THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THUltSDAT, OCTOBER 2S, 1915.
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BOARD REINSTATES
DISMISSED OFFICER
M... E. Crow Is Restored to
Job to Complete Record
for Test in Courts.
CIVIL SERVICE SCOPE ISSUE
Members Declare Employes Are Not
Able, Under Rules, to Prove Dis
charge AVas in Bad 1'aith and
Powers Should Be Enlarged.
To put squarely up to the courts the
question of the right of the Municipal
Civil Service Board to reinstate dis
charged city employes when investiga
tion reveals that charges against the
employe were not sufficient to war
rant discharge or were untrue, the Civil
Service Board yesterday adopted for
mally a finding in which M. B. Crow,
an ex-policeman, discharged by Mayor
Albee for being intoxicated, was re
instated. The question of the right
of reinstatement by the Civil Service
Board is now before the Circuit Court.
After Mr. Crow's discharge a hearing
was granted by the Civil Service Board,
at which Mr. Crow asserted he had
toeen ill and had taken a small drink
of whisky as a stimulant. The whisky,
be said, "went to his head." The Civil
Service Board reinstated him after five
months' suspension, but when he re
ported back to the station Chief of
Police Clark, upon orders from Mayor
Albee, refused to put him to work.
.Mr. Crow took the case into the
courts in an effort to force the Mayor
not only to restore his position but to
pay htm for the time he has lost after
the suspension. No formal written find
ing had been made by the Civil Service
Board in the reinstatement, but this
was furnished yesterday to complete
the case.
Employes Declared Helpless.
The. case, as it now stands, involves
virtually all of the elements which en
tered into that of Russell Chamberlain,
the aged City Hall janitor who was dis
missed by ex-City Commissioner Brew
ater and reinstated by the Civil Ser
vice Board. The Chamberlain case was
taken into the courts and dismissed be
fore a decision was secured from the
State Supreme Court.
In the Crow case the question in
volved is the right of the Civil Service
Board to reinstate an employe regard
less of whether the employe proves that
his discharge was for political or re
ligious reasons or was not in good
faith. Members of the board say that
in 99 out of 100 cases it is. impossible
to prove that these reasons prompted
bis dismissal.
"The head of a department acts usu
aly upon recommendation of subor
dinates in discharging men," aays
Chairman Caldwell, of the Board, yes
terday. "The subordinate may have a
religious or political motive in recora
mending the dismissal of a man.
Proof Pound Impossible.
"The head of the department follows
that recommendation and makes the
discharge. While it might have been for
political or religious reasons, that was
not the motive of the man who actually
made the discharge. ' It places the em
ploye in the positton of proving some
thing that it is impossible to prove in
99 out of 100 cases."
John F. Logan, a member of the
Board, declared at yesterday's meeting
that the provision of the charter re
garding dismissal ..of employes and
hearings before the Civil Service Board
was adopted with the present city
charter, and at that time those who
framed the charter publiely declared
in the newspapers that it was not the
intent to take away any privileges of
the former appeals of employes. Upon
the strength of those assertions, Mr.
Lopan said, the city employes withdrew
their opposition to the charter.
October 30, has been engaged.' This
annual banquet has become so' popular
with the club members that within
five days after cards had been sent
out reservations had been made for
every table.
This year, instead of regular ban
quet style, the seating arrangements
will be by -individual tables, thus al
lowing everyone the exclusiveness of
his own party. -
This dinner, will be served promptly
at 7 o'clock, and immediately after din
ner the tables will be cleared away for
the dancing.
Since the road through Montavilla is
torn up, motorists are advised to drive
out either the Sandy Boulevard, the
Section Line or the Powell Valley roads.
and then cross over to the Base Line
road at any of the regular crossroads
this side of the Twelve-Mile House,
thence out the Base Line road the rest
of the way.
NEWLYWEDS FOIL FRIENDS
Bride Hides Under Auto Kobe While
"Kidnapers" Search In Vain.
By hiding under a robe in the bottom
of an automobile. Miss Nell Bayly, 2S1
East Fifty-third street North, eluded
a party other friends who were trying
to kidnap her just after her marriage
to Dr. Harlow Gibbon, of Spokane,
Tuesday night.
Miss Bayly and Dr. Gibbon were mar
ried at the home of the bride's mother,
Mrs. Anna Bayly. A 1arty of friends,
mostly members of Dr. Gibbon's fra
ternity, Xi Psi Phi, had planned to steal
the bride. The newlyweds got a police
man to stand by while they climbed
into their automobile. Then they made
a dash to escape, but their automobile
stalled on the Sandy boulevard and
they were overtaken.
The bride changed coats with a girl
friend and covered herself with a lap-
robe. The pursuers came up and looked
tor her, and even offered to help the
bridegroom to get his machine started.
wiinout recognizing mm.
SCHOOL CENTERS URGED
6 00 Persons Stand Through. Address
by Jj. M. Lepper at Glencoe.
In his talk at the junior exhibit held
in the Glencoe schoolhouse Tuesday,
L. M. Lepper urged the need of mak
ing every schoolhouse a civic center
for the community where the people
could come together f or any public
purpose or for recreation. Mr. Lepper
read the act passed by the last Legis
lature providing that every school
might be made such meetiag place free
of all charges. He set forth the ad
vantages. Mr. Lepper addressed an
audience of 600 people gathered in the
assembly hall, who stood through the
exercises, here being no seats pro
vided. The exhibition was made in the af
ternoon and evening, with "back to
the home" movement in the character
of the articles.
7-MILL SCHOOL LEVY
IS BIGGESTPLANNED
Previous Assessments in. St.
Johns and Linnton May Be
Included in Basis. '
LEAGUE TO WEIGH BUDGET
LODGE PROGRAMME READY
Hassalo Oddfellows' Home-Corning
Will Be Tomorrow Night.
The seventh annual home-coming of
the Hassalo LodKe. No. 15, of the Inde
pendent Order of Oddfellows, will take
place tomorrow night in their temple
on First and Alder streets. Members,
their families and their friends will be
present. The HaBsalo Lodge was insti
tuted January 7, 1867, and has a mem
bership of approximately 400.
The following programme will be
given: Selections by the Staples fam
ily; address of welcome, Richard Trunk,
nobLe grand; saxophone scno. Carpenter
Staples: address, L. K. Carter; violin
solo. Miss Pearl Staples; song, Isaac
Staples; reading, Mrs. G. M. Hall: song.
Miss Pearl Staples; address, "Home,
Sweet Home," Henry S. Westbrook,
deputy grand marshal; address, "Good
night," S. W. Stryker, past grand ruler.
CLASS PLAY IS ARRANGED
Jefferson Seniors Soon to Present
"Why Smith Left Home."
For two weeks, the cast picked from
the senior class of Jefferson High
School has been rehearsing "Why
Smith Left Home," one of George
Broadhurst's comedies, and will pro
duce it at the school auditorium on the
nights of November 12 and 13. . -
William S. Mowry, who coached the
play that the last senior class at Jef
ferson produced, will have charge of
the coming production.
Following are the members of the
cast: Mary Townsend, Eleanor Spall,
ienooia x,anerty, Florence Greene,
Blanche Strong. Anna Matin, Gladys
Blue, Harry Kenln, Ferris Bagley,
Heston Williams, Reuben Goffrier and
Ralph Grabler.
Mother of Portland Man Buried.
NAMPA, Idaho, Oct. 27. (Special.)
Funeral services were held here today
for Mrs. Anna Rosina Kupfer, who died
Saturday at the age of 86 years. Mrs.
Kupfer is survived by two sons, J. Fred
Kupfer, of Portland. Or., and George A.
Kupfer, of Fresno, Cal., and a daughter,
Mrs. J. A. Forch. of this city.
Department Heads Are Reducing Re
quests to Eliminate Cutting by
" " County Assessor Limit - for
1916 Is $2,553,836.
-Although the Bingham law, that reg
ulates the amount that may be raised
for school purposes in any district, lim
its, by recent decisions of Tax Com
missioner Galloway, the 191S tax levy
to $2,553,836.33, it is unlikely that even
that large a sum will be ordered by
the board of this district.
The valuation of school property of
last year approximated $300,000,000, and
although County Assessor Reed will not
have even approximate valuation fig
ures for this year for a few days, he
last- night said that he considered that
the total would be less than last year.
7-MiIl lerr Biggest Considered.
Allowing for a valuation of X2sn nnn .
I 000 on school properties in the entire
iuuj 3 vixi , m. seven-mill levy,
the maximum "that the board is con
sidering, if reports may be depended
upon, would yield approximately 82,
000,000. So unless the board members
decide upon at least an eight-mill levy
there is no danger that County Asessor
Reed will have to do any cutting.
According to the provisions of the
Bingbam law, the maximum revenue
that may be obtained for any year is
the amount levied for either of the
two years previous, plus 6 per cent.
In case of the consolidation of two or
more districts, the law provides that
the tax receipts from all the districts
must be considered.
The School Board will be allowed to
use the combined tax receipts from
Portland, St. Johns and Linnton in 1913
for the basis upon which the maximum
for next year is obtained.
Leagne to Pass on Bodset.
The budget as prepared by Clerk
Thomas will be considered at a joint
meeting of the School Board and a
committee from the Taxpayers' League.
It has not been decided as yet when
the meeting will be held, but it will
probably be before the next regular
session of the School Board. The mem
bers of the Taxpayers' League who will
represent that organization at the' joint
meeting will be named today.
Heads of departments that have vari
ous requests for consideration in the
1916 budget for the past three or four
days have been going over thair ac
counts and have been reducing them to
the absolute minimum so that when
the board meets its members will know
that no more cutting in maintenance
of those departments will be possible.
INSPECTOR TESTS BEAT ALL
Applicants Again Fail In Civil Serv
ice Electrical Examinations.
For the second time in about ' as
many months, all applicants for the po
sitions of electrical inspectors in the
city service failed to pass the required
civil service examination, according to
announcement of Civil Service Secre
tary MacLean yesterday. In each ex
amination about 12 men competed and
none passed.
It was decided by the Board yester
day to hold another examination in the
near future. In this all applicants will
be required to pass high in the ques
tions concerning the city ordinances.
It was upon these questions that the
applicants in the last two tests have
failed.
: GERALDINE FARRAR, DRAMATIC GRAND
: OPEKASTAR - " :
ARREST QUERY IS CHANGED
Pcltjt Offense Question in Civil Serv
ice Tests Is Eliminated.
The practlco of making applicants
for city civil service jobs answer in
writing the question: "Have you ever
been arrested?" is to be discontinued.
Upon motion of John F. Logan, a mem
ber of the Civil Service Board, the
question was knocked" out at a Board
meeting yesterday.
Mr. Loitati says there are so many
petty offenses .for which a man may
he arrested these days that he deems it
improper to make a public record at
the City Hall of cases of minor arrests
where there is no explanation cover
ing the bare statement of "yes" after
the question. Hereafter the question
will read: "Have you ever been con
victed of a felony or a misdemeanor?"
HORSES RUN15 MILES
Frightened Team Demolishes Buggy
and Injures Baker County Man.
BAKER. Or, Oct. 27. (Special.)
Frightened at 4he breaking of the
harness the team of William Quinn ran
away and traveled 15 miles toward
Unity before being caught. The fright
ened animals turned the buggy over
twice early in their flight, throwing
Mr. Quinn out and causing slight in
juries. The buggy is a wreck.
CLUB'S DINNER POPULAR
Motorists Reserve All Tables for
Halloween Affair.
Every inch of available space for the
Portland Automobile Club's Hal
loween dinner-dance, wbich is to be
held at the clubhouse on the night of
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Patrons of the silent drama will have their first opportunity next
week of seeing that pre-eminent grand opera star, Geraldine Farrar.
in a realistic screen Interpretation of her operatic success, "Carmen."
Realism is the keynote of this vehicle for Miss Farrar's renowned
dramatic ability. In one scene a real glass bottle is broken over the
head of Carmen. Another scene depicts an actual bull fight before
20,000 wildly enthusiastic spectators, where a toreador is badly in
jured by a maddened bull. A special permit bad to be secujed in
order to stage this feature scene. Again, the fight between Carmen
and the girls in the cigarette factory is so intensely realistic as to
arouse the spectators to an extreme pitch of excitement.
Every foot of film is filled with thrills, and the climax startling
and overpowering--f inds the audience gripping the arms of their
chairs, with their eyes literally glued to the screen.
"Carmen." the greatest photo-dramatic production ever seen on the
screen, introduces Miss Farrar to the photo-play field for the first
time. In securing the appearance of Miss Farrar before the moving
picture camera, the Paramount Company has scored the greatest coup
in the history of the motion-picture industry. Miss Farrar, having
scored a tremendous hit in the opera of the same name, is in a bet
ter position to interpret this powerful drama before the camera than
any other living actress.
In Boston the streets before Symphony Hall were crowded with
people anxious to pay $2 to see Miss Farrar as Carmen, and Miss
Farrar in thia masterpiece of photo plays lived up to her reputation
as America's greatest woman artist.
Miss Farrar, as Carmen, will be seen on the screen for the first
time in Portland at the People's Theater. For one week only, com
mencing Sunday next.
Charge. Purchases Made Today Go on Your November Account Payable Dec. 1
Portland Agents for "Lackawanna Twins" Underwear See Special Ad Page IP
Ice Skates
4th Floor
Ice Skates- and Skat
ing Shoes in best
makes also full line
Roller Skates, sport
ing and athletic goods.
Get our prices.
Olds, Worttnan &King
Reliable Merchandise Reliable Methods
Pacific Phone Marshall 48 OO
Home Phone A 6231
Home Journal
Patterns
of latest style hits is
sued in New York
every Saturday are on
sale at the Pattern
Counter every
Wednesday morning.
1 OExtraTradingStampsThursday
With Luncheon in theTea Room, 4th Floor
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These Are in Addition to the Regular Stamps Given With' Lunch
Silk Petticoats
$4 to $4.75
Second Floor Naw Silk Petti
coats in colors to match the new
suits and dresses. New circular
flounces and ruffles. Taffeta,
messaline and silk Jersey. Are
shown in all the wanted shades
and changeables. Regular and
extra sizes. $4.00 and $ t.7o
Women's Fall Suits
Thursday $16.85
Garment Salons, Second Floor Point by point
style, tailoring, fabrics these Suits will hold their
own in comparison with others shown about town at $22.50 and $25.00.
Authentic models styles that fashion has decreed correct for Winter
wear. . Plain and semi-tailored effects and belted styles in a wide
range of fabrics, including French and English serges, whipcords,
cheviots and mixtures. Skirts in circular and plaited styles with hip
yokes or belts. Shown in black, navy, grerfns, browns, JJ "W O CT
grays, etc. Some in hairline stripes. Priced special P J- O O
Attractive New Street Dresses
$15, $16.50, $18.50, $2Q
Second Floor Many of these new Dresses are made in combinations
of different materials, such as taffeta silk and serge taffeta or
messaline silks and velvets silks and chiffons, etc. Pretty plaids and
figured materials Nform the waist on some, others have fancy collars
and cuffs. Various style skirts, including the smart flare models and
plaited effects. Don't miss seeing these fashionable new dresses.
Unusually Pretty Waists at $5
of Silks, Chiffons, Laces, Nets, Etc.
Second Floor Charming models of lace and chiffon, chiffon and net,
Georgette crepe and voile; others of new Soiree silks, taffetas, messa
line or crepe de chine. Dressy Waists for evening wear or smart
tailored styles, having convertible collars, which can' be worn high or
low. All colors, including the new brilliant hues in JJ? i f
plaids, stripes, etc. All sizes. Moderately priced at V" VL
The Goblins
and Witches
and countless other HALLOWEEN
THINGS make up a remarkable
showing at the Center Circle on the
Main Floor. Nearby, at the Sta
tionery Counter, you will also find
the very newest ideas for Halloween
entertaining favors, score cards,
festoons, garlands, streamers, lunch
sets, nut baskets, cut-outs, seals,
pins, masks, etc Make your selec
tions NOW while lines are complete.
Special Maurine Offer!
For 3 Days Only
Drug Department, Main Floor For
the rest of this week we will give
FREE your choice of the following
Maurine Preparations: 25? Maurine
Rouge, 25c Hand Lotion or 25c
Maurine Hair Tonic, for every empty
Maurine Cream Jar returned to the
Drug Department on Main Floor.
Coffee Day
Thursday
Grocery Department, Fourth Floor
No deliveries of these specials
except with other purchases made
in the Grocery Department today.
40c COFFEE 290 Our famous
OWK Imperial roast. Ex- O Qf
cellent 40c grade, the lb.,'''
50c TEA 39 LB. English Break
fast, Ceylon or Uncolored Japan
standard 50c Teas on sale OQ
today at only, the pound 07C
HERSHEY'S COCOA in half
pound tins usual selling "
price 25c Thursday, only "w
FREE Classes
In Knitting
& Crocheting
Under the expert supervision of
Miss Sofie Schaefer, of Philadel
phia. These classes are open to
all without charge. If you are in
terested in this work and would
like to know how to use the
Fleisher Yarns
join the classes now and get the
benefit of the' full three weeks'
course. Lessons will be given
from 9 to 12 and 1 to 5 daily in
Art Needlework Department on'
the Second Floor. Join the classes.
Annual Sale of Dolls
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TOY LAND, 4th FLOOR
Bring the children and let them see the hundreds
of interesting dolls and toys. Holiday purchases
made now stored and delivered later if desired.
SALE OF DRESSED DOLLS
Dressed Dolls 14 Vz inches long, priced special 490
Dressed Dolls 16'j inches long, priced special 890
Dressed Dolls 17 V inches long, priced special 980
Dressed Dolls, 19 inches long, priced now $1.19
CHARACTER BABY D.OLLS
Character Baby Dolls, 12 inches long, special 580
Character Baby Dolls. 13 inches loner, special HO 6
Character Baby Dolls, 16 inches long, special 980
Character Baby Dolls,-21 inches long, now $2.89
24-INCH BALL-JOINTED DOLLS.
Bisque head, sewed wig, eyes move,
: $1.39
Picture Framing at V Off
Fourth Floor This special offer is for a limited
time only act promptly and have your holiday framing done at a sav
ing. NEW MOULDINGS IN GREAT VARIETY TO CHOOSE FROM.
Annual Sale of
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Kerchiefs
OUR ANNUAL Pre-Holiday Sale
of Women's and Children's Hand
kerchiefs is now in full swing.
Hundreds are taking advantage of
the reduced prices and buying
their Christmas Kerchiefs now at
worth-while savings. Yes, we
give S. & H. Stamps with pur
chases Always ask for them.
Mechanical' Trains
$1.5Q Grade $1.19
Toyland, Fourth Floor Mechanical
train as shown above, iron engine
with good strong spring, tender, 2
coache3 and 8 pieces of curved
track. Usual $1.50 jJV 1 Q
grade now at each P -S
MMUmertji Sale
'Trimmed Hats
in Latest Models
$5 to $9.50 Grades
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See Window .
On Sale 2d Floor
There isn't a Hat in this whole collection
worth less than ?5.00 and the great ma
jority of them are actual $9.50 models.
Early choosing; is desirable for they will
sell quickly at the above price. Many
entirely new models in this lot shown in
Portland for first time today.
Smart Hats for Street or Dress Wear
FETCHING little turbans and close-fitting hats in any number
of shapes becoming styles which any woman can wear to
advantage with the new Fall suits and coats. Also medium
sailors, tricornes and back-roll shapes. Made' from splendid
quality plushes and velvets in black and the most wanted shades, with
trimmings of wings, pert velvet and ribbon bows, ostrich fancies and
metal or jet novelties. There are several smart models flj O 7 g
in draped turbans in this lot. $5.00 to $9.50 Hats 0 O
Basement Millinery
$2.5Q Hat Shapes
75c
Basement Extra special offering for Thursday
500 Untrimmed Hats to go at less than half usual
prices. Splendid quality velvets, plushes and felt, in
black, brown, green, navy, red and various other shades. Tailored
effects, large dressy styles with back rolls, close-fitting turbans,
shirred brims for misses and children, soft brims, etc. A wonderful
opportunity for those who have put off buying their new T eT
hat. Shapes worth up to $2.50 on special sale now at only OC
JBasement Sale Fine Laces . F-jf
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Grades Worth up to 25c Offered at Special Yard
BEAUTIFUL LACES for holiday fancy work for undergar
ments f or drapery edges and insertions Laces for every
purpose in this immense lot we offer in the Basement Underprice Store Thurs
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day at rivri .ciNia a yaru. xhoi, onus ana enas, Dut over twenty mousana
yards of fresh, crisp, new laces' bought especially for this event. Edges, bandings and insertions in widths
ranging from to 6 inches. Torchon laces, Cluny laces, Valenciennes laces, shadow and novelty CTi.
laces in an endless assortment of patterns. Laces of splendid quality usually 10c to 25c at, the yard vl
IMPORTANT! NO TELEPHONE OR MAIL ORDERS ACCEPTED FOR THIS SPECIAL OFFERING.
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Hot point Elec
tric Irons Each
$3
Third Floor Hot Point Electric
Irons in 5 or 6-lb. sizes. Guaran
teed for 10 years. Price, each $3
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NEW SCHEDULE ADOPTED
Through Service to Kansas City An
nounced by O.-W. It- & N.
Schedules for the new passenger
service between Portland and Kansas
City, which will become effective next
Sunday, have been completed by pas
senger traffic officers of the O.-W. R.
& N. Co.
The service will be bandied on the
train leaving; Portland daily at 6:30
P. M, arriving at Denver at 6:30 on
the evening; of the second day. It will
arrive at Kansas City at S o'clock on
the evening of the third day, allowing;
a few hours' stopover at Denver.
Westbound, the train will leave Kan
sas City at 6 P. M.. arriving at Denver
at 12:20 the following afternoon and in
Portland at 12:15 noon of the third day.
A standard sleeping car and a tourist
car will comprise the equipment. These
cars will be carried through from Port
land to Seattle, leaving, northbound, at
2:10 P. 21. and arriving in Seattle -ut
8:10. Southbound, they will leave Se
attle at 10:45 A. M., and arrive in Port
land at 6:20 P. M.
This arrangement not only gives the
O.-W. R. A. N. Co. direct entrance to
Kansas City, from which point it can
serve the South and the Southwest, but
provides through service between Port
land and Denver twice a day. The other
Denver-Portland service is handled on
trains No. 17, arriving, here at 7 P. M.,
and No. 18. leaving here at 10 A. M.
Fifty labels free in Royal bread con
test. Cutoutcouponin today's paper. Ad.
Gresliam W. O. T. U. Meets Today.
GRESHAM, Or.. Oct. 27 (Special.)
The Women's Christian Temperance
Union will hold a meeting to day at the
home of Mrs. B. W. Emery. A xhort
programme consisting of short talks
by the pastors of the various churches,
solo by C. E. Rusher, reading by Mrs.
R. H. Todd, talk on the National Tem
perance Union Convention by Mrs. V".
F. Honey, reading by Mrs. Ella Aton.
and a talk by Mrs. H. I Wosteil, will
be rendered.