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THE MORNING OREGOyiAJT, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1923 17 K V IMES ON HIRING PHONE GIRL HEARD Married Woman Testifies She Posed as Single. BOARD DEFERS ACTION Two Commissioners Against Re taining Employe While Other Eligibles Are on Iiist. Charges that Mrs. Augusta Pab lik, telephone oierator in the police bureau, obtained her position through representing herself to be unmarried were considered by the civil service board at its regular session yesterday. Mrs. Pablik. according to her own statement made to the board yester day, was married in 1916 and in 1919 took a. civil service examination for telephone operator. In filing for this examination she gave her name as "Miss Augusta King." and made a sworn statement that - she was single. Bar to Position Feared. In explaining her reason for fail ing to tell that she was married, Mrs. Pablick told the board that she feared that the sentiment against married women at work would pre vent her from holding .the position and that she desired to have the position because she was anxious to aid her husband in paying for their home. Her husband is a foreman in one of the street railway car barns in the city. Commissioner Mason, who pre sided at the meeting, said that if Mrs. Pablik had told.tlie board that she was married at the time she filed for the examination there would have been no doubt that the board would have permitted her to take the examination with the others. Testimony was presented to the board through letters from officials in the police department in which it was said that her work as an oper ator was proficient and reliable. Action Is Deferred. Both Commissioners Mason and Wells took the position that as long as other eligibles were on the lists but not on duty it would be unfair to permit Mrs. Pablik to re tain her position. However, the mat ter was laid on the table until the next meeting, when Chairman Lo gan of the board will be present. The question of the chief clerk ship of the park bureau came before the board again when City Commis sioner, Pier said he had appointed Albert P. Ruffner. a clerk in the water bureau, to the position. However. Mr. Pier was notified that failure of the council to define the duties of the position leaves none to fill and therefore no ap pointment can be made until the position is created by the civil serv ice board. As a result Mr. Pier wijl ask the council to define the duties and then present the definition to the board. The position , will prob ably be classified and then appoint ments will be in order. Legion Takes Hand. This is the position to which the park bureau sought to appoint Mil ton R. ' Hausmann. who has filled the position under the title of clerk for several years. Opposition to his appointment was made by the Portland post, American Legion, on the grounds that several veterans of the world war, including Mr. Kuffner. were higher on the eligible list than Mr. Hausmann. Commissioner Wells made formal objections to the ratings given to persons who took the examination for clerk in a recent examination. A total of 42 women took this ex amination and 21 passed. Mr. Wells held that his attention had been called to two instances. In one a girl 18 years old obtained a mark of 99 in bookkeeping and 88 in arithmetic, but failed to pass be cause of her youth. Lack of experi ence, he said, disqualified her. The other case citefi by Mr. Wells was a woman who, he said, was one of the best bookkeepers in the city and yet who failed to obtain more than 55.2 as a mark in book keeping. The matter of ratings will be given further study by the board. 1 1 " ItfiFsrsyJisv I III TODAY'S FILM FEATURES. " Columbia De Mille's "Nice People." Majestic C u r w o o d's "The Valley of Silent Men." Rivoli "The Prisoner of Zenda." Liberty Norma Talmadge in "The Eternal Flame." Blue Mouse "Monte Cristo." Heilig Florence Vidor in "Dusk to Dawn." Hippodrom e Tom Mix in "The Fighting Streak." Circle Betty Compson and Tom Moore in '.'Over the Border." AN a in air of military order covers siege of whirlwind activity the Universal City scenario department. Raymond Schrock, temporarily in charge of the depart ment under the supervision of Irv ing G. Thalberg. director-general of the studio, and assisted by Charles r . Bender, is guiding the purchase and preparation of a large number of stories for starring features and all-star specials that are in line with the policy of Carl Laemmle to make the kind of pictures Will Hays wants. Bigger and better things are in the air in the deceptive quiet of the readers' rooms. Stories only of the highest caliber are being consid ered for Universal's future produc tions. George Randolph Chester, the fa mous author of the Wallingford stories, and Charles Kenyon, mas ter of screen technique and author of "Kindling." the play that the Drama League of America called one of the five greatest ever pro duced, are supervisors in charge of units of readers and writers. Ches ter probably will start personal work soon on the continuity for a story that Mrs. Chester wrote, "The Hot Head," intended for Frank Mayo. George C. Hull is scenarizing his own original. "Cashin' In," for Hoot Gibson; Doris Schroeder is prepar ing Courtney Riley Cooper's "Saw dust" for Gladys Walton; A. P. Younger is preparing "The Abysmal Brute" of London's for an all-star special, and Arthur Statter is adapt ing Richard Harding Davis' "The Scarlet Car" for Herbert Rawlinson. Burl Armstrongs Roy Myers. Lee Renick Brown, Dwinelle Benthall and Manny Lowenstein are reading and criticising stories and writing originals. Proof of the influence of the "fourth estate" on motion pictures is shown in the fact that every person connected in a writing or critical capacity with the Universal scenario department has done some newspaper work, and most of them spent years at it. Twenty-two stories of special character for productions of from five to eight reels are being pre pared now in the department. Smaller stuff is getting attention when there's time for it. The main thing today, according to Carl Laemmle and his executives, is the big picture that represents the fin est standards of motion picture pro duction. . .-. ARTISANS APPROVE PLANS FOR BUILDING Screen Gossip. - . " Oh, you ought to see Broderick O'Farrell's face! He is the director at the Fred - Kiser studios. They recently returned from Mount Hood, where some shots were made for "The Crystal Ascension." Brod erick's face looks as if he had taken a nose-dive or a facial skid down the rough side of Mount Hood. President Kiser can smile as broad ly and charmingly as ever, but such is a painful operation with Brod erick just at present. Mr. Kiser pays tribute to the nerve and dar ing of Miss Irene Marvin, playing the lead in this particular picture. Director O'Farrell's present tem porary address is any drug store! ' Dorothy Dalton in "The Siren Call" will follow Clara Kimball Youne in "The Hands of Nara" at the Majestic theater. Marlon Davies in "The Young Diana," which is the screen version of Marie Corelli's novel, will open at the Columbia theater Saturday. This Is the best photoplay in which the beautfiul young star has ap peared. . Von Stroheim's new picture, "Merry-Go-Round," calls for the hero to play a violin. Norman Kerry is the hero. In addition to being ignorant -of the technic of the vio lin, he is left-handed, which makes it harder.. "Nevertheless, realism is to prevail, .for Kerry is taking vio lin lessons. - - ' $250,000 Structural Pro gramme Authorized. ASSEMBLY SESSION ENDS Ker. There is a scarcity of hogs in this section at the present time and many ranchers are shipping in stock from Idaho points. The hogs are being turned into the cut-over wheat fields and will be fattened on the grain left in the fields. FIRE FAILS TO DAUNT Merchant Starts Rebuilding His Store Before Blaze Is Out. SOUTH BEND, Wash, Sept. 14. (Special.) Merchants in Lebam, the little Pacific county mill town that lost most of its business section in & $40,000 fire yesterday morning, are getting so used to being burned out' that it does not seem to cause them great concern any more. C. J. Schaffer, a merchant who loBt two store buildings, two ware houses and three dwellings in yes terday's fire, has been burned out twice before. While the embers of his store were still flaming, he was dumping lumber on the street for a new building and meanwhile is con tinuing business in a shed across the street from the blackened site of his former business establishment. Several other merchants will also rebuild immediately. One of the features of the fire was the saving of a large part of the contents of the buildings, although the lack of water left the structures to the .mercy of the flames. $150,000 BRIDGE RISING . i Improvement Work Between South Bend and Raymond Active. SOTJTH BEND, Wash., Sept. 14. i (Special.) Considerable activity is being evidenced along the Wil lapa river between South Bend and Raymond. This section is being deepened by a government dredge which has Just finished filling in considerable land in Raymond. The county is building a bulkhead along the north bank of the river from Haymond down the stream, to. a point opposite South Bend and the dredge will fill in behind this to form the grade for a road, which will eventually be extended to Tokeland, on the ocean beach. The state is building a new steel FP-an across the river at Raymond. This structure will cost 1150,000 and approaches and grade will bring the cost up to a much higher figure. DRIVE ON PESTS URGED Co-operative Destruction of Pests in Washington is Desired. OLYMPIA, Wash.. Sept. 14. (Spe cial.) Tying up more Closely the co-operative work of tne bureau of biological survey, and -the extension division of the state college of Washington, the two agencies joint ly are issuing a poster bulletin for wide-spread distribution urging farmers to help free the state from-crop-destroying rodent pests;1 , The posters urge organized cam paigns in each county where, such pests exist, with county, state and federal forces co-operating. Poison campaigns are advised as the best means of destroying the pests. Poi son can be used at an average cost of 10 cents an acre, it is said, and thousands of dollars of loss annual ly averted. The first step in the campaign, the poster advises, is a letter to the county agricultural agent telling of the presence "of the rodents. School Districts Ite-established. HAINES, Or.,. Sept. 14. (Special.) Two school" districts in Baker county where no . school has been held, for the past three years have been re-established this year. , The districts are Riverview, in the dry land section east of Haines, anS Riverdale, across the river in Ba ker county frorir North Powder. Both schools were discontinued on account of insufficient pupils, out term at Riverdale being held with but two pupils. , HOMESEEKERS FROM MANY PLAGES VISIT PORTLAND Motorists With Plenty of Money Stop at Auto Camp While They Look for Business and Residence Locations. . Annual Election of Officers and Directors Held at Close . of Meeting Here. A quarter of a million dollars worts of building construction in Portland was authorized, and the present supreme board of directors and officers were re-elected at the annual meeting of the supreme as sembly of the Order of United Ar tisans, which held its concluding session yesterday afternoon in Portland. For the ISth consecutive year H. S. Hudson was unanimously re-elected supreme master artisan and for the 29th consecutive year C. L. McKenna was chosen as su preme secretary. . Fred'W. Herman was re-elected supreme superintendent for the eght term: Isaac Staples, supreme inspector; J. W: Mills, supreme treas urer; Ivan Of. Martin, supreme con ductor; Judge.-Robert G. Morrow, su preme master of ceremonies: Dr. J. Emmett Clark, supreme junior con ductor, and Mrs. Elizabeth Bogue, supreme warder. Delegates from all parts of Ore gon, Washington, California, Mon tana and Colorado attended the meeting. - . -. ' ' Plans for making the Artisans building at Broadway and Oak a ten-story structure were approved, and the officers were authorized to start the addition of four stories to the six-story building whenever they, so desire. This improvement will cost about $200,000 and will give the order one of the finest of fice structures in the city. Plans for the construction of the lodge building of the Al-Azar, the highest degree of the order, like wise were a.pproved. These plans call for the construction of a $50,000 building of classic design at Third and Columbia streets. With the ex ception of- a few thousand dollars, sufficient funds were raised during the last two months to- defray con-' struction costs. Although Al-Azar is only a yer old, it already has; a membership of more than 1000. Aside from authorizing the big building programme the assembly promulgated a new 20-year cumula tive life insurance policy which was said to be a new departure in in surance policies and one that per mits a very low rate. - - . Following the conclusion Sot - the assembly delegates went to Seaside tor a day's outing on the beach. POSSE STOPS TOURiST By ADDISON BENNETT. THOMAS B. HUNTER and wife register from Santa Ana, Cal., out for years Mr, Hunter ran a general store at Erie, Colo., which he sold. He went to Santa Ana and then started to take a year's vaca tion. The year will be up on Nov. 1, and before the time expires he hopes to have a new- store, per haps in Portland. Down -Grain to Fatten Hogs. HAINES, Or- Sept. 14. (Special.) )n account of much of the spring wheat being down so badly that it is Impossible to save it with the binders or other harvesting machin ery, the demand for stock hogs and feeders is strong in the agricultural district between LaGrande and Ba- From Spokane, Wash., came A; F. Nieman and wife, with the mother of Mr. Nieman, Mrs. Marie Nieman. Mr. Nieman is a bottler of soft diinks. They have been out about a month and go back from here. - J. H. Combs and wife, with their little daughter, Dorothy, age 7, ar rived from Worcester, Mass. Mr. Combs is in the transportation busi ness. They have been on the road for about four weeks and will go from here to Pasadena for the winter. -. ' Two cars arrived from Denver, Colo., one occupied by Ivan Scherrer and his sister. Miss Ella K. Scherrer, and Ivan's brother, Ralph , R. Scherrer. The'" Scherrers have-been in the hay and grain business in tTenve.-, but sold out and are in search of a new location. . From here they go to Long Beach Cal. In the second car are S. M. Wiswell and wife, with their little grandson, Lawrence, age 9. Mr. Wiswell was in the stock business, but has re tired. They, too, will go down to Long Beach. - ' H.-.fcf. Cunningham, from Seattle, travels all alone, and, of course, in a car big enough for a half dozen or more. He was In the mercantile business in Seattle, but sold-out and is now Jooking for a likely-looking location for a 10-cent store. He is scanning Portland mighty closely and will more than likely locate here. . ! . - . t A dealer in coal and wood is Mr. I. C. Bryan, and with him is Fred Lazzanie, a transfer operator, both of them from Seattle. .- They left the city on the sound April 1 and have been driving around in the west ever since, fishing and hunt ing and having a good time gener ally. From here they go down to New Mexico, and hope to have a new business location selected before their year is irp. - - . i ' The firm 'of Niedert & North, gen eral contractors and painters, of Great Falls; Montana, has not dis solved, but they sold their busi ness, and I found them scanning the "To Let" and "For Sale" ads in The Oregonlan, so they will likely end their trip right here. . They travel in two cars. In the first are W. J. Niedert and wife, with their three children, Marie, age, 6, Eleanor 5 and Wilbert, almost 2. In the sec ond car are M. A. Norris with his wife and . little daughter, Violet May, age 3. Two fine families, ap parently well fixed and of good business ability, and having out grown Great Falls they will more than likely become citizens.of Port land. But first they must get homes. A plumber is Mr. T. E. Maddoeks, who come here from Idaho, where he and his wife went to visit their daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Madson and his wife and two Children, Mary, age 2. and wee Rosalie. 2 months. The Madsons were farming near Emmett, Idaho,! and being on had trouble in of water. And irrigated land they getting their quota while Mr. Maddoeks has been for 10 years a Portland plumber, it happens that for. many years before that he was a farmer on a tract near Eugene. So the Madsons 'packed up and all came down to Portland, and they ex pect to go up and down the Willam ette valley in search of a couple of likely farms, and all settle down in what they think is the best of all occupations farming and stock raising. They are very busy look ing around with Portland's real estate agents, and hope to get set tled in what Mrs. Maddoeks calls the best place for farming in the country. They undoubtedly have the cash and the determination to 'put through a good-sized deal. .'. A farmer from near Kearney, Neb., was busily engaged in chatting with some of his old Nebraska neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Sor.weid, who now live in this city. Of course, there is also a Mrs. Farmer, and the names of her and her husband are G. M. Eld ridge and wife. They may not get back to their Nebraska home until spripg. C .W. Clauson from Great Falls, Mont., is evidently an "old batch." for he travels all by himself, yet he has a rather large car; with plenty of room for a wife. He Is looking for a little piece of land where he can settle down ajid he apparently has the. cash to start on. But he really needs a. housekeeper as partner in his Joys and sorrows. KIdNAl CREST I ffee mm 1.800,000 cnpi wer t rf ".rvd .t the Panama-- E Uljp Pacific Internationa: I" Exposition. Phon.. J direct Eaat 7054 ...... Kansas City Physician Suspected and Held Up for Inspection. ABERDEEN, Wash., Sept. 14. (Special.) "I had traveled on an auto-camping trip ,, i rom Kansas City to GraysHarbor county with out incident," said Dr. Lerot Smith, who arrived in Aberdeen last night. 'but when .1 reached a point in tne vicinity of Elma I found myself fac ing several revolvers when I did not stop on being given the high sign. I was tired out and in a. hur ry, and when several men on the highway held up their hands for me to stop, I thought they wanted a ride. I slowed up, but did not stop until I saw the revolvers flash. Then I learned the men were searching for a dangerous man who was wanted for a crime near Olym pia. When they had looked me over I was permitted to proceed." Dr. Smith is a brothter of Dr. C. T. Smith of Aberdeen and is his guest here. 4 o niiiiiiiifl W1 Everywhere ANHEUSER-BUSCHr INC., ST.'LOUIS BLUMAUER & HOCII Distributors :-: :-: Portland, Oregon HOG, DAIRY SHOW DATED Attractive Priiee Ust Prepared for Hermiston Kvent. - HERM1STON, Or., Sept. 14. (Special.)- The ninth annual dairy and hog show will be held in Hermiston Friday and Saturday, October 6 and 7. An attractive prize list has been prepared. The Umatilla project is undergo ing a great change. Heretofore the principal industry has been the pro duction of alfalfa hay for the mar ket. During the last two years the people have undertaken dairying, poultry and hog raising, and the production of a diversified Crop. As result the exnibits tnis year wm be more interesting. Hogs and dairy cows will still be the principal fea tures, but agricultural products will be given more attention. The business men of Hermiston are arranging for some especially attractive prizes for games and sports. There will be a big foot ball game, races and corrfests of va rious descriptions. The exhibits of the boys' and girls' clubs will be of interest. ' Ijumber Company Buys Timber. CHEHALIS, Wash., Sept. 14. (Special.) Sale of a quarter sec tion timber claim to the McCormlck Lumber company by Mrs. Frances Ceislack of Chehalis is reported. The timber is located tributary to the McCormick holdings, where logging is being done. The reported price for the timber was $12,000. Young Folk Go to College. KELSO, Wash.. Sept. 14. (Spe cial.) George Medlock, Herold Wade, Telle Ayers of this city, Bert Lanpher of Carrols and Jeanetta Howe and Eldon Chuinard of Os trander left today for Tacoma, where they will attend the College of Puget Sound. Mrs. Albert Ayers will be matron at a dormitory there this year. "V V ...-,BU UNI I it a mm Where Four One Is Safe, Others Pay Bleeding gums the telltale sign Tender, bleeding gums should not be neglected. They mean that Pyorrhea is v on its way. Surely, you can't afford to take chances when four persons out of every five past forty, and thousands younger, contract it. The best preventive is Forhan's For the Gums. 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