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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 191 11 NEW OIL JHJMPANY White Eagle Oil and Gasoline . Concern Organized Here. Establishes Its General Head quarters in Topeka. MARKETS OIIJMD GASOLINE Officered by Men Experienced in Selling Oil Products. W inters, Marcell and Longshore Y Active People in It. This week the White Eagle Oil & Gasoline company opened its general offices In Topeka, taking a suite of of fices irt the Kansas Reserve State Hank building at 824 Kansas avenue. The White Eagle company is a newly chartered organization, capitalized for f 125,000 and is officered by men well known in oil and financial affairs in Kansas. Its business is purely mar keting oil, gasoline and by-products of refineries and Ita directing influ ences hope to establish in many towns and cities of Kansas, Colorado And New Mexico subsidiary stations for been scrtUchefl" in the oil business. In the sale or wildcat oil wen siocko perhaps not; but there is a great oil industry going on in Topeka that few wallir lrnnw nhnilt It U 2 large faC- tor in the city's commercial welfare even tho quietly moving aioim u. that are sure footed, tried and tested, to the end that investors in oil indus tries in Topeka have their funds in in stitutions that really bring wealth to the city in a substantial manner. The new company the White Eagle Oil & Gasoline company is just an other institution of this sort that will be bigger and greater than all the oth ers in -point of importance in the oil marketing field because of its splen did connections with refining produc ers and oil industries generally. NO BREAD EVEN Hun Prisoners Say Folk at Home in State of Unrest. AT THE THEATERS Mud Sow Succeeds as Barrier Along Western Front. E. C. Winters, president of the To pok a Oil Compa n y and organizer of the new company. their output. In fact, already they have numerous sites purchased, some plants takei over entire and arrange ments perfected to erect other plints aa readily as men and equipment can be gathered together for such work. This new company is a strong one financially and will bring big things lo Topeka in the oil industry. E. C. Winters, president of the Topeka Oil company, has been the originator of the plan to be put into operation by this big company. Associated with him as president of this new com pany is 1. L.. Marcell of ChanOTe, one of the wealthy refiners of Kansas and iklahoma, who is also president of the White Eagle Petroleum company of Chanute and Augusta, Kan.,; vice president of the Miller Petroleum company, Humboldt: vice president of the WilUo.lt Refining company, Jop. lin. Mo., and a director in the big Producers & Refiners corporation. J. S. Longshore, former state oil inspec tor of Kansas and afterward active in the management of the pales division of the Chanute Refining company and more recently in the same capacity with the White Eagle Petroleum com pany and the Miller Petroleum Re fining company at Chanute, Kan., will be secretary and treasurer. P. A. ' l-'sirbank, cashier of the Topeka Oil company and the Economy Oil com lan la a director, as is Earl Akers. former state treasurer of Kansas and present cashier of the Kansas Re terve State bank at Topeka. Mr. Winters, who will be vice pres ident of this new company, has had p very successful career in the oil mar keting business in the states of Kansas and Nebraska, and this experience, coupled with that of Mr. Longshore and Mr. Marcell, brings to this new or ganization a wealth of experience that will be worth while In widening out n nd developing its operations in a short space of time. Thus it may be readily observed that Topeka is a lucky city indeed to secure the gen rral offices of this organization. It means larger bank clearings, larger bank balances, increased labor de .mand and a general increase in the commercial status of the city. A prominent oil man i-rVr--Ai Topeka not long ago as "never having British Army Headquarters in France, Jan. 19. (By the Associated Press.) Small infantry raids with the customary amount of artillery and air activity on both sides continue to be the order of the day along the Brit ish front. The much milder weather, accom panied by rain, has swept away the last of the snow, but the mud re mains as the dictator of military af fairs. The opposing forces are con tinuing, their enemy feeling out pro cesses thruout the long lone by making surprise incursions into each other's trenches and returning with a lew prisoners. The British lately have secu red some interesting captives In this way. One prisoner who had thrice been wounded made a statement in sub stance as follows: "The scarcity of food at home is very serious. There is little meat and fatty substances and practically no bread. Potatoes are expensive altho there is no serious shortage. The peo ple are in a state of unrest but are afraid to attempt organized distur bances. "On Field Marshal von Hinden bure's birthday small busts of the gen eral were placed on the street corners in nearly all German towns. In most places the people had hurled these to the ground before noon. In Cologne there are over 12,ooo deserters in va rious prisons." Another prisoner said that for a year the German soldiers and people had been promised an early peace. Emperor William in reviewing a di vision of the batjle of Cambrai said "Peace on the Russian front is as sured. It remains for us to force an early peace on the western front." NEW RUSS ULTIMATUM This Time Gives Rumania Two Honrs to Ijet Slav Troops Thru.' Petroerad. Jan. 19. The Petrograd ninth army committee today sent a two-hour ultimatum to the Rumanian government, demanding tree passage of Russian troops thru Jassy. No word has yet come from Petro era A to what occurred after ex rii-nt'.rn of th 2 4-hour, ultimatum Berved on Rumania by the Russian government threatening war unless immediate punishment was meted out to Rumanian troops who arrested many Russian officers and Austrian visitors to the battle lines. WARSHIP RAMMED HER With Hole Punched in Side by Convoy, the Texan Reaches Port. Coming to tho Grand. , Today Henry W. Savage's "Have a Heart." Monday "Pollyanna." Feb. 18 "Love O" Mike." Tho Novelty. Five acts of vaudeville and an epi sode of "The Seven Pearls." The Majestic. Musical tabloid , F. L. King's "Dain ty Girls." Other Theaters. Orpheum Photo Features. Iris Photo Features. Cozy Feature Pictures. Gem Feature Pictures. ' Best Motion Features. Crystal Motion Features. F. L. King will present, beginning Monday evening, his bunch of "Dain ty Girlf," in. musical tabloid at the Majestic. The company will offer two farces, new bills Monday and Thurs day. The American Girls will give their last performance tonight. Lillian Morley and the McCarthy sisters, booked as "Those Personality Girls," will present a singing and dancing act at the Novelty the first here under the management of Miss Elizabeth Marbury and Mr. Lee Shu bert, who produced the play in New York last January. 'It is the only company on tour and is the same one that played Chicago until a few days ago and Boston earlier in the season for twelve weeks. It ran for thirty nine consecutive weeks in New York last season. half of next week. There is consider able comedy and personality in the act. The bill will begin with the fifth episode of "The Seven Pearls." Vaude ville acts, in addition to the aforemen tioned one, will include Robert E. O'Connor & Co. in "Doing Nothing," Jerge & Hamilton, "The Different Pair;" Myrl & Delmar an equilibristic novelty act, and an opening act. Alice Brady will appear at the Gem Monday and Tuesday in "The Maid of Belgium," a story of a girl refugee from the war. The girl is rescued from the path of the Germans by Americans and is adopted into an American family. "The Winning of Pally Temple,"- a Paramount pictures featuring Fannie Ward and presented by Jesse L. Lasky will be shown Wednesday and Thurs day. The film is based upon Rupert Sargent Holland's novel. One of the prominent members of 'Love o' Mike" company, the musi cal comedy coming to the Grand opera house soon is Clifton Webb, who succeeded the Castles in New York. M Webb discovered Mae Murray and danced with her for some time. His present partner is Miss Ruth Mabee. "Love o' Mike" comes HELEN HAYNES AS POLLYANNA WHITTIER AND ADRIAN MORGAN AS JIMMY BEAN HERE MONDAY I Matinee and Night , TODAY JANE AND KATHERINE LEE, WILLIAM FOX "KIDDIES," TO STAR AT THE IRIS NEXT WEEK JANE & KATHERINE LEE. DIRECTION FOX An Atlantic Port, Jan. 19. The Hawaiian-American line steamship Texan, which was in a collision at sea Monday, arrived here safely today un der her own steam. It became known that she was rammed by a convoying warship which punched a large hole n her portside. COBB IS IN CLASS ONE Detroit Star Denied Deferred Classifi cation by Georgia Board. Augusta, Ga., Jan. 19. Tyrus Ray mond Cobb, star outfielder of the De troit Americans, has been placed in class one by the exemption board here where he is registered. It was under stood he claimed deferred classifi cation on the ground of dependents. When informed today of the action of the local board, Cobb declared he Is willing to serve whenever he is call ed. He became 31 years old last ue cember 18. B1LLIE BURKE IN "THE LAND OF PROMISE" TO BE SHOWN AT ORPHEUM THEATER NEXT WEEK f TVltndrf Promise 1 fi I iff i "l;C A ll - Jane and Katherine Lee, the two famous children who work under the direction of "William Fox, will appear at the Iris, beginning Monday, in "Two Little Imps." Altho the "kid dies' have had parts In scores of Fox pictures, including "The Daughter of this is the first time they been starred in leading the Gods,' have ever roles. "The Two Little Imps," left In care of their "Cncle Billy at a hoteL aid uncle in his wooing, reform his brother. Bob, and finally succeed in landing two crooks in jail. I i Night See to $3. Mat. Ue to $1.50 DisUns-ulshed Cut, Blc Bennty Chornn RCN'BT W. SAVAGE'S OWN ORCHESTRA HENRY W. SAVAGE Offers the Musical Comedy. Delight V iMlJan. MONDAY NIGHT A - -1 KUw Co Eilanger aaJ GeorgeCWer The Glad Pla Ml . By Catherine ChisholM Cushing - Ded on the book of the Same Name by Eleinor HJbrter PRICES 50c, 75c, $1.00, $150 Monday night will be Pollyanna night at the Grand theater. There will be met all who have a feeling for better things and character in life. The appeal of "Pollyanna" is absorbingly human and refreshing. Klaw and Krlinger present the production. x A "YARD OF DAISIES' IN HENRY W. SAVAGE'S "HAVE A HEART," PLAYING MATINEE AND EVENING AT THE GRAND THEATER TODAY ' f ' f5 fp(fX Henry "W. Savage is presenting his merry, tuneful musical comedy, "Have a Heart" at the Grand theater today. The production is ac credited with being one of the most attractive that has come out of Broadway for the last few seasons. "Have a Heart" has a logical plot concerning the romance of a department store proprietor and his wife Peggy. They agree to separate because of his interest, innocent but misjudged, in a pretty shop girl. Then they discover they are still in love and elope for a second honeymoon. President U M. Pen wan Phone 775 6ecy-Trea& tv. Sk. Johnaoft Pbona 361 THE L M. PENWELL t J X D K R T A Kl U CO. DANCING TONIGHT KELLAM HALL Billie 3urke is the star to be seen t the Orpheum beginning Monday in a photoplay, "The Land of Promise." The film packed the great theaters of Nev York for months; the produc tion as It will be shown in Topeka next week was the talk of the frreat white way. Billie Burke said of the picture: " 'The Land of Promise' is to me one of the realcst pictures I ever worked in and in portrayir-.jr the inner heart life of tno i:tt",c. affection-starved Eng lish sill. Nora March, I almost live the character and was quite as wor ried over her problems and troubles as if they had been my own." The picture was stazed in western Canada, in Florida, from one end of tne land to another, from the farm to tho gay halls of high society. One of the big big events of the coming week a. the Orpheum will be the presentation of the pictures from "The Italian Battle Front." These t)ictll-eR Wl- Rhnwn a. An .ti.i-n ; Hi ois prices. GEM nimp Prices Plus War Tax MONDAY TUESDAY ALICE BRADY - In "TheMaid of Belgium" A truly startling storjr of a Girt Kefuccw from the Great War I MONDAY - TUESDAY " WEDNESDAY SSv ' I I II 11 Shows 3:00 7:15 9:00 3A REAL TRIUMPH OVER ALLT The Same Peralntrary Which Hm Made the VODEV1LLH hHOP Toihft's Mont Popular Rhew Shop Itringt to You Karh Chance ot Bill the Very Bet of ii VAUIDEVDILILE" MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY DaUy at 3:00-7:45-9:15. Matinee, 10c. Night, 10c, 20c, 30c 4 THE MONARCH DANCING 4 JERGE AND HAMILTON "THE DIFFERENT PAIR" ROBT. E. O'CONNOR & CO. in "NOTHING DOING" MORLEY AND MCCARTHY SISTERS SINGING COMEDIENNES MVDI f- r 17 I MAD Equilibria n a. cx v b a. ivi n w Novelty "OVER THE GARDEN WALI,' Ee "SEVEN PEARLS Wm. S.HART- A SQUARE DEAL" WEDNESDAY THURSDAY Fannie Ward In "The Winning of Sally Temple" A thrill In comedy drama taken from Roprt Saryent Holland's fam ous novel. sr jvanmamanaaaaaaaanaaaKmaaamm Tapaka'a ilematy bpot WEEK OF MONDAY January 21 DAILY AT S:00 7 :4S :15 MAT. 10c. NIGHTH IDf-Na CHANGE OF BILL MONDAY AND THURSDAY MR. FRANK KING HE KHF.NTH HIM DAINTY GDRLS A KF.AI. ILLIE BURKE IN SBfm fi I n mMi iA $ 111 r ' COR1 PAN Y KATI KK Ml MICA I, Xt MBKRH 15 PEOPLE 2L5 with , PRINCIPALS That ran Slna. Dance and Make Faa A CHORUS THAT IS PRETTY "The Land of Promise" Miss Burke Makes Us Realize What COMING Italian Battle Front Italian Gov. Pictures, Receipts to Red Cross Work. The piquant young star is a young English girl whose life has had all the romance and charm of a mommy's. That is until she reaches "The Land of Promise" the land she bad dreamed about wbere all her dreams would come true. uiiiiimiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiii BIRDS iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiia MONDAY AND TUESDAY BURTON HOLMES TRAVELOGUES We have the Music Regular Prices Plus War Tax Orpheum Orchestra COME EARLY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY , The Most Wonderful Youngsters in the World ' Are now being starred in a picture of their own. They will idiiw you, cheer you and give you the entertainment treat of your life. ' Don't fail to sec them! WILLI Am FOX . Presents the "Baby Grands" Jane and Katherine Lee In a Novelty Surprise Drama "TWO LITTLE IMPS" AND A GOOD COMEDY niiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiini I :O0-7:15-:00 . FELTKNSTFIVB ORIHKSIM Th Mania- that Make th Pictures Talk IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIlllllllllllIti Regular Price