wolfe, recently ap pointed boys' secretary will go as honor guests. Other leaders in clude Secretary Kells, Dean Hewitt of the Willamette university law school. Prof. Lockenour of the same school. Dwight Adams. Bill East and Hugh Adams, Junior Y. M. C. A. members who will make the trip will be Don Seig- mund, Phil Bell, Wes Heise. Lynn Heise. Irving Hale. Howard Adams, Norman Winslow, Ronald Hewitt. Ed Roth, Max Langford. Wilson Seigmund and Lester Col- gan. Plans Proposed For Staging Big . "Dress-Up WeebT Plans to stage a "dress up week;" in Salem were discussed at ameetlng Tuesday noon of a number of retail clothiers and furnishers. The week of Septem ber 10 to 15 was suggested. This matter was brought before a meeting ot the Salem Advertis ing club's general committee Toes day evening. The commute adpot ed a resolution to the effect that since the annual fall window dis play which It has sponsored for the last two years will be held the same week beginning on Wed nesday, September 12, that being an event in which practically all of Salem's merchants participate while the "dress np" week would be for one class of merchants only, the Advertising club wel comes the idea of "dress up week" but will not take any part In sponsoring it officially. Lindbergh Flies From Medford To Puget Sound SEATTLE. Aug. 28 (AP) After circling over hte city for some minntes, apparently unde cided where ,to land. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh eompleted a flight from Medford, Opegoni to Seattle by landing on Sand Point aviation field at 3:01 p. m. today. He was greeted by Commander James Price. A crowd was await ing Lindbergh's arrival at Boeing Municipal field. HOLLYWOOD FAMILY NIGHT BrfeLTE DOVE ia "The Seolesi Bride Bring tbe Family SOe atf ' R EPORTER GOES Newspaper Man Tells Ex periences; Transatlantic Hop On Friday LONDON, Aug. 28. (AP) Traveling at the rate of 10 miles an hour, a correspondent for the Associated Press today experien ced during one hour what Charles A. Levine, Bert Acosta, and their passenger. Miss Mable Boll, will experience during the first part of their projected trans-Atlantic trip. With Acosta at the wheel, and Levine and Miss Boll beside him, the correspondent went through a series of - maneuvers devoted to testing the plane and breaking In the motor. The Queen of the Air," a glis tening all-metal monoplane, took off gracefully after a short run at the Croydon airdrome and soared over, the suburbs of south London until it neared the Thames. Then it turned and sped back. Pilot Acosta subjected the plane to severe tests, banking, climbing at steep heights and making sev eral landings and take-offs. The latter was made to test the undercarriage of the machine. The "Queen of the Air" is a much more comfortable plane than the famous Columbia. Rows of gasoline cans line the interior with space in between for a per son to walk from the cockpit far into the fuselage. Entrance to the plane is gained by a door in the body; in the Columbia it was nec essary to climb over the side. The new plane probably will be equipped with new landing gear. The experiments today showed that extra strong shock absorbers were required because of the add ed weight of gasoline which will require 20 hours more of constant flying before it can be ready for the big hop. If conditions permit, the flight to America will be undertaken Friday, JITOBS SHIFTED BY SCHOOL Two janitors were removed from Salem schools, a reassign ment of janitors was made and three new Janitors hired at Tues day night's school board meeting. Because City Superintendent George W. Hug is in the south election of teachers for the sev eral vacancies in the system did not come before the board. The janitors dismissed were Perley Hysler at McKinley school and J. T. BiVch at Washington. The removals were for cause. vacancies at Highland, the senior high and -McKinley, which were filled as follows: Sherman Nelson, Highland; Jack Archi bald, high-school, and Frank Ber kett, McKinley. All other janitors were reelected. The bid of the Larmer company of $8.90 per ton, F.O.B. the schools house, was accepted for 35 tone of coal for the Leslie junior high; assessments on school prop erty totaling $661.40 were order ed paid; and partitions were or dered built to make cloak rooms for two class rooms at the High land school. School Architect Lyle Barthol omew showed the preliminary drawings for a new grandstand at the high school athletic field and layout of the playing grounds, which when completed will in clude regulation football field, baseball diamond, track, several practice fields and tennis courts. Paroled Patient Back In Hospital After fighting residents in the vicinity of 1325 Ferry street, where he was staying at the home of his mother. Tuesday afternoon H. C. Smith of Portland, recently paroled from the state hospital "ter spending a few weeks there, was taken into custody by the po lice and returned to tbe institu tion. Although a number of per. sons in the nelrhhnrhnMi frightened- at Smith's actions. -he oiade no attempt to harm anyone so far as the police could learn. n NOW A Picture of Oregon Made in Oregon OM 1M 66 K New! Thrilling! Dramatic! Based on Authentic Dates and Data of Oregon's Early Days ' ; .: -.v A Picture the Whole Family Should Sea I ATUOSPflEMC oir 8TAOB PROLOGUfc, - Wheat Queen t vs - Reno, the banner wheat county of Kansas, the leading state in wheat production, has crowned Miae -Elda Achillea queen of the wheat festival at4Iutciiiaon. IS Gordon Scott Wrote Note On Missing Pole Plane, Father Asserts s. " REDONDO. Cal.. Aug AP) The handwriting of a note beach here, was declared by J. picked up in a bottle, at beach here was declared by J. L. Scott to be that of his missing son, Gordon Scott, who with Jack Frost, avi ator, was lost a year ago in the Dole flight from California to Ha waii. "I believe that my son Gordon wrote that note. I recognize the hand-writing," declared the elder Scott. He said further that he was sure of the writing, and pointed out a peculiar formation of the in itial "G" as part oT his identifica tion. The note, written on a fragment ot cloth, apparently torn from a shirt, read: "Run out of gas. Dropped 2, 000 mi southwest of SC. In sight of desert Is. Not sure of reaching it. Please send help. Not much water left. "J. Frost." "G. Scott." The note was said by the Redon do police to have been found on the beach by two Los Angeles boys who turned the bottle over to a motorist to give to the police, and an effort Is being made to find him to identify the container. That a tightly corked bottle. drifting on top of the water, could have traveled 2,000 miles in a year was declared quite pos sible by officials of the govern ment weather bureau at Los An geles. They said that winds could have carried the bottle along in a generally northwestern direction and might eventually bring it ashore on this coast. Speaker Funeral . Set For Friday; Details Lacking jrunerai arrangements for Charles E. Speaker, a resident of the Salem Heights district for the past 16 years who died at his home Tuesday morning following a prolonged illness have not yet been completed, relatives reported last night. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon and Inter ment will be in the Cityriew cem etery. but aside from this final ar- rangements await word from sons who reside in Los Angeles. Mr. Speaker was prominent In local lodge circles, being a mem ber of Salem Lodge No. 4, A. F. Ic A. M., the Elks' lodge and Chemeketa lodge No. 1, of bte Odd Fellows. Surviving are: bis widow, two daughters, Mrs. R. D, Bohamon of Salem nad Mrs. Ruth Gllvln of Rosebnrg, and t hree sons, Robert of Salem and Donald and Ralph of Los Angeles. r v HANDWRITING DENIED OREGO H A DRAMATIC RECORD OF HISTORY WITS ! ENTIXUr CAST - ' rr- t II I NORTH BIOTA HAS ID HEAD Waiter E. Haddock Assumes Governor's Chair Mhen Sorlie Dies BISMARCK. N. D.. Aug. 28 (AP) Walter E. Maddock. Plata farmer, became the governor of North Dakota today. Called from bis harvest field to assume the duties of chief execu tive by reason of tbe death of Gov ernor A. G. Sorlie. early this morning, Maddock took the office in the room which for four years had been Governor Sorlie's private -office. Maddock, lieutenant governor for more than three years, will perform the duties of the govern orship until bis successor, to be elected in November, takes office next January. Almost ringed about by the grim faces of other state officials and capitol employes, the new governor stood before Chief Jus tice W. L. Nuesale of the state su preme court, and with upraised hand repeated the oath. A camera clicked and the as sembled office holders, circling to the left, passed slowly before North Dakota's fifteenth governor, shaking his hand and wishing him well. That the death of Governor Sor lie would have no effect on the state election next November was agreed by politicians. In some quarters, however It was con sidered possible that It might have slight effect on the national cam paign as it pertains to North Da kota. Maddock according to a statement -recently credited to (him, is by no means enthusiastic I . . . .111.. V. . ior neroerx nuuer, auuuugu ne. A UN Of COMPLETE TRUCKS Complete trucks . . a complete line of trucks . . complete owner satisfaction . ... So runs public ap praisal of Graham Brothers Trucks, built by Dodge Brothers. And from keen buyers business men in all lines comes a steadily increasing demand for these trucks. They are built by bne manufacturer chassis and bodies. They are sold by one dealer complete, ready to work Graham Brothers Trucks are all . sixes. All have 4-wheel brakes. Six cylinder power . . . Six cylinder speed . . . Six cylinder flexibility and operating ease , The snap of six cylinder acceleration and the safety of 4-wheel brake decelera tion . Four speed transmission on lVf, IVa and 2V5-ton trucks. 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C Aug. 21 (AP) South Carolina democrats vntinr In the biennial nrimarr election, which usually is equTTafV ent to election, today renominated every member of the present dele- gatlon to congress. There was no voting for state l offices other than solicitors of tbe circuit courts, all state offices be ing put on a four-year basis two t years ago. In three of the seven congres sional districts the incumbents were unopposed. Butler B. Hare, in the second district; Fred Dom inic, third district, and J. J. Mc- i Swain, fourth district. Incomplete and conclusve re turns from other districts showed that representatives S. McMillan. William F. Stevenson, Allard II. Gasque and Hampton P. Fulmer, had been renominated. Reports from all sections of the state indicated that numerous voters were turned away from the polling places because of refusals to take the oath binding them to vote for the state and national I candidates at the November elec tion. In most places, however, tt was said that these were few in number. 1345 ltt-TON-150" 13" Stt-TON-lSO" ajfrTow ii aUetfcTeJk TJatar o. ot OODOI BIOTBEbb atf