Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, February 02, 1917, Image 15

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Newspaper Page TextTTTE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAJf, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1917. - 15 We Give S. & H. Green Trading Stamps With Purchases Amounting to 10c or Over Save Your S. & H. Stamps and Get a Substantial Cash Discount on the Money You Spend. Manicuring and Hair-Dressing Parlors- Second Floor Artistic Picture Framing to Order at Lowest Prices, Fourth Floor Model Grocery, Bakery, Delicatessen Department, Fourth Floor. Trunks & Bags Fourth Floor Complete stock of Trunks in all styles and sizes, also Suit Cases, Hand Bags and other traveling needs best makes lowest prices. We give S. & H. Trading Stamps. The Standard Store of the Northwest OldSaWortm an S?King Reliable Merchandise Reliable Methods Kodaks, Cameras Supplies Fourth Floor Developing, print ing, framing and color work. Films left for printing and developing any time before 6 o'clock, ready for delivery by 11 A. M. next day. A Notable Sale of Street and Evening Dresses Longcloth in 10-Yard Pieces Special $1.38 and $1.58 Aisle of Cottons, Slain Floor Very fine quality Longcloth, especially adapted for infants' wear and women's underwear. Two special lots. LOT 1 Fine sheer C1 1Q LOT 2 Fine sheer C1 CO Lonecloth. 10-vd. Piece Pl.-0 Longcloth, 10-yard piece Women's Ha ndkerch iefs At 5c Main - Floor 1500 Women's and C h i 1 d r e n's Handkerchiefs in a clearaway Friday at above price. Plain white, white with colored embroidered corners and hems, also in dainty printed effects in various colors. Your choice for one day at the special price of only Women 's Wool Scarfs At 59c Main Floor Women's and Misses' Wool Angora Scarfs, sharply un derpriced for Friday. Good 'range of plain colors and novelty mixed effects many with fancy plaid and striped borders. These were for merly marked to sell at CO.-. much higher prices. Friday Extra Special for Friday I Embroidery Flouncings 19c and 79c Yd. Main Floor 18-inch Embroidery Flouncings of fine grade cambric and nainsook. Also Corset Cover Embroidery in many neat and de sirable patterns. Blind and open designs. Priced special for 1 Q Friday at the low figure of Main Floor 45-inch Embroidery Flouncings suitable for dresses. Very fine grade voile material, neat patterns. Also 27-inch Swiss Dress Flouncings in assorted pat terns. Priced special now 7Q at the low figure of only Embroideries Edges at 7c Yard Filet and Val Laces at 5c Yard Main Floor Cambric and nain sook Embroidery Edges, inser tions, Beaded Edges, Beading in widths to 5 inches. Large as sortment of patterns. Spe- 7 cially priced now at, the yard ' Main Floor Dainty filet and Val. Lace Edges and Insertions in a great variety of pretty patterns for the trimming of underwear, dresses, waists, etc Friday C special, yard at low price of Any Winter Hat $2.95 On Sale Friday and Saturday Department Second Floor Final clean-up of Winter Millinery at a ridiculously low price. We must have room for new Spring hats, hence the sacrifice. Late midwinter models, which can be worn for many weeks yet. High-grade velvets and velours black and colors. Very latest trim- (P mings. While they last buy them at P ft Friday Special -i 1 1 i JLG) Velvets, Serges, Crepes, Satins Light and Dark Colors Garment Salons, Second Floor At the above price we shall close out a special lot of Women's and Misses' presses which were formerly priced much higher. Fash ionable new models for street wear in straight-line effects and novelty cuts, with latest collars, cuffs, etc Plaited, and flare skirts. Also dainty Evening Dresses and party frocks, made up in taffeta silks, nets, chiffons, crepe de chine, etc. Shirred waist and overdrape effects. Black, assorted, medium shades and the lighter col- C1 C Art ors for evening wear. Many different models P-LO.Uv We Give S. & H. Green Trading Stamps Silk Waists 3.59 Second Floor Beautiful Waists of Georgette crepe, crepe de chine, striped silk voiles, taffeta and lace. Effectively trimmed with fancy but tons, frills, hemstitching, tucks, etc. New, large collars. We include in this lot a number "of pretty styles in new Spring Waists in the G"? CQ bright colors. All sizes. Now PO5' Silk Petticoats At $4.50 Second Floor New Spring 6tyles just in. Silk taffeta and silk jersey. Deep, full flounces, trimmed with tucks and ruffles some with scallops. All new, bright colors and change- (P A SZ( ables. Priced special at P ? Extension Rods Special 20c . Third Floor One of the most prac tical Curtain Rods on the market. No joints at curves; curtains slip over curves easily from either end. OA.-. Friday special at only, each fcvC TW Sale of Corsets At $1.69 One Model as Illustrated Full Range of Sizes For 6tyle, service and satisfaction these splendid Corsets are in a class by them selves. We know of scores of Portland women "who were in the habit of paying $2.50 to $3.50 for their corsets who now wear our famous "OWK SPECIAL" Cor sets. At the above price we show several attractive models. All are correct in style and beautifully finished. All sizes C1 CQ from 18 up to SO. Very special at P 0' Corset Salons, Second Floor Demonstration of Mops. Punch Cedar Third Floor. Girls' Sample Dresses Specially Priced Second Floor Odd line3 of Girls' Party Dresses, made up in chif fons and nets, beautifully trim'd. White, pink and blue. Size 12 only. Being samples, there are only one or two dresses of a style. Don't overlook this sale today. SALE PRICES RANGE $7, $8.25, $10.50, $11.25 'and $12.00. --CHILDREN'S DRESSES in attractive styles odd lines, in serge, corduroys, silks, velvets and challies. Dresses suitable for all occasions. Ages 8 to 14 years. Clean-up at one-half price. Children's Wear Department, Second Floor Sale of Fancy Silks $1.39 Special Lines Taken From Our Regular Stock Center Circle, First Floor Don't neg lect this opportunity to buy high-grade Silks at a substantial reduction. PRINTED VOILES PRINTED CREPE DE CHINE CHECKED MINUETS PLAIN CREPE DE CHINE STRIPED VOILES Just such materials as are in active demand for Spring dresses, waists, etc. All are of standard quality. fl"l "2Q Good range of colors. Yard $i-Os Women's Shoes C0 QC Priced Special, a PairVJt S Main Floor Women's Shoes several hundred pairs in a special two-day sale at a very low price. Patent leather lace Shoes with gray or brown .tops Shoes of kid, black calf, tan calf, suede satin or velvet. Lace or button styles with high or low heels, long or short vamps. Not Qyj QT all sizes in each style, but all sizes in the assortment. Pair P 'J Men's Shoes PQ C Special .a Pair V O J Main Floor Fashionable Lace Shoes, excellent quality black calf leather, with matt kid top, medium heavy 6oles. Blind eyelets. A C"2 OC full range of sizes. Priced special today at only, the pair P-5OJ HEADQUARTERS FOR CHILDREN'S SHOES EMS Star Hams 25c Lb. Model Grocery, Fourth Floor Armour's Star Hams, sugar-cured. Medium sizes, weighing from 10 to 12 pounds each. Pound Glenwood Butter, Special 2 Pounds 89c OWK Special Butter, 2 Pounds for 78c Garden Seeds! Spring Flower and Vegetable Seeds are now ready for distribu tion. All the best tested varieties. MISS WALES will give an other lecture on JELL-O Desserts and how to make them Friday from 10:30 to 11:30 in our Model Grocery on the Fourth Floor. Men's New Spring Shirts $1.50 to $2.50 Men's Store, Main Floor Here's good news for men who have been waiting for the new Spring Shirts. We have just opened up a big shipment of the celebrated "SAVOY" Shirts in madras, percale and crepe madras. Beautiful new, crisp patterns and wide range of color ings. Soft and stiff-cuff styles. Every "Savoy" Shirt is tailor cut and guaranteed to fit" perfectly. Complete range of sizes. Step in and see these new arrivals. Prices range $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50. Men's Silk Shirts, $630 and $730 Boys' Spring Suits $5 to $ 15 Main Floor We direct your attention to a special shipment of Boys' new Spring Suits which has just arrived in the Boys Store from America's best makers of boys' clothing. Serges, tweeds, cheviots and mixtures. H 111 IS. BLOOR FREED Husband's Wound Not Serious. Shooting Held Accidental. SHOT FIRED TO SCARE DOG Man Tries to Rise From Hospital Bed to Oct Wife Out of Jail, and Also Assumes Blame Her Story Satisfies Police. Mrs. Harry Bloor. who was held for the shooting of her husband. & meter reader, was released yesterday by Dep uty District Attorney Ryan, who was convinced from an Investigation that the affair was an accident. The wounded man was reported to be resting1 well at St. Vincent's Hospital yesterday, with no serious results an ticipated. The bullet penetrated the muscles of the abdomen. When told that his wife was held in the City Jail the husband tried to rise from his bed. "If she's in jail, I must get up and get her out," he cried. "She isn't to blame. The story of the shooting-, as told to Detectives Price and Mallett, and to Motorcycle Patrolman Ervin, tallies with that later told to Mrs. Lola O Dialdwin and Matron Patterson by Mrs. Bloor. The husband returned home at 6 o'clock, and the couple had intended to Fee a tilm at a motion-picture theater. Mrs. Bloor was ill, however, and had taken several hot whiskies. A collie pup, tied on the veranda, was being serenaded by a noisy gang of dogs. They took the revolver and stepped out on the porch, firing one shot. Mrs. Bloor says that she tired the shot, and that it must have been the one that wounded her husband. It was Intended to frighten away the dogs. Bloor at first denied that his wife fired the shot, but said that he did, and that he was shot after they re turned to the rooms. Afterward he said he accidentally shot himself, later ad mitting to the detectives that Mrs. Bloor accidentally fired -the shot. He was found by . Matorcyclo' Patrolman Brvin, who arrested Mrs. Bloor, in company with Detectives Price and Mallett. Mrs. Bloor, who was formerly a mani cure in the Board of Trade building, was married to Bloor at Vancouver in December last. She has two children by a former marriage, who reside with relatives elsewhere. 146 COLLISIONS REPORTED Tliirty Pedestrians Injured by Ve hicles in January. The report of traffic accidents and violations for the month of January was submitted to Mayor Albee yester day by Harry P. Coffin, chairman of the Public Safety Commission. Al though an increase in . accidents is shown by a comparison of the report with that of January. 1916, actually there has been a marked decrease, says Mr. Coffin, the apparent increase being- caused by the enforcement of the ordinance requiring that reports shall be made of all accidents. The report shows a total of 146 traf fic collisions, of which 39 are classed as accidental and 80 as being due to carelessness. Thirty pedestrians were Injured by being struck by vehicles, while the total of injured.As 54. There were two deaths due to traffic accidents. Home Remedy for AH Pain Are you in paint This is the question yon will hear daily, and to be able to relieve pain, whether It be a slight nervous head ache or the most excruciating- sufierlntEs of neuralgia or rheumatism, brings the height oi pleasure to ootn patient ana aoctor. Touching this point, Hugo Engle, A.M. M. D., says, "Antl-kamrria tablets have be come favorites with members of the medical profession; they are very reliable In all kinds of pain, and act at once. To stop pain quickly, the dose Is one or two tablets re peated in two or three hours ii required. AnM-karanla tablets relieve all pains due to rheumatism, headache, sciatica, neural gia, toothache, gout, and are especially useful for all conditions known as women's aches and pains. Antl-kamnla tablets have no unpleasant after-effects, and In 92 percent of ail cases they stop the pain immediately. Ask for A. K. Tablets. Obtainable at drug cores la aay quantity desired.'! BOEHM KNOWN HERE Man Held as German Spy Is Former Portland Many WIFE'S RELATIVES HERE EXPERIMENT WORK UPHELD Chamber Bureau Fears That Station May Bo Dropped. Resolutions pledging support to the extension work of the experiment sta tion of the Oregon Agricultural Col lege were adopted yesterday by the managing committee of the Oregon de veloping bureau of the Chamber of 1 Commerce. Fear that the work is threatened by legislative action caused i the resolution to be presented and memorial on the subject, embodying the resolutions, will be forwarded to the Legislature. Action supporting the La Follett bill in the Oregon Legislature was also taken at yesterday's meeting. This measure exempts fruit packers from the rules and regulations of the Industrial Welfare Commission and allows longer boura to be worked during the rush. eny street, the other member of the firm being A. E. Bult. The parents of Mrs. Boehm have re ceived letters from her within the past few months, although there was ap parently no information as to wheree Captain Boehm was. Mrs. Froggett said yesterday she had not heard from her sister since July, and that she knew nothing of the activities of Cap tain Boehm since he left Portland. Captain Boehm's family did not leave Portland until some time after he had gone. Positions Held With Hotel and Several Clubs in City and Part nership Is Still Held In Business Enterprise. Captain Hans Boehm. who is accused of traveling as an. agent of the German government with an American passport bearing the name Jelks Lerov Thrasher. and whose case is undergoing a rigid examination ty the State Department at Washington, is well known in Portland. Captain Boehm has been arrested hv British agents and is now at Falmouth. where he was taken after being trans ferred from a neutral ship while on' his way from Spain to Holland. He is sus pected as a spy and the State Depart ment is considering his extradition. Captain Boehm is a brother-in-law of Mrs. H. L. Froggett, of the Parkhurat Apartments, 260 North Twentieth street, and left Portland a few months after the beginning of the war. Clubs Procure Services. He lived in Portland for several years. He was first connected with the service department of the Hotel Port land. Later he went. to the Arlington Club, where he was manatrer. When the University Club was opened he served .that organization and was Iatei manager of the culinary department or the commercial Club. He married Miss Helen Willis, whose parents reside on a farm near Dlllard Or., and Mrs. Boehm and their two chil dren are now living within an hour's ride of Berlin. It is understood that Captain Boehm resigned from the German army some time before the war broke out, but was reinstated In time to respond to the call Issued for all German reservists. At the time he received word he was to go he was on the Willis ranch, says Mrs. Froggett. Many Countries Visited. It is said that Captain Boehm has visited most of the neutral and bellig erent countries since leaving Portland. Portland friends have received anony mous cards occasionally, believed to have come from him. He owns a half Interest in the North west Importing Company, 224-226 Auk- VIADUCT AWARD ARRANGED City Will Be Ready to Give Con tracts Last of Month. t The city will he ready February 28 to award to the Pearson Construction Company the contract for construction of viaducts along the line of the O.-W. It. & N. Company's line on the East Side. This was announced yesterday by the city s legal and engineering bureau. Lawsuits now pending in the Circuit Court have progressed far enough to assure no interference irom mat source. The Pearson Company Is the lowest bidder in the sum of t566, 457.50, which Is $7149 under the estimate of the city engineering bureau. The Pearson Com pany will be ready-to start work soon after the award of the contract. 100,000 CRACKERS POP Chinese New Year Greeted With Fusillade on Second Street. One hundred thousand firecrackers popped in a resounding fusillade at Second and Oak streets yesterday noon, when members of the Bing Kong-Bow Leong Society rendered this tribute to the Chinese New i ear from the balcony of the Chinese Free Masons' Lodge ball. above the Shanghai Low Restaurant. So deafening was the din of pro longed explosion that several hundred people ran toward the scene, expecting nothing less than a tong cattle. Tne firecrackers were suspended in two 15 foot strings, each string containing 50,000, and bearing placards in Chinese wishing "a happy New Year to all.". Jackson Indebtedness $60 7,82 9. ASHLAND, Or.. Feb. I. (Special.) Jackson County's semi-annual balance sheet for January 1 shows the county indebtedness to be $607,829.38 above cash on hand. On July 1, 1916, the in debtedness was $667,723.23. Major items are Pacific Highway bonds. $500,000 warrants outstanding. S3S9.S65.72. Sher lff's receipts as Tax Collector for the six months ending January 1, 1917, $292,100.71. Treasurer's receipts for the same period were $326,044.20, and dis bursements $325,041.80. Balance in the treasury. January X. 1.917. $179,475.51. REBEKAHS TO ASSEMBLE SPECIAL SESSIOX WILL MEET AT ST. JOHNS FEBRUARY 7. Mrs. Xellle Wattenburg. of Klamath Kalis, Or. President. Issues Call. Degree to Be Given. Upon a call from 20 of the Kebekah lodges in and around Portland, com prising a membership of 3000, Mrs. Nel lie Wattenburg, of Klamath Falls, pres ident of the Rebekah Assembly ot Ore gon, has called a special session of the Kebekah Assembly of Oregon to meet in the Eagles' Hall, on Burlington street. In St. Johns, Or., on Wednesday, Feb ruary 7. at 8 P. M- The assembly degree will be conferred at this special session upon all past grands of the subordinate lodge presenting themselves with prop er certificates from the secretarlea of their respective lodges. The president of the assembly will be assisted In this work by Mary Lancas ter, of Astoria, Or., vice-president; Ora Cosper, of Dallas, Or., secretary; Jenie Burke, of Grants Pass, warden; Miss Eda Jacobs, of Portland, treasurer; Mary Tomlineon, of Portland, trustee Oddfellows' Home; Mary Swan, of Port land, trustee of the assembly; Lena Westbraok, of Portland, past noble grand Utopia Rebekah Lodge, No. 62. On the date of holding the special session of the assembly there will be held the district meeting of all of the Rebekah lodges In Multnomah- County, at which all Oddfellows and Rebekahs will be present, and the business will be arrangements respecting said lodges and matters pertaining to the erection of the new orphanage for the orphan children of the order in the State and general matters for the financing and care of the sick and destitute. The following named officers of the grand lodge will be present and take part In the deliberations of the district meeting and the special session of the assembly: Henry S. Westbrook, grand master; E. E. Sharon, grand secretary; Kirwin J. Nolan, grand marshal; Frank B. Weed, grand conductor: Robert An drews, grand representative Mrs. Wattenburg, while In Portland, will visit Rebekah lodges for the first three weeks In February. She will visit Columbia Rebekah Lodge, No. 3, on Saturday. February 3, and Utopia Re bekah Lodge, No. 62, on February 8. Mrs. Wattenburg has visited personally 100 lodges in the state and expects to visit, before the assembly meets in May. every Rebekah lodge In the state. The membership in the state is com posed of 20,000 Oddfellows, 18,000 Re bekahs, 8000 encampment members. Grange Hears of Pest Extermination " JUNCTION CITY, Or., Feb. 1. (Spe cial.) Before the local grange today Theodore H. Sheffer. of the United States Department of Agriculture. lec tured on mole and gopher eradication. A series of lectures is being given in Lane County. County Agriculturist Robb is directing the work. CATS TO BE JC0UNCIL TOPIC Major Will Present Voluminous Correspondence to Associates, Cats will be an issue before the City Council this morning. A series of let ters for and against cats will be pre sented to the Council by Mayor Albee. and it is expected persons interested will be on hand to voice their opinions. The cat problem was referred to the Mayor by L. S. Wright, who asks that an ordinance be passed prohibiting cats from running at large. The orainance has not been prepared, but dozens of letters of comment on both sides of the issue have been received by the Mayor. Broccoli Growing Advised. EUGENE. Or.. Feb. 1. (Special.) Announcement was made in Eugene to day of the formation of the Western Broccoli Association, wpicn win navp its principal place of business in this city. H. A. Rasor, of Eugene, and Will Ian T. Langlols, of Riddle, Or., are the promoters of the association, which plans to Induce Lane County farmers to grow broccoli. RATE REHEARING SOUGHT Valley Mills Protest Tarirf to Cali fornia From Portland. Rehearing of the California rate case, a decision ot which by the Inter state Commerce Commission places the rates- on lumber from Portland mills to Marysville on a parity with that ot Willamette Valley mills. Is sought by the Willamette Valley Lumbermen's Association in a petition just filed with the Commission. The order is to ' be come effective March 15. Although the association was not a party to the proceeding, it asks a sup plemental order or rehearing because the interests of its members are in volved and also because it believes that the Commission based its order on a misapprehension of fact. Is the Work Too Hard? r.n. vinrls of work have a weaken ing effect on the kidneys. Kidney trouble makes any kind of work hard. It brings such troubles as morning lameness, backache, headache, dizzi ness, nervousness, rheumatic aches and distressing bladder or urinary troubles. Work that is confining, that gives no time to out-of-door exercise, tends to bring on kidney ailments. So does work which brings any unusual pres sure or strain on the back and kidneys. Exposure to chills and sudden changes from heat to cold, or working in a damp place, is also apt to weaken the kidneys. Don't wait for any more serious . wi . j...inn Thm'a aanirer iruuuic i". " - that a little kidney weakness may turn ...i ,tnn in the kidney, droosy or Bright's disease. Use Doan s Kid ney Pills, 'i nousanas rKoinimuu iucu. A PORTLAND CASB. b. I. T n marhlnfst. 2D Kawf.r St, says: .."Changes of temperature, go ing from a cold room into a warm one and getting chilled, together with hard work, brought on trouble with my kidneys. A catch often took me in the small of my back and threw me off a ladder. My kidneys acted too often. Doan's Kidney Pills fixed me up In "EveryPkhn TdkaStory" "What makes me feel so we.kr' V$bldby aUDealers.Price 50a Fosf er-MUbum Co. Props.DuaalgM j