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14 TIIE MORNING OREGOXIAX, MONDAY, JANUARY 28, '1918. BI6EL0W8 MOVE IS HOT EXPLAINED YE Colleagues Noncommittal Over Proposal to Repeal Car Company's Franchises. CRAYON ARTIST QUICK -SKETCHES SOME OF THE IMPRESSIONS AT PORTLAND SYMPHONY SUNDAY CONCERT AT AUDITORIUM- CAUTION IS ADVISED NOW Major Sas Problem Too Important for Arbitrary Ad loo 'President Griffith to Explain Attl taile Towards Jitney. Whether City Commissioner Blgelow will get any support In the Citr Coun- ell In his attempt to repal the street- car franchises of the Portland Rail- war. Light Power Company, because of the far having been Increased, de pends on Mr. Blselow's explanation of what bis move is expected to accom nllnh. Members of the Council were In bid ins; yesterday as far as any expression of attitude on the mreiow revocation ordinance, Even Commissioner Kclla hr. who baa been eager and clamorous in moves aaalnst the company, says he dos not know yet that we will sup port the Bisslow measure. Mr. Krllaber Waata to Know. "1 am clad. though." said Mr. Kella- ber -that Mr. Biaelow finally has seen ti light and come over to my side of the fence. 1 want to see what bis Idea la. however, before I say I will or will mot vote fur his ordinance." Commissioner Barbur. when asked regarding his attitude, said: "If the Portland Railway. Light T-ower Comoany has violated th pro visions of its franchise, the Council has the right of revocation. 1 am not pre pared to make any statement of bow I will vote." Mayor Raker said he has not talked with Mr. Biaelow, and does not know what purpose is behind th revocation ordinance, and. therefore, does not know what bis position will be. "Tou can Just say for me." said the Mayor, "that I consider th problem lo facing th city too serious and Im portant for any hasty or arbitrary ac tion on th part of the Council. I do not know what Mr. Blgelow haa In mind. and. therefore, am unable to ex press an opinion." Mr. la "Frosa Mlxuri. Commissioner Mann says he does not know what would be accomplished by the Bl re low measure. Ha also wanta to be shown. "We are contesting; th -cent fare In th courts now." he said. "If Mr. llleelow naa a better solution, I am for it." President Griffith, of the Portland Rallwav. Llrht A Power Company, said yesterday that be la unwilling- to make anv nubile statement at this time. He says he may go before the City Council Wednesday morning and explain the company's attitude In regard to th franchise revocation matter, and also as regards the Jitney question. There Is considerable speculation about town as to what th result of litnev comDetltlon would mean at this time. Many familiar with the situation think the Jitney would cause the estab lishment of a son far system by the streetcar company. Zoo rare System lseoe. According to the report of th Publle Service Commission, one-fourth Of th streetcar lines In the city are netting the revenue which maintains all the Unprofitable lines. Should Jitneys step In and cut down the revenue of th abort, profitable lines of the streetcar system it Is said the company Inevit ably would have to place the unprofit able lines on a paying baaia by Increas ing fa re a The Publle Fervlce Commission. In discussing the sone fare system, ruled against It recently because of the need of the unified city, where all persona regardless of distance from th cen ter of th city should consider the city as a whole and all pay the same fare, thus enabling th profitable lines of the company to support the unprofit able and discourage congestion of pop Nation close in. With Jitney competition, however. It Is generally felt that tbe Public Serv ice Commission would hav to allow th. establishment of the sone system la such a way that passengers would pay a far based on the distance trav eled. This would hit bard such districts as Mont. rills. Mount Scott. Lents, the out er Feninsula. St- Johns, Fulton, Sell wood and parts of the West Side where hauls are long and where there never baa been any Jitney competition. BOSTON PASTOR TALKS Kcv. Edgar J. Helms, D. D-, Tells of Problems Met in Work. . Rev. Edgar J. Helms, V. D- of the Vlorgan Memorial Center. Boston, one of the largest Institutional churches and social service centers In the world. poke yesterday mornlns; at 129 Fourth street for the former Taylor-street con gregation, and In the evening he ad dressed the First Methodist Church congreeration. Ir. Helms spok of th problems of a big city and of his work In Boston, where men and women and little children of all nationalities are being benefited by the Institutional work, the gym nasiums, the employment bureaus, th recreational advantages and the educa tional and social opportunities offered in the Morgan Memorial Center. y5 w& tfjWii. Wi. m,tm MlM I m " i ' . -a a.'. ,rT e Ti k'.A 1-1 i'T" T ' t B - I BL ejr W mi JT mi . . 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Astoria SJarobal Koturns Prom With Poor Men. F. T. Berry. Deputy United States Marshal, returned yesterday from As toria with four prisoners, three for violating th President's proclamation regarding th restricted waterfront one and on for violating the traffic act by bringing liquor into the state. The three arrested for violating the President's order are John P. W. tchwlnger. Ludwisr bsassr aad H. Green as. W. H. Mapl was arrested for having liquor la his possession and ia charged with having brought It on eae of the steamers. Clackamas Man KnIUu. OREGON CITT. Or Jan. 27. (Spe cial.) Charles 1- Andrews, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Andrews, of Mount Pleasant, celebrated his twenty first birthday anniversary Monday, and on th following morning left for Van couver Barrack, where he enlisted In th motor machine division of the Avi ation Corp. lie was accepted and will leave soon for Fort Hancock. Gx, whore he goes Into training. Mr. Andrews has had much experience in handling automobile, and Is a good mechanic Andrew haa two brothers am ployed In Portland. BT LEONE CASS BAER. Between Emma Carus and Stan Stan ley the Orpheum bill yesterday after noon threatened to be held over past supper time. Yea. and w may aa well add Ben Bernle and his violin, and Phil Bakes, with his accordeon. for they, too. are of the show-stopping variety, Emma Carua, who ia an Individual Istlc personage, has grown visibly thin ner. but she has not reduced any In her sense of humor. She has taken pound off of everything else but her funning and Just aa long as Emma doesn t see fit to reduce that we will let her be living skeleton. Not that she's pain fully thin yet far be It from such but Emma, you remember, used to be a blond Trixie Frlganxa. plus Sophia Turker. Now she still clowns like Trlxl and "Oh Sweet Daddya" like Sophie when she sings, bnt she's less plump in spots than either Trlxlo or Sophie or herself as she used to be. To show all us girls how she did It. Miss Carus lets us n on her methods, and goes through a noble list of stooping, rolling, kicking and physical feata that ieave ua gasp ing from laughter. Soag aad Chatter nellght. This is all tbe wind-up to her act. which in Itself Is a gettlng-together of song, amiable chatter and Emma Carus and a big athlete chap named LArry Comer, who can alng on hia own ac count and help considerable in the comedy. Besides which, he serves hi purpose splendidly when the Joyous comedienne Carus decides to put on some acrobatic dancing. Th lady's complete collapse at th eifd of her strenuous leaping and whirling Is classic unequaled. So, too. is a brave ballad she warbles, with Hibernian at' mosphera, about "O'Brien Is Lookin' fer You." Stan Stanley, seated out in the audi ence. has a nice personal and more or less friendly fight with his lady friend over-a box of candy and another man, and breaks up a perfectly good ven triloquist act. Just a-bornlng. The ven triloquist says he'll give Stan fl for every laugh he gets from the audience If he'll come up and work before the footlights. Stan wanders up and down the aisle, setting us all In hysterics. and finally Is inveigled onto the stage, where he earns ten million laughs In a Jiffy. Words can't tell about Stan Stan ley. It s his personality, plus readiness of wit. for he avails himself of every thing at hand, chatting about the other acts and even entrapping Emma Carus Into hrs comedy yesterday. A dainty Itttle lass and a clever chap, billed aa relations, but acting mora like friends, help Stan put over his clever "bouncing" act, a Mordkin-llke dance on his face or knees or anywhere he happens to light on a post-graduate- form of bedsprings. Raartlsae Act Coavmlalag. Ben Bernle professes to bave hlgh browlsh leanings toward his violin, and Phil Baker promptly vetoes every at tempt at any musical melody higher than the mexxanlne-floor-brow. Phil aims for syncopation, so Ben. wearing a martyr's smile which is convulsing in its sincerity, bows to Phil's superior volume of noise and fiddles ragtime wltb a classic air. The act is one of the smartest, gayest and most enter taining imaginable. Both are excellent musicians, and they let th audience pick Ita tunes, offering to play anything excepting "The End of a Perfect Day." or that Yaky-hlcky-hula-dula ditty. They had a doaen encores and generously re sponded. aaura on altruism called "Lot Thy POPULAR NUMBERS PLEASE Ae?r?Acn i's zr r? Neighbor." which is a showlng-up of human nature aa It exists generally. Is presented by a company of 10. It Is sparkling In Its lines, philosophical and Intensely human, with a splendid sur prise as Its climax. Easily It is one of the big numbers of the bill. It is beautifully staged and flnoly acted. Adelaide Boothby offers a keen Imi tation of the woman at the movies who dotes on Francis X. Bushman, and an other clever turn she gives Is that of the singer of illustried sonps with aw ful slides helping In the fun. Charles Everdean keeps the piano busy for Miss Boothby's act, which holds other songs and chatter. Opening the bill Is Claude M- Roodn. assisted by Estelle France in a novel slackwlre act. and Selma Braatx. a deft Juggler, enda the list with an unique offerinsr. Police Inspectors "Held Upr By State Guards. Chief Johaaoa Praises Volunteers fer Efficient Work. THAT the State Guard, on duty at the plant of tbe Columbia River Shipbuilding Corporation when the Westgate was launched yesterday were 'on the job" is aptly illustrated by the fact that some of Chief of Police John sone neaaquarters inspectors were turned down" when they came to the deadline on the runway by th big steel snip. . A rope was stretched across the way, fixing the deadline, and none without n identification ribbon were permitted to pass that line. When some of th Inspectors from police headquarters tried to go beyond the rope they were challenged by ritate Guards. 4 'We ar police inspectors," explained Inspector Abbott, for tbe crowd, and showed hla star. Nothing doing." was tne reply, "our orders are to permit no one to pass here without an Identification ribbon." And there the inspectors stood until Chief Johnson came up, identified hi men and arranged for them to pass the rope. "It was good work," said Chief John son. "Orders are orders and l was pleaned to see the guards enforce their ordera." To the Educated Musician, Classic Selections by the World's Most Famous Composers, Bring; Undoubted Joy. QUICK ACTION WANTED Prlc reduction usually denotes the desire for Immediate results. In an ef fort to keep their crew of tailors busy through the Winter weeks the Browns ville Woolen Mill Store is offering to make to measure men's regular )3fi suits for 28. The cloth assortment is extensive. Adv. Klamath Falls Garage Robbed. KLAMATH FALLS, Or.. Jan. 27. (Special.) The sum of $106.50 was tolen Thursday night from the South- rn Oregon Auto Company garage here. Manager A. J. Gordon found the doors of the stock-room and office Jimmied open and the cash register and safe looted. The robber contented himself Ith money of the larger denomina tions, as the dimes and nickels were ot taken. No trace of the thief haa been discovered. Read The Oresonlan classified ads. BT JOSEPH MACQUEEN. From several viewpoints the concert of the Portland Symphony Orchestra yesterday afternoon, in the public Auditorium, was a pleasant success, and different from similar events of the orchestral series in these particu lars: The largest audience so far recorded at symphony concerts, about SOuO peo ple being present. The programme was varied, concessions being made to the man who likes "popular music. It was possible, therefore, for the non professional music-lover to be enter tained mentally and profitably. There is no doubt about it, but the mere mention of the word "symphony" scares away In distrust the man in the street who likes music and Is willing to pay to hear music played, but who cannot read music sheets from the printed score. Such a citizen would have had much to enlighten him had be happened to visit the Auditorium yesterday at symphony time. "Popular" music had a great day of it. To the educated musician, the man who habitually attends high-class con certs, the celebrated Tsohalkowsky ."Symphony No. 5, E Minor. Op. 4." brought undoubted Joy. It was a great pleasure again to hear it so well and skillfully played. This symphony be longs in a measure to the morbid school that this great Russian composer stamped with his strong personality. The andante Is wondering and some what vague, and just as one wonders what on earth the roaster Is creating. the dance motif appears like a musical sunbeam, smd everything is lovely. Between the first and second move ments, Carl Denton, the conductor, said: "We are about to play the second move ment of this symphony." The signifi cance of the remark struck the audi ence and smiles came when it dawned on them that the remark was directed towards quite a small company of late comers who were finding their seats. At the beginning of the second move ment the lead for French' born was played superbly, with finely subdued tone. The waits motif helped to clear the atmosphere, while in the last movement, which is better known, the audience sensed quickly delightful mu sic that is already a favorite In more humbler spheres of life than symphony. The Gounod grand processional. "Queen of Sheba," an old musical friend, with its ornate color and gaiety, was the first of a group of selections that the audience found, to its delight, to belong to the department of "popular music The number was rendered with fine dramatic finish. The great favorite of the occasion seemed to be the Rubensteln "Kamenoi Ostrow," which had the benefit of pipe organ work by Frederick W. Goodrich. The "Kamenoi" was so much liked that the audience welcomed its rendition with hearty applause, again and again renewed, and would bave liked to haie heard tne selection agr.n, bad Mr. .Den ton been so minded. Rossini's overture to "William Tell" Is played by military bands and also on the home piano, but it received new life yesterday in a spirited, vigorous rendi tion. It won much favor. Carl Denton made a competent, mod est, resourceful conductor, and kept his associates under the sway of his baton. Henry Battman played wall aa cooc-rt- master. Though missing his accustomed ex ercise in the fresh air, J. Harthan De- Fell, former professor in the romance language department of the University of Oregon, is not suffering for lack of entertainment while subject to orders of the Federal authorities confining him to his clubroom quarters in Port land. Saturday night a large number of former students and friends honored him with an impromptu dance. There has hardly been an hour since his ar rival from Eugene that he has not en tertained old friends as callers. hls role of spy suspect seems to make me doubly popular. said the alert little teacher of Spanish yester day, laughingly, as he talked of his predicament. "But that Is all past now," he added, "and they are concerning themselves only about my age. I am helping in this, having spent quite a little money in telegraphing to insurance companies and other sources to get the question cleared up." Age Question Undecided. The question to be decided, and on which the ex-professor frankly says he is guided by the word of his father, is whether he was born May 27, 1SS6. or Just one year later. He did not register in the draft because he believes the earlier date the correct one. Saturday afternoon Professor DeFell telephoned to United States Attorney Reames for permission to walk out for exercise and to call on a few Port land friends, he related, with a twinkle of the eye that seemed a precursor of a joke. "You can stay where you are or walk to jail." was the laconic response that came back over the wire, the young teacher reported as the substance of the Joke. Do you mind telling why you changed your name?" The features of the honor prisoner puckered into a frown, as he instantly replied: Authorities Have Facts. These authorities know exactly why, but they haven't chosen to make my reason public I was given the name of my father, Hans Harthan. As you know. I spent my childbood In South America. There Hans is 'Juan.' There, also, it is a practice for a son to take tbe name of his mother, adding it as though his surname. 'DeFell' is my mother's family name. Because of this custom and the fact that, even I with the 'Junior' tacked on. my mail was always being mixed with that of my father. I adopted Juan in this country John as a front name, with DeFell as my Surname." The father Is now a resident of Kan sas City, Mo. He has telegraphed here to assure the authorities that his son was born in May, 1886. Several protests against final ac ceptance of Mr. DeFell's resignation at the university are being circulated by former pupils, there being between 200 and 300 names attached, he declared yesterday. It is supposed they will be presented to President Campbell, of the University, on his return from the East. AMERICANS' WAYS WIN IXFLCT5XCK ON FRANCE NOTED BY FORMER PORTLANDER. Country Becoming Americanised, and GirU. Too. Says Frank W. Barton, Once on Oresonlan Staff. Franc is already becoming Amer- lean soldiers, and so are the French cirls. according to Frank W. Barton. formerly of The Oregonian, and now with the 18th Engineers, Railway, on duty "somewhere." Many of the t rencn girls, says Frank, are going to be "Mrs. Sammy" before the war is over, or shortly thereafter. Extracts from a letter from Frank to Lair H- Gregory follow: "I have been 'hitting the ball all day today pretty hard, and putting In a day in an engineering contingent over here is a little different from pounding a typewriter for The Oregonian in 'those piping times of peace.' Just the same, I feel fine, and the Army mulligan agrees with me. "France, or this part of it at least, is already becoming Americanized as the result of the influence of the American soldier. The stores and merchandising establishments are rapidly catching the spirit of the Western Republic, and the more progressive ones display signs, 'English spoken,' and have displays of American goods or articles appealing to the taste of the American soldiers. "The French girls, many of them, are ambitious to secure American husbands. And many of them will succeed, too. They are charming, chic, and last but not least, economical. This latter trait is one that appeals to the American boy, and yet cannot be readily found in the American girl. "Already one of the boys of the regi ment has taken unto himself a French wife, and one of the members of Com pany F is trying to secure a pass so he can do likewise. Several others that I know are talking about wedding bells after the war, and the regiment has been in France only three months." 4 ! S I L 2 Pages Were Required in Each of Yesterday's Papers to Tell in Part of the Values In These Two Sales Which Begin Today At The Quality Store The Most Unusual Values in This Sale of Young Men's ALL WOOL Overcoats TWO GREAT SALES BEGIN TODAY ( 1) Four Days Before Stock - Taking Sale j (2) February Sale of Home furnishings f I J Values to $20.00 Young men desiring an overcoat made of all-wool material with fit and workmanship guaranteed will do well to see and buy at least one of these overcoats today at $11.85. In neat mixtures of green, brown, tan, blue and gray. All desirable models.- With large patch pockets, etc, some have convertible collars. Weights suitable for Spring wear. All sizes. And the price is only $11.85. Jill Men's Clothing Shop, Third Floor. There Isn't One Mother Who Won't Be Quick to Appreciate These Boys9 Two Pants If Suits Only $6.50 More of those wonderful $6.50 suits for which our Boys' Clothing Shop is famous. Tweeds, homespuns, cheviots and worsteds in mixed shades of gray and green, gray and brown, black and white, also gray and black checks and stripes. Single-breasted coats with belt all around. Every suit has two pairs of full cut, full lined knickers the double service feature that mothers like so welL All sizes. Boys' Clothing Shop, Third Floor. The Quality Storb op Portland 0L0 FAVORITES HERE! "THE DRIDGE" ONE OF THE BEST ACTS AT THE HIPPODROME. Wife Puts Her Own Sorrowful Life Into Stage Part and Wins Great Success as Actress. U. S. IN NEED OF FOXGLOVE Government Issues Appeal for All Who Gather Digitalis Plant, An opportunity for uncompensated patriotic service is given to everyone in Western Oregon and Washington in an announcement sent out by the United States Government that it is in need of large quantities of digitalis, or foxglove, for the use of the medical departments of the Army and Navy. The Council of National Defense has appealed to the people of Oregon who live where foxglove is abundant to take part in the campaign to gather huee Quantities of this plant. Dean Adolph Zeifle, of the school of pharmacy at O. A. C, has been made supervisor of the collection, and all packages of dried foxglove leaves should be sent by prepaid express. postage or freight, at Corvallia. Dean Zeifle will be glad to send directions for gathering and drying the plant to anyonci interested in Ihit.work. . . A keen little skit, "The Drudge," with Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Payne, old-time favorites in this city, playing the roles, is one of the best acts at the Hippo- rlrnmA this week. The plot concerns a husband and wife who do not cet along as well as tney mieht. because hubby is a grouch and wifie is too hard working and nice and never talks back. The husband Is a playwright and an actor and when his leading woman goes back on him and cannot come to tne renearsai, in aes peration he tells his wife that she may play the part, as mucn as ne nates iu have her. Wifie does and puts all of the Borrow of her own life Into her acting, being so realistic, that her hus band thinks she is a wonderful actress, which results in her telling him what she thinks of him and happiness is re stored. Miss Billy Bowman is an attractive young woman who presents a cycle of character descriptive melodies. She changes her costumes behind a trans parent screen which lets the members of the audience in on all of the secrets of her makeup. She sings beautifully and her songs were chosen to harmonize with her selections or vice versa. Stan'sy and Gold were a couple of Joy winners and were real comedians. One tried to sing a song, but was con tinually interrupted by tne otner one, who always had something exciting to telL They were billed as "Just Two Nuts" and lived up to their designation. The Hong Kong troupe were a quar tet Jf dare-devil Chinamen who could do all sorts of marvelous feats. One jumped through four knife-studded frames, while the others performed equally as good feats. Davis and Walker were a pair of col ored folk. The man gave instructions in eccentric dancing. The CliX Bailey duo were a couple of clever Scotch pantomlmists who enter tained with attempts to be successful balancers and jugglers. The picture was Kitty Gordon in "Diamonds and Pearls." VICTIM'S LIFEJN BALANCE Mrs. Guy-Morden, Somewhat Im proved, but Recovery Doubtful. If Mrs. Gladys Guy-Morden recovers from wounds inflicted by Clarence Guy last Friday afternoon, it will be short of miraculous. While she was reported to be im proved, generally speaking. Dr. E. H. Catril, the attending physician, said that she has so many difficulties ahead that it cannot be said with any degree of certainty what the outcome will be. She was shot through the liver and stomach and may suffer any one of several troubles, such as peritonitis. Mrs. Guy-Morden was the victim of triangle tragedy, being married to R. A. Morden, as well as to Guy. The latter shot her because she refused to leave Morden. EUGENE, Or.. Jan. 27. (Special.) Mrs. ladys Morden, who was shot In Portland Friday night, by Clarence Guy, was formerly a resident of West Springfield and is the daughter of Mrs. Sarah Penselin, a widow of that place. She is well known In Eugene. Read The Oregonian classified ads. This sale of Oriental Rugs has been a sensation. But we will continue it for a few days longer. Cartozian Bros., Inc. Tenth and Washington, Pittock Block. 20 Off on Our Entire Stock s