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CHEAPER ITEMS GO FIRST
Some Articles Are Scarce, but La
bor Is Blamed for Greatest
Share, a Benches Are Neg
lected for Shell Factories.
Among: Its many victims the high
cost of living' Includes the smoker. The
Increased cost of smoking looms as a
serious problem to millions of men.
As usual, the blow has hit the poor
man first, bearing out the old remark
that it's very expensive to be poor. As
yet there has been no Increase In the
retail price of the standard "bit" clears,
but the prices of cheaper grades have
gone by the board.
With the slx-for-a-quarter cigar only
& memory, the old reliable 6-cent smoke
Is now In danger. Already some of the
famous nickel brands are retailing for
6 cents, and dealers Bay more will
surely follow. .
Even the humble stogie has gone up.
As long as anybody can remember,
three-for-a-nickel has been the stand
ard stogie price. Now it Is five-for-a-dime,
with two-for-flve in sight. When
will it stop?
Smokes formerly retailing at two for
B cents can only be obtained now at the
rate of three for 10 cents, and unless
the war stops pretty soon,' they, will
ba selling for a nickel straight.
"Wagres Increase Cost.
Those In touch with the situation say
the added labor costs have been re
sponsible for the increase in the prices
of cheap cigars. At Detroit, one of the
largest centers of their manufacture,
hundreds of clgarmakers have gone to
work in ammunition factories because
of the high wages.
ome of the popular 5-cent brands
were out of the market entirely as
one result of this, and when they came
back they Introduced the penny into
the retail cigar - trade by selling at
6 cents each.
Though the "bit" or two-for-a-quar-ter
cigar still sells at the same old
price, one of the next Increases prob
able is its sale at IS cents straight.
There has been an increase in cost of
manufacture of 5 a thousand in these
cigars, but up to the present the manu
facturer and the Jobber have absorbed
this.
The next Increase In their cost price,
however, according to dealers. Is pretty
certain to result in the manufacturer
and distributor turning the burden over
to the consumer by charging Mm 15 j
cents straight.
Cigarettes No Laggards.
The cigarette has gone up and Is still
going. One popular brand selling for
merly at 15 cents, or two packages for
25 cents is now retailed at 15 cents
straight. The next probable step is the
reduction of the number of cigarettes
In a package, for the margin of profit
In their sale at present prices Is de
clared perilously low.
As for pipe tobaccos, they, too, have
felt the pressure. Though 10 cents is
still the standard price for the common
smoking tobaccos, they have been re
duced In weight from an ounce and
three-quarters to an ounce and a half to
the package.
Pipes are away up. Briar root comes
from France, and very little has been
produced since the war began. Eng
land was a great manufacturing center
for the finished pipes, and the volume
of output has been greatly cut. Conse
quently, the 25-cent pipe has virtually
disappeared from the market.
Pipes that used to retail for that now
bring at least 35 cents, the 50-cent
pipes sell for 75 cents, and there is a
corresponding Increase in the higher
trades.
Amber Is Scarce.
Amber for plpestems is now virtually
unobtainable, as the source of supply
t lias been cut off by the war. Except
for holdover stock, most of the "am
ber" In plpestems now is a substitute.
Even the Irish section-hand and his
dudeen of sacred memory must pay toll.
Clay pipes that used almost to be given
away at two or three for a nickel now
cost 5 cents, or more.
When you ask your cigar dealers for
a couple of matches, notice how gtn
reTly be takes you at your word and
hands out two, and no more. A few
months ago he would have given you a
box of them. He has a good reason for
being frugal, for the price of matches
has doubled.
"Eating" tobacco is also responding
to the general upward movement. So
far the Jobber has absorbed the in
crease, but if It continues, and there
Is every prospect that it will, the man
who buys chewing tobacco very shortly
will get fewer chews for his money
than before.
MANY DEER BEING KILLED
Violations in Umatilla and Marlon
Counties Declared Numerous.
PENDLETON. Or., Feb. 23. (Spe
cial.) There has been much unlawful
killing of deer in Umatilla County, ac
cording to George Tonkin, deputy game
warden. Mr. Tonkin says that there
have been more deer killed in the
county during the past three months
than during the open season. He re
ceives reports every day of illegal kill
ings and in less than two weeks he has
arrested nine men for killing deer in
Umatilla and Morrow counties. Eight
of these pleaded guilty and were sen
tenced. The Winter has been especially hard
on deer. The snow has driven them
out of the mountains so that they be
come easy prey for hunters who wish
to violate the law.
Pendleton Widow Aided. .
PENDLETON, Or., Feb. 23. (Spe
cial.) The widow of Louis Morrone.
who was killed in January while work
ing for the Blewett Harvester Company
in Pendleton, will receive $30 a month
for Jife or until she marries again
from the State Industrial Accident
Commission, and each of her three chil
dren will receive $6 a month until they
are 16, it was announced today. Should
the widow live to the age of expectancy
and remain single she will have re
ceived for herself and children $11,
677.20. Mr. Morrone was killed while dis
mantling a harvester in Umatilla
County. The widow received the set
tlement merely by filing her claim by
letter.
Snow Stalls Trains at The Dalles.
THE DALLES, Or.. Feb. 23. (Spe
cial.) Trains have been stalled here
since yesterday afternoonby a snow
slide at Soda Springs. The slide is so
heavy that the regular service will not
be resumed until tomorrow. Snow
plows have been rushed to the scene,
and every effort put forth, to clear the
blockade.
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TODAY'S FILM FEATURES.
Broadway rNasimova, "War
Brides."
Columbia William S. Hart, The
Gun Fighter."
Sunset William 8. Bart. "The
Dawn Maker.".
Star Charlie Chaplin, "Easy
Street"; "Shorty Hamilton's Ad
ventures." Peoples Theodore Roberts and
Maude Fealy, "The American
Consul."
Majestic George Walsh and
Anna Luther, "MeltlngMillions."
Globe Henry Walthall, "The Ra
ven." Nazlmova at Broadway.
THE famous Russian actress. Alia
Nazlmova, In her photodramatic
sensation, "War Brides," is the un
usual attraction which will open an en
gagement at the Broadway Theater to
day. This Is the eight-reel Brenon
Selznlck picture that several New Tork
critics say surpasses even "The Birth
of a Nation" for dramatic Intensity.
'War Brides," based on a one-act
play successfully presented to New
York by Nazlmova, is the story of the
revolt of a young woman whose hus
band has been killed in battle, against
the actions of the militaristic-authorities
compelling young women to marry
soldiers on the eve of their departure
for the trenches.
'No more children for war" Is the
slogan of the woman who defies the
government.
Among the most novel incidents in
the photodrama is one where a score
of heedless, laughing couples march to
the marriage altar in a church which
has been transformed into a base hos
pital and is filled with wounded and
dying'. Another big scene is a three
story trench, an exact reproduction of
one of the "impregnable" fortifications
on the Somme. Another Is the dramatlo
finale, where a great concourse of
thousands of women go to meet the
king to protest against the war, led
by Joan, who dramatically delivers her
message of defiance.
Nazlmova. makes her first motion
picture appearance in "War Brides."
As Joan, the peasant girl, she played
the part with great success in vaude
ville, but many incidents have been
added and elaborated, giving to Marion
Craig Wentworth's play much wider
scope for Nazlmova's unique talents
than she has had in any of her stage
productions.
A Zoo comedy and news pictorial, to.
gether with a special musical pro
gramme, will also be presented.
Hoffman Hammers Stars.
"No film player Is worth $10,000 a
week," asserts M. H. Hoffman, general
manager of Bluebird Photoplays, who
was in Portland yesterday visiting Gus
Metzer and the Universal-Bluebird ex
change, and spreading the doctrine of
Bluebird. This hits particularly at
Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and
Mary Pickford.
Mr. Hoffman, one of the big execu
tives of the motion-picture industry. Is
the author of the film slogan, "The
Play's the Thing." He is a violent op
ponent of the star system of photo
dramatic production a system that
makes the average play a "vehicle" for
the star, with the story constructed
about the star, instead of the players
being moulded to the play.
"The paying of outrageous salaries
to the big stars means that they must
be kept busy to keep the producers
from financial disaster," says Mr. Hofr
man. "This means the use of vehicles,
generally very inferior plays. The
public suffers, and consequently the
industry. Naturally the public, which
hears of these $10,000 a week salaries,
expects something unusual in the way
of entertainment, and too often they
are disappointed, for no Btar is superior
to a bad play.
"The biggest film productions yon
can mention have no stars. It's the
story that counts. Who was" the star
of "The Birth of a Nation,' "Twenty
Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," 'The
Battle Cry of Peace,' "Intolerance," "Ra
mona.' and "Where Are My Children"?
The average motion-picture patron can
not answer. No, it was the play and
not the star that attracted them, and
left impressions they will never for
get." Mr. Hoffman, a former attorney, has
been in the film business for five years,
starting on February 22, 1912, when
he bought a theater in Springfield,
Mass. He soon had a chain of houses,
and gradually drifted Into the distribu
ting end of the Industry.
While here he paid a high tribute to
the Portland Universal Exchange, de
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equipped and best organized In the 6S
of 72 Universal exchanges he has
visited.
Shorty Hamilton at Star.
The Btar Theater will present a novel
programme for a first-run motion-picture
house today. The flve-eeler, "The
Martyrdom of Philip Strong," will make
way for a two-reeler dealing with the
adventures of "Shorty" Hamilton, the
cowboy film star, on the Mexican bor
der.. The Chaplin success, "Easy
Street," concludes its engagement to
night, while a Gaumont scenio of pic
turesque France will complete the bill.
The "Shorty" Hamilton picture Is said
to have a strong patriotic flavor and to
be decidedly topical. "Easy Street"
will be the only Chaplin picture to be
screened until April.
Screen Gossip.
Thomas Jefferson, formerly a mem
ber of the Triangle-Fine Arts playing
force, has returned to the studio after
an absence of more than a year. Jeffer
son is a character actor of distinction
and the eon of the late Joseph Jeffer
son. Jlontague Love writes that he has
been watching the activities of the
United States battle fleets off the
Cuban coast, where he is working in
a World picture under the direction of
Emile Chautard.
House Peters, Morosco-Paramount
star, has been presented with a pen
knife that some admiring friend de
signed especially for motion picture
work. There are 17 blades In the knife,
most of which are very curiously
shaped and intended for all sorts of
purely personal services, such as a
versatile motion-picture actor might
require. The list of utilities Is too long
for enumeration here suffice it to say
that there Is one blade which shaves
crepe hair off the face painlessly! Mr.
Peters has insured the knife for $1000.
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From "schoolmarm- to motion picture
vampire is the record of Belle Bruce,
who plays Sara Loring in Metro's great
15-chapter serial, "The Great Secret,"
In the support of Francis X. Bushman
and Beverly Bayne. It runs in Miss
Bruce's family to teach school. Her
mother Is still engaged In that occu
pation. Incevllle press boys report that Elmo
Lincoln, the big chap who Interpreted
the part of the "mighty man of valor"
In "Intolerance," forced Kenneth
Harlan, new leading man. to fight
strenuously for five hours during the
production of a photoplay. Which seems
rather long, even for a motion-picture
combat. They stop the wrestlers at 12
o'clock and they hold the long-dlstlnce
records In that line. ,
The Railroad Raiders' Is the name
of the Helen Holmes Serial to follow
'"The Lass of the Lumberlands."
Doris Pawn, recently with Universal,
will be leading man for George Walsh
In Fox pictures hereafter for a while.
Anna Luther quit Fox and went back
to Ince.
Carter De Haven has left the Uni
versal and, assisted by his accomplished
little wife. Flora Parker De Haven,
will appear in musical comedy. The two
little De Haven Juniors will accompany
and chaperone their young parents.
Bessie Eyton says she Is not a Titian
blonde, but that she has "beautiful red
hair." That settles it for fair.
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Vera Pearce, of Metro, was formerly
an artist's model posing for Fischer,
Christy, Gibson and other famous art
ists. She last appeared in "Romeo
and Juliet," - x
Alma Reuben, Triangle favorite, is
one of the few film actresses who has
never played a less prominent part than
that of a leading woman. Her last was
with Douglas Fairbanks in "The Amer-
icano" and her next will be with Wil
fred Lucas In "Orpheus."
William H. Machin, Selig star, has the
distinction of being the best cricket
player among film folks.
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William S. Hart, generally featured
with his fighting gun In Triangle pic
tures, is single, lives with his Bister
and is fond of literature.
Margarita Fischer will be seen In the
near future In "The Devil's Assistant,"
"Birds of Passage" and "A Knight of
Tarquizzi."
Mare MacDermott was leading man
for Mrs. Patrick Campbell In England
and France for several seasons before
Joining the Vltagraph.
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Last Times Today 11 A. M. to 11 P. M.
The world's foremost character actor,
Theodore Roberts
Maude Fealy, Tom Forman, Raymond
Hatton, in a delightful 5-act comedy-drama
'The American Consul
The timely story of a simple American who
valued his country's flag more than riches.
Also world news and Clara Matinees
Casten, the talented child vio- m
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4 Days,
The most pleasing photoplay ever made by
the beautiful
Clara Kimball Young
She wears exauisite gowns and is utterly
captivating in her newest
"The Rise of Susan"
Also a screamingly funny 2-act L-Ko Com
edy, "That Dawgone Dawg," and riew selec
tions by little Clara Casten. A wonderfully
pleasing programme. No gloom; just joy.
SINGLE ITEM VETOED
Governor's Prerogative Exer
cised for First Time.
MOLONEY CLAIM CUT OUT
Portland Detective Disclaims Knowl
edge of Demand, as He Was Re
imbursed for Work Done In
Chinese Case, Wnlch Is Cited.
SALEM, Or., Feb. 23. (Special.)
Governor Wlthycombe today exercised
the single-Item veto prerogative for
the first time in the history of the
state. He drew his pen through lines
of the general appropriation House bill
No. 684, which provided $328.45 to re
imburse P. R. Moloney, a detective, of
Portland, for services rendered in as
sisting in the arrest and return of Toy
Toke and Wong Wah to Portland from
Chicago in February, 1914.
While the appropriation bill Is to re
imburse "Mr. Moloney." according to
word received from Walter H. Evans,
District Attorney of Multnomah Coun
ty, Mr. Moloney says that he knows
nothing of the claim, that he already
has been reimbursed In that sum and
he has no desire for being further re
imbursed. John MoCue, an attorney of Portland,
appeared before the ways and means
committee and presented the matter in
volved before that committee, which
Introduced the bill.
According to the record available In
the executive offices. Ah Hong was
held In the Portland jail in 1914 on an
opium charge. In the meantime he
had left a Chinese girl. Toy Toke, in
charge of his store. While Ah Hong
was In Jail one Wong Wah. from San
Francisco, appeared, and shortly after
ward Toy Toke and Wong Wah dis
appeared. At the same time $500 dis
appeared from the safe In Ah Hong's
store, and he declared that Toy Toke
was the only other person besides him
self who knew the combination to the
safe.
Being familiar with such cases. Dis
trict Attorney Evans required Ah
Hong to deposit a sufficient amount
of money to reimburse the state for
the expense of goinjr after the fugi
tives. In event Ah Hohg relented after
their return and refused to prosecute.
The District Attorney's "hunch" ap
peared to be a good one. as Ah Hong
dropped the proceedings when Toy
Toke and Wong Wah were, brought
back from Chicago, where they had
been located. Attorney McCue moved
to dismiss the prosecution.
It appears that the money deposited
by Ah Hong was used for paying the
expenses of their apprehension and re
turn as originally provided in the stip
ulation of District Attorney Evans.
With the assurance from the District
Attorney and from Mr. Moloney him
self that the detective knew nothing
of the bill. Governor Withycombe ve
toed the single item.
Parts of the bill approved Include
final echoes of the Copperfield affair,
including claims of Frank T. Collier
and H. H. Fisher, $310.90 and $200, re
spectively; Robert Gavin, $500 for re
ward for apprehension of George
Bartholomew in the "green-trunk"
mystery: J. J. Denson, $1000 for in
juries sustained in the manhunt when
Warden Mlnto was killed, and a num
ber of other miscellaneous items.
INHERITANCE SUIT IS WON
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Gambling Profits Are Held to Be
Community Property.
SEATTLE. Feb. 23. Superior Judge
Jurey decided today that Mrs. Ina H.
Snook was entitled ' to a share In the
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$305,500 estate of her mother, the late
Mrs. Josephine E.. Kennedy, wjfe of H.
B. Kennedy, a steamboat owner of
Seattle. Mrs. Snook sued for a share
of the estate, alleging that it was com
munity property.
The principal witness In the trial
was Kennedy, who said that his for
tune of $41. 000 was accumulated
chiefly through ownership of gambling
games In Spokane and Seattle before
1903. Kennedy had previously been a
gambler in Nebraska, he testified. In
his testimony Kennedy declared his
games were always square and that his
large profits came from the percentage
in favor of the house. Judge Jurey
held that the state law clearly made
gambling profits community property.
WOOL CAR AT ENTERPRISE
Sheepmen From All Parts of Wal
lowa County Present.
ENTERPRISE, Or.. Feb. 23 (Spe
cial.) The Government and college
wool demonstration car In charge of
J. F. Wilson, assistant In wool investi
gation by the bureau of animal in
dustry; Oran M. Nelson, assistant ani
mal husbandman In charge of sheep
of the Oregon Agricultural College, and
D. E. Clark, livestock agent of the
O.-W. R. & N. Company, has been here
for two days. The car was visited by
eheep growers from all parts of the
county, some of them coming from as
far east ss the Snake River.
The object of the car is to teach
Western wool growers the value of a
working knowledge of the market
grades and classes of wool and to
demonstrate the benefits to be ob
tained through better methods in thi
preparation of wool for the market.
BUYER TURNS BONDS BACK
Wasco $2 60,000 Issue Is Refused by
Clark-Kendu 11 Company.
THE DALLES, Or., Feb. IS.- (Spe
cial.) The sale of - Wasco County's
$260,000 road bonds has been declared
off by the Clark-Kendall Company, of
Portland, which has called In Its $14,000
check deposited at the time the bid waa
awarded. The check was returned to
day.
This means that the County Court
will wait the decision of the Supreme
Court as to the legality of the sale of
the bonds and then the county wil
have to advertise for new bids or call
another election if the decision is
against It. The decision will probably
be made next Tuesday.
COLONIZERS LAY PLANS
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O.-W. R. & N. Officials Confer With
The Dalles Chamber.
THE DALLES, Or., Feb. 28. (Spe
cial.) William McMurray, general pea-
en ser agent of the O.-W. R. A N. Co.;
C. T. Gignou. assistant colonization
agent of the Union Pacific, and C. L.
Smith, agriculturist of the O.-W. R.
& N. Co., arrived in the city today from
Portland. They met with the Chamber
of Commerce directors tonight and dis
cussed the proposed colonization plan
of Inducing settlers to come to Wasco
County and engage in truck farming.
This is proposed to relieve the truck
garden and fruit product shortage
which has handicapped the local can
neries this past year.
. Albany Academy Celebrates.
ALBA.NT, Or.. Feb. 23. (Special.)
With elaborate patriotic exercises, St.
Mary's Academy, in this city, celebrated
Washington's birthday yesterday. Percy
R, Kelly. Circuit Judge of the Third
Judicial District, delivered the address
of the occasion and readings and mu
sical numbers by the students complet
ed the programme. Rev. Father Arthur
Lane, rector of the local parish of the
Roman Catholic Church; Rev. Father
Henry Pelletan, assistant rector, and
several other local people attended the
exercises.
There are a number of women miners
employed In Bohemia, and their average
rate oi pay is z cents a oay.
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Only TodaylO A. M. to 11 P. M.
After today it will be six weeks before you
have a chance to see a new comedy made by
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See "Easy Street" today; it's a scream; also
a new Shorty Hamilton Evenings . . . 15
drama and a beautiful Matinees, - o
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Marie Empress and all-star cast in the play
that has taken the East, by storm a dra
matic revelation:
"The Girl Who
Doesn't Know"
Proving in never-to-be-forgotten fashion
that "an ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure" tomorrow !
ORDER PLANS BIG DRIVE
KXIGHTS AND LADIES OK SECTJIUTT
NEARLY THROUGH CAMPAIGN.
Portlaed Councils Jfow Have 173 More
Members Thaa Hark Set. bat
Effort la to Be Continued.
The Portland councils of the Knights
and Ladles of Security will bring their
membership campaign, which has been
under way for five months, to a close
on Tuesday, which they have set aside
as "Security day" and on which day
they will make a last "big drive" to
round up the prospects that have not
yet been brought in.
This is part of a Nation-wide cam
paign with 25,000 members as its goal.
The fact that the Portland councils
have already passed the mark set for
them was brought out Thursday night
at a huge meeting at Security Hall, at
340 Russell street, under the auspices
of Security Council In celebration of
the 15th anniversary of the founding
of the order.
There are seven council In Portland,
and the number of new members set
for them to get as their share in the
Nation-wide campaign was 3S5.
The total reported at the banquet
Thursday night was 560. or 175 more
than was required.
D. L. Povey. president of Security
Council, presided, and the address of
the evening was by Dr. A. K. Higgs,
past president of Eureka Council.
Drills were put on by the drill teams
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of Security. Anchor, Eureka and Klrk
patrlck councils, patriotic features be
ing especially provided in the drills.
The Columbia Ladles' Orchestra fur
nished music and there were also mi
steal selections by Manuel Newman.
Laura and Leonard Baker and Fred
Holm. R. P. Bullock read an inspira
tional poem.
ODDFELLOWS ELECT BOARD
Thirteenth District Session Held at.
Mlddleton, Idaho.
CALDWELL. Idaho. Feb. 2S. (Spe
cial.) With 125 delegates In attend
ance the annual meeting of the 13th dis
trict of Oddfellows, held at Mlddleton
yesterday, elected officers for the ensu
ing year, and selected Parma, Idaho,
for the 1918 -convention.
The officers elected were: J. Carl
Baldridge, Parma, president; Dr. J. C.
Joyner. Nam pa, first vice-president;
George W. Oylear. Mlddleton. second
vice-president; C. Benjamin Ross. Ros
well. secretary: Alvin Meyers. Emmett,
treasurer; A. F. Isham. Caldwell, mar
shal; Rev. L. W. Flenner. Wilder, chap
lain; O. A. Megardon, Homedale, guar
dian. Fifteen candidates were initi
ated. Ranch Near Adna Brings $4000.
CENTRA LI A. Wash.. Feb. 23. (Speo
clal.) A deal was announced yesterv
day wherein W. Thornbury. foreman
for the Walville Lumber Company, pur
chases the 40-acre ranch of Henry Bau
man, located one mile north of Adna.
The consideration was $4000. The new
owner tko possession Immediately.
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