Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, October 18, 1917, Image 13

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Newspaper Page Text13 THEATER PRICES TO RISE WITH WAR TAX "The Time Has Come to Conquer or Submit For Us There Is But One Choice We Have Made It.1 Now it is up to us to make good; we cannot shirk our responsibility, we must help The least we can do is to buy a liberty bond. THE MORNING OREGOXIAX, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1917. AH but 5-Cent Playhouses of City Must Add 10 Per Cent to Ticket Cost. ADVANCE DUE NOVEMBER 1 Managers of Portland Shows Are as Vet Vn decided "What Their Ac tion Will Be Government Will Require Reports. The theater public of Portland soon -will pay a higher price for its amuse ment, for the Government has touched the necessary tickets with the wand of war taxes. Beginning November 1 all theaters and places of amusement charging an admission in excess of 5 cents must pay a special war tax of 10 per cent, or 1 cent for every dime or fraction thereof received from ticket sales. The provisions of the act apparently place, without reservation, the burden of increase upon the theater-going pub lic. It is doubtful whether, although j no ruung nas wecu muc - vht inci ter, the theaters could absorb the tax ; if they chose. The act specifically states that the tax shall be assessed against patrons as they make the pur- j chase. Kvery theater in Portland, with the xception of the 5-cent motion picture ; houses, is -directly afCected. Fifteen-; cent theaters must demand 17 cents for Their tickets when the act is in effect, while 25-cent tickets must bo sold for not less than 2S cents: Similar 10 per cent advances will continue along the line, from motion picture houses to Vaudeville, etock and road shows. Cheaper Hounei .ain. TMssatiffaction is evident in the atti tude of the higher priced playhouses, that the 5-cent movie place has been exempted from the tax. In the larger vaudeville and "legitt tnate" theaters local managers await advices from the general managers of their concerns or circuits, and were un able yesterday to tate definitely what course they would pursue with regard to the collection of the tax and the in crease of ticket prices. A general impression prevails, how ever, that the increases will be "even money," and that penny change will not be resorted to. Instructions received from Milton A. Miller, local Collector of Internal Reve nue, are to the effect that the Govern ment will require exact monthly re ports of all ticket sales, accompanied by cash settlement of 10 per cent on the original charge. Blanks will be fur nished. AV. W. Kly, manager of the Hippo drome, will receive instructions from the general manager of the circuit, Sam Harris, when the latter arrives, within the coming week. Hippodrome prices are 10 cents in the afternoon and 1 cents at night. Mr. Kly believed that the week ly tax might he met by an additional 5-cent charge on Sundays, if the provisions of the act will permit. but expressed doubt. Orpheum Chief Await Word. The Orpheum charges 10, 25 and SO cents for its matinees, and up to cents at night. Manager McJettigan also is awaiting advices from the pres dent of the vaudeville circuit of his house, M. Meycrfcld, of San Francisco. For the ranta ges, Mann ger Johnson expressed a belief that a raise from the price of .-cent tickets to 30 cents would account ftr the necessary tax. The theaters prices are Id and 25 cents with 50 cents for box Feats. AY. B. Armstrong, manager of the Strand, the only 10-cent vaudeville houne in the city, could not say whether the house would collect the 1 cent ad vance or fix its future prices at 15 cents. The situation of the Iyric, musi cal stock theater, is similar. The Baker, a stock company theater, Charges 2T and iVO cents for its matinees and 2T, 50 and 75 cents f oi evening shows. Milton W Seaman, the man ager, was inclined to believe that ad vances would be made all along the line, in his own as well as other houses. The Tfeilifr Theater presents road hows and ticket prices, on an average, arc $1.50. $1.75 and 52. The house would pay the largest tax of any the ater in the city, proportionately, under the provisions of the new act. Theater managers, while timorous at the prospect of decreased business when the increased prices prevail, are of the jreneral opinion that the act does not afford them the ontion of absorbing ithe ticket tax, and that the public must '.pay. Not the smallest fly in the theatrical Tutter, by any means, is the absolute requirement that all passes and compli mentary tickets must be taxed accord ing to the seat afforded. WIFE RESENTS HARD NAMES .tannic Vounie Sue for Divorce, Alleging Cruelty. "She-devil and other similar terms a ro object ed to seriously by Fannie Younie. even though they came from hewis Vounie. whom she sued yester day for a divorce. Various acts of cruelty are also charged. The couple were married in tms city June 2, If 10, ntm the wile asks tor 5o00 court costs. attorney s fees, and permanent ali niony of $125 a month. r ivo oilier suits for divorce were filed yesterday as follows: Kstill A. ivessier vs. uoor.ee w . -Kessler. mar ried at Vancouver, Wash., July 16. li15, desertion: Carrie Anna Lehman vs. Walter F. Ijchman, married in this city April 20, 1913. desertion ; L. A. Crane vs. Anna Crane, married in this city September 15, 1914. desertion; Jack llo piaine vs. Gladys Agnes Komaine. mar ried at Vancouver, Wash., April 2t5. 1916. cruelty; Jennie S. Pearson vs. Samuel Pearson, married at San Antonio. Tex., October 24. lS8lt. cruelty. Your First and Foremost Duty Is to Your Country 'Are You Loyal?" Olds, Wortman & Kin, Morrison, Alder, Tenth and West Park Sts. Portland's Reliable Department Store. If You Can't Fight You Must Help Those Who Can. . Are You Doing It? Today We Give All Thoughts Toward Helping to Win the War We Will Not Publish Our Regular Advertisement, But Will Give Our Space to JPromote the bale oi liberty -Bonds We will appreciate your coming to the store or phoning your orders without the aid of our advertisement. Put All the Money You Can Into Liberty Bonds The great financiers of this country invest their private fortunes in Government Bonds Large incorporations, banks, insurance companies and railroad companies are large holders of Government Bonds. It's the safest and surest investment one can make. This is your dutiful opportunity to start the saving habit. The Government does not ask you for a donation. It only wants to borrow your money at a fair rate of interest and offers the best security m the world. We Are Taking Subscriptions for tKe . ' ' - - - - - r 1 We Will Take Your Bond (If Bought Through This Store) Any Time Within Five Years in Exchange for Merchandise or to Apply on Your Account Apply Credit Department Fourth Floor Salaried people and people of limited means sometimes hesitate to make investments for fear -circumstances may arise whereby they would wish to use the money in an emergency for necessities. We Make This Offer to Citizens of Oregon and Washington Who Make Application for Bonds Through Our Store We will guarantee at any time within five years to take bonds, subscribed through this store, in exchange for merchandise or to apply on account, or on deposit to be traded out. We Make This Offer in a Spirit of Patriotism and to Encourage Thrift We receive no commission whatsoever for the sale of liberty bonds. It is our duty to help and this is only one of many ways in which we are doing our duty. Olds, Wortman & King 9 ARTHUR HADD1X FREED MAX CHARGED lin CHILD BELIEVED BY COIBT. Looks More Like alihter Stealing Rather Than l'arent Ividnnpins CliUd," Say Judge. "This looks to me more like a case f the daughter stealing her faf'1 than the parent kidnaping his child. fommeutcd district Judcre Jones es- tevdAy in dismissing; a criminal t'liargc of child-stealing: that had l'cn pre ferred against Arthur Maddix by nis divorced wife. Sirs. Hobtrt V. Jones, J Wcidler street. This disposition i-f the case was made alter iieaiiiin evidence in a. preliminary examination. Haddix was charsred with having Kia- n;.ned his daughter Ida. aged 16 years. and takinir her to Seattle on uctoDer S. lie returned the following day. when the daughter was permitted to return to the home of her stepfather, vi -veslerdnv's hearinir tho grill testi fied that she was inveigled into mak ing the trip to tieal'le ly her latner or. the threat that unless she did pro she would be committed to a reforma tory by the Juvenile Cuurt authorities. The father's story, which was believed by the court, was essentially differ ent, lie swore that the girl appealed to him to take licr away from I'ortland ai'd that he did so only as a parent bavins at heart the best interests of the child. Haddix and his former wife were di vorced several years ago at AVaila Walla. "Wash., when the custody of six minor children was awarueu m wife. Iater a court order was made hi- i-ircnit Jndare Davis in this county restraining Haddix from interfering in any way with the children. forged bank check for $100. Kissinger and Andrew Currie were associated as partners in the ownership and manage ment of the K. C. Specialty Company and under the terms of their agree ment all checks were to be signed by both partners. The specific charge against Kis singer was that of forging Mr. Cur ries signature io a iu -nf:K. -auci ecuring the money on this instru ment, it was alleged by the Ptato tnat Kissinger appropriated other funds be- onsing to the partnership and left the state. He was subsequently inciicieu. rrested at Boise, Idaho, and returned for trial. FLY TO CLIMB CHARLES "WILLIS WILL COXTRIB I'TE TO PATRIOTIC CAMPAIGN. STATE TO SELL EQUIPMENT Highway Engineer Tells Employes Auto Costs Too Hi si i. SAL.KM. Or.. Oct. 17. fSpeclal.t In a rireuliir letter to employes, State Hishway Knpineer Nunn today issued a. wa miner ajraint allowing: overtime work to pro above the minimum possible for the best welfare of the state's pro g,i ammo. In another circular warning" also is i.ued to employes that the ro.t of operation of automobiles in the hifrh- v. ay department work i-s running too h ic h. The department today announced that it will receive proposals on October 23 a" Salem for tlte purchase of second hand equipment belonainpr to the de rartment, which includes equipment on work at Olendaie, Astoria. .Asniana, Phoenix and other points in Jackson &ud Clatsop counties. - . 'MUSIC" BRINGS PROTEST City Council Asked to Declare Teachers a Nuisance. Tenants in the Northwestern Bank building aparently do not appreciate the potpourri of music wafting from the windows of the ataegriey-1 lennor buildinsr. Emery Olmstead yesterday filed a protest with the City Council ping that the musical tenants pe ae clared a nuisance. It is complained that the JIaegley Tichnor building is occupied by music teachers of every sort and description p.nd that when they all get Into action there is considerable ill feeling among tenants in. other buildings thereabouts. CHECK FORGER CONVICTED II. i:. Kissinger Held Guilty oC Sign ing l'artner's Name to Get $1 00 IT. E. Kissinger was convicted by jury in Circuit Judge L,ittlefleld's court yesterday on an Indictment charging Uim wiili uttering and publishing HUBBY KEEN ON FISHING Hence Neglect of Home Responsibil ities; Hence Divorce. An inordinate fondness for trout fish- ng. causing him to neglect nonie re sponsibilities, was charged against Fl-oyd .1. nice as ground xor oivorce nought by Gladys S. Rice before l'rcsld ng Judge Kavanaugh yesterday. Other estimonv showing various acts of cruelty on the part of Bice was offered. The decree was granted. Judge Kavanaugh granted fix other divorces as follows:- H. !?. btaffordi vs. Christine Stafford. I... K. Obye vs. Ruth L.. Obye, Kerna Julseth vs. Oscar Jul seth. Amelia M. Snitzler vs. Frank O. Snitzler. Matilda Breshears vs. Guy Breshears. and lorencc H. llaight vs. Fred Alton Haight. MR. PLUMMER OPENS DRIVE Portland Speaker Talks to School Children at Dallas. DALLAS. Or.. Oct. IT. (Special.) The- campaign for the conservation, of the Nation's food supply opened in Polk County Tuesday with an addres to the students of the Pallas schools by O. M. riummer. of Portland, a repre sentative of the state conservation com mittee. After the address to the chil dren ho attended a meeting of the ad visory committee for Polk County at the Courthouse. At noon a luncheon, was served at the Gail Hotel by the ajl&s Commer cial and Woman's clubs to the visiting delegates and other citizens. Rev. D. A. MacKenzi presided at the luncheon. Special Programme Arranged by Com mittee for Next "Week In fantry Band to Play. Charles "Willis, known as the "Hu man Fly," will be a contributor to Portlands patriotic campaign to raise $25,000 nxt week for an emergency fund for the relief of Oregon soldiers and sailors. He will scale the wall of the Failing building. Filth and Alder streets, Saturday noon while Home Guard girls sell tickets for war pic ture shows to be staged during the week at the Auditorium. The committee working on special events for the emergency fund cam paign yesterday arranged to take over the platform used this week by the lib erty loan committee at Fifth and Mor rison streets for a regular noon per formance each day next week. Edward Kralcy. chairman of the speakers' committee, has appointed Robert L. Adams chairman of the pro gramme at the stand. Leah Cohen will sir.g "America, I Love You" and "Amer ica," accompanied, by the Fourteenth Regiment band from Vancouver Bar rack?. Monday noon Ir. t. A. Fellows will be in charge of-the programme. Mrs. Herman Politz and Mrs. Fred L. Olson will sing, accompanied by the police band. Tuesday noon Dudley M. Mc Cosh will be in charge and Miss Elnise Hall and Roy Curtis will sing. The accompaniment will be by a 70-piece band to be contributed by the Musi cians' Union. PIONEER OF 1853 DIES Mrs. Harriet Callison Had Lived on Farm for More Than 5 0 Years. EUGENE, Or.. Oct. 17. (Special.) Mrs. Harriet Callison. pioneer resident of Lane County, died this morning at the family residence near Pleasant Hill, where she had made her home for more than half a century. Mrs. Callison. who was 74 years of age. croHsed the plains to Oregon in 185U. Samuel B. Knox, her father, was one of the first settlers of the Cottage Grove region. She is survived by five sons: It. t.. Callison, of Portland; S. H. Callison of Cottage Grove; O. V. Callison. of Mo desto. Cal.: O. S. Callison. of Pleasant Hill, and Vernon Callison, of Eugene. Vumhill-Xestucca Road" Progressing. SALEM. Or.. Oct. 17. (Special.) Rapid progress is being made on the fp Every Bit I a Pood I e-tMs IS REAL BODY-BUILDING , NUTRITION drap MADE CLEAN SOLD CLEAN DELIVERED CLEAN ' IIOLSUM BREAD recommends itself to house wives. The big wrapped loaves speak for cleanliness and purity as truly as do we, who pride ourselves on turning out the best bread possible to make. Ask For It by Name. Your Grocer Has It. Log Cabin Baking Co. paving near Sheridan on the Yamhill Nestucca road, according to the report of State Highway Engineer Nunn, who has just returned from that work. He expects the job will be finished within 20 days if good weather continues. LETTER IS MISCONSTRUED Woodburn Company Not Behind in Accident Vund Payments. SALEM, Or.. Oct. 17. (Specials A statement in a letter from the Indus trial Accident Commission to the rub- lie Service Commission recently, to the effect that the Woodburn Lumber & Lopgrin? Company attributed deferred payments to tne accident fund to the existing car shortage on the Southern Pacific, caused recent publication of puch report. Records of the Accident Commission f how, however, that the Woodburn Lumber Sl Logginp Company has no such deferred payments. A letter to the Accident Commission from the company complaining- of the shortage and its diastrous effect was misconstrued by the Commission, be- inir taken an explanation of a fail ure to make payments, and hence tho error. Tobacco Workers Resume Work. SAX JUAN", Porto Rico, Oct. 17. Eight thousand tobacco workers and cigar makers returned to work today after four weeks of idleness. There ha.i been a. general increase in the wages of these workers. Infants and Invalids HORLICK' THE ORIGINAL MALTED MILK Rich milk, malted grain, in powder form For infants, invalids ei growing children. Pure nutrition. upbuilding the whole body. Invigorates nursing mothers ud the aged. More nutritious than tea, coffee, etc Instantly prepared. Requires no cooking. Substitutes Cost YOU Same Frice Aid to tHe Housewife and the Home Of vital interest today is the question of household thrift. To help women under- stand this subject better, we have published a book, "The Business of Being a Housewife." Written by Domestic Science experts and illustrated in colors, this volume has a message for both the experienced and inexperienced housewife. It give9 new and tested recipes, special menus, directions for house hold accounts, cost reduction, kitchen manage ment and improvements, etc. A copy will be sent you free on receipt of your address and juc in stamps to cover cost oi packing and postage. Address Desk R, Domestic Science Department, Armour and Company, Chicago. ARMOURCOMPANY J. F. U RI.OXG. Mer. Thirteenth and Handera i Portland. Oregon. Inone Broadway 1380. ' fl fl Pric., fl f Sl!; JPRODUCTSL - ffej 1628