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MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1936 THE CAPITAL JOURNAK. SALEM. OREGON 9 r 1 BELIFVES STAR OF BETHLEHEM DONATI'S COMET Seattle. Dec. 21. UP) William O. Hale, president of the Seattle as tronomical society, told Interview ers today he believes the Star of Bethlehem was Donatl's comet blazing over the skies of Palestine. Hale, addressing the St. Clement's Episcopal church parishioners last night, said astronomers do not be lieve the star which led the magi 4u the manger was mythical but that they have rationalized it with modern theories and have suggested that when the three wise men cried "where is. he that Is born king of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the east," they saw: A comet, a collision of stars, a new star (a Nova) or the conjunc tion of several planetst Hale leans toward the comet the ory, and said when Donatl's comet raced past the earth in 1868, as tronomers calculated it would be another 1,800 years before it reap peared. Counting backward 1,800 , years, and allowing for errors in time calculations, the changes In calendars and the diverse theories of what year Christ was born, Hale said Donati's comet would have p peared about the time of the nativ ity. Some astronomers, however, have suggested astrologers were well ac quainted with the phenomena of comets and "the three wise men" would not have mistaken a comet for a mystic star. Hale said they have found the planets Saturn, Jupiter and Mars dome close together about every 700 years and that they were in conjunction, creating an unusual brilliance, in the spring of what modern calendars term the year .6 B. C. He said the creation of a Nova, waxing In brilliance and then dying out in what is termed "sky lights" is a known phenomena and that It, or the collision of heavenly bodies might have created the mystery which occurred when "lo, the star which they saw in the east went before them till it came and stood over where the young child was." SUNBEAM CIRCLE HAS XMAS PARTY Monmouth A chicken supper for members and their families opened a Christmas party for Sunbeam circle Tuesday evening with 64 participat ing around the tables decorated with holly. Mrs. C. Price was in charge of the Kipper arrangement. The business .otcssion was short and gas followed py a program arranged by Mrs R. B. Pollan Christmas carols were sung by the group and Mrs. D. R. Elliott presented a musical reading. Vocal solos were given by Betty Lou Elliott, Mrs, Carl Iverson and Betty Wlnegar who also gave a tap dance. Phllesta Homar presented a reading and pres ents from the tree were distributed. Mrs. Sheldon Cody was in charge of the treats and Mrs. L. Waller the lifts. Installation of officers will be Qpld January 5. Prison Term Faced Dallas Luther Clark, wanted by Polk county authorities for forgery, was returned here Saturday morn ing from Kelso, Wn., by Sheriff T. B. Hooker and Deputy Sheriff Wil liams. According to Hooker, Clark faces somewhat similar charges in Kelso and was given a 20-year sus pended sentence. West Stayton Leonard Walker pent the week end along the coast from Taft to Astoria. u u m f j I' .4 Jm fcl 8 I JJ rYrwrtrtaTMilt) n l I l' n Q n PROOF STRAIGHT IOUMON WHISHT 1 Governor Wins The first Golden Beaver emblem issued by the Oregon State Motor association as an award for enrollment of new members went to Governor Charles H. Martin (left). Oregon's chief execu tive won the emblem by presenting Dr. Bruce R. Baxter, presi dent of Willamette university, for membership In the motorists' organization. Shirley Temple, Most Popular of Screen Stars, Begins Her Fourth Year Hollywood, Calif., Dec. 19. (P) Shirley Temple, the million-dollar baby they found in a five-cent picture, begins her fourth year as a contract actress. She is not yet eight years old. Three years ago, December 19, 1933, she was an unknown lit tle girl, working on a week-to-week basis in a series of one-reel baby pictures. On that day, she came with some 149 other children most of whom also had dimples and curls to try out for a brief song-and-dance bit in the musical film, "Stand Up and Cheer." Today, she Is the No. 1 box office attraction of the motion picture world. Her box office stature is twice that of Oarbo. Executives of 20th Century-Fox studios estimate that 240,000,000 people a number twice the size of the population of the United States have paid to see her on the screen. And, they claim, the scope of her popularity Is still growing. They cite the lukewarm reception she used to receive in Paris, and com pare It to a very recent situation In the French capital, when her pictures were playing in five dif ferent theatres the same day, and all to capacity audiences. The superlatives go even further. American theatre men voted her the loading box office attraction for 1936, the second consecutive year she has won that honor. She is the only player of either sex of any nation, to get it twice In a row. In England, she out-ranked even the reigning native favorite, Oracle Fields, In the opinion of British theatre men. She is the only Amer ican ever to receive this rating. . Financial statistics relating to her reach astronomic proportions. She has made 12 feature pictures. Studio heads declined to state exact figures, but estimated each film cost an average $500,000 cheap as features go and grossed W.ooo,' 000 each. Her original contract stipulated a Sl50-a-week salary. It has been revised and tilted steeply three . .1 A. Stra&.V A.A.A. Award times. Today, usually well-inform ed sources say she is paid per pic tureat $75(000 per film. It is estimated she has earned met than $1560.000 in studio sal aries, perhaps a third as much again from advertising "tieups." The production program on her pictures already has been mapped ahead, with stortes and starting dates, for the next two years. She will be eight years old next April 23. Bazaar Successful Mill City The recent bazaar held by the Ladles' Aid society of the Presbyterian church was very prof itable in that over $30 was raised. Besides the selling of, fancy work there was also a baked food sale, a home-made candy sale, and a fish pond for the children. GAAHAM "Farther and Faster on a Gallon of Gasoline than any other car in America" FROM COAST TO COAST and CANADA TO MEXICO Graham Holds Every Existing Record for Economy Salem Prices Fully Equipped as low as $835 to $1725 WE INVITE YOUR INSPECTION LODEIt BROS. 446 Center Street Phone 6133 Salem, Oregon For Eight Sears Your Graham Sales and Service for Marion and Pout Coon ties HOME OF GOOD USED CARS illliislaiMiasiail NOW 18 MONTHS OLD IN whiskey, as In sports, performance makes a champion, not hole. Windsor, by its outstanding performance, is a champion among popular-priced, straight bourbon whiskies. Rich, round-bodied, de lightfully smooth, Windsor get In taste leadership from National Distillers' expert distilling and care-, ful ageing. Try a bottle. You'll like the price, too. MONEY CLUB FORMED HERE Organization of the first money club of Salem was completed at Sa lem Library Saturday night by the election of Luther J. Chapln presi dent and R. A. Harris secretary. The club marks the arrival in Sa lem of a movement which is taking form In. other sections of the coun try and emanates from a group of self-styled "new economists" center ing in New York City, which includes among its now far-flung membership such names as Major Charles H. Douglas, high priest of social credit, and such other students of economics and finance aa Arthur Kitson, Pro fessor Frederick Soddy, Congressman Goldsborough, ex-Senator Bronson Cutting, Howard Scott, noted tech nocrat, Samuel Bottomly, Adolph Gang, Owen Gandy, J. Crate Larkin and others whose late writings in criticism of modern finance are commanding increasing . attention throughout the country. The Salem club is organized for study and cooperation toward im proving the country's money system and other advance movements. One of the local club's early 'ac tivities will also be toward listing and uniting consumers for such ben efits as may come from cooperative buying and production. The next meeting is scheduled for 7 pjn. January 2, at the city library unless otherwise announced later. All interested are welcome. JUNIOR CIRCLE HAS PARTY AT COOTE'S i Silverton Mrs. Al Coote was home hostess to the members of the junior circle of the Methodist Episcopal church Friday afternoon. Exchange of gifts was a feature. Mrs. Charles Davis gave a reading and Mrs; J. O. Russell led in de votional. Mrs. J. Werle is circle president. Quests were Rev. and Mrs. D. Les ter Fields, Mrs. Charles Fryar, Mrs. L. Devericks, Mrs. B. J. Day, Mrs. W. P. Scarth and Mrs. J. J. Lewis. Members present were Mrs. Charles Davis, Mrs. J. O. Russell, Mrs. Al Coote, Mrs. J. Werle, Mrs. Fred Ba ker, Mrs. A. Peck, Mrs. George JaeS' chke, Mrs. Harold Davis, Mrs. Harry Riches, Mrs. Norman Naegeli and Mrs. William Swift. f from coughs due ts colds. Real medicine acts fnt.rnally. Money. back guarantee. V "Doc'' Lewis Drug Store wv4mtvm!!fyi ,3"! Irfinrhlmlii.. 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