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TIIE MORNING OREGOXIAX, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 20, 1915. You can't do better for your own looks and we can't do better for you or our selves than to get you into f Hart Sbhaffner & Marx Varsity Fifty Five You'll get all that there is in style, in quality and fit, with the assurance of the all-wool or silk-and-wool imported and domestic fabrics. See yourself in one of ' these suits. They're priced $20, $25, $30, $35 Make it a point to see our line of Hart Schaffner & Marx Overcoats. The coat you'll like can be found in our large assortment of variations of styles and fabrics and priced at 16.50 to S35. Copmpht Mat SrhHnrr fc llm Sam'l Rosenblatt & Co. The Men's Store for Quality and Service OUR NEW LOCATION, 266 MORRISON, BET. THIRD AND FOURTH STS. A Hint to Mothers of Growing Children CHIEFS NOT TO BE ECONOMY VICTIMS Albee and Dieck Refuse to Stand for Cut Suggested - . by Mr. Daly. PURCHASE BUREAU TARGET Mr. Baker Has Many Criticisms to Offer on Conduct of Department of Public Works ana Own Pol icies Attacked in Return. fConttnu From Firgt Page). count on. Anybody else want to con tribute?" Nobody answered, and the plan to cut Council salaries died a natural death with the net result of Commis sioner Daly beingr pledged to turn over 20 per cent of his salary, or $1000 of the 5000 he Is to receive next year. The fuss about Council salaries was followed by au onslaught on the purchasing bureau by Commissioner Baker, and later a lively tilt between Commissioners Dieck and Baker on the department of public affairs un der Mr. Baker. Mr. Baker opened up on the purchas ing bureau with a statement showing that for three months the purchasing bureau bought J70.0U0 worth of stuff used by the city and had an overhead expense of about 10 per cent of the ag gregate. He presented figures to show that the purchasing department of the O.-W. R. & Nbuys more than J2.000, 000 worth of material a year and has a purchasing department payroll of $1330 a month. Mr. Baker contended that the purchasing bureau of the city buys in small quantities and has too many employes. Commissioners Bijrelow- and Dieck rushed to the rescue with assertions that the bureau is saving money. Pur chasing Agent Wood asserted that the railroad figures and the figures for the city could not be compared. Kxplanations went the rounds and culminated in Commissioner Baker in sisting that the purchasing forces be reduced. His plan did not meet with sufficient approval. Mr. Blffelovr Flops on Salaries. "All right." said Mr. Baker finally, "if nil you gentlemen .are satisfied, that's nil there is to it. I have the figures here, but I am only one of five." lie followed this statement by a mo tion to cut out all proposed salary in creases in the bureau. And at this point Commissioner Bige low, who has been a stickier for the anti-salary-increase programme, jumped the traces and deserted the ranks for the first time. He had been deserted the day before by Mr. Daly, when employes in Mr. Daly's depart ment were suggested for increases. And now he deserted for the benefit of his own department. "I'm not so particularly strong for any of the increases except that of the messenger boy. He gets $30 a month now and I propose $10 a month.' "Has this boy anybody dependent cpon him?" asked Mr. Baker. "No. only himself," said Mr. Bigelow. "You didn't consider that, Mr. Baker, hen you cut out of the Health Bureau a young woman clerk who has a widowed mother to support," interposed Mayor Albee. Memeajcfr Granted Increase. x "We are not considering the health budget now," retorted Mr. Baker. "Re verting to this messenger boy, I know of lots of married men with families who would like to have a job at $30 a month." The Council finally compromised m an Increase to $35 a month for the messenger. Then came the budget prepared by Mr. Baker for the Department of Pub lic Affairs. The second item was an appropria tion for the salary of a chief clerk in Mr. Baker's office. "Why a chief clerk?" asked Commis Kloner Dieck. "Why is he' different from a private secretary? He is doing the same work as my secretary and the others, isn't he?" "The difference," said Mr. Baker liotlv. "is that he has to furnish a lot of information that the public can't pet front other departments." "Whose departments do you mean?" k.nl Mr. Dieck. "Principally yours," retorted Mr. Baker. "He was made a chief clerk by the Council, and if you want to back up now and make him something else, to to it" "I move that his salary be reduced from $1S to $125." said Commissioner TMeck. "My secretary gets $125 and he does the same work. You refused him an increase. This man looks like a private secretary to me." "Now listen here." said Mr. Baker. I'm not going to be coerced by you into giving increases to your men just to protect my own. If this man Isn't worth his salary, cut it." Salary Cut Not Supported. Dieck's motion to trim the salary re ceived no second. And then came ttrt final dissolution of the committee which started out to enforce the anti-salary-increase pro gramme. It started out with Commis sioners Daly, Bigelow and Baker. Mr. Daly hung on with the others until he reached his own department. Mr. Bige low remained fast for-a day longer un til he reached his department, and Mr. Baker hung on another day, until his was reached. Then the triumvirate fell with a dull thud. Mr. Baker dropped when he voted to increase a woman senior playground director from $S0 to $85 a month. He said this was the only increase in all his department and that it was recom mended because an increase had been promised this young woman if she would remain at her post. The increase carried with- Commissioners Daly and Bigelow voting against it, and Mr. Baker and Mayor Albee and Mr. Dieck voting for it. Mr. Baker explained that another position had been cut off. which made the net saving $ -0 In spite of the increased salary. Cut of $100,000 Demanded. The cry for a $100,000 cut in the Items of the budget of Commissioner Dieck was started by Commissioner leaker early in the morning session. At first Commissioner Dieck laughed the j vuggestion off. but Mr. Baker and other members of the Council continued to harp on the subject until Mr. Dieck finally agreed to take his estimates back for revision. "I have compiled some figures show ing that, figuring on the amount of work next year being the same as this year, the engineering cost will be 23 per cent." said Commissioner Baker. "It is far in excess of the cost ilk 1911. when improvements amounted to many times what they aggregate this year." "You can't count my whole payroll as being the engineering cost." said Commissioner Dieck. "That is ridicu lous. A false impression has gone out : that my department is overloaded with overhead expense. It is not so. Every Item in my department is shaved right down to the bone. We have a great deal of work to do for the Council and for the public and it takes men to do the work. If you want to cut out ail I public improvements and do nothing next year I am perfectly willing and can cut my budget-" Increase Bring; Objection. "Why should engineering cost so much more now than in 1911?' asked Mr. Baker. "Because we are doing the engineer ing," replied Mr. Dieck. "In 1911 they built the Hall-street Drive and the Vista-avenue wall. Because of lack of preliminary- engineering we . had to stand the cost of repairing and re building the Hall-street improvement to the extent of $18,000 and the Vista avenue improvement to the extent of $25,000. Is that good business? We are doing the engineering and inspect ing now and it was not done then that is thet reason for the increase." "Any particular need for three or four inspectors on one paving job?" asked Mr. Baker. "It is untrue." replied Mr. Dieck. "We have but two men on a job, one at the mixing plant and the other at the point where the pavement is being laid. There was no adequate inspection in 1911 and other years and as a result Portland has some bad paving. In spectors are cheaper than paving re pairs." "To get down to some basis to work on," interposed Commissioner Daly, "let's decide to do what Seattle has done cut out all public improve ments next year." POLICEMAN MAKING ARREST SHOT DOWN Slayer of Lawyer-Patrolman Flees to Foothills Near Los Angeles. . FATHER, TOO, DISAPPEARS Harry Duncan Kills Sergeant J. 45. Toolen, College Graduate on Police Force, as He Talks to Mother About Theft. DAYLIGHT SERVICE BETWEEN PORTLAND AND Grays Harbor in connection with fhe SHASTA LIMITED KO EXTRA FARE Leave Union Depot 2:10 P. M. Leave Centralis 5:20 P.M. Arrive Aberdeen ...... .7:40 P. M. Arrive Hoquiam ........8:00 P.M. Leave Hoquiam ........9:00 A.M. Leave Aberdeen ....... .-9:15 A. M. Arrive Portland 3:80 P.M. Tickets-arid information-at 0.-W.R.&N. UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM CITY TICKET OFFICE, Washington at Third Street. ' Broadway 4500 . A 6121 house. Commissioners office, desks, etc. The old Commissioners, although supposed to have relinquished their offices, have not turned over these articles. WHITMAN 'ACTORS' CHOSEN Tryouts for Dramatic Club Open to All Students. WHITMAN COLLEGE. Walla Walla. Wash.. Oct. 19. (Special.) The tryouts for membership on the Whitman College Dramatic Club were held Saturday and the successful candidates announced to day. The contestants are chosen for their ability as shown in a competitive tryout open to all students of Whitman Col lege. Those chosen to the club this year were: Marie Miller, Walla Walla; Grace Vandeveer, Oklahoma City; Mayzie Penrose, Walla Walla; Gertrude Upton. Spokane; Gladys Metci.lf, La Grande; Paul Gaiser, Rltzville; Carl Gensel, Flint. Mich.; Clarence Ludwigrs, We ntehee; Cecil Wray, Seattle, and Carey Berger, Washington, 1. C. CENTRALIA WOMAN SUED Plaintiff in $500 0 Breach of Prom ise Action- rlso Made Defendant.. CENTRALIA. Wash., Oct. 19. (Spe cial.) Margaret Sutherland yesterday figured as a plaintiff in one case and defendant in another. In the Lewis County Superior Court Miss Sutherland tiled suit against George Brown, a prominent resident of this city, for $5300 damages for alleged breach of promise to marry. On a warrant issued by Justice Charles Hoss, Miss Sutherland was ar rested on the complaitnt of Mrs. Jennie Stout on a blackmail charge. The woman was released on her own recognizance. Umatilla Pioneer Buried. PKNnl.KTOX. Or.. Oct. 19. (Special. John Wesley Sparks, 78 years old, one of Umatilla County's best-known pioneers, was buried today. He is sur vived Ly his widow and four children. He had been a resident of this county 55 years. 1200 BOXES APPLES TAKEN Rome Beauties Worth $1 a Box Grown on Ten-Acre Orchard. NORTH YAKIMA. Wash., Oct." 19. C. H. Stein, of Selab. a member of the executive committee of the Yakima Valley Fruitgrowers Association, is harvesting .an average of 1200 boxes of Rome Beauty apples an acre from his ten-acre orchard. The fruit is worth a dollar a box in the market now. Stein's trees were set 150 to the acre, three times as thick as customary, with the intent of thinning them as they developed. He will not disturb them until after another sea son. . Former Iioseburg Boy Killed. ' ROSEBURG, Or., Oct. 19. (Special.) Albert McGraw, aged 10 years, and a former resident of Roseburg, was run down by an automobile and killed near Bandon late Saturday, according to a message received here. He is sur vived by his parents, three brothers and two sisters. A Mild Laxative at Regular In tervals Will Prevent Constipation. A vital point upon which all schools of medicine seem to agree is that nor mal regularity of the bowels is an es sential to good health. The importance of this is impressed particularly on mothers of growing children. A very valuable remedy that should be kept m every home for use as occa sion arises is -Jr. Caldwell's Syrup Pep sin, a compound of simple laxative herbs that has been prescribed by Br. W. B. Caldwell, of Mouticello, 111., for more than twenty-live y-ars, and which can now be obtained in any well stocked drug store for fifty cents a bottle, ' In a recent letter to Dr. Caldwell, Mrs. H. 'J. Turner. 844 Main St., Buffalo, N. Y.. says, "I bought a bottle of lr. Caldwell's Syrup Fepsin -for my baby, Roland Lee Turner, and find it works Just like you said it would. It is fine for the stomach and bowels." A bottle of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pep- ' NN. ROLAND LEE TIRXER. sin should be in every home. A trial bottle, free of charge, can be obtained by writing to Dr. W. B. Caldwell. 454 Washington St.. Montloello. Til. Revision la Ordered. "Go to it," said Mr. Dieck. "I'm. per fectly willing. If you decide to cut out all improvements I can revise my budget figures and make some big cuts. How much do you think ought to be cut out?" . "Not less than $100,000, and as much more as possible," said Mr. Baker. "Tut, tut!" exclaimed Mr. Dieck. "It can't be done." "That's up to you, Mr. Dieck," said Mr. Baker. "You know best how to reorganize your department." Commissioner Dieck agreed to do his best, provided the Council would go through the budget and cut out certain special appropriations, so that he would have a definite basis upon which to work. Accordingly the Council proceeded to whack off $27,300 proposed for(a pav ing repair plant; $1500 lor a traffic jlan; $2000 for erecting new street signs, and $4000 for reconstructing curb corners, and about $1000 in small items of supplies. The Council adjourned its session yesterday afternoon to meet this after noon at 3 o'clock. - EX-STUDENT 13 NOT SPY V. S. AGENTS FIND NO EVIDENCE TO CONVICT TRIEST. Former Princeton Student, Prisoner in London, Erra Only in Writing Full Account to America. WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. It became known today that agents of the United States Government have investigated the case of Kenneth G. Triest. the young former Princeton student held in London as a spy, and failed to find any evidence which would substanti ate the charge. Most of the alleged incriminating documents supporting the charge were letters written by the young man to friends and relatives in this country and intercepted by the British authori ties. LONDON. Oct. 19. Kenneth G. Triest is not confined in the Tower of London, as has been reported, but in some mili tary prison outside of London. Through the intercession of the State Department in Washington, the young man's trial was postponed, but it will be called shortly, when counsel retained by members of his family will attempt 10 show that he is of unsound mind. LOS ANGELES, Cal.. Oct. 19. The outlying foothills, cheap lodging-houses within ,the city and the haunts of fellow young graduates of the Whit tier Reformatory were being searched or watched tonight for Harry Duncan, who shot and killed Police Sergeant J. S. Toolen. a son-in-law of Repre sentative Martin B. Madden, of Chicago, at the Duncan home early today. Toolen, .who had previously arrested three boys, who confessed to a motor car theft, went to Duncan's home ix arrest him as an associate. The younsr man rose from bed while Toolen and another police officer talked to his mother, procured a revolver and fired a series of shots from the head of the stairs. The first bullet struck Toolen in the chin, and, being deflected down ward, penetrated his heart. Mother and Brothers Held. . Mrs. Mary Duncan, the mother, and two brothers were held by the police. A third brother, Ralph, aged 19, was one of three youths whose confessions to Toolen led to the attempt to arrest Harry Duncan. Andrew Duncan, father of the fugitive, disappeared shortly after the shooting,, and also was being sought tonight. When hit by Duncan's bullet, Toolen fell back into the arms of Patrolman W. B. White, his companion, who helped him through a door to the rear porch, where he died. Duncan after ward made his way to a two-compartment dugout near the house and re mained in one section while the police reserves, summoned by White, searched vainly In the other. FuKitive Hides in Foothills. A short time later the fugitive emerged from the dugout and maio for the foothills surrounding Pasadena. W. S. Barr, policeman, saw him and fired several ineffectual shots. Toolen had an unusual record as a patrolman. He came here nine year,s ago from Chicago to practice law. after having graduated from Lake Forest College, 111., and the Kent College of Law. He was a football player ai Notre Dame. His-father was Andrew J. Toolen, a former Commissioner of Public Works in Chicago, and a wealthy lontraotor. Toolen was a sergeant five years ago, four years after joining the po lice department. His widow is daughter of Martin B. Madden, Rep resentative to Congress from Chicago. Xorth Yakima Board Wants Keys. NORTH YAKIMA. Wash.. Oct. 19. (Special.) The new Board of County Commissioners, which took office on Saturday. yesterday sent to former Commissioners Lancaster, Stahlhut and Stuart a formal written request that i the Uitte- turn over keys to the Court- . 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