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II THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, JULY 36, 1914. Showcases, Tables and Fixtures for Sale FEDERAL SITE 15 DRAGNET TAKES IN 5 MONEY LENDERS PASTOR OF WHITE TEMPLE, WHO HAS TENDERED HIS RESIGNATION. COVETED BY CLUB Holtz East Side Business Men Are Loud in Praise of Old Block for Auditorium. Raids Led by Prosecutors With Force of Deputies to Seize AII'Records. " I - -r ,-- . " T INTEREST RATES TOLD Taiil Muller Tells What He Pa!I to Companies for Loans and Gives Fljcurrs to Officers One Sui cide Laid to Increasing Iebt. Wholesale arrests or alleged loan hark concerns were made late yester day by the District Attorney. Raids ........ fn.ir cnnrprnA and were iimuv ujjun their records were seized and are neia at the Courthouse as eviaence. Those arrested were Samuel Kline. Columbia Loan Company. Swetland building; G. V. Adams, Portland Loan Company. Rothschild building; Miss M. B. Coulllacd and Miss R. E. Donahue. Mercantile Credit Association. Henry building, and R. A. Frame. Fliedner building. The charge is the same In all cases, that of receiving illegal interest The maximum penalty fixed by law for one convicted of this offense is a line of 500 and one year's imprisonment. The raids were conducted In person by Deputy District Attorneys, accom panied by Deputy Sheriffs. Lender and Book Captured. Deputies Ryan. Pierce and Delch and Special Agent Geren, with the aid of Ieputy Sheriffs Sievers. Weeks, Coffey and Allen, swooped down upon the un suspecting money lenders and brought them and great quantities of office rec ords and books to the District Attor ney's offices. All were admitted to ball and hearing will be had Just as soon as the prosecuting officers can go through the mass of evidence and prepare their The arrest of all four companies was brought about by the evidence pro duced by one man. Paul Muller. an employe of the City Water Department, who was not only a borrower In each, but In the ill-starred State Security Company, raided last week, as well Special Agent Geren was the complain ing witness in each instance. These cases differ from that of the State Security Company In that allof the money-lenders arrested yesterday have state licenses In compliance with the law. save Frame. High Rates Alleged. The State Security Company was op erating in defiance of the law and would not secure a license. However, It appears that the Portland. Mercan tile and Columbia loan concerns paid but little attention to their license re strictions. They are allowed to receive 3 per cent a month on short-time loans of $30 and over and more than than that on leaser sums, but the state ment of Paul Muller shows that the loan companlea were not content with such modest gains. His figures show that the Portland Loan Company compelled him to pay Interest at the rate of 50 per cent a year, the Mercantile 70 per cent and the Columbia 100 per cent. For two years Muller has been In the toils of the loan companies. He has been driven to distraction by worry, and It finally became a question of borrowing from one after another to keep his head above water. His debt Increased like a snowball rolling down hill. Large Sosaa Borrowed. In the past two years he has bor rowed. It appears, approximately 130 from the five money lenders now being prosecuted. He was worried to such an extent that he gave a chattel mort gage, he says, on his furniture to three different companlea as security for his borrowings. This became known to one of them and Muller was told that he might be arrested unless he paid up. Threats were made to selxe his sal ary and fear that he would lose his position and his modest salary drove him to consider thoughts of bankrupt cy proceedings, thinking this might afford him a means of escape. He was drswn Into the clutches of the loan companlea through Illness when he was working for the Portland Rail way. Light tt Power Company, and once in he could not get out. he said. He made further borrowings to ac commodate his brother-in-law. who needed money. A short time ago his father's death plunged blm further Into debt, and he was In such a plight that he was forced to make another loan to pay his butcher and grocer. Employe Almost In Despair. One who knows Muller says he has always been honest In all his dealings, and that he owes all his misfortunes to the alleged sharks. He is married and lives at 1191 East Taylor street. One can perhaps understand his des pair when the ruinous rates of interest he says he had to pay are known. And he had to keep borrowing to meet his debts, for he was constantly spurred on by the threats of the money-lenders, he says. As an example, he borrowed 130 from the Mercantile Credit Associa tion, his records show, which he was to repay at the rate of $7.30 per month, and payment was to be made In seven instalments. He was to repay $51 for the original $30. Another loan of $35 from another concern was to be repaid In eight months at the rate of SS.25 per month, or $1 for every one he borrowed. Suicide Laid to Debts. In the accounts of the State Security Company was found yesterday the name of one man who is a suicide of the past month and who. it Is said, was driven to his death by the pressure of his debts, one of which was to the State Security Company for $40. The Mercantile Credit Association, formerly kp-.wn as "Drake's." Is owned and operated hy two attractive young women. This company is said not to have been such a ruthless money-getter as some others. However, the District Attorney's office believes it has evi dence sufficient to convict all those ar rested. The motion of the State becurity Company to have its records returned and the demurrer to its complaint, which were to have been argued In the District Court yesterday, have been postponed until tomorrow. HOOSIERS HOLD REUNION Indiana Families Gather to Renew Old Acquaintances. Earlv day In Indiana were recalled by former residents of the Hoosler State at the annual picnic of the In diana Society of Oregon In Peninsula Park yesterday afternoon and evening. About 00 Invited guests and members of the organization told of their early experiences "back East." Ths outing was an informal get-together affair and -games were the after noon programme. At o'clock a basket lunch was spread, after which a roll call was taken. The plcilckers were then grouped by counties and old times were discussed and acquaintances renewed. I 'JSC m-.m-.-iiS--B3B-liB .tlt.V f SSj tt 'mmmmNmmHIm-S<aL mmwiflii J-Hm - - mmmmmsMmmmmfltev DSlWivfnHmmmmmmmHmmW fflgWwt tPfflK: ; ' g; -aMsSmt. i 1 THE REV. W. B. REV. HINSON RESIGNS White Temple May Lose Pas tor in Charge 4 Years. REPORT IS NOT OFFICIAL Noted Pulpit Orator to Take Vaca tion After Today First Hint Of Resignation Given in Chnrch Bulletin; Theme 'Farewell.' Continued From First Page.) action, unless arrangements are made to have It withdrawn. White Temple Prospers. t-.. uin,nn hs held the pulpit of the ti'ui. T.mni inci earlv In 1910. hav ing come to Portland as the successor to Dr. James wmtcomo urougnei, Is now pastor in Los Angeles. Prior to coming to Portland Dr. Hlnson was t.n vir nastor In San Diego, and before that he served In Vancou ver. B. C. and In Eastern cnarges. Under his pastorate the White Temple J j I at congregation has prospered a"" " membership has Increased largely. Dr. Hlnson Is Nationally famous as - nritnr striking In presence. clear ana deep in thought, and tremen dously powerful in his aenvery. sermons, although delivered with the appearance of being almost extempore, are carefully thought out. and polished to a rhetorical perfection that stamps them with a high quality of literary ex cellence. The first hint of his resignation was given to the public In the Church Bulle tin In the announcement of the topic of the last sermon ne i i -- . vacation It Will be preached tonight, the theme being. "Finally, Bretnren, rareci-- RAILROAD PICNIC IS GAY EMPLOYES OF FOUR LIXES ENJOY LIVELY DAY. All Hands and Their Families. From Oldest to Youngest, 11 Coaches Full, Go to Gladstone Park. With the Harriman Club Band play ing "She's a Bear, She's a Bear," 11 coach loads of Southern Pacific. Port land, Eugene 4 Eastern. Salem. Falls City & Western and Portland Railway & Navigation employes returned to Portland last night after a day of great fun at Gladstone Park. It was the end of the first "Safety-First" pic nic ever held in the Northwest, and the beginning of a strong movement to unite the families and friends of rail road men in the movement for the con servation of human life. Probably 900 persons participated In the picnic, to which Superintendent F. L Burckhal ter. Assistant Superintendent C. A. Martin, Agent Merriman and other of ficials gave their personal direction. On arrival at Gladstone Park, ad dresses were delivered by Judge Wil liam Colvig, tax agent, and Judge Wil liam D. Fenton, general counsel for the companies in Oregon. Judge Fenton particularly appealed to the women folk to aid in the safety-first move ment through home ties, making for sobriety and better-brained trained operatives. Immediately following the speaking, a Southern Pacific "melon" was cut. Mark Woodruff, of the P. E. & E., sneaked the watermelon on to the grounds for the delectation of those Mlssourians who might be present. It was Immediately "swiped" by Engineer F. J. Connolly and a dividend was de clared. Connolly afterwards lost a ham he was awarded In a race. As a result 'of the races the railway employes declare they have developed the champion 10-year-old girl sprinter of the state in the person of Eva Schultx. Running against girls of IS years, the little wonder simply left them somewhere along the route in every event In which she tried for honors. The Harriman Club Band, under di rection of C. J. Ringer, chief dispatch er for the O.-W. R. & N., was busier during the day than the Hungry Seven ever dared to be. and the organization was given a unanimous vote of thanks. It was family-sort of a picnic for the railroaders. Every man had all HI SON, D. D. his family along, from grandma to the smallest tot. Dinners were spread wherever the dust was thinnest and afterward a programme of athletic events was taken up. The winners of the various events were: Baseball Union Depot defeated Brooklyn shops. 6 to 5. Flfty-vard dash for girls under 18 Eva Schultz first, Anna Cromwell sec ond. . Fifty-yard dash for boys under IB Tom Irvine. One hundred yards, free for all A. A. Lowe. Water race Hazel Petrie. Potato race Mrs. Luclle Hammond. Fat man's race F. J. Connolly. Fifty-yard dash for married women Mrs. Lucile Hammond. 220-yard dash William Ruffner. Reverse race William Robertson Running broad jump Curtis John son. . Needle race Oscar Palm. Running high jump Curtis Johnson. Half-mile relay race Palm. Bloch. Irvine. Markee. Three-legged race Palm and Bloch. Sack race Tom irvine. Lucile Hammond. Special for girls under 16 Eva Schultz. Prizes for the various events were contributed by the Pacific Hardware & Steel Company; Allen & Lewis; Olds. Wortman & King; Blumauer-Frank Drug Company; Union Meat Company; Pacific Coast Biscuit Company; Sig Sichel; F. L. Smith Meat Company; Moyer Clothing Company; M. Gunst & Co.; fearson-t'age uompuii, Pacific Fruit & Produce Company, and the United Fruit Company Phones Working Again. Telephones on the East Side, partic ularly In the Irvington and Woodlawn districts, that were put out of commis sirfh by the recent fire in Sullivan's gulch, were all In normal working order again by 6 o'clock last night. A large force of linemen was employed all day yesterday to "clean up" the lines not already remedied. The loes entailed by the company will not be determined until all the work has been canvassed. Florida Man Buys at Selah. F. C. Dlven, formerly of Portland, has Just sold a well-improved 20-acre com mercial apple orchard, located at Selah. Wash., seven miles west of North Yakima, to R. W. Miller, of Florida, for $10,000. The .Wy:e is planted in six-year-old trees. Tie sale was closed through Mr. Miller's brother-in-law. B. H. Lingenfelter. of Selah, Wash., the firm of Calhoun. Denny & Ewing rep resenting the seller. Mr. Miller plans to make his home on the place. PRETTY WEDDING RESULT OF COLLEGE ROMANCE. Mrs. .Sumner E. Bryant, Who Was Constance Belknap. The home of Mr. and Mrs. II. W. McDonald. 461 East Tenth Btreet North, was the scene of a pretty wedding Wednesday evening when Miss Constance Lorena Belknap became the bride of Sumner E. Bryant. The marriage service was read by the Rev. F. L. Belknap, father of the bride. Miss Maud Holllnger attended the bride, while Raymond Bryant, brother of the bridegroom, acted as best man. Little Miss Mildred Whltten carried the ring in a lily, and Miss Louise Sullivan strewed the bride's path with rose petals. Mertoe Hollinger played the wedding march (Lohengrin's). Previous to the ceremony. Haven Belknap sang "You." The couple are on their wedding trip to the coast. Miss Belknap was a member of the class of 1912, of Willamette University, and Mr. Bryant a member of the 1911 class of Pa cific University. Mr. and Mrs. Bryant will be at home to their friends after Sep tember 1 at Gray's River. Wash ington, where Mr. Bryant is prin cipal of schools. OLIVE BRANCH HELD OUT All Factions Believed United in Ef fort to Get Government to Give City long-Term Lease on Abandoned Property. Believing that the old Postoffice block on Morrison, Yamhill, Fifth and Sixth streets is admirably suited for a public auditorium site and that ar rangements can be mado with the Fed eral Government for a long-term lease, members of the East Side Busi ness Men's Club have started a cam paign to get the City Commission to open negotfatlons. Although but little, except of a ten tative nature, has been done as yet, it Is probable that negotiations will be started with the proper Government officials through the Oregon delegation. Site Well Suited to .Use. Members of the Commission says the site is exceptionally well adapted for the auditorium. If it can be secured, all the factions now contending for various sites will unite in favor of this one, it is believed. Originally, the Postoffice site was dedicated as a market block along with the one on Third and Market streets, which has been proposed for the audi torium site if it can be used for that purpose legally. The Federal Gov ernment got the Postoffice site by pur chase. The building has been out grown by the city and the Govern ment now is planning the new one near the Custom-House. This will leave the old block on the Government's hands with no present use. The proposal of the East Side Busi ness Men's Club is to erect a building for auditorium purposes, which can be used also as a Postoffice substation, a home for the Federal Courts, and some Federal departments and a place for an inside public market. It Is said all these features can be embraced within a building which can be erected within the $600,000 appropriation now available. Business Man Confident. "There Is no reason why the city could not get this site," said L. M. Lep per, of the East Side Business Men's Club, yesterday. "I am confident that should the city make the request in the proper way, the Federal Government would give the city a 99-year lease on the site If it did not give a deed. "I believe this would settle all the auditorium difficulties. Everyone I have talked to, on the subject says it is the ideal site. Provision could be made for an auditorium on the second floor, a sub-PoBtofflce on the first floor and a public market In the basement. The only use the Government will have for the site will be for a building to house a postal savings bank, a home for the Federal Courts and a sub-Postofflce station. Why should the Government object to the city building these things for the privilege of placing the audi torium there also?" Site Considered Ideal. Eugene Brookings, also a member of the East Side Business Men's Club, said yesterday that he believes the site would be Ideal. "My only fear," he said, "Is that the city would have great dif ficulty In getting the site." City Commissioner Brewster says there Is no question about the site being ideal, but he believes it would be difficult, if not impossible, to get the location. He said, however, that It Is worth attempting. At present, there is a suit pending in the State Supreme Court to de termine the right of the city to use the market block as a site for the audi torium building. This, It is thought, will be settled within 30 days, at which time, it Is expected, the auditorium' plans will assume definite form. In the meantime, negotiations may be opened with the Federal Government. Definite Information probably will be available by the time the Supreme Court decides the Market Block cases. BANK HAS MOVING DAY FIRST NATIONAL TEMPORARILY IN CORUETT BUILDING. Merger With Security Savings Trust Is at Fifth and Washington I, mil Its -i Home Is Completed. Yesterday was the first moving day experienced by the First National Bank in three decades. Big van- moved the furniture and other appointments of the pioneer bank to its new temporary home on the ground floor of the Cor bett building, where It will be located until the completion of its new h me, about IS months hence, on the south west corner of Fifth and Stark streets. The immense signs bearing the name of the First National were taken to the corner of Fifth and Morrison streets, where the title of the Security Savings & Trust Company has been alone heretofore. Letter artists were busy all day yesterday changing names and numerals on the windows, the most significant change being In the "boost" of decimal places in the capital and surplus figures made necessary by the immense amount of money concentrat ed by reason of the consolidation of the two institutions. The combined 'staff of the two banks, which will remain intact, was kept hust ling all day and has not yet completed the readjustment of all effect-! pre liminary to the opening of the new administration tomorrow morning. The. former quarters of the First National Bank on the southeast cor ner of First and Washington now wears a "bank closed" sign instructing the forgetful visitor as to the new residence of the institution. The old bank building is to be sold. TOTS GIVEF0LK DANCES Crowds at Columbia Park Enter tained by Children in Sports. Children in the playgrounds of Co lumbia Park gave a public exhibi tion of athletic sports and folk danc ing Friday night under Directors Phil lips and Hessemer. Nearly 1000 vis itors witnessed the performance. The entertainment began at 7 o'clock. Commissioner Brewster was present and made a short address. J. B. Easter announced a tag sale to raise a fund for the purchase of a phonograph to furnish the music required in the folk dancing. Many tags were sold at once. SellinOut!! Going Out of Business The positive closing out of this store's stock of worthy merchandise brings within ynnr rfla.nh the greatestjtargains ever offered in Portland. Our, windows, our ads, our countersaU combine to emphasize this fact. Take advantage of the bargains. MonarchGloves $2.25 Kind for Everv Portland woman knows Monarch w Kid Gloves. They have in the best stores for many years ways at $2.25 or more closing-out price brings themf 1 Q to you in nearly all sizes, Women's Suits Good styles; val ues up to $15.00, at Positive Close-Out $4.98 PmripsndOxforcis, up to o?lnelotloiTpair 1 . , HIGH MASON PASSES James Daniel Richardson Suc cumbs at Age of 71. LONG CAREER IS NOTABLE Kntering Confederate Army as Pri vate, Promotion Is Gained-Speak-ership of Assembly Held at 28 and House Post Sought. James Daniel Richardson. ex-Representative in Congress and sovereign grand commander of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Masons for the southern jurisdiction, died Friday at his home in Murfreesboro, Tenn., according to a message received yesterday hy P. S. Maicolm, 33d degree. Inspector-general In Oregon of the Scottish Rite. Mr. Richardson as Porn in numer James Dftn of Southe lei Rlehardson, Head , rn Jurisdiction of Mn- I io Died In Tennessee. sons. Who ford County, Tennessee, on March 10, 1S43. He received his education In the country schools and at Franklin Col lege, near Nashville. When he was 18 years old he entered the Confederate Army as a private and served during nearly four years of the Civil War. He rose to the ran), of Adjutant In the Forty-fifth Tennessee Regiment. After the war he studied law. He began as an attorney at Murfreesboro, in 1867. In October. 1871. when he was 28 years old, he was elected Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representa tives Later, he served as a member of the State Senate and as a National Representative. He was president of the National Democratic convention In Kansas City. Mo in 1900. and was a candidate, for Speaker in the House of Representatives during the Fifty-sixth Congress. Mr. Richardson was elected grand master of Masons in Tennessee in 1873. He became grand high priest of the grand chapter in 1882. Later he acted as honorary inspector-general- In 1886 he was crowned an active member of the supreme council. On the death of O. S. Long, Mr. Rich ardson was appointed lieutenant grand $1.69 $1.00 Dress Goods Being Closed Out been sold here Al- The Holtz Store at j 1 VJ Women's New Suits Clearance at $10.85 Every Suit in the store off ered at this price; women's late style tailored serges, ratines, wool crepes, etc.; broken lines; values up to $4oToO; M f OC choice, while they last, at $ 1 V.O D Women's An Absolute Close - Out of Women's Pumps and Canvas Oxfords now at, pair commander. He was elected to that position on October 16. 1899. When Judge Caswell died, In 1900, he became acting grand commander. He was elected grand commander in 1901. SPOKANE PIONEER PASSES Charles Kemp, Merchant, Dies at Seaside, Or., After Long Illness. SEASIDE, Or.. July 25. (Special.) Charles J. Kemp, of Spokane. 66 years old, died here at 7 o'clock this even ing of internal hemorrhages. Kemp was one of the pioneer merchants of Spokane, having been in business here for 30 years, the firm name in late years being Kemp & Hehert. For many years Mr. Kemp was aBfllcted with heart and kidney trouble. His wife and children wcro at the bedside when death came. Mr. Kemp had been in California for several months prior to coming here and the trip to this place was made as a last resort. The body will be taken to Spo kane for burial. REDMEN PLAN POW-WOW Vancouver Tribe Prepares for Con clave on August 4. VANCOUVER. Wash., July C5. (Spe cial.) The Redmen of Kumtux Tribe, No. 3, the second oldest Hedmen's lodge in the State of Washington, are all but ready for the grand pow-wow and moonlight initiation at the Clarke County fairgrounds grove August 4. Nearly 3000 Redmen from Oregon, Washington and Idaho will be present at the first event of this kind ever held west of the Mississippi River. The grand lodge of the reservation of Oregon is to put on the work of Initia tion. The mystic secrets of the order will be communicated to about 900 palefaces. Kelso Has Revival Meetings. KELSO. Wash., July 25. (Special. ) Elder C. A. Lvman. of the Seventh-Day dventlst Church, is holding a aeries of revivals at Kelso, In which a great deal of interest is being taken and which are well attended. A Carload of Sinks $4.50 Kind at $2.75! prinilWnitH,tiMtts.iMiit.aaniA I actly like illustration. Guaranteed first class. A. Sink that sells regularly at $4.50. Our sell ing price direct to any ono Big Savings on Plumbing Estimates gladly givpn on any job. First-class Plumbing Sup plies of every kind at money-saving prices. For instance: 30-gallon Range Boilers, new and first-class $4.6." $20 White Enamel Cast Iron Bath Tubs 514.25 $13.50 High Tank Toilets, special 99.35 Take "S" Car South on Third Street to Grant J. SIMON & BRO. The 'Trust Busters." Front and Grant Streets. 29c 100 pieces of White and Colored Wash Dress Goods, this season 's fabrics ; every yard desirable crepes, voiles, ratines, silk and cotton mixtures, brocades, etc.; values to $1.00 a yard; priced in OQr this great closing out sale at, yd. --i7L w omen s Dresses Summer s t yles; $12.50 values, for Slippers. Misses' $i STEEL TRUSS DELIVERED TIOI. THKATKR UPl I- I"' OPE. DOORS ft K PTE Mil I. It 110. )HnliiemrDl Said to Re Preparing System of Profit sharing lo pply to Its Employes. All yesterday the steel erector were busy at the site of the National The ater, Park anil 8tark streets, unload ing and getting ready to set an Im mense steel truss which will support the balcony and mezzanine floor. The weight of tills truss Is over 30 tons anil has to bo delivered In three pieces. The entire truss was fabricated hi Portland by local worklnamen. In fan every article of material thus far u. in the structure was produced here. "My instruction," said president Wlnstock. of the National compan). "is that no outside material shall be used except where it is absolutely Im possible to secure what Is necrssar.i In Portland. Tliua over 20 local con cerns have been benefited by the erec tion of this theater, while u force oi more than lOti men has been kept con tlnuously at work. "There have been no accidents anil no labor troubles of uny kind and the men arc running a race with the Or pheum Theater builders across the street and bets are freely miidx thai the National will bo completed, open and running fully a month befors th' Orpheum." The management figures on being able to open on Wednesday. Septem ber 30 with everything completely fin ished to the minutest detail. "Ventilation will be absolutely per fect." said Mr. Wlnstock yesterda) "The heating will be the Indirect sys tem but efficient, while lighting will be such that it will be as light as day even while picture projection Is In progress. "The management will Inaugurate sn original system of ro-operntlve profit Rharlng with Its employes." For baby's comfort Santlseptlc Lotion Adv. The price that will give the Plumbing Trust another big jolt! We had to buy solid carload of these cast iron, white enamel porcelain Sinks in order to get them to sell so low. Ex- $2.75 $4.98