16 THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAJT. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1918. V EPIDEMIC IS WORSE, LATE REPORTS SHOW More Drastic Restrictions on Business Are Expected. STORES MAY BE CLOSED Absolute Enforcement of All Xew and Old Regulations to Be Enforced by Police. V With 29 deaths and 309 new cases re ported yesterday state and city health officials at a conference today are ex pected to submit to Portland people the most drastic closing orders in an effort to curb the Spanish influenza epidemic. Closing: of stores for at least a part of the day, further restriction of streetcar travel, an earnest request for co-operation with the spirit of the order by the people and absolute en forcement of all new and old regula tions are to be strong points in the new order which will follow the confer ence, it is stated on good authority. 'Yesterday's reports show the epi demic to be growing worse," said Mayor Baker last night. "Conditions warrant a revision of the regulations, and that they will be more stringent goes with out saying. Arrests Will Be Made. "Present rules have been disregarded. We are going to make some arrests shortly not warnings. Yesterday after noon a special squad of officers was out to make arrests in cases of in fractions. Today we shall have 50 memr bers of the military police to assist the city department. "But rules will do no good without hearty co-operation of all the people. There seems to be a general belief that I am making these orders for my own special delight. Because only about one person in 100 has been afflicted thus far, that is no sign the' other 99 will be immune. Instead they should be doing all they can to stamp out the influenza and restore normal condi tions." Others at the conference will be State Health Officer Seeley and City Health Officer Parrish, both of whom say that the peak of the epidemic is not reached and that more drastic rules must be made. Anti-Fin Serum Recommended. Taking of the anti-influenza serum Is recommended by Dr. Parrish as a means of limiting the seriousness of cases, if not preventing them alto gether. "Probably less than 30,000 persona of our 300,000 population have availed themselves of the .opportunity to es tablish a certain Immunity against the influenza," he said yesterday. ".While it is admitted that the serum is not an established success as a preventive, it at least can do no harm, and results to date seem to indicate strongly that it has helped to a marked degree. "If anyone does not know a doctor who will administer the serum, let them call up the health bureau and we will give them names of doctors who will do it and not Charge more than SI." State Reports Discouraging. In the state, conditions are again on the downgrade, reported the State Board of Health. Messages yesterday from all over the state were discourag-, ing, according to Dr. Seeley. In South eastern Oregon, where houses are miles apart, the epidemic is making inroads, according to reports from a state health officer. At the Auditorium only three deaths were reported for 24 hours previous to 6 o'clock last night. Conditions there are gradually improving, it is believed. Yesterday's report of 309 cases, which is partly accounted for by admonitions to physicians to report cases promptly, tops any previous day by a good mar gin. The 29 deaths recorded is more than any other day except last Monday, when a report of 30 deaths covered two days. SO Deaths Reported. Deaths reported yesterday: X.!nton D. Hetrick. 27. farmer, Forest Grove: Fayette T. Blake. -48. dairyman. irani Union Hotel; Alexander Kllia, 6. clerk, 6718 East iilerhty-lhlrd street: Paul Kuznetzoff. 19, riveter, 047 First street; Rob ert B. Rand, 37, truck driver. 4503 Seventy fifth street; Frederick L. Phelps, 27, me chanic. 634 Myrtle; Ford Ward. 38. ship worker, 523 Clay street; Curtis F. Weasels. 3S. newspaper man. 121 East Twenty-eighth street: Mrs. Elizabeth. Shlndler. 4623 East Seventy-fifth street: .Raymond J. O'eil. 27, shipworker, San Francisco; George F. Vol lum. 32, clerk, 1145 -Nehalem avenue; Isaao Williamson, 30, horse trader. 321 Kast Tenth street; Mrs. Nina R. Hoffhine, 31, time keeper, 603 Marshall; Philip Piazza, 6. 365 Kast Twenty-first street; Edward H. Nelson, 27, clerk: John Pearson, 35, ship carpenter, 175 Fourteenth street; Arthur J. Schlffner, 15, boat hand. Walla Walla, Wash.; Mrs. Cora K. Rehpenls, 33, Oregrcm City; Mrs. Mary I. Lee. 31, 286 Flanders street: Mrs. Jlssle A. Kennedy. 21, S."OH Harrison street; Jim Num, 54, Janitor, Zan Bros.; John La flame, 36, shipworker, Whltwood Court: Har vey J. Hussell. 33. ship carpenter, St. Johns; Albert Oodfrey Westwood, 35: Warren C. Paddock. 31, farmer, Columbia Slough; Carl Brooks. 2S. craneman, 606 Hudson; Caldto r.ancheff. 40. laborer; Mike Radetich. 33. logger; George W. Dewey. TITKEE OF OXE FAMILY DIE Mother and Two Children Victims; Father's Condition Critical. Deaths yesterday wiped out all but one of a family of four received at the mcrgency hospital Tuesday all in a delirious condition. Mrs. Lloyd Con lee, who succumbed yesterday, was preceded in death by Fred Conlee, IS months of age, and Florence Conlee. 8 years., whose fever was 106 when brought to the hospital. Mr. Conlee was removed to the County Hospital yesterday. His condition is believed critical. They resided at 213 Ji First street. A home for two little girls of 8 and 9 who are convalescent from influenza is being asked by Miss Winnlngham, assistant to Miss Peterson. The mother and father still are confined at the Auditorium and the children have no place to go. Another call for help yesterday was made for the care of several children of a family of 6, all of whom now are at the hospital. Several of the chil dren are ready to be discharged, while the mother, the only surviving parent, is unable to take care of them. Some one to care for the children a part of the day at the family home is the re quest that has gone out. How the influenza attacks whole families again was illustrated by a re port yesterday of eight cases in the family of C. P. Rogers. 657 Kast Twenty-first "street. No deaths yet have been recorded. COOS CONDITION'S FAVORABLE Precautions Taken Before Influenza Became Widespread. MARSH FIELD, Or.. Nov. 1. (Spe cial.) The Spanish Influenza situation is very encouraging here, and, while there are still some cases under treat ment, no deaths have occurred in the past three days. The health officers, although not making definite claims, believe the crest has passed and things will resume ordinary routine here within 10 days at the most. The favorable conditions are ascribed to precautions that were taken before the influenza became widespread and to those which were observed subse quently. There is already discussion of when the city schools in Marshfield and North Bend may resume. Three Dead at Hood River. HOOD RIVER, Or.. Nov. 1. (Special.) Three additional deaths today bring this county's total from influenza and pneumonia to nine. Oscar E. Wilson, who recently eame here with his wife from Lyman, Wash., and Mrs. G. Kane masu. wife of a Japanese orchardist, died in the upper valley. Pneumonia was fatal to Violet, the 4-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Caldwell. Total cases of influenza now exceed 250. Cuban Mother Kills Seven Sons. HAVANA, Nov. 1. Grieving over the death of her husband, who had died of influenza, Mrs. Carmen Lavera. aged 34, near Camaguey, yesterday killed her seven young sons. She then placed the livestock of the farm in a hut and after setting it afire leaped Into the flames. She was rescued in a serious condition by soldiers. INFLUENZA TOLL IS HEAVY Et'GEXE REPORTS 500 CASES IN PRESENT EPIDEMIC. Twenty-Two Deaths Occur Anion; Town People and Students at Oregon University. EUGENE, Or., Nov. 1. (Special.) Basing his figures on a census taken of 851 homes in the city. W. R. Ruther ford, Superintendent of Schools here, estimated today that there are 500 cases of influenza in Eugene. The census covered approximately one-third of the families In the city and revealed. 195 cases existing in the 851 homes. In the families canvassed persons were reported as having had the "flu" at one time or another during the epidemic. Multiplying this average by three to reach an approximate total covering the entire population, the figures show that Eugene has had approximately 100 cases of the disease since the epidemic broke out, nearly a month ago, and that around 400 homes have housed patients. A total of 22 deaths have occurred from Influenza among the townpeople and students of the University of Ore gon, and incomplete reports from the entire county add three to this number. Dr. S. M. Kerron has no report to make to the press tonight as to the number of new cases during the past 24 hours, or regarding the general situation. MARKETS CUT DELIVERIES New Working Schedule Goes Into Effect Today. Acceptance of new working schedules for meat-market employes brings Into vogue today the one daily delivery for markets of the city, it is announced by Director Winnie Braden, of the com mercial economy department. State Council of Defense. Hours and work ing agreements between the Meat Cut ters' Union and the Master Butchers, adopted this week and approved by the State Council of Defense, preclude two deliveries, it is asserted. The only exception to the general rule will apply on Monday, when two deliveries will be permitted. This be comes necessary, because the single de livery is to be made during afternoons. On Monday a morning delivery to larger customers is authorized. Under the new agreement meat cut ters are to observe these hours: Mon day, 8 A. M. to 6 P. M.; Tuesday. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 9 A. M. to 6 P. M.; Saturday, 7 A. M. to 7 P. M. CROWDING OF CURS TO DE INVESTIGATED Street Railway Head Cited to Appear in Court Today. CONDUCTORS ALSO CALLED Mayor Baker Determined Thai Influenza. Regulations Be Rigidly ObserTecr. Franklin T. Griffith, president of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Com pany, last night was notified by Mayor Baker to appear in the Municipal Court at police headquarters at 9 o'clock this morning in connection with complaints made to the Mayor last night that streetcars had been overcrowded in violation of health department regu lations framed to combat influenza. Forty motormen and conductors of the company also have been notified to ap pear. The trainmen were notified by officers of the War Emergency Squad who last night (topped cars which they found overloaded to take the con ductors' and motormen's. numbers. This action, it was declared last night, foreshadows extreme measures to stamp out the epidemic of influenza which yesterday scored a gain in num ber of new cases and deaths reported. Officers, acting upon instructions from Lieutenant Thatcher, last night stopped all cars at junction points and transfer stations and cautioned em ployes of the streetcar company not to overload cars and to obey the in structions of the health department to prevent the further spread of influenza. Paxteagera Were Standing;. In many cases, the officers declare, the company's employes had permitted the cars to be overloaded, as many as nine or ten persons standing in the front and back ends in some instances. In some cases the interior of the cars was filled to capacity with passengers standing, the police, said. One car, the officers said, contained 97 passengers. According to the special bulletin is sued to employes by the Portland Rail way, Light & Power Company, the-largest car in use is not permitted to carry over 60 passengers. This is in accord ance with the recent Instructions issued by the City Health Bureau and the Po lice Department. The prescribed num ber for the smaller cars is 45 passen gers. The capacity of the pay-as-you-enter cars, the largest in use, and of which there are 350, is 60 passengers under the health regulations. There are seats for 32 passengers. Half of the number of straps, 18, are allowed to be used and five passengers are allowed on both the front and rear platforms. Employes Are Notified. O. B. Coldwell, general superintend ent of the Portland Railway. Light & Power Company, has notified his em ployes in a special bulletin that "we must do everything possible and rea sonable to co-operate with and assist the city health and the police depart ments in fighting and eradicating the present influenza epidemic "Conductors must use Judgment in carrying out the above instructions, closing the doors and refusing to al low passengers to board the car when same is already loaded to the pre scribed standard, it being understood, of course, that if at a transfer point six passengers get off this would per mit six others to board the car." Mr. Griffith said last night that he would appear in court this morning in accordance with the Mayor's notifica tion. "Mayor Baker Informed me that com plaints had come to him that the cars were being overloaded and asked me to appear in court." Mr. Griffith said. "As soon as his message came I made an investigation and found that there had been a tie-up on the Hawthorne line and if any overcrowding took place I presume It was on that line after the service wae resumed and pas sengers were anxious to get aboard the cars. VBulletins have been Issued to the trainmen regarding the new passenger regulations made in an effort to halt influenza. It is tbe desire of the com pany to co-operate fully with the au thorities in measures taken to control the epidemic and we hope that the trav eling public will realize that any In conveniences imposed are for the com mon good." BEAN INDUSTRY TO EXPAND OREGON CANNERIES ASKED TO HANDLE SEASON'S CROP. DRIVE AVAY HEADACHE Rub Musterole on Forehead and Temples. A headache remedy without the dan gers of "headache medicine." Relieves headache and that miserable feeling from colds or congestion. And it acts at once! Musterole is a clean, white oint ment, made with oil of mustard. Better than a mustard plaster and does not blister. Used only externally, and in no way can it affect stomach and heart, as some internal medicines do. Excellent for sore throat, bronchitis, croup, stiff neck, asthma, neuralgia, congestion, pleurisy, rheumatism, lum bago, all pains and aches of the back or joints, sprains, sore muscles, bruises, chilblains, frosted feet, cold of the chest it often prevents pneumonia). 30c and 60c jars.; hospital size 82.50. Adv. COL. JONES GOING EAST Orders Received Here Detail Him for West Point Duty. In orders received yesterday Colonel Sam Jones, depot quartermaster of the Army in the Portland headquarters for several years, is assigned to the poet of quartermaster at West Point Military Academy. Colonel Jones has a son who is an instructor at West Point. He will be succeeded here by Major W. J. Lin denberger. This constitutes the second impor tant transfer in the quartermaster's de partment within a week. Captain Charles Steinhauser, In charge of the purchasing department, and adviser on war risk insurance and allotments, was a few days ago ordered Fast to depart for overseas duty. CHURCH REVENUE CUT OFF Collection Plate Funds Missed. Canvass to Be Made. A succession of. churchless Sundays occasioned by the epidemic of Spanish influenza has cut off one source of rev enue of the churches collection plate funds making it necessary for church men to find some means to make up the casual weekly offering which is now suspended. Rev. W. W. Youngson, superintendent of the Portland district of the Methodist conference, has com municate?! with every church In his district asking the pastor and one lay man to make a house-to-house canvass of their congregations with the pros pect of supplying the deficit made by the empty collection plate. Nary Calls for 1100 More. WASHINGTON, Nov, 1. Provost Marshal-General Crowder today called 1100 men for the service in the Navy, to en train from 16 states and the District of Columbia by November Volun? teer Inductions will be accepted until November 6, after which, if necessary, draft boards will fill the. quota. Xecessary Tin Now Available lor Handling Large Supplies- of Product In This State. Cannery firms having the equipment are offered the unexpected opportunity of putting out a pack of beans the next three months. Kfforts of the Federal Food Administration have availed to obtain the necessary supply of tinplate for cans, according to a message from Washington. The arrangements perfected that the canning of large supplies of cooked beans may be possible may prove a boon to Oregon beangrowers and to a limited number of canning firms, in the opinion of W. K. Newell, assistant state food administrator. Oregon's 1918 crop of beans aggre gates between 80 and 100 cars, said Mr. Newell. Much of the crop Is ready for market and the chance of having a portion of it go into tins is fortunate, since there is danger of spoilage be cause of dampness. H. C. Campbell, whose ranch Is near Portland, is said to have 1000 sacks of beans, recently harvested and ready for the market. Permission Is granted, says the an nouncement from Washington, for the canning of beans during the months of November, December and January. All arrangements guaranteeing a sufficient j supply of cans have been perfected. ! Ir Iff Mt!nillntri that n n firn, can more than a normal pack of . beans, based on the average for the three months. Odd-sized cans may be utilized, but the purchase of tins smaller than the No. 2 size Is forbidden. Another provision makes it necessary for ship pers to obtain a permit before selling to the cannera. The Washington advices do not so state, but It is believed the efforts to increase the supply of canned beans grows out of Arnjy needs for this famed mess requisite. MUSIC SECRETARY IN CITY Twelve Men Sought to AssUt la Or ganizing Oregon Camps. Howard E, Pratt, musie secretary. Western department, T, M, C, A., with headquarters in Ban Francisco, is in town and says bis department wants about one dozen young men, from 11 to 5 Store Opens at 9 A. M. Store Closes at 6 P. M. In accordance with our desire to do everything that the best interests of the community might demand to Stamp Out the Spanish Influenza as shown in our -whole-hearted co-operation with the recognized agencies and in other ways we have decided as a further means of alleviating the situation and hastening the time when normal conditions may safely be restored that We Will Discontinue Advertising Merchandise for the present and until such time as the danger of the epidemic is surely passed. We consider that the advertising of items and prices in however restrained and proper fashion this be done is to some people a suggestion to buy articles with which they might well dispense at this time although these self-same articles may be essential to other people. It is proper to state that this determination not to advertise merchandise until an improvement in the influenza outlook has become evident is entirely of our own making and has not been reached at the instance of the Health Authorities or anyone outside of the heads of this business. Business Is a Secondary Consideration With the MEIER & FRANK Store Where the Public Health Is Concerned From the time that the seriousness of the situation became manifest IEIER & FRANK'S has Shown an example of co-operation with the National, State, City and Health Authorities that we could wish had been more widely followed or more faithfully observed in spirit by other business concerns. Our patrons have evidenced an admirable spirit of helpfulness and co-operation. We welcome suggestions from them and from the public at large. We reprint some of the things this store is doing to safeguard the shopping public and 2000 loyal MEIER & FRANK employes. kVe commend them to other institutions in like circumstances to ours: Uncarpeted aisles, passageways, stairways, elevators, etc, are cleaned with a strong germicide solution every night. Elevator pits are fumigated nightly. Carpeted aisles and departments are thoroughly gone over with vacuum cleaners every night. TelejShone mouthpieces are sterilized daily. The store is perfectly ventilated, perfectly heated. Greatly enlarged aisles (tables have been removed from all main thoroughfares) and an abundance of open spaces throughout this great daylight store obviate the slightest tendency to congestion. Our salespeople are now dismissed in relays of three at 5:30, 5:45 and 6 P. M. to ease the transit "peak load." We have stood alone in cleaving to the letter as well as the spirit of the advertising pro gramme drawn up for the large stores in this emergency we have confined our daily ad vertising to half or less than half the space used by us on the corresponding day of last year; we have omitted the publication of special sale offerings; we have restricted our advertising to such merchandise as was approved by the Mayor for publicity purposes. We urjre our patrons to confine their purchases to actual necessities to use escalators (movinjr stairways ours is the only installation in Portland) as much as possible instead of elevators and to shop in the morning. Use the Telephone the ITome Phone where possible to order necessi ties. There is a Home Phone as well as a Pacific Phone in every one of our 60-odd departments. We have a very efficient telephone switchboard (Mar. 4600 A 6101) and six of the most capable exchange operators. There are 34 trunk lines to serve -you and 297 house phones. If you must come to the store we have done everything we can think of to make your shopping safe. 50 yean of act. to Join as T. M. C. A. music secretaries to engage In field work In the spruce camps of the Pa cific Northwest, particularly In Oregon. These men must be fond of music, able to sing; and play a musical Instrument, and be able also to lead men in chorus singing. Men are also In demand as music secretaries for similar work In Army camps in France, from 7 to 60 years old. Mr. Pratt will be at T. M. C A. headquarters In this city for the next week or so. and will gladly supply further Information. Man Injured by Train. H. Israel. J3 years old, was injured late yesterday when he was struck by a Southern Pacific train as he was crossing" the track at Powell street. The injured man was taken to the Good Samaritan Hospital, where it Is re ported that he will recover. Seml-Monttalv Pay Probable. wiswTOOTOS. Nov. 1. Railroads which now pay employes monthly will Reduce Your Fat Without Dieting Tear ae-o tha formula for fat reduction waa "diet" "eserelsa." Today It la "Takt Marmola, Prescription Tablet.' Friends tell friends doctors tell their patients, until thousands know and use this convenient, harmless method. They cat what they like, IWs as they like, and still lose their two, trrree or four pounds of fat a week. Simple, effective, harm lees Marmola Prescription Tablets are aold by all druciciete a terse ruse mr t rc t t- ir you prefer you may write direct to the Marmola Company. 604 wooawua Ave.. Detroit, Mich. Adv. 411 drvciratsfsoep &, i SaeapU tmc frae of Skin Tortured Babies Sleep ter Cuticura1 be Instructed shortly by the Railroad Administration to pay semi-monthly, beginning; January 1. Many roads al ready follow this practice. France Gets $200,000,000 More. WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. A new credit of lioo.nno.ooo. established by the Treasury In favor of France, today brought the total credits to that coun try to $2,165,000,000 and the total for all allies to $7.; JI.S7S.66S. Offending Retailers Punished. NKW TfiRK. Nov. 1 F"ln rrble to the Red Cross, suspension of li censes, confiscation of sugar certificate, and display signs admitting- violation were among- the penalties Inflicted to dsy on IS retaii food dealers In this city, found guilty by the Federal Food Board of disregarding its food regulation. EM When You Begin to Sneeze or Cough is the time to stave off an attack of influenza. ' PUROLA Influenza Treatment vrill reduce the fever, allay congestion and break up the irritable symptoms. At All Druggists i A