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Vancouver Daily World from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • Page 14

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THE VAITCOTJVER DAILY WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY' IB, 1922. PRIKST AGAIN eat examination he (Father Delorme) fare a cheque for the premium, "If had wanted to kill my brother for the lnauranoe I would not have done It so soon," said Father Delorme, News and Views of the Movie WortjCRIME WAVE it tit mxTrt a UH1H litUUAUU THE MOVIES BY IIAItRY CAREY DOG SAVES MAN'S LIFE BY WARNING; NEARLY LOSES OWN CHICAGO, Jan. IS A brown mongrel dog, Monday nlgnt, saved the life ef en man and probably prevented the destruction of the Hotel Halsted by fire. The animal awakened Its master, John Cur tin, owner of the hotel, and led him to the rear of the building where Curtln saw flame and smoke coming from the first fleer, occupied by a olothlng company. After the fire department bad been called, the dog refused to leave the building, continuing to bark until George Decker, a guest, had been found en the third floor, overcome by smoke.

Decker wsa revived. The dog remained In the hotel until overcome by smoke, after which tt was rescued by a fireman. v'f nni ii Over $15,000 Take In One Haul and $10,000 in Another OToxld apodal) CHICAGO. Jan. Chicago wa Tlalted yetrday with a renewal of tb crime wave in which two men were shot.

The entire polled department wa awung Into action to cope with the lawlessness that broke out In the city. Three bandit held up the Star Loan Bank, on the weet aide, and escaped with between 118,000 and $20,000 In omah and Jewelry. The robbery wa at the point of the revolver. At praotioally the am time two men were hot In another robbery. Between $10,000 and $12,004 was secured by armed bandit in a bold holdup In the heart of one of the best district on the south side.

Delivering Payroll. The wounded men are employee of a bank. They bad In their possession the payroll of a bakery which they were delivering. There were four bad men In the party and they used an automobile to effeot the hold up. They crowded the motor car containing the bank messengers to the curbstone and opened fire before giving their victims a chance to raise their hands.

The messengers were Joseph Rosa and Anthony Koefoote, both of whom received bullet wounds In their backs and heads. They were employed by the Citizen' Trust and Savings Bank. PANIC ON SILK MARKET IN JAPAN TOltJO, Jan, lg Associated Press) Rumors that American silk buyer Intended to boyoott Japanese silk on account of high price of raw material due to manipulation caused a break of eight points in Yokohama market, which closed In a panicky condition after a day of enormous sales. Yesterday' market wa slightly steady. The rumor Is said to have been an outgrowth of a report from the Japanese oonsul In New York, the report came merely as a warning, outlining certain dissatisfaction on the Cart of the American buyers regard lg the state of the Japanese market.

WILL PROBE THE SINKING OF TUG VICTORIA, Jan. IS. That an Investigation will be held Into the causes of the collision between the C. P. K.

steamship Princess Royal and the P. O. E. tug Clinton, which occurred near the entrance to the Vancouver Narrows Saturday midnight, resulting In the loss of the Clinton, la the opinion of Captain J. D.

Macpher son, wreck commissioner for British Columbia. ABBOoroam BEZ.ro yds iooatzd SEATTLE, Jan. Thomas J. Pournler, former president of the state bank of Black Diamond, who Is oharg ed with absconding of 15400 of the bank's funds last May, Is believed to have been located in New Brunswick, and a request to arrest mm there, has been sent by telegraph. The man believed to be the accused wa Identified by a picture.

He Is lame In one leg, as 1 Voumler, and 1 using the name of Fournler out with different Initial. me U4e family grrmp dora" look lle merle family, does Itl Bnt tt'. Ur9 OaAyriljSroagey and 'UobiV ol jut plain end unaffected ae UUa la ti.KoUl Aator. WeW Tor. ARMLESS MAN TAKEN ON CHARGE OF THEFT II Slim ssiiil ISS E.

H. Brown Wanted by Saska toon Police B. Brown, tn armless man, an Insurance agent, wis armxted on the street today by Detectives Grant and Cameron, on a charge of theft, it 1 claimed be ba kept beck some of the money paid la, premiums. The arrest wa made on instructions from the Saskatoon police. TREATY IS PLANNED Britain and 17.

B. to Act on St. Xaw rence Waterway. WASH INGTON, Jan. 18 Negotiation of a treaty between the U.

b. and Oreat Britain, looking toward Im Crovement of the St. Lawrence river etween Montreal and Lake Ontario, so as to provide a deep water way from the Oreat Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean may be expected to be undertaken soon. It was said today at tb White House, MONTREAL Jan. lly Wage questions, affeotlrig 140.000 emptoyees of Canadian railways, were settled harmoniously yesterday as a result of a conference between union leaders and railway officials here.

Representatives of the running aereed to accept "permanently" the oTent reduction Introduced by the railways L.st July ano5 which were accepted under protest at Utat time. TAVOM VSW BLEOtlOS. VICTORIA, Jan. Much, time has beeir'oocupted In the executive council this week with the Saanlch election lasue, where It is alleged the poll was Invalid owing to the failure to secure statutory declarations of property from candidates by the returning officer. The counoll has not yet given a dectson but It Is known the premier favor a new election.

DAIST SCHOOL BiniHD KINGSTON. Jan. It. Fire yesterday destroyed the Eastern Ontario dairy school, property of the Ontario government, causing aa estimated of $40,000. CASTOR I A For Infanta tod Children In Use For Over 30 Year AJway bears the) gfnatare of SOME VIEWS ON By V.

DBAS KEW TORK. Jan. IS, Meeting Harry Carey la as refreshing as masting a country oousin and listening to discussion of the things that com UB out of the soil. Carey live on a aore rch In California the year around and Hie Views on ttie movies are aa reuniting a hie view on rancmng. "I'm tn lie movies tor what money 1 can make out of them." Carey lold me.

That's the difference iwtweeu him and most of the film Payers I have he admits "art for money saica" is bis creed. He doeKii vtaui to do Shakespeare or ihaw for the screen and be real lies that Uie publio only wants hint aa cowboy actor. Carey Is not under contract at present, 'that gives him some latitude in hi remarks. However, he makes It clear that his remarks are geniiralluea and do not apply specifically to any one concern. Ure are joms of the things he saysi "When ou go out on location fpr wees, or there's no tuning who will be a new star when you return.

Some girl who p.ayed as an exlru Hie week before la billed as the star ofi Ar.4 Ih.mwunilrt tit d'U lars are spent to advertise her. She flares across the horizon and In a Bhort time is forgotten. When you dicker for a oontract the fiibt question a producer auks you Is how much It will cost you to picture' like a "Wally Held' or a 'Fairbanks' or a 'Chaplin' and If you ell thorn the truth, that you can do that kind of picture, you don't get the contract. "1 ha producer, ike every one else In the business, la out for the money. "There are few lenders In the In dnstry.

You can count them on one SHil The rt are followers. They remind me of the sheep on my ranch. When Fairbanks made 1 hree Musketeers' he start.id an epldemlo of musketeers. The ordinary Prdueer Its back and watches the leaders to See wual they are doing and what pictures make money. Humoreaoue made money, i ne screen Is still flooded with Imitations of It, 'Over the H1H' made money for Fog.

Others are trying to get lch with pictures patterned art er iu "The main trouble with the picture Industry today Is this business of Imitating. Its don. for WMy Art Is a slight consideration with most producers. Tet a irt doesn't make money. The fellows woo are getting the most out of the business are the ones who are creating who are doing' something new.

Griffith Is the best "m1 "Tessir, the two b'aok again! the industry are tJmllJ financial successes and the eiplolta DISLIKE TITLE, DISCARD FILM mow Vtaa Bays Jfcdglaf Plorore by Hue lOJte Judglag Book by Its Oorer. TlUcg lead half the movie fans surtray. Movie patrons should read the orttlcisms snd desorlptlve matter alout a play before passing It up, ays Mr. J. R.

Mulr, local manager of the Paramount Theatres and pioneer picture ehow man of this city. Mr. Mulr managed the first real moving house In Vancouver. In what was then known as the Royal Theatre, a building near the Vantages on Hasting" street, now used aa a store. "People look too muoh for the Interesting utiea." says Mr.

Mulr. 'and 1" this way hundreds of rpl do not shows that they otherwise would "It Is often very difficult to find rplaehy or alluring tlUes for clotures of the best kind, and ae an Illustration of this Mr. Mulr points to the lcture now being shown at the Cap tol. "The Little House Around Uie Corner." Not a vr Interesting title, to be ore," aaye Mr. Mulr, "and yet it la a picture that will go down in moving picture history as a elassio and one that no real lover of good pictures will want to miss." That Is only one Instance, but every day the throngs of moving picture lovers teas by theatres that are showing pictures that they would love to see, but do not because the title lacks interest for them, "JuiiKing a picture by the title Is like Judaing a man by hie clotb.ee, a horse by Its color, a book by Its cover or a picture by its frame," aaya Mr.

Mulr. Visit the Lodge Cafe, Peymour Ft. Kew management, new methods. the the the of J. to the the Carey.

The fang won't aooept Mm nytninc out a cowooy. i la. hfm nlaV HIT thing bul cowboy pictures. He want; to do a sea picture, on like too of nooart pimwwrui. And Carey never was a cowboy and is a sailor, ne owue schooner and takes It on long cruises along me racmo ooaew SENATOR'S PLAN IS NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY Would Veto Chinese Tariff Clause in Treaty WASHIYQTOX, aa.

18 Canadian Free) No one hare, exoept Mr. King himself. Is taking very ierlously the Joint resolution Introduced In congress hv W. King. Democrat senator for Utah.

This resolution seeks to veto In advance that portion of the nine power treaty which relate to the Chinese tariff. China, by a number ef treatle bound herself year ego to admit Import from the British Empire, the United Btatee, France, Japan and other countries, and in ne ease ta levy upon there a oustome duty or more man per oent ad valorem. These treatieatt I felt, worked great hardship on China by preventing her government raising neoessary revenue by tariff taxation. It wa one of the grtevancea which China sought to have redressed by the Washington conference and was referred to the committee on Tar Eastern question. This committee In turn referred the eubjeot to a sub oommlt tee.

The snbatanee of it recommendation baa already been published and has ben approved by the conference. They permit the Chinese government te abrogate the old treaties and levy duties in some eases as high a fifteen fer oent. Thl decision greatly arge Instead of restricting Uie fiscal Independence of China. Lovr.rs of mnsto and dancing should hear our orchestra play "The Wabash Blue." Lodge Cafe. tion of players of unknown or llttla merit as stars." if Carey Impresses one as rtintth man more than an antor, Mrs.

Carry impresses one more as a ranchman wife than an actor wife. And here Joke to that New York City la Carey's home and Mrs. Carey was an actress and of stage ramlly. And here's anuther Joke about MANY AT FUNERAL OP MRS. GREENFIELD Flowers for Premier's Wo to Go to Hospitals KDMONTON.

Jan. 18. Despite a eold wind and heavy sky, thousands today attended the funeral services of late Elisabeth Greenfield, wife of premier of Alberta, or watched the cortege ae It passed through the city streets to the Kdmonton cemetery. Attending the funeral In addition to Premier Greenfield and his two eons, Arnold and Frank, was the lieutenant governor, all the cabinet ministers the province and their wires, and many member! of the Alberta legislature The Dallbearere were the Ron. Alex Roes, minister of works, and the Hon.

V. W. Bmtth, representing the oablneti Foster, M.P.P., and A. Donohue, representing the U. K.

A and J. A. Edison and A. R. Brown, eld neighbors ef the premier at Westlook.

Service was held at UeDougail Church. Hundred of floral remembrances, sent from all parts of Alberta and many eltlea of the Dominion are oe disiriouiea among tae unnraioo hospitals at the request ef Premier Greenfield. BAD NATURAL DKATH LONDON, Jan, IT. At la tnqoeet ea body of the late Hon. Victor Gibson, son of rne late Lord Ashbourue.

who was found deed In a hotel, It was shown that deceased died from natural causes, syncope following pnetunoula. GIV ES EVIDENCE Explains of Life Insurance oitl Brother Who Has Ik en Murdered SfONTRlfcVL, Jan, IS. A change of attitude on the part of Coroner Mo Mafcon, occiMloned by Her. Father De lorme glvttwt an Interview to a local paper oonorffnlnf tb circumstances of the death, at his naif brother, Raoul Delorme. murdered Ottawa student.

with regard to the purchase of a revolver, restated tn the priest being called a a witness when the Inquest waa resumed! here today and then adjourned for week. To the court father Delorme said he had psreNtaed a revolver at the be Inning of L) ecember, whereas In the nterview he Is alleged to have said he had carriid the weapon since the death of his father In 1918. Witness explained he. had bought a new revolver as the (Id one was not working properly, and did not think It necessary to mention the fact. Answering a question ts to how he had sustained an injured Tgrlst.

Father Delorme declared he hab slipped on the sidewalk on Jan. 7, tre day the body was found In a shack pn the outskirts of Montreal. Father Delorme today made a statement to the press regarding the. $26. 000 life Insurance placed on the young man's life Ik December.

He said he had been by an agent to take out sme Insurance. To this proposal Father Delorme had said he did not require any more Insurance, but would tsike up the question with his brather when the latter returned from Ottawa. This he did, and following the young man passing a medl "The Pay Master" Sey. J493 COLONIAL NOW SHOWING The Meet geneeationeJ Cemedy Movelty Xver Ceaoetved SKIRTS A HIPPODEOMB COMEDY BPECTACLB IN BIX ACTS Also the Werid Famoo 8INGEB sUDOET Treape and Their Menagerie of Trained Animals. true snappiest.

Jazziest, funniest and most thrilling screen comedy ever produced, featuring Che foremost comedy artist In addition HISS lOUtHAT. Bepraae FOX NEWS Knew All Seee All and other features. GRAMDV1EW PAULINir FEEDEEICK "Slave of Vanity" nXEDEIUCK VALENTINO Baritone COLUMBIA THEATRE MON TUES. WED. WILLIAM EUSSELL IN "The Cheater Reformed" Tuesday and Friday Night Country Store Do Ton Eamember "Back to God's Country 7" very on remembers It I And the girl and the aai mals the two little bears.

Kali Shlpmaa waa the girt. She is now author, star, director and producer of "The Girl from God's Conn try," another story of the Vorth 'Woods. This Is not the first rtory to olalm sTU ahlpmaa aa anther. She Is author of serraral books, a series of tea stories boy and animal stories and a count. lees number of soenarloa wnlsn Bare feeea produced.

Xer reeeat picture sue oeeees in whlon she starred axel Country and the Women," "Bare, on of sTiian" and "Book to Ood' Ooaatry," too letter aa adaptation by herself ef James Oliver Cur wood's story. Se it today MAPLE LEAF Bpeclal Re engagement Norma Talmadge "The Sign on the Door" APPEALED AGAINST ARBITRATION AWARD VICTORIA. Jan. 1 TS arMtra. Hon award of made by Judge Cayley of Vancouver In the oase of the expropriation ot a lot owned by the late Bolomon Weaver for uu in neotlon with the construction of the Ballantyne dock In Vancouver waa the subject of an argument In the court of appeal here Monday.

Yesterday the oourt reserved judgment. BtaUaeesi 15c, 30o and 400. Nights 1 8Sc, 40c, B60, eoo, $1 The Most Elaborate Musical Tabloid Offering In Vaudeville The Four MARX BROS. And ft large Caste, "on the Balcony," by Herman Timbers; Harry Joarme VERNON and IjA PIIjAKIOA TRIO Geneva FLANDERS and PPTIjER GARCINETn BROTHERS Iimis Brothers "THB KAN AJIOUT TOWsT" Topics of the Say Aesop's rablaa Canadian rathe Hews LARRY REILLY IN BUT) OF THE TtOAS" haw's Sport ing Hogs. Mabel Harper El Cota Swan and wan DITNB AX and TtnursB rentage Peatnre Photoplay Frank Mayo in "Dr.

Jim" Teatnre Photoplay at 8:00 i45 8:00 8l30 rentage Vaudeville at 3ll5 7:00 9 130 KATIaTZUS 300 NiaXTS 400 TONIGHT Mary Pickford in "Little Lord Fauntleroy" RROADWAV li THEATRE I Main and Broadway 1 BIO SOTTBLB BXU The Brttlsh Super picture "The Battle of Jutland" Performance start: 2:02. trlO, :11. 10:54 o'clock "Love Never Dies" 1:00, 4.41. o'clock. Allen Symphony Orchestra Pricej: Matinees, 25c Evenings, 3oo "The Cave Girl" WITH TEDDIE GEBBABD Gertrude Gordon Lyrle, Soprano Oertrude Oordoo, Iyrle gopraaei; Trsrtsl aXl TB3S X(Q)x Coming Coining liiaiiiiw eiiien i i.n1.

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