THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 4918.
BEGINNING TODAY NORMAL SHOPPING HOURS ARE RESTORED
Store Opens at 9; Closes at 6
Wednesday, Nov. 20, Last Day
to Send Gifts Overseas
" Crashing Thru
to Berlin"
Why the Allies Won"
or
No Christmas box can be sent without coupon re
ceived from your soldier in France. Please follow
carefully directions found in official container fur
nished by Red Cross, noting especially that candy
and food. products should be packed in small tin or
-wooden boxes or -lb. size.
Christmas Parcel Station, Fifth and Stark, open
dally 9 A. M. to 10 P. M., open Sunday 9 A. M. to
5 P.M.
Will be shown at the
STAR THEATRE
for one week beginning- today,' auspices . Na
tional League for Woman's Service.
Coast -Operators Convene to
Study Future Problems.
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SPRUCE MAY BE PRESERVED
Coast Lumbermen Declare Opportu.
oitles Are Good, Despite Can
cellation of Federal Orders.
for the purpose fit discussing recon
struction problems which face the
manufacturing lumber industry of Ore
iron and Washington, approximately
200 members of the West Coast Lum
bermen's Association will convene In
Portland this morning- at the Mult
, soman Hotel.
There is :io disposition anonr the
lumbermen to view the future pessi
mistically, even thougn the cancella
tion of the Government aircraft pro
gramme has placed the industry in a
position of temporary suspense. To
the contrary, they maintain, that tho
opportunities now before the indu&try
are exceptionally bright.- though a
temnorarv Deriod of adjustment is
faced.
Recontrnetlaa Pntblema !.
. T B. Allen, secretary of the asjo
riRtlon. who arrived in Portland two
tr iro. and who has fcpent much
time rcentlr In conference at Wash
ington. D. C contends that only the
immediate future is doubtful in avail
able business, and that manufacturers
are chiefly and rincerely concerned
with securlns a volume that will en
able them to hold wages at their cxlst
Inz tandard.
"Our meeting." said Mr. Allen late
last night. "Is for the purpose of secur
ing expressions of opinion on a num
ber of Important reconstruction prob
lems Involving- the Western lumber in
dustry from the manufacturer's view
point. It Is preliminary to the Na
tional meeting, which Is to be held in
. Chicago on November 22. when recom
mendations as to future policy will be
formulated for the consideration of the
War Jndustries.Board.
Praapereus Farare Seea.
"There is apparently a disposition
to continue certain Government regu-l-iitni
of the lumber industry, among
these probably the price-fixing regula-(
tion. the present perioa 01 wnicn. win
vxnlre on January la.
"It has also been suggested In Wash
ington that the present machinery
within the War Industries Board should
handle the allocation and that s a typi
cal Washlngtonlan word of overseas
kminm for the reconstruction work
In Kurope.
"There is no question but that a great
opportunity exists In that field, though
no person has as yet been able to deter
mine the approximate volume or when
the demand will begin.
"In general, with regard to their
problems, the attitude of the West
Coast people seems to be to go slowly.
It is for the purpose of threshing out
and straightening the situation from
the etandpolnt of the entire lumber
manufacturing Industry that tomor
row's meeting has been called.
Geaeral Bualaeea Cat Off.
"Contrary to popular conclusions, the
wartime business did not noticeably re
sult in a broadening of the Industry.
General commercial business has been
practically cut off- by the war Indus
tries board regulations, which did not
permit the construction of buildings,
beyond certain very nominal sums, un
less special permits were granted the
builder. As the result, commercial
building was practloally adjourned.
"It is doubtful if it will be recon
vened readily, and. In consequence, the
next few months of the lumber industry
will be very uncertain. In the Middle
West, for example. Winter conditions
have closed that field for the present.
But there Is confidence that everything
will be all right in due time.
"The big problem now before us, and
ene in which our manufacturers are
deeply concerned, is to secure at once a
sufficient amount of business to keep
wages up to the new American standard
of living.
tUtlpbaildiag Ceatlaae.
'The wooden shipbuilding game Is
certain to continue. Government con
tracts now here will not be canceled,
and will- suffice to carry the. wooden
shipyards pretty well through 1919.
Nor. do the prospects end with this.
"It. has been firmly established that
there is only one place to build wooden
hips, and that'a Oregon and Washing
ton. European nations recognise this
fact. nd there has been plenty of sig
nificant inquiry already.
"Charles Plea, vice-president and
general manager of the Fleet Corpora
tion, has been asked to give the neces
sary freedom for the acceptance of pri
vate accounts In the wooden ship in
dustry by the elimination of the com
mandeering clause, which provides that
the Government may take over any
vessel built on private account if it
chooses to. In consequence of the com
mandeering clause, both builders and
foreign purchasers are wary of the pri
vate account. We have reason to be
lieve that favorable action will be
taken . and that the commandeering
lausa will be abolished.
apraec May Be Preserved.
"With regard to the future of the
Industry In aircraft production, nothing
Is certain. It Is possible, and discus
sion has already arisen on this point,
that the Government may prohibit the
cutting of spruce order to preserve
the airplane stock. - Fir has been found
to be equally as good, however.
"It Is not generally known that Ger
many, right here In Oregon and Wash
ington, as a preliminary to the war,
purchased what she thought would be
a five years' supply of spruce for air
craft, without letting the purpose of
her purchases become known.
"But there was wastage that she
did not reckon with and the five-year
programme fell down. As a conse
quence, during the closing chapter of
the war, Germany was reduced to the
use of oak and hickory. In hollow con
structlon, evolving slow and heavy
planes which fact accounted largely
for many of the stupendously success'
ful exploits of allied and American air
men. The enemy was 'easy picking
for the lighter spruce-built hawks of
the allies."
Bx Oatlook la Praaiialag.
An informal preliminary conference
f box manufacturers who are mem-
Now Let All Prepare for a Holiday Season of Great Cheer
Christmas "Shopping Should Be Resumed at Once
f We Are Ready With the Stocks and the Service
Use the Escalators
Carry Small Parcels
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The Girls' Shop Has Ready for Immediate Service, and for Holiday Giving Plenty of
Charmingly Practical Things for Girls
A few suggestions are given here:
New School Dresses
Many attractive new styles in school dresses of checks, navy and brown
serges and corduroys. Trimming of braids, fancy buttons and shirring.
Sizes 6 to 14 years, $5.95 to $3.95.
Jack Tar Dresses
We have just received three new models in regula
tion dresses made of navy serges. One and two-piece
middy styles with pleated and Fox-pleated skirts. Sailor
collars. Trimmed with white or red braid. Sizes 6 to
14 years, $13.50 to $27.50. . f
Good Warm Coats
Children's "coats of velour, khaki cloth, chinchilla,
corduroy, cheviot, zibeline and novelty cloths. Tailored
and fancy styles with trimming of velour, plush and
fur. Sizes 6 to 16 years, $12.50 to $85.
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New Serge Skirts
Children's navy serge skirts in full pleated styles
with white muslin waist attached. Sizes 6 to 14 years,
$3.95 and $7. ',
New Slip-Over Middies
New slip-over middies in white jean, also white
galatea cloth, some with light and dark galatea and
flannel collars. Trimmed with braid,- some with
emblem. Sizes 6 to 16 years, and 36 to 42, at $2
to $3.50. ' Meier & Frank's: Girls' Shop, Second Floor.
Children's New Bloomers
New black sateen bloomers with band and elastic
waists. Sizes 4 to 16 years, 45c to $1.98.
Sateen and eerge gymnasium bloomers for misses,
$2.50 Nto $4.95.
Don't Envy a Prosperous
Looking Man Be One
Just as ambition opens the door to opportunity, prop
er attention to one's clothes and general appearance is
often a passport to a better position.
To those who wish to be well and warmly dressed at
moderate cost we recommend MEIER & FRANK'S
Men's and Young Men's
Overcoats $35
The best makes in the country are represented in this show
ing. Here are overcoats in ample assortments from
Society Brand Hickey-Freeman
and others of like renown. Every overcoat model that a man or
a young man could wish for, and
Every Coat Is All Wool
Every One Hand Tailored
Coats of character. Coats that are a business asset. Coats
that make a man's progress quicker and easier he goes farther
and so does his clothes money.
. Portlands finest at 35. .
Meier & Frank's: Men's Clothing Shop, Third Floor.
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Very Special Values in
Fall and
Winter
Coats
For Misses and
Small Women
$45.00 Coats
$33.75
$37.50 Coats
$29.50
Rare values await the misses and small women who
come to our Apparel Shop today. One can choose from
either of these groups with equal assurance of making
an advantageous purchase.
Finely serviceable coats of pom pom and velours in the new
est models. Full lined garments, many warmly interlined.
Fashionable shades of brown, green, plum, Burgundy, Pekin
and taupe. Large plush or self collars that fasten close at the
throat or are equally effective when worn low.
Meier & Frank's: Apparel Shop, Fourth Floor.
New Models in Women's
Neckwear
For Self and for Gifts
Collars, $1.25-$1.75
Attractive imitation Filet lace collars
in flat and roll style. These are in the
natural shade and are particularly de
sirable for wear with coats and dresses.
Filet Collars, $4.75
Real hand-tied Filet lace collars that
will make very acceptable and useful
Christmas gifts. Roll style collars in a
good assortment of patterns.
New Plush Scarfs
New plush scarfs with plain and fancy
linings. Some have fringed ends. 1
to 2 yards long. $8.75 and $10.95.
New Boudoir Caps
Boudoir caps of silk messaline and
crepe combined . with shadow and Val
laces and ribbons. Pink, blue, maize,
rose and lavender. Priced $1.29 to $1.75.
Meier & Frank's: Main Floor.
A Fine Assortment of Fall and Winter
Hats Specially Priced
Styles for Women's
and Misses's Wear
x Of Lyons and
Panne Velvet
Were $7.50 to $9.00
$,5.95 '
Black and all the leading shades included. Every fash
ionable shape. Large, small and medium-sized hats. Smartly
trimmed with ostrich, fancy feathers and flowers.
Meier & Frank's: Millinery Shop, Fourth Floor.
The West's Greatest
TOYTOWN
Is On Our Fifth Floor
It is simply full of toys and
games of all kinds made in the
U. S. A. the best made. It is,
this year above all, an educa
tional Toytown lots of the
toys will prove of real help in
developing young' minds. Me
chanical toys, military toys,
animals, toys of every ' good
kind.
Dollville
deserves special mention. Big
dolls, little dolls, all kinds of
dolls. Made in America, of
course and wonderfully life
like. .
Bring the kiddies today.
-Meier & rramk': Toytown. Fifth Floor.
Meier & Frank's Is Prepared With Immense
New Assortments of Women's and Children's
Hosiery and Underwear
In All the Winter Weights and Styles
We have great new assortments of all the standard makes in women's
and children's Winter hosiery and underwear. Moderately priced.
Meier & Frank's: -Main Floor, Sixth Street.
Drug
Sundries,
Pebeco Tooth Paste, 45c
Pepsodent Tooth Paste, 50c
4711 White Rose Glycerine Soap,
box 65c, cake 22c ,
Woodbury's Facial Soap, ' box 65c,
cake 23c
Phenolax Wafers, 25c
Spirits of Camphor, 2 oz. 25c, oz. 15c
Glycerine, 3 oz. 25c, oz. 10c
Glycerine and Rose Water, 4 oz. 25c,
2 oz. 15c ' ' (
Beef, Iron and Wine, pint 75c
Castor Oil, pint $1.25, 3 oz. 25c,
OZ. 10c Meier & Frank's:
Drug Shop, Main Flqpr.
New Drape
Veils
Shetland and hexagon ' mesh
drape veils in woven and embroi
dered designs. Circular, . square
and long flowing styles in brown,
navy, taupe, purple and black.
Priced $1.50 to $3.50.
Health Veils
Health veils of fancy mesh veil
ing combined with chiffon borders
These veils combine the acme oi
style with prevention. Navy, brown,
taupe, black and purple. Priced
$1.75 to $3.50. iMe!er& Frank's:
Veiling Shop, Main Firor.
Little Men .
are not consulted as often as they
should be about the clothes they have
to wear. After all, as the parties most
concerned, they have some rights in
the matter. Smart boys have only to
see the new.
Overcoats
we are showing from the house of Sam
peck to make up their minds that "I want
a Sampeck." Sampeck overcoats have the
sort of style the boys take to at once. They
have all the quality, all the tailoring that
wise parents demand in their boy's clothes.
They wear as only good clothes can wear.
They are a real economy.
The New Models
for Winter are as fine as anything Sam
peck's famed skill ever produced. Materials
are oi , ine uesu lur wnnuui, uu a ji m -
service. There is a style ana size ior everyyw;3w- -vii
boy from 2 to 18 years. Prices begin
at $8.50.
Meier & Frank's: Boys' Clothing Shop. Third Floor.
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A nourishing,
delicious drinR.
for all "trie
family.
Instant
Postum
berg of the association was held yester-1
day forenoon, when C A. Fratt, of Ta-
coma, who recently toured the box
markets of the Fast, made his report:
The consensus of opinion among the
box nlar.tjfacturers is that their busi
ness will be vastly accelerated by the
shipment of supplies for reconstruction
and rehabilitation work in Europe,
where vast stores of clothing and food
stuffs, practically all of which will be
moved in boxes, are awaited. .
Manufacturing lumbermen who will
attend today' conferencebegan arriv
ing early yesterday and will be here
in force this forenoon. Their assembly
opens at 10 o'clock in the ballroom of
the Multnomah Hotel. Complete rep
resentation will be present for the West
Coast, from Bellingham, Wash., down to
Coos Bay, Or. - .
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WARTIME RESTRICTIONS BRING
VALUABLE LESSONS.
Fire Causes Damage Salt.
VANCOUVER, Wash., Nov. 15. (Spe
cial.) Mr. and Mrs. Swan Hulln have
started suit against Henry Wagner and
William "Wagner for $5000, alleged to
b'e due on account of negligence of the
defendants, who are alleged to have set
fires to burn brush September 28, caus
ing the Hulins to lose 5000 worth of
property, including their barn filled
with hay, their pasture land and
chicken house. -
One hundred and sixty-five million
tungsten filament lamps were sold in
the United State for the year l!fl7. -
Limitations Imposed on Trade Make
Possible Elimination of Many
Wasteful Practice.
They are back to the old status
again, with never a wartime substitute
to worry them, but the bakers of Fort
land, to whom the lifting of, wheat
flour restrictions was a pronounced re
lief, are as one in declaring that the
lessons of the past year are of per
manent value.
"The burden placed upon the baking
Industry was accepted gladlyjt though
it was no small task to comply," said
H. H. Haynes, chairman of the bakers' I
division or the Oregon food Administration.
"The chief obstacle was that the sub
stitutes contained no gluten and tUe
fermentation of the dough is based
on the mellowing of the gluten. Yeast
raises bread and gluten binds and
holds It after it Is raised.
"When wheat fldur had to carry so
much substitute an extra burden was
added which the wheat was unable
to carry. And that is why a 50-50
bread was Impossible. For a time we
struggled along on the 75-25 basis,
but the 80-20, which now is annulled,
was by far the most satisfactory.
"Necessity is the mother of inven
tion. In their dilemma the bakers
turned to the laboratory experts for
relief. As a result they have learned
a lot, and the business in general is
that much the gainer. This should
result in the elimination of many
wasteful practices In the baking busi
ness, which means higher efficiency.
a better loaf of bread, and, in tne end.
saving to the public."
VICE FIGHT CONTINUES
MAYOR BAKER REPLIES TO WAR
SECRETARY'S APPEAL. '
EX-SOLDIER IS - INDICTED
Harry L. Gilbert Charged With Bur
glary, at' La Grande.
LA GRANDE, Or., Nov. 15. (Spe
cial.) Harry L. Gilbert, who has been
in the cityxfor some time recovering
from what he said was shell shock re
ceived in France, has been indicted on
a charge of burglary.
It is said that the grand jury found
his "physical disability" discharge was
written in after the original had been
erased. -Considerable sympathy has
been roused in his case, his friends de
claring he is not accountable for his
actions as a consequence of shell shook.
Portland Has- No Intention of Relax
ing Efforts to- Stamp Out
Social Evil.'
Portland's fight against vice will not
be abandoned because of the end of
hostilities, was the message shot back
at Secretary of War Baker by Mayor
Bayer yesterday. The telegram was In
answer to one from the secretary stat
ing that communities still must safe
guard the morals of the fighting man.
Tne worK will be continued not only
till demobilization but afterwards, as
well," said the Mayor. The message
was approved by the council. .
Later in the day the council visited
the city's detention home. In an effort
to determine the necessity of the $3100
for temporary barracks proposed by
Chief of Police Johnson, commissioners
went over the entire grounds and
buildings. 1
At the home, located near Troutdale
and started nearly a year ago to car
for girls found in the Government's and
city's fight against social diseases, are
69 girls. The additional barracks would
provide for 40 more. In accommoda
tions intended for 50 inmates, the girls
are being crowded into rooms built for
other purposes.
TWO DIE IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Camn Lewis Solicitors Victims on
Tacoma-Seattle Highway.
TACOMA. Wash.. Nov. 15. Sergeant
James J. Moore, of the 75th Infantry at
Camp Lewis, was instantly killed and
Private Frank B. warden, company a.,
First Infantry, was 6erlousiy injurea
early Friday morning when an auto
mobile in which they were riding from
Seattle to Tacoma skidded and over
turned on the Pacific Highway near
Auburn.
Jack Wright, driver of the machine.
suffered a fractured hip and was taken
to a Tacoma hospital. Wright at
tempted to dart between two cars going
in opposite directions. i
contribute to this fund, may communi
cate with Mrs. T. R. Stephenson, treas
urer of the auxiliary, at the Waverley
Court Apartments, East 26th and Clin
ton streets, Sellwood 37-16.
Read The Oregonian classified ads.
Auxiliary Plans Big Dinner.
Auxiliary to the Sixty-ninth Artillery
is planning to give the boys Just as
near an "at homo" Christmas dinner
as possible this year, and to this end
funds are being raised to snrt to tho
boys. Relatives and friends of the
boy A of the Sisty -ninth, wishing to
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