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a " . . TIIE MORNING OKEGONIAN. TnUKSD AY. DECEMBER 16, 1920 ' ' " v ' ' ' MMMMMMWMM"M1'W',MIMII,,IW,,MW'''i""' .. m . " ' ii i -i - i - "i ' ' r t '"'i .: M 4 ". . -' Established 1870 ' . '..-. - .. - . - - ' - . - , .,. I . The Fo FriedllaLndler Company i J 1 I I 'Clock Announce a Radical Sale TToug Their Establish Beginning This (Thursday Morning, Dec. 16th, at 9 6 20 Reduction on AlhTiamoTtdSi ' . ' Some Specials as Much as 30 to 40 Reductions - ' While there has been no reduction whatever in the wholesale cost of our merchandise, we feel and are not unmindful of the insis tent and just demand of the general public for the lowering of prices' on every commodity, 'including our own. w ' j Only a very few contract articles are excluded from these sweeping reductions . , In the Lines of Diamonds and Silverware We offer the most tempting reductions. Fancy pieces of hollowware, Sheffield, and many patterns of flatware carry reductions of 25 to 40. Only .a few patterns, such as Shelburne, Roslyn and certain Contract patterns are excepted. ' . . .' , ; , .. ' : The Most Wonderful Bargains Are Of f eredin Wrist Watches - The public may rely upon the quality of the merchandise carried by this old-established house. For fifty years the House of Friedlander's has carried tKe best m diamonds, jewelry, watches and allied lines. This will be our first great sale in years. Tremendous opportunities are ihere for .'those who buy. ' . -w " -k. " Liberty Bonds- Taken in Exchange for Merchandise - Beginning Saturday We Will Be Open' Evenings Until 9 o'Clock I 310-312 WasUmgt and Sixth t I ' I . ' I - Ml i N I FT ii h - 5281,420,808 IN BfflS TOXAIj deposits noyember 15 ARB ASXOVXCED. Time and Sarins Acoonnts In crease $9,902,178 Since Nor. 177 19H, Acordtoff to Report. i SALEM. Or, rxxv. IS. (SpecUL) Total deposits of all banks In Oregon at the close of business on November 15 were J2I1.450.90J. 49. of which f 85. 114,101 was in time and Bavin ts ac counts and the remainder in demand deposits, according; to a report pre pared here today by WU1 H. Bennett, state superintendent of banks. Time and savings deposits have in creased I9.9U2.178.73 since November 17. 1919. and J328,95.70..since Septem ber . 1920. Demand deposits have decreased to the extent that there has been a net loss in these accounts ag gregating $!4,909. 834.78 since Novem ber 17, 1919, and 13,043,182.19 since September 8, 1920. Portland deposits have decreased 2,20S.247.13 since September 8. 1920, and deposits in most of the other towns and cities of the state also have fallen off slnco that date. Eu gene has advanced to fourth place in the list of banks, based on aggregate deposits, while Oregon City and Cor vallls have passed Baker. Roseburg has forged ahead of McMlnnville. Grants Pass, Ashland, Lakevtew, Mil ton and Woodburn also have ad vanced on the list since the last statement, passing other cities which failed to show an increase in deposits. Heppner. Athena. Condon, . Burns and Gresham, which appeared in the million-dollar class on September 8, 1920, failed to qualify at the time of making the last call, leaving a total of 30 as against 35 cities on that date. Cities and towns in Oregon having total deposits of 81.000,000 or more. compiled from statements ol .Novem ber 15. 1920, follow: No. Banks. Deposits.' Portland 2 8148.flR3.714.48 ber on the north fork of Rock creek reported two days after the search had been given up that they had beard two shots about, five miles southwest of where Llnbeiy was last seen. Gus LJnberg at once left for the spot where the shots were heard. He was accompanied by several men, and they will 8tav-4n the mountains for a week unless Linberg Is found sooner. Snow to a depth of five. Inches has fallen in that vicinity wffhln the last four days. The Alsedale dog "Rags,1 which was with Llnberg, has not re turned to B. F. Lane, his owner. Some surmise that as Llnberg was beaded west he might find Ms way out some where near Tliiamoom or. LIQUOR CASE DROPPED OFFICIALS ORDERED TO GET STRONGER EVIDENCE. ... Saltm Atttoria Kus-ene Pendleton ........ Klamath Falls ... Albany ;.. Hertford Oregon City ..... Corvallls .. Baker The Dalles F.onebllr; ........ McMlmivlMe . . . I.a Grand. ...... Marshfield Grants Pass ...... Hood River Hlllsboro Bend -- Ashland Silverton ......... Lareview Tillamook .. Kewherg Ontario ....... .. . Milton Forest Grove Woodburn Lebanon , 8.713.263.44 7.!)0S.2--2.7'T 6.1!l!fc-71.50 5,091.052.33 .4.559.708. 3-.1.aS0.42 S.82!).748.7S 3.6K7.874.95 3,379,1 14.K7 3.376.437.B8 3 029.9B4.04 2.IM2. 8117.90 2.733.360.10 2.679.173.21 2.347.3S7.73 2,0!H 6T.0.63 2.01.4fi697 1,9T.4S7 89 1,874. OH2.60 1.873.334.15 1.804,379.74 1.691.949 68 1.883,6.15 97 1.473.178.71 1.3?i2.n3.94 3.2M.831.49 1.231.489.83 1.112.910.25 1.0R3.913.54 Total ...113 J 238,877.018.3i SHOTS, AROUSE NEW HOPE brother of Lost Hunter to Scour Woods Once More, VERNONIA, Or, Dec 15.--(Spe-clal.) New hopes of finding Axle Linbei'g, who was lost in the moun tains on the headwaters; of Rock Creek. December 3, while on a hunt ing trip, have again been stirred up, and Gus Linberg of Seaside, Or., brother of tho- lost man, has started a new search for him. Cruisers engaged la estimating tlm- Uoited States Attorney Declares Dry Agents fall to Obtain Enough Testimony to Con vict. ' TACOMA, Wash., Deo. 15. Stronger evidence hereafter must beobtained by prohibition agene,of the federal government in thi state before prosecution In the federal court would be attempted, declared United States Attorney .aundrs when be dropped the case against John Doe Fines, alleged moonshine oper ator at Tillicum, Wash.t near Amer ican Lake, and Federal Judge Cush man dismissed the defendant. Attorney" Saunders is quoted as declaring that he was being asked by prohibition agents to prosecute cases in which the evidence was in sufficient, in his opinion, to warrant any hope of conviction. He, stands willing to prosecute, all cases, he is declared to have told" prohbttlon agents today, but "real evidence" had Following the reported clash be tween the two federal departments, prohibition enforcement officers de clined to be quoted, 'one merely stat ing: -. "'.' . "What's the use we get the evi dence." ' Attorney Saunders' ultimatum is de clared to have come after a number of alleged violators of the dry law. arrested by federal agents bad been brought to trial only to be found not guilty by respective Juries hearing the cases, although the government officials hai-expressed the belief that the preponderance of the evidence was with the federal authorities. Bart Spellman Is Fined. i - EUGENE, Or., Dec 15. (Special.) Bart Spellman, assistant football coach at tho University of Oregon, was fined 810 in the Eugene police court yesterday afternoon on a charge of disorderly conduct. Spell man, accompanied "Shy" Huntington to the - recorder's office Monday, when the latter paid a fine of 825 for speeding his car. and It is al-: leged by the police and the, recorder that Spellman "roasted" and abused the police. - ; .-: ' - " Eugene Guardsmen Inspected. EUGENE, Or., Dec. IB. (Special.) Colonel V. E. Denver, .United States army, instructor-inspector of the na tional guard of Oregon, inspected company C, Sd Infantry, of thlseelty last? night. He pronounced the com pany to be well drilled and the equip ment in good ' condition. Captain Harry G. Keeney ia In command. . BOfNOW FJICES.GALLQWS slater, t9 Steaks, q ld ,loses rx scpreme cocrt- ., " ... - . ' .. . Unless Governor Hart Givies'Clm' ency,Isbmv White Will'-Hamg , . 1 :; . ' ' v .-. ; , 'for JUijrder of. taii-Driveri SEATTLE, Washi" . Dec. "46. Spe cial.) Unless Governor JBart exer cises executive clemency, isom White, 19-year-old murderer, , must pay the death penalty Imposed by verdict of a Jury in the superior court ol Snohomish 'county for the killing of Lee . Linton, an; Everett,' Wash., taxi driver, on. he-night, of November 19, 1919 the supremo court Tuesday af firmed "he-- con vsttiofe of --White of murder in the first degree at the January term ".of " ther Snohomish county court, the. Jury -returning a special verdict 'recommending, the in fliction pi. capital punishment, . The sentence was said tO" be the Mm In wlilrti the death oehalrv was rrrppsed-since, capital punishment was re-enacted In 1919. . ' ; Petitions, asking the governor to. comntute the sentence to Jlta- im prisonment are on file, at the execu tive', office. Governor. Hart refusing to take- action while the case' was pending in the courts.- ',, . " Arrested" at Bellingham, TVash., a few dayss after Linton's '' body Was found in a ditch. beside a cross road, a 'short distance, from Everett! White made a written confession, stating that he and Donald; Mortoh- a com panion, had .killed- Linton with rob bery, as the-iotlve. The. boysm ployed Ilnton to drtvl them in his car from Everett, to Marysvllle, Wash. According to the confession, White shot Linton in the back-of the head, killing bim 4nstantly. .TaliNsg the few deliarsvfsnnd 'In the pockets of the dead man, the youths threw the body into, a ditch and dr6v north, abad donlng the car .after crossing the Skagit Bounty line. They .made their way :tfh' foot to Bellingham. : y' ', 1 f ' . ' r- v '' ' ' - 6 WATER REQUESTS FILED La t Grande Asks 20 Feet "From '.'Grand Ronde- River. ' " SALEM."Or.. Dec. 15. (Sjeclal.) The ity of La 'Grande has filed with the state engineer application to ap propriate - zOsecond -feet of water from the Grande Jtonde river for an additional municipal' supply. ': - Other' applications ' filed with the '-"SALEM, Or., Dec. 14,-Special.) Jackaoh county, water from Tub Springs, for public camping (rounds on Klamath Fall highway. . - H. T-Jergusoa. Baker, water from Pow- der river, for the Irrigation of a small tract of land la Baker county- 1 r v W. w. stottcp, Callow, water from an' unnamed oreeK; for-th Irrigation of 40 acre In HaVney county. A ' Nt , Frank Bengoa.' Mcuermltt, Nevada wa ter from Jackson Creek, tot the Irrigation of 85 acrea In Malheor county. - - :- J. S. Jonsen, Murphy, ecfVerlng construo tlwn ol A reservoir and appropriation of water ' tor placer mining . purposes id Josephine county! ' DIVORCE LAWS ::A'RE LAX Jurist Advocates Radical Revision ; to DMeat Growing Evils:. '' YAKIMA,, Wash.,' Dec.; 15. (Spe cial.) Radical revision of the divorce laws of this state was advocated Tues day v by George B. golden. Judge of the Yakima superior court., who said he would take from. Justices of the peace and Judges the right to per form marriage ceremonies, and would require the county prosecutor tojde fend every divorce action where it ampearrd the defendant . was not in good faith trying to defeat the action. "The existing shameful condition has been brought about by the laxity of divorce la,ws and tflerfadmln 1st ra tion. In this respect we lead perhaps any other state or civilised country," declare'd Judge Holden. "That sorrre Hing must be done -to threttle this monster for evil consequences is-now conceded by all forward-looking; peo ple. The only' difference. f .tp,ihfor! is as to the method to he. empi&j-par - - . '. . r V D0RENA WINS AID JPRIZE ., .,- ' . High School With 15 Pifplls Heads Arnieniari Relief Contest." r COTTAGE GROVE. Or- Dee." 15. (Special.) Dorena high school, sit uated up Row), river, with 15 pupils, won the prize football offered last vear for the largest per capita, con tribution 'for. the Armenian relief-, in the contest ; open to all - the - high schools of the state.. .. ' It is not likely that Dorena's pn pils had the least idea of winning .the- prize, which came as a . complete sur-N prise, -. " i -. . '- J. J, Handsaker,' ' state y director, wrote a congratulatory letter to Mra Lincoln Taylor, teachergpf the school, in which he graphlcalljr described the conditions .existing in , Armenia,. ap peajed for Turthex aid and. stated, that this schooU with Hi7 CDntributrbn of $68, made possible the saving of one life. He said- t Hat the contributions of England-nd other "countries were negligible compared to those cf the United States. -; J-';.- , : r '( Cowlitz Mills' In Operation. KEL&O, Wash, Dec 1 5. ( Special. ) Several of the mills of this vicinity will- continue operations throughout December, taking , very brief holidays despite the bad' condition of. theV lum ber and shingle, market. The Thompson-Ford' Lumber company and the Crescent Shingle company, both have been, operating steadily,, and. the Ostrander Railways Timber company TnlTlnt OatrftnriAit will also tnlcA fk shut down of. bul a few days .over Christmas. . -., .Girl Gets Wildcat Bounty.' v EUGENE, Or Dec. ? (SpetMal.) Gertrude Wheeler of ilapleton.. Or, yesterday' obtained the usual bounty at the office of County Clerk I-ryson on a wildcat, whiclt she., killed near her -, home not long ' ago. Miss Wheeler is'a'.hunter of no. mean abil ity, and it is said uts some' of the-l male setiiers-.oi mai locaiiiy . to shame by her prowess wlth-tbe rifle. During the open, seaTsonthrs fall st bagged a fine deer - and has other large , game to ber credit. I PrrKhvterlana Form FmlprnJfv..' ALBANY, Or ; Doe, .15.-i-(pecial.)--A fraternity composed ' of ' the men of . the congregation of . the First Presbyterian -ckurohf' which will der vote its efforts, to church and com munity service, was organized urider tjie leadership of Dr. D. V. Poling, pastor, of the church. Alt ' enthusiasm tie organization was effected, w S. V. Smith Vas chosen president, ' D. O, Woodworth vlce-pres.ldenqt, and R. U Steelqulst" secretapyz-treasurer. 1 v T , : . ' k- Vetetan. Lodge Clerk Re-elected. EUGENE, Or.t Dee. II. (Special.) Qavld Link, for mors - than 20 vears clerk of" the ..-teteal camp, Modern Woodmen of elected fo tMr, 'position' last night.'! Air. iinir is eaia to o9 one oi ma oldest' clerksuof that order in - point of service , la . the. United - States Other officers, elected follow:-W. E. Barker," 'venerabia. consul;' Howard M.- Brown elf, worthy adviser; N. E. Barrett, banker; X C. Zumwalt, trus tees Fred Chamberlain, escort; B. H. n , . U X m nnAW sentry; Dr- L. -E. McDougallPc B..P. Scalers ana ur u. , uumon, meu lcal examiners '' . . .Grange Fights State. Pay .Rise; . Anivcu j auev A1w ? .has gone on record -of posed to th tfnd tfoyMty officials. Meinberaof thet the, present time ana mat me iaxray - - Hn. I n . ntt1fXf tA K n 11 1 . era rfivre uui, i der: additional obligations. Copies of the resolutions aaoptea -oy me-grange have been sent to similar organizations'- in, all. other sections of the state, j ' 'Marsbrield: Bida for Langford. "MARSHFIBLD, OrvDec. 16. (Spe dial.) John Herron and the Marsh field boxing commission are arrang. ing ror Sam Langford and Clem John OVM , a hnT hars DAnATnner 22. NecrO' tiatlons have not heeri compreted but have progressed-far enough to make the match almost certainly. . .Moonshiner Fined $200 . WALLA WALLA, Wash., Dec.' 15. Special. Conrad Miller was fined $200 in justice court yesterday on a charge, of operating a still near Touchet, Wash. A. R. Horn and Frana Anderson, tried with., blm, were so quitted. The officers at Ihe time of the raid found a still concealed In Miller's barn, entrance o the place being gained through a long tunnel ' , I through the hay- 'Thirty gallons of moonshine were Hd. ' Holiday Spe ci -A Real Gift Nothing Down. First Payment ' f In - January. A Have This Complete HousVCletning : i rani uepoasirufcctt m xvur s . Home. . , . - ' Fkoife ' Broadway " 4024, ;.i.'-' jsi CLEANS J Al0NE "The Complete House : Cleaning 1'lant" .. . Th' Roval. with its attachments, ts a complete nouse cjeuning plant that cleans everytniag. its use means a thoroughly clean, bright home, free from the menace, of eerm-laden dirt. wheh used en .- '. ' Rugs, f r, wans. (jasings, , .. ' -f- Hardwood Floors. Picture Mouldings, Curtains,, v.. Plate Ralls. praneries. Furniture, . Upholstery. Bed clothing. Mattresses, Pillows. Cashlons, - Clothing, irurs. - BooKcases - , j t.-.. , u . it... - A11U numoiuu, viu.i waco. ELECTRIC JUAID SKCP -X'eia Bircevt'xicar amrr, "Let tke' EIeetrte M aid Do Yams Work." 1 ; Pkm Broadwey 4034. -the World, was r- . m .. s, ' ' . . , ' i Ik II 7. ...... - . ' 11 I ' : . - - v ,THREE SELECT, SIZES ' - f-ri II ':.'. PnrrA fmm 7 for Hp to 1 fnr ICle I "- L? , .. , , . . . II '-,'. ' u7..,.i BAMtTRS InhJiv Hr wranoefl 1 in fcifl. 1 lor 30ci ' ' ll'T'X I II - . ' r ' . I i ill n r n m . r mm i i - ill - - pcdt or mi a j.o ooa m tu ii - ii t-rr II . ' . . im. ' ' . . 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