THE MORNING OREGOXIAN. WEDNESDAY, . AUGUST 30, 1916.
DULY WANTS'
MORE METERS
SOIL PRODUCTS AT
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LATEST APARTMENT HOUSE
Vote of People Ignored by
Commissioner in Request
to Council Today.
Addison Bennett, Accustomed
to Seeing Prize Exhibits,
Confesses Amazement.
TOTAL SPENT IS $14;850
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Installation of Devices Goes On
Merrily In Spite of Decision
of Voters Against Them.
' Sop Is Given Users.
Commissioner Daly, continuing his
policy of disregarding the vote of the
people on the water meter question,
will ask the City Council this morning
to authorize the purchase of 800 more
meters. On tise basis of the cost of the
last meters purchased the cost of the
800 will be $5200. which, with 15625
spent in June for 850 meters and $4125
spent or to be spent for installation,
will run the total meter bill since Juno
up to S14.850.
The continuance of the meter instal
lation as rapidly as it can be carried
on with the present force of the water
bureau is in accordance with state
ments made prior to the election in
which meters were overwhelmingly de
feated, that metering would go merrily
on regardless of the people's vote. No
time has been lost in carrying out this
pre-election assurance..
Plan Receives One Setback.
The official vote of the election had
hardly been counted before Commis
sioner Daly began buying meters on
requisition. This was carried on until
City Auditor Barbur shut down on the
proposition because of the purchase
by requisition being contrary to the
city charter, which requires advertis
ing tor bids for anything costing more
than $250.
When this plan of metering the city
was frustrated Sir. Daly presented his
meter plan to. the City Council and
succeeded in winning a sufficient num
ber of votes to enable the purchase of
a. supply of meters which, it is asid,
were on hand at the city shop before
the order was placed officially. Then
In June a second contract was entered
Into for 850 meters at $6.50 each.
Meters Not Removed on Request.
The City Council allowed the pur
chase of these meters on the under
standing that meters would be taken
out of residences on application as well
as being installed on application. In
spite of that understanding no meters
have been taken, ut, although the
water bureau has had many applica
tions for removal of meters.
Mr. Daly and the water bureau have
been exerting every effort to popular
ize the meters. The latest move was
the removal of the sprinkling restric
tions against meter users, thereby
opening the way for them to sprinkle
when and as long as they please. This
was done because the meter user pays
for what he uses, yet the flat-rate
user also pays for the water he uses
but does not get the same privilege of
sprinkling.
BUMPER HOPS FORECAST
Sheridan Yards to Begin Picking
Early Next Week.
- SHERIDAN, Or.. Aug. 29. (Special.)
Some hoppicking in this vicinity will
begin the first of next week, while the
big run will start between September
8 and 11.
A banner yield is predicted by the
prowers this year. Estimates place
the yield in this vicinity at 500 tons
dried and baled. This means a 500 to
600 acreage of hops.
Some of the larger yards nave con
tracted their labor to Japanese pick
ers, but many of the growers are com
plaining oX an early season lack of
pickers. The prevailing wage to pick
ers is SO cents a box. The weather this
Bummer has been favorable, with the
exception of the shorts hot spell, for
the maturing of the hops. Picking of
fug-gl hops is already under way.
PRISON AVERAGE CUT DOWN
Clarke County Sheriff Says Crime Is
Iess Since Prohibition.
VANCOUVER, Wash., Aug. 28. (Spe-elal.)--Since
the operation of the pro
hibition law there has been a decided
decrease in the number of convicts
to the State- Penitentiary and also a
smaller number of inmates of the
Clarke County Jail, according to Sher
iff Biesecker.
During 1914. when saloons were open
here, he said, the average number in
the County Jail was 13 plus; during
1915, 11 months dry, with large supplies
on hand, 8; during the first eight
months of 1916, where most of the
liquor is shipped in, with small supplies
left over. 5.
Mr. Biesecker also said that the de
crease of convicts in the State Peniten
tiary is is per cent. -
THIEF DIVERTS SUSPICION
" Confessed Robber of Mails Often
' Involves Colleague.
iAn unpleasant feature of the con
fessed theft of mony from the mails
toy Arthur V. Kent, railway mail clerk
who was arrested Sunday night, is the
fact that W, A. Crosby, who worked
with Kent as mall clerk, has been fre-
o.uently under suspicion for thefts of
jiis colleague, and once, when money
was missed for which Mr. Crosby was
responsible, he. was held accountable
ana required to make up the deficl
ency, a matter of $95.
Kent was shrewd in his operations.
The mail while in his exclusive care
was safe. Once his chief clerk had
Figned for it, however. Kent seized
the opportunity when it came to loot
It or money. - -
BEND PLANS GYMNASIUM
More Than $5000 Pledged for Iro-
posed Structure.
BEND. Of., Aug. 29 (Special.)
jrjans ior tne new gymnasium which
nave Deen unaer consideration since
last Winder are taking shape and a
meeting of the " different committees
having the matter in charge has been
called for Friday night to take final
action. According to nresent nltnn i
building of two stories and basement
will be erected containing swimming
pool, locKers, ciuDroom, gymnasium and
auditorium.
More than $5000 has already been
pieagea ror tne bull-ding- and- favorable
terms nave been offered on the land
which is needed. Four hundred men
1 have put their names down for mem
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TODAY'S FILM FEATURES.
Columbia "Hell-to-Pay Austin,"
"Pills of Peril."
T & D "Gloria's Romance,"
"Fathers of Men."
Majestic "The Serpent."
Sunset "Still Waters."
Heilig "Civilization."
Peoples "Public Opinion."
Pickford "The River df Ro
mance." PARAMOUNT Pictures Corporation
has signed a long term contract
with the Klasslc Pictures, Inc.,
producers of Klassio Komedies, and
the United States Motion Picture Cor
poration, producers of the Black Dia
mond comedies, for single reel come
dies to be released by Paramount each
week.
The first release will be issued Sep
tember 25. It will be a Klassic Kome
dy entitled, "Like Father, Like .Son."
Since the Inception of Paramount
two years ago, the officers of the cor
poration have been using every means
to obtain a class of motion picture
comedy that would blend with the
quality of their features and weave
itself into the exhibitors' regular pro
gramme that would attractively add
to ihe type of better pictures, for bet
ter theaters, for a better audience, upon
which foundation Paramount has built
since its beginning.
Ia this endeavor, the officers of tne
company have seen hundreds of single
and two-reel comedies, tne great ma
jority of which were of necessity
classed with the comedies tnai were
built on a single characterization or
were of the slap-stick-class.
Tha addition of comedies to tne sin
gle-reel releases of the Paramount
Pictures Corporation rounds out their
service in a most excellent manner, as
they are already releasing, in connec
tion with their four, five and six-reel
features, produced by the Famous
Players Film Company, Jesse L. Lasky
Feature Play Company, the Oliver Mo-
rosco Photoplay Company and paiias
Pictures, three' single-reel features each
week the Paramount Pictographs, the
magazine-on-the-screen, Paramount
Burton Holmes Travel Pictures, week-
I u trips around the world and Para-
mount-xiray cartoons, animatea. motion
picture cartoons of Colonel Heeza Liar,
Bobby Bumps, Farmer Al Falfa and
others.
In Portland these pictures ar.e ex
hibited at the Peoples and Sunset
Theaters. ,
Another Big Star?
Frank Powell, the man who first
saw the picture possibilities of Theda
Bara and Blanche sweet, believes ne
has made another discovery.
This time it is Veta Searl, a young
woman decrlbed as the fortunate pos
sessor of "personality plus," on whom,
the eyes of the director have ested.
Hitherto unknown to stage or screen.
Miss Searl will be seen in a prominent
part in the support of Creighton Hale,
Linda A. Griffith and Sheldon Lewis
in the first feature of the Frank Powell
Productions. Inc.
"I have always believed," says Mr.
Powell, "that one of the most import
ant factors contributing to the success
of the player in pictures is that in
tangible something which, for lack of
a better term, we call personality.
Given that and with it intelligence,
add an Inherent sense of the fitness of
things, and you have the stuff that
makes stars.
"Take, for example. Miss sweet's
case. In 1909 wnen i was directing
comedies for the Biograph, Miss Sweet
came to the. studio job hunting. I
saw and talked with her and decided
to give her a chance. She played Cu
pid and appealed in three scenes. They
were enough. The next day she was
cast for the lead In "Too Many Hus
bands.'
"A friend wrote me of Miss Bara.
She had never been on the screen. At
my suggestion she waited three months
until we were ready to picturlze 'A
Fool -There Was.' She immediately
was cast for the vampire and the rest
is screen history.
"Recently I met Miss Searl. She im
pressed me as possessing in abundance
those qualities which make for prompt
and lasting screen success, and I en
gaged her on the spot."
How About "Big Four"?
Is the "Big Four," of V-L-S-E, the
distributing factor for such producing
concerns as Vltagraph. Lubin. Selig
and Essanay, to disappear from the
film world? It would seem so, for
semi-official reports from New York
indicate a sundering of the ties that
have made this quartet and a realign
ment with other forces.
The latest is that V-L-S-E has been
dissolved by the withdrawal of the
Selig and Essanay Interests, and that
Lubin has been absorbed by the new
Vitagraph organization. Selig and Es
sanay are said to be planning an alli
ance with George Klelne. who has a
strong distributing system. Then comes
the yarn that the trio are allied with
the newly-organized Success Film Cor
poration. Ben Hampton, representing the Amer
ican Tobacco interests, is the chap who
engineered the purchase of the Vita
graph Company. At the same time he
announced his Intention of securing
the Lubin Interests and hinted that he
had options on the plants of Selig and
Essanay. However, it seems that the
last named concerns evaded the absorp
tion in favor of a mora favorable alli
ance with Kleine. ,
Keystone Accidents Noted.
X. chapter of film accidents. "Los
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Angeles reports the following series of
horrible happenings in the making of
the Triangle-Keystone comedy. "The
Feathered Nest." Every principal in
the cast was Injured before the camera
finished its work. Louise Fazende,
Harry Booker and Frank C. Griffin
were nearly drowned before the Santa
Monica Life Saving Crew same to their
assistance. Miss Fazende. in a subse
quent water st int. was badly bumped
on the head by an oar, and rendered
unconscious.
In a croquet ' ecene an actor hit
Booker on the head with a ball, knock
ing him "cold." Again the hospital I
Wyland Trask. riding a bicycle, took
a header and was laid up three days
with a dislocated shoulder. Charlie
Murray, allowing 'himself to be run
over byxa hansom cab, had one foot so
badly brnised that he was out of the
picture for a week. Two stage car
penters were dashed upon a rock and
were rescued unconscious ty life savers.
Altogether the production of the pic
ture was delayed three weeks. This
seems to be the film accident record up
to date. We cordially invite competi
tors to beat it.
Screen Gossip.
Harold Lockwood and May Allison
are again at work in the studio,-af ter
several weeks devoted to picture mak
ing at far-awav locations. Mr. Lock
wood is spending leisure moments
learning to aviate, under the tutelage
of Harry Gordon, the idea being a "pre
paredness" one. Mr. Lockwood has not
yet been required to pilot an aeroplane
in pictures, but means to be ready
should the occasion arise to arise.
Margaret Shelby is enjoying a visit
with her sister. Mary Miles Minter, at
the latter's beautiful home in Santa
Barbara. Miss Shelby just completed an
engagement with Oliver Morosco in his
Burbank Theater production, "The
Fibber." Miss Shelby, who is 16. a bru
nette, and quite as charming as her
golden-haired sister, will very likely be
seen shortly In screen features.
Anna Lutner, after a return to
comedy, this time with the Fox com
pany, as a feature player of the first of
a series of two-reel comedies, emphat
ically states she win do nothing but
drama hereafter. Her big success in
the Fox feature, "The Beast," entitles
Anna to this decision. And it is well
known that when Anna emphatically
ueciaes anyininpr, that settles it.
The trout streams in Southern Cali
fornia are being "paged," so states Ken
Mctiarrney, the discovery . of Blanche
Sweet being the object. The castinir for
the next Sweet production was complet-
ea aneaa or scnedule, hence the frantic
efforts to find its star.
"The Fall of a Nation," the Thomas
Dixon war spectacle, has been turned
over to V-L-S-E for release by that or
ganization. "
Ann Pennington's acrobatic, ' as well
as dancing skill, wiH be exoloited in
her next Paramount picture, "The Rain
bow princess." It is a story of circus
life.
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Tuesday night, September 5, is the
new date se't for the New York pre
miere of Griffith's great picture, "In
tolerance." In the two years of its existence
Paramount has released 208 features,
two each week, ranging from four to
eight reels in length.
Milton Sills, Dorothy Green and
Walter Oland will appear with Mrs.
Vernon Castle in her first picture,
"Patria."
Alma .Reuben has been engaged to
play the leading feminine role in sup
port of William S. Hart in a new
Triangle Kay-Bee drama, written by
J. G. Hawkes. Miss Reuben is familiar
to Triangle patrons from her splendid
.work with Douglas Fairbanks in "The
Halfbreed." a recent Triangle-Fine Arts
release.
Courtney Foote, Morosco-Pallas' star
In Paramount pictures, is a direct de
scendent of Lydia Foote, the famous
actress, who later became Lady Har
rington. He Inherited much of her act
ing ability.
Henry Ford purposes nominating
Thomas H. Ince as a candidate for the
Nobel Peace prize, in view of the fact
that Mr. Ince produced that greatest of
all screen spectacles. "Civilization."
Mr. Ince's masterpiece has admittedly
created an epoch in the art of silent
drama production, and by reason of
that fact interested many noted advo
cates of universal peace. It will be re
called that Mr. Ford paid $1000 a seat
for a private showing of "Civilization"
in Detroit, August 4.
With "popularity" for her middle
name since she beep me a screen favor
ite in the Famous Players' productions
of Paramount pictures. Marguerite
Clark will, however, be- remembered by
the followers of the stae for her in
imitable portrayal of Shakespeare's
Jarvis in the revival of George Sinn's
famous drama. -"The Lights O' London."
in which no lesser theatrical favorites
than William Courtney, Charles Rich
man, Doris Keane, Holbrook El inn,
Thomas Wise, Jeffreys Lewis, Douglas
Fairbanks. Lawrence D'Orsay and
Thomas Seabrooke also appeared.
"For Miss Helen Slosson, daughter of
George F. Slosson, billiard expert, the
word "cue" has a different meaning
from what it has for her father. 6he
takes -her cues from the directors of
the Universal Film Company, having
become a zaoUos.-lctur actresa, -
Hundreds Pour In by Train and by
Automobile Potatoes Are Said
to Be Best Ever and Corn Is
Shown 1 4 Feet High.
BY ADDISON BENNETT.
SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON FAIR
GROUNDS. Aug. z. (Special.) Last
night both Chehalls and Centralla be
gan to fill up with fair visitors, and
before midnight sleeping accommoda
tions in both cities were quoted just
above par. As the guests are coming
in today in swarms, it la sure there will
be a crush at every hotel and rooming
house in the two cities. It is wonder
ful how many of the visitors come in
automobiles. The parking spaces pro-
viaea nave already overflowed, and
they were liberal, and there are great
lines or machines in almost every avail
able spot near the entrance gates.
About the busiest people on the
grounds this morning were the judges.
most or wnom were confronted with
more than one difficult problem. This
was particularly true in the livestock
departments, and especially in that of
the Holstein cattle, for the Holstelns
are the predominating breed on exhl-
uition.
Babies' Tears Flow.
In the baby ravllion Mrs, Dr. Slelch-
er was having a mighty busy time, for
there were some two dozen little tots
below 2 years of age passing under
wo scrutiny or the eugenic exnertn.
The floral exhibit, in charge of Mrs.
jv. j. jong. is one of the attractive
piaces in tne pavilions.
Somehow the products of the plowed
fields and the gardens attracted me
uncommonly strong. The potatoes on
exhibition were the finest I ever saw
at a fair. There were some 40 varieties
and it was a pretty difficult matter to
pick out the half dozen best plates.
How the judges will get it down to
singles is more than I can see. The
person who thinks corn is not "com
ing" in Lewis County, in. all Southwest
Washington, ought to go and see the
stalks on exhibit in this department.
some or them were almost 14 feet hiirh
and three ears- to a stalk was not un
common. V. A. Degeler, the superin
tendent or tne department of fruits
vegetables and grains, has everything
wen aispiayea ana nas certainly se
cured in both variety and perfection an
exniDit to crow over.
Single-Farm Exhibit Good.
There is a single-farm exhibit from
the farm of Carl P. Staeger, whose
place is at Dryad, a little town on the
bouth Bend road, near the headwaters
of the Cowlitz. He has 319 exhibits,
ranging from grains and grasses.1 down
through fruits and vegetables to
canned goods. It is a wonderful show
ing of the productivity of the soil and
the hard work and expertnesa of the
grower.
I never knew until today that the
Portland policemen were strong on art.
Never before did I know there was aify
connection between wielding tlje brush
and spreading of the colors of the
artist and raiding blind pigs and gath
ering in the frail, noisy of the female
species. And yet there must be, for
w. J. Machette, a former police cap
tain of Portland, who is now an artist-
farmer, living near Kelso, has a couple
of hundred pictures limned by himself
And some of them, particularly his oil
paintings of mountain scenery, are
mighty good.
In the main dicing - pavilion the
women of Centralla are feeding the
hungry horde, and feeding them well.
The structure is divided between the
Ladies' Aid Societies of the Methodist
Episcopal and the Presbyterian
churches, the former having the larger
space.
WAR SECRETARY SCORED
DISCHARGE OF ALL FOREIGNERS
FROM MINE-LAYER RESENTED.
Senator Jones Points Out Men Were
American Cltisens; Demand for
Copies of Order Ignored.
OREGONIAJN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
lngton, Aug. 29. The discharge of six
American citizens from the mine plant
er Ringgold because they were of for
eign birth was made the subject of an
attack on the Administration today in
the Senate by Senator Jones,' of Wash
ington.
A month ago the Senate, on Senator
Jones motion, adopted a resolution call
ing on the Secretary of war for copies
of the orders discharging these men,
all Scandinavians or Danes, but- the
Secretary has'lgnored the order.
Senator Jones today read a letter
from the captain of the Ringgold say
ing the men were ordered discharged
solely because they were not American
born citizens, and adding: "The War
Department' has decided that foreign
born citizens shall not longer be em
ployed by mine planters."
"While we have the right to insist
on an undivided allegiance and undi
luted Americanism on the part of those
who have had American citizenship
conferred upon them, do they not have
the right to be treated by the Govern
ment as American citizens in the fullest
sense of the word.?" asked Senator
Jones.
"This Administration has repeatedly
denounced hyphenated Americans, but
it has done more to destroy undivided
Americanism, it has done more to be
little American citizenship and it has
done more to Justify hyphenated Amer
icanism than any other agency. It h
denied to. American citizens the rights
and privileges guaranteed to them un
der the Constitution purely on account
of their nativity.
"Were they inefficient? No. 'Were
they charged with misconduct of any
kind? No.
"These men were American citizens,
discharged solely because they were
noV native born. It Is interesting to
note that none of ' these discharged
American citizens was born in any of
tne nations now at war."
Seven-Day Mail Service Wanted.
EUGENE. Or.. Aug. 29. (Special.)
Members of the Eugene Chamber of
Commerce were .today concerned about
an announcement to the effect that the
schedule for malls over the Willamette-Pacific
Railroad to points on the
Siuslaw, Umpqua and. Coos Bay pro
vides for a six-day Bervice. It is prob
able that some formal movement will
be started, with, a view to insuring s.
seven-day mail service for the Coast
region served by. iha sex railroad,
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The latest' addition to Portland's list of apartment-houses is that erected by Dr. H. F. Onjr at
the northwest corner of Broadway and Clay ctreets.
These apartments, which rent unfurnished for from $22.00 to $27.50 per month, are equipped
with the most modern conveniences, including hardwood floors, built-in ice chests, and full-size
cabinet gas ranges.
No expense has been spared to make the rooms as hygienic as possible, nooks and corners for
the collection of dust have been avoided, the woodwork is finished in white enamel throughout,
the bathrooms have tiled floors, a forced system of ventilation is employed and the heating
system is right up to date. f
Ventilating Gas Radiators
are used to heat the premises exclusively. Every tenant has a heating system of his own which
will give the exact temperature desired independently of outside weather or other apartments
at any time, day or night; there is no need to go to bed at 10:30 because the heat is turned off.
The radiators are equipped with a device which will automatically turn on the heat at any pre
determined time. This means a comfortably heated apartment on rising in the morning or on
returning in the evening, without waste of fuel.
The type of heating system installed here is particularly applicable to private residences.
Particulars will gladly be given on application to the Gas Company's office at Fifth and Yamhill
streets.
WOMAN IS RELEASED
Mrs. Zabriskie Is Freed When
Poison Test Fails.
PISTOL IS GIVEN SHERIFF
Officials Believe Death ot Glockner
Due to Own Act, Altliough Role
of Vampire Is Attributed
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OREGON CITY. Or.. Aug. 28. (Spe
cial.) Mrs Maude Zabriskie. who has
been detained since Sunday night by
Sheriff Wilson and Coroner Sievers as
a material witness in the probe of the
death of Fred Glockner. prosperous
Sandy merchant, was released today.
She likes Oregon City so well after
her brief and enforced residence that
she said today shie intended to stay
here. .
As a farewell token, Mrs. Zabriskie
gave Sheriff Wilson the 25-calibre au
tomatic pistol, which Glockner gave
her two weeks before hts almost life
less body was found on the Bluff road
near Sandy. The pistol is nearly new.
The gift Included the neat leather case
and an unopened box of SO shells.
Local authorities are convinced that
Mrs. Zabriskie was not directly re
sponsible for Glockner"s death, al
though they believe that she has played,
probably unintentionally, ttie role of
the vampire in as interesting a series
of circumstances as was ever pro
trayed on the. moving picture screen.
With the results of the chemical tests
of the stomach of Glockner made
known today, the puzzling aspects of
the case are rapidly being cleared up.
The chemical tests showed a trace
of morphine, the poison, which R. E.
Essen, the Sandy druggist, says was
taken from the shelves of his store,
and which Glockner is believed to have
stolen while the druggist was out on
an errand. The mysterious holes in
the walls of the stomach, which at
tracted so much attention at the post
mortem examination eany Sunday
morning, might have been caused by
anv of a number of things, say local
officials '
No inquest will be held, although
Acting Coroner Sievers swore in a
Jury last night at Sandy and the jury
men viewed the body. All here are
satisfied that Glockner ended his own
life.
Mr. Glockner was burled at Sandy
Here's the Big Thing to
Remember:
Today Is Your Last Chance
to See
Marguerite
Clark
in
STILL WATERS
And the Big Keystone .
Comedy
"By Stork Delivery"
SUNSET
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today. The simple services at the
Glockner home drew half of the town
and many from the surrounding coun
try, for he was well known and well
liked.
CITY'S TEST XOT COMPLETED
Mercury Test Fails to React, .but
Other Poisons Are Sought.
Whether Fred Glockner. the Sandy
merchant who died at the Good Samari
tan Hospital early Sunday morning,
met his death from poisoning, still re
mains an unsettled question.
E. P. W. Harding, chemist in charge
of the analysis of Mr. Glockner's
stomach, reported to Deputy Coroner
Smith last night that the work will
not be completed until sometime itoday.
He said that so far nothing of a def
inite nature had been learned, deter
mining the nature of the poison, if such
it was. which caused the man's death.
Mr. HarOinff completed the tests yes
terday for a number of poisons, in
cluding bichloride of mercury. No re
action was obtained in the test for
mercury, indicating that no trace of
that poison was in the stomach.
The test for arsenic Indicated that
there were large quantities of that
poison in the stomach. This Is not
considered important, however, owing
to. the fact that arsenic was use'd ia
the embalming fluid.
Mr. Harding was working on the
test for morphine last night, but an
nounced that it was not yet completed.
Other poisons will also be tested for
today.
BOY, 8, IS IN NEED OF AID
Operation. Necessary, but Widowed
Mother Is Penniless.
While so much money is going to the
cripples of Europe and to others In
need, a little widow mother in Port
land Is asking "Won't some one help
my 8-year-old boyr
Albert Mumbrauer is 8 years old.
When he was a tiny baby he had a
fall and since then his spine has been
curved and his feet, misshapen. Only a
doctor of great skill can cure the lad
and although the mother works dili
gently she says she cannot save
enough to pay for the operation. Lately
she could get no employment because
everyone tells her "times are bad." The
lad has a great talent for drawing and
in spite of his youth and disability has
done some clever cartoons. Anyone
willing to help this woman may notify
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The Oregonian. The widow's address is
494 Morrison street.
Strike Changes Singer's Plans.
Miss Jean Knowlton. who has been
In Portland for several weeks visiting
her sister, Mrs. Frederick Strong,
will leave this morning for her home
in Chicago. Miss Knowlton had
planned to go later In the Summer but
changed her schedule on account of
railroad conditions. Miss Knowlton'a
departure will necessitate a, change in
the programme of" Marion - Bauer's
songs, to have been given tomorrow
night In the Little Club. Miss Knowl
ton was to have been one of the solo
ists. John Claire Monteith and Mrs.
Sears will participate and Miss Bauer
will prrsid at the piano.
Now Playing
In the much-discussed photoplay
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GO TODAY
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The Celebrated Japanese
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