t 14 THE 3IORXIXG OREGOMAX, AAEDXESDAT, . AUGUST 13, 1019. CHECK ON FOOD IN STORAGE IS STARTED REFUSE DUMP PROTESTED CONDITIONS AT OLD HIPPO DROME HELD INTOLERABLE. City and Federal Agents Co operate in Fight. FAIR PRICE BOARD NAMED County Administrators Ordered to Organize Machinery for : Sweeping Investigation. Profiteers will be exposed within a fchort time in Portland, and when pos sible, prosecutions will be made. Pre liminary organization for the drive against the profiteers was made yes terday at a conference of federal and municipal officers. Following is the personnel of the fair-price committee, which will hold open meetings, invite complaints and information, and which will make its findings as public as possible: ': Thomas O. Karreil. representing wholesalers; Kmil Gunther, represent ing1 retail grocers; Thomas Roberts, representing drygoods; C.t E. Spence, representing the farmers; Harry An derson, representing labor; J. C. Green, representing the markets; Mrs. T. T. JTunger, representing the housewives; Mrs. G. "W. McMath and Mrs. H. B. Torrey, representing the public at large. Officials Attend Conference. A conference was held yesterday at tended by United States Attorney Haney; "William Bryon of the depart ment of justice; Chief of Police John son; "W. K. Newell, food administrator and "VV. B. Ayer, former food adminis trator. A working programme was outlined and immediately put into ef fect. This included the appointment of a committee, known as the fair price committee, which will make an investigation of prices. Mr. Ayer, who was requested by the attorney-general to resume his serv ices as food administrator, passed this responsibility over to Mr. Newell, and the latter lost no time in reorganizing the committee which was of material assistance during the war. The tele gram of instructions to Mr. Newell re quests that all the county food admin istrators revive their local machinery and go into the Question of prices. aieetintt to lie Held Today. : The first meeting of the committee fn Portland will be held at 4:30 o'clock today in the Board of Trade building, where Air. Newell has offices in the grain administration rooms. "While I do not feel like speaking in advance for the committee," stated Mr. Newell, "I think I may say that the committee will not undertake to fix prices. It will probably get the whole sale price on an article and also the retail price; it will get the price the wholesaler pays the factory or pro ducer. Then the committee, by publish ing these prices, will leave the public to judge whether the consumers are paying too much and whether whole saler or retailer is collecting too much profit." Probe Not Limited to Food. Not only foodstuffs, but shoes and clothing and other necessities will be inquired into. If retailers are making 30 to 40 per cent profit on a suit of clothes, or dealers aie exacting a profit of $5 on a pair of shoes, the report of the fair price committee will so disclose. The plan is to have this committee go to the bottom of the problem, collect the evidence and in form the public. While the committee is at work, other agencies will be in the field, federal and municipal, investigating charges of hoarding and profiteering. There has been an investigation under way for several days by tle department of justice, while the municipal agents also have been investigating. . There are rumors of a combine among the bakers and it is reported that at a meeting between the bakers and the retailers last week the retail grooers were practically obliged to agree to the announced one-cent in crease in the price of bread. Prelimi nary investigation is said to disclose little justification for the increased bread price just when flour is on the decline. It is within the range of possibility that prosecutions may be brought under the Sherman act, which deals with tle restraint of trade, it was indicated yesLerday. SwerpJng Inquiry Promised. With the machinery now being con utructed by the federal and city au thorities, the most sweeping and com prehensive inquiry ever launched in Portland is promised. It is backed by the United States government, Mr. Haney having received explicit instruc tions from Washington, D. C, o in quire and prosecute where there ap pears to be justification for filing for mal information. The fair price committee has been created at the request of the attorney treneral and, while it has a big task, it is an extra legal body without power to summon witnesses. Public eentiment is such, however, that there is little likelihood of any dealer, wholesaler or producer refusing to respond to an invitation from the committee. food in Storage Invoiced. Federal and city agents who are con ducting a check of stocks of food held in storage in Portland encounters their first opposition yesterday when, it is said, a number of dealers refused to give the desired information. As a result the work has been delayed some what, although the squad is continuing its efforts to complete a thorough in vestigation of the Portland food situa tion. It was suggested yesterday that the opposition seemed to have developed timultaneously among dealers, leading to the belief that concerted action has been agreed upon. In case the infor mation is withheld persistently, a fed eral search warrant will be sworn out it is threatened. Mayor' Agents Aid In Check. ' Mayor Baker's agents are co-operating with government officials in con ducting the check of foodstuffs in stor age to determine whether dealers are hoarding for the purpose of controlling a certain market. - Dealers who were interviewed at the outset of the campaign manifested a willingness to assist the. checkers in every way and all information avail able was placed in the committees possession. It is believed a misunder standing exists among some of those who are opposing the movement, and they feel the city administration is endeavoring to pry into their business affairs without proper authority. This was set at rest yesterday by the an nouncement that the miyofs force is working with federal operatives' and that the check is being conducted un- qer government instructions. The investigation is not designed to Interfere in any way with merchants who are holding legitimate stocks of a-oods. it was explained, but to ascer tain whether stocks are being hoarded In order to keep prices up. Only the latter need fear the check, it was asserted. - The conference of northwest mayors which was fixed originally for next Tuesday may be postponed until a later date, although, this will not be deter- I Sf . Vjk. ... - mm t -i- it-tit" --wHfi---"t - rA g - , i - -- iimrti i t-i iv n it- v-' ETHEL CLAYTOX, WITH HER LEADI G MAV. tRF. CODY, IX MEV, WOM EN A-M MONEY," NOW PLAYING AT THE COLLMUI.V THEATER. TODAY'S FILM FEATURES. Majestic Tom Moore, "One of the Finest." Star Viola Dana. "The Microbe." Liberty Charles Ray, "Hay Foot, Straw Foot." Columbia Ethel Clayton, "Men, Women and Money." Peoples Bessie Barriscale, "The Woman Michael Married." Circle Mary Pickford, "Hearts Adrift." Sunset Wallace Reid, "Believe Me, Xantippe." Globe Elsie Ferguson, "Barbary Sheep.' JUST a : togra "Men, ability for material for their features, one of the shining: examples "In this connection being Rex Beach, who has definitely allied himself with the mo tion picture producers and who, by the way, will be in the Columbia river and Puget sound territory this month, as sisting in the direction -of filming some scenes for "The Silver Horde," which is being picturized from his novel of that title. Another high light in the present season, which points in the same direc tion, is the request that has been ad dressed to the Authors League of America, which counts in its member ship leading writers of the whole coun try, for stories suitable for scenarios for Dorothy Phillips. Miss Phillips manager, in a letter to Miss X. M. Sill cox, managing editor of the Authors' league, has asked specifically for four stories for Dorothy Phillips, offering UST a rattling good story, well pho tographed and staged that i Women and Money," starring for them $100,000, or'525,000 each, cash on acceptance, and has asked that Miss Sillcox give this information to the members of the league. Ethel Clayton, which is this week's at traction at the Columbia theater. Unlike its title there is nothing sug gestive about the play itself. To the contrary it is the straight narrative well told of a girl equally etraight and true and exceptionally attractive. Ex cellent photography and lavish settings make the picture ideal of its kind. "Men, Women and Money" also fea tures Lee Cody. To everyone's surprise the Lee Cody of 'Men, Women and Money" is not the Lee Cody that has formerly appeared on the screen. Ap parently he has deserted the role of villian de luxe for the part of a true American hero, ready to learn if prone to make mistakes and eager to place his ideal woman on her traditional pedestal. It is the old, old story that forms the plot for "Men, Women and Money." It' centers about a girl who loves pretty and expensive things but who, when put to the test, is not ready to accept dishonor for them. But even as the old story, this screen drama tells it in a new way that contains many thrills for those who are not, as the hotel clerk suggests, "too blase." Special attention in the Portland mo iton picture world is centering this week about "The Microbe," a Viola Dana production showing at the Star theater. The picture has a unique plot which makes possible a picture of widely diverging scenes, including both the bowery and the ultra-fashionable. The picture is taken from a story of the same name recently publ ished in Ainslee's magazine and which at the time of its publication excited consid erable favorable comment. , Screen Gossip. Motion picture producers are turning very definitely to writers of proved R. A. Reader has been sent to France by his company to study post-war con ditions in that country and to open a series of offices for the company in European countries. William S. ("Bill") Hart, who has withdrawn from the "Big Four" group of stars, has definitely renewed his connections with Famous Players Lasky and in the next two years will make nine pictures for that corpora tion. Mary Pickford, Douglas Fair banks, Charlie Chaplin, with D. W. Griffith, were the other members of the "Big Fjur" combination. Alice Brady, in her next tour of the country in the stage production, "For ever After," will continue to make pic tures "in her spare time" and will be accompanied en tour by her company of screen actors. Selznick Pictures have taken a lease on the Universal studios at Fort Lee for the production of the Elaine Ham merstein and Owen Moore pictures. Marshall Xeilan, directing Anita Stewart in "In Old Kentucky," is the first director who has used an aero plane taxi to get from one engagement to another in the shortest possible time. Finding train connections would not permit his getting from Santa Cruz (where he had filmed some exteriors where the star's presence was not re quired) to Los Angeles as promptly as he wished, he put the matter up to an aero taxi company that had just been established at Marino field, in San Francisco. They took him up, liter ally and landed him in Anita Stewart's studios at Los Angeles 12 hours earlier than the best time he could have done by train. Place Declared Disgrace to City, Communication of Property-Owner Is Referred to Council. To the city council has been referred a protest from a property owner living in the vicinity of Twenty-first and Northrup streets against conditions existing on the property of the old Ice Hippodrome. The protest was filed originally with J. P. Xewell, president or the Portland city planning commis sion, who, in a letter to the council, explains that the matter is not one for his organization, but rather should re ceive consideration by the council. The communication, which is signed "Prop erty Owner," follows: As one Interested In city property con ditions, I appeal to you to make an In vestigation, or put in the way of such In vestigation the conditions which have ex isiea ana whien jcrow steadily worse, on the property of the old Ice Hippodrome, Twenty-first and North run streets. This place is & disgrace to the city and one which it would seem that any aelf- re.spectlnR neighborhood would not be re quired to tolerate. It has also rauned a deterioration in renting and orooertv values. besides discouraging tennants and property owners from keeping up their places in attractive manner. During the time the building was used ior ice stealing and. hockey matches. North rup street for the whole block which the building- occupies was used as a dumping ground for the dirty snow which came oif the ice, and as a refuse deposit for the re freshment concessions. And conditions have continued to grow worse. 'Last winter after the automobile show was held there, all the accumulation of dirt and garbage as a result of the i freshment concessions was thrown out and left on the block, and at present there not another as unsightly spot in Port land. After the Rose show parades the Port land Railway, Lifcht & Power company put a track along the property and shunted there the relics of the dismantled floats. and this painted canvas, etc., makes a scene mat must be viewed to be appreciated. The present refuse constitutes a fire menace and I understand has so been declared by the fire inspection, but thus far noth ing has been done. I feel that If this could be brought to tbe attention of the civic organizations or people who desire to have this the "city of roses and beauty," something could be done to eliminate this dumping ground la the center of valuable residential property. GRANGE FIGHT EXPECTED CLASH OVER AFFILIATION WITH CXIOXS PROMISED. mined definitely pending receipt of a message from pome of those who were invited to attend. SCHOOLS LACK TEACHERS Difficulty Expected in Filling 35 Vacancies for 1'all Terra. At the opening of the fall term of Portland schools on September 2 sev eral institutions will be short of in structors from indications in the school department. Thirty-five resignations of teachers have been tendered to the school board since June 1. Most of them are from teachers in the high schools who are leaving Portland for better paid positions. Superintendent Grout believes it will be a difficult task to fill up the staff in the three weeks remaining before the new term. All indications are that the schools will be badly crowded this fall with an increase in attendance from 8 to 15 per ' cent over last. year. Portable buildings of eight rooms each are be ing constructed at the Hosford, Dixon, and Hawthorne-Buckman sites to re lieve congestion. CAPTURE HELD IMPORTANT Man Arrested South Relieved Forger AVith Record. That in the capture in San Francisco of a man known as Charles White in Portland, a forger with a record was taken, is indicated by reports of a local detective agency, which, if ap plying to the same man, show that he is an escaped convict from Joliet, 111. White's real name is Haskell, it is said. It is claimed that he escaped from Joliet penitentiary, where he was serving a sentence for forgery, and had served time also in the state prisons of Ohio and Michigan. If he is not wanted in Joliet he will be prose cuted in Portland, say the authorities. The man is accused of passing two bad checks totaling about $500. one on the First State Bank of Gresham and the other on Woodard, Clarke & Co. FOUR REPORTED MISSING POLICK ASKED TO SEARCH FOR ROBERT ABRAM, 60. CITY TO RESTRICT GARAGES Preparations of Permit Ordinance Approved by Council. Temporary garages now are in the spotlight. And the powerful beam that was east upon the structures at the meeting of the city council yesterday bodes ill for the future of the flivver containers that are not on plans and specifications de signed to make them a thing of beauty and a joy forever. "A blotch upon the city" was the way Commissioner Pier referred to the offending imitations. All of which was brought about by Commissioner Barbur's recommenda tion that the building code provisions be altered by an ordinance requiring the issuance of permits, in the manner required for other buildings. The rec ommendations were approved by the council and the necessary ordinance will be prepared by the city attorney. Charles Liglitncr, 2 8, James Mar shall, Aged 9, and John Martin Also Are Sought. Four persons were reported as miss ing at pol ice headquarters yesterday. They are Robert Abram, aged 60, who has been absent from his home since early Sunday. The family lives at 5320 Eighty-ninth avenue, southeast. Abram has white hair, blue eyes and weighs 145 pounds. He is five feet nine inches tall. Charles Lightner, 2S. has been miss ing since July 28. He had intended leaving at that time for Seattle to look for work in a laundry. His family has become alarmed over his continued ab sence, as no message from him has been received. James Marshall, aged 9, has not been home since Saturday. The family has asked the police to aid in the search for him He is four feet in height and weighs 7I pounds. Fear that John Martin, 150 Fargo street, may have been , drowned ,was expressed at police headquarters yes terday as a result of his mysterious disappearance Monday. Martin left his work at the American Can company plant during the day. He has not re turned, although his coat, hat and lunch box were still in their usual plice. Relatives yesterday asked the police to drag the river for his body, as it is believed he may have been drowned while swimming. Meeting at La Center, Wash., Today Likely to Be Lively One and Large Attendance Is Assured. VANCOUVER, Wash., Aug. 12. (Spe cial.) One of the bitterest fights In the history of the granges of this county is expected to develop at the two days' session of Pomona grange, which opens at La Center tomorrow, as a result of the proposal to affiliate with the labor unions and the railroad brotherhoods. As a result of the an ticipated fight, large crowds are expected. William Bouck of Sedro-Wooley, Wash., president of the state grange, will address the meeting tomorrow, and Mrs. Josephine Corliss Preston, superintendent of schools, will talk on Thursday on "Needs of Rural Schools." So far" as known, only one county grange, that of Barberton, has gone on record as lavoring the "triple al liance," while two of the farmers' or ganizations of the county have come out in resolutions opposing the alli ance. Orchards grange went on record as opposing the alliance, declaring it was against "alliance with any poli tician or gang of politicians." Lake Shore grange also has "blackballed" the proposed alliance. Referring to the proposed coalition, Fred Brooker, a member of the latter grange and former merchant of this city, said: "I am opposed unreservedly to the proposed triple alliance. All I can see in it is an attempt by the unions to make use of the granges. There is' nothing in common between the two organizations. We belong to the em ploying class, while the unions are in the employe class. The granges have a powerful' organization and can get almost anything they go after. In avoiding politics we would profit by the bad example of the farmers of North Dakota. I think we should stay on the main line and not get off on any branch." - 4 .-: - . :.ej. k ' rfj J ' jfNa ! J? Iff rvU-lttVl WW V ' i v Jrvff f f If Iffl iMf a S3 till SfJ Nb, iAL- III HI A cashier Has to be quick-witted and wide-awake. And she can't be unless her body is rightly nourished. You may be a cashier or have any other indoor job, but "Whatever you do, eat Krumbles.' Here's why: r Krumbles is made of all the wheat grain bran, kernel and all. It gives you every bit of the good nourishment nature puts in wheat. We cook it, shred it and toast it, so that it is ready to eat just as it comes to you in our "Waxtite" package, which retains the delicate aroma and rich, tempting flavor Krumbles has when it comes crisp and hot from our ovens. Ask your grocer for Kellogg's Krumbles the only Krumbles made. Krumbles is made in the same kitchens as Kellogg's Toasted Corn Flakes.. KELLOGG TOASTED CORN" FLAKE CO. Btlic Creek. Miciucaa 4W of what he termed star chamber ses- ions, has consented to continue as a member of the committee until the present task of recommending revision f the building code is completed. He reserves the right, however, to submit minority report on points on which he disagrees with other members. It is the intention upon completion of the committee's work to hold a con ference of all parties in Commissioner BarMir's office for thf purpose of ad- TRICKY BUYER IS RAPPED "True Ad" Campaigner Criticises ITnscrupuIous Customers. Not only was the fake advertiser rapped yesterday by William P. Green, organization secretary of the national vigilance committee of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, who spoke at the Kiwanis club luncheon at the Benson, but unscrupulous cus tomers were held up to scorn. The girl who has a party dress sent home, keeps it a week to wear it for some occasion and then returns the gar ment as unsatisfactory was cited as an instance. Mr. Green discussed common impo sitions on the part of customers and asked co-operation of the club with the local better business bureau in pre venting both kinds of graft. The club elected E. R. C. Toyer to act as delegate to the district con vention, to be held at Vancouver, B. C, probably in November or De cember. Several out-of-town viistors made brief addresses following the luncheon. Mabton to Build School Gymnasium. MABTOX. Wash.. Aug. 12. (Special.) The school 4?oard has , let a contract to x. .Litherland to build a gymna sium on the high school grounds. The building will be 50x76 feet, with elec tric lights and steam heat. Phone your want ads to The Orego- nian. Alain 7UU. A fcU'Ja. "Whisky May Be Diverted. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. Wholesale dealers in whisky have been informed by the bureau of internal revenue that if the war-time prohibition law should be revoked, it would not be illegal to divert to domestic trade whisky bottled tor export. Wapato Raises Laborers9 Pay. WAPATO, Wash.. Aug. 12. (Spe cial.) Street laborers have received an increase of 50 cents a day for eight hours. BULL RUN WATER SOUGHT Clackamas County Towns to Ask Service From Portland. Residents of Oak Grove, Courtney and Concord have started a movement to obtain Bull Run water, either by the extension of the Milwaukie system or by the construction of a pipe line to connect with the Portland system. The movement was launched Monday night at a meeting held in the Oak Grove schoolhouse, and attended by more than 100 residents of the district. It is said welts are failing, and such water as is available is unfit for do mestic use. J. H. Yeardsley, president of the Oak Grove community club, has appointed a committee consisting of John Risley, Robert L. Withrow and O. W. Barnette to make an investigation and report at a meeting to be held Monday night. The committee is instructed to inter view John M. Mann, Portland water commissioner. CITY CODE TROUBLE ENDS II. M. Estcrly Consents to Stay on Committee. City Commissioner Barbur has poured oil on the troubled waters that threatened last week to wreck the craft of the building: code committee. H. M. Esterly, one of the members, who had tendered his resignation because .-.rr -..-vv Read The Orcgonian classified ads. FIFTH AND WASHIXGTOS STS. SOH-BO SWETLASD BLDC Drink e.p of NURAYA TEA .vary J. ALL WHEAT READY TO EAT KELLOGG BATTLE CREE.M-CH CO. TORONTO. CAN ADA. justing differences and arriving at unanimous understanding. The building code committee differ ences grew out of disagreement on the question of excluding dwellings from the list of buildings that might be af fected. Mr. Easterly charged also that he was not permitted to call in experts during sessions of the body. A young jeweler of Hillsboro. N. I., has mart a tiny engine, run by com pressed air. which is only three-quarters of an inch long and weighs only 2 4 grains. The diameter of the cylin der bore is 28-1000 of an inch, the di ameter of the flywheel is 9-64 of an inch and its stroke is 36-1000 of an inch. Contrasted with this is a valve used by the Ontario Power company of Niagara Kails which is 31 feet high, weighs 65 tons and has a water open ing nine feet across-, so that an auto mobile full of men can stand in it. fjSJn I SP"'''"- COUNTRY SCENE FROM WINDOWS OF OUR GREEN BAY PLANT flltffllffl A. Meat Market yiiJllitlifKV on Your Pantry Shelf SRBB k Council Meats come to your table SeiisSca oFjisSfcj k fresh from surroundings of sun- shine and pure air. Their original ll flavor, nutrition and purity retained Sty liPu lHli ff- 11 in vacuum packages. Ready to UlPI liri- 1f serve. rlfJ i Council Meats represent table econ- telllpl 8.-Fa3 1 omy because they are all meat, no i"5Sife I waste, and their variety answers 1fpSS' he never-ending question, "What . U -II - J I shall we have for dinner, breakfast VT or luncheon?" V. $1. " The- following is a partial list of , K Council Meats put up in convenient ' ulVxW" sizes: S IWVvhViIKI Corned Beef Hash Veal Loaf VVMftPlv"xr Vienna Style Sausage ,Roast Beef HlV W Hamburger Steak Corned Beef WvV 111 11 W. Onions Tripe XAliJl'Ji. Potted Meat-Products Sliced Dried Beef tvAv?rv, Lunch Tongue Ox Tongue Sausage Meat OF Mammy Hash J-tS INDIAN PACKING COMPANY inanaa erason mmm m $Bm a