TIIE 3IORXING OREGOXIAN, WEDNESDAT, JANUAET 17. 1917. r - . - " " . . . ' ' : ' 1 n-uial I A SEASON OF ' EXTRAORDINARY ECONOMIES THRIFTY BUYERS WILL BE QUICK TO TAKE ADVAN TAGE OF EVERY DEPARTMENT OF THE STORE CONTRIBUTES ITS QUOTA OF SPECTAL BARGAINS FOR THIS EVENT. All nvesitory Double S. &H. Stamps Will Be Given Today With All Charge or Cash Purchases in All Departments . KnitUnder wear r - ; a Special Sale Center Circle, First Floor Broken lines of Women's Knit Underwear, slightly soiled, now Half Price. 75c Grades now 38 $1.00 Grades now 50 $1.50 Grades now 7o $2.00 Grades now $1.00 $2.50 Grades now $1.25 $3.00 Grades now $1.50 Join Free Classes in Knitting and Crocheting under direction of Mrs. E. B. Luscomb, fac tory expert. Art Needlework Dept., 2d Floor, 9 to 12, 1 to 5 daily JOIN CLASSES TODAY Olds, Wortman & King Reliable , Merchandise . TELEPHONES MARSHALL 4800 A 6231 The Standard Store of the Northwest. Reliable Methods Special 25c Lunch served from 11 to 2 daily in the Base ment Store. A good place to meet your ' friends while down town shopping. Shoe Shining Par lor in - Basement. 2 New Books You Will Enjoy "RHYMES OF OUR VALLEY." PRICE $1.00. "CHRISTOPHER CRICKET ON CATS" 75. BY ANTHONY H. EUWER. TheBookShop, Main Floor Notion Day-Bargain Circle pit Sewing Needs and Small Wares Priced Lower Crochet Cotton $1 Doz. 3 Balls for 25c Main Floor Extra special for today: Crochet Cotton in- as sorted colors. Priced 3 (CI Art balls for 25c. Dozen P 1 V CROCHET HOOK given free with each purchase , of cotton. 10c Cube Pins special at only 5 5c Phoenix Hair Pin Cabinets 40 10c Folding Coat Hangers, each 70 Ironing Wax Cubes, per dozen 1O0 8c Curling Irons now on sale at o 25c Sterling Skirt Markers at 190 Featherbdne Belting in black and white; specially priced, yard 110 35c Shopping Bags now each 210 6c Ironing Wax Packs at, each 40 Odds and Ends in Hooks and Eyes; priced specially at, per card 20 Defender Safety Pins, 2 pkgs. 50 25c Girdle Foundations now at 100 Art Gum, size 24xlxl, at 80 5c Pins with black or colored beads, priced special today at only 30 5c La France Hair Wavers for 40 25c Sharkskin Waist Belts at 160 10c Euclid Trouser Hangers at 70 5cCurling Irons, special price 40 ,15c Binding Ribbon, black, at 1C0 15c Sanitary Apron, special at 100 5c Binding Tape, put up 4 yards to piece. Special today at 20 5c Wire Hair Pins, 2 packages 50 10c Bias Folds, Nos. 1 to 6, at 50 Haii1 Nets, with or without elastic, put up five in package, for 100 5c Bone Collar Buttons, 2 dozen 50 10c Hairpin Cabinets now at 50 5c Indian Tape, the bolt now at 30 10c Shoe. Trees, priced special 70 15c Bone Hair Pins, all sizes, in shell and amber. Priced now 110 '15c. Infants' and Children's "Her cules" Stocking Supporters at 100 10c Cube Pins, black or white, 70 6c Safety Pins, special, 2 cards 50 Special Sale, of Dried Fruits 7c Model Grocery Fourth Floor CLUSTER RAISINS in bulk 10c kind, the pound NEW PORTUGUESE Figs, small and sweet for eating. Special two pounds at only California Layer Figs, lb. 250 Dried. Loganberries, pkg. -150 Not-a-Seed Raisins, pkg. 150 OREGON PRUNES, the 1 Cc large size, special, the pound STUFFED DATES, the -2r ref&lar 40c boxes on sale at- Dried Apricots, "two pounds 450 Dried Apples, two pounds 250 Otter Brand Raisins, pkg. for 00 Thompson's Bleached Sultana Raisins; special, two lbs. for 350 Double Stamps , With Charge or Cash Purchases MadeT oday Sale of Housekeepers' Supplies Table Linens, Towels, Sheets, Spreads Sheetings, Etc., at Special If rices. TEA SET Scalloped and em broidered cloth with one dozen nap kins to match. Regu- C1 C Oft lar $22.50 sets priced at P1J.-'V $3.50 hemstitched and C" ff scalloped Tea Cloths, now 4-'mvJ TABLE DAMASK , splendid heavy grade. Full 2 yards CI Cft wide. Priced special, yd. PAJv $8.00 Linen Napkins, doz, $6.95 $10 Linen Napkins, doz., $8.75 FANCY HUCK Toweling, 20 in. wide. All pure linen. Regu- A.Qn lar 85c grade. At the yardJOl Hemstitched Tea Nap- ff kins. Priced at the doz. J-VJVJ Mercerized Table Damask, 1 68 inches wide. Special, yard TJ Bleached Linen Damask on Oft- special sale at only, the yard vJL. $1.75 extra quality CI CO Double Damask, the yard JO $2.25 Imp'ted Bedspreads $1.9S $2.50 Imp'ted Bedspreads $2.15 "Dustbane" Something New A sanitary sweeping com poundcleans floors, brightens carpets and absorbs dust. SPECIAL OFFER We will sell "Dustbane" for a limited time at 300 can. If after using "Dustbane" you are not perfectly satisfied we will credit your account with pur chase price if only empty con tainer is returned. HOUSEWARES, SD FLOOR Kodak Take a Kodak with you on that trip I Full line Eastman Kodaks and Cameras all sizes and styles in our Photographic Dept 4th Fir. asement 4-Days9 Sale of Remnants arid Odds & Ends Phenomenal Reductions on Seasonable' and Wanted Merchandise of All Kinds GRITS TO BE READ Publication on Carver Fran chises Nearly Completed. nlshed probably will be the subject of consideration this morning.. TV. M. Foster, who was In the fluid for a similar franchise but who wlth cjiew because of the delays of the Coun cil In - the proposition, said yesterday that he may renew his application for a francbice If the union fails to reacu an agreement. The Foster franchise had provided for a bond. D. A. POLING TO VISIT HERE SERVfCE IS BEING PLANNED Christian Endeavor of World . ficlalto Attend Convention. Of- TOURIST FUND VITAL Mr. Olmstead Says Oregon Must Advertise Scenery. JDrlvers Union Apparently Making Ko Effort to Obtain Rights, De pending on Being Able to Continue as Taxicabs. The two final franchises sought by Stephen Carver for a clty-wlde Jitney service will be before the Council for first reading a week from today. On Tuesday they will have passed through iha publication period, after which they will be read the first time nrl nut over for 30 days for final passage. The first of the franchises, of which there are three, was passed a week ago and will come up for final passage three weeks from today. It will then no over for 60 days, at which time the service proposed by Mr. Carver will be established. Mr. Carver says he is making final plans now for establish ing the service at the required time. Apparently negotiations of the Jitney nrivsrs' Union for a franchise are at an end. the Council refusing to give any nref erence. As things are going now the Jitneys are satisfied, inasmuch as they are run ning without regulation except tne pay ment of a license fee of $2 a month. They are at liberty to operate when, where and how they please, and they expect to continue operating in this way under the guise of taxlcabs. The new taxicab rate system which has been framed by Commissioner Dteck will be put in affect the latter part of this week, according tf present plans. Printing of the city's standard rate cards is being hurried. Under the new system of rates jitneys under the name "taxicab'1 will be re niilrrd to nost their actual rates of fare and will be required to adhere to those rates. They may post rates for any length of time they wish to op erate, space being provided on the new rate cards for service for any number of minutes up to one hour. It Is expected the jitneys will post a 6-cent rate for service for 10 or 15 minutes, which Is the time required to cover the average jitney route. In the event this is done passengers may re quire the jitneys to go In any direction for the length of time specified for 5 cents. The jitneys in face of these conditions will depend on their old patrons not to require any service not being given now. It Is said, and hope to continue evading regulation by that means. The Carver franchises provide for service to all the principal parts of the city, including the suburbs, with transfer privileges from 'one line to another and with bonds for the protec tion of the public In case of Injury. Daniel A. Poling, associate president of the United Society of Christian En deavor of the World, and an ex-Port land bpy, will attend Oregon's big twin Endeavor convention next month. Mr. Poling declined an engagement at a big New York State Endeavor convention to visit Oregon. He is the son of Dr. C. C. Poling, pastor of the Evangelical Church of Corvallis, Or. Daniel A. Poling is to be the big fea ture of Oregon's Endeavor convention. He will speak February 16. 17 and 18 at La Grande, Or., the eastern half of the big twin convention. The following Monday he is to be in Portland for a rally at "Westminster Presbyterian Church. He will go from Portland to Corvallis to visit relatives. The next Friday he will go to the convention at Salem. " 24. OF 30 DOCTORS PASS $25,000 A YEAR ASKED Other States of Northwest Plan to Establish Eastern Orflces and to Induce Visitor to Stop on Way to California. Medical Examinations Canse Applicants to Fail. Few The semi-annual examinations by the State Board of Medical Examiners, held January 2-4. returned yesterday grades which passed 24 of the candidates out of 30. Members of the examining board are: Dr. L. H. Hamilton, Dr. U. C. Coe, Dr. H. S. Nichols, secretary; Dr. H. F. Mc Kay and Dr. F. E. Moore. The list of successful candidates who took the examination follows: Charles R. MeCell, 3. Alex" Trommald, Johnson- F. Ditto. W. Ross Eaton, Samuel A. Roe. Elmer J. Merrill. Nina Elisabeth Pick ett. Frank E. Butler, Kate Wytnan Grant. Clara Dunn, Sam Frank Le Flvre, Mabel Akin, Henry Herbert Slater. Ralph Currey Vtrs-11. Max W. Brachvogel, Even Q. House man, George R. Vehra, Frank R. Menne, John W. Gearhart. Walter W. Black. Harry 8. Harding. William Boyd Mott, Carl Q. Rahal. Amoa Orvllle waller. LINNT0N FRANCHISE TOPIC Application of Jitney rivers' Tnion Expected to Come Cp Today. The franchise sought by the Jitney Drivers' Union for operating over the route to Llnnton probably will be be fore the Mty Council this morning for final consideration. The union two weeks ego was asked to give an answer en whether or not It would accept a franchise on the Council's terms. The answer was that everything was ac ceptable except the question of a bond for the protection of the public In case cf accident. Whether this will be fur- CHAIR IS GIVEN OPERATOR Police Second Night Relief Presents Gift to Frank Huntington. Frank Huntington, operator at the police station for the second night re lief and the latest benedict in the police force, was- presented with handsome easy chair by the members of his relief at rollcall at midnight Monday night. Some "'horse play" was first staged In which Officer Huntington was made the butt of some "fake" complaints. A husky committee then picked him up bodily and sat him in the chair. Officer Huntington was married sev eral days ago to Miss Erna Lehrniann, 328 Mill street. FIRE HORSE SUSTAINS FALL Animal Slips While Hounding Cop ' ner, bnt Is Not Badly Hurt. That immense good will result to the atate from the appropriation by the present Legislature of a fund for the attraction of tourists from the East to the Pacific Northwest, as asked by the- Pacific Northwest Tourist Asso ciation, is the belief, of Emery Olm stead, vice-president of that organiza tion for Oregon. The bill for setting aside $25,000 a year by this state, to be used with similar funds from Washington and British Columbia, has been introduced nd Is known as House bill No. 32. It has had the unanimous recommenda tion of the Immigration committee of the House and it Is expected it will receive favorable consideration when the time comes for the final vote to be taken. State Declared Vitally Interested. "People of the whole state are In terested in this matter of getting our hare of the tourist business for Ore gon, said Mr. Olmstead. "It Is merely lining up Oregon with her neighbors In constructive efforts to attract peo ple this way. British Columbia and Washington have been engaging in this work for some time. California will spend $1,000,000 this year in her cam paigns to attract tourists. Washington plans a similar appro priation to ours for the establishment of this work, and I am toia tne ap nrooriation there Is practically assured that the Washington legislature teeis the Importance of the matter and will vote the money needed." Northwest to Advertise Scenery, The association, which was formed recently, has united the whole Pacific Northwest in a movement lor me- ex ploitation of the scenic and other tour ist attractions of the North Paciflo Coast sections. It Is proposed to ad vertise the north half of the Western coast line of the country as worth while visiting, either by the going or returning California tourist, or both. To this end it is proposed to establish offices in the large Eastern cities. Kew York and Chicago being Iirst selected and issue advertising matter and do personal work where both will obtain the maximum or resuns in urcuus tourists. To carry on this worn. Britisn -o inmhlL Washington and Oregon are sharing the expense, and the appropri ation asked by this state is In line with the share apportioned at a re cent gathering of the directors or tne association. PAVING PLANT PROPOSED Oregon City and West Linn May Eliminate Contractors. lng the success of county-laid paving at a total cost of 80 cents, are figuring on paved streets laid without the help of contractors. Mayor Hackett has been investigat ing the practicability of a city paving plant, and the matter will be taken -up with the Council soon. Harry Ward wick, ex-County Paving Superintend ent, estimates that the city can erect a small, but satisfactory, plant for $1425. Judge Grant B. Dlmlck, president of the Willamette Valley Southern, has offered a plot of ground on the rail road's terminal yards as a site for the plant, and is willing to sell gravel to the city at less than the prevailing market price. Under such conditions as these, city officials believe that they can lay a five-Inch aephaltlo concrete street for even less than the remarkably low av erage established by the county. West Linn, too. is figuring on laying hard-surface, and is willing either to form a partnership with Oregon City in the purchase and operation of a paving plant or to buy the materials from the elty already mixed. West Linn has about $8000 to be spent in surfacing streets, and Oregon City has slightly more than that amount. INDIES OURS TODAY Treaty of Purchase From Den mark to Be Completed. source of information upon an public activities." In. the report of the librarian; Miss Mary Frances Isom. a detailed account of the year's activities Is given. Prog ress In nearly all branches of the work is shown. HONOR SYSTEM IS TRIED WARDEN MURPHY ALSO WOIXD ISOLATE INCORRIGIBLE. FLAG - RAISING TO WAIT Navy Department Wants Full Con trol, but War Department, With Machinery for Government, Makes Strong; Bid. MEN ADMIT SHOOTING , GABLE, WOMAN'S SLATER, AND J. LEE, AVENGER, ASK PAROLE. While making the run to a fire at the plant of the Nicolai-Neppach Com pany. Second and Davis streets, about 1 o'clock yesterday, the oft horse at tacbed to the hose cart for Engine No. 2 slipped In making the turn at Third and Davis streets, and. falling upon the pole of the vehicle, demol ished it- The horse escaped with few scratches. J Acting Lieutenant Cooper was driv lng at the time of the accident. The fire, which started in the dry room of the plant, was extinguiahe before it gained headway. OREGON CTTT, Or.. Jan. 16. (Spe cial.) Oregon City and West Linn, see- Judge Kavanaugh Considers Plea of Defendant's Attorneys for LV nlency After m Hearings Albert Gable, who accidentally shot and killed Mrs. Minnie Lee a year ago, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, and Jesse Lee. the hus band of Mrs. Lee. who sought to avenge her death by firing both bar rels of a-shotgun at Oable Septem ber 14 last, admitted guilt of shooting 1th intent to kill, in the court of Circuit Judge Kavanaugh yesterday. Judge Kavanaugh passed all day in his chambers listening to witnesses in both cases, that he might be advised to the severity of sentences he might pronounce. He will sentence Gable Thursday and Lee, Friday. Parties to both sides oi tne reua have asked that paroles be granted in both cases. John Collier, Deputy Dls trict Attorney, has made no recom mendation. but will not .oppose the at tempt to secure paroles or conditional pardons. - , Albert Gable was fumbling with rifle, .22 caliber, in a boat-house on Willamette Slough, near Kenton. Janu ary 9, 1916, when Mrs. Minnie Lee said. Jesting, "Shoot me. Gable did. and Mrs. Lee died In stantly. Gable said he thought the safety lock was on the gun and that he never meant to pull the trigger. He fired another shot into the door way in his nervousness. Lee heard of his wife's death when he was in Alaska, and came to Port land. He met Gable and shot him twice in the arm. Amputation v necessary. Lee has been in the County Jail since the shooting. Gable in the hospl tal until lately. Both have been pun ished sufficiently, contend attorneys John Logan and Chris Bell, who rep resent the men. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears the Signature of Chehalls Has Censor Ijw. CHEHALIS. Wash. Jan. 1. (Spe cial.') The City Commission has passed another ordinance providing that film theater ownere cannot show any film that has not been approved by the board of censors. An emergency was declared and the ordinance became ef fectlve at once. The librarian's report for 1916 was received and accepted. The board was notified that the Com mission could not extend the financial aid asked for. Corn crops in England and Wales I 1915 totaled 8,489.939 acres. 248.04 more than in 1914, and ths larg. acreage since 1898. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 Sovereignty over the Danish West Indlea after half century of negotiation will pass to morrow to the United States with the exchange of ratification of the pur chase treaty by Secretary Lansing and Danish Minister Brun. The actual physical transfer, with the raising of the -American flag, will take place upon payment of the 1:5,000,000 pur chase price, which Congress will pro vide in a few weekl. During the interim the government of the Island baa been administered by the present Danish Governor. Under the terms of the treaty a joint com mission is to begin work Immediately to arrange the details of the transfer. The question of the permanent form of government and of name must be arranged by Congress, probably on the lines of the Foraker act. under which the territory of Porto Rico waa .ac quired. As the new group was acquired primarily at the instance of the Navy Department because of Its strategic importance aa a naval base, that de partment desires to be placed In abso lute control under such a tenure aa ex ists in ther case of the Island of Guam. The War Department, however, be' lng already equipped with proper ma chlnery for administering Insular pos sessions, through the Insular bureau. which control the Philippines. Ja likely to put In a claim for the admlnlstra tlon. It la probable that a Joint board of Army and Navy officers will be sent to the islands soon to concert meas ures for the military protection of the group and for the Immediate establish ment of a naval station. USE OF BOOKS GREATER WOMAN ASKS ACCOUNTING . . - Mrs. J. C. Natterstad Accuses Title Guarantee & Trust Receiver.' Mrs. Jennie C. Natterstad. charging R. S. Howard, receiver of the Title Guarantee & Trust Company, with fraud and deceit in handling her prop erty, has filed a suit in equity in the Federal Court and is demanding an accounting. She asserts in her complaint that she transferred property to the value of 1160.000 to the company as security for small cash advances made her. and In sists that the property has more than returned the amounts due- from ner to the company, but that the receiver re fuses to return it to her or to render an accounting. A further chapter lr the development of the history of the Ill-starred Title Guarantee & Trust Company, was in the decree ordering a foreclosure of the J100.000 mortgage against its prop erty at Second and Washington, known the Commercial dock. ROSEBURG RULES JITNEYS Ordinance Would Make Issue of JL1' censes Discretionary. ROSEBURG. Or, Jan. 16. (Special.) At a special meeting of the Council here this afternoon an amended ordi nance was introduced placing in the hands of that body all discretion as tc whether the applicant for a "Jitney" license is competent and worthy. The ordinance also provides that ths license of a driver may be revoked a any time in the event he becomes In toxicated or is proved guilty of improper conduct. Only In case of an emergency may he drive a car thereafter, and this upon a special permit issued by the Mayor. . . The Recorder under this ordinance would report to the Council the names of all persons brought before him on charges of violating traffio ordinances. Penitentiary Head Says If lie Can Separata Good and Bad Prlsvners All Will Be Well. SALEM, Or., Jan. 16. (Special.) Give me isolation cells properly located to house incorrigibles that I can name t the prison and to care for the rest f the men will be like chaperoning a Sunday School picnic," said Warden Murphy, of the Oregon State Peniten tiary, today in announcing that the prison has been returned to the basis of the honor system. The gun guard has been abolished In the dining-room and all men employed on the outside now are working free from a similar guard. ""Thompson's honor gang" as it is called constitutes the squad of outside workers and all the men are pledged to see that every other man in the gang violates none of the prison rules. The warden's idea Is to have a cell- house sufficient to accommodate ap proximately 100 of the Incorrigibles and worse type of criminals and keep them entirely away from the other men. "There are certain types of con victs," he said, "who are trouble makers and to have them away com pletely and to remove the other prison ers from their environment, would mean but little strife and friction in the future at the prison." It is understood that the plan Of the honor system has been returned to with the sanction of the board of control and Warden Murphy said ho hoped that the ways and means com mittee would grant his requests alon the line of Improvements at the prison. LIBRART REPORT SHOWS MARKED INCREASE IX READING. Tetal Number ef Velusaea Drawn far Heme Vmc In Year la 1,468,793. Progress la In All Branekea. The 53d annual report of the Library Association of Portland, which has Just been issued, shows that during the fiscal year ending October 31, 11. the total number of booka drawn tor home use was 1,468,793, an Increase of 82. 829, or S.9 per cent 9ver 1916. Of the volumes borrowed. 523,783 were drawn from the Central Library, S21,10 from the 15 branches, 17.092 from the mu niclpal reference branch, 27.659 from the deposit stations. 61,011 from the six high school libraries. 203,187 from the classroom libraries in the city schools and 10,055 from the collection in the rural schools. "The Library's position in the com munity at the end of 15 years of free service Is a most Influential one," says W. B. .Ayer, president of the associa tion. In his annual report. "It has be come the civic center, in that Its lec ture halta are the forum for the dis cussion of every conceivable subject: its various departments ths chief BELGIAN WILL BE SPEAKER Professor Von Ilecke to Talk Before Progressive Business Men. Professor Albert von Hecke, of Lou vain University, will be the speaker at the Progressive Business Men's luncheon In the Munnomah Hotel ball room tomorrow. - His subject will be "Belgium and the Belgian People, Be fore, -During and After the War." The talk will be illustrated with moving pictures. Professor von Hecke was sent by hi government to Holland to look after refugees and Is intimately acquainted with the conditions of -the refugees. Ha will arrive in Portland tomorrow morning. John R. St. John will be chairman of the day. W. F. KISSEL DIES IN RENO Veteran of Spajiiali-American Snccnmbs at Age of 59. War W. P Klssell. ex-resldent of Port land, and a veteran of the Spanish American War, died In Reno, Nev., yes terdav. He was 59 years old. A native of Pennsylvania. Mr. Klssell came to Portland and lived here for number of years. In 1898 he enliste aa a member of Company M, United States Volunteer Engineers. After be ing mustered out he went to Nevada to reside. He is survived by his father, F. W. Klssell. a brother, G. C. Kissell, and a sister. Elixabeth Klssell, of 120 Elev enth street, Portland. Less Inspection Cost Favored. CHEHALIS. Wssb.. Jan. 16. (Spe cial.) The City Commission received a letter from Senator Charles F.Meyers asmng the Commission- If it would recommend the continuation of the Stater Bureau of Inspection. The Com mission Instructed the Treasurer t write the Senator that they would Dot object to its continuation if the cost could he lowered materially. Aberdeen Elks Plan Smoker. ABERDEEN, Wash.. Jan. 16. (Spe- ciaL) Two big gatherings of Elks have been arranged for the coming two weeks. One is the annual smoker to be held Friday night, and the other the annual home-coming, to be held Thursday night. January 25. ""be smoker will be featured by muslo and vaudeville, and the home-coming by comments on the dead brothers by some who knew them In life. Sure! High Heels Cause Corns But Who Cares Now Because style decrees that women crowd and buckle up their tender toes In hlgh-beel footwear they suffer from corns, then they cat and trim at these painful pests which merely makes the corn grow hard. This suicidal habit nur cause lockjaw and women are warned to stop it. " A-few drops of a drug called frees one applied directly upon a sore corn gives quick relief and soon the entire corn, root and all, lifts out without pain. Ask the drugstore man for a quarter of an ounce of freesone. which costs very little but is sufficent to re move every hard or soft corn or callus from one's feet. This drug Is an ether compound and dries in a moment and simply shrivels up the corn without Inflaming or even irrltaMng the surrounding tissue or skin. Clip this out and pin on your wife's dresser. Adv.