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BANKERS SEEK AID
TO HANDLE WHEAT
Commission Asked to Pay
wntractors Semi-Monthly.
ACTION TO HELP FARMERS
Bond Sale or $3,000,000 Suggested
to Bring New Money Into
Northwest Territory.
TVithin a few weeks the wheat crop
must be moved, and the money must
supplied by the banks. At present
the banks have large sums tied up
in the wool crop which has not been
sold and the banks are also assisting
road contractors.
This beinsr the situation, a group of
bankers conferred with the state
highway commission yesterday to
ascertain If the commission cannot
afford a little relief. The commis
sion has taken the matter under ad
visement, and will decide in a few
days.
The bankers suggested that con
tractors, receive their estimates twice
a month, instead of 30 days after a
piece of work is completed. The com
mission holds back IS .per cent of
the amount of money due contractors.
This 15 per cent, in the aggregate, is
a considerable sum, and if contractors
can get their settlement every two
weeks, instead of waiting a month, it
will be of material help in releasing
funds.
Also, the bankers suggested that
the commission find out how much
money the highway work will require
for the next three months, and sell
bonds for the amount.
Intercut Mould He LoHt.
These bonds would go outside the
state and would bring in new money.
The state treasurer deposits the road
bond money in banks until it Is
needed. A sale of $3,000,000 of road
bonds, even with the market as it Is,
would, the financiers contend, relieve
the burden somewhat.
Chairman S. Benson in discussing
the proposition last night stated
that the commission would probably
lose nothing by the bond eale except
the interest.
"It has been pointed out." explained
Mr. Benson, "that there is a shortage
of money to move the wheat, particu
larly in country banks. As the situ
ation has been outlined to us. it is
possible for the highway commission
to aid farmers by making these ad
justments with contractors and sell
ing bonds."
While they were in conference yes
terday the highway commission de
cided a number of points which
have been held up pending an op
portunity for Commiseiioner Kiddle
to make an investigation. On all
points the commission was unanimous
except the old controversy of the
"low" pass and "high" pass in Lane
county.
Commissioner Booth has contended
for the "low" pass road, and Chair
man Benson for the other. Yester
day Commissioner Kiddle voted for
the "low" pass. It is a project which
will cost about $170,000 aad half of
this sum will be provided by Lane
county.
t ut-off to Crater Lake.
Commissioner Riddle voted for im
provement of the Tiller trail cut-off
to Crater lake from Koseburg. Te
commission failed to decide, how
ever, whether this work will be car
ried on late In the autumn, or next
year.
This has really been the only point
of difference in this matter between
Commissioners Benson and Booth. It
will call for an appropriation of about
$15,000. The project is particularly
urged by the government people.
Other decisions reached were to use
an under crossing at Albany and an
over crossing at Myrtle creek. By
the latter decision the Pacific high
way will pass through the town in
stead of dodging it. as would be the
case with the undercrossing. The
commission also agreed to leave the
highway location, as it is, at Harris
burg, instead of taking up the Co
burg proposed route.
surviving partner, Casper Stern, says:
"I didn't care when they called him
that."
Amid the serried ranks of second
hand tables and chairs, picture frames
and stoves, the tangled maze of
crockery, samovars, bric-a-brac and
whatnot of every -kind at the Stern
Salvage company haunt, gently,
tenderly, haltingly as if still in a daze
Casper Stern told yesterday of the
passing of his other self.
A broken-spirited dog, "Philip," the
dead man's collie, crawled out from
his mourning place beneath a table
and gazed at him with sorrowing eyes
as he told it.
"A few days before, Tuesday, when
he went to an auction and then to the
1 market, he fell down at Fourth and
Washington. Butcher Wittenberger,
an old friend, otcked him up. He
came home to the shop with some
plants you can see them now grow
ing In that box outside there and
said, with tears in his eyes: 'These
are for my grave!"
"He had been badly bruised when
struck by an automobile at Nine
teenth and Johnson streets last No
vember. Yes, of course that's what
did it. He was 67.
"That Kriday he brought home
some more plants that geranium out
there and the white plant with the
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II Portland Agency for Home Journal Patterns Gossard, Nemo and Bien Jolie Corsets Richardson s Linens Carters Underwear Dutchess Trousers
globes and said: 'These also are
for my grave.
"He worked until about S o'clock
that night he bought three chairs
and two tables from the Bushmark
hotel and carried them down here.
" 'I can't breathe.' he said, putting
his hand on his chest. He was cold,
and perspiring.
" "Here's this chair you bought,' I
said, putting him in it. I kneeled
next to him. and he rested his brow
on mine for half an hour. He said
he felt better. Hassan, the lace mer
chant next to Hazelwood he's an old
friend held him. I went to the
priest at the German Catholic church
at Fifteenth . and Couch Father
Kroing, and told him to come, but not
to say 1 sent for him. A few minutes
after he administered the sacrament
Lehmacher "
The narrator's voice broke he
could not finish that sentence.
POISON EXECUTION URGED
ELIMINATION' OF HANGING IS
OFFICIALS' PROPOSAL. -
Take Lunch in Our
Tea Room
All foods are prepared in our own
spotless kitchens and only the best of
everything: is used. Service 11:30 to 2:30.
The Standard Store of the Northwest
Olds, Wortman & King
Reliable Merchandise Reliable Methods
Electric Cleaners
$5 Down $5 a Month
Special demonstration daily in the
Rug Dept, Third Floor. We sell the fa
mous Hoover and Sweeper-Vac Cleaners
two of the world's BEST MAKES.
I Headquarters for Outing and Sport Appar el--2d Fir.
Legislature at Next Session May
Be Asked to Make Necessary
Clianjje In Law.
SALEM, Or., June 26. (Special.) A
move has been started among state
officials to go before the legislature
at its next session and request the
elimination of that part of the capital
punishment law providing for the
hanging- of persons condemned to
death, and the substitution of a clause
authorizing the administering of
poison in carrying out the mandates
of the court.
Dr. R. L.ee Steiner, while superin
tendent of the penitentiary, informed
officials that in the event capital pun
ishment was restored in Oregon much
of the unfavorable publicity attendant
on. hangings under the old system
could be eliminated by so changing
the law that poison instead of the
scaffold would provide the death
agency.
It was Dr. Steiner's suggestion that
the sentence be so worded that the
person condemned to death should be
executed within a specified week.
This would give time and opportunity
for the warden, according to Dr.
Steiner. to place in the food of the
prisoner a few drops of some power
ful poison. Death would be instan
taneous. In c-se the legislature acts
favorably upon the req"uest for chang
ing the cap'al punishment law, it
will not be necessary to erect a new
scaffold room. Should the request fail,
the new execution 'chamber probably
will be installed in one of the prison
buildings some distance from the
main penitentiary plant.
Women's Silk Dresses
Greatly Reduced
Business Partner for 45
Years Mourns Death.
John I.ehmai'her, Also Known as
"Mr. Stern," Succumbs In Portland.
SITE SOUGHT BY CITY
COMMISSION OFFERS $50,000
FOR CLUB PROPERTY.
"We were one. We had one purse
and long ago agreed that whoever
died first would leave what we had
to the other. We lived together and
were business partners for 45 years
in the old country and for 27 years
here in Portland. I miss him so! I
don't know what to do without him."
These words of John Lehmacher's
heartbroken partner yesterday re
vealed a Damon and Pythias friend
ship unique in the annals of Portland.
For "Mr. Stern" is dead the genius
of a veritable "Old Curiosity Shop" at
635 Washington street, near Sixteenth,
where Portlanders of social promi
nence have bought their antiques for
years, a famLiar old Balzacian figure,
with hia distinctive pointed white
beard at every local auction for years,
a genuine connoisseur of old coppers
and Russian brasses, whose word on
objects d'art was trustworthy and
whom everybody liked.
The death of John Lehmacher
christened so in his native Cologne at
the insistence of a substitute god
father but officially recorded upon
his birth certificate as "Theodore
Lehmacher" after his intended god
father passed unnoticed by the pub
lic a week ago Kriday, as did his
burial Tuesday in Mount Calvary
cemetery in the same plot as the body
of his faithful partner's wife, at his
own request, "for he loved her so."
For none of his exclusive clientele
knew him save as "Mr. Stern" and the
Tea and Coffee
are Harmful
to children, and.
frequently- disturb
ing to grown-ups.
j Instant
POSTUM
is healthful for
young and old
Postum contains
no caffeine
Municipality Wishes to Obtain 90
Acres for Park and
Playgrounds.
An offer of $50,000 for the Rose
City Country club property was made
yesterday by City Commissioner Pier.
In addition to this cash offering, the
city offers to assume the taxes for
1919 and 1920 and the unpaid portion
of the assessments on a large trunk
sewer which serves the property In
question.
The price offered by the city is far
below the assessed valuation of the
tract of more than 90 acres, and the
improvements on the property which
include a steel grandstand.
Citr officials favor the purchase of
the property because of the belief that
it would serve as a useful playground
for the community adjacent to the
track.
In addition, it is believed that if
the city acquires the property direct
ors of the Multnomah county fair
might be induced to transfer this at
traction to the country club grounds,
so that the mile race track, said to
be the fastest in the country, might
be available.
JUDGES REST IN JULY
Schedule for Two Vacation .Months
Is Announced.
July will see the beginning of va
cation periods for the judges of the
circuit court and the conclusion of
the presiding judgeship of. Circuit
Judge McCourt. who will be sue
ceeded by Circuit Judge Tazwell. As
the first two months of the six
months' terms of Presiding Judge
Tazwell come in the heart of the
vacation period, the judges have
agreed among themselves as to the
division of the duties of presiding
juage auring tnose months.
The following will be the schedule
observed during July and August:
July 1 to 10 Judge Robert G. Mor
row, department 2. presiding.
July 12 to 20 Judge William Is"
Catens, department 5, presiding.
July 21 to 28 Judge George W.
Stapleton, department 4, presiding.
Julyt29 to August 7 Judge Robert
Tucker department 3. presiding.
August 9 to 17 Judge John P.
Kavanaugh. department 1, presiding.
August 18 to 26 Judge John Mc
Court, presiding.
August 27" to December 31 Judge
George Tazwell, presiding.
Cement Dearth Holds Up Walks
BAKER, Or., June 28. (Special.)
Nearly all wo.'k along construction
lines which requires cement in any
form still remains suspended on ac
count of the continued scarcity of ce
ment in Baker. Many sidewalks and
curbings have been torn up for a con
siderable time awaiting the arrival of
the concrete vhieh will allow Bakpr
ites to replace all wooden sidewalks
with cement ones.
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Hundreds of Women's Silk Dresses have
been reduced in price for the mid-season
clearaway. Now is the best time of the
year to buy, for profits will be sacrificed
in order to clean up, the stocks. Tuesday
we shall feature two special groups of
high-class dreeses at BIG SAVINGS.
Silk Dresses
$33.89
Second Floor Beautiful Dresses of Taffeta,
Georgette Crepe, Paulette and Messaline.
Also a number of smart styles made up in
Tricotine and Serge. Blouse, straight-line,
surplice and coat effects. Embroidered,
beaded or trimmed with ruffles, plaitings,
braids and buttons. Short or QJOO OQ
Jong sleeves. Priced special DOO 07
Silk Dresses
$39.85
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Second Floor Taffeta Silk, Georgette
Crepe, Tricolette, Satin, Crepe de Chine and
Serge Dresses in a large assortment of the
season's best styles, including many ruffled,
plaited, shirred and surplice effects. Some
have dainty vestee fronts with short sleeves
and puff skirts. Delightful frocks for all
occasions. Shown in the best flJOQ QC
rnlnm. Moarlv all sizes. Snprial DO0J
, Women's Outing
Apparel
Women's Khaki Coats in flare,
Norfolk and fitted style. Special
ly priced, at $3.95 up to $7.50
Khaki Skirts habit back or di
vided full ranee of all sizes at
prices ranging $3.93 to $f.OO
Outing Suits of khaki, corduroy
and checked materials. These are
priced $15.70 up to $32.50
Breeches f ull peg top at prices
ranging from $3.50 to $10.95
Khaki Middy Blouses at prices
ranging from $3.25 to $7.95
Sale of Home Needs
HUCK TOWELS of good heavy
quality and large size. Blue A fin
borders. $4.50 dozen. Each tvJU
MERCERIZED Table Cloths, size
2x2 yards. Round (J 4 QC
patterns. Special sale at 0xO
Universal Diapers, dozen $3.25
BLEACHED Muslin, S6 inches
wide. Good firm quality. O A
Priced special today a yard,
PILLOW OASES linen AJZn
finish. 45x36-inch. Priced at
MILL ENDS of bleached and
brown Sheeting at special .prices.
Trimmed Hats $3.98
Basement Sale
Hats selling heretofore at $4.98, $5.98,
$6.98 and $7.98. Many women will welcome
this opportunity to choose an extra Hat for
the vacation season especially when the
saving is so pronounced. Black Hats in
many attractive shapes also other colors
such as rose, red and blue. Trimmed with
flowers, sprays, ribbons and fan- tfQ QQ
cies. A few banded styles. Sale DOC)
Sport Hats $1.00
Imitation Panama Hats, Rough Straw
Sailors and other kinds. Just the thing for
the beach. Your choice at only $1.00
For Summer Comfort!
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Trad Mart
PORCH SHADES
Mode Under Patent License
Equip your porch with Coolmor
Shades and get the full enjoyment out
of it this season. Coolmor Shades are
made in 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10-ft. widths
and. may be had in either green or
brown. REASONABLE TRICES.
Drapery Department
Third Floor
Groceries
Fourth Floor
Experienced telephone clerks at
your service 8 A. M. to 5:45 P. M.
Call Marshall 4800 or A 6231 if you
cannot come to the store in person.
Bulk Cocoanut
40c Pound
Paris brand Corn on sale Of)f
at $2.35 a dozen a can
Gold Dust Washing Powder, OK
priced special a package ' at 'tlV
Seeded Raisins of a well- 00
known brand priced, package
Monopole Cut String Beans, OA
specially priced at a can
Famous brand Pea's special OKn
$2.75 a dozen per can at Ols
Delicious Cold Meats, Salads,
Cheese, etc., in the Delicatessen Shop.
We give S. & H. Green
Trading Stamps
Cedar Chests Reduced
50 Styles and Sizes to Select From
Regular $30.00 Cedar CJOT f(
Chests priced special at 5iOUU
Regular $36.50 Cedar
Chests priced special at
S30.00
Third Floor A full carload of Ten
nessee Red Cedar Chests on sale this
week at great reductions. These
make very acceptable gifts for any
woman. Guaranteed moth - proof.
Sale Prices
Regular $22.50 Cedar
Chests priced special at
Regular $25.00 Cedar (J" Q r f
Chests nriced snecial at D JL DU
Regular $35.00 Cedar
Chests priced special at
Regular $40.00 Cedar CJQH 00
Chests priced special at wOUtUU
S17.90
S27.50
Other Cedar Chests Priced $37.50 to $60.00
Cretonne-Covered Cedar Chests Now J4 Off
Grass Rugs and Summer Furniture Large
Assortment at Lowest Prices
Lace Curtain Samples 48c, 79c, $1.48 Bargain Circle Main Floor
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DARLING DRAWS 3 YEAfiS
STEPFATHER OF 13-YEAR-OLD
GIRL DENIED XEW TRIAL.
I Don't Want Him to Go to Jail.
I Told the Truth," Says C.hild
Before Hearing Sentence.
A motion for new trial was denied
L,. H. Darling: by Circuit Judge Staple-
ton yesterday, and the man, who naa
been convicted by a jury of a serious
tatutory offense against his 13-year-
old etep-daughter, was sentenced to
three years in the penitentiary.
Before passing sentence. Judge
Stapleton called the girl, Thelma
Martingale, into his chambers arfd
questioned her thoroughly. ie told
her all that it meant to her step
father, for whom ehe had much af
fection, if he was sent to the peni
tentiary on her- testimony, searching
the truth, of her story.
"But I thought I just bad to tell
the truth," she replied, "I don't want
him to go to jail.".
"Exactly, It is' just the truth I
want." said the judge. "Now that
you know all it means 10 mm, ana
what a terrible injustice you nave
done him if you lied to the Jury and
the court, .do you still say that your
testimony was nothing but the
truth?"
"I do," answered the child.
Prisoner Has Revolver In Bunk.
THE DALLES, Or., June 28. (Spe
cial.) Council Oliver, held in con
nection with the murder of Otis
Mayes, who was shot and then thrown
from a train at Chatfield a few days
ago. had a gun in his possession that
night, but outwitted Hood River offi
cers and hid it in his bunk in the
jail, according: to developments today.
Sheriff Levi Chrisman and Deputy
uiaua ivnignc iook louver 10 -nuoa
river and he immediately brought
forth the weapon he had concealed.
Railway Connections Sought.
CEXTRALTA. Wash.. June 28. (Spe-
Jnstsay
if you want
the ermine
in bottles
for the home
at soda fountains
and on draught-
cial.) The public service commission
will hold . a hearing in Centralia
Wednesday on a petition recently filed
by the chamber of commerce for a
connection between the Milwaukee,
enterlnar the city on the west and the
Northern Pacific. Great Northern and
O.-W. R. & N., coming in on the east.
The majority of the city's Industries
present conditions, shippers desiring
are located in the east end of the
city, and ft Is pointed out that under
to use the Milwaukee are forced to
haul their product across the city by
truck.
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or French dressing use imported
POMPEIANT
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To Clear Away
Skin Troubles
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Halted Milk-
for Infants and Invalids -Avoid
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the Brunswick features, plays
the records of ail makers and
all artists, and plays them
with fullest perfection of tone
and color. Its cabinet, too, is
beautiful in oak or Adam
brown mahogany.
THE PRICE, $115
-Delivered by prepaid freight
to any point, this combina
tion of the Style Seven, with
a quantity of records, is find
ing its way into many, many
homes. Yours should be
amonir them.
THE BRUNSWICK, STYLE SEVEN $115
RECORDS OF YOUR OWN SELECTION. . . . 10
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