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19 SI, J. J. Parker Takes Two 50 Year Leases on Sites. MAJESTIC IS INVOLVED THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, APRIL It, 1920 BU LIB TO COST pun Jfew Tliealer Proposed as Well as Business Block on Alder Where Bachelor Quarters Will Kise. Two new business blocks to be rftcted the coming year and involving an expenditure of $1, 050. 000, were an nounced by J. J. Parker yesterday following the consummation of trans actions which have been pending dur ing: the last month. A 50-year lease on the present site of the Majestic theater having been obtained from the Brooke estate, J. V. Kennes. architect, is already working on plans for a modern business block which will include a new Majestic theater. Construction may commence in December. The building will be et least 10 stories and the construc tion cost will be $750,000. The prop ' erty has been, leased on a valuation of 5 per cent on $1,000,000. Interest ed In this project are Mr. Parker, his partner in two local theaters, the firm of Jensen & Von Herberg, and H. T. Moore of Tacoma, representing the John S. Baker interests of that city. Mr. Moore and Mr. Baker are partners in Tacoma with Jensen & Von Herberg. f300,0)O Building Planned. The second building soon to be con structed by Mr. Parker will be at 10th and Alder streets, on the present site of the Pollyanna cafeteria. Mr. Parker holds a 50-year lease on this site known as the Hamilton & Sears property, and plans the coming year to erect an eight-story building on it at a cost of $300,000. The ground floor will be constructed for business tenants, while the other floors will be made into bachelor quarters. Mr. Parker took the lease on this property, which is 75 by 100 feet, in June. 1919, on rental basis of 6 per cent of $150,000 each year, plus taxes. His judgment in backing this location has recently been corroborated by the Elks, who have purchased a site on 11th and Alder, just back of the Sew ard hotel, for new club headquarters. Further evidence of Mr. Parker's faith in Alder street, which he be lieves is the Fifth avenue of Port land, is the 50-year lease which he took on the southeast corner of Alder and Park streets. On the second floor of this location in 1918 he opened the Rialto billiard parlors at a cost of $75,000. H. F. Davenport, general manager of the Brunswick-Balke-Col-lender company, said when its elabo rate fixtures were installed that the Rialto was without doubt the finest parlor of its kind in the world. Thirteen Vtr' Lrue Cloned. Renewal of his lease on the second floor of the corner of Broadway and Washington street, where he op erates the Waldorf billiard parlors, was taken last week by Mr. Parker for 13 years. The new lease stipulates a rental of $1000 a month, just treble that which he paid when he originally leased the property in 1907. At that time he came here a stranger and was required by Jennings & Co. to give a chattel mortgage on the $50,000 fix tures which he installed In the Wal dorf. The original lease was for four years, and in 1911, when it expired, Jennings & Co. refused' to take any oecurity for the nine-year lease which has just expired and again has been renewed. 1 In 1911, when Mr. Parker first re- newedi his lease on the Waldorf, he also leased the corner site where the Ounst cigar store is now located and the corner basement now the location of Leighton's Dairy lunch. He installed- a bar and elaborate fixtures and called it the Waldorf buffet. The white tiling now in evidence in the restaurant was put in at that time. Forfeiture Is Paid. In 1914 prohibition by the vote of Oregon wiped out of existence the Waldorf buffet, Mr. Parker had given no security for his lease on this loca tion, and, although many saloonmen repudiated their debts, having no as sets with which to pay them, he paid a forfeiture of $13,500 to be relieved of his lease, which called for $2272 (monthly rental and which still had ix years to run- As a result future dealings with Jennings & Co. have in mo instance called for security. Another phase of the amusement (business was added to Mr. Parker's interests when, in 1916, he purchased from Edward F. James the Majestic theater on Park and Washington streets for $20,000. Mr. Parker in stalled a new pipe organ at a cost of $20,000 and made further alterations approximating $3500. Although he was new to the theat irical game, Jensen & Von Herberg, largest motion picture theater own ers in the northwest, approached him last September to purchase Majestic stock. He sold one-half of the Ma jestic stock to Jensen & Von Herberg on the basis of $125,000, representing tle entire value of the theater. At the same time he acquired one-third Interest in the Peoples and Star the aters, the total stock of which was valued at $140,000. It is interesting to note that 20 years ago Mr. Parker started his busl ness activities with a capital of $250, which he invested in a cigar store at Hattery and California streets in San Francisco. He had acquired his small original capital by "hopping bells" at the Palace hotel in that city. He came to Portland in 1907. SMILE AT MILES Get you there and bring you back with a smile CHANSLOR & LYON CO. Pacific Coast Distributors Largest distributors of automotive equipment in the world Broadway at Couch jj 1 r"an" jj jj E. Ii. FREXCII THIXKS STATE WILL CARRY MEASURE. token of our appreciation of the great work they did." WAR RECORD IS DESIRED Questionnaires Reed College Sent Men All Out . to and Women. Republican Aspirant for Lieutenant-Governor or Washington Pays Brief Visit to Portland. Edward L. French, a successful prune grower of Clarke county, Wash ington, and an earnest advocate of the "back to the land" movement, has announced his candidacy for the republican nomination for lieutenant governor of Washington. Mr. French, who is at present in the state senate, has been prominent in Washington state politics for a dozen years or more, having served four years in the house of representatives and be ing now in his eight year as a mem ber in the senate. Mr. French, who has been engaged in prune raising for the past 35 years, now resides on his 100-acre prune farm six miles east of Vancouver and recently purchased additional land to clear and plant trees. "I have been doing and intend to BACON SALES ARE QUICK Xorth Bend Residents Buy Ton of Army Meat Want More. NORTH BEND, Or.. April 10. (Spe cial.) More than a ton and a half of bacon and 60 blankets, the first con signment of surplus army supplies to be received here, were disposed of within a few hours after being placed on sale by Postmaster McOuire at the postofflce yesterday The bacon was in slabs and cans and sold at 20 and 23 cents a pound. An additional consignment of two or more tons of bacon and a large number of blankets will probably be ordered by the city. Communist Case Postponed. Argument on a motion for arrest of Judgment in the case of Karl W. Os ter, Fred W. Fry and Claud Hurst, convicted communist labor party lead ers. was postponed yesterday until next Thursday by Circuit Judge Mor row. W. ta. U Ren, attorney for the convicted men, has until Wednesday to file his motion for a new trial and may argue that at the umt time as the other motion. The latter is based on the contention that the criminal syndicalism law is unconstitutional in that it attempts to define construc tive treason, a thing which Mr. U'Ren argues should be left to federal courts. -f .v f"N i" 8 o i X ' , I I , Edward L,. French, Clarke county orenardist, who Is seeking; ge- publican nomination for llen-trnant-KOvrrnor of Washington. continue to do all I possibly can to make the land more attractive," de clared Mr. French while in Portland yesterday, "and I hope to see the time shortly when the country people will have just as fine educational facili ties for their children as are offered In the cities." In the recent session of the Wash ington state legislature Mr. French sponsored the soldiers' bonus bill without the referendum attached. The measure was finally passed by both houses with the referendum, however, and W4I1 be voted upon by the people of Washington in the fall. It carries $15 to each Washington man for each month in the service. I am confident the measure will pass," said Mr. French. "While we cannot ever repay In money the men who made the great ' sacrifices de manded by the war, a large number of us in Washington look upon It as providing: a means by which we can give te men wlio served a little SLAIN DEPUTY IS BURIED SERVICES HELD IX PORTLAND FOR ROBERT CARL SCOTT. A complete war record is being com piled by Reed college of all its grad uates, undergraduates, ex-students and Instructors, bbth men and women. Questionnaires have been sent out asking for complete information con cerning branch of service served un der, length of service, transfers, over seas service, reconstruction aide work or ervicet with the various relief agencies. Records for graduate and under graduate service in the world war are nearly complete at this time, but more information is needed about Reed ex- students. Questionnaires are also be ing sent which are intended to obtain from all former Reed students a his tory of their work since leaving col lege. TEACHERS MAY ALL QUIT Deadlock Approaching In Connec tion AVlth Centralia Schools. CENTRALIA, Wash, April 10 ('Special.) Centralia's school teachers at a meeting Thursday night voted 62 to 2 to adhere to' the salary sched ule recently adopted by the Lewis County Teachers' league and to ac cept contracts elsewhere next year if these figures are not met by the school board. The school board is preparing a salary schedule of its own, providing substantial increases, although not coming up to the demands of the teachers. The board's proposition will be offered to the teachers next week, and, according to one member of the board, they can take it or leave it." "The taxpayers, as well as the teachers," said this member, are en titled to consideration. If the present teaching force all quit, school will reopen in September as usual." SALARY BILL FOR VOTE Hood River Measure, Affecting Superintendent Gibson, Approved. HOOD RIVER, Or.. April 10. (Spe cial.) While an initiative petition and bill, submitting to electors or the county at the May primaries a .meas ure for increasing the salary of County School Superintendent Gibson, was not filed in strict technical con formance with the letter of the law, Attorney-General Brown, following a personal conference with J. H. Haz lett, local attorney, has agreed to pre pare the ballot title. . The campaign for increasing Mr. Gibson's salary, enabling him to de vote his entire time to school work, recently came Into being almost spontaneously. Tribute to Character and Work of Bead Man Is Paid by Rev. F. C. Laslctte. Robert Carl' Scott, Seattle deputy sheriff and former Portland detective, who was shot and killed in a battle with bandits on Rainier boulevard in Seattle last Sunday, was burled in Portland Wednesday. Services were held at the Edward Holman company chapel Wednesday afternoon, and burial was in the Rose City cemetery. Rev. F. C. Laslette, pastor of the Glencoe Baptist church, paid an elo quent tribute to the character and service of Mr. Scott. He mentioned the work which the man had been engaged in the greater part of his life for the enforcement of law and order and referred to his devotion to duty. Pallbearers were old-time friends and associates of Mr. Scott while 'he was in this city. Deputy District Attorney Deich, who was associated with Mr. Scott, when the latter was working on state prohibition cases out of the district attorney's office in this city, and who acted as one of the pallbearers, in speaking of the dead deputy sheriff referred to him as a man who always "got the goods" on the men he went after. Mr. Scott was 31 years old. His J ll llnnnnnnnnnnnannl HMfe Bj . First, because you owe it to yourself to obtain the best of Shoes at the lowest possible price. 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