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TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, JANTTART 1S. "1022 BIG YEAR FORECAST MovingPictureNe? IN ALL TRADE LINES T7 A. L. Mills Addresses Life In surance Conference. GREAT GAIN EXPECTED (Activities of Oregon Company Are Reviewed Wives of Agents Are Entertained. A general Improvement in all lines f business during 1922 compared with conditions during 1921 was pre dicted by A. L Mills, president of the First National bank and of the Ore eon Life Insurance company. In an address at the annual luncheon given for agents, officers and directors of the life insurance company at the Henson hotel yesterday noon. The luncheon was a feature of the 16th annual convention of the life insur ance company which opened yester day. Mr. Mills declared that general financial conditions Indicated that 1922 would show great gains on the road to normally good business con ditions. 58,770 Paid Out In Year. Figures which he read showed that the Oregon Life Insurance company during the past year had written (6.864.514 of new business. This gives the company a total of insurance in force of $26,510,000. The company now has assets of $3,229,726. which is a gain of $596,000 over last year. There Is now in the reserve $2,697,268. The company paid out during the year as a result of mortality $58,770. which was 27 per cent of what was expected, and less than the total when the company had but $10,000,000 In surance In force. This he said would mean that the company would be in shape to pay dividends to policy hold ers. Mr. Mills said that more than a million dollars had been paid out to policy holders since the company was organized In 1906. A. C. Barber, state insurance com missioner, declared that the company was In condition to enter any state in the union and solicit business. He complimented the officials on the low mortality and the low cost of man agement. C. S. Samuel Preside, C S. Samuel, general manager, pre sided at the luncheon and at the busi ness conferences held during yester day afternoon at the company's head quarters in the Corbett building. The wives of the agents were en tertained at noon luncheon at the Portland hotel. Mrs. C. S. Samuel and Mrs. E. N. Strong were hostesses. K. N. Strong, assistant manager, will preside at the closing sessions of the conference today. STUDENT DRILL TARGET Vnlversity of Oregon Newspaper Opposes Military Training. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene, Jan. 12. (Special.) The reserve of ficers' training corps, n which all the underclassmen of the university must drill, is receiving severe and acrimonious criticism through the Dally Emerald. E. J. H, known as the "Campus Cynic," scathingly criticised the drill unit, then another article ridiculing the pseudo soldiers appeared this morning, accompanied by an edi torial denouncing drill at the univer sity. The arguments used against compulsory drill are that it is a rello of the war days, that the present sys tem is Inefficient and does not ac complish any good purpose, that a cultural Institution should not tol erate such Instruction. Editorially, the Emerald has taken a firm stand against the whole system In vogue here, and many upperclassmen are opposing its continuance. PURSE SEINES DEPLORED Salmon Packer Declares Menace Difficult to Wipe Out. . ASTORIA Or., Jan. 12. (Special.) "You people are doing the proper thing in trying to eliminate the purse seines," remarked W. H. Barker, for merly a salmon packer on the Colum bia river and now general manager of the British Columbia Packers' association, with headquarters at Vancouver, B. C, today. Mr. Barker, accompanied by his wife, is en route to California. "We had hopes of getting rid of the purse seiners on Puget sound, but J fear the chance has gone." Mother or Six Jailed. MOVTKSANO. Wash.. Jan. 12. (Special.) Mrs. Fred Rasmussen of Aberdeen, mother of six children, vu sentenced yesterday to eervo 30 days in jail and pay a fine of $250 and costs by Judge Bignold. who found her guilty on a liquor posses Sinn charge. Her husband was ac quitted of a similar charge. Aber deen policemen testified they found a large quantity of moonshine under the Rasmussen house when they nearcned It. Both Rasmussen and his wife were found guilty of the name charge in police court In Aber deen this week and fined. Gaston Postal Business Gains. GASTON. Or., Jan. 12. (Special.) Records at the tlastor. pontoffice show an increase of 25 per cent In the Christmas mail handled In 1921 over that of 1920, the parcel post being in great favor for sending all kinds of farm produce, such as prunes, apples, nuts and poultry of all kinds. The parcel post business for the year was 15 per rent bigger than the preced . ing year, and the business has shown a steady increase for the last five or six years. The salary is now $1600 instead of $1100 five years ago. Gas ton is a third class postoffice. Wapato Lodge Kleots. GASTON. Or., Jan. 12. (Special.) The following officers were elected at the last meeting of Wapato lodge No. 40, Oddfellows: Fred Koberstein, noble grand; M. K. Abraham, vice grand; E. J. Ward, secretary; J. H. White, treasurer. The Rebekah lodge elected the following: Mrs. Fred Kob erstein, noble grand; Mrs. Florence Bryant, vice-grand: Mrs. E. J. Ward, secretary; Mrs. H. F. Krahmer. $56,500 Goes to Charity. TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 12. Mrs. Jane C. Bradley, who recently died here, left $66,500 of her estate to semt charitable Institutions. The bequests Include $40,000 to the Tacoma Gen eral hospital and smaller sums to the Young Woman's Christian association. First Presbyterian church. Children's Industrial borne and Tacoma Da; nursery. TODAY'S FILM FEATURES. Columbia Wallace Reid, "Don't Tell Everything." Majestic Doris May, "The Foolish Age." Itivoll Anita Stewart. "Her Mad Bargain." peoples L. w. Gr'fflth's "Way 4 Down Hast." Liberty Richard Barthelmess, "Tol'able David." Blue Mouse Zane Grey's "The Last Trail." Star "The U. P. Trail." Hippodrome "Poor Dear Mar garet Kirby." Circle Wanda Hawley, "A Kiss In Time." A RADICAL departure from the ord'inary motion picture is "Tho Cabinet of Dr. Callgarl," which cpens at the Star theater tomorrow. This is the picture, which played to crowds at the Capitol theater in New Yok, and has occasioned widespread comment wherever It haa been shown. It Is unlike any picture ever made. "The scenario is the sort of thing that Edgar Allen Poe might write for the movies were he alive today," wrote a New York critic. "Dr. Call garl with his sinister powers is a real Poe creation. His story is ab sorbing, and the strange stage set tings amaze the onlooker, pique his curiosity and in eome cases send him away mystified. The story Is coher ent, logical, a genuine and legitimate thriller." This photoplay Introduces the first application of modern art to tho screen. The scenic artists have used an impressionistic as well as a nat uralistic form of expression in fact, they call themselves "expressionists." The treatment of the background is bizarre and the "expresslonistic" de sign of the settings suggests a gro tesqueness and distortion which is a reflection of the characters of the story and their mental state. The queer crooked houses and the winding street scenes suggest lurking danger and the Increasing dread of the char acters as the story progresses. The story deals with a certain Dr Callgarl, who obtains complete con trol over a somnambulist and utilizes him to murder various persons. This is based on an old myth which was very popular In the middle ages and which told of a magician who. having bent a sleep walker to his will, util ized him against his enemies. The picture Is described as extraor NES TO. BE RIFT OCCUKS IN MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF WOMAX. Northwest Befhg Combed to Find John Rutherford, Suspected of Slaying Ills Wife. TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 12. The charred bones found In a stove of the John Rutherford home were sent by the police today to the University of Washington for positive Identifica tion as human bones. At the same time the police asked officers all over the northwest to aid In arresting Rutherford, who vanished here two days after his wife disappeared in October. Incriminating evidence continued to pile up In the baffling case. It was revealed at the children s nome, where Rutherford placed his adopted daughter after his wife vanished, that he said his wife had been placed In an insane asylum. Investigation showed' Mrs. Rutherford is not in either of the state hospitals in west ern Washington. No trace of Rutherford has been found since he wrote a letter to his wife from Everett, Wash., October 15. This letter was Bent in care of a local official, who today branded it as a ruse. Neighbors related to the police stories of . queer occurrences in the Rutherford home after the wife dis appeared. One recited that someone was working with a pick in the base ment of the home and Investigation by the police Indicated that some stones of the basement wall had been removed, replaced and cemented over. Men will be put at work digging in the basement. The adopted daughter of the Rutherfords, who since has been taken into another Tacoma home, said today Rutherford explained the absence of his wife by saying she had gone on a "long Journey." CLATSDP SHERIFF TARGET OLE NELSON INDICTED OX 2 COUNTS BY GRAND JURY. Assault and Battery and Disorderly Conduct Charged Against County Official. ASTORIA, Or., Jan. 12. (Special.) The circuit court grand jury tonight returned two indictments against Ole Nelson, sheriff of . Clatsop county. One charged him with assault and battery on Hllma Mikkalo. and tho other accused him of disorderly con duct. Both offenses were alleged to have been committed on the .night of November 22. Other Indictments returned by the grand jury were: Roy Willamson. larceny from a dwelling; Frank Ruffe, burglary; Frank Millard, re ceiving stolen property; Charles Huntley, robbery while armed with a dangerous weapon; Fred Scharbach, non-support , of his minor children, and'E. Forrstrom. three charges of obtaining money under false pretenses by passing bogus checks. A not true bill was returned in the case of Nick Strates. charged with larceny. The grand Jury, in Its report, criti cised the manner in which the coun ty's affairs have been handled and recommended that some of the depu ties in the offices be dispensed with and that a better system of keeping the accounts be inaugurated. Phone Orflcers to Be Elected. RIDGEFIELD, Wash.. Jan. 12. (Special.) The annual stockholders' meeting and election of officers and directors of the Ridgefield. Sara & Vancouver Farmers' Union Telephone company will be held here Thursday, January 26. A president, vice-president, secretary-treasurer and five directors will be chosen for the dis tricts of Ridgefield, Pioneer, Sara and Fcllda. School Spooning Cnder Ban. YACOLT, Wash., Jan. 12. (Special.) Active measures are being taken by Superintendent Krohn and his teachers to put a stop to the spoon ing that has been reported going on In the schools. Boy and girls ara dinarily forceful. The producers have taken what has heretofore been a highly objective medium the screen and registered definite subjective moods. In the case of Dr. Caligarl, the mood is one of wickedness; in the case of the man who tells the etory the mood is one of fear and madness. Screen Gossip. According to a letter received by Mrs. Cecil B. de Mille at Hollywood during the holiday season, Mr. de Mille and his art director, Paul iriDe, who are enjoying a vacation trip abroad, were recently presented to his holiness. Pope Benedivt XV, dur ing a brief visit to Rome. Later in their tour, Mr. Iribe has arranged for Mr. de Mille to meet the president of France and other notables of the republic. With the memory of Huck Finn in mind Robert Gordon has been en gaged t o play the leading role in "A Prince of Tonight," a character that is not unlike the one he played in "Huck and Tom." The film is being made under the direction of Nobert Myles. Hal Cooley, playing opposite Anita Stewart in her current picture, has sold his $25,000 palatial residence in Hollywood's exclusive residential sec tion and has purchased two lots in Beverly hills where he will build a new home at once. He appears op posite Gladys Walton in her new pic ture, "Playing With Fire," which opens at the Rivoll tomorrow. Speaking of long-lived families. Richard Dickson, playing a member f the Mennonite school board in "Tlllie," with Mary Miles Minter, is 84 years old. His mother is 114, ana Dickson himself expects to live 86 years longer. He is an ex-circus acrobat and he sets his probable final age at 119 because when young he had a very severe fall. Otherwise he feels he might easily attain to 200 years. Kid McCoy, former pugilist, will be seen as a sergeant of police in "The Truthfull Liar." a Wanda Hawley vehicle. This is the first story writ ten directly for the screen by Will Payne, the well-known novellBt and short story writer. Mine shafts and tunnels constitute some of the unusual sets constructed for Priscllla Dean's picture, - "That Lass o' L.owrys." Scenic artists don't often have to dig into the ground. not allowed In the gym together and other steps will be taken to break up the practice which, it is said, had reached proportions that required im mediate action. CRATERS NEW CIVIC CLUB Medford Business Men Organize to Boost for Development. MEDFORD, Or, Jan. 12. (Special.) The Craters, recently organized body of young business men of Med ford, have elected the following offi cers: O. O. Alenderfer, big eruption. president; C. C. Ltrnmon. skipper ot the phantom ehip, vice-president; William Vawter, wizard, treasurer; H. O. Frohbach, keeper of the trail, secretary; Paul McDonald, pilot, scr- geant-at-arms, and lords of the for est, trustees, Thomas Swem, Lawrence Mann, Dr. B. R. Elliott, A. J. Vance and John J. Buchter. The Craters de cided to move with the local Amerl' can Legion post into its new hall. Frank Branch Riley sent a com munlcation to the Craters lA which he promised that he would lecture In Medford on his return from his east ern trip. The Craters will sell additional name plates for automobiles next spring and will get Medford mer chants to use a certain letterhead and envelope that would advertise Crater lake. RAIL SYRUP RATES CUT Tariff From Eastern Points Also Revised to Include Glucose. W. D. Skinner, vice-president and traffic manager of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle railway, an nounced last night reduced trans continental rates on syrup and glu cose from eastern points to the Pacific coast, to become effective February 20. Syrup and glucose In packages will take a rate from New York of $1.59 the 100 pounds In carload lots, as against the present rate of $1.834. The rate from Chicago will be $1.30. Glucose, corn syrup and molasses In tank cars from the same points will take rates of $1.67 from New York and $1.38 from Chicago. Present rates are $1.97 and $1.58Vz, respec tively. Mr. Skinner said provision had been made for fabrication in transit of plate and sheet steel with rates to be the same as now granted on structural steel. RADIO TO SERVE CAMPUS Wireless Will Gather News for Students at University. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene, Jan. 12. (Special.) The Radio club, recently organized on the campus, is busy with the work of installing a wireless telegraph plant to take and iend news for the Emerald, a feature which, when completed, will greatly enhance the efficiency of intercolle giate news service, making It pos sible to receive a greater number of bulletins at a faster rate and- at re duced expense to the paper. The apparatus is being Installed In the Emerald annex, having formerly been in Deady hall, where it was of no practical use. Y. 51. C. A. Chiefs to Visit Baker. BAKER. Or, Jan. 12. (Special.) H. W. Stone, general secretary of the Portland Y. M. C. A., and W. W. Dillon, state secretary for the Y. M. C. A., will be guests of the Baker association next week, said C. E. Webster. Baker secretary, on his re turn from Portland, where he at tended a meeting of city Y. M. C. A, secretaries in the state. Trades Council Elects Ofricers. ABERDEEN. Wash., Jan. 12 (Spe cial.) The Aberdeen and Hoquiam Building Trades council last night elected H. P. Olsen of Hoquiam, presi dent; William Manwell, vice-president; E. MacLafferty, secretary-treasurer. H. W. Gibson was re-elected business representative of the coun cil, with headquarters in Aberdeen. Harbor Jerseys Rank High. MONTESANO, Wash., Jan. 12. (Special.) Eight Jersey cows of this county, owned by J. H. Taylor, J. R. Martin and Merrltt Twldell, ranked high In the lists of pure-bred Jerseys whose records for last October are published In the current number of the Jersey Bulletin. Hundreds of eows owned In the United States and Canada are listed and the Gray Har- ANNOUNCES- Portland bor cows ranged well toward the top of their respective classes. In two classes a Grays Harbor cow ranked third for the United States. Rotarians Issue Cli alien go. ABERDEEN, Wash., Jan. 12. (Spe cial.) A challenge for the best at tendance record between now and May 1 was delivered yesterday at the regular meeting of the Aberdeen Ro tary club, from the Hoquiam Ro tarians, the forfeit of the losers being a dinner for the two clubs. To stim ulate interest the local club was im mediately divided into two teams, the losers in the contest to dine the win ners. Library Gains Circulated. ABERDEEN, Wash., Jan. 12. (Spe cial.) A gain of 61 per cent in book circulation and addition of 1219 new volumes are the principal points in the annual report of the Aberdeen public library. Total receipts for the year amounted to $8544.94 and total disbursements to $7799.42, leav'ng a balance of $746.62. The city library The No Patterns Reserved My sale continues today (Friday) and tomorrow (Saturday) A Sale of Men's Suitings and Overcoats of High Quality First, to keep my tailors busy during the slack season Second, I am overstocked with fine Woolens As will be well recognized1 from my former sales, this is not simply a clearance of novelties, but is an offering of staples as well. In this sale are more than 750 suit patterns of high quality, imported and domestic fabrics, handsome serges and1 unfinished1 worsteds, including the famous Martin and Kinross English and Scotch woolens. The workmanship on all these suits will be of Jacobson-the-Tailor quality, the kind of craftsmanship that gives individuality to clothes. Now, remember, this sale includes the entire stock, and no reservations of any kind. Gome and make an early selection. Every suit and overcoat is marked plainly to aid your choice. ) You will find one of these suits or overcoats a very profitable investment. enry Hotel Block budget has been cut by $1712 as re sult a of the receipts. Circulation of books during the year was 86,724, or 29,60 more than the year before. Pore-Bred Jersey Boll Bought. MONTESANO. Wash.. Jan. 12. (Special.) C. P. and Earl Boyer of Porter have purchased a young pure bred Jersey bull from J. H. Taylor of the Wynooche valley and will dis card all their grade sires. The bull is a half-brother of the cow that was grand champion at the Elma fair last , , M , How glorious yoa will feel, mother, when your rheumatism l all gone. lt 8. 8. 8. dolt. It wlU build you up, too t Rheum o KP TAILOR O Qj Men's Tailor 324-326 Morrison St. year, and is regarded as remarkably well bred. AVealtliy Man Arrested. KALAMA, Wash., Jan. 12 (Spe cial.) John Hawkes. wealthy man living six miles un te Kalama river, was taken Into custody on a grand larceny charge by Sheriff Hoggatt. Hawkes was said to have made reg ular monthly trips to Portland In a covered wagon to dispose of his loot. Read The Oregonlan classified' ads. atlsui a j S. S. S. Thoroughly Rids the Body of Rheumatism Impurities Somebody's mother is suffering to night! The scourge of rheumatism has wrecked her body; limping and Buffering, bent forward, she sees but the common ground, but her aged heart still belongs' to the stars) Does anybody care? S. S. S. is one of the greatest blood-purifiers known, and it helps build more blood cells. Its med icinal Ingredients are purely vegeta ble. It never. disarranges the stomach. It ls,in fact, a splendid tonic, a blood maker, a blood enrlcher. It banishes rheumatism from Joints, muscles and '4he entire body. It builds firm flesh. It is what somebody's mother needs tonight! Mother, if you can not go out to get a bottle of S. S. S. yourself, surely somebody in your family will. Somebody, get a bottle of S. S. 8. now! Let somebody's mother begin to feel Joyful again tonight. Maybe, maybe t B your mother! S. S. S. Is sold at H drug stores, in two sizes. The larger size is the more economical. On Every Suit and Overcoat in My Establishment Established WARNING I Say "Bayer" Unless you see the name "Bayer" on tablets, you are not getting genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians over 22 years and proved safe by millions for Colds Headache Rheumatism Toothache Neuralgia Neuritis Earache Lumbago Pain, Pain Accept only "Bayer" package which contains proper directions. Handy "Bayer" boxes of 12 tableta Also bottles of 24 and 100 Dmpgists. Aspirin li tie trad mark of Birer Muaficture of MouoacctlcacliMttr of Eallqlcaaia 21 in 1911 when you buy Aspirin.