THE MOItXIXG OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1916.
BOYCOTT Oil TURKEY
PROVES EFFECTIVE
NOTWITHSTANDING THE WAR GERMANS STILL FIND TIME FOR TOY-MAKING,
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9:00 A. M. ,fT- 6:00 P. 3L
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Today Is Bargain Friday Special Day!
It's Friday Special Day and means much, indeed, to thousands upon thousands of economically inclined
patrons. Besides this list of extraordinary offerings, there are scores of unadvertised Friday Specials,
designated, by special red price tickets in every section that will make your visit Friday profitable.
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MANY THEFTS REPORTED
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Wholesale and Retail Establish
ments Lose Large Amount Mys-
tcriously Price Thanksgiv- .
7 - Ins Day la 3 5 Cents.
BAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 30. (Spe
cial.) San Francisco answered the high
cost of living problem by boycotting
Thanksgiving turkeys, and -when the
wholesalers closed their -warehouses
last night they had 100,000 pounds of
the National bird left over, and in cold
storage. One of the largest wholesale
poultry dealers said today:
"The purchase of turkeys was cur
tailed 40 or 50 per cent on account of
the high cost of living. It amounts
virtually to a boycott.
"The housewives, without organiza
tion or concerted effort, simply decided
Individually not to buy turkeys, and so
the wholesalers were left loaded up
with unsold birds."
Business Reduced 50 Per Cent
Downtown poultry dealers said to
day that their turkey business had
been 60 per cent less this year than
last. A few dealers retailed turkeys as
low as 80 and 33 cents last night to
sell leftover birds.
Tn downtown stores today turkeys
were sold at 35 cents a pound. The
wholesale price ranged from 28 to 31
cents, one dealer said.
Wholesalers say they will not lose
by having so much leftover turkey In
cold storage. They will hold the stocks
for several months. If necessary, and
sell when turkeys are scarce. While
turkeys In other years have been al
most as high as now, housewives were
aroused this year, dealers say, by agi
tation against high prices.
Many Thefts Reported.
One peculiar phase of the turkey sit
uation came to light today when sev
eral shops, both wholesale and retail,
reported having lost a large amount of
turkey through theft. One store re
ported that IS of its largest birds were
stolen In the night.
CHICAGO, Nov. 30. Substitutes for
turkey had their places in many Chi
cago homes today. Salary earners
struggling with the high cost of living
decided in so many cases to eat roast
beef or pork or chicken or ducks, that
commission merchants on the eve of
the National feast offered turkeys at
4 and 5 cents lower than the high
mark of the day.
The cost of living, however, dis
turbed none of the inmates of the
county institutions and turkey was
served freely to the aged, the poor, the
sick, the insane and the criminals.
THRIFT CIXTSS ARE PROPOSED
Regular Plan or Work Outlined for
New York Housewives.
NEW YORK, Nov. 30. The existence
of an interstate combination of cold
storage houses to keep up food prices
was charged today by Joseph Hartigan.
Commissioner of Weights and Meas
ures, who, as secretary of Mayor
JNUtchel s committee on food supply, is
investigating the cost of living with
a view to effecting relief for con
Burners.
Thrift clubs to reduce the cost of llv.
Ing will be organized by the National
Housewives' League, Mrs. Julian Heath
president or me organization, an
nounced tonight.
"A regular plan of work has been
outlined for the thrift units." said Mrs.
Heath, "which will enable housewives
to reduce the cost of living by their
practice of thrift in adjusting their
homes and housekeeping to the pres
ent conditions and holding all prices
st as near a normal figure as possible
consistent with a square deal for alL
Tennessee Bulks at High Prices.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Nov. 30.
" ha Chattanooga Council of Women,
representing 6000 members, has ap
pealed to the Municipal Commission to
appoint a committee headed by the
Mayor to procure Irish potatoes for
publlo distribution at "reasonable
prices." Potatoes are selling here at
tu cents a peck.
M'KENZIE PASS ROAD AIDED
Federal Expenditure of $70 00 Is
Promised by Highway Engineer.
EUGENE, Or., Nov. 30. (Special.)
The United States Government will
spend between $7000 and $10,000 next
Summer in Improvements of the Mc-
Ivenzie Pass road, according to a state
ment made by B. F. Finch, senior high
way engineer of the Forest Service in
Oregon, to the Lane County Court to
day.
Mr. Finch stated that this amount to
be expended on the McKenzle Pass road
is independent of $250,000 to be spentJ
during the coming year In Oregon by
the Forest Service, dollar for dollar
with country and district money.
According to Mr. Finch, the McKen
rle Highway will have the first chance
for a part or all of the money. Other
roads will be considered in the follow
ing order: Barlow road, near Mount
Hood; road from Tiller to Trail, on way
to Crater Lake, Douglas County; road
Irom Florence to JSugene.
Flour Declines at Tacoma.
TACOMA. Nov. 20. Another decline
of 20 cents a barrel In patent flour
was a welcome Thanksgiving announce
ment, making a total decline of 40
cents a barrel from the high notch.
Jobbing prices are now $3.25 a barrel.
It has been estimated that every
square mile of the ocean is, inhabited
by 120.000,000 living beings.
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Photos by Bain News Service.
In the Upper Picture Women Are Making: Dolls for the Chrlntmas of the I.lttle Girls of Germany. The Photo-
jrraph BcIott shows German Workmen Who Are Incapacitated for Kield Service. Maklns Toy Animals.. The
Blockade Asjalnst Germany Has Destroyed Toy-Miking 'u an Export Industry.
DRILL IS RESUMED
Oregon Soldiers Can Only
Wait for Next Move.
TARGET PRACTICE IS OVER
Sister Writes Brotlier in Troop A
That Slie Sees Good in Service
and Thinks Boys Some Day
Will Be Thankful.
'Absolutely Removes
Indigestion. One package
proves it 25c at all druggists...
BY WILL. G. MAC RAK
WITH THE OREGON TROOPS ON
THE BORDER, Camp John H. Bacom,
Calexico, Cal.. ov. z. wow mai 00111
Oregon soldier organizations are com
fortably In Winter quarters, their tar
get practice over, the monotony of drill
has begun again, and there Is little to
do but wait for the War Department
to order the next big move.
Battery A was first to get us targets
nraetica over. Troop A naa xo wait
for Troop B of Tacoma before it could
get to the rifle range, but the troop
made up for lost time when it did go
into action.
While target practice witn an Army
rifle was new to almost the entire
troop, the Coast Artillery rule range
over which the troop did Its shooting
was new to all. Yet in spite of this
72 qualified out of the 80 who shot.
Twelve t Captain White, Lieutenant
Wackrow, Sergeant Wright, Sergeant
Looney, Sergeant Durant, Corporal
Jack Adams and Privates George Gore,
Buzby, Stewart, Dick Vineyar and "Vir
gil Venable qualified as expert rifle
men.
Recruits Develop Rapidly.
The rookies, who by the way are no
longer rookies, for they are aoout
ready to take tneir places in tne troop,
have developed into a soldierly lot of
sturdy young men, and they show un
mistakable signs of the value of Colonel
Wilder's plan of intensified training for
recruits. Since the 15 rookies reached
the border they have been drilled eight
hours a day. In the morning It la foot
drill and in the afternoon long, hard
road practice marches. Right now only
an expert could tell the recruits from
those who have been with Troop A
since it was mustered in.
War and preparedness for war mean
a sacrifice, not only for the men shoul
derlng the rifle, but for the women
left behind. I have been waiting for
five months for this situation to bring
out. not a hero in the rank and file,
because there was no chance, but for
a mother or sister to come out with a
sensible and wholesome realization of
the good this making of a soldier is
doing for those who took the oath. It
was worth waiting for, this letter of
a sister to her soldier brother.
Sister Sees Good In Service.
This letter, after recounting the re
sult of a Troop A Auxiliary meeting
and mentioning, in passing, the wives
and mothers of most of the Oregon
soldiers down here were "much put out
and impatient because the boys are
notbelng sent home," eays: "Some
how, as much as I would like to see you
all come home, I can't quite get around
this sof t-heartedness. I know you must
all be homesick and lonesome, but then,
sympathy and crying about it when you
can't help isn't going to help much.
And then, again, you aren't babies. I
think those boys will thank their lucky
stars some day for the training they
have had the last five months."
Members of both Battery A and
Troop A are comfortably clothed and
tented, and there Isn't a case of severe
cold in camp. Stoves are here and have
been placed in all the tents, and the
sides of the tents have been boarded up.
One would hardly believe that the
Oregon bar has an arm long enough to
reach to the,rder. Yet it has. and
the UniversiWof Oregon, the Oregon
bar, Portland and Troop A are going
to have the distinction of having a
member whose bar examination was
taken while he was doing military duty
on the border. He is Private Thomas
H. Maguire. a brother of Attorney R.
F. Maguire. Private Maguire was to
have taken his examination this Fall.
For a time It was feared because he
was on duty here he would miss his
opportunity. The case was taken up
with James B. Kerr, president of the
board of examiners. Mr. Kerr at once
wrote to Captain White, and the exam
ination papers were sent to Captain
White.
Private Maguire went to work on his
examination as soon as target practice
was over, and using Captain White's
tent as an examination room he is
working on the answers to the ques
tions.
BIG
GAINS
INDICATED
STORY OF RESCUE TOLD
CREW OF" TIJiY SCHOOXER TAKES
OX BOARD OIL TAMiER.
Men Suffer for 23 Days on Water-
logared Craft and Abandon Hope '
Before Help Arrives.
NEW YORK, Nov. SO. The story of
the rescue in mid-ocean of the captain
and five men of a tiny schooner after
they had suffered 23 days of hard
ships on their waterlogged vessel was
told by the officers of the rescue ship,
the American oil tanker Goldshell,
which reached port today.
The shipwrecked vessel was the Brit
ish schooner Arthur H. Wight, of St.
Johns, N. F., Captain Diamond, bound
from Alicante, Spain, to her home port
with salt. She was of 99 tons regis
ter. According to Captain Hayes, of the
Goldshell, the rescuers on November
28 found the Wight waterlogged, the
bulwarks, deckhouse and lifeboats
swept away and the sails and upper
spars gone. In the shelter of the main
mast the captain and crew were hud
dled, exhausted. The schooner was set
on fire to prevent her from becoming
a menace to navigation.
Captain Diamond said his vessel ran
Into a northwest gale on November 6.
From that time on the crew fought
hunger, thirst and the elements. They
had given themselves up for lost when
the tanker arrived.
AMERICAN LIST NEGLECTED
Foreign Section of London Market
Dull, Oivins to Holiday.
LONDON. Nov. 30. American securities
rere neglected, owing to the holiday. Clos
ing prices and the New York equivalent
were:
New York
equlv'nt.
Atchison luo
Baltimore & Ohio UO
Canadian Pacific 173
Chesapeake & Ohio . . 71 V
Chicago & Great Western 15V4.
St. Paul
Denver & Rio Grande
Erie ; 39 Hi
Erie lt preferred 54U
Grand Trunk 10
Illinois Central 154
Louisville & Nashville ,..13'.)',
Missouri, Kansas & Texas .... 8
New York Central
Norfr.lk & Western 1454
Ontario & Western K4V
Pennsylvania ................ 59 9
Reading 11.1
Southern Railway 2UH
Southern Paclflo 103
Union Pacific 154 '4
United States Steel 1404
Anaconda. (10 share) ....... 21
De Beers l.T
Rand Mines &
liar silver. 35 15-16d rjer ounce.
Money, discount rates, short bills and thr
montns' Dills, awoib per cent.
Consuls for money. 55; British 4s,
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A foot should equal in length one
seventh of th3 height.
Census Bureau Estimate Puts
Population at 102,826,309.
NOTABLE INCREASE SHOWN
Figures I'lace Oresron as llavin;
818,860 Persons, Washington as
Having 1,565,810 and Idaho
as Having 430,881.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 30. Population
estimates of each of the United States
for January 1, 1917. as determined by
the Bureau of the Census, which based
its calculations upon the Increase as
shown by the Federal censuses of
1900 and 1910, have Just been an
nounced as follows:
Continental United States .....102.S26.3O9
Alabama .348.273
Arizona ' 2.'J.UJd
Arkansas 1.7."3.03J
California 2.9S3.S43
Colorado 073.1s0
Connecticut i v-.j
Delaware '1M4270
District of Columbia Htirt d:u
Florida Xi4'.S39
Georala 9 str t.-.a
Idaho T. .- 43o!bJl
Illinois 6.11)3. 06
Indiana 2.SJU.154
Iowa 2,24.771
Kansas I,b4),77
Kentucky 2,3ti!,tiil8
Louisiana 1.843,042
Mulne 774,014
Maryland 1.8flS.240
Massachusetts 3.747,5t!4
Micnigan 3.O74.500
2,2W).024
l.HM.l.J
8.420.143
466,214
1.277.750
443,4T
Minnesota
M isslsipi
M iusourl ......
Mor.-ara ......
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey 2.1bl,lo5
New York 10.3(iB.778
North Carolina 2,418 859
North Dakota 752,200
Ohio B.1S1.220
Oklahoma 2,245.S
Oregon S4S,8
Pennsylvania 8,501.029
Rhode Island 620.000
South Carolina 1.0:14.340
mth rt.lrnt. - Til? TAn
Tennessee . . .
Texas
I'tah
Vermont
Virginia 2.202.S22
Washington 1,.V)5.810
Wet Virginia 1,809.820
Wisconsin 2. 513. 753
Wyoming lb.', 204
Outlviur Dossesslons
Alaska
Guam ..............
Hawaii
Panama Canal Zone
Philippine Islands 8,870,00.9
forio ttico .L,.3,0l
bamoa 7,420
707.740
2.21M.316
4.472.4;4
43. 074
804.322
4.S73
12.85
21 7.6OO
t31.048
Total TJnited States tll3.300.2SS
Enumeration by Governor, 1913.
t Police census 1916.
t Includes 45.123 persons In military and
naval service stationed abroad. -
INSURANCE PAID BY RADIO
Widow in Austria Gets
From California.
Award
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 30. (Special.)
For the first time the State Indus
trial Accident Commission today in
voked the aid of the wireless in the
payment of a death award. As far as
Is known, it is the first time that any
state has surmounted the barriers of
the existing; war conditions in Europe
to make payment of compensation
claims.
The case was that of Teresina Pon-teg-gria.
living in Stenico, Austria. The
Commission by wireless telegraphed $500
to her. the residue of a death benefit
after all claims were met, awarded her
as compensation for the loss of her
Extraordinary ! A Great Pre-IIoliday Underprice Sale of
w"sli0Goso.dl Kem.iia30.ts i
At 1-4: to 1-2 Xess Than Regular Remnant Prices!
In order to immediately make room for holiday displays we have nnderpriced our entire stock of Wash
Goods Remnants in a manner that will clear them out in a hurry. More than 2000 pieces in the assort
ment, including: Ginghams, Percales, Suitings, Zephyrs, Shirtings, Galateas, Madras, Kiddie Clcth,
Flannelette, Velour Flannels, Outing Flannels, Waistings, Voiles, Batistes, Lawns, White Goods, etc
It is an unusual saving opportunity for you to secure the needed materials for women's and chil
dren's garments and holiday sewing. Come early and secure the advantage of first choice at ONE
FOURTH TO ONE-HALF THE REGULAR REMNANT PRICES.
None Reserved. None Sent C. O. D. No Mail Orders.
1-2 Price REMNANTS 1-2 Price
A Great Disposal Sale of Hundreds of Remnants at an Extraordinary Price Reduction
Plain and Novelty Silks
Both Plain and Novelty Silks in a
gTeat variety of patterns and col
orings lengths suitable for
waists, trimmings, and all sorts of
Christmas sewing. It is a sale that
few women will care to miss come
early, for they'll sell rapidly when
placed on sale FRIDAY
REMNANT PRICES.
AT
Unrestricted Choice of
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The Marked
Remnant
Prices ,
Woolen Dress Goods
Serge duitings, Cashmere Coat
ings, Poplins, Mixtures, Cheviots
and many other fashionable ma
terials for both women's and
misses' garments. A wide color
range and the most popular pat
terns and plain shades. All quali
ties, and all to go FRIDAY AT li
REMNANT PRICES.
A GREAT PRE-HOLIDAY SHOWING AND SALE OF
Box MancOnerelaief s Today
166 A BOX FOR THREE HANDKERCHIEFS
REGULARLY SOLD AT 2o0
Women's Handkerchiefs of excellent quality, shown
in a variety of pretty embroidered styles, with pat
terns worked in white or colors. Three in a fancy
box, regularly sold at 25c, on sale Bargain Friday
at 16.
BOUDOIR SETS AT 98c
Regularly Sold at $1.25
Something: new and a very attractive gift. A
dainty Boudoir Cap and Slippers to match. They
come in all sizes, in pink and blue, and are put up
in a neat box. Sets selliag regularly at $1.25,
one day only, Bargain Friday,' at 98.
33 A BOX FOR THREE HANDKERCHIEFS
REGULARLY SOLD AT 63c
Handsomely embroidered Handkerchiefs- of fine
sheer Swiss, shown in an extensive variety of pat
terns in white or colors. , Three in a fancy box,
regularly sold at 65c a great special for Bargain
Friday at
HOLIDAY LACES AT 10 YARD
Values to 25c Yard
A splendid variety of most all wanted Laces for
Christmas sewing and underwear trimming. Linen
and cotton Cluny, Filet, Shadow, Piatt and Val.
those with thread-run points and beading top
points. Values to 25c a yard.
AN ASTONISHING SALE OF HANDSOME
Plush' Coats Friday at $15
Just in by express a special New York purchase of 35 Women's Handsome Plush Coats at an impr3
sive price reduction. They are cleverly fashioned models in 45-inch length, in superior quality black
plush. They come in all 6izes from 36 to 44. They are warmly interlined and are aston- S- cj fifl
ishing values for Bargain Friday at
CHARMING STYLES AND UNUSUAL VALUES IN
DAISY CLOTH AND SCOTCH FLANNEL GOWNS
Sample Garments and Broken Lines, including all the best styles. Values to $1.50 on sale Bar- Q r7r
gain Friday at OC
Positively the best values offered thi3 season, and those who attend this sale will be unusually well re
paid, for they will have choice from a fine lot of Women's Gowns, made of the best quality Amoskeag
outing, Daisy cloth and Scotch flannels. They come in all the best styles and in neat colored patterns.
Extra well made and attractively trimmed gowns samples and broken lines from our regular Q'T
stock, selling regularly to $1.50, priced for Bargain Friday at O C
EXTRA! A GREAT FRIDAY SPECIAL!
ANOTHER UNDERPRICED PURCHASE AND SALE OF
Commercial Wool Satts at 1.S9
Best $2.50 grade, full 2 pounds in weight
Not more than two to each customer
Promptly we took advantage of a special price concession of
fered by the manufacturer and secured a fine lot of Commer
cial Wool Batts at far below regular selling figures. They come
in one piece, 72x84 inches, the proper size for double-bed quilts;
are full two pounds in weight and are pure white, clean and
fluffy. The kind regularly sold at $2.50 on sale QJ-I QQ
while they last, Bargain Friday at V Of
Men's Outing Flannel Gowns 79c
Extra! Special for Friday!
Best $1.00 Grade A brand-new line of Men's Outing Flannel
Gowns underpriced in a worth-while manner. They are well
made Gowns of splendid quality outing flannel in full, generous
sizes. They come in neat striped patterns and are the "7A
kind regularly sold at $1 on sale. Bargain Friday at.... fC
A Pre-Holiday Sale
BOX PAPER AT, on.
BOX..... 57C
Regular 50c Grade
300 boxes of fine Writing Paper with
Envelopes to match, put up in a
fancy holiday box, in a good, large
size. Also Clothcraft Paper in a
neat, plain box 25 sheets of paper,
25 correspondence cards and 50 en
velopes the kind regularly sold at
50c; a pre-holiday offering OQ
for Bargain Friday at, box-.-fC
EXTRA! A FRIDAY SPECIAL!
Boys' Worsted Sweaters $1.49
Best $1.75 Grade. A positive price reduction on a fine lot of
Boys' Worsted Sweaters, shown in ruffneck styles, with two
pockets. They come in neat Heather mixtures and in all sizes.
They are warm and durable, and are the kind regu- tl A Q
larly sold at $1.75 on sale, Bargain Friday at lX.T'iJ
A Sale of Squares, Scarfs
and Centerpieces
Regular Values to i Q '
50c, Friday Only at 1
Extra! Special Friday!
An extensive variety of styles to se
lect from; all bright, clean goods,
and only one-half the regular price
to pay. The assortment includes all
broken lines and odd lots of Scarfs,
Squares and Centerpieces in em
broidered, hemstitched, scalloped and
lace-trimmed styles. The Scarfs are
18x54 inches and the Squares are 30
inches. Regular values to 1 Q'
50c, on sale at X7C
husband, Giuseppe Ponteggrla. The hus
band was killed In a mine accident jn
Amador County In May. 1915.
The Commission resorted to tne wire
less only after all other avenues of
maklns; payment were found blocked by
the ring; of steel the allies have placed
around the central powers.
ACCUSED PASTOR LEAVES
Departure Is Sudden, Following
Charge Involving Girl."
EUREKA, Cal.. Nov. 30. Rev. War
ren Hastings McLeod, Baptist minister
here, disappeared yesterday after he
had been confronted with the deacons
of the church, who charged him with
undue familiarity with a girl who be
longed ro his congregation.
J.-E. Neighbor, president of the board
of deacons, said, the pastor had fled
rather than humiliate the girl In court.
In Wieluszeka. near Cracow, there
are houses all made of salt.
Quality Is Economy
Especially is this true in the
buying of glasses. Don't' use
cheap glasses; buy the best.
See My Prices
Lenses Sphero In your own
frame n.OO
Lenses Sphero in aluminum
frame f 1.50
Lenses Sphero In gold-filled
frame 3-50
Lenses Sphero curved) la G. E.
glass mountings. .95.50
Kryptok Lenaea fS.OO to 13.K
Staples, the Jeweler
MORRIS ON ST.
266
Between 3d
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land 4th