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Paramount‘s New Super Spe-
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Northland Presenting
DOROTHY
DALTON
in '
“THE IDOL
OF
THE NORTH”
TWO’REEL COMEDY
“JUST IN TIME”
Other Features
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SATURDAY
ELAINE
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in
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FROM N OWHERE”
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SUNDAY
ENID BENNETT
in
“KEEPING WITH
" \ LIZZIE”
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“THE GILDED LILY"
MAE MURRAY
“DREAM STREET”
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lmrutlly Dalton 01w of the Scrccn's
Must Popular Stars In New
Paramount Special “The
Idol ‘of the North."
’l'wo weeks before the production
ul‘ "l‘he Idol of the North." Dorothy
Hilton's latest Paramount picture
\miwh will be shown today and to.
lllul‘lOW at the Regent Theatre.
lunlrvl) begun to appear on the faces
of many dock hands on the Battery.
Those not in the secret were at a loss
to understand the sudden desire by a
score or huskies to screon themselves
behind such camouflage. \Vhen the
bearded ones loi‘lily explained that
tin-v were going in the movies no one
believed them, until one morning.
l-vcry one of the unshaven disappear-
cd from their customary haunts.
They had gone to the Paramount
eastern studios. according to-a pre-
.ili:lugcd agreement with Frank Mc-
Coy. casting director. MCCOy. with
till the (-iltvrprisv of an experienced
lhr-ilrical director. had chosen hi‘s
inn-s in advance and given them
tin-n lllSIf‘llCIlOllS. '
lIi' appeared at the Battery one
lilnrnlng and in an hour's tinm 'hod
i'liuw'll the desired number of rough
.uml ready individuals to wnrk as
vxlrn men in the picture. Their
handed faces l'orm no
u..- background for the picturesque
“PI“! taken in the big saloon and
hall. which is a. feature of the
1m lure.
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COMING FEATI'RES
" i..- lu-gvnt Theatre next wm‘ik.wili
mi -r :i battery of three 0' the best
w'v-ru-q produced this year on a two
I" playing basis for each pictuu
in Holiday and Tuesday Mn" Mill'-
wlll he starred in "The Gilded.
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Wednesday and Thnrrdav D.
(:illi‘ith's masterpihcc “lirram
Will he presented and on Fri-
md Sniurdny Douglas Maclcao
. presented in “H'arts and
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i'i‘l.\NI)S RI‘.I.I“..\~I“. OF
A“ I‘I'IH‘ANBL.
. unwn‘nx. July 28,—4le
'mi tur relens-v of American 9"“-
. Ill Russia has heenmade 0“ the
' I authorities by M"“"-"
xi vs The State Department- was
- t n ’iI today that the communication
1 Iu-en handed to the Soviet 199T?-
--ri.ltive at Revnl yesterday by Con-
.! \lhrecht.
\ltfi-o than a score of Americans still
ileum held prisoner in Soviet Rus.
fll'COrdInK to the latest news re-
Iu-d by the. State Department in
W’wahingtnn from that country. Prin-
ill'l.’ among them one.” Marguer-
I-z. Harrison. of Baltimore. 2. news-
! «in r correspondent; Captain Emmet
“Inhibit-k. of I'niontown. Ala... I" Red
i.“ worker; Royal C. Keely. an en-
d'Hw-r; William Pitch. of Brooklyn.
"- Yu 9 mount; pica» photographer:
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little part of.
Banker Suggests Adoption
of A'rgentina’ 8 Conversion
Plan for European
Nations
BUENOS AIRES. July 28.—-Recon-
stmction of the monetary systems of
those countries whose currency: lia’s
depreciated on the plan follofir‘ed by
Argentina. in 1899 i recommended
ihy Carlo: A Tomqus s.t international
Hlanker. who was Argentine ‘delegnte
it) the iirusSe-ls financial conference
last year. 0
Adoption, or this plan. he told mem-
bers oi the American Club at a lunch-
can here ’hadJixed a permanent value
Jor Argentina‘s then fluctuating pa-
per 'currcncy and quickly 'enahled the
country to emerge from, mbnetary
chaos into economic stability and
prosperity. Many of the leading men
in Gel many. he said. were already in
favor of adopting a monetary reform
patterned after Argentina's,
Explaining the mechanism of the
plat}. of which his father was the su~
tilor Senor Tori uuist said. under the
Coansion law of 1899. by which it
iVxns carried into efiect. a value of 44
’ccnis gold “as fixed for the paper
peso and the national financial insti-
tution which the law creattd was au-
.ihorized to dcllVer one paper peso in
that aura said or
Vice Versa. The value. he said. was
fixed very much below par. bec
the depreciation of the paper miey
ihad beiome a permanent one and be-
cause Values had, become adjusted to
“the depreciation. 'tllat is to say. that.
apart from the fluctuations liable to be
:prodIlced by abnormal causes. the
g-real value of the paper peso measured
'in gold was 44 cents."
The public immediately responded
v‘to the law. haVlng confidence in theI
:plan. with ihc result that the value of1
the paper peso became more and
imom stable. and it ceased completely
to fluctuate €\('n when the country
{had obtained only a moth stock’of
:gold. The stock has constantly in-
"CiOiiSPd from barely 33. MO in 1902.
1890 U m .00'1 in.1905. (0 84701100000 in
'lhf’ present day Uncovered circula-
fiion or 293. mm .000 paper pesos was.
lussimilatcd and placed on a parity
[with the 0mISSI02‘5 subsequently made
on gold basis Today. he said. Ar-
gentinaflmd a paper circulation of
about 1.360.000.000 pesos. backed by
I“ metallic guarantee. which. accord-
{.mg to the rate establishrd by the law.
‘. .lnlounts to 8.0 per cent.
‘1 imitmc.‘ he continued._“that the
'exisie nce of such a high proportion of
'._Ve ilOVV metal glVes me the right to af-
‘lilm that Argentine money is today
among the soundest in the whole
'worlii.".
The result has been that from the
time of the sanction of the law. for-
eight capital had flowed into .the
country do a large scolv. production
multiplied. commerce attained,cxtra-
Ordinary proportions. immigration in-
creased. "until Argentine production
today is one ‘of the essential factors in
ihr world's markets in pimiding fool!-
~iiui‘fli for mankind and raw materials
ior manufacturers."
Senor 'l‘ornquisi udVocntcd as the
first remedy for the European econ;
omlc disorder. adherence to the re-
commendations of the Brussels con-
ference for strictest cconomy. sup-
pression of subsidies and economic
barriers. the reduction of armament
expenditures and suppression of un-
productive works and even certain
productive.
“if they will follow these sound rc-
commedaticns from the Conference of
ltrussels." he continued. “it is my
opinion that many countries will
in a relatively short space of time, be
able to place themsclVes ill a normal
i conomic condition. under which their
production and consumption will be
maintained in a proportion permitting
the liquidatiOn of the obligations con-
tracted by reason of the war. Then.
in my oplipon. will be the time for
fur
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exc ban 3‘ in
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‘had tied up the port for _
The seemingly benevolent attitude ,
- and
ments have been previously reported
in cable. but it is only by considering
them together that their significance
is appreciated.
ed the issue
truckmen to the wat ‘
it closed by a. cordon of police and
marines and the stevchrcs on strike.
For two weeks It was completely tied
up while the Government endeavored
to rcconcilc the'dlfl'erences of the la-
bor unions. '
GOVcrnnleut would exclude all outcast
or non-union truckmen who were not
alllo-ti VVith the striking stevcdores. but
this dccrce was never issued. for the
(‘rntro dc Navcgacion sent a strongly
\vmdm‘
threatening to boycott the
lr-arncd that British and American
merit packing plants which buy most
of Argentina' s cattle. were in sympa-
thy with the steamship companies and
wrre planning to close down.
0
bar Protective Assoc
mand to Government officials for the
right to employ free labor in the port.
In
teed this right.
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BUENOS AIRES July 37. ——lee the
Gasclsti. of Italy. the Argentine P...
lmtion. has undertaken the in} of
putting down the anarchists. Com.
generally of Argentina. particularly In
Buenos Aires.
The league‘s-nrst._sttempt has re-
sulted in what its leaders dec re an
unqualified success. The league was
ness interest of the capital. which had
become tired of unpatrloflc mania:
feststlons by Communist labor unions.
what they considered to be muscle-
strikes and sabotage. the haunting of
red flags. bomb outrages. and more
particularly by the demoralizauon of
commerce. caused by a strike of thu’
Communist union of ale dorcs. width
k1"
of the Government toward what they
held to be the unwarranted demands
of the union had tried their patienco
“thy were. determined to take
matters in their own hands fto the
point of armed intervention. if neces- ‘
cary.
Today seevral score of the extrem-
ist element. including numerous agi-
tators of foreIgn birth. are in jail.
some are in the hospital. several hun-
dred others have been under arrest.
a general strike called as a protest
against the strong handed activities
of the Patriotic Leaguét ha; fallen to
pieces and the port services have been
released from the,hereto:ore almost
complete control of the" Stevedores'
Union.
The Government's policy of leniency“
toward many of the activities of radi-
cal syndicalism to lch the interests
behind the league objected. changed
almost overnight to one Of stern sup-
pression of any attempt to deny the
right of free labor to work or to upset
the peace of the country. What the
Patriotic League set out to do. the
Government did itself.
The conflict centered upon the issue
whether the Government would give
protection to non- union truckmen. to
whom the members of the Staedores
L'nlon refused to deliver the goods
they unloaded fro?“ the ships On
this point the Argentine Patriotio‘
League was lacked up by the- Labor
ProtecllVe Association and the. Contra
de Navegscion. ‘au association of
steamship agents representing the
cavernous steamship lines of foreign
nationality.
The refusal of the Stevedores’ Union
to deliVer any goods to hon~union
lruckmcn was aimed at a so-called
f‘outcast" union of truckmen.
.The various step. which led up to
the victory of the anti-radical ele-
L
The unll- m ‘ ustions tone-
non-uniorl
at. but found
sl or
iriotic League. a semi-military orgulJ
munlsis and the extremis \elements :
tacked by virtually the entire busi- ,
the Loom’?
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Union .attended'by dlooting. in which
two chaufleurs we" killed. Chant-
feurs found there were compelled to
sing the Argentine nationbl anthem.
From that moment the attitude of
the government changed. The palace
closed the offices of, the Chauffeurs'
Up on and arrested several hundred of
its members. Haunts of agitatol-g, an-
archlsts and Communists were raided
and wholesale arrests made When
work was resumed after the holiday
‘the port was occupied by militia. and
armed guards of the Argentine Patri-
otic League. escorted non‘union labor-
ers to work. but their protection was
not needed. for It. wu Riven by Ar-
gentine cavalry.’ The non-union men
Were free to work.
The sievedom again declared a
strike. whereupon the police closed
their headquarters and arrested some
of them. The Argentine Maritine Fed-
eration and the Argentine Labor Fed-
eration endeaVored to start a general
strike to force the suppression of the
Argentine Patriotio' League and the
release of all laborers Vino had been
arrested " -
The police “It!“ the joint m'eet-
iug's of three twor'orgusimtlons and
arredad their leaders. Some of the
This failed
It was then announced that the
“Government
port of
henos Alres by withdrawing their
note. to the
ships if the Stevedorcs‘ Union was per-
mitted to dominate the situation.
At the same time the Government
F‘lVe thousand m bars of the 14,-
tlon t a.“ de~
answer. the Government guaran-
However. when non-
tllrsc nations to begin to think of re-
iillJllBIlng their ntonetary systems.
“It does not oppose to me possible
to effect this reconstruction of mone-
tury systems by means of disinflation.
for this would be. a. slow process. and
would not do away with the fluctua-
tions in the value of money; and.
worse still. it would impOse complete-
iv unnecessary sacrifices upon indus-
try. commerce and production.
"On the other hand. I consider the
Argentine example perfectly feasible
for many countries. Our conversion
law. itsarlgln. its result. its economic
r-n‘ccts. I consider a subject. of great
importance and great practical possi-
bilities for many countries. and I
think the sooner. and the mo”. your
country does in this direction. in View
or its, enormous moral and material
influence in all present world prob-
lems. the. better it will be."
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H m- photographer. and X. B. Kais—
m v'l um of Racine; W11
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Ill “GLARS IN NEW [ION-DON
LIBRARY. ’
on the headquarters of the Chauffeurs“
TENOR SOIDIS‘T .W
. Trenton. N. 3.. well known Wren.-
ist writes: "I had a very severe .c‘nfl
and tickling in my mt; “,M at?
m «is.
‘union truckmcn reported for work at
lthe piers next day they were fired
upon by union steVedm-es. the police
asserted. The labor association then
demanded police protection.
Then came an event that almost set
Buenos Aircs on fire with patriotic in-
dignation.
most important national holiday. there
appeared on bill—hoards and in radical
newspapers a mmlfesto signed b the
officers of the Chaufleurs‘ Unto
On May 25. Argentina's
. call-
protest against what
“bachanai of
mg a strike in
hey describcd. as a
drunken bourgeois patriotism."
'rl'iis aroused the wrath of the Pa.
riotic League and waited in the raid
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