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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1916)
TIIE MORNING OREGONIA. THURSDAY, APRIL C, 1016. Preparedness Sales Anticipating World Conditions With Before-War Prices Preparedness Sales Watch Our Advertisements Every Day This Month Sales in Every Department The Acid Test of American Business Foresight Continuing the Sale of Irish Table Linens at Half-Price Every housewife should avail herself of this remarkable offer of pure Irish linen damask. Table cloths in all sizes from 2 by 2. yards to 2 J2 by 5 yards. They are slightly imperfect, which is the only reason for these half sale prices. But their imperfections are so slight that they in no way impair the worth or attractiveness of the cloths. $4 to $22.50 Table Cloths for $2 and $11.25 Each Second Floor. Join the Art Needlework Contest One Hundred Dol lars in Gold Given Away as Prizes. Fifth Floor c"Merclndio of cJ Merit Only- Voters Register at Our Postoffice Registration Books Open AH Day Mrs. A. L. Stoddard Our Advisory Interior Decorator will help you In any way .-without charge. ' Fifth Floor 75c to $1.25 Wash Goods 49c The Newest Spring Weaves Today we offer more of these handsome materials at this won derfully low price. Materials that are suitable for waists and for dresses that can be worn for afternoon, for street and party wear. In exquisite soft weaves and lovely colorings. From 38 to 45 inches wide. Second Floor New Coats, Latest Models, Charmingly Different Striking Individuality of Style And Amazingly Priced at $15.00 Not a Single Coat in This Lot Regularly Under $25.00 Velour Checks Plain Checks Novelty Plaids Plain or Striped Wool Velour Plain and Checked Covert Cloth Bedfords Diagonals Whipcords Cheviots Serges Flannels. These coats were sent by our buyer, now Tn New York City, and represent one of the cleverest purchases ever made by this executive. The models illustrated are but five examples of the many charming styles offered in this sale in fact, there is but one style of a kind. Trimmings of leather handsome buttons, belted or straight flaring styles coats for street wear, for motoring, for sports wear for afternoon wear coats for all occasions. SHc window display. None sent C. O. D., no phone orders, no exchanges in this sale. Third Kloor. Three Latest Spring Models in Splendid $3.00 Nadia Corsets, Special $2.35 One Model for Slender Figures With very low bust, inset with elastic, and lightly boned, free hip. Made of fancy pink broche. Sizes 20 to 28. One Model for Medium Figures Of fancy troche in pink, with medium low bust, long skirt, slightly curved at waist. All sizes, 1 9 to 30. One Model for Stout Figures Made of white coutil, medium high bust, long skirt with elastic gores and curved waistline. Sizes 20 to 30. Fourth Floor Cross-Back, Hook-Front Reinforced Cambric 85c Dainty Trimmed Brassieres 59c They were made to wear under sheer waists trimmed with em broidery yoke back and front, or V-shaped yoke of white lace. Perfect fitting garments in all sizes. Fourth Floor Serges, Gabardines, Fancy Shepherd Checks Are the Materials in These New Suits $22.50 For Misses and Small Women Four smart styles at this price one of which is illustrated. Jackets box pleated, belted, flaring with stitched strappings, fancy stitchings and overcollars of white or contrasting faile silk. The skirts are cleverly flared or tailored in plain effects, Bnd the jackets are lined with peau de cygne or fancy silks. Colors reseda, navy, green and the latest novelty shepherd checks. Fourth Floor Four Styles as Illustrated in New $1.50 House Dresses Extra Special Today $1.00 One style of gingham, with collar and front of white pique, edged with embroidery. Elbow set-in sleeves, piped waistline. One style with collars, cuffs and panel front of white poplin, edged with' bands of plain colors, belted waistline. Another style has yoke waist with collar and vestee of white, embroidered collar, yoke skirt and belted waistline. Fourth style with vestee of self material revers and collar of plain contrasting colors, with pique bands. Gored skirt, elbow sleeves. These dresses come in stripes, block or line checks in pinks, lavenders, tans, light blues, black and white. Sizes 36 to 44. Fourth Floor ATTENTION -MEN ! This Gives You Advances Notice of Unparalleled Opportunities Coming to You Today in the Remarkable Introduction of Our hirt Sale A sale of such magnitude and of such importance, its wonderful features mark the highest summit to which our men's furnishing store ever has reached, in proving the wisdom of 'economical buying here. Particularly is this emphasized in qualities and in styles, such as have never before been known at the prices ruling in this sale. Thousands of Spring Shirts Less Than Cost A Shirt Maker's Entire Stock of Made-Up Shirts SILK, SILK AND WOOL, MADRAS, CHEVIOTS, FLANNELS, SILK FRONTS At 59c - Striped Flannel Shirts Lowest Pricz Ever Quoted These shirts are shown in good-looking striped patterns, medium dark grounds with heliotrope, blue and black, single and cluster stripes. Plain bosoms and French turn-back cuffs. Sizes 14 to 18. At 75c Tub Silk Front Shirts Lowest Price Ever Quoted Never such a wonderful offering of pure silk-bosom shirts in patterns and colors shown in all-silk shirts. Made with soisette bodies matching the silk bosoms and French silk cuffs. Excel lent quality shirts, perfectly tailored. Sizes 14 to 172. Silk ond Wool Shirts, Imported Exclusively for Fifth Avenue Specialty Shops $5.00 Silustra Shirts $2.95 500 shirts in silk striped flannel, exclusive designs in new pink,' blue, heliotrope, tan and gray combinations. Made with soft bosoms and soft French cuffs. Shirts generally shown in made-to-order shops only and offered for the first time at a price that will prove tempting to the man who always desired these shirts but hesitated at the price. $1.50 Shirts for $1.29 Of Cheviot, Madras and Crepe Cloth Materials that have heretofore been shown only in the more expensive and exclusive shirts. In narrow and wide stripes, cluster stripes and separate self striping. "In all the new Spring colorings. Made with plain bosoms, starched neckband and soft French cuffs. $8.50 Silk and Wool $4.95 Finn's famous imported silk and wool flannels a material that has enjoyed the greatest popularity arid reputation amongst the most exclusive Fifth-avenue shirt shops. These shirts made to measure cost from $7.50 to $12.00, according to the shop. In handsome color combinations, tailored with plain bosoms and soft French cuffs. Woven Madras Shirts Very Special $1.15 Such shirts as these usually sell at $1.35. Tailored to meet the requirements of particular men. Made from a very fine woven madras, in exclusive patterns and colorings, such as helio trope, blues, grays and tan. in combination or single effects. In the soft-bosom, French-cuff style. First Floor 500 Boxes Regular 50c White Linen Stationery 33c Box A Price Less Than Wholesale Cost Each box contains 48 envelopes, 24 sheets of writ ing paper and 24 gold-edge correspondence cards, of fine quality, pure white linen, with perfect writing surface. First Floor Half Price Sale Guaranteed Shields 1000 Pairs Reliable Makes Buy a Season's Supply 35c White Silk mc 35c Colonial Shield (in Dress Shields J10C Brassieres, Special lyc All sizes in regular shapes, r ul ly guaranteed in every way. 20c White Cotton Q Dress Shields iOC Crescent and regular shapes, all sizes. Will give perfect satisfaction. Full net brassieres with shield attached. All sizes. 50c Sleeve-on Net "lor Brassieres, Special JC Net sleeves and body, shield at tached. All sizes. First Floor WO LETTER CHARGES PLOT ANONYMOUS WRITER TELLS OF MEXICAN SMl.GGL.INCr RIXG. Former Millionaire ow on Trial Says He Was Forced to Pawn Jewels to Support Himself. NEW YORK, April 5. An anonymous letter introduced in evidence at the trial here today of Cecelio Ocon, in timate friend of General Felix Diaz, and Tablo A. Lopez, charged with smuggling- a diamond necklace from Mex ico into the United States, was said' to have given the customs authorities their first intimation of the alleged fraud. The letter,' mailed March 4 last, men tioned the names of -an ex-chief of the ecret service of Mexico City, a private secretary to a Minister of the Treasury of Mexico and three others who were declared to be implicated in a con spiracy to smuggle into the United States valuables obtained by looting and plundering and dispose of them here. The accused men were represent ed as having quantities of costly drugs, as well as jewelry and antiques, in their possession. Ocon, formerly one of the wealthiest mm in Mexico City, denied there was a smuggling conspiracy, adding that the necklace in question belonged to his wife. Although, lie says, he owns clock con cessions at Tampico -orth $3.000. 000. Ocon said he had been forced to pawn family jewelry to support himself and family since coming to New York. liuerta, he said, had confiscated other t property belonging to him in Mexico City worth millions of dollars. OLD RESIDENT BURIED Marion County Citizen, for 4 2 Yearr Passes Away. ST. PAUL. Or., April 5. (Special.) Andrew Hughes, 69, who died here April 3 and was buried today, had been a resident of .Marion County lor 42 years. He was a native of Ireland, and emigrated to Minnesota, later com ing here. He is survived by eight children, all of whom were at the bedside when he died. Me also leaves a sister, Mrs. John McGrath, of, Woodburn. Mr. Hughes was a charter member of St. Paul lodge. Ancient Order United Workmen. The funeral was held from St. Paul's Church. PRISON PRODUCTS OPPOSED Manufacturers Oppose Interstate Trade in Convict-Made Goods. WASHINGTON, April 5. Laws for bidding interstate commerce In prison made goods were urged today before the Senate labor committee by repre sentatives of manufacturers, who de claVed ' they were unable to compete with convict labor. Chairman Page indicated the com mittee would favor legislation to force .he contract system out of prisons where it benefits contractors by in voluntary and uncompensated labor of convicts, but would not favor restrict ing penitentiaries based on the Michi gan system, in which the prisoner re ceives returns from his labor. BRftNDEIS' NAME IS USED SEEMING EFFORT MADE TO PRESS SUPREME COURT. Former Connection of Nominee With Oregon Ten-Hour Case Mentioned In Bold Type in Brief. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, April 5. "Parts iirst and sec ond of this brief were prepared under the direction of Louis B. Brandeis dur ing the past six months, until his nomination by President Wilson as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States obliged him to withdraw from the case." This announcement in bold type ap pears on the brief of the State of Ore gon in the ten-hour case filed with the United States Supreme Court to day. The brief is signed by Felix Frankfurter and Josephine Goldmark, and a copy was served on W. Lair Thompson, of Portland, who is here to argue this case for Franklin O. Bunt ing, of Lakeview, the plaintiff. That the Supreme Court may not overlook the fact that the state's case will be prepared by the nominee for Associate Justice of the Court, the same nota tion is inserted as a footnote on the first page of the brief. Mr. Brandeis, though he may ulti mately be confirmed, cannot Kit in con sideration of this case, because of his prior connection with it, but there was much comment at the Supreme Court offices today over the fact that Mr. Frankfurter should have-used this ex traordinary means to impress on the court the views of a man who may be come a member. There is a possibility of this conspicuous notation, especially if opposing counsel call attention to Its indelicacy. HILLSB0R0 BOY PROMOTED A. C. Johnson Is Southern Pacific Agent at Red Bluff. RED BLUFF. Cal., April 5. (Special.) A. C. Johnson, a Hlllsboro boy, was today appointed agent for the Southern Pacific Railway at Red Bluff, which is the largest station on the Shasta division. Mr. Johnson has been relief agent on the Shasta division for the past two years. Before he was employed by the Southern Pacific he was agent for the Oregon Electric at Cornelius and Har risburg station. J. J. Miller, whom he is relieving at Red Bluff, is appointed instructor of agents for the Southern Pacific, at San Francisco. WEALTH HAD DWINDLED Estate of John B. Coleman, of Eu gene, Estimated at $6000. EUGENE. Or., April 5. (Special.) The wealth of John B. Coleman, aged Eugene capitalist, who died at Kej West. Fla., last week, had dwindled from between $60,000 ' and $80,000 to probably $6000 and possibly three sets of claimants will seek to gain posses sion of his estate. Mr. Coleman made presents of money and property to various persons and occasionally sought to regain title upon the claim that fraud had been com mitted and that advantage had been taken of his extreme age and weak- that the brief will be rejected because ened mental condition. NEW SEA LINE TO START AMERICAN MANNED VESSELS TO PLY TO ORIENT. Oriental Alliance Steamship Company Announces New Pacific Service From San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, April 6. Eleven American freighters, manned by Amer ican crews and flying the house flag of the recently organized $10,000,000 Ori ental Alliance Steamship Company, are soon 'to be placed on the Trans-Pacif ia run " between San Francisco and the Orient, according to Peter D. Milloy. president of the company, who is here today arranging for the institution of the service. Should business prove sufficient, the company later will operate two boats between New York and San Francisco through the Panama Canal. The Hocking and Genessee, which recently figured in an international dispute when seized by the British Ad miralty, are two of the new fleet, Mr. Milloy said. All the boats will come from Atlantic waters and will add ap proximately 65,000 tons to the total now operating through the Golden Gate. WOMEN TO TRAIN IN CAMP First Aid to Be Taught Under Strict Military Ilule. SAN FRANCISCO, April 5. Two hun dred and fifty women will go into en- Visit Our New Store See Our New Stock Diamonds "Watches Jewelry Silverware Largest Diamond Dealers in Oregon. 334 Washington Street, Near Broadway, oampment on the United States Pre sidio here June 1 for six weeks und r strict military rule to learn the ways oC war, according to an announcement made here today by Mrs. Frederick 1L Colburn, regent of the San Francisio chapter of the womeiVs section of thta Navy League. It will be a real mili tary company with uniforms, a Captain, Lieutenants, Sergeants, Corporals and privates. The object of the camp is to prepare women in nrst-aid work. The production of mapnesite is stPa1iiy increasing in the l.'nited States, the J014 out put heinsr 11, 103 short ions, valued at 124.2-JS. FEEL YOUNG! It's Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets For You? Beware of the habit of constipation. It develops from just a few constipated days, unless you take yourself In hand. Coax the jaded bowel muscles backc to normal action with Dr. Edwards1 Olive Tablets, the substitute for calo mel. Don't force them to unnatural action with severe medicines or by merely flushing out the intestines wila nasty, sickening cathartics. Dr. Edwards believes in gentleness, persistency and Nature's assistance. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets open thai bowels: their action is gentle, yet posi tive, "There is never any pain or grip ing when Dr. Edwards' - Olive Tablets are used. Just, the kind of treatmenc old persons should have. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets are a veg etable compound mixed with olive oil, you will know them by their olivo color. Take one or two occasionally and have no trouble with your liver, bowels or stomach. 10c and 25c pec box. All druggists. The Olive Tablet Company. Col urn-, bus. O. Adv.
