GOVERNQRHAS PLAN TO TUX ALL AUTOS Personal Property Assessment Would Be Collected With License Fee. MONEY NEEDED. HE SAYS Estimate Is Based on 40,000 Cars at $4 0 Each Revenue Intended to Cover Six Pep Cent Limita tion Deficiencies. SALEM, Or., Dec. 10. (Special.) Governor Withycombe is evolving: a plan -which, regardless of the 6 per cent limitation amendment, may give the Legislature ample leeway to care for the state institutions, increase the present highway fund by approximately $134,000 a year, provide a maintenance fund of $450,000 to be spread around among the state institutions during the next two years, and all without a bond Issue and by the process of rounding up automobile owners who dodge the personal tax on their machines as as sessed by County Assessors. The plan of the Governor, when shipped into shape, will probably be first placed before the State Highway Commission and later the Legislature. Under the plan proposed he would consolidate the regularly imposed auto mobile license tax on motor vehicles and the personal property tax, but have the entire administration of col lecting motor vehicle taxes centered on the state. He suggests as a method of simplicity to merely raise the license tax fee to a sufficient amount to cover the license tax and the personal prop erty tax. as well. Estimate Is 40,000 Cars. He estimates that there will be at least 40,000 automobiles in the state next year. Using as a basis $10 a car, this would raise a total of $400,000 a year, or $800,000 for the biennium. He estimates the cost of administration, euch as collecting the license fees and cost of tags and incidentals, at about 3 8 per cent of the amount to be derived Jjom the taxation. The balance he would throw entirely Into the state highway fund. The pres ent state highway fund amounts to a onetquarter of a mill tax on the as sessed valuation of the state, which has been returning approximately $230,000 annually. Under the new assessed val uation, however, which has dropped to about $800,000,000, the amount raised will be approximately $225,000 annually, or $450,000 for the biennium. It is the proposal, when the increased highway fund is raised under the auto mobile tax plan, to turn the quarter f a mill tax now raised for state high way purposes over to the state institu tions, to be used for their maintenance. "I am opposed to making any partic ular increases in corporation taxes at this time, at least," stated Governor Withycombe. in discussing his new proposal. "The state needs new indus tries and payrolls and should carefully avoid any moves which will tend to ward either keeping new capital from the state or driving away industries already here. Bonding Scheme Not Liked. "I don't like the bonding scheme, if we can avoid it. "Under the proposal, which I believe should be indorsed, of creating a non ealaried Highway Commission, com posed of citizens who would serve from patriotic motives, and given the serv ices of a competent engineer, the state highway construction would be placed on an efficient basis, which would mean big things for Oregon. "The state educational Institutions are in a bad way for funds, and it is my intense hope to see some measure provided to give them adequate sup port. "The millage plan ' for the state's schools, when originally conceived, was based on the theory that the advancing assessed valuation of the state from year to year would mean additional funds for them. But the decreased as cessed valuation has resulted in a Beri ous situation for the University of Ore Con, Oregon Agricultural College, and the Normal School at Monmouth. Some Provision Necessary. "Some little money might be saved ty discontinuing appropriations to char itable institutions, as has been eug Rested, but I fail to see where it would accomplish much in the long run. The wards of these schools would have to be cared for in some manner and the expense would fall on the state at the end anyway. I doubt if any plan to dis continue such appropriations will meet with success, and I am also somewhat doubtful as to the advisability of it. "The bonding plan for roads seems to meet with no general favor, as there seems to be a sentiment against long term bonds which eat up much in in terest. "The necessity for the objectionable features would be done away with by combining the license fee and personal property tax on automobiles, and throwing it all into a fund for better highways in the state." LA GRANDE VOTES TODAY Commissioner Asking Re-election Is Competing With Two Others. LA GRANDE, Or., Dec. 10. (Special.) fc One of the most spirited municipal . campaigns since the inauguration of the managerial - commission form of government in this city will come to a close Monday, when the annual elec tion is held. There is one City Commissioner to elect. S. R. Haworth, the retiring Commissioner, is a candidate to succeed himself; H. S. Brownton and Julius Roesch being candidates, too. The tri angular race is keen and first and sec ond choices will prevail. MM m -,i lOUSnouitiDuy m 1 z-- 1h;.. a iilSl'i Hi 1 tUJUJMHiA: if VirTAD 'If T jaw M. wjrv-y l Ik'i.. Illff mmmm HHilHliilililillllliilifllli 4 A. W ..-TV - ft" ! DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS IV ONE OF HIS 6 FATE," COMEDY ON EXHIBITION AT COLUMBIA THEATER. TODAY'S FILM FEATURES. Columbia Douglas Fairbanks, "Flirting With Fate." Sunset Clara Kimball Young, "Lola." Star "The Little Girl Next Door." Peoples Lenore Ulrich, "The Road to Love." Majestic Clara Kimball Toung, "My Official Wife." Globe Henry Walthall, "The Sting of Victory." Peoples. LENORE ULRICH, the brunette beauty, who scored such a tri umph in "The Bird of Paradise," has returned to the screen from her Broadway appearance in "The Heart of Wetona" and as an Arab beauty makes her season's debut in "The Road to Love," a picturesque beautiful photo drama with much dramatic strength. Star, story and atmosphere make the photodrama excellent entertainment of a type apart from the ordinary. Beautiful desert scenes, with camel caravans silhouetted against the" sky. Algerian bazaars, sand storm and other features have been utilized to make a . convincing portrayal of life in Africa, with all the glamour sur rounding it. Miss Ulrich plays the role of Hafsa, the beauty of her section, and nat urally much sougat after by many ad mirers. One of them is Roberts, a youthful American, and his attempt to rescue and win for himself this maid, already pledged by her father to an other, opens a chain of stirring Inci dents. Roberts is kidnapped, secreted n a caravan and consigned to the slave market of a far-away oasis. Hafsa permits herself to fall into the power of the caravan chief, and while Roberts escapes the girl is taken tc sort of harem for dancers and then auctioned off to an aged sheik. Rob erts and the girl are on Ihe point of escape when the father arrives, but a promised pistoling becomes a parental benediction. There is much Oriental dancing in the drama, and Miss Ulrich, barefooted and. in scant attire, display ing her terpsichorean ability. A strong cast includes Colin Chase. who was the handsome gambler in The Parson of Panamint"; Herschel Mayall, Lucille Wared and Alfred Vos burgh. Paramount Plctographs has many In teresting subjects for visual discus sion. Sunset. "Lola," or, as it Is styled, in its new garb. "Without a Soul," the first of a series of World reissues starring the beautiful and talented Clara Kimball Toung. is perhaps the most sensational photodrama In which this actress has ever appeared. It deals with a scien tific recall from death a rebirth or awakening from the dead by means of violet rays and affords Miss Young splendid opportunity for a display of her histriorvic ability in the picturing of contrasting characters. The eight reissues revised, some times renamed, and otherwise Improved of the World Company's Clara Kim ball Young films, present this star in her most earnest film work, for upon this series she built her reputation. reputation that earned her an Inde pendent company and rank as one of the three great feminine stars of the celluloid. "Lola" marks the opening of this series, all to be presented at the Sunset Theater by John A. Jennings. Miss Young Is cast In the role of a charitable and lovable young woman. the daughter of an eminent scientist. Her father has discovered an electric ray that will recall the dead to life, and, after an accident, he applies It to his daughter. The patient is restored to life, but the scientist who has over come the laws of nature has produced a woman without a soul. The daughter is alive, but there Is no good In her nature. Selfish, volup tuous and lacking in finer sensibilities. she launches upon a career sharply in contrast with that of her former saint ly self. She takes up with a lover she has despised formerly, discards him when fancy lead's her to another, and plays havoc with the hearts of men until fate interposes. "The Surf Girl," a Keystone comedy, reeking with bathing girls and rapid fire comedy. Is an interesting addition to the strong bill. Star. Portland mothers are particularly solicitous of the welfare of their daughters, or vice pictures are allur ing for reasons not quite so obvious. At any rate. "The Little Girl Next Door," a six-reel vlce-cruBade film that broke all attendance records at the Star Theater some weeks ago, ran true to form yesterday and played to large crowds at the opening of the four-day return engagement. "The Little Girl Next Door" is differ ent from the average vice picture. The portrayal of the methods of white slav ers in recruiting victims is attended by an atmosphere of officialdom that van quished many a censorship board The Vice-President of the United States, Senators, Congressmen and Illinois and TIIE MORNING OKEGOXIAX, MONDAY, DECEMBER HA H s v --4 DISGUISES IX "FLIRTING WITH Chicago office-holders galore are paraded before the vision. The film, produced by the Essanay Company, was constructed about the 1913 vice Investigation of Illinois. The State Senators are shown at the hear ings, witnesses are introduced, and then comes the stories of the various girls harrowing narratives of downfall or narrow escape from the toils of the wretches who prey upon women. The story of an upright District At torney, with a fiancee deeply interested in the lives of the unfortunates, is a part of the film. The efforts of the bosses of the slum districts to put a quietus on investigations conducted by the attorney, and to stop action when evidence was piled up for conviction, forms an interesting part of the pro duction. "The Counterfeit Vacation," another of the new Paramount Black Diamond comedies.- is a highly amusing addition to tha bill. Columbia. "Flirting With Fate" Is best Douglas Fairbanks one of the comedies. Which remark, to the initiated, is gold en praise of the ColumDla Theater's of fering. This sunny chap of the in tense personality and athletic super abundance has not yet appeared in a mediocre film comedy, which cannot be said of many of his comedian brethren. In many respects "Flirting With Fate" is the best Triangle vehicle he has had. A comical element of fear is the outstanding feature of the five-reeler. Of course, the story is funny, and the sub-titles are in line with the usual Fairbanks successes, but the efforts of our hero to evade assassination provide 90 per cent of the laughs and laughs are very numerous. Fairbanks plays the role of Augy, an artist who is rich in art but poor in purse. He falls in love with a beau tiful girl (Jewel Carmen), but the girl's aunt has chosen a husband for her. Augy is too bashful to approach the girl properly, so practices on her chum. But the loved one misconstrues the ac tion and Augy is discarded. Penniless, robbed of the painting of the girl, and thoroughly discouraged, Augy tries sui cide via the gas route, but his meter Is bankrupt. Then comes the Inspiration, born at a saloon bar, and Augy pays automatic Joe. inrajliole assassin, $50 to shuffle him off at some unexpected moment. But no sooner is the bargain made than Augy's girl forgives him. the picture is returned and a kindly relative dies, leaving the artist a million. So Augy works strenuously. In many hirsute dis guises, to evade the champion killer. Eventually it develops that Joe has reformed, joined the Salvation Army, and is chasing Augy to pay him back the 150. "The High Diver's Revenge." a two- reel L-LO comedy, dealing with stage life front and rear and another splendid Northwest scenic, are on. the programme. , Majestic. "My Official Wife" will always rank as one of the most successful and at the same time one of the most artistic productions of the Vitagraph Company. This unusually interesting photodrama. which stars the charming Clara Kim ball Young, opened, under the de luxe reissue banner, an engagement at the Majestic Theater yesterday. The story oilers every requisite for the making of a vital, brilliantly col ored and Btrongly dramatic photoplay, XNot only tnis, but the cast Is an ex ceptional one. for the players surround ing Miss Toung have since that time become stars In their own right. Earle w imams. Harry T. Morey, Rose Tapley, Mary Anderson and L. Kogefs Lytton, the latter the villain of "The Battle Cry of Peace." are some of the artists who are cast in prominent roles in this drama of Russian Intrigue. Aside from the dramatlo Interest. with the Russian atmosphere so well counterfeited, there is a wealth of real comedy in the story, which alleviates the ending, a good-by affair for the star and her paramour. Miss Toung plays the role of a beau tiful Nihilist who gets Into Russia by persuading an American to permit her to pose as his wife. Under the protec tion of the capitalist she is enabled to resume her plotting in the Czar's do main, and Is ready to assassinate th ruler when the American Informs the authorities of the identity of his fair protege. A Russian officer becomes in fatuated with her, and they are escap ing on a yacht when a torpedo-boat launches a bolt of death at the craft and an explosion ends the career of both. A Tweedledum comedy, with that funny chap Perez at his usual antics, and Pathe News complete the bill. Screen Gossip. Geraldine Farrar says she gets her self Into the proper frame of mind for concert work by attending motion pic ture entertainments. It was Miss Far rar who was so active in having proper muBlc set to all Paramount pictures. In a forthcoming June Caprice picture the crowd that saw the Tale Harvard football game is presented, while the residence of Charles M. Schwab, the steel magnate, also will appear. Someone has insulted Stuart Holmes the Fox villain, by crediting him with a Charlie Chaplin mustache. wmm , f, V ' 1 ' 5. All new Paramount Pictures are shown in Portland only at the Peoples all NEW Clara Kim ball Young pictures, also always the world's greatest photoplays. D o n't miss tonight's fine programme. POLICE UPON WATCH No Great Difficulty Looked For With New Traffic Rules. PARKING RULES STRINGENT Three Streets Barred to Stops Ex cept to Load or Unload and Trucks or Drays Are Ruled Off Some Thoroughfares. POINTS TO REMEMBER IN EW TRAFFIC ORDINANCE. No vehicle may stand for a longer period than 15 minutes In the prohibited district between the hours of 9 A. M. and 7 P. M. Vehicles shall be parked with rear right wheel against curb and front right wheel not more than seven feet from curb. No vehicle shall be stopped with left side to curb, or to ob struct any street crossing. Vehicles shall not pass or over take other vehicles going In same direction at street intersections. Signal must be given by driver of intent to turn, either from standstill or while in motion. The driver or person in charge of a vehicle is demed the re sponsible person. At midnight Portland's new traffic ordinance went into effect. Patrolmen who have studiously familiarized them selves with its requirements, and traf fic officers, began to cast keen eyes about for the inevitable "first of fender." Ever since the revised traffic ordi nance was Issued from the press. In green Jacket with red trimmings, mo torists have besieged police headquar ters with requests for copies. Lvi dently the gasoline consumers earnest ly desired to be prepared lor tne pa trolmen, and certain of their rights and their taboos beforehand. The police have their orders. These are to arrest with a lavish disregard for the time, the place or the person. Bring "em In, is Chief Clark's terse edict. All of which isn t as fearsome as it sounds, for on the first minor of fense of the new ordinance the vio lator will be paroled by the Police CaDtaln in charge at the time. Woe to him, however, who comes a second time. He will repent In Municipal Court. Parking Rights Shrink. One of the most revolutionary pro visions, and from which the police ex pect a number of arrests to result, is the alteration of the parKing limit from 30 to 15 minutes. ' Within the prohibited district, between the hours of 9 A. M. and 7 P. M-. no vehicle is allowed to stand longer than 15 minutes In any one place during any two-hour period of time; while on Washington street. Morrison street or Broadway, within the district, they may not pause for a longer period than is sufficient to take on or discharge passengers or goods. Similarly, and during the same hours, no vehicle is allowed to stand longer than 15 minutes In the public market on Tamhill street, between First and Fifth streets. The market master Is In control of all street traffic In First, Second. Third. Fourth and Fifth streets between the south line of Tamhill street and 100 feet south thereof. Trucks and drays are banished from Morrison, Alder and Washington streets, between Second and Tenth streets, between 9 A. M. and 6 P. M., excepting holidays, unless to load or unload freight. Holidays Are Excepted. Holidays have' a special dispensation In the matter of parKing restrictions, for they will not be In force on Sun dav. New Tear's day. Decoration day. Fourth of July, Labor day. Thanksgiv ing or Christmas. In parking vehicles the rear right wheel shall be piacea against tne euro and the front wheel not more than seven feet from the curb. Parking Is prohibited within ten feet of a mail box or a fire hydrant, or so as to ob struct any street crossing, or within 60 feet of any Intersection where a traf fic officer is stationed, or in front of the entrances to offices and public buildings, or within 50 feet ofT'either side of the center line of certain des ignated fire stations. Rules of the road are comprehen sive and simple. They provide that vehicles must keep to. right half of street except when overtaking and passing another vehicle, and that slow- going vehicles shall Keep as close to the right-hand curb as possible. . Vehicles shall not pass or overtake 11. 1916. ONLY TONIGHT, TOMORROW, WED'SDAY the entrancingly beautiful actress Lenore ' ! - $ i r JLrxjk An out-of-the-ordinary photoplay of unfailing appeal to the particular of course, it's at Portland's favorite, The Coming Thursday: Owen Moore other vehicles going in the same di rection at street intersections, neither shall any vehicle overtake or pass a streetcar, either to right or left, in the prohibited district. while the streetcar is stopped to take on or dis charge passengers. Outside the pro hibited district the vehicle may pass to the left-hand side of the streetcar when so stopped. The driver of any vehicle about to turn must give a warning signal in some unmistakable manner. Provision is made for the adoption of reliable automatic or mechanical signals, such as have been tested and approved. Minors are forbidden to operate au tomobiles or any motor vehicle, when under the age of 17 years. - "except those minors between the ages of 14 and 17 years who have euccessfully passed examination by the motor bus inspector, and then only when ac companied by a parent or guardian in the front seat of such motor vehicle." Three Llgrhta Required on Cars. Automobiles at night are required to show two white lights to the front, and one red light to the rear. Motor cycles and bicycles mutt have a red light to the rear. In addition to the white front light, but may bo equipped with a red reflex mirror in lieu of the rear red .light. The provision for tilt ing headlights is designed to do away with the dangers of glare, and de crees that "all lights must be arranged so that no portion of the light, when easurea at a point 60 feet ahead of the vehicle, on a level surface, shall rise more than 42 inches above such surface." Pedestrians and approach ing vehicles will.be spared the daz- ling, direct beams that have been so fruitful of accidents by this simple provision. The new ordinance is considered to be a marked improvement over the old. and has been so termed by many of the motorists who have studied it. The police expect but little trouble before it is generally understood and is work ing with smoothness. KLAMATH MAN SENTENCED James Midklff Gets Jail Term for Failure to Support Wife. KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. Dec 10. (Special.) James Midkiff pleaded guilty in Circuit Court here today to failure to provide for his wife and family, consisting of two small chil dren. Judge Kuykendall immediately sentenced him to serve five days in the county Jail, and remanded him to the Sheriff. Midklff was arrested In Montana last April and brought to this city and placed in Jail, where he has been ever since. He was indicted by the grand Jury at the June term of court. In similar case last Winter, the defen dant refused to plead guilty, was later convicted after an expensive trial and was then sentenced to serve nine months in Jail, which was In addition to the several months he had waited after being arrested and before trial. SONS ARE PALLBEARERS Grandsons of Fred Bullard Also Bear Body to Grave. OREGON CITT, Or.. Dec. 10. (Spe cial.) The funeral services for Fred Bullard, an old-time resident of Ore gon City, who died December 4, were conducted from the family home, De cember 6. Rev. F. Wiereslek offi ciated. The pallbearers were Frank Schoen born. of Oregon City; Albert Schoen born, Robert Schoenborn and Harry Schoenborn, of Eldorado, grandsons, and Robert Bullard, of Shubel. and Chris Bullard, of Oregon City. sons. Mr. Bullard is survived by his widow, Mrs. Charlotte Bullard, of Oregon City, five children, 21 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren. CATTLEMEN FEAR RUIN Sheep Are Said to Be Invading the Range Near Bend. BEND Or., Dec. 10. (Special.) The invasion by Lake County sheepmen of range hitherto used by cattlemen has created a situation which. It is feared. may lead to serious consequences. Unless some arrangement can be made by which the sheep are kept off this land it is believed that the cattle owners will have to give up the indus try. The land in question is chiefly In the Benham Falls segregation, which is now withheld for entry on behalf of the Central Oregon Irriga tion Company. Overhead Bridge Adopted. MARSHFIELD. Or., Dec 10. (Spe cial.) The Coos County Court has adopted the overhead style of bridge for the crossing of the Coquille River at Myrtle Point. . Read The Oregonian classified ads. Ulrich In a transcendent Paramount Pic turization of warm, rich Oriental and American love a drama blend ing rare scenic beauty and the dances of Algerian maidens with a story of grip ping intensity: 'The Road to Love'' in "The Coney Island Princess" BRIDGE SITE SOUGHT POLK-MARION STRUCTURE WILL SPAN WILLAMETTE RIVER. Joint Construction Proposed at Cost of 250,000 Bridge to Be Made of Concrete. SALEM. Or., Dec. 10. (Special.) With E. C. Klrkpatrlck. the new Polk County Judge participating In the meeting, the County Courts of Polk and Marion counties held a Joint meeting here Saturday to ask the State High way Commission to designate a site for a proposed high-level concrete bridge to be built across the Willamette River at Salem. The bridge is to be built at a cost of not to exceed $250,000. The question of a new bridge at this point has been hanging fire for years, having been the BUDject or legislative enactment, as well as a numDer or joint meeting's. The Marion Court last year Included In Its budget Its levy for Its share of the cost in the bridge. Polk County took a similar action last week. There now appears nothing standing in the way of completing the inler.rnnntv bridge this year if the two courts can aeciae on plans for the structure. It will replace the present brldire cros ine Willamette nere. which ha been declared as dangerous to traffi and Is now being used under restric uons. PORTLAND MASONS GUESTS Nearly 2 00 Confer Masters Degree at McMinnville. M'MINNVILLE, Or.. Dec. 10. (Spe cial.) Fraternal relations between Portland and McMinnville were re newed last evening when between 175 and 200 members of Washington Lodge. Free and Accepted Masons, of Portland, ,were the . guests of Union Lodge No. 43. A special train of five coaches, manned by Masons, brought the visitors to this city and returned with them early this morning. Washington Lodge degree team con ferred the Master Mason degree during the evening and a chicken dinner was served to the visitors and members. Athletic Jitney Man Pleads Guilty. CENTRALIA. Wash.. Dec. 10. (Spe cial.) C. H. Moneymaker, a former member of the Seattle Northwest League club, who has been arrested on numerous occasions during the past year, was picked up again Saturday on a charge of third degree assault, pre ferred by E. R. Cheadle. Moneymaker pleaded guilty. Both the plaintiff and defendant are Jitney drivers, and the trouble followed a collision between their cars. Patrons Invited to School. GRESHAM, Or., .Dec 10. (Special.) The second annual "go-to-school days" will be Thursday and Friday, December 14 and 16, when school patrons are es pecially requested to visit Union High School No. 2 and see the school in operation. Ushers will show the vis itors through the building, and the different classes will be seen at work on their regular lessons. Principal Elmer F. Goodwin's plan being not to put on any special programme. Street Work Extended. GRESHAM. Or., Dec. 10. (Special.) The county has nearly finished the Improvement of Powell street with macadam, and will turn its attention to improving South Main street, toward the O. W. P. depot, with crushed rock. Superintendent F. S. Fields, of the railroad company, is making an effort to have the street improved its entire length. Scarlet Fever Closes School. KLAMATH FALLS, Or.. Dee. 10. CLARA With Special Keystone Feature, "The Surf Girl" KIMB At the SUNSET S1 I W7 Sei A Or