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40 L. POMLTED Salutes and Other Calls to be Dispensed With on Arrival in U. S. WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. CAP) ' la a message from the battle ship to the commandant of the fifth naval district at Norfolk. Va President-elect Hoorer requested today that "all salute, honor and calls be dispensed with" on his ar. rlral on Jan. 6, at Hampton Roads, and that all military and naral authorities at Norfolk. and Fortress Monroe be so notified. If the weather perm:ts. the mes sage stated, the Hoover party will disembark at Old Point Comfort after -luncheon, coin directly from the dock to the railroad sta tion to make a special train to Washington. All passengers will be pat ashore. In the Utah's own boats but two tags hare been requested t transfer baggage and supplies to the deck. About SO truck loads of mater ial. It fr estimated, will hare to be transferred. Trucks and auto mobiles to take the party and ' their baggage from the dock to -the sneelal train also were re quested. : CHINESE REMAINS TO BE MM PORTLAND. Ore., Dec. 11. (A) Seeking to guarantee In thetr own manner, peace and con tentment in the next worm for those of their race who hare died tn an adoated land, a Chinese benerolfent association here has - .. . . maae possiDie me nmorsi iu China of the bones of 614 Chinese who died in Oregon in past years. For, say the Chinese, when the 'remains of members of their race rest with their ancestors ini the celestial empire, peace-, happ iness, contentment. Is the lot of -the departed. The city health office-here has Issued shipping papers for the astfes of the 614 Chinese who hare died In Oregon between 1906 and 1921. The steamer Alabama bound for Hong-Kong will carry the remains to the Orient. The bones of about fire hun dred Portland Chinese were In cluded In the list, while Salem. Astoria and La Grande contribute ed a large number. Permits for the removal of the bodies from the cemeteries in which they had beea Interred were issued by the state health office. When possible, such removals are made every eight years. FLAX OPERATIONS A OF STATE VIEWED (Continued from Page 1.) Important. If a fire should occur, the supply of the linen mills here weald be eut off. This would shut them down for at least N u r months, waiting for an Inferior foreign supply of fiber.. Fire' pro tection would reduce the Insur ance, now costing $14,000 a year. When the legislature meets In January It will not be asked for a eent for the revolving fund. It will merely be "shown." Shown a $750,000 plant and a going and profitable and growing business. The last legislature was asked tot $200,000 for the revolving fun: and provided It. Oregon State college has mad a soil surrey and found that then are at least 220,000 acres of prime flax land In the Willamette valley. -There are at least 60.000 acres highly suitable for flax In thr Macksburk! and -Needy districts of Clackamas county. By the same sign, thes is land in the Willam ette valley suitable for the grow ing, of cowl flax, running up toe far above a. million acres. There Is an effort to get an out hide supply of J. W. S. pedigreed flax seed, to add to the home grown supply on hand. This will be done If possible. This Is held to be due In larga part to the management of Henry W. Meyers, superintendent of the Oregon State penitentiary, and Col. W. B. Bertram. In charge of the Industries of that Institution. The Miles linen mill Is going full tilt, and the Oregon Linen Mills, Inc.. plant is having a thor ough renovation, with several im provements, preparatory to better and more profitable operations than ever before, with , the addi tional forces planned In the course of time. Silverton Folk Are Injured On Way to Seattle SILVERTON. Ore Dec. 17. (8pecial) In & letter to Mrs.D. C. Daren port, Mrs. S. Longacre, who left here -Friday, with, her daughter, Mrs. J.' W. Welch." for Seattle tells of an accident which befell them Friday afternoon.- Sixty miles this aide of Seattle the Welch car, which Mrs. Welch was driving, collided with another ear coming forty miles an hoar. The Welch car was completely de molished aad it occupants taken to ' the v hospital. Mrs. - Welch's glasses were broken and she got a number of small pieces fa her eyes. Her daughter, ; Marguerite, suffered the lose' of a number of teeth. Others in the car were her eon, John, her niece. Marguerite Cennall, and her mother. ,Mra. . Loagaere. f i-.v- - . v Tha Silverton party was on Its way to tpand the Christmas holt 4aya at Ctattl with Mrs. Connell, Mrs, htmgtcn'B daughter, and a sis tar of Mrs. Welch, The Welch party was takes to the Connell home- th day following toe aeci- Ifitrrncci ncr Drzirn! Of Crookdom Goes On Capitol Bill "Romance of the Underworld." Movietone sound film which ope a' oday at Bligh'a Capitol . theatre 'or a two days engagement, ha: teen acclaimed 'universally as one f the most engrossing stories of rookdom on tbe -screen. , Based on the stage play of the ame name by Paul Armstrong. !: as been brought vp to date and Hrected by the master who won latlonwide fame with "Dressed tc Kill," Irving Cummings. Mary Astor, Ben Bard and Rob ert Elliott are featured and the supporting cast is flawless, in cluding Oscar Apfel, Helen Lynch.' John Boles and other famous char acter players. Other Interesting subjects on the bill Include the Movietone talking news events and Vttaphone Vaudeville acts. FUTURE SUPPLY OF WATER IS STUDIED (Continued 'from Page' 1.) under the aand and gravel Is lo cated the water supply crib or In- nitratlon gallery. The taste comes from the unusually excessive amount of algae growth that ac cumulates on the island surface in spite of the many things that are being done to prevent it. -"The taste does not come from the slough water between the is land and the paper mill as some people appear to believe. Water taken from the Island water supply crib tastes and tests exactly the same as the water In town. "Slough water could not possib ly get Into the pipes connecting the crib to the water system as there is a booster pump on the is land that maintains the water In the pipe at many times the pres sure of the few feet depth of water in the slough. So any sus picion of this kind is totally and absolutely unfounded. "Study Is being made by the lo cal company- and by the company chemists and everything possible Is being done to stop the slightly unpleasant taste. It Is absolutely assured that the water Is healthful and free from any disease produc ing bacteria. Daily tests are being made which show this to be true." (Continued from Pare l.v granted. It recalled tha constant reminders of the physicians that the royal patient's climb hack tc health must be slow, and Include some stages when be would slip back a bit. The fact that the duIm re mained steady was on the faror- aoiesiae, for it Indicated that there had been no recurrence of the difficulty with the heart which caused so much anxiety In an earner stage or the illness. Some observers noted thmt th slight setback followed upon omission for three days of ray tnerapy. Opens SUN. For 1 week THE HOUSE BRITISH FiUEEf! HAS SERIOUS SETBACK SEE chaiuc&r KIEAEL ,In Warner Bros. 100 ALL TALKING r i GO n BERT LYTELL PAULlXE LZZl cm Mm The latest bacteriological reports on Salem water shows thai It is well within the U. S. Treasury stand ard for safe water supply. Date Location Dec. 20th. Reservoir JJec 21st. m " - ,4 - Chenteketa Dec 22nd. Dec 22nd. 1309 We regret that the accumulation of algae growth ' daring the unusually long dry summer caused the slight nnpWasant -taste. We are doing aU we can to stop-it bat the results above show positively, that the water is pure. We are studying the trouble and will try to prevent its ever happening again. Oregon-Washington , Water Service Coi DOG-CAUSED RtFT IS - An armed truce Is in force to day between the houses of Kotoff and : Parrlsb, which adjoin eacn other on Third street In Jefferson, and the Parrlsh dog Is at home. Diplomatic relations had bo- come strained, and Thursday an appeal was made to Justice of the Peace Small of Salem to act in he capacity of a board of arbi tration. More specifically. Jesse Parrlsh , files a rormal charge against Paul Kotoff for? assault The charge was not assault and battery; Just .assault, which un der the law means only a threat of some kind to do bodily injury. It all came about In this way: The -Parrlsh family, which lives next door to the Kotoff family in Jefferson, owns a, dog. It is a nice dog. Parrlsh says, a shep herd. Kotoff does not concede the point. Anyway, the dot! got on the Kotoff lawn, and Paul Ko toff. 18, enthusiastically declared that he wanted It removed. Jesse Parrlsh; head of the Parrlsh fam ily, who weighs some 200 pounds, or 60 pounds more than young Kotoff. was reluctant - The youth hurled a tierce barrage of words across the family boundary, and the upshot of it was that Parrlsh formally., charged him with as sault. Kotoff entered a plea of not guilty, and the case was contin ued, perhaps forever. -He was re leased on his own recognisance. Parrlsh had sued the elder Ko toff about a year ago for some $8000 damages which he claimed to have sustained in a deal for t.he purchase of some ry seed. Governor Asked To Attend Meet On Phone Rates PORTLAND. Dec. 27. fAP) ftorernor Patterson and Cot AJ E. Clark, with the members oli his state committee designed to Investigate telephone rates In Oregon, today were Invited by fohn M. Mann, city commissioner of public utilities, to attend the Pacific .Coast conference on tele phone rates to be held here Jan uary 7. ? Mann pointed out to the gov ernor that the matter will prob ably be considered at the Janu ary session of the legislature and that the discussions at the meet ing next month may bring out some Information that would be of Importance to the state. "We feel that your presence at the conference." Mann said In his letter to the governor, "will not only be valuable to it, but that no doubt you will be able to secure from the conference Information which will be of much value to tou when this Important problem comes before you through" thej legislature." Man Killed When Two Cars Collide EUGENE, Dec. 2T. (AP) Lester Bartholomy. So. of La tham. died on the way to . a hos-l pltal here tonight from injuries recelred in an automobile accident uth . of Cottage Orore late to-l day. Edward Graham, 26, who was in the ear with Bartholomy, was not seriously hurt Starts SUN. For 1 week OF HITS! FREDERICK LOIS WILSON nro rzzi PATCHED OVER no lU i wafer Bacteria Gas cotmt per cc. . B-Coli 26 none none 18 14 - 32 The New Oreoom Statesman. Salem. Oregon, Friday Morning, December 'Phantom City" is Maynard Feature Oh OregonScreen A western picture with a mys tery background Is the plot of Ken Maynard's latest photoplay which opens at the Oregon theater today for a two daT"Ttra.:i';-::!,:-::,':,':"'r''J"''' The Phantom City" la a hu man story, ap a real old gold min ing town In northern California Is the locale for Its exciting sit uations. The adding of a mystery ele ment to a. western story is a dis tinct novelty. It adds situations for Ken to solve and keeps the audi ence guessing. Ken,' as the dare devil cowpuncber. ; gives his f ana something to gasp over in spec tacular feats In tbe saddle On the same show a snappy comedy and a Pa the Review will be added. Bl PLEA IS I -. SAN FRANCISCO. Dee. 27. - (AP) Over the dissenting rote of Associate Justice John W Pres ton, the state supreme court to day upheld the new state law per mitting a plea of "not guilty by reason of Insanity." In affirming the convictions of wwo murderers now awaiting execution in San Quentin prison. The appeals were made by Le on? Fook. a Chinese conrlcted of murdering a Chinese woman In Tulare county last April, and Jo seph Trouche. found guilty of murdering bis sweetheart, Mary Lorenso. In Placer county last year. Both were tried on the new insanity plea. They were convict ed and appealed on the grounds that the law was unconstitutional. . In dissenting from the opinion of his associates. Judge Preston declared that the lower court de cisions should be reversed on the grounds that the Insanity plea is inhumane and works for the con viction of innocent men. "Under the provisions - of this law the scales of justice are out of balance," he said. "A man can not be both guilty and innocent of a single charge at the same time. If an Insane man is con vlctted and then an inquiry must be made as to his innocence, something is radically wrong. On Its face, the law Is a step back ward to the inhumane conditions of the dark ages." The plea of Insanity, Judge Preston '-averred, is for practical purposes gone. Its loss, ne de clared, will work for the convic tion of innocent men. Teacher Chosen As Successor to MissTomlihson WOODBURN. Ore.. Deo. 27. ( Special ) Miss .Virginia Mason, a Willamette university graduate, baa been selected to succeed Miss Mildred Tomllnson as teacher In English, Latin and- music at Woodburn high schooL ' -Miss Tomllnson will be married to Clarence Phillips of Portland. Monday evening at her home in Salem. Mon. five, Dec 31st SEE and HEAR This new Sound Picture Today and Saturday with MART ASTOR aad strong sap porting: cast. Story of Love sad adventure aanoaa: tbo- ean: or A MOVIETONE PICTURE ' Movietone Now ;:. "It Speaks for Itself VTTAPHONB ACTS UPHELD Bull j xr&fTf'X JUL7 I Xa PrtoM 111 :''-'-V'. i nnnirpi i UUIIIlft.1 I I ID IU MiBir mm t "The Broken Wing as present ed by the Manhattan Players at the Elsinore this week rivals the standard of their presentation of "Lombardl Ltd." This week, how ever. It Is nofCharles E. Royal the guest star, about whom tbe play centers and upon whom the burd en of the work falls, but upon Miss Eunice Richards as Tnez, the little adopted Mexican daugh ter of an American living just across the border who prays God to send her a "good husband not greaser." When the handsome aviator, played by Lou Dunn falls from the sky Into her arms, who is she to refuse him because he is already married, since it is God who taade the mistake? As al ways. Miss Richards Is at her best when playing the part of a dark haired child of nature. She keeps the sympathy of the audience un erringly throughout the play. Mr. Royal's work la never less than vivid, an din the part of a Mexican bandit he is given oppor tunity for some spicy dialect and deft characterisation. Tha other nlarera are evenly cast and nicely balanced In their character work. Those who. enjoy pathos well mixed with humor and th dh of a, nrnrlsa endlnc will enjoy "Broken Wings." B. M. LOCKHART. Christmas Tree Winds Up Army's Holiday Program The final event In the Salva tion Army's Christmas program took place Thursday night at the Army hall ' In the form of a Christmas tree and program. Captain Earl William reports that call was packed to cap acity and that Santa Claus was on hand with toys, nuts, - fruit and candy for everybody. Dr. B. P. Pound, chairman of the Army advisory board, was chairman. Northwest Five Beats Che maw a Outfit 39 to 29 The Northwest Canning com pany basketball team defeated a quintet of past aad present Che- maw a Indian school stars Thurs day night at Chemawa, 39 to 29. Summary: , , Chemawa - Northwest DePoe () ,,....P...... (10) Scott Prettyman (12) I (11) Nash Rasmussen . ( 2 ) ..C ( 6 ) Vlesko Thompson ;(6) ..O ...(4) Riches Spencer, O :..(!) WInslow Frank (4) .....:....S One of the largest real "estate deals reported la Jackson county i or eome urns was tne aaie last week of the George A. Mansfield ranch, near Medford, to Bert An derson and A. W." Pipes, who paid $25,000 for the property. EVE Fanchon & Marcoa REVUE "Saxophobia" and (5ILAE1A 'ThrooWeek Ends t 7V3r GO JO IHC J - 'Reeerred' $1.00 : SOUVENIRS - : UIIUMJI 1111 w 1 esBBBaaeaweasBWaisBneaaaawaaaawasaaaB . "V 28,"19SS Farm Implement Company Alters Name, Announced .The PohleStarer company, with capital stock of $5000. filed ar ticles of Incorporation in tbe state corporation department here Thursday. This firm la successor to H. Pohle at Son. farm Imple ment firm which has operated In Salem for 17 years. The store is at 240 South Liberty street. Incorporators are W. P. Pohle. P. L. Staver and Fred SteUler, Jr. Mr. Staver has been a member of the firm for nearly two years, but until Thursday the company was conducted under the old name. : The " Bethel Cemetery associa tion, at Bethel. Polk county, was incorporated Thursday with no capital stock. Incorporators are J. P. Sears, Gus Prang, J. W Finn, et al. Two Badly Hurt In Collision on Highway South Mrs. I. B. Bartell was badly braised and her nine-year eld daughter. Gladys, suffered Injury to her forehead which necessitat ed several stitches when another machine, ran head-on Into the car driven by I. B. Bartell about 4:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon. The accident occurred live mties xrom Salem on the Jefferson highway when the other car collided with the Bartell cur to avoid hitting a machine that was passing Mr. Bartell. Besides Mr. and Mrs. Bartell and Gladys, his father and mother. Mr. and Mrs. John Bartell. and Mr. and Mrs. Z. T. Bartell and baby, all of whom are visiting here from Canada, were riding in the car. Mrs. I. B. Bartell Is a student nurse at the Deaconess hospital. Mr. Bartell has been spending the Christmas vacation in Salem from Portland where he Is studying medicine. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY THREE ROOMS furnished. Walar. light, phone. 115. 19J5 Center street. Phone 1726R, Gum Drops For Saturday Reg:, price -on these SOc lb. For Saturday Only 15c per lb. straight Schaef er's DRUG STORE N. 185 Com'I. St. Phone 197 The Original Yellow Front Drug Store. Penslar Agency HOLLYWOOD TODAY - - SATURDAY "THE HAUNTED HOUSE" . with CHESTER CONKLIN w. Ja 1 - Manhattan Players Present one of the Greatest Air Dramas ever produced on the ; American stare, 7 66fIHIIlS t , Staged and Produced by . IHIAEinESQ E; ; Miss Eunice Richards Lou Dunna czd a speeid ETenins60c U tlatlnea ' 35c jo. 61 MIES HELD T f Continued from Page 1.) level of freight rates on grain and grain products may be prescribed in the northwest without seriously interfering with the maintenance of adequate transportation ser vice. "The- existing adjustment" of rates to Portland and to Puget sound respectively, from the grain producing area of the Inland em pire. In . Oregon and Washington? does not fully reflect Portlands advantage of location or the .more ",i OalcniG1 Dcctt Crowns" & Bridges Filling? SI up. Gold Painless Extraction 0T Year Guarantee Dr. F.C.Jones, DO GREAT BURDEN Upstairs Phone 2860 Over Ladd & Bush Bank OREGON THEATBJJ 7 ALSO COMEDY and PATHE REVIEW Matinee 25c - - Night 35c KIDDIES ALWAYS A DIME NOW PLAYING V : - ' Special Matinee SATURDAY I i s mm m - y , - ::-xSr . With JOSEPmXB - nITW . 1 Victxrm taken ron backtaco Into the Uvea i th kearte of the '. - ll-ttmr - vanderlllo . ' porfonnera. ;:' SUNDAY A MONDAY ' BILLIg DOT3 In "Tins Kiarrx watcjt cast - - v- favorable operating conditions of the water grade haul down the Columbia ' as compared with the mountainous haul across the Cas cade range to Puget Sound porta." Blaze Destroys! 6 College Halls BLUE MOUNTAIN. Miss., Dec. 27. (AP) Fanned by a brisk wind fire today destroyed six buildings' on the campus of Blue Mountain college, a Baptist achool for girls, and leveled two nearby residences. Dr. L. T. Lowrey, president, estimated the total damage tonight at $100,000. Ho thought the Insurance would ap proximate $60,000. No one was injured. V Dental Values Plates . OlO $25 plate . .15 "DUR-A-UTE" Unbreakable flesh color plates 025 $5 $3.50 up OPEN EVENINGS Mondays, Wednesdays and "Fridays 6:30 to 8:30 $1 Dentist 2k 4f ON THE SCREEN RICHARD - K2ZU U AS V A