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THE MORMXG OREGONIAX, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1920 FLEE HOTEL WIGHT CLOTHES rv Glenwood Is Swept by Fire in Early Morning. WARRANT OUT FOR OWNER Xick Raptakis Charged With Hav ing Back Door Locked in Way to Prevent Escape. r. ....... J I in Ill I i m ii " II PjlflBiaj i mi I i 1 f ! ? I ' !j Fire which started in the elevator shaft of the Glenwood hotel, 25 North Sixth street, presumably caused from defective wiring in the elevator motor, swept up the shaft and then spread out in the attic above - doing about $7500 damage to the building and contents before it was finally put out by the fire department. The fire was discovered about 4.60 o'clock yesterday morning by Patrol men Payne and Talbert who turned in the alarm and then roused the resi dents of the hotel. In a few minutes smoke was pouring from every win dow In the structure and the resi dents were compelled to flee into the street, many of them in their night clothing- Warrant Out for Proprietor, If it had not been for the fact that the elevator shaft was enclosed, pre venting the fire from spreading on the lower floors, the blaze probably would have been a replica of the Klton Court hotel fire last Saturday in which four persons lost their lives, say firemen. A warrant for the arrest of Nick Raptakis. proprietor of the hotel, on a charge of having the back door of the hotel locked in such a manner that it could not be opened from the inside, was issued out of the munic ipal court yesterday on complaint of Captain Roberts, assistant fire mar shal. The assistant fire marshal, who made an investigation of the fire, said that the locking of the door might have meant loss of life If it had been necessary .for residents of the hotel to make their escape by that exit. A large percentage of the fire loss was due to smoke and water damage. It is a four-story structure. Enclosed Shaft's Value Seen. Practical demonstration of the value of enclosed- elevator shafts and stairways in hotels, apartment houses and rooming houses was giMen jn the Gleenwood fire, according to City Commissioner Bigelow. This fire, like the one in Elton court, began at the base of the ele vator and shot up the elevator shaft. But the enclosed shaft prevented the fire from spreading on any of the floors. "Had the elevator shaft been open," Commissioner' Bigelow told the coun cil yesterday, '"it is almost certain that the fire would have been even more difficult to handle than the El ton court fire and loss of life un doubtedly would have resulted." Inspector Are Xauned. Fire Marshal Grenfell and Building Inspector Plummer were yesterday named as a committee to make an immediate investigation of buildings in which elevator shafts and stair ways are not enclosed and to report to the city council on recommenda tions for legislation which will cor rect such conditions. Mayor Baker yesterday filed a re port to the council recommending the investigation. In this letter. Mayor Baker related that the results at the Elton Court fire demonstrated that the city council, although having passed much legislation to prevent the loss of fire through improper conditions, had left some things un done. Strong opposition has always de veloped in the past when members of the council attempted to pass legisla tion providing the enclosing of eleva tor shafts and stairways tn buildings built prior to the enactment of the building code. It is generally be lieved that such opposition will not appear when this revision is next con- sidered by the city council TIMBER EXPERT IN TOWN Head of V. S. Forest Products Lab oratory Portland Visitor. John Newland, in charge of the section of timber mechanics at the forest products laboratory of the United States forest service at Madi son, Wis., is in Portland on a trip to look over the Important timber stands of this district. Chester Hocue, New York representative of the West Coast Lumbermen's association, is making the trip with him. They are ' examining the timber from the stand point of a grading rule adopted a year aso designed to give greater uniformity In tests of strength for building materials. Mr. Newland and . Mr. Hogue have come to Oregon after Investigating the timber in British Columbia and ashington. W. II. Gibbons of the local office is accompanying them on their trip in Orearon. Buying with vision A FEW of our cus tomers have re cently purchased - rugs anticipating: their needs two yews in advance. They know that genuine Orientals can never be purchased for less than present prices. This has been demonstrated, re cently in the case of own ers reselling their rugs, after 10 and 15 years' use, at prices way beyond . what they paid for them. Genuine Oriental Rugs in crease in value without producing a taxable in come. May we not have the pleasure of telling y o " what we know about Ori ental weavings? A visit here incurs no obligation. CARTOZIAN BROS. Established 1906. riltock. Block, t'ortlaad. t i i - v. ------ v-m - IVM &Z&- , x-c,-4, a " fat V I - . A h ETHEL CLAYTON, STARRING IX 'RUNNING AT ETHEL CLAYTON has another of those attractive domestic. role3 which have characterized her last few pictures in "The Ladder of Lies," now running at the Liberty. The star is Edith Farrish. a maga zine illustrator, who sees Peter Gor don, a friend, marry a shallow femi nine creature, Dora Leroy. In an en deavor to keep the information from Peter that his wife is carrying on an affair with another man, Edith draws suspicion upon herself. Thus she is under a cloud when Blaine, whom she really loves, comes along. However, a decent streak develops unexpectedly in Dora's admirer. Brent. He tells Blaine the truth and paves the way for Edith's happiness. Ethel Clayton brings a charm and winsomeness to "The Ladder of Lies" that makes it excellent entertainment. The other members of the cast are ex tremely well chosen, Clyde Fillmore playing the part of Peter and Irving Cummings as suave as ever .in the role of the "heavy." Charles Mere dith is the leading man and Jane Acker is Dora. Tom Forman, one of the screen's best-known juvenile leading men, makes his debut as a director in "The Ladder of Lies." Screen Gossip. Marshall Neilan, accompanied by his "Dinty" company, has just returned TIMBER CRUISERS BUSY 14 6,000 ACRES SURVEYED FORESTRY OFFICIALS. BY Inventory Made of Big Sections in Oregon, Washington and Forests of Alaska. Cruisers working under the direc tion of the district forester have cruised and -mapped 146.000 acres of national forest timber within the past 12 months as part of a general. inven tory of forest resources. Of this amount, 87,000 acres are in Oregon, 31.000 in Alaska-and the remainder in "Washington. The cost varied from 10 to 38 cents an acre, depending upon the character of the country and tim ber. To date in this forestry district ,3V3,O0O" acres have been cruised and mapped, "but with the amount of money now available for timber cruis ing, it would take nearly a century, it is estimated, to take an inventory of all the timber in the 18,000,000 acres within 'the commercial timber zone of the national forests in Oregon and Washington. The forest service has made what is called a reconnaissance survey of the entire area of national forest land In Oregon and Washington, aggregat ing about 32,000,000 acres. Coal Beds in Two Counties May Be Developed. Lack of Railway Trannportatlon Only Drawback to Marketing Product tlve Dig; Own Fuel Out of Uiround. 0 LEWISTON,' Idaho, Aug. 11. (Spe cial.) The presence of coal de posits of considerable size in parts of Asotin county, Wash., and Idaho county, Idaho, has recently led to activity looking toward development of the coal beds. In the region sur rounding Anatone and Cloverland, Wash., it has been known for many years that coal of good quality was awaiting the pick and shovel, but as there is no railroad point nearer than Lewiston, about 25 miles away, it was believed that there was no use at tempting to open the beds. One settler not far from Cloverland has dughia celler out of a coal vein. and secures fuel by merely digging it out of the cellar. The present agi- lauon lor opening up coal deposits has resulted from the increased use of motor trucks, and it is thought by interested parties that transportation can be arranged in this way so that the cost of mining and marketing will be much less than that' of coal from distant mines. One favorable factor is the fact that there would be a down grade haul all the way from the deposits to Lewiston and Clarks ton. It was recently reported that an other large deposit of bituminous coal had been discovered a few miles from urangeville. A trial of the quality of this coal has been made and indicates that it will prove sat. tsfactory.for all purposes. As Grange vllle is difficult, of access by rail, owing to the long, steep climb over the mountains, it is evident that the development of such a project would oe 10 greatest local value to resi dents of the Grangeville region. SIDEWALK HELD MENACE City Contends Linnton District Work Is for County. Repair of sidewalk along the coun- I ty road in the Linnton district should I be paid for, by the county board of "THE LADDER OF LIES," JiOW LIBERTY. from Catalina island, where the troupe has been staging a number of new aeroplane stunts. It is expected that "Dinty" will be finished within the next, week and will be released vl First National in the early fall. In the cast are "Wesley Barry in the title role, Pat O'Malley, .Colleen Moore Marjorie Daw, J. Barney Sherry, New ton Hall, Walter . Chung and Aaron Mitchell. Tom Held and George Drom gold are assisting Mr. Neilan in the production- of this film. The only damage -resulting from slight earthquake shock felt atljni versal City recently was strangely enough to a setting representing San Francisco apartment house, used by Tod Browning and Pnscilla Dean, A .slab of marble in the lobby was shaken loose, but was soon secured so that production of "Outside the Law" was practically uninterrupted. According to the best information obtainable an enormous diamond ring on Naomi Childers finger was paid for by . Luther Reed. He doesn't deny it. - She was about to go up for a flight. But when tKey asked Mildred Davis to sign a slip releasing the aviation com pany from all responsibility her en thusiasm died suddenly. She decided that she would be content with just having her picture taken a la aviatrix. No high life for Mildred! commissioners, according to the be lief of City Commissioner Barbur. "The county is taking over city streets and improving them," said Commissioner Barbur. "As an ex ample, the county took over Montgom ery arive, ana is improving it at i cost of approximately $50,000. Th county can and should repair the sidewalks in Linnton, which in thei present condition are a menace to th life and limb of every child in th district. Property owners in the Linnton district are anxious to have the side walks repaired, and have written th city council, urging that city and county officials confer and come to a settlement over the question. Mayor Baker yesterday referred th Linnton sidewalk question to Com missioner Barbur, who will confe with the county commissioners in few days. DEAD UNKNOWN SOUGH EMIL HYTLIXEX, THOUGHT LOST IX KIVER, RETURNS. Man Reported Drowned Last Week When Clothes Are Found Is Sow Police Mystery. The police department has anothe mystery for solution as the result of the reported drowning of an uniden tinea man in the Willamette rive near tlje Portland Flouring mills last r riaay anernoon. Emil Hytlinen, 700 East Fifteenth street, a logger who was at firs thought to have been the man seen to go down in the river there and wh had been missing for several day returned to Portland yesterday from a trip to Astoria. inat Hytlinen was drowned was first reported to the police by Angus vviiaa, the man s room mate. Wiid had found some clothing on the beac similar to that worn by Hytline That, connected with the disappear ance of Hytlinen, led his friend to be lieve that he had been drowned. Inspectors Collins and Coleman sire making an investigation as Mr. an Mrs. W. F. Johnson. 600 Flint stree and several other swimmers reporte seeing the man' drown. They said that they made no report of the acc dent to the authorities as they thought the man would have som friends there who would report the accident. City Grappler Brady has been working for the pst two days in the effort to locate the body. SALEM GUARDS LEAD U. S. Company M Wins Drake Trophy for General Efficiency. SALEM. Or.. Aug. 11. (Special.) In a ceremony at Wilson Park next Tuesday night the trophy cup that was won by Company M of Salem at the national guard encampment at Camp Lewis in July will be awarded. The cup will be presented by Major J. Francis Drrake of Portland, the do nor. Company M won the cup by scoring highest for all-round efficiency. An added distinction is that Company M leads all the other national guard units of the United States that have received federal recognition. The of ficers of the company are Leroy Hewlett, captain, liien u. Kice, first lieutenant, and L. R. Burdette, second lieutenant. CARD OK THANKS. We wish sincerely to thank the W. O W., Camp 77, and all other friends xor ineir kinti eiiipttiiy ana oeain ful floral offering at the death of wire, motner ana sister. GEORGE G1LBERTSON AJvD SON. ALMA EKBLAD. WM. -N. EKBLAD. - Adv. Copyright Copjncht, 1910, Tbc Hooat of Kappcaheimer ' MONEY FDR MILK TIED DP COURT GRANTS INJUNCTION AGAINST DISTRIBUTORS. Oregon Dairyments Co-operative League Only Ones to Be Puld Funds Under Order. "Thousands of dollars due farmers in Multnomah, Washington and Columbia counties for mlllc shipped to Portland is being withheld because of an in junction served upon the Portland miik distributors by the Oregon Dairymens' Co-operative league, ac cording to C. M. Gregory, representa tive of the distributors. According to Mr. Gregory, milk dis tributors have-no business agreement or contract with the dairymen's league, and through the court's order are restrainel .from paying money direct to the milk shippers. It develops that on July 1 the Portland milk distributors were sered with a notice from league offi cials that all money for milk shipped by league memoers must oc sent tu "'""J niiniiiuiini .1 iium ilia j hi i . .nimr-- -- mi ..... -.. ..... . .- - ' iM wi i i I !,! www ii m m I " 1' ! iraMaiailrt'iaw'"f"1,-l,l-,--Y-----,M U igjo.Thfi House of Kufficnheimer Good are the unquestioned standard of value. They are more than clothes- they are .a. service: we are proud to offer you. They are a 14-karatz;;; in satisfaction and economy, also good appearance.1 LION CLOTHING CO. Exclusive Kuppenheitner House in Portland Morrison at Fourth the league office. According to Mr. Gregory, a list of the league members accompanied that order, which he says announced that no individual assign ments from the dairymen would be sent to the distributors. The distributors, it seems, did not desire to do business with the league, and continued sending the payment for milk received direct to shippers. The temporary restraining order is sued by Judge Tucker, following ap plication made to the court by Presi dent -Katz, of the league, provided that distributors should pay no money for milk to any persons, corporations or firms, other than the Oregon Dairymen's Co-operative league. "It would be poor business, indeed, fcr distributors to pay money to any organization for products sent by in dividuals, unless assignments were received JTrom the owners of the prod ucts," said Mr. Gregory. OLD TAPESTRY DISPLAYED Raphael's Famous Painting. "Ma donna of the Chair.9' Copied. A wonderful old tapestry, a copy four feet by six, of Raphael's famous painting: of the Madonna of the Chair, has just been placed on display in the Washington-street window of Jenn Cool, breeze-inviting clothes for .torrid days that have style nhe: Clothe ing's furniture store by the owner. Dr. A. P. Oe Keyset. The known history of the tapestry goes back to 1866, when it was brought to New Orleans from Paris, by General A. C. Morphy, a cousin of Paul Morphy, the renowned chess player. It remained in the possession of the general's family for over 50 years, when financial reverses forced them to dispose f it. Its wanderings from that time are obscure until Dr.De Keyeer discovered It in a dim little curio shop in New Orleans last June and, recognizing its genuine value, added it to his collec tion of antiques. The exquisite fine ness of the detail work in the tapestry will be appreciated by lovers of the artistic. It will be shown at Jenn lng's for several weeks. Santiam fires Under Control. ALBANY, Or., Aug. 11. (Special.) All forest iires in the Santiam na tional forest are under control now. Reports received af the headquarters of the Santiam national forest here show that some of the fires are burn ing yet. but there is no further dan ger of them spreading. Picnic Dates Announced. CENTRALIA, Wash., Aug. 11. (Spe cial.) Sunday, August 29, has been O i i u ii M set as the date for a joint picnic to be held by the Centralia and Tenino aeries of Eagles at Offut lake. A bas ket dinner and sport events will form the day's programme. The Lewis Why Itch and Burn With Skin Diseases? There I. a 'Way to Get Rid of the Tortorooi Suffering. Those who" rely upon local treat ment, such as ointments, salves, lo tions, washes, etc whieh are applied to the surface of the skin, will never be free from agonizing skin diseases, because they are going about the treatment just backwards. They are treating the results of the disorder, and not the disease itself. They are attempting to boil water by applying the heat in the wrong place. These terrifying skin irritations, ec zema, tetter, boils, pimples, etc., have their origin in a disordered condition of the blood. They come from a col ony of tiny germs which get into the blood and multiply by the million. JSi county Pomona grange will hold it, annual picnic Thursday, August 19. at Forest. An address by William Bouck, master of the state grange, will be a feature of the programme. Do not expect to be cured of any form of skin disease by the use of lotions, salves, ointments or other local treatment, as such remedies can not possibly reach the source of th. trouble, which is the blood. When any of these symptoms ap pear on any part of your body, yon should take prompt steps to rid th. blood of the germs which cause them. And the one remedy which has no equal as a blood cleanser is S. S. S., which is sold by druggists every, where. Begin taking S. S. S. today, and write a complete history of your case to our Chief Medical Adviser, who will give you special instruction, without charge. Write at once to Medical Director. 613 Swift Labora tory, Atlanta, Ga. Adv. , .