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PAGE TWO The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon, Tuesday Morning, April 22, 1939 Head of Against State Deaf Gmkp Testifies Hi TO BE IN FEVDAYS Maurice Werner Planning to Place Charges Before State Board Maarice Werner of Salem, pre sident of the state association for the deaf, will be one of the prin cipal witnesses against J. Lyman Steed, superintendent of the state school for the deaf, who is charg ed with discrimination against some of his teachers, harsh disci pline, and retarding the progress of many pupils at the Institution. The hearing will be held here Friday with members of the state board of control presiding. Tes timony at Friday's hearing prob ably will be limited to the oppon ents of Steed. At a future meet ing of the board. Steed will be given an opportunity to reply. Werner said that members of the state association for the deaf had been watching Steed's work and had concluded that he should be replaced. He said the associa tion had no particular applicant In mind for the position. Considerable opposition has de Teloped to Steed's methods of in struction, Werner said. Under Steed's administration it was aald that students are compelled to gain a mastery of speech and speech reading before they pro ceed with instruction. It also was charged by Werner that the pu pils do not feel free to take their problems to Steed, and as a result ? number of them drop out of school each year. jWerner declared that a number of teachers resigned last year be cause of Steed's attitude towards them, and not because of the low salaries paid In this state. i"We are only asking a square d4al for the pupils." said Werner. "They are handicapped because the controversy between Steed aid the teachers, and something should be done to restore har ffijony in the institution." .i - STIFF FEES SOUGHT A stiff schedule of license fees for circuses and annual shows, to gether with certain regulations for tfreir operation in Salem, is provided in an ordinance bill In troduced at Monday night's city council meeting by Alderman Paul Johnson, chairman of the police and license committee. Circuses are required to pay the-following daily fees for show ing in Salem: One ring circus, $50; two ring, $75; three ring, $100: four ring, $150; five ring or larger, $200. In addition, fees Tanging to $150 for a five ring circus are required for holding a parade, and $25 a day for every sideshow. Trained horse or dog and pony chows are required to pay $25 a day, and other trained animal allows $100; menageries $10. An additional provision prohib it all shows from operating on the streets. None of the fees list ed apply to shows presented with I the theatres, which are covered ini other ordinances. IXQTJ1RY PLANXED WASHINGTON. Anrll 21. vtAP nrst attention otihew- If established senate committee to investigate postpfflee building leases will be directed at the first class offices In the larger cities. FOR CIRCUSES HERE STATESMAN'S COLORING CONTEST to -o STATESMAN'S COLORING CONTEST How expert are yon with colors? The Stateemaa and Fox lsl jpre theatre would like to knew aad are ready to make it worth yoar MTbe Vagabond King eomee Monday for five days to the Fox f Elglnore aad photographed entirely In natural colors. The above I pic tare la of Dennis King, the star of this great prod action, which Is avu ta Liang ana singing. : .- . Kow: all you hare to do to win month's pass for two to the Fox Elsinore, which Includes rTnnchori and Marco stage shows. Is to i dip the above picture, pot It oa a separata sheet of paper and color ; H better than anybody else. Be neat that is the main thing you aaar nsO both crayon or water colon, bat water colon aro preferred. . ; when you have finished with it, etther snail er bring tt to the ? Color Contest Editor at The Statesman. Second prise will be a two - week' pass for two and third priso will be two4fcfcets to see The rfjftglboaA Xing. Too may use any colors yew like them are no re VTrtrtctlona concerning; that. ,? s Get out toot paints! I MELLONS THROW AID TO GRUNDY IN PRIMARY o . o i it i tv y ft - 'v -y PGi3und? PiNCrtor, f7ith tb primary election little nore than a monta away new political alliances are forming n tae Republican ranks at Pitts burgh, Pa., u the result of W. u. MeHon's annoancement that le would support Joseph B. Grundy as a candidate for the United States Senate to succeed iW TOTAL 23,815 The total number of registered voters from Marion county, in cluding the city of Salem, is 23, 815, according to an announce ment of registration totals made by County Clerk Boyer Monday. The new county total shows an increase of ISO 4 as compared to 22,311 on the registration books last October. Salem, proper, showed an increase of 147 while the increase is the county is 557. As shown by the new registra tion totals, the total republican vote in the county is listed at 18, 111 while the total democratic vote is 515$ with the miscellan eous party vote scattering. That there were more republican votes in the city than In the county and more democratic voteg In the county than in the city is shown by the fact that there are 9541 republicans In Salem and 8571 outside. The democrats boast 297$ outside of the city aud 2192 inside. Male registration led over the female registration 2.383, there being 12.874 registered men and 19,491 registered women In the entire county. Impetus Noted in Paving Program Something of a recovery in the paving program was noted at Mon day night's council meeting. Peti tions for paving Nebraska avenue from 15th to 21st street and Bel mont from yifta to Church were received, and an old petition for ptfis(Lfrem Marion to Cen ter was revivedrt,the same tlffifi a remonstrance was received against the proposed paving of Mill street from 19th to 21st. O VOTERS cum himself. Mellon is a nephew of the Secretary of the Treasury, and will also support the Guber natorial candidacy of Francis Shunk Brown, running mate of Secretary of Labor Davis, who Is seeking GrundYi seat on the tieket, backed by the organisa tion of William 8. Vare. Grundy The Call Board By OLIVE M. DOAK HUGH'S CAPITOL Today "No, No, Nan ette." HOLLYWOOD Today "Rto Rita" with Bebe Daniels. Wednesday "R e d Hot Rhythm" and Keizer commuu- ity play. GRAXD Today "Strictly Modern" wit hDorothy Mackaill. - Wednesday "Hell's He- roes." FOX ELBINORE Today Dennis King 'The Vagabond King." in I am still uncertain if it be true- that I saw all the beauty which I remember as having seen in "The Vagabond King" at the Fox Elsi nore Monday night. In memory it has the beauty of the sunset, the perfection of acting in "Disraeli" and the humor found in amusing situations which when remember ed days after they have happened make you smile or even laugh. it seems impossible that so much beauty perfection of beau ty could be Imprisoned In strips of celluloid and transferred to screen. It is all done in technicolor with a depth of color effect and naturalness that is amacing. Not only one color but, aU ediOf3- a . oeauuiui. greefis. blues, orange Jnfihfes, black, grey, and all nat ural. The play is not a dry historical play even though it has to do with Louis XI and France in 14 S3. O P. Heggie as King Louis does auch acting as to make one forget dif ference in years between then and now. He is amusing and genuine so much so that he has quite outdone anything accomplished by him before. Jeanette MacDonald as Kather ine, the niece of the king and the sweetheart of Dennis King, Is a personage to be reckoned with. Her voice Is certainly the best feminine voice o far heard on the screen both in diction and In singing. Dennis King Is superb. Wheth er he be a- vara bond or a ktar and ha is both in this play, he is one actor whom you do not cease to watch when he is on the stage; his voice Is unreservedly splendid. One other person Lillian Roth. As the first sweetheart of King she g"oes through the picture a person to be remembered for beauty, drama tie vigor, and charming voice. The story is tense, dramatic, amusing in. spots, full of ro mance and love, and at an times moving npidly. There is a fin ished, carefully groomed effect in ery detail of the picture. Lud wig Bergey has directed a master pioce la TThe Vagabond King." BUgh's Capitol today, and to morrow yon will see aad hear the stag favortta "No, No. Naattta." H Is well done. It U highly amus ing, and "the shew within the how" which is given to carry oat the theme of the play is spectacu lar to say the least Needless to say it is a comedy for. Louise Faseada, Zaxu Pitta, and Lucien Llttlefield are all three well cast In thi3 story that alone would insure enough come dy to prevent any evening from being misspent. Bernice Claire and Alexander Gray are both possessed of very good Toices, and they sing well together. There are times that one Is urged to doubt that the voice singing la Gray's bnt be that as it may who ever singsgdoes It well. The technicolor scenes axe rery -O will have the backing of Mellon, former Gevernor John 8. Fisher and part of the State machine. Former Governor GifFord Pin chot will rely on the labor votes in his campaign for Governor and Brawn wfll be backed by both Mellon and Vara. SPEAKER TELLS OF FALL OF BABYLON The fall of "Babylon was 'the most dramatic scene in human history, last night declared Dr. E. J. Bnlgln, evangelist at the Cal vary Baptist church, In preaching on 'Tail of Babylon." He describ ed the city, IS miles square, 0 miles around the wall. "Her mighty towers and 45 walls made her impregnable," he said. "The chapel Baal rested on 80 pillars with a figure repre senting the sung od of Baal. The figure stood 45 feet high and was overlaid with gold. The hanging gardens never hare been equalled. The dining room had a capacity to accommodate 1,000 lords. "When men talk of civilization, just stop a moment and think that finer civilizations than ours have perished from the earth. Baby lon, Rome, Athens, and old Greece, all went down, not be cause they lacked military effici ency, money or refinement or ed ucation, hut they went down be cause they were lands without God and America had better not get too high minded, lest we go tne same route." Dr. Bulgin said, "When God writes men had better stop to read. If a boy could profit today by the advice of his father or the sons of his grandfather, we would raise a generation of giants in a mighty few years. Again the pleasure of the wicked is short There is a world of difference be tween the way the devil and stn open and close their banquet. The banquet of Belshazsar opened with wine and- music. It closed at midnight with dying groans for music and human gore for wine.1 Mrs. Burgett Is Called by Death Mrs. Mary Burgett, who was quite well known in church cir cles in this city, died at the home in the Four Comers district early Monday morning at the age of 70 years. She was the wife of George Burgett aad mother of Mrs. 'William Keimeyer of Salem. Funeral arrangements had net been completed at a late hour last night, pending word from sons in the east. She leaves also five sons: nroa- ve'nour of Jackson, Mich.; Charles of Portland; Howard and George of Jamestown, N. D.; Harry of Chicago. She lived in Jamestown N. D,. before coming here, and belonged to the Methodist church and Women's Relief Corps there. COMMANDER Uajor-Geaeral K. Xsacke, brigade eoxanunder of the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment la the Delhi independent area of India. His troops, for the most part vet eran campaigners, are ready to Stop any thnat big ypAfriy fa their area, Slating aad Ueodahed hare already occurred ta Calcutta tni Its environs. CtiJSUS TAKING IS HARD WORK Charles W. Brant's Job 1$ Cited as Example of Dif ficulties Found . This business of taking Uncle gam's 1930 census Is harder in some districts than others, which means that the work is harder for some enumerators than oth ers. In this census district, one of the hard districts is being worked by Charles W. Brant, Spanish war veteran. Brant's territory embraced Elkhorn, Mehama, Mill City (the Marlon county portion), Horeb and Brettenbush precincts. He has already traveled about 1500 miles and he has about two weeks' work yet. He went oa foot la one place 11 miles to get one family, and on that trip got a population and farm schedule that he did not know was avail able, by following on foot a dim side trail. The neighbors did not know the rancher was there. He is far exceeding the esti mates made at Washington, on both population and farms. It Is remarkable how the backwoods districts are filling up, and how the settlers once on the land in the remote section stick to their little homes, which they are grub bing out of the timber and dig ging out of the rocks. One fam ily, away back in a lonely canyon, does not yet even own a cow. An other, far out of the track of au to traffic, has a good radio set. Mr. Brant has about used ud his auto In climbing and getting down mountains and getting stuck in mud holes and negotiat ing ways around fallen trees. But he is generally treated well. when he arrives by auto, on horse back, or on foot, and he is stick fng it out, and intends to do so to the end of the chapter. He would not tackle such a job again. bnt be is not sorry he tackled this one. While he will not show much of a balance on the right side of the ledger in pay, he will nave a lot of experience. Mr. Brant has not yet turned In a single unemployment schedule Some of the people he has found may not be making much money, bnt they are all doing something. No one of them is idle. There are perhaps few other sections of the whole country that can make sued, a snowing. AFTER AUTO CRASH Jack Smith and Leon J. De Spain, Klamath Falls Indians, were being held in the city jail Monday, lor investigation in con nection with an automobile crash in which H. R. Burgess, salesman for the Buster Brown shoe store, was seriously injured Sunday fore noon. Mr. Burgess suffered two brok en ribs, severe bruises and pos sibly internal injuries, and is still a patient at the Sarem General hospital. Lester Burgess, his con sin and a passenger, suffered mi nor Injuries. The accident occurred at Sum mer and D streets. Burgess was driving west on D when the In dians, traveling according to wit nesses at a breath, taking speed, approached from the south, strik ing the Burgess machine broad side. Both ears were practically demolished. It was reported that Smith, the driver of the car, ran up the street as soon as he had crawled out of the wreckage, pouring something .from a bottle, which on being re covered smelled strongly of liquor. DeSpain was pinned beneath the car but was not badly hurt. Construction on New Chapel at Belcrest Looms Am MA An Si O ancificailans for the Maw r)iani at T1crest Memorial park are completed this month, construction work will be under taken according to announcement Monday by J. H. Laldlaw. The ehapel, planned last year, riti K aHvtitlv larrer when built than was originally the view of the sponsors or tne para, come extra space has been added to the family room and aa extra room In the nener floor of the chapel has been provided. . . . . . . t i Mr. LAiaiaw saia me cnapei vnuld ha of the English type, with solid walls of brick. In addition to its use as a cha pel, the new building will serve as ednttnietratloa neaaquaners ior Belcrest. A. P. MEETS vkw YORK Anril zl ( AP) The annual meeting of the As sociated Press was neia et tne Hotel Commodore today. SUSPFCTS 1 HELD Old and young can take this family laxative; free trial bottle! The next time that you or the children need a laxative, try ' this famous doctor's prescription which aids the bowels without doing any. harm. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, with purest senna, and laxative herbs, is effective in a gentle and helpful way. Its action is thorough, but it never weakens the bowels. It stimulates their muscular action and is thus actually rood for the system. Remember Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin when coated tongue, fetid breath, heidsrhrs, nausea, jaded appetite or biliousness tells the need of a thorough cleansing. Draggists keen it In big bottles, or write Dr. CtUhottTs yr Prfsm MontktUo, if, W a frtt trial Uttk Or- OPENS GAME -o v. Mayor Ifackny of Philadelphia throwing out the ball to start the opening game at Philadelphia be tween the New York Yankees and the Athletics, which the latter won, I to 2. 'Mrs. Mackay and Thomas Shfte, owner of the Philadelphia team, watched the Mayor do his hit to start off the festivities. AFTER CUSTOMERS Starting an intensive week's drive for new patrons, a caravan of salesmen from the Portland Gas and Coke company arrived in Salem early yesterday morn ing. The Portland group was met at the Fairgrounds road by Lelf Bergsvik and L. H. Calhoun and others of the Salem office, the caravan with its banners of "Portland Gas Service for Sa lem, parading through the prin cipal business sections before dis banding in front of the gas office here. Fifteen cars from Portland and five from the Salem force were in the line up, which was led through town under escort from the city traffic force. The was company has added 148 new cus tomers here since April 1, and hopes to increase the present'load materially In the week's drive, which is now under way. The company invited all resi dents of the city to be its guests at a vaudeville and show held at tneGrand theatre last night in con nection with the drive. Portland talent was on the bill. In addtion to soliciting custom ers this week, the 16 salesmen here from Portland, will help the local force in dispensing informa tion on heating and- cooking with gas, working in connection with local recognized gas appliace dealers. Room space.will be at a premi um in the Salem vfcamber of com merce rooms this weekemi"K"tuSr verious meetings scheduled for that place of gathering material ize. A two-day session of boys' and girls' club for the county is set for April 25 and 26 according to Rural Supervisor Fox. Members of an association of abstracters, comprising workers from communities throughout the valley, are to meet here la the chamber rooms next Saturday. W. B. Hanson is the director of the meeting. ' According to announcement made Monday y E. A. Rnoten, president of the Marion County Cattle club, that organisation will meet at 2 p.m. Saturday la the chamber of commerce rooms. The gathering is called to make plans for the annual Marion county Jer sey spring show te be held May ST, - JohnE Long Is Fred of Charge The statutory - charge against John E. Long, chiropractor; was formally dismissed front court hero Monday when an order of. dismis sal for the want of evidence was filed with the county elerkv Long was arrested here last November and the ease against hiss has been hanging tiro since aa indictment by the grand Jury in January was retained. Dismissal' was saada in court some time ago, but the order had not been prepared for filing until yesterday. Jm Kill win ED M r "IT uunvT, I rawcatroaa L DISASTER ONE OF WORST Prisoners Trapped in Locked Cells Unable to Escape Conflagration (Continued ttom page 1.) to maintain order among more thaa 1.000 convicts who were leoee in the prison yards, and Who, it was believed, had set sev eral fires In the prison cotton mills, had cut fire , hose and threatened firemen. The yards resembled an armed camp after a pitched battle. Ly ing en the grass were the bodies pf some 200 victims of the blaze, most of them killed by dense smoke. In the prison hospital basement lay almost 100 other dead. A few dead were known to be in G and H cell blocks where the fire burned furiously for several hoars after It started in an ad joining block and spread rapidly under a stiff west wind. The loose convicts were being driven into the dining nails, troops were having trouble con trolling the men who, earlier in the excitement, had pitched in and aided in rescue work. Thefirst intimation that the first fire was of incendiary origin came from State Fire Marshal Ray GilL He said he believed the fire was set in several places sl- 'multaneously in the I and K cell blocks, the latter fires in the cot ton mills were incendiary, he said. Chief of Police Harry E. French of Columbus, helping to command the situation in the pri son enclosure, ordered all women nurses from the penitentiary at 9:4$ p.m. He said be Issued the order to Insure safety for the wo men. Spring Clover And Grain Said Growing Rapidly Grain planted this spring as well as spring sown clover is com ing on in excellent fashion, Frank Doerfler, agricultural adviser at the First National bank, reported Monday. "If present conditions hold we should have a bumper crop," Doerfler said after making a -thorough view of the valley in the last fortnight. v Doerfler says the fruit crop looks good with no damage what ever done by recent light rainfall Should the weather suddenly turn cold to prevent sap from running in the trees, much of the bloom might be lost, Doerfler said, but inasmuch as the weather is warm and balmy a most favorable weather condition for the setting of fruit prevails. "I find that many prune blos soms are falling," said Doerfler but he ha&tene dto add that this situation was in no sense a new one and that the growers had nothing whatever to fear. JAGKTE FIELDS WIXS KANSAS CITY, April 21. (AP) Jackie Fields, world wel ter weight champion, knocked out Meyer Grace of Philadelphia in the third round of a scheduled 10 round bout here tonight The title was not at stake. TODAY Yitaphono AlUTalkiasj (Singing Mwrical Comedy.. . . 'No, No, Nanette . . . You've never seen anything like these Snmptuons Scenes In I I Color Movietonews Yltaphone Acts u Saturday Js Sunday B. K. O. Ohnheant GRAND THEATRE "WHERE SOUND IS BEST Any Ol Any Seat aWC Time LAST TIMES TONIGHT DOROTHY MACKAILL In "STRICTLY MODERN" Just one laugh after the other Pathe Sound Kews, Snap Shots Alt Talking Comedy Wednesday - For 4 Big Days Peter B. Kyne's Sensational Story The Three Godfathers now on the Talking Screen with Charles BJckford, Fred Kohler, Raymond Hattoa All Talldag Hit! " ( ( U MM M K J4U J a mamw wasw 'sna Big Russian Dancer Put In Bastile A sequel to the accident on the Capitol theatre stage Saturday, in which, Katacha Nattova. adagio dancer, was injured, was record ed in police court Monday morn ing when Bogdan Ganjoulevich, soother member of the adagio team, was fined $19 tor disorder ly conduct. Reports from the theatre indi cated that Ganjoulevich, big Rus sian who was a taxi driver in New York City a year ago, had engaged in a quarrel with the husband of the female dancer, possibly over the blame for the accident, and that a tight had resulted Sunday afternoon. The trouble was patched up aad Ganjoulevich promised to keep the peace, but that night ho "chose" another member of the Orpheum vaudeville troupe, with the result that the Russian was locked up in Jail over night. when Ganjoulevich spelled his name to the police sergeant, the latter'e pen stuttered tor a mo ment. 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