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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (June 20, 1915)
TJIV) SUNDAY OltEGONIAX. PORTLAND. JUNK 20, 1915. ONE-THIRD OBTAINED mm r rX.rvJrV"-- TAKE Any $25 '-3" Total Reported by Charities Is Now $1724. 2 ft A si TWICE THIS IS YET NEEDED1 4rC mm Third Girt, of $100 Is Received and Contributions . Ranging From $ 1 to 9 10 Continue Many Famines Need Assistance. in the House and Pay Only 1 55?W re COSTRIBUT16XS TO MAI.VTE. NASTB FT (IF THU AS SOCIATED CHARITIES. "Previously reported $1571.40 Theodore B. Wilcox 100.00 Mrs. C. P. Williams, The Dalles 3.00 R. T. Hynd 10.00 Oeorge Howard 1.00 Msdimes L. M. and A. M, Knapp 10.00 Mrs. I. M. Perts -4.25 Otto, Hsrkson Realty Company 3.00 Cash - B.05 T. G. Farrell 5.00 Dr. W. A. Trimble, 3.00 K. A. Klippel 3.00 K. C. King 1.00 Mrs. Sol Rosenfeld 5.00 Total 11724.70 Donations should be sent to V. R. Manning. 411 Commercial block, or to R. S. Howard, treas urer of the Associated Charities, at Ladd & Tilton Bank. One-third of the fund necessary to maintain the relief work of the Asso ciated Charities throughout the pres ent Summer has been donated by the generous people of Portland in the four weeks during which the cam paign has been on. The total reported from the Charities yesterday was $1724, and the amount that i.s to be raised is 15000. In view of the difficult conditions of the past year, the response that the people of Portland have made is re carded as remarkable, and the- returns on the campaign thus far have been most encouraging. While the returns were very slow during the week of the Hose Festival, there is an improvement in intercut that gives promise of large gifts in the remaining weeks of the campaign. Theodore B. Wilcox has contributed $100 to the maintenance fund, this be ing the third gift of 100 or more that has been sent in since the campaign began. While the large donors are giving this important assistance, there is also a steady flow of contributions ranging from Jl to tlO. . While the contributions keep coming In steadily, there is a corresponding pressure of demand from the poor of the city who are in need of relief. The cases the Charities deals with are principally those of widows with chil dren to support, men of family who are suffering from misfortune, or women who have been deserted and are unable to care for themselves, ..-Examples of the many cases that were handled through the Charities yesterday: 1. Man more than 70 years old. crip pled and unable to work; has wife and thre-e children; 16-year-old boy's earn ings sole support of family; food badly needed. 2. Man and wife In great need; man is experienced carpenter, but can find no work; not able to pay rent: would like to be caretaker in apartment house for rent and lodging. 3. Man sick and unable to work; three children too small to work; food and fuel badly needed. 4. Middle-aged woman suffering from dropsy. Arrangements made to 'end her to the hospital. She is alone in Portland and needs help and some one who will take interest in her and visit her in the hospital. 6. Italian family; man out of work all Winter; woman in hospital and chil dren In need of food and care. O.-W. R. S N. FOLK FORM EMPLOYES' CLUB IS ORGANIZED ON ELABORATE SCALE. L.rgr Park for Athletic Ground and Houses Are Donated by Company Sanctioning Organisation. Permanent organization of the O.-W. R. & N. employes' club has been com pleted and a full membership is to be recruited from persons working for the company in all parts of the Northwest. The new club probably will succeed the Harrlman club, which was com posed of employes of both the O.-W. R. & N. and the Southern Pacific The re cent forced segregation of the business affairs of the two railroads removed the bond of common interest between them, and it wo considered, advisable to dissolve the club. The O.-W. R. & N. club has the aonc. tion of the officers of the company, and is composed of employes in all .depart ments of the service shops, general offices and operation. The newly elected officers are. Pres ident. IL 34. Watkins, assistant audi tor; secretary, O. G. Edwards, tax and right-of-way department; treasurer. F. T. Gregory, paymaster's department; vice-presidents. Ralph Blaisdell, audi tor; Harold. West, traffic department; Stephen Westover, of the Albina. shops, and James Handlan, Albina shops. A large area of park property be longing to the company In South Port land has been offered to the club free of charge, and now is being converted into club grounds. A golf course, ten nis courts, baseball diamond and other athletic grounds are being provided. The property has frontage on the river and a boathouse. as well ae a club house, will be constructed there. MONMOUTH GETS READY Summer School Students May Total 4 00 Tfels Year. MONMOUTH, Or.. June 19. (Special.) Rooms at the girls' dormitory, citizens' homes in this city, and regular dwelling places are reserved for the influx of students to the Summer ses sion of the Oregon Normal School to begin Tuesday, June 23. The cor. respondence to the Registrar is heavy this week. . "The work necessary for the gradua tion of the Normal's largest class is cleared away," said President Acker, man. "Now our attention is turned to preparations for Summer school. Class rooms are In readiness, students are given information concerning the courses, and householders are busy pre paring to receive the students. We ex pect 400 before the session ends." mmm si '4tW- 7" i -. OVUM . m VfOA PENSION PLAN UPHELD CITV ATTORNEY RILES FUSD FOR POLICE MAY BE CREATED. X Lrsal Obataclea Are Seen to Pre vent Collection of Fees of One mud a Half Per Cent of Pay. There are no legal obstacles to pre vent the City Council from creating a police pension fund and exacting from each policeman a monthly fee amount ing: to IVi per cent of hla aalary, ac cording? to a written opinion prepared for the council yesterday by City At. torney LaRoche. When the police pension was consid ered by the Council last week there was a question raised regrardinsr the power of the city legally to hold out part ef tha policemen's salaries to put a W'a ' 5? e- if yA v Thr -and the man This Is medicine kir-i. 1 i'irtsVy y4 into the fund. Mr. LaRoche says the courts have ruled that such a proced ure would be entirely legal- ."The legral effect of the proposed or dinance," reads City Attorney La Roche's opinion, "is to reduce .the sal aries of police officers for the purposes named to the extent of per cent; and that amount paid into the fund is considered as having .been paid into said fund by the City of Portland and not as voluntary contributions of po lice officers." Annulment of Marriage Sought. CENTRALIA, Wash- June 19. (Spe cial.) Blanche L. Heath yesterday In stituted suit in the Lewis County Su perior Court to have her marriage to Kenneth Heath annulled. According to the complaint, the couple were married in Vancouver. B. C, January 8, 1914, the day after Mrs. Heath secured a divorce in Seattle. The woman alleges that Heath told her that, while a mar riage In the United States would be Illegal, a wedding in .Canada, would fitand. Sis W LV5 to who won't pay nine-eighty-five for one of these suits won't pay ten cents to the Final Wind-up of LOT MI with over thirty thousand dollars' worth of clothing on our hands and only two weeks in which to close out this tremendous stock, something desperate had to be done, and we've done it. We're not going to wait for Mr. Billiken, "the god.of happiness," to shower us with luck we're going to take our now with the best of grace and We're Cutting Our Legs To Save Our Throats This is a clothing sale of PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE to - all Portlanders. Many will say that we are PHILANTHROP ISTS, and rightly so. No such an endless variety of unheard-of price. UNRESTRICTED Any Raincoat or Included 5th & AID OF WEST REQUIRED EASTERN WOMBX BOUND BY CON SERVATISM. SAYS SPEAKER. Sirs, Lee Davenport, at Luncheon at Y. M. C. A., Urge Sending to Congress Men Who Favor Snlrrage. "The Western women must help the East," was the keynote of the speech by Mrs. Leo Pavenport yestorday at the Women's Congressional Union luncheon at the Toung Woman's Chris tian Association. More than 4 0 women were present, and a new finance com mittee was formed. Mrs. Davenport, who is a former New York woman, prominent in Eastern club and suffrage circles. Cva an outline of ' 1 Come on, boys ! Wait no longer. Prices on clothes don't tumble like this often. Don't neg lect this lifetime op portunity ; loosen your 'purse strings' and save substantially. White Light an earthquake or a tidal-wave. the Baron-Fulop Cos Fire Sale of with apologies tqno one. clothing store has ever oxtered high-grade clothing at such an CHOICE OF THE HOUSE Overcoat in the House at This Price. 57; the difficulties confronting the organi sation. In her talk she said: "People in the East are bound by con servatism and tradition; New York can amend her constitution only once in 20 years. Progress has always gone west ward, but it is now our duty to bring the East up to Western, standards. When a woman of New York or New Jersey expresses a public opinion she is regarded as a 'militant.' We must make sure that the men who represent us in Congress are men who will put their shoulder to the wheel and work for the enfranchisement of women." Mrs, Kussel Dorr, of the Monday Mu sical Club, spoke on "The Difficulties Confronting the Congress in New Jersey." Miss Virginia Arnold, organizer of the Oregon Congressional Union, closed the luncheon with an announcement of the state convention of the union, which will convene in Portland September 7 and 8, and will be followed by the Con gress of Women Voters to be -held in San Francisco September 14 and 16. Those who can will attend both and - 41vf fj-r. f-wv , 5-. . i ft 1. JV!a.'.". 4t V ' . A .vac." 'a of Publicity V7 f 7 - 1 r then go as delegates to the National meeting at Washington, D. C. DR. WILSON VISITS HOME Member of New York Health Board Slakes Trip to West Vaquina. NEWPORT. Or., June 19. (Special.) Another "country" boy who went to the city and made good visited his old home at West Yaquina on Yaauina Bay a few days ago. Ho is Dr. Robert J. Wilson, of New York City Board of Health, who has charge of the con tagious diseases hospitals, seven in number, in that city. Dr. Wilson has three automobiles and two magnificent steam launches for use in visiting the various hospitals on the Islands of the East River, on Man hattan and in Brookiyn. With Dr. Wilson were his wife and Dr. Anna Williams, his sister-in-law, assistant airector ox Mew xork bac- IS see f Ok,.' A' 23 s, r a l- f -a t- sr - aMa ;r".MJg jr -r ?r5 'AVW J teriological laboratory. Dr. Wrilson"a father was clerk of Benton County for 32 years at a time when it included. Lincoln County. Ex-Xewspaper Man Is Divorced. CENTRALIA, Wash.. June 19. espe cial.) Elizabeth Hutchinson, of Riffc. who recently endeavored to have her husband, F. P. Hutchinson, declared in sane, was granted a decree of divorce yesterday by Judge Rice, in the Lewis County Superior Court, uiid awarded the custody of her two children. Cruel ty was alleged as the grounds for complaint. The Hutehinsons wera married in New York. Mr. Hutchinson was connected with newspapers in Washington, D. C, and other Eastern cities. SutlierliJi to Cclcljrate Fourth. KOREBURG. Or.. June 1 3. (Special.) Sutherlin is making elaborate plans for the celebration of tli Fourth of July, which will be observed, Smui day, July 3.