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TIIE MORXIXG OK EGO XI AN. MONDAY, 3IAY 12, 1919.
BERKELEY TEACHERS
PHY PLAN PROPOSED
Placing Salaries on 12-Months
Basis Is Urged.
ADOPTION SEEMS LIKELY
System Is Advocated by City Super
intendent Content of School
. Election Not Expected.
: ' The Berkeley system of distributing
school salaries on a 12-months" basis
has been proposed to the school board
by D. A. Grout, superintendent of
schools, nd probably will be adopted.
This method wiU give each teacher
half of his or her summer months' sal
ary after teaching the first semester of
school and the remainder at the end
of the school year. In other words, the
teacher now receiving the minimum
salary of J800 will, by the bonus voted
upon in Saturday's special tax election,
have a yearly salary in 1919-20 of J1200.
. The teacher will draw $100 each
month until the end of the fifth month,
the end of the first semester, when
she will be given a check for J200,
which will represent her monthly sal
ary of ?100 plus one summer month's
salary. She will have to teach to the
end of the school year before she will
be entitled to the salary for the sec
ond month of the summer vacation.
Other cities vary in their methods of
paying teachers on the monthly basis.
Some hold out the summer months'
pay with the provision that if the
teachers return in the fall they are
entitled to that pay, but if they go to
other school districts they forfeit it.
Some schools send checks to teachers
in July and August.
- No effort will be made to contest the
vote, according to James Kerr, member
of the executive board of the Commit
tee of 100, who opposed Saturday's elec
tion in order that another election
might be called for a smaller sum,
which would have raised the salaries
only of teachers receiving' less than
JU0OO annually.
The confusion caused by the declara
tion of Central Labor Council leaders
that union membership cards entitled
their owners to vote led to the ballots
of some union men being accepted by
election judges while others were re
fused. The opinion of the district at
torney on the subject was not received
until an hour and a half after the polls
had been opened. It is believed that
taxpayers are not sufficiently interest
ed to contest the election.
STUFF CHIEF FULLS FAR
MEXICAN MILITARY ATTACHE IS
NOW JITNEY DRIVER.
Colonel Frederick Cervantes De
scribes Weird Career Before El
Paso Federal Court.
EL. PASO. Tex. From chief of staff
to General Felipe Angeles, member of
Provisional President Lagos Chazaro's
cabinet, recipient of the French cross
of the legion of honor, and owner of a
-large fortune and estate, to the busi
ness of driving a jitney bus was the
experience of Colonel Frederico Cer
vantes, as related by him. Colonel
Cervantes told the story of his experi
ences in Mexico during the six years'
revolution as a witness la his own be
half in the federal court, where he was
charged and convicted of setting on
foot a military expedition to join his
former chief in the field in Mexico.
Graduating from the Chapultepec
Military academy at Mexico City with
honors as a lieutenant or engineers,
he was sent to France to study aero-
natutics by - President Diaz, having
been attached to the First regiment,
French engineers, as a lieutenant, he
returned to join the Madero revolution
and was made adjutant of the national
military academy. He was then sent
""back to France by President Madero
to 'continue his aeronautical studies.
-He attended the famous French ma
neuvers as an observer for the Mexi
can government and was given com
mand of a detachment of 20 French fly
ing corps cadets.
Learning of the coup of 1913 he re
turned from France, resigned his com
mission, removed his legion of honor
cross and joined General Carranza as
a major of engineers. While experi
menting with aerial bombs during the
revolution he fell from an airplane and
was seriously injured. He was with
General Angeles when the latter was
commissioned chief of articllery for
the Constitutionalist army of the north
and later made Angeles' chief of staff.
He testified he was made a lieutenant
colonel for valor during the battle of
Zacatecas. After that the success of
Carranza forced him to flee to the
United States.
"What were you worth at the time
you were forced to leave Mexico City
his attorney asked.
"I owned a home valued at 30,000
pesos and a large interest in an 800,000
pesos estate," he said.
"What were you doing after you
came to ia PasoY
"I was driving a jitney bus," he
answered.
WAREHOUSE UNDER WAY
Prosperity of Fruit Industry Shown
in Construction at Yakima.
YAKIMA. Wash., May 11. (Special.)
JKxtensive fruit warehouse construe
tion in Yakima and at other points in
Vhe Yakima valley reflect the impetus
that a couple of seasons of prosperity
has given to the fruit industry here.
In addition to several new friut ware
houses under construction or about to
be started, several firms already estab
lished are preparing to enlarge their
capacity this season. The new build
ers include firms recently formed for
fruit handling and buying.
The Yakima Brokerage Co. is spend
ing $7000 on a new warehouse. C. E.
Perry & Co. will begin construction of
a warehouse this week; the Furry
Fruit and Produce Co. is building a
$0000 warehouse, and the Roche Fruit
Co. is constructing a warehouse, the
cost of whieh is stated to be $14,000.
v. Announcement is made that the Arti
ficial Ice and Cold Storage Co. would
start immediately upon enlargement of
its facilities. Its cold storage capacity
will be increased from 250,000 boxes
of fruit to 320,000 boxes, and its pack
ing space will be enlarged so that It
will be able td handle and pack 2000
boxes per day.
New York District Exceeds Quota.
NEW YORK. May 11. The official
total-of subscriptions to the victory loan
in the New York federal reserve dis
trict was announced today as $1,350.
:.20,450. an oversubscription of $529,150
for the district's quota.
NEW BILLS OPEN AT PORTLAND THEATERS
Alcazar.
BT LEONE CASS BAER.
A PLEASURABLE . commingling of
drama and comedy is George
Broadhurst's play. "Bought and PaiJ
For." which the Alcazar Players are of
fering this week. It is a happy selec
tion in that the characters are nicely
adapted to the actorial abilities of the
players. The story holds constant in
terest and its philosophy and argument
are peculiarly fitting to these present
days of social unrest.
At this belated day the story is no
longer new. but it is always interesting,
as a tale and as a piece of stage liter
ature. It concerns a man of wealth,
Robert Stafford, who marries a tele
phone operator, not because she is in
love with him, but because he has al
ways bought whatever he wants and
has paid for it. The girl's alliance
brings affluence to her sister and the
sister's fiance, and makes it possible for
this pair to marry, a happening they
had postponed indefinately until the
fiance could reach a valuation of $18
per week to his employer.
It is this shipping clerk character,
played in excellent mood by James Guy
Usher, which has much to do with the
success of the play. Mr. Guy Usher is
James Gilley to the core, a clerk with
big ideas and a magnificent imagina
tion, who is paid $14 a week. When his
fiancee's sister weds the rich Stafford,
Jimmy Gillen advances rapidly in sta
tion and salary through Stafford's wife,
but Jimmy in his conceit, fancies it is
his own splendid qualifications that
have advanced him. When Stafford's
wife leaves him and Jimmy goes back
to a ten-dollar-a-week job he still
clings to his bolshevistic theories and
prates of unfairness, and discrimination
against him. It is an unusually life
like character.
The woods are filled with Jimmy Gil
leys and' he is made all the more life
like because of the excellent handling
Mr. Guy-Usher gives him. The big
theme in the play is the girl's resent
ment atvher husband's boast that he has
bought her and paid for her, when she
remonstrates with him for coming to
her when he Is intoxicated. A very big
and very fine scene is this second one,
which shows Alice Fleming as the wife
appealing to the better side of an in
toxicated physical and merely material
husband, played splendidly and con
vincingly by Edward Everett Horton.
It is a fine dramatic hit, this conflict
of the spiritual woman and the physical
man, and both Miss Fleming and Mr.
Horton held their audience thrilled and
interested at every moment.
The role suits Alice Fleming in a
noteworthy way. having a gentle wom
anly charm about it for all its dramatic
intensity. The story, to complete it
briefly, is taken up again in Jimmy Gil
ley's flat, after the wife has left Staf
ford and the Gilleys automatically have
sunk to penury with the cutting off ot
the source of their supply. It is Jimmy
who puts into execution a happy plan to
reconcile the two and the play enas
happily naturally.
Marie Curtis- does one of the best
character roles of her season as Fanny,
who marries Jimmy and takes her sud
den rise to affluence with the same pep
and philosophy, as she takes their quite
as sudden slump. Miss Curtis invests
the role with comedy of a highly na
tural sort. ......
Katharine Graham makes a charming
picture as a French maid and her ac
cent is cultivated and exquisite. Alvin
Baird completes the cast as a sibilant
voiced Japanese butler. The play is
nicely staged.
The same bill will continue an weeK
with matinees on Wednesday and Sat
urday. The cast:
Robert Stafford .... Edward Everett Horton
James Gilley James Guy-Usher
Oku Alvin A. Baird
Virginia Blaine Alice Fleming
Fannie Blaine Marie Curtis
Josephine Katharine Graham
L-yrlc.
F"
UN, jaszy music, the Rosebud chorus
and many other such attractions
result in making "The Isle of Ko-Ko,
this week's attraction at the Lyric
theater, one of the snappiest musical
comedies that Flood & Keating have
produced in Portland this season.
An old-time fairy tale setting with
ultra modern methods forms the heart
of the comedy which concerns the fates
of various shipwrecked parties thrown
on the isle. The fact that Mike and
Ike, as played by Ben T. Dillon and Al
Franks, compose one of the lost groups,
complicates matters and adds consid
erably (to the fun.
A large share of the enjoyment de
rived from "The Isle of Ko-Ko" results
from the musical selections. First
among these was the chorus ensemble
in the "Garden of Allah for Two." Cos
tumes of many hues bordering on the
old Egyptian add color and the dainty
steps of the chorus, action. This song,
as many others, are led by Dorothy
Raymond.
Billy Bingham scores a hit in the
song, "I'm a Jazz Baby," which gives
the history of a phenomenal child born
to a dancer and a cabaret singer who
is in truth a "jazz baby." Miss Bing
ham works into the song a little dance
which, in a pleasing and eccentric man
ner, depicts the unusual child.
The lively costumes of Mike and Ike,
after life on the Isle of Ko-Ko has been
accepted, bring forth more than one
good sized chortle. Mike appears in
doublet and hose of brilliant yellow
while the brunette beauty of Ike is
further enhanced by an apple green
velvet smock and scarlet hose.
An innocent-appearing basket brings
much trouble to the cast and fun to the
audience. In it is a squawking young
ster and as the responsibility is shifted
from one good-natured bystander to
another, the joy of Ike and Mike in
creases until after finally disposing of
it entirely, the worried mother appears,
claims her child and leaves a reward of
J1000.
Strand.
J1
ST because the little love god
raises havoc with one of the most
captivating and fascinating crooks that
ever "burglared," Sherlock Holmes has
lost a flock of thrills. Priscilla Dean
plays the lead in the photoplay at the
Strand his week, and as a first-class
society crook she holds her audiences
spell-bound, while excitement and
thrills abound throughout the whole
film. But she walks the straight road
forever more in the feature film "The
Exquisite Thief." It provese beyond a
doubt the old adage that there is
"honor among thieves."
The headliner on the week's bill Is a
banjo duo, Evelyn and Davis, who show
that a banjo can take the place of a
whole Jazz band.
Another good number, which runa to
music, is Morris Kaufman, a local prod
uct. He is an excellent violinist, in
the earliest teens, as to age.
A sensational act also is put on. A
man and a woman, merely billed as "the
Smiths," aerial gymnasts, give some
clever stunts on the tight rope and
wire, suspended by the teeth.
The popular songsters, the Lucy Lu
cier trio, are finishing the end of their
third week at the Strand, and they have
a brand new- bunch of songs, coon
songs and the latest popular melodys.
The present bill will continue until
Wednesday afternoon.
Oakland Girl Wins 5.00-Yard Swim.
FRESNO. Cal.. May 11. Miss Mabel
Green of the Neptune club of Oakland
won the 500-yard Junior women's Pa
cific coast championship swimming
race last night over Miss Boehmer of
the Piedmont club in the slow time of
9:25 2-5. Miss Green was never pressed
throughout the race.
Baker.
BT LEONE CASS BAER.
AFTER July 1 there will be few and
far between presentations of plays
similar to "Fair and Warmer" and so it
would behoove any or all who have not
seen this play to see it instanter at
the Baker, where the players are put
ting it on nicely. This is the first
stock presentation of this farce, al
though it has been seen Here previous
ly with traveling companies. It is the
impossible, never-could-have-happened
story of two people who were too good
to be true, and too true to be good. One
was Blanny. the mousey, quiet-wife of
a philandering husband. Blanny at out
of his hand and believed black was
white if her husband told her it was.
When he took one evening away each
week and told her he was at a Shrin
er's meeting, it was law and gospel to
Blanny. The other extremely good per
son was Billy, the husband of a philan
dering, tango-tearing, non-domestic
wife. Billy stayed home evenings with
his nose 'glued to a paper and his carpet-slippered
feet resting on the hearth.
One night Billy's wild wife and Blan
ny's husband, and another chap who
liked Billy's wife and told her she was
neglected, all went to a party and left
poor old dull-as-dishwater Bill and sad
little Blanny at home in Billy's apart
ment to play checkers till they re
turned. This all transpires in the first act,
and what happens in the second and
third act makes the farce one of the
funniest.
Blanny and Billy rebel at being con
sidered safe and harmless at being
everlastingly left out of happenings
and go on record as desiring to be com
promised to the extent that the return
ing pilgrims shall be worried, not to say
bothered. So Blanny. who goes to mov
ing pictures and has read a bit. starts
the proceedings by mixing for her own
and Billy's consumption, a fearful and
wonderful liquid concoction, in which
she calls into use a dash of everything
In the traveling bar. The effect is
electrifying, especially to the audience,
and to the returning spouses who, find
Blanny asleep under a bear-skin rug
and Billy reposing in alcoholic array on
a couch near by.
The last act is a summing up of
miseries for Blanny who is threatened
with divorce by her husband and an
over-flowing cup of woe for Billy whose
wife listen to no explanation and packs
to leave, preparatory to seeking divorce.
A perfectly fascinating French maid,
an altruistic personage who seeks to
aid and lend succor to the wretched
Billy, is entangled in the mess and
acts as further fuel to the fire of Mrs.
Billy's wrath.
Out of it all finally emerges the
explanation necessary, and Mrs. Billy
promises never to wander, believing
that Billy has an oriental disposition
of which she has been uninformed.
Blanny, tDO. exacts toll from her philan
dering husband, and they all. presum
ably, live happily forever after.
The cast is short, but it is one of
quality rather than quantity.
The role cf Billy is a far and away
cry from the roles Albert McGovern
usually plays, but he makes Bill a
wretched chap and exceedingly humor
ous. Olive Templeton is Blanny in a
delightfully funny way. Verna Felton
is the dashing Mrs. Billy, a role she
plays with dramatic ardor and amusingJ
inrusts or irony ana comedy.
Lee Miller plays convincingly the big
cave-man husband, who browbeats
Blanny only to sit up and beg when she
turns the tables on him.
Geraldine Dare is the loveliest little
maid as Tessie, who serves, of cood
Samaritan impulses which are discount-
.' a by her altogether too good looks
and come-hither eyes. It is Tessie who
gets entangled in Billy's affairs and
rer woes, as Miss Dare pictures them,
are irresistably appealing. John G.
Fee as the inevitable other man in
Billy's domestic triangle. Will Frank
c8 a huge and domineering expressman
and Walter Gilbert, as his sad assist
ant, add further comedy.
The settings are of interest and at
tractive. The same bill will continue
all week with matinees on Wednesday
and Saturday. Catt:
CAST
Billy Bartlett '.. Albert McGovern
Laura Bartlett Verna Frlton
Jack Wheeler 1-e Millar
Blanche (Blanny) Wheeler. Olive Templeton
Philip Evans John G. Fee
Tessie Geraldine Dare
Harrian will Frank
Pete Mealy Walter B. Gilbert
BRIGHT FUTURE FORECAST
LOCALi VICTORY LOAN" RESULTS
WIN COMMENDATION.
President of San Francisco Trust
Company Predicts (Greatest Pros
perity in History.
"Portland's splendid K.owing in the
victory loan has attracted nation-wide
attention. I have heard several eastern
bankers in San Francisco SDeakinsr in
commendatory terms of the results of
me campaign In Oregon, which so over
shadowed other Pacific coast states."
Mortimer Fleishhacker. president nt
the Anglo-California Trust company of
au.m r racisco ana rirst vice-president
of the Anglo-London-Paris National
nanK or that aity, was speaking. Mr.
Fleishhacker arrived in Portland ves-
terday morning for a stay of a week
or ten aajs, during which he will In
vestigate the operations of the North
western Electric ompany. in which he
is a trustee and heavily interested,
"Portland and San Francisco both
reflect tne coming of better times,"
continued Mr. Fleishhacker. "I under
stand that the realty market is picking
up rapidly here. -In San Francisco the
real estate market has shown consid
erable activity during the last few
weeks, the first in a long while.
"I like Portland "better every time I
visit here. This ?e my first trip to the
city in a year and I perhaps can 'see
better than those who are here all the
time the steady, progressive growth.
Portland is a good solid city. There
is no inflation here, but a steady, in
creasing prosperity.
"Good times are fairly on their way
with the approach of peace. I believe
that when the peace terms finally are
signed this country will see a wave of
prosperity which has been waiting for
nothing else."
Yesterday Mr. Fleishhacker inspect
ed the new power plant of the North
western Electric company under con
struction on the west side of the river
near the Portland Lumber company.
It will have produce of 12,000 kilo
watts and will provide electric power
and steam heat. Early this week the
visitor will inspect the holdings and
16.000-kilowatt hydro-electric power
plant of the company at White1 Salmon.
No new construction is contemplated
in Portland or Oregon at present, said
Mr. Fleishhacker, but a steady increase
of the distributing system of the power
company is contemplated. The Corbett
building is one of the largest to take
the heating service recently, having
begun Installation the same day the
boiler blew out in its basement, killing
three men.
Hoi Holds' Gymnast Title.
LOS ANGELES. May " 11. Peter Hoi,
of the Norwegian Athletic club, of
Brooklyn, - retained the title of all
round gymnastic champion in defeat
ing all contenders in the National A.
A. U. gymnastic championship tourna
ment at the Los Angeles Athletic club
here laat night.
Hippodrome.
TRULY American, and with the his
tory of the United States at her
finger tips. Miss Lalitta Ward Davis,
billed as "The American GirV scores
a decided hit this week at the Hippo
drome. The packed audiences of yes
terday voiced their approval of the ex
cellent bill, which includes a clever,
laugh-producing skit, singing numbers,
tumbling and a dandy educated horse
act that pleased the kiddies as well as
the grown-ups. Miss Ward steps out
of history's paged dressed in the pe
riod of the pilgrims, and from that time
on she rattles off dates, details and
statistics through the various decades,
each time changing her costume in
keeping with the period depicted. She
runs the gamut from 1620 all the way
to the present-day war, when she ap
pears as a Red Cross ambulance driver.
It is a decidedly patriotic and stirring
number.
Harry Evans and company have a
skit that is a side-splitting one. They
offer "The Painters," which furnishes
them a vehicle for all sorts of mirth,
song and stunts.
Harry B. Cleveland and Alanche Trc
lease give a dressy number, full of pep
and amusement. They sing and patter
and discuss nonsense in their act en
titled "Talking It Over."
'A dainty maid and husky partner,
"The Aerial Snells," are daring gym
nasts who swing 0n the rings and bars,
mainly suspended by the teeth, the
male partner whirling madly upside
down holding the dainty little maid,
who curls up like a jackknife. and also
does a revolving stunt.
Don Felano, the educated horse, is a
handsome animal who obeys his master
implicitly and furnishes a vast amount
of amusement for the big audiences.
He adds, subtracts, picks out flags of
the allied countries while the orchestra
plays the airs, and shows his fine train
ing in diverse ways.
A spliendtd photoplay features Bes
sie Barriscale in "All-of-a-Sudden
Norma," which is full of action and
beautiful scenery. A good scenic film
shows the rousing reception to the 91st
division in Seattle.
SOCIETY
Miss Dorothy Alice Biakely. daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Biakely. was
hostess for one of the merriest and
most enjoyable parties of the . week
Miss Biakely entertained on Saturday
with a matinee and supper party in
honor of her 16th birthday. Covers
were laid for ten of her young friends.
The table was decorated in pink, with
pretty place cards, candy baskets mark
ing each place. The evening was spent
In games and music. The guests were
Misses Margherita Hay, Sarah Byrne,
Helen Simmons, Clarisse Crosby. Marion
ouniiey. .Marie Bridges, Eleanor An
stey, Luciie Rush and Irene Kocher.
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Announcement of th rrn m.nt nr
r-iiyuss isoreiu Miller to Aubrey K.
Bennett of San Francisco was marf at
an elaborately appointed luncheon at
the home of Mrs. Frank J. Miller in
Irvfngton on Saturday. May 10
miss .Miller is a beautiful girl of the
pronounced blonde type, and both
young people are popular here and in
San Francisco and Los A purple.
-fiuout iu ciose friends were Dresent.
""'J oui-oi-town guests motorine- in
ror the affair. No date has been set
for the wedding as yet. but many af
fairs are being nlanned bv thn frlvnHi
Of thesn Vnnnfr TtArhnlo
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Miss Frances McGill and MUs f
vieve Clancy are spending junior week
end at tho University of Oresron. Thev
are guests at Kappa Alpha Theta soror
ity.
The University of Oregon invites the
music lovers of Oregon to attend the
violin recital at which it is presenting
Robert Louis Barron, of the violin de
partment of the University of Oregon,
on Tuesday evening in library hall.
The programme will be given from the
works of the best-known composers
and will include a Max Bruch concerto
and other interesting numbers.
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The many friends of Mr. and Mrs.
Lester L. Bauer will be interested to
know that a little daughter was born
to them April 30 at the Grant hospital.
Chicago. Mrs. Bauer is a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Block of this city.
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The Misses Ethel and Mary Cooper
have issued invitations for an informal
dance at the Irvington club Thursday
evening. May 22.
Mrs. Walker Campbell, who has been
the house guest of Mrs. Alice Benson
Beach for several weeks, left Saturday
for a month's visii in California.
Miss Marcla Knight, daughter of Will
A. Knight., entertained about 30 of the
high school set at a charming dancing
party at her home. Warren station, ad
joining the Waverley Country club,'
Friday evening. The Knight residence
was aglow with a profusion of Scotch
broom, ferns and other woodland blos
soms. During the latter part of the
evening a delicious supper was served.
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Bailey (Mary
Stuart Smith) returned last week from
the cast, the former serving overseas
with the 91st division, and his bride be
ing attached to the hospital at Ft.
Snelling as a reconstruction aide. The
couple will make their home for the
present with the parents of Mrs. Bailey,
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Smith, on Portland
Heights.
Taifs new beach palace. San Fran -lsco,
is gaining daily in popularity with
San Franciscans and Portlanders who
frequently visit in the southern city.
The former Russell estate has been
leased by air. Tait. and as It commands
a magnificent sweep of ocean and hill
side view, it makes an ideal place for
entertainment for the prominent soci
ety folk of San Francisco. It not only
permits the various hosts to entertain
their friends in a delightful and cosy
manner, but also permits them to en
Joy a drive on the beach with an ulti
mate destination and diversion at the
end. Contrary to opinions advanced at
the beginning of Tait's beach estab
lishment, it is not run merely as a road
house, but as an exclusive and charm
it g house where social functions of the
most exclusive set are featured. Bridge
teas, luncheons, formal and informal
teas and dinner parties and supper
dances make up the schedule of the
daily programme, arranged by the hos
tess of the house.
Among the recent visitors who have
returned from California are Mr. and
Mrs. James A. Cranston.
The annual meeting of the Women's
Exchange will be held at 186 Fifth
street at 3 P. M. today. All annual re
ports will be read and selection of of
ficers held. At close of business tea
will be served. - All members and
friends are invited to attend. Mrs.
Charles F. Beck and Mrs. J. Frank
Watson will pour."
LEWISTON, Idaho, May It. (Spe
cial.) Olive Denham of Clarkston,
Wash.,- and Francis Roy Bowman oi
Portland were united in marriage Fri
day afternoon at the Methodist church.
Rev. Henry Greene officiating. Mrs.
Bowman is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. G. E. Denham of Clarkston. Mr.
Bowman has recently returned from
overseas service and left yesterday with
his bride for Portland, where they will
reside.
Mrs. J. C. Robinson of Idaho Falls.
Idaho, is a Portland visitor, a guest of
her sister. Mrs. Rush O. Willlts, 1072
East Alder street.
GRAVE. WRONG DONE,
IS ITALIANS' BELIEF
"Hit Squarely Between Eyes,"
Nation's Charge.
GREAT POWERS ARRAIGNED
President of Methodist College
Rome Tells lfow Peace Confer
ence Proved Disappointment.
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"Italy thought she was among
friends; that idealism was to rule the
world.
"Tho league of nations was to rule
the world. Thece were to be no selfish
Interests.
"And -then Wilson hit her squarely
between the eyes."
That was the way that Italy looked
on proceedings at the peace confer
ence, according to Dr. Bertrand M. Tip
ple, president of the Methodist college
in Rome, vho came to Portland yes
terday to tell of the manner in which
the Methodist centenary will spend
$25,000,000 in the next five years on
war reconstruction. Dr. Tipple is di
rector of tho centenary work in Europe,
is an expert on things Italian. 'and is
conversant with European politics.
Flame Close to Italy.
"And now, what aboufFiume?" asked
Dr. William Wallace Youngson, as Dr.
Tipple. Dr. Thomas Tiplady and several
local Methodists met at breakfast yes
terday et the Portland hotel.
"President Wilson went to Italy.
Italy showed him her heart. Italy had
teen the nations fight. She had noth
ing but the friendliest of feeling to
ward Great Britain. Italy threw off
her old ideas regarding self-interest,"
replied Dr. Tipple.
"Then what did she see? Great Brit
lain was for the peace conference but
she did not intend to dismantle Gibral
tar, nor open the Suez canal, so the
Adriatic was still bottled. France was
for the league of nations but her se
curity demanded Alsace-Lorraine and
the valley of the Saar. and she did not
intend to giv6 back German Morocco.
V. S. Also Has Reserve.
"And the United States was it going
to stand or fall by the league of na
tions? Yes, with the mental reserva
tion that the Monroe doctrine must not
be tampered with.
"Well.- said Italy, 'if the league of
nations Is not strong enough to protect
the othets, we are not safe on the
Adriatic'
"So she resolved to protect herself
from the Autrian menace. 'We must
have Flume.' Italy said.
"Then, she feels. Wilson hit her
squarely between the eyes.
"That, gentlemen, is the Fiume situ
ation." Dr. Tipple will sail for Europe in a
few weeks with the $3,000,000 Methodist
mission ship, which will be loaded with
plows, tractors, seeds, portable houses
fcnd equipment to aid France, Belgium,
Italy, the Baltic provinces, and perhaps
ii...-..:.- 1. L- . . l ; !.! 1,. i
juooi. i ne lusi ul mis ciup win uc
defrayed by the $105,000,008 Methodist
centenary fund.
Women's Activities
By Ilelea h Driver.
II story and modern fun comprised
the annual jinks of the Professional
Women's league khich was held at the
Little theater Saturday evening. The
affair, described on the handbills as an
"Olympiadical Operatic Myth," was pre
pared by Mihs Hannah Schloth, and it
presented the legendary luminaries of
Mount Olymp is in a decidedly new ver
sion of the fall of Troy. The cast was
an follows: Jupiter, Mrs. Herman Bohl
man; Juno. Miss Bertha Brainerd;
Minerva, Miss Anna Shillock: Venus,
Mrs. Charles Edwin Sears; Menelaus,
Mrs. George N. Woodley; Paris. Miss
Schloth: Erls. Miss Winifred Yeagcr;
Helen. Miss Ethel Sawyer; Mercury,
Mrs. Harry Beals Torrey; Cupid. Miss
Alice Shedd, and Miss Jocelyn Foulkes,
Miss Harriet Wood and Miss Fanny
Barker.
The lyrics were written by Miss
Schloth, were set to music which ran
the gamut from Chopin preludes to the
street songs of the day. The lines were
killlngly funny throughout and ac
centuated by clever by-play and Im
promptu stunts which kept the audience
in gales of laughter. The music vai
contributed by Miss Dorothea Nash,
piano: Miss Winifred Forbes, violin,
and Miss Clementine Hirsch. drums.
The stage settings and lighting effects
were cleverly executed by Miss Bertha
Stuart and two comic Incidental dances
were given by Miss Jean Wold.
The Oak Grove-Milwaukie Social
Service club held its monthly meeting
Thursday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. F. M. Young at Rlsley station. Of
ficers were elected for the coming yellr
as follows: Mrs. Fred L. Miller, presi
dent; Mrs. Robert Froman, vice-president;
Miss L. Kennedy, secretary; Mrs.
Robert Brown, secretary; Mrs. R. R.
Davenport, member executive board.
The Woodstock Women's Christian
Temperance union will meet all day
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Open Saturday, 6 to 8 P. M.
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Monday News
For Men and Boys
Men's and Young Men's
New Spring
and Summer
Suits
Attractively Priced
$20-$40
We have just received a
new shipment of "men's and
youths' spring and summer
suits, including a fine new
selection of
"Waist-Seam
?9
models so popular with the
young fellows. Finely tailored
suits of exceptionally good
quality. Beautiful patterns
and colorings. All sizes, C2
to 40. Excellent values at
$20 to $40.
Meier & Frank's:
Meier & Frank's:
Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Hewitt.
S2S Greenwood avenue .
Albina Women's Christian Temper
ance union will meet tomorrow after
noon at 2 o'clock at the home of Mrs.
A. Christensen, 883 Borthwick street.
Mrs. M. L. T. Hidden will speak on
"Christian Citizenship."
HOOD BOY MUSTERED OUT
Wagoner Paul M. Blowers Returns
Home Unexpectedly.
HOOD RIVER, Or.. May 11. (Spe
cial.) Wagoner Paul M. Blowers, just
returned from overseas with company
B, 316th ammunition train, of the 91st
division, was mustered out In record
time on his arrival at Camp Lewis Fri
day. Mr. Blowers' father. County Judge
L. N. Blowers, had planned a trip to
Camp Lewis to greet his son. but was
pleasantly surprised when the boy re
turned home Friday. Within a few
minutes after his discharge he left the
camp for Hood River.
Ccittralia- Officer Returns.
CENTRAL! A, Wash.. May 11. (Spe
cial.) Lieutenant Vernon Schacht, son
of Mrs. Augusta Sehacht of this city,
arrived in New York Friday from
overseas, according to a telegram re-
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THe QjULALiT Store or Portland
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Third Floor. (Mail Orders Filled.)
Special Sale of
Boys' to $6.00
Wash Suits
2Y2 to 10 Years
$2.85
At this special price pru
dent mothers will lay in a
full season's supply of wash
suits for their boys.
High grade repps, Devon
shires, galateas, crepes, madras,
:hambrays and ginghams are the
materiais in all the wanted col
ors. Middy and belted styles
with wide sailor collars.
Very special at $2.85.
Third Floor. (Mall Orders Filled.)
ceived by his mother. The officer, since)
the armistice w'as signed, has been on
duty in Germany with the 30th division.
Fuccy Cutlip has returned to his home,
in Pe Ell after receiving his discharge)
from the air service. Tho soldier en
listed shortly after war was declare!
and was sent overseas within a few
weeks afterward.
IB Couple Wed at Vancouver.
VANCOUVER. Wash.. May 1. (Spe
cial.) Miss Bensie Miller,. 17 years olik
became the bride of Richard tJ ravel.
years of age, here yesterday. Both aia
residents of Portland. William Wood.
27, and Miss Kdith Wells, 17. both of
Timber. Or., were married here yester
day. Herbert Kamhout. 29, married a
woman older than himself Maud Por
ter. 36. Both were from Portland. Six
teen couples in all were married hcrQ
yesterday.
Snoqualmie las Still Blocked. .
YAKIMA. Wash., May 11. (Special.)
Yakima people returning from 1-1 -lensburg"
and Cle Klum report that no
effort is being made at this end of
Snoqualmie pass to clear away the
snow, and that there is no prospect
that the pass will be open for travel
before June 1 to 10. The snow at the
summit of the pass Is reported to be
four to five feet deep.
It tastes good, aids digestion
and builds up the system.
ALBINA
Everybody of Albina should
trade at
WOOSTER'S
Working men's store. Cloth
ing;, shoes, general merchan
dise. 5c, 10c, 15c merchandise.
Value givers.
4S8 Washington St.
Open Evenings