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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1923
CHILD IS
APED
L FATHER IS SOUGHT
Baby Is Taken Away Two
Days Before Christmas.
GIFT IS SENT MOTHER
fx-Husband PuUs $10 In tetter
Wishlngi Grief-Stricken Wo
man Merry Christmas.
This is a Btory of a man who kid
raped his own daughter two days
ibefore Christmas, vanished with her
end sent the mother of his child, his
divorced wife, a check tor $10 in a
letter wishing her a merry Christ
mas and a happy new year.
The man's name is Lawrence
House, a, salesman, until lately with
the- Kerr Glfford company. His wife
la Anna Rouse, an employs of
Kwetland's. ltvini? at 525 Everett
etreet. The child is Muriel, age 3.
Her presents, three of them, are
waiting for her now under a small
hut very beautifully hung Christ
mas tree at the Everett street ad
dress, where she lived with her
mother for a year.
Police to Set Scenes.
Dramatists would doubtless speak
of the kidnaping, for so It is, as a
crisis In a domestic drama of the
garden variety. The denouement is
yet to coma. Police will go to work
this morning setting the scenes.
But neither the crisis nor the de
nouement compares to the series of
situations which gave rise to both.
On January 13 of this year a
judge In Salt Lake City granted a
divorce to Lawrence and Anna
House. Muriel was given into the
custody of the mother and Law
rence Jr., 11, Rouse's son by a pre
vious marriage, left with his father.
Bouse was allowed to visit his small
daughter between the hours of 11
nd 7 on Sundays and directed to
.pay $20 a month for her support.
Both were in Portland when the
idecree was handed down.
Regularly on Sunday Rouse went
to see Muriel and took her to a
home at 895 Wasco street, wheTe
people cared for Junior while his
father was on the road. Because
it was holiday time, Mrs. Rouse al
lowed her ex-husband, to take the
child for a two-day period. Rouse
promised, she said, to 'bring the baby
home on Sunday night.
Tree Awaits Return.
A Christmas tree awaited Muriel's
return that night. It still awaits
her. Yesterday a letter came Juet
as Mrs Rouse sat down to dinner.
It said:
"I am going away and could not
- think of leaving either of my chil
dren behind as they are both the
pride of my heart. I am not satis
lied that you would take proper care
of Muriel and I am taking her with
me; then 1 am certain she will have
all the advantages in life and be
happy as I will be with both my
children each night.
"It truly hurts me to do this just
before Christmas but Muriel and
Junior will have a lovely Christmas
and receive many things their little
hearts desire.
Ruin in Business Charged.
"You ruined me in business twice
before; but my destination will for
ever keep you from troubling me
further.
"I am not doing this to hurt you
hut to keep you from ruining my
-ife or my children whom I love so
n.uch.
"May your Christmas be very
happy and the New Year awaken
you to a new life where you will
te very happy.
"I am enclosing $19 for you to use
any way you wish for your Christ
mas." Mrs. Rouse notified police at once
end today she said that she would
wear out a warrant charging her
tx-husband with kidnaping. She de
clared also that the child is a ward
of the local Juvenile court as the
Jesuit of action taken a year ago by
Jier mate and that he will be open
to a charge of contempt.
In tears, she said: "He wishes me
merry Christmas and he takes my
child. He says he loves her; so do
I. I knew he loved her, thaf s why
i let him take her for two days,
fihe was very bitter.
- Child Goes Home Crying.
Two weeks ago little Muriel, wor
ried In her small way as always by
the strange and unnatural feeling
between the two who had once been
Just "papa and mama," came home
from her weekly visit with Rouse
cast down. When her father had
left she cried, her mother recalled.
And said:
"Daddy's going to take me away
from you. Why Is he going to do
tnatr-
On his return a week later Rouse
denied that such was his intent
He had never "put such notions In
the child's head,"' he said.
Mrs. Rouse said last night that
her ex-husband had recently lost
his position with Kerr, Glfford &
Co.. and had given intimation that
tie might go to New York. His
statements that phe had ruined him
In business Mrs. Rouse scouted. "I
have garnished his wages for money
he owed my father, that's alL He
never even paid his share of Muriel's
support.
"What protection has a mother
In a case like this?" she asked
polioe yesterday. "A Salt Lake
court decrees that he shall pay ali
mony. He doesn't do it and I can't
Ket action because of all the red
tape to go through. Then he makes
trouble for me by having my child
Tnade a ward of the court here and
now he takes her. I'll get her
back if I have to go to the ends
of the earth."
MURDER WITNESS FOUND
(Continued From First Page.)
communicative. The chief operator
of the federal agents carried a large
portfolio wnicn, tne klansmen be
Jieved, contained evidence against
those Implicated in the kidnaping
and murder of. jc. w. Daniels and T.
F. Richards.
Murder Plot Reported.
Falling to get a line on the in
Vestlgators, klansmen deliberately
plotted to kidnap them, seize their
portfolio containing evidence and
give them the same klan dose that
was given to Daniels and Richards,
it is said.
The two federal investigators an
nounced that they proposed to f,o to
Monroe on a certain train. Then
the klansmen got busy. A plot was
laid to take them from the train at
Collinston, a hot bed of klanism,
eight miles south of Mer Rouge and
about the same distance from
Bastrop. Collinston i a junction
point of two lines of the Missouri
Pacific railroad, with several high
way centering thate, and la tie
most accessible place In Morehouse
parish.
Signals were transmitted to klan
"terrors" by telephone and runners
were sent out in automobiles to
summon enough men to assemble at
Collinston at a designated hour to
kidnap the two men and seize their
evidence.
Plans Snddenly Changed.
While the klansmen were doing
this they were unaware that the de
partment of juMice had secret serv
ice men in this and adjacent par
ishes who were operating under
cover. The under-cover men quick
ly caught on to the plot and notified
the two men who were working In
the open of their danger. , .
Quick changes in the plans of the
open operatives followed, lhey
boarded another train, took another
route, and were not molested. The
hooded mob assembled according to
orders, however, but the band was
foiled. The under-cover detectives
had thwarted their plans.
Discovery of this plot furnishes
one of the explanations of the ac
tion of Governor Parker in order
ing troops to Morehouse Parish.
Naturally the governor reached the
conclusion that men who kidnaped
and murdered Daniels and Richards
and plotted to kidnap and kill two
government agents who were assist
ing the state would commit any
kind of a crime. He therefore had
ample reason for placing the state
militia in the field.
Members of the Ku Klux Klan in
this section of the country have
claimed, as justification for the acts
of the black-hooded mob in kid
naping and murdering F. L. Daniels
and T. F. Richards, that conditions
around Mer Rouge were so intoler
able that violence was necessary to
clean things up. Moonshlning1,
bootlegging and concubinage, ac
oordlng to statements from klan
sources, have been common prac
tices. .
Violations Jfot Great. ,
Cltliens of Mer Rouge assert that
these oharges were wildly exagger
ated and that the conditions that
existed In this town and the sur
rounding oountry did not justify
mob violence.
There was some moonshlning,
bootlegging and oonoublnage, they
say, but no more than in other
sections of the United States. The
constituted authorities of ths par
ish, citizens here deolare, oould
have stopped these law violations
at any time if they had done their
duty.
Charges are made by responsible
oltisens of Mer Rouge that the Ku
Klux Klan made raids only on those
who were not members of the klan,
and that klansmen who, according
to authentlo reports, are guilty of
moonshlning, bootlegging and con
cubinage, were not molested.
Well-known cltliens here are au
thority for the statement that they
know personally men who are boot
leggers and who have had unlawful
relations with negro women that
have not been raided or harmed.
These men, they say, are known as
klansmen.
Monopoly Thought CleWi
Cnly one explanation of this sit
uation can be given, these citizens
assert, and that Is to give boot
legging klansmen a monopoly of
the bootlegging business.
Boms of the federal agents oper
ating on the Ku Klux Klan case in
this section are as noted for their
marksmanship with firearms as
they are for their ability of ferret
ing out orlme.
One of the operatives lor the
state has a record Jin the United
State a a sharpshooter. It Is said
that he can shoot the eye out of a
squirrel In the top of the tallest
tree In Louisiana.
The federal operatives hsfve a
man with them equally as expert
with weapons. While practicing
this optratlva tied a thread to a
cartridge, hung It to the limb of
sapling, stepped off 25 paces, took
aim with his pistol and out the
thread with the bullet that he fired.
'Gosh,' said a cltlsen, who wit
nessed the performance, "I
wouldn't like for that fellow to
shoot at me with a gun, even If I
was five miles away."
Mrs. Susan E. Horton Dies.
Funeral servloes for Mrs. Susan
B. Horton, 67 years old, who died
at the home of her son, Gilbert H.
Horton, 1252 East Seventeenth
street, Saturday night, will be held
from the Holman & Pace mortuary
in Oregon City at 10:30 o'clock
Wednesday morning. Mrs. Horton
was the widow of the late George
Horton, who served as postmaster
of Oregon City and West Linn in
early days. She is survived by two
sons, Gilbert H. of Portland and
Eugene B. Horton of Bull Run, and
brother, Theodore Eyestone of
Matinsburg, la.
Mother-in-law Is Slain.
JACKSONVILLE. Fla.. Dec 2S
Claudius F. Gibson, 33, staggered
into his home tonight where his
family and relatives made merry
around a Christmas tree, fired five
times at his wife and killed instantly
ms motner-in-iaw, Mrs. Agnes Gore,
aged 65, according to the police.
VriDson was subdued by members
of the family and taken to the city
jail.
DALLY METEOROLOGICAL. REPORT
PORTLAND, Dec. 25. Maximum tem
perature, 52 degrees; minimum. 47 Je-
green. River readlmr. 8 A. M S O ft-
change In last 24 hour, 8.1 foot rise.
Total rainfall (5 P. M. to 5 P. M., .05
inches; total rainfall since September 1,
1922, 15.68 inches; normal rainfall since
September 1, 17. 8S Inches; deficiency of
rainfall since September 1, 1922, 2.20
Inches. Sunrise 7:52 A. M. ; sunset, 4.81
P. M.; total sunshine 1 hour 42 minutes;
possible sunshine 8 hours 89 minutes.
Moonrlse, Tuesday, 12:23 P. M.; moon
set, Tuesday, 12:18 A. M. Barometer
(reduced sea level), 5 P. M., 80.08 inches.
Relative humidity, 5 A. M., 88 per cent;
noon, 7T per cent; 8 P. M.. 80 per cent
' THB WBATH3P.
Wind.
ST AXIOMS.
Weather.
Baker 2(1 3810.001. .IB Cloudy
Boise 180 7610.00 . . SB Cloudy
Boston ...... 4010.00 12 N Cloudy
Calgary .. 22 4 2 0. 00. . SW Pt. cloudy
Chicago ,. 82 440.00il8S Clear
Denver ...40 B0l0.00!22iNW Rain
D. Moines. I 82 52 0.00 . .iSW Clear
Bureka ...i40 68iO.OO;10iSW Cloudy
Galveston, j. . . I 6t0.0012iSFl Clear
Helena ... 40 44i0. 001.. ISW Cloudy
Juneaut 84 ..I
Kan. Ctty.. ... 60!0.00.. S Clear
L. Angeles 40 60J0.OOI.. SW Pt. cloudy
Minn'polis 82 62i0. 00114 NW Cloudy
Marshfield 4S 64(0.20 . . NW Cloudy
N. Orleans... 78i0.00.. SW Pt. cloudy
New York. ... 40I0.00I18IE Clear
North Hd. 4(1 4810.10I30S Rain
Phoenix .. 40 68W).00..W Clear
Pocatello . S2 40V0.OO). . NE Cloudy
Portland .. 47 62k.0M12S Cloudy
Rosoburg . 44 M'O.OOL.ISW Cloudy
Sac'to .... 42 480.28 .. NW Cloudy
St. Louis... 40 W0.00 18S Clear
Salt Lake.. 30 84I0.S2I..E Cloudy
San Diego. 48 62NJ.0O . . NWlClear
San Fran.. 48 480.1410N Clear
Seattle ... 44 50IO.04I12IS Cloudy
Sltkat ....... 8 I
Spokane .. S3 4210.00 ,. SW Cloudy
Ttcoma 5210.08 . .ISW- Cloudy
Tutoosh L. ... 480.03.. SB Rain
Valdest 28
W. Walla.. 44 B2K.0O..SE Cloudy
Wash'ton .... 5010.00 15 K Cloudy
Winnipeg . 28 8fiK. 10 10 W Clear
Yakima. ... I 82 EOiO.OOj. ? Cloudy
tA. M. today. P. M. report preceding day.
FORECASTS.
Portland and vicinity Tuesday occa
sional rain: southerly winds.
Oregon .nd Washington Tuesday en
ssslenat rata; fresh to strong southerly
winds,
HH SLAUGHTER
NfllED
Conviction of Mine Murder
ers Held Unlikely.
SENTIMENT FOR DEFENSE
Many Thrilling Stories Related
of March to Death Toward
Cemetery of Town.
BY C G. MARSHALL.
(Copyright, 1823, by The Oregonlan.)
MARION, 111.. Dec. 25. (Special.)
The state has completed its case
against the first five men accused
as perpetrators of the Herrin mas
sacre. Every man of the five has been
Identified. The prosecution claims
it has shown that each of the de
fendants had a hand in the slaugh
ter of one or more of the 23 victims
who met death, some begging vainly
for mercy, on that bloody June day.
Yet, the feeling is general that
there will be no convictions, that
the -jury, made up mostly of farm
ers and miners, will allow itself to
be "persuaded" to accept the de
fense viewpoint that Williams coun
ty arose to the defense of its homes
and by this act of self-defense
served notice on American gunmen
and those who would employ Amer
ioan gunmen that this was not a
safe place in which to send hired
murderers."
When the trial Is resumed next
week, after the Christmas recess,
the defense will have the oppor
tunity to introduce witnesses to
give testimony in supposed Justifi
cation of the murders, to show
many acts of brutality culminating
in the "ruthless murder" of three
union miners.
Alibi,, Hardly Possible.
The defense has announced it will
call between 300 and 400 witnesses.
It can hardly hope to establish
alibis, as ft intended, even for Pete
Hiller, about whom the prosecution
had some doubt, since William
Cairns, one of the survivors, picked
him out in the courtroom as the
"big, husky, mean-looking guy" who
shot down one of the victims at
close range aa he stood helpless
against a tree.
Hiller was pictured by the state's
attorney's deputy aa one of the most
fiendish types of a murderous crew.
throat-outter, a killer of the worst
order. Yet state's witnesses who
showed astonishing memory for de
tails of the massacre, gulped once
or twice and. then did not seem to
recall having seen Hiller in the
crowd. Hiller was married in Jail
last Monday to pretty 18-year-old
Anna Campbell of Marion, but after
entertaining the bride and groom
at a wedding supper, Sheriff Galli
gan announced that the honeymoon
would have to wait until Hiller got
out.
Many thrilling stories have been
told about that last march of death
toward Herrin cemetery. Four who
survived that fearful ordeal have
related all they oould remember,
but those of them who were not
too terribly wounded to recall the
worst of it were too busily en
gaged in saving their own lives to
observe what waB happening to the
others. Donald M. Ewing, a Chi
cago newspaper man, reached the
scene just in time to see It.
One Kicked to Silence.
Leaving hie car, Ewing made his
way to the center of the mob and
found six strikebreakers lying in
the road. They were hatless, bare
footed and some had their shirts
and trousers partly torn off, so their
tormentors could tell whether they
were really dead. Three were dead.
One was drawing his last breath.
Two were conscious and in great
pain, crying feebly for water. Ao
cording to the testimony, Bert
Grace, one of the defendants, stood
over them, gun In hand, and kicked
one to silence as he 'pleaded for
water. This poor fellow, Howard
Hoffman, for the murder of whom
the five are on trial specifically,
was wounded in the abdomen and
his throat had been cut. The other
man, Joseph O'Rourke, was wounded
likewise, but lived to show the scar
on his neck to the jury.
Ewing told how he hurried to a
farmhouse and brought back a lard
bucket full of water for the two
wounded men.
"Clear out of here, damn you!"
Grace swore at Ewing, the latter
testified. "You can't give them any
water!"
(XRourke could identify none of
his assailants because his hair was
matted with blood and Ms glasses
had been torn away.
O'Ronrke's Throat Cut.
"I opened my eyes once," 'said
O'Rourke, "and I saw a man bending
over me with a knife. Then I felt
my" throat cut. I realized that I
was terribly thirsty and remember
saying. 'If there is a Christian in
the crowd, give me a drink of water.'
I do not remember whether I got
it or not."
How Hoffman died was related
dramatically by Dr. O. O. Shipman
of Herrin.
"The prisoners were marched op
the road between two files of armed
men, he said. "They were bloody,
ragged, bareheaded and seme were
in stocking feet. One man was hold
ing his hand to keep the blood In a
wound at his waist. Another was
holding one forearm which was
soaked in blood. Leva Mann (one
of the defendants) gave orders to
swing arms. The man holding his
forearm did' not swing his arms and
some one reached out and hit him.
"A man came running down the
street and directed the prisoners
toward the country road. They
stopped at a corner near a woods.
Someone asked one of the wounded
men it was Howard Hoffman if
he wanted to talk. 'If you want to
talk you had better do it Quick; you
have not long.'
Prayer la Suggested.
"They were marched a little
farther and came to two parked au
tomobiles. One man got a rope from
an automobile and put it around
Hoffman's neck. He began to loop
it around the others, but it was too
short and someone called for a piece
of chain or barbed wire to piece it
out.
"While this was being done a fel
low in the crowd yelled to the pris
oners: 'If you have never prayed
before in your life, you better pray
now!' A boy in an automobile hol
lered, "Nearer. My Cka, to Thee.'
2
Green Chile Cboesa
The rope was tied and they marehed
down the road again. Soon after
wards the shooting began and the
prisoners fell In a heap. There were
10 or 20 fellows shooting and I rec
ognized four, Joe Varnaghi, Leva
Mann, Percy Hall and a man named'
Oalligar. (The first two are now
on trial.) '
"A man I had never seen who was
doing most of the shooting shot
Hoffman. He shot round after
round, borrowing guns from those
around him. A email boy gave him
cartridges. He lifted Hoffman's
head up slowly and shot him again.
The bullet split his scalp. Hoff
man said: 'Oh, men, men, what are
you doing?'"
One Saved by Agility.
On of the little band marching
down the road to their doom
owes his life to his agility. He
escaped without ever being wound
ed. He is Robert Officer, book
keeper at the Lester mine and a Uni
versity of Pennsylvania graduate.
We were marched a ways and
lined up before a barbed wire fence
with the crowd behind us. Officer
testified. "Someone shouted: We
are going to give you a chance, and
the firing began. I fell on my face
and went under the barbed wire,
taking to the woods."
Some of th other prisoners did
the same thing. Some escaped.
Bernard Jones, another survivor.
and William Goodman, a farmer,
also testified to that effect.
"You don't know this scab breed
like I do! The only way to atop the
breed is to kill them," said Jones
and Otis Clark, one of the defend
ants, who is charged with Inciting
the crowd to violence.
Then the march of death began.
Before it had gone far C. K. Mc
Dowell, superintendent of the mine,
began to play out. as he could not
move fast with a wooden leg. Some
one in the mob punched him in the
back with the muzzle of a pistol
and said to his companions: "He's
given out. No use to go any further
with him." .' -
Sentiment for Accused.
Let George Nelson, an eye-witness,
take up the story.
"A man with a revolver opened a
way and two men went south with
McDowell. Otis Clark was one of
them and he had hold of McDowell's
arm to keep him from falling. An
other member of the mob told me
to get into my house, which I did
promptly. Soon afterward I heard
shooting."
Later Nelson went down the road
and found McDowell's body under a
Ciump of bushes.
If the five men on trial are ac
quitted in the face of the testimony
the prosecution admits that it will
te useless to try any of the 200
others who have been indicted for
murder.
The sentiment of the community
Is overwhelmingly In favor of the
accused, not that the horrors are
denied, but because it is felt that
the murders were justified.
TAXATION CHIEF TOPIC
MICHIGAN SOLONS TO DEAL
WITH MANY REFORMS.
Gasoline Tax for Highways and
Iilterary Teste for Voters
Will Be Proposed. ,
LANSING, Mich., Dec. 2. Enact
ment of legislation to remodel the,
state's taxation system, cut down
the cost of state government, de
velon the state as an agricultural
center, tighten the "blue sky" laws
and broaden women's rights will be
asked, along with other proposed
changes in the laws, of the Michigan
legislature when it convenes in reg
ular session in January.
Outstanding in the prospective
legislation are the following pro-
potrals:
To provide a gasoline tax to
finance highway development and
maintenance withe ut a real prop
erty tax.
To make more compact the cen
tralized state government which was
inaugurated two years ago, by cur
tailing and combining departments,
To make the furnishing of poison-
ens liquor punishable as man
slaughter.
To tighten the motor vehicle laws,
by prescribing more specifically the
lighting equipment on automobiles
and increasing the penalties lor
spbeding' and reckless driving.
To delegate to the state agri
cultural college much of the work
drne by the state agricultural de
partment. To provide what amounts to a
literary test for voters. "
To provide a bill of rights for
women, which will put them on an
equal standing with men in business
and welfare matters.
To enaot a land certification law
whioh will enable non-residents of
the state to invest in Michigan's un
developed lands and to provide that
the state encourage reforestation of
idle lands not suited to agriculture
by reducing taxes.
The reapportionment of the state
legislative districts which comes be
fore the legislature by virtue of the
1S20 federal census,
stands hie-h in
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GiCSESEiseS
We opened our Dress and Coat De
partments so late in the Fall that
every single garment in our stocks
is of new and popular style. The de
partment has steadily gained in popu
larity because the garments are so
Of Pol ret TwllL
the uneven hem
line and scallops
braid outlined and
individual sleeves
make this distinc
tive. Formerly
(19.50. - Now 21.75.
Consider this smart
coat of eott pile
wool fabric, silk
lined throughout,
with Its big fur
collar. Formerly
137.60. Reduced to
(28.75.
state Interest. Other measures in
clude provision for a eugrenlca law;
to devise ways and means of raising;
money to retire the $61,550,00 state
bonded indebtedness without adding
to the tax burden on real property,
and to make insanity grounds lor
divorce.
An attempt may be made to revive
the income tax, which was initiated
by the 1921 legislature and defeated
by the votersi
Kelso Tract Is Sold.
KELSO, Wash., Dec. 25. (Special.)
David Wilson, a prominent realtor
of Spokane, purchasd what is known
as the Island, formerly owned by the
Wallace. Land company, from J. S.
Robb this week. The plaoe contains
about S5 acres and adjoins Long's
Clothing; Begin at 9:15 A.
jttw Ths Quautv Stors
hi or Portland
Clearance of
Berg's New Coats and Frocks
Drastic Reductions
FROCKS
Such variety of style, excellence of work
manship and moderateness of price are
seldom combined. Every frock new, desir
able and greatly reduced!
One Group formerly $12.75
Wool eponge and jersey frocks in several
smart styles and a variety of colors.
$29 to $32.50 Wools or Silk
Frocks of silk, and lace combined, Can
tons with faggoting and very smart
Poiret twill frocks.
$47.50 to $52.50 Values at
Charming Cantons, Velvets and Crepes
in every new and wanted style. Many
with the new Bertha collars so smart!
$75 to $79.50 Models for
Included are exquisite chiffon velvets,
flat crepes and novelty silks. And
' handsome flare skirt Poiret Twills.
COATS
There's a certain smartness about Coats in
Berg's that distinguishes them instantly.
All these are now offered at reductions!
To $19.85 Utility & Sports Coats
The sort of value that doesn't come often
in the coat season. Sports and general
utility models.
To $29.50 Coats Reduced to
Bolivia and other woolen fabrics, lined
with satin de chine. Some with embroid
ery on sleeves. Others with fur collars.
To$37.50FurTrimm,dCoats
Normandy and bolivia coats, plain tai
lored or with braid trimming. Many
nutria collars. Full lines.
To $95 Models Reduced to
The most amazingly good-looking coats
at this special price. Handsome deep
pile fabrics with squirrel and wolf collars.
wJ3joiir
Ttormwtu fcncwm
eMorwon STWaT-nasr
addition to Kelso,
to plat it
Mr. Wilson plans
Autoist Hnrt in 200-Foot Dive.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 25! A man
believed to be Henry Otterbein was
injured probably fatally today when
the automobile he was driving,
after a collision with another ma
chine, fell 200 feet over a cliff in
Elysian park.
Kelso Mill Stock Bought.
KELSO. Wash., Deo. 25. (Special.)
Glenn Burch last week purchased
the 40 shares of stock of the Cres
cent Shingle company owned by the
Joe Tardy estate. The par value of
this etock Is $200, but it is said to
be worth several times that amount.
M. Today
Take Any Elevator
or Escalator .
carefully chosen and prices are so
moderate. Despite these facts, how
ever, we are compelled to make room
for incoming merchandise which is
about due from the east hence these
drastic reductions for immediate clearance.
$7.45
$24.75
$39.50
$59.50
$9.85
$19.75
$29.75
$59.50
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The company is a co-operative one,
the number of shares being- limited
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MARY PICKFORD
The World's Sweetheart" In her own brand-new version
. of a world clanslc
"TESS OF THE
STORM COUNTRY"
The Crowning Achievement of Mary Pickford's Career
as New as It Is Beautiful
NOTE
I By special arrangement with Mary Plokford (herself)
we are showing this - "Picture Wonderful" at our
regular evening; prices
EVERY DAY AD ALL DAY
Portland's Only Independent
First-Run Theater
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The lovely laoe
Bertha of Venise
pattern, the soft
Drown chiffon vel
vet, the entirely
new and smart
style combine to
make this becom
ing. Formerly
$49.50. Now 39.50.
This handsomedeep
Site coat with its
eautiful wolf col
lar and rich satin
lining; is Indeed
a remarkable ex
ample of reduc
tions! It was J95
now 59.50.
to 40 to an individual.
16 shareholders.
There are
Shows Starting
11A.M., 1,3, 5, 7, 9 P.M.
EARLY SHOWS
ADVISABLE
Adults . .
t'hlkiren
All
Pay
20c