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TTTE 3TORXTXG OREGOXIAK. TUESDAY, HIATICU 21, 1916.
HOUSES AND TREES
FELLED BY 'STURM
destructive torrents, the Walla Walla
River, Russell creek. Birch creek. Blue
creek. Touchet River and the Tuaknon
overflowing in many places.
The storm followed the mountains,
moving from the southwest to the
southeast. People fled to higher spots,
while waters carried away everything
movable. Bud Marum and his family,
going home in an auto, when it was
too late to turn, observed a wall of
water about eight feet high coming
toward them. The car was struck and
carried backward a considerable dis
tance, finally lodging, without over
turning, in some wires. The family had
to walk three miles to their home.
The.
Big
Show
of the
Week
QUESTION DEBATED
Portland Street Railway Ap
. plies for Privilege Over
-. Interstate Span.
Buildings Lifted and Tossed
Around, While One Outhouse
Is Thrown Over Fence.
UMATILLA. DAMAGE SERIOUS
BRIDGE
FRANCHISE
'JITNEY USE PROTESTED
Commission Meets at Vancouver
and Considers Tolls Matter,
Fnving, Operation of Cars
and Kindred Business.
VAXCOTJVER. Wash.. March 20.
(Special.) Tho Portland Railway,
Lig"ht & Power Company desires to
build a line across the Columbia River
Interstate Bridge and give continuous
service between Vancouver and Port
land, but the expenditure of building
Fuch a line would be approximately
$100,000. and this, the company feels.
according to F. I. Fuller, it is not
financially able to do at this time,
particularly since It has lost $1000 a
day for the past year and a quarter
on account . of the operation of the
jitneys in Portland.
This information was given today at
a meeting of the Columbia River Inter
state Bridge Commission held in the
offices of Harrington, Howard & Ash,
bridge engineers. Present were Rufus
C. Holman, W. I Lightner and Philo
Holbrook, Commissioners of Multno
mah County; Walter H. Evans, District
Attorney, of Portland, and J. O. Blair,
County Attorney of Clarke County;
IV. S. Lindsey, A. Rawson and John
I. Kiggins, Clarke County Commis
sioners, and William N. Marshall, sec
retary of the Commission. Governor
vv ithycombe was not present.
The meeting was called to discuss
with representatives of companies de
Biring franchises over the bridge the
tolls and kindred topics.
The total annual cost of mainte
nance estimated by the Commission will
ie $62,500, which includes interest on
the bonds, pay for the toll tenders and
bridge tenders, painting, repairs and
general upkeep.
Jitney Ptiu Discussed.
Mr. Fuller discussed the proposed
franchise comprehensively, and said the
two most objectionable points in it
were the handicap it would place upon
the company by compelling it to pave
the track across the bridge, and not
compelling other vehicles carrying 23
or more passengers, but not traveling
on rails, to pay part of the cost of the
pavement: and second, the compulsion
of the streetcar company to maintain
an 18-hour service, and not compelling
the large buses to maintain any.
The trestle between Columbia boule
vard and Hayden Island, about 12,000
feet long, was built in 1906, and cost
about $60,000. The Portland Railway,
TAght & Power Company desires to
continue Its use. This would do away
with the cost of paving the approach
on the Oregon side. The trestle will
be safe for several years yet, Mr. Fuller
said.
The Commission finally agreed to
change the schedule so that passengers
on streetcars would be taxed 3 cents,
and ZVz cents when riding in any ve
hicle not operated on rails.
The Commission also went on record
as favoring all common carriers, in
cluding the Jitneys, in this classifica
tion. Mr. Fuller suggested that there is a
tendency to put on a car operated by
one man. which is smaller, and would
probably operate at more frequent in
tervals. He was of the opinion that
this feature of giving better service
should be encouraged by having a
somewhat smaller toll granted. Mr.
Kvans suggested that the more often
the cars operated the more would be
the wear and tear on the bridge.
Acts Subjeet to Review.
It was brought to attention of the
Commission that all of its actions are
rubject to review by the Secretary of
War. and by the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
Inasmuch as conditions are unsettled,
the proposed schedule is for only a
period of 90 days.
It was decided that a committee, ap
pointed by the chairman. Mr. Holman,
including Mr. Evans, Mr. Blair and Mr.
Harrington, should hold a number of
meetings with regard to the proposed
franchise and with regard to paving the
center of the roadway. where the
streetcar tracks are to run and to re
port later at a meeting to be called
for this purpose.
The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
Company made a request for permission
to place poles on the side of the fill
on the Oregon side and place brackets
to hold Its lines on the bridge.
Applications of seven men for posi
tions on the bridge were received and
filed.
"PEACE MEETING" IS PLAN
Whole Civil Service Situation Is to
Be Aired Thursday.
Arrangements were completed yes
terday for a "peace meeting" of the
City Council and the Municipal Civil
Service Thursday afternoon at 3:30
o'clock, to try to straighten out dif
ferences which have been the subject
of considerable publicity recently. The
whole civil service situation will be
aw-ed.
The Council adopted a resolution last
Friday calling for the meeting. Mem
bers of the Civil Service Board were
agreeable to the plan.
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TODAT'S FIR3I FEATURES.
Columbia ."Peggy."
Strand '"The Strength of the
Week."
Majestic "The Bondman."
Pickford "The Catspaw," "Mary
Page."
Peoples "Poor Little Pepplna,"
"The Goddess." .
A three-wheel cab invented toy e. London
rabman half a century ago la still In use.
the claim being made that It never has
hen overturned.
How to Heal
Skin Diseases
A Baltimore doctor suggests this
simple, but reliable and inexpensive
home treatment for people suffering
with eczema, ring
worm, rashes and
similar itching, burn
ing skin troubles.
At any reliable
druggist's get a Jar
of reslnol ointment
and a cake of resinol
soap. These are not at all expensive.
With the resinol soa and warm water
bathe the affected parts thoroughly,
until they are free from crusts and the
skin, is softened. Dry very gently,
spread on a thin layer of the resinol
ointment and cover with a light band
age If necessary to protect the cloth
ing. This should be done twice a day.
I.'sually the distressing itching and
burning stop with the first treatment,
and the skin soon becomes clear and
liealtby again. Sample free. Dept. 4-R,
Resinol, Baltimore, Mi
A NOVEL method of outwitting the
Pennsylvania censors was
adopted by William Moore Patch,
managing director of the Pitt Theater,
where the "The Battle Cry of Peace"
was shown last week.
The censors cut the big scene in the
climax of the third act, where the
mother murders ber own daughters to
save them from falling Into the hands
of the drunken officers of an invading
army.
Rather than have the lesson of the
picture completely ruined. Mr. Patch
ngaged players three girls who
looked like the characters on the
screen and had the entire scene
acted on the stage of the Pitt The
ater In all its detail in facl its force-
fulness was accentuated by means of
the shadowgraph effects employed.
Mr. Patch's action has not been re
garded very favorable by the members
of the censor board, but they are
powerless to prevent him. as they
have no authority over the legitimate
stage whatever.
Mr. Patch does not deny that he is
after the state board of censors.
When the press, the drama, art and
literature are muzzled, it will be time
o admit the fairness of a censorship
for pictures." said he the other day.
The people of Pennsylvania are not go
ing to stand it much longer. By their
absurd action In eliminating the cli
mactic scene of The Battle Cry of
Peace," and thereby ruining a lesson
hat Is sorely needed at this partic-
lar time, they have done more to
hurt themselves than words can pos-
ibly describe."
More Preparedness.
Although he does not begin work
until May 1. E. H. Sothern is spend
ing his spare time at the Vitagraph
studio studying the acting, learning
the new srt of make-up and being in
truded by directors in technical, re-
uirmenta of his new profession. "To
ay that I am deeply impressed is
putting it mildly." said Mr. Sothern,
after one of his visits. "Yet my grop-
ngs into this science fill me with
a-dness. It seems to spell doom for
the spoken drama. Of course, I know
that spoken drama will never die out.
Its limitations are so apparent, how
ever. We on the speaking stage must
convey by word of mouth what the
film can do by picture. Confined to
three or four scenes, we must create
mental pictures in our audiences of
the scenes we are unable to show.
There is no mental strain put upon
the audience, and they are able to
concentrate their minds wholly to the
enjoyment given them. And as. I be
lieve, the American goes to pictures
and spoken plays for the pacpose of
relaxation, the simplicity of the films
makes them additionally attractive."
Anita Stewart, of "The Goddess"
fame, will -appear with Sothern in a
romantic drama. Lillian Walker, the
Vitagraph "Dimples," will support, him
In a multiple-reel comedy, and Edith
Story will play oposite the noted ac
tor in a drama.
As Others See TJs.
Hereafter snakes, bugs and spiders
will not be allowed to appear on any
screen in the city of Portland. Or.,
unless due notice of their coming Is
given in a proper sub-title, the latter
acting as a sort of noiseless rattel. If
you do want to see the crawling
things, watch the subtitles and close
your eyes. How can we tell when
the wriggling is over? Mrs. Local
Censor will arrange for that. She
says just tell your neighbor to nudge
you in the ribs. Portland is running
into a labyrinth of complications.
Motion Picture World.
Screen Gossip.
In "Poor Little Pepplna," Mary Pick
ford's greatest screen triumph is
achieved an entirely new character
role, that of an Italian. Mary has ap
peared in parts embracing practically
every race and color, but never before
as an Italian. Although Mary wears
corduroy trousers through much of the
action of the seven-reel feature, the
character portrayal is not a masculine
one, for she is not supposed to be a
boy, but a delightful girl masquerad
ing in boy's clothes.
Before the completion of the 15th epi
sode of "The Strange Case of Mary
Page," the Essanay series in which
Henry Walthall and Edna Mayo are co
starred, more than 10,000 persons will
have appeared in the series. In sev
eral big mob scenes, theater and caba
ret scenes the total number of extra
people employed has been very large.
Mary Fuller, the Universal star who
Is headlined in "The Strength of the
Weak," has started a fund for the des
titute families of soldiers on both sides
of the firing line in Europe. Mary
started the fund with $500, and now
they are raising money by collections
from Universal audiences throughout
the country, the proceeds to be sent to
Europe on April 30.
When Blllie Burke, having completed
"Peggy," reluctantly left for the East,
after what she termed the 'tmost de
lightful experience of her life." she re
ceived a remarkable demonstration of
popularity.
City officials and notables of the pho
toplay world turned out to bid her fare
well. A band and thousands of specta
tors joined in the march to the station
and garlands were thrown about her.
In "Peggy" her admirers will have a
chance to see the unique spectacle re
produced just as it occurred.
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One of the few really great motion
picture players to admit that they de
test the vocation which they follow is
William Farnum, star of "The Bond
man," Hall Calne's noteworthy novel,
which is produced in photoplay form by
William Fox. Farnum would rather
tramp the woods with a gun any day
than act before the camera.
Miriam Nesbitt, co-star with Marc
MacDermott in "The Catspaw," a vital
Edison features, was leading woman for
twelve years for many of the leading
theatrical managers of the country. In
cluding Charles and Daniel Frohman.
Savage, Harris, Shuberts and Peyton. In
me six years she has been with Edison
Miss Nesbitt has played more than 200
leading roles.
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Clifford Bruce, former leading man
for Maude Adams, Ethel Earrymore and
Blllie Burke, as well as star in "The
Thief" and "The Virginian." has Joined
Metro. He will make his debut on that
programme in "Hearts Aflame."
Mlgnon Anderson, a Thanhouser fa
vorite, has Joined the Ivan Film Pro
ductions. ,
. Alice Joyce will return to pictures
within a few weeks after a rest of a
year.
"The Dumb Girl of Porticl," the big
feature jointly owned by the Universal
Company and Anna Pavlowa, is to be
released on the state rights' basis.
Three more Keystone companies are
to be added to the Sennett staff mak
ing 15 in all. This noa nr.
production, but gives each company
more time on its films. It requires from
40 to 70 days for the making of scenes
for each two-reel Keystone, according
to reports from the comedy factory.
Ormi Hawley and Rockcllffe Fellowes
have been added to the Fox staff. Miss
Hawley's latest Portland appearance
was in "Race Suicide."
"The Habit of Happiness" is the next
Douglas Fairbanks film to be presented
to the public. It should be in Portland
within a few weeks.
AdeleFarrington. in private life Mrs.
Hobart Bosworth. has been selected to
appear in the featured part of a five
reel subject being made by Director Jay
Hunt, who prepared the scenario from
a story by Gertrude Nelson Andrews
In the filming of "The Love Mask."
serai - Western Lasky subject, Cleo
Rldgeley was the sole occupant of a
stage coach when the team ran away
down hill.
Standing on the top of the vehicle she
turned the horses into the brush at the
side of the road and brought them to
a stop fully ' a half mile from the
camera.
Jndse Burke to Talk.
Judge Thomas C. Burke, collector of
customs, will address the Men's Club
of the Central Presbyterian Church.
East Thirteenth and East Pine streets,
tonight at the monthly Vlub dinner at
6:30 o'clock. His subject will be "Per
nicious Fiction."
To lessen tho amount of metal used In fire
escapes, a Hungarian living in Canada has
patented one the chief feature of which is
a basket to be lowered by ropes from a
bracket fastened to a window frame.
IVATCH SORE THROATS
because swollen glands or inflamed
membrapes often affect other tissues
and lung trouble easily follows.
As Nature's corrector of throat
troubles the pure cod liver oil in Scott's
Emulsion is speedily converted into
germ-resisting tissue; its tested glycer
ine is curative and healing, while this
wholesome emulsion relieves the
trouble and upbuilds the forces to resist
tubercular germs and avert the weak
ening influence which usually follows.
If any member of your family has a
tender throat, get a bottle of Scott's
Emulsion to-day. Physicians prescribe
it to avert throat troubles, overcome
bronchial disorders and strengthen
the lungs. No alcohol or harmful
drugs. Always insist on Scott's.
8cott & Bowne, BloomSeld. N. J. L5-3J
CLACKAMAS WOMAN HURT
Shafts In Cemetery Broken, Or
chards Ruined In One Homo
All Dishes Are Broken Hop
Growers' Plants Damaged.
OREGON CITY, Or.. March 20 CSpe-
cial.) Two fierce grades, one from the
southwest and the otner from the
northwest, came together in the vicin
ity of Jennings' Lodge Sunday with
such force as to cause a huge eddy or
whirlpool of wind that lifted Hugh
Sandstrom's house up. dandled it about
in the air for a few minutes, then
dropped it upside down 20 feet away.
Mr. Sandstrom was cut and bruised
about the body and his wife's left ankle
was badly sprained. Neighbors fished
them out of the demolished building.
The wind storm was followed by a.
terrific rain.
Another house struck by the wind
was cut into as if by a huge knife,
then it was lifted up and blown 20
feet away. It was owned by P. D.
Newell and is a complete loss. Walter
BecKber's chicken-house was picked up
and blown over the fence 20 feet with
out injury to the fence.
A tree near Mr. Sandstrom's house
100 feet tall with a five-foot trunk,
was twisted off about the middle and
held in the air for a few minutes and
then carried several hundred feet be
fore it fell. Trees and other houses
in the wake of the storm suffered seri
ous damage. R. S. Beter's delivery
wagon was blown over and righted
again.
Mrs. C. W. New, of Clackamas, who
was watching the approach of the
storm from a window of her house,
was struck in the abdomen by a piece
of timber and was injured internally.
Many of the shafts and tombstones
in the Clackamas Cemetery were blown
over and broken, and trees uprooted.
Houses of Arthur Breckman, M, B.
Webster and J. W. Roots were prac
tically ruined. Mr. Webster's orchard
was also ruined. Every dish and win
dow in Mrs. Samuel Roake's home was
smashed.
Repairs of tho Oregon Electric line
at Fargo were completed today. Half
a mile of poles and wire had been
blown down. Feller's silo, at Donald,
was knocked over and other houses
and barns damaged. Joseph Dawson
lost hla barn near Butte. Several hop
houses were blown to pieces. G. Dent
les was a heavy loser. The roof of
George Goodwin's home was carried
away. Buildings belonging to J. V.
Swan, Edward Smith, August Burg
hardt and E. Piper were badly damaged.
MAX AND ANIMALS KIIiUSD
Walla Walla Roads Torn tp and
Storm Toll Is Heavy.
WALLA WALLA, Wash., March 20.
(Special.) Walla Wallans began to. re
alize this morning -what a narrow es
cape the city had late yesterday from
the series of cloudbursts which started
in Oregon and followed the mountain.
taking heavy toll, killing one man and
hundreds of farm animals, washing out
buildings, bridges, roads and fields.
Late last night the reports reached the
city through belated autoists that roads
were' badly washed out, and daybreak
brought the discovery of much more
serious damage. Farmers could not get
to the city last night to give notice of
the destruction.
Thomas Shemwell, a bachelor living
on Blue creek, east of Walla Walla,
was killed, probably by a tree which
fell on him. All the buildings on his
farm but his house were "washed away,
and his body, badly crushed, was found
100 yards away.
Mill creek, which flows through
Walla Walla, did not come up much
until near morning, but all the other
streams of the Valley were turned into
Weston House Moved 10 Feet and
Koads Are Torn Out.
PEXDLETON", Or.. March 20. (Spe
cial.) Considerable damage was
caused in Umatilla County yesterday
by miniature cloudbursts. According to
reports gathered today Free water and
Weston appear to have suffered the
most where the water rushed down
from Couse Creek Canyon through the
residence section and business district,
attaining a maximum depth of four
feet. It Is reported Charles Demaris.
lost a team of mules.
In some cases the water reached
above the entrances of the houses and
flooded the lower floors, covering the
carpets with mud.
At Weston, the home of Robert
Michael was raised from its foundation
and moved about ten feet. Chickens,
sidewalks and fences, together with
considerable lumber from the Weston
yards, floated away with the receding
water. Basements of the business
houses were flooded, and the lumber
yard filled.
Athena suffered in the same manner,
but in a lesser degree. The wheat fields,
cut and furrowed by the water on its
way to the creeks, are reported to have
been damaged most in that section.
Harry Gray and David Nelson, prom
inent Pendleton men, who started out
for the west end of the county early
yesterday morning, encountered a tor
rent siJc feet deep near the Elder ranch.
The men reported the roads in the can
yon to be washed out and that fences
and large boulders were carried into
the places where the roads had been.
Helix did not suffer materially, but
the roads are considerably torn up.
At Pilot Rock there was no flood,
but hailstones the size of marbles fell
for about half an hour.
Pendleton had a heavy rainfall.
RAIN ADDS TO FLOOD DANGER
Powder River Only Four Feet From
Bridges in Baker.
BAKER. Or.. March 20. (Special.)
Flood danger was lncreaaea late mis
afternoon by a driving rain that helped
tr melt the snow in the hills. Powder
River is still rising and is only four
feet from the bridges in the city. Two
feet more than at present win put tne
river outsidn its banks in some city
places, and the water Is now beginning
to spread over some neias in me coun
try north of Baker.
A drop in the temperature last night
impeded the sudden rise, but it is ex
pected to go higher by tomorrow, and
residents along tne DanKS are prepar
ing to move before the water's onrush
The damage is still slight, hut the dan
ger is great.
Walterville In Road of Storm.
EUGENE. Or., March 20. (Special.)
Eugene escaped the electric storm
which swept over a great part of the
state yesterday. There was little rain
fall here, but distant thunder was
heard. Fishing parties returning from
Walterville today report one of the
most severe rain, hail and wind storms
in the history of that portion of Lane
County.
Grand Ronde Likely to Overflow.
LA GRANDE. Or., March 20. (Spe
cial.) With the river and smaller
streams already high, a heavy thunder
shower today has loosened great, quan
tities of snow and serious troubfe with
the Grand Ronde overrunning its
banks is expected by tomorrow unless
heavy frosts stop the thaw. That is
unlikely. The river is already on the
vergu of inundating several farms.
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SANDY. Or.. March 20. (Special.)
At the regular meeting of the Social
and Commercial Club, of George, the
subject of marketing the produce of
the community was considered, and a
special committee was appointed to
investigate the plan used by the Pro
ducers' Association, of Garfield, where
the farmers are getting good results
by maintaining a stall in the public
market place. The club may recom
mend that the producers of George do
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Today Wednesday
WHLLIAM
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In Hall Caine's Great Play,
The
Wm. Fox's Greatest Production
SPECIAL ATTRACTION
CSiarlie Chaplin.
Signing New Mutual $670,000 Contract His
First Appearance in Civilian Make-Up
COMING THURSDAY
KITTY GORDON
in ""As in a Looking Glass"
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M
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TRIUMPH OF TRIUMPHS
Now Playing to Packed Houses at Every .
' Performance
' ' See
"Little" Mary as a Stowaway
"Little" Mary in "The Steerage"
"Little" Mary in "The Dive"
"Little" Mary as a "Messenger Boy"
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talk on the production of alfalfa. It
was reported that good progress is '
Read The Oregonian classified ad..
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IN FfVE-REEL EDISON PHOTO-DRAMA
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THE MOST REMARKABLE DRAMA OF THE YEAR
ALSO THE SECOND CHAPTER
The STRANGE CASE
OF MARY PAGE
WITH
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