THE MORNING OREGONIAN, 5IONDAT, JANUARY 8, 1917.
7
CONFERENCE WILL
BE RESUMED TODAY
Early Settlement of Differ
ences at Northwest Steel
Plant Is Expected.
NO DISORDER IS REPORTED
While Agreement fop Discussion, of
Affairs at Willamette Mill Has
Not Been Reached, Settle
ment Is Thought Likely.
JTegotlations between the striking
shipbuilders of the Northwest Steel
Company and Joseph R. Bowles, presi
dent of the company, looking toward
a settlement of the strike, will be re
sumed today.
At the same time George L. Baker,
City Commissioner, will renew his ef
forts to bring the strikers into confer
ence with B. C. Ball, president of the
Willamette Iron & Steel Company.
Thus far Mr. Ball and officials of the
lietal Trades Union have been unable
to agree on the basis of negotiations.
Mr. Ball positively refuses to deal
with the union officials, and the union
officials do not want the men to deal
with Mr. Ball unless they themselves
are present.
There the situation rests. It Is not
so much the substance as the method
of the negotiations that is keep4nj? the
two sides apart. Mr. Baker confidently
believes, and most of the men believe,
that if they once get Into conference
with Mr. Ball the differences that
caused the strike readily will be set
tled. Strikers Are Orderly.
While these negotiations are in prog
ress the strike continues to be con
ducted quietly. The strikers maintain
picket lines in front of each affected
plant, but the men are orderly and well
behaved. The non-striking employes
have not been molested either in going
to or from their work.
The employers have made no deter
mined attempt to break the strike.
They have welcomed all their old em
ployes who have offered to return, and
have given employment to a number
of new men, but as a whole the strikers
remain firm. Fewer than one-fourth
the normal number of workmen are
busy inside either plant.
Yesterday was a period of compara
tive idleness at both plants. No effort
was made to operate, but the custom
ary activity of the strike period will
be resumed this morning.
It is possible that the negotiations
between Mr. Bowles and the employes'
committee will be successfully con
cluded early this week, but It has been
mutually agreed that the men shall not
EO back to work until every detail of
the proposed agreement has been ac
cepted by each side.
lnion Proposal Rejected.
The union officials suggested a few
days ago that the men might be sent
back to work as soon as an agreement
IB In sight, and in advance of actually
signing the agreement. , Mr. Bowles
has discouraged this plan, pointing out
that when the men come back he wants
them to stay. He doesn't want them
to return with the possibility of going
out again.
It is understood that all conditions
with the exception of the wage ques
tion have been agreed upon by Mr.
Bowles and the men's committee. The
wage issue never was one of prime
Importance in the controversy, any
way, so it is believed that this can
readily be adjusted.
The negotiations at the Northwest
works possibly will have a favorable
bearing on the situation at the Wil
lamette. It is probable that if Mr.
Bowles and his employes come to terms
Mr. Ball and his employes will be able
to make similar terms.
The Northwest and the Willamette
plants are interdependent in their oper
ations. The Northwest works builds
the hulls for the Bteel vessels and the
Willamette finishes them.
It is estimatedthat more than 1000
men have gone out on strike from the
two plants.
HI
pas
ill
1 , -r. a. . v if ;i
. , , ' 'If
ft iT &y . 4. " v , 51 I
J . ill
I ML'
. ii mm l.y I I III " "
TODAY'S FltM FEATURES.
Majestic William Farnum, "The
Price of Silence."
Columbia Mary Plckford, "The
Pride of the Clan."
Sunset Mary Plckford, "Hearts
Adrift."
Stai" Pauline Frederick, "The
Slave Market."
Broadway "Twenty Thousand
Leagues Under the Sea."
Peoples Clara Kimball Young,
"The Foolish Virgin."
Globe Viola Dana, "Children of
Eve."
Attention
Bad Stomachs
Free a Twenty-five Cent Bottle of
Wonderful New Medicine
Just send name and address
Wewant every stomach sufferer to
try this remarkable new medicine. We
" have so much faith in it, have seen what
ii nas aone tor so many others, we are
offering- you a 25c bottle free. Stumeze
is creating a sensation -everywhere. I.
works like a charm. No matter if you
call your 'trouble gastric catarrh,
dyspepsia, indigestion, gastritis, mal
nutrition, or by some other name, in
stant relief and real stomach comfort is
waiting for you. Stumeze is welcomed
and retained by even the weakest stom
achs. It .promotes digestion to ideal
perfection, soothes the nerves, quickens
the vital forces and makes you enjoy
your meals. Take action now. Send
your-name and address, and name of
this paper to the Black Medicine Com
pany, San Diego, California, and return
parcel post will bring you a free' bottle
of Stumeze. Now is the time to end
your stomach-troubled days. You may
not see this notice again, so send today..
Please mention the name of this paper.
Advertisenient.
Biff Crowds;
Pleased Crowds
DATE SET
HIGH SCHOOL EXERCISES WILL BE
HELD JANUARY 26.
MARY FICKFORD AXD MATT MOORE IX "THE PRIDE OF THE CLAW,"
AT COLUMBIA THEATER.
value, with the thrill of the pirate
crew, the call of the wild and the sea,
wlt,h the improbable and the impossible
so'combined with reality that one can
hardly determine where truth begins
and fiction ends, the Broadway Theater
offering; Is a great success, furnishes
engrossing entertainment and played
to capacity houses yesterday.
Indeed, the . pictures of men and
sharks and devilfish, and the whole
gardens of undersea life, hold and fas
clnate, and seem like a -dream. One
looks for the signs of photoplay trick
ery, hardly realizing that these sub
marine pictures were in truth taken
at the bottom of the Atlantic in the
region of the West Indies. For although
Verne's submarines are now the com
monest things we know in pictures
yet combined with the marvelous Will
iamson pictures the old fascination that
held us spellbound till we finished one
of Jules Verne's stories is now carried
into motion picture entertainment of a
most unusual kind.
Captain Nemo and his strange ad
ventures,. coupled with the adventures
of some of the characters of Verne's
"Mysterious Island," provide the mate
rial for the photoplay, advertised as the
first and only photodrama enacted on
the bottom of the ocean. Submarine
gardens of indescribable beauty, "tigers
of the sea," ravenous-looking sharks,
one of which actually attacks one of
the adventurers, and other novelties
work Into a credible plot, which In
cludes a fight with a devilfish and res
cue, all on the ocean's bottom. Tor
pedoing a good-sized yacht, aid the
destruction of an East Indian walled
city over which Captain Nemo once
ruled, furnish excellent spectacular ef
fects ' in addition to the undersea
wonders.
The wonderful undersea effects of the
picture are made possible by the Will
iamson lens and lighting inventions.
The production Is attracting wide
spread attention throughout the coun
try, and played for nearly three months
In Chicago.
Benson Trade School Joint Ceremonies
Same Day Total In All Classes
4 Estimated at 400 to 430.
Graduation exercises In all the Port
land high schools, including the joint
exercises in the Benson School of
Trades, will be held Friday night. Jan
uary 26. City School Superintendent
Alderman, to whom the selection of
speakers and the date was left by the
chairman of the Board of Education,
has fixed that night, and has invited
several prominent educators to make
the graduation addresses.
No word has been received as yet
from those Invited to speak at the ex
ercises, but Mr. Alderman expects
answers within a few days. He has
invited Dr. M. T. Sheldon, head of the
department of education of the Univer
sity of Oregon, to address the Lincoln
graduates; B. F. Mulkey, former head
of the Ashland Normal, to speak before
the Jefferson class, and Mrs. Clara
Waldo to address the Benson students.
There will be no graduation at either
James John or Franklin High Schools
this term and the students finishing
the commercial high school will be
graduated with the students of Lincoln
High School.
The number that will be graduated
from the high schools this year has not
beei compiled as yet, but it is esti
mated that it will be between 400 and
450. The class is smaller than usual.
Approximately S75 pupils will leave
the grammar grades this term, and it
1m estimated that at least 600 of them
will enter the various high and trade
schools. This number is also unusually
small, perhaps 200 less than were grad
uated at this time last year.
NEW PLAN UP TO GROWERS
Yakima Viftley Fruit Men to Vote
On Proposed Changes.
NORTH YAKAMA. Wash., Jan. 7-
Special.) The officials of the Yak
ima Valley Fruit Growers' Association
have submitted to members the ques
tions:
A centralized plan under which busi
ness of central and district organiza
tions would be handled by the central
organization: a new contract which
will be recordablo. and will not con
tain the so-called cash sale clause;
shall the association continue to mar
ket fruit through the North Pacific
Fruit Distributors' valley or district
pools T
Peoples. I
flf-pi HE FOOLISH VIRGIN," a plc
I turization .of the well-known
JL and popular Thomas Dixon
story of that name, and Clara Kimball
Young, one of the leading stars of the
celluloid, divide honors on the Peoples
Theater' bill. Miss Young enhances
her already envied reputation by splen
did work in a film that will h.ave good
entertainment value to the average
film fan.
The chances young women take who
marry without knowledge of their past
history is the main theme of the story,
and the telling points of the novel
have been made effective in the film.
Mary Adams lives in an atmosphere 01
highly-colored romance, ana longs ior
a "Prince Charming" to relieve the
monotony of everyday life. In this
frame of mind she falls easy prey 10
Jim Anthony, who, through disappoint
ment, has become a criminal.
After their marriage Jim takes his
bride to the moonshine district of the
South. His mother, a half-crazed
creature addicted to fiery liquor, fails
to recognize her son, and at night
Bpies $10,000 in his valise and tries to
murder him. She only wounds him
and. after recovery, when the mother
dies from the shock of her actions.
Anthony and his wife are separated.
Thev remain apart for a number of
years, but he reforms and a reunion isj
effected.
Jim Anthony Is played by Conway
Tearle, who made such a strong Im
pression in "The Common Law." The
remainder of the cast is capable. Miss
Young's portrayal of the role of the
romantic school teacher is splendid,
for she brings out the varying moods
and shades of character of Mary
Adams with a sureness of touch to be
expected from an actress of her reputa
tion. Paramount Plctographs are unusu
ally interesting this week, with tur
key "punching" one of the novel fea
tures of the film. A turkey ranch in
the Southwest is shown. A lip-reading
contest is another attractive part
of the reel.
Sunset.
"Hearts Adrift." that early Pickford
success that ranks among her most
attractive screen appearances, opened
a screening at the Sunset Theater yes
terday. It Is a film of the desert island
type, and so constructed as to give full
sway to the "Pick ford Isms" that have
elevated this star to the pinnacle of
film fame. Incidentally, modest Mary
gives a beach dance in which she scorns
even the abbreviated surf dress of the
day.
Hearts Adrift" is the story of love
on an island, in which Miss Plckford,
as Nina, the little French castaway. Is
the victim of her love for a fellow cast
away, and fates decree that happiness
Is not to be hers. Thrown by the waves
upon the South Sea island, following a
devastating storm, little Nina soon be
comes mistress of the island and re
places the clothes of civilization with
grasses and tropical vegetation.
Then comes the man stranger to the
Island, Jack Graham, an American,
crawling up upon the beach after
battle with the waves that almost re
sulted in his death. Nina is afraid of
the Intruder, but he finally catches
her after a chase running over the Is
land. Then comes love to. the girl, ana
the man, who has left a wife in civil
ization, finally succumbs to the inevit
able and they are weddea after a rash
ion they Invent. The man is unhappy
and remorseful until their child ap
pears, and then his love for the infant
makes him forget Alice, the wife at
home.
Confession of the presence of another
Mrs. Graham does not alter the situa
tion appreciably, and the two, or rather
three, are very happy until a rescuing
expedition brings Jack and his Ameri
can wife together. Nina, from away.
witnesses the meeting, with its greet
lng, and sorrowfully takes her child to
the crater or the Island volcano, and,
despite the protests of the Grahams,
plunges Into the boiling lava.
"The Feathered Nest," a Keystone
comedy featuring Charlie Murray, Lou
ise Fazenda and Harry Booker, to
gether with a Paramount Pictograph,
are also exhibited.
member of the clan. On the eve of the
betrothal to Jamie a role played by
Matt Moore, Mary's brother-in-law in
private life strange folks step In from
the outside world and seek to separate
the two. In this they are nearly suc
cessful, for at the plea of the strangers
to pef-mit Jamie to reach a higher goal
in the world, she sends him from her.
Then, dissatisfied with her life, and
caring little for the island, Margaret
goes aboard her houseboat, cuts the
hawsers, and the hulk is soon at the
mercy of the wares. When the boat
Is ready to sink, carrying the girl to
join her father, Jamie yeffects a spec
tacular rescue. A realization of the
great love of the two results in un
molested happiness for them.
A hand-colored subject, "Baby Lions."
is especially interesting to children.
Majestic.
Behold the Bin Tamum millenium! ;
That husky exponent , of the strong j
man, that virile, strong, free Sd un-1
trammelled American of the out-of- j
doors miner, trapper, woodsman, etc,
doesn t appear in' anything but a
"blled" shirt in his latest William Fox
photoplay, "The Price of Silence." Fur
thermore, move up a little closer and
listen well. Scrapper Bill of "The Spoil
ers" fame actually wears a silk hat and
all that thereto appertains.
"The Price of Silence" is a propa
ganda feature, a picture dealing with
child labor that so severely castigates
the exploitation of the land's juvenile
that the Fox publicity men predict
that It will be the Uncle Tom s Cabin
of the anti-child labor movement. But
It's not only a propaganda film, for
there is a well-constructed story of
love and sacrifice running through the
five reels.
Farnum plays the role of Senator
Deering. in love with Grace, daughter
of his friend. Judge Vernon. Grace
loves Dr. Kendle and Deering man
fully steps aside. The Senator is en
gaged in a struggle to terminate child
labor conditions. Henry McCarthy, a
manufacturer, tries to bribe Deering,
but is repulsed. The mlllowner 'loves
Grace and sues for her hand.
Vernon dies of heart failure and
Deering discovers that McCarthy had
loaned the judge $100,000, offering
non-existent bonds in payment, and
that the millman was using this debt
to force an alliance with Grace. So,
to protect the honor of the dead friend,
as well as save the girl's faith in her
father, Deering accepts a bribe from
McCarthy and destroys the incriminat
ing evidence against Vernon. Then,
to keep his pact, Deering votes against
the child-labor blM. Then comes reali
zation of his unfaithfulness to the chil
dren, and a dramatic confession on the
floor of the Senate, followed by arrest,
conviction and imprisonment.
A comedy, and Fathe news complete
the programme.
C 1 &r a.
THE FOOLISH VIRGIN"
In "The Foolish Virgin" Miss Young
is seen in one of the most sympathetic
roles of her screen career. The story
is replete with action and is unusually
well adapted for , the requirements of
the motion camera. It depicts a power
ful dramatic story based on a theme of
universal interest. The heroine of
The Foolish Virgin" Is a young public
school teacher, who, when not engaged
In her work, dreams of the romantic
days when the world was peopled by
knights and' beautiful ladies in dis
tress. Never was a star better fitted
for the part and the part fitted for
the star. It Is a drama of today. Miss
Young's newest photoplay.
crammed with new
heart appeal.
Only today, tomorrow, Wednesday
The screen's supremely beautiful emotional star,
imball Young
In a heart-gripping, swift-moving, modern dramatic
triumph,
"The Foolish Virgin"
By Thomas Dixon, author of "The Birth of a Nation."
x Fascinating Pictographs, Too.
PEOPLES
ALDER AT WEST PARK
y 11 A. M. to
ZXZZ0 i 11 P.M.
i0000 1.1 Matinees
Young's newest photoplay, w, IOC
crammed with new ( t ' I I
heart appeal. elit V. 1 J1
-22osively 0nly ' - 'ii
rrrZZZ' Three Days : p
DOCTOR FEES ARE SAME
Broadway.
"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under
the Sea, the eight-reel Universal pic
turization of the famous Jules Verne
story of that name, is a film novelty.
a photodraraatic sensation. As an ad
ventura story, of much educational
Star.
Pirates and pirate ships, chests of
gold, man-to-man battles, a captured
beauty and other ingredients of those
fearsome days of the swashbuckling
rovers of the sea are presented in "The
Slave Market," Famous Flayers sjjr-
"8 urama 01 me Spanish Main on
exhibition at the Star Theater. Pauline
Frederick and Thomas Meighan are the
central figures in this entertaining
DUUJWl,
Miss Frederick Is Ram on d
of the governor of Port Royal. The
Bin is anenaing school In Spain, and
there meets John Barton, a penniless
soldier of fortune. Barton hears of a
huge treasure burled by Firebrand, a
notorious pirate, and secures plans of
the spot where the treasure is concealed.
Ramona sails for home and Barton
departs on the same shiD. ITlrehranrt
attacks the ship and captures Ramona
as part or his booty after Barton has
been knocked overboard while fighting
in ner aeiense. Anna, .f irebrand s for
mer favorite, is intensely jealous of
the new arrival, but she has little cause
for such, as Ramona repulses the ni-
rate's advances and is confined in m.
cabin.
Barton makes his way ashore and
stumbles upon the cabin where Ramona
is a prisoner. Anna carries the story
to Firebrand. Firebrand rushes to the
cabin, and in a strugrgrle with Ramona
he is killed. Ramona is denounced by
Anna, and the captive is offered for
public sale to the highest bidder. Mean
while Barton has found the treasure
and comes back to find Ramona on the
slave block, with a horde of men fran
tically bidding for the beauty. Plung
ing into the crowd he fights his way
to the front and forces the bidding
until, after a stirring scene, he sue
ceeds in vanquishing his rivals and
rides off triumphant in search of
minister.
The picture is unusually rich In pho
tographic effects, the production being
filmed In Cuba. A Gaumont scenic pre
sents some splendid ocean storm views.
Colombia.
Better than "Less Than the Dust,"
her first Artcraft release, and a pic
ture that retains all of the Plckford
charm, and gies the spectator some
thing truly worth while in convincing
atmosphere . of a storm-tossed coast,
"The .Pride -Of the Clan," Is more nearly
like "Tess of the Storm Country" than
any of her other film vehicles.
Attaches garbed in the conventional
Scotch kilts, Scotch music, and the
burr of the Celts, the last conveyed to
the spectator through production sub
titles, contribute to the atmosphere
sustained throughout the picture. In
this atmosphere and in the midst of a
small group of fisherfolk living on a
wind-swept and ocean-ruled island of
rocks, is presented Jlss Pickford as
Margaret MacTavish, head of the clan
MacTavish. The girl is not head of
the clan when the story opens, but
when a terrific storm wrecks her fa
ther's fishing smack, then the girl is
called upon to preside over the desti
nies of the people of the island.
The rule of the girl Is of a light
character, and she is left to devote her
time to a love affair with Jamie Camp
bell, a young fisherman who is not a
COST OK SICKNESS NOT' TO RISE I3T
PORTLAND.
The beautiful, talented favorite of stage and screen,
Pauline Frederick
With Thomas Meighan and other noted players in
95
66
an extraordinary drama of stirring appeal a tale of
pirates, buried treasure, exciting adventure and romantic
love. An exquisite Star scenic, too.
m Phone Slain
ir vr 3452
5-
x 4
TiheS
Washington at
Park
Coming
Thursday:
Jack Pickford,
Louise Huff in
"Great
Expectations"
President and Secretary f City and
County Medical Association Say
no lUae Is Contemplated.
The cost of being sick will be
no greater in Portland this year than
it was last, at least insofar as doctors
fees are concerned. And this in spite
of the fact that physicians in Boston
and other cities of the country are
making a concerted move for the ad
vance of fees.
It will cost no more to be born this
year than in previous years. The cus
tomary fee of $25 for presiding at such
an event will be charged by physicians
as before.
Dr. J. M. Short, president of the City
and County Medical Association, de
clared yesterday that no move was
contemplated for the raising of the
fees at present charged by physicians
in Portland.
Dr. J. Guy Strohm, secretary of the
City and County Medical Association,
said that any concerted action for rais
ing the fees here would necessarily
orisrlnate In that organization. He said
no such action was considered likely
Just now.
Advices received from Boston are
that tha increase in doctors fees went
into effect there after tha first of the
year.
vant. E. A. Vaughn ana 1 nomas
Vaughn, and the addresses win cover
the history of the dental proiession
and some of the most important mod
ern discoveries in it.
AUTO UPSETS; 3 INJURED
Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Hatton and J.
A. Stevens Canght Cnder Car.
O. A. Hatton, of Capitol Hill; Mrs.
Hatton and O. A. Stevens, 108 H Union
avenue, were caught under an automo
bile which, rolled down an embank
ment with them one mile south of Rlv
erview Cemetery, late Saturday. Mr.
Hatton. who was driving, says the ac
cident was due to blinding headlights
on a truck owned by the Commercial
Delivery Company and driven by
George Vantasel.
The Hatton party was en route to
Tualatin to install officers in the Unit
ed Artisans.
Mr. and Mrs. Hatton were bruised
and Mr. Stevens sustained a wrenched
back. ,
The driver of the truck assisted the
injured persons from under the car.
Hood River Masons Install Officers.
HOOD RIVER, Or.. Jan. 7. (Spe
cial.) Officers for the ensuing year of
the local -chapter. Royal Arch Masons,
were Installed here last night, as fol
lows: H. L. Dumble. high priest; A. D.
Moe. king; J. K. Carson, scribe; E. O.
Blanchar. treasurer: Frank Chandler,
secretary; C. K Marshall, captain of
host; W. J. Baker, royal arch captain;
A. F. Howes, master of third veil; D.
McDonald, master of second yell; W. L
Clark, master of first veil, and Walter
WnMer. sentinel.
Valued Rosary Beads Lost.
The loss of a set of highly prized
J rosary beads, a Christmas gift from a
iriena wno is iar away, causea griei
to Miss Sarah Doland, yesterday. The
beads were lost either on Fifteenth be
tween Couch and Washington" streets
or on the Twenty-third-street car. They
were amethyst with gold links and
crucifix and Miss Doland has offered
a reward for their return to her at the
Hotel Portland.
Dentists to Rule at Lunclieon.
Dentists will have charge of the
programme or the Rotary Club at the
Benson Hotel at noon today. Speakers
will be Drs. B. K. Hamm, H. F. Sturde-
rtl Till
5 1
Not for seven years has America's
Sweetest Singer,
Richard J. Jose
Been heard in Portland. On that oc
casion, at $1.00 admission, thou
sands were turned away.
He's Coming Again Next
Sunday at
Sunset Theater
in
21
ir
u
u
li
-ir
A.--
if
i i '
NOW PLAYING
That Great Film Triumph
Jules-Verne's
20,000
Leagues
NOW PLAYING
William
Farnum
in
The
Price
2i
Silence
Until Thursday Only
M
Under the Sea
The first and only photo-drama enacted on
the bottom of the ocean. Capacity houses
at the Big Broadway Theater yesterday.
11 A. M. to 11 P. M. .
Admission 15 Cents
3
Children 5
j
' r ii ii i
SHOW STARTS
11 tOO A. l.
12j4S P. M. rtM I. M.
SiSO PVM. 7:4.1 I. M.
4ll3 P. M. 8s30 P. M.
?
Loffes 50
.it
if
MARY
PICKFORD
171
......... ..-.Jr- . rzZ' 'Z . ' A i
m.imim ijnm I. .Mimiil I'H 1 IW . "m IM'")w W
- ;i
HEARTS
ADRIFT
at the
SUNSET
3
i