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13 THE-'-MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY,- OCTOBER 7. 1918. COT OUT SNEEZING, DOCTORS' WAR CRY Campaign Is On to Keep City . Clear of Epidemic of Spanish Influenza. THEATERS TO CO-OPERATE Slides Conveying Warning o Public Will Be Thrown on Screens at All Playhouses Here and. Throughout State. i Smother the sneeze To prevent disease. This bit of doggerel is the slogan of a campaign of education to be carried on by the theaters of Portland to keep this city clear of an epidemic of Span ish influenza or minimize the scourge if it appears. At a. meeting yesterday in the office of Dr. George Parrish, City Health Officer, a committee represent ing every theater in the city discussed preventive work with Dr. Parrish and Dr. Robert E. L. Holt, state health officer, and plans were perfected where by the theaters will co-operate with the health officers here and throughout the etate in combatting influenza. Beginning today, every theater in the city, through slides thrown on the screens to convey to the public the warning instructions of Dr. Holt and Dr. Parrish, will fight to keep influenza from Portland, and if it does appear, to keep its spread down to the minimum. Slide Carry Warning. P. E. Noble, of the Liberty and Co lumbia Theaters, has submitted three elides to the health officers and these were adopted as embodying the prin cipal preventive measures Drs. Holt and Parrish want to get before the public of Portland and the state at large. The elides are: Announce of prevention Is worth a pound of cure, ; Smother the sneeze - To prevent disease. Sneezing, coushinp. spitting in public places must . be stopped. If we are to keep Spanish Influenza from our doors. To prevent the spread of Spanish influenza please cough, spit or sneeze into your hand kerchief. State Campaign Planned. 'At every show in every theater in Portland these slides will be thrown on the screen for a week, and a second series will convey similar warnings to be issue by Dr. Parrish. The same slides also will be sent to every tneater in the state, numbering about 300, by author ity of Dr. Holt, state health officer. Sol Baum. manager of the Universal Film Exchange, volunteered to provide all slides required for the theaters out side of Portland. Dr. Parrish informed the 6ho.wmen that thus far no cases of Spanish influ enza had been reported in Portland, but that the utmost precaution was required to save the city from an epidemic. He thanked the theater managers for their co-operation and said he hoped to be able to announce before the convention of health officers in the East next week that Portland had combatted the Span ish influenza without resorting to the extreme measures of halting all activi ties. Strict Compliance Promised. Dr. Parrish emphasized the fact that sneezing and coughing in theaters was a real danger through the spread of contagion by careless persons and noti fied the theater managers that his order directing ejection of sneezers and coughers from theaters was not a half way measure, but absolute and essen tial to further the health department's plan to save the city from a serious epidemic. All the showmen present re ported that they had found it necessary to eject certain patrons following Dr. Parrish's order and promised further strict compliance. Dr. Holt announced that the street cars also were a source of danger, pointing to the report that every street car conductor in Berlin was a victim of Spanish influenza. The streetcar com pany has been asked by the health offi cers to post placards in every car, cau tioning passengers against sneezing, coughing and spitting where spread of contagion may result. Theater Men In Earnest. Yesterday's meeting of the theater managers and the state and city health officers followed a meeting of the show men called Saturday night at the Lib erty Theater by C. S. Jensen. Every theater manager in the city attended and Mr. Jensen was appointed chairman and P. E. Noble secretary. Mr. Jensen then appointed a committee of five to meet with Dr. Holt and Dr. Parrish. This committee was composed of C. S. Jensen, Liberty Theater; P. E. Noble, Liberty and Columbia Theaters: J. A. Johnson, Pantages Theater: William Parker, Majestic Theater; Sol Baum, Universal Film Exchange, and Frank J. McGettigan, Orpheum Theater. This entire committee attended the meet. ins w-ith the health officers yesterday. DEGREES ARE GIVEN 30 SOLDIERS ADMITTED TO B'JfAI B'HITH ORGANIZATION. Business Session Is Followed by Re ception and Programme High Officer Honor Guest. Thirty soldiers from Vancouver Bar racks, representing all parts of th United States, composed a class of can didates on whom degrees were con ferred last night by the Portland B'nai B'rith organization, under the direction of Richard Guttstadt, of San Francisco, president of District No. 4. Following the business session a public reception was given in honor of Mr. Guttstadt. In the class initiated were the fol lowing: Max Jonas, Theodore J. Gould, Sam uel Rosenblatt, W. R. Weill, Samuel Cellar, Melville Michaels, A. Weiser, Bernard N. Frank, E. N. Caplow, Arthur H. Silverstone. Joseph Abrams. Edward Newberg, L. Stofer. Louis Menuis, Sam uel Markevitc, M. Goldsburg, Milton R, Vnger. Herman Jacobson, James E. Sameth, B. Workman, Joseph H. Ma-' latzky. Lieutenant H. L. Rosenburg, Robert Landman. H. Levin, Harry Ben nett, Sam H. Goldfine, Harry Schoefeld, M. Milloff and A. Cohn. First Grand Vice-President Solomons, of the constitutional lodge, was to have been present, but he did not arrive, and is expected in Portland this morning. With Mr. Guttstadt, he will enjoy a trip over the Columbia River Highway at 1 o'clock this afternoon. Dinner will be served at Chanticleer Inn. Dinner in honor of the visitors will be served In Hotel Portland Tuesday evening un der auspices of the Portland B'nal B'rith. Mr. Guttstadt was the guest of the order at dinner yesterday at the Port land, and was entertained during the day- by. officers of the local order, THEATERS PRESENT VARIED Orpheum: AN exceptionally graceful and spirit ed dancer is Albertina Rasch, who is headlining at the Orpheum this week, assisted by Paul Sandberry and Cory phees. Miss Rasch is pretty and petite and dances -with animation and expression. Her- interpretative dances were particu larly good. The musical director is J. Salvati. . Eight numbers were given, in which he was assisted hv eiirht nrettv dan- ; cing girls. The first number was a reverie. which was a pretty slow mov ing dance. Other dances include a Chinese number, and a Hungarian dance. The costuming is pretty and in keeping with the numbers. Rev. Frank W. Gorman, ."the sing ing parson." former pastor of the At kinson Memorial Church of this city, was welcomed home yesterday. He has a beautiful tenor voice, full of ex pression and quality, which is displayed to advantage in the selections which he happily chooses. First of all yesterday, he sang My Wild Irish Rose." By request he sang Absent," which has proved to be one of the best selection in his repertoire. For the sake of every mother in the udience. he said, he sang, "Dear Little Boy of Mine." Just by way of diver sion he recited "A Sermon on Base ball." Some few amusing quips about his friend Billy Sunday completed his act. A happy trio is composed of the Lightner girls and Newton Alexander. One of the Lightner girls is a whiz of comedienne, and brought down the house with her remarks about every thing in general. The other girl plays the piano in a delightful, syncopated sort of way, while Alexander sang all about going back home and things. He gave a number of cracking good imi tations on the cornet, one of a planing mill and another a horse. For their closing number they all sang Alex ander's late song success, "You Never Can Tell." An abundance of pep and good harmony made their act a good one, and brought them a lot of ap plause. Distinctly different and very enter taining is "Shoes." which is produced by Bayonne Whipple and Walter Huston. Miss Whipple is pretty and vivacious, and is charming when she wanders into the shoe shop, trying to evade some man who insists on follow ing her. Huston is the proprietor of the smart shoe shop, where he offers for sale shoes called. Wealth, Happi ness, fauccess and Friendship. There is a sort of an allegorical theme woven into the act which is interesting. A breath of old-time minstrelsy per meates the number presented by Lew Pistol and O. H. Cushing. They come ambling on the stage, one of them rid ing in a wheelbarrow, and proceed to stage a young riot about going any further. They both change their minds, however, when an honest to goodness spook emerges from a nearby grave yard, and taps them on the shoulder. An additional feature of the bill is James J. Morton, who is an animated programme announcing each act of the bill. He is famed as a monologist, and he lived up to his reputation yesterday. The Australian Creightons were two men appearing in eccentricities of bal ancing and somersaulting. One big riot of comedy was fur nished by James Watts, assisted by Rex Storey. One of them appeared as edition of Lady Duff Gordon or Valeska Suratt, it was "hard to tell which. Then they burlesqued a lot of aesthetic dancing. The Official War Review and the Orpheum Travel Weekly completed the programme. Hippodrome. EACH act a winner is the slogan at the Hipprodrome Theater this week. A comedy dramatic playlet called "The Little Ejtranger" is played by Herbert Bethew and company. A clever girl portrays the role of a youngster who brings sunshine into a home on Christ mas Eve and makes life worth living lor the man who has just lost his wife. Some clever lines of comedy are introduced in just the right places, so that the pathetic strain is not too pre dominant. A rather crabbed old wom an cetotribute much of the comedy. Bobby Van Horn is a clever youth who sings his way into favor. Just by way of variety he tells a number of in teresting stories about his troubles with his wife. Vincent and Raymond put on a clev er number, "Names Don't Count." This act includes a bit of sparkling comedy and a bunch of new lines. The Misses Malcom and Le Mar ap pear in "Musical Interpretations." Both are artists of ability and sing and play selectioins in a pleasing manner. They sing old and new songs, winning much applause. A classy singing and musical duo is composed of Miss Lillian De Dee and Jean du Rocher, both clever and ver satile musicians. They play selections on the harp, piano and the xylophone. The nabimbaphone is a new unusuua instrument featured in their act. The great Patricks are equilibrist marvels who scored a success in a se ries of unusual feats. The woman is unusually strong and exemplified good athletic training. One of Ethel Clayton s latest pictures, "A Soul Without Windows," is the pho toplay feature. It is declared by crit ics to be the best picture that Miss Clayton has ever starred In. The heroine of the story is a waif of un known parentage, called Hopama, who brings happiness into the life of a man who is a confirmed invalid, and sees no joy In anything. Some rousing . selections by the or chestra, under the leadership of S. W. Rosebrook, completes the programme. Lyric. "B. TIKE and Ike have seldom created XYX such uproars of hilarity as they did yesterday on their first presentation of the musical farce "So Long Betty." The scene is laid on the roof garden of a swell hotel and the play opens just after Ike has married a rich widow, who, he finds after the vows are plighted, hangs on to her bank account like grim death. When he recovers from this blow he- discovers that he has unwittingly made himself step father to Betty, his wife's daughter .by another marriage. Betty has attained 17 years, and was standing behind the door when the pulchritude was passed around. Her face is a liability. Ike suggests that a husband be found for Betty as soon as possible, and his wife offers 910,000 to the man who will marry her. This is the situation around which the plot develops. Billy Bing ham, as Betty, is afforded a comedian role that suits her admirably. Made line Mathews, as Mrs. Leschinski, takes the part of the grasping wife who makes Ike earn every cent be can sue ceed in wresting from her. Dot Raymond, as the beautiful Princess Iris, lately of Egypt, plays opposite Jewell 'La Valle, who wears the hero clothes. Mike Dooley (Ben Dillon) aids and abets his friend Ike, helping him out of many a tight place and finally annexes the $15,000 appor tioned as Betty's dowry. The Rosebud Chorus appears In 1 series of beautiful costumes and beau tiful songs. Among the incidental num bers are "I'm Looking for a Sweet heart," Ben Broderick; "Brown Skin," Myrtle Howard; "My Little Birch Canoe," Dot Raymond: "Killarney O'er the Sea." Jewell La Valle. and "Her Eyes Are Blue lot Uood, Old Yale." ' Alcazar. BT LEONE CASS BAER. it w ART'S ANKLE" is causing quite some excitement at the Alcazar this week. It's such a dainty.' tiny thing, too, this -slim ankle- of Mary Smith's, but it certainly keeps a flock of folk busy at explanations and more explanations for three clever acts. Alice Fleming's ankle, slender and al luring, silken-clad for one act and bandaged neatly for two acts, fits nicely into the ankle part of the title role, " ' emmg nerseir. cnic, oe- mure and adorablf feminine, is Mary Mary was a personage of wealth and youth from Elizabeth, N. J., who re joiced, or rather suffered, in the sur name of Smith, ana one day she dropped into the office of an engaging but im pecunious young surgeon. Mary's call was to sell tags tor the E-lgian babies, and she took the last penny the doctor and his two pals had. She took more, too, for the doctor promptly fell In love and resolved to marry Mary. So he and his two pals thought up a bril liant money-making plan. On the safe and plausible theory that all wedding invitations call for pres ents, they issued invitations toa wed ding in whieh the bride and he- par ents and her home town were fictitious. This would have been all right, only, by the long law of coincidence, they selected the real Mary Smith, named her folks the John Smiths (which they were), and located 'em in Elizabeth. N. J. The young doctor owed the butcher, the baker, the candle-stick maker and his landlady, an ailing soul who "enj.oyed" poor health. The land lady let him stay on in his. quarters be cause he kept finding new and mar velous complaints for her to suffer from, and by the way, if you want to see an exquisite gem of characteriza tion, go see Jessie Brink's idea of the ailing landlady. Jubilant over her fresh symptoms, and, as she puts it, "surfer ing wl'.h a smile." Miss Brink paints a type we've all met and makes it an amazingly faithful one. When a twist of fate or spell It feet sprains Mary's ankle and fetches her back to the dashing, if poverty stricken, doctor's door, the presents are beginning to arrive, and a gay old uncle, a millionaire, who has withheld largess, is rushing to greet his newly wed nephew and, naturally, the bride. Willy nilly, poor Mary is pressed into service as a bride and complications follow so quickly that we recover from one only to watch our friends entangled in another. Everyone gets straightened out, and in the straightenfng process we laugh ourselves silly. It's a capital comedy replete with smart lines and clever situations. A triumverate of comedians are Edward Everett Horton. as the doctor; Vaughn Morgan, as a Mister Fixit pal. and Will fa. Lloyd, as a good-natured goat pal. The comedy business the three offer is delightful, their gay pan tomime and excellent team work being) compellingly natural. Marie Curtis is a nice auntie to Mary of the ankle, and Ann Winston, as the landlady's practi cal and suspicious daughter, nlavs a dandy comedy role. Smith Davles is the hero s uncle, a role he pk.ys quite as a hero's rich uncle should be played, and William Dills, with an unexpected so prano note in his voice, is a happy steward on a boat. " (Not" This boat scene is one of the picturesque Joys of the play and the honeymoon atmos phere is all there.) Mary's Ankle" may. be viewed all week a"d at a matinee on Wednesday and again on Saturday. the cast: Doctor Hampton (Doc) .................. KdW&rd Kv,r,lt Ttnnn nub VauKhn Morgan Slokes Will E. Lloyd Clementine (Clem) Ann Winston . .werrivaie . Jessie Brink Mary Jane Smith Alice Fleming; Mrs. Burns Marie Curtis Expressman Jack Carter P. Hampton IG P.) Smith Tljjviea Steward William Dills 1- Strand. GRIPPING film story of the North west, "That Devil, Bateese," heads A the new photovllle bill which opened at the Strand yesterday. Monroe Salisbury, who played one of the leading roles in "Ramona," appears in the title role. As Bateese La tour, a French Canadian logger, a kindly, sympathetic fellow subject to periodical fits . of temper which earn for him the sobriquet of That Devil, Bateese. In his simple and direct way he wins the heart of a Montreal society girl who has come to the Far North to for get an unhappy love affair. For a time the affair bids fair to run to a dis astrous end, and Bateese attempts to take his own life in order to bring Jiap piness to the girl. Querry and Grandy, who were for merly . on Orpheum time, present an acrobatic act far above the average, and the girl performs some feats of strength that would seem impossible for one of so Blight a build. Musical Turner, a Zylophone artist. opens the bill with a programme of popular airs played with all variations possible. His interpretation of "The Rosary" is different. A change In train schedules prevent ed the appearance of Larry Lamont, the elongated singing comedian, and Tom Beeson and Trixie Harris in their skit, "The Ragtime Soldier Man," yes terday afternoon. Their numbers were substituted by the Bernardos in a play let or pleasing melodrama about the country girl who wanted to go to the city to become an actress but whose better instincts succeeded in keeping her at home when she learned from her old father that her mother is not dead but gone "clear wrong from the lure of the white lights. Miss Alice Murray, charming Port land girl with a beautiful soprano voice, contributed a group of popular songs. SCHOOL IS FOR OFFICERS Adjutant-General Bcebe Orders 4 Days of Instruction for Guards. A school of Instruction for commis sioned officers of the Oregon National Guard, Oregon Guard and home guard units of the state will be held for four days, beginning October 17, pursuant to an order issued yesterday by Adjutant-General Beebe. The school and conference of mili tary leaders has been approved by Gov ernor Withycombe. It will be held In Portland, at the Armory, except that the final day's doings will take place at the Clackamas rifle range. Officers assigned to serve as ln structo s are: Major C. A. James, Major J. Francis Drake. Major William M. Campbell, Major Frederick H. Drake, Captain S. M. Gilbert. Captain A. A. Hall and Lieutenant C. T. Smith. Rotary Club to Luncheon. "Our Own Day" is to be observed by the Portland Rotary Club Tuesday with a luncheon in the Crystal room of the Benson Hotel, and an "All Ro tavian" programme has been arranged for the occasion, this consisting of snappy five-minute talks "by a few of our members who are doing things, according to the Bulletin. These speakers are William F. Prier. of the Oregon Brass Works; E. F. Piatt, of the Oregon Oxygen & Hydrogen Com pany: William J. Mitchell, of the Knight Packing Company; c. A. Wolf gang, of the Cork Floor Products Com pany: E. O. Johnstone, of the American Chain Company, and William P. Mc Kenney. of the W. F. McKenney Com pany. The luncheon is scheduled to begin promptly, at 12.1 o'clock. ' ATTRACTIONS Baker. BY LEONE CASS BAER. (pAL3 FIRST,"" a plausible and JL pleasant crook play, met with hearty and instant response when it was presented for the first time In Portland yesterday by the Baker stock company. As an entertainment, it possesses all the qualities which make for genuine popularity. It holds well-contrasted character studies, it offers a constantly developing element of melodramatic suspense and holds, too, that pleasant commingling of sentiment and real comedy. Finally, it has the Intelligent and skillful interpretations of Albert McGovern and George P. Webster in the title role to add the big, delight ful, warm, human note. It is this fine friendship between the two crooks, these pals first, (hat lends the unusual charm. The play Is definite in outline and reasonable in premise, having for its reasonableness the phi losophy of crooks that pals are one and inseparable, now and forever. It is thus bound that Danny and the Dominie find their way into a fine, old Southern mansion, led there ty an aged negro caretaker in the belief that Danny is the missing master. Here the two pals rehabilitate themselves, persisting In their deception, Danny as the lord of the house and the Dominie as his rev erend friend. Then the heart interest. In the sweet person of Jean, a judges' daughter, comes into Danny's life, and she re generates the old Dominie. A villain ous cousin, who wants the supposedly dead heir's estate, plus Jean and a lot of other complications, set in. The cousin discovers through the Dominie and another ex-convict the deception going on, and when Danny is being forced to disclose his Identity he does it but to our everlasting relief and Joy. he is the real master, masquerading as himself to outdo the machinations of this very cousin. In the guise of an escaped convict he had regained his lost health and am bitions, by a life in the open, and inci dentally with the crook Dominie for his pal. had learned that the need of living by one's wits Is a splendid aid in forming lasting friendships. Albert McGovern displays a fine per ception of the manner in which plausi bility and charm can best be developed in a supposedly crook hero. His Danny is at every turn foreful and Increas ingly delightful. George P. Webster gives a modern Falstaffian portrait of the Dominic, making him a mysterious and thor oughly lovable old rogue of the high ways. There are a half dozen beauti fully impressive scenes between Mc Govern and Webster which are poems of humor and humanity and relished keenly by the audience. Their byplay is a Joy. John G. Fee is interesting as a dig nified old Southern Judge, and Betty Brice is delightful as hie niece (Danny's heart interest). Lora Rogers contrib utes a fragrance of lavender and old lace and sweet memories as a proud and elderly Southern spinster, a role she plays excellently. Lee Millar was the embodiment of suave villainy as the cousin, and Wal ter B. Gilbert gave a fine moment of character work as another "pal," who was going to snitch if he weren't de clared in. His "regeneration" scene was an excellent piece of work by Gil bert. Webster and McGovern. Two delightfully natural roles are those of the caretakers. Aunt Car'line and Uncle Alex, played in acute ebony and high good comedy by Verna Felton and William Lee. Walter Siegfried and Ben Erway drop In as detectives and drop out again. You'll enjoy "Pals First." It will be at the Baker all week, with matinees Wednesday and Saturday. The cast: , ' Danny Albert Mcflovern Dominie George P. Webster "Pals'" ITnele Alex William Lee The Squirrel Waller B. Gilbert Aunt Caroline Verna Felton Judge Logan John CJ. Fee Jean Judge Loisn'i niece ..... Betty Brice Dr. Chilton Lee Millar Miss Alicia Lora Rogers Gordon Walter Siegfried Stivers Ben .Erway Auditorium. A GOOD, strong antidote for pacifi cism If such an affliction is extant in these United States today is "Ameri ca's Answer," a stirring and accurate record of filmdom which the United States Government is sending broadcast throughout the country that the peo ple at home may see what America has accomplished during the first year of the war. Opening at the municipal Auditorium yesterday afternoon, for an eight-day run. this second official war picture is all and more than the Committee on Public Information promised it would be." It is a picture that brings home a real message. The gigantic behind-the-llne undertakings such as the construc tion of huge hospitals accommodating 10.000 patients, the building of a refrig erator and Ice plant which manufac tures 1.000,000 pounds of Ice a day. the busy scenes of sawmills and logging camps, the locomotive plant where mon ster steam engines are built and re built by American experts, the construc tion of railroad lines, the building of docks and handling of enormous car .goes of men and supplies fronr Per shing's bridge of ships; these are but a few of the war industries in far-off France which are so truthfully and realistically depicted upon the screen. In the final part of the picture are given "close-up'" views' of the front line trenches. A daylight raiding party was caught by a daring camera man. while a part of the Americans' victor ious march on Cantlgny la also pictured among the booming of the big guns and trench mortars. - It is an American's duty and an American's privilege to see "America's Answer." It teaches a mighty good lesson in American patriotism, and it likewise shows where the liberty bond money goes. "America's Answer" will show each afternoon at 2:30 and each evening for the remainder of the week and includ Ing next Sunday. Downtown street advertising for the film was quickened last night by the appearance of the Multnomah Guard Band, accompanied by Boy Scouts bear ing banners, parading and playing pa triotic airs. The bandsmen marched to the Auditorium, where they mounted the stage and gave a brief concert be fore the pictures were shown. After ward the band occupied a special see tion which had been reserved for them. COLONEL NOT COMING HERE s Theodore Roosevelt Declines Invita tion to Visit Portland. ' Portland will not hear th wartime views of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. invited to speak here during the fourth liberty loan campaign, for the invita tion has been declined in a message received by Milton R- K.iepper, state manager of the speakers' bureaus. "I greatly regret my inability to come to the Pacific Coast this Fall,1 ran the Colonel's reply. On Saturday next. Liberty day. when Portland is to celebrate the achieve ment of the loan quota one of the speakers will be James Pershing. brother of General Pershing, who has accented the Invitation to attend. James Freeman, touring; the Coast as representative or secretary mcaqoo, will deliver an address durlnjr the celebration. CIGAR OPEN STORES TO ON SUNDAYS Secretary of Association Says No Different Hours Will Be Observed. PROOF GIVEN YESTERDAY Instructions to Managers Are to Continue Business as Usual. Modified Request of Coun cil of Defense Ignored. Agitation of the Sunday closing pro posal of the State Council of Defense has reacted with at least one effect op posite to that intended. Cigar stores of the syndicate corporations, previous ly aligned for closed shops on Sunday, were open yesterday as usual. A week ago yesterday the Portland stores of the United Cigar Company. Railway Exchange Cigar Company and M. A. Gunst were all closed for the day through voluntary considerations. Employment of women clerks and the general help situation influenced this action, the firm representatives an nounced. Yesterday the closing signs were doevn and the managers said In structions are to keep these places in operation on Sunday and during even- ngs of the week without reference to he modified closing request of the Council of Defense. Reclslon of the previous Sunday clos ing programme of the chain stores Is due to the desire of the big firms of the industry to add their Influence against any compulsory measure, it is stated. Request of Council Stands While the Council of Defense on Sat urday modified its original resolution calling for 6 o'clock closing of mer chandise stores during the week, 8 o'clock closing on Saturday and com plete suspension of business on Sunday, the request that these hours be' ob served stands. Merchants are asked to enter Into the spirit of the new reso- ution "without delay." No other Portland Interests have made quite as vigorous and unanimous protest against curtailment of business hours as the cigar dealers. It is said that the cigar store owners will act as a unit In remaining open as usual. Dealers Will Keep Open. "Cigar stores are not going to ob serve any different hours than hereto fore." yesterday stated Oscar T. Olsen. secretary of the Retail Cigar Dealers' Association. "So far as 1 can learn, he commented, "all the dealers in the association are to keep open evenings and Sunday. We've even been Joined by the chain stores, which had previ ously arranged for Sunday closing." Statements of Council or Defense eiders make it appear that closing limitations in the state are now to be arsrelv a matter of discretion with members of County Councils of De fense. Copies of (he new resolution of the state body are being mailed to county councils with the suggestion, it s said, that they take sucn action u they see fit. NEW EMBERS ADMITTED FRATERXITT PLEDGING AT VERSITY COXTISl'ES Organisations Are Maintained as V'snal, Alt a on: Mei Now Are Scat tered In Barracks. VNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EU GENE. Oct. 6. (Special.) Although fraternities are not housed as usual this year, and the men are scattered in dif ferent barracks, fraternity pledging is continued at the University as in former years aubject to the. ruling of the inter-fraternity conncll. The houses announced their new members today. The list follows: Phi IIta Theta George Black. Charles Bluett, both of Portland ; George Riearna. Prinevllle; John HolUnworth. SHverton; Marc Latham. Salem; Pierce A. Cummins. Philadelphia. Pa.: Claire Keener, Kutene; Roscoe Koberta. The Dalies. Bta Tnta PI Frank JacKson. Koftr Plummer. Bill Dausherty and Martin Mow- ard. all of Portland: Clifford Manerud and Donald McDonald. Doth oi bugene; rrea Lorenie, Coquilie; Sterling Faticrson. Pen dleton; NiW Nunamaker, Hood River; Wyndham Buren. Salem. Phi Uamma Delta Maurice Mann, will- am Bolger. Koacoe Hemenway. John Tuerck, Vincent Jacobberger. lid gar Lindsay, all of Portland; Max Beats. Tillamook; George Rlcga. Klamath Kalia; Carl Newbury. Klamath Falls: William Holmes. Baltimore, Md.; Lynn Hoil. Harrisburg. Delta Tau Delta Edward Twining. Wea- tey Beharrel, Kennetn tmitn. Curtis (J. Phillips, all of Portland: Keller Branstetter. George Korn, Creel ne Farias, all of Kugene; George Iouat. Falem: V. Garfield Madden, Seattle. Wash.: Guy Sacre, Monmouth; Ray mond Lawrence. Wood burn, and Eugene R. Rowland. Salem. Sigma Chi James O Donnei. Sidney Rob inson and William Bayley. all of Portland; Ray Blake, lone. Kappa Sigma Eugene Boylen. Pendleton: Frances Beller, Milton; Lout a Dunamore. Ted Peterson. A. J. Jensen, Ervlng McCoy, all of Portland; Ralph Burgeaa. Pendleton: Henry Koepke, Athena; E. la too Ireland, Uood River. Sigma Nu Vernon Dudley. Athena: Syd ney Hayalip. ancouver. Wash.: Dewey Knox. Spokane, ash. : Donald Van Boa- kirk. Eugene. Alpha Tau Omega Charles Hugging. Vir gil Cameron. Luckey Bonney. Armond Tan- cey. all of Hood River; Sanfred Gehr and Ruaaell Patterson. Portland : Raymond Hempy. "Waiter Hempe, Odlne Mlckelson. ail of Eugene; John Hlldebrand. Wsaco: James Whi taker. Myrtle Point; Earl O'NeiL Rainier. "HUMAN FLY" WILL CLIMB Jack Williams Proposes to Go Up Bank Facade. Jack Williams, who has (rained a reputation as the "human, fly." is In Portland this week and, if permitted. will climb to the top of the Northwest ern Bank building: at Sixth and Mor rison streets at 2:15 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, just to prove that he can do it. and incidentally to assist the Wa verley Baby Home, under whose au spices he is here. Representatives of that Institution will take up a collec tion. 55 per cent of which will be turned over to the home. Prior to making; the climb Mr. Will lams will mak,e a short patriotic ad dress, and will carry on bis back during- the ascent a banner advertising the new war picture recently issued by the National Council of Defense. In five years of climbing Williams has ascended more than 60 miles. He uses nothing but his feet and hands in scaling; business blocks, and the con stant strain on his hands has developed the muscles to such an extent that he , can crush a raw potato to a pulp without undue effort. Williams wants it announced that he is not the same I "ily" who climbed here come time ago. aC 'Last Day War Exhibit Sixth Floor BEGIN CHRISTMAS SHOPPING TODAY The Government" wants you to distribute Christmas shopping oyer October, November and early December bo as to avoid conges tion of transportation facilities in the latter half of December. Our stocks of staple and holiday goods are 100 ready. Buy now! TOBAY This Special News For Men and Bovs "Style Headquarters" Features Men's and Young Men's New Fall Overcoats Biggest Values at This Price $25 Just such overcoats as discrimi nating: Portland men and young men will wear this Fall and Win ter. Some-of them are cravenetted, that is weather-proof. All the new est models for men and young men included. They're rare big values at $25. Vvell Tailored garments in 6uch finely serviceable fabrics as fancy tweeds, cheviots, good weight jersey cloths and Ox fords. Loose fitting box-back, raglan and slightly fitted models. Single and double-breasted coats with convertible collars. Desirable colors. Strictly young men's overcoats made on form-fitting lines with velvet collars also featured here at ?25. Meier & Frank's: . Men's Clothing Shop. Third Floor. Boys' Fine s s Free "Corset Talks" An interesting; series of "Corset Talks" will be given to our patrons by Mrs. A. L. Craig, authorized instructor of the Nemo Hygienic-Fashion Institute, New York. Talks begin today. Consult Mrs. Craig without charge on all your corset problems. Meier & Frank's: Corset Shop, Third Floor. ' w- ' THe QtiALJTV" STORE! Of POKTLAMS GLEAN LINEN ASKED Appeal of American Red Cross Heard in Portland. WOUNDED BOYS WAITING Portland's Required Quota More Than 3 7,000 Articles, Such as Are In Dally XTse In Every American Home. American boys, wounded in the cause to which their country Is pledged, are waiting in the hospitals of France for the comfort linen from overseas. Each hour'a delay in answering- the appeal of the American Red Cross for contribu tions to 'the. "linen shower" is either a delay or denial of their needs. More than 37.000 articles of linen comprise Portland's quota in thia be nevolence for "our boys" some of whom, in all likelihood, may have en tered from Portland homes. The city must gather from its own atore the articlea required not later than next Saturday. In charge of the local drive la Mrs. Ferdinand E. Reed, who has aecured pledses oT aatistince from many church New Suits Every Qrte With m Pairs . of Pants Extra Biff Values at $10 . A splendid stock of these double-service suits here for boys 6 to 18 years. Es pecially suitable for school year. -Good sturdy fabrics. Smart belted coats, Norfolk styles, 6ome with pleated backs and military pockets. Two pairs of full lined knickers to each suit. Serviceable mixtures of grays, browns, tans, small checks and stripes of gray and blue. Suits that will appeal to par ents as well as boys at $10. Meier & Frank's: Boys' Clothing Phop, Third Floor. 2 and community organizations. All ar ticles should be taken or sent to the central receiving station, room 400, Oregonlan building. Requirements of the quota, with ap proximate dimensions, are as follows: S00 bath towels, 19x38; 15,000 hand towels, 18x30: 10,500 h-ndkerchiefs. 18x18: 750 napkins. 14x14; 3S00 sheets. 4x102. The various articles contributed to the linen shower should be new, or sub--stantlally new. though it is not neces sary that they be of genuine linen. Just such articles as are in general use in American homes are desired. Among the organized units which have taken the field for the drive are the "Ninth District' division, compris ing 596 persons banded together for patriotic service; the Red Cross canteen workers, the Junior Red Cross, the Fruit and Flower Mission and many church organisations. . Phone your want ads to The Orego- nlan. Main 7070. A 6095. 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