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TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1916. APlin DCMLTAPTflD nuLU uu.Linuiun FACES ACCUSATION "Great Western" Travel Bureau on the First Floor , c -f Detailed information on Auto, Train and Steamer Trips Taxicab and rree oervice Touring Car Service Baggage Checked to Destination, Etc. 8 Days Only Take Advantage Every Day's August Clean-up Sales Millionaire Is Declared Father of Two Girls Whom He Adopted.. Today a day featuring many especially arranged sales that are of REAL SERVICE to our customers. Sales offering merchandise in every instance at but Economy is visible everywhere MARKED ECONOMY that demands your presence. a FRACTION of regular prices. SUPPOSED SIRE ACCUSER I Mother's Alleged Deathbed Confes sion Repeated in Court In Pro ceedings Against Edward W. Morrison, Chicago Recluse. CHICAGO. Aug. 22. Edward W. Mor rison, a. millionaire recluse, was named in proceedings before Federal Judge Landis today as the real father of two girls he recently adopted. The accuser was Joseph Burnstein. a Junk dealer. His wife, he declared, con fessed to him on her deathbed that Mr. Morrison was the father of the girls. The millionaire, who is nearly 80 years old, denied the accusation. His reason for adopting the girls, he testi fied, was because their mother had pleaded with him, when she was taken ill, to care for them. He had known them all their lives, he said, and was fond of them. Anna, the eldest girl, is 18; her sister. Alice, is 16 years old. They have made their home with Morrison, since their adoption, a month ago. "Morrison attended my wife's funeral with me in June," Mr. Burnstein testi fied. "I told him of my wife's confes sion. Morrison said. "Very well, I'll fix it up with you.'" The action before Judge Landis was a petition to appoint a. receiver for Mr. Morrison's properties, which have been variously estimated at from $3,000,000 to $8,000,000. One of the contentions was that Mr. Morrison had adopted the two girls to prevent the city of Chicago from receiving the estate, which, under the will of his father, was to be used for educational purposes If Morrison died childless. . Mr. Morrison Is alleged to have given away to certain friends during the past seven years more than $2,000,000. One of the transactions was the transfer to James Ward, his attorney, of prop erty on which the Hotel Morrison stands. It is declared to be worth more than $2,000,000. Property valued at $500,000 was given to the lawyer un conditionally. It was also brought out that John Sommers, who said he had known Mor rison for 25 years, had received $200,000 for providing the aged millionaire with amusement. ZEPPELINS TO BE BIGGER i BRITISH WARXED OF COMISC OF MOXSTER. WAR BALLOONS. Length to Be 780 Feet, With Capacity n tor Five Tons of Bombs and I I LONDON, Aug. 24 In a speech at Bury St. Edmunds last night. Baron Montague, of Beaulieu, ex-vice-chair man of the joint naval and military board, told of new monster super- Zippelins which Germany is building. "We have obtained details of these uper-Zeppelins," said the Earon. "The principal feature of the craft are capacity of 2,000,000 cubic feet, a length of 780 feet, a beam or so feet, a maxi mum SDeed of 80 miles art hour. cruiser speed of 35 miles an hour and a radius of action of 3000 miles. The engines, six or seven of them, have total of 15.000 horsepower. "The airship can carry a load of bombs of five tons. They are able to ascend 17.000 feet. They are armed with machine guns at bow and stern and on top of the envelope. They carry crews of 35 men "each. "These particulars show how largely the Germans are relying on Zeppelins as a means for harrassing us. GRANGE IS OUT TO WIN Gresham Seeks First Honors at Multnomah County Fair. A Silk Sensation $1.50, $1.25 and $1.00 Tub Silks 36-Inch Wide Guaranteed Fast Color 55c An assortment of all new patterns and colors bination stripes, cluster stripes, wide stripes. -pencil stripes, com- Seeond Floor. Wash Goods 10c 4 . That Sold Until Now to 75c Novelty Voiles Batistes Gabardines Today, in one grand clean-up, we shall offer practically our entire stock of newest Summer wash fabrics selling regularly to 75c. Clean up, 1 0c. Exquisite materials suitable for children's, misses' and women s dresses. Entire Stock Awning Stripes at 19c The season's newest, most attractive stripes and colors for skirts, suits, coats and many other uses. Second Floor. LINENS An Exceptional, Extraordinary Clean-Up From one to three cloths of a kind only. Some slightly soiled from displays. Others have drawn threads or very slight imperfections. All pure Irish linen. A most opportune time to purchase linens at prac tically import wholesale cost. Sizes range from 66x84 inches to 2x4 yards. $2.00 Cloths . . i $1.25 $ 5.25 Cloths $3.98 $3.25 Cloths $2.25 $ 7.00 Cloths ..$4.98 $3.00 Cloths $1.98 $ 1 2.00 Cloths $7.50 $3.50 Cloths $2.48 $16.00 Cloths $9.75 Second Floor. CORSETS Taken From Our Stock and Representing The Newest Models NADIAS These corsets are made of pink fig-ured and plain white coutil, in the newest models. Regular to $3.50 $2.19 Fourth Floor. CLEAN-UP OF TUMBLERS GO dozen plain thin - blown tumblers Set of six 24 900s dozen thin-etched water tumblers Set of six 350 Sixth Floor. Clean-up ' Women's Porch Dresses of Voile and Lawn Selling to Uing . qj- $6.s j.. Jpo.yo Fourth Floor. $1.50 7 -piece Lemonade Set. $1.19 Sixth Floor. Clean-up Children's Wash Hats Selling to $1.25 48c Fourth Floor. Men-Athletic Underwear Yearly Women's Tan Siik Lisle Stockings Guaranteed Imported Dye FAST COLOR Regular 35c 19c All-year-round weight fine silk lisle hosiery with double heels, soles and toes Garter tops the best 35c stocking ob tainable. Clean-up of 100 dozen in this sale at 19c. Flriit Floor. MIDDIES STRIPED Best Model of Season ALWAYS SOLD AT $1.25 89c The popular coat style, in navy.' rose, green and Copen stripes, with belt, collar, cuffs and pockets of white. Fourth Floor. DENTS Real English Gloves ALWAYS SOLD AT $2.00 $1.39 Genuine imported gloves, all sizes, in tan, broken sizes in black, gray, mode. First Floor. CRETONNES 23c A Great Clean-Up We have taken many of our prettiest cretonnes and art chintzes ranging from 5 to 15 yards and assembled them into one lot and marked them for your selection at 23c. Extremely special. Fifth Floor "Comfort" Make Athletic Union Suits Clean-up The best suit ever offered at this extraordinary price. Made of extra wearing nainsook, athletic style, with elastic inset at crotch. 50c $1 POROS KNIT UNION SUITS Genuine Poros Knit sleeveless, knee length, 69c or short sleeve, to 42. length. Sizes 33 $1 SHEDAKER UNION SUITS Famous make, ath letic style, of splendid quality nainsook. Sizes 38 to 42 only. 69c 69 $3 SILK LISLE UNION SUITS. Light or m e d i weight, fine silk lisle, long sleeves, ankle length, short sleeves, ankle length, or length. liumeH lisle. $1.50 SHEDAKER UN ON SUITS Finest nainsook, Pan ama cloth, pebble cloth and silk mixtures, sleeveless, length. $1.50 GLOBE UNION SUITS. Made for comfort athletic style, sleeve less, knee length, or short sleev length. $3.50 VASSAR UNION SUITS. . . Fine lisle, form fit ting, medium and light weight, short or long sleeves, length. knee 79c $1 :$2 Clean-Up .15 jr es, i ' f .69 JJj ankle First Floor. .37 c At Wonderfully Low Prices 50c Poros Mesh Union Suits Cool, comfortable for hot weather, low neck, sleeveless, lace knee style 50c Globe Lisle Union Suits sleeveless, tight knee, spliced crotch JOC $1.50 Silk Top Union Suits Glove silk, V front and back, of IineQQ white lisle suits, tight knee, 5 and 6 only. iOC $1.00 Flesh Pink Union Suits Finest quality lisle, low neck, sleeveless q knee, length, beaded or band top I "C $1.00 Augusta Union Suits Perfect fitting suit, in white lisle, all desirable styles, various trimming ODC 50c Flesh Pink Vests "Richelieu" vests, of silk lisle, low neck, sleeveless, beaded tops iiz)C First Floor. CREX Keep-Cool Clean-up 9l.OO Bath Sprays 69 $1.50 Bath Sprays $1.29 500 Bath Brushes 33 Colgate's Bath Soap, 3 for.. 250 500 Violet Bath Ammonia.. 290 250 Bathasweet Powder 190 950 large Bath Sponges 590 5O0 Bath Caps ...250 Tight Fitting Diving Caps.... 250 500 Fluted Bath Caps 390 First Floor. Ice Cream and Soda Fountain Basement Clean-up Art Needlework Your choice. . 25c 4S0 Fancy Cretonne scarfs T50 Cretonne squa res, lace edge 750 Fancy work bags 650 Cretonne laundry bags 090 Tapestry and burlap pil low tops G90 Stamped scarfs, squares 5O0 Stamped sewing aprons 500 Scarfs, centers, pillow tops Fifth Floor GRASS RUGS Lowest Known Prices 18x36 inches 290 24x43 inches -590 27x54 inches 690 30x60 inches 790 36x72 inches $1.09 4x7feet $2.49 6x9 feet $3.95 9x10 feet $4.95 9x12 feet $6.45 Fifth Floor J" Merchandise ofcJ Merit Only Crepe de Chine Society Satin Camisoles Regular price $1.00. . 59c Fourth Floor. Every Women's BATHING SUIT In Stock One-Quarter Off Fourth Floor. Women's Clean-up Summer Knit Underwear! GRESHAM. Or.. Aug. 22. (Special.)- At a. EDecial open meeting of the Gresham Grange, to be held in the j Grange Hall, Saturday evening, August 26. further arrangements will be taken up relative to the Grange exhibit at the Multnomah County Fair. The Grange here iron fourth place last year and will strive to occupy first place this year. Seven or eight granges will exhibit. All residents of Gresham, whether grangers or not, are urged and invited to assist. The following committees have the arrangements in charge: General ar rangements. Mrs. M. Volbrecht, Mrs. L. T. Lusted and Mrs. C. Merrill; potatoes. K. B. Welling: grains and grasses, H. K. Davis: vegetables, Theodore Brug- ger: fresh fruits, H. R. Carlson: canned fruits. Mrs. Roy Kern; baking and cooking. Mrs. H. E. Davis: household skill. Mrs. W. V. Waters and Mrs. W. B. Parsons. PARLIAMENT IS OUT Both Houses in London Ad journ to October 10. VANCOUVER PLANS PICNIC Candidates for State and County Office Will Be Present. VANCOUVER. Wash., Aug. 23. (Spe cial.) A farmers' and business men's picnic will be held in Vancouver city park August 29, at which time many state and county candidates for polit ical office will speak. It is expected that not less than 1500 will attend this picnic, bring their bas ket lunches, and pass the day in the park. The picnic will be widely ad vertised throughout the county. Per sonal Invitations have been sent to 40 state candidates to be present. Plans were laid at a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce last night and committees were appointed. SUFFRAGE PUT ON SHELF Horse Trader Wanted for Cruelty. OREGON CITT, Or.. Aug. 23. (Spe cial.) Clackamas County officials are bunting for a horse trader, locally known as "Whisky Bill." who turned A horse loose on the county roads be tween Oregon City and Portland. Sher iff Wi'son found the animal today be--vond Parkplace. near Gladstone Park, eo weary that he could hardly stand. Motor Party Leaves Gresham. GRESHAM. Or.. Ausr. 23. (Special.) Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Cotton, accom panied bv Mrs. King and Mrs. Peacock both of Los Angeles. Ca!., left Sunday morning for a motor trip in British Columbia, with Vancouver Island as their chief point of interest. They will be gone for about 10 days. Xext Body Expected to Be Elected on Basis of Votes for Wromen: Present Session Extended for Seven Months. LONDON". Aug. 23. Both houses of Parliament adjourned today until Oc tober 10,. after adopting a bill extend ing the present Parliament another seven months. Not since the outbreak of the war has Parliament adjourned on a situa tion such as. the present, and which as described by David Laoyd George Minister of War. and other ministers in debates, as giving so little cause for anxiety or so hopeful an outlook for the future. The debates reflected a feeling of satisfaction, although ex pressing realization that heavy tasks are ahead and that there is no pros pect of hostilities coming to a speedy end. It Is the general belief that before Parliament reassembles a further im portant stage of the entente allied of fensive will have been developed in the northeast " which may have great influence on the whole field of opera tions. There was considerable discussion re cently concerning food supplies here, although high prices are due to scarcity, the costliness of freightage and. as Captain E. G. Prettyman. Par liamentary secretary to the Board of Trade, explained in the House of Com mons today, to abnormal consumption of the millions of men in the field Captain Prettyman said he estimated that these men eat half as much again as they did in civilian life. While the Question of food is pressing heavily, the government has seen no reason Uptake any new steps for additional control of the matter. The Cabinet Ministers also expressed great confidence in the constantly growing economic pressure being ex ercised againsfr the central powers. The difficult questions of suffrage and registration reform have been shelved temporarily, but the House of Lords inserted in the bill extending the life of Parliament an amendment, which the House of Commons accepted, providing that any new Parliament elected on the existing register should endure only two years. This is an emergency which is unlikely to arise, however. It seems almost certain that the next Parliament will be elected on the basis of adult suffrage, with women voting, although there are many opinions that the country ought to be consulted on this Important question. MINERS TO MEET SEPT. 7 Workers Will Tlicn Decide TJpon Strike Demands. SEATTLE, Wasn.. Aug. 23. A call for the convention of the United Mine Workers of America. disU-ict No. 10 comprising the state of Washington, to reconvene September 7 at Seattle to consider the report of the wage con ference, which adjourned yesterday after two weeks' unsuccessful negotia tions, was issued today by President Martin Klyzik. The convention will decide whether to modify the demand for a 6 per cent wage increase and an eight-hour day from "bank to bank" or to order a strike. Four thousand men employed by 14 coal mining companies are in volved. Pending action by the conven tion, the miners will continue at work. MEETING PUNS ON American-Mexican Conference to Be Held in New England. SEPTEMBER DATE DECIDED FALL OF BUILDING IS FATAL .One Person Dead, Six Missing and Many Olliers Injured. NEW TORK. Aug. 23. Six men. are mucins Ann la A pa A and several are dying in hospitals and a dozen others were injured today as the result of the sudden collapse of a five-story brick tenement in the course of construction in the Bronx. Several arrests have been made, in cluding a member of the contracting firm which was constructing the building. Withdrawal of Troops Is Regarded Likely, as General Pershing Re ports Villa ' Has Lost Pres tige South of Border. WASHINGTON. Aug. 23. There were two developments today in the Mex ican situation. Secretary Lansing and Eliseo Arredondo. Mexican Ambassador-designate, tentatively agreed that the joint commission to discuss border problems should meet at some place on the New England coast auring me nri week in September. Brigadier-General Pershing transmitted a report saying the general opinion was that "Villa's prestige is gone and that he can never again become a serious factor in Mex-j lean affairs." ' Supporting as it does General Fun ston's recent recommendations for the withdrawal of the expeditionary force in Mexico, it is believed General Per shing's report makes it certain that the American commissioners will agree promptly to the suggestions of their Mexican conferees for the early recall of the troops. Mr. Arredondo called at the depart ment to receive formal notification that the American commissioners had been selected and were ready to meet the Mexican members as soon as the time and place could be arranged. Both the rmhassv and the department were in communication with Mexico City to night in regard to the fixing of a day for beginning the sessions. Rev. Bonjomin K. Masterson. of Iong Beach, Cal., was puzzled when in opening his mail he found a remittance of 15. After pondering for several minutes he recalled ,..at 46 years ago in Mount Gretna. Pa., where he formerly lived, a man left the Mastcrson home owing Jlo for board. 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