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3 THE MORNING OPEGONIAN, MONDAY, JANUARY 5. 1920. PLASTIC SURGERY LIKED SI-NGEU'S HUSBAND IS. GREAT urday- on . Misissippl-avenue car at Broadway and Washington streets of Harry William Berg, 28, according to a statement issued yesterday by Dep- nfv fnrnnpr f-netsch Pppff ill Mlliri to 1 have been under treatment for the past year. In order to catch the car on which he died. l:o ran a short dis tance and the exertion brought on a fatal attack. The coroner's office is awaiting word from & brother in Utah pending disposition of the body. All Lines of INSURANCE Fire Auto Marine Surety EASTERN-SPECIALIST. Alice Nielsen, Dr. L$ Roy R. Stod Measure Dead So Far as " ,-trir ! . K ' ' j dard and Thomas Grisselle . ''View Columbia Highway. Railroaders Concerned. RIDDELL TO BECOME PEER r Appeal to unions vain Iti Who Ran Trains Practical Lot and Not Easily Wow Over to Utopian Schemes. BY JOHN J. LEART JR. Copyright by the Nw Tork Woild. Pub lished by Arrangement.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. (Special.) "xcept as a talking: point, the rail--oad unions are through with the plumb plan. For a time tha Plumb plan league rvill continue in existence and send ut literature, nnd Glenn E. Plumb rill be available for lecture dates. 'Ut whatever hope there may have een that the Plumb plan or anj'thingr ike It will become law has been aban doned by all except the extremists. The difficulty with the Plumb plan s that it has 7ot appealed even to he railroad men for whose benefit It i-as devised. To date none of the irotherhocds has submitted It to an official vote of its members. Unoffi--ially. the membership has been can vassed with requests to become mem ers of the Plumb plan league and end in contributions. Response Not Encouraging- The initial response was not such is to encourage a formal referendum i-ote. Store recently these individual -ontributions have fallen off and the eaprue's activities have been clrcum cribed in consequence. For a time, however, the legislative epresentatives of the railroad unions n duty here will say a good word or the plan whenever it seems advis .ble to do so, and when doing so will hot Interfere with more important natters, such as the anti-strike legis ation contemplated by the Cummins ailroad bill. The conference committee which twill try to make a bill out of the iouse and senate measures that will e acceptable to both houses will be he immediate object of the atten iens of these representatives of the inions. Following up the programme Itcided upon, all the arguments of he unions will be devoted to show ng that anything savoring of com uilsory arbitration will serve to make, rather than prevent, trouble. Both Side Blunder. Discussing this point, one repre entative of the railroad unions, vhose name appears on much of the nlumb plan literature, asserted that lunaers had been made on both sines ind that from now on all energies liould be devoted to working out a neasure that will stand the test of lse. "To be entirely frank." said this leader, "those who let loose a lot of strike talk erred They made the ame mistake those who talk com- oulsory arbitration and Jail for those who strike are making. you can't tell pejple they must work any more than we can get results by making threats the sane majority know can not be made rood, t-o much for that. "It Is a mistake also yto -think of ompulsory arbitration as a panacea fdr strikes. It has been tried on a large scale. It has failed. It was hailed as the great Idea when it first rame out of the Antipodes. Since Its adoption there they have had the worst strikes in their history. "The Plumb plan agitation was a mistake. Nominally. I have been for the 7. Ian. Actually it has never ap pealed to the railroad men. Why? Recause they are practical men it tskes a practical man to run a loco motive or a train or a switching yard. What our people are Interested in is the contents of the pay envelope. Give them a fair break there, and they are willing to let somebody else have the worries and the rewards of own ership and management. Raster Adjustments Aim. "What we have got to do Is to try to work out the best bill possible. Such a bill will not contain anti- strike clauses. It will, however,- at least we hope It will, contain pro visions for machinery that will make easier the adjustment of any matters that may become the subject of disputes." Next to killing the ar.ti-strike elaiise of the senate bill, the railroad -workers are moat interested in see ing that the bill which is finally re ported out of conference will not make it too difficult for the roads, once they are back In private hands, to secure an upward revision of rates. The reason for this Is obvious. Samuel Gompers disposed of a re- Tort that the labor interests repre sented in conference went on record as opposing higher freight rates by the flat declaration that such action had not been considered. "We. are not tearing anybody down," Lid he. jit, . . t "waawawi8a8gtn.iri y mijgg i?rwTo.i9i-iate' SCKM5 FROM I'll K CLARA K.IMHAI.1, VOUil PBnDl CTlOS OW SHOW -I.G AT THE MAJESTIC THEATER JM FEATURES. 1 mrice Tournear's 1 TODAY'S FILM People s Maurice Tot production. "Love's Victory." S t r a n d Peggy Hyland, "The Merry-Go-Round." Liberty Hobart Bosworlh, "Be hind the Door." Columbia Ethel Clayton. "The Thirteenth Commandment." Majestic Clara Kimball Young, "Eyes of Youth." Star Earle Williams. "The; Black Gate." Sunset Charles Ray, "The- Busher." Circle Douglas Fairbanks, "His Majesty, the American." LIFE'S turning point is depicted as the moment when the girl or boy changes into the woman or the man, according to he picture, "Eyes of Youth." which is showing at the Majestic theater. Clara Kimball Young is the star of "Eyes of Youth." and in it she finds the most pretentious role of her career. Her past experience in films has prepared her to take the role of universal appeal which she has in "Eyes of Youth," and make of it an exceptionally wonderful portrayal. Three plays within the play are shown in this picture, which tells of the problems which come to a young girl who had just reached maturity where she must decide life's big ques tions for herself. By the aid of a crystal, a picturesque Hindu medium and a great yearning for the real truth which shall make her free, the three paths which lie before her and the goals to which they lead are graphically represented. The same characters, thoee of her own family and her near friends, take the promi nent parts In supplementary plots and the complete play. "Giaa," the heroine in "Eyes of Youth," must choose between a career as a grand opera diva in which she will have funds enough to give her family all their material desires, a career in which she is the lonely wife of a wealthy banker through whose pride and generosity she . is able to stive aid to those dear to her, and -again as the sacrificing sistei who refuses to marry for money and who gives up an operatic career and her lover to mother her smaller, sis ters and brothers. Silently but ef fectively the screen picture of each career is revealed in its weakness and strength. How "Gina" does man age her life is the concluding chapter of a wholesome, philosophical and in teresting photoplay. Screen Gossip. A capacity house reviewed, "The Golden Trail" for its first formal showing at the Strand theater which gave a complimentary midntght mat inee Saturday. "The Golden Trail" has Just been completed by the American- Lifeograph company of Port land. Several scores of well-known Portland faces are seen in it in ad dition to the entire Reed college student body which participated by filling the Multnomah club football bleachers wjile scenes of a football game were being taken. Jane No vak, leading woman for Hart and other big stars, plays the stellar role. Pictures of north Portland. Mount Hood and other local places are shown. Sydney Ainsworth became con vinced of the wide scope of moving pictures recently when he appeared on a San. Francisco street and in a London mansion within a period of two hours. Mr. Ainsworth was work ing in a night scene in the studio for Rupert Hughef, "The Cup of Fury" when he got a call to hurry out to the back lot to play a role In an exterior set, representing Pacific street In the infamous Barbary coast section of Frisco. The latter scenes were for Gertrude Atherton's "The Tower of Ivory," the cast of which includes Barbara Castleton, John Bowers, Lawson Butt, Doris Pawn and Edythe Chapman. ' Charles Ray and his supporting company together with a number of extra people returned last week from a week spent in the vicinity of Los Nletos, Ca.1., where a Santa Fe train consisting of an engine and nine passenger coaches was at their disposal during their stay. Some ex cellent railroad scenes were procured and will be used in the current Kay picture "Homer Comes Home." Louis" Joseph Vance, whose ad venture and mystery stories have en tertained and thrilled millions of readers of magazines and newsp .. era, has become a staff authoi for Thomas H. Ince. That producer is to make four films a year bearing the brand "Ince-Vance Productions." Mr. Ince's success with "False Faces" a Louis Joseph Vance story and other vehicles created by Vance caused him to secure the services of the noted novelist who is by no means new to films. Vance was a producer himself several years ago and has done everything in the industry ex cept act. Douglas MacLean and Doris May have practically completed their fourth production as co-stars. They and their supporting company di rected by Lloyd Ingraham, spent Monday on the bay at Balboa Beach taking some water scenes which were originally scheduled to be taken at 'sea, but owing to the heavy surf now running it was found advisable to seek the security of the bay. Hobart Bosworth returned from Catalina island last Saturday, where tie and his company under the direc tion of Irvin Willat, have been' for some time getting under-water scenes for their present production, "Below the Surface." The Gbldwyn band is rapidly win ning public recognition as one jof the best musical bodies on , the west coast. They were retained this week by the Elks to play and parade Venice, Ocean Park and Santa Mon ica in behalf of the Elks Minstrels given for charity. Will Rogers was "Bones" and Jim Corbett was inter locutor. , Tom Moore and company under the direction of Thomas Mills are this week at Balboa where the big yacht wreck ' scene for "Duds" is to be staged In the ocean. BY JOSEPH MACQTJEBN. In private life Miss Alice Nielsen Is the wife of Dr. Leroy R. Stoddard, specialist in plastic surgery, 33 West Forty-second street. New York city. Dr. andPMrs. Stoddard, with Thomas Grisselle, piano accompanist, were in terviewed last night in the Multno mah hotel prior to their departure for The Dalles, Or., where Miss Niel senor rather Mrs. Stoddard plans to sing in concert, also under the business management of the Western Musical bureau, Laurence A. Lambert, manager. Dr. Stoddard is a big. two-fisted, yet pleasant-to-talk-to man. in early manhood, with friendly democracy in his speech for all who meet him hotel porters and otherwise. There ia nothing to Indicate in his manner, and especially in his courteouB affa bility, that he is a great eastern spe cialist in plastic surgery the new art that laymen regard with awe. be cause by its operation old faces, etc.. Injured in accidents, or in war, are made new. "It is difficult to describe to lay men what plastic surgery is," said Dr. Stoddard, with a keen twinkle in his eye. "As an art it has been practiced with entire success in this country for. the last ten years. I specialized in that branch of surgery, well, because I like it. I have gained all my knowledge and practice con nected with it in this country. I was not across the Atlantic during, the war. and was kept busy enough in our own country. "I won't quarrel with laymen if they call the art scarless surgery, be cause that is what tt is. After a certain time, when the operation re ferred to has been completed, no trace of any physical defects can be de tected in the personal appearance of the patient. In many cases particu larly where the incisions have not been deep ones. The presence of sub sequent scars is avoided when the sur geon uses only one sweep of the op erating agency. If the reverse is done, scars would follow, subsequent ly." "But are the' injured parts, after operation, sewn together?" persisted the reporter. "Yes. with silk thread, white or black," replied the big specialist, good-naturedly. "I hope you two are not going to talk about surgery all night," hinted Miss Nielsen, smiling. "We must get to the depot soon to board our train. 1 am glad that Portland people were so kind to me when I sang last Sat urday night, and that they also liked my accompanist, Mr. Grisselle. Just before the big war broke out I had returned to this country from a pro fessional engagement in 'Europe, and during the war 1 thought Europe wan a good place to stay away from for n woman. I sang all the time ill thix country, and sans at many army en campments for soldiers. Vesterday the Stoddard party mo tored out the Columbia River high way and Mrs. Stoddard thinks that our highway is one of the beauty spots of the world. Mr. Grisselle is by profession a pianist and accompanist. He has not yet been to Europe. During the war ne enlisted in the United States army, but got no" further than Camp Meade, Md. SHIES SAWMILL OPENS PliAXT OPPOSITE ST. HELENS BEGINS OPERATION . Construction Completed at Cost of $130,000; Machinery Gets Thorough Tryout. ST. HELEN'S, Or.. Jan. 4. (Special.) The new mill of the Island Lumber in red and green with poinsettias. ferns and cedar boughs. The affair was arranged by a joint committee. Aaron Frank. George Black and Sanford Lowengart served for the Concordia club and Adolph Jacobs. Charles F. Berg and Henry W. Metzger for the Tualatin Country club. Lloyd George to Honor Nwpaper Owner and Friend. (Copyright by the New York World. Pub lished by Arrangement.) . LONDON. Dec. 30. (Special cable.) Premier Lloyd George's forthcom ing political "honors list" is said to be so bulky that it will need to be published in parts. The new peers, it Is confidently expected, will in clude Sir George Riddell, the news paper owner and the premier's most intimate personal friend. Sir George as the link between the premier and the press during the peace conference discharged a difficult duty with his usual bonhomie. He was created a baronet three years ago for his im portant work as chairman of the Newspaper Proprietors' association during the war, which was valuable alike to the press and public. Another new pcr, well known in American railway circles, will be Sir Albert Stanley, chairman of the Lon don tube system and until recently president of the board of trade. It is expected that knighthood will be conferred on three British war cor respondents whose signal services during the war have been ignored by the war office. BRIDE, FUGITIVE, SOUGHT PAROLE OFFICER COMES TO GET MRS. RITTA HACKETT. ' EGG PRODUCERS PROTEST Washington Dealers Want Ban on - Oriental Imports. WENATCHEE, Wash.,' .Jan. 4. (Special.) The Washington State Poultry. Breeders' association, when it meets at Wenatchee next Friday, will discuss the heavy imports of Chinese and Japanese eggs that are beginning to flood the Puget sound markets. Many restaurants in Se attle are using "frozen", eggs from China and the powdered egg from the same country will soon be placed on the market. The Washington state food depart ment has threatened the arrest of restaurant owners using the oriental eggs without displaying signs to that effect. Parrot c Co. of Seattle has asked an injunction against Commis sioner of Agriculture E. F. Benson and Food Commissioner Will H. Adams, from enforcing the state law. The case will come up before Judge Wright soon at Olympia. At the Wenatchee meeting a resolution is slated to be adopted calling on con gress for legislation to regulate the imports. GIRL'S RELEASE ORDERED Marion County Court FMnds for Mother of Constance Cheshire. SALEM, Or Jan. 4. (Special.) Constance Cheshire, 12 years ,of age, who was committed to the state in dustrial schdol for girls from Lane county on March 18. 1916. and later paroled to Mrs. Charles Cleveland. 669 East Fifty-ninth street, Portland, yes terday was ordered released to her mother, Sadie Millett, by Judge G. G. Bingham of the Marion county circuit court. A few weeks ago Mrs. Millett filed mandamus, proceedings to obtain the release of her daughter, and at the hearing yesterday Judge Bingham held that the commitment Issued by the Lane county court was invalid for the reason that the judge who heard the proceedings did not set out a spe cific violation of the law. on which the child could properly be made a ward of the state. With the Goodell-Akin Co. Third Floor Wilcox Bldg. Portland, Oregon Phone Main 822? OuiSeattle Office Metzger & Jones, Inc Successors to Frederick & Metzger Mutual Life Bldg., Seattle, Wash. RUSH FOR LICENSES ON SPECIAL TAX HELD LIKELY Bill May Be Introduced to Exempt School Levy From Limit. SALEM, Or., Jan. 4. (Special.) A i-mill tax on all the taxable property f the state to raise funds with which to conduct the schools of Oregon probably will be proposed at the spe cial session of the legislature here this month, according to the members i the Oregon County School Superin tendents' association, which is hold ing its annual convention in Salem. As it would be a millage tax. voted i an State Department Swamped Willi Auto Owners' Applications. SALEM, Or.. Jan. 4. (Special.) Following the Announcement of thu company began operation Friday after 1 porlland poUce department that all receiving a thorough tryout. The j automobile owners who fail to equip plant is on the north end of Sauvies I their cars wMh 1920 license plates by island and across the Willamette ! Tuesday will be arrested under the slough from St. Helens. It adjoins the plant of the St. Helens Shipbuild ing company and the loading dock of the St. Helens Dock & Terminal company. The plant, which cost $150,000, is motor venicie laws oi tne state, near ly 1000 applications for licenses were received at the state department here today from Portland. Today's mail included approximate ly 1300 letters. Of these about 300 arrived from points outside of Port- I land. Because of the congestion due ber in eight hours and employs 60 men. The lumber comes from the mill on inclined platform, goes to the by the people, should It be referred ' sorting table and is sorted and piled. hy the legislature and passed at the ' A traveling crane then takes the lum prhnary election next May. such an j ber, loads it on flatcars and piles it appropriation would not be subject on the loading dock in reach of ship to the 6 per cent tax limitation tackle. amendment to the state constitution.' The officers of the company are: ll Is also proposed, according to some j Charles R. McCormick. president ; Jay of the superintendents in attendance' Hamilton, vice-president; H. B. Beck at the convention, to remove all ett. secretary; H. F. McCormick. man school levies from application., of the ; ager, and A. F. Harnett, auditor. Peter S per cent limitation, through a bill : Skel. who designed the nlant. is Buoer. modern in every respect and has a Jana;. ?r tne congestion due ... i. . r . . . , 1 to tne eleventh - hour requests for cutting capacity of 75.000 feet of lum- licenseB many of tne applicants may to be introduced In the legislature at the special session. GOOD MUSIC IS PROMISED Fine Programme Arranged for B'nai B'rith Installation. High-lass music by two pianos will be rendered tomorrow night at 8 o'clock at the exercises in connec tion with the B'nai B'rith Installation. B'nai B'rith hall. Thirteenth street near Market. The programme fol lows: Grand ballet from "'RlenBi" ( Wagner), Mm. Charle Dftrke. Mrs. Jucob l,auter tin. Mrs. Vaul Power. Mrs. Rollo Hollen beck: "Vale in A Flat" (Mosikow.iki). Miss Sutle Sullivan. Mtts Ann Bitser. Mrs. 1'tiarles IMerk. Mm. Jacob Lauterptefn : "AUrsro Molto" from "E Mior Symphonic" iDvouk). Mrs. Charles tlerke. Mrs. Jacob T.amarstein, Mrs. Paul Power. Mn. Bollo Hollenbeok: "Tannhauser," overture (Was nor). Mill Patie Sullivan. Mias Ann BitJter, Mrs. Charles Dierkr. Mrs. Jaoob Lauter aicla. 0 not receive their plates before lata In the month. v At the close of business December 31. which is the last day to receive license plates in compliance with the state law, only 35.000 car owners in Oregon ha.l filed their application. ASTORIA Intendent. The operation of the mill will inT crease the monthly St. Helens payroll by $10,000. CLUBS GREET NEW YEAR Concordia and Tualatin .Members Attend Supper Dance. Members of the Concordia club and the Tualatin Country club joined to welcome the new year at a midnight supper party at the Concordia club rooms at 510 Morrison street on the night of December 31. About 125 of both memberships attended. Dancing was enjoyed from 9 P. M. until mid night, when supper was served. A feature of the party was the ap pearance of two "kewple" dolls, brought to the supper tabie by wait ers, one branded "1919" and the other "1920." Favors of colored paper hata were worn by all. ' A attractive scheme of decoration was carried out For Infants and Children n Use For Over 30 Years ilwaya bears the "mature of ' A Bad Cough If prelected; often leads to BerioC? troubb- IP I S s Girl Who Kscaped From Training School Charged Willi Larceny of Money an'd Clothing. Miss Sadie Houser, parole officer of the Grand Mound training school for girls at Grand Iound, Wash., ar rived in Portland yesterday to take back to the institution Mrs. Rllla Hackett, two months' bride of S. E. Hackett, 245 North Seventeenth street. The girl, who is a fugitive from the institution, is in the. city Jail fol lowing her arrest on telegraphic ad vices from Olympia, Wash. She faces a charge of larceny, as she is declared to have taken $25 and clothing valued at $50 for the purpese of making her escape to Portland. Mr. Hackett, who married the girl following her escape from the insti tution, declared yesterday that he will fight any1 effort to take the girl back to Washington. Hn offered to make restitution for anything which' the girl may have taken at the time of her escape. Mit.s Honaer said last night that she would have to investigate the case before taking any definite ac tion. ' Caue of Death Determined. Heart disease caused the death Sat- WIFE OF SENATOR DIES Mrs. Tow n send of Michigan -Sur vived by Sister in Portland. WAS! IN.JTON. Jan. 4. Mrs. Ttena Paddock Townsend, wife of Senator Townsend of Michigan, died here to night after illness which began with a nervous breakdown five years ago and was made more serious several months ago by a paralytic stroke. Mn.t Townsend was 58 years old and Was born in Concord, Mich. In addition to her husband, two sisters, Mrs. Charles W. Stephens of Concord and Mrs. George W. Healy of Portland, Or., survive. NEW PROJECT IS PUSHED Irrigation Ditch From Touchet ' River at Bolles Proposed. WALLA WALLA, Wash.. Jan. 4. (Special.) A new irrigation project has been put forward with every prospect of success, according to the backers, who say that If the appli cation Tor water rights is approved, the sale of the bonds to eastern capi talists is certain. The plan is to tap the Touchet river at Bolles and carry the water through a lt-foot canal down the Touchet valley and onto the lower Ktireka flnt. About 72 000 ieres of land arc to be Irrigated. The cost of the improvement is estimated at $2,000,000. Attorney W. F. Crowe of Walla Walla has already filed application for water rlprhts with the state ny- draulic engineer. the boy's home Saturday, was re ported to, be improving at St. Vin cent's hospital yesterday. The boy was struck when the driver swerved in the effort to prevent striking two other children who were In the street. BONE-DRY LID TO TIGHTEN Prohibition Officer In Five North west States Prepares to Act. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan.. 4. William A. Kelley, supervising federal prohibi tion officer for California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Arizona. Sat urday began organizing his forces preparatory to screwing- down the bone-dry lid in thesa, five states after January 16. He was sworn in yesterday. Kelley announced that he will also continue tha campaign to round up manufac turers and sellers of whisky contain ing wo'od alcohol and other harmful ingredients. Harden Home Is Entered. Mrs. Mabel Harden, 309 East Thirty seventh street., reported to the police yesterday afternoon that her house had been ransacked during the ab sence of the family from the city, hut that apparently nothing of value had been taken. . Police Officer e! R. Bewley made an In vestieratlon. He expressed the belief that the robbers had been searching for money and for tha reason didn't touch other articles. 'Injured Boy Is Improved. Orlando Depinto. 8 years of age, 426 Second street, who received a fracture of the right leg when he was struck by an automobile driven by C. Nelson. 454 Broadway. In front of 5 GuiT.ra.tb ure .CH0G0LAT1 imm i Nisht Morning CeepVbur EVes lean - Clear -' Healthy a a u 1 c U.O.iilt The Prosperity of 1920 Rests With You rpO SAVE or not to save is the question enter ing into prosperity which you yourself must decide. If you DO save then you'll de sire and require one of those Northwestern National . SAV INGS ACCOUNTS. Liberal Interest. MORRIS Supreme Marigold The flavor of Supreme Marigold Oleomargarine makes good bread bet ter. Like all Morris Supreme foods, it's deli cious. Request the kind with the, yellow and black label. Wholesale Distributors FRYE & COMPANY atf- rw "r'r . IL. rr . -j : mvm mmm mi- lax. f?vW The Northwestern! National Bank! 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