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10 YEARS AGO
June 3. 1942
(It was Wednesday)
State civil defense head warns
Japanese air raid on Dutch Har
bor, Alaska, indicated Oregon
elvil defense workers must be
on a 24-hour alert.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The gas ra
tioning will become more string
ent next winter, reports tell. This
will stop indlgant citizens from
marching to state legislatures in
limousines.
20 YEARS AGO
June 3. 1952
fit urn Friday)
Plans discussed to discontinue
Oregon state fair "In the inter
ests of economy."
Logging halted in Rogue val
' ley by heavy rains and wet for
est conditions.
tO YEARS AGO
June 3. 1922
(It was Saturday)
Plan annouhced for three
new pear packing plants to be
erected in Medford 1922 crops
expected to , be slightly below
normal.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Pickwick stages from San
Diego to Portland have com
menced operation on a regular
schedule, and Tom Mcrriman,
local blacksmith, has contracted
with the company for the repair
of all broken springs and simi
lar work.
40 YEARS AGO
June 3. 1912
(It was Mondav
Medford baseball team defeats
Grants Pass, 20 to IS, and for
second time in month players
have to walk most of way home
when bus repeatedly breaks
down and tires blow out.
Backers of Theodore Roose
velt walk out of Arizona GOP
convention dominated by sup
porters of William Howard Taft
and name their own slate of
delegates.
SALE SUCCESSFUL
The recent Boy, scout rum
mage sale was a big success, ac
cording to Mrs. Orrin Brown,
chairman, who said today the
scouts wish to thank all the par
ents and other people who help
ed .
POTATO SHORTAGE HITS
Grand Rapids, Mich. (U.R)
The potato shortage is hitting
this western Michiglan cily. A
sign in the window of a closed
restaurant Tuesday said: "Gone
up north to plant potatoes for
three days."
Court Records
m irn rni'RT
Jinim Hubert Cummlngi. failure to
Inn ml inn ilen. S3.
Martin Keith Sindbtg. violation of
basic rule, H0.
K C. Arnold, motor vehicle license
expired, SY
Clifford Nlcklous Fuchi. failure to
top at ftop ilun, 13.
Don I.ePoy Williams, reckleu driv-
In I2V
Joseph Aiirttinn Herbert, failure to
stop at red ngni. a.
Howard Ervin Wharton, failure to
stop at Mop lign. $5.
Earl Rodney Fuller, failure to stop
at slop stun, S3.
IIIMTRICT COURT
Chester Ed. Carter. overhe.Bht. $.
Ray V. Ueutachman, Jr., overload,
$39.
Chester Edward Carter, overhelfht,
110.
Delbert W. Whtteley. overhelfht.
$10.
Patricia Ann Bowles, no operator's
license, $0.
Manner iL HuU, overwidth. $&.
Editorial Correspondence
San Francisco, June 1 Have
lege rowing, having rowed bow
Lake, N.H., many years ago.
So decided to take in the
Stanford over on the Oakland
sports writers suggested there
might (for the first time in a hundred years) beat the champion
Bears.
There was another reason.
school year at Berkeley (next door
been an ardent STANFORD fan!
established preference in our house for the color "red" over "blue"
even though the former may be "cardinal" and the latter joined up
with "gold." (We have an Idea A.C. wilt get it, if no one else does.)
And reason No. 3:
Stanford revived rowing after
a few students there liked to row. -
It showed a fine and rare
encouragement from the university had to buy their own boat,
hire their own coach, pay their own car or bus fare. But that did
not deter them. Meanwhile their traditional rival had never
stopped rowing, had won six or seven national championships and
two or three Olympic or world championships, and were so out in
front they couldn't be seen even with the latest Mt, Wilson telescope.
Well the sports experts were wrong as usual.
The Stanford boys showed the proper AMATEUR spirit, but
as always or almost always happens, when amateurs meet pro
fessionals the latter won (except in one of the races) and very
easily. '
However that one race was
SOMETHING to write the "Friendly SP" about!
There is an "Information Bureau" in this hotel, but we have
yet to ask information about anything that could be obtained.
Yesterday proved no exception.
'How does one get to the Oakland Estuary?" we asked.
'The Oakland Estuary? Let's
minute wait.)
"Hello, hello could you tell
"The Oakland Estuary, that
races are to be held today and we
'Yes, yes, of course, of course. Just hold the line please.
(Another 2 minute wait.)
'Hello, hello, are you there?
races in Oakland today? Of coursel
the tram terminal is?"
"Yes."
"Take a taxi to the tram terminal, ask Information there BE
FORE you buy your ticket (NOT
tell you how to get just where
THANK you!"
It was just as clear as 99
Information or lack of it. At the "Tram" terminal (tram is the
Bureau's favorite term for street car) the Bureau of Information
was closed it being Saturday so
ticket window for a ticket to the
"The WHAT?" asked the girl.
"The Oakland Estuary where the boat races are held today."
"Boat races? you mean sail-boat races? They were held yes
terday."
'No, 8-oar races, between Cal
morning papers."
"Oh Bill," the ticket girl called shrilly to somone Invisible,
how do you get to the boat races today?"
"Take a D car to Golden Gate Park," was the answer from
invisible William.
'Not .the MOTOR races the
someWHERES."
"Never heard of them," said
At this point the ticket girl
ray of light since the search In
Don t know about boat races,"
ary is reached by Key Route Car
then you can find out from the bus
ment and to your right, Mister."
The Key System bus driver
there let us off. but had never heard of the Oakland Estuary or any
boat races, thought we better take the bus going to Alameda in
stead of Berkeley, however.
After a second transfer, we
boy with a cane and a pair of very
ently was as dotty as your correspondent for he was going to the
boat races also, and in sharp contrast knew exactly how to get
there.
So we arrived after traveling
ering around 30 or 40 miles!
Under the circumstances was
finish line, only a raw-boned young man with a blue flag under
his arm, sitting on a railroad bridge abutment and chewing a
sandwich. A few minutes later he
End" kids with a large black dog (suggesting a cross between an
Eagle Point shepherd and a Baltimore retriever) and finally a boy
and girl the former with a cardinal Stanford windDreaner on
and a bog of peanuts frorh which they were both securing suste
nance from time to time, and clearly enjoying eacn otner s com
pany TREMENDOUSLY.
Thnt wan the audience that
vale railroad bridge) to witness the first race in the annual camor
nia-Stanford regatta of 1952! (Not surprising perhaps that the In
formation Bureau of far-off San Francisco had never heard of It!)
That first race DID take us
any member of that crew NOT
everv contest, cot a prize.
This was called the "Reserve"
and while the blue-oared boys won
ship that did it. The Stanford "sub" Freshmen were merely worse.
The next race was the big
reminded us of the Yale-Harvard
years ago, with the neck-and-neck
the Inst, and the photo-finish.
Bv the time the boats came In
small iirouo had been doubled.
might upset the dope had got around for they were all Stanford
students In fact didn't see a blue-and-goid rooter an aay. tr-er-hiips
the Berkeley boys didn't think It wjjrlh the gas to see another
aquntlc massacre.)
The only way the boats could be identified at that distance
was by Ihc colors of the oar blades blue and red as they flashed
in the sun. (In the three hours there was wind, fog, cold, however,
and precious little sun.) Through field glasses It was clear Stanford
was leading by a few feet, and when the peanut couple were so
informed there was quite a celebration.
"Com ON Stanford! Come ON Stanford!" they yelled, and
never quit until the finish Stanford won officially by 7 feet!
' So we did see the lads from
Berkeley on the RIVER at last and as that was what we made
the trip for, we had no great complaint even though to lose the
Varsity "JV" and Freshman could not be rcgardcd.as much of a
liver triumph!
ah i m .it- - .-ct in
f 1 1 HI HM, a V V 1 1 It - w ..- r - --o
A railroad bridge also figures there. But instead of the victors be
ing greeted by perhaps SO shivering and very nondescript specta
tors perthed on it, a few scattering cheers and ONE DOG, there is
n roar from two or three observation trains, ear-splitting whistles
t i i i ...Aki. .ml (.miuHi alnnff the shore on both sides
doing Indian dances the winners that Is with fire crackers
irum iiuiiui-ua ui ibviim, v.v"
mixed in and champagne-corns
SED PLANT BURNS
Tacoma (U.R) Damage
may reach $350,000 as a result
of a fire that swept through Lil
ly's seed company factory Mon
day night.
Tuesday, June 1, 1852
always been interested in col
- oar on a house-crew at Squam
boat - races between California and
estuary, particularly as the SF
might be an upset and Stanford
Ever since the family spent a
to a fraternity house) we have
Also there has been a long-
World War II, simply because
amateur spirit. The lads got no
worth the trip and the trip was
see. Hold the line please." (A 2
me what it is you wish?
is where the Cal-Stanford boat
would like to see them."
You wish to see the college boat
Well, sir, do you know where
after?) and I am sure they will
you wish to go. Is that clear?
of all the Information Bureau's
we asked the girl at the first
Oakland Estuary.
and Stanford it s all in the
BOAT races over In Oakland
Bill.
next door joined In with the first
Darkest San Francisco started.
said she, "but the uaKiana estu
"K," change at High street, and
driver there. Down to the base
knew where High street was and
found a fellow passenger, an old
ancient binoculars, who appar
for an hour and a half and cov
not surprised to find lew at tne
was joined by a group of "Dead-
sat on the finish line (the Fruit-
back to Squam Lake, N.H., where
"catching a crab" at least once in
or second-rresnman contest
handily, it wasn't good oarsman
event tor oianiora at least ana
varsity race at New London two
struggle from the first gun to
sight about a mile upstream, our
Apparently tne tip mat oianiora
Palo Alto beat the lads from
nl1tf r-ivr ra-ffattA In the Fast!
- . r-
oi coura.
WEATHER
Br United Press
California: Fair Tuesday and
Wednesday except fog on the
coast
Crosstown
Can't you kids ever take
Matter of Fact
JOHN E. AND CO.
New Orleans Sen. Robert
A. Taft s man in this state as
Nat'onal Committeeman is John
E.
Jackson
portly, sauve
and prosperous
lawyer who
ha. rtilpri what
y ": -ifl passes for the
m;rn Louisiana
I I NkL? R e p u b 1 i -
I can Party or
I x:4fr" ust short of
I 20 years. A
aaseseaeaasV aaaaaal visit to John
Joseph Alsop e. anrj a short
look at John E.'s record, are
highly instructive experiences.
At the moment. National Com
mitteeman Jackson is a bit prick
ly and de-defensive. On his of
fice walls, portraits of such Re
publican statesmen as Senator
Bricker and John D. M. Hamil
ton smile reassurance to him.
All, they seem to say to him,
will be well at Chicago. But all
has not been well in Louisiana.
In brief, John Minor Wisdom,
another New Orleans lawyer
with important connections, a
comfortable fortune and an ec
centric passion for a genuine
two-party system in the South,
went to work in the Louisiana
Republican party some years
ago. About 12 months ago, the
magic of the name of Gen,
Dwight D. Eisenhower brought
Wisdom a sudden influx of sup
porters and co-workers.
With John E. Jackson fight
ing a bitter rear guard action all
the way, Wisdom captured the
New Orleans organization in a
legal primary In January. Then,
having got himself this New Or
leans toehold, Wisdom impert
inently intervened this spring in
the selection of delegates to the
Republican National Convent
ion. Worse still, the Wisdomites
voted down the Jacksonites by
heavy majorities in six of the
eight Louisiana congressional
districts. That gave Gen. Eisen
hower nine of Louisiana's 11
district delegates. It promised to
give Eisenhower the four dele
gates at large to be named by
the state convention. It was a
challenge to John E. Jackson.
JACKSON responded like the
" brave fellow he is. He used
his remaining control of the state
Republican committee In the
Texas manner. He ignored the
ballots of the pro-Eisenhower
Wisdomites. He nullified their
undoubted legal victories. And
he rinsed the state convention,
by seating his own minority in
stead of the Wisdomite major
ity, to send a solid pro-Taft dele
gation to Chicago. No Impartial
observer here doubts that this
pro-Taft Louisiana delegation is
a simple product of John E. Jack
son's force or character. Even
John E. himself does not really
bother to argue that he had the
majority of Republican voters
on his side.
"There are all kinds of major
ities, he explains rather port
entously, "There are force ma
jorities, which attempt to force
action by others. There are law
ful majorities, which are peace
able and good. You wouldn t
count the heads of a mob when
you were about to be attacked.
You wouldn t just say, I give
up, I surrender' because there
were a lot of people In the mob.
You wouldn't do that, would
you?"
John E.'s definition of a mob
appears to be any considerable
number of Republicans not rul
ed by Jackson. In this state, up
to 150,000 people vote for the
Republican party in national el
ections. But the number of reg
istered Republicans, which
means Republicans with any say
in the party affairs, steadily de
clined under the astute Jackson
stewardship to the ridiculous
11 time low of 1.S00.
Anything tending to transform
Louisiana's crypto - Republicans
into registered Republicans,
such as the nomination of Re
publican candidates for state of
fice, is strongly disapproved by
John E. If the crypto - Republi
cans registered in large numb
By Roland Co
just an ordinary snapshot?"
by Joseph Alio
ers, mobs would start forming
all over the place. Wisdom's ef
forts have produced mobs al
ready. a
0 ONE, of course, speaks
'more highly of the two-party
system than John E. Jackson.
Although he says nothing can be
done about it without "substan
tial money and substantial pat
ronage." But the fact is, the one
party system has made John E.
what he is today, nourishing him
in a highly satisfactory man
ner. His ideal Louisiana Repub
lican party is one that can e
conveniently assembled in a
small back room, for the sole
purpose of choosing 15 Republi
can delegates each four years.
Such a party may not win
votes in Louisiana, but it will
win rewards in Washington,
when and if a Republican presi
dent has been nominated with
the help of Louisiana's 15. Two
further facts complete the John
E. Jackson story. A couple of
years ago the Republican Na
tional Committee, in its won
derfully humorous way, named
none other than John E. to head
a committee to promote a pow
erful, popular Republican party
in the South. A little Iatef , John
E. was replaced in this chair
manship by his great friend and
mentor, Senator Taft's Southern
procounsul, Rep. Brazilla Car
roll Reece. The conjunction is
symbolic. The worthy Brazilla is
the most active of the old
guardsmen who want the South
ern Republican party organiza
tions to go on being rotten bor
oughs, producing nothing but
phony convention delegates for
old guard use. And John E.
Jackson holds first place among
the Southern leaders who satis
fy this old guard craving.
In one respect, the Louisiana
pattern sharply differs from the
Texas pattern. Whereas in Tex
as there was a strong popular
surge for General Eisenhower,
no one could possibly call the
movement that defeated John E.
Jackson in Louisiana a truly
popular movement. Louisianians
are just not ready, yet, to regis
ter as Republicans in large num
bers as the Texans did. Jackson's
tens were defeated by Wisdom's
hundreds. The whole thing was
on a very, very small scale.
OUT IN TWO other respects,
" the Louisiana pattern resem
bles the Texas pattern. First
Jackson's pro-Taft delegation
was named in arrogant defiance
of the true Republican majority
here; and however small the ma
jority may be, political honesty
demands that the majority shall
rule. Second, John E. Jackson
of Louisiana, like Henry Zwei
fel of Texas, typifies the bizarre
Southern leadership which the
Republicans must throw out, if
they want to compensate their
last 20 years of losses in the
North by the gains in the South
that they could so easily make.
For these reasons, if for no oth
er, the decision on these South
ern delegations at Chicago will
be among the most serious the
Republican party has ever had
to make.
(Copyright, 1952, New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
"H sayi ht can hardly wait
Homogenised Multi-Vitamin, Multi-Mineral Milk!
More Solid
Apparently
For French
By PHIL NEWSOM
United Press foreign Analyst
The French Communists have
been handed a bloody nose and
there is reason to hope a few
more solid
punches will be
landed in the
next few days.
The Reds ap
pear to have
overplayed
their hand in
the demonstra-
tions against
the arrival of
the new NATO
command pr.
i an we.aon.. G e n, Matthew
B. Ridgway, and to have given
the French government precise
ly the opportunity it was await
ing.
France's poker faced right-
wing Premier Antoine Pinay has
signalled he is ready for the
showdown.
It is a courageous move on the
part of the little tannery owner
who has given France its strong
est government since the end of
the war.
Party Boss Jailed
He jailed Communist party
boss Jacques Duclos who has
been described as the most pow
erful Red outside Russia, and
his security forces swept down
on party headquarters through
out France to seize tons of secret
party documents.
It was real cloak and dagger
stuff.
First the swift arrest of the
party boss as he sat in his dark
ened automobile with blackjack
and pistol on the seat beside him.
Then the coordinated raids on
the headquarters the battle
through barricaded steel doors,
hand-to-hand fighting in the
black corridors by the eerie light
of flashlights, the seizure of
forged military seals and the
printing equipment for making
On The Side
(Distributed by King
Tls true, I never was In love,
But now I mean to be;
For there's no art
Can shield a heart
From love's supremacy.
Those virtues which, though thinly set,
In others are aamirea
In you are all together met.
Which makes you so desired.
Brome.
Which is the diamond wed
ding anniversary, the sixtieth or
the seventy-fifth? That is the
subject of a current argument.
What difference does it make?
They are both ridiculous for a
diamond wedding. Of what good
are diamonds to an eighty-year-old
woman? She should have
them when she's young. Do you
know what the third anniver
sary is? It's the leather wed
ding. So if you know some peo
ple celebrating their third anni
versary give the husband a belt
and the bride a handbag. The
sixth anniversary is the iron
wedding. I am slightly baffled
as to gift suggestions for that.
Still I guess you could give the
husband a set of golf irons and
the wife an electric iron. The
twelfth Is the nylon wedding. No
problem there on what to give
the wife, but what can a hus
band use in nylon? The thir
teenth is the lace wedding.
That's easy for the wife angle.
Give her some of that attire Gus
sie Moran made famous. As for
the husband, the lace wedding
seems to completely shut out the
old boy.
Briefly
A piano tuner of Manhattan
informs me he is working on a
book titled, "What I Have
Learned About Women While
Tuning Pianos." I await its pub
lication with interest . . . Balti
morean strongly objects to the
statement "I was raised in Mary
land." Says his old school teach
er always said: "You rear chil
dren and you raise pigs." Very
interesting. How about "brought
up?" As in saying: "I was
brought up in Brooklyn?"
Title Change
Titian titled one of his paint
ings "Two Women Seated by a
Fountain." So titled, it attracted
no great attention. The title was
then changed to "Sacred and
Profane Love." The painting
promptly became world famous.
J. P. Morgan offered $7,000,000
to get home to Jorgensen'i
Punches
Slated
Commies
false documents, and finally the
tons of material which may
prove a plot against the security
of France.
Upheaval Threat Eyed
By the raids, the Pinay gov
ernment hopes to uncover the
hidden Reds who have been able
to tip off the Kremlin to France's
secrets.
It hopes also to remove the
threat of internal upheaval
which only about 500,000 Reds
have been able to hold over the
heads of 42,000,000 other French
men.
The French Reds, once com
prising the most powerful Com
munist party outside the Soviet
Union, will not give up without
a fight.
But it long has been apparent
their strength in France is on
the wane. Membership has fallen
from around 1,000,000 to half
that and French workers have
shown increasing reluctance to
obey political strike orders.
Last Strike Flopped
The last big Communist move
was the "general" strike of Feb
ruary 12, and it was a dismal
flop.
In France, the Reds have fol
lowed their usual "boring from
within" tactics. They have been
strong in the unions and there
have been reports that they have
infiltrated the civil aviation net
work which could be dangerous
in time of war. However, they
have failed in their attempts to
lure the Socialists into a "popu
lar front" and their campaign to
prevent the unloading of Ameri
man military supplies at the
ports of Cherbourg, Bordeaux,
and La Pallice failed long ago.
Pinay s timing in his war
against the Reds looks perfect,
but it is unlikely at this time
that he will attempt to get the
party outlawed. Once he has
them on the run, he doesn't want
to give them a chance to work
up public sympathy.
by e. v. Durimg
Features Syndicate, Inc.)
for this painting. That was when
the dollar had three times the
buying power it has today. The
offer was refused. The painting
is still in the Borghese Galleries
in Rome and is owned by the
Italian government. Incidental
ly, Titian lived to be 90 years
old and up to the end maintain
ed an intense interest in blondes.
Imagine being that way about
blondes at the age of 90. Many
young women who believe their
hair coloring entitles them to
be called "Titian blondes" are
in error. The only way to de
cide it is to go to the nearest
art gallery and take a look at
one of Titian's pictures of a
blonde.
Asides
Everybody knows a North
American Indian baby is called
a papoose, but how many know
what the thing the papoose is
carried in is called? . . . Harry
Barris, pianist and composer,
who wrote Bing Crosby's great
est hit song, "I Surrender,
Dear," was the leader of his own
orchestra at the age of 17. Not
only that, the 17 year old Harry
took his band on a tour of the
Orient. Some teenager!
Asking
Queries from clients. Q. Have
you a reader in So So, Miss.? Or
Dime Box, Texas? Or Plain
Dealing, La.? A. Not that I
know of. However, I am not do
ing so badly for a young fellow.
I have a reader in Hell, Mich.,
and one in Paradise, Calif. Q.
On May 29, 1910, Glenn Curtis
made an airplane flight from Al
bany, N. Y., to New York City.
I claim this is the first recorded
flight to be made over New York
City. My friend says a flight be
tween New York and Philadel
phia was made before that. A.
You win, sir. However, two
weeks after the flight you men
tion, Charles Hamilton made a
round trip flight between Gover
nors Island, N.Y., and Philadel
phia. But he did not fly over
New York City.
Get It Right
Note it stated Harry Davis
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In the Day's News
BY FRANK JENKINS
Political squall:
National Eisenhower-for-Pres-ident
headquarters invites dele
gates to the GOP national con
vention (all 1206 of them) to
VISIT IKE at Abilene, Kansas,
New York or Denver.
The tale first got out that Re
publican national committee
funds would be used to pay their
expenses which caused Taft
backers to howl like wounded
wolves. Later, Eisenhower head
quarters explained that dele
gates could either pay for their
own trips or LOCAL (not nation
al) Ike funds wonld be used to
foot the travel bill. . .
Taft's straw boss, David In
galls, still yelled "fraud!" A guy
named Sullivan, Kefauver's po
litical top kick, chimed in with
the charge that such a thing
would be "gross bribery."
EVIDENTLY the other con
tenders are afraid of the
famed Eisenhower charm and
don't want Republican delegates
exposed to it. (Ike has announced
that he won't attend the con
vention). JUST the same, the scheme Is
a boner. It's akin, I'd say, to
the picking by the Eisenhower
organization of a slate of ten
"approved" delegate candidates
in the Oregon primary. That
made all the other candidates
as sore as a boil, and so far as I
can see did no good.
I sometimes wonder if Ike
doesn't pray in the secret-hours
of the night, when nobody is
around to hear him, to be de
livered from his POLITICAL
friends. He must know that his
BIG asset is the FAITH, of mil
lions upon millions of common,
everyday, non-political people
that he is the leader we NEED
in this critical hour in our na
tion's history.
If he is nominated and elected.
It will be this personal faith in
him that will turij the trick.
MEANWHILE, it seems to me,
Ike is doing all right on his
own.
In Paris, while packing to
leave for home, he tells reporters
he will:
1. Wear his uniform until his
official conferences In Washing
ton are concluded (which is ex
pected to be some time Tuesday.)
He will then put on . civilian
clothing, as an officer on. inac
tive duty.
2. If he is nominated as the
Republican candidate for Presi
dent, he will resign his commis
sion as an army officer.
3. He will not CAMPAIGN
for the nomination. (It is pre
sumed that by this statement he
means he will not make barn
storming campaign tours.)
THAT, I think, is about what
the millions who are pinning
their faith to him want him to
do. .
IT WON'T be easy.
The printed page a will
bulge and the air waves will vi
brate with POISONED questions
addressed to him. At the same
time, sincere men and women
will be putting to him sincere
and well meant inquiries. He
will need to turn aside the poison,
but he will WANT to make sin
cere answers to sincere requests
for information that people are
entitled to have.
I imagine he will be able to
take care of himself. In World
War II, he had to train his men
to RECOGNIZE BOOBY TRAPS
and to beware of them. The Ger
mans were unbelievably crafty
in their handling of these de
vices of deception. I doubt if
Ike's political enemies will be
any smarter along that line than
the Germans were.
After a?, all Ike needs to do is
to BE HIMSELF.
and John Harris, of Pittsburgh,
operated the first film theater in
the U.S.A. That's wrong. Thom
as A. Talleyjlid. In Los Angeles,
in 1902. SejSnd was Harry War
ner, In Newcastle, Pa., in 1903.
Messrs. Davis and Harris oper
ated the first theater called "a
nlckleodeon." Opened in Pitts
burgh in 1905,
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