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4 is 1 TIIE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAX, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1917. J l 'X T I i v i i i t A 1 i I ST - i i, 4 i i i A I 1. . - t , X f 1 i, 5 i I" i i ODDFELLOWS HOLD PATRIOTIC SERVICE American Flag Presented to . Grand Lodge in Session at Eugene. FINANCIAL REPORTS : MADE Order Paid $93,414 Iast Year for Relief of Members, and Has Assets of $1,884,713" for 19,6 7 8 Members. EUGENE, Or., May 23. (Special.) The presentation of an American flag to the Oregon Grand Lodge of Odd fellows assembled In Eugene today in spired the hundreds of delegates to sentiments of patriotism and expres sions of loyalty. Grand Master H. D Merritt, of the Washington Grand Lodge, was welcomed by Grand Master Henry S. Westbrook, of the Oregon ju risdiction, and responded with a. patri otic address. "The part of this great order, with its more than 2,000,000 men and 1,500, 000 women, is to exemplify the princi ples for which this Nation la at war," he declared. For the first time In the history of Oregon, joint memorial services were held today by the Rebekah Assembly and the Grand Lodge of Oddfellows. This was preceded by a ceremony In which the Rebekahs gave flowers to the living eleven past presidents of the Oregon Assembly who were in attend ance at the meeting today. Rhodo dendron blossoms were presented. National Body Joined. The Oregon Rebekah Assembly voted today to affiliate with the Na tional Association of Rebekahs. In for mer years similar recommendations have been defeated, owing to the ex pense connected with the National As sociation membership. Tonight seven candidates for the po sition of warden of fhe Rebekah As sembly follow: Miss Ethel Fletcher, of Salem; Miss Dora Sexton, of The Ialles; Mrs. Edith Kelly. of'Roseburg; Mrs. Nettle Whetstone, of Pendleton; Mrs. Mamie Donaldson, of Prairie City; Miss Jessie White, of City View Lodge. Portland, and Mrs. Mary Simmons, of Laurelwood Lodge, Portland. There was no contest for the other offices. This election and that of the Grand Lodge will be held tomorrow. 03.OOO Paid for Relief. Grand Secretary E. E. Sharon re ported to the Grand Lodge an income of $273,043.76 for the entire order in Oregon for the year, an average per member of $13.88. of which $93,414.83 was paid out for relief and in benefits. There were 1650 members given relief. The assets of the order in the state total $1,884,713.63, an average of $95.83 per member. The grand secretary re ported a membership in Oregon of $19, 678. Mr. Sharon's report marks the close of his 23d year as grand secretary. Five Rebekah Lodge Are New. Grand Treasurer O. D. Doane, of the Grand Lodge, reports total disburse ments for the year of $33,867.77 "and receipts of $38,615.04 for that branch of the order. Five new lodges are represented' in the Rebekah Assembly this year by delegates from Turner, Stanfield, Ter rebonne, Tangent and Julver. The Pendleton Lodge claims the dis tinction of having three past grand masters of the Oregon Grand Lodge in attendance at the meeting this year. They are R. Alexander, who headed the Oddfellows organization in the state in 1S86; H. J. Taylor, grand master for the year 1914, and T. H. Wells, grand mas ter in 1890. Grand Secretary Sharon is also a member of the Pendleton lodge. HIGH IiODGESIEN FRATERNIZE Grand Masters of Oregon, "Washing ton and Alaska Meet at Eugene. EUGENE. Or., May 23. (Special.) The grand masters of the grand lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fel lows for the Jurisdiction of Oregon, Washington and Alaska are fraterniz ing In connection with the meeting of the Oregon grand lodge in Eugene. Henry S. Westbrook is the grand master of the Oregon lodge. He Is an attorney at law, engaged in practice In Portland. There are 20,000 Oddfellows and 17,600 Rebekahs in this state. H. D. Merritt is grand master'of the Washington Lodge. He is a United States collector of Internal revenue, with headquarters in Spokane. There are 29,000 Oddfellows and 23,000 Re bekahs in the Washington Jurisdiction, which includes six lodges In the terri tory of Alaska. The Washington grand lodge will hold its annual meeting at Vancouver, Wash., June 4, 5 and 6. 50 -TEAR JEWEIiS GIVEN FOUR Eugene Oddfellows' Ixdge Has Rec ord Number of Old Members. EUGENE, Or., May 23. (Special.) -A record in the history of Oddfellow shlp in the United States was set at the session of the Oregon Grand Lodge today when Spencer Butte Lodge No. 9, of Eugene, presented 60-year Jewels to four of its members, making a total of five of these Jewels worn -by members of the lodge who have been members in good standing for half a century. These five men, with the dates on which they Joined the Spencer Butte Lodge, are: T. G. Hendricks, March 31, 1864; D. R. Lakln, January 10, 1865; J. D. Matlock, October 3, 1865; J. IL McClung (Portland) and J. S. Luckey, November 20, 1866. MORE CASH FOR BELGIANS One Hundred and Nine Dollars Add ed to Relief Fund. That the people of Oregon are still Interested In the relief of the Belgians in shown by yesterday's receipts, re- EPILEPTIC ATTACKS HAVE BIEN STOPPED FOR OVER 60 YEARS by DR. KLINE'S EPILEPTIC REMEDY. It is a rational and re markably successful treatment for Fit. Epilepsy (Falllna Sickness) and kindred nervous derangements Get it or order It at any Drue Store Sl.OO and S2.0O. pnpp Send for our valuable Hrf" book on Epilepsy. It Is 111 an an ported by S. L. Eddy, treasurer of the Oregon Wide Belgian Relief Commit tee. After . June 1 no soliciting will be done by the Belgian workers, but any sums received .will be forwarded to the United States Commission for Belgian Relief to aid in special relief work. The general relief work will be taken care of by the loan which the United States makes to Belgium June 1. Yesterday's receipts: Already reported ..t -.$7452.41 James BegKS l.riO Room fl. Iavifl School 8.22 Julia B. Hoitt 5.00 H. J. Feathers. Clackamas........... 5.O0 Carlotta B. Holllster, Pilot Rock . 1.0O W. P. Gunderson. Huntington 10.O0 Mrs. Irene Tinker. Long Beach, Wn.. 1.0O Edward Cooklngham -. lo.O0 L.aure!hurst School '. . J.fvO Glen Haven School " .50 Ethel L. Bradley. Redmond 5.00 J. M. Crawford. Dundee 10.O0 E. F. Burllngham. Forest Grove . 2rt.no W. F. Procter and wife, Salem ' 1.00 Portland Heights Club T.6.'t Unitarian Women's Alliance 1.A5 Cash 15.00 ' Total .f 7561.43 Each month. MOONEY CASE IS SLAW FIFTH TENTATIVE JUROR BEEX SWORN. HAS Mrs. Mooney Listen Attentively as Men Who Will Try Her for Conspiracy Are Examined. SAN FRANCISCO, May 23. Another juror, making five secured thus far, was sworn in late today in the trial of Mrs. Rena Mooney, wife of Thomas J. Mooney, on . a charge of murder growing out of a bomb explosion here last July which cost ten lives. From the progress made it was generally believed the Jury will be completed this week. Before -court adjourned be cause of exhaustion of the venire, two men had been tentatively accepted as jurors subject to peremptory challenge. Superior Judge Emmett Seawell ordered another panel of 100 in court, tomor row morning. The trial today was featureless and had few spectators. Mrs. Mooney listened attentively to questions asked during the examination of talesmen and smiled broadly when David R. Carrier admitted that he was of the Socialist party, ( but( denied ( to the proseution that he . belonged to . any factoin that advocated violence as a means to changing present industrial and economic conditions. He said there were no "direct actoin men" in the Socialist party to his knowledge. Previously, Louis Ferrari, Assistant District Attorney, chief prosecutor for the state, had asked Carrier if "mem bers of the party were not direct action men who believed in revolution and dynamite as a means to accomplish their aims." Thomas J. Mooney, sentenced to death for the bomb murders and the four other bomb defendants, were charged by the state during his trial of being "direct action men." Carrier was excused by the state on per emptory challenge. Many talesmen failed to qualify be cause of fixed opinion of guilt, op position to inflicting the death penalty and prejudice against circumstantial evidence In murder cases. WOMEN REPLACE MEN NORTH BANK CHANGES CAR-CLEANING SERVICE. Tacoma Brotherhood May Strike Be. cause of Employment of Women . to Clean Cars There. Men are to be replaced by women In the car-cleaning service of the North Bank Railway Company. An order was placed wtMj the Public Employment Bu reau at me City Hall yesterday for 35 women to have steady employment on eight-hour shifts at 25 cents an hour. It Is said men- have quit the service for farm work or military service and that the company therefore has de cided to have the cleaning done entirely by women. The order for 85 women was a big boon to the employment bu reau women, who have been receiving employment here and there, principally in private homes, and have had small earnings. TACOMA, Wash.. May 23. (Special.) Following the hiring of 0 women to day to take the places of men in the car-cleaning department and the store house at the Northern Pacific shops in South Tacoma, officials of the Railroad Brotherhood organizations announced a mass meeting tomorrow evening to pro test. It is said a. strike may be called. The wmen, it is said, are taking the places of men who were unable to sup port their families at the wages paid, 21 cents an hour. The fear is expressed that the employment of women will have a tendency to keep wages down in all departments. Most of the women who went to work spent the day washing windows, beat ing carpets and cleaning upholstery. The women employed today bring the number in the shops at 2. Most of them were hired through the Federal Em ployment Bureau. APPLES WILL BE CHEAP DRYING PLANTS ADVOCATED TAKE CARE OF SURPLUS. TO Allied Government Bayers, It la Said, Will Take All Dried Fruit That Can Be Marketed. WALLA WALLA, Wash., May 23. Stating that he would not contract with local growers for their , apples to be delivered next Fall at 25 cents per box. for the reason that there will be an unprecedented crop in the United States and that transportation facilities will be Insufficient to move it, owing to the munition business, J. C. Caldwell, by-product specialist of the Washing ton State experiment station, urged a body .of growers here last night at a mass meeting to build drying plants to take care of their cull apples and pos sibly a part of the better grades. He said a . 30-ton-per-day-capaclty dryer could be built for $8000 and that one ton of fresh fruit would make an average of 250 pounds of dried fruit and that the cost of drying in the clumsiest plants would not exceed $7 per ton. He also advocated sun drying and individual kiln drying in the or chards for the earlier fruits and assert ed that the allied government buyers would take all the dried fruit that could be marketed next Fall. A meeting of growers will be held in the morning to take action. Alaska Marshal Is Nominated. WASHINGTON, May 23. Lewis T. Erwln, of Alaska, was nominated today bV President Wllann fnr r.l.i Marshal, Division No. 4, Alaska. Gasoline Is Up 2 Cents. NEW YORK. May 23. 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II ThsttCcwI g9tMJhtfa I H Shoes' 1 1 IT Ifff J Patmtt Colt Baby Doll Ed ft CeS Aw Fmr Mi., mmd Infmntm FOOD BILL TAKEN UP Senate Gives Right of Way to Supply Census Discussion. HOUSE CONSIDERS CONTROL Opposition to Conferring Requested Powers on Secretary of Agricul ture and Central Adminis trator Is Indicated. WASHINGTON, May 23. The Gov ernment's first food bill providing for a National foodstuff census and appro priating about $15,000,000 for measures to stimulate production vas briefly considered by the Senate today and placed in position for continuous dis cussion, beginning tomorrow, until final disposal. In the House tomorrow the second and more drastic Administration meas ure for control of foodstuffs will be pressed for passage, subject to inter ruption only by conference reports. This bill would authorize the creation of a food administrator, price-fixing and prevention of hoarding:. After several days of preliminary work, occupied larg-ely in revising: the original draft, the production bill was brought before the Senate todav by Chairman Gore, of the agricultural committee. The brief discussion indi cated some measure of opposition even to the proposed conferring of power upon the Secretary of Agriculture to have agents inquire into business of food dealers and owners. Opposition In the Senate, however. Is largely centered upon the control measure. While Congressional leaders plan to expedite both food bills, the Senate leaders expect to await House action upon the control measure and possibly will postpone its considera tion for several weeks, until after the war revenue bill has been disposed of. have Just returned to the college after naving spent a couple of weeks in practical forest work at the Govern ment Wind River nursery at Carson, vasn. xne students put in the two weeks in transplanting nursery stock. The Wind River nursery turns out annually 2,000,000 trees which are used in building up the forests of the Northwest. The students In the party were: Messrs. Blofson, Fu, Nettleton, Wheeler, Dean, Byers, Ding, Hutchinson, Bagley, Hyatt, Koeler, Luebke, Rlckson, Shef field, Haberer, Steel, Branon and Mason. . MULES TAKEN TO 0AKRIDGE Government Need . Animals Building Forest Trails. in Because of the scarcity of horses at the present time Dee Wright, packer for the Ignited States Korest Service, has Just completed the task of taking six Government mules from Cle Elum, Wash., to Oakridge. Lane County, Ore gon, for use in the new road which Is being put in by the Forest Serv ice from Oakridge . to High Prairie. This road, which is to be located in the Cascade Forest, has Just been started. i The difficulty of getting horses Is said to be due partially to the demand on the part of the Government for war purposes and also to the need for those animals on the farm at the present time. FORESTRY STUDENTS BACK Party From Agricultural - College . Ends . Camp Work. Led by Professor Newlns, a party of 18 students of the school of forestry at the Oregon Agricultural College LISBON DAMAGE IS HEAVY Food Rioting Is Attributed to Ger man Intrigue. - VIGO, Spain, via Paris. May 23. rortngues newspapers which have Jsist reached here say the damages at Lisbon during the recent troubles caused by the Increasing cost of pro visions amount to more than 10.000.000 pesetas. All the shops and warehoses in the villages of Beatoret and Pozco- blsco were pillaged. Several hundred persons were arrested in Lisbon-and put aboard vessels In the harbor. It Is reported the workmen struck on Monday and Joined the manlfestants. - The outbreak was attributed to Ger man intrigues. Technical Apprentices Wanted. WASHINGTON. May S3. Technical schools have been appealed to by the Department of Labor to furnish all available men between 18 and 21 for apprentices in shipyards where the fleet of wooden vessels Is being: built. -Read The Oregon Inn classified ads. H- n I Some dealers say rightly that it isn't necessary to pay the Apollo price for a good player-piano. It's a fact that several good makes can be bought for from $50.00 to $100.00 less. But before you make a definite choice, decide on what you want, then let us show you the features in the Apollo that compel us to get a little more and are to be found in no other player-piano in the world. Then decide. ' frVaSOH tjf f aiDC-e 1 Ml Pi.AJjos in jj MUSIC f. llgrBAUen ' MORRISON" STREET AT BROADWAY Stores also In San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, San Jose, Los Angeles and San Diego. 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