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PORTLAND JITNEY
Drivers Attempting to Run
Without Required Bonds
Will Be Arrested.
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TUP! MORNING OREOONIAX, SATTTRDAT, JULY 21, 1917.
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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.
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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.
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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
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In the Supreme Patriotic Triumph of
the Year
"The Little .
American" f
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thrills, crowded with
romance and overflow
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made America free go
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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