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13 PORTLAND JITNEY Drivers Attempting to Run Without Required Bonds Will Be Arrested. 1 TUP! MORNING OREOONIAX, SATTTRDAT, JULY 21, 1917. llMlIMIiMilli BECOMES HISTORY Wi!WIMl1llw "P n1 MnaBBBf EOPLES "Topping the World for Quality" LAW GOES INTO -EFFECT Amount Required Is Considered Pre ventive of Continuation and Banks Depleted toy More Lucrative Positions. Xltneys in Portland are through. So announced President Rossman, of the Jitney Drivers" Union, yesterday to City Commissioner Mann. He said most of the drivers felt that the cost of a bond of $2500, as required by the ordinance adopted by the oters June , was too great to make the Jitney business profitable. Bonds were filed by about 65 drivers up to 6 o'clock last night, which was the final hour for filing. All drivers who attempt to drive today without having1 furnished the required bonds will be arrested. The drivers who filed the bonds in clude taxlcab, for hire and jitney driv ers. All the bonds were written by th , Aetna Company. It is said the premium paid amounts to about 75 cents a day. The bonding companies rejected many drivers, refusing to take a chance wltli them. Injunction May Be Sought, While Mr. Rossman, of the Jitney Union, said the Jitneys had decided to quit at least temporarily, some attempt may be made today to get an injunction against enforcement of the bonding ordinance pending Its appeal. No Indi cation that this would be done was given Commissioner Mann, although it was understood the union had employed an attorney. The Jitney TTnion has slowly been go ing to pieces for several months past because of the demand for labor and the better opportunities for men out side the Jitney business. Since the voters passed the bonding measure and rejected the measure to allow the jitneys free use of the streets it is estimated that between 125 and 150 of them have dropped out of business or have gone Into the "for hire" business. The re maining number quit last night. On the list of those who quit are many who formerly had quit jitney oper ation and gone into the "for hire" busi ness. Crepe Is Hung on Cars. Yesterday afternoon some of the Jit neys and some of the old taxlcabs an nounced their demise In a novel way. Bits of crepe were hung over cards reading, "Died July 20." One of the drivers who displayed such a sign was E. D. Bonbeight, who has been driving a dilapidated taxicab for several months past. According to President Rossman, of the union, jitneys will be entirely miss ing from their routes today. Any at tempts on the part of driven to enter the business wUi be met with arrest. Also the following of routes by the cars will be stopped absolutely in accord ance with the measures passed by the voters granting franchises for that privilege to the Portland Trackless Cir Company, of which Stephen Carver Is president. For one hour yesterday morning there was almost a steady line of jitney driv ers at police headquarters, arrested be cause they were not bonded. It was later learned that there had been a mis take, the city officials failing to notify the police department that the jitneurs had received another day of grace. Up to noon yesterday 22 drivers had been arrested, most of whom were placed under $25 ball, but some were compelled to wait In the corridors of the City Jail whlls they were telephon ing to the outside for bail COOS HAS LABOR SCARE SHORTAGES IN HILLS AND CAMPS ALARMS OPERATORS. Lcmbfr and Logmen Appeal to County Court to Postpone Present Road Work to Relieve Condition. MARSHFIELD. Or.. July 20. (Spe cial.) Leading lumber and mlllmen today appeared In Coqullle before the County Court and requested that the court provide means of reducing the demand for men who are being used on the many grading contracts under the bond Issue expenditures. They told County Judge James Watson the . camps and mills are shorthanded and the road work could as well be dis pensed with while labor Is so scarce, The contracts are under way all over the county and the court. If It were to suspend operations, would be sub ject to heavy damage suits on the part of all contractors. Judge Watson could give no decision and the affair will obtain no official action until the August meeting of the court. Among those at the gathering Interested In lumbering and logging were: A. H. Powers, Smith-Powers Logging Company; Arno Alereen, Smith Mills: George Hallor, Buehner Lumber Company; E. E. Johnson, Coquille; William v aiphn, a logging contractor, and R. E. Wernich, Reynolds Mill, Co quille. 4 . -,. - l- ..: -:,t'''.wjc.: .v. .'..s -mr. 5: r ; tc I t , V 4 i ' . V ' M II a jtfefej;ivtifl;-iWriii .... I ,r " rt I : - s ntT - bi i ' r-' ' ? ,i i'''t,i , A;V ..;.:..- , .. ;I . I f 2, ,9 ' " J'V, "r,j f u' 5 ill f ' A- -'v.' i 77? 2&L-t z n Tomorrouz TODAY'S FILM FEATURES. Columbia Louise Glaum, "Sweet heart of the Doomed." Liberty Dorothy Dalton, "The, Flame of the Yukon." Majestic Anita Stewart. "The Message of the Mouse." Peoples Mary Plckford, "The Little American." Star Reglna Badet, "The Gold en Lotus." Sunset Charles Ray, "The Hon orable Algy." Globe Shirley Mason, "The Law of the North." Circle "Is Marriage Sacred?" Resinol will heal those mosquito bites A touch of Resinol takes the itch and smart right out of mosquito-bites, and soothes and cools sun-bumed, wind-burned skin. This gentle healing ointment seems to get right at the root of skin-troubles like eczema, ivy poisoning, heat-rash, and hives, clearing them away in a sur prisingly short time. Resinol is old by all druggists. MYRTLE stedmak is tne latest star of the silent drama to an nounce her entry into the field as an independent producer, presenting photoplays to the publlo under the name of the Myrtle Stedman Film Cor poration. Miss Stedman. who was In Portland and Vancouver yesterday preparatory to starting a 10 weeks' tour of picture houses that will take her into Chicago and New York, announces that Imme diately upon the completion of the tour, or In September, she will com mence work on her own pictures. Bight a year Is her schedule. "I'm sorely tempted to go back to my first love In pictures, the making of high-class Western photoplays." said Miss Stedman yesterday as she sat talking over her plans for the coming season. "However, that's a matter for decision afterward I haven't engaged my company yet, or decided upon the exact studio . loca tion, and the matter of type of plays will be settled when I get back from my tour and settle down .to camera work again." Since leaving Portland, where the charming photoplayer made such a. hit with the fans during her vocal engage ment at the Peoples Theater, she has appeared in nearly two score theaters of Washington, Oregon and California. Miss Stedman sang at Vancouver, Wash., last night and will leave today for Spokane. Russian Revolution Pictures. As a special attraction, and a news "scoop." the Majestic Theater com menced yesterday the screening of scenes of the Russian revolution at Petrograd and Moscow. The reel was filmed under the auspices of the Amer ican Ambulance Corps and a large part of the proceeds derived from its exhi bition In this country go to the funds of that organization. The picture Is unusually Interesting and graphically depicts various inci dents of the uprising that led to the dethronement of the Czar and the for mation of a republic Xazlmova With Sletro. Metro has signed Nazlmova- The ne gotiations, which haveieen quietly un der way for the past four weeks, cul minated with the signing of a contract whereby the stage and screen part is to appear exclusively In big produc tions by the Metro Company. It Is an nounced that Nazlmova will be in cluded in the star series pictures which already Include Edith Storey, Francis X. Bushman, Beverly Bayne. Emily Stevens, Ethel Barrymore, Emmy Weh len, Viola Dana and Harold Lockwood. Mme. Nazlmova was born in Russia and came to this country In 1905. She made a tremendous hit In "A Doll's House," "The Master Builder," "The Comet" and "The Passion Flower." She has appeared with the best theatrical productions of the country. Following her successful run on the legitimate stage, Nazlmova became the heroine of "War Brides," a vaudeville sketch, which, made foe bar a nam as the foremost emotional actress on the stage. Herbert Brenon realized the drawing power and natural acting ability of Nazlmova and signed a contract with her to place her national vaudeville act. "War Brides," upon the screen. Her success on the screen by far exceeded her work of the stage. Screen Gossip. Mollie King, who has been so suc cessful In the Pathe serial. "The Mys tery of the Double Cross," is to be starred in another serial soon, with Creighton Hale, her leading man, and Leon Bary in the cast. Doris Kenyon is a screen player who really did Jump from a church choir to a motion picture studio. She's a Syra cuse, N. Y., girl, 19 years old, and her father Is Dr. James F. Kenyon, an author and poet. Four hundred of Uncle Sam's regu lars got ten days of Intensive training on Long Island appearing in the Great er Vitagraph war picture. "For France.- Infantrymen, cavalrymen and artillery men were used. Douglas Fairbanks paid a fine ot $5C last week to the California authorities for Bull Montana, his freakish looking Italian wrestler, who while on a hunt ing trip with the screen actor, shot at a buzzard. This is against Western game laws and Fairbanks was compelled to come across or see Bull thrown In JalL Bull contends that his Idea of a million aire's existence is to work in nlcturea. hunt wild animals wilh Douglas Fair banks and have people call him by his first name. J. Stuart Blackton's stock In Vita- graph Is said to be worth $1,600,000, and he has given the company an op tion on It for that amount, to be paid on the basis of zso.ooo a year. - Mile. Delysla. famous French actress, has been much sought after by William Fox. She made such a hit In Rider Haggard's "She," her first picture, that many producers are after her. How ever, she will not be In the United States until 1918. There is a rope about eight feet long used in The Scarlet Pimpernel, a com ing Dustin Farnum picture. This rope cost approximately $100 an inch be cause it is made up of pearls. Winifred Kingston wears it. It was borrowed from Norlinger's, in Los Angeles, and the Fox film plant was as closely guarded as a munitions plant during Its occupancy of Winifred s neck. Dot Farley, one of the stars In the Sunshine Brand of comedies Henry Lehrman Is making for William Fox, was in musical stock in Chicago seven years ago. At that time the film play era were not using make-ups. To keep one's temper when one finds that a scenario requires a player to jump off a dock, climb a telegraph pole or be wrecked in a motor is the aim supreme of the film actor's life. But to be pleasant, even humorous, under such circumstances, entitles the actor to be called artist. This designation may be applied to Emily Stevens, for she smiles through the most arduous studio labor. Five thousand extras were hired by the American to watch the prize bouts m the filming of "Pride and the Man,' William Russell's next feature. They sat in stands built for the occasion and registered Comanche pep. mow At the tender age of three weeks "Fatty" Arbuckle was attracting the serious attention of the public and press. He gurgled his way to the first prize at a rural baby show out In Smith's Center, Kan., due entirely to the fact that the judges found him a perfect Infant Adonis. Uncle Sam's Favorite Niece IVJiarv Pic c Kirora In the Supreme Patriotic Triumph of the Year "The Little . American" f . Ifs crammed with thrills, crowded with romance and overflow ing with the spirit that made America free go now. I v.- Mill" '' " " ' i , ft-" v C 1 tUi, 4 " - ' X 1 J- 4 - 4 S i 11 .m ITi. IU 11 . Hi WlUC U J f -Hi please, as possible -tnanK youi 1 S-Vi i ' " - ' . - 4 J. J. .W. W. ARE CHECKED LOGGIXD CAMP ON GRAYS HARBOR RESUMES OPERATIONS. Blachlne Ou Company Arrive at Aber deen to Guard Plants Injunction Against Picketing Sought. ORECrOXIAN NEWS BtTREATT, Wasn- Ingteait July 20. Generml Goethala to day requested the Seattle Chamber of Commerce to adjnst difference be tween the wooden boat builders lum ber mills and loggers and their em ployes In the Grays Harbor country to avert tying up of work on Government ships. Particular reference Is made to the Sanderson A Porter yard at Raymond and the Grays Harbor Motorboat Cor poration, ABERDEEN, Wash., July 30. (Spe cial.) The first attempt on anything like an extensive scale to resume work In the logging camps, closed since last Saturday by a strike of the I. W. W.. was made this morning by the Schafer Bros. Logging Company, operating at Brady. While no trouble was experienced from" L W. W. pickets during the early hours, at noon a call was made by the Home Defense League for troops in order to disperse the pickets, who It was said, were taunting the workers with cries of "Scabs!" Schafer Bros. TODAY SUNDAY also asked the Sheriff's office for dep uties. No trouble, however, has since been reported. The L W. W. pickets all wore signs or big cards on their hats, reading: "Notice, strike." They passed the morning standing or walking along the road from the Schafer Bros.' store at Brady north and In front of the log ging camp, which Is not far from the road. While the crew working Is not large, it Is numbered enough to work effect ively. Men came down from the Les ter camp and some were taken from the Schafer construction crew. A good many went out from Montesano. In addition to this resumption of work. Attorney W. H. Abel, acting for N. J. Blagen. head of the Grays Har bor Lumber Company of Hoquljam, ap plied to the Superior Court for an in junction to prevent the use of pickets at the Hoquiam plant. A machine-gun company of Federal troops, equipped with a machine gun and rifles, arrived last night to be on hand to quell disturbances should any arise from the strike at mills and camps. The company has taken up quarters at the Armory. Zoo Won't Be Abolished. There Is no danger of Washington Park zoo being abolished. This be came apparent yesterday when It was found that four members of the Coun- cll stand for rebuilding the institu tion on the Installment plan, small ap propriations to be made each year. Mayor Baker and Commissioners Blgelow, Mann and Barbur all favor the zoo. Commissioner Kellaher alone wants it abolished. Phone your want ads to The Orego nlan. Main 7070. A 6095. Correct Fitness! Fine tailoring and absolutely correct design gives to Mat his clothes a style atmosphere that adds to the pleasure of every oc casion where you wear them whether it be for business or so cial affairs. Corbett Building Corner Sth and Morrison Sts. ilf V Norma Talmadge in "The Law of Compensation"; six reels. pyx t ? 4 . I tr , v 9 " 5 WHAT BARON MON'CHETK OF THE BELGIAN COMMISSION SAID ABOCT THE COLUM BIA GORGE. "1 hftr Men all the treat roatto of the world. I hare nvrer enjoyed ' rida mora. And thia la certainly iha most magnificent road of all." Y In apeaklnf of the anrge of the Columbia he declared that It le grander and far more beautiful than the Danube or the Rhine. He exppreeaed great eurprlee at lta accelblIU and the ease with which It can be reached hy train, blab way. or boat. Gorg e tht Columbia Glffbrd $c Prentiss Phot Columbia Gorge Excursions Portland's dooryard is a vast scene of marvelous splendor. Within easy reach rise towering bluffs, interspersed with beautiful falls and nooks and dells and changing scenes of sylvan charm and loveliness. The very ride through the Gorge is a moving'pictureof such scope and color that words Sunday Round -Trips fail to describe, the eye to hardly comprehend. Convenient trains make it possible for everyone to enjoy the wonders of the world'famous Columbia. LATOURELL BRIDAL VEIL MULTNOMAH Onionta SI. 10. Bonneville S1.25 $l-oo Simitar farra to other point. Week-end rate tligntly hither. TRY THIS ONCE Go to Multnomah Falls next Sunday, stroll along the Highway to Latourell, viewing at leisure Multnomah, Wahkeena, Coopey, Bridal Veil, Shepperd3 Dell, and Latourell Falls, and the Pillars of Hercules, and take the evening train back to Portland. Your walk will have been but a few short miles along a splendid road AND YOU WILL GO AGAIN I Train leaves Union Station 7 :$o a.m., arriving Portland on return trip 5 30 p.m., via UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM City Office. Third and Wasrtlntfton; Telephones. Broadway 4500. A-612I Ak for "COLUMBIA RIVER OUTINGS" folder Win. MeMnmy, General Pueeiifer A(ent, Fattlsas 3E
