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ERRORS DISCOVERED ISlMfflSillBl i JN WEW LEGISLATION ' Peculiar Situation Faces Acting-Governor Hart. TWO BILLS ARE DEFECTIVE Ac-tins Executive Signs Measure Incrca.-ins Salaries and Fixing . Statutory Age Limit. OLTMPIA, Wash.. March (Spe cial.) Two legislative peculiarities were caught by Acting Governor Louis r. Hart Saturday in the count of con sidering and signing 11 bills. One of them looked like an attempt to over come a previous veto simply by the majority vote needed to pass another oil I inMcad of by a two-thirds majority of both houses. Further investigation, however, inclined the acting governor to an opinion that the mistake was due to the haste of emergency action in the ia.-t hour or the se.Hslon. Mie time ago the acting governor v-ioed sections or senate bill III. which abolisiied Issuance of auto licenses through county auditors and required applicants to do business directly with tlie secretary of state. Later, at nearly the close of the session, it was discov ered that auto weight regulations, al ready adopted, made no provision' for obtaining certified weight of machines in counties having no public scales. ..! Meeaae BUI Remedied. Senate bill S71 was hurriedly formu lated to remedy this defect by author Hint the secretary of state to make the most convenient weighing arrangement he couki In such Instances. Tho bill was introduced by the joint roads and bridge committee. When it came to the acting governor it also amended section five of senate bill 221. the previously vetoed provision that auto license applications be made u'irect.iy to the secretary of state, by restoring this same provision. As the entire amerdment is drawn in & single section the lieutenant gov ernor may have no other option than to velo the entire bill. He is not at all inclined to let his vetoes be denatured in that fatihion and has referred the problem to the attorney-general. It accidental, the s-lip is regarded as an exceptionally pertinent one from the standpoint of those who favor direct license application to the secretary of Variatloaa Discovered. The second variation in legislative procedure occurred in senate bill 69, -which places a 4-mill levy on highway improvement assessments made under the onohue act. It also provides that the actual property valuation shall be used as a basis for such assessment. on the last day of the session both houses passed an emergency measure, house bill 322, to remedy a situation created by a supreme court decision lust handed down, which based all tax levy limitation on actual valuation. Til new bill specifies that whenever used In relation to taxation the word ralua tion shall hereafter mean assessed val nation, while senate bill 69. passed come time before, specifies actual valu atlon for the class of taxation covered. The governor signed the later bill today and still has house bill 322, which gives the former bill precedence and makes a special exception for What com county highway improvement -where the Donohue law plan is in use. Salary Measure Maraed. Another senate bill signed increases salaries of the land and insurance com mirsioners from $3000 to $5100 a year and an approved house bill extends authority of the state commissioner of agriculture over growing crops and forest trees. By an act approved to day the statutory age limit is fixed at IS for both sexes and requirement of proof of previously chaste character is eliminated. Acting-Governor Hart said today he -would veto senate bill 201. which al lows mutual accident insurance com panies more than 40 per cent of pre mium income as operating expense al lowance. By entering an assessment today for 1919 against the Stone & Webster street car property in Seattle. C. R. Jackson, state tax commissioner, prevented $3wo.0ft0 in taxes from becoming ex tinguished and added $J7j.uOO to the $15. "00. Coo Seattle is paying on the street car system in a munfcpal owner ship deal recently approved by the su preme court. Seattle Saves Big Levy. The purchase is now in process of closing. If completed before the cur rent assessments were made the com: Cany would be relieved of paying taxes for this year through discontinued own ership and the city would be saved from paying them through the consti tutional exemption of public property. For that reason the deal is being put through as rapidly as possible, but delay through litigation and in sign ing the bonds prolonged it until beyond .March 1. ihe date which opens the le 47al a.-seasment 3'ear. irdinanly public utility property is Jiot assessed until June, but Commis sioner Jackson figured the prospective loss of lax revenue too great to be overlooked in the Seattle case, an entered assessment of J12,000.00 against the system for which Seattle is paying $15,000,000. His action at taches a tax lien to the property for the current assessment year, regardless of Its passage into municipal possession. With transfer to Seattle still pend ing, the commissioner apportioned the $v0.00i tax between the city and the company, according to time w ithin the assessment year that each held title to It. On a calculation that the city's purchase would be completed by April 1. he charged the company with one month's ownership, dating from March 1. or $.'3,000 due in taxes, and the city with the remaining 11 months, or JJTi.OOn. rr-t Aveaae Aot t loses". Under this arrangement Seattle will repay itself SHO.OOO in local tax ap portionment on the street car property, will distribute $65,000 in distrtct ap portionments and pay the remainder to the state. It is an entirely novel dis position of a taxation problem in this ptate and may be subjected to court contest by Seattle city officials. The latter arc not barred from ap pearing before the commissioner in the regular June hearing on public utility assessments and protesting with pri vate owners and ooerators. Yakima Bank Head Chosen. YAKIMA. Wash.. Slarvh 16. H. B. Rigg, senior member of the law firm of Itigg Venables. today was elected president of the Yakima National bank, to succeed the late George Donald. Mr. Riga and A. IX Sloan were elected new members of the board of directors. Frank Bartholct resigned us cashier and George Stacy, who has been pay ing teller, was elected to that po sition. Grangevillc Snowfall Hcavj. - GRANGKVILLE. Idaho, March 16. (Special.) Eight inches of snow fell yesterday morning, one of the heav iest storms of the scaeon. IJCZ. ... . v " COSSTAXCE TAL.VADCE I SfFAK AT MAJKSTIC THKATKR. TODAY'S FILM FLTATTRKS.. Star Bessie- Barriscalc, "The Heart of Rachael." Sunset Harold Lockwood, "Pais First." Liberty Anita ' Stewart. "Virtu ous Wives"; Fatty Arbuckle, "Love." Peoples Dorothy Gish. "Boots." Columbia Cecil B. DeMllle's "The Whispering Chorus." Majestic Constance Talmadge, "Mrs. Leffingwell's Boots." Globe Frank Keenan, "The Midnight Stage." Circle. Mrs. Charlie Chaplin. "Borrowed Clothes." Colombia rpiIK X cil B. DeMille's photoplay special. Is a film classic a classic of dramatic power and Intensity. The screen has pre sented few photoplays that approach this picture in strength, and its story is one that holds the spectator breathless at times and leaves him marveling at the sacrificial strength of a man who finally toes the mark as a man unafraid, after a career of despicable weakness. The Whispering Chorus" takes lu title from the voices which speak to man and woman as they go through life. One says "Go to it; you can get away with it;" another says, "Don't do it. its wrong. The first one says, The boss is getting rich: why not have a little for yourself?" The other says. "What would your mother think of you?" And so it goes, with the base voices dominating the life of a man until the final reel, and then, murder convict, dope fiend and dreg of the world, he makes a supreme sacrifice of denial for the woman he loves and who once was his wife, and goes to the chair. Kathlyn Williams. Raymond Hatton. Elliott Dexter. Kdythe Chapman, Tully Marshall these are a few of the play ers who make of "The Whispering Chorus" a master production. Raymond Hatton bears the burden of characterization. He's John Trimble. the clerk who steals, then runs away. and, in order to cover up his traces. n laces his clothes upon the body of a dead man and assumes another identity. Fate decrees that in the end he shall be convicted of the murder of the man who wears those clothes, and in order to save from scandal and unhappiness his former wife, now happily wedded to the governor of the state, Trimble as serts that he is guilty of the murder of the unknown. ; Screen Gossip. Edna Purviance seems to be Charlie Chaplin's leading woman these days. in spite of the stories about tne or ganization of her own company. A story comes from the Chaplin studio involving the pretty Edna in a gassing episode in ner dressing room. xney louna ner unconscious and she was taken home for several days of recuperation. m A concern has been organized to build ten studios in Hollywood. Cal., the scheme being to rent them to the many companies which do not boast nroduclne plants of their own. Forty acres of ground have been purchased and construction will cost about three millions. Billie Rhodes, the pretty and shape ly little thing in Billy Parsons' come dies, is married. Billy Parsons, the fat and smiling comedian-magnate, is friend hubby. They're going to honey- oon in Hawaii. Of late mine nas been a etar In her own rignt. Xow It's June Elvidge who claims to be the screen's most loved woman. More than 500 men have paid ardent court to her in pictures. Montagu Love has turned to the stage again. He's leading player in a company presenting "The Net" in New York. Monty Is not going io ocsen pictures but will aouoie up time. for They're fighting strenuously for uni versal showing of pictures on Sunday. A few elates bar them on that day. It is reDorted that Seena Owen, well- known Griffith player who has been with som of the biggest stars or late, is to go to Australia to play leads in GET VOI R CHICKEN BOOK NOW. Don't let the egg shortage J catch you unprepared again next a vpir. If you resent pa vie g from 60 to SO cents a dozen for your eggs, and then finding a bad one in every dozen, now is the -time to provide against it. Produce your eggs in your own back yard, it's not half as diffi cult and expensive as you imag ine. The United States depart ment of agriculture has pub lished a book that is written es pecially for the man who does not care to establish a chicken farm, but wants merely to pro duce enough eggs for his own use. It tells how this may be done with a minimum of expense and trouble. With it go two other illustrated pamphlets describing all the more important kinds o chickens. Address The Orcgonian Infor mation Bureau. Frederick J. Has kin. director. Washington, D. C. 4 inclosing a ;-L'eni stamp iv turn postage. Write your name and address plainly. Ask: for the Chicken Book. t Please note that this book Is J not sent out from Portland. Send your request to Washington to the address given above. THE 3IORMXG OREGOMAN, MONDAY, KROM "MRS. LUKFIXGWtXIS BOOTS," Snowy - Baker's .picture productions. Soena Is a Spokane girl and the wife of George W alsh. Wheeler Oakman. the chap who was Mabel Normand's lover in "Mickey," is back from war and says h's first re turn picture will be with Viola Dan in "Madelon at the Redwoods." H. B. Warner, popular star back in pictures, is to do a series of travel films. That Is. the stories are to deal with many different countries, al though southern California will provid most of the scenery. "Doug" Fairbanks' latest picture. "Something for Somebody," is said to have cost $200,000 to make, twice the sum of any other Fairbanks picture, "Doug" says it's his best film offering. Bessie Love has a new leading man He's Robert Gordon, the chap whose Huckleberry Finn made a hit in the Jack Pickford productions." mm Bessie Barrlscale started her stage career at the age of 5 at the Instiga tion of her father, who was an English actor, and who came over to America with the first "Lights o London" com pany. Her first part was with James A. Hearne in "Shore Acres." and she stayed with this fine actor to play every kind of child parts from Little Eva to Fauntleroy. Dorothy Gish's handsome leading man, Richard Barthelmess, is in trou ble. In other words, he has been buy ing a car. At lunch recently Miss Gish asked him: "Mr. Barthelmess, ,what is your car, a Cadillac or a Chandler?" "Neither," answered the lu y, 1. m., "it's a conspiracy." V Madge Evans, kiddie star, is boss ot the Madge Evans Hat company, a con cern which makes hats for children. Last year the company did a business of a million dollars, bo they say. Jane Novak ahd Claire DuBrey are prominent players engaged for Lewis S. Stones first new picture. Official Casualty Report. ASHINGTON. March 16. Casualty lists today contain 111 names; 47 died of disease, 7 wounded severely, 25 degree undetermined and 32 wounded slightly. Following Is the summary to date: Summary of Army Casualties to Date. Deaths - Rep. Today. Total. 31.4o.i 3R1 it. 150 59.515 1U1.541 6.004 ' Total casualties. . 267.003 111 267,150 OKEGON. Died of disease Anderson, L. K. (Mast. Eng.), Rainier, Or. Wounded slightly Davia. Justace. :i0 East Forty-seventh street, Portland, Or. WASHINGTON. Pied of disease Hempnlll. l. J. (Lieut.), Auburn, Wash. Vv'ooDued slightly Jaquith. Russell Merjain. North Takima, Waah. Adami. Ben, Benje. Waah. ALABAMA. Died of disease Rhodes, K. I. (.Mast. Ens.), Grenjboro, Ala. ARKANSAS. Died at disease Bard, Robert Gmnnis. Ark. CALIFORNIA. Died of disease Obers, N. G. (Set.). Riverside. Cal. DELAWARE. Died of disease Radjlmlchel. Pelopldas (Was.), Wilmington Del. GEORGIA. Died of disease Smith, T. A. iVVig.). Rochelle, Ga. v ' ILLINOIS. Died of disease r:rilnd. Arthur (Cpl.). Cornland, III. Andrecn, M. L. (Cpl.). Woodnall, 111. INDIANA. Dlsd of disease Demaree, Emmctt (Cpl.), Madison, Ind. IOWA. Died of c'isease Chopek, R. L. W. (Sgt ). Iowa City, la. Vsnhoy. Thomas (Cpl.). Marshalltown. la. Bump. O. E. (Cpl.). Iowa Falls, la. LOUISIANA. Died of disease Whitmeyer, Sidney (Mast. Ens.). Lafavette La. Birch. Ed, Homer, La. MAINE. Died of disease Kodson. C. H. (Sijt.), West Eden. Me. Denniaon,' K. S. tSgt-), Portland, Me. MARYLAND. Died of disease Gildart, R. C. iLt. Col.), Annapolis, Mi MASS AC II V SETTS. Died of disease Hartshorn. C. G. (Sgt.) Reading- Mass. Ross. H. E. (Chauf. I. Mattapan, Mass. Xoonan, T. E. (Chauf.). Lynn. Mass. Ashe. A. D., Fleeting Hills, Mass. MICHIGAN. Died of disease Saxe, C. E. (Sgt. ). Hermansviile, Mich. Smith, H. E., (Wag.), Quiney, Mich. Aiiamj, J. I., Detroit, Mich. MINNESOTA. Died ef disease Anderson, Andrew, Annandale,' Minn. . MISSOURI. Died of disease Chapman. Earl (Sgt.). Adrian. Mo. Hall. J. E.. (Wag.). Topsham. Mo. NEVADA. . ' Died of disease McCalU G. L. (Sgt.). Fallon. Nev. NEW YORK. Died of disease Modes. F. A. (Cspt.), Jamaica, X. T. Wackford, C. V. (Cpl.). Oxford, N. Y. NEW HAMPSHIRE. Died of diseases ' Supernor, F. A. (Cp!.), E. Andovcr, X. H. Killed In action Sl,45. ... Lost at sea 381 . .. Died of -wounds........ ... Died of disease 1,103 4T Died of accident....... 3.24 ... Total deaths B9.4HS 47 Wounded 101.477 4 Missing, including- pris oners 6.0IK -tiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiifitiiiiiiiiiiiitTiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiTiiiiiii fill iif tiif iiTiiiriiiiiiiirfiifiiirirtffiiiiiiiiiiriiiiiiiiriiiiiiiiiifiiiiif if tir L!iii!iiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiim The "Miner Girls" desire to thank the citizens, of Vancouver for the courteous reception they have received E EE in the leading stores of that city during the past week the merchants, too, for their splendid co-operation. EE This is particularly gratifying when considered that among their purchasers were many soldiers and their EE wives. A peek into the commissary department at the barracks will show where the soldiers learned to like Ej EE Albers' Brands. After a week in Oregon, the girls are writing to the "Miner Girls" in the South that there E EE is also sunshine here. Ee EE The "Miner Girls" are an organization of accomplished and highly educated young ladies traveling in E EE quartettes through the various states in the interest of their firm the Albers Bros. Milling Co. In some of the E EE states they are affiliated with the "Carnation Girls." Their purpose is to demonstrate the superior value of E EE cereals as a food in the daily diet, with particular reference to their own brands of Oats, Pearls of Wheat, EE EE Flapjack Flour, and others. They are backed by an' organization now composed of ninety-five, all American EE EE stockholders, and two thousand employes, many of whom are returned soldiers. This, together with the unsur- E EE passed quality of their brands, has made it possible for the "Miner Girls," wherever they have EE increase the use of cereal foods. Their 1919 sales so far are almost double that of 1918. EiiimnMiimHiHiiiMMiiiiNiimim.iimMmmMMiimiiiiiimNiiiiiiiim fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin OHIO. 1fri nf disease Gates, W. C. (Capt.). Bucyrus. O. Smith. C. C, (Lt.). Mingo Junction, O. Robinson. C. C. (Sgt.), Cincinnati. O. Bevelhymer, Franklin, Mallnta, O. PENNSYLVANIA. Died of disease ' Qulnn. J. D. (Cpl.) Grcenstmrs. ra. Wanamaker, M. A. (Wag.. Emerald. Pa. Flanagan. P. J. (Wag.). Pittsburg, Pa. Allsnouse, C. P., Brookville. Pa. SOUTH CAROLINA. Bryant. J. L. (Mai.). Columbia. S. C. Hollowell, J. W. (Cpl.). Columbia, b. (-. TEXAS. TKmiI nf disease- Cunningham. R. B. (Sst.), Denton, Tex. Archer, Preston, Timpson, lei. UTAH, m r rim. Parker, L. E.. (Mech.), Richfield, Utah. WASHINGTON. D. C. TMd nf disease- Rogers, W. M. (Bug.) Washington, D. C. PORTO BICO. tiImI nf dtseaAe Edwards, A. B. (Sgt.), San Juan, P. R. BETTER ROADS ARE SOUGHT Sheridan District Starts Move to Boost Rural Trade. SHERIDAN". Or., March 16. (Special.) The Sheridan district is in line for good roads. Grading: for the McMinn-ville-Sheridan road is already under way and J1600 has been raised for the road from Sheridan to "W'illamina. Sev eral appeals to the state and county of ficials for a complete grade irom jvic Minnville to the coast have been made. ut nothing definite has resulted. The stage operating from winamlna to Otis, Or., which is at the end of the Salmon river road, has stopped carry ing passengers owing to mud and water. Americas Own I 15 I Now used in preference to coffee in -tens of thousands of families, because of its allround economy, delicious flavor and healthfulness as a table beverage MARCH 17, 1919. ) ) ( I "X i ' I' v f " h ' i- A w.?-- - w N - -A-- :.: ---i . r-c'-y' ti YT;nn r :,.i, " 111C 11X1111. VJ 11 13 GLADYS CARROLL CORA COWAN ANNETTE WRAY LILLIAN DREW Now Demonstrating in Oregon's Leading Grocery Stores STRIKE PLANS BRDflDENEO TELEGRAPH OPERATORS WAXI XATIOX-WTDE ACTIOX. Postmaster-General Burleson Called Upon for Transcript in Case of Mrs. Margaret Proclil. Instead of involving but five -western states in the joint strike of elec trical workers, telegraph employes and telephone operators, plans are now be ing laid to make the strike nation wide, according to members of the lo cal electrical and telegraph unions. An nouncements to this effect was made yesterday after members of council No. 92, Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America, had held a session at musicians' hall. The change in scope of the proposed strike accounts for the delay of the walkout, it was explained, but the workers are as determined as ever to make the fight against Postmaster General Burleson and his subordinates who manage federal control of tele phone and telegraph lines. A report from International Vice President Marshall stated that San Francisco telegraph employes have lined up 100 per cent strong for the strike. The council voted to call upon Mr. Burleson for a transcript of the re ported investigation into discharge by the Portland Western union officials of Mrs. Margaret Proehl. Mrs. Proehl charges that she was dismissed four days after joining the union. When Senator McNary took the matter up a. s uwn Table Drink The same $ood product No raise in price. 'There's a Reason " with Burleson's office, J. C. Koons, first assistant postmaster-general. In formed him that an investigation had been made and that there were just grounds for Mrs. Proehl's dismissal. YAKIMA HAS ROAD SCHEME Million Dollars' Worth of Work to Be Secured for $50,000. TAJCIMA, Wash., March 16. (Special.) One million dollars worth of construc tion work will be done on the Inland Empire highway in Takima county at a cost to the county of only about $50, 000 under a plan worked out by County Commissioner Alick Lundstrum of this city. The plan, which is stated to have been indorsed by the state highway depart ment, contemplates that federal post road aid funds shall cover half the ex pense, and that the county bonds issued for the other half of the cost shall later be taken up by the state under the Carlyon road plan. The only cost to the county would be the interest on the bonds -between the time they are issued and the date when the state exchanges Carlyon state bonds for them. Good Farm Help Still Scarce. TOLEDO, Or., March 16. (Special.) Good farm help is still scarce in Lin coln county. Farmers are not paying war prices for farm help, but good prices are available for the right man. Married men are preferred. Salaries are from $40 to $60 per month and board, or equal perquisites. The county agent at Toledo would be glad to help parties to get these jobs. Phone your want -ads to the- Orego- nian. Phone Mam 7070. A 6095. 7 :3e. been, to greatly EE Es "FAKE" ASPIRIN WAS TALCUM Therefore Insist Upon Gen uine "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" : Millions of fraudulent Aspirin Tab lets were sold by a Brooklyn manufac turer which later proved to be com posed mainly of Talcum Powder. "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin," the true, genuine, American made and American owned Tablets, are marked with the safety "Bayer Cross." Ask for and then insist upon "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" and always buy them in the original Bayer package which contains proper directions and dosage. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid. Adv. VIRGINIA HOUSEKEEPER Tells of Remedy for Chronic Coughs. Crockett, Va. "I had a chronic cough, was run-down, overworked and hardly able to keep about and do my housework, when my druggist asked me to try Vinol. I quickly improved by its use my cough disappeared and it has built me up 1n every way." Mrs. H. Honnshell. The reason wc guarantee Vinol ia becauase it is. a constitutional remedy containing beef and cod liver peptones. It builds up the entire system and re moves the cause of coughs and colds. The Owl Drug Co. and druggists everywhere. p. S. Our Saxol Salve is truly wonder ful for Eczema. We guarantee it. Adv. IfvtWLm i j