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9 FORD COMPANY IS LOSER IN COURTS NOTED NOVELIST AND NARRATOR WHO YESTERDAY. . VISITED MOVIE ACT IS KILLED Council Rejects Proposed Cer sorship Ordinance. Judge Bean Directs Verdict in Favor of Agents Who Asked Damages. MR. BAKER FIGHTS ALONE Mayor Albee Tells Showman to "Back TTp and Get Fresh Start" and Says Near Criminal Statements Were Used. NEW SUIT IS THEN FILED THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER T, 1916. PORTLAND " Stelg er s SfflDE SALE j if.m.in niiiim iiiii nnii. unsi s, i, nj.,..it .1 iiui w, , m.sj... . . in u n n imwuwy " : " ' -- - ': . r n;, nil.. i- - -- ; - JCnder Anti-Trust Law, Eugene Plaintiffs at Once Ask Three Times Amount of Award From Big Corporation. With a decision in the Federal Dis trict Court against the Foni Motor Car Company for a refund of $16,077.50 and 16000 damages. V. W. "Winchell and F. M. Hathaway, of Eugene, yes terday filed a motion for a Judgment trebling the amount of damages and calling for costs and attorneys' fees. Violation of the anti-trust law will be urged against the Ford concern in the new action. The penalty provided under tlie anti-trust law is that the party injured in husiness or property may sue to recover three-fold the dam age, with costs and attorneys' fees. The verdict for Jl6.077.50 and $6000 damages was ordered to the Jury yes terday by Judge R. S3. Bean, and in di recting his verdict he characterized the action of the Ford company in its deal ing with the .Eugene men as "abso lutely unlawful and wrongful." The whole controversy originated over the effort of the Ford Motor Car Company to control the selling price of the Ford cars handled through the Eugene agent. Winchell & Hathaway had been agents for the Ford company in Eugene for some years before the friction arose between them and F. B. Korman, manager of the Portland branch of the Ford company. The agency of the two men was can celed last Spring, on the charge from the company that they were not hold ing to the price for the cars which the company had fixed as the retail figure. Theik the Ford company caused to be repleVlned 37 cars which the agents had bought from them and paid for. The suit was brought to recover the money paid by. Hathaway & Winchell for the cars. In the testimony it was brought out that the Ford Company had threatened the former agents with a case in Fed eral courts, pointing out that two' small dealers could not afford to go to the expense of a long-drawn-out legal bat tle with a rich corporation. The motion for a verdict trebling the original judgment was filed immedi ately after Judge Bean had directed the Jury to return such a verdict. The at torneys for Hathaway & Winchell feel confident of the success of the suit, because of the precedent of a decision of Judge Bean on July 3, 1916, in the case of the Ford Company vs. Benjamin E. Boone, in which it was held that the measures taken by the automobile cor poration to control the retail price o its cars are in violation of the anti trust act. ' I. N. Smith, of Portland, handled the case for Hathaway & Winchell, with C. A. Hardy and Lark Bilyeu, of Eugene. SUNSHINE AIDS HARVESTING Xiinn County Farmers Have Half of Crop to Threslj Vet. ' ALBANY, Or.. Sept. 6. (Special.) Bright, clear weather was warmly wel comed in this part of the state today, for farmers in this vicinity have a great deal of threshing to do yet. Work will be resumed generally tomorrow. Less than half of the grain of Linn County is threshed, according to many estimates. George G. Belts, a promi nent farmer residing near Rowland. who was In Albany yesterday, says that in the southern part of the countv practically all of the grain is cut and half of it is threshed, but he says that in the northern part of the county there is much less threshed or ready ior inresmng. Clear weather was doublv welcome in this county today for the reason that this was tne opening day of the Linn county nair, at Scio. HOP OUTLtfOK NOT ROSY St. Paul Yards Sutter Mold and Prices Are Low. ST. PAUL. Or.. Sent 6. (Snwlal V The hop situation in this district i a very queer proposition this year. The crop was an extra heavy one. but mold has set In the past 10 days and. al- Tnougn some of the large grower oeaiers are picking everything, it seems most of the email growers are not going to pick their yards or onlv a small portion that !s the lightest where there is no mold. With 6 cents and 7 cents offered on contract and the bugaboo "free-of-tnold" hanging over that even, one cannot oiame tne individual grower for leaving hops "on the vine." It seems now as lr there will he about one-half as many hops baled in this district as last year. n 't 1 fl M ..." u J if - " ' - ' W I , . ' pi : f $ , . i " - , , ; I V- , -'" " JisL MARY ROBERTS RIJfEHART PHOTOGRAPHED AT DEPOT. WRITER H A 5 ADVICE Special Training and Sense of Humor Essentials. MARY R. RINEHART VISITS appointed. All I do seams to fall short of what I've aimed at." So you see this creator of "Tish is modest. She says Tish is her idea of what she would like to have been if she had been an old maid. The Rineharts have been following a pleasure trail for two months, camp ing in the open in Montana, through both the Tellowstone and Glacier parks on horseback and now they're going home to Pittsburg. Yesterday they all went upon the Highway. "I have seen something today," was Mrs. Rinehart's comment. "It is the loveliest trip of its sort I have ever taken." "Will you put it in a story with 'TiSh?'" I asked. Her blue eyes twinkled, "Maybe," she said. FREEWATER FOR HUGHES Organizer Finds Much Support for Candidate. FREEWATER. Or.. Sept. 6. (Spe cial.) A. A. Courteney, state organizer of the National Hughes Alliance, paid Xreewater-Milton a business visit in the interest of Charles E. Hughes. He was greeted with great enthusiasm and secured about 200 signatures in about three hours' work. ' Mr. Courteney states that the Hughes sentiment is growing and that he will carry Oregon by a great majority. If it is the same as here, Mr. Hughes will carry Oregon by a three-to-one vote. Freewater-Milton and vicinity have one-third the vote of Umatilla County. MAY HEIRS OFFER PARK Tract Centrally Located Will Be Given to City. HARRISBURG. Or.. Sept. 6. (Spe cial.) At the meeting of the City Council last evening the heirs of the late Samuel May tendered the town an offer of an acre tract of land, centrally located, to be used as a public play ground and park. Definite stipulations were not made by the May heirs and the Council is asking for more par ticulars before formally accepting the gift. Mr. May was for many years one of the leading business men of this city. His death occurred a few months ago .At jUa.jEgjrtlanft hpmy Author of Many Best Sellers Got Into Mood When Recovering From Illness and She Kept- at It. BY LEONE CASS BAER. There is no royal Columbia River Highway to writing according to one of its beat-known exponents. Literary work is all a matter of special train ing aided and abetted by sense of humor, says Mary Roberts Rinehart. But adds this writer of many best sellers first catch your sense .of hu-. mor. Which will, of course, handicap a lot of would-be-writers. That is, she added reflectively, if you want to write to entertain and amuse. If one writes only to instruct or educate, then per haps a sense of humor is not so neces sary. For nearly 11 years, Mrs. Rinehart has been writing and the list of her output sounds like a page out of a book catalog. She is an example of Just taking up one's pen arm writing. Convalescent from an illness, with nothing to do but look into space and follow instructions, she was seized with a desire to take up her pen. So she did and from that moment until this, she has written. Yesterday Mrs. Rinehart happened to be in Portland on the tag-end of what she calls a "marvelous trip." She didn't say "perfectly marvelous," and she's not the sort who would "perfectly" anything. Is Distinctive Woman. She ehould be put in a glass show case somewhere so that all who run may read and learn that all literary women are not fjumps. It has long been an idea that all women who write wear short hair and men's shoes and have souls far above clothes. Far be it from such in the instance of Mary Roberts Rinehart: "Clothes." she eald it with an exclamation of Joy. "rlove smart up-to-date frocks. I never affect bizarre things, but- I adore rare old stones and decorative Jewels, and as for clothes, I revel in "em. Mind I don't think of them all the time, and you mustn't give out the idea that my lire is bounded by clothes but it cer tainly is influenced by them. When it is time and the eeason to think upon the subject I give it quite as much attention as anything else of importance." She bore out the fruits of her labor of selection. A smart dull blue tailored frock showed off her lithe, athletic body in fine style and a good looking black toque crowned the dusky hair. A white fox had shed a perfectly good skin to lay at a lady's neck. Family an Interesting One. Mrs. Rinehart is the only celebrity I ever met who is married to a regular man. Dr. Rinehart is some celebrity himself and treads all over the general conversation. Possibly this is because his wife was merely Mrs. Rinehart. the wife of a successful surgeon and the mother of three lovely boys before she heard the call of the typewriter. At any rate he and the three- boys. Stanley Junior, a soph at Harvard and aged 19; Alan, preparing for Harvard, ana reaay, tne youngest, aged 16. are all good pals to their literary relative and they "boss her shamefully. Mrs. Rinehart loves the theater, is devoted to horseback riding, golf and bridge whist. Sho answers every letter she receives and they run into dozens day. As for my own work, I am eternally disappointed." she said. "My family must bolster me up every three pages, or my publishers must praise me or I am In blue doldrums. We never keep any of my printed work around RURAL SCHOOL PLANS OUT Bulletin" Is Issued by State to Aid School Architecture. SALEM, Or.. Sept. 6. (Special.) State School Superintendent J. A. Churchill Issued a bulletin on school architecture in collaboration with the Oregon chapter of the American Insti tute of Architects and the schools of architecture at Eugene and Corvallis. "Not a week passes but- what we receive requests from school officials, says Superintendent Churchill, "for plans and suggestions for school build ings. The Oregon plan of standarizing rural schools has aroused great inter est in having modern, sanitary build ings which win also be beautiful mod els of architecture. This bulletin will bring to each rural community plans prepared by skilled architects and will make it possible for small districts to have the benefit of advanced ideas." Requests of the motion picture the ater interests for another week's delay, before the City Council brought the proposed new motion picture censor ship ordinance to a final vote, were re fused by the Council majority yester day, and the ordinance was killed by a vote of 3 to 1. Commissioner Baker votea for the ordinance, while Mayor Albee and Commissioners Dieck and Bigelow voted against it. Commissioner Daly was absent. Passage of the ordi nance originally was urged in a peti tion signed by approximately SO, 000 persons. Before the vote was taken, T. Soils Cohen, representing the picture people, asked that action be postponed for an other week. He said the. picture peo ple had additional information to sub mit to the Council on the subject of granting appeals from the decisions of the present censor board. Right of Appeal Made Issue. Mr. Cohen pleaded for the passage of the present ordinance and stated that while there had been allegations of harmful treatment by Portland's cen sors toward the city picture interests. he was not making these allegations the issues in his arguments, but was asking for the right of appeal to the courts because it was a right that should be granted to every American citizen. "There is not a member of this Coun cil." said Mr. Cohen, "who has given us a single reason why the appeal to the courts from the decisions of the censor board should not be granted. "If an appeal board is all you want. said Mayor Albee, "I would suggest that you back up and get a new start. I will say that you had better come here with a clean slate and make an appeal on that basis rather than in the manner the fight has been conducted heretofore. Some of your members have come dangerously near the criminal in their statements in the past, in view of -the falsifications I would suggest that you wipe the slate and organize some of the more level-headed picture men and get a new start in the interest of an appeal board. 3Irs. A. I.. Stephens Appears. Mrs. Alva Lee Stephens, appearing for the Council of Parent-Teacher As sociation, declared that her organiza tion wished to confer with the picture people on the subject of a motion pic ture ordinance. She said her organiza tion feels that an appeal to the Munic ipal Court would not be a good thing. Commissioner Bigelow suggested that the motion picture people appoint committee to meet with a committee of the Parent-Teacher Association and Mayor Albee, to work up a proposed new ordinance satisfactory to all in terests concerned. This suggestion may be accepted by the picture people. After this suggestion had been made Commissioner Baker urged that the pending motion picture ordinance be held up for a week, but he was over ruled. The measure was brought to final vote and defeated. STORE LOCATION TAKEN HUDSOX BAY Fl'R COMPANY GKTS NEW QUARTERS. Lease Is for Five-Year Term LIQUOR TO B RETURNED Stuff Taken In Raid Will Go Back " to Its Owner. A quantity of liquor, which was taken at the time George L. Hoffman was arrested on a charge of maintain ing a nuisance, was ordered returned to Hoffman by District Judge Jones yesterday. Deputy District Attorney George Mowry served notice of appeal to the circuit court in an effort to prevent the liquor from being returned. Hoffman was found guilty of main taining a nuisance in the District Court In June and was fined $250. On appeal the case came before Circuit Judge McGinn, who released Hoffman on the ground that he had been found guilty on "stool-pigeon" testimony. POLK WORKS FOR HUGHES Branch of National Alliance Formed With Big Membership. M'MINNVILLE. Or.. Sept. 6. (Spe cial.) The first awakening of political enthusiasm here during the present campaign was upon the occasion of the Hughes alliance by Walter L. Tooze, of -oik uounry. Temporary officers only were chosen at the first meeting, con sisting of Mrs. Lottie Miller, chairman; Mayor George W. Evans, vice-chair man; F. Boyce Fenten. secretary; Mrs Julia -Gault, treasurer. Starting with a charter membership of 200, it is hoped by the officers of the alliance to increase greatly its enroll ment within the next month. Ap proximately 40 per cent of the mem bership of the newly-organized Hughes alliance are women. "PUNKIN" SH6W PLANNED Premium List Is Published and Of fers Many Prizes. JUNCTION CITY Or., Sept. 7. (Spe cial.) The sixth annual Punkin Show will be held In Junction City on Sep tember 21. 22 and 23. and promises to surpass all previous efforts. Plans have been going forward and, with the pub lication of the premium list, much in terest is being taken by the proposed exhibitors. Approximately $500 will be distribut ed in premiums, besides a number of special prizes. A round-up is being tolB bficaua.Xia-XfitenaljUd fiiSAfrdr la fio&aecuoa iwiui the show, Signed on Premises at 147 Broadway. Will Move Soon. The latest Important lease of down town property was effected yesterday when M. L. Gumbert, manager of the Hudson Bay- Fur Company, took out a five-year lease on the premises at 147 Broadway, just south of the Cafn Fiddle location. and immediately north of the new excavation for the proposed $140,000 building to be erected for the furrier firm of H. Liebes & Co. The Hudson Bay Fur Company has been located for five years at 111 Broadway in quarters only about one third the size of the newly-acquired location on the same thoroughfare. The store at 147 Broadway. ' which is owned by the Dolph estate, is 25 to 80 feet in area, with two floors and basement. The former tenants of the premises are moving to a new location. "We feel exceedingly fortunate In acquiring our new location, as we have found tHat suitable stores, with plenty of depth and with basement, are quite rare in the downtown district," said Mr. Gumbert last night. "Between $2000 and $3000 will be spent in fitting up the store for our occupation soon after October 1. Our factory will be Installed on the second floor of the new quarters." COWBOYS TO 'SCRATCH 'EM' Slogan Is Adopted for Albany's Western-Oregon Hound-up. ALBANY, Or Sept. . 6. (Special.) "Scratch 'Em. Cowboy," the official slogan of the Western Oregon Round up, to be staged at Albany next month, is becoming a well-known phrase throughout this section of the state.. Scores of local cars are carrying ad vertising banners and literature adver tising this feature and others of the big Willamette Valley Harvest Festival have been scattered broadcast. Hatbands to advertise the coming event made their appearance here yes terday. They are worn on the big cow boy hats which are the -vogue in Al bany now. ' BOYS FLEE STATE SCHOOL Portland Youth and Marshfield Lad Believed Traveling West. SALEM. Or.. Sept. 6 (Special.) Isaac Circus. 16, an Henry Loyd, 15, escaped from the State Training School this evening. The lads are supposed to be making their way west. Circus came from Portland where he was arrested charged with stealing. While awaiting trial he caused a sen sation by attempting to Jump from a second-story window. Loyd comes from Marshfield. Junction City Selects Teacher. JUNCTION CITYr Or., Sept. 6. (Spe cial.) The board of school directors have met and elected Mrs. Edgar Thom to teach the sixth grade on account of the resignation of Miss Annis Love, School CPS&8 t-aro September 25 with Just Three Days More TODAY, FRIDAY; AND SATURDAY Saturday brings to a close a shoe selling: event that in many ways has been the most remarkable Portland has ever seen. Remarkable because of the values. Remarkable because of the amount of g-oods sold, and especially remarkable for the unbounded confi dence of the general public in this store and its merchandise. A business founded on square dealing- always giving value received for your dollars is the explanation. 7 To effect a final clearance of all broken lines and to make Thurs day, Friday and Saturday real record breakers I Have Again Cut Prices The Women's $3.50 to $5.00 shoes and pumps that I first marked at $1.80 are now to go at ONE DOLLAR. The Women's $4.00, to $5.00 shoes and pumps that we've been sell ing at $2.80 will be ONE EIGHTY and $3.80 ones TWO EIGHTY. There'll be a lot of men's shoes and oxfords at ONE EIGHTY and TWO EIGHTY. They're worth $3.50 to $7.00, but sizes are broken. THEN THERE'LL BE Men's $5.00 and $6.00 CQ OA Shoes and Oxfords at tpO.OU Men's $6.00 and $7.00 A OA Shoes at apfKoU Men's $7.00 and $8.00 JCf Ai Shoes at q0.fi:U Boys' $3.50 Shoes are now 3 c ja selling at $DU Boys' $2.75 and $3.00 cb O in Shoes at tj.U Misses' $2.50 School Shoes t "I QA Now at tpl.OU Children's $2 and $2.50 Shoes Children's $1.50 and $2.00 Shoes. Women's $4.50 and $5.00 Shoes Women's $6.00 Suede Shoes. . . Women's $8.50 and $9.00 Shoes $1.00 80c $3.40 $2.80 $6.80 lESf:..' $6.40 It's Shoe Time All the Time. It's Buying Time Now. You know as well as we, that shoe prices are climbing higher every day. You know whether it will pay to Buy. Shoes Now. That's all. Staiger Slioc Coo By C. W. SHTVELY of The Shively Selling Service 292 Washington St. the following teachers: H. Mc Knight, S. E. Bryant. Ellen VanVolkln- burgh. Maurine Carroll, .Myulla Hurl hurt. Gladys Warner, Mrs. Edgar Thorn. Caralie Snell, Fern Holcomh Flora Hansen. Mable Hays and Maud Hays. Rain Aids Woodland Crops. WOODLAND. Wash.. Sept. 6. (Spe- J cial.) ' PIMPLES ON FACE ITCHED TERRIBLY Large, Red and Sore. In Blotches. Disfigured and Skin Burned. In One Month Completely HEALED BYCUTICURA SOAP AND OINTMENT "Pimples broke otrt on the sides of my face, and later became more serious and itched terribly. The pimples were large, red, and sore, and they came to a white head. They came in blotches all overmy face and one side of my neck. I was disfigured for the time being-, and itched and burned. T tried all sorts of remedies but could get no results. Then I tried Cuticura Soap and Ointment. They afforded results in a few days, and after about one month I was completely healed." (Signed) Mrs. I Shaop, 2338 King St., Denver, Colo., Jan. 30, 916. Sample Each Free by Mail With 32-p. Skin Book on request. Ad dress post-card: "Cuticura, Dept. T, Boston." Sold throughout the world. The rainy spell of three days which commenced with a brilliant elec trical storm last Saturday evening, has done much good to this community. a it will Insure fine Fall pasturacre, will help late growing- crops, and will also help the native hay in the bottom lands. The yield of native hay will be much better than was anticipated when the flood subsided In August. DEALERS Geo. Reed. 540 Eamt Oak St. Sehollcr's Phnrmncj-,600 East MorriMon St. Ben A. Bellamy Store. o. 1, Grand Ave. and Hawthorne. Ben A. Bellamy Store, Xo. 2, 264 Airier St. Ben A. Bellamr Store, No. 3, 142 Second St. Itlvervlevr Dairy, Thirty-fourth and Belmont. Portland Purity Store, 154 Fifth. -M. K.lne., 373 Vi Enmt BurnBide. Hiae Brll.4lh and Hawthorne. lSth-St. Pharmacy, 670 Alberta. I. D. Driver. 77S Union Ave. HomntMd Bakery, 6M Union Ave. Ivnolander Drug Co., 770 Alberta. Li. V T. Cream Co.. R. W. Corner Third and VamhilL It. O. Campbell, 3)1 Third. J. It. Dunn, 577 Washington. Vine Lodge Dairy, Thirteenth and Jef ferKon. Dan Ivcllaher, Grand Avenue and MorriMon. Mrs. SI. Iteed. 333 Third. Michael II arris. 354 Broadway. Superior Delicateaxen. 31M 6th St. W. H. Xeimeyer. 415 6th St. Pan-e Grocery, 455 JS. Burnslde. I,. Broock, 660 Sandy Blvd. Belmont Bakery, East 34 tb and Belmont. Mrs. J.'m Luncheon, 169 X. 21st St. Rupert's Grocery, 421 .Irffcrson. James Coolton, 674 Milnanklr St. Mrs. J. E. Cox, 1278 Belmont St. By Government Test the Pjirest Possi ble Food. Sold in Pints and Quarts Bricks Ready to Take Home or in Bulk at Tour Fountain. Purer. Better at Half the Price of Ice Cream. pitvts 15 arABTs 25e DURIXG SEPTEMBER. $50 ? ' R. T O IT If yon III send as a ime for this Froien V o o d Product better than "Frompnrt" Insistent requests compel us to continue this contest for an other 30 days. Secure Details From Your Nearest Dealer ,L. & T. CREAM CO.r- 125 12th, Xrar Washington. Phone Your Want Ads to The Oregonian . Main 7070, A 6093