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THE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1916.
RATE PLAINTS TO
BE SETTLED HERE
Commerce Commission Will
Send Examiner to Port
t.. land for Hearings.
WEEK'S TIME TO BE GIVEN
Freight blatters In Dispute Will
Bo Presented by Interests In
Conflict Many Traffic
Questions Pend.
Examiner Disque, of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, will come to
Portland on October 4, next, to con
duct a series of hearings, involving
rates and service affecting: various
local shippers and carriers.
The examiner's schedule requires him
to remain here nearly a week. Some
important cases are on the docket. He
will begin his session on the morning
of October 4 and continue through
October 9.
Tho first day's schedule will be de
voted to two cases brought against
the transcontinental rail lines by the
West Coast Lumber Association, asking
for a readjustment of rates on finished
lumber moving from the Northwest to
various points in the district east of
Chicago.
On the second day the case of the
Astoria Box Company against the
North Bank road will be heard. The
plaintiff asks for a reduction in rates
on boxes and box shooka to inter-
mountain territory. This case was
brought before the Astoria rate case
was decided and it is possible that an
adjustment will be made before the
date of the hearing.
Salt Rates In Question.
On the same day will be heard the
complaint of the Portland Traffic &
Transportation Association against the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and
other transcontinental carriers.
Portland wholesale grocers, through
the association, contend that the exist
ing rates on salt are discriminatory
against Portland. They are seeking a
readjustment. The rate from Portland
to Spokane, for instance, is 27 hi cents.
It costs 11V4 cents to ship the salt
from San Francisco where It is pro
duced to Portland. The combination
of the two rates is 39 cents. On the
other hand, San Francisco has a rate
formed by a combination of the rail
and water lines, of 35 cents to Spokane.
In the same manner, it is argued. Salt
Lake City has rates for salt that en
able that city to get into Portland's
natural territory in Southern Idaho
and Eastern Oregon.
The rate from Salt I-ake City to Spo
kane is 40 cents. The salt must be
hauled around through Huntington and
Wallula. On this basis, the Portland
shippers say their rate should be ma
terialiv lower than it is.
On the following day the case of
Mitchell. Lewis & Staver against the
Chicago & Northwestern and other
railroads will be heard. The plaintiff
is asking for a provision in the trans
continental rates to cover the ship
ment of tree transplanters without the
tanks customarily attached to those
Implements.
Change In Tea Rate Asked.
An other case on the same day will
he that of Closset & Devers against
the Northern Pacific. The plaintiff
wants tea, in sacks, to take the same
rate as tea in boxes. Tea in sacks
now is charged double first-class rates,
Other cases by the Portland Traffic
& Transportation Association against
various transcontinental carriers ask
for readjustment of rates on ornamental
electric- lamps and on sleigh, runners
when not. attached to sleighs.
The association also has a case
against the O.-W. R. & N. Co.. for a
reclassification of rates on iron cul
verts and culvert pipe from Portland
to points in Idaho. The association's
case originally scheduled against the
O.-W. R. & N. Co. for lower rates on
iron window weights has been with
drawn. The rates have been granted.
RETAIL ARTICLES FILED
HRTATB GROCERS' ASSOCIATION
CORPORATES.
OrganlKation. of Merchant Mere Than
"Ten Years Old and Includes
Over 2300 Members.
X Articles of incorporation were filed
yesterday with the Corporation Com'
missloner . by the Oregon Retail Mer
fchants' Association. G. Clifford Bar
4ow, of Warrenton; Thomas C. Watts
of Reuben; F. L. Trullinger, of Yam
Jhill, and U. - R. Merrick, of Portland.
were the incorporators.
Although hot incorporated until this
time, the Oregon Retail Merchants'
Association has been established for
more than ten years. It was organized
ty the late Postmaster Charles B. Mer
rick, in 190S, and today includes in its
membership more than 2500 merchants
of various pursuits. It is not limited
to grocers, but has as members dealers
In dry goods, hardware, furniture.
drugs, lumber, auto and electric sup
plies, as well as a large number of
professional men.
3 President Barlow and Secretary L.
R. Merrick today announced, follow
ing a meeting of the state board of
'directors, that the association will
continue to publish the Oregon Retail
era' Journal, their trade medium, and
will add features which should place
It in rank with similar trade papers
of Eastern centers. The eleventh an
Tiual convention will be held in Port
land during 1917.
The association has ' developed
Tlan to co-operate closely with th
Portlajid Chamber of Commerce an
other commercial bodies in inviting
industries and capital to Oregon and
jn seeking means adequately to protect
those who establish payrolls here.
r Secretary Merrick is In receipt of
resolutions ' of appreciation from th
Chamber of Commerce in charge of the
recent Buyers' week for the co-opera'
tion of his organization. The associa
tion officials are tentatively consider
ing the advisability ' of holding Its
eleventh annual convention in Portland
during Buyers' week of 1917, in an
effort to bring the merchants, manu
facturers and jobbers into a closer
Spirit of unity and understanding.
?Beavers Gone; Hunters Suspected.
? PENDLETON, Aug. 23. (Special.)
The large beaver colony which has
teen growing and thriving on Med
icine Creek for years, has disappeared.
Hunters and fishers declare that the
former home of the colony has been
deserted this year and there is strong
suspicion that someone defied the
game laws and exterminated the col
ony last Wintter, for the sake of the
furs. Their dams and houses are still
there, but there is no indication that
they have been inhabitated by these
animals for some time.
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TODAY'S FILM FEATURES.,
Peoples "Little Lady Eileen."
Pickford "The Decoy."
T & D "The Summer Girl," "Glo
ria's Romance."
Majestic "Daredevil Kate."
Sunset "The Raiders."
Heilig 'Clvillialion."
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Columbia.
NE of the most fascinating news
paper stories is "The Daring of
iana," which 'will be shown to
day at the Columbia Theater. Anita
Stewart plays the role of Diana, a re
porter on a New York dally.
The play opens with Diana roaming
the streets on a news assignment, and
the plot has something to do with her
adventures and life. Diana's walk s
interrupted by clanging fire engines.
This was no "fake" the engines are
really going to a fire and so are the
crowds. In fact, the crowd was so in
tent on getting where the excitement
was that it failed to look at the cam
era, which was traveling through the
streets In an automobile. This is quite
unusual and was something of a treat
to Director S. Rankin Drew, who is
responsible for the production.
The fire in the picture is a factory
fire. Aa the smoke encircles slowly
from the windows of a great stone
building the workers are seen making
daring leaps to the street.
Pickford.
How the crime nets closed about a
young girl who came from a peaceful
country home to New York make a
tense story of "The Decoy" that will
complete the week at the Pickford
Theater. Frances Nelson, one of the
most talented, of the younger stars of
the screen, has the role of the heroine,
and Robert W. Krazer plays the hero.
Gang lite provides mucn or me pioi.
which tells how Gladys Moore finds
herself unprovided for after the death
of her father and goes to the city to
seek work. She goes to her aunt, Mrs.
Lawrence, for assistance, but discov
ers almost too late that the supposed
aunt is a notorious adventuress, in
league with a powerful criminal gang.
Gladys escapes from her aunt s house
and finds protection with Jim Danvers.
The agents of her aunt find her and
bring her to the home of Bannon, who
impersonates a minister and offers tier
employment. When the girl discovers
his identity she tries to get away, but
Bannon prevents her. Just as he is
about to kiss her, & hand comes In at
the window and Bannon is shot.
An entanglement results. Any of
four, Dix. Danvers, the adventuress or
the butler, may have shot him. but the
girl is accused. With her she draws
the whole group, and only at the cli
max is the real slayer found.
Sunset.
A tale of the New York Stock Ex
change, "The Raiders," will open today
at the Sunset Theater; starring H. B.
Warner and Dorothy Dayton. . Thrilling
scenes of "pit," where fortunes are
made and lost are shown with hun
dreds of men bidding. The picture was
actually taken at- exciting times in Wall
Street.
The story is that of a business man
who was tricked by his partner and
secretary during his absence. - The at
tempt to .-ruin him was carried to the
extent that he 'was held captive in the
mountains while his fortune was at
hazard. The capitalist had a beautiful
daughter, however, whose scorned
sweetheart saved, the father.
"The Raiders" is a Triangle produe
tion that is expected to be a popular
one.
Miss Pearson Enjoys Vampire Roles,
Many actresses do not like the "hard
woman" types that they are called on
to play and that fact, according to mo
tion picture directors, makes the . task
doubly hard.. Virginia Pearson, who
plays the lead in ''Daredevil Kate," at
the Majestic theater this week, how
ever, enjoys that type of role and
plays it exceptionally welL She is,
however, an advocate of the idea that
an actress must understand the char
acters she is to play.
"Daredevil Kate is a character
unique in literature and motion-pictures,"
said Virginia Pearson, star of
the William Fox film which bears the
name of its heroine. "Kate begins by
being a bad woman: then she becomes
good; then she relapseB into wicked
ness with redoubled energy; and
when again she becomes good, she doet
so to stay." ,
It took a nnute study of various
types of women for Miss Pearson to
understand well the character of
Kate.
"Kate represents to my mind," said
Miss Pearson, "a combination of Car
men, Cleopatra, the Girl of the Golden
West, and Cigarette. She has a good
side which is not displayed in any of
those, not even in Ouida's famou
Cigarette.
"She is a woman of energy ami cour
age, absolutely fearless; she is a wom
an of kindness and virtue, wlthoue a
spark of real evil in her heart.
"I call her a girl bandit. I've thought
about her ever since I began work on
this picture, and I can't get a term
that is more descriptive. Yet she is not
always a girl bandit, for at times there
is no thought of nnkindness toward
others In her heart. 3he is as change
able as a chameleon, - yet the funda
mentals of her character are as change
less as the proverbial Sphinx.
"While Daredevil Kate is in no re
snect like the vampire I want to play,
and. am going to play some day, still
I consider her nearer the vampire type
than anything I have done yet. In onf
scene she is the type or woman one
usually recognizes by the title of 'vam
pire.' But nowhere is she the real
vampire of the occult, the strange.
mystical creature which sleeps in
coffin and lives upon the blood of
people.
"The vampire of superstition, some
call her, but to true believers in mysti
cism such a creature actually exists.
I'm going to play her some day."
Heilis;. ,
"Civilization," the great war, ' pro
peace picture, is having a strong run
at the Heilig. Since the opening, thou
sands of Portland people have viewed
the spectacular film and passed on it as
perhaps the most unique and strongest
picture ever produced.
The extraordinary film was produced
by Thomas H. Ince at the expenditure
of more than (1,000,000, and is an ap
peal for the total abolition of war. One
cannot but admire the great inventor in
Ince's "Civilization," who chose to see
his cherished dreams destroyed and die
rather than he the creator of destruc
tive engines of war.
Certainly no recent picture has had
half as wonderful photography of battle
scenes and of spectacular mobs. In
sequence are shown the mobilization
process, clashes between enormous land
forces with the fascinating . effective
ness of the great field mortars and
smaller caliber weapons.
Then comes the combined sea and
air raid when the King of Wredpryd
sees his city reduced to ruins, while in
the harbor the defensive forces are
sending a death hail of steel against
the attacking squadron. Here a super-
dreadnought is reduced to a mass of
twisted wreckage and sunk. There a
torpedo-boat destroyer turns Into a
cloud of black smoke and disintegrates.
All of the time the aeroplanes of the
enemy are flying overhead, dropping
bombs into th'e city and destroying
buildings, bridges and hospital trains.
There is a superbly staged fight in
side a submarine when its commander
and inventor destroys the vessel rather
than send hundreds of helpless women
and children to death. In a vision he
sees a giant liner torpedoed. Boats are
put out and overturned and women
and babies drown before his eyes.
Others are launched safely and over
turned. Finally the great craft goes
to the bottom, sucking down In her
vortex the survivors who otherwise
might find safety. There are 11 reels
of thrillers.
she be, she admires most
reliant, persecuted damsel.
She says: TThe persecuted heroine
always arouses compassion, but I some
times think that when she weeps ana
wails instead of really doing some
thing about it all she loses the sym
pathy of her audience. Though it is
very sorry to see her in distress, it
would have a great deal higher regard
for her If she showed an Inclination to
combat the evils which beset her, in
stead of ruining her handkerchief and
her make-up.
"It seems to me that the average
audience prefers the heroine who helps
herself the self-reliant type, which.
though frightened beyond expression.
bites her lips and tackles the difficulty,
be it man or beast.
"I have played both the weeping.
helpless little girl and the heroine who
takes matters into her own hands, and
it has been my experience that the lat
ter arouses more real sympathy than
the former. I think that we prefer to
cheer a person on to big achievement
rather than to console him or her In
momenta of distress.
"Take, for Instance, the little girl in
'Molly Make-Believe,' the Paramount
Picture produced by the Famous Play
ers. I think she is going to win more
sympathy than the most tearful hero
ine I ever played. With never a
thought of herself, she allows her
cheerful, unselfish personality to ra
diate from her letters, the spirit of
which gradually affects the man, who
reads them. That. It seems to me, is
the sort of girl that we all most admire.
"Reverting to happy heroines it has
always seemed to me that onM the
causes of Peggy's popularity in 'Mice
and Men.' is the fact that she has a
mind, of her own and turns things
topsy-turvy when they do not suit her.
And just because she is spunky we
all love her. If she wept at her mis
fortunes Instead of behaving as she
does, Peggy would have fewer friends
than she seems to have made both in
the book and on the stage and on the
screen.
Screen Gossip.
A private showing of the "Yellow
Menace," the stirring Oriental film
story, will be made this morning at
the Heilig Theater for the exhibitors
and others who have been invited to
see the film. The "Yellow Menace
as produced by the United Film Cor
poration, is one of the recent motion
picture sensations.
Last' Monday E. H. Sothern, who is
playing at the Vltograph studios, had
the unique pleasure of appearing be
fore himself and his wife, on the screen.
The play wss "An Enemy to the King.
Mrs. Sothern (Julia Marlowe) had
never before seen her husband in a
motion picture and pronounced his
screen work unusually fine. She will
view another Sothern . picture tomor
row.
Rita Jollvet. who is starred in the
Morosco production. "An International
Marriage," is the wife of count cip-
pico, a noted horseman and a very
wealthy man. Her contract for the
making of this Paramount picture was
signed prior to. her marriage, and it is
probable that this will be her last ap
pearance before the screen public
Turkey-trotting with 150 pounds of
clothes is not conducive to personal
comfort and enjoyment. Nevertheless
Earle Foxe, playing opposite Mae Mur
ray in the Lasky produetion of the
Paramount picture. "The Dream Girl,"
danced all one afternoon In a full suit
of steel armor, and when he took it off
he had to have three men assist him.
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Theodore Roberts, the celebrated
character actor, may have played many
mean roles In his career, but in "Anton
the Terrible," which is now being pro
duced at the Lasky studio under the
direction of William C. de Mllle. he has
reached the mean zenith of his experi
ence. In a casual observation of the
rehearsals it would seem that his favo
rite pastime is choking beautiful young
women and naving handsome young
men lashed. He looks so fierce in his
Cossack make-up that his own dog
tried to Dite mm.
Peggy Coudray, who was prominent
in. Portland theatrical circles before
the movie days, is now starring in
"The Redemption of Cactus Moore." a
three-reel Western drama, under the
direction of William V. Mong, Uni
versal director, who also plays the hero.
Nicholas II, Beatrix Michelena's
champion Russian wolf hound, not only
won first prize in his class at the re
cent show of Oakland and Alameda
County Kennel Club, but also carried
of a number of special trophies. Miss
Michelena is a prominent Kalem star.
William Collier will have the steller
role in "Nothing but the Truth."
Clarence Harris, .who is playing in
"Daredevil Kate," was formerly a Uni
tarian minister. Before that he made
a lecture tour of the West, speaking
on Browning and his poetry.
Baseball has struck its yearly blow
at the Oliver Morosco studio and even
silver-haired Herbert Standing is de
manding a chance to cover second base.
A team oomposed of actors and mem
bet s of the laboratory department was
organised last week and immediately
issued a cnaiienge to tne mechanical
staff. After the dust of the first game
settled the technical force had the
better part of a 23-to-7 score. But
even at that the famed Dustln Farnum
made a home run.
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Three Days Only, Starting; Today,
ANITA
STEWART
"The Darling of the Films"
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A Throbbing and Pulsating Drama
if Newspaper Life in Five Wonder
ful Parts.
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ONLY THREE DAYS MORE TO HE AR
THE MANHATTAN TRIO
"The Boys Who Sing Songs"
Gloria Swanson
and
Bobby Vernon
In a New, Never-Seen-Before,
Knockout Keystone Comedy.
"A Social Cub"
Two Reels of Fun
Sixth, at Washington
Continuous, 10:30 A. M. to 11
P. M. Matinees 10c
Evenings 15c, Children 5c
Coming Sunday a Mammoth
Super Feature
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events, & ball game, refreshments and
dancing will constitute the programme,
all of which will be free. Manager Mc
Donald, of the ball team, has offered
$60 expense money to the Puget Sound
team which plays Tono on Labor day.
He prefers the Steilacoozn or Smelter
aggregation.
CORONER CALED TO SERVE
F. H. Dammascli to Go to Anlerlcan
Xiake for Military Camp.
F. II. Dammasch, Coroner, yesterday
received orders to report for military
duty at American Lake, "Wash., where
the civilian-soldier encampment will
be held from August 26 to September
25.
Dr. Dammasch is rated as a first
lieutenant of the medical reserve, and
as such, is at the call of the Govern
ment for immediate duty.
Centralia Passes leaving Act.
CENTRALIA. Wash, Aug. 2S. (Spe
cial.) Yesterday afternoon the City
Commission passed final reading of the
ordinance providing for the paving of
Pearl street from Walnut to Plum
streets and Plum and Pear streets, be
tween Pearl street and Tower avenue.
Cement walks are also to be laid,
active construction to start about Sep
tember 16.
The timber and other lands owned by the
United Slates are a source of profit whlcu
Is criwlng yrarly.
E. I. Van. Sresar Accepts.
SALEM, Or., Aug. 23.-r(Special.) A
certificate of nomination by indlcldual
electors or urover J. Duffey. of Moro.
as candidate for District Attorney for
Sherman County, was filed -today with'
Secretary of State Olcott; The follow
ing acceptances of nominations were
filed: Bernard Daly.- Lakevlew, Demo
cratic candidate for Circuit ' Judge,
Fourteenth district; E. L. Van Dresar.
Portland. Democratic candidate for
Public Service Commissioner, Western
Oregon district. : ,- .
Towns to Celebrate Labor Day.
CENTRALIA. Wash.. Aug. 23.(Sr,e-
clal.) Labor day will be celebrated
extensively in Tono this year. Athletic
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Marguerite Clarke Talks of Heroines
Little Marguerite Clarke, who stars
this week at -the Peoples Theater in
"Little Lady Eileen," waa recently
asked, "What kind of heroines are
really most popular?" The wee favo
rite has her own ideas of a heroine and
it is interesting to see, that tiny though
Remainder of Week
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Kate
PATHE NEWS
Hughie Mack Comedy
I'm going on
the stage in
New York next
month.
So far as I
know now this
is my last pic
ture p r o d u c-tion.
Be sure .to
see it.
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No play of the year has caught the popular fancy like
this Every scene is one of pure delight. Young and old
alike respond to the charm and fascination of both
play and player. It's a rare midsummer treat.
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Here's a show that can't be
equalled anywhere. Eight reels
and every one chock full of fine
entertainment.
'The Raiders'
Triangle Play, Featuring H. B.
Warner.
ZTye
Oily Scoundrel
Keystone Comedy Special With
Fred Mace and His Gang of
Funsters.
Burton Holmes
Travelogue
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A Heal Samraer Play.
Today I'ntU Satnrdar
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ULOItlA'S ItOlAACU."
SEW TAD WTRHTZER HOPE
I'SilT ORCHESTRA, and special recitals
by Albert Hay Malotte every noon from
12:31) u 12:4j and every afternoon and
evening.
NOTICE TO PUBLIC
Will Soon Be Here
WATCH FOR IT!
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