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THE MORNIXG OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1919. FARMERS OF WASCO AGAINST SHORT DAY HER FRIENDS ARE ALL SURPRISED 6. Non-Partisan League Oppo sition Is Expressed. UNION CONVENTION HELD 53 County Agricultural Agent, County Court and Fair Levy Approved by Dutnt Meeting. THE DALLES, Or., Nov. 10. (Spe cial.) Drastic opposition to the Non partisan league anil frank objection to joining: with the labor unions' pres ent fight for the universal eight-hour day as detrimental to the best inter ests of farmers were voiced unani mously by the most enthusiastic and spirited meeting ever held by the AVasco County Farmers' Union con vention, which met this afternoon at Dufur. Indorsed by the convention were the activities of the county agricul tural agent's office, the government control of wheat, flour and wheat products, and the levying of a small tax by the county to be used for county fair purposes. The operations of the county court, especially as they favor highway projects and general county constructive work, were heartily commended and the conven tion went on record as backing the court in its task of upbuilding Wasco county's resources. "Wasco Is one of the best counties In this entire state," asserted J. C. Johnson, president of the union. "I am an earnest supporter of a consist ent programme for good roads. To promote a constructive county fair eyFtem." Following are the resolutions adopted: Resolved, That the Wasco County Farmers' Union is in favor of con tinued government control of prices of wheat, flour and wheat products. Resolved, That the union frankly opposes the Non-Partisan league and will not join with the labor unions of this county In indorsing the uni versal eight-hour day, a decided detri ment to the farmers of the country. Resolved, That we are in favor of the county court levying a small tax for the support of several fairs, the tax to be apportioned to the districts where levied. Resolved, That we are In favor of the Farmers' Union and the conven tion assembled favors the continu ance of the activities of the county agent. Next Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock a meeting will be held in the county courthouse ror the purpose of dis cussing county agent work and the promotion of Wasco county fairs. . The annual state convention of farmers unions will be held in The Dalles December 2. Plans were made for the entertainment of delegates and the adopting of an excellent pro- H, ram me. TWO KILLED IN WRECK C. A. M LOIGHLIX, WAR VET RA, OXE OF VICTIMS. ! s V . - . - ij :? f - t i ' 1 I . J I ' ' "A 1 . , t - t i ' - J - :; I : K. V.. :'i lit- ::XAi i A il ii ' "fctf-w. .'- " "'. ssi 3Iadee Kennedy, it bo playa stellar role In "Strictly Confidential," the comedy drama which will open today at the Strand theater. TODAY'S KI1.M FEATURES. Columbia Marguerite Clark, "Luck in Pawn." Liberty Nell Shipman, "Back to God's Country." Majestic George Loane Tucker'a "The Miracle Man." Strand Madge Kennedy, "Strictly. Confidential." Peoples Bryant Washburn, "Why Smith Left Home." Star Creighton Hale and Tvonne Delva, "The Thirteenth Chair." Sunset Douglas Fairbanks, "Headln South." .Circle Special armistice day programme, "Every Mother's - Son." A ant not Companion Riding in Box Car Is Badly Injured, but Two Oth ers Get Away Safely. LA GRANDE, Or., Nov. 10. (Spe cial.) To campaign successfully overseab with company-A, 28th in fantry, and to be almost instantly Killed in a freight wreck at Perry three miles west of here, this morning was the tragic fate of Private Chester A. McLoughlin. He and five others had "boarded a freight car at Hilgard six miles farther west, and occupied a boxcar which was one of several that were dumped when a brake beam broke. The cars piled over, narrowly miss ing the Perry store building. One of McLoughlin's companions, as yet un identified, was killed and 'a third man was badly injured, but the others escaped. The train crew was unhurt. Coroner Bohnenkamk and the Ameri can Legion hero were trying to com municate with relatives at Harlow town, Mont., where McLoughlin's dis charge papers indicate his home is. The other victim of the wreck has not been identified. PENDLETON, Or., Nov. 10. (Spe cial.) Three freight wrecks In three hours this morning on this division of the O.-W. R. & N. kept the wreck ing crews busy keeping the lines clear for the passenger trains. Only one of the wrecks appears to have been eerious. This was at Perry. The sec ond was at Cayuse, a few miles above here, and delayed the east-bound trains while the cars were placed on the tracks. The third was at. Echo, west of here, where a derailed car halted traffic for a short time. COMEDY with the tragic serv- t problem as its theme Is the new Madge Kennedy picture. "Strictly Confidential" which will open today at the Strand theater. The picture is from the drama "Fanny and the Servant Problem," by the English author, Jerome K. Jerome. 'Strictly Confidential" is English in locale but not English in humor according to the traditional English funny bone. The play is said to abound in laughs, all hinging on the relationship of the mistress of Ban- tock castle to Us 23 purposeful servants. ' The role of Fanny O'Gorman Is played by Miss Kennedy. As the daughter of a dying member of a strolling troupe of players she is first introduced. After her father's death Fanny is sent to Bantock castle where her many relatives are all employed as servants on the estate. Fanny gets the job of scullery-maid which she finds not at all to her tastes after the freedom and thrills which she had enjoyed as a member of the strolling troupe. She runs away to London and there finds employment in a music hall and finds also a young artist who much resembles the ideal man of whom she has dreamed. After her marriaee to the artist she is taken to her husband's ances tral home which to her great sur prise is Bantock castle. Her serv ants agree that her humble parent age should be kept a secret and they unite in forming the faculty of a training school, which shall make their new mistress worthy of her position. Fanny finds herself at the mercy of her servants until at last she stages a bolshevik revolution TEACHERS IN LABOR BODY Tnion Votes to Aflfliate With Local Central Council. Decision to affiliate with the civil service section in the Portland cen tral labor council was made last night by the high school teachers' union, local 111, of the American Federation of Teachers, at a meeting held at the Portland Press club. Following this determination to af filiate at once and permanently with this section of organized labor, the teachers perfected the constitution and bylaws of their organization. The union also went on record as favoring the added 2-mill tax for city purposes, which will come up for con sideration at the special city election November 12. A committee of the union had made a careful investiga tion of city finances and city needs and recommended this action. which enlightens both her husband and her servants. The Strand mid-week concert will be given on Thursday night. A Brazilian dance composed by Phillip Pelz, director of the Strand sym phony orchestra, will be one of the numbers. Other selections will in elude "Fantasie," from "Rigoletto' (Verdi); serenade (Drigo) "Sliding Jim Jazz" (H. Losey) and Mendels sohn's "Spring Song." Screen Gossip. House Peters' first production from the Garson studios will be called "Blind Wives," and was written by Monte Katterjonn. It will reach the local screen early In December. . Nancy Chase' the well-known Eng lish stage beauty who arrived re cently in Los Angeles to take up wcrk in motion pictures, was the guest at a banquet of welcome given last week at the Country club by her directors, Warde and Elliot. "Warde was the stage director of the Lon don legitimate play in which Miss Chase made her first bow to the pub lic. Among the prominent picture folk attending the affair were: Bessie Bird, Tsura Aoki, Sessue Hayakawa, Norman Kerry, Frltzi Brunette. Jack Holt, Bert Lytell, Rosemary Theby, W. J- Walraven and Bessie Barris cale Miss Chase will play opposite J Warren Kerrigan. J. Warren Kerrigan's latest pro duction, "Out " of Court," has been completed and is ready for titling and cutting. Kerrigan and his di rector, Ernest C. Warde. will take a four weeks' motor trip to the Grand car.yon via Death valley, before be ginning on a new picture. fareth Hughes has been signed by Harry Garson for a two-year period. He will support Clara Kimball Young and House Peters. The first Realart motion picture theater is open. Kahn and Greenfield, operating- the largest group of cheaters in northern California, having more than 80 in the chain, hold the honor of being first to name a picture show house In honor of P.ealart Pictures corpora tion. It is called the Realart theater, and is located at Twenty-second and Mission streets. San Francisco. Re decorated and remodeled, it was opened last week with much cere mony and Ro-ilart sent a big floral design, the trademark done in flowers with the worJ "Realart" in the cen ter. Ralph B. Quive, branch manager at San Francisco, 'was on hand to assist in the dedication. Remarkable Change in Seattle Woman Gains Twenty one Pounds. "My friends are all surprised to see me looking so well and want to know the cause of ray improvement, and I am always glad to tell them It was Tanlac," said Mrs. H. L. Rasmussen. whose husband is an employe of the Shield-Livingood Auto Co., and who resides at 2258 Holden street. Seattle, recently. Continuing, she said: "For eight years 1 had a poor appe tite and could scarcely eat a thins and what little I did manage to force down would cause me to suffer ter ribly. I would have cramps and the worst sort of pains and what l ate would ferment and I would bloat something awful. . I would get so dizzy at times it was all I could do to keep from falling and I had such splitting headaches I would have to take to my bed for days at a time, i was troubled a lot with constipation and had to be taking some kind of laxative all the time. I also had rheumatism In my feet and limbs and the back of my neck that was so bad I was in agony, at times and it was Impossible for me to get around to do my housework and I spent about half my time in bed. I was so ner vous and felt so miserable I could hardly stand to have anyone around me. as every little thing would upset me, and I could get but little sleep and would lie awake lots of nights all night long and become so restless t times I would just have to get up and walk around. I was failing very fast and lost weight until I was little more than a frame. "1 had tried all sorts of treatments and medicines and even changing cl mate and spent a while in California in an effort to get relief from my troubles, but nothing did me any good. I had read so much about the good Tanlac was doing others I con cluded to try It. I began to notice i change for the better in my condi tion right away and I cari now eat anything I want and as much as want and everything I eat agrees with me perfectly. In fact, I can hardly 'get enough to eat, as I am hungry all the time. I am not both ered with dizziness and no longer have the headache. My nerves are as steady as can be and I sleep all night long just like a baby and sleep so sound it is a hard matter to wake mo up. I have gotten entirely over the rheumatism and I can get around well as I ever could. I have gained 21 pounds in weight and have re gained my strength so that I can do all my housework and also work in my garden without feeling any the worse from It. I believe Tanlac the best medicine in the world, for it has relieved me of all my troubles when everything else I tried had failed." Tanlac is sold in Portland by the Owl Drug Co. -Adv. contracts, beginning January 1. They are now receiving J 8 a day, according to E. L. Castle, secretary of the plan terers union. The building trades council has In dorsed the action taken by the plas terers' union for an increase in wages. It Is said that plasterers in coas cities receive ?10 a day. and in Mon tana 111 and 12 is paid. Auto Theft Charged. Arnold Robbins, 18, and Stanley Hester, i&, will be brought to Port land from beattle on Tuesday by Motorcycle Patrolman Van Dusen to answer to the charge of theft of the automobile found in their possession, answering to the description fur nished by C. F. Paulson, who reported his car stolen on November 4. The machine and alleged thieves are be ing held by the Seattle police. Portugal Loses 8367 in War. PARIS. Nov. 10. (French Wireless Service.) Portugal's war lospea amounted to Su67 men killed of the 200,000 who fought during the war, while 4180 are listed as missing, ac cording to a statement issued by the Portuguese legation here. The 200,000 men mobilized formed 4 per cent of the total population of Portugal. HENT1STS MEET TODAY FOCK STATES OF NORTHWEST TO BE REPRESENTED. Delegations From Oregon, Wash ington, Montana and Idaho to Gather In Walla Walla. stockholder in the Wapinltia Irriga tion company. The price per acre for which the land sold was $55. N. G. Heddln negotiated the deal. Four other sales also were made the past week. O. L. Paquet sold his 320-acre ranch In Wapinitia district to Calvin McCorkle for 9600. The John Ward ranch of 320 acres passed to Frank Botty for $16,000. The 500 acre ranch of Fen Botty was pur chased by John Ayers of Wamic for $32,500, and Stlllman Goodway paid $4800 for the 160-acre John West farm. BEATING PATIENT CHARGED ht Relief Hospital Attendant at State to Get Hearing. Nov. 10. (Special.) SALEM. Or. William Harris, night relief attendant at the state hospital, was arrested here today on a charge of assault upon one of the patients at the in stitution. He will ret a hearing Wednesday. The warrant was issued at the instigation of Dr. Griffith, superintendent of the hospital. It is charged in the complaint that Harris beat and choked the patient, who had arrived at the institution only a few hours before the alleged assault took place. Harris came here a short time ago accompanied by his" wife, and has been acting in the ca pacity of night relief attendant. In addition to facing prosecution, Harris has been dropped from the payroll by tae hospital officials. WALLA WALLA. Wash.. Nov. 10. (Special.) Every Seventh Day Ad ventlst church in Oregon, Washing ton. Idaho and Montana will be rep resented at the first quadrennial session of the North Pacific union conference which will open in College place today to continue to Novem ber 20. Practically every ordained and licensed minister in the four states will attend, as well as secretaries of the Sabbath schood medical, home mission, missionary, young people's and educational departments. Dele gates from the world's general con ference with headquarters in Wash ington, D. C, will also be present. Elder C. W. Flaiz, president of the conference and a resident of College Place, will preside. Elder Flaiz has just returned from a trip to the oriental countries during which he visited China, Japan, India and the Philippines. Northwestern cities which will send large delegations include Portland, Salem, Roseburg, Vancouver, Tacoma, Seattle, Bellingham, Wenatchee, Ab erdeen, Spokane. Yakima, Helena, Butte, Pocatello, Boise, Nampa, Coeur d'Alene and others. During the session officers will be elected for the next four years, cre dentials and licenses granted, plans and recommendations made, young men and women chosen as mission aries to foreign countries, young men ordained to the ministry, reports made by the president, secretary-treasurer and all the departmental secretaries. Addresses will be given by men who have been in the mission fields. $44,000 LAND SALE MADE Chicago Man Bays Hunneyhan Wapinltia Plains Ranch. THE DALLES, Or., Nov. 10. (Spe cial.) One of the largest farm sales consummated in the Wapinitia Plains district for months was closed last week when V. H. Gutgler of Chicago bought the T. C. Hunneyhan ranch of 800 acres for $44,000. Mr. Gutgler is an advocate of irrigation and a C)ve Marine Is Home. COVE. Or., Nov. 10. (Special.) Leonard Millman,- farmer, and one time prominent Cove baseball player, a United States marine, stationed the past two years at Pekln, China,- after a tempestuous ocean voyage of 54 days, arrived home Saturday. Will Malone. farmer, at same station, is scheduled to start home a month later. Paris Store Strike Extends. PARIS, Nov. 10. (Havas.) The employes of the Louvre department store today decided to strike in sympathy with the workers in the Bon Marche and Galleries Lafayette. k Hi iirritatvWoC e & (So. J Mercriandifco ofcMeril Only Our Message of Today Is One of Respect for the forces that during war or peace can be looked to with con fidence to bring victory for those who carry the banners of Righteousness. 3fc 3fa Cfr rff Our Message of Today Is One of R ej o icing that one year ago today saw the cessation of the world's mightiest conflict and that America in her strength was powerful enough to assist in bringing the war to a quick conclusion. We Dedicate This Day to the pursuits of Peace rather than to the fruits of Victory and certainly not to the spoils of war. r In Observance of Armistice Day Our Store Is Closed Today RAILROADS TO COMPETE PRIVATE OWNERSHIP RE STORES FORMER CONDITION'S. INDIANS TO APPEAL CASE Washington Supreme Court to De- cide Fishing Rights. SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 10. Inten tion to appeal to the state supreme ) court the decision of the superior court at Prosser, Wash., that Chief ' George Menioch of the Yakima In dians and four other tribesmen were g-uilty of violating . the state same laws in fishing near the Prosser dam. was announced here today by United states uistrict Attorney Garrecht. Mr. Garrecht contends that a treaty, made between the1 government and me inuians. maintaining to them use of their "ancient and accustomed fish ing places. ' supersedes the state law in their case. Grounded Steamer Floated. NORFOLK, V'a., Nov. 10. Wreckers today floated the British steamer Bretanier, which went ashore near Virerinian beach three davs airo. GARAGE TORCH EXPLODES' Windows at The Dalles Shattered and Other Damage Done. THE DALLES, Or.. Nov. 10. Spe cial.) Window glass was shattered and damage to the extent of $400 was done to equipment and building by the explosion of the gasoline tank attached to a brazing torch in Kirk'a garagre this morning. Quick application of two fire ex tinguishers smothered the fire, which for a time threatened serious loss. By the time the local fire apparatus arrived upon the scene the blaze was out. H. A. Davey, an employe, was slightly injured by the flaming gasoline. r vi ) a V WtfJ'SH r A ' -i i f PLASTERERS DEMAND LIFT Spokane Workers Want $9 in City and J 10 Outside. SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 10. (Spe cial.) Spokane plasterers have noti fied contractors and builders that they will demand $9 a day for jobs in the city and 1 10 a day for work on outside Touch Tender Spots With Cuticura After Shaving After shaving with Cuticura Soap the Cuticura way. without mug. gently rub tender spots on face or dandruff on scalp with a bit of Cuticura Ointment. Then wash all off with Cuticura Soap and hot water. Rinse with tepid water. Finally dust on a little Cuticura Talcum. Cuticura Talcum is an antiseptic, prophy lactic, soothing dusting powder of delicate, fascinating fragrance. 2Sc everywhere. R. M. Calkins. Vice-President of Milwaukee, Expects Transfer to Be Effected by January 1. SEATTLE Wash.. Notv 10. (Spe cial.) That the railways will return to their owners under former com petitive conditions was the statement of R. M. Calkins of Chicago, vice president In charge of traffic of the Milwaukee, on his arrival here Mon day to inaugurate the preliminary work of the transfer from federal to corporate control of the properties. Mr. Calkins predicted that some or the innovations made successful un der federal control will be retained. "We now expect that the railroads will go to their corporate owners by January 1," said Mr. Calkins, and that the government will make some satisfactory arrangement for contin uing the guarantee under the pres ent remunerative plan. Some meas ures adopted while the government has been in charge doubtless con tinue, but there are many serious problems to bo met before the lines will be on a secure working basis. "The nation 1b about to enter upon one of the most prosperous eras in its history. The new building pro gramme which is prevalent over the east will cause an uninterrupted de mand for west coast lumber. The railways are returning under the moat auspicious circumstances." Centralia Burglary Reported. CENT R ALIA. Wash., Nov. 10. (Spe cial.) The home of lr. (i. Gilbert, 51S West First street, was entered and robbed some time between 8 and 10 o'clock Sunday evening while Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert were absent. Numerous small artices, including rings, a silver-backed comb and brush, several lodge and society pins and four 15 war kavings stamps were stolen. Auto Theft Suspect Arrested. SALEM. Or.. Nov. 10. (Special.) Garland Brooks, charged with the theft of an automobile belonging to George B. Hovenden, a Portland dealer, was arrested at Cottage Grove Sunday and returned to this city for trial. 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