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The New Oregon Statesman. Salera. Oregon, Wednesday Morning, January S0.19S9 il I : f CP . ASKED EUGENE Bill Introduced Here Would - Appropriate $50,000 for University .The "Mothers and Dads" bill, calling for an appropriation - of -$50,000 for an Infirmary at the University of Oregon, was Intro duced In the house ! Tuesday un der the "names of Representative Lonergan of Mnltnob apd Sen- ;i. tor Norblad of ;' Clatsop f county; It Is nnderstood that the f'Oregon Dads" and others have-already subscribed the $50,009 called for to match' the state appropriation, so that construction on the build , Ing- could begin at an early date should the measure, paaa both houses and be signed.' by the gov- - ernor. . So far no organised opposition to "the bill is evident In either house, while the attitude of the governor has not been determined. Governor Patterson listened at. tentatively- to i the delegation of mothers when they called here re- v cently but did not "commit him self. ' 1 - ' The report of the joint commit tee which visited the university last week is expected to haxe con siderable influence on the way the measure will be received when It cornea up for final action. This report Is expected soon. Legis lators on the trip thoroughly In vestigated the present Infirmary, which has capacity for but 13 and which Is housed in a building de clared to be a f lretrap and .in need of repairs. IAD 1C0BK : AFTER TWO WEEKS iOROFINO. Idaho, Jan. ?9. f API : IT.rmlf Parkins airnt- j Wiim Irfnhn arhnnl year-old We.ppe. ldano, scnooi boy, . Who was knocked Uncon. SCIOUS when his Sled Was Struck . ., , v,ji ..v. by an automobile two weeks ago today, was Still in a State OI coma today, physicians said. They were rannn thnt ho hat 'T "T " - regained consciousness, but be - lleved he was recovering, they said. Since the accident which In jured the lad's spine and broke his collar bone, he baa neither spoken nor appeared to hear any thing. When his body was touched today, he cried out with oain. but doctors said they be lieved that the touch made him believe he was receiving the orig inal shock. TOOBTHflY SAN .FRANCISCO. Jan. 2f. (AP) A doctor's daughter,. Miss Doris Madeleine Canney walked Into the superior court here today with her father. When she came out she was Rosalie Claire Can ney. The change in name was grant ed, when she explained to Superior Judge James O. Conlln that she was "keen on numerologlcal sig nificance and I find that I am not getting harmonious atmosphere from my first two names." she ex plained. '"Now 'Rosalie Claire' combine Just the right values to replace all discord in jny life with har mony." "Rosalie Claire' It is then.' said the Judge, "and it those new names don't make you happy call again with another pair." Miss Canney Is 21, a Junior at the University of California. ' CHANGES Nit Viola Dana Sues for Divorce -V- .: f $..:: .':' . . ' ::'.:: 'jpiStft Jt?::-.-,, , - ' r - I - V s I . : .f-- -- y-:-.::-y-: ::: : x-:-. : : NS-r-: I i :- -:4vt--A V-:- -x-;: ..vX'fi-,-v.::v:-:.:.":vA.":o:o:.i'. ff A f fx- - i i - v ' ' J, '1 i y s - It . .-::-:--:-r: :7v: :v.-' :-.-:.-y.- v i ;" i r - - r v - ..'-7 - - .-t' Charing her husband, 3I.urice ;Benntt -Lefty-;. habitual drunkenness over period, of three years." Viola Dana, . movie star, has brought suit for divorce in Lot Angeles. Mtss Dana 'nd Flynn, a former Yale football play rowers married in 1925. THE OLD HOME TOWN Baaeaaaaaaaajaaww mmmm I "T a "T 1 .H IP J&&bZ53 J fi yfc I 1 r 1 yOOMAS OLt POP PEFPCR?ftASS All MT HAD HISBEARD SHAVEDOFF- ' rfi) iMi ' HH TOOK UP WEARING A NECKTIE -Jab Mlra m T Strange Experience of an Italian Boy For the Late James ElvinT?.?! Tha PT- J Elin. author of th foI&wlBT w, 1or , tim pmitor o( th fir Conrrrntional ehurch of SUm. Bber of tha promotion commute ! octo tMlem chamber of remmorce, be mhirt,M ,ha MUBlry by .mandiog-' that all the other SiUai in the .United oft the map. became the reH r,,r aeaerr.nf tne aunt was Baiem, iOrefon. ThU led to the famoui eat tori - rml ronteat between the hifb trhool de- oatmf tea.mh or-Halem, alaa., and He I em. Ore., which wa won hj the homo team. Mr. Flln haa ben a frequent contributor to the Cenffrefationallat, national paper of that church orcaniaatlon. On January I. Mr. Eirln died at hie homo ht Lewie town. Montana, whara he was Barring aa pastor of tha Preebrtertan church The Congrefationaliat in Its January JO iaaae pubiiahed tha foltowinf artica-, written Jut before hie death by Mr. EWiat By FAMES ELX Out on the plains of Montana, one learns not to be surprised at anything. Looking into the bright eyes of a heavily bearded face of a man dressed la sweater, over alls, leather boots., and slouch hat. he may be a duke, a broken-down millionaire, a disappointed lover a Yale graduate, or a crook. And so we old-timers who love our open . spaces and our shining mountains,-get hard-boiled, and it takes a pretty stLtf Jolt to move us. Such a jolt'and a good hard one at that, we have Just received. It all happened at a little place galled Terry, situated on the east em boundary of this great state of Montana. Terry flashed Into the UmeHgbt when Its famous cowboy band rode several hundred miles to serenade President Coolldge at bis summer White House in the Black Hills, the summer before last. And now a little black-hatted, alack-eyed Italian haa put the community of Terry in . the lime-' light again. His name Is. a real tpaghetti name. He would never" be mistaken for a Scotchman. He would, never hold a quarter In his mouth to prevent aeaslckness His name is Ulgliottl Frank B Qigliottl. Ob a Raw December Day- is Chronicle Here lg his story as I get It at first hand. i " On a raw December day in 1906 an Italian Immigrant boy cMmbed down from a box car when a "drag" or freight, rolled into the yards at Terry. He was only 12. penniless, hungry, and numb with cold. Undaunted by the cold, he set but on foot for Miles City. 43 miles away. He had come into the northwest as a traveling hyp notist's 'assistant. The hypnotist had dkched the boy In western South Dakota. He had "hopped" a freight and that bitter cold day. 22 years ago, found him tramping the trail between Terry and Miles City. K It took him two days to make the trip and he was finally taken in ny a rancher who gave htm a job tending sheep. Life on the ranch was no bed of roses. Coy otes are the terror of -sheepmen. A coyote . will crawl Into the band of sheep, roll over, and play and frisk with the lambs. The lamb will follow a little way. Is then quickly snatched , by the throat, flung over the coyote's back and then good-bye lamb. When coy otes got Into i Frank's band of iheep, one night, and killed 12 aneep, . tne rancner s wire took a rattlesnake whip and lashed the boy viciously. Warm Calabiian blood could not stand that, so the boy ran away, vowing to himself, "Some day I'll come back and buy that ranch." He wandered down into Wyo ming and for a time lived with ths Cheyenne Indians. - He told the Cheyenn.es that he waa a Pawnee 3oon-he became a crack rodeo r.ider. With a rattlesnake skin around his head and an - eagle's feather in his coal-black hair, his only clothing a loin cloth, he was a stunning figure in a race, and many were the races that he won for his good friends the Chey- ?nnes. Then he became a profes sional Jockey and soon was a fa miliar figure at every race track between Edmonton, Canada, and Juarez, Mexico. , Converted While. he was attending a race meet in a Canadian city, a strange thing happened. One Sunday, he stood on the edge of a curbstone idly listening to the. sermon of a street preacher. Nobody will ever know Just what happened, but he was converted. He returned ton Miles City. determined to get an education and to till a more im portant place In society than that of a Jockey. He Joined the church at Miles CRy; found, many, friends ana spent several' nappy years in that place. He decided to study for the ministry. ; Then came the war. On April 3. l 17, he enlisted In the First Engineers." the famous unit of the First Division. "Pershing's Own." He waa wounded three times In action, and hlaunoflt valued 'sou- venlr-de la guerre". Is a piece of shrapnel In , Ms skull Just over his right eye. ' ; After the war he continued his studies for the min istry -and was ordained Into the church and took charge of an Ital ian mission In SchnectadjC N. T. Here he married. Mies If aybelle Plraxiin. a teacher and .Columbia graduate,? "H; ;.-' -.-. r - , ?- With the help of the Veterans' Bureau, he traveled to Rome. He studied at the Methodist - college! on Monte Mario ( for a year, . and then was mads instructor la his tory asd economics. Beginning To Do Thing. Now he began to do things. While In Rome he was instrumen tal In having . a bill put through our eon areas for the reaatriatton of nearly tea "thousand - Italian who had fought for the .United States - during the' - war-r-lm mi grants who -had served" fn tne United States army , bat who ; had returned, to Italy, without 'having obtained the neceeeary citizenship papers, MUnderht workings t the new immigration law these men- manv of them with families. had been denied entrance? into the United States, Although they had fought for- Uncle Bam. his . doort were eiosea to tnem. . uigioeui enlisted the aid of the Hears; newspapers, his gifted wife wroU poem, Once They Were Tanks and - this was - prominently ' dis played 1 In a score of : Americat 7 Stanley newspapers and magazines.. The young minister made a trip to the United StatesaOn behalf of the exiled veterans. Xongress fin ally gave Qigliottl the privilege rarely accorded to a non-member, addressing a Joint session from floor. The 1)111 was passed without a dissenting vote. Surely It was a long way from the day the little Italian rode Into Mon tana on the hurricane deck of a freight, as "blind baggage" until the day when he proudjy stood before the congress of the United States and pleaded so eloquently that his bill was passed without one negative vote. In 1926 vounc Oleliotti made another trip to the United States, this time as honor guest of the American Legion and the city of Philadelphia. He had enrolled 1,350 members of the Legion In Italy, thereby winning the Legion award for having broken all mem bership records. At the Sesque centennlal exposition he was awarded the Legion medal and was royally entertained by the municipality. In 1927 he attend ed the Legion convention in. Paris as a delegate from Rome Post No. 1. After the convention he took a party of legionnaires on a tour of Italy. The Road Before Him Now he has Come home to Mon tana, to fulfill the vow he made, to buy the ranch near Terry from which he had fle?l as a boy after being horsewhipped. A few months ago, a fine-looking. weH-dressed young mas stepped Into a Miles City bank and paid down the price of the ranch in cash. Now Qigliottl Is raising livestock on a large scale. It is not often fhat one of our Montana cattlemen receives an of fer to be president of a college. Such an offer, however, was cabled the other day to Qigliottl, from my old friend and classmate, now president of Monte Mario, Samuel Irwin. President Irwin cabled the offer of the presidency of a college In the Balkans. Gigllotti cabled back "Cannot accept. Too busy raising cattle in Montana." He has re cently accepted the pastorate of our community cnurcn in Terry, the best men in all the world for that hard Job.' He talks the cat tlemen's language, and the cow boys honor and respect him. As one cowboy reverently exclaimed "D d If a bird like that doesn' get my goat" With his wife and two beautiful children, boy and a girl, he di vides his time between the ranch cabin and thelittle whits parson age of the community church,, the uttie white , manse, filled with memories precious and sacred to me. So the lad who . beat his way into Montana on a freight 22 year ago, now towers above most of the men of his community in influence, and he is still only 24 years, old. We hope that he will stay. We seed him so much Many strange characters ' hare drifted Into Montana; through the years, but this cultured Italian is the strangest .one of them alL ' SCHOOL GETS BARGAIN The first load of a miscellane ous ' collection of school supplies purchased by the 8alem district from a Portland firm dlscontinu ing the lines at a discount ot 80 per cent, will be brought down Friday. The district is paying 7O0 ror materials, wnien invoiced at 12.100, and most, of whclh are nsed la the regular course of the year. .. -',;,-- - . The OuUtandina Char acteristic of Christ that Appeals to All Men. Trr rassc 5y ROE FULKERSON READ THIS FIRSTS Betty Brown decides she has over developed the mental and under da re loped the physical aide of her at tracUveneara and takea up danctnaT to cnrrert thla At a summer danclna school aha works bard at her dancing and again meets Andr Adair. Andy was not conscious or oer preence m high school, but la the summer school awimmfaaT pool Is attracted to her and hissed her. half axalnst her wilL CHAPTER XII A AFTER Andy Adair had klsscJ Betty while they swam' in . the bathing pool at the sum mer camp she said: "Andy, I ask you! Waa that nice?" Wenderfully so!" . Andy ans wered .with enthusiasm. "Quite the nicest kiss I ever had.. While we are on the subject, you are changed fdr the better since you came down here. "In what way?" 'Oh, I don't know!" He waved his hand vaguely,. "In every way. Going to give me some dances to night?" v "If you like. Let's go In. It'i time I dressed for supper." They swam side by side to the concrete steps. He walked beside her to the house, not leaving until she entered the door. She was very nSuch pleased at his attentions. In school he represented the rich and sporty part of the student body, while she was of the studying class. He had never before seem ed conscious she was on earth. As Betty finished dressing some one called her downstairs. She de scended to find her father and mother had come down on the bus to her. She Introduced them to OFFICIAL IS TRACE! LONDON. Jan. 2.9 (AJ) Catherine Booth, daughter of Gen eral Bramwell Booth of the Salva tion- Army, today submitted an af fidavit In chancery court during a hearlne on Injunction obtained id behalf of her father against the hlrb: council, in which she declar ed that the agitation for removal of the general had originated in America.' . Efforts to reach a compromise on the case growing out ot the deposition of the general by the high council having failed, a hear ing on the injunction was resumed this morning. Today's arguments turned large ly on the question of the General's fitness for his post and most oi the proceedings was occupied with submission of documentary evi deuce and speeches by opposing counsel Jn support of this evi dence. The hearings grew out of an in iunctlon obtained by the Booth faction restraining the high coun cil from electing a new General Fifty Amendments To Banking Code Proposed For Day Fifty amendments to the state banking: code, prepared by A. A. Schramm, state superintendent of banks, with a view toward tight, enlng the Oregoh bank situation will be submitted to the senate committee probably today. The amendments are said to have been approved by the state banking board at a meeting Monday night. Probably outstanding among the amendments is one relating to the organization of Institutions. The amendment provides that the application for permit with the 3tate banking department. A filing fee of $100 is required. Yank Ambassador Transfers At Sea NEW YORK, Jan. 29. (AP) News, reached here today of the transfer at -sea of Robert Woods Bliss,. American ambassador to Argentina, from the royal mail liner Orcoma to the Panama Pa cific liner Virginia SO miles off Balboa, Canal Zone. The transfer, made last Saturday, was effected so that Mr. Bliss blight reach Call fornla more speedily. Ken Maynard Has New Thriller For Theatre, Patrons A motion picture evidently con structed with but three prime Ideas in mind is Cheyenne." The three are speed, thrills and first class entertainment. All three make "Cheyenne". Ken Maynard's latest western feature, which op ened at hte Oregon theater Tues day a gen of its kind. ' Ken Is a favorite here, Judging from the reception Tuesday night The present story deals with the rodeo with "broncho busting and trick riding. NOW FLAYING SEET and HEAR ' The most beautiful woman in tjie world 'in her new .triumph , - -VILM4. .. I . ?-In "The ' Awakening" IT A a T ILt rtfAlftM si jfa " n ie Score Featuring 1 Berlin's theme song, I I "Marie" t 1 MOVE AGAINST HIGH THE STORVOF A GIRL WHO MADE MEN LIKE HER by Central Preae"AaaoeleUa,' Ihel many of the' girls and sat between them at supper. She was glad they arrived when they-did1 rather than half an hour before, when, the whole place was filled with girts and men In bathing suits. She felt sure heV mother would have been -shocked. With his good-natured eallles Mr. Brown was an instant favorite with the girls. They tried to In iuce him to premiss them danced that evenings Betty noticed how even the most careless was very polite and particular in front of her mother- Most of thtm. had ev idently; experience with "mothers and knew of what they would dls approve! At the dance that night she sat J with her parents on a big divan explaining wtvo the various people were until the first dance was over. She wondered who Atad ask- . . A A m. T ed Andy Adair down, as u was customary, for .each man fe dance the first dance with his - hostess, she watched. He danced with Vera a red-headed girl, on the profes sional stage in the winter When the first dance was over he came at once to where she sat wish her father and mother and asked her for a dance. She intro duced him to them and saw her mother beam a s she recognized the son of a wealthy man. Mrs Brown evidently approved of him heartily. During the wait between dan ces he made himself most agree able, and then danced with Betty ffle held her closer than she (thought he should but no closer than other men held their part ners, so she made no objection After a single round of the room she yielded herself to him with out hesitation He did not talk as he danced but as the music stopped he whis pered" in her ear the one word 'Gosh! .managing to get into it a world of affection and admira tion. She flushed with pleasure a? he took her back to her father and mother. He chatted with them making every effort to create t good Impres&ion. When the music began he started the second dance with her. As they circled the room Betty caught a look in rad-headec Vera's eyes which reminded he. that Andy wasiier man. 'You musn't dance with m i again, Andy." Betty said. "Veri is looking daggers at me! "Vera doesn't own me!" Ht spoke stubbornly. "But you must ba polite." "I will dance with you as ofter as you will let me!" He empha sized the remark with a llttk tightening of his arm around her She liked it. When thex returned to her par ?nts they found Selikoff talkin; with them. She waved Andy awaj ind pulled Betty down besldt her, continuing the conversatlor without a break. She waa telling Mr, and Mrs. Brown that Betty had progressed wonderfully, and that she was pleased with her. Andy had the next dance with Vera. They talked animatedly Vera's eyes flashing. Betty had the impression, they were quarrel Ing. She was thrilled that another girl would 'quarrel with a mas about her. This had never happen 3d before. As Andy glanced her way she smiled and winked a' him while Vera's back was turned. The moment the dance wat over he was back at her side, ask ing her to go for a walk with him. "No. Andy, my folks will be going soon. I want to stay with them while they are "here." "I'll drive them home If they'll let me." He looked at them as he Spoke. "That Is. If your mot he: will sit next to me. There Is room for three In my roadster, but H want to talk to your mother or the way home." "But we won't stay late." Bet ty's mother was pleased with hU badinage. "We'll go home, on the Western Girl in Health Tests Millions of boys and girls all ov er the world, thousands . ot them right here in the West are being restored to health and strength' by the purely vegetable tonic and lax ativa known as California Fig Syrup and endorsed by physicians lor over SO years. Children need no urging to take It. They love its rich, fruity flav or. Nothing can compete with it as a gentle, but certain laxative, and it goes runner than this, it gives tone and 'strength to the stomach and bowels so these organs con tlnue to act normally, of their-own accord. It stimulates the appetite. helps digestion. ? s :v - A Kansas mother. Mrs. Dona i iimm fin uitri,A. a- rrA.u. eayst ''Bonnie B. Is absolutely the picture of health, now, with her ruddy cheeks, bright eyes and her plump but graceful little body and she stands at the top i every health -test. v: - ut vf : "Much of the credit for her per fect condition Is due to California Fig Syrup. We have used it since babyhood - to keep her bowels sve tlve during1 colds or any children's ailments and she has always had an easy time with them. She al ways, responds to it gentle urginx and is quickly back to r normal!- f Asa vour orugist lor uamor nia Fig Syrup and . look for trn word "California On the carter so you'lf -always get the-genuine adv. y ..-.v.'.-.v bus"!""' ' J '' ' " ','5'1'-".'- "When you go home this party Us ' over for me! laughed Andy. Tm going when you do." . -'Oh. we don't want v to "spoil yoir furf!" protested Mrs. Brown. - Stay till I have one more dance with Betty. Then 111 dance with my hostess and we'll' go," pleaded. Andy, The music began again. Taking Betty in hi arms, Andy danced away.. with: her, t t, '' . ..' "Listen J I get 'o see a lot more of you!"'1ie whispered. "I'm com ing down here again if you'll In vite me." "What about Vera?" :"Vera be damned!" he snap ped. "Why, Andy, that Isn't nlc3! Vera is a pretty girl and a nlc one." ' "You are prettier and nicer!' - "RaUy?" - '"Y, i-aally! If yooi don't ask me down next week-end I- shal seme anyway, and tell Sallkof; that you asked me. May I?" . "No!" I don't want you-to He. She laughed. . "You won't let me come?" " didn't say that. I said I dj not want you to lie. The only wa; I know to keep you from it Is t ask you!": "You darling!" he exclaimed Three steps away was ths door. He whirled her out of it onto the veranda, held her close and .kiss ed her quickly. She w.as back ir the room almost before she real ized what had happened. She felt her face burn and knew the was blushing. Over his shoul der she saw Vera. One corner oi her mouth curled up. a sneer crossing her features. Betty snug gled a bit closer to Andy. "Andy, you are terrible!" sh ?iclaimed. 'Terribly what?" he demanded igain tightening Ills arm aroum her. "I don't know." "Terribly what?" he repeated "Terribly nice, I guess!" She laughed and added a little squeezr to his hand as she said it. The music , stopped. He took her back to her parents and then TODAY & THURS. KEN MAYNARD in 'Cheyenne" FOX NEWS EVENTS fUP DDITI.'1ir M. 111 Mid IVri V A jTV WW QETjaiKI I y-c-l Shubert Revue with ? 10 .4 uAw.ra " hat twwww. vmv kl i. j utaaMS sva v-r a- a v aua a ww mm m 1 TODAY I j f fir ON 'THE STAGE xSvO If r Iff T (in person) i M it mm mm r -. - u mnin mH lyinmsn'n 11 mi u MJ'M "u III f 11 ra7 Jfel "Mike'a Idea" . I PM- --r. 1 III I ft rw iw i ..wmv i u rU il J "rWim vehicle 1 - m i il I MLrCJa Tl,.. eTCT seen trlce-rte- U f 1 1 car ;v I . rr;-7 1 ' 1 1 Mftvu-- . . IIM-Ww' 1. w ' ; I -osretllPe iu- (III went in search of Vera for the last dance. In a few minutes he was baok " "Vera will not dance," he ex plained,' blandly. "She ha9 a gul den headache. If you don't m'iii.i Betty, til have another danni with, you and then I'll take t! -folks home." She. shook her head at l.im, smilingly. "All right, you live here." n . grinned understanding. "But i am going home. Come on, folks We'll get in the car. Betty i saw them safely tucked Into his high-powered roadster and kissed her mother and fath er. "Hey, what's the matter with he chauffeur?" demanded Andy. "Not a thing in the world!" as ured Betty, giving him her hand "See yon next Saturday at two." s.e called gayly, as be drove away. .She did not g0ubackta the stu dio, but wandered along the pnf, arhich circled the swimming pool, ihe came to a rustic set and saw t girl sitting alone, who rose aud it nly and stood in front of her. "If you know what's good for vou, woman, you'll lay off my nan!" It was Vera in tragic hu mor and pose. "Don't be silly. I've known An ly Adair since we were kids!" Betty was pleased rather than alarmed. "But you're not a kid now! Vou are a woman. Tou lay oft Andy Adair If you want to live ong or die happy!" - "You've been reading Laura Jean Llbby!" laughed Betty, as Vera walked away. Betty resumed h,er stroll, hum-intng-a merry little tune. She was 'hrllled with her experiences of he night. Men were finding her ittractive and she them. (TO BE CONTINUED.) HOLLYWOOD TXpAY Glen Tryon 'In How to Handle Women News - Comedy 25c i i Nityht-I k( PRICES b$3rC II ii : T