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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1917)
THE 3IORXIXG OREGOIA2f, FKIJAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1917. 15 VALLEY ILLS PUT UP PLEA FOB RATES We Give-S. & H. Green Trading Stamps With Purchases Amounting to 10c or More Filled Books of S. & H. Stamps Redeemed in Cash on the Fourth Floor Take Luncheon in the Tea Room, Fourth Floor Kodaks, Cameras and Supplies, Fourth Floor Model Grocery, Bakery and Delicatessen Department, 4th Floor 40 -Inch Silk Nets at 79c For Dresses, Waists, Linings, Etc. Main Floor New Silk Nets at a special low price for Friday's selling. Shown in a full line of the wanted Fall colorings for dresses, waists, linings, etc. Don't fail to take advantage of this offering. 40- '7Q inch Silk Nets, specially priced at, the yard I Mill End Veils at 25c Each The Standard Store of the Northwest Lengths 1 to li Yards Blame Placed on Transconti nental Northern Rail ways for Injustice. Main Floor Mill-end sample pieces of high-grade veilings to be closed out at 25c the piece. Plain and fancy meshes. Colors are purple, navy, white, black, brown, tan and taupe. Regular 60c to 65c OCT grades. Any Veil in the lot Friday at only Reliable Merchandise Reliable Methods Olds, Wortman & King COMMISSION HEARING HELD Contention la That Pointa Along Southern Pacific Are Entitled to Same Tariff as Equidis tant Points In Washington. fContlnul From First Pag.V the territory described in the com plaint because of the differential over what competing: mill have to pay. Competition is keen and difficult enough -without this handicap, which is too severe to overcome." Mr. lxon said stumpage in Lane County is ft a. thousand, as against 12.50 to M on the Columbia River, a part of the difference being due to local freight tariffs that shut the fin ished lumber out of wide markets. The same story was told by other lumbermen. Georse Gerlinger. presi dent of the "Willamette Valley Lumber Company, Dallas, said the Coast group rates, if extended to Willamette Valley mills, would be most helpful to open nd stimulate Valley mills. There is no obstacle, he said, to the develop ment of the lumber business In this state to the same extent as It has been developed in Washington save a rate barrier that cannot be overcome. Orders Are Rejected. J. R. Shaw, manager of the Hammond Lumber Company's mill at Mill City, said salesmen In the Minneapolis terri tory have been compelled to turn away orders because of the local rate to 1-ortland that must be paid in addi tion to the through rate from that point East. He said some few shipments of selected stock: has been made to Al bany, at a cost of about $1 a thousand feet, and there turned over to the Ore gon Electric, which assured the Coast group rate. But this figure, about half the penalty Imposed upon the average Valley mill, is too great to conduct business on, he said. li. A. Cowden, president of the Sll verton Lumber Company, said if the gateway at Portland were to be opened, as sought in the present suit, he was satisfied 25 per cent of the output of his mill could be shipped to the terri tory involved. Railroad la Projected. His company and another at Silverton bad. in fact, even considered building a railway four miles long to connect with the Clickamas SoutLern at Mount Angel, which, like the Oregon Electric, absorbs the local rate to Portland. The Southern Pacific put only one witness on the stand. Assistant Gen eral Freight Agent Mulchay. He said through rates from the Valley to Northwest territory do prevail on many commodities, such as hops, dried fruit, canned goods and even on sash and doors and veneer stock. However, he eaid, lumber has always been an ex ception. - . ' "We have had numerous negotiations with the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern," he said, "and have expressed ourselves willing to establish blanket rates." ( "Why has this not been done?" asked Attorney-Kxaminer Marshall. Truffle Official. Are Present. "The Northern lines have many mills on their own roads and I assume they desired to move as much lumber as they could to their own local points and ob tain in this way the maximum reve nue." ho said. "They felt. I suppose, that it would be necessary to divide some of their earnings with us on busi ness originating on our lines. - I think it goes back to a question of division of revenues." The Northern lines propose to intro duce only three or four witnesses to day and this will close the hearing un less it Is decided to present arguments. The hearing will open this morning in the postoffice building at 8 o'clock. H. A. Scandrett, of Chicago, appears as attorney for the Union Pacific, and 1). W. Scandrett, a brother, is counsel for the Northern lines. The Southern Pacific Company's attorneys are Ben C. Uey and C. W. Durbrow. the latter of San Francisco. In attendance are num bers of railway traffic officials. F. G. L-onaldson and William C. McCullough represent the plaintiffs. Preliminaries Are Brief. Prefaced by a brief statement of the case by Attorney-Examiner Mar shall, supplemented by a slightly more detailed outline of the contentions of the lumbermen by William C". McCul loch. the taking of testimony began in the Federal courtroom at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. F. O. Donaldson, secretary and traf fic manager of the Willamette .Val ley Lumbermen's Association, as the first witness, set forth with a good .deal of detail the allegations of the plaintiff. The association represents 22 mills in the Willamette Valley, at a distance of from 28 to 109 miles from Portland. These mills manufac ture 1.S35.000 feet of lumber a day, or 31 per cent of the state cut. The cut of the mills of Washington, he said, for the past 10 years, has been double that of Oregon mills. He supported this statement wtth a quotation from the testimony of H. D. Langille, at a Federal trade hearing. In which Mr. Langille said wage earners in the lumber industry of Ore gon number jri.t'Sfi. as compared with 43,749 in the Washington lumber In dustry. Wages paid in this state are more than $10,000,000 a year, as against . over J J 1. 000,000 a year in Washington. Wider Market I'rsrd. It was Mr. Langille's conclusion that wider markets are essential for Oregon lumber if this great industry is to rrosper hero and that freight rate equality with competing mills else where is absolutely necessary. Maps were produced by Mr. Donald son that showed rones In which Wil lamette Valley mills are en an equal basla with Washington mills and also those sections of the Northwest where mlllmen of the Valley are at a d is-. advantage as regards rates. The ter ritory where rales are sought to bo equalized comprises the states of Montana. North and JSouth Dakota, parts of Minnesota and Nebraska and various districts In Canada. To this group of states it was sid only 1S8 carloads of lumber have been moved by the mills appearing as complainant during th first six months of 1917 and of "this number 173 cars came from territory served by the Oregon Klec trlc, where the differentisl charged by the Southern- Pacific is absorbed. In the states of California. Kansas. Utah. Arizona and Nevada rates are equal to. those in effect from the Coast group mills and In certain restricted actions the Willamette Valley mills have a slight advantage. To this ter ritory S3 per cent of shipment by the mills interested are made. Minnesota Good Market. In the first group of states there was said by the witness to be a good Portland's Greatest Showing of New Fall Dresses at This Store Betty Wales Dresses ' 75c to $1 AO Allover Laces At 50c Main Floor Sample pieces 18 inch Calais Allover Laces in black, white and cream. Ef fective designs suitable for waists and boudoir caps. Grades usually priced at 75c and Pfl $1.00. Friday special, yd. O VfC 7c, 8c, 10c Laces 5c Yard Main Floor New Val. and Filet Lace Edges and Insertions in various widths, also narrow imi tation Armenian Edges. Great variety of dainty patterns. JT 7 to 10c grades, yard for tlv Embroidered Art Pieces Yl Price Table Scarfs, Center Pieces, Cushion Slips and Doilies Center Circle, First Floor Discon continued models in beautiful hand-embroidered Scarfs, Center pieces and Doilies on sale Friday at just half regular price. An ex traordinary opportunity to select a handsome piece for gift-giving $1.50 up to $15 pieces on sale Fri day at from 75 up to $7.50 Sale of Battenberg Scarfs, Cloths Center Circle, First Floor Batten berg Lunch Cloths 72x72 QQ CQ in. $4.89 to $5.29 grades 54-inch Lunch Cloths, J- QQ regular $2.89 and $3.29 D-L70 18x45-jnch Scarfs, special $1.10 $15.00 to $25.00 Second Floor Model as illustrated is of navy blue serge embroidered in silk and gold to simulate a middy effect. Rows of buttons and self loops ex tend down the front of waist and on each side of skirt, belt ties at back. An ideal dress for school, shopping or business. Price $23.50. Other models Betty Wales Dresses for school, street and "party wear ranging in price from $15. OO up to $25.00 New Serge Dresses Second Floor Smart models for women and misses clever styles trimmed with silk braids, buttons, fancy collars, cuffs and belts. Made up in high grade serges in navy, black, garnet, etc. Any num ber of models to 6elect from. Priced $15 to $42.50 New Silk Dresses Second Floor Lovely new frocks of afternoon wear made up in satins, taffetas or Georgette crepes. Skirts in new draped or plaited effects some are effectively trimmed with braids. All sizes for misses and women. Every new and wanted color in the assortment. Priced from $15 to $42.50 Women's Fall Skirts Of Silk $830 to $3230 Of Wool $5.00 to $25.00 Second . Floor NEW SILK SKIRTS in fancy stripes, plaids, silk poplins, satins, charmeuse and taffeta. Shirred high waistline effects, over drapes in pointed, round and novelty effects. SnmA nrn iTimmp1 with rtnnflai rvP V o 1 V p f". rihhon. The n rices ranee from JRS.50 on un to S32.SO Ssfif-sSrfSSfrf NEW WOOL SKIRTS in a wonderful showing lSifti of styles for street, school and dress wear. Plaids, checks, stripes, fancy mixtures, plain colors. Velours, flannels, gabardines, wool jersey. The prices range from $5.00 on up to $25.00 New Fall Waists $3.49 Waist Department, Second Floor Attractive new models made up in laces, nets and Georgette crepe fancy styles with the very newest collars and trimmings. ''Also tailored styles in crepe de chine in flesh and white. Several . pretty models to select from. Effectively trimmed with embroidery, fine QQ AQ tucks and laces. Full assortment of sizes. On 6ale Friday " ThisPercolator Third Floor Aluminum Perco lator made by the Manning Bowman Co., which fact guaran tees superior quality. Made ex actly like this illustration 7 cup size. Get your order in early and be sure of getting one of these. Priced spe- QQ flft cial for Friday at &O.UU Breakfast Sets $1.48 Bargain Circle, First Floor Wom en's Breakfast Sets in several neat styles, underpriced for Friday's sell ing. Made up in plain blue, pink and lavender percale, trimmed with fancy checked gingham. New large collars and belts. Also chambray in plain colors trimmed with striped galatea. All sizes. Fri- Q-f AO day special, the set at DJLe'iO Women's $8 to $10 Boots At $6.98 Lace or Button Styles Various Leathers Main Floor Women's 8 or 9-inch High top Boots in laced or buttoned styles; 9-inch chccolate brown "kid with covered Louis heels golden brown kid with nar row plain toe, welt soles, leather half Louis heels patent colt . with ; white washable kid tops tan calf with whip cord tops of lighter shade, pointed toe, high Cuban heel black vici kid, narrow tipless toe, leather half -Louis or low Cu ban heels. Regular $8.00 to Q? QQ $10 Boots. Priced special at 50e7O Low Prices on Boys and Youths' Shoes BOYS' HI-CUT Storm Boots for Winter wear. Heavy tan leather with 2 buckles at top. Foot-form last, double sole sizes 9 to 13 at $3.50 sizes 1 to 6 at $4.50 YOUTHS' AND -BOYS' Black Satin Calf Shoes in button or lace. Sturdy, dependable shoes for school wear. Sizes 9 to 13, $2.59; 1 to 2 at $2.79; 2 to 6, $2.08 Learn to Knit and . Crochet Free classes Art Needlework Department, Second Floor, 9:30 to 12 and 1 to 5 daily. Chil dren's Classes Saturday 9:30-12. New Kid Gloves For Women Main Floor --2-clasp French Kid Overseam Gloves, light in weight and dressy. The pair for $2.00 2-clasp French Kid Gloves, extra quality P. K. sewn. Pair $2.25 2-clasp Margot French Kid with embroidered backs. Pair at $2.50 en'sBoys' New Fall Apparel Men's Suits $15 to $40 Overcoats $15 to $35 Main Floor Whether you intend paying $15 or $40 for your new Suit it will be to your interest to see our splendid line of the new Fall models. Styles that are absolutely correct, fabrics that are of superior quality and workmanship the best. Several well known makes here for your choosing. Men's Fall Shirts $130 to $8J00 Main Floor Fall lines of Arrow and Savoy Shirts are now ready. Very newest designs in woven and printed madras, percales and crepes. Stiff or French-cuff style. Also new Silk Shirts in season's latest colorings. Men's Underwear, Gloves and Hosiery Fall and Winter stocks are now complete . in every detail. We are Portland agents for Vassar, Carter and Winsted Underwear. Light, medium, heavy weights. $1 to $6.50 Men's New Fall Gloves in Bacmo, Adler, Perrin's and other makes. $2 to $3.50 pair. Principal Portland agents for Interwoven Hosiery silk, lisle, cotton and cashmere. Prices range from SO0 up to $1.00 pair. All Men's $3.00 New Fall Hats All Men's $5J00 New Fall Hats Now Only $225 Now Only $3.75 Latest Models Boy s' Suits $730 to $15.00 Alain Floor Outfit your boys at this store where stocks are large and prices are low. We are now showing a wonderful assortment of new Fall Suits made up in home spuns, cheviots, tweeds, serges, cassimeres, etc. Novelty mixtures, plain blues, browns and blacks. Hand tailored throughout. Ages 6 to 18 years. Prices range from from $7.50 on up to $15.00 Mackinaw Coats $5 to $10 Main Floor Boys' Mackinaw Coats in rich dark plaids and plain colors. Latest Norfolk styles with one or 3-piece belts. Splendid warm Coats for school wear. Cravenet ted materials. Ages 4 to 18 years. Boys' Blouses, Shirts 65c to $1.00 . Main Fir. New Shirts and Blouses made up in attractive styles and materials. 65, 75c4. $1.00 Boys' School Hose Black Cat, Buster Brown and other good makes that will give best of wear. Specially priced at 25, 350 pair. demand for Oregon lumber and Minne sota Is the only fitate In that region that cuts any considerable amount of lumber and ita timber is being: depleted rapidly. Comparative distances covered by Oregon and Washington lumber to reach markets in the states where rates are complained of were shown by charts prepared by Mr. Donaldson. These Fhowed that the mileasre from Springfield. Or., to Mandan. S. 1.. is 1561. while it is 15S7 miles from Cen- tralia to Laramie, Wjo. Yet lumber traveling the latter distance is hauled at the rate of 40 cents for 100 pounds, while from Springfield to Mandan, a lesser distance, the rate is 51 cents. The rato by the ton mile of the Ore gon lumber Is 6.5 mills, as afrainst 5.1 mills for tho Washington product. Inequality Is Asserted. Many similar comparisons were of fered by the - witness, by means of charts, to show that while mills on the Northern Pacific, the Great North ern and the Milwaukee have reason able through rates to points on the Union Pacifio system in competition with the Willamette Valley mills, the latter are being excluded from com petition with the Washington mills to points on the Northern Pacific. Great Northern and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul by much higher rates for the same distance. It was developed by the witness that rates applied to the Coast group also apply at various Valley points, such as Mount Angel, Salem and Eugene, due to the Portland Railway. Light & Power and the Oregon Electric lines reaching them, while at other equally distant points from Portland the dif ferential against Valley operators is not absorbed and they are at a con sequent disadvantage in competitive territory. It is this condition, the witness said, that results In mills of the Coast group enloying practically ail the business in what, they contend, should be com petitive territory, with an equality of rates. Briefs Are Permissible. Attorney-Examiner Marshall an nounced yesterday that after the tak ing of testimony has been completed briefs may be filed by the parties inter ested and the examiner will later file a proposed report upon the record made. A date will then be Tlxed upon which the parties to the case may file ex ceptions and these may be argued be fore member's of the Interstate Com merce Commission. If desired, he said, argument may be presented upon the conclusion of the testimony. M S. Fitigerald appeared yester day when .the hearing opened and sought to participate as an intervenor on behalf of wooden pipe manufactur ers both here, at Seattle and Tacoma. He said he was a strict neutral as between the contending parties and was Interested only so far as the wood pipe factories might be Involved. xt.. xtDrEh:ill sa.ii he did not nnder- tt.ini hi nosition as a neutral and that he was not disposed to accept him as an intervenor in the case. However, if It appeared during the .-..i hit, Mr. Fitzgerald was In terested. Mr. Marshall said, he would admit any representations be might care to make. An electrically operated coln-ln-the-lnt machine, which cleans the sides and soles of a person's shoes, has been Invented In Sn iuerland. NOTED CLIMBER VISITS MISS ASTJEA S. PECK TO TEtl MA ZAMAS OF EXPLOITS. Woman Who Scaled Hnaacaran, 22,000 Feet High, to Lecture at Library on Monday Night. Miss Anna 8. Peck, probably the foremost woman mountain climber In the world, will be In Portland next Monday and that night will address the Mazamas in the Assembly Hall of the Central Library at 8 o'clock. She will Illustrate the talk with 100 colored slides and will tell the story of her ad ventures and exploits. The lecture will be free to the public, as a contribution of Mazamas to the cause of mountain eering. It is Miss Peck's first personal lecture tour of the Pacific Coast, al though her books and printed lectures are well known. Miss Peck spent about 10 years ex ploring and- climbing in the Andes and her subject in Portland will bo "The Conquest of Huascaran." This peak took repeated attempts, as it is 22,000 feet, being 1500 feet higher than Mount McKinley. Miss Peck was successful only after six attempts. T'ne successful attempt was made in September, 1908, and Khe established a new mark . for mountain climbing, reaching a point higher than that gained by any moun tain climber in the Western Hemi sphere, so far as can be learned. For her exploit in this connection Miss Peck was presented with complimentary res olutions and a gold medal by the Peru vian government. In her talk Monday night Miss Pack also will touch on her partial ascent of Mount Sorata in Bolivia. DAIRYMAN BRINGS SUIT Injuries Sustained in Collision Blamed Upon Defendant's Employe. Louis Qugg. manager of the Crystal Pure airy, yesterday brought suit against ttve Eas-t Stde Auto Repair Company for $2762.60 damages for al leged injuries in an automobile colli sion on. East Ninth street, near haver, on the morning of June 18. Plaintiff alleges that at the time his delivery truck was in the chop of the defendant corporation undergoing re pairs and that, for his accommodation, the company furnished one of its own machines and a driver, to whose Inex perience and alleged carelessness- the Injured man attributes responsibility for the collision. NAME HARD TO PRONOUNCE Unhappy 'Woman Would Be Free From Husband Gone Away. Because of the difficulty of pro nouncing the r.aro under which they were married. Eelmchlssell. Ada Reintschlssell-rarson, who yesterday brought suit for divorce from Harry B. Reimschissell-Parson. admits in her complaint that shortly after the mar riage thye agreed to assume the name Parson. They were married at Poca tello, Idaho. In January, 1907. Deser tion is charged. Cruel and Inhuman treatment Is al leged by Alma H. Toelle in a divorce suit filed against J. C. Toelle, to whom she was married in this state May it, 1905. EX-CONVICT MAY GO BACK August Perry, Out on Parole, Faces Serious Charge. August Perry, an ex-convict out on parole from the state penitentiary, where he was serving a term for burg lary, was arrested, yesterday by De tectives Hellyer ' and Tackabexry, charged with contributing to the de linquency of a 15-year-old girl. According to an investigation con ducted toy Mrs. lola G. Baldwin, super intendent of the Women's Protective Bureau, Perry lured the girl into a Japanese rooming-house In the North End after first purchasing for her a pair of white islk stockings. Perry probably will be returned to the penitentiary to complete his sentence. PRUNE PICKING UNDER WAY Clarke County Crop Iess Than Last Year but Price la High. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Sept. 20. (Spe cial.) Prune picking in Clarke County has commenced. During1 the next three or four weeks more than 1000 persons will be engaged in harvesting: the crop, which is the principal product of this county. The orchards on the lowlands, par ticularly in Fruit Valley and the Lake Shore country, are ready for picking now, while some of the other orchards will not start picking for a week or ten days. The crop generally through out the county is much less than last year, but is on a par with crops of two and three years ago, it is estimated. Prices are much better, some growers having sold their crop in advance for 9 cents a pound, orchard run. BOND MAY BE REQUIRED House-Movers to Furnish Guaranty to Do No Damage to Streets. House-movers are to be required hereafter to furnish bonds to cover damage done to streets, sidewalks and other public property. An ordinance to that effect will be sent to the City Council next week: by City Commis sioner Barbur. Recenlty a house-mover attached a line to a sewer manhole and did about $200 damage, and then attached to the grating in a catch basin and did fur ther damage. He was forced to pay for it. Mr. Barbur now proposes to exact a bond of- $1000 from regular house-movers and $500 from persons moving their own houses. NAVY'S PLANS EXPLAINED Daniels Tells Reasons for Asking Millions From Congress. WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. Secretary Daniels and his aides explained the Navy's great destroyer construction programme to the Senate appropriations committee considering the 7,ooo,oou,ooo war deficiency appropriation bill. Im mediate appropriation of $225.000.000 toward a $350,000,000 programme is provided in the bill which the com mittee hopes to present to the Senate tomorrow. The hearings were concluded today and the committee plans to place the bill, probably Increased by several hun dred millions, before the Senate early next week. ers will enter in the list of events scheduled for tho remainder of this month and October. J. M. Toffey of Thomaston, Conn., has had his garden wired for electric lights so that he will be able to ac complish more during his spare time evenings. Slixed Fousrome Interests Golfers. There is considerable interest being displayed in the mixed foursome sched uled for Saturday afternoon at the Waverley Country Club. With most of the golfers back from their vacations the links have the appearance of a busy place andi a large number of play- ntv LA MODE 288 MORRISON CORBETT BLDG. FASHION SHOP NO Middlemen's Profits Losses on Credit Accounts Enable Us to Give Values to CASH BUYERS Which Others Do Not Sale of New Autumn Apparel SUITS, COATS, DRESSES, . SKIRTS, BLOUSES AND FASHIONABLE STOUTS TO EG BUST. NEWEST SUITS IN BROADCLOTH SILVER TONE BURELLA POPLIN IN THE RICH AUTUMN SHADES FUR TRIMMED FOR THIS SALE $17.75 $29.50 Mm One Price CASH ONLY New Fall DRESSES MODELS FOR AFTERNOON, STREET AND DINNER WEAR, IN SATIN, SERGE, CREPE METEOR Prices $14.50 and $21.50 New FaiTcOATS Smart Coats of wool velour, with collars of Coney A- w Cf fur. Sale price ip .0J Fall Models fashioned of the new est materials, including Bolivia pom pom, silver fjQ C.Ci tone, silk lined u,eCDU AND UP Not a So-Called Sample Shop LA MODE TO HELP YOUNG GIRLS A Mother Wants Her Letter, Published. Eaton, 111 . "I wish yon would pub lish this letter for the benefit of young; firls. My daughter suffered greatly rom female trouble with cramps, and headache, and backache most of the time. She never felt like working and it seemed as though she was sick all tho time. I decided to try Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound and it has helped her in every way, in fact it has really cured her, for she no longer has periodic pains, and no more headaches or backache, and I want all young girls who suffer as she did to know about it." Mrs. Alma Mills, Eaton, 111. Another Girl's Experience "New Castle, Ind. "From the time I was eleven years old until I was seven teen I suffered each month so I had to be in bed. 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